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Developing a Cross-Curriculum Multicultural K-6 Art Program: Linking Language with Art
This paper presents both teacher and student reflections relating to activities undertaken during the developmental stages of a Cross-Curriculum Multicultural K-6 Art Program. The Art Program, developed in association with the Quality Teaching Framework, has been designed to engage student learning and promote creativity. Throughout the duration of the program students were encouraged to create individual and unique artworks enabling them to reflect on values and attitudes towards language and culture. Students developed deep knowledge about art appreciation and the processes required to create quality art pieces. In addition, students demonstrated a growing awareness and appreciation of language and cultural identity through the learning experiences presented. The Art Program implements elements of the Quality Teaching Framework, the Italian K 6 Syllabus, the Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus and the Professional Standards for accomplished teaching of languages and cultures. Essentially, the aim of the Art Program has been to provide students with meaningful and authentic learning opportunities designed to enhance linguistic, cultural and artistic awareness.
Keywords: Reflections, Student Engagement, Artistic Awareness, Quality Teaching, Language and Culture, Multicultural Art
Penelope Rae Johnstone
Italian Language Teacher, Language Division, Oatley Public School
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Weeks of wet weather have increased the chances that wheat disease will affect yield, plant pathologists with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture said Monday.
“We were looking at a light to moderate disease year until about two weeks ago,” said Scott Monfort assistant professor-extension plant pathologist based at the Rice Research and Extension Center at Stuttgart, Ark.
“The extensive rain events have pushed diseases like Septoria leaf blotch, powdery mildew, and Fusarium head blight, also known as wheat scab, typically minor problems, to be major.”
Monfort said the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture is not encouraging growers to apply fungicide for these problems beyond the flowering stage, due to label restrictions.
Gene Milus, Division of Agriculture plant pathologist based at Fayetteville, Ark., said there was little growers could do to prevent head blight.
“The only way to have prevented head blight would have been to not plant any wheat,” he said. “All current wheat varieties are more or less susceptible, and the Fusarium fungi that cause head blight are ubiquitous.
“The absence of long periods of rainy weather after heading stage is the only thing that limits head blight during most years,” he said.
Division personnel will be surveying grower fields in the coming week to determine the incidence of Fusarium head blight and how much of the crop has been affected across the state. What they’ve found so far is that fields in the Arkansas River Valley and the Delta were showing scab from less than 1 percent to 20 percent of the wheat heads as of two weeks ago.
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In 1850, Isaac Merritt Singer examined the sewing machines manufactured by Orson C. Phelps and saw opportunity. Singer found the design of Phelps' machine to be impractical, and he wanted to make something that could be used by all. Singer's new machine was revolutionary in that it was powered by a treadle instead of a hand crank. The first electric Singer sewing machine entered the market in 1889, but the treadle machine design endured. If you find one today, you can restore it for its value as an antique or for actual use.
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Examine the belt on the antique Singer treadle sewing machine. Unless the machine has been well taken care of, the belt will probably be cracked and in no condition to be used. Carefully remove it. Bring the belt with you to a shop that specialises in servicing old machines for help in finding the right belt for your machine. Alternatively, use the serial number on the machine to find the right replacement belt. The Singer company maintains a parts library online.
Apply plenty of oil to all of the moving parts. Apply oil to the gears, the wheels and any place you can reach. Dab any excess oil with a cloth. Check the action by running the treadle to see if the action is smooth. If not, add more oil.
Restore the case. If you have the Singer treadle sewing machine as a collector's item, then restoration should be mild, such as repairing any structural damage, cleaning it gently and applying tung oil. Otherwise, you run the risk of removing the patina that gives antiques character, notes Michael Flanigan, an appraiser who has appeared on the PBS series "Antiques Roadshow." If you are interested in using the machine, you can finish it in the manner you like.
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Each image is a mosaic of dissected 35mm and 120mm black & white, color, and slide film either taken by me or discarded by others. The film is cut apart and reassembled piece by piece over a light table into a large-format negative (see video). This negative is then enlarged in a color darkroom, bringing all the little details into focus.
This work explores the way in which each person's unique experience and perception shapes their view of reality. Individually, each piece of film is a self-contained experience: a unique time and place. Together, they create a larger context, where each piece fills a niche, shaped by and giving shape to the whole.
- Collapse (2012) video
- Persistence (2011) video
- Double (2010) video
- Niche (2009) video
- Lens Series
- Series 2 (2007)
- Series 1 (2006)
- Figure/Tree Diptych (2006)
- Early Experiments
I collect photographic film: 35mm, 120mm, color, black and white, negatives and slides. Some of them are exposures that I have created. The rest are found or donated by others.
The film is cut apart over a light table and reassembled between two panes of glass into a larger negative which can then be enlarged or contact printed in a traditional color darkroom.
Each piece of exposed film is a different time; a different place in a different light; a different present moment captured by a different eye.
Those pieces that come from film exposed by myself are linked to specific experiences in my mind. Each has associations to a moment in my life: the moment when i decided to pull the camera up to my eye and release the shutter. Each is a conscious choice: a perceived event, object, or environment that I felt was significant enough to hold on to. They are subjective, decided upon based on my aesthetic: the choices and attractions I have, which have developed since I was born, shaped by my unique path of experiences.
Those pieces that come from others are treated a bit differently. Because I am often unaware of their exact context, my mind can only compare them to events that I myself have experienced. In an effort to understand, I imagine the specifics of their situation. Without a connection to their creation, their meaning becomes generalized, and their placement in the overall image is thusly affected.
To an outside viewer, the context of every piece of negative is unknown. Without a specific connection to the experiences, viewers can make assumptions about their source, based on their own experiences.
This is the subjectivity of our mental experience, and it is the basis for all that we believe.
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Little Moments Where Knowledge Meets Art
Talk about your intersectionality… The recent buzzword—which refers to the interconnected nature of such social categorizations as race, class, and gender and their related systems of discrimination or disadvantage—has undoubtedly increased in popularity during the 21st century. But, that said, few real-life scenarios speak to the concept of intersectionality as compellingly as the extraordinary 19th century case of William and Ellen Craft.
On December 21, 1848, Ellen and William, an enslaved married couple from Macon, Georgia, got written permission from their masters as “favored slaves” for several days of Christmas leave. Such favoritism was not unusual given the darker William’s exceptional skills as a cabinetmaker and his light-complected wife’s status as the daughter of the plantation owner and his enslaved mistress. However, this leave, as far as the enslaved couple was concerned, would be permanent.
In preparation for their escape, the savvy William concocted an outrageous plan where he cut his wife’s hair to neck length while Ellen sewed a pair of men’s trousers and donned them along with a pair of green spectacles and a top hat. Further embellishing her on-the-spot transition, Ellen wrapped bandages around much of her face to hide her smooth skin and put her right arm in a sling to avoid having to sign any papers required at hotels or other establishments. By the time they set out on their bold and bizarre journey north, Ellen had transformed into a white male cotton planter traveling with his enslaved servant, William.
For four days, despite some hairy moments where their true identities were almost revealed, the brave couple—who, as favored property, had been allowed to save some earnings while enslaved—traveled first-class on trains, stayed in the best hotels, and even dined with a steamboat captain. On Christmas morning in 1848, William and Ellen Craft successfully reached Philadelphia and freedom by way of one of the most ingenious escapes from slavery in American history.
But the story doesn’t end there. In 1850, the Crafts abandoned their Boston residence and fled to England after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act enabled southern plantation owners to reclaim their escaped property from the North. A decade later, while living in London, the Crafts chronicled their bold escape in the book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. Then, in the 1870s, the two would return to the US and, despite harassment by the Ku Klux Klan, establish a school in Georgia for the formerly enslaved.
In tribute to the Crafts and their bold rebellion against American slavery, SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia has produced the documentary, A Thousand Miles and Counting, which recounts their daring escape through the mouths of the couple’s current-day descendants. In an historical irony, the Craft’s escape route passed through the Central of Georgia Railway depot, the same location where the SCAD Museum of Art stands today with its lobby adorned by a commemorative medallion honoring the 19th century couple.
Join SCAD and Commemorate a liberatory journey at ‘A Thousand Miles and Counting’ film screening and talk. The event is on Monday, November 15th, at 5:30pm at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Click here for more information.
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Stephanie Robinson, Esq. is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, a national media figure, author, former Chief Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and former President and CEO of The Jamestown Project, a national think tank focusing on democracy. Ms. Robinson hosted her own national radio show, Roundtable with Stephanie Robinson, a popular weekly 30-minute, talk-radio program focused on culture, politics, and relationships that aired on TSN. For over half a decade, Ms. Robinson was Political and Social Commentator for the Tom Joyner Morning Show where she spoke to between 9 and 10 million people weekly, offering her perspective on the day’s most pressing social and political issues.
Robinson is co-author of Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise, (Atria Books, 2009). She is a nationally recognized expert on issues relating to social policy, women, race, family, and electoral politics. She was featured as one of the 30 Young Leaders of the Future in Ebony Magazine and was profiled in the book As I Am: Young African American Women in a Critical Age, by Julian Okwu. Robinson is a frequent speaker expressing her views in countless media outlets including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, C-Span, Fox News, NewsOne and NPR.
Stephanie was a Member of President Clinton’s first Mission to Africa regarding children orphaned by AIDS. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland and the Harvard Law School, is a native of Steubenville, Ohio. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.
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ASK & Prevent Suicide
By Mental Health America of Texas
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Are you in crisis? Are you feeling desperate, alone or hopeless? Are you afraid that a loved one may be in danger? You are not alone.
- Suicide Warning Signs
- How to Ask
- Texas Local Hotlines
This suicide prevention information was collected by Mental Health America of Texas, under the Texas Youth Suicide Prevention Project, funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services and SAMHSA. This application was developed [in part] under a grant number SM059174 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.
What's New in Version 3.1
This update includes:
-Updated addresses, phone numbers, websites, and map locations.
-Now includes links to crisis lines for individual crisis centers throughout Texas.
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I thought I recalled being about to find quickly information on warning signs, how to ask someone about suicidal thoughts, etc but no more. I swipe on Warning Signs and it keeps going back to the main menu. Not helpful in a crisis situation!
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Lemon Juice Fruit Benefits for Face - As a continuation of the previous article about the "benefits of lemon juice for hair", now we will make the article about the "benefits of lemon juice for face". lemon juice not just a cooking ingredient that is often used in the kitchen housewife. Or we might just think that lemon is useful to eliminate the fishy smell of fish, especially freshwater fish.
Benefits of lemon juice to advance further proved by research that revealed that lemon juice contains a lot of Vitamin C, did you know that vitamin in lemon juice more than the others. The content of vitamin C in orange juice is believed to make the face a fresh, bright and natural white.
So, if you have problems with your skin begin to wrinkle, or begin to enlarge the pores, please use the lime method to tighten your skin.
Lemon Juice Fruit Benefits for Face
- Prepare the fresh lime juice, and split into two parts
- lemon and rub it on the face with uneven surfaces, you can also take the lemon juice with the help of cotton, then apply to face.
- Then wait, let stand until 10-15 minutes
- Rinse with clean water, feel what happens :)
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President Barack Obama urged calm, calling on Pyongyang to end its saber-rattling while sternly warning that he would "take all necessary steps" to protect American citizens.
The new American intelligence analysis, disclosed Thursday at a hearing on Capitol Hill, says the Pentagon's intelligence wing has "moderate confidence" that North Korea has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles but that the weapon was unreliable.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., read aloud what he said was an unclassified paragraph from a secret Defense Intelligence Agency report that was supplied to some members of Congress. The reading seemed to take Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by surprise, who said he hadn't seen the report and declined to answer questions about it.
In a statement late Thursday, Pentagon press secretary George Little said: "While I cannot speak to all the details of a report that is classified in its entirety, it would be inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully tested, developed or demonstrated the kinds of nuclear capabilities referenced" in Lamborn's remarks.
'"The United States continues to closely monitor the North Korean nuclear program and calls upon North Korea to honor its international obligations," Little added.
The DIA conclusion was confirmed by a senior congressional aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not officially released the contents. The aide said the report was produced in March.
Since the beginning of March, the Navy has moved two missile defense ships closer to the coast of the Korean peninsula, in part to protect against a potential missile launch aimed at Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. The Pentagon also has announced it will place a more advanced land-based missile defense on Guam, and Hagel said in March that he approved installing 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska to bolster a portion of the missile defense network that is designed to protect all of U.S. territory.
On Thursday, the Pentagon said it had moved a sea-based X-band radar -- designed to track warheads in flight -- into position in the Pacific.
Notably absent from that unclassified segment of the report was any reference to what the DIA believes is the range of a missile North Korea could arm with a nuclear warhead. Much of its missile arsenal is capable of reaching South Korea and Japan, but Kim has threatened to attack the United States as well.
David Wright, a nuclear weapons expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the DIA assessment probably does not change the views of those who closely follow developments in North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
"People are starting to believe North Korea very likely has the capability to build a nuclear weapon small enough to put on some of their shorter-range missiles," Wright said. "Once you start talking about warheads small enough and technically capable to be on a long-range missile, I think it's much more an open question." | <urn:uuid:1625075d-51f0-43dd-bfbb-95bd75b869a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dailycamera.com/nation-world-news/ci_23008114/entertainment/classicalmusic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00087-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973529 | 596 | 1.601563 | 2 |
‘This school is a model of cultural resilience in the face of adversity,’ said Gabriele Schwab, a professor of comparative literature and a member of UC Irvine’s department of Anthropology, to a crowd of over 100 students, faculty, and community members on May 30.
Schwab served as the keynote speaker for the opening of a UC Irvine library exhibit titled, ‘The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America,’ an event aimed at promoting civil dissent and cultural resilience.
Schwab spoke as a last-minute replacement for the original speaker, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a professor of English and comparative literature.
Thiong’o could not make the event because he was delayed in Africa while attending the trial of a group of men accused of attacking him and his wife (who is the director of faculty welfare at UCI) two years ago in response to his work on dissent and freedom of speech.
Schwab, at the beginning of her speech, implored the audience to ‘take [her] words as an act of solidarity with [Thiong’o],’ and said that the message she would be conveying was ‘in his spirit.’
According to Schwab, the act of violence toward Thiong’o and his family and their difficult decision to prosecute at the expense of their own safety, is directly related to the purpose of the event itself.
Thiong’o and Schwab both believe in the act of voiced dissension as a human responsibility. Thiong’o’s attendance at the trial in Africa was ‘part of the larger trial of human rights,’ according to Schwab.
The opening event of the exhibit encouraged the audience to consider the importance of practicing dissent in a ‘world at war’ and also to reflect on one’s own First Amendment rights as an American.
‘Freedom of speech is the bedrock foundation of this university,’ said Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez, who also spoke at the event.
The occasion was also used as a venue for Gomez to speak about UCI as an ’embodiment of the precious, ever-vigilant freedom that we have,’ referring to the recent surge of student activism on campus.
Gomez also announced the first ever UCI Dalai Lama Scholarship. In recognition of the Dalai Lama’s visit last year, and the result of a generous donation of $100,000 from an anonymous group, two students will receive $10,000 each in scholarship funds in what the vice chancellor hopes will become an annual scholarship.
The exhibit, located inside the library, ‘examines issues of war, peace, dissent and dialogue during critical periods in the 20th century when free speech and civil liberties were threatened.’ The exhibit is divided into sections that explore McCarthyism during the Cold War, conscientious objectors during World War II, the Japanese-American internment during World War II and protests during the Vietnam War, some of which occurred at UCI.
‘This event serves to remind us of the mission and values of libraries, which is to support and facilitate the work of faculty and students to share knowledge,’ said Gerald Munoff, the university librarian, who opened the event.
The exhibit was co-sponsored by UCI Difficult Dialogues, which is a Ford Foundation-funded project that supports civil discourse on controversial issues taking place at universities. UCI beat out a plethora of other top-notch universities to receive a $127,000 grant to put on programs such as these.
‘It was surprising to see the number of students present,’ said Steve MacLeod, one of the librarians who coordinated the event. ‘The event is not so much meant to encourage anything, but rather to cause people to reflect.’
Schwab’s closing statement was directed to Thiong’o: ‘It is our voices of dissent that will shape the future of this country for us, our children, and our grandchildren.’
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This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
CDC looks to put "teeth" in antibiotic stewardship policies by partnering with CMS
January 12th, 2015
In a move that underscores the emerging partnership between two leading federal agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is crafting antibiotic stewardship guidelines with an eye toward future enforcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The groundwork for such a plan was discussed Nov. 6 in Atlanta at a meeting of the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
With the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, stewardship programs to carefully monitor drug use have risen as a high public health priority. The overuse and misuse of antibiotics in hospitals -- and really across the health care spectrum -- creates selective pressure for more resistant bacterial strains to emerge. With few new antibiotics forecast for the foreseeable future, it has become paramount to preserve the dwindling efficacy of those that remain.
However, CDC officials at the HICPAC meeting said their various guidelines and statements touch on the issue, but fall short of a definitive document on creating an antibiotic stewardship program. Though HICPAC is not expected to formally sign off on the guidelines and open its typically extensive review process, the CDC sought committee input on the idea of creating a how-to guideline that would serve the dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of antibiotic stewardship across the health care continuum.
There was immediate consensus that mere recommendations to adopt stewardship programs would have little effect, with HICPAC members advising the CDC that if this is really a national priority the guidelines should have some “teeth.” It then became clear that the CDC is already in discussion on the issue with CMS, which is increasingly seen as a way to codify traditional voluntary guidelines with pay for performance incentives.
With regard to stewardship, a recent CDC report on the challenge of drug-resistant pathogens concluded that “perhaps the single most important action needed to greatly slow down the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant infections is to change the way antibiotics are used. Up to half of antibiotic use in humans and much of antibiotic use in animals is unnecessary and inappropriate.”
Two major infectious disease groups -- the IDSA and SHEA -- have previously called for a CMS regulation aligning appropriate antibiotic use with financial incentives. Along with the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, they issued a position paper calling for the CMS to require the creation of a multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship teams in hospitals and other health care settings.1 (See Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, May 2012, p. 49.)
A similar stance by the CDC could go a long way toward making antibiotic stewardship programs a CMS requirement in health care settings.
For more on this important story see the December 2013 issue of HIC.
- Policy Statement on Antimicrobial Stewardship by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) Infect Con Hosp Epi 2012;(Special Topic Issue: Antimicrobial Stewardship)33:322-327. | <urn:uuid:b2737870-c319-44d3-84ae-6db1250c18e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reliasmedia.com/blogs/hicprevent-2/cdc-looks-to-put-teeth-in-antibiotic-stewardship-policies-by-partnering-with-cms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.929152 | 656 | 2.484375 | 2 |
She is my friend; she was my friend. She soon will cease to be. Her life is ebbing fast, and tense -- what tense am I to use?
Dissolving; she dissolves, and every breath could be her last. She's blurring at the edges; the threshold sings her name. Her ancestors await.
My friend, my friend, dissolving. Parting ways with what we know exists. My words to you: a kiss you will not read, you who loved to read. The volume of your life is soon to close. A breath, your last, will sift the final page to rest.
You waver at the edge ... We breathe with you, we carry you, until you are no more.
Dissolver of sugar, dissolve me,
if this is the time.
Do it gently, with a touch of a hand, or a look.
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Eremophila magnifica facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsEremophila magnifica
|Flowers in the ANBG|
Eremophila magnifica is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with large, clustered leaves and large, attractive lilac-coloured or purple flowers, sometimes so densely clustered that they appear like compound heads of terminal flowers.
Eremophila magnifica is an erect shrub which grows to a height of 0.5–1.5 m (20–60 in). Its leaves, which smell strongly of nutmeg when crushed, are densely clustered near the ends of the branches, bluish-green, lance-shaped, mostly 29–63 mm (1–2 in) long and 6–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide. The edges of the leaves are hairy.
The flowers are borne in groups of 2 to 4 in, clustered near the ends of the branches in leaf axils on hairy stalks which are 10–27 mm (0.4–1 in) long. There are 5 green to dull purple, hairy, linear to triangular sepals which are mostly 11–22 mm (0.4–0.9 in) long. The petals are 17–22 mm (0.7–0.9 in) long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is lilac-coloured on the outside and deep lilac on the inside of the petal lobes. There are translucent spots on the petal tube and lobes, the outer surface is hairy, the inner surface of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruits which follow are dry, oval-shaped and 6.5–7.5 mm (0.3–0.3 in) long.
Taxonomy and naming
The species was first formally described by Robert Chinnock in 2007 and the description was published in Eremophila and Allied Genera: A Monograph of the Plant Family Myoporaceae. The specific epithet (magnifica) is a Latin word meaning "noble", "eminent" or "splendid", in reference to the large, attractive flowers.
In the same book, Chinnock described two subspecies and the names are accepted at the Australian Plant Census:
- Eremophila magnifica Chinnock subsp. magnifica which has glabrous branches and leaf surfaces (other than the margins);
- Eremophila magnifica subsp. velutina Chinnock which has velvety branches and leaves
Distribution and habitat
Subspecies magnifica occurs on the tops and slopes of the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara biogeographic region where it grows on rocky slopes and hilltops; subspecies velutina occurs between Marandoo and Newman in the Gascoyne and Pilbara biogeographic regions where it grows on slopes and ephemeral creeks in loamy soils.
Eremophila magnifica is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife but subspecies magnifica is classified as "Priority Four" meaning that is rare or near threatened and subspecies velutina is classified as "Priority Three" meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.
Use in horticulture
The highly-scented leaves and large, well-displayed flowers are attractive features of this eremophila. It can be propagated by grafting onto Myoporum rootstock and grown in well-drained soil in full sun. It is drought tolerant but very sensitive to frost and should be only lightly pruned.
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July 5, 2012
In the middle of this month – December of 2008- the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon offered his press conference of year end. Which was its report? What can be hoped for the next year? Although each that we are about to begin a new year we made an effort for being positive and to maintain an optimistic point of view with respect to the future, they emphasize the words of the present Secretary General with respect to the 2008, that is to say, ” I have called it the year of multiple crises and the next one will not be less difficult. Our commitment and good intentions will be proven like never antes” , it commented. Why it said this? By the prevailing situation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Zimbabwe and Somalia specifically. What happens in these places? Vmonos by parts, one by one. Afghanistan. With respect to this country They go emphasized the urgency of a change of Political Directorate because the humanitarian situation goes of evil in worse and more and more the attacks break out again and increase of insurgents. Iraq.
In order to begin, the world-wide population in its majority, we are abreast of the situation of chaos and insecurity that is lived there. Although the holder of the UN recognized that the security has improved throughout the present year, yes exhorted the leaders of the country to work united with ” reconciliation spirit while they assume the total control of the subjects of his nacin”. Darfur. By the words of Ban Ki-moon with respect to the conflict in this place, we can say, lamentably, that the solution to its problems still is distant. And in agreement with the annual report of They go this must to the confrontations and the political rivalries that the unique thing that obtains is to cause a climate of violence and insecurity for its settlers. Zimbabwe. With respect to this African nation the UN anticipates a very dark panorama in the next year because the country is outlined towards an economic collapse, social and political.
Somalia. Ban Ki-moon declared that already measures for the conformation are taken from one force of multinational peace, although at the moment has been no a positive answer on the part of some nations before the clear situation of anarchy that lives the country. In view of the previous thing, we include/understand better why of the following words of the Secretary General of the UN: The 2008 were a difficult year and the 2009 provide majors challenges. | <urn:uuid:f1817fe7-205d-4baf-85a0-5c68437c06f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.heritageatplay.org/multiples-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.959993 | 513 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults. The diagnosis is established by the presence of 20% or more blasts of myeloid origin in the bone marrow or peripheral blood.
Figure 1: Annual number of AML cases in the UK, stratified by age group.
AML is primarily a disease that affects people of advanced age: the median age at diagnosis is around 65 years.
Figure 2: Distribution of AML sub-types according to age group.
Most patients are diagnosed with de novo AML, i.e. without a clinical history of any myeloproliferative disease or leukemogenic therapy. AML with an antecedent hematological disease (AHD) and therapy-related AML (t-AML) are less frequently (<25%) seen at diagnosis.
Figure 3: Percentage of patients with high-risk cytogenetic profile in different AML subgroups.
Adverse prognostic cytogenetic anomalies are especially present in advanced disease or in patients with antecedent hematological disease (AHD-AML) or therapy-related AML (tAML).
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In Church History 101, William Ramsay surveys the growth and development of the Christian church from the New Testament era to the present day. Placing special attention on the experiences of Presbyterians in America, he highlights key events and profiles prominent individuals who had an impact on the church's life. This brief review of the history that led Presbyterians to America serves as a valuable introduction for new member classes, adult study groups, and all those eager to learn more about church history.
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I recently became the (interim) Assistant to the University Librarian, with responsibility for developing an assessment program as one of my roles. I’m new to assessment, at least since the far-off days of library school. Back then there was a lot of buzz about Brenda Dervin and I still find myself influenced by her approaches to understanding users’ needs and where libraries fit.
In the intervening decades I’ve mostly worked in the field of library technology and used Dervin’s perspective of users as problem-solvers as a conceptual model for developing and managing services. I find that perspective still very influential as I think about how to discover out what our library can do (better) to serve users’ needs. Just as I believed that technology was simply a tool, I don’t think of libraries as the be-all-and-end-all of our users’ lives but that we supply only a piece — perhaps a critical or very large piece — they need in order to complete a larger task.
Coincidently (or maybe not), I tend to be very suspicious of surveys. Most I encounter are poorly designed, even insulting in their ignorance of their users (me). I rarely get further than a few questions into any survey before tossing it in the trash. Sometimes I complete surveys only to get to the “Other Comments:” section so I can critique the problems with their data collection tool. Therefore, I’m not inclined to use surveys for my own purposes, figuring that I’m probably not immune from making the same mistakes others have made. Where possible I’d like to find other, perhaps more creative, approaches to answering the library’s assessment needs.
I like the story of the pollsters assigned to measure the audience for the first broadcast of the miniseries “Roots”. Traditional polling tools were showing a disappointing share and they suspected folks had some reason for not admitting they were watching. As a counter to the direct approach, the pollsters instead measured the drop in water pressure during a commercial break on the theory that it indicated the number of “Roots” viewers who’d been waiting to go the toilet.
In a way, libraries have the opposite problem. People think they are supposed to like libraries and it keeps them from telling us why they don’t use our services when we think they should. I want to find the equivalent of hearing a million toilets flushing as means of getting past the facade of the good library and finding out what they really think.
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(14 October 1864 - 5 January 1957)
I had the inestimable privilege of being brought up in a Christian home. I feel sure the well-being of a nation lies in the proportion of Christian mothers it possesses. The mind of a child is plastic, and takes impressions for good or evil at a very early age. One may and does forget a good deal of what was learned at a mother´s knee, but the impression lasts through life, and cannot be thrown off. Many a young fellow has broken loose from the restraints of a Christian home, who in the end found early impressions too insistent to be disregarded, and lived to thank God for the prayers and training of a Christian mother.
When I was only eleven years old I made a profession of faith in Christ. Looking back it was a very feeble and shallow start that was made. As I grew up to manhood many a time I was tempted to give up the profession of Christianity, but something held me back. Infidel doubts assailed me. Any attack on the Bible distressed me and shook my confidence. Such questions as, Why does God allow evil? Why does He allow the Devil to work such mischief in the world? Why was I born in sin and shapen in iniquity? crowded into my mind and shook my foundations.
But all this only in the end led me to take a stronger hold on Christ as my Saviour. It is said that a young sapling gets firmer hold of the soil as the result of fierce winds loosening the roots. When the storm is over, the loosened roots have room to push farther out, and take a firmer grip. The life and safety of a tree lie in the fact that there is as much out of sight below the surface as there is above ground. The taller the tree the longer and more far-reaching the roots.
So it is with the Christian. Nothing will stand the assault of the enemy save a true heart-knowledge of the Lord as Saviour, a true faith-grip of the Gospel of the grace of God. There must be an out-of-sight hold on divine realities before there can be effective Christian life and testimony.
One thing that helped me at that time was discovering that the advocates of infidelity were usually men of evil life. Just as I might turn from a drink offered in a filthy cup, so the individuals, who sought to overturn the faith of the Christian, were mostly repulsive. On the contrary, the earnest Christians that I knew and listened to impressed me with their saintly lives and the inward peace and joy reflected on their faces.
In my early days the professing Churches were, very generally speaking, fundamentally sound. There was a large proportion of evangelically minded clergymen and ministers, who kept the Gospel flag flying. Infidelity at the same time was blatant and aggressive, but its activities were outside the Churches. Higher Criticism and Modernism had not entered them to any great extent.
Infidelity had for its champions such men as Charles Bradlaugh in Britain and Colonel Ingersoll in the United States. Bradlaugh was a man of colossal size, of great intellectual force, a magnificent speaker. He became M.P. for Northampton, where a statue to his memory is to be seen today. Colonel Ingersoll was a man of imposing personal appearance and the silver-tongued orator of unbelief. Such as they appealed to the worst side of humanity. Their addresses were popular with the unthinking and the vicious. Ignorant of the true meaning of the Bible, they poured abuse and scorn upon it. They had nothing to put in its place. Their evil work was destructive. There was nothing constructive about it. Their influence tended to weaken the morals of their admirers, to loosen the solemn sanctity of the marriage tie, in short to remove from the human mind those restraints from evil that the Bible so happily exerts: This aspect of infidelity rendered it repulsive to me. I wanted something elevating and productive of good. But things have changed and for the worse. In my young days the attack was from the outside. Today it is from the inside. There is little need for aggressive atheism. Modernism and Higher Criticism are carrying on the evil work within the professing Church. "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light . . . his ministers also . . . transformed, as the ministers of righteousness" (1 Cor. 11:14, 15). Clergymen and ministers, who have on solemn oath promised to uphold the Word of God, are undermining it in many a pulpit. They pocket stipends for the work of upholding the Gospel of God, and are traitors in the camp, wolves in sheep´s clothing. Professors of Theological Colleges are poisoning the minds of young men preparing for the ministry. Alas! how many of them are unconverted, blind leaders of the blind.
I was reading the other day of a servant of God asking in utter astonishment a famous theological Don of Oxford University, "What do you believe?" This followed on a conversation when the Don declared he could not believe in the Virgin Birth, in the physical resurrection and ascension of our Lord, nor could he believe the things recorded of Him in the Gospels, especially those in the Gospel of John. And this man, alas! has the moulding of the minds of young men preparing for the ministry. Is it any wonder that there are many young ministers who are infidels in all but name, destitute of spiritual power, with no influence to help anyone on the heavenly road?
We appeal to our readers, especially young men and women, to give the Bible a fair trial. Read it, study it, and seek earnestly the truth.
A J Pollock wrote two well-known books: ´The Amazing Jew´ and ´Things which must shortly come to pass´, some lesser known books, and over fifty small books showing the error of different cults and notions such as cremation and baptismal regeneration (some of his younger friends therefore called him Anti-Algie!). He and F B Hole were married to natural sisters, F B Hole was cousin to Hamilton Smith.
