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Ah, sleep. That natural, elusive thing we all want a little more of. Most people think the secret to sleep is simply nabbing a solid eight hours of it every day. But there is actually a lot more that goes into waking up refreshed and ready to tackle your day. Learning how to sleep better can reap many rewards for you. And it all starts with the fundamentals: a comfortable bedroom environment that encourages deep sleeping, not entertainment. Turning down the lights, eliminating blue light, and using white noise machines are all time-tested ways of defeating insomnia. But there is more you need to know if you want to truly maximize your slumber time. And you can find everything you need to create a coherent and stylish approach to sleep here at Ashley.
How To Choose The Right Bed
You can use every sleep trick in the book, but if you don’t have the right bed for your needs, you will not wake up feeling as refreshed as you should. A comfortable bed supports your body so your mind can drift off peacefully. Worn-out mattresses and lumpy pillows do little to encourage good sleeping habits, even when they’re covered in the very best sheets. Even the bed frame itself could be affecting your sleep habits without you realizing it. Focus on choosing the best mattress, pillow, and bed linens to support your efforts for better sleep without requiring multiple trips to the sleep shop.
How to Choose Pillows
The pillow is often overlooked as a mere accessory compared to the rest of the bed. But without proper support for your head and neck, you’re not doing all you can to support good sleep practices. Learning how to choose a pillow starts with considering what position you sleep in most often. Bed pillows are generally designed to best support only one or two positions. Choosing a pillow is always a matter of trying to create a straight line between your head, neck, and shoulders. If you sleep on your back, you’ll need a thinner pillow to achieve this. A standard polyfill pillow should work fine.
Side and stomach sleepers need more cushioning to keep their head and neck in alignment all night long. Side sleepers generally need the most support, while stomach sleepers may be able to use a pillow that’s also designed for back sleeping. Memory foam, dense fill, and buckwheat are all good fill options for side sleeping pillows. They provide more support and won’t shift out of the way as you sleep, causing alignment issues that wake you up or leave you sore in the morning. Another question to ask about how to choose the right pillow is whether you have allergies or not. A hypoallergenic pillow—or at least a case designed for that purpose—can reduce allergy issues that interrupt sleep.
How to Choose Bed Sheets
After you pick your perfect pillow, consider the sheets covering your bed. Learning how to choose bed linen options is largely a matter of knowing your own preferences. If you’re sleeping in sheets that are too warm, too scratchy, or too thick for your bed, you may wake up multiple times a night without realizing it. Sheet sets are generally designed for either winter or summer use based on their material and thread count. Thinner sets have become mistakenly associated with lower quality. A low thread count sheet can still offer a “soft hand,” which is the term for the texture of the fabric. They can also provide better airflow to prevent overheating on warm summer nights. Crisp and thick sheets are often preferred for winter, as they provide extra warmth.
Cotton is a classic for bed linens, famous for its absorbency and lightweight summer-friendly feel. Linen is another good option for summer. Over the winter, you may find artificial fibers like polyester microfiber more comfortable thanks to the heat-trapping power of the material. That is also what can make them uncomfortably hot in the summer. Bamboo and silk work well in all seasons, making them an excellent choice for anyone overwhelmed by all the choices. Your personal qualifiers for how to choose bed sheets may change over time as you get experienced with different materials.
Get Better Sleep With These Products
Many accessories to improve your sleeping experience are little more than gimmicks. However, some products actually have a good chance of improving your sleep experience. One trick for learning how to get better sleep is keeping the space as dark as possible. Recent studies show that even slight light exposure can make a big difference in sleep quality. Blackout curtains and sleep masks can help eliminate lighting issues you can’t just switch off yourself.
Another issue common to people struggling with insomnia is a warm bedroom. Cooler-than-usual temperatures encourage deep sleep and keep you from waking in the middle of the night. Cooling pads spread out under your sheet set is a fast way to make a difference, in addition to using a fan or turning up the A/C. Bed cooling systems that blow air under the sheets may look fancy, but they often receive mixed reviews. Passive methods like heat diffusing pads are much more likely to produce the desired results without increasing your electrical use.
Mattresses to Help You Catch Some ZZZs
Before you pick a supportive mattress to keep you asleep, consider how to choose a bed frame. Bed frames that wiggle around or squeak when you roll over will only interrupt your sleep and keep you awake. Aside from these distractions, the choice of how to choose a bed is largely up to you. It’s the mattress that provides the majority of the sleep experience.
Look for a firm mattress on coiled springs if you’re a back sleeper. Softer memory foam and gel mattresses work best for side sleepers so their hips don’t rest uncomfortably against springs. The more you weigh, the firmer the mattress should be to prevent sagging when your back needs support.
Get the sleep you’re looking for with the help of Ashley. Our sleep shop is packed with all the equipment and accessories you need to make your bedroom into a sanctuary of stylish restoration.
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Wednesday 14th November, 2012
1:30pm to 2:10pm
The biggest trap for any business wanting to get involved in social media is presuming that merely being present is inclusion enough. Indeed, whilst there’s no doubting the importance of presence, the underlying weapon of social media is its ability to engage an audience. This panel will highlight the reasons for ensuring audience engagement is a top priority, by looking at what it can do your traffic levels to your site(s), its effects on your online brand – and how, in the wrong circumstances, it can affect your bottom line.
How do attitudes change due to social media activities? This is the branding value that should convert into sales
Evaluating the share of conversation versus your competitors and how to reposition yourself to start a new conversation
How to translate analytic data into tangible engagement strategies
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You may notice that the weight loss seems to occur mostly in your face, arms and legs but your stomach weight seems to want to stick around for the long haul. Commonly, the stubborn belly fat is not there because you are eating too many calories or exercising too little. This report will help you understand that key question. What causes belly fat?
Many people struggle with losing waist weight that sits in the stomach area.
Dieting and exercise can benefit you sometimes but can also be very frustrating if you're not reducing weight and seeing the results you expect from all the hard work you put in. You may notice that the weight loss seems to occur mostly in your face, arms and legs but your stomach weight seems to want to stick around for the long haul. Commonly, the stubborn belly fat is not there because you are eating too many calories or exercising too little. This report will help you understand that key question. What causes belly fat?
Your body is protecting you. You have two small pyramid shaped glands that sit on top of your kidneys called the adrenals. Your adrenals are nicknamed your stress glands or your stress organs. The hormones they release can be triggered by emotional stress, chemical stress, or even physical trauma. The adrenals are a part of a feedback loop that helps control and respond to various functions of your body's hormonal and nervous system. There is part of your nervous system that is in control and active while you are relaxed called the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system has an opposite effect and is active when you are in an excited state.
These tiny adrenal glands are responsible for the funny feeling you get when you are scared by something. Just imagine the last time you were driving or riding in the car, when suddenly another car cuts in front of you. The brakes are slammed to avoid an accident and hopefully the near accident was avoided. That "wave" of fear and funny adrenaline rush you get is called your "fight or flight response". This is an instinctive reaction by your body for your protection. This reaction is designed to either get you out of a dangerous situation or allow you to deal with a dangerous situation for your ultimate survival.
There are an amazing number of hormones being released to prepare you for stressful scenarios whenever the body deems it necessary. The problem occurs when this protective mechanism that is designed for promoting survival is fooled into being active when no true stressful event is present. When you get scared by something there are certain physiological functions that occur such as: mental acuity, the pupils in your eyes getting larger and you develop tunnel vision. Your heart rate increases to pump more blood to your extremities in case you need to flee and your digestive system stops breaking down food to allow more energy for other areas of the body and the list goes on. All of these responses occur during the excited state of the sympathetic nervous system.
Stress and belly fat explained...
The true problem occurs when your nervous system is functioning in the excited state during a relaxed scenario. Here's a brief example. If you are like millions of people in this country and enjoy a hot cup of coffee or tea to start your day or get you through a mid afternoon meeting, to battle your chronic fatigue, you are causing this false scenario to occur. Caffeine is a researched and known stimulant that triggers the same functions that are triggered when you are scared. The problem is after you ingest the caffeine your body is left in the excited state during a relaxed scenario. Some of the physiological effects are an increased heart rate, mental acuity and better focus. This is great to avoid being caught sleeping in a boring meeting but not so great for your body. You have just sent the signals to your adrenals and nervous system that some dangerous scenario is occurring. The body is very smart but also very dumb. It will do what it's told just like a computer. When the user tells a computer to delete something, that's exactly what the computer will do. The body can't differentiate between right and wrong when it comes to releasing hormones and reactions to stress. Physiologically the body cannot tell whether you were almost in a car accident or sitting in the weekly board room meeting.
I'm often asked, what is the best way to lose belly fat?
While you will increase abdominal strength doing belly fat exercises, doing them is not the best way to lose belly fat. The quickest way to lose belly fat is through stress management. Stress and belly fat have a very intimate relationship that you can easily abolish. You must eliminate or decrease the stressful influences on the body so the adrenals don't release stress related hormones on a continual basis. When these hormones are released they travel through the blood stream in search of problems to fix. When no true problem is discovered your body will begin to prepare itself for some impending stressful scenario that the body assumes must be on the way. After all why would there be a stress response if no stress were coming?
A hormone that you may be familiar with is called cortisol.
Cortisol is released when the body gets information that it is in danger. Cortisol is responsible for controlling inflammation and swelling when there is a physical stress on the body. Once the adrenals release the cortisol because of increased stress, the hormone does not just disappear if no trauma is discovered. When there is no dangerous situation the one protective mechanism is to use the cortisol to store fat around internal organs to protect them from a future risk. This is where the unwanted belly fat comes from. When this hormone is triggered with other protective hormones it will appear that the exercise and dieting you have so intensely committed yourself to are in vain. The problem stems from another source and that is the reason for the poor results with your weight loss protocol.
How can you decrease the emotional, chemical and environmental stress?
Obviously we all have things that concern us. The best way to deal with emotional stress is by using avenues like prayer or meditation to help balance your mental well being. Exercising is a great way to promote adrenal health. This can be doing something as simple as walking, yoga, swimming or more intense types of exercise. The emotional component of stress is extremely common in our society and can be the most damaging. This is because we can potentially think "bad" thoughts constantly and constantly keep our system in a position to release fat storing hormones.
The chemical and environmental stressors are somewhat easier to handle because we can all make better choices of the products we consume and use. Are you on a diet? I recommend avoiding diets and just adopt better habits and lifestyle changes over a period of time. You have higher chance of sticking with it if you're not overwhelmed by the sudden changes in your routine.
The easiest changes to make are centered at the foods you eat.
Avoiding foods made with preservatives, additives and other synthetic chemicals that trigger stress responses. Substances like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine all cause the adrenals to become active. Sugars and artificial sweeteners also contribute to causing elevated adrenal stress. Weight loss pills will only make your problem worse when the bottle is finished and should be avoided at all cost. A great and simple way to start is to decrease the amount of liquids you consume that contain caffeine and excess sugars. Then choose a time frame to start reducing certain foods from your diet that lead to adrenal stress.
Environmental stress can be reduced by making better choices around the home and using more "green" products. Using more organic friendly cleaning products and personal hygiene products is not only better for your body but may also help you with your weight loss protocol. It has been researched for over half a century that certain types of chemicals will cause your hormonal system to function less than optimum. Research has been performed by the FDA, EPA, CDC, major pharmaceutical companies and medical universities showing the effects of certain chemicals on your body. The fancy name for these problems is "endocrine disruptors". I suggest you just search the term on Google and read the information for yourself.
Belly fat is only one of the symptoms that you will experience when the adrenals are compromised or fatigued. The adrenals are also responsible for a few other key functions in your body. The adrenals do not only control inflammation and swelling.
You may have adrenal fatigue if you notice any of the following symptoms:
trouble falling asleep or difficulty sleeping through the entire night
high blood pressure
difficult menstrual cycles
low sex drive
allergies and asthma.
One of the best ways to know if your adrenals are compromised is to have an Adrenal Stress Index performed.
This is a saliva test that will measure your hormonal levels over a period of time. The test is non-invasive & can be performed wherever you are. Saliva is collected under real life conditions and there are no stressful blood draws and no gallon sized urine containers to carry around for 24 hours. With blood and urine testing, a number of borderline adrenal conditions are missed due to lack of sensitivity. This is not the case with the Adrenal Stress Index because samples are taken within one circadian cycle and the more definitive free fraction is measured. Treatment options are expanded by 400-500% over blood test and urine test results. Once you understand the mechanisms for many of the symptoms that are causing your difficulty with losing belly fat it becomes much easier to handle the battle of the bulge.
Good luck to you and I trust this information will serve you well.
Dr. Branden Evans is a graduate of Texas Chiropractic College just south of Houston, TX His office is located in Marietta, GA just north of Atlanta. He has trained extensively in treatment techniques to aid the body's natural ability to heal and remove toxins. Dr. Evans utilizes laboratory testing, hair analysis, clinical nutrition and low force chiropractic techniques to manage pain, hormonal imbalances, allergy problems and many other common health problems.
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Our purpose is to provide all staff with comprehensive and continuous access to high-quality, engaging professional development that incorporates innovative best practice by inspiring and motivating all staff members who educate students. All professional development will be designed to advance student achievement in JISD to an exemplary status for every campus, teacher and STUDENT.
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If you have taken professional development courses with providers not approved by TEA, our office can grant you district credit. However, we cannot grant Texas SBEC CPE.
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Due to the popularity of the visualizing how your stuff owns you post from several weeks ago, I thought it would be beneficial if I documented exactly how I use a simple monthly calendar and a few personal finance metrics to visually represent how many hours, days, even weeks, I had to work in order […]
As you transition from the college campus to the working world, it is inevitable that you would need to spend some money on necessary items. Rather than think of what it is costing you, consider it an investment for your career and your future. Here are nine things that any new graduate like you must buy to be a professional and advance your career. Don’t get these confused with items you shouldn’t buy.
With these tough economic times and the cost of tuition and other expenses skyrocketing, paying for college puts enormous pressure on the shoulders of both parents and students. Sometimes, even after your parent’s contribution to your college fund is made, and you have received all the deductions due to financial aid and other grants, you still have a gap between the amount you have on hand and the amount you need.
Every now and then I hear from my cousin and we talk personal finances. He’s in his second year of college, but he still doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. He works a little, but only part time for an hourly wage. Ultimately, he’s adrift and has no clue that some of the most important financial decisions of his life have already passed him by and he’s only a few years away from many more.
As sad as it is to say, many 20s Something college graduates have no clue what’s in store for them when it comes to repaying their student loan debt. As this formerly clueless, now cognizant, college grad with $275,000 in student loan debt so aptly puts it: The American Dream is almost my American Nightmare. […]
Some people can never have enough. Alternatively, some people are satisfied with just eeking out a living doing what they love. It all depends on your goals, your upbringing, and maybe even your sensitivity to the law of diminishing utility. In other words, asking how much of something (money, time away from family, anonymity) is […]
There are just some things that Gen Y won’t pay for: news, music, banking fees, etc. Apparently, this social media savvy cohort doesn’t find a tremendous amount of value in these items or they can simply get them for free somewhere else. This trend seems have spilled over — perhaps temporarily — to the auto […]
If you’re considering a career in finance or think you have what it takes to work on the trading floor of a major Wall Street financial firm, it might be worth your while to scope out a few videos just so you know what you’re up against prior to making the plunge. Depending on your […]
Most people have had that boss who was a complete idiot. That guy or gal who just didn’t quite get it, but made sure you always did more than your fair share so he had enough data to plot on an excel sheet or project management program to make himself look irreplaceable to upper management. […]
How long has it been since you actually went out of your way to go shopping for CDs? If you’re like me, it’s probably been a while. And if you’re a 20s something or younger, chances are fairly good that you haven’t shopped for CDs in your entire life. Oh how the Internet (and Apple) […]
During my last year of graduate school, I (and many others like me) became the prime target of a band of ruthless, money hungry headhunters. Not the kind trying to separate my head from my body, but the kind that wanted to make money from the knowledge stored in my brain. Naturally, I wanted to […]
It’s nice to see that I’m on the right track when it comes to giving personal advice. Back when I started this blog, my second post discussed the Top 10 Financial Moves I Ever Made. Number one my list was: Find a successful investor to serve as a mentor. Seems I’m not the only one […]
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Walmart and the Sustainability Index: One Year Later
It’s been exactly a year since Walmart’s historic launch of a Sustainability Index and other measures to assess suppliers and products and, remarkably, the sun still rises in the East and sets in the West.
As I stated in my analysis that day -- July 16, 2009 -- “There is both more and less going on here than meets the eye.” One year later, I’m sticking to that story.
A brief review: Last summer, Walmart announced that it would assess its suppliers on environmental and social criteria. It announced a Sustainable Product Index to “establish a single source of data for evaluating the sustainability of products,” the company said.
Walmart said it would introduce the initiative in three phases, beginning with a survey of its more than 100,000 suppliers around the world. The survey includes 15 questions that “serve as a tool for Walmart’s suppliers to evaluate their own sustainability efforts.”
Second, Walmart helped launch the Sustainability Consortium, a group of universities “that will collaborate with suppliers, retailers, NGOs and government to develop a global database of information on the life cycle of products -- from raw materials to disposal.” Walmart provided the initial funding and invited others to join in.
Finally, Walmart said it hopes to translate the Consortium’s data into a simple rating for consumers about the sustainability of products -- the ultimate dream of green-minded shoppers.
It was, as my colleague Marc Gunther described it at the time, “an ambitious, comprehensive, and fiendishly complex plan to measure the sustainability of every product it sells.”
So, where are we today?
Green Dreams Die Hard
Walmart’s sustainability dreams don’t appear to have diminished, though I’m pretty sure the company has been humbled by the fiendish complexity of it all. Having watched this unfold and having spoken with those inside Walmart, the Consortium, and several of its major suppliers, it seems clear that the reality of a comprehensive and simple rating of products and companies remains elusive.
But that’s not the sum total of the story.
First, the good news. Walmart has fundamentally changed the conversation about products and sustainability in general, and about the environmental impacts of supply chains in particular. It has shifted the notion of green consumerism from the margins to the mainstream -- from a relatively elite group of relatively upscale shoppers to the mass market that Walmart serves. The mission of the Consortium -- to “work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation to improve consumer product sustainability through all stages of a product's life cycle” -- has revived the science of life cycle analysis, or LCA, the process of assessing and measuring products’ cradle-to-grave impacts. LCA, which has been around for nearly half a century, has enjoyed a renaissance that can be traced to the launch of the Consortium, which views LCA and its variants as principal tools of its trade.
Similarly, Walmart’s move has enlivened the conversation around supply-chain environmental management, the practice of pressing manufacturers to reduce the waste, toxicity, and resource intensity of their products -- in effect, to ship fewer environmental problems to their customers. There’s not a single business conference, green or otherwise, I’ve attended or spoken at over the past year in which Walmart hasn’t been a topic of conversation, whether on stage or in the hallways. Walmart is by no means the first or only company to press suppliers to reduce their environmental impacts, but its aggressive, highly visible efforts have gotten the attention of companies and sectors that thought they might somehow be unaffected.
But, as I said, the complexity of assessing companies and products has befuddled Walmart and the Consortium, and has engendered resistance and pushback by some leading suppliers, even a few of the roughly 50 members that have joined the Consortium. Simply put, the reality isn’t living up to the launch-day hype.
The Fate of the Fifteen Questions
Let’s start with assessing companies. The 15 questions that comprise Walmart’s Supplier Sustainability Assessment Tool were superficial at best, voluntary in nature, and the answers are largely yes-or-no, self-reported, and unverified. (“Responses to this questionnaire will be accepted in good faith, relying on the integrity of the supplier,” the company stated in an FAQ [download - PDF]. “Violation of that good faith will be considered very serious by Walmart.”)
What, exactly, is happening to the submitted answers? Not much, so far as I can tell. Walmart says it is using the answers to better understand suppliers, but it is not creating ratings, rankings, or other comparative measures, even for internal use. To my knowledge, not a single supplier has been dropped because of its answers, or lack thereof, to the questionnaire. There is no evidence that supplier responses have led any of Walmart’s buyers to alter their purchasing practices. Whatever Walmart is doing with the information submitted by suppliers, it is doing privately. For all of Walmart’s stated intentions about “helping create a more transparent supply chain,” any assessment of company performance it has done to date has been inside a black box.
The product-level scrutiny has been equally slow-going. Predictably, there’s a certain amount of jockeying going on by Consortium members to ensure their interests are being addressed -- for example, that the metrics used to judge products favor their companies. There’s a sense of frustration among some members that the Consortium, run by academics from the University of Arkansas and Arizona State University, lacks the management skills to herd all of the corporate cats.
To be sure, the Consortium began its life with seemingly unfathomable marching orders: to create a means for determining which of the hundreds of thousands of products Walmart and other retailers sell are green -- or at least greener. Since Walmart sells just about every conceivable product short of replacement human organs and body parts (so far as I know), this is a man-on-the-moon-caliber undertaking.
The Consortium's Ambitions
This is not to say that the Consortium isn’t engaged (though I truly wish its online news page contained more than superficial press releases announcing the companies that have joined). The group has an ambitious agenda, and has created a series of working groups that aim to create a common set of Sustainability Measurement and Reporting Standards for various sectors and product categories. It also plans to develop an online “Sustainability Information Hub” containing a library of such standards, as well as “baseline models, sustainability performance drivers, database resources, use phase and end-of-life scenarios” and other information supporting the Consortium’s activities. And it is developing an “IT backbone” -- online tools that will let companies create “a federated set of data pools and standards used to securely exchange static company specific product information between organizations in supply chains.” Some of these are slated to roll out this fall. All of these are intended to build much-needed capacity.
On its website, the Consortium states that its purpose is to convene key stakeholders, research products’ life-cycle impacts, identify “key improvement opportunities,” identify gaps in data about products’ impacts, and model and promote “new technologies and consumer behavior.”
Note the absence of anything here about a Sustainability Index. The Consortium clearly states: “We are not developing an index,” adding: “While the outputs of our efforts could be used by others to develop an index, it is not the intent of the Consortium to develop one.”
So, where is the Sustainability Index? It doesn’t seem to be on anyone's agenda. So much for the breathless hype last summer about how Walmart would transform the marketplace. As one blogger put it at the time:
The program could, essentially, force ungreen products off the market before a label even has a chance to discourage a consumer from buying it -- if Walmart continues to be inclined to support products with lower environmental impacts.
That's not in the works -- or, if it is, no one is talking about it.
Finally, it’s important to point out that the word “sustainability” in Walmart’s and the Consortium’s work is misleading, in that this remains largely an environmental exercise, with little heed paid to sustainability’s social aspects. True, both organizations give lip service to things like employee working conditions, human rights, and community impacts, but little of this is being manifest in these organizations’ work.
I’ll conclude where I started a year ago: This is both more and less than meets the eye. Walmart continues to deserve credit for its commitment and audacious goals, and for the ripples it has created. And, to be fair, no one expected miracles in just twelve months.
But Walmart and its suppliers and partners have unwittingly demonstrated how hard all of this is -- that even the world’s biggest retailer has a limited set of tools when it comes to moving the marketplace towards greener goods, more responsible suppliers, and more conscientious customers.
Joel Makower is executive editor of GreenBiz.com.
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Local landowners were advised to stay smart when looking at opportunities for renewable energy generation, as opportunities to secure grid connection rights become increasingly rare.
Mr Tayor explained: “While government subsidy mechanisms are changing and shrinking, there are still significant incomes to be made from ground rent and renewable generation, if landlords are smart. However, their income will be zero if they’re not at the front of the queue to secure grid rights, and even if they are it could be significantly reduced if they enter into an agreement that overshares with developers.”
The first step of any project is the initial feasibility study, which Roadnight Taylor will undertake at no cost, cross referencing its database of grid connectivity with research on future development plans that will require the network operators to provide more capacity. When tranches of connectivity are released, it is important to act quickly, as they are awarded on a first come first served basis. Roadnight Taylor will secure and hold the rights in trust, giving landowners the opportunity to put in place the tax, planning and legal framework to optimise the development, potentially for decades to come – all expertise that is held within the Forum.
The Southern Renewable Energy Forum is a think-tank set up when partners from three of the South East’s leading firms of professional advisors met to discuss common problems their clients were experiencing with alternative energy projects. Kevin Powell, Knill James Partner said: “One thing was clear – no one was providing ‘joined up advice’ that took a holistic view of the legal, financial and property development aspects of their projects.”
The Southern Renewable Energy Forum was born – bringing together the legal expertise of Mayo Wynne Baxter, the accounting and financial expertise of Knill James and the property development and planning expertise of Samuel & Son – to ensure that clients, prospects and contacts of each firm could find a ‘one stop shop’ to turn to for advice and guidance when considering their energy and utility sourcing solutions.
“Renewable energy financing and technology is ever-more complex, and our goal is to make sure our clients can navigate the waters and get the best results from their land resources,” said Knill James partner Nick Rawson.
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Schoharie Region – Above and beyond the anxiously awaited signature Fall Plant/Book/Bake Sale at the Landis Arboretum on September 13 – 14, September signals the opening of classrooms everywhere. The Arboretum opens its sweeping 548-acres outdoor laboratory with an array of programs to raise the bar on outdoor education and to keep visitors in touch with the natural world around them.
September 5, Friday, 8:30–10 pmCOYOTE HOWLThe coyote, beloved by some, despised by others, is the largest predator of our woods and fields. Learn about how this interesting animal fits into the ecosystem as we try to entice it to howl for us. Leader: George Steele, Science Educator. Suggested donation, $5.
September 6, Saturday, 9 am -Noon.
Native Plant Collection Walk
Join curator Ed Miller for a tour of the Native Plant Collection at the Arboretum. From the parking lot, the first stop will be at the bog garden, where participants will see all of the woody bog plants that they would have to drive hundred of miles to see in the Adirondacks. You will be up close and your feet will be dry. As a bonus there will probably be some non woody species such as the pitcher plant in bloom. From the bog garden, the walk will proceed toward the great oaks but turn off on the Willow Pond Trail for the Native Plant Collection. This trail is about a half-mile long, with a couple of benches for rest stops. Visitors will see many plants that are native to New York, yet unusual for our Capital Region. For instance we have three species in the Magnolia family, several species of shadbush, and even a persimmon tree. More important than the rarities, the Arboretum has nearly all the more common species; so if participants want to compare the scarlet oak with the red oak, or the black birch with the yellow birch, for example, it is easy along the Trail. They grow within a few feet of each other.September is a good time for this visit as the leaves of our trees and woody shrubs will be fully formed but not yet turned in color. Don’t expect flowers on the shrubs of the collection as they mostly bloom in the spring. However the trail is bounded on one side by brush-hogged fields so there should be lots of asters and goldenrods in late summer bloom. Participants will want to bring a camera and sensible shoes. There are frequent stops to accommodate walkers of all abilities. Cost: free – although a $5/person donation is encouraged to help support the non-profit Landis Arboretum.. September 13–14, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am–4 pm
ANNUAL FALL PLANT/USED BOOK and BAKE SALE FUNDRAISEROut of the ordinary trees, shrubs and perennials. Bake sale on both days. Volunteers always needed and welcomed. Free admission and free parking. (See details below).
September 16, Tuesday, 6–8 pm
CONFRONTING OUR CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE: Soil Fertility, Carbon Pollution & Renewable EnergyMicro-organisms, the least of all life, created Earth’s atmosphere and gave us our climate. Reversing climate change means putting carbon back in the soil. Renewable energy produced from plant biomass yields a charcoal by-product that can sequester carbon in soil to hold water and minerals, and provide habitat for microbes. Gardeners, farmers, landscapers, and foresters can all help reverse global warming and create a foundation for sustainable society and food supply. Instructor: David Yarrow. $35 members, $45 non-members. To register, call the Arboretum.
September 20, Saturday, 2–3:30 pm
FALL FLOWER WALKGoldenrods and asters make up most of our fall flowers. We’ll study them and anything else that’s blooming as we walk about the Arboretum’s fields. Leader: George Steele, Science Educator. Suggested donation, $5.
September 26, Friday, 8 pmSeptember 27, Saturday, 8 pm
PUBLIC STAR PARTYAlan French and Albany Area AstronomersTHE ALBANY AREA AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS (AAAA) meet regularly by the Landis Arboretum Meetinghouse because of the vast dark sky and excellent horizons available at Landis. Visitors are welcome to join the club’s activities. There is no charge to enter the realm of the heaven. On warmer evenings, come early and have a picnic supper on the Landis grounds before the program. To check if a particular star party is happening, due to cloudy skies, call 518-374-8460. For more information about AAA, visit www.timesunion.com/communities/astronomy.
FALL PLANT SALE ACCENTS QUALITY, COLOR As sure as autumn follows summer, the signature Fall Plant/Book and Used Book Sale/Fundraiser at Landis, the Capital Region’s Arboretum, has became an annual rite of passage for gardeners, plant lovers, and outdoor enthusiasts throughout the Northeast. This year the event will take place Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14, from 10 AM – 4 PM. There is no admission and parking is free. The Sale takes place rain or shine.
According to Procurement Committee Member Jeff Schworm, “Visitors always seem to enjoy the Fall Plant Sale. There will be many great buys and closeouts from several area consignors and possibly a few items that didn’t make our hillside plantings earlier this year. Everyone connected with this event take pride in putting together the Fall display because the colors are so vibrant and energizing.” Mr. Schworm is President of the Arboretum’s Board of Trustees and owner of the Nursery at Liddledale Farm (Duanesburg, NY).
Fall—A Great Time to Plan and Plant
Longtime Landis volunteer and master gardener Cindy King offers her own perspective on this year’s signature event:
“Thousands of choice plants will be available at the 2008 Fall Plant Sale, so it will be to your advantage to spend a few minutes before the sale to stroll or sit in your own garden and think about what you see. Answering questions like these before you come to the sale will guide your purchases:
The backbone of garden structure is tree and shrub planting. Structure created in the fall will make the spring planting easier in terms of design. Both containerized and balled-and-burlapped trees and shrubs fare quite well when fall planted and mulched.
Both large and small shrubs and trees will be offered at the fall sale. Other plants which lend structure and texture to gardens of all sizes are grasses. As you survey your garden before the sale, look for a place where you might place a clump or two of one of the graceful grasses that will be available.
Do you need more color in your fall garden? Boltonia, asters, goldenrod, and Sedum are all wonderful for fall garden color. One especially nice Sedum that you will find at the fall sale is S. ‘Crazy Ruffles.’ New on the market this year, this Sedum features ruffled leaf edges and flowers profusely, about twice as much as other Sedum species.
Bringing color to the shade is no longer difficult when you plant Heuchera, also known as coral bells or alumroot. While the flowers are often insignificant, the foliage on modern cultivars is dazzling all season long. A winter hardy plant in Zone 4, Heuchera provides color, texture and a globe shape that stands out whether planted singly or en masse.
Among varieties available at the Landis Arboretum Fall Plant Sale on Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14 will be H. ‘Amethyst Mist,’ with larger, purple leaves with silver veins; H.‘Crimson Curl,’ vigorous with a distinct curly crimson leaf; H.‘Silver Scrolls,’ striking silver topped purple/green leaf; and H. ‘Snow Angel,’ with brilliant green and white foliage and pretty white flowers.
These varieties also grow well in the sun! Many hostas and Astilbe will also be offered to tempt shade gardeners.
- What would you like to change about your garden?
- What do you like best about it?
- Does the garden have balance?
- Are there gaps in groups of plants?
- Is it practical to work in the garden areas?
“So go sit in your gardens. Take some time to look around. Make a list of what you need. Jot down ideas of how you can build your garden to be even more beautiful!
“We will be delighted to help you achieve that beautiful garden at the 2008 Fall Plant Sale!”
About Cindy King: Cindy King is a master gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Fulton and Montgomery Counties. She also serves as a volunteer in the Cornell Master Forest Owner (MFO) program. Cindy has been gardening and woodswalking for 50 years throughout New York State. Cindy has extended her own native plant endeavors to the George Landis Arboretum to help expand their collections and plant sales. She has initiated the Trillium Project designed to grow trillium at the Arboretum from seed and help to keep this beautiful, endangered wildflower from extinction.
Abundance of BooksThe volunteer-driven and always popular Arboretum Used-Book Sale (under cover in the restored English Barn) will again offer thousands of books on all topics including horticulture, nature & science, cooking, philosophy, self-help, sports, mystery, science fiction and more.
The annual Book Sale is made possible through the generosity of both individuals and popular book haunts such as The Owl Pen of Greenwich, The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, and Catnap Used Books on Cobleskill’s Main Street. Volunteers clean and categorize the offerings – both hard and soft cover – and price them at levels that few can refuse.
Home Baked GoodsVisitors also can expect the hallmark unusual and tasty baked cookies, cakes, pies and breads. Donations of home-baked baked goods would be welcomed. Call 518-875-6935 for information. Proceeds of the traditional bake sale are used to support the Arboretum’s perennial gardens.
About the Sale
Plant Donations: Those wishing to donate plants for the sale should ensure that they are “sale ready” and clearly labeled; the Arboretum will price appropriately. To donate plants, please call the office to make drop-off arrangements.
Help wanted! 875-6935: It takes many hands to orchestrate the plant sale. An event of this size takes a major effort by staff and volunteers on a variety of activities: set-up, plant arranging and clerical, in the week preceding the sale and lots of clerical and informational help on the days of the plant & book sale. Area residents who can help for a few hours or a day (or days), please contact our volunteer coordinator at (518) 875-6935.
In a Nutshell• Starting times and dates for the sale are firm. Purchases may not be made prior to the sale.• Arboretum plant experts will be available all weekend to answer your questions and to provide suggestions and advice on plant selection, site requirements, and proper planting and care techniques. Landis cannot take orders or set aside plants prior to the sale.• Cars should be parked in the upper parking area next to the Meeting House.• Limited handicapped parking and drop-off space is available. Please inform the parking attendants of your needs.• Dogs are not permitted at the Plant Sale. (Dogs should never be left in cars because temperatures rise quickly inside vehicles.)• Restrooms and picnic tables are available for your convenience.• All purchased items must be removed by 4 pm, Sunday. Landis does not make deliveries and is not responsible for items left after 4 pm.• Please have your sales slip available to be hole-punched as you leave. Have your membership card handy for quicker checkout. (10% discount applies)
Fun-for AllVisitors to the Landis Arboretum Fall Plant Sale are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets, bug spray, and to wear sensible shoes and attire appropriate for the natural terrain of the Arboretum.
The Fall weather offers an excellent opportunity to walk the beautiful grounds of the Arboretum or to take advantage of its more than eight miles of walking/hiking trails and the riotous colors of the season.
For more information, call the Arboretum at 518-875-6935. The Landis Arboretum is located 1.5 miles off scenic Route 20 in Esperance, NY. www.LandisArboretum.org.
The Landis ArboretumWhere Mother Nature hits her high notes – everyday of the year.
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Tools for Caregivers to Manage Stress and Increase Joy
I very much enjoyed the opportunity to discuss Tools for Caregivers to Manage Stress and Increase Joy with Dr. Karen Wyatt, M.D, founder of the End-of-life University.
Dr. Wyatt also hosts End-of-Life University, an online interview series that features conversations with experts who work in all aspects of end-of-life care. She is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the effort to transform the way we care for our dying in the U.S. In addition, she is valued for her application of spiritual principles to illness and healthcare and teaches that in order to live life fully we must each overcome our fear of death and embrace the difficulties that life brings us.
In this episode, you can learn some quick and easy stress management tools to improve health and joy during challenging times.
Your Hypnosis Health Info Hypnotic Suggestion for today:
I choose a path of happiness and wellness.
From the transcript
Karen Wyatt: So true. One thing that I’ve observed about most caregivers that I’ve interacted with is that for some reason, they have a hard time asking for help. And I’m not sure why it is. I’m not sure if they feel they have this whole responsibility, they’re supposed to make everything better, it’s their job or they’re afraid no one would want to help them. But it seems to me like that is a negative message in their heads that needs to be changed. Because that’s one of the reasons they get overburdened and in trouble, because they don’t know how to say, I can’t do all of this and I need someone to help me.
So I wondered if you have some tools that might help people learn how to ask for help and learn how to accept the fact that they can’t do everything.
Roger Moore: You know, to me, it’s giving yourself permission that yes, you are a caregiver. But first of all, you have to give care to yourself. You know, it’s said, put on your own oxygen mask first before you try to put on anybody else’s. That unless you give that care to yourself, you’re not going to be able to do this long term. And I think you’re right, there’s this magical belief that as a caregiver, a person is supposed to be all, do all, end all. And there’s no place for weakness or to be human, and you’re supposed to be superhuman. One of the things that I’ve just adapted and played with and taught people,
Gay Hendricks wrote a book called The Big Leap. And in there, he was actually talking about fear and he said, imagine that you have a birthday cake and there’s candles on it.
And to just take a deep breath and celebrate the fear by blowing out the candle. And what I’ve done with that is started teaching people, when you’re in those stressful times, when you’re feeling down, feeling discouraged or whatever, identify the emotion, identify the thoughts. Identify the emotions because first of all, when we acknowledge, oh there’s that stress, we’ve objectified it. We’ve separated ourselves from it, and it’s no longer part of us.
And now it’s over here, okay, now I can walk away from it or I can start doing things differently to handle the situation versus being just caught up in the rat race of stress. And so I have them blow out the candles on the stress and basically celebrate, isn’t that interesting? I was feeling stressed or I’m angry or whatever and blow it out. It’s a very powerful process, and it works really great.
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April 13, 2010
Correcting the Record on Waxman-Markey
John Harwood incorrectly stated that House-passed Waxman-Markey "would reduce carbon emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels over a 10-year period," in a post this week discussing the Kerry/Graham/Lieberman Senate legislation
on the New York Times blog, The Caucus.
In fact, the Waxman-Markey climate bill does not require emissions reductions in the U.S. economy below business-as-usual (BAU) levels for at least a decade. The bill would allow regulated firms to purchase up to two billion tons of carbon offsets in lieu of reducing their own emissions in the capped sector of the U.S. economy. As our comprehensive analysis of Waxman Markey has shown, firms would be legally permitted to continue BAU emissions and practices through 2017 under the most conservative estimates of offset projections (under the CBO) and 2027 under the most expansive estimate (from the EPA).
It's also important to note that carbon offset projects have been shown to be highly suspect, if not outright fraudulent. Many analyses, including those relied upon by the New York Times, have assumed that offsets represent real and verifiable emissions reductions. But repeated examples of project owners being paid for offsets from emissions reductions projects that would have happened anyway are now well documented, as are cases of outright fraud. One influential Stanford study concluded that "between a third and two thirds" of emissions offsets under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) did not represent real emissions cuts.
That's why it is not accurate to claim that Waxman-Markey "would reduce" carbon emissions, as our analysis has definitively shown. Harwood could have noted that "the Waxman-Markey bill sets a "target" for reducing emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade," or that it "aims" to reduce emissions at that rate.
The Breakthrough Institute has raised concerns about the New York Times coverage of the Waxman-Markey bill before, including, for example, this graphic erroneously depicting what the bill would achieve with respect to emissions reductions.
Reporters that misrepresented what Waxman-Markey would mean for U.S. emissions reductions will have a chance to get the story right once the Kerry/Graham/Lieberman bill drops on the Senate floor.
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Annual meeting of the North American network of the Alliance Française
On October 23 and 24, the North American network of the Alliance Française meets for the first time at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. The goal of the meeting is to exchange ideas on best pedagogic and outreach practices among chapter representatives in both the United States and Canada. The president of the Alliance Française Foundation, Jérôme Clément, as well as French Ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, attended the event.
Created in Paris in 1883 by a group of notable scholars that included novelist Jules Verne and diplomat Paul Cambon with the goal of promoting French language training and intercultural exchanges, the Alliance Française has since grown to include 180 chapters around the world, 120 of which are located in North America (111 in the United States and 9 in Canada).
About 150 guests are attending both days’ events, including presidents and board members of the different Alliance Française chapters in the United States and Canada. French publishers and institutions such as New York City based library “Albertine Books” and representatives from higher education group Campus France are in attendance, displaying information about their organizations.
Today, Ambassador Gérard Araud spoke to the group of Alliance Française representatives, praising the efforts of both American and Canadian chapters to strengthen the presence of French culture and francophonie in the United States. "The future of the organization rests more than ever on your shoulders", Mr. Araud told the audience.
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Stanford University’s announcement on Monday that it will not divest its $22.2 billion endowment from fossil-fuel companies has campus activists and environmental groups up in arms.
The decision by the Stanford’s board of trustees comes almost two years after they announced the university was giving up investing in coal companies. But student and environmentalists have been pressing the university to extend that decision to other fossil fuels, including companies that specialize in producing crude from oil sands.
“We believe the long-term solution is for all of us to reduce our consumption of fossil fuel resources and develop effective alternatives,” Stanford’s board said in a statement. “Because achieving these goals will take time, and given how integral oil and gas are to the global economy, the trustees do not believe that a credible case can be made for divesting from the fossil fuel industry until there are competitive and readily available alternatives.”
