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Cervical Screening Test
Cervical screening, HPV and pregnancy
A good understanding of cervical health, including screening tests, HPV and cervical cancer, can be essential to boosting your chances of a healthy pregnancy. Dr. Hema Grover a specialist in gynaecology at Mitcham Private Hospital, explains the basics of cervical screening.
The new pap smear
The Cervical Screening Test, or CST, is a new type of test that has replaced the pap smear. This test is more effective than the pap smear at preventing cervical cancers.
The CST detects presence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) which can cause cervical changes. These changes can in turn lead to cervical cancer. Unlike the old type of pap smear, this test is only required every five years if the result is normal.
What is HPV?
HPV is a very common virus, with four out of five people having it at some stage of their lives. Most of the time, the body’s immune system gets rid of the virus before it does harm.
HPV is spread through genital skin contact during sexual activity. As viruses are microscopic, HPV can pass through tiny breaks in the skin. HPV is not spread in blood or other body fluids, so condoms do not necessarily assist in preventing it.
Because the virus can be hidden in a person’s cells for a long time, having a diagnosis of HPV does not necessarily mean that you or your partner has been unfaithful.
HPV and cervical cancer
There are more than 100 types of HPV, but the two known to cause cervical cancer in most of the cases are HPV 16 and 18. If your Cervical Screening Test is positive for either of these types of HPV, you will be referred to a specialist for further tests and possible treatment.
Most women who get HPV clear the virus naturally and do not go on to develop cervical cancer. In a small number of women, the HPV stays in the cells of the cervix. When the infection is not cleared, there is an increased risk of developing abnormalities. In very rare cases, these
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Ira Israel, LPCC, LMFT, E-RYT500,
is a psychotherapist and certified yoga therapist. He holds graduate degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, and is the creator of the Meditation Made Easy app and the DVDs A Beginner’s Guide to Happiness and A Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness Meditation.
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Last month, American Airlines grounded dozens of Boeing 757 airliners after passenger seats came loose on four flights. Just a few weeks earlier, another American plane, a Boeing 767, was grounded after a problem was reported with the installation of some seats, although in that case no seats came loose.
Why the seat problems?
American, like other carriers, is in the midst of reconfiguring its coach section to give more leg room to some seats.
But the airline, in trying to cut costs during bankruptcy, hired outside maintenance companies this summer for the first time to modify its cabins. And airline documents show that those workers did not understand how to properly install the seats.
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Dr. Vincent Harding, civil rights leader and beloved Iliff School of Theology professor, known for decades of “behind the scenes” social justice activism and work with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Monday. He was 82.
“He’s the most important civil rights leader not everyone has heard of,” Iliff professor George “Tink” Tinker said. “Not a public face like Jesse Jackson or Dr. King.”
Described as a “gentle giant” because of his thoughtful manner and impact and influence in the movement, Harding and his wife, Rosemarie, moved to Atlanta in 1961 to become directly involved in the civil rights movement.
They founded the Mennonite House, an interracial service center and gathering place, and traveled the South assisting anti-segregation campaigns for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality.
Through his work, Harding met King and became an aide and speechwriter to the leader. Harding penned King’s famous anti-Vietnam speech, ” Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence.”
“He was an amazing human being,” Iliff president Thomas Wolfe said. “Unique because he lived the history that he was teaching. He was such a great value to us.”
Harding came to Iliff as a religion and social transformation professor in 1981, having previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Spelman College and other universities.
He taught more than 10,000 students at Iliff and “hundreds of thousands” in his lifetime, according to Iliff spokeswoman Greta Gloven.
He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 but remained involved at the school and was slated to speak at next month’s commencement.
After King’s assassination, Harding became the first director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and of the Institute of the Black World, both in Atlanta.
Born in Harlem, N.Y., in 1931, Harding joined the Army in 1953 after earning a bachelor’s degree in history from the City College of New York. He was discharged in 1955 and earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. A devout Christian, he was a pastor in Chicago before moving to the South.
In 1997, he co-founded the Veterans of Hope Project, a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy at Iliff.
He was the author, co-author or editor of numerous books, including “There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America”and “Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero.”
Widowed in 2004, he remarried in December. He is survived by his wife, Aljosie; daughter, Rachel; and son, Jonathan.
Harding died as the result of complications to a heart aneurysm, Gloven said.
A memorial service is being planned.
Condolences can be sent to The Harding Family, c/o The Veterans of Hope Project at The Iliff School of Theology. Contributions can be made on The Veterans of Hope Project website.
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Discover the life and surroundings of rural Catalonia
Beware date : 28 i 29 November
Gastronomy, crafts, music,shows, demonstrations of crafts ...
Vallgorguina held once again Fair of the forest and the peasantry, for a fair approach to life and the environment of rural Catalonia a great displays of traditional crafts: loggers, bakers, distillery·Oscillator herbs, wooden sculptures, lathe work and merino wool ... all in a festive atmosphere
Why you can not miss the Fair?
GASTRONOMY, CRAFTS AND TRADES
A Fair Farming Forest and find:
• Producers culinary Area: sausages, cheese, mel…
• Artisans and craft demonstrations: Fuster, woodcutter, among others.
FOR ALL THE FAMILY
The Forest and Farming Fair you will find a wide variety of activities for young and old.
NATURE AND peasantry
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Introducing Codebreaker Girls by Jan Slimming
“What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children, or even your husband?”
Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park tells the true story of Daisy Lawrence. Following extensive research, the author uses snippets of information, unpublished photographs and her own recollections to describe scenes from her mother’s poor, but happy, upbringing in London, and the disruptions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War to a young woman in the prime of her life.
The author asks why, and how, Daisy was chosen to work at the Government war station, as well as the clandestine operation she experienced with others, deep in the British countryside, during a time when the effects of the war were felt by everyone. In addition, the author examines her mother’s personal emotions and relationships as she searches for her young fiancée, who was missing in action overseas. The three years at Bletchley Park were Daisy’s university, but having closed the door in 1945 on her hidden role of national importance — dealing with Germany, Italy and Japan — this significant period in her life was camouflaged for decades in the filing cabinet of her mind. Now her story comes alive with descriptions, original letters, documents, newspaper cuttings and unique photographs, together with a rare and powerful account of what happened to her after the war.
Order a copy of Codebreaker Girls here.
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Guest blog by Nitish Arora and Jessica Korsh
India needs to exponentially increase the number of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to power the potential 102 million EVs on the road in 2030. Reaching this target is essential to prevent a climate catastrophe and improve the unhealthy air quality for millions of Indians. A robust public charging network is essential for accelerating transportation electrification. India’s power utility distribution companies (DICOMs) are critical in scaling up charging infrastructure, as evidenced by countries with successful EV charging deployment.
With widespread transportation electrification, utilities and DISCOMs are evolving to do more than provide electricity. They are uniquely positioned to develop EV charging infrastructure and should be involved early in the planning process. As seen in the U.S., utilities can collaborate and take the lead in building charging infrastructure. In India, limited communication between utilities and charge point operators (charging service providers) is often responsible for slowing the development of charging infrastructure. DISCOMs should be involved with identifying potential charging sites; coordinating with landowners, permit offices, and regulators; and working with charge point operators. Another factor slowing EV deployment is the high upfront costs to build the charging infrastructure and connect to the grid. However, frontloaded investments into charging infrastructure and the grid by utilities can lead to large payoffs in the long term. Further, to ensure grid stability, it is important for DISCOMs to improve the utilization of the existing grid infrastructure and include EV charging loads into electrical network planning and expansion. While EVs are cleaner even with conventional grid power, pairing them with renewable energy can accelerate India’s decarbonization efforts.
DISCOMs can help improve power demand management and increase integration of renewable energy through the following recommendations:
- Communication is key to planning for charging infrastructure. By utilities establishing clear communication channels with other stakeholders they can help reduce costs. For example, utilities can share records on the hosting capacity of their distribution networks, with charging service providers to make the siting process simpler, faster, and accurate. Additionally, utilities can assign a single point of contact to service providers for each project. This helps keep a project on track, avoiding potential costly delays.
- Adopt a forward-looking business and management approach. DISCOMs in conjunction with stakeholders should anticipate future grid and charging needs. Futureproofing requires balancing the extra cost incurred today against the savings that it can offer in the future. Utilities should install excess capacity when installing early chargers. This will help plan for the frontload investments and minimize costs when upgrades to upstream power infrastructure are later required. Additionally, while early utilization of charging infrastructure remains low, utilities should rationalize/annualize upstream power infrastructure costs instead of building everything upfront.
- Improved flexibility and advanced grid integration are essential as India decarbonizes it economy, increases the share of renewable energy, and dramatically increases its overall energy demand. While EVs are only expected to be about four to five percent of the country’s total power generation capacity, it is important that they are effectively integrated in the grid to maintain reliable electricity. DISCOMs should encourage managed charging capability (charging at times when demand is low) and matching EV charging to hours when solar and wind generation is abundant. Utilities commonly employ time-of-day (TOD) tariffs to incentivize consumers to shift their charging from peak times to off-peak times. Smart charging, chargers with two-way communication, is becoming standard internationally. This allows utilities to lower the rate or turn off charging when the grid is strained.
Transitioning to EVs in India is a major opportunity for revving up the economy, spurring job growth, improving air quality, and reducing carbon emissions. A tremendous increase in public charging infrastructure from the current 1,800 public charging points to a network of over 2.9 million could create a massive market opportunity requiring cumulative investments of up to $2.9 billion (about Rs 20,600 crore) until 2030.
Arora is an electric mobility expert working as a consultant with NRDC based in New Delhi. Jessica Korsh is a climate health expert working with NRDC based in New York.
Originally published by NRDC, Expert Blog.
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Riding a motorcycle is addictive. As someone who has been an avid biker my entire adult life, I get it. The feeling of the wind on your face and the sheer freedom of movement. Not only that, but you just look cooler on a bike than in a car.
But, there is bad news. Motorcycles account for 26 times the number of traffic fatalities than four wheel cars and trucks. Nationwide, motorcycles accounted for about 13% of traffic deaths in 2013. Forty traffic deaths were on motorcycles in Nevada in 2011, according to the Nevada Department of Public Safety. Why are motorcycles so dangerous? The obvious reason is that they are much smaller than passenger cars. Any collision with a motorcycle reminds us that the stability and protection of a car massively outweighs that of a motorcycle. The average weight of a passenger car is about 5,000 lbs. According to Harley Davidson Motorcycles, their bikes weigh between 540-730 lbs. The Honda Goldwing is the heaviest production motorcycle at around 900 lbs, depending on accessories. Smaller street bikes can be as light as 250 lbs. The dynamics of an accident between a passenger car and a motorcycle are devastating for the body on the bike.
There are other factors to consider. Night driving is a particular challenge on a motorcycle. One of the natural factors of distance assessment for the human eye is the distance between two headlights. Any driver knows that you can estimate how far a car is from you by the headlights. Since motorcycles only have one headlight, it becomes difficult to judge distance at night. As a result, the majority of collisions are the fault of the driver of a passenger car, and not the motorcyclist.
The number one cause (42%) of accidents between passenger cars and motorcycles is the passenger car turning left on to a busy road. But also, 25% of motorcycle fatalities are between the motorcycle and a stationary object.
Motorcycles are relatively cheap to insure. The reason for this is that the damage you are likely to do to another party is low. Insurers are more than happy to insure your liability. But, all the major insurers are unwilling to write a medpay policy for a motorcycle.
What does that mean? Medpay is a type of insurance that covers your own injuries immediately at the time of a traffic accident. Medpay does not subrogate against your settlement, so you are able to legally double dip and recover a lot more. As personal injury lawyers, we encourage everyone who can afford it to buy medpay. It covers you in a time of need and it really benefits you at the time of an accident. Because of the bodily injury risk to a biker, most insurers will not write this type of policy for a motorcycle.
Twenty-eight states have some type of motorcycle helmet law. Nevada requires that you wear a DOT approved helmet with eye protection. Eye protection can be a visor on the helmet, goggles, or even a windshield on your bike. So, you have some options for eye protection, but you have to wear a helmet with a DOT sticker on it. Those can be full helmets or even “brain buckets,” which only cover the top of the head. As long as the helmet has a DOT sticker, you are compliant.
Proponents of helmet laws say it is a simple safety issue. Helmets prevent head injuries. Opponents of helmet laws argue that helmets protect the head at the expense of the neck and can cause paralysis.
Everyone should know one important rule, though. If you see a motorcycle accident, do not move a downed biker or remove his or her helmet. Their neck may be injured and you can cause major injuries. Wait for the trained professionals to respond.
There are other types of safety gear. Some people wear armor all over their body when they ride. This can definitely prevent some injury to the skin, common called “road rash.” But, can maybe prevent broken legs or other injuries.
Intoxicated drivers are a hazard, no matter how you spin it. In the age of Uber and Lyft, there is no excuse for driving intoxicated. Intoxicated drivers pose a significant risk to motorcycles, which are already harder to see. But, the risk increases exponentially when the motorcyclist is intoxicated.
When you ride, there are many more factors to judge than in a passenger car. You have to keep your balance, steer mainly with your hips, and be aware that anyone else on the road is a risk of death for you. Everything becomes exponentially more dangerous when you are intoxicated. The legal limit for driving is the same, meaning a blood alcohol content of 0.08%. But, a zero tolerance policy for yourself as a rider is the safest way.
People who cause accidents without being intoxicated and protected from massive judgments over their insurance policy limits by bankruptcy laws. If you cause an accident while you are intoxicated, a large judgment can follow you around for the rest of your life.
Just don’t drive or ride intoxicated. It isn’t worth it. You can also be arrested, which is another topic.
Specialized Medical Treatment
In Las Vegas, there is only one spinal trauma center, and that is at University Medical Center (UMC) downtown. Most motorcycle injuries are diverted to UMC. Naturally, the vast majority of motorcycle accidents have some sort of UMC trauma lien to be paid by the settlement. UMC, as a partially public hospital, is obligated to reduce medical liens against residents of Clark County. This is important to demand when you are negotiating the final outcome of a case.
If the rider is killed in an accident, there are two potential claims. One by his estate for his medical bills and pain and suffering. But the other is by his family for the loss of him as a living person. These are particularly tragic cases. Leaving behind young children without a mother or father is terrible. This presents a slew of legal issues. But, please be careful. There is no amount of money that can properly replace a parent. I have seen this scenario too many times, and there is no good outcome.
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The Pearl In the novel, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, we meet Kino, his wife, Juana and their baby, Coyotitio. Kino's family lives in a grass hut in the poor, fishing village of La Paz, Mexico in the 1920's. Their lives are disrupted when a vicious scorpion bites Coyotito. The only way that they can get help were they live is to have enough money to pay the local doctor. Kino goes pearl diving and discovers a pearl that is worth "millions." It appears that Kino has gone from having nothing to being able to get whatever his dreams desire. But in literature, as in life, things are not always as they appear to be, and the pearl ends up bringing them things that they never expected.
Kino has lived a hard life. He works hard and gets very little out of it. His family is very poor and cannot afford nice things.
Coyotito his son was bitten bye a scorpion when he thought his father "Kino" was playing. Kino tried to grab the scorpion but he was just a second to late. They go to the doctor to get help but the doctor treats them like animals and tells his assistant to tell them that he is not there. Kino now needs money to save his child, so he goes looking for a pearl any pearl just one that the doctor would take to cure Coyotito. He finds a pearl a giant beautiful pearl worth millions, and with even more luck Coyotito gets better on his own.
Kino is now the hunted he has something that everybody wants a pearl worth millions of dollars. He is told that the pearl is only worth a few hundred dollars were he lives so Kino wants more he knows what the pearl is worth so he goes to the city with brother Juan Thomas but they don't sell it they just go back to La Paz and discover there house was burnt down and people came looking for the pearl so Kino, Coyotito, And Juana leave to escape danger. They head for the mountains and are followed by three men hired by the pearl buyer to get the pearl even if it means killing the whole family.
As they go toward the mountain they know that they are still being followed so they go to the highest point in a cave on the mountain and later that same night the three men camp on a ledge right under them. Kino goes and tries o kill the men but Coyotito gives off a cry and one of the men the only one with a gun points the gun towards the cry and fire just as Kino is jumping toward them Kino once again is a split second to late to save his son. Coyotito is shot in the head and dies. On the way home Juana and Kino walk side by side. Not like a normal family with the dominent male in front and the wife with the child behind.
Kino was just a split second to late to rescue Coyotito from the vicious scorpion. He was also just a split second to late to save Coyotito once again, but this time it was from a bullet. Coyotito was brutally shot in the head by a man out to get Kino's valuable pearl. | <urn:uuid:ef7bfe7d-4901-4403-abb8-fd5770b31ab9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writework.com/essay/untitled-146 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986958 | 667 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, #balanceforbetter, is based on the principle that “gender balance is essential for economies and communities to thrive”.
However, with 783 million people living below the international poverty line of USD 1.90/day (according to the United Nations), there are many communities around the world that are not thriving. The distribution of poverty is not balanced either, with 122 women aged 25 to 34, for example, living in extreme poverty for every 100 men of the same age.
Insurance for low-income populations, or “microinsurance”, is an important safety net which can help prevent both men and women from falling into poverty. Insurance has been recognised as an important mechanism towards achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal for “Gender Equality” for several reasons, including:
- “Insurance protects women against the devastating effects of genderrelated reproductive health risks.”
- “Insurance protects women from the financial impact of losing family members.” (GIZ, 2017)
Microinsurance delivered by mutual or cooperative insurers, known as “mutual microinsurance” contributes towards gender equality beyond financial security. As a policyholder of a mutual microinsurance provider, women may participate in actually running the scheme and are often the primary policyholder, therefore they become empowered to make decisions that will directly affect their livelihoods.
ICMIF launched the 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy (the “5-5-5”) in June 2016 to increase the reach of mutual microinsurance and build resilience in poor communities. Over a period of five years, ICMIF aims to reach 5 million low-income households with microinsurance, in five emerging market countries (Colombia, Kenya, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka).
To achieve this goal, ICMIF is partnering with local member companies (the “project partners”) to scale up their existing microinsurance operations. The 5-5-5 is also predominantly supported by other ICMIF member companies and like-minded organisations in more developed markets (the “supporting partners”), either through financial or technical assistance projects.
ICMIF has partnered with local member company RIMANSI for the 5-5-5 project in the Philippines to strengthen the capacity of microinsurance mutual benefit associations (Mi-MBAs) to reach 1 million low-income Filipino households with microinsurance protection. Most of these Mi-MBAs are led by women, and 90% of policyholders are also women (ICMIF, 2017). This project launched in June 2016, and ICMIF members CARD MRI (the Philippines), DEVK (Germany), Folksam (Sweden), Thrivent Financial (USA) and Zenrosai (Japan) have all provided financial support.
In India, ICMIF is partnering with its member organisations Uplift Mutuals and the DHAN Foundation for the 5-5-5 project in this country. Data from ICMIF’s country diagnostic report The missing chapter of microinsurance in India – a diagnostic of mutuals confirms over 90% of mutual microinsurance policyholders in India are women. This is mainly because most mutual and cooperative insurers in India have emerged from self-help groups or microcredit operations that have been traditionally developed with/by women. The Co-operators (Canada) are providing financial and technical support to the project with Uplift. A consortium of 15 ICMIF members have so far come together to support the project with the DHAN Foundation which includes; American Agricultural Insurance Company (USA), FMG (New Zealand), JCIF (Japan), LB Group (Denmark), San Cristobal (Argentina), Sancor Seguros (Argentina, Seguros Unimed (Brazil), UNMI (France), Thrivent Financial (USA), Tuw Tuw (Poland), UCMAF (Japan), Unipol Gruppo (Italy), UNIVE Dichtbij (the Netherlands), Zenkyoren (Japan) and Zenrosai (Japan). Achmea (the Netherlands) have also provided technical support.
For the 5-5-5 project in Kenya, ICMIF is working with CIC Insurance Group, which aims to provide an additional 250,000 low-income dairy farmers with affordable microinsurance over the next five years. The entire household benefits from the security offered by this livestock microinsurance product, including women. The project is being supported by ICMIF member companies P&V Assurances (Belgium) and Thrivent Financial (USA), as well as We-Effect (a Swedish non-profit organisation).
ICMIF has also partnered with local member companies Equidad Seguros in Colombia, and Amana Takaful, Sanasa, CICL and COOPLife in Sri Lanka to conduct a research project into the landscape of microinsurance in each country. It is expected that the country intervention projects in Colombia and Sri Lanka will commence in 2019.
The 5-5-5 is a unique opportunity for ICMIF member companies to come together and help create a more balanced society. To find out more about opportunities for ICMIF member companies to support the 5-5-5, please email Naomi Davison at email@example.com.
The governance of the 5-5-5 is overseen by The ICMIF Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales formed by ICMIF in 2015.
About International Women’s Day
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In TCM viewpoints, allergens are a kind of “external pathogens” that can only attack the body when the body is weakened and unbalanced. Therefore, the treatments for allergies aim to shift the internal environment to a new balance, restore organ functioning, eliminate and cleanse the accumulated pathogenic factors, which can be more beneficial for long-term relief and less likely to relapse.
The COVID‐19 pandemic has greatly changed our lives; we built new routines for precaution, the ways we work, travel, communicate and shop are more or less different than before. In a time when we need to keep ourselves as healthy as we can, has your body prepared for the everlasting fierce fighting?
Beans are rich in nutrients.
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Yesterday at 6.00pm about 200 people gathered on Parliament House steps, Spring Street, Melbourne to show their support for the proposed "Great Forest National Park" and to highlight the need for areas to be included to be protected from logging in the interim.
This rally was under the auspices of The Wilderness Society and of The Victorian National Parks Association. Other smaller groups joined in e.g. Rubicon Forest Protection Group Inc. This group has put out an excellent pamphlet about the need for forest conservation.
".....the extensive logging road network cuts though previously intact ash forests and Antarctic Beech/rainforest communities alongside waterways....many coupes show poor regeneration of mountain and alpine ash while others become a monoculture of ash trees lacking a diversity of understorey shrubs and ferns.......Logging or killing by fires of 1939 regrowth mountain ash forests, results in an initial rise in streamflow due to reduced transpiration, but aged 10-15 years the growing forest starts to use more water. Importantly, this effect of lower water yields lasts many decades...." rubiconforest.org
The Wilderness Society says
"...with Melbourne's population set to explode to over 7 million in the next few decades , water security is a huge issue. These Mountain Ash forests provide most of Melbourne's drinking water...intact forests produce conditions that actually increase rainfall and purify our air and water...... "
A point of interest is that parks surrounding Sydney total 1,094,207 ha. Parks surrounding Melbourne total 168,891 ha and, with the Great Forest National Park, would total 522,104ha
The great importance of this rally and the forest issue to the people of Melbourne is that it is all on the city's doorstep.
What can we do?
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The current ratio is a liquidity and efficiency ratio that measures a firm's ability to pay off its short-term liabilities with its current assets. In the year 2012, KHB had a current ratio of 1.688 but it comes to decrease in 2013 to a 1.642. The ratio in the year 2014 was 1.670 indicating a slight increase. The competitor of KHB, the PMMB had a current ratio of 4.785, 4.012 and 3.622 from the year 2012 to 2014 respectively. A current ratio should be more than 2.0 as a higher current ratio indicates a more promising current debt payments.
For each investment, it’s enough to know that long term was chiefly concerned with two questions: what was the anticipated average return, and how much did the return in any typical year tend to vary from the average. Meriwether’s traders were concerned with limiting risk. The idea that they could do so by targeting specific level of volatile was central to how they ran the fund. If the portfolio was a little too quiet, they’d borrow more , raising the “vol” , if it was to volatile , they’d reduce their leverage , coming the fund down .
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It’s one thing to acknowledge that you’re getting older. It’s quite another to become one of the public faces of AARP. But getting down with recording stars like Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys and the ever-youthful Earth Wind & Fire shouldn't make anyone feel old. Just ask James Brown.
Before signing on as AARP's Community Ambassador, the former star athlete and television sportscaster — who says he is celebrating his “ninth year of being 50” — figured that he wasn't the typical AARP member.
“I was so wrong," he said recently. "This organization is for people exactly like me.”
And that’s the message Brown and other celebrities hope to bring to New Orleans this weekend during the 2010 ESSENCE Music Festival and expo.
As an official sponsor of the festival, AARP is trying to build on its recruitment and African American outreach programs. Besides Brown, other personalities presenting in the AARP booth are B. Smith, restaurateur, author and television host; Julianne Malveaux, economist and president of Bennett College; Malik Yoba, actor and activist; and Marita Golden, author.
"Part of our African American outreach strategy is linking AARP to 'iconic' brands that are highly esteemed and valued in the black community," said Edna Kane-Williams, AARP vice president of Multicultural Outreach. "Few rival the stature and presence of the ESSENCE Music Festival. It has become the single largest African American musical destination event in the world. To be a major sponsor, and to be so visibly involved, will clearly demonstrate our commitment to the African American community."
The ESSENCE Music Festival is more than a concert; it's practically a reunion for the 400,000 people who descend on New Orleans every Fourth of July weekend. Beginning in 1995 as a way to celebrate the magazine's 25th anniversary, the event has become a cultural watershed for African Americans and New Orleans.
"Hopefully [festival attendees] will see what AARP really has to offer, beyond stereotypes," said Brown. "Folks aren’t retiring as early as they used to. It is about being as active as you possibly can. I can only hope [through recruitment efforts] that over time an influx of active folks will influence other folks to join and see many of the tremendous benefits."
JB cites his mother as a good example: "She is the reason why I’m involved. She was an active card-carrying member of AARP. One way she was able to enjoy her quality of life was reading The Magazine and staying on top of issues, but also using the organization’s resources to help with her diabetes. Those over the age of 50 can still enjoy the quality of life. Seeing how involved and active she was encouraged me."
"What AARP has to offer to African Americans is so valuable, regardless of age," says actor and activist Malik Yoba. He should know. He's 36.
"Don’t tell anybody, now!" jokes the star of Why Did I Get Married and New York Undercover. "Seriously, I’ve admired AARP for a long time. The resources and community spirit I get from the organization is why I wanted to be involved."
A staunch proponent of community service, Yoba says he hopes many African Americans will use AARP's vast membership network to find volunteering opportunities — another benchmark for the organization's black community outreach initiative.
"It doesn't take a lot of time. Helping to run or found a small group or just being kind to someone. You have no idea what a difference you can make with one small thing," he said. "There's always an opportunity."
The ESSENCE Music Festival runs from July 2 to July 4 in New Orleans. As an official sponsor, AARP presents the Sunday Gospel program. Headliners of the main event include Janet Jackson, Gladys Knight, Charlie Wilson, War, and Mary J. Blige among others.
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One of the 12 Dodecanese islands in the southeast Aegean Sea, Kos stands out due to its lush vegetation, superb beaches, picturesque settlements, and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Kos if above all welcoming and friendly, an island that seems to have been designed especially for travelers and sunbathers. It has monuments dating back to 3,000 years ago and fascinating sights that will keep history buffs busy and in awe, plenty of sandy beaches to tempt sun worshipers and enough outdoor activities to satisfy the appetite for exercise of those who just can’t stay still.
Kos Town – the heart of the island
Kos Town is the island’s capital and main port and awaits on the east end of the island. This is the place where you can unveil layers and layers of history with stories dating back to ancient times when Hippocrates, “the father of modern medicine”, used to teach his students under a plane tree. Hippocrates is long gone but the tree is still there.
The town invites travelers to discover a superb blend of architectural styles that testify to the island’s rich history. You’ll discover fascinating Roman ruins, like a fourth-century BC Asklepion, a religious sanctuary dedicated to the god of healing, as well as an agora and an Odeon, two Ottoman mosques and a fountain dating back to the 18th century, but also superb Venetian buildings, all surrounded by lush green areas and a charming ambiance. Just stroll the town’s wide alleys and historic streets and you’ll capture the essence of life in Kos. No one is in a hurry and everyone is looking for happiness in the little things.
If there is one historical sight you shouldn’t miss, this is the Castle of the Knights of Saint John located on the eastern side of the harbor. The 14th-century castle has fortified walls that once protected the island from the invasions of pirates. It is connected to the town by a bridge that crosses the iconic Palm Tree Avenue. This avenue is the core of the town, a long pedestrian street lined with boutiques, cafes, taverns, and restaurants, as well as numerous bars and nightclubs.
The resorts, the beaches, the holiday fun
While the island’s history is fascinating and very interesting, tourists come to Kos mostly for the golden sand beaches and charming resorts. Kefalos and Kardamena lead in the tourists’ preferences being the most popular resorts on the island. Home to infinite golden beaches and crystal waters, great accommodation, and a plethora of taverns and restaurants, Kefalos and Kardamena create the perfect ambiance for a relaxing holiday.
Kefalos is truly beautiful due to its maze of narrow alleys and traditional houses. It also is home to an interesting museum dedicate to the local folklore and invites visitors to discover the ruins of the Christian Basilica of Agios Stefanos. Even though the village is modern and provides all the necessary facilities for comfortable holidays, it still has its authentic charm intact. The resort’s beach is surrounded by greenery and caressed by refreshing crystalline waters while the waterfront is home to numerous taverns perfect for lunch or dinner with a view.
Kardamena is the largest and most developed resort on the island, home to modern villas and all-inclusive hotels, but still very fond of its authenticity and traditional buildings. The resort is wrapped in luxuriant vegetation and plenty of trees to provide the much needed shade on the hot summer days. The resort’s beach is one of the best on the island. The sand is soft, the waters are clean and warm, and the facilities are exactly what tourists need to spend the entire day in the sun. Among the hotels, restaurants, and cafes, you’ll also discover fascinating sights, like the church of Agia Barbara, ruins of the Temple of Apollo, and an ancient theater. The nights are reserved to fun parties in posh nightclubs and traditional entertainment at the local taverns.
The discreet resorts of Tingaki and Marmari await on the north coast of the island and are the destination of choice for windsurfers and a variety of birds, especially flamingos. Most luxurious hotels and quiet, picturesque beaches can be found in Psalidi and Fokas.
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1) If you mention it, hyperlink it.
This is a pet peeve of mine! The primary difference between a book and a website is that you can actually “drill down” into the information on a website. Nothing says “newbie” more than a bunch of words and no hyperlink.
Today I saw a listing of five new firefox extensions and was about to get excited when I realized the fellow had underlined the words but didn't have hyperlink!
Hyperlink Method #1
A) Copy the hyperlink from where you want to link by right clicking on the URL in your box and selecting Copy. (Ctrl + C also works on a PC)
B) Go into your blogging software and highlight the words you want to hyperlink.
C) Find and click your hyperlink button.
D) A dialog box will pop up, click in the place for your URL and right click and select Paste. (Ctrl + V also works on a PC.)
E) Click OK.
Hyperlink Method #2
Sometimes, like in commenting, you need to manually enter the hyperlink using HTML code. Don't let that scare you, I've taught it to middle schoolers! Just look at the chart below. (Advanced people skip this.)
