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London: Looks like this new study vouches on the theory that people with high intelligence mostly spend their time lazing around than their active counterparts.
Findings from a US-based study seem to support the idea that people with a high IQ get bored less easily, leading them to spend more time engaged in thought, reports the Independent.
On the other hand, the active people may be more physical as they need to stimulate their minds with external activities, either to escape their thoughts or because they get bored quickly.
Researchers from the Florida Gulf Coast University gave a classic test, dating back three decades, to a group of students.
The ‘need for cognition’ questionnaire asked the participants to rate how strongly they agree with statements such as “I really enjoy a task that involves coming up with new solutions to problems,” and “I only think as hard as I have to.”
The researchers, led by Todd McElroy, then selected 30 ‘thinkers’ and 30 ‘non-thinkers’ from the pool of candidates.
Over the next seven days, both groups wore a device on their wrist which tracked their movements and activity levels, providing a constant stream of data on how physically active they were.
Results showed the thinking group was far less active during the week than the non-thinkers.
The findings of the study, published in the Journal of Health Psychology, were described as “highly significant” and “robust” in statistical terms.
But the weekends showed no difference between the two groups, something which has not been explained.
Researchers suggested the findings could lend weight to the idea that non-thinkers get bored more easily so there is a need to fill their time with physical activity.
But the downside to being brainer and lazier warned McElroy was the negative impact of a sedentary lifestyle.
He suggested that less active people, no matter how clever they are, should aim to raise their overall activity levels to improve their health.
The British Psychological Society quoted the study as saying, “Ultimately, an important factor that may help more thoughtful individuals combat their lower average activity levels is awareness. Awareness of their tendency to be less active, coupled with an awareness of the cost associated with inactivity, more thoughtful people may then choose to become more active throughout the day.”
“Despite highlighting an unusual trend, generalising the findings should be done with caution due to the small sample of participants,” the study added. (ANI) | <urn:uuid:59bcd7c7-4fbb-4846-8857-db9f50849f92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.siasat.com/news/dilly-dally-attitude-speaks-high-iq-study-997652/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.972107 | 522 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Voice UX Skills for Designers
Skills to influence the whole lifecycle of adding voice capability to a digital product
Learn the skills to lead conversational technology products and build experiences that delight!
This course covers the new foundation of job skills needed for Voice User Experience:
- Interconnected Product Design
- Dialogue-Writing Skills
- Software-based Voice Platforms
This course also covers personality design, learning from the way humans communicate, and how to set up your voice-first product for success.
Why take Job Skills for Voice UX
Designing for Voice on connected devices requires the right approach in applying several intersected disciplines. Additionally, customers are expecting to interact
with your product or service in newer ways such as voice-first. This course gives you practical skills along with a sample project to work as Voice-Platform Designer at companies that are leading the way in creating experiences using Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, or launching your own voice user interface product or app.
How This Course Helps You
This course provides you with the know-how to anticipate both stakeholders and users needs. You'll quickly have an on-target conversational prototypes to test and refine. Hands-on lessons with software-based voice platform Dialogflow conclude the course. In the end you will have the skills to influence the whole lifecycle of adding voice capability to a digital product.
Luis is based out of the DC Metropolitan area but is heavily involved in meaningful projects that have a global reach, whether they are in IoT, design or community service. He combines his training in design and screenwriting with experience across many industries from early online startups to education technology. He always looks to emphasize connectivity and purposeful design in teams or projects he joins. | <urn:uuid:8364b5a1-5728-4f1a-85ae-724d944acdcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teknologio.teachable.com/p/job-skills-for-voice-ux | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.936624 | 357 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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the WGBH Educational Foundation
This web page provides free access to Saved By the Sun, a 53-minute video produced by NOVA that explores how solar energy is being used to power homes, businesses, and entire communities. It takes a realistic view of solar power -- both its promises and challenges -- and the hope it holds for powering the future. The movie is supplemented by additional resources, including an interactive trip inside a photovoltaic cell and a look at new solar technologies.
6-8: 4D/M9. Materials vary in how they respond to electric currents, magnetic forces, and visible light or other electromagnetic waves.
4E. Energy Transformations
3-5: 4E/E2c. A warmer object can warm a cooler one by contact or at a distance.
6-8: 4E/M2. Energy can be transferred from one system to another (or from a system to its environment) in different ways: 1) thermally, when a warmer object is in contact with a cooler one; 2) mechanically, when two objects push or pull on each other over a distance; 3) electrically, when an electrical source such as a battery or generator is connected in a complete circuit to an electrical device; or 4) by electromagnetic waves.
6-8: 4E/M3. Thermal energy is transferred through a material by the collisions of atoms within the material. Over time, the thermal energy tends to spread out through a material and from one material to another if they are in contact. Thermal energy can also be transferred by means of currents in air, water, or other fluids. In addition, some thermal energy in all materials is transformed into light energy and radiated into the environment by electromagnetic waves; that light energy can be transformed back into thermal energy when the electromagnetic waves strike another material. As a result, a material tends to cool down unless some other form of energy is converted to thermal energy in the material.
6-8: 4E/M6. Light and other electromagnetic waves can warm objects. How much an object's temperature increases depends on how intense the light striking its surface is, how long the light shines on the object, and how much of the light is absorbed.
3-5: 4F/E3. Light travels and tends to maintain its direction of motion until it interacts with an object or material. Light can be absorbed, redirected, bounced back, or allowed to pass through.
8. The Designed World
8C. Energy Sources and Use
6-8: 8C/M4. Electrical energy can be generated from a variety of energy resources and can be transformed into almost any other form of energy. Electric circuits are used to distribute energy quickly and conveniently to distant locations.
6-8: 8C/M5. Energy from the sun (and the wind and water energy derived from it) is available indefinitely. Because the transfer of energy from these resources is weak and variable, systems are needed to collect and concentrate the energy.
9-12: 8C/H5. Decisions to slow the depletion of energy resources can be made at many levels, from personal to national, and they always involve trade-offs involving economic costs and social values.
This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.
Topic: Conservation of Energy Unit Title: Renewable Energy Sources
Thought-provoking video takes a realistic view of the promise and challenge of solar power. It explores how solar energy is being currently used to power homes and businesses, and presents research into new methods for implementing solar technology. Free download.
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Sure to be labeled an “activist judge” for upholding the constitution against a discriminatory law, Judge VIRGINIA A. PHILLIPS ruled the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act is unconstitutional and permanently enjoined (prevented) the government from enforcing the law. From the opinion:
The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act infringes the fundamental rights of United States servicemembers in many ways, some described above. The Act denies homosexuals serving in the Armed Forces the right to enjoy “intimate conduct” in their personal relationships. The Act denies them the right to speak about their loved ones while serving their country in uniform; it punishes them with discharge for writing a personal letter, in a foreign language, to a person of the same sex with whom they shared an intimate relationship before entering military service; it discharges them for including information in a personal communication from which an unauthorized reader might discern their homosexuality. In order to justify the encroachment on these rights, Defendants faced the burden at trial of showing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act was necessary to significantly further the Government’s important interests in military readiness and unit cohesion. Defendants failed to meet that burden. Thus, Plaintiff is entitled to judgment in its favor on the first claim in its First Amended Complaint for violation of the substantive due process rights guaranteed under the Fifth Amendment.
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Google has added information on the forthcoming November 7th US congressional races to its Google Earth application.
The company said that it has included a feature in the Google Earth sidebar that will have 'place marks' for 435 races around the country.
According to Google, the feature was first conceived of by Google Earth programmers who could not find adequate nationwide election coverage.
The place marks will allow users to view candidate images and news from Google's Web, image, and news search engines. Users can also find campaign finance information from the Federal Election Commission and the Centre for Responsive Politics. The program will also include voter registration information for every state.
This year's congressional race is of particular interest in the US, as many experts are predicting that it is the first real chance for the Democratic party to regain control of congress from the Republican party for the first time since 1994. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as 33 of 100 seats in the Senate are up for election.
The Google Earth application is available as a free download for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux from Google's website.
Google Earth offers US election info
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As you may already know, there are multiple ways out there to use nitrous oxide. In this blog we will address the different Effects and Uses of N2O.
When it comes to restaurants or catering industry, chefs and kitchen staff use nitrous oxide at a foodgrade E942 as an aerosol propellant to make foam, appetizers, sauces, and whipped cream with food or drinks.
Read this post and find out how a cream siphon is used in the preparation of creams and desserts.
In addition to its use in the food industry and recreational settings, nitrous oxide can work as an effective sedative agent that, combined with oxygen, reduces anxiety in patients. Because it is welltolerated, it is considered a safe sedative in dentistry and medicine in general.
Cooking with highlevel nitrous oxide
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Goals play an important role in helping us reach the next level in our careers. When you’re building a business, goals are especially essential in ensuring we channel our energy in the right direction.
But it’s not enough to blindly set goals. As a startup coach, I regularly work with business owners who think they have goals, but what they actually have is a “dream.” What’s the difference? A goal is a dream with a deadline. When you write that goal down, you give yourself a guideline that you can follow as your business grows. Here are the key elements built into every good business goal.
SMART Goals Motivate You
Not all goals are created equal. Many successful entrepreneurs find the best goals follow the SMART goal-setting formula:
Saying you want your business to earn a specific income this year isn’t SMART. Saying you want to boost lead acquisition by 10 percent over the next month by following up on previous conversations and adding calls to action to your communications is. It’s specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
SMART Goals Motivate
Let’s face it: building a business has its ups and downs. Having a goal helps keep you motivated even when you suffer a setback or two. That doesn’t mean you can’t adjust your goals as you learn, but you’ll at least have something to work with.
Writing your SMART goals down is only the beginning, though. Look at that goal and break it into smaller pieces that you can achieve on a daily or weekly basis. By doing that, you’ll see yourself checking items off your to-do list and feel empowered to keep going.
SMART Goals Build Character
It can be easy to get so caught up in the destination, you forget to enjoy the journey. But the truth is, setting goals improves the journey. You don’t realize it at the time, but goal setting helps build character.
To get the biggest character-building benefits of setting and working toward goals, regularly track your progress. Set weekly and monthly goals, then sit down and reflect on how much you’ve accomplished along the way. It can be easy to get caught up in what you haven’t achieved rather than appreciating what you have.
My coaching business specializes in helping startups create business plans based on the SMART goal-setting system. If you’re building a startup and want a little help, check out my business coaching services. I can work with you to create a plan that will help you reach your dreams while learning more about yourself along the way. | <urn:uuid:4ec30d48-b645-475f-957d-924e3205eb4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ontrackcoaching.net/key-elements-of-a-smart-business-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.949725 | 577 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The proposed “Urban fly and ride taxi system” is composed by:
Flying modules, that are multicopters having propulsion pods, each with one or two (in tandem configuration) electric motors, each motor driving a single or multibladed rotor. They are equipped with battery and or fuel cell power packs, and a control unity being capable of flying in autonomous, programmable or fly by wire control modes.
Riding modules, that are multi wheeled ground vehicles with electric or hybrid propulsion, having central or inside wheels electric motors. They are equipped with battery and or a fuel cell power packs, and a control unity being capable of driving in road and cities, in autonomous, programmable, or in drive by wire control modes.
Payload gondolas that are aerodynamic shaped enclosures having doors, windows, seats, and or cargo space, upper attachments for the flying modules, lower attachments for the riding modules. They are equipped with electric and fly&drive by wire controls and instruments.
Module exchange lift tower buildings, that are fixed elevated constructions having parking floors for the riding modules, elevated parking areas with ventilated (grid) floor for the flying modules, and lift units capable of to transport up and down full loaded pay load gondolas so that they can be attached either under flying modules or on riding modules.
The use of exchange buildings will minimize the flying modules noise, and air downwash ambient impacts and have the necessary height in order they could comply with the tower location allowed levels for both ambient issues.
The advantage of this system in comparison to the current use of helicopters and heliports is that there is no need to remove people and or merchandise from the helicopters to load them in cars, vans, or trucks, and vice versa.
The advantage in comparison to the so named ”flying cars” is that both proposed system vehicles can be much lighter and energy efficient since they fly or ride carrying only what is necessary for each mode. The negative side is the need to use fixed transition points, but that can also be used as battery charging and or fuel tank filling stations for power packs.
The proposed system minimize ambient noise and pollution issues and reduce the energy demands of the many current transport new designs that proliferate worldwide, which is an indication of the enormous demand existing for such transport means.
The annex drawings just exemplify one of the many possible configurations for the proposed system components:
A medium height module exchange tower building.
Hexacopter flying modules with twelve electric motors driving single bladed rotors (for lower parking footprint and better efficiency) with blades that have elliptic dihedrals and tip winglets for lower weight (centrifugal force effects) and noise, grouped in six pods skewly mounted on a central beam carrying a fly by wire system and electric power packs.
Payload gondolas made of fiber composed material.
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The long local clock route delays in these larger devices results in the data valid window being exceeded in read data timing analysis.
Because of this 133 MHz is not achievable in the XC3S2000, XC3S4000, and XC3S5000 devices for top and bottom bank configurations.
Left and right bank selection designs are not affected by these long local clock route delays, so the frequency support is as shown in the MIG GUI and the MIG User Guide.
The minimum frequency for DDR2 devices is 125 MHz.
Therefore, these larger Spartan-3 devices cannot be supported with top and bottom bank configurations.
Left and right banks must be used.
For DDR, the maximum frequency for the XC3S2000, XC3S4000, and XC3S5000 devices is 110 MHz when top and bottom banks are selected.
Note: Issues are only seen when the data bus is located in top and bottom banks.
There are no issues when the data bus is located in left and right banks, and the address and control are located in the top and bottom banks.
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Disputes between organizations and among individuals are an all-too-familiar feature of modern life. Lengthy court proceedings consume resources, damage relationships, and often yield outcomes that do not fully satisfy the real needs of the litigants. As a result, there is growing interest in the appropriate use of mediation, arbitration, and other out-of-court settlement processes.
Michael Wheeler has taught Mediation & Consensus Building the Harvard Law School. He has particular interest in innovative corporate policies and procedures that encourage early, efficient resolution of disputes between and within organizations. This includes the design of new on-line settlement systems, as well as consensus-building initiatives to resolve contentious public-policy cases. | <urn:uuid:8a7f0928-f43a-417f-83fb-442ee994ba9b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?research=6984 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00237-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951149 | 142 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Tag: Irish Folklore
Written by Megan Crutchely. British folklore has always contained detailed tales of fairies and the otherworld. But how have these beliefs developed and changed, particularly in the Victorian period?
‘Are you a witch or are you a fairy? Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?’ The Consequences of Belief and Superstition
Written by Melissa Kane. The story of the Tipperary Witchcraft case has caused alarm and intrigue for centuries, but why do we find this horrific tale so interesting? And why has it become synonymous with Irish folklore?
Written by Deana Davis. The extent to which written sources can be relied upon has constantly plagued historians in their attempt to recreate and “see” the past. In Ireland’s case, its unique plethora of cycles, or tales, contain pseudo-historical stories that have been fertile ground for such recreation. One such collection of tales, the Ulster […] | <urn:uuid:9e587bf9-0415-4871-8177-b12a963d0eaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://retrospectjournal.com/tag/irish-folklore/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.94885 | 205 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Brighton's towering makeover
Published: 11 September 2005
THE Regency seafront of Brighton and Hove has seen nothing like this since the mad oriental domes of the Royal Pavilion in the early 19th century.
Now the Sussex seaside city, always torn between gentility and decadence, is about to get a 21st-century equivalent. Frank Gehry, the architect responsible for Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, will on Tuesday unveil the final designs for his first big British project — a £290m confection of billowing seaside apartment towers and multicoloured pleasure dome.
Canadian-born Gehry has been one of the world’s most in-demand architects since his startling titanium-clad design for the Guggenheim turned industrial Bilbao into a worldwide tourist destination in 1997. The equally daring 2003 Disney concert hall in his adopted Los Angeles confirmed his global reputation.
His only work here is Maggie’s, a small cancer-care centre in Dundee, which opened in 2003. Gehry designed it for free.
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Chief Razak Akanni Okoya, who turns 80 on January 12, is an inspiring example of a self-made man. He started small and made it big. An eminent industrialist and chairman of Eleganza Group and RAO Property Investment Company, Okoya’s success story is a lesson in hard work, focus and self-belief.
It’s remarkable that he ended his formal education at Ansar-ud-deen Primary School, Oke popo, Lagos, but didn’t allow that limitation to limit his dreams.
Okoya got interested in business at a young age, and he followed his heart, even though it meant discontinuing his education. His account shows why he chose business life: “Yes, my father was a tailor. And we were also selling tailoring materials, buttons and so on. So, most of the time, I was with my father to sell those things.
“From the age of 12, 13, 14, I was active. I was in shop business… I was going to school, but I had no time. I had to stay in my father’s shop. Before I got to school in the morning, I would have missed one or two subjects. I was always a late comer.
“I was not impressed by our teachers in school…In school, I could see my teacher in worn and often shabby clothes and at the same time, I could see the well-dressed businessmen of Dosunmu Street, the heart of business in Lagos then. It was easy for me to choose business life.”
He took a loan from his mother, which he added to his savings, and started importing and selling goods from Japan. He later started a manufacturing business, making buttons, jewellery and shoes. He invested in machines and the training of workers, and made appealing products. Indeed, he played a pioneering role as a producer of made-in-Nigeria goods.
It’s been a long journey from his early days in business, but it’s been a fruitful journey. His Eleganza Industries produce household goods, including cutlery, food warmers, ice chests, electric fans, cosmetics and ballpoint pens, and his brand is well known in the country and in West Africa.
To Okoya’s credit, Eleganza, rated as “one of the biggest homegrown conglomerates in Nigeria today,” with more than six factories, employs thousands of Nigerians, which is an important socio-economic contribution. It’s a measure of his entrepreneurial success that Thisday Newspapers honoured him with a Lifetime Achievement Award as Business Entrepreneur of Our Time.
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Beyond doing business and making money, Okoya publicly offers the wisdom of his experience on occasion. On Nigeria’s power problem and how it stifles the country, he said in an interview: “The major issue is electricity. So, once you get light…constant electricity, 50 percent of our problems will be solved. Once you get that done, fifty percent of the country will be happy. Fifty percent will be employed. Unemployment will reduce. I put my 60 years of experience at stake.”
Another notable intervention is his advice on the country’s educational system and its emphasis on university studies to the detriment of vocational training. “Our orientation should change,” according to him. “We need more vocational schools, technical schools. Technical school is the answer… The nation is not yet in the right direction.”
Okoya hasn’t been distracted from business life, demonstrating a consistency of vision that underscores the passion that drew him to business. “I am not as active as before,” he said, with the approach of his 80th birthday. “My legacy will be sustained. In Europe, you have business empires lasting centuries, many generations.”
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By Jessica Lahey
Your child at home could be a slightly different human in the classroom away from the overtly protective arms and peering eyes of their parents. Here a few things your child’s teachers may want you to know….
1. Your kids can do much more than you think they can do. Despite all evidence to the contrary, your children do not need your help tying shoes, zipping jackets, sharpening pencils, packing their backpacks and lunch, or any of the million other tasks they expect you to do for them every day.
Take some direction from kindergarten teachers. If you think it takes an eternity to get your children out the door, imagine getting 20 children out the door, six times a day. Elementary school teachers are masters of delegation, so the child proficient at shoelaces becomes their “tying expert,” and the boy with a skill for zippers becomes the designated “zipper helper,” and before you can say “self-sufficient,” every child in the class has learned to tie and zip and mitten themselves. The next time your child tells you they can’t do something, step back and wait.
2. It’s not healthy to give your child constant feedback. When children require approval on every scribble, homework problem and picture they draw, it’s probably because they have been offered feedback on every scribble, homework problem and picture they draw. It’s vital that children develop their own internal locus of approval and honest self-assessment, because as they grow up and face hardship, they need to be able to look to themselves for strength and approval. If they can’t, they will be much more susceptible to the superficial external approval that comes their way in the form of peer pressure, bullying and the usual social jostling. As you wean them off of your feedback, turn their “Mommy, is this picture good?” or “Daddy, did I do a good job?” back on them, and ask them how they feel about their work.
3. We promise not to believe everything your child says happens at home if you promise not to believe everything your child says happens in our classrooms. Experienced teachers know that not everything children share during circle time represents an accurate reflection of what goes on in their home. When, for example, my cousin’s son told to his entire class that a robot had come to his house and removed his mommy’s lady parts, his teacher was wise enough to remain skeptical. Accordingly, when your child comes home and claims that the teacher screamed and yelled at him in front of the entire class for his low test score, try to give his teacher the benefit of the doubt until you’ve had a chance to talk to the teacher about it.
4. Your children learn and act according to what you do, not what you say. You are your child’s first and best teacher, and they learn more from your actions rather than your words. When you tell your child that it’s rude to text during conversations, yet you continue to read your email while pretending to listen to him talk about his day, you are teaching him to distrust your words and your intent, while reinforcing the very behavior you seek to modify.
In the same vein, if you want to promote a behavior such as a love of learning, model that, too. Seek out new knowledge and experiences; learn something new just for the sake of learning. As teacher S.Q. wrote in an email, “Model intellectual curiosity and a visceral pleasure in learning. Not just the brainy stuff, but anything of interest (how to clean spark plugs, what kinds of wood work best on a wood lathe, what the fox says). Show your own interest in learning by reading, thinking aloud, wondering aloud.”
5. Teach your children that mistakes aren’t signs of weakness but a vital part of growth and learning. Let your children see you fail, admit to your mistakes, and talk openly about how you have learned from those mistakes. As teacher K.M. wrote in an email, “Failure is part of the process. It’s what they do after they fail that matters. If you pick them up after their every failure, they learn nothing about how to begin again.”
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Today marks the 114th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as the beloved Dr. Seuss. Even decades after the publication of his first book, the whimsical writer and illustrator is still capturing the imagination of children – and adults – worldwide with his wacky themes, playful rhymes, and made-up words and creatures. To celebrate the man behind besties like the Grinch, the Sneetches, and the Lorax, let’s take a brief look at his life and work.
The Dr. Seuss Timeline illustrates some of the major events and achievements in the life of the author, as well as a few of his most popular books, such as The Cat in the Hat or Green Eggs and Ham. While many have heard the interesting stories behind his major works, how the penname “Dr. Seuss” was born might not be that common-knowledge.
It all started at Dartmouth, where Theodor (Ted) Geisel wrote for the university’s humor magazine and even rose to the rank of chief editor. That changed abruptly, though, when he was caught drinking gin in his dorm with a few friends. As punishment for violating Prohibition, Seuss was barred from writing for the magazine and stripped of his editorship too. To continue publishing, he hid behind a variety of pseudonyms, such as T. Seuss, D.G. Rosetti, or simply Seuss. Several other monikers appeared over the years, including the pompous “Dr. Theophrastus Seuss,” which the writer later shortened to the penname we know today.
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10 October 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Message on the World Day Against the Death Penalty
10 October 2016
VIENNA, 10 October (UN Information Service) - The death penalty is a cruel and inhumane practice. It has no place in the 21st century.
This year's World Day Against the Death Penalty focuses on terrorism-related offences. Around the world, 65 countries retain the death penalty for such crimes. To be legitimate and effective, counter-terror measures, like all security operations, must be anchored in respect for human rights and the rule of law.
Yet death sentences for terrorism are often handed down after unfair and speedy trials by military or special courts. Confessions are often obtained under duress or in other ways in which the right to appeal is not respected. Some States even seek to criminalize the legitimate exercise of fundamental freedoms by including vague definitions in counter-terrorism legislation.
Let us be clear: participation in peaceful protests and criticism of a government - whether in private, on the Internet or in the media - are neither crimes nor terrorist acts. The threat or use of the death penalty in such cases is an egregious violation of human rights.
Some may argue that capital punishment will diminish terrorism. This is not true. Experience has shown that putting terrorists to death serves as propaganda for their movements by creating perceived martyrs and making their macabre recruiting campaigns more effective.
Maintaining the rule of law and respect for human rights -- even in the face of terrorism and violent extremism - is an obligation that will boost society's ability to address terrorist threats.
Let us continue our work to abolish the death penalty in all circumstances and places. Let our actions always be guided by the moral compass of human rights -- the most effective route to a safer, more just and secure world.
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Do borough's real estate deals pose conflict?
In the not-too-distant past, Conyngham sold a building on the corner of Main and Sugarloaf assessed at thousands of dollars - for $500. The buyer was a real estate company. The building received an exterior update and looks like a gem.
At the same time, since it was a borough building housing the road crew, the borough bought the Attick building to house equipment and offices from the sold $500 building for $240,000 from the same real estate company. The same organization/real estate office was involved with both sales. The $500 building is now worth much more with just a brand new exterior.
Today, the person that heads that real estate office is head of the Conyngham Borough Authority, and through a generous offer wants to buy back the Attick building for $240,000, and provide extremely low rental rates for space needed by the borough. Yet, the building the borough bought during the Depression is now worth much more than $240,000. Real estate has changed since the Depression.
The buyer can once again make big bucks because that building can be resold. And the buyer, Conyngham Borough Authority, has stated it would rent space to the borough at extremely reasonable costs for the next 100 years. Yet, let's look at what happened in a very short number of years. But then the buyer, CBA, can sell the property, and those extremely low prices can be changed to much higher costs.
The Attick building is a necessity to the borough because of its location. Once that property is removed from the borough, the taxpayer will be stuck for office use. On the other hand, the borough can rent some space to CBA and have an income. Remember as water and sewer rates go up, so should the rent. And should CBA not rent from the borough, find space somewhere else. Today, the CBA has office space it rents from the borough for $700 a month that is larger than the borough's for the secretary and council. The authority appears to control Conyngham. It would appear that the same real estate firm that bought and sold the former two buildings would now be the Realtor involved with this sale.
Are there any ethics violations with people who own and sell real estate sitting on any board in the borough? Is there a conflict of interest when such people sit on these boards, and their main goal is to buy and sell real estate?
You see, if a person can buy and sell real estate, they may be thinking of the people of Conyngham, but they certainly are more knowledgeable of real estate profit than the average person. Without such an ethical conflict, the outcome would be very different.
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What's Happening in Oregon Is Nothing Less Than Armed Sedition
Its roots in our politics are deep and tangled.
"If three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite—a fit subject for a mad house." —George Washington to Henry Knox, on the subject of Shays Rebellion, February 3, 1787
You have to give Captain Daniel Shays this: When he launched his armed sedition against lawful authority, he at least was invited in. Overnight on Saturday, in an obscure corner of the Oregon wilderness, and contrary to the law, and in defiance of democratic authority, both federal and local, another act of armed sedition was committed. It seems to me that this ought to be a bigger story than, say, the belated prosecution of Bill Cosby, or whatever most recently came out of the mouth of the vulgar talking yam. In a small place in Oregon, the essential compact of the United States of America has come apart.
The Bundy family of Nevada joined with hard-core militiamen Saturday to take over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, vowing to occupy the remote federal outpost 30 miles southeast of Burns for years. The occupation came shortly after an estimated 300 marchers—militia and local citizens both—paraded through Burns to protest the prosecution of two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, who are to report to prison on Monday. Among the occupiers is Ammon Bundy, son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, and two of his brothers. Militia members at the refuge claimed they had as many as 100 supporters with them. The refuge, federal property managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was closed and unoccupied for the holiday weekend.
(This is also something you have to give to Captain Daniel Shays. He put a little more of his ass on the line. His act of armed sedition aimed a little higher than the occupation of the vacant headquarters of a bird sanctuary.)
"It does us no good to deny that there is a substantial constituency for armed sedition in this country, and to deny the necessity of delegitimizing that constituency in our politics, and the first step in that process is to face it and to call it what it is."
Before moving on to the larger issues, it's important to note that the local authorities, and the local citizenry, want no part of this noisy claque of armed meatheads. It is popular among these people who apparently have brains wired like short-wave radios broadcasting from upper Michigan to say that the real constitutional authority in this country resides in its local sheriffs. Well, the local sheriff in this case would like it very much if this particular invasive species would abandon his jurisdiction and go back to freeloading on federal lands in Nevada.
Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward told people to stay away from the building as authorities work to defuse the situation, The Oregonian reported."A collective effort from multiple agencies is currently working on a solution. For the time being please stay away from that area. More information will be provided as it becomes available. Please maintain a peaceful and united front and allow us to work through this situation," Ward said in a statement.
Hell, even the convicted arsonists on whose behalf this action allegedly was undertaken have distanced themselves from these clowns.
The Hammonds said they have not welcomed the Bundy's help. "Neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family," the Hammonds' lawyer W. Alan Schroeder wrote to Sheriff David Ward.
This is an act of armed sedition against lawful authority. That is all that it is, and that is quite enough. This is not "an expression of anti-government sentiment." Flipping off the governor as he drives by is "an expression of anti-government sentiment." What Alex Jones does every day is "an expression of anti-government sentiment," and god bless them all for it. That's what the Founders had in mind. This is not an "occupation" following "a peaceful protest." That would be all those folks who got bludgeoned and pepper-sprayed out of Zuccotti Park a couple of years back. (And when exactly did ABC News decide it wasn't a news organization anymore?) These are men with guns who have declared themselves outside the law. These are men with guns who have taken something that belongs to all of us. These are traitors and thieves who got away with this dangerous nonsense once, and have been encouraged to get away with it again, and they draw their inspiration not solely from the wilder fringes of our politics, either. Ammon Bundy and his brothers should have been thrown in jail after they gathered themselves in rebellion the first time.
This is another step down the road that leads to the broken shell of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. There are respectable people in our respectable politics who have been shamefully silent on the subject, and there are respectable people in our respectable media who seem terrified of calling this what it is. You want an example of the deadening effect of "political correctness" in our politics? Watch what the people running for president have to say about this episode. Look at how it is being framed already—or ignored entirely—by the elite political media. There is a constituency for armed rebellion in this country that is larger than any of our respectable political and social institutions want to admit. It is fueled by reckless, ambitious people who engage in reckless, ambitious rhetoric.
It did not begin in Burns. It did not begin on the Bundy Ranch, either. In its most modern form, and in the form most relevant to recent events, it began, as so many noxious elements of our politics did, with the Reagan Administration. It began with a man named Ron Arnold, and a Secretary of the Interior named James Watt, and in something called the Wise Use movement with which the Republican party (and the conservative movement that became its fundamental life force) allied itself for its political advantage in the western part of the country.
Much of this popularity can be explained by the lingering economic recession of the early 1980s, which provided a receptive grassroots audience for the Wise Use claim that it is easier to force nature to adapt to current corporate policies than to encourage the growth of more environmentally sound ways of doing business. Wise Use pamphlets argue that extinction is a natural process; some species weren't meant to survive. The movement's signature public relations tactic is to frame complex environmental and economic issues in simple, scapegoating terms that benefit its corporate backers. In the movement's Pacific Northwest birthplace, Wise Users harp on a supposed battle for survival between spotted owls and the families of the men and women who make their livings harvesting and milling the old growth timber that is the owl's habitat. In preparation for President Clinton's forest summit in Portland, Oregon, Wise Use public relations experts ran seminars to teach loggers how to speak in sound bites. Messages such as "jobs versus owls" have been adapted to a variety of environmental issues and have helped spark an anti-green backlash that has defeated river protection efforts and threatens to open millions of acres of wilderness to resource extraction.
That was the respectable—if undeniably destructive—part of the movement. Its philosophy, however, was embraced by the growing militia movement in the same part of the country. Its philosophy ran in poisoned tributaries to all points of the political compass until it gathered itself into a great reservoir of toxic fantasy, and that is where the essential compact of the United States of America was encouraged to break down.
There is no actual tyranny in this country against which to take up arms. There is bureaucratic inertia. There is pigheaded bureaucracy. There even is political chicanery. But there is no actual tyranny in the Endangered Species Act, or in the Bureau of Land Management, or in the Environmental Protection Agency, or in the Affordable Care Act, or in IRS dumbassery, or even in whatever it is that the president plans to say about guns in the next week or so. Anyone who argues that actual tyranny exists is a dangerous charlatan who should be mocked from the public square. Anyone who argues that there is out of political ambition, or for their own personal profit, should be shunned by decent people until they regain whatever moral compass they once had.
It does us no good to ignore what is going on in this obscure little corner of the Pacific Northwest. It does us no good to refuse to hold to account the politics that led to this, and the politicians who sought to profit from it. It does us no good to deny that there is a substantial constituency for armed sedition in this country, and to deny the necessity of delegitimizing that constituency in our politics, and the first step in that process is to face it and to call it what it is.
And, in related news, of course, Tamir Rice is still dead.
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Clothing in Roman times, as in our society, went beyond the need to cover the body and became an identification of the social status of the wearer, through aspects as diverse as the type of fabric, fiber or color.
This code hidden between the folds of the fabric will be discovered in this small exhibition that highlights the small fragments of archaeological objects from the ancient Baetulo that we keep in the Museum. History clippings that, despite their size, provide valuable insights into such an everyday look as ancient Roman clothing.
PRODUCTION: Museu de Badalona i Anís del Mono
DIRECTION: Margarida Abras Pou
COORDINATION: Francesca García Almagro
DOCUMENTATION AND TEXTS: Clara Forn i Esther Gurri
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Francesca García Almagro
PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL PRINTING: Lluís Andú
ASSEMBLY : Francisco Ruiz
COMUNICATION: Esther Espejo i Núria Sadurní
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Antònia Díaz i Patrícia López
RESTORATION: ECORE, Mònica Cantera i Rosa M. García
ORIGIN OF THE PIECES: Museu de Badalona
Pictures from the exhibition
Pieces from the exhibition
Horari del Museu:
De dimarts a dissabte de 10 a 14 h i de 17 a 20 h.
