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At a glance
- Originator Azwell
- Class Antivirals; Pyrimidines
- Mechanism of Action Undefined mechanism
Orphan Drug Status
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
On Fast track
Fast track status is assigned by the US FDA so therapies with the potential to address unmet needs can move faster through development.
Highest Development Phases
- Discontinued Rotavirus infections
Most Recent Events
- 10 Feb 2000 No-Development-Reported for Rotavirus infections in Japan (Unknown route)
- 20 Feb 1997 New profile
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There are some complementary training, and in some necessary cases, for all good athlete. This it would be the case of the force sessions, since strong muscles will allow us to render to the maximum. We do not confuse strong muscles with great or voluminous muscles, since the volume will cause that you are slower in long distances. The force sessions must go oriented to gain force in the muscle, which also will imply to reduce the punishment that undergoes the sinews, but maintaining the same size. The work of muscles of the legs will help you to prevent injuries. If you fortify the isquiotibiales and the quadriceps you will avoid knee problems. Besides working muscles of the legs also it is necessary to work the muscles that hold the body, like abdominal and the lumbar ones. This type of exercises, besides contributing to force to the trunk and the train superior of the body, improves the coordination, makes work to the heart and increases the elasticity.
The exercises with Bosu and Step are indicated for the runners because they fortify the legs and they optimize the movements that habitually we realised in our cuotidiana life. In this type of functional training the musculatura works as a whole fortifying the musculatura of the trunk, the abdomen, the back, the legs and the rumps, improving the elasticity and the flexibility, reinforcing the joints and the muscles, and helping in the recovery of injuries. This type of exercises helps to vary the routine and can replace a smooth session. You can be useful to realise this training someday that you cannot leave to run due to the meteorological conditionses, is because it rains or it is cold, or by quite the opposite, because long ago heat. Many runners also combine the cycling with running to escape of the routine or because they have friendly that practice the cycling and they he likes to leave to pedalear someday with them. The cycling is a cardiovascular work similar to running and can replace a smooth session but to obtain a high performance in running it is necessary to prioritize the training of this discipline realising sessions of basic quality and. | <urn:uuid:ef0e5ac7-6f14-441e-84eb-4fdd07479852> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hotmamafitnessstudio.com/tag/the-present-time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938998 | 434 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Microphone controlled multimedia performance “Bees”
This is a documentation of a new composition utilizing multimedia improvisation.
The microphone controls several video parameters in real-time. Acoustic volume controls fade in/out and edging effect, pitch controls the video head/current frame and the multiplier effect- all effects turned on and off with the midi FCB1010 pedal. All programming done through Max/Jitter with Ableton Live (Max4Live).
This is an original structured improvisation with several composed musical motives performed on Oboe and antique Clarinet with live sampling set up through Ableton. The featured video was taken outside my kitchen window when we first moved to Nashville. The bees love the Pussy Willow and swarm it every spring..
Live Taping April 18, 2011 gallery F @ Scarritt Bennett, Nashville TN
Microphone input controls the video through Max For Live with Jitter. I use acoustic volume to control fades and edging effects and I use pitch to control the video head and also the multiplier effect. All of these controls are turned on and off via a midi foot pedal. | <urn:uuid:dceaa9cf-e972-497f-b835-0df779288212> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cycling74.com/project/microphone-controlled-multimedia-performance-bees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00529-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894402 | 230 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Reports and Insights (R&I) has published a new report titled, “Bearing Market: Opportunity Analysis and Future Assessment 2020 2028”
Global Bearing Market, By Type (Ball Bearings, Tapered Bearings), By Size (30 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 60, 61 to 70, and 70 & above), By Distribution Channel (Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Aftermarket), By machine type (ICE Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Industrial Machinery, and Aerospace Machinery), By End-User (Automotive, Industrial, and Aerospace), and By Region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, & Africa) is expected to grow at a significant CAGR for the period between 2020 and 2028.
The global bearing market was valued at US$ 109.5 Bn by the end of 2020 and expected to reach at a value of US$ 173.5 Bn by 2028 with a significant CAGR of 6.0%.
Bearings are one of the most common components in the machinery as their rotating motion makes nearly all movements smoother and easier as well as it helps lower friction. The two major purposes of bearings are they transfer motion, which means they guide and support elements which turn relative to one another and secondly, they transmit forces. The invariably growing industrial and aerospace industries is majorly stimulating the demand of various kinds of bearings in the global market, owing to which the global bearing market is expected to grow rapidly in the forthcoming future.
By the same token, there is heavy usage of bearings in the automotive industry for the smooth run of all kinds of vehicles, including cars, heavy vehicles like trucks, and lightweight commercial vehicles, which further plays a positive role in propelling the growth of the global bearing industry.
Other than that, the key manufacturers are constantly advancing the product in order to escalate its performance, thus further adding beneficial features to it such as higher efficiency, reduced maintenance requirements, and longer service life. Such factors are also positively fueling the demand of bearing across various industries, which in turn is estimated to boost the growth of the global bearing market over the forecast period.
Moreover, the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has further supported the adoption and perpetual surveillance and tracking of connected machinery and equipment. This emerging trend has further given a major breakthrough to the growth of the global bearing market.
Few of the leading manufacturers of the market are offering smart bearings which can be constantly monitored in order to foresee faults before their occurrence. However, the adoption of smart bearings is yet in the primary or initial stage, though several other major manufacturers are also keen and fascinated to offer smart bearings in their portfolios in the years to come. Such factors are also accelerating the growth in the demand of bearings all around the world, which is ultimately anticipated to encourage the growth of the global bearings market over the coming years.
R&I Study identifies some of the key participating players in the bearing market globally are NSK Ltd., Schaeffler AG, NTN Corporation, SKF, Iljin Bearing, RKB Bearing, JTEKT Corporation, Timken, Wafangdian Bearing Co. Ltd., THK Co. Ltd., among others.
Reports and Insights (R&I) is committed to providing deep insights that serve as a creative tool for the client that enables it to perform confidently in the market. At R&I we adhere to the client's needs and regularly ponder to bring out more valuable and real outcomes for our customers. We are equipped with a strategically enhanced group of researchers and analysts that redefines and stabilizes the business polarity in different categorical dimensions of the market.
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For those of you who live near the ocean, you may already be using one of our greatest resources for your skin. For the rest of us, or for those of you who are new to this idea altogether, you won’t have the real thing but can still take advantage of it all the same. What are we talking about? Pure natural sea salt — a top acne mediation that works in a very short amount of time, or at least for those that don’t have a severe chronic acne condition.
Most of the time, what we eat and our hormones lead to acne. Despite the myth, it’s not chocolate that causes acne, it’s actually the dairy and sugar in milk chocolate. Heavy oils that are refined, refined flours and refined grains, refined and added sugars, and processed food in general all also lead to acne. Our skin shows how healthy we are inside, and gut bacteria health has the largest impact on your skin, another reason to care for your face (and overall health) from the inside out.
But even if we are in good health, we all have a breakout occasionally. Maybe it’s stress, maybe we indulged in some really delicious foods we later realized didn’t agree with us, or maybe we’re going through some hormonal changes. After evaluating your diet and ensuring you’re eating foods that benefit the skin, managing your lifestyle, and avoiding eating added hormones, you should consider things to apply to your skin that will treat the acne topically. Though it develops from the inside out, once it’s there, it’s nice to know how to treat it without harsh chemicals.
The Ocean’s Secret to Healing Your Skin
Sea salt is an incredibly powerful acne medication that works by cleansing the cells and killing bacteria while also promoting healthy pH levels in the skin. Sea salt water straight from the ocean is one of the best ways to take advantage of this because it’s pure and natural and richer in minerals than tap water you’ll find at home, however, you can still mix a high-quality sea salt with filtered water and use that on your skin if you don’t live near the ocean.
Here’s how to do it:
*Note* If you can find Himilayan pink salt, it’s a fantastic source of over 84 minerals that will boost your skin health fairly quickly and is great to keep around the house in general. If not, use the best sea salt you can find at the store instead (NOT iodized table salt because most of the minerals are gone).
- Mix 1 cup of filtered very warm water (but not scalding hot) with 3 tablespoons high quality sea salt. Stir well with a spoon for a minute or so to incorporate, or you can blend it in a blender.
- Since acne can be painful, you don’t want to rub salt on your skin; diluting it in water and soaking a cloth in the mixture is much better.
- Dip a soft cloth in the mixture and put the entire cloth over the affected area, holding on for several minutes. Hold the cloth on your skin for several minutes (around 3-4).
- Remove and then rinse your face with the mixture (but close your eyes and mouth!) just to make sure it’s applied thoroughly.
- Rinse with plain warm water a few times, and pat your face dry.
- Do this in the morning and at night; if you are at home during the day more often, you can also do it up to 4 times a day for more severe cases.
- Be sure not to apply harsh exfoliating products that will tear the skin; it’s important to let the salt do the work and the healing at the same time.
In a couple or a few days, you should notice the area starts to disappear and almost no remains will exist; it’s also very effective at preventing scarring. It’s also as natural as it gets!
Don’t Forget ….
If your acne still doesn’t disappear after this treatment, you may consider if your diet is a culprit. Common food allergens that cause skin problems include: dairy, gluten (and wheat), peanuts, yeast, and histamine-rich foods can be a culprit. You should also eliminate all high-glycemic foods (sugar, refined grains, added syrups and sweeteners) since they also trigger acne due to insulin swings that result in breakouts.
Eat a balance diet of vegetables, leafy greens, lean protein, and healthy fats for optimal skin health. And, it goes without saying, that whole foods promote clean skin better than any others. Probiotic-rich sauerkraut and kimchi will also help boost gut health to promote beautiful skin as well.
Give this natural beauty treatment a try if you haven’t already … and if you live near the ocean, definitely appreciate nature’s beauty remedy more often.
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If you expect to be alive on April 13, 2029, you can look forward to an asteroid-watching party across three continents like nothing the world has ever seen.
The near-Earth asteroid 2004 MN4 made headlines for a couple of days last December when astronomers estimated that it had a 1-in-38 chance of hitting Earth in 2029. The threat quickly passed when old images were found that pinned down the asteroid's orbit well enough to guarantee that it will miss our planet. Now, extremely precise radar observations made on January 27th, 29th, and 30th have refined its orbit even further. The asteroid is still certain to miss Earth, but it will be a squeaker indeed. As a result, we’ll get a once-in-a-millennium naked-eye asteroid show.
Paul Chodas, Steve Chesley, Jon Giorgini and Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program calculate that the asteroid will pass 4.7 Earth radii (30,000 kilometers, or 18,600 miles) from Earth's surface. This is half the distance predicted by the previous orbit. The object should brighten to magnitude 3.3 (similar to the faintest star in the Big Dipper) while moving northwest across Sextans and Cancer at a speed up to 42° per hour. Europe, Africa, and Asia will have the ringside seats. With a newly estimated diameter of 320 meters, 2004 MN4 will appear up to 2 arcseconds wide, making it barely resolvable in amateur telescopes.
The Americas will get their best view hours earlier, while the asteroid is still on its way in and only 7th magnitude.
When they realized how close the asteroid would pass, astronomers at first thought that Earth's tidal force might pull it apart into a string of rubble before our very eyes. This is what happened to Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 when it dipped very close to Jupiter, one orbit before the resulting string of comet chunks impacted Jupiter in 1994. However, calculations by Derek Richardson and Kevin Walsh (University of Maryland) make a breakup seem very unlikely. Even if 2004 MN4 is a loose "rubble pile" with no internal strength, it should hold together after all.
But just barely. "My best estimate," says Daniel D. Durda (Southwest Research Institute) "is that it might have its rotation spun up a bit, and if it's a rubble pile it might have some internal readjustments. If you were standing on it you might notice rumblings, asteroid-quakes. This will be an outstanding opportunity for a spacecraft mission to go and sit on its surface and hear it creak and groan as it goes by. We won't have to ping it to sound its interior — Mother Nature will do it for us."
The radar observations were made by Lance Benner, Mike Nolan, Steve Ostro, and Jon Giorgini using the giant Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico. It's a good thing the orbit is still a miss: the impact energy in 2029 would be about 850 megatons, 15 times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb ever tested and about 60 times more powerful than the Tunguska explosion over Siberia in 1908. According to Chodas and his colleagues, "On average, one would expect a similarly close Earth approach by an asteroid of this size only every 1,300 years or so."
Mark your calendar, and if you're on the wrong side of the world, plan on a vacation to join the party.
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Timber Toolbox Website Series
The ‘Timber’ Toolbox series comprises three websites – Timber Toolbox, Timber Plus Toolbox and Sustainable Timber Toolbox. Each website comprises a set of resources for training and assessing timber workers in competencies from the Forest and Forest Products Industry Training Package (FPI05). In addition to a comprehensive coverage of the subject matter, they also contain a range of interactive learning activities and tasks which can be used as assessment exercises.
The competencies covered in the first two Toolboxes are relevant to timber industry qualifications at Certificate II and III level. The third Toolbox deals with two Certificate IV level competencies that have been approved as ‘Green skills’ units.
See the on-line versions of the Toolboxes
You can see the on-line versions of the Toolboxes by following the links below. Details on how to purchase the Toolboxes in a CD format are available on the Australian Flexible Learning Framework website. You can also download individual units as ‘learning objects’ from the Toolbox Learning Object Repository.
Timber Toolbox – Go to on-line version
FPICOR2201A: Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry
FPICOR3201A: Implement safety health and environmental policies and procedures
FPICOR3202A: Conduct quality and product care procedures
FPICOR3204A: Visually assess materials
FPICOT3236A: Coordinate stock control procedures
FPICOT3204A: Prepare and interpret sketches and drawings
Timber Plus Toolbox – Go to on-line version
FPICOR2203A Follow environmental care procedures
FPICOR2204A Follow fire prevention procedures
FPICOR2205A Follow OHS policies and procedures
FPICOR2207A Maintain quality and product care
FPICOT2216A Visually stress grade softwood
FPICOT2219A Use hand held tools
FPICOT3241A Assemble timber wall frames
FPICOT3242A Lay up timber roof trusses
FPICOT3247A Select timber for forestry operations
Sustainable Timber Toolbox – Go to on-line version
FPICOR4201A Monitor safety, health and environmental policies and procedures
FPICOR4202A Monitor and review forestry operations
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Leadership and Management in Health
Learn how to lead organizations and manage people in this course on leadership and management. The course focuses on the practical leadership and management skills required for working in complex local, regional, national and global health environments. By the end of this course, you will develop a clear sense of the issues and challenges associated with leading organizations and managing people. Personal leadership development and practical management skills are both emphasized.
This online course has video lectures, readings, discussion forums, quizzes, and three assignments.
You can participate in this course as an independent participant or as part of a site with 5 or more people. Participating as a site group provides a forum for discussing course concepts and applying them to local context and customs. If you are participating independently, the online discussion boards provide a forum for these types of discussion.
The course is taught in English. Participants should be comfortable with written and spoken English.
The course is most useful for health care professionals and public health specialists who have some experience in management and who wish to enhance their skills working with people and other organizational resources. Most case studies, readings, and assignments assume an existing knowledge of the health care system, labor law, and funding landscape in your country. Participants will get the most out of this course if they can apply the concepts and strategies immediately to a work setting, including being in a position to lead meetings, facilitating team development, communicating on behalf of the organization, managing conflicts, analyzing and monitoring management data, supervising and delegating work, and managing some aspects of complex project implementation. The course is less well suited to individuals in entry-level positions in the workforce.
If part of a site group, your site coordinator will manage your group's enrollment fee. You may be asked to contribute towards this site fee.
If an independent participant, you will be invoiced based on details and preferences you note in your application. OECD/LMIC rates are based on your current location. Invoices are sent soon after the application period is over.
|Site Group Enrollment||Shipped Certificate (to site coordinator)|
|OECD Site Groups||5-15 people: $199 USD per person; 16-60 people: $3000 USD|
|LMIC Site Groups||5-60 people: $999 USD|
For site groups made up of participants from a high-income country (OECD), the fee is determined by how many people are in your group. For groups of 16-60 people, the fee is $3000 USD. However, for smaller groups (OECD), we offer a discounted rate of $199 USD per person.
For site groups made up of participants from a low-middle income country (LMIC) we further discount the site rate down to $999 USD for groups of at least 5 people (with a cap of 60 people for this course).
For site groups that may have a mix of both LMIC and OECD participants, the fee is based on the LMIC rate (of $999 USD) plus $199 USD per OECD participant. However, if it is more economical, a flat rate of $3000 USD is also an option. Please inquire with us if you have questions about the fees at your site.
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|Learn how to implement a program that coordinates the exchange of services and assets among community members.|
This section has been written, with permission, from materials developed by the Time Dollar Institute (now TimeBanks USA)
What are Time Dollars?
Why should you develop a Time Dollars program?
Who should develop a Time Dollars program?
How do you develop a Time Dollars program?
Many of us who volunteer our time, or work for not for profit organizations, do so because we want to help people; we hope to somehow improve their lives. Feeling better about ourselves through helping other people is an idea that has a very long history. For example, the Catholic Church's "Prayer of St. Francis" tells us that it is better to give than to receive. What the prayer doesn't say, however, is that it's sometimes easier to give than to receive.
Because frankly, it's hard for many of us to ask for help, whether that help is in the form of money, or assistance with a task, such as taking care of our children or getting our mail while we are out of town. And if we do ask for help, we're quick to offer something in return -- we pay the loan (often with interest!), pay the baby-sitter in cash or in taking care of her children in return, or bring a pie to the neighbors who watched our house. The last thing we want is for people to think we are "freeloading" or "not pulling our weight."
And yet many times when we as organizations offer to help people, that's exactly how we set them up to feel. "Don't worry about it," we say, as if somehow we are better than them, or have more to offer than they do. And messages like that -- even though they aren't what we mean, even if they are the last thing we want to communicate -- are often what gets transmitted, and they can be very hard to take.
That's where the idea of Time Dollars comes in. The thought behind Time Dollars is that everyone, no matter what they do, or where they are in their lives, has something to offer. And Time Dollars asks individuals to use their talents and skills; and in doing so, allows them to retain their sense of pride when they need help.
What are Time Dollars?
Time Dollars are a currency that turns time into money. Volunteers in Time Dollars programs earn credits for the time they spend helping other members. One hour of service earns you one credit, or "time dollar." Then in turn, you can "buy" an hour of a service you need. If you don't need all the credits you earn, you can save them up, give them to someone you know, or give them back to the "bank." That way, the people who run the program can use the extra "money" to make sure the members with the severest needs get all the help they require.
Unlike traditional volunteer programs, Time Dollar programs recognize that people who need help can often help others, too - just in different ways.
A minister's experience gives us an example of how this works. For fifteen years, this gentleman was the pastor of a Baptist church in Washington, D.C. People relied on him as someone they could turn to 24 hours a day for guidance, comfort, or just a little conversation. However, when the Reverend, who suffers from diabetes, lost his right leg to an infection, he retired from the church. He felt overwhelmed by the sudden changes in his life, and for a long time lived almost as a recluse, refusing to leave his apartment.
The local Time Dollar program helped him adjust to the seemingly insurmountable problems he faced. He is once again an active member of the community. He earns Time Dollars by conducting prayer services for his fellow tenants, and he spends them to have his meals prepared by another volunteer.
This kind of exchange isn't new. It has always occurred among families and friends. All Time Dollar programs do is provide a new structure for neighborliness - one that turns good deeds into real purchasing power.
So, what exactly do Time Dollars members do? To give you an idea of the possibilities, here's a sampling of the kinds of services Time Dollar members exchange:
- Personal care, such as grooming, meal preparation, feeding, letter writing, reading, and respite care
- Care for family members, such as baby-sitting and elder care
- Help with household chores, such as light housekeeping, gardening, home repairs, and laundry
- Help outside the home, such as with shopping and transportation
- An escort to the doctor
- Language translation services
- Telephone support services, both check-in calls (to make sure a person is okay) and social calls
- Peer counseling
- Education, such as literacy services, English as a second language classes, tutoring grade-school and high school students, and preparation for the GED
- Administrative support of the program
Many of these things are being done in some places by home care professionals, but can be done by individuals in our communities without paying money. And in allowing people to do things themselves to "pay" for the help they receive, we help people regain control over their own lives.
Why should you develop a Time Dollars Program?
There are many advantages to developing a Time Dollars program in your community. A few of these reasons to begin such a program include:
- To empower people with a sense of self worth - Time Dollars help people understand that whatever circumstances they are in, they can still give, and not just receive
- To strengthen the communities in which we live
- To make sure that all of the members of our communities, including those who are very proud, receive the help that they need
Who should develop a Time Dollars program?
Quite simply, a Time Dollars program can be started by anyone who sees needs in his or her community which are not being met. These needs may be in any part of the population. The first generation of programs often focused on the abilities and needs of senior citizens, because many of them have free time, and many others have many unmet needs. However, programs now can and should build networks serving other groups, such as teenage mothers, people with AIDS, public housing residents, children in urban schools, and parents needing day care for their children. In short, the uses of Time Dollars programs are as varied as the different needs of our communities.
Although anyone can start such a program, they are often developed within existing support networks, such as churches or social service agencies. In the next section, we will look at the development of a Time Dollars program as if it is being developed by an organization that's already in existence. Individuals or new groups can then modify the "how-to" steps accordingly.
How do you develop a Time Dollars Program?
Once you've decided to start a Time Dollar program, there is some hard but rewarding work ahead. Let's look at what you'll need to do step by step.
Before you even begin, however, make sure you're not reinventing the wheel. Many communities already have Time Dollars programs; check in your area to see if there is one that you might work with. A partial list of programs is listed by state in the Resources at the end of this section.
Ensure that you have a committed group of people that is ready to work and serve one another
You need to have people willing to give and receive, or a Time Dollar program just won't work. The most important element of your program is the commitment of the people involved. Time Dollar programs thrive on the work of people who are committed to serving others. Have a group of people in mind with whom you plan to start the program, such as elderly people living in a community living situation, or high school students working on community service projects. Be sure to talk with some of the people you want to work with and make sure there is enough interest to get things started. (We'll talk more about recruitment later.)
Develop a core group of people who will be working on the program
At a minimum, you will need one or two coordinators who will match people and serve as liaisons for the program. You will also want to involve people you want to have as "customers" involved in setting up the program.
Gather the resources your program will need
Some of the things your program will need include:
- A coordinator or director (preferably full-time, either paid or unpaid)
- Office space
- Clerical help (to answer phones, keep track of hours worked, and so on)
- A phone, desk, and office supplies
- Copying equipment (for brochures, fliers, forms, notices)
- Volunteer insurance or workmen's compensation (usually necessary for existing organizations)
- A computer
- A place to meet, train, and socialize
Decide how much money to spend on the program
The cost of a Time Dollar program varies depending on a number of things, such as:
- If your staff is paid or volunteer
- If the paid staff is full- or part-time
- If you are required to pay volunteer insurance
- If you need to rent office or meeting space
While you can actually run a Time Dollars program for next to nothing, those operating in the context of an on-going social service organization can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000. Since costs vary over time and country, actual figures mean little here. The chances are good that if you have a program with paid staff (probably a full- or part-time director, perhaps a part-time assistant director, and a part-time clerical person), most of your budget -- perhaps 70-80% -- will go for salary and related expenses. The rest will be spent on rent, equipment and supplies, insurance, phone, printing and copying, and the odd costs that most programs have (food for celebrations, certificates, etc.) If your space is donated, your budget will be smaller, but a larger percentage of it will go to salaries.
Develop the tracking materials you will need to follow volunteers and their efforts
You will need a membership form and timesheets for members to track their Time Dollars. Members can sign up, chart what they can do, when they can do it, what they want to receive, and what they have done. The coordinator can then use these files when people call and request a service.
One way to help you do this is TimeKeeper Software, which was developed specifically for people running Time Dollars programs. It is available as freeware over the Internet.
The software incorporates the way in which people manage Time Dollar programs on a step-by-step basis. It can also be customized by you to meet your program's needs.
The Timekeeper system can free you up from tasks that can be computerized, such as sifting through individual files to find an appropriate available volunteer, and reduces the time spent on paper work. In addition, the software does the following:
- It can produce personalized bank statements for each member
- It can supply the information to ensure that no volunteer goes too long without a new assignment
- It can help you to monitor performance systematically and follow-up on assignments
- And it can also become a tool in planning new initiatives that can help strengthen your community and target resources to meet special needs
Check on the legalities of your work
In general, there are no legal requirements to starting a program. However, you should check with authorities in your state.
In addition, two legal issues also come up often for people running Time Dollars programs: liability and taxation. Let's look briefly at each of them.
The question of liability includes things such as, "What if a service provider is injured on the job?" or, "What if the service provider injures the person being helped?"
You can deal with these questions in very much the same as you would for any volunteer program. One possibility your organization might consider is purchasing insurance for volunteers and staff. See Resources for a company that provides such a service at low cost.
Another question some new members have concerns about is taxes. The concern is that using Time Dollars is just like barter, and so members worry that they will be taxed on Time Dollars earned.
However, this possibility is very unlikely to occur. The IRS has ruled twice that credits earned by volunteers are not taxable. Now, there is no guarantee that the IRS won't decide otherwise in the future, but that possibility seems highly unlikely.
Develop a way to evaluate your work
As you are developing your program, a question that you should keep in mind is, "What, exactly, do we want to accomplish?" And additionally, "How will we know when we've reached our goals?"
Developing a plan for evaluation -- and incorporating it into your work from the start -- is an excellent way to set your program up for success from the very start. An evaluation can help keep your program on track and give you early warning signs when things aren't going well. The information gathered in the process of evaluating your work can also be a great way to convince grantmakers of your credibility, and ultimately, to convince them to support your work.
Recruiting members primarily includes connecting with the people and communities you would like to take part in your program. This recruitment can occur in many different forms -- from word of mouth, to advertisements in local papers or on the radio, to posters, flyers, or almost any other form of communication you can think of.
Along with recruitment of individuals, your program might want to encourage involvement of the local business community as well. There are several ways in which private businesses can get involved in your program.
The simplest way is by contributing financial support or by donating office space, supplies, and telephone service. Businesses can also encourage their employees to become involved as members. At one neighborhood bank in San Francisco, for example, all the employees joined the Time Dollar program run by the local senior center and donated their credits to elderly members unable to earn their own credits.
Another way businesses can get involved is by providing discounts to members of Time Dollar programs. For example, participants in Elderplan, a Health Maintenance Organization in Brooklyn which runs a Time Dollar program, can redeem their Time Dollars to join a silver or gold club. Each club has different offerings, including luncheons at local restaurants to meet social needs, free transportation, and gifts, most of them health-related, such as blood pressure monitors and exercise equipment.
When you've got all of your ground work done, it's time to get going! Additionally, most programs find it necessary to "prime the pump" when they first get started by "issuing" Time Dollars. In essence, programs give away services without requiring people to "pay" for them. This works as a great way to get people interested in your program. It also offers needy recipients the chance to receive services, even if they don't have any Time Dollars in their "account."
As with any work you do, be sure to take the time to enjoy the small and large successes you will have as your work evolves.
Evaluate your work
Be sure to use the methods you developed in step seven to look at what you are doing and know what's working, what's not working, and how you can make it better.
The concept of Time Dollars is about community; about drawing on the strengths of all of our members and helping to ensure that we all benefit from the diverse gifts everyone has to offer. It is a program of service, not of financial gain. And so, it's important that Time Dollar programs are run in a spirit of helping those who need it, not on accounting principles.
This section offers you a first look at what you will need to do to develop a Time Dollars program. Much more information is available from TimeBanks USA (previously the Time Dollar Institute). These materials include a "how-to" manual, the Timekeeper Software Manual, video presentations and other useful materials.
An Introduction to Paid Time Off Banks - an article from CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy).
TimeBanks USA. (previously the Time Dollar Institute). This website offers a wealth of information, such as a description of Time Dollar programs and a comprehensive list of Time Bank programs across the country.
Time Banks: A radical manifesto for the UK - an article from the New Economics Foundation about the process and benefits of Time Bank programs.
Directory of Time Dollars programs (as listed on the Time Dollar website 11/00)
Cahn, Edgar & Rowe, Jonathan. Time Dollars: The New Currency That Enables Americans to Turn their Hidden Resource - Time - Into Personal Security and Community Renewal.
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Washington, DC 20003
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Washington, DC 20001
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Washington, DC 20005
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Washington, DC 20015
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6423 Collins Avenue, #1201
Miami Beach, Florida 33141
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Atlanta, GA 30342
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P.O. Box 436964
Chicago, IL 60643-6964
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Taylorsville, IL 62568
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11613 Carter Street
Overland Park, KS 66219
Contact: Susan Carmen
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Overland, KS 66212
Contact: Bill Dean
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2850 Chrisman Lane
Danville, Kentucky 40422
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546 Benfield Village Shopping Center
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1500 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02122
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2300 West Orleans Street
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3501 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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5601 Smetana Drive
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Minneapolis, MN 55440
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913 Selby Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
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2600 Hadley Street
St. Louis, MO 63106
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7502 Park Towne North
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216 S. Kings Highway
St. Louis, MO 63110
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Mercer County Service Exchange Program
116 N. Main Street
Heightstown, NJ 08520
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Elderplan, Inc., Member-to-Member
6323 Seventh Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Contact: Mashi Blech
680 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Contact: Diana McCourt
Statewide Technical Assistance
Oklahoma Dept of Human Services
Aging Services Division
312 N.E. 28th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Contact: Carolyn Dowers
Bryan County Retired Senior & Volunteer Program
301 N. 16th Street
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Revitalize Outer South End
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101 East State Street
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Hill House Association Senior Services
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Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, hopes that in the next 20 years, people will have their first experience with IBM products in the form of Watson, its cognitive technology that processes information with reason and advances its own learning. Whether in an education setting that helps students learn in the style that’s best suited for them, or in the form of early childhood toys, such as a dinosaur that matches its personality to how the child acts, thinking systems will permeate businesses and the products and services they produce.
IBM is making its big bet on what Ms. Rometty called the “cognitive era”, and the company announced today the formation of the Cognitive Business Solutions group to build cognitive innovations across industries. In a mastermind keynote interview with Gartner analysts Daryl Plummer and Bryan Britz, at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Ms. Rometty said that IBM will stake its claim with Watson. “This is our moonshot,” she said. “You stake the claim, and you move fast.”
Digital business + digital intelligence = the cognitive era
Watson’s potential lies in its ability to understand, reason and learn. Companies will use this cognitive ability to build real value when they can predict outcomes and take actions to change them. For example, work in Beijing, China aims to predict the weather with a degree of confidence that could prompt the closing of factories to impact air quality and lessen pollution.
For its part, IBM uses Watson to supplement its early levels of product support and to match employee skills with the best jobs.
Ms. Rometty told the audience of 8,500 CIOs and senior IT executives that Watson is not a supercomputer, but rather a set of 28 systems underpinned by more than 50 technologies. IBM hopes organizations will pick and choose how they want to start adding cognitive ability to their operations or services. “The era of the ability to think will permeate business,” Ms. Rometty said. Put another way, she offered: Digital business + digital intelligence = the cognitive era.
From one era to the next
Over the past few years, IBM has continued to develop products and services and make acquisitions to address the big trends of data, cloud and mobility. “Our job is to take the company from one era to the next and bring more value, so you can compete in the future,” said Ms. Rometty.
Our job is to take the company from one era to the next and bring more value so you can compete in the future.
She acknowledged that it’s not easy for IBM’s clients, let alone the company itself, to move quickly. “We share this journey together,” Ms. Rometty said, and she emphasized the need to create bimodal operations while modernizing legacy assets to unlock their value. It is the combination of older assets with new assets, such as cognitive ability, that will differentiate businesses and make them more competitive.
Part of Watson’s power, she noted, is to “see” into 80 percent of the world’s “dark data” that previously has been unrecognized, and therefore, of no value to organizations. “We’ve given Watson eyes,” she said, so that the system can interpret pictures and other unstructured data. IBM’s work in healthcare to support doctors with diagnoses and treatment plans relies on Watson’s ability to access vast amounts of data including for example, the ability to interpret a legion on the face.
80% of the world’s data is dark.
The impact of Watson on jobs
Ms. Rometty commented on the growth of data analytics as a critical business function with a necessary rise of new jobs and skills to meet the demand. As for Watson, she sees its role to augment jobs that people do, rather than replace them. For example, banks in Mexico and Singapore use Watson to extend wealth management knowledge across employees, thus adding new services to demographics who previously couldn’t afford it. When challenged by Mr. Plummer that he might worry about his own job, she admitted that while some jobs may be replaced as they are, “in every advance of technology and science,” the real goal is for people to become smarter and better at their jobs by supplementing their knowledge and skills with Watson’s output.
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This paper provides the framing and details of a two-part entrepreneurial mindset symposium that was organized with the following objectives: 1) build a community of entrepreneurial mindset researchers and practitioners, 2) define an entrepreneurial mindset framework, and 3) situate efforts to identify and measure dimensions of the entrepreneurial mindset within that framework. With these objectives, we invited several individuals from a range of institutions to collaborate on addressing the three objectives. As part of the symposium activities, participants created author teams, drafted concept papers, and revised their papers in response to reviewers enlisted as part of the typical review process followed by the Advances in Engineering Education journal. This special issue is comprised of ten, 2500-word concept papers that address topics related to what entrepreneurial mindset is, why an entrepreneurial mindset is important, and how to promote, instill, or assess an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Until the last federal elections, Germany, it was said, was ruled by a leftist coalition. The more leftist party in the so-called leftist coalition was the Green Party, headed by the so-called fiery radical Joschka Fischer. Fischer’s radical credentials included having once in his youth assaulted a cop in a street protest, speaking clearly, and appearing less dumb than the average politician (he even studied Karl Marx!!). Being so clearly above a very low average, he was wildly popular in Germany.
Fischer, now out of government, pronounced himself on the Lebanon crisis. His intervention offers a window into what passes as “left” in Europe. Not a pretty sight.
Fischer’s grand thesis is that “this war offers a chance for a lasting peace.”
Although Fischer doesn’t agree on the details, his rhetoric that sees war as the midwife of peace is the same as Condoleezza Rice’s “birth pangs of the new Middle East.” George Bush also seeks to achieve peace through war, not only in Lebanon, but also in Iraq and possibly elsewhere. Israel called its First Lebanon War, “Operation Peace for Galilee.” Peace through war is an idea that goes back all the way to the Pax Romana. Rome’s victims saw things differently: “They rob, kill and rape and this they call Roman rule. They make a desert and call it peace”; a fine observation that applies very neatly to the efforts of the U.S. and Israel to make peace in Iraq, Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon. You’d think that a leader of the 1968 student radicals would be able to grasp the fundamental incompatibility between peace and mass murder. But you don’t have to be leftist to grasp -- as even so many American defense specialists and intelligence officers do -- that the most likely result of the Second Lebanon War is not peace, but a worldwide radicalization of Muslims and Arabs.
In laying his remodeled peace plan, Fischer makes a number of other observations on the Middle East that are both offensive and ignorant.
Fischer claims the war was “orchestrated by the region's radical forces -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad among the Palestinians, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria and Iran -- which fundamentally reject any settlement with Israel.”
There is no evidence that Syria and Iran planned this war outside of neo-con propaganda, which Fischer channels. And the idea that the isolated cells of the miniscule Islamic Jihad are somehow “orchestrating” anything is laughable. In contrast, we know that the war was planned and rehearsed by Israel for already four years. Even Hizbullah leaders admitted they did not want and did not expect a war.
Fischer adds his voice of support to those he calls “moderate Arab governments,” i.e. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. All three are autocratic police states that survive by snooping on their citizens and jailing and torturing every voice of dissent. These are now Israel’s and Fischer’s friends. If their torture chambers are such beacons of moderation, shouldn’t Europe import a few? The Saudi government, a medieval fiefdom that received its fief directly from the Earls of Exxon Mobile, bans women from driving and subsidizes the teaching of the most reactionary and sectarian branch of Islam, is now a pillar in the struggle for peace and democracy.
And what does Hizbullah stand to gain from the war? According to Fischer, Hizbullah, the most popular and respected party in Lebanon, a party that could get an absolute majority if ever a “one person, one vote” elections were held in Lebanon, a Lebanese Islamic party that could well win a majority of the Christian vote, is trying to “undermine democratization in Lebanon.” Puhleeeze!
How about democratization in Egypt? Could it be that Hizbullah would like to see more democracy in Egypt?
Bidding farewell to his senses, Fischer accuses Syria of being “rejectionist” and seeking “regional hegemony,” but reserves for Iran alone a “hegemonic claim for the whole Middle East.” (Only Fischer knows the difference between the two types of hegemony.)
Reality check: Syria’s regime is built on the same secular autocratic model that exists in Fischer’s new model “moderate Arab governments,” Egypt and Jordan. Syria is however far weaker, because it doesn’t receive billions of U.S. dollars every year. Therefore, it has no hope for “hegemony”; it is seeking survival. The only reason Syria is not a U.S. client state and hasn’t signed a peace treaty with Israel is because Israel and the U.S. don’t want peace with Syria. Syria would abandon Hizbullah and the Palestinians in a heartbeat if the U.S. gave it what it had given Egypt when it forced Israel to withdraw from Sinai in 1979. Syria has only one demand -- supported by international law -- the return of Israel to the 1967 border in the Golan Heights. Fischer does mention that, but it doesn’t prevent him for blaming Syria for Israel’s rejectionism.
Iran has indeed increased in influence in the last few years, less thanks to its own efforts but as a result of self-defeating U.S. policies. Iran is the only country today threatened by the U.S. with a nuclear attack. And Fischer forgets another country that, unlike Iran, has attacked every one of its neighbors many times, Israel. Israel also has the highest per capital military spending in the world. But according to Fischer, Iran seeks hegemony whereas Israel joins Saudi Arabia and Egypt in an “anti-hegemon” coalition. This is too pitiful. If Fischer ever says this in a speech anywhere in the Middle East, he will be pelted with rotten tomatoes. And deservedly.