Remember, Type it exactly as shown. Instead of my URL, http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com use yours. The words that you want to be underlined are “nested” in between the bracketed “tags.” I tell my students that they are building a little nest and all of the birds in the nest are treated the same! If you type in the information above it will look like this.
The converse of this is not to overhyperlink! It annoys me how Wikapedia links to sometimes irrelevant facts to the topic at hand. Link to relevant, meaningful information and always link to the blog of someone you quote! It's good netiquette!
2) Get a good title!
It is poor netiquette to title an e-mail “Hi.” Likewise, whether your blog is read or not depends greatly on your title. Which post are you going to read listed below?
There are people being promoted NOW in corporate America because the higher level managers are reading their blogs and agreeing with how they think. The key to getting read is in the title. Be descriptive, show your point, be exciting and excited!
3) Write and then cut in half!
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I'd write a shorter letter, but I didn't have time.”
The one notable exception to this is the “how to” article.
I treat a how to like giving directions to a place in the country. In the absence of road signs and landmarks we have to get very descriptive down here in rural Georgia. “There is a field of black and white cows with a delapitated red barn in the middle where cotton is being harvested,” works much better than “turn left at the cow.”
Most people are somewhat lost in technology. If you use headings, the advanced folks can skip the steps they know, but you need explanations for those who don't know! Don't ever “assume” anything. If you're telling HOW, tell HOW or link to a place that does!
You want to TEACH, not prove how smart you are. Most people don't know how to turn left at the cow. Be descriptive.
4) Write and then format.
Use headings, bullets, quotations, italics sparingly but in meaningful ways to improve readability.
5) Draw a picture!
If you would draw it on the board while teaching it in person, you need a picture on your blog. This is why the Creating Passionate Users blog is so impactful. They use pictures for everything.
I just do them in Photoshop or take a screen shot from whatever software package I'm using. (Press Ctrl+Shift+Print Scrn at the same time, you can then go into Photoshop, word or any program and Paste (Ctrl+V) it. Remember, save it as a jpg in most cases and you'll be fine!)
If your blogging program doesn't let you up upload a photograph for free, you can also use PhotoBucket. I used Photobucket last week when my children wanted to customize their cool cat kid blog with kitty cats as their background. I like Flickr for some things, but not this.
Remember, if you want to copyright your photo, you need to add it to the photo in paint, photoshop , or photoshop elements . (There is software that will do it in a batch also.) Just add the copyright symbol, year, and your name if you want to.
6) Before you bag it, tag it!
I wrote a “how to tag” post recently. Here's how I describe this practice:
Growing up on a farm, we used to tag the cows with a little tag on their ear. It told us where the cow was from and ultimately that the cow belonged to us. You see, cows can be pretty dumb and they like to get out and mix in with other cows. Then you can't tell them apart!
To put it simply, the tags let us find the cows we were interested in — ours!
Likewise, when you tag your post, people can easily find your blog information and you become a part of the “global web page” on your topic of interest.
For example, if you wanted to see Technorati's “global web page” on wiki education. (That's just one of my favorite tags.) So, you find the tags that are pertinent to your topic and you add them to your post.
Avoid SPAM tagging. Make sure your tag is relevant to the topic. Here is how to tag.
7) After you post it, ping it!
Easy Way #1
There are two easy ways to do this. The easiest is to use a service like pingomatic. You go to their website, type in the information and click Update Ping. This tells the engines that you've updated. (Only do this when you updated, otherwise it is a SPAM ping! Very bad!)
If you used the extensions I recommended in the “how to tag” post and you use Blogger (and some other services,) then pingomatic will appear on the page that pops up after you post. All you have to do is click on the pingomatic icon and the pinging is done!
Important but not as easy way #2
The second way is to go to Technorati and claim your blog. Then, when you update your blog, you can go to Technorati, log in, click on “Blogs“, and then click the “update ping” button.
This lets you track and find others who are writing about your stuff. Ewan, an amazing educational innovator, will often come to your blog and comment in a meaningful way. He is an excellent example of a participator in the global conversation.
You miss out on traffic, links, and the opportunity to converse with others when you do not ping. If your blog service has an automated pinging system you should enable it. It is usually somewhere in options.
8) Make sure you set your pages to archive.
It is important that people can search your site, go through your archives, and link to individual pages of interest. I can't stand when I have to go to a site and dig through to find what I want. Again, check your options in your blog account.
9) Comment on articles you quote and hyperlink to your article.
I think this is part of being a responsible part of the global conversation. Some blogs enable a thing called “backlinks” which means the software automatically links to people who have written about the post. Blogger support is mediocre at best so I have to get creative!
After you post, go to the person's article that you quoted. Write a meaningful comment or a small excerpt of what you wrote in your blog and hyperlink to your post. (See above.) Make sure you hyperlink to the actual page that your quote is on by going to its individual page (usually you can look on the sidebar of your blog and click on the title of your blog. Your URL will usually be the name of your blog and then some words ending in .html when you are on the right page.)
If you link to your blog homepage only, others won't know what you're talking about! Approximately 15% of my traffic comes from meaningful comments I post on other people's blogs. I think my MEANINGFUL traffic is probably higher than that from comments, but there is no way to track that.
10) Get the stats back!
I've been tracking my blog statistics on statcounter for about a week now. I get one or two comments a day sometimes but I had no idea that I had over 350 unique people load over 900 pages in the last week! Yesterday, I had over 125 page loads.
With a background in web traffic, I know that these numbers are not even a drop of a drop in the bucket of web traffic. However, it is just enough to float my boat to see that over 30 countries are looking at my information. I'm impressed with how long people are spending reading and what they are reading. My most popular pages here last week were:
OK, don't look down on my numbers, but they are numbers. They tell me what people are interested in. How am I helping others? How am I contributing? How can I improve?
Statcounter is free. I also use it on my children's coolcatkid blog to give them feedback and show them how people use the Internet. It is my platform for instruction as I teach my children the dynamics of the Internet, blogging, and webmastering.
All you have to do is sign up for their service. As you go through the process, they will give you some HTML to paste onto your blog. I have pasted mine in the header and on the sidebar of the three blogs I'm using. You do have the option to show people your stats, however, I've always been hesitant to do that because the numbers are so easy to manipulate. I'm not going to read someone because everybody else does but rather because they make my life better!
I am a blogger-baby but these lessons are fresh in my mind. I'm also going to use this entry as I teach my students about blogging. Some of them are really getting into the concept of blogging and want to know more. I want to teach them more.
This is vital to their future! We're not educating factory workers anymore, folks!
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Every business owner knows the importance of tracking ROI or return on investment. What is the benefit of an investment relative to its cost? As Lendio points out, "Having the foresight to determine if an investment will result in a positive return allows you to make financial decisions that will ultimately help you successfully grow your business."
The same kind of thinking applies to the financial aspects of earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA). Will the financial benefits of an MBA outweigh the cost? The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) provides an illustrative MBA Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator that provides a number of snapshots, including total MBA investment, initial pay boost and time to recover one's investment.
What Is the Cost of an MBA?
One way to evaluate the cost of an MBA is to look at tuition. According to education resource ThoughtCo., tuition for a traditional two-year MBA may run $60,000 to $100,000 or more. By comparison, online MBAs can range from $7,000 to more than $120,000. Of course, tuition and fees vary from one MBA program to another.
It is important to consider other factors as well when calculating the cost of an MBA. This includes any application and registration fees. Other potential expenses include:
- Commuting costs (for students enrolled in campus-based MBAs, not living on campus)
- Relocation expenses (for students attending campus-based programs not within commuting distance)
- Books and supplies
- Club and activity fees
- Library and technology fees
- Lost wages (for students who put careers on hold to earn an MBA)
- One-time graduation fee
- Interest on student loans
While tuition is typically the most significant expense, these other costs can add up. This is why it can make sense to consider tuition from the start when exploring options for MBA programs.
Online programs can be appealing for many reasons, including potential cost savings. Taking a look at Northwest Missouri State University as one example, online MBA programs can be a more affordable option. As of July 2021, the total cost of tuition and required fees for Northwest's MBA General online program was listed at $12,300. In addition, tuition is the same for in-state and out-of-state students.
How Much Can MBA Graduates Earn?
Anyone considering an MBA has probably heard that salaries can be high. What can MBA graduates expect to earn? How do salaries for MBAs compare with those for workers with a bachelor's?
A variety of factors affect salary, such as geographic location and industry. Credentials may also contribute to different wages for workers within similar occupations. Holding an MBA correlates with a higher salary potential, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council. Backing up this correlation are the findings in GMAC's 2021 Corporate Recruiters Survey: A recent MBA graduate has a projected median starting base salary of $115,000 per year. At $65,000, salaries for recent hires with a bachelor's are less than 60% of the MBA median figure.
Taking a look at the upper end, the GMAC 2017 Alumni Perspectives Survey reports C-suite executives, such as CEOs and CFOs, earning a median of $440,122 in total compensation per year.
Looking at the ROI for an MBA, GMAC found that it takes an average of three and a half years for alumni of traditional two-year MBA programs to recover their costs. For part-time and online programs, that number falls to two and a half years.
Is an MBA worth the cost in the long term? According to GMAC research on B-school outcomes, business school alumni earn a half million to a million more (depending on annual salary increases) over 20 years than if they had not gone to business school. This may put the ROI of an MBA in a new light.
Learn more about Northwest's online MBA General program.
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Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance married an unattractive but very wealthy young woman for the express purpose of living the rest of his life in luxury. Washington Square was turned into a stage play in 1946 by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; this, in turn was adapted for the movies under the title The Heiress. Olivia DeHavilland won an Academy Award (her second) for her portrayal of Catherine Sloper, the plain-Jane daughter of wealthy widower Dr. Austin Sloper (Ralph Richardson). Catherine is not only unattractive, but lacks most of the social graces, thanks in great part to the domineering attitudes of her father. When Catherine falls in love with handsome young Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she is convinced that her love is reciprocated, else why would Morris be so affectionate towards her? Dr. Sloper sees things differently, correctly perceiving that Morris is a callow fortune hunter. Standing up to her father for the first time in her life, Catherine insists that she will elope with Morris; but when Dr. Sloper threatens to cut off her dowry, Morris disappears. Still, Catherine threatens to run off with the next young man who pays any attention to her; Sloper, belatedly realizing how much he has hurt his only child, arranges to leave her his entire fortune. Years pass: Morris returns, insisting that he'd only left because he didn't want to cause Catherine the "grief" of being disinherited. Seemingly touched by Morris' "sincerity," Catherine agrees to elope with him immediately. But when Morris arrives at the appointed hour, he finds the door locked and bolted. Asked how she can treat Morris so cruelly, Catherine replies coldly "Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters." Though The Heiress ends on a downbeat note, the audience is gratified to know that Catherine Sloper has matured from ugly-duckling loser to a tower of strength who will never allow herself to be manipulated by anyone ever again. | <urn:uuid:ff0d833d-3df4-4ec8-b964-4dc65637a6f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-the-heiress-olivia-de-havilland/3632668 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.971047 | 444 | 1.8125 | 2 |
When the Gods deal defeat to a person, they first take his mind away, so that he sees things wrongly. Time does not raise a stick and hit a man's head; the power of Time is just this topsy-turvy view of things.
-- Dhritarashtra (Mahabharata - The Book of the Assembly Hall)
Concepts and Issues
We have studied the text of the 1st Chapter last time. We shall now have a critical look at it. As we take up our seats in the comfortable opera house at Kurukshetra, the panorama unfolding before us on the stage is the gigantic field of the battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. While the text mentions the names of a number of characters about to play their roles on both the sides, we are concerned with only three of them for our critical evaluation. They are 1. King Dhritarashtra 2. The valiant Arjuna and 3. Bhagavan Sri Krishna, who assumed the role of a charioteer to Arjuna.
If we analyze their mindsets we automatically understand the concepts and issues involved and their complexity. The immortal appeal of the Gita lies in the guided tour the Jagad Guru, Sri Krishna, takes us through the annoying wide-spread pot-holes of ignorance (lack of right knowledge, avidya in Sanskrit) on the road and who ultimately makes it possible for us to reach the destination of enlightenment, free from the shackles of bondage. This journey from darkness to light is definitely exasperating at times but yet manageable.
Dhritarashtra already heard several reasons for the likely victory of the Pandavas. He was afraid of the possibility of loss of kingdom for his own sons, the Kauravas. He therefore asks Sanjaya “what did my sons, Duryodhana and others, as well as Pandu’s sons, Yudhishthira and others, actually do on the battlefield at Kurukshetra? Did they undertake the war according to their earlier plan for fighting or did they act otherwise or do something else as a result of sagging of the will to fight due to some reason?
Apart from the inbuilt fear complex in the mind of Dhritarashtra, a significant aspect of his question is his making a distinction between his own sons and the sons of Pandu. Although the question in the form ‘What did my sons do?’ would have been sufficient, he, by separately mentioning his sons and Pandu’s sons exhibits an absence of family homogeneity and harmony in his mind.
The image of the King here is that he is not only physically blind but also is deprived of the vision of personal kindness and a human touch and inclusiveness. He is engrossed totally in his affection exclusively towards his sons.
In the entire Gita this is the only verse which the old king Dhritarashtra gives out. All the rest of the seven hundred stanzas are Sanjaya's report on what happened on the Kurukshetra battlefield, just before the war.
The old king is certainly conscious of the palpable injustices that he had done to his nephews, the Pandavas. Dhritarashtra knew the relative strength of the two armies, and therefore, was fully confident of the larger strength of his son's army. And yet, the viciousness of his past and the consciousness of the crimes perpetrated seem to be weighing heavily upon his heart, and so he has his own misgivings on the final outcome.
Dhritarashtra is physically blind. But passion and desire do not disappear with the absence of sight. Even if all the sense organs were lost, the desires hidden within the mind would not vanish and so his mind is curious, eager and troubled to know what is happening on the battlefield.
Arjuna is intelligent and where there is intelligence there is doubt and where there is doubt there is dilemma. Arjuna is rational and where there is rationality, there lies the capacity to think from a totally different perspective. Where one has these qualities, it is difficult to enter into a dangerous situation like war with closed eyes.
Remember that life does not end the same way as it begins; the end is always unknown and invisible. In this war Duryodhana’s focus was entirely on Bheema. He overlooked the fact that Krishna was on the side of Pandavas and particularly as the charioteer of Arjuna. He could not visualize that Krishna would retrieve Arjuna from his shortcomings and consequently the whole story took a different turn and Duryodhana lost.
Arjuna requested Krishna to place his chariot between the two armies so that he can observe with whom he has to fight. The points to be noted here are:
Once observation starts, analysis is not far too behind and analysis always leads to wavering of mind. So Arjuna analyses the question to fight or not to fight and comes to the conclusion that he should not fight. In all his arguments in support of that conclusion he puts forward several pleadings which apparently look valid and very wise but in fact are very hollow as Krishna proves them to be subsequently.
At this stage although it looks that Arjuna is not obsessed with war, he is not against war either and has no aversion to violence. All his life he fought many wars and his whole life’s education and training and his lifelong conditioning is all violence and war. Then why he turns his face against war? We have to understand this paradoxical situation very clearly because this is the very seed for all the teachings contained in the Bhagavad Gita. Had there not been this ironical situation, the Bhagavad Gita would not have come into existence. | <urn:uuid:19fca264-4008-4ab2-a0c7-0008441f7a52> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Bhagavad-Gita-~-Chapter-1-(Part~2)-~--Yoga-of-the-Despondency-of-Arjuna-1.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978947 | 1,204 | 2.375 | 2 |
1. Neglect one another
Relationships are living, vibrant things that require attention and nurturing every day.
Think of your relationship as a garden: if you only maintain it when you feel like it, you will very quickly have a dead garden. You have to weed and water and fertilize regularly, sometimes daily. You have to work to maintain it. Your relationship is no different.
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1. degrees and symptoms of brain injury
2. treatment of brain injury
brain contusion - a violation of the integrity of the medulla at a limited area.
According to statistics on the proportion of brain injury accounts for about 25% of all head injuries.
The most common injury is localized at the site of exposure to traumatic force.But sometimes it is observed on the opposite side, the so-called injury from protivoudara.In this part of the brain tissue is destroyed, some blood vessels, the histological cell communication.As a result, developing traumatic edema.Plot pathological damage depends on the severity of the injury.
When injuries of this type of focal tissue damage combined with traumatic hemorrhages in the white matter and the cortex of the brain.Gradually, there is an expansion chamber of injury as a result of hemorrhage and the swelling of the brain.
Many suffered severe brain injury leads to the formation of intracranial hematoma.In some cases, possible fracture of
Signs of injury depends on its severity.There are bruises mild, moderate, severe.
Mild.This degree is found in 10-15% of people with a brain injury.It is characterized by loss of consciousness after the injury for 2-10 minutes.The characteristic symptoms of a brain injury are dizziness, nausea, headache.Typically, the patient suffers from mild amnesia (loss of memory).Often the victim is vomiting, a slight tachycardia (increased heart rate) or bradycardia (decreased heart rate), hypertension.In some cases, the victims is subarachnoid hemorrhage (between the brain and the thin shell) fracture of the cranial vault.
Bruising of the brain in a child is most often in mild.
average degree.This degree of injury occurs in 7-10% of the victims.It is characterized by a complete loss of consciousness after the injury to 10-120 minutes, severe amnesia.Symptoms of brain injury secondary degree are severe headache, repeated vomiting.The victim often suffers from mental disorders, tachycardia or bradycardia, increase in blood pressure, increasing the temperature to subfebrile values.Depending on the localization of brain injuries, there are specific symptoms - and pupillary oculomotor disturbances, speech disorders, loss of sensation, paresis (loss of muscle strength) limbs.Generally, such symptoms are smoothed for 4-5 weeks, but in some cases are kept for a longer time.Quite often, the extent of the brain injury is accompanied by subarachnoid hemorrhage and fractured the base or of the cranial vault.
Severe.This degree of injury occurs in 7% of the victims.It is characterized by loss of consciousness for a period of a few hours to several weeks.Manifestations of brain injury are motor agitation, hypertension, sometimes hypotension (low blood pressure), tachycardia or bradycardia.Often the victim manifested frequency disturbances, respiratory rate at which disrupted airway.In addition, the patient suffers from hyperthermia (a temporary increase in body temperature).The victim exhibits symptoms of neurological disorders - floating movement of the eyeball, swallowing disorders, ptosis, increase or decrease of tendon reflexes and others.In some cases, there are paresis of the extremities, possible paralysis (loss of muscle motor function), seizures.Almost always severe brain injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage is accompanied by a set of fractures, skull base.
When brain injury in a child is often absent meningeal symptoms (meningeal irritation symptoms) - rigidity (strain) neck, muscle tension flexor knee and hip joints.
most accurate method of diagnosis of brain injury - computed tomography.
treatment of brain injury is carried out in stationary conditions.Mild injury victim assumes bed rest for a week, the average - for two weeks.
In mild to moderate injury to the patient is prescribed conservative therapy, the aim of which is the normalization of intracranial pressure, prevention of cerebral edema.
In severe treatment of brain injury begins with the implementation of urgent resuscitation.To normalize the breathing of the victim carried out measures to establish a free upper airway.Patients underwent removal of vomit, blood, mucus, use intubation.In severe cases, administered artificial respiration.In some situations, the blood is conducted from the suction subarachnoid space.
Surgical treatment of brain injury are used for crushing brain tissue.During the operation reveal the skull, and eliminate the damage, stop the bleeding.After that, for the recovery of brain function patients prescribed conservative treatment.
consequences of injury mild virtually no brain.But an important condition for this is to comply with bed rest injured.
At moderate the effects of brain injury is most often favorable.In most cases, the person is completely restored in the social and labor spheres.
quite difficult are the consequences of a brain injury severe.The lethal outcome is observed in 35-50% of the victims.Even if the patient survives, it remains disabled until the end of life.The patient will suffer from significant motor, speech, mental disorders, frequent epileptic seizures.He will have to constantly resort to symptomatic treatment.
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Mumbai, Sep 5 (IANS) Sales and profits of most Indian companies declined in the 2012-13 financial year, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data released Thursday showed.
"Most of the industries followed the general trend of lower sales growth and lower profit margins in 2012-13 as compared to 2011-12," the RBI said in a statement.
Among major industries, machinery, motor vehicles and cement industries in the manufacturing sector witnessed significant decline in sales growth, it said.
Profit margin growth improved for iron and steel industry and declined sharply for the cement industry. Motor vehicles, construction and machinery industry witnessed contraction in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) levels.
"EBITDA margins contracted for all these industries," the RBI said.
The data is based on financial results of 2,931 listed non-government non-financial companies.
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CSExtra – Friday, December 21, 2012
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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. U.S., Canadian and Russian astronauts prepare to dock with the International Space Station early Wednesday. In Washington, the National Research Council begins a long running study on future U. S. human space flight options. End of the world? Not so fast. In New York City, the shuttle test orbiter Enterprise undergoes repairs of damage from Super Storm Sandy. SpaceShipTwo takes flight for the first time with propulsion and thermal protection systems in place. Extreme weather dominates in 2012. Too much light has our bodies yearning for darkness.
1. From Space.com: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield was on course for an early Wednesday docking with the International Space Station. The three men lifted off Monday on a two day transit. The linkup is scheduled for 9:12 a.m. EST.
A. From Spaceflightnow.com: Updates on the Soyuz crew’s pre-docking rendezvous maneuvers.
2. From Spacepolicyonline.com: In Washington, the National Research Council kicks off a study into the future of U. S. human space exploration. Experts caution NASA could be in jeopardy as policy makers attempt to deal with the nation’s deficit. The study was set in motion by the 2010 NASA Authorization Act.
3. From Space.com: Many harbor concerns of a catastrophe on Friday based on interpretations of the Mayan calendar. The Slooh Space Camera is offering live web views of near-Earth space for those who wish to keep tabs, though experts have offered assurances there is no threat looming.
4. From Collectspace.com: NASA’s shuttle test orbiter Enterprise undergoes repairs in New York City. The test shuttle was slightly damaged during Super Storm Sandy while at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. The museum re-opens on Friday.
5. From Discovery.com: Virgin Galactic equipped its SpaceShipTwo with propulsion and heat shielding systems for a test glide this week in the skies over Mojave, Calif. The testing is part of an effort to develop a passenger craft capable of suborbital space flight. Powered flight tests could begin in the spring of 2013.
6. From The Associated Press via The Houston Chronicle: In 2012, the United States endured a round of costly extreme weather related events from — from wildfires to Sandy’s late season hurricane furry. For a second year in a row, the nation’s weather is one for the record books.
7. From The Los Angeles Times: In a 24 hour a day culture, the loss of darkness raises concerns for human health as well those in search of a rich view of the night sky.
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I have a 1997 Camry that had been in an accident and gone off the road on the passenger side. It makes a loud clunk noise on the front passenger side, sounding like a strut. I do not think it is a strut. But the bracket under the hood is twisted from the accident. Where is this sound coming from?
Loud clunk & twisted bracket does not sound good. There could be multiple things wrong with your car. I recommend you don't drive it, but have it towed to a shop for an inspection of the damage.
I also hope you have called your insurance company to make a claim. This will speed up the process as the shop will not be able to make any repairs until the insurance adjuster checks out the damage.
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|Tac1017||Date: Thursday, 14.08.2014, 19:40 | Message # 1|
|I think that full maps or globes of planets should be added for continents and for tidally locked planets with a completely black nightside (like my person planet Quarion) |
if I hade a globe with a bright nightside, there can be a box dragging tool to label continents on the planets for better navigation on planets, which would also be useful for simulated flights (Which I sometimes do on my Terra planets)
The Terra Hunter of the Milky Way!
(By the way, I was born in 2001, NOT 1972 XD)
|Zaddy23||Date: Thursday, 18.09.2014, 05:02 | Message # 2|
|I have a poll thread for a similar idea to this, from the limited response I have it seems most people want real-colour maps with height and temperature markings, along with a dot to show where you are relative to the surface. |
Link to mine for those interested: http://en.spaceengine.org/forum/14-2356-1
Along with fezes and bowties, brown dwarves are cool.
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By Jim Miller
Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’s encyclical, the San Diego Coalition to Preserve our Common Home (SDCPCH) is holding an interfaith forum on climate justice this Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 PM at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The SDCPCH is comprised of people from many faith traditions as well as activists from local environmental, labor, and social justice organizations including the Interfaith Center for Worker Justice, SanDiego350, St. James and St. Leo Parish, the California Nurses Association, the Environmental Health Coalition, Foothills Methodist Church, the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council Environmental Caucus, the Cleveland National Forest Foundation, the Climate Action Campaign, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Peace and Justice Ministry, the Christian Fellowship Congregational Church, the Islamic Center of San Diego, the San Diego County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, the American Federation of Teachers Local 1931, and more.
We’re presenting this forum in the face of increasing opposition to climate action on the part of those linked to fossil fuel interests. As Joe Romm recently pointed out in Climate Progress, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and his allies now “apparently believe the role of the ‘exceptional’ and ‘indispensable’ nation is to actively work to undermine the world’s best chance to save billions of people — including generations of Americans — from needless misery.” This is, Romm rightly notes, extraordinary:
What’s radical is the nakedly immoral and self-destructive greed underlying McConnell’s strategy, which includes one of his aides “informing foreign embassies about GOP plans to oppose Obama’s strategy on global warming.”
Consider that the Pope’s recent climate encyclical expounded at great length on the immorality of global climate inaction. So the immorality of intentionally trying to thwart the first truly serious effort aimed at global action is far beyond immoral.
Hence, while some of our leaders in Washington are engaging in a form of suicidal politics by campaigning against climate action at home and abroad at the same time many Democratic legislators in California have balked at taking climate action in the face of pressure from big oil, we feel it is necessary to mark the Pope’s visit to America by calling for a morally-centered politics that challenges us to fundamentally rethink our values.
As the SDCPCH mission statement notes:
Earth, our common home, is suffering because many of us are estranged from creation. We can no longer live as if we are separate isolated beings, ignoring our interdependence within the living system upon which we depend, and to which we are responsible. All of the world’s religions and ethical systems recognize that we are part of creation – inextricably bound up with earth and one another. All of the world’s religions call us to care for creation.
The stakes are high, and the future of the world’s children and the diversity of all life depend on whether we can muster the courage to act in ways that challenge economic and political business as usual. Even as more and more of us recognize the clear scientific evidence of this threat to the natural world, including other species and human beings, it is not enough just to talk about it. This is a moral call to love in action. Those of us who believe in the possibility of a beautiful, just, and sustainable future, and who value our interdependence, must seek to match our creeds with our deeds.
We also accept Pope Francis’s challenge to our “throwaway culture” and we have come to see that the climate crisis and our historic level of inequality are interrelated. Saving what we can of our common home requires a movement that unites economic and environmental justice and offers both a strong moral case for bold environmental action and a future that doesn’t further deepen already historic levels of economic inequality where the interests of the affluent are protected while leaving the poor behind. This means abandoning market fundamentalism, awakening our moral imagination and reimagining a more equitable future before the drift toward ever-more destructive outcomes becomes inevitable.
We the undersigned recognize the great threat facing our planet due to climate change and resource depletion. We also recognize this great opportunity to awaken within humanity the sensibilities that will allow us to live from our deep interconnectedness with earth and all beings. We call upon all of our brothers and sisters to do all they can on a personal, institutional, political, and economic level to challenge themselves and others to answer the call to build a sustainable future.
We commit to change our personal behavior and ask our affiliated institutions, national and international leaders to:
- Limit greenhouse gases and drastically reduce our carbon footprint by all means, including divesting from fossil fuels, investing in clean energy sources and making sustainable, humane food choices;
- Change our economic system from being solely profit driven to one that is more ethically sensitive to environmental protection and the equality of all nations and individuals;
- Take concrete measures to lower over-production and over-consumption that is exhausting the non-replaceable natural resources;
- Restrict and control chemical run-offs and pollution that contaminate our rivers, oceans, soil and air supply; and
- Raise awareness that we are one world family, sharing the limited resources of our common home striving to live together with dignity and in peace.
Please come and join this important discussion.
When: Thursday, September 24, 2015. Doors open 6:30 pm; forum begins at 7 pm.
Where: 2728 Sixth Avenue, San Diego 92103 – in the Great Hall, enter on 5th Avenue between Olive and Nutmeg Streets
- Welcome by the Very Reverend Penny Bridges, St. Paul’s Cathedral
- Rabbi Shai Cherry, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice
- Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice, MC
- Nana Firman, Muslim Coordinator, Our Voices and Fellow, GreenFaith
- Opening invocation by Rev. Jeanette Ham, Foothills United Methodist Church
- Rev. J. Lee Hill, Jr., Christian Fellowship Congregational Church and Co-President, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice
- Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and Co-President, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice
- Eddie Junsay, SanDiego350
- Jim Miller, Political Action/Community Outreach VP AFT Local 1931 and Chair of the SD-Imperial Counties Labor Council Environmental Caucus
- Kent Peters, San Diego Catholic Diocese
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Blood donation is the gift of life. Consider these facts:
- Blood is needed somewhere every three seconds
- One out of three people will need donated blood in their lifetime
- One out of ten hospital patients needs a blood transfusion
- Of the 60 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only five percent actually do so and only one percent donate in New Jersey
At Atlantic Health System’s Blood Donor Services Departments at Morristown Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center provide the safest, highest quality blood products for our patients.
We offer the following blood donation services:
- Community/Employee Blood Donation: A group of committed, healthy volunteers donate their blood to this program.
- Automated Blood Collection: This program offers an automated system that separates and collects only the most-needed blood products (blood cells, plasma and platelets), required by many lifesaving medical treatments, from a single donation.
- Directed Blood Donation: Friends or relatives may donate blood for a specific patient. Directed donors must meet the same good health requirements that regular donors meet, and all blood donations are tested to assure their safety for transfusion.
- Autologous Blood Donation: Individuals may donate their own blood for personal surgical needs through this program.
In addition, Atlantic Health System holds a mobile blood drive at Newton Medical Center once every three months. For the next available date, please call 973-971-5747. | <urn:uuid:b6435387-c89e-4f97-a763-7d46072e8f85> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.atlantichealth.org/overlook/our-services/blood-donor-services/blood-donor-services.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00109-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904218 | 297 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Chasing Olympic Dream Is Costly
Posted February 14, 1998 6:00 a.m. EST
RALEIGH — Many young athletes chase an Olympic dream, but not many parents find it easy to handle the costs. A single Raleigh mother says she's spending $30,000 a year to pave the Olympic road for her 13-year-old son.
Jonathan Heyward spends hours on figure skating lessons and even more time in practice. His mother Marianne spends a large chunk of her time driving him to the rink, to competitions in other states -- and at her sewing machine making his costumes.
As she points out, budding skaters must pay for their lessons, for their costumes and for travel expenses both for themselves and their coaches.
Marianne Heyward displayed one of her son's costumes -- it cost $900 for the beads alone. Jonathan says ice time can cost $300 to $600 a month, and lessons can run from $20 to $120 an hour.
Still, both Heywards are hoping their efforts pay off at Olympic competitions in 2002 or 2006.
"I sit here and shake," Marianne Hayward said. "When I think about the years, and the dollars and the time, and the no sleep and the miles on the car, and everything. I wouldn't give it up for anything. Because I know in my heart that this what Jonathan is supposed to do.
Watching her son spin, and leap, and twirl on the ice, Marianne Heyward said she sees it as an investment, teaching a child something to do something disciplined in their lives to help them later on. Whether they get a gold medal or not it is experience they just couldn't get anywhere else."
She said she gets teary-eyed watching the Olympics because she hopes for her son to join the ranks of U.S. figure skaters one day.
One point in favor of Jonathan and all other male figure skaters: more girls are drawn to the sport so competition is much more intense; the boys' field is far less crowded.
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Group 1- the alkali metals
One outer electron.
As you go down group 1 the alkali metals get more reactive,
because of shielding it is easier for the electron in the outer shell to be lost.
The nucleus is further away from the outer electron so the forces are weaker.
The melting and boiling points also get lower as you down down group 1.
The alkali metals have a low density (the first three are less dense than water).
Alkali metals form ionic bonds with non-metals (halogens).
They want to lose the outer electron to become a 1+ ion.
They DON'T form covalent bonds.
Alkali metals produce soluble white compounds that form colourless solutions.
Reacting alkali metals with water produces hydrogen gas.
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March 2020 Presidential Primary Election
The election day deadline is March 10.
Presidential Primary Overview
Five easy steps to make sure your vote counts!
- Read the declarations on the return envelope and mark ONE political party box
- Sign and date on the line
- Vote for ONE candidate from the political party that you selected
- Insert your voted ballot into the security sleeve, then into the return envelope, and seal
- Return your ballot – by mail or drop box – by Tuesday, March 10!
This election is part of the major political parties’ national nominating process. Both parties will use the results to allocate delegates to their respective nominating conventions, where they will determine their nominee for the November General election.
In order to participate in this election, all voters must select their party preference and then vote for one candidate from within that party. There is no option to cast an unaffiliated or independent ballot. The party selected in this election will be on the voter’s record for 60 days and is public information. After 60 days, the party preference will be expunged from the voter rolls and the selection made in this election has no bearing on how a voter may participate in any future election.
For this election only, all voters must select a political party in order to participate.
If you mark the Democratic Party box, you must vote for a Democrat. If you mark the Republican Party box, you must vote for a Republican.
Your choice of party in this election will not affect how you may vote or participate in future elections, including the 2020 November General election. It only is relevant to the Presidential Primary itself.
In elections, it’s critical to keep your identity separate from your votes. As ballots are processed, they are removed from the outer envelope, severing all ties between your ballot and your identity. That’s why the declaration and signature are on the envelope and not on the ballot inside.
If you are concerned about others seeing your party preference in transit, we recommend using one of the 70 secure ballot drop boxes across King County. Drop boxes are emptied daily by election administrators and ballots brought directly back to King County Elections for processing and tabulation.
The declarations are your affirmation that you will not participate in the nominating process of a different political party in 2020 other than the one you selected. Whether you identify as a member of that political party, consider yourself independent, or reject party politics all together, every voter must select a party and sign the declaration without any attempts to alter the declaration language in order to have their vote counted.
Crossing out parts of the declaration or writing over the declaration may result in a challenged or rejected ballot so please stick to checking the box that you feel most comfortable with and voting for one candidate from that party to have your vote counted.
The list of eligible candidates was provided by the State Democratic and Republican Parties on January 7. After that date, there was no opportunity to withdraw a name from the ballot.
“Uncommitted delegates” was an option that both parties could choose to include for their voters. Only the Democratic Party requested to have the “uncommitted delegates” option added to their ballot. You may vote for either a named candidate or the “uncommitted delegates” option but not both.
If you vote for a named candidate, you are indicating that you would like delegates from Washington to be committed to the candidate you voted for. If you vote “uncommitted,” you are indicating that you would like delegates from Washington to be sent to the nominating convention without a candidate they are dedicated to.
Washington law requires a Presidential Primary only for major political parties, defined as “…a political party whose nominees for president and vice president received at least five percent of the total votes cast in the last presidential election.” Currently, only the Republican Party and Democratic Party qualify as major political parties under that definition. | <urn:uuid:f144ecb2-f41b-49c7-b98d-b2ba7b5d481f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/elections/current-elections/march-presidential-primary.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.958286 | 817 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 August, 2022
Deadline for submission of full articles: 31 October, 2022
Looking at the varied possible intersections between medical sciences and literature, this journal issue invites proposals on the theme of medical humanities. It is a fertile ground where the modern studia humanitatis meets the medieval medicus which in medieval Latin meant both “healing” and “magic” at the same time. Over the past few years, medical humanities has not only emerged as a genre but also a method in itself: a method of doing literature and a method of doing medicine, in a theory-praxis double bind. Since the publication of Susan Sontag’s seminal text Illness as Metaphor (1978), the field is growing in myriad ways to reclaim the (post)human side of medicine and also understand the gradual medicalization of literary studies.
The post-Covid world has suddenly encountered a rampant medicalization of society, politics, culture, history and economics. From an already medicalized present, we are now moving towards a more medicalized future. The world is now floating in the stream of pathological signifiers. This sudden global and yet quotidian collapse of the boundaries between logical and pathological seems to mark the spirit-of-the-age.
Among other things, medical humanities as a practice tries to find the marginalized voices, through illness narratives and care narratives, in the metanarrative of techno-capitalism of modern medicine. It seeks to find and foreground the voice of the sufferer and the voice of the immediate caregiver amidst quite dehumanizing jargon of medical bulletin. It seeks to decipher the subdued metalanguage of illness in the modernity of health. The lived-experiences are given as much importance as existing episteme. The economy of health runs on ability, productivity, quantity, speed, flow, spatial and temporal management, visibility and reproduction. Illness by being outside of it, resists and subverts the hegemony of health. Illness is the other side of modernity.
Medical humanities is in continuous dialogue with modernity and the modern. It also generates a dialogue between literary studies and medicine and while doing so, it is not only transforming the two disciplines but also itself. It is now that non-essential third term: a “medicalhumanities” which has moved beyond word spacing (medical humanities), a conjunction (medical and humanities), and a hyphen (medical-humanities).
- illness narratives, care narratives, narrative medicine
- pathology, pathogenesis, pathography
- medical humanities, transhumanism, posthumanism
- medical posthumanities
- medical humanities and anthropocene
- medical humanities, art, literature, cinema, TV series
- re-reading canons through medical humanities
- medical humanities and pedagogy
- medical humanities and continental philosophy
- medical humanities, race, class, caste, gender, sexuality
- medical humanities, empire, postcolonialism
- transforming STEM through medical humanities
- transforming (post)literary studies through medical humanities
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Celia Thaxter (1835-1894), poet
Celia Thaxter House
Celia Thaxters first poem, Land Locked, was published without her knowledge in 1860, four years after she moved to this Late Victorian home in Newton from her childhood home on the tiny islands off the New Hampshire coast. During her lifetime and briefly thereafter, Thaxter was one of the better known women poets in America. Her poems appeared in the Atlantic, the Independent, Scribners and Harpers. Two books of poems were also published, Poems in 1872 and Among the Isles of the Shoals in 1873. In both content and style, her verse owes much to New England writers James Russell Lowell and John Greenleaf Whittier, who, during stays at her family's island hotel, urged Thaxter to write. The similarities only went so far, though. Thaxter's subjects and style differed from those of other regional writers of the day, for she seldom alluded to people and instead dealt chiefly with natural themes--the sea, rocks and flowers of her earlier island home. While she cared for her eldest son who had been mentally ill from a young age, Thaxter spent a lot of time away from her "forlorn and shabby" Newton home. Three years later, in 1890, the house was sold.
The Celia Thaxter House is located at 524 California St. in Newton, MA. The property is a private residence and not open to the public.
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Small business owners today must be aware of keeping their data secure. With many websites hacked daily, it’s important to take precautions to keep your business’s and your customer’s information safe. Data security for small business is one of the most pressing concerns of our times. No one is completely secure nowadays. However, you can greatly lessen the chances of having your information stolen if you keep the following data security guidelines in mind.
Enforce a Strict Security Policy
It’s important to devise a clear-cut policy on all security related matters. Back up all of your data and keep your anti-virus and anti-malware software updated. Train all of your employees to be vigilant about security.
Monitor Computer and Network Access Levels
If all of your employees have equal access to your data, you should rethink this approach. It’s safer to give people access based on their positions and experience. Set usernames and passwords based on employees’ access levels. This way, more sensitive information is only accessible by employees who need this data to perform their jobs.
Protect Your Wireless Network
Stealing data from unsecured wireless networks is a favorite hacker trick. Never access sensitive information on a public WiFi network and warn your employees against this practice as well. Make sure your wireless network is protected by strong passwords, SSL and a solid firewall. Password protecting the router is an additional step that makes it harder for anyone to break into your network.
Clearly Outline Rules and Consequences
Make sure everyone is clear about what they’re allowed to access as well as the consequences for violating these restrictions. You should also have a plan in place for dealing with security issues.
Use Two-Factor Authentication
One of the most common security breaches occurs when a hacker changes your password and gains access to your system. With two-factor authentication, the user must pass through an additional layer of security, such as entering a numeric code, in order to change a password. Make sure everyone in your organization takes this precaution with all of their accounts.
Use Data Encryption
Without data encryption, it’s relatively easy for a hacker to gain access to your data. An SSL certificate on your website is a strong measure that not only encrypts your data but lets your visitors and customers know that you’re serious about data security.
Be Cautious of Cloud-Based Products and Services
While cloud solutions are often a convenient and economical small business solution, they aren’t all equally reliable and secure. Before choosing a provider or software application, do your research. Don’t just automatically sign up with the cheapest service. Check out the provider’s reputation, transparency, and inquire about how they keep clients’ data secure.
These tips greatly improve data security for small business. Keep in mind that cyber security is a field that’s constantly evolving. Just as security measures are always improving, so are the efforts of hackers. That’s why it’s essential to continually reassess and update your data security measures.
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WASHINGTON -- The woman holding the position known as "America's doctor" took to Twitter this week to make it known she was stepping down.
Regina Benjamin Bows Out as Surgeon General
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, announced late Wednesday she will leave her post in July after 4 years on the job.
No reason was immediately given about why the sudden announcement came, but she indicated she wanted to spend time this summer volunteering at the rural health clinic in South Alabama she helped to found, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokeswoman said.
"She has served as America's doctor since 2009 and has impacted the health and lives of Americans across the country," HHS spokeswoman Dori Salcido said in a statement. "We are grateful for her leadership and service."
Court Says No to Human Gene Patents
Synthetically created combinations of DNA are not naturally occurring and are therefore patent-eligible, but whole genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 occur naturally and can't be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.
The Association for Molecular Pathology argued that patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes held by biotechnology firm Myriad Genetics were invalid because they are a product of nature. Salt Lake City-based Myriad argued it could legally patent the genes because once they were isolated from the body, they were no longer a product of nature.
Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes raise a woman's risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
FDA Drops Age Limits on Plan B One-Step OTC Sales
The federal judge who ordered the FDA to make the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) available over the counter to women of all ages on Wednesday approved the agency's plan to comply with that order.
After a legal and political battle over the issue, the FDA late Monday told Korman it would comply with his order to allow sales of the one-pill emergency contraceptive without age restrictions or other access limitations.
Physician groups on Tuesday were generally supportive of the FDA decision to expand over-the-counter OTC access to Plan B One-Step.
Medicare to Pay for More FDG-PET Scans
Up to three scans using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-enhanced positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) technology can be covered by Medicare for oncology treatment planning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Tuesday.
The agency's final decision expands significantly on its earlier proposal, which would have allowed reimbursement for only a single FDG-PET scan and excluded prostate cancer as a covered indication.
Both limitations were dropped in CMS' final coverage determination. The agency said it now agrees with numerous comments it received on the draft proposal, which argued that FDG-PET scans are valuable in treatment planning in prostate cancer as they are for other tumor types.
Medicare Advantage Plans Keep Growing
More Medicare beneficiaries than ever are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, despite concerns that payment cuts to the plans made by the Affordable Care Act would cause providers to drop out and enrollment to drop.
Medicare Advantage plans enrolled a record 14.4 million customers in 2013, up nearly 10% from last year, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis said Monday.
Medicare Advantage enrollment has grown nearly 30% since 2010.
Senator Praises CMS Fraud Rewards
Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wrote late Monday to CMS to support a proposed rule that would increase rewards for individuals who report suspected Medicare fraud.
The proposed rule would increase the cap on potential reward payouts from $1,000 to $9.9 million.
Nelson urged CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to pay rewards in a timely manner and to make sure that the program is properly managed.
Lawmakers Want Review of Federal Mental Health Programs
Members of the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee want the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to ensure taxpayer dollars to treat the mentally ill are being used effectively.
The subcommittee's top Republican and Democrat asked the GAO on Friday to investigate how federal departments and agencies support mental illness programs and how they oversee those programs.
They also asked the GAO to investigate the nearly $1 billion in grants the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration administers through its Center for Mental Health Services.
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on healthcare price transparency.
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The United Nations (UN) is facing a shortage of millions of dollars needed to carry out humanitarian work among the displaced in Sri Lanka.
A shortfall in funding has not only impacted the thousands of displaced remaining in camps for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) but is also likely to affect the economic recovery of those released, Neil Buhne, the UN’s resident coordinator, said on Thursday.
"Although generous donations of about $ 125 million have made these response operations possible, $ 165 million more is needed to cover gaps for activities planned by the UN and humanitarian organisations during the remainder of 2010 in support of the national programmes,’’ Buhne said.
He added that funding shortages have reduced the capacity to deliver immediate assistance to the residual camp population and returning communities.
Around 35000 IDPs still remain in camps while about 200000 have returned to their villages in the north. Nearly 300000 Tamils were displaced during the end of the civil conflict in 2009.
“The job is not yet done. It is still a critical period and we ask for your continued support to meet the remaining crucial needs” Buhne said, adding: ``the welfare of the returned people, is an important element in reconciliation and ultimately, sustainable peace and development.’’
Buhne said progress has been made in providing succour to the displaced. "Combined efforts have ensured that over 300,000 people have had access to safe water and sanitation facilities. Common services such as health, nutrition and education have also made significant improvements in effort to normalise life in return areas and for those in camps,’’ his statement said.
Buhne said: ``difficult, hard, and urgent work was done. Lives were saved and people helped to get back their strength to rebuild lives”, he added “funding for this work came from the Government, people throughout Sri Lanka and from donor governments. However, as all of us know, there is much more to be done - recently returned people are still vulnerable”. | <urn:uuid:801c8cfd-c075-4248-882b-78d1657836d1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/un-facing-severe-fund-shortage/story-QF4mdQVIv91RZGHKx1SfqJ.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00155-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977121 | 423 | 2.15625 | 2 |
There are lots of great tips out there for dealing with a crisis. One of the nicest, most succinct ones we’ve seen comes courtesy of Melissa Agnes and addresses the Top Ten Crisis Management Take-Aways from 2013. So, the team at Capstone decided our Christmas gift to you is the Ten Days of Crisis Management – You won’t find any maids a milking here, but you will find the Capstone team’s deeper dives on Melissa’s list. To read Melissa’s original list, click here.
# 4. “Internet defamation is a serious issue and there are more and more options available to help organizations protect themselves, both legally and reputationally.” – Melissa Agnes
If you do an online search for “Internet defamation,” your first results will be mostly promoted ads for Internet defamation remediation services. Law firms, advocacy groups, and branding firms are vying for the expanding market of people and organizations that have been disparaged online, and with good reason. Although no solid numbers exist around this, the interactive nature of almost all digital content has led to an explosion of online libel.
Online forums and Twitter feeds are often rife with negative comments and claims, but what separates a sarcastic or even mean-spirited tweet from true online libel? Well, first, libel is a kind of defamation and is the written form of slander. Second, for a statement to be considered libel it has to meet a few conditions, as outlined by Traverse Legal. Briefly, those conditions are:
— Proof is that the statement constitutes a false statement of fact, which is different than an opinion.
— The false statement of fact must harm yours or your company’s reputation.
— The false statement of fact causing harm must be made without adequate due diligence or research into the truthfulness of the statement.
— If the person who is the subject of the false statement of fact is a celebrity or public official, the plaintiff must also prove “malice.”
If a something exists that contains those elements, you of course have the option to pursue the matter legally.
You’ll have to contact an attorney as quickly as possible, as you may run into problems with the statute of limitations to say nothing of the possibility of lost profit and business from negative online perceptions
But a critical component of your strategy – and what you’ll want to pursue immediately, regardless of your legal course of action – is what you’ll do to rebuild your online reputation. Something that you’ll have to consider whether you want to call a lawyer or not.
As with all crisis communications and issue management, you’re always better off if you have a good foundation. Many times a libelous comment can be buried by third party support from your followers, and smart search engine optimization can help you defeat the attack to your brand’s online position. SEO is especially useful because in order to counter the positive content you put out, the offender will have to create just as much negative commentary, a tiresome task.
You should also immediately begin a fact-based campaign to defend your organization. Tactically, this can be done in many ways but the strategic goal is for you to appear transparent and open, without engaging with the negative post and whoever is behind it. Publish as much fact-based content as you can, establish your version of events and make sure people can find it.
A great, and legalese-free, source of some FAQs on online libel and defamation can be found at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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SUU Student Project sets Land Speed RecordAugust 18, 2009
Category: Special Events
Though Thunderbirds are notoriously fast, one may not expect Southern Utah University to be in the business of motorcycle racing. And yet, last week, SUU’s Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management did just that, when a student-designed motorcycle broke the two-wheel electric vehicle land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats during its annual Speed Week.
Computer Aided Design major Shane Johnson designed this record-shattering vehicle under the direction of Professional in Residence Richard Cozzens, and together, student and mentor worked with AirTech Streamlining, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of exotic motorcycle fairing and bodywork, to design the shell and chassis of the vehicle that reached 176 miles per hour at last week’s race.
AirTech Streamlining’s owner, Kent Riches, applied the design to his own electric vehicle motor design, and together, the two designs made history.
This partnership between AirTech and Southern Utah University will continue, as Riches and Cozzens, with the help of additional SUU students, plan to build upon Johnson’s initial body design and eventually create a bullet version of the electric racer with the hopes of setting additional land speed records.
For Riches, who also pilots the racecars he designs, this marks his first electric vehicle speed record, though he does hold several motorcycle and missile-form automotive speed records.
Electric vehicles are relatively new to the racing circuit, and according to Cozzens, who was on hand to see the SUU-designed vehicle set the world record, the race was quite an anomaly, “We pulled up in our electric motorcycle, with an engine that is almost silent, and it was very different from what everyone there was used to, which is a lot of loud, rumbling engines and exhaust.”
Cozzens is excited to continue this partnership between the University and Riches and anticipates that many more SUU CAD/CAM students will benefit from this partnership, eventually leaving SUU with valuable real-world experience with one of the industry’s most respected companies.
Beyond this project, Cozzens and Associate Professor of Engineering Technology Scott Hansen are also planning to involve students in the Mini Baja, a national intercollegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students to design and build a prototype of an off-road recreational vehicle that is able to negotiate rough terrain and all types of weather without damage.
Both projects provide SUU’s engineering technology students with distinct opportunities to apply the concepts they study concerning product design, fabrication and testing.
And according to Johnson, who since designing the electric vehicle has graduated and secured a job in drafting, these kind of real-world experiences make all the difference in an engineering student’s education. He states, “I took a lot of classes and was involved in a lot of projects that prepared me for graduation, but the vehicle design project with AirTech helped me bring all those experiences together. This project helped me see just how far I had come.”
Johnson adds, “Beyond that, I really enjoyed working with professionals and seeing how everything comes together in the real world under important deadlines and regulations and budgets.”
Johnson’s design set the new land speed record for a two-wheel electric vehicle at 176 miles per hour – 11 miles per hour over the old record. If all goes as planned, Riches will continue on with Johnson’s design, relying upon Cozzens and additional SUU students, to continue modifying from this starting point to reach 200 miles per hour by next year’s competition. | <urn:uuid:470aadfc-ec33-41dd-8904-32e4f79487f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.suu.edu/news/2009/08/suu-student-project-sets-land-speed-record.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960237 | 767 | 2 | 2 |
Apple on Wednesday patched four security vulnerabilities in Safari and blocked outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player from running in its browser.
The Flash blocking move was similar to one Apple made last month when it stopped the Java plug-in from launching automatically.
Safari 5.1.7, which runs on OS X 10.6 and 10.7 -- Snow Leopard and Lion, respectively -- as well as on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, was released alongside another update for Lion that included a slightly-older version of the browser. Lion users must download and install both updates to push Safari to version 5.1.7.
The four security flaws fixed were the same ones patched Tuesday in iOS 5.1.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. All were labeled as bugs in WebKit, the open-source rendering engine that powers Safari as well as Google's Chrome.
In fact, one of the vulnerabilities was first revealed by a researcher at the "Pwnium" hacking contest Google hosted last March. The researcher, Sergey Glazunov, was awarded $60,000 for pairing the flaw with another bug to bring down Chrome.
Glazunov was credited by Apple with reporting a second WebKit vulnerability, while another was attributed to a pair of engineers on the Chrome security team.
Along with the four patches, Apple also yanked Adobe's Flash Player from Safari if the plug-in was older than version 10.1.102.64, which released in November 2010. Since then, Adobe has shipped Flash Player 11 for the Mac. It has also continued to maintain the older version 10, which now stands at version 10.3.183.19.
"This update disables Adobe Flash Player if it is older than 10.1.102.64 by moving its files to a new directory," Apple's advisory stated Wednesday. "This update presents the option to install an updated version of Flash Player from the Adobe website."
Apple stopped bundling Flash Player with OS X in the fall of 2010, but users have been free to download and install the plug-in on their own. Microsoft last distributed Flash with the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP. Neither Windows Vista or Windows 7 included a preinstalled version of Adobe's software.
Blocking Flash was the second such move by Apple in a month: On April 12, the company issued an OS X update that disabled automatic execution of Java applets by the Java browser plug-in. Apple took the step because of Flashback, a malware family that used a Java vulnerability to infect hundreds of thousands of Macs in a spree that still continues.
"As a security hardening measure, the Java browser plug-in and Java Web Start are deactivated if they are unused for 35 days," Apple said at the time.
Java Web Start is an Oracle technology that lets users single-click launch a Java app from within a browser without first downloading the app to the machine.
And Apple wasn't the only browser maker to recently block Adobe software. On Friday, Mozilla added the Adobe Reader plug-in to its Firefox blocklist, citing compatibility problems that resulted in blank pages appearing when users clicked on a link to a PDF document.
Mozilla maintains a blocklist for extensions or plug-ins that cause significant security or performance issues in Firefox. The browser automatically queries the blocklist and notifies users before disabling the targeted plug-in.
According to Mozilla, it's working with Adobe on a fix to Reader but will keep the plug-in on its blocklist until one is available.
Safari 5.1.7 can be downloaded from Apple's website. Mac users will be notified of the new version automatically by OS X's Software Update, while Windows users already running Safari will be alerted by a separate tool bundled with the browser.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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My Pilates teacher kept a life size model of the human skeleton in her studio. The eagle-eyed amongst us noted it was a male skeleton. Mentioning that almost guaranteed her telling us that some of England’s best performing rugby players did Pilates, as it helped built flexibility and balance, and helped prevent injuries.
In Pilates practice it becomes clear quickly that while the spine is heavily deployed in the exercises, what restricts people’s range of movements often is their hip flexors, hamstrings, and sundry tendons and ligaments.
In other words, the role of the connective tissue only becomes clear when it does not “deliver”. Most other times we just take it for granted.
In my role as a board director, I think about connective tissue often. Not the sinew and tendon kind, but their organisational and people analogues.
Connective tissue is less about what needs doing but about how it gets done — and it goes beyond process and policy which could be likened to the skeleton. We needn’t wait for something to stop delivering or functioning, to understand its existence or importance.
From my experience so far on boards as well as from working with a variety of organisations in exec roles and in advisory capacity, I have identified some types of connective tissue that those of us serving on boards would benefit from understanding.
The social capital in an organisation is vital in providing operational resilience of the kind that may not be easy to document in business continuity plans. As I have written before and as we all learnt when forced to go virtual at the start of the Covid19 pandemic, things kept working — although only the most humble of leaders recognised, leave alone rewarded, those whose social capital was vital in ensuring that things did not grind to a halt.
The tacit knowledge and experience residing in the brains of expert and experienced employees is another vital kind of connective tissue in an organisation. Pending its elusive bottling, it is humbling to remember that an estimated 80% of the world’s knowledge is currently tacit or unstructured. Puts into perspective the data obsession that many leaders have when they are dealing with just 20% of what is shaping decisions in business! Cassandra’s Paradox if we ever saw one.
Informal engagement opportunities — or the watercooler moments as they are called — are crucial to an organisation’s functioning. They allow a grapevine to operate, informal information channels to function, and both cohesion and gossip to proliferate. These watercooler moments are being cited by those advocating a return to the office after the pandemic made it clear to many that working remotely was not just possible but also welcome as the preferred way of working.
Which brings us to the question: why and how to understand the connective tissue of an organisation?
Board directors meet but a few times a year. This means regardless of how solid and deep their questioning and knowledge is, boards always operate in an environment of information asymmetry that naturally favours exec teams steeped in the day to day operating of the business. The connective tissue of the specific organisations we oversee helps fill gaps, somewhat balancing that asymmetry.
An important thing would be to understand the value chain of the organisation thoroughly. This is often not as easy as it sounds. Since many board directors come to serve on boards after fairly narrowly focused functional exec roles, that functional lens is often their primary lens. It is worth stepping out of that comfort zone and smudge one’s lens a bit to understand the totality and the specificity of an organisation’s context. And with respect, I will also add it does not matter how many similar organisations you have seen before. Each organisation is indeed unique in its connective tissue and needs to be understood afresh.
Induction of new directors — who have the advantage of bringing fresh eyes to things albeit to be deployed with caution — is a helpful formal tool although some organisations use it better than others. Adjacent to that is the adequacy (or not) of formal governance mechanisms, the form and remit of committees, the reports of committees to the main board, and formal meetings. They all help to understand the answer, to the question that King and Kay suggest in their book Radical Uncertainty (to be reviewed): what is going on here?
And although informal channels are prone to capture and should be used with caution, they are an important way to understand an organisation’s connective tissue.
The Supremes reminded us “You can’t hurry love”, and in a similar vein, the understanding of the connective tissue of an organisation cannot be hurried or bottled for quick consumption. The nature of the time-limited terms of board directors is such that by the time you have fully understood an organisation, it is time to move on — the essence of not becoming embedded or part of the furniture, and of retaining independence. So every director has to start afresh on their own journey, especially as the organisations we serve also constantly evolve over the time we have served them.
What does it take for a professional – whether exec or board director — to understand this connective tissue?
I have reflected on this question a lot. And several conversations with senior board directors and chairs have only confirmed what I often say about boards: governance is a contact sport. And nowhere is the connective tissue noticed more for its role and effectiveness than in a sport (or exercise) situation. In this contact sport, we learn, do our jobs, reflect, hopefully get better, learn again. Sometimes at speed, sometimes at leisure. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This ability to grasp at the connective tissue and learn constantly goes beyond skills and qualifications. Or as I say alliteratively for ease of recall, it is more about credibility than credentials, even more so about qualities that are challenging to investigate in a board interview. The more structured and formal the interview situation and the less cookie-cutter a prospective director’s CV, the less likely it is that the hiring panel can be confident that they have probed and understood the prospective director’s mental models, unique approaches and strengths, and perspectives (this is perhaps for another monograph some day although you can take a quick look at my super-revealing interview question here).
Other than being imaginative and bien dans sa peau, being effective at understanding the connective tissue requires a high degree of abstract intelligence, sharp self-awareness especially of the gaps in one’s understanding (which can inform the needs for continual learning as well as for seeking support from peers or mentors), and comfort with the cracks in one’s conceptualisation of the organisation. To cite the lyrical great Leonard Cohen: There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.
It takes recognising with humility that as directors, we are all works-in-progress, never perfect.
After all if we are finished, we are also likely dead in which case not sure this monograph is of much use!
In BAU, a deep understanding of the connective tissue of an organisation enables creative thinking and capturing of opportunities, and also provides the chance to recognise and reward those who provision the connective tissue vital to the organisation.
In crises however, the connective tissue comes to the fore. When we seek to resolve challenges, often pressed by paucity of time, sensitive to possible existential and reputational risks, concerned about confidentiality and duty of care and ethical responsibilities, we really find out who has which of the answers we seek and how swiftly we can get to the bottom of understanding what is going on here.
It is vital to draw lessons from both BAU and from crises to note the connective tissue, and this is why good boards take regular reflection time to ask whether they are fit for purpose.
(Disclaimer: These are my own views and do not reflect the views of the boards of JP Morgan US Smaller Co.s Investment Trust or Temple Bar Investment Trust or London Metropolitan University or Harmony Energy Income Trust, where I serve as a non-exec director, and chair various committees at the time of writing.) | <urn:uuid:676448c9-335e-40b7-9f91-ea57674e36a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shefaly-yogendra.com/2022/04/19/connective-tissue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.962906 | 1,697 | 1.984375 | 2 |
How biological organisms produce materials with controlled structure, chemistry, and hierarchy to attain physical properties far superior to traditional engineering materials. Fundamental biological building materials, their synthesis, and their self-assembly with emphasis on examples of soft and hard tissues. Offered: W, even years.
The class will cover: Lesson from Mother Nature on molecular fabrication of organic and inorganic materials; Genetic selection of peptides and their post-selection engineering; Protein construction and synthesis; Bioinformatics; computational biology; molecular recognition: experimental and modeling; Utility of peptides as molecular erectors, synthesizers and assemblers; Applications in nanophotonics, magnetics, and electronics towards technology and medicine including engineered surfaces for implants, cancer diagnostics, stem cell molecular scaffolds, and tissue regeneration.
Student learning goals
1. Fundamentals of marriage of materials and genetics
2. Peptide structure and function
3. Molecular Biology of peptide design
4. Bioinformatics and computational biology towards in silico design of short peptides
5. Fundamental issues in nanotechnology
6. Utility of peptides as molecular erectors, synthesizers, and assemblers
General method of instruction
Seminar type one-to-one lectures by the instructor and invited instructors (experts in the field) on specific topics of the goals of the course; Discussions on topical themes; Literature search and reading of highlight papers; Preparation of term papers; preparation of project full proposals for NSF or NIH related to students' theses topics, plus others
Either of General chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, materials science and engineering, nanoscience/nanotechnology, any field of engineering, etc.