One correspondent who knew him recalls a remark of AJP in a Bible Reading, "a certain young man being the best dressed because he was ´clothed with humility´", 1 Peter 5:5. He also points out that he was the author of a number of good gospel hymns including
"Ransomed saints your voices raise", modelled on "We have heard a joyful sound", and
"Peace was procured by Christ, the Son of God,
When on the cross He shed His precious blood,
Which brought a pardon, perfect, full and free
To guilty, rebel sinners such as we."
He edited the Gospel Tidings hymnbook, and ministered widely including a visit to the USA in 1898, and Scandinavia, India, Spain and Germany.
Another correspondent recalls AJP telling them how as a boy of about fifteen Mr Darby visited Mr Pollock´s family home (his father was a banker in Newcastle upon Tyne), when a plate was not laid for young Algie, Darby shared his with him, and on learning Algie was studying, AJP recounted that he was encouraged, ´Mind you take the Gold (medal)´.
He had three sons Alan, Erskine and Seton (a solicitor of Reading, with whom he stayed in old age) and one daughter who qualified as a doctor and became a surgeon doing several thousand operations in India where she later died just as she had arranged to come home to nurse her father in old age.
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police officers from the Jerusalem District last Friday briefly detained Jordanian Sheikh Muhammad Salim for questioning after the Muslim preacher made inciting remarks during a sermon he delivered at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount.
A crowd of worshippers gathered at the scene to protest Salim’s arrest, chanting “Allahu akbar” (“God is greater” in Arabic). Salim was released from custody after he was questioned by the police.
Jordanian Religious Trusts Minister Hail Daoud harshly condemned Salim’s arrest, telling Jordan’s Petra News Agency, “This is an unacceptable action by the Israeli authorities, who arrested a religious official fulfilling his duties at Friday prayers.” Daoud denied Israel’s claim that Salim was arrested for delivering a sermon that contained incitement to violence.
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Health Services Partners with Other Agencies to Prepare Child Care Programs for Pandemic Flu
March 7, 2007
Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) is partnering with several other local agencies in following the lead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by planning to prevent or control a pandemic flu outbreak.
This local collaboration has resulted in the mailing this week of hundreds of kits designed to help child care providers throughout the county plan for and handle a pandemic flu.
"The material about pandemic flu preparation will also be helpful in preparing for any disaster, including earthquakes and preventing the spread of any infectious diseases," said Francie Wise, CCHS Director of Communicable Disease Programs, quoting the kit's cover letter. "This kit is an initial communication to child care providers and will be followed by other materials about communicable disease."
The kit, which is available online in English and Spanish at cchealth.org, features fact sheets, posters, a brochure, lesson plans, checklists and lists of health tips and information resources. [http://www.cchealth.org/topics/pandemic_flu/child_care_provider_kit/]
Other partners in the project include the Contra Costa County Office of Education and Employment and Human Services Department; Contra Costa Child Care Council; California Department of Social Services; Diablo Valley College Child Care Program; First Five Contra Costa; Local Planning Council for Child Care and Development; and San Ramon Valley Child Care Association.
"Now we have pandemic flu materials available on the web for schools and child care providers, as well as other businesses," said Wise, referring to materials available at cchealth.org/topics/pandemic_flu/ on the health department website. "Awareness on the part of those institutions would be essential in saving the lives of vulnerable young people in the event of a pandemic."
Influenza, also known as the flu, causes an estimated 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States each year. Wise said the vaccine for seasonal flu is recommended annually for all children 6 months and older, along with their care providers.
Pandemic flu is a particular kind of flu that causes a global outbreak, or pandemic, of serious illness that spreads easily from person to person and for which there is no vaccine. There is no pandemic flu anywhere in the world at this time.
The "Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance" recently issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that increasing distance between people may be critical in controlling a pandemic, adding, "Social density is greatest in pre-school classrooms..."
The CDC Guidance also establishes several levels of pandemic and recommends that schools and child care facilities not be closed to limit the spread of disease until the pandemic reaches Category 2 or 3.
"I was very pleased to receive this kit in the mail," said Theresa Skrentny, a family child care provider who is president of the San Ramon Valley Child Care Association. "Classrooms and child care settings are vulnerable to germs and viruses, so we work hard on teaching children and parents how important washing their hands and covering their cough is. This kit will support our efforts to keep children healthy."
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Area braces for winter storm
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Leavenworth and neighboring counties.
The storm system, which is moving from the southern plains, is expected to create a significant winter storm Thursday and Friday.
The winter storm warning will be in effect from 3 p.m. Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday
The weather service reports that rain may change to freezing rain and sleet as early as Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening. The mixed precipitation will then switch to snow. Six to nine inches of snow may accumulate by Friday afternoon.
The weather service also warns that ice and sleet accumulations up to a tenth of an inch will be possible through Thursday afternoon.
Sustained northwest winds of up to 30 mph, with higher wind gusts, will develop Thursday afternoon through Friday. The weather service states that the winds will create extensive blowing and drifting of snow and near blizzard conditions, which can make traveling extremely hazardous.
The weather service cautions holiday travelers to leave Wednesday or make alternative plans as well as take precautionary actions.
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The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War
Second Lieutenant Frank Edward YOUNG, V.C.
Killed in Action 18th September 1918, aged 23.
Frank Young was born on the 2nd October 1895, at Cherat in the North West Province, India. As his father, also called Frank Young, was a regular soldier, it is likely he was serving in the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment who were stationed there at the time.
When Frank's schooling in England finished, he joined the part time Territorial Force's Hertfordshire Regiment as a Boy Bugler on the 15th November 1909, aged 14. He served in the Hitchin Company which would later become D Company or No.4 Company once they adopted the Guards' Company structure.
His father attested into the Hertfordshire Regiment when war broke out and was Company Sergeant Major 3292 Frank Young of the Hertfordshire Regiment by the time the battalion were mobilised to the Western Front in November 1914.
The 19 year old Private Frank Young volunteered for service aboard but a physical disability stopped him from going to France in the autumn of 1914. However, his determination led to him going through an operation to overcome the problem and was appointed to the recently raised 2nd/1st Battalion of the Regiment to re-train and get fit enough for active service again. Frank went to France in a reinforcement draft, landing on French shores on the 21st January 1915 and soon became a Regimental Scout. Within months he was a Sergeant and had gained a reputation as a solid leader, a reliable scout and a good bomber.
After returning from a spell in the front line, Frank was in a group photograph with his father and several other veteran Sergeants, which was taken in June 1915 and can be seen here. The Royston Crowe (dated 26th March 1915) mentioned how effective at patrolling his father RSM Young was, describing how the party he was in got to within yards of the German lines and managed to gleam a lot of information from listening in on their chatting. In the 27th August 1915 edition his father, Regimental Sergeant Major Young, was mentioned during an interview with Distinguished Conduct Medal winner Sergeant Major George Raven, who could not praise him enough and said "it is a pleasure for anyone to serve under such a fine soldier as he is". Comments made make it clear that RSM Young was a man to lead from the front and he frequently got 'in the thick of things'.
Father and son were both involved in the Battle of Fesubert in May as well as the Battle of Loos in September, with Frank Young senior earned a mention in despatches for bravery at Loos.
Frank received a month's leave early in 1916, as was the custom once a soldier completed his contractual term of military service.
Having earned a reputation as a bomber, he was sent to serve as a Bombing Instructor at the Rouen Central Bombing School but an accident returned him home early in the summer of 1916. After three months in the Cardiff Military Hospital, he was posted to the 3rd/1st Battalion to re-train, who were stationed at Halton Camp near Tring at the time. Some months later he was commissioned as an officer, which was gazetted on the 26th April 1917.
In the spring of 1918 Second Lieutenant Young was posted into the 3rd/5th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, who were stationed at Crowborough in Sussex. It appears he was fascinated by the Royal Flying Corps to such a degree that he took six weeks ground training at Reading and moved to Sleaford for practical training. However, a flying accident left him badly shaken and as a result he returned to the Bedfords.
He paid a last visit to his mother in Hitchin in September 1918 before going to the front again, having been posted back to the 1st/1st Hertfordshires as a replacement for the losses during the Battles of Albert and Bapaume in August and September. He rejoined the Hertfords on the 12th September, just as they were engaged in the Battle of Havrincourt during the Battles of the Hindenburg Line.
Frank was put in command of No.4 Company (his old Hitchin Company) who were in the line south east of Havrincourt village, near a copse called Triangle Wood. His last communication home was on a standard field postcard dated 17th September, the day before an unexpected German counter attack hit their lines.
Some Victoria Crosses are awarded for incredible leadership, rescuing many wounded soldiers, taking difficult enemy positions, and saving many comrades, or straight forward bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Frank's incredible citation ("The London Gazette" No. 31067, dated 13th December 1918) has elements of all of them and reads:
"For most conspicuous bravery, determination and exceptional devotion to duty on 18th September, 1918, south-east of Havrincourt, when during an enemy counter-attack and throughout an extremely intense enemy barrage he visited all posts, warned the garrisons and encouraged the men. In the early stages of the attack he rescued two of his men who had been captured, and bombed and silenced an enemy machine gun. Although surrounded by the enemy, 2nd Lt. Young fought his way back to the main barricade and drove out a party of the enemy who were assembling there. By his further exertions the battalion was able to maintain a line of great tactical value, the loss of which would have meant serious delay to future operations. Throughout four hours of intense hand-to-hand fighting 2nd Lt. Young displayed the utmost valour and devotion to duty, and set an example to which the company gallantly responded. He was last seen fighting hand to hand against a considerable number of the enemy."
Second Lieutenant Young was not seen again and he was listed as missing in action.
However, on the 27th September a section from the 1st/5th Manchester's found his body on the edge of Havrincourt Wood. Given how heavily he had been engaged in the fighting, with much of it being hand to hand, it seems ironic that he had been killed by a shrapnel wound to his head. The men buried the body where they found it and marked it with a rough cross, as was the custom with battlefield burials. Some months later his grave was seen by Second Lieutenant Males from Stevenage who arranged to move the body to a more fitting resting place, amongst one of the growing official British Cemeteries.
Frank lies in the Hermies Hill British Cemetery, France 4 km south of the N30 road between Bapaume and Cambrai. He is also remembered on the Hitchin War Memorial in St Mary's Churchyard, Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
According to the British Legion, "his Victoria Cross remained with the family until 1959 when it was bequeathed to the Hertfordshire Regiment, at which time it was presented to the successors to the Regiment at Colchester and held with the Regiment Battle Honours. Later the Regiment lodged it for safekeeping with Luton Museum, which holds many exhibits relating to the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Regiments."
Frank was the son of Frank and Sarah Ellen Young, of 46, Wood Avenue, Folkestone in Kent, which would have been their temporary address whilst his father was at No.3 Rest Camp in Folkestone early in 1919. In 1919 His father's medals were sent to Pirton Cottage, Pirton, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire and Frank's were sent to his mother at Verulam Rd, Hitchin, which was where they appear to have moved to after Folkestone.
Research conducted by the Royal British Legion, Hitchin branch
'The Story of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Volume II'
Royston Crowe newspaper
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This advice is first and foremost for myself, before anyone else.
Islam is beautiful, and it is us Muslims that sometimes give it an ugly face.
It happens too often that a non-Muslim curious about Islam, or a less practicing Muslim, is pushed away by the behavior of the Muslim community. This Islam is interesting, but these people are something else! On paper, this religion is stellar—in the real world, some bring so much drama to it that it’s a wonder people are entering Islam. Many converts tell us, with a wry smile, that they are grateful to Allah they got to know Islam before they got to know Muslims.
We hear stories about incredibly contradictory people—a man frequently in the first row at the masjid for every salah is abusive to his wife at home. A brother dropping fat checks every year at the masjid fundraiser actually makes his money from a chain of liquor stores. Some Muslims avoid MSA because they feel people there are judgmental, which can be true to some extent. One imam reports a young man came to him asking for advice—he had gotten a girl pregnant. The imam asked him, why didn’t he use birth control? The young man said he refused to, because he knew it was makrooh (disliked) in the religion. SubhanAllah, how do we think like this?
Another phenomenon we see is the opposite. Muslims who are far away from the deen it seems, but who display good character. People who refuse to cheat and steal, who are honest in their words, but have never seen the inside of a masjid. These people are among those who are disgusted by the actions of the aforementioned religious people. A familiar scene at many a desi dinner party is a bunch of uncles shaking their heads at the latest proof of corruption among “those mullahs.” While this disillusionment with religious authorities in the Muslim world is also a problem, there is merit in the criticism.
In truth, both of these types of Muslims embody an aspect of Islam. The Prophet ﷺ giving us advice on marriage proposals, said:
“If someone comes to you whose religion and character pleases you, then marry him.” [Tirmidhi]
“Religion” here means those things that come to mind when we think of religious deeds—from praying and fasting to volunteering at the local masjid or MSA to wearing a beard or hijab. But the Prophet ﷺ recognized such people didn’t necessarily have good character, but that character was something to look for on its own. Islam develops both good character and good “religion” in Allah’s servants.
But from the behavior of many, may Allah forgive us, you’d think Islam was just the outward appearance. This confused mindset isn’t new, but was a problem for the Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) in the time of the Prophet ﷺ. They were too concerned with ritual and the letter of the Law, while failing to implement the spirit of the Law.
At the start of his Prophethood, Muhammad ﷺ was a continuation of the Prophets that came before to the Bani Isra’eel. The qiblah the Muslims faced in salah was the qiblah of Bani Isra’eel, Jerusalem. The Prophet ﷺ was from the Arabs, who loved the House Ibrahim عليه السلام built. In Makkah, the Prophet ﷺ was able to face both the Ka’aba and Jerusalem by standing in the south side of the Haram, and facing north. But after the Hijrah, this was no longer possible, and the Prophet ﷺ faced Jerusalem alone, with his back to the Ka’aba, something which saddened him.
And then came Independence Day. Not the Will Smith movie.
The followers of Muhammad ﷺ were declared a new and independent Ummah of their own. The favor and responsibility of Prophethood and Da’wah was given hereby to the sons of Isma’eel, the Arabs, and their qiblah at Makkah made the qiblah commanded by Allah for all Muslims. And there was uproar in Madinah. Some of the Bani Isra’eel teased the Muslims, saying, “You’ve been facing the wrong qiblah for all this time! All your prayers were wasted!”
But Allah does not allow the good of the Believers to be wasted. He reassured the Muslims, saying:
“Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.” (Surah al-Baqara, Ayah 177)
It didn’t matter which Qiblah the Muslims faced, because either way, they did it to obey Allah. Sincerity gives value to religious actions.
The scholars of tafseer call this ayah, Ayat al-Birr, the Ayah of Piety. Allah gives us His definition of what good Muslims ought to be, correcting those that get hung up on the small technical details when defining a good Muslim. It’s interesting that here, helping the poor and the needy is mentioned before salah or zakah. The rights of people are here mentioned before even the rights of Allah.
Islam can be defined, in a way, as giving everyone and everything their due rights. Allah established rights between everything, and gave us guidance on what these rights are. The religious rituals of this religion are important, because it is Allah’s right to be worshipped. But the rights of people are important, too. Our parents have rights on us. Our wives and husbands have rights on us. Our brothers and sisters in Islam have rights on us, as do our brothers and sisters in humanity. The poor and the needy of society have rights we fail to give them all too much. Fulfilling these rights is good character in a person.
A Muslim out of balance is someone who neglects some rights someone has over him, even though he’s doing well to fulfill other rights. We have to get over the superficial understanding of good and bad to improve ourselves. It doesn’t matter if a person has the face and religious devotion of Musa, if his actions and character are that of Fir’awn. | <urn:uuid:af6be1e8-926e-43e5-b3dd-80839a2dc031> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://rumsasubmissions.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/face-of-musa-hand-of-firawn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969947 | 1,468 | 1.757813 | 2 |
(An excerpt from the new book, The Art of Self-Directed Learning, by Blake Boles)
Carsie Blanton grew up in rural Virginia where she played on the rolling grassy hills, hunted salamanders, read books, and fiddled around with musical instruments. Seeing a happy and engaged child, Carsie’s parents decided to simply never send her to school. They supported Carsie’s interests, made her part of adult discussions at the house, and gave her large blocks of undisturbed personal time.
At 13, Carsie discovered a deep love for guitar and songwriting. At 16, she moved to Oregon to join a group house with other artists, where she met a funk band who invited her to sing backup and tour the United States. As she traveled, she began building her own body of musical work.
In her twenties, Carsie independently recorded and released a few albums, leading to new gigs and a few big breaks (like opening for Paul Simon). She worked in coffee shops to pay the bills before her shows and CD sales became profitable.
Instead of going to college, she trained with top musicians, struck up friendships with interesting people she met on the road, and continued her lifelong habit of reading lots of hard books. She fell in love with swing dancing, started taking swing classes whenever possible, and eventually began teaching her own classes.
Then, at age 28, Carsie mobilized her fans on Kickstarter with the goal of raising $29,000 to produce a new jazz album, offering preorders of the album, personalized songwriting, and other interesting rewards in exchange for donations.
She hit her target and then kept going, all the way to $60,000, enough to produce her album, pay a few big-name jazz musicians to contribute, hire a publicity team, and take her entire band on tour across the United States.
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Running a Kickstarter campaign is essentially like starting a business in an incredibly short time span: you’ve got to develop a product, create a compelling story, attract an audience, and then deliver. Like most business startups, most online fundraising campaigns fail. But Carsie, an unschooled young woman with no formal training, nailed it on the first try. How?
Having traveled, performed, and danced all across the United States, Carsie had built one heck of a social network, an important element for fundraising success. But I don’t think that was the main thing.
Carsie carefully planned her fundraising campaign, studied other musicians’ campaigns, and asked for lots of feedback before going live. Those actions certainly helped, but I still don’t think they explain everything.
Instead, I believe that Carsie received an early and powerful education in applying her self-directed learning to the needs of others.
With all of our talk about self-directed learning, it’s easy to assume that our educations should focus only on ourselves. But people who, like Carsie, want their hobbies to fund their lives know that focusing only on yourself is the fast path to going broke. Instead, we must take what we love and figure out how to use it to inform, entertain, educate, or help other people.
Tina Seelig of the Stanford Design School masterfully explains the idea with the threefold concept of passion, skill, and market.
- If you’re passionate about something, but you’re not skilled in it, then you’re a fan. (Think, for example, of a beginning guitar enthusiast.)
- If you’re passionate about something and skilled in it, then you’ve got a hobby. (Think of a guitarist with some training and experience.)
- If you’re skilled in something, there’s a market for it, but you don’t have any passion for it, then you have a job. (Think of a guitarist who is good enough to play gigs, but he lost his love for guitar long ago.)
Combine all three elements—passion, skills, and a market—and you arrive at Mecca: meaningful work that also pays the bills. (Think of a musician, like Carsie, who loves playing gigs and can make a living doing it.)
Self-directed learners are typically very good at identifying their passions. They build skills when necessary. But finding (or creating) a market? That’s the hard part, because it means they must stop thinking only about themselves and start trying to understand other people.
Understanding the needs of other people, I propose, is exactly what Carsie was doing in her adventure-filled youth.
Playing music shows? An exercise in discovering other people’s tastes.
Working in coffee shops? An exercise in providing value to an employer.
Teaching swing dance lessons? An exercise in helping people learn something complex.
By paying close attention to the needs of others while also building her skills and deepening her passions, Carsie created a self-directed education that wasn’t just about herself. So when it came time to launch her Kickstarter campaign, she didn’t make the rookie mistake of focusing on me, me, me. Instead, she created something that other people actually wanted.
Do what you love, but also keep an eye on the needs of others—that’s how self-directed learning can turn into self-directed earning.
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Other Prize Competitions
Click here for links leading to other competitions and related activities external to Centennial Challenges.
In December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two bicycle mechanics working with no government support, initiated the age of powered flight with their success at Kitty Hawk. NASAs Prize Program honors the spirit of the Wright Brothers and other independent inventors by acknowledging the centennial of the first powered flight in 2003. The NASA Centennial Challenges program also recognizes that the rapid and dramatic progress in aeronautics in the early years of the first century of flight was often driven by prize competitions.
"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted."
Sir Francis Bacon
Green Flight Challenge teams spent Day Three recharging their electric aircraft batteries in preparation for the Sept. 30 speed challenge.› Read More
10.03.11 - NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry.
Two years in the making, the Green Flight Challenge is essentially a test of who can design and build the most mind-bendingly efficient plane while meeting practical considerations about things such as noise.
Since 2006 the NASA Centennial Challenges have spurred development for initiatives such as lunar landers, regolith excavation and general aviation technology. The purses range from $200,000 to $2 million, and many prizes so far have been unclaimed because no entry has met the admittedly formidable challenges.
It was a small but mighty competition, four innovative aircraft over Sonoma County skies, going for the quietest flight, best gas mileage and shortest takeoff required.
Here at NASA's second annual General Aviation Challenge this weekend, one of the main prizes was the so-called "green prize," which challenged two-seater planes to fly a 400-mile-long course logging at least 30 miles to the gallon.
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The Polar Bear Rule: FWS Proposes Special Rule for Ursus Maritimus
In May 2008, the Bush administration listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On December 16, 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued an interim special rule for management of the polar bear under § 4(d) of the ESA. Both the listing and interim special rule were challenged by lawsuits that resulted in a 2011 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that: (a) upheld FWS’s decision to list the polar bear; and (b) remanded the special rule to FWS for an environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
On April 16, 2012, the FWS announced a new proposed special rule for the polar bear under § 4(d) of the ESA. The proposed § 4(d) special rule would, for the most part, adopt the existing conservation regulatory requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) that already protect the species. Specifically, FWS and the Department of the Interior would continue to rely primarily on the provisions of the MMPA to govern on-site management of activities, such as oil and gas exploration and development projects, within the polar bear’s range. Under the proposed § 4(d) special rule, when an activity is not already covered by an MMPA or CITES authorization or exemption, then the general protections of the ESA would apply. The proposed special rule, however, would provide that any incidental take that results from activities that occur outside of the polar bear’s range would not be a prohibited act under the ESA. Comments on the proposed special rule and the alternatives to be considered in the environmental assessment are due by June 18, 2012.
Environmental groups are unhappy with the proposed rule, arguing that it limits ESA protections by excluding activities that occur outside the polar bear’s range, such as greenhouse gas emissions. In its press release on the proposed special rule, the Center for Biological Diversity asserts polar bears are “endangered precisely because of activities that occur outside the Arctic—namely the emission of greenhouse gases and resulting warming that is leading to the rapid disappearance of summer sea ice.” While FWS estimates a final rule by the end of 2012, new lawsuits are anticipated.
Western Governors’ Association Urges Expanded Role for States in Administration of the Endangered Species Act
At the conclusion of its annual meeting earlier this month, the Western Governors’ Association adopted a broad policy resolution (2016-08) with specific recommendations for reform of the...11 July 2016
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from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
May 15, 2001
UNPUBLISHED COURT DECISIONS CHALLENGED
- UNPUBLISHED COURT DECISIONS CHALLENGED
- 1968 NUCLEAR ACCIDENT DOCUMENTED
- ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE REVIEW ORDERED
The American judicial system is becoming increasingly unpredictable due to the widespread practice of withholding appellate court decisions from publication. Because court rulings cannot be cited as precedent unless they are published, critics say that unpublished decisions undermine judicial consistency, erode litigants' expectation of equal protection under the law and encourage ad hoc rulings by judges.
Thirty years ago, all decisions were published and could be cited as precedent. In the US Court of Appeals today, 85% of all decisions are said to be unpublished following a slow, steady mutation of judicial practice under the pressure of increased litigation.
The problem was highlighted by a peculiar May 4 ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The Court was considering whether to impose sanctions on an attorney because she cited an unpublished opinion in a brief, in defiance of Court rules. In the end, the Court decided not to impose the sanctions but warned that this was a unique case and others might not be so lucky.
The underlying issue in the case, it might be noted, was whether or not the police are required to give warning to a suspect before unleashing a police dog. That serious question remains legally unsettled because the Court's decision on that point remains unpublished and therefore cannot serve as precedent or as a reliable basis for police procedure.
In what might be a first, the Ninth Circuit cited the U.S. Supreme Court's widely reviled decision in Gore v. Bush -- which terminated the 2000 election -- to justify its insistence that its ruling applied only to the present case. (The Supreme Court had stated there that "Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities.")
See the text of the May 4 Ninth Circuit ruling here:
Michael Schmier, who was a candidate for Attorney General in California in 1998, was prevented by the California Supreme Court from including discussion of this issue in his candidate statement that was mailed to California voters. His statement, which was entirely blanked out in the voter handbook, included these remarks:
"Secret rulings do not serve as future guidelines, even in the same court. They enable judges to ignore the law, knowing this injustice is hidden. Corruption and arrogance fester at every level because precedent is destroyed. Feedback to the public, necessary to correct abuses, is prevented."Schmier's brother, attorney Ken Schmier, leads a burgeoning campaign to reverse the trend toward nonpublication of judicial decisions. He has assembled a variety of resources on this issue which are available here:
1968 NUCLEAR ACCIDENT DOCUMENTED
The publication of the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volume on Western Europe last month was the culmination of two fierce battles over declassification. One concerned the disclosure of CIA covert action in Italy in the 1960s, as discussed in Secrecy News, 05/02/01.
The other declassification dispute was over publication of documents concerning the crash of a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear bombs near Thule Air Force Base in Greenland in 1968. Though there was no nuclear explosion, the conventional high explosive in the bombs was detonated, scattering radioactive debris.
All of this is fairly well documented in the published literature.
Nevertheless, the State Department and the Defense Department "fought like blazes not to release the documents on the Thule crash," according to a historian involved in the process. The State Department was apparently concerned about possible adverse diplomatic reaction from Denmark. The Defense Department habitually claims that the locations of nuclear weapons must be classified, even when the information is decades old.
The agencies' opposition to publication of documents on the Thule accident was overcome only when it was discovered that the documents were already available in the public domain! "Eventually we found most of them already declassified at NARA or the LBJ Library," the historian said. Ironically, other documents were found in a Danish government publication.
The entire FRUS volume, including the contested Thule records (see documents 1 through 24), is posted here:
ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE REVIEW ORDERED
On May 9, President Bush ordered yet another review of the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy. The President instructed DCI George Tenet to convene two panels, including one comprised of non-governmental experts, to assess the state of U.S. intelligence and to recommend appropriate changes.
There is no reason to expect much from the latest review. George Tenet, who has sworn under oath that disclosure of the aggregate intelligence budget number could damage U.S. national security, is unlikely to be the instrument of fresh thinking or fundamental reform.
But fresh thinking and fundamental reform are just what is needed, according to Gregory F. Treverton, author of the new book Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
The world of 2010, Treverton writes, "will require intelligence to be dispersed, not concentrated; open to a variety of sources, not limited to secrets; sharing its information and analyses with a variety of would-be coalition partners, including foreigners and people outside government, not guarding its 'secrets' tightly."
Much of the book recounts the intelligence debates and debacles of the 1990s and will be familiar to many readers. Yet Treverton, former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, leavens his account of recent history with some startling anecdotes. For example:
"In the autumn of 1990, my predecessors at the National Intelligence Council predicted Yugoslavia's tragedy with a prescience that is awe inspiring. The national intelligence estimate, or NIE, concluded that Yugoslavia's breakup was inevitable. The breakup would be violent, and the conflict might expand.... Yet so far as I can tell, the NIE had no effect [on policy]. None."Treverton proposes a practical agenda including improved exploitation of open sources and increased utilization of outside experts. Above all, he says repeatedly, "the margin of what is debated publicly needs to be dramatically widened." Intelligence needs to "make its case publicly."
That view is not widely shared inside the bureaucracy. According to the Washington Post, the latest intelligence review was mandated by President Bush's National Security Presidential Directive 5. An NSC staff member said that neither the Directive nor a fact sheet describing its contents would be released.
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Homemaking has fallen on hard times for the last hundred or more years. Though its been devalued by our culture, in reality, it has not lost any value to the family. Homemakers don’t need to be full-time to be vital to their families and to the whole world and society at large.
Homemaking is not about achieving a certain look or state in the home. Homemaking is a process, a service of love through hospitality to those who live in and enter into our home.
Let’s take a deeper look at what homemaking really is, with this excerpt from a member-only mentoring session. Every week inside Simply Convivial Continuing Education, I share about a topic relevant to our lives and work as homemakers so that we can stay motivated, inspired, and on track, learning and growing and spurred on to more love and good works. I’m excited to share this little peek into our community today.
We start by deliberately reminding ourselves of what homemaking actually is.
We will do it better if we know what it actually is, why we’re doing it, and what it’s for. That’s no different with homemaking than homeschooling or any other pursuit.
We start with a definition, and the definition of homemaking is right there. In the word. It’s not confusing, and it’s not a complicated word, which is why we often skip the definition part of it. But it’s making a home.
So really, a lot of the things that are called homemaking in the magazines and on Pinterest aren’t really homemaking because it’s not someone making a home. It’s someone making a beautiful house; not someone who’s actually doing the things to make a home.
The tendency once it’s all set up beautifully is to not have anyone mess it up. But that means that the organization is the set up for the decor. If it’s never supposed to be messed up, then it is the end.
But homemaking is maintenance. It is an action. It’s not something that we’re done with and then doesn’t get messed up. It is the action of making a home. It’s just making dinner: if the presentation and the photography is all that we’re concerned about, then we are a photographer and a chef, not a homemaker.
So if you are a homemaker than the purpose is making that dinner a meal, making a command center, making a decluttered closet, whatever it is that you’re doing under homemaking, the purpose of it has to be to make the home a better home.
So what’s a home? A home is a place for people. To work and rest and learn and grow and connect as a family. It’s a place for relationships to be fostered. And so what we do as homemakers includes cleaning the bathrooms and making the meals.
All those things are for the purpose of making it more and more possible for right relationships to be formed. It grows both family relationships, between siblings, between parent and child, between child and parents, and between our relationships with God.
It grows other relationships: like the child’s relationship to the world, to hygiene, to all those sorts of things. We are fostering those proper connections.
What we’re doing is tending the home, which is a place for people to be built up. So if anything that we’re doing in our homemaking is being treated as an end in itself: the decor, the organization, set up, whatever it is, then that’s no longer homemaking.
Remind yourself that the action we’re doing is serving a purpose beyond itself.
So the point isn’t that we get the dish is done. The point is that the dishes are now ready for the next meal. They’ve been used and now we hit the reset button.
A lot of the work that we do as homemakers is just hitting the reset button. Everyone knows what that does with a computer.
Sometimes you just need to hit reset. That fixes a lot of the problems, right?
In the same way, doing the dishes, cleaning the bathrooms, all these are just the reset buttons, and it’s our job to make sure they all get pushed so that things can continue running smoothly.
But the work is to keep things running smoothly, not for the accomplishments to be had. It’s not really accomplishment. That’s sometimes where we can get discouraged, but only if our minds are set on achieving something for ourselves. Often in that work we want an end, and there is some outcome that looks good. That is not the point of homemaking.
Homemaking is work done for others and sometimes for ourselves, too, but generally it is done for a family’s smoother functioning.
Dump all those swirling thoughts out of your head.