Diumenges i festius de 10 a 14 h
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There is no single best interval type (also known as a classification method). The interval types provided in the State Cancer Profiles Maps section enables the user to choose the interval type that they feel is most appropriate for their purpose and audience. For additional details, see: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/gis/gis_maps_faq.htm and this journal article: Brewer, C. A. and L. Pickle, 2002. Evaluation of Methods for Classifying Epidemiological Data on Choropleth Maps in Series. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 4, pp. 662-681. | <urn:uuid:eb654567-4eca-4450-954d-67bc7f0a742d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/intervaltype.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00002-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868825 | 343 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Property rights are often described as a bundle of sticks. Each stick represents a right; a person who owns real property that is not subject to any superior rights holds all the sticks, while those with lesser rights hold only a few sticks. A right of entry allows a person to enter another person's land without it being a trespass. Licenses and easements may include a right of entry.
A license is a right to do something to or on another person's property. Licenses are personal; they do not transfer with title to the land. A common example is a driver's license. The state issues driver's licenses to qualified individuals; the license allows the driver to use public highways and streets. Private licenses are numerous. For instance, a property owner can contract with a person or business and offer the right to enter the property owner's land and remove timber or natural resources. The right of entry granted by that license is different from rights of entry created by a deed.
Easements are similar to licenses in that an easement bestows the right to do something on another person's land. Unlike a license, an easement affects the land itself; it encumbers the real property and can affect the title. Easements come in many forms. A landlocked parcel of property, for example, may have an easement across another person's land so the owner of the landlocked parcel can reach a road or highway. Easements are common with utility companies: They grant the right to the company to install utilities, such as sewer pipes or power lines, on the property.
Right of Re-Entry
A right of entry is different from a right of re-entry. A right of re-entry allows the original owner -- the grantor -- to cancel an interest in land and retake possession of the property if the new owner violates a specific condition. For example, if the grantor conveys his property to his cousin, he might include the following language in the deed: "but if my cousin uses the land to operate a tavern, I retain the right to re-enter the property and retake possession." The cousin has the right to use the land pursuant to the deed but only if he does not use it for a tavern. If the cousin violates that condition, the grantor can execute his right of re-entry and regain title to the land from the cousin.
The parties to a license, easement or other right in real property must execute a valid document to create a legally enforceable right. The document should describe the scope of the right. In some cases -- especially with easements and rights of entry -- the parties should file the document in the county property records office. Doing so puts the public on notice of any rights associated with the land. Readers with specific questions about property rights should consult an attorney for independent advice.
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When constructing a dystopia, it takes some doing to be both Orwellian and Huxleyan at the same time. But with the changes he just announced to the Facebook News Feed, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have managed this extraordinary feat.
The nightmare worlds of George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) are in many ways polar opposites. One is a surveillance state that controls what people see of history by literally rewriting newspapers. The other controls its citizenry by blissing them out on a dissociative drug called soma.
In his ongoing effort to "improve" Facebook, Zuckerberg is now trying both tactics. He's reducing your access to real news -- in the 20th century, we used to call that censorship -- while increasing the likelihood that you'll only see the outrageous fake news posted by your crazy uncle. Because hey, content posted by family makes you happy, and we only want you to be happy, right?
The algorithm, we already knew, watches you as closely as Big Brother ever did. Every friendship, every like, the length of time you spend reading a story, whether you interact with it -- all of this goes on your permanent record. (At least with the telescreens, Orwell told us, you knew they weren't watching the whole time.)
The fact that Facebook is going to simply show you less news makes it more efficient than Orwell's totalitarian state. Party bosses at the Ministry of Truth must be slapping their foreheads: get billions of people to consume their news via social media, then simply eliminate that news content? No rewriting of The Times, no memory hole required, just make the news vanish digitally? Why didn't we think of that?
A brief reminder of why this matters. As of August 2017, according to the Pew Research Center, 67 percent of Americans got their news on social media -- a 5 percent increase from the previous year. On Facebook, 68 percent of users got their news from the site. For the first time in the Pew survey, a majority of Americans older than 50 turned to social media services for news.
To become such a major source of information so fast, and then to simply yank that news away, isn't just an outrageous abnegation of civic responsibility. It's straight out of the dystopian playbook.
An oft-forgotten part of Orwell's oft-mischaracterized classic: the vast majority of Oceania's society, the Proles, weren't given any news at all, not even the fake kind. They were kept happy on a constant diet of cheap songs and lurid stories. Facebook has now gone the Party one better: feeds will likewise be full of equally crappy, thin-gruel content, but the Proles will be producing it themselves. And Facebook gets to monetize it!
Brave New News Feed
"The warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!" -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Replace "soma-holiday" with "social media," and you can see why Huxley was even more prophetic than we've given him credit for.
The fictional drug soma made you social. It made you feel connected with friends and strangers alike -- in a supremely false way. It took you on what the book's characters repeatedly describe as a "perfect holiday."
The Facebook that Zuckerberg now seems to be envisioning will do the same. People present their best selves on the service; they post carefully curated photos of their "perfect" vacations. And now they will be able to do so without any of that nasty news intruding!
"The research shows that when we use social media to connect with people we care about, it can be good for our well-being," Zuckerberg wrote. He forgot to mention the research that shows Facebook actually makes you more depressed when you're looking at other people's vacation snaps or pictures of their perfect babies.
Like in some kind of twisted experiment, however, we keep hitting that lever
No matter how much you care about the person in question, Facebook invites comparison -- which in turn leads to status anxiety. We may post "congratulations" in the comments, which the algorithm counts as a huge win. Major engagement points! But what we're really thinking or feeling in the face of these richly colored snapshots -- the sudden amping up of our envy, our self-loathing, our depression -- stays hidden from Facebook's all-seeing eye.
Like in some kind of twisted experiment, however, we keep hitting that lever. Let the soma of Facebook help us annihilate ourselves and carry us away on the perfect holiday of others -- how kind, how good looking, how delightfully amusing they are.
Now Zuckerberg wants us to stay in that mental state without the horrid intrusion of "passive experience" -- his words for what happens when you're reading or watching anything that makes you sit and think, rather than mindlessly typing "congratulations!"
The worst of it is, Zuck thinks he's being noble. He literally thinks he's "doing the right thing." He wants his infant children to look back one day and say that Facebook saved the world.
Perhaps they will. Because with everyone consuming content on Facebook, with media companies that reach for objective truth driven out of News Feeds and out of business, there will be no one left to point out the inanity of all this fake connection. The next generation of Zuckerbergs may well spend their lives on endless soma holidays. | <urn:uuid:34e77025-7d7c-4315-8423-201e0aa1e103> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mashable.com/article/facebook-dystopia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.95432 | 1,158 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Our response to the recommendations of a citizen jury report into what matters in social care. It explains how we will work with the social care sector to meet these recommendations.
The Social Service and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 (‘the Act’) came into force in April 2016. The purpose of the Act is to improve the way that Local Authorities deliver social care across Wales. This will improve the well-being outcomes for:
- people who need care and support
- carers who need support
We, the Welsh Government, wanted to hear about people’s experiences as part of the evaluation of the Act. The Measuring the Mountain project started in January 2018. The project used the survey tool SenseMaker and a Citizen’s Jury to make recommendations. SenseMaker combines data and human stories to understand peoples’ experiences. The Welsh Government provided a formal response to the recommendations. In 2020 we agreed an 18-month extension to the project.
The project used the same methods to understand people’s experiences of Social Care in Wales. The Jurors made a further 16 recommendations, across four core areas:
We welcome the work of the Measuring the Mountain team. We have provided a formal response to the recommendations. It explains how we will work with the social care sector to meet these recommendations.
Welsh Government’s formal response
Our formal response addresses the 16 recommendations of the Measuring the Mountain report.
We recommend to the Welsh Government that they appoint a Disabled People’s Commissioner in 2021.
The Locked Out report made a similar recommendation. The First Minister agreed to establish a Minister-led Disability Rights Taskforce. Taskforce membership will include stakeholders from, different sectors. The Taskforce will also include representatives chosen by the Disability Equality Forum. Disabled people will be at the forefront of this work.
The taskforce will address the inequalities highlighted by the Locked Out report. We will work across public, private and voluntary sectors to undertake these actions. The Taskforce will:
- develop a Disability Rights Action Plan for Wales
- consider the recommendation for a Disability Commissioner at the end of this programme of work
We recommend to the Welsh Government that they establish a Task Force to explore ways to deliver Universal Basic Income to the citizens of Wales, and that it reports back to Senedd Cymru and the people of Wales on its findings in 2021.
We are supporting people living in poverty in Wales. We are aiming to make sure people have adequate financial support to be happy and healthy in Wales.
In April 2022, we started a Universal Basic Income pilot for young people leaving care in Wales. All young people leaving care who turn 18 this year, across Wales, can take part in this pilot. We expect that over 500 young people are eligible to join the scheme. Participation is not mandatory. Thus, exact numbers will be unavailable until sometime after the pilot is underway.
We hope the pilot scheme will show if this approach reduces the challenges care leavers face. The pilot will test the benefits of a Universal Basic Income such as:
- addressing poverty
- reducing unemployment and
- improving health and financial wellbeing in Wales
We have established an advisory group to support the roll out of the pilot scheme. We will test the pilot scheme to see what is working, or not working, for the participants. We will also explore the wider benefits, such as improved health and wellbeing. Researchers will make recommendations about the Universal Basic Income scheme.
We also hope that the pilot will offer real-world ideas for supporting:
- financial wellbeing,
- emotional wellbeing, and
- pathways to education and employment
We recommend that there is a national public awareness campaign about the rights people in Wales have to social care. Alongside this, every local authority should undertake a local campaign, appropriate to their area that uses clear and simple language to make people aware of their rights and the support that is available to them in their area.
Information for Carers
Our Social Services and Well-being (Wales) 2014 Act has been key to our progression towards an integrated health and social care system, and the introduction of new rights for unpaid carers.
We delivered our latest carers’ rights campaign between October and November 2021. The campaign was in partnership with Carers Wales and Carers Trust Wales. The campaign aimed to:
- deliver an integrated campaign to encourage unpaid carers to self-identify
- inform carers of their right to information, advice, and a Carers Needs Assessment
- encourage carers to find out what support is available from their local authority.
We delivered the campaign in English and Welsh. The campaign made use of a toolkit developed by Carers Wales. We shared the toolkit with local authorities (LAs) and local health boards (LHBs).
The campaign drove 8,860 clicks to the website throughout the campaign period. This resulted in more carers are accessing support.
Strategy for Unpaid Carers
The Strategy for Unpaid Carers aims to help unpaid carers to recognise their role and access the support they have the right to. We launched our Delivery Plan to support the Strategy in November 2021. We will action many priorities from the Delivery Plan during this Senedd term.
Older People’s awareness
We are working with Age Cymru to raise older people’s awareness of their rights. Age Cymru is working with older people’s groups using our co-produced publication. Together we are promoting a rights-based approach in health and social care. Age Cymru is also producing a video and toolkit. We will run a second older people’s rights campaign later this year building on the 2019 campaign.
We implemented the Code of Practice on the delivery of Autism Services in September 2021. The aims are:
- to improve the lives of autistic people and their families in Wales,
- to promote the key duties under the code to LAs, LHBs and NHS Trusts, and
- to support the rights of autistic adults and parents/carers of autistic children. We will do this by communicating the right to certain health and social care services under the Code
We are working with the National Autism Team and the National Autism Society. We are delivering a targeted digital campaign. The campaign is operating in two phases:
- Phase 1 -stakeholder communications, from September 2021- January 2022 and
- Phase 2 -communications with people, from March 2022 onwards
Engagement activities have as taken place. We have publicised accessible versions of the Code and its guidance. To aid understanding we have produced:
- short animated videos, and
- two one page leaflets “What does the Code mean for you?” for stakeholders and the public
We are also planning:
- social media advertising via Facebook and Twitter. This will promote key messages in the Code and include links to for further information
- to promote the information through our owned channels
- to provide key partner organisations with a toolkit to support them to do the same
Evaluation to date has been positive and suggests that the campaigns have led to increased awareness of the Code.
We recommend that respite care should be redefined and co-produced, so that the practice of providing respite is normalised and becomes about providing flexible, tailored opportunities for both carers and those they care for.
We are working to redefine, improve and diversify respite for unpaid carers in Wales. We have published the Strategy for Unpaid Carers in March 2021. We are working with members of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Carers and key partners.
Priority three of our four national priorities for unpaid carers is:
“Supporting life alongside caring - all unpaid carers must have the opportunity to take breaks from their caring role to enable them to maintain their own health and well-being and have a life alongside caring”.
We commissioned research to better understand respite and short breaks. We commissioned Carers Trust Wales, Swansea and Bangor University to coproduce this work. The A new vision for respite and short breaks in Wales Carers Trust report:
- sets out an ambitious vision for creative short breaks. These will reflect the personal outcomes people wish to achieve
- will inform the future of respite in Wales
- we shared it with LAs. We hope it will inform their work and encourage a person centred approach.
We have given £3million to LAs in 2020-21 to provide emergency respite during the pandemic. This money is also to encourage innovative approaches to respite. LAs are using the fund in a variety of ways, for example:
- Gwynedd Council is setting up a ‘respitality’ scheme. This scheme will offer cheaper holidays to unpaid carers. The scheme is upgrading a respite cottage.
- In Torfaen, the funding is supporting an unpaid carers’ bowling club and day trips.
- A rapid response respite-at-home service has been set up in Swansea. This is allowing unpaid carers to attend health appointments or take a break. This service can also provide taster sessions. For example, for carers considering accessing support from their LA.
- In Conwy, unpaid carers experiencing stress and anxiety are being offered counselling. Counselling sessions are being offered over a six-week period. The LA is also purchasing items for carers. For example, outdoor furniture, tablets, exercise equipment or gym membership.
- 1,400 unpaid carers and young carers in Monmouthshire have applied for a £10 voucher scheme. Vouchers for garden centres, toy shops, pizza takeaways and afternoon tea are available.
- In Anglesey, young carers can access a range of respite provision. For example, many have experienced new activities.
We are also funding North East Wales Carers Information Service (NEWCIS). This is to promote their award-winning model of a short breaks fund across Wales.
We announced £3million of ongoing funding for respite in 2022-23 draft budget.
We recommend that advocacy services receive more funding to ensure high standards in delivery are reached, more people are supported, and a greater range of services are provided in an independent manner, which should also include legal and technical advocacy.
We recognise that there is a need to build capacity for advocacy services. We intend to commission research about advocacy in care homes. The research will:
- look at how advocacy works in practice
- look at how advocacy affected the lives of residents during the Covid-19 pandemic
- guide future policy work.
We currently fund projects that support advocacy and advice such as:
- Age Cymru deliver the HOPE Project (Helping others to participate and engage). The HOPE project promotes access to early intervention support at community level. The HOPE project uses a range of advocacy models for older people and carers across Wales
- MEIC is a confidential, anonymous, and free bilingual helpline. It is a service for children and young people up to the age of 25 in Wales. MEIC provides information, useful advice, and support. MEIC is open 8am - midnight, 7 days a week, by phone, SMS text and instant messaging. We have provided funding £535,989 of funding to deliver the service until June 2022. A new contract, which will run from 1 June 2022 – 31 March 2026, is being procured.
- Race Equality first to deliver health-related advocacy services. This project supports members of diverse communities to receive appropriate health care. It also improves the understanding of health care providers. Such as the cultural and religious needs of Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. This is important for planning healthcare provision.
We recommend the development of a consistent, centralised approach for assessments across Wales. Assessments should be standardised but have a focus on local approaches to meeting need and consider the specific and unique needs of the many rural and isolated areas in the country.
The 2014 Act provides a clear approach to assessment across Wales. This ensures that assessments:
- are co-produced. Individuals and practioners share the power to plan and deliver support together. This means that all partners have an important part to play in the process.
- allow person-centred “what matters” conversations as part of assessments
- identify people’s strengths
- identify the resources needed to meet people’s personal outcomes
- use the assessment to create a plan to meet people’s personal outcomes.
This means there is a consistent approach to assessments, which allows for the individuals’ needs to be considered.
The statutory national eligibility criteria provide consistent rights for care and support. All-Wales training materials support staff to carry out assessments. Training materials are accessible and free of charge on Social Care Wales’ website. All training materials were co-produced with people needing care and support.
The Performance and Improvement Framework (PIF) metrics track local authority approaches and activity. As part of this, local authorities report on:
- the number of assessments they have done
- if assessments met agreed timescales
- the outcomes of the assessments.
We publish these reports every year as part of our approach to learning and improvement.
We recommend that all training and continuous professional development for social care practitioners is co-produced with unpaid carers and those who use services and that this is evidenced annually by those who employ such staff.
We have identified actions to improve services and the experiences of unpaid carers. We have done this by working with unpaid carers and other stakeholders. We’ve published the National Strategy for Unpaid Carers and the supporting delivery plan.
Over the next four years, we will continue to work with unpaid carers and stakeholders to:
- review the training options currently offered across Wales
- identify gaps and explore options
- develop and share best practice to support professionals to support unpaid carers
As part of the review, we will explore:
- the inclusion of modules on Welsh language
- how to identify and meet the needs of:
- marginalised and seldom-heard groups
- young carers
- existing Continuous Professional Development for health and social care workers. This will focus on training to help them identify and meet the needs of unpaid carers
- introducing mandatory pre- and post-qualification training for social work professions
- the availability relevant modules in higher education. It will consider if these meet the needs of future professionals who may work with unpaid carers
We have funded Carers Wales and Carers Trust Wales to deliver the “Carer Aware” project. This is a co-produced project, co-developed with unpaid carers. It is working with staff at all levels of social care, and in health. The project’s aims are to:
- raise awareness of carers’ rights
- share good practice,
- encourage closer working.
This project includes a new ‘good practice’ guide and set of principles for social workers.
We recommend that local authorities demonstrate annually that their information is easy to understand, transparent, accessible, and is promoting exemplar projects in their area.
People need to be able to take part in conversations about their care and support needs. People needing and support also need to understand the different options available.
We support this recommendation. It reiterates the key principles of the 2014 Act and the Codes of Practice. The Part 2 Code sets out:
- clear expectations on the overarching duties around respect and dignity
- the wider duties under equality legislation
- duties under the UN Principles and relevant conventions relating to:
- older people
- disabled people
- the role practioners and organisations have in helping people understand their rights
The Part 2 Code also sets out the role of the Information, Advice and Assistance (IAA) Services. Local authorities’ IAA services share information about:
- how the care and support systems operate in the area
- the types of care and support available
- how to access the care and support that is available
- how to raise concerns about the well-being of a person who appears to have needs for care and support
Local authorities need to show their approach to providing information and advice. They do this through the Directors of Social Services Annual Reports. These reports provide a common mechanism across Wales to evidence progress. The reports also evidence working in partnership and innovation. The reports draw on the continuous training programme provided through Social Care Wales.
We have commissioned a review of the guidance and templates for these Annual Reports. Local Authorities and other stakeholders are engaging in this process. The aim is to align the reports with the Performance and Improvement Framework (PIF). The PIF states what data local authorities should be reporting every year. This includes data bout IAA services.
Our response to Recommendation 3 is also relevant here.
We recommend that unpaid carers’ opinions are sought and valued across both social care and the NHS, and that organisations involved in the provision of health and social care services show how these are being brought into decision making processes.
People who use social services should inform decisions about those services.
The Expectations and experiences: service user and carer perspectives on the Social Services and Well-being Act report forms part of the evaluation of the Act.
The research involved collecting views from a wide range of service users and carers. Participants described how they have experienced the Act over the last year. We will use the findings from this report to shape health and care services in Wales.
Our Carers’ Ministerial Advisory Group meets quarterly and includes a range of stakeholders. Stakeholders include key carer organisations from the third sector. The group helped develop the Strategy for Unpaid Carers and the Delivery Plan. This group will be very important in delivering actions from the delivery plan.
We fund a Carers’ Engagement Group. This allows unpaid carers to give their opinions and tell their stories. The group links to networks of carers in local communities from across Wales. The group has played a key role in helping us develop the Strategy for Unpaid Carers.
Recently, members of the group have helped shape the Carers’ Charter and the new delivery plan. The delivery plan explains how we will take forward work to support unpaid carers over the next 5 years.
The Engagement Group is currently undergoing a review. This will ensure the group is able to reach a wider range of unpaid carers. In line with our social care goals, we will increase diversity and inclusion. We will also include more young carers.
Under the 2014 Act, Regional Partnership Boards (RPBs) were set up. RPB membership must include a person to represent carers. The RPBs must:
- ensure the carer members is a representative voice on the board. They are not only a representative of all carers in the region
- set up wider engagement with carers, so the RPBs listen to the views of carers
- involve carers in planning and strategy development
- engage with carers, including young carers, when developing:
- their population needs assessments
- market stability reports
- joint area plans
We have also established an Oversight Board to support a new vision for children’s social care in Wales. The Oversight Board will include:
- two care experienced young people
- a range of internal and external partners
- Anthony Douglas, former Chief Executive of Cafcass, as Chair
- representatives from:
- All Wales Heads of Children’s Services Group (AWHOCS)
- Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru (ADSS Cymru)
- Social Care Wales (SCW)
- Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
- Children’s Commissioner for Wales (CCFW)
- Welsh Government officials
We are working with local authorities (LAs) to collect more information about carers. We will be doing this through the Performance Improvement Framework (PIF). The PIF includes data, as well as the experiences of carers and others requiring care and support. The PIF encourages LAs to use these experiences to shape and improve services.
We recommend that people with lived experience of using care and support services share that experience on panels, through co-produced training and through the work of the office of the new Disabled People’s Commissioner.
Understanding the lived experiences of individuals is crucial for developing future services. We asked ADSSC to undertake a review. This review asked about the impact of the pandemic on people using care and support services. Services included day services, respite care and short-term placements. The report contains recommendations for improvement. In response to the report, we will ask ADSSC to undertake a short programme of work. This work will involve those accessing services to support recovery and re-building. There will be an emphasis on:
- individual voice and control
- improved communication
- innovation, without the loss of valued services. For example, those enabling inclusion, providing opportunities to socialise and form friendships
We recommend to the Welsh Government that they provide ongoing support to third sector organisations to create and maintain localised support networks for people, particularly those that enable peer support and advocacy, and paying attention to rural and isolated areas.
We recognise the importance of peer support and its role in people’s lives. The latest report from the national evaluation of the Social Services and Wellbeing Act (2014) states:
“… peer support that carers receive from others, alongside the support of key voluntary sector organisations, has improved their quality of life and feeling of well-being just for knowing that there is someone to talk to if it is needed. This was also the case for young carers who found the opportunity to spend time with their peers – albeit in a different form during the pandemic – enhanced their sense of well-being, and was both valuable and sustaining.”
We have funded a range of projects that maintain local support for people. We provide this funding:
- direct to individual organisations
- indirectly through the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) and Community Health Councils
Examples include projects funded for delivery by the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS). NYAS Cymru are receiving funding for an advocacy project. This project supports parents to engage with social services using independent professional advocacy. Independent professional advocacy assists parents by:
- helping them to navigate systems
- involving them in decision-making processes
NYAS Cymru are also receiving funding for Project Unity. This project aims to break the cycle of children of care-experienced mothers being taken into care. The project also aims to prevent children becoming subject to child protection processes. The project does this by:
- providing intensive wraparound services
- building peer support networks
We recommend representation that is more diverse be mandated within social care at a local, regional and national level, including on Regional Partnership Boards.
Regional Partnership Boards (RPBs) must include at least one member of the Board who:
- represents the interests of people who need care and support, and
- another to represent the interests of carers who need support
RPBs must also include members to represent the third sector and providers.
We are currently engaging with carer members on a Task and Finish Group. This is Phase 1 of a wider Engagement and Voice project. This group will develop a standard approach to supporting members of RPBs, including:
- users of health and social care services
- third sector members
- provider members.
The aims of Phase 2 will be:
- to increase RPBs’ engagement with users and carers
- to embed co-production in all their planning and policy development
This will also help us revise the Part 9 Statutory Guidance on partnership working. This will lead to a stronger focus on co-production, engagement, and voice. This revised guidance will be out for consultation early in 2023.
This will also help us revise the Part 9 Statutory Guidance on partnership working. This will have a much stronger focus on co-production, engagement, and voice. This revised guidance will be out for consultation early in 2023.
We recommend that the Welsh Government prioritise funding for early intervention, particularly for established good practice and practice that supports better outcomes and demonstrate how this funding will increase year on year.
Early intervention and more preventative services will minimise the escalation of critical need by:
- improving people’s well-being
- making public services more sustainable
The Health and Social Care Regional Integration Fund (RIF) is a 5-year fund. It aims to create sustainable change through integrating health and care services. It will run from April 2022 to March 2027.
Key features and values of the RIF include:
- a strong focus on prevention and early intervention
- activities funded by it must support the development and delivery of integrated care
- there are 6 national models to follow. These include Community Based Care, Prevention and Community Coordination
- delivery of these models must follow the principles of the 2014 Act. These include prevention and early intervention
The guidance document outlines the high level Outcomes Framework for the RIF. The framework will provide practical information to the RPBs and partners. It will include guidance on data gathering, presenting evidence and reporting.
We have commissioned Institute of Public Care to set up and run a range of communities of practice. These will focus on sharing good practice from projects funded through the RIF.
We recommend that social services demonstrate how they are working in partnership with other organisations and what benefits that collaboration brings to the people they support.
We developed guidance for the Regional Integration Fund (RIF) in partnership with RPBs. We co-produced the parameters for using the fund, as well as the guidance. We have done this by learning from each other and offering a safe space for challenge and discussion.
The RIF will use ways of working that are set out in the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 (WBFG). Collaboration is a key feature of the WBFG. We expect RPBs to secure positive outcomes for individuals and communities by:
- investing in social value
- promoting collaboration and collective endeavours
We are continuing work to better integrate health and social care services. This is vital to ensure seamless services for people who need care and support. RPBs are vital for this ambition by providing strategic support and encouraging collaboration.
RPBs develop population needs assessments, market stability reports and joint area plans. To do this they engage with a range of key stakeholders including:
- third sector and wider social value organisations
- providers of care and support
They are also required to report on the nature, level and impact of this engagement.
Partnership working and integration is key to the Rebalancing Care and Support Programme. The Programme will aim to:
- establish a national framework for commissioning care and support
- rebalance the social care market, to focus on quality and outcomes, rather than price
- increase integrated working between health, social care and the third sector
- ensure increased engagement and voice, governance and scrutiny, planning and performance
We recommend that all complaints processes are easy to understand, transparent and accessible.
Social Services in Wales should listen to people making concerns, local authorities should:
- listen to concerns
- resolve complaints as soon as possible
- learn from these concerns
- use the experience to improve services
Details of the social services complaints processes are on local authorities’ websites. People can make complaints about services they receive or should have received. People can also make complaints about individual social care workers to Social Care Wales.
Local authorities should consider what help and support it can offer to complainants. Some people will need advice and confidential support to:
- make their complaint
- pursue their complaint
- handle the complaints process
- cope with the outcome
Local authorities must offer to discuss the complaint with the complainant. This can be face-to-face or by telephone. The aim is to resolve matters through achieving service user satisfaction. The aim should not be to resolve matters to avoid a formal investigation. This approach should allow for the quick and successful resolution of most complaints.
If a formal investigation takes place, an Independent Investigator should:
- make sure that the complainant feels listened to and understood
- be fair and as open as possible about their methods and reasons for their conclusions.
The response to the complaint should be:
- written, unless the complainant has requested an alternative method of communication. For example, a response in Braille or on audio-tape
- written in a way that is easy to understand
Local authorities must report on the complaints received. They do this using the Directors of Social Services Annual Reports. These reports will give a summary of the complaints received and the action taken as a result.
We recommend that local authorities provide data on the number of people eligible to receive direct payments in their area and information about why they are not issuing direct payments packages for eligible people requiring support.
The 2014 Act has shaped practice to promote people’s rights and the choices available to them. Person-centred planning and voice and control are central to the 2014 Act. Under the 2014 Act, we co-produce care, rather than providing or influencing solutions. This principle also applies to direct payments.
Direct payments are a personal choice of an individual or family. Individuals can use direct payments to meet any eligible assessed need. People can choose a mix of direct payments and local authority commissioned services. This enables people to achieve their stated outcomes using appropriate care and support.
A co-produced resource providing advice for practitioners and direct payment recipients is available. This is available on Social Care Wales website.
Audit Wales recently published their Direct Payments for Adult Social Care report. We will consider how their findings can further support this recommendation.
Capturing, interrogating and understanding data is important to improving services. The new performance and improvement Framework (PIF) requires local authorities to do this. The PIF includes the number of adults and children using direct payments to meet their needs. This allows local authorities to:
- understand the choice individuals make
- how people exercise voice and control over their own care and support needs
- the outcomes people want to achieve
The PIF includes guidance to help understand experiences and outcomes. The guidance includes ideas about how to engage with people who use social services. Engagement will help local authorities to understand how people receiving care and support:
- feel about their experience of engaging with social services
- their perceptions of any changes in their social care outcomes
- feel about their wider well-being
Finally, in conjunction with these recommendations, the Jurors concluded that whilst the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 contained all the elements to facilitate a superb social care system, the Principles of the Act are not easily understood by ordinary people. Therefore, a ‘rebranding’ of the Principles, articulated as core values that underpin the delivery of both social care and health should be implemented, so they are clearly stated and understood across both sectors.
We recognise the importance of the people of Wales understanding the 2014 Act. We hope that the principles of the 2014 Act will be better understood by the people of Wales as a result of:
- engagement with people who need care and support
- continued promotion of the Act and its principles
- the actions already taken, or those we will be taking as a result of the recommendations above
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A collection of resources for anyone interested in this alternative monetary system.
Some people dismiss Full Reserve Banking (as opposed to Fractional Reserve Banking) as a crazy system not taken seriously by any leading economists. This is entirely false. As recently as 2010, Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, said…
“You might be aware that I have said publicly that I think ideas in this spirit – such as those advocated by John Kay – certainly merit serious consideration in the debate as to how we reform our financial system. I remain sympathetic to these views.”
If the governor of the Bank of England takes its seriously, then perhaps we all should. The purpose of this website is to be a starting point for anyone wishing to research this common sense, rational and quite practical banking system. Had we had Full Reserve Banking in place all along, it is almost certain that the financial crash of 2007/2008 and its lingering aftermath would never have occurred.
April 2014: Martin Wolf, chief economist at the Financial Times, declares himself a supporter of full reserves.
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Areng Valley dam activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, who is being ordered by the government to leave the country when his visa expires today, plans to stay in the Kingdom for 30 more days, a colleague said yesterday.
“Immigration law states that when the visa expires, [foreigners] can stay up to 30 days by paying $5 per day and then they can be coerced to leave the country through fines or other means,” said Dam Kundy, a staffer at Mother Nature, the NGO that Gonzalez-Davidson founded.
Gonzalez-Davidson could not be reached for comment yesterday, but the Khmer-speaking Spaniard has garnered considerable attention for leading a campaign against Koh Kong’s controversial Stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam project.
Under orders from Interior Minister Sar Kheng, immigration authorities were told last week to refrain from renewing Gonzalez-Davidson’s visa.
But Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said Gonzalez-Davidson will face “fines, imprisonment or expulsion” if he fails to leave Cambodia on the expiration date.
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"Racism is a grown-up disease," declares the motto on Ruby Bridges's website. Just below is a photo of Mrs. Bridges today superimposed on one of her as a 6-year-old four decades ago. She is walking up the steps of the William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, a little black girl protected by two federal marshals who tower over her.
Her name then was Ruby Nell. It was Nov. 14, 1960. She was the first black child to enroll at this all-white elementary school in compliance with the federal court order to desegregate New Orleans schools. Her story is moving - she was a very courageous child - and remains a significant testimony against intolerance of all kinds. Ruby's photo evokes another powerful image on her website: Norman Rockwell's iconic painting for Look magazine on Jan. 14, 1964, "The Problem We All Live With."
Rockwell was an illustrator of exceptional skill and charm. He produced a vast number of unforgettable images over a long career, many of them involving children. His American kids are innocent and appealing, but often, at the same time, decidedly cheeky or mischievous. His method was to pose and photograph his models, and the resulting paintings were meticulous and photographic. But it is revealing to see how the artist subtly changed facial expressions from photo to canvas in order to make his paintings communicate with the viewer. Communication, even persuasion, lay at the back of his work; this was art for effect.
"The Problem We All Live With," with its clever use of scale, belongs to Rockwell's later work, when he began openly showing his strong liberal convictions. (It is currently on view as part of an exhibition called "Hometown Hero, Citizen of the World: Rockwell in Stockbridge" at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. until Oct. 31.)
This is a highly persuasive image. Before he arrived at the final version, one sketch shows the little girl closer to the two marshals following her than to those in front. In the finished picture, the girl seems more determined, independent, and untouched. The aggressive tomato splat on the wall is behind her now, and she is completely unaffected. | <urn:uuid:e7cf5fdb-0593-4507-9dc9-90ff7e5eb723> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0916/p18s03-hfes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00577-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977552 | 457 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Ongoing exposure to loud sounds found to cause gradual hearing loss, stress and aggression
Stäfa, Switzerland (PRWEB) April 28, 2010 -- According to a survey conducted by Hear the World, a global initiative by leading hearing system manufacturer Phonak, exposure to high noise levels was found to not only result in gradual hearing loss, but also stress, aggression or insomnia in 73 percent of those surveyed. In recognition of Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, Hear the World is encouraging all those who are concerned about their hearing health to have their hearing screened this month.
The international survey, which polled 4,405 people between the ages of 14-65 years old in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Italy, found that close to 50 percent of those surveyed have felt “trapped” by noise in the past. Noise is one of the most common causes of hearing loss. In fact, according to the Better Hearing Institute, 10 million Americans have already suffered irreversible hearing damage from noise and 30 million are exposed to dangerous noise levels each day1 – leading to more than 800 million people worldwide living with hearing loss.
“Outside of a loud occupational setting, the impact of noise on hearing is often underestimated because the damage may take place gradually. As a result, many people do little to prevent the process of hearing loss that takes place throughout their lives due to the noise pollution around them,” said Dr. Craig Kasper, Chief Audiology Officer of Audio Help Hearing Centers. “Better Hearing and Speech Month is the perfect time to take a moment to think about what you are doing to take care of your hearing and to encourage others to do the same.”
Noise Sources and Their Effects
When an individual is exposed at work or at home to harmful sounds – those that are too loud or ongoing – sensitive structures of the inner ear can be damaged, causing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). NIHL is characterized by a gradual, progressive loss of high frequency hearing sensitivity over time as a result of exposure to excessive noise levels.
In addition, certain loud noises can also impact us emotionally. Sudden sounds are an urgent wake-up call that alert and activate the stress response – a biological alarm that affects the brain in powerful ways, and often leads to unexpected stress and aggression. Excess noise can cause the production of stress hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol continuously circulating in the body, which can lead to problems such as high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. 2
According to the Hear the World survey, the top five noise sources causing the most annoyance were:
Taking a Stand against Hearing Loss
As the world becomes a noisier place, hearing loss has become a concern for all ages. In fact, 65 percent of hearing loss cases affects those under the age of 65, with more than 6 million people affected between the ages of 18 to 44.3
Often neglected due to the stigma associated with the condition, hearing loss can create social and emotional barriers for the individuals living with it, or the families of those it affects. Research shows that when left untreated, hearing loss can lead to reduced earning power, disruptions in family life and can cause a wide range of other psychological problems.4
“The findings of the Hear the World survey emphasize a very important issue – which is that with today’s noisy environment, everyone needs to be proactive about preventing and/or managing their hearing loss,” said Valentin Chapero, CEO of Phonak. “The first step is to speak with your local hearing health professional about an annual hearing screening and how to protect yourself against excessive noise around you.”
To locate a hearing health professional in your area, take an online hearing screening and for tips on preventing hearing loss, visit www.hear-the-world.com, become a fan on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CanYouHearTheWorld and follow the Hear the World Twitter channel at www.Twitter.com/Hear_The_World.
About Hear the World
Hear the World is a global initiative by leading hearing system manufacturer Phonak created to raise awareness about the importance of hearing. The initiative calls attention to the social and emotional impact of hearing loss and addresses prevention of and solutions to a problem that affects more than 16% of the world’s population. Bryan Adams, Annie Lennox, Sting, Plácido Domingo and other renowned personalities support the Hear the World initiative as ambassadors. In the context of the Hear the World initiative, Phonak has established the non-profit Hear the World Foundation to improve the quality of life of people with hearing loss through financial and technical assistance. The foundation is committed to the prevention of hearing loss as well as the support of people with hearing loss and their families.
To learn more about Hear the World, visit www.hear-the-world.com.
1. Danielson, Richard W. Prevention of Noise Induced Hearing Loss. Better Hearing Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.betterhearing.org/hearing_loss_prevention/noise_induced_hearing_loss/index.cfm
2. Berglund Birgitta, Lindvall Thomas, Schwela Dietrich H. Guideline for Community Noise. World Health Organization,1999. http://www.who.int/docstore/peh/noise/guidelines2.html.
3. Kochkin, Sergei. Prevalence of Hearing Loss. Better Hearing Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.betterhearing.org/hearing_loss/prevalence_of_hearing_loss/index.cfm.
4. Consequences of Hearing Loss. Better Hearing Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.betterhearing.org/hearing_loss/consequences_of_hearing_loss/index.cfm.
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the Oldest Biblical Related Book: Enoch
V. J. Berry
The Book of Enoch asserts that it
contains the gathered, sacred writings of the pre-flood patriarch and prophet,
Enoch (Church, 2017). It is believed by biblical scholars that the book is the
oldest book written because it is mentioned in Genesis. Several accounts that
appear in Genesis first appear in the Book of Enoch written ca. 300 B.C.E.
(Lamsa, 1957). The Book of Genesis was written after the Exodus during the 15th
century B.C.E.that is accredited to Moses as the author. Enoch’s writings
describe 7,000 years of world history and the events that would occur even to
the “latter days” and the Tribulation period (Burns, 2006-2016).
Although the Book of Enoch is not a part
of the canon, it is considered to be a sacred book much revered by Jews and
Gentiles alike well into the 8th century C. E. Its contents were
also quoted by theologians into the 9th century C. E. The prophet
Enoch was well known among Jews, Muslims, Mohammedans, and mentioned in the
Koran (Schodde, G., 1882). When there
was a doubt about the authenticity of the authorship of the book, R. I. Burns (2006/2016) presented 110 pages of
evidence to prove that Enoch really wrote the book that bears his name.
Enoch is one of four biblical persons bearing
that same name: (1) oldest son of Cain (Gen. 4:17); (2) the second son of Jared
(Gen. 5: 18); (3) the son of Midian (Gen. 25:4); (4) the oldest son of Reuben
(Gen. 45:9, Ex. 6:4). The prophet Enoch being discussed in this paper is the
second son of Jared because of the prominence given him in the following
scriptures: Gen. 5: 18-24; Jude 1: 14-15; Hebrews 11:15; Book of Enoch 68: 1.
He is 7th from Adam. There are 70 generations from his son,
Methuselah, to Jesus. He lived 365 years on earth and was taken by God and did
not see death (Schodde, 1882).
The Book of Enoch was written in ancient
Aramaic and was neither changed nor revised. To this end, the Patriarchate of
the East, in 1957, praised the translation of the book by Lamsa (1957) as being
a most excellent, accurate work. He said as follows:
The Church of the East
received the scripture from the hands of the blessed Apostles themselves in the
Aramaic original, the language spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and the
Pershitta is the text of the Church of the East which has come down from the
biblical times without any change or revision.
The ancient Eastern
texts translated from the Aramaic are closely related to ancient Hebrew much like the relationship of American English
and English spoken in Great Britain. The ancient Aramaic language was spoken
and written by the Jewish people from the 4th to 6th
century B. C. E. from Persia to Europe and along the Nile River area through the
length of Egypt. Due to the similarity of the ancient languages of Aramaic and
Hebrew, words were often interchanged. Ancient Aramaic was the language of the
church as it spread eastward (Lamsa, 1957).
Descriptions of Sections One and Two of the
Book of Enoch
Following are brief descriptions of the first
ten chapters of the Book of Enoch which demonstrates the similarity to Genesis
that was written 300 years later (Lamsa, 1957).
Chapter One: Enoch prophecies the
destruction of the earth – it will be submerged but a remnant will be saved. He
further describes who that remnant will be.
Chapter Two: He records his
astronomic observations and that the luminaires of the sky do not depart from
Chapters three, four, and five:
Enoch describes the work of God in creation. He also warns the people for their
lack of obeying God’s commandments and reminds them of the final judgment and
destruction of sinners — they will be cursed eternally. For the chosen, they
will receive light, joy, peace, and wisdom forevermore.
Chapter six: Enoch recalls the
angels lusting after the children of mankind and took many as wives. This
chapter leads into Chapter seven and details of this event.
Chapter seven: The angles taught
their wives and children how to make charms and conjurations. . The descendants
of this culture were giants who consumed all that could eaten including each
other, and drank the blood of their victims.
Chapter eight: Enoch continues:
Mankind was taught to make swords, knives, shields, coats of mail, and how to
see behind them. They were also taught how to create works of art, jewelry, and
how to use the metals of the earth. And there was great wickedness upon the
earth. Enoch also gives the names of the angles and what specials skills they possessed.
Chapter nine: Michael, Gabriel,
Surjan, and Urjan (good angles) appealed to God for a solution to this problem.
Chapter ten: God response: God spoke
and sent Arsjalojur to the son of Lemech and ordered him to tell the son, in
God’s name, to hide and reveal to him the end which is to come. The whole earth
will be destroyed, and the water of the deluge will come over the whole earth
and what is upon it will be destroyed. And instruct him that he may escape and
his seed remain on the whole earth. In later chapters, Enoch tells of
shortening the lifespan of mankind after the great flood.
God did not stop
there. For further reading of the Book of Enoch, you may find a good
translation at: http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/enoch.pdf
Burns, R. I.
(2006/2016). The Book of Enoch. San
Francisco, CA: Messianic Prophecy Edition.
Church, J. R. (2017). Enoch the first book ever written.
Oklahoma City, OK: Prophecy Publication.
Lamas, G. M. (trans).
(1957). Holy Bible from the ancient
Eastern text. New York, NY: Harper Collins Pub. (George M. Lama’s
translation from the Aramaic of the Pershitta, 1933/1957).
Schodde, G. (1882). The Book of Enoch: Translation from the
Ethiopic with introduction and notes. Andover, OH: Warren Draper.
Noah and Enoch lived about 1500 yrs after the creation.
The first reference is the original translation of Enoch/
the second reference is the latest one. Read the Watchers chapter first.
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A note by Cyril Lucar states that it was written by Thecla, a noble lady of Egypt, but this is probably merely his interpretation of an Arabic note of the 14th century which states that the MS. was written by Thecla, the martyr, an obviously absurd legend; another Arabic note by Athanasius (probably Athanasius III., patriarch c. 1308) states that it was given to the patriarchate of Alexandria, and a Latin note of a later period dates the presenta tion in 1098.
The circumstances in which it was written made it an act of heroism comparable with any that Grant ever showed as a soldier.
Burn suggests that it was written to meet the Sabellian and Apollinarian errors of the Spanish heretic Priscillian, possibly by Honoratus, bishop of Arles (d.
Again, the Slavonic Enoch goes back undoubtedly in parts to a Semitic original, though most of it was written by a Greek Jew in Egypt.
The nature of the work, the materials from which it was composed, and the circumstances under which it was written are, however, in themselves exceptional, and necessarily tended to this result.
Its editor is of opinion that it was written by a Jewish Christian in Egypt in the 2nd century A.D., but that it embodies legends of an earlier date, and that it received its present form in the 9th or 10th century.
The date at which it was written is uncertain; there are features in it which point to its having been the work of a poet living in north Israel, and writing at an early date; but most recent scholars, on account chiefly of certain late expressions occurring in it, think that it cannot have been written earlier than the 4th or 3rd century B.C. In the graceful and tender idyll of Ruth, it is told how Ruth, the Moabitess, and a native consequently of a country hostile theocratically to Israel, adopted Israel's faith (i.
As it was written by a Pharisee, it could not have been composed after the breach arose between John Hyrcanus and the Pharisees towards the close of the 2nd century B.C. Thus the period of composition lies between 153, when Jonathan the Maccabee assumed the high-priesthood, and the year of the breach of John Hyrcanus with the Pharisees; some time, therefore, between 153 and 107.
The principle of subtraction from a higher number, which appeared in notation, also appeared in numeration, but not for exactly the same numbers or in exactly the same way; thus XVIII was two-from-twenty, and the next number was onefrom-twenty, but it was written XIX, not IXX.
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My youngest brother just began working at his first job where he makes right around $100 per week and sometimes even less. I was talking to him one night and explaining to him that he should be aware of this trap that people, especially those just getting into the workforce, fall into. This trap is that they don't make enough money to be able to save. When most people think of saving money they are under the impression that they have to make enough money to be able to "save" hundreds of dollars out of each pay check for it to even be worth it. You have heard the phrase "everything is relative," well so is saving money. A guy that I very much respect and look up to once told me that you should save 25% of everything you make. In a case such as my brother's, this means he should save $25 each week. This doesn't seem like much but over the course of a year this means that he would have saved up $1,300 at a job where he only brings home $5,200. This is a good amount of money for a college student only making what he does, but more important than that is that he is learning to be responsible with his money at a young age.
The reason that I really like what I call the "25% Rule" is that it adjusts based on how much you make. I have many friends that bounce from job to job in order to make more money. A year later they haven't saved up any more money, if any, than they did at the job where they were paid less. This is because for the average person, the more they make the more they feel like they have to spend. Using my rule, you still have more money to spend from having a higher paying job or career but I look at it as: "Make more, save more." I like to think of this as the money equivalent of the famous glass half full vs glass half empty example.
Going back to my brother, a college student who is aspiring to be a physical therapist, as he progressively increases his income over the course of his life, he will also be able to directly increase his savings. For simplicity purposes, lets say that once he becomes a physical therapist, he will make $80,000 per year and if he sticks to my rule, this would mean that he saves $20,000 each year. After just 5 years, he will have saved up $100,000. You add that to the almost $10,000 that he can save over the course of his college career if he were to continue making just $100 per week and he will have a total of $110,000 and even more if he chooses to invest his savings over time. Here in Kentucky, that is enough money to buy a nice house with cash and never have to worry about having a house payment
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Why Chronic Fatigue is a Big Deal
Do you feel irritable or short-tempered around your family, children, and loved ones? Do you have trouble performing at school at work? Have you lost your drive to spend time with friends? Have you been struggling with erectile dysfunction (for men) and/or reduced sex drive? Do small tasks feel like a big deal? If these sound familiar, then the information below may be helpful in assisting you while you navigate what's wrong.
Each of the above issues can be caused by chronic fatigue which can be hard to identify in real life. Especially if you are getting 8 hours of sleep, you might not identify sleep as the underlying cause. There are a number of sleep conditions where your clock might tell you that you received 8 hours of sleep, but your body can't tell.
In this article we will focus on common sleep conditions that give the illusion that you are receiving a full night's rest when in actuality you aren't - this is an excellent place to start evaluating causes of your fatigue. | <urn:uuid:eebdc958-4598-4752-a47f-739fef268648> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://info.ancsleep.com/blog/topic/chronic-fatigue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.955044 | 215 | 2 | 2 |
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Synthesized-beam RFID readers may be used to manage and provide information about RFID tag populations. In one embodiment, two or more synthesized-beam readers...
System and method for identification and authentication of precious metals
and small jewelry items using radio...
A system and method is provided for the identification and authentication of precious metals and small jewelry. The system can include an embedded RFID tag,...
Passive RFID tag coil alignment and communication
A passive tag embedded in a package includes multiple conductive coils. A first coil receives radio frequency (RF) energy used to power the tag. Additional...
Tag clusters for silent tags
Tags may be grouped into a tag cluster to be represented by a master tag. Tag transmission reports may be received from one or more tag readers that receive...
Method for preventing an unauthorized use of disposable bioprocess
This invention provides a system and apparatus that is able to authenticate and prevent illegal manufacturing and unauthorized operation of disposable...
Low-cost capacitive sensing decoder
A low-cost system comprising a pattern arranged to encode information and a decoder for decoding the information encoded in the pattern is described. In...
Card payment system
In one example embodiment, a card payment apparatus includes a member having a magnetic strip reader configured to read account information from a magnetic...
Data storage apparatus, coding unit, systems including the same, method of
coding and method of reading data
In one embodiment, the data storage apparatus includes a control unit configured to decode at least one input command and configured to generate at least one of...
Methods and systems for deleting requested information
A method of deleting log records may include identifying a plurality of log records generated during a time period, for each identified log record, determining...
Systems and methods for automatically handling multiple levels of
encryption and decryption
Systems and methods are provided for automatically handling multiple levels of encryption and decryption. An electronic file is received to add to encrypted...
Electronic document management and delivery
In one embodiment, system to manage and delivery electronic documents is disclosed.
Distributed encryption and access control scheme in a cloud environment
System, computer readable medium and method for decryption. The method may include receiving, by a third computerized system and from a fourth computerized...
Selective physical world correlation of virtual world interactions
Techniques described herein relate to facilitating interaction in the physical world, after initial interaction has occurred within the virtual world, while...
Method and system for child authentication
Methods and systems for child authentication are described. In one embodiment, a communication enablement request may be received to enable electronic...
Client-side encryption in a deduplication backup system
Client-side encryption in a deduplication backup system. In one example embodiment, a method includes a backup phase in which various steps are performed for...
Displaying private information on personal devices
A computing device is described that includes one or more processors and at least one module operable by the one or more processors to determine whether the...
Protecting data owned by an operating system in a multi-operating system
An approach is provided for protecting data owned by an operating system on a mobile computing device having multiple operating systems. A map specifying...
Vulnerability countermeasure device and vulnerability countermeasure
A vulnerability countermeasure device stores configuration information associating multiple computers connected via a network and software possessed by each...
Entity IP mapping
Systems and methods for mapping IP addresses to an entity include receiving at least one domain name associated with the entity. Embodiments may further include...
Methods and apparatus to protect memory regions during low-power states
A disclosed example method involves configuring a processor to, when transitioning the processor system to a low-power mode, use a key and a random or...
Ensuring integrity of a software package installer
A method comprises capturing a first state of a computer prior to installing a software package on the computer; using an installer to install the software...
Detecting malicious computer code in an executing program module
Prior to execution of computer program instructions, the computer identifies one or more addresses in memory corresponding to the locations of one or more of...
Detecting heap spraying on a computer
Detecting heap spraying on a computer by detecting a plurality of requests to allocate portions of heap memory, measuring the plurality of requests to determine...
Robust malware detector
A system, method and computer readable medium for detecting and diffusing malware on a computer. Malware is analyzed to generate signatures and determine a...
User controllable platform-level trigger to set policy for protecting
platform from malware
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods to protect data stored in a storage system of a device from malware alternation are described. In some...
Apparatus and method for masking a real user controlling synthetic
A machine has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to issue a challenge in response to a first request, evaluate a response...
Selective password synchronization
A mechanism is provided for selective password synchronization. An indication is received that a password is to be changed for an account in a plurality of...
Information processing device, information processing method, and computer
There is provided an information processing device including a first program execution unit that loads, interprets, and executes code of a computer program...
Authenticated launch of virtual machines and nested virtual machine
An embodiment of the invention provides for an authenticated launch of VMs and nested VMMs. The embodiment may do so using an interface that invokes a VMM...
Apparatus and method of controlling permission to applications in a
An apparatus and method of controlling permission to an application in a portable terminal, the apparatus including a controller for, when requested for an...
ID usage tracker
A system and computer program product for using a multi-user operating system. A user attempts to access the multi-user operating system. The system prompts the...
Electronic device and method for unlocking screen of electronic device
An electronic device and a method for unlocking a screen of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a screen and a storage unit. The...
Orientation aware authentication on mobile platforms
Systems and methods may provide for receiving an authentication input and determining an authentication orientation of a mobile platform during entry of the...
Methods, devices, and systems for unobtrusive mobile device user
The present invention discloses methods, devices, and systems for unobtrusively recognizing a user of a mobile device. Methods including the steps of:...
Device, method, and graphical user interface for accessing an application
in a locked device
A device with a touch sensitive display and a plurality of applications, including a camera application, while the device is in a locked, passcode-protected...
Screen unlocking method, device and terminal
A screen unlocking method, device and terminal, wherein the method includes: a first terminal sending a key information acquisition message to a second...
Automatic learning multi-modal fraud prevention (LMFP) system
A computerized learning multi-modal fraud prevention system and method for generating a data signature of a user, such as one engaged in electronic commerce, to...
Secure recording and sharing system of voice memo
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a system for secure recording and sharing of audio data includes a communication interface, a registration module, a...
CAPTCHA challenge incorporating obfuscated characters
A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human. A processor receives an indication that a computer security program is needed and acquires...
Provisioning user permissions attribute-based access-control policies
An attribute-based access control policy (e.g., XACML policy) for a set of elements depends on attributes carried by elements in one of several predefined...
System and method for establishing and monetizing trusted identities in
cyberspace with personal data service...
A system and method for establishing and monetizing trusted identities in cyberspace relying upon user opt in. Users request to attain secure IDs for accessing...
Integration of verification tokens with portable computing devices
Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is... | <urn:uuid:5d3556a9-6f8f-46c7-b4d4-d4dccdfe9dd8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://patents.com/isd-20160621-p39.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00559-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849044 | 2,089 | 1.757813 | 2 |
A replacement Chunk class that allows both reading and writing IFF chunks.
An IFF chunk, as defined in the EA IFF 85 standard, consists of a 4-byte ID field, a 4-byte length field, and the data content of the chunk, and optionally followed by a single padding null byte if required to make the total number of bytes even.
|Chunk ID||4 bytes|
|Padding||0 or 1 byte|
- The Chunk ID is a 4-character string that identifies the type of chunk.
- The Length is a 4-byte integer (generally in big-endian format) indicating how long the data field is.
The Chunk class allows for either reading a chunk from a file-like object or creating a chunk and writing it into a file-like object, but not both.
For reading, the Chunk class reads a single chunk from the file-like object, and is in turn a read-only file-like object for reading the contents of the chunk.
Chunk tries to determine if the underlying file-like object is seekable by via the tell operation; if that does not raise an exception, then the file-like object presented by Chunk is itself seekable.
When the Chunk is closed, the underlying file-like object is positioned to read immediately following the Chunk (and after the padding byte, if any).
For writing, the Chunk class presents a write-only file-like object for creating the contents of the chunk, as well as the setname method for assigning the Chunk ID.
For writable chunks whose underlying file-like object is not seekable, an in-memory file object is created to hold the chunk’s data; only when the chunk is closed is the in-memory file object is flushed to the underlying file-like object.
IFF files can consist of multiple top-level chunks; “container” chunk types (FORM, CAT ``, and ``LIST) contain other chunks. The Chunk class is designed to be instantiated multiple times, one after the other, for either reading or writing multiple chunks from or to a file, or from or to the content of a “container” chunk.
The parse_chunk and parse_iff_file helper methods assist in reading IFF files by automating the parsing of container chunks. parse_iff_file returns a list of chunk tuples consisting of the chunk name and chunk content; for container chunks, the chunk content is itself a list of chunk tuples.
- Rewrite from scratch to remove original Python code, if possible
- Modify to work with both Python 2 and Python 3, if possible
Original code base copied from Python 2.7 library, then modified to support write functionality.
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Ambient is a style that describes a large spectrum of music. Typically uncared for in rockist retellings of history, Bowie is no less important to pop music. New Wave and synth-pop artists drew closely on all the things from Ziggy to Heroes, and when he went full-on pop over to these guys with the assistance of Nile Rodgers, his Let’s Dance LP helped set the template for the next 30 years of different dance music. The “first” British folks revival was a roots revival which occurred roughly 1890-1920 and was marked by heightened curiosity in traditional music and its preservation. It arose from earlier developments, perhaps combined with adjustments in the nature of British identification, led to a way more intensive and educational try to report what was seen as a vanishing tradition, and is now normally referred to as the first English or British folk revival.
However the result has been ever-more-more and more superb “genres” anyway. For example, take the rock music fan who does not suppose when it comes to rock music. He doesn’t assume when it comes to liking hard rock. He doesn’t assume in terms of heavy steel. He prefers to say that he likes solely symphonic demise metal, and “demise to false metal.” Or someone won’t acknowledge that he likes music made by African-Individuals, however moderately that he likes a particular sub-genre of hip-hop. Or someone who would not assume by way of liking dance music, however relatively identifies with a selected sub-style of EDM or dubstep or acid house or no matter all those style terms are nowadays.
Ambient music should have the ability to accommodate many levels of listening attention with out imposing one particularly; it must be as ignorable as it’s interesting.” That quote is credited to Ambient music luminary, Brian Eno, who is a prolific Ambient music artist and producer of many genres. When viewing their library, you may find that the music is mostly classical, however they embody different, lesser-recognized genres comparable to Alpha Chill,” Focus Spa,” Up Tempo” and others. One widespread issue amongst all of their songs is that they are all instrumental.
1971 music Hocus Pocus was excessive within the charts in various nations. It was performed by Dutch progressive rock band Focus, made up of performers from the pit band for the Dutch production of the rock musical Hair. 3) non-musical sound is composed of unstructured noises (we name it noise). When was the last time Brittney Spears or Madonna gave you a free album on-line? 50 Cent helped to revolutionize the music biz by dropping free mixtapes, and ever since, hip-hop followers have gotten some actual classics and by no means had to pay a dime. Initiatives like Drake’ s So Far Gone and Wiz Khalifa’s Kush and Orange Juice had been literal presents.
(Also referred to as simply steel) A form of music characterised by aggressive, driving rhythms and extremely amplified distorted guitars. Its origins lie within the onerous rock bands who, between 1967 and 1974, took blues and rock and created a hybrid with a heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound. From the late Nineteen Seventies on, many bands would fuse this sound with a revival of European classical music. Heavy metallic had its peak reputation within the 1980s, during which most of the now existing subgenres first advanced.
From arduous rock to punk, new wave, indie and Britpop, British bands have defined total genres and influenced hundreds of thousands of rock followers over the years. Yow will discover all types of articles, going back, about the have an effect on of Clear Channel proudly owning 60% of rock stations, within the US, and programming them all the same. Rock was at all times driven by native radio and local bands. One space would curate a “sound” and it will take over, however by and enormous rock music has all the time been an underground style. Now local radio markets have mostly plateaued, satellite and Web content curation is national.
cassette. In 1989, two Jolly Boys CDs appeared on the American Ryko label. This was adopted by a number of extra CDs on non-Jamaican labels. Although none of these releases are in print at present though some are coming back in print. See the information web page., they will need to have executed well sufficient to point out that there was a market for mento. Other releases followed. A Lititz Mento Band CD was launched out of Germany, which may be defined by the fact that Jamaica is a popular vacation destination for Germans. A 1997 The Buzzing Birds CD was released solely in Japan, where they are loopy for Jamaican music, and mento appears to get pleasure from a small but devoted fan base. In 1997, the final Jolly Boys CD, a dwell set recorded in 1992, was launched in Japan solely.
Listening to JAN GARBAREK’s captivating soprano saxophone compositions is a worthwile experience. This jazz musician from Mysen, has enthralled his audience for the reason that late 60’s along with his attractive sounds, experimenting with many genres and, at all times, with nice virtuosity. His discography is a very long checklist, but when to deceide for one album to suggest; Try his Grammy nominated ‘In Reward of Dreams ‘. An ideal mix of hip hop and electronic music, electro or electro-funk uses drum machine, vocoder and talkbox helping it to differentiate itself from another similar type of music, Disco. Notable artists who’ve been into this form of music embody Arthur Baker, Freeez, Man Parrish and Midnight Star.
Through the Fifties, as rock and roll emerged, rock musicians and bands infused the elements of gospel and early blues into their music to kind the class we have now come to know as rhythm and blues (R&B). New well-liked artists comparable to Elvis Presley had several massive hits singing blues-primarily based songs reminiscent of Hound Dog.” Later performers like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and BB King would make rhythm and blues an integral part of the pop music scene. By the point the term Pop” had been coined in the mid-50s, R&B and rock had replaced jazz as America’s hottest music style.
Pop radio radically changed again in 2013 and pop rock made a comeback. Electro-rock band Think about Dragons and pop punk band Fallout Boy loved success on each alternative and pop radio. Indie, people, and nation inspired music achieved pop success as did R&B and funk. The visualization is quite revealing, and gives us a great sense of A) what musical elements are mentioned within the reviews (e.g. what sonic or other musical qualities are deemed relevant to explain in a music overview?) and B) how these music descriptions differ throughout the varied genres. | <urn:uuid:68f42b1e-d928-4edb-9741-1c2e6c86a3c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webresourcepoint.com/forty-streaming-music-companies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.968873 | 1,463 | 2.390625 | 2 |
TreeSketch is a system for modeling complex trees that look natural yet are creatively designed. The system integrates procedural tree generation with a multi-touch tablet interface that provides detailed control of tree form. The procedural component is based on the concept of tree self-organization and simulates competition of branches for space and light as the tree develops from a seedling. The modeler can control this process by directing growth with a procedural brush, changing parameters as the tree grows, interleaving controlled and autonomous growth, and editing generated forms. Complex trees can be created in a matter of seconds.
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In the years immediately following the Revolutionary War, there was a lull in government regulation in the New Republic, allowing for rampant promiscuity and seediness to seep into America and, in particular, Philadelphia. Author Thom Nickels has written a piece for the Huffington Post detailing the nature of Philadelphia's sexual culture in the wake of the victory over England.
Nickels writes of Philly's "sexual golden age" and pulls quotes from Richard Godbeer's Sexual Revolution in Early America. Additionally, he mentions a lecture given by Bryn Mawr College graduate and expert on 18th century domestic practices, Clarissa Dillon, Ph.D.
Things you might find interesting from Nickels' piece:
- Casual sex in Philly's alleys and taverns was commonplace
- Philly was known as the post-Revolutionary "Sin City"
- "Out-of-wedlock pregnancies and little illegitimate children were everywhere."
- 1/38 adults was the parent of an illegitimate child
- There was a bookstore that offered treatments for venereal disease, "but most Philadelphians didn't care"
The whole post is worth a read, as it includes a description of an 18th century condom (complete with colored ribbons), details of the clamp down on the era of sexual enlightment, and an explanation of how shame and scorn in the "clamp down" wiped out the "pleasure culture." [HuffPo]
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Item description for A Way with Words: Finding Wonder and Meaning in the Language of Life by John C. Bowling...
Overview "A Way with Words" examines the powerful words people use in their lives, both positive and negative. People see, hear, and say words and their effect on others can be considerable. What do the terms hope, adversity, fear, family and worship mean? This book challenges readers to take a fresh look at their language and ask what it can teach them and how they can use it as a better tool.
Publishers Description The words featured in this book haven't been selected from a dictionary and aren't part of a vocabulary list. A litany of life's most trenchant words, they form a language that rolls into our existence, defining moments and giving reality to our convictions. Every term is a telescope to see beyond ourselves and a microscope for looking within. The words are essays, functioning as mirrors and assisting us in coming to terms with life. And together, in this book, they reveal understanding, wisdom and faith. Paper.
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Studio: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
Est. Packaging Dimensions: Length: 8" Width: 5.26" Height: 1.37" Weight: 0.45 lbs.
Release Date Apr 14, 1999
Publisher Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
ISBN 0834118025 ISBN13 9780834118027
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More About John C. Bowling
Dr. John C. Bowling has served as president of Olivet Nazarene University and president of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene. He is a strong and effective leader who also has a background in pastoral ministry and college teaching. He's a popular speaker and writer with the unique ability to blend biblical insight with the practical demands of daily life. His other books include, A Way with Words, Grace-Full Leadership, and Packin' Up and Headin' OutMaking the Most of Your College Adventure.
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Though the AAD system is already detecting anomalies, protecting assets, and predicting failures, it doesn’t stop learning. As MarineInsight collects more data, the AAD system’s artificial intelligence continues to learn and progresses in sophistication. At all times, the AAD system monitors its own performance and when necessary, generates new machine learning models to ensure continued asset protection and failure prediction. Eventually, the AAD system builds several types of advanced multivariable machine learning models and competes these models against each other, enabling the highest performing model.
Throughout the entire machine learning process, MarineInsight is doing the hard work of detecting anomalies, protecting your assets, and predicting failures. In the process of doing that hard work, MarineInsight’s artificial intelligence continues to find more sophisticated ways to predict failures, protect your vessels, and optimize your fleet. | <urn:uuid:dbabfaf6-6155-4f94-9566-f66509a0a044> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iocurrents.com/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.907379 | 176 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Why are visual components so important? People process visuals 60,000 times faster than they process text. Add that most people are visual learners and that color visuals increase readership of a piece of content by 80 percent, and it’s no wonder that visuals reign supreme.
Visuals are intrinsically linked with human emotions. Tapping into those emotions is a key part of public relations. Numerous studies have shown the significant effects of images—and even certain colors—on people’s actions and buying decisions.
Now that we’ve considered why visual content is important, here are five ways to be more visually oriented in your PR campaigns:
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Kathryn Starkey, Horst Wenzel, "Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 1403964440, 1349732443 | 2005 | 290 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts. The term 'visual culture' has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and other contemporary representational forms and functions. But this emphasis on visuality is not only a modern phenomenon. Discourses on visual processes pervade the works of medieval secular poets, theologians, and scholastics alike. The Middle Ages was a highly visual society in which images, objects, and performance played a dominant communicative and representational role in both secular and religious areas of society. The essays in this volume, which present various perspectives on medieval visual culture, provide a critical historical basis for the study of visuality and visual processes. nitroflare | <urn:uuid:86d9de89-85c1-411d-ae80-344453fe295e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ebooksload.com/cultures-languages/51474-visual-culture-and-the-german-middle-ages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00386-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874323 | 215 | 2 | 2 |
The World Bank has approved $346m for two projects aimed at strengthening resilience and livelihoods in the Lake Chad region.
In a statement released, the Bank, explained that the projects, which are to be financed through the International Development Association, will be shared between Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria and will enhance coordination among the states and other Lake Chad countries.
The Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project for North Eastern Nigeria, Additional Financing – for which the bank allocated $176m – will help the Federal Government to improve access to basic services and livelihood opportunities for crisis-affected communities in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
The project expands the ongoing $200m MCRP project and puts an increased emphasis on support for agricultural livelihoods and investments.
The MCRP AF will provide support for labor-intensive approaches and works programs, promote rural and regional connectivity, rehabilitate market infrastructure, and prioritise climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The project will also expand its education and health activities by providing grants to school committees and incentives to returning teachers.
The statement added that PROLAC will contribute to the rehabilitation of rural roads and small transport infrastructure, and promote productive investments in the affected areas.
According to the World Bank, the Lake Chad region suffers from poor development and economic indicators compared to the averages in other areas in the four countries.
The World Bank noted that since 2009, the situation in the region had been worsened by insecurity due to the activities of insurgents as there are significant gaps in infrastructure, access to basic services is poor, and natural resources and livelihoods are severely impacted by climate change.
The prevailing security situation has prevented more than 49 million people in the region from attaining their livelihoods in fishing, livestock farming, and agriculture.
The projects are also aimed at improving the living conditions of the population, including vulnerable women and youth who face the negative impacts of climate change and suffer from insecurity. | <urn:uuid:09fb394e-d8b3-4dd8-860a-34a48be9e764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://classicmagazine.com.ng/lake-chad-world-bank-approves-346m-for-projects-in-nigeria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.946978 | 396 | 1.914063 | 2 |
A GRIB file viewer for phones and tablets
Visualise the computer modelled meteorological data that the professional forecasters use.
- Easy to use interface
- Forecasts of up to 10 days
- Wide choice of GRIB files
- GRIB file updates every 6 hours
- Continue to view files offline
File SelectionChoose between pre-generated files, define to suit your own requirements or use files from 3rd party sources.
Data layersSwitch the visibility of the data in the file layer-by-layer to compose the perfect view.
Forecast timeStep through the forecast to see weather patterns progressing. (Typical steps are 3 hours, depending on the GRIB data.)
Data LegendToggle the on screen key to interpret colours.
UnitsChoose between SI and other commonly used units.
Detail displayTap and hold to display exact details of the forecast model (as in the picture above).
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In 2018, there were 319,146 motor vehicle crashes in Illinois with 67,453 causing injuries. Some injured people were taken directly to the hospital by ambulance. Others went to an emergency room, urgent care center or their physician on their own on the day of the collision. Still others went home, and sought medical attention in the days after the crash because of increasing pains due to the collision. Your first medical visit is critical for getting the diagnosis and treatment you need and for documenting the nature and extent of your condition.
If you are in a vehicle crash, you would likely benefit from medical attention even if you are are not in severe pain and even if you are functioning “ok.”. There are some types of injuries, particularly connective tissue or nerve damage issues, that do not become symptomatic for hours or days after the accident.
Delayed symptoms of nerve damage may include radiating pain, tingling and numbness. These could be symptoms of a herniated disc in your vertebra. Other delayed symptoms are signs of a mild brain injury and can include headaches, dizziness and blurred vision. In any case, urgent medical care is always a good choice. It is important to comply with the instructions of the emergency room physician to see your own doctor or specialist for appropriate follow-up care.
At Your First Visit After an Accident: Reporting History and Conditions
In addition to the primary health reasons for receiving immediate medical care, it is vital to document your injuries to support your claim for damages. Medical providers, by law, must maintain medical charts. Medical care providers must record the history of your condition (eg. pedestrian struck by truck), your symptoms (eg. severe pain in back and both legs), your limitations (eg. severe difficulty walking) and other relevant factors. At the first medical encounter, you should fully identify all injuries that were caused by the collision. Remember, if you do not tell the nurse and doctor about the condition, it is as if the condition does not exist in the eyes of the insurance company and perhaps in the eyes of jurors if your case goes to trial.
Document All Your Symptoms and Limitations
If you do not fully describe the sensations and limitations you are experiencing, they will not be in your medical chart. If they are not in your chart, the symptoms are difficult to prove. Your treaters must know of any disability or limitation related to your conditions. For example, inability to sleep, weakness, and sensitivity to light and sound can be signs of certain conditions. Your doctor’s staff should document every condition and symptom that you report, including examination findings such as spasm, swelling or numbness.
The insurer handling your claim will scrutinize all of your medical records, so it is essential that your medical records be both accurate and comprehensive in listing all your injuries including your symptoms, your limitations. And if the case goes to trial, jurors will want to know what you reported to doctors and therapists after the incident. Doctors who are familiar with treating patients with traumatic injuries will know the importance of documentation and have procedures in place to ensure accurate charting.
If you forget to report a particular condition or symptom, be sure to report it at your next visit. If you do not fully report your injuries, and the related symptoms and disability, it will be difficult for your attorney to overcome this challenge and prove the injury.
The 72-Hour “Rule”
Insurers now often use software programs to place a value on your claim for damages. One factor they feed into the program is whether or not you saw a physician within 72 hours of the accident. If you did seek medical care within that time, a value is added to your claim. If you did not, a value is deducted from your claim and will reduce the amount of money the insurance company will deem your claim is worth. An experienced personal injury automobile accident attorney may be able to overcome this challenge, but it will make it much more difficult for you to collect all the compensation to which you are legally entitled.
How to Find a Medical Doctor Who Will Treat You Within 72 Hours
If you have a personal physician, call the office to advise that you were in a vehicle accident and need an urgent appointment. If this is not possible, go to a hospital emergency room or urgent care facility. From a personal safety standpoint, it is critical to be evaluated and treated after a traumatic incident. From an insurance claim and litigation perspective, it is necessary to have medical record evidence to prove your claim and recover full value for your injury.
Get Help From an Attorney
If you were seriously injured in a vehicle crash, contact the car accident attorneys at the Blumenshine Law Group at (312)766-1000, text at (312)719-2010 or email [email protected] We will provide a free consultation. If you are injured so severely you are unable to come to our office, we can speak on the phone, email, Zoom or text and perhaps arrange to visit you either at your home or your hospital room. | <urn:uuid:298f0c5a-6388-49b4-8525-c995751f5b6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blumenshinelawgroup.com/first-medical-treatment-vehicle-accident/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.960199 | 1,030 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Catholic Foster Care Agency Cannot Discriminate Against LGBTQ Couples, Court Says
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled that city contractors must abide by nondiscrimination policies in the placement of foster children with same-sex couples.
A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city, which had ended a foster-care contract with an agency of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. That agency, Catholic Social Services, had declined to place foster children in LGBTQ households and sought an injunction that would have forced the city to renew its contract.
The appeals panel said "the religious views of CSS do not entitle it to an exception" from the city's nondiscrimination policy. The agency "has failed to make a persuasive showing that the City targeted it for its religious beliefs, or is motivated by ill will against its religion, rather than sincere opposition to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
"The City stands on firm ground in requiring its contractors to abide by its non-discrimination policies when administering public services," concluded Circuit Court Judge Thomas Ambro, writing for the panel.
Attorneys for CSS said the ruling will hurt hundreds of potential foster children and foster parents who were waiting for a placement.
"We're disappointed that the court decided to let the city place politics above the needs of kids and the rights of parents, but we will continue this fight," said Lori Windham, a lawyer for Catholic Social Services as quoted by The Associated Press.
Mayor Jim Kenney praised the ruling.
"Our policy ensures that same-sex couples do not face discrimination as they seek to offer loving homes to Philadelphia children in need of foster care," Kenney said in a statement. "At the same time, the policy safeguards religious liberties. We are proud that Philadelphia is a welcoming, inclusive city that values the diversity of its residents."
The ruling upholds a lower court decision siding with the city and its nondiscrimination policy.
As The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, the dispute is the latest case in which LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms have come into conflict where child welfare is concerned.
"In most of those cases, the child-welfare agencies are facing lawsuits for contracting with groups that discriminate," the Inquirer reports. "Here, the city was being sued for barring an organization it says discriminates."
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The Jungle Cat (Felis chaus) has a broad but patchy distribution extending from Egypt through Southwest, Central, and Southeast Asia, including the Indian subcontinent. Melanistic individuals have been reported from India and Pakistan. These cats prefer tall grass, thick bush, riverine swamps, and reed beds. There are few records from dense jungle. Jungle Cats are sometimes found around man-made fish ponds, reservoirs, and landscapes irrigated by sprinklers. They may also occur in drier, open forests and even sandhill desert and steppe habitats. They are rarely found above 1000 m elevation.
Jungle Cats feed mainly on small mammals (they occasionally take larger prey, such as Chital fawns). Birds are also a significant component of the diet, followed by frogs, lizards, snakes, insects, fish, and turtle eggs. Jungle Cats are stalk-and-ambush hunters. Most prey are captured on the ground, but Jungle Cats are able to climb and leap well. Although mainly nocturnal, Jungle Cats are often seen hunting at dawn and dusk.
The Jungle Cat thrives in agricultural landscapes and in many parts of its range is the most common felid, although in some areas these cats have been extensively hunted for their pelts.
(Sunquist and Sunquist 2009 and references therein)
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Hi! My name is Mrs. Kolb and I will be your Math & Science teacher this year. I will be team teaching with Ms. Fielding, who will be teaching Reading and Social Studies. We are happy to be your teachers! This is my 20th year of teaching, all at College Park. I have two daughters, Jenna who is attending USF to become a teacher and Sara who is a junior at West Port High School, and a pit bull named Jocelyn. When I am not at school, you may find me running or shopping. We are going to have a great year!
Please click the Meet the Teacher (left) link to view a special message from me.
Microsoft Teams Tutorial for Families
Microsoft Teams is the platform we will be using to organize, guide, and enhance our learning this year. It is also a great tool to easily communicate with students and families. This video was created by the district to help students and families become familiar with Teams.
How to access Microsoft TEAMS
- Sign into your MCPS desktop, just as you would at school. This can also be done by going to www.marionschools.netand click on "MCPS Desktop" at the upper right corner of the webpage. Log in using your user id and password just like you always have. If you have to put in your entire email address be sure to include @marionstudents.net
- Once logged in, find the icon for Office 365
- Then click on Teams.
- You may also log into your email account from there.
We will be using a block schedule this year in order to keep students in one classroom each day. This means that students will be alternating days between my classroom and Ms. Fielding’s classroom. If you are in my homeroom, you are in Group A. If you are in Ms. Fielding’s homeroom, you are in Group B
7:10 – 7:40 Breakfast
7:40 – 7:50 Sanford Harmony
7:50 – 8:00 Morning Work
8:00 – 8:50 Specials (Group A)
Monday – Physical Education and Media
Tuesday – Physical Education
Wednesday – Physical Education
Thursday – Art and Outside Recess
Friday – Music and Outside Recess
8:55 – 10:05 MTSS
10:10 – 11:40 Math
11:40 – 12:00 Recess
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 Math
2:00 – 2:40 Science
2:40 – 2:50 Dismissal
Third Grade List
2 packs #2 pencils (12 per pack)
1 box 24 crayons
3 composition books (black & white)
1 pencil box
4 Expo Markers/dry erase (black)
1 pack ‐ 2 big pink erasers or cap erasers
2 packs of 2 count glue sticks
2 boxes of tissues
5‐ 3 prong/pocket plastic folders (Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and Orange)
1 can of disenfecting spray or 1 container of disinfecting wipes
1 pair earbuds/headphones
Water bottle (please replace daily)
Face mask (please clean/replace daily)
*No pencil sharpeners. please
Label outside of backpack with student's first and last name
Our classroom is room 2 in building 10. The easiest way to contact me is through email.
My email address is email@example.com. My office hours are Monday - Friday 3:00-3:40.
The school phone number is 352.291.4040 and my extension is 51351.
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...the real worry...is a computer program rapidly overdoing a single task, with no context. A machine that makes paper clips proceeds unfettered, one example goes, and becomes so proficient that overnight we are drowning in paper clips.
There is little sense among practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence that machines are anywhere close to acquiring the kind of consciousness where they could form lethal opinions about their makers...doomsday scenarios confuse the science with remote philosophical problems about the mind and consciousness...If more people learned how to write software, they’d see how literal-minded these overgrown pencils we call computers actually are.
Deep Learning relies on a hierarchical reasoning technique called neural networks, suggesting the neurons of a brain. Comparing a node in a neural network to a neuron, though, is at best like comparing a toaster to the space shuttle....But machine learning is automation, a better version of what computers have always done. The “learning” is not stored and generalized in the ways that make people smart.
DeepMind made a program that mastered simple video games, but it never took the learning from one game into another. The 22 rungs of a neural net it climbs to figure out what is in a picture do not operate much like human image recognition and are still easily defeated...Moving out of that stupidity to a broader humanlike capability is called “transfer learning.” It is at best in the research phase.
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I am very much a Whovian. I'm actually a fan of many science fiction shows, especially Star Trek. And as a side note, I don't consider Doctor Who to be science fiction. I consider it science fantasy. I have seen many articles written about the latest Doctor Who episode, "Kill the Moon," which seems to have a pro-life theme running through the episode. I am skeptical about this theme, as I'll outline below. However, as is the abortion issue, this episode has clearly been polarizing. I've seen reviews by people who hated it with the burning passion of a thousand suns. I've seen reviews by people who loved it. And even pro-choice reviewers have found a pro-life theme in this episode, such as this reviewer. This will contain obvious spoilers, so continue reading at your own peril.
Let's be clear: I love when science fiction shows present moral dilemmas. That makes for compelling television. I love it when they have philosophical discussions. That's why this episode (and others) have appealed to me. Doctor Who doesn't always present moral dilemmas or philosophical problems, but when it does, it makes for a great hour of television.
But here's the problem: Doctor Who has been a show that has always been about animal rights. There are many scenes from prior episodes that show that animals should be treated just like humans. A more recent example was when the Tyrannosaurus Rex was threatening modern London, and The Doctor condemned the British for killing the Dinosaur because it was scared and didn't know what it was doing.
In "Kill the Moon," The Doctor takes Clara and a student at Clara's school, Courtney, to the Moon in the year 2049. They discover that the Moon had put on weight, affecting its gravity, and was threatening the life of everyone on Earth. They later discover that the Moon is actually an egg and a space creature is about to hatch from it. They encounter a team of astronauts, led by Lundvik, who have been sent by Earth to plant nukes and destroy the Moon before it destroys them. But now with the discovery of the creature, they face a moral dilemma: Destroy the Moon, and the creature with it, or let the animal survive and hope that it doesn't destroy the Earth. Lundvik votes to kill the creature, while Clara and Courtney want to save the creature's life. As this doesn't involve him, The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS (which stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space) to allow the Terrans to make the decision for themselves.
It's not hard to draw a pro-life allegory from the tale, especially when you consider the ten points that Matt Bowman of Catholic Vote outlined in his article here. So I will at least concede that there is good reason to draw those parallels. But now I wish to talk about why I'm skeptical that it was a pro-life episode instead of merely an episode of protecting life in general.
First, I have no idea what the political views of Steven Moffat are. Gene Roddenberry would allow writers on Star Trek to explore themes that he didn't agree with. I don't know if Moffat has the same philosophy for his writers, or if Moffat considers himself to be pro-life. Until I do, I'm hesitant to call this a pro-life episode.
Second, this may not be a sentient creature that we are dealing with here. If this is not a sentient creature, then I think Lundvik's idea of killing the creature to save the earth would be morally permissible. Only if this was a child of a sentient species would this actually present a moral dilemma at all. As we know, there have been many instances in Doctor Who in which we are treated to the idea that "animals are people, too." So I'm not so sure this was actually about the wrongness of killing an unborn human child, specifically (or perhaps it was about abortion, but they would condemn all abortions, even of animals). But we also shouldn't look past the fact that The Doctor allowed them the choice, so even if we understand that saving the child's life was the right thing to do, it doesn't necessarily follow from that that abortion should be made illegal.
So at worst, this wasn't about abortion at all. At best, it was but it went about it in a very confused way that didn't really address the moral underpinnings of the issue. It would have been better if they simply would have encountered a pregnant woman and had this discussion. The objection might be raised, "but that wouldn't be science fiction-y." True. But let's consider an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that did this better.
Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode called "The Child," in which Deanna Troi was impregnated by an alien against her will. She wasn't raped, the child growing in her womb was the alien. The alien belonged to a non-corporeal species (that is, the species is an immaterial species) and wanted to understand life as a humanoid. So the way he went about it was to start life right from the beginning, as an embryo, and live out an accelerated life in just a few days that culminated in dying of natural causes. During a briefing after discovering Counselor Troi's pregnancy, Commander Riker suggested the child be aborted (even referring to the child as "it"), but Troi was insistent that the child was hers, and she was going to keep him.
This is a much better episode that discusses the abortion issue and doesn't leave any ambiguity about it. I would love to know that Moffat is pro-life (and the writer of the episode, Peter Harness). After researching a lot of reviews of this episode, I can say that there is a good chance this was meant to respond to the abortion debate. But considering how they went about it, I don't think the episode delivered in the way they may have intended it to. | <urn:uuid:ffad8247-0ab6-4db1-8fa1-0e5bdf8c5db7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lti-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/pro-life-themes-in-doctor-who.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00290-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982886 | 1,240 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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Do You Feel Overwhelmed By Everything That’s Expected Of You As A Teen?
Are you feeling the pressures of adolescence—from succeeding in school to getting along with your peers and family?
Have you developed symptoms of anxiety, including perfectionism and negative self-talk?
Do you wish you had an objective, supportive adult in your life that didn’t hold you to such high standards?
As a teen or adolescent, you are at a pivotal moment in your life. No longer a little kid yet not quite an adult, you may be struggling to figure out your place in the world. Maybe you feel overwhelmed by all of the decisions you have to make regarding school, friendships, your family, and the future. Or perhaps you have questions about your identity and purpose. You are at a point in your life where you’ve developed your own goals and values, but you’re just not sure how to reach them yet.
It's tough to feel like you have to please everyone around you while still making time for yourself. And when you’re moving a million miles a minute trying to check every single box, it’s easy for anxious tendencies to form. You may have noticed increased crying spells and irritability or physical symptoms like nausea and insomnia making life uncomfortable. Or maybe your outlook about the world has become hopeless, causing you to wonder if you’re struggling with depression.
Despite what you might think, there are many adults in your life who can offer support and relief in place of high expectations. And in therapy, you can learn to truly embrace and enjoy your time as a teen.
Perhaps You’re The Parent Of A Struggling Teen…
If you’re the parent of a struggling teen, you likely feel concerned about some of their changes in behavior. Seemingly out of nowhere, they’ve become depressed or withdrawn, and the things in their life that used to motivate them are no longer interesting and fulfilling.
Yet, every time you try to intervene, they push back. You may have noticed them becoming angrier and more difficult to live with. And it’s possible that they’re engaging in worrisome behaviors like cutting, restrictive eating, or substance abuse. Changes in their body—including fluctuations in weight and oversleeping—may have caused you to worry about their physical health, and it’s likely they’re experiencing setbacks in their relationships as a result of their mental health.
Your teen probably feels a lot of pressure right now, and they are just trying to figure out how to grow up. Fortunately, counseling is a valuable resource for teens that can provide them with lifelong skills for emotional regulation, self-awareness, and stress management.
Adolescence Is A Time Of Life When Many Mental Health Struggles Form
Anxiety and depression are very common among teens, and these symptoms often reflect the normal psychological changes that happen as teens develop. However, it’s important to seek support before symptoms spiral and become overly difficult to manage.
Unfortunately, today’s teens are caught in a mental health crisis. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a sharp rise in depression and anxiety among teens, and they have had to grapple with threats to their safety and changes in their routines. As life slowly returns to “normal,” it’s hard to make adjustments and navigate the physical, emotional, social, and academic changes taking place.
Parents often feel like they should be able to single-handedly offer the support their child needs or worry that seeking counseling for their teen somehow reflects poorly on their parenting. However, it’s extremely beneficial for teens to have outside support and perspective during this often challenging time of life. Luckily, at Firefly Wellness Counseling, we have a team of empathetic, experienced therapists who are available to help teens thrive.
Teen Therapy Is A Valuable Opportunity To Learn How To Be Authentically You
As a teen, you probably don’t have very many safe spaces in your life where you don’t feel judged, evaluated, or afraid of sharing “bad” behaviors. Yet, therapy can be your chance to grow into who you want to be. By exploring your interests, beliefs, and strengths in a judgment-free zone, you can feel more confident and positive about the choices you want to make.
At Firefly Wellness Counseling, therapy is customized to meet our teen clients’ needs. Depending on their preference, we can involve parents in an intake session that will help their therapist better understand presenting struggles and goals for counseling. Parents are also involved in the paperwork process and will be alerted about any concerning disclosures regarding their teen’s behavior.
However, trust is paramount to this process, so we want our teen clients to understand that therapy is their time and not just an opportunity to collect information to tell their parents. As such, appointments including both the teen and their parents can be scheduled as needed.
Throughout therapy, you—the teen—will gain valuable insight into the patterns or behaviors that are keeping you from feeling at your best. This process will help you better understand your emotions so that you can cope and communicate better. And we are confident that once you can identify and work through intense emotions, you’ll be able to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Our practice uses a variety of effective teen counseling methods to help you achieve optimal mental health. One such framework is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps teens clarify and live by their values as they learn to accept challenges. And we also use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which reframes negative or self-critical thinking patterns.
Ultimately, however, we understand that the therapeutic relationship you have—the connection to your teen therapist—is the most meaningful element of therapy. By working with someone you can trust to guide you as you explore emotions in a creative and nonjudgmental way, you can learn to manage stress and triggers to live a happier, more fulfilled life.
If you’re a teen feeling troubled by the pressures of life, you are not alone—counseling can help. By learning to work with your emotions instead of against them, you can feel better while also making great strides at home, school, and in your relationships.
Maybe You Have Questions About Teen Therapy…
I don’t want my parents to know what we discuss in therapy.
Although we are obligated to share safety concerns with your parents—including disclosures about intentions to hurt yourself or others—your sessions are entirely confidential. We believe that trust is absolutely crucial to the therapeutic process and that the best way for you to succeed in therapy is to have a strong, trusted relationship with your counselor. We will never share anything with your parents without discussing it with you first.
Teen therapy is too expensive.
Counseling is an investment, but it can yield excellent results. While therapy is most effective when clients commit to ongoing weekly sessions, we will work with your budget on a schedule that makes sense for you. If you can only afford intermittent sessions, let us know, and we will figure out the best way to move forward. In addition, we offer reimbursement options for clients with insurance. Contact us to find out more.
As a busy teen with lots of obligations, I don’t have time for counseling.
We understand that you have many commitments, and that the idea of therapy might feel overwhelming for your current schedule. However, learning skills and exploring your emotions in a safe space will ultimately free up the time you’ve spent feeling anxious, depressed, or arguing with your family. Not to mention, we offer teen therapy sessions online if coming into the office is too time-consuming.
Learn Lifelong Skills That Can Help You Feel Happier
If you’re a struggling teen or the parent of a teen who is troubled by their change in behaviors, counseling is an effective way to explore and process emotions. To schedule a free, 10-minute phone consultation with one of our teen therapists, head over to our Book Now link or contact us. | <urn:uuid:6d00199d-d0d3-4bb9-b396-016afb51be7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fireflywellnesscounseling.com/teen-therapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.95583 | 1,704 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Pec"u*late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peculated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Peculating.] [L. peculatus, p.p. of peculari to peculate, akin to peculium private property. See Peculiar.]
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism.
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Human history is a fragment of biological history. If we are to learn enduring lessons it is best to go back in time. Our view of the world is fairly shallow. We look backward but rarely to a time before we were born let alone the 5,000 years of recorded human history. Organic systems, on the other hand, are about 3.5 billions years in age and offer an even more statistically relevant dataset. So, if we are to look for lessons, the organic systems bucket seems like fertile ground. | <urn:uuid:5d409a49-c427-490f-be00-64b6005a1d41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessthinking.com/will-and-ariel-durant-three-lessons-biological-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970785 | 103 | 2.21875 | 2 |
How Did You Resolve Disagreement with Your Boss/Professor?
Dear Young Friends,
How are we?
We know for sure: all working souls have faced one or more job interviews. They know that interviewers put the same question in different ways. They use different words for the same question.
Take for example, the question “How did you resolve disagreement with your boss/professor?”
Interviewers can ask the same question in various ways using different terminology:
1. How do you handle disagreements?
2. What do you do if you disagree with someone else?
3. In a contentious scenario, do you open up or shut down?
4. How do you deal with disagreements?
This scenario doesn’t apply to new school/college pass outs who are enter the job force. Such candidates have never faced any interview. As such, they should prepare themselves to understand the question first before speaking out their answer. They can take a few seconds in framing their reply. Interviewers won’t come in the way. Interpret the question carefully, choose words wisely and speak out confidently but with humility. In interviews there is no right or wrong answer.
Why is this question being asked by the interviewer?
The interviewer is searching for information that would not generally be included on a résumé or as part of a regular interview response — how the applicant handles conflict. Many otherwise great workers have suffered as a result of how they managed (or did not manage) conflict. Because the interviewer is aware that most applicants will not produce genuine conflict scenarios, the skilled interviewer will continue to drill until a genuine example is offered.
The best way to answer this question is:
Discuss the issue briefly, but with an emphasis on its settlement. Give a genuine example of a resolved dispute, talking through the scenario that sparked the disagreement, the activities you did to settle the conflict, and the outcome.
For an experienced applicant, here is an example of how to appropriately respond to this question:
“I recently had a conflict with an employee in another department who had a project that was dependent on work done by two members of our team. He had sent a rather urgent e-mail accusing us of derailing his project. I had never met him before, so I asked to meet with him for coffee. I asked him to walk me through his project and the interdependence of his project with our project. I then walked him through our project and timelines.”
For an entry-level applicant, here is an example of how to appropriately respond to this question:
“I recently had a disagreement with one of my professors over the wording of a question on one of the key exams, which was missed by several members of the class due to the ambiguity. I brought it up to the professor privately and personally, but he was dismissive of my request. After discussing it with several classmates, we went to him together to discuss it further. At that point, he agreed that there was some ambiguity in the question, but would not change it.”
Here’s an example of how you shouldn’t respond to this question:
“I’ve always found that I need to show the other person the error of their ways in detail, and then they will eventually come around to seeing my way as the best way to do things.” “Do I have conflict? Sure. But having conflict is a healthy thing. In fact, I grew up in a family where conflict was a way of life. I got battered and bruised growing up that way, but I learned how to come out swinging and make my way in the world.”
The question, “How Did You Resolve Disagreement with Your Employer/Professor?” has been answered in the very convincing manner. If you take a cue from the answers given above, you will win over the interviewer’s opinion in your favor.
There are many such questions in the book, each designed to test your skills, caliber, personality, behavior, and psychological mental makeup besides your knowledge of your subject/profession.
If you are a fresh candidate, the questions are relatively simple. Different types of responses are expected from experienced candidates depending upon their expertise.
If you want to master ways how to answer a variety of questions, such as
1. How did you resolve disagreement with your boss/professor?
2. Why should we hire you?
3. What is your greatest strength?
4. What is your greatest weakness?
And many other questions to strengthen your answering capabilities,
If you want jobs to chase you, then please read the book
“Impressive Answers to Job Interview Questions — For Fresh and Experienced Candidates”
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pay $1 to the email ID email@example.com
The book will reach your inbox (your email ID required) immediately.
In addition, you will also be enlisted for sending updates on Interview Preparation at no cost to you.
I hope the book will give you strength and confidence to let you sail through the interview board successfully.
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In light of the Golden Ray wreck in St. Simons Sound, Brunswick, Georgia, salvage operators started cutting the first bow section of the capsized vessel.
To remind, the salvage operations of the motor vessel were first paused due to a combination of factors, including COVID-19 mitigation protocols, as well as the hurricane season.
However, Golden Ray, which capsized after leaving the Port of Brunswick in September 2019, will be dismantled in place and removed in sections.
What is more, salvors have set 16 lifting lugs on the wreck, so as to provide connection points for the U.S.-flagged VB 10,000, which has two 255-foot tall gantries that will use lengths of chain to cut the RoRo vessel into eight pieces and lift them onto barges for transportation to Gibson, La. for recycling.
The cutting process was carefully engineered and modeled, but it remains a highly complex operation. This is the first of seven cuts. During each cut we will continue fine-tuning our cutting parameters, including speed and tension of the chain, to improve its efficiency.Though the cut is taking longer than expected, we’re gaining valuable knowledge that will guide the rest of this operation.
…said Deputy Incident Commander Tom Wiker of Gallagher Marine Systems.
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Companies are always searching for the next big feature that will draw in the most interest for their next smartphone. Over the past few years it doesn't seem like anybody is ever truly short on features, although they might be a little underdeveloped. 2013 in particular was an interesting year in features for smartphones, as there were a couple of models that particularly piqued my interest with "waterproof" technology. Although waterproof phones were destined for niche devices, I think that waterproofing phones should become a main feature for companies to improve upon and use in all phones.
The two devices released last year that actively advertised being waterproof, to an extent, was the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and the Sony Xperia Z. Both devices used some of the most advanced waterproof technology available for phones, but in my opinion the Sony Xperia Z was able to pull it off better. Not only was the device just about as normal looking as a phone can be, but it was also just a feature included in a regular, run-of-the-mill device; the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active, on the other hand, was released later and targeted towards a specific demographic of people who were more active outdoors. That isn't to say that people who work in rougher environments don't deserve a nice phone that can face the elements; however, I think everybody (outdoorsy or not) is in danger of having their smartphone liquid damaged in one way or another, and waterproofing a device shouldn't just be limited to one demographic of people.
Nobody is exempt from the danger of dropping their phones in water. We're constantly around sinks, toilets, tubs, cups of liquids that can spill, in the rain, etc. By actively trying to improve waterproof technology in every smartphone, we could help to eliminate one of the most dangerous threats to our smartphones: liquid damage.
It's a feature that I hope to see included in more flagship smartphones this year. Samsung and Sony did take the first couple of steps of incorporating that into their phones; however, both phones had limited access to them. The Sony Xperia Z was only available on T-Mobile in the U.S., where the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active was only available through AT&T. This left CDMA users in the dust when it came to having enhanced protection on their smartphones for an issue that everybody is in danger of getting into.
Waterproofing devices shouldn't be a niche feature - it needs to be something widely used across the board, because it just makes sense. While I do appreciate what Sony and Samsung brought to table last year, it's a trend that I hope doesn't die with the new year. I don't care if the devices are a little thicker than we're used to seeing these days, given that having the "thinnest" and "lightest" devices seem to be the new trend. As for me? I'd rather have a somewhat clunky device that can take somewhat of a beating, because there is a lot of important stuff in my phone that I need to protect. I do think design is important, but you can make a thicker device that still manages to look good too.
I just want to make sure my device can take more than just a sneeze droplet to render it liquid damaged. Something - anything - is better than nothing. Everybody could use some waterproofing on their smartphones.
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Why does luxury brand Balenciaga sell a $2,000 purse modeled after a $1 blue Ikea shopping bag? What’s behind the craze for seemingly distressed and worn-out Gucci sneakers? What is Sarah Jessica Parker doing rummaging through the dusty clothes in Rome’s Via Sannio flea market? Why is Cracco, a Michelin star–winning Italian chef, using commercial potato chips in his dishes?
We tend to think of status symbols starting at the top tiers of society (among the glitterati and trend setters of high society) and then trickling down to the rest of society. But a new trend seems to contradict this pattern. Instead of adopting a new luxury product or embracing fresh high-end tastes, an increasing number of prestigious brands and celebrities are adopting lower-end fashions and items (e.g., duct-taped shoes, plastic shopping bags, street food). Intrigued by these puzzling examples (this one in particular: a high-end perfume made to look like a household cleaning bottle), we decided to adopt a signaling perspective (that is, to understand how consumers use products and brands to signal who they are) to try to make sense of this phenomenon.
Instead of trickling-down, we propose that these peculiar status signals travel in a different direction, trickling-round from the bottom straight to the top, bypassing the middle. Duct-taped sneakers or potato chips are downscale, but it is not as though they were omnipresent in mainstream stores or in middle-tier restaurants before luxury brands or Chef Cracco adopted them. Thus, instead of percolating through the middle, some signals seem to leapfrog directly from low to high. What might explain this different trajectory?
As traditional luxury goods, such as the iconic Louis Vuitton monogram bags or Chanel number 5, have become more widespread and attainable than in the past, the wealthy need alternative ways to signal their prestige and power. In this context, elites can experiment with lowbrow culture and downscale tastes without fear of losing status, while middle class individuals, whose position is more tenuous, stick to clear-cut status symbols.
But there is a catch! When adopting low-end trends, elites combine them with high-end items to make sure the signal is still clear. Sarah Jessica Parker may wear a flea-market jacket, but she does so while wearing Louboutin heels. Timothée Chalamet’s zip-up bomber jacket raised many eyebrows this year on the red carpet, but it was the platinum, rubies, and diamond Cartier brooch pinned to his front pocket that unmistakably elevated the whole outfit to the next level. Cracco may serve potato chips in his dishes, but this junk food is accompanied by sophisticated delicacies in an exclusive atmosphere. In other words, high-status individuals, and the luxury brands that cater to them, mix and match high-end and low-end tastes to distinguish themselves from more mainstream consumers.
To test our propositions, we conducted a series of studies across various domains such as food and clothing, demonstrating that high-status individuals mix and match traditionally low-status items with other types of signals to distinguish themselves. For example, we examined the menus of more than 1,000 restaurants in New York City and found that, when offering lowbrow items (e.g., tater tots, grits, fried chicken), high-end restaurants tend to mix them with more highbrow ingredients (e.g., truffle, lobster, or duck). Similarly, high-status respondents were more likely than other groups to choose a catering menu that mixed upscale and downscale ingredients in dishes like burger with foie gras and lobster mac ‘n cheese.