Class assignments and grading
HW, term paper, project proposals for NIH or NSF.
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EOCon (EyesOpen Cybersecurity Conference) is a meeting of enthusiasts of digital technologies in general and cyber security in particular.
This year 2021, Seven Advanced Academy cyber security students participated in EOCon CTF.
CTF or Capture-the-Flag events are computer security competitions. Participants compete in security-themed challenges for the purpose of obtaining the highest score. Competitors are expected to “capture flags” to increase their score, hence the name of the event. Flags are usually random strings embedded in the challenges.
The EOCon CTF 2021 welcomed teams across the globe. One of those teams was “Seventh2” from Seven Advanced Academy.
This young team, only six months into their CEH certification training gathered a total of 880 points featuring them in the top 10.
“I applaud EOCon. Competitions like these help develop the essential skills required to follow a career path in cybersecurity like testing the security of a website, infiltrating servers, cryptography, cracking passwords, conducting a network investigation, risk assessment and much more. After months in the lab training, I have been looking forward to seeing how our students will compete at an international level with other students and even professionals with years of
experience in cyber security.”
To give our students the best path to success, we have customized our cyber security training as follows:
This is important because every successful ethical hacker needs a good foundation in networking.
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Modern people much more informed than the population of the country thirty years ago.Today, everyone knows that the disease - hypertension, diabetes, and others, which are much "younger".Many of them became sick young age people.Technological progress has brought a lot of good to mankind, but there is a downside: people stopped moving, sitting in front of a computer, drives a car or motorcycle, hiking rejected due to lack of time.The number of hypertensive patients is growing every year.But there fitosbor that will help normalize blood pressure and improve the condition of the body without pills.This monastery tea on hypertension.
This is a very serious disease which affects a huge number of Russians.When a person has high blood pressure, it is considered very dangerous, because in this period there is damage to the central nervous system and vital organs such as the liver and heart.It is a chronic disease in which ill after 30 years of age.The danger is that many do not feel the
But everyone should know and take into account the factors that cause the occurrence of hypertension.The reason may be overweight, disorders of the nervous system, stress, alcohol, smoking.Often the pressure increase occurs from the use of soda water.Those who suffer from hypertension, you should lose weight, stop drinking soda and move more.
take many different drugs and medicines.They certainly help, but there are traditional medicines that lower blood pressure and keep it normal.Monastic tea from hypertension - one of these funds, can not do without, and the chronically ill, and just sick.This tea, which is known as "the monastery," will help to eliminate all symptoms affect the cause of the disease.The use of national funds will improve the performance of the vascular system.
If the disease is the 1st or 2nd degree, monastic tea may even completely cure the disease.When hypertension has a third degree, after such treatment significantly improves the human condition.What is the structure of the monastery tea on hypertension, which he has a beneficial effect on the body?
Benefits of tea before you start taking any drug, even if it's herbal tea, consult a doctor.His advice will not be superfluous, as the drug will not harm anyone.Monastic tea - a collection of herbs, berries and roots that give the structure the necessary balance.With his hand:
- normal pressure;
- excluded hypertensive crisis, risk of stroke;
- stop headaches;
- lowered cholesterol, vascular walls are made elastic;
- stops tingling, numbness in the extremities;
- the body is enriched in trace elements and vitamins;
- improves metabolism, reduces the weight;
- relieves inflammation;
- improve digestion;
- calms the nervous system.
A wide range of positive effects on the body has a monastery tea on hypertension.Belarus - the birthplace of the collection where the monks created it.
person who has already celebrated its fortieth anniversary, should not wait for the symptoms of various age-related diseases, and to engage in health promotion.For this purpose it is necessary to drink tea as a fortifying agent.It is a natural product that is only a beneficial effect on the body, has no side effects, which is not the synthetic pills.The composition of the monastic herb tea is that will help get rid of hypertension.How to take it, so as not to harm their health?
All monastery teas sold in pharmacies in the form of fees.As a rule, the brewing takes a teaspoon of herbs per one cup of liquid.The mixture is poured boiling water and infuse for 10-15 minutes.Drink a few times instead of the usual tea.As soon as the reception of a drug - once the pressure is normalized.Three weeks later, the effect is noticeable: reduced pressure and stop the headaches.And after a while begin to take place and related diseases.
Monastic teas are widely used as preventive agents for general health promotion.2-3 cups of beverage every day will bring strengthening of the immune system, bring blood sugar levels back to normal.The tea can be brewed just for a few days and keep it in the refrigerator.It should continue to drink a drink, even if all the indicators come in the normal state.Other features
Also nice action in the treatment of hypertension, herbal tea (ratings patients prove it) can help in the fight against diabetes.And hypertension, and diabetes are often inherited.Therefore, if someone in the family was ill or sick with these diseases, the family should be warned beforehand about yourself.Do not wait for symptoms: brewing and drinking tea will monastery prophylactic health protection.
Moreover, it affects the metabolism and normalizes carbohydrate metabolism.Thereby reducing the level of sugars.Overweight - it is also a risk factor for diabetes.But the drink reduces appetite - people lose weight.Monastic tea makes the effect of insulin more effective.
of monastic tea hypertension
What are the herbal tea is that it has such an effective force?It may seem that this should be unknown or exotic plants that few people know.But, oddly enough, all very simple, and plants for the collection are:
- wild rose;
- St. John's wort;
- black tea.
That is part of the tea, known to all: each plant is used in some cases.However, collected in this way, they complement each other and give the drink exactly the properties that are necessary for the treatment of hypertension.Essential oils, vitamins, anti-oxidants, are contained in these plants, help the body to strengthen the heart muscle and prevent many heart diseases.
tea recipe from the monks of the Solovetsky Monastery monks took care
formulation of therapeutic tea and passed it down from generation to generation.They are constantly stocked with herbs and used drink as a preventive measure.They improve immunity, and the monks did not need doctors - they almost hurt.The composition of tea is quite simple, cooking - very simple, but are the benefits of a great man.
monks took hips - half a cup of ten grams of the root Elecampane all sent in a large pot, pour boiling water in a volume of 5 liters.Broth cooked for three hours, or rather, his tormented.Then it was added 20 grams of herbs oregano, and St. John's wort, a little of the roots of wild rose - 1 gram, two teaspoons of black tea.We continued to simmer for another hour.Drink tea beverage in the form of, without limitation.When all is consumed, the remaining cake again filled with boiling water and infuse for a couple of hours on the fire.So you can drink a drink a few times, until the grass is still renders color.
therapeutic composition of the monastery tea on hypertension is not a diuretic.Although many drugs and herbal reduce pressure, displays the body of excess fluid.It is very dangerous to a person may have a very high density of blood.Therefore, it is the tea prescription monks will be useful for high blood pressure.After this drink regulates blood density and the amount of fluid in the body.
must say that treat hypertension and other herbal remedies.It used to be done with the help of broth currant and pomegranate peels and juice of cranberries and more.But each of these features help only if the action exerted on the body, due to which the pressure was increased.Together, these teas are not working.A part of the monastery tea on hypertension can influence the whole organism and prevent possible deviations, the occurrence of cholesterol, it improves metabolism.
first tea producers
first who made the recipe for this wonderful drink, were monks.But it is the monks of St Elisabeth Convent.That they lived far from the outside world, roads, industry, gather herbs for medicinal drink.For centuries, they use it and came to the conclusion that the monastery tea is very useful for hypertension.Belarus - the place where the monastery is located, and it is here today, is collected herbs to drink.
In 2012 held a large-scale study of the effectiveness of the monastery of tea.A thousand people decided to voluntarily participate in this interesting experience.They drank tea several months on his proposed instructions.As the experiment showed?After two months, the doctors conclude that 67% of patients completely cured of hypertension I and II degree.Improve the condition of the remaining patients (94%).All hypertensive pressure surges began to happen less often.After conducting research in Belarus has been issued a certificate for the right to manufacture and sell the collection in Russia.
hypertensive patients, people try by all means to facilitate his fortune.They drink tablets, visit doctors, undergoing treatment.But in parallel, many of them have already been tried and folk remedies.Especially a lot of feedback from those who propyl monastery tea a month - this time see the effect of the treatment.
One of those patients who regularly drank this tea, feeling better: it reduce the rate of sugar in the blood, reducing weight by 12 kg, lost swelling in the legs, improved vision, decreased blood pressure.The woman did not stop on the achieved results and continues to drink medicinal drink.
Therapist B. Ryzhov noticed that patients taking monastic tea, improved health status.They began to recover faster.So, after taking the tea for over two months in many patients decreased blood pressure and hypertensive crises do not happen.
some patients it is impossible to take the pills because of liver disease.Monastic tea for them - a great way out, taking into account the efficiency of its effects on the body.
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The Chimera cat which has unusual and magic face of two different colors .
They two different colors on the face are in the middle of the face . They have become a wonder all over the world.
Chimery cat has two different colors of eyes. It has heterocromia. It a rare genetic mutation. Many people love cats but these types are exceptional. These cats’ color division is also on her front legs and chest.
These two faced cats have different characteristics. One half of the Chimera cat’s face has orange stripes a green eye, while the other side of face has black color of fur and a blue eye.
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For the week of September 24, 2016 / 21 Elul 5776
Torah: Devarim/Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8
Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22
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And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you. (Devarim/Deuteronomy 26:11)
In this week’s parsha (Torah reading portion), God through Moses instructs the people with regard to a ritual they were to do after their first harvest following their entering the Promised Land. It involved presenting a portion of their produce to the cohen (English: priest) and recounting some basic history: beginning as a small clan with Jacob migrating to Egypt, they grew into a numerous nation there, eventually becoming enslaved by the Egyptians, but God delivered them, and enabled them to acquire the Land. The bringing of a portion of their produce was to be a “simcha” – a joyful celebration: “And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you” (Deuteronomy/Devarim 26:11).
Everyone was to celebrate “in all the good” God provided them. But in order to do that, they had to take notice of it and to do so within the context of their history. They were to remember where they came from, how they got to where they were, acknowledge what God has provided for them, and that what he had provided was good.
When was the last time you did that? I am asking myself the same question. It doesn’t help that the prevailing culture works against rejoicing in all the good God has given to us. How can we celebrate his provision when we are constantly told we don’t have enough? Many, if not most, of us are heavily in debt. So we don’t even have a sense that what we have is truly ours. And of what we do have, it is deemed obsolete almost before we get it out of the box as the next new thing is being paraded before our eyes.
Note that the instruction to rejoice is community oriented. Each person was to celebrate the good God provided to “to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.” But how many of us feel any connection to community these days? Each individual is viewed as an isolated consumer, not a member of a community. The reference to “house” here means “household,” which is much more than a collection of persons living under the same roof. God intended that the prosperity of the community was to be the prosperity of the individual and vice versa. But today, even members of the same family lack connection with each other as they pursue not much more than their own personal interests. The profound selfishness that marks the current age cannot provide an environment of rejoicing. Fun, excitement, and pleasure at times perhaps – but not gratitude. We have forgotten where we came from. We have lost a sense that life is bigger than just me. And the only thing that matters is what I am getting for myself in the moment and it’s never enough.
Learning to rejoice for some of us is going to take some hard work. It requires stopping to think about where we have come from, what God has done for us, and what good things he has provided. It means forcing ourselves to stop yearning after the futile pursuit of the so-called latest and greatest. Then, we need to learn how to reconnect with others. Maybe gather some like-minded people and share your stories of gratitude with each other. It’s better if these stories would be shared experiences, but you might have trouble finding such people. So start with this; hopefully it’ll be the first of many to come. Then rejoice in whatever way you can: sing, shout, dance, applaud – but don’t keep it in. It’s not rejoicing until you let it out.
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Vadakkumnathan Temple is one of the oldest as well as the largest Shiva Temple, situated in Thrissur city of the South Indian state of Kerala. Vadakkumnathan Temple is an ancient temple around 1000 years old. It is said that the temple was constructed by Parshurama, one of the ten Avatars of Lord Vishnu. The temple is an excellent example of classic Kerala style of architecture with marvelous murals. Under the act of ''Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains'', the Union Government has declared this temple and mural paintings as a National Monument. Inside the temple there are a number of shrines, out of which, three main shrines in the center are dedicated to Lord Shiva, Vadakkumnathan, Shankaranarayana and Lord Rama.
One main specialty about the Vadakkumnathan temple is its several specified spots in temple complex, where devotees can worship Lord Shiva of Kashi, Lord Shiva of Rameshwaram, Lord Chidambaranatha of Chidambaram, Lord Bharatha of Koodalmanikyam, Sree Kali of Kodungallur, Urakam Ammathiruvadi of Ammathiruvadi Temple, Veda Vyasa, Lord Hanuman Swami and Nagaraja. The temple has also a museum of ancient wall paintings, wood carvings and many artistic creations of ancient time.
Architecture of the Temple
The architecture of Vadakkumnathan temple represents the typical style architecture of Kerala. The temple covers a huge area of about 9 acres, which is surrounded by a massive stone wall. The temple is best known for its rarest murals and matchless wood carvings. The murals display the various incidents of Mahabharata. Among these murals Vasukisayana and Nrithanatha are being worshipped daily. The fascinating Koothambalam (the temple theater) of the temple is matchless. The four gopurams (gateways) around the main shrine explore an excellent work of craftmanship and represent four directions- East, West, North, South.
Events of the Temple
Thrissur Pooram is the major festival, celebrated annually in the Malayalam month of Medam (April-May). It is one of the most colorful festival of Kerala state. Also Aastha Dravya Maha Ganpathay Havana is held annually in the temple on the very first day of Malayalam month of Karkadakam (July-August). Mahashivaratri is another major religious celebration of the Vadakkumnathan temple, while Gajapooja is conducted after every four years.
Some Important Points about Temple
Opening Time: 3:00 AM to 10:30 AM and 4:00 PM to 8:30 PM.
Non Hindus are not allowed.
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Sunday School provides a structure for members to learn and share in the study of God's Word. All Ages are presented in an accepted organization planned with special emphasis on a systemic study of the Bible in order to understand its contents and how the teachings may be applied to life.
Evangelistic Outreach Ministry
Their mission to witness and win souls for Christ. They also meet with new converts to share the plan of salvation, pray with them, and provide encouragement.
Their mission is to enrich the lives of men, support the mission of the church and vision of the Pastor. The strength is in the men who have personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and desire to provide a haven for the people of God to worship and praise.
General Mission Ministry
Their mission is to study the Bible and apply its principles in witnessing, leading others to Christ and inspiring by example (providing spiritual, emotional, and financial assistance to those who are ill, bereaved or needy.
Pastor's AIde Ministry
Provides on-going moral, spiritual, and financial support to the Pastor and his family.
Children's Church provides alternative church services for children between 4 and 8 years of age. Our mission is to serve as one of the many ways in which the church assists parents in their awesome responsibility of nurturing children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
A ministry dedicated to providing opportunities for young adult and adult leaders to reach out to others through Christian service and to live out a passion for God in the context of "putting our faith into action."
The purpose of this ministry is to develop, train, and provide a wholesome climate for youth so that they may live, grow, mature and exemplify progress toward a Christ-centered life. The ministry includes Bible Study, Choir, Praise Dance, Mime and other activities.
The purpose of this ministry is to carry God's Word to the sick and shut-ins in their homes, convalescent homes and hospitals. They also feed the hungry, give love offerings, and make sizable donations for other occasions. The ministry not only serves the church family but the community-at-large as well.
The Usher Ministry helps to win souls for Christ by making people feel comfortable and welcome in our worship services. They are doorkeepers for Christ during Sunday morning worship services and other programs/services.
The Music Ministry is responsible for singing praises to magnify the Lord and lift up the name of Jesus. They are instrumental in setting the tone for worship. They diligently support all church activities and functions, including accompanying the pastor on visits to other churches.
This ministry provides health awareness for the church and the community as well.
Educational Scholarship Ministry
Coordinates the church's efforts to provide financial assistance to graduating seniors who are interested in pursuing post-secondary education.
Prayerfully assists families with their needs during the time of heartbreak and healing.
Prayer Meeting Ministry
Plans activities and strategies for the weekly prayer meeting.
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Where would food safety be without temperature monitoring? Engineers and process control professionals understood the growing need and built in an array of feedback mechanisms converting the science of Microbiology into simple instruments for the person-in-charge. This gives the operators process control ... for temperature.
Contrast temperature control with an equally important food safety intervention: handwashing. Here, no standards for clean hands or handwashing frequency exist, which means the process remains random. Is there any wonder poor hand hygiene remains the most frequently cited contributing factor in foodborne outbreak investigations?
Hand-hygiene monitoring technology is readily available and the design/build/remodel phase is the best time to make sure best practices are part of a facility because today's technology can significantly reduce the risk of financially devastating foodborne outbreaks.
Although the industry has not yet developed a standard for hand cleanliness, individual operators need to define what they consider to be The Ready-To-Serve Hand ® and how employees will achieve this status. Doing so helps define soap specifications, the need for a nailbrush and where hand sanitizers and gloving come into play.
From there, operators can define what equipment and supplies they require and in today's market they can choose from many. For example, a simulation of germs using tracer lotion and manual recording systems help employees visualize the invisible threat, document skill levels and serve as a periodic reminder.
A rapid measurement system based on ATP bioluminescence can now read hand cleanliness in real time. Easy and rapid read-out results also provide a valuable, high-impact feedback for food workers, allowing them to take immediate corrective actions. This also allows food workers to see the importance of handwashing and the result of their current handwashing techniques, and to practice until they consistently meet the operation's established standard. This technology is also useful to optimize glove changing and demonstrates the reasons for regularly changing gloves.
Operations should define and track a safe level for handwashing frequency. Critical factors to weigh include the level of at-risk people being served, menu, staff control and the facility itself. From there, the operator can determine when employees should wash their hands and translate that into a per-shift total. Operators can then use a digital counter in the soap dispenser to monitor results. Dispensers should include a programmed function whereby multiple doses of soap are counted as one handwash.
Operators should balance, not compromise, safe levels with productivity requirements. Optimization of food flows and employee ergonomics help define the savings available in productivity-wise layouts and equipment choices. For instance, if an operator's safe level for handwashing requires 100 full-time employees to wash their hands 15 times per shift, the facility can save 187,200 gallons of tempered water by changing out five manual faucets with electronic ones.
Auditing is deeply rooted in the foodservice culture, yet handwashing is barely represented. A lack of standards and measurement tools continues to hamper the effectiveness of operator hand-hygiene systems. In addition, despite being the No. 1 cause of cross-contamination in the kitchen, handwashing is often not subject to the rigors of a HACCP system because the metrics of clean hands are lacking.
Internal audits are a must in any quality-assurance operation. Repetitive kitchen activity can lead to boredom and slips in behavior. The worker becomes mentally detached, raising the risk of foodborne outbreaks. If not promptly identified, the gap between the written procedure and the employee's action widens.
Auditing software solutions with timely data collection organize key interventions. They simplify a complex quality-assurance process, accelerate the flow of information, shorten the timeline of corrective action and lower operator risk.
Start with a set of mock-reports that keep individual stakeholders informed on the status of hand hygiene at appropriate time intervals. Ideally, data is automatically collected, feeding easily read reports in a format integrated with other key measurements of success. One common element in these snapshots will compare compliance against standards and prior years to give all an instant indicator on continuous improvement.
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Explain Dalton's Law & How It Relates to Respiration
26 SEP 2017
If you’ve heard of a therapeutic oxygen tent, you are seeing Dalton’s law of partial pressure put to work. Simply put, all of the gases in the Earth’s atmosphere exert individual pressures that add up to that 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi). Change the concentration of air’s gases, for example, making it more oxygen-rich, and you increase the pressure and amount of oxygen delivered to a patient with diminished lung capacity.
1 Dalton’s Law
Dalton’s law of partial pressures states that the total pressure (Pt) of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases in the mixture. If a sphere contains 10 molecules of the gases X, Y and Z, each exerts a pressure proportional to the number of molecules of that gas that the sphere contains.
Dalton’s law may be stated as:
Pt = P1 + P2 + P3…
2 Atmospheric Air
Atmospheric air is a mixture of several molecular components. Presuming the air is dry (such that water or H20 exerts no pressure), their concentrations are: Nitrogen (N2): 78.08 percent by volume Oxygen (O2): 20.95 percent Carbon dioxide (CO2): 0.03 percent Argon (Ar): 0.93 percent
Some trace components include neon, krypton, xenon, methane and nitrous oxide.
Those partial pressures may be expressed in barometric millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), which are as follows: Nitrogen: 593 mm Hg Oxygen: 159 mm Hg Argon: 7 mm Hg Carbon dioxide: 0.2 mm Hg
3 In Respiration and In Therapy
Within the lungs, total pressure may be expressed as:
Pt = P(CO2) + P(O2) + P(N2) + P(H20)
While the pressure of C02 is fairly negligible in the atmosphere, its concentrations are far higher within the lungs, as it is a product of respiration.
By increasing the percentage of any gas in air’s mixture, a higher partial pressure of that gas can be achieved, which is the basis of oxygen therapy. Dalton’s law is used in the practices of pulmonary physiology, ventilator care, medical gas administration, arterial blood gas and pulmonary pathophysiology, among other applications.
4 In Unusual Atmospheric Conditions
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A growing measles outbreak linked to the Disneyland theme park has spurred action in Washington state and elsewhere to crack down hard on parents who don’t vaccinate their children.
But experts who’ve studied the contentious issue worry such efforts could backfire.
Gov. Jay Inslee and King County public-health officials lined up last week to support a last-minute bill introduced in the Legislature that would do away with Washington’s personal-belief exemption for required school vaccinations, leaving medical or religious exemptions in place.
Rep. June Robinson, D-Everett, whose bill has 11 co-sponsors, said current practice “just makes it too easy” for parents to opt out of immunizations.
“I think we need to think about the larger community and what we’re doing, not just to ourselves and our own children, but also to all the people in the community.”
The proposal echoes a California effort to repeal that state’s personal-belief vaccine exemption, a bill introduced the same day state health officials reported 99 cases of measles since mid-December, most tied to Disneyland. That number jumped to 103 cases Friday.
Dozens more have been reported nationwide, including at least four cases in Washington state. Two were tied to Disneyland.
Doctors and other experts who focus on increasing coverage say that although lower exemption rates are the goal, the sudden surge in anti-vaccine scorn may hurt overall immunizations in the long run.
Resistance to vaccinations isn’t always black-and-white, research suggests. Instead, there’s a spectrum of worry that may resurface strongly in the future.
“The public mood may be able to pass these laws now, but the concern is when this currentdies down,” said Dr. Saad B. Omer, a professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory University, who has studied so-called “hot spots” of vaccine resistance, including several in Washington state.
Anti-vaccination groups are vocal and powerful and blanket decrees might polarize already divisive positions, making vaccines “unnecessarily controversial,” he said.
A 2014 study by Dartmouth University researchers suggested that repeated pro-vaccine messages from public-health officials can actually create more resistance to immunization, not less.
“My fear is that in the long run, it may end up backfiring,” Omer added. Instead, it might be better to “nudge” parents into compliance rather than penalizing them.
That’s a concern echoed by Dr. Doug Opel, a pediatrician and assistant professor of bioethics and pediatrics at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s, who has researched vaccine-use issues extensively.
He said he is pleased at the introduction of House Bill 2009 to ban personal exemptions and at the rapid reaction to the Disneyland measles outbreak, which follows a year in which more than 640 cases of measles were detected in the U.S. — the most in two decades.
Washington is one of 20 states that allow personal-belief exemptions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
“Disneyland brings it closer to home, so to speak,” Opel said. “It’s encouraging that it’s prompting a broad debate about the appropriate balance between personal choice and public health.”
But Opel also worries about the reaction of parents who feel their right to personal choice is being trampled: “One potential outcome is that we get a backlash against these mandatory laws.”
Indeed, vaccine foes were quick to condemn the bill.
“A travesty and a violation of informed consent,” is how it’s seen by Michael Belkin, an anti-vaccine advocate from Bainbridge Island who attributes his young daughter’s death to vaccine side effects.
“Parents need to understand they have a choice about vaccination,” he wrote. “It’s not something that vaccine bullies like state Rep. June Robinson can cram down our children’s veins without our consent.”
But supporters of the move to eliminate the personal-belief exemption point to figures that show 71 percent of Washington children have been fully vaccinated on time by age three.
They note high rates of vaccine exemption in places like Ferry County, where more than 22 percent of school children aren’t vaccinated; Jefferson County, with a 14.4 percent rate; and San Juan County, at 13 percent.
Even within areas with moderate rates, such as King County, with a 4.8 percent exemption rate, and Snohomish County, at 6 percent, individual schools can have rates that are far higher. At the Seattle Waldorf School, for instance, with 400 students, the exemption rate was nearly 40 percent in 2011 to 2012 — though officials say it’s lower now.
Allowing clusters of unvaccinated children endangers the larger community by violating so-called “herd immunity,” the level of immunization required to prevent ongoing disease transmission. The levels required vary by disease, from as low as 75 percent for mumps to as much as 94 percent for measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Herd immunity is vital to protect people who can’t be immunized, babies too young for shots, or people with cancer and other diseases.
Once wiped out
The current measles outbreak is evidence of what happens when herd immunity is broached, said Dr. Paula Lozano, a pediatrician and medical director of preventive care for Group Health Cooperative. Measles was effectively wiped out in the U.S. in 2000.
“I am stunned that we are in the place we’re in now,” said Lozano. “We risk going back to an era when we had these deadly diseases and disabling diseases and we thought we had stamped them out. And here we are again.”
But the solution, for Lozano and others, is not to vilify parents who are concerned about vaccinating their kids.
“There are a lot of parents with questions and there are legitimate questions,” she said. “We can’t help our patients if we don’t listen to their parents.”
Experts once thought there were two types of parents, those in favor of vaccines and those against, said Opel, the Seattle Children’s researcher.
“In reality, we know there are those on the far sides, the vaccine acceptors and the vaccine rejecters,” he said. “And there’s a large swath of people in the middle who we’re calling ‘vaccine-hesitant’ parents.”
Vaccine refusers, people who simply won’t vaccinate their children, account for about 1 percent of all parents and their views are almost impossible to change, he said.
Vaccine acceptors account for the vast majority of parents, about 70 to 80 percent, those who willingly inoculate their kids based on the advice of doctors and public-health officials.
That group would include Victoria Reed, 31, whose 4-year-old son, Timothy, received scheduled diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis — DTaP — and polio vaccinations last week.
“I am just doing whatever I can to keep my kids healthy,” said Reed, a mother of two and an executive assistant at Group Health Cooperative.
But it’s the burgeoning group in the middle, the 20 to 30 percent of parents who are on the fence about vaccines, that worries Opel.
“We think that group is growing,” he said.
Those parents question the number and type of vaccines and the schedules on which they’re given. Some parents worry about the slew of recommended vaccines for very young children, and whether their developing immune systems can handle the load. Others are concerned about potential side effects and about possible links between vaccines and disorders such as autism, a view that has been thoroughly discredited.
Lozano said she addresses parents’ specific questions, such as whether the antigens, the proteins in vaccines, are going to overwhelm a child’s immune system.
“When you break it down, if you get seven different vaccines at one time, and that’s in our schedule, it’s less antigen than if they get a cold,” she said. “Our children are exposed to all of these things. If I’m giving the DTaP and rotavirus (vaccines), that’s a small handful compared to all of the germs they’re being exposed to.”
In addition, some parents want to specifically choose which vaccinations their kids get, Lozano said. Some opt to skip a polio vaccination, for instance, because the disease was eradicated in the U.S. in 1979.
“The fact is, the very reason we don’t see polio anymore is vaccines,” she said. “There’s an error in that logic, but I think that’s what’s behind it.”
Wary after reaction
Some parents, however, say they’re wary of vaccine manufacturers and experts — and because of the way their own kids react to the shots.
Rhiannon Scriven, 36, of Spanaway, Pierce County, immunized her daughter, Taylor, with selective vaccines as a baby, only to discover that the child developed exaggerated reactions to the shots. Taylor, now 6, suffered high fevers, lethargy and hard knots that developed at the vaccine sites.
For weeks after a shot, she suffered flu-like symptoms that worried Scriven. In consultation with her doctor, Scriven said she decided to forgo further vaccines.
“We support her, how she eats, how she lives,” Scriven said. “We don’t do chemicals, we don’t do fast food. If she did get the measles, I think she would be able to handle it.”
Scriven admits that fellow parents in Taylor’s public school have been critical, especially during the recent whooping-cough epidemic in Washington state.
She’s concerned about the move to eliminate the personal exemption, because she has no plans to vaccinate Taylor, who probably wouldn’t qualify for a medical exemption. Scriven emphasized that she’s an educated person who has researched the issue carefully.
“I’m not sure what I’d do, maybe explore a different religion,” Scriven said. “I’m very concerned because that is one of the nice things about living in Washington, that they respect that I can make choices about my child.”
Harder to opt out?
Perhaps the solution should not be to do away with vaccine exemptions but to make them more difficult to obtain, said Omer, the Emory University researcher, who outlined his views in a recent New York Times opinion piece.
Washington made such a move in 2011, with a law that requires parents seeking a personal-belief exemption to first get a signature from a health-care provider. That is credited, in part, with cutting the state’s school vaccine-exemption rate for kindergartners from 7.6 percent in 2008-2009 to 4.6 percent in 2013-2014.
Parents could be required to write letters detailing the reasons their children should be exempt, Omer suggested, and the letter notarized. They should be required to apply for exemption every year, and to receive in-person counseling to ensure that the decision not to vaccinate is truly informed.
His research shows that states that allowed philosophical or personal exemptions had rates of nonmedical exemptions more than 2.5 times higher than rates in states with only religious exemptions.
Increasing requirements would allow parents with the strongest objections to still obtain exemptions, but it would cut down on those in the middle, boosting overall vaccination rates. That, Omer added, should be everyone’s goal.
“(Eliminating exemptions) is very satisfying to people who are pro-vaccine, but it’s not the wisest policy for protecting kids,” he said.
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Highly regarded as one of Viktor Frankl’s greatest works, “A Man’s Search For Meaning” highlights Dr. Frankl’s perseverance and survival through the Auschwitz concentration camp. His insights, both harrowing and enchanting, can be readily applied as a sort of spiritual compass for the modern-day man or woman.
With more distracting information than ever available today, most people quietly yearn for wisdom. Rather than fabricate a guidance system that may but probably won’t be applicable to your unique situation, I’ve leveraged one of the finest minds in recent historical memory to forge a more universal guidance system.
Here are 5 of my favorite and most applicable excerpts from one of Dr. Frankl’s most classic writings:
1. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
This is where emotional agility resides. Always, even if only for a split-second, we’re given a choice in our response after an event unfolds. Things become increasingly complicated when we either forget we have a choice or don’t believe we have one (even though, in essence, you’re choosing not to believe it).