Fischer also accuses Hizbullah of trying to release the pressure on Hamas to recognize Israel. But Hamas agreed to peace with Israel. Hamas however refuses to stop fighting unless Israel does, and insists that Israel withdraws from the full Occupied Territories. Fischer is channeling right wing and neo-conservative talking points that obscure Israel’s lack of interest in a fair peace.
There are so many other offensive things in Fischer’s piece that to lay them all bare would be tiresome. But there is one that cannot be passed in silence, because it goes well beyond peddling falsehoods.
Fischer says, “By firing missiles on Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, a boundary has been crossed.”
What then of the firing of missiles on Beirut? Did that not cross a boundary? Apparently not. Israel fired so many missiles on Beirut since 1968 to the present, killing so many thousands of people, that to bomb Beirut again could not cross any new boundary. Perhaps the Lebanese TV stations should move their coverage of the shelling of Beirut to the weather channel. Shelling Beirut is, after all, as unexceptional as the seasons, and Fischer further normalizes it. For him, the deaths in Lebanon are lamentable, but part of the status quo. They do not cross a boundary. Only deaths in Haifa cross a boundary. All lives are valuable, but some are apparently a lot more valuable.
With this, Fischer’s neo-conservative regurgitations reach beyond the mere offensive. Joschka Fischer is proving to be a racist pig with a thick smear of red leftist lipstick. Had he been born a generation or two earlier, he might have been involved in cleansing Poland of Jews. Now he is a great supporter of all things Jewish, including Jewish Apartheid and Jewish supremacy and the right of certain Jews to bomb all opposition to their lordship over the Middle East.
That he is also Germany’s most popular politician should give pause. The lipstick must be very effective. At least that is the charitable interpretation.
is an activist and writer who writes because the pen is sometimes mightier
than the sword and sometimes not. He welcomes comments at:
Matthew Kalman, "Israel set war plan more than a year ago," SF Chronicle, July 21, 2006; Ilan Pappe, "What Does Israel Want?," The Electronic Intifada, July 14, 2006; Tanya Reinhardt, "What Are They Fighting For?," Dissident Voice, July 13, 2006; AP, "Hizbullah Says Israeli Response a Surprise," July 25, 2006.
Other Articles by Gabriel Ash
Defense Against the Black Arts
* Dear Ayatollah
* Settlements: A User’s Guide
* A Victory for Israeli Democracy
* Don’t Get Mad, Get Going!
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Subtitling is the accompanying written text or dialogue from a piece of video. The text is synchronized with a video segment and is concise enough to be read and understood in a short time. Subtitling can be used to add additional support to a video so that it can be viewed without sound or it can be used to provide content in a language that differs from the audio dialogue and content. While subtitling is used in the entertainment industry with movies and TV shows, it is also used commercially, especially as businesses make use of visuals in their marketing and localization strategies. For example, eLearning localization has become more prominent on eLearning platforms as they expand to reach a wider global market. The use of video translation services is also being used more often within business websites as part of their global marketing strategies.
Whether you need subtitles for a video on your website or for your eLearning platform, here are some of the best subtitling practices.
Subtitle Timing and Placement
As the images are just as relevant to the subtitles, the timing and position of the subtitles are very important.
- Subtitles need to appear and disappear as the words themselves are spoken but are also on-screen long enough to be read. Around 15-18 characters per second is a good standard.
- If necessary, simplify the text to make it easier to read but always ensure to caption all important and relevant information. This is especially important within eLearning platform content.
- Each subtitle should be one complete sentence, with no more than two on the screen at a time. With two sentences on the screen, the shortest one should generally be on top to minimize eye movement, prevent image overlay, and make it easier to read.
- Synchronization and pauses in the sentences should occur naturally with the speech or when there is a natural change or pause in the course, content, or scene.
- Font size is important. The font needs to be large enough to read with ease and the colour and contrast of the font also needs to align with the image background.
- Subtitles are generally placed at the bottom centre of a video. This is to avoid it clashing with images and other word content on screen. The most important thing to consider is the subtitles clashing with the image or video content so positioning can be adjusted if necessary.
Ensuring your subtitles capture the meaning from the original audio is even more important when translating into another language.
- Using a subtitle translator can ensure that you’re getting the best translation possible and that your subtitles capture the meaning of the content and not just the words.
The backgrounds sounds and noise in a video, while not part of a dialogue or speech, can be just as important to capture the meaning of the content.
- If dialogue or speech is inaudible a label should detail the cause.
- Ie. The noisy crowd muffles speech
- Sound effects, such as a car horn or a dog barking, should be enclosed in brackets and italicised.
- Ie. (dog barking)
The addition of punction and formating can help add clarity.
- If multiple people are speaking at the same time, add the names or descriptions of the person or character to identify the speakers
- Ie. (Claire) You have got to be kidding me?
(Steve) I told you so!
- Ie. (Claire) You have got to be kidding me?
- When subtitling a song or singing, it’s helpful to indicate that it is music with a music icon (♪) at the beginning and end of the song.
- Ie. ♪ Take a sad song, and make it better… ♪
The Importance of Subtitling Services or a Subtitle Translator
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Presentation on theme: "Administrative Rules Impacting Secondary Transition Florida Department of Education Revised June 2011."— Presentation transcript:
Administrative Rules Impacting Secondary Transition Florida Department of Education Revised June 2011
The following slides were excerpted from Bambi J. Lockmans presentation at the Project 10: Transition Education Network Spring Institute on April 22, These slides address changes to Floridas Administrative Rules impacting secondary transition. The slides were revised to include subsequent changes to rules on December 15, 2009, and updated on June 14, 2011.
Administrative Rules Impacting Secondary Transition Florida Statutes and State Board of Education Rules: Excerpts for Special Programs (Vol. I-B) 2011
6A Definitions, ESE Policies and Procedures, and ESE Administrators
Definition of Transition Services… a coordinated set of activities for a student with a disability that: 1.Is designed to be within a results-oriented process, that is focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the student with a disability to facilitate the students movement from school to post-school activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation; and Rule 6A (1)(nn), F.A.C.
…Definition of Transition Services… 2.Is based on the individual students needs, taking into account the students strengths, preferences and interests; and 3.Includes: a. Instruction; b. Related services; c. Community experiences; d. The development of employment and other post-school adult living objectives; and e. If appropriate, acquisition of daily living skills and the provision of a functional vocational evaluation, and Rule 6A (1)(nn), F.A.C.
…Definition of Transition Services 4.Transition services for students with disabilities may be special education, if provided as specially designed instruction, or a related service, if required to assist a student with a disability to benefit from special education. Rule 6A (1)(nn), F.A.C.
6A Provision of Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) and Development of Individual Educational Plans for Students with Disabilities
Notice: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning ages 14 and 15 Must indicate that –A purpose of the meeting will be identifying transition services needs of the student –The district will invite the student Rule 6A (3)(b)4., F.A.C.
Student Participation Students should participate in all cases where a purpose of the meeting will be the identification of the students transition services needs or consideration of postsecondary goals for the student and the transition services needed to assist the student in reaching those goals. If the student does not attend the Individual Educational Plan (IEP) meeting to identify transition services needs or consider postsecondary goals and transition services, the school district shall take other steps to ensure that the students preferences and interests are considered. Rule 6A (3)(c)7., F.A.C.
Content: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning ages 14 and 15… During the students eighth (8th) grade year or the school year of the students fourteenth (14th) birthday, whichever comes first, a statement of whether the student is pursuing a course of study leading to a standard diploma or a special diploma. Rule 6A (3)(h)8., F.A.C.
… Content: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning ages 14 and 15 IEP Teams shall begin the process of identifying transition services needs of students with disabilities, to include consideration of the students need for instruction or the provision of information in the area of self-determination to assist the student to be able to actively and effectively participate in IEP meetings and self-advocate, beginning no later than age fourteen (14), so that needed postsecondary goals may be identified and in place by age sixteen (16). Rule 6A (3)(h)9., F.A.C.
Notice: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning age 16 and Older Must indicate –That a purpose of the meeting will be consideration of the postsecondary goals and transition services for the student –That the district will invite the student –Any other agency that will be invited to send a representative to the meeting Rule 6A (3)(b)5., F.A.C.
Agency Participation To the extent appropriate and with the consent of the parents or a student who has reached the age of majority, the school district shall invite a representative of any participating agency that may be responsible for providing or paying for transition services. Parental consent or the consent of the student who has reached the age of majority must also be obtained before personally identifiable information is released to officials of participating agencies providing or paying for transition services. Rule 6A (3)(c)8., F.A.C.
Clarification on Consent To invite an agency to an IEP meeting, …a separate consent must be obtained from the parents or a child who has reached the age of majority for each IEP Team meeting, conducted in accordance with 34 CFR § (b), before a public agency can invite a representative of any participating agency that is likely to be responsible for providing or paying for transition services to attend the meeting. February 6, 2009, Memorandum and OSEP Letter
Content: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning age 16 and Older… Measurable postsecondary goals based on age-appropriate transition assessment Training or Education Employment Independent Living (where appropriate) 34 CFR (b)(1); Rule 6A (3)(h)10a, F.A.C. Annual goal(s) or short-term objectives or benchmarks that reasonably enable the student to meet the postsecondary goals 34 CFR (a)(2)
…Content: No later than the first IEP to be in effect for students turning age 16 and Older Transition services (including courses of study) to assist the student in reaching those goals Instruction or the provision of information in the area of self-determination Rule 6A (3)(h)10.a., F.A.C.
Reconvene If a participating agency responsible for transition services, other than the school district, fails to provide the transition services described in the IEP, the school district shall reconvene the IEP Team to identify alternative strategies to meet the transition objectives for the student set out in the IEP. Rule 6A (3)(h)10.b., F.A.C.
Transfer of Rights The IEP for a 17-year-old includes a statement that the student has been informed of the rights that will transfer at age CFR (c); 34 CFR (a)(1); Rule 6A (3)(h)11, F.A.C. A separate and distinct notice of the transfer of rights was provided closer to the time of the students 18th birthday. 34 CFR (c); 34 CFR (a)(1) Rule 6A (8)(c), F.A.C.
6A General Education Intervention Procedures, Identification, Evaluation, Reevaluation and the Initial Provision of Exceptional Education
Reevaluation and Summary of Performance Reevaluation is not required for a student before the termination of eligibility due to graduation with a standard diploma or exiting from school upon reaching the students twenty-second (22) birthday. The district must provide the student with a summary of academic achievement and functional performance, which shall include recommendations on how to assist the student in meeting the postsecondary goals. Rule 6A (8)(f), F.A.C. | <urn:uuid:0a0788cc-ed40-40e5-ace2-8c69ec382bfd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/736927/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00144-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924304 | 1,583 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The Florida Indian Youth Program is a free, two-week, college preparatory and exploratory program specifically designed for Native American, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian students living in Florida and Georgia. Students will participate in a program consisting of daily instruction and activities by certified instructors. It consists of career focused academic enrichment program and will expose the students to a vast range of educational and employment opportunities available after high school graduation. The program is designed to engage the students while learning. It will be an intensive and challenging program to awaken and cultivate each student’s full potential toward becoming future leaders in their communities.
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What are my treatment options?
Your cancer specialist should tell you about all the treatment options available to you. They will discuss the benefits and disadvantages of the treatments and how they might affect you. Your cancer specialist may also discuss participating in clinical research trials for new treatments. You may find our section about making treatment decisions useful.
Will any religious or spiritual wishes I have be met?
Your healthcare team should be sensitive about any religious or spiritual beliefs you’ve shared with them. For example, this could mean providing you with information about complementary therapies that could improve your spiritual well-being, such as meditation.
When will the treatment start?
After diagnosis, your cancer specialist will usually want to do further tests and investigations to learn more about your cancer. This will help them plan the best treatment for you. They will be able to tell you how long these tests will take.
If you’re diagnosed with cancer and doctors decide you need treatment, then there should be a maximum wait of 31 days between this decision and the start of treatment. If your GP referred you to a specialist as an urgent referral, then the total time between this referral and the start of your treatment should not be longer than 62 days. These times come from national targets in place across the UK.
Who will oversee my treatment?
Your treatment should ideally be discussed and planned by a group of specialists called a multidisciplinary team. This team will include all the healthcare staff involved in your care. It will include cancer nurses, your cancer specialist and other relevant specialists, such as a dietitian or physiotherapist. You should be put in contact with a nominated key worker, who will keep you in touch with the multidisciplinary team.
What will the treatment be like and how long will it take? Will there be side effects, and what can I do about them?
Your cancer specialist or nurse should describe the treatment and how it’s given. They will discuss the possible side effects of the treatment and what can be done to help relieve them. They’ll answer any questions you have. They may also give you some written information about the treatment that you can take home.
What are the treatment guidelines and standards for my treatment and care? Can I see them?
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Fun Fall Activities for the Family to Keep Your Little One Learning
Your little ones’ senses—vision, hearing, balance, hearing, smell and touch—all help your children to learn better. When their senses are stimulated, it increases the information brought to their growing minds and fine-tunes their nervous systems in the process. Fall’s new sights, sounds, and activities are great opportunities to sharpen those senses – and have fun with the whole family!
Get Outside – Nature is ready with lots of lessons! Fresh, cool air awakens the mind and body. Crunchy piles of leaves demonstrate cause and effect. Pumpkin patches reveal ideas of small, medium, and large. Corn mazes teach directions and can help identify left from right. Planting bulbs in the garden shows the value of patience. Nature walks teach the names of brightly colored insects, and the types of trees with rough or smooth trunks. Fall gives opportunities to learn outdoors at every turn!
Get Playing – Once you’re outside, don’t forget to play! Running, climbing, skipping and swinging stimulate the vestibular system, which regulates our sense of balance. Lots of vestibular stimulation helps calm your child’s mind, making it receptive for learning. Jumping into piles of leaves, playing on the swings, and learning to throw a football are all great ways to get the body’s sense of balance into action. When your kiddo gets enough running around, he’ll be better able to learn later.
Get Cooking – Apples baked fresh from the orchard, decorating cookies for Halloween, and pumpkins picked for pies are all perfect excuses to get in the kitchen with the kids. Learning names of fall squashes, counting ears of corn, and preparing recipes together make for life-long lessons (and family traditions).
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- 15 Mar 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position
Executive Summary — Does social position influence the ability to launch groundbreaking organizational projects? This study investigates that question as well as whether workers' social position in their professional field affects their ability to begin such projects. Using data based on more than ninety clinical managers in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, Battilana studied initiatives such as the development of an alternative to hospitalization for older people and another that would shift role division by transferring decision-making power from physicians to nurses. Her results indicate that social position is an important condition at the heart of organizational change. Key concepts include:
- A worker's social position is an important condition for their likelihood of initiating important new projects in organizations.
- Social position is a deciding factor in which types of changes may be made.
- Within the spectrum of social positions, the characteristics of people who are more likely to initiate such new projects are quite different depending on the type of change project that is considered.
This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors' agency and institutional determinism. It helps to resolve this paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the existing institutions. I test this model using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of the type of divergent organizational change an actor may undertake. | <urn:uuid:f304a993-b55a-41b1-b681-3d59be150fe4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/initiating-divergent-organizational-change-the-enabling-role-of-actors-social-position | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00540-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937342 | 358 | 1.507813 | 2 |
National Polytechnic Institute
The National Polytechnic Institute (Spanish: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN) is a public university in Mexico City. It is dedicated to research and education at high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It was founded in 1936 by president Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
|Motto||La Técnica al Servicio de la Patria|
Motto in English
|Technology to meet the needs of the Nation|
|Established||1 January 1936|
|Dean||Jesús Ávila Galinzoga|
|Director||Enrique Fernández Fassnacht|
|63,891 (High school)|
|Campus||Several across Mexico, mostly urban|
|Colors||Cherry and white|
The National Polytechnic Institute offers 293 courses of study. It is made up of 98 different academic units. These academic units are located across Mexico. With 171,581 students (2013), it is the second largest university in Mexico. The IPN is considered the best university in Mexico of engineering.
The institute has an important research center in Mexico called CINVESTAV.
The IPN has 27 sports teams. It has two American football teams called Burros blancos (White donkeys) and Águilas blancas (White eagles) on the Mexican College Football (ONEFA). These teams have won many championships. The IPN has a strong rivalry in all sports with UNAM, the other university in Mexico City.
- National Polytechnic Institute. "About Us". Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
- National Polytechnic Institute. "Directorio de Servidores Públicos de Mando y Dirección" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- Quadratin México. "Designan a Enrique Fernández Fassnacht director del IPN" (in Spanish). Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- National Polytechnic Institute. "Informe Anuel de Actividades dos mil trece" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- National Polytechnic Institute. "Deportes en el IPN" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
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Figures released by the Metropolitan Police revealed speed cameras were activated by foreign-registered vehicles on 8,880 occasions in 2007-08.
But the force admitted the "majority" escape legal action because officers are almost powerless to identify them.
Senior officers could only find four examples of foreign drivers who have been prosecuted for more serious driving offences.
They blame a lack of access to foreign databases and the fact driver summons papers are unenforceable outside Britain.
Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, called for a change in the law to give police better access to vehicle information held across borders.
She said: "Drivers avoiding fines are costing London millions in lost revenue, but more importantly it means that these foreign drivers are ignoring the rules of the road.This is bad for safety."
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Providing legacy access to astronomical data analysis software
Rik Huygen (K.U.Leuven), et al.
Astronomical data analysis systems, especially in space projects, usually have a very long expected lifetime after the relatively short operational project phase when developer resources are available. Therefore these software projects need to take measures to make sure astronomers can continue to run the necessary mission-specific data analysis tools. Computing hardware available to astronomers tends to evolve substantially over timescales of ~10 years. Data access and data reduction of raw data are usually highly dependent on the availability of a data product archive and of the processing software. There are a number of issues that might jeopardize the legacy availability of astronomical software systems. What are e.g. potential backward compatibility issues when the core system or the language on which the software depends evolve? If a developer effort is needed to maintain the software in the long term, what are then the key software quality issues that need to be applied in order to avoid exceeding maintenance budget. We illustrate these and other issues with a case study on the Herschel Common Software System. Herschel is a cryogenic mission which has a relatively short lifetime with active software development, while the data and interactive software system will be used by astronomers for many years after the mission.
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Definitions for hen-of-the-woods
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hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus, Grifola frondosa(noun)
large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
The numerical value of hen-of-the-woods in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
The numerical value of hen-of-the-woods in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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SISTEM PENUNJANG KEPUTUSAN PENENTUAN PENERIMA BEASISWA KURANG MAMPU DI SD NEGERI TAMANAN BANTUL YOGYAKARTA
|Tegar Adi Prayogo, Heri Sismoro|
STMIK AMIKOM YOGYAKARTA.2012
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Application Decision Support System (DSS) are widely used in various fields because it is built to support a solution to a problem or an opportunity to evaluate, among them in education DSS is used for the determination of scholarship recipients.
This application is for a database application of decision support systems, where the application is intended for the elementary schools especially in the processing of data N Tamanan Less able students are eligible for scholarships. In the application of Decision Support System Determination Less Able Fellows are students who want to get a scholarship must fill out a form that contains some predetermined criteria. To run this program it takes an admin in charge of entering Data from forms filled by students.
Scholarship applications can help the school in making decisions in determining which students are eligible for scholarships. This application is also equipped with printing the report so that both teachers, students and parents that students can see the results of processing the data.
Key Words: Scholarship, Decision, Applications
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by Art Cerf
Stories about him have been around as long as people have told stories…the undead, Nosferstu, Dracula. Perhaps the origin of the name came from Vlad Dracul…Vlad the Impaler, a man with so much blood on his hands that the Devil himself was impressed and offered Vlad life everlasting…but only by night and only to feast on human blood.
Dracula came to the United States after the Second World War, a refugee from Romania. And things went well in this land of milk and…uh, blood. Until 2020.
In late March of that year, he fed on another human only the blood tasted bad…like spoiled milk. And as the months proceeded, he tasted more and more of these poisoned vessels. He never cared about the news so he knew nothing of the pandemic. And when he finally learned of the plague, people were starting to get their vaccine shots. Â And when he happened to bite on the them, it was even worse, rancid butter, rotting fish.
As the days went on, he became weaker and weaker, so few people either without Covid or without the vaccine.
In fear of starvation, he decided he must leave the States and even Western Europe where vaccinations also were ramping up.
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On March 13, 1964, a woman was brutally murdered outside her apartment in Queens, New York. While the murder was tragic – as all murders are – it wasn’t especially noteworthy. It wasn’t until two weeks after the murder, when the New York Times published an article about the incident, that the whole world lost its mind.
* * *
Kitty Genovese was born in New York City on July 7, 1935. The eldest of five children, Kitty grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In what has to be one of the saddest ironies of all time, Kitty’s mother witnessed a murder on a street in 1954 and demanded that the family move to a safer place. And so, later that year, the family moved to Connecticut. But Kitty was 19 by then, and decided to remain in the city. By 1964, Kitty was managing Ev’s Eleventh Hour, a sports bar in Hollis, Queens and living in Kew Gardens with her partner, Mary Ann Zielonko.
At around 3:15 AM on the morning of March 13, Kitty drove home from the bar and parked her car at the Long Island Rail Road parking lot. The lot was on Austin Street across from an apartment building called The Mowbray, and approximately 100 feet from the entrance to her apartment, which was above some shops. Kitty had no idea that a man named Winston Moseley had woken up at 2:00 AM and quietly left his house. He had driven around Queens looking for a woman to murder, and Kitty was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Moseley approached Genovese in the parking lot. Genovese, frightened, ran across the lot towards towards her apartment, but changed her mind and turned to run up Austin Street towards Lefferts Boulevard, a street that was usually busy, even at 3:15 AM. Moseley caught up to her and stabbed her in the back twice. Genovese cried out “Oh my God, he stabbed me! Help me!”. A neighbor named Robert Mozer leaned out his window and shouted for Moseley to “let that girl alone”.
Mozer’s shout frightened Moseley. He ran back to his car, a white Corvair, and drove around for several minutes. He came back, parked in a different location, and put on a wide-brimmed hat, which he pulled down low to hide his face. He scanned the LIRR lot, the street, and the area around the shops. Genovese had slowly walked towards the rear of the shops, where her apartment was, and Moseley found her there in an exterior hallway. He stabbed her several more times, raped her, and took $49 from her wallet (around $360 in 2012 dollars). He then walked back to his car and drove away.
* * *
At the time, most crime reporters simply took the NYPD’s word on most cases. Sure, there was the occasional high-profile case in which reporters would interview neighbors or witnesses. But most of the time, the NYPD would simply hand out sheets with crime summaries on them, and the reporters would rewrite them and submit them to their papers.
On March 27, 1964, the New York Times ran an article by Martin Gansberg with the headline “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”. The article begins thusly:
“For more than half an hour thirty-eight respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens.
Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him off. Each time he returned, sought her out, and stabbed her again. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead.
That was two weeks ago today.”
The only problem is, almost everything in Gansberg’s article is wrong. In fact, there’s a huge factual error in the story’s very first sentence: there were only two attacks, not three. And the alleged “38 witnesses”? The District Attorney’s office searched high and low for witnesses prior to Moseley’s subsequent trial, and according to ADA Charles Skoller, only six credible witness were found. And, due to the layout of the crime, none of those people actually saw Moselely murder Genovese.
The crime took place in two parts: the initial chase and stabbing, and the final encounter in the exterior hallway. All credible witnesses saw only the first portion, and from their perspective, it looked as if it might have been a lover’s quarrel or drunken argument: there was a popular bar called The Old Bailey at the corner of Austin and Lefferts, so drunken arguments weren’t uncommon in the area.
At most, witnesses reported seeing Genovese run from Moseley, Moseley punch her in the back a couple of times, a neighbor yelling at Moseley, Moseley running away, and Genovese stumbling towards her apartment. The second part of the crime, which no one witnessed, took place in the enclosed exterior hallway.
The alleged number of witnesses – 38 – came about thanks to the NYPD’s then-antiquated emergency phone system. There were a total of 38 calls in the area at the time, but some weren’t related to the Genovese murder at all, while others simply reported a some sort of mild domestic or alcohol-related disturbance… because that’s what it looked like.
And the NYPD’s dispatchers heard from callers that Genovese had stumbled away and the incident appeared to be over, so they gave the calls a low priority. For the record, it was bitterly cold that night, so most of Genovese’s neighbors had their windows closed. Perhaps they heard the initial scuffle, but couldn’t make out what was going on, and by the time they got to their windows, the “incident” appeared to be over. But while no one rushed to Genovese’s aid, several calls were placed to the police.
* * *
The outrage from the Times article was instant and nearly world-wide. People talked about it at home over the dinner table or at work over the water cooler. Social commentators decried the neighbors’ lack of help on TV and in newspapers. Thousands of preachers gave sermons which talked about the lack of empathy and moral decline of America.
But it wasn’t just the usual moral busybodies who spoke out about the crime. Harlan Ellison, famed sci-fi writer and social commentator, published an article in Rolling Stone in which he referred to the 38 alleged witnesses as “thirty-six motherfuckers” in an article (yes, 36). A 1965 episode of the Perry Mason TV show called “The Case of the Silent Six” was loosely based on the murder. In 1966, folk singer Phil Ochs wrote the song “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends”, in which the narrator describes several scenes in which he should help but doesn’t, because it would “only interest his small circle of friends”. Ellison’s 1974 short story, “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”, was based on the incident. In the Dean Koontz novel Twilight Eyes, the protagonists are moved to action specifically because of the Genovese murder. In the graphic novel Watchmen, the murder is the basis of the entire story: the protagonist becomes a vigilante specifically because of the murder. The crime was mentioned in The Boondock Saints. The French writer Didier Decoin based his novel Est-ce ainsi que les femmes meurent? (Is This How Women Die?) on the incident. And that’s just scratching the surface: there are tons of songs, TV movies and novels based on the incident.
The murder had a huge impact in the world of sociology. It basically invented something called the “Bystander Effect”, which is sometimes called the “Genovese Syndrome” in Kitty’s honor. I’m not saying the Bystander Effect isn’t real – experiments conducted by John Darley and Bibb Latané in 1968 certainly indicated that it does exist, and their results have been replicated a thousand times over. But I will say that Genovese’s murder is mentioned in hundreds of sociology and psychology textbooks as having happened more like how the New York Times reported it than how it actually happened.
* * *
Moseley was an unlikely suspect. He was 28 years old, owned a house in Queens, and had a wife and two children. He had a steady job with Remington Rand as a “tab operator” (in the early days of computers, data entered via a paper punch card). He had no prior criminal record, and was, by all appearances, a stand-up guy. In fact, on his way home from the murder, Moseley was stopped at a traffic light, and when it turned green the car in front of him didn’t move. Moseley got out of his car and gently awoke the man in the car in front of him.
Here’s the most amazing thing about the entire Genovese tale: six days after the murder, Moseley was in Corona, Queens around 3 PM. He’d decided to rob a home, and as he walked out of the house with a TV set, a neighbor stopped him and asked what he was doing. Moseley cheerfully said that he was helping the home’s owners, the Bannister family, move. The neighbor went back to his own house and called another neighbor to verify that the Bannisters were moving. When the neighbor assured him that they were not, the first neighbor told the second neighbor to hang up and call the police. The first neighbor went to Moseley’s Corvair and tinkered with the distributor cap so that the car wouldn’t start. Moseley fled the area on foot, but police arrived shortly thereafter and caught him.
After his arrest, Moseley freely admitted to killing not just Kitty Genovese, but two other women as well. He also admitted to a string of unsolved rapes and dozens of burglaries. He was convicted of killing Genovese, and remains in prison to this day. He has been denied parole fifteen times, and will be up for parole again in November 2013.
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Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65], at sacred-texts.com
phi 1:1Servants - St. Paul, writing familiarly to the Philippians, does not style himself an apostle. And under the common title of servants, he tenderly and modestly joins with himself his son Timotheus, who had come to Philippi not long after St. Paul had received him, Act 16:3, Act 16:12. To all the saints - The apostolic epistles were sent more directly to the churches, than to the pastors of them. With the bishops and deacons - The former properly took care of the internal state, the latter, of the externals, of the church, Ti1 3:2-8; although these were not wholly confined to the one, neither those to the other. The word bishops here includes all the presbyters at Philippi, as well as the ruling presbyters: the names bishop and presbyter, or elder, being promiscuously used in the first ages.
phi 1:4With joy - After the epistle to the Ephesians, wherein love reigns, follows this, wherein there is perpetual mention of joy. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy." And joy peculiarly enlivens prayer. The sum of the whole epistle is, I rejoice. Rejoice ye.
phi 1:5The sense is, I thank God for your fellowship with us in all the blessings of the gospel, which I have done from the first day of your receiving it until now.
phi 1:6Being persuaded - The grounds of which persuasion are set down in the following verse. That he who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Christ - That he who having justified, hath begun to sanctify you, will carry on this work, till it issue in glory.
phi 1:7As it is right for me to think this of you all - Why? He does not say, "Because of an eternal decree;" or, "Because a saint must persevere;" but, because I have you in my heart, who were all partakers of my grace - That is, because ye were all (for which I have you in my heart, I bear you the most grateful and tender affection) partakers of my grace - That is, sharers in the afflictions which God vouchsafed me as a grace or favour, Phi 1:29-30; both in my bonds, and when I was called forth to answer for myself, and to confirm the gospel. It is not improbable that, after they had endured that great trial of affliction, God had sealed them unto full victory, of which the apostle had a prophetic sight.
phi 1:8I long for you with the bowels of Jesus Christ - In Paul, not Paul lives, but Jesus Christ. Therefore he longs for them with the bowels, the tenderness, not of Paul, but of Jesus Christ.
phi 1:9And this I pray, that your love - Which they had already shown. May abound yet more and more - The fire which burned in the apostle never says, It is enough. In knowledge and in all spiritual sense - Which is the ground of all spiritual knowledge. We must be inwardly sensible of divine peace, joy, love; otherwise, we cannot know what they are.
phi 1:10That ye may try - By that spiritual sense. The things that are excellent - Not only good, but the very best; the superior excellence of which is hardly discerned, but by the adult Christian. That ye may be inwardly sincere - Having a single eye to the very best things, and a pure heart. And outwardly without offence - Holy, unblamable in all things.
phi 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God - Here are three properties of that sincerity which is acceptable to God: It must bear fruits, the fruits of righteousness, all inward and outward holiness, all good tempers, words, and works; and that so abundantly, that we may be filled with them. The branch and the fruits must derive both their virtue and their very being from the all - supporting, all - supplying root, Jesus Christ. As all these flow from the grace of Christ, so they must issue in the glory and praise of God.
phi 1:12The things concerning me - My sufferings. Have fallen out rather to the furtherance, than, as you feared, the hinderance, of the gospel.
phi 1:13My bonds in Christ - Endured for his sake. Have been made manifest - Much taken notice of. In the whole palace - Of the Roman emperor.
phi 1:14And many - Who were before afraid. Trusting in the Lord through my bonds - When they observed my constancy, and safety not withstanding, are more bold.
phi 1:15Some indeed preach Christ out of contention - Envying St. Paul's success, and striving to hurt him thereby. Not sincerely - From a real desire to glorify God. But supposing - Though they were disappointed. To add more affliction to my bonds - By enraging the Romans against me.
phi 1:17But the others out of love - To Christ and me. Knowing - Not barely, supposing. That I am set - Literally, I lie; yet still going forward in his work. He remained at Rome as an ambassador in a place where he is employed on an important embassy.
phi 1:18In pretence - Under colour of propagating the gospel. In truth - With a real design so to do.
phi 1:19This shall turn to my salvation - Shall procure me an higher degree of glory. Through your prayer - Obtaining for me a larger supply of the Spirit.
phi 1:20As always - Since my call to the apostleship. In my body - however it may he disposed of. How that might be, he did not yet know. For the apostles did not know all things; particularly in things pertaining to themselves, they had room to exercise faith and patience.
phi 1:21To me to live is Christ - To know, to love, to follow Christ, is my life, my glory, my joy.
phi 1:22Here he begins to treat of the former clause of the preceding verse. Of the latter he treats, Phi 2:17. But if I am to live is the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour - This is the fruit of my living longer, that I can labour more. Glorious labour! desirable fruit! in this view, long life is indeed a blessing. And what I should choose I know not - That is, if it were left to my choice.
phi 1:23To depart - Out of bonds, flesh, the world. And to be with Christ - In a nearer and fuller union. It is better to depart; it is far better to be with Christ.
phi 1:25I know - By a prophetic notice given him while he was writing this. That I shall continue some time longer with you - And doubtless he did see them after this confinement.
phi 1:27Only - Be careful for this, and nothing else. Stand fast in one spirit - With the most perfect unanimity. Striving together - With united strength and endeavours. For the faith of the gospel - For all the blessings revealed and promised therein.
phi 1:28Which - Namely, their being adversaries to the word of God, and to you the messengers of God. Is an evident token - That they are in the high road to perdition; and you, in the way of salvation.
phi 1:29For to you it is given - As a special token of God's love, and of your being in the way of salvation.
phi 1:30Having the same kind of conflict with your adversaries, which ye saw in me - When I was with you, Act 16:12, Act 16:19, &c. | <urn:uuid:631c7be5-2079-47c3-9eec-92f3d5596557> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/phi001.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00075-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952249 | 1,696 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Over the past year, two digital disasters have rocked the internet. The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off the web last September, including Spotify, Reddit, and The New York Times. And over the past week, the WannaCry ransomware outbreak crippled systems ranging from health care to transportation in 150 countries before an unlikely "kill-switch" in its code shut it down.
Now a few devious hackers appear to be trying to combine those two internet plagues: They're using their own copycats of the Mirai botnet to attack WannaCry's kill-switch. So far, researchers have managed to fight off the attacks. But in the unlikely event that the hackers succeed, the ransomware could once again start spreading unabated.
Since the WannaCry ransomware worm began to fan out through the internet Friday, security researchers noticed a curious feature. When it infects a computer, it first reaches out to a certain random-looking web address, apparently as part of a check that it's not running in a "sandbox" environment, which security researchers use to test malware samples safely. If WannaCry connects to a valid server at that specified domain, the ransomware assumes it's under scrutiny, and goes dormant.
Marcus Hutchins, a 22-year-old cybersecurity analyst for the security firm Kryptos Logic, spotted that trait last week, and immediately registered the web domain in WannaCry's code. In doing so, he effectively neutered the malware, cutting short what would have otherwise been a far worse epidemic, and instantly becoming a minor celebrity in cybersecurity circles.
Since then, hackers have directed armies of zombie devices---webcams, modems, and other gadgets caught up in the expansive Mirai botnet---to funnel junk traffic to the kill-switch web address, also called a "sinkhole," a site security researchers direct malware to in order to contain it. The presumed intention? Knock the domain offline, trigger some of WannaCry's dormant infections to reactivate, and end the epidemic's nearly week-long lull.
"Pretty much as soon as it went public what had happened, one of the Mirai botnets started on the sinkhole," says Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who registered the WannaCry kill-switch domain. Since then, he says, near-daily attacks from that first botnet and others built with the same Mirai malware have steadily ticked up in size and impact.
If the DDoS assault did succeed, not all WannaCry infections would immediately reignite. The ransomware stops scanning for new victims 24 hours after installing itself on a computer, says Matt Olney, a security researcher with Cisco's Talos team. But anytime one of those infected machines reboots, it starts scanning again. "The ones that were successfully encrypted are in this zombie state, where they’re waiting to be reactivated if that domain goes away," says Olney.
Hutchins says he doesn't believe the source of the botnet attacks are the original malware authors but, rather, other groups of hackers hoping to kickstart WannaCry again just for the amusement of watching it spread. "They’ve obviously got no financial incentive. They're not the ransomware developers," Hutchins says. "They’re just doing it to cause pain."
The first DDoS attack, Hutchins says, was so small he barely noticed it. "It was sort of a love-tap from a botnet," he says. But since then, he's seen five attacks, trending upward. On Wednesday, Mirai hit the sinkhole domain with its worst flood yet, 20 gigabits per second of traffic. For comparison, that's less than a fiftieth of the size of the Mirai DDoS that hit the DNS provider Dyn in September and knocked major websites offline, but 20 times the gigabit-per-second that DDoS-tracking firm Arbor Networks measured as an average attack in 2016. | <urn:uuid:e375cff2-747c-47a4-a6ec-f3ad32c0cccd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-ddos-attack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.949768 | 820 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Analysis of Remote Access Trojans helps understand third-party business risk
Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are often used to steal information from enterprise networks. By looking at network metadata, analysts at threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have been able to identify RAT command-and-control (C2) servers, and more crucially, which corporate networks are communicating to those controllers.
This offers insight about third-party organizations that Recorded Future clients can use to get a better understanding of potential third-party risk to their own data.
The research identified active malware controllers for 14 malware families between December 2, 2018 and January 9, 2019. It then focused analysis on a subset of malware -- Emotet, Xtreme RAT, and ZeroAccess -- to profile RAT communications from third-party organizations to the controllers.
The findings show a significant proportion of infected Emotet hosts are based in Latin America, corroborating community observations of a surge in late-2018 Emotet activity targeting South American entities. Infected hosts include organizations in the automotive, finance, energy, construction, retail and entertainment, logistics, and technology sectors.
Infected Xtreme RAT hosts were identified within a video game company and a utilities company in Europe, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian telecommunications companies, and an industrial conglomerate and an IT company in East Asia.
The research highlights the benefit of being able to identify and track malicious RAT controller network infrastructure to inform the security posture of enterprises.
