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After a spate of politicians' resignations, there has been a lot of rhetoric recently from members of Congress about needing to hold their colleagues to a "higher standard" than other citizens.
In fact, far from a higher standard, we continue to elect and e-elect scoundrels, liars and the intellectually challenged. The elusive quality of "electability" seems not to correlate with truthfulness, integrity, courage or intelligence, but only with a certain affability – and with the ability to raise campaign funds.
Having cast their votes at the ballot box, the vast majority of Americans are unhappy with their choices. The most recent Gallup poll found approval of Congress at a dismal 16 percent.
Who knows where it is headed in the wake of the many recent resignations from the House and Senate and the furor over accused sexual harasser and child molester Roy Moore refusing to withdraw from the Alabama Senate race.
Although it is moral turpitude that has been prominent lately, there are other severe defects in our politicians. It's no coincidence that the intelligence of members of Congress has so often been spoofed.
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself," quipped Mark Twain.
Milton Berle observed, "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think."
Will Rogers addressed the consequences of these deficiencies: "When Congress makes a joke it's a law, and when they make a law, it's a joke."
There are numerous examples of the joke being on us. A friend of mine was seated at a banquet table with the family of then-Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kansas). The family expressed relief at his having entered politics because none of them thought Dan was smart enough to enter the family business. (Automobile and appliance shredding and scrap metal.)
Former U.S. Congressman John Salazar (D-Col.) related this anecdote: "When I was debating what became the 2008 Farm Bill, I had a member of the Agriculture Committee actually ask me if chocolate milk really comes from brown cows. I asked if he was joking and he assured me he wasn't."
That's in the same category as the concern of Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) that stationing 8,000 U.S. military personnel on Guam would cause the small island to "become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
Currently serving Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx.) once proclaimed that the U.S. Constitution is 400 years old.
And a member of the House Science Committee, during a visit to the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab, asked a NASA scientist whether the Mars Pathfinder probe had photographed the flag that astronaut Neil Armstrong left behind in 1969.
Armstrong had, of course, left the flag on the moon, not on Mars. No manned spacecraft has visited Mars.
I attended a conference at which Rep. Tom Bliley (R-Va.), then chairman of the powerful House Commerce Committee, spoke by teleconference. As he recited from a prepared statement, he included the "stage instructions" – such as "pause for emphasis" – that had been inserted by his speechwriter. And where one line had been inadvertently duplicated, Bliley read it a second time.
Carelessness? Stupidity? Intoxication? Senility?
Don't voters have a right to know?
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), was sufficiently forthright to reveal in 2007 that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal lobar degeneration – an inexorably progressive, incurable disease characterized by the wasting away of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Because of the behavioral changes and dementia that accompany this condition, Domenici announced that he would not seek reelection the following year.
I had great sympathy for Mr. Domenici, but should the people of New Mexico have been represented for another year by a senator who admitted to suffering from progressive dementia? I believe he should have resigned at the time his illness was diagnosed.
And then there was nonagenarian Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving senator in American history. In his 51st year in the Senate, the 90-year-old's public utterances – as viewable on YouTube – spoke for themselves.
In one clip, Sen. Byrd maundered; in the second, during a 2001 interview on Fox News Sunday, this former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan was grossly inappropriate, several times using the term "white niggers."
As a voter and taxpayer, but also as a physician, I worry about whether such people were, or are, fit to serve. Perhaps we should treat dissatisfaction with our representation as a medical, rather than a solely political, issue.
How? By asking candidates and incumbents to volunteer for periodic intelligence and mental status testing. (And of course, I would include the president and vice-president.) After all, we often demand to know whether a candidate has recovered from open-heart surgery, cancer or a stroke, and many states require elderly drivers to be relicensed.
A mental status exam by an expert offers an assessment of cognitive abilities, memory and quality of thought processes. It includes assessments of alertness, speech, behavior, awareness of environment, mood, affect, rationality of thought processes, appropriateness of thought content (presence of delusions, hallucinations, or phobias), memory, ability to perform simple calculations, judgment ("If you found a letter on the ground in front of a mailbox, what would you do with it?"), and higher reasoning, such as the ability to interpret proverbs abstractly ("A stitch in time saves nine.").
An intelligence test measures various parameters that are thought to correlate with academic or financial achievement. Every politician need not be a genius, but I'd like the ones who represent me to be smarter than the average person in the supermarket or laundromat.
The journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken observed, "Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons."
Testing might help us to weed out a few idiots. Getting rid of the scoundrels and poltroons will have to wait.
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The Performance Program is School of Rock's hallmark music program, where tens of thousands of students enroll each year. Utilizing the patented School of Rock Method, Performance Program consists of a weekly group rehearsal where kids and teens learn by playing rock music's most iconic songs with a band composed of their peers. Students are assigned songs and parts that are tailored to them based on their age, experience, and ability to learn new skills and concepts. Students then work through their parts in weekly private music lessons, and refine the skills and concepts that those songs introduce. The goal of this curriculum is to prepare kids and teens for live performances. Every few months, Performance Program students take the stage and play at local music venues in front of a live audience. Now available online.
At School of Rock, the health and safety of our students is our top priority. Students can participate in our Performance music program through interactive online lessons or in-school, socially distanced classes. Students choosing to take the Performance program online are taught using the same famous curriculum we use in our schools—The School of Rock Method™. Instead of in-person lessons and rehearsals, online students will have weekly 1-on-1 online video lessons with their instructor and weekly online rehearsals with their classmates.
Our music programs for kids and teens are designed to inspire by getting students on stage and performing, with the goal of building strong musical proficiency. All of our programs focus on bringing students to our famous Performance Program. This is where students develop incredible musical skills. Performance Program students have often gone through our Rock 101 program first, or have some previous basic music experience. These young musicians will have custom development plans outlined by their instructors with key concepts reinforced during private lessons and group rehearsals, all with the goal of performing live at a music venue.
School of Rock now sells guitars, bass guitars, drums, keyboards, microphones, recording equipment, amplifiers, effects pedals and much more through our exclusive GearSelect program. We’ve partnered with some of the music industry’s biggest brands to offer everything students need for the Performance music program. Browse over 1,000 products.Explore now
School of Rock's Performance music program teaches your child or teen fundamental music skills like stage performance, harmonies, and musicianship. Our Performance music program gives students the opportunity to perform in real shows at local rock venues. While jamming on stage with their classmates, your child or teen will learn important life skills focused on responsibility and teamwork.
Programs may differ by location. Contact your local School of Rock to learn more.
Yes! School of Rock's Performance music program bundles weekly lessons with dynamic group rehearsals that challenge students as they continue to learn at their own pace.
At School of Rock, our instructors engage most beginners with a trial lesson designed to gauge the student's current strengths and skill level. After evaluation, our instructors recommend a program based on the student's needs, even if they're over the age of 13.
In some cases, students may be skilled enough to enter the Performance music program from the start, but most beginners are encouraged to take classes in Rock 101 to gain essential knowledge in music fundamentals. At School of Rock, our instructors don't graduate anyone before they're ready, and they won't hold anyone back from the Performance music program if they're ready to perform.
The School of Rock Performance music program meets twice a week — once for the weekly private lesson and once for the weekly group rehearsal lesson. Students typically can spend 2-3 hours a week or more receiving private and group instruction.
The School of Rock Performance Program for kids and teens will have your kids playing at real, local music venues.
Students in the School of Rock Performance music program have played a wide variety of shows. Past student shows have included tributes to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, AC/DC, Best of the 80s, Punk Rock, Devo, Frank Zappa, Queen, and many more!
Not at all! School of Rock also offers music programs for adults. Check out the Adult Performance music program for more information.Adult Program
The School of Rock Performance Program gives your kids so much more than just music lessons. Our music programs for kids and teens include weekly individual lessons taught by our talented instructors, as well as weekly band rehearsals to get your kid ready for the stage. At School of Rock, students are welcome to our facilities whenever we're open, even if just to hangout. School of Rock's Performance music program typically costs around $275-$450 per month, but varies between locations. Ask your local School of Rock for pricing specifics.
Yes, School of Rock offers online one-on-one versions of all our music programs. Students can choose to take their lessons online or in-school. Learn more about our online music programs — including Performance — now.
At School of Rock, we offer a variety of music programs, like the Performance Program, to accommodate students with various skill levels and different ages. Our lessons continually work to advance our students' skills with the goal of making them incredible musicians. Click to learn more about our specific lesson offerings.
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Guidelines for Documentation of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity (AD/HD) Disorder
Disability Services (DS) facilitates equal access for students with disabilities by coordinating accommodations and support services and cultivating a campus culture that is sensitive and responsive to the needs of students. The following Guidelines are provided to assist students who intend to request accommodations or services on the basis of AD/HD. Students are encouraged to carefully read these Guidelines and share them with their evaluators.
Neuropsychological or psychoeducational assessments are needed to determine the current impact of AD/HD on the student’s academic functioning. Because of the challenge of distinguishing normal behaviors and developmental patterns of adolescents and adults (e.g., procrastination, disorganization, distractibility, restlessness, boredom, academic under-achievement or failure, low self-esteem, chronic tardiness or inattendance) from clinically significant impairment, a multifaceted evaluation should address the intensity and frequency of the symptoms and whether these behaviors constitute an impairment which substantially limits a major life activity. For additional information, students should consult A Student’s Guide to Psychoeducational Evaluations, which is available by contacting DS. DS staff is available to provide consultation throughout the evaluation and registration process.
Students without a clinical diagnosis of AD/HD who suspect that they are experiencing symptoms of AD/HD should first see a clinician for a formal screening before seeking a full evaluation. Students on the Morningside campus who have paid the University Health Services Fee can make an appointment for such a screening with Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) at (212) 854-2878, or at the 8th floor, Lerner Hall. Students at the CUIMC campus can make an appointment for such a screening with a provider at the Mental Health Service by calling (212) 305-3400. Screenings are individualized and depending on the student’s circumstances may involve standardized questionnaires and a review of symptoms, current functioning and past history as well corroborative information from records, family and partners.
The evaluation must be current.
- While AD/HD is generally considered to be a lifelong condition, because the provision of all reasonable accommodations and services is based upon the assessment of the current impact of the student’s disabilities on his/her academic performance, it is necessary to provide current documentation
- The tests must have been administered within the past five years or if the student is not yet 18 years of age, testing must be administered in the past two years
- Students with outdated (5+ years) or less comprehensive evaluations that do not meet these Guidelines should submit their evaluation to Disability Services for review and specific feedback regarding how to proceed. In some cases students may be able to obtain a documentation update in lieu of an updated full evaluation and/or provisional accommodations from Disability Services while seeking the evaluation.
A comprehensive evaluation report must include:
- Confirmation that the evaluation was undertaken by a qualified evaluator who is unrelated to the student by birth or marriage. Qualified evaluators include clinical or educational psychologists, neuropsychologists, or physicians known to specialize in AD/HD.
- Evaluator’s professional credentials, including licensing and certification and areas of specialization • Dates of testing Revised June 2015 1
- Results based on the administration of the most recent addition of each assessment instrument
- An appendix listing all scores obtained during the course of the evaluation, including scaled and percentile scores, even if the evaluator has reported scores embedded in the report
- Comparison to the norm-reference group (e.g. how the student performs in relationship to the average person in the general population)
- A diagnosis made using the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – V (DSM-5). Based on the current predominant features, the appropriate sub-type should accompany the diagnosis. Please also note that a clinical diagnosis of AD/HD or related prescription of medication does not necessarily justify the provision of accommodations.
- Administration of psychiatric, personality and behavioral assessments based on the student’s presentation and/or history including but not limited to the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory and the MMPI
Clinical summary and comprehensive history of presenting problems must be included which:
- Demonstrates that AD/HD currently and substantially limits major life activities
- Describes the extent to which these limitations impact the student in an academic context, such as courses, programs, services or any other activity at the University for which accommodations are being requested, with or without the use of mitigating measures
- Describes any record of prior accommodation(s), including any information about specific conditions under which the accommodation(s) were used such as standardized testing, final exams, licensing or certification examinations
- Includes a comprehensive history of presenting problems associated with the disability as well as information on the student’s medical, developmental, educational, and family history as well as the date of diagnosis, duration, and severity of the disability including but not limited to:
- Clinical summary of objective historical information, establishing symptomology indicative of AD/HD throughout childhood in more than one setting (as per criteria in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -5 (DSM-V), adolescence and adulthood as garnered from transcripts, report cards, teacher comments, tutoring evaluations and past psycho-educational testing as well as third party interviews when available
- Relevant medication history. Updates should be provided when relevant changes in behavior or medication occur which impact academic performance or cognitive skills.
- Shares relevant observations of behavior during testing including observations of behavior during the diagnostic evaluation which may help to form a diagnostic impression when combined with the clinician's professional judgment and expertise
- Recommendations for academic or other accommodations, including a rationale for each, linked to specific test results
The following areas must be addressed using standardized instruments:
Aptitude/Cognitive Ability: A complete intellectual assessment including all subtests must be included
- The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV (WAIS-IV), The Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV) Tests of Cognitive Ability and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale-V are acceptable measures
- Brief versions or screening measures which are not comprehensive, including the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition (KBIT-2) and the Slosson Intelligence Test-Revised are not accepted
Achievement: Comprehensive academic achievement must be assessed through the administration of a complete standard battery in the following areas:
- Reading (decoding and comprehension)
- Mathematics (calculation and problem solving)
- Oral language o Written expression (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, writing samples)
- Evaluators should further probe student’s reported areas of weakness (e.g. written expression) with additional relevant tests, if the standard battery does not sufficiently demonstrate the student’s functional limitations
- The Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV) Tests of Achievement, The Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults (SATA), The Stanford Test of Academic Skills 10 (TASK 10) and The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - III (WIAT-III) are acceptable measures
- Please note that the Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT-4) and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test are NOT comprehensive measures of achievement and therefore should not be the only measure of overall achievement utilized
Cognitive and Information Processing: Specific areas of cognitive and information processing must be assessed including, but not limited to, the below domains. Assessment selection should be based on student’s presentation:
- Memory: Visual and verbal acquisition, retrieval, retention, and recognition
- Examples of acceptable measures include, but are not limited to California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-II), Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery, WAIS-IV Working Memory Index (WMI), Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning - Second Edition (WRAML-2), Wechsler Memory Scales — Fourth Edition (WMS-IV), WJ-IV Tests of Oral Language (if not assessed through the Achievement Battery)
- Processing speed and cognitive fluency: Timed psychomotor or graphomotor tasks, decision and naming fluency
- Sensory-perceptual functioning: High-level visual, auditory, and tactile tasks
- The Bender-Gestalt Test is an example of an acceptable measure
- Executive functioning: Planning, organization, prioritization, sequencing, self-monitoring
- Examples of acceptable measures include, but are not limited to the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (DKEFS), Stroop Color and Word Test, Trail Making Test Parts A and B, Tower of London DX, Second Edition (TOLDX-2), Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST).
- Motor functioning: Tests of dexterity and handedness
- Examples of acceptable measures include, but are not limited to the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) and the Grooved Pegboard Test
. Objective and Subjective Measures of Attention:
- Visual and auditory spans of attention, scanning tasks and vigilance assessment, including continuous performance tasks
- Examples of acceptable measures include, but are not limited to the Test of Variables of Attention, Version 8 (TOVA8) and the Conners Continuous Performance Test 3rd Edition (CPT-3)
- Self-rated or interview-rated scales for categorizing and quantifying the nature of the impairment
- Examples of acceptable measures include, but are not limited to ADHD Rating Scale IV (ADHD-RS), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BAI-II), Brown Attention-Deficit Disorders Scale (Brown ADD Scales), Revised June 2015 3 Conners’ 3rd Edition (Conners 3), Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales – Self and Observer forms (CAARS), The Attention Deficit Disorder Evaluation Scale, Fourth Edition (ADDES-4): Home and Self Report versions, and the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF)
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Q: My lawn company wants to apply urea fertilizer to my bermuda lawn in January. Isn’t this too early?
A: UGA turf expert Clint Waltz says:
It’s best to withhold any nitrogen application to warm-season turfgrass species until soil temperatures at the 4 inch depth are consistently 65 F and rising. This recommendation is agronomically and economically sound.
The more complex forms of urea (e.g. IBDU, sulfur coated urea, other long-chain forms) will persist longer in cold soils than straight urea. It is the soil enzyme urease that breaks down the urea and that reaction is less temperature dependent than other processes that require microbial activity. Urea hydrolysis proceeds rapidly in warm, moist soils, with most of the urea transformed to ammonium in several days.
So as we get periodic warm periods in the winter and early spring, any straight urea applied would be quickly lost. There would be minimal uptake if soil temperatures are not conducive for root growth by the turfgrass. Fertilizing in late-winter or early-spring could pose more harm than good by stimulating early growth.
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The schooner 'Bowdoin' at sea, 1934
Click on the image to zoom. Click and drag your mouse over the image to move it left or right. Use the small navigation window to select the area you wish to zoom on.
In this at-sea shot, some of the schooner Bowdoin's gear can be seen on deck: an anchor and chain, as well as the three dories stacked against the schooner's port rail.
These were ready to be launched if needed for getting to shore, or to serve as lifeboats. Occasionally, the crew of the schooner that Donald B. MacMillan had built for Arctic exploration used a dory as a large bathtub!
In 1934, the Bowdoin sailed to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador, and Baffin Island on a three-month expedition to study bird life and plants.
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Human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them. Why do many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil?
What Professor Taleb has identified and calls "antifragile" is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. How is this possible?
Speaker: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, struck a defiant tone when he was quizzed on why the government of President Muhammad Buhari chose to detain Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, for calling for a revolution.
Mr Malami had his hands full when he fielded questions on a “Focus on Africa” BBC interview obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.
“We have at hand a situation whereby someone that contested an election and lost and is eventually calling on revolution and change of government through means other (than what) the constitution recognizes. And to our (the government’s) mind, that constitutes a treasonable felony,” Mr Malami said.
His interviewer, Peter Okwoche, then questioned the morality of President Muhammadu Buhari, who in his first coming as Head of State toppled a democratically elected government of late Shehu Shagari in a coup in 1983 and in 2011 called for protests akin to those that took place in Egypt. He asked what justification a government led by a man like Mr Buhari had for detaining Mr Sowore who only called for a revolution.
At first, Mr Malami flinched with his eyes closed before he carefully maintained that he could only talk about Mr Sowore’s case, suggesting that he could not respond to or justify his principal’s past.
Mr Okwoche pressed on. He cited one of the charges levelled against Mr Sowore, which is “insulting the president”, demanding what the government’s intent was to have made such accusation in a democratic dispensation.
“As far as I’m concerned,” came Mr Malami’s response, “treason is treason. If there is a case for treason, you have, as a matter of obligation and right, to present a case before the government.
“What we have done is to present our case before the judiciary which enjoys independence and freedom to determine one thing or the other.
“Not that we have taken the laws in our hand by adjudging him guilty but by presenting him before judicial process so that he could be accorded the opportunity to present a counter case,” Mr Malami said.
The interviewer also raised instances of human rights violations by the current government including the mass murder of Shiites, and the detention of journalist Jones Abiri and Abah Jalingo.
Mr Malami justified these instances by suggesting that they probable plotted to change the government without the constitutionally recognised means, election.
The interview was held before Mr Sowore was granted bail on Tuesday by a high court. However, despite Mr Malami’s claim of respecting the judicial process, the government has refused to release the activist.
Mr Sowore, charged with a seven-count charge, including a treasonable felony for planning a #RevolutionNow protest, was granted bail after spending over 45 days in SSS detention. However, he has continued to be held despite meeting the bail term as certified by the court.
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Living With PCOS: Indian Women's Most Common Health Condition That Needs To Be Addressed
As distressing and alarming as it is, women’s healthcare in India is still largely and unevenly underdeveloped. Women’s physical, sexual, and nutritional health continues to be on the sidelines of the main healthcare framework. One of the most common conditions women in the country have been suffering from, and is being largely ignored still, is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, commonly known as PCOS.
What is PCOS?
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is a very common hormonal disorder. Women with PCOS may have an inconsistent period cycle or excess male hormone (androgen) levels. The underlying condition is that our enlarged ovaries may develop follicles that hamper the regular release of eggs.
How do you check if you have PCOS?
If you suffer from any of the below mentioned symptoms, we recommend you check with your gynaecologist immediately:
1. Irregular menstrual cycle is the most common sign of PCOS. A normal cycle should be between 28-30 days. Extreme levels of blood flow is also a major concern.
2. Excessive hair growth on the face and body.
3. Breakouts and acne on the face, chest, and upper back.
4. Weight gain is a primary sign of PCOS.
5. Unusual amounts of hair loss, thinning of hair, and male-pattern baldness.
6. Unpredictable bouts of headaches triggered by imbalanced hormones.
Causes that contribute to PCOS
1. The insulin hormone breaks down sugar that our body uses as a source of energy. High levels of blood sugar results in more production of insulin which in turn increases levels of androgen.
2. Low-grade inflammation or our body’s natural defence system against infections stimulates polycystic ovaries to produce androgens.
3. PCOS can also be genetic.
4. Excessive levels of androgen in the body.
Living with PCOS: diet and exercise
Although not a high-risk illness, unchecked PCOS can lead to infertility, failure to conceive, cause type 2 diabetes, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and endometrial cancer, among others. Lots of Indian celebrities have been vocal about their journey with PCOS including the likes of Kareena Kapoor Khan, Shruti Haasan, and Himanshi Khurana. The best way to tackle it is maintaining a healthy lifestyle—diet and exercise.
Weight loss can help regulate the menstrual cycle, improve cholesterol levels, lower insulin, and reduce risks of heart diseases and diabetes. A low carbohydrate diet can work wonders! Go heavy on food items with high protein and low carbs like meats, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, and healthy fats. Minimize the intake of grains, potatoes, sugary drinks, desserts, and high-sugar junk foods.
Exercise 3-4 times a week along with a healthy diet can help you maintain your body fat percentage and regulate your weight. Running, jogging, yoga, moderate intensity sports can also help staying fit.
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Vertical image credit: Instagram/KareenaKapoorKhan
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Major US defense contractors are competing for nearly a half-billion-dollar military contract on development of a computer code and cyber-weapons, which would be capable of harming humans in a real world.
The US troops may soon have the power to launch so-called logic bombs, instead of traditional explosive projectiles, these would essentially be able to direct an enemy’s critical infrastructure to self-destruct, likely with the loss of human life, according to Nextgov, a web-based information resource which reports on technology used by the US federal government.
Computer code capable of killing adversaries is expected to be developed and deployed, if necessary, in the near future.
Digital arms designed to kill are sanctioned under Pentagon doctrine, “Law of War Manual,” published in June.
There is a special section of the manual, Cyber Operations, which explains the application of the Law of War to cyber operations.
That means that, just as with traditional bombs and weaponry, cyber-strikes will be allowed if they have a proper legal basis, in order not to violate jus ad bellum (Latin for “right to war”) prohibitions on the resort to force.
These are essentially the same rules as for attacks employing traditional bombs or bullets.
“Cyber operations may in certain circumstances constitute uses of force within the meaning of Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations and customary international law,” reads the Law of War Manual. “For example, if cyber operations cause effects that, if caused by traditional physical means, would be regarded as a use of force under jus ad bellum (Latin for ‘right to war” criteria), then such cyber operations would likely also be regarded as a use of force.”
The manual goes on to give grim examples of what might constitute acceptable uses for cyber-weapons: trigger a nuclear plant meltdown; open a dam above a populated area, causing destruction; or disable air traffic control services, resulting in airplane crashes.
Similarly, cyber operations that cripple a military’s logistics systems, and thus its ability to conduct and sustain military operations, might also be considered a use of force under jus ad bellum.
US Cyber Command (US CYBERCOM), responsible for the development of the deadly cyber weapons, is set to outsource to industry all command mission support activities, including “cyber fires” planning, as well as “cyberspace joint munitions” assessments.
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin – major US defense contractors — are among the companies set to compete for a $460 million contract.
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An infantile hemangioma is a birthmark that consists of an abnormally dense group of blood vessels. The hemangioma appears on the surface of the skin as a spongy mass.
A hemangioma (he-man-jee-O-muh) is a bright red birthmark that shows up at birth or in the first or second week of life. It looks like a rubbery bump and is made up of extra blood vessels in the skin.
A hemangioma can occur anywhere on the body, but most commonly appears on the face, scalp, chest or back. Treatment for a baby's hemangioma (infantile hemangioma) usually isn't needed as it fades over time. A child who has this condition during infancy usually has little visible trace of the growth by age 10. You may want to consider treatment if a hemangioma interferes with seeing, breathing or other functions.
A hemangioma may be present at birth, but more often appears during the first several months of life. It starts as a flat red mark anywhere on the body, most often on the face, scalp, chest or back. Usually a child has only one mark. Some children may have more than one, particularly if they're part of a multiple birth.
During your child's first year, the red mark grows rapidly into a spongy, rubbery-looking bump that sticks out from the skin. The hemangioma then enters a rest phase and, eventually, it begins to slowly disappear.
Many hemangiomas disappear by age 5, and most are gone by age 10. The skin may be slightly discolored or raised after the hemangioma goes away.
When to see a doctor
Your child's doctor will monitor the hemangioma during routine checkups. Contact your child's doctor if the hemangioma bleeds, forms a sore or looks infected.
Seek medical care if the condition interferes with your child's vision, breathing, hearing or elimination.
A hemangioma is made up of extra blood vessels that group together into a dense clump. What causes the vessels to clump isn't known.
Hemangiomas occur more often in babies who are female, white and born prematurely.
Occasionally, a hemangioma can break down and develop a sore. This can lead to pain, bleeding, scarring or infection. Depending on where the hemangioma is situated, it may interfere with your child's vision, breathing, hearing or elimination, but this is rare.
A doctor can usually diagnose a hemangioma just by looking at it. Tests usually aren't needed.
Treating hemangiomas usually isn't necessary because they go away on their own with time. But if a hemangioma affects vision or causes other problems, treatments include medications or laser surgery:
- Beta blocker drugs. In small, superficial hemangiomas, a gel containing the drug timolol may be applied to the affected skin. A severe infantile hemangioma may disappear if treated with an oral solution of propranolol. Treatment usually needs to be continued until about 1 year of age. Side effects can include high blood sugar, low blood pressure and wheezing.
- Corticosteroid medications. For children who don't respond to beta blocker treatments or can't use them, corticosteroids may be an option. They can be injected into the nodule or applied to the skin. Side effects can include poor growth and thinning of the skin.
- Laser surgery. Sometimes laser surgery can remove a small, thin hemangioma or treat sores on a hemangioma.
If you're considering treatment for your child's hemangioma, weigh the pros and cons with your child's doctor. Consider that most infantile hemangiomas disappear on their own during childhood and that treatments have potential side effects.
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Scrabble word: PROSELYTE
In which Scrabble dictionary does PROSELYTE exist?
Definitions of PROSELYTE in dictionaries:
- noun - a new convert
- To proselytize (a person).
There are 9 letters in PROSELYTE: E E L O P R S T Y
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Team Fairchild partners with 373rd TRS Det 13 tenant unit, creating Multi-Capable Airmen Published Dec. 10, 2021 By Airman 1st Class Anneliese Kaiser 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Team Fairchild partnered with the 373rd Training Squadron Detachment 13 tenant unit to create multi-capable Airmen through courses designed for aircrew to learn aircraft maintenance skills. Multi-capable Airmen concept can be applied to all Air Force specialties, but the most imperative to Fairchild, is the ability for aircrew to expand their knowledge on how to keep the KC-135 Stratotanker healthy when resources or personnel are unavailable. “We’re giving the boom operators and crew chiefs a better understanding of how our equipment works, so they can take it back to their squadrons and educate the rest of their crews,” said Staff Sgt. Brenden Jones, 373rd Training Squadron Detachment 13, jet propulsion instructor. “In case they land somewhere where there isn’t maintenance support, they now have the knowledge to at least do a band aid fix, and get the jet back up in the air.” This relatively new training includes an auxiliary power unit and quality standards system class, boom hydraulic class and an air crew servicing class, with key lessons on safety, reading technical orders, and troubleshooting methods.“You’re trying to get people trained to do other jobs so they know more than one skill,” said Tech Sgt. Antonio Rapp, 373rd TRS Det 13, crew chief instructor. “That way you can have someone that’s well-rounded to keep these aircraft operational.”Having the knowledge to maintain and service these almost 63 year-old jets can prove useful and cost effective, especially in unexpected situations where the need to send maintenance crews with jets is difficult and expensive.“You become a jack-of-all trades really,” Jones said. “Typically when you get on the flightline, each individual career field just takes care of their specific duties. Getting qualified on other people’s jobs mitigates the need to pull more people out for a mission.”Becoming a multi-capable Airman can be challenging, but it ensures Airmen are both good enough to solve today’s problems and prepared for tomorrow’s fight. “Being a multi-capable Airman since I’ve joined has meant doing more with less,” said Master Sgt. Augie Marshall, 92nd Operations Squadron superintendent. “We are definitely capable, and now we are putting it to the test by helping other squadrons. Our hands are in the fight to make global reach a possibility.”By partnering with the 373rd TRS Det 13 team, Team Fairchild can effectively create more multi-capable Airmen and keep Team Fairchild ready to extend Global Reach anywhere, anytime.
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A. K. Haghi, "Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Composites: Design, Simulation and Applications"
English | ISBN: 1771880651 | 2015 | 450 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Engineered nanopolymer and nanoparticles, with their extraordinary mechanical and unique electronic properties, have garnered much attention in recent years. With a broad range of potential applications, including nanoelectronics, composites, chemical sensors, biosensors, microscopy, nanoelectromechanical systems, and many more, the scientific community is more motivated than ever to move beyond basic properties and explore the real issues associated with carbon nanotube-based applications.
Engineered nanopolymer and nanoparticles are exceptionally interesting from a fundamental research point of view. They open up new perspectives for various applications, such as nano-transistors in circuits, field-emission displays, artificial muscles, or added reinforcements in alloys. This informative book is an introduction to the physical concepts needed for investigating carbon nanotubes and other one-dimensional solid-state systems. Written for a wide scientific readership, each chapter consists of an instructive approach to the topic and sustainable ideas for solutions.
This new book presents leading-edge research in this dynamic field. It reviews the recent progress in application of engineered nanopolymer and nanoparticles and their composites. The advantages and disadvantages of different methods are discussed. The ability of continuum methods to bridge different scales is emphasized.
Recommendations for future research are given by focusing on what each method has to learn from the nano-scale. The scope of the book is to provide current knowledge to support researchers entering the scientific area of carbon nanotubes and help them choose the appropriate modeling tool for accomplishing their study and where to place their efforts to further improve continuum methods.
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To replace an oven's thermostat, locate the thermostat assembly in the oven, then remove the old thermostat by disconnecting the capillary tube and sensor bulb and unscrewing the thermostat from the control panel. To install the new thermostat, the process is then essentially reversed.Continue Reading
The most important step in replacing an oven's thermostat is to shut off the electricity at the circuit breaker or fuse panel. Typically, the electricity delivered in such a setting is 220 volts, which can easily kill an adult if still active. The location of the thermostat itself depends on the model oven.
On free-standing ranges, the thermostat is typically found behind the back panel. However, built-in models may require one to remove a backsplash before the rear panel can be accessed. It is important to consult a manual or manufacturer website to determine the terrain involved with each individual case.
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Elephant trunk procedure: Newer indications and uses
The elephant trunk procedure is used for extensive aortic aneurysms. We evaluated its safety, newer indications, and influence of second-stage completion on survival. Records were reviewed for 94 consecutive patients (age 67 +/- 11 years, 47% men) who underwent the procedure between November 1990 and February 2003. The trunk was implanted as an extension of the ascending aorta and arch graft in 83 of 94 (88.3%) patients, distal arch graft in 8 of 94 (8.5%) patients, and in 3 distal to the left subclavian artery (3 of 94 patients [3.2%]). Aortic dissection was present in 37 (39.4%) patients and Marfan syndrome was present in 7 (7.4%). Twenty-three were reoperations (24.5%). In 9 patients, the trunk procedure was adjunctive in preparation for the second operation. In 15 patients, the anastomosis was completed between the left subclavian and common carotid arteries. Coronary artery bypass was performed in 36 (38.4%) and aortic valve operation in 55 (58.5%; 20 root sparing repairs, 16 composite grafts and 19 replacements) patients. There were two early 30-day in-hospital deaths (2.1%) and 5 permanent strokes (5.3%). Eleven died before the second-stage procedure. Forty-seven (57%) underwent second-stage procedures; 40 by thoracotomy and 7 by stent graft insertion, including 2 thoracoabdominal aneurysm repairs with visceral bypasses before stent grafting with 4 early deaths (8.5%). Five-year survival was 34% without a second-stage procedure versus 75% 3-year survival with it. With a current total of 142 elephant trunk procedures, we found it is safe and should be used more with initial cardiac surgery before descending or thoracoabdominal aorta repair.
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Found an indent directly on the top center of skull recently. scalp feels painful to the touch and hair moving around in that area hurts. what is it?
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Cranial suture: One possibility- a cranial suture. This is a line formed from the joining of two plates of the skull. There may be a large one you can touch, under your hair. Every skull is a little different. There are also bumps and ridges. These are rarely pathological, but it is not a bad idea for someone to see it in person to learn more.
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Needs to be seen: It would be good to have your doctor take a look at it. One thought would be prior trauma/infection (even a year ago) that you just came upon, but it would be good not to assume it's a benign process.
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At Mobnia we pride ourselves in building digital products that help you succeed. But how do you build a software product that is reliable and robust? This is the third in a series of posts that address this question.
A project always has to be managed. Management helps ensure goals are set, tracked and met. Team members need to be kept focused and decisions need to be taken. Here are some of the key responsibilities that must be handled:
There needs to be a sort of executive champion or sponsor that can ensure a project gets the budget, personnel, hardware, software and other resources it needs to be successful. This allows for work to be done in optimal conditions. Executive support is also critical for allowing the project to continue when faced with unexpected setbacks.
The executive champion helps steer the project through the complex world of corporate politics and sees it through from start to finish. They also need to strike the balance between being involved with the project and not being an obstacle to project completion (by micro-managing and interfering).
A project manager monitors the status of the project and ensures it's heading in the right direction. They are the main interface between customers and the rest of the project team.
In some situations, there may be a mix of project managers from managerial and development backgrounds respectively to give all areas of the project proper attention. To be specific, there could be one with little or no experience in development, but equipped with training in project management. Such a manager would handle scheduling and make sure tasks come in when due or are have their deadlines pushed back to accommodate delays.
The other manager can then be more development-oriented (perhaps promoted from the development team). This manager would work more directly with the developers, making sure everyone everyone is on the same page and that work is progressing smoothly.
This is basically a graph with nodes and links to show precedence relationships among tasks in a project. The tasks to be performed are listed, along with expected duration. Each task's direct dependencies are noted as well. The tasks are then arranged in order of precedence. The start task comes first, those that depend on the start task next, those that depend on the prior task(s) following, and so on until all tasks have been accounted for.
Critical Path Methods
PERT charts are often used with the critical path method. IT lets you find critical paths through the network formed by the PERT charts. The critical path is a longest possible path through said network.
To find the critical path, start from the start task, labeling it with the total time 0 (it takes no time to start). From there, move right to subsequent tasks, one column at a time, setting the total time equal to that task's time plus the largest total time for its predecessor tasks. Highlight each selected predecessor task (the one with the largest total time). When you've finished, you can follow the highlighted tasks back to the beginning to find the critical path.
You can find out more about the PERT technique and critical paths here.
This is a bar chart that shows the schedule for a collection of tasks. Horizontal bars are used to represent task activities. Bar length indicates task duration. The bars are placed horizontally in a calendar to show their start and stop times. Arrows show the relationships between tasks and their predecessors like in PERT charts.
You can find out more about Gantt charts here.
All the above methods depend on you knowing how long a task will take. This is especially difficult as you can't be sure how long something will take until you've actually done it. Once you've done it however, it takes much less time the next time. Here a few things you can do to minimize your risk when stepping into an unknown situation.
One advisable thing to do is to bring in someone who has done something similar to what you need to do. On a large project, it may be worthwhile to bring in experienced hands to handle tricky tasks. Using experienced team members is the best way to make time estimates reasonable.
Break Unknown Tasks into Simpler Pieces
Sometimes, breaking a complicated task into simple pieces that are easier to understand. You may not know exactly how much time you'll need for each subtask, but you can make better guesses than for the more tricky task as a whole.
Look for Similarities
Tasks you don't understand may be somewhat similar to tasks you've performed before. This sometimes goes well with working with experienced hands. You may, for example, never have designed an object-oriented database before. However, since you have experience working with relational databases, you have an idea of how much time and effort is required.
Expect the Unexpected
Not every problem can be predicted but there are some delays that can be reasonably expected. One way to handle this is to add specific tasks to the project to represent lost time. Eg: there can be tasks to represent vacation time or sick time.
Lost time could also come up as your team being delayed in starting work on a project due to some scheduling problem. These can be avoided by careful planning. Look at factors that could delay you (such as approvals) and try to get them out of the way before it's too late.
Sometimes, even when you utilize all the above methods, some things can take much longer than you expect. It's important to keep track of tasks as they progress and take action if one of them is derailing. A team member could be overly optimistic with their time estimates without truly understanding the complexity of the task at hand. As they go deeper, they realize the actual depth of their problem and constantly need to re-calibrate their estimates.
It's important to pay extra attention to these tasks to ensure the task isn't in more trouble than you think. You should neither ignore the problem nor throw more bodies at it (you'd spend even more time on-boarding the new guys and end up delaying the project much more).
This is a more proactive way of handling problems. Here, you identify possible risks, determine their potential impacts and study possible work-arounds ahead of time.
For each task you should determine:
- your understanding of how to perform the task
- the severity or importance of the task, can the users live without the feature?
- what other tasks does this task affect? will it make them fail or render the redundant?
- are there any work-arounds? if so, for each one, consider:
- the difficulty of implementation
- the impact on the usability of the application
- its advantages
- its disadvantages
You can also use your analysis to find out how these problems will affect your project schedule.
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A basic understanding of auto repair services is really a necessity for anybody who owns (or even just drives) a car. That said, who truly knows that information? You're in luck because a great source of information is available to you right now in this article.
Before allowing an auto shop to do repairs to your vehicle, ensure you are aware of the total cost. If something is unclear, have the mechanic or service counter rep clarify it for you before any work is done on the car. You don't want to be hit with unexpected charges after the repairs are done.
u pull it albuquerque Ensure you regularly inspect your radiator. Simply run the engine a few minutes and then cut the engine and lift the hood. You never want to open up the radiator if your car is still running. Check the radiator fluids using a dipstick and remember to always mix the coolant with water before putting it in the radiator.
You do not have to contact a mechanic every time you have issues with your car. Some of the work can be done on your own, as there are problems that are relatively easy to repair. You can always go online and try to diagnose the problem and educate yourself to the possibilities. If it's not hard to fix, try it yourself.
If you have issues with your car, you can fix it yourself. You can fix some things easily. You can research the problem online in order to find out more about it. If the job is a simple one, you might save a bit of money if you make repairs on your own.
Keep on hand all of your car's documentation. It is a good idea to leave these in the glove compartment because you never know when your car has to go to the shop suddenly. The auto mechanic will need to refer to these records. It will aid them in figuring out any issues.
Invest in a spare tire and a jack, and keep them in your vehicle. If you purchase a new car, you should have these in your trunk. The cost of a tow for a flat isn't worth it! It's cheaper to do on your own.
When bringing your car to a mechanic, tell them you want OEM parts. These are the manufacturer's original parts. It can cost a lot less to use parts that are generic, but you won't get the most out of these things after a while. Generic parts could end up costing you more in the long run.
Keep a spare tire and jack handy at all times. A majority of cars come equipped with them. You will have to spend a lot to get your car towed if you cannot change the tire right away. It is simpler and cheaper to do the work yourself.
Make sure that you clean your car in the winter as well. Winter can be the most damaging season to a car's bodywork. Rust and abrasion can occur from the particles flying around in the air. Wash your car thoroughly and dry it to keep ice from forming on it.
Find technicians to do your auto repair tasks instead of your dealer. You should be able to find reliable mechanics in your area, either by going to a repair shop or an independent garage. Find someone who you are comfortable with and stick with them.
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Description Please answer the questions contained below comprehensively. Use your notes that I encouraged you to take during both the Intro to Mindfulness (link (Links to an external site.)) and Self-Compassion Videos (link). You were asked to take notes after the following In-Class Activities: 1) The 3-minute Body Scan mindfulness exercise In-Class Activity starts at 25:00 in this video (Links to an external site.) 2) Engaging in the self-kindness in-class activities during the Self-Compassion lecture Click here (Links to an external site.)and watch from 4:46-8:30 for the in-class activity Use these notes to provide more detail to your responses below. Attempt to weave the answers to these questions into a coherent reflection, rather than answering each questions one-by-one and not using transitions to connect your thoughts. Part 1: SUMMARY OF COURSE MATERIAL: When thinking about the potential benefits of mindfulness and self-compassion discussed in this lecture, which of these potential benefits do think would be MOST valuable for you? Why? Was there anything discussed in lecture that was surprising to you about these practices? Part 2: REFLECTION + APPLICATION: What internal experiences did you notice during the 3-minute body scan mindfulness exercise? What was it like to take notice of these internal experiences? Consider the self-kindness exercise, where you were asked to think about how you to speak to close others vs. yourself when you are struggling. What factors might influence how you speak to yourself vs. others? How might things change if you were to respond to yourself in the same way you typically respond to a loved one when theyre suffering? Do you think it would be beneficial for you to engage in a regular mindfulness and/or self-compassion practice? Why or why not? If yes, any anticipated obstacles to regular practice?
San Diego State University Mindfulness and Self Compassion Reflection
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According to Massachusetts law, sexual harassment is defined as the unwanted conduct which is of a sexual nature, and includes both verbal advances and physical acts Sexual advances, creating a hostile work environment that is blatantly sexual in nature, and sexual advances are some of the more common types of sexual harassment amongst employers.
How does Massachusetts Law Prohibit Sexual Harassment?
First, Topsfield employers can be required to implement company policies that specifically address sexual harassment in the workplace. These must be posted in a visible area such as a break room. Such policies should include items such as contact information for reporting harassment incidents, procedures for filing claims, and any corrective or preventative measures should a claim be proven.
There are also federal and Massachusetts laws that have created agencies to handle sexual harassment claims. These agencies have authority to investigate a Topsfield workplace for the sexual harassment conduct that is alleged in the complaints they receive. Also, under these laws, employers may not fire or retaliate against any employee who has alleged sexual harassment in a claim.
How can a Massachusetts attorney help?
If you do not have any expertise in the applicable laws, it may be difficult to investigate and prove a claim involving sexual harassment. Federal investigators are often very overworked. With that in mind, you should consider speaking with an attorney in Topsfield, as this might be the best way to ensure that your claim is filed before the deadlines set by the laws of Massachusetts.
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Unique GeneXpert(R) System Capabilities Enable Powerful New TB Diagnostic Tool
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert(R) MTB/RIF as a CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. For the first time, European clinicians will have access to a rapid test that can simultaneously identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and resistance to rifampicin (RIF), a common first-line drug for treatment of the disease and a reliable surrogate marker of strains that are multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB).
Xpert MTB/RIF is expected to enable clinicians to dramatically improve patient outcomes -- a situation possible only through on-demand, actionable test results that can help guide therapy decisions during an initial patient visit. The new test, developed in partnership with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), the
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately two billion people are currently infected with MTB. An estimated nine million people develop active TB each year, and two million people lose their lives to the illness. This equates to one life every 20 seconds.
"With the documented re-emergence of TB and the development of drug-resistant strains, the need for accurate and rapid detection of tuberculosis is becoming increasingly acute," said John Bishop, Cepheid's Chief Executive Officer. "The GeneXpert System has a unique level of technical capability never before seen in molecular diagnostics -- and this capability is on full display with this test. Clinicians will now be able to obtain dependable test results in virtually any clinical setting not only for detection of TB, but simultaneous determination of whether or not it is a drug resistant strain. Xpert MTB/RIF should be a breakthrough technological leap forward in helping to ensure appropriate therapeutic management and in helping to halt transmission of this disease."
"I would also like to note that the Xpert MTB/RIF is Cepheid's first test released in the new Reagents on Board configuration. This new test configuration includes the packaging of liquid reagents along with the previously included dry reagents in the test cartridge. This added feature makes the test procedure even easier to perform and further reduces hands-on time to about one minute. This new test configuration is also expected to form the foundation for Cepheid's projected future line of CLIA waived products."
Appropriate therapeutic management has been a significant factor in the development of drug resistant TB strains. Optimal management of the disease requires access to rapid detection, prevention, and treatment.
"Rapid diagnosis of rifampicin-resistant TB will have will have three main benefits, including earlier proper treatment, earlier interruption of the transmission chain-of resistant strains, and promote appropriate accommodation of patients infected with a resistant strain," said Dr. Sabine Rusch-Gerdes, Head of the National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany. "This will undoubtedly save more lives by reducing the time spent on inappropriate and ineffective patient treatment which ultimately promotes the development of further drug resistance."
According to data published by WHO, only 2 percent of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB cases worldwide are being diagnosed and treated appropriately. This may leave MDR-TB patients untreated for weeks or months, leading to an increased likelihood of community transmission and eventual death of the patient.
"Multidrug-resistant TB is becoming increasingly prevalent throughout the world, making TB harder to treat with the usual regimen that includes rifampicin," said David H. Persing, M.D., Ph.D., Cepheid's Chief Medical and Technology Officer. "In my opinion, this new test is one of the most important diagnostic developments to have occurred in many years. It is the most technologically advanced test for TB ever developed, yet it is simple enough to perform anywhere testing is needed."
Currently, the most common testing method for TB is sputum microscopy, or the smear test, that has remained largely unchanged in its sophistication and sensitivity for over 100 years. The smear test has been proven to only detect around half of all active TB cases and is not capable of identifying drug resistance. As a result, TB is under-diagnosed today -- a major contributor to the 90,000 new TB cases and 10,000 deaths that occur annually in Europe alone. The Health Protection Agency recently announced that the number of TB cases reported in the United Kingdom is actually increasing, with a 2 percent rise in reported cases in 2008 when compared to 2007.
Patients who remain undetected are often co-mingled within general hospital populations, placing others at risk of infection. Due to their low accuracy, smear tests are followed up with culture tests, which offer more accurate results but take several weeks. To determine drug resistance, culture testing can take months to return a result.
"We designed this test so that it could be used by someone with minimal training," said UMDNJ's David Alland, M.D. who collaborated closely with Cepheid and FIND with support from the NIAID. "We're gratified to find that it requires less hands-on work than the acid fast smear, long a standard method to identify tuberculosis, but it is much more sensitive."
Sputum microscopy, which often delivers poor sensitivity in patients suffering from tuberculosis, is almost completely ineffective in those who also have HIV co-infection. The weakened immune system of an HIV-positive person is particularly susceptible to infection, resulting in one third of the 33 million HIV sufferers worldwide infected with TB. Left untreated, 90 percent of these people will die within months of first contracting the disease, reinforcing the urgent need for an accurate and rapid test.
About the GeneXpert(R) System Molecular Diagnostic Platform
The GeneXpert System is a closed, self-contained, fully-integrated and automated platform that represents a paradigm shift in the automation of molecular analysis, producing accurate results in a timely manner with minimal risk of contamination. The GeneXpert System is the only system to combine on-board sample preparation with real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplification and detection functions for fully integrated and automated nucleic acid analysis. The system is designed to purify, concentrate, detect and identify targeted nucleic acid sequences thereby delivering answers directly from unprocessed samples. Modular in design, the GeneXpert System has a variety of configurations to meet the broad range of testing demands of any clinical environment.
Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) is an on-demand molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems and tests for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and biothreat markets. The company's systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The company's easy-to-use systems integrate a number of complicated and time-intensive steps, including sample preparation, DNA amplification and detection, which enable the analysis of complex biological samples in its proprietary test cartridges. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the company is focusing on those applications where rapid molecular testing is particularly important, such as identifying infectious disease and cancer in the clinical market; food, agricultural, and environmental testing in the industrial market; and identifying bio-terrorism agents in the biothreat market. See http://www.cepheid.com for more information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are not purely historical regarding Cepheid's or its management's intentions, beliefs, expectations and strategies for the future, including those relating to product performance and future market opportunities. Because such statements deal with future events, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from the company's current expectations. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as those relating to: unforeseen manufacturing problems; uncertainties inherent in the regulatory process; regulatory developments and changing practices regarding testing; customer and market acceptance of the product; pricing of the new product, and the fact that Cepheid expects initial sales of the product to be under a compassionate pricing model; the failure of products to perform as expected, whether due to manufacturing errors, defects or otherwise; the impact of competitive products and pricing; potentially lengthy sales cycles in some markets; reimbursement rates for the products; and the uncertain impact of the global economic downturn. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Cepheid's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All forward-looking statements and reasons why results might differ included in this release are made as of the date of this press release, based on information currently available to Cepheid, and Cepheid assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement or reasons why results might differ.
CONTACTS: For Media Inquiries: For Cepheid Investor Inquiries: Jared Tipton Jacquie Ross Cepheid Corporate Cepheid Investor Communications Relations 408-400-8377 408-400-8329 email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.org
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Missouri does not have open adoption records. This situation, although common to most states, can complicate a genealogist’s search for their adopted ancestor.
Missouri House Bill 1599, which took effect August 28, 2016, changes the law for requesting original birth certificates for adoptees. Please visit the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services website for more information.
For information about adoptions occurring prior to 1917, researchers should check with the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in the adopted child’s county of residence. Beginning in 1857, the State of Missouri required adoptions to be filed by deed in the county of residence of the person adopting the child. [Laws of Missouri, 1856-57, pg. 59] It was not until 1917, that adoptions in Missouri required a petition to be filed in the juvenile division of the circuit court of either the county where the child resided or the county where the person seeking to adopt resided. [Laws of Missouri, 1917, pg. 193]
Prior to 1853 some adoptions were made by legislative act. A reference specialist at SHSMO will check the personal act list in An Index to the Statute Laws of Missouri for adoptions occurring during this early period.
During the years 1854-1929, the Children’s Aid Society of New York sent approximately 100,000 children from the streets of New York to find new homes with families in the Midwest. Many of these children were then adopted by the families. Those who came as children on the “Orphan Trains,” or had parents or grandparents who came, may have success locating family members by contacting the following organization:
Researchers may also want to consider consulting with a professional genealogist who specializes in adoption research.
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VIDEO: A CBC tax? by Brian Lilley
Apr 15, 2014
Source: Lilley's Pad
OTTAWA -The head of the CBC is floating the idea of taking a percentage of every cable or satellite bill in Canada as a way to get the state broadcaster more money.
The comments came during a town hall meeting last week where CBC president Hubert Lacroix was discussing plans for 657 job cuts and changes in the wake of CBC’s loss of NHL hockey broadcasts.
During a question and answer session, Lacroix suggested a CBC tax similar to that in Britain. The BBC is funded through a fee on every television in Britain, and in Lacroix’s mind that money should come from cable and satellite companies, known in the industry as BDUs.
“Imagine if in Canada the BDUs decided to give us three or four or five percent of whatever bottom line number and they committed to that over years, maybe that could be something,” Lacroix said.
A CBC spokesman declined to comment on whether the idea has been discussed with the government or industry leaders but did confirm it is something they are considering.
“Our goal is to achieve financial sustainability that allows us to evolve with our audience and stakeholders,” spokesman France Belisle said.
Heritage Minister Shelly Glover’s office threw cold water on the concept.
“The CBC already receives significant taxpayer funds. They can operate within their existing budget,” Marisa Monnin said. “According to the CBC, it is declining viewership that is causing their challenges. It is up to the CBC to provide programming that Canadians actually want to watch.”
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With 582 million banking and payment smart cards in circulation worldwide, it is a wonder that the technologically savvy U.S. lags far behind much of the developed world. Yet according to Smart Cards in the U.S.: Contactless Payment Cards, a new Packaged Facts report, only 27 million contactless payment cards were in circulation in the United States in 2006.
This scenario will quickly change, however, as the report estimates that total contactless credit and debit cards in U.S. circulation will reach 109 million by 2011. With the fast-paced American lifestyle continuing to put pressure on retailers to serve customers more efficiently, and card brands such as MasterCard and Visa pushing for bigger slices of the small-ticket payments pie traditionally reserved for cash, the time is finally right for large-scale penetration of smart cards in the payments market.
Total purchase volume in the U.S. via cards with a contactless feature neared an estimated $15 billion in 2006, registering a 700% CAGR from 2004 to 2006. That figure should increase significantly as the number of contactless transactions-nearly 777 million in 2006-are expected to reach 2.2 billion by 2011.
“Card issuers are rapidly expanding their market presence in contactless payments and the percentage of retailers having contactless payment systems is expected to nearly triple within two years,” notes Tatjana Meerman, the Managing Editor of Packaged Facts. “Increasing consumer awareness of the technological, safety, and convenience factors inherent in smart cards will only serve to make penetrating the consumer market much easier in the coming years.”
Smart Cards in the U.S.: Contactless Payment Cards provides an in-depth analysis of the escalating market for contactless payment. It includes overviews of both the smart card and payments markets worldwide and in the United States. Also included are trends affecting both markets including forecasts of transactions and purchase volumes, U.S. consumer attitudes towards smart cards, and insights into issuer and retailer strategies. This report can be purchased directly from Packaged Facts by visiting: https://www.packagedfacts.com/Smart-Cards-1383053. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.
About Packaged Facts
Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including financial, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit http://www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or [email protected]
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African Human Mobility Review, vol. 1, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2015) [full-text]
- Mix of articles including "Failed Asylum Seekers in South Africa: Policy and Practice."
German History (virtual issue, posted Oct. 2015) [free full-text]
- "This virtual special issue of German History draws together a selection of recent contributions to the journal on the subject of Refugees and Migrants. These are presented alongside a new introduction from the journal's co-editors that comments on the place of history and historians in national and international responses to the current European refugee crisis."
History Australia, vol. 12, no. 2 (2015) [delayed open access]
- Includes a "special feature which focuses primarily on the history of one particular group of DPs: people who had been exposed to Soviet rule during the war – either as Soviet citizens, or deportees and refugees from Poland and elsewhere – and who subsequently found their way to Australia in the late 1940s and early 1950s, mainly under the DP mass resettlement scheme administered by the International Refugee Organization (IRO)." The introduction to the special feature can be read immediately, while the remaining articles will become freely available in 24 months.
Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, vol. 29, no. 2 (2015)
- Special issue on "Access to Asylum: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2015) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2015) [full-text via ReliefWeb]
- Inaugural issue of new journal; includes "Quality Education for Refugees in Kenya: Pedagogy in Urban Nairobi and Kakuma Refugee Camp Settings."
Migration Policy Practice, vol. V, no. 3 (July-Sept. 2015) [full-text via ReliefWeb]
- The five articles in this issue focus "on the migration challenges facing the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)."
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(Modified from Data Management Plans: Types of Data (California State University Long Beach)
Managing data is important for you, your research group and the greater research community. Access to data in the future depends on steps you take at the time of data collection. Some data and resource types will have specific considerations, and not may fit the guidelines suggested here. Consult with the head of your research group for the best practices in your field.
1. Save data as components, not as compound variables.
Ex. save weight and height, not the calculated BMI (body mass index)
2. Make sure all data collectors know what the units are and what the variable is actually measuring
3. Tips for creating spreadsheets: http://bit.ly/DM-SS
File Names – set up file naming conventions
1. Choose descriptive names
2. Use keywords for searching
3. Start name with characters other than zeroes: ET-00002, not 00002
4. Use underscore instead of spaces: ET_00002, not ET 00002
5. Ex. Project-name_experiment#_keyword_keyword_yyyy/mm/dd - recommended date format
File Formats - Open, uncompressed formats will be more accessible in the future.
Consider both access and long term preservation when appropriate.
See examples at http://scholar.uc.edu/format_advice_request
1. Documents: .pdf or .txt or open office vs. .doc or .docx
2. Tabular data / spreadsheets: .csv vs. .xlsx
3. Images: .tiff vs. Proprietary formats such as .psd for Adobe Photoshop files
Folder Structure – Choose an organization scheme for your files according to a criteria that makes sense to you.
Two suggested methods are based on projects or function of files. Choose names that are based on search terms, but are not too long. Remember that the folder names are actually the whole directory name.
Back up and archiving data
Back up - Apply the “3-2-1” or “Here – Near – Far” rule:
2 different storage media – hard drive, cloud storage
1 off-site/cloud backup
(Sign up for UC’s Box.com cloud storage: https://kb.uc.edu/kbarticles/ucbox-landing.aspx - unlimited storage)
Archiving - Use a repository for long-term storage and data sharing, such as Scholar@UC http://scholar.uc.edu
The best choice will depend on the type of research and data collected.
What does a future investigator need to know in order to use the data you have generated?
The goal is to provide enough context that the data can be understood without the researcher being there to explain.
Ask yourself can your data explain itself if you are not there to do it? You may still have work to do so the data can.
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poison arrow 5e
On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and isn’t Poisoned. Applying the poison takes an action.
Inhaled: These poisons are powders or gases that take effect when inhaled. This is actually a fairly unique spell, and lasts 7 days if the target just can’t roll the Constitution save.
There is indeed a ruling on it. Those consuming the desert lotus must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution save or fall into a hallucinatory slumber for 2d12 hours. Side Effects: After the effects wear off, you have disadvantage on Dexterity checks for 1d2 hours.
The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake. 1991. When you’re poisoned, your body is rejecting something so vehemently that you’re actually sick. This plant never flowers. Effects: Your mind is filled with images and hallucinations for 2d4 hours. This substance is distilled from a rare herb called kolkis on another plane of existence and is imported to the shop. When you have the poisoned condition, you have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks… Which is basically everything. Blue on its own is not favored by anyone but is considered an ideal filler tobacco when paired with tobaccos from other lands.
| Swords and Wizardry SRD This wild plant grows with fiery orange flowers.
Aged in casks once used for palm wine, the tobacco has a sharp sweet smell to it, and is often smoked in a hookah filled with cool water to cut the initial bite. If that’s the case, perhaps in the same book we’d get more spells or effects that also apply poisoned. | Here Be Monsters When equipped, all Bow attacks have a (# of hits connected) / (# of hits attempted) chance of attempting to, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 103% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 110% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 113% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 114% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 115% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 116% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 117% damage, If the monster is already Poisoned, your Bow attacks will not try to Poison, and instead do 119% damage. For the next 1d4 hours, you enjoy advantage on all Dexterity and Initiative checks and disadvantage on all Wisdom checks. Local tribes climb the trees in search for the creature so that they may coat their darts and arrows in the secreted poison.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. p. 11-15. […], Need a frontline druid with some nice utility options? Once the poison has entered the victimâs system, the victim begins suffering from itching, and weeping lesions begin to form upon their flesh. Addiction: DC 18 Constitution, 1d2 Strength/week; Recovery: three weeks. Effects: You do not suffer from the effects of gained levels of exhaustion until the drug wears off, after 2d4 + 2 hours. , Poisoned arrows have featured in mythology, notably the Greek story of Heracles slaying the centaur Nessus using arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernaean Hydra. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. When using this arrow, you name your target and fire it from a bow.
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Assuming basic knowledge of special and general relativity, this book guides the reader to problems under consideration in modern research, concerning black holes, wormholes, cosmology, and extra dimensions. Its first part is devoted to local strong field configurations (black holes and wormholes) in general relativity and its most relevant extensions: scalar-tensor, f(R), and multidimensional theories. The second part discusses cosmology, including inflation and problems of a unified description of the whole evolution of the universe. The third part concerns multidimensional theories of gravity and contains a number of original results obtained by the authors. Expository work is conducted for a mechanism of symmetries and fundamental constants formation. The original approach to nonlinear multidimensional gravity that is able to construct a unique perspective describing different phenomena is highlighted.Much of the content was previously presented only in journal publications and is new for book contents, e.g., on regular black holes, various scalar field solutions, wormholes and their stability, inflation, clusters of primordial black holes, and multidimensional gravity. The last two topics are added in this new edition of the book. The other chapters are also updated to include new discoveries like the detection of gravitational waves.
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More than 16,000 potholes were filled last weekend as part of "Operation Pothole." The effort dispatched approximately 50 city crews in a focused attack on potholes that were reported by residents across the city.
I want to thank everyone who reported potholes and encourage people to continue to call 3-1-1 to report them. We have city crews on the streets everyday repairing potholes, but they need to know where they are.
Also, some damage to asphalt is not actually a "pothole" and different types of damage require different equipment and material to fix. If the damage that you reported didn't get fixed, it's possible that it actually requires a different process to repair. Here are a few common types of street damage that are NOT potholes:
- Cracking: Alligator cracking (see photo), edge cracking, and other types of cracks in the asphalt can be caused by poor drainage, an inadequate base, or heavy loads. In these cases, workers must determine the cause of the crack and repair it accordingly.
- Raveling: Raveling is when particles of asphalt wear away, leaving behind a rough surface. This requires a different kind of "patch" than a pothole.
- Rutting: Rutting (see photo) is a permanent deformation of pavement due to repeated exposure to heavy loads. Often, rutting occurs along the wheel path. Rutting is typically addressed by resurfacing the street.
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M. Lermontov’s novel The Hero of Our Time, along with Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
The work consists of novels: “Bela”, “Maxim Maksimych” and “Pechorin’s Magazine”, which includes novels “Taman”, “Princess Mary” and “Fatalist”. They talk about various episodes of the life of a certain Pechorin. The narrative obeys not so much the sequence, as the significance of events.
In the first chapter of “Bela” we see Pechorin through the eyes of Captain Maxime Maksimych. This person is sincerely attached to the main character, but spiritually alien to him. They are not only people of different social status and age, but also different types of consciousness and thinking.
The image of Maxim Maksimych is one of the most important in the novel, because it is very typical for Russia of that time. This person
can not understand Pechorin and does not strive for this, loving him simply as a “nice little one.” Therefore, in the story of Maxim Maksimych, the protagonist appears as a mysterious and mysterious person: “After all, there are, indeed, some kind of people who have written on their families that different unusual things must happen to them.”
In the story of Captain Pechorin appears romantic hero, meeting with whom was one of the brightest events in the life of the captain, whereas for Pechorin Maxim Maximich himself and Bela’s story are only an episode from life. Even at a meeting that happened accidentally in the second chapter of the work, when Maxim Maksimych is ready to rush into his arms, Pechorin has nothing to talk about with him: “It’s time for me, Maxim Maksimych.”
Staff-captain and Pechorin stand on opposite sides of the barricade, with their mutual they do not understand sincere sympathy and will never understand each other. Their dissimilarity is not accidental, the difference between them is the same as the one that always existed between the Russian
intelligentsia and the people.
The third chapter, Pechorin’s Magazine, is a novel in the novel, consisting of three parts. The first novella partially reveals the goal of Pechorin’s life, which consists in trying to understand what motivates people, to comprehend their psychology. The chapter “Princess Mary” consists of the diary entries of the main character. On the water Pechorin meets his old acquaintance, the cadet Grushnitsky, whom he sharply criticizes. But why is the main character so hostile to the cadet?
I think, because Pechorin is always yearning, although he tries to hide it, and Grushnitsky, on the contrary, is by nature a cheerful person who does not know boredom, this angers the main character, forcing him to hate the cadets. But a new friend of Pechorin, Dr. Werner, is very interesting to him. Werner is in some ways close to the main character, understands his problems, but in many respects is alien to him. The history of their relationship is the story of the failed friendship of people, spiritually and intellectually similar. The impossibility of their friendship Pechorin explains this: “I am unable to friendship: two friends are always one slave of the other.”
Throughout the novel, Pechorin has no friends, but he gets many enemies. Why is it so?
I think, because Pechorin does not seek to achieve somebody’s friendship, although it would not be difficult for him, but without realizing it, he makes enemies. The main character plays the role of an observer and an actor simultaneously. It is not enough for him to simply observe the characters of people, he confronts them with each other, forcing their souls to open up and manifest themselves in full measure: to love, to hate, to suffer. This is what makes people, on whom he “experiment”, dislike and even hate him.
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What is an anorectal manometry?
Anorectal manometry is often done to help find the cause of your child's symptoms, such as constipation, stool accidents, or other bowel problems. It may also be done before or after surgery to check how your child's rectal muscles and nerves are working.
During an anorectal manometry, a doctor places a small, soft, flexible tube into the rectum. A tiny balloon is attached to the end of the tube. This balloon is filled with small amounts of air to measure how your child's muscles and nerves work inside the rectum.
What happens before an anorectal manometry?
You will receive instructions in the mail regarding the bowel preparation, or you will receive a call to tell you what you need to do to get your child ready for the test. If your child has a latex allergy, make sure to tell the nurse at this time. A latex-free balloon will then be used for your child.
This test is not painful, but some children may feel anxious about it.
What happens during an anorectal manometry?
Your child will be brought into the room where the test is done. The test will take about 30 to 45 minutes.
If needed, the doctor will give your child medicine to help them sleep.
Your child will lie on their left side for the procedure. The doctor places a small, soft, flexible tube into the rectum. This tube is attached to a computer. The computer measures how well the rectal muscles work. The doctor or nurse slowly inflates and deflates a tiny balloon on the end of the tube. At the same time, the computer records the activity of the nerves and muscles in the rectum. There is no discomfort associated with this. The doctor may ask your child to say when they feel the balloon as it inflates. The doctor may also ask your child to squeeze down on the tube or try to push the tube out of the rectum. Again, this is not uncomfortable.
The doctor will remove the tube when the test is finished.
What happens after an anorectal manometry?
If your child did not receive sedation (medicine to cause sleepiness) for the test, they may go home when the test is over. The nurse will review all instructions with you before you leave. If your child received sedation before the test, talk with your clinician about how soon you will be able to leave the hospital.
The doctor who performed the exam will talk to you about the test results before you go home. Your primary gastroenterology doctor will give you follow-up care instructions.
If you have any questions about an upcoming test, procedure, or any other aspect of your child's treatment, reach out to your care team — they’ll be able to explain what to expect during your visit and share tips on how to make it as easy as possible.
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What Is an Auditor’s Report?
An auditor’s report is a prepared letter from the auditor containing their view on regardless of whether a company’s economical statements comply with generally recognized accounting principles (GAAP) and are cost-free from substance misstatement.
The independent and external audit report is typically published with the firm’s annual report. The auditor’s report is crucial mainly because banking institutions and lenders have to have an audit of a company’s fiscal statements right before lending to them.
- The auditor’s report is a doc that contains the auditor’s opinion on whether a company’s financial statements comply with GAAP and are no cost from materials misstatement.
- The audit report is important since banking institutions, creditors, and regulators need an audit of a company’s monetary statements.
- A thoroughly clean audit report signifies a enterprise followed accounting requirements while an unqualified report suggests there could be mistakes.
- An adverse report suggests that the money statements may well have experienced discrepancies, misrepresentations, and didn’t adhere to GAAP.
How an Auditor’s Report Operates
An auditor’s report is a published letter connected to a firm’s economic statements that expresses its viewpoint on a firm’s compliance with typical accounting practices. The auditor’s report is demanded to be filed with a general public firm’s economic statements when reporting earnings to the Securities and Trade Commission (SEC).
Even so, an auditor’s report is not an evaluation of regardless of whether a enterprise is a superior financial investment. Also, the audit report is not an analysis of the firm’s earnings effectiveness for the period of time. Instead, the report is basically a measure of the reliability of the fiscal statements.
The Elements of an Auditor’s Report
The auditor’s letter follows a conventional format, as founded by typically approved auditing expectations (GAAS). A report commonly is made up of a few paragraphs.
- The initially paragraph states the obligations of the auditor and directors.
- The 2nd paragraph contains the scope, stating that a set of standard accounting practices was the information.
- The third paragraph incorporates the auditor’s view.
An extra paragraph may well notify the trader of the final results of a separate audit on an additional perform of the entity. The investor will vital in on the third paragraph, where by the viewpoint is stated.
The form of report issued will be dependent on the findings by the auditor. Underneath are the most widespread types of reviews issued for firms.
Thoroughly clean or Unqualified Report
A cleanse report implies that the firm’s money data are totally free from content misstatement and conform to the recommendations established by GAAP. A greater part of audits close in unqualified, or clean, views.
A experienced view might be issued in one particular of two predicaments: to start with, if the money statements comprise product misstatements that are not pervasive or second, if the auditor is unable to get enough ideal audit evidence on which to foundation an view, but the feasible results of any substance misstatements are not pervasive. For example, a miscalculation may have been designed in calculating operating expenditures or financial gain. Auditors commonly condition the distinct causes and areas where the challenges are current so that the organization can resolve them.
An adverse belief usually means that the auditor has received ample audit proof and concludes that misstatements in the monetary statements are both substance and pervasive. An adverse opinion is the worst attainable end result for a company and can have a lasting impact and lawful ramifications if not corrected.
Regulators and buyers will reject a firm’s money statements pursuing an adverse opinion from an auditor. Also, if unlawful exercise exists, corporate officers may possibly face criminal fees.
Disclaimer of Belief
A disclaimer of opinion signifies that, for some explanation, the auditor is unable to acquire sufficient audit evidence on which to base the opinion, and the achievable outcomes on the monetary statements of undetected misstatements, if any, could be equally substance and pervasive. Illustrations can include things like when an auditor are not able to be neutral or was not permitted entry to certain economical information and facts.
Case in point of an Auditor’s Report
Excerpts from the audit report by Deloitte & Touche LLP for Starbucks Corporation, dated Nov. 15, 2019, stick to.
Paragraph 1: Belief on the Monetary Statements
“We have audited the accompanying consolidated harmony sheets of Starbucks Corporation and subsidiaries (the ‘Company’) as of September 29, 2019, and September 30, 2018, the linked consolidated statements of earnings, in depth earnings, equity, and funds flows, for each individual of the three decades in the interval ended September 29, 2019, and the associated notes (collectively referred to as the ‘financial statements’).
In our impression, the money statements current pretty, in all product respects, the financial placement of the Firm as of September 29, 2019, and September 30, 2018, and the outcomes of its functions and its money flows for each individual of the three several years in the period of time ended September 29, 2019, in conformity with accounting ideas commonly recognized in the United States of The us.”
Paragraph 2: Foundation for Opinion
“We conducted our audits in accordance with the benchmarks of the Public Business Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). People criteria require that we system and complete the audit to get sensible assurance about irrespective of whether the economical statements are totally free of substance misstatement, irrespective of whether owing to error or fraud. Our audits provided performing processes to assess the hazards of material misstatement of the economical statements, whether thanks to error or fraud, and undertaking strategies that reply to those challenges.
These kinds of methods involved examining, on a test basis, evidence relating to the quantities and disclosures in the economical statements. Our audits also included assessing the accounting ideas applied and sizeable estimates built by management, as nicely as evaluating the over-all presentation of the monetary statements. We believe that our audits offer a realistic foundation for our view.”
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Diogenes: The Crazy Greek Philosopher Plato Called ‘Socrates Gone Mad’!
Diogenes (412 BC- 323 BC) was a Greek philosopher like no other. One of the founders of the cynic philosophy, Diogenes believed that people should live simple lives that reject all natural desires for wealth, power, or fame. Instead, he encouraged people to live a life of intentional hardship and not be bound by social conventions. And boy oh boy did Diogenes practice what he preached. And there are more than a few reasons for Plato thinking he was “A Socrates gone mad.”
Diogenes: A Cynic Connected with the Philosophy of Socrates
The cynics were a group of ancient Greek philosophers who were a separate branch of Socratic philosophy. They believed that nature offers the best indication of how to live a good life. And that people should strive for reason, self-sufficiency, and freedom. Social conventions, therefore, are a hindrance to a good life because adhering to society’s rules limits one’s freedom. Such conventions were often ridiculed by the cynics, who believed that only when one has freed oneself from social conventions, such as the desire to chase fame and fortune , can one truly be free.
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Diogenes of Sinope, however, took these beliefs to an extreme. He was likely a student of the philosopher Antisthenes, who he met following his arrival in Athens. He was exiled from his hometown following a scandal that involved currency debasement, causing him to lose his citizenship and his move to Athens. Upon meeting Antisthenes, Diogenes asked to be enrolled in his school and become his student. At first, Antisthenes refused, but eventually, he was worn down by Diogenes’ persistence.
Both Diogenes and Antisthenes shared many common beliefs but mainly a belief in self-control and the pursuit of excellence in one’s own behavior, which included the rejection of all unnecessary things such as personal possessions and social status. Even so, Antisthenes must have been shocked at just how far Diogenes took things to live a life in accordance with these beliefs.
Diogenes was considered to be mad or crazy because he took the beliefs of the cynics to incredible extremes. (freshidea / Adobe Stock )
But Why was Diogenes Considered Mad?
Diogenes didn’t have a house, instead, he lived in a huge wine cask lying on its side. He had no possessions apart from a cup he used for eating and drinking, but he threw this away in disgust when he saw a boy drinking water from his hands and realized he didn’t even need a cup to sustain himself. He didn’t work either, instead, he chose to live off the charity of others. All of these things can be said with assurance, however, there are many rumors and legends about Diogenes that are hard to verify.
Despite the fact that these myths are impossible to verify, they do line up with Diogenes own personal beliefs. He believed that manners were simply lies used to hide the true nature of the individual. Given the importance of the cynics to live according to their beliefs, it is not hard to imagine that a lot of the myths about Diogenes are in fact true.
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Given this disdain for manners, Diogenes was known for his brutal honesty in conversation. He had no regard for social etiquette whatsoever and was known to frequently urinate and masturbate in public. When he was criticized for this, he pointed out that what he was doing was normal, and that everyone engaged in these activities, but hid in private what he did openly. These social norms , he believed, were completely artificial and had no real use in making someone a good person. If an act was not shameful in private, then it should not be shameful in public.
And that brings us to one of the most famous stories about this mad philosopher. Diogenes walked around Athens, holding a lit lantern up to the face of everyone who passed him, claiming he was searching for an honest man or a true human being. In doing so, he confronted the people of Athens with their lifeless and shallow lives and encouraged them to wake up from the make-believe world they lived in and become fully aware of themselves. Because of this rather unusual behavior, many labelled him as mentally ill, or a madman. Diogenes, however, believed he was living a completely honest life and encouraging others to do the same.
Diogenes, perhaps unsurprisingly, did not hesitate to insult his social superiors, including Plato and even Alexander the Great. When Plato defined human beings as featherless bipeds and was praised for the brilliance of his definition. So, Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato’s academy and declared “Behold – Plato’s human being.” This caused Plato to add, “with broad, flat nails” to his definition. Diogenes insulted Plato on numerous occasions, but this was the most famous incident.
Even the most powerful rulers of all time were not exempt from the ridicule of Diogenes. When Diogenes was living in Corinth, Alexander the Great came to visit the city and was very interested in meeting the famous philosopher. He found Diogenes resting in the sunlight and introduced himself, asking him if there was anything he could do for him. Diogenes simply replied “Yes. Get out of my sunlight.” Alexander admired the spirit, bravery, and intelligence of the man, saying “If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.” Diogenes replied, “If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes.”
Diogenes was certainly a man of the people, and he was loved by many in Athens and also in Corinth, as this painting by John William Waterhouse suggests. (John William Waterhouse / Public domain )
Diogenes: A Man of the People of His Day
Despite his eccentric behavior , or perhaps because of it, Diogenes came to be adored by the citizens of Athens. When a boy broke his wine casket, the people had him beaten and replaced the casket. Given Diogenes disdain for possessions, this probably amused him. At some point in later life Diogenes was captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Corinth. He was asked what talents he had and replied, “That of governing men” and pointed to a man named Xeniades saying “Sell me to that man; for he wants a master.” Diogenes believed so strongly in himself that the men did what he asked.
Diogenes was put in charge of tutoring Xeniades’ sons and eventually was considered part of the family. He lived with Xeniades family in Corinth for the rest of his life before dying at the age of ninety. Even in Corinth, the citizens had come to adore him and buried him with honors at the city gate with a monument over his grave. Even in death, however, Diogenes mocked social etiquette, because he wished for his corpse to be thrown to the dogs to feed on!
Top image: Diogenes, depicted here by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, was a philosopher of the cynic school of Greek philosophy and many thought he was crazy, but he was super popular with the people of Athens. Source: Jean-Léon Gérôme / Public domain
By Mark Brophy
Commonplace Facts. 2019. Meet Diogenes: the Man Plato Described as “Socrates Gone Mad” . Available at: https://commonplacefacts.com/2019/07/20/meet-diogenes-the-man-plato-described-as-socrates-gone-mad/
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Question submitted on May 5, 2014.
QuestionI'm 53 yrs old and have about 45k in my 401(k). how much do i need to contribute going forward in order to retire comfortably
Not knowing your complete financial picture, we can offer you a bit of general guidance. The amount you should contribute should be at least equal to the amount your employer will match and then as high as possible within the context of your personal financial plan. Sooner rather than later, you should project your annual retirement income (including Social Security) net of living expenses. Using the 4% retirement withdrawal rule of thumb, divide the calculated annual net income by 4% to estimate the retirement assets needed. A CPA/PFS will help you fine tune the calculation for the number of years you have to save and build in an annual rate of return. Visit www.findacpapfp.org to find one in your area.
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“It’s De-Lovely” is one of Cole Porter’s hit songs, originally appearing in his 1936 musical, Red Hot and Blue.It was introduced by Ethel Merman and Bob Hope . The song was later used in the musical Anything Goes, first appearing in the 1962 revival where it was sung by Hal Linden & Barbara Lang. The hit records in late 1936 and early 1937 included versions by Eddy Duchin, Shep Fields, and Will Osborne. Kitty Brown also recorded the song with Les Brown’s Band of Renown.
The song played with words that have the prefix “de”, which leads to the creation of the neologism “de-lovely”: “It’s de-lightful, it’s de-licious, it’s de-lovely.”
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Addictions and community support worker programs available at UCW Academy of Health
Victoria, BC (PRWEB) October 11, 2009 – The YWCA’s Week Without Violence kicks off today, acting as a sober reminder that domestic violence is still very much a reality and emphasizes the need for trained social workers throughout the world. Those interested becoming community support workers can enroll in the Addictions and Community Support Worker program at UCW Academy of Health.
Some 17,000 people across Canada are joining the 90 countries participating in Week Without Violence, which raises awareness of this social issue through special events and programming. Women, in particular, are marginalized by violence in the home and there are a number of community outreach programs available to help them find their way.
“There isn’t a certain ‘type’ of woman who would seek help from community support workers,” says Robin Emberly, Lower Mainland Addictions and Community Support Worker instructor. “I believe that any woman who needs help with transition from addiction, family violence, poverty, and homelessness may be in contact with community support workers. There are many different agencies who respond to women seeking help.”
UCW offers Social Services diploma programs (http://www.academyofhealth.ca/Diploma_Programs/Social_Services_Diplomas/Social_Services_Programs) to help accommodate the need for experts in this field. The Addictions and Community Support Worker program trains graduates to work with children, youth, and families; dealing with alcoholism, drug abuse, family violence and senior care. Students at UCW learn a variety of skills and benefit from guest speakers from the industry.
“I believe successful community support workers are those who are empathic and who continue to educate themselves on new practices,” says Emberly.
About UCW Academy of Health
UCW Academy of Health (http://www.academyofhealth.ca) provides accelerated market-driven career training programs to students seeking a skills-based education as an entry point into a competitive job market. UCW Academy of Health strives to be a center of excellence for health care related training where students master the tools, techniques and technologies used in their chosen career fields. Health services curriculum is developed based on recommendations and input from consultants, professionals and practitioners in the field to ensure that graduates develop the specific skill sets that the industry demands.
YWCA’s Week Without Violence runs Oct. 11-17, 2009. For more information on the awareness week visit http://www.weekwithoutviolence.ca/1-home.cfm
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The Therma-Stor Santa Fe Max Dry Dual XT is one of the most efficient stand-alone dehumidifiers on the market, with an Energy Factor of 3.75 liters/kWh. Photo: Therma-Stor. Click on image to enlarge. Last week, after reviewing a little physics reg... In other words, while there's a cooling process involved with dehumidifier operation (chilled coils on which condensate collects), that cooling of the air is offset by the heat of vaporization released by the condensation process. Due to the use of a blower and pump in the system, a dehumidifier actually warms a space somewhat, though by reducing relative humidity levels in a house, it may help you feel more comfortable. When a dehumidifier makes sense Dehumidifiers are optimized to remove moisture rather than to cool air, so they work better at that function than air conditioners. It makes sense to install a dehumidifier when the relative humidity gets high enough to cause significant problems--like growing mold in the home. Most experts suggest that indoor relative humidity levels should be kept below 50 or 60 percent. Dehumidifiers are effective at removing moisture when cooling isn't also called for--such as during spring and fall when there might be high humidity but cool enough temperatures that air conditioning isn't warranted. They can also make sense in highly energy-efficient homes with good cooling-load-avoidance strategies, such as shade trees on the east and west, awnings or overhangs above windows, and very energy-efficient lights and appliances. In these spaces, it may be important to get rid of excess moisture, while cooling isn't needed. That said, the most energy-conserving choice is to avoid using a dehumidifier (or air conditioner) by controlling unwanted moisture sources (see my blog from two weeks ago ). A lot of materials in a home, such as wood, naturally absorb moisture during the summer months and then release that moisture in the drier winter months; that sort of moisture cycling is acceptable in most houses. Choosing a dehumidifier Demumidifiers have either a plastic bucket that has to be emptied when full (an automatic shut-off prevents overflow), or a drain line for dumping condensate into a floor drain or sump. Look for a model with a humidistat that automatically turns it on and off, depending on the relative humidity. Dehumidifiers are rated by their moisture-removal capacity (usually in pints per day) and their Energy Factor in liters of water removed per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity consumption. The Energy Factor is typically higher for larger dehumidifiers that have greater moisture-removal capacity. To carry an Energy Star label, dehumidifiers must meet the following Energy Factor requirements (the odd mix of English pints and metric liters in the standards may be part of a plot to keep us confused!): Minimum Energy Factor (l/kWh) based on water-removal capacity: Less than 25 pints/day = 1.20 25 to 35 pints/day = 1.40 35 to 45 pints/day = 1.50 45 to 54 pints/day = 1.60 54 to 75 pints/day = 1.80 75 to 185 pints/day = 2.50 The most energy-efficient dehumidifiers today are made by Therma-Stor Products , of Madison, Wisconsin. The company offers a wide range of both free-standing and ducted dehumidifiers that are typically integrated into forced-air distributions systems. Standard stand-alone dehumidifiers typically cost $150 to $300, while top-efficiency models, such as most of those from Therma-Stor, will cost over $1,000. Installing and using a dehumidifier Stand-alone dehumidifiers are typically installed in the basement or crawl space, though they may also be located in a utility closet in the living space. As you think about placement, be aware that dehumidifiers have fans, which homeowners may find annoying. Also, for efficient operation, be sure that air can freely circulate around a dehumidifier. If you have an older model without a humidistat to automatically turn it on and off, buy a digital hydrometer (relative humidity meter) and turn on the dehumidifier when the relative humidity gets to an uncomfortable level--say, around 60% relative humidity. Even with a humidistat, it's not a bad idea to buy a hygrometer to make sure that the dehumidifier's humidistat is working properly; these can be significantly mis-calibrated. If the outdoor air is fairly humid and you decide to turn on a dehumidifier, it usually makes sense to close up the house--so your dehumidifier won't have to work so hard just to keep up with incoming humid air. This has to be balanced with the benefit of cool, outdoor airflow through the house, though. It will probably take some practice to balance the use of dehumidification, ventilation, and mechanical air conditioning. Follow manufacturers' instructions on keeping a dehumidifiers clean to ensure efficient operation. Final thoughts Dehumidifiers use quite a lot of energy--many consume over 600 watts while they are operating--which can be for long periods of time in the summer months. Use of a dehumidifier can easily be the largest electricity user in a home during the months it is used (especially when air conditioning is not being used), so avoiding or minimizing the need for dehumidification should be a high priority. An engineer friend in Keene, New Hampshire, tells me that during the two months of the year he uses a dehumidifier, it increases his electric consumption by 63%, and the 250 kilowatt-hours he uses each month requires roughly $3,000 worth of photovoltaic panels to produce. In addition to this Energy Solutions blog, Alex writes the weekly blog on BuildingGreen.com: "Alex's Cool Product of the Week," which profiles an interesting new green building product each week. Last week's blog was on Wasco's new triple-glazed skylight that meets the 30-30 rule for the federal tax credit. You can sign up to receive notices of these blogs by e-mail--on the BuildingGreen.com blog page enter your e-mail address in the upper right corner. Alex is founder of BuildingGreen, LLC and executive editor of Environmental Building News . To keep up with his latest articles and musings, you can sign up for his Twitter feed .
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The medical savings account or MSA is a relatively new feature that is now common to many of the top medical aid plans. Despite how prevalent they are, many people still find them quite bewildering and battle to fully understand how they work. It is important that a member grasp the concept in order to get the most out of it. Not understanding it correctly could leave you out of pocket or without the means to pay for treatment or medication.
What is a MSA?
A percentage of your monthly medical aid contribution goes into a separate account known as the MSA. The conditions vary from one plan to the next but the idea is that the MSA is used for non-hospital or day-to-day expenses. These could include, amongst other things, GP visits, dentist visits, blood tests and medication.
Although you pay the contribution monthly, the full annual amount is normally available at the start of the year. Expenses and medical bills for all members on the plan are deducted as they are paid and you will get regular statements or you can view your remaining balance online.
If you leave the plan at any point in the year and do not transfer the fund over to a “new†plan with the same medical aid, you will be liable for any shortfall. In other words, if your expenses for the year to date are more than you have paid from your monthly contribution, you will have to pay the difference back to the medical aid. Conversely, if your MSA is in credit and you have contributed more than you have claimed, they will refund the balance to you. If you have a credit balance at the end of the year, it will be carried over to the following year.
Once the annual amount is exhausted, most plans have what is called a self payment gap. You can read more about it on our article on the subject but in short, it means that you will be responsible for day to day payments up to a specified limit after which you will receive above threshold benefits. Normal hospital cover and chronic medication is not affected in any way when your MSA is depleted.
It is important to note that co-payments can not be funded from your MSA and have to be paid by the member. The particular plan might also place specific limits on certain areas of health care so even if you have funds available in your MSA, if you have reached the limit for that area or procedure, you will not be able to claim it from the MSA.
Take the time to understand the working of the MSA so that you do not have any nasty surprises during the year. Understanding your self payment gap and above threshold benefits clearly will help you get the most out of your plan and not leave you with expenses that could have been avoided.
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air conditioning intensity
Air conditioning intensity is the ratio of air-conditioning consumption or expenditures to square footage of cooled floor space and cooling degree-days (base 65°F). This intensity provides a way of comparing different types of housing units and households by controlling for differences in housing unit size and weather conditions.
The square footage of cooled floor space is equal to the product of the total square footage times the ratio of the number of rooms that could be cooled to the total number of rooms. If the entire housing unit is cooled, the cooled floorspace is the same as the total floorspace. The ratio is calculated on a weighted, aggregate basis according to this formula:
Related category• COOLING, REFRIGERATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING
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by Benedicta Cipolla
When Hillary Clinton, a Methodist, discusses her faith, she almost always quotes her favorite passage from the Book of James: “faith without works is dead.”
In 2004, John Kerry, a Catholic, also invoked the New Testament epistle on the presidential campaign trail, citing the same chapter as Clinton (James 2: 14-26) during appearances in churches and in his final debate with George W. Bush: “There’s a great passage of the Bible that says what does it mean, my brother, to say you have faith if there are no deeds? Faith without works is dead. And I think everything you do in public life has to be guided by your faith, affected by your faith….That’s why I fight for equality and justice. All of those things come out of that fundamental teaching and belief of faith.”
And when Al Gore, a Baptist, speaking at the annual NAACP convention in 2000, wanted to drive home his accusation that Bush’s interest in black voters was merely a shallow political maneuver, he, too, turned to James: “Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.”
The repeated references to James highlight an often overlooked and controversial book of the Bible. For centuries its supposed conflict with Paul’s letters and the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone relegated it to the sidelines of biblical scholarship, and only recently has it enjoyed more attention.
“‘Faith without works is dead’ translates politically into ‘rhetoric without action is dead,'” said Kevin Coe, coauthor of THE GOD STRATEGY: HOW RELIGION BECAME A POLITICAL WEAPON IN AMERICA (Oxford University Press, 2007).
James stresses the theme of faith in action perhaps more than any other single book of the New Testament. Unlike other New Testament letters, many of them attributed to Paul, James plays down dogma in favor of practical ethical guidelines that center on loving one’s neighbor and, in particular, serving the poor.
In 2004, said Coe, “Republicans were really battering Democrats with religious rhetoric. The response offered by Kerry and others was to say, we might not be able to compete with the religious eloquence the Republicans have a handle on, but we can on policies more consistent with the New Testament, like uplifting the poor and fighting disease in Third World countries.”
Over the past several years, Democrats have succeeded in marshaling the religious left and have built a bigger audience attuned to biblical language. With its calls to serve society’s marginalized (“If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?”) and its critique of wealth (“Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you”), James represents a good fit for the party’s perspective.
“It’s a book that the left is likely to have a better chance of using effectively,” said Coe. “Traditionally, Democrats have served the lower classes.”
Which isn’t to say Republicans never cite James: Asked in a 2006 profile in ROLLING STONE what drove his work to combat malaria, poverty, and hunger in Africa, Sam Brownback, the Republican senator from Kansas and a Catholic convert from Methodism who now co-chairs Catholics for McCain, responded, “Widows and orphans.”
“It’s a reference to the New Testament Epistle of James,” the magazine reporter explained, citing James 1:27: “Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
One of seven “catholic epistles,” so named because they address the general faithful rather than a particular community or individual, James is characteristic of wisdom literature, offering instructions on how to live a moral life. Some attribute its authorship to James, the brother of Jesus, a prominent leader of the early church in Jerusalem. There was debate about the letter’s authority, but it was adopted into the New Testament canon by the end of the third century.
At times, the prominence given to demonstrable works — at the expense, some have argued, of belief — has plagued the letter. In the preface to his 1522 New Testament, Martin Luther famously dubbed it an “epistle of straw” for its apparent contradiction of his principle of justification by faith alone (“sola fide”), which he traced to Paul. Other Protestant leaders, however, like the equally reform-minded John Calvin, saw “no just cause for rejecting it” and declared it consistent with the doctrine of free justification.
“It’s not the case that Paul is arguing for faith versus works, as he is sometimes portrayed,” said Thomas C. Oden, professor emeritus of theology and ethics at Drew University and the author of THE GOOD WORKS READER (Eerdmans, 2007) and THE JUSTIFICATION READER (Eerdmans, 2002), “and James is not arguing for works as if they were opposed to faith, but rather a complement to faith.”
Clinton, who mentions James most often among politicians, never divorces the two. When she quotes from the book, she usually continues by inverting the “faith without works is dead” slogan. At a Wisconsin diner in February she told voters, “I also believe my own personal theology — that works without faith is too hard.”
Some have observed that “faith without works is dead” appeals particularly to a carnal, concrete Catholic sensibility and is more popular with Catholics than Protestants. But its popularity with public figures like Clinton, who embraces the Protestant spirit of reform in America, suggests otherwise.
Clinton’s admiration for James is rooted in her Methodist background and its tradition of social outreach. Methodism’s founder, John Wesley, used the epistles of James and 1 John in particular to correct the notion that Paul had advocated a sterile faith without a corresponding service aspect, said Robert Wall, professor of scripture and Wesleyan studies at Seattle Pacific University and the author of COMMUNITY OF THE WISE: THE LETTER OF JAMES (Trinity Press International, 1997).
During the first half of the nineteenth century, James’s passionate language on poverty and economic injustice resonated more among Methodists in the United States than in Wesley’s native Britain, said Wall, “because American Methodism worked out on the frontiers and was much more of a working-class and pioneering movement.” While Methodists across the Atlantic were no less committed to social reform causes like the abolition of slavery and implementation of labor laws, their American counterparts on the whole represented a more populist movement.
“Maybe in part it was a reflection of our emerging democracy, the language of freedom and of equality, a central mythology to the shaping of our culture. This robust sense of equality was very much a piece of American Methodism, and any kind of injustice toward the poor would have resounded much more keenly,” said Wall.
In his speeches and writings, nineteenth-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass used James in his calls for justice for emancipated slaves. “I love that religion that makes it the duty of its disciples to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction” (James 1:27) he said, responding to the charge that he was undermining religion with his arguments against slavery. According to Margaret Aymer, assistant professor of New Testament at the Interdenominational Theological Center and the author of FIRST PURE, THEN PEACEABLE: FREDERICK DOUGLASS READS JAMES (T. & T. Clark, 2007), Douglass found in the Letter of James “the most extensive definition of [his] own religion.”
As the Social Gospel movement spread among Protestant churches in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, James’s “faith without works is dead” theme dovetailed with the movement’s emphasis on community betterment and improvements in education, health care, and labor conditions.
Clinton’s own religious background centers on moral engagement with the world. Faith that is not lived, she was taught, is indeed dead. With her youth minister she read Dietrich Bonhoeffer, discussed art and literature, saw Martin Luther King speak, and organized babysitting services for the children of local migrant workers.
Reading James, “you can imagine someone who’s trying to exhort a community, saying the contributions to the local food pantry are off, or people aren’t showing up to help with the Salvation Army kitchen, or any of the other things churches do,” said Pheme Perkins, a professor of New Testament at Boston College who has written biblical commentary on James. “If you have faith but you’re not reaching out to the poor, then you’re missing part of the point.”
James’s exhortations, according to Luke Timothy Johnson, professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and a former Benedictine monk, seem to imply an audience that avoids even the minimum expression of faith in deeds that is required by its profession of faith in Jesus. They emphasize communitarian ethics along with “group solidarity, egalitarianism, and moral rigor,” Johnson has written in his commentary on James.
Liberation theologians have drawn heavily on the text because they see in it themes that illuminate their view of the Bible as pointing to a preferential option for the poor.
“This book is still very pertinent, not only because of oppression but because the challenge of poverty is growing, and James challenges us to respond to this situation,” said Elsa Tamez, professor of theology at the Latin American Biblical University in Costa Rica.
In THE SCANDALOUS MESSAGE OF JAMES (Crossroad, 1990), Tamez argued that the accumulation of wealth always comes at the expense of the poor, whom she equated with the oppressed of contemporary Central America. The epistle writer admonished his addressees: “Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you?”
James, Tamez wrote, called the oppressed not only to prayer and patience in the face of suffering, but to action. “Faith cannot be sentimental, ‘Jesus is my friend.’ You must show it in your acts and your practice, your way of being,” she said.
One of Clinton’s overarching campaign criticisms of Barack Obama was that he’s all talk and no action — a barb that sounds a lot like her favorite epistle. “But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves” (James 1:22) is another passage she tends to cite.
When she implored voters to pick a “president who relies not just on words but on work,” Clinton wasn’t speaking in religious terms. But her phrasing echoed her references to James, and it may have resonated with people of faith, even if they lack scriptural fluency, who feel driven to engage their beliefs with society at large.
As a rejoinder to Clinton’s claim, Obama’s campaign mailed fliers to voters in states like Kentucky that said, “My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work.” While Obama didn’t quote James, the sentiment perfectly matched the epistle’s thrust.
Citing James and its “faith in action” catchphrase may also signal an attempt to reach voters outside the demarcations of the candidates’ own faith traditions. While Methodists and other Christians can appreciate references to James, the letter’s practical rather than doctrinal emphasis likely also appeals to others who can appreciate the idea of living life according to a set of deeply held values.
“I think people from the Jewish faith could read the book without any difficulties, and the same with Islam. It offers a theological perspective rather than christological,” said the Rev. Patrick Hartin, professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University and the author of JAMES (Liturgical Press, 2003), a translation and commentary.
Hartin points out that while James mentions Jesus only twice, “God” appears 16 times, “Lord” eight, and “Father” three. Although James resembles nothing so much as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, to the casual reader not intimately familiar with the Bible the letter’s moral exhortations don’t come across as particularly Christ-centered.
On the other hand, said Karen Jobes, professor of New Testament Greek and exegesis at Wheaton College, “the point James is making is for Christians. It’s not enough to say I believe in Christ but do nothing to help my neighbor. It’s not saying that if you love your neighbor that somehow puts you right with God. Living ethically, apart from Jesus Christ, is never enough.”
In that sense, James is a perfect book for politicians to use: its scriptural authority speaks to Christians, but its emphasis on ethical action speaks to everyone.
“When James is talking about the law, he’s saying that if you want to belong to this group, these are the things that identify us. I would say the same thing about a country. For example, one has a constitution, and these are the values that we consider to be vital and give identity to a group of people and inspire us to act,” said Hartin. “In some ways Christianity can be domesticated too much, in the sense that it becomes a very private, individual religion. One tends to forget its community aspect, and James is vital for that.”
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ATM Safety Makes Sense*
Let Common Sense Be Your Guide
Your ATM card provides you
with instant access to your deposit account, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week. You can use it to withdraw money or make deposits at automated teller
machines (ATMs) and to make purchases at a growing number of retail locations.
Given the widespread availability
of ATM access and the convenience it affords, using an ATM card has become
an important part of everyday life for many consumers. By following some
common sense guidelines, you can help ensure that your transactions will
be safe, as well as convenient.
The fact is, incidence of crime
at ATMs has been low. Still, as with almost everything else you do at
a public location, the opportunity for crime does exist. So, the next
time you use your ATM card, let common sense be your guide. Take these
simple steps to help safeguard your personal safety and privacy.
Personal Safety at the
1. Always pay close attention
to the ATM and your surroundings. Don't select an ATM at the corner of
a building -- corners create a blind spot. Use an ATM located near the
center of a building. Do your automated banking in a public, well-lighted
location that is free of shrubbery and decorative partitions or dividers.
2. Maintain an awareness of
your surroundings throughout the entire transaction. Be wary of people
trying to help you with ATM transactions. Be aware of anyone sitting in
a parked car nearby. When leaving an ATM make sure you are not being followed.
If you are, drive immediately to a police or fire station, or to a crowded,
well-lighted location or business.
3. Do not use an ATM that appears
unusual looking or offers options with which you are not familiar or comfortable.
4. Do not allow people to look
over your shoulder as you enter your PIN. Memorize your PIN; never write
it on the back of your card. Do not re-enter your PIN if the ATM eats
your card -- contact a bank official.
5. Do not wear expensive jewelry
or take other valuables to the ATM. This is an added incentive to the
6. Never count cash at the
machine or in public. Wait until you are in your car or another secure
7. When using a drive-up ATM,
keep your engine running, your doors locked and leave enough room to maneuver
between your car and the one ahead of you in the drive-up line.
8. Maintain a supply of deposit
envelopes at home or in your car. Prepare all transaction paperwork prior
to your arrival at the ATM. This will minimize the amount of time spent
at the machine.
9. Closely monitor your bank
statements, as well as your balances, and immediately report any problems
to your bank.
10. If you are involved in
a confrontation with an assailant who demands your money, COMPLY.
11. If you know of, or experience
a crime at an ATM, report it immediately to the ATM owner and to the local
Source: The Electronic Funds Transfer Association, and
the Los Angeles Police Department.
Keep your Personal Identification
Number (PIN) a secret.
Your ATM card will work only
with a PIN. Memorize your PIN. Never write your PIN on your card or store
it with your card. Do not use your birth date as your PIN, especially
if you carry your driver's license with your card. Never tell your PIN
to anyone or let anyone else enter your code.
• Never give card information
out over the phone.
No one else ever needs to know
your PIN- not even representatives of your financial institution, retail
clerks or the police.
• Shield your PIN.
To guard against others observing
you as you key in your PIN at a terminal, stand directly in front of the
keyboard or PIN pad to block the view of anyone standing near you.
• Report a lost or stolen
card at once.
Even though your ATM card cannot
be used without your PIN, report a lost or stolen card to your financial
• Keep your receipts.
To guard against transaction
fraud, check your receipts against your monthly statement. If anything
looks irregular, or there are any unauthorized transactions, report them
to your financial institution immediately.
• Let common sense be your
By taking these simple precautions,
you can help ensure that your personal safety and privacy are protected
with each transaction you perform.
*Courtesy of Cash Station,
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Written by: Kathleen Rossi – Integrated Equine
Published: January 6, 2016
The barrel racing industry is starting to see a new trend; and hopefully it will shift into a new way of thinking: to support horse health throughout his athletic career for long term benefits. If the equine body’s soft tissue is prepared properly for competition; it can prevent injury, and allow for quicker recovery time if injury does present itself.
Veterinarians and horse trainers agree that equines used in speed events sustain more injuries than any other discipline besides jumping (English). Maybe you’ve already accepted that your horse may get hurt and hope to have a good run while his soundness lasts. There is a way to sustain your investment without readily accepting early retirement from a diagnosis such as, “loaded stress on the tendons and ligaments resulting in measurable tears and proliferation”.
I’ve discovered maintaining soundness is not a spectator sport..
If you suspect your horse is exhibiting lameness from a soft tissue injury, it’s better to be safe than sorry. An accurate diagnosis from a Veterinarian with high quality medical imaging, is the right approach to begin healing. Recent experiences have shown that some soft tissue injuries can heal, and regenerate into healthy tissue again.
In my personal experience I was able to facilitate the improvement of an old Superficial Tendon tear and Deep Digital Tendon proliferation in 8 weeks, with 60 minutes of Whole Body Vibration and Low Level Laser Therapy, daily. By 19 weeks, the tendon showed nosigns of: trauma, injury, or scar tissue. The modalities that accelerated my 14 year old gelding’s healing were the EquiVibe Plate (WBV vibration plate at 10-60 Hz) and a cold laser (660nm).
Traditional healing protocol suggests options like: IRAP (Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Protein), stem cell therapy, surgery, and rest. These require consistent and multiple applications/doses/sessions. This can become expensive quickly. The recovery time for a horse can vary from about 3 months to over a year. And complete recovery is not common or guaranteed with such traditional options.
These options are also directly related to healing at the injury site only, with no other benefits to the remaining parts of the horse’s body. When a horse rests for long periods of time, his bones may lose density and become mineral deficient because the muscles are not getting any electrical impulses to use the nutrients his body is consuming. This can pose other risks to the horse’s health, along with great risk of re-injuring himself because the rest of his body has fallen into a state of atrophy.
It’s important to remember your horse’s entire body when treating a specific area of injury. In previous articles on my blog IntegratedEquine.net, I share the Whole Body Vibration (WBV) benefits for performance, rehabilitative therapy and preventive care programs. By using the EquiVibe, I found that it benefited the condition of the soft tissue injury and I was able to keep my horse’s body condition at a maintenance level which would allow us to ease back into exercising safely.
Is tissue regeneration possible?
The 8 week ultrasound re-check prognosis suggests: “Results indicated mild improvement of the DDFT and SDFT tears compared to the last exam. There was still not complete evidence of adhesion formation between the SDFT and the tendon sheath.” This was encouraging to our situation, considering old tissue seemed to be re-attaching itself. I continued to provide rest and same therapy (as above) until further progress was made.
At the 19 week mark, the ultrasound re-check prognosis suggested: “Results show his deep digital flexor tendon is healing well. He has progressed faster than most horses with similar injuries. There is minimal residual hypoechogenicity on the axial margin of the tendon, where it was previously torn.” An injury that once suggested it could have been as chronic as several years old, with the probability of having frequent re-injury, showed “clear” on this ultrasound re-check.
In less than 4 months since the suggestion of retirement.
Our Recipe for Recovery
- Initial 3 weeks of “paddock rest” with ice compression.
- Hand walking in straight lines for 4 weeks after “paddock rest”.
- 30 minutes of EquiVibe therapy 40-50 Hz, twice daily.
- Red Light Therapy to site of tendon injury 20 minutes, twice daily.
Science shows that red light therapy and whole body vibration lead to enhanced circulation accelerated healing, and bio-cellular-stimulation. Since Adenosine Tri-phosphate (ATP) is a necessary component of healing, one would find it powerful to know these tools kick start the release of ATP in the bodies system when illness or injury is detected. The sooner you can stimulate the body to do what it would already do to heal itself naturally – the better your horse will respond to the therapy.
Another reason well-researched studies suggest the accelerated pace of healing is the way collagen reacts to these therapies. The body is made up of about 30% collagen (glue for the body) tendons are no exception that they are compromised of these thin fibers. When the cells of the fibers are stimulated by the frequency of the light and sense the vibration; it “tricks” the collagen into being produced at the rate it would be if it was healthy versus if it was damaged. Vertical vibration from the platform supports the body’s natural movement and skeletal loading tendencies, and the nanometer range of the light therapy compliments the cellular vibration of a healthy cell. A winning combination – without consequence. It is possible for chronic and acute soft tissue injuries to horses can be taken care of non-invasively, side-effect free, and on a feasible budget.
This is the answer competitive horse owners should be looking for.
While it is possible that extremely old/severe injuries may never return 100% to what they functioned as before (a 15 year old horse’s tendon won’t time lapse into the functionality of a 2 year old), the dignity and well being of the animal won’t be compromised. And in our experience the animal can return to being a successful competition horse – so long as the whole health of the horse is wisely monitored.
The initial investment in a quality therapy product that supports the needs of your goals will pay off in: immediate elevated performance, with long term soundness, and continued earnings. Less invasive therapies (like whole body vibration and red light therapy) are proving just as effective, less risky and less expensive than more traditional options involving drugs and surgery. Case studies, like this one, support the evidence.
I believe obtaining education on common injuries and therapies will make barrel horse’s careers more long standing, therefore getting the most out of the horse’s ability while maintaining their dignity.
My horse – I purchased this horse from the seller with what were believed to be unnoticed issues, including the severe and chronic tendon tears that went undetected in a pre-purchase exam by a veterinarian. At the time of an additional thorough lameness exam 6 months into my ownership; an Equine Vet Hospital stated that: the ultrasound depicted a chronic (older than 6 months) tendon tear and tendon proliferation.
Your horse – I want to be transparently clear, that no matter which route you and your Vet decide is best, there’s no right or wrong way to heal a soft tissue injury. Whatever you have the time, money and skills for is the best option for you. I am not a Vet that is able to treat, diagnose or suggest any types of therapy or say that any of these therapies will heal your horse. I am a professional horse trainer, and certified body worker with hours of field experience and my own case studies to draw data from.
All horses – Take caution to adjust your hoof and dental care schedule to your horse’s needs and changing body. Whole Body Vibration and red light therapy in consistent applications will indeed cause accelerated hoof growth and tooth eruption – so attention from the proper practitioners after a select period of time is required. Taking the shoes off during this time may or may not be the route you should take.
I’ve mentioned in previously written articles my observations of the effectiveness of thePhotonic Health light therapy products (cold laser) and EquiVibe Platforms. These were both necessary tools in our healing.
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Read: I Corinthians 12
We have learned that the communion of saints means that within the church each member receives the blessings of Christ, but each member also receives gifts and responsibilities unique to him, which make him able to occupy his own unique place.
This same truth applies to a congregation. All share in a common salvation, but all also have unique gifts and abilities. There are no two people alike in a congregation, any more than there are two people alike in the whole church.
Each saint lives his own life in the world. Each has his own sins. Each is saved by grace, but in different ways that give him grace for his walk and calling. Each has his or her own responsibilities. Each is important in the church, whether high or low, young or old, brilliant of mind or mediocre, with bodily and mental handicaps, or normal in all respects, male or female, employer or employee, etc.
Now, then, says our teacher, “Every one [of you] must know it to be [your] duty, readily and cheerfully to employ [your] gifts, for the advantage and salvation of other members.”
Away goes all self-seeking and self-centeredness. With a wave of the hand, our teacher tells us, “You and what happens to you are not important; what use you are to the congregation of which you are a member – that is the one and only important thing!”
The responsibility for the advantage and salvation of your fellow members is and must be your only concern. Are you tired after a day in school? Never mind. It is not important. There is a fellow classmate that is troubled and needs you.
Has Christ given you a gift of music? Are you asked to use your gift for worldly entertainment in special programs? That is a waste of your gift. Is it your idea that the church is too small and that you would be wasting your gift if you used it to play the piano on the Lord’s Day? The teacher says, “If you belong to the church, stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about the church and how you are called to serve it.
Are you so busy earning your daily bread that Bible Study tonight is too great a burden? O selfish person! Why did Christ put you in the church? For your own pleasure? Did Christ seek his own pleasure when he went to the cross for you? For you, a worthless sinner?
There is only one reason why you have, with an unmerited favor of a gracious God, been given a place in that noble and exalted company of saints. That place is to serve others. Maybe that is as a mother in the home, bringing up your children, the children of the covenant, in the ways of God’s covenant. Maybe your place is to teach in a school for covenant children. Maybe your place is to be an elder, a deacon, a minister. Maybe your place is to keep the church clean for worship. Maybe your place is to speak a word of good cheer to that lonely fellow saint whose burdens are so great they almost crush her.
The welfare of the church, whatever the cost – that is what it means to believe in the communion of the saints.
Prof. Herman Hanko (Wife: Wilma)
Ordained: October 1955
Pastorates: Hope, Walker, MI - 1955; Doon, IA - 1963; Professor to the Protestant Reformed Seminary - 1965
Emeritus: 2001Website: www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Prof._Herman_Hanko
Address725 Baldwin Dr. B-25
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Law enforcement and security agencies are now equipped with a new tool -- software that specializes in dissecting information from secure mobile devices including smartphones, tablets and GPS systems.
The UFED Touch platform was designed by company Cellebrite, and the device is available in different versions adapted for field or lab work.
It is able to extract vast sums of information, and for law enforcement or security agencies, it is access to sensitive communicative information that can make or break a case. The device is able to source and analyze information including text messages, phone contacts, pictures, video, audio and unique phone identifier codes.
The UFED Touch is available in two versions; UFED Touch Logical -- for data and password extraction -- and the UFED Touch Ultimate, which is more suited for in-depth password and system data extraction and analysis.
This mobile data extraction device is reported as "the most advanced mobile data extraction and decoding capabilities on the market for law enforcement, military and intelligence, corporate security and e-discovery industries".
As an investigative tool, it is primarily aimed at allowing investigators to decode digital information from devices including smartphones, legacy phones, GPS navigation systems and tablets -- even if data has been deleted.
In total, the UFED Touch can use logical and physical extraction methods to investigate over 7,900 mobile devices currently in the market. According to the company, even traditionally secure models are not a barrier -- such as the Blackberry, often preferred as a mobile device by corporations due to its centralized security structure.
Other devices that can have information extracted include Apple iOS systems, Android and smartphone models manufactured by high-profile companies including Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia and Motorola. It can also decode devices such as the iPad and Galaxy Tab.
Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, research director at IDC said:
"Over the past few years we've seen public organizations adopt a 'mobile first' mentality, using advanced technologies to better address the explosion of mobile devices and their increasing power when it comes to public safety.
As law enforcement and governments look to stay ahead of the curve, it's clear that technologies like the Cellebrite UFED will only continue to contribute to the ongoing trend of creating smarter, safer cities."
The device is designed and will be available specifically to law enforcement agencies, the military, intelligence agencies, corporate security and e-discovery investigators.
Image credit: Cellebrite
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com
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Members of the small business community are primed for a big upshot as a result of Tuesday’s Congressional elections , with 62 percent reporting they believe the new Republican controlled House will have a favorable impact on small businesses overall. An additional 58 percent believe their own business situation will improve because of the election results, according to a survey this week from Manta Media.
“The majority of our respondents–70 percent–are involved in small businesses with fewer than 10 employees, while 20 percent are involved with businesses that have between 10 and 50 employees. These are the small businesses that run our country and their voice resonated at the polls,” said Pamela Springer, president and CEO of Manta Media Inc.
The survey of 1,189 small business owners and employees (the majority of them owners) found that 69 percent said the Obama Administration has hurt small business. Moreover, 58 percent of the respondents said they are more confident now that they will be able to grow their business than they were two years ago when the Democrats and President Barack Obama triumphed in the elections.
As small businesses look ahead to 2011, the majority of those surveyed said their greatest concern is the nation’s economic outlook (22 percent), while 21 percent said taxes were their biggest worry. Seventeen percent (17 percent) of the respondents said the economic outlook in their own community was their top concern, while 15 percent indicated healthcare gives them the most angst. Labor costs, a conventional concern for small business owners, was the least of their worries and cited by only 2 percent of the respondents as their greatest concern.
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Broadening opportunities for low-income communities – through investments in health, education, and community development –are helping to address systemic disenfranchisement and expand equity
Arlington, VA (December 12, 2018) – (RealEstateRama) — Throughout 2018, Capital Impact Partners has continued to invest in shared prosperity, equity, and inclusion for its communities nationwide. With income inequality, mass incarceration, wealth stripping, and other forms of structural discrimination continuing unabated, breaking barriers to success for underinvested communities has become ever more important. Capital Impact announced today that its third-quarter financing and investment efforts are expected to serve more than 14,500 beneficiaries and create more than 515 permanent and construction-related jobs. The organization also produced two new reports focused on financial inclusion of returning citizens and the promise of worker cooperatives.
“Reflecting on this year has reinforced for me the need for Capital Impact to continue innovating to address racial and social inequities, whether through our lending or thought leadership and partnerships,” said Ellis Carr, president and CEO of Capital Impact. “2018 is the 50th anniversary of 1968, a year that saw considerable upheaval, but also promise for racial and social justice. While gains have been made over the last 50 years for individuals of color, the injustices of that era linger, the effects still being felt nationwide. At Capital Impact, these reflections strengthen our resolve to work for equity and opportunity for our most vulnerable communities.”
Convening Partners and Community Leaders to Expand Equity
Transforming marginalized communities into places of opportunity comes from disrupting structural racism and discrimination in order to expand economic and social justice. To that end, Capital Impact engaged in research, thought leadership, and convenings around issues that help create economic mobility for groups that need it the most.
As Baby Boomer business owners near retirement, succession planning is critical for maintaining healthy small businesses and strong communities. However, many Baby Boomer business owners do not have business continuity plans, leaving holes in local economies and threatening jobs. Conversion of these businesses to an employee ownership model is a solution for building wealth, retaining jobs, and expanding economic opportunities, especially for women and minority employees.
A newly released report from Capital Impact Partners and The ICA Group, with funding from Citi Community Development, identifies key sectors, regions, and strategies for converting business ownership to employees using a cooperative model, which helps transform the lives of economically vulnerable communities. “Co-op Conversions at Scale: A Market Assessment for Expanding Worker Co-op Conversions in Key Regions & Sectors,” illustrates how conversions can anchor successful businesses, build assets for employees, retain quality jobs, and drive local prosperity. Capital Impact followed up the report with a convening of cooperative, financial, political and small business leaders to discuss the ways in which this model can scaled up across the U.S.
Capital Impact also took a leadership role in exploring how financial institutions can be more inclusive of individuals with criminal records. Returning citizens – individuals re-entering society after incarceration or with a criminal record – have particular difficulty in establishing financial stability, not to mention their personal dignity. It is an issue that by 2030 will touch an estimated 100 million Americans. To address this issue, Capital Impact joined with Mission: Launch, an organization focused on transforming the trajectory of individuals living with criminal records, to host a convening and publish a report on the role that financial institutions can play in improving financial stability for returning citizens and their families. Capital Impact continues to look for opportunities to weave the findings from these efforts into the organization’s lending and equity and impact work.
Capital Impact’s $31 million in third-quarter financing spans several states, including California, Connecticut, New York, Texas, and Washington. This effort helped increase access to quality health care for vulnerable older adults; create new educational opportunities; and create safe spaces for immigrants to live in communities across the United States.
Third quarter project lending highlights include:
Investing in Inclusive Communities
For more than 100 years, Tacoma Community House (TCH) in Tacoma, Washington has supported the communities between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. However, the region has seen an increasing number of farmworkers and refugees, resulting in a significant need for social and legal services. With support from the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) sector, TCH is growing to fill those needs with the construction of a new 27,000 square foot facility.
TCH is the only center providing comprehensive services to immigrants and refugees in the region. TCH serves immigrants from 105 countries – approximately 4,000 individuals each year. The majority of their clients are of Latino and Asian descent, with the remainder hailing from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Through partnerships with regional community colleges, businesses, housing providers, local health centers, and government offices, the center provides access to education programs for children and adults and job placement, internships, and training for job seekers. TCH also offers immigration services and advocacy for victims of crime and abuse. All of these services add up to a vital safety net for low-income and marginalized communities within Washington and Oregon. Capital Impact supported TCH with a $6.5 million loan as part of a New Markets Tax Credit allocation to jumpstart construction, with Nonprofit Finance Fund providing a matching allocation, and PNC Bank serving as the tax credit investor.
Increasing Access to Health Care
Often overlooked in discussions about health care is the dental care crisis affecting too many low-income and older adult populations across the country.
Recognizing this issue, Tri-State Community Healthcare in rural Adelanto, California is expanding its work to provide high-quality dental care. The Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), serving mostly Medicaid and Medicare patients, is creating a 2,400 sq. ft. dental clinic near its main medical clinic. The new facility will provide high-quality dental services, including Denti-Cal coverage, to a community where 66 percent of residents are low-income. Capital Impact provided a $450,000 loan to renovate the space to the standards of a dental clinic. This project will serve 4,000 patients, and will create nine full-time jobs and retain four full-time jobs.
Providing High-Quality Education
Building opportunity for individuals and communities takes a strong foundation; high-quality education is an integral element of that foundation. Capital Impact’s charter school construction and financing support in the third quarter of 2018 resulted in 654 students accessing education within their community. In addition, the organization supported projects pursuing innovative models, such as “diverse by design” education and affordable housing for participants of school tutoring programs.
San Antonio, TX, is a city on the rise. New city residents are integrating into communities where families have lived for generations. One-third of the population has an income of $33,000 or less. In communities of color, where little investment has historically been made in the education system, children need additional options to help them achieve academically at high levels. In the rural, lower-income outskirts of San Antonio, Building Hope is supporting the Riverwalk Education Foundation to build a new campus of its Schools of Science and Technology.
The School of Science and Technology Discovery – Culebra will open in temporary facilities until the ground-up construction of a 66,400 sq. ft. school building is complete. To finance the new structure, Capital Impact provided $2.9 million as part of a $14.6 million loan with PNC Bank and Building Hope. Starting out with 300 students in pre-kindergarten, first grade, and fifth through sixth grades, the school anticipates that it will expand to 750 pre-kindergarten through eighth grade students, the majority of whom qualify for free and reduced-price lunch and are student of color – approximately 50 percent Latino and 20 percent African American. The investment created 100 construction jobs and 34 full-time positions.
For children living in Brooklyn, New York, few high-quality school options exist in the downtown area, leaving low-income children struggling in low-performing schools and inhibiting them from achieving their full potential. In particular, students with learning disabilities have a difficult time finding schools that adequately support their educational needs.
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools is creating a high school in Dumbo, a central location with good public transportation access so that students can commute from across the borough. Currently serving more than 600 students, the school – which will be nearly 82,000 sq. ft. – expects to scale up to serve 1,200 students by 2022. The majority of the students are expected to be African American, 85 percent of whom will be eligible for free and reduced-price lunch, and 32 percent of the student population are going to receive special education at the school. Because of its proximity to technology companies in Dumbo, the school curriculum focuses heavily on technology. Capital Impact provided $4.6 million as part of a $13.2 million loan in partnership with Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Charter School Growth Fund. In addition to the student impact, the project creates 400 construction jobs and 131 full-time jobs.
New Los Angeles Middle School (New L.A.) serves a majority low-income, Latino and African-American student population, 90 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and 15 percent of whom are English language learners. With a rigorous curriculum, small classes, a diverse student body, and attentive teachers, New L.A. is a nurturing standards-based school where students routinely outperform schools in the surrounding L.A. Unified School District. Starting with 150 sixth through eighth grade students, the school expects to educate 312 students as it scales up. Capital Impact supported New L.A. with a $1.9 million loan to renovate a 24,000 sq. ft. building, which will become the school’s permanent home.
In Bridgeport, CT, Great Oaks Charter School is bringing high-quality education to a census tract with a 71 percent poverty rate. Eighty-six percent of the students who will attend the school qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Schools in the area are not high performing; additionally, there are only a handful of charter schools serving the area, creating long waiting lists.
Capital Impact supported the construction of a 70,000 sq. ft. facility that will become the permanent home of Great Oaks Charter School. Capital Impact participated in the $20.6 million loan, providing $3.6 million for the building construction. The school will scale up from serving 400 students in grades 6-9 to 750 students in grades 6-12, 15 percent of whom are English language learners and 20 percent of whom have disabilities. Great Oaks has been improving the academic performance of its students significantly year-over-year, with a focus on professional development for local students. Through an adjacent affordable housing development, the school will also offer housing for school tutors.
Creating schools that intentionally reflect the socioeconomic, racial, and cultural diversity of the communities in which they operate – diverse by design – is a promising practice within education that is showing results. Citizens of the World Charter Schools (CWC) is the first national school network to follow a diverse by design model, creating an environment in which all students thrive no matter their background, precisely because they are integrated. Diversity is a cornerstone of school leadership as well, with minorities making up 60 percent of the leadership team and 40 percent of the board.
In the Los Angeles community of Silver Lake, the need for space for CWC’s elementary school has meant operating out of four separate sites, disrupting the flow of school programs. Capital Impact, through $4.2 million in loans as part of a larger New Markets Tax Credit deal, supported the renovation of a 30,000 sq. ft. building that will become the permanent home of CWC-Silver Lake. Currently serving 572 students in grades transitional kindergarten (TK)-5, the school will scale up to serve 650 students. CWC-Silver Lake outperforms more than 80 percent of other schools in the Los Angeles United School District. The staff is also joining with other CWC schools in the L.A. area to support a regional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative to address achievement gap challenges.
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Truecaller is an app that lets users identify callers even if they’re not in their contact book, block some unwanted callers and suggests some contacts based on the time and their location. Users can search for any number in the world or just copy it from an app or website to see who it belongs to. This app is integrated into some other apps like Twitter or Yelp to extend its functionality. Recently the app was updated, so now users can add tags to a number to better identify it. Now, the app will get even better at blocking numbers from spam calls as it will integrate the numbers provided by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that have received complaints.
This is a big issue, as the FCC received over 215,000 complaints about spam numbers in 2014, making it the number one consumer complaint in America. The FCC made public the list of these numbers and Truecaller has integrated this data to prevent receiving automated calls. With this information, the spam detection in the US has already doubled, so now 8 million unwanted calls will be prevented per month. Besides the annoyance of getting these type of phone calls, 17.6 million Americans claimed to have lost money on fraudulent phone calls or scams last year, so this is quite alarming considering anyone could receive one of these calls.
Truecaller is available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices, so to get things started, users just need to go to their app store and download it. This ensures an easy installation and the commitment to get this functionality is fairly low. There is a Community Block List which gets updated with real-time reports of spam, fraud or harassment calls, so if a certain number gets reported in various occasions, it is automatically added to the Top Spammer List, so users can prevent getting called from this number. There is a verification badge, which is based on an algorithm, and it helps to identify if the profile really belongs to a given number. This badge shows how many times it has been verified through a social media profile and the Truecaller community which now has over 200 million users.
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This post is by staff writer Honey Smith.
There are many personal finance books out there, useful to people in all stages of personal finance. I have a lot to learn before reaching financial independence, and the editorial elves thought it would be useful if I shared some of what I learn with you.
My recent reviews include “The Money Book for the Young Fabulous and Broke” and “The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read.” This week, I’m reviewing “Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future” by Jeff Rose.
Jeff Rose recently guest posted on GRS, posing the time-honored question, Could you say no to your mom? He also runs the blog Good Financial Cents. Currently he’s a CFP (certified financial planner) who helps people get their financial lives back on track. Before that, he was in the army — he’s an Iraq veteran. Thanks for your service to our country, Jeff!
Philosophy behind the book
Rose believes that the majority of financial struggles can be attributed to two main causes: The first is lack of information, and the second is lack of initiative. The good news is that if you’re reading the book, you’re taking initiative, and the book contains the information you need to effect positive change in your financial life.
The book is relatively short at about 200 pages. It’s also very action-oriented — Rose wants you to be a doer, not a talker. Each chapter ends with a checklist of things you should have accomplished as well as a bulleted summary. You always have a pretty good idea of where you stand.
As the name and Rose’s service record implies, this book is structured with a “boot camp” mentality toward tackling your debt and getting your finances under control. With that in mind, Part I of the book becomes “Discovery Phase: What’s Your Why?” and parts two, three, and four are the “Initial Training Phase,” the “Campaign Phase,” and the “Consolidation Phase.” Each part is further broken down into chapters like “The Army Physical — Measure Your Debt” or “Land Mines — Your Credit Report.” You get the idea.
Rose says that the best way to read the book is straight through the first time. That way, you can get a sense of the big picture. After that, you can think of the book as a reference guide and refer to whatever parts are most useful for you at the time. Need to repair your credit? Flip open Chapter 6. Getting ready to invest for the first time? Bookmark Chapter 13.
What I didn’t like
Rose is asking a lot of the soldier/military metaphor. Two hundred pages is a long time for a sustained comparison! As a result, the writing feels a bit forced at times and some of the comparisons are more apt than others. Additionally, the way that the chapters were ordered seemed to be dictated by the structure of the army’s basic training rather than the order you would take action in your financial life.
Another structuring detail that I didn’t quite grasp was why the chapter names included weeks. For example, “Week 7: Destroying the Enemy — Paying off Debt,” is followed by “Week 9: Sensitive Items Report — Tactical Budgeting.” There are fourteen of these chapters, am I missing something? Is basic training 14 weeks long? I don’t remember the book saying so explicitly, but that’s my best guess. Certainly, most of the financial steps covered in each chapter would take more than a week to accomplish.
This also had the effect of the “Weeks” not matching up to the chapters. Week 7 was Chapter 9 and so on. All those numbers made it hard for me to remember where I read what. Call me an English major, I guess, but I think he could have dropped the “Week #” portion of each chapter title without losing anything central to his mission.
What I loved
The facts of personal finance remain more or less the same. Spend less than you earn, pay off debt, save, invest. I think being able to explain the same old stuff in a new and compelling way is about the best that you can hope for when it comes to personal finance literature.
See, if you can find a metaphor that speaks to you, then I think you internalize the action steps much more easily. I am sure that it is possible to write a book that compares personal finance to raising a child, or doing yard work, or learning how to play the piano. What you are comparing personal finance to has a huge impact on the insights that are revealed about it.
In Rose’s comparison, we learn that financial independence is really hard work. It takes consistent practice. There aren’t any shortcuts, and it’s not always exciting (and exciting does not necessarily equal good). Additionally, you’re not the only one standing in the financial line of fire. Just as soldiers have to be able to count on each other during battle, your “Battle Buddies,” i.e. your spouse and children, may be counting on your ability to manage your finances.
I really enjoyed the moments where he shared specific stories from his time in the armed forces. The time he had to strip down to his underwear for the initial physical exam, and how important it was to know exactly where he stood even if it was embarrassing. The time his squad gofit lost in Baghdad and he learned the difference between having an end goal and knowing how to reach it was another gem. The time he got a stress fracture during basic training and hobbled around the firing range in a cast, making progress on the things that he could instead of letting one setback totally derail his forward momentum has wisdom for everyone. Aren’t the parallels with personal finance beautifully obvious?
Who should read “Soldier of Finance”
As Rose says, you don’t have to have been an actual soldier to be a soldier of finance. This book is a solid primer on the basics, and while it’s not unique in that way, I think the metaphor gives “Soldier of Finance” something special.
But a metaphor should do more than appeal to you — it should inspire you to take action. If a disciplined, no-nonsense, no excuses approach to personal finance sounds motivating to you, then this book is probably right up your alley.
A note about swag: While I was provided with a free copy of this book for review purposes, my opinions about this book are entirely my own.
What’s your favorite personal finance metaphor? Have some fun with it by completing the following sentence: “Getting your personal finances in order is like…”
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Website gifts are some of the best gifts you can give to someone who either has too much to manage on their own already or to someone who doesn’t know how to do it themselves. Having just one conversation with a person who wants to have some online real estate, but has no experience in it and doesn’t know where to start, tells you that there is something to giving a pre-made website or blog to someone who doesn’t know how to build one themselves.
A lot of us, especially those of us who have been in the internet marketing business for a while, tend to take for granted that those around us who we talk to on a regular basis know some of the same things we do. For instance, I spoke to an individual the other day who didn’t know you could upload YouTube videos for free by making a YouTube account. It might seem pretty elementary to us, but there’s a market for that sort of thing if you know where to look. Let’s just say this person would have enjoyed website gifts of a pre-built website and pre-made social media accounts.
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The average Joe really doesn’t know how buying domains and hosting them on a server works. Put a few of your non-techy friends in front of a GoDaddy account, and I guarantee you, they won’t know where to start. But when you talk to them about goals they have for their own fulfillment or financial augmentation, you’ll realize they really do want in on some of the action, and giving them website gifts will help.
So if you’re running dry on which gifts to give these individuals in your life, tune into their desires for a few minutes and see if you can’t get them website gifts of some sort. If you’re willing to spend $50 to $60, you can purchase a domain as website gifts on their behalf and buy the hosting as well. Whether you keep it in their name or yours is up to you. But keep the option of switching ownership open to them so they can choose.
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You’d be surprised at all the people who still don’t know how to make Facebook accounts or Facebook pages. Even some teens and young adults who spent more time in front of video games than an actual computer really don’t know how to work these pieces of online real estate. If you don’t want to teach them how to make a profile, do it yourself, and give it to them pre-made as website gifts.
If you choose to go the blog route with your website gifts, be sure to install WordPress on the domain for them before handing over the keys. Show them how to change their password so they don’t feel as though you can “hack in” to their website gifts just any old-time.
These website gifts and ideas are probably a little outside the scope of your usual gift list, but I guarantee you that they will be a hit – at least with some people.
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Discuss how you might approach an experimental design in a situation where you lack confidence in which variables should be treated as control and which variables can be treated as noise. To what extent might you alter your approach based on the number of variables being discussed, say 5 versus 10? How does the concept of Degree of Control enter into your thinking?
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Residents living in the Windsor Woods area of Virginia Beach voiced concerns Thursday night at a meeting for flood victims.
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One woman described calling 911 for help as she tried to escape rising water in her home.
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City Manager David Hansen listened as residents expressed worries and annoyances. He said the city is already funding projects for plans to improve drainage routes in the area.
Governor Terry McAuliffe toured the neighborhood earlier Thursday.
Officials say 2,000 structures were damaged in Virginia Beach alone. 600 of them were homes — an estimated $15 million in damage. Those estimates are expected to rise.
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Islam / Shi'i / Imam /
Arabic: ¢alī bni abī tālib
Ali was both Muhammad's cousin, being the son of Abu Talib, as well as his son-in-law through marriage to Fatima. In Shi'i Islam, Ali is counted as the first Imam, a position he held from 632 when Muhammad died.
There are two leading versions about Ali, the one of the Sunnis and the other of the Shi'is. Though both versions have a positive view of him, and at least on the legitimacy of his position as Caliph, the Sunnis present him as a relatively weak ruler with many faults. The Shi'is reject this view, regarding him infallible and the possessor of a divine light passed on from Muhammad, and later transferred to subsequent Imams.
Ali is believed to have been either the first or second male to convert to Islam, and he was a very devout Muslim. Ali had several wives, and among them was Fatima, with whom he had several children, but it is Hassan and Husayn that had importance for the development of Islam.
With the death of Muhammad in 632, the Muslim community was for a short period without a leader, and without clear indications on how to chose the new leader. Some traditions of this period tell that Muhammad had chosen Ali to be the leader, a choice not unlikely, but this is a question that has been disputed throughout history. In any case, Abu Bakr was chosen the 'deputy of the messenger', in Arabic, khalifatu r-rasūl, which has become 'Caliph' in English. Ali accepted this choice, but with the death of Abu Bakr and Umar in 634 and 644, he tried again to become Caliph, but there were strong forces working against him, so he didn't succeed. Finally, after the assassination of the 3rd Caliph, Uthman, it was Ali's turn to become Caliph.
All through his governing period, Ali faced strong opposition. First he was opposed by A'isha, Muhammad's favourite wife, but the strongest opposition was raised by Mu'awiyya from the Ummayad family based in Syria. The assissinated Caliph, Uthman, had been the kinsman of Mu'awiyya, and he accused Ali for not having charged his murderers.
In 658, Ali gave in to Mu'awiyya's criticism, and established an investigation committee. This compromise shocked many Muslims, and a group of them broke with Ali. This group soon came to be known as Kharijis, and when Ali was murdered in 661, this was probably the act of a member of the Khariji sect.
The murder of Ali represents a watershed in the understanding of history not only among Shi'is, but also among Sunnis. Ali was the last Caliph coming from the group of Muslims that had converted before the Hijra (622), and he was also the last elected Caliph. After Ali the Caliphate became hereditary and without the legitimacy of the connection to Muhammad and his ruling system.
For most groups of Shi'is, the hope of a just ruling elite inside Islam, i.e. a just Islam on earth, disappeared after this. The Shi'is never accepted Mu'awiyya nor any later Caliphs, and took the name ash- shi¢atu ¢alū, which could be translated into English, with 'Ali's Party' or 'Ali's followers'.
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Worlds Memes of Sir Karl Popper!
An essay for the Our Karl Popper website*
Velikovsky of Newcastle
17th January 02022
*(So this is like: a pre-print)
The Problem-Statement: Describe how you got to know Karl Popper and his philosophy, and the type of impression that the man and his work made on you.
The purpose of this testimonial (in < 3,500 words), is: To recount how Karl Popper’s ideas have made a difference in your life.
Describe how you found his work, including the first book of his that you read, and the context — time, place, occasion — during which you encountered Popper’s oeuvre for the first time. And, what happened next.
Two boldly-conjectured solutions to this problem are tentatively offered up below, then criticisms, then new problems created in turn by these two solutions.
- Conjectured Solution #1 emerges below in the form of discrete units of culture known as `bullet-points’; a barrage of shots fired across the bow, in the never-ending war on our infinite ignorance.
In stark contrast, Conjectured Solution #2 emerges (below) in anecdotal prose form; yet another type of unit of culture.
Neither solution #1 nor #2 seems fully satisfactory to the present author; a clear case of what the late great Herbert Simon dubbed: “satisficing”.
And yet–as two different blind (or: unsighted) variations, both solutions have been selectively retained, here.
The inevitable and inescapable conclusion drawn is that: Popper and Campbell’s Evolutionary Epistemology (the Blind Variation and Selective Retention or BV-SR evolutionary algorithm) is a true fact–the original and best kind of fact–in an age of endlessly aggravating, anti-science `post-truthism’.
Given the Selection and Transmission (ST) evolutionary algorithm of Evolutionary Culturology (just one of many, including Selection, Variation, and Transmission: or SVT), It’s now time to Select, and then Transmit (to the present reader) a quotation, also known as a discrete unit of culture:
`Our main concern in philosophy and in science should be the search for truth.’
Conjectured Solution #1:
Q1: How did you get to know Karl Popper & his philosophy?
- Consciously: during a 2016 Ph.D study on: Movie Creativity & Cultural Evolution !
- Unconsciously: difficult to say? (Suggestion: Every idea anyone ever encounters–from birth–should come with a maker’s mark, and also, a very clear label whether it is: true or false.)
- