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NEW ORLEANS, LA.-
A little known American Indian archive was unveiled at the New Orleans Museum of Art
(NOMA) from July 24 until October 24, 2010. Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century is the first comprehensive exhibition of nineteenth century photography, southwestern artifacts and archival research from the George Hubbard Pepper Native American Archive at Tulane University.
In collaboration with Tulanes Middle American Research Institute (MARI) and Latin American Library (LAL), the exhibition offers a special glimpse of the Tulane archive featuring over 150 objects from Peppers personal Native American art collection as well as over 140 photographic images Pepper, a museum ethnologist and scholar, used as visual complements to his lectures. Many of the images and the objects in Ancestors and Descendents, including textiles, pottery, baskets, and other Pueblo and Navajo paraphernalia, have never been published or seen by the general public since 1924.
There has never been an opportunity to bring together this many items from the Pepper archive, said Paul Tarver, curator of Ancestors and Descendants. Even in his lifetime, Pepper could only display a handful of objects with a few dozen images he projected through a magic lantern. This is the first time the breadth of the archive has been researched and displayed.
The objects and images selected for the NOMA exhibition document the relationship between American Indians and the scientists, photographers and tourists who traveled to New Mexico and Arizona at the turn of the twentieth century. MARI and LAL archives include Peppers original excavation journals, personal diaries, sketch books, lectures and photographs that illustrate everyday interactions between Pepper and his subjects. The exhibition will utilize excerpts from these materials and bring the time period to life through Peppers words.
The exhibition at NOMA displays the wide variety of art forms Pepper collected from the Southwest as well as drawings and original handwritten journals from his Bonito excavation. Ancestors and Descendents presents a rare opportunity to see a collection that was put together over one hundred years ago by a museum ethnologist and early collector and scholar of Native American art.
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Contesting Citizenship in Latin America
The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge
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Book DescriptionIndigenous people in Latin America have mobilized in unprecedented ways - demanding recognition, equal protection, and subnational autonomy. These are remarkable developments in a region where ethnic cleavages were once universally described as weak. Recently, however, indigenous activists and elected officials have increasingly shaped national political deliberations. Deborah Yashar explains the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements - addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be explained through a comparative historical approach that analyzes three factors: changing citizenship regimes, social networks, and political associational space. Her argument provides insight into the fragility and unevenness of Latin America's third wave democracies and has broader implications for the ways in which we theorize the relationship between citizenship, states, identity, and social action.
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Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: 14-Mar-2005
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
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Deborah J. Yashar is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (Stanford University Press) as well as articles and chapters on democratization, ethnic politics, collective action, and globalization.
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Four-page pamphlet advertising Red Dot brand sporting powder manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. The pamphlet is specifically addressed to participants in the annual Amateur Trapshooting Association (A.T.A.) classic. Notably, the pamphlet was published near the end of World War II and includes several references to the transition from wart to peacetime.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose.
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What is arthritis?
Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases are common conditions that cause pain, swelling, and limited movement. They affect joints and connective tissues around the body. Millions of people in the U.S. have some form of arthritis.
Arthritis means inflammation of a joint. A joint is where two or more bones meet. There are more than 100 different arthritis diseases. Rheumatic diseases include any condition that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or bones. Arthritis is usually chronic, which means that it is ongoing.
Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases are more common in women than men. They are also often associated with old age. This is because the most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis, occurs more often in older adults. However, arthritis and other rheumatic diseases affect people of all ages.
The three most common forms of arthritis are:
- Osteoarthritis. This is the most common type of arthritis. It is a chronic disease of the joints, especially the weight-bearing joints of the knee, hip, and spine. Osteoarthritis destroys cartilage and narrows the joint space. It can also cause bone overgrowth, bone spurs, and reduced function. It occurs in most people as they age. It may also occur in young people as a result of injury or overuse.
- Fibromyalgia. This is a disease that causes chronic, widespread pain in muscles and soft tissues around the body.
- Rheumatoid arthritis. This is an inflammatory disease of the lining of the joint (synovium). The inflammation may affect all of the joints.
Other forms of arthritis or related disorders include:
- Gout. This condition causes urate crystals to build up in small joints, such as the big toe. It causes pain and inflammation.
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus). Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes episodes of inflammation and damage in joints, tendons, and organs.
- Scleroderma. This is an autoimmune disease that causes thickening and hardening of the skin and other connective tissue in the body.
- Ankylosing spondylitis. This disease causes the bones of the spine to grow together.
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) or juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). This is a form of arthritis in children that causes inflammation and stiffness of joints. Children often outgrow JRA. But it can affect bone development in a growing child.
What causes arthritis?
The cause of arthritis depends on the type of arthritis. Osteoarthritis is caused by the wear and tear of the joint over time or because of overuse. Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and scleroderma are caused by the body’s immune system attacking the body’s own tissues. Gout is caused by the buildup of crystals in the joints. Arthritis can be linked to genes. People with genetic marker HLA-B27 have a higher risk of ankylosing spondylitis. Many other forms of arthritis are idiopathic. This means that the cause is not known.
Who is at risk for arthritis?
Some risk factors for arthritis that can’t be avoided or changed include:
- Age. The older you are, the more likely you are to develop arthritis.
- Gender. Women are more likely to have arthritis than men.
- Heredity. Some types of arthritis are associated with specific genes.
Risk factors that may be avoided or changed include:
- Weight. Being overweight or obese can damage the knee joints. This can make them more likely to develop osteoarthritis.
- Injury. A joint that has been damaged by an injury is more likely to develop arthritis at some point.
- Infection. Reactive arthritis can affect joints after an infection.
- Occupation. Work that involves repetitive bending or squatting can lead to knee arthritis.
What are the symptoms of arthritis?
Symptoms can occur a bit differently in each person. The most common symptoms include:
- Pain in one or more joints that doesn’t go away, or comes back
- Warmth and redness in one or more joints
- Swelling in one or more joints
- Stiffness in one or more joints
- Trouble moving one or more joints in a normal way
The symptoms of arthritis can be like other health conditions. Make sure to see your health care provider for a diagnosis.
How is arthritis diagnosed?
The process starts with a medical history and a physical exam. Tests may also be done. These include blood tests such as:
- Antinuclear antibody (ANA) test, to check the levels of antibodies in the blood
- Complete blood count, to see if white blood cell, red blood cell, and platelet levels are normal
- Creatinine, to check for kidney disease
- Sedimentation rate, to detect inflammation
- Hematocrit, to measure the number of red blood cells
- Rheumatoid factor test, to see if rheumatoid factor is present in the blood
- White blood cell count, to determine the level of white blood cells in the blood
- Uric acid, to help diagnosis gout
Other tests may be done, such as:
- Joint aspiration (arthrocentesis). A small sample of the synovial fluid is taken from a joint. It’s tested to see if crystals, bacteria, or viruses are present.
- X-rays or other imaging tests. These are done look at the extent of damage to a joint.
- Urine test. This is done to check for protein and various kinds of blood cells.
- HLA tissue typing. This is done to look for genetic markers of ankylosing spondylitis.
- Skin biopsy. Tiny pieces of tissue are taken to check under a microscope. This helps to diagnose a type of arthritis that involves the skin, such as lupus or psoriatic arthritis.
- Muscle biopsy. Tiny pieces of tissue are taken to check under a microscope. This helps to diagnose conditions that affect muscles. These include polymyositis or vasculitis.
How is arthritis treated?
Treatment will depend on your symptoms, your age, and your general health. It will also depend on how what type of arthritis you have, and how severe the condition is. A treatment plan is tailored to each person with his or her health care provider.
There is no cure for arthritis. The goal of treatment is often to limit pain and inflammation, and help ensure joint function. Treatment plans often use both short-term and long-term methods.
Short-term treatments include:
- Medications. Short-term relief for pain and inflammation may include pain relievers such as acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications.
- Heat and cold. Pain may be eased by using moist heat (warm bath or shower) or dry heat (heating pad) on the joint. Pain and swelling may be eased with cold (ice pack wrapped in a towel) on the joint.
- Joint immobilization. The use of a splint or brace can help a joint rest and protect it from further injury.
- Massage. The light massage of painful muscles may increase blood flow and bring warmth to the muscle.
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Pain may be reduced with the use of a TENS device. The device sends mild, electrical pulses to nerve endings in the painful area. This blocks pain signals to the brain and changes pain perception.
- Acupuncture. This is the use of thin needles that are inserted at specific points in the body. It may stimulate the release of natural, pain-relieving chemicals made by the nervous system. The procedure is done by a licensed health care provider.
Long-term treatments include:
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). These prescription medications may slow down the disease and treat any immune system problems linked to the disease. Examples of these medications include methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, sulfasalazine, and chlorambucil.
- Corticosteroids. Corticosteroids reduce inflammation and swelling. These medications, such as prednisone, can be taken orally or as an injection.
- Hyaluronic acid therapy. This is a joint fluid that appears to break down in people with osteoarthritis. It can be injected into a joint, such as the knee, to help relieve symptoms.
- Surgery. There are many types of surgery, depending on which joints are affected. Surgery options may include arthroscopy, fusion, or joint replacement. Full recovery after surgery takes up to 6 months. A rehabilitation program after surgery is an important part of the treatment.
Arthritis treatment can include a team of health care providers, such as:
- Orthopedist/orthopedic surgeon
- Primary care doctor (family medicine or internal medicine)
- Rehabilitation nurse
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Social worker
- Recreational therapist
- Vocational therapist
What are the complications of arthritis?
Because arthritis causes joints to degenerate over time, it can cause disability. It can cause pain and movement problems that cause a person to be less able to carry out normal daily activities and tasks.
Living with arthritis
Although there is no cure for arthritis, it is important to help keep joints functioning by reducing pain and inflammation. Work on a treatment plan with your health care provider that includes medication and therapy. Work on lifestyle changes that can improve your quality of life. Lifestyle changes include:
- Weight loss. Extra weight puts more stress on weight-bearing joints, such as the hips and knees.
- Exercise. Some exercises may help reduce joint pain and stiffness. These include swimming, walking, low-impact aerobic exercise, and range-of-motion exercises. Stretching exercises may also help keep the joints flexible.
- Activity and rest. To reduce stress on your joints, alternate between activity and rest. This can help protect your joints and lessen your symptoms.
- Use of assistive devices. Canes, crutches, and walkers can help to keep stress off certain joints and to improve balance.
- Use of adaptive equipment. Reachers and grabbers allow people to extend their reach and reduce straining. Dressing aids help people get dressed more easily.
- Managing use of medications. Long-term use of some anti-inflammatory medications can lead to stomach bleeding. Work with your health care provider to develop a plan to reduce this risk.
When should I call my health care provider?
If your symptoms get worse or you have new symptoms, let your health care provider know.
Key points about arthritis
- Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases cause pain, swelling, and limited movement in joints and connective tissues in the body.
- Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases affect people of all ages. They are more common in women than men.
- Symptoms may include pain, stiffness, swelling, warmth, or redness in one or more joints.
- There is no cure for arthritis. The goal of treatment is to limit pain and inflammation and preserve joint function.
- Treatment options include medications, weight reduction, exercise, and surgery.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your health care provider:
- Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
- Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells you.
- At the visit, write down the names of new medicines, treatments, or tests, and any new instructions your provider gives you.
- If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
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The skin is really a very tricky essential part of the body. If you want a good looking, beautiful, healthy and radiant skin, then you should give it a good attention and nourishment. It is also possible to delay the ageing signs of skin as medical sciences have advance creating a room for skin beauty. Amazingly, research results show that: whatever is put in the mouth is more important compared to what is put on skin. If you’re healthy it will definitely show on your face. Therefore, it is recommended that to have a beautiful skin one should take meals on proper diet that is rich in Vitamin A and antioxidants, a lot of coloured vegetables and fruits. Not forgetting to do constant, regular exercises, as it improves the circulation of blood and then flushes out the toxins in the body.
If the skin is not well maintained or cared for a lot of problems may arise although most of the problems when identified and are treated very early then they can be quickly reversible.
The skin ageing process usually depends on genetics but for a woman it occurs at any time in 20’s and 30’s.To get a better and lovely skin one needs to have adequate sleeps(with this the skin does rejuvenates and repair itself),secondly eat proper consistent diet, you should stay healthy and ensure that you stay hydrated, with this few tips you wont regret during ageing .Perhaps if you are not aware of how to know you skin conditions it is good to visit professional doctors especially the dermatologists who will give you approaches on how to maintain ,treat, care or handling your skin problems. Some beauty skin products are bad while some are good therefore it is good to have prescribed products by an expert.
Tricks for Skin Makeup
To have a gorgeous look and a pretty smooth skin then make is a key factor for your skin beauty and care, especially for any uneven skin. Unfortunately, if you happen to have an uneven tone skin then it is advisable that you should prep the skin using a primer, before you even start wearing on makeup. Priming the face ensures that the makeup always stay put.
For an extensive face skin makeup care, you can opt for a colour that closely matches to your skin and apply it in a way to make it look even.
Also you can preferably use powder or lotions to apply on your body this will help you shift from an uneven skin, and results are with beauty make up it will not bring out ,probably the best looking features but it will definitely hide your lovely flawed skin.
Ensure you choose beauty products that will give you no side effects or complications in future.
How to Refresh a Tired Skin?
Have a mixture of vinegar and rosewater, both should be equal to 1 teaspoon. Apply smoothly on your skin and wait for 11 minutes or so and then wash it out using some ordinary water
Secondly, mix honey with tomato juice, each 1 tea spoon .Let it dry on the body or face for 11 minutes and wash it out using ordinary water
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The Herald-Leader's editorial criticizes the Food and Drug Administration and Purdue Pharma for opposing the entry of generic copies of the original formulation of OxyContin® tablets after Purdue introduced a reformulated product designed to deter misuse and abuse of the medication.
The criticism is unfortunate and disappointing.
Generic medications are an important part of our health-care system. However, we are concerned that an influx of generic OxyContin tablets that lack abuse-deterrent properties would lead to more abuse.
Public officials in Kentucky share this concern and feared a new wave of overdose deaths and illegal trafficking if non-abuse deterrent generics were approved.
As such, it makes no sense to allow a generic version to be sold without important abuse-deterrent technologies.
Since we learned about growing reports of abuse in Kentucky and other states more than a decade ago, Purdue has been working with health-care professionals, law enforcement and community groups to combat prescription drug abuse.
Among many efforts, we are supporting independent medical education and offering free programs to help health-care professionals understand the proper use of these medicines and how to spot attempts to obtain prescriptions by fraud and deception.
Since more than 70 percent of teens 12 to 17 who abuse medications report getting them from a friend or family member, Purdue, the National Community Pharmacists Association, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors have worked to educate parents and grandparents about how to store, monitor and dispose of prescription medications properly in the home through the Safeguard My Meds program.
Purdue's Law Enforcement Liaison and Education program provides training on pharmaceutical diversion to police and sheriffs' departments and our RxPATROL program provides tips to pharmacists on how to protect themselves from pharmacy crime and has helped law enforcement apprehend more than 100 pharmacy crime suspects.
In 2001, we started work to reformulate the medication to make it less attractive to drug seekers. It was a difficult task.
Two of our earlier attempts at reformulation failed before we succeeded. All in all, it took 10 years and considerable effort and resources to develop, and gain FDA approval of, the reformation of OxyContin.
We believe that the benefits of abuse-deterrent technologies will be realized when all or substantially all opioid pain medications employ such technology. We are already working on developing other pain medications that also employ abuse-deterrent technologies. But these efforts will not address the millions of generic tablets currently on the market that lack abuse-deterrent features.
The editorial's comment that "The action also means Purdue Pharma retains its monopoly on any version of OxyContin and can, therefore, maintain higher prices," is simply not true.
Generic manufacturers have the option to develop their own abuse-deterrent technology or seek a license from Purdue or another company to use their existing patented abuse-deterrent technology.
In fact, following the FDA decision, the generic manufacturers' association acknowledged the value of abuse-deterrent opioids and expressed a willingness to create products that incorporate those features.
The best chance for reducing the abuse of prescription drugs and protecting patient care is for everyone to work together in a concerted manner. Purdue Pharma is committed to being part of the solution.
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In response to the pent up demand Apple has opened doors for virtual currencies by updating the purchasing and currencies section of its App store review guidelines.
Apple states that developers are allowed to use “approved virtual currencies”; however, hasn’t mentioned any currencies specifically.
The terms further note that the virtual currencies should comply with the state and federal laws to get approved for use in the App store. The sudden surge in the use of virtual currencies, particularly Bitcoin has created a necessity for the government to deliberate on determining ways to regulate them.
Bill Lee, a BitGo investor said in an emailed statement, “This is a sign that the ecosystem is maturing and gaining credibility.”
“To be clear, I still think Bitcoin is in its infancy as a technology, but its acceptance is becoming more and more mainstream.”
Earlier, Apple had banned Blockchain, an app for the iOS platform which lets users store Bitcoins and use them on the go while also letting them share it with their friends. Several people posted videos of them shooting and destroying their iDevices after Apple removed Blockchain.
Developer Rob Banagale has said that he has plans to revamp his app and submit it to Apple again for inclusion in the iOS environment.
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What is the concept and objectives of MiFID?
It is the acronym for "Market in Financial Instruments Directive". This Directive entered into force on 1 November 2007 and establishes a homogeneous regulatory framework in the financial markets of different countries of the European Union, which favors among other things investment in the products covered by this Directive, providing a degree of information to investors, and protecting investments across the states of Europe.
MiFID essentially has two objectives:
- Increase protection for clients that opt for financial or investment services.
- Increase the level of competition in the markets.
From the point of view of financial institutions, among which its activities logically provide such services to its customers, the Directive has brought about various changes that have resulted in better information to them.
What financial products does the MiFID does and does not cover?
There is an explicit characterization of covered and not covered products in the Directive. This can be illustrated as follows:
The first issue to consider is that MiFID does not affect all products offered by financial institutions, but only a few that could be defined in simple words as being more complicated than average and involving considerably more risk to investors who don’t particular understand their mechanisms.
In this sense, we distinguish between:
Products that don’t have the MiFID coverThey are not affected by the regulation established by the Directive; for example current accounts, savings deposits for traditional term, pension plans, etc.
Products that have the MiFID coverThese are products whose degree of complexity is higher than the ones not covered by the Directive. These products are further divided into two groups, with the high complexity ones being given preferential treatment in the Directive.
- Low complexity: These include stocks, mutual funds, promissory notes and government debt.
- High complexity: These include debts, derivatives, hedges, currency options, etc.
What is the classification of clients in the MiFID?
The provisions of MiFID are only be applicable to customers, who are legal or naturalized residents of the European Union, and have financial contracts covered by that directive or are involved in investment services mentioned above. There are variations in the design of the level of product protection MiFID offers based on the knowledge and experience of these customers.
Specifically, customers are classified in the Directive as:
They are the majority and are customers with lower levels of knowledge and experience in the products covered by the Directive and therefore in need of greater protection.MIFID also defines retail customers by exclusion, that is, someone who is deemed a customer but isn’t covered by the criteria outlined under paragraph b) and c) below.
Professionals:Have a greater level of knowledge than retail customers. In fact, they are those who have the experience, knowledge and skill to make their own investment decisions and understand the risks arising from their endeavors.
They are those with the highest level of knowledge, experience and qualifications (fund managers, etc.).
What are the adaptation guidelines issued by MiFID?
MIFID classifies customers in the above categories in order to offer a different level of protection for each one of them. Also, it helps in assessing the suitability of a given financial product for a given customers.
To Directive provides with two solutions in assessing and adapting services for a given customer:
Test of adequacy:
It is a test to be performed by the retail customer who wants to utilize a complex product. With the test results, the financial institution can tell you whether the product you want to opt for is suitable for your level of expertise or not.The test of adequacy is not usually applied by some financial institutions if the customer wants to opt for a non-complex MiFID product or a part thereof.
Suitability test:This is usually a longer and more intricate version of the adequacy test and usually involves individuals who are involved in advisory services in financial matters or in the management of investment portfolios.
What is the requirement of information provision under MiFID?
MiFID distinguishes between two types of information that, in any case, must meet certain requirements: clarity, fairness, etc.
Pre-contractual:It pre-contractual information that is delivered to a client or potential client before the imparting of financial services.
It will be sent to customers after the service has been opted for. It can be of two types:
- Spot: It informs the customer of the concrete implementation of one of their orders (eg, bond trading, stock unloading).
- Periodic: The customers must also be informed about the status of their portfolio after frequent, periodic intervals. Usually, this period is quarterly.
It is pertinent to mention that MiFID II is slated to supersede MiFID in the latter half of 2016. While the MIFID centered on the concept of breaking down trade barriers and curtailment of financial instrument monopolies in the European Union, MiFID II is far more exhaustive and regulatory in nature with its primary focus being to reduce the recurrence of a scenario like the 2008 economic crisis. We will look at it in more detail in a later article. | <urn:uuid:fde213c5-c1d9-4807-8f9a-403b9fc092d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.consultinghouse.eu/compliance/a-guide-to-mifid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.95146 | 1,092 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Religion makes news these years, news chiefly of conflict. It used to be boxed in on one ``Religion Page`` of Saturday`s newspapers, but now it makes the front page. Say ``Shiite`` or ``Sikh,`` ``Farrakhan`` or ``Falwell,`` and you start disputes about disputes. Editors of an encyclopedia yearbook for which I do an annual roundup on religion sometimes chide: ``Don`t you think this story should be alphabetized under ``Warfare`` or ``Military`` instead of ``Religion?``
While religion plays such a great role in human disruption, it is also a part of concord and healing. People do not become Shiites or Sikhs, Muslims or Baptists in order to beat up on other people. They inherit or become part of faith traditions in order to find meaning in life, to belong to something larger than themselves and, yes, to find spiritual and often physical healing. Mention ``healing`` and new images of conflict come to mind, conflict over ``faith healing.`` Magician (and new MacArthur Foundation ``genius``
fellow) James Randi, for instance, has been exposing fakery among some televised fundamentalist healers. Their followers don`t like the exposure, their critics see in it more proof that religion messes up healing, and the rest of us are caught between.
We know, we really know, that faith and well-being do connect, that some religious ideas or practices can be destructive of health and others can enhance it. We have data which show that members of some religions live longer than do nonmembers. (One friend who resents the disciplines that go with his faith says, ``Sometimes it only seems longer!``) Members of Alcoholics Anonymous or others seeking power over their addictions draw on a ``higher power.`` Whoever has been at the bedside of the suffering knows how certain faith-full views of life help them rally, endure and sometimes triumph. We have seen religiously motivated people work for justice in the distribution of health care, especially of the aged and poor. The claims for what
``wholistic`` or ``holistic`` approaches can do are familiar today, and such approaches imply a spiritual dimension.
Add to all these signs some more: Medical ethics poses issues for the religious and religion informs moral decisions in medicine. On the July l3 Chicago Tribune front page, Ronald Kotulak cited terms with which we have had to become familiar: ``Brain dead. Irreversibly comatose. Persistent vegetative state. Do not resuscitate. Artificial life-support systems. Living will. Mechanical heart. Organ transplants. Baby Doe. Baby Fae.`` Philosophers address these themes, often very capably. But the people who make the decisions or live with them--or die because of them--do so also as Mormons or Catholics, Orthodox Jews or Seventh-Day Adventists, Baptists or Buddhists. Such believers can make decision more complicated. They don`t understand each other`s languages or agree with each others opinions, yet they coexist in our diverse society. They have something to say and much to do with health and well-being in it.
Why had this religious dimension so seldom made news? There have to be several answers to that question. First, for a century or so scientific medicine was dominant. People ofen looked no further than technology when seeking to become or remain healthy. They had faith in reason, experiment and progress. They, we, still have qualified faith in such approaches. The kinds of ``faith healing`` that repudiated medicine have not prevailed. Yet some of our most noted medical doctors and researchers are the first to say that the public is calling and has to call on more than science.
A second reason for neglect is the fault of the religious. They forgot their roots. Thus, the Bible is rich in comment on health, and Jesus was, among other things, a healer. As we historians study religious traditions, however, we find that few have plumbed them for their words about health. And few members of these traditions have known how to draw on their lore. Today, individuals, congregations, seminaries, and whole church bodies are working hard to recover and discover the ways their faith traditions connect with health and medicine.
A bigger problem may have been our pluralism.The modern hospital does not offer Mormon blood transfusions, Baptist brain surgery or Buddhist dialysis. But Mormons, Baptists and Buddhists don`t leave their faiths and behavior patterns behind when they seek or provide care. Paying attention to these rootages can complicate decision, as anyone who has followed debates over abortion or euthanasia can tell you. Such attention can also help in healing or decision-making, however. It helps guard the individual. It builds on their outlook and resources and enriches their search for well-being.
``Bioethics,`` the moral dimension of medical care, has established itself in numerous important centers around the country. Religion has often been slighted among them. A new Park Ridge Center, chartered by the Lutheran General Health Care System but thoroughly interreligious and international, is working to bring together resources in this field. Its scholars are finding that professionals and the public are taking second looks at the ``faith dimension`` in health care. Its journal, therefore, is called Second Opinion. Religious scholars do not claim to have the last word in a day of scientific medicine. They do have a word and a way that supplements the
``First Opinion`` which prevailed not long ago. They do what they can to help a whole society look at and produce whole persons. The promise is rich, but only beginning to be fulfilled. | <urn:uuid:8ea41c1e-7df7-428d-9664-d8966f2e39e2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-08-02/news/8602250588_1_healing-faith-spiritual-dimension | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00067-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960383 | 1,174 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Aggravate mean "to make worse." The root is grave, in the sense of "serious." Remember this root when spelling the word.
Irritate means "to exasperate" or "to inflame."
Incorrect: His teasing aggravated me.
Correct: His teasing irritated me.
Incorrect: That meal irritated my condition.
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Ever yearn to get organically plastered, then hit the power-generating dance floor that turns your fancy footwork into electricity? No, this isn't a scene from a Moby video, and yes, you really can indulge those green fantasies, thanks to climate change organization Club4Climate which is launching a sustainable eco-nightclub in Britain next month.
Patrons can knock back organic liquor, then visit the loo and flush symptoms of their overindulgence away with recycled water. Pounding dance moves absorbed by the tricked-out floor will supply 60% of the club's energy needs, and admission is free if you can prove you didn't roll up in a car—but not before you sign a pledge to fight climate change.
Sounds like a more palatable version of Rotterdam's urine- and sweat-powered nightclub, Watt, slated to open in September. | <urn:uuid:91a4574a-ce2b-42e5-99b3-c0fad2ffc1eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2008/06/londons-dance-powered-nightclub-eco-hedonists | 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 | 0.932809 | 182 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Most parents these days know the potential benefits of early enrolling their kids into programming, coding and robotics classes.
Things like healthy intellectual development, great career opportunities and a productive yet fun use of their time are some important benefits.
But even if they love the craft, classes may get boring and the kids could end up losing interest.
Keep their passion alive and burning with coding toys that are sure to engage them through active, experiential learning.
Coding toys are designed to teach kids about the fundamentals of programming and robotics, without even giving them a hint that they’re “learning”. It’s that much fun!
Here are our top picks for coding toys, along with links to video reviews.
- Botley: The Coding Robot 2.0
Unfortunately, the programming field leads your kids to have way too much screen time. Take time away from the screen and to get your kids into a more intuitive way to learn coding alongside a bot that coaches you.
The Bottley Robot 2.0 provides learning resources with activity sets so it is a 100% screen-free learning experience for kids.
It is priced around $53 to $85 depending on where you buy online, discount coupons and deals. Recommended for ages above 10.
- Coding Critters
The company is called Coding Critters and the toy is called bopper.
Critters are actually toy pets that kids can be programmed to do a variety of actions that are fun to see at work.
You’ll find that they can be coded to move a certain way, go down slides, pick up carrots and push toy swings. It’s super easy and fun!
Learning is screen-free and is taught in the format of an adventure story book, this is bound to spark their imagination and creativity.
Priced at just $18 to $40, it is recommended for toddlers and kids as young as age 5 to 10.
- Quercetti Rami Code
Quarcetti Rami Code Educational Coding Toy focuses on learning a basic fundamental of programming called binary numbers, so it is also called the binary numbers game.
The design is similar to a mini pinball machine that can be coded by your kids to work the way they want, but most importantly according to the workings of binary numbers.
Priced at $42 to $59 and recommended for kids aged in the range of five to ten.
- Kids First Coding And Robotics
This kit touches upon many of the core fundamentals such as variables, algorithms, events, conditions, loops, functions and sequences expertly.
It comes with many physics activity kits that a sandwich-like highly interactive robot will teach your kids how to use them,
These activity kits are mostly tiles that you have to arrange in a certain way according to the principles of coding, which the robot will scan and internalize the tile sequence or if the sequence is wrong then the robot will return an error and correct them.
This coding toy is a bit on the expensive side, priced at $95 to $130 but a worthwhile investment if you can invest a little extra on your kids’ education.
As fun as these toys can be, it cannot be a replacement for their actual learning in classes
These toys are meant to complement learning and not obstruct it as they can only teach upto a certain limit on the fundamentals and that’s what they are really for – a fun way to practice the fundamentals.
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Seed Services ProgramSeed Services Direct Contact Information
1220 N Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 • (916) 403-6715 • firstname.lastname@example.org
The goal of seed law enforcement is to protect seed consumers, including vegetable and field crop growers, as well as urban landscapers. Through the California Seed Law (Section 52288, California Food and Agricultural Code), the Seed Services program.
- regulates the marketing of seeds so that quality information is accessible and accurate.
- tests for seed purity and germination through sampling.
- investigates seed complaints and attempts to resolve buyer/seller disputes through mediation.
- works to prevent the transmission of noxious weed seeds through seed products.
- supports research and development of seed biotechnology.
Poor quality seeds can cost farmers and home gardeners alike considerable amounts of time, money, and resources, by way of reduced yields, poor crop quality, contamination by weeds or other unwanted species. By enforcing California Seed Law regarding marketing and labeling, the Department is able to ensure that consumers receive the desired product, and that there is supportive legal action for those who are wronged.
- Application to Sell Seed-FY 22-23 (Beginning 7/1/2022 through 6/30/2023)
- Application for Phytosanitary Inspection
- CPTM-Phytosanitary Field Inspection Crop Lists
- California Seed Law
- Directory of Registered Seed Sellers
- USDA Approved Seed Samplers
- Selling Seed in California Trifold
- Know What You Sow
- History of CSL & Seed Program
Seed Law Enforcement
Administered statewide by the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Pest Exclusion Branch, the Seed Services program is a third-party seed inspection program, verifying the accuracy and accessibility of seed label statements as to variety and type, purity, and germination. Local county agricultural commissioners carry out most inspection and enforcement activities, and are in turn trained and supported by state officials. The California Seed Law also authorizes seed certification, through which agricultural and vegetable seed of superior varieties are grown, processed, and distributed under close surveillance and supervision. The state's authorized seed-certifying agency is the California Crop Improvement Association.
California Seed Advisory Board
The seed industry helps to oversee the enforcement program through the Seed Advisory Board. Created in 1974, the Board is advisory to the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and makes recommendations on all matters pertaining to California Seed Law and seed inspection regulations, the enforcement program, and the program's budget (including the State Seed Laboratory). It is comprised of eleven members, nine members from the seed industry and two from the public. Normally, the Board meets at least twice per year, once in May to review proposed budgets for Seed Services and the Seed Laboratory, and once in December to review issues and budget updates. Board members receive no salary but are reimbursed for travel expense. | <urn:uuid:3d237479-ae3c-476a-a01a-b86b179fbc86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/nsc/seed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.921271 | 606 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The first thing that comes to our mind when we hear the word entrepreneurs is profit-chasing individuals focused on achieving business goals. But who are social entrepreneurs?
Well, social entrepreneurs are the ones who thrive on making a difference by solving various social and economic issues of society. The main aim of creating a social venture is to improve social well-being rather than earning profit.
Keep reading the article to learn how social entrepreneurship is different and some amazing examples for social enterprises.
What is Social Entrepreneurship?
Fundamentally, Social Entrepreneurship means doing business for a social purpose or cause. Generally, individuals, groups, start-ups or entrepreneurs approach becoming social entrepreneurs to generate funds and solve various social, cultural, and environmental issues.
The primary motive of a social entrepreneur is to recognise and address social issues and make a social change that consequently contributes to the well-being of society. Such entrepreneurship can be related to a non-profit or a for-profit business model. However, the profits generated are generally utilised to support the venture’s operational costs and fund various programs for social upgrades.
Characteristics of a Social Entrepreneur
Here are the hints of some personality characteristics that we view as essential to be successful as a social entrepreneur.
- Nurturing a sense of curiosity about society and its problems is one of the main characteristic features of social entrepreneurs. They seek to truly understand the needs and desires of the people they serve.
- Inspiration always motivates action and helps social entrepreneurs to deal with the challenges that others try to avoid addressing.
- Social entrepreneurs know how to have a grip on the resources and develop innovative methods to handle the obstacles.
- The visions for bringing about a massive social change might take a long time, and experienced social entrepreneurs know that they need to be immensely patient to achieve big goals.
- Social entrepreneurs must always remain open to solutions and ideas. Adaptability and flexibility are crucial for developing early-stage social enterprises.
- Social entrepreneurs are the ones who persist past initial failures and setbacks and persevere to deliver effective solutions.
Tips to Become a Social Entrepreneur
To be a social entrepreneur, one needs more than an excellent purpose-driven business idea, and it requires a step-by-step plan and the commitment to see it through.
Start by Writing a Mission Statement
If you aspire to become a social entrepreneur, you should start your venture after determining who you want to help and also, at the same time, exactly how you want to serve them. Furthermore, you should be clear about how you would like to solve the demographic through your business service or product.
Research on Your Niche
You should begin by exploring the social business landscape you are interested in and research who the players are and how they bring a change in the world. Take inspiration from the existing social entrepreneurs in your niche to develop distinct innovative ideas.
Grow Your Business Model
A business model is considered a roadmap for making money for your enterprise. You should be clear on how far you want your services and products to reach and decide precisely what amount of money you need to support your mission.
Pick Out Initial Funding Sources
Crowdfunding is a clever move if you have already enjoyed some early success at the beginning of your social venture. Besides, another best funding option, particularly for social enterprises, are impact investors, who exclusively funds purpose-driven entrepreneurs.
Develop an Action Plan
An action plan is of utmost necessity to build a framework of the tasks to which you need to commit. You need to decide the exact date you want to begin your social venture and the time you would need to get there. Moreover, the time factor plays an important role, and in fact, your action plan is the master to-do list.
Social Entrepreneurship Ideas
Social entrepreneurship ideas depend on the social issues you are trying to solve. Mentioned below are some of the amazing social entrepreneurship examples for 2022.
Social Supermarket for Social Good
You can create a social food that sells food to low-income communities at a discounted price. You can purchase the food items at a low price from food suppliers and other supermarkets. Also, you can collaborate with other social entrepreneurs who are willing to donate food to your venture.
Used Textbooks for Social Change
Collaborate with specific student groups or clubs to collect used textbooks from the students at the end of each semester. You can re-sell some textbooks at a lower price to students studying in college or universities or donate them to needy students. The profits gained could be split between student groups or clubs and to support other social programs.
Travel for a Cause
As a social entrepreneur, educational travel plays a vital role because it is essential to understand various environmental, economic, and social situations to work in different countries. It helps you create genuine connections to understand the pain points of other societies. So, you can gather travellers from around the world interested in social services to reach out to people in different countries and areas.
Baking or Cooking to Support Employment
Open a bakery or a restaurant that focuses on building employment skills for underemployed groups. You could use the profit acquired from selling the food and beverages to pay wages, support training, and facilitate social betterment programs for the staff.
Beauty Products for a Social Mission
You might convince and partner with major beauty brands to provide their products at a favourable wholesale rate that you can sell on any e-commerce platform. The profits earned could be diverted to distributing milk and baby bottles in underdeveloped and developing nations.
Social entrepreneurs care intensely about making an impact more than gaining a profit. Most importantly, to become a successful social entrepreneur, you need to think outside of the box to ensure that you make positive vibes in the community. | <urn:uuid:ec340131-6bf8-44bb-ab36-71a38e9f6c20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.bikayi.com/social-entrepreneurship | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.933219 | 1,180 | 2.6875 | 3 |
(Edgar Albert Guest, 1881-1959)
Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice,
An' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice;
An' kissin' the girls an' declarin' that they
Are growin more beautiful day after day;
Chattin' an' braggin' a bit with the men,
Buildin' the old family circle again;
Livin' the wholesome an' old-fashioned cheer,
Just for awhile at the end of the year.
Greetings fly fast as we crowd through the door
And under the old roof we gather once more
Just as we did when the youngsters were small;
Mother's a little bit grayer, that's all.
Father's a little bit older, but still
Ready to romp an' to laugh with a will.
Here we are back at the table again
Tellin' our stories as women an men.
Bowed are our heads for a moment in prayer;
Oh, but we're grateful an' glad to be there.