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X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE has released a reference design kit for Tanner™ analog/mixed-signal (AMS) software from the EDA segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software. The new kit is based on silicon-proven circuitry, providing full coverage of the flow to design and simulate analog and mixed-signal ICs.
More complex designs, shorter time-to-market pressures and new process constraints all add greater challenges to modern design methods. In order to have a starting point to address these challenges, X-FAB provides its customers reference design flows based on its established process design kits (PDKs). X-FAB’s reference design kits allow users to determine which EDA tools and flows are natively supported by a specific PDK, as well as which set-up might be required.
Via the latest addition to the X-FAB reference design kit portfolio, it is possible to show the set-up of the PDK for the company’s XH018 180 nm modular mixed-signal high-voltage CMOS process on Siemens’ Tanner AMS tools. Predominantly focused on the needs of designers performing analog and mixed-signal simulations, the reference design kit enables evaluation of the different features of Siemens EDA’s Tanner tools. It provides support for tool set-up, design and simulation flow, as well as demonstrating how designers can use X-FAB PDKs with this popular EDA environment in order to perform physical verification tasks. The ready-to-use package is now available on the “my X-FAB” customer portal.
Lars Bergmann, Director of X-FAB Design Support, explains: “Reference design kits have proved themselves to be pivotal in demonstrating the design flows that can be achieved using X-FAB process design kits and IPs. By adding a kit that is dedicated to Siemens’ Tanner AMS design tools to our overall offering, we are able to address the needs of an even greater customer base. It means that designers can choose the flow which best matches their specific requirements.”
“Having totally effective design support is the key to any project’s success. Through the new dedicated reference design kit, and the access this provides to our advanced EDA tools, X-FAB has made it substantially easier for designers to implement better analog and mixed-signal circuitry, “ adds Greg Lebsack, ICDS General Manager for Siemens Digital Industries Software.
The state-of-the-art Tanner custom IC design tools from Siemens feature easy-to-use schematic and layout editors. They can be integrated with best-in-class circuit simulators, as well Calibre® platform technology — the company’s industry-leading product for design rule checking, parasitic extraction and physical verification. | <urn:uuid:07d4e5f4-b6fc-4053-b44e-54108934204c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eenewsembedded.com/en/analog-mixed-signal-reference-design-kit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.923009 | 591 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Garden waste collection could be scrapped by Amber Valley Borough Council - in a bid to save the authority more than £350,000 a year.
Changes to the service are being proposed by council officers who are recommending that a public consultation on the matter is launched.
Options include charging for the service, axing it completely or expanding it - however ‘increasing pressure on the council’s financial resources’ make that alternative unlikely.
Councillors will consider whether to press ahead with an online survey to decide the fate of the service at a meeting of the borough council’s cabinet in Ripley today (September 3).
In a report to the cabinet, the council’s environment manager, Ian Shaw, said: “Removing the service will undoubtedly be unpopular with the current service users and give rise to a large number of complaints which would need to be managed. Removing the service completely would have reputational consequences for the council arising from the significant deterioration in recycling performance and the increased emissions.”
From 2008 to 2012 the council operated a garden waste collection service and a charge of £39/£40 per year was paid by each customer. Customer levels peaked at 3,800 properties
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Why, How and When Diabetic Face Amputations?
Statistics has time and again proved that India is the capital of Diabetes in the world. This life-threatening disease is spreading far and wide across the states irrespective of class, creed and culture. As per the national conference on diabetes, India’s 15 percent of the diabetic population is known to suffer from ulcers at least once in their lifetime.
Diabetes is in itself not only about less insulin and high sugar levels in the body. It can lead to nerve damage and reduction in blood circulation. These two conditions can make the feet vulnerable to skin sores or ulcers. These ulcers can magnify in no time.
With modern management by physicians and with proper foot care you can actually prevent foot ulcers. It has been found that a little care would bring down the lower limb amputations by 50 percent.
It has been found that more than 80 percent of the amputations start with foot ulcers. A non-curable ulcer can cause significant damage to tissues and bone and need surgical removal of toe, foot or part of the leg.
[Also Read Diabetic Ulcers on Foot and Treatment]
Factors leading to the risk of amputation
- High blood pressure above 140/80
- High blood sugar levels
- Nerve deterioration
- Reduction in blood circulation to the nerve endings
- Previous foot ulcer history
- Previous amputation
- Vision deterioration
- Kidney disease
[Also Read 5 Ways to Avoid Diabetes Complications]
[Also Read How To Prevent Heart Disease In Diabetics]
Symptoms of ulcer
- Toenails grew inside
- Plantar warts on the foot soles
- Sportsman’s foot
- Open sore
- Foul smell
- Ulcer lasting for more than 1 or 2 weeks
- Ulcer bigger than 2 cm
- Ulcer not healing fast
- A deep ulcer such that you can see the bone below
Precautions to prevent ulcers
- To inspect your feet everyday
- Wash feet daily
- To avoid calluses or other foot lesions yourself
- To trim your toenails on a regular basis
- Never to go barefoot
- Always wear clean and dry socks
- Wear shoes that fit properly
- Avoid smoking
- To go for regular foot checkups
[Also Read How to care for feet when you have diabetes]
When is Amputation done?
When the ulcer is not healing and becomes a life threat, the call is taken for amputation. The dead tissues and damaged tissues are removed with a surgical procedure. The ulcer is under observation for a few days till the wound is healed.
At the conference at Zen hospital,Dr. Roy Patankar claimed that 69 million of Indian population is diabetic. At the same time, they urged treating ulcers or wounds is quite a challenge for the physicians. They called the hospitals for admission of ulcer-related issues and to provide timely medical help to reduce the intensity of ulcers or wounds.
The stalwarts in the field of wound management like Madhuri Gore and Dr.Sitaram Prasad were part of the delegation. The doctors called for improved wound health care across hospitals in India.
The advanced technology and new ulcer care products are helping the physicians and surgeons to provide the patients with maximum benefits. The emphasis in the conference was about the identification and assessment of the ulcer healing and its formation. The focus was also on chronic ulcers or wounds, therapy and case studies of breakthrough cases.
The increase in the number of amputations has caused concern amongst the medical fraternity today. People who have one amputation are at a risk of having another. The conference and topics in the conference echoed the same thought. The awareness amongst the diabetics about the symptoms and precautions to be taken will be a start.
Diabetes is increasing by numerous times. The stress in daily lives, hereditary factors and lifestyle changes and not being observant of ulcers are reasons for the increase in amputation. The diabetics need to follow a healthy lifestyle inclusive of healthy food habits with regular exercise. Following a proper diabetes treatment plan is a must to have blood sugar levels under control. Along with the above, you need to be aware and observant about the sores and ulcers occurring in your foot. Timely help is the best precaution you can take to save yourself from the pain of ulcers or wounds.
The ideal way of tackling diabetes is Ayurveda as it prescribes all natural and purely herbal ingredients that ensure zero side effects.
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"Possibile & aequissimum erat" is an impersonal sentence, which can be translated in English as "it was possible and most fair", but which needs no such pronoun in Latin.
What was 'possible and most fair' is here expressed as an accusative-infinitive, with quam (indeed referring back to legem) and praestari.
So "... legem posuit, quam praestari ... possibile ... & aequissimum erat" is literally: *"... He laid down a law, which it was possible and most equitable to be fulfilled". Which is to say: It [impersonal] was possible and most equitable that it [the law] be fulfilled.
However, in English, we can't use an acc-inf with an impersonal sentence. "I want the law to be fulfilled" is correct, but *"It is possible the law to be fulfilled" is not. We can insert 'for' before 'the law' ("It is possible for the law to be fulfilled") or we can use a that-clause ("It is possible that the law be fulfilled"), or perhaps both "It is possible for the law that it be fulfilled" (?). But for some reason these solutions look strange in a relative clause: "A law, (for) which it is possible that it be fulfilled" (?) or "A law, (for) which it is possible to be fulfilled" (?).
Substituting the impersonal subject is also wrong: both *"The law was possible to be fulfilled." and *"The law, which was possible to be fulfilled."
So I'm afraid the best way to handle this sentence is to turn the passive into an active and turn the accusative from the subject of an acc-inf clause into a simple object of the infinitive: "... He laid down a law, which it was possible and most equitable to fulfill" (as if the Latin said "legem posuit, quam praestare ... possibile ... & aequissimum erat"). | <urn:uuid:c97349cf-1b40-47d7-a026-5590739a2148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/13864/neuter-adjectives-with-no-obvious-antecedent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.970336 | 440 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Of the total death toll, Nakhon Ratchasima had the highest deaths of 15 people.
Only on January 4, the last day of the seven dangerous days, 40 persons died and 289 injured in 287 accidents happened in a single day.
Drunk driving was blamed to be the main cause of most accidents or 20.14%, followed by speeding, 17.28%.
Chiang Mai had the highest accumulated cases of 139 accidents and injuries of 140 people.
Compared with last year’s road accidents, this year’s fatalities were higher.
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(The Hill) – White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Thursday stressed the importance of mental health as the world prepares to enter the pandemic’s third year.
“Mental health is a very important and difficult situation that we’re dealing with right now,” Fauci said in an interview on NewsNation’s “Morning in America.”
Fauci cited both “the health care providers who are stressed to the limit” and “children whose normal life as a child is often disrupted” as some of those who have been particularly impacted by the mental strain of COVID-19.
His remarks come as the omicron variant, first detected in South Africa last month, contribute to soaring case rates across the country.
“Mental health is a very, very important part of what’s going on right now, and that’s the reason why there are programs now that are specifically addressing that,” he added. “The surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has come out and spoken very explicitly about the importance of addressing the mental health issues that are associated with this pandemic.”
Earlier this month, Murthy issued a public health advisory about the mental health challenges of young people, especially as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“It would be a tragedy if we beat back one public health crisis only to allow another to grow in its place,” Murthy said in the advisory’s introduction.
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Covers everything any singer needs to know to read music! Includes examples, exercises, songs, answers and an assignment for each chapter. This book starts slowly with the basics and adds more complicated elements one by one. It uses visual images to help you hear in your head what you see on the page. Unlike most other sight singing books, it is specially geared to the singer of pop music. Once you learn the system, you can sight sing in any given key. The accompanying CD will help you to monitor your efforts.
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We explore what fruit and vegetables you can grow in autumn, either on the allotment, in your garden veg patch or in pots and containers.
The nights may be drawing in and the temperatures starting to drop, but that’s no reason to pack away your garden tools and assume your vegetable patch is redundant until next spring. In autumn, summer crops are coming to the end of their season, and winter veg seeds should have already been sown back in the summer – but there are still plenty of crops you can start to grow at this time of year. Here are five fruit and vegetables you can grow in autumn.
Autumn onion sets, shallots and garlic are a great place to start. They’re easy to grow, low-maintenance and take up little growing space.
Whether you’re planting them straight into open soil, a raised bed or a small container, try to position them in full or partial sun. Ensure the soil is weed-free and well-drained. If it’s not, dig-in some well-rotted organic matter. Plant your onion sets and garlic cloves 15cm apart, giving them plenty of space to grow. Autumn soil retains its warmth, which will encourage your young crop to develop a strong root system.
Until they’re established, keep your plants covered over with horticultural mesh or fleece to prevent wildlife from eating them. By next July, they’ll be ready for harvesting. They can be eaten straight away or stored for several months.
- Can be grown in open soil, a raised bed or a small container
- Need full or partial sun
- Need weed-free, well-drained soil
- Plant 15cm
- Cover with horticultural mesh or fleece until established
- Harvest in July
- Read full guide on how to grow garlic
Broad beans can cope with harsh winter weather, tolerating temperatures as low as -10c. Go for autumn long pod varieties, such as RHS Award Garden of Merit, Aquadulce Claudia (BUY NOW), as they are the hardiest.
Whether you’re growing them in an open plot or raised bed, ensure the area is sunny and sheltered from the wind. The soil should be well-drained with plenty of organic matter dug-in.
Create double shallow drills 20cm apart and 5cm deep. Sow seeds 20cm apart. Each double row should be 60cm apart. Once you’ve sown your seeds, cover them over and water thoroughly. They’re best sown in double rows, so tall plants can support one another, and encourage pollination. Keep the growing area weed free, and cover over the young seedlings with horticultural fleece during cold periods. Use stakes to support the plants as they get taller. All being well, your broad beans will be ready to harvest the following May/June.
- Chose autumn long pod varieties
- Grow in open plot or raised bed
- Need sun and shelter from wind
- Need well-drained. weed-free soil with plenty of organic matter
- Best sown in double rows
- Sow seeds 20cm apart
- Harvest May/June
Believe it or not, lettuce makes for a great winter crop, providing you with fresh leaves throughout the colder months. Consider hardy varieties such as lamb’s lettuce, miners lettuce and land cress which can all cope with chilly temperatures. A greenhouse is ideal, as it’ll provide added warmth and protection, but these varieties can also be grown outside.
Sow the seeds thinly into shallow troughs, cover over with soil and gently water. Then cover the sown area with a cloche or horticultural fleece, for added warmth and protection. If you want to get a head-start, sow seeds thinly into modular trays indoors. They can be planted out into their final growing position once they’re young plants. Cover them over with a cloche or horticultural fleece, and keep an eye out for slugs and snails; they relish young shoots, so if spotted, remove accordingly.
- Hardy varieties
- Sow seeds thinly into shallow troughs
- Cover seeds with cloche or horticultural fleece
- Keep an eye out for slugs and snails
It’s a great time to plant fruit trees, fruit bushes, raspberry canes, strawberry runners and rhubarb crowns which are dormant at this time of year. If space is an issue, go for varieties suited to containers or large pots. Stepover fruit trees are a good option as they’re small, low and can be planted alongside paths or at the front of beds, or try training a tree in a fan shape against your fence. Keep in mind that bare-root trees are cheaper than their potted counterparts.
5. Green manures
Now’s the perfect time for sowing green manures (BUY NOW). These are fast-growing plants that help prevent soil erosion, suppress weeds and improve soil structure, and there are different varieties available providing different benefits. Following packet instructions, sow directly into your beds and leave for several weeks, before digging them into the soil. They’re an easy and cheap way to improve your veg beds for next season. Alternatively, spread a thick layer of well-rotted organic matter over your beds and leave to break down over winter.
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Autumn is a great time to start thinking about next year’s growing season. Now that your plants have died back, it’s easy to see the blueprint of your garden and to identify what isn’t working.
Perennials can be lifted and transplanted to more suitable positions, if need be, and damaged structures, fences and supports are easier to repair while your beds are empty.
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Vaezi, Michael F. (Ed.)
This volume presents the most recent developments in diagnosis and treatment of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and those who continue to be refractory to conventional GERD therapies. The book delineates the role of newly developed endoscopic therapies in GERD and outlines the best candidates for surgical fundoplication. Topics as the risks associated with GERD, lifestyle modification in GERD and the role of H2RA and proton pump inhibitor therapy in treating reflux disease are also explored.
Written by authorities in the field, Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease is a concise yet comprehensive resource that is useful for primary care providers, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, surgeons and ENT specialists.
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Publication Date: 1976
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The Book of Dene.
Northwest Territories Dept. of Education, Yellowknife.
This book contains the traditional tales and beliefs of the Chippewa, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. These histories and traditions were spoken to a priest named Emile Petitot (1838-1916) who wrote the words down in the Dene language. This edition was translated from the French and compared with versions in the original tongues by the Northwest Territories Department of Education. Contents include origin myths about creation, the first man and woman, the naming of animals, a great flood and the repopulation of the earth afterward, the multiplication of language, tribal origins, the discovery of copper, the first canoe and sailor, and the first war. Other tales concern wars with the Eskimos and other enemies, the coming of the French, and appropriate social or ritual behaviors. (SV)
Publication Type: Creative Works
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“When we reached the crest of the bridge, I stopped dead still. ... There, facing us at the bottom of the other side, stood a seas of blue-helmeted [skipwords]Alabama[/skipwords] State Troopers, line after line of them,” Lewis writes of that day in Selma, Ala., in his moving memoir, Walking With the Wind.
Beavan — the celebrated author of No Impact Man and star of a documentary by the same name — is too levelheaded to compare his struggles to those of Lewis.
Now a congressman from Georgia, Lewis was a college student and civil rights leader in the 1960s, and his courage in the face of threats and violence was legendary even then. His brand of sacrifice was quite different from the inconveniences Beavan and his family suffered during their yearlong struggle to spend an entire year without polluting the world. It was measured in head bashes and arrests.
After reaching the top of bridge and staring down at troopers — well-known for their brutality toward civil rights activists — Lewis led 600 marchers peacefully down the sidewalk toward the line of cops. He and other leaders then stopped. A captain gave the crowd two minutes to turn around, or else.
Lewis knelt and prayed. And very quickly the troopers set upon him and the other marchers with clubs, tear gas and horses.
“God, we’re being killed,” Lewis recalled in Walking With the Wind. “I began choking, coughing, I couldn’t get air in my lungs. I felt as if I was taking my last breath. People are going to die here. I’m going to die here.”
He was one of 57 people reported injured that day by police. A baton struck him on the head.
Many of us define our lives by that moment on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. I don’t mean literally that we think of the beatings in Selma as we go about work and play. But it was an event with such power that it allows us all to re-imagine our nation, even if we never stopped to think about it.
Why was it so powerful? On one side, stood the righteous citizen — asserting himself as an individual on behalf of others — on behalf, truly, of an entire nation’s need to live up to the promise of its creed.
On the other side, stood the unthinking, violent force of the state — with all the perversions of lies and injustices that had grown up around it, ready to be weeded out.
The redemption of the marchers, who days later would be allowed to continue on to the state Capitol in Montgomery, only made the narrative more powerful, to the point that it compelled a previously hesitant Congress to quickly pass landmark civil rights legislation.
Whatever political stripe you wear, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. and others couldn’t have crafted a more irresistible narrative had they tried — even to the point that Southern politicians and Alabama troopers willingly stood in as villains.
Scholars of myths and literature might talk about Lewis as a heroic archetype — first turned back on his righteous quest, then redeemed. But it’s a story with particular power in America, because it fits so neatly into our larger self-image as the city gleaming on a hill, ever driven by noble individuals to be truer to itself.
The empire struck back on that first march in Selma; the Jedi returned and marched to Montgomery.
To one degree or another, many of us — whether we’re Tea Party Patriots or tree-sitting pacifists — are pining to take a moral stand against the unjust power of the state. The rest of us may lack that impulse but want desperately to play a supporting role in that righteous quest.
It’s not surprising that Colin Beavan subtitles his book (in part): “The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet” or that he puts his challenge this way near the beginning of his book: “The question was, given the state of world affairs, whether I shouldn't have been asking more of myself.”
No Impact Man could have come across as a sort of stunt. Although it offers a route to redemption of sorts, it certainly follows in the footsteps of a few too many environmental self-flagellation journals, ranging from Super Size Me to The Cove.
You know the formula. Each is designed to illustrate in some painful way how we/they/corporate America/the government/human nature are destroying our bodies/mom-and-pop businesses/our nation/the Third World/the natural world. If Thoreau’s Walden falls into the same genre, the spate of first-person experiential documentaries represent a tradition that goes a lot further back than Jackass does.
Such movies and, in No Impact Man’s case, books can be well-told, powerful tales. But they tend to appeal to the choir and to entertain the rest.
Beavan is an artful, funny and insightful author, whose observations take his readers on surprising turns and who is able to convey with refreshing honesty an event that for a lesser writer might come across as predictable. Apart from its value as a good, insightful read or entertaining movie, however, there is something missing for someone who believes we “should be asking more of ourselves.” While Beavan understands both the idea that our environmental crisis is a collective problem and the concept of practicing what you preach, it's clear that we won't slow climate change very much if tens of thousands of his readers start using stairs instead of elevators.
“But on the eve of the start of the no-impact project, I simply thought that by taking a personal approach to the problem of the health, safety, and happiness of our species, maybe I had found a non-finger-wagging way to change some minds after all,” Beavan writes. Then, as if foreseeing that he might simply be entertaining the rest of us, he continues: “But if I couldn't, at least I would have been able to change myself. At least if I couldn't solve the problems, I'd be able to say that I had tried.”
It seems we’re still groping for a narrative that is as powerful to the environmental movement — and for climate change in particular — as the civil rights movement was for social justice.
As the marchers prepared for that second, successful march from Selma, President Lyndon Johnson grasped the symbolism of the moment in a speech to Congress quoted by Lewis in his book:
“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. ... What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” | <urn:uuid:af7a4a15-923c-45eb-8e4e-d303a36bd594> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/no-impact-in-more-ways-than-one?magic_tabs_comment_callback_tab=0&referer=node%2F50408&args=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A5%3A%2250408%22%3B%7D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969591 | 1,529 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Supervillain Magneto, of X-Men fame, uses his mind to control magnets. Now, scientists have invented a protein namesake that allows them to use a magnetic field to control the firing of neurons. The Magneto ion channel quickly and reversibly activated neurons in mouse brain slices, in zebrafish, and even in freely moving, awake mice, as reported in the March 7 Nature Neuroscience online. “This is not for mind control,” senior author Ali Güler reassured this reporter. Nevertheless, Güler and colleagues at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville used Magneto to motivate mice. They expressed the paramagnetic protein in neurons studded with dopamine receptors and located deep in the brain. Magneto activated reward circuits, luring the mice to spend more time within a magnetic field than outside it. Essentially, the mice were made to “like” the pull of magnetism.
“Oh, this paper is cheating,” quipped John Cirrito of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, who was not involved in the work. “Anything with ‘Magneto’ in front of it automatically sounds cooler.” But all the same, Cirrito thought the technology had potential. “I see it as an incredible research tool,” he said. “I can see lots of applications for it.”
What Güler, first author Michael Wheeler, and colleagues offer is a new alternative to chemogenetics and optogenetics. Those techniques have given neuroscientists control over neurons expressing transgenes that respond to small molecules or light, respectively (see Nov 2012 news series). Each has its downsides. With chemogenetics, it takes minutes for an injected activator molecule to reach the right neurons, and scientists cannot control when the molecule dissipates. Optogenetics works quickly, but in order to reach neurons deep in the brain, neuroscientists must implant fiber optics to deliver the light, and that light only reaches neurons near the cable’s end.
To create a fast-acting, noninvasive neuron activator using magnets, Wheeler started with the TRPV4 (transient receptor potential vanilloid 1) ion channel, which opens to let sodium and calcium cations through in response to stretching of the plasma membrane (see image above). The authors reasoned that if they could tug on the channel with a magnetic force, they could mimic stretching and pop it open. To make TRPV4 sensitive to magnetic fields, they linked it to the iron-storing protein ferritin. They tried 21 different fusion constructs, placing ferritin in TRPV4’s intercellular loops or at its termini, and expressed them in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells.
Most of the fusions were toxic, perhaps because they constantly leaked ions or gummed up the cell’s translational machinery, Güler said. With three channels that did not kill the cells outright, the authors imaged intracellular calcium to identify just one that opened up in response to a 50-milliTesla magnetic field. That is stronger than a refrigerator magnet, but much weaker than the one to three Tesla fields generated by most magnetic resonance imaging machines. This construct, with ferritin on TRPV4’s carboxyl terminus, is what they dubbed Magneto.
It let in less calcium than the researchers expected, though. They suspected some of the fusion channel might be stuck in the endoplasmic reticulum, and indeed, adding a bit of sequence to target Magneto to the plasma membrane improved its membrane localization and calcium trafficking. The authors called this particular mutant Magneto2.0.
Wheeler and colleagues tested Magneto2.0 in a variety of situations. First, they expressed the fusion gene in excitatory neurons of mice, and co-author Manoj Patel recorded action potentials from brain slices. In the 50-milliTesla field, he found the neurons spiked quickly, and rapidly stopped when he turned off the magnetic field.
Next, Wheeler expressed Magneto2.0 in the Rohon-Beard sensory neurons of zebrafish. When these neurons fire, fish larvae curl up. When Wheeler placed the larvae in a 500-milliTesla magnetic field, they coiled more than 10 times as often as they did without the magnetic stimulation.
Finally, the authors tested Magneto2.0 in freely moving mice, expressing it in medium spiny neurons of the striatum. These neurons express a dopamine receptor, and are suspected of controlling reward responses. To test this, Wheeler gave the mice a choice: They could hang out in a chamber with a 50- to 250-milliTesla electromagnetic gradient, or one with no magnetic field. The mice preferred the magnetized chamber. In other words, Wheeler created mice that feel good in a magnetic field.
“I like the technique a lot,” commented Yun Li of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore. She pointed out that unlike light delivered by skinny fiber optics, the magnetic field can reach every Magneto-expressing neuron in the brain.
Cirrito praised the speed. “It is turned on crazy fast,” he said.
However, scientists also see plenty of room for improvement. Magneto is a prototype, and Güler is already making plans for Magneto3.0. He wants to eliminate the binding sites for TRPV4 ligands that could activate the channel. He also plans to try other positions for ferritin in hopes of boosting Magneto’s sensitivity. With Magneto2.0, the researchers had to place their mice in narrow channels with high-powered electromagnets near the animals’ heads. It would be hard to get any effects from the magnets in a larger organism, Güler said.
Both Cirrito and Li expressed concern about the timing of the calcium influx in Wheeler’s initial experiments with HEK cells. While a bit of calcium entered the cell as soon as the scientists activated the electromagnets, once turned off, the levels of cytoplasmic calcium continued to rise for as long as Wheeler watched the cells, which in this case was five minutes. This might be because cytoplasmic calcium prodded the endoplasmic reticulum, a major calcium storehouse, to let go of its own ions. Plus, some Magneto2.0 remains in the ER, so any magnetic field should let calcium out of that organelle into the cytosol as well. Scientists do not yet know exactly why the calcium rises so high, whether the same occurs in Magneto neurons, or what the long-term consequences would be. Güler said extended periods of high calcium might cause excitotoxicity. Li said she would prefer to see the calcium distribution normalize within minutes of turning off the magnet. She suggested that since some Magneto2.0 remains in the ER, improving its plasma membrane targeting could help by eliminating an intracellular source of calcium.
Scientists have plenty to do to figure out exactly how the fusion channel works, commented Polina Anikeeva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anikeeva did not participate in the study but studies optogenetics and has used magnetic nanoparticles to disrupt amyloid-β aggregates (Loynachan et al., 2015). Scientists still do not fully understand how the TRPV4 receptor responds to a mechanical pull, she said. She was surprised to see such a strong effect from adding ferritin, because it does not hold a lot of iron and binds even less when scientists try to engineer it.
Güler plans to share his constructs with other researchers. Cirrito suggested that neuroscientists studying epilepsy might use it to mimic a seizure in mouse models by activating all of a certain neuron population at once. He said Magneto could be useful to study how neural activity affects Aβ deposition (see May 2015 news; Nov 2014 conference news). Cirrito also speculated that there might be a way to selectively deactivate neurons with Magneto, for example by expressing it in GABAergic neurons that shut down neural circuits.
Wheeler and Güler are not the only ones tinkering with magnetic gene control (Hughes et al., 2008; Huang et al., 2010; Stanley et al., 2015). Anikeeva and other researchers are developing magnetothermogenetics toward future wireless application of deep-brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases. This term refers to heating up magnetic nanoparticles with a magnetic field to activate temperature-sensitive ion channels (Chen et al., 2015). Anikeeva pointed out that the magnetic fields used by Wheeler, which are generated by direct current electromagnets, differ from the alternating current fields she uses. Scientists might be able to combine the techniques and control two different populations of neurons with different magnetic fields, she suggested.
Researchers doubt that Magneto might be used in the clinic any time soon. “In theory, an optimized version of Magneto could be used to treat ill-firing neurons,” Güler said. But in practice, that would require researchers to perfect safe gene therapy to deliver Magneto and find the right way to activate the channel in people.—Amber Dance
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People Are Eating Out Less and Learning to Cook at Home
When it comes to your budget, one of the biggest expenditures is often food. We all need food on a daily basis, and if you are cooking for a family, this can be especially taxing on your budget. But, food is also one of the areas in your budget where you have the most control and the ability to cut costs.
For those who are pressed for time or don’t have the skills required to cook at home, it usually means turning to restaurants or take-out. Unfortunately, the convenience of having someone prepare, serve, and even deliver your food comes with a high price tag. Even if you’re only feeding yourself, it adds up. Imagine if you spent $7 on lunch and $10 on dinner just five days a week. That’s close to $4,500, and those prices can be a bit low depending on where you live. And if you’re married and/or have kids, you can see how this expense can skyrocket.
So, it’s no surprise that if you could cut back on eating out just a few days a week, you could literally save hundreds or even thousands of dollars each year. Doing this is easier said than done. You still need to buy food at the grocery store and spend time preparing it. If your life is as hectic as most, the idea of coming home from work just to spend an hour in the kitchen, or packing your lunch every morning may not seem worth the savings. But in reality, with a little practice and some basic cooking skills, you can learn how to make cooking at home virtually painless.
Cooking Classes Becoming Popular
One of the biggest hurdles is with being unable to cook, or feeling like you can’t make anything that tastes good. If you didn’t come from a family that cooked a lot of meals at home or you never learned some of the basics, then yes, it can be difficult. You always have the Food Network, but it’s hand’s on practice that makes perfect.
This is why it’s no real surprise that cooking schools are filling up as the economy sinks. From the article, you can see that in one of the nation’s worse economies, the unexpected has happened and cooking classes are filling up. The assumption was that in a tough economy, fewer people would want to possibly spend money on an extra class, or take time out of their day, but just the opposite seems to be true.
Check For Local Classes
If you’re considering a class like this, check your local events calendars. The local library may have information on events like these, and any local community college could also be a good place to look into these classes. The good news is that many of these classes may actually be free. You could learn some food basics, knife skills, or even tips on how to stretch your food budget.
Also, check with your major local supermarket chains. Our local supermarket offers a few free classes and demonstrations on occasion. Some simply have a chef showing how to prepare a certain meal, while others are more educational and talk about different types of food, cuts of meat, produce, and so on.
I’m Also Going to Help
If you’re a reader of the site, you’ll also begin getting some frugal food tips from me. I love to cook, and I love to save money, so it goes hand-in-hand. I guess it comes from growing up in a household that cooked most meals at home, but my wife and I almost never eat out. It helps living in the middle of nowhere so that it makes going out to eat inconvenient, but virtually 95% of what we eat is prepared at home.
So, goinig forward I plan on bringing a few illustrated food and cooking tips to the site. If you recall, last summer I showed a great way to prepare an inexpensive potato on the grill, and over the fall I shared a killer chili recipe that feeds your family for days for just $25. Now that I’ve gotten better with the camera and how to put those types of posts together, I am going to make it a regular feature. Most topics will be budget-friendly recipes that are easy or quick to prepare, or methods for stretching your food out.
Keep an eye out for those upcoming posts. And if you have any questions or something in particular you’d like to see, just leave a comment. I have a few things in mind for the next few posts, but if there are specific things people need help with, that would be even better.
Author: Jeremy Vohwinkle
My name is Jeremy Vohwinkle, and I’ve spent a number of years working in the finance industry providing financial advice to regular investors and those participating in employer-sponsored retirement plans.
I have been cooking at home for a long time, but with the economy and a job loss in the family, I have been doing what I can to stretch our dollars further. I have learned to use every part of the food I buy. I try not to throw anything away. I use leftover chicken bones and parts of vegetables to make stock. I compost everything else to have better soil to grow my own veggies next spring. I have learned to can my own veggies, too, which means I can enjoy the fresh tasting summer produce all year. (although my supply is running short this time of the year) I also make large meals to eat later in the week and freeze anything that I do not think we will eat before it goes bad.
I also scan the Manager's Specials in the meat and produce sections to get the "freeze or use soon" Meats and veggies. the veggies I make into soup or freeze as they are to use later, and the meat I just freeze.
My philosophy has become "waste-not, want-not"
I'm amazed at how much some people avoid cooking - I haven't been doing it for long but it doesn't seem that hard to make something good. I'm always trying to do things a bit differently so I can get a better understanding of what tastes good.
Cooking doesn't have to take a lot of time. For beginners there's a lot of simple 15-20 minute recipes. Once you're comfortable with those you can move on to the really good ones :)
I find a lot of recipes on recipezaar.com - I can think of almost any general idea (like chicken and asparagus) and find a lot of different ways to make it there.
Oooh! I want to visit you guys at dinner time! Sounds like you are making some tasty meals. But really, I think it is great that more people are getting "domestic" with the current state of the world. It's not only good for green in the pocket book, but it should also reduce resource consumption and decrease the amount of waste. A win, win.
Awesome post Jeremy.
I think people are doing a lot of things "in house" now. They are getting a reality check, that not everything will go up infinitely.
Ditto on the large meals that last for days. So far my favorites are lasagna and veggie Chili(I'm a meat lover, so trust me, it still tastes good). We make the chili in the crock pot and so it's ready to roll when we get home. Mostly canned ingredients which are super cheap.
I am trying to learn more recipes to make myself. I usually stick to the same menu week after week. Here is a site for people to check out some new recipes from random people. http://www.cookstr.com/
We're even making our own soup now! It's actually been a really good experience for us. And healthier -- less sodium and fat than premade soup in a can.
My wife and I make larger meals when possible and either eat them for lunches or freeze them for later on. It has done wonders with our budget so far.
If we do well for the month, we'll treat ourselves with a cheap night out reward.
Same deal goes with beverages too (my latest post I talk about the subject). When you get nickeled and dimed, you never realize how much you are actually spending.
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Udja Shems Akhu and Dua for your post. We are certainly in agreement that Authentic Spiritual Preceptors such as Sebai Maa and Seba Dja are integral to understanding the teachings presented especially with the hieroglyphs or Medtu Neter – Divine Speech. Otherwise we would be as those who just get a literal meaning without uncovering the hidden mysteries that lie contained within the philosophy they impart. Then it behooves aspirants with the task of applying that philosophy in this very lifetime to achieve the goal given by the Medtu Neter which is so eloquently translated by Sebai Maa. | <urn:uuid:c02260a6-9c4a-4559-9959-248cfe6a3768> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asarucollege.org/forums/reply/6736/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.895207 | 206 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Many individuals who are considering a divorce may believe that the only option is to file a complaint and engage in litigation, ultimately ending with a trial. However, the vast majority of cases actually resolve long before trial – sometimes even before a complaint for divorce is filed. Your attorney may be able to reach a resolution with the other party without the need for involving additional individuals. In some cases, however, it is a good idea to utilize a form of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation or arbitration.
You may be wondering: What are mediation and arbitration? What’s the difference between the two and which path is right for you? While there are a number of similarities between mediation and arbitration, they serve very different purposes. Today, we will review the differences, highlight the benefits and drawbacks of each, and clear up some common misconceptions.
What Exactly is Arbitration?
Under the Uniform Arbitration Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:23B-1 et seq., (UAA) and New Jersey Court Rule 5:1-5(a), people involved in a divorce may agree to arbitrate their family law dispute, whereby an arbitrator would be used to decide the dispute rather than a judge in a trial.
When entering into an agreement to arbitrate your family law matters, you, in essence, give up your right to a trial with a judge. Instead, you select an arbitrator and consent to the power that the arbitrator has to decide your dispute. You then present evidence, give testimony, and present witnesses to the arbitrator, who will apply NJ law to the facts and evidence presented to decide the dispute. While the arbitrator is not an official judge (typically a lawyer or retired judge), arbitration decisions are binding; there are very limited circumstances under which an arbitrator’s decision can be challenged.
Once parties decide to resolve their case through arbitration, rule 5:5-1(b) states that the parties must:
- Review and sign an Arbitration Questionnaire and Disclosure
- Enter into a consent agreement or court order to arbitrate
- Place the case on the court track assignment for arbitrations
Custody and parenting issues can be arbitrated. However, court rules require a record of all documentary evidence and recorded testimony, with a written statement by the arbitrator that includes his or her findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Mediation: A Popular Option
Mediation is another form of alternative dispute resolution, whereby you select a trained mediator (typically an attorney) to help resolve your case. The mediator does not decide your case or provide legal advice. Rather, he or she is a neutral party who facilitates the settlement discussion with both parties.
Mediation works successfully for many divorcing families. We have found that while cooperative couples are the ones who more readily choose to mediate, families with a high degree of conflict need mediation even more, as the costs of litigation can skyrocket, which often provokes additional conflict.
A mediator can make suggestions about how to resolve conflicts but cannot tell you if a settlement proposal is fair to you. For this reason, we recommend you either have an attorney present or available at a later date to offer legal advice before final agreements are reached. The outcome of a successful mediation can be either a binding marital settlement agreement or a memorandum of essential terms, known as a memorandum of understanding.
When is Mediation Appropriate?
We have developed the following indicators to help clients confirm their decision to attempt mediation. If you find that many of the indicators don’t apply to you, this doesn’t necessarily mean that mediation is not the right choice. But it does indicate a more costly and difficult dispute to settle.
Mediation may be the right option for you if:
- The grieving process is ongoing or complete for both parties.
- The attorneys retained by the parties are experienced in and supportive of mediation.
- There are no acts of hiding assets.
- There are no acts of denying access to the child(ren).
- Both parties agree to total accessibility to documentation regarding assets, liabilities, and income.
- There is no history of violence or abuse.
- The parties have a history of cooperative and successful problem solving on some issues.
- The parties are capable and willing to communicate with each other and with the mediator in a reasonable and civil manner.
- There is some pressure to settle because of time, high attorney costs, or unpredictable outcome.
- There are adequate resources to find a compromise (limited resources tend to create more competitive relationships and striving for win/lose outcomes).
- The parties’ desire for the settlement of the dispute is high.
Mediation sessions typically last one to three hours each. The mediator helps the parties resolve conflict by:
- Providing a safe place for the parties to communicate
- Helping both parties create options for resolutions
- Offering different perspectives for open issues
All communications during mediation are confidential and can never be used against you in a court of law. Most divorce mediations last between three to six sessions. After the initial orientation to explain the mediation process, parties will meet with the mediator for their first joint mediation session. After the first joint session, the mediator will then conduct individual or joint sessions as agreed until a settlement is reached.
Advantages of Arbitration vs. Mediation
Which is better, mediation or arbitration? Both offer benefits and drawbacks. NJ courts are backlogged, and divorce cases that cannot be resolved through a settlement may wait months or even years for a trial date. Both mediation and arbitration offer an alternative that allows for a quicker resolution. Here are some additional details about mediation and arbitration to inform your decision.
Benefits of Both Mediation and Arbitration:
- Mediation and arbitration are private and confidential, as opposed to the public setting of a court trial
- In mediation and arbitration, you get more flexibility in how the situation is handled and are offered a wider range of solutions
Benefits of Arbitration:
- It is conducted on a set schedule that you select, not the court’s schedule
- Arbitration offers a less formal setting than a court trial
Drawbacks of Arbitration:
- Arbitration decisions are binding and not appealable
- There is limited availability to challenge an arbitrator’s decision
- Arbitration can be costly, as you will be paying for two attorneys plus the arbitrator’s fees
Benefits of Mediation:
- Mediating cases ends disputes faster
- Attorneys bill significantly fewer hours when a case is in mediation
- Attorneys, as well as parties, express a high level of satisfaction
- Parties save significantly on attorney fees and expert witness fees
- Parties are more likely to abide by the terms of a mediation agreement
Recent survey results from NVDRC revealed the following additional benefits:
- 72% of attorneys reported that mediation is less costly for their clients
- Overall costs of mediated agreements are 40% less than matters resolved through litigation
- Over 90% of cases referred to mediation result in written agreements
- Over 80% of the parties are satisfied with the terms of the mediated agreement
- Court cost savings of using mediation is over 50%
- On average, 90% of mediation participants felt the process was clear, they were listened to, and the mediator offered up good ideas
- Over 50% of participants felt they changed the way they handled conflicts from their mediation experience, and 70% of family members reported less arguing and fighting for months following the mediation
- Nearly 60% of participants reported that they better understood the other person’s point of view following the mediation
- 90% of participants felt the mediation process was good. Quicker settlements increase satisfaction levels for both clients and attorneys.
- 77% of participants expressed extreme satisfaction with the mediation process. A substantial portion of those who failed to reach an agreement in mediation believed mediation was useful and would recommend it to others.
Drawbacks of Mediation:
- Mediators cannot give you legal advice
- Mediation does not work where mental illness, domestic violence or abuse, or substance abuse is present
- Mediation does not work with couples who cannot communicate openly and respectfully
- Mediation is not appropriate where dishonesty or hiding of assets or other important facts is occurring
- Mediation does not guarantee a fair outcome unless your private attorney is also participating
Mediation or Arbitration?
As you weigh the pluses and minuses of mediation and arbitration, we urge you to consider the pros and cons of each in the context of your own personal circumstances. Mediation is a less adversarial process than arbitration, simply because it entails the parties working with one another to reach a resolution of their matter. Mediation also allows parties to be more creative with the ultimate resolution of their matter. Arbitration is conducted as a more relaxed version of a trial, making it more adversarial than mediation, and the parties are not directly involved in reaching a resolution other than their respective testimonies. Both mediation and arbitration have proven benefits over a costly court trial, but both mediation and arbitration also come with drawbacks.
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Vote YES on Transit in Wake County this Year
For Wake County voters this year, one of the last things on your ballot will be a referendum to approve a new transit plan. With the rapid growth the Triangle has seen over the last few years only projected to increase, we need to make critical investments before it's too late.
We urge all Wake County voters to vote YES on the transit referendum.
New infrastructure can’t be built overnight, so we’ve got to get started today to meet tomorrow’s challenges. That’s why Wake County citizens have worked with government, private sector, and university leaders to develop the Wake County Transit Plan.
This November, voters will have the opportunity to vote to make public transportation a reality. Please vote for the referendum at the END of your ballot!
The 10-year Wake County Transit Plan will:
- Triple bus service in just the first few years, connecting every town in the county.
- Build a frequent “Bus Rapid Transit” network in high-traffic areas that will incorporate dedicated bus lanes, level boarding platforms, and other enhanced features that improve the speed and quality of service.
- • Create a new commuter rail line that will efficiently utilize preexisting tracks to provide a backbone of passenger train service across the county, enabling people to completely avoid daily road traffic congestion.
- Expand the frequent network (every 15 minutes) from 17 miles to 83 miles. All service will be be expanded to 19 hours a day. | <urn:uuid:f5fa1a7b-f59a-40a9-83aa-e4d8077dec5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://progressnc.org/news/vote-yes-on-transit-in-wake-county-this-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00119-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92099 | 309 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Representatives of Civil & Police Administration
'Medicine' is a noble profession. It members are revered for their human values, compassion and consideration for their fellow human beings. Every medical student shall therefore learn to be self disciplined and observe rules and regulations as a matter of habit rather than because of fear of consequences. They shall at all times conduct themselves with proper dignity and decorum expected of a budding doctor.
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The following instructions are framed to prevent the menace of ragging and foster healthy interpersonal relations among students in the campus
- Ragging is strictly forbidden in or outside the campus of RVM Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre.
- All students shall familiarize themselves with rules/regulations/guidelines on code of conduct, anti-ragging measures and discipline of RVM Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre.
- All 'freshers' should attend counseling sessions organized for them from time to time by the college staff.
- All 'freshers' are allotted to 'Academic Counselor' by name. Students may approach him/her for personal/academic counseling.
- Any student who suffers ragging or notices occurrence of ragging shall immediately report the event to concerned authority.
- Incidences of ragging can be reported to any member of Anti-ragging squad, Anti-ragging committee of the college or to Academic counselor.
- Students may report incidence of ragging either orally or in writing. They may also report the incidence in person or by phone. Anonymity of the caller will be maintained.
- The College Council has identified some senior students as 'Mentor'. List of these students is placed on all notice boards of the college. A fresher may choose any one of them as his buddy. He/she will provide emotional and peer support to the fresher in coping with institutional transition.
- All fresher's will be segregated & accommodated on one floor of the hostel. No senior student will be permitted to visit fresher's room at any time of the day/night.
- Dining hall and timing for various meals will be specified for the freshers. No senior student shall enter that dining hall during time earmarked for freshers.
- Any victim of ragging not satisfied with the action taken by the Head of the Institution or by the University may submit an appeal in writing to report the event to the local police.
- The members of the squad will visit at least twice in a week all potential areas of ragging on or outside the campus
- The squad conducts surprise visits/raids on hostels and other hot spots of ragging and apprehends the culprits.
- It shall record all verbal/telephonic/written complaints and take action as stipulated in the bye-laws of the university.
- It shall keep the principal informed of all events/occurrences of ragging in the college.
- Anti-ragging squad will be assisted by members of college teaching staff detailed by the office of the principal on day to day basis to keep vigil on untoward events. | <urn:uuid:454d0f55-ed18-42a2-b39f-c9c2744a2358> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rvmims.org/antiragging_committee.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.926276 | 763 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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|Title: ||Refractive index determination by coherence scanning interferometry|
|Authors: ||Yoshino, Hiro|
Kaminski, Piotr M.
|Issue Date: ||2016|
|Publisher: ||Optical Society of America|
|Citation: ||YOSHINO, H. ... et al., 2016. Refractive index determination by coherence scanning interferometry. Applied Optics, 55 (15), pp. 4253 - 4260.|
|Abstract: ||Coherence scanning interferometry is established as a powerful noncontact, three-dimensional, metrology technique used to determine accurate surface roughness and topography measurements with subnanometer precision. The helical complex field (HCF) function is a topographically defined helix modulated by the electrical field reflectance, originally developed for the measurement of thin films. An approach to extend the capability of the HCF function to determine the spectral refractive index of a substrate or absorbing film has recently been proposed. In this paper, we confirm this new capability, demonstrating it on surfaces of silicon, gold, and a gold/ palladium alloy using silica and zirconia oxide thin films. These refractive index dispersion measurements show good agreement with those obtained by spectroscopic ellipsometry|
|Description: ||Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.|
|Sponsor: ||Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) (EP/J017361/1, EP/M014297/1).|
|Publisher Link: ||http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.55.004253|
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I thought I’d learned a thing or two about unclogging drains, but I was flummoxed at a suddenly and completely plugged-up bathtub this morning at my apartment. Turns out a pinky-sized hole in the insulation let a draft through that was enough to freeze the trap solid! Written in pencil on a section of wall above the trap:
Heater on if below zero for several days.
Indeed, it’s been below zero for a stretch. I guess the previous tenant opted for the band-aid fix instead of just stuffing some insulation in the hole.
Yes, I still love it here in Minnesota, especially because of the weather! It’s a winter wonderland outside. It rarely rains and is often sunny. And as soon as I get my STABILicers™ I’ll feel comfortable running on the ice-rink sidewalks again!
There are just too many shiny objects out there. Here’s how I ended up looking at some of the strangest C code I’ve ever seen.
- Started on the gslug mailing list, reading about a new keyboard layout. I continue to be drawn in to rumors that the QWERTY layout is a conspiracy to slow down typers, so hearing about a new keyboard layout called Colemak piqued my curiosity.
- Progressed quickly from colemak.com to the Wikipedia entry on Colemak. Cool, Colemak is supposed to be easier to switch to than Dvorak.
- The Colemak entry on Wikipedia mentions digraphs. I’ve heard of digraphs because I use them in Vim, but you can use them in C, too? Strange.
- The digraph entry on Wikipedia also mentions trigraphs. Trigraphs!
Sheesh. Interesting, but talk about distracting. I sure hope it isn’t true that multitasking kills your brain.
I agree that it is basically vandalism in that the reason everyone is there is to see the what’s on the TVs, but it’s still funny as heck.
Like a couple of the commenters, I’ve found the TV-B-Gone indispensable in airports, bars, restaurants; any place where the management seems to think people need a TV playing in the background (or foreground) at all times.
Here’s the thing they probably used to turn off the TVs.
Apparently this eel is being used to power the lights for a Christmas tree.
As in, I don’t know whether to. But in these situations I always have a default, and it is laugh, of course!
From the old-news-but-still-relevant-and-fun department…
How to fold a t-shirt in one or two seconds (mirror). If this doesn’t make you want to fold a t-shirt, nothing will.
The biggest problem I see with elegant, declarative markup languages like LaTeX is that, in a nutshell, relatively few people know how to use them. Collaboration often requires the lowest common denominator, and that means a document editor like OpenOffice.org Writer.
But LaTeX is fun. It is always consistent. The final result is beautiful. Since you are editing source code (unless you use LyX), you have complete control over the final document. Ideally, you forget about trying to bold this, indent that and focus instead on the content of what you write.
I can’t help it, I find myself using LaTeX for more and more documents. What the heck is wrong with me?
It is possible when using Writer to keep your document clean and simple, use styles profusely, and focus mostly on content, only dipping into presentation at one time, and some people do in fact do this.
Mount Rainier is the 5th highest mountain in the contiguous United States. Mount Whitney is the highest.
From this Forbes article on Everest deaths: one in ten mountain climbers die trying to summit, and those who successfully summit have a one in twenty chance of dying on the way down.
Humans living in higher altitudes acclimatize by increasing the number of red blood cells, thereby increasing the capacity for oxygen and carbon dioxide movement within the body.
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Earlier today I was with a group of university business students where we discussed the issues involved with running an online firm.
They realised it was all quite complex and even these bright, young minds thought that many of the problems of modern business could actually be solved if we 'switched off' the internet and did things the old way..!
Of course, that isn’t going to happen, but even though they had no real idea of how business was done 25 years ago before they and the web were born, they could at least see how complex business life had become in recent times.
When I returned home I thought I would catch up on the news – by going online, of course…! But what caught my eye were the pictures on getreading from 1972, showing Great Knollys Street and Broad Street Mall.
Even though they were taken over 40 years ago, it was all so recognisable. Sure the fashions have changed, the cars are different and the shop fronts have altered, but you can recognise it all quite easily.
Other parts of Reading, of course, have undergone radical change since 1972 – the bus station became The Oracle and the new railway station is a marvel of engineering. But if you were returning to Reading after a 40-year break, you would still know where you were, as a lot of it is basically the same.
Whilst my students were complaining about the pace of change, much around us hasn’t really changed that much. As people we dislike change so the fact that there is some stability does help us.
It kind of begs the question in business as to how we maintain stability for staff and customers whilst also changing for the better. If we change everything they no longer recognise us for what we are.
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Phones have become a vital part of our daily lives in the 21st century. Phones are our navigational aids, contact lifelines, and a never-ending source of entertainment and information. As a result, they're only meant to be used for a limited period and won't last forever.
As your device gets old, it becomes slower due to the outer casing, battery life, storage, and many other factors. While the phone's life is relatively short, there are a few things you can do to extend the life of your phone. Some components, such as screens and camera lenses, can be damaged when a phone is dropped or banged around excessively.
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Why is it important to protect your phone?
Almost all people now consider their cell phones to be an essential item in their daily lives. Why? Because we can now communicate with our loved ones, coworkers, and others not only via phone calls and SMS but also via email, as our mobile phones are now like a mini-computer that can be interconnected if we set them up. We have cell phones that can be used to take pictures and videos and act as a radio or an MP3 player.
What more could you want? So these reasons are good enough to take care of our cell phones. The moment you purchase a smartphone, you are sworn to protect it from any harm. Most people's greatest fears include falling or hitting a hard surface, which can result in damage. It would help if you took the necessary precautions to keep your phone safe from getting any harm. Let us talk about in detail how we can do that.
Tips to protect your phone from damage
Good Quality Phone Case
As simple as it sounds, choosing a good case can be difficult. It's not hard to find protective cases without fun designs or patterns, but a few exceptions are important to note. For the best results, opt for silicone cases with flaps or cases with flaps on the top. However, these cases do not have to be unattractive to be practical or functional.
Cool iPhone covers and cute Samsung Galaxy cases are available in various styles and colors to suit your style and personality. To avoid scratches and other damage, choose a good-quality phone case. If your phone's corner has been damaged, it's time to invest in a phone case. The case must be both protective and high-quality to be effective. Having a mobile phone has become a necessity, and having a good mobile cover is equally important. Just because something is high quality does not mean that it has to be expensive or fancy.
It is a known fact that even if we take care of our phones, it will occasionally fall to the ground. Without a case, there is a chance that the phone could be damaged. The mobile cover won't completely protect your phone, but the damage will be much less.
Self-Protection is must
How long your smartphone is safe depends on how you handle it. One of the best ways to protect your smartphone is to use it with care. The identical way to protect your smartphone from damage is to use caution when using it. It's shocking how many people don't treat their smartphones with the respect they deserve. Like most smartphones, most of them are extremely expensive, so whether you paid for it yourself or received it as a compliment, you should treat it with respect.
Therefore it is advisable to be careful with your smartphone and try your hardest not to drop it. Do not keep coins or other pointed objects in the same pocket as the phone, as this can cause damage to the display screen and result in a cracked screen. Likewise, do not put a phone in the back pocket of a tight pair of jeans, as this could cause the phone to bend or snap when you sit.
Keep your phone out of reach of toddlers and unruly children in your home. They may try to grab your phone and clumsily drop it, causing damage to it.
With your screen guard on, you can use your phone or tablet without worrying about damaging it. Phone cases are more than just a means of keeping your phone safe. They are also very attractive and add to the aesthetics of your phone's appearance. When it comes to mobile phone cases, there are many options, so you need to make sure that the one you choose is perfect for your needs.
This and other factors make it imperative that you purchase a cell phone cover or case specifically designed for your phone, as a snug fit is critical. Glass screen protectors that are easy to install will help keep your screen from shattering in the event of an accident. So that your screen remains protected even if the screen protector itself cracks, you can easily replace it with a new one.
Avoid leaving it unattended.
Many times, we are careless and leave our devices unattended. Be sure to keep your phone in a secure location. To avoid regretting it later, if it is held in a place where children or pets can access it, make sure it is in your sight at all times. Giving a child a cellphone they can't handle with care is not a good idea, especially if the data on the phone is important to you. Sitting on the floor means you're more likely to leave your smartphone there as well.
While sitting, this may seem like a good idea, but as soon as you move, your smartphone is suddenly in a very vulnerable position. This puts your smartphone at risk of being stepped on or even smashed by a hard object. The screen will most likely be cracked, and the smartphone as a whole may be damaged as a result. Keeping your smartphone on a raised and safe surface where people cannot step on it or place heavy and complex objects is always a good idea.
Also, avoid leaving your smartphone in dangerous situations like a pocket or purse where it could slip and break.
Contact with water causes the device to become damp and dysfunctional. In the rain, on the beach, with wet hands, and in the pool, this happens to me a lot. Water should not come into contact with your phone unless it is waterproof. Your phone's screen can be damaged when it's exposed to foggy weather. Keeping your phone screen dry is the best solution.
One or two of us have indeed dropped a cell phone in water, and we've all had to deal with the consequences. Statistics show that water damage is the most common reason to replace a phone not covered by a lease or contract agreement. Instead of keeping your phone in an airtight case, a waterproof pouch will keep it dry in the event of a rainstorm. Perfect for a day at the pool or a waterpark where you'll need your phone, but not constantly. So, slip your phone into the pouch and go about your day without worrying that it will get ruined by rain. If you're going to use this on your phone, you won't want to submerge it in the water. Splashes and wet fingers are no match for them, however.
Avoid extreme conditions
When your phone is exposed to extreme heat and cold, it can easily be damaged. There is a risk of damaging the device's battery and internal components, resulting in data loss and shorter battery life. So, this isn't something you'd like to happen. Therefore, the best solution is to avoid exposing the phone to extreme temperatures and never leave it unattended. How your phone functions are affected by temperature changes and extremes.
The protection of your phone from extreme temperatures, whether it's extreme heat or extreme cold, is vital. Your iPad, iPhone, and GPS are in your bag with you at all times. Each one will generate more heat than if they were all kept together.
Protect Your Ports
Most importantly, always carry your phone or any other electronic device with care when you are out and about. It's easy to break these phones, and they're prone to breaking. Hands or pockets aren't always reliable places to put them in when they're needed. If you can't find a phone case, you can buy a pouch or a belt clip for your phone.
As a result, be sure to handle your phone with care. Do not overlook the ports, no matter how important your screen is to you. As soon as you plug in your phone, the headphone jack or charging port will be blocked with dirt and lint. A set of Port Plugs explicitly designed for your phone will keep your pores clean and clear.
Try not to install unnecessary applications.
Your phone's operating system version would be helpful if you knew about it. Fixing bugs is made more accessible by updating the OS to the most recent version available. As a result, the device's performance is improved, as is its security. Thousands of applications are available on Google Play or the App Store, but that doesn't mean you have to install them all.
Apps should only be used if they are already installed on your device. It can slow down your phone and affect its performance if you install an unused app on it. Prevent your device from being infected with a virus, which can steal important data.
Sure to hold it firmly
How you hold your phone is the most critical factor in why your phone gets damaged from time to time. Because of this, your phone keeps crashing. Hold your phone tightly to solve this problem. Never let go of your phone, as it is very delicate and should be handled with care. Do not keep coins or other pointed objects in the same pocket as the phone, as this can cause damage to the display screen and result in a cracked screen.
Likewise, do not put a phone in the back pocket of a tight pair of jeans, as this could cause the phone to bend or snap when you sit. The most common cause of smartphones and tablets falling out of your hand is the way you hold them. As a result, it's important to get a firm grasp of the device. To prevent it from falling, the way you catch your gadget is crucial to its safety.
Clean up the extra data
Photos, videos, apps, emails, and other storage-hogging content can harm your phone's performance. As soon as your phone's storage is full, it will begin to slow down. The constant clogging of your phone's memory may eventually lead to the conclusion that you need a new phone.
It is possible, however, to solve the problem by clearing out some space. You should be able to see a breakdown of your phone's memory usage in your phone's settings. To save space, delete some photos, but you can also buy extra memory for your phone. As a bonus, deleting apps will free up space on your phone and help you keep it in order.
In the age of technology, everyone has access to smart devices. One of the most important ways to stay in touch with people these days is through a smartphone. It is a fact that almost 90 percent of us carry a smartphone, whether it's an iPhone or an Android. Investing in a smartphone is a good use of your hard-earned cash.
We purchase smartphones based on our needs and with the hope that they will last longer. For your smartphone to last longer and do the things you need it to do, it is vital to take good care of it. Is this the first time you have ever used your smartphone? Smartphones are pricey, so they should be treated with the same care as a valuable item.
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On 18 June 2022, SGM organised an online women’s talk themed “Women’s Contribution Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow”. It saw 1,911 participants in attendance. Sharon Liew and Steph Low were the speakers for the Chinese session while Dr Serina Rahman and Amnani Abdul Kadir spoke at the English session.
Sharon Liew, who is a training consultant for sustainable finance shared her work experience at the Central Bank of Malaysia, a tertiary institution and of becoming a housewife. No matter the circumstance, she upholds a strong spirit to continue learning.
Steph Low is an expert at renovating and transforming old homes to give them a new lease of life. In recognition of her outstanding work, she won several awards. She spoke about the importance of having a persevering spirit as she faced challenges in running a business while facing opposition from loved ones and other setbacks in life.
Dr Serina Rahman is co-founder of Kelab Alami, an organisation formed to empower a Johor fishing community through environmental education for habitat conservation and economic participation in coastal development. She shared about how through capacity building, the local fishing community now receives better income and the local youth is equipped with skills and knowledge.
Amnani Abdul Kadir shared her experience of joining the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) and the importance of being patient in reaching one’s dreams. WAO is committed to ending violence against women and is an advocate of women’s rights and of empowering girls.
These women inspired the audience to believe in themselves. Through their stories, listeners learnt about persevering to reach one’s goals and bringing out one’s potential. Women are capable of creating great value not only for their own fulfillment but also for a better and sustainable society. | <urn:uuid:ba8a2d60-357c-49b3-ae25-b4d0a29117d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sgm.org.my/media-center/sgm-womens-talk20220618 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.953624 | 373 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports on research aimed at finding methods to deter inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by primary care doctors. (JAMA Article) Excessive use of antibiotics can lead to adverse events, higher spending and a greater prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Respiratory diseases have high rates of antibiotic misuse so three interventions were tested among 248 primary care doctors in Boston and Los Angeles. The primary outcome was antibiotic prescribing rate for upper respiratory tract infection, flu, and acute bronchitis. The interventions were modeled on behavioral science principals, designed to “nudge” physicians in the right direction.
The first intervention was “suggested alternatives”, which upon certain diagnoses being entered popped-up a screen in the EHR saying antibiotics were not recommended for the diagnosis and giving alternative treatments. The second intervention was referred to as “accountable justification” and also was EHR-based, asking the physician to write a free-text justification for antibiotic use and saying it would be available in the record and if no justification was given, the EHR would note “no justification”. The third intervention was an email-based peer comparison, which told the top 10% of appropriate prescribers that they were top performers, and told the rest they weren’t and were given data on the number and type of their inappropriate prescriptions and shown comparisons with the high-performers.
The doctors in the study received 0, 1, 2 or all 3 of the interventions. Over 18 months antibiotic prescribing rates declined from 24.1% to 13.1% for control practices, from 22.1% to 6.1% for the suggested alternative intervention, from 23.2% to 5.2% for the accountable justification intervention and from 19.9% to 3.7% for the peer comparison one. The interventions did not appear to have any interaction with each other when multiple ones were used. There was a slight but generally insignificant increase in return visits in the intervention groups. It is interesting to note that even among the control group there was a substantial decline in prescribing, potentially due to either broader awareness generally of the issue or since some of the physicians were in the same practice, there may have more intra-practice discussion of the issue. But overall, the results suggest that fairly simple and inexpensive interventions may be able to improve not only prescribing behavior but other treatment behaviors. | <urn:uuid:6641eccf-498b-4bfa-afc9-660eadb34055> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthy-skeptic.com/2016/02/25/how-to-encourage-appropriate-use-of-antibiotics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.968054 | 488 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Solar energy kits are an excellent way for homeowners to make a move toward going green when it comes to powering their homes, recreational vehicles or boats.
Solar power home kits can be useful in helping to bring together many of the different types of equipment that will be needed to install a residential or custom solar system, which can simplify your shopping and installation experience.
These kits are especially useful for people who have some experience with solar power installation. If you are relatively new to solar energy, be sure that your solar power kit comes with reliable telephone and e-mail support or else you may experience significant frustration with your project if you run into a snag. Having a person available via telephone who knows the product and knows solar very well may come in handy!
There are three main types of solar energy kits available on the market today. Each one has a specific purpose and different capabilities. Keep in mind that price can determine the quality of your kit. The same rule of thumb applies here as it does to other situations in life if the price looks too good to be true, it very could be a kit that requires additional purchases or doesn't come with customer service. Take the time to find this out first!
The price you'll pay for a solar kit will vary greatly depending on the size of system you require and the amount of power you want to generate.
Most home kits do not include the array wiring required to run between the solar modules and the battery bank, so these items will need to be purchased separately.
It's very possible for a homeowner to purchase a solar power kit and install the solar energy system without too much trouble. The directions included in the kits are very detailed and are geared toward someone who has never installed a system previously.
Most solar energy kit distributors offer excellent customer service via the phone if you run into difficulties.
Many people also opt for purchasing their own kit and then having it professionally installed. In fact, some sellers of the solar kits will offer to install it for you for an additional price.
The prices for solar energy kits do vary between solar kit manufacturers, so do your research and see who offers the most for your money. Make sure that customer service is included with the price of your kit and what hours they're available.
Get our free button and provide a valuable, free solar resource to your friends!
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It’s no secret that most of China’s shopping takes place online via marketplaces such as Tmall Global, JD.com and more. Spanning from anywhere between 24 hours to several weeks, shopping festivals such as Singles’ Day – or Double 11 Festival - have become a prominent part of any brands’ China ecommerce trading calendar.
Singles’ Day festival is the biggest 24-hour online shopping festival in the world and originated in China. Taking place on 11th November each year, the shopping event has broken sales figure records each year since its birth and is often likened to Black Friday in the US despite their differences.
November 11th (Double 11) was nominated by students in 1993 as a day to celebrate singledom or “anti-Valentine’s Day” in China. 11.11 was selected thanks to the symbolic nature of the number one where shoppers were encouraged to be proud of their single relationship status whilst treating themselves to a special purchase.
Alibaba spotted an opportunity to leverage this event turning Singles’ Day into a national shopping holiday. They first held the mass-scale shopping festival in 2009 in collaboration with a handful of brands and it was an immediate success with Chinese shoppers. Total GMV on the Singles’ Day 2009 reached around US$7.8 million, surpassing the average daily GMV that year by almost seven-fold.
Singles’ Day or Double 11 Festival has grown to become an unmatched opportunity for international brands to engage with loyal customers, develop new and dedicated product launches, plus an important way to gain consumer insights.
Blurring the lines between shopping and entertainment, shopping platforms and social media platforms alike adopt increased elements of social commerce and promotions into their offerings. Alibaba have been known to build up excitement for the shopping event with new site or app features which remain guarded until the grand reveal on Double 11 itself. Livestreaming and gamification with the use of influencers or KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) have become increasingly popular methods of driving brand awareness and boosting demand generation on marketplaces.
Pattern’s Greater China team announced record-breaking results for its Tmall Trade Partner business over the 2020 Double 11 Shopping Festival, demonstrating the resilience of the Chinese economy through the pandemic, and the continued demand for international brands by Chinese consumers.
Tmall stores managed by Pattern grew their sales by an average of 91% year-on-year across the 11 days of 11.11 trading in 2020. In addition, every one of the brands we represent on Tmall achieved sales in the first 11 days of November 2020 that were greater than their Tmall sales for the whole of November 2019. In addition, several of the American brands that we represent in China achieved 11.11 sales that were up more than 200% year-on-year.
They say that timing is everything, and this is certainly true when considering your annual promotional calendar on Tmall in China. For the majority of brands selling on Tmall, the biggest trading peak will occur around the Singles’ Day and brands can expect to make 30% of the total yearly revenue in the month leading up to November 11th.
The graph below shows an example of Tmall trading cadence across the year for international brands and demonstrates how each peak gets larger throughout the year, in the run-up to Double 11. These other important promotional trading periods, shown on our trading calendar should be used to test promotions and establish credibility with customers and Tmall.
Many international brands fail to realise that it is invitation-only to participate with an official Tmall promotion; one that the marketplace with signpost and drive traffic to. Your performance in the main promotional periods earlier in the year will determine whether you are invited to participate in Tmall’s official Double 11 activity.
Not only this, Chinese consumers expect to see the biggest discounts and special offers for Double 11, so ensure you keep your best offers for then. The biggest deals are focused on the day itself, but pre-ordering and showcasing of deals start up to a month before and many brands carry on promotions until November 12th or 13th.
The results from Double 11 Festival in 2020 proves that China continues to be a lucrative land of opportunity for brands who have invested to develop a strong brand awareness and localised proposition. Promotional planning for Singles’ Day now begins increasingly far in advance for international brands and should be an important part of your trading strategy.
Our General Manager for Asia Arthur Cheung explains: “Our data-driven approach to trading on Tmall, working in close partnership with the brands we represent, ensures that we optimise our 11.11 trading and marketing campaigns. This has resulted in another strong year of growth that we aim to capitalise further on in 2021.”
Pattern are a Tmall 5* Trade Partner, and provide full-service support on everything from market entry strategy, Tmall Flagship Store set-up and the ongoing operation, marketing and trading of your Tmall store.
We also act as a Trade Partner for JD.com, WeChat, Pinduoduo and Koala. For brands looking for a wider presence across Asia Pacific, we can support your launch on Lazada, Coupang, Shopee and Amazon.jp.
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A top issue we see with brands struggling on ecommerce marketplaces is a loss of brand control due to disjointed sellers—those that aren't following your brand policies and guidelines when selling your products online. Disjointed sellers can be gray market, unauthorized, and rogue sellers, as well as 3P and other sellers that are noncompliant with your branding, pricing, and other forms of representation online.
It can be very easy for brands to lose control of their ecommerce strategy when they can’t get a handle on disjointed sellers. Typically, these brands are either stuck in a game of whack-a-mole or just ignoring the warning signs of bigger issues and hoping for the best. But, when disjointed selling isn't handled right, the consequences can be devastating to profitability. A loss of brand control doesn’t happen overnight, and the factors that contribute to it are long-standing.
Before the advent of ecommerce, brands favored a wide distribution. It was the easiest way to get products to as many distributors as possible. But wide distribution, when left unchecked, leads to leaky distribution—allowing your excess products to end up in the hands of unwanted sellers.
So brands that continue to operate with a wide distribution strategy are losing brand control and are damaging their brand equity and product performance. Why? You’re unable to monitor your products’ pricing, performance, or quality. You can’t dictate how you’re represented by each seller, creating an inconsistent and false representation of your brand to your new and existing consumers. These issues often lead to poor reviews and erode opportunities to build trust with future customers.
In today’s ecommerce landscape, marketplaces and digital platforms connect people and sellers to make online shopping simple and seamless. They also provide customers complete price transparency. Google, for instance, allows consumers to access any of your products on virtually every ecommerce channel and retail location and posts them side-by-side for you to comparison shop.
Now, everyone from your D2C distributors to large marketplace sellers, legitimate 3P sellers, and rogue and unauthorized sellers are on a level playing field—they’re all presented to the searching consumer, and that consumer has the purchase power.
Disjointed sellers have just as much power and authority to represent your brand as you do, without the same quality, pricing strategy, and customer focus as you.
In most shopping scenarios, consumers will choose to purchase a product from whichever seller offers the lowest price. Marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart know this, and optimize their product selection based on all retail offers to serve consumers the lowest price for the same item.
This means that as one seller drops the price of your product, the next will follow, and then the next, etc. Everyone gains access to the product at or below MSRP. This opens the door for unauthorized sellers to purchase inventory during promotions or at discounted prices and then turn around and sell the same product slightly below competing sellers’ prices—for profit.
As customers search for your product, they notice the cheaper price and purchase from the unauthorized seller, rather than paying the price you’ve established with your retail teams. Simultaneously, as Amazon monitors their product listing against other available channels, they notice they don’t have the lowest price. So Amazon, and other marketplaces, in service of the consumer, drop their price to match the lower price offered by an unauthorized seller. To stay competitive, your other channels follow suit. The cycle, also know as the profitability death spiral, continues to drive down the price of your product, grinding away your margins and profitability.
This doesn’t sound like much of a problem if your brand isn’t actively selling on ecommerce marketplaces, right? Unfortunately, it causes big issues for your brick-and-mortar sales, too. Large retail chains like Best Buy and Macy’s noticed this potential loss of sales from ecommerce and needed to defend and protect their profit. Retailers started telling brands that, in order to keep their products in-store (which accounts for 80% of most brands’ sales) they would need to lower their prices to match online prices. Which led to the concept of price matching. If a customer could prove the price of a product was lower somewhere else, Best Buy would match the lower price and charge the brand for the difference.
As other brick-and-mortar retailers jumped on the trend, brands started to see large losses in their margins.
The danger that disjointed sellers pose to brands is enormous—without a way to control all of a brand’s distribution points on ecommerce, your brand spins farther and farther down the profitability death spiral. Using custom technology and data-driven insights, Pattern can identify disjointed and unauthorized sellers for your brand and develop a custom strategy tailored to your specific needs to address these big issues as soon as possible. Then, Pattern partners with the econtrol law firm, VORYs, to enforce take downs and save brands who find themselves caught on any stage of the death spiral.
With the right resources and expert help, we’ve helped hundreds of brands to regain their footing and control on ecommerce, win the buy box, and grow their sales.
Contact us today to regain your brand control.
Since most brands only sell about 20% of their products online, it’s common for executives to turn a blind eye to their poor ecommerce performance—issues there are probably a small problem, right? But if you can pinpoint the lackluster ecommerce profitability to poorly-performing listings, then you can take care of issues now that would snowball to greater losses as your brand grows.
As an expert in ecommerce and the world’s foremost ecommerce accelerator, Pattern has unparalleled expertise in managing brands across global marketplaces. Partnering with Pattern gives you access to data, technology, and top teams across multiple disciplines that help you prioritize great product listings in your overall ecommerce strategy and provides the resources to improve underperforming listings.
We've highlighted three ways poor listings impact your Amazon marketplace performance.
If your listings aren’t optimized for SEO and strategic ad placement, they will not be found by customers. And if your products aren’t found, your traffic, conversions, and overall profitability drop significantly. Pattern’s Amazon data and trends suggest that only the top four products listed in an Amazon search result drive more engagement with a brand's listing. So, optimizing your products for organic discoverability needs to be a priority for your ecommerce efforts.
Typically brands find it tempting to underestimate the power of SEO and paid ads, but the stakes are too high to ignore their impact for long. To put it into perspective, Amazon’s ads are clicked 42% more often than Google ads. And, the data shows when people search for products, 74% of them search Amazon first.
Another reason Amazon search is so valuable is because of where your consumers are in their buying journey. Ads on social media and Google can be valuable, but on Amazon, you have the advantage of knowing your audience’s search intent. Appearing in front of consumers wanting and ready to buy a product that aligns with their search query is a huge opportunity that you can’t miss.
So, you need to be putting the right resources into creating and testing your listing titles, product descriptions, search filters, and backend search terms. (We’ve listed some of the best practices for brands here.) As you find what works, Amazon’s algorithm will be able to better identify your products and serve them in front of consumers ready to buy.
Pattern’s expert SEO teams know the best practices and how to optimize your product listings for the right audiences to improve your rankings for better traffic and conversion wherever you sell your products online.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of brand affinity on ecommerce marketplaces. One of the key reasons you should be establishing a strong brand presence is to build a consumer base of loyal, repeat customers.
Repeat purchases from repeat customers are a true sign of a healthy, thriving brand. And when you can establish a great relationship and deep trust with the people you’re selling to, you’ll naturally build positive momentum with their reviews and word of mouth endorsements. In short, it’s easier to reduce buying friction, the cost of conversion, and the cost of acquisition with people who already have an enthusiastic opinion of your products, leading to more conversions and overall success for your brand.
Clearly, it’s valuable to find your brand advocates, but how do your listings help you do that? The first is by claiming the buy box.
Many brands struggle with disjointed sellers—3P sellers who have acquired your products, (for example—after buying them on deep discount) and now “pose” as your brand to sell those products to consumers. They often sell your products below their MAP price in order to claim the buy box, attracting more traffic and conversions.
As those customers are drawn to those listings instead of yours, they experience a disconnect in what they normally associate with your brand—often, the copy, media, and even the grammar are ignored for profitability for unauthorized sellers. They often focus on keyword stuffing and quick turnaround to capture traffic and end up poorly representing your brand.
Issues like losing the buy box can hurt your brand long-term, especially if 3P sellers are selling returned, damaged, or fake products in your name. When you have a true understanding of how to optimize your product listings to outperform your competition, you can win the buy box and reclaim your brand presence for your repeat and future customers to ensure better long-term success.
Pattern knows the dangers of disjointed sellers leading to poor brand representation. We have both legal partnerships and listing optimization strategies at our disposal that are proven to help you get ahead of disingenuous sellers and reclaim your brand’s presence wherever you sell online.
In order to achieve long-term profitability and growth on ecommerce marketplaces, it’s important to keep your conversion rates as high as possible. Pattern’s experts have found that a low conversion rate signals to Amazon your products aren’t worth showing to customers, significantly lowering your sales potential. But a great conversion rate helps improve your organic rankings and raises your ROI for paid ads—making it easier and less expensive to sell your products in the long run.