In another experiment where respondents were asked to select accessories for an outfit, fashion-savvy individuals were more likely than others to choose upscale products that draw on low-end cultural symbols, like the Helmut Lang’s Trash Bag or a designer platform shoes inspired by Crocs. Finally, to reproduce the trickle-round dynamic in the lab, we also created an incentive-compatible game in which participants could choose the shape and the color of their watches to signal their status to other participants. Consistent with our predictions, we find that, when the need to distinguish oneself is prominent, a significant proportion of respondents opt for the watches that mix-and-match signals; that is, they either opt for the watch with the high-status color and low-status shape, or for the watch with the low-status color and high-status shape.
If low-status items trickle round and become high, what implications does this have for brands? High-end brands can stay relevant by incorporating select downscale styles and trends in their collections. Indeed, several luxury brands already use this strategy. Brands such as Prada and Gucci have produced luxury versions of traditionally low-key or unremarkable items, such as pool slides and legwarmers. In an interview, Miuccia Prada, the head designer of the luxury brand of the same name, declared that she is constantly fighting established beauty clichés and working to introduce ugliness in her designs. Similarly, Gucci’s recent campaign and collection “Gucci in the Streets” (#GucciDansLesRues) seize inspiration from students’ counterculture and the May 1968 protests in Paris.
Louis Vuitton chose a slightly different strategy. Rather than revisiting downscale items, Louis Vuitton’s recent initiatives and collaborations seem to reveal a similar interest in edgy subcultures and kitsch artists. In the last years, the brand launched a co-branded collection together with Supreme, an American skateboards’ brand, and a collaboration with artist Jeff Koons, known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of kitsch, banal objects. Through these collaborations, Louis Vuitton has effectively mixed-and-matched mundane prints on its refined and high-priced leather goods. These choices will certainly alienate some shoppers, but our results suggest that the most sophisticated consumers may appreciate these moves by their favorite high-end brands.
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Ok, it doesn't come as much of a revelation that drinking a large glass of wine means you'll consume more alcohol than if you opt for a small glass. But interestingly, a new study has found that even if there's the same amount of wine in both a small and a large glass, the large glass will trick us into thinking there's less in the glass, and so — shock horror — will encourage us to tuck into more than we had originally intended.
The study, from the University of Cambridge, found that people were more likely to order additional glasses of wine at a bar if they were drinking a large (370ml) glass than a standard (300ml) glass.
The researchers believe it could be because larger glasses encourage us to drink faster. So a simple tweak could be changing your glass size and tricking your brain into thinking you've drunk more than you actually have.
The Cambridge research team together with Professor Marcus Munafo from the University of Bristol, put this theory to the test at The Pint Shop in Cambridge from mid-March until early July 2015.
During the study, wine (in 125ml or 175ml servings) could be purchased by the glass, which was usually a standard 300ml size.
Over the course of a 16-week period, the owners of the bar changed the size of the wine glasses on a fortnightly basis, alternating between the standard (300ml) glass size, and larger (370ml) and smaller (250 ml) glasses.
They found that the volume of wine purchased daily was 9.4% higher when sold in larger glasses compared to standard-sized glasses.
'We found that increasing the size of wine glasses, even without increasing the amount of wine, leads people to drink more,' Dr Rachel Pechey from the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Cambridge commented.
'It's not obvious why this should be the case, but one reason may be that larger glasses change our perceptions of the amount of wine, leading us to drink faster and order more. But it's interesting that we didn't see the opposite effect when we switched to smaller wine glasses.'
We're a little sceptical of these findings mind you, whatever size the wine glass we're — more often than not — always tempted by another top up, aren't you?!
The study, which was funded by the Department of Health, is published in full in the journal BMC Public Health.
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Posted on 10 Mar 2011
Over the objections of much of Silicon Valley and warnings from California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer that the legislation could harm small inventors, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. patent system on Tuesday.
The America Invents Act, six years in the making, passed the Senate on a 95-5 vote as both parties joined the Obama administration in arguing that an antiquated and litigation-riddled patent system is hobbling innovation. Feinstein voted for the bill, despite losing a vote on a critical amendment, while Boxer opposed the entire bill.
In Silicon Valley, the nation's nucleus of invention, small inventors and huge tech icons have lined up against the legislation, each for different reasons.
A key element of the bill, which Feinstein and Boxer tried to kill, would award a patent to the first person to file a patent application, a change from the current practice of awarding a patent to the first person to invent a product.
Feinstein had supported a first-to-file system but she said she became convinced that was a mistake after listening to small inventors and venture capitalists in California. Her amendment lost 87-13.
Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Dell, Google, Intel and other tech giants who banded together in the Coalition for Patent Fairness took no position in the first-to-file debate, but they said the overall bill does not do enough to reduce litigation.
They say their engineers waste time in court defending frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits by "patent trolls," businesses that exist solely to sue for alleged patent infringement.
The tech giants contend that the number of these suits has soared in recent years. In the most notable case, patent holding company NTP Inc. won a $613 million settlement in 2006 against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said moving to a first-to-file policy would bring the United States into agreement with most patent laws in the rest of the world, and provide a simple, clear date to establish a patent, rather than a costly process of proving that one was the first to invent something.
It takes an average of three years to secure a patent, and the U.S. patent office has a backlog of more than 700,000 applications. A record 209,000 patents were issued last year. President Obama considers patent reform part of his "win the future" agenda that is designed to position the United States as a leader in the world economy.
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With an official redefinition of autism in the offing, many parents are worried.
Snow days used to be cause for celebration when we were young, but now parents have to figure out how to work, watch the kids — and fit in some sledding.
Armed with new data showing that pressured kids are prone to depression and anxiety, an anti-Tiger mom (she’s an academic and Chinese as well) takes aim at Amy Chua’s contention that pushing children is healthy.
Women rely on both breast feeding and bottles to feed their babies, says a group that supports nursing in public. So why does Sesame Street show bottle-feeding exclusively?
Sesame Street is debuting a new curriculum this season, and it’s designed to help tots build essential skills in science and math
Older homes are a dangerous source of lead poisoning for young children, and experts say no level of lead exposure is safe
Boobs and babes took center stage Wednesday morning as nursing mothers held “nurse-ins” at Target stores across the country to assert their right to breast-feed their children in public.
More than six decades after his seminal child care book was published, Dr. Spock still knows what’s best for baby.
If shopping at Target is part of your Wednesday morning plans, here’s hoping you’re not squeamish about public breast-feeding.
It’s that time of year when preschoolers churn out painting after painting of Christmas trees and stockings. But never did I think a child of mine would bring home that genre of artwork. Because we’re Jewish — and not the …
If you’re still scrambling to find Christmas gifts for the kids, here are some unconventional (or ingenious) playthings and products out there. Bonus: we’ve included gift ideas for Mom and Dad, to help make holiday travels a …
This week is peak season for Christmas cards, and if you get one that features friends or relatives holding a sign that says “Equality for ALL Families in 2012” or “Love Makes a Family,” you can thank Zach Wahls.
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Startups and small businesses based in Perth can get access to free, full serviced co-working space launched by St George bank.
The space, located in the city’s CBD, is fitted out with Wi-Fi, tablets, meeting rooms, telephones, printers, stationary, daily newspapers and a kitchenette.
Startups and small businesses wanting to use the space do not have to be St George customers.
“We hope the Perth Business Hub will be a central point for small businesses to meet and collaborate,” Beata Brennan, St George regional general manager for WA, said in a statement.
"Even businesses in regional areas that need to travel into the CBD, can set themselves up in the hub for the day and make the most of its free facilities.”
Phillip Godkin, St George GM of Business Banking, said 97 per cent of businesses in WA are actively trading as SMEs.
In 2013, the bank also launched a startup/small business co-working space in Chatswood, Sydney. It has more than 4,000 users, who include sole traders, IT consultants and Web designers.
Ex CIO Jacob Dudzinski and ex CMO Mats Johnson, who are starting a business called Wifi Control, use the Chatswood co-working space at least four days a week.
“We found working from home or meeting at cafes very unproductive. Since coming to the hub we’ve been able to remove ourselves from any distractions and embrace the office environment to really get things done,” Dudzinski said.
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Vibrant new mural celebrates women, science
With every brush stroke of pink, yellow, purple and orange paint, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya transformed a plain, white wall in the Sandia Science & Technology Park into a lively design depicting women reaching toward each other within a landscape of bursting bubbles.
The mural, titled “Limitless,” represents what happens when electrons’ orbitals overlap, connect and activate.
Wearing a pink paint-splattered jacket and overalls, Phingbodhipakkiya said, “We can draw parallels between the dynamism of women in our society and basic physics research tenets. For example, when women are isolated, and when atoms are isolated, they are inert. But when atoms come into close proximity and their orbitals are allowed to overlap, there is a flurry of activity in the way that when women commune and break free of their isolation or boundaries to come together, they can move, create and make magic.”
The Sandia Science & Technology Park was able to secure the location of Phingbodhipakkiya’s mural on Research Road through partnerships between the tech park program office staffed by Sandia employees, the city of Albuquerque, Meow Wolf Santa Fe, the artist and Cooperative Educational Services, a company in the tech park that offered its wall.
“We’re proud that partnerships with the Sandia Science & Technology Park helped bring this science-themed mural to Albuquerque,” said Mary Monson, Sandia senior manager for Technology Partnerships and Business Development. “Art inspires gathering, the exchange of ideas and invites people to pause, chat or think about themes they might not otherwise consider during a walk or drive through town.”
The tech park mural is the seventh piece out of 10 in Phingbodhipakkiya’s “Findings” series funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation. For each mural in the series, Phingbodhipakkiya teamed with a woman working on cutting-edge science.
She also has a science background of her own. Prior to becoming a full-time multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, Phingbodhipakkiya studied neuroscience and worked at an Alzheimer’s research lab.
The Albuquerque mural is inspired by the work of Nadya Mason, a physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She researches condensed matter physics and what happens when electrical currents flow through new materials.
“For example, in some materials, when they are at low enough temperatures, electrons pair up. And when they pair up, they can move almost miraculously through the material without bumping into anything, without losing any energy,” Mason said. “When electrons are separate, they just have normal behavior, but when they pair up, they can do something totally different.”
Artist’s background inspires colorful work
The mural is the first large-scale piece of art within the tech park community that is filled with startup companies and large, established corporations, public schools and walking paths.
“I had the advantage of showing up for work every day and seeing it transform a blank, stucco wall into this beautiful painting,” said Robin Strauser, deputy executive director of Cooperative Educational Services. “I think the wonderful blue sky is a huge contrast to it. It just looks amazing and it’s interesting. It looks a little bit different every time you look at it.”
According to Phingbodhipakkiya, the colors in the painting are inspired by the desert landscape that she experienced while visiting the Southwest in 2019. In all her artwork, she chooses bright colors inspired by her family’s Thai and Indonesian backgrounds. Phingbodhipakkiya said her father was a cook, and she grew up with vibrancy all around her, in the form of flavors used in her dad’s restaurant, and colors that represent her parent’s native countries. That vibrancy in Phingbodhipakkiya’s art feeds into the way she portrays women.
“I’m always depicting women as vital, as luminous and harnessing their power to fight for a more just world,” she said.
Sherri Brueggemann, Albuquerque Public Art Urban Enhancement Division manager, said many murals have been painted throughout the city’s history, but significantly more of them were completed by men than women.
“Having a female muralist, a woman that’s got a really bold, strong identity and such an incredible story to tell about women of color and science is an incredible addition to our whole collection here in Albuquerque,” Brueggemann said.
Tech park students assist in mural project
Phingbodhipakkiya arrived in Albuquerque in October and three days after she began work on the piece, she conversed with students from Technology Leadership High School, located in the tech park. As part of the “Findings” series, each mural is co-created in partnership with youth living in the area. When the tech park program office reached out to Technology Leadership High School, teachers and students were immediately on board.
While talking with the students, Phingbodhipakkiya answered questions about science, how she became an artist, and invited them to come back in a week and help paint.
“When we all come together as a society, we can make magic and make big things happen,” she told the teens. “That’s what this mural is about. Coming together and making magic.”
The students were also able to meet Mason through video chat and learned about the science behind the art.
“It was a great opportunity to be part of a community project, which is huge, and to learn by doing,” said Executive Director Kara Cortazzo of the Technology Leadership High School. “I’m very humbled and proud that the Sandia Science & Technology Park asked seniors to be part of this project because they are high schoolers, they aren’t professional painters, they don’t have background in it, and they took a chance on us.”
Reactions to the mural have been positive. Albuquerque City Councilors Don Harris and Lan Sena hosted a dedication ceremony for “Limitless” and expressed their excitement and gratitude that the mural found a home in the city. In addition, Whitney Ingram, engineer and co-chair of the Sandia Women’s Action Network, said after reading about the mural and seeing it in person, the meaning became personal.
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Ladder Theory of relationships explores the evaluation dynamics of both the sexes, while considering the possibility of a relationship with each other. Read on to know more on ladder theory.
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The Smell of Java (& JSP) or A Case for JavaBy Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, June 29, 2007
After sometime I am back to developing in Java & JSP. And boy does it smell good! If there is a programmers heaven, I am in it now. I have small self-made libraries to help automating regular tasks, tons of high quality free third-party libraries for the bigger ones like opencsv, poi etc. and I am kicking some coding storm. After spending sometime with other languages and environment it sure feels sweeter.
Ranting for Simple Architecture
I had ranted before about how JSP has become more complex over the years. I think at some point Java technologies has been overtaken by designer types who prefer pristine over-designed architecture over simplicity. I still prefer something simple while designing, most often than not simple solution is also the best solution.
The case for Java
Much has been said about Java’s suitability / unsuitability for certain tasks. All said and done Java is still is a very nice language to learn and use. In the hands of an expert Java is a beautiful tool to wield. It is complete, powerful, protects you against the bad mistakes and helps you write really clean and simple code. Java is the enterprise language of choice in the industry for a good reason and will remain so for years to come. It is backed by mature libraries and vibrant community.
Caveat and few words of advise
You need to stay clear of over-designer types. Several popular frameworks like Struts are way over-designed. You need to choose your tools well. Almost everyone and their grandma has developed an IoC or MVC framework. First analyze your requirements to see if you need them. Then choose one which appears simplest to you. The cost of learning a new framework + cost of fitting the framework to your needs or worse the cost of fitting yourself and your team to the framework has to be balanced against the value provided by the framework. Don’t be afraid to create something simple yourself if it perfectly fits your needs. Remember cost-benefit analysis is your friend. Do it well and then get it reviewed by an architect type to ensure that you are not missing the big picture.
All said and done…
Despite all the frenzy over languages like PHP (been there, love it, doing it) or Ruby (dabbled in it), I would still prefer Java for any enterprise or Web 2.0 product or services. In the long run you will realize the value of this statement.
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We may be turning and turning in a polar vortex, with April, or what folks in the creative-writing biz call poetry month, seeming like an impossible dream, but poetry is nevertheless in the air right now. In Walt Whitman’s case, it’s on the air: Apple’s ad for iPad Air, “Your Verse,” which debuted on January 12, includes lines from Whitman’s “O Me! O Life!” — as read by Robin Williams in a monologue from “Dead Poets Society” — ending with
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—what good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Two shorter 30-second versions — “Light Verse” (possibly the first time in literary history that the word “light” has been used in reference to Whitman, and a misrepresentation of the opening of “O Me!”) and “Sound Verse” — which begins with “To quote from Whitman, ...” have since aired.
This series represents Whitman’s second starring role in contemporary advertising: a 2009 ad campaign for Levi’s featured excerpts from two Whitman poems, “Pioneers! O Pioneers,” recorded by Will Geer for Folkways Records in 1957, and “America,” read by Whitman himself in an 1890 wax-cylinder recording.
It isn’t so hard to imagine Whitman embracing subsequent new technology. The opening alone of his “Song of Myself” — “I celebrate myself,” later revised and expanded to “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” — marks not only the start, as a number of critics have argued, of modern poetry, but also arguably the start of social media.
If the ego of that I drives and sustains the work, there is also room not only for his sprawling catalogs of life but also for “you,” the reader, who appears as early as the second line. The point was, always, connection: Whitman believed that poetry could heal a nation torn apart by financial concerns and ugly politics and policies (see David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography). To adapt Wordsworth’s sonnet on Milton, “London, 1802”: “[Whitman], thou should’st be living at this hour; / [America] hath need of thee: she is a fen/ Of stagnant waters...”
Whitman isn’t the only poetic presence evoked this month; another 19th-century giant — the one who said, “I’m Nobody. Who are you?” — has also made a public appearance.
Here’s Emily Dickinson — showing up ironically and wonderfully — in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town,” in Rebecca Mead’s essay on the Dickinson projects of poet and visual artist Jen Bervin (“Back of the Envelope” Jan. 27, 2014). What an image: Dickinson, dressed in white and wearing oversized sunglasses, arriving in Manhattan among fanfare, being driven to a borrowed townhouse, then shutting the door, pouring a glass of wine, and reading about herself in The New Yorker.
Why do I find these recent appearances of Whitman and Dickinson so exhilarating — so hopeful? Aside from the pleasure I take in finding any mention of poetry outside of the time frame of April/Poetry Month, it’s heartening to come upon these references in the midst of reading article after article on the death of the humanities.
For, if there have been times of personal and/or professional doubt when I wanted to say, with Marianne Moore, “I too dislike it” (“Poetry”) or when I wanted to side with W. H. Auden’s pronouncement, early in “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” that “poetry makes nothing happen,” there have been many more instances when I have had to acknowledge the truth that Auden arrives at by the end of that same poem: it is poetry that will “Let the healing fountain start.”
As Ezra Pound said, “Poetry is the news that stays new.”
The news is mixed, of course. It reminds us, as Mary Oliver observes in her poem “Poppies,” that “of course, / loss is the great lesson” — but even in its — and our — darkest moments, poetry continues to answer one of our deepest needs, summed up by a character in Amy Tan’s novel TheJoy Luck Club: “I wanted to be found.”
That is the secret of poetry’s fresh (psychic) news: quite simply and quite complexly, poems find us, and then they encourage us, as Jorie Graham says in “Afterwards,” to “begin with the world.”
We are in the car, for I am driving my three children somewhere — in those years I was always driving them somewhere — when my 7-year-old son asks me from the back seat, “You like poems, right?” I tell him yes. After a beat of several moments, he asks me, “Do you like bugs?” “Some” I say, suspecting that he has a secret agenda. Several weeks later on Mother’s Day, he brings me the gift he has kept hidden in his room, his pick from the “Reading is Fundamental” Program, which allows students to select a book to keep. He chose, for me, Paul Fleischman’s Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, a collection of 14 poems about insects. I use the book, along with Kenneth Koch’s Rose, Where Did You Get That Red, for years in writing workshops in elementary schools.
It is early on Thanksgiving morning — 3:00 a.m., the dark night of the soul. I am sitting with my father in a cubicle in the ER. He came in here over two hours ago, in pain. The nursing home called me just after midnight, and I told them that I would meet the ambulance. Now my father is sleeping peacefully; I study him: his still-beautiful hands and the striking high cheekbones of his face. I let my mind empty, and lines from Stanley Kunitz’s “The Testing Tree” arrive: “The heart breaks and breaks / and lives by breaking.” And then I remember hearing Kunitz himself reading the lines and how the members of the audience, a good-sized crowd on a warm September day, wept. Now, my father is sleeping; across the city, my mother lies awake, waiting for my phone call.
One spring break, I go to the private facility where my sister is a therapist, to conduct a writing workshop. The facility has a program that reunites women with their young children. I prepared for the workshop by gathering several poems about mothers and children, and then, at the last moment, I added William Carlos Williams’s “Between Walls.” At the workshop, I hand out copies and read the poem. There is a moment of silence, and then one woman asks, “Are we supposed to fill in the blanks?” A second woman says, “Wait, it’s already a sentence.” And then a third woman looks up — she is tapping the end of the poem, the image of broken but shining “pieces of a green / bottle” — and she says, “It’s us.”
My father’s favorite poem is by Billy Collins: it’s “The Country,” the one about the fire-starter mouse, “the creature / for one bright, shining moment / suddenly thrust ahead of his time.” We always start with this. Then I say, “Here’s another one I think you’ll like, and he says, “All right,” and he folds those (beautiful) hands in his lap, as I read “I Chop Some Onions While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of ‘Three Blind Mice,’ ” which never fails to bring me, like the speaker in the poem, close to tears, and my father says, “That’s a good one. Thank you.”
On another day, I compliment Katie, a young woman working at my father’s nursing home, on her striking new tattoo: it’s a delicate feather, on the inside of her wrist. I ask her what made her choose that design, and she starts to explain that there is a poem that she has always loved. “Yes,” I tell her, “Emily Dickinson! ‘Hope is the thing with feathers,’ ” and Katie’s eyes light up. “That’s it,” she tells me, “that’s exactly it.”
Carolyn Foster Segal is professor emerita of English at Cedar Crest College. She currently teaches at Muhlenberg College.
As Scott Jaschik points out in his January 13, 2014 article, “The Third Rail,” the terrible stress our newly minted Ph.D.s in English, comp lit, and foreign languages confront when they begin the job search seems only to be escalating rather than abating. Understandably, then, many Modern Language Association convention sessions, as well as a growing body of publications, have been taking up a variety of proposals for addressing the job crisis. Jaschik mentions the session I chaired, “Who Benefits? Competing Agendas and Graduate Education,” and he carefully articulates the basic positions of the panelists as we were all in general agreement that shrinking the size of graduate programs in English would not be the best way to remedy the situation. But the reasons we hold those beliefs in favor of expansion rather than contraction seem to have slipped out of view. I would like to highlight them here.
Let me begin by stating the obvious nature of the suffering: When you defund public higher education, someone is going to have to pay, and it has been our colleagues forced to accept unethically precarious working conditions both during and after grad school, and students at all levels burdened with massively increasing educational debt. These are circumstances we must protest with all the solidarity we can muster. But all this misery, the sense of lives ruined, institutionalized failure, personal anguish — these horrors come not just from oversized grad programs, but from a much larger capitalist economy that is wreaking havoc on many workers and unemployed poor in and out of academia. As Marc Bousquet has explained, it is not a market; or, at least, it is not a “free market” in any real sense despite our common rhetorical reference to the horrors of the “job market.” It is a system we are caught in, and one orchestrated, it’s true, by our own institutional structures that have now been fine-tuned to serve the champions of privatization, defunding, and austerity. In this type of economic system, higher education has become a kind of laboratory for the production of a precarious, contingent, low-wage faculty. The economic inequality within the profession mirrors the economic inequality in the society. From any ethical perspective, it is a system that has gone terribly wrong.
What has been most missing from the discussion about graduate school size has been a concise understanding of why the market logic doesn’t work for English grad programs, and the main reason is because it is not an accurate description of how the system really works. If it were a case of supply and demand, it might make good ethical sense to reduce the overproduction of Ph.D.s to meet the lower demand for tenured professors. In short, if you could reduce the supply without altering demand, this equalizing would clearly make it easier for graduates to get tenured jobs for the simple reason that there would then be fewer Ph.Ds competing for the same number of jobs. But the system does not work that way. Rather, when you reduce supply by shrinking graduate programs, you also end up reducing demand (as I will explain in what follows): our system is so structured that we cannot reduce the one without reducing the other, and that’s a real ethical and political conundrum.
When you shrink graduate student enrollments (the supply side), you inevitably also shrink the size of graduate programs, which means, willy-nilly, that you decrease tenured faculty lines (the demand side) because they are the folks teaching in grad programs. Administrators would be happy to shrink our programs and eliminate some tenured lines through attrition and retirement because new, cheaper temp hires can easily fill in to teach the few undergraduate lower-division classes that some tenured faculty teach.
The gurus of supply and demand would like nothing better than for us graduate faculty to do our own regulating by cutting down of our own accord on producing so many new highly educated people schooled in the legacies of critique and dissent. We then serve the wishes of those seeking more power to hire and fire at will the most vulnerable among us who have no protections under a gutted system of tenure and diminished academic freedom. The system can play itself out under the contraction model, then, as a vicious cycle of reducing supply, which reduces demand for tenured faculty (while increasing the non-tenure-track share of the faculty), which calls for further reducing of supply. To believe that contracting the size of graduate programs can, in and of itself, improve the situation is a misattribution of cause and effect: The real cause of the job misery is the agenda for privatization and defunding public expenditures orchestrated by the global economic system that has been producing misery and suffering for millions of lives around the world as socioeconomic inequalities continue to magnify.
Now, having said all that, I also want to be very clear that there are strategic, local situations where reducing graduate student populations in order to expand funding and support for them, or in order to revise a program (hopefully without shrinking tenured faculty lines), can certainly be the most ethical thing to do. So I am speaking at a general level of overall tactics for the profession, and at that level, shrinking (without other forms of compensation) inevitably leads to weakening graduate education, not strengthening it through some mythical model of “right-sizing” to be achieved by a proposed matching of supply and demand.
But, of course, the pain is real, and it reaches fever pitch in the transitional moments of crisis when graduate students face the “market” for jobs. The wretched system we endure makes it impossible not to sympathize with graduate students who understandably often argue that we must reduce the supply of Ph.D.s to give them a better chance to get a job. Under these enormous tensions, the short-term, crisis-management model of supply and demand can especially seem like the only fair-minded option.
In those moments of anguish, which I myself witness every time one of my own students reaches this transition stage, our only ethical task is to support them and listen to them as best we can to help them navigate the transition. So I want to make sure that my remarks here are not intended to provide any specific advice other than the obvious need for support. Specific situations and contextual demands will have to be navigated with all the pragmatic skills and rhetorical resourcefulness possible. In contrast, then, to a focus on the crisis moment of the job search, I have framed my comments here in terms of a big picture narrative.
From the longer and larger perspective, what becomes most clear is that our system of having elite graduate faculty surrounded by masses of non-tenure-track teachers mostly fulfilling service functions of teaching lower-level humanities distribution courses and writing courses fuels that cycle of devolution. We need, then, to change the academic system over which we do have some control. Systemic changes can be difficult to even imagine, but it is by no means impossible as long as we understand that it will not happen in an overnight revolution. And the first step inevitably leads us to examine more critically the ethical and political work of both curricular revision and resource allocation. In short, it leads us to a careful analysis of the systemic class structure within the profession, bolstered as it is by procedures and policies, many of which we actually have some degree of professional autonomy to alter.
Of course, the resistance to institutional transformation remains overwhelming at times, and the struggle to mitigate our academic hierarchies and internal class stratifications is a long-term project, well beyond the scope of these comments. To even imagine such changes in our local institutional circumstances, we will have to make many arguments convincing our colleagues that a more collective and collaborative approach to teaching assignments will be beneficial for us all in the long run. And I have at least some evidence that something like what I have been suggesting can actually happen. Where I teach in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), our collective bargaining agreement affecting all 14 universities with a total enrollment of over 100,000 students has created an anomaly in U.S. higher education: more than 75 percent of all faculty on all campuses are tenure-track lines (the inverse of the national percentage average), and all faculty teach all levels of courses.
Much work remains to be done, and we too continuously struggle against state underfunding and the pressure to hire more temporary faculty. But the potential benefits of these efforts, I believe, would make our profession less stratified and more responsive to public needs for high quality education at all levels, so that, ultimately, the humanities will become a more vital part of the social fabric of everyday life for more citizens. That is a goal we should never abandon.
David B. Downing is director of graduate studies in literature and criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Works and Days, and his most recent book (co-edited with Edward J. Carvalho) is Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era.
The recent death of the former Cornell University poet Reginald Shepherd to cancer at the age of 45 affected me personally, although I never met him. We had corresponded a fair bit by e-mail and I had recently donated the funds to bring him to speak and read out this way, at the University of Oregon. That cannot happen now, but arrangements are under way to use those funds and additional donations to establish a student poetry prize in his memory at Oregon.
Those of us who are working on the Reginald Shepherd Prize are starting to ask the questions that inevitably arise: What does it mean to honor a poet, and how can that unique gift, poetic voice, be properly set forth for purposes of establishing criteria for a student prize?
It is easy enough to honor a historian with a prize celebrating new work in that field, or a particle physicist by establishing the Quark Jockey of the Year or some similar clearly related award. But how should we set the criteria for a prize honoring the life and work of a poet? Unless that poet writes about one thing or only in a single form, the life, the work and the “voice” are all quite varied. We’re moving words around to come up with something like “poetry that honors the classical and modern traditions with precision and beauty.” It’s still a work in progress.
Reginald’s work -- though we never met, he always signed with his first name -- was certainly borne aloft on the great wings of candor, so we can’t have any winners who waffle, fudge or hide the toys. Nor can we have mere diction-divers who, upon surfacing, scatter words here and there to see what happens -- one of Reginald’s mentors, the great science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, would eat us alive if we honored something sloppy. Yet if we offered the prize to a student poet whose work displayed, say, “infrared fire burning through visible passion,” who is to say what the winner’s work looks like?
I once described Reginald’s work in a review as having “intense volcanic roiling,” but I’m not sure that helps guide a student writer. There are similarities between describing poetry and describing wine: “the poems displayed a rich essence of marinated cedar overlaid with fresh Wensleydale, with thistles of filbert and turpentine sparkling through a haze of windblown borax.”
Should we honor his breadth of emotion, which in turn reflected the life of a black gay man growing up in the Bronx and eventually passing through Bennington, Brown, the University of Iowa and Cornell? Sure, but emotion is a genus, not a species. We all see and feel differently. Poetic emotion can appear in the urbane scrollwork of J. D. McClatchy, the high church pointillism of Carl Phillips, the mythic immersions of Cameron La Follette, the whisper-forest of W. S. Merwin.
It is sometimes easier to describe what a poet didn’t do and didn’t like rather than to classify his work into a poetic taxonomy. There were no pallid stones in Reginald’s work, he never attempted to leap chasms on melting wings of assumption, he had no time for the poetry of pathological personalism, he recognized that after a certain point economy of expression becomes chastity of imagination, he had no allergy to facts and he wasn’t about to geld any lilies merely because critics preferred parsnips -- let the lilies show their stuff.
Reginald was a remarkable correspondent. He is the only person with whom I intentionally saved an entire e-correspondence (will there be collections of letters published, ever again?). Perhaps that was a premonition that it would end too soon. One example of how many subjects could gracefully occupy a small space in his writing is:
“If I ever find out what ‘emo’ means, I will let you know. I did a reading at Columbia
University week before last and asked some of the students there, but didn't get a clear answer. I think it's music by “sensitive” but definitely straight boys who play guitar and may or may not wear eyeliner. Fall Out Boy seems to have something to do with it.
I too came across Aqualung by accident, having seen "Pressure Suit" (from his second U.S. album) on TV and then backtracked to his first U.S. album (which is a compilation of two UK albums, which I might try to track down). I adore "Strange and Beautiful" and also "Falling Out of Love," as well as "Good Times Gonna Come" and "Another Little Hole."
That's a good point about my colonization being the problem to begin with. Damned imperialist cancer! And now I'm partially decolonized. Does that mean I'm a dominion or a commonwealth or something, like Puerto Rico?”
Ultimately, his published work demonstrated with sometimes painful clarity the great canyon between those who play the instrument and those who play the music. Reginald Shepherd played the music as well as anyone, and that’s what we’d like our prize winners to do as well.
Reginald has now gone on what Theodore Roethke called “the long and terrible way,” and we who remain can honor him best by never forgetting what he really stood for: no halfway house for the intellect, no auto-referential academic priapism. The best, always, or why bother? In Orpheus in the Bronx he noted that there is a mainstream of American poetry, “broad, sluggish and muddy” that offered “convenient epiphanies in prosaic anecdotes not interesting or shapely enough to be short stories.”
His own work, issued to date in five collections, is never sluggish or muddy, and we will expressly forbid glutinous turbidity when the prize is first awarded in 2009. Instead we will require purity, light, joy and truth of the kind that he displayed in one of his masterpieces, "You, Therefore," included in his 2007 collection Fata Morgana (Pittsburgh) and dedicated to his partner, Robert Philen of the University of Western Florida, which begins:
You are like me, you will die, too, but not today: you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine…
… home is nowhere, therefore you, a kind of dwell and welcome, song after all, and free of any eden we can name.
Let us recall Elliott Coues’s definition of genius as “that union of passion and patience which bears fruit unknown to passion alone; to patience alone impossible.” Reginald’s passionate genius outraced his patience as his illness progressed, and we are fortunate in that at least one posthumous collection will appear.
In the final essay in Orpheus, he answered the question “Why I Write” by saying “I write because I want to live forever.” The blooms of his genius are exsanguinated, but we can honor their living colors forever with as many Reginald Shepherd Prizes and other joys as those of us who knew him can imagine. Reginald once sent me an e-mail addressed to “Sunshine” and concluded with “Goodnight, sweet prince,” but even that one ended with his unique good-bye, so with his words I must say my good-bye: “peace and poetry” forever, my unmet friend.
Alan Contreras works for the State of Oregon. His views do not necessarily represent those of his employer.
About a month after beginning my presidency here, I addressed a gathering of alumni at a site on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, for which our University is named. It is a beautiful sight, and on that magnificent evening, I abandoned for a few moments my talking points. The Langston Hughes poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which I knew by heart, came to mind, so I recited it, thinking it would connect me with my fellow Laurentians, and connect us all to the location. An excerpt:
I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I was pleased at the positive reception my impromptu recitation received on that summer night, so I decided to carry with me poems appropriate for other, similar occasions, poems that would help alumni and others connect with the University in a new way. I rediscovered poetry as an undergraduate, and am at the tail end of a generation that memorized certain poems, like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
So it was gratifying to find the audience so receptive. I enjoy weaving the selection into thoughts about the university today. It brings back a time when poetry was a larger part of life. It’s a way for people to hear something they don’t hear during their work day, something different from the press of business or the political swirl of the moment.