Home from the east land an' home from the west,
Home with the folks that are dearest an' best.
Out of the sham of the cities afar
We've come for a time to be just what we are.
Here we can talk of ourselves an' be frank,
Forgettin' position an' station an' rank.
Give me the end of the year an' its fun
When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
See the old table with all of its chairs
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Today a reader of my blog asked if I’d read a recent article written by Rachel Smalley, up on the Newstalk ZB website. The reader was not happy about what she read there, and having read it myself I also feel the article needs a public reply. There is just so much wrong with the way Smalley frames the debate she is looking at, that it is hard to know where to start, so I might as well begin at the beginning.
Smalley’s article starts off with the recent example of the child with Aspergers and dyslexia, who had been expelled from school because of an incident with a skateboard. She uses this example to launch into the question of whether it is a good idea to mainstream children with special needs. She uses two examples to frame the debate: One where an autistic child was changed enough to be just like their peers at kindergarten and therefore was successfully integrated into mainstreaming, and another example where an autistic child was so demanding and difficult that a teacher quit her job and the children in the class suffered. Her concluding remark is we need to rethink mainstreaming special needs children.
From the very start, she takes the view that two worlds – the one of normal children and the one of children who don’t fit the norm – are naturally separate and will enter conflict when you bring them together: “Worlds can collide when you merge children with special needs into the mainstream education system.” This is a sadly loaded statement, one that presumes these two groups of children don’t fit or belong together at the outset. The fact is people with disabilities and differences are in every community together, in shops and on streets, in families, playgrounds, work-places and in doctors’ offices; everywhere. The idea that they belong together should be the starting point of any discussion, surely, rather than the view-point that the current division is somehow natural and that change to the status quo of divison is what needs justification.
The two examples Smalley uses to form the basis of her view that “sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” are written up in such a way that is fundamentally distorting and really quite upsetting. Yet I honestly think Smalley has no awareness of what is so wrong with how she makes her points, so I’ll try to explain what is wrong with her examples.
First, the example of a child who learnt to fit in: She describes an autistic preschool child, who was “dysfunctional” because “[h]e didn’t socialise, he sat on a chair, he rocked back and forth, and he slept where he fell.” If that is a description of dysfunctional, then I can tell you that parenting is frequently a dysfunctional experience. I know what she’s trying to describe and how much it can matter though, so I’ll give her that much, but the way she expressed herself that really upset me was this: “He is now a fabulous, functioning little boy who’s social and interactive. You would never know he’s autistic.” Ouch. He’s fabulous now but he wasn’t before, and all because you can’t tell he’s autistic anymore? It’s clear that Smalley has a very limited understanding of the complexity and varieties of autism, and she appears to have a very negative view towards autistics. Let’s move on to the second example though, because her opinions don’t get better as we go along.
The second example is a high needs autistic child that had “dreadful behavior,” she says it was a “nightmare.” A nightmare for whom you may ask. It’s abundantly clear she hasn’t considered who is really in hell here, and why. The child would scream and yell and be violent she says, and goes on to give examples where it’s obvious the child wasn’t receiving adequate classroom support and supervision, though she doesn’t seem to pick up on that vital point. The child clearly wasn’t being adequately prepared for changes in routine, wasn’t being supported with coping strategies when things went wrong, was clearly under huge amounts of stress and deeply distraught, but Smalley’s conclusion is “you had 22 mainstream children whose education for a year was disrupted and adapted to appease the needs of one special needs child.”
Instead of arguing for better classroom supports, better understanding and training for teachers, a more adaptive and sensitive classroom situation, a more tailored response to a deeply distraught child, her conclusion is we need to rethink mainstreaming. I find that astounding. She takes a situation where a child is being seriously let down by the mainstream classroom, and instead of insisting for change to the classroom to be a better environment, she thinks it shows that mainstreaming can’t work for these children. It’s almost bizarre, but it is predictable considering the tone of the rest of the article.
In all of that though, there is another major point that I think she is overlooking: The autistic child is not choosing to act poorly, when autistic children act out that strongly they are typically in deep distress outside of their control. Here is the crux of the matter then, for me: What she – and many members of the public – don’t like, is bad behaviour that disrupts others learning. I get that. But you know what: bad behaviour that disrupts learning is not exclusively in the realm of those with special needs. Plenty of “normal” kids do it too, but we don’t say “see that kid with the brown hair / brown skin / etc, well they have bad behaviour and so I think we need to question whether everyone with brown hair / brown skin (etc) belongs in the classroom.”
What we do instead (what we should always be doing) is treat people like individuals: we look at why they are doing the bad behaviour – is it reacting to someone or something that we can change, that we can improve, that we can remove – before we decide the only answer is exclusion. This investigation into what can be done to improve the behavioural problem, is more complicated when it involves those with special needs, because you need a general understanding of the child’s condition to make a meaningful enquiry into the cause and appropriate response to the behaviour. But just because it requires more thought and even possibly more work to find a solution, does not mean it is not worth doing or is impossible to do.
It’s exactly that sort of attitude – that lack of consideration of the relevance of the condition and lack of flexible problem-solving – which has led to the recent court case of the excluded child with Aspergers and dyslexia. And yet Smalley uses that court case as an instance in favour of her argument that sometimes mainstreaming just doesn’t work. The details of the case that have come out so far simply do not support her using this as an example of bad behaviour that argues towards questioning the mainstreaming of special needs children. In fact, to me, it adds insult to use this poor teenager’s situation to argue for the exclusion of others.
As a final point to all this, I don’t think Smalley – or the public more generally – have an accurate understanding of how schooling is done in New Zealand for children with special needs. She says: “Is the merging of special needs children into mainstream education giving every child the best possible education? Sure, it saves money, but every child has a right to learn in a safe and nurturing environment that’s tailored to their needs.” I’m not sure what she thinks is going on – special needs children are not all being shifted into mainstream schools, not by a long shot. There are still special schools and no aim by the government to remove or shut them down right now. There are still a huge number of options for children, tailored to their needs, from special schools to satellite units, to residential schools and wrap-around support, teacher aides within mainstream classrooms, and so many other ways that education is made to be flexible to diversity. Are there some who want to shut down special schools? Sure, but it’s not happening right now. Are there children for whom no suitable education option currently exists? Of course there are, that’s why many of us fight to make education more inclusive and responsive to the true variety of humanity.
And part of that journey – that improvement of education all round – is making sure that mainstream schools are improving their practices so that special needs students can take their place in the community alongside their peers. I am of the unambiguous and firm opinion that a school which is adapting its practices and attitudes to be more accommodating to special needs children, is a school that is better for all students that attend. There is no firm dividing line between who has special needs and who doesn’t, an education system which accepts and welcomes diversity is also going to be better for the gifted students, ethnically diverse students, and anyone else who doesn’t fit some mould of the “usual.” It will also cope better when discipline and behavioural problems arise, which are hardly the sole realm of the disabled.
We haven’t completed that journey towards a great education system yet. When we do – when our schools are adaptive and responsive and welcoming and well-run – we will also have schools that successfully integrate the majority of special needs children within the classroom. But we’re not going to get there by deciding in advance that these children don’t belong in mainstream classrooms. And we’re definitely not going to get there by thinking the problems all lie within special needs children and not with lack of support and understanding within the classroom and school. And we sure as heck are not going to get there by scare-mongering with the notion that all special needs children are currently being pushed into mainstream classrooms, because that simply is not happening right now anyway (even though it arguably should be). Any debate about what we should be doing around mainstreaming and special needs children, must be had with an accurate eye to what is actually going on within the education sector, I don’t think an informed debate can happen otherwise.
I don’t think Smalley means harm, even though her article does harm. I don’t think she set out to misconstrue reality, I just think she did inadequate research into autism, special needs, and the state of the current education system. I would like to think that when we engage in the debate that she calls for – about mainstreaming and special needs children – that people like her will hear our arguments and realise that moving towards inclusion really is in the best interests of all students; that our children are not a threat, they are an opportunity for everyone’s betterment. That there is nothing inherently impossible about integrating our classrooms to better reflect societal reality; the disabled, the different, the differently-abled, are all around us anyway, they are part of our world and deserve to be. We can recognise that some students may never fit well into a mainstream classroom, but we need to know and make sure that the reason they don’t fit in is not simply because we gave up on the disabled. We need to be sure that when a child is excluded from a school, it really is because it was the best and only decision left, rather than the current situation where our kids are so often not even allowed in the front door.
We need to reply to pieces like that written by Smalley, and we can only hope we are listened to with the same open-mindedness, patience and willingness to learn, that we hope to get from mainstream schools someday too. | <urn:uuid:2ec474d2-303d-444c-85f5-c316158ab943> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://autismandoughtisms.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/what-rachel-smalley-and-the-public-doesnt-understand-about-mainstreaming-special-needs-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973263 | 2,471 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Angela Haskett, Level 1.5
MA, European and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University
What's it like to learn Spanish with a group of engaged, motivated students? Ask Angela Haskett. She's finishing graduate work at George Washington University. To prepare for her final language exams, she turned to Middlebury. "The quality of the students is very high, and everyone around you has the same goal," Angela says. "It's my third week, and I already see a huge improvement."
The cocurricular activities have also been a boost to Angela's language learning. As a part of the Entre Amigos group, the volleyball club, and the cooking club, she's developing a real-world facility that will give her a communication advantage in her new job at Amazon.com, where she'll interact daily with native Spanish speakers.
Julia Partington, Level 3
BA, Liberal Arts, Hampshire College
Americorps Social Work Fellow
Julia Partington's godmother attended the French School over 30 years ago and has always described that summer as a crucial push toward fluency in the language. That knowledge influenced Julia to choose Middlebury at Mills for Spanish language learning, and she's glad she did.
"This fall I will be starting a yearlong Americorps post as a social-work fellow at a health clinic in East Oakland. I hope to have the opportunity to use my Spanish in my job, and I definitely see it as a crucial skill when I look farther down the road. No matter what path I choose, I will be able to comfortably navigate and communicate entirely in Spanish, thanks to my summer at Mills." | <urn:uuid:86129a93-dec1-4af9-ae79-87db50512931> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/spanish/profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00340-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963163 | 349 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Lilongwe, Malawi … In recent weeks three forty-foot shipping containers arrived at the Lilongwe Distribution Hub delivering large amounts of critically needed supplies. Offloading was handled by Action for Progress, the not-for-profit partner organization to the Malawi Project. It’s executive director, Wilson Tembo, has worked with the Malawi Project since 1999, and in 2018 assisted in the formation of Action for Progress in order for Malawi business, community and church leaders to take more responsibility for nationwide distribution of aid.
The recent arrivals included a large amount of medical supplies for government medical facilities facing the coronavirus pandemic that surfaced in Malawi in early April. Additionally, several thousand Christian books will help the formation of lending libraries in major cities, and a large number of school textbooks and school supplies will be distributed to the Malawi school system. Adding to the shipments of school and medical supplies are a large number of mobility units for those who are mobility impaired, and shelving to extend the length of the distribution center for storage and staging of future supplies.
Shortly after the shipments arrived Wilson Tembo, the Executive Director, and Madalitso Mwandoloma RN, the Medical Director for Action for Progress, and the working partner to Suzi Stephens RN for the Malawi Project, distributed badly needed supplies to four major hospitals in the central region.
Kamuzu Central Hospital is the major referral hospital for the central region. Located in Lilongwe it is listed as having 780-beds, but at any given time the number of patients laying on the floor on bamboo mats would indicate an overflow of patients taking the number well over 1,000. This particular hospital serves over five million people and struggles constantly to have enough supplies to get through each day. Everything is in short supply, and every shipment from MP and AfP is welcomed with open arms by the staff.
Mchinji District Hospital is one of 28 district hospitals. The district hospitals are in the tier 2 category, and are referral hospitals for the rural hospitals, and medical clinics, within their respective districts. Mchinji is 112 kilometers or 70 miles west of Lilongwe on Malawi M-12, a well-maintained tarmac road located next to the border with Zambia. The population of the district is slightly over 600,000 people.
Bwaila District Hospital is a major psychiatric and maternity facility located in Lilongwe. As with other Malawi government hospitals Bwaila often has a larger number of inpatients than beds, meaning numbers of patients must sleep on bamboo mats placed on the floor. There is no available space for caregivers who come with patients in large numbers, in order to give personal care to the patient while they are in the hospitals.
Ntchisi District Hospital is located northeast of Lilongwe in the district capital for the Ntchisi District. With a population growth from 87,000 in 1977 to a current population of over 300,000, the population needing health-care services has eclipsed the capability of this district hospital to keep pace. | <urn:uuid:04c7dcef-3ebf-4297-a309-f90a0fc35a0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.malawiproject.org/medical-shipments-arrive-distribution-begins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956246 | 631 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Python is an open source object oriented programming language famous for its clean and well-organized source code and therefore widely used at the Web and in the world of science. Python consists of a compact core including a vast library with every possible extension. In Arnhem, Four Digits is an authority in the field of Python: we have been working with Python for more than ten years.
For content management systems we use Plone which is based on Python. In addition, we use various Python frameworks, always choosing a matching framework for the project. Flask is used for simple applications, while Django or Pyramid are used for more complex applications. Tornado is used for high-performance applications.
Python has been developed by Dutch computer programmer Guido van Rossum. At that time, he worked at the Dutch research institute for mathematics and computer science (CWI). Afterwards, he worked at Google and currently he is working at Dropbox. | <urn:uuid:4bfa61ff-d701-4bf0-923e-d288c83b363c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fourdigits.nl/en/python/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.950139 | 185 | 2.75 | 3 |
Car Loan with a Good Credit Score
You’ve limited the make and model, and now you need financing to drive your vehicle off the dealer’s sale yard.
You may think about how much your credit rating plays in the financing you can obtain? But if your rating is in the low score, it may prevent you from qualifying for a loan. But, even those with poor credit can discover a subprime loan specialist willing to provide broader financing.
Keep in mind that as with most advances, the stronger your credit assessment, the better your rates and terms will be.
What is a decent credit score to purchase a vehicle?
As a rule, the “right” financial assessment relies upon the bank you think will suit you. As indicated by a 2016 report from credit agency Experian, the normal financial assessment required to fit the bill for another vehicle advance was 714. Keep in mind that if you’re in the market for a trade-in vehicle, that required normal score drops to 678.
You may fit the profile for a vehicle credit with lower scores; however, your moneylender may incorporate higher financing costs or tougher terms for your advance.
Is there a base credit assessment for a vehicle credit?
No, there’s no solid least (lowest) credit assessment number for purchasing a vehicle. Truth be told, even individuals with scores of 500 or less can meet all requirements for vehicle financing with select banks — particularly if that moneylender has practical experience in those with poor credit. Keep in mind though lower scores may often result in higher loan costs.
Big name moneylenders may implement least credit assessment prerequisites that could shield you from qualifying with a low score. In view of advance information, US Bank requires the most elevated credit rating among banks and moneylenders at 680, while Wells Fargo requires a low 550.
On the off chance that you have a record with a neighborhood bank or credit association, start with those to get familiar with credit prerequisites. Your past relationship may enable you to qualify.
How does my credit assessment influence my loan fee?
A low credit rating won’t really prevent you from fitting the bill for an automobile advance. But remember one factor you can rely on, is higher financing costs if you don’t have a solid score.
Financial assessments of 600 or lower can result in credits with loan fees of 10% or more.
While individuals with superb credit ratings will, in general, get the best offers, once in a while providing the opportunity to borrow for car advances at 0% does happen.
Imagine a scenario in which I’m offered a more costly financing option on my vehicle advance because of my score.
High-financing costs don’t need to shield you from assuming a credit. You can most likely consider renegotiating your vehicle advance following a year or so of steady, on-time installments to show your commitment. Renegotiating demonstrates that your financing can be achievable due to your commitment and thus giving you lower installments or a shorter reimbursement term.
With good solid progression on your reimbursements, you may see an expansion in your credit assessment, which can mean more realistic and better terms on another credit.
Always bear in mind when renegotiating at comparative rates or terms, watch your credit ratings and when they improve go for the new deal.
What can I do to improve my score before looking for a vehicle?
There’s no handy solution for improving your credit assessment. Or maybe, it requires significant investment and responsibility with the assistance of a couple of tips:
Get a verified Visa
These cards require a money store that ordinarily turns into your credit limit. Since your spending is verified by your store, you can concentrate on the structure or modifying your score with on-time installments to demonstrate your credit worthiness.
Investigate lease detailing administrations
Administrations like Rental Kharma or RentTrack report your bill and lease installments to the credit departments for an expense. It won’t generally build your score, however reliable on-time installment could be sufficient to obtain a strong advance rate.
Work on satisfying your equalization
Focus on paying on-time installments for your utility and link bills and pay more than the base on your Visa to in the end get rid of obligation and pay down any debts.
Request to be an approved client
Ask a person with whom you have a great relationship to see if they are willing to add you to their charge card. With mindful spending, you can assemble your financial record without doing it totally on your own status.
The Bottom Line
Your financial soundness is essential to get the best rates on an advance, but you still can fit the bill for a car advance without a phenomenal credit assessment. In any case, lower scores will in general encounter higher loan fees.
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For decades, office jobs were touted as the options that were the most financially lucrative and showed that workers had “brain power.” But in the 21st century, the working world has gone through and is still going through many changes. The nine to five work day is no longer seen as the most ideal way to make a living. Being stationed at a computer and desk for eight hours per day might seem ideal for some people, but it might not be what is best for you. In order to figure out your best work option, you need to recognize that not everyone is meant to perform the same types of job roles. Your career choice should allow you to fully use your strengths and reflect your beliefs. If you have long since finished school, think back to which courses you enjoyed and which ones you did not enjoy. The subjects you enjoyed studying in school are strong indicators to what you should focus on career-wise.
Your career will have a huge impact on how you will be able to fund your lifestyle and fulfill your goals. What kind of life do you want to live? If you want a job that allows you to have complete flexibility and control over your schedule then you should consider becoming self-employed. Self-employment has many advantages such as being able to determine your own pay rates, create your own schedule and have more direct influence over your career. Although there are many advantages, there are challenges to working for yourself. Entrepreneurs are responsible for every facet of their businesses. They need to plan ahead and stay focused on building and maintaining their companies, and that can be stressful for some people. You need to evaluate your personality and strengths to determine if running your own business is the right choice for you. Self-employment does not need to be a full-time career choice right away; you can start your own business on a part-time basis and eventually work the business full-time if you’d like to.
Education And Preparation
When you are considering which career to pursue, you need to make sure that you are educated and knowledgeable about the field. If you want to work as a doctor, be prepared to be in university for at least four to eight years. If the vocation you hope to do requires a lot of education and training, then you must be willing and prepared to do everything possible to succeed. You need to be aware of and be willing to accept whatever preparation you need to undergo in order to move ahead in your career. If you are not happy with the thought of having to go through extensive training to work your dream job, then you should choose a career that will not require too much training so that you could launch your career quickly.
Talents And Interests
If you enjoyed visual arts in school and were talented at it, perhaps you should consider a career where you can be artistically creative. Were you passionate about studying English and History? If you enjoy writing and educating others about events that shape today’s world, you might want to consider pursuing a career as a journalist. If you have a passion for helping people and you are strong at maths and sciences, consider working as a nurse. If you are currently attending school, visit your guidance and career counsellors and ask them to help you explore which careers would complement your favorite subjects. Once you know which careers would be a good match, you can start making plans for post-secondary training that you will need to achieve your career goals.
Using career websites can be helpful in exploring for appropriate possibilities. Performing a general search on Google for subjects you enjoy and careers that are related to them will provide you with some more insight. Make your choice wisely because your job will be a tool to help you fulfill your purpose in life as well as provide income to you and your family. However, do not be surprised if you find yourself working in more than one career during your lifetime. You may need to work in several different roles before you find the position that you like best. Money should be a motivating factor with regards to choosing the right career but it is not the only factor. Your skills, lifestyle preferences, and dreams should all factor into your decision making as you choose a career that will best compliment your life and how you want to live it. | <urn:uuid:2932b712-684c-4591-a14e-44d657ed3480> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infobarrel.com/Tips_for_Choosing_Your_Ideal_Career | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98223 | 862 | 2.15625 | 2 |
About a month ago, I went to see the movie “The Vow” fully prepared for it to be an overall disappointment. It certainly delivered, except for one scene that actually makes the movie worth seeing. The mother tells her upset daughter that she stayed with her husband after learning of his lengthy affair because she decided she was not going to punish him for his one mistake. She stayed with him because of all the things he did right, not the one thing he did wrong.
It was this powerful moment where marriage was defended with such heroism that inspired me to want to get the book written by the real couple to learn more. Unfortunately, this situation never actually happened. It turns out the real parents of the daughter were always happily married.
But I’m so glad I got the book and read the true story. What I discovered was an even greater defense of marriage.
First, this is a true story that’s hard for any of us to imagine. Two months after Kim and Krickett Carpenter are married, Krickett is injured in a car accident that causes the loss of her memory to the point of not knowing who Kim is. She has no recollection of their relationship at all.
Talk about never knowing what can happen. All single people and dating couples think they have the luxury of planning out their married lives. But life is unpredictable, and God often has other plans.
Imagine having to approach life as a married woman with a man you do not know at all. Imagine trying to live your married life with a woman who doesn’t know you, doesn’t want you, and doesn’t remember marrying you.
For better or for worse. In sickness and in health. These are the vows said at the wedding ceremony. But that can’t apply to this situation, right? The woman has no memory of you, and wants nothing to do with you. You can’t force her to live out marriage with you. Why stay? She’s fine with you leaving.
Sadly, this is where many people get it wrong about the words of their vow and what their ultimate responsibility is. Probably without knowing it, too many people enter into marriage with their own definition of what the words said in the vows mean, and put conditions on how far they will go in living such things as loving another through difficult situations.
Perhaps instead of vows, people would prefer a long contract that clearly defines terms and conditions. “I will love you in sicknesses such as the common cold, the flu, broken limbs, fatal diseases; excluding such sicknesses as memory loss, depression, and addictions.”
Perhaps people want guarantees in this contract. “I promise never to have anything happen to me that would change our standard of living or make you have to work. I promise to never to lose my job, burn the dinner, allow the lawn to grow past three inches. I promise never to change in any way that displeases you or make you unhappy.”
Sounds funny to have these kinds of conditions. But for many people, love is conditional on these kinds of things.
Every couple says the same vows, but not every couple accepts the words at their fullest meaning and to their farthest extent. Every couple has plans for their married life, but not every couple is willing to accept a disruption to those plans.
Kim and Krickett Carpenter enter their marriage with love and commitment. In both the film and in the true story, Kim Carpenter says he made a vow, and he loves her regardless. She is his wife. He promised to love her, even if she doesn’t love him.
Kim’s faith keeps him committed to the wife he loves and confident that God will work it out somehow, even when he felt he should let Krickett go and end the marriage. Even more remarkable is that Krickett has complete recollection of God and her faith in Him. She can’t remember anything about Kim, but her Christianity is in tact. That goes to show that Christianity does not stem from the brain, but from the soul.
I couldn’t help but think how this could very well make the difference for a successful marriage. It’s a matter of having the true faith rooted in the very being of person, and solidified through growth in truth and love for Christ. Perhaps it is lack of Christian faith that makes one or both end a marriage.
Whatever it was, the story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter is remarkable in that they stayed together. They did not have a marriage to build onto from Krickett’s view. It was not romantic love full of deep feeling and friendship. It was an act of the will based on circumstances that seemed obviously God-directed. Krickett realized that God allowed her to marry Kim for a reason, and that it was worth her being open to him. They both started a new relationship and fell in love again, creating new memories and a new, renewed, commitment.
A new relationship. That’s how you do it if there are no other options and you want to make it work. The Carpenters both sincerely wanted it to work somehow, but could not find a way to make the old marriage work. They made a new relationship because they believed in their marriage. Most failing marriages don’t undergo such an extreme situation, but they have the same choice presented; namely, to make it work or end it. Scrap the old relationship because it doesn’t work. Establish a new relationship. Fall in love all over again.
Love can develop between two people who want it. Love can grow between two people who see God’s will. It can be the hard and rough road, but the pay off can be immeasurable. Their relationship proves what it means to be “Christ-centered” both at the personal and the relationship level. True Christians understand how God works. They don’t want to run from His will, but rather run toward Him.
Anthony Buono is the founder of Avemariasingles.com. For thousands of Catholic singles, Anthony offers guidance, humor, understanding, and practical relationship advice. Visit his blog at 6stonejars.com.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Ashley Michelle Williams and Associated Press
In Detroit, it can take police nearly an hour to respond to
a 911 call.
Despite razing close to 10,000 vacant houses, three times as
many still stand with windows smashed and doors ripped off. At night, many
streets and even freeways are dangerously shrouded in darkness because tens of
thousands of street lights don't work.
This is Detroit, an insolvent city seeking to find its way
through the uncertainty of the largest city in U.S. history to file for
For decades, residents have heard one city official after
another vow to improve city services but little would be done. On Friday - a
day after the city filed the unprecedented bankruptcy - they were given a
Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit emergency manager, Kevyn Orr,
promised weary residents that they would see better city services in 30 to 60
"Now is our opportunity to stop 60 years of
decline," Snyder said Friday during a press conference just north of
Though Thursday's bankruptcy filing had been feared for
months, the path ahead for the once mighty Motor City is still uncertain.
As Detroit starts the likely lengthy process of shedding its
debt, residents, businesses owners and retirees nervously wonder if they'll see
improvements after years of neglect or if another round of promises will go
Several experts joined MarylandÆs News Now Friday to note
several points on the situation.
Daniel Howes, who is a columnist for the Detroit News,
joined MarylandÆs News Now Friday to talk with the showÆs co-host Mary Beth
Marsden about the bankruptcy that Detroit is facing.
He told Marsden that the bankruptcy marks an epic fall for
an iconic American city as it opens a new chapter that is uncertain.
Additionally, Daraius Irani, who is the Director of the
Regional Economic Studies Institute at Towson University, joined the show to discuss why Detroit had to file for
bankruptcy, how it happened, and if Baltimore could be in the same positions as
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September 1, 2010
Poor Countries Cannot Afford Common Medicines
A study has found that people in low and middle-income countries would be pushed to below the poverty line if they bought common medicines.
Laurens Niens' team at Erasmus University Rotterdam analyzed the number of people who would be pushed below an income level of $1.25 or $2 a day by paying for four widely used medicines.The team said their findings showed that greater effort is needed in order to encourage the use of cheaper generic drugs in poor countries to help ensure more medicines are made available.
The researchers studied the drugs salbutamol inhaler, used to help manage asthma, glibenclamide, a diabetes drug, atenolol, a high blood pressure drug, and amoxicillin, an antibiotic.
The researchers published their findings in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal on Tuesday. They generated "impoverishment rates" for these medicines in 16 low- and middle-income countries by using data from the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
In Yemen, where seven percent of people live on less than $1.25 a day, another 22 percent of the population would fall below the poverty line by purchasing glibenclamide. However, buying the cheapest generic equivalent would only push another 3 percent of the population below the poverty line.
In Nigeria, 56 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day. If Nigerians were to purchase the branded version of amoxicillin, another 23 percent would fall below the poverty line.
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Are you excited to get out on the road of New Jersey while you are sitting behind the wheel? It’s important to realize that just because you might be old enough to drive, it’s still a privilege and a responsibility rather than a right. Before you can take your road test, you need a permit, and to get that you first have to pass the NJ driver’s written test. This is the step that many people dread because they don’t study for the test and they aren’t sure what to expect. They might fail the test and have to wait to take it again. You don’t have to go through this though. Instead, you can start preparing for your written test right now.
The driver’s manual
If you hope to pass your driver’s written test, you need to have a copy of the NJ Driver Manual. This manual will provide you with all of the information you need when it comes to being a safe and responsible driver. It covers your responsibilities as a driver, traffic laws, parking laws, signs, regulations, and more. Remember, all of the questions that are on the test actually come from this manual. If you want to do well, this manual will become a very important part of your preparation.
Since it is available as a PDF, it means you can download it. This is a far better option than going to the MVC and picking up a physical copy. You can put the manual on other devices, such as your e-reader, smartphone, or tablet as well. Doing this will give you access to it wherever you go, and you can always use some more study time.
Reading the manual is just the first step though. To really prepare for the test, you need to make sure that you understand and remember the information you are reading. Taking online tests, such as those found at DMV Written Test can help a lot. The site offers several tests for NJ. The test features 50 questions, and you need to get at least 40 of them correct in order to pass. Keep studying and continue to take practice exams so you can learn more. Always go over the questions that you missed so it doesn’t happen again.
Get an app
Many people today are never more than a couple of feet away from their smartphone. If you have a smartphone or a tablet, you should consider downloading some apps that can help you study and that can provide you with some additional practice. Apps are available for all of the various mobile platforms, and you can often find free apps to help with your permit test. Some options include Drivers Ed app and DMV Permit Test.
A final tip
As excited and prepared as you might now be to take the test, do not make the mistake of rushing through it. You need to slow down and read the questions so you do not make any errors. Best of luck with your test! | <urn:uuid:6f63b8af-79ca-463c-86a3-5d95d53b33c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/how-to-prepare-for-the-new-jersey-driver-s-written-test-by-valerie-mellema | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00490-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967892 | 598 | 1.625 | 2 |
Inc. VAT £3.35
Light Bulb Type
Warm White (830)
Your saving would be approximately £6.72
|Light Bulb Type||Golfball|
|Light Colour||Warm White (830)|
|Equivalent Wattage||40 W|
|Beam Angle||360 Degrees|
|Colour Temp||2700 K|
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Prana (Cosmic Life Force Energy) is essential to support all lifeforms (plants, animals, humans etc) and their functions, the air that we breathe, food that we eat, water that we drink are all its explicit and implicit sources. Pranic healing is the practice that spiritually, psychically, righteously, and piously guides and intends Universally present Cosmic Life Force Energy to heal one’s body, mind, and soul, and/or that of others too. Through Pranic healing we can transcend our apparent limitations and become free flowing with the Spirit. All-inclusive and integrative overall healing at the four levels viz. spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical can be achieved by Pranic healing in order to find, maintain and sustain balance, wholeness, and fulfillment. We as the human body are not merely a biological-biochemical factory but as a whole entity in time and space that is affected by our consciousness and the experiences of life, now and through many incarnations. Therefore, utilizing holistic concepts of Pranic healing that also use our mind’s creatively to bring health to our bodies is a multilayered process of healing. Most ailments or difficulties often have their commencement in our former lives, and since the predispositions of the same are in our subconscious mind, that is the storehouses of all reminiscences of our previous lives, therefore, the Pranic healing targets to realize and release those underlying roots.
Pranic Healing Program Component
The fundamental component of Pranic healing comprises the Cosmic Life Force Energy (Prana) that is Universally present all over, across entire Space. The same is fundamentally vital for our creation, existence, sustenance, and expansion of our consciousness. Prana is the Sanskrit term for Cosmic Life Force Energy, and it is best received by being at our natural state of mind that is peace. The deficit of this Pranic Energy in any cell, tissue, organ, or body causes dissonance, dysfunction, or disease, in case there are physical, emotional, or mental obstructive toxins or debris in its pathways. Prana can freely flow only if the passageways (Nadis) are clear, clean, and free from obstructions. Nadis, the Subtle Energy Channels are energy passageways through which Prana or the vital Cosmic Life Force Energy flows. Similar to the way physical veins carry blood through the circulatory system, the Nadis carry energy through beings. Wherever the prana cannot flow freely in the Naids the mental, emotional, and physical ailments in the person are observed. Pranic healing emphatically brings glad tidings of health, happiness, and holiness as the Prana flows through the body.
Pranic Healing Program Process
With an objective of a healthy, hearty, and happy physical body as well as subtle etheric, astral, causal, and super causal bodies, the process of Pranic healing involves:
- Psychic scanning to detect the imbalanced or undistributed Prana flow,
- Eradicating auric-etheric debris or obstructions to clear the channels for
- Prana’s free-flow.
- Restoring and rejuvenating through supplementing Prana.
- Stabilizing the Prana for aliveness.
- Sustaining the Prana through life.
Pranic Healing Program Benefits
- Learn comprehensively the principle of Alchemy.
- Learn to steer the Prana flow for self-healing or healing others.
- Learn to access Pranic energy through varied meditative techniques,
- Learn to transmit specific Pranic frequencies for chakra-vise respective needs to accelerate healing through white light or vibgyor spectrum.
Pranic Healing Program Construct
Pranic healing for Physiological curatives (to regulate the extremities of excessive cravings or undernutrition towards balanced health, weight, vigor, power, and strength).
Pranic healing for Psychological therapeutics (to understand and transform superstitions, misconceptions, perceptions, phobias, and fear-based mindset into intelligence, concentration, and pure concepts)
Pranic healing for Psychosomatic clarity (to discredit and override patterns of familial scarcities of love, relations, or wealth to attract and manifest multilevel plentiful abundance).
Pranic healing for Psychodefense (to protect oneself from psychic attacks and the influence of others’ negative thoughts or gloomy emotions).
Pranic healing for Psychospiritual awareness (to expand self-awareness to experience Oneness and Supreme Consciousness).
May you all graciously ascertain a divine connection and insightful communication between your higher and lower selves through Pranic healing!
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Book DescriptionThe magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enamelled and bejewelled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the body supposed to be contained within them - these and other sacred objects were contained within church treasuries and cloisters in the early Middle Ages in Europe. This book traces the development of these so-called Minor Arts and the major role they played alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture of the period.
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So the Southern Californians didn’t cut their water usage in July despite Governor Gavin Newsom requesting a voluntary 15% cut?
Well of course not. The dusty sea beds, the dry cones, the strict regulations to reduce water use, and the most terrifying forest fires (at least so far) were in Northern California, and that’s where Newsom focused its worst warnings. He declared a drought emergency in Mendocino and Sonoma counties in April, expanded it to 41 counties in May and then to 50 counties in July – but not in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Diego, Riverside or San Bernardino. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has warned of unprecedented bottlenecks in Lake Mead and has launched an advertising campaign calling for more conservation. But the MWD is a victim of its own success, because it has done an excellent job for decades and supplied enough water so that the residents usually do not think about bottlenecks.
The MWD board declared a water supply alarm in August that local drought regulations should follow. But cities have other things on their minds.
Over the course of an extremely hot summer, amid the fear and deprivation caused by the second year of a deadly pandemic, and at a time when police officers and others are not receiving potentially life-saving vaccines unless forced to do so even then, a polite request for a modest and completely voluntary 15% reduction in water consumption sounds a lot like “don’t worry, be happy”.
Indeed, the water outlook for Southern California is alarming. In addition to the measly grants urban areas are receiving from the State Water Project this year for not fully penetrating the Sierra snowpack and summer runoff, this is the first time Los Angeles and neighboring counties are facing a deficiency statement in our other primary water source . the Colorado River. This has nothing to do with the Sierra, and everything to do with a 21-year drought in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada – the states that southern California gets much of its water from.
In fact, the arid conditions in the Sierra, the Rockies and in between may not be a drought, but rather a return to historical patterns after the unusually humid period in which the region was settled and developed. At the same time, global climate change through industrial and everyday CO2 emissions is causing monkeys with the pattern, which means that when rain and snow come, they are less predictable. Ever hotter temperatures mean that snow caps simply evaporate or become soaked from parched mountain slopes instead of running down rivers to replenish our supplies.
So we have a water shortage emergency in Southern California, just like the rest of the state, whether the governor and the MWD have declared it or not. Without a doubt, cuts that were previously voluntary will soon become mandatory.
But we’re going to need better signposts than something amorphous like 15% off last year’s consumption.
A better approach would be to ban the watering of lawns, as in previous emergencies, or, given the drought will remain here, to demolish the lawn entirely, as did many homes during the “drought” of 2012-2016 was the case. To be honest, it was probably part of a new drought norm that is still with us despite a couple of flood years in between.
Can we keep building new houses and adding new people in such an environment?
We can and we should. In fact, laws that encourage the construction of apartment buildings provide housing without thirsty courtyards for a workforce who would otherwise seek traditional housing and create new lawns instead of tearing up old ones. We call it “drinking water,” but in fact the single largest single use of household water in California is landscaping. Apartments, four-family houses and other multi-family houses in which many people share the landscape are water-saving.
So should we pave our yards?
Not at all. Homeowners have many options for native plants and other landscaping that look beautiful and use much less water. And also, planted courtyards (dotted with hollows or deeper areas where rain and runoff can collect) help direct the water into the ground where we want it, rather than into the sea. In much of the San Fernando Valley, water that penetrates the soil replenishes a giant aquifer – almost an underground lake – that will likely be our salvation if dry periods persist.
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Here’s a quick look at the front of the greenhouse. My idea is to have the front side or the view from the house appear to be a small cottage in the backyard. The windows on the front were originally from one sliding window that I separated into 2 approximately 20 inch wide windows. I say approximately because one is slightly larger than the other but most likely no one except those I tell (like you!) will know.
Between the windows the French doors that are currently resting on the corners of the greenhouse will be installed. The gable areas were left open while I deliberated about what I wanted there. I ran through a few ideas and managed to put together some of what will be installed there. It involves 4 small 12″ x 9″ windows that were panes I removed from another window. The window was falling into pieces but the glass was in great shape. Since the window actually had 8 panes of glass I’m planning on making the small glass windows into double pane windows. There’s no way I can come close to a factory built vacuum sealed double paned window but any air space between the outside and the inside will improve the insulation ability of the window.
- Install the French doors.
- Attach some sort of lock for the windows.
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- Finish the windows for the gable and panel it with plywood.
- Cover the greenhouse front with trim.
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China (Includes Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Macau)
IN THIS SECTION: CHINA (BELOW) | TIBET | XINJIANG | HONG KONG | MACAU
Reports on Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet are appended at the end of this report. Given the scope and severity of reported religious freedom violations specific to Xinjiang this year, a separate section on the region is also included in this report.
The constitution states citizens have freedom of religious belief but limits protections for religious practice to “normal religious activities” and does not define “normal.” The government continued to exercise control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents when the government perceived these as threatening state or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests, according to nongovernmental organization (NGO) and international media reports. Only religious groups belonging to one of the five state-sanctioned “patriotic religious associations” (Buddhist, Taoist, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant) are permitted to register with the government and officially permitted to hold worship services. There continued to be reports of deaths in custody and that the government tortured, physically abused, arrested, detained, sentenced to prison, or harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices.
Multiple media and NGOs estimated that since April 2017, the government detained at least 800,000 and up to possibly more than 2 million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim groups, mostly Chinese citizens, in specially built or converted detention facilities in Xinjiang and subjected them to forced disappearance, torture, physical abuse, and prolonged detention without trial because of their religion and ethnicity. There were reports of deaths among detainees. Authorities maintained extensive and invasive security and surveillance, particularly in Xinjiang, in part to gain information regarding individuals’ religious adherence and practices. The government continued to cite concerns over the “three evils” of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism” as grounds to enact and enforce restrictions on religious practices of Muslims in Xinjiang. Authorities in Xinjiang punished schoolchildren, university students, and their family members for praying. They barred youths from participating in religious activities, including fasting during Ramadan. The government sought the forcible repatriation of Uighur Muslims from foreign countries and detained some of those who returned.
Religious groups reported deaths in or shortly after detentions, disappearances, and arrests and stated authorities tortured Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, and members of Falun Gong. The Church of Almighty God reported authorities subjected hundreds of their members to “torture or forced indoctrination.” Although authorities continued to block information about the number of self-immolations of Tibetan Buddhists, including Buddhist monks, there were reportedly four self-immolations during the year. The government began enforcing revised regulations in February that govern the activities of religious groups and their members. Religious leaders and groups stated these regulations increased restrictions on their ability to practice their religions, including a new requirement for religious group members to seek approval to travel abroad and a prohibition on “accepting domination by external forces.” Christian church leaders stated the government increased monitoring even before the new regulations came into effect, causing many churches to cease their normal activities. Authorities continued to arrest Christians and enforce more limitations on their activities, including requiring Christian churches to install surveillance cameras to enable daily police monitoring, and compelling members of house churches and other Christians to sign documents renouncing their Christian faith and church membership. An ongoing campaign of church closings continued during the year, and authorities removed crosses and other Christian symbols from churches, with Henan Province a particular focus area of such activity. In September the Holy See reached a provisional agreement with the government that reportedly would resolve a decades-long dispute concerning the authority to appoint bishops.
Uighur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists reported severe societal discrimination in employment, housing, and business opportunities. In Xinjiang, tension between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese continued.
The Vice President, Secretary of State, Ambassador, and other embassy and consulates general representatives repeatedly and publicly expressed concerns about abuses of religious freedom. On July 26, the Vice President said, “Religious persecution is growing in both scope and scale in the world’s most populous country, the People’s Republic of China…Together with other religious minorities, Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians are often under attack.” On September 21, the Secretary said, “Hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of Uighurs are held against their will in so-called re-education camps, where they’re forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses. Their religious beliefs are decimated. And we’re concerned too about the intense new government crackdown on Christians in China, which includes heinous actions like closing churches, burning Bibles, and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith.” A statement from the July 24-26 U.S. Government-hosted Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom said, “Many members of religious minority groups in China – including Uighurs, Hui, and Kazakh Muslims; Tibetan Buddhists; Catholics; Protestants; and Falun Gong – face severe repression and discrimination because of their beliefs. These communities consistently report incidents, in which the authorities allegedly torture, physically abuse, arbitrarily arrest, detain, sentence to prison, or harass adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and peaceful practices. Authorities also restrict travel and interfere with the selection, education, and veneration of religious leaders for many religious groups….” The Ambassador and other embassy and consulate general officials met with Chinese officials, members of registered and unregistered religious groups, family members of religious prisoners, NGOs, and others to reinforce U.S. support for religious freedom.
Since 1999, China has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. On November 28, the Secretary of State redesignated China as a CPC and identified the following sanction that accompanied the designation: the existing ongoing restriction on exports to China of crime control and detection instruments and equipment, under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101-246), pursuant to section 402(c)(5) of the Act.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief. The 2014 Report of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the DPRK, however, concluded there was an almost complete denial by the government of the rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, and in many instances, violations of human rights committed by the government constituted crimes against humanity. In October the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK reported to the UN General Assembly the country’s use of arbitrary executions, political prison camps, and torture amounting to crimes against humanity remained unchanged despite a series of diplomatic engagements between the country and other nations. In December the UN General Assembly passed a resolution that condemned “the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread, and gross violations of human rights in and by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” The assembly specifically expressed its very serious concern at “the imposition of the death penalty for political and religious reasons,” and “all-pervasive and severe restrictions, both online and offline, on the freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association.” In May, after diplomatic discussions involving the U.S. Secretary of State, the government released a U.S. citizen pastor who had been arrested in 2017. A South Korean nongovernmental organization (NGO) said defectors who arrived in South Korea from 2007 until March 2018 and other sources reported 1,341 cases of violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief by DPRK authorities, including 120 killings and 90 disappearances. The government deported, detained, and sometimes released foreigners who allegedly engaged in religious activity within its borders. According to NGOs and academics, the government’s policy toward religion was intended to maintain an appearance of tolerance for international audiences while suppressing internally all religious activities not sanctioned by the state. The country’s inaccessibility and lack of timely information continued to make arrests and punishments difficult to verify.
Defector accounts indicated religious practitioners often concealed their activities from neighbors, coworkers, and other members of society due to fear their activities would be reported to the authorities. There were conflicting estimates of the number of religious groups in the country and their membership.
The U.S. government does not have diplomatic relations with the country. In July the Secretary of State hosted the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, at which the Vice President said, “…North Korea’s persecution of Christians has no rival on the Earth. It is unforgiving, systematic, unyielding, and often fatal.” The United States cosponsored a resolution at the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council condemning the government’s systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations. In December the Department of State submitted the Report on Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea to Congress, identifying three entities and three North Korean officials responsible for or associated with serious human rights abuses or censorship. Since 2001, the country has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. On November 28, 2018, the Secretary of State redesignated the country as a CPC and identified the following sanction that accompanied the designation: the existing ongoing restrictions to which North Korea is subject, pursuant to sections 402 and 409 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the Jackson-Vanik Amendment) pursuant to section 402(c)(5) of the Act.
IN THIS SECTION: CHINA | TIBET | XINJIANG | HONG KONG (BELOW) | MACAU
The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), as well as other laws and policies, states residents have freedom of conscience; freedom of religious belief; and freedom to preach, conduct, and participate in religious activities in public. The Bill of Rights Ordinance incorporates the religious freedom protections of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Falun Gong practitioners reported generally being able to operate openly, however, they reported harassment from groups they said were connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and difficulty renting venues for large events, including from the SAR government. Falun Gong practitioners held a rally in October to raise awareness of what they said was 19 years of CCP persecution of the Falun Gong in the Mainland.
Some Hong Kong pastors’ exchanges with Mainland counterparts reportedly were negatively affected by changed regulations on the Mainland. Religious leaders reported hosting and participating in interfaith activities, such as a local mosque and a Jewish synagogue maintaining regular interaction between religious leaders of each community.
The U.S. consulate general affirmed U.S. government support for protecting freedom of religion and belief in meetings with the government. The Consul General and consulate general officials met regularly with religious leaders and community representatives to promote religious equality.
The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic, and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion. It states all laws and regulations must be based on “Islamic criteria” and an official interpretation of sharia. The constitution states citizens shall enjoy human, political, economic, and other rights, “in conformity with Islamic criteria.” The penal code specifies the death sentence for proselytizing and attempts by non-Muslims to convert Muslims, as well as for moharebeh (“enmity against God”) and sabb al-nabi (“insulting the Prophet”). According to the penal code, the application of the death penalty varies depending on the religion of both the perpetrator and the victim. The law prohibits Muslim citizens from changing or renouncing their religious beliefs. The constitution also stipulates five non-Ja’afari Islamic schools shall be “accorded full respect” and official status in matters of religious education and certain personal affairs. The constitution states Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians (excluding converts from Islam) are the only recognized religious minorities permitted to worship and to form religious societies “within the limits of the law.” The government continued to execute individuals on charges of moharebeh, including two Kurdish minority prisoners at Rajai Shahr Prison on September 8. Human rights groups raised concerns regarding the use of torture, forced confessions, and denials of access to legal counsel. On June 18, the government executed Mohammad Salas, a member of the minority Gonabadi Sufi Dervish Order, for allegedly killing three police officers during clashes between Gonabadi Sufis and security forces in February. Human rights organizations widely decried Salas’ conviction and execution, noting marked irregularities in his case and allegations of forced confession under police torture. The authorities reportedly denied Salas access to a lawyer and dismissed defense witnesses who could have testified to the fact that Salas was already in custody at the time of the police officers’ deaths. Salas’ execution and alleged show trial was largely seen by the international community as being part of the region’s broader crackdown on Sufi dervishes. International media and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) reported authorities detained more than 300 Gonabadi Sufi dervishes after police open fired on them during February 19-20 demonstrations in Tehran where they were protesting the house arrest of their spiritual leader, Noor Ali Tabandeh. One of the Sufi dervishes arrested in February, Mohammed Raji, died in police custody. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced 20 of the detained Gonabadi Sufis to lengthy prison terms for crimes of “assembly and collusion against national security,” “disturbing public order,” “disobeying law enforcement agents,” and “propaganda against the state.” The Iran Prison Atlas, compiled by the U.S.-based NGO United for Iran, stated at least 272 members of minority religious groups remained imprisoned for being religious minority practitioners. The government continued to harass, interrogate, and arrest Baha’is, Christians (particularly converts), Sunni Muslims, and other religious minorities, and regulated Christian religious practices closely to enforce a prohibition on proselytizing. The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported that the government banned Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, the country’s leading Sunni cleric and Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, from traveling outside of Zahedan. Mohabat News, a Christian news website, reported the detention and abuse of Karen Vartanian, an Armenian Christian. Vartanian reportedly experienced physical and psychological abuse and suffered a heart attack as a result of beatings. According to media and NGO reports in early December, the government arrested 142 Christians across multiple cities in one month, including 114 in one week. According to Sufi media and NGOs, Shia clerics and prayer leaders continued to denounce Sufism and the activities of Sufis in both sermons and public statements, and the government closed Sufi websites, such as the Gonabadi Sufi Order’s websites, in an attempt to erase their online identity. Yarsanis stated they continued to face discrimination and harassment by authorities. The government reportedly denied building permits for places of worship and employment and higher educational opportunities for members of religious minorities, and confiscated or restricted their religious materials. There were continued reports of authorities placing restrictions on Baha’i businesses or forcing them to shut down. On November 23, the Baha’i International Community (BIC) reported the government arrested more than 20 Baha’is in multiple cities in the provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Mazandaran, and East Azerbaijan over the course of two weeks. On October 16, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported the government arrested more than 20 Baha’is in Shiraz, Karaj, and Isfahan on unknown charges in August and September. CHRI reported the government detained Shiraz city council member Mehdi Hajati for 10 days for defending the “false Baha’i faith” after he tweeted about his attempts to free two Baha’i detainees. The judiciary subsequently placed Hajati under judicial surveillance and banned him from his seat on the council.
According to multiple sources, non-Shia Muslims and those affiliated with a religion other than Islam, especially members of the Baha’i community, continued to face societal discrimination and harassment, and employers experienced social pressures not to hire Baha’is or to dismiss them from their private sector jobs. Baha’is reported there were continued incidents of destruction or vandalism of their cemeteries.
The U.S. has no diplomatic relations with the country. The U.S. government used public statements, sanctions, and diplomatic initiatives in international forums to condemn the government’s abuses and restrictions on worship by religious minorities. Senior U.S. government officials publicly reiterated calls for the release of prisoners held on religious grounds. In July the Secretary of State called attention to the situation of religious freedom in the country in a speech and USA Today op-ed piece. In his opinion piece, he said, “Hundreds of Sufi Muslims in Iran remain imprisoned on account of their beliefs, with reports of several dying at the hands of Iran’s brutal security forces. The religious intolerance of the regime in Iran also applies to Christians, Jews, Sunnis, Baha’is, Zoroastrians, and other minority religious groups simply trying to practice their faiths.” At the July U.S.-hosted Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, the U.S. and four other governments issued a statement on Iran. In the statement, the governments said, “As representatives of the international community, we stand together in condemning the systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom taking place in Iran and call on authorities to ensure religious freedom for all.” During a September press briefing, the Special Representative for Iran called for an end of religious persecution in the country, stating: “What we are demanding of the Iranian regime…stop persecuting civil society, please provide all Iranian citizens with due process regardless of their political and religious beliefs.” In June a Department of State spokesperson condemned the “the Iranian government’s execution of Mohammad Salas, a member of the long-persecuted Iranian Gonabadi Sufi dervish community.” The United States supported the rights of members of religious minority groups in the country through actions in the UN, including votes to extend the mandate of the special rapporteur. The U.S. government also supported resolutions expressing concern over the country’s human rights practices, including the continued persecution of religious minorities.
Since 1999, Iran has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. On November 28, the Secretary of State redesignated Iran as a CPC. The following sanction accompanied the designation: the existing ongoing travel restrictions based on serious human rights abuses under section 221(a)(1)(C) of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, pursuant to section 402(c)(5) of the Act.
The constitution establishes Islam as the official religion and states no law may be enacted contradicting the “established provisions of Islam.” The constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief and practice for Muslims, Christians, Yezidis, and Sabean-Mandeans, but not for followers of other religions or atheists. The law prohibits the practice of the Baha’i Faith and the Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam. The constitution also provides for freedom from religious coercion and requires the government to maintain the sanctity of religious sites. Institutional and societal restrictions on freedom of religion as well as violence against minority groups remained widespread, according to religious leaders and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGO) focused on religious freedom. NGO leaders said the government continued to use the antiterrorism law as a pretext for detaining individuals without due process. Community leaders continued to state forced conversion was the de facto outcome of the national identity card law mandating children with only one Muslim parent, even children born as a result of rape, be listed as Muslim. Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) security forces closed some roads between the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) and areas subject to territorial disputes between the KRG and the country’s central government for much of the year, impeding the movement of Yezidis between Dohuk Province and the Sinjar area. Most roads were reopened by year’s end. Yezidis, Christian leaders, and NGOs reported harassment and abuses by the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a state-sponsored organization composed of more than 40 mostly Shia militias, which also includes Sunni and other minority units originally formed to combat ISIS. Christians reported harassment and abuse at numerous PMF-operated checkpoints, restricting their movement in and around several Christian towns on the Ninewa Plain. Christians in PMF-controlled towns reported harassment of Christian women by PMF members. They also said elements of the central government in Baghdad were attempting to facilitate demographic change by providing land and housing for Shia and Sunni Muslims to move into traditionally Christian areas. Representatives of minority religious communities said the central government did not generally interfere with religious observances, but some faced harassment and restrictions from local authorities. Advocacy groups and religious minority representatives reported increased emigration.
According to Yazda, an NGO focused on Yezidi issues, more than 3,000 Yezidis still remained missing following ISIS’s assault on northern Iraq in 2014. In November the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the United Nations Human Rights Office documented the existence of 202 mass graves in the provinces of Ninewa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, and Anbar, and cautioned that there may be “many more.” The UN offices stated they believed the graves held anywhere from eight to as many as “thousands” of bodies. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said, “These graves contain the remains of those mercilessly killed for not conforming to [ISIS’s] twisted ideology and rule, including ethnic and religious minorities.”
Although according to media and human rights organizations security conditions in many parts of the country improved somewhat from 2017, there were continued reports of societal violence, mainly by sectarian armed groups. Non-Muslim minorities reported continued abductions, threats, pressure, and harassment to force them to observe Islamic customs. On July 23, three gunmen, who KRG authorities said had links to a terrorist group, forcibly entered a government building in downtown Erbil. Unable to gain entry to the Erbil governor’s office, they killed a Christian employee whom authorities believed was targeted because of his religion, before police killed the attackers. In March local media reported the killing of a Christian family in Baghdad. Some Christian leaders, including Chaldean Catholic Cardinal Louis Sako, said they considered the killing a hate crime; others said the killers sought to force Christian owners of prime real estate to surrender their property. In February several gunman shot and killed a Christian man in front of his house in Baghdad. According to Christian sources, the victim had received threats to stop working in the alcohol business near a Muslim neighborhood. Sabean-Mandean leaders continued to report threats, abuses, and robberies. In Friday sermons, Shia religious and government leaders urged PMF volunteers not to commit such abuses. Armed groups continued to target Sunnis for execution-style killings and the destruction of homes and businesses. Christian leaders in the Ninewa Plain reported multiple instances of theft and harassment of Christians by the PMF.
The U.S. government continued to raise religious freedom concerns at the highest levels in the country through frequent meetings with senior government officials, speeches, coordination groups, and targeted assistance programs for stabilization projects. Visits by the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, representatives of the office of the Vice President, and other senior U.S. officials to minority areas reinforced the U.S. government’s commitment to preserve and support religious diversity through increased support to minority communities. The Ambassador and other embassy and consulates general officials continued to meet regularly with national and regional government officials, members of parliament, parliamentary committees, and Shia, Sunni, and minority group representatives, to emphasize the need for the security, full inclusion, tolerance, and protection of the rights of religious minorities. The Department of State issued a press statement on U.S. support for vulnerable minorities in Iraq on June 11, saying, “This Administration has made the protection of Iraq’s diversity of faiths and its threatened religious minorities a top and unceasing priority. Those who survived genocide, crimes against humanity, and other atrocities, as well as those who perished as a result of these acts, deserve nothing less.” The United States announced over $178 million in new U.S. foreign assistance to support ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq on October 16. On December 11, President Trump signed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability Act. The act promotes justice for the victims and survivors of those minority communities, particularly Yazidis and Christians, targeted by ISIS.
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The Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) grants residents freedom of religious belief, freedom to preach and participate in religious activities in public, and freedom to pursue religious education. The law also protects the right of religious assembly and the rights of religious organizations to administer schools, hospitals, and welfare institutions and to provide other social services. The law states the government does not recognize a state religion and explicitly states all religious denominations are equal before the law. The law stipulates religious groups may develop and maintain relations with religious groups abroad. Falun Gong continued to hold rallies and protests of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China.
There were no reports of significant societal actions affecting religious freedom.
In meetings with religious leaders and civil society representatives, representatives from the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau stressed the importance of religious freedom and tolerance for all religious groups and discussed religious communities’ relations with their coreligionists on the Mainland and in Hong Kong.
The constitution provides for freedom of religion, equal rights irrespective of religious belief, and the right to worship and profess one’s religion. The law states government officials may prohibit the activity of a religious association for violating public order or engaging in “extremist activity.” The law lists Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism as the country’s four “traditional” religions and recognizes the special role of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Authorities continued to enforce the Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling that criminalized the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses as “extremist” and reportedly detained at least 47 Witnesses and put 72 under investigation. Authorities banned Jehovah’s Witnesses literature, raided homes, seized personal property and religious literature, and subjected individuals to lengthy interrogations. Authorities continued to detain, fine, and imprison members of other minority religious groups and minority religious organizations for alleged extremism, including followers of Muslim theologian Said Nursi. At least 11 of his followers were tried or jailed during the year, with four convicted of allegedly belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir, and seven more detained on the suspicion that they were members of the organization. In one case, according to the nongovernmental human rights organization (NGO) Memorial, authorities beat and verbally abused an individual allegedly from Hizb ut-Tahrir in a pretrial detention facility. Memorial stated the government held 177 political prisoners who were jailed because of their religious beliefs, the majority of whom were Muslim. Authorities convicted and fined several individuals for “public speech offensive to religious believers.” In some cases, it was difficult for minority religious organizations to obtain state registration. The government prosecuted members of many Christian denominations and others for alleged unlawful missionary activity under the amendments to antiterrorism laws passed in 2016, known as the Yarovaya Package. Police conducted raids on the private homes and places of worship of religious minorities. Religious minorities said local authorities used anti-extremism laws to add to the government’s list of banned religious texts. Local officials continued to prevent minority religious organizations from obtaining land and denied them construction permits for houses of worship. The government continued to grant privileges to the ROC not accorded to any other church or religious association, including the right to review draft legislation and greater access to public institutions. The government fined and issued deportation orders for foreign nationals engaging in religious activity, including a rabbi and two African Pentecostals.
Media, NGOs, and religious groups reported a number of attacks on individuals based on their religious identity. For example, since the 2017 Supreme Court ruling classifying the religion as “extremist,” Jehovah’s Witnesses reported beatings, arson attacks on their homes, and employment discrimination. Reports also indicated that hundreds fled the country in fear of persecution. According to the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis (SOVA Center), a local NGO, there were several reported cases of vandalism during the year targeting religious properties. These included unknown assailants knocking down crosses and desecrating Jewish cemeteries. In separate instances, arsonists attacked two Orthodox churches and set fire to a Jewish leader’s vehicle.
The U.S. Ambassador and embassy officials met with a range of government officials to express concern over the treatment of religious minorities, particularly the use of the law on extremism to restrict the activities of religious minorities, and the revocation of the registration of some minority religious organizations. Throughout the year, the Ambassador met with representatives of the ROC and minority faiths to discuss concerns about religious freedom in the country, including with leaders of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), the National Coalition of Supporting Eurasian Jewry, the Church of Scientology (COS), and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church of Jesus Christ). In addition, consular officers participated in many administrative hearings involving U.S. citizens accused of violating visa or other administrative requirements. Some of the U.S. citizens in these cases said the government targeted them because they were members of the Church of Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or other religious minorities. Other representatives from the embassy and Consulates General in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok met regularly with religious leaders and representatives from multiple faiths to discuss developments related to religious legislation, government practices, and specific religious freedom cases. The embassy sponsored visits of members of different faiths from several regions of the country to the United States to engage in the topics of religious freedom and countering violent extremism. The embassy also used its social media platforms during the year to highlight religious freedom concerns.
On November 28, in accordance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, as amended, the Secretary of State placed Russia on a Special Watch List for having engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom.
According to the 1992 Basic Law of Governance, the country’s official religion is Islam and the constitution is the Quran and Sunna (traditions and practices based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad). The legal system is based largely on sharia as interpreted within the Hanbali School of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. Freedom of religion is not provided under the law. The government does not allow the public practice of any non-Muslim religion. The law criminalizes “anyone who challenges, either directly or indirectly, the religion or justice of the King or Crown Prince.” The law criminalizes “the promotion of atheistic ideologies in any form,” “any attempt to cast doubt on the fundamentals of Islam,” publications that “contradict the provisions of Islamic law,” and other acts including non-Islamic public worship, public display of non-Islamic religious symbols, conversion by a Muslim to another religion, and proselytizing by a non-Muslim. In March UN experts said 15 Shia were convicted of spying for Iran and financing terrorism and were facing execution after legal processes that human rights organizations deemed lacking in fair trial guarantees and transparency. In January the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) sentenced prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habib to seven years in prison after the Public Prosecution’s objection to his 2017 acquittal. Some human rights organizations stated convictions of Shia on security charges, including several carrying the death penalty, stemming from 2017-18 clashes were motivated by sectarianism, while the government stated the individuals were investigated, prosecuted, and sentenced as a result of security-related crimes and in accordance with the law. A December report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism expressed concern at the “systemic repression against the country’s Eastern Province, where the majority Shia population lives.” Charges announced by the government during the year for prominent clerics, religious scholars, and academics, reportedly detained in September 2017, include alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) or MB-affiliated groups. The government continued to censor or block some religion-related content in the media, including social media and the internet. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV, commonly known outside the country as the “religious police”) monitored social behavior to encourage obedience to laws and regulations protecting “public morals.” Many observers noted a continued decreased public presence of CPVPV officers in major cities, with the exception of Mecca and Medina, and fewer reports of CPVPV harassment. On March 4, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met publicly with Coptic Pope Tawadros II in Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral. On November 1, the crown prince met with U.S. evangelical Christian figures in Riyadh.
Instances of prejudice and discrimination against Shia Muslims continued to occur in private sector employment. Social media provided an outlet for citizens to discuss current events and religious issues, which sometimes included making disparaging remarks about members of various religious groups or “sects.” In addition, terms such as “rejectionists,” which Shia considered insulting, were commonly found in public discourse.
Embassy, consulate general, and other U.S. government officials continued to press the government to respect religious freedom, eliminate discriminatory enforcement of laws against religious minorities, and promote respect and tolerance for minority Muslim and non-Muslim religious practices and beliefs. In discussions with the Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA), and other relevant ministries and agencies, senior embassy and consulate officials continued to raise and discuss reports of abuses of religious freedom, arbitrary arrests and detentions, the country’s counterterrorism law, and due process standards. Embassy and consulate officials continued to query the legal status of detained and imprisoned individuals and discuss religious freedom concerns, such as religious assembly and importation of religious materials, with members of religious minorities, including Shia Muslims and citizens who no longer considered themselves Muslims, as well as with non-Muslim foreign residents.
Since 2004, Saudi Arabia has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. Most recently, on November 28, the Secretary of State redesignated Saudi Arabia as a CPC, and announced a waiver of the sanctions that accompany designation as required in the important national interest of the United States pursuant to section 407 of the Act.
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The United States recognizes the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan autonomous prefectures and counties in other provinces to be part of the People’s Republic of China. The constitution of the People’s Republic of China states citizens “enjoy freedom of religious belief” but limits protections for religious practice to “normal religious activities” without defining “normal.” Central government regulations implemented February 1 stipulate religious activity “must not harm national security” and place new restrictions on religious schools, donations, and travel. In the TAR and other Tibetan areas, authorities continued to engage in widespread interference in religious practices, especially in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries. There were reports of forced disappearance, torture, physical abuse, prolonged detention without trial, and arrests of individuals due to their religious practices. Travel restrictions hindered traditional religious practices and pilgrimages. Repression increased around politically sensitive events, religious anniversaries, and the Dalai Lama’s birthday, according to numerous sources. Self-immolations leading to death in protest of government policies continued, and four individuals reportedly set themselves on fire and died during the year. The nongovernmental organization (NGO) Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), reported in May torture, including sexual abuse of Tibetan Buddhist nuns, took place in a re-education camp in the TAR. According to TCHRD, authorities also subjected inmates to collective punishment, food and sleep deprivation, prolonged wall standing and beatings. According to local sources, during the year authorities continued an ongoing multi-year project to evict approximately 3,000 monks and nuns from Buddhist institutes at Larung Gar and Yachen Gar, destroying as many as 1,500 of their residences and subjecting many of them to “patriotic and legal re-education.” Authorities often justified their interference with Tibetan Buddhist monasteries by saying the religious institutions engaged in separatist or pro-independence activities, and undermined the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The government routinely denigrated the Dalai Lama, whom most Tibetan Buddhists revered as their most important spiritual leader, and forbade Tibetans from venerating him and other religious leaders associated with him.
Some Tibetans continued to encounter societal discrimination when seeking employment, engaging in business, and traveling for pilgrimage, according to multiple sources. Because expressions of Tibetan identity and religion were closely linked, it was difficult to categorize many incidents as being solely based on religion.
The U.S. government repeatedly pressed Chinese authorities to respect religious freedom for all people and to allow Tibetans to preserve, practice, teach, and develop their religious traditions and language without interference from the government. In July during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, the Vice President and Secretary of State met with Kusho Golog Jigme, a former Tibetan political prisoner, to highlight continued U.S. government support for religious freedom in Tibet. U.S. government officials expressed concerns to the Chinese government at senior levels about the severe restrictions imposed on Tibetans’ ability to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including religious freedom and cultural rights. Embassy and other U.S. officials urged the Chinese government to re-examine the policies that threaten Tibet’s distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identity, including the continuing demolition campaign at the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute and Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute. U.S. officials underscored that decisions on the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama should be made solely by faith leaders and also raised concerns about the continued disappearance of the Panchen Lama. While diplomatic access to the TAR remained tightly controlled, four U.S. visits occurred.
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This separate section on Xinjiang is included given the scope and severity of reported religious freedom violations specific to the region this year.
Multiple media and NGOs estimated the government detained at least 800,000 and up to possibly more than 2 million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim groups, mostly Chinese citizens, in specially built or converted detention facilities in Xinjiang and subjected them to forced disappearance, torture, physical abuse, and prolonged detention without trial because of their religion and ethnicity since April 2017. There were reports of deaths among detainees. Authorities maintained extensive and invasive security and surveillance, in part to gain information regarding individuals’ religious adherence and practices. The government continued to cite concerns over the “three evils” of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism” as grounds to enact and enforce restrictions on religious practices of Muslims in Xinjiang. The reported intensification of detentions accompanied authorities’ implementation of a Xinjiang counterextremism regulation, enacted in March 2017, which identified many of the behaviors deemed “extremist,” as well as continued implementation of the National Counterterrorism Law, revised during 2018, which addressed “religious extremism.” In October the Standing Committee of the 12th People’s Congress in Xinjiang revised its regulation to insert guidance on “vocational skill education training centers.” Authorities in Xinjiang punished schoolchildren, university students, and their family members for praying and barred youths from participating in religious activities, including fasting, during Ramadan. The government sought the forcible repatriation of Uighur Muslims from foreign countries and detained some of those who returned.
Uighur Muslims reported severe societal discrimination in employment and business opportunities. In Xinjiang, tension between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese continued.
Embassy officials met with government officials regarding the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. According to a statement issued at the July 24-26 U.S. government-hosted Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, “We are particularly troubled by reports of the Chinese government’s deepening crackdown on Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups… [including] the detention of hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, in facilities ranging from makeshift holding centers to prisons, ostensibly for political re-education,” in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. There are reports of deaths in these facilities. We call on the Chinese government to release immediately all those arbitrarily detained.” On September 21, the Secretary of State said, “Uighurs are held against their will in so-called reeducation camps where they’re forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses. Their religious beliefs are decimated.” On December 21, in discussing why China remained a Country of Particular Concern, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom said what is happening to Muslim Uighurs is one of the “worst human rights situations in the world.” In October the then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said, “In China, the government is engaged in the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities that is straight out of George Orwell.” She added, “It is the largest internment of civilians in the world today” and “It may be the largest since World War II.” | <urn:uuid:6daf7d80-5860-4698-b470-28ada77dc203> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.state.gov/report/custom/3ae17503d6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.955616 | 9,084 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Clue: Most populous of the United Arab Emirates
We have 1 answer for the clue Most populous of the United Arab Emirates. See the results below.
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- Country that hosts the world's richest horse race
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- Sharjah neighbor
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'Luck' Hasn't Changed for Race Horses in Queens, NY
HBO may have canceled “Luck” due to the bad publicity surrounding the deaths of three horses used on the show. But sadly, the day to day dangers facing real race horses continues. Only, when they die, there is very little publicity.
Take for example Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, NY. Huffington Post is reporting that over the past two and a half months, since a new indoor track opened, 16 horses have perished. Apparently, the dirt used in the track has been flagged as not being safe for horses. Governor Cuomo has stepped in and asked the New York Racing Association (NYRA) for an independent investigation into the deaths.
He wrote to the Aqueduct about the proposed investigation, “The scope of the review should include existing policies on disclosures, necropsies, track conditions and pre-race examination of horses…The rules on claiming, veterinary procedures, and drug use must be examined to determine what we can do to promote equine safety.
“Everyone understands that horse racing poses risks but that cannot be an excuse for our inaction. The status quo in all aspects of horse racing is not working, and we need to develop procedures now that work for the horses, riders and the racing public in New York.”
The NYRA told the Daily News that they will comply with Cuomo’s recommendations.
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Did you know— Only sixty% of the lint is captured in the lint entice of household and business clothing dryers. The other 40% is vented outdoors. In excess of time, the moist lint accumulates to the inside of the duct. The result is like a clogged pipe that gets to be more limited over time which can result in a fireplace hazard! In accordance to the National Hearth Defense Affiliation, 16,000 fires begin in the laundry place every year.
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If it will take more time than a single cycle for your garments to dry, or the clothes are extremely hot after drying, this is a good indicator your vent needs cleaning.
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So, how do you go about cleansing your dryer vent. Here are the steps if you strategy to do it by yourself.
1. Get the proper tools. For this occupation you will need a store vac and extension hose of at least ten to fifteen ft, depending on the duration of the dryer vent exterior to your dryer. Subsequent, you will require a versatile cable with a brush on the conclude (can be found on the web) to snake by means of the duct, and lastly, a dust mask and gloves to safeguard by yourself from the airborne lint.
2. Disconnect your dryer from the flexible duct and cleanse the back of the dryer and any lint that has gathered under the dryer. Examine the adaptable duct and change it with a new one particular if it is ruined or has holes. The 1st component of the approach will involve managing the adaptable cable and vacuum from the inside of the residence by your dryer. The 2nd element of the method entails the exact same issue only from the outside the house by your dryer vent that goes to the outdoors.
3. Run the versatile snake with brush via the dryer vent duct as considerably as you can go, be watchful not to press past any turns or angles that may well trigger the cable to get caught in the ductwork, or else you will have a tough time receiving it out. Vacuum out the free lint with the shop vac and hose. Run the hose as much into the duct as you can go.
4. Track down exactly where your dryer vents to the exterior of the home. Get rid of any dryer vent components to access the duct.
5. Repeat the procedure from the outside, running your flexible cable into the duct (toward the dryer) and vacuum out the unfastened lint. Adhere to this by hooking the dryer again up to the adaptable duct inside the residence and flip the dryer on, any remaining lint will blow out of the duct. Last but not least, change any components on the exterior of the residence.
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If you were born on 4th February 1970., your age is Fourty-Six years and Three Hundred and Fifty days. 17151 days passed since day of Your birth (or 2450.1 weeks). But you are not alone with this! In world 356000 babies was born on that day.
You were born on Wednesday , and your zodiac sign is Aquarius.
You haven't had birthday in this year yet., next birthday will be in 16 days. Your previous birthday was 350 days ago.
The "big bum" was on ≈14th May 1969. (if you were born on time), but for details, ask your parents, they may have some interesting story for that day ;-)
We found 1 event that happened on 4. February 1970.
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Definition: Microphthalmia literally means small eye. Children may be born with one or both eyes, small and underdeveloped. Some children may be blind, but others may have some residual sight or light perception.
Category: Eye Condition
Services specifically catering for people with Microphthalmia
Family support workers - (The Eyeless Trust (merged with Royal Blind Society))Service
Family support workers spend time with each family according to their needs and ensure that they have all the services that they need in coming to terms with the emotional, financial and practical issues associated with having of a disabled child
. Also help older children with independent living skills.
Eyeless Trust grants - (The Eyeless Trust (merged with Royal Blind Society))Service
The Eyeless Trust offers modest grants
for families and children
. These are arranged through The Family Support Worker, and each year a large number of families benefit for a wide range of needs. Grants can be used for practical help, recreational activities and holidays
Grants from MACS - (MACS (Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia & Coloboma Support))Service
MACS gives grants
to cover the cost of activities or equipment needed by children
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Iraq National Museum Long Way from Public Opening
In Iraq's national museum, home to some of the world's most precious artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, a caption beside a skeleton simply reads in English: "dated to very old time."
And some of the museum's most impressive pieces carry no labels at all — like a giant stone head lying on the ground that may or may not belong on a nearby empty pedestal labeled "Assyrian King Nimrod," the Biblical tormentor of the patriarch Abraham.
Ten years after Iraq's national museum was looted and smashed by frenzied thieves during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, it's still far from ready for a public re-opening. Work to overcome decades of neglect and the destruction of war has been hindered by power struggles, poorly-skilled staff and the persistent violence plaguing the country, said Bahaa Mayah, Iraq's most senior antiquities official.
"I wish that the great historical Baghdad would appear in her finest face and that the Iraq museum opens," said Mayah, the head of antiquities in the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry.
"But our wishes crash against the unfortunate reality we live in."
The museum was once the showcase for 7,000 years of history in Mesopotamia, birthplace of some of the first cities and one of the first writing systems — cuneiform — and home to a succession of major civilizations, including the Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian, through to a flourishing Islamic empire.
The museum was left a wreck the day after Baghdad fell to U.S. troops on April 10, 2003. Ancient clay scrolls and pottery littered the floor. Looters made off with everything from gold bowls and ritual funeral masks to elaborate headdresses. The U.S. was sharply criticized for not protecting the museum.
Because the museum's inventory was never completed, it's uncertain how many pieces were stolen, but the number is estimated at 15,000 pieces. More than a quarter have been retrieved, said Mayah, who has overseen the museum formally since 2012 but has been involved in its renovations for the past five years.
Renovations began soon after the museum was smashed up in 2003, starting with the basics, like computers, office furniture, air conditioning. By mid-2004, the museum was rewired for electricity and most basic repairs to its structure completed. Since then, the U.S. and Italian governments have helped renovate the halls.
But work has been slow. Only five of 30 exhibition halls have been renovated so far — and two of those have to be done again because they were improperly done. As a result, the museum is still not open to the general public. Its only visitors are specially arranged foreign delegations, Iraqi officials and field trips by Iraqi students.
It's part of a broader problem of preservation of antiquities in Iraq. There are over 12,000 registered archaeological sites in Iraq but they are mostly not protected, allowing for widespread, ongoing looting, Mayah said.
The museum itself was shuttered from the early 1990s by regime officials who said they feared for its safety, as Saddam mired the country in war, leading to crippling sanctions. The closure meant the museum's inventory wasn't updated. Sanctions meant staff couldn't update their skills, and many qualified employees left amid an exodus of Iraqis from the country.
In a central Baghdad quarter, the museum is surrounded by high concrete blast walls. Guards check bags in a caravan set up in the neglected museum garden. The main entrance is under construction, so visitors enter through a corridor leading to administrative rooms.
On a recent visit by The Associated Press, the renovated exhibition halls were eerily quiet, with gleaming floors and shining display cases, the artifacts encased neatly inside. The sound of workers employing drills was palpable as they renovated another hall. A ladder was strewn under a map of ancient Mesopotamia.
Two of the renovated rooms are meant to showcase the Sumerian civilization, which emerged some 3,000 years ago. But the sparse labels on the artifacts shed little light on the antiquities that represent some of humankind's most important milestones. Many labels lacked the age of the artifact, where it was found, what civilization it belonged to, or what its use was. Some didn't have labels at all. Nowhere in the hall — or anywhere else — is it explained who the Sumerians were or how they influenced later civilizations.
In one of the displays lay a skeleton in the earth it was found in, alongside rings and jars. A printed label beside it read: "A human skeleton found in situ, put beside him some Jars and rings between him dated to very old time."
The label on a fist-sized figurine of a monkey clutching his ears simply identifies it as "some monkey."
A hand-sized stone carving in one display case was described as "the legendary hero Gilgamesh wrestling with two lions, early 3rd millennium," with no further explanation of who Gilgamesh was — the Sumerian hero-king of one of the first written stories in history.
U.K.-based Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani, who follows the museum's renovations, said labels were lacking because the outdated inventory didn't list the pieces and the staff, lacking expertise, weren't familiar with the pieces' background. A U.S. State Department official advising on the renovation said it was better to display the pieces imperfectly than keep them hidden. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with department rules.
But more problematic and confusing, the displays in the Sumerian halls mix in artifacts from the later Babylonian era, as well as from the Neanderthals, an entirely different hominid species from Homo Sapiens that died out some 30,000 years ago.
Mayah said the two halls would be renovated again this year. Sometime this year, he hopes, all the finished halls can be opened to the general public.
Other renovated halls fared better. Displays in the hall on Baghdad's Islamic dynasty were clear. Another hall explained the significance of the 5,000 year-old Arab city of Hatra, adorned with rare statues.
The museum's prize is the soaring Assyrian hall, chronicling the kingdom that rose to become a major empire in the region in the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C. The hall is lined with stone etchings of giant winged creatures and statues of hand-clasped Assyrian kings.
Yet even here, at the hall's rear, lay the unidentified broken stone head the size of an exercise ball, bearded and wearing a crown. Nearby stood an empty pedestal labeled for a statue of Nimrod.
"Even the renovations that have been done are disappointing. I won't compare it to the great museums of the world, but still — it's way behind," said a U.N. adviser to the museum who spoke anonymously, not wishing to offend local staff.
Turf battles over the museum haven't helped.
The Culture Ministry and Tourism Ministry both claimed authority over the museum in 2005, confusing staff and delaying renovations. The body that directly oversees the museum — the State Antiquities Authority — was leaderless from 2006 onwards. In 2012, the Iraqi parliament finally definitively put the museum under the Tourism Ministry.
Ongoing violence, particularly suicide bombings ravaging Baghdad during most of the past 10 years, also kept away foreign experts who could have helped speed the process, said al-Gailani. The violence also means tourists are staying away from Iraq, reducing the incentive for staff to speed up renovations.
Although Iraq is relatively safer since the height of violence in 2007, there are still frequent attacks against government institutions, mostly the hallmark of al-Qaida.
Ultimately, the museum didn't have to be world-class, said al-Gailani.
"The antiquities are so unique and rich, sometimes you forget if they are exhibited well or not," she said.
The museum's woes mattered little to a visiting group of Iraqi schoolgirls. They rushed into the room, gaping at the statues, taking notes.
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Jul. 24—A different kind of health care is coming to the south end of the valley.
Thanks to a $75,000 grant from Ashland Community Hospital Foundation, Ashland Fire and Rescue is partnering with Mercy Flights to offer what's known as "mobile integrated health" services to Ashland, Talent and Phoenix.
Mobile integrated health is a combination of an old-fashioned house call with social work and community service. Those who need medical care urgently, but are not in mortal danger, can call MIH instead of 911.
The MIH program has functioned in the Medford area for the past six years, largely off referrals from paramedics. First responders refer frequent callers or vulnerable patients to the MIH program with a "warm hand off" as often as possible.
The patients who benefit most from the program often are elderly or disabled, and some who struggle with their mental health can be slow to trust, emergency workers say.
The program functions best, said Ashland Deputy Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Marshall Rasor, when MIH staff can be present in the moment of referral and be introduced to the patient by paramedics they already know — what's known as a "warm hand off."
Until now, the Mercy Flights program didn't have enough staff to make that critical transference of trust possible in the Ashland area. Rasor said when his department tried to lean on the program, it would sometimes be a day or so before MIH staff could reach the person.
Ashland Community Hospital Foundation's $75,000 grant will pay for a sixth full-time staff member for Mercy Flights' existing mobile integrated health program, shrinking response time and increasing effectiveness for Ashland, Talent and Phoenix.
In addition to helping vulnerable people avoid an expensive ride to an hourslong wait in a hospital emergency room, the program keeps paramedics and emergency rooms free for life-and-death calls.
'It was kind of personal for me'
Todd Beck, fire captain and paramedic at Ashland Fire and Rescue, is grateful for the relief.
"We're on track to hit 5,000 calls for this year," Beck said.
Since Beck started at Ashland Fire and Rescue in 1999, the volume of calls has increased 400%, while the number of staff has gone up only 25%.
"We call 'em frequent flyers," Beck said of the homeless, transient, elderly and other vulnerable people who frequently call for help with services he described as caregiving.
"We're there to provide emergency services, and a lot of times we're getting called for things that aren't even remotely an emergency," he said.
Beck described one frequent flyer, an elderly marine, a Vietnam veteran who is terminally ill with cancer. The disabled amputee was repeatedly calling 911 for help cleaning himself or getting back into his wheelchair.
"It was kind of personal for me," said Beck. "My son is in the same branch; he's a Marine. I could not stand to see that man in that condition. But he was proud, you know?"
Beck said Ashland Fire and Rescue turned to Sabrina Ballew, the MIH coordinator for Mercy Flights.
Beck credits Ballew and the program with finding the disabled veteran the hospice care he needed.
"We address the social determiners of health," Ballew said.
Adapting to community need
The Mercy Flights program is part of a national trend to connect people with health care.
"What's unique about an MIH is it can be adapted to a community's needs," Ballew said.
A typical call could look like emergency room or urgent-care service at home. It could include services such as blood tests, prescription refills, de-escalating panic attacks and COVID-19 vaccinations.
Sometimes the care could be helping someone who has fallen and can't get up, are disoriented or suffering from nutrition deficiencies.
Staff are cross-trained in skills normally left to social workers, such as crisis de-escalation, mental health evaluation and substance-abuse treatment.
The program includes community health workers trained to help patients navigate the complicated labyrinths of social programs, as well as overcoming food or housing insecurity.
Staff help through referrals, or sometimes directly. Ballew said during the height of pandemic lockdowns following the Almeda Fire, Mercy Flights' MIH staff delivered food boxes to people.
Staff can attend doctor appointments with people who don't feel they can advocate for their own care. They can work with people discharged from hospital treatment who are struggling with surgery aftercare or a difficult diagnosis.
The Ashland Community Hospital Foundation grant covers the expansion of the program and its software — digital database Unite Us.
The software, Rasor explained, helps prevent overlaps in patient care.
Patients were sometimes stuck on a pendulum swinging between long-term care plans created by primary care doctors or specialists and quick emergency-response medicine administered by paramedics who couldn't know the history or long-term care of a patient.
People with disabilities, mental health problems, substance-abuse disorders or who are in a state of duress are frequently unable to articulate their full medical situation to 911 dispatch or paramedics.
Unite Us helps fill the gap by keeping medical records such as treatment plans and diagnoses accessible to MIH staff and paramedics.
Rasor said his firefighters and paramedics began their training in referrals and the Unite Us software July 14. He estimates the program will be ready for referrals in a couple of weeks.
'A humongous burden off our backs'
Medford and Jackson County have been able to call on the program since 2016. The program was started because paramedics felt a need was going unfulfilled, Ballew said.
"Sometimes fire or emergency personnel get into a home and see the patient may not have stable housing, food, access to care or an understanding of their medical diagnosis," Ballew said.
Paramedics and firefighters wanted to respond to more than the immediate need behind the 911 call. Mercy Flights worked with Providence Medford Medical Center and Jackson Care Connect to establish support for the program in Jackson County.
Now, six years later, Ballew said, the program can point to its 2021 data as evidence of success.
The program has seen an 85% increase in patients returning to or finding a new primary care provider after working with the program; it has documented a 71% reduction in readmission for hospital stays and a 48% reduction in emergency room visits.
Rasor said the grant pays for only one year for the extra staff needed to cover the south end of the valley, but he hopes the program can collect enough data to prove its worth and keep Ashland, Talent and Phoenix covered.
"In my experience, it's taken a humongous burden off our backs," Beck said.
Those who can think of a neighbor or a loved one who could benefit from the Mercy Flights MIH program can call Sabrina Ballew at 541-858-2684.
Fire District 3, serving the other side of the valley from Central Point to Sams Valley, has had its own program since 2019, and it functions differently than the Mercy Flights MIH.
While the District 3 Community Care Team evolved from the same paramedic observations of unmet needs, the team itself has more flexible applications.
District 3's 911 dispatchers use a system of questions built into a computer system to differentiate between different kinds of calls, from life-threatening emergencies to an urgent but not lethal call for help.
"If you're our 911 center, and a call comes in, they ask the questions and the code comes out. It's for the community care crew — Crew 22, that's their call sign — then they go out," District 3 Chief Bob Horton said.
This system ensures the response matches the need of the caller, Horton explained.
Like the MIH program, District 3's team has a paramedic and an EMT with additional training that enables them to meet a broad range of medical and social needs. But District 3's Community Care vehicle also responds to emergency calls, if it's the closest unit available.
The Community Care Crew also has partnerships with local nonprofits, Horton said, who can perform acts of preventative care, like installing grab bars in the homes of seniors to prevent them from becoming frequent flyers.
Horton said he looks at the program through his own experience working as a paramedic in the Las Vegas area for 17 years.
"The 911 system and how we respond to calls, it goes back to World War II. We knew the tools we brought were not the right tools to solve the issues we were seeing," Horton said.
"This is the response-systems adaptation to care for the needs of our community."
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Cuba to keep alive topic of US rights abuse at Guantanamo
Campaign News | Friday, 23 April 2004
Foreign Minister accuses US of sabotaging motion at Geneva
April 22: Cuba has promised it will keep alive the issue of US human rights abuses at the Guantanamo base and defended its right to bring it forward at any international fora it deems convenient to do so.
Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Felipe Perez Roque, denied emphatically that his delegation withdrew a draft resolution on the subject at the UN Human Rights Commission session in Geneva. He explained it was simply a postponement while the circumstances persisted to justify the document.
He also made it clear that Cuba did not demand voting on the resolution because a forced motion of no action was imminent on the part of the United States due to murky proceedural maneouvres, pressures and blackmail applied by the US delegation on other nations members of the UNHRC.
Perez Roque explained it was only as a result of this US attitude that member countries of the European Union (EU), other traditional allies and some Latin American countries announced they would not second the draft resolution or would block its discussion through the no action motion, which interrupts debate of any document.
By preventing the UNHRC to vote on the issue, he said, the EU, Australia and the rest of the US allies "have become accomplices to a terrible aggression on the world's moral conscience."
The Cuban official affirmed that US maneouvres to elude debate by the Commission on its prisoners in Guantanamo and the go-ahead they received on the part of the EU and other developed nations, reveal the double standard applied by the powerful on the human rights issue.
He added that the latest events in Geneva have also shown that it is impossible at the Human Rights Commission to denounce and condem human rights violations, when these occur in developed countries and, particularly, in the United States.
In that sense he stressed the need to reform the Commission based so that it really responds to the principles and objectives for which it was created.
In contrast with that judgement, he pointed that due to its firm stand on the Guantanamo detainees and other topics in the Geneva Agenda, Cuba has seen its authority and prestige strengthened, and demonstrated its sincere commitment to defend human rights.
Among the fora where Cuba could again demand to investigate the situation of the prisoners detained at a concentration camp in the US Guant namo base, he mentioned the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Economic and Social Council of the UN, as well as the next session of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. | <urn:uuid:7c4a951d-e887-4110-b862-bb95c95e396e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article/201/cuba-to-keep-alive-topic-of-us-rights-abuse-at-guantanamo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.956424 | 585 | 1.75 | 2 |
bleeding heart, any of several species of Dicentra or the species Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis), all of which are members of the poppy family (Papaveraceae). Bleeding hearts are commonly grown as shade-garden ornamentals and are native to the temperate woodlands of eastern Asia and North America. All parts of the plants are considered poisonous if ingested.
The old garden favourite is the Asian bleeding heart (L. spectabilis), widespread for its small rosy-red and white heart-shaped flowers dangling from arching stems about 60 cm (2 feet) tall. There is also a white form, L. spectabilis ‘Alba.’ The deeply cut compoundleaves are larger than those of the cultivated species of Dicentra, such as the shorter eastern, or wild, bleeding heart (D. eximia), which produces sprays of small pink flowers from April to September in the Allegheny mountain region of eastern North America. The Pacific, or western, bleeding heart (D. formosa) of mountain woods, which ranges from California to British Columbia, has several varieties of garden interest. Dutchman’s breeches (D. cucullaria) is found throughout eastern North America. | <urn:uuid:ba5d8d47-9a0b-497a-9012-c20baa606490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/plant/bleeding-heart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91455 | 264 | 3.03125 | 3 |
A host of memoirs by former Obama administration Cabinet chiefs have been arriving in bookstores, offering valuable management lessons for political appointees and career civil servants. This is the second in a series on the experiences of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (Stress Test), Defense Secretary Robert Gates (Duty), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Hard Choices), and Defense and intelligence chief Leon Panetta (Worthy Fights).
In Duty, Robert Gates chronicles his four and a half years as secretary of Defense under Presidents Bush and Obama, in which the nation fought two wars. Among insights for government leaders:
Know whether you are accepting a policy or operational position. There are two basically two types of leadership positions in Washington: policy jobs and operational jobs. It is crucial that government leaders know which type job they are accepting and understand the challenges of each. In his memoir Stress Test, Timothy Geithner fully understood that he was accepting a policy job and he describes the challenge of working to get agreement on the “right” policies. In contrast, Robert Gates knew he was accepting an operational position and that most of his time as Defense secretary would be spent executing policy. “I participated in the development of our strategies both within the Pentagon and in the White House,” he writes, “and then had primary responsibility for implementing them: selecting, promoting—and when necessary, firing—field commanders and other military leaders; for getting the commanders and troops the equipment they needed to be successful; for taking care of our troops and their families.” While many come to Washington to make policy, Gates knew his success was in implementing policy.
The bureaucracy is a special challenge. Gates was one of the most qualified Defense secretaries in recent history. He brought extensive experience to the Pentagon after his previous positions in the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency. But even with his vast knowledge of government, Gates found the Pentagon bureaucracy to be painfully slow moving. “Even though the nation was waging two wars, neither of which we were winning, life in the Pentagon was largely business as usual when I arrived,” he writes. “I found little sense of urgency, concern, or passion about a very grim situation.” At the end of his tenure, Gates was still frustrated by his inability to reform the Defense machine. Chapter Four, “Waging War on the Pentagon,” should be required reading for civil servants to better understand the perspective of a political appointee coming into the bureaucracy with an urgent agenda. There is a wide gap in the time perspective of appointees and career civil servants. Appointees sprint to get as much done as possible during their tenure, which is tied to political shifts in presidential administrations. In contrast, civil servants often view themselves as marathon runners pacing themselves for a long race.
When necessary, go outside the bureaucracy. When Gates saw an intractable problem, he went outside the bureaucracy to address it. A prime example is the troubled procurement of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. There were numerous delays in getting MRAPs to the field in Iraq. Describing his workaround, Gates writes, “I approved putting the MRAP in a special, very small category of Defense procurement, effectively setting aside many bureaucratic hurdles typical of military programs . . . I also directed establishment of a department-wide MRAP task force and asked to be briefed every two weeks.” If Gates had stayed in his role longer, it would have been interesting to see whether he would have tried to institutionalize fast track procurement and worked to change the internal operations of the Pentagon instead of having to go outside the bureaucracy to accomplish his priority objectives. When political appointees implement such initiatives, civil servants have the opportunity to streamline the way they do business internally.
Be selective and specific about your agenda. Gates advises that an appointee who intends to run a department or agency—rather than preside over it—should “be selective in identifying his agenda, and both realistic and single-minded in developing strategies for achieving each specific goal.” Otherwise, he says, “exhortations to be more efficient or to achieve some broad goal are akin to shouting down a well.” In pointing to his experience with MRAPs, Gates writes, “The organization must understand that the secretary is personally invested in these issues and determined to drive the process to specific outcomes.” Gates says he gave very specific objectives with tight deadlines and required regular in-person reports. He argues that getting personally involved in select issues was the only way he could get people focused and ensure they were performing. He also believed that his agenda for change could not be delegated to the deputy secretary. “The secretary has to master the details and fully understand the issues and problems,” Gates writes. “The challenge is to maintain a high-level broad perspective, understand enough details to make sensible and executable decisions.”
Be patient when working with Congress. While showing respect for Congress as an institution, Gates is highly critical of the many lawmakers he dealt with as Defense chief. “I was exceptionally offended by the constant adversarial, inquisition-like treatment of executive branch officials by too many members of Congress across the political spectrum—a kangaroo-court environment in hearings, especially when the press and televisions cameras were present,” he writes. “Sharp questioning of witnesses should be expected and is entirely appropriate. But rude, insulting, belittling, bullying and all too often highly personal attacks by members of Congress violated nearly every norm of civil behavior as they postured and acted as a judge, jury and executioner.” Future political appointees stand warned. On the advice of his staff, Gates says, “the clenched teeth behind my smile when on the Hill remained well hidden . . . I dutifully marched to the Hill to meet with the leadership, party caucuses, committee leaders, and individual members . . . I behaved myself in hearings, letting my respectful demeanor implicitly draw the contrast with the boorishness of members.”
Political appointees must collaborate with career civil servants. While Gates is candidly critical of the bureaucracy, he writes, “I have not given due credit in these pages to those civilians who played a key role in everything I did—and accomplished—as secretary. Career professionals and political appointees, men and women, worked countless hours to prepare me for meetings and helped shape decisions, then saw to their implementation. I depended on these civilians to help me frame the agenda to change, to help me come up with specific strategies for accomplishing each initiative. Their insights, dedication, and skills are critical assets that any secretary of Defense and the American public must always value.” The message from Gates is clear: Any future secretary who wants to reform the Pentagon must remember that the civil service is essential to success. Duty also points out, however, how hard political appointees must work to speed up the bureaucracy and create a greater sense of urgency.
Gates is frank about the many rough patches during his tenure as Defense secretary. He frequently had difficulties with the White House, as well as his department’s bureaucracy. He often considered resigning, but he didn’t because of his commitment to supporting the troops. “The troops were the reason I took the job, and they became the reason I stayed,” he writes. The power of commitment to mission is perhaps Gates’ greatest lesson for both political appointees and career civil servants.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Resources
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and queer (LGBTQ+) Resources serves to provide resources for and act as a liaison to campus centers and the staff and faculty that serve LGBTQ+ students at UW System universities and colleges. LGBTQ+ Resources also provides information for employees of the UW System on policies that affect LGBTQ+ staff and faculty. This work is done through an intersectional and social justice lens. LGBTQ+ people have multiple identities that include race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, and dis/ability status, which means that work for inclusion of LGBTQ+ communities must also combat oppression in all of its interrelated forms (i.e. sexism, racism, classism, trans/bi/homophobia). The work that is done on campuses by staff and faculty that serve LGBTQ+ students to improve climate and to be inclusive and socially just helps to promote student retention, graduation, and academic success. | <urn:uuid:c7fb1b4e-7560-49bc-9a41-c833902e17e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wisconsin.edu/lgbtq-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00184-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96234 | 198 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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Understanding Motivation Part 2
While it is important to understand the basics of motivation, a deeper understanding can also be useful for writers who wish to go for a more in-depth explanation of their characters' motivations. For a more in-depth understanding and explanations of motivation, one would need to explore the different theories of motivation. The main theories that a writer should review are:
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow was a humanistic psychologist who is well known for his Hierarchy of Needs theory. Humanism is a psychological perspective, which emphasizes the potential for good that is innate in all humans, with a focus on advocacy of value-based and value-affirming social science (Waarmoth, 1998). The humanistic elements of positive psychology played an intricate role in Abraham Maslow’s development of his Hierarchy of Needs theory. Maslow’s (1954) Hierarchy of Needs theory was based upon his proposed classification of what he perceived to be basic needs; these needs were organized into five categories: physiological, safety and security, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. Maslow’s theory states that an individual’s needs appear sequentially as the person develops from birth to adulthood (Lester, 2013). The needs at the base of the pyramid are considered more powerful than the higher needs as the more the base needs are satisfied, the better the upper needs cans be satisfied, and the better the psychological health of the individual (Lester, 2013).
The intuitive nature of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory is one of the theory’s greatest strengths as it allows the theory to be easily grasped and applied in a range of diverse fields (O’Connor & Ybatel, 2007). The diverse use of the theory is what makes it so valuable as it can be utilized in understanding how and why there is an increase in a character's motivation, morale, or productivity. In addition to being applicable in a diverse range of ways, the theory can also be applied to a diverse range of people as it accounts for the fact that people all have different individual motivational frameworks (Redmond, 2010).
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory remains applicable in the workplace today for assisting employers and workplaces in understanding motivation, morale, and production. Workplaces that utilize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory need to ensure that all the lower needs of the theory are met so that their employees can then meet their higher needs which in turn should assist with motivation, morale, and production in the workplace. The bottom-most tier physiological needs can be met by employers offering better staff meals, providing an allowance on employees’ food, and/or ensuring that the employees have the needed life essentials or the funds to acquire such (Jerome, 2013). Employers ensuring that employees all have a safe working environment, employees are paid at a fair rate, and that they feel secure in their jobs. A sense of belonging can be fostered by having a work environment designed to promote feelings of acceptance and belonging; this can be achieved with team building events and/or company culture training (Jerome, 2013). The esteem needs of employees can be met by having leaders who recognize and reward employee achievement through rewards, praise, and through the setting of achievable goals (Jerome, 2013). The highest tier of self-actualization needs can be met through the offering of assignments, which encourage and explore employees’ creativity and innovation while allowing them to make use of their own natural talents and inclinations (Jerome, 2013).
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This follows on from the previous article.
In this article, I will use the Blog and Feed Manager modules to add a page for latest news and show a summary on the home page. I will also link the news blog into Facebook.
This is how the home page will look:
I will start by signing in as administrator and creating a new page called News.
I then select the Add/Remove Features link
From the feature list, I select Blog, give it a title, and press Create New Content. Then press view the page to see it.
That was very easy and I have already created a working blog. Now I am going to use the settings to connect link it in to Facebook. So, from the edit menu I select Settings.
On the main ‘Blog Settings’ tab, I hit ‘social settings’ to reveal the social settings options and check the boxes to show the like button and faces.
A bit further down, I also choose to enable content ratings and comments
You can find out more about making your site social-media friendly in Carole’s blog.
Now, I click Add Post
I start by entering a title and using the picture icon to add a picture.
To select an image, I use the browse button. This automatically takes me to the directory for my site (my web site directory is in the default place which is c:\users\<username>\my documents\my websites for windows 7; the site data is in \<websitename>\data\sites\1). I have created a directory called images here that has all my site images, so I select my image from here.
I set the picture alignment to left so that the text will go next to it and set the H and V spacing to 10 to give a small gap between the picture & text.
Once I have written in some text, I right click on the image and select image properties so I can change the image size to be more suitable.
Note the little lock symbol next to the size fields. This indicates that the width will be automatically changed when height is changed (and vice-versa) to keep the image in proportion. Click on the lock to unlock/lock this setting.
Before I save my new post, I am going to add a new category of ‘News’ to add it to. Note there are also options that allow you to exclude a post from the feed, hold off from publishing it right now (maybe it’s a draft you are still working on) or publish it at a future date.
Now I want to show the latest news items on my home page. I go to the home page and from the Admin menu I select Edit This Page.
I select to add a Feed Manager, give it a title and select the right pane, then press the Create button. I then select view the page.
At this point I notice my new feed module overlaps my pictures at the top of the page.
I could make those smaller, but I would prefer to keep them the same size, so I take a small detour to create a header pane (see my blog on this ) and move the top HTML module to the header pane. This is the code I added to layout.master:
With the feed module now in the right place, I can change some settings
I am going to take off the aggregate feed link and set the number of items to 3. Note there is an option for scrolling, which can look good, but I am not using that right now.
I now choose to add a feed
I now need to know my feed name, so I open a second browser window to my website and go to the news page. I right click on the feed icon for the blog and select Copy Link Address.
I can then paste that into the feed URL. I also give it a name.
I want the information coming from the feed to be a short summary and I want to control how it looks, so I am going to use excerpts for this. I go back to my blog and open up the settings page. I click on Excerpt Mode Settings to see the options for that and check the box to Use Excerpts in Feed.
I select to edit my blog post (so far my one and only blog post)
Now there is an extra page ‘Excerpt’, which I select and can copy and paste from the main entry. I also decide to make the picture smaller.
When I go back to the main page, I notice the image is not showing. I need to change a setting on the feed manager to fix that.
Click Security Settings to open up the options and select to allow external images. I also decided to check the ‘Show feed name before content’ option in the section above.
You can find out more about feed manager from another of Carole’s blogs.
And that’s it! Hope you found this useful.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials and experts say if the National Security Agency did eavesdrop on phone conversations between a New Zealand journalist and his Afghan sources, it was likely part of standard military intelligence monitoring of enemy communications.
The Sunday Star-Times reported that the New Zealand military conspired with the U.S. to monitor Stephenson who was working for a U.S. media outlet in Afghanistan. New Zealand officials denied the new allegations and U.S. intelligence authorities and the White House declined immediate comment Monday.
But experts and former intelligence officials said if Stephenson’s phone records were collected, they were likely gathered in a military intelligence sweep that is shared among in war zones, where there is little expectation of privacy in the hunt for enemy combatants and suspected terrorists.
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Bonny Slope Elementary School
Door & Hardware Upgrades
The 2014 Bond Program provided Chromebooks and iPads for students at all schools and allowed for two rounds of replacements. Students need to be able to access information to work in collaboration with teachers, peers and experts on what and how they learn. Printed textbooks contain static information. Digital content is engaging and efficient, available at any time and steeped in authentic problem solving. Access to high quality, dynamic information for all students will help close the equity gap. These devices have been essential during Comprehensive Distance Learning.
Final Cost: $54,000,000
Schedule: Two rounds of replacements
District-Wide Interior Classroom Locks
Schedule: 09/2018 - TBD (completion date varies site-by-site)
District-Wide Security Upgrades
As part of the 2014 Bond, we're making district-wide security retrofits in existing buildings by installing remote entry-door unlatching, keyless entry and visitor-routing controls as determined by a site-by-site needs analysis. We are installing security cameras at all schools and perimeter fencing at high schools.
Schedule: 08/2015 - TBD
District-Wide Unified Communication System
This large project began in the summer of 2015 and affected every building in the District. The new system greatly improves communication and safety with a built-in emergency notification application.
The application notifies key personnel of any security or safety concerns with the touch of a button. Color-coded alerts can be sent to individuals or an entire building, both over the intercom and through pop-up alerts on workstations. If a 911 call is made from a particular classroom, emergency responders are automatically able to see where the call was placed.
In addition, this project includes adding infrastructure to support outlets and data racks in all classrooms, including portables.
Final Cost: $5,282,000
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Ex-Wisc. regulator to lead EPA’s Chicago office
Chicago – Former Wisconsin regulator Cathy Stepp was named Tuesday as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Chicago, drawing praise from business groups and criticism from environmental activists fearful she will weaken enforcement of rules protecting the Great Lakes and air quality in the Upper Midwest’s industrial centers.
The assignment came four months after Stepp was named a deputy administrator for another EPA regional office near Kansas City. Previously, she served six years as director of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and was a Republican state senator from 2003-07. As head of EPA’s Region 5, she will oversee operations in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
“Cathy Stepp’s experience working as a statewide cabinet official, elected official and small business owner will bring a fresh perspective to EPA as we look to implement President Trump’s agenda,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said.
Henry Henderson, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Midwest director, said Stepp’s record “fits nicely with the lax mode of enforcement favored by the Trump administration,” adding that environmental groups will be “very, very busy” under her tenure.
A former homebuilder with no scientific background, Stepp was chosen by Gov. Scott Walker to lead the Wisconsin natural resources department, where she oversaw a reorganization that included staffing cuts in its science and research bureau.
The number of enforcement cases fell sharply during her tenure. The department replaced some passages on its website describing humans as partly responsible for climate change, saying instead that scientists were still debating the matter.
When she accepted the earlier EPA posting in August, Stepp told staffers with the Wisconsin department she was leaving behind an agency that ensured businesses were not “delayed by bureaucracy.”
The head of the EPA’s national employee union said Stepp, 54, is unqualified and has a history of favoring business interests over environmental protection.
“I see her cutting back on enforcement and fines and doing things that certain aspects of industry will appreciate,” said John O’Grady, president of AFGE Council 238, which represents about 9,000 EPA staffers.
Howard Learner, executive director the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center, said the Wisconsin natural resources department under Stepp “turned back the clock on basic safeguards” of water and air.
“Heading up Region 5 means protecting the Great Lakes, the world’s largest freshwater resource that supplies safe, clean drinking water to tens of millions of people,” Learner said. “We hope Ms. Stepp will bring a different perspective … than her track record in Wisconsin would suggest.”
The region includes most of the Great Lakes and manufacturing cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, plus rural areas challenged by rapid accumulation of industry-scale farms. The EPA Chicago office criticized Michigan for failing to prevent lead pollution of drinking water in Flint, but some members of Congress said the federal agency also should have done more.
With her Wisconsin roots, Stepp is well-acquainted with the lakes’ pollution problems such as algae blooms, invasive species and harbors coated with toxic chemicals, said Cameron Davis, a former EPA senior adviser who oversaw an ambitious restoration initiative during the Obama administration.
“Her key challenges — and where the public will be watching — are to ensure compliance,” Davis said. “Because of the Midwest’s history, EPA can’t just clean up past problems. It has to work with states to make sure the region’s sustainable businesses aren’t disadvantaged.”
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are in the spotlight on Wednesday night as they face off in their first debate at the University of Denver in Colorado.
Ahead of the event, polls showed the race for the White House tightening in the key battleground states of Florida and Virginia. Speculation has swirled over whether the debate could produce a shift in the contest.
HuffPost's Mark Blumenthal reports:
Republican pollster and HuffPost Pollster contributor Steve Lombardo argues, for example, that Romney is likely to get a "bounce" from the debates due to outsized expectations for Obama.
But political scientist and HuffPost contributor Thomas Holbrook crunches the past polling numbers and finds that debates rarely shift candidate support by more than a percentage point or two.
Below, a live blog of the latest developments to unfold.
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Purchase power beats flower power on canals
Once a favourite of the flower power generation, living on a canal boat has become a privilege for the young and affluent. Today modern houseboats are not longer dingy eccentric dwellings for the marginal, but fully equipped modern pads
Hendrika-Maria lives opposite number 296, Prinsengracht, and still bears the original features of a houseboat. Today she attracts tourists from around the world as Amsterdam’s only houseboat museum. After stepping on the boat and descending the small steps, I am practically standing in the bedroom, which consists of a big mattress edged into a cabin at the rear of the boat. Through a little round window I can see a tourist boat passing by, a few seconds before Hendrika-Maria starts shaking on the waves and leaves me a little dizzy.
A hippy way of life
“In the sixties there was a huge housing shortage in Amsterdam and living on a boat was very cheap in comparison. It was also cool to live an alternative way of life, so a lot of hippies moved onto houseboats,” says Marjet van Zadelhoff, a museum attendant.
Nowadays the hippies seem to have disappeared. Teti Verhoeff, who works at the local council’s department for houseboats, explains that the houseboat situation in Amsterdam went through a change over the years: “In the beginning living on the water was called ‘the freedom state’. There were no rules and no strings, which was the adventure of it. Living on the water was very popular and a lot cheaper, so it got more crowded. But when people started complaining about each other and water space got scarcer and scarcer, the council decided to imply some rules.”
“Nowadays living on the water is more sophisticated. People want to have a little boat to use during the weekend, they want to live on a houseboat, so in general everybody wants some water. It’s a real image thing in Amsterdam which made the water very valuable.”
What the flower power generation started as a trend is now a popular way of living for the young and affluent.
Luxury homes for the affluent
A little further up the Prinsengracht I visit Alessandra Enting who guards her friend’s home while she is away. “It’s always a perception that people living on houseboats are strange eccentric people, but that’s not true at all. We are normal people with great jobs who earn a lot of money. You need a lot of money to live on a houseboat. I would like to buy one myself, and I am expecting to pay between 230.000 and 250.000 Euro for a traditional boat”.
The ‘ark’ which Alessandra invites me onto looks like featured in a ‘beautiful living’ magazine. Elegant white book shelves decorate the walls and a fancy computer desktop silently buzzes in the corner.
“We have everything here: Internet, washing machine, television. The pole you can see outside provides us with the electricity, which we share with the neighbours.” To the right hand side stretches a wooden terrace covered with a little table and some garden chairs in between high plants. “It’s the feeling of freedom that attracts me most. You don’t have any direct neighbours, you can turn on your music as loud as you like and you always have access to outside areas. If you live on a second floor flat, you don’t even have a garden,” Alessandra explains.
André Aaldering has been living on his houseboat for twenty-five years. He pays a yearly fee of 800 Euro for his licence. But from his experience the maintenance of the boat is the most expensive part in the long run, and the most tiring. “The boat has to be painted every 2-3 years and it needs to be inspected every four years. It is a pain because I have to do everything on my own, while I am a bit lazy, especially during the summer.”
Canals in London
A situation, which seems perfectly accepted and more and more adapted to the ‘normal’ way of life in Amsterdam, is a different story in London. A city, which depends less on its water automatically attracts fewer people to live on it. But still, demand is rising. According to British Waterways, who deal with one fifth of the moorings in London, boat ownership in the UK is increasing by 2.5 per cent per year and their waiting lists for moorings bear over 300 people.
I meet Adam Slade at Battlebridge Basin near King’s Cross. He has been living on houseboats for over 17 years. “I love it! We’re in central London right now and yet there are ducks, geese, cormorants, there is great wildlife on the water. And plus, it’s a very harmless way of living. You can always ask a girl if she wants to come sit on your boat. Yes, you do have to do more than living in a house but you also get so much more for that.” However, the cost of living on a houseboat is quite expensive. Adam does not want to admit how much he pays, but he estimates that people in the King's Cross area pay £150-250 a week only for renting a mooring space.