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By Molly Peterson, KQED, Apr 30
California is now monitoring nearly 200 nursing homes where coronavirus has spread among thousands of care workers and patients, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.’I don’t feel very monitored.’Davlyn Jones, 85, recovering from a stroke at nursing home in Santa Clara County
It’s still not clear what monitoring means or how exactly it’s helping slow the spread in long-term care facilities. Where assisted living and nursing homes report problems, like with shortages of protective gear or staff, county public health departments have varied responses and levels of resources to fill the gaps. The governor says testing is a priority, but it’s not required where outbreaks are reported, either by state or local order.
Over 40% of COVID-19 deaths have been people who lived or worked in elder care facilities.
“I don’t feel very monitored,” says 85-year-old Davlyn Jones, who has been recovering from a stroke at the Mountain View Healthcare Center in Santa Clara County. Looking out her window and across a patio, she can see into the wing where nurses have told her that COVID-19 patients live.
As of April 28, the skilled nursing facility reports at least one case of coronavirus. Jones says her caregivers reported the presence of the virus there to her only after she asked about what she was seeing.
“Occasionally I’ll see the nurses and doctors coming out fully clothed in protective gear, not just face masks, but everything,” she says. “So it’s close.”
Jones needs a walker; she has lost some control of movement in the left side of her body. But she’s also pretty buoyant; she says that she’s healthy, considering her age, and the risks inherent to a pandemic.
“I’m scared to death. [But] other than that, yeah,” she laughs.
Jones, a longtime feminist and founder of hundreds of chapters of the National Organization of Women, is also assertive. She says that helped her push for her own COVID-19 test.
After two months that included hospitalization for a stroke and time in skilled nursing, Jones is returning home today, to her two-bedroom residence in San Jose’s Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park. In order to contract with in-home support services as she continues to recuperate, Jones says she needed to prove she had not been infected with the coronavirus.
Initially, she says, her doctor told her she wouldn’t get a test.
Mountain View Healthcare administrators didn’t respond to emailed and telephone questions about testing, though an operator who answered the phone Wednesday confirmed a COVID case.
Santa Clara County health officials say they “have tested large numbers of patients and staff both on-site and via drive through testing, helping to contain any potential outbreaks.”
No Testing Requirements
No state rule or guidance requires testing for long-term care home residents or workers who appear well. In the absence of a statewide plan, local health authorities have wide leeway, resulting in divergent methods for how they counsel facilities about tests.
In part, testing availability appears to be driving those decisions.
“If you test everyone in a facility and say there’s 500 people, first, you have to have those resources and then you have to decide, OK, I’ve tested them now (and) they don’t have symptoms. And then do I test them every week, every two weeks?” says Dr. Erica Pan, medical officer for Alameda County. “It just becomes like a very big operational logistical challenge with limited resources when we might have another facility that has 10 symptomatic people that we need to test.”
Pan says the utility of testing is also a factor. “I only want to order a test that I know what I’m going to do with information,” she said. Since workers and residents will continue to interact in a high-risk environment, Pan says the test may mislead them into false confidence or fear about not having or having the virus.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has doubled the number of teams available to test in long-term care facilities and ordered nursing homes to test workers monthly going forward. The governor has also said that testing is a priority and there needs to be more: “A lot more, it’s not enough, that’s the honest truth.”
Jones says she’s worried about the nurses and care workers at the facility too. Over the last month, she says, it appears that fewer staffers have to work harder now, caring for patients separately, COVID-19 positive or not.
Mountain View Healthcare Center also did not respond to questions about staffing. In Santa Clara County, health officials say they’ve supplemented staffing at facilities with larger outbreaks, using county workers and workplace registry lists.
In Alameda County, medical officer Pan says “there have been some really difficult situations where the staffing was at very concerning levels” during an outbreak. As a result, health officials “have gotten creative” when responding to staffing requests, including by working with EMTs.
But Pan says it’s hard to meet all of the need. “The very unique situation about being in a pandemic is we can’t ask for mutual aid in the same way you can when you have a local disaster, because everyone is experiencing the same situation,” she says.
The state has created a database of potential volunteers to supplement pandemic health care needs, though it’s not clear how many volunteers have gone to assisted living or nursing homes.
More generally, monitoring, at the state and county level, is done remotely. In Santa Clara, the emergency operations center sends a survey every day to all congregate living and long-term care facilities in the county. The California Department of Public Health says it calls facilities daily, using its cadre of 600 health facility evaluation nurses who conduct inspections and surveys in nonpandemic times.
Jones is happy she has tested negative for COVID-19. But she remains worried, both for her neighbors in the mobile home park, with whom she has agreed to take strict precautions to limit exposure, and for the care workers at the skilled nursing facility she is now leaving behind.
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COVID-19 Information for Clinicians
It has become apparent that we are learning about the possible impact of COVID19; either on neurological status in previously normal individuals, or the impact on our patients with epilepsy.
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The ILAE COVID-19 Task Force is seeking input from all regions of the world about the use of telemedicine in clinical epilepsy, particularly in the light of the COVID19 pandemic. Are you using it? Why or why not? What are the problems you encounter with technology, costs, and level of care? Share your experience here.
Other clinician resources
Keeping people with epilepsy safe during the Covid-19 pandemic French et al. Neurology. April 2020
FAQs for clinicians
FAQs for Clinicians This survey is available translated into multiple languages.
Video-EEG Telemetry for Epilepsy Surgery during COVID-19 Restrictions (ILAE Surgical Therapies Commission, August 2020)
Telemedicine for Epilepsy Care in the COVID-19 Era: key points to address + links to resources
COVID-19: Organization challenges with remote work in Epilepsy
Survey to assess both physician and patient satisfaction with telemedicine and organizational practices, and to determine in which situations telemedicine will have a more permanent role in our practice in the future.
Epilepsy Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic (YouTube)
Saudi Epilepsy Society Webinar, in English, recorded 4 April 2020
• J. Helen Cross: Epilepsy in the COVID-19 pandemic (overview) - starts at 7:50
• Emilio Perucca: Facing the COVID-19 crisis in an epilepsy center in Italy - starts at 29:00
• Haifa Alabri: Anti-epileptic drug interactions with drugs used for COVID-19 - starts at 44:26
• Zeyad Althani: Practical guide on ICU EEG monitoring for status epilepticus - starts at 57:37
• Question and answer period - starts at 1:14:20
Guidance on EEG investigations (American Clinical Neurophysiology Society)
Optimizing Status Epilepticus care during the COVID-19 pandemic
Michael O. Kinney, Francesco Brigo, Peter W. Kaplan. Epilepsy & Behavior
[Also in Georgian: ეპილეფსიური სტატუსის მართვის ოპტიმიზაცია COVID-19 პანდემიის პირობებშიc]
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For clinicians involved in the care of patients with epilepsy with COVID-19
Clinically Relevant Interactions Between Ritonavir‑Boosted Nirmatrelvir and Concomitant Antiseizure Medications: Implications for the Management of COVID‑19 in Patients with Epilepsy
Wanounou M, Caraco Y, Levy RH, Bialer M, Perucca E. Clin Pharmacokinet (2022). doi:10.1007/s40262-022-01152-z
Antiseizure medication interactions with PaxlovidTM, used in oral treatment of COVID-19
Cokley JA, Gidal BE, Keller JA, Vossler DG. PaxlovidTM Information From U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and Guidance for AES Members. Epilepsy Currents. April 2022. doi:10.1177/15357597221088415
Using a strengths based approach to manage fear and anxiety among people with epilepsy and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic A report from the ILAE Social Work Task Force
Educating Patients and Families in COVID-19 Era: Needs, Gaps and the Role of Nurses.
A Report prepared by the Nursing Task Force of the ILAE
Saudi Epilepsy Society Consensus on Epilepsy Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic Neurosciences 2020; Vol 25(3). doi: 10.17712/nsj.2020.3.20200066
COVID-19 Guidance for Clinicians from the ILAE Psychiatric Commission
COVID-19 and World Neurology (WFN):
Covid-19 resources, references, Global Neurology Alliance, more
Guidance for clinical neurophysiology examination throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Latin American chapter of the IFCN task force. Daniel San-Juan et al. Clinical Neurology, V.131 (7).
Webinar recording on drug interactions - EpiCARE
- Emilio Perucca – Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 and special concerns for people with epilepsy – starts at 1:40
- Emilio Perucca - Drug interaction information – starts at 14:45
- Cecelie Johannessen Landmark - Mechanisms of drug interactions – starts at 33:00
- Eugen Trinka – 49:38 – Status epilepticus during COVID-19 pandemic – starts at 49:38
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COVID-19 Task Force Reports
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The initial impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on epilepsy research (Epilepsia Open, 2021)
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ASHA's Medicare Fee Schedule provides a list of CPT codes with short descriptors and associated national rates for speech-language pathology services. For precise payment rates based on locality, go to the CMS website.
Clinical fellows (CFs) practicing in States that grant CFs temporary or provisional licensure are fully qualified to provide services according to Medicare regulations. However, in states without such licensure, Medicare treats clinical fellows as graduate students requiring "in the room" supervision. For more information, see Medicare Coverage of Students.
Services of speech-language pathology assistants are not recognized for Medicare coverage. Services provided by speech-language pathology assistants, even if they are licensed to provide services in their states, will be considered unskilled services and denied as not reasonable and necessary if they are billed as therapy services. Services provided by aides, even if under the supervision of a therapist, are not therapy services and are not covered by Medicare. Although an aide may help the therapist by providing unskilled services, those services are not covered by Medicare and shall be denied as not reasonable and necessary if they are billed as therapy services.
A physician referral is not required for Medicare patients. The Medicare program allows the plan of care to be established by the physician or the speech-language pathologist. If the plan of care is written by the speech-language pathologist, it must be certified by the patient's physician within 30 days. For outpatient services, the plan of care must be recertified by the physician every 90 days from the initiation of treatment or when there is a significant modification to the plan. The physician must review the plan of care every 60 days for home health agencies and Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. The physician or speech-language pathologist can make changes in the plan of care. The speech-language pathologist may not significantly alter a plan of care without recertification from the physician.
Medicare requirements for a plan of care are set forth in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15, Section 220.1.2 [PDF]. See also: Overview of Documentation for Medicare Outpatient Therapy Services
Clinicians who wish to see Medicare beneficiaries must enroll in the Medicare program. The quickest way to do it is through Medicare's online enrollment system, though paper applications are also available. For more information, go to ASHA's web page on Medicare & SLPs in Private Practice.
Non-institutional providers and suppliers use the CMS 1500 form to bill Medicare Part B services, Medicaid, and private health plans. Diagnosis codes are inserted in Sections 21 and 24E. CPT codes are inserted in Section 24D. You may print sample copies [PDF] through the CMS website or obtain copies from your local Medicare carrier, local printing companies, or the Government Printing Office.
Yes, however, speech-language pathology services are billed to Medicare by the SNF for Part A and Part B residents. A contract specifying payment terms should be executed between the speech-language pathologists and the facility. See also: Medicare SNF Prospective Payment System
Different facilities or agencies have different requirements for how services are to be documented (e.g., SOAP notes, narrative) and where notes are to be maintained (e.g., carbonless copies, writing notes directly in the patient's chart, electronic medical record.)
Clinicians must consider the needs of the audience for which the documentation is intended. Oftentimes, a variety of related professionals and claims reviewers will read the assessment report, treatment plans, and discharge summaries, so the clinician needs to ensure that what thy write can be understood by an audience of varying backgrounds and experience.
Payers may have documentation requirements of their own, including the information they want to see when reviewing a claim and the timelines in which documentation must be submitted. Typically, health plans are instructed by law to initially request only the minimum information necessary to pay a claim. See also: Overview of Documentation for Medicare Outpatient Therapy Services
Medicare policy specifically allows speech-language pathologists to use 97129 (cognitive function intervention, initial 15 minutes) and 97130 (cognitive function intervention, each additional 15 minutes) for treatment of cognitive disorders, but notes that either code 92507 or 97129/97130 could be used, but not both for the same treatment. Additionally, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services do not support the use of other physical medicine codes because the vignettes (examples of the procedures performed with a typical patient) used reflect physical therapy or occupational therapy. The officials contend that procedures such as speech-language pathology treatment (92507) and dysphagia treatment (92526) are bundled codes and encompass all elements of a therapy service. CPT code 92507 (speech-language treatment) is very comprehensive and generally includes all components of treatment. Using a 92000 code in combination with a 97000 code may constitute unbundling of codes, and is not allowed. Unbundling is when you code one component of a treatment separately when that component is already captured under a more comprehensive code that you are also using. See also: Use of Physical Medicine Codes
Go to National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Edits for details, including a list of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits for speech-language pathology codes.
CMS uses this automated edit system to control specific code pairs that can be reported on the same day. The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI or, more commonly, CCI) has been in place since January 1, 1996, and is updated quarterly. The goals of CCI are to eliminate "mutually exclusive" code pairings and codes considered to be components of more comprehensive services or otherwise inappropriate to be delivered to the same patient on the same day.
The Medicare fiscal intermediary should be contacted to determine if a local policy exists regarding treatment during a holiday. There is a somewhat relevant instruction about breaks in rehabilitation service from the federal Medicare program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance ( Federal Register , 7/30/99, p. 41670) for maintaining coverage in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) that requires receipt of skilled services at least five days per week: "...the Medicare program does not specify in regulations or guidelines an official list of holidays or other specific occasions that a facility may observe as breaks in rehabilitation services...The facility itself must judge whether a brief, temporary pause in the delivery of therapy services would adversely affect the resident's condition." However, this guidance is not definitive because it was in response to situations where a SNF resident initiated a brief absence to attend an event with family or friends. It also does not respond to a specific Plan of Care that calls for 5 treatments per week.
A provider cannot charge Medicare a greater fee then their normal fee for a service, thus may not accept the higher fee. The Medicare payment will be the lower of the actual charge or the fee schedule allowance. If the reimbursement is from a private insurance company the speech-language pathologist should refer to the contract between the provider and the health plan. If no such contract exists, the professional should contact the payer for clarification. | <urn:uuid:943e6e7d-1145-48a9-a53e-f990b166df6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asha.org/practice/reimbursement/medicare/medicare_faqs_slp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.932392 | 1,468 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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I am only in my mid twenties and my hair has been coming out a lot when I wash it and when I run my fingers through my hair I get a lot of strands coming out. I don't go bald the hair always grows back but it is thinning and not full like it use to be. I was addicted to coloring my hair..I colored all the time until one time my hair was like straw and another it turned to mush. So about two years ago I cut all my hair off I mean completely so I could start over. When my hair started to grow a little the hair loss started again. I do have very bad dandruff that will not go away. I don't know if thats why but my eyelashes come out a lot too so IDK. The dermatologist said if was telogen effluvium but I don't think so it has been going on for way too long..they sayunfortunately some ppl may have it for years..well hope this will help.
I hope it is ok to post this definition ********* says:"Telogen effluvium is a scalp disorder characterized by thinning/shedding of hair resulting from the early entry of hairs into the telogen phase.
Emotional or physiological stressful events may result in an alteration of the normal hair cycle.
Telogen effluvium may be caused by eating disorders, fever, childbirth, chronic illness, major surgery, anemia, severe emotional disorders, crash diets, hypothyroidism, and drugs.
Diagnostic tests, which may be performed to verify the diagnosis, include a trichogram, trichoscopy and biopsy."
Hi Golden....funny you should mention eyelashes, I've noticed where my are thinning also...are you using a wide tooth comb? I've read that when your hair is wet, it stretches and using a fine tooth comb can aggravate the hairs with the pulling, so I brought a two sided comb, one side with super wide teeth, I use that side first, then the other side with not so wide teeth and I use that second, then lastly...I use the finer teeth comb...it helps with the tugging....I've been thinking about getting it cut shorter, it is now just past my ears and going really into a pixie cut....still debating...it would be less stressful not to see the longer hairs fall out but....today was not such a bad day....but the scalp is still burning....in using just baby shampoo with no conditioner was causing my hair to look more like straw and drying...so I used tea tree conditioner and it seems fuller today....I find that using some conditioners are too heavy and make my hair look greasy and not as fluffy...I'm on the hunt for this new stuff called Intra Force by Redken check it out when you can....how long do these bouts last for you at a time? | <urn:uuid:cae756ad-af2b-468e-b6e2-14a36c15fce4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthboards.com/boards/4912566-post8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965623 | 608 | 1.515625 | 2 |
A documentary film review of
Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
If the battleground over abortion resembles a chessboard, the new Netflix documentary Reversing Roe is an offensive bombardment on the pro-life movement’s front lines. The problem is that the film talks around abortion without ever really talking about it at all.
Its release is eerily timely. Its conclusion set the stage for the dramatic showdown over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And its method is strikingly similar to coverage of the Kavanaugh debacle — a postmodern feelings-led approach that runs roughshod over the ins and outs of valid arguments.
The documentary juxtaposes a brief history of abortion rights with recent efforts several states have made since Roe’s inception to limit access to abortion. From the pre-Roe era of illegal abortions — whether “therapeutic” and performed in hospital settings or done with coat hanger segments in hidden rooms — to President Trump’s inauguration and nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Reversing Roe spells out the purported dangers of eliminating abortion as a constitutional right for women.
The film is overtly pro-abortion, and though pro-life advocates are interviewed throughout its 95-minute duration, filmmaking duo Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, acclaimed for documentary collaborations including Marathon: The Patriot’s Day Bombing (HBO, 2106), portray the pro-life movement uncharitably at best. Pro-life representatives are painted, on the whole, as religious zealots who target abortion providers under the (allegedly) false pretenses of protecting women’s health, and who do so in a way that is anti-medicine and anti-science.
“There is so much factual inaccuracy in these bills…which is infuriating,” claims the film’s protagonist, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, “especially from the standpoint of science and evidence and, just, facts.”
McNicholas, a gynecologist with a family of her own, travels extensively throughout the Midwest to perform abortions in areas where, thanks to incapacitating restrictions placed on abortion providers, women have severely limited access. She is shown kissing her child goodbye at dawn before hitting the road to fight another day for reproductive freedom.
Stern and Sundberg cherry-pick motivations of the pro-life movement as it developed, choosing to highlight faith as a driving-but-invalid factor, as well as religiously motivated racial undertones from segregated religious institutions. Prior to the Reagan election, political strategists reportedly spurred disgruntled evangelicals to vote Republican by pushing abortion (as an emotional tool) to the forefront, making tax exemptions for those institutions the prize beneath the flashy wrapping.
Demeaning insult to intelligent conservative voters aside, a cursory glance at history would demonstrate that when Roe v. Wade was decided by the federal court, faithful Christians responded like they always have when it becomes obvious that an entire class of human beings is being unjustly harmed. Think William Wilberforce and Martin Luther King, Jr. They could not, and cannot, stand for it.
Meanwhile, the strongest representation of the pro-life argument is a soundbite from Texas Right to Life’s John Seago: “The most important moral question of the abortion debate is ‘What is in the womb?’ Is it a person? Does it deserve our moral attention and protection or not?”
The problem is that the film never picks back up those central questions to examine them seriously. The answers lie in science, philosophy, and in the metaphysics that not even the filmmakers can escape employing in their own reasoning. It is no more religious to say that the women featured in the film are valuable and deserving of a right to life than to say that they’re not. Everyone does metaphysics. In missing the mark, the film fails to determine whether or not Roe is good constitutional law.
The film centralizes the issue on whether or not the government should have control over women’s bodies. The narrative follows the establishment of Roe and the back-and-forth that ensued, and examines the pro-life movement’s perceived goals that, according to the filmmakers, are to shame and oppress women by denying them access to needed abortion services, and to bomb abortion clinics in the name of religion.
Abortion advocates scoff at required ultrasounds and waiting periods prior to abortions as insults to women seeking a “low-risk medical treatment.” McNicholas dismisses “partial-birth abortion” as a term that the anti-choice movement invented, pointing out that only 1.3 percent of abortions occur after 21 weeks’ gestation. Never mind the simple line drawings of the late-term procedure that effectively shocked the nation. They are shrugged off as a ploy to horrify, a use of optics to support a created narrative.
The choice to focus on women’s reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy without grappling with the humanity of the unborn results in a host of assumptions leading to the premise that — contrary to the science of embryology — the unborn is not a member of the human family.
Consider the claims:
- Abortion prior to Roe was illegal and often dangerous for women. It was (and is) lethal for the unborn.
- After Roe, abortion became a low-risk medical procedure. It is safer than pregnancy. Safer for whom? Abortion always aims to result in the death of the unborn.
- Ultimately, abortion is about equality, bodily integrity, a view of life, and who should make important decisions. Does this equality extend to every human being? What about those being intentionally exterminated through abortion?
Wendy Davis’s appeal before the Texas Senate outright denies that the unborn are alive: “We all believe in the beauty and wonder that is human life. But I also believe that women already here are beautiful and they deserve to live…to determine the direction of their lives…to be recognized as full people.” As if denying these women the right to abort would somehow deem women less than full members of the human community. And what about the unborn ones?
Despite what the film claims, the pro-life argument is firmly grounded in science. From the point of conception, the entity in question is fully, distinctly, and wholly human. That evidence is anything but religious.
Further, there is no morally relevant difference between a human being as a zygote and a human being as an adult. Philosophically, human beings are the kinds of things that come into being all at once and simply mature according to their kind. It is their common humanity that grounds the equal rights they share. Other groundings confuse functioning as a human with being one, and create a value spectrum — and, consequently, a basic rights spectrum — on which some human beings matter more than others.
The assumptions regarding human worth that undergird abortion are cut from the same cloth as those bolstering any other form of bigotry that results in gross injustice, including the racism and sexism the film’s creators rightly despise. But instead of ethnicity or gender, abortion advocates appeal to a human being’s size, level of development, location, or dependency. In their attempt to demonize the “religious right,” they overlook their own inconsistency.
The anthropology that insists that the basis of democracy is absolute control over one’s body actually requires a lower view of the body. Closer to Gnosticism than Christianity, it deems one’s body subservient to desires and passions, and freedom requires denial of the body’s natural processes. In a world where autonomy, abortion, pleasure, and sex sans pregnancy are the highest goods, the reality is that women — who are biologically engineered to carry children — must deny and/or squelch aspects of womanhood in order to be “free.” And the price is the millions of human casualties along the way, the women and their children harmed because of abortion.
Setting aside any debatable legal and political points the film makes, Reversing Roe fails to take pro-life arguments seriously. If you’re looking for a balanced, intellectually honest portrayal of abortion rights, this isn’t it.
For pro-lifers wishing to engage pro-choice ideas, this film does powerfully reveal that abortion advocates demonstrate deep compassion for women and families, and truly believe that their work to make abortion accessible is a great societal good. Failing to grasp that and to allow it to temper interactions with those who disagree can result in the same kind of character attacks the film employs.
As the film closes, McNicholas the road warrior drives into the proverbial sunset, claiming, “Women have built their lives around the ability to make decisions about pregnancy. So we have to make sure that right is protected.”
Until storytellers endeavor to take both sides of the argument seriously, the chess game continues and each side will continue to move pieces around the board. As it stands, the evidence that abortion is, in fact, the intentionally killing of innocent human beings is insurmountable. It is a choice that no one ought to be allowed to make.
Perhaps Reversing Roe avoids the evidence because, like a well-protected queen, it cannot be overtaken. How many more will die before the truth is allowed to conquer and declare, “Checkmate”?
A victory that says human beings matter simply by virtue of being human is a win for all.
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Training a new puppy is not easy. Before we get to the tips and tricks on how to train a Golden Retriever puppy. Let’s explore their history.
What was the purpose of Golden Retriever breeding?
Here are some fun facts about Golden Retrievers. Rumor has it that the breed was developed by the 1st Baron of Tweedmouth. He was inspired by his golden-colored retrieving dog Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel.
This crossbreed produced a dog that could be comfortable on both land and water and was strong enough to hunt deer, partridge, and goose.
All the Golden Retrievers that we have today are thought to be descendants of the 1868 litter.
This leads us to our next question.
Are Golden Retrievers good pets for families?
Absolutely! Golden Retrievers are a beloved breed. As their name suggests, they are exceptional at retrieving.
However, they are also great at swimming and they love children and babies. Even when those children throw tantrums, they stay loving and gentle.
I want help training my Golden Retriever puppy.
Look we know why you’re here. However, we believe that it is easier to train your Golden Retriever more effectively if you know the context of why they exist in the first place.
Golden Retrievers love to train and are often used as Guide Dogs. They are food-motivated but less so than Labradors. In all honesty, they are easy to train.
A Golden Retriever puppy will do almost anything if you give them soft words and approval. Your praise is just as effective as treats.
Golden Retrievers are gentle and great for families of all ages and lifestyles.
You’ll be able to enjoy their playful side for quite a while as Golden Retrievers retain their puppy dog nature into their later years. Which we think is a bonus!
A Golden Retriever requires a lot of exercise, both mental and physical. If you don’t give a Golden Retriever puppy enough training, they can become bored and start to struggle.
This is usually the cause of increased chewing and getting into things.
Golden Retrievers love to play in the water (almost as much as they love food and you)! It might be a good idea to go swimming with your Golden Retriever every now and then.
Because they have such a strong sense of smell, retrieving or scent working games are a big treat next to a day at the lake.
A Golden puppy is a social butterfly. They are affectionate and open to all people.
Jumping up can be quite common, so ensure they do lots of sit-and-greet exercises to make them polite and nice.
A Golden Retriever pup will love retrieving and will often love to have things in their mouths, even things they shouldn’t.
However, you should also teach your new Golden Retriever puppy the joys of giving items up.
Or else you may end up chasing your Golden Retriever puppy around the yard to get your underwear back!
As puppies, they can be quite bitey – which makes sense for a retriever. It can be annoying if they bite your arm, so give them a toy to chew on instead.
A golden retriever puppy will grow up to be a wonderful dog.
You will just have to get through the growing pains of when she or he is peeing on the floor or chewing your shoes.
Your golden retriever puppy will be happier if you start training him or her at an early age.
All owners should want their dog to learn basic commands such as “sit” or “stay”, as well as house training and leash training.
There are many other behaviors you can teach your golden retriever puppy with a basic approach.
Breeders often start training golden retriever puppies before they find an owner for them.
These training sessions can include potty training, crate training, and behavioral training. However, this isn’t always possible, especially if your puppy is not from a breeder.
Golden Retriever puppy training should begin at 8 weeks old.
As research shows that golden retriever puppies shouldn’t be separated from their mothers earlier than 8 weeks of age.
Golden Retriever puppies are much smarter than you may realize. They absorb so much information, despite being young.
Training a Golden Retriever puppy takes time, so it is better to start training them when they are young.
Dog training early builds trust between the dog and you, making the entire process more efficient.
If you have yet to adopt your Golden Retriever puppy, the ideal age to bring them home is between 8 and 10 weeks old.
Research shows that Golden Retriever puppies being separated from their mothers earlier can lead to behavioral issues when they are older.
The good news is that you can begin housetraining your new puppy as soon as they get home.
Although it can take up to two years to train a Golden Retriever puppy completely, it doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t be able to learn everything in that time.
Golden Retriever puppy training is divided into stages according to their emotional maturity and age.
These are the stages you need to follow until your Golden Retriever is two years old.
What Supplies do I need?
You will need supplies if you want to succeed in golden retriever puppy training. These items are listed below.
To train your puppy, we recommend the following equipment
- Treats: The more opulent, the better
- A treat pouch
- A soft collar
- Training lead of 2 meters
- A harness: A harness that does not pull or tighten on your dog and allows them to walk.
- A non-slip mat or vet bed for your pet.
- A soft grooming brush
- Two identical toys: Perfect for swapping
- Optional: A crate or playpen is possible, but we find them very useful.
Crate: You will need a crate if you are going to train your puppy in crate training. This training equipment should be available at your home from the beginning. You have the option of a medium or heavy-duty dog crate.
Gates: These baby gates are not necessary, but they can be very useful. These tools can prevent something bad from happening when you are being distracted away from your Golden Retriever puppy and create a safe environment for your pet.
Dog Leashes: Some trainers like to use separate leashes indoors and outdoor. That can be decided according to your needs. However, we will recommend one for all purposes.
High-quality puppy food: Talk to your veterinarian or breeder about the best food. However, we will list what we have used with our puppies below.
Chew Toy: Golden Retriever puppies are energetic. It might be a good idea to get them chew toys. Check out our article on the best toys for Golden Retrievers in 2022. Or check out our suggestion below.
Bedding: You will need some bedding if you purchase a crate to house your dog. There are some crates that include this.
Treats: They will prove very helpful during training. These should be used sparingly.
Collar: It will help your Golden Retriever to be comfortable wearing a collar starting from day one.
Brushes: An essential grooming tool. This will keep your new Golden Retriever puppy happy with a healthy coat.
This might seem like a long list. It’s really just the basics.
Additionally, you will need to practice some other things such as:
- Time to practice: If you want a trained Golden puppy, you will need to be able to practice every day.
- Persistence: Your puppy training journey will be less confusing if you’re consistent in your training.
- Patience: Remember that puppies are still toddlers after all these years. They might need some time to grasp the basics of what you are teaching them.
It’s important to figure out what information you want to teach your Golden Retriever puppy.
Most Golden retriever owners want their retriever puppy to learn to potty train and to be able to leash walk with their other dogs.
Basic obedience training is essential, including sit, stay, come, and down. Other skills and behaviors are dependent on each owner’s preferences and needs.
Teaching your Golden Retriever puppy to fetch is a great way to also get them sufficient exercise at the same time.
You might also want to teach your Golden Retriever puppy how to catch a Frisbee or play tug-of-war.
While tricks like “speak” or “shake” are entertaining, they are not required for proper Golden Retriever training.
You will need to ensure that your Golden Retriever is crate-trained if you plan on taking it with you when you travel.
During basic obedience training, you may need to teach your Golden Retriever to not beg, to not jump on you, and to not show aggression towards other dogs, depending on their temperament.
How to train a Golden Retriever puppy – Basic Training Methods
When you see good behavior, reward it. Positive reinforcement is crucial.
Although there are many methods for training your Golden Retriever, the most effective ones focus on three things: Rewarding behaviors you enjoy; making sure to not reward bad behavior; and being consistent.
Rewards – This is where it gets easy and fun. Rewards don’t have to be reserved for an active training session. You should praise your Golden Retriever when she/he walks outside or when showing progress in potty training. It is also important that when your Golden Retriever greets another dog, to praise them.
Don’t reward bad behavior – Rewarding negative behavior is not a good idea. You should ask yourself why your Retriever puppy does something you don’t like. Usually, it is because they have been rewarded for that behavior or it’s a natural behavior that needs to be redirected, like chewing. It is important to remove that sense of reward when observing bad behavior. If your dog jumps up and down when they see their leash, don’t let them put it on for a while. Save leash training for another time. The reward will only make the behavior worse.
Be consistent – Everyone in the household should always respond the same way with the Golden Retriever. If the rule is that nobody feeds the Golden Retriever from the table then nobody should secretly be feeding them under the table. Or if you tell your dog to sit down when she jumps, but then others greet her enthusiastically. This will send mixed signals that could confuse your dog.
Give your Golden Retriever a reward they like.
You will need a reward on hand whenever you train your Golden Retriever to do a certain behavior. You should choose something that your Golden Retriever puppy loves.