And for me, it’s a way to keep St. Lawrence centered in the lives of alumni, as verse paints a more vivid picture of their days in college.
For example, I like poems like “Chapter 1,” by Mark Aiello, or “Student” by the American Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, because they speak to what it’s like to be young and a college student. I have used both at alumni gatherings and at events where parents are present. Here is the latter poem:
The green shell of his backpack makes him lean into wave after wave of responsibility, and he swings his stiff arms and cupped hands, paddling ahead. He has extended his neck to its full length, and his chin, hard as a beak, breaks the surf. He's got his baseball cap on backward as up he crawls, out of the froth of a hangover and onto the sand of the future, and lumbers, heavy with hope, into the library
We want alumni to identify with the university today, so I look for poems that highlight traditions or things generations of students have in common. Certainly, winters in Canton, N.Y., have changed little over the years, so there is no better way to help alumni bring back that experience than by reciting “January," by the Maine native Baron Wormser, whose verses, such as, “The two best things in this world, were hot coffee and winter sunrises,” certainly evoke memories of our North Country.
I am always articulating the value of the liberal arts, and alumni today need to be reminded why we remain so deeply committed to this form of learning. “The Three Goals,” by David Budbill, speaks to this brilliantly:
The first goal is to see the thing itself in and for itself, to see it simply and clearly for what it is. No symbolism, please.
The second goal is to see each individual thing as unified, as one, with all the other ten thousand things. In this regard, a little wine helps a lot.
The third goal is to grasp the first and the second goals, to see the universal and the particular, simultaneously. Regarding this one, call me when you get it.
My readings also bring out suggestions from alumni with literary interests. One alumnus recommended I use the poem “The Lanyard” for commencement, but I think it would resonate at other times, too. Not only is it about a boy making a lanyard at a summer camp in the Adirondacks, but it also offers the perfect tribute to parents -- in this case to mothers -- for all they have done for their children. Every commencement speaker urges graduates to thank their parents for their sacrifices, but none do so as eloquently as this Billy Collins poem. Again, an excerpt:
Here are thousands of meals, she said, and here is clothing and a good education. And here is your lanyard, I replied, which I made with a little help from a counselor. Here is a breathing body and a beating heart, strong legs, bones and teeth, and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered, and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp. And here, I wish to say to her now, is a smaller gift -- not the worn truth that you can never repay your mother, but the rueful admission that when she took the two-tone lanyard from my hand, I was as sure as a boy could be that this useless, worthless thing I wove out of boredom would be enough to make us even.
I think that reading a poem when speaking for the university works well because audiences listen differently to verse; they may even pay closer attention. But it also is, I believe, because poetry goes to the heart more than the head, and that, after all, is where one’s alma mater lives.
William L. Fox
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One idea that came out of that meeting (backed, at the time, by W3C and our colleagues down the road at ETSI): Government Data Done Well. Could we join forces between the Digital Agenda’s focus on the use of public sector information as an economic driver on the one hand, and between the Open Data movement’s interests in openness and transparency on the other? And how would all of that translate into technology and standards? Can we drive Europe’s vision of Government data towards the full five stars?
Over the past few months, an impressive set of partners has come together within the Share-PSI initiative, and we’re now on the final stretch toward the Digital Agenda Assembly:
- We have a Call for Participation out for a workshop on 10/11 May 2011. The workshop will be hosted by the European Commission in Brussels. We’re going to look at the interoperability story for Public Sector Information, broadly: What are the use cases? What are the obstacles that get into the way as public administrations try to put data online? We’re asking that question both from a technical perspective and a legal angle. Position papers due 15 April!
- As of today, the Open Data Challenge is on. The panel of judges includes W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee and EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Prices and awards of a total of EUR 20,000 are sponsored by various partners across industry: For ideas, for apps, for visualizations, and for public sector data sets. Of particular note, the Talis award for best use of Linked Data. Get your submissions ready!
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Having told the tale of Lucy Morris to the end, the chronicler must now go back to the more important persons of this history. It was still early in April when Lizzie Eustace was taken down to Scotland by her cousin, and the trial of Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Smiler was fixed to take place at the Central Criminal Court about the middle of May. Early in May the attorneys for the prosecution applied to Greystock, asking him whether he would make arrangements for his cousin’s appearance on the occasion, informing him that she had already been formally summoned. Whereupon he wrote to Lizzie, telling her what she had better do, in the kindest manner — as though there had been no cessation of their friendly intercourse; offering to go with her into court — and naming a hotel at which he would advise her to stay, during the very short time that she need remain in London. She answered this letter at once. She was sorry to say that she was much too ill to travel, or even to think of travelling. Such was her present condition that she doubted greatly whether she would ever again be able to leave the two rooms to which she was at present confined. All that remained to her in life was to watch her own blue waves from the casement of her dear husband’s castle — that casement at which he had loved to sit — and to make herself happy in the smiles of her child. A few months would see the last of it all, and then, perhaps, they who had trampled her to death would feel some pang of remorse as they thought of her early fate. She had given her evidence once and had told all the truth — though she was now aware that she need not have done so, as she had been defrauded of a vast amount of property through the gross negligence of the police. She was advised now by persons who seemed really to understand the law, that she could recover the value of the diamonds which her dear, dear husband had given her, from the freeholders of the parish in which the robbery had taken place. She feared that her health did not admit of the necessary exertion. Were it otherwise she would leave no stone unturned to recover the value of her property — not on account of its value, but because she had been so ill-treated by Mr. Camperdown and the police. Then she added a postscript to say that it was quite out of the question that she should take any journey for the next six months.
The reader need hardly be told that Greystock did not believe a word of what she said. He felt sure that she was not ill. There was an energy in the letter hardly compatible with illness. But he could not make her come. He certainly did not intend to go down again to Scotland to fetch her; and even had he done so he could not have forced her to accompany him. He could only go to the attorneys concerned, and read to them so much of the letter as he thought fit to communicate to them.
“That won’t do at all,” said an old gentleman at the head of the firm. “She has been very leniently treated, and she must come.”
“You must manage it, then,” said Frank.
“I hope she won’t give us trouble, because if she does we must expose her,” said the second member.
“She has not even sent a medical certificate,” said the tyro of the firm, who was not quite so sharp as he will probably become when he has been a member of it for ten or twelve years. You should never ask the ostler whether he greases his oats. In this case Frank Greystock was not exactly in the position of the ostler; but he did inform his cousin by letter that she would lay herself open to all manner of pains and penalties if she disobeyed such a summons as she had received, unless she did so by a very strong medical advice, backed by a medical certificate.
Lizzie, when she received this, had two strings to her bow. A writer from Ayr had told her that the summons sent to her was not worth the paper on which it was printed in regard to a resident in Scotland; and she had also got a doctor from the neighbourhood who was satisfied that she was far too ill to travel up to London. Pulmonary debilitation was the complaint from which she was suffering, which, with depressed vitality in all the organs, and undue languor in all the bodily functions, would be enough to bring her to a speedy end if she so much as thought of making a journey up to London. A certificate to this effect was got in triplicate. One copy she sent to the attorneys, one to Frank, and one she kept herself.
The matter was very pressing indeed. It was considered that the trial could not be postponed till the next sitting at the Criminal Court, because certain witnesses in respect to the diamonds had been procured from Hamburg and Vienna, at a very great cost; they were actually on their way to London when Lizzie’s second letter was received. Mr. Camperdown had resolved to have the diamonds still, with a hope that they might be restored to the keeping of Messrs. Garnett, there to lie hidden and unused, at any rate for the next twenty years. The diamonds had been traced first to Hamburg and then to Vienna, and it was to be proved that they were now adorning the bosom of a certain enormously rich Russian princess. From the grasp of the Russian princess it was found impossible to rescue them; but the witnesses who, as it was hoped, might have aided Mr. Camperdown in his efforts, were to be examined at the trial.
A confidential clerk was sent down to Portray, but the confidential clerk altogether failed in making his way into Lizzie’s presence. Word was brought to him that nothing but force could take Lady Eustace from her bedchamber; and that force used to that effect might take her out dead, but certainly not alive. He made inquiry, however, about the doctor, and found that he certainly was a doctor. If a doctor will certify that a lady is dying, what can any judge do, or any jury? There are certain statements which, though they are false as hell, must be treated as though they were true as gospel. The clerk reported when he got back to London, that to his belief Lady Eustace was enjoying an excellent state of health; but that he was perfectly certain that she would not appear as a witness at the trial.
The anger felt by many persons as to Lizzie’s fraudulent obstinacy was intense. Mr. Camperdown thought that she ought to be dragged up to London by cart ropes. The attorneys engaged for the prosecution were almost beside themselves. They did send down a doctor of their own, but Lizzie would not see the doctor — would not see the doctor though threats of most frightful consequences were conveyed to her. She would be exposed, fined thousands of pounds, committed to jail for contempt of court, and prosecuted for perjury into the bargain. But she was firm. She wrote one scrap of a note to the doctor who came from London. “I shall not live to satisfy their rabid vengeance.” Even Frank Greystock felt almost more annoyed than gratified that she should be able thus to escape. People who had heard of the inquiry before the magistrate, had postponed their excitement and interest on the occasion because they knew that the day of the trial would be the great day; and when they heard that they were to be robbed of the pleasure of Lady Eustace’s cross-examination, there arose almost a public feeling of wrath that justice should be thus outraged. The doctor who had given the certificate was vilified in the newspapers, and long articles were written as to the impotence of the law. But Lizzie was successful, and the trial went on without her.
It appeared that though her evidence was very desirable it was not absolutely essential, as, in consequence of her certified illness, the statement which she had made at the police-court could be brought up and used against the prisoners. All the facts of the robbery were, moreover, proved by Patience Crabstick and Billy Cann; and the transfer of the diamonds by Mr. Benjamin to the man who recut them at Hamburg was also proved. Many other morsels of collateral evidence had also been picked up by the police, so that there was no possible doubt as to any detail of the affair in Hertford Street. There was a rumour that Mr. Benjamin intended to plead guilty. He might, perhaps, have done so had it not been for the absence of Lady Eustace; but as that was thought to give him a possible chance of escape, he stood his ground.
Lizzie’s absence was a great disappointment to the sightseers of London; but nevertheless the court was crowded. It was understood that the learned sergeant who was retained on this occasion to defend Mr. Benjamin, and who was assisted by the acute gentleman who had appeared before the magistrate, would be rather severe upon Lady Eustace, even in her absence; and that he would ground his demand for an acquittal on the combined facts of her retention of the diamonds, her perjury, and of her obstinate refusal to come forward on the present occasion. As it was known that he could be very severe, many came to hear him, and they were not disappointed. The reader shall see a portion of his address to the jury, which we hope may have had some salutary effect on Lizzie as she read it in her retreat at Portray looking out upon her own blue waves.
“And now, gentlemen of the jury, let me recapitulate to you the history of this lady as far as it relates to the diamonds, as to which my client is now in jeopardy. You have heard on the testimony of Mr. Camperdown that they were not hers at all, that, at any rate, they were not supposed to be hers by those in whose hands was left the administration of her husband’s estate, and that when they were first supposed to have been stolen at the inn at Carlisle, he had already commenced legal steps for the recovery of them from her clutches. A bill in Chancery had been filed because she had obstinately refused to allow them to pass out of her hands. It has been proved to you by Lord Fawn that though he was engaged to marry her he broke his engagement because he supposed her possession of these diamonds to be fraudulent and dishonest.” This examination had been terrible to the unfortunate undersecretary; and had absolutely driven him away from the India board and from Parliament for a month. “It has been proved to you that when the diamonds were supposed to have vanished at Carlisle, she there committed perjury. That she did so she herself stated on oath in that evidence which she gave before the magistrate when my client was committed, and which has, as I maintain, improperly and illegally been used against my client at this trial.” Here the judge looked over his spectacles and admonished the learned sergeant that his argument on that subject had already been heard, and the matter decided. “True, my lord; but my conviction of my duty to my client compels me to revert to it. Lady Eustace committed perjury at Carlisle, having the diamonds in her pocket at the very moment in which she swore that they had been stolen from her; and if justice had really been done in this case, gentlemen, it is Lady Eustace who should now be on her trial before you, and not my unfortunate client. Well, what is the next that we hear of it? It seems that she brought the diamonds up to London; but how long she kept them there nobody knows. It was, however, necessary to account for them. A robbery is got up between a young woman who seems to have been the confidential friend, rather than the maid, of Lady Eustace, and that other witness whom you have heard testifying against himself, and who is, of all the informers that ever came into my hands, the most flippant, the most hardened, the least conscientious, and the least credible. That those two were engaged in a conspiracy I cannot doubt. That Lady Eustace was engaged with them I will not say; but I will ask you to consider whether such may not probably have been the case. At any rate she then perjures herself again. She gives a list of the articles stolen from her, and omits the diamonds. She either perjures herself a second time, or else the diamonds, in regard to which my client is in jeopardy, were not in the house at all, and could not then have been stolen. It may very probably have been so. Nothing more probable. Mr. Camperdown and the managers of the Eustace estate had gradually come to a belief that the Carlisle robbery was a hoax, and therefore another robbery is necessary to account for the diamonds. Another robbery is arranged, and this young and beautiful widow, as bold as brass, again goes before the magistrate and swears. Either the diamonds were not stolen or else she commits a second perjury.
“And now, gentlemen, she is not here. She is sick forsooth at her own castle in Scotland, and sends to us a medical certificate; but the gentlemen who are carrying on this prosecution know their witness, and don’t believe a word of her sickness. Had she the feelings of woman in her bosom she ought indeed to be sick unto death. But they know her better and send down a doctor of their own. You have heard his evidence, and yet this wonderful lady is not before us. I say again that she ought to be here in that dock — in that dock in spite of her fortune, in that dock in spite of her title, in that dock in spite of her castle, her riches, her beauty, and her great relatives. A most wonderful woman, indeed, is the widow Eustace. It is she whom public opinion will convict as the guilty one in this marvellous mass of conspiracy and intrigue. In her absence, and after what she has done herself, can you convict any man either of stealing or of disposing of these diamonds?” The vigour, the attitude, and the indignant tone of the man were more even than his words; but, nevertheless, the jury found both Benjamin and Smiler guilty, and the judge sentenced them to penal servitude for fifteen years.
And this was the end of the Eustace diamonds, as far as anything was ever known of them in England. Mr. Camperdown altogether failed, even in his attempt to buy them back at something less than their value, and was ashamed himself to look at the figures, when he found how much money he had wasted for his clients in their pursuit. In discussing the matter afterwards with Mr. Dove, he excused himself by asserting his inability to see so gross a robbery perpetrated by a little minx, under his very eyes, without interfering with the plunder.
“I knew what she was,” he said, “from the moment of Sir Florian’s unfortunate marriage. He had brought a little harpy into the family, and I was obliged to declare war against her.” Mr. Dove seemed to be of opinion that the ultimate loss of the diamonds was, upon the whole, desirable as regarded the whole community.
“I should like to have had the case settled as to right of possession,” he said, “because there were in it one or two points of interest. We none of us know, for instance, what a man can, or what a man cannot, give away by a mere word.”
“No such word was ever spoken,” said Mr. Camperdown in wrath.
“Such evidence as there is would have gone to show that it had been spoken. But the very existence of such property so to be disposed of, or so not to be disposed of, is in itself an evil. Then, we have had to fight for six months about a lot of stones hardly so useful as the flags in the street, and then they vanish from us, leaving us nothing to repay us for our labour.” All of which Mr. Camperdown did not quite understand. Mr. Dove would be paid for his labour, as to which, however, Mr. Camperdown knew well that no human being was more indifferent than Mr. Dove.
There was much sorrow, too, among the police. They had no doubt succeeded in sending two scoundrels out of the social world, probably for life, and had succeeded in avoiding the reproach which a great robbery unaccounted for always entails upon them; but it was sad to them that the property should altogether have been lost; and sad also that they should have been constrained to allow Billy Cann to escape out of their hands. Perhaps the sadness may have been lessened to a certain degree in the breast of the great Mr. Gager by the charms and graces of Patience Crabstick, to whom he kept his word by making her his wife. This fact, or rather the prospect of this fact, as it then was, had also come to the knowledge of the learned sergeant, and in his hands had served to add another interest to the trial. Mr. Gager, when examined on the subject, did not attempt to deny the impeachment, and expressed a strong opinion that, though Miss Crabstick had given way to temptation under the wiles of the Jew, she would make an honest and an excellent wife. In which expectation let us trust that he may not be deceived.
Amusement had, indeed, been expected from other sources which failed. Mrs. Carbuncle had been summoned, and Lord George; but both of them had left town before the summons could reach them. It was rumoured that Mrs. Carbuncle, with her niece, had gone to join her husband at New York. At any rate, she disappeared altogether from London, leaving behind her an amount of debts which showed how extremely liberal in their dealings the great tradesmen of London will occasionally be. There were milliners’ bills which had been running for three years, and horse-dealers had given her credit year after year, though they had scarcely ever seen the colour of her money. One account, however, she had honestly settled. The hotel-keeper in Albemarle Street had been paid, and all the tribute had been packed and carried off from the scene of the proposed wedding banquet. What became of Lord George for the next six months nobody ever knew; but he appeared at Melton in the following November, and I do not know that any one dared to ask him questions about the Eustace diamonds.
Of Lizzie, and her future career, something further must be said in the concluding chapters of this work. She has been our heroine, and we must see her through her immediate troubles before we can leave her; but it may be as well to mention here that, although many threats had been uttered against her, not only by Mr. Camperdown and the other attorneys, but even by the judge himself, no punishment at all was inflicted upon her in regard to her recusancy, nor was any attempt made to punish her. The affair was over, and men were glad to avoid the necessity of troubling themselves further with the business. It was said that a case would be got up with the view of proving that she had not been ill at all, and that the Scotch doctor would be subjected to the loss of his degree, or whatever privileges in the healing art belonged to him; but nothing was done, and Lizzie triumphed in her success.
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From the external link: "Every variable changes slightly each time it's accessed, whether to be incremented, printed to the screen, or copied to another variable."
There seems to be a bug in the implementation, going by the sample 99BoB output. Or is it pure coincidence that the value of count stays the same within the displayed precision between the printings of it within each loop iteration? — Smjg (talk) 01:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, looks like if you use the same variable multiple times in one string, it's caching until the next loop. I'll look into fixing that. - Rottytooth 15:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Took another look, seems like the problem is that I didn't describe it correctly in the article. Each time a value is accessed, there's a chance it will change, but it's not changing each and every time. By default, this tolerance value is set to ~27% (70 / 255). Perhaps it would be better to get rid of the tolerance and reduce the amount of mutation instead -- or allow to override them in the compiler. I will play around with it. Meanwhile, the reason that pattern came up in the example (of it changing only at the end of the loop iteration) is because it's actually hitting the randomization more often when changing a value (reading / writing / usually reading again) than just the one time reading to print to the screen. I re-ran 99 Bottles and got a different pattern this time (which I'll put in the article to make it less confusing). Rottytooth 15:30, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Decided to wipe out the tolerance, was unnecessary and confusing -- and lessened the mutation to compensate. New version of the compiler is up on my site. Will update examples on the page soon. Rottytooth 15:49, 3 April 2012 (UTC) | <urn:uuid:69c536da-1ee7-40a8-871f-80e85beb09d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://esolangs.org/wiki/Talk:Entropy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.962683 | 409 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Automatic landslide length and width estimation based on the geometric processing of the bounding box and the geomorphometric analysis of DEMs
- Geography Department, Geography and Geology Faculty, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Carol I, 20A, 700505 Iaşi, Romania
Abstract. The morphology of landslides is influenced by the slide/flow of the material downslope. Usually, the distance of the movement of the material is greater than the width of the displaced material (especially for flows, but also the majority of slides); the resulting landslides have a greater length than width. In some specific geomorphologic environments (monoclinic regions, with cuesta landforms type) or as is the case for some types of landslides (translational slides, bank failures, complex landslides), for the majority of landslides, the distance of the movement of the displaced material can be smaller than its width; thus the landslides have a smaller length than width. When working with landslide inventories containing both types of landslides presented above, the analysis of the length and width of the landslides computed using usual geographic information system techniques (like bounding boxes) can be flawed. To overcome this flaw, I present an algorithm which uses both the geometry of the landslide polygon minimum oriented bounding box and a digital elevation model of the landslide topography for identifying the long vs. wide landslides. I tested the proposed algorithm for a landslide inventory which covers 131.1 km2 of the Moldavian Plateau, eastern Romania. This inventory contains 1327 landslides, of which 518 were manually classified as long and 809 as wide. In a first step, the difference in elevation of the length and width of the minimum oriented bounding box is used to separate long landslides from wide landslides (long landslides having the greatest elevation difference along the length of the bounding box). In a second step, the long landslides are checked as to whether their length is greater than the length of flow downslope (estimated with a flow-routing algorithm), in which case the landslide is classified as wide. By using this approach, the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve value for the classification of the long vs. wide landslides is 87.8 %. An intensive review of the misclassified cases and the challenges of the proposed algorithm is made, and discussions are included about the prospects of improving the approach with further steps, to reduce the number of misclassifications. | <urn:uuid:b010fc1b-9b6f-4247-8378-fc3e1226cb6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/16/2021/2016/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.915509 | 517 | 2.109375 | 2 |
SOURCE: Neurology, news release, March 18, 2015
WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they have developed a new scoring system to help identify seniors who are at high risk for memory and thinking problems that might lead to dementia.
"Our goal is to identify memory issues at the earliest possible stages," wrote lead researcher Dr. Ronald Petersen, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The study looked at almost 1,500 people between the ages of 70 and 89. They were all from Minnesota. None had memory or thinking problems at the start of the study. They were given memory and thinking tests every 15 months for an average of almost five years.
During that time, 401 (28 percent) of the participants developed early memory and thinking problems.
"Understanding what factors can help us predict who will develop this initial stage of memory and thinking problems, called mild cognitive impairment [MCI], is crucial, because people with MCI have an increased risk of developing dementia," he added.
The scoring system developed by Peterson and colleagues takes into account factors easily found in medical records -- such as years of education, history of stroke or diabetes, and smoking -- as well as symptoms of depression and anxiety, and tests of thinking abilities.
Each factor has a score based on how much it contributes to the risk of memory and thinking problems. For example, a diagnosis of diabetes before age 75 increases the risk score by 14 points, while having 12 or fewer years of education increases the risk score by two points, according to the researchers.
In this study, women with the lowest risk had scores of less than 27, while those with the highest risk had scores of more than 46. For both women and men, those with the highest risk scores were seven times more likely to develop early memory and thinking troubles than those with the lowest scores.
"This risk scale may be an inexpensive and easy way for doctors to identify people who should undergo more advanced testing for memory issues or may be better candidates for clinical trials," Petersen said.
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Pune: Shaniwarwada Fort damaged
August 01, 2005 14:57 IST
Shaniwarwada Fort -- the seat of power of the Maratha empire -- has suffered some damage in the heavy rains lashing the city for the past few days, Archeological Survey of India sources said.
A portion of the fort wall called 'brudge', which is about six feet in length, collapsed last evening following the incessant rains, ASI caretaker R S Waster told PTI in Pune on Monday.
The collapsed brudge, which was circular, was located in the southern portion of the historic monument, he said adding, only the top portion fell off but there is no damage to its foundation.
As some sections of the collapsed brudge (wall) is intact above the ground, there would not be much problem in carrying out the repairs, he added.
"However, so far, the ASI has not done any assessment about the damage. The repair work would begin soon," Waster added.
The over 300-year-old Shaniwarwada has been declared as a protected monument by the ASI and scores of tourists visit the monument every year.
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Introducint LEGO Mindstorms NXT: Next Generation Robotics
Studying robotics in the classroom requires an affordable, capable, accessible robotics solution, and the Lego Mindstorms NXT Robotics Kit promises to be that solution. Designed as an outgrowth and a refinement of ten years of experience with robotics kits, it includes a number of refinements that increase capability while simultaneously reducing complexity. For instance, the design of all major non-structural components (the ones that don’t look like recognizable LEGO pieces, that is) includes attachments that allow them to be easily and rapidly integrated into a design.
The NXT "brick"
The core of the system is lovingly referred to as the “brick” (a nod to the nickname and appearance of the RCX microcomputer that controlled the first generation of Mindstorms), a plastic box a little thicker than an average paperback containing eight ports, three keys, and a computer screen. Simple programs can be written and downloaded programs executed using this device, and connection to a PC or Mac can be accomplished using the included USB cable or via Bluetooth.
A robotics system that is going to interact with its environment needs to be able to move around within that environment as well as move parts of its environment. This is accomplished through the use of three motors. Unlike in previous designs, these are larger but more easily attached and include a rotation sensor “for free”.
We tend to take our sensors for granted, but a robot can’t. What it can accomplish is strictly delineated by how it can sense the world around it, and our robots are far more limited than we are in that respect. The NXT kit includes a light sensor (capable of sensing shades of grey, not true color) and a sound sensor that can detect the amplitude of a sound (loudness, but not detail) as well as a touch sensor (a simple pressure switch) and ultrasonic sensor (uses echolocation to determine the distance to objects). While this selection may seem limited, a lot can be accomplished with the kit sensors, and compass, gyro, IR sensors, and more are available from 3rd party manufacturers such as HiTechnic.
The programming language included "out of the box" is called NXT-G; based on National Instruments’ LABVIEW software, this software is capable of accommodating those new to programming as well as those who want to tackle the nuts and bolts. Programming is accomplished simply by dragging and dropping blocks from the programming palette onto the program window (blocks are automatically connected, though you can change the flow of the program if you wish), and adjustments can be made to the blocks’ function simply by highlighting the blocks and changing the settings at the bottom of the screen. For those interested in taking their programming to the next level, numerous third-party programming options exist. In fact, iCommand, a Java module written by the team responsible for LeJOS (a Java programming environment for NXT), allows direct control of your LEGO robot via your personal computer!
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Frequently Asked Questions
The following are answers to a number of Frequently Asked Questions about the Oregon Trail.
- Where can I find the list of all the pioneers?
- How many people came over the Oregon Trail?
- Why did people come West?
- How many pioneers died making the trip?
- What's the difference between a Conestoga wagon and a Prairie Schooner?
- What is an ox?
- What kind of supplies did the pioneers take on their trip?
- Where can I find Oregon Trail diaries?
- How many pioneers were killed by Indian attacks?
- What books would you recommend on the Oregon Trail?
Where can I find the list of all the pioneers?
Migration over the Oregon Trail involved a huge number of people, moving to different locations for different reasons. In a free society, emigrants were not required to sign a roster to leave, or to present a passport at borders, or sign in anyplace upon arrival. There is no comprehensive list of all the pioneers. A few organized wagon trains had rosters of members, but frequently these only included adult males. Some locations along the trail, such at Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, and Fort Henrietta, kept registers where some wagon train members voluntarily signed. Most of the available lists of pioneers have been compiled by historical societies and genealogical organizations by soliciting information from pioneer descendants, and combing historical documents such as journals, letters and pioneer society records for names. Names have been recorded from Independence Rock and other "register rock" locations along the trail route. Currently, the OCTA Census of Overland Emigrant Documents can run a name search through their database of over 48,000 names, and the Oregon Genealogical Society and Idaho Genealogical Society can locate names from their Pioneer Certificate programs.
How many people came over the Oregon Trail?
It's difficult to estimate the numbers due to the nature of the large scale emigration. People on the move, in sometimes large groups, with varying destinations are difficult to count. The emigration lasted over several decades. People were born and people died during the typical five month journey. Some historians have made estimates based on diary accounts, newspapers reports from the time, and from registers and wagon counts kept at Fort Laramie and Fort Kearney. Historian John Unruh estimated 296,000 traveled to Oregon, California, and Utah from 1840 to 1860. Merrill Mattes estimated 350,000 overland travelers from 1841 through 1866, and later expanded his estimate closer to 500,000 for all travelers on western trails during that time period.
Why did people come West?
A variety of incentives led people to attempt the 2,000 mile journey west. Many in the 1840s sought a new beginning following a widespread economic depression in the late 1830s. Some hoped to escape the political strife preceding and during the Civil War. A few settlers had patriotic motives, to ensure American possession of territory jointly claimed by the U.S. and Great Britain in the Northwest, or occupied by Mexico in the Southwest. Some religious groups wished to establish missions and communities. Some moved to join family members. Many emigrants made the trip seeking adventure and new opportunities. The majority of emigrants had as their main reason either land or gold. In Oregon, various land acts, most notably the Donation Land Act of 1850, provided free land, up to 320 or 640 acres, to settlers. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 lured nearly 150,000 people west over the trail in five years. New gold discoveries in Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and other western states led continuing migrations of fortune seekers to all regions of western America.
How many pioneers died making the trip?
It's estimated perhaps 10% of the people making the trip died en route (about 20,000 - 30,000). Cholera, a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, claimed a great many lives. Most victims died from the resulting dehydration within hours of contracting the disease. Large scale cholera epidemics swept the trail population in 1849, 1850, and 1852. The disease spread due to poor sanitation, and could have been avoided by boiling water, but discovery of the cause and prevention was years away, and emigrants unknowingly spread the disease by using polluted water at common campgrounds. A second leading cause of death was accidents with wagons, firearms, and drowning at river crossings. Many of the emigrants - inexperienced at handling wagons - met their fate falling under wheels or coping with runaway livestock. The trip required several treacherous river crossings and many emigrants drowned trying to maneuver wagons and livestock through swift currents. Nervous emigrants - fearful from stories about Indians and wild animals - were heavily armed, and carried loaded guns with no safety devices in jostling wagons. Accidental shootings were not uncommon. Inexperienced hunters shot wildly while pursuing antelope and buffalo, and weary guards sometimes mistakenly shot their comrades believing they saw a thief, a rustler, or a wild animal in the shadows around a wagon camp. Fatigued from the rigors of daily travel and poor nutrition, many emigrants succumbed to diseases such as typhoid, food poisoning, and "mountain fever"' or circumstances such as childbirth that they might otherwise have survived. "Mountain fever" is believed to be tick fever, which causes flu-like symptoms.
Although popular culture raised the dramatic image of frequent deaths from homicide, fights, and altercations between Indians and emigrants at wagon camps, historical records indicate these were a minor contribution to emigrant fatalities - less than one percent of the total number of pioneers. Those that died during the journey were often buried in hastily made graves alongside the trail. Though some were buried in wagon boxes or other improvised caskets, a shortage of wood meant most had a shroud of a blanket or quilt, if anything at all. Frequently unmarked to thwart grave-robbers, the graves were sometimes made right in the path of the trail, where the passing of wagon wheels could pack down the soil and obliterate evidence of the burial to prevent digging by wild animals.
What's the difference between a Conestoga wagon and a Prairie Schooner?
Large boat shaped Conestoga wagons were widely used for freighting, but were too long, heavy, and cumbersome to be practical for a long journey over the Oregon Trail. Emigrant wagons were smaller and lighter, and did not require as many draft animals. There was no single design for emigrant wagons - some were smaller, lighter versions of the boat shaped Conestogas, and some were custom designed and built with double decks or special storage features. Generally, the canvas topped "Prairie Schooners" had wagon boxes about four feet wide by nine to eleven feet long and two feet high, with rear axle clearance of about two feet. Boxes and running gear were made of well seasoned hardwoods, and reinforced with iron hardware. Wheel spokes and rims were made of Osage orange, hickory, oak, or other very strong hardwoods, with iron tires. In early years, wheels were attached with linchpins, but by the 1850s, thimble skein axles and lug bolts were becoming the preferred method. Slightly smaller wheels in front provided greater turning capability. Wagons were sometimes brightly painted, sometimes in colors to coordinate and identify all members of a train traveling together. Wagon covers were made of cotton or linen canvas or osnaburg cloth, either made commercially or hand woven and sewn at home. Canvas was frequently waterproofed with oil base paint or linseed oil, and sometimes slogans were painted on the long white sides. When loaded, the wagons weighed up to 2,500 pounds, and required two to four yoke of oxen or pairs of mules. Some wagons had braking devices, but these were inadequate on steep declines, and chain locks, rough locks, shoe brakes, log drags and windlasses were employed on downhill grades. Uphill pulls required winches and double teaming. Lubricants made from animal fat and pine tar had to be frequently applied to axles, and wood shrinkage in dry, arid climates caused many problems with wheels.
What is an ox?
An ox (or oxen, the plural) is an adult, castrated male of any breed of cattle. These steers can live up to 16 years, working most of their lives. They are trained to pull vehicles and plows, and in North America they were the most widely used draft animal up to about the 1850s. There was great debate amongst emigrants as to whether it was better to use oxen or mules (a cross breed between a horse and a donkey) to pull their wagons. Both had their advantages and disadvantages. Oxen were slower, walking two to three miles per hour, but could pull great weight, survive on little feed, were patient, gentle, and easily trainable. They were less expensive and more widely available than mules - and, in a pinch, they could provide beef. Although horses could travel the fastest, they required more feed, could not pull as heavy loads, were susceptible to injury, and were a tempting target to thieves, rustlers, or Plains Indians. Mules traveled faster than oxen, and could pull heavy loads on little feed. However, well trained mules were a scarce commodity during emigration years, costing considerably more money, and many pioneers found the mules' unpredictable temperaments difficult to handle.