For Dawn Menear and her brother Julian money is not a big issue. They would like to buy a houseboat and move onto the water. “I love the canals and the freedom. It’s a really friendly atmosphere and it can be a really cheap way to live. My children are all grown up now so I am ready to change my life,” Dawn says. “We have to find a mooring and then we want to buy a boat up north and bring it down to London. I would like a traditional looking boat with some nice red and green paint. We realise it is going to take a while but we are ready to wait,” she continues.
Looking at the price situation for houseboats in London, it is definitely not a cheap housing alternative. While for people who can afford it and are looking for a change in their lifestyle London offers a seemingly attractive location for houseboat residents.
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This is a direct appeal by the United States
Appellees are the Oregon State Medical Society, eight county medical societies, Oregon Physicians' Service (an Oregon corporation engaged in the sale of prepaid medical care), and eight doctors who are or have been at some time responsible officers in those organizations.
This controversy centers about two forms of "contract practice" of medicine. In one, private corporations organized for profit sell what amounts to a policy of insurance by which small periodic payments purchase the right to certain hospital facilities and medical attention. In the other, railroad and large industrial employers of labor contract with one or more doctors to treat their ailing or injured employees. Both forms of "contract practice," for rendering the promised medical and surgical service, depend upon doctors or panels of doctors who cooperate on a fee basis or who associate themselves with the plan on a full-or part-time employment basis.
Objections of the organized medical profession to contract practice are both monetary and ethical. Such
In 1936, five private associations were selling prepaid medical certificates in Oregon, and doctors of that State, alarmed at the extent to which private practice was being invaded and superseded by contract practice, commenced a crusade to stamp it out. A tooth-and-claw struggle ensued between the organized medical profession, on the one hand, and the organizations employing contract doctors on the other. The campaign was bitter on both sides. State and county medical societies adopted resolutions and policy statements condemning contract practice and physicians who engaged in it. They brought pressure on individual doctors to decline or abandon it. They threatened expulsion from medical societies, and one society did expel several doctors for refusal to terminate contract practices.
However, in 1941, seven years before this action was commenced, there was an abrupt about-face on the part of the organized medical profession in Oregon. It was apparently convinced that the public demanded and was entitled to purchase protection against unexpected costs of disease and accident, which are catastrophic to persons without reserves. The organized doctors completely reversed
In that year, Oregon Physicians' Service, one of the defendants in this action, was formed. It is a nonprofit Oregon corporation, furnishing prepaid medical, surgical, and hospital care on a contract basis. As charged in the complaint, "It is sponsored and approved by the Oregon State Medical Society and is controlled and operated by members of that society. It sponsors, approves, and cooperates with component county societies and organizations controlled by the latter which offer prepaid medical plans." 95 F. Supp., at 121. After seven years of successful operation, the Government brought this suit against the doctors, their professional organizations and their prepaid medical care company, asserting two basic charges: first, that they conspired to restrain and monopolize the business of providing prepaid medical care in the State of Oregon, and, second, that they conspired to restrain competition between doctor-sponsored prepaid medical plans within the State of Oregon in that Oregon Physicians' Service would not furnish prepaid medical care in an area serviced by a local society plan.
The District Judge, after a long trial, dismissed the complaint on the ground that the Government had proved none of its charges by a preponderance of evidence. The direct appeal procedure does not give us the benefit of review by a Court of Appeals of findings of fact.
The appeal brings to us no important questions of law or unsettled problems of statutory construction. It is much like United States v. Yellow Cab Co., 338 U.S. 338. Its issues are solely ones of fact. The record is long, replete with conflicts in testimony, and includes quantities of documentary material taken from the appellees' files and letters written by doctors, employers, and employees. The Government and the appellees each put more than
The trial judge found that appellees did not conspire to restrain or attempt to monopolize prepaid medical care in Oregon in the period 1936-1941, and that, even if such conspiracy during that time was proved, it was abandoned in 1941 with the formation of Oregon Physicians' Service marking the entry of appellees into the prepaid medical care business. He ruled that what restraints were proved could be justified as reasonable to maintain proper standards of medical ethics. He found that supplying prepaid medical care within the State of Oregon by doctor-sponsored organizations does not constitute trade or commerce within the meaning of the Sherman Act, but he declined to rule on the question whether supplying prepaid medical care by the private associations is interstate commerce.
The Government asks us to overrule each of these findings as contrary to the evidence, and to find that the business
While Congress has provided direct appeal to this Court, it also has provided that where an action is tried by a court without a jury "Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses." Rule 52 (a), Fed. Rules Civ. Proc. There is no case more appropriate for adherence to this rule than one in which the complaining party creates a vast record of cumulative evidence as to long-past transactions, motives, and purposes, the effect of which depends largely on credibility of witnesses.
The trial court rejected a grouping by the Government of its evidentiary facts into four periods, 1930-1936, the year 1936, 1936-1941, and 1941 to trial. That proposal projected the inquiry over an eighteen-year period before the action was instituted. The court accepted only the period since the organization of Oregon Physicians' Service as significant and rejected the earlier years as "ancient history" of a time "when the Doctors were trying to find themselves. . . . It was a period of groping for the correct position to take to accord with changing times." 95 F. Supp., at 105. Of course, present events have roots in the past, and it is quite proper to trace currently questioned conduct backwards to illuminate its connections and meanings. But we think the trial judge was quite right in rejecting pre-1941 events as establishing the cause of action the Government was trying to
It will simplify consideration of such cases as this to keep in sight the target at which relief is aimed. The sole function of an action for injunction is to forestall future violations. It is so unrelated to punishment or reparations for those past that its pendency or decision does not prevent concurrent or later remedy for past violations by indictment or action for damages by those injured. All it takes to make the cause of action for relief by injunction is a real threat of future violation or a contemporary violation of a nature likely to continue or recur. This established, it adds nothing that the calendar of years gone by might have been filled with transgressions. Even where relief is mandatory in form, it is to undo existing conditions, because otherwise they are likely to continue. In a forward-looking action such as this, an examination of "a great amount of archaeology"
When defendants are shown to have settled into a continuing practice or entered into a conspiracy violative of antitrust laws, courts will not assume that it has been abandoned without clear proof. Local 167 v. United States, 291 U.S. 293, 298. It is the duty of the courts to beware of efforts to defeat injunctive relief by protestations of repentance and reform, especially when abandonment seems timed to anticipate suit, and there is probability of resumption. Cf. United States v. United States Steel Corp., 251 U.S. 417, 445.
Appellees, in providing prepaid medical care, may engage in activities which violate the antitrust laws. They are now competitors in the field and restraints, if any are to be expected, will be in their methods of promotion and operation of their own prepaid plan. Our duty is to inquire whether any restraints have been proved of a character likely to continue if not enjoined.
Striking the events prior to 1941 out of the Government's case, except for purposes of illustration or background information, little of substance is left. The case derived its coloration and support almost entirely from the abandoned practices. It would prolong this opinion beyond useful length, to review evidentiary details peculiar to this case. We mention what appear to be some highlights.
Only the Multnomah County Medical Society resorted to expulsions of doctors because of contract-practice activities, and there have been no expulsions for such cause since 1941. There were hints in the testimony that Multnomah was reviving the expulsion threat a short
Some emphasis is placed on a report of a meeting of the House of Delegates of the State Society at which it was voted that the "private patient status" policy theretofore applied to private commercial hospital association contracts be extended to the industrial and railroad type of contracts. Any significance of this provision seems neutralized by another paragraph in the same report, which reads: "A receipt should be furnished each patient at the time of each visit, as it is understood the [industrial and railroad plan] companies concerned will probably establish a program of reimbursement to the affected employees." That does not strike us as a threat to restrict the practice of industrial and railroad companies of reimbursing employees for medical expenses and we cannot say that any ambiguity was not properly resolved in appellees' favor by the trial court.
The record contains a number of letters from doctors to private associations refusing to accept checks directly from them. Some base refusal on a policy of their local medical society, others are silent as to reasons. Some may be attributed to the writers' personal resistance to dealing directly with the private health associations, for it is clear that many doctors objected to filling out the company forms and supplying details required by the associations, and preferred to confine themselves to direct dealing with the patient and leaving the patient to deal with the associations. Some writers may have mistaken or misunderstood the policy of local associations. Others may have avoided disclosure of personal opposition by the handy and impersonal excuse of association "policy." The letters have some evidentiary value, but it is not compelling and, weighed against the other post-1941 evidence,
Since no concerted refusal to deal with private health associations has been proved, we need not decide whether it would violate the antitrust laws. We might observe in passing, however, that there are ethical considerations where the historic direct relationship between patient and physician is involved which are quite different than the usual considerations prevailing in ordinary commercial matters. This Court has recognized that forms of competition usual in the business world may be demoralizing to the ethical standards of a profession. Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners, 294 U.S. 608.
Appellees' evidence to disprove conspiracy is not conclusive, is necessarily largely negative, but is too persuasive for us to say it was clear error to accept it. In 1948, 1,210 of the 1,660 licensed physicians in Oregon were members of the Oregon State Medical Society, and between January 1, 1947, and June 30, 1948, 1,085 Oregon doctors billed and received payment directly from the Industrial Hospital Association, only one of the several private plans operating in the State. Surely there was no effective boycott, and ineffectiveness, in view of the power over its members which the Government attributes to the Society, strongly suggests the lack of an attempt to boycott these private associations. A parade of local medical society members from all parts of the State, apparently reputable, credible, and informed professional men, testified that their societies now have no policy of discrimination against private health associations, and that no attempts are made to prevent individual doctors from cooperating with them. Members of the governing councils of the State and Multnomah County Societies testified that since 1940 there have been no suggestions in their meetings of attempts to prevent individual doctors from serving private associations. The manager of Oregon
If the testimony of these many responsible witnesses is given credit, no finding of conspiracy to restrain or monopolize this business could be sustained. Certainly we cannot say that the trial court's refusal to find such a conspiracy was clearly erroneous.
The other charge is that appellees conspired to restrain competition between the several doctor-sponsored organizations within the State of Oregon. The charge here, as we understand it from paragraph 33 (i) of the complaint, 95 F. Supp., at 124, is that Oregon Physicians' Service, the state-wide organization, and the county-medical-society-sponsored plans agreed not to compete with one another. Apparently if a county was provided with prepaid medical care by a local society, the state society would stay out, or if the county society wanted to inaugurate a local plan, the state society would withdraw from the area.
This is not a situation where suppliers of commercial commodities divide territories and make reciprocal agreements to exploit only the allotted market, thereby depriving allocated communities of competition. This prepaid plan does not supply to, and its allocation does not withhold from, any community medical service or facilities of any description. No matter what organization issues the certificate, it will be performed, in the main, by the local doctors. The certificate serves only to prepay their fees. The result, if the state association should enter into local competition with the county association, would be that the inhabitants could prepay medical services through either one of two medical society channels. There is not the least proof that duplicating sources of the prepaid certificates would make them cheaper, more available or
With regard to this charge, the court found, "The sale of medical services, by Doctor Sponsored Organizations, as conducted within the State of Oregon, is not trade or commerce within the meaning of Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, nor is it commerce within the meaning of the constitutional grant of power to Congress `To regulate Commerce . . . among the several States.' " 95 F. Supp., at 118. If that finding in both aspects is not to be overturned as clearly erroneous, it, of course, disposes of this charge, for if there was no restraint of interstate commerce, the conduct charged does not fall within the prohibitions of the Sherman Act.
Almost everything pointed to in the record by the Government as evidence that interstate commerce is involved in this case relates to across-state-line activities of the private associations. It is not proven, however, to be adversely affected by any allocation of territories by doctor-sponsored plans. So far as any evidence brought to our attention discloses, the activities of the latter are wholly intrastate. The Government did show that Oregon Physicians' Service made a number of payments to out-of-state doctors and hospitals, presumably for treatment of policyholders who happened to remove or temporarily to
American Medical Assn. v. United States, 317 U.S. 519, does not stand for the proposition that furnishing of prepaid medical care on a local plane is interstate commerce. That was a prosecution under § 3 of the Sherman Act of a conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce in the District of Columbia. Interstate commerce was not necessary to the operation of the statute there.
We conclude that the Government has not clearly proved its charges. Certainly the court's findings are not clearly erroneous. "A finding is `clearly erroneous' when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 333 U.S. 364, 395. The Government's contentions have been plausibly and earnestly argued but the record does not leave us with any "definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed."
As was aptly stated by the New York Court of Appeals, although in a case of a rather different substantive nature: "Face to face with living witnesses the original trier of the facts holds a position of advantage from which appellate judges are excluded. In doubtful cases the exercise of his power of observation often proves the most accurate method of ascertaining the truth. . . . How can we say the judge is wrong? We never saw the witnesses. . . . To the sophistication and sagacity of the trial judge the law confides the duty of appraisal." Boyd v. Boyd, 252 N.Y. 422, 429, 169 N. E. 632, 634.
Affirmance is, of course, without prejudice to future suit if practices in conduct of the Oregon Physicians' Service or the county services, whether or not involved
MR. JUSTICE BLACK is of opinion that the judgment below is clearly erroneous and should be reversed.
MR. JUSTICE CLARK took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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At the University of Houston-Victoria, shared governance is a participatory, advisory process that supports the university's mission. Shared governance provides a collaborative avenue through which the constituent groups advise the university's president on matters of policy, assist in the development of procedures, and monitor and oversee the implementation of policies and procedures.
The Governance Process
Governance refers to the process of policy-making and macro-level decision-making within higher education. Academic (or internal governance is defined as the manner in which issues affecting the entire institution, or more or more constituents, are decided. Constituent groups are expected to handle their own internal affairs, and not every item needs to go through the shared governance process.
Shared governance consists of the following councils and committees:
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Kensington, New South Wales, Australia 1893
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1940
- England and elsewhere 1925-31
"Oh no, no!" she exclaimed, "Please don't"
Collection Title: Illustrations for the book "The Princess with the pea-green nose"
New York, United States of America
Materials & Technique:
drawings, ink; paper drawing in pen and ink and brush Support: paper
Primary Insc: signed upper left in pen and black ink, 'Myra Cocks'.
Secondary Insc: Inscribed lower edge in black pencil, 'Illustration - Princess with Pea Green Nose'.
Inscribed verso upper edge in black pencil, 'The pea green nose/page 38 - 'Oh, no, no!' she exclaimed 'please don't' '.
Tertiary Insc: Inscribed lower right in black pencil, 'AWR/ 6/7 /Pea /Green'.
Inscribed upper left in black pencil, '108'.
Inscribed verso lower right in black pencil, 'E' [in circle].
Label verso lower left, 'Princess w. Pea Green Nose/$25/Illus. by/Myra Cocks'.
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One year after leaving the White House, former U.S. President George W. Bush is back in the public spotlight. He has joined forces with another past president - Bill Clinton - to raise private funds to help the earthquake victims in Haiti.
The images of devastation in Haiti have brought George W. Bush back to the spotlight.
He says these pictures of suffering are heart-wrenching. And he says he has a message for the Haitian people.
"People around the world know the hardship you are going through and that we care deeply about your lives," said George W. Bush.
Mr. Bush says he understands why the earthquake victims are anxious. He appeals for calm.
"I fully understand the anguish that the people of Haiti feel," he said. "But I hope the people of Haiti know that our government is doing everything it can with our military and USAID to get food, medicine, and water to you as quickly as possible."
The former U.S. president says his reason for concern is personal. During his time in office he launched an initiative called PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) to fight the disease AIDS in parts of Africa and the Caribbean.
"I was involved with Haiti," said George W. Bush. "I did care deeply about those who are suffering from AIDS. PEPFAR has spent about $320 million in Haiti to get anti-retrovirals [anti-retroviral drugs] and prevention programs to the people Haiti."
He says PEPFAR is in Haiti for the long term. So too, is the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which collected $10 million in its first three days in operation.
"Bill Clinton and I want the people of Haiti to know that once the immediate crisis had been stabilized, we won't forget you," he said.
Mr. Bush says he learned a great deal when disasters struck during his presidency - especially Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the Indian Ocean tsunami in late 2004.
He says the first lesson is that aid never flows fast enough to those in need. Another is that when major disasters occur, people around the world are always ready to help.
"The people of Haiti are not alone," said Mr. Bush. "And unfortunately, the world cannot come and embrace you. But the world can send help to help you get back on your feet."
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Defends Region 12 students' CAPT scores
Published 11:48 am, Friday, November 16, 2012
One of Dr. Pat Cosentino reasoning's for changing the block scheduling to a 6/7 period format is based on the 2012 grade 10 CAPT math score.
Dr. Cosentino believes the lower math results are due to a semester gap in taking math classes for some students.
When I questioned her at the Nov. 14 meeting regarding the one data point she cites, she directed the audience members to visit the results which can be found in CTreport.org.
Dr. Cosentino also stated publicly to the audience the previous year test results were similar to the 2012 results.
After looking at the data, it is quite clear her statement is not correct.
Overall, between the years 2007 and 2011, Region 12 results were near 65 percent at or above goal, with the 2010 calendar year at 54.4 percent.
Based on the data from 2007 to today, it is impossible to cite block scheduling as the reason for the decline for last year's results, especially since in 2011 they were at a 67.1 percent at or above goal.
I would believe other factors unrelated to the block may be the cause for the 2012 results.
In addition, the plot includes the average results statewide, along with another school district which is the same size as Region 12.
Please keep in mind, to compare Region 12 to school districts with a three- or four-fold population advantage such as Region 14, New Milford or New Fairfield may not be a fair comparison.
Please also note, I plotted Region 12 ranking as a function of percent at or above proficiency compared to the state of Connecticut.
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386 pages, 15 b/w illustrations, 2 tables
The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general features of systems and their fundamental importance for diverse areas of life. Yet there are considerable differences among these traditions, and each tradition has developed its own methodologies, journals, and forms of anaylsis. Traditions of Systems Theory explores this terrain and provides an overview of and guide to the traditions of systems theory in their considerable variety. Traditions of Systems Theory draws attention to the traditions of systems theory in their historical development, especially as related to the humanities and social sciences, and shows how from these traditions various contemporary developments have ensued. It provides a guide for strains of thought that are key to understanding 20th century intellectual life in many areas.
"Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Developments provides a state-of-the-art survey of the increasingly influential and fascinating field of systems theory. It is a highly useful resource for a wide range of disciplines and contributes significantly to bringing together current trends in the sciences and the humanities."
– Hans-Georg Moeller, University College Cork, Ireland
1. Systems Theory: A Secret History of the 20th Century Darrell P. Arnold P
Part I: Early Developments and Their Continued Repercussions Introduction
2. The Persistence of Information Theory Philipp Schweighauser
3. Cybernetics: Thinking Through the Technology Ranulph Glanville
4. Expanding the Self-Referential Paradox: The Macy Conferences and the Second Wave of Cybernetic Thinking John Bruni
5. The Hermeneutical System of General Systemology: Bertalanffian and Other Early Contributions to Its Foundations and Development David Pouvreau
6. The Ethics of Epistemology: The Work of the Constructivist and Cybernetician Heinz von Foerster, From the Vienna Circle to the Cybernetic Circle Bernhard Porksen
7. Maturana and Varela: From Autopoiesis to Systems Applications Bob Mugerauer
8. Eugene Odum and the Homeostatic Ecosystem: the Resilience of an Idea Joel Hagen
Part II: Systems Thinking in Sociology Introduction
9. Talcott Parsons: A Sociological Theory of Action Systems Bettina Mahlert
10. Luhmann: Three Key Concepts, System, Meaning, Autopoiesis Walter Reese-Schafer
11. Systems Historicized: Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis W.L. Goldfrank
Part III: Further Contemporary Developments Introduction
12. Systems Theories and Literary Studies Andrew McMurry
13. Systems Heuristics and Digital Culture Raphael Sassower and Nimrod Bar-Am
14. A Brief Outline of Evolutionary Cultural Ecology Peter Finke
15. Prigogine: The Interplay of Cosmos, Complexity, and Culture Dorothea Olkowski
16. Systems Theory and Practice in Organizational Change and Development Debora Hammond
17. Systems, Tools, and Bateson's Cybernetics: A Joint Metalogue Nora Bateson and Phillip Guddemi
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Happy Wednesday, Madison!
As reports of a highly contagious strain of avian flu have spread in Wisconsin, locally, the Henry Vilas Zoo is taking steps to protect its flock.
The zoo announced this week it will keep its aviary closed through April and has moved some of its animals indoors. So prepare to say goodbye to penguins, flamingos, sandhill cranes, and chickens for a little while.
At this point, no human cases have been detected, but the zoo says the move was made out of an abundance of caution due to the potentially devastating effects the flu could have on its bird population. Last week, nearly 3 million chickens at a commercial farm in Jefferson County had to be euthanized to prevent further spread.
“We have many endangered birds species on grounds and our main priority right now is to do everything we can to protect them,” Deputy Zoo Director Joseph Darcangelo said in a statement.
Personally, I hope the birds get to enjoy their break, everyone needs a little vacation now and then.
💉 The Alliant Energy Center will close its Covid-19 testing and vaccine clinics next month.
- Public Health Madison and Dane County announced the clinics will close April 3.
- The move comes as the county continues to see waning Covid-19 case numbers. PHMDC officials say even if there were to be another surge, the county would still be ready to respond. Since May 2020, PHMDC reports more than 450,000 tests and more than 111,000 vaccines have been given at the Alliant Energy Center.
- Public Health will continue to provide testing and vaccination services at the South Madison clinic (2230 S. Park Street) and vaccination services at the East Washington clinic (2705 E. Washington Avenue). Weekly mobile vaccination clinics will also continue.
- Related: With COVID still out there, immunocompromised worry about life after mask mandates (Madison.com)
- A global perspective: Latest version of omicron accounts for most new infections in many parts of the U.S., genomics testing shows (Washington Post)
🚲 BCycle is expanding and bringing back its Community Pass Program.
- Madison BCycle has its eyes set on expanding to the city of Fitchburg this year. The bike-sharing organization is currently looking for additional sponsorship funding to move the needle on the project, IB Madison reports.
- BCycle and Madison Public Library have also relaunched the Community Pass Program, which allows riders to use their Madison Public Library card to use the electric bikes. How does that work? Just like checking out a book, library cardholders can check out one of the available BCycle fobs from any library location and use it to rent a bike. Passes can be checked out for up to a week at a time.
🏫 Get to know the candidates vying for Madison's contested School Board seats.
- Seat 3: There are two candidates on the ballot for Seat 3. Incumbent Cris Carusi opted not to run for reelection after one term.
- Shepherd Joyner initially joined the race in opposition to a transphobic candidate announcing her own run. Though that person would later end their campaign, Joyner told the Cap Times they didn’t consider dropping out themselves. Joyner is a non-binary trans person who works in Madison schools. If elected, Joyner's top priorities include "staff retention, improved communication, and an investment in arts-integrated communication." Learn more about Joyner here.
- Laura Simkin is an early childhood educator with a child at East High School. As she told the Cap Times, her top priorities "include addressing the achievement gap, supporting teachers so they stay in the district and early childhood education." Simkin also wants to bring back the school resource officers, which is a notable difference from her opponent. Learn more about Simkin here.
- Seat 5: While Ali Muldrow is the only candidate formally on the ballot for Seat 5, conservative blogger David Blaska is running a write-in campaign for the seat.
- Ali Muldrow currently serves as school board president. She's an East High School graduate and was elected to her first term on the board in April 2019. If elected for a second term, Muldrow has said one of her biggest priorities would be teacher retention. Learn more about Muldrow here.
- David Blaska is a conservative blogger and former Dane County supervisor. In terms of his ideals, the State Journal writes "Blaska’s campaign platform is heavily steeped in conservative talking points used by candidates nationwide that include instituting law and order in schools, questioning diversity and equity initiatives in curriculum and promoting charter schools." Learn more about Blaska here.
⚖️ Tony Robinson's grandmother has filed a petition to charge Matt Kenny with homicide.
- Sharon Irwin-Henry is using the state's John Doe law, which allows citizens to ask judges to review cases and approve charges in a case if prosecutors refuse to do so, in order to bring first- or second-degree reckless homicide against Madison police officer Matt Kenny, the State Journal reports.
- Irwin-Henry contends Kenny lied about what happened in the stairwell of the Willy Street apartment where Robinson was killed.
- Some context: Matthew Kenny shot and killed 19-year-old biracial Tony Robinson March 6, 2015. The night of his death, Robinson allegedly assaulted two people, leading to the 911 call that brought Kenny, who is white, to the Willy Street apartment where he would shoot Robinson.
- The aftermath: Robinson's death sparked weeks of protest throughout the city and garnered national news attention. In May 2015, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced Kenny would not face charges in the case. Robinson’s mother settled a federal civil rights lawsuit with the city in February 2017 for $3.3 million. Kenny is still on the force.
🐶 The Dane County Humane Society is on a mission.
- Volunteers from the shelter are headed to Peru, Illinois, where more than 130 cats and dogs have been flown out from an overcrowded Texas shelter. The animals will be relocated to shelters in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan where they have a better chance of being adopted.
- DCHS is leading the transportation efforts and bringing more than 20 dogs and 36 cats from Illinois to Madison. Keep an eye on their website for future adoption listings!
🎭 What's your damage, Heather?
- American Players Theatre's Jake Penner will direct University Theatre’s production of “Heathers: The Musical” will debut April 14 and run through the 24.
- The musical is based on the 1989 cult-classic black comedy film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Madison Magazine writes the production features a cast of college students, which makes sense considering the premise of the script surrounds the utter horror that is high school.
“More than almost any other show, ‘Heathers’ illustrates the instinct to find safety in a group of humans. In a sense, it gets at the point of every drama: How do we live cooperatively in a group while remaining true to ourselves?” — Jake Penner, artistic associate with American Players Theatre
🌳 Your lunchtime read: A savanna winter: Where the future begins in the past.
- From Tone Madison: "This is the first of a four-part series from Sam Harrington tracing a year in the life of Dane County's oak savanna restoration projects through the seasons. [...] Restoration work has been ongoing for ten years."
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A key United Nations agency is under fire–for declaring that Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem shouldn’t be considered a part of Jewish heritage, and should instead be considered part of a nearby Islamic mosque.
The United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ruled that Jerusalem’s famed Western Wall–which is one of the most holy sites in all of Judaism, but also a major site in Islam–is part of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama Hacohen immediately slammed the resolution, calling it “a total Islamization” of a site that’s important to both religions.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs added, in a statement: “This is a clear endeavor to distort history, in order to erase the connection between the Jewish People and its holiest site, and to create a false reality.”
Even Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu joined the fray: “If the places where the Jewish nation’s forefathers and mothers–Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel–were buried 4,000 years ago is not part of the Jewish nation’s heritage, then what is a heritage site?”
UNESCO’s five-page draft resolution was written by Muslim powers like Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Kuwait, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (which is not fully recognized as a country by the UN.) It makes no mention of the site being a Jewish holy site, dating back thousands of years. But it does condemn Israel’s recent military actions in Palestinian-claimed territories like the West Bank and Gaza. It refers to Israel as “Israel, the Occupying Power.”
Currently, the Western Wall is overseen by an Islamic trust called the Waqf. Jews, by religious decree, are not allowed to pray at the Muslim-controlled Jewish holy site, Temple Mount; the Western Wall is the closest they’re allowed to get.
But, under the new UNESCO rules, even that could be scrapped.
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- Arsalan Iftikhar: Afghanistan War has lasted longer than Vietnam, anger growing
- Iftikhar: Afghans abhor soldier's massacre, Quran burnings, soldiers urinating on bodies
- Afghanistan has been called the "graveyard of empires," he says, and for good reason
- Iftikhar: U.S. killed bin Laden, routed al Qaeda; time to count successes and leave
Nearly two years ago in June 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam War to become the longest war in American history. Although the U.S. ousted the Taliban from power and killed Osama bin Laden last year in Pakistan, it is clear that recent incidents, including the tragic killing of civilians by a U.S. soldier, are costing Americans the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan.
As a result, there should be real concern that the lives of nearly 2,000 American troops and more than 14,000 Afghan civilians who have been killed during this decade-long war could have been lost in vain.
The most recent blow to the NATO mission in Afghanistan is the dreadful story of an American soldier who apparently "went rogue" in a night-time shooting massacre and allegedly murdered at least 16 innocent civilians, including nine children and three women, Sunday morning near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan.
"I am deeply saddened by the reported killing and wounding of Afghan civilians," President Obama immediately said in a statement. "I offer my condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, and to the people of Afghanistan, who have endured too much violence and suffering. This incident is tragic and shocking, and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan."
The killings come after several copies of the Quran were accidentally burned last month along with garbage and other materials seized from a detainee facility at Bagram Airfield. President Obama apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, calling the burning "an inadvertent error," but the subsequent furor led to violent protests and physical attacks in which 39 people died, including several American soldiers, and hundreds were wounded.
In January, four American soldiers were caught on videotape standing over some Afghan corpses and urinating on the bodies while laughingly saying things like "Have a great day, buddy." U.S. officials denounced the actions and made clear it was unacceptable conduct, amounting to a violation of both the Geneva conventions and U.S. military law.
In light of these three high-profile and polarizing incidents in Afghanistan within the last three months, prominent journalist Andrew Sullivan wrote that "after the Koran burnings, I cannot see a future for U.S. forces in (Afghanistan). The pressure to quit before 2014 will grow." He also said "our cultures are far too far apart to mesh; and the more we insist on succeeding with an unwinnable transition, the deeper into the mire we go."
Afghanistan is well-known as the "graveyard of empires." It cast off the imperialist likes of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire, the British Victorian colonial empire and most recently, the Soviet communist empire.
"No outside force has, since the Mongol invasion, ever pacified the entire country (of Afghanistan). ... Even Alexander the Great only passed through," former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in October, 2009.
We have spent more than an entire decade trying to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, we should remember the words of a 2009 CATO Institute policy paper which reminded us there is "a reason why (Afghanistan) has been described as the 'graveyard of empires,' and unless America scales down its objectives, it risks meeting a similar fate."
As we look back over our 10-year mission in Afghanistan, we should remember that we have successfully struck back at Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, helped transition a more-than-slightly corrupt civilian government into power and somewhat improved the plight of women within the borders of Afghanistan.
But we should also concede that the stories of a rogue soldier's killing spree and Quran burnings could be the lasting legacies of the longest war in American history -- and should be overwhelming reasons that we need to leave Afghanistan right now by beginning our troop withdrawal.
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Rebellion: The Illusion Of Choice. Rebellion in its purest expression is a complete failure to imitate the character of God. Satan pretends to offer a better option. Yet, all the serpent offers is death. Lucifer parades around like an “Angel of Light.” When in reality, he is a demonic angel of death, cheating God’s people out of their authority and inherence in Christ Jesus.
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Part One: The Illusion of Choice…
“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: A blessing if you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you today, and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.” (Deuteronomy 11:26-28)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
*Obedience and the ability to Obey is a gift from God.
What is Rebellion?
Rebellion is Witchcraft, married with Stubbornness, in Iniquity, and birthed into Idolatry of Self.
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!” (1 Samuel 15:23)
- Rebellion of the heart is failing to fear the Majesty and power of a Righteous and Holy God.
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and are gone. And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, who gives both the former and the latter rain in its season; He reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.” (Jeremiah 5:23-25)
- Rebellion is unfaithfulness to God
“For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons; so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise and tell their sons, (7) so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments; and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.” (Psalms 78:5-8)
*Verse 7 tells us that Rebellion is failure to set your Hope on God instead of your own devices. It also says it’s a failure to remember the works and power of God you have experienced in your own life. This is purely expressed in a failure to keep his commandments.
- Rebellion is seeking the advice and provision of another!
“Woe to the rebellious sons, says Yahweh, who make advice, but not of Me; and who cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they add sin to sin; those who set out to go down to Egypt and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!” (Isaiah 30:1-2)
- Rebellion is creating a God in the image of your own understanding and ways, and often it looks just like you!
“And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves a molten image of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.” (Hosea 13:2)
*Rebellion is turning yourself into your own image of god, setting yourself up to be God within your own heart.
- Rebellion is thinking you are wiser than God
“I am sought by those who asked not for Me; I am found by those who did not seek Me. I said, Behold Me, behold Me, to a nation not calling on My name. I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts; a people who without ceasing provoke Me to anger to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on the bricks; a people who remain among the graves, and sleep in the tombs, who eat swine’s flesh, and broth from hateful things in their vessels; who say, Keep to yourself, do not come near me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.” (Isaiah 65:1-5)
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, “He takes the wise in their own craftiness.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-19)
*With Rebellion providing the illusion of “Choice,” we will see there is only one side that provides blessing and life, and the other is death.
“God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.” (Psalms 68:6)
*Spiritual speaking, it is the highest form of self hatred. The illusion of choice presented by the devil makes you think that you are getting your way, but you are actually committing spiritual suicide.
“He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gets understanding.” (Proverbs 15:32)
Another version says it this way:
“Whoever ignores instruction hates himself, but anyone who heeds reproof gains understanding.” (Proverbs 15:32)
*Those who obey God love their own soul, and will find true life!
“He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.”
Example 1: the Rebellious (Isaiah 30:8-14)
“Now go, write it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come forever and ever, that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah; who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood; go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Therefore so says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rest on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall have no pity, so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.” (Isaiah 30:8-14)
EXAMPLE 2: The Obedient (Revelation 2:24-29)
“But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. But that which you have, hold fast until I come. And he who overcomes and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations. And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father. And I will give him the Morning Star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Revelation 2:24-29)
So, the “Obedient” will destroy the “Rebellious” and wicked.
The Obedient will Judge the Rebellious.
“Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not to mention the things of this life?” (1 Corinthians 6:2-3)
PART 2: Rebellion- in its purest expression, is a complete failure to imitate the character of God.
What Rebellion is Not:
Being Like God-
“So be imitators of God, as his dear children.” (Ephesians 5:1)
Being Like Jesus-
“For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps, He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth, who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself up to Him who judges righteously.” (1 Peter 2:21-23)
PART 3: How rebellion is formulated and conceived in our own hearts.
Rebellion creates in your own mind an altar for your desires.
“But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.” (James 1:14-15)
*So, it’s our own desire, baggage, and experiences that produce rebellion.
When we convince ourselves that what we decided is right and correct and is the will of God, not realizing that we have made an idol of our own desires, and the god we are now serving is ourselves.
- “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to advice is wise.”
- “There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)
- “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Jehovah ponders the hearts.”
Not doing what we know we should.
“Therefore to him who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
We find a great example of this in the Bible.
“So then as we have time, let us work good toward all, especially toward those of the household of faith.” (Galatians 6:10)
*Both options are good, but only one is supreme in the eyes of God. Failing to support the Body of Christ by choosing to support those lost in the world- would be a sin. A rebellion of not prioritizing the desires of God as supreme.
Satan used a desire she wanted, then he coupled it with an illusion of choice and of a greater good to get Eve to sin. Eve was consumed with her own desires and made herself into god, an idol of her own making. She reasoned away the clear direction of God to fulfill her desires, giving birth to sin, and destroying the earth and all creation.
“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
Genesis 3:2-3 (EVE REPEATS WHAT GOD SAID):
“And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”
Genesis 3:4 (Satan soothes away Eve’s fear of Death with a lie, giving her false hope, based upon another lie that God was withholding from her another blessing):
“And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die,’
Genesis 3:5 (Using a half truth, Satan uses Eve’s desire to be like God to get her to use her own understanding, forsaking the God that loves her.)
‘for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.” (This is truth. They became like God knowing good and evil, but it was not the blessing promised, as they were shielded from evil before, and now they are consumed by it.)
Genesis 3:6 (Eve reasoned away God’s direct command, being consumed with her own lust and rebellion.)
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.”
Genesis 3:7 (THE DREADED OUTCOME)
“And the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for themselves.”
- God compares Adam to a traitor for his Rebellion.
“For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there.” (Hosea 6:6-7)
- Adam pays the price for his Rebellion.
“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. AND HE DIED.” (Genesis 5:5)
- NOW WE MUST DECIDE: LIFE OR DEATH, BLESSING OR CURSING
“For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.” (1 Corinthians 15:21-22)
“These ugly and weak bodies will become beautiful and strong. As surely as there are physical bodies, there are spiritual bodies. And our physical bodies will be changed into spiritual bodies. The first man was named Adam, and the Scriptures tell us that he was a living person. But Jesus, who may be called the last Adam, is a life-giving spirit. We see that the one with a spiritual body did not come first. He came after the one who had a physical body. The first man was made from the dust of the earth, but the second man came from heaven. Everyone on earth has a body like the body of the one who was made from the dust of the earth. And everyone in heaven has a body like the body of the one who came from heaven. Just as we are like the one who was made out of earth, we will be like the one who came from heaven. My friends, I want you to know that our bodies of flesh and blood will decay. This means that they cannot share in God’s kingdom, which lasts forever.” (1 Corinthians 15:43-50) | <urn:uuid:0a97a323-c754-4c96-bd91-9bf07a15aea3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brotherlance.com/rebellion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.972189 | 3,453 | 2 | 2 |
This short animated film was a collaboration between thirteen Koorie students from Dimboola Primary School from Prep to Grade 6 and Delkaia Aboriginal Best Start. Dimboola Primary School’s Desiree Cross animated the film and co-directed with the wonderfully talented filmmaker Tracey Rigney, who also wrote the story.
The students were heavily involved in the film supplying all the artwork, voices and even photographing the school to be used as backgrounds in the film.
The story incorporates Dimboola Primary School’s values which are honesty, respect, resilience and tolerance. It also focuses on the You Can Do It Foundations – confidence, persistence, getting along, organisation and resilience which Dimboola Primary School values and uses. Nature, animals and local landscapes are a major focus also, with the story revolving around the central point of Dimboola Primary School.
Awards, Nominations and Highlights
Premiered at ACMI in Melbourne (Little Big Shots Film Festival,2015)
Finalist for Best Primary School Animation (ATOM Awards, 2015)
Winner of the Blackfella Films Award for Best Indigenous Film by a Child (Kidzflicks, Sydney International Festival of Films by Children, 2016)
Winner of Best Primary School Production (Flickerfest, 2016)
Was shown on Virgin flights as part of Flickerfest’s inflight entertainment partnership with Virgin.
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There's been no shortage of announcements by global IT service providers about their sustainability projects in recent years -from run-of-the-mill energy consumption reduction goals and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings to more fascinating waste conversion to manure efforts and personal carbon calculators for employees.
But for the most part, IT outsourcing buyers still don't care. "For most commercial clients, it is not top of mind," says Todd Hintze, managing partner at outsourcing consultancy Everest Group. "Clients will select the sustainable and environmentally friendly provider where it is shown to also meet the client's other - and generally higher prioritised - objectives of cost, quality, and performance. Rarely is it an explicit request."
Sustainability scores a zero
When outsourcing analyst firm HfS Research recently asked 50 experienced service buyers from Fortune 1000 companies to vote on sustainability as a topic for future meetings, "the topic got exactly zero votes," says Esteban Herrera, COO of outsourcing analyst firm HfS Research. "Consumers and some stakeholders - like regulatory agencies want to see corporations drive sustainability initiatives. RFPs often contain requirements to disclose sustainability initiatives. But we've never seen it count for more than a handful of percentage points [in provider selection]. At best, it is a last-string tie breaker."
There are exceptions. IT leaders working in the energy industry or for government organisations often have specific requirements for energy consumption or environmental practices. But providers who serve those verticals have had processes in place to meet those needs for some time. "Sustainability is a topic that is only brought up by the largest, most sophisticated companies that have an interest in the topic from a public relations perspective," says Shawn Helms, partner in the outsourcing practice of law firm K&L Gates. "I have only seen it raised as a criteria in the down selection of an IT or outsourcing vendor one time in the past few years.
The real driver behind the apparent greening of the big IT outsourcing providers is cost containment. "Our research indicates that IT outsourcing providers - both the major Tier Ones and the large Indian offshore providers-are seeing continual compression of their margins. As such, they are being compelled to find a way to deliver enhanced services at much lower costs," says Hintze. "Significantly reducing energy consumption for a large, leveraged data center can create much needed financial relief." If what benefits the bottom line is also good for the planet - and for corporate PR - so much the better for the providers.
Most of the environmental improvements have centred on the "low hanging fruit," says Herrera, such as paperless environments and increased data center efficiency. Most of the major players have also built lines of business consulting on energy efficiency.
"Customers often want energy efficient IT when they are outgrowing their data centers and face increased real estate costs for adding a new center," says William Tanenbaum, partner in the outsourcing practice of law firm Kaye Scholer and chair of its green tech and sustainability group. "They can avoid these increased costs if they can get more IT horse power out of existing data centers, and they can reduce to costs of running the existing facilities... by using virtualisation, internal smart grids and other advanced technologies."
Sustainability is blowing in the wind
Projects like HP's data center in England - cooled entirely by North Sea winds - are more rare. "Only the companies with the deepest pockets can afford to use solar, wind, or geothermal to partially support the power requirements of a data center," says Mark Ruckman, outsourcing consultant with Sanda Partners. And even the most advanced new data centers exist in a much larger ecosystem of legacy infrastructure environments.
"A provider might have a single new data center, and they publish a sustainability goal in their marketing materials that could only apply to this one data center that is almost impossible at all of their other data centers that are 10 to 20 years old," Ruckman adds. "I suspect [many of] these providers are paying an increased power rate to buy green credits from their power providers."
"Clients don't see this as a big thing," says Venu Ayyagari, director at outsourcing consultancy ISG (formerly TPI). "They worry about process improvements and cost savings."
That should change. "With the rising cost of electricity, many companies are looking for innovative ways to cut power costs, [which is what is] making the ROI on sustainability investments [for providers] most achievable. "This is a topic that will get much more attention over the next 5 years."
15 sustainability questions to ask
For those IT service buyers who want to be ahead of the curve, outsourcing industry observers offer up these questions to help determine the actual value of a provider's sustainability practices:
1. Do you have at least two years experience implementing and auditing environmental management systems?
2. Is the delivery center LEED certified?
3. Do you have integrated and automated controls and operations?
4. What percentage of total data centre power usage is provided by sustainable sources, and what are the sources?
5. What is the total cost of the sustainable power compared to power from the grid?
6. How much have you invested, in real dollars, in sustainability programs?
7. Have you received any awards from non-governmental organisations for your sustainability practices?
8. Will you accept sustainability requirements and investment commitments written into the outsourcing contract, such as verification of energy cost reduction or energy efficiency increases using a standard such as the EPA's Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)?
9. Do you measure Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) for analysis and reporting?
10. Does this site have any negative impact on any water bodies, wetlands or coastal waters?
11. What technologies do you use for recycling, waste reduction, and water conservation?
12. Does this centre use the new water-saving and recycle technologies?
13. What are the carbon dioxide emissions from this data center?
14. Does the delivery site design consider natural extreme environmental considerations, such as floods, earthquakes, or erosion?
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Dozens of metro Detroit girls are getting immersed in high tech this week thanks to the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation.
The organization is hosting its annual Camp Infinity, a technology camp designed for 9-13 year old girls to showcase IT careers in Web design, video game development, robotics, and discussions with prominent female technology leaders.
The camp will be held at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield.
MCWT strives to attract and retain women in Michigan’s IT field, and it understands that reaching girls early in life is key to influencing long-term change. Camp Infinity is one of the foundation’s programs that introduces technology as fun and fulfilling and serves to inspire girls to pursue technology further.
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So why does a huge corporation have a complete monopoly over what we drink at this university? Shouldn’t there be room for different companies so that prices vary and students have a choice? What if we have serious problems with the way that Coca Cola runs its business? (and if you go to the website and do some reading, you’ll switch to Pepsi pretty quickly I think) Why is pop cheaper than juice? Why do they give out free pop some days in the cafs instead of free juice or free milk? Isn’t obesity, diabetes and tooth decay, not to mention the fact that many students eat poorly and could desperately use those last minute vitamins and calcium enough that juice would be at least the same price, if not cheaper than pop?
And if you think that by choosing Minute Maid, you’re off the hook, think again: they’re owned by Coca Cola. In fact, the company let a Brazilian juice company, Cutrale, take over their Florida plant in 1996, and since then, have had three separate juice recalls, worker safety has fallen apart and the factory has been failing safety and health inspections left right and centre.
If you want to read about Coca Cola’s human rights violations, there are articles, websites and campaigns galore online, they’re not hard to find. I tried a few searches on Google.com: “Coca Cola human rights”, “Coca Cola unions” and “Coca Cola Colombia” to name a few, and was shocked at what I found. Coca Cola has been accused of using death squads to do their bidding; killing, exiling, torturing and imprisoning employees in their factories in Colombia.
Personally, I’d like to know how the company can justify its addictive, sugary beverage when obesity, diabetes and cancer rates are climbing, not to mention the human rights violations. Why does the university allow for a monopoly to exist? How much money are they getting, and why are dollar signs more important than integrity and student health? | <urn:uuid:b3424943-2b16-44b0-ad11-f0df408b9825> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thecannon.ca/viewpoints/columns/cocakiller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00436-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95995 | 444 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Could Facebook be the next Microsoft? Someone has to be the social network operating system.
In the early 90’s the computer world was chaos. There were a zillion formats floating around for everything: spreadsheets, printer interfaces, modems, floppies, displays, faxes, you name it.
Then Microsoft came and dominated everyone into submission. Now your product only had to work with Microsoft and your company could make millions. Thousands of programmers learned to work with the Windows API.
Sometimes a conquerer is needed to bring unification. Pax Romana and such. They say the trains ran on time under Mussolini. (Or not.)
Nowadays the problems of printer interfaces and faxes are pretty much solved. The windows API has been eclipsed by the web. And on the web, social networks are a huge force, accounting for nearly 7% of all internet traffic and rising.
But so far it’s been chaos, with people migrating from network to network, and no interoperability between them.
With their 25 million user base, and an openness to letting 3rd parties make money on their platform, Facebook is positioned to be the Microsoft of social networks.
The questions now are: (1) Is social networking mature enough that it would matter? (2) Will Facebook maintain their lead in innovation and openness? | <urn:uuid:6e9ae72d-fc9f-40b1-8e0a-92dbaa3f9f2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wanderingstan.com/2007-06-25/facebook_as_next_microsoft | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954192 | 275 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Welcome back! In this video, we'll practice the pattern to be so… in Tagalog.
All right. Do you remember the to be something pattern? Well, it uses Ang phrases.
Maganda ang babae.
Maganda si Jen.
All of the highlighted phrases are Ang phrases.
Let's look at the corresponding intensified sentences. Here, the intensified pattern Ang
+ root is followed by a Ng phrase.
Ang ganda mo.– You're so beautiful.
Ang ganda ng babae. – The woman is so
Ang ganda ni Jen. – Jen is so
Ang ganda nito. – This is so
All of the highlighted phrases are Ng phrases.
There are other intensifiers that go with Ng phrases. One example is napaka-.
So you say:
– This is beautiful.
But Napakaganda nito. – This is so
Nito is the corresponding Ng phrase of ito.
Let's try a different root. Galing which means skill. So magaling
means skilled or good (at something).
– He or she is good (at it).
Magaling si Joe.
– Joe is good (at it).
This is just the to be something pattern again.
Now, the intensified pattern.
Magaling becomes ang galing.
Siya becomes niya.
Si Joe becomes ni Joe.
So we get:
Ang galing niya.
– He or she is so good (at it).
And Ang galing ni Joe. – Joe is so good (at it).
We hope you found this Tagalog grammar series useful. If you want to learn to
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We watched 11 Goosander working together fishing in the Hayle Estuary.
Insight: The Goosander is a common member of the Sawbill family of diving ducks found mainly on freshwater but may be seen on estuaries during the winter. In the UK about 2,500 pairs breed mainly in upland forested regions in the North, Wales and Scotland where they nest in trees or rocky crevices.
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Like on most contemporary programming frameworks, the Webasyst kernel implements architectural pattern MVC (Model-View-Controller). The main principle of the MVC pattern assumes dividing an application into three weakly bound kinds of components (layers):
- data management layer (model)
- view layer
- business logic layer (controller) — receipt/validation/processing of user data; receipt of data from the model layer, their pre-processing for use by the view layer to be displayed in user's browser
This approach helps better organize the source code, increases its readability, and facilitates distribution of programming tasks among several developers and further code support (in particular, it allows introducing changes to one of the layers without affecting or insignificantly affecting other layers).
HTTP request processing order
- A request is accepted by the dispatcher script.
- The framework kernel parses the requested URL.
- The routing system determines, which application is responsible for the request processing and what action should be executed.
- The appropriate controller is determined for the action to be executed, which takes over conrol over further processing of the user request.
- The controller executes the requested business logic by reading application data via model classes where necessary.
- To generate the resulting HTML code, the controller consecutively calls methods of one or several action classes.
- Each called action passes on the received data to the template engine.
- The template engine generates the resulting HTML code using the data received from action classes and the appropriate template files.
The technical implmentation of the database interaction consists of two levels: system and application level.
The system level is resonsible for establishing and maintaining connections (connection pool) to a specific database, transmission of SQL queries, and receipt of their results from the DBMS. Its operation depends on the actual type of the database server used; therefore, independent implementation of this level in the form of adapter plugins is required for each DBMS type. The current framework version contains such an adapter only for MySQL.
The application level is abstracted from the functioning of the specific DBMS and can technically not depend no its type at all. In other words, an application may not depend on the availability of, say, a MySQL server and be able to equally well operate with other DMBS's. In this case it is mandatory to have the corresponding DBMS adapter plugin installed.
The framework offers tools for interaction with the database without the necessity to manually write SQL queries in the application source code. They allow you to abstract from the particular DBMS. Instead of using "raw" SQL queries, an application can call appropriate model methods; e.g., "get object instance with the specified key value", "save object instance", "get object list", etc.
Controllers & actions
The controller layer is divided in Webasyst into two even thinner layes: controllers and actions (this layer actually also includes the dispatcher script and the routing system, but they do not directly affect the application development process).
Controller is a part of an application, which implements the request-processing logic. It is where the structural blocks of a web page are defined, which is displayed in response to a user's request. In complex applications, to improve the readability of the source code, it is advisable to split the web page generation logic into several parts. Each such part (e.g., the one responsible for generation of a single informational block) is called an action.
Action is a part of an application, which is responsible for generation of a portion of HTML code. It can be either the entire web page or a single informational block. An action is always called from within a controller. During the request processing a controller determines, which actions must be called to generate a web page, and calls them one by one. In the very common case, when a page has only one dynamic block (generated by some action), the controller's task is to call only one available action. In the framework there is a default controller, which is triggered when no special controller has been detected for the current request, but the action class required for processing of the current request (as determined by the routing system) exists.
Some HTTP requests may require a certain action to be executed without a new web page being loaded in the browser. The result of such an action can be redirecting to another URL; e.g., after deleting or saving data via a web form. In such cases the entire logic can be implemented in the controller and no extra action classes are required.
Each action is associated with a template file used to generate HTML code for a web page. The view layer of the Webasyst framework is by default implemented with the help of template engine Smarty. Of course, it is not a strict requirement to use only Smarty. There is an option to connect other template engines or even use pure PHP code to create HTML templates. To connect a new template engine, it is enough to create an adapter class and add it to the system configuration file.
Framework Webasyst has been designed so as to allow existence of several applications within one installed framework instance (with common database, address space, users, authentication and authorization system). One of the main goals of creating a framework was to organize tight integration and interaction of several applications. Each application has a unique identifier (APP_ID) within the system. The source code of each application resides in an individual subfolder within the common file system.
Application tables in the database are provided with a unique prefix to avoid table name conflicts. The list of installer applications is contained the system
Users, access rights, authorization, backend, and frontend
Frwmework Webasyst has been designed for development of business-oriented applications in the first place. For this reason global entities such as "contact", "user", and the notion of the access rights are an integral part of the system and are deeply integrated in its architecture. The framework without installed applications already contains a complete infrastructure with the authorization interface, the user management mechanism, access rights setup tools, and a differentiation between the backend and the frontend.
Authentication and user access rights validation are involved in processing of any HTTP request. These operations are performed automatically at the system level and do not require extra efforts from an application developer.
The web interface of any Webasyst application consists of two basic parts: the backend and the frontend.
The backend is intended for use within the organization, to which the installed application belongs. Access to the backend is allowed only to authorized users. This part of the interface usually contains various data management tools.
The frontend should primarily be used by the organization's clients, website visitors, and other persons. This part of an application is published on a website and is usually accessible without authorization. Within the frontend can also exist personal password-protected accounts of registered website visitors; however, access to the backend is not automatically granted to such users). Control over access to the application's frontend is performed by the application and is not managed at the system level. It is certainly not a requirement for an application to have both the backend and the frontend. For example, the Stickies app supplied within the standard framework distribution has only the backend and no frontend. | <urn:uuid:e3a0fd77-084f-462c-a45b-47ba75c98f36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://developers.webasyst.com/docs/cookbook/basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.905854 | 1,509 | 3.15625 | 3 |
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I’m looking to find some resources about the structure of baroque music as well as poetry. I’m looking for something that is pretty much an all inclusive introduction to the structure, writing and form of both things (obviously not included in the same resource). I want as little about history as possible, because I often find that these extraneous details end up tripling the size of what I have to read and I’d really rather just have the base information with a single simple example of what is being referred to. Any suggestions?
Baroque music is much less strictly structured than Classical music, which followed it. It was primarily confined to a dance suite (now called a Baroque Suite) of an overture and 4-6 movements. The four main dances were Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue. Later in the period, more styles were used, such as Gavotte, Bourrée, Minuet, etc. Instruments were more primitive than their modern counterparts, so many modern orchestras will use period instruments to perform Baroque pieces. The string quartet was invented during this period, and its rise into common use is usually attributed to Joseph Haydn.
Any specific questions?
You’ll have to ask someone else about poetry.
As a guitarist, I’m at least a little familiar with the 4 dances and they’re structures. I realize Baroque music is slightly less structured, but I’ve been led to believe that due to Bach’s influence (among others of course) Baroque was sort of the more innovative and complex era whereas I often see Classical, Romantic and Contemporary slagged off as kind of kitsch. I’m not against learning about the structure of Classical era music either, but I’m primarily looking for resources regarding the composition of Baroque, things like Counterpoint (which I already know the basics of) and specifics of tonality and stuff like that. Maybe one day I can even learn about serialism or indeterminate music or set theory in music or whatever John Cage did.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) publishes regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials. These rules form the basis for the international transport schemes for specific modes of transport (by road, rail, sea, inland waterways and air). They also apply in the Netherlands. The regulations and the explanation of these regulations can be found on the IAEA website.
In addition, the IAEA publishes recommendations about a number of specific topics related to the safe transport of radioactive substances such as the management system, the planning and preparing for emergency response to transport accidents involving radioactive material and the radiation protection programme.
Validity of the transport schemes
The transport schemes apply to the transport of radioactive substances via all transport modes (by road, rail, sea, inland waterways and air). Transport is also deemed to include all actions that precede a transport movement (for example, the design and manufacture of packages, loads, etc.) and that take place during a transport (internal storage) and upon completion of the transport (contamination check, unloading and receipt).
The transport schemes do not apply in the following cases:
- When the radioactivity is part of the means of transport.
- When the radioactive substance is being transported within a facility that is licenced for use of such material.
- When the radioactivity is implanted into or is administered to a person or living animal. (Please take note of the distinction. Therefore, not when transporting human remains.)
- When it concerns radioactive material in approved consumer products after delivery to the end user.
All issues related to the transport of radioactive substances have been laid down in the Fissile Materials, Ores and Radioactive Substances (Transport) Decree (hereinafter: Transport Decree) based on the Nuclear Energy Act. As a consequence, the provisions of the Radiation Protection Decree are not applicable to transport activities. This also applies to storage in connection with transport, to the package itself and to transferral into and out of the Dutch territory.
The Transport Decree declares the "Transport on land of hazardous substances" (VLG), "Transport by rail of hazardous substances" (VSG) and ‘Transport by inland waterway of hazardous substances’ (VBG) applicable to the transport instructions and the ministerial regulations, respectively, for the transport of radioactive substances by road, railway or vessel.
The international regulations of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) apply directly in accordance with the Transport Decree with regard to the transport of radioactive substances by air. The International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code also applies directly to the transport of radioactive substances to and from the sea or over the sea. In accordance with the aforementioned regulations, the transport of radioactive substances must meet different requirements with regard to packaging, transport documentation, professional expertise, hazard labelling and placarding, stowing methods, vehicle equipment and routing.
The obligations related to the transport of radioactive substances focus on the parties which together constitute the transport chain: the consignor, the carrier and the consignee of the radioactive substance. The principle behind the regulations is that safety during transport must, in the first instance, be guaranteed by a suitably strong package. Different package designs are possible, to the extent that their robustness is commensurate with the risk posed by their contents.
In nearly all cases (except exempted packages), the packages must be provided with hazard labels on the outside. Different categories apply to the labelling depending on the radiation level. Hazard signs must be positioned on the vehicle. The vehicle must be laid out and equipped properly. Packages with radioactive substances must be accompanied by a transport document during transport (a consignment note or a bill of lading) that specifies all important data related to the transport.
In general, a licence is not required to transport radioactive substances. For most transports a notification is considered sufficient. Such notification may apply to a single shipment, but also to several shipments within a specific period (commonly referred to as a global notification and typically granted for one year). In this last case, a list of the actually performed shipments must be provided after the period has expired. A licence is always required for fissile materials. This also applies to natural or depleted uranium that, for example, is used in transport packages as shielding material.
Import and export
A licence for the import, transport and export of radioactive materials or sources is usually not required in the Netherlands. Depending on the package design and the quantity of radioactive substances that you may wish to transport, the regime of "conditional acceptance" applies in most cases. This means that the transport is exempted from government or authority approval provided that all the provisions of the transport regulations are met.
Medicaments for administration to patients and consumer products to which radioactive materials have been added form exception to this rule. A licence requirement applies to both the import and export unless the activity or the activity concentration of the involved radionuclides remain below the values set by the legislator (when it concerns consumables) or the action or activity has been exempted through ministerial regulation due to the limited risk. A licence is always required for fissile material, including natural and depleted uranium.
Separate rules apply with regard to importing and exporting radioactive waste that are described in the Import, Export and Transit of Radioactive Waste and Radiated Spent Fuel Decree (implementation of Directive No. 2006/117/Euratom of the Council).
Strategic good export control
Sometimes a nuclear material can be deemed to be of "dual use". Dual use goods can have both a civil and a military application. Companies that carry or export these "strategic goods" must meet strict conditions. They are obliged to notify these strategic goods or even to apply for a licence. Most rules for the Dutch export control policy have been harmonised internationally. For more information please approach the Centrale Dienst voor In- en Uitvoer (CDIU; Central Import and Export Service). | <urn:uuid:0aefb859-e35d-4e9e-8203-fc109865c530> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.autoriteitnvs.nl/topics/transport/legislation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.909718 | 1,237 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Detail of the Project
Rebalance project is based on the feast box company located in the UK and targets single and married generation Z, Indians living in the United Kingdom. The project was launched in 2015 and shipped almost ten million ingredients across the small farms in the United Kingdom. Therefore, the primary campaign of the project is an act of kindness and making it the norm of the project. However, the major competitors of the Rebalance projects are the Mindful Chef and the Simply Cook, which are based on subscription services (Facchini et al., 2018). The project provides ingredients and recipe cards to busy cooks and provides special meals using ingredients from Asia and globally. The brand name of the project is Feast Box which incorporates hand-made and simple blends of meals. Rebalance business is faced by stiff competition in the industry through other companies providing undifferentiated products that increase competition.
However, there are also potential competitors entering the industry, which is contributed to the availability of a variety of goods and services in the market. The Rebalance business outlines the target markets of each niche in the market. However, the target market focused on the broader market range. The target market of the Rebalance business project was students from generation Z and working-class members from the UK. The project also caters to generation X Full Nest people, where prompt service delivery is made to them (Facchini et al., 2018). The project incorporates communication strategies to achieve its objectives through public relations and marketing communications. The project targets a more customer base during Christmas and black Fridays, where the main objective is to make sales of ten thousand units. Rebalance project achieves its objectives through market segmentation, positioning, and target marketing (STP).
Overview of the Business
The Rebalance business deals with the manufacture of spice blends and ingredients and distributes them across the UK and worldwide. The business targets single and married generation Z Indians living in the UK. The business is one of the well-known companies in the food industry, which competes with other larger corporations like Amazon. The business uses social media marketing and online platforms in marketing itself on the market. Thus, enabling it to create awareness of the product brand that it offers to its customers (Gorb et al., 2016). The business uses YouTube, Facebook, and other social media platforms to attract its targeted audience. This enabled the business to increase its customer base and target market, respectively (Facchini et al., 2018). Rebalance business has a broader audience in the UK, Asia, and other parts of the world through its more robust marketing strategy than its competitors.
Skills Developed throughout the Module
Some of the skills developed through the module are marketing strategy skills, where our group understood that target marketing must be based on the broader market range. However, as entrepreneurs, we must be capable of creating awareness worldwide to gain customer reputation as the Rebalance business gained trust through prompt delivery of meals to its customers (Gorb et al., 2016). Marketers should understand the needs of their customers and the best way to satisfy them. Another set of skills gained is an extensive research skill in market research that leads to successful entities. The skills developed are marketing research skills, consultancy, IT, teamwork, and analytical skills, which ensured the development of an effective consultancy process.
Market research is used as a marketing tool between marketers and consumers. Consultancy skills have also been essential throughout this course as they help in the creation of public awareness of a business in increasing its market base. Teamwork skills, analytical skills, and IT skills have also been helpful in social media marketing, creating good conduct with the consumers, and analyzing the available target segments and targets. Teamwork skills have been developed through effective collaboration with other large corporations to increase the market audience and gain consultancy skills. The skills developed helped us to work on this Rebalance project effectively and efficiently.
Key Decisions Taken on the Client Project
There are some critical decisions that I undertook that helped shape the nature of the project on Rebalance Company. Some of these critical decisions include determining its key competitors, the porters’ five forces model, the marketing competition, and much more. Determining the key competitors is crucial as it will help Rebalance plan itself better and understand its main competitors in the market. Rebalance faces competition from companies such as Mindful Chef, Simply Cook, Feastbox, and much more (Facchini et al., 2018). Therefore, during the consultancy program, I made sure that I understood these competitors and their target markets. These target markets are an essential part of the consultancy programs as it helps Rebalance understand the competitors it is facing in the industry. A company has to understand the market it is operating and one of the key ways it can determine this is by conducting a porter’s five forces model.
The food industry experts to be an imaginative café, which combines a different menu with a drawing in feeling. We intend to give excellent food and administration, with the customer’s fulfillment the main concern. We expect that the average sort of client for Rebalance will be old and youthful people, both single and couples. Attending to them, the business can become profoundly gifted and prepared experts and build up a submitted labor force. The business has planned an investment opportunity program for experts and positions in the industry. This will finance the lower pay base and diminish the underlying overhead, and furthermore welcome gifted representative.
Marketing is one of the essential aspects of any industry, and Rebalance is investing in becoming a marketing leader in the health-focused food industry. The food industry is one of the most challenging and competitive industries in the United Kingdom, and Rebalance is positioning itself to gain a competitive advantage. Therefore, the consultancy report took some critical decisions, such as focusing on the communication strategy. Communication strategies are critical factors in a company’s communication plan, and the consultancy report had to select the best two options for Rebalance company (Soboleva & Parshutina, 2016). These two communication strategies, marketing communications, and public relations, are key to helping Rebalance attain its goals. Another critical decision that the report made is selecting the specific target market using various forms of marketing. The UK health-food industry is very competitive, and Rebalance needs to use different marketing strategies such as broadcast advertising, promotion and pricing, social media, and much more to reach their target markets. These are some of the key decisions that the consultancy report has made on behalf of Rebalance.
Evidence of Activities Undertaken
Through evidence and activities that Rebalance company will be using, it will enable it to maintain its market share and remain stiff in the competition. Rebalance should be able to take risks that will help the company improve on its standards. The implication of various market strategies will help the restaurant improve its market (Tosun, 2017). Different kinds of market strategies such as branding and the use of unique logos will help the consumers have an easy time identifying and noticing the Rebalance products. Being innovative and inventive will allow the restaurant to focus on product improvement to meet the customers’ demands and needs. Also, the act of innovation will help the restaurant develop new ideas that will help them improve the mode of customer service and implement other means that will accommodate the consumers.
Rebalance company should be able to maintain its culture through the immense competition it will be facing. Through the cultural adaption of the Rebalance company, it will be able to have the taste and preferences of the customers. Through this adaptation, the restaurant will have a chance to know the kind and type of food that the residents like and how they prefer it to be prepared. The company will attract more of its consumers in the surrounding area through this market adaptation. Also, the Rebalance restaurant should have an excellent commercial advertisement that will help it reach more clients and attract more consumers and promote more profit (Wang et al., 2018). The act of good hospitality will enable the hotel to attain and meet good service to the consumers which will be able to achieve the customer’s satisfaction. Exemplary service will enable workflow in the hotel to run more effectively in that there will be no overflow of the duties.
Rebalance companies will be able to venture into strategies that are local so as to attain their objectives. Through this, the restaurant will be able to meet its client’s wants and needs. With this kind of approach, the hotel will enable the restaurant to reopen other branches. Through the market plan, Rebalance will be able to use various approaches that will enable it to get and attract more consumers (Wang et al., 2018). These methods include a promotion that will enable the restaurant to reach more of its clients and attract even more consumers. The Rebalance company will use the 4 Ps used in the market mix (Tosun, 2017). This kind of approach will enable the hotel to attain its target and satisfy its clients’ needs and wants. The 4ps include price, promotion, people, and physical evidence.
CPD Records and the Code of Conduct
CPD code of conduct will apply to all employees, from managers to staff members. The code of conduct will help the restaurant to set or implement some of the policies that will lead to the Rebalance restaurant’s improvement. Through this, it helps Rebalance company to grow and maintain its consumers. Moreover, it will help the restaurant to be innovative and generate new opportunities for the company (Murray & Ward, 2019). The code of conduct will manage all the working staff members to be able to practice the essence of the ethical mode of standard, and also it helps to protect the Rebalance’s reputation.
Rebalance company through the use of the code of conduct will enable the staff to work together as a team and also to be able to respect one another during working hours. Through this practice, the company will be able to attain equity (Murray & Ward, 2019). It will increase access in that it creates room for employees to be able to grow professionally and also have the best mode that will improve their working skills which will be done through training. It will also improve workplace safety and health measures for the consumers (Murray & Ward, 2019). This will ensure that all standards of food health will be maintained. Rebalance company will be able to make and come up with correct decisions whenever a problem arises.
Reflection on the Consultancy Process and Experience
This document has been created to acknowledge the completion of the project, which focused on Rebalance Company setup. The project specifically targeted working and middle-class professionals. It is a London-based subscription company that has majored in diet and nutrition. Its marketing campaign is targeting young people to ensure that it has gained a created a strong brand. Following a brief summary of the company’s key competitors and porter’s five forces of competition, we presented the findings of the company’s marketing report (Soboleva & Parshutina, 2016). The report included factors such as the communication strategy, target market, and marketing communication channel. Benefits associated with social media marketing were offered with the support of ‘The Future Timeline’ and ‘The Model of Strategic Growth.’ I applied the Customers Focus and Innovation Module when I used the 7P’s for marketing.
One of the significant events for the Rebalance Company consultancy was project planning. The group consented to archive many words each week to stay away from the issue of delay in finishing and presenting the report. The final compilation of the report was produced using the bits of material made during the earlier weeks. Another benefit of recording pieces in the week in which they happen is that recollections are more precise when reported in a period no longer from the event of the occasions (Kuhlmann & Vogeler, 2020). Nonetheless, reflection expects somebody to remove time from the events. The blend of the two contemplations assisted us with having realities of how they had occurred, just as permitting us an opportunity to isolate from occasions to make a target impression of results and assumptions.
In this part, I realized that project planning and perceiving limitations to project completion are fundamental for fruitful task fulfillment. I consider the undertaking productive because it was completed within the timelines, the quality was verified as excellent, and the expense was negligible. The headliner in the venture was the market overview, which we directed in the downtown area. I figured out how to approach individuals who I was meeting interestingly. There were two alternatives that we might have used to frame groups for the review. In one, we might have separated ourselves into two groups and gone to various spaces of the city. In the other alternative, we might have functioned as a solitary group and picked various spots in the city at various times (Kuhlmann & Vogeler, 2020). In these methodologies, we needed to build the number of individuals who acknowledged becoming respondents to our study. Expanding the size of a group creates validity, yet it reduces the pace of conducting the overview. To adjust the compromise between credibility and rate of completion, we decided to lead the review as two groups in various pieces of the city at various times.
In this event, I realized a challenge when a significant number of individuals wouldn’t participate in the review as respondents. A decent presentation with another respondent expanded the opportunity of leading a reputable study. I urge the group to perceive that the market review is the main piece of our venture. I caused them to comprehend that various individuals have various purposes behind declining to be met or to fill in a poll. They could be in a rush. Others could see that the survey is excessively long for their necessary time. We needed to survey reasons why individuals could decline to be met (Kuhlmann & Vogeler, 2020). We made plans to consider the little part of the sample that was acknowledged to be our respondents. We evaluated the information collection process as a triumph, given that the individuals who accepted were a decent part of the total number of the individuals who were requested.
Before my consultancy service with Rebalance Company, I experienced anxiety because I considered the company a big client. The marketing campaign was new to me, but I found it interesting, and it provided an opportunity to acquire new skills and augment my skills and knowledge about the food industry. Probably the company has received better reports from other consultants. However, the anxious feelings changed when I met with the client, after which they expressed that they had great expectations of my findings and recommendations for their brand development (Tosun, 2017). They saw me as an experienced person who could offer new findings and suggestions that would help in marketing their brand. While conducting the market survey, I felt threatened because of the numerous resources that were required to collect market data. However, I gradually reached a point of acceptance when I decided to work on the data that I was able to collect from the market survey of the food industry.
The consultancy experience helped in understand the situation in the food industry better. It enabled me to understand how customers in the food market behave and how best to target them in order to attract and retain them (Tosun, 2017). Despite the challenges I experienced, I was inspired by the fact that I wanted to make a difference to my client by helping them market and develop their brand. I was confident in the value that I could add to the client. I did not know a lot about the client of the food industry, but I certainly learned much from them, as well as they did from me (Tosun, 2017). The most significant issue I experienced throughout the consultation was ensuring that the main was being addressed. Through working with staff from the company, I developed relationship-building skills, as well as an ability to build rapport. The experience was laborious and, at times, difficult, but it was a good learning experience. I gained an authentic knowledge of working as a business consultant. I was able to liaise with stakeholders and the marketing team in order to understand the organization’s marketing objectives for the campaign.
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The 1st Wednesday of every February is National Signing Day.
HIgh school athletes across the United States sign a Letter of Intent to attend a college.
It is a huge deal. Young men and women have worked hard many years to attain athletic success and this is their day of recognition for a college scholarship.
As a mom of an 8 year old who already practices night and day with his sights set on an athletic scholarship, I can only imagine the pride the parents feel to see a dream of your child come to fruition.
Not to mention the thought of a FREE RIDE for your child to receive a college education.
I would be overwhelmed at either of my sons earning a college scholarship, but apparently some parents have more criteria when it comes to signing a NLI (National Letter of Intent).
Last year Landon Collins of Louisiana announced on national tv that he would attend The University of Alabama (blah). His mother was shocked and upset by his decision as she wanted him to attend LSU (no we are not related). She didn’t bite her tongue and let the world know she disagreed with his choice.
This year, a running back from Florida, Alex Collins (no relation) has been in the media because his mother wants him to stay close to home and attend The University of Miami. After a drama filled day, Alex eventually signed his NLI to play at The University of Arkansas. His mom was not present for his big day and she has since attained legal representation from The Cochran Firm.
Who knows the specifics of what is going on, but COME ON!!! This was the big day for Alex Collins to relish in the reward of years of hard work, training, and discipline. Only to upstaged by his mom’s tantrum of him not choosing the school of her liking.
Whatever her reason, it’s incredibly selfish to make your child’s moment about you whether it’s intentional or not. Sit down somewhere!
Kids make choices and they will eventually make mistakes. But this is how they grow, learn, and evolve into young men. At some point our kids learn to be accountable for their actions. As parents we have to take a back seat and allow our children to stand on their own feet. When they fall, we are there to help them up.
Falling down is part of life. Don’t cripple your child but not allowing him the ability to learn resilience and redemption from mistakes and indiscretion.
Have faith that you’ve been a good parent and instilled the tools in your child to make sound choices. And when they mess up, it’s our job not to say “I told you so” but rather “I am here for you and love you unconditionally“.
I don’t understand these moms that have such an opinion about where their son goes to play a sport to attend a college. I really don’t. Many chastise me and say I’d feel otherwise if Mo wanted to play football against LSU. I really wouldn’t. The thought of just not having to pay outta pocket for his education would make me smile regardless of the University!
Choosing a college is a big deal. It’s not choosing the Taliban. Or becoming a Vegas stripper. The kids are choosing EDUCATION! How can you frown on that?
Let’s do better parents. Birdie is leaving the nest and mommy needs to find a new hobby.
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Intel has introduced a mini NUC PC powered by Santa Clara's Bay Trail chipset (1.46 GHz Intel Atom SoC with 5W TDP).
The system employs passive cooling, rather than the traditional fan associated with x86 architecture.
Additional features include 8GB of RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage and support for a 2.5 inch hard drive or solid state drive (SSD).
The system is also equipped with one USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports, three internal USB 2.0 ports, HDMI and VGA ports, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet and antennas for an optional wireless card.
As Liliputing's Brad Linder notes, the system isn’t exactly considered a high-performance PC.
"It’s powered by a single-core Intel Atom Bay Trail processor and it’s aimed at enterprise solutions such as thin client systems or digital signage rather than home use," he explained.