Taking five full seconds to process events prior to responding — especially the ones we’re taken aback by — shifts the balance of power back in our favor. This space between is our mental fortress — the command center for life-altering actions to be triggered. Make sure you treat it as such.
2. “The more one forgets himself — by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love — the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”
Some of the hardest, yet most freeing advice I’ve ever received is the statement “It’s not about you.” There are moments in life when we “do the right thing” and fill with spiritual joy. We don’t think about who may have been watching, if we’ll get credit, or how it may come back around. We just do it.
Those moments when we get outside of ourselves and stand for a greater purpose deliver the onset of lasting fulfillment. The times where you light up not because of the recognition you’ve received, but because you committed an act of true nobility are the one’s when you leave your mark on the world in a positive manner. The more you look to be a moon instead of the sun, the happier you will be along the way.
3. “In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”
You’ve heard it before: “Life has no meaning except for the meaning we give it.” While this understanding does give off a grim outlook, it’s actually quite the contrary. This grants us the freedom to assign whatever we see fit. When we realized a meaning isn’t necessarily fixed, we can sift through our options until we land on what’s most empowering.
In the book, Frankl recounts a story of a boy dying an early death. He shares how the boy once saw a situation unfold where he revered a terminally ill person’s courage and dignity in handling ultimate demise. Instead of cursing the heavens upon his own diagnosis, the boy stated fate was granting him a similar opportunity.
Luckily for most of us, our everyday experiences aren’t life or death. This is the case, however, until it’s not. The fragility and beauty of life are collapsed. It’s essential we maximize our time and minimize our suffering to make the most of it. Don’t cling to the first thing that shows up when a tough situation presents itself. Scan your optional meanings and make a wise, empowering decision.
4. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
The majority of suffering occurs today when the blueprint of someone’s life doesn’t match reality. This gap between expectation and actuality is where pain resides. We can usually do a few things to shift the occurrence of reality, but much of it is outside our locus of control. To continue closing the gap, we must change the hard expectations we have for our lives.
Immediately after, feelings of resignation may show up, like we’re compromising what we deserve. However, the lasting change can be found in our values and what we place at highest importance. For example, many people want things like love and passion in their lives, but only if it’s packaged a certain way. Perhaps other desire success, but it must be distinct type of success. Reevaluating what we want the most versus what we want right now can be a prudent “saving grace” for making the most out of difficult situations.
5. “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
As Don Miguel Ruiz asserts in “The Four Agreements,” always doing your best is critical to life working for you. Who gets the pick of the litter in terms of fame and fortune is damn-near a crapshoot, but there will be far less spoils for any of us to garner unless each of us does our best. This is where a certain degree of faith is required to continue making sacrifices for the sake of your contribution to the world, even if no one is watching.
The silver lining for those of us reading this article that we get to choose. Engaging in activities we legitimately enjoy puts us in a better state, which increases the likelihood we will be kind and supportive of others as we come in contact with them.
Life is hard enough for each individual. When left to our own devices, our minds often wander into darkness – sometimes unlikely to return. It is with this in mind, we do our best. We continue getting up, helping others, and doing as much of what we love as time permits. We may not shake the world this way, but we can certainly move it.
Which one of Viktor Frankl’s quotes is your favorite and why? Let us know in the comments below!
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The Guado are a humanoid race in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. A race that lives amongst trees, they are the protectors of Spira's afterlife, the Farplane, and the Macalania Woods. The Guado's capital city is Guadosalam, from within which they guard the entrance to the Farplane.
The Guado are wooden and elvish in appearance with long limbs, oversized hands with claw like nails, prominent veins on their faces, and hair resembling flora. Due to their role of overseeing and protecting the Farplane in Guadosalam, they are astute in determining unsent from regular people by their scent. Of all the races in Spira, the Guado are physically the fastest, able to run twice as fast as humans. Their high speed makes the Guado Glories an effective blitzball team.
Unlike other races in Spira, Guado do not seem to leave behind bodies when dead, in the case of the Guado Guardian. However, that may be because of battle convenience. Also, the Guado tend to keep their problems to themselves as seen in cases of Jyscal Guado's sphere from Final Fantasy X, and when Tromell asks Yuna to forget about them in Final Fantasy X-2.
Guado have a religious culture, which causes them to come across as arrogant. Their role as guardians of the Farplane have led to them looking down upon other races. The Guado were converted to the Yevon religion under their leader, Jyscal Guado, who was later appointed a Maester of Yevon. Despite their strict religious culture, they are generous and welcoming to guests.
Twenty-eight years ago Jyscal Guado had a child with a human woman in an attempt to foster friendship between the Guado and human races. Their child, Seymour, was viewed as an abomination by the humans, and Jyscal's decision to wed a human led to disunity in the Guado tribe. Three years later, Jyscal became the Guado leader and introduced them to the teachings of Yevon. When Seymour was eight years old, to avoid further strife among the Guado nation, Jyscal had his wife and son exiled to the remote island of Baaj.
Two years later when Seymour was ten he and his mother embarked to Zanarkand to defeat Sin, as Seymour's mother knew she would soon die and feared her son would have no place to belong to in Spira, hoping that giving him the chance to defeat Sin would win Seymour acceptance. Seymour's mother knew of the mechanics of the Final Summoning through Jyscal, as the Guado possess their own records that tell of Spira's sealed histories in fragments. Jyscal was aware of Seymour and his mother going to the Zanarkand Ruins, and privately supported it. When his mother sacrificed herself to become his Final Aeon as Anima, Seymour was horrified and broke off the pilgrimage and returned to Baaj.
With the arrival of Braska's Calm, the Guado's internal discord subsided, and Seymour's exile was revoked. He returned to Guadosalam and assisted his father as a priest. The childhood of rejection and loneliness had made Seymour nihilistic, and he developed a plan to become Sin and destroy Spira, killing all its inhabitants and "releasing" them from the suffering of existence. As the first stage of his plan, Seymour secretly murdered his father and took his place as leader of the Guado and a Maester of Yevon. Using his status as their leader, Seymour uses the Guado and has them discover and attack Home, a safe haven and retreat of the Al Bhed in Bikanel in an attempt to capture Yuna, succeeding and forcing the Al Bhed to destroy the city. Later, Seymour all but reduces the Ronso race to extinction, brutally slaying all who blocked his ascent of Mt. Gagazet.
In Final Fantasy X-2, the remaining Ronso seek vengeance for the crimes committed by Seymour on their race. Fearing their retribution by association, the Guado flee their home and take refuge in the Macalania Woods. The Guado take responsibility for their role in Seymour's crimes, and become content to die with the forest for their sins. If the player makes the right choices during interactions with the Guado, Tromell becomes the official leader of the Guado and succeeds in restoring friendly relations with the rest of Spira. If Yuna's party does not make the right choices, Yuna will be told the Guado had been killed by the Ronso, having not done anything to save themselves.
Guado Guardians are fought in Macalania Temple and Lake Macalania. They can summon fiends to fight alongside them.
The name "Guado" may be inspired from the Guede.Guade is from the Voodoo tradition; these spirits represent death and are said to be intermediaries between life in death. This is similar to how the Guado guard the Farplane.
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METAL/NONMETAL MINE FATALITY - On September 28, 1998, a 36-year old mechanic (contractor employee) with 5 years experience was fatally injured at an open pit gold mine. The victim was driving a one-ton service truck through an intersection when he was struck by a loaded 190-ton haul truck.
Intersections on haulage roads should be provided with signs that determine right-of-way and are clearly illuminated for night visability. Traffic controls should be used to warn drivers of on-coming or intersecting traffic. For added visability at night, whip lights should be installed on all small vehicles.
This is the 43rd fatality reported in calendar year 1998 in the metal and nonmetal mining industries. As of this date in 1997, there were 51 fatalities reported in these industries. This is the 18th fatality classified as Powered Haulage in 1998. There were 20 Powered Haulage fatalities in the same period in 1997.
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When leaving your home, you’ll have to cover your nose and mouth, no matter which lockdown level SA is in.
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1. What does Reiner estimate the percentage of those in prison were from working class backgrounds?
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Israeli shooter Doron Shaziri earned Israel its third silver medal of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
Shaziri, who won two bronze medals in Athens in 2004, finished second Wednesday in the men’s R7-50m free rifle 3×40 SH1.
Shaziri, a former sniper for the Israeli army, lost a leg in Lebanon in 1987 after stepping on a mine while carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. He is coached by Olympic shooter Guy Starik and makes sports wheelchairs as a profession. “I’m satisfied even though I was hoping for more,” Shaziri said after the final. In other results Wednesday involving Israelis, swimmer Keren Leibovitch finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter backstroke-S8 class final Wednesday in a time of 1:21.34 minutes, just shy of a medal. One of Israel’s most celebrated Paralympians, Leibovitch won three medals in each of the last two Games, four of them gold. While serving in the Israel Defense Forces, a training accident left her with 90 percent paralysis of her legs. Rower Eli Nawi won his repechage race in the men’s single sculls class A event and qualified for Thursday’s final. The Israeli men’s wheelchair basketball team lost to Australia, 66-59, after leading most of the game. Australia scored the last seven points in the final two minutes. Israel will face Great Britain on Thursday. A victory would enable the Israelis to avoid playing defending gold medalist Canada in the quarterfinals. Israeli tennis player Ilanit Fridman lost in the second round of women’s wheelchair tennis singles-open class. Tennis player Shraga Weinberg fell in the men’s singles quad quarterfinals to the world’s top-ranked player, David Wagner of the United States, 6-2, 6-2. Weinberg and partner Boaz Kramer won their mixed doubles-quad quarterfinal match in straight sets.
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An improved parallel algorithm for integer GCD
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- Chor, B. & Goldreich, O. Algorithmica (1990) 5: 1. doi:10.1007/BF01840374
We present a simple parallel algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor (gcd) of twon-bit integers in the Common version of the CRCW model of computation. The run-time of the algorithm in terms of bit operations isO(n/logn), usingn1+ɛ processors, where ɛ is any positive constant. This improves on the algorithm of Kannan, Miller, and Rudolph, the only sublinear algorithm known previously, both in run time and in number of processors; they requireO(n log logn/logn),n2 log2n, respectively, in the same CRCW model.
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frequently Asked Questions
can I really use my brain to overcome pain?
Studies have shown that most people with chronic pain respond well to mind-body techniques. Your mind is the ‘software’ for your brain. In most cases the mind is playing a hidden but significant role in the maintenance of chronic pain and it can play an even more significant role in overcoming it.
If you haven’t already done so why not take our 2 minute assessment and see whether your mind could help you overcome pain.
If you've Recently developed Pain
The information on this site should not be taken as medical advice or used for self-diagnosis.
If you have recently started experiencing a new pain please talk to a medical professional.
(Read our disclaimer)
Let's cut to the chase
how long will it take?
We are all different. Some people seem able to flick a mental switch and their pain disappears very quickly. For others it takes a little longer. Chronic pain is a complex multifaceted problem. We work with a natural process called neuroplasticity, which enables changes to be made to the way the brain processes information that is currently being interpreting as pain. Obviously, by its nature this isn’t an exact science, so how far and how fast pain fades will depend on many factors, but most people will start to see significant improvement after a few sessions.
In a nutshell
unlike acute pain, Chronic pain is usually caused by a faulty pain alarm system - not physical damage or disease
what do we mean by Mind-Body?
The scientific understanding of how cognitive and biological process work together
Biochemical reactions to thoughts and feelings occur not just in the brain but in virtually every system in our body – the nervous system, immune, endocrine and digestive systems. And it’s a two way street. Biochemical changes in those systems influence our thoughts and feelings. What happens in the mind directly affects the body and what happens in the body directly affects the mind.
We may not realise it but we experience the effects of this mind-body connection every day. Have you ever noticed how simply thinking about eating your favorite meal can cause you to salivate? Or talking about head lice can make your scalp feel itchy? We also see it in the physical symptoms of psychological unease – I’m sure at some point in your life you’ve had butterflies in your stomach or sweaty palms before doing something a little scary.
This connection between the psychological and physical means we can use physical changes to improve psychological wellbeing (e.g. endorphins after exercise or a walk in the country) and we can use psychological changes to improve physical wellbeing – including how we experience pain.
Everything we experience, every thought, every feeling, every sensation, including physical pain, is generated by the brain.
how does the brain overcome pain?
You have the power
There's a problem
The brain responds
Signals are sent from an area or areas of the body, through the central nervous system to the brain. The brain can then do everything from ignore those signals (soldiers in battle who don’t feel pain from wounds) to sound the pain alarm way louder than it needs to be (why does a paper cut hurt so much?)
This decision – alarm or ignore – is controlled by all sorts of factors, all of which are processed by the brain. And while it’s notoriously difficult for medication to deal with issues like this we do have some software that we can use – our mind. And it includes a number of powerful natural tools that many of us don’t even realise we have.
We can influence that response
Part of the therapy process involves helping you unlock these abilities. Not only are these tools fantastic for dealing with chronic pain but once you’ve mastered them they can be used to enhance other areas of your life.
These are the same natural abilities that elite athletes use before a race or high achievers access when they’re operating in a state of ‘flow’.
What are Natural Pain Control Processes?
We use proven psychological techniques to alter the brain’s perspective and change how and even whether pain is experienced. Three of the key tools we use to unlock your natural pain control processes are Suggestion, Open Awareness and Psychological Flexibility
Much more than pain relief. The psychological techniques used to overcome chronic pain are the same techniques elite performers use to give themselves an edge
While around 90% of people have this ability most remain unaware and never utilise it
This is such a waste.
Like most things, the natural ability varies from individual to individual. For some people it seems to come easily while others take a little time to develop the skill.
This ability was originally called ‘monoideism’, meaning a fixation of attention on one idea. This name, while more accurate, didn’t catch on so the term most people use today is Hypnosis. The American Psychological Association defines this ability as:
"A state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterised by an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion"
But why is this an ability? Don’t you just have a hypnotist who hypnotises you? What ability do you need? The truth is hypnosis is a skill that you can develop for yourself. Forget what stage hypnotists may claim – they don’t have any ‘power’ and are simply guiding people to tap into their own natural ability for enhanced focus. ultimately all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.
While this natural ability has been shrouded in mystery for many years (partly because of the outlandish claims by stage hypnotists and others) it’s actually been a mainstream science for well over a century. Several major universities, including Stanford and Harvard undertake hypnosis research and it’s used daily by clinicians all over the world.
We can use this ability to change how the brain perceives the signals it is receiving from both outside and inside the body. It’s how dental hypnosis turns the sensation of drilling being interpreted by the brain as pain to being interpreted as a mild vibration.
There are no hard and fast rules to say who has or hasn’t got this natural ability but as a general rule of thumb if you’ve ever found yourself daydreaming or completely absorbed in a book or film there’s a very good chance you have.
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What The Brain is able to Process
What our conscious mind is able to process
The brain decides which 50 of those 11 million bits of information we should be made consciously aware of – including pain.
What if you could influence that?
Turn off autopilot
The decision about what we should be consciously aware of seems to happen through a process that includes a process known as the Salience Network. As the name suggests, the SN is looking to see what is most important for us to be aware of in any given moment. This process takes its cues from a number of sources – including what we’ve already been paying most attention.
Unfortunately most of the time our mind is on autopilot and we seem to have very little control over what takes our attention. Left to its own devices, our mind – constantly on the lookout for threats or opportunities – is easily drawn to things designed to capture its attention, like pain
Imagine how powerful it would be to be able to break this cycle and take back some control of where and how we use our attention – and in particular how we use it to help overcome our pain experience.
One of the best known ways to develop Open Awareness is through mindfulness.
Open Awareness is simply the act of becoming fully aware of what your mind and body are doing. This allows you to recognise early warning signs and pain patterns before they develop.
This can play a big part in helping to overcome pain. It has proven to be particularly effective in treating one of the leading causes of chronic pain – stress – both overt and hidden stress.
Don’t worry if you’ve tried meditation and found it wasn’t for you – FADE is not a meditation based therapy.
While meditation can have enormous benefits for those who are able to practice it (and we certainly wouldn’t discourage it), our approach to unlocking the benefits of this type of mindfulness is through small, practical steps that we feel can be easily incorporated into daily life.
And in addition to the direct benefits of Open Awareness it also allows us to unlock another even more powerful process – Psychological Flexibility.
Thoughts affect pain
No delete key in the brain
you can't control what thoughts you have
But you can control how you respond to them
For protective reasons these sticky thoughts are often be the most negative – and most likely to contribute to our pain. What if we could unhook from these thoughts and take away their power to influence our behaviour? Psychological Flexibility is the ability to do just that.
Why It's natural to be negative
Your brain’s No1 priority is keeping you safe. And that means always being on the lookout for threats – that’s what it’s evolved to do.
Imagine it’s many thousands of years ago. You and a friend are out walking through the plains of Africa and you hear a rustle in the grass. Your friend things it’s just the wind and carries on. You think it could be a sabre tooth tiger and get out of there.
Suppose it turns out you were wrong – it was just the wind. You’ve been inconvenienced but no harm done.
But if your friend was wrong and it was a sabre tooth tiger…
The mind has evolved to think negatively. It’s the safer option.
It's estimated our brain will think 4 negative thoughts for every 1 positive
How does psychological flexibility work?
Living with chronic pain is like being in quicksand. The more you struggle, the worse things get and the further you sink. The best way to deal with both situations is to stop struggling.
Now you may think that’s easier said than done. But have you noticed how your pain often feels better when you ‘take your mind off it’? Using Psychological Flexibility we can learn to shift our energy away from the struggle with pain and into living according to our values and the things that matter most to us.
It’s not about distraction (which only provides a temporary respite) and we don’t try to ‘ignore’ pain. We recognise that some pain is part of our lived experience at the moment – and that’s okay – but that we have other priorities.
Through this process we are effectively signalling to the brain that we don’t need the pain alarm – we accept it’s there but it isn’t as a high a priority for us. This helps to create a virtuous loop where ‘danger signals’ from the body are less likely to be interpreted as pain.
"Pain is just your brain's opinion on what's going on in your body"
Professor lorimer moseley
neuroscience pain specialist
Isn’t it time you changed your mind?
Are you ready to overcome your pain?
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"The King Who is to come; O come let us adore Him."
25th Day: THE NATIVITY
Four thousand years had passed since God
promised to our first parents that a Redeemer
should come to free the world from the curse that
had fallen upon it when Adam was disobedient to
the Divine command. Prophets and kings had
desired to see the day when that promise should
be fulfilled, but had not seen it. The whole world
had long expected the day of Redemption. God
always is slow in His best gifts. Hence learn to
be patient. He will surely come and bless you
in His own good time.
All the world was at peace at the moment
when Christ was born. The angry passions of
men were hushed, as if in compliment to the
Prince of Peace. He never comes where strife and
confusion prevail. If I desire that He should come
into my heart today, I must resolve to subdue my
evil passions, and the self-will that dares to do
battle against the will of God.
But when the gift came at last, it was worthy
of the Divine generosity. It was a gift of infinite
value, given to all and each of the sons of men.
It was a gift in which God gave Himself to be
wholly ours. That little Infant in the cradle, before
whom I kneel today, is the Omnipotent God,
loving me with an immeasurable love, my King, my
Lord, my Redeemer, my best Friend, the Divine
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I need to make a couple new zero clearance inserts for my table saw. I have a new router table that I figured would help, but I’m having some problems with end grain that didn’t come up when I used to make these inserts with the router in hand.
I traced the old template, then cut it out very close to the line with my scroll saw. I’m cutting these out of some oak that was lying around, and I was worried from the get go about the end grain on the radius. Using a pattern following bit to finish the job and taking light passes, everything went smoothly along the edge grain. As I got to the curve on the end, the first half of the curve cut well where the blades cut away. But, predictably, as I turned back around the curve, the blades were then digging into the grain and the router threw the piece out of my hands, chewing up the end.
I’m using a 1/2” diameter bit at full speed on a bosch router. I’m not climb cutting. I don’t have a fence or balance point on my router table yet—could they help some how? I know for square ends a backer board would be the solution, but I can’t really do that on this curve. I’m thinking I should cut all the safe parts, then flip the wood to finish it off. Any other solutions for this kind of work?
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The current number one priority at Portland’s transportation bureau is a permit program that aims to help restaurants spread into the street so they can serve more people safely. The Healthy Business program is part of a larger Safe Streets Initiative that’s altering public right-of-way to improve safety and create more space for physically-distanced commerce.
By some accounts the program is working well. Since it was launched at the end of May, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) says they’ve issued well over 200 permits so far and rave reviews are coming in for the street dining plazas.
But is the program working for everyone? Are Black-owned businesses getting a fair shot? And is PBOT’s execution of the program living up to their pledge to be antiracist?
This ambitious program is a difficult test for an agency reeling from pandemic-related budget cuts and staffing issues. It’s also a test of how — or if — PBOT is putting their commitment to equity and being an antiracist organization into action. Transportation and racism are closely intertwined. Policies and projects that change our built environment and dictate how and where we move around can either uphold systems of oppression that have unfair impacts on people of color, or help dismantle them.
It’s not enough to be “not racist” and aware of racist policies. To dismantle racism, people and organizations need to be antiracist and work proactively to change racist policies and stop racist behaviors.
An article published yesterday by Street Roots, claimed that the street dining permit program has left some Black-owned businesses behind. The article stated that four of six businesses they contacted that are owned by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) didn’t expect to benefit from the program and two hadn’t even heard of it.
Yesterday I asked two members of PBOT’s communications team about the Street Roots story and the equity implications of the Safe Streets initiative.
“There’s work being done right now to continue to move this forward. We see this is a marathon, not a sprint.”
— Hannah Schafer, PBOT
Public Information Officer Dylan Rivera and Communications Coordinator Hannah Schafer acknowledged the bureau has a lot of work to do around racism and equity; but they said the article wasn’t a fair characterization of their work on the Healthy Business program. Rivera pointed out that 43 permits have been issued to applicants who identify as BIPOC and 21 more are in process of being granted. If we assume those 21 will be granted (and PBOT says they’ve yet to deny any grantee), that would mean about one-quarter of the permits are in the hands of BIPOC-owned businesses.
Rivera also added that some of the businesses in the Street Roots story have received permits. Atlas Pizza has two permits and Deadstock Coffee’s permit is set to become effective this weekend. (You can see a map of all permit locations here.)
Even so, PBOT’s lack of established relationships with Black-owned businesses is making it harder to connect with them during this crisis (the comments about a lack of trust and skepticism toward PBOT in the Street Roots story are a big red flag) and the agency is scrambling to make them aware of the program. They’ve called over 100 businesses directly. “We’ve taken our staff in charge of permits for sidewalk cafes and we’ve sent them communications staff to phone-bank BIPOC-owned businesses,” Rivera said. “We’re using public lists to call them and make offers directly and email them the information about our assistance. It’s been a big push and we’ve tried to be sensitive to folks’ information overload while trying to go above and beyond where we’ve ever been in the past.”
In the past PBOT didn’t ask permit applicants for racial identity information. Now they do. “That helps us understand who we’re reaching and who we’re not reaching,” Rivera said. He added that the outreach to Black-owned businesses is, “Part of the consciousness and awareness-building we need to do more of to make our programs more accessible.”
This is part of a bureau-wide shift in racial awareness.
At a June 18th meeting of PBOT’s budget committee, Director Chris Warner said (according to meeting minutes), “We’re having a lot of conversations about how we can support Black Portland. We’re re-imagining the ways we use the right-of-way and how we can get beyond infrastructure safety, but also personal safety. A lot of these tragedies happen in the streets, the transportation system has been ingrained in racism and discrimination against Black people.”
Warner then referred to a bureau-wide meeting of about 80 staffers and managers that took place immediately following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. Schafer was at that meeting. She recalled that, “People were talking about personal experiences and made themselves vulnerable in a way that hasn’t ever happened before and that has empowered people to take their work and really push it in a stronger way than they might have had before.”
What about being an antiracist organization? How has that mindset changed how PBOT does business? Schafer said it’s a work in progress and that recent events have been like an “Energizer battery pack got attached to a lot of the initiatives already in place at PBOT.” “I’m not sure you’re going to see it today,” she added, “I would say those conversations are ongoing and deep conversations and there’s work being done right now to continue to move this forward. We see this as a marathon, not a sprint.”
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I bet you didn't know that.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
It would be an exaggeration to say that William F. Buckley singlehandedly built the conservative movement in the United States, but only a slight one.
Buckley died earlier today at the age of 82, leaving behind an incomprehensibly large legacy.
Shortly after his graduation from Yale -- and the publication of his first book, God and Man at Yale -- Buckley and a few friends established National Review, which quickly became for the right side of politics the premiere journal of debate and discourse, the equivalent to Partisan Review and Commentary on the left. (Commentary, of course, eventually gravitated to the right itself, but that is another story.)
It is hard to believe today, when we can read The Weekly Standard, Reason, The American Conservative, Liberty, WorldNetDaily, FrontPageMag, and so many print and online publications with a conservative or libertarian bent, that only 50 years ago, National Review was it. There was nowhere else for conservatives interested in politics and culture to go to be nourished intellectually. National Review spawned them all.
Under Buckley's erudite leadership, disparate elements of conservatism -- libertarians, old-school Tories, anti-Communists, traditionalists (basically everybody except anti-Semites, Birchers, and Objectivists) -- came together in what Buckley's colleague, James Burnham, characterized as "fusionism." Until the end of the Cold War, this ragtag coalition held together, not least because of Buckley.
It was not only through publication that Buckley led the movement. He was also an organizer. It was at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, that Young Americans for Freedom was established. The names of those at Sharon that day in 1960 read like a Who's Who of conservative politics: Bob Bauman, Dick Cowan, Stan Evans, Jim Kolbe, to name just a few (and only the ones I've met personally). YAF blazed the trail that led to Barry Goldwater's nomination for president by the Republican Party in 1964, and eventually to Ronald Reagan's election in 1980. It is said that without Buckley, there would have been no Goldwater, and without Goldwater, no Reagan.
An intellectual's intellectual, Buckley had a wide range of interests. He wrote more than three dozen books on topics as different as sailing and espionage. Some of his books were fiction, some memoir, some policy analysis, some simply witty. His twice-weekly newspaper column appeared in hundreds of publications (more than 5,600 columns in all), then compiled into the biweekly National Review.
Equally at ease as after-dinner speaker or master of ceremonies, Buckley reveled in oral as well as written discourse. He was host of Firing Line, a PBS television show, that was the civilized precursor to Hardball and The McLaughlin Group.
Buckley called himself a "libertarian journalist," but he was more of a traditional conservative, with a twist. He took his yacht into international waters so he could smoke pot legally, and then became a crusader to end the federal prohibition on marijuana. He gave Dick Cowan, one of the founders of Young Americans for Freedom, a cover story in National Review to make the case for marijuana legalization. Cowan later became executive director of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
A traditional Catholic, he was not averse to putting dissenting thought in his own magazine. When his old friend, Marvin Liebman, the founder of modern direct-mail fundraising (and first executive director of YAF, who gave Richard Viguerie his first job in the movement), chose to come out as gay, Buckley put him, too, on the cover of National Review. As Liebman describes it in his book, Coming Out Conservative:
For almost four decades, I was one of the leading anticommunist and conservative activists in the United States. During most of those years, I worked in close coordination with my friend William F. Buckley, Jr., whom I consider to be the founder of modern American conservatism and the prime articulator of its philosophy.Liebman's book has many anecdotes about Buckley that offer a glimpse of his private side, something different than what the public might have seen. I recommend it highly to those interested in both Buckley and the birth of the modern conservative movement.
A little more than a month before my sixty-seventh birthday -- on June 7, 1990 -- I wrote to him, and asked that he publish a letter in his magazine, National Review. The letter announced that I was gay.
After asking me if I had fully considered the personal ramifications of such a disclosure, Bill agreed to run my letter. He said that he felt he must also publish his reply.
We'd known each other for almost thirty-five years. I assumed he knew I was gay, but I never brought up the subject. And it never seemed to matter so long as the word was never spoken -- certainly not to Bill or his wife, Pat, or to my other straight friends. Just don't talk about it, for heaven's sake.
In the spring of 1990, however, it did matter very much to the American Right, an amalgamation of several constituencies: dedicated anticommunist groups; the "religious Right," always seeking more money-raising ideas; the relatively new "traditional American family values" organizations' and the politicians whose jobs and appeal depend on their ability to promote fear and bigotry and then convince their constituents that they are the only ones who can hold the fort against whatever enemy they have created....
My letter to Buckley said:Anti-Semitism is something that, happily for the history of the last three decades, National Review helped to banish at least from the public behavior of conservatives. National Review lifted conservatism to a more enlightened plane, away from a tendency to engage in the manipulation of base motives, prejudices, and desires; activity in my view which tended to be a major base of conservatism's natural constituency back then. Political gay bashing, racism, and anti-Semitism . . . are waiting to be let out once again. I worry that the right wing . . . will retun to the fever swamps..... Bill Buckley took on a personally difficult task when he committed himself to reply publicly to my coming out letter. I'm certain I caused him great pain. He is a devout and doctrinaire Roman Catholic bound by the theological strictures with which he grew up and to which he still holds fast. Eleven years before, he had been my sponsor when I entered the Catholic church.
In his reply he said,I honor your decision to raise publicly the points you raise . . . but you too must realize what are the implications of what you ask. Namely, that the Judaeo-Christian tradition, which is aligned with, no less, one way of life, become indifferent to another way of life. . . .
National Review will not be scarred by thoughtless gay bashing, let alone be animated by such practices . . . You are absolutely correct in saying that gays should be welcome as partners in efforts to mint sound public policies; not correct, in my judgment, in concluding that such a partnership presupposes the repeal of convictions that are more, much more, than mere accretions of bigotry. You remain, always, my dear friend, and my brother in combat.
When William Buckley ran for mayor of New York in 1965, a reporter asked him what the first thing he would do upon being elected. Buckley replied: "Demand a recount."
With the loss of Bill Buckley, the census of great men is diminished. We, too, should demand a recount.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Isn't it ironic that, just as Cuba is on the verge of freedom after a half century of brutal Communist dictatorship, it has become illegal virtually everywhere in the United States to smoke cigars in public?
I'm just asking.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Last July I made a cross-country trip anchored on two events, my high school reunion and my nephew's first birthday. The trip included stops in Illinois (where our plane landed), Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and California. (I don't include the layover at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport as a "stop.")
George Mason University student Richard Morrison accompanied me on the trip, and we played tourist for most of the two-week journey. I have already posted video from our visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. YouTube has a video of "Gavin's First Birthday Cake," which may end up here someday, too -- perhaps in time for Gavin's second birthday.
Along the way, Richard and I had several opportunities to get high. Don't fret, drug warriors: By "get high," I mean nothing more than that we climbed to a height that provided breathtaking vistas of the landscape around us.
Our first climb was to the top of the Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison, courtesy of State Senator Glenn Grothman, who obtained permission to see parts of the capitol usually off-limits to tourists. (There is still more video, so far unedited, of the capitol's chambers, committee rooms, and reception areas -- that will be posted here eventually, too.)