Oxen were hitched to wagons by means of a wooden yoke, and driven by a handler (called a teamster, or a bullwhacker for large freight teams) walking alongside giving voice commands or using a goad stick or whip. Many pioneer accounts record great affection and concern for their oxen - often giving them pet names. Oxen were shoed to protect their feet from rocky terrain, and many remedies were suggested for common ailments such as drinking alkali water. Without their oxen, pioneers could not pull their wagon loads of supplies. Loss of their oxen was devastating, and to many pioneer families, the oxen were the unsung heroes of the westward migration story.
What kind of supplies did the pioneers take on their trip?
A variety of guidebooks, newspaper articles, and helpful tips in letters from friends or family who had already made the trip provided different lists about what and how much was essential to survive the five-month journey. The critical advice was to keep things as light as possible, and to take easily preserved staple foods. Supplies in each wagon generally had to be kept below 2,000 pounds total weight, and as the journey progressed and draft animals grew tired, many pioneers had to discard excess food and baggage. Items taken by nearly all wagon parties included flour, hard tack or crackers, bacon, sugar, coffee and tea, beans, rice, dried fruit, salt, pepper, and saleratus (used for baking soda). Some also took whiskey or brandy, and medicines. Minimal cooking utensils included a cast iron skillet or spider, Dutch oven, reflector oven, coffee pot or tea kettle, and tin plates, cups, and knives, forks, spoons, matches, and crocks, canteens, buckets or water bags for liquids. A rifle, pistols, powder, lead, and shot were recommended for hunting game along the way, and for self-defense. Candles were used for lighting, as they were far less expensive and lighter than transporting oil, and several pounds of soap was included. Only two or three sets of practical, sturdy, and warm clothing of wool and linen had to last the wear and tear of the journey, and a small sewing kit for repairs was important. Basic tools such as a shovel, ax or hatchet, and tools to repair wagon equipment were essential. Bedding and tents completed the list of necessities. For most families, 1,600-1,800 pounds of their supplies would be food, leaving little space for other items. Although some people tried to include furniture, books, and treasured belongings, these were soon discarded. According to many accounts, the trail was littered with cast off trunks, bureaus, beds, clothing, excess food, and even cast iron stoves. Though prices and availability of goods varied from year to year, for most emigrants it cost a minimum of $600 to $800 to assemble a basic outfit of wagon, oxen, and supplies.
Where can I find Oregon Trail diaries?
Over 2,000 diaries, letters, and memoirs are held in archives, college and university libraries, historical societies, and public libraries throughout the U.S. Many are still in the treasured possession of pioneer descendants. Historian Merrill Mattes estimated that one out of every 250 travelers kept some sort of written record of their journey. However, through the years, many of these were lost or destroyed. Participants in the Oregon Trail story include Native Americans, who watched the flood of newcomers and grappled with the changes brought about by the mass migration. Their thoughts and feelings are recorded in speeches, interviews, and records of treaty negotiations. Military and official government expeditions also kept records and published reports related to Trail experiences and observations. Two good resources for locating a specific diary are the books Platte River Road Narratives compiled by Merrill Mattes (University of Illinois Press, 1988) and The Trail West compiled by John Townley (Jamison Station Press, 1988) which index primary source documents by year and author. Most state historical societies have indexes to primary source trail documents in their collections, and many state and local historical societies have published copies of pioneer journals available for sale. Many university and college libraries can provide copies of journals from their archives collections. The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center at Flagstaff Hill has a reference library, and although the library is not open to the public, it can assist in providing information on locating and obtaining copies of specific diaries.
How many pioneers were killed by Indian attacks?
Contrary to popular myth, most encounters between Indians and emigrants were peaceful and mutually advantageous. Although popular fiction and movies long portrayed natives in a negative light as stereotypical savages mercilessly victimizing pioneers, historical record presents a different story. Indians of the time period belonged to complex societies, and maintained relationships with emigrants with both positive and negative aspects. Because Indian culture at the time did not record written accounts of their history, much of the information comes from records of white, Euro-American writers. Different tribes along the route of the Oregon Trail mentioned in pioneer diaries included Pawnee, Arikara, Cheyenne, Comanche, Sioux, Arapaho, Oto, Kansa, Bannock, Shoshone, Paiute, Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Wasco. Though some of these cultures had sub-groups, they were frequently assigned some common name in emigrant writings. Variations in languages and customs further confused emigrants as they encountered different tribes along the 2,000 mile journey.
Paranoia regarding Indians was rampant. However, most emigrants soon found that Indians were more interested in peaceful trading than violence. Food was often the primary impetus, with Indians supplying emigrants with much needed supplies. Indians sought clothing, firearms, and small items such as mirrors, tin cups, fish hooks, or metal tools. Emigrants often employed Indians to herd livestock, act as guides, or assist in river crossings. On the eastern half of the trail, some Indians operated toll bridges and ferries. On the western half of the journey, emigrants came to look forward to trading for salmon in Southern Idaho, and buying fresh produce from Cayuse in the Grande Ronde Valley and Umatilla River region.
A study included in John Unruh's book The Plains Across estimates 362 emigrants and 426 Indians were killed as a result of altercations on the Trail between 1840 and 1860. Most violence and fatalities came from small skirmishes due to paranoia, retaliation, or theft. Indians did not attack full speed at circled wagons or large wagon trains as frequently scripted in Hollywood productions. As accomplished military strategists, natives realized they would be at a disadvantage in such an encounter. Violent attacks on small, isolated trains or individuals did see a rise after the 1850s, as native hostility grew towards whites. The dramatic rise in white settlers caused consternation. Indiscriminate killing of unsuspecting Indians by nervous or retaliatory pioneers caused resentment and suspicion. Growing mortality from new diseases introduced by settlers caused fear. And settlers' disrespect of sacred grounds and customs caused anger. Sensational incidents such as the Whitman Massacre in 1847, the 1854 attack on the Ward wagon train, and the 1860 Otter-Van Orman attack received wide publicity. Dramatic battles between settlers, natives, and the U.S. military increased after the 1860s and gained legendary status in American culture.
The brutal aspects of Indian-emigrant relations and the cultural clash as settlers moved into native lands has wider notoriety than the peaceful, undramatic trading and visiting that records show was common. During the time of the Oregon Trail migrations, Indian tribes were involved with inter-tribal trading and warfare, and economic and technological changes, as well as the social and political friction that resulted from the rapid population increase of new settlers. The story of individual tribe's efforts to maintain their culture and lifestyle during these decades of drastic change is far more complex than can be portrayed by circled wagons and whooping warriors. Most emigrants completed their journey without any such incident, finding that respect, kindness, and caution generally elicited a similar response from natives, while violence and disrespect would be returned.
What books would you recommend on the Oregon Trail?
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West John Unruh. University of Illinois Press. 1979.
A comprehensive study of the Overland Trail experience based on extensive research of primary source documents. Covers most major subjects, and is a reliable, accurate, and well-balanced presentation on history of the Oregon and California Trails. Considered by most Oregon Trail scholars to be the premier work on this subject.
The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie Merrill J. Mattes. University of Nebraska Press. 1969.
Focuses on the stretch of trail which followed the Platte River through Nebraska, but includes detailed information about emigrant experiences, significant trail events and dates, and trail landmarks.
The Overland Migrations Handbook 105, Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington D.C. 1979. Text written by David Lavender.
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A sure sign of someone who may be suffering from major depression, is someone who is an emotional eater. Especially if the person eats when they are feeling sad, anxious, angry etc.
Women tend to do this a lot. We eat our way through our depressions and sometimes don't even recognize what we're doing until 20 pounds later. The food acts much like a drink of alcohol or a drug would - it medicates you temporarily but then only exacerbates the original problem.
So what do you do? Most antidepressants increase your appetite. Diets haven't worked. Well, you need to try and get to the emotional core of things and try to offer yourself alternatives and choices to eating.
Tips to try and end eating your way through your depression...
1. Get Moving. Try some sort of exercise routine. Something that has a mental/phsical connection is even better. Thai Chi. Yoga. Pilates. But whatever you do will work...running, walking, dancing, floorwork.
2. Delay Eating. Your hand is on the snack drawer, what do you do? Stop and think about it for 5 to 10 minutes. Can you rationalize eating this snack? Is it healthy? Is it really caloric, sweet, or salty? Can you wait until later? If you delay and think about what you are about to put into your mouth, you may walk away entirely.
3. Start writing. Get out your journal or a plain piece of writing paper and start jotting down your feelings. How do you feel right now? Are you anxious, bored, angry? This will help you make a connection between your eating and your feelings. And give you something else to do!
4. Find another oral fixation. Find something else to keep your mouth busy while doing mindless things like watching t.v. Drink water. Suck on a sugarless lollypop. Chew on a ginger stick. Chew gum.
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For Silvio Wolf, photography is a way to explore abstraction and the physical limits of image-making. His conceptually driven photographic work is centered on ideas of visual perception and metaphor, as in the “Horizons” series, where he used the unexposed ends of film rolls as negatives, creating vivid bands of color with a stark division between dark and light, or in other pieces utilizing mirrored surfaces to recast light. Only recently, he has begun exploring the human figure, in a series of black-and-white images that highlight negative spaces as bodies pass through curtains. In addition to photography, Wolf works in installation, creating abstract patterns in black-and-white marble dust, printed canvases, and projections on urban environments. His work has been shown widely, including at Aktuell (1983), Documenta VIII (1987), and the 2009 Venice Biennale.
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In the journal Science (July of 2013), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geophysicist William L. Ellsworth concluded that a number of large earthquakes in the central US were a result of the wastewater injection process used in hydraulic fracking. However, he also said that only a small percentage of fracked wells produce earthquakes, indicating that drilling practices could be changed to lessen the possibility of fracking earthquakes.
Ellsworth’s article in Science explained how fluids injected into deep wells are common practice for wastewater disposal. It weighed recent events and scientific challenges regarding how to assess fracking and earthquakes and the possibility of reducing associated risks.
Judging from recent news stories, Ellsworth is one of many scientists who believe there is a link between fracking and earthquakes.
Reuters reported that Oklahoma experienced 238 earthquakes - 100 were 3.0 on the Richter scale or higher - between January and November of 2013. Yet only three earthquakes occurred in that state between 1991 and 2008. Between 2000 and 2012, fracking increased by 50 percent. The USGS recorded 450 earthquakes in the central and eastern US of more than 3.0 on the Richter scale in the three years between 2010 and 2013. About 20 quakes of that degree were recorded between 1970 and 2000 - 30 years.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources told Reuters it has issued new guidelines for drilling operations in that state that are designed to limit the potential of quakes. And NBC News reported that the likelihood of fracking-induced quakes has convinced Ray Beiersdorfer, a geologist at Youngstown State University in Ohio, that oil and gas drillers should be required to put up a bond to cover potential damage.
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And if a recent anti-fracking verdict is anything to go by, fracking earthquake lawsuits may soon have their day in court. Recently, a Texas jury awarded a couple $3 million who claimed that fumes from a drilling site made them sick.
Meanwhile, a group of Los Angeles council members have demanded an investigation into whether fracking could have caused a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in the Santa Monica Mountains on March 17 of this year. The area, which is close to LA, is also close to oil extraction activities. The council voted to ban fracking, citing the risk of earthquakes amongst other fracking concerns. | <urn:uuid:a49e3e2a-583a-423f-a035-ce73e9362eeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/legal-news/hydraulic-fracturing-water-contamination-epa-fracking-hydrofracking/hydraulic-fracturing-water-contamination-14-19921.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.964497 | 474 | 3.390625 | 3 |
State-backed child savings accounts should be introduced in the US to help pay poorer students’ tuition fees because soaring debt levels are deepening social inequality, a new study says.
In the latest suggestion for a radical break from the federal borrowing model to fund higher education, academics at the University of Kansas argue for a new “asset-based” financial aid system to encourage families to save for their children’s college educations.
It comes as US states increasingly consider alternatives to help fund students’ higher education, such as Oregon legislators’ approval of a pilot scheme that is similar to a graduate tax.
In the study, titled Student Loans are Widening the Wealth Gap: Time to Focus on Equity, William Elliott and Melinda Lewis from Kansas’ School of Social Welfare say that the creation of savings schemes, in which private contributions are matched by the state, would allow graduates to escape higher education relatively debt-free.
Not only would this initiative cut overall student debt levels – currently about $1.1 trillion (£600 million) – but it would help to address social inequality exacerbated by heavy student indebtedness.
For instance, the study reports that the net worth of a household containing a college graduate with student debt is $186,000 less, on average, than a household containing a graduate with no debt, even when loan arrears are discounted.
With a college education widely seen as a “downpayment on the American dream” and “the necessary price to pay for access to promising employment opportunities”, these marked inequalities in graduate outcomes threaten to destabilise the central economic principle of the nation, the report says.
“Higher education plays a critical role in the US economy, creating a ladder of economic opportunity for American children, especially for those in poverty,” it states.
If the education system increases rather than reduces inequalities, it will be a major disincentive for Americans to pursue education or, for some, even to pursue employment, it notes.
The proposed saving scheme is similar to the now-abolished Child Trust Fund in the UK, which was introduced by Labour in 2005 and allocated at least £250 for each baby born since 1 September 2002.
Similar match-funded saving schemes are available for children in North Dakota, Nevada and San Francisco. But powerful players in the student loans business will make it difficult to shift the focus away from a debt culture, the report says.
Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest private student loan lender, reported a net profit of $939 million for 2012, while in 2011 the US Department of Education spent $1.4 billion to pay collection agencies to track down borrowers who are delinquent or in default, the report states.
“This substantial profit creates an incentive structure for some actors, such as the…US Department of the Treasury, commercial banks, and politicians…to maintain the current system of financing college and even expand it when possible,” the report declares.
But “if the American dream is to have real meaning for today’s young people, it should not require mortgaging one’s financial future in pursuit of education”, the report concludes. | <urn:uuid:2949dd5a-16c0-4397-9d35-594ec8c03d6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/state-backed-child-savings-scheme-in-us-would-tackle-debt-and-inequality-says-study/2009504.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00479-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950735 | 656 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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High-fat meals can dramatically increase the blood concentrations of CBD, which can increase the risk of side effects. More generally, marijuana-derived CBD products are not yet legal at the federal level but are legal under the laws of some states. CBD oil comes in many different strengths, and people use it in various ways. Makers of CBD oil use different methods to extract the compound.
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In this article, we discuss how CBD products can help relieve chronic pain. We also provide a list of potentially effective CBD products that have undergone extensive third-party safety testing. In 2015, a report was released from Israel on the results of patients with cancer using cannabis for pain. Over the last few decades, medical researchers have been forced to recognize that inflammation plays a much greater role in disease and illness than we previously suspected.
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They also said that cannabinoids block the release of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters on the presynaptic side of nerve endings. That’s why so many people are using them for joint pain and chronic conditions such as arthritis. Human and animal studies have shown that CBD might be useful in alleviating arthritis symptoms, such as pain, inflammation, anxiety, and sleep problems. Full-spectrum CBD oil contains all phytonutrients from hemp, including trace amounts of THC, terpenes, flavonoids, amino acids, and essential oils. These compounds work together to intensify the therapeutic benefits of each cannabinoid, resulting in the “entourage effect”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDoe1qfMEs
However, the placebo effect may help some individuals experience less pain after taking CBD. “THC activates certain cannabinoid receptors, one of which is in the nerve cells and the other is in the immune cells. When it activates the one in the nerve cells, it reduces the sensation of pain,” he adds. Here’s what experts say about the differences between THC and CBD for pain relief. Medical marijuana has plenty of benefits, but not everyone can get their hands on proper medicinal-grade marijuana due to legalities, inability to get a prescription, or the high price of this plant. However, hemp, the “cousin” of marijuana comes to the rescue with CBD.
The compound has gained popularity in the self-medication field and even recreational activities among teens and young adults! Many arthritis sufferers believe that they can predict changes in the weather based on the severity of their arthritis symptoms. Simple dietary changes can also help to improve your arthritis symptoms. Adding omega-3 fatty acids to your diet can support your immune system and bone health.
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With the research presented, CBD may be able to assist those in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s to retain the ability to recognize the faces of people they know. The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease published a study in 2015, which indicated that CBD might have many beneficial qualities for those suffering from this specific disease. Due to the molecular structure of CBD, it was found that this compound may have the ability to prevent the development of a social recognition deficit. Studies associated with Alzheimer’s involving traditional healthcare treatments are very preliminary.
CBD creams and salves are gaining popularity for alleviating pain in a particular joint or area. Topical preparations of CBD for joint pain, arthritis, and muscle soreness can provide hours of relief. Currently, the only CBD product approved by the Food and Drug Administration is a prescription oil called Epidiolex used to treat epilepsy. Although CBD is currently being studied as a potential treatment for other conditions like Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes, the research is limited.
Another key element in this company’s benefit arsenal is its wide variety of dosage amounts, ranging from 100g – 3500mg, respectively. They also provide the option of Daily Doses provided in premeasured dropped for those looking to ingest oil on-the-go. Providing a 6000mg high-potency formula, Lazarus Naturals touts a variety of flavors and is easily used as an ingestible or topical option. This allows for not only greater CBD product versatility but also one that will last for a significant amount of time, depending on usage. Made with all organic ingredients, NuLeaf CBD oil uses whole-plant CO2 extraction for its manufacturing process.
Users can apply this cream to painful areas as many times as needed. The cream is completely plant-based with moisturizing ingredients such as paraffin and mineral oil. Studies are too limited to determine whether or not CBD is an effective treatment for conditions other than the ones approved by the U.S. When edible cbd gummy bears CB2 receptors are triggered, they stimulate a response that fights inflammation, reducing pain, and minimizing damage to tissues. Anxiety, vomiting, nausea, and pain are typical neuropathic symptoms, as reiterated in a study on painful peripheral neuropathies, which was published in Current Neuropharmacology.
Although CBD and THC are different and with varying effects that could both potentially benefit athletes, there is an association of one to the other, especially in the world of sports. When turning to CBD as an athlete, be sure to always turn to reliable products and companies with accurate label claims and third-party lab test results. Though all CBD products, full-spectrum induced, should have a THC threshold of 0.3% or less, always be sure to double check label claims and rely on transparent companies who operate with your care in mind. One such CBD company is Tribe CBD, crafting the highest-quality CBD products with the active lifestyle in mind.
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CBD as pain relievers are the game changers in the market, even medical practitioners are eager in doing research about this track. Silver Sage Wellness prides itself on putting the patient first. Ask about our CBD and marijuana oils and which one may be right for you. Find out about some of the best CBD pills and capsules on the market, and learn how to choose a quality product.
And for those with extreme THC sensitivities, undergo drug testing for amounts of THC or are on medications that may negatively interact with THC may want to opt for a broad-spectrum extract. Most research on the effects of CBD for pain specifically noted that participants that used higher doses (50 mg +) felt more relief from pain. However, how much CBD is right for one person can look much different for someone else.
Nabilone , is a synthetic dimethylheptyl analogue of THC that displays greater potency and prolonged half-life. It was also primarily developed as an anti-emetic in chemotherapy, and was recently re-approved for this indication in the USA. Prior case reports have noted analgesic effects in case reports in neuropathic pain and other pain disorders .
Green Roads also delivers on quantity with a bottle containing 300mg of CBD oil for a very affordable cost. One of the few gel options on the market, Hemp Bombs Pain gel, has a very light texture that avoids any oily residue after application. This triple -medicating bio-coolant is specifically designed for joint and arthritis pain relief. The gel formula provides a high rate of bioavailability and makes this one of the most effective choices for topical application. Though it comes with only 200mg of CBD, it is highly effective and matches its price point bringing a great deal of value.
CBD is able to interact with the ECS by binding to two different receptors in our nervous system, known as CB1 and CB2. One of the most praised applications of CBD in athletics is CBD creams, for their ability to offer site-specific relief. Join PotGuide as we take a deeper look at how CBD creams and topicals interact with muscle recovery and pain management. For pain relief, he recommends a dose of 15mg THC (0.0005 oz) to 15 mg CBD.
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Among the many patients I’ve treated for nerve pain, the vast majority have found relief by using internal forms of CBD – oral, sublingual, or inhaled. For patients suffering from overwhelming, breakthrough pain, inhaled formulations of CBD such as vape pens, provide the fastest-acting relief but aren’t long-lasting. Often, patients suffering from nerve pain find that a combination of capsules or tinctures for longer-lasting relief combined with vape pens for immediate pain relief provides the best overall results. And, the most important role that CBD plays in helping to reduce muscle pain is to reduce inflammation.
Some people prefer to smoke the plant via vaporizers, others prefer edibles or tinctures. Realistically, it seems that there is still ongoing research to create any definitive statement on how marijuana use can impact the opioid addiction epidemic. Still, it has shown success for a substantial number of patients, suggesting that researchers may be onto a new trend. In the meantime, any pain relief regimen should be discussed with a medical professional to get the best results.
In this two-phase study, some participants took a combination of two compounds. In addition, rats who received 62.3 mg/day had similar Are delta 8 gummies legal? outcomes to the rats that received 6.2 mg/day. Receiving a substantially larger dosage didn’t result in them having less pain.
The amount of CBD in a topical application should closely mirror the price and affordability of the selected product. If the topical lotion contains a significantly lesser amount of CBD compared to the price, other options may be better suited for you. Similar to other CBD gummy options, there are multiple gummies to choose from in terms of both use, flavor, and dosage.
The cannabis plant contains phytocannabinoids like CBD that interact with our ECS, which is why hemphas therapeutic properties. ShikaLife’s 120,000-mg hemp oil is organic, with all ingredients coming from the United States. The company states that the oil can be used for helping with joint and muscle pain because it can calm strained muscles and lower inflammation. Other benefits include increased focus, helping with insomnia, and moisturizing the skin. Studies have documented CBD oil as a potentially effective treatment for chronic pain conditions that are challenging to treat, such as neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis , and intractable cancer pain. Although CBD appears effective in alleviating neuropathic pain caused by conditions such as cancer or stroke, there are many different types of neuropathy, and more research is needed.
Menthols and other cooling substances within them effectively work to “trick” our neuroreceptors for a while, so that we don’t experience the pain from soreness. What might appear as a reduction of inflammation from the product might actually be our bodies working normally to reduce inflammation while we’re distracted. Whether you’re dealing with acute or chronic pain, anyone can enjoy CBD’s many benefits. In our guide, we went to great lengths to find our readers some of the top brands that make the best CBD oils for pain. A host of verified customer reviews, articles from CBD journalists and industry experts, and other reasons we’ve presented above are why we’ve selected FAB CBD as our top brand for CBD oil for pain. Not surprisingly, Joy Organics , made it to the number two spot in our deeply researched list of CBD oil brands.
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If you want good-value CBD gummies, then cbdMD is one of the best options available. Plus, almost all ingredients are organic – so you’re getting a good deal without skimping on quality. Charlotte’s Web is one of the best-known brands in the CBD space. The company is known for its high-quality and appropriately high prices. Charlotte’s Web offers three variations in their CBD Gummies lineup, including Calm , Sleep , and recovery (with ginger, turmeric, and other anti-inflammatories).
While it doesn’t work for everyone, it might work for you if you figure out how to use CBD for pain in your own way. With all methods, the common downfall is wavering dosage guidelines. Measures can change depending on a number of factors including age, weight and reason for use, however resounding guidance from experts is to ‘go low and slow’. Start with just a few milligrams twice a day, and if relief is inadequate after one week, increase the dose by the same amount, in small increments over several weeks if needed. However, research is still ongoing to determine whether these products deliver CBD below the skin. This content is for informational and educational purposes only.
Ever since the discovery of CBD, it has shown positive signs for helping people. Plenty of research has been done on how CBD may treat a variety of conditions. That is why you see many drug companies pushing CBD to help many people suffering from pain and inflammation. CBD creams offer localized pain relief, as these are applied to the affected area.
However, with the easy-to-use site, potential discounts, and varying strengths of CBD oil, shopping with Extract Labs is more than worth the effort. The CBD oils on the Extract Labs site are available in the flavors Lemon, Raspberry, Banana Foster, and Original. Along with a variety of CBD oil options, Extract Labs also offers several discount opportunities. For example, by simply providing an email address, new clients can save up to 15% off their purchase price.
A separate study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine supports these results. This research suggests that using CBD can reduce pain and inflammation. According to the National Centers for Complementary and Integrative Health , some evidence suggests that cannabis or CBD could have modest benefits for chronic pain. Most CBD oil comes from industrial hemp, which usually has a higher CBD content than marijuana.
CB1 receptors are found in the brain and central nervous system. CB2 receptors show up in peripheral systems and tissues, like our immune and digestive systems. Our Supporting partners are active champions who provide encouragement and assistance to the arthritis community. Since the needs of the juvenile arthritis community are unique, we are currently working with experts to develop a customized experience for JA families. Now is the time to make your voice count, for yourself and the entire arthritis community. Buy from companies that test each batch and provide a certificate of analysis from an independent lab that uses validated standardized testing methods approved by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia , the U.S.
Sticks and balms work extremely well on specific joints including hands and wrists but they take about 10-20minutes to have an effect. Tinctures are absorbed slowly through the digestive Tintura de aceite CBD track so their effect may not be felt for an hour or more. Enthusiasts rave about CBD’s potential to ease pain, reduce inflammation, relieve anxiety and promote sleep.
Containing CBD isolates from European hemp, Hemps Bomb is a unique blend of CBD oil. One of its primary benefits is its availability in some of the highest strengths on the market. With a more palatable flavor than other brands and touting the potential to provide up to 4000mg, Hemp Bombs provides of the highest quality oils available on the market.
You’ll find gummies, full-spectrum oils, gel capsules, honey sticks, and even pet products. As for the CBD topicals and creams, they’re everything we could wish for and more. Let’s start out strong with one of our all-time favorite brands 一 Royal CBD. This manufacturer offers CBD products made from the purest, most potent hemp on the market. Upon browsing through its website, you’ll notice that the hemp is organic and free from any GMOs.
It is good for you if you have migraines, anxiety, inflammation or chronic pain. Using CBD products for pain relief offers an alternative for those who rely on pain medication. CBD has been assessed over the years for how well it works to relieve chronic pain. The various pains that were assessed included cancer pain, neuropathic pain, and fibromyalgia.
Nociceptive results from tissue damage and the more general “other” type of pain have no clear source, perhaps stemming from neurological dysfunction. When people smoke or eat cannabis products to get “high” or “stoned”, it’s the THC in the cannabis that gives them the desired effect. THC is a psychoactive substance that can leave users temporarily impaired.
Easily one of the most popular CBD brands on the market, and featured in the first ever CBD documentary, Charlotte’s Web plant-based cannabinoid offers 3 flavors to choose from. This product is designed for the seasons CBD user who want to kick it up a notch. Buyers should also look for clearly labeled options that provide the amount of CBD contained as well as any indication as to the amount of THC included in the product. Companies that assert sweeping health claims or promise extreme results would not be considered the best choice for those starting CBD treatment. Though it is often considered to be the equivalent of marijuana, CBD is a different component of the cannabis plant.
Cytokines, like TNFα, plays a significant role in pain and inflammation responses. TNFα can trigger a cascade of reactions with other cytokines that lead to increased production of the protein cyclooxygenase-2 and the cytokine prostaglandin E2 . Adenosine A2A receptors regulate overactive immune cells resulting in tissue protection.
While CBD from marijuana and hemp has a lawful status for recreational and medicinal use in Canada, in the US, it may differ. After the Farm Bill passage in 2018, CBD derived from hemp with less than 0.3% THC is legal. But, CBD derived from marijuana or hemp with more than 0.3% THC comes under controlled substances. Since laws differ from state to state, you need to double-check it.
Pet-friendly CBD oil tinctures are also available for as little as $31.99 per bottle. Another advantage of using Bloom Hemp is the easy access to analysis certificates. Unlike most other sites that require navigation and inputting of codes, Bloom Hemp has helpfully included batch codes that lead directly to the certificate of analysis of each product. The cheapest CBD oil presented by Bloom Hemp costs only $39.99 for a 600mg strength bottle, whereas the 1200mg strength CBD oil tincture retails for $59.99. In addition, to ensure that clients can afford their products, Bloom Hemp provides a 15% discount once a customer signs up for a subscription program. While there aren’t many flavors to choose from, the free shipping and affordable prices make this factor a non-issue.
It works by interacting with the endocannabinoid system — a series of hormones and receptors that help regulate over a dozen core processes in the human body. The active compounds in the cannabis plant are very similar to the naturally-produced hormones involved with our endocannabinoid system. CBD oil is a combination of a CBD extract, with a carrier oil to help dissolve and store the CBD. Most CBD oils use carrier oils like MCT oil, or hemp seed oil — which is then combined with CBD isolate, or full-spectrum hemp extract rich in CBD and other similar cannabinoids. Joy Organics holds the reputation of one of the most reputable CBD vendors in the industry. The company was established by a woman named Joy Smith, who has been using CBD oil to manage her problems with pain and sleep.
When people think of cannabis, they often think of the high that is associated with smoking it. That high, however, is produced by psychoactive elements in THC. These are just a few examples of the ways CBD oil can impact pain. As research continues, it is likely that we will discover more and more ways that CBD is able to regulate pain. Research suggests that CBD can bind to some CB2 receptors but it seems that in most instances, the benefits of CBD occur indirectly through the activation of non-cannabinoid receptors.
Fibromyalgia is a potentially debilitating condition that causes widespread muscle tenderness, pain, and fatigue. Related to arthritis, fibromyalgia can make even simple activities difficult or impossible. A chronic condition, fibromyalgia can be treated, but not cured. Like many chronic conditions, pain management for fibromyalgia is often difficult and may involve heavy pharmaceuticals.
You don’t need to have pinpointed to root cause of your pain to possibly experience relief from the symptoms. If pain is caused by stress, your central nervous system is at the core of that response. Headaches, tight muscles and aggravation of chronic inflammatory conditions can be caused by stress. These are all symptoms that can potentially be avoided or lessened through the use of CBD oil. As mentioned, the criteria for the best CBD oils possible depends on several factors. These factors include the reputability of the source, the ingredients used, the extraction process, and the final price of the product.
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In The Falling Star Repairman, young Marcus learns he has a special talent and is mentored by the last falling-star repairman in the galaxy.
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, July 26, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Briley & Baxter Publications is thrilled to announce the release of the children’s book, The Falling Star Repairman, by author Candido Bretto, with illustrations by Maddy Moore, available on August 9, 2022, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online retailers.
As children look up into the night sky, their imaginations are illuminated by the millions of stars they see and cannot see. And thanks to young Marcus, the night sky is as bright as ever.
In The Falling Star Repairman, Marcus discovers he has special talents, even as a young boy, mentored by Elmer, the last falling-star repairman in the galaxy, Marcus uses his gifts to save all of humanity – they keep the night sky filled with starlight.
Their special friendship celebrates the power of connection, special gifts and caring for others. This beautifully illustrated book allows readers of all ages to consider the possibility they themselves may possess a hidden power that has yet to be discovered. Who knows, they might save the world someday.
“Creating this book was a total joy! The inspiration behind Elmer’s character is Elmer Mendes of Duxbury, MA,” said Bretto. “In my youth, I recall seeing Elmer perched on his bike at the First Congregational Church in Marshfield center, waving at folks and ringing his bell as they passed by.”
About the Author:
Candido Bretto is an African American/Cape Verdean American music producer, songwriter and musician. He grew up in the seaside town of Marshfield, MA in a musical family. After graduating high school, Bretto earned a Certificate of Study from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. In 2019, Bretto released the album Rockin’ The Secrets of Plymouth Rock, featuring 28 students from six Plymouth, MA public elementary schools. He enjoyed teaching toddler through sixth-grade music at Bay Farm Montessori Academy (BFMA) in Duxbury, MA. BFMA students enjoyed participating in drama, and Bretto enjoyed teaching them the songs they sang on stage in musicals. Earlier in his career, he landed a rewarding job at Woodward School for Girls in Quincy, MA, teaching music to grades six through twelve. It was there he saw the awesome power of music theory positively affect the lives of adolescents.
About Briley & Baxter Publications
Based in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Briley & Baxter Publications was founded by award-winning author Stacy Padula. Briley & Baxter Publications works with authors in a variety of genres, including non-fiction, young adult, children’s, science fiction, self-help and inspirational. Their books are available through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Target, Walmart, iTunes and other major distributors. Each month, ten percent of publishing royalties are donated to different animal rescue organizations.
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BLM panel weighs GPS treasure-hunt activity in conservation area
The Bureau of Land Management wants adventurers to leave no trace of their hunts for geocaches in the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area, but an advisory group says there ought to be a little leeway.
The bureau is working on the first-ever resource management plan for the area south and east of Grand Junction for the treasure-hunting activity. Its preferred alternative calls for geocaching to be limited to the virtual variety, or searches that result in participants taking photos of themselves with recognizable locations they find using geocaching directions.
It’s not nearly as esoteric an activity as it might seem, said Katie Steele, who leads the resource advisory council for the conservation area, and a geocaching participant.
“It’s worldwide,” Steel said. “Basically it’s a hobby where you’re using billion-dollar satellites to find a piece of Tupperware.”
When she sets a geocache, she likes to leave a page or two of historical information for participants in a Tupperware container, which they hide somewhere and then provide clues on where to find it, Steele said.
The advisory council would like to leave that option available on the conservation area, except for the wilderness.
BLM is suggesting the wilderness rules for the entire conservation area.
The advisory council, which met Monday in the old Mesa County Courthouse, 544 Rood Ave., decided to continue discussions on the rules for geocaching.