So, how do listings affect your conversion rates? Consumers searching for products on Amazon are more likely to purchase from a brand they trust. And without being able to physically sample your product, they have a short window with limited information to decide whether or not they’ll purchase from you.
We know from extensive data analysis and research there are a few key components of your listing that help in building trust with your consumers. One of those components is the quality of your images.
If your images are blurry or you only post 1 or 2, customers will have a hard time understanding what your product is and its potential value to them. So, they’ll keep searching instead of purchasing your product. Things like the images’ lighting, background, the quality of your equipment, and your editing process shouldn’t be left up to chance.
Partnering with an ecommerce product photography expert is a way to make sure you get the best photography for your products, and your images are optimized for both your brand and your marketplace.
When it comes to optimizing your ecommerce strategy, Pattern has all of the resources you need to achieve long-term profitability. Not only do we have the data and technology to analyze a brand's current performance and opportunity on marketplaces, Pattern has all of the necessary teams to optimize your success from end to end. As the world’s top ecommerce accelerator, Pattern knows the key drivers for boosting listings, conversions, and profitability for brands.
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Have you ever thought about what happens after you’ve handed your parcel over to the courier?
Our parcels go on a journey of many touch points from the moment the need for the parcel arises. In this article, we take a closer look at the journey that your parcel takes as it moves from the warehouse to its final destination.The requirement
The first step of the journey is the simple requirement for a specific item. In the case of most merchants, it is an order placed on their online stores by one of their customers. Once the order is placed and paid for, the merchant begins the journey of the parcel. The picking & packing
The items that have been ordered on the online store are now picked from the available inventory in the merchant’s warehouse (or wherever their inventory is located). Depending on the amount of items in the order, this process is a carefully calculated one to ensure that the right item, in the right quantity, is picked for shipment.
Once the items have been selected, they are carefully packed to withstand the rigours of the journey ahead. At this point, it is the responsibility of the merchant to ensure that what they are shipping does not contain prohibited or hazardous goods. By accepting a parcel, the couriers do not acknowledge that the packaging is adequate or the contents are acceptable – that is up to you.
Cushioning material should be packed around all sides of the items and there should be no voids inside the box, which can jeopardise the integrity of the box and its items. A recommendation in the logistics industry is that all items are packaged to withstand a one metre drop. Merchants are further advised to follow the Packaging Guidelines
as outlined by uAfrica and their courier partners. The documentation
There are documents that are required by the courier companies in order to ship parcels using their services. When using uAfrica, a shipping label is automatically generated for you whilst you are fulfilling the order. This shipping label, otherwise known as a waybill, must be printed in such a way that the merchant has four copies
available upon collection.
uAfrica will also send an automated collection request to the courier to inform them of the collection (this is dependent on the settings of your uAfrica account). Then, ensure that your parcel is ready, your shipping labels are printed and wait for the courier to knock on your door. The collection
The courier company that you have fulfilled your order with will receive the automated collection request from uAfrica and send their driver to your address for collection. Upon arrival, the courier driver will adhere to COVID-19 hygiene regulations and ask for the parcel that needs to be shipped. The courier driver will sign one copy of the shipping label for the merchant to keep as proof of collection. The other three copies will be placed into the plastic document protector on the parcel. The parcel is then picked up by the courier and bundled into their vehicles.
In the case of a sticker shipping label, the courier driver will scan the barcode on the label, and this data is stored in the tracking system of that courier company’s website. The sticker label works exactly like the printed paper shipping label: at every point where the parcel’s barcode is scanned onto the system and tracking is updated, another copy of the waybill is signed and tracking must be updated. The courier hub
The parcel is transported and booked into the local courier hub (along with hundreds of other parcels collected that same day). The parcel is then weighed and dimensioned using ‘volumiser machines’ that compare the actual weight of the parcel to the volumetric weight. The parcel is sorted with others that are addressed to a similar area and then loaded into the vehicle for delivery to that specific area.
In the case of shipments that need to move to another hub closer to the delivery address (for example, when shipping a parcel from Johannesburg to Cape Town), all the parcels for that location are loaded onto an aeroplane or truck and delivered to the central courier hub. Here, the parcels are again sorted for each zip code for delivery to the individual customers and loaded into the courier vehicle. The delivery
The courier driver then drives the loaded vehicle from the depot and delivers the parcels on board to the various recipients on his or her delivery route. To ensure the highest level of service, for proof of delivery and to ensure that the parcel is in the right hands, the courier will require a signature from the customer when the parcel is delivered. In the case of a sticker shipping label, the barcode is scanned as the parcel is handed over to the recipient.
Once the product is delivered to the recipient or customer, the tracking system is updated with the delivery status of the parcel, based on the information of the final signed waybill or the barcode on a sticker shipping label.
For a more visual representation of this process, watch the “Journey of a Parcel
” as created by The New Zealand Post
When we analyse the journey that a parcel makes when moving from Point A to Point B, it becomes apparent that there is much organisation that goes into the courier processes. It also reiterates the importance of following correct packaging guidelines and using the required documentation as accurately as possible - including checking that the sender and delivery addresses, as well as the weight and dimensions of the shipped parcel are correct.
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Last Christmas, we probably received cash as gifts from some of our wealthier or purportedly wealthy relatives. Some have received a substantial amount, while others may have received a relatively small amount of money. Others may have received big bonuses or Christmas incentives.
So what happened to the money that you received? Did you spend all of it already? Are you still keeping it under your mattress? Are you planning to buy some gifts with your Christmas bonuses ? Here are some ideas ways on what to do with that money.
1.) Put your money in the bank – Contrary to what most people think, banks are not only a place where you could keep your money safe. Banks offer several ways wherein you can make your money grow. Savings account only offers small interest rates. Time deposits on the other hand offer a higher interest rate. Time deposits however are sort “long term investments” since you cannot withdraw your money for a long period of time. This will however give you a higher interest rate. Banks also offer government bonds, which is a very secure form of investment since this is backed by the government. There are times when government bonds offer a very high interest rate. The interest rates fluctuate depending on the need several factors. Take note however that most financial planners believe that bank savings cannot be categorized as “investments” because of the very low interest rates. I definitely agree. But developing the discipline to put your money in the bank in regular intervals is the basic foundation of financial management. It is not so much in the amount of interest, but it is the cultivation of discipline in putting money aside for investments.
2.) Invest your money in the stock market – In most countries, only a few segment of the population invest in the stock market even though stock market investment by the general public is higher in western countries than in third world countries. The reason for such may be attributed to two factors. First, there is a lack of technical knowledge as to how to do it and secondly, there is this misconception that it takes a lot of money in order that you could start investing in the stock market. While it is true that investing in the stock market takes some sort of a technical know how, it is not as difficult as what others think. The stock market follows the basic rules of supply and demand, as any other type of market does. You only monitor the business news everyday, at least twice a day if you invest in a stock market where the change in prices is so fast. In countries where there is not so much market activity, you can monitor the news at least every other day. You also need to read about the companies which you are going to invest your money into. With regards to the money, it does not take a lot of cash to start investing in the stock market. The Internet revolution makes stock market trading easier than before. A lot of brokerage firms and even banks are now offering online trading and monitoring. There are even free technical advice and market reports that is being given by them. You might want to check out my how to invest in the stock market articles. Just click on the “Financial Management and investments” category.
3.) Start a business – Some people think that you need a very big amount to start a business. There are lots of business opportunities that do not require very big capital investments. You can get ideas from entrepreneurship magazines or through researching the Internet. There is some home based business that you can even do during your spare time. The possibilities are just endless.
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18 Hawaii Books to Read This Summer
Our guide to new and notable books from local authors and publishers.
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From Talking Story to Manuscript
Big Island writer Darien Gee guides would-be authors in writing their Hawaii memoirs.
Darien Gee understands putting pen to paper as much as anyone. After all, the Big Island best-selling author has seven books to her credit, including three written under the pseudonym Mia King.
After nearly 20 years teaching writing here and on the Mainland, Gee has distilled her advice in a new book from Watermark Publishing (disclosure: Watermark is a sister company within the aio group of companies that owns HONOLULU). Writing the Hawaii Memoir: Advice and Exercises to Help You Tell Your Story is exactly what the title claims. It includes nearly 30 writing exercises and practical tips, along with pithy words of encouragement from some of Hawaii’s best-known voices (Lee Cataluna, Craig Howes and Mark Panek, to name a few) to help aspiring writers make the leap from talking story to manuscript.
The Hawaii memoir—from Gov. Ben Cayetano’s ambitious tome to Olivia Breitha’s harrowing account of her exile to Kalaupapa—is as much a part of local culture as Portuguese sweet bread and tutu’s Hawaiian quilt. Unlike baking or quilting, though, writing has a special way of intimidating would-be storytellers.
“There are a lot of expectations about what good writing looks like, and that can throw people off,” Gee says. “We’re not looking for Pulitzer Prize-winning prose here. We’re just looking for real, authentic stories.”
For the uninitiated writer, Gee’s book works as a roadmap to getting memories on paper and then organizing those thoughts into a story. And while plenty of books on writing can be found at Barnes & Noble, none address the particular challenges involved in local writing.
“We have so much Asian culture in the Islands that there is a lot of You’re embarrassing the family or That’s a secret. What I’ve come to discover is that no one benefits from keeping our story secret,” she says.
In the book’s forward, Pamela Young, co-author of My Name is Makia: A Memoir, recounts how so much of her family’s immigrant past has been lost by the all-too-familiar We don’t talk about that mentality.
She recalls discovering a photograph of a hopeful, young version of her grandfather who was very different from the fatigued, hardened man in the portrait she grew up seeing. What happened to him during the years in between?
“I will never know, because Gung Gung (Grandfather) Young was not to be mentioned. That’s the way it was back then. Families were so focused on the future they often refused to look back, especially on the darker side of personal history,” she writes.
Straddling the line between talking stink and writing what’s true can trip up local writers, too. In fact, Gee spends a section talking specifically about this issue.
So what happens once you’ve gone through the process of writing down your story?
Most of us aren’t looking to become the next Joan Didion or David Sedaris. We just want something to share with family, a few friends and maybe the generation to come. In that case, several inexpensive options exist. With the wonders of print-on-demand publishing, “you can literally have a book in a week,” Gee says.
Ultimately, though, this book is about getting people on the path of writing, especially those of us who aren’t looking for huge commercial success and just want to preserve our unique Hawaii experience for posterity.
“Most writers will say, always write for yourself first. It keeps it real and true.”
What’s her big piece of advice? “Don’t edit, don’t judge. Just get it down. Once you get it all down, you can decide what to keep and what to get rid of. Until then, just write and tell the story as honestly and as fully as you can.”
The Bento Box Memoir
Here’s one of Darien Gee’s favorite writing exercises from Writing the Hawaii Memoir.
First, decide on how many compartments—or memories—your bento box will have (minimum three, maximum six). Second, choose a period of time or a theme. A period of time could be a single day, such as a birthday or wedding, while a theme focuses on an overall thought or feeling. Divide a piece of paper into the number of compartments you’ve chosen. Now fill each compartment. Don’t overthink it.
Jot a few notes for each compartment. After letting it sit, go back and circle a keyword or phrase in each section. Use the memories to start writing.
Example: Theme — Arts & Crafts
Girl Scout Cookies
#2: Craft Room
#4: Self Portrait
Self-Publishing, Local Style
Here are a few local options for self-publishing your Hawaii memoir.
Belknap Publishing & Design, Independent Resources, belknappublishing.com
Mutual Publishing, under its Scripta imprint, mutualpublishing.com
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"Kusina" = Kitchen; "Manang" = older sister
A Filipina's unabashed chronicle of her adaptations in the American kitchen. Includes step-by-step photos on how to make pan de sal, ensaymada, pan de coco, siopao, hopia, pandelimon, pianono, atsara, crema de fruta,etc., and if you are lucky, you will find videos too!
Baking & Cooking
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Canning TOMATOES - WHOLE, HALVED OR QUARTERED (Packed in Own Juice)
Tomatoes (I used 8-10 of these medium-sized tomatoes per quart jar)
Before starting with the produce, always wash the jars first with hot soapy water, then fill to the brim with boiling water. Empty just before filling with the produce to be canned. Some recipes call for the jars to be sterilized. Procedure for such sterilization techniques are also provided for in the canning links. During the whole procedure, refrain from touching anything aside from the produce and canning materials. Whenever you have to touch other things (e.g. camera, canning book, your hair or oily face, etc) or if you have to go to the bathroom, always wash your hands again before going back to canning.
1. Wash tomatoes. Dip in boiling water (blanch) for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split, then remove.
2. Slip off skins; trim away any green areas; cut out core. Leave tomatoes whole or cut into halves or quarters, depending on size.
3. Pack tomatoes into hot jars until space between tomatoes fills with juice, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. (Don't be afraid to push the tomatoes downward; just make sure your hands are clean.)
4. Wipe jar rim clean with clean damp cloth or paper towel. Place lid on jar with sealing compound next to glass. Screw band down evenly and firmly until a point of resistance is met - fingertip tight.
5. Process pints and quarts 1 hour and 25 minutes in a boiling-water canner. (That's as per Canning Resources' procedure. Start timing when the water has boiled vigorously. You can lower the heat as long as water continuously boils vigorously.) Avoid opening the canner while processing; otherwise, you lose heat everytime.
(My Mom only processes her pints 30 minutes and the quarts 40 minutes. Never had any problems with that shorter time. We figure it must be that she properly observes sterile technique in canning.)
6. Upon processing. carefully lift the jars out of the canner one by one, avoiding banging the jars with one another (which can crack the very hot jars).
7. Place the hot jars on a towel at least 1 inch apart.
8. Cover and LEAVE ALONE for at least 3 hours, after which you can check for proper seal. (Those which did not seal will have to have their lids replaced then reprocessed, or store in the fridge and use within 2 weeks. You may also opt to freeze, then thaw before use for cooking.) Don't move them for at least 12 hours after processing.
9. After 12 hours or so, label them ("Tomatoes - whole, packed in own juice, [date]") then store in a cool and dark place and use within one year.
These tomatoes can be used for recipes calling for stewed tomatoes. My in-laws and hubby always called them stewed tomatoes, although now, after educating myself about canning, I realized they are not so. We have used these for lasagna recipes, for caldereta, fish sarciado, escabeche, and other yummy tomato-based dishes. I have also used it for making sweet-and-sour sauce, substituting it for water and tomato paste called for. When I have leftover mac&cheese, I reheat it with half a jar of these tomatoes, then add leftover sauteed ground beef. It sure is advantageous and cheaper to have access to these tomatoes from my pantry rather than having to go to the grocery store once a week to grab 5-10 fully ripe tomatoes for once- to twice-weekly tomato-based dishes. The best thing is, I know how the tomatoes were raised, how clean they were processed, and how healthy my canned goods are.
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The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from
its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This
neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as
revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything
from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people
Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the
Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood stands out by having 96.0% of commuters
doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work
than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.0% of all American
Notable & Unique: People
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd
is among the best neighborhoods for families in Alabama. In fact, this neighborhood is
more family-friendly than 98.9% of neighborhoods
in the entire state of Alabama. Its combination of top public
schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives
this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other
families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong
sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents
influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will
find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the
Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood.
In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this
neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives, urban sophisticates and college students.
In addition, astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single
neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here
than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have
school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the
Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many
people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if
you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
Also, if knowledge is power, then imagine the cumulative power of one neighborhood
where many of the adults have earned an advanced degree, such as a Masters,
law degree, medical degree, or even a Ph.D. This is certainly the case in
the Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood, where 35.9% have
earned an advanced degree. Compare that to the average neighborhood in
America, where just 8.4% of adults have completed a post-graduate degree,
and you can see why this neighborhood is a stand out. In fact, this neighborhood
has a higher rate of adults with an advanced degree than 97.2%
of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Diversity
Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily
speak German at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher
than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Occupations
Executives, managers and professionals make up 65.6% of the workforce
in the Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood which, according to
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is a higher proportion of such
high-level people than is found in 96.4% of the neighborhoods
in America. For this reason, this neighborhood really stands out as unique.
Notable & Unique: Real Estate
In addition, one way that the Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
Furthermore, homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood's real estate landscape than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 53.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
Also of note, real estate in the Lake Nicol Rd / New Watermelon Rd neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood. | <urn:uuid:a7336ed5-481b-4ba2-81ae-8f27f00e7512> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/al/tuscaloosa/lake-nicol-rd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00057-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969727 | 1,033 | 1.53125 | 2 |
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — For years, there have been reports of delayed justice due to backlogs at state crime labs. Police in Wyoming think they have found a solution in opening their own crime lab.
While not fully operational, work at the Wyoming crime lab is beginning to ramp up. Thursday, supervisor Terra Wesseldyk broke down a stash of suspected marijuana.
“We’re looking for seeds. We’re looking for the shape of the stems,” she said, describing the how she would determine for certain whether the product under her microscope was marijuana.
If Wesseldyk needs more proof of the chemical components, lab workers will spin a sample through a spectrometer.
“What is it and how much of it do we have?” crime scene technician Julia Yurkovska said she and her coworkers aim to find out. “We can do marijuana, heroin. We can do different pills.”
And the fingerprint on the baggy from the marijuana can be checked against other prints in a nationwide database.
“I take it back over here and compare one-to-one and make sure that’s the person here,” fingerprint technician Todd Masula explained.
It’s CSI, Wyoming style.
It’s a rarity for a local police department to have its own crime lab. Most send their evidence to Michigan State Police labs.
Wyoming will still send DNA and other evidence MSP’s way. But now, the department can do drug, alcohol and fingerprints workups in-house.
The big advantage is improving turnaround time to keep court cases moving.
“This is just one way in order to expedite that process,” Wyoming Police Department Cap. Kip Snyder said. “To be sure that instead of evidence taking upwards of weeks sometimes for those results to come back, we’re talking about 24 to 48 hours.”
The technicians at the lab were already working for the city. But instead of only going to a scene, they will analyze what they collect.
Wyoming taxpayers picked up the lab’s price tag of about $100,000, which mostly funded new equipment and added training. The state will reimburse Wyoming PD for the cost of many of the tests, which the city hopes will eventually recoup their costs.
Another cost savings could come from officers spending less time tied up in court.
“Lack of evidence being prepared for court is one reason that often delays a hearing,” Snyder said.
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OCEAN CITY – It’s coming down to the wire for high school
seniors throughout the country as another school year comes to a close. With
high school behind them, many seniors take advantage of the early summer season
and flock to vacation spots all along the eastern shore, especially Ocean City
where an estimated 100,000 seniors will hit the sand in June.
In response to the popularity of Ocean City among young
adults, the Ocean City Police Department recently partnered with Comcast
Delmarva to produce 500 copies of an informational DVD aimed to encourage high
school seniors to make informed, healthy choices while having responsible fun
without the use of alcohol and other drugs while in Ocean City.
On Tuesday, a news conference was held where town
officials, including Police Chief Bernadette DiPino and Mayor Rick Meehan, were
in attendance as well as several representatives of Comcast.
The video, which began filming in November and finished up
production in February with the help of the OCPD, Stephen Decatur High School
students and members of the Comcast Spotlight team, was given the green light
when Comcast approached the OCPD back in the summer offering their help with
any other services since they had been making public service announcements
together since 1996.
According to the OCPD’s Community Service Coordinator
Barry Neeb, the idea of the video was something he had been thinking about for
a while after more and more high schools in the region began asking for the
OCPD to speak at their schools concerning senior weeks, something the OCPD has
been doing for over 10 years now.
“Since we can’t get to all of these high schools, it would
be great if we could bring the message to them in another format other than a
live body since we just can’t accommodate all those requests,” he said.
Neeb said the requests are not limited to Maryland. They
come from all over the Mid-Atlantic region, even from as far away as New York.
With 500 copies of the DVD, Neeb said the OCPD can be in all of these places
without taxing the manpower of the department.
DiPino thanked Comcast for its generosity and said crime
prevention is the OCPD’s No. 1 task. She also said the video itself will give a
lot of insight to seniors looking into visiting Ocean City and will prepare
them for the local laws as well as what the police officers here expect.
“We don’t know how many lives we are going to touch but I
can assure you it’s going to be a lot,” she said. “If we make a difference in
just one life, just one life, because of this DVD, then we have made a huge
Meehan praised Comcast for its support of such a worthy
initiative and mentioned how it’s the parents of these young adults who entrust
the town with the safety of their children.
“Our goal in Ocean City is to make sure they have a safe
time while they are here and they return home safely, that’s our goal,” he
said. “By viewing this in advance, I think that will encourage that type of
activity to happen.”
Henry Pearl, vice president of Comcast Delmarva, said the
video would touch places where the OCPD’s resources may not have been able to
reach before. In addition to the 500 DVDs that will be distributed, Pearl said
Comcast will make the video available to 2.7 million Comcast subscribers, from
New Jersey down to Virginia, through their video on demand program.
“We think, in addition to the distribution, with our video
on demand opportunity that we’ll be able to touch many more lives and prevent
incidents from occurring, making [seniors’] stay in Ocean City as memorable as
it should be,” he said.
“The name of the game in prevention,” Neeb responded.
“Prevention is a business where you don’t always see tangible results. You
don’t know what you’ve prevented.”
The video itself features Neeb as well as Lois Twilley, a
health educator from the Worcester County Health Department, and touches on
everything from underage drinking and the consequences it has, to tips on what
officers are looking for and where to go for medical attention.
On Wednesday, Neeb said that the DVD paired with the
efforts of Ocean City’s Play It Safe Program, which is sponsoring 58 events
alone over the course of June for high school seniors to participate in, will
hopefully curb some of the underage drinking and disorderly conduct that takes
Neeb said there are no future projects planned with
Comcast in the immediate future but said as long as they are willing to be a
partner in public safety the OCPD would be glad to work with them again.
partnership by definition means people working together for a common goal,” he
said. “This is the epitome of a partnership and this is an important one
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Bereavement refers specifically to the process of recovering from the death of a loved one. Grief is a reaction to any form of loss. Both encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger, and the process of adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another, depending on his or her background, beliefs, relationship to what was lost, and other factors.
Grief is associated with feelings of sadness, yearning, guilt, regret, and anger, among others. Some people may experience a sense of meaninglessness, and others can feel a sense of relief. Emotions are often surprising in their strength or mildness, and they can also be confusing, such as when a person misses a painful relationship.
Thoughts during grief can vary from “there’s nothing I can do about it” to “it’s my fault, I could have done more” or from “she had a good life” to “it wasn’t her time.” They can be troubling or soothing, and people in grief can bounce between different thoughts as they make sense of their loss. Grieving behaviors run from crying to laughter, and from sharing feelings to engaging silently in activities like cleaning, writing, or exercising. Some people find comfort in the company of others, particularly with those who may be similarly affected by the loss, and others may prefer to be alone with their feelings.
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- Instrumental grieving involves focusing primarily on problem-solving tasks while controlling or minimizing emotional expression.
- Intuitive grieving is based on a heightened emotional experience that leads to sharing feelings, exploring the lost relationship, considering mortality, and identifying meaning in life.
There is no right or wrong way to experience grief, though some thoughts and behaviors after a loss can be more helpful or safe than others.
Everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time. Some people recover from grief and resume normal activities within six months, though they continue to feel moments of sadness. Others may feel better after about a year, and sometimes people continue to grieve for years without seeming to improve or find relief even temporarily. Grief can be complicated by other conditions, most notably depression, or by the person’s level of dependency on the departed.
No one way of grieving is better than any other. Some people are more emotional and dive into their feelings; others are stoic and may seek distraction from dwelling on an unchangeable fact of living. While many difficult and complicated emotions are associated with the grieving process, experiences of joy, contentment, and humor are not absent during this difficult time. Self-compassion, physical exercise, and strong social support can all contribute to alleviating some of the most challenging aspects of grief.
One of the many challenges associated with grieving the loss of a loved one, whether to death or the dissolution of a relationship, is adjusting to the new reality of living in the absence of the loved one. This often requires developing a new routine, envisioning a new future, and even adopting a new sense of identity.
- Out of the Darkness: Three Steps to Emotional Healing
- Breathing Lessons for Coping with Grief
- Creating Rituals to Move Through Grief
The experience of grief is not something a person ever recovers from completely, but time typically tempers its intensity. The term complicated grief refers to a persistent form of bereavement that dominates a person’s life, interfering with daily functioning for an extended period of time.
Symptoms of complicated grief are nearly identical to those of acute grief, and again, the length of time it takes for a person to grieve is highly variable and dependent on context. But when symptoms are interminable without improvement, lasting for at least one year or more and interfering with one’s ability to return to routine activities, complicated grief may be implicated. Prolonged symptoms may include:
- Intense sadness
- Preoccupation with the deceased or with the circumstances surrounding the death
- Longing or yearning
- Feelings of emptiness or meaninglessness
- Difficulty engaging in happy memories
- Avoidance of reminders of the deceased
- Lack of desire in pursuing personal interests or plans
- Bitterness or anger
The DSM-5 includes diagnostic criteria for “persistent complex bereavement disorder” in the section of conditions requiring further study.
When a person’s grief-related thoughts, behaviors, or feelings are extremely distressing, unrelenting, or incite concern, a qualified mental health professional may be able to help. Therapy is an effective way to learn to cope with the stressors associated with the loss and to manage symptoms with techniques such as relaxation or meditation.
Each experience of grief is unique, complex, and personal, and therapists will tailor treatment to meet the specific needs of each person. For example, a therapist might help the bereaved find different ways to maintain healthy connections with the deceased through memory, reflection, ritual, or dialogue about the deceased and with the deceased.
In addition to individual therapy, group therapy can be helpful for those who find solace in the reciprocal sharing of thoughts and feelings, and recovery results are often rapid in this setting. Similarly, family therapy may be suitable for a family whose members are struggling to adapt to the loss of a family member.
Psychologists and researchers have outlined various models or phases of grief. In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified five linear stages of grief that most people are now familiar with:
Kubler-Ross originally developed this model to illustrate the process of grief associated with death, but she eventually adapted the model to account for any type of grief. Kubler-Ross noted that everyone experiences at least two of the five stages of grief, and she acknowledged that some people may revisit certain stages over many years or throughout life.
Psychologist J. W. Worden also created a stage-based model for coping with the death of a loved one. He called his model the Four Tasks of Mourning:
- To accept the reality of the loss
- To work through the pain of grief
- To adjust to life without the deceased
- To maintain a connection to the deceased while moving on with life
As an alternative to the linear stage-based model, Margaret Stroebe and Hank Schut developed a dual process model of bereavement. They identified two tasks associated with bereavement:
- Loss-oriented activities and stressors are those directly related to the death. These include crying, yearning, experiencing sadness, denial, or anger, dwelling on the circumstances of the death, and avoiding restoration activities.
- Restoration-oriented activities and stressors are associated with secondary losses with regard to lifestyle, routine, and relationships. These include adapting to a new role, managing changes, developing new ways of connecting with family and friends, and cultivating a new way of life.
Stroebe and Schut suggest that people will invariably oscillate between the two processes.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) does not define bereavement as a disorder, but preexisting conditions like major depression, or repercussions associated with the trauma of a death, such as acute stress or posttraumatic stress, can complicate bereavement. Normal symptoms of bereavement can mimic those of depression, but these symptoms typically pass within two months of the loss. For those who may be vulnerable to depression, grief has the potential to precipitate a depressive episode, and for those who already experience depression, the bereavement process can be prolonged and worsened by the depression. What distinguishes grief from depression is that the feelings of grief are specifically related to the loss or death, and depression is characterized by a general sense of worthlessness, despair, and lack of joy.
Mourning multiple losses: Rhonda, 57, had a sudden breakdown, stopped working, became anxious and depressed, and sought therapy after her sister passed away. A full history revealed she had been the sole caretaker for her sister, who had been ill for years and required near full-time assistance. During the time of the illness, Rhonda’s parents had both died of natural causes. Rhonda realized she never had time or emotional energy to mourn her parents’ death, and in fact, resented her sister, and had not mourned her death that had just occurred within the past year, and for which Rhonda felt terribly guilty. She had also been so caught up in her family duties that she had had little time to develop other pursuits. Allowing herself to face the great feelings of sadness and loss slowly dissolved her anxiety, and after a time of rest to fully grieve, Rhonda could return to work. With the support of a therapist and a close friend, she found the strength to begin to build a full life.
- Doughty, E. A., Wissel, A., & Glorfield, C. (2011). Current Trends in Grief Counseling. Vistas Online. Retrieved from http://counselingoutfitters.com/vistas/vistas11/Article_94.pdf
- Kersting, K. (2004, November). A New Approach to Complicated Grief. Monitor on Psychology 35(10). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov04/grief.aspx
- Major Depressive Disorder and the “Bereavement Exclusion”. American Psychiatric Association. Retrieved from http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Bereavement%20Exclusion%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
- Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 grief scorecard: Assessment and outcomes of proposals to pathologize grief. World Psychiatry. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683270/ | <urn:uuid:fc5334f2-9378-4a2b-a2a8-fd7edfec5de0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/issues/grief | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951049 | 2,033 | 3.5 | 4 |
Re: How to determine the note
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Posted by Les on October 15, 2006 at 10:46:09:
In Reply to: How to determine the note posted by Athaly on October 15, 2006 at 08:58:33:
The MIDI note event also contains "note on" and "note off" data.
The time between note on and note off messages is the duration, that's the value you're looking for.
: What i have to do is to read a midi file and output a pinao sheet for it... My current problem is this: Once Ive read a note on event, i can already determine its channel, velocity, octave, pitch name, but i can't determine yet what kind of note is that. Is it a whole note or half note etc... Please help me... thank you very very much
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Best in Show: Sigmar Polke at Leo Koenig
Whether his lens was focused on his own abstract drawings or capturing skeletons moldering away in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, German painter Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) reveled in ignoring standard photographic technique. Instead, he emphasized a crucial element that was purposely submerged in most serious photography (and is wholly absent from our digital epoch): the visceral interaction of chemicals on paper. Polke's stained black-and-white prints, with their rudely cut edges and scratched surfaces, deliver painterly jolts.
In a sublime 1988 print of vaguely organic shapes, one can sense how old-school photographic mediums actually work—minute silver particles suspended in a gelatin emulsion become tarnished from a quick burst of light. Polke transformed what was usually an exacting and laborious printing process into a serendipitous hurly-burly of dark splatters and luminous runnels. The artist's shoes, visible at the bottom of the picture, reveal that he simply photographed some of his own gouache drawings spread out on the floor, then fooled around with the developer and fixing bath to add a smoggy scrim that echoes the painted forms.
This sense of play was already evident in his 1976 photos of those withered Capuchin corpses, one shot capturing a pair of empty eye sockets contemplating the cigarette dangling from a companion's centuries-dead mouth. Even amid decay, Polke divined teeming spirits everywhere, often placing himself at the center of his own idiosyncratic cosmos. In an overexposed self-portrait, he holds a camera out from his body to photograph his own face. His torso is nearly whited-out, as if being transported to a more rarefied realm—you might find yourself wondering if he managed to snap the shutter before his rapture was complete.
Sigmar Polke: 'Photoworks 19642000'
Leo Koenig Inc.
545 West 23rd Street
Through September 3
In a roughly two-foot-square photo depicting a pair of 45 rpm singles and one of his cartoon-like figure drawings pinned to a wall, Polke's fingerprint, obviously smudged onto the negative, looms as large as the records and the quickly scrawled heads. Such emphatic traces of the artist's presence imbue these often-startling images with a sloppy, yet magical, physicality.
Some great artwork has come from purposeful destruction—think of Gordon Matta-Clark back in the '70s sawing massive ellipses out of the floors, roofs, and walls of abandoned buildings. Valerie Hegarty channels Clark with her faux-distressed Interior Wall With Grand Canyon, a life-size foamcore-and-cardboard concoction depicting a battered plaster and lathe wall adorned with a ripped landscape. This artifice of destruction is continued in Quinn Taylor and Michael DeLucia's Radon. After Taylor painted skewed geometries on a sheet of plywood, DeLucia used a router to carve rigid striations into the surface; due to the cheap wood and thick layers of house paint, the elegant patterns of the cuts are undermined by their furred and clotted edges. A score of bullet-size holes puncture Molly Zuckerman-Hartung's small 2008–10 painting of a surrealist biomorph undergirded by a colorful cubist framework. Silver paint drips like blood, and the scraped surface is as rough as a week-old scab, conjuring a haunting, corporeal struggle, a notion that occurred to me well before I read the title: Damaged Nightwood (Have I not shut my eyes with the added shutter of the night and put my hand out?). Derek Eller, 615 W 27th, 212-206-6411, derekeller.com. Through August 17
'Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976–82'
Running the gamut from crudely xeroxed show flyers to album-jacket enlargements, this jam-packed exhibit emphasizes that punk-era graphics were every bit as aggressive as the music they promoted. The cover of the Clash's Give 'Em Enough Rope gains its power less from the grainy photo of buzzards clawing a dead cowpoke than from the abstract red, yellow, and blue color scheme. French artist Guy Peellaert's iconic greyhound/glam-rocker hybrid for David Bowie's Diamond Dogs is paired with an even more grotesque knockoff featuring a scrawny Iggy Pop, complete with studded collar—you can almost hear the proto-punk colossus growling, "I wanna be your dog." Steven Kasher, 521 W 23rd, 212-966-3978, stevenkasher.com. Through August 19.
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I didn’t know about the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto until recently, when a friend sent me a link to the Bata’s current exhibition, Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century. (I definitely need to make a special trip to Toronto to see this show. Fortunately, it runs through June 2016.)
In perusing the Bata Shoe Museum’s website, I came across these beauties. They were made in the late 1870s or 1880s by the luxury footwear firm of François Pinet. Just look at the perfect heel and curvy lines, not to mention the intricate floral hand-embroidery.
I would wear these boots in a second, if someone could reproduce them in a present-day size 8.
Here’s a video of the Bata’s senior curator, Elizabeth Semmelhack, discussing the Pinet boots.
Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum.
Photo credit: Image © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada
I took these two photographs during my commute one morning last week. I could easily take several similar photos during every morning and evening commute, as well as at my office, to make this obvious point: classic Dr. Marten AirWair boots are back (again). I supposed it’s been a while since their last revival. I’m not sure what exactly prompted this latest wave, but a whole new generation of girls has suddenly embraced them this spring.
These two young women were waiting for a crosstown bus in their purple and oxblood Docs.
Continue reading “On the Street: Doc Martens, Redux”
I love fashion. And I love books. (Not in some hipster-Instagram, “I love books! they’re so old-school!” way, but as someone who has been reading actual books for close on four decades, and owns hundreds of them, and spends much of her time in libraries, and most definitely does not own an e-reader. Okay, rant over.)
I would never actually wear these shoes, but they’re certainly fun to look at, aren’t they? with their heels embossed and ridged to look like the spines of very old leather-bound books? They belong to Charlotte Olympia’s “Fairy Tales” collection. So much better than a glass slipper.
Image: photo via Tom and Lorenzo.
I don’t know how many pairs of black, high-heeled Mary Janes I’ve gone through in my adult years. I always feel like I can’t go wrong with that style. Here’s a fanciful version: the “Elizabeth” from John Fluevog’s “Queen Transcendent” collection.
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Psych Ch 8 Non verbal Code Nonverbal communication involves no words Only has gestures and expressions Paralanguage is the use of voice refers to vocal character and emotional state personal space or proxemics to express level of intimacy and power armslength Psychoogists believe that human language evolved from a system of nonverbal communication Through smell called olfactics a person s ethnicity social class and status ar4e communicated norms are set by each culture through scents of each person shampoo oil deodorant natural body odor etc Denotive meaning correct grammarsyntax in verbal code when we don t understand what someone is saying we can go to a dictionary to look up the meaning There is no dictionary for nonverbal language Kinesics or body movement including hand gestures facial expressions etc Kinesics behavior is organized into ve broad categories Emblems Illustrators Affect Displays Regulators Adaptors U39lbUUNH Emblems primarily hand gestures not exclusively that have a direct literal verbal translation Ex Smiling and waving at someone lllustrators typically hand and arm movements that accompany speech or function to accent or complement that is being said Ex Folding hands and saying quotNamastequot Affect Displaygare universal They are nonverbal presentations of emotions through facial expressions 2000 to 3000 of them have to do with emotion Every expression exists in each culture although there may be different meanings for certain facial expressions in certain cultures Ex Snarls and gritting teeth show the facial expression of anger Although showing teeth isn t always necessary Primary emotions are surprise fear anger disgust happiness and sadness which are all universal facial expressions are evolutionarily and biologically inherited rate of intensity of an emotion is scaled from 1 to 8 Regulators behaviors and actions that govern direct or manage conversation Ex Direct eye contact and nodding typically means that you agree Arabs hold hands to display trust Middle Eastern people smell each other s breath to to show that they desire each other Adaptors kinesics actions that satisfy physiological or psychological needs Ex Scratching an itch satis es a physiological need whereas tapping the tip of you pen on the desk while waiting for the professor to deliver a nal exam satis es a psychological need not learned but may vary cross culturally Occulesicsstudy of eye contact Eye contact is one of the most dynamic forms of nonverbal behavior and is an essential biological skill necessary for effective social interactions visua processes including attraction to the eye region of the face are not only innate in human but in animals as well eye contact and emotion are closely related with approachavoidance tendencies There are different meanings of eye contact interculturally Ex Direct eye contact in China is considered rude while in America showing eye contact means that you are paying attention and is part of good manners Paralanguage qualities that useually accompy speech such as rhythm tone pace etc Vowels help create and connect vocal sounds Consonants function to stop and start a sound Some languages called tonal languages rely on vocalized tones to communicate meaning such as Modern Vietnamese Vocal attraction appealing sounds in speech also involves sex differences Unattractive voices sounds that can be squeaky nasal monotone etc 0 Can hear diffrences in paralanguages region to region interms of pronunciation and vocal pitch of the people or their accents Speakers of the same language have similar accents Similar accents among people of the same region are the paralinguistic component combines with the phonological and intonation features of the spoken word Proxemics refers to the perception and use of space including territoriality and personal space Territoriaity refers to physical geographical space personal space refers to perceptual or psychological space known as to most as the quotbubblequot Americans are very protective of their space Indians and other places where there is high pop density personal space is valued however hard to nd Privacy in high density places is more psychological rather than physiological there just isn t enough space for so many people so the only privacy you get sometimes is in your head Haptics Skin is the biggest organ 0 f the human body which not only surrounds the body but also separtes it from the environment Skin represents a social organ through which humans are able to get in touch with and get close to other human beings Haptics or tactile communication refers to the use of touch most primitive form of communication US Notrthern Europe India Southeast Asia moderate contact culture South and Central American countries are touch cultures Korean Puerto Ricans Southern Europe low touch cultures Olfactics sense of smell humans and other mammalians have the most olfactory genes Humans can detect odors but are even more adept at producing odors most scented of all are the apes Two types of glands below our skin sebaceous and apocrine glands Sebacious glands oil glands mostly near hair follicles for protection Apocrine glands located in more dense areas such as armpits but also found I n pubic and anal regions the face scalp umbilical region Women have more apocrine glands than men Human saliva and urine also produce scent most sensitive to odors is during ovulation organ secretions function as odor cues to stimulate their menstrual cycles Scents categorize groups of people into status ower classes tend to be more smelly this is how we label racially ethnically and religiously Microcultures are characterized as possessing negative olfactory characteristics Physical Appearance and Dress can identify one s culture by physical appearance and their traditional clothing women dress differently in other cultures jewelry no jewelry Chronemics nonverba channel of time monochromicpolychromic IndividualismCollectivism 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Overview of Clinical Assessment and Instrumental Evaluation of Pediatric Dysphagia, presented in parternship with Cincinnati Children's
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- After this course, participants will be able to identify the components of the clinical feeding evaluation of infants and children.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe clinical indicators of swallowing dysfunction that signal the need for objective instrumental assessment of swallowing parameters.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the indications and contraindications for videofluroscopic and/or fiberoptic endoscopic assessments of swallowing, and the advantages and disadvantages of each examination.