They will, however, set up a climate task force to gather ideas from across the Stanford community to address climate change.
The board also said the university has taken steps to reduce energy use on campus and make use of more renewables.
Student advocacy group Fossil Free Stanford said around 800 students and faculty members have signed pledges to withhold donations to the university until it fully divests from fossil fuels.
It also announced that over 100 students will protest a scheduled speech on Wednesday by Stanford President John Hennessy.
Popular among students
The topic of divesting from fossil fuels has been a popular one in recent years among college students, who have protested at campuses around the US and beyond. This week the University of Ottawa became the first university in Canada to agree to shift all its holdings away from fossil fuel companies.
Earlier this month, Yale University became the first Ivy League school to partially do the same, by announcing it had divested less than $10 million of its $25.6 billion endowment from three unnamed fossil fuel producers.
Other institutions that have divested their holdings in recent years include the University of California, Hampshire College, Pitzer College, and College of the Atlantic.
Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are among those that have rejected demands to divest.
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Weak hair can shape in many ways and can also see by others. That said, poor hair would damage our mode and self-image. It may also be an indication of a health problem in certain situations.
Don’t know what to do with the health of your hair? Some pros are here to give you some advice about how to strengthen poor hair. Although a break is natural, an extreme break means that the hair is compromised.
Weak hair also reveals itself as divided ends that can move and break down the hair shaft. So, before you look for hair salon services, let’s know the tips below:
Apply the Accurate Products
A successful stylist will help you detect, diagnose and suggest the proper use of the substance. It is essential to restore troubled tresses with the best products for poor hair.
Using shampoo, packaging and grooming tools for thin, sensitive hair improve the hair. It works by infusing protein, amino acids and other reinforcing characteristics.
Do not use a shampoo to squeeze hair to start with the roots to work through the conditioner while using a reinforcing conditioner. A protein mask or a therapy for deep conditioning may also benefit locks that have decreased control.
Limit the Use of Chemical Stuff
Abuse and excessive hair can cause tresses to become thin. Continuous use of strong chemical substances can harm hair fibers and weaken hair. It’s by coloring, blanching, straightening or continuous use.
These chemicals can cause permanent harm, leaving hair thin and dry with splitting ends. And break the result when used too much or in too high doses. Contract chemical weapons by the use of a shampoo and conditioner are for hair loss and extensive procedures.
Look for stearyl alcohol-containing ingredients that tend to make fragile hair sturdier and softer. Use a protein cream once a week for extremely weakened hair.
Avoid Playing With Fire
Excessive heat can cause poor hair and breakage from blow-dryers, heat curlers, curling irons and flooring irons. The water left under the hair cuticle is heated by a boiling dryer on damp hair, leaving areas – or blisters – within hair fibers, which weakens the hair.
These parched strands absorb air humidity and cause friction. Act for what you have instead of combating the normal texture. For straight hair, improve health and brilliance with specially formulated washing and conditioning materials. For curly hair, use wavy texture ingredients and finger the hair to reduce frizz.
Switching Up the Style to Make Stronger Weak Hair
Change your hair each day: you will get stuffed and broken ends of your hair every day. However, ponytails, rigid braids and locks of dread may also induce tension and weakening. The switch looks each day to stop poor hair straining and pick up the look.
It’s using cream or mousse fortifying and hair protection elastics without metal when using it. The stiffness of tight hats and the brushing will weaken the scalp. When you wash, don’t get too eager and never brush wet hair. Besides all of this you can also search “full service hair salons near me” in order to get any hair services from a salon near your location.
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Can anyone tell me if this is the right Venn Diagram for denoting C the event that exactly one of A and B occurs?
Its the one on the right at this website:
Venn Diagram -- from Wolfram MathWorld
Also how would you write an expression for C in terms of unions, intersections and complement of A and B.
And then use that to find an expression of P(C) in terms of P(A),P(B) and P(A n B)
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Expository Sermons on Verses from Song of Solomon Chapters 4-6.
BOT.-2011. lfpb. 376pp Puritan Paperback Series.
The Love of Christ is a series of sermons preached on Song of Solomon 4:16-6:3. For Sibbes, this Bible book ‘is nothing else but a plain demonstration and setting forth of the love of Christ to his church, and of the love of the church to Christ’. The Song of Solomon does not simply mouth a doctrine: its sensuous imagery sings its message. It is as if this love story is played on violins. The reader is thus brought, not simply to understand, but to taste and share the delights of the lovers. This is precisely what Christ’s people need, as Sibbes knew: it is not enough to be aware of Christ’s love; we must sense, grasp and enjoy it. Only then will we truly love the Lord our God with all our hearts.
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ss 304 material specification
Type 304 and 304L grades of stainless steel pipe exhibit good machinability and have excellent weld-ability characteristics with or without the addition of filler metals. 304 / 304L Stainless Steel Pipe - SS 304 & SS 304L Pipe Specs TW Metals
They are a relatively low cost stainless product and used in a variety of applications. 304 grades have excellent low temperature properties and respond well to hardening by cold working. 304 stainless steel plate grades have good welding characteristics and post weld annealing is not normally required to restore performance. 304 SS plates have 304 Stainless Steel Enclosures - 304 SS Electrical 304 Stainless Steel Enclosure Applications. View Products. Economical and durable Type 304 stainless steel, with its chromium-nickel content and low carbon, is the most versatile and widely used of the austenitic stainless steels. Its alloys are all modifications of
304 Stainless Steel Enclosure Applications. View Products. Economical and durable Type 304 stainless steel, with its chromium-nickel content and low carbon, is the most versatile and widely used of the austenitic stainless steels. Its alloys are all modifications of 304 Stainless Steel Technical Data Sheet - metal shimsTypes 302, 304, 304L, and 305 stainless steels are variations of the 18 percent chromium 8 percent nickel austenitic alloy, the most familiar and most frequently used alloy in the stainless steel family. These alloys may be considered for a wide variety of applications where one or
304 / 304L Stainless Commercial Tubing. These grades of austenitic stainless steels are the most versatile and widely used stainless steels. They exhibit excellent corrosion resistance to a wide range of corrosive environments. Type 304 and 304L stainless commercial tubing grades exhibit good machinability and have excellent weld-ability characteristics with or without the addition of filler metals. A312 PIPE SPECIFICATION (GRADES 304/L & 316/L) A312 PIPE SPECIFICATION (GRADES 304/L & 316/L) Scope. This specification covers seamless, straight-seam welded, and heavily cold worked welded stainless steel pipe intended for high-temperature and general corrosive service. Process. Pipe to be manufactured Seamless, Welded or Heavily Cold Worked. Chemical Requirements
Aug 31, 2015 · 303 stainless steels :Stainless steel 304 is comparable with 303 stainless steels; both have nearly same chemical alloying specs except the difference is in Carbon. AISI 304 steel has lower maximum Carbon content i.e. 0.07 % compare to 0.12% Carbon in 303 stainless steels. It makes 304 type less harder and more manipulative. 316 stainless steels :316 stainless steel have nearly all AISI 304 Stainless Steels Type Technical SpecificationsAug 31, 2015 · Comparative Materials:Some nearly matching materials are discussed below:303 stainless steels:Stainless steel 304 is comparable with 303 stainless steels; both have nearly same chemical alloying specs except the difference is in Carbon.AISI 304 steel has lower maximum Carbon content i.e. 0.07 % compare to 0.12% Carbon in 303 stainless
Material Notes:Austenitic Cr-Ni stainless steel. Better corrosion resistance than Type 302. High ductility, excellent drawing, forming, and spinning properties. Essentially non-magnetic, becomes slightly magnetic when cold worked. AISI Type 304 Stainless Steel - MatWebMaterial Notes:Austenitic Cr-Ni stainless steel. Better corrosion resistance than Type 302. High ductility, excellent drawing, forming, and spinning properties. Essentially non-magnetic, becomes slightly magnetic when cold worked.
ASTM A240 Grade 304 Sheet is austenitic stainless steel stainless sheet and comes in many sizes, thickness and finishes. Aesteiron Steels is known as largest stockist and supplier of 304 stainless steel sheets and plates, We stock more than 800 ton stock of SA 240 Gr 304 material in 1mm to 120mm thickness and provide cut to size with 2B finish and #4 finish. if you looking for Jindal ss 304 ASTM A312 TP304 Seamless Stainless Steel Pipe, ASME ASME SA312 304 Stainless Steel Seamless Pipe and SS 304 ERW Pipe manufacturer in India. We produce variations like the ASTM A312 Tp 304 Sch 10s which is a low pressure class.The pipes are used in the high temperature service industry.
Oshwin Overseas supply SS 304 Seamless Pipe from 6" NB to 120 Inch Nb in all types like Seamless, ERW, Welded, fabricated & Grooved. All our material comes with International specification of ASTM A312, A249, and ASME SA 312. We can provide 304 Steel Pipe thickness from 1.2mm to 2mm. The pipe length standard size 3 meter, 6 meter and 10 meter. ASTM240 304L WPS for ASTM240 304 Material?Feb 14, 2015 · AWS D1.6 Structural Welding CodeStainless Steel classifies 304 and 304L in base metal groups B and A respectively, which, according to the same standard, precipitates that a new PQR/WPS be made. However AWS B2.1 standards classify these two metals as the same in other ways such as Material number, P-number, and more.
Technical Metal Corp. Govt. Approved Supplier & Stockist of Astm A312 304 / 304L Stainless Steel Pipe,SS Sch 10 304 & SS 304L Pipe Specs, Manufacturer & Suppliers of high quality high quality SS 304 Sch 40 Pipe, SS 304 Sch 80 Seamless Pipe in India. Grade 304 Stainless Steel Technical DataStainless Steel - Grade 304 CS 304 / 304L Technical Data. Grade 304 stainless steel is the most versatile and the most widely used of all stainless steels. Its chemical composition, mechanical properties, weldability and ncorrosion/oxidation resistance provide the best all-round performance stainless steel at relatively low cost.
Dec 13, 2016 · 304/304L STAINLESS STEEL 1 Type 304 Stainless Steel is a variation of the base 18-8 grade, with a higher chromium and lower carbon content. The lower carbon content minimizes chromium carbide precipitation due to welding and its susceptibility to intergranular corrosion. In some instances Type 304 can be used in the "as-welded" condition. Stainless 302, 304, 304L, 305 - United Performance MetalsMinimum mechanical properties for annealed Types 302, 304, 304L, and 305 austenitic stainless steel plate, sheet and strip as required by ASTM specifications A 240 and ASME specification
Types 302 (S30200), 304(S30400), 304L (S30403), and 305 (S30500) stainless steels are variations of the 18 percent chromium 8 percent nickel austenitic alloy, the most familiar and most frequently used alloy in the stainless steel family. Each alloy represents Stainless Steel - Grade 304 (UNS S30400) - Material Science
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304 Stainless Steel Enclosures - 304 SS Electrical 304 Stainless Steel Enclosure Applications. View Products. Economical and durable Type 304 stainless steel, with its chromium-nickel content and low carbon, is the most versatile and widely used of the austenitic stainless steels. Its alloys are all modifications of
Background Grade 304 is the standard "18/8" stainless; it is the most versatile and most widely used stainless steel, available in a wider range of products, forms and finishes than any other. It has excellent forming and welding characteristics. Stainless Steel 304 - 1.4301 Data Sheet - Materials UKStainless steel 304 - 1.4301 is one of the many grades that thyssenkrupp Materials (UK) supply. We supply a vast range in various forms of stainless, aluminium and mild steel. This data sheet gives you more detailed information about the chemical and mechanical
ASTM A312 TP304 Welded Pipe & SS 304 Tube supplier in India. 304 Stainless Steel pipe specifications indicate certain qualities of the pipes such as the material they are made up of, the outer diameter, the wall thickness to the diameter, the yield strength, Stainless Steel 304 Washer, SS 304H Flat Washer, Stainless Stainless Steel 304 / 304H / 304L Washers Price 304 stainless steel Washers US $0.01-0.5 / Piece; Stainless Steel Solid 304 Flat Washers US $0.15-0.35 / Piece; aisi 304l fasteners stainless steel Washers 500 Pieces (Min. Order) 304h Stainless steel fastener Washers US $0.01-1 / Piece; high quality 304 stainless steel Washers US $0.01-0.03 / Piece
Stainless Steel 304 Wire are individually wrapped by hand to ensure that the high quality of the material is maintained and no damage in the last stages of production. We recommend Plywood cases or pallet packaging to ensure safe packaging and prompt delivery of the ordered consignment. 304 SS Wire come with imprints relevant to the job Stainless Steel 304L - 1.4307 Data Sheet - Materials UKStainless steel 304 and 304L are also known as stainless steel 1.4301 and 1.307 respectively. Type 304 is the most versatile and widely used stainless steel. It is still sometimes referred to by its old name 18/8 which is derived from the nominal composition of type 304 being 18% chromium and 8% nickel. Type 304 stainless steel is an austenitic grade that can be severely deep drawn.
316 - Better corrosion resistance as well as higher strength at elevated temperatures than 304. Often used for pumps, valves, chemical equipment and marine applications. Most popular of stainless steels. 409 - Lowest cost stainless - used extensively in automotive Stainless Steel Specification and Composition Chart 430 - Is the most popular of the non-hardenable chromium stainless steels. It combines good corrosion and heat resistance with good mechanical properties. Oxidation resistance to 1500 deg F widely used in both industrial and consumer products. See our Material Manufacturing page!
Materials and Applications Series, Volume 5. Euro Inox Euro Inox is the European market development The selection of the appropriate stainless steel grade for each applic ation is the result of variou s considerations. In order to assis 304 0,07 1,00 2,00 0,045 Stainless Steels - Specifications, Grades and PropertiesMay 20, 2005 · Globally, 304 accounts for more than 50% of stainless steel consumed. A common name for 304 stainless is 18/8. This name refers to the average composition, 18% chromium and 8% nickel. It is sometimes used generically for austenitic stainless steel other than
Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Forgings, Ferritic/Austenitic (Duplex), for Pressure Vessels and Related Components A1090 / A1090M - 19 Standard Specification for Forged Rings and Hollows for Use as Base Plates in Power Transmission Structures T304 Stainless steel - Grade T304 - Multiplex TradersGrade type 304 is produced in various carbon levels i.e. T304 & T304L are low carbon grades and T304H is high carbon grade. T304 related specifications are:AISI 304/304L, ASTM A240 and AMS 5513/5511. Chemical Composition
T304 Stainless steel Grade T304. Overview:T304 Steel also known as 304 Steel is one of grade from the family of 300 Steel grades (301, 302, 303, 304, 307, 316, etc). The T304 steel is the one of the most soft grades. The difference which makes more recognizable as soft steel is that, this grade soft yet very durable, flexible and easy to trim, mold or bend. SS304 Grade AISI 304 Stainless Steel Properties 3 rows · Dec 14, 2019 · AISI 304 stainless steel (UNS S30400) is the most commonly used material in stainless steels, and is usually purchased in an annealed or cold worked state. Because SS 304 contains 18% chromium (Cr) and 8% nickel (Ni), its
The Types 302, 304, 304L and 305 austenitic stainless steels provide useful resistance to corrosion on a wide range of moderately oxidizing to moderately reducing environments. The alloys are used widely in equipment and utensils for processing and handling of food, beverages and dairy products.
- See all 3 rows on theworldmaterial AISI 304 Stainless Steel:Specification and Datasheet 10 rows · Dec 13, 2018 · The SAE/ANSI 304 (AISI 304) is the most commonly available and used type of stainless steel.It
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Aesthetic treatments are a fantastic way to improve aspects of your appearance you want to change, but working to improve your skin from the inside out is just as important.
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New figures show dramatically higher terrorism casualties last year than the State Department listed in an April report that U.S. officials heralded as evidence of progress in the battle against terrorism, says the Washington Post. The statistics show that 625 people died in terrorist attacks last year, not 307 as first reported. The new listings disclose a larger number of incidents deemed “significant” by government analysts than at any time since U.S. authorities began issuing figures, in 1982.
John Brennan, a 23-year CIA veteran who oversaw the report, blamed antiquated computers and personnel shortages for the errors and denied suggestions that the administration purposely fabricated the figures. “Anyone who might assert the numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken,” said Brennan, director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). The revised data show more people killed by terrorists last year than at any time since 1998, apart from 2001, when the Sept. 11 hijackings caused 2,973 deaths. Terror bombings and shootings injured 3,646 people around the world — more than in any year in the past six.
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Welcome to part two of Turning your office green in
twenty eighteen !
Today, we continue with some helpful tips to reduce waste in your office. A simple tip which I’m sure many of you already employ at home is “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”. In an office environment the immediate item that springs to mind to recycle is paper.
In an office there is so much more that can be done in addition to the practices already in place. In fact, 90% of the waste in the average work office can be recycled. Recycling reduces ten major forms of air pollutants and eight categories of water pollutants. Every 900kg of paper recycled, one can save 26497 litres of water and 17 trees, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
By choosing to recycle you can also help to reduce the pressure on landfills. This is particular important for items such as office electronics (printers/shredders), which contain toxins that could otherwise contaminate groundwater and therefore have an effect on health of those in your community.
Why not buy/use products that are environmentally friendly?
Simple things such as purchasing recycled paper or buying printers that have refillable ink cartridges can all have a very positive effect on the environment.
Stay tuned for our next blog where we will continue our discussion on how to make your office greener this year!
Thank you for reading!
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Typhoon 19 (Hagibis) made landfall on October 10, 2019 just before 1900 local time at Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. In advance of the typhoon, millions of people across Japan were asked to evacuate due to the risk of landslides and flooding. Humanity Road activated it’s disaster desk on October 12, 2019 as Typhoon 19 began impacting multiple prefectures.
As of 0100 October 14, an estimated 15 prefectures have been impacted by historic rainfall, flooding, and landslides, 31 people have died, 186 people were injured, and 14 people are missing. An estimated 59,100 households are without power. A total of 142 rivers overflowed and there were breakdown of river banks in 21 rivers at 24 locations.
This situation report number one provides useful official disaster resources and situational information based on early indications in social media.
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King of Romania (reigned July 20, 1927 - June 8,
1930 and September 6, 1940 - December 30, 1947)
The already tense relations between King
Michael and the Romanian government got worse
over the summer of 1947.
Several clashes were reported to have occurred
with respect to fundamental changes in Romania's
legal system, which were desired by the
government in order to strengthen its control.
Another difference arose in connection with the
King's speech at the opening of Parliament in
October. The speech, drafted by the government,
proclaimed Romania's alliance with the Soviet
Union regarding foreign policy; King Michael
wanted to link Romania with the United Nations.
The main break with the Romanian government
began after the King returned to Romania from the
wedding of Princess Elizabeth
of Great Britain, when it was reported that the
government opposed the King's engagement to
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma and Denmark.
Citing the monarchy's impediment to the further
development of the country, Michael abdicated on
December 30, 1947, after which the Romanian
Parliament elected a five-member Presidium and
proclaimed a People's Republic.
Right: Ex-king Michael and his mother, the
former Queen Helen, in Lausanne, Switzerland,
following his abdication.
Collier's Year Book New
York, New York: P. F. Collier & Son
In the Year 1947
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Time phenomena in the work of Frenzi Rigling
Frenzi Rigling finds remarkably direct images for various concepts of time which would be difficult to imagine without such visualisation. These images are present especially in the diary in Diagramm, 2004-, as transience in Protokolle, 1996-98, and growth as a metaphor for linear time-consciousness in Teppich 2002-.
For many people, the diary is a means of recording memories and events. Every evening, Frenzi Rigling makes fine-line monochrome drawings on A4 paper of the clothes she has worn that day, She writes the day and date on each sheet, but omits any mention of herself. The day’s events and her own frame of mind are documented solely by the chosen garments. What can we tell from this about Frenzi – especially in the absence of colour? Trousers, skirt and dress alternate; this indicates female gender. There is a distinct preference for patterned materials, a leaning towards blouses, often a body-stocking, etc. The person describes herself by means of choice of and taste in clothes, and of course by the fact of drawing. Outlines are drawn with fine strokes; no information is given on dress size, physical dimensions, hair colour, etc. The individual garments, including underwear, are „hung“ by a thin line on an invisible valet stand.
The individual “records” are presented so that they can be read in rows from left to right. In this way, it is possible to survey a year in the life of Frenzi Rigling, distributed over two walls.
The German philosopher Max Dessoir (1867-1947), who founded an association for aesthetic research, called the diary “the line of one’s own life”1. Irrespective of form and content, whether private diary or artistic expression, a record is kept primarily in order to preserve the present for one’s own future, and to document proof of existence for a readership.
With daily records kept since 2004, Frenzi Rigling has set forth proof of her existence; thanks to the reduction to clothing, we can use this as an aid to memory. Thus for the artist, the “hooks” are recorded memories which afford her quick association with the events in her life on the date in question. In addition, she has a clear memory of making each drawing. The viewer looks first for data with some personal association in time.
The omission of the artist‘s own person enables viewers to “occupy” the garments, thus filling the daily records with their own (hi)story.
A diary (thus also Diagramm) are proofs of existence recorded in the here and now, on each day as it comes. The basic unit of time is a day; the days are strung out to a year. Since a fresh drawing has been added each day since 2004, the series is expanding to form a fuller proof of a whole life. On the one hand is the repeated unit of time, the day – to be comfortably taken in at a glance. On the other is the linearity of time, which has a beginning – birth – or as here, the start of the series, but no planned end. At any point in time it is possible to trace the time-line into the past – either in sections or in chronological sequence. All variants are possible.
The subject of Teppich, 2002- is a manageable time unit which is also linked to an artistic context, the duration of an exhibition. Once again, this is based on garments, which are now, however, rendered anonymous. Throughout the period of the exhibition, Frenzi Rigling sews one garment to another, forming a carpet, the coordinates of which are the period of the exhibition and the time the artist spends at work. Here time is spatialised. On the basis of the carpet, we can judge the duration of an exhibition according to the area of the garments. This gives a vivid metaphor for several concepts of time: for transience, for a personal space of time which is significant for the artist but which also allows each viewer to see how a period of time can be materialised. In both examples, the artist demonstrates a phenomenon completely familiar to us, as Edmund Husserl put it in his time-lectures (1905): “Naturally, we all know what time is; it is the most familiar thing of all. But as soon as we attempt to give an account of time-consciousness […] we get entangled in the most peculiar difficulties, contradictions and confusions.”2 In our thought processes, then, time-con- sciousness is fraught with so many paradoxes that we have difficulty formulating time in words. Frenzi Rigling offers us several ways of looking at time, and even of comprehending it. On the one hand, the starting-point is always a short, manageable and thus reassuring time unit, constantly expanding. On the other, the individual is at liberty to take any reference point for the purpose of eliciting his own memories.
1 Max Dessoir, Die Geschichte der Philosophie, Wiesbaden 1925
2 Edmund Husserl, Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins, Tübingen, 2. Auflage, S. 368
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On Sunday 9 July 2011 we were all saddened by the loss of our old friend and long-time animal resident, Methuselah the giant Galapagos Tortoise.
Methuselah arrived at Reptile Gardens in December of 1954 from the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, South America. He was flown to Miami and then transported by train to Rapid City. Thankfully, the crews of the rail freight company took good care of him, keeping him warm as he traveled from Florida to South Dakota in the dead of winter. He arrived in good health and adapted to life in South Dakota quite well. He joined a growing herd of giant tortoises already at the Reptile Gardens. The herd was made up of both Galapagos tortoises and Aldabra tortoises from the Seychelles Islands off the coast of Madagascar.
Earl Brockelsby obtained his first giant tortoise in 1949, a large Aldabra tortoise. Several other tortoises were added over the next few years. In the fall of 1954 an animal dealer in Florida contacted Earl to let him know he had been offered a very large Galapagos tortoise that had just been taken from the Galapagos by a dealer in Peru. Earl did not hesitate and jumped at the chance to obtain the big tortoise even though the cost for this tortoise plus transportation was many times higher than any of the others he had recently purchased.
In the 50’s and early 60’s, our herd of tortoises numbered around 20. At one point, we sent all the female tortoises we had to a facility in Florida where they were added to a captive breeding program. Over the years, our most elderly tortoises slowly died off until Methuselah was the last one remaining here from our original group.
Those of us who worked with the tortoises on a daily basis learned each one’s personality, their habits, preferences, and behaviors. Methuselah, honestly, always had the most personality. He was smart and knew how to get what he wanted. He could be cunning even. Sometimes you could tell he was thinking, as though he was formulating some plan.
For a while, in the 1970’s, he was nicknamed “Earl” by some of our staff members, after our founder Earl Brockelsby. Some of you may remember him by that name. But, over the years as he continued to hang in there and outlive his peers, we went back to Methuselah as it seemed so appropriate.
We estimate, based on our visitation figures, that Methuselah contacted well over 12 million visitors in his 56 years here at Reptile Gardens. There are tens of thousands of photos of Methuselah and our visitors out there. Many of you have been sharing your photos with us in the days since his death. We have been enjoying seeing them, and thanks for the memories. It is fun to know that old tortoise made such an impression on so many people.
Methuselah is survived by his two tortoise yard mates, Tank and Quasi, two large male Aldabra tortoises. If it happens that other adult giant tortoises become available from zoos or breeding programs we may add one or two friends for Tank and Quasi. But for now, even though Methuselah’s passing has left a big hole in our lives, his two pals are here ready to meet our visitors and give them that same rare chance to see one of the world’s most remarkable animals up close.
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On June 24, the U.S. Congress cleared a legislative bill authorizing President Barack Obama to pursue negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, ending weeks and months of partisan bickering.
To get a clear overall picture, it is essential to recognize two facts. One is that Obama is being punched from both sides and pushed into a corner like a losing boxer. The other is that regardless of the result of his fight with Congress, the United States will become increasingly self-centered in pursuit of its national interests in international trade negotiations.
The U.S. Constitution gives power to negotiate trade-related matters to Congress. Unless Congress delegates the power to the administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which is under immediate control of the president, does not have any more authority to negotiate trade deals than “an errand boy.”
That is why Canada and Australia said they could not take part in Cabinet-level TPP trade talks unless Congress grants the negotiating authority to the executive branch of the U.S. government.
In the past, a law called the Trade Promotion Authority Act gave the president the “fast-track negotiating authority.” This time, however, a new law named the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act was passed, clarifying negotiation priorities from the viewpoint of Congress and requiring the president to conduct trade negotiations with clear explanations. Obama signed the law on June 29.
In concrete terms, the new TPA law lists checkpoints incorporating Congress’ demands, such as whether a negotiating partner is free from suspicion of manipulating the foreign exchange rate, whether it is abiding by international labor standards and whether it is following environmental protection standards. It also provides public access to information while trade negotiations are going on, including disclosure of the draft of a trade deal. If either house of Congress determines that the executive branch has failed to meet demands put forward by Congress, the negotiating authority will be withdrawn from it. In short, the law does not provide the president with fast-track negotiating authority. Instead, it allows Congress to check the process of trade negotiations as the occasion demands. Although both the past and new laws are abbreviated as TPA, their character is greatly different from each other.
The fundamental differences between these two pieces of legislation have not been reported by any of the major media in Japan, keeping the public in the dark about the highly complicated moves within the U.S. Congress.
Instead, their reports are completely off the mark as many say that once the law was passed, the TPP talks would make rapid progress and the trade ministers of the participating nations would be free to reach a broad agreement.
Such optimism, which appears to be shared by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is close to a sheer fantasy because Obama will most likely be forced to comply with Congress’ selfish demand of protecting domestic employment while having the U.S. trading partners open their markets to American products without limit.
Congress has been engaged in bitter partisan politics and that is bound to intensify as the 2016 presidential election nears. The participants in the TPP talks will have to examine the conditions attached to the operation of the Trade Adjustment Assistant Act, a law which the Democrats demanded from the viewpoint of providing American workers with sufficient protection from the free trade accord.
There is a possibility that Malaysia, whose labor conditions are regarded as having failed to meet internationally accepted levels, may withdraw from the TPP talks. The parties to the talks are still divided over such issues as treatment of state-owned corporations and protection of intellectual property rights. All these may cause the TPP talks to take a sinuous course.
In Japan, the farming bloc and certain consumer groups may welcome such consequences. But that wishful thinking is totally misconceived because the confusion in Congress has made it clear that the U.S. will become more introverted, placing top priority on domestic demands and interests.
Should the current TPP talks be suspended until after the U.S. presidential election next year, the next administration is bound to take a tougher stance in trade-related matters to protect American national interests because a candidate who does not run on such a platform cannot win the election.
Alternatively, the U.S. can give up on the TPP negotiations and start instead to work out a bilateral free trade agreement with Japan. In such an event, it is all but certain that Washington will make a much tougher demand concerning Japan lowering its tariffs on agricultural imports.
Abe has made up his mind to get along with the U.S., which will make unreasonable demands on Japan.
From around April, Obama suddenly became active in pushing lobbying activities. Abe’s visit to Washington late that month may be interpreted as part of that lobbying. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy returned to the U.S. capital shortly before Abe’s visit to support Obama.
Although details of her activities have not been made public, suddenly drive hunting of dolphins in Japan, which was criticized by the documentary film “The Cove” more than five years ago, resurfaced as a topic of discussion. The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) instantly decided to ban aquariums from acquiring dolphins caught in drive hunting, giving in to a notice from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), which threatened to dismiss its Japanese member organization unless Japan uses a more humane way to acquire dolphins.
If the timing of the Washington visits by Abe and Kennedy is taken into account, it is possible that the Obama administration utilized the dolphin issue to win support of environmentally- minded Democratic lawmakers, many of whom are opposed to the TPP talks.
In his address before a joint session of Congress on April 29, Abe said: “The TPP goes far beyond just economic benefits. It is also about our security. Long-term, its strategic value is awesome. We should never forget that.” He added, “Also for the U.S.-Japan negotiators, the goal is near. Let us bring the TPP to a successful conclusion through our joint leadership.”
The way Abe linked trade and security issues must have come as a surprise to many in Congress as they interpreted his words as a sign that Japan will ultimately yield in the trade talks.
In Japan, the projected TPP agreement tends to be construed as a means of containing China. But the U.S., which regards itself as the guardian of a free economy, does not take that kind of exclusionary attitude. The Obama administration never indicated the TPP will exclude China but instead stated that it is open to China as well.
In his State of the Union address in January, Obama said, “China wants to write the rules for the fastest-growing region. . . . We should write those rules.” But he refrained from linking trade and security matters. This is because the danger that such linkage could lead to the formation of economic blocs is clear to all.
The Obama administration’s basic posture toward China can be summarized as follows: (1) avoid confrontation with Beijing, (2) strengthen bilateral economic ties, and (3) take the initiatives in writing the rules.
Presumably this fundamental stance is shared by the other members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations. Until December 2012, which marked the end of the rule by the Democratic Party of Japan with the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Japan used to say that the TPP accord was open to any interested party.
Since Abe returned to power by succeeding Noda, however, his administration has regarded the TPP scheme as a means of containing China. The prime minister may be an easy man to deal with for the U.S. Congress, which is sensitive to American economic interests, particularly House members. This is because members of Congress can expect that Tokyo will make concessions on trade matters if Washington shows a strong card related to security. If that happens, Japan would have to do a lot more than “agreeing to stop the drive hunting of dolphins.”
This is an abridged translation of an article from the July issue of Sentaku, a monthly magazine covering political, social and economic scenes.
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In his speech at the memorial service for Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, military Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi highlighted Iran as a burning defense issue. His listeners got the impression that the chief of staff sees a more serious confrontation with Iran in the coming year as an almost unquestionable necessity. He listed Iran’s calculated violations of the nuclear accord. In Israel’s view, the most worrisome violation is renewed operations at the underground facility at Fordow, the most sensitive site that was addressed in the agreement.
At the same time, Iran has switched to a more aggressive policy in the Persian Gulf since last spring, systematically attacking vessels and oil installations. Kochavi said that these attacks were met with no response or retribution, demonstrating no deterrence at all. This applied to the Gulf states as well as the United States – although it wasn’t mentioned explicitly.
It was Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who pushed for starting such attacks following the renewal of American sanctions after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the accord in May 2018. Khamenei was furious at Iran’s president Hassan Rohani, blaming him for the fact that Iran gained nothing by making concessions as part of the deal. Iran started attacking after frustration over the severe sanctions and concerns that Trump would be reelected in 2020 to continue the economic pressure on Iran for four more years. The move so far has peaked in the serious assault on Saudi oil installations in September. The IDF says Iran’s overarching goal has not changed. Tehran want to persuade Trump, by force if necessary, to return to negotiate on the nuclear accord and lift the economic sanctions.
The Iranians have concomitantly changed their policy regarding Israel. In recent months Tehran decided that every significant attack in Syria, Iraq or Lebanon would be met with a military reprisal. “Their self-assurance is growing,” noted Kochavi, predicting a clash in 2020. The chief of staff vowed to continue acting judiciously and responsibly, but added that Israel would not let Iran dig in militarily north of Israel. Israel’s red line, he clarified, includes Iraq.
General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, which is handling Iran’s entrenchment in Syria as well as arms smuggling, is described in Israel as a calculated, deliberate and obstinate person. Soleimani is determined to continue with his project in the north, even if he has to present Khamenei with misleading reports regarding the extent of Israel’s opposition here and there.
Kochavi’s presentation and talks with senior military and political figures paint a unified picture: Israel will intensify its efforts to hit Iran in the northern arena. The ultimate goal of these operations is less clear. Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks openly of his wish to remove all Iranian forces from Syria. It seems that the army is looking at a more realistic goal of limiting the presence of Revolutionary Guards and Shi’ite militias in that area.
Israel believes it can harness the internal tensions within the axis that ensured Bashar Assad’s victory in the Syrian civil war to its advantage. Russia is not happy with the continued Iranian influence in Syria and the Syrian regime is unhappy that Israeli attacks leave it in constant confrontation with Israel (and also destroy Syria’s anti-aircraft missile batteries). Hezbollah is not interested in being sent on revenge missions against Israel only because of Soleimani’s loss of face in Syria.
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In his talk, Kochavi stressed the tight military relations Israel has with Russia. In an interview with Army Radio two days ago, Netanyahu boasted that his friendship with President Vladimir Putin has on several occasions prevented aerial battles between Israeli and Russian jets over Syria. A cabinet member told Haaretz that “Moscow wants us to do the dirty work in Syria and expel the Iranians. [Putin] then takes care to condemn Israeli aggression.” These are interesting comments, but they are tied to a huge strategic gamble, which will be tested by the way Putin responds to an increase in Israeli strikes.
The tests facing new IDF chief
In comparison to speeches given by his predecessor Gadi Eisenkot at the same venue, Kochavi devoted less time to questions related to the army’s relations with the rest of Israeli society. Eisenkot, in contrast to repeated attacks by the right, was involved in intensive offensive operations on and well beyond our borders, but his term was overshadowed to a large extent by the Elor Azaria trial and by his attempts to stem the influence of religious Zionist organizations on army matters, which required him to make frequent public comments on these issues.
Kochavi is trying to differentiate himself from his predecessor and is uninterested in these matters. He is seemingly worried about getting entangled with politicians, especially during the perennial election season we seem to be stuck in. He therefore makes do with general comments reflecting the national consensus, regarding the importance of the IDF in Israeli society. The army, he said, is not a start-up venture, but rather a national “build-up” serving society. Young men and women who finish their military service come out mature and more experienced before entering civilian life, he said. Right or wrong, such a statement will evoke no dispute and make no headlines.
The emphasis placed by Kochavi on the increased lethality of military operations, the vigorous marketing surrounding every operation in the Gaza Strip (which is always described in dramatic terms that inflate the real situation on the ground) and the fact that Netanyahu and Bennett do not see him as a future political threat at present work together in fostering Kochavi’s public status. The right embraces him and is delighted with him. Routine placements of officers wearing skullcaps, even with no promotions, garner praise in religious circles and are automatically compared to the alleged mistreatment of these same officers by his predecessor.
But Kochavi knows that this treatment could flip the first time he insists on preserving IDF values in combat. When that happens, someone will dig up the year he studied at Harvard under a Wexner Foundation fellowship (as do many IDF generals) or, heaven forbid, hold against him his wife’s work at the State Prosecutor’s Office, the heart of the imaginary deep state.
Over the last few months, the chief of staff has been described several times in these pages as someone whom the exceptional political circumstances have turned into the responsible adult. On the night of the rocket attack at Ashdod in September, it was mainly Mendelblit who at the last minute prevented a military operation which could have turned out to be dangerous. A month later, when Netanyahu was desperately looking for a pretext for getting Kahol Lavan into his coalition under his conditions, issuing a warning about an immediate strategic threat by Iran, the army went along with him.
When President Reuven Rivlin wanted to knock Netanyahu and Benny Gantz’s heads together and force them to join forces, the general staff indirectly assisted him by highlighting the need for urgent decisions on the defense budget and the IDF’s multi-year plan. The tests that will face Kochavi will soon become harder, given the friction with Iran in the north, Netanyahu’s impending trial and the approaching third election.
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I felt that perhaps some people in here might appreciate this -
Oh boy. Those are the sorts of answers I would put on my tests. Honestly, I thought the questions were ambiguous. Never could figure out why my teachers had a propensity to bang their head on the desk. ;)
I love the answer to "Find X" :D
Yeah, that was one of the very best!
One of the VERY best is not on there - a colleague recently told me how a guy in his (Swedish equivalency of high school) class answered the question "which star is closest to Earth" with "Sol" and was told wrong...
I thought many of them were good.
And seriously - the only danger you are exposed to from living close to a mobile phone mast is walking into it. I very very much hope no-one is being taught anything different.
#4 - Yeah, its the regular power lines towers that scramble your brains. ;o)
Those are awesome, Busifer! Many thanks for that.
3> Busifer, teacher reminds me of this:
ah....aren't they cute.
It is true I drank a great deal when I was a teacher
Tears, I have tears of laughter now. Oh Busifer thank you! So funny. I do like the "X" answer too, and also the "Free Press" answer.
I have to admit the "because she's a woman" one was horrible, though :(
Conversation with a kindergartner this morning:
Her: I know what this is that I'm wearing.
Her: A poncho.
Me: You're right.
Her: Yep. Chinese people wear them.
I would give full credit for the Romeo one. I would also love to see those dames in the river- it might actually work though it would be hard on the large women.
#9 - Some of those answers were just snotty, clever things kids write down when they don't know the answer, like the "James Bond" or "because she is a woman." I wouldn't take it too seriously.
I had a friend who wrote the receipe for blueberry muffins on an AP test (test for college credit in high school) when she didn't know the answer.
If after a test bake I was satisfied with the muffins, I might consider partial credit.
I'm assuming most of you have seen this at sometime in the last 15 years?
I also laughed out loud with "Mrs. Orpheus." Technically (at least in English) it is a correct answer.
As for #14, a fair bit of it can be explained with misspellings or, worse yet, mishearing of a term the teacher spoke but the student didn't hear distinctly (I'm not saying whose fault that was . . . the student in theory could have looked it up *gasp*).
Nevertheless, I loved "Another important invention was the circulation of blood." Yes, I would say so.
Thanks, Busifer! I love those!
True story -
Last week the English/LA teacher on my team was grading essays. She got to one student's essay and there were no periods and no capital letters! None! She called the student to her desk and asked him about his essay. She said, "Thomas, you have no periods in this entire essay. What happened?" He answered, "I don't use those." *sigh*
This student is also in my math class. We were graphing equations earlier this week. He had worked out the equation and left the graph blank. Yes, you guessed it. He told me, "I don't use the graphs."
Is it any wonder he is repeating the 8th grade??
Yesterday, I was testing 3rd grade on using the library catalog. Been teaching it for 3 class sessions...they had to do an author, title, subject search; write down the author, title, call number. The online catalog even says "call number". One kid turned his in and instead of call numbers, he'd put the author's date of birth. 3 times I sent him back to the computer to find the call number. 3 times he came back with no changes. I finally told him that if he turned it in that way, he would fail the test, is that what you're choosing to do?. Yes, he says, that's was what he chooses to do. So I report this to his teacher, she gave him the riot act; I gave him a zero, and he'll have to do the test over again. Evidently this is his M.O. on all his work. His mother insists he's just "bored" and that's why he doesn't do his work.
16 - Maybe he's been getting bad ideas from a linguist. When we say that we're more concerned with describing language than prescribing it (or proscribing it, for that matter), there are still cultural conventions to worry about. As it was described to me the other day, breaking all the writing conventions in an essay is like turning up to a job interview in your pyjamas. Sure, you're covering up, which is one of the primary bits of clothing, but you're not going to get the job. When you write an essay the same way you'd chat with your friends on MSN, you're communicating, but you sound like someone who doesn't know how to dress properly.