The better the reward, the easier it will be to teach your Retriever puppy. Positive reinforcement will work wonders with your Golden Retriever puppy.
Treats are often the best way to teach any Golden Retriever dog. Your dog will love the treats you give him.
You can give your Golden Retriever puppy a variety of treats to keep them interested. Toys can be treats too!
- Chicken cooked.
- String cheese sticks.
- Meat rolls
- Dog biscuits.
- For dogs on a restricted diet, baby carrots, and frozen green beans.
To train a Golder Retriever with a clicker, you would use a clicker to signal to your Golden Retriever pup when they have done something right.
Because it’s a unique, consistent sound that is different from your voice, the clicker can be very effective when training your Golden Retriever.
How do you use a clicker for training your Golden Retriever?
Well, first, load your clicker. With a treat in your hand show your new puppy, then close your hands if your dog attempts to grab it.
Only give it to your dog right after clicking the clicker. Continue this process for a few more minutes. Then do it again.
Continue this process until your young puppy responds immediately to the clicker sound expecting a treat.
Keep each skill you are training to a single session. Sessions should be short, simple, and to the point.
Fun is key in training your Golden Retriever. The following are the best ways to get the most from your training sessions:
- Keep it short. The training session should not last more than 15 minutes for adult dogs. Puppy training sessions should usually be less than that.
- One skill should be taught at a time. If you’re teaching sit and stay, begin with sit. First reward all sitting. Next, add a command to your dog as he sits. Finally, practice sitting on command. Next, practice staying seated. Next, practice staying seated while you move away. Finally, move the training to a more distracting place like a dog park. This will help you make training more efficient.
- Basic Commands are better than complicated sentences. Your commands should be clear and consistent. For example, “sit” should be used instead of “sit, Cooper”, or “sit down”, or even “would you like to sit?” Your dog will become confused if you use too many words.
Crate training Guide
Crate training is a good idea, and it’s worth doing from the beginning when you bring the puppy home. But, you should take it slowly, in small steps.
It is important that the puppy gets used to the crate. Sessions should last longer and longer than the previous session. Remember to reward your puppy with treats.
New pet owners can expect your puppy to wake up many times a night, and at least once they will have to use the bathroom.
For the first few weeks, be prepared for some sleepless nights and tired mornings. Very similar to having a newborn baby.
It is temporary to have them sleep beside you.
It’s important to be consistent! You’ll be able to potty train Golden Retriever puppies easy if you stick to a routine and improve their ability to keep it in.
Slowly you will find that you are getting more and more sleep each night.
Crate training isn’t only great for potty training. You can keep your dog and possessions safe while you are away from home or on the road with a crate.
Crate training your dog can be done for many reasons aside from training your Golden Retriever. Your crate should be used:
- If your dog is at home alone.
- To keep things safe even if you are not there.
- You can keep your dog’s belongings safe even if you are not there.
- long travels or a car ride.
- Give your dog a safe place to relax.
- To assist in house training and other behavior training.
- Keep your puppy away from other dogs and children.
Be aware of when you should not use the crate.
Young puppies should never be punished by you using the crate. When your dog is older and no longer a puppy, don’t crate him or her while you are gone.
The crate can be used for special occasions, such as when you invite guests to your home – or if you take the Golden Retriever on vacation.
If you have finished your dog training, you should force them to go into the crate.
Choosing a crate.
You can choose the type of crate that you prefer, but wire crates are most commonly used in kennels. It is important to get the correct size crate.
Your Golden Retriever won’t be happy if the crate is too small. It should be large enough to provide the space that an adult dog might need.
You can save money by buying an adult dog crate and dividing it to make it suitable for them as a puppy.
Your dog should be capable of standing in the crate and turning around without hitting her head. They should also be able to lay on their sides with their paws stretched out.
A 42-inch crate is sufficient for a typical adult golden retriever. If you are purchasing a crate for your dog, make sure to get a divider for use while they’re a puppy.
Check out our guide on how to choose the right crate for your puppy!
You should make the crate secure and comfortable.
You should let your puppy enjoy the crate. Your puppy should feel safe and secure in her crate.
You should place the crate where you spend a lot of time so that your dog does not feel neglected.
The dog crate should be kept at a comfortable temperature, away from direct sunlight and away from radiators and fireplaces.
Be sure to include soft bedding. Also give your dog something to chew on, place some chew toys inside.
Use a towel or blanket to cover the dog crate. This will give your dog a more cozy, den-like environment.
Your dog should associate the crate and good things.
Before you start crate training your puppy, it is important to show them that the crate can be a magical place that produces wonderful things.
Crate training will be easier if you do it right. When introducing your puppy to their crate, leave the door open and place treats at the front and inside the crate.
You can also add new toys for them inside.
Allow your puppy to explore the crate by themselves. It is important not to draw attention to the crate. When going inside, don’t say anything.
Let them move at their own pace.
Each hour, add more treats to the crate when your puppy isn’t looking. Soon they will be checking the crate for treats on their own.
These treats should be deducted from the daily food allowance. Don’t want that puppy getting fat!
You can also start to feed your dog in the crate. To make it easier for your dog to reach the bowl, place it just inside their crate.
After two to three successful feedings, you can move the bowl to the middle and then back.
You can train your puppy to go into the crate and get treats.
Show your puppy a treat, and then toss it in their crate. Use your preferred command to get them in, such as “Crate!”
Your dog will be grateful when you give them a treat. Wait for your dog to get out of the crate. When they leave, say “Out!” Do not praise, and don’t give treats.
You want the magic crate to be associated with treats.
You can repeat the entire ritual multiple times per day until your dog enjoys going to the crate and fetching treats. This part of training should not take too long.
Closing the crate door.
Ask your dog to come into the crate with you and ask them to sit. Slowly close the door. If you can’t slowly close the door without your puppy trying to escape, they are not ready.
Once the door is shut, praise your dog and give them treats. Then, open the door and let them go.
Gradually increase the amount of time they have to sit in the cage before you allow them out.
Short training sessions where they must wait for ten seconds, then 30 seconds, 45 seconds, and finally one minute.
You will be able to move to the next step of moving away from the crate if they can stay in there for more than a minute.
Move only a few feet away from your dog before returning to them. You can move around the room, but keep your eyes on your dog.
After, you might try training sessions in which you just move around and not pay any attention to your dog.
Now leave the room
You may initially only stay out for five or so minutes at first. Gradually, increase your time away to about 30 minutes.
If your dog becomes anxious or agitated while you’re gone, let them out. You can go back to the first step or decrease the time that you leave them for until they are comfortable.
Before leaving your puppy in a crate, make sure you remove their collar and leash as they can be choking hazards.
When you’re not there, crate your dog.
Once your dog is able to stay in its crate comfortably for at least 30 minutes, you can start to put them in the crate when leaving the home.
These trips should be shorter for puppies since a puppy can’t be expected to not have an accident for periods longer than three hours.
However, you should not keep your dog in a crate for more than four hours, even if they are older. Dogs should be able to get up and stretch their legs.
Before you leave, give your dog a toy or chewy.
Change up the time that you place your dog in the crate. You might need to do it about ten minutes before you leave or sometimes five minutes.
Sometimes, do it right as you’re walking out the door. The crate shouldn’t be taken as a sign of abandonment.
Allow your dog to sleep in the crate for the night.
Once your puppy is happy in its crate, you should allow them to sleep in it overnight. But make sure they are within earshot. Young puppies tend to need to pee during the night.
Final Thoughts on Crate Training your golden retriever puppy
Crate training is a unique experience for every puppy. When you crate train your Golden Retriever, sometimes it can be done in a week.
Sometimes it may take longer. Some dogs are timider or have had bad experiences. Do not push your puppy too quickly.
Before you move on to the next step, make sure your dog is comfortable with the current step.
Every dog owner wants a friendly, social dog. This is a great trait for your puppy to have with people and other dogs as well. Being friendly can be taught, which is a good thing.
Dog training experts believe that dogs have a social period. It usually lasts from 0 to 3 months.
It is important that the puppy has experiences with as many people, dogs, and stimuli as possible during this time.
Introduce your Golden Retriever puppy slowly to other pets and people.
It’s important to note that your pup should not be allowed to go to the dog park before they are 5 weeks old. They will then be fully vaccinated.
Dogs can be exposed to dangerous bacteria if they do not have these vaccines. Instead, you can let your puppy become familiar with different noises, such as vacuuming, and people visiting.
Although it is important for your puppy to learn and experience new things, your Goldy should be able to do things at their own pace. Do not rush.
Pet owners must be responsible for their dogs. Your puppy’s safety is your top priority.
Dogs have a natural tendency to chew on everything. If you don’t want your dog chewing on your furniture, you need to manage this instinct.
This is best done by buying as many chew toys for your dog as you can.
You can also teach your puppy how to bite gently. If your dog bites you, you should shout as if you are hurt.
Your dog won’t want to hurt you. This trick teaches your dog to reduce its biting power.
Teaching the puppy their name is another important aspect. This can be achieved by repetition and lots of treats.
Leash training is an important part of training golden retriever puppies. As we all know, walking should be enjoyable.
The leash should be used with care, just like any other equipment. It should be introduced slowly to your puppy.
Allow your puppy to sniff it and chew on it. Whatever they need to feel comfortable. You can attach it to your dog’s collar if once they are comfortable with it.
Here are some tips on leash training:
- Use marker words as soon and as often as possible. (slow, stop, etc.)
- It is best to take short, 5-10 minute walks, 2-3 times per day. Later you might consider longer walks of 30 minutes.
- Treats are not allowed. Walking should be a reward in itself.
- Don’t pull on the leash or yank it hard. This can increase the chance of injury. Instead, gently pull your dog back and stop walking for a time. You can only continue walking your dog after they have calmed down.
A new Golden Retriever puppy will need to potty train for about two months. The puppy will begin to learn where to go to relieve himself/herself, so accidents in the house should decrease.
By 2 months, the puppy should be finished with house training.
You should start to potty train your puppy as soon as you bring them home. As it will likely take a couple of months to complete this process as we discussed above.
In the first few weeks, it is crucial that you spend as much time with your puppy as possible. This will assist with potty training.
Here are some helpful tips:
- Don’t reward your dog with treats. Rewarding them with treats is not a good idea. You should not reward your golden retriever puppy for pooping. Although pooping is a positive thing, your golden retriever puppy may try to link pooping with a reward and poop in your home, hoping for a treat.
- Walk your puppy a lot. It is a good idea to take your puppy out for a walk every hour or so. This will help avoid accidents.
- Small bladders. Puppies can’t hold onto their urine for very long because they have a tiny bladder. Until the puppies are trained, golden retriever puppies need to be monitored closely for their bladder needs.
- Don’t over punish: A firm voice and some talking can make a big difference in how fast the puppy learns.
- Don’t flush the poop. If your dog poos in the house, you should take the poop outside. Animals are sensitive to their own smells and will associate outside with poop.
Whether you have a Golden Retriever Poodle mix, a Golden Retriever Dachshund mix, or a full-bred Golden Retriever puppy.
The above should help you get started with crate training and potty training.
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Margaret Beaufort was born in 1443 at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire. Her father was John, Duke of Somerset, the grandson of John of Gaunt (a younger son of Edward III). Her mother was Margaret Beauchamp, a cousin of Henry VI, who was then King of England.
The death of her father when she was only one year old resulted in Margaret becoming the richest heiress in England and this, along with her royal lineage, made her an attractive bride. Her first ‘marriage’ to John de la Pole occurred in 1450 when she was six and he was seven years old, but this union was dissolved a few years later.
Margaret spent much of her childhood with her mother at Bletsoe Castle and Maxey Castle in Northamptonshire along with her step-siblings (the issue from her mother’s previous marriage) and later her mother’s third husband, Viscount Welles.
In 1452, when she was nine-years old, Margaret was summoned to court, where Henry VI announced her betrothal to his half-brother, Edmund Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, then aged twenty-two. This would help the King to secure his dynasty, since he had only one son, Edward, the Prince of Wales, with his wife Margaret of Anjou.
It was not until three years later that Margaret left her mother to accompany her husband to Wales, and just before her thirteenth birthday she became pregnant. Six months later, in November 1456, Edmund died of the plague. His widow fled to the safety of Pembroke Castle, home to her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor. There, in a tower chamber, her son Henry Tudor was born in January 1457.
By this time, the Wars of the Roses had broken out, with her Lancastrian kinsman, Henry VI, becoming mentally unstable, allowing for the rise of his Yorkist rivals, and, in 1461, Edward IV became King.
In 1462, Margaret married Henry Stafford. It would seem that, unlike her previous two marriages as little more than a child, Margaret enjoyed a close relationship with her new husband. Despite having been a supporter of the usurped king, Stafford reconciled with the Yorks, hunting with Edward IV and entertaining him at their home, Woking Palace.
The Lancastrians were briefly in the ascendancy again when Henry VI was restored in 1470. However, Margaret was quick to welcome Edward IV back from exile in 1471, a year which had great significance for her and her son, for Edward, Prince of Wales, was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury and Henry VI was murdered in the Tower of London.
Young Henry Tudor was suddenly promoted to being the main Lancastrian claimant to the throne. Recognising the dangers this presented now that the Yorks were once again in power, Margaret put her fourteen-year-old son aboard a ship at Tenby, where he sailed to the safety of Brittany along with his uncle, Jasper Tudor. She would not see him for nearly fifteen years.
Additionally, her husband Henry Stafford died, and the following year she married her fourth – and final – husband, Lord Thomas Stanley, who was trusted by Edward IV and therefore provided her the opportunity to further her political interests (and those of her son). During the 1470s she largely resided at Lathom, though she was also at court in 1480 when she was entrusted by the Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, to carry the Princess Bridget at the celebrations of her birth.
In 1483, Edward IV died and he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward V. However, the young king and his brother were taken to the Tower of London, declared illegitimate and replaced by their regent and uncle, Richard III.
This led Margaret to join forces with Elizabeth Woodville in a ‘ladies’ plot’ against the new king. It aimed to replace Richard with Henry Tudor, who would marry the Dowager Queen’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York. But news of the plot was leaked to Richard, who acted swiftly and decisively against its supporters. Additionally, Henry’s ships were scattered and instead of landing in the West Country as planned, he was forced to sail to Normandy. Many of the nobles who had supported the plot also fled.
Henry’s second attempt at invasion would be successful, as this time he had military and financial support from Charles VIII of France, as well as the Duke of Brittany. In August 1485, then aged thirty, Henry landed at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, and marched rapidly into England. Richard, then at Nottingham, quickly moved towards Leicester. The two armies met a couple of miles south of Market Bosworth, and there engaged in battle on 22 August. Henry’s step-father, Lord Stanley, was initially neutral, but intervened at a key moment, and the tide of the battle soon turned against Richard, who was killed. Henry was now King of England, as Henry VII, and a new dynasty was born – the Tudors.
In 1486, Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and the following year Margaret’s first grandchild was born, a boy named Arthur. His godmother was Elizabeth Woodville.
Although Margaret had been given the title of ‘My Lady the King’s Mother’ and signed herself ‘Margaret R’, she had never been crowned, and, as such, had to defer to her daughter-in-law and the Dowager Queen, a situation that may not have suited Margaret. This may explain why Elizabeth Woodville mysteriously left court to live in seclusion a few years later.
During the reign of her son, Margaret largely resided at the Palace of Collyweston, though she was frequently at court, particularly for key events, such as the wedding of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon at St Paul’s Cathedral on 14 November 1501.
Her son and granddaughter, the Princess Margaret, visited her at Collyweston in 1503, when the latter was escorted to Scotland as the bride of James IV of Scotland (it was from this marriage that Mary Queen of Scots descended).
By this time, Margaret Beaufort was sixty years old, and began to witness the deaths of those close to her. Firstly, Prince Arthur died in 1502, promoting his younger brother, Henry, to the position of heir and leaving Catherine of Aragon a widow. Her daughter-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, died in 1503, and her husband Thomas Stanley in 1504.
In April 1509, her son Henry VII died, and was buried next to his wife in the Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey. He was soon followed there by Margaret herself, who died in June 1509, having lived to see her grandson, Henry VIII, accede to the throne and marry his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon. One of her last public appearances was to watch from a house in Cheapside the coronation procession of Henry and Catherine from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey.
Having lived through the turbulent Wars of the Roses, it must have been with some relief that Margaret witnessed this smooth transition of the throne and the continuation of the Tudor dynasty, which had truly united the Houses of Lancaster and York at last.
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I was unable to access the main biography of Margaret Beaufort by Michael Jones (with the exception of sample pages available on Google Books), so my sources are many: John Guy’s ‘Tudor England’, David Starkey’s ‘Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity’, Anthony Goodman’s ‘The Wars of the Roses’, Alison Weir’s ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’, and also Michael Jones’s article ‘Lady Margaret Beaufort’ from History Today (available here)
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To the Editor: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses have caused considerable economic losses to the poultry industry and poses potential threats to animal and human health (www.oie.int/en/ and www.who.int/en/). Since 2003, influenza A(H5N1) viruses with a hemagglutinin (HA) gene derived from A/goose/Guandong/1/96-like viruses have become endemic to 6 countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam) (1) (www.cdc. gov/). Furthermore, HPAI viruses with an H5 subtype continue to undergo substantial evolution because of extensive genetic divergence and reassortment between other subtypes of influenza viruses. Especially in China, novel subtypes of H5 HPAI virus, such as influenza A(H5N2), influenza A(H5N5), and influenza A(H5N8) viruses, were reported during 2009-2011 (2,3).
On January 16, 2014, clinical signs of HPAI, such as decreased egg production (60%) and slightly increased mortality rates, were detected in ducks on a breeder duck farm near the Donglim Reservoir in Jeonbuk Province, South Korea. On January 17, a farmer (5 km from the Donglim Reservoir) also reported clinical signs of HPAI in broiler ducks. In addition, 100 carcasses of Baikal teals were found in the Donglim Reservoir.
RNAs extracted from organs (liver, pancreas, and trachea) of 3 dead birds (1 breeder duck, 1 broiler duck, and 1 Baikal teal) were positive for H5 subtype virus by reverse transcription PCR (4). We isolated viruses from suspected specimens by inoculation into embryonated specific pathogen-free chicken eggs. The H5N8 subtype was identified by using HA and neuraminidase (NA) inhibition assays.
Three viruses isolated from domestic ducks and wild birds were designated A/breeder duck/Korea/ Gochang1/2014 (H5N8) (Gochang1), A/duck/Korea/Buan2/2014 (H5N8) (Buan2), and A/Baikal Teal/Korea/ Donglim3/2014 (H5N8) (Donglim3).
All 8 RNA genome segments of these viruses were amplified by using segment-specific primers and directly sequenced (5). Sequences of the 8 RNA segments of each virus were submitted to GenBank under accession nos. KJ413831-KJ413854.
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This morning I saw an alarming video of what appears to be a trend resurfacing among young teens. Not only was it shocking, but I can tell you as a parent, it was very worrisome. We have all heard about sex acts where couples use choking techniques to enhance sexual pleasures. During these sex games, one of the partners cuts off the blood supply to the other partner's brain and quickly releases once the other person has lost consciousness.
We all remember the terrible tragedy of Jennifer Levin and the story that the "Preppie Killer," Robert Chambers told about the last few moments of her life. Well it seems now that teenagers are doing this - but not in a sexual scenario. They are playing a "choking game" just to get the feeling of euphoria once they regain consciousness, and worst of all - they're posting the horrifying visuals on the Internet.
Take a look at this video_ "Choking Game Craze is Back"
This is more dangerous than playing Russian roulette! The potential for death or brain damage is overwhelming and this is an act that must never be tolerated or rationalized in any way. Aside from risking death, secondary effects can also occur that include strokes and potential damage to the nervous system.
Clearly, unless you witness this act, it is very difficult to determine whether or not it is happening under your nose. But there are some subtle signs that you can look for such as fatigue, black and blue marks around the neck area, chronic complaints of headaches and difficulty sleeping. Even though these signs are often symptoms of other common conditions, when in doubt my friends, always check it out. | <urn:uuid:3a1508b1-2b4e-4dcb-9c13-78acfa98d52e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxnews.com/health/the-most-dangerous-game-choking-for-a-high | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.964678 | 330 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Thomas has a vivid fantasy about his pal Tom, who is his spitting image. His fantasy becomes reality when he meets Tom and they experience a thrilling adventure.
After Lange leve de koningin (Long Live the Queen), Esmé Lammers wrote and directed a thrilling, boys' book-like film. Tom & Thomas is an English spoken youth film with an international cast, set in wintry London. The leading character is nine-year-old good Thomas, who is lovingly raised by his foster father. He has a vivid fantasy about his impudent chum Tom, who is his spitting image and is reared in an austere and mysterious children's home. When Tom gets flogged, Thomas is also visibly affected. The people in Thomas' environment don't know what to make of his strange behaviour and his school grades gradually deteriorate. One day, Thomas' fantasy becomes reality when he runs into Tom in the space museum. Together, they have a big adventure, during which they exchange homes, their identical looks are explained and, above all, they unmask a large criminal organisation.
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West Michigan Talent Triangle
A world-class economy requires world class talent.
The K-12 community in West Michigan wants to be an integral partner in working with employers and universities to help young people attain the skills they need to succeed in a competitive and demanding marketplace.
Throughout our region, we are finding ways to partner with business and higher education to provide new relevance to students as they tackle more rigorous standards. Our students are better prepared today than ever before to tackle the challenges of post-secondary education and the workplace. Staff and students alike are meeting the challenges of the Michigan Merit Curriculum .
Still, more must be done. Michigan ranks 44th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia on the ACT test and sixth among the nine states in which 100 percent of students take the ACT. A college entrance exam alone does not measure the quality of education achieved, but it is an indicator of college and career readiness that cannot be ignored.
Even though Michigan's student performance data is trending upward, it's not fast enough. Many in the legislature and in education policy think tanks continue to propose market based reforms to improve our return on education investment.
A New Approach
Kent, Muskegon and Ottawa intermediate school districts are taking a new approach to education reform. We are working to establish direct partnerships with business organizations such as our local chambers and the regional Talent 2025 initiative. We are working to establish early college partnerships with community colleges and universities.
The three intermediate districts representing the population center of West Michigan are joining together to share an education advocate well known and positioned in the business community to help us better inform the dialogue surrounding education reform in our region.
In short, we are working together to identify what really does work, and what does not. And we are joining together, the three intermediate districts representing the population center of West Michigan, to share an education advocate well known and well positioned in the business community to help us better inform the dialogue surrounding education reform in our region.
If more choices were the answer to improved student achievement, Michigan would immediately become a Top 10 performer among all global entities, because there are few places in the world where families have more choice among their traditional public schools, charter schools, private schools and online entities than Michigan.
Improved student achievement requires the absolute best teachers in the classroom, students who are engaged, and families who are involved and informed about the career opportunities available for their children. New schools and parallel administrative structures are not the answer.
We in West Michigan know the answer well, because we model it in virtually every public-private partnership in which we participate. The answer is working to identify the gaps between student preparation and employer/post-secondary preparation, and working together to identify ways to bridge those gaps. We also must make students and their families aware of the opportunities in our region, and build both a knowledge base and enthusiasm for the opportunities available.
We cannot achieve these goals by working in silos as we have in the past. We must adopt different strategies and, when an opportunity presents itself, make decisions that demonstrate our commitment to a new course of action. Kent, Muskegon and Ottawa intermediate school districts comprise the West Michigan Talent Triangle. We are joining together to take this new course of action, to demonstrate our commitment to productive education reform, and to bring our advocacy efforts together with the business community to achieve a better future. | <urn:uuid:e9efa5a6-7c37-42f9-a424-ff269a5c307d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kentisd.org/parents--community/west-michigan-talent-triangle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00433-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95929 | 686 | 1.96875 | 2 |
At the birthday party of a ten year old girl, a group of mothers looked on anxiously while talking about their children. While the little girls danced to Taylor Swift and compared their collection of silly bands, the mothers were deep in discussion.
“How long did you breastfeed for? Was it exclusive or did you supplement with a bottle?” asked one mother.
“Was she dry at night by two, or just dry during the day? We moved to pull-ups by eighteen months” said another.
“Did she have a sippy cup or did she go straight from breast to a cup?”
It sounds unbelievable doesn’t it?
That’s because it is.
It never happened.
By the time your child is ten, your nipples will be safely tucked away inside your bra. If you were to pull them out at the local coffee shop it’s possible you may be arrested. There will have been 964 new experts in children’s sleeping patterns, and you will groan and change the channel each time they pop up on the telly to promote their new book. The aisle in the supermarket with the wet wipes and the boxes of Huggies will be a complete mystery to you.
Children will win awards at school and no-one will say “I hear she was the first in her baby group to use a straw”. No-one looks at a child and says “I really like the way they walk, I bet they walked by ten months, they look like they’ve been doing it longer than everyone else.”
The game of my child is going to turn out better than your child has ended, because everyone has realized it’s irrelevant. The baby that could point to the blue blocks and stack the hoops faster than anyone else is now failing Language Arts but blitzing in Geometry. Parents have learned that each week there will be another hurdle, maybe it will be social, perhaps it will be scholastic, we all pray it won’t be medical.
Your challenges this week may involve not making the basketball squad or falling out with a best friend. You will try and stay calm while you work on fractions, listen intently to the project on sharks, and be genuinely interested while you are given the task of quizzing the religious definitions of certain aspects of Judaism. You may find yourself wiping away the tears at the orthodontist (both yours and hers), and then bursting with pride over the courage displayed while being vaccinated, again, both yours and hers.
First words, first teeth, weening and first steps are all captured in photos and video clips, their dates are immaterial.
Having four children in four different countries has meant that I have received four very different approaches when it came to parenting advice. To wrap or unwrap, to control cry or to attach, to breast-feed for at least 4, 6, 12 months or more. To circumcise, to what in the hell would you do that for? You can have one drink. You can have no drinks.
My four children, unsurprisingly, have different levels of intelligence and physical abilities depending on what it is that they are doing at the time. I would hazard a guess that none of it is related to whether they sat in a stroller or spent more time in a baby sling. The one pregnancy that I technically got everything right for, has not resulted in a child any more brilliant than another. The unplanned pregnancy, the one that didn’t receive the vitamins and the forethought, is interestingly the child who is supposedly quite gifted. This could be luck, this could be life.
When I look back at everything I was told and every book that I read, one piece of advice stands clear of everything else. It came from my obstetrician in Malta. A brilliant man with the kindest heart. A man with six children of his own.
As I was packing my bag ready to leave the hospital with a brand new third little traveler, Dr Muscat walked in to my room to check on how I was and joked about how the easy bit was over. I was now heading home to three children under four. He stood over the third little traveler and looked down at him with a very sincere smile and said “you are very lucky” and then he looked in my direction. “Both of you – you are very lucky”.
“Take him home and cherish him. Remember to take a moment to really look at him and love him. It is the very best thing you can do for him”.
It’s simple but it’s true. Don’t get caught in the hype, don’t beat yourself up, don’t over think it.
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Newswise — WASHINGTON, DC—In comments delivered to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) urged the federal agencies to involve food scientists and technologists in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines deliberation process. Further, IFT emphasized the need for DHHS and USDA to consider at least one permanent designation of a food scientist and/or food technologist for future (2020 and beyond) DGACs.
“Given the increasing intersection between food science and nutrition science, it is extremely important to have a voice on the science of food as part of the ongoing discussion of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,” said IFT President Janet E. Collins, Ph.D., R.D., CFS who is both a food scientist and a registered dietitian.
In addition to offering scientific support to enhance the Committee’s understanding of the role of food science and technology in developing healthy, nutritious foods to meet the Dietary Guidelines, food scientists and technologists can provide critical insight on existing technological capabilities and limitations of the food supply so that the Guidelines are practical and achievable by consumers. These include impact on food manufacturing and food safety; sensory appeal of the food; cost and time restraints; and consumer acceptance. All of these factors can make significant differences in meal pattern and dietary recommendations, consumer behavior and the health of Americans.
In written commentary submitted to the federal agencies, IFT addressed several technological aspects that must be considered when developing dietary guidance. These include reducing food components such as saturated fat and sugar; impacting the safety and quality impacts of sodium reduction in prepared foods; increasing nutrients of concern (folic acid, vitamin D, calcium, and dietary fiber); enrichment and fortification of foods; and sustainability of the food supply. IFT strongly encourages collaboration among food scientists, technologists, dietitians, nutritionists, behavioral scientists and other professionals in order to make positive changes to the food supply and to positively impact overall health of Americans.
The full comments IFT submitted are available here.
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Subtitles and Transcript
0:13 Do you know how many species of flowering plants there are? There are a quarter of a million -- at least those are the ones we know about -- a quarter of a million species of flowering plants. And flowers are a real bugger. They're really difficult for plants to produce. They take an enormous amount of energy and a lot of resources. Why would they go to that bother? And the answer of course, like so many things in the world, is sex. I know what's on your mind when you're looking at these pictures. And the reason that sexual reproduction is so important -- there are lots of other things that plants can do to reproduce. You can take cuttings; they can sort of have sex with themselves; they can pollinate themselves. But they really need to spread their genes to mix with other genes so that they can adapt to environmental niches. Evolution works that way.
1:01 Now the way that plants transmit that information is through pollen. Some of you may have seen some of these pictures before. As I say, every home should have a scanning electron microscope to be able to see these. And there is as many different kinds of pollen as there are flowering plants. And that's actually rather useful for forensics and so on. Most pollen that causes hay fever for us is from plants that use the wind to disseminate the pollen, and that's a very inefficient process, which is why it gets up our noses so much. Because you have to chuck out masses and masses of it, hoping that your sex cells, your male sex cells, which are held within the pollen, will somehow reach another flower just by chance. So all the grasses, which means all of the cereal crops, and most of the trees have wind-borne pollen. But most species actually use insects to do their bidding, and that's more intelligent in a way, because the pollen, they don't need so much of it. The insects and other species can take the pollen, transfer it directly to where it's required.
2:05 So we're aware, obviously, of the relationship between insects and plants. There's a symbiotic relationship there, whether it's flies or birds or bees, they're getting something in return, and that something in return is generally nectar. Sometimes that symbiosis has led to wonderful adaptations -- the hummingbird hawk-moth is beautiful in its adaptation. The plant gets something, and the hawk-moth spreads the pollen somewhere else. Plants have evolved to create little landing strips here and there for bees that might have lost their way. There are markings on many plants that look like other insects. These are the anthers of a lily, cleverly done so that when the unsuspecting insect lands on it, the anther flips up and whops it on the back with a great load of pollen that it then goes to another plant with. And there's an orchid that might look to you as if it's got jaws, and in a way, it has; it forces the insect to crawl out, getting covered in pollen that it takes somewhere else.
3:10 Orchids: there are 20,000, at least, species of orchids -- amazingly, amazingly diverse. And they get up to all sorts of tricks. They have to try and attract pollinators to do their bidding. This orchid, known as Darwin's orchid, because it's one that he studied and made a wonderful prediction when he saw it -- you can see that there's a very long nectar tube that descends down from the orchid. And basically what the insect has to do -- we're in the middle of the flower -- it has to stick its little proboscis right into the middle of that and all the way down that nectar tube to get to the nectar. And Darwin said, looking at this flower, "I guess something has coevolved with this." And sure enough, there's the insect. And I mean, normally it kind of rolls it away, but in its erect form, that's what it looks like.