To tell the truth, my acrophobia kept me from going all the way to the top, but Richard braved it along with recent Marquette High graduate Joseph Kay. They provided the most dramatic video.
At Rib Mountain State Park near Wausau, however, Richard and I both reached the summit. Rib Mountain is the third-highest peak in Wisconsin, at 1,940 feet. A 60-foot tower brings the full height to 2,000 feet, with a view on a clear day that encompasses several counties.
I remember visiting Rib Mountain as a child with my parents, but this was my first time there in nearly 40 years. The tower was the same but didn't seem to be quite so high as it was when I was 8 years old.
After Wausau, Richard and I headed farther north, passing through Manitowish Waters, where my family and I used to vacation, and ending up in Hurley, said to be the Wisconsin town with the most taverns per capita. My friend, Gene Cisewski, is the innkeeper of a bed-and-breakfast in downtown Hurley called the Anton-Walsh House. Gene is also president of the local historical society and a former member of the Iron County Board of Supervisors.
Gene took us on a tour of the area, which included a trip to Bayfield and Madeline Island in Lake Superior and to several of the picturesque waterfalls along the Montreal River and other streams that traverse the Wisconsin border with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. (There's plenty of unedited video from those days, too.)
When we crossed the border into Michigan, Gene took us to the Copper Peak Ski Flying Hill, one of the tallest structures used for snow skiing anywhere in the world. Once again, I clung to the floor about halfway up the man-made hill, but Gene and Richard made it all the way to the top, where the view on a clear day encompasses three states and Lake Superior.
Coincidentally, I recently had a chat in Washington with the man who was instrumental in raising the funds to build Copper Peak, and I may write about him and his efforts once I have received permission to do so.
The Midwest is not the most likely place to find great heights with dramatic vistas. That's not so in California. Even the Reagan Library looks down on Simi Valley from a peak of its own.
The day before we went to the Reagan Library, Richard and I visited the Getty Center in Los Angeles, which also sits atop a mount. You can see downtown Los Angeles -- even on a Sunday, enshrouded in smog -- and surrounding canyons from the Getty's plaza.
This video also includes some shots from inside the Getty museum.
As I have already suggested, there will be more travel videos posted here as time permits. Last year (2007) was a big travel year for me, with trips to Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Austin, as well as Milwaukee, Hurley, and Los Angeles. That resulted in a lot of raw video that has to be reduced to 10-minute segments suitable for posting to YouTube and cross-posting here.
The news media today are focused on the mass murder on the campus of Northern Illinois University, where a former student shot dead five students (including a graduate assistant who was teaching the class) and wounded several others before killing himself.
The NIU shootings brought to mind last year's massacre at Virginia Tech.
Lost in the reports on what happened in Illinois is a follow-up to a story that first surfaced on Tuesday, when most of the media in Virginia were concentrating on the primary election. On Tuesday in Oxnard, California, a gay eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a fellow student. Today the victim, a 15-year-old boy was declared brain-dead and the 14-year-old shooter will face murder charges as an adult, with the possibility of 50 years in prison.
Jim Burroway has a more extensive report at Box Turtle Bulletin.
Update: Daniel Gonzales posts this additional and timely information, also at Box Turtle Bulletin:
A vigil organized by the Ventura County Rainbow Alliance is being held tonight (Friday). Supporters will gather at the Art Barn (856 E. Thompson) at 7pm and proceed to the pier.The event is called "Lawrence King Memorial Fund and Vigil."
If you think the only killer bunny is the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (or in its stage version, Monty Python's Spamalot), you're wrong.
The Forward reports on a bunny character featured on a children's TV program produced by Hamas. This bunny promises to kill Jews.
Here's Eli Rosenblatt's report from the Forward, originally published on February 13:
The creators of children’s television often focus their attention on improving their audience’s reading skills. Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV station, however, seems concerned with teaching its younger viewers how to spell destruction. A new video shows a human being-sized rabbit named Assud who learns that his brother, a bee, has died after being denied passage to Egypt for medical treatment. In a venomous lilt, the rabbit tells a little girl, “I, Assud, will finish off the Jews and eat them!”And some people complain that Sesame Street is propaganda!
Assud the Rabbit is a new character on the kids show “Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” which broadcasts from Gaza and is spread by satellite throughout the Middle East. The show, according to translations by the Middle East Media Research Institute, meshes a saga of stuffed animals with lectures about key elements in Hamas ideology — the right of return, the re-conquest of Jerusalem and martyrdom in the name of Allah.
Recently, an Al-Aqsa video of Farfur, a Hamas mouse reminiscent of Mickey Mouse, was spread around the Internet. After the station met worldwide condemnation, Farfur was killed off the show and the mouse’s little fans were told that he was beaten to death by an Israeli interrogator.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Tomorrow is primary day in Virginia, for both Democrats and Republicans. There are six candidates on the ballot for each party. Polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Avoid lines by going to your regular polling place in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon periods. (Busy times are 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
So don't forget to vote, no matter who you might support.
Also, don't forget to vote in my poll (see sidebar to your left): "Who should John McCain choose as his vice presidential running mate?" So far there have been 42 participants in the poll, which closes just before midnight on Thursday, February 14. Indicate your choice now and I'll report the final results on Friday morning.
As we tread steadily toward a nationwide ban on smoking in public, a resort owner in Minnesota has come up with an innovative way to circumvent that state's law that prohibits indoor smoking.
Noting that the smoking ban had reduced its business, Barnacle's resort in Lake Mille Lacs found a loophole in the law: it permits smoking by actors in a theatrical performance.
The AP reports:
Barnacle's Resort in Lake Mille Lacs turned its normal Saturday night business into a play, testing a loophole in Minnesota's smoking ban. The production included programs and buttons that said "Act Now!"The proprietors at Barnacle's plan to continue the Saturday night performances weekly for as long as they bring in customers -- or until somebody complains to the authorities and shuts them down.
"You are looking at a stage. You are looking at a playhouse," said Mark Benjamin, a nonsmoking lawyer who worked the bar dressed in Shakespearian garb. "Those are not cigarettes -- those are props."
The law allows actors and actresses to light up in theatrical performances -- but it doesn't define what that means. The idea of stretching the definition came to Benjamin at the Renaissance Festival, an annual event where people dress up in costumes.
Barnacle's usual winter boom went missing this winter, after smoking was outlawed in bars, restaurants and other indoor workplaces in October. Resort co-owner Sheila Kromer said she tried to stop the ban by testifying against it at the Capitol, but that didn't work.
So she was interested in Benjamin's idea, and said local police told her they won't step in unless someone complains.
"Several of the legislators said, 'You know, you've got to be innovative. Come up with something to get the people in your bar.' Right? OK. What's wrong with a theater night? Is that not being creative?" Kromer said.
To paraphrase an old saying, When the legislature closes a door, good ol' American ingenuity opens a window.
Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty (GLIL), an organization with which I have been affiliated since its founding on February 12, 1991 -- yes, GLIL's anniversary is just one day away -- has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. This is the most important Second Amendment case to reach the nation's highest court in almost 70 years.
The following news release is being distributed today by GLIL:
News Release fromThe Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in D.C. v. Heller on March 18, 2008. A decision will be released later in the year, probably at the end of the Court's term in late June.
Gays and Lesbians for Individual LibertyGays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty Submit Brief in Second Amendment Case
(WASHINGTON, February 11, 2008) – Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty (GLIL) has joined with Pink Pistols in support of the Second Amendment rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans by filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the United States Supreme Court.
GLIL chairman Richard Sincere explained: “The brief was filed in support of Dick Anthony Heller, who sued the District of Columbia to have its draconian prohibition on private gun ownership overturned. Heller’s rights to own a gun for self-protection were upheld by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty appealed the case to the Supreme Court.”
The brief states that "Laws that prevent the use of firearms for self-defense in one's own home disproportionately impact those individuals who are targets of hate violence due to their minority status, whether defined by race, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.… [Not] only do members of the LGBT community have a heightened need to possess firearms for self-protection in their homes, the Second Amendment clearly guarantees this most basic right. This Court should not permit the democratic majority to deprive LGBT individuals of their essential and constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in their own homes"
The brief also makes a unique argument, tying the denial of rights of gay men and lesbians to possess firearms to the statutory mandate to exclude those same citizens from military service through the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" rules:
"… Interpreting the Second Amendment as recognizing a right conditioned upon military service, where eligibility for military service is defined by the Government, prevents the Amendment from acting as any constraint on Government action at all. Such a result is contrary not only to the literal text of the Amendment, but to the intentions of the Framers. Further, in light of the current 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, such an interpretation would completely eradicate any Second Amendment right for members of the LGBT community."
A number of other organizations have also submitted amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court in this case, arguing in favor of an individual right to possess firearms, including the Cato Institute, Disabled Veterans for Self Defense, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the Rutherford Institute, and a group of women legislators and academics.
The case is District of Columbia v. Heller, Docket No. 07-290. A copy of the Pink Pistols/GLIL brief can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/29uqgo.
Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty was founded in February 1991 to advance the ideas of economic and personal freedom and individual responsibility. It has members across the United States and in several foreign countries. GLIL previously filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. For more information, visit http://www.glil.org or telephone [redacted].-30-
Saturday, February 09, 2008
At the monthly breakfast sponsored by the Albemarle County Republican Committee, Central Virginia Republicans had a chance to express their presidential preferences in a straw poll modeled on the one that took place at the Republican Advance in Arlington last December 1.
The results were decidedly different: Although Ron Paul won the statewide straw poll handily in December, today the winner was former Massachusetts Mitt Romney -- who has suspended his campaign for president.
The vote totals were Romney 56; John McCain 28; Ron Paul 21; Mike Huckabee 3; and Fred Thompson 2.
I was able to make video recordings of most of the proceedings.
In Part I, Keith Drake, chairman of the Albemarle GOP Committee, recites the Virginia Republican Party Creed:
In Part II, Northern Virginia attorney Chris Kachouroff speaks on behalf of Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, urging the party to return to its Goldwater-Reagan roots:
In Part III (here divided into two segments, "A" and "B"), Chairman Drake introduces former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who speaks in favor of Senator John McCain of Arizona. Oddly, Eagleburger appears to disagree with McCain on as many issues as he agrees with the Senator on; the thrust of his argument is that we should vote for McCain because he is neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Barack Obama:
At one point in Part III-B, Eagleburger refers to the Senator from Illinois as "Obama bin Laden." This is a cheap shot; someone who is as respected an elder statesman as Secretary Eagleburger should be respectful, as well. That the audience laughs at the line reflects poorly on those in attendance. Watch this carefully:
In Part IV, the ballots are counted and Keith Drake announces the results:
We will see on Tuesday if the unexpected result -- Romney winning so overwhelmingly -- carries over into the primary election. Could Romney receive a signal from Virginia that he should "unsuspend" his campaign?
Update: The Charlottesville Newsplex has a report by Matt Holmes. Christina Mora reports the story on Channel 29. WINA also has a report, but it won't be on the station's web site for long.
This morning in Charlottesville, two Ron Paul supporters took the case for their candidate to the airwaves, explaining their enthusiasm and urging other Central Virginia voters to cast their ballot on primary day for the Congressman from Texas.
The guests on WINA-AM's "The Schilling Show" were the Ron Paul precinct captain in Walker Precinct, David Brown, and his counterpart from Jefferson Park Precinct, Bill Ways. The host of the program, former Charlottesville City Councilor Rob Schilling, posed a few questions to get the conversation going.
I was there from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. to get the show on video. So for those of you who were not awake at the time, or who might have been tuned to NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, here is your chance to listen and watch.
Ron Paul is one of six Republican candidates on the primary ballot in Virginia on Tuesday, February 12. Polls are open from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
This could just be an elaborate practical joke, but voters scattered across Virginia have reported receiving automated telephone calls designed to cast doubt on their status as registered voters.
Here is a news release distributed earlier today by the Virginia State Police:
News Release No. 4The phone calls imply that the call's recipient is not properly registered to vote, and must therefore fill out and return the forms that will be sent in order to qualify to vote in next Tuesday's presidential primary. Some of those who have received these calls have been registered to vote for 20 years or more.For Immediate Release: February 7, 2008STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING VOTER REGISTRATION SCAM
RICHMOND – Virginia State Police in cooperation with the State Board of Elections is investigating more than a dozen inquiries from residents across Virginia about a voter registration scam.
According to the citizen complaints, each one received a telephone call with a recorded message yesterday, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 and today. The recorded message informed the individual that he or she would be receiving a voter registration application packet in the mail. Upon arrival of the packet the individual was being instructed to complete the enclosed form, sign it and mail it back. So far, neither state police nor the State Board of Elections has heard from anyone who has received the application packet.
Registrars from the counties of Amherst, Bedford, Charles City, Dickenson, Halifax, Henrico, Lancaster, Montgomery and New Kent, as well as those in the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, Galax and Martinsville, began receiving calls yesterday from concerned citizens regarding this matter. Upon receiving the inquiries, the State Board of Elections contacted the Virginia State Police and an investigation was initiated.
Anyone who has received such a call and/or a packet is advised to contact the Virginia State Police Administrative Headquarters at (804) 674-2026 or at email@example.com.
“It is not the practice of the State Board of Elections to leave automated recorded messages or ask voters to return their completed voter registration forms to anyone other than to their local registrar,” said Ms. Nancy Rodrigues, Secretary of the State Board of Elections. “Anyone who has a question about their status as a registered voter should contact their local registrar’s office or the State Board of Elections at 1-800-552-9745.” Additional voter registration information is also available at the State Board of Elections Website at http://sbe.virginia.gov.
With any scam, one is advised to never provide personal information, particularly one’s social security number or credit card information, to unknown individuals over the telephone or Internet. If solicited over the phone or Internet for information, attempt to obtain a physical address, rather than a P.O. box or mail drop. Also be watchful of spelling errors, grammar problems or inconsistent information when receiving documents, applications, etc. online or in the U.S. mail.###
The State Police press release seems to suggest that the investigation is focusing on the possibility that these calls are a means to commit identity theft. My suspicion is that they are designed to discourage voters from turning out on Tuesday. Who would benefit by that is anybody's guess, but I don't think it's any of the remaining Republican candidates. That leaves two possibilities.
This is a developing story.
Update, February 8, 4:48 p.m: The Virginian-Pilot is reporting that the group behind these telephone calls is "legitimate." Noting the latest findings from the State Police, the newspaper says:
A day after State Police issued warnings about what appeared to be a case of someone trying to pull a scam on Virginia voters, authorities said today that all is well.The question remains, why was Women's Voices Women Vote calling voters who were already registered in order to encourage them to register? If they had enough demographic information to determine that the call recipients were single women, shouldn't they also have known they were registered voters?
The voter registration drive is legitimate....
Women’s Voices Women Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, made the calls and sent the mailings, Geller said. The group said it is part of an "unprecedented" effort to get women registered. Trouble was, it also was largely unheard of. The calls to potential voters started coming even before the effort was announced in a press release issued Thursday.
The organization said it is targeting more than 228,000 unmarried women in Virginia and 22 other states in an effort to increase voter registration and participation.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Today is former President Ronald Reagan's birthday. He would have been 97 years old today. The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill that would make today an annual holiday in that state, commemorating the birth of our 40th president.
To celebrate the occasion, I have put together a three-part video from my visit last summer to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Although today is Super Tuesday -- or Tsunami Tuesday, as some wags have called it, not to mention its alternate name, "Mardi Gras" for those more inclined toward beads and beer than ballots and bullhorns -- there seem to be plenty of voters who are looking past today's nationwide voting toward next week, when the so-called "Potomac Primary" takes place. February 12 will mark the first time that Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia all hold their presidential primaries on the same day.
I know this because of the deluge of visitors to this blog who are looking for information about Virginia's presidential primary. Of the last 4,000 recorded visitors, 1,218 (or 30.45 percent) entered through my post called "Virginia Presidential Primary FAQ," which is nothing more than a republication of a list of frequently asked questions compiled by Virginia's State Board of Elections. Yesterday's traffic ballooned with seekers of Virginia primary information.
That post is apparently easier to find than anything on the SBE's official web site. It shows up first in a Google search for "virginia presidential primary," "when is va presidential primary," and "virginia presidential primaries," second for "when is virginia presidential primary" and the similar "when is the virginia presidential primary," and only comes in behind the SBE's official site for the search term "virginia primary," when it places fifth after (in addition to the State Board of Elections) an article on Barack Obama in the D.C. Examiner, a chart about the delegate selection process on The Green Papers, and one of Dan Catalano's "Odd Dominion" columns in C-VILLE Weekly. (I can't quite fathom why this blog comes in third in an AOL search for "mike huckabee shirtless." This isn't an Abercrombie & Fitch store, after all.)
It is harder to determine if any of these information-hungry, potential primary voters are looking beyond the simple FAQ to learn about my opinions about the various candidates who will appear on the ballot -- Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani (yes, he dropped out, but he's still on the Virginia GOP primary ballot), John McCain, Mitt Romney, or the aforementioned Obama, who is already running campaign commercials on local TV here in Charlottesville. (I have heard reports that McCain is also running broadcast ads, but I have not seen any of them myself. Nor have I seen the local Ron Paul Blimp above the skies of Charlottesville lately.)
I certainly invite any new visitors to linger for a while, and feel free to come back. I am sure that next Tuesday and Wednesday I will be posting news about the results of the Virginia presidential primary -- both the Democratic and Republican results -- along with highlights of the very long election day.
Remember, polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, in the same place that you vote in a regular election. The last day to vote in person by absentee ballot is Saturday, February 9, but check with your local office of voter registration and elections for hours that voting will take place.
As for my own Super Tuesday plans, I'll be seeing the stage version of High School Musical at the National Theatre in Washington. It doesn't have Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, or Vanessa Hudgins, but it promises to be entertaining and energetic nonetheless ... if I can survive a throbbing sea of 12- and 13-year-old girls. (Talk about Tsunami Tuesday!) But then I must survive: there's an election next week.
Update: While I was drafting this post, someone left an anonymous comment on my previous Virginia Presidential Primary FAQ article, which may explain (in part) the drive in traffic in that direction:
Thank you for your posting of a straight forward primary election FAQ! This will be the first primary election I have ever voted in in Virginia. The straight up info was quite helpful. There is much info on the internet, but little of simple facts! To find the black and white you must surf through millions of blogs, and partisan opinions and forcasts!And thank you, Anonymous, for your kind words. It's encouragement like that that makes bloggers blog.
Update, February 11: The number of visitors to "Virginia Presidential Primary FAQ" has increased to 1,802 of the last 4,000 visitors to this blog, or 45 percent, dwarfing the next most popular post, "Shirtless and Circumcised," which only has 129 recent visitors, or 3.2 percent.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Joanne Michalak Sincere would have relished the idea of her birthday and the Super Bowl coinciding.
This was not just because she was a great football fan but also because she was the consummate hostess -- a suburban Milwaukee version of Perle Mesta who adored entertaining. To combine two reasons to throw a party would have been an unmatched delight for her.
Today would have been my mother's 70th birthday, and my most vivid memories of her come from those many occasions in which she hosted a party for a host of reasons: birthdays, wedding anniversaries, baby showers, baptisms, First Communions, confirmations, Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day, Halloween, the Fourth of July, New Year's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Super Bowl Sunday.
My mother's twin loves of football and entertaining would have been combined in countless ways if it had been possible, during her lifetime, for the Super Bowl to be scheduled on February 3 instead of in January.
To put this in context, one must understand what the culture of Wisconsin is like with regard to the Green Bay Packers. Wisconsinites' obsession with the Packers makes metropolitan Washington's love affair with the Redskins look tepid in comparison.
I had not noticed this in my growing-up years. To be surrounded by Packermania in Wisconsin is much like being a fish, not noticing that one is surrounded by water. The phenomenon hit me about 10 years ago when I made a trip to Milwaukee for an October high school reunion and I realized that I was the virtually the only person in a crowded shopping mall not wearing green and gold.
My blinders may have been strong even as a youth, however. The last time I watched a Super Bowl game on TV -- or, to be more accurate, the last time I was in a room with the Super Bowl playing on television -- was the second time the Packers played in the Big Game. (Do the math.)
This indifference to football was not shared by my mother (or my father, either). Even in the years after my parents left Wisconsin for the desert climate of Las Vegas, they continued to wear Packer gear and even sought out a sports bar that specifically showed Packer games on its big screen. (Video poker was only a secondary draw.)
As for entertaining, my mother was not stingy with the spread. While preparing a big meal -- a standing rib roast on New Year's Day, a turkey on Thanksgiving, grilled steaks during the summer -- she would lay out hors d'oeuvres of numerous varieties:
There would be Vienna sausages or meatballs (or both) in a sauce made of equal parts ketchup and brown sugar; raw ground round of beef (not ground chuck or ground sirloin) slathered on cocktail rye with a big slice of Bermuda onion; baked pizza rolls or cheese puffs made with shredded cheddar and Bisquick mix; and deviled eggs. Ordinary snacks included mixed nuts, pretzels, and cheese and crackers (always Ritz or Saltines). In winter, we'd have pickled herring in wine or cream sauce, served with Triscuits or Wheat Thins. During the summer, she would bring out a crudite tray of sliced carrots, celery, cucumbers -- some from her own backyard garden -- and in the early '70s introduced the heretofore-unheard-of uncooked cauliflower or broccoli with a ranch dressing for dipping. (Unfortunately, when my mother cooked cauliflower or broccoli, it was boiled to death -- something attributable to the times, I guess, and a minor and forgivable flaw.)
For days ahead of a party, my mother would work hard to get the house in order, buying food and drinks -- always a full bar, with a double supply of brandy (it being Wisconsin) -- in advance, cooking what needed to be cooked, freezing what needed to be frozen, thawing what needed to be thawed, decorating according to the season. (Don't get me started on what was required to dress the house for Christmas. Other holidays were a bit more lax.)
She would assign me various tasks. (How else would I have learned the proper way to set a table, with all the silverware configured correctly, and napkins folded nicely on each plate?) I never saw a check list, but she surely must have kept one in her mind, because no matter how chaotic things seemed on the morning of an event, by the time guests arrived, everything was in order and my mom, the hostess, could enjoy the party as much as anyone else.
So it is no stretch of the imagination to suggest that, were she able to celebrate her birthday and Super Bowl Sunday simultaneously, my mother would be enjoying heaven on earth.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Thanks to Chuck Muth for posting a list of the 25 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted against John Maynard Bush's "stimulus" package last week. Besides the expected names -- Ron Paul, Jeff Flake, and Tom Tancredo, for instance -- there are three Virginians on the list. So special congratulations go to our home state heroes, Tom Davis, Randy Forbes, and Virgil Goode.
Here's the complete list, as reported on Muth's Truths:
Paul Broun (GA)Chuck quotes Arizona Representative John Shadegg's explanation of voting "no" on the bipartisan boondoggle:
Michael Burgess (TX)
John Campbell (CA)
Howard Coble (NC)
Barbara Cubin (WY)
Tom Davis (VA)
Nathan Deal (GA)
Jeff Flake (AZ)
Randy Forbes (VA)
Phil Gingrey (GA)
Louie Gohmert (TX)
Virgil Goode (VA)
Duncan Hunter (CA)
Tim Johnson (IL)
Jack Kingston (GA)
John Linder (GA)
Ron Paul (TX)
Ted Poe (TX)
Tom Price (GA)
Dana Rohrabacher (CA)
Ed Royce (CA)
James Sensenbrenner (WI)
John Shadegg (AZ)
Tom Tancredo (CO)
Lynn Westmoreland (GA)
“On Tuesday, the U.S. House voted on H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Bill. As you may know, I was one of only 25 Republicans to vote against the bill. Every American knows that the Federal government does not have the money to pay for these rebates. We will have to borrow it. It makes absolutely no sense to me to go give away money we don’t have.”Well said. As for my own district's representative, the Martinsville Bulletin reported with regard to Virgil Goode:
He said he also believes federal spending should be cut “rather than just borrowing all the money to pay for it.”Tom Davis, the Northern Virginia congressman who announced his retirement earlier this week, told a questioner in a WashingtonPost.com chat about his own doubts about the stimulus package:
As the bill stands now, the money for the rebates would be borrowed, Goode said. “It’s just adding to the deficit,” he said.
I don't see it adequately stimulating the economy. But you have to remember, Congress is running for re-election in November. So, instead of letting the economy work out its kinks, members want to try to show they are doing something to help. I'm concerned the $150 billion we are throwing at this problem will be a longer-term problem than the short-term benefit.The most spot-on (and complete) comments may be those of Randy Forbes, who told the Daily Press:
Forbes, a conservative Republican from Chesapeake, decried the measure as a hastily assembled expensive gamble whose impact on the economy was far from certain.I love that analogy. Should HB 5140 be known as the "Red Bull Bill"?
"At some point, I have to be a steward of taxpayers' money," Forbes said. ``We can't afford to throw out $150 billion and hope this is going to work."
Alluding to the political pressures of an election year, Forbes added, "Is it going to be an election stimulus or an economic stimulus?"
Forbes said he also objected to a provision that would provide a $300 rebate to low-income individuals who did not earn enough to pay income taxes.
"I couldn't justify using the taxpayers' credit card to give money to people who didn't pay any taxes," he said.
Expressing doubt about the measure's impact on the economy, Forbes compared the effect of the package to that of a power bar or energy drink. "We just get a short-term boost, and then the crash is worse than before," he said.
Friday, February 01, 2008
The Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's has uncovered the web sites of the remaining members of the Axis of Evil and other sordid types. What Maclean's has found -- in an article entitled "Websites of Evil" -- turns out to be (from the perspective of the web site owners) unintentionally humorous.
Take North Korea, for instance:
If there was one country you'd expect not to have a website, it might be Kim Jong Il's so-called "Hermit Kingdom," North Korea. Then again, Kim could claim to have invented the Internet himself and it wouldn't look out of place at korea-dpr.com. The "brief history" of dear leader's life runs 160 pages; his father's clocks in at 2,161. And the website has a shockingly liberal relationship with facts. For instance, the regional map provided acknowledges the significance of the 38th parallel, as does the "geography" page—but, in boasting 222,209,231 square kilometres of surface area, it seems to be claiming the entire peninsula for the revolution.Then there is Iran -- you know, the place that has no homosexuals:
In the "business opportunities" section, visitors learn that North Korea "will become in the next years the most important hub for trading in North-East Asia." How will this be accomplished, considering the country's 85th-ranked GDP—149th, per capita? Thanks to the "lowest labour cost in Asia," a "very stable political system, without corruption," and the unbeatable convenience of dealing directly with the government and state-owned corporations. No middlemen!
You can see all this for yourself on one of the periodic tourist junkets organized by the Korean Friendship Association. Undoubtedly the slickest section of the website, it teases the adventuresome traveller with an idyllic panorama of Pyongyang, including a strangely blurred but nevertheless impressive view of the mammoth Ryugyong Hotel. You won't be staying there, however. Conceived as a little slice of Las Vegas on the Taedong River, complete with capitalist decadences like nightclubs, casinos and no fewer than seven rotating restaurants, it is best described nowadays as an empty 105-storey poured concrete shell with a giant crane marooned on top of it. It has been described as "the single most unsettling structure ever erected by the hand of man."
Thousands of miles west, but still along the Axis of Evil, you'll find Iran's surprisingly large English web infrastructure. Parts are almost charming. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's personal site, for example, includes a sample gallery of gifts he's received from visiting dignitaries both domestic and international. An unnamed lawmaker from the city of Neyshabor brought an ornamental pomegranate, while the Indian foreign minister favoured the President with a covered bowl. Both gifts are described as "inorganic."I guess the Ayatollah Khameni is Iran's answer to "Ask Amy."
Those with questions about their faith can send them directly to the Ayatollah [Khameni]...
"If somebody masturbates during the month of Ramadan but without any discharge, is his fasting invalidated?" another asks. Depends, says the Ayatollah. "If he do not intend masturbation and discharging semen and nothing is discharged, his fasting is correct. But, if he intends masturbation or he knows that he usually discharges semen by this process and semen really comes out, it is a ḥarām intentional breaking fasting."
Maclean's correspondent Chris Selley looks elsewhere in the Middle East, and then to Latin America, but the results of its explorations are mixed:
So the next time you're surfing the web late at night, be sure to leave a comment for Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I'm sure they'll appreciate the thought. You might even get a reply -- if black-hooded thugs knocking down your door at 3:00 a.m. is your idea of a reply.
The content at Hamas' palestine-info.info, likewise, is of the tenor one would expect from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The "comment" section includes a recent piece by Khalid Amayreh, who compares the Ukrainian Holodomor to what he believes is a looming genocide in Gaza. "Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, as well as the rest of the ruling class in Israel are more or less trying to emulate Lazar Kaganovitch and Genrich Grigorivic Yagoda, another Soviet Jewish mass murderer who probably killed or caused the death of more people than Hitler ever did," he writes. "We must mobilize … in order to prevent Israel from turning Gaza into another Auschwitz, another Treblinka, another Bergen Belsen, or another Theresienstadt. We must cross all the red lines if necessary."
Despite the freedom of information the Internet offers, however, some sites don't last. The various incarnations of Al Qaeda's web presence have disappeared. And the official website of the Colombian guerrilla organization FARC is also currently inoperative. By some accounts, the site was uncommonly slick for a terrorist organization; its content was certainly spirited. According to the Google cache, the final post, on December 20, called Colombian president Alvaro Uribe a Mafioso, a paramilitary, a buffoon, a vulgarian and a slanderous liar. But while Uribe might well have objected to this characterization, it's unlikely he was behind the website's demise. It was hosted, of all places, in Switzerland—proof, perhaps, that free speech is where you find it.
To my surprise, until Wednesday night, I had not seen a show in the smaller space of Signature Theatre's new building, which opened over a year ago. It turns out that the ARK (named for philanthropists Arlene and Robert Kogod) is a little gem. Its acoustics are near perfect; although I was seated as far from the performance area as one could be, I heard every word and even the sound of pages being turned in a journal.
The occasion was the opening night of The Tricky Part, a transfer from off-Broadway starring its playwright, Martin Moran. This is my review for The Metro Herald.
Ambiguity of Truth:
‘The Tricky Part’ Debuts at Signature Theatre
Metro Herald Entertainment Editor
Martin Moran’s The Tricky Part is a tightly-wound bundle of ambivalence waiting to burst.
By choosing to address, in an entertainment venue, an already touchy subject – adult-child sex – Moran shows a certain brand of courage. That he deftly tells his own story – as victim, survivor, explorer, prevailer – exhibits bravery of a signally remarkable form.
Moran’s Obie-award-winning one-man show opened on January 30 for a limited run at
’s Signature Theatre, with the playwright in the lead. Arlington
The Tricky Part is not for everyone. Yet, despite its core subject matter, it offers laughs and tears to members of a variety of groups: people who went to Catholic schools, those who grew up in the suburbs, gay men, former campers and former paper boys, parents, people who spent their childhoods in the ‘60s or ‘70s, and those who have survived emotional trauma, to name a non-exclusive few.