You know the answer to the higest frequency a human can hear was really mariah carey but I would take a point off for the hearts because nobody really likes it
I think I'd give partial credit for knowing that good vibrations were "discovered" in the 60s. 1966 to be exact.
Wilson's publicist Derek Taylor described "Good Vibrations" as a "pocket symphony". It featured instruments unusual for a pop song, including prominent use of the cello and an electro-theremin. It is number six on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".1 The song "Good Vibrations" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.2 (Wikipedia)
Monday's fiield trip gave me this chuckle:
Student: Miss W, I wore my suit to my grandpa's reunion.
Me: Oh, really. What type of reunion was it.
Student: I don't know. He died.
*Note that I have 24 boys in my 2nd grade class. You can't imagine the stories I've heard this year. I really should write them all down.
Yes, you should. You and some of your kids might end up being famous, or maybe infamous.
I had a student last week ask me why I was wearing a dress. Let me add, I am female so shouldn't come as a shock to see such a thing....
I've seen some too:
"King George wouldn't let the Pope cut off his head." Whose head? King George? The Pope's. That would be quite a task, wouldn't it? Cutting off your own head.
"The heart is one of the fatal organs." (I think the kid meant visceral; not fatal, at least I HOPE so!)
One of my science students told me the difference between the inner and outer planets: the outer planets are gas planets. I asked her to explain, she said "they're big balls of gas."
Those were very funny. 'Find x' was one of my favourites, along with 'ice' as a brief description of hard water.
#14 - I've never seen that before but I don't think I've laughed so much in months, that was wonderful!
I think Booksloth sent me this story once and I think it fits this thread.
The "Middle Wife" by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the
best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom a few
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my
students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty
tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch,
stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them.
If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday."
"First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed
in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there.
He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.
"Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh,
Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She walked around the house
for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.
"My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this." Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.
"And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!" This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!
"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe'. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, so there must be a lot of toys inside there."
Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I'm
sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell day, I
bring my camcorder, just in case another "Middle Wife" comes along.
I will never forget an episode from when I was in 6th or 7th grade. We had a test on ancient history and one of the questions had to do with Carthage. The teacher read out one of the answers (greatly embarassing the poor kid) emphasizing each use of the words, "Carthage Indians."
Once again we are reminded how teachers have embarrassed kids through out the years. On behalf of all those teachers, I do apologize.
I know I made many a kid cringe for one reason or another during my years in the classroom - all very unintentional, I am sure (fingers crossed behind my back).
Sometimes it is hard not to say something unforgiveable.
Today, I graded encyclopedia research papers for 4th grade. Each student got a different animal to research...one question was "What is this animal's habitat?" One girl had bears, and her answer: This animal's habitat is Earth."
What? As opposed to Martian bears??
Well, "bear" doesn't indicate any special kind of bear (polar bear, black bear...) so I think you kind of earned it ;-)
Sigh...you're probably right, I was just asking for it. I'm thinking next year, I'll tweak the project, and make "habitat" a multiple choice question.
I'm trying to teach 3rd grade to use the encyclopedias also. Oy vay...it's going to be a long semester. Actual questions this morning: "Do you want me to write the answer down?" "I can't find it"...supposed to be looking up "heart", and had the A volume. "Do I read it?" No kidding.
And then a 2nd grade teacher informed me she assumed encyclopedias were just obsolete. Grrr. Am I a dinosaur? Or shouldn't students at least be familiar with using a hard copy of the encyclopedia?? I teach them to use the online encyclopedia too.
I spent many a happy hour reading encyclopedias as a kid! Yes, I think kids should have at least some small nodding acquaintance with those fine volumes; as should all elementary and middle school teachers. You might be surprised if you surveyed your faculty and asked how many of them had ever used an encyclopedia.
Learning how to take notes from an encyclopedia article is priceless and is a very real lesson in how to not plagiarize.
You go, you librarian, you!
In my mind you're not teaching them how to use encyclopaedias but how to find knowledge, utilising encyclopaedias. And it's valuable experience to have learned that knowledge can be found if you search in an appropriate way.
What age are these kids? 10? Do you use children's edition encyclopaedias? I have a (swedish) language one that any kid loves to peruse, it's full of infographics made by renowned illustrators of children's books (and it's made by a publisher that published only encyclopaedias so it's really really good). It's a good and easy entryway for kids.
#34 "One girl had bears, and her answer: This animal's habitat is Earth."
Well sort of, but then again No. There are plenty of places on Earth that don't have any type of bears. All the ocean bits for a start, antartica, a lot of europe, a lot of africa (all of it?)
Maybe you could do a subtle wiki edit, and then get them to compare versions, and learn that wiki isn't always right.
#40. All Africa. And Australia (Koalas are marsupials.) And, as far as I know, South America. Us Gondwanalanders need to rise up and support TEL!
Well, compared to the rest of the universe Earth is the prime habitat of a lot of species, even if they don't cover the whole globe ;-)
(And bears are naturals all over continental Europe, only humans have pushed them away so they won't re-emerge until our towns are in ruins...)
Thanks, guys! I feel vindicated...and as long as I draw breath, my students will learn to use an encyclopedia!!
I've been trying to teach the kids at daycare to go to the dictionary instead of asking me how to spell something. One little smart-alec said when my back was turned, "I think she can't spell anything"
Many years ago, my niece's class was asked by their teacher whether anyone could count to 100. "I can", said my niece confidently. "One, two, miss a few, 99, 100!" She's still a smart-arse ...
I have to tell this true story that just happened last week.As many of you in here know, I'm a teacher.Today, we honor our Veterans and we have the day off from school.However, after paying my due respect for our Veterans I will be keyboarding most of the day since my report cards are due soon and I have to write narratives for 22 students. In addition, I have to averaging and post grades for the six subjects that I teach for each student.
Anyway,I had a rough week last week,so I was so exhausted I picked up one of those ready-made meals at the market and passed the wine aisle as I was leaving.Hmm, I think I will pick up a bottle is what I was thinking. A Billy Joel song came to mind."A bottle of red,a bottle of white."Which one? Dang, I'll get both.While in the check out line, a man in front of me turned around. well, yes you guess it folks,it was the Superintendent of my school district. Holy cow! I never two fisted two bottles in line at the market ever and the one time I do.Anyway, his comment was great! Tough week huh?? I was so relieved.
#41 South America has spectacled bears, if I remember correctly ...
... and it's exactly that kind of nit-picking got me into trouble one time with my chemistry teacher at grammar school. In a conversation I referred to some kind of fish as an animal and he corrected me - it's not an animal, it's a fish (he said). So I said it was not a plant so it must be an animal. He told me to shut up or I'd get 'lines'.
The sad thing is, a year or two later I was in his biology class. No wonder I hated school ...
#46 - Ha. It figures. If you were buying seltzer you wouldn't have met anyone you knew! :o)
#31 - I love it! Nice comment from the teacher too, Dayner.
Just finished grading the last of the encyclopedia research papers...these are actual answers.
Sam Houston: Why is this person famous?
He found Houston, Texas in 1970 and 1980
Rattlesnakes: Where in the world is this animal found?
Haiti: What language is spoken?
Columbus Discovers America: When did this happen?
Where did this happen? City of Columbus
Rhinoceros: Where in the world is this animal found?
Well they travel a lot.
I need some of that wine jewels got today...
dear friend, I feel your pain. Very frustrating. I guess we can give those kids some points for creativity and, in some cases, an unintended sense of humor.
One time in College I was waiting for the bus and fuming about how hard the economics exam I had just taken was when The economics teacher joined me at the busstop and said " Well I don't think that exam was too bad, do you?"
The smart ass in me popped up and said" yeah for you! You had all the answers!"
he just laughed
#49 - Okay, maybe not great answers for 3rd graders, but that last one shows some humor, at least!
I still remember a grade school multiple choice question that went like this:
How long is the Mississippi River?
A) Under 1,000 miles long.
B) Over 1,000 miles long.
C) Over 2,000 miles long.
D) over 3,000 miles long.
I wanted to choose C, but wasn't sure, so I chose B, because if it is over 2,000 miles long, then it is ALSO over 1,000 miles long, right?
My teacher did not buy my logic. Even in grade school I understood a VERY poorly worded question, and insisted that my answer was NOT wrong. She said "Technically you're correct, but C is the answer I was looking for because it is more correct."
Roughly 40 years have gone by and it still irritates me, LOL!!!
You are right, mrgroo, the teacher wrote a really stupid multiple choice question. She should have given you an A for catching it.
Agree with maggie, but many teachers do so hate to be caught in their unperfect mode by a student.
LOL, groo. Isn't it funny how things like that can stick in your craw, and stay in your memory FOREVER? LOL You should look that teacher up and remind her. ;o)
Here's another reason teachers might drink.
Pretty wild stuff.
# 60 that is one reason they call it a BS degree. I did find in college that the skill of writing mattered more than a knowledge of the subject.
>#47. This guy taught Biology too?!? That's pathetic, and I see why you hated school. I did too, but some how ended up as a high school Biology teacher. Go figure.
#62. We had another chemistry teacher (sadly, he never taught my class) who was famous for messing up practical demonstrations - popular lore was that he never got them right. Anyway, his greatest achievement was setting fire to a test-tube of 'water' while trying to boil it over a Bunsen burner. Needless to say, he'd managed to use some alcohol or something for distilled water (and, apparently, it was not student sabotage - all his own work).
63, omg, it sound as if it is lucky the school is still standing. In the early 90s, we had to do a mandated clean up of all the science storage rooms and found materials that could easily have blown us all up. I'm surprised your chem teacher didn't cause some kind of catastrophe!
#64 - Well, I vaguely remember (this was forty-five-fifty years ago) him having his arm in bandages for a while after that - don't think he harmed anything or anyone else.
I am at the Jr. Beta State Covention with 18 8th grade students. We are spending the night!! HELP!!! Send PGGBs....fast!
oh, gosh, I hope GeorgiaDawn survived! 18 Eighth graders....a fate almost worse than death.
No, seriously....I'll bet it was seriously fun. A barrel of laughs if you can keep from crying.
We all made it home safely. There were about 6,000 middle school children in one place for two days. The students with me behaved and were where they needed to be on time. I am very proud, and exhausted!
Thanks for the PGGSs. :)
DrNewt - that's a wonderful idea!!
Oh, Pool Boy Johnny! Over here! **bats eyelashes**
"I have a wedding dress and a prom gown for sale if interested in either one leave me a messeage i have picture of both of them on my profile on here u r more welcome to go their to look at the pictures of the dresses up their thanks for the wedding dress I'm asking $70.00 and for the prom gown $90.00 both are in execellent condition"
This entry is from a county online yard sale page on Facebook. When I clicked on her name to go to her profile, she had the following entry for her bio:
"IM EASY GETTING ALONG WITH WHAT EVER YOU DO DON'T MESS WITH MY FAMILY IM MARRIED TO A WONDERFUL MAN THAT I COULD EVER DREAM OF AND I HAVE 2 CHILDREN OF MY OWN 1 SON NAME BRANDON 1 DAUGHTER NAME KELLEE AND 1 STEPDAUGHTER NAME TIFFANY I'M A PROUD GRANDMA AND I'M A ANIMAL LOVER I HAVE 3 DOGS AND 2 CATS"
*shudder* It's no wonder I feel like my brain cells are shrinking with so many of the people I come into contact with. Shrinking and screaming bloody murder.
Two books I bought recently: by Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand and Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.
Today on my Facebook profile there was a notice from my high school group telling people that a certain person requesting friendship through that group was not really from our high school, but just wanted friends for FB games. It said you didn't have to feel guilty if you wanted to ignore her request.
There were two replies and they made me cringe and want to holler for my English teachers. Both asserting they went to our high school and how dare anyone consider being so mean to this girl. Anyway, the girl/woman is beside the point. The grammar of her two defenders was oh so very sad.
MrsLee, the basic rules of grammar are all but ignored by so many! Even in math, I require some writing from time to time. These are some of the "words" I routinely find in the assignments.
prolly for probably
are for our
mines for mine
haft for have
there for their
mafs for math (yes....believe it or not!)
I even heard one of my brightest students refer to an escalator as an excavator and did not know why I was correcting her. I thought it was a slip, but she really thought it was an excavator. I know we live in the very deep south, but we do have escalators (and excavators)!!
Texting language used in writing for school drives me insane! I will give back the assignment and not grade it until it is corrected. I've also had students write "IDK" beside a multiple choice question.
My kids, esp. my 16 year old, use textspeak verbally all the time, but she can still write perfectly well when she wants to. I think that teens need help understanding when it is appropriate and when it's not. So few people seem to proofread before they hit that 'submit' button.
FYI, (can I say that here? JK!) I abbreviate when I text all the time. And on here, but when I do my book reviews, I try to be a little more formal.
I've had to proofread for friends and classmates. While my friends are fine (I hang out with geeks and am one, so I guess that shouldn't be too surprising) I am amazed at how poor some people's writing ability is, IN COLLEGE. I mean, by the time you're in college you've been writing papers for seven years (or at least I was) you would think this would have lead to some improvement. Were I a professor I would have handed back at least half the papers I've read and refused to grade them, simply because the person couldn't write coherently.
I think that teens need help understanding when it is appropriate and when it's not.
This is the key, as far as I'm concerned. I love the ingenuity and variability that you can have with text/online language, but convention says that you have to be able to be able to use your language in the right way, like not coming to class in your underwear.
I submitted a memo to my employer today to "proofread." She corrected my spelling of affidavit to affidavid. :)
that is the funniest thing i have seen for a while, bless them, u can tell that they are totally not intrested! how are children supposed to know what they want to do at that age, i have a friend who is a careers advisor, she asked a boy what he wanted to be and he sais a "porn star" what are you supposed to reply to that without laughing! lol xx
#75 - I'm not well up on these acronyms that crop up and I had to google IDK (should have guessed, of course). But a secondary meaning I found was , 'I Don't Kare'. My mind is definitely boggling.
By the way, I'm surprised your list doesn't include 'of' for 'have' - as in 'I should of done it'. I see that online so often.
Why teachers drink:
24 boys + fingerpaint
I'm still cleaning up paint from last Friday. It actually went surprisingly well. There was no paint on any clothing that I know of. This could have to do that I threatened to take away part of recess if they touched anyone else on purpose.
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On-line version ISSN 2224-9435
Print version ISSN 1019-9128
J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.85 n.1 Cape Town Jan. 2014
Joanne L. McLeanI, II; Remo G. LobettiI; Johan P. SchoemanII
IBryanston Veterinary Hospital, Bryanston, South Africa
IIDepartment of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Since first reported in the late 1970s, there has been a steady but dramatic increase in the worldwide prevalence of hyperthyroidism in cats. It is now regarded as the most common feline endocrine disorder, with diabetes mellitus coming a close second. Not only is there evidence for an increased worldwide prevalence of feline hyperthyroidism, but also for geographical variation in the prevalence of the disease. Despite its frequency, the underlying cause(s) of this common disease is or are not known, and therefore prevention of the disease is not possible. Due to the multiple risk factors that have been described for feline hyperthyroidism, however, it is likely that more than one factor is involved in its pathogenesis. Continuous, lifelong exposure to environmental thyroid-disruptor chemicals or goitrogens in food or water, acting together or in an additive fashion, may lead to euthyroid goitre and ultimately to autonomous adenomatous hyperplasia, thyroid adenoma and hyperthyroidism. This review aims to summarise the available published evidence for the changes observed in the worldwide prevalence of the disease, as well as risk factors that may contribute to development of hyperthyroidism in susceptible cats.
Feline hyperthyroidism (thyrotoxicosis) is a multisystemic disorder arising from excess production of the active thyroid hormones (tri-iodothyronine [T3] and/or thyroxine [T4]) from an abnormally functioning thyroid gland (Mooney 2010). Approximately 97% - 99% of cases result from benign nodular hyperplasia, adenomatous hyperplasia or adenoma of the thyroid gland (Gunn-Moore 2005). In 70% - 75% of cases both thyroid glands are affected. Only 1% - 3% of cases are caused by mild to moderately malignant thyroid carcinoma (Gunn-Moore 2005). The disease has been reported in cats of between 8 months and 22 years of age, with a mean age of 13 years (Gordan et al. 2003; Peterson, Randolf & Mooney 1994). Only 5% of hyperthyroid cats are younger than 10 years at time of diagnosis (Peterson et al. 1994).
Clinically and histopathologically the disease resembles toxic nodular goitre of humans, a disease of the elderly that is more common in iodine-deficient areas (Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff & Glickman 2004). Over the past 33 years the prevalence of thyroidal pathological abnormalities has steadily but dramatically increased in the worldwide cat population. However, despite its frequency the underlying cause(s) of the disorder is or are not known, and thus it is unclear how to prevent it.
Feline hyperthyroidism appears to be a relatively 'new' disorder, first described in 1979 and 1980 by investigators in New York and Boston (Holzworth, Theran & Carpenter 1980; Peterson et al. 1981). Before that time, although pathology studies had sometimes identified thyroid nodules or masses in cats, these had not commonly been found and were rarely, if ever, associated with clinical signs (Leav et al. 1976; Lucke 1964). Since these initial descriptions several studies have documented marked, steady increases in the prevalence of the disease in the cat population across the world with time. For example, in North America it increased from 0.3% in 1979 to 4.5% in 1985, and from 0.1% in 1978-1982 to 2% in 1993-1997, whilst in Germany it increased from 0.2% in 1987-1994 to 2.6% in 1998 (Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff, Janovitz, Thacker & Glickman 2004; Kraft & Buchler 1999; Scarlett, Moise & Ray 1998).
This disorder is now not only recognised as the most common endocrinopathy of the cat, but one of the more frequently diagnosed disorders in small animal practice throughout North America, the United Kingdom (UK), Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan (Mooney 2010; Olczak et al. 2005; Peterson & Ward 2007). Although a number of factors such as increased awareness, easier availability of thyroid hormone assays and ageing of the cat population may have contributed to the increase in diagnosis of feline hyperthyroidism observed, they are unlikely solely to account for the rapid and dramatic increase in prevalence of the disease (Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff & Glickman 2004).
Little is known about the distribution or determinants of feline hyperthyroidism, and there are very few reported incidence rates or prevalence estimates (De Wet et al. 2009). Epidemiological studies that have been performed clearly suggest that not only is there evidence for an increased prevalence of feline hyperthyroidism, but also for geographical variation in the prevalence of the disease (Scarlett et al. 1998). Anecdotal reports suggest that hyperthyroidism has been diagnosed commonly in many countries or areas, such as North America, the UK and New Zealand, but much less commonly in other areas, such as Scandinavia and Hong Kong (Sparkes 2012). However, lack of good, detailed studies evaluating comparable cat populations in different countries indicates that definitive data are generally lacking (Sparkes 2012).
Nevertheless, some studies have provided convincing evidence of genuine geographical variations. In one 2005 study the incidence of hyperthyroidism in cats over 9 years of age seen at a London clinic and five clinics in Spain over a 3-year period was compared. Clinics in both Spain and the UK had a similar prevalence of cats aged over 9 years of age in their population (16.4% and 20.1% respectively). The study showed a significant difference in incident rates, with 11.92% in the UK versus 1.5% in Spain (Wakeling, Melian & Font 2005). Other prevalence studies have also substantiated the fact that there may be quite marked differences between geographical areas. The hospital prevalence amongst cats over 8 years of age in an urban population in Germany was noted as 11.4% in a 2006 study (Sassnau 2006). In Japan, a prevalence of 8.9% was reported in cats older than 9 years (Miyamoto, Miyata & Kurobane 2002) in 2002, whilst a prevalence of 6% in apparently healthy cats over 9 years of age was reported in the UK in 2011 (Wakeling, Elliott & Syme 2011), with a prevalence of 3.93% found in cats over 10 years of age in Hong Kong in 2009 (De Wet et al. 2009).
In terms of the situation in South Africa, no prevalence studies have been performed to date. It is the author's opinion, however, that hyperthyroidism in cats has only relatively recently been recognised, diagnosed and reported (2001/2002) in South Africa, and its prevalence appears to be on the increase.
Several epidemiological studies have attempted to identify potential risk factors for feline hyperthyroidism, but a single dominant factor has to date not been identified (Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff, Janovitz, Thacker & Glickman 2004; Kass et al. 1999; Martin et al. 2000; Olczak et al. 2005; Scarlett et al. 1998). Genetic or hereditary factors and nutritional component(s) in cat food leading to metabolic thyroid dysfunction, or thyroid-disrupting compounds introduced into the environment or diet, are the potential risk factors that have been closely investigated (Peterson & Ward 2007).
Several substantial epidemiological studies from the United States of America, UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand have revealed some contradictory results (De Wet et al. 2009; Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff, Janovitz, Thacker & Glickman 2004; Kass et al. 1999; Martin et al. 2000; Olczak et al. 2005; Scarlett et al. 1998; Wakeling et al. 2009). These include an increased risk in indoor cats, female cats, cats in multi-cat households, cats with dental disease (independent of age), use of topical flea preparations and pesticides, use of cat litter (not linked to increased risk in indoor cats), consumption of certain flavours of canned foods (fish or liver and giblet flavour) and in non-purebred cats. As studies have failed to consistently identify these risk factors, their significance remains uncertain (Sparkes 2012).
A number of published studies have also identified several common factors, including increased risk with age, decreased risk in Siamese and Himalayan cats, and increased risk in cats that consume canned cat food, especially pop-top canned food (Mooney 2010; Sparkes 2012). It must be noted that all of these above factors are mere epidemiological associations and cannot demonstrate cause and effect (Sparkes 2012).
Genetic or hereditary factors
In studying the pathogenesis of feline hyperthyroidism researchers have considered a number of cellular and genetic factors, including whether feline hyperthyroidism resembles human Graves' disease, the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in people (Caney 2012). Graves' disease is an auto-immune disorder in which circulating antibodies (thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins [TSIs]) bind to thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptors and mimic TSH, thereby promoting thyroid hormone production and secretion (Mooney 2002). Levels of TSIs are increased in people suffering from Graves' disease (Caney 2012). However, three separate studies in which two different techniques were used failed to show such TSIs in hyperthyroid cats (Brown et al. 1992; Kennedy, Thoday & Mooney 1989; Peterson, Livingston & Brown 1987). Interestingly, increased titres of thyroid growth-stimulating immunoglobulins (TGIs) have been demonstrated in hyperthyroid cats (Brown et al. 1992). These have also been found in a variety of human thyroid diseases. In cats there is no correlation between thyroid function and TGI activity in vitro and their role in the pathogenesis of feline hyperthyroidism remains unclear (Mooney 2002).
The expression of stimulatory and inhibitory G proteins has also been studied in feline hyperthyroidism. G proteins are activated following binding of TSH to its receptor and are part of the intracellular signalling processes, amongst them the signal to secrete thyroid hormones (Ward et al. 2005). Both inhibitory and stimulatory G proteins exist, and the balance between these controls how much thyroid hormone is produced by the cell (Hammer, Holt & Ward 2000; Peterson & Ward 2007; Ward, Windham & Dise 2010). Stimulatory G proteins result in an increase in cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels, whereas inhibitory G proteins result in a decrease in cAMP levels (Hammer et al. 2000; Peterson & Ward 2007; Ward et al. 2010). If levels of cAMP are increased, there is increased cell activation and thyroid hormone production. One study showed that whilst expression of stimulatory G proteins was the same from thyroid tissue from euthyroid and hyperthyroid cats, expression of inhibitory G proteins (Gi) was significantly lower in the hyperthyroid cats (Hammer et al. 2000; Ward et al. 2005). Another study, where expression of Gi1, Gi2 and Gi3 in enriched membrane preparations from thyroid glands was quantified, demonstrated that a decrease in Gi2 expression in particular decreases inhibition of adenyl cyclase and allows a relative increase in stimulatory G-protein expression. This results in increased amounts of cAMP and upregulation of thyroid hormone production (Ward et al. 2005). Another more recent study, however, evaluating alteration in ligand-stimulated activity of G proteins in thyroid gland cells of hyperthyroid cats, found that ligand-stimulated activation of G proteins was the same in both hyperthyroid and euthyroid cats. Therefore alteration in inherent stimulatory and inhibitory G proteins did not appear to be part of the pathogenesis of the disease in cats in this study (Ward et al. 2010).
Adenomatous thyroid tissue from hyperthyroid cats has also been demonstrated to retain its histopathogical appearance and to continue to grow and function when transplanted into nude mice, thus confirming its autonomous nature (Peter et al. 1987). Additionally, thyroid cells from hyperthyroid cats, cultured in TSH-free media, have also been shown to continue to grow and function (Peter et al. 1991). Thus it is clear that feline hyperthyroidism more closely resembles human toxic nodular goitre than Graves' disease. Somatic mutations of the TSH receptor gene are an important cause of human toxic nodular goitre in humans. Mutations affecting the TSH gene have been identified in some cats with hyperthyroidism, including some mutations that have also been reported in human hyperthyroidism (Watson et al. 2005).
Abnormal oncogene expression has also been hypothesised to have a potential role in the pathogenesis of feline hyperthyroidism (Peterson & Ward 2007). Proto-oncogenes are found in normal cells, and over-expression could eventually lead to autonomous function. One study where thyroid tissue of 28 hyperthyroid cats was examined for expression of the oncogenes c-ras, bc12 and the tumour suppressor gene p53, using immunohistochemistry, revealed over-expression of the c-ras protein (Merryman et al. 1999). Gain of function mutations in this oncogene may play a role in the development of adenomatous hyperplasia (Mooney 2010).
Exposure to environmental chemicals (e.g. pesticides, herbicides) is known to induce thyroid abnormalities in other species (Brucker-Davis 1998).Chemicals applied directly to the cat or the cat's environment have been associated with increased risk of hyperthyroidism in some epidemiological studies (Olczak et al. 2005; Scarlett et al. 1988). Regular exposure of cats to topical flea control products was also shown to be associated with increased risk of developing the disease. However, none of these studies were able to identify a specific commercial anti-flea product or ingredient associated with this risk.
An association was also found between the use of cat litter and development of hyperthyroidism (Kass et al. 1999). Moreover, no difference in risk was found amongst brands of litter, suggesting that any toxin or goitrogenic chemical present is common to most brands. In the absence of a clear explanation of the relation between litter use and hyperthyroidism, use of cat litter may simply be a marker for cats that primarily live indoors, receive better than average care, enjoy longer lives, and are more likely to reach the age at which cats develop the disease (Peterson & Ward 2007).
Dietary iodine and selenium
Because of the dietary association, several studies have attempted to implicate iodine in the cause and progression of the disease (Johnson et al. 1992; Mumma et al. 1986).It has been postulated that wide swings in daily iodine or even low or high intake of iodine may contribute to development of thyroid disease in cats. Although circulating free T4 concentrations are acutely affected by varying iodine intake, more prolonged ingestion of high- or low-iodine diets has been shown to have no apparent effect on free T4 levels (Tarttelin et al. 1992). Therefore the role that iodine plays in the development of the disease remains unknown. Dietary iodine may have a modulatory effect on circulating thyroid hormone, but neither iodine excess nor deficiency can explain the development of thyroid adenomatous hyperplasia or the autonomous nature of hyperthyroidism in cats (Peterson & Ward 2007).
Like iodine, selenium status could also potentially modify thyroid function. One study found no difference in selenium status in either euthyroid or hyperthyroid cats sampled from different geographical locations with high and low prevalence of hyperthyroidism, but did find that circulating selenium values in all cats in the study were approximately five times higher than values reported in either rats or humans (Foster et al. 2001). The reason for the high levels of selenium is unclear, but may possibly be a result of increased dietary intake in this species. The significance of this finding is, however, still not known.
Other goitrogenic compounds
Many other goitrogenic compounds can contribute to the development of adenomatous lesions in exposed cats (Mooney 2010). These may be of particular importance, because most are metabolised by glucuronidation, a metabolic pathway that is particularly slow in the cat (Mooney 2010). Most commercial cat foods contain relatively high levels of goitrogenic compounds (e.g. phthalates), and cats can also be exposed to many goitrogens (e.g. resourcenel, polyphenols, polychlorinated biphenols, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and isoflavones) in the environment (Peterson & Ward 2007).
The polyphenolic compound bisphenol A (BPA), a building block of the epoxy resins commonly used for lining the interior of metal food cans to prevent corrosion, has been detected in 15 different canned cat foods (Moriyama et al. 2002). BPA is a chemical of concern, as it is a known endocrine disruptor and has been associated with various adverse health effects, including thyroid dysfunction in humans (Peterson 2012). Some of the toxic effects of BPA may in fact be derived from its structural similarity to thyroid hormones (Peterson 2012).
Chronic exposure to BPA may affect thyroid function through a number of potential mechanisms. BPA has been shown to bind directly to thyroid hormone receptors as well as acting to disrupt thyroid hormone action within cells by competitively displacing T3 from the receptor and thus suppressing activation of transcription of thyroid-regulated genes. By acting as a thyroid hormone receptor antagonist, BPA may work at the pituitary level to increase circulating TSH and thus lead to thyroid hyperplasia and ultimately goitre in susceptible cats (Peterson 2012). Exposure to BPA is thought to occur primarily through ingestion, and it is well established that residual BPA monomers migrate into the can contents during processing and storage (Peterson 2012).
Evidence of BPA contamination of canned foods for human use has been widely reported (Tsai 2006). In two studies evaluating pet foods most of the dog and cat foods were found to contain measurable levels of BPA, and one of these studies confirmed that the BPA in the food had in fact originated from the can coating (Kang & Kondo 2002; Schecter et al. 2010; also see Peterson 2012). One large case-control study demonstrated an association between hyperthyroidism and cats fed from 'pop-top' cans (Edinboro, Scott-Moncrieff, Janovitz, Thacker & Glickman 2004; also see Peterson 2012). Results of the study suggested that overall consumption of pop-top canned food at various times throughout a cat's life was associated with a greater risk of developing hyperthyroidism compared with feeding from pouches or sachets. Another case-control study carried out in the USA also found that cats that preferred to eat certain flavours of canned cat food (fish or liver and giblets flavour) were at a significantly greater risk of hyperthyroidism compared with cats that did not prefer these flavours (Martin et al. 2000).
Polyphenolic soy isoflavones, in particular genistein and daidzein, have also been identified in almost 60% of cat foods tested, and have been shown to have negative effects on the pituitary-thyroid axis in both humans and rats (Court & Freeman 2002). They are commonly used as dietary supplements and as a low-cost source of protein. Virtually all dry and semi-moist foods containing soy protein have high isoflavone content in concentrations sufficient to interfere with thyroid function and decrease synthesis of thyroid hormones (Doerge & Sheehan 2002; also see Peterson 2012). Soy isoflavones inhibit the activity of thyroid peroxidase, a key enzyme in the synthesis of thyroid hormones, which liberates iodine for addition to thyroglobulin for production of T3 and T4. They also inhibit 5'-deiodinase activity - the enzyme that converts total T4 into the biologically active T3. By blocking the production of thyroid hormones, TSH secretion will be increased, leading to thyroid hyperplasia and possibly goitre (Doerge & Sheehan 2002; also see Peterson 2012).
In a short-term (3 months) feeding study in clinically normal cats, those receiving the soy diet had higher total T4 and free T4 concentrations, but total T3 concentrations remained unchanged (White et al. 2004). These results indicate that short-term feeding of soy to normal cats has a measurable although modest effect on thyroid hormone homeostasis. Despite maintaining these normal hormone values, detectable urinary concentrations of the isoflavone genistein were found in 10 of the 18 cats in the study, suggesting that cats may have significant body burdens of this goitrogen. Of interest are studies in rats that demonstrate that feeding large amounts of soy isoflavones has little demonstrable effect on thyroid function (also see Peterson 2012). However, in the presence of iodine deficiency feeding soy has been shown to readily inhibit thyroid hormone secretion and induce goitre. Thus feeding of soy can cause goitre, but only in animals or humans consuming diets that are relatively deficient in iodine, or in those individuals who are otherwise predisposed to developing goitre because of exposure to other goitrogenic agents (Ikeda et al. 2001; also see Peterson 2012).
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic bromide compounds that have been used as flame retardants in a variety of consumer products, such as electronics, furniture and textiles, for the past 30 years (Dye et al. 2007). Over this time they have also become major global and persistent organic contaminants that bio-accumulate in the environment, biomagnify up the food chain, and have been found in significant amounts in both animals and humans (Peterson 2012). The chemical structure and properties of PBDEs are similar to those of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were banned in the USA in the late 1970s (Peterson 2012). Like PCBs, some of the toxic effects of PBDEs may derive from their structural similarities to thyroid hormones.
Studies performed in rats, mice and humans have shown that PBDEs clearly disrupt thyroid hormone metabolism. In rats and mice PBDEs lower free and total T4 concentrations in a dose-dependent manner, but have not been shown to affect circulating TSH concentrations (Hallgren & Darnerud 2002; Hallgren et al. 2001; Zhou et al. 2001). Conversely, in humans, higher exposure to PBDEs has been shown to reduce serum TSH values and increase total T4 concentrations (Peterson 2012). Reports of environmental contamination with PBDEs were first published in 1979. This is coincident with the first veterinary case reports of feline hyperthyroidism, and thus they may play a role in pathogenesis of the disease in this species (Dye et al. 2007).
To date, multiple studies (three American and two Swedish) designed to determine whether body burdens of PBDEs in hyperthyroid cats were greater than those of non-hyperthyroid cats have shown that overall PDBEs levels in all cats are 20-100-fold greater than median levels found in human adults (Dye et al. 2000; Guo et al. 2012; Kupryianchyk et al. 2009; Mensching et al. 2012; Norrgranet al. 2012). However, none of the studies demonstrated an association between hyperthyroid cats and high serum PBDE levels. Two of the studies did show that serum PBDE concentrations in feral and outdoor cats are significantly lower than in client-owned and indoor cats, suggesting that house dust rather than diet is the most likely route of exposure to PBDEs in household cats (Guo et al. 2012; Mensching et al. 2012).
In a follow-up study investigators evaluated dust samples for PBDEs, and found significantly higher PBDEs in dust from homes of hyperthyroid cats compared with those of euthyroid cats (Mensching et al. 2012). A significant correlation was also found between high dust PBDE values and high serum total T4 concentrations. Overall, these studies show that cats can be highly exposed to PBDEs, presumably through ingestion of household dust during their normal grooming behaviour. These findings also provide compelling evidence for the possible role of PBDEs in the development of thyroid tumours and hyperthyroidism in cats, although additional investigations are certainly warranted (also see Peterson 2012).
In addition to the above, there are many other goitrogens and thyroid disruptors (e.g. perchlorates, PCBs, resorcinol, dioxins, fluoride, FD&C red dye #3) that cats can be exposed to through their diet, drinking water or the environment, that could contribute to the development of thyroid adenomatous hyperplasia and hyperthyroidism (Peterson 2012). Endocrine disruptors such as heavy metals (e.g. mercury) and chlorinated hydrocarbons (e.g. polyvinyl chloride [PVC]) have been reported as contaminants in commercial canned cat food (Mumma et al. 1986). Such agents generally cause goitre by acting directly on the thyroid gland to reduce thyroid hormone synthesis. The resultant low circulating total T4 leads to increased TSH secretion, which in turn leads to thyroid enlargement (Peterson 2012). Other goitrogens, however, act indirectly to alter the regulator mechanisms of the thyroid gland or the peripheral metabolism and secretion of certain thyroid hormones (Peterson 2012).
Despite its increasing frequency, the origin and underlying pathogenesis of feline hyperthyroidism is not known, and therefore definitive recommendations in terms of prevention of the disease cannot as yet be made. It has been postulated that immunological, infectious, nutritional (e.g. iodine), environmental (e.g. toxins or goitrogens) or genetic factors may interact to cause pathological changes. The substantial flaw in the logic of 'pointing the finger' at any one of these is how they could cause the disease to develop in cats on different continents within a relatively short period of time. The seemingly apparent variation in the geographical prevalence of hyperthyroidism in cats may in fact reflect differences in dietary, environmental or genetic factors.
Further research into the worldwide prevalence as well as the presence of possible causative factors would help to shed light on the cause and pathogenesis of this disease and lead to preventative measures. As far as the authors are aware, no prevalence studies have been done in South Africa, a geographical area in which, in the authors' opinion, hyperthyroidism in cats has only relatively recently been observed and reported, and the incidence of which appears to be on the increase.
The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
J.L.M. (University of Pretoria) wrote the manuscript. R.G.L. (Bryanston Veterinary Hospital) and J.P.S. (University of Pretoria) made conceptual contributions.
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DETROIT (AP) -- A 61-foot mighty blue spruce that didn't start its life with much promise nearly a half-century ago was delivered Saturday to the Capitol lawn as Michigan official Christmas tree.
Found in the middle of a two-lane highway in 1955, the tree donated by Jerry and Beverly Kilburn of Houghton Lake was hoisted in Lansing one day after being chopped down roughly 110 miles north on the family's property. The tree was selected by state officials after nominations were taken from across Michigan.
Beverly Kilburn, 73, said her father noticed the tree lying in the middle of Old 27 after apparently falling off a truck.
"He went out there and got it -- and that orphan tree turned into the state Christmas tree," Kilburn told The Associated Press by phone from her home.
Kilburn said she and her 71-year-old husband were approached about their tree honored to donate it. They were excited that a school band and elementary school students showed up Friday armed with poems about the tree.
Making the event even more special, she said, is that Saturday was the couple's 51st wedding anniversary.
"I said, `I'll tell you what, fellas, this is an anniversary present for us,"' Kilburn said she told the timber crew, adding that she asked them to return with a little replacement spruce and they agreed.
The state typically seeks a spruce or fir tree that's about 65 feet tall, with a maximum crown of 30 feet and a maximum 30-inch trunk diameter. It should be available at no cost and must have easy access from a road with no interference from wires.
The Michigan Association of Timbermen and Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association helped cut and transport the tree at no cost to the state. Lansing-based Hi-Ball Co. volunteered a crane and crew to set the tree.
A tree-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 18 as part of the 27th annual Silver Bells in the City celebration. The tree-lighting has been part of the event since its third year.
The event includes a parade and a performance by Radio Disney pop star Cody Simpson. It culminates with a fireworks display over the Capitol dome, as long as weather permits.
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Guest blog by Dr Manica Balasegaram, a physician who is the head of the leishmaniasis clinical programme at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative .
A recent report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) of an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in southern Sudan1 comes at a time when an increasing focus is being put on the control and elimination of neglected diseases. However, this outbreak raises the question of how far along we really are in reaching such targets.
VL (also known as kala azar) is one of the deadliest parasitic diseases in the world, with an estimated half a million new cases each year. Spread by the bites of sandflies, VL severely affects the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, and if left untreated is almost always fatal. Yet the disease remains largely unknown in the developed world.
The control of VL, particularly in the anthroponotic areas of transmission (south Asia and east Africa), has focused on vector control and treatment. In terms of treatments, VL is fairly well served in comparison with other neglected diseases. There are several drugs available, including antimonials (eg, sodium stibogluconate or glucantime), amphotericin B, parmomomycin, and miltefosine (the only available oral drug against the disease). However, all these treatments have various problems, including cost, toxicity, long treatment courses, and low feasibility in the field setting. To achieve the objective of elimination, a tailor-made drug for the disease that only would require a few pills of a very cheap (a few dollars), safe, and effective treatment is needed.
Nonetheless, considerable efforts have recently been made to improve options for patients. On the development side, pivotal trials on combinations of drugs (such as sodium stibogluconate & paromomycin, AmBisome & paromomycin, AmBisome & miltefosine, miltefosine & paromomycin; data in publication) and on a single dose AmBisome have recently been completed in both Africa and Asia.2 The results of these trials indicate good safety and efficacy and these treatments could be available for use next year. There is also ongoing research looking at promising potential candidates for clinical development. The goal of such research is to develop a safe, short course (7 day) oral treatment that can be used at the most basic healthcare level. These investments could pay off in the near future, since it is possible that a clinical candidate might be available for development within the next 1–2 years.
This all sounds very exciting, but there are a couple of major issues. Firstly, drug development does not equate to drug implementation. While resources are required and indeed have been invested in research, it is paramount that more resources are dedicated towards roll-out of treatment to ensure that patients get access to these life-saving drugs. This is particularly relevant in regions such as southern Sudan, where the recent outbreak has been reported. The fact that MSF are so actively involved in treating VL patients in several countries is an illustration in itself that insufficient resources are being invested by both governments and donors (both private and public) in control and implementation activities, including case detection, treatment, surveillance, and prevention. There have been some signs of improvement, particularly in south Asia, where a regional commitment has been made between India, Nepal, and Bangladesh to eliminate the disease. However, more efforts need to filter down into field level so that sufficient equipment, drugs, and trained personnel are made available to control the disease.
Another major issue is that VL, like so many neglected diseases, is very much a disease of neglected populations; specifically groups that are poor, marginalised, and living in rural, peri-conflict, or unstable environments.