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Claire Miller, PhD, MHA, CCC-SLP
Claire Miller is the Program Director of the Aerodigestive and Esophageal Center/Interdisciplinary Feeding Team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and holds a clinical position in the Division of Speech-Language Pathology at Cincinnati Children’s. She has a faculty appointment as a Field Service Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, and also holds an Assistant Professor - Affiliate appointment in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. Her research and clinical interests are in the area of pediatric dysphagia, with a focus on instrumental swallowing assessment and clinical management of infants and children with pediatric dysphagia.
Debbie Dorr, MA, CCC-SLP
Debbie Dorr is a member of the Division of Speech-Language Pathology, and participates on the Interdisciplinary Feeding Team, the Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Clinic, Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) clinic and also works in the Multidisciplinary Feeding Treatment Clinic. Her area of clinical expertise and focus is evaluation and assessment of infants and children with varied medical diagnoses with accompanying dysphagia.
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Part I of this article covered the people who want your data, the technologies available to them, and the Constitutional underpinnings of your right to privacy. Here in Part II we cover the six layers of privacy protection, with dozens of links to products and services that will maximize your privacy.
The most effective thing you can do to protect the private information on your computer is to establish a layered approach to security. You need to build first-line, second-line, third-line (etc.) defenses, and consider the consequences at each level if those defenses should fail.
Not to indulge in an overused, and rather passé phrase, but when it comes to computer security, you are the weakest link. The most sophisticated security system in the world cannot protect the privacy of information if you don’t develop and adhere to good privacy protection habits.
First and foremost, develop the habit of non-disclosure. Simply because forms or applications request private information does not mean that you should automatically divulge the information. Generous use of “Not Applicable” or “N/A” is a prudent habit to develop. You can be more proactive, if you like, handling excessive demands for personal information with a campaign of disinformation. Simply altering a few characters of a name, zip code, or social security number when inputting data on Internet forms causes information to be associated with the fictitious identity, thus defeating data mining and profiling techniques. Of course, you should be especially stingy with information that uniquely identifies you, such as your driver’s license number or social security number. Such entries should be limited to online banking, passport renewal, or other dealings with trusted firms and agencies.
Another important privacy protection habit is educating yourself to the specific weaknesses of your hardware, operating system, and applications.
One example of a hardware weakness would be the TEMPEST emanations discussed in Part I, but you would, first and foremost, have to be a pretty bad dude to be the subject of TEMPEST monitoring. Researchers and security experts differ on how effective TEMPEST monitoring is, how directional the antennas are, and how well one machine’s emanations can be differentiated from another’s. Researchers Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson say that TEMPEST monitoring can be prevented with techniques such as using gray scales to mask characters on the screen. Alternatively, you can supposedly jam the emanations by placing a second computer within the same room and having its monitor generate an electrical smokescreen of characters by using a screensaver similar to the one used in the movie “The Matrix.” We would theorize that an older monitor with higher emissions than a new one, running at the same resolution and refresh rate, would be most effective, but you’re not that paranoid, are you?
Most browsers have an autocomplete feature that remembers what you’ve typed when you fill in online forms. After you’ve typed a few characters, the autocomplete feature creates a drop-down box that contains the remainder of a zip code or other data. How did your computer know what information was needed to fill in the desired blank? You might be shocked to find that your Social Security number, bank account number, passwords, birthday, address, mother’s maiden name, and credit card numbers are all stored on your computer if you’ve entered them into forms. You can clear out this information and disable this feature with only nine clicks of the mouse:
From the Internet Explorer Tools menu, click: Internet Options|Content tab|autocomplete button, then uncheck all three boxes and click the two buttons to “clear forms” and “clear passwords”, then click “OK” to close the two open dialog boxes.
Do you play games at work? Use unauthorized software? Windows can give you away. It maintains Applog files in the System folder and keeps a record of which programs are used most frequently. Windows uses this information if you select the defragmentation option to rearrange your program files so that your programs start faster. Deleting the Applog folder’s contents prevents that record from being examined to determine your usage habits.
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The effect gravity and memory have on language is the relationship which propels Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s Solar Maximum. The poetry drips in the twilight of loss, a decimating emotional scourge that echoes in the fringes of language and physics. Lee’s words are a type of prose fusion that spans both the macroscopic and microscopic, a lyrical orbit that describes the planes of a fiery apocalypse. The sun is dying, undergoing a metamorphosis that impacts the social collective that ties us together through photons:
“My skin crawls at odd hours of the day, a residual effect of my recent radiation therapies, how they inadvertently synced me to coronal flares… The brightest moments of the day rarely correlate to a discharge. Gray sky or blackness, a foggy haze aswirl between stars and nothing halts. Some moments tear my teeth.”
The apocalypse feels very personal, emotions drifting on the light waves of a cataclysm. I have to admit, not being a poet, when I read poetry collections, I focus on what the words evoke in me and less on the technical aspects. It’s literally like a star system of feeling in revolution around my thoughts, each poem acting as a planet pulling on my attention. Some slip by unaware, barely registering. Others pound me like asteroids forcing craters in my mental eco-system. Sueyeun Juliette drowns my memories in sunlight. The collection is a unique type of rapture, finding the parallels between a terminal sun and the unrelenting pressure of imminent doom:
Cold. The blistering of it. A sanitary isolation, this diffusion of
kinetic intentions into static, liquid sand. Deeper midnight,
negative phosphor darkness. The primary principle requires my
concentration, to attend to this liquid summons now, all things
gathering to a point, to seep. Heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, all these
and more divulge themselves with an igneous notation. And
pouring through them, from what else–the dark streams of
sunlight’s interior. The breaking of, such sorrows.
The dedication to Stanislaw Lem is noteworthy in that Solar Maximum reminded me, thematically at least, of Solaris. The alienness of the planet is analogous to the destruction of the sun, and both evoke oceans of isolation that make each sentiment poignant. I found myself lost in contemplation, wandering through Lee’s memories, her imagery, ablaze with so much meaning. It’s both tactile and visual, the heat as scorching as it is hot to sense:
To the small star inside, we set up a makeshift rotation that gives us each a momentary relief.
Watching is a rudimentary course of action, and we detail each thought as it appears. This is a
gentle activity, despite the aggressiveness of the surround. A thought is the beginning of an
opening, and we work diligently to trace its aperture, the outline of its extent. When he tells us he
simply doesn’t know and is unable to track any origins, we recognize the rotation has failed. The
small star inside is an obvious integer, but to this he has become blind.
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Gargling with hydrogen peroxide has its own benefits to your oral health. It can help get rid of canker sores, whiten teeth, get rid of bad breath and treat sore throat. But is it safe to gargle with hydrogen peroxide?
Hydrogen peroxide is known to have antimicrobial activity and many benefits are advanced to gargling with hydrogen peroxide. From combating bad breath to teeth whitening and treatment of tooth and throat infections (sore throats), the list is huge. In this article we’ll give you an insight into some of the common benefits and uses of hydrogen peroxide.
Is It Safe To Gargle With Hydrogen Peroxide?
- Is It Safe To Gargle With Hydrogen Peroxide?
- Benefits of Gargling Hydrogen Peroxide
- How to Gargle With Hydrogen Peroxide
- Cons of Gargling With Hydrogen Peroxide
- When Gargling With Hydrogen Peroxide:
A perfect smile, packaged in pearl white teeth and good breath is desirable. After all, it is one of the first things that people notice about you. In pursuit of that perfect smile, lots of people often turn to gargling with hydrogen peroxide. But is it it OK to gargle with hydrogen peroxide?
Well, it is largely safe to gargle with hydrogen peroxide provided that the concentration of the hydrogen peroxide doesn’t exceed 3%.
This is because hydrogen peroxide with higher than 3% concentration may result in irritation and blistering in the mouth and throat.Used in very high concentration, hydrogen peroxide can also trigger tooth sensitivity and even “blanche” your gums as Dr. Kasarsky, a NY based cosmetic dentist says.
Hydrogen peroxide is usually sold over-the-counter in drugstores as aqueous solutions (mixed with water) of between 3% and 6% concentration and it is up to you to ensure that you dilute it accordingly.
It is also a good idea to avoid swallowing hydrogen peroxide while gargling as this can cause various health problems including nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. In large enough quantities, hydrogen peroxide may even be fatal.
Hydrogen peroxide should also be used over a short period of time since overuse of the peroxide may actually damage cells and soften tooth surfaces.
Benefits of Gargling Hydrogen Peroxide
The FDA has also approved the use of 3% hydrogen peroxide as a mouthwash. Gargling hydrogen peroxide is also increasingly advocated for by alternative medicine practitioners.
The argument draws upon two precepts: the body produces hydrogen peroxide naturally as a way to fight of infection and that the oxygen-rich environment created by hydrogen peroxide is unsuitable for survival of most human pathogens (since most of them are anaerobic). Oral intake and injection of hydrogen peroxide is however widely advised against.
Among the benefits of gargling hydrogen peroxide are:
1. Teeth whitening and treatment of tooth infections
Teeth get discolored for reasons such as poor oral hygiene, smoking, excessive drinking of caffeinated beverages. Hydrogen peroxide makes for a cheap remedy for teeth whitening.
In fact, teeth whitening is the main dentistry use of hydrogen peroxide today as Jeanne Bosecker, a Registered Dental Hygienist based in Chicago says.
As study conducted by Sao Paulo State University found that gargling hydrogen peroxide mouthwash two times a day over a period of 3 months may help to whiten the teeth. That explains why hydrogen peroxide is one of the key ingredients in most tooth-whitening products.
In addition to helping to whiten teeth, gargling with hydrogen peroxide has also been used effectively for treatment of dental conditions such as gingivitis and periodontitis.
It also helps to use hydrogen peroxide to rinse your toothbrush. Just be sure to use freshly poured H2O2 since hydrogen peroxide loses its strength when exposed to light and heat.
2. Fighting bad breath
Medically known as halitosis, bad breath is an embarrassing health condition that is attributed to factors such as dry mouth, sore throat, tonsillitis, and gum disease.
Used as a mouthwash – which is by the way one of the most common food grade hydrogen peroxide uses – hydrogen peroxide helps to reduce the bacteria and viruses in your mouth which may in turn help to combat bad breath.
Gargling with hydrogen peroxide however gives a weird taste that may be intolerable for some people. Some foaming is also to be expected as the peroxide work.
Here is an effective procedure you may want to use to fight bad breath:
- Brush your teeth as you normally do.
- Next, floss between your teeth to get rid of any gunk trapped in there. This ensures more effective H2O2
- Swish and gargle with food grade hydrogen peroxide solution and then spit it out
- Repeat for about 3 minutes
It is especially important that you brush your teeth and then gargle with hydrogen peroxide before you retire to bed. This is because oral bacteria are most active at night when they vigorously act on the food debris trapped in between your teeth.
3. Canker sores treatment
Sometimes referred to as aphthous ulcers or mouth ulcers, canker sores have a characteristic yellow or grayish-white centers and well defined red border.
They occur inside and around the mouth – on the tongue, on the inside of the lips, in the throat, on the cheeks etc. – and can make it difficult to eat and drink.
Among the underlying factors for canker sores in mouth are compromised immune system, physical trauma, vitamin deficiencies, stress, and poor diet.
The antibacterial and antiseptic properties of hydrogen peroxide comes handy in treatment of canker sores. Using hydrogen peroxide for canker sores treatment is as easy as rinsing your mouth with it twice daily until the sores clear.
The most important thing is to remember to use H2O2 in appropriate concentration as explained in a previous section.
4. Treatment of sore throat
Common cold and flu are the most common causes of sore throat, but it may also be caused by acid reflux – backflow of gastric juices into the esophagus. Sinus drainage can also trigger throat infections that culminate in sore throat.
Sore throat may also be accompanied by tonsillitis. Some people have reported positive results in as far as gargling with hydrogen peroxide for sore throat relief is concerned.
In addition to homemade H2O2 preparations, you may also get one of the many some over-the-counter hydrogen peroxide mouthwash preparations that typically contain a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, water, and Listerine.
If you don’t like the taste that such mouthwashes leave behind, you may find gargling with salty water after you finish gargling with the mouthwash helpful. Simply mix warm water with a pinch of salt and then gargle with the solution for 5 to 10 minutes.
There is then this common question, should pregnant women use Hydrogen peroxide? Well, it is safe to gargle with hydrogen peroxide while pregnant, of course provided that you dilute it to safe levels, and avoid swallowing it.
How to Gargle With Hydrogen Peroxide
Using hydrogen peroxide as a mouth wash is as easy as gargling 1% to 3% hydrogen peroxide and then spitting out the peroxide. Repeat the process for about 3 minutes for best results. Some experts recommend diluting 3% hydrogen peroxide with equal volume of water (to get 1.5% H2O2) before using it.
Cons of Gargling With Hydrogen Peroxide
The major concern with using hydrogen peroxide to rinse the mouth is its unpleasant taste that some people find intolerable. Rinsing the mouth thoroughly with water after gargling the peroxide may help overcome this. You may also benefit from masking the flavor of the peroxide with mint.
Hydrogen peroxide may have harmful effects such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and even death if swallowed in large quantities. Using adequately diluted peroxide solutions and making deliberate effort to avoid swallowing it as you gargle will help you address this.
Of course you might still end up swallowing a small amount of it but that shouldn’t be a problem.
When Gargling With Hydrogen Peroxide:
Hydrogen peroxide degrades fast and lose its effectiveness when exposed to light and heat. This is why it is sold in dark bottles. Therefore, use freshly poured hydrogen peroxide.
- Make deliberate effort to ensure minimal ingestion of hydrogen peroxide.
- Safe use of hydrogen peroxide hinges on getting the right concentration
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Frederick and Kimberly Kagan touring Basra in 2008.
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|Education||PhD in Russian and Soviet military history|
|Alma mater||Yale University|
|Employer||American Enterprise Institute|
|Relatives||Robert Kagan, brother|
Kagan graduated from Hamden High School before earning a B.A. in Soviet and East European studies and a Ph.D. in Russian and Soviet military history, both from Yale University. He worked as an Assistant professor of military history at West Point from 1995–2001 and as an Associate professor of military history from 2001–2005. The courses he taught at West Point included the history of military art, grand strategy, revolutionary warfare and diplomatic history.
Kagan's brother is foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan, whose wife is Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Frederick Kagan is married to Kimberly Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War.
Frederick Kagan and his father Donald Kagan, who is a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, together authored While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000). The book argued in favor of a large increase in military spending and warned of future threats, including from a potential revival of Iraq's WMD program. Frederick along with his brother Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father Donald, are all signatories to the Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000).
Kagan authored the "real Iraq Study Group" report as the AEI's rival to the ISG report of James Baker and Lee H. Hamilton in December 2006. The AEI report, titled Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, was released on January 5, 2007, and Kagan was said to have won-over the ear of President George W. Bush, strongly influencing his subsequent "surge" plan for changing the course of the Iraq War. Along with retired Gen. Jack Keane, retired Col. Joel Armstrong, and retired Maj. Daniel Dwyer, Kagan is credited as one of the "intellectual architects" of the surge plan. According to Foreign Policy magazine, Kagan's essay, "We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan," influenced the strategic thinking of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, that reportedly influenced Gates' decision to support sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
Remarking on the surge in 2015, Kagan said at the time the AEI group convened, "it never occurred to me or anybody that was involved in this that we were going to affect policy. It was simply 'Maybe we can put some concrete numbers on the table, some concrete enemy on a map, some concrete units on a grid, and force other people who want to have this discussion to wrestle with the specifics of the problem.'"
In 2010, U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus – appointed by President Barack Obama to head international forces in Afghanistan – hired Kagan as one of two experts on fighting corruption. An article in the Washington Post on 19 December 2012 discussed the relationship that the Kagans had with General Petraeus, and to a much lesser extent with his successor in July 2011, Gen John R. Allen. It discussed various visits made by the Kagans from mid-2010 including their having been given access to the Combined Joint Intelligence Operations Center in Petraeus' headquarters. It commented on and raised questions about their sponsorship by Defense contractors through the American Enterprise Institute. It also detailed how the Kagans had become involved in Iraq in 2007 under an initiative by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was their first introduction to Afghanistan in 2010.
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We all know the story. You get COVID, discover you’ve got to isolate for 10 days, and go onto Blackboard with bated breath. You are praying that for once a lecturer structures their modules efficiently on Blackboard.
In a post covid era, we all have a newfound interest in the way that we learn in the virtual as well as the physical world. As a result, many of us have a different level of appreciation for a good Blackboard or Virtual Learning Environment page and appreciate the value of organisation. So why not nominate one of your courses to be awarded for their merits!
The Blackboard and VLE awards are the optimal way to do this. This is the best way to acknowledge the modules and module leads that have eased your stress. They will also help shape the way that other modules are put online in the future. You can nominate up to 3 modules that you believe deserves recognition.
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As part of efforts to bridge the gap in the telecommunication network connectivity, the Government through the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has committed about €155 million to supplement universal service funds to boost broadband services in rural areas and narrow the digital divide.
The sector Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, made the disclosure yesterday during the 2022 WTDC roundtable discussion in Rwanda. According to her, 2,016 project cell sites are being built across the country to connect about three million Ghanaians by 2023.
She also revealed that a similar amount will be committed for the second phase, once the current phase of the Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project is completed.
Mrs Ursula said Ghana has pledged an open spectrum policy to facilitate the usage of any technology to connect more than 6,000 villages across the country.
Under the programme, three million Ghanaians will be connected by 2023, in addition to building the shared infrastructure for rural network connectivity.
“We have mandated and are implementing a national roaming policy for any user to access broadband and emergency call services in our rural, unserved and underserved communities, regardless of their service provider,” she said.
Mrs Owusu-Ekuful further reiterated Ghana’s commitment to enhance digital skills to empower the citizens to develop and utilise digital solutions to address social and economic challenges.
She recounted how the government has committed about $2.6 million to adding two innovation centres for the training of at least 3,000 people by 2024.
The Girls in ICT programme, the Minister noted, which was initially targeted at 1,000 female students from selected basic schools has been up-scaled to 5,000 girls who have begun training in five regions. It is expected that an equal number of young women will be trained at the tertiary level.
She disclosed that Ghana has an agreement with SMART Africa Alliance, “working through the Smart Africa digital Academy, to train up to 22,000 persons by 2023.”
According to the Minister, Ghana’s Universal Access and Service Fund Administration operate over 220 Community ICT Centres (CICs) across rural communities with a programme to build capacity, and offer skills training as well as advisory services.
Ghana is collaborating with the ITU and NORAD to train more than 14,000 individuals by 2023, utilising the network of CICs. A total of 220 CICs have been put in place to train 105,600 persons annually, with the government seeking collaboration with partners and financiers to expand the space to deliver digital skills to at least 200,000 persons by 2024. | <urn:uuid:e845d9c5-b776-43e1-b285-999b2abd715d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theghanatech.com/tie-tech/government-to-boost-broadband-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.953655 | 546 | 1.664063 | 2 |
MINNEAPOLIS - A remaining ring beam that made up part of the Metrodome's roof structure has been taken down using controlled explosives.
Officials set off a series of charges Sunday about 7:30 a.m. Within seconds the roof ring fell and several walls collapsed in a cloud of dust.
The 32-year-old facility was being demolished last week, but officials halted work after one part of the ring beam fell out of sequence.
After consulting with structural and demolition experts, the Minnesota Sports Facility Authority recommended bringing down the remaining portion of the ring beam with controlled explosives.
"It was a complete success," said John Wood, Senior Vice President for Mortenson Construction. "It's laying on the ground, so mission accomplished."
Contractors took down the beam using 84 charges of dynamite in 24 columns of the upper concourse.
"This will be the last use of explosives in the demo process," Wood said. "From this point forward it should be a conventional approach."
The public wasn't allowed within 250 feet of the site, and the nearby light-rail station was closed during the demolition.
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With a line now drawn under one of the longest elections in Australian history, the re-elected government must ensure digital policy remains at the forefront of its thinking and decisions over the next term.
As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull settles back into the hot seat, Australian Computer Society (ACS) president Anthony Wong said digital skills and capabilities will be key to driving the strength of the Australian economy in the years to come.
“Throughout the election campaign both parties made strong commitments to the ongoing support of digital development and digital literacy,” he said.
“Now, it is time for the incoming government to make good on its promises to secure Australia’s digital future and progress our digital economy.”
As forecast by Deloitte Access Economics, in research commissioned by the ACS, Australia’s digital economy is expected to grow from $70 billion in 2014 to $139 billion by 2020.
In heading the professional association for Australia’s ICT sector, Wong encouraged the Turnbull Government to address the five policy areas identified in the ACS 2016 Election Manifesto, including ensuring that Australia boasts a digitally skilled workforce that is globally competitive.
Findings in Australia’s Digital Pulse 2016 reveal Australia is suffering from a deficit in specialist ICT skills, an undersupply of new ICT graduates - graduates account for only one percent of the ICT workforce - and a lack of diversity in the technology space.
Consequently, Wong said the re-elected government will need to work with the profession, academia and industry in a collaborative manner to address these issues as a matter of economic urgency.
For Wong, an issue that the Turnbull Government cannot turn away from is the impending threat of cyber security.
“We currently have a very real undersupply of cyber security specialists,” he said.
“This is worrying when considering the threat of cyber security could cost Australians as much as $17 billion annually.”
As reported by ARN, the government announced plans to invest $230 million over four years into better protecting both citizens and companies across the country in April, actioned through its Cyber Security Strategy.
In line with the Australian Government’s broader National Innovation and Science Agenda, Turnbull established a strategy with five themes of action for Australia’s cyber security over the next four years to 2020.
This includes a national cyber partnership where governments, businesses, and the research community works together to advance Australia’s cybersecurity landscape, as well as improving cyber defences with an open, jointly operated cyber threat sharing centres and an online cyber threat sharing portal.
In addition, the government revealed plans to improve global responsibility and influence through international partnerships to shut down safe havens and prevent cybercrime and other malicious cyber activity, while also supporting new businesses and promoting the export of Australian cyber security products and services.
Finally, Turnbull pledged to also address the cybersecurity skilled shortage to develop a highly-skilled cybersecurity workforce.
“ACS reiterates its recommendation that the Turnbull Government expedite the implementation of its Cyber Security Strategy, including its plans for workforce training as part of building a cyber smart nation,” Wong added.
Regarding the Turnbull Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda, Wong said this should not only be continued, but expanded.
“With a mandate from the electorate, ACS encourages the Prime Minister to accelerate the pace of digital education, as a measure to facilitate the transformation of the economy,” he added.
“As the professional body for what is arguably the most important sector for Australia’s future, the ACS stands ready to assist.”
Wong added that it is not just specialist skills in demand, such as computer coding and data analytics.
“As we progress into the information age, digital literacy will become an essential skill and currency, if not already,” he added.
Currently, Wong said 2.5 million Australians in non-ICT roles require digital literacy skills as part of their job - a figure likely to increase exponentially over the next five years.
“We need to equip the Australian workforce with the skills they need to compete in the changing job market,” Wong added.
“The government will need to work increasingly collaboratively with business and educational institutions to achieve this.”
Going forward, Wong said ACS the completion of the National Broadband Network (NBN) must also be seen as an “immediate priority” for the Turnbull Government.
“High speed, high quality broadband is now viewed as a basic utility,” he added. “If we are to encourage growth in our economy, we must provide schools, universities and businesses with the right tools to grow.”
Australia currently ranks 60th in global internet speed ratings and for Wong, “this needs to change”.
Wong said the Australian economy is transitioning into one based on digital services and knowledge and less on resources investment, with ICT skills “key to the nation’s ongoing economic success.
“We look forward to working with the re-elected government on the development of polices that will drive our digital economy and secure a brighter future for all Australians,” he added. | <urn:uuid:02714a79-b479-4bdc-a276-9ef096966dfe> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/604005/assessing-malcolm-turnbull-mandate-tech-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947652 | 1,071 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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Sending all children of all age groups back to school on 8 March is likely to increase the Covid R rate to “around 1”, according to a member of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE).
Professor John Edmunds told BBC’s Andrew Marr that it might be safer to send children back to school in gradual phases, rather than all at once.
The scientist also said that everyone, including children, needs to be vaccinated to prevent a “significant risk of a resurgence” of Covid-19.
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What is the plan for getting children back to school?
While the Prime Minister is due to unveil the roadmap out of lockdown today (22 Feb), it has already been widely reported that the date for all children to return to school is set firmly for 8 March.
Despite concern among many teachers over a full scale return to classrooms, the Government is pushing for it to happen early next month, followed by a gradual easing of other restrictions in the months that follow.
Some have expressed concern that, if schools open too soon, the rate of virus transmission could begin to rise once again, which could lead to further restrictions or even another lockdown further down the line.
‘Safer to take smaller steps’
Professor Edmunds said the UK is in a “really good position” currently. However, he added that it might be safer to open primary schools first, then secondary schools later.
He said: “Obviously I’m just sticking to the epidemiology rather than other needs. Of course there’s great needs to get our kids back in schools as fast as we can.
“But sticking to the epidemiology, yeah, of course, it’s always safer to take smaller steps and evaluate”.
The professor also said that he believes children should be vaccinated “as fast as we can”.
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For the first time in history, the Eurovision Song Contest Finals were broadcast in the US….and I nearly missed it. Had I not seen a piece on BBC yesterday, I wouldn’t have known that the competition was even on. (it’s another minor miracle that one can now get BBC World in the USofA.)
Most Americans have never heard of Eurovision. Saying it’s a song contest simply does not convey the enormity of an event that keeps half the world glued to their TV sets.There is nothing to compare it to. Sporting events attract a certain type; reality shows – another. But it seems everyone, across all sectors of society watch and, more importantly, vote for the Eurovision contestants.
At first I didn’t even try to see if I could get it on TV or the internet since past years have proven to be a waste of time. However, I finally did go on the Eurovision site, clicked on Watch the Finals Live, and then was quickly flashed the “You cannot watch from your part of the globe”.
I thought I might as well see if it was on TV. And low and behold, it was on LOGO TV. The channel description on DirecTV states: MTV Networks’ LOGO is for gay and lesbian viewers. I found this rather funny – Eurovision is watched by everyone on the other side of the planet, and now also Australia, but it appears only LOGO had the sense to get the rights.
I believe the first time I ever watched the competition live was in Israel. I know for sure that I watched Dana International win for Israel in 1998. Back then, it seemed entrants sang mostly in their native languages. The rules changed back and forth regarding the use of English and I think this year everyone sang in English or in a combination with their country’s language.
In years past, I well remember the kitschy costumes and staging and bubble-gum-pop-y tunes. But I adored it, as did the millions watching. Although I missed the first two hours of the live broadcast today, I simply went online to watch a few of the entrants. (That, one can do.) Catchy tunes, beautiful voices, even if the ones I saw were of that bubble-gummy-love genre. And that’s just how I remembered Eurovision. What I hadn’t expected was the winning entry from Ukraine.
“1994”, sung by the Ukrainian singer Jamala, is beautiful in every way. The lyrics refer to the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Stalin. It is based on her family’s personal history. The words and her performance were both haunting and moving.
Right now I am going back on the Eurovision site to take a look at the other entrants. It is truly a marvelous spectacle. If I happen to be stuck here next year, rather than in a country that joins in with the Eurovision fever, I will be tuning into LOGO TV once more. | <urn:uuid:4f0e3973-4caf-4d1c-9af3-7ae7e09dd202> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://kate-mcvaugh.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00373-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973096 | 634 | 1.601563 | 2 |
When I first heard there was a shooting in Charleston and that a white man was the main suspect in killing nine people in a historic black church, I knew, like too many of us, that this had everything to do with race. When I saw photos of him with a disaffected stare and wearing a jacket with patches of the flags of segregated Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa, I knew immediately he was connected in some way to the white nationalist movement. And when I heard the statement he made about rape and take-over, I was pretty sure I knew where Roof had been spending time online.
I knew that the attack would be linked to a white nationalist because I have spent a significant amount of time monitoring Stormfront.org( using do not link URL), the main online hub of the white nationalist movement. As a white anti-racist, I began studying the website in 2004 as part of research for my master’s degree on the contemporary white supremacist movement. At the time, the site boasted over 30,000 views per day, while today the site claims over 300,000 members.
This is what Ms. Sylvia Johnson told the world she heard from a survivor of the attacks. This statement by Dylann Roof made during his killing spree is loaded with white nationalist paranoia. It is a claim to victimhood and innocence, even in the act of perpetrating a massacre. The statement frames the twin concerns of the contemporary white nationalist movement succinctly, uniting sex and space, morality and politics, the home and the nation.
As yet, we do not know if Roof spent time on Stormfront (although I’d be surprised if he did not), but in his recently exposed manifesto he does identify as a white nationalist. He also names the Council of Conservative Citizens specifically as helping to foster his racist views. While Stormfront offers a “big tent” approach to white nationalism, and thus represents a variety of political perspectives, it collectively represents the key tenets of white nationalism. Discussing them sheds light on this violent act and may help us understand it.
So, what are the themes that make up the white nationalist ideology? There are three key themes that appear at Stormfront and in Dylann Roof’s manifesto.
1. White Innocence
By 10:41PM on June 16th a discussion thread had already been created on the site responding to the Charleston massacre, and over the next two days the forum generated over 1,100 posts. Participants on Stormfront were almost immediately discussing whether or not the perpetrator was one of them. Just after 11:00PM, user WhiteNationhood wrote, “there’s been some dude over at /pol/ who has posted about scenarios where you could shoot up a black church and make an escape. I always assumed it was a (tasteless) copy pasta [sic] but with this I’m worried it might be him.” After Roof’s rape statement and photos with apartheid badges were circulated Thursday morning, Darling Blade posted, “Dare I ask the question? Was he on here?”
While a few Stormfront members made statements either supporting the murders or dismissing them as insignificant, the majority of posters claimed they do not support violence and some even offered condolences to the victim’s families. However the collective ideological response was one of deflection of blame, and a claim to innocence.
Robin DiAngelo has written on what she calls white fragility, the idea that whites are institutionally guarded from racial stress and so experience even minor racial stress as deeply troubling. Framing whites as targets of racial violence allows individuals who experience whiteness as fragile to develop a framework where violence is justified. Since the founding of Stormfront moderators have focused on rules that limit threats of violence or illegal activity and people who make such threats are censured or banned. Most participants claim they support white pride and segregation, not violence. Shortly after the shooting MattwhiteAmerica wrote, “White nationalism is about the survival of the white race. WE do not promote violence..> [sic] Certainly, we do support separation, but not violence. This piece of human filth is condemnable. I hope all guest [sic] can understand this and join us in our journey to preserve our race.” This is a popular opinion on the site, however the logical response to their ideological position is to engage in violence against people of color and Jews, although this violence is seen as self-defense.
Roof certainly came to this conclusion, writing: “We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” After encountering the barrage of selectively curated crime stories on these sites that portray whites as always innocent victims, many participants come to the conclusion that they also must join the race war by enacting violence.
2. Whiteness is about gender and the family, and it is good
The foundational assumption and understanding of white nationalism is that whiteness is morally good and whites are superior. Much scholarly work on the white nationalist movement has shown that the white nationalist movement is primarily a movement designed to defend white masculinity and white femininity, to defend the always already heterosexual white family as the source of all things good.
If you want the deep dive on the research on this, check the following: Daniels, White Lies (Routledge, 1997) Daniels, Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); Ferber, White Man Falling (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) and Statzel, R. S. (2006). “The Apartheid Conscience: Gender, Race, and Re-Imagining the White Nation in Cyberspace.” Ethnic Studies Review 29(2): 20-45.
This understanding of the white family and white (hetero)sexuality as inherently moral allows for a justification of white violence, as white violence is framed as a defense of the good. Roof’s claim that he is defending white women from the threat of black rape is shaped by this ideology of white morality, so that even in the act of murdering innocent people—primarily black women—his narrative implies his actions are defensible.
The morning after the massacre, Stormfront member Freedom lover discussed Roof’s statement that the murders were a defense of white women, writing: “Dare I say it, if this is true and this is the real reason, then it’s karma being visited on the negro race. Someone was going to react sooner or later. If they thought we would accept being slaughtered like lambs, this guy has answered them in no uncertain terms.” Freedom lover continues, “This will just happen more and more often as the embattled white race are forced into a corner. We need people to stand up and instead of condemning this guy’s actions, they should condemn the vile brutes who made this possible, the liberal marxists who now run white countries. These are our real enemies. ”
This history of whiteness is a history of racial terror, which bell hooks so clearly discusses (bell hooks, “Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination.” Cultural Studies. 1992, Eds. Lawrence Grossberg et al. London: Routledge: 338-342) but white racial terror has consistently been justified as a defense of white femininity. In this framing, an imagined hyper-sexual black terror circulated as the inverse of a purported white innocence.
3. Whites are under attack.
The savvy use of new media has allowed white nationalists to circulate their ideology that whites are already under attack, that a race war is already underway and most whites are oblivious of this to their own peril. In his manifesto Roof credits his racial radicalization to the news surrounding Trayvon Martin’s murder, writing that the media response to Martin’s murder, “prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.’’
Circulating the idea that there is an epidemic of black on white crime is perhaps the most popular theme on Stormfront, and the two main forums in the popular Newslinks section are the “Ethnic Crime Report” and the “Jewish Crime Report.” For over a decade these forums have chronicled hundreds of purported crimes committed by people of color against whites. The Council on Conservative Citizens hosts a similar site, with the title, “Our black on white murder study has shocked even us,” replete with photos and a numerical tally of white victims. As on Stormfront, dozens of photos of smiling white faces alongside mug shots of primarily African Americans and vivid descriptions of murder and rape provide visual and narrative proof that whites are the victims of racial violence.
The tagline for Stormfront is, “We are the voice of the new, embattled White minority!” Circulating the false idea that whites are an embattled minority already under attack by racial others inverts the history of institutionalized white supremacy to portray whites as victims of history. This false portrayal allows white nationalists to frame anti-racist efforts as part of a conspiracy to destroy the white race, and leads at least some to feel compelled to violence to protect whites.
The anti-racist challenge
In this time of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, with so much attention being paid to the dehumanizing racism of police brutality, the Charleston massacre reminds us to remain concerned about the threat of organized racism. The recent Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on the link between Stormfront and nearly 100 murders provides a broader context for concern about the online white nationalist movement. For people concerned with racial justice, we must be aware of ongoing threats the racist right poses. The white nationalist movement has proven adept at utilizing online venues to pursue their goals and engage in pedagogical projects, with devastating effects for many. Anti-racists are now challenged to also engage in savvy new media interventions to work to challenge this threat.
Any strategy for countering the effects of the organized white nationalist movement is complex, and should not involve posting anti-racist challenges to these sites. Many white nationalist actually enjoy responding to “antis,” the name given to everyone who challenges white nationalist ideas, and responding to these posts can actually serve to solidify white nationalist views. The challenge to anti-racists is how to also utilize the power of new media to both challenge white nationalist logic, and to provide a different lens for disaffected whites to interpret their malaise within. | <urn:uuid:346161ef-b547-44e3-84aa-61e867e6b588> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aislec.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/the-charleston-shooter-has-plenty-of-company-on-the-internet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.955102 | 2,194 | 1.679688 | 2 |
One year after a parolee killed state prisons director Tom Clements, life behind bars — and beyond — is far different for Colorado convicts. After years of declining prison populations — reductions that Clements had trumpeted — the number of inmates has risen in the past year as a direct result of his slaying.
Among the factors:
- The Colorado Parole Board granted an average of 24 fewer discretionary paroles per month, an 8 percent decrease.