4:05 Now you can imagine that if nectar is such a valuable thing and expensive for the plant to produce and it attracts lots of pollinators, then, just as in human sex, people might start to deceive. They might say, "I've got a bit of nectar. Do you want to come and get it?" Now this is a plant. This is a plant here that insects in South Africa just love, and they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom. And this is the mimic. So this is a plant that is mimicking the first plant. And here is the long-probosced fly that has not gotten any nectar from the mimic, because the mimic doesn't give it any nectar. It thought it would get some. So not only has the fly not got the nectar from the mimic plant, it's also -- if you look very closely just at the head end, you can see that it's got a bit of pollen that it would be transmitting to another plant, if only some botanist hadn't come along and stuck it to a blue piece of card.
5:12 Now deceit carries on through the plant kingdom. This flower with its black dots: they might look like black dots to us, but if I tell you, to a male insect of the right species, that looks like two females who are really, really hot to trot. (Laughter) And when the insect gets there and lands on it, dousing itself in pollen, of course, that it's going to take to another plant, if you look at the every-home-should-have-one scanning electron microscope picture, you can see that there are actually some patterning there, which is three-dimensional. So it probably even feels good for the insect, as well as looking good.
5:48 And these electron microscope pictures -- here's one of an orchid mimicking an insect -- you can see that different parts of the structure have different colors and different textures to our eye, have very, very different textures to what an insect might perceive. And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles. And under the scanning electron microscope, you can see the surface there -- really quite different from the other surfaces we looked at. Sometimes the whole plant mimics an insect, even to us. I mean, I think that looks like some sort of flying animal or beast. It's a wonderful, amazing thing.
6:32 This one's clever. It's called obsidian. I think of it as insidium sometimes. To the right species of bee, this looks like another very aggressive bee, and it goes and bonks it on the head lots and lots of times to try and drive it away, and, of course, covers itself with pollen. The other thing it does is that this plant mimics another orchid that has a wonderful store of food for insects. And this one doesn't have anything for them. So it's deceiving on two levels -- fabulous.
7:05 Here we see ylang ylang, the component of many perfumes. I actually smelt someone with some on earlier. And the flowers don't really have to be that gaudy. They're sending out a fantastic array of scent to any insect that'll have it. This one doesn't smell so good. This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion. So flies love this. They fly in and they pollinate. This, which is helicodiceros, is also known as dead horse arum. I don't know what a dead horse actually smells like, but this one probably smells pretty much like it. It's really horrible. And blowflies just can't help themselves. They fly into this thing, and they fly all the way down it. They lay their eggs in it, thinking it's a nice bit of carrion, and not realizing that there's no food for the eggs, that the eggs are going to die, but the plant, meanwhile, has benefited, because the bristles release and the flies disappear to pollinate the next flower -- fantastic.
8:14 Here's arum, arum maculatum, "lords and ladies," or "cuckoo-pint" in this country. I photographed this thing last week in Dorset. This thing heats up by about 15 degrees above ambient temperature -- amazing. And if you look down into it, there's this sort of dam past the spadix, flies get attracted by the heat -- which is boiling off volatile chemicals, little midges -- and they get trapped underneath in this container. They drink this fabulous nectar and then they're all a bit sticky. At night they get covered in pollen, which showers down over them, and then the bristles that we saw above, they sort of wilt and allow all these midges out, covered in pollen -- fabulous thing.
8:56 Now if you think that's fabulous, this is one of my great favorites. This is the philodendron selloum. For anyone here from Brazil, you'll know about this plant. This is the most amazing thing. That sort of phallic bit there is about a foot long. And it does something that no other plant that I know of does, and that is that when it flowers -- that's the spadix in the middle there -- for a period of about two days, it metabolizes in a way which is rather similar to mammals. So instead of having starch, which is the food of plants, it takes something rather similar to brown fat and burns it at such a rate that it's burning fat, metabolizing, about the rate of a small cat. And that's twice the energy output, weight for weight, than a hummingbird -- absolutely astonishing. This thing does something else which is unusual. Not only will it raise itself to 115 Fahrenheit, 43 or 44 degrees Centigrade, for two days, but it keeps constant temperature. There's a thermoregulation mechanism in there that keeps constant temperature. "Now why does it do this," I hear you ask. Now wouldn't you know it, there's some beetles that just love to make love at that temperature. And they get inside, and they get it all on. (Laughter) And the plant showers them with pollen, and off they go and pollinate. And what a wonderful thing it is.
10:24 Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate. And many of the tropical flowers are red, and that's because butterflies and birds see similarly to us, we think, and can see the color red very well. But if you look at the spectrum, birds and us, we see red, green and blue and see that spectrum. Insects see green, blue and ultraviolet, and they see various shades of ultraviolet. So there's something that goes on off the end there. "And wouldn't it be great if we could somehow see what that is," I hear you ask. Well yes we can. So what is an insect seeing? Last week I took these pictures of rock rose, helianthemum, in Dorset. These are little yellow flowers like we all see, little yellow flowers all over the place. And this is what it looks like with visible light. This is what it looks like if you take out the red. Most bees don't perceive red. And then I put some ultraviolet filters on my camera and took a very, very long exposure with the particular frequencies of ultraviolet light and this is what I got. And that's a real fantastic bull's eye.
11:39 Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red. We can't know what's going on in -- let alone an insect's -- another human being's mind. But the contrast will look something like that, so standing out a lot from the background. Here's another little flower -- different range of ultraviolet frequencies, different filters to match the pollinators. And that's the sort of thing that it would be seeing. Just in case you think that all yellow flowers have this property -- no flower was damaged in the process of this shot; it was just attached to the tripod, not killed -- then under ultraviolet light, look at that. And that could be the basis of a sunscreen because sunscreens work by absorbing ultraviolet light. So maybe the chemical in that would be useful.
12:37 Finally, there's one of evening primrose that Bjorn Rorslett from Norway sent me -- fantastic hidden pattern. And I love the idea of something hidden. I think there's something poetic here, that these pictures taken with ultraviolet filter, the main use of that filter is for astronomers to take pictures of Venus -- actually the clouds of Venus. That's the main use of that filter. Venus, of course, is the god of love and fertility, which is the flower story. And just as flowers spend a lot of effort trying to get pollinators to do their bidding, they've also somehow managed to persuade us to plant great fields full of them and give them to each other at times of birth and death, and particularly at marriage, which, when you think of it, is the moment that encapsulates the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another.
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The Tyme Appointed
By Mary Miley Theobald
The approximate locations of twenty-one of the English settlements or houses attacked by the Powhatans in 1622 are indicated on this James River Valley- extract of Virginia map produced by Captain John Smith a decade before. Ten other sites, listed in the records as vaguely as "at another place," could not be readily defined. At the top, which is west, are outposts near modern Richmond. At the bottom, which is east, are plantations near modern Newport News. Jamestown stands more or less in the middle on the river's north shore.
The morning of March 22, 1622, Virginia's Powhatan Indian alliance executed a well-conceived and coordinated attack on English settlements spread more than fifty miles up and down the James River. Warriors from perhaps a dozen of the thirty-two affiliated tribes—Quiyoughcohannocks, Waraskoyacks, Weanocks, Appomatucks, Arrohatecks, and others—fell on men, women, and children in their homes and in their fields, burning houses and barns, killing livestock, mutilating the bodies of their victims. Planned by the Pamunkey headman Opechancanough, kinsman of the now-deceased paramount chieftain Powhatan, the offensive slew about 350 whites, a sixth of the total in the fifteen-year-old colony.
From modern Richmond to Hampton Roads, the onslaught devastated Jamestown's outlying plantations, but it failed of its purpose: stopping the relentless encroachment of the English. Settlers kept coming, expropriating native lands, killing Indians who got in the way, and twenty-two years later, Opechancanough organized a second attempt. Five hundred English died this time, but by 1644 there were so many colonists that the impact was not as severe, and a wave of retaliation reduced the Indian threat in Tidewater almost to a memory. A question lingered, however, one yet to be answered to everyone's satisfaction: How had Opechancanough synchronized the strikes of widely dispersed tribes against scattered targets across so many square miles?
Opechancanough, who became the leading chief—werowance was the Indians' word for headman—after Powhatan's death in 1618, kept in regular contact with the tribes of his realm, just as Powhatan had. Every Indian village was on or near the water, and could be reached easily by canoe as well as by runners with memorized messages. But it's a safe bet those messages didn't command the warriors to "rise up at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 22." How did Opechancanough choose the date? What sort of calendar did the Indians use that allowed them to make simultaneous attacks?
Although our knowledge of the seventeenth-century Powhatans is sketchy—coming to us primarily through European observers during the early years of contact—it has been supplemented by archaeologists and anthropologists. Those who study the Virginia Indians agree that planning for the violence of 1622 had been under way for months, even years. Initially, the plan was keyed to the death ceremony for Powhatan, a ritual at which the tribes could gather for the raids.
Powhatan's body had been stored in a shrine at Uttamussack beside the Pamunkey River, in today's King William County. Dead werowances were not entombed until a few years had passed and the body had decomposed, so it was not until 1621 that, as an Englishman put it, the "takinge upp of Powhatans bones" would occur.
A member of deceased artist Theodore de Bry's family in Strasbourg executed this fanciful illustration of the first uprising in Strasbourg. Engraved before 1634, it depicted Jamestown, in the background, as a fortified, moated village.
Historians once thought, but now doubt, that the murder of shaman Jack of the Feather triggered 1622's uprising. His appearance could have resembled this North Carolina native's, captured in the 1580s by Englishman John White.
But that summer Opechancanough made a mistake. He misjudged the loyalty of Esmy Shichans, the ruler of the Accomacks and the Occohannocks on the Eastern Shore—the peninsula across the Chesapeake Bay from Tidewater. Esmy Shichans had drifted away from Powhatan influence into a more comfortable relationship with the English. George Percy, the son of an English earl and twice governor of the Virginia colony, wrote that Opechancanough:
made strenuous efforts to obtain from another Indian king, whose land was very fertile in poisonous herbs, a large quantity of poison with the intention to therewith exterminate the English, but neither presents nor threats could induce this King to accede to the demands.The herb was probably water hemlock, or Cicuta maculata, a lethal plant abundant on the Eastern Shore. Esmy Shichans refused to send the poison and alerted Jamestown. Opechancanough could do nothing but deny the plot and bide his time until the colonists had let down their guard.
Some English chroniclers believed that the attack of 1622 was a direct response to the killing of Nemattanow, an important werowance, or perhaps a shaman, known to the English as Jack of the Feather. Wrote Percy: "He used to come into the felde all covered over with feathers and Swans wings fastened unto his showlders as thowghe he meante to flye." Nemattanow said magic made him immune from English bullets. That may have made him a little too bold in his dealings with the colonists. When he returned alone from a trading trip wearing the hat of the colonist who had accompanied him, Nemattanow was suspected of murder. He was seized by servants of the missing man, and shot.
"This occurence enraged King Opechankenough so that they say he swore to revenge the death of this Indian upon the English on the first favorable opportunity," Percy said. That echoes the belief of others, but he thought there was more to it than simple revenge for a single death.
My opinion is that their heathen priests, who are the tools of the devil, were constantly working upon the credulity and ignorance of this people to make them believe that the English had come to exterminate them in the same way as the Spaniard had done in other parts of the West Indies, and to prevent this the murderous attack was decided upon and brought into execution.
Although Percy scoffs at the idea that the English intended to exterminate the Virginia Indians, time would tell a different story.
Historians generally agree that the murder of Nemattanow was not the cause of the 1622 attack. It had been planned for early spring, long before Nemattanow's death. Food supplies were always lowest in the spring, but that year, Opechancanough knew, the English were desperately short of sustenance. Early spring was a good time to strike: Indian families, which dispersed each winter, were out of the reach of English retaliation, and planting time had not come. If the English were pushed back to Jamestown, the fields they had seized from the Indians could be reclaimed and sown in time for the growing season.
This contemporary representation of Opechancanough, taken from Captain John Smith's 1624 Generall Historie, is but an adaptation of White's 1580s watercolor of a North Carolina warrior, later engraved by de Bry.
Painted to suggest a scene of the attack at Martin's Hundred in 1622, this illustration must approximate dramas played out at farms and homes scattered across Virginia's Tidewater that year, and again in 1644.
Thus Opechancanough timed his raid. He sent word of his plan by way of messengers on foot or by canoe. There was probably no village that lay farther than one day's travel from his central seat near modern West Point, at the head of York River. The protocol was described by colonist William Strachey in an early account of Jamestown.
When they intend any warrs ...a Weroance or some lusty fellow is appointed Captayne over a Nation or Regiment to be led forth, and when they would presse a number of Soldiers to be ready by a daie, an officer is dispatcht away, who coming into the Townes, or otherwise meeting such whome he hath order to warne, he strykes them over the back a sound blow with a bastinado, and byds them be ready to serve the great king, and tells them the Randivous, from whence they dare not at the tyme appointed be absent.Anthropologist Helen Rountree speculates that the "officer" would have directed warriors to the nearest English outpost: in this case, men from the Warraskoyack villages would be sent to attack Martin's Hundred, and Nansemond warriors would have been dispatched to settlements in what is now Newport News and Hampton.
"The tyme appointed" for the spring raid could have been the next day—indeed, historians know of an instance in which a messenger arrived in the evening to tell his brother to join the raid planned for the next morning. According to seventeenth-century chronicler Edward Waterhouse, Chanco, a Christianized Indian boy living with colonist Edward Pace across the river from Jamestown, was
urged by another Indian his Brother (who came the night before and lay with him) to kill Pace, (so commanded by their King as he declared) ...telling further that by such houre in the morning a number would come from divers places to finish the Execution.But most warriors would have required more than one night to prepare for the raid: to go through prewar rituals, stock up on arrows, and travel to the target. How did Opechancanough coordinate them?
More than one historian has suggested that the attacks were timed to coincide with the Christian Holy Week, thinking that the 1622 raid was on Good Friday. Eminent colonist George Thorpe had often conferred with Opechancanough on matters of religion, trying to convert the old chief to Christianity, and presumably would have shared with him the details of Easter and the resurrection. The Powhatans had a predilection for blending irony and warfare; these are Indians who killed colonists for stealing corn by stuffing corn down their throats. It is possible Opechancanough planned the attack for Good Friday to emphasize a rejection of the foreigner's religion.
Easter, however, does not cooperate with this theory, falling as it does on April 21 in 1622, weeks after the massacre. Easter came closer to the attack date in 1644—on the Thursday before Easter Sunday—but a raid timed for Maundy Thursday stretches credulity.
Warned of the impending assault in 1622, the soldiers of the fort at Jamestown—represented here by Colonial Williamsburg's Willie Balderson— stood to their guard and warded off the attack.
A late-nineteenth-century error moved the attack of 1644 back one day—to Good Friday—and confused that with the date of the 1622 attack. Memorable and catchy, the mistake persists in textbooks and on Internet sites despite the efforts of historians to correct it. Although no major religious holiday coincided with either attack, both did occur during the Easter season. Anthropologist Frederic Gleach believes the timing was intentional.
Could the raids of 1622 and 1644 have been coordinated with some celestial event? According to NASA charts, there were no solar or lunar eclipses within a month of either raid. Nor does the vernal equinox coincide with either date. In the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of spring falls near—but not on—the attack dates, coming two days before the 1622 raid and a month before 1644's.
Like most agrarian societies, the Powhatans recognized lunar months. "They reckon their time, by dayes and moons and years," wrote a clergyman in 1689, and lunar quarters were probably used as time markers by the Powhatans, as they were by the neighboring Delawares. Examining the phases of the moon for the dates in question—dates that require adjusting from the Julian calendar that English colonists used to today's modified Gregorian calendar used by NASA—an intriguing coincidence comes to light. The 1622 attack came one day shy of the third-quarter moon. So did the attack of 1644.
It could be just the one-in-twenty-eight chance of two events falling on the same day of the lunar month. More likely, the first date had no particular import, but Opechancanough patterned the 1644 surprise attack after 1622's, using the same lunar date that brought him success the first time. It seems unlikely that something so important would be timed solely by a visual sighting of the moon. What if spring rain clouds obscured the moon for a week? But the Powhatans were perfectly capable of counting the days between quarter moons. According to Captain John Smith, they had a numbering system that used specific numbers from one to ten, after which "they count no more but by tennes" to reach one hundred. When necessary, they used devices such as notched sticks and knotted string to track larger numbers. The notched stick method would not have been necessary for small numbers such as the number of days to count before launching the attack.
It is also possible that the day before the third quarter of the moon had some specific connotation. Queries of today's Virginia Indian leaders received the polite reply that discussing this sort of spiritual cultural knowledge is inappropriate outside the Indian community.
However he managed it, Opechancanough twice set the date for a massive assault on multiple English settlements and twice sent word to his people. Everyone got the message. No one attacked a day early or a day late.
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Many consider getting into shape and looking good an activity that starts with the gym, but it doesn’t always have to be that way — especially considering where we live.
It’s only natural that running, cycling and swimming go hand-in-hand with living near the water, not to mention the amazing weather. Running and biking on the beach or anywhere on a beautiful day, is one of the easiest ways to exercise. All you have to do is put your shoes on and go (or even run barefoot).
Being the most accessible exercise you can do, running is something everyone has done at one point or another. But more often than not, running for fitness can burn you out and leave you retreating back to that perfectly carved out dent in your couch.
One way to make it more engaging is to ditch the treadmill. Running on the beach can work different muscles compared to a flat surface — not to mention the views. Staring at yourself run in a mirror can be fun if you’re some type of narcissistic gym rat, but for most, running in nature is far better. Since it is often a solo sport, the key is to stay motivated and committed to your goals and routine.
“The best thing people can do is find other people or groups to meet with and be a part of a running group. Sometimes motivation, the will to get out and start moving is so much harder if you are doing it on your own,” said Paul McRae, who is a running coach and trainer at PRS Running Club. “Knowing that you got a group of people that are meeting 3 or 4 or 7 days a week can definitely make that difference.”
The PRS Running Club is a non-profit group that brings the running community together and is located in Mandarin. The price to start running is one of its big draws, as all you need is a pair of shoes. McRae trains new runners to be able to eventually run a 5K and work their way up to longer races. He will build a program around any schedule to accommodate with whatever lifestyle you have., whether you’re a stay-at-home mom or someone who works 90 hours a week.
“[We can] slowly progress them over a period of time, take them from whatever fitness level they are at to someone who can complete a 5K at the end of 12 weeks,” he said.
The benefit of hiring someone like McRae is to make sure you stick to your plan. That’s also where the group comes into play. With almost 500 people of all running levels, there is a place for you no matter what your fitness level might be. You can join through their website at prsrunningclub.com.
“The running group is huge. We have people who are athletes who may be just starting and may walk more than they can run, and then we have people who are running 20-plus miles. We can accommodate just about anyone.”
For cycling, Jacksonville is home to numerous trails and bike paths you can find with a simple search. Groups, like the North Florida Bicycle Club, can offer you that extra bit of social accountability you may need to stick with it.
Swimming is a little harder to dive into (pun intended), but there are a lot of area pools that make it easy. Swimming is also terrific cardio and tones your body in the same manner as lifting weights.
Jack Alderson is one of the coaches at Planet Swim School, which has been teaching and training swimmers in Ponte Vedra for the last seven years. They offer lessons to anyone and have both swim teams and triathlon teams. One of the biggest benefits of swimming is how much it expands and works on your lung capacity.
“Once you’ve been in the water and got that down, your lungs have opened up to full capacity, so you don’t have to breathe as much during other exercises,” Alderson said. “Swimming just improves the lung capacity. It helps in whatever it is that you are trying to achieve health, sport and exercise-wise.”
The school works with track athletes on a regular basis in an effort to improve their cardio. Alderson suggests people starting to regularly swim for exercise, beginning with basic strokes for a few laps before moving to timed sets. However, make sure your breathing is as efficient as possible.
“Many people think that getting the breathing repetition down is easy, but it’s actually a lot harder than people think if you haven’t been taught it from a young age,” he said. “When you are on land, you know what your body can do. Being truly efficient through the water takes a lot of time and skill to develop. You have to really learn how to exhale in the water fully and then take your deep breather, all while staying quick and efficient.”
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How to Introduce Yourself (Self Introduction)
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Everyone in their life time, have to introduce themselves to the audience or they they have to tell about themselves to the interviewer.
It is the speech which lies around 30 seconds to 3 minutes or 5 minutes, but it should not be more than 5 minutes, in case if any one ask you to tell about you more than five minutes, you have to make a sharp choice of what you have to tell.
But Do not write an award winning boring autobiography
It is very important that, it gives the first impression to others about us and it decide our qualifying for job during Interview.
In this Speech, you have to tell who you are and what you are about.
The key question for a successful and effective self introduction speech in both occasions is: How much and what information do you want the audience to know about you?
Due to the fact you have to write your speech around one theme, I recommend to develop one aspect of your life. That aspect will tell who you are and what you are about. Some people call this self introduction speech type a one-point speech, because it's based on one speech idea.
Self Introduction Points
Following are the some of the Self Introduction points:
(1) Wishes: It is the first thing, you have to do in your speech,
At this point only you have to try to grab the attention of the audience.
You have to wish depending upon the time, either “Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening”.
You can wish in different ways to grab the attention of the audience.
Good morning! My Dear Friends.
Good Morning! Ladies and Gentleman.
Good Morning! Beautiful Girls and Handsome Guys.
Good Morning to One and all or Good Morning! Everyone.
Respected Sir, Good Morning.
Special or Lovely or Cool Morning to you all.
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A hard drive (HDD) is usually the main storage device in a PC, though Solid State Drives are gaining in popularity. Hard drives contain magnetic coated platters where data is stored that rotate at high RPMs. The five main interfaces used with hard drives are EIDE, SCSI, USB, FireWire and Fibre Channel.
Hard Drive Interfaces
How A Hard Drive Functions
Hard drives use one or more round magnetic disks called platters, read/write heads controlled by an actuator, and a spindle on which the platters rotate.
Each side of a platter, known as a head, is used to store data. Each head of a platter is divided into tracks and sectors (each sector is 512 bytes large). Their is a track on each head and all the tracks together form the cylinder. Data is written to hard drive platters beginning at the outer track, moving inward as sectors are filled.
Tracks and Sectors
Current hard drives use zone bit recording in which the tracks near the center have the smallest number of sectors per track. The number of sectors increases as the size of the tracks increase. This means each track has the optimum amount of sectors for the size of the track. This differs from devices such as floppy drives in that floppies use the same number of sectors for every track and hard drives with zone bit recording can have more sectors as the size of the tracks increases.
Hard Drive File Systems
With the current line of Windows operating systems, you have a choice of three file systems. FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS (New Technology File System). FAT is short for File Allocation Table.
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks)
RAID uses multiple hard drives that function as one large drive and provide improved performance, larger capacity and fault tolerance. RAID can be setup using either hardware or software. In order to use hardware RAID, your hard drive controller or motherboard must support RAID.
RAID 0, also known as a striped volume, can use space from two or more hard drives to split data evenly across the drives to increase disk space. RAID 0 can be used to increase performance, but offers no fault tolerance.
RAID 1, also known as a mirrored volume, duplicates data across two or more drives. RAID 1 offers fault tolerance. Each drive has its own volume. The combined volumes are known as mirrors. If one of the drive fails, the other can take over and no data will be lost. Drive duplexing used two or more controllers for each drive and provides better fault tolerance than mirroring.
In RAID 2 data is striped at the bit level. Very high transfer rates are possible with RAID 2, however, it is no longer used today.
In RAID 3 data is striped at the byte level. In RAID 3, striping is configured so that each individual disk I/O operation is spread across all the drives in an array. RAID 3 is best for single user systems with sequential disk I/O to provide increased performance and fault tolerance.
RAID 4 is similar to RAID 3, except that it uses blocks instead of bytes for striping.
RAID 5 is striped across three or more drives. RAID 5 uses parity checking. This means if one drive fails, the other drives can recreate the data that was stored on the failed hard drive. RAID 5 increases capacity, provides fault tolerance and improves performance. This makes it one of the most popular levels of RAID.
Operating System Hard Drive Size Restrictions
While hard drive capacity is always increasing, operating systems still have limitations to the size of volumes (logical drive) which they can support.
The capacity or size of a hard drive is not the same thing as a volume on a hard drive. A volume is a portion of a drive that is seen by the OS as if it were a seperate physical drive. Each volume is assigned a drive letter. With the FAT32 and NTFS file systems, a volume can be the size of an entire hard drive.
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Inspired by the camouflage skills of octopuses and squid, scientists have created a rubbery, silicon robot that can change colors to hide in almost any environment, reports the BBC. While most robots "are basically built on the body plan of a mammal," said George Whitesides, the paper's author, his team looked to cephalopods instead. "Why not think about organisms that are soft, that might have quite different structures and ways of moving and strategies for camouflage."
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Compositions, essays or papers all have the same basic layout. There is an introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction pulls the reader into the piece, the body supplies the evidence for the thesis and the conclusion brings the paper to a close. The conclusion is as important as the other parts of the paper and must be strong. Strong conclusions bring a paper to a close and help the reader transition out of the piece.
1.Answer the question, “So what?” Readers need to know why they should care about the points made in your paper. Your paper is important; demonstrate this in your conclusion by telling readers why they should care about your point of view.
2.Synthesize the paper in the conclusion. This means you will pull the points in the paper together to prove that all main ideas lead to the same conclusion.
3.Restate the thesis from the introductory paragraph. This action brings the paper full circle.
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SHERMAN, TX -- For the second time in history, the government is advising pregnant women to get a whooping cough vaccination.
There have been more than 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year including 16 deaths.
The resurgence has the nation on track for the worst year for the infection since the 1950s.
But doctors say If a woman gets the vaccination during her pregnancy, she'll pass the immunity on to her baby.
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In the latest episode of Mindful Cyborgs Chris Dancy and I journeyed to the belly of the beast at Defrag and interviewed investor Chris DeVore from Founders Co-Op on “industrial entropy”:
KF: Yeah, one of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is that in the 80s there was dystopian sci-fi people would talk about the mega corporation and you would see these big conglomerates but now what seems to actually be taking over or becoming more prevalent or mega networks . . . so, Y Combinator is one example though. Maybe the founders [00:04:06] would be as well but Paul Graham has explicitly said that part of the point of Y Combinator is to be a distributed peer to peer replacement for the traditional company to give the members of it the benefits of being part of a large company without having to be part of the structure of a large company. Do you have any thoughts on that? Do you think that’s actually happening?
CDV: I definitely do and I think this is where the pattern that I think is interesting and there’s a dark [00:04:31] that we’ll get to in a minute is, when everyone is responsible for their own career pathing, like no man is an island, right? We all need different mixes of skills and abilities and kind of promotional states to build an organization that’s capable of things that more than one human can do but this idea of going from hierarchies of organizations with organization design and managers and leadership into networks where you essentially have these flat as Paul says peer-to-peer networks of people that they collaborate in more dynamically as they come together around a project and then they disassembled and reassembled different products. I think that’s fundamentally true about the nature of work today.
Even an enterprise work you might have a project manager but they’re going to hire this sort of coalition of vendors to come together to build a software or to ship certain kind of product and then when that’s over and they then ships over they’re going to disassemble and they’re going to reassemble very organically and I think it’s again very empowering for people who have the skills and ability to navigate and set their own career path and build their own digital identity and kind of how work come to them and be called in to these dynamic networks.
The thing that I worry about is from a skilling standpoint who’s being left behind, who doesn’t have the ability to surf on this very organic dynamic networked economy and how do you make that economy as open or as porous as it can be so that people who are coming out of school right now it used to be they go to a career fair and they get a job. If those jobs don’t exist, what does exist and what are the gateways and points of access for people into the network at this point?
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The history of science beyond Europe has traditionally been understood through heroic narratives of discovery and exploration. But in the early modern Atlantic world, it was commercial travel, back and forth across the ocean to the "New World," that made new knowledge of all kinds.
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book to examine the making of scientific knowledge in the early modern Americas from a comparative and international perspective. Twelve essays from leading scholars range from the science of navigation in Seville to the creation of medical knowledge in Brazil, from experiments with electricity in British America to the practice of Mesmerism in Haiti. Connecting Atlantic history with the history of science, the chapters explore how knowledge and the colonial order were made together, through complex interactions between metropolitan travelers, Creole settlers, Amerindians, and African slaves.
Re-orienting our view of knowledge's movement along the networks between center and periphery, Science and Empire in the Atlantic World shows just how challenging it was to make knowledge - and impose control - at a distance.
James Delbourgo is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at McGill University. He is the author of A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.
Nicholas Dew is Assistant Professor of History at McGill University, where he teaches early modern European history and history of science. He is the author of Orientalism in Louis XIV's France. | <urn:uuid:31a7e724-616b-4c12-a7ce-614b41f1d049> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cheaptextbooks.org/9780415961271 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94158 | 287 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Maine Center for Business & Economic Research
A joint center with the School of Business and the Muskie School of Public Service, the mission of Maine Center for Business and Economic Research (MCBER) is to provide high-quality applied-research and technical-assistance services throughout Maine’s public and private sectors. The Center draws heavily upon the combined expertise of faculty, staff, and graduate/undergraduate students from the School of Business and the Muskie School of Public Service, and other schools housed at the University of Southern Maine and other University of Maine System campuses.
As Maine’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) University Center, baseline funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce and USM’s School of Business. In addition, for almost four decades, MCBER has been engaged in applied research and technical assistance projects funded by client organizations in the public- and private-sectors. Private-sector clients include organizations such as L.L. Bean, UNUM, Hannaford Brothers, IDEXX, TD Bank, American Automobile Association, Maine Turnpike Authority, and Maine Medical Center. Client organizations from the public sector include the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Maine Legislature, Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, Maine Department of Labor, Maine Department of Transportation, Maine Revenue Service, Maine State Planning Office, Maine Technology Institute, Maine Small Business Development Centers, Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Greater Portland Council of Governments, Maine Development Foundation, and Maine Office of Innovation.
These projects are frequently quantitative and/or statistical in nature, and call upon a wide range of technical services offered by MCBER staff including forecasting, survey-based research, actuarial studies, economic-impact analysis, program evaluation, feasibility studies, market research, customer satisfaction measurement, simulation modeling, expert legal testimony, and other forms of customized business/economic analysis.
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CC 3780 - Sport in Society
Examines the role of sport in society by studying sociological theories and using critical thinking skills to analyze social issues in sport. Analyzes social institutions including politics, economics, education, family, media, religion, moral development, and especially race, class, and gender. Falls and Springs.
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HAVANA TIMES, March 1 (IPS) — The uprisings sweeping the Arab world have been provoked by long injustice, low income, police brutality, and lack of social security. While the world looks at this, the suffering of up to three million maids across the Arab world remains wrapped in silence.
Victims of abuse, confinement and rape, migrant domestic workers are often invisible because they suffer in places that remain hidden to the public eye, mostly private homes.