The further impoverishing effect of VL is now also well documented. It is therefore questionable that we can ever truly eliminate neglected diseases without first making considerable improvements to the lives of the populations in endemic areas. A recent study I read looking at risk factors for VL in India concluded that “improving housing conditions for the poor has the potential to reduce VL incidence”.3 The implication is that the long-term solution to tackling these types of diseases perhaps lies beyond the scope of research and medicine, and that a serious effort needs to be made at a political, social, and economic level to tackle the eternal pandemics of poverty and inequity. In the meantime, the rest of us should continue our day jobs and try to find more mundane, and ‘less ambitious’ solutions.
1 MSF increases response to kala azar outbreak in South Sudan. http://www.msf.org.uk/kala_azar_south_sudan_20100824.news
2. Sundar S, Chakravarty J, Agarwal D, Rai M, Murray HW. Single-dose liposomal amphotericin B for visceral leishmaniasis in India. N Engl J Med 2010; 362: 504–12.
3 Singh SP, Hasker E, Picado A, et al. Risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis in India: further evidence on the role of domestic animals. Trop Med Int Health 2010; 15: 29–35.
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10 year old Tamilore has Sickle Cell Anaemia and often experiences debilitating pain. His limited physical health has a knock on effect on his education, hobbies and acceptance by others. Learn about the biology behind Sickle Cell Anaemia and how Tamilore copes with his condition.
Genetic Disorders UK would like to thank Tamilore and his family. We would also like to thank the North Middlesex University Hospital which provides high quality healthcare service to people in Enfield, Haringey and surrounding areas.
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Cell death is an important physiologic homeostatic mechanism critical for host survival.
Regulated cell death pathways are evolutionarily conserved processes and include caspase-dependent (apoptosis, pyroptosis) and caspase-independent (necroptosis, mitochondrial permeability transition mediated-regulated necrosis, ferroptosis, and parthanatos) mechanisms.
Mechanisms of cell death are important in many critical illnesses, including sepsis, solid organ transplant, ischemia-reperfusion injury, acute kidney injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, trauma and traumatic brain injury, and multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome.
Apoptosis is the least immunogenic regulated cell death pathway.
Autophagy is a recycling mechanism for a cell to reuse damaged proteins and organelles.
Understanding mechanisms of regulated cell death is important, as these signaling pathways are targets for developing treatments for human critical illness.
Cell death can occur via either regulated or unregulated pathways. Exposure of cells to extreme physical or chemical environmental conditions—such as high temperatures and pressures, shear stress, dangerous pH variations, and steep osmotic gradients—results in accidental or unregulated cell death. In contrast, the host has evolutionarily conserved machinery dedicated to removing unneeded or dangerous cells via multiple complementary mechanisms. Together, these are termed regulated cell death (RCD).
On a chronic basis, the need to balance cellular proliferation with cellular elimination is straightforward, since continued production of new cells without any method to eliminate older or unnecessary cells would end up with an untenable state of an ever-increasing number of cells in the body (especially for rapidly proliferating cell types). In addition, the body needs a method to rapidly respond to an acute insult, such as would be seen in a critically ill patient. For example, tissue injury and inflammation associated with infectious organisms result in the release of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and dying host cells release danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) to alert surrounding host cells of a threat. Both PAMPs and DAMPs alert the body to the presence of microbes and endogenous danger, respectively. In turn, each can activate signaling pathways that may culminate in RCD.
RCD is directly relevant to critical care since cell death occurs in multiple processes in the intensive care unit, including (but not limited to) sepsis, trauma, ischemia-reperfusion injury, oncology, autoimmune, autoinflammatory diseases, and multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Notably, RCD is neither “good” nor “bad” but needs to be understood within the context of the underlying physiologic state. RCD is clearly adaptive over the course of a host’s life when appropriately regulated, although it can be maladaptive when machinery is either over- or underactive. While RCD can also be beneficial in the acute setting, excessive induction of RCD can be maladaptive, such as when excessive death of lymphocytes in sepsis leads to an immunosuppressed host. As such, in selected clinical scenarios, RCD represents a therapeutic target that could be potentially harnessed to disrupt pathologic inflammation–cell death circuits resulting in shock, organ failure, and, ultimately, patient death.
The understanding of RCD has expanded recently, and guidelines have been formulated to define RCD by molecular mechanisms and machinery involved in each process. RCD pathways are categorized as to whether they are immunogenic and caspase-dependent ( Fig. 83.1 ). Immunogenic cell death is a form of RCD that is sufficient to activate an adaptive immune response in an immunocompetent host. Caspases are a family of cysteine-aspartic proteases that have an essential role in some forms of RCD, specifically apoptosis and pyroptosis. The objective of this chapter is to introduce a framework to understand the multiple forms of RCD, highlight key rodent studies demonstrating either a direct causative linkage between RCD and mortality or important mechanistic insights, and to review data relevant to human critical illness.
Caspase-dependent forms of regulated cell death
Apoptosis and pyroptosis are caspase-dependent forms of RCD. Apoptosis, the most widely studied method of RCD, is considered less immunogenic than pyroptosis because there is no disruption of the plasma membrane and therefore no release of cytosolic contents into the interstitial space to act as DAMPS, thereby instigating an inflammatory response. Rather, apoptotic cells and their organelles shrink in size; their nuclei condense (pyknosis) and fragment (karyorrhexis); the cell membrane phospholipid, phosphatidylserine, is exposed to the outside environment and acts as an “eat-me” signal; and cell cytoplasm forms blebs without disruption of the plasma membrane, with eventual formation of apoptotic bodies that are engulfed by phagocytes. By contrast, activation of pyroptosis results in proinflammatory cytokine maturation and necrotic cell death characterized by cellular swelling, plasma membrane disruption, and release of cytosolic contents into the interstitial space. , Thus, pyroptosis is a highly immunogenic RCD pathway.
Apoptosis can be triggered by either an extrinsic pathway involving cell surface receptor-ligand interactions or by an intrinsic pathway involving transient mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization disruption. The extrinsic pathway is most commonly activated by the interaction of Fas ligand (FasL) with Fas or tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) interaction with TNF receptor-1 (TNFR-1; Fig. 83.2 ). Adaptor proteins interact with death domains on the intracellular portion of FasL, resulting in the recruitment of a multiprotein death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) that recruits and activates the initiator caspase, pro-caspase-8. Activation of caspase-8 leads to activation of the executioner caspase complex containing caspase-3, caspase-6, and caspase-7. The intrinsic pathway is initiated by multiple inciting factors that stimulate the release of mitochondrial cytochrome c into the cytosol due to transient mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) from cellular stress. Cytochrome c interacts with an adaptor protein, apoptotic protease-activating factor–1 (APAF-1), which recruits the initiator caspase-9 and leads to the formation of a caspase-activating multiprotein complex called the apoptosome (see Fig. 83.2 ). Once formed, the apoptosome activates the executioner caspases. Within the intrinsic apoptosis pathway, the balance between a complex family of pro- and antiapoptotic proteins regulates cytochrome c release from the mitochondria. Proapoptotic family members such as Bax and Bak promote cytochrome c release whereas antiapoptotic proteins, such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, suppress mitochondrial cytochrome c release. Communication between the extrinsic and intrinsic apoptosis pathways occurs through caspase-8 activation of the protein Bid, leading to cytochrome c release and apoptosome formation.
Apoptosis is extensively altered in human critical illness. Hotchkiss et al. demonstrated that septic patients who died in a surgical intensive care unit and underwent immediate autopsy have markedly increased lymphocytic and gut epithelial apoptosis compared with nonseptic critically ill adults. B and CD4 + T lymphocytes are disproportionately lost in septic adults. Similar findings are found in gut epithelial and lymphocyte apoptosis in adults with shock and trauma, with the degree of apoptosis increased with higher severity of injury. , Children and neonates who die from sepsis are also noted to have prolonged lymphopenia and apoptosis-associated T- and B-cell depletion of lymphoid organs compared with children and neonates who die from noninfectious causes. , Spleen biopsies from adults with sepsis demonstrate decreased numbers of CD4 + and CD8 + T cells as well as immunohistochemical findings of increased inhibitory receptor and ligand expression from the spleen and lung from deceased septic versus nonseptic patients. While airway neutrophils are resistant to apoptosis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), perforin/granzyme and Fas/FasL are elevated in adults who die from ARDS compared with those who do not progress to ARDS, and the bronchoalveolar lavage from ARDS patients can induce distal lung epithelial cell death.
Animal studies on apoptosis
While human studies demonstrate an association between apoptosis and mortality, they cannot establish causation. In contrast, animal studies can directly prove a link between cell death and mortality. Similar to human autopsy studies, apoptosis is primarily localized to lymphocytes, dendritic cells, and the gut epithelium in animal models of sepsis. In cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), a murine model of fecal peritonitis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia, maximal lymphocytic and intestinal apoptosis occurs 24 hours after onset of septic insult. Both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways play a role in sepsis-induced apoptosis, and pathways differ depending on which model of sepsis is examined. Animals with gene-specific knockouts of multiple members of the proapoptotic Bcl-2 family members (mitochondrial pathway) or Fas-associated death domain transgenic mice (receptor mediated) demonstrate significant decreases in sepsis-induced splenocyte apoptosis. , While apoptosis, whether initiated by the mitochondrial or the receptor-mediated pathway, converges into a single common pathway mediated by caspase-3, it should be noted that there are likely alternate pathways that are independent of caspase-3 given that caspase-3 knockout mice exhibit a small degree of apoptosis.
Increased lymphocytic apoptosis appears to be detrimental to survival in sepsis. Overexpression of Bcl-2 in transgenic mice in either T lymphocytes or B lymphocytes markedly improves survival in multiple strains of inbred mice subjected to CLP, a mouse model of fecal peritonitis. , Similar increases in survival have been shown in mice in which proapoptotic Bim has been knocked out. Administration of the polycaspase inhibitor N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp(O-methyl) fluoromethyl ketone (z-VAD) or the caspase-3 specific inhibitor M-971 results in similar improvements in outcome. ,
The mechanisms that account for worse outcomes with increasing lymphocytic apoptosis appear to involve immunosuppression. Although immunosuppression in sepsis is multifactorial, the ongoing loss of immune effector cells in both the innate and adaptive compartments likely plays a significant role. In addition to the loss of cells, there is an upregulation of T regulatory cells and myeloid-derived suppressor cells. This upregulation of immunosuppressive cells appears to be driven in part by the production of IL-10, an antiinflammatory immunosuppressive cytokine. Notably, adoptive transfer of necrotic cells improves survival in septic animals; however, this benefit is lost if interferon (IFN)-γ production is blocked. In contrast, apoptotic cells not only increase mortality, they also prevent IFN-γ production. Interestingly, a preexisting immunosuppressive state may alter the immune apoptotic response. Septic mice with preexisting pancreatic adenocarcinoma have a higher mortality when compared with noncancerous septic mice, and the presence of malignancy not only impairs tumor-specific immune responses but also impairs pathogen-specific responses, resulting in a state of generalized immunosuppression. Notably, either lymphocyte overexpression of Bcl-2 (prosurvival, antiapoptotic protein) or germline deletion of Bim (proapoptotic protein) in mice with cancer results in elevated mortality, contrary to what is seen in previously healthy septic hosts.
Prevention of gut epithelial apoptosis also improves survival in preclinical models of sepsis, as overexpression of Bcl-2 in gut epithelium decreases mortality in mice subjected to CLP or P. aeruginosa pneumonia. , In addition, administering systemic epidermal growth factor (EGF) normalizes intestinal Bid expression and apoptosis and mortality following CLP. , These protective effects appear to be modulated through the intestinal epithelium, as similar results are seen if EGF is selectively overexpressed in intestinal enterocytes. The immune system directly impacts apoptosis in the intestinal epithelium in critical illness. Rag –/– mice, which lack lymphocytes, have a fivefold higher level of gut epithelial apoptosis after CLP compared with wild-type mice, and adoptive transfer of CD4 + T cells in Rag –/– mice restores apoptosis back down to wild-type levels.
Respiratory epithelial cells are resistant to apoptosis when exposed to P. aeruginosa , undergoing cell death in vitro. However, P. aeruginosa pneumonia induces respiratory epithelial apoptosis in mice through activation of the Fas/FasL system, and respiratory apoptosis appeared to be essential for survival in this study, with rapid sepsis-induced mortality in Fas or FasL-deficient mice that lack bronchial apoptosis. Alveolar and bronchiolar apoptosis is also present in rats with Streptococcus sanguis or Streptococcus pneumoniae type 25 pneumonia. , While lung apoptosis has also been demonstrated following CLP in multiple mouse strains, recently it has been questioned whether CLP causes lung injury. Acute lung injury causes increased death in multiple cells within the lung, and intratracheal injection of lipopolysaccharide induces apoptosis in alveolar cells, neutrophils, and macrophages. , This process is associated with upregulation of Fas in alveolar and inflammatory cells, and lung injury can be blocked by administration of an anti-Fas antibody. Both epithelial and endothelial apoptosis also occur in the lung in a rat trauma–hemorrhagic shock model in a caspase-3-dependent (epithelial) and caspase-3-independent (endothelial) manner.
Pyroptosis is an inflammatory or immunogenic form of RCD that depends on the formation of membrane pores by members of the gasdermin protein family often as a consequence of inflammasome (made up of inflammatory caspase) activation. Pyroptosis relies on the activation of caspase-1 and caspase-11, which are involved in cytokine maturation and necrotic cell death, respectively. Pyroptosis results in rapid plasma-membrane rupture and release of proinflammatory intracellular contents. Caspase-1-dependent plasma membrane pores dissipate ionic gradients, producing a net increased osmotic pressure, water influx, cell swelling, and, eventually, osmotic lysis. Danger to the host is sensed extracellularly through Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and intracellularly by Nod-like receptors (NLRs) resulting in initiation of signaling cascades that activate nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and IFN-regulatory factor (IRF)-dependent pathways and inflammatory cytokine production, including IFN-α, IFN-β, TNF, interleukin (IL)-12, IL-6, IL-8, and pro-IL-1β. Low levels of active caspase-1 stimulate cell-survival responses, control intracellular bacterial growth, and mediate inflammatory cytokine production. However, when caspase-1 activation passes a threshold, cells undergo pyroptosis and release inflammatory cellular contents. In humans, inflammasome activation and pyroptosis are associated with multiple-organ damage after trauma, including ARDS, acute liver injury, acute kidney injury, myocardial dysfunction, secondary brain and spinal cord injury, and endothelial barrier permeability and coagulopathy.
Caspase-independent forms of regulated cell death
Necroptosis is an immunogenic caspase-independent form of RCD that is initiated through a variety of receptors, including death receptors, viral nucleotide sensing receptors, TLRs, and IFNs via intracellular signaling that occurs through the serine-threonine protein kinases receptor-interaction proteins 1 and 3 (RIPK1 and RIPK3). , RIPK3 phosphorylation of mixed-lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) results in the trafficking of activated MLKL to the cell membrane, which it then permeabilizes, allowing for cell swelling, calcium influx, and necrotic cell death (see Fig. 83.2 ). Necroptosis is seen in animal models of critical illness, including viral and bacterial infections, severe inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis neuronal disorders, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Necroptosis has been confirmed in human disorders and mechanistic aspects, and clinical relevance has been reviewed. ,
Necroptotic pathways of cell death have been implicated in preclinical models in a number of clinical disease processes, including sepsis, viral infections, stroke, myocardial infarction, pancreatitis, acute kidney injury, and inflammatory bowel disease. Notably, deletion of RIP3 results in a substantial survival advantage in mice undergoing CLP. When mice deficient in apoptosis-inhibitors are subjected to influenza infection, they suffer significant lung epithelial cell destruction via RIP3 and display increased mortality compared with wild-type controls. Further, mice deficient in the apoptotic adaptor FAS-associated death domain protein (FADD) develop a severe and erosive colitis similar to that seen in Crohn colitis and, like human colitis, the inflammation in FADD-deficient mice is largely TNF-α driven. Interestingly, inflammatory colon lesions in these animals are prevented by deletion of the necroptotic protein RIP3. TNF-α-dependent skin conditions can also be cured in animals by deleting necroptotic proteins, suggesting that these pathways may be involved in a host of human diseases that prominently feature TNF-α as a mediator. , Beyond tissue-specific processes, deletion of RIP1 has been shown to cause perinatal lethality associated with severe systemic inflammation at birth with cell necrosis via RIP3-MLKL.
Autophagy is a lysosomal degradation system that is triggered by starvation, exercise, or cellular stress that recycles proteins and organelles (such as mitochondria in a process termed mitophagy ) into metabolic precursors to promote cell survival ( Fig. 83.3 ). This catabolic process occurs by the formation of intracellular vesicles created from isolated portions of cell membranes that engulf cytoplasmic content and fuse with lysosomes, forming an autophagolysosome that can remove damaged organelles, toxic protein aggregates, and intercellular bacteria. Autophagy is proposed to be an adaptive response to critical illness that provides a crucial cellular repair process that is essential to reversal of organ dysfunction. Insufficient autophagy in prolonged critical illness may result in incomplete clearance of cellular damage due to illness and exacerbated by hyperglycemia and could explain lack of recovery from organ failure in prolonged critically ill patients. In mice deficient in liver-specific autophagy who underwent CLP, there was more hepatocyte apoptosis, more mitochondrial damage with increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) in hepatocytes, more systemic inflammation, less autophagic vacuoles, and an accelerated time to death compared with wild-type mice who also underwent CLP. These findings implicate liver autophagy as a protective mechanism in sepsis-induced organ failure through degradation of damaged mitochondria and in the prevention of apoptosis. In wild-type mice undergoing CLP, autophagy in the kidney was slowed in the first 24 hours after the induction of sepsis. The administration of rapamycin accelerated autophagy and protected the kidney from tubular epithelial injury during CLP-induced sepsis. Although mechanistic details of autophagy are still being studied, autophagy has been shown to regulate necroptosis, apoptosis, and pyroptosis in a context-specific manner. , , Therapies that activate autophagy during critical illness could accelerate recovery and/or attenuate continued damage of critical illness and speed organ recovery.
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Cristy Burne, Aussie STEM Stars: Fiona Wood, Wild Dingo Press, September 2020, 168pp., RRP $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781925893281
Dianne Wolfer, Aussie STEM Stars: Munjed Al Muderis, Wild Dingo Press, September 2020, 168pp., RRP $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781925893373
Claire Saxby, Aussie STEM Stars: Georgia Ward-Fear, Wild Dingo Press, September 2020, 168pp., RRP $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781925893342
The idea behind this new series from Wild Dingo Press is to tell the inspiring stories of world-leading Australians in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and maths. These first three titles cover two surgeons readers may have heard of and a young conservationist who has made a name for herself exploring the relationship between cane toads and goannas, among other animal studies.
Fiona Wood is well-known for her world-leading work with burns victims, especially after the Bali bombings, and the invention of spray-on skin. Among her many awards is Australian of the Year in 2005. Her story is one of striving to do well despite her childhood in a Yorkshire mining community. How she gained her education and training before coming to Australia is fascinating and an inspiration.
Munjed Al Muderis was originally an Iraqi who escaped his war-torn country and came to Christmas Island on a people-smuggling boat. He gained medical qualifications in his native country and overseas and his passion was always designing, developing, and fitting the world’s best prostheses for amputees. He has become a leader in a technique known as osseointegration and in 2020 is NSW Australian of the Year.
Georgia Ward-Fear is much younger but is at the forefront of conservation research. She has worked in disparate regions all over Australia but spent several years researching for her PhD in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. There she studied how goannas might be trained to avoid eating adult cane toads, which kills them.
These three volumes are all very enjoyable to read. They are well-written and the narrative flows like a novel. As the target readership is 10-13 -year-olds, much of the early parts of the books focus on each of the person’s childhood before moving on to their education, research, and professional careers. Small fact boxes add extra information and drawings by Diana Silkina break up the text. Photos of each person would have been a nice touch and I don’t know that reading these books will prompt any young readers to pursue an interest in the STEM subjects, but these are engaging, accessible biographies about Australians in these fields.
Reviewed by Lynne Babbage
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It's inevitable. You're going to sit at some point during the day. Whether it's at a desk for your job, long road trips in the car, or just lounging at home after a long day, sitting for long periods of time can have lasting effects on the body and your overall health. Today we're going to outline a couple of negative effects of sitting, and some simple fixes you can do to prevent long term complications.
1) Sitting for long periods can increase your chance for clots in the lower extremities. When you shit down, it's very difficult for blood to be pumped back towards your heart. Your heart pumps out oxygenated blood to the rest of the body through your arteries. It also receives de-oxygenated blood back through your veins. When you sit down, it puts pressures on veins that normally would carry blood back to the heart. This results in the pooling of de-oxygenated and slow moving blood in the legs.
Now, other than the obvious threat of a smaller amount of blood getting back to the heart, we also need to highlight that the slower blood moves, the more likely it is to clot. Pooling of blood in the legs, creates slower moving blood in the legs, which means the legs are more susceptible to clot.
Solution: Get Up and Move Frequently! Contrary to popular belief, just because you exercise after work, doesn't mean you won't be affected by the negative effects of sitting. Of course exercise is great for us, but it doesn't do anything in the moment, as blood is pooling in our legs when we sit. This is why, it is important to move for about 10-15 minutes every hour so kick start your circulation and keep your blood flowing back to the heart.
2) Sitting Can Negatively Impact Your Blood Pressure. Let's use a visual for this one. Imagine you're holding two garden hoses in each hand. Both hoses are being fed the same amount of water. With your right hand, you hold the hose with a light grip. With your left hand, you squeeze the hose as hard as you can.
What would happen? Of course, the water would flow more efficiently out the hose with the relaxed grip. But what happens internally to the water in the hose being gripped tightly? The harder the grip, the more pressure that the water is under, and the harder the water has to work to reach the open end of the hose.
Veins and arteries are the exact same way. When we're standing and moving around, the "hoses" are not kinked which allows for the easy flow of blood around the body. When we kink our "hoses", i.e add pressure to them through sitting, the blood flow has to work harder to navigate the body. Can you imagine what happens to your blood pressure when you remain sitting for 4-5 hours at a time? Not even exercise can undo that.
Solution: Get up and move! 10-15 minutes every hour on the hour. You may say "I just have too much going on!". To which I would say, take your next phone call on your cell phone, and walk around as you talk. Your health is important.
3) This is our most important one: Sitting Can Wreak Havoc on Your Spine Health and Communication Pathways.
When you sit down, are your core and back muscles performing normally or abnormally? When you hunch over a keyboard, is that a natural position for your head and neck to be in? When you rest one of your elbows on a tabletop for hours at a time, is that healthy for your back? Get the picture?
"What's the big deal? It's just the spine..."
The big deal IS. That your spine is the highway that connects all of your body's functions to your brain. When you're aligned properly, communication pathways remain open which allows for efficient communication head to toe. When you're misaligned, your neurological pathways become jammed and you start losing your ability to function efficiently. Sometimes, it even leads to complete disruptions of function called neurological interference.
You spend a lot of time on your phone. On average, your neck and head are in a fixed position, bent forward over a screen. Over time, your neck is going to become sore after being held in a position that it normally isn't designed to be in. After a while, your muscles will ache, you'll start feeling pain/stiffness in the vertebrae, and you may even get a headache or "pinching" across your trap muscles.
Would you consider headaches to be normal? I wouldn't... In other words, because your cervical (neck) spine is misaligned, it's becoming inflamed from the additional pressure. The inflammation is now pinching off nerves that control sensation, which ultimately causes the headaches.
Symptoms due to neurological interference are much more pertinent than you think.
Solution: Get to Your Nearest Chiropractor!
Chiropractors specialize in spine alignment and can relieve pain and inflammation from neurological pathways so your body is functioning at it's best.
These 3 ailments/conditions are just the tip of the iceberg. Make sure you start applying some of these changes to your life today! Otherwise you'll find out first hand why "sitting, is the new smoking".
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- These deepwater fish are highly susceptible to overfishing. Recent management plans aim to reduce fishing pressure and rebuild stocks.
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Books on organic gardening methods will help you learn how to grow your own vegetables without using harmful synthetic chemical herbicides and pesticides. Growing vegetables organically also means using organic soil-building techniques and using natural insect controls. Whether you want to grow a small salad garden or a year's supply of vegetables for your family, organic methods will allow you to produce a safe, healthy alternative to chemical-laden foods.
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource
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"Organic Gardening for Dummies"
"Organic Gardening for Dummies" is a member of the Dummies series and contains straightforward ideas and explanations of organic gardening principles and methods. It also has chapters on diseases and insect pests, as well as humane ways to control other animal pests. The organic fertilizer information is easy to understand, and the soil-building concepts are explained thoroughly. The list price in June 2010 is $19.99.
"Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening""
Companion planting is an organic gardening concept that uses plants' natural capabilities to help each other grow, inhibit growth or repel insect pests. Interplanted species can also limit the spread of diseases by not having row after row of the same vegetables planted together. The list price for "Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening" in June 2010 is $14.95.
"Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens"
Each easy-to-follow guide to different types of small organic gardens in "Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens" is complete with a list of materials and instructions. Even if you have never planted a seed before, this book will tell you exactly what to do and how to do it. The garden ideas were developed for small spaces, such as an urban balcony or the corner of a tiny yard. Bag gardens, vertical growing and growing vegetables as borders are covered. The book contains basic organic growing information so you can grow your own vegetables easily. The list price in June 2010 is $19.95.
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Crime Prevention Tips
The police department's crime prevention unit offers the following crime prevention tips to keep the campus and members of the campus community safe and secure.
The JCCC Crime Prevention Unit suggests you contact the JCCC Campus Police at ext. 4111 when you observe suspicious activity, because what may concern you concerns the Campus Police. Make safety your first priority when it comes to crime prevention awareness on campus. Your safety is our first concern.
- Auto Theft Prevention
- Child Safety: Know the Rules for Personal Safety
- Crime Prevention Awareness
- Got Valuables?
- Holiday Crime Prevention Top 10 Wish List
- Stalking: What to Know
- Vacation Safety Tips
- What’s in a Name?
- Where's Your Purse?
- Winter Driving Safety
- Workplace Safety and Self-Protection
Car thieves and burglars look for easy targets such as unlocked cars with valuable items left in plain sight. The JCCC Crime Prevention Unit offers safety and security tips as well as preventive measures to deter auto thefts and burglaries:
- Never leave your keys in your car when it is unattended.
- Do not leave valuables inside your car in plain view.
- Check your car door's lock by pulling up on the door handle, especially when using your remote lock.
- Use your car alarm.
- Avoid parking your vehicle in locations where theft and burglary are likely.
- When parking your vehicle in the evening, park underneath a street light or in a well-lit area.
- Illuminate your home's driveway and garage entry.
- During cooler seasons, never leave your car unlocked while warming it up.
By following these simple crime prevention tips, you may reduce the chance of becoming a victim. Auto thieves are opportunists who seek out cars to steal and break into.
Campus police are available upon request to provide a security escort to campus locations or vehicles. They also provide motorist assistance. For assistance, call the campus police department at 913-469-2500 (913-339-6699 TDD/TTY).
Today’s world has changed so much since we were children. Now, as adults, we may realize why our parents were always asking us where we were going. Below are some basic safety rules parents should make sure children are aware of as they run and play in a busy community.
- Always check with your parents or guardian before you go anywhere and let them know when you have arrived safely at your destination.
- Use the "Buddy System" and try not to go anywhere alone even when you're playing.
- Know your full name, address and phone number as well as your parents' full name, too!
- Say "No" to anyone who tries to touch you or treat you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable or scared.
- Tell your parents if you feel scared, confused or uncomfortable about any situation.
- Avoid taking shortcuts (alleys, isolated pathways, etc.) as you walk. Always use well-traveled, well-lit routes.
- Never accept a ride with anyone you do not know and stay away from people who try to lure you to their car.
- If you get separated from your parents in a public place, immediately go to a store employee or checkout counter and inform the person you are lost and need help in locating your parents.
Remember these rules to live by and always think safety and security.
|Vehicle moving slowly and aimlessly in a repetitive manner up and down a street or parking lot.||The vehicle occupants could be casing a vehicle to burglarize or vandalize.|
|A parked vehicle containing one or more persons, especially at an unusual hour or a secluded location.||The persons inside could be lookouts for an accomplice involved in a building or auto burglary in progress.|
|Subjects are observed on campus loading up a vehicle with valuables.||This could be a burglary or theft in progress.|
|An abandoned vehicle is parked on campus with or without a license plate or with vehicle damage.||This could be a stolen vehicle used in the commission of a crime and then abandoned.|
|Subject loitering around a parked car located on campus.||Auto burglar waiting to enter or steal a vehicle or vandalize it.|
|A "business transaction" conducted in a park or around campus.||Possible drug sales transaction or sale of stolen items.|
When campus officers speak with JCCC students and employees about their personal property, some of them say they are not too concerned about their valuables being stolen. They don't believe they have anything of value that someone would want to steal. Campus police believe otherwise and point to all the stolen items they have seen on burglary reports. Below is a partial list of items that have been reported stolen:
- Designer clothes
- Credit cards/checkbooks/money
- JCCC student ID cards
- Cell phones
- Other electronic devices
- Car keys
Next time you think you don't have any items on a burglar’s list - THINK TWICE! The best prevention is to keep valuable items on your person or in a secure place, and not leave them unattended. It is important to remember that there are many items of value on campus that thieves would love to get their hands on.
- Lock your windows and doors before you leave the house.
- Do not put gifts in view of your windows.
- If you are going out of town, use an automatic timer for your home’s lights.
- Record the serial numbers of expensive items you have purchased.
- Lock your car, even if you’re gone for only a few minutes.
- Avoid carrying large amounts of cash. Pay for your purchases with a debit or credit card.
- Notify issuers immediately if your credit or debit card is lost or stolen.
- Stay alert to your surroundings and the people around you – especially in parking lots.
- Don't advertise the new items you have in your home. Flatten empty boxes and place them in a trash receptacle.
- Be a "Nosy Neighbor." Watch for suspicious activity in your neighborhood and call the police immediately if suspicious activity is observed.
Stalking is defined as repeated conduct that is carried out over a period of time which causes you to fear for your safety or the safety of someone you know. Stalking does not have to result in physical injury in order to make it a crime. The law protects you even if the conduct of the stalker is not done with the intent to scare you. Are you or someone you know being stalked?
- Is someone repeatedly following you or someone you know?
- Is someone repeatedly communicating undesirably with you directly or indirectly?
- Is someone persistently watching you, your home or work place?
- Have you been threatened by this person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you may be a victim of stalking.
If you think you are being stalked:
- Contact the police, a community victim advocacy service, or a college counselor, or talk to a friend, co-worker or family member.
- Maintain detailed notes about the stalking conduct (dates, times, places, actions, threats). It will be easier to explain and remember if it is written down.
- Pay attention to incidents that may seem coincidental. Are you running into the same person more frequently?
- Keep all recorded telephone messages, emails, gifts, letters or notes that have been sent to you.
- Keep a list of emergency phone numbers handy. The emergency phone numbers should include the police, immediate family members, friends, co-workers and your victim advocacy group.
Take stalking seriously! If you are being stalked, contact the police.
While planning for your upcoming summer vacation, remember to include plans for the security of your residence. Whether you're away for just a weekend trip or an extended getaway, make your home part of your to do check list.
- Tell a trusted neighbor you will be heading out of town and ask they keep an eye on your home.
- Request they collect any mail or newspapers that may be delivered.
- Make sure all of your home's windows and doors are secure.
- If you leave a vehicle parked outside do not leave the garage remote inside the vehicle.
- Use interior and exterior lights on timers and exterior motion detection or dusk to dawn lighting.
Personal Safety While Traveling
- Always try to be as alert as possible to your surroundings.
- Keep an eye on your baggage and items of value you may be carrying especially in airports and hotels.
- Preplan your travels so you know where you are going in advance.
- Keep a cell phone handy.
- Park your vehicle in a well-lit area and avoid places that may make you vulnerable to crime.
Hotel & Motel Security
- Always keep your hotel room door lock; do not prop the door open if you are waiting for someone.
- Use the door viewer before opening the door for someone.
- Store valuables in the hotel/motel safe if available and avoid leaving valuables unattended in the room.
- Inquire if the location of where you will be staying is in a safe neighborhood.
Your name may be the most important identity you "carry" with you everyday because it is who you are. Identity theft predators know this and want to steal your identity and use your name for criminal activities. The following safety tips may help you keep your name secure and protected:
- Shred any documents with personal information.
- Be mindful of whom you give information to over the telephone, smartphone, electronic tablet or other communication devices as well as the Internet.
- Protect your identity by never clicking on links sent to you in unsolicited emails. Use firewalls, anti-spyware and anti-virus software to protect your computer.
- Avoid using obvious passwords like your birth date, the last four digits of your Social Security number or your home address.
- Periodically check your credit history and financial statements for any discrepancies.
- While on campus, do not leave your personal information unattended.
These are just a few ways you can help keep your good name to yourself and feel secure in the knowledge that your name has not been compromised.
Recent crime-trend reports show the number of purse thefts appear to be increasing. Unfortunately, a victim of a purse theft may also become a victim of identity theft. The JCCC Crime Prevention Unit wants to remind you to keep a close eye on your purse and remember the following tips:
- Conceal your purse under the seat of your car or place it inside your trunk.
- Place your purse inside a locked closet or drawer when on campus.
- Never leave your purse unattended on campus including under your desk or in a break room.
- If possible, place your debit/credit card and other necessary items in your front pants pocket.
- To reduce your losses, carry as few items as possible in your purse.
- Do not place your purse strap around your neck. In the event of an attempted purse snatching, the sudden impact could injure your neck or cause you to fall.
- Always walk with confidence and be aware of your surroundings.
- If your purse is stolen, report the theft immediately to JCCC Campus Police.
- Contact your debit/credit card provider immediately if you become a victim of a purse theft.
Winter driving in Kansas can be challenging and hazardous. But with planning and preparation you may overcome these hazards. Common sense is the key. Monitoring the weather, traveling only when necessary, keeping your speed down and driving defensively can help you make it to your destination safely.
Driving in winter conditions can be dangerous, especially for those who have become rusty at winter driving during the warmer weather. With winter, we need to familiarize ourselves with the basic safe driving tips. Driving on snow and ice demands concentration, awareness, skill and preparedness. The following are a few suggestions that will help ensure your safety during the winter driving season:
- Prepare your vehicle for winter. Just as cold affects the human body, it also affects your vehicle.
- Charge your cell phone before you leave and don't forget to BUCKLE UP!
- Check your car’s fluids. Make sure that your radiator is winterized and that you have a full tank of windshield washing fluid. Keep your vehicle’s fuel tank at least half full.
- Ensure that your tires have adequate tread and are properly inflated. Traction is extremely important while driving in winter weather.
- Equip your vehicle with good wiper blades. They will wear quickly in the cold and excessive ice of Kansas winters.
- Have your vehicle's exhaust system checked. Small leaks can lead to carbon monoxide – a colorless and odorless gas - entering the passenger compartment. Small amounts can lead to drowsiness and have fatal consequences.
- Check your vehicle's belts, hoses and brake system for excessive wear. Replace or repair any worn parts.
- Increase the following distance between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you. Ice and snow significantly increase your stopping distances, so maintain a safe distance. Also, reduce your speed. Driving too fast on snow and ice greatly increases the chance of losing control of your vehicle.
- If you must drive during hazardous weather conditions, give yourself plenty of time to arrive safely at your destination.
- Accelerate slowly and brake gently. Make turns slowly and gradually, especially in heavily traveled areas like intersections that may become icy from snow that has melted and refrozen. A light foot on the gas is less likely to lead to tires slipping on ice and snow. When coming to a stop, pump your brakes unless your vehicle has an anti-lock braking system (ABS). Read your vehicles owner’s manual for more information about your braking system.
- Clean frost, snow and ice off your vehicle’s windows, mirrors and lights before driving in winter conditions. Use your headlights for better visibility for both you and oncoming traffic.
- Be aware of black ice, which is virtually transparent and invisible to drivers. Also, reduce your speed when crossing bridges, because they are prone to ice.
- If your car loses traction and goes into a skid, steer toward the direction you want to go. Anticipate a second skid in the opposite direction as your vehicle straightens out.
While away from home and at your place of employment, it may be easy to forget about crime prevention and safety awareness. When in a work environment, your thoughts may be about deadlines, budgets and bottom lines. The following tips address safety and self-protection in the workplace.
- Keep an eye on your belongings such as wallets, purses, cell phones and laptops. Lock up items of value.
- Be attentive to people who enter your work environment whom you do not recognize or who look out of place.
- Have emergency phone numbers available for immediate use and have a plan of action in case of an emergency.
- If you are the first employee to arrive at work, be alert to your surroundings.
- When working after regular business hours, lock the entrance to your office to keep out uninvited visitors and always let someone know you’re working late.
- When using an elevator or stairwell, try to use them with people you know.
- When walking from the parking lot, proceed with purpose. This may signal to criminals that you are aware of your surroundings.
- Campus Police offer security escorts to your vehicle – call 4112 for this service.
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DUNBLANE – 25 YEARS ON
by Gun Control Network on 11-03-2021
GUN CONTROL IN GREAT BRITAIN SINCE 1996
Saturday 13th March marks the 25th anniversary of Britain’s worst shooting outrage when 16 young children and their teacher were killed at Dunblane Primary School. Many more children and three other teachers were injured during a shooting spree that lasted for just a few minutes. The Anniversary will be an especially poignant day for remembering all the victims and reflecting on how much was lost.
It is also appropriate to recall how Britain responded to that awful event. The handguns the gunman took to the school were all legally-held, and to prevent such an atrocity happening again people called for a change to the gun laws. Campaign groups formed, petitions were signed, numerous speeches, media statements and interviews were given, and politicians were lobbied. Foremost among those promoting and articulating the case for legislative change, and reflecting the public mood, were the Snowdrop Campaign, set up by a group of mothers local to Dunblane, the families of the Dunblane victims themselves, and the Gun Control Network (GCN). And despite the reluctance of the then Conservative Government and against the express wishes of many in the Establishment change was achieved. As a result of the campaigning two Acts of Parliament were passed by successive governments in 1997, which together led to a complete ban on the private ownership of handguns. Britain became a safer place.
Prior to 1996, and despite a previous gun massacre at Hungerford in 1987, legislators had prioritised the views and desires of the shooting community over issues of public safety. However, following Dunblane the way in which discussions on gun issues were conducted began to shift. It would no longer be appropriate for the only voices heard to be those of the gun lobby. Gradually, it was recognised by legislators that others with alternative perspectives had to be consulted and their views taken on board. When GCN was launched, four months after Dunblane, its aim had been not only to become part of the handgun ban campaign but also to ensure that Britain had an organisation that would continue to promote the case for tight gun controls, and provide a counter, previously lacking, to the frequently self-interested views of the shooting community.
Over the past 25 years GCN has continued to fulfil that role, suggesting further legislative changes and highlighting ongoing concerns and legislative loopholes, which are being exploited by some gun enthusiasts and compromise public safety. Since the handgun ban, GCN has, for example, played a part in the introduction of tighter controls over the sale and use of imitation weapons, of stricter measures on the use of air weapons and, in Scotland, of an air weapon licensing regime. Firearms crime statistics reflect the success of these tighter gun control measures. There has been a significant decrease in the overall level of firearms crime since the late 1990s. Indeed, comparisons with other industrialised nations show that Britain remains as safe a place as any from gun crime.
The path of tighter gun control that was followed by Britain in the aftermath of Dunblane has been held up as an example and, with the notable exception of the USA, adopted by other countries. Britain’s current tight gun laws can rightly be considered the gold standard and are now lauded by politicians of all parties, yet there is never room for complacency. It is imperative that GCN and others continue to alert legislators to practices and developments in the use of guns which pose a threat to the general public. Unfortunately, in spite of all the positive changes made since 1996 there remains a tendency for some politicians to give the gun lobby’s positions undue weight. The misuse of air weapons remains a problem, especially with the UK Government’s failure to introduce licensing in England and Wales along the same lines as in Scotland. Loopholes which are allowing assault weapons to be used for practical shooting are another significant concern. And further progress requires greater governmental accountability over the management of the licensed gun stock and the public reporting of firearm-enabled crime.
An awful truth in relation to too many tragedies is that they happened because legislators had previously failed to act and only did so after the event. So it was with Dunblane in March 1996, with lessons not appropriately learnt after the events at Hungerford. Whilst we remember what happened at the primary school that day in 1996 and in the aftermath leading to the handgun ban and subsequent improvements to gun legislation, it is important to emphasise the need to be continually vigilant. Only by so doing can Britain remain the safer country it has become after Dunblane.
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Of the many narratives we hear, staying focused appears to be a mounting challenge. It appears, much of this has to do with distractions that come from staying online. That is why we extracted some pointers from Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport.
“Schedule in advance when you’ll use the internet, and then avoid it altogether outside these times. I suggest that you keep a notepad near your computer at work. On this pad, record the next time you’re allowed to use the internet. Until you arrive at that time, absolutely no network connectivity is allowed—no matter how tempting.
“The idea motivating this strategy is that the use of a distracting service does not, by itself, reduce your brain’s ability to focus. It’s instead the constant switching from low-stimuli/high-value activities to high-stimuli/low-value activities, at the slightest hint of boredom or cognitive challenge, that teaches your mind to never tolerate an absence of novelty. This constant switching can be understood analogously as weakening the mental muscles responsible for organizing the many sources vying for your attention. By segregating internet use (and therefore segregating distractions) you’re minimizing the number of times you give in to distraction, and by doing so you let these attention-selecting muscles strengthen.
“For example, if you’ve scheduled your next internet block thirty minutes from the current moment, and you’re beginning to feel bored and crave distraction, the next thirty minutes of resistance become a session of concentration calisthenics. A full day of scheduled distraction therefore becomes a full day of similar mental training.
“While the basic idea behind this strategy is straightforward, putting it into practice can be tricky. To help you succeed, here are three important points to consider.”
Point #1: This strategy works even if your job requires lots of internet use and/or prompt e-mail replies.
Point #2: Regardless of how you schedule your internet blocks, you must keep the time outside these blocks absolutely free from internet use.
Point #3: Scheduling internet use at home as well as at work can further improve your concentration training.
Stay safe and have a good day!
In this issue
- Why is urban India underdeveloped?
- Bitcoin spells trouble
- The Serenity Prayer
Why is urban India underdeveloped?
“The delivery of basic services is often adjusted depending on the social status of concerned populations”
Why is it that many citizens of urban India still lack access to the most basic amenities? What has prevented policy makers from planning for it for all these decades? These are questions Marie-Helene Zerah, a researcher, has attempted to answer in an upcoming book in her native French. A review of her book got our attention and we’ve highlighted some passages from it.
“[T]he ‘obsession with metropolises’ has translated into a growing marginalization of smaller cities. Contrary to popular belief, the bulk of urbanisation in India is not occurring in megacities, but in more modest, unassuming locations. In India, 70% of urban dwellers live in cities with a population inferior to one million inhabitants… Yet, policy makers have largely ignored this trend and concentrated most investments in larger cities, as it was the case with the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), and now with the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the Smart Cities Mission. As a consequence, smaller urban units—particularly census towns and cities with a population under 100,000 residents—suffer from harsh infrastructural deficiencies.
“Big Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), for instance, have been disappointing. The idea seemed simple: the government would contract private companies to supply water or electricity at the scale of a city, bringing in the process better technologies and better expertise. True enough, this model did obtain encouraging results in a few cities. But, more commonly, these partnerships could not fulfil their promises. Private firms, overwhelmed by the proliferation of illegal connections and inhibited by the reluctance of citizens to pay more, often remained unable to find a financial equilibrium.”
We sure look forward to this book.
Bitcoin spells trouble
It was with much interest that we watched the prices of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin melt and rise through all of last week. What way will it go next? This is a question Paul Krugman is asked often and he weighed in with his reflections in The New York Times on Friday.
“One fact that gives even crypto sceptics like me pause is the durability of gold as a highly valued asset.”
“Second, there’s a strong element of libertarian derp—assertions that fiat currencies, government-issued money without any tangible backing, will collapse any day now. True, Britain, whose currency was still standing last time I looked, went off the gold standard 90 years ago. But who’s counting?
“Given all this, are cryptocurrencies headed for a crash sometime soon? Not necessarily.”
He goes on to point out how gold is thought of as precious and people pay a premium for the mystique it invokes and how it is possible to imagine cryptocurrencies going that route as well. Krugman doesn’t sound enamoured by Bitcoin though.
- Technobabble, Liberterian Derp and Bitcoin (The New York Times)
- Bitcoin Is the Apogee of Rational Speculation (The Wall Street Journal)
- Why do we get distracted and what can we do about it? Tune in to this masterclass with Nir Eyal on how to get your jobs done and lead a life that’s true to your values.
- While the debate around the value of fungible tokens such as cryptocurrencies are out in the public domain, there is another debate on how to define non fungible tokens (NFTs) in the digital world. ICYMI, this is storming bastions such as art and creating new playing fields Aparajita Bhattacharyya pointed out a few days ago.
The Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
In spite of having no religious affiliations or spiritual inclinations, a glance at the words in this prayer composed by Reinhold Niebuhr sound soothing. ~ Charles Assisi
What’s helping you get through these tough times? Send us the song, poem, quote that is your balm now. And we will share it through this newsletter.
And if you missed previous editions of this newsletter, they’re all archived here.
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Team Founding Fuel
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Methodology for integrated design of fluids and processes using PC-SAFT
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The interaction of working fluid and process is a crucial characteristic of numerous processes in energy engineering and process engineering. In energy engineering, the efficiency of important processes, e.g. chiller, heat pumps or Organic Rankine Cycles, depends on the selected working fluid of the cycle. Important processes in process engineering also depend on working fluids, which are not used for the actual production of the manufactured product, but serve as a chemical auxiliary (e.g., solvents).
Today, working fluid selection and process optimization are carried out separately following a two-stage approach: In a first stage, promising working fluid candidates are preselected based on heuristics and an individual process optimization is performed in a second stage. If the optimal working fluid is not covered by the heuristics, the separation of working fluid selection and process optimization leads to suboptimal solutions and is thus not suitable to ensure a thermodynamic and economic optimal efficiency of the process.
In cooperation with the Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering of Stuttgart University, a model-based and generally applicable method for integrated design of working fluid and process is developed in this project.
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The aim of this research is the simultaneous optimization of processes and working fluid. Here, the focus of the LTT is on Organic Rankine Cycles, which enable power generation from low-temperature heat.Copyright: © LTT
For this purpose, the continuous-molecular targeting computer-aided molecular design (CoMT-CAMD) approach, which is co-developed by the LTT, should be extended. This approach is a completely unique and novel framework in comparison to conventional design approaches. The link between a detailed process model and a thermodynamically consistent fluid model, the PC-SAFT equation of state, enables identifying the optimal working fluid and the corresponding optimal process parameters by optimizing a process-based objective function. The working fluid selection can be performed based on database search or computer-aided molecular design (CAMD). Hereby, novel and promising working fluids can be identified. Consequently, the CoMT-CAMD approach enables to use the full potential of a low-temperature heat source and allows for tailoring a process to the specific application.
Schilling, J., Entrup, M., Hopp, M., Gross, J., and Bardow, A. (2021). Towards optimal mixtures of working fluids: Integrated design of processes and mixtures for Organic Rankine Cycles. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 135, 110179.
Schilling, J., Horend C., and Bardow, A. (2020). Integrating superstructure-based design of molecules, processes and flowsheets. AIChE Journal, 66(5), e16903.
Lampe, M., de Servi, C., Schilling, J., Bardow, A., and Colonna, P. (2019). Towards the integrated design of Organic Rankine Cycle power plants: A method for the simultaneous optimization of working fluid, thermodynamic cycle and turbine. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 141(11), 111009.
Schilling, J., Eichler, K., Kölsch, B., Pischinger, S., and Bardow, A. (2019). Integrated design of working fluid and organic Rankine cycle utilizing transient exhaust gases of heavy-duty vehicles. Applied Energy, 255, 113207.
Schilling, J., Tillmanns, D., Lampe, M., Hopp, M., Gross, J., and Bardow, A. (2017). From molecules to dollars: Integrating molecular design into thermo-economic process design using consistent thermodynamic modeling. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 2(3), 301-320.
Schilling, J., Lampe, M., Gross, J., and Bardow, A. (2017). 1-stage CoMT-CAMD: An approach for integrated design of ORC process and working fluid using PC-SAFT. Chemical Engineering Science, 159, 217-230.
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Arctic atmospheric pollution is now a major international issue. This volume presents the most authoritative review of this increasingly important subject for an audience of both scientists and administrators concerned with worldwide, as well as polar, pollution problems.
Arctic Air Pollution is an edited collection of papers, first presented at a conference held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge in 1985. Building on foundations established at earlier meetings, this volume examines the problem of Arctic air pollution in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions from leading authorities in chemistry, ecology, climatology and epidemiology. To chemists, physicists and climatologists, it presents scientific problems. Ecologists are concerned with environmental threats; medical researchers with potential threats to human health. International lawyers and administrators are concerned with the legal implications of pollutants transferred across continents. Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic change worldwide?
Paperback re-issue; originally published in 1987 but now out of print.
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Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a non-personal finance book of interest to Simple Dollar readers.
One of the biggest underlying themes of The Simple Dollar is that personal finance is merely a tool to improve the quality of your life. Of course, it’s an unwieldy and dangerous tool, one that, if used without care and forethought, can add quite a lot of difficulty and pain to your life. Take credit cards, for example.
Perhaps the most enjoyable book on happiness I’ve yet read, though, is The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. A quick note: I know Gretchen professionally, have exchanged several messages with her over the years, and enjoy reading her excellent blog on happiness topics. Of course, if I didn’t like her writing already, I might never have read the book – which I suppose means I already knew I would like the book before I opened the cover. But enough with that…
The Happiness Project largely focuses on Gretchen’s own experience applying mountains of classic advice on happiness (from Thoreau to Epicurus to the Dalai Lama to Oprah) to see what actually worked – and what didn’t. It’s mostly written in a memoir form covering a single year in which she applied these ideas, which works really well for the material covered (and makes it engaging to read).
Although I’ve had this book for a while, I decided to save this review until the start of the new year because it relates so well to the resolutions that people make for themselves.
January – Boost Energy
It’s often hard to tackle all the things we want to do in life if we don’t have a high level of energy. If your energy is sapped, it becomes all that much easier to simply take the path of least resistance and simply not work on the important things in life, which of course contributes greatly to a sense of unhappiness. Thus, there’s a great deal of sense in beginning a happiness journey by lifting one’s energy.
The two techniques that really stood out in this chapter – and in my own life – were to get more sleep and to simply move around more and get a bit of exercise. I’ll speak for myself in saying that when I don’t get adequate sleep for a few nights in a row, I feel tired and lethargic and unable to do much of anything productive. Similarly, when I fall off the “exercise wagon,” my energy level drops like a rock after about a week.
February – Remember Love
Marriages aren’t easy. Add kids and they become even more difficult. At times, marriages can seem like an emotional negative on the whole. What works? First, don’t expect appreciation for the things you do – and don’t feel a need to point them out and lord them over your partner. It does nothing more than instigate fighting and resentment over something you chose to do. If you want something done, do it and don’t use it as a psychological weapon.
Second, don’t just use your partner as someone to dump your problems on. Don’t blame them for problems. Don’t nag them over things left undone – if it’s undone, it must not occupy a high level of importance for them. Instead, focus on ways to accentuate your partner’s positives. What do they do well? Encourage that in a positive way instead of browbeating over the things they don’t do well. You’ll both wind up happier.
March – Aim Higher
There are few things that feel better than success, particularly when that success occurs at something you never expected to be successful at. When you think to yourself, “I could never do that,” then after investing work you find that you can do that, you’ll find yourself at a big emotional peak.
The best way to aim higher and go beyond what you think you’re capable of is to simply give it a shot. You should expect to fail at first. The first ten times. The first fifty times. That’s fine – you’re learning what it takes to succeed each time you fail. The key is to not give up, to not beat yourself up over the failure, and to get up and try again. Eventually, you will succeed – and that success will lift you high.
April – Lighten Up
People are often happiest when they’re doing something. Gretchen refers to this as “fog happiness” – a sense of happiness, or at least contentment, that comes from working towards a goal. Often, that happiness is borne of a sense that what you’re doing will make others happy.
Another big piece of the puzzle is to simply act happy. Act lighthearted. One effective way to do that is to simply sing on a regular basis – Gretchen suggests doing it in the morning. Play some simple pranks on other people. Do things that make you laugh. It’ll lift everything else.
May – Be Serious About Play
Happiness is often found when you seek out sources of happiness – things you do that bring you joy, no matter what they are. Those things are different for each of us, but when you find those things, devote some serious time to them. Block out time for fishing or for playing the piano. Those times will become powerful personal refreshers for you.
If you don’t have a hobby or activity that brings you such joy, find one. Set aside time to explore potential new interests – and block that time off. Make time for it. When you find something that brings joy into your life, it often works like a “happiness battery,” charging your entire day.
June – Make Time for Friends
Friendship is an easy thing to neglect in our busy lives. We often think to ourselves that our friends will always be around, but when we look again, we find that the friendship has drifted away. Even more importantly, we get joy from time spent with friends, but because we define such interactions as “important but not urgent,” we often replace them with the “urgent but not important” things in our lives.
One powerful way to maintain friendships is to schedule regular events with them. Start a weekly potluck dinner at your house and invite several friends (something we’re in the process of setting up). Another effective tool is to avoid gossip – don’t talk negatively about people behind their backs.
July – Buy Some Happiness
This chapter more or less focuses on one of the major themes of The Simple Dollar – the connection between money and happiness. Without directly touching on it, Gretchen touches on the idea of the fulfillment curve – that everyone has some point that maximizes the enjoyment they get from their spending. Spend too much and you’re not happy. Spend too little and you’re not happy, either.
How do you find that balance? Focus on just buying things you know will bring value into your life, but don’t chide yourself constantly for doing so. Look at your true passions and focus on things that complement those passions and don’t spend as much on the rest.
August – Contemplate the Heavens
Spirituality is another interesting beast in the stable of happiness. For many, there is a lot of solace in contemplating the mysteries of life. If you find peace in seeking these answers, seek them. Gretchen suggests reading about the lives – and beliefs – of spiritual leaders of all stripes (like the Dalai Lama or the Pope or any of a huge number of historical figures).
I find a lot of power in keeping a gratitude notebook. Simply by writing down five things I’m grateful for each day, I keep in mind how many gifts and blessings have found their way into my life. It also often opens a window into religious exploration for me as well.
September – Pursue a Passion
In a way, pursuing a passion builds upon many of the themes already in this book. If you discover you’re passionate about something, chase it. Dig in deep.
For me (and for many others), one great way to build upon a passion is to embark on a big, ambitious project that requires us to dig deep. Write a novel. Build a new deck. Master a particular technology. Start an ambitious blog. To do these things, you have to set aside time – but the projects themselves provide a lot of spiritual happiness and personal reward.
October – Pay Attention
Quite often in life, it’s easy to feel as though we’re swept along by currents largely out of our control. Yet, just as often, if we study our lives, those currents make sense. We have a surprising amount of control over them as well. Most importantly, that awareness can be a real source of happiness.
One effective way to do this is to meditate a bit each day. Spend some time doing nothing more than emptying your mind of all of the mental junk you’ve picked up and clear out that space. Looking at the world with fresher eyes makes all the difference.
November – Keep a Contented Heart
If you’re finding more happiness in your life, how do you maintain it? To put it simply, just pass it on.
It’s very easy to do this. Laugh when others are around. Help others out. Use good manners and be polite. Be positive when you talk about things. Surround yourself with people who do the same thing. This will all add up to a lot of reflected happiness in your life.
December – Boot Camp Perfect
If all of these changes seem overwhelming or impossible, remember one thing: the perfect is the enemy of the good. Take small steps and do them when you think of them or when you can do them. Put these ideas into your calendar and mark off some boundaries for your happiness – but don’t despair if something happens to take one of them out.
The key is to put little positive steps into your life and let the aggregate of those steps help you reach a higher level of personal joy.
Is The Happiness Project Worth Reading?
Regardless of any value you might get out of the advice, I think The Happiness Project is worth reading for the pure entertainment factor. I was sucked into the narrative and wound up reading it much more like a novel than like the nonfiction books I typically read for The Simple Dollar. In fact, this book has found its way into my “to-be-read” pile for purely personal re-reading, a rarity for the books I review for The Simple Dollar.
The advice itself throughout the book overlaps well with many of the books I’ve read on happiness. I think the real key comes through here: listen to yourself carefully and act on what you hear. Your mind is often telling you what you need to be happy, but we often overrule it because of what we’ve consciously decided makes us happy. We buy stuff when we don’t need it and get ourselves into financial pinches. We hang onto relationships too long. We stick with old tired patterns. Quite often, we know these are choices that will make us unhappy, but we don’t listen.
The Happiness Project is a very enjoyable read. It takes a topic – personal happiness – and runs with it, making it personally engaging and entertaining. Drier books fail to entertain at times and fictional narratives often fail to inform – this balances the two quite well. If you’re seeking your own happiness, read this one. You’ll enjoy it.
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When Hach Company engineers were designing the driveline of the Sigma SD900 Sampler, an all-weather device for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and waste water treatment plant (WWTP) process control, they needed a compact, zero backlash coupling to be positioned between the motor and a peristaltic pump. Coupling, size, vibration damping characteristics, and maintenance-free features were important factors in the decision making process. The SERVOMAX elastomer jaw couplings from R+W Coupling Technology suited the application well.
The Sigma SD900 water sample unit is easy to set up and program, delivering reliable results and reduced maintenance.
The unit has an outside diameter of 25 mm and an overall length of 26 mm, making it a good fit for the allowable installation space. Another important characteristic was the ability to damp vibration while compensating for misalignment. Hach engineers selected the elastomer insert with an 80 Sh A hardness to maximize these features. Once installed within the given technical parameters, the highly repeatable, SERVOMAX elastomer jaw couplings are wear and maintenance free.
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Homegrown & Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living gives you all of the information you need to get started homesteading, whether you live in the city or the country. It includes sections on gardening, canning, fruit trees, the home dairy, backyard poultry, and homegrown fiber, as well as recipes for all the things you grow.
Raising Goats Naturally: A Complete Guide to Milk, Meat, and More is about raising goats without scheduled doses of chemical or herbal dewormers and letting moms raise their babies as nature intended. Over the years I’ve discovered that with proper management of pastures and good nutrition, goats are extremely healthy and productive animals that don’t need constant drugs or veterinary attention. I’ve also learned that goats in different parts of the country have different needs, so rather than creating a one-size-fits-all approach to raising goats, I give you the information you need so that you can create an environment where your goats will thrive.
Ecothrifty: Cheaper, Greener Choices for a Happier, Healthier Life is basically my response to people who think that living a greener life has to be complicated and expensive. The reality is that you will save money and time by making truly greener choices, and you’ll be happier and healthier too!
The rest of this page will always be a work in progress because I will never stop reading!
If you’re not sure which animals you want to raise, Small Scale Livestock Farming is a good place to start. It also includes great info on hay, which I knew nothing about when we moved out here.
Another great book with a little information on everything is Storey’s Basic Country Skills.
If you’re thinking about getting goats, Living With Goats is a good book to give you an idea of what you’ll be facing as a goat owner. To learn a bit more about the book, check out my blog post when author Margaret Hathaway visited the blog in 2009.
If you think goats are cool, but aren’t sure whether you want them or not, you could start with Margaret’s first book, Year of the Goat, which is about their year traveling around the country visiting goat farms. Click here for my review. And if you already love goats, it’s also an excellent read!
If you’re like I was, you might assume that stuff just rots, so what do you need to know about composting? Well, as it turns out, there is a lot to know. The Idiot’s Guide to Composting by Chris McLaughlin is my personal favorite book on the subject. Want to know more? I hosted the author on my blog when the book came out in 2010, so click here to read about it.
To learn how to cook things like stew hens that you don’t find in a modern supermarket, you need to find cookbooks printed in the 1970s or earlier. They’re usually easy to find and very cheap at garage and estate sales, and I scored the entire 20-volume set of Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking from 1973 on Freecycle!
You can learn everything you need to know to get started canning your fresh garden produce by reading the Ball Blue Book. They come out with a new edition every year, but there is very little different from one edition to the next. You can find it wherever they sell canning supplies.
I had not read Michael Pollan’s books before we moved out here, but now that I’ve read them, I am so glad that we’re raising a lot of our own food and buying locally. My reviews of his books are here:
If you’ve ever thought that Americans are a little crazy about food fads, you might enjoy French Women Don’t Get Fat. I’ve never fallen for the carb craze or the protein craze or any of those “in” or “out” foods, like oat bran and margarine. If it’s real, I eat it; if it’s fake, I don’t. My daughter bought this book, and I don’t remember why I read it, but I loved it. Here are Part I and Part II of my review.
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Do you remember show and tell? In nursery school, I had to bring in an unusual item and explain it to my classmates. Unlike my friends, I didn’t settle for an ordinary toy or household object. Instead I brought my sister. The great advantage was that she was able to talk for herself. Over the years, I’ve found old-fashioned show and tell to be a useful teaching technique because it illustrates the point better than describing it can ever do.
Here are three blogging elements where show and tell can help you learn and improve your craft.
- Blog platform – Is your blog on firm ground? While you can choose to blog on a free blogging platform, such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Blogger, it’s better in the long run to use your own domain with open software such as WordPress. Using your own domain helps you build Google juice. Further, if you decide to move your blog later, the technical issues and headaches can be significant.Before you tell me that money’s an issue, getting a domain name and URL costs less than $35/year and, depending on the company, web hosting and software fees are between $50-$100 per annually.Mack Collier runs his Mack Collier blog on his own domain:
while Seth Godin uses a free version of Typepad for his Seth Godin Blog:
Interestingly, Cake Wrecks, a fun photo-based site which displays cakes gone terribly wrong, is on Blogspot. It’s useful to note that Cake Wrecks acts like a media site complete with third party advertising:
- Blog name – Would a blog by any other name be as interesting? Like parents, some bloggers spend hours deciding what to call their blog. Among the options are your business or personal name, category word(s) or a made up name. Using your name or your company’s name supports your branding efforts. The problem as Chris Brogan has pointed out is that this strength can be a drawback when you want to get others to help you handle the content creation duties. (Fortunately, Chris is a prolific writer.)
Another option is using basic words that identify your blog’s category or niche. This supports your search optimization if you own a URL like this. But bear in mind that if you use multiple words, readers may not know whether to smush them together or include dashes or underscores. Many of the blogs in this category are part of commerce sites since the URLs tend to be expensive and difficult to get. Therefore, they use a sub-domain like Wine.com’s blog ( http://blog.wine.com ).
With the proliferation of new, top-level domains coming online this January, you may be able to snag something unusual. The third option is to create a new word that makes sense to your readers and is associated with your topic’s keywords. A great example is SpinSucks which focuses on PR issues. As the title states, Gini Dietrich serves up tell-it-as-it-is PR content:
- Blog design – Does your blog stand out from the crowd graphically or is it an off-the-shelf cookie cutter? While design elements aren’t required, they go along way to making your blog more interesting and keeping visitors engaged. You can go for the stripped down version where the focus in on your words like Clay Shirkey whose blog hasn’t changed from its humble WordPress beginnings:
Alternatively, you can make minor changes to a theme such as Jay Baer’s Convince and Convert blog does. Convince and Convert is branded and integrates Jay’s photograph. This gives readers the feeling that Jay is talking to them which is important for a blog.
Social Media Examiner uses extensive design that flows through every element of the blog. Each of these three options makes a branding statement.
Often the tradeoff is how much money you’re willing to invest in graphics and related technology support to implement them.
By examining each of these show and tell examples, you can see how each blog has taken it’s own unique path. Despite these differences, each blog is successful because, like my sister, they use their own words.
Are there any other aspects of blogging for which you’d like to see some show and tell?
This post is dedicated to my sister and the memories of show and tell.
Here are some related blogging articles.
Photo credit: Woodley Wonder Works via Flickr
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In Hannah’s day women who were unable to bear children occupied a lower social status that women who had children and were viewed to be “cursed” or “afflicted”. They were also a woman’s “social security” in her old age. In view of these things one can imagine that Hannah may have wanted a child in order to gain more social status in her house hold, to secure her own comfort in the future, or she may have wanted to “show up” her husband’s other wife, Peninnah (who had children) and who often “…provoked her [Hannah] sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.”
Yet it is interesting to me that in her prayer to the Lord Hannah didn’t mention any of those motives as her reason for wanting a child. In 1 Samuel 1:11 we read about how Hannah, “in bitterness of soul” went to the tabernacle in Shiloh and “vowed a vow” to the Lord that “… if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life…” Hannah had gotten to a point in her life where she was ready and willing to surrender her will completely to the Lord. She doesn’t ask for a child for selfish reasons, all she asks for is the blessing of being a vessel to bring a child to earth. She knew from the very start that she wasn’t going to get to raise Samuel, she knew that he wouldn’t be there to take care of her in her old age, she knew that she wouldn’t get to dress him up and parade him in front of Peninnah or the other women. In fact, she knew she would have to face one of the hardest tasks any woman could face-- turning her child completely over to the Lord. She knew all this before she even conceived Samuel and yet she still wanted him.
In vs. 24 of 1 Samuel 1 we read more about her sacrifice and the condition of her heart, “And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh: and the child was young. And she said… I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshiped the Lord there. ”
We don’t know for sure how old Samuel was but women in Hannah’s culture often breastfed their children into their toddler hood and didn’t wean them until they were around 3 or 4 years old. My little son is turning three soon and as I think about Hannah and her little Samuel my heart aches for what she must have felt during those years she nursed him. I wonder if she had a constant battle going on in her head and heart about whether or not to honor her vow to the Lord. She easily could she could have kept Samuel and no one, except the Lord, would ever have known. It is such an example to me of her faith and integrity that Hannah honored her vow to the Lord and gave her little son to the Lord like she had promised. I can only imagine her pain as she walked away from the tabernacle leaving behind her little son, knowing that from that point on that she would only see him once a year when her family would bring their offering to the tabernacle. Did Samuel cry for her as she left? My heart aches as I imagine her weeping that night as she rode back to her tent, still filled with Peninnah’s passel of children, empty handed.
Yet despite the sorrow she must have felt she still found voice to praise God. In chapter 2 of 1 Samuel is Hannah’s psalm in which she sings “ My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord… There is none holy as the Lord; for there is none beside thee… for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed… The Lord killeth, and makest alive; he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up… the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he hath set the world upon them.” (vs. 1,2,6,8).
I love the phrase she uses “mine horn is exalted in the Lord”. ‘Horn” in Hebrew is a figurative way of saying “power” or “capacity” and exalted can mean either “elevated” or “ joyful”. So another way to interpret what Hannah is saying in her psalm is that her “power, or capacity” has been “elevated” by the Lord. I don’t believe Hannah is talking about worldly power but rather rejoicing in God’s power and in the great miracle that he had allowed her to participate in. God had given her power to create and she recognized that it was not her own power, but that she had been a vessel through which the power of God had flown.
Hannah’s story has meant a lot to me in my life because at the beginning of my marriage I had some health problems and at one point was faced with the possibility that I might not be able to have children. Up until that point in my life I’d never really wanted to become a mother. My life plans included a Ph.D., traveling, and doing important things- which in my mind meant working for the UN fighting AIDS and world hunger. Children were not a priority in my life and I figured they would come someday when I had started all the "important" things I wanted to do with my life. Then, when I was faced with the fact that I might never be able to have children and suddenly ALL I wanted in the whole world was to be a mother-- desperately. I spent hours on my knees pleading with God, telling him that my heart had changed and begged Him, like Hannah, to “not forget thine handmaid”.
The year I struggled with infertility (I know that sounds pathetic compared to what some women experience) completely changed the direction of my life. I came to understand the hunger and desperation that Hannah must have felt when she went up to the house of the Lord and “was in the bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.” I felt like that trial had awakened a part of my soul that I had tried to silence for most of my life. I felt my “mother heart” awaken; it was powerful, overwhelming, and completely soul changing. I still don’t know why I had that short, yet hard, trial of infertility. What I do know is that during that year I discovered the seeds of creation within my soul; I watered them with my tears, fed them with the insatiable hunger of my soul and I felt them grow and expand. I knew, as surely as I could know anything, that those seed would one day sprout—in this life or the next.
I know there are people who will disagree with me but I feel that within every woman is a mothering heart—the divine seeds of love that yearn for continuing life. I realize that there are women who say they aren’t “natural” mothers, they don’t like children, or they have never had those sort of desires. I understand that, completely, because for a long time that was what I said about myself. Yet I firmly believe that we have been created in the image of God, male and female, and that like him we find out greatest joy in creation. When we participate in any sort of creation -- whether it be creating a new life, a piece of art, music, writing, the construction of a building, or the nurturing of a garden-- we get to be an instrument in God’s hand and vessels for his power. They are the times we see, like Hannah did, that we are nothing without Him and they cause us to exclaim, “My horn is exalted in the Lord.” They are the experiences our souls hunger for.
Questions to Think About:
- I realize that not all men and women have the opportunity to use their procreative powers on this earth. What ways do you exercise your creative power?
- Do you think that there is something within men and women’s eternal soul that desires children? Why or why not?
- Why are women willing to make such sacrifices, including risking their lives, to bring children into the world?
- Could you dedicate your child to the Lord like Hannah did?
- What other women in the scriptures does Hannah’s story remind you of?
- Why are women so quick to judge each other unkindly and “provoke each other sore”, especially in relation to the experiences of child bearing, pregnancy, labor and mothering?
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What characteristics should you look for when purchasing the best router for 100Mbps internet? Modern routers are capable of much more than just connecting a single device to the internet. Multiple devices may be supported by a dual-band Wi-Fi router that is the best choice regardless of the wireless speed. Among other things, the finest 100Mbps routers offer a lot of processing capacity to manage data and networking tasks. Most IT professionals recommend a router with 256 MB of RAM or more. Also, 100 Mbps wifi router price varies from company to company.
What to Look for Before You Buy?
Before purchasing a Wi-Fi router, there are two things you should know. Firstly, the physical devices that internet service providers employ to link you to their cable network provide the primary purpose. As a result of this combination, a Wi-Fi or wireless router is sometimes referred to as a wireless access point. As a result, all the linked devices will use the internet thanks to these antennas. For the second, “Mbps” is an abbreviation for megabits per second. A megabit is a data unit representing a million of these small info units. The more megabits per second (MBPS) a computer has, the more quickly it will do online tasks. People generally root for the best 100Mbps rather than the best router for 150mbps internet.
Best Router For 100Mbps Internet
|NETGEAR Nighthawk X6||3200Mbps||4 Ports||100%|
|NETGEAR Nighthawk 12-Stream AX12||6000Mbps||4 Ports||99%|
|MOTOROLA AC2600 Model MR2600||2600Mbps||2 Ports||95%|
|Amazon Eero Pro||2000Mbps||2 Ports||97%|
|NETGEAR Nighthawk Cable Modem||1900Mbps||4 Ports||96%|
|ASUS ROG Rapture wifi 6||11000Mbps||4 Ports||98%|
|Turris Omnia 2020||3200Mbps||5 Ports||97%|
|NETGEAR Nighthawk X10||7200Mbps||4 Ports||99%|
|Google Mesh WiFi||1900Mbps||2 Ports||97%|
|Motorola MG7700||1900 Mbps||4 Ports||98%|
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The NETGEAR AC3200 Nighthawk X6 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router is such kind of a smart Wi-Fi router that delivers 802.11ac tri-band Gigabit Wi-Fi with one 600 Mb/s 2.4 GHz data stream and two 1300 Mb/s 5 GHz streams. With 802.11ac compliant Wi-Fi devices, these data speeds may be combined to give up to 3200 Mb/s.
The Nighthawk X6 has four Gigabit Ethernet LAN connections and one Gigabit WAN port. You may also connect USB devices like printers and hard drives to any USB ports to make the network access. This router’s six high-performance exterior antennae enable it to reach further than similar routers. That same signal may be directed to particular devices, increasing speed, reliability, and range. NETGEAR’s READYShare technology lets you stream media to devices, including gaming consoles, media players, and smart TVs.
- Operation in three bands.
- Genie program simplifies USB setup
- Ports 2.0 and 3.0
- There is no e-SATA port available.
- High cost
- Compared to other tri-band routers, this one is slower.
With Netgear’s AX12 12-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router, your Wi-Fi network will function more quickly. Wi-Fi 6 is supported by this dual-band router (802.11ax). This wireless standard has eight inbuilt antennas. With Wi-Fi 6, you get multi-user MIMO for more data streams, OFDMA for better efficiency and lower latency, and TWT for longer battery life on mobile devices. Each router’s 12 Wi-Fi streams transmit and receive data from connected devices.
More spatial streams imply more accessible bandwidth and reduced congestion for all Wi-Fi devices. The Nighthawk AX12 enables four more multi-user MIMO transmissions than previous Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) routers which is not even available in the best router for 150mbps internet.
- Faster than similar Wi-Fi 5 routers, by a wide margin
- The Nighthawk web interface provides an excellent VPN option.
- Radios operating at 5GHz in pairs
- Top speeds are slower than the fastest Wi-Fi 6 router, but it’s less expensive.
- There are no parental controls in this game.
With Motorola’s MR2600 AC2600 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Router, you can connect numerous devices to fast, long-range Wi-Fi. A 4×4 dual-band setup supports connecting several paths to the network, freeing up capacity and increasing data transmission speeds. The MR2600 is a full-featured wireless router that supports the 802.11ac Wi-Fi network standard and data transmission speeds up to 2600 Mb/s. This router has four Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports and one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting Ethernet-enabled devices to the network.
The router’s robust security features, including WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK wireless encryption, ensure linked clients’ connections are secure once set up. The MR2600 also has one USB 3.0 connector for connecting USB-compatible storage devices to the network. Wi-Fi that’s quick and has a wide coverage area. It is excellent for watching Netflix and other video content, playing games, using Facebook, reading the web, and checking email, among other things.
- Multiuser Multiple Input Multiple Output advanced technologies
- Router with two bands and four-gigabit ethernet connectors
- The range of a wireless router is average
- The user interface is relatively poor.
The eero Pro 6 AX4200 Wireless Tri-Band Gigabit Mesh Wi-Fi System covers your house with fast and dependable Wi-Fi. Each of the three devices in this 3-pack may be utilized as an 802.11ax network bridge or satellite with a total bandwidth of up to 4200 Mb/s at 2.4 and 5 GHz. It detects cable/DSL modems and wired devices, including PCs, gaming consoles, and smart TVs.
Add compatible eero Pro 6 widgets to the mesh network to enjoy seamless video streaming, online gaming, and video chat as you move about your house. The eero app for iOS and Android allows you to administer and monitor your network quickly. A dedicated 5 GHz signal enables each eero to Pro 6 802.11ax mesh Wi-Fi device to communicate and supply up to 4200 Mb/s of bandwidth. Mesh networks employ a single network ID, allowing you to move from room to room while streaming films, playing games, etc.
Furthermore, the Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi system covers up to 6000 square feet. If you want to go for the best mesh wifi for 100mbps, this router is for you.
- Setup is simple thanks to Alexa speech recognition.
- Performance that is consistent and dependable
- Very much pricey
- It is lacking in sophisticated features.
- On each node, there are just two Ethernet jacks.
- Subscriptions are required for anti-virus and parental control software.
A high-speed internet connection may be provided to compatible devices using a single all-in-one solution. For use with Comcast XFINITY, Spectrum, Cox, and other ISPs, the Nighthawk AX8 is equipped with an advanced DOCSIS 3.1 modem that can give download speeds up to 10 Gb/s and upload rates of up to 1 Gb/s. For the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, ts 802.11ax dual-channel Wi-Fi enables rates of up to 6 Gb/s. Large houses may enjoy robust and efficient wireless connections to up to eight suitable devices simultaneously, thanks to Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple-Access (OFDMA) and 4×4 Multi-User MIMO.
Wi-Fi bands are automatically selected for each device with a single Wi-Fi network name for the whole house. The built-in 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU for video streaming and gaming ensures minimum interruptions. High-speed wired network connections are also provided via the Nighthawk AX8’s four Gigabit Ethernet ports and one 2.5 Gigabit port. As an option, you may combine two Gigabit Ethernet ports to get the best possible Internet speeds.
Also, download the Nighthawk mobile app to rapidly set up, operate, and monitor your cable modem and router. Integrated features such as 128-bit AES wireless signal encryption, VPN compatibility, and guest network support ensure that your network is safe and secure. It’s also possible to attach a storage drive to the USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A connector and use it to back up and exchange data amongst your linked devices. This 100 Mbps modem will suit you to ensure your security.
- An ultra-sleek, minimalist, and innovative design.
- The Wi-Fi signal has a good range and is fast.
- You’ll save money over the long term by not having to pay your ISP for a modem rental.
- Some service providers require time to start up.
- Not so many extra features.
The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 Wireless Dual-Band 2.5 Gaming Router is intended to reduce latency while offering excellent responsiveness. With RangeBoost Plus technology, this 802.11ax dual-band router can transmit up to 5952 Mb/s.With chosen games, the ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 automatically finds the fastest way to your preferred game server by prioritising gaming devices and game-relevant data packets. But the speed isn’t only wireless.
The 2.5G WAN and LAN ports enable you to fully use multi-Gig internet services and high-speed devices like NAS. The router contains a built-in firewall and can host both a VPN and a stable internet connection at the same time. Use the ASUS Router app for easy setup and management of your router’s ASUS Aura RGB lighting effects. The ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 router has four removable external antennas and a 2 GHz quad-core CPU. The 2.5G WAN and LAN connectors provide high-speed communication to devices like PCs and network-connected storage drives. Link aggregation connects two Ethernet ports to boost bandwidth and enhance load balancing over 5G. So, a second 2.5G port or Wi-Fi 6 may share the 3.5G bandwidth.
A mesh network employs a single network ID, so you may move from room to room while watching movies or playing games (SSID). The ASUS Router app can prioritise your phone to decrease lag and latency. A built-in firewall and WPA3 encryption help keep your network secure. Using public Wi-Fi hotspots creates a distant encrypted connection to your home network. This router has been recognised as the best router for 100mbps internet.
- First 802.11AX (Wi-Fi 6), a future-proofing innovative technology
- Distance increases performance.
- Assembled security applications
- The variety of gaming-specific tools is minimal.
- Only 5 LAN ports are available.
7. Turris Omnia
The technological prowess of Turris Omnia is undeniable. It’s capable of handling terabytes of data and more. It’s a host server, print server, and even a virtual server if you want to operate a company out of your house. Because your gadget runs open Linux, you can do anything you want. Unlike most other routers, Turris Omnia receives automatic system upgrades throughout the device’s lifespan. Omnia alerts Turris about questionable data streams. If an assault is detected, updates are delivered to all Turri’s devices With Omnia’s 2GB of RAM, you can run any Linux distribution without risking the core system.
Malicious traffic from the internet is attempting to infect your devices. Fortunately, the Turris router can monitor any traffic. Any suspect traffic detected by the Turris router is reported to Turris HQ. The data is compared to other Turris routers’ data, and defence is developed if an assault is found. All Turris routers get a new security patch. It’s a win-win situation for everyone. Your home network, full of vulnerable gadgets, is safe.
- Physical appearance is stylish
- Frequent updates without the need for involvement
- This router has higher longevity
- Router sometimes seems to forget a network device’s static IP.
- Adds complication by enabling/disabling Wi-Fi 1 and Wi-Fi 2
The Nighthawk X10 AD7200 is the fastest router in the business for video streaming when used in conjunction with the Plex media server. X10 has 802.11ac/ad WiFi for ultra-smooth 4K streaming, virtual reality gaming, and fast downloads, among other things. A robust 1.7GHz Quad-Core Processor and Quad-Stream architecture allow you to experience combined wifi speeds of up to 7.2Gbps thanks to the device’s high-capacity memory. MU-MIMO allows for simultaneous streaming, while 160 MHz increases WiFi throughput to mobile devices by a factor of two. Four patent-pending external active antennas enhance WiFi signals to improve range and throughput while reducing power consumption.
X10 router users will get six months of unlimited backup to Amazon Drive to protect their valuable data from USB storage devices connected to the network. This network is recommended for Up to 45 Devised in, which you can use reliably to stream videos, play games, surf the internet, and connect smart home devices. It has SMART PARENTAL CONTROLS that lets you manage device internet access and filter websites.
Pros and Cons of NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 Smart WiFi Router
- High-speed storage on the network
- Strong server benefits from ultra-fast wired connectivity.
- Utilisation of 802.11ad Wi-Fi.
- High Price
- The website’s UI is slow to load
- Cannot customize Wi-Fi in any way.
Replace your old router with Google Wi-Fi and enjoy smooth, dependable Wi-Fi across your whole house. You will still need an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a modem for internet access. Mesh Wi-Fi delivers more excellent coverage than a regular router, giving you a strong signal across your house. It is easy to set up numerous Google Wi-Fi devices. The mesh Wi-Fi technology powers Google Wi-Fi. Your Google Wi-Fi hotspots work to ensure that your devices are always connected to the best channel and the quickest bandwidth possible.