As the play begins, houselights bathe the audience, and it seems from the outset that this will continue, with the effect of sitting in a college lecture hall rather than a black-box theatre. Eventually, gradually, nearly imperceptibly, the lighting changes to focus on the playing area, until – when the play reaches its dramatic apogee – a single spotlight enhalos Moran with a soft beam.
At that beginning, Moran, alone on stage, puts the audience at ease – though we do not know this is his purpose – by engaging them in banter, reminding them to turn off their cell phones, asking a few questions, and riffing on the audience members’ replies.
The result is, from that point forward, this highly structured, dramatically intense play seems to be improvised on the spot. Moran makes us believe that he is just telling us a story off the cuff, and that he is taking us through his memories with no more deliberateness than if he was chatting with a stranger at an airport bar during a flight delay.
The early part of the play relates life in Catholic schools in suburban
in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moran’s vivid word portraits of priests and nuns will evoke a smile and a chuckle from anyone, like him, who attended Catholic elementary schools of that era. (Moran alludes to, but does not dwell on, some of the social and cultural upheavals within the Church during those post-Vatican II years.) Denver
The light humor of these early vignettes serves further to let down the audience’s guard for the emotional punch that is to come – his telling about the night when, at the age of 12, Moran unconsentingly began a three-year sexual relationship with a 30-year-old man.
Moran has an uncanny eye (and ear) for detail. His descriptions are so complete that one could easily close one’s eyes and, just by listening, be transported to the world built bit by bit by Moran’s words. With a little tweaking, The Tricky Part would be as equally effective as a radio play as it is as a one-man stage show.
Moran jumps forward three decades – to a time when the Church’s sexual abuse scandals were front-page news – and allows us to see his confrontation with his own abuser, an ex-seminarian.
Suffice it to say that Moran is himself unsure of how to think or how to feel about the events he reports. This ambivalence, rather than weakening his tale, actually strengthens and reinforces it, because it is the way that real people react to such situations in real life.
The Tricky Part explores a sort of “butterfly effect” that influences each of our lives. Moran points to innocuous moments and decisions that, in retrospect, lead to pivotal and sometimes explosive events that affected the entire course of his own life. He leads us, by extension, to think about our own paths that brought us to how we live, who we love, how we love, and why we choose this way or that.
And again, that butterfly effect embraces ambivalence. Moran’s story is one that should horrify and anger not just the audience who hears it but the person who tells it. Still, Moran, after years of struggle with his own ambiguous feelings, rejects anger for a nameless yet peaceable alternative.
Moran recognizes that those events that made him so miserable over time also had a profound – and paradoxically positive – hand in shaping who he is as a professional actor and playwright, as a son, as an uncle, as the steady partner of his longtime (same-sex) spouse. He looks at us pleadingly and asks if his life would have turned out differently if none of this had happened – if he hadn’t taken guitar lessons from Sister Christine, if he hadn’t worked a paper route, if he hadn’t gone to camp with the man who would violate his innocence.
The answer, he knows, is yes – and, not just different, his life could have been better or it could have been worse. The ambivalence is haunting yet palpable.
Interestingly, Moran avoids using words like “molest” or “abuse” in his 85-minute monologue. He reports the events in the life of his 12-year-old self as matter-of-factly as if he were telling us what he had for breakfast yesterday. He remembers, for himself as much as for us, those events in colorful detail and gives the audience the freedom to make up our own minds about the meaning of the picture he paints.
While some will see The Tricky Part as a story of overcoming trauma, a story of psychic healing, it is just as much a story about coming to terms with the contradictions we face – everyday choices, internal dilemmas, emotional bifurcations. The answer doesn’t always have to be yes or no, black or white. Sometimes the answer is yes and no. Sometimes the answer is grey.
Irish-born novelist Edna O’Brien recently told the
newspaper, Liberation, that “Happy people don’t write.” Paris
Later elaborating on this remark during a BBC World Service discussion of her novel, The Country Girls, which was banned nearly half a century ago by Irish government censors and remains popular worldwide today, O’Brien explained that people with “normal” – by this she means quotidian -- lives don’t have (or take) the time or inclination to write. Contentment, which marks sanity in a person, does not breed creativity.
Saying that she is not unhappy but simply does not place happiness at the top of the totem pole of the things she values, O’Brien said further that, when a person writes, she throws everything into the mix: the good things, the bad things, the things that make you sad or angry. For this, she said, “you must be naked. Naked, naked, naked.”
Although he stands fully clothed on stage in The Tricky Part, Martin Moran is not just alone, but naked. His nakedness is the consequence of his own life’s journey, and that journey is splayed out in splendid nakedness for us, the audience, to observe and ponder.
The Tricky Part, written and performed by Martin Moran and directed by Seth Barrish, continues through February 17 at Signature Theatre,
4200 Campbell Avenuein . Show times are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Single tickets are $40 and are available through Ticketmaster at 703-573-7328 and through www.signature-theatre.org. Arlington
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies. As the global focal point for governments and the private sector, ITU's role in helping the world communicate spans 3 core sectors: radiocommunication, standardization and development. ITU also organizes TELECOM events and was the lead organizing agency of the World Summit on the Information Society.
ITU is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its membership includes 191 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates.
The international standards that are produced by the ITU are referred to as "Recommendations" (with the word ordinarily capitalized to distinguish its meaning from the ordinary sense of the word "recommendation"). Due to its longevity as an international organization and its status as a specialized agency of the United Nations, standards promulgated by the ITU carry a higher degree of formal international recognition than those of most other organizations that publish technical specifications of a similar form.
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Bangladesh has been elected as the new Chairman of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
The new Chairman was ceremonially handed over the responsibility of leading the 49 LDCs at New York on Thursday.
M Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Foreign Affairs, formally took over the role from the Minister of MDGs and SDGs of Benin, the
immediate past Chairman of the Group, according to Foreign Ministry here.
The meeting of LDC Minister, where the new Chair is elected, takes places at the United Nations Headquarters every year on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations participated at the high profile meeting.
In his remarks, the Secretary-General called on the LDCs to invest efforts in implementing the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
He also assured the LDCs of full support of the UN systems in the LDC initiatives to graduate from the Group.
The State Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed thanks to the Least Developed Countries for expressing confidence on the leadership of Bangladesh by electing it unanimously as the next Chair of the Group.
He flagged that since becoming a member of the LDCs back in 1974, Bangladesh has always remained an active Member of the LDCs,
promoting and protecting the interests of the 48 Member countries.
Shahriar highlighted the plans of Bangladesh during its tenure as the Chairman of the Group of LDCs.
He emphasized on the importance of maintaining harmony and coherence in the Group with its diverse membership. He referred to the
Istanblul Programme of Action (IPoA), the roadmap of graduation for the LDCs, and informed that Bangladesh would hold consultations soon to ensure that the mid-term review of IPoA, scheduled to be held in Turkey next year, is successful, and is favorable to the LDCs.
The State Minister for Foreign Affairs also mentioned that Bangladesh, as the new Chair of the LDCs, will be following up on the issue of Technology Bank for the LDCs, investment promotion mechanism, and crisis mitigation and resilience building fund.
He also assured that Bangladesh would pursue for implementation of the LDC related commitments, including the investment promotion support center and regimes for LDCs.
The meeting was also attended by the Under-Secretary-General and United Nations High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Foreign Ministers of Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Italy, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Tuvalu, and representatives of Japan, European Union. | <urn:uuid:b48b8ef3-3c9a-4863-8bb0-acf04662e736> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.observerbd.com/2015/10/02/113251.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.958733 | 568 | 1.765625 | 2 |
EU backs n-cooperation with India, to clinch FTA next yearSeptember 29th, 2008 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Marseille, Sep 29 (IANS) As India and France get ready to sign an atomic pact, the 27-nation European Union Monday vigorously backed civil nuclear cooperation with India while underlining that it cannot tell New Delhi to fight climate change without much-needed clean nuclear energy. In a major step to take their multi-faceted strategic partnership to new heights, India and the EU Monday decided to double their bilateral trade to 100 billion euros and to accelerate negotiations to clinch a free trade area agreement between India and the EU that have between them a combined GDP of over 13 trillion dollars. Bilateral trade between India and the EU has exceeded 50 billion euros. EU is India’s largest trading partner.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held discussions with the EU troika, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, also president of the EU, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. They discussed a range of global issues, including climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, food security and energy security and global economy.
Lauding India’s rising global profile, Sarkozy stressed the world can’t solve these problems without India’s support.
“How can we fight climate change without India’s participation. We can’t tell India to combat climate change without clean nuclear energy,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters at a joint press interaction with Manmohan Singh after the 9th India-EU summit held in the port town of Marseilles.
“India is a major power. In the next 20-30 years, India will be the first power in terms of demographics,” Sarkozy said while lauding India’s emergence on the global stage.
“France trusts India and Indian prime minister. In all liklelihood, we shall have discussions tomorrow and take a decision,” Sarkozy told reporters when asked whether India and France will sign the bilateral nuclear cooperation pact in Paris Tuesday.
France currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.
The EU’s positive attitude towards civilian nuclear cooperation with India stands in sharp contrast to its ambivalent stand on this issue before the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) allowed New Delhi to resume global nuclear trade.
A day before he holds talks with Sarkozy in Paris, Manmohan Singh raised hopes for signing the nuclear pact with France, saying: “I hope some good results will flow from this meeting.”
“We look forward to working with France and other countries,” Manmohan Singh said while alluding to the waiver granted by the NSG Sep 6 that enables India to resume nuclear trade with the world.
“India seeks cooperation with all countries of the world in matters of civil nuclear cooperation. The US Congress is engaged in the process that will permit civilian nuclear cooperation between India and the US,” the prime minister stressed even as the US Senate prepares to take up the 123 India-US bilateral nuclear agreement for a vote, likely Monday/Tuesday.
India and the EU will sign an agreement on the ambitious multi-billion dollar International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project soon. The ITER agreement will gain impetus with the conclusion of the agreement between Euratom and India in the field of fusion energy research, a joint statement said at the end of the day-long India-EU summit.
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18 November, 2014
New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy out now
The following are summaries of items appearing in the July 2014 issue of the New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, the
official Journal of Physiotherapy New Zealand. The Journal is open access and is available at www.physiotherapy.org.nz/journal
Physiotherapy management of knee and hip osteoarthritis: a survey of patient and medical practitioners’ expectations,
experiences and perceptions of effectiveness of treatment, by Duncan A Reid, Geoffrey Potts, Mark Burnett, and Ben
Konings. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of hip and knee pain. Current research advocates physiotherapy as an
effective form of treatment to help manage OA. The aim of the study was to investigate the self-reported behaviour,
experiences, expectations, and perceptions of general practitioners (GPs), orthopaedic surgeons, and patients with
regard to physiotherapy referral and management of individuals with OA of the hip and knee.
Does use of the Cough Assist Machine reduce respiratory morbidity for children with neuromuscular disease? By Rachel
Phillips, Elizabeth Edwards, David McNamara, Peter Reed. The role of the Cough Assist Machine (CAM) in the long term
respiratory management of children with neuromuscular disease (NMD) is unclear. This study examined the impact of
regular, home use of the CAM on the respiratory status of six children with NMD and significant respiratory morbidity.
Individualised CAM programmes were devised to be undertaken regularly.
Learning needs analysis comparing novice and expert opinion, to develop a simulation-based intensive care unit training
programme, byDaniel R Seller, Robert O’Brien, Kim Brock. A learning needs analysis was performed using an online survey
to establish the most appropriate curriculum for a simulation-based intensive care training programme for junior
physiotherapists. Perceptions were compared between an intensive care-naive ‘novice’ group of rotational
physiotherapists from a single tertiary teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and an ‘expert’ group of senior
intensive care physiotherapists from across Australia.
The Patient-Rated Wrist and Hand Evaluation: a systematic review of its validity and reliability, by Julie Taylor,
PaulaKersten. The Patient-Rated Wrist and Hand Evaluation is a region specific, patient reported outcome measure that
aims to evaluate pain and disability of the wrist and hand. This review appraised the evidence for the validity and
reliability of the Patient-Rated Wrist and Hand Evaluation as a measure of therapeutic outcomes in musculoskeletal
conditions affecting the wrist and hand.
Older adults’ experiences of community integration following traumatic brain injury by James Kent, Valerie A Wright-St
Clair, Paula Kersten.Literature suggests community integration should be the primary rehabilitation goal for older
people following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, little is known about older people’s lived experience of
community integration following TBI. This mixed method study explores community integration from the perspective of four
older adults following mild TBI, and compares findings with results from two community integration outcome measures: the
Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ) and the Community Integration Measure (CIM).
ML Roberts Prize Winner
These two studies were the joint winner of the ML Roberts prize awarded for the best 4th year undergraduate research
project at the School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago in 2013.
The reliability of measuring the inter-recti distance using high-resolution and low-resolution ultrasound imaging
comparing a novice to an experienced sonographer, by Tom Iwan, Briar Garton, Richard Ellis.
The feasibility and acceptability of using mobile methods for capturing and analysing data about dog-walking and human
health, by Carla Cameron, Catherine M Smith, Steve Tumilty, Gareth J Treharne.
Invited Clinical Commentary
Sexual wellbeing for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: relevance and roles for physiotherapy, by
William MM Levack.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fifth leading cause of disability worldwide. The
purpose of this article is to provide an overview of current knowledge on sexual wellbeing in people with COPD, with
particular attention to the possible role of physiotherapy in helping address problems with sexuality resulting from the
Clinically Applicable Paper
Randomized trial of trigger point acupuncture treatment for chronic shoulder pain: a preliminary study, by Michelle
Hall. The aim of this randomised and sham controlled, clinical trial was to determine if trigger point acupuncture is an
effective treatment for chronic shoulder pain.
The official journal of Physiotherapy New Zealand can be viewed on www.physiotherapy.org.nz/journal
About Physiotherapy New Zealand
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Reynard Corporation has long been a global optical component supplier to the semiconductor industry and also offers optical sub-assembly design & support.
The process to manufacture semiconductor wafers is comprised of a mix of many high-precision process and inspection steps. Machine vision cameras are utilized in this process for many reasons, such as identifying wafer alignment and orientation, to identify and record defects, sorting wafers, and to provide feedback for the automated process steps. The needs of these machine vision systems vary greatly, depending on their purpose. Operation can be spectral waveband specific, such as ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), or infrared (IR), or be broadband, covering two or more of these bands. Additionally, various optical components are needed such as beamsplitters, mirrors, filters, patterns, and anti-reflection coatings on windows and lenses.
Bandpass filters can be used to filter out extraneous information for laser inspection. For example, a broadband detector can become noisy from the radiation of light outside of the wavelength band of interest. In these cases, a bandpass filter is added to the optical system that will block out light that is outside of the intended wavelength band.
Reynard custom BullseyeTM apodizers can be used to provide uniform illumination from an unbalanced light source. Typically a light source will have a gaussian type output distribution, causing non-uniformity in a viewing area. This BullseyeTM filter will help to flatten the illumation beam for a uniform viewing area.
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The Company History page lists out the major events in chronological order for Talbros Automotive Components Ltd.
|Company History - Talbros Automotive Components Ltd.|
|YEAR EVENTS |
1956 - The Company was incorporated as on 8th September, at New Delhi as
a Private Ltd. Co. under the name and style Payen Talbros, Pvt.
Ltd. It was converted into a Public Ltd. Co., on 30th November
1975. It manufactures automotive components like jacks, shock
absorbers, and axle shafts.
1973 - Till now 62,500 `A' Equity and 1,87,500 `B' Equity shares issued
as bonus shares as follows: on 27th May, 1963 prop. 1:2; on 6th
August 1966 prop. 2:3; on 26th June 1970 prop. 1:3.
1974 - The Company received an industrial licence to expand the capacity
of gaskets by 30 million nos. In order to implement Chennai
unit, the company undertook to set up a new unit in the SIDCO
Industrial Estate at Ambattur, Chennai.
- 25,000 `A' Equity and 75,000 `B' Equity shares allotted as bonus
shares on 12th July 1975 both in prop. 1:4.
1977 - AEW Janson, Ltd., a company engaged in the manufacture of
hydraulic jakhs and shock absorbers, was amalgamated with the
Company with effect from 1st September.
- In terms of the scheme of amalgamation, members of AEW Janson,
Ltd., were allotted 75,358 No. of equity shares of Rs. 10 each of
the Company without payment in cash besides a cash payment of Rs.
3,525 towards fractional entitlements.
- A & B Equity shares merged. 75,350 shares issued without payment
in cash to members of AEW Janson, Ltd. on its merger.
1979 - The name of the Company was changed to Talbros Automotive
Components, Ltd. with effect from 7th April.
1980 - Simultaneously with the public issue of equity shares during May,
then existing shareholders offered for sale to the public out of
their holdings 60,000 No. of equity shares of Rs. 10 each at a
premium of Rs. 6 per share.
- 1,24,642 shares issued (prem. of Rs. 5 per share); 9,642 shares
reserved and allotted to employees & business associates and
1,15,000 shares offere to the public during May.
1981 - A new project was undertaken for the manufacture of industrial
gaskets for which SPICOT sanctioned.
1985 - In an agreement between the Company and Payen International.
Limited U.K. for transfer of technology, became effective.
1986 - The Company privately placed with L.I.C. G.I.C. and its
subsidiaries 30,000 - 15% redeemable non-convertible debentures
of Rs. 100/- each for an aggregate value of Rs. 30 lakhs
redeemable in full in 1993 at premium of Rs. 5/- per debenture.
- As on 31st December, land and buildings at Chennai and Faridabad
were revalued and the net surplus arising at of it was credited
to the Revaluation Reserve.
- According to the scheme of arrangement between the company and
Talbros Engineering Ltd. was to be issued to the shareholders of
the Talbros Automotive Components Ltd.
1987 - 2,80,000 bonus equity shares issued in prop. 2:5.
1988 - The Company registered substantial growth in the production of
gaskets and rear axle shafts.
- The Company had drawn up plans for the second phase of
modernisation of the existing plants and setting up of new units.
Another unit for manufacture of material for captive consumption
was being set up at Sohna, near Gurgaon, Haryana.
- 4,20,000 Rights equity shares issued at par in prop. 3:7 during
1989 - Turnover improved by 25% on an annualised loans exports also
reached a record figure.
1994 - 2,42,858 No. of equity shares allotted to Engineering Compondents
Ltd. U.K. at a premium of Rs. 83.75 per share in the basis of
-TACL enters into JV with Nippon Leakless of Japan on January 31, 2005
-Talbros Automotive Componets Limited has appointed Mr. Brian Williams as a director on the Board of the Company.
-Talbros Automotive Components Ltd has appointed Mr. Amit Burman as independent Director on the Board of the company w.e.f. June 25, 2008.
- The Company has entered into a License Agreement with M/s. Ahlstrom Altenkirchen GMBH, Germany for a period of 10 years for obtaining technical know how in order to manufacture Beater Addition Jointing conforming to international standard.
- The Company has entered into a Technical Assistance Agreement with Sanwa Packaging Industry Company Ltd. (SANWA), Japan, for obtaining technical know-how and other related information for the manufacturing of Heat Shields for Automotives and related applications.
- The Company has recently started its fourth Gasket Manufacturing Plant at Sitargunj, Uttrakhand, a notified, Industrial Area, in addition to the existing plants at Faridabad, Pune and Chennai.
- "Talbros Automotive Components Ltd forms 50:50 JV with Magneti Marelli in the suspension systems and modules sector".
-The Company has appointed Mr. Anuj Talwar as an Additional Director on the Board of the Company..
-Mr. Manvinder Singh Ajmani has joined the Company as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
-Talbros Automotive bags new orders from MSIL, ISUZU Motors
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Ozarks education grads realize their dreams
Release Date: 7/2/2012
One of the most gratifying experiences for a university can be hearing back from its successful graduates. It's good to know when you're on the right track.
One example of this came in the form of an email from Lara Maddox, a special education elementary teacher who graduated from Ozarks in 2011 and is now employed by the nearby Lamar (Ark.) School District.
"Yesterday, we held interviews for the two special education job openings in our school district," she wrote. "There were seven people total who interviewed. Some of these people were veteran teachers and others were (recent) graduates from other colleges. My building principal was there for every interview and talked to me about them afterward. He asked if U of O graduates were given classes on how to interview for a job. I told him we always do mock interviews at the end of the year."
Maddox said the two applicants from Ozarks - Tadera Garland and Amy Scaccia - took a different tack than the other applicants with some of the questions.
"He told me they asked all the applicants a question regarding how to implement differentiated learning in the special education classroom," she said. "That's a pretty technical question in a way. All of the interviewees except for two said they would put students into groups. The other two interviewees, who just happen to be from Ozarks, went a different direction with their answers. These two mentioned how special education classes are already in small groups, and they both went on to explain how they would create lessons and assessments to fit the students' individual learning styles, because all students learn differently."
Maddox said she smiled when she heard about those responses. "I told him hey, that's just the result of four years in Ozarks' education department. He laughed and said U of O must be doing something right because those two people are the ones we are offering jobs to. If they accept, there will be an Ozarks graduate in each of the buildings of the Lamar School District in the special education department. We are taking over!"
Both students did accept the job offers with Lamar.
"I'm very impressed with not only how well U of O prepares its graduates for the interview process, but also their student-teaching internships," said Lamar Middle School Principal Jay Holland. "Unfortunately, I only got one of them - Tadera Garland. The high school got the other one."
"My dream has always been to teach," said Garland. "I truly feel that the real-life teaching experiences I was exposed to through U of O has benefited me the most of all the things I learned there. Ozarks' education program provides its students with the opportunity to observe and teach in a variety of settings. Some people believe that the field of education consists of an endless number of jobs. This is not the case. It is a very competitive field that requires a specific set of skills and knowledge to be successful in. I came prepared."
She went on to provide an example. "An event from my student-teaching experience comes to mind. It was only my second week as a student-teacher, and my cooperating teacher, who was mentoring me, called in sick one day. A lot of teachers were sick at the time due to a bug, and there were a limited number of substitute teachers available, so I had the class all by myself. At first I went into a panic! But then I remembered what I had been taught about 'modify and adjust' and the value of relying on colleagues as necessary. I used those two simple concepts I'd learned in class at Ozarks to get through the day successfully."
Maddox recalled her own early experiences. "My stomach was in knots the very first day of school," she said. "I wanted everything to be perfect. But imagine my surprise when I got to school and the veteran teachers were just as nervous as I was. I guess that feeling never goes away. Nothing goes perfectly. It's how you handle what happens that sets the tone. What has helped me the most was the opportunity as a student to go out into real classrooms and practice what we had learned. Ozarks makes that opportunity available far more so than most education programs."
She acknowledged the difficulties as well as the rewards of teaching. "Being a teacher isn't easy," she said. "Luckily for me, 'easy' is not what I signed up for when I made the choice to go into education. I spend about two to three hours each night working on lesson plans, grading papers, and doing paperwork for special needs students. The real reward comes when a student has the 'ah-ha' moment. I love watching the expressions on their faces when they figure out something for the first time. That really does make it all worthwhile."
Amy Scaccia, who interviewed with Garland and was hired as special education teacher at Lamar High School, spoke highly of the mentoring she received at Ozarks. "Dr. Glenda Ezell and the education department at U of O have given me a tremendous amount of support and encouragement for the job market and for furthering my career and for my professional growth," she said. "I can't think of a better role model for any teacher than Dr. Ezell. I am eternally grateful to the education department for helping me realize my dream of teaching."
As Education Division Chair Dr. Glenda Ezell put it, "Our students succeed because we continue to train them in the cutting-edge educational philosophies that place them in the forefront of applicants for teaching positions, no matter where they apply. They represent the 'new-news' in education, wherever they end up."
Garland is ready to start her first day in class as a teacher. "Even though I have not officially started teaching, I am very excited for my first day," she said. "I am expecting that my first day will be similar to the experiences I had as a student-teacher, expect for being more prepared. I'm nervous, but excited, because I know that Ozarks has prepared me well."
Having gotten her education degree and successfully landed her first teaching job, Garland had a simple piece of advice to give those graduates still searching for a job. "It's just this," she said. "Do not settle for anything less than you deserve. You have trained in a very specialized field and deserve the best. So go get it." | <urn:uuid:fa79dfb5-72cc-421e-86a2-695b1fe0d195> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.ozarks.edu/newsevents/news/news_story.asp?NewsID=4877&ArchiveYear=2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00324-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987276 | 1,335 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Essay Topic 1
Sultana was the daughter of a prince of Saudi Arabia.
Part 1) Describe her life. How did being a princess affect her life and decisions made about her life?
Part 2) Would you consider her life a privileged one? Why or why not?
Part 3) How does her life compare to your own? Can you relate to her? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Ali, the only son, was spoiled.
Part 1) Describe the effect this had on Ali's personality and actions. Why was he spoiled? How did this affect Sultana?
Part 2) Why were male children so important? How did this affect the treatment of women?
Part 3) Is there equality for men and women in the U.S.? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Sultana and some of her sisters were educated.
Part 1) Why did they receive an education? How did this affect them?
Part 2) Could the education of women help their situation...
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The Milford Junction passenger station at the intersection of the east/west running Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad and the north/south running Big Four Railway (CCC&StL) and the Winona Interurban Railway. The union passenger station served all three lines. To the left is the control tower. There are signs on the depot for the American Express Company and the National Express Company. Handwritten on the front is "Near Nappanee." A wagon is stacked with boxes and passengers pose nearby.The postcard was mailed to the lender's grandmother Olive Robinson from her sister-in-law Lualla Robinson Gwin, 2nd from left, who poses with her husband Charles Gwin and sisters Ida Roadruck (2nd from right) and Luella Harper (right).
Milford Junction, Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States
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(CNN) – President Obama said Americans need to be vigilant here in the u-s until the outbreak is contained in West Africa.
Every three weeks roughly 3,000 people arrive in the U.S. from Ebola hot zones.
With a new federal plan to track those thousands of passengers for the incubation period of the deadly disease, the question is:
Can health officials keep up?
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Today is the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, the first major terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.
It was a brutal ambush that killed four people and injured more than 260, many severely. No doubt, it was a devastating day for our city, but Boston refuses to be defeated by it. We refuse to cower to terrorists. Our survivors are too strong for that.
And the city of Boston couldn’t be more proud of them.
The survivors’ courage to face each day, their resilience and straight-up good attitude is leading the way forward. Not only for each other, but for a grateful city.
We’re in this together, and we can’t heal if the survivors don’t heal.
Our brothers and sisters run the marathon. Our co-workers, kids and family members participate or cheer us on. It’s truly a community event where tens of thousands of people are part of it. Like dominos, if one of our own gets injured or killed, we all suffer.
We all fall down.
But Boston is a city that gets up.
It’s how we roll. Maybe it’s the incredible camaraderie we share that uplifts, or the long, hard winters that bring us together. Who really knows? But we’re better for it.
Every adult knows life can be tough. It’s hard for everyone at different points in our life paths. We all face challenges of varying size and scope.
But one thing that gets us through dark days and difficult nights is faith, inner strength and each other.
Parkinson’s survivor Michael J. Fox has said, “Happiness is a decision.” I agree with him. Each day we can choose to be happy or not based in large part on our attitude.
Attitude is the North Star; the rudder that directs our emotional and psychological ship. If we have a good attitude, we can persevere. A bad attitude and the walls can come tumbling down.
The choice is ours to make each and every day. One mile at a time.
God bless the survivors, their families and our beautiful city of Boston today, and every day that lies ahead.
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The federal government’s Pell Grant program has earned a good reputation among financial aid seekers over the years. The maximum amount of money awarded to individuals in recent school years is $5,775. This program, unlike some of the other federal financial aid programs, also guarantees funds to every student who qualifies.
- No payback is necessary
- Source: Federal government
- Deadline: Application must be received no later than the last workday of June
This program is specifically designed to help undergraduate students finance their education for up to six years of study without burdening them with a repayment plan. Nothing needs to be repaid to the government and there is no interest or fee to pay.
How Do I Determine My Eligibility?
- Your Pell Grant Index (PGI) number must be low enough to meet required need standards, as determined by the government; the number is found on your SAR
- You must be attending school no less than half-time
- You must be working on your first undergraduate degree
- You must meet all application deadlines
- You must be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen
How Much Can I Get?
The maximum Pell grant for the 2015–16 award year (July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016) is $5,775.
For a little historical perspective, the average amount given out for the 2010-2011 school year was $3,828, according to figures reported by the U.S. Department of Education, the agency that oversees federal student aid programs. The maximum increased to $5,775 for the 2015-16 school year. All award money distributed is either credited to the student’s account or given as a direct distribution. Total award amounts depend on your PGI number, cost of education, and a variety of other factors.
Despite the increase in the maximum award amount, students still can’t rely on the federal government to solve all their tuition needs. The cost of college attendance is rising at a rapid pace while the availability of government grants isn’t keeping up with demand – not by a long shot.
TIP…Undergraduate students at some universities are automatically considered for a Pell Grant when they submit their FAFSA, which is used to apply for all types of Title IV financial aid – loans, Work-Study programs, and grants. Just make sure you get this form—and any subsequent forms that might be needed – completed and to your school’s financial aid office on time.
To apply for a Pell Grant, you must obtain and complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You can download the form by visiting the U.S. Department of Education’s FAFSA website at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov, or you can simply contact your school’s financial aid office. Be sure to send your application to the address on the form as soon after January 1 as possible. Missing the deadline means missing out on financial aid. Federal application processors generally want all forms in by the end of February. Call the Federal Financial Aid Information Center at (800) 4FED-AID for answers to any questions you might have, or see your financial aid adviser at your college.
When applying for federal aid, one of the first terms you should become familiar with is SAR, an acronym for Student Aid Report. (Be sure to review Chapter Seven: Filling Out Forms for more information on this.) All applicants requesting federal aid dollars will receive an SAR, telling them (1) whether they may receive a Pell Grant, (2) their Pell Grant Index number, (3) their Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) number, and (4) if they have failed to fill out the form correctly. The financial aid adviser at your college uses this report to help organize your aid package. Schools receive a set amount of funds per year for federal programs. Even if you are eligible for federal financial aid per your SAR, you may lose out on funding if you apply late or the processing of your SAR is held up. That’s because funds are typically distributed on a “first come, first served” basis. If you have additional questions on SAR processing, be sure to call the Student Aid Report Information Center at (319) 337-5665.
The college you are applying to may also ask that you complete a Financial Aid Profile form administered by the College Board/College Entrance Examination Board. This form helps streamline the entire aid application process.
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Russia would pay a high price for any new military aggression against Ukraine, NATO and the United States warned on Tuesday as the Western military alliance met to discuss Moscow’s intentions for massing troops on the border of the former Soviet republic.