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The following section contain examples of wills drafted to meet a variety of common situations. They cover such matters as appointments of testators and guardians, legacies to executors, grandchildren or friends and various gifts of residue. In addition, each will gives an indication of different funeral wishes so as to illustrate how to express what you want.
Each will is written as if drawn up by a man. If you are a woman leaving a gift to your husband, just substitute the word 'husband' for the word 'wife' and the word 'executor' for the word 'executrix' where appropriate in the sample text. Remember also to change 'his' to 'her' in the attestation clause.
At each point where a person is named as executor or beneficiary you should insert his or her full name and address.
It would be impossible to give an example of each and every type of will a testator may wish to make. It is, therefore, possible that you will need to amend some of the clauses or swap clauses between wills.
You must have:
1. The heading i.e. 'This is the last will and testament [etc.
2. The clause revoking former wills.
3. The appointment of executors.
4. A clause giving the residue of your estate to a beneficiary or group of beneficiaries.
5. The 'in witness' statement which includes the date.
6. The attestation clause, i.e. 'signed by the said [etc]'.
In between the appointment of executors and the residue clause, you may wish to add a gift of money or a specific object, such as your car, to a named beneficiary. You may also wish to appoint a guardian or guardians for your children. After the residue clause and before the 'in witness' statement, you may wish to insert your funeral wishes.
Remember to authorise your executors to pay for a memorial if you want one.
Remember that these wills are intended for people with very straightforward affairs. Do not attempt to set up any complicated trust arrangements. The only trust set out in the sample wills is a very simple trust to provide for your pet's welfare after your death.
Do not try and change this to apply to your spouse or children.
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Today, having an MBA opens doors to opportunities for employment in nearly every field including logistics, finance, and finance. But, finding work following graduation isn’t always an automatic outcome. Prior to completing their studies students need to ensure that they make sure that their curriculum is aligned with their professional goals.
What does an MBA mean?
The Master of Business Administration or MBA is a favored MBA degree for graduate students that helps students develop technical as well as managerial and management capabilities. The achievement of an MBA provides you with an invaluable business perspective, broadens your professional circle, and opens up new opportunities.
MBAs can be a lucrative career because their earnings structure from the beginning of their field is much more than that of normal Master’s students. The process of gaining management jobs becomes easier when you have the MBA diploma on your CV. With an MBA students’ sphere of networking expands.
It begins with their immediate professors, teachers, and instructors going directly to potential employers and commercial enterprise associates and coworkers moving directly to business enterprise partners as well as collaborators in the last phase. MBA is a professional program, MBA has scope for students to gain the knowledge and experience of MBA graduates, as well as become familiar with standards of the industry in terms of business communication and business models.
Also, check out Executive MBA in India by IIT Bombay and Washington University in St. Louis is a joint degree EMBA course for working professionals and entrepreneurs.
Why should you choose an MBA?
Every scholar does not pursue any course without having a reason. There are many reasons to pursue a particular course. Before stepping into the work opportunities after an MBA and professional advancement it is important to comprehend and understand the reason for taking one’s MBA course.
- In the current scenario, there are many students who choose MBA courses to gain the skills necessary to begin a business.
- MBA provides a professional start. It also opens the door to numerous opportunities for professional development and skills.
- Professionals who have experience can take MBA classes to change their careers.
- MBA programs offer the possibility of an evolving approach.
- MBA graduates will be equipped with the ability to build relationships within the business world.
- An MBA degree can bring brand benefits to the student.
- An MBA degree does not just enhance professional growth but also personal improvement.
- MBA graduates have a good possibility of working outside of their home country in order to gain sufficient exposure and comprehend the market trends in different regions.
From the above information, it’s evident that MBA provides a fantastic professional career path. Yet, MBA students have to improve their skills while studying the program.
Essential skills like the ability to communicate and proficiency in the language as well as a good understanding of the business world. are required to succeed in the field of management.
7 Best Career Opportunities in India for MBA In India:
MBA students must be provided with complete details about the job opportunities available following having an MBA within India. We can provide more specific information about the possibilities that are available following the completion of an MBA from India:
Banking & Finance:
This Banking & Finance area consists of protection and portfolio management and analysis of investments. MBA graduates may find work in insurance companies, banks as well as security firms, and numerous financial organizations.
The Investment Banking
Jobs in the investment banking sector are in excessive demand from the inside market. Personnel working in this area need to connect investors with fund-seeking organizations.
Information Systems Management
A degree in management of information systems demands more technologically sophisticated candidates. Candidates are aware of new and up-to-date technology to help the company better. They provide a thorough cost analysis to help in the selection of the best technology while working with management and economic departments.
If you’re skilled at solving problems Management consulting jobs are the best fit for you. Management consultants are experts who solve organizational problems. They are also responsible for the emergence of new concepts and innovative methods for solving problems.
In recent times the field of entrepreneurship has proven to be the top option among MBA graduates. MBA enhances the abilities of graduates to make them a businessperson. Experience is no longer a factor should you decide to be a business owner. Students require innovative and cutting-edge capabilities to succeed in the field of business.
Thanks to the advent of virtualization the massive amount of data is important for all types of commercial businesses including retail, e-commerce, banking, and management.
Similar to investment banking the financial acumen of a person can be seen when they are employed in a position that is linked with personal equity. Opportunities for work in this area are vast and have many possibilities. | <urn:uuid:cf087265-dbf5-4463-8418-53ed5331b0ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webrootcomsafe.com/2022/07/04/7-best-career-opportunities-after-mba-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.942335 | 971 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Some thoughts on kashrut, from an article appearing in this week's Toronto Torah:
Twenty years ago, a student asked me, “If G-d made a cow, and G-d made a pig, then why am I allowed to eat a cow, but not a pig?” The student was not asking about kashrut as a whole; he wanted to know how our Torah portion could identify particular creations of G-d as permanently impure and off-limits, while marking other Divine creations as pure and permitted. It’s a very old question, and its answer may provide insight into a deep message regarding human nature.
One classic answer is that G-d created certain animals for a purpose other than consumption; eating them would actually harm us. (Yoma 39a, Moreh haNevuchim 3:48) The danger may be physical, or metaphysical; we might even absorb moral character from the permitted and prohibited beasts. (Horeb 454) Each prohibited creature harbours an intrinsic threat.
Another traditional approach suggests that the creatures G-d formed are neither toxic nor beneficial. Nonetheless, G-d provided detailed dietary rules in order to improve our discipline. (Bereishit Rabbah 44:1; Moreh haNevuchim 3:26) Among the benefits of this discipline may be to perpetually recall Divine Truth (Ramban to Devarim 22:6) or to draw closer to G-d. (Maharal, Tiferet Yisrael 7) Each instruction further envelops the Jew in an all-encompassing life of law.
We might suggest a third idea, based on the Torah’s emphasis on distinguishing between kosher and non-kosher creatures (Vayikra 11:47), and the Talmud’s explanation of two verses in the book of Iyov.
Iyov complained to G-d, “If You wished [to make it so], I would not sin; but none can save from Your Hand.” (Iyov 10:7) The sage Rava expands, “Iyov sought to exempt the entire world from judgment. He said before G-d: Master of the Universe! You created the ox with split hooves and You created the donkey with sealed hooves! You created Gan Eden and You created Gehennom! You created righteous people and You created wicked people! Who can stop You?” (Bava Batra 16a) In other words, Iyov claimed that Man is like the beast, lacking the freedom to choose between the paths of good and evil. Just as a donkey’s sealed hooves mark it as non-kosher for life, so certain people are created as wicked, and they cannot shift their steps from the road to Gehennom. We enter this world bearing the label under which we depart.
With his mention of the ox and the donkey, Iyov identified a critical lesson of the Torah’s division of animals between kosher and non-kosher: the legitimacy of permanent labels. As our Torah portion states in summing up this division, “You are to distinguish between impure and pure, between the beast which may be consumed and the beast which may not be consumed.” (Vayikra 11:47) Every time she decides what to eat, the Jew is warned that there are permanent labels in this world. G-d created the good, and G-d created the malignant, and you are tasked – not only in eating but in life – with identifying the malignant and steering clear of its influence. Do not permit shifting cultural mores and claims of progress to sway your good judgment; among animals and among ideas, there is good which is timeless, and there is evil which is eternally so, and some labels never change.
However, the permanent labels of the animal kingdom are alien to human beings; it is an offense to G-d and Man to typecast any human being for life. As the Talmud interprets the response of Iyov’s visitor Eliphaz, “You would nullify reverence and reduce the study of Torah [sichah] before G-d!” (Iyov 15:4) Yes, human beings exhibit natural weakness, but G-d has provided the influence of Torah to rescue the human being from any depth to which she may sink. Our labels are as transient as we wish them to be.
We might add that the transient label even exists in the world of kashrut, when the human hand intervenes. All animals are non-kosher, until they undergo the shechitah rite of kosher slaughter. Then again, one can transform kosher meat to non-kosher by combining it with milk. Humanity is empowered to alter certain labels.
This may answer the question I was asked twenty years ago. The laws of kashrut teach that there are permanent labels and judgments in our world. However, these laws also demonstrate that labels of the descendants of Adam and Chavah are transient; it is possible for a human being, via Torah, to change her own label from non-kosher to kosher and back. Determining which labels should be transient, and how to alter them, is challenging, but may this moral lesson, which the Talmud sees in Iyov’s dialogue with Eliphaz, inspire us to examine, and alter where appropriate, the labels in our lives. | <urn:uuid:c116df42-0497-4bc6-9809-ec5a38301eec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rechovot.blogspot.com/2015/04/kashrut-of-labels-permanent-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00501-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948224 | 1,143 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Biotechnology is in many respects shaping our life and affecting our means of production and the creation of jobs. Progress in the applications of biotechnology depends on a wide base of basic as well as applied sciences. The output of biotechnology has already proved itself in many diverse fields from health to biomining and from agriculture to enzyme "breeding". It is therefore difficult to follow all of the current as well as the potential applications of biotechnology.
The objective of the Biotechnology Annual Review series is to attempt to provide readers with the needed indepth knowledge, by reviewing specific topics in biotechnology in each issue. The philosophy behind this series is to encourage good reviews to make it easier for readers to keep in touch with progress and applications of biotechnology. Reviews on topics related to regulatory affairs, social impact of biotechnology, biodiversity, biosafety, public acceptance and patent issues are also encouraged.
Drafts of the human genome were published in Science and Nature magazines, last year. The human genome as well as the other completed genomes can now be searched using different databases.
The exponential increase of the sequence data lead to the development of the new "Bioinformatics" field in order to attempt making sense, at least biological sense, out of all the new and fast data.
It will take also other techniques such as "functional genomics" to link the gap between a specific phenotype or a treatment and a gene sequence. Functional genomics tools are therefore important for the accurate molecular diagnosis/prognosis, target discovery and validation needed for drug development and novel targets for antibiotics development. Functional Genomics are also important for the confirmation of therapy in pharmacogenomics studies. Applications of functional genomics techniques are equally important for progress in biotechnology applications of plants, animals and other organisms. | <urn:uuid:3cdbcd29-063c-4703-8e34-4c6d17858bdc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780444510259 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945351 | 359 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Die Burg war für die Verwaltung des südlichen Zyperns von großer strategischer Bedeutung und diente zudem als Lager von Zucker, einem der wichtigsten Exportgüter Zyperns im Mittelalter. Die ursprüngliche Burg wurde wahrscheinlich im Jahre 1210 von fränkischen Truppen erbaut. Das Land wurde von König Hugo III an die Ritter des Ordens vom Hl. Johannes zu Jerusalem (Johanniter) übergegeben. Die heutige Burg wurde im Jahre 1454 von den Johannitern erbaut. Bewohner der Burg waren Richard I. von England, die Templer und die Johanniter. Heute sind von der Burg noch der Wohnturm und die ehemalige Zuckermühle, sowie Teile der umgebenden Mauern erhalten.
Goddess of love, blow us kisses! Cyprus is home to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of Love, who arose from the sea as a full-grown (and lovely) woman and sailed to shore in a seashell. It's also the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea with its geological origins in the fiery heat of volcanic eruption. The history of Cyprus begins as far back as the Neolithic Age of 7000 BC. Relics exist showing settlements to the north and south coastlines. The first Greeks came to the island around 1400 BC, Mycenaean merchants who brought Hellenistic influences with them. Between the time of the Greeks and the arrival of the Romans, Cyprus was conquered by Assyria, Egypt and Persia. Alexander the Great claimed Cyprus for his empire as of 333 BC, and it became part of the Roman Empire in 58 BC. It became the first country to be governed by a Christian when St. Paul experienced conversion there. After the fall of Rome Cyprus was annexed into the Byzantine Empire, with Constantinople for its capital. This situation lasted until Richard the Lion-Hearted arrived in 1191 on a Holy Crusade, conquered the island and sold it to the Templars. Since they were basically wiped out at the start of the 14th century, Cyprus turned to Catholic feudal control and stayed that way until 1571, when the Ottoman Empire invaded and took reign. With this came the expulsion of Catholicism, introduction of Islam and the return of Greek Orthodoxy. The Ottomans kept power until the end of WWI, when Britain assumed administrative duties over the island. As of 1925 it was declared a Crown colony, and in 1955 there began an armed rebellion against British rule. The Republic of Cyprus was granted independence by the British in 1960. It joined the European Union in 2004 although dispute remains over who controls it. Right now there are four sectors. The biggest one belongs to the Republic of Cyprus; Turkish Cypriots occupies one third of the island (to the North), the United Nations has control of the border between these two, and Britain hold two sovereign naval base areas. I'm not sure Aphrodite would approve of all these squabbles. Then again, she did have that brawl with Persephone over who got to live with Adonis the heartbreaker... Text by Steve Smith | <urn:uuid:eaf22a16-c775-4ee4-a9b7-a29240780b70> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.360cities.net/image/sugar-cane-factory-cyprus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.738853 | 696 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Castles and towers
Near the parish church, you cannot miss the castle complex, consisting of a square tower (12th century) and a more recent main building (15th century) with exquisite cross windows.
The castle was once the residence of the powerful D’Avise family and only in 1645 did it go to the de Blonay brothers, who changed its name. The ancient towers was known as “des Prisons”: in 1787 the nobleman Philip de Blonay claimed joint rights with other lords in Avise to imprison wrong-doers. The tower was sold to local families by the Bianco family of San Secondo, while the annexed building was taken away from the Blonay. | <urn:uuid:99d0e5f7-2bf2-4063-a8f9-3edf2f7b8f34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://balteus.lovevda.it/en/database/8/castles-and-towers/avise/blonay-castle/893 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.975317 | 158 | 2.34375 | 2 |
We speak of holistic periodontology when we look at the patient as a whole. So not just as the sum of the different parts (such as gums, periodontal ligament, root cement and jaw bone). In summary, holistic periodontology involves the entire individual. According to holism, everything is connected with each other. So we cannot analyze anything by looking at only part of the whole.
Periodontitis, for example, is associated with various conditions. Mouth bacteria from the pockets of periodontitis patients cause, among other things, heart valve infections, liver infections and brain infections. There is also a strong link between periodontal disease and pregnancy.
In Eyckholt oral center we therefore look at people around the mouth! Prof. Dr. Curd Bollen is therefore responsible for holistic periodontology.
Bacteria in the dental plaque cause gingivitis. Plaque can further calcify into tartar.
Gum infections can spread to the bone. The gums then come off: a gum pocket is created. The jawbone continues to disappear, causing the teeth to loosen.
But periodontal disease can nevertheless go unnoticed. Some characteristics are: red, limp, sensitive, swollen and also receding gums. We often see bleeding after brushing. A bad taste or bad breath can all in all indicate inflammation.
Only in an advanced stage of periodontal disease do pain complaints arise: on the one hand, the teeth becoming detached or on the other hand, the development of open spaces between the teeth (pockets). Also “elongation” or “sagging” of teeth is therefore a characteristic of periodontitis.
By this we mean the collection of the data of your current situation based on an X-ray on the one hand and a number of measurements on the other. In addition, we often also analyze a plaque sample under the microscope. We also take a medical anamnesis.
Planning + Budget
We draw up a tailor-made treatment plan:
– individualized treatment plan for gingivitis;
– customized total budget.
Before we start the treatment, we would like to see you for a follow-up interview. Firstly, we present the plan to you, secondly our advice and finally the budget. You will also receive answers to all your further questions. Finally, we also sign the informed consent and you will receive all guidelines and instructions.
Pockets ≤ 7mm: LASER THERAPY
We first remove dental plaque and tartar in the recessed pockets by thorough dental cleaning. We then disinfect the pockets by means of laser (diode laser) or ozone therapy (under local anesthetic).
Pockets > 7mm: OPEN CURETTAGE
In very deep or difficult to reach pockets, we immediately open the gums under local anesthetic. As a result, we clean everything to the bone under direct view. We also disinfect the tissues with ozone therapy.
Control (after 1 week)
After 1 week we then check the healing. You will also receive oral hygiene instructions.
Reassessment + Aftercare (after 2 months)
We repeat the measurements of the intake to evaluate the result of the treatment. We also check your oral hygiene. After all, we clean and polish your teeth on the other.
After this it is important to have your teeth cleaned regularly. Our oral healthcare or prevention assistant does this:
– remove all tartar, provided that tartar is present again;
– remove dental plaque from hard to reach places;
– polishing the teeth;
– as well as disinfection with ozone therapy or laser.
The pockets are also measured again once a year and all necessary measurements are therefore repeated.
Overall, some people may be more prone to periodontal disease:
– smoking: in short, periodontal disease is more common than in non-smokers. Smokers also respond less well to treatments at the same time.
– diabetes: among other things also increases the risk of periodontitis.
– stress: also suppresses the body’s defenses. This further increases the risk of periodontal disease. As a result, the adverse consequences of periodontal disease can of course also be greater.
Pregnancy, various diseases, but also medication can also influence periodontal disease.
So research has shown that mouth bacteria play an important role in the development of infections. For example, heart valve infections on the one hand, and infections of the liver, but also of the joints and the brain can arise from the mouth. This is where holistic periodontology comes into the picture.
It has therefore been shown that women with periodontal disease are more difficult to conceive for that reason. In addition, women with periodontal disease give birth faster (premature birth) and their children all in all have a too low birth weight. Erectile dysfunction can also be caused and aggravated by periodontal disease. | <urn:uuid:accdef02-75b2-4d94-aa76-eaac4ad24c8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mondcentrumeyckholt.nl/care-offer/holistic-periodontology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923382 | 1,058 | 2.53125 | 3 |
EL SEGUNDO, CA (PRWEB) April 05, 2013
Seeking the advice and knowledge of a professional helps Americans make the right choices to pull themselves out of a financial rut. GoBankingRates new Q&A series allows readers to gain perspective into their most troubling financial questions. Personal finance expert, Casey Bond, share her expertise on topics such as budgeting, saving money, mortgages, debt, and more.
The latest question asked by GoBankingRates Facebook follower, Shaunie W., is about how to budget when income is inconsistent. She advises, The solution is to change the timeline used for planning your finances from one month at a time to the full year.
Think about it: The same expenses pop up every year taxes, back to school shopping, Christmas, etc. but youre not planning for them until its really too late. Also, your income may fluctuate from month to month, but theres probably an average you can rely on, Ms. Bond continues.
Ms. Bond also provides a step by step guide that individuals with a fluctuating income can execute for a successful budgeting plan.
Read her full answer here.
For questions about this report or to schedule an interview with a GoBankingRates editor, please use the contact information below.
About Casey Bond
Casey Bond has been a professional within the finance industry for close to a decade. Today, Ms. Bond regularly appears on a number of major national publications in addition to GoBankingRates, including Business Insider, US News & World Report, and The Huffington Post. She can also be found on Yahoo Finance!, Fox Business, and LearnVest, as well as in Redbook and Style. Her highly-anticipated newsletter “Cents in the City” is set to launch in the second quarter of 2013.
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The phrase Happy - go - lucky is perhaps coined just to describe the Monkey . Monkeys crave fun, activity and stimulation. They always tend to have a good time .Sparkling wit and that rapier-sharp mind are their main strengths.Monkeys are natural entertainers.To add to it, Monkeys are also good listeners and tackle complicated situations with ease. This Sign's natural curiosity lends it the desire to become knowledgeable on a broad range of topics.The Monkey tends to get into trouble due to a certain lack of very high morals. This Sign's first interest is pursuing its own pleasure.
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it's just the way the Monkey is. However, this kind of carefree self-involvement can lead to all kinds of scrapes.In love and relationships, the Monkey makes a
fun, exciting lover but one that may have the potential to stray romantically. Monkeys might just be a bit too curious for its own good.The Monkey's love of self-indulgence can
also lead to other types of trouble. This Sign may have little self-control concerning food, alcohol and other pleasurable activities.Monkeys must try to learn to think of
others ahead of themselves, at least some of the time. This Sign's world will be more complete once it realizes the world doesn't revolve around it.
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Friendship is… a plaster cast
A year ago today, a friend came over and helped me create a plaster cast of my Breasts Version 1.6.*
*This is how I refer to the version of the breasts that I had. The .6 is from birth to puberty, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, (until slightly after my 51st birthday). The breasts that were reconstructed are breasts 2.0.
All versions are me / mine.
I do *not* regard my surgery as “the loss of my breasts” and I deeply resent that narrative. That narrative places a higher value upon secondary sex organs than the individual. Tumours and high-risk tissue were what were removed surgically – no loss involved, just change.
Over the years, my breasts have undergone many changes, this is just one more – admittedly, radical and surgical, but still, change, not loss.
Again, the important thing here is to focus on the language of the person who is central to the experience, which is to say, the person having the experience. If the loss is a narrative they need to explore, then support them. If it isn’t, then don’t overlay that narrative.
In addition, patients assert that the support extended to them is often inappropriate in nature, due to the mistaken assumption on the part of healthy individuals that the most salient concern of a mastectomized woman is the loss of her breast, rather than the fact that she has cancer.Breast cancer: Varied perceptions of social support in the illness experience
Language, frameworks, and terminology
Just a recap of some of the aspects of language and frameworks that I have found very important.
- The trouble with medicine’s metaphors
- Battle metaphors for breast cancer
- How Calling Cancer a ‘Fight’ or ‘Battle’ Can Harm Patients
- Let’s stop fighting cancer.
- Cancer lingo: How one person’s thoughtful metaphor can be another’s cliché
- Why you shouldn’t say someone lost their battle with cancer
- How not to say the wrong thing
I didn’t know at this stage that I was having a bilateral mastectomy on July 12th.
I just knew it would be July most likely, after I had declined the procedure in early June.
I felt like I wanted to create some art.
Plaster cast art
It could be seen as some kind of memento mori. At the time I wasn’t sure why I wanted a plaster cast of my breasts, I just knew that I did. It very much wasn’t about loss, it was about a physical marker of moving past cancer, the process of having cancer, and the whole experience.
One friend kept the ladder that broke his back for years. Various other friends have stones of some sort in jars. Perhaps it is human nature to want to create art around significant experiences.
The drive to create art, to celebrate what was and create space and dialogue for what was coming happened many times and kept happening.
I took photos of my Breasts 1.6 before the first biopsies. I have given them tosomef friends as presents.
Friendship is a plaster cast
I was exceptionally fortunate to have a friend that was willing to assist in making my plaster cast.
I ordered one of those pregnancy belly cast kits, and it worked well.
It does involve plaster, bandages, and bare breasts, so you have to be very comfortable in your friendship!
The kit comes with a large plastic sheet which we put over the recliner (a gift from another friend for recovery) and that meant that my friend could access all angles once we pulled the recliner into a position to create space on all sides.
It’s a messy process, and we thankfully also laid out covers on my bed which we were using as a workbench.
Brief aside – the recliner
A friend who had a complete hysterectomy due to cancer gave me her recliner.
Seriously, if you are having surgery of this nature (hysterectomy, mastectomy, reconstruction, stomach/chest/abdomen/torso surgery), get a recliner into your life.
I slept in mine for about 6 weeks after surgery, and then it’s been a massive help with the management of lymphoedema etc.
During chemo when I was completely fatigued, aching due to the lymphoedema, and/ or so miserable with nausea, reflux, stomach upsets etc, I would rest in it all day.
Art, Fun, Whimsy
When dealing with cancer, it’s easy to have tunnel vision. In some respects, you have to. You need to be hypervigilant, especially during chemo. The focus needs to be on your needs first. You have to become a self-advocate in terms of medical discussions. Being proactive will lead to much better results than being passive, in mental health alone.
Doing all of that serious adulting can cramp any sense of fun, whimsy, or mischief you might have.
Creativity, however that looks for you, is important in terms of your mental health and well-being. That might be gardening, it might be fine art, colouring-in, needlework, cooking – whatever that looks like, invest time and energy into nurturing it.
You might not be able to do whatever your normal creative outlet is.
For example, I like to write, and I do copperplate work with a fountain pen. Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral neuropathy took that away from me. It’s taken 6 months of fine motor rehabilitation work to regain or retrain that. Consequently, all my thank you notes have been delayed by 12 months and that’s ok. That’s the kind of flexibility and acceptance that the cancer experience demands.
However, it’s important to savour and celebrate that sense of wonder, fun, mischief, and whimsy.
What does creativity and whimsy look like?
This plaster cast activity was one thing I did.
Giving the photos to friends was another.
Collating a virtual album of photos of friends and family on Facebook helped in terms of creativity and connection (given that much of my cancer experience was during Melbourne lockdowns and I couldn’t see my Beloveds).
Watching comedy shorts on Facebook helped me find laughter.
Sitting outside in my back yard listening to the birds, watching the bees, and feeling the sun and the wind on my skin was another.
It’s going to look different for everyone, but the one thing my cancer experience has highlighted for me is how important that sense of play and creativity is.
What have you done in terms of play / creativity this week?
It may seem counter-intuitive, but schedule some time to make sure this happens regularly, however that looks for you.
Ensure that you are vigilant around your self-examination. Train yourself to check your breasts/testicles routinely, and monitor your bowel habits and your urine output. These are our body’s early warning signs, and we don’t have a lot of awareness of them.
Related blog posts
- Thursday 03rd June 2021 – the worst meltdown
- Sunday 30th May 2021: Cancer – telling your colleagues
- Friday 28th May 2021 (Cancer Journal 7)
- Friday 28th May 2021 Plastic Surgeon
- Wednesday 26th May 2021 Cancer Clinic
- Tuesday 25th May 2021 Left Breast Diagnosis
- Friday 21st May 2021: Biopsy, Left Breast
- Tuesday 18th May (Cancer Journal 6)
- Monday 17th May 2021 Arranging the biopsy
- Saturday 15th May 2021 (Cancer Journal 5)
- Wednesday 12th May 2021 (Cancer Journal 4)
- Friday 07th May 2021 (Cancer Journal 3)
- Cancer surgeon
- Sunday, 02nd May 2021 (Cancer Journal 2)
- Saturday May 01st 2021 ( Cancer Journal 1)
- Facebook post
- How to tell people you have cancer.
- Deciding strategies
- The Camus Question of Choice
- The Follow-up Tests
- The phone call.
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SARTELL – The Sartell-St. Stephen school board plans to add brick and mortar classrooms to Sartell Middle School this summer.
The roughly $845,000 project would add three classrooms to the middle school, which is beginning to see the bubble of student growth that is working its way through the elementary level.
"Our immediate need is the middle school for next year," Superintendent Mike Spanier said Monday night at a school board meeting.
District Business Manager Steve Wruck said a brick and mortar addition was the clear choice over portable classrooms.
Board president Michelle Meyer said the proposal was discussed at a facilities committee meeting and portables weren't really any cheaper than a permanent addition.
The classrooms would be placed at the end of the fifth-grade wing, Wruck said.
A floor plan passed around at the meeting showed three additional classrooms in renderings created last week by GLTArchitects.
Wruck said the addition likely would be paid for through a lease-levy. That is a levy the board has the ability to put in place without a public vote. A similar levy will likely be used in St. Cloud for classroom additions at three schools.
Over a 15-year period the estimated annual impact on a residential home in the Sartell district valued at $200,000 would be $9.66 per year. For a $500,000 home that would work out to $26.83 each year.
"Our goal is we'd like to have this go in for fall," Wruck said.
Wruck said building permits are up this year, another indicator of possible population growth. The kindergarten enrollment has been slightly lower over the last few years. Wruck attributed this to low birth rates during the recession.
District administration will move forward with planning Wruck said.
"It is a time factor. We really want to get going," member Mary McCabe said.
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Veterans Support Organization was started in Rhode Island in 2001, with a simple mission: establish a food bank for financially distressed or homeless veterans.
As time passed, though, we found that many veterans needed a lot more than just food. They came to us needing money to pay for utilities, homes, cars and other day-to-day expenses arising from their inability to find employment.
We gave them small grants, but these payments weren’t enough. These veterans returned month after month with more requests for financial assistance to keep a roof over their heads or to survive in homeless camps.
We realized that financial assistance alone would not resolve their problems. They needed training to maintain steady employment, housing to live comfortably, and self-confidence to believe in themselves again.
Too often, these hardworking men and women had their lives torn apart because they returned home to a tough economy or struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other stress conditions related to their military duty.
These programs are set up for veterans to help each other. They work together, often through teams, in gaining the employment training and life skills to become self-sufficient.
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On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 30, Alexander & Baldwin employees pulled on gloves, grabbed sifters and buckets, and set to work on Kalama Beach in Kailua. Seniors from two local high schools, Kailua High and Kalaheo High, joined in the beach cleanup efforts and earned grant support for their respective Project Grads from A&B’s Kokua Giving program.
This event was held in partnership with Kailua Beach Adventures and Kailua artist Leanna Wolff. Participants were encouraged to bring in old sunscreen containing reef-toxic chemicals such as oxybenzone and octinoxate, and swap them for reef-safe alternatives provided by Raw Elements.
A&B employees are all smiles at the beach clean-up! Many A&B employees brought their entire families out to help clean the beach.
Leanna Wolff, who A&B commissioned to create a painting for the Lau Hala Shops lobby, often incorporates beach microplastic into her artwork. The Lau Hala Shops painting will include several plastic pieces that A&B employees have collected from this Kalama Beach clean-up. This makes the painting even more special, as the piece will include some elements contributed by the heart and soul of A&B – our people.
There was an excellent turnout for the beach clean-up, with thirty employees bringing 35 friends and family members to help out. With the addition of the high school students and some members of the community, more than 100 people were in attendance!
It was astounding and sobering to see how much microplastic was hidden in the beach. The volunteers used sifters to strain the sand and pick out plastic and debris. Most of the plastic pieces were blue, green, or white, which Leanna explained is due to the fact that many marine animals, unfortunately, mistake the red or pink microplastic as shrimps and ingest them. The goal was to remove as much plastic as possible so it did not end up back in our ocean.
At the end of the beach clean-up, the volunteers enjoyed a delicious bento donated by A&B and their tenant Fatboy’s Kailua. In total, the volunteers collected over 160 pounds of plastic and waste. The plastic will be sent to Parley for the Oceans, a company that recycles ocean plastic into products for companies such as Method Home and Adidas. | <urn:uuid:0559a050-431e-41b6-97bb-a9ed0f520194> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alexanderbaldwin.com/alexander-baldwin-host-kalama-beach-clean-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.969851 | 500 | 1.851563 | 2 |
If you have been drinking Just Coffee for any amount of time you are probably aware of Fondo Paez. Fondo Paez is a cooperative of about 550 families in the department of Cauca, Colombia. The organization is made up of small scale farmers from the Paez ethnic group– indigenous people whose home is in the mountains of southern Colombia. They began organizing their cooperative in 2002 and began working with Cooperative Coffees soon after.
The Paez territory is in the middle of a “red zone” in the Colombian internal conflict. Because of this the group has had to deal with transgressions by Colombian insurgents as well as the military. Their land has been occupied and used for the staging of military action for years. The Paez are stalwart in their neutrality in the conflict which arouses suspicions from all sides because they want to stay out of the war. The result has been low-intensity pressure and occasionally more pronounced problems. Throughout it all they have remained a stable force for peace in an area that has at times been rife with turmoil.
In 2011 the president of the cooperative– Luis Carlos Mestizo– was assassinated as he was leaving the bank in the city of Santander. All of Fondo Paez’s money for their coffee sales was stolen. The group was already suffering from lower yields due to coffee rust (Roya) lost their cash for the year. This was a low point for the organization and lesser groups surely would have thrown in the towel. Instead– showing their incredible resiliency– they persevered and rededicated themselves to their work.
JCC has worked with the Paez for several years. We have hosted representatives of the co-op in Madison and attended several conferences and meetings with them over that time period. However, because their situation has been so tenuous in terms of the civil war in Colombia, we had never visited them until now. With conflict settling down in Cauca, even just a bit, the time felt to visit them with other members of Co-op Coffees and other roasters and allies.
I will follow this post with more details in the next few days, but I need to underline how impressed and awed we all were with Fondo Paez and their work. Their coffee has consistently been some of our best over the years. Like Las Diosas and some of our other close partners, FP has weathered continued storms and come back stronger over and over again. I am looking forward to detailing my visit and their work in the next couple of weeks. If you have not tried their coffee yet, do yourself a favor and grab a bag.
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This literacy center is called "Eggtraordinary Endings" and focuses on making words with inflectional endings. To make this center, you will need 10 plastic eggs. Write a root word on the largest side and an inflectional ending on the other smaller side.Break them apart, put them in a basket, and your students can have a blast making words.
Here is a recording sheet you can use with this center! Click on the picture to download it!!
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