The result is a high-speed Wi-Fi network that extends throughout your home, not just near the router. Streaming movies or video calls don’t have to be interrupted because you’re moving about the house. You may either use Google Wi-Fi on its own or combine it with Nest Wi-Fi to have even more coverage. Choosing the right location for your Google Nest Wifi router and points or Google Wifi points is critical to ensuring consistent Wi-Fi coverage in your house. However, locating them is a matter of trial and error.
Many factors come into play, such as a standard-sized house Building design for a home In the places where you often use Wi-Fi Positioning of your Wi-Fi access points. There are additional Wi-Fi add-ons you’ll need if your residence is larger. The wireless range of this router is 2200 square feet. Each Nest Wi-Fi point can cover a maximum area of 1600 square feet, which estimates Wi-Fi coverage from Nest and Google based on houses with wood framing. Up to 200 devices may be linked to a single Nest Wi-Fi router, and several 4K films can be streamed simultaneously.
- Intuitive but robust to use.
- Configuration expands application possibilities.
- Automatically improves your Wi-Fi system.
- You’ll need a smartphone or tablet to open up a Google Account to get started.
- Some of its mesh rivals are a lot faster than this
- There isn’t a USB connector to store or back up network data.
10. Motorola MG7700
The MG7700 includes a power port and a coaxial connection on the rear for attaching your service provider’s cable. There are four LAN (local area network) ports on the modem for connecting PCs and other devices. Because the Motorola MG7700 is a cable modem/router, it requires a coaxial connection from your ISP. Because coax cables are generally installed in less-than-ideal locations, limiting your placement possibilities. The router provided robust 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi. Motorola’s MG7700 in this scenario can stream up to 24 Mbps and download at 1 Gbps. In the Upstream, there are eight 246 Mbps channels. Due to standard communication protocols, 16×4 modems are faster than 32×8 modems. The MG7700 can download at 1 Gbps. It only supports 650 Mbps downstream. Unless you’re a gamer, the 24×8 should be plenty for most consumers.
The MG7700’s software is also customisable. Once your router is set up, you may use your Web browser to adjust settings like the default network name, password security, and the channels your router communicates on. You may set up a firewall and activate parental controls on the Advanced tab. It maxed up our 100Mbps Spectrum subscription when hard-wired through the LAN ports. Fast upload and download speeds of particularly streaming movies and music make the Motorola MG7700 modem/router combination ideal for most families.
- Shelf area that is both vertically designed and elevated for cooling purposes
- For two years, Motorola is offering a warranty.
- For simple identification, there are two front panel lights.
- The spark light cord is not incompatible with this device.
- There is no phone jack in this port.
Availability of Mesh Network
It is customary to include redundant nodes in a public backhaul mesh network. Due to the routing protocol’s shortest-path statistic being redundant and does not boost network capacity. As a result, they provide failover connections when the shortest way fails. The ideal position for a redundant node may also be discovered.
Ethernet ports are where Ethernet cables may be plugged into computer network equipment. They link Ethernet LAN, MAN, or vast area network (WAN) wired network devices (WAN).
USB ports are often found in personal computers and consumer goods. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, the industry standard for short-distance digital data transport. Connecting USB devices and exchanging digital data through USB cables is made possible thanks to USB ports. In addition, they can supply machines in need of electricity through cable.
Is 100mbps Internet Fast Enough?
100 Mbps is a good speed, but it isn’t the fastest speed available. It’s powerful enough to stream movies, play online games, and participate in video chats on a few devices with minimum lag for most internet users.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can I get 100 Mbps Wi-Fi?
Better antennas, not omnidirectional antennas, may help you get the desired effect. You should connect a new access point to your router through a wired connection. To get the “speed of 100 Mbps or even more, which is possible, you’ll need to upgrade your router and computer’s wireless card to ones with at least two antennae. Make use of a better wireless network.
Can a better router increase internet speed?
Definitely, this is because the distance between you and your router affects the speed of your Wi-Fi connection. Wi-Fi speeds may be improved in low-range locations by using a better router. However, your Wi-Fi will never go faster than 50 MB/s if you have it. Only a router can assist you to go from 25 MB/s to 50 MB/s.
How far can 5ghz WIFI reach?
On paper, 5GHz can reach 390 feet using the 802.11a standard, but it only exceeds 195 feet in practice. The 802.11n standard can theoretically reach 460ft, but it’s only around 230ft in practice. When amplified, the 802.11ac standard may potentially reach up to 820 feet, but in practice, it is limited to a range of 410 feet at most.
How can I increase the range of my router?
To begin, move your present router to a different position. Then you may want to think about updating your router. Additional investments should include a mesh Wi-Fi system and a Wi-Fi extension or booster. Spend in a powerline adapter package that consists of a Wi-Fi module. Lastly, reduce the frequency from 5GHz to 2.4GHz.
Is a 5GHz router better than 2.4 for gaming?
You’ll need more and faster Wi-Fi speeds than you’re used to for gaming. Because 5GHz provides the fastest possible rate from your internet connection and router, you always suggest choosing 5GHz for your gaming requirements.
However, finding the finest wireless router for 100Mbps without spending a lot of money is difficult. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money but don’t want to sacrifice features or performance, you should look into the Motorola MR2600, which is highlighted in this article.
Overall, there are several aspects to consider when selecting the best wireless router for you. We recognize that no two internet users are the same. But we hope we’ve made your decision-making process a bit easier.
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Message from CEO, Nancy Wilson: COVID-19 Update, April 23
This week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 2.5 million. While these are challenging and uncertain times for all of us, it’s in moments of crisis that reveal the everyday hero within each of us.
Consider for a moment the incredible work of frontline humanitarians and health workers fighting COVID-19 worldwide. They’ve stepped up in this moment of crisis to support refugees, displaced families, and those living in fragile settings who will be hardest hit by the pandemic.
Many of us are under stay-at-home orders. But, Relief International’s teams are on the ground operating on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. We are ramping up our responses in the world’s most fragile settings to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus – and keeping our current programs up-and-running at this difficult time.
- In Iran, our teams are working nonstop to import tens of thousands of protective medical supplies to safeguard health workers fighting to slow the spread of the coronavirus. We also imported 40,000 diagnostic kits to test patients in outbreak hot spots.
- In Afghanistan, where estimates say COVID-19 could infect up to 80% of the country’s population, we are setting up isolation facilities in provincial hospitals in Farah and Nimroz, located along the country’s border with Iran.
- In Syria, the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on March 23. In one of the most challenging contexts in the world, Relief International is preparing our health facilities to handle an influx of COVID-19 by purchasing supplies, including pharmaceuticals, PPEs, and other medical supplies.
- In Bangladesh, we are constructing a 144-bed Isolation and Treatment Center for Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar. We are also purchasing pharmaceuticals and protective medical equipment for health workers as they treat patients who have tested positive for COVID-19.
- In Yemen, where years of civil war has shuttered the country’s healthcare system, we have purchased PPE materials for all of the health facilities we support in order to allow medical workers to continue providing services safely. We are also working to strengthen infection prevention and control measures in order to better respond to COVID-19.
- In Somalia, where communities are still recovering from widespread famine in 2011, our teams are working remotely with Somali farmers to prepare them for the upcoming planting season. We are prioritizing food security amidst this global pandemic to ensure the most vulnerable will have access to the food they need to survive.
- In Lebanon, our teams are working in some of the country’s informal tent settlements for Syrian refugees to help detect people with symptoms of COVID-19. We are also referring these patients to our health facilities, which we’ve transitioned to serve as triage and treatment centers.
- In Turkey, our staff are using telemedicine to continue providing physical therapy and mental health services for Syrian refugees living with war-related injuries.
- In Jordan, staff are on mandatory lock-down as schools and education centers in the country’s largest refugee camps have shut down to slow the spread of the virus. To overcome this, our team has moved classes onto Facebook, the ubiquitous locally accessible social media platform. Syrian refugee students have enrolled by the thousands, ensuring they do not have to put their educations on hold, yet again.
- In the Philippines, our teams are using their experience responding to the country’s polio epidemic to protect people against COVID-19. We have been distributing hygiene kits and pamphlets with information on how to identify symptoms in at-risk communities in Mindanao.
The coronavirus will undoubtedly hit communities in fragile settings the hardest, overwhelming not only their health systems but grinding all other services to a halt. We cannot allow this to happen.
Every day, and especially during this unprecedented global crisis, I am so proud of our team of 8,000+ strong working on the front lines, often putting themselves at risk, to provide safe and healthy futures for millions of people living in the world’s most fragile settings.
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Do you have a life plan? Most people do not have one but life is much easier if you have a big picture you fit everything into. It helps you decide what the priorities of life really are.
Companies plan ten or twenty years ahead, shouldn't we all have similar plans for our livesto help us decide on our daily priorities of life. After all, are our lives really less important than a company's growth? Yet many people are content to live from day to day, hand to mouth, much as stone-age humans did, with no overall picture of where they are going.
You may have a few vague ideas of what you want to do with your life, but unless you change those ideas into specific goals they will never happen. You will also need to set up a series of short-term and medium-term objectives along the way. These will help you to make progress towards your long-term goals.
Where do you start? I will refer to my own life plan than to just talk in a vacuum.
I had a vague idea what I was going do with my life when I left college, but that was all it was. Dreams do not come true and that is all I had, a dream.
Like almost everyone else I never sat down to think what my priories in life should be. I failed to verbalise them, so effectively, I had no plans, I was just drifting from month to month. Another year would pass and I wondered why I had this sense of dissatisfaction with my life, that it was going nowhere.With no plan it WAS going nowhere.
It took me a long time, 25 years, before I started setting down my priorities for life.
I put my objectives down on paper and you should do the same. Paper works better than typing them into a computer. There is research showing that just by writing your objectives down they become more likely to happen because you are subconsciously thinking about them and working towards them every hour of every day. With specific objectives you make more constructive use of your time than you would do otherwise.
My objectives were selfish, but then it is my life and nobody else is going to prioritise it as I do. These were my objectives that I was going to work towards
- Visit the West coast of Ireland
- Increase my fitness levels
- Buy a cottage in the country
- Leave teaching
- See my two daughters happy
Now, ten years later, I have now achieved three out of those five long-term targets I set myself. It is time for a new 10 year plan.
- Help my daughters gain happiness in life – 5 years
- Lose three stones (42 pounds) – 2 years
- Get fit enough to walk ten miles again – 2 years
- Support myself totally from writing – 3 years
- Finish building my garden – 2 years
- Help my parents enjoy their old age – 10 years
- Enjoy life – 1 year
- Visit England four times a year – 2 years
- Visit New Zealand – 6 years
- Visit Canada – 8 years
It is a good idea to set goals that can be measured; 'Lose three stones', rather than just a vague 'lose weight'.
You should also estimate a time scale for each element of your ten-year, you might find it can all be achieved in five years once you estimate how long each element will take.
Have YOU ever written down what your priorities in life are? Writing them down is an excellent way to make yourself start setting priorities. Start NOW.
In a notebook.
- Write down every single thing you have done in the past 24 hours
- On the back page, write down your ten-year, including the time scale over which you expect to achieve that objective
- Check your list of things done against your ten-year. Have you done anything towards your long-term objectives in the past 24 hours?
- Write down all that you plan to do in the next 24 hours
- Code your ten-year objectives and write the appropriate code next to each point in your next 24 hour plan
Buy a new notebook
- On the top line of each page write 'Week ending -- -- ----', with dates one week apart on successive pages
- Every four double pages write 'Month – September 2010' or whatever
- On each double page write the objectives of your ten-year as side headings, spaced over the two pages
- Write down what you are going to do towards each objective in the next week
- Turn forwards to the Month page
- Write down what you plan to have accomplished towards each objective in that month
- Transfer your ten-year to the back page of this notebook. This is going to be the one you constantly refer to
We all spend a large percentage of our time doing nothing in particular, watching TV or reading newspapers. This is time we will never have again, and it might be better spent working towards achieving whatever we think is important in life.
Yes, relax at the end of a day of working towards your life objectives, but only after you have made progress in each life plan area. Life is short, and if we fail to use our time it will be gone. Our lives will be at an end with very few, if any, of our long-term goals achieved.
Images are very powerful, Buy posters of the places that you intend to visit in your life plan. If you want to learn to drive a truck, put a large truck poster where you see it every day.
Buy a flip chart pad. On each page write down two or three of your long term goals in a large script. Pin these sheets where you will see them every day. They will help you stay focused when you are tired, help you make more progress towards your goals than you would otherwise.
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Dual-lapping was a process to planarize the surface of the sapphire wafer, the nature of surface&subsurface damage and the surface uniformity was depended on the material removal mode and materials removal ratio. Material removal mode was studied in this paper, and the model of material removal was set up too. The SEM was used to scan the processed sapphire surface and the different removal style (two body and three body) were discovered. This research provided valuable insights into the material removal ratio and the dependence of lapping-induced damage on dual-lapping conditions, the asymmetry of abrasive granularity brought on the different materials removal mode and the surface asymmetry. The model was set up to qualitative analysis the material removal ratio in dual-lapping of sapphire, obtain the reasonable MMR and optimize the surface quality and the planarization result.
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In this section, we look at addressing and promoting the rights of vulnerable children in the preparation of legislation. Children and young people have a statutory right to be included in societal decision-making. SILE focuses primarily on children and young people in foster care and child protection facilities. They are among the most vulnerable groups in our society, and greater attention needs to be paid to making their voices heard.
We research the following topics: the preparation of laws that relate to children and define childhood; the involvement of children and inclusion of their voice in the preparation of legislation; and the effects of legislative changes on the well-being of children.
The analyses focus on:
- the changes in child policy and the drafting of legislation on families with children;
- the special features of drafting legislation on child protection and custody;
- securing the voice and rights of children under child protection in the drafting of legislation;
- the impacts on child protection of the emergency legislation implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- the impacts of legislative reforms on children in care.
We aim to develop research-based solutions and policy recommendations that address how to promote the inclusion of vulnerable children in law-making.
Research professor Timo Harrikari leads this work package, and senior researcher Essi Julin and researcher Linda Määttä take part in this work package. The three members of this group are all from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. See Research Group for more detailed contact information.
Harrikari, Timo, Romakkaniemi, Marjo, Tiitinen Laura and Ovaskainen, Sanna (2021). Pandemic and Social Work: Exploring Finnish Social Workers’ Experiences through a SWOT-analysis. British Journal of Social Work.
Pollari, Pasi & Tiitinen, Laura & Sirtamo, Jukka & Saarinen, Laura (2021) Lasten ja nuorten kuuleminen lastensuojelulain muutosten valmistelussa – työryhmän raportti. Kansallinen lapsistrategia.
Heikkilä Anne-Mari (2021) Läsnä etänä – dialogin mahdollisuudet ja rajoitukset sosiaalityön etäasiakastapaamisissa. Bachelor’s Thesis. University of Lapland.
Jokela Anna (2021) Kompleksiset tekijät huostaanottojen ja sijoitusten taustalla. Bachelor’s Thesis. University of Lapland.
Niskakoski Minna (2021) Lasten kaltoinkohtelu lastensuojelun sijaishuollossa ja siihen puuttuminen. Bachelor’s Thesis. University of Lapland.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A policy of supporting the power and influence of the clergy in political or secular matters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. political or secular power invested in members of the clergy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Clerical power or influence; especially, the undue influence of the clergy, or support of such influence; sacerdotalism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters
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There is nothing to fear for Ireland, either now or in the future, from what I may term clericalism in politics, whilst on the other hand it is earnestly to be hoped that nothing will ever happen to intrude unnecessarily the question or authority of religion in the domain of more mundane affairs.
The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary.
This was great since a lot of Episcopal women priests' clothes just scream "clericalism" and "frump" I'll get hanged for saying this once my pseudonym loses it pseudonymity, but it's true.
She speculated that an implicit "clericalism" still lingers behind much of the push for women occupying positions in parishes, while the more fundamental work of evangelizing the secular world is neglected.
This may be a curious and obscure kind of clericalism that popularly expresses itself as an effort to run with the hare and follow with the hounds, but is really an heroic attempt to see both sides of the question, and is not a cheap pandering after popularity.
The combined assault of the Liberals and the Socialists upon "clericalism" fell flat, and against the Government's contention that the extraordinary and incontestable prosperity of the country merited a continuance of
Republic was now and then urged by a certain section of the press to punish the "clericalism" of Ollé-Laprune, but the repute of his philosophical teaching protected him.
I will not talk nor allow any one else to talk about "clericalism" and "militarism."
'This "clericalism" which you declare to be the enemy, and which, when you are pushed to the wall, turns out to be Christianity -- this
Is it "clericalism" which is stirring up Labour against Capital?
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Pushing to the front of the queue is not the best ploy for males who want to propagate their genes according to scientists from the University of Exeter.
Dr David Hodgson and Dr David Hosken from the University of Exeter's School of Biosciences studied female mating with multiple males, especially species who mate with more than one partner in rapid succession, and discovered why the last male in line is most likely to impregnate the female.
Many insect species but also mammals such as ground squirrels and even primates, including our close relative the chimpanzee, are 'polyandrous', which means that they mate with multiple partners. Previous studies have shown that the last male is most likely to be successful, and have put forward a number of theories to explain this.
This new research, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, shows how the last male can gain an advantage by 'parasitising' his mate's previous partners' seminal fluid. By taking advantage of the more 'sperm friendly' environment created by those who have gone before, he can 'fast-track' his sperm to the front of the race to the egg.
"The presence of seminal fluid makes the female body a more 'sperm-friendly' place," said David Hodgson of the University of Exeter. "When the first male mates with the female, his sperm are released into a fairly hostile environment. But, by the time the last male mates, the presence of extra seminal fluid can assist the journey of his sperm to the egg."
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eHealth Africa is focused on improving healthcare by creating effective ways to implement reliable health information management systems.
We have developed eHealth and mHealth solutions that can be rapidly deployed to manage patient information, streamline clinical procedures, and provide data and analysis on health program outcomes.
Accurate health data will provide NGO’s, hospitals, and donor agencies with access to timely health system indicators needed to evaluate their health interventions and respond to critical public health needs.
Job Title: Information Technology Manager
Summary: The Information Technology Manager maintains information technology strategies by managing staff; researching and implementing technological strategic plans for eHealth Africa’s (eHA) offices. Manages and coordinates the activities and operations of the Information Technology unit within the organization including hardware, software, network, and computer systems administration; identifies, recommends, develops, implements, and supports cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. Serves as the central point of contact for all IT project related activities. Maintains effective communications and relationships between project team and relevant stakeholders.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.
- Manages performance of information technology staff by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
- Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
- Maintains organization’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
- Research and review existing systems to make sure they are all optimized to give best possible results.
- Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
- Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
- Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
- Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
- Oversees the deployments and support of eHealth software and technical projects. Assigns, schedules, reviews and monitors project work and ensures that project deliverables meet quality standards and business requirements. Ensures that progress is within expected guidelines and is completed on time and within budget. Mentors and provides expertise to other project team members.
- Utilizes in-depth technical knowledge and business requirements to design and implement secure solutions to meet customer / client needs while protecting the company’s assets.
- Manages crisis situations, which may involve complex technical hardware or software problems;
- Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates project related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of IT projects. Develops IT system review schedules, audits and acceptance tests for each phase of projects. Keeps abreast of software updates, upgrades and additional services.
- Takes ownership of tasks, resolves project and technical issues, and seeks innovation and efficiency. Mentors and leads staff to perform and complete technical aspects of projects. Plans, coordinates, develops, and monitors projects plans to include key milestones, timelines and resources. Works with external consultants for smooth project implementation. Maintains effective communication and working relationship with customers and project teams.
- Attends and participates in professional group meetings, seminars and trainings in order to stay abreast of new trends and innovations in the field of information systems technology.
- Performs any other duties assigned by management.
- May frequently travel between company offices across the region.
- Attends and participates in staff meetings, training classes and supervision. Presents complex ideas and anticipates potential objections. Clearly communicates any ramifications of decisions and issues to project stakeholders, and presents alternatives.
- Is consistently at work and on time & adheres to Policies and Procedures. Presents a professional demeanor at all times. Approaches others in a tactful manner. Reacts well under pressure. Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position. Accepts responsibility for own actions. Follows through on commitments.
- Participates in and promotes a positive, supportive, cooperative team environment.
- Attends and participates in staff meetings, training classes and supervision.
- Is consistently at work and on time and adheres to Policies and Procedures.
- Adheres to eHealth Africa Code of Conduct as well as ethical standards of the field.
Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to successfully perform this job.
- Minimum of Masters Degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
- Minimum of seven (7) years working experience in IT and Data Systems Administration, including a minimum of three (3) years of large IT Project Management experience preferably in an NGO or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong project management skills, including experience preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets for proposals and projects. Advanced knowledge of network systems security management.
- Proficient knowledge in the following areas: Computer hardware, and software systems, Computer networks, network administration and network installation.
- Must be able to work as a leader and member of a team and possess initiative and good problem solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, organizational skills and great attention to detail.
- Must have the ability to manage conflicts and resolve problems effectively.
- Must possess strong organization and prioritization skills
- Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Windows Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft Office Suite. Graphic designs software.
- Intermediate proficiency working with specialized software utilized in program.
- English is the spoken and written language.
- Ability to read, analyse, proof and edit documents, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, or government regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees and the general public.
- Expert knowledge of English. Hausa would be a plus. French is an asset
- Ability to interpret data that is not well defined or documented and develop recommendations based on findings.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Why work with us?
Life at ehealth Africa means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology. When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution. Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationships. We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential. Our team members’ health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.
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If you live somewhere where cold weather happens, you’re probably aware of the damage it does to your hair. The elements are complex on all hair textures and varieties throughout the winter. Hair, like skin, has to be protected from the cold to be soft and healthy. Protect your hair from the elements, including cold air, strong gusts, static electricity, and even interior heat. When spring eventually arrives, you want to have beautiful hair to flaunt!
By moisturizing the scalp and increasing blood flow in the hair roots, massaging your hair and scalp with natural oils regularly, say once or twice a week, in these cold winter months may nourish your hair roots and strengthen your hair roots hair follicles. Coconut, jaborandi, argan, Brahmi, almond, sesame, or olive oils are excellent options. For optimum results, let the oil on overnight and wash it off the following morning.
We tend to use heated equipment more often during the winter, which is terrible for our hair. Make your blow-dry last longer so you don’t have to do it as frequently.
Hairwashing regularly should be avoided
Shampooing your hair often removes its natural oils, creating additional dryness and irritation. Extend the time between washes if possible. Hair should not be shampooed more than twice a week. To preserve the natural moisture balance, always use a sulfate-free, gentle shampoo.
Make a change in how you wash your hair
There’s no denying that your hair, especially during the dry winter months, needs the natural oils produced by the scalp. Excessive washing may remove these protective oils, as well as the moisture they offer, from your hair. So, restrict your hair washing to once or twice a week and use a light shampoo appropriate for your hair and scalp. Also, avoid washing your hair with back-and-forth strokes since this may cause tangling and breakage, as well as damage the hair follicle.
If your hair is wet, don’t go out.
Cold air stretches hair shafts, making them more prone to breakage and perhaps losing color. Before going out in the sun, make sure your hair is dehydrated. Allow more time for your hair to air dry, or better yet, adjust your winter hair care regimen.
Don’t forget to condition your hair.
If you’re a busy person, you’re likely to rush out of the shower after washing your hair and overlook the crucial step of applying conditioner.
However, you must set aside an additional 5 minutes to condition your hair, as this will moisturize and protect the exterior layer of your hair, making it smooth and glossy, and help eliminate frizziness and breakage.
Choose a conditioner that contains cetyl alcohol. It is derived from coconut and is the most outstanding moisturizing agent. Coconut oil’s chemical structure is too big to penetrate the hair cuticle, but you can make cetyl alcohol by removing the molecule and shrinking it.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: GOT WATER PROBLEMS? JNF WATER SUMMIT IN CHICAGO KICK'S OFF EFFORT TO SHARE ISRAEL'S WATER TECHNOLOGY IN UNITED STATES
October 13, 2015
Adam H. Brill, Director of Communications
GOT WATER PROBLEMS?
JNF WATER SUMMIT IN CHICAGO KICK'S OFF EFFORT TO SHARE ISRAEL’S
WATER TECHNOLOGY IN DROUGHT-AFFECTED REGIONS ACROSS UNITED STATES
Summits to Also Feature Seth Siegel and His Book,
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution For A Water-Starved World
WHO: Seth M. Siegel, author of the book Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water- Starved World; Commissioner Thomas H. Powers, P.E., City of Chicago Water Management Department; Commissioner Debra Shore, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Oded Distel, Director of Invest in Israel and Israel NewTech; Naty Barak, Chief Sustainability Officer, Netafim; Clive Lipchin, Ph.D., Director of Center for Transboundary Water Management at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies; Peter Mulvaney, Senior Manager, West Monroe Partners LLC, Energy & Utilities Practice. Also attending: elected municipal officials; environmental leaders; water industry professionals; urban planners, and university-level educators.
WHAT: CHICAGO WATER SUMMIT – Register here to attend
WHEN: Monday, October 26, 2015 11AM to 2PM
WHERE: Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park - Gold Room - 200 North Columbus Drive Chicago, IL
WHY: With a global water crisis upon us and Israel having gone from water deprived to water abundant, Jewish National Fund is sharing Israel’s drought solutions in the United States by launching of a series of Water Summits beginning October 26 in Chicago. At each Water Summit, keynote speaker Seth M. Siegel, author of the new book Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World (St. Martin’s Press; Sept. 15, 2015), will discuss global water issues and Israel’s successes in water governance, infrastructure and technology. In addition, a panel of regional experts will confer on local challenges and break-out sessions will bring participants together to formulate plans to meet long-term water needs.
JNF has been at the forefront of water management and conservation in Israel for three decades, increasing the country's total water supply by 12% and helping Israel become a leader in water recycling. JNF's network of 250 recycled water reservoirs provide almost half of the water used for agriculture in Israel, saving enough freshwater to meet the needs of 4.4 million people a year. With JNF's assistance, more than 85% of the sewage water in Israel is recycled and reused, the highest rate in the world. To put that into context, Spain comes in a distant second, reusing 17% of its wastewater, and the U.S, at 5%.
About Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution For A Water-Starved World
After learning of a global water crisis and hearing that Israel had a world-leading approach to water, author Seth M. Siegel decided that it was an important lesson to share. Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution For A Water-Starved World is the culmination of his meticulous research and hundreds of interviews (including with world leaders).The book tells the inspiring story of how Israel turned its scarcity of water into an opportunity to avoid its inevitable water crisis and become an innovative pioneer in the global quest for a new water paradigm. To visit the book’s Amazon webpage, click here.
About Seth M. Siegel
Author Seth M. Siegel Seth M. Siegel is a businessman, activist, and writer. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications around the world on business, political and cultural issues. Siegel has often appeared on television and has been widely quoted in major print media. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While writing the book, interviewing and visiting Israel’s water developments, Mr. Siegel has developed deep appreciation for JNF’s huge impact on Israel’s water economy. Siegel writes and tweets about water issues on Twitter @sethmsiegel. Visit his water website at www.sethmsiegel.com.
This event has more than 150 registrants attending and is a good media event with excellent visuals and opportunities to interview key water experts in the U.S and Israel, elected officials, environmental leaders and water utility professionals.
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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF) began in 1901 as a dream and vision to reestablish a homeland in Israel for Jewish people everywhere. Jews the world over collected coins in iconic JNF Blue Boxes, purchasing land and planting trees until ultimately, their dream of a Jewish homeland was a reality. JNF gives all generations of Jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of Israel and its people.
JNF embodies both heart and action; our work is varied in scope but singular in benefit. We strive to bring an enhanced quality of life to all of Israel’s residents, and translate these advancements to the world beyond. JNF is greening the desert with millions of trees, building thousands of parks, creating new communities and cities for generations of Israelis to call home, bolstering Israel’s water supply, helping develop innovative arid-agriculture techniques, and educating both young and old about the founding and importance of Israel and Zionism.
JNF is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and United Nations NGO, which continuously earns top ratings from charity overseers.
For more information on JNF, call 888-JNF-0099 or visit www.jnf.org.
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MONDAY, April 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cell therapy shows promise for people battling heart failure, a new study finds.
The clinical trial found that end-stage heart failure patients treated with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow had 37 percent fewer cardiac events than those who received a "dummy" placebo.
"For the last 15 years, everyone has been talking about cell therapy and what it can do. These results suggest that it really works," study author and cardiac surgeon Dr. Amit Patel, director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, said in a university news release.
Another expert was cautiously optimistic about the results.
While the findings are promising, "further long-term data -- and hopefully improved levels of heart efficiency and performance -- would still need to be seen," said Dr. David Friedman, chief of heart failure services at Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital.
In heart failure, a weakened or damaged heart no longer pumps blood the way it should. This potentially fatal disease affects about 5.7 million Americans, according to the American Heart Association.
The new study involved 126 heart failure patients. Sixty received the stem cell treatment, while the other 66 got a placebo.
After one year, 4 percent of the stem cell therapy patients had died and about 52 percent had been hospitalized for heart failure. That was an improvement on the group receiving the placebo, where 8 percent of patients died and more than 82 percent ended up in the hospital, Patel's team said.
"This is the first trial of cell therapy showing that it can have a meaningful impact on the lives of patients with heart failure," Patel added.
If further studies are successful, stem cell therapy may one day offer an alternative to current treatments for end-stage heart failure, such as heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device therapy, the researchers said.
The study was published online April 4 in The Lancet journal and presented simultaneously at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in Chicago.
There was other potentially good news from the ACC meeting for heart failure patients. On Sunday, a 10-year study led by researchers at Duke University found that bypass surgery plus medication appears to work better for heart failure patients, compared to the use of medications alone.
The study involved more than 1,200 patients with severe heart disease and heart failure who were tracked for about a decade. All of the patients got standard heart drugs, but those who also underwent coronary bypass lived a median of 16 months longer. They also suffered fewer heart attacks, strokes and hospitalizations, the study found.
"This now demonstrates that the advantages of [bypass] are robust and durable and the procedure saves and extends lives," study author Dr. Eric Velasquez, heart failure specialist at the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, N.C., said in a university news release.
The Duke study was also reported online April 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more on heart failure.
SOURCES: David Friedman, M.D., chief, Heart Failure Services, Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, Valley Stream, N.Y.; University of Utah, news release, April 4, 2016; Duke University, news release, April 3, 2016
Copyright © 2016 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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World War II Timeline in movies - 4 The Propaganda War
The earliest British war film, The Lion has wings which produced at a breakneck speed by Alexandra Korda was a curious mix of documentary and drama and whilst it may not have worked as a film, copies were laughed t in Berlin it did lead to more effective propaganda being worked into dramatic presentations.
The movies were effective in saying that the old class system should be put aside and that this was was the people's war, and the Ealing war films represented these new ideas. The same studio made The Foreman went to France in 1942) which showed how an ordinary man, a working stiff, retrieved a vital piece of machinery from from France. And 1943's The Bells go Down showed the work of the fire service in London and placed stress on the ideals of comradeship and bravery. The movies showed that it was ordinary people who would win this war and the studio went so far as to completely destroy the image of the old style officer and gentleman in 1943's, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
It was a case of, keep a stiff upper lip old boy.
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Suppose that 65 percent of a discount chain’s employees are women and 33 percent of the discount chain’s employees having a management position are women. If 25 percent of the discount chain’s employees have a management position, what percentage of the discount chain’s female employees have a management position?
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Welcome to the Plant Evolution and Biodiversity Group
The central topics of our research are the genetic causes and consequences of parasitism in plants. We aim to understand the biology and ecology of plants that abandon the autotrophic lifestyle on both the organismal and molecular level. Our emphasis lies on elucidating the molecular reconfigurations and functional adaptations associated with parasitism, the genetics underpinning trophic specialization and aggressive parasitism, and the coevolution of parasitic plants with their hosts. We also have an active interest in the genetics of mutational processes, the evolution of early land plants, as well as the development of high-throughput DNA barcodes for the identification of plant germplasm.
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The impact of Islam upon women’s entrepreneurship in conflict zones is woefully absent from the entrepreneurship literature. This is due to the absence of published scholarship about this context rather than the absence of Muslim women’s entrepreneurship there. To address the gap in the literature, we offer a contextualized analysis and contribution by adopting an Islamic feminism lens and explore how Islamic feminism empowers women entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial activities and behaviours in conflict zones. We argue that Islamic feminism is a process of ‘ijtihad’ shaping the business ethics of Muslim women entrepreneurs operating in conflict zones and removing the traditional, patriarchal, colonial and other cultural layers with which Islam has been veiled. The findings from the 16 Muslim women entrepreneurs operating in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine and participating in our study reveal that Islamic religiousness plays a critical role in shaping the Muslim women’s entrepreneurial behaviour and their ability to endure the hardships of living in a conflict zone. Within all three research contexts, the participants interpreted and practiced their Islamic religiousness in ways consistent with Islamic Feminism principles and that deviated from patriarchal Islam dominating their conflict zones. This paper contributes to the growing research areas on Islamic feminist foundations for business ethics and women’s entrepreneurship in conflict zones by exploring how Islamic feminism empowers women entrepreneurs in Muslim conflict zones.
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by Fenella Saunders
Assembling a tanker ship is appallingly inhumane work: Huge steel blocks must be joined together in an intricate layout that forces welders to spend long hours in cramped, fume-laden spaces. So roboticist Pablo González de Santos and his colleagues at the Industrial Automation Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research are delegating the job to ROWER, a 4-foot-long mobile platform that incorporates a commercial robotic welding arm.
ROWER operates inside the ribbed, double-walled hull that forms the bottom of a tanker. The robot's four pistonlike feet extend and press against the ribs on the floor and the ceiling, keeping it in place while it welds a watertight seam between adjoining blocks. To move forward, the device retracts one foot at a time, takes a step onto the next set of ribs, and extends its pistons to regain secure footing. When it finishes welding one ship block, ROWER has to be disassembled, moved, and put back together inside the next one, because the only passageway between blocks is a small manhole. But the process takes only about an hour, "and the robot does not need to stop as frequently as human operators," González de Santos says. A recent demonstration in Italy proved ROWER can speed up shipbuilding; now its creators are trying to commercialize the system.
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The plot of the novel concerns two present day (2004) WWII historians traveling back to 1934. One historian is British (Don Erlang), and the other is German (Konrad Herrman). Each of the historians informs their respective governments as to what will happen during the war. Both countries use the knowledge from the historians to better prepare for the war so that weapons that in our history were available in the middle or end of the war are mass produced by the start of the war.
Erlang briefly talks about his mother and father being just children in the 1930, but he never goes and seeks them out. I would have found it irresistible, I mean, his parents might have just been children, but what about his grandparents? I’d love to meet my grandfather when he was in his prime; he died before I was born. He was a doctor and had a private practice in a suburban town for many years. If I’d gone back in time, I’d probably go see him as a patient. That kind of harmless encounter probably wouldn’t put the space-time continuum at risk.
Erlang speculates as to the nature of time travel. He cites a time paradox that is worth mentioning. Since he has altered the course of the war there is a chance that one of his parents might get killed by a bomb during the Blitz that in the normal course of things didn’t explode anywhere near them. If they died then Erlang would have never existed, therefore Erland couldn’t travel back in time and alter events therefore history would return to the way it was in the first place. Unless, as is speculated, Erlang’s time traveling created a parallel universe or dimension which is no longer looped to the previous future, but instead free to explore an entirely different future.
My theory is that the “Foresight” universe is tangent dimension created by an all-powerful being (the author) just to have a playground to test his what ifs. (The novel's Afterword pretty much proves my theory).
Herrman, the German historian who is sent back through time, was written as less capable then Erlang. He just didn’t seem to be a historian on the same level as Erlang. I couldn’t help but wonder how much more prepared for the war Germany would have been if Herrman had truly been Erlang’s equal. Also, I never really understood why Herrman worked with Hitler and Himmler and the rest when he clearly found them repulsive. His motivation was to create a stronger Germany that wouldn’t end up controlled by Russia for decades. From the beginning, I would have looked for a ways to circumvent and destroy Hitler and the Nazi’s, not work with them.
Especially helpful is the glossary in the back of the book that lists all the military terms used in the book and also explains all the equipment used in the book. So when I read about a Churchill tank, I could look it up in the glossary and learn it’s specifications as well as whether the Churchill in the “Foresight” universe was different from the historical Churchill tanks.
This means that the book is readable to a Joe Shmoo like me, who is not one of these dumb Americans you read about that doesn’t know who fought in WWII. But, I am also not an expert on the war. Heck, for most of the book I kept wondering when they were going to start building trenches.
The action of the war is played out in vignettes that run anywhere from one paragraph to a page and a half. Most times the vignettes are strung together so they tell the story of a battle or a certain campaign. You see the action from different perspectives such as, British planes, then German U-boat, then a British tank, etc. Sometimes it was difficult for me to figure out what I was reading about, and by the time I understood the perspective changed again.
The perspective also shifts back to Erlang or Hermann who are in respective command centers and are reacting to the events of the day like a sort of Greek Chorus evaluating the course of the war and providing exposition.
Sometimes the vignettes were emotionally powerful such as the story of the British plane that fires at a German bus. Shrapnel from the bus ends up downing the plane. The pilot bails out and hits the ground near the bus. It is then that he realizes that the bus he destroyed was full of children. A crowd of Germans grabs the pilot and lynches him. As they tie the rope around his neck he pleads, “I didn’t know it was children.” This level of pathos is impossible to sustain, especially with so many short pieces.
One part of the book that worked really well was the part that dealt with Pearl Harbor. Morgan, an RAF (Royal Air Force) officer, is one of the few that know about future events. He is given the horrible task of going to Pearl Harbor to minimized US loses without telling them there is going to be an attack ahead of time. This piece wasn’t really longer then some of the other perspectives, but it meant more to me because I’d gotten to know Morgan throughout the novel.
That would have been my preference to follow certain soldiers’ perspectives for longer periods. I know the whole point of the book was to explore questions like how this British tank would have faired against that German tank, but without having the humanity of a soldier you get to know and care about, it just may as well be robot tanks fighting other robot tanks.
I felt like it was weird that the Holocaust was only mentioned once or twice by Erlang and nothing about it was ever seen first hand. However, I realize concentrating on this horrible genocide wouldn’t have added anything to the focus of the novel, which was exploring how the “Foresight” universe differed from our own.
(Warning major Spoilers)
The end of the book reminded me of two recent movies, both of which came out after this book. Is Hollywood stealing ideas from you Tony?
The movie “Valkyrie”(2008) is all about the ill-fated German resistance movement. Operation Valkyrie is not mentioned by name in “Foresight,” but it is pretty clear that after Herrman blew up all of the Nazi leaders, the resistance used the Reserve Army to seize and remove the Nazi Party under the false pretense that the SS had attempted a coup d'état.
The second movie that came to mind was “Inglourious Basterds” (2009). At the end of the movie several plots to assassinate Hitler and the other leaders of the Nazi Party collide with explosive results. The traitorous SS Colonel Hans Landa describes the film premiere in Paris that is being attended by Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Goebbels and other prominent part members as having “all the rotten eggs in one basket.”
I think the book ended in the right spot, at the end of the German/British conflict, because that’s what the book was generally about. However, I did have a lot of questions about what may have happened next:
-Did the increased Japanese navel losses at the beginning of the war cause the use of atomic weapons to be unnecessary?
-Was the United Nations created?
-Was the State of Israel declared?
-When did Britain “get the Bomb”?
-Did Russia emerge from the war a super power?
-What happened to Mussolini?
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Every once in awhile, I read a story that makes me think the world is upside down. Today it was a story out of Spain, where a breastfeeding doll is controversial. Yes, there are people who are obviously upset that a company would make a doll that “helps girls learn about the bond between a mother and a child”.
How sad is that? The “Breast Milk Baby” comes with a cloth halter which shows where little girls would hold the doll, and the doll makes noises. Wow, that’s startling? Why would anyone be bothered by something that nature intended? I guess it’s perfectly okay to have a doll with a bottle, a doll that pees and poops, a Barbie with large breasts and the skinniest of waists, a GI Joe with weapons, but not a doll that breastfeeds. I am amazed at how such a natural thing can be met with such queasiness by others.
News flash, women’s breasts were made for feeding.
In talk radio we talk about plenty of opinions and controversies, but here’s one thing we do KNOW. Breastfeeding is a healthier alternative than formula feeding. It seems that some people get offended when you state that. I understand that some women physically can’t breastfeed, but that’s not a large number. There are plenty of women who give it up because it’s not easy at first. You have to get the baby used to the latching process, the nipples get sore, the baby may not get enough until all your milk comes in, etc etc. If you don’t want to breastfeed, that’s your choice. I wish I breastfed my son longer. He was exclusively breastfed for 3 months, and we mixed breastfeeding with formula for another 3 months. My daughter breastfed for a year and a half. It wasn’t easy with work, I would pump in my office when I wasn’t with her. I’m glad I had an office for privacy. Many women don’t. We live in a society that is very hostile towards breastfeeding. Things have to change. Let’s make workplaces more friendly for nursing moms, let’s let women breastfeed in public without fear of scorn.