- Authorities cracked down on technical violations by parolees. The parole board, acting on recommendations of parole officers, increased by 37 parolees a month, or 14 percent, the number it sent back to prison for rule violations such as missing curfews and drinking beer.
- The newly formed Fugitive Apprehension Unit has also rounded up 415 parole absconders across the state, including one who was particularly difficult to find because he was living in Quartzsite, Ariz., as a woman the past six years.
The nine-member team has tracked down offenders hiding across the country, from Alaska to Florida.
Prison officials have sharply reduced the number of inmates being held in solitary confinement, also known as administrative segregation, where Evan Ebel, the parolee who killed Clements, spent most of his eight years in prison. It also has curtailed the number of inmates released to the streets directly from ad-seg.
And, after a review ordered by Gov. John Hickenlooper, authorities uncovered hundreds of cases — again, like Ebel's — that involved sentencing errors. A judge's error in a prison-assault case led to Ebel's release four years early.
On March 14, 2013, nearly two months after he was released directly from solitary, Ebel cut the ankle monitor he was ordered to wear as a condition for his parole. It took officials six days to seek a warrant for his arrest.
By then, it was too late.
On March 17, Ebel killed pizza-delivery driver Nathan Leon. On March 19, wearing Leon's Domino's uniform, Ebel rang the doorbell at Clements' Monument home and shot him to death. Two days after that, Ebel was killed after a 100-mph chase and shootout with Texas lawmen.
Clements' death raised several issues that Department of Corrections officials have been scrambling to address. In some cases, they have continued Clements' work. In others, they have reversed or stalled the course he was on.
Altogether, these factors, along with an increase in court commitments to prison, reversed a downward spiral of prison-population numbers that had been seen over the four previous years.
Colorado prisons had been dropping by an average of 729 inmates a year from 23,147 on Jan. 1, 2009, to 20,231 on Jan. 1, 2013. The total prison population had increased to 20,321 by this past January.
Clements' successor, Rick Raemisch, said he did not issue any directives to parole officers to be stricter with parolees. But he added that he isn't surprised that parole officers would enforce existing parole rules more stringently after Clements' murder.
It's "human nature," he said.
Colorado Parole Board chairman Brandon Shaffer said he did not warn fellow board members to be more stringent with parole applicants and parolees with technical violations, but Clements' murder undoubtedly drove more conservative decision-making. Board members have been more inclined to err on the side of safety, he said.
"It has impressed on everyone how important this is," Shaffer said, referring to Clements' murder. "We have to get it right every time. This job is not for the faint of heart. We sit at the crossroads of human tragedy and human potential."
Because of Clements' murder, the board did make some changes, including requiring newly appointed board members to receive comprehensive job training for a month before they review any parole hearings. Previously, board members started overseeing hearings the day they started, Shaffer said.
Also, board members will no longer get a list of inmates' names on Fridays, only to officiate over their parole hearing the following week, Shaffer said. Now, the board will have an entire month to review offender records before its hearings, he said.
Critics said the spike in prison enrollment was a knee-jerk political response to Clements' death, and they fear many prisoners were denied parole unfairly.
"I don't like it, but I understand it," said Michael Dell, a Colorado Springs board member of the prisoner-advocacy group Colorado-CURE. "When parole board members see what happened to Tom Clements, they are not going to take a gamble on someone else."
But for the inmate who has followed prison rules, enrolled in work and education programs, and turned his life around, the changes send a message that his efforts didn't matter, Dell said.
Clements' murder has had many other repercussions on prison and parole operations.
The Department of Corrections has instituted new policies, including establishing a two-hour deadline for parole officers to respond to alerts of electronic-monitor tampering.
Child rapist Eric Hartwell learned about that firsthand after he cut off his ankle bracelet and walked away from Independence House in Denver on Feb. 21.
His parole officer sought an arrest warrant within 22 minutes, said DOC spokesman Roger Hudson. Hartwell was arrested a week later in Virginia.
Under Raemisch, the DOC has continued a trend initiated by Clements to dramatically reduce the number of inmates held in solitary confinement. The figure has dropped by nearly 61 percent, from more than 1,511 inmates in 2011, when Clements initiated the movement, to 590 two weeks ago.
In 2012, an average of 14 inmates per month were released from solitary confinement to the street. Since Clements' murder, a monthly average of seven have been released.
Now, when prisoners are released directly from ad-seg, they are taken straight to their parole officer for their first meeting instead of being released on the streets, prisons director Steve Hager said.
The department is planning a program to curtail gang activity and prison violence in general. Ebel was a member of the 211 Crew, a white supremacist gang. El Paso County deputies are investigating whether a gang "shot-caller" ordered him to kill Clements.
Last month, two prisons officials went to Washington state to review a policy for curbing prison violence. According to the program, prisons officials identify offenders with violent track records and notify them that they are under increased scrutiny that will result in longer prison terms. Colorado will soon incorporate a similar program, Raemisch said.
But some law enforcement officials say much more could — and should — be done to make Colorado safer.
Just since Clements' murder, there has been a surge of violence in prison. Law enforcement experts claim Raemisch's focus on removing inmates from ad-seg has triggered a rise in assaults on inmates and staffers, as well as fights.
Of the 690 offenders released from solitary confinement in 2012 and 2013, 107 have since been returned for such offenses as assaulting staffers, fighting and participating in gang activity, according to department records.
One officer who works at Centennial Correctional Facility, where many of the mentally ill patients who had been in solitary confinement have been transferred, said the offenders are extremely violent and unpredictable. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear he could lose his job. But he added that he is also looking for a new job because he no longer feels safe at DOC.
"These inmates are being coddled to the point that it is ridiculous," he said. "These guys are the worst of the worst of the worst. They had been in administrative segregation for a reason."
Year of introspection
Raemisch sees things differently, not believing mentally ill inmates should be "warehoused" in ad-seg.
To illustrate his point, he had himself locked up in an ad-seg cell at Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City in January for 20 hours and wrote about the experience in a New York Times op-ed piece, claiming that in that relatively short time span he began feeling "twitchy and paranoid."
His statement echoed something Ebel's father, Jack, told a state Senate judiciary panel on March 14, 2011, about the damaging effects of solitary confinement: "What I have seen over six years is (that) he has a high level of paranoia and extremely anxious."
During his six months in office, Raemisch has emphasized moving the mentally ill out of cells where they are kept alone 23 hours a day. In February, no mentally ill inmates were locked up in ad-seg, an unprecedented achievement, Raemisch noted. Before Clements, Colorado had one of the nation's highest rates of ad-seg placements of the mentally ill.
A year of introspection has exposed many weaknesses in the DOC, Raemisch said.
"We looked in a mirror and didn't really like what we saw," he said. "I think we are a much better department than we were six months ago."
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History of Ontario Co. & Its People
Vol. 1, Pub. 1911 Pg. 21 - 35
Kindly transcribed by Deborah Spencer.
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THE FIRST SETTLEMENT
A Party of Pioneers from Massachusetts
Enter the Genesee Country by an All-Water Route--Their Settlement at
Canandaigua--Israel Chapin Appointed Indian Agent by President Washington--A
Period of Apprehension--The Pickering Treaty of 1794.
Into the Great Western Wilderness, as
Central and Western New York was then called, early in May, in 1789, there came
a little party of New Englanders, bent upon spying out the land and making homes
and, mayhap, fortunes for themselves and their kin.
Loading their goods into bateaux at Schenectady, they paddled and poled
their rude craft, against the current, up the Mohawk to Fort Stanwix (now Rome);
then carried boats and goods over a portage of a mile to Wood creek; thence
floated down this little stream to Oneida lake, and through the lake and down
its outlet to the junction with the Oswego river; then up stream again toward
Onondaga lake, into and through the Seneca river, Clyde river, and finally into
the Canandaigua lake outlet. At
Little falls, the flat-bottomed boats and their contents were carried around by
wagons. They were again transported
overland at the Fort Stanwix portage, and at Seneca Falls and Manchester there
were yet other unloadings and carries.
It was a picturesque and interesting, if an
arduous, journey, and we may be sure that those who thus gained entry into the
region through which SULLVAN’s army had ravaged 10 years before, found in the
forest that bordered the streams, the glades and marshes, tinged with the
varying greens of bursting buds, and lighted by the pussy willow and the shad
bush, and in the beautiful lake into which they finally floated, a panorama that
met their fondest anticipations. Dr.
Jabez CAMPFIELD, of the SULLIVAN expedition, had not
overdrawn the attractions of the country when he set down in his journal that it
was “equal to any in ye world.”
Though this water route was deemed entirely
practicable, or boatable, as it was expressed in a letter written at the time,
having been explored by General CHAPIN and Agent WALKER the September previous,
and a road having been cut yet later in the season, through the woods, for a
carry around the rapids at Manchester, yet this is believed to have been the
only part of immigrants who ever ascended through the outlet into the lake
itself. Boats thereafter came only
as far as Manchester, and thence their contents were transported overland to
Canandaigua. Augustus PORTER, who
had contracted with some of the purchasers of land to survey the same, and who
came on 10 or 15 days later than the party above described, relates that it was
a year of universal scarcity among the Indians.
Indeed, he says, they were almost reduced to starvation, owing probably
to an unusual fall of snow the winter previous and the consequent scarcity of
game. Perhaps it was the flood following this snow that made the
outlet, in the spring of 1789, unusually navigable.
The leader of this party of pioneers, which
included, also, Nathaniel GORHAM, Jr., Frederick SAXTON, Benjamin GARDNER,
Daniel GATES, and a number of others, was Israel CHAPIN, of Hatfield, Mass., the
man who was destined to become the strong man of the projected capital of the
Phelps and Gorham purchase.
Israel CHAPIN was of Welch ancestry, and
belonged to a family that was numerously and prominently represented in Colonial
There were no less than 104 CHAPINS who
served in the War of the Revolution. Israel CHAPIN was born in Grafton, Mass., December 4, 1740.
He subsequently became a resident of Hatfield, in the same county.
As to his earlier years, little can be ascertained, but that they were
such as to command the respect and confidence of his townspeople, is evidenced
by the fact that from 1762, when he was only 22 years of age, to 1787, when he
became interested in the Phelps and Gorham purchase, there was hardly a year but
what he was elected to some town office. When
Paul REVERE carried the news from Lexington on a certain historic night, he was
captain of a company of Minute Men who responded to the alarm, and though it
does not appear that he stood among the embattled farmers at Concord the next
day, it may be presumed that he wished he did.
This irregular service lasted only seven
days, but he enlisted in the Patriot army on the 27th of April, 1775.
He was at Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne, in 1777, and the same
year attained the rank of Major. In
October of that year he became a Lieutenant Colonel, and, in February of the
year following, Colonel in the Massachusetts militia; then he acted as Brigadier
General, was in the campaign against Quebec, and was honorably discharged
November 21, 1779.
TURNER says that in addition to his services
in the field during the Revolution, General CHAPIN was occasionally a
sub-contractor, or agent of Oliver PHELPS, in purchasing supplies for the army.
On one occasion he was requested by Mr. PHELPS to obtain a “fine yoke
of fat cattle for General WASHINGTON’s table.”
Following the purchase of western land from
the State of Massachusetts, April 1, 1788, General CHAPIN was appointed by the
associates in the enterprise to explore the country, and upon the return of Mr.
PHELPS from his journey to Kanadesaga and Niagara, in the early summer, and the
purchase by Mr. PHELPS from the Indians of the tract between the Preemption line
and the Genesee river (the so-called Phelps and Gorham purchase), he came into
the country for the first time. William
WALKER, appointed to the office of local agent, was here also, and the two men,
in September, explored the practicability of the outlet as a means of
communication with the East, began the cutting of a road through the woods from
Kanadesaga to Canandaigua and thence to the Genesee, started surveyors upon the
work of mapping the tract, located the site of what was to
become the village of Canandaigua, and erected a small log house there for the
storage of supplies. Then, as Agent
WALKER reported, “the reason being so far advanced, and the difficulty of
erecting buildings in any degree comfortable for ourselves, and the large number
of purchasers who present themselves so great,” they decided to return east
and wait until the next spring before establishing themselves on The Chosen
The founding of the settlement at
Canandaigua was made at a time of gravest danger.
Pressed further and further into the wilderness by the constantly
augmenting influx of white settlers, the Indians were naturally restless.
As one of the squaws, permitted to participate in the Pickering Council,
expressed it, they had been “pressed and squeezed together until it gave them
a great pain at their hearts.” Their
passions were inflamed by the rum dealt out to them in the clinching of every
bargain and the negotiation of every treaty, as well as in the purchase of their
peltry. They were confused by the
conflicting claims of State and National governments.
They were dissatisfied with the amount of money received in payment for
their lands. They were urged by the
unscrupulous lessees to repudiate their contracts with the whites, and they were
made arrogant and unmanageable by news of the uprising of their brothers in the
It was at this critical juncture, when
council after council had been held without avail, and restlessness might at any
time break out into open hostilities, that the Secretary of War, General KNOX,
selected General CHAPIN, then the leading citizen of the settlement at
Canandaigua, as the man for the hour, and appointed him to the office of Deputy
Superintendent of the Six Nations. His
commission to this service was dated April, 1792.
The letter from Secretary KNOX appointing
General CHAPIN to this highly responsible position urged the latter to impress
upon the Indians that it was the “firm determination of the United States that
the utmost fairness and kindness should be exhibited to them.
That it was not only his desire to be at peace with all the Indian
tribes, but to be their guardian and protector against all injustice.”
In a subsequent letter of instruction, the
Secretary wrote that it was the ardent desire of the President that a “firm
peace should be established with the neighboring tribes of Indians, on such pure
principles of justice and moderation as will enforce the approbation of the
dispassionate and enlightened part of mankind.”
But, the Secretary concluded, “if the hostile
Indians should, after having had these intentions of the Government fully laid
before them, still persist in their depredations in the frontiers, it will be
considered as the dictates of humanity to endeavor to punish with severity so
incorrigible a race of men, in order to prevent other tribes in future from a
How well the superintendent carried out the
desires of the President, and how successfully he avoided resort to the
alternative so emphatically set forth by the Secretary, may be understood from
The first duty devolved upon Superintendent
CHAPIN was to induce Joseph BRANT, the famous Seneca chieftain, to visit
Philadelphia, then the seat of Government. BRANT had refused to accompany a delegation from the Six
Nations a short time before, deeming it beneath his dignity to go with a drove
of Indians. But he yielded to the
urging of the Superintendent, came to Canandaigua, and from here he was escorted
by Israel CHAPIN, Jr., and other attendants, via Albany and New York, to
Philadelphia. The wily BRANT,
halting between his obligations to the British and his inclination to ally
himself with the government of the United States, was careful to make no
definite promises, and his visit failed of the purpose to secure his active
influence in behalf of peace.
Upon the return of the BRANT party,
Secretary KNOX wrote the Superintendent regretting that he himself did not make
the journey to Philadelphia, and adding: “As you at present are regarded favorably, as well for your
zeal as your economy, it will be expedient to you that these principles be
manifest in all your future conduct, and while you continue to make the public
good the rule of your action, you may proceed with confidence as you may depend
upon support.” That he did
continue to make the public good the rule of his action is attested by the fact
that he continued to the end of his life to have the support of the Government
and that no word of disparagement or criticism of his work is to be found in the
There followed a long period during which
the Genesee country was in a state of constant apprehension.
Time and again the settlers were alarmed by the report that the Indians
had gone on the war path. Dreams of massacre disturbed the sleep of the people on many
a night. Through it all, the calm,
imperturbable, strong figure of General CHAPIN held its way, and the settlement
came to rely upon him as its defender, as he had been from
the beginning its leading citizen. His
energy was unflagging. His sagacity
never failed. Through his
influence, conference after conference was held with hostile Indians at the
West. He kept in closest touch with the Senecas near home, and by diplomacy, by
his thorough understanding of their character, by asserting on occasion the
strength of the Government he represented, by gifts and entertainment, he
succeeded in foiling the machinations of British agents bent on fomenting
trouble. His home in Canandaigua
was ever open to Indian deputations. His
door yard was the scene of almost daily councils, and his bread and meat and rum
were dispensed freely. He acted as
arbitrator in every dispute that arose between Indians and white settlers.
But through all the anxious days the Superintendent succeeded in
retaining the confidence and respect of the red men.
Large sums of public money--large for those days--passed through his
hands, without suffering from attrition, and for all this and much more the
General received the munificent annual salary of $500.
He wrote the Secretary of War in 1793,
giving it as his opinion that the establishment of a properly equipped school
for the Indians west of the Genesee river might be of infinite service “both
in conciliating the affections of the Indians and in laying the foundations for
their civilization.” He asked
also for directions as to how far he should distribute to
the Indians, and added: “I am
continually surrounded by a crowd of them *
* * They all expect to be fed from my table and made glad from my
cellar. Some instances, too, of
clothing, I have not been able to deny. I
would suggest the idea whether a small store of provisions and goods to be
distributed on necessary occasions might be a saving to the public.”
This suggestion was favorably acted upon by the Government, and a depot
of supplies established in Canandaigua.
The season of 1794 opened with particularly
dark prospects. Upon General
CHAPIN, the Government depended for preserving the endangered peace and the
people for their very lives. Had it
not been for him, it is probable that
there would have been a general desertion of the Genesee country.
His apparent confidence quieted the apprehensions of the people, but he
better than any one else appreciated the danger.
In April he wrote the Secretary of War that he feared that the Indians,
aroused by an inflammatory speech of Lord DORCHESTER, and by the declaration of
another British agent that a second war between England and the United States
was inevitable, were ripe for mischief. “The
expense of the Indians,” he continued, “increases with the importance they
suppose their friendship to be to us. However,
you may be persuaded that I will endeavor to make use of all the economy I
can.” The letter closed: “This part of the country, being the frontier of the State
of New York, is very much alarmed at the present appearance of war.
Destitute of arms and ammunition, the scattered inhabitants of this
remote wilderness would fall an easy prey to their savage neighbors, should they
think proper to attack them.”
In May of the same year, 1794, General
CHAPIN wrote asking that 1200 or 1500 stand of arms be provided “for the
inhabitants of the frontier.” The
State appointed commissioners to take necessary steps for defense.
Governor CLINTON recommended that a deposit be made at “Canandaqua in
Ontario County,” of 100 weight of powder and a proper quantity of lead, etc.,
and the commissioners directed that a block house be erected here and furnished
with a piece of cannon.
General CHAPIN represented the National
Government in a council with the restless Indians at Buffalo, June 15, to
consider vexed questions growing out of the controversy over the western
boundary, and as a result he urged the negotiation of a general treaty as the
only means which could keep the Six Nations from joining the dangerous Indian
confederacy in the West.
To this letter from General CHAPIN, the
Secretary of War replied: “Your
ideas of a conference are adopted. It will be held at Canandaigua on the 8th of
September. Colonel PICKERING will
be the commissioner, to be assisted by you in all
respects. Notify the Six Nations
that their father, the President of the United States, is deeply concerned to
hear of any dissatisfaction existing in their minds against the United States,
and therefore invites them to a conference, for the purpose of removing all
causes of misunderstanding and establishing a permanent peace and friendship
between the United States and the Six Nations.”
General CHAPIN lost no time in spreading the
news of the proposed council. He
visited their villages in person and conferred with their chiefs, and he sent
runners to Buffalo creek and to Canada to counteract British interference.
The council which was finally assembled in
Canandaigua as the result of these efforts was one of the most important ever
held in the country. It was
certainly the most notable event in the earlier history of Ontario county, and
as picturesque as it was notable. The
Government made ample provision for the council.
Great stores of food, trinkets, liquor and tobacco were gathered here.
General CHAPIN spared no effort to fulfill his promise to the Indians
that he would “hang on big kettles.”
Colonel Timothy PICKERING, selected by
President WASHINGTON to act as the Commissioner in behalf of the Government, was
one of the most distinguished men of the time.
A graduate of Harvard College, he had studied law, and had been active in
the exciting events preliminary to the Revolution.
He led a Massachusetts regiment in that war.
At its close he had risen to the position of Quartermaster General. In 1791 he became Postmaster General in President
WASHINGTON’s cabinet; the year following his service at the council in
Canandaigua he was appointed Secretary of War, and in December of the same year
he was transferred to the State Department.
He also served several years in Congress.
The assembling of the Indians here was
retarded by their desire to learn the outcome of the contest then waging between
General WAYNE and the hostilities in the West, but when the news came, as it did
early in October, that WAYNE had been successful, the business of the council
progressed with reasonable speed.
Fortunately we have a graphic account of the
proceedings of the Pickering Council by an eye witness, in the shape of the
journal of William SAVERY, a member of the Society of Friends, present at the
request of the Indians to see that they were fairly treated.
The council, which was to have opened early in September, was not
fully organized until the 18th of the following month, and it
continued in almost daily session until the 12th of November, when a
treaty satisfactory to all parties was duly signed and the gathering dispersed.
The treaty thus concluded brightened the two
rusty places in the chain of friendship, as picturesquely described by the
It restored to the Senecas the land west of
a line drawn due south from the mouth of Buffalo creek and now embraced in
Chautauqua and portions of Cattaraugus and Erie counties.
This made their western boundary the shore of Lake Erie and the Niagara
river, the Government only reserving the use of a strip along that river for a
road between the lakes. The Senecas on their part surrendered claim to the triangle
at Presque Isle, which it appeared their chief CORNPLANTER had disposed of
without authority, and without accounting for the proceeds, to the State of
Pennsylvania. They also had their
annuity increased from $1,500 to $4,500, and there was distributed among them,
at the conclusion of the council, goods valued at $10,000.
The result, as we know, was entirely satisfactory.
From that time on there was no serious disagreement between the whites
and the people of the Six Nations.
Throughout the Pickering Council, General
CHAPIN was an important figure. He occupied a seat of honor beside the Commissioner at every
session. His home was the center of
abounding hospitality. He was the
recognized almoner of the Government. It
is not recorded that he made a single speech, but at every step his great
influence over the Indians was exerted to bring their vacillation to an end, to
keep them in good humor, to straighten out their grievances, and finally to
secure their signatures to the treaty.
As an instance of what was constantly taking
place in the CHAPIN door yard during the progress of this council, the following
is quoted from Friend SAVERY’s journal:
“14th of the Tenth month--The
party of Senecas, headed by the FARMER’s BROTHER, LITTLE BILLY, etc., having
arrived, last evening, within four miles, were expected this afternoon; but
having to paint and ornament themselves before their public entry, they did not
arrive till 3 o’clock this afternoon. The
Oneidas, Cayugas, and Onondagas were drawn up, dressed, and painted, with their
arms prepared for a salute, before General CHAPIN’s door.
The men able to bear arms marched in, assuming a good deal of importance,
and drew up in a line facing the Oneidas, etc.
Colonel PICKERING, General CHAPIN, and many white people being present.
The Indians fired three rounds which the other Indians answered by a like
number, making a long and loud echo through the woods.
Their commanders then ordered them to form a circle around the
Commissioner and General CHAPIN; then, sitting down on the ground,
they delivered a speech, through the FARMER’s BROTHER, and returned the
strings of wampum which were sent them when they were requested to come to the
treaty. Colonel PICKERING answered
them in the usual complimentary manner, and ordered several kettles of rum to be
brought, after drinking which they dispersed, and went to prepare their camp.
Each chief delivered a bundle of sticks, answerable to the number of
persons, men, women, and children, under his command, which amounted to 472.
They made a truly terrific and warlike appearance.”
The following day 1,600 Indians had assembled, and this number was
It was indeed a remarkable gathering of red
men, including not only those noted, but also RED JACKET, the famous orator;
CORNPLANTER, equally famous as a war chief; LITTLE BEARD, FISH CARRIER, CLEAR
SKY, and many others. Jemima
WILKINSON was drawn to the settlement by the event, and with Colonel PICKERING,
(The caption under the picture: This boulder monument, commemorating the council
held by Colonel Timothy PICKERING and other representatives, of the United
States Government with the Six Nations, at Canandaigua, in the summer of 1794,
was erected in 1902 by Dr. Dwight R. BURRELL, an officer of the Ontario County
Historical Society. It is a granite
boulder weighing approximately 30 tons, and is located on the Court House
Square.), William SAVERY and others, was entertained by young Thomas MORRIS,
Jasper PARRISH, as the official interpreter, was Superintendent CHAPIN’s most
The conferences of the Indians, clad in all
their savage finery, about the big council fires; the repeated adjournments made
necessary by the drunkenness of the chiefs and sachems; the denouncing by
Colonel PICKERING of a white man named JOHNSON as a British spy; the bursts of
eloquence by RED JACKET and other gifted sons of the forest; their visits of
ceremony upon each other and upon the distinguished officers of the Government;
the busy life in the camps that were pitched in the woods surrounding the
village and that consisted of rough tepees of bark and boughs; the horse racing,
dancing, and other sports that filled in many of the leisure hours; the meetings
for worship and praise conducted in the forest by the Godly Quakers on every
First day; the falling of seven or eight inches of snow on the 25th
of October; the killing of 100 deer in one day within a few miles of the
village--these were some of the picturesque events of the great council.
The treaty was written on parchment and
signed in duplicate by about 50 of the sachems and war chiefs.
In a letter to the Secretary of War in the
month following the signing of the Pickering treaty, December, 1794, General
CHAPIN wrote: “My journey to
LeBoeuf, I shall ever believe, was the means of preventing the Six Nations from
lending their assistance to their Western brothers, as they term them; and in
which I got my present sickness, from which I am fearful I shall never recover.
But, believe me, sir, to be useful to the frontier upon which I live and
my country in general, has been the prevailing object of my pursuits.”
The forebodings of the patriot in reference
to his health proved too well founded. He
continued to decline until the 7th of March, 1795, when he breathed
his last. He was 54 years of age.
The news of his illness and death was
received with profound sorrow, not only throughout the region to whose interests
he had devoted six strenuous years of his life, but at the National Capital
also, where his services to the country were known and appreciated.
The Indians, too, grieved over his departure as that of a true friend. At a council held in Canandaigua soon after his death, RED
JACKET, made a speech, in the course of which, addressing Captain Israel CHAPIN,
the General’s son, and Captain Jasper PARRISH, his interpreter, he said:
“I wish you to pay attention to what I
have to say. We have lost a good
friend; the loss is as great to us as to you. We consider that we of the Six Nations, as well as the United
States, have met with a great loss. A
person that we looked up to as a father, a person appointed to stand between us
and the United States, we have lost, and it gives us great uneasiness.
He has taken great pains to keep the chain of friendship bright between
us and the United States; now that he has gone, let us prevent that
agreeableness and friendship, which he has held up between us and the United
States, from failing.
“Brothers, it has been customary among the
Six Nations, when they have lost a great chief, to throw a belt in his place
after he is dead and gone. We have
lost so many of late that we are destitute of a belt, and in its place present
you with these strings of wampum.
“Brothers, as it is a custom handed down
to us by our fathers, to keep up the good old ancient rules; now we visit the
grave of our friend, we gather leaves and strew them over the grave, and
endeavor to banish grief from our minds as much as we can.”
The chiefs then directed that a message be sent to the President informing him that the “person whom he had appointed for us to communicate our minds to, has left us and gone to another world. He with greatest care communicated our minds to the great council fire.” The message also asked that the General’s son, Captain Israel CHAPIN, be appointed to the office made vacant by the former’s death. This was done, and the son faithfully carried on the work laid down by the father.
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Albatross are solitary wanderers, covering vast distances over storm-lashed southern oceans, nesting on remote and inhospitable islands. They hold a place in our cultural imaginations as lonely and mysterious birds, at home in the wildest corners of the earth.
A small number of northern royal albatross (or toroa, their Māori name) have, however, chosen to make their home on the Otago Peninsula, a short drive from the New Zealand city of Dunedin—the only place in the world where albatross nest on an inhabited mainland. You can drive out to the Royal Albatross Centre on the peninsula, and look out for them arcing gracefully over the headland on those immense wings, a truly awe-inspiring sight.
This year, for the first time, we have been able to watch the domestic lives of these beautiful birds from the comfort of our own sofas. Since January, a webcam installed by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has been livestreaming the comings and goings at the nest of an albatross pair known as YWK and KGY (the initials refer to the colours of their bands) on the Otago Peninsula.
It’s been compelling viewing. At first, the webcam chick was mostly tucked out of sight beneath one of its parents. I kept the webcam open in a window at the corner of my computer screen at work. There was something very soothing about watching the parent bird sitting on its nest, looking out across the beautiful Otago Harbour at the passing cruise ships and container ships and little fishing boats, that helped put the pressures of work into perspective. The chick, when it appeared, pecking impatiently for food at its parent’s beak, seemed impossibly small with its fluffy feathers and tiny stubby wings. When the parent opened its beak to regurgitate food, the chick almost disappeared inside its mouth.
You could sometimes see other albatross wheeling in and out of view. I wondered if the parent got bored sitting on the nest, whether it was watching them with envy and dreaming of the open seas, waiting impatiently for the other parent to return and take over.
Some nights at home, I’d keep watching on my phone as the sun set over the hills, and the lights of Dunedin came on in the distance at the far end of the harbour, the albatross a barely distinguishable patch of light plumage in the gathering darkness.
The webcam was harder to watch on hot summer days, when the albatross was clearly uncomfortable, panting with its beak open, standing up to cool the chick in the shadow cast by its body. When it got particularly hot, DOC staff set up water sprinklers to cool the birds down. I was surprised at first by the sprinklers—I’m not quite sure why, but maybe I was thinking of the webcam as a wildlife documentary where disease and death are part of the story.
But northern royal albatross are endangered birds that need all the help they can get, especially as their main breeding colonies in the Chatham Islands are still recovering from the devastating effects of a storm in 1985. It’s unlikely the Otago Peninsula colony would exist at all without ongoing human intervention, including the control of introduced predators such as stoats and cats. The colony started with a single nesting pair in the 1920s. Now, thanks to decades of conservation work by DOC and the Otago Peninsula Trust, the colony has grown to over 200 birds and nearly all of this year’s twenty-six chicks are expected to survive.
And we do go to extraordinary lengths to conserve our native birds in New Zealand, not least the heroic efforts that are being made to bring the kākāpō—a nocturnal, flightless parrot—back from the brink of extinction, efforts that include tracking every known member of the species via radio transmitters.
I watched as the webcam chick grew at a remarkable rate. It was starting to look increasingly crowded in the nest, the parent and chick fidgeting around each other. One morning, when the male parent was on the nest, he seemed particularly restless, standing up and sitting down, stretching out his wings and then folding them back, concertina-like, against his body. Finally, he stood up, left the nest, flapped his wings against the wind and was gone. The chick seemed to be calling after him, clattering its beak, and then it sat back, looking rather pleased about having the nest to itself.
I know I’m being anthropomorphic, projecting human emotions like boredom and a desire for independence onto the birds. I’m not the only one, judging from the webcam page on the DOC website, where people post screenshots of the chick with humorous captions. But then, I have no way of conceptualizing how a bird might think or feel other than through my human-ness. Try as I might, it’s impossible not to think of them as having feelings like ours when a parent and chick greet each other enthusiastically after days apart, or when the adult pair caress and preen each other tenderly with their beaks when they rendezvous at the nest. And then there are the adolescent birds, the rowdy teenagers, who gather at the colony on the lookout for a mate, hanging out and trying to impress each other. Sometimes the chick would be visited by one of them, stalking menacingly up to the nest and pulling roughly at the chick’s fluffy feathers like the class bully.
We have woven the beauty of these birds and their solitary ways into our stories: in western culture, the albatross brings to mind the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and its tale of guilt and penance for the crime of killing an albatross. For some Māori iwi (tribes), the albatross is associated with nobility and rank, while for others, it is a symbol of peace. In traditional Māori tukutuku woven panels, there is a pattern called roimata toroa (the tears of the albatross), a reference to a legend where two treasured albatross are sent to accompany a Māori ancestor on the long and hazardous journey from the homeland of Hawaiki to New Zealand. Once they reach New Zealand, the ancestor forgets about the birds and they cry tears of homesickness for Hawaiki. Albatross do indeed “cry,” although their tears are actually excess salt that they expel from their nostrils.
It strikes me that both the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the roimata toroa story are about albatross suffering because of a lack of human care. Albatross are endangered now by our lack of care through activities such as longline fishing, and by the effects of climate change on the places where they nest. The intensive efforts to conserve native species in New Zealand are needed because of the devastating impacts of human activity on our unique natural environment. Stories like these with a message about caring for and valuing albatross and other creatures are more important now than ever. The kind of anthropomorphism inspired by watching the webcam seems to me to be about identifying and empathizing with the albatross, and empathy can be a form of care. Making albatross part of our culture and our stories (whether these are enduring legends or captioned screenshots), even though they may not be strictly scientific, makes it easier for us to value them.
The chick is pretty large now, helped by a few extra feeds from the DOC staff. It looks at home on the hillside, spending more and more time outside the nest. The other day it stood up on its feet for the first time, after spending the past few weeks shuffling around on its backside, shifting its bulk awkwardly as it moved. Often it sits provocatively out of view of the webcam, although sometimes you can see its shadow or the top of its head. Its stubby wings have grown long and thin, but they are fluffy and ridiculous, like pipe cleaners. It’s hard to imagine that in just a few months the chick will be able to stretch them out, catch the wind and set off on a long solitary journey of its own—leaving behind its personal sprinkler system, an adoring audience, and a webcam trained on an empty nest. | <urn:uuid:2a3ef5ec-3bd0-40de-b043-f76cbf705f0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.humansandnature.org/at-home-with-the-albatross | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00379-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964128 | 1,750 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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From paracetomol to transcranial magnetic stimulation, everything I know so far about pain in MS.
I’m not going to pretend to know everything about this huge topic, but here is my best shot at present! I started putting the info together for a presentation for MS specialists, with anaesthetist Dr. Sharmila Khot, and then I carried on, to try to compile all I’ve learned into a blogpost. Referenced version available on request.
Pain affects around 63% of people with MS. In a 2012 article about the types of pain in MS, the authors state ‘We can think of no other disease that can result in so manyk different types of pain.’
They list 9 types of pain in MS, as:
- Muscle spasm – (like cramp)
- Spasticity – (tight / stiff)
- Musculo-skeletal – (back or joint problems, often from walking difficulties, or sitting)
- Optic neuritis – (pain in the eye due to inflammation of the optic nerve)
- Migraine – (in fact, unless linked to beta interferon or fingolimod, MS does not cause migraine, but headaches are more common in people with MS than in the general population)
- Treatment related pain – (injectable DMTs/ side effects)
- Neuropathic pain & ongoing extremity pain – (prickling, tingling or shooting stabbing pains, and pins & needles, burning/freezing, often worst in the feet)
- Trigeminal neuralgia – (agonising bouts of facial pain)
- L’Hermittes sign – (like an electric shock when bending the head forwards)
I’d like to add to the list, the pain of fatigued muscles.
In nursing, we have a process, whose acronym is ADPIE.
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It stands for
This process needs to go on continually, when assessing and treating pain. The first two steps, assessment and diagnosis, are essential to plan and implement the right treatment, and for this, your description of how the pain feels and when it occurs are essential.
The two broadest categories are ‘nociceptive’ (or normal type pain, which is often musculoskeletal), and ‘neuropathic’, (or nerve pain). Many people with MS have a mixture of different types of pain.
Nociceptive, or normal type pain, is most likely to be described as gnawing, throbbing, aching, cramping, or dull, and in the joints, or muscles.
This includes the pain cause by muscle spasm, stiffness, or spasticity, which needs to be addressed by treating that problem; see mstrust.org.uk/a-z/spasticity-and-spasms
and Natural options for MS spasms are discussed here
Key interventions are muscle relaxants and physiotherapy.
Musculoskeletal pain is not caused by MS primarily, but it can be a secondary effect of effortful walking, using a stick, sitting for long periods, or becoming deconditioned, and cause, for instance, low back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain. Having high tone or stiffness in the muscles can contribute to this pain, so seeing one of your MS health professionals to work out how much this is contributing, and work out a treatment plan, can be helpful.
For musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, standard medical practice is exercise, physiotherapy, and painkillers.
A physiotherapist can both treat you, and advise on the best form of exercise. A good physiotherapist will also be able to detect specific painful problems that may have specific treatments. For example, Piriformis syndrome can happen to runners, but also to people who have to sit for long periods of time, so can affect wheelchair users. In Piriformis syndrome, the sciatic nerve is pinched by the small piriformis muscle in the buttock, causing horrible pain and discomfort in the buttock when sitting, and specific stretches are recommended to release it.( Post to follow)
Exercise is a cornerstone in treating musculoskeletal pain, and the most recent findings in pain science suggest that in chronic pain, doing exercise, even when it is painful to do so, can reduce pain in the long term, by reducing ‘fear avoidance’ of movement and further worsening and de-conditioning; by de-sensitising chronic pain areas which have become over sensitised; and also by stimulating the circulation of lymph and oxygen, lowering inflammation. If you have physical barriers to exercise, consider adaptive equipment – electric bikes, power assisted exercise bikes, swimming with disabled access, GP exercise referral, or MS exercise classes.
Painkillers vary in different conditions, but generally follow the World Health Organisation ladder of analgesia.
This ladder was initially put together to help cancer pain, and there is now lot of debate about how useful, or harmful, it really is to use opioids in chronic pain.
There are concerns about the prescription of opioids for long term pain, due to the problems of side-effects, tolerance ( the body needing a higher and higher dose to be effective), dependence ( when the body only functions normally with the drug, and trying to cut down or withdraw from it causes unpleasant symptoms) and risk of addiction. Guidance for healthcare professionals is here: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware.
- opioids are most useful for acute pain, and end of life ( cancer type) pain
- For best results in chronic/persistent pain, they should be low dose, and used only intermittently, to prevent tolerance
- Above a dose of 120mg a day of morphine, or equlivalent, there is no increased pain relief, but increased risks
- If pain does not respond to opioids there is no benefit to taking them, and they should be stopped, but all tapering down and withdrawing needs close monitoring and support.