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Freeze fresh mint leaves and you can enjoy the delicious flavor and aroma of the mint after gardening season is long past. Although frozen mint leaves will retain their refreshing minty flavor, the leaves will lose some of their bright color, and will become somewhat limp. Although frozen mint leaves may not look as good as fresh mint leaves, frozen mint is a tasty addition to a variety of foods, from peas and carrots to ice cream and hot tea. If you don't have an herb garden, purchase fresh mint at your favorite organic grocery store or farmer's market.
Harvest mint leaves in the morning before the heat of the day. Cut the entire mint plant clear down to the ground, or leave about 3 to 4 inches if you want to harvest another crop of mint leaves in a few weeks.
Strip the mint leaves from the mint plant by running your fingernails down the stems. Place the mint leaves in a colander, and clean the leaves under cool, running water. If you're freezing a large amount of mint leaves, put the leaves in a large bowl or a clean kitchen sink, and swish the leaves in the water. Repeat, if necessary, until the mint leaves are clean.
Place the mint leaves between a thick layer of paper towels, and pat the towels gently until the mint leaves are dry.
Spread the clean mint leaves out on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for three or four hours, or until the mint leaves are frozen.
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The FDA has approved Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc’s Bydureon (exentatide extended-release for injectable suspension) as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Bydureon is an extended-release formulation of Byetta, and the 2 medications should not be used together.1
Bydureon carries a boxed warning regarding its potential risk of thyroid tumors or medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Its approval also carries the following limitations: Bydureon should not be used as first-line therapy for patients whose diabetes is inadequately controlled with diet and exercise, in patients with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis, or in conjunction with insulin, and it should be avoided in patients with a history of pancreatitis, as it has not been studied in this population.
Bydureon is the first once-weekly treatment for type 2 diabetes. Bydureon is approved with a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy.2
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics
Bydureon is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist that works to enhance glucose-dependent insulin secretion, suppress inappropriately elevated glucagon secretion, and slow gastric emptying.
Neither race nor gender affected the pharmacokinetics of Bydureon.1
Dosage and Administration
Bydureon should be given as a 2-mg subcutaneous injection every 7 days. It can be administered at any time of day and without regard to meals. The suspension should be injected immediately after mixing. Bydureon should never be given via intravenous or intramuscular injection.1
A 24-week, randomized, open-label trial compared Bydureon with Byetta in 252 patients with type 2 diabetes that was inadequately controlled with diet and exercise alone or with an antidiabetic medication. The mean baseline hemoglobin A1C was 8.4%. Patients received either Bydureon 2 mg subcutaneously once weekly or Byetta 10 mcg subcutaneously twice a day in addition to their preexisting antidiabetic medications. At the study’s end, a statistically significant change in A1C was found: A1C decreased by 1.6 points in the Bydureon group and 0.9 points in the Byetta group.1,2
Contraindications, Warnings, and Precautions
Bydureon carries a boxed warning regarding its potential risk of thyroid tumor or MTC. In rats, Bydureon caused an increased incidence in thyroid C-cell tumors; however, it is unknown if Bydureon causes thyroid C-cell tumors, including MTC, in humans, as human relevance could not be determined by clinical or nonclinical studies.
Bydureon is contraindicated in patients with a personal or family history of MTC and in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2. Bydureon is contraindicated in patients with a history of serious hypersensitivity to Bydureon or any of its components.
Postmarketing data have shown Bydureon to be associated with acute pancreatitis, including fatal and nonfatal hemorrhagic or necrotizing pancreatitis. If pancreatitis is suspected, Bydureon should be discontinued immediately and should not be resumed if pancreatitis is confirmed. The risk of hypoglycemia may be increased when Bydureon is used concomitantly with a sulfonylurea and a lower dose of the sulfonylurea may be needed.
Bydureon should not be used in patients with end-stage renal disease or severe renal impairment and should be used cautiously in patients with renal transplantation. Bydureon should not be used in patients with severe gastrointestinal disease. Patients using Bydureon may develop antibodies to it. Serious hypersensitivity reactions have been reported.
Bydureon is Pregnancy Category C and should not be used in women who are pregnant. Bydureon should not be used while breast-feeding. Bydureon is not approved for use in pediatric patients.
Bydureon may reduce the rate of absorption of orally administered medications. Although Bydureon has not been studied with warfarin, there are postmarking reports of increased international normalized ratio (INR) with concomitant use of Byetta and warfarin. Patients using warfarin should have their INR monitored more frequently when Bydureon is initiated. Once a stable INR is documented, patients may resume their previous INR monitoring frequency.
1. Bydureon complete prescribing information. http://documents.bydureon.com/Bydureon_PI.pdf. Accessed May 2012.
2. FDA approves Bydureon – the first and only once-weekly treatment for type 2 diabetes. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=101911&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1653756&highlight=Bydureon. Accessed May 2012.
The Oncology Care Pharmacist in Health-System Pharmacy
According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 40% of men and women will be given a diagnosis of some form of cancer in their lifetime.
News from the year's biggest meetings
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It could create jobs, lower the cost of everyday household items and open thousands of new opportunities for business in the UK. That's what we know a trade deal with the US could do. And that's why Labour is prepared to give negotiations a chance. However, we also know that trade talks can go badly wrong for consumers and workers, and that's why we are actively involved to ensure that our concerns are addressed at this stage before any text is drafted.
Because we care, we have been listening to everyone who has something to say about Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We've engaged with thousands, and will talk to thousands more as the negotiations go on. We've heard concerns about the threat of corporations taking over and the privatisation of the NHS. This is not just a matter for MEPs, Parliament will debate the NHS and TTIP this week. We've been told about the risk to the water that we drink and the food that we eat. We've also heard the anger of those who feel left aside, even though their lives could be dramatically affected by a deal.
These concerns are our concerns. So we are doing what we can to find solutions, turn anger into resolve and deliver tangible results that we can all trust.
Sadly, the Coalition government's understanding of the TTIP stalls at the sight of its promises. Instead of trying to get it right, they have put "rocket-boosters" under the deal and signed off with both hands, before it is even drafted.
On hearing the Coalition speaking about TTIP, one can only conclude that they are unable to understand the legitimate concerns of those that rely on the NHS for their health, and need the rule of law and democracy to protect them. They say 'there's nothing to see here' when we can all see the potential threats to what we cherish.
As the European Labour Party spokesperson on TTIP, I am scrutinising its development very closely, and tasked with raising the alarm wherever I spot a potential danger. I've been talking to TTIP negotiators. I want to make sure that, unlike the Coalition government, the negotiators cannot ignore your concerns.
I can see that this message is starting to be heard. We are making progress on transparency with an unequivocal commitment of the new European Commission to go beyond previous practices. We are also moving on the contentious arbitration mechanism: Investor-State Dispute Development (ISDS). Where we once faced a solid wall of denial about the dangers of ISDS, we can now see widening cracks in the defence of this system of private justice for multinationals. Finally, a thorough debate has started on TTIP and loud voices have already spoken in our favour.
We still have a long way to go until the negotiations are concluded. However, because TTIP is yet to be written, this means we have an opportunity to seize the pen. The Tory-led Coalition is not interested in the details, and even if they were, it's been a while since they have been listened to in Europe. So let's make do without them, and try to get the deal right. Rightly, people have many questions, let me know yours and you can count on a response.
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Patient and Family Education FlashBook Jennifer Papa Contains simple, one-page, easy-to-read educational handouts. These instructional materials and strategies will help clients and families understand the evaluation and treatment of speech, language, cognition and swallowing disorders. This information will also aid family members in utilizing strategies outside of the treatment sessions to improve carryover.
You can print and provide these handouts to clients and family for nearly every area of speech language pathology: attention, memory, problem solving, executive function, aphasia/stroke, dysarthria, apraxia, voice, dysphagia, and GERD. This flashbook is essential for SLPs working with adults in acute care, acute rehabilitation, outpatient and skilled nursing facilities. All pages can be printed out easily and duplicated for family or caregiver use. New and individual documents can also be easily added to the drive.
FlashBooks are 2GB flash drives (or jump drives) containing tons of information and practical worksheets now available from AliMed. The flash drive is a storage device that includes flash memory that plugs into the USB port on your Mac or PC... smaller than a CD and more portable. Each of these contains activities, education and supplemental materials to utilize in speech therapy treatment. They are portable—can be clipped to name tags or lanyards. Worksheets are age appropriate and can be reproduced from the computer. Much more affordable that workbooks, no need to worry about ripped pages or broken bindings!
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Within "SUMMER SHOW: PART II" Voloshyn Gallery will present the curator project ''The Borders of Materiality. The Materialization of Sense’’ which suggests the participation of 11 authors: Victor Ariefiev, Yuriy Sivirin, Vitaliy Makoviy, C. Rabinovich, Ignat Solomko, Kinder Album, Pivnyky Time, Sergiy Ignatenko, Ivan Denysenko, Andriy Sydorenko, Fedir Alexandrovich.
In this project the curtor Oleksiy Timofeev discourses of the border of sense and if a piece of art can exist beyond the material outer shell: “The process of transferring senses in space establishes the limits to form, which encloses it inside, in such a way specifying spatial parameters for each single sense. The borders of the sense of the material world are outlined by means of a container, whereas in the ideal world they outstretch far away from the limits of the physical shell. The creation itself – is a container and environment of a sense and provides intertwinement of the material and the ideal, because from one side it owns specific qualities and from the other side it leaves for the immensity of the transcendental, attracting a spectator to follow”.
Simply speaking, when we convey a piece of art, usually we put it into a cardboard package, which is supposed to fit exactly the transported work, in such a way the sense of this work gains personal borders of enclosure, and the cardboard from the package materializes into separate sense, turning into the very creation. The idea is illustrated by presented at the exhibition the figure of a cardboard legionnaire, which used to be actually a package, after transfiguration became the container of the sense.
According to the reflections of Oleksiy Timofeev, there are three forms of the existence of the sense: material, nonmaterial and provisional. Provisional form is the creation itself.
Next, as we have already defined, the first appearance of the sense in the material world is a package box filled with artistic works. And the opposite to such manifestation of the sense is its ability to exist in our consciousness, skipping the material form as such. At the exhibition this form is well expressed by empty boxes. A spectator will be able to get acquainted with a name and a description of a painting or an object attached near, and to imagine after looking into the box what dimensions could be covered in space, but still it is just a pure sense, since the works aren’t presented in physical form.
So we are approaching to the following questions: “Is it necessary for artistic work to actually exist in the real world or it can be virtual that is enough to be self-sufficient piece of art? Is the so-called “box” really needed as material container of the creative idea?”
The exhibition ''The Borders of Materiality. The Materialization of Sense’’ really offers food for thought provided by different media: videos, objects, installations, sculptures, fine art. | <urn:uuid:eb3749ae-e02a-4180-bc0f-5d8f40396073> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voloshyngallery.art/eng/exhibitions/hranitsy-materialnocti-materializatsija-cmycla.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.926035 | 635 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Although there is nothing to see yet, Halifax Shipyard is at work building the nine new midshore patrol vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard.
On November 10 the Minister of National Defence, on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced the names of the first two vessels in the class.
The ships will be named after "heroic Canadians who put duty ahead of their safety in service to our country."
The first two will be called Caporal Joseph Kaeble, V.C. and Private James Peter Robertson, V.C.
Corporal (Caporal in French) Kaeble was a native of St-Moise, QC and Private Robertson of Pictou County, NS. Both lost their lives in the First World War, and were awarded the Victoria Cross (the highest military award) for their deeds.
A press release from the Government of Canada tells more about the men and their heroic actions. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Dedicates-New-Coast-Guard-Vessels-in-Remembrance-of-War-Heroes-1351019.htm
The new ships will be 43m in length, a speed of 25 knots, a range of 2000 nautical miles. They will be built to a Damen 4207 design, used by such countries as the Netherlands, UK, Jamaica, Barbados and Albania. They will be used by a joint CCG/RCMP marine security force to patrol the Great-Lakes/ St.Lawrence and east coast. | <urn:uuid:aff3337c-769a-41a1-9b06-3c7b5e17a5a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shipfax.blogspot.com/2010/11/halifax-shipyard-under-construction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.948746 | 327 | 1.914063 | 2 |
How much most common sustainability indicators and indices are used in Estonian policy papers
This paper highlights the complexity of measuring sustainable development (SD), gives an overview of connectedness and usage of most common Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI) in two policy papers in Estonia. Three main levels of the usage of SDI exist: (1) scientific one; (2) for statistical use and (3) those used in policy papers. I will investigate how (1) most well known scientific indicator’s sets or indices, (2) statistical SD indicators worked out by Eurostat and applied in Estonia and SD indices calculated for Estonia are used in (3) Chapter of Indicators of Long Term Strategy for Sustainable Development of Estonia. The main ruling policy paper “Coalition Agreement of the Government of Estonia” will be analysed from the same point of view. The results indicate the total mismatch – the most common SD indicators/indices are almost not used (Human Development Index is the only exception) and even from the 62 Eurostat SD indicators only 20 are used, which is 32.26 % only. The question remains, why the best academic and expert knowledge on measuring SD is ignored in sustainability and mainstream policy documents in Estonia. | <urn:uuid:c80dae7d-aef5-49e1-ad7f-ba8bd2c6418f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/how-much-most-common-sustainability-indicators-and-indices-are-used-in-estonian-policy-papers-26403 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904978 | 250 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Hebrews 10:26–27, “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
All Christians know that Christ paid a high price to redeem us from the power of sin. Nothing less than His death and suffering under the wrath of God could have secured our eternal salvation.
This death, which perfects the people of God (Heb. 10:14), necessitates a life of obedience lived out of gratitude for our salvation. Christ’s death necessitates a life that, while not perfect, is characterized by a heart that is inclined toward the things of God and not the things of evil. Where the heart is bent toward evil there is no sacrifice for sin; that is, Christ has not made sacrifice for such a person. For, if He had, that person would be governed not by sin but by love for Christ.
This is what the author of Hebrews tells us in today’s passage. Again we come to a solemn warning for the covenant community about the need for perseverance. If members of this community do not move away from sin, they will fall away and have an expectation of judgment and not the promises of God (vv. 26–27).
What exactly is in view here? John Calvin and John Owen both agree that the sin the author has in mind primarily is the complete and final renunciation of the faith after being enlightened to it. This is not to say that the elect can lose their salvation. As we saw when we studied Hebrews 6, it is possible to come to a knowledge of Christ apart from faith. Those who commit a final denial of Christ are of the group that had never really placed their faith in Him to begin with.
The emphasis on deliberate, or final, denial is important because, as the life of the disciple Peter demonstrates, true believers may temporarily deny Christ and still be restored. Owen points out that final denial is done “obstinately, maliciously, from choice, without compulsion or fear … and not when taken by surprise or falling through a sudden temptation, as when Peter denied Christ.” Final apostasy is not a sudden event but results from unrepentant indulgence in sin.
Again we note that the author of Hebrews, like every other believer, can only be sure of his own salvation. Therefore he must cast this warning in general terms. True believers will take it to heart and repent, turning from persistent sins that would otherwise lead them into final apostasy. But those without true faith will persist in unrepentant sin to their own condemnation.
Do you find yourself struggling with a particular sin that you just cannot overcome? Is there some violation of the law of God that you feel compelled to commit even though you believe in Christ? If so, repent, and find a pastor, friend, or counselor who can help you overcome your sin so that it will not lead you away from Christ. | <urn:uuid:7f55dfab-a3c6-4ee4-ac6d-e69901e92aaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://servantsofgrace.org/sinning-deliberately/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.949565 | 635 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The Global Irish Economic Forum brought Irish universities onto the agenda last week as the Chairman and CEO of Glen Dimplex announced that he believes there is a “need to pick the winners and the losers” of Ireland’s seven universities.
O’Driscoll went on to say that the role of Institutes of Technology also needs to be reformed, with a more substantial distinction made between ITs and universities in their manners of teaching. He said that “we need to redefine the role of ITs. They should not be quasi-universities. ITs should be about apprenticeships and internships.”
In agreement with O’Driscoll was Aer Lingus Chief Executive Christoph Mueller, who claimed that Ireland looks down on Institutes of Technology as being places for people who didn’t get into university. “We have to promote non-academic education as something equal to academic training, if not better.”
Currently there is a gap between Institutes of Technology and universities with regard to academic training, with the seven universities responsible for 93% of doctoral candidates in Ireland, 98% of research expenditure, 99% of research contracts and grants, and 84% of research staff from 2010-2011.
The employability of graduates also came under fire. Mueller said, “We need to incentivise employers to offer apprenticeships and internships. Irish graduates are not necessarily fit for their jobs. There should be on-the-job training as part of academic education.”
Despite this view, according to the European Commission Study on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Public Spending on Tertiary Education in 2009, Irish universities have the highest graduation rate in Europe and their graduates are in fact regarded as the most highly employable.
Almost 20,000 international students come to Ireland to study every year, but almost all of them leave immediately afterwards. The idea of visa extensions was floated, which should be given to entrepreneurial students from abroad to encourage them to set up businesses here.
This year the Global Irish Economic Forum was focused on job creation, with discussions held on the domestic economy, youth unemployment, technology and public financing, as well as education, over two days.
Present at the forum was Tánaiste Eamonn Gilmore, who said that all recommendations and ideas from the event would undergo further examination by the government. | <urn:uuid:cbb1b7aa-ba6a-4e15-a4dc-efe6cacac174> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.universityobserver.ie/news/economic-forum-recommend-reform-of-irish-its/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00539-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974123 | 484 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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There are 100 of them in there. They cannot get out. They've done their time. They are not free to go. They are Western State Hospital patients, well enough to be discharged from the psychiatric wards but, as a practical matter, unable to leave the grounds. You probably don't know them; you don't hear about them. They are nameless and faceless, held hostage by a mental health system that doesn't work and a society that doesn't care.
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If you were a prison inmate who had served your sentence and yet you couldn't get out of jail, society wouldn't just care—it would be outraged. There's a similar situation at Western State, in Steilacoom in Pierce County—the most notorious of Washington institutions—but the public outcry is missing. Two years ago, a new state program enabled stabilized patients to leave the hospital and, with help, make their way in the real world. But then this freedom train stopped, and 100 people were left in limbo. State and local health officials know there is an effective way to release them, one that's fast and cheaper than keeping them institutionalized. But they are afraid to act.
Twelve of these 100 patients are former prisoners; the rest have never been accused of any crime. They have rights. But, being mentally ill, they are screwed. Freedom is the creed of this country, but it mostly applies to these patients in the abstract.
One man for whom freedom has worked is a 53-year-old schizophrenic named Wei Li. He was in Western for six years. He's now in a progressive program run by Highline Mental Health in West Seattle, and he's proving to be a very determined patient. He knows the difference between in there and out here, despite the many challenges to piecing his life back together.
"More better," says Wei Li, whose mother tongue is Cantonese, of life out here.
The reason more patients—including the 100 in Western limbo—aren't winning the freedom Wei Li enjoys is that the Legislature and state and local mental health officials have created a system with knots that Hercules couldn't cut.
For society, the convenience of keeping people like Wei Li locked up is easy to justify. They're nuts. They're a menace. They can't live amongst us. We've long regarded the institutionalization of mental patients as a joke: "You're going to Western State," goes the giggling putdown of children and adults. So no one much cares about what goes on behind the low stone wall around Western's grassy hospital grounds or inside the graceful, early 1900s brick buildings. Plenty has. Rape. Torture. Murder. Seclusion for weeks and months strapped to a bed in leather restraints. Forced prefrontal lobotomies. Walking zombies. Frances Farmer.
The main entrance at Western State.
(Kevin P. Casey)
You went in and you didn't come out, and few gave a damn. Until the 1950s, Western patients' remains, unclaimed by families, were buried in a nearby graveyard. Names did not appear on markers. Instead, they got a number. Three thousand numbered graves lie near the Western campus today. No lie.
On occasion, journalists and citizen groups reported on deplorable conditions at Western. Lawsuits and spotty reforms followed. It took many decades, but Western made the shift from warehouse to hospital. Today, its wards—units, in Western's parlance— resemble hospital wings at a low-budget medical center. The cinderblock walls are painted gray. Patients get bedrooms with a dresser, desk, and mattress.
But our attitudes on the outside have not changed. Even in 2004, families forget about relatives in there. Why should the rest of us give a damn? They are crazed, unable to live in society, right?
But in the 21st century, something's different: Medications and behavioral treatment for schizophrenics—the hospital's core population—are far, far better than in decades past when doctors used cold baths as a treatment. People can improve. They can "recover," as many in the mental health field now call a patient's progress from the depths of illness to reintegration into society. They can live in society, and they should not be held without prospect of release.
A few years ago, the Legislature and state mental health officials hammered out a plan to downsize Western. It costs $425 a day to hold a patient at the hospital, but it would cost one-third that to house them in a group home or halfway house and offer a reorientation program like the one at Highline. Indeed, over the past two years, patients who previously would have had little chance of being freed were released through a state program called Expanding Community Services (ECS). Seventy adults and about 100 geriatrics tasted freedom for the first time in years via ECS. Among the adults, only five have returned to Western—a far cry from the regular recycling of patients.
But that gate has slammed shut. State and local officials have put the exodus on hold until late 2005 at the earliest. And so a hundred people wait in Western, able to leave but with nowhere to go. Many of the 70 adults who got out had been in a special unit at the hospital called the Program for Adaptive Living Skills (PALS). It exists to prepare patients for freedom. But, in practical terms, it's as restrictive as Western State Hospital proper. This is crazy. Convicts get out of prison when they've served their time, with nowhere for them to go. Level 3 sex offenders—considered the most likely to reoffend—get a better shot at freedom than Western patients.
That might make sense to you somehow, but even the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't buy that logic.
Wei Li, a 53-year-old schizophrenic, begged to be released from Western State.
(Kevin P. Casey)
'Please Get Me Out of Here'
Inside Western one day last fall, Wei Li shuffled up to a woman named Ravenna Candy. She is a therapist for that innovative program at Highline Mental Health. It takes long-term Western patients, the hard core of the chronically mentally ill, moves them into three- or four-bedroom homes, and gives them appropriate medication, intensive training in living skills, and a strong dose of behavioral therapy. Candy was there to assess other patients. Wei Li wasn't on her list. But Wei Li knew she was his ticket out of PALS, out of Western, back to see his mother. He knew the gate could be opened.
He lowered himself to his knees and put his hands together. His hair is black and brush-cut. He bowed. "Please, lady, please. Get me out of here."
He was one of the harder cases at PALS. Wei Li had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since he was an adolescent in Canton during the Cultural Revolution and since coming to this country in the 1970s. He was needy for human contact while at Western, to the point of grabbing people just to touch them, to remind himself that there was something else at the end of his hands. His family had largely left him in his bedroom in a small tan house on Mercer Island from the late 1980s until, after many hospitalizations at Western, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, and Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wei Li was most recently committed to Western in 1999. He had not seen his mother since then.
Still, Candy was impressed by his desire. On Dec. 1, 2003, she drove Wei Li to Burien, where Highline Mental Health manages the homes for the former Western residents, under the flight path of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Wei Li had not been outside the wall surrounding Western for four years. The man could barely walk. He moved into a two-story house with vinyl siding and a cathedral ceiling, got his own room and his own bed with a real box spring and mattress. A nightstand. A dresser. A metal folding chair. A semblance of normalcy.
He also got a case manager named Kim Brown. She knows all about Western and the road back, having been involuntarily committed there for three months in 1997. After she came out, Brown got a psychology degree from the University of Washington and devoted her career to helping people like her.
At first, you have to work to understand Wei Li. His Cantonese accent is still thick. The medications he takes—mostly the so-called atypical antipsychotics, designed to quiet schizophrenia's hallucinations and behaviors—make it harder still to understand him. His mouth is dry to the point where his tongue is white and grooved like a dry lake bed. You have to lip-read when you first listen to him.
When I met Wei Li in early June, he was still in tough shape. He shuffled slowly, hunched over like an old man too proud for a cane. He led me to his room and stood there in front of me. I didn't know what to ask him. I could barely understand the man. He blurted out that he bought his clothes at Value Village, $2 for a faded purple polo shirt and $4 for a pair of gray cargo pants. He wore knockoff Birkenstocks.
"I tell you something, sir," he said. "If I make mistake, I don't see my mother." He held out his arms, his wrists touching one another. He clenched his fists. He knew the score—a ride in a cop car to a psych hospital, his freedom gone.
I met other former Western patients at lunch that day at a nearby Highline Mental Health facility in Burien. One man had been in Western for 15 years. Another trembled constantly. Others walked as though they'd just been punched in the abdomen. Some of them own cars. They shop for secondhand clothes and food. They have friends who visit. Some have no one. Most of them live on about $500 a month in Social Security benefits, with which they pay for housing and food. A tough life. But all of them seemed very much in the present. Their faces were bright with recognition of the reality around them.
Wei Li was still struggling to get there. Later, I watched him shuffle along the dirt shoulder of the road leading back to his home. Brown walked alongside. Wei Li kicked up small clouds of dust.
Both Brown and Candy told me that he is a very determined man. I had my doubts as to how far that would get him.
The rooms are spartan, but conditions are better than in Western State's old "warehouse" days.
(Kevin P. Casey)
Free to Go, But Where?
Today, 100 patients languish in PALS in Western. Seventy-five percent are men, 25 percent women. Eighty percent are white, 10 percent African American, the remainder a mix of other ethnicities. The most common diagnosis is schizophrenia, but there are a few with bipolar disorder—manic depression—as well.
The program costs $5 million a year and is overseen by the Department of Social and Health Service's Mental Health Division.
Western State houses about 400 other adult psychiatric patients and approximately 200 geriatric psychiatric cases. There also are 240 mentally ill people in a new and very secure forensic unit—a prison to you and me. A court found them to be not guilty by reason of insanity, or they are being held in an attempt to get them competent enough to stand trial.
Regular Western patients are held on what is known as involuntary commitment. They have been determined to be a danger to themselves and others. A mental health commissioner from Pierce County Superior Court reassesses their commitments every six months.
PALS patients, on the other hand, are not held on involuntary commitment. Forty are in PALS "voluntarily." Sixty are on what's called LRA—least-restrictive alternative—an agreement with a court to undergo PALS treatment or be put on more restrictive hold as a regular Western patient.
All of the PALS participants enjoy a measure of physical freedom. They can walk through glass doors at the west end of the building anytime they wish between 6 a.m. and midnight, 2 a.m. on weekends. The LRAs, too, can make their way a quarter-mile to a gas station and buy potato chips and soda. Many also buy cigarettes. They have to smoke well away from the PALS building.
They walk in and out of those doors, sometimes to the Albertson's a half-mile to the east. The less mobile stay in their rooms. Others slump in chairs in front of televisions in a day room. High doses of atypical antipsychotics induce sleep, and very powerful dreams several times a day. A good number of patients I saw at PALS over a three-hour period also had that shuffle and a haunted look to them—mouths, faces, and eyes hardly moving.
It felt like a zoo for Homo sapiens.
The essential idea behind PALS is to get these patients—technically discharged from Western and medically stable—ready to live in what everyone in mental health circles calls "the community," where the rest of us reside. Some will be in PALS for perhaps three months. Others will be in PALS far longer. The current record holder has been there eight years. Some have been in Western and PALS for more than two decades.
Western and state officials say that 50 of the PALS patients have had some kind of criminal past and will be very difficult to place. Twelve of them were in Western's forensic unit. They are rapists and murderers. Each has served their sentence. The other 38 committed misdemeanors and low-level felonies. They were not charged with a crime, owing to their illnesses, and were sent to Western's adult units. Many mental health programs don't want them. Many are caught in Western and PALS for years longer than a common felon would be jailed for the same crime. Along with the 50 other patients, they are free to go. All 100 could walk out through the glass doors, catch a bus on Steilacoom Boulevard, and never return. About five people give it a go each year. They come back soon enough. They don't get treated in the outside world. They melt down. They are committed all over again.
The old hospital graveyard is marked with numbers instead of names.
(Kevin P. Casey)
PALS patients I spoke with know all about this cycle. That's why they walk back through the doors every evening like children at summer camp. They are free, and there is nowhere to go.
The system has them tethered. PALS is their shelter. It's where they get treatment. It's where they eat. It's where they have a sense of community. Should they leave, nothing as good as PALS awaits. They have to cooperate. They have to hope a bed becomes available in Tacoma or Seattle. Until then, they have to cool their heels and wait for the state to stoke the freedom train again.
It's a bizarre limbo. Some patients I spoke with can handle that. Some find it outrageous.
"Why am I here?" says Shawn Clark, who's been at Western and PALS for three years. "I'm ready to roll." He's still waiting to find a space at a group home in King County.
"It's kind of like the prison system," says Mike Dyer, a nurse at Western for 18 years. "We know these people would do best out in the community, but the community just doesn't want to deal with it."
Jacked Up On Meds
A few days later, I tagged along with Wei Li and Brown. We went to a strip mall restaurant in Burien. Wei Li likes noodles and sweet and sour pork, and plenty of it. After, we went to a neighboring Safeway. Watermelon was $3 a pound that day, and Wei Li couldn't afford it. "How about cantaloupe?" Brown said. She encourages him to eat plenty of fruit. "You need to eat healthy, Wei Li. Remember?"
"OK." Wei Li shuffled over to a bin of cantaloupes and picked up the first two he could reach. They were green and smelled a touch moldy. Brown put those back and taught Wei Li how to smell a ripe cantaloupe. We moved on. He bought oranges, a case of bottled water (hydration is crucial for people who take atypicals), a 12-pack pack of Diet Pepsi, and two bottles of Sunsweet prune juice, which he especially likes. He paid for it with his food stamps card. Then he demanded to go to a branch of U.S. Bank. Wei Li was convinced someone had stolen his checkbook. He had misplaced his check register.
"No one can get your money, Wei Li," Brown told him.
"Take me to bank." At the bank, he could barely slide his ID out of his wallet. The teller, behind an inch of Plexiglas, patiently explained to Wei Li that his account was safe. She gave him a new check register. "OK," he said. "OK."
Each time Wei Li got in and out of Brown's Honda Civic, I watched to see if he would remember to lock the passenger door. Half the time he did. Not bad, all things considered.
Still, I had my doubts. How far could someone like Wei Li come back from the ravages of mental illness and more than half a decade in Western? Brown says Wei Li didn't get much individual attention there. Wouldn't he just walk out of his house one night and stumble into the path of a car on Des Moines Memorial Drive in Burien? Aren't we subjecting him to yet another convoluted half-freedom, jacked up on antipsychotic meds—freed by the meds and at once imprisoned by them? How much of how you are supposed to behave in society could he remember from the days before he cracked?
The more time I spent talking with Wei Li, the more I became convinced that he wasn't a zombie like some of those he left behind at PALS. His world has texture to it. He likes country music. He owns one compact disc, John Denver's Greatest Hits, plucked from the $1.99 bin at Fred Meyer. His CD player cost $27. He showed me his radio. He listens to country music on that, as well. Without fail, he offers guests Diet Pepsi. He calls everyone "sir" or "lady." He bows. He smiles a lot at visitors. He still knows how to connect.
Once, he insisted on making me lunch. I accepted. Brown wasn't around, and I wanted to see if the result would be a nice meal or a mess on the kitchen floor. The noodles and snow peas were great.
"Do you want to see your mother?" I asked him as we sat at the house's small dining table.
"Yes," he said, smiling. His face tightened. "One day. That's all I want."
As difficult as his situation is, I didn't once hear him complain.
Later in June, Wei Li awoke at 2 a.m. one morning and was unable to use his right hand. He figured that he'd slept on it. His hand and fingers were still uncontrollable seven hours later. I was to visit him that morning and arrived as Brown, Candy, a nurse, and his psychiatrist, Barry Grosskopf, came through the door. Was this a pinched nerve or something else?
The nurse moved his hand through its range of motion. So did his doctor. Wei Li could not do this under his own power.
Wei Li looked helpless sitting on the edge of his bed. His mouth was open and his eyes did not blink. No one dared say it within his hearing, but this was a threat to his progress. You never know what's going to trigger schizophrenia's demons, uncork a patient's wild behaviors.
Andy Phillips, Western's new CEO, says that the bad old days are long gone.
(Kevin P. Casey)
His room smelled of mold and body odor. Brown opened the windows. I sat on the metal folding chair for five minutes, furious that life had kicked him yet again, then went out on the tiny front porch and smoked cigarettes with Brown. I asked her how she kept level when something like this happened with a patient.
"I try to stay positive," she said. She was quiet for a moment. "This is a setback."
Grosskopf walked by. "I'm afraid Wei Li may have lost the use of his right hand."
If that happened, I figured it was game over for Wei Li. But Wei Li is a determined man.
The Olmstead Ruling
In 1965, Congress passed the Community Mental Health Centers Act. It was intended to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill. This policy was in part spurred by antipsychotic meds like Thorazine and Haldol—considered breakthroughs at the time—and partly by a desire to treat patients far cheaper in the community. There were approximately 500,000 people in state mental hospitals around the country at the time. They were subject to the same kind of inhumane treatment as Western patients experienced in the old days. But lawmakers made a cruel mistake. They did not provide funding for housing, leaving deinstitutionalized patients to fend for themselves. Many ended up on the streets. Or back in state mental hospitals. Or in prison. Or dead.
At the behest of President Ronald Reagan, the government took another swing at deinstitutionalization in the 1980s. Cost savings, again, were part of the impulse, but with the active encouragement of groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, freedom was trumpeted as the prime mover. Once again, there were few provisions for housing or aftercare. The deinstitutionalized flooded the streets of urban centers.
By the early 1990s, there were 93,000 people in state hospitals. In 2001, there were 53,000, a halving in just one decade. Much of that decrease can be tied to medications far better than the old ones and behavioral treatments that, to varying degrees, worked for everyone except the most hard-core cases. Without these meds, only 20 years ago people like me—bipolar and suicidal, as I detailed in these pages last January—would have wound up cuffed and belted into the back of a police car on the way to a state hospital.
Now we're permitted to remain in society. We're still problem children, of course. But since we aren't hurting anyone, we only have to grapple with marginalization.
Former Western patients face higher hurdles. Try, for example, explaining a two-, five-, or 10-year gap in your life on a job application.
It's no accident that many of the mentally ill have been discharged over the past decade. Three forces combined to make freedom possible: the meds, better treatment in the community, and a Supreme Court ruling that stands with Brown v. Board of Education as a landmark civil rights case.
Medications for schizophrenics such as Thorazine had immense side effects. They often reduced the mentally ill to people with frozen faces and blocky gestures. Locked down psyches. Jerky motions and shaky limbs—tonic movements, as they are called. The meds prevented wild behavior but reduced patients to robots in the process.
In the late 1990s, a breed of kinder, gentler antipsychotics came into wide use for schizophrenics and some bipolars. Called atypical antipsychotics, the best known among them are Risperdal and Seroquel. Compared to Thorazine and Haldol, they hardly have side effects (aside from potential long-term problems such as diabetes, for example) and give patients some measure of freedom from the hallucinations and rage to which schizophrenia and bipolar are heir.
These drugs alone have set many state hospital patients free around the country.
Community treatment has gotten better as well. Group homes and halfway houses aren't the extension of the state hospital they once were (and in some cases still are). They provide shelter, ready access to meds, and regular therapy. The trouble with those settings, as some in the mental health field put it, is that they are too institutional, and a good number of people cycle back to psychiatric hospitals.
A more humane alternative is just now coming into vogue across the nation. It's called Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), and it could be an effective solution for the 100 hostages at Western. ACT was developed in Wisconsin in the early 1970s, after state hospital personnel there tired of watching patients bounce between hospitalization and the community. They tried putting patients in their own apartments and small homes. Gave them some sense of attachment to the broader world. Worked with them at fast-food restaurants and coffee shops and in their own residences. And stayed on top of them. Reinforced behavioral goals every day, not once a week. Gave one case manager five patients, not 60.
Several studies over the past 25 years show that ACT dramatically reduces the number of rehospitalizations. ACT is used at the Highline Mental Health program. It's been so successful that only one of 22 Western and PALS adult patients in the Highline program has returned to the state hospital in two years. These results mirror other programs nationally.
The new generation of meds and ACT are ways to deal with the practical effects of mental illness, schizophrenia in particular. How to get people housed and integrated into the community. How to keep them from running around naked on Interstate 5. How to give them back their lives, piece by piece.
But a landmark 1999 Supreme Court ruling kicked the door open even more. Called Olmstead v. L.C., it was the first time the rights of institutionalized mentally ill patients were carved into law. Two state hospital patients in Georgia, one of them identified as L.C., brought the case. Olmstead is Tommy Olmstead, the then– commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Both patients were assessed to be treatable in the community but faced long waiting lists for group homes. That left them to wither in the hospital, partially free of illness but not of the institution. The court ruled that as long as patients could be treated better in the community and wanted treatment in the community, and it cost less to treat them in the community, they had to be released. What's more, the court found it unacceptable for states to claim that they didn't have the resources in the community to deal with all these people. These people had to be set free, pure and simple.
That ruling had important implications for Washington.
In 2002, the state took the first substantial steps to comply, releasing the 70 adults and about 100 geriatrics from Western and PALS into the state's ECS program. And then, that was all, with another 100 adults waiting for their chance to get out.
Wei Li with case manager Kim Brown: living with voices, but making progress.
(Kevin P. Casey)
Living With Voices
No one calls him just Wei, his given name. It's always Wei Li. It's two quick syllables, and it feels good to say it. Wei Li. Wei Li.
He hears it all the time. From Dr. Grosskopf and Kim Brown. From his radio. From the television. And, from the voices in his head. The ones that say, "We will kill you, Wei Li!"
Wei Li hears bad voices like those four times a day. They crumple him, and he folds into himself on his bed. Sometimes, his days are better—he hears the voices only twice. "Wei Li. Wei Li. Kill you!"
"They aren't real, Wei Li," Brown says, and she says it often—reinforcing behavior. "The TV is not talking to you, Wei Li."
"OK," Wei Li says. He smiles and lowers his head as if for a small bow and rolls his pupils up in his eye socket. "OK. You're my boss!"
"Wei Li, I don't control you. My job is to help you. You aren't a patient anymore."
He's buying the story for the moment: If you don't believe the voices are real, they won't come.
Some researchers say that schizophrenia will be cured in a decade with gene therapy. Wei Li doesn't have a decade. He has more immediate problems. The voices will hit again, within hours, of course. He'll think they are real, his regular tormentors making their scheduled appearances. Then, it's off on the scrambled brain narrative that's ruled his life from adolescence to middle age.
The voices and his occasional frustration at being so befuddled—he never gets angry, he's a remarkably gentle and polite man—aren't merely a medical issue. He'd been out of Western for seven months and still hadn't seen his mother. His brother-in-law, who runs the household for Wei Li's elderly parents, wouldn't let Wei Li visit his mother. Wei Li's sister had yet to come to Burien to see him. His brother-in-law visits every couple of weeks, along with Wei Li's father. They drive him to the International District. The two men buy him dim sum and Chinese noodles from a small market. On occasion, they take Wei Li to a barber shop.
They didn't want Wei Li near the family home until they could be certain he would be controllable. He was mostly there, despite clinging to the notion that President Bush speaks to him. I was around Wei Li repeatedly over a period of two months. Not once did I see him act badly toward anyone. He doesn't have a mean word in his mouth. But mental illness is a huge stain for some families, a blot on a good name. His family wanted to proceed with extreme caution. Wei Li wasn't going to see his mother anytime soon.
But hearing voices in Burien beats the hell out of hearing them in Steilacoom. "More better, more freedom," he says when asked about the difference between Western and Highline.
When I asked Wei Li what life was like back in the dimly remembered past, the details come out in small pieces. A stocking job at a Safeway in Redmond. A job assembling electronic parts somewhere else on the Eastside. Marriage to a woman from Canton. Taking the bus from Mercer Island to Redmond and back. He liked the trees behind his family's home. He's foggy on the when and where, but he knows that he was in and out of private psych hospitals and King County's principal psych unit at Harborview Medical Center. That's what Wei Li remembers—and that his wife divorced him while he was being held at Western.
The amount of crap that he's been through is startling. He still couldn't use his right hand beyond a weak squeeze in late July—he's on Medicaid, and Harborview didn't have time to see him until Aug. 9.
Otherwise, there often are little spikes on the register of hope. One morning, Wei Li and I sat on his front porch and watched airliners as they powered toward the runway at Sea-Tac. We turned it into a game—who could identify which airline. I worked with him on Alaska Airlines. He nailed that one. He is fond of the fur-trimmed Alaskan Native painted on the tail of Alaska's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas jets. We tried United Airlines, with the multicolored U on the tail. I wanted to see if it would cement in his mind.
A week later, we went back to the porch. I pointed north as a creamy jet approached. "Alaska," Wei Li said. And, as another jet glided over us, he said, "United."
Wei Li took a drink of Diet Pepsi. "Very good, sir."
Money, Time, and Meetings
In 2002 and 2003, the state's mental health officials had their act together. They were on the way to catching up to all the freedom they should offer in the wake of Olmstead, with the new medications and programs like the one in Burien.
But most of the patients released were geriatrics, classed as anyone over 60 years old at Western. In all the adult units at Western, there's a sad story around every corner and behind every door. But you can handle that. They are in their 30s and 40s. Presumably, they have some life left and could still spend much of it outside of Western.
It's the geriatric units at the hospital that will shake you up. A woman with drooping cheeks rolls her wheelchair slowly around the unit. She holds a Mylar balloon with an American flag on it. She has none of the freedoms that come with that flag. She and the other patients stare out a series of windows at terra cotta planters filled with bright flowers hanging on a fence topped with barbed wire.
About 100 geriatrics were released to nursing homes and long-term care facilities in 2002 and 2003. Seventy adults were released, as well, some into traditional group homes, others into more aggressive treatment. The adults mostly came through the PALS program. Some were in tough shape like Wei Li, others were already back to being "high functioners," as they are called in mental health circles.
Life on the outside includes walks in the park for Wei Li.
(Kevin P. Casey)
Then came the screeching halt. Only a trickle of patients was coming out of PALS, and those were typically patients who had been in Western on three- and six-month holds. State officials didn't want the freedom train to stop. Both the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and its Mental Health Division wanted to close PALS by the end of 2004. They were confident they could place the majority of the remaining 100 patients. Western employees say they wanted to see the releases continue, too. It was more humane for the patients, especially given the newer meds and better treatment options in the community.
The trouble was that local mental health departments—known as RSNs, or Regional Support Networks—got spooked. Some of the PALS patients would be difficult to place, mostly those with criminal pasts. The local agencies argued that, due to budget cuts enacted by the Legislature, they would not have the funding to absorb them. They needed more money and resources, and lots of it, they said. They needed time to administer it all, and lots of that, too. And they wanted to have plenty of meetings.
State officials decided to stop the transition to community living until everyone could get on the same page.
Dennis Braddock, secretary of DSHS, says that the $5 million PALS budget could be shifted from Western to agencies like Highline. But he says he's hamstrung. Braddock says he cannot predict how the Legislature will resolve the state's Medicaid crisis next year. Will they cut funding again or increase it? Will they agree to pick up the tab for non-Medicaid patients who are falling through the cracks? Without knowing those answers, Braddock and Karl Brimner, director of the state's Mental Health Division, say they have no room to maneuver.
Still, the PALS 100 have an absolute right to freedom. By the time the Legislature and DSHS shake hands on an agreement and the discharges begin again, it will be late 2005, at best. More than a year. Sure, the bureaucracy has its needs. But weighed against someone's freedom, those needs are picayune.
Even the local mental health officials recognize that there is an imbalance here. They are careful how they admit that, however. I asked Amnon Schoenfeld, the director of King County's Mental Health Division, the RSN for the Seattle area, when the rights to freedom and liberty of the PALS patients trumped the bureaucracy. He paused. "Yes," he answered.
Disability law experts don't buy that.
"We'll give you services if you agree to stay at the hospital, that's what they are saying," says Ira Burnim, legal director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. He was on the legal team that brought the Olmstead case to the Supreme Court. "That's what Olmstead says is illegal. For this to take a year and a half is absurd."
"Does it violate their rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act?" asks Steve Gold, an attorney representing ADAPT, a disability advocacy group. Olmstead is based on the ADA, as it's known. "Sure it does, if they could live in their own homes or in group homes. The law doesn't say 'the least restrictive' but 'the most integrated.'" The real world instead of PALS.
Here's what's crazy about this: The state has the money to make this happen, and programs like Highline's are willing to take the PALS patients into their care. But nothing is happening.
'It's Not Rocket Science'
It would be easy to flay state and local bureaucrats over this stalemate. They are, after all, the ones in charge of the system. Journalists are supposed to rail against the lazy bureaucrat in such situations. To be fair, the system, designed to provide long-term care to the chronically mentally ill, has been so tangled for so long that, barring a global solution, it will be impossible to untie it.
"There are too many moving parts," said Braddock, when I asked how things had gotten so knotted up. And, with the Legislature cutting tens of millions of dollars in mental health services over the past four years (with more to come, possibly), it's not likely things will be different in the immediate future.
All the same, state and local officials should look at this as an opportunity to be creative. It's unacceptable to delay the release of PALS patients until late 2005. We don't have the right to revoke another 16 months of their lives. We have a social compact with these people like Wei Li. They are supposed to get out as soon as they are able. Someone has to find the will to do something.
One person who sees a better, faster way to get this done is David Johnson, CEO of Highline Mental Health. He says that it would take but two months to expand Highline's program and house another 20 to 30 patients from PALS over a six-month period. Other mental health providers could do it, too.
"It's not rocket science," he says.
Johnson says his program would take on ex-felons. In fact, there are already some in the Highline program, and there have been no problems.
And Wei Li himself ought to be example enough that discharging people from Western is worthwhile.
On a recent hot July day, he sat at a small dining table in his home across from Brown. He said that he still heard voices each day.
"Bad things I imagine in my mind," he said. "I can't control."
Brown looked at him for a moment. She has a sympathetic face and that day it was working overtime. She was angry that Harborview Medical Center had yet to examine Wei Li's hand, almost a month after it became unusable.
"The best thing is to make sure you have a good life anyway," she said. Earlier, she told me that Wei Li's future was hard to predict. He'd probably be unable to live with his family again. He is too much for them to cope with. As he improves, he might be able to hold down an assembly job for 10 to 20 hours a week, assuming he can find an understanding employer. Most likely, he'll always have to rely on public funding for housing, food, and medical care.
"OK," said Wei Li.
Later, we took Wei Li to Seahurst Park in Burien, along Puget Sound. The view across the Sound to Vashon Island and the Olympic Mountains is gorgeous. There is a path that runs under some hardwood trees along the seawall. It was cool under the trees.
Wei Li began to walk. He stopped and raised his arm, his splinted hand and wrist, and said "hello" to everyone who passed.
He walked quickly, with a regular stride. He did not kick up dust on the path. Brown and I let him walk ahead of us.
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This splendid Central Europe river cruise introduces you to the magnificent Main, Rhine, and Moselle Rivers, as well as to the fascinating Main Danube Canal. Your vacation begins with two overnights, guided sightseeing, and a visit of the Hradcany Castle grounds in the “Golden City” of Prague.
Also enjoy guided sightseeing in Bamberg, Würzburg, and Trier. Visit the Bishop’s Residenz in Würzburg, Siegfried’s Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum in pretty Rüdesheim, and enjoy a tasting of Moselle wines in Bernkastel. Other highlights: cruise through the dramatic Rhine Gorge, and travel by high-speed train to Paris. Your vacation ends in Paris with two overnights and guided sightseeing of the major sights.
Motor coach transportation is included from various pick-up points to Chicago O’Hare airport for the overnight flight to Prague. If you prefer to book your own flights, you can meet the rest of the group in Paris
Welcome to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The city straddles the Vltava River with domes, cupolas, spires, and pinnacles highlighting its skyline.
Hotel: Hilton Prague Old Town (or similar)
Prague is a 1,200-year-old city preserved in time, and, unlike other Central European capitals, it was not bombed during the 20th-century wars. On your guided sightseeing tour, see its best-known treasures, such as the Old Town’s Astronomical Clock, dating from the 15th century and once the envy of all of Europe; Hradcany Castle grounds; St. Vitus Cathedral; and the Charles Bridge, the oldest bridge in Prague. Browse the shops for hand-cut crystal or art books. Mix with the locals in Wenceslaus Square, an important meeting point where people demonstrated against the communist regime; watch performers and shop at the market stalls on Charles Bridge; wander around the medieval Old Town, dating from the 10th century; sample the local plum dumplings and Pilsner; or stroll along the Vltava River. Your Cruise Director will have more suggestions for you.
Hotel: Hilton Prague Old Town (or similar) (Breakfast)
After lunch, drive to Nuremberg, where your river cruise vessel is docked. Before dinner, meet your crew for a welcome reception. (Breakfast, Dinner)
In the early morning hours, arrive in medieval Bamberg, former residence of one of Germany’s most powerful imperial dynasties and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your guided walk takes in its historic center, including the great 13th-century Romanesque cathedral and the fascinating Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall)—built on an island in the middle of the Regnitz River when the bishop refused to give the townspeople land for a town hall! This afternoon, enjoy some relaxing time on board as you cruise toward Würzburg on the Main River. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Arrive in Würzburg during breakfast. Surrounded by verdant hillside vineyards, Würzburg, also known as the “Pearl of the Romantic Road,” makes an immediate impression with imposing Fortress Marienberg perched above town and the 15th-century Alte Mainbrucke (Old Main Bridge). On your guided sightseeing tour, visit the magnificent baroque Bishop’s Residnez, home to the largest ceiling fresco ever painted. This afternoon you might like to join an optional excursion to medieval Rothenburg. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
On the banks of the Main River you find cultural gems of small towns, many of them tucked away behind defensive walls and towered gates. Half- timbered houses, narrow streets and medieval town centers, these picturesque Bavarian villages are a photographer’s delight. Join your Local Guide to experience one of these towns on a GUIDED WALK. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Pretty Rüdesheim is the perfect example of a Rhine Valley wine town, and Siegfried’s Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum is a real surprise. Enjoy a special treat, then there’s free time to explore the Drosselgasse and pick up some souvenirs. Downstream, the dramatic Rhine Gorge is the most beautiful stretch of river. Pass the legendary rock of the Lorelei, where sweet songs of local beauties lured enchanted sailors to their doom. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Early this morning you arrive in the charming wine village of Bernkastel on the Moselle River. With its fascinating narrow streets and half-timbered houses that have stood since the Middle Ages, you’ll enjoy a guided walk that includes the beautiful marketplace with its renaissance-style Town Hall—built in 1608—and the “pointed house,” built in 1416. The Moselle is famous for its wines, and growers in this area look after Germany’s largest expanse of vineyards, the most celebrated of the vintages being the Bernkasteler Doktor. This evening enjoy a tasting of some of these well-loved German wines. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast, an excursion takes you to Trier, Germany’s oldest city. Some say Trier is even older than Rome and that it was populated over a thousand years before the Romans arrived. Many Roman remains have survived, including a 20,000-seat amphitheater; the Porta Nigra, the only surviving fortified gate from the original Roman settlement, which still gives access to the town’s center. The imperial baths; and the Roman bridge, Germany’s oldest bridge, with stone pilings dating from 144-152 AD—all evidence of this once grand Roman city.
Trier also offers pleasant market squares, Germany’s oldest Christian church, and a cornucopia of architectural styles—Roman, baroque, neo-classicism, renaissance, and gothic. A choice of included city sightseeing or the more history-focused “Roman Trier” guided tour, followed by some free time, give you the opportunity to discover this magnificent town. Rejoin your vessel and head for Remich in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Reach Remich in the early morning hours and say goodbye to your crew after breakfast. Travel to Luxembourg City or to Metz to board the high speed train to Paris and enjoy GUIDED sightseeing upon arrival. Known as one of the world’s most romantic and lively cities, Paris is a delight for all your senses. Your included sightseeing shows you magnificent must-see sights, such as Notre Dame Cathedral, the unique Louvre Museum with its glass pyramid as a contrast to its ancient architecture, the commemorative Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower. (Breakfast)
Today in your free time, stroll down the Champs-Elysées, with sprawling sidewalks, and lavish cafés, or perhaps visit the world-famous Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles or Montmartre with its gleaming white Sacré Coeur Basilica and bevy of artists on Place du Tertre. Paris is also well known for its colorful nightlife and an optional outing to one of the world’s most famous cabaret shows is available. All of this awaits your discovery! (Breakfast)
Your vacation ends with breakfast this morning. We bid farewell to Paris with fond memories of a trip of a lifetime and accompanied by new-found friends. After breakfast this morning, you will transfer to the Paris airport for your return to the United States. Upon arrival in Chicago, your motorcoach will be waiting to return you to your original point of pick-up. (Breakfast)
Transportation with Air-Inclusive Package
- Group motorcoach transfer from select pick-up points to and from Chicago O’Hare airport
- Round trip flights from Chicago O’Hare to Prague, Czech Republic and returning from Paris, France
- Motorcoach transfers between the airport, ship and hotel
Sightseeing and Services
- Experienced Tour Manager from Fox World Travel to accompany the group*
- Shore excursions, hosted by English-speaking local experts, with a choice of Leisurely, Traditional or Essential sightseeing pace options
- Customized travel documents
- Two nights hotel accommodation in Prague at the Hilton Prague Old Town with daily breakfast (pre-cruise)
- Two nights hotel accommodation in Paris at the Hotel du Collectionneur Arc de Triomphe Paris with daily breakfast (post-cruise)
Hotel accommodations include hotel service charges, taxes and luggage handling. Similar hotels may be substituted.
River Cruise Highlights
- Deluxe seven-night Avalon river cruise in a river view stateroom on the stunning Avalon Visionary
- All meals onboard the ship with chef-inspired regional recipes to include:
- Complimentary soft drinks with lunch
- Complimentary regional wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages during dinner
- Daily breakfast at your hotel in Prague and Paris
- Shore excursions, hosted by English-speaking local experts, with a choice of Leisurely, Traditional or Essential sightseeing pace options
- Captivating onboard local entertainment
- Luxuriously appointed river view staterooms with hotel beds, hair dryer, safe and flat-screen TV with satellite for complimentary movie and entertainment options
- Remarkable service from your English-speaking crew and on-board tour director
- Onboard activities & nightly entertainment
- Self-serve beverage station with complimentary tea, hot chocolate & premium coffees
- Room service available featuring continental breakfast and beverages
- Onboard movie nights
- Complimentary bottled water & complimentary Wi-Fi access
- Sky Deck game area, whirlpool, shade awnings and premium lounge chairs
- A lounge serving premium spirits, fitness center, and hair salon
- The Comfort Collection BedsSM and premium L’Occitane bath amenities
- In-room safe
- Staterooms on the Royal and Sapphire Decks have wall-to-wall panoramic windows that open to transform into an open-air French balcony
- Complimentary maps and use of Nordic walking sticks
Not included: Meals, unless noted; medical services; airline imposed baggage fees; airport gratuities to baggage handlers, gratuities to motorcoach drivers, guides and shipboard staff; or any other items of a personal nature. A valid passport is required. Travel insurance protection is not included. Ask your travel consultant about our reasonable options.
Air-Inclusive from Chicago O’Hare
Departing from Chicago O’Hare
Depart October 21
Lufthansa #431–Depart Chicago O’Hare at 4:05 p.m. and arrive in Frankfurt at 7:20 a.m. on October 22
Lufthansa #1392–Depart Frankfurt at 9:00 a.m. and arrive in Prague at 10:00 a.m.
Return November 2
Lufthansa #2292 – Depart Paris at 11:50 a.m. and arrive in Munich at 1:15 p.m.
Lufthansa #434- Depart Munich at 3:45 p.m. and arrive in Chicago O’Hare at 7:55 p.m.
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We work vigilantly with the Suppliers to maintain integrity of the price you were originally quoted and placed on deposit. There may be certain circumstances where your vacation may be subject to a price increase prior to full payment due to a supplier or government issued surcharge. Prices will not increase after you make full payment, except for charges resulting from increases in government-imposed taxes or fees, fuel surcharges, exchange fluctuations or any combinations of these. Fox World Travel will make a reasonable attempt to contact you prior to issuing charges. | <urn:uuid:89d3bfff-b111-4ab4-b956-ab2705668487> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.foxworldtravel.com/group-tours/heart-of-europe17/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00010-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920492 | 3,424 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Finding common ground: Letters to the editor, March 18
- Readers sound off on civility and finding common ground.
Finding common ground
Common Ground Nashville builds small communities that can talk productively about hard issues dividing our country.
Individuals with varied experiences and ideas come together in a safe environment to speak, be heard and listen respectfully.
In our March meeting, we addressed guns in America, an important issue facing our country. Via our discussion groups, we learned about our own personal relationships with guns and those of others, the issues driving the gun debate, and our latest feelings about schools and guns.
As a diverse group, we found our common ground: that this is a real problem in America, one that reflects the role of violence — in general — in our society. Many of us left that session with alternative sources of information, some clearer understandings, glimpses into other viewpoints, and more questions related to: “So what’s next?”
Our April Common Ground meeting will continue our journey of understanding. We will have the opportunity to learn from a few Nashville groups that are focused on firearms about their mission, beliefs and actions in this debate, and their solutions. We look forward to discussing our questions and thoughts with them through our always meaningful, intentional and respectful discussions.
Lynn Heady, Nashville 37221, and Beth Malow, Brentwood 37027, facilitators, Common Ground Nashville
Facts are facts
One of the few things I remember from college came from my freshman Psychology 101 class.
We learned that as long as you speak with confidence and authority, you can make preposterous statements that many or most people will believe because people are generally very trusting. Further, the acceptance rate of an outright lie is extremely high when your statement reinforces someone’s pre-held beliefs.
I am reminded of this often when I watch or read current news events. It seems that multiple times each day, there are statements (or tweets) from “authority” figures that appear to be absolute, provable falsehoods. I personally try to remember that whenever I hear an outrageous claim, there is almost always another side to the story. However, it concerns me because I believe some people nod and go along with these ludicrous statements.
This acceptance often contributes to the polarization we have in our great country. Unfortunately, this situation reminds me of the classic novel “1984” by George Orwell. The protagonist’s thinking evolves where by the end of the novel, he finally joins the rest of society in agreeing 2+2=5.
I sincerely hope that 2018 isn’t remembered as the year that 1984 actually came true. Let’s all try and remember to check our facts before we react. Be open to listening to the other side of the story.
Rick Meacham, Gallatin 37066
Protest gone wrong
I participated in the walkout at Antioch High School and I am very ashamed.
I am ashamed that many of my fellow students took this as a time to misbehave and take advantage of this opportunity. I had hoped that the students would respect the 17 deaths of the children and teachers in Florida, but my hopes were crushed.
We were given the opportunity to be mature and be respectful of the families who lost their loved ones, but we could not fulfill that. Because of the actions of the few, we gain a bad reputation and most of us are not like that.
I’m tired of going to school terrified that someone is going to hurt me and my loved ones. I am not saying this because I want pity on our school. I am saying this because I want you to know that the majority of the students are respectful and grateful.
To the city of Nashville and Davidson County, I am apologizing for the actions of my fellow students.
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What is the correct spelling for ESALY?
This word (Esaly) may be misspelled. Below you can find the suggested words which we believe are the correct spellings for what you were searching for. If you click on the links, you can find more information about these words.
Correct spellings for ESALY
- al I mention further the Descrittione dell' Africa by Leon l'African, the Arabian Histories of Ibn-Khaldoun, of Al -Iaquob, of El-Bekri, of Ibn-Batoutah, of Mahommed El-Tounsi....
- ally His ally was failing him.
- earl And do you think his majesty will give himself so much trouble for the Earl of Rochester's page?
- early I am very tired and shall go to bed early ."
- ease To ease the friction of long teeth, therefore, it is preferable to do so either as in Fig.
- easel The next morning he felt curiously ashamed when Miss Marston, after examining the rough sketch on the easel , said: "Is that all?"
- easily Nice and easily you have got off.
- easy "I did not think I could have done it," he said; "but I have only to keep on, and the rest will come easy .
- es "Ye-es," he said, between his teeth.
- esau It seems to me I'm the Esau of this duet, and Ernest's the Jacob.
- espy As we saunter leisurely along, we espy a clothing store, which we enter, and find half-a-dozen men lounging about with long clay pipes in their mouths, and their hands in the pockets of their baggy trousers.
- essay Here I was freed from a fear that Knepp was angry or might take advantage to declare the essay that je did the other day, quand je was con her ...
- icily "That is the one thing we're not going to do," Craig said icily .
- isle After three o'clock in the morning he advanced a good way in his course; but about ten o'clock they discovered land, which was the isle of Bornholm, distant from the point of south of Oeland eighteen German leagues.
- zeal Unworthy one whose heart can feel The voice of truth, the warmth of zeal !
37 words made from the letters ESALY
3 letter words made from ESALY:ale, als, asl, lay, lea, ley, lye, say, sea, sle, sly, yea, yes.
5 letter words made from ESALY:ayles, aysel, lyase, sayel, sayle, sealy, selya, yales.
4 letter words made from ESALY:ealy, easy, elya, esla, eyas, laye, lays, leys, sale, seal, seay, seya, slay, slye, yale, yeas. | <urn:uuid:80fb9753-7d2d-4048-aa2b-be8e173830f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spellchecker.net/misspellings/esaly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.949539 | 762 | 2.171875 | 2 |
John Smart presumably painted the present portrait of Lucy Burr following her marriage to Lieutenant General Daniel Burr on 26 April 1804. Lucy Burr was the second daughter of Thomas Parry, Esq. of Banstead, who was one of the Directors of the Honourable East India Company. Lucy passed away in 1805, the year after her marriage, leaving one daughter, Lucy Mary Anne. A sketch of Lucy Mary Anne Burr (1804-1884), later Mrs James Phillipps, on her fifth birthday, by Smart was sold Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1983, lot 205. For a miniature by John Smart of Lucy Parry's husband, Lieutenant General Daniel Burr, see lot 263. | <urn:uuid:cc256a99-35a2-42d0-ae50-767deac5aa4d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Paintings/john-smart-lucy-burr-nee-parry-5206562-details.aspx?intObjectID=5206562 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955343 | 143 | 1.640625 | 2 |
BENNINGTON -- Vermont is updating its Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan -- have you read it? Residents who spend any time outdoors may want to as the purpose of the plan, or "SCORP," is to assess, prioritize, and improve outdoor recreation throughout the state over the next five years.
A webinar is scheduled for Nov. 14 to allow residents further opportunity to ask questions and provide input.
"The biggest reason people should pay attention," said Ed O'Leary, director of operations at the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, is the fact that the SCORP is a required component before states can receive funding through the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, which disburses money for public recreational purposes.
Vermont's SCORP had lapsed over the past year, according to O'Leary, but the good news is that money (approximately $700,000) was banked. Since the conservation fund began in 1965, it has funded over 650 projects across the state of Vermont through a competitive grant process -- amounting to nearly $32 million.
"The SCORP is instrumental," said O'Leary, and it also factors into other grant funding opportunities that refer to the statewide plan. A working document, the SCORP is updated every five years. With the 2013-2017 plan in draft form, Vermont officials are in the process of seeking input.
Something missing? Something not quite covered? "This is the public's opportunity to take a look at this," said O'Leary, describing the plan as a vision for Vermont.
Recreation is broadly defined, with the plan listing 28 different outdoor recreation activities with greater than 10 percent participation from all residents, including hiking, walking, hunting, fishing, and swimming.
In addition to positive health benefits, the report finds outdoor recreation also plays an important role in generating economic activity, drawing federal funds and attracting tourists. According to the Outdoor Industry Foundation, in 2006, outdoor recreation supported 35,000 jobs in Vermont, generated $187 million in annual state tax revenue, and produced $2.5 billion in annual retail sales and services -- accounting for 12 percent of the gross state product.
O'Leary said his prospective timetable would be to receive final public input over the next month and then incorporate those changes in December, before final submission for approval next January. According to the draft SCORP:
* A 2011 random survey of 2,000 state residents found 40.8 percent of respondents rated outdoor recreation "very" important, while an additional 32.1 percent said "moderately."
* The top five municipal priorities identified in 2011 included: parks and open space, bike/pedestrian trails, baseball/softball fields, hiking trails, and soccer fields.
* Vermonters thought the following facilities needed the most improvement: facilities for people with disabilities, off-leash dog parks, OHV/ATV trails and roads, marinas, and fishing piers.
The draft SCORP is available for review at www.vtfpr.org/recreation/scorp/info.cfm. You may also contact the state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation for a printed copy. Any suggested changes, additions, or corrections should be submitted to O'Leary before Nov. 30. In addition, a webinar (available from the Website above) will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at which time a quick review of the process will be presented. The public will be provided opportunity to ask questions and provide input. | <urn:uuid:fb5e8deb-f989-4487-a1fc-50c73f8d385d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_21929364/outdoor-recreation-program-gets-updated | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00272-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953031 | 746 | 2 | 2 |
What is someone’s breaking point? I believe it’s when you have no way out of a problem. This seems like Mary Warren had one. Mary became a servant when her mother and sisters died early in her life. She became the Proctor’s servant. She renounced her witch claims after being threatened to be hanged. She had no money and no land. Therefore, forcing her to be a servant. Mary seemed to be a very misled, gullible, and a very fearful girl.
Mary Warren represents some sort of truth in this story. She is the only one that really knows what’s happening in my opinion she’s just too afraid to come out with the truth. All the threats and accusations surround her in great doses. The trials are too much for her to swallow. Mary starts to crack under the questioning in the court. That shows her weakness. Mary is very misled by the people surrounding especially John Procter and Abigail. John tells her to say one thing, “Proctor: You're coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court. You will tell the court how those poppets come here and who stuck the needle in. Mary Warren: She'll kill me for sayin' that! I cannot, they'll turn on me—“, you can sense Mary’s fear already by her reaction. Abigail tells her to say another. Mary’s confusion shows greatly through the whole play. As the trial goes on her weaknesses come out in the open.
Gullible is another word to represent Mary. She seems to eat whatever they tell her. Mary has problems telling apart good and wrong. Truth and lies, “Mary Warren: That she-- in horror -- she sometimes made a compact with Lucifer, and wrote her name in his black book - with her blood - and bound herself to torment Christians till God's thrown down-- and we all must worship Hell forevermore”, Mary has no proof of this black book and by her reaction you can tell she is not being fully truthful. Mary’s fear transforms anything that Abigail claims true. That is until Abigail turns... | <urn:uuid:5b91b864-4229-4bdb-8a6a-aa384feae000> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/The-Crucible-Reflection-Essay-1302388.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00549-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978752 | 457 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Brooks County School System provides a gifted education program (TORCH) for students who demonstrate the following characteristics:
A high degree of intellectual ability
Outstanding creative ability(ies)
An exceptionally high degree of motivation
High achievement in specific academic fields
A student may be referred for consideration for gifted educational services by teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, or guardians, and other individuals with knowledge of the student's abilities. | <urn:uuid:724aa78d-5a2a-48fa-8bd0-8b5503a6d8ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brooks.k12.ga.us/o/middleschool/page/gifted-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.875721 | 103 | 2.390625 | 2 |
What does ZMAIL use to provide email security?
ZMAIL uses standards-based encryption and digital signatures, with High-Grade 128-bit Encryption. ZMAIL prevents spoofing, impersonation, spam, phishing, pharming, tampering and eavesdropping. Unless you are logged in, ZMAIL cannot send, encrypt or decrypt an email using your keys.
What do I need to do to deploy ZMAIL?
ZMAIL is easy to deploy. You can use any email service provider, software and keep your current email address. There is nothing to install or eventually update, or remove. You can send secure email to anyone, you can receive secure email from anyone. There is no need to pre-enroll recipients.
It is as easy to use as Yahoo. (user comment)
How about email security for myself and my recipients?
ZMAIL balances the roles of sender and recipient:
ZSENTRY also protects sender and recipient against fraud (spoofing, phishing, pharming) when logging in to encrypt or decrypt an email. This is an important and unique advantage of being a ZSENTRY user, both for sending and receiving email.
ZMAIL Spoofing, Phishing, Pharming and Spam FAQ
Email Security Begins With The Login...
The contents of this entire site and domains zsentry.com are © Copyright, NMA Inc., 2006. All rights reserved, worldwide. Titles and product names are trademarks of NMA, Inc., including NMA, ZSENTRY, Return Code and ZMAIL. Patent pending. | <urn:uuid:b0f542b2-5370-44c8-b9b6-9fb80aee70f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://zsentry.com/secure-email/help_zspk.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917188 | 335 | 1.53125 | 2 |
the capital city of Colorado, USA
and the largest city in the state. Known as "The Mile-High City", Denver
has an altitude of 5,280 feet/1,600 meters and lies where the Midwestern plains
give way to the Rocky Mountains. The city has marked the
exact "Mile High" point by a gold band embedded in the steps of the state
capitol building. Denver has plenty
of attractions in it but it has neighbourhoods which also have plenty of
attractions in themselves. Many of denver’s
older areas are perfect for exploration. You will find a mixture of home and
apartments with flowery gardens in the front, wide flagstone sidewalks, bright
green lawns and big, shady trees. Denver
has many beautiful parks that are full of colorful gardens, meandering paths,
crystal clear lakes, abundant wildlife and recreation opportunities. The city has
a rich pioneer history, and there are plenty of museums where you can learn all
about it. It's also a very environmentally conscious city, with one of the
nation’s first municipal “Green Fleets”, public transit vehicles using hybrid
and alternative fuel and a city tree-planting initiative. Hop on a green bus,
grab a bike or just walk around to discover Denver.
For lodging select only cheap hotels
in the city. As they offer great discount to the tourists at cheap prices.
There are lots of museums in the city. Black American west
museum and heritage is dedicated to the dedicated black pioneers of the city.
There are many educational museums also. One such museum is Children's
Museum of Denver. Museum which has art from all over the world is also present in Denver. The name
of the museum is DenverArt Museum. Museum dedicated to denver’s fire
fighters who are now in history of Denver is also
present in Denver. Some museums showcased the coloradohistory.
Denver is home
to a large and growing Latino population, and Museo de
las Americas museum focuses on their art and heritage. one museum
encourages the workshops, films, lectures, and a relaxing, open environment. In
the Denver mint most of the US
money is made here. A room which was used as jail in 1900 is now remodeled as a
house. Now come to parks. City park is very large park with play grounds, two
lakes, numerous fields, and a golf course. Enjoy the Denver
sun shine in this park. Washington
park is a beautiful and lush Denver
park, with lakes, flower gardens, a recreation center,
soccer fields and tennis courts. 19 century homes are surrounded to this
beauty. The park is really very large. This can be the favourite jogging
destination. In Denver botanic park you will get the plants and flowers from around
the world. you will also get peace and happiness here. Space and science lovers
will also don’t want to miss this park. Denver Zoo,
Chamberlin Observatory and Colorado State Capitol are few more places to see in
Late spring and early autumn are excellent seasons to do
things outdoors in Denver. Besides
the city's various lush green parks, there are plenty of outdoor festivals,
sports, and gondola rides. In winter, the snow-peaked mountains in the distance
and the crisp air on your cheeks make it the perfect time to tour Denver's
famous breweries or check out the downtown arts scene.
For staying the city has lots of options. Lots of hotels are
available here. You have to choose the cheap and discounted one. Hampton inn denver is
a cheap and discounted hotel. All types of modern amenities are available here.
It is surrounded by beautiful gardens and hand carved fountains. This hotel
provides a comfortable environment around you and makes you feel amazing. This
hotel provides lots of discount on the services. The services are of world
class which will pamper you. There are lots of cheap hotels in denver
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NUI Galway Signs Research and Education Alliance with (ICRISAT)
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
NUI Galway has entered into a Research & Education Alliance with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). ICRISAT is headquartered in India with a range of research stations in Africa. This Research Alliance will combine efforts, expertise and capacity in order to advance Plant and AgriBiosciences research for poverty reduction in developing countries in the semi-arid tropics (particularly in sub-Saharan Africa). The Alliance will strengthen collaborations between research groups within the NUI Galway Plant and AgriBiosciences Research Cluster and scientists in ICRISAT. The Alliance will conduct research on staple crops of the poor to improve smallholder productivity and food security.
The Director General of ICRISAT, Dr. William Dar recently met with NUI Galway President Dr. James Browne to co-sign the inter-institutional Memorandum of Understanding between NUI Galway and ICRISAT. Dr. Dar has a PhD in Horticulture (Crop Physiology) and has served as Presidential Adviser for Rural Development and Minister of Agriculture in the Philippines prior to joining ICRISAT. Before this, he was Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), and Director of the Philippines’ Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) under the Department of Agriculture (DA). Dr. Dar has been Director General of ICRISAT since 2000.
Welcoming the inter-institutional agreement, NUI Galway President Dr James J. Browne said, “This significant partnership between NUI Galway and ICRISAT will, I believe, further advance the existing strong research links between our two organisations. Our researchers will collaborate with ICRISAT staff to help some of the world’s poorest countries to improve their agricultural output, ultimately helping to reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries in the semi-arid tropics, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Dr. Dar further stated that “NUI Galway has a range of research expertise in the fields of Plant and AgriBiosciences which are highly synergistic with ICRISAT’s scientific programmes and humanitarian mandate. This MoU builds on the existing research links between NUI Galway and ICRISAT in order to forge a more powerful research alliance to advance food security and sustainability goals in the dryland tropics.” He emphasised that the Research Alliance will also help advance the goals of Irish Aid in relation to the Hunger Task Force recommendations to improve smallholder productivity and reduce malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.
For further information contact Professor Charles Spillane, Head of Plant & AgriBiosciences Research Cluster, NUI Galway 091 494148. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:b8d0137d-6572-4cb4-9570-3ed08319b2a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2011/june2011/nui-galway-signs-research-and-education-alliance-with-icrisat--1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895675 | 615 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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