News flash, there are plenty of germs in public bathrooms. Feed your baby where you and he/she are most comfortable. I’ve fed them in the car, at the mall, on the beach and at the kitchen table. Out of sensitivity to others, I’d have them covered in public, however I have no problem with those who make no effort to ‘hide’.
Our children have been conditioned through years of doll-making and public pressure to believe that bottle feeding is the norm for infants and breastfeeding is unusual. Get over it already. If breastfeeding makes you uncomfortable, ask yourself why? Especially if it makes you more uncomfortable than seeing overt sexuality and jiggling breasts on the tv.
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Third time’s the charm.
You’ve heard it all before: Web3 is rife with scams, blockchain is bad for the environment and we’re blowing up a bubble that’s about to burst. These criticisms are valid and are to be expected for any nascent technology where the landscape is messy and voices are loud. But Web3 enables us to do old things on the internet in new ways while unlocking new features, too—and that’s something worth paying attention to.
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We provide a task force of go-to Web3 experts to begin building out a Web3 infrastructure. This includes legal frameworks and structure for accepting crypto.
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Learn more about the landscape and your place within it, like how to set up your wallet, choose sustainable blockchains, and keep your community free of scams.
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NFTs remain an accessible entry point for brands to experiment with the Web3 ethos. But the underlying value of an NFT is only as strong as the community that one has built around it, which can mean all the difference between cultural cachet and creative clutter. From mint to market, we help brands connect authentically (and sustainably) with audiences and NFT creators to build cultural engagement and artifacts for a new age.
Look at NFTs not individually but as part of your holistic marketing plan and understand if you as a brand have the technological capabilities to activate this. Let us help you skill up and increase the awareness and education internally.
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More than currencies and collectibles, Web3 offers incredible opportunities to transform the enterprise. Smart contracts on blockchain—essentially programs that automatically execute transactions or document events according to the terms of an agreement—can be used to strengthen loyalty programs or automate entire workflows, like managing intellectual property across the business. Finally, Web3 also opens up the potential to move into new business models, like developing digital-native or -exclusive products and services.
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Facing the uncertainty of stable federal transportation funding and often unwilling to raise their own taxes to fund transportation, some states have seized upon the idea of protecting their transportation revenues for transportation uses. On Nov. 4, Maryland and Wisconsin voters will be deciding on similar measures that would put transportation funds into protected accounts that can’t be appropriated for non-transportation uses.
Unlike the protected federal trust fund for transportation, the revenues gathered from the systems’ users in many states (gas taxes, fees and other sources) can be appropriated for other non-transportation needs. In Maryland, more than $1.3 billion intended for transportation has been appropriated to other items in the budget over the last few years, according to Greater Greater Washington’s detailed look at the measure.
Currently, the various transportation taxes in Maryland go into a state trust fund for improving safety, reducing congestion, and improving mass transit, air travel, and port facilities — but those funds can be easily moved by legislators each year to fill other gaps in the budget.
Maryland’s Question 1 would require the governor to declare a state of fiscal emergency and get a three-fifths vote from both houses of the General Assembly before any funds could be taken out of the transportation trust fund.
Supporters of Question 1 argue that by placing revenues in a “lockbox” it will ensure stable funding for long-term projects, improve accountability, and help restore the confidence of voters and those paying into the system. After all, if Maryland wanted to increase their gas tax some day in the future, it certainly becomes easier to convince voters of the need when they can also guarantee that any new revenues would be spent on transportation needs.
Proponents include a range of business groups, AAA, transit advocates in the Baltimore and Washington, DC regions, and real estate professionals; with little organized opposition to the measure.
Wisconsin is considering a similar measure. With a conservative governor, Scott Walker, and a legislature resistant to raising the gas tax or registration fees, Wisconsin’s referendum would amend the state constitution to require any revenues derived from the transportation system to be spent on transportation projects and making them non-transferable to other needs. To date, $1.3 billion has been transferred out of the transportation fund, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The Wisconsin proposal actually had its genesis several years ago and has only now reached the ballot because state law requires two consecutive legislatures to approve a joint resolution before it can be placed on the ballot.
Supporters under the banner of “Vote Yes for Transportation” include chambers of commerce, corporations, and labor unions. While some advocates, such as Forward Lookout and Bus, Bike, Walk Wisconsin have expressed concern that this could be the first step toward restricting the use of transportation user fees for transit or other multimodal projects, nothing in this legislation appears to do anything like that, and according to Vote Yes for Transportation, “Wisconsin’s segregated transportation fund is the sole source of state funding for the entire transportation system – highways, air, rail, transit, harbors, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities.”
There is no organized opposition, though some state legislators question the need for such a lockbox. Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) expressed concerns about special interests groups, saying, “It guarantees the highway lobby a lock on certain funds. To give one special-interest group a constitutional lock on a hunk of money, I do not think is good public policy. “
According to most of the data we’ve seen, both measures are likely to pass, but we’ll be keeping an eye on the results, and posting them on Transportation Vote 2014 after the election, so check back. You can keep track of the other state and local transportation ballot measures we’re following there as well.
To better serve the states and localities stepping up to try and raise revenue to invest in transportation, we are hosting the Capital Ideas Conference in Denver, Colorado on November 13-14 shortly after this year’s elections. If you have been working on a transportation measure as part of a funding campaign, working to overcome a legislative impasse, or defending a key legislative win, this conference will offer a detailed, interactive curriculum of best practices, campaign tactics, innovative policies, and peer-to-peer collaboration to help your initiative succeed. Join us there.
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Redesigning back-office applications, developing front-end and mobile applications, digitizing business processes, implementing service-oriented architectures: to develop and integrate your projects, we capitalize on the best practices of agile methods and V cycles.
The agile method and binding principles of the V cycle
Agility as seen by Hardis Group makes use of most of the principles of the Scrum method while retaining the best of the V cycle: load plan, planning, fixed-price commitment and overall project management. Our teams work with you to:
- Understand what is expected by the business, the facilitating aspects and potential obstacles
- Instill an iterative pace that favors pragmatism and efficiency at all phases of the project
- Set up a flexible but controlled organization, enabling the project to be built in real time, starting with the major features
- Support your staff (business, project owner support, DSI) in their new roles, since they are the ones who will make the change
- Provide visibility on a daily basis and measure progress at the end of each sprint
A sprint 0 for all projects
We systematically offer a sprint 0, lasting one month on average. The aims are to get going quickly on a practical case, move to functional, ergonomic, and technical project scoping, demonstrate the effectiveness of the agile device put in place and quickly deliver the first iteration (prototype). After this sprint 0, you are able to determine whether and how you want to continue the project with Hardis Group staff.
An agile framework adapted to projects
We build an agile framework adapted to your project, taking into account your organization and the maturity and availability of your staff.
Do you want iterative deliveries but are not yet ready to implement all the agile protocols? We implement an appropriate process. Aren't you able to host our staff on your premises? We work remotely and collaborate with your staff using videoconferencing tools. But there is one point on which we do not compromise: the availability and responsibility of the business, which is essential for prioritizing needs, decision-making and the success of the project.
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Tuesday November 5th, 2013
Johns Hopkins Strength Coach Jay Dyer provides his knowledge on some good ideas and bad ideas for fitness and nutrition
As lacrosse season draws to an end, it is time to prepare for your summer program. Throughout the summer I will witness countless athletes, weekend warriors and casual exercisers perform the same exercises incorrectly. It is important to know how to do the lifts correctly so you can continue to make strength gains and also prevent injury. Here are some common issues with squats — one of the most important offseason exercises — and points to focus on while performing them.
Done correctly, squats will provide a solid foundation of strength; done incorrectly, they'll increase the chances of an overuse injury or just outright hurting oneself at the gym.
·Adduct your shoulder blades — squeeze them together. Rack the bar on your traps, adducting your shoulder blades creates a shelf for the bar
·Keep your feet shoulder width apart.
·Lower yourself to at least 90 degrees. Squat to a bench or box if you do not go low enough without one.
·Attempt to push your feet out the sides of your shoes. This will activate muscles of your hips and glutes, and will aid in preventing “knock knees” at the bottom of the squat.
·Look straight ahead, not down at the floor. The head follows the eyes, the shoulders follow the head — looking down ensures horrible squat posture.
·Place the bar on C7, the part of your spine you can feel “sticking out” at the back of your neck.
·Let your heels come off the ground. Also, do not squat in shoes with an elevated heel like Nike Shox.
·Be concerned about what the guy next to you is squatting. Don’t use weight you are incapable of squatting. If you can’t perform the exercise through a full range of motion, you need to take a step back.
Common Nutrition Do’s and Don’ts
Don’t drink an energy drink for energy. The caffeine and sugar in energy drinks are not a substitute for carbohydrates and B vitamins. These nutrients are natural energy sources. Too many energy drinks can create a “crash and burn” effect since they are not nutrient dense.
Don’t drink protein shakes to gain weight. Boost calories in your diet by eating real food. Include three meals and two snacks every day to increase the total amount of calories in your diet. Drinking protein shakes instead of eating limits the quality of nutrients and calories to the muscles and body. Food first and drink a shake later.
Don’t skip breakfast. Skipping breakfast reduces the muscles' energy load. Muscles contain a limited amount of carbohydrates. They need to be fed after a long night of sleep to provide energy for the day.
Don’t eat the same foods every day. Eat a variety of foods each week. Eat a colorful plate that includes all the food groups. For example:
·Breakfast Egg Whites, Whole Grain English Muffin, Banana, Tomato Juice, Fat Free Milk
·Lunch Turkey Sandwich, Carrots, Strawberries, Low Fat Chocolate Milk
·Dinner Salmon, Brown Rice or Couscous, Spinach, 100% Grape Juice, Water
·Snack Bagel w/Peanut Butter, Apple, Fat Free Milk
Questions? Contact theFuelCoach@pinnacle4health.com
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Three blades — each the length of a tennis court — revolve atop a wind energy tower reaching 50 metres into the sky, equal in height to a 17-storey building. There are four such turbines whirling in the hot, dry and windy landscape near the town of Darling in South Africa’s Western Cape, generating 7 gigawatt hours per year of green energy. This first commercial wind farm in South Africa, reflecting the collaborative efforts of international donors, government agencies and the private sector, shows that wind energy is feasible.
The development of the Darling Wind Farm, which was established in 2008, was fraught with obstacles. This was mainly because large-scale wind generation was new to South Africa and institutional arrangements were not yet in place to allow independent power producers to feed energy into the national grid.
What made the difference was that the then minister of mineral and energy affairs proposed the Darling Wind Farm as a national demonstration project in 2000. She also requested international assistance in developing wind energy from the Global Environment Facility, UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Danish International Development Agency.
That assistance led to the South African Wind Energy Programme (SAWEP), a project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the promotion of wind power. It facilitated the creation of the Darling Wind Farm.
“The significant thing to remember about the Darling Wind Farm is that it shows that wind energy can be done by the private sector,” says Andre Otto, the project manager of SAWEP. “It was never intended to be a fully economical business,” he adds. It also served to demonstrate how to develop power purchase agreements with Eskom, South Africa’s public electricity utility.
A power purchase agreement was signed with the city of Cape Town to buy energy from the Darling Wind Farm. The city then sells the electricity through “Green Energy Certificates” to buyers prepared to pay a higher price for green energy. For example, when the African Wind Energy Association decided to hold a conference in Cape Town in May 2010, the organizers purchased certificates for 9,900 kilowatt hours to ensure that the conference used only green energy.
SAWEP was one of several initiatives contributing to South Africa’s adoption of a target of reaching 10,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy in its Integrated Resource Plan, an energy blueprint for the period from 2010 to 2030. The government is now soliciting bids from independent power producers to generate an initial 1,850 megawatts of wind energy within the next few years.
“The establishment of Darling had an important catalytic effect in promoting wind energy in South Africa, as it showed that on-grid wind could be a reality,” says Lucas Black of the UNDP/Global Environment Facility unit.
As the Darling Wind turbines revolve at a constant speed of 32 revolutions per minute, they represent the baby steps of an industry whose time has come.
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From the moment you realize your pet is "the one" to the last tearful goodbye, your veterinarian helps you provide your pet with a lifetime of love. To celebrate this special bond between people and their pets and mark the 35th anniversary of National Pet Week® (NPW), the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) with support from Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets are offering veterinary clinics complimentary copies of the Lifetime of Love poster during National Pet Week (May 1-7).
“This poster is a beautiful reminder of the bond we share with our pets throughout our lives, “said Dr. Joe Kinnarney, President of the AVMA.
“At Purina we believe pets and people are better together, so we’re excited to team up with the AVMA to celebrate National Pet Week® and the joy pets bring to our lives,” said Purina veterinarian Dr. Kurt Venator, DVM, PhD. “It’s important for pet owners to remember that veterinarians play a vital role in enriching the bond between pets and people, and this celebration is a great reminder.
“Everyone loves their pets. But not everyone is aware of what their pet needs from them,” Kinnarney said. “That is why each day of National Pet Week® focuses on an essential action vital to achieving a Lifetime of Love.”
Veterinary experts joined together to provide pet owners with little things you can do to make a big difference in extending the length and quality of your pet’s life.
Seven days to healthier, happier pets
Sunday Choose well, commit for life
Select the pet that’s right for your family’s lifestyle, and make a commitment to that pet for its life. Even if you have already welcomed a pet into your home, your veterinarian can help you understand the social and healthcare needs of your individual pet.
Monday- Socialize them now for a better life later
Learn about how to make your pet comfortable and appropriately prepare your pet to enjoy interactions and be comfortable with other animals, people, places and activities.
Tuesday- Exercise benefits body and mind
With an estimated 52.7% of dogs and 57.9% cats in the United States considered overweight or obese, the AVMA encourages regular exercise, not only improve cardiovascular health, maintain a healthy weight, support good mental health for both owner and pet, but to strengthen the human-animal bond. For tips on walking, running or starting an exercise program with your pet, visit avma.org/Walking. The AVMA supports the United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s new initiative to promote walking, Step it Up!
Wednesday-Love your pet? See your vet!
Everybody love’s their pet yet 53.9 percent of cat owners and 48.6 percent of dog owners do not take their pet to the veterinarian unless visibly sick or injured. Pets often hide symptoms of illness. Regular check-ups are vital to catching potential health problems early. Not only can early treatment mean better health for your pet, it can also save money.
Thursday- Know your pet’s role in population control
Do your part to prevent pet overpopulation. Talk to your veterinarian about the proper timing for spaying or neutering your pet. Avoid unplanned breeding through spay/neuter, containment or managed breeding.
Friday - Plan now to reduce stress later
Include your pets in your family’s emergency plan. The AVMA offers a step-by-step guide to assembling emergency kits and plans for a variety of pets and animals.
Saturday - Give them a lifetime of love
Thanks to better care, pets are living longer now than they ever have before – but as pets get older, they need extra care and attention. Regular veterinary examinations can detect problems in older pets before they become advanced or life-threatening, and improve the chances of a longer and healthier life for your pet. Visit the AVMA’s special page for senior pets to find out what is ‘normal’ and what may signal a reason for concern in aging pet. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not age at a rate of seven human years for each year in dog years. Download the AVMA PetsAgeFaster chart to check your pet’s real age.
Visit avma.org or petweek.org for additional information on improving the health and welfare of your pet and ensuring they live the longest, happiest life possible.
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The news is filled with the stories of this prison break but there is also another side to this story, there are also Palestinians on the Egyptian side of the border who have been unable to return to Gaza for YEARS to see their own families living there. Below is this "other side" to this story.
Gazans move freely after years
Thu, 24 Jan 2008
Amid a general buying frenzy, many Gazans are taking advantage of a blown-out border with Egypt to visit family or just see what it feels like to leave their fenced-off home at will.
Mussa and Rahmeh Naji woke up at the crack of dawn, scooped up their three children and headed on foot from their Egyptian village of Jura toward the breached border 10 kilometres away.
Dusty and exhausted, it was nearly midday when they finally got to the town of Rafah — until two days ago divided by a series of walls and today a bustling human hub filled with thousands of Gazans stocking up on goods.
"It's been seven years that I haven't seen my family," says Rahmeh, holding her five-year-old daughter Nada and four-year-old son Mohammed by the hand. "I married my husband — he's Egyptian — and since then I haven't seen them."
In the central Gaza town of Nusseirat less than an hour's drive north, Rahmeh's entire family awaited them. "I'm the only one who lives in Egypt," she says. "My parents, my cousins, my nephew, they're all in Nusseirat."
Says her husband Mussa, carrying their two-year-old daughter Fatima on his back: "Today is a really happy day for us and we thank the Palestinians for having blown up this wall."
When militants blew up stretches of barriers marking the Gaza-Egypt border overnight on Wednesday, they allowed Gazans to leave their narrow coastal strip without hindrance for the first time in years.
The territory — with 1.5 million residents, one of the world's most densely-populated places — is sandwiched between Egypt, which normally requires visas, and Israel, which has progressively tightened restrictions on movement since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.
The Israeli restrictions were turned up a notch in June 2006 after Gaza militants seized an Israeli soldier in a deadly raid; then again a year later when Islamist Hamas violently seized power in the territory, routing forces loyal to president Mahmud Abbas in a week of deadly clashes.
They culminated last week with a full-scale lockdown ordered by the defence ministry in response to persistent rocket and mortar fire.
But a day after Israel eased the blockade, Gaza militants set off a series of explosions that levelled sections of the walls separating Gaza from Egypt — and since then, Gaza residents have been able to leave their fenced-off home that they usually call an open-air prison at will.
"I just came here to smell the liberty," says Fawsa al-Jisha, gazing around while surrounded by her nine daughters. "I haven't left Gaza for a really long time."
But unlike most of the human tide, she was not going to walk past the mangled barrier into Egypt.
"I am afraid to go inside Egypt because I'm afraid that they'll suddenly close the border and I don't want to be stuck in Egypt."
Salma Abu Shaar of Gaza's Rafah is today finally able to see her sister, whose house stands less than a kilometre (half a mile) from hers, but on the Egyptian side of Rafah.
"The last time I saw my family was two and a half years ago, when Israelis left the Gaza Strip" withdrawing settlers and soldiers in September 2005.
"Before that, we used to be one family, living next door. Now we are separated and today we can finally reunite."
Saber Awad (27), took care to cross into Egypt just hours after the border barriers came down, heading to do his duty before his aunt living in the town of El-Arish."Her son died a few months ago and I couldn't present my condolences because I was blocked in Gaza," he told AFP on Wednesday.
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I was glad you were able to show me a close-up photo of this plant. Although it took me a little while to remember it, I finally realized the shrub was Japanese serissa or Yellow rim, Serissa foetida. It can be grown in cold hardiness zones 7-9, which means anywhere in Nassau County, Florida. Generally, it is classified as a semi-evergreen with small white flowers appearing in the spring. Sadly, the flowers have no fragrance. The small green leaves have a thin outline of yellow – which is where it gets the common name Yellow rim. It can be grown in most any type of well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade. It would be considered a dwarf shrub as it reaches heights of only 3-4 feet with the same size spread. However, it has a tendency to sucker similar to yaupon holly. This means you may need to occasionally clip it at the bottom to keep the suckers in check. It truly has no serious insect or disease issues if NOT over-fertilized or over-watered. This means it should not be in the pathway of any irrigation system. Once it is established – usually just a few months – it is practically care-free. Japanese serissa shrubs make a nice backdrop for perennials such as African iris, coneflower or yellow bulbine. We will have a few of these shrubs at the spring sale on Saturday, May 7 from 9am to noon at the James S. Page Governmental Complex. Remember these plant sale funds are used to provide us with professional development and help us maintain the two demonstration gardens. Please come out and support us – see you there.
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Are you in the process of launching a new business or do you already own a business? If you already have a business or if you are planning to start a new business then you must pay attention to certain essentials to be successful in your business.
If you are in the process of launching a new business you should first pick the area that you would like to explore. Select a field or an area that you will like and an area that will have long lasting market. There are certain niche markets that enjoy temporary popularity; you must avoid such areas, because when you venture into a new business you must look for opportunities to expand and to establish your brand in the selected business vertical. Short lived niche markets do not leave room for this. You will be able to identify the right market only when you know the latest market trends and only when you know how certain less obvious factors affect certain markets. You should keep yourself up to date with the business area that you have selected. Online news sharing sites will keep you updated of the latest happenings immediately. It is not sufficient to keep track of the local news; since these days what is happening in one part of the world affect the businesses in the other part of the world, world news is equally important for business owners. Online news sharing sites are one of the best tools that will feed you with the latest news right at your office desk.
After identifying the business vertical, you must focus down further to identify your specific target market and your target audience. Your marketing strategy should be based on your target audience. If you are going to target children then your approach would be different from your approach to market your products to the youth. You must keep yourself informed of what is happening within your target market and how the trends are changing within your target market. You must also know how your competitors are approaching your target audience. To gain better insights about your target market, identify a suitable news sharing website that presents latest business news; the news sharing website that you select should also provide you with world news and the latest happenings in the other areas so that you donít have to hop from one sight to the other but get all the news in one place. Javno.com/en is one of the best news sharing sites online that provides its users with all the latest news.
You must also learn about all the legal aspects involved in marketing your product or service and make sure all your products and services comply with the legal requirements of your country. Besides that you should also plan your finances and you must also your expenses and categorize them in terms of priority and importance. When we start a new business we can easily get distracted with vanities and spend a lot of money on trivial things. So you must plan your finances in advance to make an effective use of the resources available.
Make sure you visit Javno.com/en and add it to your list of favorites as you make you plans.
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As far as how to preach, we can learn a lot just by listening to those who do it well. One veteran I know of counsels younger men to listen to good preaching with two heads: one for their own nourishment, and another for noting how the preacher performs his craft. If we were right in earlier articles to say that Hebrews is a written sermon, then we have a priceless opportunity not only to feed our souls from it but also to learn from the finest of preachers how best to preach.
Suppose you did that now, and as you pressed “play,” you took out your notebook to jot down your insights. You hear the part where he says, “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart” (3:12), and, pausing the recording, you write: If I will become more helpful in my preaching, I must learn how to preach to the heart. How might we do this?
First, we must study the heart. Our modern conception of the heart tends to limit it to the seat of our emotions and desires. It is that (Joh 16:6; Psa 37:4), but it is so much more. Our preacher to the Hebrews speaks of our hearts as something that can be hardened (the will), brought to faith (organ of trust), is capable of thought (the intellect), and of registering right and wrong (conscience). We must become spiritual cardiologists and study all that Scripture teaches about the heart. Everything we do, every sin we sin, every word we speak, flows from our hearts (Pro 4:23; Mar 7:14-23; Luk 6:45). The heart is our innermost person (1Pe 3:4; Jer 4:18), our animating core, our motivational center. It’s what makes us tick.
Second, we must aim for the heart. “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts” (3:7-8). This expositor knows that his audience’s most vital organ is the heart. It is hotly contested territory, a sacred chamber devoted either to loving God or worshiping idols (Deu 6:5; Eze 14:3). “My son, give me your heart” (Pro 23:26), the Father pleads. Deceitfully, sin whispers the same thing (Heb 3:13). The preacher knows that all teaching and preaching is a battle for the heart (Mat 13:19). Desperate, he wields his sword (Heb 4:12), crying with each swing, “Do not harden your hearts.” His only counterattack is the persistent exhortation of the Word (3:13).
Alec Motyer notes that in the literal Hebrew, God wanted Isaiah to “speak to the heart” of His people (Isa 40:2). He wants us to do the same. Preaching that targets only surface behaviors produces only surface changes, but when we take aim at the desires driving the behaviors, the Spirit can effect radical transformation right before our eyes. When the British sought to breach the Möhne dam during World War II, placement was everything. They needed their “bouncing bombs” to detonate underwater, close to the dam wall. If I am responsible to teach, I must focus not only on the data to be conveyed but also on its placement. I want God’s life-altering truth to roll down right into the yawning cavern of the heart.
Third, we must speak from the heart. In the game Battleships, the shots on your own tracking grid match those that land on your opponent’s grid. Somewhat similarly, our preaching will only land in other people in the places it has first landed in us. If we will aim for our listeners’ hearts, it must strike our hearts first. Then when we speak, our message will come from deep inside.
How can we get it into hearts, both our own and our listeners’? The preacher of Hebrews gives us some crucial ingredients:
1. Dealings with God in our own spiritual experience. Christ’s superiority and priestly ministry in heaven are not abstractions to this preacher. Christ is everything to him! He knows by experience how Christ can help the tempted and dispense mercy to the fallen. Suffering, life, prayer, the Holy Spirit and the Father’s discipline must move Christ from being just a topic of discourse to being what David Robertson calls the “Magnificent Obsession” of my heart.
2. A willingness to address the real questions, needs and burdens of the people. Our preacher does not skirt the issues. He confronts his listeners’ needs head-on. He knows the Lord’s people. He knows their worries and weaknesses. He takes the questions they’re actually asking and answers them with powerful exposition from the Scriptures. Are we in touch? Do we have the courage to tackle hard questions?
3. An evident love for God’s people. This preacher preaches with striking earnestness. He’s not playing games. He cares about his audience. He cares about their souls. He warns them, teaches them, urges them and exhorts them. He is full of sympathy and love for the people, just like the Priest he proclaims. He includes himself with them, 14 times saying, “Let us.” “Let us” copy him.
4. The fresh use of language and images to capture the heart. Sometimes our words grow predictable and staid. Not this preacher’s. Without at all compromising the faithfulness of his exposition of Scripture, he employs colorful word pictures. Drowsiness to the gospel is like a ship drifting away at night (2:1). That’ll wake up Sleepy! Instead of a rather flat statement like “we have eternal security,” he portrays our hope as being a steadfast “anchor of the soul,” cast not into the sea but up into heaven (6:19). Such word pictures can endear even a mariner’s heart to Christ.
Ultimately, it is Christ Himself who gets the Word into our hearts. When He reveals Himself to us in the pages of Scripture, our hearts begin to burn within us with a fire that demands an outlet (Luk 24:32; Jer 20:9). For what we have to preach is not chicken soup for the soul but good news for the heart. Because of Christ, we can come near with true hearts “sprinkled clean from an evil conscience” (10:22). There’s a new covenant in which God writes His law on our hearts and is merciful to all our iniquities (8:10). Divine grace and human need collide in such preaching. And believing hearts throughout the room are strengthened not by food but by grace (13:9).
It was heartening to see, after I finished outlining this series, a whole book come out taking this approach. See Jeremy McKeen’s The Model Sermon: Principles of Preaching from the Book of Hebrews.
All Scripture quotations in this article are from the ESV.
3:8; 3:12; 4:12; 10:22.
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The sugar cookies called polvorones are sometimes known as “Mexican wedding cookies” in English, although I’ve never seen them served at a wedding here in Central Mexico. They are a common bakery item throughout the year, but the version made with fresh orange juice and zest is associated with the Christmas season, possibly because oranges are an abundant winter fruit.
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|From 21 to 25 September, during FIP Virtual 2020, we will be celebrating the entire profession ― pharmacists, scientists, educators and the pharmacy team ― who have done so much during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’re invited to join us to learn about pharmacy initiatives and services from our members and to find out about a variety of research projects and findings from different countries. The week will culminate with the 10th World Pharmacists Day.|
Pharmacy’s response to COVID-19 – A virtual exhibition: how to participate
The COVID-19 pandemic is a landmark event in global health. It has not only impacted public health and pharmaceutical practice, sciences and education, but has also elicited a mass response from our profession. It is important to document this event for present and future generations so that we can reflect on what we did well and how we can be better prepared for future pandemics. In collaboration with FIP, the Pharmacy Museum of the National Association of Pharmacies of Portugal is organising a virtual exhibition, and you are invited to contribute to this project and make it truly global. Please share any images of objects or relevant materials that stand as evidence of how pharmacists in your country contributed to the control of the pandemic or were affected by it with Mr João Neto, curator of the exhibition (firstname.lastname@example.org) by 10 December 2020, including a brief description of the item (max 100 words).
Watch the interview with Mr Joao Neto here:
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U.S. Moves to Oust Principal In Furor on Interracial Dating
By RONALD SMOTHERS,
Published: May 18, 1994
ATLANTA, May 17— After a principal's attempts to discourage interracial couples from attending the high school prom in Weedowee, Ala., the Justice Department today reopened a 24-year-old desegregation case and asked a Federal court to remove the principal.
In the action in Federal District Court in Montgomery, Ala., the Office of Civil Rights asked that the Randolph County School District be found in violation of a 1970 order barring the district from discriminating in its extracurricular activities, in its disciplinary practices and in its hiring of faculty and staff members.
But the new action also seeks the "termination or reassignment" of Hulond Humphries, the principal at Randolph County High School. Such a move against an individual school official is unusual for the Justice Department in desegregation cases.
Mr. Humphries touched off a brief school boycott and awakened racial antagonism in the community last February, when he threatened at a school assembly to cancel the prom to prevent interracial couples from attending. He publicly told a student who is the child of an interracial marriage that she was a "mistake." Statements Criticized
"Mr. Humphries's statements at the assembly created unnecessary and substantial racial discrimination in the conduct of extracurricular activities at the high school," the Justice Department's motion said.
The court action, filed on the 40th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court school desegregation case, asks that the school district, in which blacks make up 37 percent of the enrollment, explain why Mr. Humphries "should not be terminated or reassigned to duties that do not involve contact with or supervision of students."
Nathaniel Douglas, head of the education opportunities section of the department's civil rights division, confirmed the filing of the motions today and said that technically, the district was still covered by the the 1970 order against a variety of racially discriminatory activities.
The department's recent investigation of the district at the request of black parents had found substantial problems with compliance with that order, Mr. Douglas said.
Dr. Audrey Clinton-Fisher, the education specialist in the Southeast regional office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the Justice Department action "a giant step toward eliminating the vestiges of discrimination in Randolph County."
Dale McKay, the school district's superintendent, said he had not seen the court motions.
"You never know what the next step will be in an investigation like this," Mr. McKay said, adding that Federal officials had been interviewing people and poring over the district's records in the last few weeks.
Mr. Humphries, who has repeatedly refused to comment on the school prom incidents, could not be reached for comment.
On Feb. 24, Mr. Humphries summoned seniors and juniors at the 700-student school to an assembly at which he asked who was planning to attend the prom with someone who was not of the same race. When several students indicated that they did he said the prom, scheduled to be held on April 23, would be canceled to prevent violence and disorder.
ReVonda Bowen, a junior whose father is white and mother is black, then asked Mr. Humphries about the decision and what it meant for her. He reportedly said that her mother and father had made "a mistake" in having her and added that it was a mistake he hoped to prevent others from making.
Although he rescinded his decision to cancel the prom the next day, his comments led to demonstrations by black parents who urged that he be dismissed and to counter-demonstrations by white parents supporting his strict disciplinarian approach.
The county school board did suspend him with pay for a short time, but in March the board rejected Mr. McKay's recommendation for a full investigation of the incident and restored the principal. The prom was held as scheduled on April 23, closed to all but students and chaperones. Hiring Record Questioned
In its review of the district's practices because of the prom controversy, the Justice Department charged that rather than desegregating its teaching and administrative staffs over the years as required by the court order, Randolph County's hiring record had got worse.
Before the court order, when the district was in effect still segregated, 43 or its 128 teachers, or 34 percent, were black, according to the court papers. Today, the department said, only 15 of the 157 teachers, or 10 percent, are black. In addition, there were no black principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors or administration staff members.
"In short, the school district is white from top to bottom," the Justice Department said.
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OTTAWA — The federal government needs to get a better handle on the impact and implications of frequent severe weather events, says the commissioner of environment and sustainable development.
Commissioner Julie Gelfand's spring report finds that Canada's floodplain maps have not been properly updated in 20 years, building codes aren't taking into account a changing climate and decision-makers need better tools for predicting the frequency, duration and intensity of storms.
The severe weather chapter was one of three in the spring audit, which also included a related look at how federal support for municipal infrastructure is measuring mitigation and climate impacts.
Environmental Commissioner Julie Gelfand speaks about her 2014 fall report in Ottawa on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. (Photo: Adrian Wyld/CP)
The commissioner also took aim at regulation of the cosmetics industry, which she found operates outside the constraints of many other consumer products and leaves Canadians uninformed and open to adverse health and safety incidents.
Gelfand acknowledged in an accompanying editorial that extreme weather is currently top of mind.
"At a time when scientists are predicting that extreme weather events, with impacts that include floods, droughts and forest fires, will become more frequent and intense, putting an aging and weakened infrastructure to an ever more difficult test, the time is ripe to consider the findings presented in these reports," Gelfand wrote.
A major wildfire in Alberta continues to burn after forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 Fort McMurray residents earlier this month, just one of a series of recent, large-scale natural disasters.
"At a time when scientists are predicting that extreme weather events, with impacts that include floods, droughts and forest fires, will become more frequent and intense, putting an aging and weakened infrastructure to an ever more difficult test, the time is ripe to consider the findings presented in these reports."
The audit noted that the federal government's Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements relief fund has paid out more in the last six years than it did in the previous 39 years of its existence.
The reports says homes and buildings under current building codes may not be strong enough to withstand coming climates — such as extraordinary snow loads — and municipalities need help understanding the size of culverts that may be needed in future for extreme rainfall.
The audit found that while $253 million in federal funding for three disaster mitigation funds has been offered since 2011-12, only $25 million has actually been paid out. And under a $160-million program for mitigation through the federal disaster fund, provinces have applied for only $13 million since 2008-09 and not a penny has been paid.
The audit says the way the funds are set up discourages uptake of the funding.
Gelfand says the recent financial costs to Ottawa show the importance of mitigating severe weather to help save lives, reduce economic disruption and ultimately save money.
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This windmill pair was shot in the early morning hours. The shallow fog had been around for days because of no wind, high humidity and cold temperatures.
The city of Paracatu was vanished by a river of mud, after a mining dam burst at Mariana, Minas Gerais. It was the biggest environmental accident in Brazil’s history.
Palangkaraya – The most polluted place on earth! This photo was taken on October 4th, 2015 when my friends and I did a campaign called “Kalteng with Love” where we gave free masks, milk and vitamin for the people in the city of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Thick smoke was hovering over where we live. The particulate meter that day showed that the air was so poluted and reached over 2000 psi. The smoke was caused by the fires in Borneo peatlands that was started from the end of July. For almost three months the people in Borneo had to breathe such toxicating air. There are lots of people who suffered from respiratory problems. Schools off. Flights could not operate. Economic system became paralyzed. Borneo is known as the lungs of the world and the fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, and these fires are not helping. We were even labelled as the most polluted place on earth. Through this photo, I would like to raise the world’s awareness that this matter is a huge problem for all of us. This challenge is addressed not only to people in Borneo and Indonesia, but also to the entire world. Could you imagine if all of the forests in Borneo disappear and there is limitied source of oxygen left for over 7 billion people?
Wind power from approx. 120m height.
Energy ACTIVE office building, about 1100m² floorspace : produce yearly more energy then it consumes ( better then passive house results !). Heating & cooling by deep geothermal heatpump with electric compensation of full integrated PV-solarpanels (BIPV) in 45°-roof. Owner : www.stebo.be Building designed by www.burob.be & www.geertdebruyn.be , construction : www.i3.be BIPV solar roof : http://solar.golden-glass.com/c465.html Drone : Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K
Taken in between two banks of fog in a 2 minute window. Showing the tanks and stacks of Fawley Refinery.
The tiny island in the lake of Galvė looks like a continent and shows us how small our world really is. One tree cut on this island, one nest pulled apart or another kind of intervention will change it beyond our recognition. It is up to us all to make our planet clean and green
This is a picture of the king high tide crashing against this restaurant on the sand in la jolla shores. the king tide was at the peak in this photo at +7feet . is this a result of higher tides due to global warning.Today many coastal communities are seeing more frequent flooding during high tides. As sea level rises higher over the next 15 to 30 years, tidal flooding is expected to occur more often, cause more disruption, and even render some areas unusable .
A playing field I grew up playing football on… It\’s now acquired by the real estate company and they are killed the green of the field, trees providing shadow and building the grey houses on it. It\’s a typical depiction of the impact of growing real estate companies in Bangladesh.
After a mining dam bursts, it took almost 3 hours for the mud to reach Paracatu. Fortunately, it gave time for people to abandon their houses and run. The cemitery of Paracatu stays on a small hill, and it was there where many people rushed to protect themselves. And it was from there, that they saw their city being destroyed. There were no fatal victims in the city but the city itself.
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I have scoliosis. I found out in 6th grade when I went to the doctor for a check-up and he did the test where you touch your toes. He noticed a curve in my spine and recommended that I see an orthopedic surgeon. My spine had a sixteen-degree curve. According to iScoliosis.com, 80% of individuals with scoliosis are idiopathic which means that there is no known cause. My scoliosis falls into the idiopathic category. The doctor told us that the scoliosis might not get worse but that we should come back at the end of the summer.
I went away to sleep away camp and one of my friends had scoliosis and a back brace. We became good friends and, when the summer ended, and I found out I would also need a brace she was the first person I called for advice. The second person I asked for advice was my friend Tally, the president of the club I was a member of, Understanding Disabilities. I remember sitting with her on the couch after meeting and breaking into tears after asking whether scoliosis is a disability. I now know that scoliosis is not a disease—it is a descriptive term. All spines have some degree of curvature but individuals with scoliosis have, “abnormal side-to-side (lateral) curves, in the spinal column.” I got measured for a back brace with a specialist that people travel across the country to see. He was in Brooklyn and when my mom and I drove there we were shocked. There was a pigeon on the stoop, the entire office was the size of a closet, and the building was surrounded by tombstone engraving companies.
I got my brace a few weeks later after the lab had burned the original set of x-ray. I was in art class when people noticed it. A friend said I looked stiff that day and I explained that I was wearing a brace. My shoe was untied, and when she realized that I couldn’t bend over to tie it, she came over and did it for me. Luckily, she wasn’t the only person who treated me kindly. My friends and I would joke that I had abs of steel. Having a back brace definitely wasn’t my sexiest look but my friends’ acceptance and understanding made it much more bearable. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t see as much of them. I missed a few hours of school once a week to have certain parts of the brace shaved off and altered because they would dig into certain parts of my body leaving cuts and bruising. I also met with a physical therapist twice a week.
I wore the brace all day except for showering, physical therapy, and horseback riding (like most preps, I was an avid equestrian). I learned that sleeping with a back brace is more comfortable if you have a pillow between your knees and sleep on a mattress with a foam topper. I also learned to wear soft undershirts under the brace (I recommend James Pearse, Petite Bateau, and Hanes). When I first got the brace I would only wear sweatpants because I couldn’t get any other pants to fit over the brace. After a few weeks I began wearing jeans under the brace and allowing the part over my hip to be exposed. My next outfit solution was to go to maternity stores to shop for the pants with stretchy elastic around the waistband (p.s. Pea in the Pod has Joie, Joe’s Jeans, Splendid, Velvet, Vince, 7 For All Mankind, AG Jeans, Citizens of Humanity, Hudson, J. Brand and Lilly Pulitzer!). I wore the brace for a year and a half.
When I found out I didn’t have to wear it anymore I was thrilled; however, it came with a catch. A back brace doesn’t fix a curve–it can only be used to try to prevent the scoliosis from getting worse while the individual is growing. When you are growing your spine is also growing and there is a greater likelihood that the scoliosis will worsen. After a year and a half I had stopped growing and it wasn’t likely that my curve would become worse. I still went to the orthopedic surgeon every six months for x-rays and, although my curve continued to get worse, it was not enough to need surgery.
Having a back brace means that you don’t have to support your back and your core gets very weak. I began to take pilates classes in addition to horseback riding in order to re-gain strength. If you have scoliosis I would recommend swimming, pilates, yoga, and ballet. It is a very good idea to exercise but make sure to stop anything that is painful (I don’t roll like a ball in pilates class).
During the summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college I went to the orthopedic surgeon and found out that I needed surgery. I fainted but when I came to I spoke with the doctor and my dad. I often cope with fear by making jokes so, when the doctor was explaining the procedure, I asked if they could do breast implants while they were at it. The doctor seemed to contemplate it but my dad didn’t find it as funny.
Surgery is recommended when the curves get to be 40 or 45 degrees or higher. Surgery can correct curvature by around 50% and can help to prevent further progression of the curve. I’m not going to go into the specifics of the surgery, because frankly it makes me queasy, but it generally involves bone fusion and a rod. Recovering from surgery is a long process and is often painful. The night that I found out that I had to have surgery I couldn’t sleep and kept researching and reading people’s stories about the surgery. I don’t think I slept well for two weeks. I began planning to take the fall of my sophomore year off in order to have the surgery and recover. I didn’t want to do the surgery over the summer because I was selected to be a White House intern and didn’t want to give up on the once in a lifetime opportunity. The nurse at the doctor’s office would call during the workday to tell me the results of various MRI tests and x-rays.