The West has already shown that it can wield economic, financial and political sanctions against Moscow, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of talks of the alliance’s foreign ministers in the Latvian capital Riga.
There will be a high price to pay for Russia if they once again use force against the independence of the nation, Ukraine, Secretary Stoltenberg said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to brief his 29 NATO counterparts on Washington’s intelligence on what is going on at the alliance’s eastern flank and in Ukraine, which is not a member.
Any escalatory actions by Russia would be a great concern to the United States and any renewed aggression would trigger serious consequences, he said at a news conference before the meeting.
We will be consulting closely with NATO allies and partners in the days ahead about whether there are other steps that we should take as an alliance to strengthen our defences, strengthen our resilience, strengthen our capacity, he added.
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HIV and STD Testing and Treatment
In 2016, there were 20,112 cases of Chlamydia, 7,157 cases of Gonorrhea, and 326 cases of Syphilis in Mississippi. In fact, Mississippi has the highest rate of Gonorrhea in the United States and is third highest in chlamydia cases. One out of every 85 persons in Mississippi will contract HIV in their lifetime. Mississippi is #2 in the country for AIDS diagnosis, meaning that people are not getting tested for HIV until they have AIDs. Bolivar, Sunflower, and Washington counties all have higher rates of HIV than the state’s rate. Delta Health Center provides STD and HIV testing and has providers that are trained to provide and manage the care and treatment for people with HIV. Financial assistance is available for uninsured and underinsured patients.
Delta Health Center has a Ryan White Part B contract with the Mississippi State Department of Health and provides HIV Care and Treatment, Medical Case Management, Oral Health Care, Behavioral Health Care, and transportation assistance to people living with HIV. HIV medication is provided through the Ryan White ADAP program to individuals with no third party payor source. Financial assistance is available to individuals who have a third party payor source but need additional assistance paying for HIV medications.
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Iraqi police said a mortar attack killed one person and wounded four others near Karbala on December 12 as record numbers of Shi'ite pilgrims gathered in the shrine city for one of the largest annual religious gatherings in the world.
Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said on December 11 that more than 17 million pilgrims had come to Karbala for the Arbaeen commemoration.
Arbaeen, which falls on December 13 this year, marks the end of a 40-day mourning period for the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
Millions of pilgrims have come from neighboring Iran, a predominantly Shi'ite country. Iraq has reportedly waived the $40 visa fee for Iranian nationals.
The festival has been marred by deadly attacks in previous years.
This year's commemorations come with portions of Iraq under the control of militants from Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group that considers Shi'ites to be heretics and has made targeting the community one of its main objectives.
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One a month.
That translates to approximately every 30 days, a Black woman’s life ends in the United States because she was killed by a police officer. According to reports, four of those women were unarmed.
Those are the sobering numbers that Al Jazeera provides in their new documentary, The Lives of Black Women. A part of the channel’s Fault Line series, the 30-minute episode is available online beginning today (October 18). It examines the stories of women whose names do not make the headlines, although they were victims of police brutality. It also attempts to answer why the national—and global—conversation on American police brutality against Black communities largely focuses on men.
“At best [Black women are] taken for granted, at worst we’re abused,”says Page May, a teacher and member of the Chicago-based nonprofit Assata’s Daughters who appears in the doc. “And we see the manifestation of that in the mainstream, in the erasure of our deaths, our suffering, and of our resistance.”
This erasure was the impetus for the #SayHerName movement, created in 2015 by Columbia Law Professor Kimberlee Crenshaw, a leading authority on how law and society are shaped by race and gender. The movement is working to bring an increase in “calls for attention to police violence against Black women by offering a resource to help ensure that Black women’s stories are integrated into demands for justice, policy responses to police violence, and media representations of victims of police brutality.”
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College graduates have a lot to worry about: where to work, where to live, how much money they will make, and so on. But thanks to a recent national study, UT grads can sleep a little more soundly knowing that their educational investment will more than likely pay off.
Professors at the University of Texas at Dallas, University of Tulsa, and Cornell University studied the wages of students who attended college in Texas between 1996 and 2002 to estimate the effect of college quality on the distribution of earnings.
Looking at four sets of schools (The University of Texas, Texas A&M, the rest of the state’s non-flagship colleges, and its community colleges), the study found that Longhorns and Aggies earned more than their peers who went to other Texas schools.
With major, grades, and other variables taken into account, the researchers also discovered that the typical A&M student often made more than the typical UT student. However, the most exceptional UT students earned more than everybody.
“We saw that the returns at the very high end appear to be a lot higher for UT-Austin grads when compared to the graduates of non-flagship four-year public schools,” says Dr. Rodney Andrews, assistant professor of economics at UT-Dallas and co-author of the study.
This research gives a more complete snapshot than similar studies that usually focus on elite, private institutions. It also justifies the cost of attending one of Texas’ public schools, such as UT-Austin, Andrews says.
“We look at a set of colleges that the normal student is likely to attend,” Andrews says. “We certainly provide evidence that the returns to finishing at Texas’ public institutions can be extremely large and a really good investment.”
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|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|56693||2014||6 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||محاسبه نشده|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Renewable Energy, Volume 62, February 2014, Pages 484–489
Domain ontologies are important information sources for knowledge-based systems. Yet, building domain ontologies from scratch is known to be a very labor-intensive process. In this study, we present our semi-automatic approach to building an ontology for the domain of wind energy which is an important type of renewable energy with a growing share in electricity generation all over the world. Related Wikipedia articles are first processed in an automated manner to determine the basic concepts of the domain together with their properties and next the concepts, properties, and relationships are organized to arrive at the ultimate ontology. We also provide pointers to other engineering ontologies which could be utilized together with the proposed wind energy ontology in addition to its prospective application areas. The current study is significant as, to the best of our knowledge, it proposes the first considerably wide-coverage ontology for the wind energy domain and the ontology is built through a semi-automatic process which makes use of the related Web resources, thereby reducing the overall cost of the ontology building process. | <urn:uuid:2ab14e7d-e115-4f4e-a4b8-c5c949c5b352> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/56693 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00349-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.770611 | 477 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I heard from my landlord this morning, passing along information that the City of Riverdale code enforcement people are now saying that I need to have a small fire extinguisher in the kitchen because of the increase in the number of fires in Prince George’s County over the last few years.
There are several things that bother me about this:
- It was hard enough scheduling the inspection (for this Friday), now I have to dig up a fire extinguisher!
- I’m somewhat skeptical that actually having a fire extinguisher in the kitchen dramatically reduces the number of fires that people have in their homes. For one thing, not all fires start in the kitchen. For another, not all people who have fire extinguishers have the knowledge or forethought to use them.
- One would assume that for a fire to start in the kitchen, there would need to be some source for the fire, for instance, an oven or toaster left on. Since I use neither over nor toaster, that leaves spontaneous combustion–and for that, I am willing to take my chances.
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I will chose C becaue of word gods in both A and B. Atheism is the acceptance of knowledge and rejection of beliefs.
Difference between Knowledge and belief lies in method of determining truth of a concept. Scientific method we use today requires testing and proof before accepting any thing true. Belief usually refers to thing accepted true without need of any proof, testing or use of logic.
So I may chose C by saying
Atheism is use of scientific method.
Amer, I like your kind of atheism. That's the kind I am.
I like to call myself a Scientific Realist. I just had the thought that perhaps a "Scientific Atheist" would be a good title also.
If it ain't the Oxford, it ain't it.
Atheism is disbelief in the existence of a god or gods.
Disbelief is the refusal or reluctance to believe. That does not characterize Atheism as I see it. It is also not necessarily the belief that there are no gods. My vote is for C
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god or gods.
This is very different from the refusal to believe or the belief that gods do not exist. Hard Atheism, however, would be the belief that gods do not exist. So that can certainly be within what we define as Atheism. The refusal to believe could also be valid for some gods. IE, the only gods worth believing in are those for which there is a benefit for belief. That is, the gods I should believe in are those which will reward my belief. However, any god which requires belief and worship for me to receive their gifts are not worthy of my praise and therefore I will not worship them, nor will I believe in them because they are a contradiction in terms. This is a more complex statement, but generally so speaking, belief is compelled by the evidence. I WANTED desperately to believe in god... but I could not. It just didn't add up and no matter how much I tried to lie to myself, I just couldn't convince myself of the truth of god's existence.
I am forced to answer:
“None of the above”
Well, because the concept of god lies outside the realm of “belief”.
Belief resides within and relates to the empirical world.
For example: when you drop a brick, you move your toes.
Why? Well, because you “believe” that if you don’t, the result will be painful.
The concept of god, on the other hand, resides within the realm of faith.
One has faith in the existence of god(s).
One has belief in the existence of gravity, the substance of the brick, and, no doubt from past experience the existence or the potential for pain.
There is a profound difference between faith and belief.
To ignore the function of faith in these sorts of “studies” is to ignore the essence of theism and, ergo, atheism.
So, really, the one question we should “please answer”
A. the absence of faith in the existence of gods
B. other (explain)
If you want “hard data” ask the right question.
C. rejection of belief in the existence of deities.
A. "disbelief" not strong enough.
B. stated in the passive voice
C. "rejection" stated in the active voice.
Use of such words as absence, disbelief, lack of, and without all imply a shortcoming, a failure, a deficiency, anemia.
I'de say B.
I read a heaven scene some years ago in which a person going to heavens found big statues placed at different places in a big ground and people gathering arround each statue. Statues were changing their shapes regularly. On asking the person found
"Those statues were gods worshiped at different places on earth and the reason behind their ever changing shapes was that their shape in heavens altered in accordance to change in beliefs of their worshipers on earth".
I got two things from the story. First god did not create human but it was human brain which created gods. Second it was believers thinking which determined the shape of the concept. In refrence to the story it was intresting for me to know what people thought of their atheism. Its a pleasure to know that Atheism is much more than just rejection of gods. It is mode of thinking in a logical and scientific way.
Atheism is simply a subset of rationalism. I believe in things for which there is empirical evidence to support.
There is no evidence to support the existence of a god or gods, so I am called atheist. There is no evidence to support the existence of the supernatural, alien visitations, ghosts, big foot ..... so I am a..... those things as well.
I find it alarming we actually have a word to describe the non-belief in invisible god or gods. Is that particular rational stance any different than non belief in sasquach or Santa Clause?
The word atheism is just another example where religion has been given special consideration in society. A rationalist does not believe in any of those superstitious nonsenses. Calling ourselves atheists gives the religious more power than they deserve. How about rationalist? It covers god as well as Santa, Micky Mouse, and Big Foot, and makes no special pleading for a god.
Bob, I like your post. As the years go by, I'm coming to dislike calling myself an atheist. Rationalist is good, but lately, I'm thinking I prefer to be called a scientist.
I'm leaning towards calling myself a scientist because I think more people understand the meaning of that word.
If I call myself a rationalist to a religious person, they will most likely say they are rational also, but they probably will not say they are a scientist. They may say they are scientific, but I can counter that more easily than if they use the word rational. For one thing, most scientists are not religious. | <urn:uuid:bdccc4e4-610a-4827-88b8-e50d2a8415b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/conducting-a-simple-atheist-study-need-un-minuto-of-your-time?commentId=2182797%3AComment%3A2147903 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00489-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96469 | 1,264 | 2.484375 | 2 |
"It is trust, and nothing but trust, that must bring us to Love… Fear brings us only to justice."
-From a Letter to Celine Martin on September 17, 1896
On September 17, 1896, St. Therese wrote this in a letter to her sister, Celine. In the letter St. Therese stressed that only complete, utter, child-like trust in the Lord brings us into his brilliant presence and makes is one with him. Fear, judgement, earning salvation through deeds is pointless. We will never, ever ‘earn’ worthiness or salvation.
St. Therese believed that once we accept our meekness and put trust in the Lord we will be ‘victims of His love.’ St. Therese believed that God’s love flowed through her, and even though she did not live an outwardly extraordinary life, her spiritual life was filled with many graces and deep thought given to her by our God.
Always remember that through our confidence and child-like trust, you will come to know Him and His love. This is the cornerstone of St. Therese’s “little way.”
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In addition to teaching thousands of drummers around the world on a weekly basis, I also love studying the practice habits of professionals. Not only professional musicians. Basketball players, musicians, chess players, martial artists…they all share some common themes when it comes to their practice habits. In my upcoming free live online drum lesson Deliberate Practice for Daily Growth, I will break apart how to begin to systematically implement the practice habits discussed here.
So what exactly is it that the pro’s do in their practice time that is so different? I have a list that is several pages long, but here are 4 of the practice habits that come up again and again.
1. They break it down and go slow
If there is one thing I find myself saying repeatedly to students, it’s this. You have to slow things down and break the concept you are working on down into small bite-sized pieces.
Kobe Bryant is known as one of the best basketball players of our time. Shaq wrote about Kobe in his book:
“You’d walk in there and he’d be cutting and grunting and motioning like he was dribbling and shooting — except there was no ball. I thought it was weird, but I’m pretty sure it helped him.”
Practicing without a ball??? But Kobe got it, and that’s why he is such a success. He broke the material down to its most basic form by removing the ball.
After you have broken the concept into smaller pieces, you work through the material at a painstakingly slow pace. To quote Sergeant Alvin York, who was a member of the “Lost Batallion” in World War 1 and led his platoon to capture 132 German POW’s, “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast”.
Itzhak Perlman, one of the pre-eminent violinists of our time (as well as a skilled conductor and pedagogue), has this to say about slow practice:
“If you practice something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you practice something fast, you forget it fast.”
Going slowly allows us to process the information, ingest it, and remember it. The speed comes quickly after you have mastered the initial movements. I stress this constantly with my students.
In his book “The Art of Learning”, Josh Waitzkin says this of one of his original chess teacher’s:
“Bruce slowed me down by asking questions. Whenever I made an important decision, good or bad, he would ask me to explain my thought process.”
2. They have an intense passion for the game
It almost goes without saying, the pros have an intense passion and love for whatever field they are in. Great coaches, teachers, and mentors know that this is an important component of any endeavor and strive to instill that in their pupils.
Some of my students joke with me, because before a lot of my lessons, I say “I love talking about _______”. I didn’t realize how much I said it until they pointed it out, but it’s true! I love every aspect of drumming in a very intense way. If I didn’t, I would quit and go do something else with my life. Life is too short to be miserable.
Here’s a quote from an NBA scout in 2008 about Kobe:
“Allen Iverson loves to play when the lights come on. Kobe loves doing the s— before the lights come on.”
In the same year, Sports Illustrated reported that Kobe will keep random players after practice so that he can try out new moves on them. Similar to what he did to bench warmers in high school. That’s crazy intense passion for the game!
Josh Waitzkin also points out in his book that his parents sheltered him in certain ways “…because they wanted my relationship to the game to be about learning and passion first, and competition a distant second.”
You have to be in this for the love of the game, and no other reason, for your practice time to be as productive as it should be.
3. They don’t practice what they already know
While I was in college, I had a pretty crazy practice schedule. It wasn’t uncommon for me to get in 6, 8, or 10 hours of practice a day. Then, I had ensemble rehearsals and gigs to do.
While I was practicing one day, I had one of the drummers from the percussion department stop in during a practice session. He had been listening outside the door and wanted to know what I was working on…because it sounded horrible!
I totally agreed with him. It sounded bad. Really bad.
It sounded bad, because it was something I couldn’t play. It was new material, uncharted territory. And it was beating me up like a heavyweight boxer!
Antonio Sanchez is one of the most musical and versatile drummers in the game today. In an interview on https://itsgoodpractice.wordpress.com, he had this to say about the topic:
“I can tell you what I used to do when I was practicing a lot. I used to work on my weaknesses and spend little time on the stuff I knew already.
Don’t waste time practicing stuff you already know. When one practices stuff that you haven’t mastered yet, it is natural to feel unaccomplished and uncomfortable but that feeling is an important step towards growth and mastery. It’s a matter of how you channel and harness that feeling that will make you develop and evolve.”
Josh Waitzkin (Chess world champion and Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands world champion) put it in even simpler terms:
“Whenever I noticed a weakness, I took it on.”
4. They take regular breaks and enjoy life
This one took me years to come to terms with. It’s very easy to take this to the extreme and take too many “breaks” in your practicing. That being said, across every professional field that I have studied, I have found the concept of taking consistent periods of rest from practice to be extremely common.
Here’s Antonio Sanchez on the concept of resting from practice:
“As of late not that many because I’m so much on the road. After many years of practicing I feel like I need to stop and step back and take a close look at my playing.
I feel like when you practice too much you regurgitate licks and patterns more than being in the moment. I think when you are a creative jazz musician you can actually practice TOO much. I felt like I had too much technique and hand reflex that would sometimes override the creative side of my playing. I feel like I have less chops than before but I’m way more musical and creative and mature and ‘in the moment’.”
Jascha Heifetz, who is widely referred to as one of the best violinists of modern times, is quoted in the book “Violin Mastery: Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers” as saying the following:
“I do not think I could ever have made any progress if I had practiced 6 hours a day. In the first place, I have never believed in practicing too much – it is just as bad as practicing too little!
I hardly ever practice more than 3 hours a day on an average, and besides, I keep my Sunday when I do not play at all, and sometimes I make an extra holiday. As to six or seven hours a day, I would not have been able to stand it at all.”
If you want to learn how to begin to integrate these concepts into your practice time on a daily basis, you don’t want to miss my upcoming free drum lesson. Deliberate Practice for Daily Growth will give you common sense steps to begin maximizing your practice time. If you apply them, you will begin to see progress in your playing on a daily basis. I promise.
Make a commitment to be a better drummer. Sign here up for this free live online drum lesson. Here are the details.
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The ‘Queen’ was the first turbine steamer to be built for the cross-Channel service. She was built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton and launched in April 1903. Built for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR), she entered service between Dover and Calais in June 1903. In 1907 she transferred to the Folkestone-Boulogne service. While operating on this route she was involved in a collision in thick fog with the ‘Onward’ which also belonged to the SECR. Damage to each ship was made worse by the respective anchors catching and tearing a large hole in the other’s side. During the early part of the First World War in 1914, the ‘Queen’ helped to evacuate refugees from Ostend. After this she became a troop transport, in common with other SECR vessels. On 26 October 1914, she rescued over 2,000 refugees from the French vessel ‘Amiral Ganteaume’, torpedoed whist bound from Calais to Le Harve. In September 1916 she towed the disabled troop transport ‘Queen Empress’, filled with troops, back to safety. Then, just one month later on 26 October, the ‘Queen’ herself was attacked by German destroyers, some miles off Folkestone, and sunk. | <urn:uuid:4b0cb265-a5f8-4f29-bbb9-d854c3791615> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/queen.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974537 | 271 | 2.96875 | 3 |
As a part of an ongoing effort to develop a “standard library” for scientific and engineering parallel applications, we have developed a preliminary finite element framework. This framework allows an application scientist interested in modeling structural properties of materials, including dynamic behavior such as crack propagation, to develop codes that embody their modeling techniques without having to pay attention to the parallelization process. The resultant code modularly separates parallel implementation techniques from numerical algorithms. As the framework builds upon an object-based load balancing framework, it allows the resultant applications to automatically adapt to load imbalances resulting from the application or the environment (e.g. timeshared clusters). This paper presents results from the first version of the framework, and demonstrates results on a crack propagation application. | <urn:uuid:eecf70fa-6fc4-4a73-8c0d-9869e7b808dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/a-parallel-framework-for-explicit-fem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.867413 | 150 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Power plant to convert landfill waste to energy
WA could be the first state in Australia to set up a power plant that will convert industrial and residential landfill waste to energy.
Perth-based company, New Energy Corporation, plans to build a $200 million facility in Rockingham if it is approved by the Environmental Protection Authority.
The plant would handle more than 130,000 tonnes of residential and industrial waste per year.
NEC's general manager Jason Pugh says that would generate enough energy to power 15,000 homes.
"Essentially we're going for waste that will otherwise always go to landfill," he said.
"So, we understand that recycling is the most important step in waste management and we're filling that void between recycling and landfilling."
Mr Pugh says emission levels would be far below the legal limit.
"Essentially, what we do is convert the waste into a gas and then we fire that natural gas to create electricity so the emissions from the plant are very, very similar to a gas-fired power station," he said.
"So, not only are we doing something better with the waste but we're recovering that lost energy as well."
The Sustainable Energy Association's Ray Wills has welcomed the proposal.
"I would have had a concern 30 years ago but we've got great technology now," he said.
"Technology that means that we really don't need to be worried about the emissions from a plant like this."
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Michael B. Jordan revealed that he needed to get therapy after playing the villain in "Black Panther" as it affected his mental health.
Actor, Michael B. Jordan opened up about the effect of playing the villain in "Black Panther" had on him. He specifically discussed the toll it took on his mental health.
Jordan, 31, revealed he eventually sought professional help after filming wrapped. He added that he needed to work through the negativity he gathered to help him in his role.
"I went to therapy, I started talking to people, starting unpacking a little bit,” he said.
Jordan went into detail about his process of getting into character during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She spoke to the star for the taping of her "SuperSoul Conversations" TV special.
“I was by myself, isolating myself," Jordan said when Winfrey asked where he went to "get all that nastiness" to play the Marvel supervillain. "I spent a lot of time alone. I figured Erik [Killmonger], his childhood growing up was pretty lonely. He didn't have a lot of people he could talk to about this place called Wakanda that didn't exist."
Jordan said he went to great lengths for his character because he wanted to do justice to the essence of Killmonger in the movie. He felt to truly be able to embrace the character he needed to feel as lonely as Killmonger would have felt growing up.
"Of course it's an extreme, exaggerated version of the African diaspora from the African-American perspective, so to be able to take that kind of pain and rage and all those emotions that Erik kind of represents from being black and brown here in America … that was something I didn't take lightly,” Jordan said.
Jordan went on to explain that he didn't have a process for being Killmonger. He allowed the moment to define and shape his reactions.
"I didn't have an escape plan, either," he also confessed.
"When it was all over, I think just being in that kind of mind state … it caught up with me," Jordan said. "It was a little tough for me at first. Readjusting to people caring about me, getting that love that I shut out. I shut out love, I didn't want love. I wanted to be in this lonely place as long as I could."
When filming finished, Jordan admitted he found it difficult to go back to reality and be himself. He said that seeing a therapist "helped me out a lot."
“Your mind is so powerful. Your mind will get your body past a threshold that it would have given up on way before,” Jordan said. “Honestly, therapy, just talking to somebody just helped me out a lot. As a man you get a lot of slack for it. … I don’t really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk.”
His sacrifices, and those made by his co-stars, definitely paid off. The film snagged many awards including the top prize at SAG Awards.
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SOURCES: Patricia Folan, DNP, director, Center for Tobacco Control, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Great Neck, N.Y.; Thomas Carr, director, national policy, American Lung Association; Cliff Douglas, American Cancer Society vice president for Tobacco Control, and director of the American Cancer Society's Tobacco Control Center; Sept. 1, 2015, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Health Interview Survey
TUESDAY, Sept. 1, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. smoking rate continues to decline, with just over 15 percent of adults reporting they're current smokers, a new government survey reveals.
That's down from nearly 17 percent in 2014 and almost 18 percent in 2013. The falloff reflects a continued decline that started in 2010 after a decade of no progress against smoking, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
Higher tobacco taxes, tough anti-smoking messages and smoke-free laws that ban smoking from indoor and outdoor areas appear to be dissuading even hard-core, heavily addicted smokers from continuing the habit, said Patricia Folan, director of the Center for Tobacco Control at North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y.
"I hear from smokers all the time, 'When I can't smoke here, I can't smoke there, when people see me smoke they look at me like I'm a pariah -- it makes me want to not smoke anymore,' " said Folan, who applauded the continued decline of smoking in America.
The new data comes from the CDC's 2015 National Health Interview Survey, an annual survey that tracks a variety of public health issues.
The smoking rate has fallen dramatically since 1965, when 42 percent of adults smoked, the CDC said.
But between 2004 and 2009, progress stalled, and the U.S. smoking rate hovered around 20 percent. Anti-smoking activists wondered if there would be no way to convince the remaining diehard smokers to quit tobacco.
These [new] numbers show that America's current anti-smoking strategy works, and that we need to do "more of the same," said Thomas Carr, director of national policy for the American Lung Association.
Carr cited smoke-free laws as one innovation that's made a real difference. But he added that only one state -- North Dakota -- has passed a comprehensive smoke-free law within the last five years. There still are 22 states that haven't passed any limitations on where a person can smoke, he said.
"It could have an impact on the smoking rate, and definitely would protect more people from secondhand smoke," Carr said.
Carr and Folan also cited anti-smoking ads that feature smokers talking about the toll the habit has taken on their lives and their health.
"Smokers find them so painful to watch that they keep changing the channel, but these ads are running everywhere," Folan said. She's heard from smokers that these spots have motivated them to quit and to resist the temptation to resume.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's push to begin regulating other smoking products, such as cigars, hookahs and e-cigarettes, could also help further reduce the smoking rate, Carr added.
"That's something the Obama Administration needs to move on," Carr said.
Experts don't know whether e-cigarettes have played a role in the reduction of the smoking rate, as there haven't been enough studies conducted to assess their impact, Carr and Folan said.
"We haven't seen the evidence of that yet," Carr said. "Up to 75 percent of the users are dual users. They use e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes at the same time. That's not reducing your risk at all."
Who continues to smoke? More men smoke than women -- 17 percent compared with 13 percent, the CDC reported.
Race also plays a factor, with more blacks (18 percent) smoking than whites (17 percent) or Hispanics (10 percent).
Folan believes that future anti-smoking efforts will need to be more targeted. For example, people without a high school diploma, people with low income, and those struggling with mental health issues or substance abuse are all groups that have proven resistant to the anti-smoking groundswell.
Cliff Douglas, American Cancer Society vice president for Tobacco Control and director of the American Cancer Society's Tobacco Control Center, said the new numbers are "encouragingly consistent with the decrease we've seen since 2009, especially following the stagnation of the mid-2000s."
Douglas said the differences in smoking between men and women and between the races "highlight the importance of something that's crucial to us -- addressing disparities in the tobacco epidemic."
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This EP is a collection of instrumentals, poems, and rhymes, which reflect my thoughts and feelings at the current time. The most accurate description of this record would be that it is a representation of the struggle (in a lighter sense of the word) to express that which is aestically pleasing but also a work which contains moral character. Style and substance, so to speak.
"Beneath the Sun" is a short poem on the inter-relation of all that is. The instrumental, "Fly Handle", follows that with a similar message - one of understanding and the urge for dialouge amongst ourselves. "Forward Progress", takes the listener on a story to observe rapping as what it truely is - an evolution in rhythmic word, beginning with West African griots, who were historians, storytellers, and musicians by birth. "Jungle Gym", takes a more "convential" approach to emceeing, employing a forward thought process - style and substance.
"People's Chant" is a childrens sing/song rhyme about fostering community strength:
Sing a simple song like do-rae-me
let the people sound out, One - Two - Three
spend a little dough in the Black community,
now we've got a good lesson, let's all get free
>It also then speaks to the right to determine ones own destiny:
Who dare come along and want to change our song
let the drums sound off - Bong, Bong, Bong
gather up the queens and round up the kings
we alone write the words to the songs we sing
I hope you can enjoy.
released February 4, 2014
Written, Arranged, & Performed By Bruce Geter-Richards
Recorded at Imgone Studios
Additional Recording by Bruce Geter-Richards @ The Live Spot
Mixed by Bruce Geter-Richards
Cover collage by Bruce Geter-Richards
Inspired by My People.
all rights reserved
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A physical law, scientific law, or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. Empirical laws are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments over many years, and which have become accepted universally within the scientific community. The production of a summary description of nature in the form of such laws is a fundamental aim of science.
Laws of nature are distinct from the law, either religious or civil, and should not be confused with the concept of natural law. Nor should 'physical law' be confused with 'law of physics' - the term 'physical law' usually covers laws in other sciences (e.g. biology) as well.
Origin of laws of nature[change | change source]
Some extremely important laws are simply definitions. For example, the central law of mechanics F = dp/dt (Newton's second "law" of mechanics) is often treated as a mathematical definition of force. Although the concept of force predates Newton's law, there was no mathematical definition of force before Newton. The principle of least action (or principle of stationary action), Schroedinger equation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, causality and a few other laws also fall into this category (of mathematical definitions).
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- Barrow, John (1991). Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanations. (ISBN 0-449-90738-4)
- Davies, Paul (1992). The Mind of God (ISBN 0-671-79718-2)
- Feynman, Richard (1965). The Character of Physical Law (ISBN 0-679-60127-9)
- Hans Wehrli: Metaphysik - Chiralität als Grundprinzip der Physik, 2006, ISBN 3-033-00791-0
- Francis Bacon "Novum Organum"
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OFFEND IN TAGALOG – This article will teach you what the word “offend” is in the Tagalog translation and its meaning.
Table of contents
- What is the meaning of Offend in English?
- What is Offend in Tagalog?
- Offend meaning In Tagalog (Masaktan)
- Example Sentences of Offend in English
- Example Sentences of Offend in Tagalog (Masaktan)
- For More English and Tagalog Translations
There are a couple of words in the Filipino language that could be translated into “offend.” However, the use of these words depends on the context of the sentence. Therefore, be mindful of what you write.
What is the meaning of Offend in English?
The word “offend” means to break the law and to make someone upset or hurt their feelings, especially by being rude or not showing respect or by something you do or say.
What are the Synonyms of Offend?
Here are some synonyms of “offend”
What is Offend in Tagalog?
|Offend||Saktan or saktan ang damdamin|
The Tagalog word for “offend” is translated as “masaktan” or “saktan or saktan ang damdamin.”
Offend meaning In Tagalog (Masaktan)
Ang masaktan ay tumutukoy pagkiramdam ng hindi maganda o sama ng loob dulot ng sinabe o ginawa ng isang tao.
Offend Synonyms in Tagalog
Here are some synonyms for “masaktan”
- Bigyan ng sama ng loob
- Sumugat ng Damdamin
Example Sentences of Offend in English
Here are some example sentences of offend in English.
|Sentences of offend in English|
|He offended many of us.|
|I didn’t mean to offend you.|
|I didn’t mean to offend her.|
|We are just kidding, not to offend you.|
|Think before you speak; you might offend her.|
Example Sentences of Offend in Tagalog (Masaktan)
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Here are some example sentences of offend in Filipino (Masaktan)
- Sinaktan niya ang marami sa atin.
- Hindi ko sinasadyang masaktan ka.
- Hindi ko sinasadyang masaktan siya.
- Nagbibiro lang kami, hindi para saktan ka.
- Mag-isip ka muna bago ka magsalita; baka masaktan mo siya.
The word “offend” means to break the law and to make someone upset or hurt their feelings
Masaktan or Saktan or Saktan ang damdamin
Ang masaktan ay tumutukoy pakiramdam ng hindi maganda o sama ng loob dulot ng sinabe o ginawa ng isang tao.
For More English and Tagalog Translations
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