Speaking to IPS, a freelance Indonesian domestic worker in Jordan says, “If you go to the Indonesian embassy in Jordan you will see hundreds of women who ran away from their employer.
“I also ran away after mistreatment. I want to go back to Indonesia but the embassy has no money to send us.”
A survey by the Saudi magazine Sayidaty titled ‘Maids Rights’ reveals that more than three million maids in the Arab world are subjected to conditions akin to slavery.
The survey found that across several countries such as Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, an absence of laws regulating the relationship between domestic workers and their employers allows abuse to run rampant.
“We didn’t sleep day or night, we had to be up whenever the baby cried,” Potri a domestic worker from the Philippines working in Jordan told IPS. “We didn’t even have time to shower or eat during the day because we were always rocking him so he doesn’t cry. It was like that for two and a half years.”
>From her salary of just 100 dollars a month, Joan said she had to giver
Jordanian employer money to buy food for her: “So basically we were working for free.”
Before leaving Madagascar, Dima 19, was told she would find good employment and an opportunity to provide much needed money for her family that was struggling with extreme poverty and unemployment. But within a few hours of arriving at the home of her new employer in Lebanon in early April of last year, she confronted a different reality.
“The male employer picked me up from the airport and when we arrived to the home he told me to take a bath,” Dima told IPS in an interview.
“He insisted that I leave the door slightly open and while I was in the bath he entered and raped me.”
It became worse some weeks later. She says she was tied up and raped by the employer and two of his friends.
Within a month Dima escaped. “While the family was getting into the car I started running. I couldn’t bear living like this anymore.”
The current financial climate in Africa and Southeast Asia has forced many families to look for desperate ways out of life in extreme poverty.
“Recruitment agencies from our home countries are tricking new domestic employees by telling them that will have a great job, with a high paying salary and the ability to save money and provide for their families,” says Aimee, a community leader and freelance domestic worker from Madagascar.
“But when they arrive they realize that it was all a lie.”
The demand for migrant domestic workers in Arab countries is fed by an influx of Arab women into the workforce, and by definitions of social status in line with the number of servants under command.
The increased demand has swollen the expatriate population, at places to outnumber the locals.
According to a study by the Centre for Women and Gender Studies, nearly 85 percent of the United Arab Emirates population of four million is migrant workers. In Bahrain and Saudi Arabia 65 percent of the workforce are expats. In Kuwait it is 82 percent, and in Qatar almost 90 percent.
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Over the last few weeks here at I Spy Plum Pie we’ve talked cooling your home, reducing our use of plastics and other easy ways to go green, so today I thought I’d share some more tips to both save you money AND reduce our impact on the planet with some easy ways to implement energy savings at home!
Turn Off Lights & Use Fewer Lights
Turning off lights when you’re not in the room is a pretty simple trick, but it’s incredible how much energy you can save through this little change of habit. To take it even further, use lamps (with energy saving lightbulbs of course!) rather than turning on all your lights when you’re doing things like reading, working at your desk or even watching tv. It’s known as ‘task lighting’ and it allows you to still have enough light to do whatever you need to be doing but reduces the overall number of lights you have on significantly. You’d be astounded for the amount of energy that’s being wasted on a global scale. You can know that when you compare energy and understand what’s at stake, and can proceed on taking preventive measures.
Vacuum Fridge & Freezer Coils
I know looking behind the fridge is never a fun thought, but every six months or so it’s really worth pulling your fridge out and giving any exposed coils a good vacuum. This allows them to work more efficiently and reduces the energy required to keep them at their optimal temperatures. The point of fridge coils is to dissipate the heat and they can’t do that properly if they are covered in dust, pet hair and who knows what else, so it really does help! For a heavier duty clean you might need some soapy water and a scrubbing brush, so make sure you unplug the fridge before you give that a try!
Wash in Cold Water
Washing machines can be a huge energy user and one of the easiest ways to reduce this is to make friends with the cold water cycle. Nearly all the energy used by a washing machine is through heating the water, so by cutting that out it will reduce your energy usage dramatically. It also helps to try and only run the machine when you have a full load of washing ready to go, as unsurprisingly the less times you use it the less energy it will need to use!
Dry Clothes on Lines or Racks
Clothes driers are huge energy pits so whenever possible dry your washing on a clothesline or portable racks. Drying in the sunshine also helps to whiten your whites, and if you fold items straight from the line (or hang them up on coat hangers) it can reduce your need to pull out the iron as they are less likely to be creased. If you do need to use your clothes drier, separate out your clothes by weight as lighter items will be quicker to dry so won’t need as long in the drier. You should also keep your filters nice and clean as this will allow your drier to operate more efficiently, using less energy in the process.
Turn Off Unnecessary Devices
Leaving devices on when you’re not using them, even on standby mode, can be a huge energy drain, increasing your bills significantly. When you’re not using things like your tv, computer, music systems and the like you should always switch them off at the wall to be sure they are no longer drawing energy. It doesn’t stop at just that. In fact, it begins from purchasing appliances from a Multimedia Tech Houston which have an energy saving rating. This doesn’t just go for items in your lounge room either – electrical items in your bathroom like hairdryers and electric toothbrushes should also be turned off at the powerpoint. Using a power board can be a helpful way to switch lots of devices off in one go, whilst also protecting your devices from any power surges.
Lower the Temperature on your Hot Water Heater
By reducing the temperature on your hot water heater (60-65C for water storage in the tank and 50C for instantaneous services) you can save a lot of energy as your standby hot water won’t continually be heated to a temperature much higher than you’re likely to need. It also means that when you’re after some hot water the heater won’t be attempting to heat all your water to a very high temperature (which you’re only going to adjust with the cold tap anyway!), using lots of energy in the process. Heaters need regular maintenance so they can function properly. Check out https://www.kcsheatingair.com/ to schedule in-home estimates.
Better yet get a solar water heater from Eurosun solar systems. They have reliable services, and they also have two different versions that you can choose from. You will save a lot of electricity by installing one of these in your home!
Only Run the Dishwasher When Full
Running your dishwasher only when full will save you both energy AND water, so it’s a double win! It’s also important to run it on the most efficient setting which generally uses lower water temperatures, and whilst they can take a little longer to run they still save significant power. If you can, run your dishwasher overnight as this is when electricity has the least demand across the grid and will save you money whilst also reducing peak-energy demand in general. If you are still not seeing any savings when your electricity bill comes every month, then please consider looking for other electricity providers like 4change energy, who can offer you more affordable electricity plans.
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Most individuals believe that when it concerns a vehicle, the more power the much better. Efficiency parts are a big part of power and Magnaflow catalytic converters are the best means you can upgrade your exhaust system. Magnaflow is a name that has actually been constructed gradually as well as this is a preferred choice for several car enthusiasts.
Catalytic converters are vital to cars and truck function as well as they avoid numerous pollutants from leaving your vehicle. This is an important part of reducing emissions and also while you may have listened to that eliminating your catalytic converter can do wonders for power, you might be doing harm to the setting and this is why you need to consider products like Magnaflow that permit you to boost performance, without risking contaminating the atmosphere.
Supply catalytic converters are extremely limiting and this is why you might require to upgrade to a greater efficiency model to help you reduce the constraint in efficiency. You can still have cleaner air kind your tailpipe, yet your may observe much more power, and this might be your objective from the very beginning.
You might also require to look at various other parts of your exhaust and changing with brand-new parts may be something worth discovering. You will certainly want to keep in mind the make, model and also year of your vehicle when you are searching for parts for your exhaust and ensure that what you want for your auto is readily available.
There are different legislations in different states about discharges and if you have to pass a yearly assessment, you will certainly wish to ensure that you have the correct exhaust on your auto. You may wish to figure out what these standards lead time and also ensure that you are adhering to any type of regulations where you live.
California is especially hard as well as you do not wish to throw away money on an whole exhaust system that you may not be able to lawfully make use of. This can assist you to increase efficiency while staying within the boundaries of the regulation.
Your exhaust system is something that can help you to make your auto perform much better. If you understand the laws where you live and also drive, you will certainly be able to upgrade this system as well as you can see some great positive results. You may appreciate the power of your automobile and also this can make your driving time a more delightful experience.
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Did you know there are lots of different ways to participate in the 2013 Maker Faire Bay Area?
Maker Faire’s Call for Makers is open and closes March 15. Use the link to apply for a maker exhibit (a booth/display lasting the whole weekend), a presenter (a 10-, 20- or 45-minute presentation on stage) or a performer (a stage-based or roving music or entertainment act). Read through the whole Call for Makers page for details. It’s packed with information, including links to PDF versions of the questions in the online application so you can work it all out ahead of time.
If you don’t want to go it alone, you can also find a group that’s putting together a show or exhibit and join in helping them build and run it. Here is a couple of organizations I know that are planning a collaborative display or activity at the fair:
Young Makers: The Young Makers programs helps kids ages 12-17 put together a project for Maker Faire by connecting them with mentors and fabricators. You can get more info on their site, or in this write-up.
I’m sure there’s more out there-link them in the comments!
And if you just want to generally help out with making the fair happen, a great option is to sign up for the Maker Corps, the awesome volunteers who help organize and run things. The application isn’t up yet, but you can sign up to be notified when it goes live.
You can simply attend the fair and enjoy all the wild creativity on display. Early Bird Tickets are available now for a great price, but only until March 15.
More Info on Maker Exhibit Applications
I had a Maker Exhibit last year, so here’s a few pieces of advice I have about applying for that particular category:
1) Take cool photographs or a video. Sometimes it can be hard to describe creative, artistic, and interactive things via text. A picture or video conveys a lot. Some of your photos may be used in Maker Faire promotional material, too, so try and take high-quality shots.
2) Figure out something interactive. Showing off your cool project is great, but people really get engaged when there’s something they can do or contribute to. There are lots of options for an interactive exhibit: an object fair-goers can take apart and reassemble to see how it works, a take-away set of instructions for making their own version, a hands-on craft or activity they can do there, a collaborative project they can add to, or just a button or lever they can touch to make something happen.
3) Think about staffing. You don’t have to completely sort it out at this point, but it’s good to think a bit about how many people you will need to run the exhibit. Remember, you will want to be able to take restroom breaks, get food, and even see some of the fair yourself. Think about whether you know other people who will be exhibiting (or encourage your friends to do so if they aren’t considering it already). You might find someone to share a booth with, splitting the responsibility of setup and staffing. There’s also a section on the form to request to be near specific other booths; if you get place near your friends, you can take turns covering each other’s booths. Of course, you can also always make friends with your neighbors when you get there.
4) On a more practical note, if you start filling out your application and then get distracted and close the page, you can retrieve it. (It took me a little while to realize this.) When you go back to the Call for Makers site, you should see “Your Account” in the top bar, by the search box. From your account page, you can pull up any partial applications that haven’t been finished.
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Originally posted by riley
You posted government sources statistics and presented them as anonymous when they were based on police reports. You tried to decieve.
statistics can be done anonymously, eh haven't you learned that in school.
1. Relatives can rape too.
Rape is a terrible crime. It should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But false rape charges are a troublesome reality. At least 10 percent and perhaps as many as 40 percent of all rape charges are lies. Research results In the Midwest:
· 41% of the total rape cases were recanted by the alleged victim during a 9-year study in a metropolitan Midwestern town.
·45 of the 109 complainants admitted that no rape had occurred in period.
The incidence figure (from 1978 to 1987) of false rape varied from year to year and ranged from a low of ·27% to a high of 70%
The alleged rape victims admitted that they had made the false rape charges for three reasons:
· to create an alibi,
· to get revenge,
· to get attention or sympathy.
Educated women lie, too....
· University women were as likely to file a false rape charge as a valid charge. Other reports from university police agencies support these findings
2. Just because a woman does not have an escort does not mean she deserves to get raped.
3. So relatives would stand around and WATCH their daughter/mother/sister get raped would they?
and if they are not around she must be punnished/whipped for that?
That is truly barbarac. Do not pretend treating women like pets that need leashes is a moral thing to do..
I do not see why you would be proud that women aren't allowed to take a walk by themselves. If you think that invites rape your men must really have problems.
.. and most women would NOT report rapes in a country where they punnish the rape victims.
In Saudi Arabia a woman can get flogged or jailed for getting raped.. everyone knows this
so to try say that thats somehow morally okay is disgusting. Do not pretend they are getting punnished for lieing.. nothing about those articles suggested they were false accusations.. and given a woman needs four male witnesses her chances of getting justice would be very low.
The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs.
Families kill their own daughters if they get raped. Being ashamed is nothing cmpared to fearing for their own life.
You said the stats you posted proved raoe happened less in non western countries. I said rape stats would reflect a lack of reporting so you claimed that you were posting anoymous stats.
Then you posted stats based on reported rapes and I DID look at those stats.. they did NOT back up your claims.
Why the hell are you posting that crap for? It has nothing to do with the subject. Why do you keep saying "lets blame the terrorists"? Take your anti-western hate elsewhere.
Originally posted by LadySkadi
There is no right or wrong here, except that we've all agreed (yes, every single person posting in this thread has agreed) that rape is wrong.
Originally posted by Dock9
It's interesting that YOUNG women are expecting OTHER young women to grow up and take responsibility for their actions
Not old women. Not middle-aged women. Youngwomen are telling other young women to 'grow up' and 50% of women generally (within the poll) have offered the same opinion
reply to post by one4all
Those men who raped that woman should be dead and if all the people reading this cant see that the reason the guys are walking the streets today is the same reason that feminists were allowed to destroy our culture through the designed and executed plan of destroying the family unit in the NAME OF AN IMAGINED FAIRNESS
reply to post by Taupin Desciple
What I took out of his "rant" was that back in the day when family values actually meant something,the incidents of rape were a lot lower because women were spending more time making families, not money
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More Women in Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
It has been 25 years since Congress passed the Women in Science and Technology Equal Opportunity Act [HN1], which declares it "the policy of the United States that men and women have equal opportunity in education, training, and employment in scientific and technical fields (1)." Although there have been major advances, academic institutions are still not fully utilizing the pool of women scientists they have produced. The difference between the proportions of women who earn Ph.D.'s and those who are in faculty positions at top universities is clear in the biological and physical sciences, as well as in engineering.
Handelsman, Jo; Cantor, Nancy; Carnes, Molly; Denton, Denice; Fine, Eve; Grosz, Barbara; Hinshaw, Virginia; Marrett, Cora; Rosser, Sue; Shalala, Donna; and Sheridan, Jennifer, "More Women in Science" (2005). ADVANCE Library Collection. Paper 124. | <urn:uuid:94d5a7b0-0f8d-4a98-81ea-3a2a12e858ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/advance/124/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00294-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893736 | 206 | 2.625 | 3 |
Purchase or renew Massachusetts Recreational Saltwater Fishing, For-Hire, & Recreational Lobster Permits.
The Division of Marine Fisheries coordinates its longstanding and popular Massachusetts Saltwater Fishing Derby in different categories: Weigh-In and Catch and Release. This Derby runs from January 1 through November 30 each year and is fee-free.
The Sport Fish Restoration Program (SFR) provides grant funds to fish and wildlife agencies within the states, the District of Columbia, and insular areas for fishery projects, boating access, and aquatic education.
Profile pages for different sorts of species that live in the waters surrounding Massachusetts including finfish, shellfish, and crustaceans.
The eLogbook is MarineFisheries’ electronic recreational angler logbook. It does two jobs in one! Volunteer recreational anglers record their daily fishing log into the database through an online connection. These anglers can look through their logs by tables and colorful graphs, making it an easy way to keep track of personal fishing efforts.
Check here for up to date Massachusetts saltwater game fish records.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts plays an important role in supporting recreational fishing activity in the northeast region of the United States. In fact, about half of all regional participation occurs here. Nearly 700,000 men, women and children are estimated to participate in saltwater fishing in our tidal waters each year.
Map of head boat locations.
Map of tackle shop locations.
This map is intended to identify coastal boat ramps in Massachusetts.
The Sportfish Angler Data Collection Team (SADCT) program is a group of volunteer anglers collecting biological samples of selected recreational fish species in Massachusetts marine waters. SADCT is part of an Atlantic coast-wide effort to manage and conserve recreationally targeted species. Information gathered through SADCT is provided to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to support conservation and sustainability efforts.
All recreational anglers should practice to be the model Responsible Angler. Responsible Anglers value the marine resources and know that by minimizing our impacts on fish populations, we help preserve, protect, and enhance these resources for future generations.
In 2011, the Commonwealth established a recreational saltwater fishing permit to comply with the Saltwater Act, a state law prompted by a federal mandate enacted to improve estimates of saltwater fishing effort and catch data. The fee for the permit was set at $10 for both residents and non-residents alike, and is free for recreational anglers who are 60 years and older. In conjunction to the permit, the Marine Recreational Fisheries Development Fund was established as a dedicated fund, to ensure a ‘user-pay/user-benefits’ program. This means that all fees collected from the sale of recreational saltwater fishing permits can only be used on approved marine recreational fishing programs. | <urn:uuid:2b2f4d61-a562-49b7-afcb-5da2d4264929> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dmf/recreational-fishing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00116-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923722 | 581 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – On August 5, the Indian government withdrew Article 370 of India’s constitution, which gave the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir partial autonomy.
The article, abrogated in a cloak-and-dagger manner by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, was followed by the imposition of a stringent curfew in the Himalayan region and the snapping of phone and internet connections.
On Tuesday, the worst lockdown in more than 70 years of conflict in Kashmir will enter its 100th day.
India’s move also included bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir – India’s only Muslim-majority state – into two “union” territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, to be administered by the federal government.
The abrogation of Article 370, done in the garb of uniting and strengthening the “territorial integrity of India”, had been appearing in the BJP’s election manifestos for several years.
The article granted Indian-administered Kashmir a degree of autonomy and restricted ownership rights to only natives of the disputed territory.
Residents now fear the law’s abrogation is directed towards changing the region’s demography.
Before the BJP government scrapped the article, thousands of soldiers were flown into the region, which is already one of the world’s most militarised with nearly 700,000 troops on the ground. The security lockdown has forced limited-to-no movement of people in the Kashmir valley.
Although some communications restrictions, such as landline phones and post-paid mobile services, have been eased, the ban on internet, text messaging and prepaid mobile connections continues.
It is Kashmir’s education sector that has been the worst hit as schools and colleges remain shut and students lose more than three months of their academic calendar.
Business is also affected as shopkeepers observe a self-imposed shutdown to protest India’s move.
The 100-day lockdown also saw intermittent episodes of violence. Workers from outside Kashmir were killed by suspected rebels last month. Several grenade attacks, one of which killed a non-local civilian in Srinagar, were also reported from across the valley.
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Three fatal car crashes in Licking County this month prompted local law-enforcement officers to step up enforcement of the state’s seat-belt laws.
The Licking County sheriff’s office and the Granville post of the State Highway Patrol have teamed for a weeklong campaign that began on Sunday.
Licking County got a head start on the Click-it or Ticket Campaign’s National Seat Belt Enforcement Mobilization, which begins on Monday and runs through June 1.
“Because of the crashes, we felt like we couldn’t wait another week and felt we had to do something right away,” said patrol Lt. Kevin Miller. In each of the crashes — two on May 2 and one on May 3 — the person who died was not wearing a seat belt.
Drivers cannot be pulled over just for failure to wear seat belts because it is a secondary offense under state law, said Lt. Craig Ford of the sheriff’s office.
However, deputies and troopers will step up patrols this week and watch for primary traffic offenses that drivers can be pulled over for. Drivers then can be ticketed if they are not wearing a seat belt, he said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Click-it or Ticket campaign is aimed at increasing seat-belt use, especially among young drivers.
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Identify and describe three objectives of venture capitalists.
Answer to relevant QuestionsIdentify and describe four of the most common criteria venture capitalists use to evaluate a proposal.In your own words, what is a copyright? What benefits does a copyright provide?In your own words, what is a trademark? Why are generic or descriptive names or words not given trademarks?1. What type of bankruptcy agreement would you recommend? Why?2. Why would you not recommend the other types of bankruptcy? Be complete in your answer.3. When selling the creditors on your recommendation, what arguments ...How do pricing strategies differ based on the product life cycle?
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Will 2012 markets be a repeat of 2008? That's a scary thought. In 2008, we started the year with some misgivings, but economic indicators looked reasonably sound. The housing/mortgage disaster swallowed up the stock market and the economy and pitched us into the deepest recession since the 1930's. It was caused by unmanageable debt: By the basic mortgages, which soon were driven underwater by declining home prices. And also by the mortgage-backed securities which collapsed in value and tanked several major financial institutions, froze the interbank lending market, and destroyed the bond market.
Once again, we are faced with "unmanageable" debt - this time the sovereign debt of the eurozone countries. Once again, large and interdependent financial institutions hold massive amounts of questionable paper and the phrase, "bank run," is getting more popular. Are we about to repeat the disaster we lived through four years ago?
There are important differences between the two situations and the evaluation of these differences is crucial to determining the danger of a repeat of the Panic of 2008. First of all, the underlying debt is quite different. When a low income person buys a house worth $600,000 and finances the purchase with a $700,000 mortgage because of an inflated appraisal and rolled in fees, there is really no way the principal will be repaid in a declining house price market. Somebody, somewhere is going to take a big hit.
On the other hand, sovereign debt can be extended and ultimately paid a number of ways. Most of the European countries own a wider range of assets than the United States government (shares of electric or telephone utilities, parts of businesses, etc.) and can sell those assets. Taxes can be increased. Charges for the use of spectrum can be increased. In the short term, the bond market can be stabilized by permitting those who owe money to the government (taxpayers and buyers of government assets) to settle their accounts by delivering government bonds rather than cash (the Italian government is apparently doing this already). None of these measures are available to the hapless homeowner whose house is now worth only $300,000 but who owes $700,000.
There is another very important difference. Central Banks generally either buy sovereign debt instruments or accept them as collateral. The ECB has already bought significant amounts of sovereign debt. On the other hand, in the United States, the Federal Reserve was not in the practice of buying mortgages, houses or non-agency mortgage-backed securities. It was, therefore, more complicated for the Federal Reserve to come to the rescue. It is true that there has been considerable controversy about the role of the ECB. Nevertheless, the ECB definitely has the way, if not always to will, to stabilize a sovereign debt instrument market by intervening and buying up sovereign bonds.
In one very important respect, the eurozone debt crisis may be more dangerous than the Panic of 2008. When the bank run started in the United States, a very important element of the solution was the introduction of enhanced deposit insurance. The United States government, through the FDIC, insured larger deposits than it had in the past and also insured interbank loans and some bonds. Most people quickly determined that these guarantees were solid because the United States government could always raise money by issuing bonds and, if absolutely necessary, having the Federal Reserve print money to buy the bonds. In essence, depositors were protected by an assurance that, if all else failed, money would be printed to pay them off. In Europe, if the crisis develops due to a sovereign's bankruptcy, enhanced deposit insurance backed by a guarantee issued by that very sovereign would not be very reassuring and would not likely prevent the development of a bank run.
I think we will see a year and, unfortunately, several years of brinkmanship on the part of the Europeans as the Germans hold other countries' feet to the fire. And then at the last moment, the situation will be rescued by ECB sovereign debt purchases. This scenario will likely be played out a number of times. It will produce years of sluggish economic activity in Europe as austerity chokes off economic growth. But a cataclysm will probably be avoided. Of course, by August 1914, Europe had been on the brink of war several times and each time the situation had been resolved. So, it is not impossible that the canoe will drift over the waterfall. But so many people, businesses, and countries have so much to lose that Europe is most likely to print its way out of its problems the same way the United States and Japan have done.
We are likely to see a persistent decline in the euro, slow economic growth in the eurozone, some pressure on the dollar-denominated earnings of U.S. companies dependent on European sales, and a continued nervousness on the part of investors. Financial institutions have become so interconnected that the stocks of large U.S. banks will be subject to periodic squalls, sending share prices down quickly. The Fed will probably be more accommodating than economic conditions in the United States would warrant because of concerns over a eurozone blow up.
The low interest rate driven stock market - in which reliable dividend payers become more and more attractive to investors - will continue. In the long run, investors will do much, much better with a group of reliable dividend stocks with strong balance sheets like Exxon (NYSE:XOM), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), and AT&T (NYSE:T) than with Treasuries, but a strong stomach will be required for the rollercoaster ride. | <urn:uuid:e8044316-6375-48b8-914d-dcc95cf8baf2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://seekingalpha.com/article/318175-the-important-differences-between-the-2008-and-2012-markets?source=nasdaq | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964101 | 1,139 | 1.820313 | 2 |
2017 Parent University: Breakthroughs in Learning
BREAKTHROUGHS IN LEARNING
Do you have difficulty communicating with your child?
Would you like to learn new approaches that bring out positive results both behaviorally and academically?
Free and Open to All Elementary School Parents
Join Us for a Light Meal, too!
Sessions to accommodate parents at two different schools on various dates between January and April.
Session 1 (Thursdays @ Crawford-Rodriguez): Jan. 19, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, Feb. 9
Session 2 (Wednesdays @ Holman): March 8, March 22, March 29, April 5
Attend ANY session at ANY school - Open to all ages and grades!
Join Sharon McCarthy, a well known presenter and author, for this hands-on course designed to honor, support and promote the parent’s role in developing their child’s academic success, safety and independence.
This 4-session workshop is appropriate for all parents and is not grade or age level specific. A light meal will be served at each session and childcare is available. There is no cost to attend, but you must register, as space is limited. Prizes and Game giveaways for families at each event!
Parents who participate in this series will:
- Develop good communication skills where both parent and child are listening and talking.
- Become familiar with approaches to parenting that elicit positive results both behaviorally as well as academically.
- Learn several protocols that are instrumental in the development of a child’s organizational skills and ability to control self.
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A Day You'll Never Forget - The Day You Give Birth To Your First Child
By Penny Simkin, PT
Every pregnant woman experiences this. Other women, even total strangers - old and young - approach her in the grocery store, elevator, at the bus stop, almost anywhere, and embark on the "When I was pregnant-" story. A swollen belly seems to be an invitation for this kind of well-meaning, sometimes helpful, but sometimes inconsiderate sharing of "wisdom." Let us consider for a few moments why women want to talk about their birth experiences, even years later. It is pretty clear that this day in a woman's life is not just another day. It is the day she became a mother, her partner became a father, and her parents became grandparents. But it was much more than that. It was a landmark in her personal development, and that is what I want to focus on here.
Let us think about the nature of labor and birth. No other event comprises all these for a woman: pain, emotional stress, vulnerability, possible physical injury, and until recent times, the threat of death. Once completed, she has also undergone a permanent role change that includes responsibility for a dependent, helpless human being. Moreover, all this takes place within a single day. It is no wonder that women tend to remember birth vividly and with deep emotion! And it is most gratifying when women remember with joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment.
I recently completed a research project on the memories of twenty women who had taken childbirth education classes taught by me in Seattle during the years 1968 to 1974. These special women, now in their forties or fifties, still live in the Seattle area, and agreed to help me learn how well they now remember their birth experiences and what impact the births had on them as individuals. I still have the birth stories they wrote within days after their first babies were born in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so I asked them to write another one that I could compare with the first and see if their memories changed over all these years. I also asked them to take part in a lengthy interview where we could discuss the long-term impact on them and their families.
I learned that the women remember very well what happened. The two birth stories were remarkably alike (although the second included many fewer words) despite the many years between the two. Although details such as which breathing patterns they used, and the names of their nurses tended to be forgotten, they remembered other personal "little things" very clearly and described them similarly in the two stories. For example, one woman remembered her bag of waters breaking in the living room, and her husband scolding the dog, thinking the dog had wet the rug!
They remembered both positive and negative things that were done to them or for them by their doctors and nurses. Some remembered soothing back rubs, praise, kind encouraging words, but others remembered being told to "Stop doing that breathing right now," or their husband being told to leave. One woman remembered being separated from her baby for days over a long holiday weekend because the doctor was off duty and no one changed his orders. Most remembered the actual delivery, and their feelings when they saw and held their babies for the first time. Some remembered large painful episiotomies that took weeks or months to heal.
Of the twenty women, twelve report a great sense of satisfaction as they look back on their first birth experiences, but eight feel less satisfied or very unsatisfied. Their satisfaction rating was not associated with the length or difficulty of their labors, the need for interventions or pain medications. Their satisfaction was associated with how they were treated and whether they felt a sense of accomplishment and control.
Nine of the women wept during the interview as they recalled events that took place 15 to 20 years before! Some wept from joy: "It was the best day of my life," "-my Mount Everest!" "I know I accomplished something." Others wept from remorse: "Because of what I experienced in the delivery room, I felt powerless." "I was too embarrassed to make a big fuss-I didn't want to be a nuisance to the nurses." "I kind of blamed myself at one point that I had had a cesarean-When I was feeling bad about myself and thinking of all the things I couldn't do, that was one of them. I couldn't even have that baby naturally. No one ever told me I was doing a good job."
These women taught me so much: I learned that women do not forget their birth experiences and their memories are accurate (though hazy about what happened when narcotics were in effect). They remember not only facts and events, but also feelings. If they were well treated and given an opportunity to participate, they are likely to remember the experience with joy and satisfaction.
If you are pregnant, you should also learn some very important lessons form the women in my study. Most important is that you also will always remember your experience in giving birth. The memory is vivid and deeply felt, and may influence how you think about yourself and about birth generally. Feeling in control (not necessarily of the labor, but of your response to it and of the decisions being made) and feeling well-cared for are more important to your long-term satisfaction than whether your labor is easy or difficult, normal or complicated, long or short, painful or pain-free. Do what you can to make your child's birth a good memory. Choose your doctor or midwife and your place for birth carefully. Those choices will determine to a great extent how you will remember the birth, and also how you will feel about yourself. Prepare yourself by learning what to expect and what to do so that you will remain an active participant in this most meaningful experience. And surround yourself with people who will treat you kindly, respectfully, and with dignity.
Twenty years from now, as you tell a pregnant woman about your birth experience, I hope it brings tears of joy to your eyes (and hers) and a renewed sense of wonder and awe at your accomplishment.
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Volume 28, 2011
China's Modenization I
Chinese Nation-Building as, Instead of, and Before Globalization
In this era of “globalization”, nation-building has become a relatively neglected topic. In this essay, I use Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s textbook, Globalization, as a framework for exploring nation-building in China. I take his eight-concept chapter outline—disembedding, acceleration, standardization, interconnectedness, movement, mixing, vulnerability, and re-embedding—and apply it to dynamics of nation-building in China. In so doing, I tease out actual and potential relationships among the processes evident in Chinese nation-building and globalization. In addition, I explore some of the relationships, productivities and pitfalls of “globalization” and “nation-building” as concepts. | <urn:uuid:7ddadf52-bf24-4ae6-a88c-d997bd7ed00e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=protosociology&id=protosociology_2011_0028_0025_0047 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.896571 | 189 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Thursday, 24 May 2007
My facilitation work often involves helping project managers develop their plans. Recently I had the opportunity to develop ideas from a hand drawn map into a software tool and finally into a project plan.
My preparation for the session with the project team involved reviewing the draft project initiation document (PID). From this I noted my initial ideas using a hand drawn mind map.