Gels and creams
Anti-inflammatories gels are also available, but remember that the doses count towards your daily allowance of the drug. The evidence for these is good in acute pain, but only minimal in long term pain.
Some people also find that over the counter heat rubs help; these work in a different way, as Counterirritants. Ingredients such as menthol, methylsalicylate (oil of evergreen), and camphor create a burning or cooling sensation that distracts your mind from the pain.
Salicylates. These same ingredients that give aspirin its pain-relieving quality are found in some creams. When absorbed into the skin, they may help with pain, particularly in joints.
There is less robust evidence for the above 2 topical applications.
Capsaicin cream has good evidence to support its use, and can be prescribed for both joint and neuropathic pain. It’s made from chilli peppers, and burns when it goes on, but if persisted with over weeks, can provide relief by desensitising the nerves, and I’ve occasionally seen it work when other treatments have failed!
As well as standard treatments, many people with MSK pain benefit from complementary therapies, including, but not limited to, Acupuncture, Massage, Reflexology, Craniosacral, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Bowen technique, Shiatsu and massage. The practice with the most published evidence, showing moderate but sustained benefit in one review of research, is acupuncture.
It’s worth knowing that there is a great deal of difference in the amount of training done by a traditional Chinese acupuncturist, who will have trained for many years, and the acupuncture you might receive as part of standard medical treatment, which may have been a very short course for doctors or physios.
Reflexology and acupressure work on the same principles, and acupressure is a technique you can do on yourself at home.
Electrotherapies are also often used successfully, and include many types of device, either as part of physiotherapy treatment or privately bought home use machines, and there are varying degrees of evidence for efficacy of the different types. See Electrotherapies
Also see ‘For all types of persistent pain’
Neuropathic, or nerve pain is caused by ‘a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system.’ It is commonly described as burning, hot, icy cold, tingling, pins and needles, electric shocks, shooting or stabbing.
Neuropathic pain is a difficult pain to manage, especially as it can be worse with exercise, and normal painkillers aren’t effective.
Trigeminal neuralgia is a type of neuropathic pain that is treated differently from others.
It’s is an agonizing facial pain which come in bouts, but can develop into permanent pain. This requires Carbamazepine as a firstline, but with a specialist, other medications can be tried, and there are both non-invasive and surgical procedures available. See https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/trigeminal-neuralgia/
For the other neuropathic pains,
that can be prescribed in primary care ( ie by/via your GP) are in the following table. NB. Side effects are only potential side effects. ‘Common’ means between 1 in 10 and 1 in 100 people are affected.
Medication & example brand name
Description, Dose, Side effects
Only the most common side effects are listed; before recommendation or prescription, read full list of possible side effects at https://bnf.nice.org.uk/
Description: Antiepileptic Dose: Initially 300 mg once daily on day 1, then 300 mg twice daily on day 2, then 300 mg 3 times a day on day 3, alternatively initially 300 mg 3 times a day on day 1, then increased in steps of 300 mg every 2–3 days in 3 divided doses, adjusted according to response; maximum 3.6 g per day.
Common side effects: Anxiety; appetite abnormal; arthralgia; asthenia; behaviour abnormal; confusion; constipation; cough; depression; diarrhoea; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; dysarthria; dyspnoea; emotional lability; flatulence; gait abnormal; gastrointestinal discomfort; headache; hypertension; increased risk of infection; insomnia; leucopenia; malaise; movement disorders; muscle complaints; nausea; nystagmus; oedema; pain; reflexes abnormal; seizure (in children); sensation abnormal; sexual dysfunction; skin reactions; thinking abnormal; tooth disorder; tremor; vasodilation; vertigo; visual impairment; vomiting
Description: Antiepileptic Dose: Initially 150 mg daily in 2–3 divided doses, then increased if necessary to 300 mg daily in 2–3 divided doses, dose to be increased after 3–7 days, then increased if necessary up to 600 mg daily in 2–3 divided doses, dose to be increased after 7 days.
Common side effects: Abdominal distension; appetite abnormal; asthenia; cervical spasm; concentration impaired; confusion; constipation; diarrhoea; dizziness; drowsiness;dry mouth; feeling abnormal; gait abnormal; gastrointestinal disorders; headache; increased risk of infection; joint disorders; memory loss; mood altered; movement disorders; muscle complaints; nausea; oedema; pain; sensation abnormal; sexual dysfunction; sleep disorders; speech impairment; vertigo; vision disorders; vomiting; weight changes
Amitriptyline ( Elavil)
Description: Anticholinergic Dose: Initially 10–25 mg daily, dose to be taken in the evening, then increased, if tolerated, in steps of 10–25 mg every 3–7 days in 1–2 divided doses; usual dose 25–75 mg daily, dose to be taken in the evening, doses above 100 mg should be used with caution (doses above 75 mg should be used with caution in the elderly and in patients with cardiovascular disease); maximum per dose 75 mg.
Common side effects: Anticholinergic syndrome; (agitated (hyperactive) delirium – typically including confusion, restlessness and picking at imaginary objects) drowsiness; QT interval prolongation ( heart rhythm)
Caution in: chronic constipation, urinary retention
Frequency not known includes: visual disorders, confusion, constipation, dizziness, impaired concentration, peripheral neuropathy, urinary retention, altered sensation and depression, all of which can be confused with symptoms of MS; anticholinergics are also associated with dementia in long term use ( over 2 years)
Duloxetine ( Cymbalta)
Description: serotonin and noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitors (SNRI)
Dose: Initially 30 mg once daily, increased if necessary to 60 mg once daily; maximum 120 mg per day.
Common side effects: Anxiety; appetite decreased; constipation; diarrhoea; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; fall; fatigue; flushing; gastrointestinal discomfort; gastrointestinal disorders; headache; muscle complaints; nausea; pain; palpitations; paraesthesia; sexual dysfunction; skin reactions; sleep disorders; sweat changes; tinnitus; tremor; urinary disorders; vision disorders; vomiting; weight changes; yawning
Capsaicin cream ( Axsain)
Description: plant alkaloids Dose: Apply 3–4 times a day for 8 weeks then review, dose to be applied sparingly, not more often than every 4 hours.
Common side effects: abnormal sensation.
Caution: avoid contact with eyes; avoid hot shower or bath just before or after application (burning sensation enhanced); avoid inhalation of vapours; not to be used under tight bandages
Description: Opioid Dose: For use as short term ‘rescue therapy ‘ only
Initially 50 mg, then, adjusted according to response; Usual maximum 400 mg/24 hours, or use modified release over 12 or 24 hours preparations
Common side effects: Arrhythmias; confusion; constipation; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; euphoric mood; flushing; hallucination; headache; hyperhidrosis; hypotension (with high doses); miosis; nausea (more common on initiation); palpitations; respiratory depression (with high doses); skin reactions; urinary retention; vertigo; visual impairment; vomiting (more common on initiation); withdrawal syndrome
Medication & Example brand name
Description, Dose, Side effects
Only the most common side effects are listed; before recommendation or prescription, read full list of possible side effects at https://bnf.nice.org.uk/
High strength capsaicin patch (Qutenza)
Description: plant class alkaloids Dose 179mg patch
Common Side effects: sensation abnormal
Cautions: avoid contact with the face, scalp or in proximity to mucous membranes; avoid holding near eyes or mucous membranes; recent cardiovascular events; uncontrolled hypertension
Lidocaine patch (Versatis)
Description: local anaethetic Dose: Apply once daily for up to 12 hours, followed by a 12-hour plaster-free period; discontinue if no response after 4 weeks, to be applied to intact, dry, non-hairy, non-irritated skin, up to 3 plasters may be used to cover large areas; plasters may be cut.
Common side effects in intravenous use – as systemic absorption can follow topical administration, should be borne in mind:
anxiety; arrhythmias; atrioventricular block; cardiac arrest; circulatory collapse; confusion; dizziness; drowsiness; euphoric mood; headache; hypotension (may lead to cardiac arrest); loss of consciousness; methaemoglobinaemia; muscle twitching; myocardial contractility decreased; nausea; neurological effects; nystagmus; pain; psychosis; respiratory disorders; seizure; sensation abnormal; temperature sensation altered; tinnitus; tremor; vision blurred; vomiting
Description: SNRI Dose: initially 75 mg daily in 2 divided doses, then increased if necessary up to 375 mg daily, dose to be increased if necessary at intervals of at least 2 weeks, faster dose titration may be necessary in some patients; maximum 375 mg per day. Common Side effects: Anxiety; appetite decreased; arrhythmias; asthenia; chills; confusion; constipation; depersonalisation; diarrhoea; dizziness; dry mouth; dyspnoea; headache; hot flush; hypertension; menstrual cycle irregularities; movement disorders; muscle tone increased; mydriasis; nausea; palpitations; paraesthesia; sedation; sexual dysfunction; skin reactions; sleep disorders; sweat changes; taste altered; tinnitus; tremor; urinary disorders; vision disorders; vomiting; weight changes; yawning
Tapentadol (Palexia, Nucynta)
Description: Opioid with SNRI: Dose: Modified release:Initially 50 mg every 12 hours, adjusted according to response; maximum 500 mg per day Side effects: Anxiety; appetite decreased; asthenia; diarrhoea; feeling of body temperature change; gastrointestinal discomfort; muscle spasms; sleep disorders; tremor; for all opioids: Arrhythmias; confusion; constipation; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; euphoric mood; flushing; hallucination; headache; hyperhidrosis; hypotension (with high doses); miosis; nausea (more common on initiation); palpitations; respiratory depression (with high doses); skin reactions; urinary retention; vertigo; visual impairment; vomiting (more common on initiation); withdrawal syndrome
A non – opioid medication that can sometimes help persistent pain which does not respond to other medications, is Nefopam hydrochloride. Possible side effects include nausea, dizziness, lightheaded, nervousness, confusion, dry mouth, urinary retention.
Other medications that may be offered include stronger opioids, eg morphine, oxycodone, buprenorphine. See using opioids for more information.
NHS guidelines state that these should only be prescribed in specialist centres, such as a pain clinic or neurology clinic. This is not necessarily because they are stronger, but generally because they are not licensed for the treatment of pain, but for other uses, and have less evidence for use in pain.
Secondline medications for neuropathic pain that can be prescribed via specialist clinic include, but are not limited to:
For pain that does not respond to standard treatment, ask to be referred to a pain clinic. These vary greatly around the country in terms of what they offer, but may offer acupuncture, psychological therapies, electrotherapies as well as medications and injections.
Pain clinics, also offer various types of injections for different pains, the ones most likely to be suitable in MS are
- Nerve block injections for neuralgias
- Intravenous lidocaine (relief only tended to last for up to 28 days)
- Intravenous ketamine
The evidence for these two treatments is not robust, and there are only a few centres that offer them, but I have met people for whom it has been the only thing that has helped them.
- Deep Brain Stimulation. This invasive procedure involves stimulating a precise area of the brain using an electrode to modulate the central processing of pain signals.
This procedure is carried out on the NHS, but as there are serious and well-known risks, it is reserved for the most difficult pain conditions.
- Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) SCS is an invasive procedure where a small electrical stimulator is placed on the spinal cord, to modify the perception of neuropathic and ischaemic pain.
picture: Boston Scientific
SCS is also available as a treatment for chronic neuropathic pain, both on the NHS and privately, but as it has a cost of around £10,000 per patient and a life of around 3-4 years, it is usually considered after standard treatments have failed. It works in the same way as a TENS machine, so ‘accommodation’, or the body becoming used to the current and needing a stronger stimulus, can be a problem over time.
Implanting of devices to relieve pain is known as neuromodulation, and techniques are evolving. Newer techniques include Dorsal root ganglion stimulation, dorsal root ganglion paddle stimulation, and high frequency spinal stimulation.
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Also known as repetitive, or rTMS, is a new, non-invasive treatment that involves having a magnetic pulse sent to the brain from a plastic-coated magnetic coil held against the head. At present it has only been licensed o the NHS for treatment of depression, but there is also evidence for its use in neuropathic pain. At present it is only available for pain on the NHS as part of research at one centre in the UK; the Walton centre in Liverpool
- Transcranial direct current stimulation ( tDCS)
tDCS is a non-invasive method of electrical stimulation of the brain using a weak direct current applied to the scalp through electrodes, using a portable, battery operated device. At present it is only available on the NHS for treatment of depression. However, there has been one study in 19 people with MS, which found a 37% decrease in pain over around 4 weeks. tDCS is available privately, and hand held devices are available for purchase. People have been excitedly using privately bought units to make themselves smarter, more alert, or game faster, but there is a possiblity that units could be used for pain control.
Safe non-pharmaceutical options for home use
Some people find that cooling strategies give temporary relief, including wearing ‘freezer socks’ ( socks that have been put in the freezer!) cooling garments, and cooling gels
For allodynia, (pain from something that does not normally cause pain, such as shoes, clothing or bedclothes touching the skin) wearing things that provide a continuous stimulus, such as gloves, tight lycra clothing, or lycra splinting /dynamic movement orthoses may help. A bed cradle can be used to keep duvet/bedclothes off the feet, and sheepskin booties can relieve the weight of feet rubbing on the mattress.
dynamic movement orthoses
Electrotherapies are the only non-pharmaceutical options with published evidence of effectiveness in neuropathic MS pain. There is ‘very low quality’ evidence (small studies, lack of comparative data) for use of TENS in neuropathic pain in MS, and this definitely helps some people. A TENS device can be worn for long periods, with the unit clipped to a belt. There is as yet unpublished data on a micro-current electrotherapy, Action Potential Simulation, or APS Therapy. We have had a lot of success with this in the MS Therapy centre where I work, and it is now offered by 11 other MS centres around the UK, or can be used at home.
Although evidence is limited due to the lack of randomised controlled trials, there are many other mind-body therapies that are used by people with MS; the two that have been studied in most detail are acupuncture and mindfulness. See complementary therapies, and ‘For all types of persistent pain’
Controversial / less safe / possibly pharmaceutical
Cannabis and cannabinoids
Cannabis is a naturally occurring drug made from parts of the cannabis plant. It contains many different compounds which are known as cannabinoids, the most widely studies are THC ( the part that makes people ‘high’) and CBD.
In the UK, cannabis is a controlled drug, Class B under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and currently assigned to Schedule 1, so it cannot be prescribed or held legally with a prescription. Changes to the law are expected, see https://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/views-and-comments/medicinal-cannabis-%E2%80%93-a-potted-guide
In the meantime, many people with MS do find cannabis useful, and use it in various ways, including growing it, making tinctures, vapes, and using it in foodstuffs. There are certain risks to mental and physical health, specifically for those who are younger than 25 years of age, might be pregnant, have cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, a history of psychosis, or a substance use disorder.
Cannabinoid medication: Sativex is an under the tongue spray, which contains both THC and CBD and has been licensed for spasticity in the UK, but not pain. This information, updated November 2019, is from the MS Trust:
Sativex is a licensed treatment and can be prescribed legally in the UK, but NHS prescribing remains limited and varies across the country.
In England, NICE guidance recommends that, providing the local NHS health authority is willing to pay for continued treatment, a 4-week trial of Sativex can be offered to people with moderate to severe MS-related spasticity which has not improved while taking other treatments. At the end of the trial, if their spasticity-related symptoms have improved by at least 20%, they can continue taking Sativex.
In Wales, it can be prescribed for moderate to severe spasticity in people with MS who haven’t responded to other anti-spasticity medication.
In Scotland and Northern Ireland, Sativex is currently not considered a cost effective treatment.
Limited access to Sativex on the NHS means that some people decide to obtain a private prescription and pay for the cost of the drug themselves. This can be an expensive option and it’s therefore not feasible for everyone.
It can only be prescribed by a specialist doctor with experience of treating MS spasticity – consultant neurologists, consultant rehabilitation specialists and consultant pain specialists.
Use of Sativex is currently limited to those people who respond to the first four weeks of treatment. If there is no clear improvement in spasticity-related symptoms, treatment is stopped.
CBD oil, which is available from health food stores and online retailers, is made from cannabis but has had the THC removed. In research, only cannabis preparations with a high level of THC have been found to be effective for neuropathic pain in MS in clinical trials. However, people’s anecdotal experience suggests that for some, good quality/high strength CBD oil preparations can be helpful; possibly because for some it relaxes, reducing anxiety and making people feel more distanced from the pain.
There is a thoughtful post about this on the chronic pain blog site, Healthskills, here:
People sourcing CBD oil should be aware of possible interactions with other drugs.
For all types of persistent pain
Pain is a sensory and emotional experience, not always related to damage in any physical structure. It occurs in the brain, and not in the part of the body that hurts.
All pain can be ‘modulated’ – turned up or turned down, at different places along the path of the nerve, and emotions have been found to affect how strong the pain feels at different times. Your brain is only able to cope with a certain amount of information at one time, and this includes pain.
Factors that ‘wind up’ or heighten the pain response include ;
Hyper-vigilance – focussing on the pain
Previous negative experience
Beliefs about meaning of pain
Criticism – being criticised!
Factors that ‘wind down’ or de-escalate the pain response include:
○ Distraction, enjoyment
○ Meditation/ Mindfulness
○ Social bonding/ interaction
In chronic / persistent pain, the pain is no longer a warning about damage, and as such does not serve any useful purpose. In many types of persistent pain, the most useful approach is to focus on living a fulfilling life with pain, without giving up on seeking out things that help.
The best free resource that I have found to learn about managing chronic/persistent pain is ‘Retrain Pain’ at https://www.retrainpain.org/
The Pain Toolkit can also be useful, but it’s more geared towards musculoskeletal pain:
These blogs contain a lot of insight about living with persistent pain; the first aimed at people with pain
and the second for healthcare professionals
It may also possible to be referred to locally taught pain management / supportive courses such as:
- Self management programmes (SMPs)
- NHS pain management programmes (PMPs)
And for exercise, ‘Exercise on referral/prescription’ courses at a local gym.
You can also access online NHS exercise studio videos at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-fitness-studio/
Privately bought pain management resources include
- Book and CD set: Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing, by Danny Penman
- The ‘Headspace’ app pain management pack is introduced here:
and the day 1 meditation is here: https://my.headspace.com/packs/36
- I have always found HeartMath biofeedback to be the most effective system for creating resilience to stress, and use in in my MS clinic, where I did a small piece of research some years ago. There are also some published studies showing reduction in chronic pain when using this system. This is a simple technique that can be taught using biofeedback software by a licensed trainer, or used with a privately bought app and biofeedback sensor.
I hope that by reading through this you will find something that helps on your journey with pain.
-Please let me know about anything that you think I’ve missed out; or mistakes – the topic is so vast! Also your experiences with things that do help you, so that I can continue to increase my knowledge and understanding, and pass on useful information to the people that I see, both in my MS Nursing clinic, and in my business life with Action Potential Simulation therapy.
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Once in a while, you meet a cat that just steals your heart! Checkers is definitely one of those special kitties. He is a very sweet, 8-month-old, black and white, FIP cat from Metro Detroit that is in the fight for his life. So far, everything about him has been miraculous and he’s in great hands with a local animal rescue. You can help him win his fight. Let’s look at what Checkers is going through and how you can help.
What is an FIP Cat?
An FIP cat is a kitty that is suffering from Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). FIP is a complicated viral disease that, until recently, was considered progressive and almost always fatal.
FIP is caused by a coronavirus known as feline enteric coronavirus (FeCV). FeCV is a very common virus that generally does not cause any significant disease (source). It is spread through feces and saliva. Infected cats may not show any symptoms of FeCV, but they could have self-resolving bouts of diarrhea or mild respiratory symptoms. Cats with FeCV usually mount an immune response in which antibodies are produced at about 7-10 days after infection.
In about 10% of cats infected with FeCV a mutation in the virus occurs. When this mutation occurs, the virus infects the cat’s white blood cells and spreads throughout the cat’s body. At this point, the virus is referred to as FIPV. Then, an intense inflammatory reaction mounts from the cat’s immune system in the vessels and tissues where the FIPV has settled (usually the brain, kidneys, or abdomen). The immune response is what leads to the development of FIP in cats.
Checking In With Checkers
Checkers, the FIP cat, was introduced to Cat Tail Kitties Rescue in November of 2021. In January 2022, he was diagnosed with mycoplasma, a bacteria that causes anemia (source). This infection would later lead to his decline and eventual FIP infection.
Beginning about a week ago, Checkers had some very significant problems. There was potential that the FIP was affecting him neurologically. This left Checkers unable to urinate or defecate on his own. He really began to crash when his bladder ruptured, filling his abdomen with urine.
The veterinarians were able to do some miraculous things with Checkers. They stabilized his vitals quickly. This FIP cat is a fighter! He had the following treatments over the past week:
- Surgery to repair his bladder
- Blood infusion
- Various bloodwork and testing
- FIV treatments (antibiotics and antivirals)
- Removal of 1.5 lbs. (650 mL) of urine from his abdomen
- Removal of 0.6 lbs. of impacted stool
- Catheter inserted
Checkers did an amazing job throughout all his treatments and was feeling much better by Saturday (March 26, 2022). He is down to 3.7 lbs. after having all that urine and feces removed!
What the Future Holds for Checkers
Checkers is now at “home” with his new foster mom, Emily. She has had success with an FIP cat before and has very high hopes for Checkers. Checkers is eating a little bit and drinking quite a lot. Of course, he is also taking in all the petting and cuddles that Emily gives him.
What does treatment look like for Checkers?
- A catheter for about 5-7 days
The catheter is helping Checkers to urinate while his bladder heals from surgery. It is uncertain whether Checkers is unable to urinate because of neurological FIP or if his feces obstruction was blocking his urethra. The catheter must remain until he can urinate on his own.
- Antiviral injections 1-2 times per day for 12 weeks
These antiviral injections will help Checkers to overcome FIP. After the 12 weeks of treatment are over, there will be a 12-week observation period before he can be considered “cured” of the disease.
- Bloodwork monitoring every 4 weeks
This is part of the FIP treatment protocol.
If all goes well, Checkers will no longer be an FIP cat in 24 weeks.
What You Can Do to Help Checkers
Checkers is not in this fight alone. He has a team of veterinarians and Emily right there by his side. You can help him too. Your prayers and purrs are coveted. As you might imagine, it is not an inexpensive job to treat an FIP cat. The surgery for Checkers’ bladder and blood infusion alone cost $2400. Donations can be made to Cat Tail Kitties on their website or Facebook page. They are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so all donations are tax-deductible.
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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency released an in-depth study of credit card late fees Tuesday, finding that credit card issuers earn $12 billion per year from these charges and that revenue is earned disproportionately from poor Americans.
The government agency estimated that consumers are charged an average of $26 fee for late payments and that consumers with the lowest credit scores, who typically live in underprivileged zip codes, pay more than $300 per year on late fees alone.
“For some households, late fees are a costly mistake for payments that may only be a day or two late — for others, they are a significant added hardship during a time of of financial precarity,” the report said. “For credit card companies…late fees continue to bolster their bottom line.”
Credit card fees are regulated under authority granted by a 2009 law that says late fees must be “reasonable and proportional,” which was implemented at $25 for the first violation and $35 for subsequent missed payments, and the CFPB is required to adjust that figure each year for inflation.
The CFPB says that credit card issuers earn $120 billion per year from credit card fees and interest, with 10% of that revenue coming from late fees.
Credit cards are often issued by large banks like Chase and Wells Fargo in partnership with companies like Visa and Mastercard that maintain the payment networks. Many community banks, credit unions and retailers are also involved in credit-card issuance.
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George Selgin is renowned for his work in monetary theory and history, so when he speaks, he deserves to be listened to: Recession, Fed Policy, and Locusts. (I thank one of my blog visitors for drawing my attention to this article).
I have only a quibble to offer. Selgin remarks that the unemployment rate in the 1870s depression never exceeded 8%. My hunch is that a given rate of unemployment 100 years ago would have imposed much more economic hardship than an identical rate today. (In particular, people are wealthier today, making unemployment more affordable). Also, I am wondering whether the numbers are strictly comparable? I presume that conventions of today's Labor Force Survey were not in place back then. Does anybody out there know? | <urn:uuid:4b3a67ba-87c5-4114-a9e2-a9111dfa2d53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://andolfatto.blogspot.com/2010/09/recession-fed-policy-and-locusts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00072-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959399 | 153 | 2.03125 | 2 |
In June 2021, the police in Xuhui District, Shanghai, cracked down on a case of making and selling cheating programs for miHoYo’s game named Genshin Impact, and arrested three suspects, involving an amount of about 2 million yuan ($296,200). Recently, the court in the district sentenced the three defendants to prison terms ranging from one year and six months to four years.
The court decision holds that between October 2020 and May 2021, the defendant Zhou and the defendant Sun and others deliberated together, and Zhou contacted the defendant Yao to obtain the relevant data of the game Genshin Impact and provided Zhou with the plug-in program for the development and production of the game. After judicial appraisal, from October 2020 to May 2021, the defendant sold more than 40,000 plug-in cards of various types, totaling approximately 2 million yuan.
In recent years, along with the rapid development of the online game industry in China, a shady industry of profit-making by plug-in and illegal private operation services has also developed. Plug-ins disrupt game rules and disrupt players’ ecologies by tampering with game codes while server setups also allegedly violate copyright laws and cause serious harm to game creation teams. Such black and gray industries are prone to the leakage of user information, causing economic and property losses to players.
To address this, in June 2020, the National Copyright Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and two other ministries jointly launched a special operation and made clear the urgent need to crack down on infringing piracy acts such as hacking online games and pirating code or plug-ins.
Game companies are also working closely together to deal with the situation. In June 2021, many game companies in Shanghai joined with judicial authorities and well-known universities to set up an alliance aimed at alerting end users to the dangers of using unofficial and unauthorized gaming sources while jointly building a defense and combat system against illegal acts such as plug-ins. | <urn:uuid:8963f0ae-461c-4015-844e-804463073a55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pandaily.com/three-people-jailed-for-illegally-producing-and-selling-cheating-programs-for-genshin-impact/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.962578 | 399 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Unclear water bottle regulations cause frustration at football game
By Maleesa Johnson
Dozens of water bottles were left trashed outside Floyd Casey Stadium on Saturday despite a new policy allowing outside water bottles into the stadium.
“I had water, but I threw it away,” Coppell freshman Victoria Clark said. “I didn’t know we were allowed to bring it inside.”
Some students, such as Lubbock senior Hayden Murphy, witnessed game attendees not being allowed to take in their own hard plastic water bottles. Murphy said he took two bottles in, but they were disposable.
“To be on the safe side this Saturday for the game attendees should bring regular plastic water bottles,” Lori Fogleman, Assistant Vice President for Media Communications, said. “Like those you would buy at the store.”
The Baylor Athletics policy preventing outside bottles of water in the stadium has been suspended for the first two games and could be extended depending on the weather. Executive Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs Nick Joos said there have been exceptions made in the past regarding this policy.
“When it is hot, we do make exceptions for folks because it’s important for them to stay hydrated,” Joos said. “So that was the case last week for the Wofford game and will be the case again this week for the Buffalo game.”
According to the official Baylor Bears website, bottled water for personal use is the only exception to the rule of no outside food and beverages. Joos said each person in attendance may bring up to two personal-sized water bottles. These bottles do not have to be sealed.
Joos said due to the lack of requirement to have sealed bottles, there is a concern of alternate beverages being brought inside the water bottles. However, no added measure is being taken.
“For all games unless we make an exception, outside bottled water, outside food, any of that is not allowed into the stadium or in the Ferrell Center,” said Joos. “That follows what rules other people have as well.”
There has been confusion over what type of water bottles, or if any, are allowed inside the stadium.
In spite of unsealed water bottles being allowed in the stadium, senior Ashley Grodecki was not allowed to bring in her opened disposable water bottle.
“I tried to take it in and they wouldn’t let me,” Grodecki said. “They wouldn’t let me take it in because it was already opened.”
Game attendee Brent Stone packed six bottles of water in his backpack for himself and his two daughters. After opening his backpack to reveal the bottles, he was allowed into the stadium.
“I just told them I had six bottles of water and pistachios and they let us in without a problem,” Stone said.
Southlake senior Anna Shurtleff had a different experience.
“My boyfriend and I each brought a nice, large, $15 water bottle, the kind with a freezer core and a straw, and were told we could not bring them in,” Shurtleff wrote in an email to the Lariat. “The attendant said even if we dumped out the water he would still have to confiscate them.”
Shurtleff said they could not return the water bottles to a car because they rode the shuttle to the game.
Baylor Athletics Department received complaints after the games that took place in this degree of heat last year. In spite of the high temperatures during the first football game last year, students were not allowed to bring any beverage into the stadium. As The Lariat previously reported, many students suffered from heat related illnesses and the EMS and event staff were seen offering assistance to students that had passed out. Anyone trying to purchase water below the stands had to wait in long lines.
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Infrastructure Required for Urgent-Start Peritoneal Dialysis
In part 2 of this 2-part episode, James Matera, DO, FACOI, speaks about the infrastructure required for urgent-start peritoneal dialysis (PD) and the urgent-start PD clinical pathway from patient presentation to discharge home.
James Matera, DO, FACOI, is a practicing nephrologist, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer at CentraState Medical Center (Freehold, New Jersey).
Listen to part 1 of this episode here.
Jessica Bard: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another installment of Podcasts360, your go-to resource for medical news and clinical updates. I'm your moderator, Jessica Bard, with Consultant360 Specialty Network. Medicare-related spending for beneficiaries with end-stage kidney disease totaled nearly $50 billion in 2018, according to the National Institutes of Health. Dr James Matera is here to speak with us today about urgent-start peritoneal dialysis. Thank you for joining us today. What infrastructure is required for urgent-start PD?
Dr James Matera: The primary thing is the placement of the catheter. You have to have confidence in your interventional radiologist, or your surgeon, who can do this. At first, I was a little leery, but I started to look at our interventional radiologists. I knew they were doing it in another facility. I actually did my homework and followed up on some of the patients and physicians that were using them at another facility, and I became comfortable. And of course, I was there the first couple of times they did it. That's the number one priority.
The number 2 is being able to have a unit. In our hospital in particular, we tend to relegate peritoneal dialysis to one floor. They're where the peritoneal dialysis nurses are located, so they have a good working attitude towards us, and they're able to do this. However, this is a little different animal. This is a brand new catheter that hasn't had time to ingrain in. We're not using a cycler for the most part, as many nurses are used to, because we're going with low volumes. That's the key to keeping the catheter from leaking and other things. So we have to have reeducation into the whole process, and then of course, we have to have the facilities to do that. There have been some peritoneal dialysis shortages through the pandemic, so we have to make sure we have all the equipment available. And then, most importantly, is you have to be able to transition that patient from the acute care setting, where we don't want them to be, to the outpatient setting to finish their urgent-start training and to get back to home as quickly as possible.
Jessica Bard: What is the urgent-start PD clinical pathway from patient presentation to discharge home?
Dr James Matera: Yeah, so my goal with urgent-start PD, I tend to use that more in the inpatient setting, whereas when I have a patient who I know is going to start peritoneal dialysis, I usually have a little bit more control over that. But when patients do come in that haven't had enough time to think, or haven't made a decision on modality, but I know that they're going to be a good candidate, first and foremost is the education. You have to educate that patient. There are not a lot of contraindications to doing urgent-start PD. Certainly, I want to caution I would not use that in a really urgent situation. For instance, someone whose volume overloaded or has severe hyperkalemia or other issues. Then you know at least temporary hemodialysis is better, but once you make the decision, you can put that in place. So number one is education. You have to make sure that the patient's ready for that.
Number 2 is getting the catheter placed in a timeframe that's suitable, and then I like to get the patients out of here. I like to, if they're stable enough and I don't have to start the PD urgently, I transition them to an outpatient clinic where they'll go in and do the PD right in the clinic. That's my modality. I had one patient just recently who did not make his decision. He thought he was going to get a transplant. Long story short, it got down to the wire, the transplant was being put on hold due to some issues with his donor, and he was becoming very uremic. So I said, "We've got to do this." I put him in, we did the PD catheter that day. The next day, he started in our outpatient center with urgent-start PD, and has done phenomenally well for 6 weeks now, and I'm hoping his transplant will go in a couple of weeks. But I think that's the best part for this, is to get them out of the hospital as quick as possible and get them into a center where they can start the transition.
Jessica Bard: What would you say are the overall take-home messages from our conversation today?
Dr James Matera: I think the take-home messages are we have to put peritoneal dialysis back on our radar for modality choices. Of course, it takes a motivated patient, it takes an educated patient. We also have to take into account, Jessica, the socioeconomic things. We have to know those things in medicine these days. I teach my students that all the time, that it's not just your genetic code, but your ZIP code that may dictate where things are going. So if you have a patient who isn't capable of doing this for technical reasons, maybe they have food or home insecurities, they're not good peritoneal dialysis patients. You may know this, but I do go, or have gone prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, to Guatemala to do some work out there, and we actually have some people who live in huts who do peritoneal dialysis, but we have to take all those things into account. But I think if we move peritoneal dialysis up onto our forefront, that'll help us get to the home goals that we want to get to by 2024, 2025. I think that certainly helps.
Number 2 is I think the patients will like it better. I think their availability in their lifestyle is better on peritoneal dialysis, so I think that's a good take-home message for us to deal with our patients. Certainly shared decision-making is of utmost importance. You don't want to tell a patient what they can or cannot do, but you want to take it and say, "Okay, this modality will give you the following benefits, and the following benefits on your lifestyle, and long term, here's what we can expect." And we all know the outcomes data on peritoneal dialysis, while not overwhelming, tends to be a little bit more favorable than hemo.
Then I also think the key factor is avoiding infections. When you look at urgent-start versus conventional PD, there was not, in a cohort of studies that was published just about 2 years ago, they looked at it and they didn't see a higher incidence of infections for home patients versus conventional. But yet, when we put central venous catheters in patients for hemodialysis, that's one of our biggest fears and worries, is that they'll get an infection. So I think all those things wrapped up together make urgent-start PD a very good entryway into the home arena that we need to be focusing a little bit more on over the next few years.
Jessica Bard: Is there anything else that you'd like to add, that you think that I missed?
Dr James Matera: No. I think we look at that, and again, you have to have some really good studies. Actually, home or urgent-start PD started to get some traction about 10, 12 years ago, and there's a couple of algorithms that are out there from some of the studies, from some of the people who performed the studies, that show a good way for patient choice education and how you would do it. The prescription of the dialysis is also different, because again, we're starting with low volumes. Sometimes, a traditional patient on conventional dialysis will get up to two liters, sometimes even more, but with these patients, I start very low. It's 500 to 750 milliliters of fluid to start the process, to avoid leaking, to let the catheter kind of take its shape, because we don't have that 2-week window in urgent-start that we would normally do. And actually, there are no studies to really show that's a benefit of waiting the two weeks, so I think we can put that aside if done properly.
Dr James Matera: The other thing I would say is, and we didn't talk a lot about it today, but protocols. You have to have a protocol. I'm a big fan of algorithms and protocols, and we learned during COVID that was a very useful tool for us in order to get away from some of the things that we knew at the start of COVID to what we know now. I think you have to have a real good protocol in place of how you're going to do your peritoneal dialysis, and you have to have the buy-in from the administration at your facility, the nursing for sure, the dialysis unit and everybody, and even resources and materials management, to make sure that you have the supplies necessary to do this. I'm a big fan of developing protocols, and there are some out there. A friend of mine actually down in South Florida was among the first groups to look at this. I follow a lot from what they've taught us. So I think that's very important.
Jessica Bard: Well, thank you so much for your time today, Dr Matera. We really appreciate it.
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While timely reperfusion of acute ischemic myocardium is essential for myocardial salvage, reperfusion results in a unique form of myocardial damage. Functional alterations occur, including depressed contractile function and decreased coronary flow as well as altered vascular reactivity. Both myocardial stunning and infarction are seen. Over the last two decades, it has become increasingly clear that oxidant and oxygen radical formation is greatly increased in the post-ischemic heart and serves as a critical central mechanism of post-ischemic injury. This oxidant formation is generated through a series of interacting pathways in cardiac myocytes and endothelial cells and triggers subsequent leukocyte chemotaxis and inflammation. Nitric oxide (NO) production and NO levels are also greatly increased in ischemic and post-ischemic myocardium, and this occurs through NO synthase (NOS)-dependent NO formation and NOS-independent nitrite reduction. Recently, it has been shown that the pathways of oxygen radical and NO generation interact and can modulate each other. Under conditions of oxidant stress, NOS can switch from NO to oxygen radical generation. Under ischemic conditions, xanthine oxidase can reduce nitrite to generate NO. NO and peroxynitrite can inhibit pathways of oxygen radical generation, and, in turn, oxidants can inhibit NO synthesis from NOS. Ischemic preconditioning markedly decreases NO and oxidant generation, and this appears to be an important mechanism contributing to preconditioning-induced myocardial protection.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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One Liner Script to Show Last Time a Users Password was Changed on AIX
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AIX stores the last time a user changed their password as a "epoch" time stamp, or in other words as the number of seconds since 1970.
For example, if you want to see when the last time root changed their password you can type:
This shows that root changed their password at 1,391,663,150 seconds after 1970. In other words, this really isn't very helpful unless you take this epoch number and convert it to a real date.
Here is a one liner function that will give you a "lastpwchg" command that will show a normal date/time for a users last password change. Just type "lastpwchg" followed by the username you would like to check:
The results look like this when you run it to check a user:
If you found this useful, you might also want to check out this post: Don' | <urn:uuid:fc52964b-56f4-45ea-b5df-94974e92fa89> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/brian/entry/one_liner_script_to_show_last_time_a_users_password_was_changed_on_aix?lang=ja | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00210-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943534 | 223 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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