I decided that I needed to get a second opinion—not because I thought that I would be able to avoid surgery—but because I knew that I needed to be with the best possible surgeon. Most parents probably would have dismissed my request by telling me that I was just in denial but my parents listened to me. We scheduled an appointment with a doctor at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Boachi-Adjei is the Chief of Scoliosis Service.
According to Surgery Saved My Life: Patient and Doctor Bios by the Discovery Channel, Dr. Boachi-Adjei was, “raised by a poor, single mother, a circumstance that fostered Boachie’s determination, resourcefulness, persistence and take-charge attitude. As an 8-year-old in the city of Kumasi, Ghana, Boachie-Adjei nearly died from a severe gastric illness. When the herbal remedy prescribed by a local healer did little to help, his family was fortunately able to track down one of the country’s few physicians — a pediatrician who had returned to Ghana after training in the U.K. The doctor came to the young boy’s aid, successfully treating him with modern medicine. The experience inspired young Boachie-Adjei to pursue medicine as a career and also served as a reminder to keep his mother country close to his heart. Dr. Boachie came to New York as a 21-year-old immigrant. He worked three jobs before school started and held part-time jobs while a full-time student at Brooklyn College.” He graduated summa cum laude and went to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Boachi-Adjei is also an inventor and holds several patents for devices used in spine surgery.
After establishing himself as one of the leading spine surgeons, Dr. Boachi-Adjei dedicated himself to launching a foundation to provide orthopedic and spine services to people in Ghana and other developing nations who do not receive adequate medical care. Using his own money for start-up costs, Dr. Boachie-Adjei launched FOCOS (Foundation of Orthopaedics and Complex Spine) in 1998. ‘FOCOS was a dream come true for me and for countless others who suffer from spine and orthopedic afflictions in Ghana,’ he said. The foundation’s efforts were expanded to Barbados in 1999, and Dr. Boachie and the FOCOS board are working to extend its services farther in West Africa. Already, patients from Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Poland and the UAE have been treated in Ghana as an affordable alternative to treatment elsewhere. “Dr. Boachie says, ‘I believe in the notion that the practice of medicine is a privilege, not a right, and that our talents have been given to us to benefit the sick and suffering. I learned of giving back early in life; I am alive today because someone served and gave back. Service is our destiny. Albert Schweitzer, a Nobel Prize laureate, said, ‘I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.'”
You are probably wondering why I am raving about Dr. Boachi-Adjei and I’m sorry for keeping you in suspense. When I went to Dr. Boachi-Adjei he took five or six elaborate x-rays where I stood against a wall or laid down on a table in different positions. He took all different types of measurements before speaking but, when he did, he told me that the former doctor had been off in his measurement by enough that I wouldn’t need surgery. I was stunned and elated and Dr. Boaci-Adjei will always be one of my heroes, not just because I narrowly avoid surgery, but because his charity helps so many individuals.
It has been hard for me to write this post but I think that it is important for me to share my story so that I can help other people dealing with scoliosis. I also wanted to draw attention to Dr. Boachi-Adjei’s organization—FOCOS.
If you, or someone you know, has scoliosis please feel free to email me at email@example.com. Please feel free to leave a comment with your own tips and advice. I’d love to be able to use this post to provide advice and support. If you’d like to read another blogger’s story about scoliosis please check out the blog curvy spine. It is truly an inspiration.
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Intervals are the raw material from which melodies are created, and provide the building blocks of harmony. They are the musician's tool to control feeling and tell a story.
This section of ten web pages explores intervals from the very basics of vibration to the terminology used in music theory. A general reference for these topics is W. A. Mathieu's Harmonic Experience ([Mathieu 1997]).
What is Sound?
Sound is a fluctuation in the air pressure — an area where air particles are more densely packed or more loosely packed than the surrounding air.
Unlike the pressure changes brought about by weather (e.g. “a low-pressure front bringing in moisture in the early evening …”), sound involves local, relatively rapid change in air pressure.
Because air is a gas, air particles are free to move about and bump into neighboring air particles.
Local changes in air pressure tend to spread out through the air
with the character of a wave motion that is triggered as the air particles interact
with their neighbors ([Everest 2001]).
This domino effect tends to move through the air at the speed of sound — about 760 miles per hour or one mile every five seconds at typical conditions ([Dean 1979]).
We hear sounds because our ears respond to changes in air pressure.
If the change in air pressure oscialates — high pressure / low pressure / high pressure / low pressure
— our ears, nervous system, and brain convert changes in air pressure into a perception of sound.
If you strike the drum head, it vibrates and pushed the air into waves of high pressure (more tightly packed air molecules) and low pressure (less tightly packed air molecules). Those waves of alternating pressure
are called air pressure waves.
They affect the neighboring air and radiate out from the source, with reducing pressure and precision. When it reaches our ears, it is perceived as sound.
So air molecules do not move from the intrument
to the ear — we would feel that as wind. Each molecule vibrates back and forth in a limited region. This understanding came fairly recently — Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) came to understand this principle and then to map out mathematically the frequencies and sine waves involved in sound ([Fourier 1888]).
In the example above, the vibrations of a drum head die out quickly and we perceive a brief sound. If the sound source continues to produce air pressure waves, we perceive a long sound. And if the oscillation happens at a steady rate, we perceive a steady tone or pitch or note.
The picture above is often represented as a graph of the changing air pressure over time:
The blue line represents how the air pressure changes over time. The distance in time between two neighboring troughs in the graph (the low-pressure points) or two neighboring peaks in the graph (the high-pressure points) is called one cycle. If the difference in pressure between the low- and high-pressure points is greater, the blue line would appear taller and we would perceive a louder sound.
When people say that sound is vibrational energy, one aspect of what they are talking about is the energy that is transferred from the drum head to your ear, in waves of air pressure.
It's easy to see how the head of a bass drum shown above causes air pressure waves. As the drum head vibrates back and forth, the air molecules are pushed and pulled into areas of higher pressure and lower pressure.
The string on a stringed instrument has a similar effect on the air. A guitar string vibrates when plucked by a finger or a pick, a piano string vibrates when struck by a hammer inside the piano, and a violin string continuously vibrates when vibrated by the coarse hairs of a bow drawn across it.
But what about a flute?
How flutes cause air pressure waves is best shown by these moving images from
Luchtwervels in een blokfluit «Air Vortices in a Recorder»
([Hirschberg 1999] ). They are both images of how the air coming out of the flue crosses the sound hole and hits the splitting edge of a recorder:
Airstream at the sound hole of a recorder
The left image shows the behavior of the airstream coming out of the flue at the onset of a tone - what would be the attack at the start of a note. The air initially flows up and away without any vibration or oscillating pattern.
The right image shows what happens a bit later, after an oscillation has been established. This osciallation happens because of the specific shape of all the aspects of the flute, but in particular the shape of the flue, the sound hole, the splitting edge, and the flute's sound chamber.
The caption in [Hirschberg 1999] for the right image (translated from Dutch, thanks to Google Translate) says:
Oscillations of the air jet in the mouth of a recorder with a fundamental frequency of 513 Hz.
The core gap is 1 mm, the distance between the core and the output gap of the labium is 4 mm.
The visualization is obtained using the so-called Schlieren technique: the whistle blows CO2
and creates a contrast in the refractive index.
Presumably, the “core” referred to is the height of the flue.
So the air pressure wave is created in flutes by an oscillation of air above and below the splitting edge.
The number of full cycles of oscillation (corresponding to the number of peaks in graph of the vibration) that happen every second is typically called the frequency. Frequency is usually measured in the number of "cycles per second" or "Hertz" (abbreviated "Hz") after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. So if there are 100 peaks in air pressure each second, the sound is said to have a frequency of 100 Hz.
Our ears are designed to hear sounds with frequencies of between roughly 25 and 15,000 Hertz.
Instruments that produce air pressure waves that have a steady frequency are said to be "pitched instruments", because the sound we hear has a recognizable tone or pitch. All flutes are pitched instruments.
Its common to hear physicists talk about frequencies in terms of Hertz, but musicians tend to use a system of musical note names that have been developed. The musical notes better represent how we hear music, but they also make it easy to forget the vibrational basis of our music. When something in music says "A=440", it's a shorthand for saying that the musical note named "A" corresponds to 440 Hertz.
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What’s cooking in the kitchen may be plans for remodeling. Before deciding on a new kitchen layout shape, however, you must determine what you want your kitchen to do.
There are four basic kitchen shapes recognized by professional kitchen designers:
• The U-shape is favored by homeowners as the most efficient, but it only works if you have a space at least 9 feet by 9 feet. The sink is at the bottom of the U. and the range and refrigerator are along the sides. The appliances then form the points of an equal-legged triangle. The U permits plenty of wall space for cabinets and windows and the dead-end eliminates through traffic from the work pattern.
• The L-shaped kitchen layout is less functional, but excellent for a family that likes to assemble in the kitchen. L-shape is popular where two or more cooks might use the kitchen at the same time, because there are only two confining walls to contend with.
• The corridor or galley-shaped kitchen, which boasts economical use of space, is often found in apartments. The appliances can be placed along one wall and countertops and cabinets along the other, or if you have a room at least 8 feet wide, you may place appliances on opposite walls. Avoid having an opening at both ends of a corridor kitchen because it poses a problem for the cook working in those tight quarters to have any through traffic.
• The one-wall kitchen layout is the least functional. The challenge here is to provide adequate storage and work surfaces without the distances between work centers becoming too great.
If you are concerned with how to choose a kitchen shape the above tips and suggestions will surely help you remodel and build a kitchen from your dreams.
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Zinfandel is often considered the only true American wine grape. Now also considered California’s state wine, evidence suggests that this grape was actually brought to California around 1850. DNA analysis shows that it is genetically equivalent to Croatian grapes, Crljenak Kaštelanski and Tribidrag, as well as to the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in Apulia, the “heel” of Italy.
In name, though, Zinfandel is truly American, with the earliest known use of the name recorded in 1832 in Boston. Zinfandel was then introduced to California during the Gold Rush around twenty years after. The grape thrives in the Golden State’s climate and soil, as it now is the third-leading wine grape varietal in California, grown in most of its 58 counties. It is also the third most planted grape in America, following Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon.
In the 1980’s, Zinfandel became wildly popular in America as a slightly pink, faintly sweet wine. This became known as White Zinfandel, causing many wine lovers to mistakenly think that there’s a white zinfandel grape as well as a red one. Despite its name, White Zinfandel is actually not a white wine at all. White Zinfandel wine is made from black and blue-hued wine grapes of the same name. These grapes have darker skins with a light center. The pale pink color of White Zinfandel comes from the color of the skins bleeding while soaking. To this day White Zinfandel outsells Red Zinfandel six to one.
The true essence of this popular grape lies in its taste. Red Zinfandel is commonly described as both fruity and spicy, including notes of blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry, and cherry as well as black pepper, licorice, and cinnamon.
But is the popularity of California’s state grape slowing declining? In the past 50 years of American winemaking, no grape has seen more ups and downs than Zinfandel. First with its origin in question, and then within which winemaking style best suits the fruit. The grape is also known to ripen unevenly, which also lends to the complications it has faced. Despite nearly flat growth in overall Zinfandel sales, plenty of California wineries are doing just fine with California’s heritage grape variety.
Candice Reinerston, owner and assistant winemaker at Riverstar Vineyards, in Paso Robles has been growing Zinfandel on her property since 2016, when her family bought the vineyard. Trying to put a new twist on the legacy she inherited, Candice has brought in everything from new barrels to new fruit for Riverstar. As one of the few millennial winemakers in the area, we sat down with Candice to hear about her experience growing Zinfandel in her vineyard and what she expects for the future of the grape.
Why drew you to Paso Robles to purchase your vineyard?
Candice: Definitely the wines. Drinking wine has always been a family thing. My grandfather used to make wine in his basement in San Francisco. Paso just has this vibe of casualness and is welcoming. It’s more laid back then other wine regions in California, in my opinion.
What have your experiences been as a winemaker in the industry?
Candice: I can often feel judged instantly because I am young and I’m also a woman. Maybe people will assume that I don’t know what I’m talking about or I’m inexperienced. That can be frustrating. The positives have been that we are bringing a whole new dimension to winemaking. We have a whole new set of experiences and different solutions to problems. Doubt me, and I’m gonna show you later. I don’t need to be number one, but I want to be treated equally.
There hasn’t been much of a spike in Zinfandel recently… Why have you decided to continue to produce a grape on your property that has been declining?
Candice: Well right off the bat, this is our heritage grape here. Zinfandel is what initially brought people to Paso. People wanted this jammy, high alcohol wine that universally people seem to like. I was excited that there was already Zin growing on the property when we bought it. It traditionally ripens very unevenly, so that’s been a struggle for us the first couple of harvests. We are actually replanting five acres of Zin because I feel like it adds to our blends; a little sweetness, some pepper notes. It makes beautifully colored wine. I love to see the range of wines that can be created with it. Our neighbors, everyone around us is making zin, but they’re different every time you go. That’s why I was really excited to work with it and why I’m excited to continue to work with it. There’s also the big Zin Fest in paso, so people really love it around here.
(Candice is referencing the annual Zin Fest in Paso, this year dubbed Vintage Paso: Zinfandel Weekend, a themed weekend in Paso Robles Wine Country featuring individual experiences at over 100 wineries.)
Would you say that Zinfandel is a popular wine for older or younger generations?
Candice: I could see it in both. Probably more for younger people. Around Paso it’s grown a little sweeter, or fruit forward. You’re getting those jammy notes, berry pie, vanilla flavors. For wine drinkers who are just starting out and only like white wines or sweeter wines, i think Zin is one of those wines that will push people into reds, especially in a blend.
What do you see for the future of Zinfandel in Paso?
Candice: I think Zin is here to stay. I think especially as Californians really are proud of California things… like this is our grape! I think older drinkers like it, but it really is such a good transition wine for younger drinkers. It helps develop people’s palates more. I think you’re going to continue to see Zinfandel in blends, and I don’t think it’s going anywhere.
Written By Baharan Abdollahi
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When can babies eat feta cheese? It is best to wait until after your baby’s first birthday to serve feta cheese as it is extremely high in sodium. The best cheeses for babies under 12 months of age are fresh mozzarella, fresh ricotta, goat cheese, mascarpone, and Swiss cheese.
What Cheese Can I Give My 8 month old?
Start your baby off with a mild-tasting, pasteurized variety (children should not have unpasteurized cheese), like mozzarella or a non-sharp cheddar, either shredded or cut into tiny cubes.
Can babies eat pasteurized feta cheese?
Babies can eat pasteurised full-fat cheese from 6 months old. … Many cheeses are made from unpasteurised milk. It’s better to avoid these because of the risk of listeria. You can check labels on cheeses to make sure they’re made from pasteurised milk.
Can my 8 month old eat cheese puffs?
No, it is not okay. The first food, other than milk, that a baby should eat is rice cereal at four months, 1st food baby food at six months, and then start introducing table food at eight months. There is absolutely no nutritional value of cheese puffs.
Can 8 month old eat goat cheese?
When can babies eat goat cheese? Goat cheese may be introduced as soon as your baby is ready for solids, which is generally around 6 months of age.
What Can I Give My 8 month old for breakfast?
Breakfast ideas for babies and young children
- unsweetened porridge or lower-sugar cereal mixed with whole milk and topped with fruit, such as mashed ripe pear or banana.
- wholewheat biscuit cereal (choose lower-sugar options) with whole milk and fruit.
How do I give my 8 month old cheese?
Start by offering your baby just 1 to 2 ounces of cheese (and other protein-rich foods) a day if your baby is between 6 and 8 months old. Babies between 8 and 10 months old may get double this amount — 2 to 4 ounces each day. Even this small amount provides notable benefits.
Is Greek feta pasteurized?
Imported feta is usually pasteurized.
However, if you’re visiting Greece or surrounding countries and you’re eating feta or feta style cheese, you may come across the unpasteurized versions as the producers have the option of making it. Feta may also be homemade in an artisan style, from raw milk.
Can 8 month old eat eggs?
Around 6 months, puree or mash one hard-boiled or scrambled egg and serve it to your baby. For a more liquid consistency, add breast milk or water. Around 8 months, scrambled egg pieces are a fantastic finger food.
Can 8 month old have salt in food?
There’s no need to add salt to your baby’s food. Babies need only a very small amount of salt: less than 1g (0.4g sodium) a day until they are 12 months. Your baby’s kidneys can’t cope with more salt than this.
When can I give baby puffs?
When can you give your baby puffs? Puffs baby food fill the aisles at most grocery stores and you can plan to pick up a container once baby can pick up smaller foods with their fingers—or their “pincer grasp”. This usually happens around 8 or 9 months.
Can baby choke on puffs?
Milanaik and her colleagues blind-tested nine products in food groups marketed to “crawlers” — melts, cooked produce, puffed grain products, biscuits and cereals — and found most are potential choking hazards, especially if they are not eaten within an hour.
How do I introduce my baby to puffs?
Place a few puffs onto their tray during meal time. Your baby will rake, grab, and eventually pinch the puffs between their thumb and forefinger, bringing the puffs to their mouth. If they can’t get the puffs into their mouth on their own, resist the temptation to do it for them.
Can 8 month old have yogurt?
Yogurt can be introduced to babies anywhere between 4-8 months of age. Since yogurt is so nutrient-dense, I would recommend serving it to baby as one of their first foods but talk with your pediatrician if there is someone in the family with a dairy allergy.
WHAT CAN 8 month eat?
Your 8-month-old will still be taking 24 to 32 ounces of formula or breast milk every day. But mealtimes should also involve an increasing variety of foods, including baby cereal, fruits and vegetables, and mashed or pureed meats. As the solids increase, the breast milk or formula will decrease.
Can babies eat olives?
When can babies eat olives? Olives may be introduced as soon as your baby is ready to start solids, which is generally around 6 months of age, however, it would be best to wait until the first birthday to serve them with any regularity.
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An emerging market selloff has reached a tipping point.
Record outflows from bond funds in emerging markets last week revealed how close investors could be to capitulation, ready to abandon the world's few remaining pockets of growth and yield in order to seek refuge in absolute safety.
Thus far it has been orderly. Stock markets and currencies in emerging Asia, Europe and Latin America have been falling since August. Yet it's largely been speculative short-term players who are fleeing emerging market assets rather than fund managers and retail investors.
Last week's massive bond selloff has been a rude reminder that the markets are now treading a fine line between prudence and panic, and that piles of foreign cash have come into emerging markets since Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.
Also coming clear is that real money investors who extrapolated a 2008-like scenario of a quick market bounce-back into this crisis could now succumb to a chain reaction of redemptions, stop-losses and broader despair about the state of the world economy.
There are risks compared to 2008 driven by lower absolute yields as well as higher foreign ownership in the local currency debt, said Neeraj Seth, head of Asian credit at BlackRock. Hence I would be cautious in the short term but would remain constructive in the mid- to long term.
BlackRock manages $1.2 trillion in fixed income assets globally. Seth says investors are not losing faith in emerging market assets, notwithstanding the volatility, and that this selloff wouldn't be a re-run of 2008.
Joep Huntjens, head of Asian credit investment at ING Investment Management in Singapore, also sees little risk. He said institutional clients are still stocking up on emerging market bonds, even if outflows and volatility persist for a while.
Somewhat worryingly though, there was no apparent trigger for the sudden rise in market anxiety last week. Asian stocks are at a 16-month low, but they have been falling since May.
But it's also true that any hope Europe will fix its debt crisis, prop up its banks and avert a disorderly debt default by Greece is fast evaporating.
Furthermore, the risk of a global crisis of confidence has grown, as has the probability the U.S. economy stalls for some time, not to mention the flare-up in concern that China's property bubble could burst.
EPFR Global, a private firm that provides asset allocation and fund flow data, estimates emerging market bond funds recorded $3.2 billion of net outflows in the final week of September, a record high.
That's just one-tenth of the inflows emerging market funds received since early 2009, UBS says. And a lot more money would have gone into the more liquid and deep equity-focused funds.
EPFR estimates show emerging market equity funds have seen nine weeks of selling, to make the third quarter their worst ever since Lehman went under.
HOW BAD CAN IT GET?
Until last week, investors -- both institutional and retail -- seemed prepared to wait it out.
Asia-focused fund managers confess they have cut exposure to companies that either had heavy refinancing needs or were exporting to the developed world, but the money remained in the emerging world, a lot of it in anticipation of a post-crisis rally, just like in 2009.
People got burned during subprime not on the way down, but on the way up, said Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, who oversees $50 billion in emerging markets funds. This time around they are a lot more cautious in exiting too quickly.
True, stock markets tumbled in August and September and currencies fell in Latin America, Asia and in parts of emerging Europe close to the epicenter of the crisis. Central banks have stepped into markets, buying their currencies and bonds. During September, Brazil's real currency fell 13 percent against the dollar, Korea's won was down 10 percent, the Polish zloty 14 percent.
Meanwhile, the cost of hedging currency and credit risk has risen sharply, proof that investors are by no means sitting idle as they wait to see how painful Greece's default might be.
To be short the Indonesian rupiah against the dollar through offshore forwards a month ahead can cost as much as 72 percent. Credit default swaps on five-year Indonesian debt blew out a full percentage point last month to about 280 basis points, close to 27-month highs but still well below the 2008 peak of over 1,200.
The MSCI Asia ex-Japan stock index fell 62 percent from a peak in October 2007 to its December 2009 nadir. It has fallen 24 percent in the past five months.
Shankar Narayanaswamy, a credit analyst at Standard Chartered Bank, reckons investors have moved from the first stage where they turn defensive and favor cash to the second, when large-scale fund redemptions cause broad declines in markets.
In the absence of a meaningful resolution mechanism for euro-area sovereigns, we could be on a verge of stage 3, where a serious crisis of confidence develops and liquidity vanishes from the system, he wrote.
The big problem, though, is that no one is exactly sure how much money lies invested in Brazilian, Indonesian and other emerging market bills, bonds and equities. EPFR's data doesn't cover the universe of mutual funds, let alone pension and insurance funds and other high net worth investors.
Foreign holdings on Mexican bonds are at a record high. As of September 13, non-Mexicans held 926 billion pesos ($66.6 billion) worth of local debt, nearly three times their peak holding in 2008. Brazil has seen massive inflows too, although a lot of that has been direct investment in companies.
'Positioning' is the emerging world's Achilles' heel, says UBS strategist Bhanu Baweja, the reasons being that capital inflows that are not direct investments are at 15-year highs and that markets are unprepared for a sustained rally in the dollar.
The dollar's rally in the past few weeks has practically wiped out all of this year's gains in emerging market local currency debt.
But yields on local currency bonds haven't moved much -- even the normally volatile Indonesian market has seen 10-year yields stay in a half point range around 7 percent for the past month -- confirming people haven't quit en masse.
According to UBS estimates, cumulative inflows into emerging market local currency debt markets since early 2009 amounted to $33 billion. That compares with $30 billion that came into emerging market equities, a far more liquid and bigger asset class than debt, between 2006 and September 2008.
Compared with that, the roughly $20 billion that left Asia in 2008 is modest.
It also means that this time, the emerging world has an enormous wall of money that potentially could leave in a hurry.
EPFR data corroborates that. In the first 9 months of 2011, emerging market fixed income funds attracted about $20 billion. They attracted $41.7 billion in the same period of 2010.
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To perform laparoscopic myomectomy by combining two novel ligation techniques for a large lateral intraligamental myoma.
A step-by-step explanation of the surgical procedure using a video with narration.
A 39-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 0) presented with an asymptomatic pelvic mass. Sonographic imaging revealed a 10-cm subserous myoma from the right lateral uterine isthmus wall. Laparoscopic exploration revealed a large myoma growing from the right lateral cervical isthmus wall toward the broad ligament. It was protruding into the pararectal space with duplicated ureters.
For such a large lateral intraligamental myoma, any conventional approach has the potential to cause massive bleeding and accidental injuries. We devised and implemented a preventative strategy for intraoperative bleeding by combining two novel ligation techniques used in laparoscopic myomectomy. We made an incision at the posterior leaf of the broad ligament and exposed the myometrium enveloping the fibroid and the base of the fibroid. Then we performed an incision 2 cm away from the right lower edge of the fibroid base, opening the myometrium and pseudocapsule. We applied two novel ligation techniques that ligate the pedicle on the left of the fibroid and the pseudocapsule on the right of the fibroid. Enucleation and loop tightening were implemented simultaneously. The entire pseudocapsule and most of the myometrium enveloping the fibroid were ligated in the loop knot. Only a small portion of the myometrium on the right side was outside the loop knot, which required electrocoagulation. Loop ligation was performed twice more for reinforcement in the same location. The peritoneum was then closed.
Main Outcome Measure(s)
Laparoscopic myomectomy was completed successfully for a large lateral intraligamental myoma using our novel technique.
The surgery lasted 110 min, and the volume of intraoperative blood loss was 150 mL. The patient had a normal postoperative course.
Combining two novel ligation techniques in laparoscopic myomectomy is a safe and efficient surgical choice. This technique has obvious advantages in large, broad ligament myomas, reducing bleeding and avoiding unintentional injuries, even in duplicated ureters. Furthermore, this technique is not limited by the device and does not increase the cost of surgery.
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Republican Senator Rand Paul has been accused of plagiarising an anti-abortion speech from the Wikipedia page of sci-fi fiilm Gattaca.
He was making the speech at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in support of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli.
The rip-off was noticed by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow who compared bits of the Wikipedia entry to Rand Paul's discourse on abortion and eugenics.
Gattaca is a 90s sci-fi movie about a dystopian world where genetic discrimination is widely used.
A few examples demonstrate Maddow's point:
- Paul said: "In the movie Gattaca, in the not-too-distant future, eugenics is common and DNA plays a primary role in determining your social class."
- Wikipedia read: "In the not-too-distant future, liberal eugenics is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class."
The Kentucky senator continued summing up the film in a few sentences lifted from Wikipedia:
- "Due to frequent screenings, Vincent faces genetic discrimination and prejudice. The only way to achieve his dream of being an astronaut is he has to become what's called a 'borrowed ladder".
- Wikipedia read: "Due to frequent screening, Vincent faces genetic discrimination and prejudice. The only way he can achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut is to become a 'borrowed ladder.'"
Talking of Vincent, Paul said:
- "He assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a world-class swimming star with a genetic profile secondary to none, who's been paralysed in a car accident".
- Wikipedia read: "He assumes the identity of Jerome Eugene Morrow, a former swimming star with a genetic profile 'second to none', who had been injured in a car accident, leaving him paralysed from the waist down."
Commenting on the incident, Maddow said that Paul's speech "was totally ripped off of Wikipedia".
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The beautiful Spanish wine region of Catalunya has a history of viticulture which stretches back for over a thousand years, and has been influenced by a wide range of people who moved through the region, and brought their wine making skills and expertise with them. The region itself is a sizeable one, covering an area of sixty thousand hectares, and within this space there resides over two hundred individual wineries, ranging from small, independent and traditional ones to the larger, mass production bodegas known around the world. The terroir of Catalunya is varied, and ranges from being dry and arid, to more lush and green in the wetter parts of the region which are closer to the coast. This variation in terroir results in a fantastic range of grape varietals being grown, and a wide range of wine styles are produced within Catalunya.
Ever since the Phoenicians and Romans brought their knowledge of vine cultivation to Spanish soils, the country's culture has grown alongside wine production, with wine being a vital part of Spanish identity and Spanish traditions. Each region of Spain has a wine quite distinct from the others, and it is produced by smallholders and families as much as it is by large companies and established wineries. From the relatively mild and lush regions of La Rioja to the arid plateaus that surround Madrid, grapes are grown in abundance for the now booming Spanish wine industry, and new laws and regulations have recently been put in place to keep the country's standards high. By combining traditional practices with modern technology, Spanish wineries are continuing to produce distinctive wines of great character, flavor and aroma, with the focus shifting in recent decades to quality over quantity.
There are plenty of notable native Spanish grapes which have made a big impression on the wine world at large, but none are as renowned or as widely loved as the Tempranillo varietal. This black skinned grape has been used for wine making for centuries, with several ancient civilizations noticing the fact that it is highly versatile and holds some delicious flavors and aromas, perfect for those looking for a powerful yet elegant grape for their wines. Tempranillo often causes winemakers some trouble, however, as it is highly susceptible to many diseases. Despite this, plenty continue to persevere with this varietal, as it is perfect for producing delicious and complex single variety and blended wines, packed full of classic Spanish flavors and plenty of aromatic and intense surprises.
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LONDON — Envoys from nearly 70 nations and international bodies vowed Tuesday to maintain the flow of support to Afghanistan, which is still plagued by violence and poverty more than four years after the fall of the Taliban.
Speaking at the start of a conference in London on the future of Afghanistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Bush administration planned to give the country $1.1 billion in aid in 2007 — a similar figure to what is promised this year.
“The transformation of Afghanistan is remarkable but incomplete,” Rice said. “And it is essential that we all increase our support for the Afghan people.”
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said seeing Afghanistan become a stable democracy “is in the interests of the whole international community.”
The two-day meeting, also attended by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is expected to produce a five-year blueprint for Afghanistan’s security, economic development and counter-narcotic efforts.
The gathering is a follow-up to the December 2001 conference in Bonn, Germany, that established a political process for Afghanistan after U.S. and allied forces drove out the Taliban for harboring Osama bin Laden.
Poverty, violence plague country
Billions of dollars of aid have brought new hospitals, clinics and roads to Afghanistan since the Taliban was toppled by a U.S.-led coalition in 2001. School enrollment has soared from 900,000 to 5 million and many of the new students are girls, who had been barred by the hardline Islamic regime from attending classes.
But most Afghans remain mired in poverty, and the country still has some of the highest mortality rates in the world. Many have grown frustrated with the aid effort, complaining that much of the money flowing in from abroad has been wasted.
Security also remains a major problem.
About 1,600 people were killed last year in militant violence, including 91 U.S. troops, making 2005 the deadliest year since 2001. The past four months have seen an unprecedented spate of 20 suicide bombings, raising fears of further bloodshed.
Karzai insisted the higher death toll was “not because things have got worse but because the terrorists have gone and attacked civilians.”
“They cannot afford to attack military targets or hard targets,” he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio in an interview broadcast Tuesday. “They are going after soft targets.”
Karzai said the violence should be addressed “through a more effective campaign against terrorism and also through more effective regional cooperation against terrorism, especially between Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
The fighting has left parts of southern and eastern regions off-limits to aid workers, while a series of attacks on schools — including three burned down last week and a principal beheaded earlier this month — have forced many to close.
On Monday, security forces defused two roadside bombs near the U.S. Embassy and arrested a suspected suicide attacker driving a minibus packed with explosives close to a U.S. base. Authorities fear militants opposed to the country’s U.S.-backed government may time high-profile attacks to coincide with the London meeting.
The booming trade in opium and heroin is another major challenge for Karzai’s government. Afghanistan is the source of nearly 90 percent of the world’s opium and heroin and many warn the country is fast becoming a “narco-state.”
In the BBC interview, Karzai said it will likely take 10-15 years to eliminate poppy production in the country. At the conference, he said the international community should help Afghanistan root out narcotics “without causing undue economic hardship.”
The development plan to be unveiled at the conference, called the “Afghanistan Compact,” is likely to set targets for tackling corruption, fighting narcotics, reducing poverty and disbanding illegal militias. A draft obtained by The Associated Press says the goals include tripling the Afghan army to 70,000 troops and cutting the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 3 percent per year.
Donors are expected to announce pledges to help meet those targets. Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said Monday that Moscow would forgive Afghanistan’s$10 billion in Soviet-era debt, Russian news agencies reported.
Rice said after meeting Karzai on Monday that the conference would also be a chance to “celebrate how much progress Afghanistan has made since the dark days when the Taliban ruled.” She painted a bright picture for the country’s future and promised the United States would remain firmly committed to helping Afghanistan, despite a planned drawdown of U.S. forces there.
“The Afghan people, I’m quite certain, when they have the right tools then they will be able to stand on their own two feet in the international system, and that should be our goal,” she said.
President Bush this month said he plans to cut U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 19,000 to 16,500 over 2006 as the NATO force there expands.
Rice said it would be wrong to interpret that as a sign the United States plans to walk away from Afghanistan. She said Washington had learned a lesson from the chaos that wracked the country after it failed to help Afghanistan rebuild following the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989. Afghanistan quickly became a haven for terrorists.
“We made the mistake once before of leaving Afghanistan and not only did Afghans pay for it, Americans paid for it on Sept. 11,” she said. “We’re not going to make that mistake again.”
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Our products’ quality is our guarantee. In EBIR we are specialists in bathroom lighting and we have been investigating for more than 25 years what factors affect the design and manufacture to get luminaries and mirrors with an excellent quality of light, which provide a perfect lighting for the tasks to be performed in the bathroom.
In this post we will talk about some of those aspects and how important the quality of lighting in our bathroom is, and why EBIR LED luminaires and mirrors offer the best guarantees.
One of the main doubts when choosing the lighting for our bathroom is to match the right tonality, that is, to select a warm or cold light. However, first of all, we must determine what the color temperature is and how it affects the way we see ourselves reflected in the mirror.
We define color temperature as the predominance of one of the colors of the light spectrum in white lights, altering the white color towards warmer or colder tones.
These changes are measured in degrees Kelvin (K) and can vary according to their intensity:
In the bathroom, we are usually going to need clear, sharp lighting to help us perform tasks properly. That’s why we recommend opting for more neutral shades around 4000K, which closely match natural light.
Good quality and the right light tone are of great importance. Therefore, in EBIR we are very aware of this factor, to achieve a correct lighting in the bathroom.
Usually, bathrooms have 2 main points of light, however depending on their size there may be more. These are, the zenithal light and the mirror light.
The zenithal light, which is the point above the wash basin and projects a vertical light downwards, is called accent light, as it causes very marked shadows on our face and makes it difficult all around to see the details.
The light in the mirror is a point generally located on the top or surface of the mirror. Bathroom and mirror luminaires with integrated lighting project light onto the face, designed specifically for users, providing uniform, shadow-free illumination and making it easier for users to see details.
Measuring the quantity of light that reaches the user is a relevant factor that determines the effectiveness of the product. Therefore, in EBIR we take into account both lumens (lm) and lux to achieve quality lighting.
Both of these data are used to measure the luminous flux. While the lumens are the total light power taking as a reference the light source itself, the luxes measure the intensity of light on a given surface where the light reaches a certain point, in our case we take measurements on the face, which allows us to see the exact light flow that reaches the user.
Common use point: is the point where common tasks are performed, such as brushing teeth, combing hair… Optimal lighting will allow tasks to be carried out comfortably.
Point of maximum accuracy: It is the closest point to the mirror, usually where we place ourselves when we approach to check out the detail in the mirror, for example when putting on make-up or shaving.
Knowing this information is of great importance for the user, since it is very useful to know the quantity of light that will be available to carry out the tasks in the bathroom.
Basically, the intensity, angle and color temperature of the light are factors that we keep in mind throughout our design and manufacturing process, in which we carry out numerous tests both with real users and in our simulation laboratories, in order to offer our customers a highly functional product that helps make easier our day-to-day tasks in front of the mirror.
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Editors' Note: It was brought to our attention that the original version of this article contained several inaccuracies. We sincerely apologize to our readers; the author regrets his mistakes.
According the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) -- part of the Council of Europe -- the British press is to blame for increasing hate speech and racist violence. On October 4, 2016, the ECRI released a report dedicated only to Britain. The report said:
some traditional media, particularly tabloids... are responsible for most of the offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology. The Sun, for instance, published an article in April 2015 entitled "Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants", in which the columnist likened migrants to "cockroaches"...
The Sun newspaper has also published inflammatory anti-Muslim headlines, such as its front page of 23 November 2015 which read "1 in 5 Brit Muslims' sympathy for jihadis", along with a picture of a masked terrorist wielding a knife...
It is worth noting that Britain's Independent Press Standards Organisation forced the Sun to admit that the "1 in 5 Brit Muslims" headline quoted in the ECRI report "was significantly misleading."
The ECRI report establishes a direct causal link between some tough headlines in British tabloids and the security of the Muslims in the UK. In other words, the British press is allegedly inciting readers to commit "Islamophobic" acts against Muslims:
ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fueling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety.
ECRI is basing its report on a recent study from Matthew Feldman, Professor at Teesside University. This study compiled anti-Muslim incidents before and after terrorist's attacks:
In the seven days prior to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, where 12 people were killed, there were 12 reported (anti Muslim) incidents, but in the seven days following, there were 45. This pattern was similar in relation to the terror attacks in Sydney, in December and Copenhagen, in February.
So, according to the ECRI and scholars of Teesside University, when Muslim jihadists murder people and the press reports that killers are Muslims, the press, and not Islamists, is encouraging "Islamophobic incidents" in Britain. According to ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, "It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians."
For the ECRI, the biggest problem is:
"... where the media stress the Muslim background of perpetrators of terrorist acts, and devote significant coverage to it, the violent backlash against Muslims is likely to be greater than in cases where the perpetrators' motivation is downplayed or rejected in favour of alternative explanations."
The report does not explain what could be "alternative explanations." But we can find examples in French press: when a Muslim attacks a soldier and tries to take his gun, he is not an Islamist terrorist, but a "lunatic." Such attacks by "lunatics" are very common in France.
The French press downplays attacks by deciding not to name Muslim perpetrators: incriminating a "Mohamed" could, in the minds of French journalists, incite retaliations against Muslims. In another example, Muslim gangs cannot be connected to any form of violence, so they become "youths." In France, Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but "lunatics", "maniacs" and "youths."
But that is France. In Britain, tabloids are not so polite, and they understand perfectly the intentions of the ECRI report: to ban the word "Muslim" when it is associated with "violence or terrorism."
The ECRI Report Marks a U-Turn in Free Speech
This is the moment where hate speech laws become a greater threat to democracy and freedom of speech than the hate speech itself. Prohibiting journalists from naming "Islamic terrorism," and encouraging them to hide the association of Muslims with terrorism, is an attempt to misrepresent the truth in the same way the former Soviet Union censored the truth. Taking advantage of some real racist articles in tabloids -- not many, because not many are quoted in the report -- to attack freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not anti-hate speech; it is submission.
The proof of submission lies in ECRI's recommendations to the British government:
- "establish an independent press regulator";
- "rigorous training for journalists to ensure better compliance with ethical standards";
- "review the provisions on incitement to hatred with a view to making them more effective and usable";
- "establish a real dialogue with Muslims in order to combat Islamophobia. They should consult them on all policies which could affect Muslims";
- amending the Editor's Code of Practice to ensure that members of groups can submit complaints as victims against biased or prejudicial reporting concerning their community"
By following these recommendations, the British government would place Muslim organizations in a kind of monopoly position: they would become the only source of information about themselves. It is the perfect totalitarian information order. If a breach of that kind would open in the future, no doubt all the lobbies would rush into the breach: political parties, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, multinationals, everyone.
The British government did not fall into the trap, and firmly rebuffed ECRI's demands. It told the European council body:
"The Government is committed to a free and open press and does not interfere with what the press does and does not publish, as long as the press abides by the law."
In Great Britain, and in all countries of European Union, anti-hate laws already exist. Created to guard against the kind of xenophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda that gave rise to the Holocaust, national hate speech laws have increasingly been invoked to criminalize speech that is merely deemed insulting to one's race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
These laws have also been invoked often by Islamists to sue against anti-Islamist speech (cartoons of Muhammad, blasphemy against Islam, etc.) as manifestations of "racism" -- fortunately with little success. Most court cases that Islamists have initiated have failed because Islam is not a race.
Agnes Callamard, expert on human rights, writes in reference to the United Nations Charter:
"ARTICLE 19 recognises that reasonable restrictions on freedom of expression may be necessary or legitimate to prevent advocacy of hatred based on nationality, race, religion that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence. The organisation does not extend such legitimate restrictions to offensive and blasphemous expressions."
It is disturbing to wonder how long the Council of Europe will strongly engage its experts and influence to cut through existing legal obstacles, in a quest to suppress any type of criticism of Islam, and to submit to the values of jihad.
Yves Mamou, based in France, worked for two decades as a journalist for Le Monde.
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The fiscal cliff is set to disturb the livelihoods of millions of Americans as a deficit of $800 billion dollars is expected to rock our economy; but what about those who are already struggling? Reports show that when you calculate medical expenses, as well as work-related expenses, almost 50 million Americans currently live in poverty.
The Census Bureau developed a supplementary measurement a year ago to better measure poverty in America. The new measurement includes taxpayer-provided benefits and living expenses. The data now shows that 16.1% of Americans live in poverty and that rural states like Mississippi, New Mexico and Louisiana are quite affected.
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