Then with the project team, we captured initial thoughts on a work breakdown structure using MindManager. We used the tool to regroup and restructure the ideas until we had a structure that reflected the deliverables, phasing and nature of the project. Next we began entering task information on key items – milestone dates, elapsed time, resources and dependencies.
When we had a working draft in MindManager we exported the map to MS Project (at this point you could actually feel people thinking ‘Wow!’). Using Project we began to schedule the tasks and review the resources. The team took away the Mind Manager map and the Project file to develop the plan further.
The project team were very impressed with their deliverables and the fact they had produced so much in so little time.
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
I’ve been on a training course recently and used it as an opportunity to practise my real time mapping skills. This was made very easy as the trainer organised the material well, maintained a comfortable pace and also provided excellent diagrammatic summaries which he flip charted as he talked.
I found I was able to produce neat maps, incorporating colour and images. At several points, rather than make my own maps, I copied the flip charts as drawn by the trainer – they were so visual and easy to copy. On the second day, he began presenting some of the material using mind maps. I copied a few of these also before I started to realise my attention was wandering. It struck me that I was paying more attention to copying the diagrams and maps than to the information being presented and discussed.
They key to making sense of information and remembering it subsequently is the effort that is applied in assimilating it, I think. I discovered then when I made my own map, rather than copy that provided, I was more attentive, understood the material better and was able to recall more of it subsequently.
For me, the lesson learned is to make my own notes, in my own words and using my own maps.
Coming Soon - Mind Manager 7
Yesterday I participated in a short presentation given by MindJet to introduce the latest version of MindManager. It includes:
- new topic editing features
- the ability to save views of the map based on selections and filters
- a new toolbar interface conforming to the MS Fluid UI or "ribbon".
This is just a sample as we weren' t able to explore everything in the time available. Also being launched is a "Jetpack" of project management tools containing useful templates and white papers describing how MindManager can transform your approach to project planning, management and reporting.
MindManager 7 is launched on 30th May. Click here for more details.
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MANSEHRA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen wearing military uniforms stopped a convoy of buses in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, ordered selected passengers to get off and then killed 16 of them in an apparent sectarian attack, the police and a lawmaker said.
The victims were Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan that is frequently targeted by extremists from the majority Sunni community, said lawmaker Abdul Sattar. The gunmen spared several dozen other people in the four-bus convoy.
A spokesman for a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, a Sunni militant group, claimed responsibility for the killings.
The incident in the remote Kohistan region was the latest in a spasm of violence in the country in recent weeks that has demonstrated the resilience of militant networks, including al-Qaida allied groups. The U.S. has tried to support Pakistani security forces in the fight against the extremists, but relations between the two nations are strained, hampering cooperation.
The attack took place in the mountainous village of Harban Nala, which is some 211 miles (340 kilometers) north of the capital Islamabad. The area, part of the famed Silk Road linking northern Pakistan to China, is populated by Sunni tribes.
Police officer Mohammad Azhar said the buses were traveling from Rawalpindi city to Gilgit when the gunmen attacked.
Sattar, the lawmaker, said eight gunmen were involved in the ambush, and all were wearing military uniforms, presumably to make it easier to stop the buses. He said the attackers ordered the passengers to produce their identity cards before ordering the 16 off and shooting them.
Officials initially said 18 people had been killed and that just one bus was involved.
Sattar and Sher Khan, an official at the Rawalpindi bus station, said the fear of attacks on travelers increased after an incident last month in which an unknown number of Sunnis were killed in the Gilgit region.
Khan said buses have since been traveling in convoys as a security measure.
Sunni extremists allied to or inspired by al-Qaida and the Taliban routinely attack government and security force targets, as well as religious minorities and other Muslim sects they consider infidels. Most of the violence has been in the northwest, close to Afghanistan, though sectarian attacks happen across the country with some regularity.
Many thousands have been killed in the last five years, and attacks on Shiites — targeted purely because of their sect — have been some of the bloodiest.
The Jandullah faction of the Pakistani Taliban — one of the country's deadliest and best organized militant groups — claimed responsibility.
"They were Shiite infidels and our mujahedeen shot them dead one by one after bringing them down from a bus," said Ahmed Marwat, a purported commander, who called an Associated Press reporter from an undisclosed location.
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The limits of physics and economics prevent megaships from getting bigger
- Chris Baranuk
- Technology, BBC News
Ever Ace, one of the world’s largest container ships, embarked on an unprecedented voyage on August 14 last year when it left Yantian port and cautiously maneuvered towards the South China Sea.
To date, no other ship has carried such a large volume of containers: 6 meters 21,710 units.
the ship It is 399.9 meters long and 61.5 meters wide It is a true giant, but there are dozens of container ships of similar size sailing today.
Many more are under construction. Only two of them stacked vertically They are almost as tall as the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The world’s largest cargo ships are 400 meters long and 60 meters wide. It is more or less Current upper limit There are many surprising reasons for these vessels and why they do not grow larger.
Larger container ships are unlikely to be found.
Vessels exceeding limits
are around 5,500 container ships in the world And they are capable of carrying 25 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent unit) or the equivalent of about 25 million 6 meter containers if they are all fully loaded at the same time.
George Griffiths, Global Container Markets Editor at S&P Global Platts, explains. Thread Universal of orders The new cargo ships will increase the total combined capacity by 25% in a few years.
“We see them being built Many other large container ships“The rate of new ships moving more than 14,000 containers is staggering,” he says.
In the past decade alone, the ability The average container ship has increased from less than 3,000 TEU to around 4,500 TEU. And there are currently more than 50 vessels with a capacity of 21,000 TEU or more. Almost all were built in the last five years.
However, these Boats are out of bounds Even from the world’s largest ports, says Griffiths. To load and unload containers, cranes must cross the ships.
Container ships should also return Go through locks and canalsincluding the Suez and Panama Canals, which have size restrictions.
It is also important to avoid grounding ships. In some ports, there are huge ships So submerged in water In water they touch down And they slide through the sediment rather than float, says Stavros Karamperidis, director of the Ship Research Group at the University of Plymouth in England. Such maneuver should be handled with great care.
To accommodate ships much larger than today’s largest ships, that would be needed of A major overhaul of port infrastructure. That would be incredibly expensive.
“Why would you invest in big ships if you have to invest huge sums in ports as well?” Griffiths says.
Karamperidis says that even the largest ships controlled Given the routes they take, they are very vulnerable to bad weather. They may not cross the Pacific, for example, because of violent storms. Medium-sized container ships sometimes lose hundreds of containers in the Pacific.
“That’s why ships [ultragrandes] They don’t face big waves as they come closer to the coast. It is a question of stabilityMost U.S. ports are not large enough to accommodate the largest container ships, he adds. Only a handful of ships with a capacity approaching 20,000 TEUs have ever reached U.S. ports.
LIMITATIONS IN Boat size They have less to do with the engineering challenges of building really big ships, but more to do with the economics and logistics of operating such behemoths.
“Physically, there’s really no limit,” says Rosalind Blazczyk, managing partner and naval architect at Solis Marine Consultants.
Containers are built to hold them in place, and such systems have high limits on the number of boxes they can safely hold, says John Simpson, Blazejczyk’s colleague at Solis.
How these are done is another problem BoatsRide big and wide waves. When sailing directly in line with waves, boats can experience a phenomenon known as parametric roll.
As waves sweep the length of a very wide container ship, its bow and stern can sweep the water until the crest of the wave is amidships. This leaves the top of the bow unsupported by water. A variation in this support can cause the ship to rock oddly from side to side as the waves pass.
“They get it Roll angles A very large one without a very high wave height,” says Blazejczyk.
Larger ships are more at risk. And container ships have very large hatches in their decks, meaning their overall structure is weaker and more prone to twisting than other ships.
“They are like one A shoe box without a lidBlazejczyk adds that there is no problem in calm seas, but again, restricting when or where a ship goes limits its usefulness.
In addition to all the above reasons, a Economic environment Manage. Griffiths points out that oil prices are currently too high and the largest container ships require large amounts of fuel.
However, it is not possible to invest in large ships Financial will Smart in the future. Now these costs are offset by astronomical freight rates around the world. This is the current demand for inventory.
For container ships with capacities above 25,000 TEUs to be viable, the economics of operating them must change, Karamperidis says.
The Suez Canal It will always act as a bottleneck for ships traveling from Asia to Europe, but Karamperidis says it’s impossible to imagine a 30,000-TEU vessel or route from China to a growing African port.
“We can see those types of ships going from Asia to Mombasa,” he adds, referring to Kenya’s largest port.
24,000 TEU ceiling on capacity Container ships What we see globally today is a reflection of economic limitations such as port infrastructure, the shape and engineering of the world’s busiest waterways.
But under the right conditions, there is always the possibility of being with someone enough money One day commission a ship that will outshine today’s gigantic ships. It will surely be an amazing thing to watch.
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Successful Uninformed Bidding
This paper studies multiunit common value auctions with informed and less informed bidders. We show that bidders with less information can bid very aggressively and do surprisingly well in terms of probability of winning and expected revenue. We also show that the degree of aggressiveness and success of bidders with less information is positively related to the number of units for sale. We explain these phenomena in terms of the balance of the winner's curse and the loser's curse and their differential effect on bidders with different quality of information.
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It seems everyone’s a photographer now (and that’s kind of awesome) but I gotta be honest… not everyone is an interesting photographer. The good news is that photography isn’t a field of magic secrets and you don’t have to sacrifice any animals to make better pictures. I’ll be speaking at New Media Expo in January about photography tips for blogging and social media, and I wanted to offer up some quick suggestions how to inject more creativity into your photos.
- Get close – And when you think you’re close enough, get closer. We see too many snapshots from a very wide angle and the interesting subject is only a small bit of the scene. Very few photos have been ruined by moving closer to the subject.
- Crop Creatively – Most cameras make images with a 4:3 or 3:2 aspect ratio (the ratio of the long side to the short side of the image) and 1:1 ratios have taken off since Instagram became popular, but don’t hestitate to crop a photo into different dimensions. Have a wide, short subject? Make a wide panaorama. Something tall and skinny? Make a tall and skinny photo (this one might fit well alongside a blog post).
- Find the Light – Sure, you could get all fancy and use speedlights or other external lighting specifically for photography, but odds are that most of the photos you’re creating are happening under either natural outdoor light or the ambient light indoors. Look at that light. Look at the angles. Look where the light is hard and casting harsh shadows vs. where it’s soft and diffused. Move around. Place your subject where the light is better when you can. As a specific example, if there’s a window (not directly facing the sun) you’ll often find nice light coming through that window and nearby would be a great place for an indoor portrait.
- Fly High or Get Down – Far too many photographs suffer from “six foot guy with a camera to his eye” syndrome. They’re created in the most natural way as someone simply holds the camera up to their face and clicks the shutter. As a result, photos offen suffer from this similarity and lack of variance in perspective. Try something new… get down on the ground and shoot upward. Find a vantage point that’s up above the crowd. I’ve been known to bring a 6’ stepladder with me on some photo trips… it’s fascinating how just a few extra feet really change one’s ability to make a compelling image. Even without extra gear, holding your camera above your head can be a great way to change things up.
- Look for Reflections – I live near Portland, which means that a puddle of standing water is a frequent sight. Puddles aren’t the only option of course; great reflections can be made in lakes, fountains, or other bodies of water. Smooth water can make for some interesting straightforward reflections, but a rippled surface can also make for some interesting (although more abstract) patterns, especially at night.
- Leave Part of the Subject Out of the Frame – Most photos include the entire subject in the frame, but what if you left some of it out for a bit of mystery or to get your reader thinking a bit. Sure, you could write about a popular board game and include a photo of the game board… but what if, instead, you included a photo that only consisted of part of a recognizable game piece?
- Blur on Purpose – No, you probably don’t want to go out and create all of your photos blurry, but selective blur can be an interesting effect. Want to show motion as cars or people move by quickly? Put your camera on shutter priority mode (or use an iPhone app like Slow Shutter Cam) and set it to 1/2 or 1 second duration and see what results you get. Experiment.
These tips are a sampling of the sorts of things I’ll speak about in my Photography Tips for New Media session I’ll be leading at 2:15pm on the first day of NMX (Sunday, January 6th). In addition to the creative aspects, I’ll offer an overview of basic exposure and lighting, as well as a few things to keep in mind when shooting specifically for your blog or social media. I hope to see you at NMX! | <urn:uuid:9e060e9b-6151-421f-bfb4-b10f3bc26a33> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blogworld.com/2012/11/12/7-ways-to-inject-more-creativity-into-your-photos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00232-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936547 | 926 | 1.65625 | 2 |
We define the entertainment industry to include movie studios (including producers, actors and directors), the music industry, commercial television and radio stations, and cable and satellite TV operators. And while DC may be "Hollywood for ugly people," as the saying goes, the industry has a stake in much that goes on in Washington.
For example, in a ruling decried by advocates of net neutrality, Verizon successfully challenged rules by the Federal Communications Commission that would have required Internet service providers to grant the same broadband speed to websites equally. Shortly after Verizon's victory, Comcast Corp. brokered a deal with Netflix to give it faster movie streaming -- for a price, of course. Comcast spent more on lobbying in 2013 than any other corporation in any industry except Northrop Grumman Corp. Comcast employs 35 lobbying firms (37 counting its subsidiaries). Its talent includes 107 lobbyists, including two retired senators and three former House members.
Time Warner has also made major investments in lobbying, ranking fourth among entertainment organizations at $8.29 million.
Overall, the television, movie and music industry spent $118 million in 2013, a dip from its $123 million peak in 2011. We could see that figure creep upward though, as Democrats scramble for solutions to the ruling that unraveled net neutrality.
Another perennial concern of the industry is copyright protection, particularly as it concerns the practice of sharing music and video files over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America has been encourging elected officials to confront the growing problem of piracy, especially online. The Motion Picture Association of America, while most known for being in charge of the movies rating system, has also been a key player in the anti-piracy.
"Hollywood liberal" is a favorite smear of the conservative right. Indeed the entertainment industry tilts heavily Democratic in its political contributions, but not exclusively so. Over the past 20 years, roughtly 70 percent of donations has gone to Democrats and 29 percent has gone to Republicans. PACs and individuals connected to Comcast and Time Warner gave away about $4.4 million and $2.3 million, respectively, during the 2012 election cycle.
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Laboratories are traditional testing points and pose the biggest competition to the point-of-care (PoC) testing industry. The assertion of these laboratories’ that PoC testing cannot match laboratory testing in terms of cost and accuracy severely curtails the growth of PoC technologies.
To counter this restraint, companies have to leverage the results of clinical studies on PoC along with the market performance of these devices in terms of providing results, which are as accurate and reliable as those obtained from laboratories. Further, PoC manufacturers must demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of these products to physicians and patients to get rid of such end user apprehensions.
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Although intensive research and development have helped add more tests to the PoC platform, researchers still face the challenge of carrying out the necessary and requisite number of tests from a single blood sample.
“PoC manufacturers will not find the going easy, as they have to meet different sample requirements and produce a device to measure all these parameters from a single sample,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Sachin Thukral.
Manufacturers should adapt the PoC technology to handle a wide range of tests by combining multiple immunoassays in one cartridge. It is always a tough ask to get the right product mix of software, engineering, and chemistry for a multiassay platform.
Various technological advancements are assisting the creation of multi-assay platforms that can not only save time and provide reliable results but can also offer cost benefits.
Innovative devices such as glucose monitoring systems that are minimally invasive, or even non-invasive, and do not require any kind of patient preparation are likely to go a long way in popularizing PoC technologies.
These advancements make PoC testing painless and simple to perform and are a huge boost to the industry, as there is a huge demand for devices offering simplicity of operation. To meet this need, manufacturers have made consistent efforts to train ward personnel and ensure lab quality at PoC sites.
Moreover, with an increasing number of non-laboratory-trained users conducting the tests, there is a pressing need to make all PoC devices easy to operate, with the addition of friendly interfaces. Device manufacturers have to focus on the simplicity of design in right from the development and production stages to improve product value.
“PoC testing also helps provide better patient care by aiding physicians in making informed decisions during emergencies,” notes Thukral. “This benefit is further complemented by their ability to carry out multiple assays such as blood gases, electrolytes, chemistries, coagulation, hematology, glucose, and cardiac markers simultaneously.”
Manufacturers hope to develop PoC devices that offer a distinct cost advantage over the large and expensive laboratory instrumentation. They are also under pressure due to the soaring prices of healthcare tests to provide inexpensive, yet effective treatments.
PoC device manufacturers could promote instruments that provide results that are as accurate and reliable as those obtained from laboratories, while demonstrating their cost-effectiveness to physicians and patients. However, they can do so only by channeling substantial resources to research and development and develop devices that are accurate, reliable, easy-to- use and provide quicker results.
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|Since March, youth from the Ninh Thuan Province Communist Youth Union have transported water to ethnic Raglai residents in the mountainous Bac Ai District twice a week. — Photo nld
HCM CITY (VNS) — Many well-off farmers in Ninh Thuan, one of the provinces in the central region hardest hit by drought, have dug and dredged wells, and donated water to other farmers to help them save their crops and animals.
Nguyen Huu Tri in Ninh Hai District's Nhon Hai Commune, who owns the only well with water in his area, has shared his well water with more than 20 farming households in the Lon Spring area, Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourer) newspaper has reported.
Tri is one of many well-off farmers in Nhon Hai Commune who have dug wells and given free irrigation water for other neighbouring farmers to save their crops.
Near the end of last year, Tri's 4,000 sq.m field of grape plants was at risk of damage because of a water shortage as Lon Spring had dried up.
Tri dug a 10 metre-deep well, which cost VND60 million (US$2,800).
With the well water, he was able to save his plants and sell the harvested grapes, which were worth VND100 million, in February after Tet (Lunar New Year).
Nguyen Ha, who uses Tri's well water to irrigate his grapes, said: "Without the help of Tri and his wife, my remaining grapes would all be damaged."
Last December, 2,000 sq.m of Ha's 4,000 sq.m of grape plants were destroyed by drought. But with the new well, Tri let Ha use the well water to irrigate his grape plants.
Tri recently purchased an automatic irrigation system for his grape orchard to save and share water with other farmers.
Since March, youth from the Ninh Thuan Province Communist Youth Union have transported water to ethnic Raglai residents in the mountainous Bac Ai District twice a week.
In Bac Ai's Phuoc Trung Commune, which was hit the hardest by the drought in Ninh Thuan, volunteer youth helped the elderly and children get water from the tank truck of the Youth Union of Ninh Thuan Enterprise Block.
Chamlea At, a resident of Phuoc Trung Commune, said prolonged heat had lasted for more than a year.
Hong Anh Dung, secretary of the Youth Union of Ninh Thuan Enterprise Block, said drought was expected to last for five to six months.
The work of transporting water to drought-hit areas will last until September, he said.
The cost of water transport is sponsored by philanthropists and youth members, he said.
Chau Thanh Hai, secretary of the Ninh Thuan Province Communist Youth Union, said his union planned to send youth volunteers to drought-hit areas to dig wells for local residents.
Tran Xuan Hoa, deputy chairman of the Ninh Thuan People's Committee, said the province appreciated the good deeds of farmers who shared irrigation water with other farmers and the work of youth union members who transported water to people in areas with the least water.
The People's Committee also plans to transport water for daily use to mountainous areas, he said.
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Very sturdy reconstruction replicating the style of medieval shoes. This type of shoes was widespread in medieval Europe, from thelate Dark Ages up to well into the late Middle Ages.
The shoes offered here are ankle-high and laced on the instep. The upper is machine-stitched to the sole. This modern method (alsocalled McKay stitch) allows for substantially more stability and durability whilst maintaining the visual appearance oforiginal historical turnshoes.
An ideal compromise for those who find turnshoes too pliant and unstable, yet still attach great importance to an authentichistorical representation.
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Last weekend’s periodization discussion made a sharp turn when Stephen Greenblatt’s modernization parable, The Swerve, won the MLA’s first annual Lowell prize for fiction. Those who, despite the seasonal upwelling of darkness-into-light stories at this time of year, remain unconvinced by zombie myths of Dark Ages and sudden lurches into modernity, have been outraged. Much cleverness and knowledge on display in the aftermath, including some lively FB & blog threads and on twitter, where Bruce Holsinger (@burnablebooks) warmed up the wires with a brilliant series of self-immolating tweet-quotations exposing the sillier claims of the book: see #TheSwerve.
The heart of this swervin’ exchange lays bare the conflict between two things: an objectively false feel-good story of “how the world became modern,” and a better-informed sense of what went on before Poggio found that copy of De rerum natura. The first thing is narrative, or perhaps myth; the other draws on the historical record.
I wonder what happens if we disentangle these threads? What if we rethink “modernity” as something other than a historical phenomenon? What if it’s a story?
The modern might not be a thing that “begins,” but a narrative humans tell about the felt experience of change. Discontinuity challenges any kind of systemic thinking, and “modernity” as a story makes sense of discontinuous change through the metaphor of the Break, the once-and-for-all transformation of what was into was is, or at least what is-becoming. This story gets told in crude and less crude formulations — The Swerve deserves mockery b/c it’s careless in its characterizations — but the modern-story can, perhaps, be retold to accommodate better representations of what precedes a modern-moment. A richer modernity story should also embrace the post-break fluidity that we mostly call postmodern. As Jameson sagely observes, any conception of modernity that cannot also explain postmodernity is pretty useless.
The four maxims Jameson lays out in A Singular Modernity (2002) are all pretty thought-provoking, actually. A quick paraphrase: “We cannot not periodize” “modernity is a narrative category” “modernity is not about subjectivity” “we need a modernity that also understands the postmodern.”
History itself does not and need not follow this modern parable. Any narrative about historical change-and-continuity must, in order to be a narrative, do some violence to the plenitude of the historical record. Some narratives are better than others; some work and others do not. I always prefer the flexible and recursive to the abrupt and enlightening, but that may be as much a generic preference for complexity and connection as an affinity for “reality,” that elusive thing. History overfills all human narratives; that’s why in addition to “facts” we need poetry — and geometry, statistics, economics, plasma physics, interior design, geoclimatology, the Hubble Telescope… Objects and alliances of all sorts, human and not.
I’m deeply sympathetic to the many eloquent defenses of medieval plenitude and cultural brilliance — the latest ones I’ve read include Anne Harris’ letter to the New Yorker when the pre-Swerve exerpt appeared, and Kellie Robertson’s scholarly prebuttal of Greenblatt before the book reached print (Kellie Robertson)– but I retain interested in something like “modernity” (maybe we need a different word?) as a flexible narrative category that responds to cataclysmic change. The narrative of modernity, of course, needn’t be new in 1517 or any other special time; we can see its traces all over the literary-historical record, from Boccaccio to Chaucer, in Ovid, Lucian, and Achilles Tatius, and many others. I’m not an Anglo-Saxonist, but I read The Wanderer as a lament about the human pain that attends cultural change.
Whatever heroic story of “the modern” you want to tell — bold explorers, brilliant textual scholars, brave Lutherans, lethal viruses, high-caloric American food crops feeding China or Ireland — will exclude and misrepresent aspects of the historical record. That’s a reason to tell more complex and less triumphant stories.
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n 1999 North Clackamas went on line with 10 MGD slow sand filtration. In 2005 10 MGD of submerged membrane filtration was added to increase capacity and to help when high raw turbidity occurs. This presentation will cover how the two very different processes compliment each others strengths and weaknesses.
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It isn’t often that we associate the words “Go take a hike” with warm wishes for good health, spiritual growth and all-encompassing contentment. On the contrary, being spitefully told to take a hike, get lost, fly a kite or partake in any other sort of outdoorsy activity alone makes us feel rather unwanted, which is generally the speaker’s intention.
But in this article, I want us to suspend the popular perception of this acerbic idiom and replace it with a sunnier interpretation. I want us to consider how something as simple and carefree as a half-hour trek through nature can reap tremendous benefits for body, mind and soul.
This positive spin on a negative phrase carries encouraging news, especially for those who sometimes shudder at the thought of a fast-paced kickboxing class at 6 a.m. after a sleepless night with a sick child, or who just can’t seem to motivate themselves to hit the weights in a packed and noisy gym after a stressful day at the office. With just a little bit of time and a trusty pair of tennis shoes, we can literally walk our bad moods, bad habits and worries all away!
Today, I’m advising you—lovingly—to take a hike, and here are my top five reasons why:
1. You'll Be Less Stressed and Less Depressed
Spending time in nature has been linked to stress reduction. A number of studies have found that time spent outdoors relieves stress, improves focus and memory, and even promotes a sense of life satisfaction. Even on a crisp fall day, taking a walk outside can improve memory and attention span by up to 20 percent.
Well-conducted clinical trials have also shown vast mood improvements in adults with depression who exercise regularly. In some cases, in fact, exercise proves just as effective at elevating moods as antidepressant medication! There is also substantial evidence that walking with friends and family is even more advantageous than strolling solo because the social component builds stress resilience, lowers blood pressure and reduces levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
2. You'll Be More Energized
Did you just finish you third cup of coffee today and still feel like you need a nap? Try lacing up your tennis shoes and heading outside instead. Walking outdoors has been shown to recharge our batteries and elevate our moods, thanks to the wonderful feel-good endorphins it produces.
According to a 2008 study, individuals with sedentary lifestyles experienced a significant boost in energy (20 percent) and a 65 percent reduction in fatigue after walking. Dr. Tim Peutz, a co-author of this study, says, “Exercise traditionally has been associated with physical health, but we are quickly learning that exercise has a more holistic effect on the human body and includes effects on psychological health. What this means is that in every workout a single step is not just a step closer to a healthier body, but also to a healthier mind" (emphasis mine).
3. You'll Have Fewer Cravings
Nothing can thwart your fitness like mindless munching. A handful of candy here, a doughnut or two there—it all adds up. While it doesn’t seem like much, a brisk walk could be all it takes to chase away those pesky cravings and silence the sweet treats calling out to you.
In a 2008 study, researchers recruited a group of “regular chocolate eaters”—people who ate at least two chocolate bars a day—and had them abstain for three days. The participants were then divided into groups and assigned to work on difficult cognitive tests to raise their stress levels. They were also tempted with unwrapped chocolate bars. (How cruel!) The researchers found that if the subjects walked for 15 minutes on a treadmill at a pace that was quick but not tiring, they were far less likely to experience cravings and even exhibited lower blood pressure when handling the chocolate bars.
4. You'll Prevent Disease
It’s true what Benjamin Franklin said: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Walking is a wonderful offensive weapon when it comes to warding off disease and illness. A daily half-hour walk can help prevent strokes, heart attacks, Alzheimer’s and diabetes, according to the National Institutes of Health. To cut your risk of heart disease by 40 percent, the American Heart Association recommends you walk fairly briskly—3 to 4 miles per hour—and for 30 to 60 minutes at least five days a week.
A recent study found that walking every day for at least an hour might lower the risk of stroke by as much as one-third. Leader of the study, doctor and researcher Barbara Jefferis, says that “aiming for 150 minutes per week of moderate physical activity, which includes walking at a brisk pace or light gardening, or 75 minutes per week of vigorous activities, such as jogging or tennis ... would protect against heart disease and diabetes, as well as protecting against stroke.”
5. You're Soul Will Be Refreshed
Walking is used countless times in the Bible to describe our relationship with God. We’re told in Genesis 6:9 that Noah “walked with God.” His great-grandfather Enoch walked so closely with God that he was spared physical death. Because of his faith and trust in the Lord, King David was able to fearlessly “walk through the valley of the shadow of death.”
Now, for those of you who may be thinking, Well in those instances, walking is just a metaphor; it isn’t literally what those guys were doing, I want to point out one astonishing case in which walking with God was a very literal activity.
In Luke 24:13-35, we’re told the story of two of Jesus’ disciples who were walking the seven-mile journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion. As they walked and talked about what they perceived as a tragic event, the Lord showed up, His identity concealed, and began walking beside them. After chastising them for their doubts regarding the prophecies surrounding the Messiah’s death and resurrection, He patiently explained to them “what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself,” beginning with Moses and the Old Testament prophets.
When they finally reached their destination with full hearts and empty bellies, the pair insisted upon this captivating stranger’s company at supper. Jesus, always willing to dine with us, took bread, gave thanks and broke it (proving that the Last Supper wasn’t really the last after all!). He then opened their eyes so they could recognize who He truly was—no stranger at all, but their Master and Savior resurrected, just as He’d promised. And then as quickly and unexpectedly as He’d appeared, He vanished from their sight.
The story goes on to tell us that the disciples swiftly returned to Jerusalem to declare to the others gathered there: “It is true! The Lord has risen.” It took just one walk, just one conversation with the Lord, for their pity party to be transformed into the first Easter celebration.
Can you think of a better reason to walk than having the Lord appear and tell you all about Himself? Can you think of a greater benefit of walking than having all of your worries, doubts and insecurities extinguished by the One who died so we might shine bright as lights of the world living abundantly and victoriously, without fear?
When you go for a walk through God’s creation, either alone or with a companion, I urge you to make it an Emmaus walk of your own. Invite the Lord to spend that half-hour with you, just as the original Emmaus walkers welcomed Jesus into their home for dinner. Ask Him questions. Tell Him what troubles you. And then listen in awe as He reminds you of His everlasting promises and refreshes you with the supernatural water of His unfailing Word. The numerous heath benefits and endorphin rush you’ll receive after you return home will be nothing compared to the surge of joy within your soul.
“You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you” (Deut. 5:33).
Fit Fact: Jesus walked a total of 3,125 miles during his 3-year public ministry.
Diana Anderson-Tyler is the author of Creation House’s Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness. Her popular website can be found at fit4faith.com, and she is the owner and a coach at CrossFit 925. Diana can be reached on Twitter. This article was originally posted to her blog.
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Why would you want to clear your subconscious? Isn’t it fine the way it is? I love living each day in the past don’t you?
The question is are you happy with every aspect of your life? Or are there things you struggle with such as anxiety, addictions, compulsiveness, anger, frustration, impatience or fear? Or perhaps you struggle in relationships, work or finances.
Like most people we live in the past. We react, respond and deal with life based on our past experiences, beliefs and conditions which were hard wired in our subconscious from childhood.
Your mind is broken down into the conscious mind, the waking state, and the subconscious mind, the deeper layers of habits, conditions and programs below the surface. The conscious mind makes up around 5% of the way you function and deal with life.
The other 95% comes from your subconscious mind, which is the driving force behind your habits, conditions, perceptions, beliefs and the way you react and respond to the world. So what ever has been programmed within the subconscious mind since a very small child, is what will continue to play out over and over again. It is how you see and deal with the world.
It is therefore important to clear your subconscious to create a new story, a new way of being, with new beliefs that truly serve you. When you allow your subconscious to let go of the past programming you open yourself up to new possibilities, new ways of thinking and positive changes within your life. You open yourself up to experiencing more joy, happiness and fulfillment.
Meditation is a powerful tool you can use to clear and reprogram your subconscious mind. This particular meditation helps you to:
- clear and reprogram your subconscious mind
- balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain
- move past negative thinking, moving into a state of mental balance
- let go of the past, leaving past hurts and experiences that are holding you back
- release fear and insecurity
- forgive those who have hurt you in the past and create new ways to move forward.
How to do this meditation
- Sit in easy pose, crossed legged position. Spine straight.
- Tune in with Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo 3 times, to connect to the power of the meditation and with your true divine self.
- Cross the forearms below the wrists and hold them in front of the chest.
- Arms out slightly, palms up and a little toward the chest.
- Look down at the tip of the nose.
- Begin to chant the mantra Sa Ta Na Ma.
- Whilst you chant the mantra rotate the thumb tip to touch each finger whilst you chant. On the Sa connect thumb to index finger, Ta connect thumb to middle finger, Na connect the thumb to ring finger and Ma connect the thumb to the little finger.
- Continue chanting whilst rotating the thumb tip to other fingers, coordinating the Sa Ta Na Ma with the finger movement.
- Continue anywhere from 3 mins to 31 minutes.
- To end – inhale and hold the breath, roll your eyes up and become completely still.
- Relax and remain still in meditation for some time.
Sa Ta Na Ma expresses the five primal sounds of the Universe. Sa = Infinity, Ta = Life, Na = Death and Ma = Rebirth.
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REMOVAL & INSTALLATION
See Figure 1
- Raise and support the vehicle safely. Support the vehicle with a suitable jack under the frame, so the control arms hang free.
- Remove and discard the cotter pin. Loosen the slotted nut so that a few threads are showing between the bottom of the nut and the knuckle. The purpose of this is to retain the arm when you break the stud taper loose.
When separating a linkage joint, do NOT try to disengage the joint by driving a wedge between the joint and the attached part. This will damage the seal.
- Use a suitable ball joint separator tool to separate the adjustment link from the knuckle.
- Unfasten the link retaining nut, then remove the link from the control arm.
- Position the link to the control arm and secure with the retaining nut.
- Attach the link to the knuckle. Position the boot toward the front of the vehicle.
- Tighten the retaining nut to 63 ft. lbs. (85 Nm) and the new slotted hex nut to 33 ft. lbs. (45 Nm).
- Install a new cotter pin. After tightening the slotted nut, align the slot in the nut to the cotter hole by tightening up to one additional flat. Do not loosen the nut to install the cotter pin.
- Lubricate the adjustment link joint.
- Install the tire and wheel assembly.
- Lower the vehicle, then tighten the wheel lug nuts to 100 ft. lbs. (136 Nm).
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“The age at which players can realistically, due to physical and intellectual development, be expected, with sensible effort, to master certain techniques and tactics.”
Tim Bradbury, ENYYSA Director of Coaching Instruction
The readiness debate, due to the following characteristics of the game and how it is taught in America, is one which all professional soccer educators, club officials and soccer parents should be aware of. The following factors should all be considered in forming any training curriculum for youth players.
? Practice Time/Soccer Time
The majority of youth players between the ages of 5 and 10 practice a maximum of twice a week for approximately 60 to 90 minutes. Due to such time restrictions, as well as the sporadic nature of “soccer time” (the total amount of time that a player has spent with a ball in practice, recreation and games) prior to this age, most professional coaches could agree on a curriculum which examines moves, first-touch, passing and possession at the core of the curriculum. Conversely, if the practice schedule was four sessions per week and the “soccer time” prior to this age was high, perhaps instep striking, overhead kicks and zonal defense could be taught instead.
? Educational Theory
In devising a soccer curriculum for youth players, it is essential to consider their cognitive development. The theories of Piaget and the manner in which it is possible for a 7-year-old to see and understand the world, MUST affect how and what we teach. For example, it is simply counterproductive for a 6-year-old to focus on possession work when they cannot yet fully grasp the concept of space or sharing.
? Physical Development
In devising a soccer curriculum for youth players, it is essential to consider their physical development. Although the debates on levels of physical fitness and flexibility regimes seem to be cyclical in nature, certain truisms must be reflected in how and what we teach. For example, if it is probable that formally stretching 5- and 6-year-olds does more damage to their bodies than it does good, then formal stretching for players of this age should be removed form any suggested training programs.
? The Modern Game
Perhaps the easiest way to look at how the game has evolved is to look at the ball itself. Fifty years ago in England, the professional game was played with a leather ball which when wet became heavier than lead. At such a time, to swerve the ball with the outside of the foot was practically a physical impossibility. Now a team of “nuclear physicists” designs the World Cup ball over a period of four years using synthetic materials that NASA would be proud of. This expert knowledge and scientific advancements produce a modern day ball that is tolerant to any amount of rain, temperature and pressure swings, and can be swerved (by the likes of Beckham and Carlos) to degrees that leave goalies and spectators bewildered.
Changes in attitudes towards nutrition, and advancements in training methods for modern athletes have all helped produce quicker more athletic players at all ages. In the glory days of fifty years ago (with the lead ball), the idea of a player like Mia Hamm flicking-up the ball, skipping a tackle, taking off on a sprint and then toe-poking a precision pass to a teammate would have been ludicrous. After all, the ball was way too heavy to flick-up, so why teach them that? And of course, passing with the toe is a big no-no! If our forefathers only knew!
? Cultural Impact
Newspapers, magazines, television shows, and of course, teachers have all attempted to document what they consider to be radical changes in attitudes. Apparently, the days of being able to play in the street and leave the door open are now a fond memory. We now live in a time where locking our children up safely in the house with blinds closed is sadly the norm (thus, impacting the frequency of “soccer time.”)
One of the most current social attitudes of all is the desire for immediate rewards or winning at all costs. And it is perhaps this attitude that drives parent coaches to bring unrealistic objectives to practice as they strive for the next big win with their U-6 team.
If professional players run six miles before practice and work on free kicks for 2 hours each day, can we accelerate our 6-year-olds to this level by simply doubling the work? This perspective is sadly prevalent today and contradicts the fundamental premise that soccer learning should be an extended “journey” and not a quick trip.
Simply because you saw the New York Power play 3 V. 1 in their warm up, does not mean it is suitable for your 5-year-olds.
? Coaching Impact and Current Knowledge
There can be no debate that the game has indeed evolved significantly and continues to do so. Better athletes, better equipment, comprehensive video analysis of techniques, combined with a more acute understanding of educational theory are but a few of the factors that have led to new techniques being tried, learned and applied. No “good” coach can rest on his or her laurels and assume that the way they were taught and what they were taught MUST be the only way to learn and teach the game. The days of one ball at practice and long lines of players waiting in turn to have “their go” are gone forever.
? Family Matters
As previously stated, the amount of “soccer time” undoubtedly affects a player’s ability to master new techniques and concepts. Those youngsters lucky enough to have been socially immersed in the game from an early age, playing in the garden against an older brother or sister, ultimately have had a huge amount of “soccer time” compared to the first-born of a family with a mom and dad who have never kicked a ball.
Mixed-ability teams (which differ greatly in their levels of “soccer time”) should be approached with a customized teaching method and adaptable curriculum. Any experienced youth coach working with 5- or 6-year-olds will have designed practices and games that are easily adaptable to different levels. All players participating within a mixed-ability group should be ultimately challenged at their own individual level.
? Low Expectations
The majority of volunteer parents with little or no playing experience often have difficulties performing many of the basic techniques of the game. This lack of playing experience (and demonstration ability), frequently leads to low expectations being set for the players. Parent coaches who cannot demonstrate a drag back turn are reluctant to teach it and far too frequently jump to the belief that the suggested skill is far too difficult for the 5-year-old player.
Therefore, it is essential that any parent coach designing their own training programs refuse to be captured by the limits of their own playing and demonstration ability. Simply because you cannot juggle does not mean it is a skill that should not be introduced to even the youngest players.
? Why the Debate?
Any debate on “readiness” is good for the game, coaches and players. Informed discussion and passionate disagreement can only serve to ensure that we continue to provide contemporary ideas on appropriate training methods, techniques and tactics, and when and how they should be taught. | <urn:uuid:62384ccc-e387-4033-b056-e84d4e78cffc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.enysoccer.com/readiness/?CategoryId=14602&Year=2013&pg=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00404-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973503 | 1,494 | 3.28125 | 3 |
South African Journal of Psychiatry - Volume 19, Issue 1, 2013
Volume 19, Issue 1, 2013
Source: South African Journal of Psychiatry 19, pp 2 –3 (2013)More Less
There are enormous challenges in developing a mental healthcare service that meets the needs of South Africans. Many of these challenges have been described in the lay press and in both local and international journals. In recognition of these challenges, the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) has expressed its support for formalising a national mental health policy, in a position statement released following a strategic workshop in 2012. The workshop was co-ordinated by members of its State Employed Special Interest Group (SESIG).
Source: South African Journal of Psychiatry 19, pp 4 –10 (2013)More Less
Background. Mental health research appears to be continually transforming. Recent literature reflects a greater appreciation for the ways in which pathoplastic features of culture modulate emotional regulation. This article introduces those aspects of the literature which explore the (re)consideration of culture as a dynamic and essential construct in the clinical formulation of psychopathology.
Objectives. The study aims to review literature that focuses on the dynamic influence of culture in psychopathology. Furthermore, the researchers aim to present a view on the ways in which culture appeared to shape the topography of psychopathology nosology.
Method. A literature review of 31 sources.
Results. The review indicated that 29 literature sources were conceptual in design, suggesting a great need for more empirical research. This section also explores themes identified during the literature review. The literature is tabulated according to features and emerging themes. Three major themes were identified and included: the cultural context; the evolving definitions of culture; and culture and psychopathology.
Conclusion/discussion. An analysis of the themes is offered. The authors conclude by highlighting the significance of the literature at present. Areas of particular interest suggest that health and behaviour are dependent, at least in part, on culture; psychopathology may also be appreciated as a social construct; culture influences psychopathology regardless of the aetiology; diagnostic classes do not adequately consider operational definitions; and a greater focus on hermeneutic perceptivity in appreciating cultural dynamics in psychopathology will benefit clinical assessment.
Author M.A. RashedSource: South African Journal of Psychiatry 19, pp 12 –15 (2013)More Less
This article offers a commentary on Hassim and Wagner's article, Considering the cultural context in psychopathology formulations, published in this issue of the South African Journal of Psychiatry (http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAJP.400). It clarifies aspects of the concepts of culture and psychopathology. A distinction is drawn between the content of culture and the demarcation of cultures. The former refers to socially acquired meanings and significances that condition subjective experience and the latter to specific, demarcated cultural groups. It is argued that these two meanings of culture must be kept apart, and that only the former is relevant to the project of understanding the range of cultural influences on mental health problems. This is premised on the idea, arising partially from anthropological critique, that while cultural designations (e.g. Maori or Muslim) might serve as important political and identity markers, they obscure rather than reveal the actual influences the subject is exposed to, and which condition subjective experience as seen through the modulation of distress or symptom formation.
Psychiatric features in perpetrators of homicide-unsuccessful-suicide at Weskoppies Hospital in a 5-year periodSource: South African Journal of Psychiatry 19, pp 15 –18 (2013)More Less
Background. In the absence of medical literature reporting on homicide-unsuccessful-suicide (HUS), those cases in which the perpetrator is referred for forensic psychiatric observation present an opportunity to explore psychiatric features pertaining to the event.
Objective. To identify possible contributing psychiatric features in HUS cases.
Method. A retrospective, single-centre, descriptive study was conducted, in which we reviewed clinical records of HUS subjects referred for observation to Weskoppies Hospital from December 2005 to January 2011. We reviewed socio-demographic and psychiatric information.
Results. Nine cases were reviewed. The median age of the subjects was 29 years and 7 subjects were male. Five cases involved family members. Cases involving couples demonstrated male subjects and cases involving filicide demonstrated female subjects. Only 1 case involved the use of a firearm. At the time of the incident, 4 of the cases had no psychiatric diagnosis, but did have notable interpersonal difficulties. Psychotic disorders were diagnosed in 3 subjects, a depressive disorder in 1 subject and a depressive and anxiety disorder in 1 subject.
Conclusion. Subjects commonly used less lethal methods than shooting. The high rate of psychiatric disorders diagnosed is in keeping with court referrals occurring when a mental illness is suspected. Some cases may require specialised probing before psychosis becomes apparent. Identification of psychosocial stressors and failure of coping mechanisms during periods of strife within an intimate relationship may be a focus of future research in homicide-suicide cases. Separation should possibly be investigated as an independent factor which promotes the interpersonal difficulty associated with homicide-suicide.
Consent to research by mentally ill children and adolescents : the implications of Chapter 9 of the National Health ActAuthor A. NienaberSource: South African Journal of Psychiatry 19, pp 19 –23 (2013)More Less
Chapter 9 of the National Health Act came into effect in March 2012. In this article, the Act's statutory requirements relating to the informed consent to participation in clinical research by mentally ill children and adolescents in South Africa are examined. The necessity of doing clinical research in mentally ill children and adolescents is canvassed briefly and the requirements that chapter 9 sets out for lawful child and adolescent consent to research participation are presented. Furthermore, the limitations of the newly enacted legislation is deliberated upon and selective improvements are proposed.
Because of the likely erosion of the minor's privacy, the requirement that a parent or legal guardian must consent to children's and adolescents' participation in research has the potential to obstruct much-needed mental health research. This requirement is likely to be found unconstitutional. In certain circumstances, ethics committees tasked with the review of research should be allowed to dispense with parental consent, and adolescents recognised as having the necessary capacity to consent independently to research participation. Furthermore, the Act's classification of research into therapeutic and non-therapeutic categories is considered problematic. It is recommended that research permissible in minors be stated in terms of well-defined risk standards.
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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
- I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument.
- Related by John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79.
- The accident of an accident.
- Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Recounted in Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142.
- When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
- 27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III (Thurlow).
- Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.
About Edward Thurlow
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The British Horseracing Authority has confirmed an outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) at the yard of Grand National-winning trainer Dr Richard Newland in Worcestershire.
Movement restrictions have been placed on the yard to limit any future spread while further sampling is under way to determine the exact strain, which has yet to be confirmed but is thought to be EHV-1.
As of yet the BHA is not aware of any confirmed cases in any other yards but trainers and vets have been asked to be vigilant to clinical signs of EHV and advise twice daily temperature checks for all horses.
While there is a low risk of transmission in a bio-secure raceday environment, there is a slight chance the horses were infectious before showing symptoms so trainers with runners at Uttoxeter, Worcester and Southwell on June 2, 4 and 6 respectively have been asked to be especially alert to signs of the disease.
The most common strain of EHV is EHV-1 which causes respiratory disease, abortion in pregnant mares and neurological disease in horses of all ages and types. EHV-4 is also common which usually only causes low-grade respiratory disease but can occasionally cause abortion.
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As has been seen with production of other animals, biosecurity issues arise when dealing with reptile populations. Emerging viral diseases pose significant concern within large breeding populations because of ease of transmission amongst more susceptible juvenile animals. Adequate surveillance and sanitation measures are key measures to prevention of disease outbreaks. Orthoreoviruses, a genus of noneveloped segmented double stranded RNA viruses, have been shown to cause significant morbidity and mortality in reptiles.1 A reovirus previously found in Greek tortoises (Testudo graeca)2 has emerged as a pathogen with high mortality rates in leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius). Real time PCR (qPCR) is a rapid and reliable method for detecting the presence and amount of a virus. A qPCR was developed for the detection and quantitation of this reovirus. Samples were run with qPCR and quantified against a known standard curve for virus quantification. This qPCR protocol was used to compare the potential of commonly used cleaning products (alcohols, hypocholorites, biguanides, and quaternary ammonium compounds) to inactivate this virus.
1. Lamirande EW, Nichols DK, Owens JW, Gaskin JM, Jacobson ER. Isolation and experimental transmission of a reovirus pathogenic in ratsnakes (Elaphe species). Virus Research. 1999;63:135–141.
2. Wellehan JFX, Childress AL, Marschang RE, Johnson AJ, Roberts JE, Vickers ML, et al. Consensus nested PCR amplification and sequencing of diverse reoviruses of reptiles, birds, and mammals. Vet Microbiol. 2009;133:34–42. | <urn:uuid:1f7dcbb6-29df-422e-96d4-ccd882b12518> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vin.com/AppUtil/Project/DefaultAdv1.aspx?pId=11275&meta=generic&catId=156098&id=9966521&ind=91&objTypeID=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.916482 | 372 | 3.359375 | 3 |
- 1(disapproving) that cannot be changed or made more suitable for a particular situation synonym rigid an inflexible attitude/routine/system The rules are too inflexible to allow for human error. an inflexible retirement age
- 2(disapproving) (of people or organizations) unwilling to change their opinions, decisions, etc., or the way they do things He's completely inflexible on the subject.
- 3 (of a material) difficult or impossible to bend synonym stiff opposite flexible
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How to Develop a Hardware Refresh Cycle
A hardware refresh cycle is when you upgrade you or your company’s hardware and software as needed. Benefits include saving information, increasing efficiency, and improving safety. Here’s how to develop a hardware refresh cycle:
1. Assess Your Hardware Needs
Any hardware refresh should start with a closer look at your systems. This means knowing what kind of hardware it is, how old it is, and how much storage is used. This will better prepare you for the updates.
2. Future Needs
After knowing what hardware you have or what it is lacking, you will want to conduct some research and decide what routine updates will be required of your hardware in the future. This is also a good time to locate receipts, and know purchase dates and any warranties you may have.
3. Disposal of Old Hardware
After assessing your current hardware, you may need to upgrade the system completely. In order to do this, you will want to make sure the hardware company has a warranty program. If they do, you may be able to get it replaced at a lower price. If not, this is when you will want to wipe your system and properly dispose of it.
4. Different Types of Hardware
You may not know that there are many different types of hardware including, personal computers, central processing units, random access memory, hard disks, internal hard drives, mobile devices, and servers. It is important to choose the right one for you or your business.
Once you have an idea of what software you want, you can choose to either purchase it or lease it. Both have their pros and cons. For more information on buying vs leasing IT equipment, read here.
Keeping your hardware up-to-date will not only increase productivity, but it will also improve your business’ safety. It is important to conduct a hardware refresh cycle regularly.
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ERIC Number: ED171434
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1975-May
Reference Count: 0
Directory: Programs in Outdoor Adventure Activities.
Hale, Alan N., Ed.
Nearly 200 ongoing educational programs using outdoor adventure as a learning device are listed in this 1975 directory. The program listings, including a broad cross section of outdoor education adventure programs, give the name of each program, program director, address, and phone number, along with a brief description of activities, length of program, ages of participants, and sometimes cost. Programs are then cross indexed by alphabetic order, geographical location, institutions granting credit (broken down into elementary and secondary schools, public and private, and higher education), and special programming (community service, chemical dependency, delinquent youth, freshman orientation, psychiatric, retarded, and vocational exploration). A materials index lists institutions/agencies from which written evaluations, proposals, and program materials are available. (RS)
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
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Illustrator has some great selection features: Select Same, Select Object, Magic Wand, and so on. One selection feature that I always use is Save Selection. I usually save selections early on in a illustration to easily come back to them even though the stroke, fill, and other attributes have be modified.
What is the Save Selection command?
To save this selection, choose Select > Save Selection. In the Save Selection dialog box, go to the Name field and give this selection a name. … If you don’t need the selection at the moment, press Command+D (MacOS) or Control+D (Windows) to deselect.
What does the selection tool do in Illustrator?
Selection: Selects entire objects or groups. This tool activates all anchor points in an object or group at the same time, allowing you to move an object without changing its shape.
How do I save a selection in Illustrator?
Save a selection
- Select one or more objects, and click Select > Save Selection.
- In the Save Selection dialog box, type a name in the Name text box, and click OK. You can reload a saved selection by choosing the selection name from the bottom of the Select menu.
How do you save everything in Illustrator?
How to Save Multiple Artboards in Illustrator
- Launch Illustrator and open your file with multiple artboards.
- Go to “File” and click “Save as” or “Save a Copy.”
- Select where you would like to save the file and enter a unique file name.
- Set the file format to AI, which is the Illustrator file format.
You can save a selection by going to “Select” –> “Save Selection”. Remember to give the selection an easy to remember name. This will make working with selections so much easier.
What is the function of the selection tool?
Selection tools are designed to select regions from the active layer so you can work on them without affecting the unselected areas. Each tool has its own individual properties, but the selection tools also share a number of options and features in common.
Why use simplify command before exporting a web graphic to SVG format?
To simplify a path means to cut out some of its points, which will lead to less path data and smaller file size.
What is the purpose of make pixel perfect command?
Anchor points, path segments, and shapes automatically align to the pixel grid as you scale your art. For anti-aliased icons or art with fuzzy edges, simply right-click and choose Make Pixel Perfect. Note: Straight edges in your art will look sharper, but curved lines and diagonal lines are not improved.
How do I save an Illustrator file without losing quality?
- Select the artboard you would like to save out by selecting the artwork on that artboard.
- Go to File>Export>Save for Web (Legacy)
- A dialogue box will appear. Select JPEG and lower your quality down to 60%. …
- Check to make sure your photo size is around 100K or less before you save it. …
- Click save.
How do I save a shortcut in Illustrator?
Save for Web and Devices. The shortcut for Mac users is CMD + Shift + Opt + S, and for Windows users, it is Ctrl + Shift +Alt + S.
How do I export best quality in Illustrator?
You’re now ready to save your high-res JPEG.
- Go to File > Export > Export As. …
- Set how you want to save your artboards, then hit Export to continue.
- On the JPEG Options screen change the Color Model if you need to, and choose a quality.
- Under Options, set the output resolution. …
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The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which helps farmers visualize the health of their plants, is typically captured on a per-field basis via satellite or airplane flyby. Now, NDVI can be captured on a per-plant basis with the Trimble GreenSeeker handheld crop sensor.
The device instantly calculates NDVI by positioning the sensor over a plant and pulling the trigger. Trimble officials say they hope farmers and consultants will use the GreenSeeker as an affordable entryway into NDVI technology. Readings can be used to determine basic nutrient response, yield potential, herbicide efficacy, pest impact and more. In addition, the device can be used to track field conditions throughout the growing season.
"The GreenSeeker handheld removes the guesswork so farmers can more efficiently run their operations, making informed decisions about their crop based on compiled data to ultimately
increase profitability through input savings," says Erik Arvesen, vice president of Trimble’s agriculture division.
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Oh dear I’m sounding very Bah Humbug.
But I’m not. I love Christmas. As the song goes it’s ‘the most wonderful time of the year’.
It’s magical, a time to spend much needed memorable quality moments with those you love.
It is also a very wasteful time of the year. Let’s be honest, it is.
So when the knowledgable Gina Caro from Gypsy Soul contacted me with a suggested guest post on how to do a household waste audit, I thought – yes this is the perfect time to talk about reducing such waste.
And over to Gina…
How to Do a Household Waste Audit and Why You Should
A waste audit is a way for you to collect information on how much much waste you produce and what items you are throwing away. Every year we produce around 3% more waste than the year before. This means every 25 years we double the amount of waste we produce and all of that waste has to go somewhere.
Why Should I Do A Waste Audit?
If you are wondering why you should do a waste audit for your home then here are a few waste facts for you…
- In the UK the average person throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks.
- The average UK household produces more than a tonne of waste every year. (One tonne is roughly the weight of a small car.)
- Together this equates to a total of 31 million tonnes per year.
All of the above facts and more are from the cbenvironmental website.
By conducting a waste audit for your home you can understand what type of waste you are producing. Once you are aware of your own waste you can then take steps to reduce it.
How To Do a Household Waste Audit
So we’ve established why it’s a good idea to do a waste audit but how do you actually do one? It’s actually pretty simple and doesn’t require any special skills other than being organised.
As I said earlier the idea of a waste audit is to record every single item that is going into your bin. To make this process easier for you I have broken it down into 4 simple steps…
Step One – Time Frames
The first thing you need to do is decide how long you want to record your waste for. It could be a week or month depending on how thorough you want to be. Start with a week and see how you get on.
Step Two – Create a Data Collection System
You are going to need somewhere to record your data. I’d recommend creating a spreadsheet on your computer. You can do this using programmes like excel. It’s best to split your waste into sections for example plastic, glass & cardboard.
Step Three – Decide on a Method & Planning Ahead
If you want to do a successful waste audit you need to create a plan beforehand. You need to consider how you are going to sort through your waste. You can either record every item as you go along or wait until the end of the day and do it all in one go. The latter method may be a little time consuming so if you’re short on time the 1st option would be best for you.
Step Four – Record your Data
The final step is to conduct your waste audit. Remember for this to be effective you must record every single item that is going into your bin.
I’ve Done My Waste Audit, Now What?
Once you have completed your waste audit it’s time to analyse your results. Here are a few questions to get you going…
- What are you throwing away?
- Which items do you throw away the most?
- Is their a recyclable or reusable alternative you could start using instead?
This is the time to get inventive and find more sustainable alternatives.
Why not challenge yourself to halve your household waste over the next 2 months? Do you think you could do it?
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It’s worthwhile to watch the habits of desire and craving which continue to creep into the
mind, and on a certain level, to see how insidious these habits are. Really pay attention to desire and notice it, because it is insidious.
This isn’t a commentary on one’s inability to deal with it or to understand and recognize it, but more of a call to attend and be willing to investigate how desire keeps creeping in. One can then be willing and patient enough to work with the different ways that desires does come up, and examine what it seeks and the objects that it seeks. Don’t assume that because one has made the resolution: “Oh, I really want to free myself from desire,” that desire will no longer manifest in various ways. Be very practical and attentive.
Desire is always seeking an object. It doesn’t take much to stimulate desire. Various studies have been done with food. In one study researchers put out a variety of candies for their subjects. And by having a variety of candies-say six different varieties laid out in different locations-people ate 69% more. This is because the candies were out and people could see them. Or, in a similar experiment, by providing more colors of M&M’s, there was about a 43% increase in the volume of M&M’s that people ate, just by making them more colorful.
That’s what the mind does; it goes to an object and gets interested. There was also a study involving different sizes of containers, a big container and a small container. The small container held more than people could eat, but the big container was really big. What researchers were offering in this experiment was stale popcorn! As long it was in a really big container, people would eat a third more of the stale popcorn than they would eat out of the small container, which itself was also quite big.
It’s the way the mind works and we can recognize that it’s not a personal thing. It’s just that desire seeks an object. Our job is to be attentive and reflective, investigating.
Another example of this can be seen by how packaging works. There’s a researcher who wrote a book on desire and advertising. He was in a supermarket line about to purchase a package: Ten packets of chewing gum for $2.00. A colleague was there with him and said to the man: “You just wrote a paper on this!”
People get sucked in to such things. They see a package that says ‘Ten for two dollars’ and they might think “the cost is only twenty cents apiece.” If they saw the gum in one packet, they wouldn’t buy a pack for a small amount, but they see a package that says ‘ten for $2.00’ and they say to themselves “Oh, wow, that’s great!” It’s just the packaging stimulating desire. This researcher studied this phenomenon and has written papers on it, but for him it was still attractive. Desire comes up.
So, we can learn to investigate and be willing to investigate. We can watch, pay attention and learn how desire keeps hopping around looking for an object, looking for something. Investigate this, but not in a harsh way. Take an attitude of curiosity about it, rather than feeling that one has to run around with a sledgehammer and annihilate desire. Pay attention and ask the question: “what is desire doing?” Then you can recognize how silly this process is. “How dumb can I get?” That’s how one actually steps back from it: by really seeing it clearly and not making a problem out of it. | <urn:uuid:aaf0a931-60e2-4b9b-9774-13a156747119> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abhayagiri.org/th/reflections/8-desire-creeps-in | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.978927 | 790 | 2.296875 | 2 |
THE ID Definition: According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, the id is the personality component made up of unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires. The id operates based on the pleasure principle, which demands immediate gratification of needs.
Digital art Photoshop CS3
Special thanx to deviantart.com stock: Patterns_by_HauntedVisions The_Enticer_6_by_Aegean_Prince
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A new London OOH campaign from Piz Buin UK, the sunscreen brand of Johnson & Johnson Limited, highlights the dangers of ultraviolet light.
The innovative ad changes from day to night, using UV lighting after dark to demonstrate the damage sun can cause to unprotected skin.
Placed in Southwark, London and running until 4 July, the billboard uses overhead lighting with special bulbs to activate the night UV print.
As the sun sets over London, the model’s skin suddenly shows the effect of too much sun and new messaging appears, with the primary ‘Get it On’ strapline changing to ‘Should’ve Got it On’.
The printed copy is overlaid with clear UV paint in a stencil application so it is undetectable during the day. Once the overhead UV lights come on at night, the UV paint becomes visible.
Wesley Lyne, Head of Design and Production at Johnson & Johnson Limited, said: “The creative idea was born out of a simple insight: many of us apply inadequate amounts of sun cream during the day, only to realise at night that maybe we didn’t protect ourselves as well as we could.
“A lot of people don’t know how to apply sun cream properly, which is why we are educating users in the overall campaign on the ‘2-2-2’ application guidelines.
“Two tablespoons, applied two times before going out and every two hours whilst out. We wanted to get the message across in an impactful and purposeful manner.”
The billboard forms part of the wider Piz Buin ‘Get it On’ campaign, which encourages shoppers to ‘Practice Safer Sun’ and is the brand’s first major UK above-the-line campaign in more than five years.
In addition to the UV sensitive billboard, other activations include: paid social, YouTube and Amazon media, ‘holiday scented’ trays in Superdrug stores, and content partnerships radio and TV presenter Yinka Bokinni, and sex and relationships coach Charlene Douglas.
Inspired by the work of Johnson & Johnson UK’s CAST (Casting Aside Stereotypes Today) initiative founded in 2017, which raises awareness of the role of unconscious bias in marketing decision making, the evolved brand positioning and visual identity showcased in this new campaign strongly demonstrates the company’s commitment to ensure that its brand campaigns and advertising represent the diversity of its consumers.
Through initiatives, events and new tools for colleagues, the CAST team’s mission is to lead by example and make diversity and inclusion key to how Johnson & Johnson UK works every day as an industry champion with a culture that inspires inclusive and diverse advertising to drive stronger connections with the consumers it serves every day, in every community, across its portfolio of household brands.
The billboard was created in collaboration with media agency UM and OOH specialist agency Rapport.
Enyi Nwosu, Chief Strategy Officer at UM London, said: “Summer is here and temperatures are rising, in the UK and abroad.
“That means more potential for sunburn and skin damage so we’re working to remind Brits how best to use sun cream to protect themselves.
“This ad is designed to open the eyes of the unwary to the risks. UV technology means we could push the boundaries of OOH execution.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act is a federal law. It applies in every state but allows the states to pass laws that are more generous to employees and to regulate the rare cases in which federal law does not apply.
Minimum wage and overtime. Vermont has enacted laws governing minimum wages and overtime, the focus of the federal law. There is a discussion of state law in these areas.
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Post-Brexit EU from a race perspective
This webzine edition looks to the future of the European Union and the implications of the Brexit vote from a race perspective.
With Brexit, the rise of the far right and the financial crisis many have signaled a potential end of the European Union. ENAR Director Michaël Privot discusses the (...) Read More
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With a rise in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum, Jon Burnett of the Institute of Race Relations points out how racist violence often mirrors the government’s (...) Read More | <urn:uuid:8191a5c6-7c4b-4514-b607-a8fdedfc70ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.enargywebzine.eu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00379-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918897 | 220 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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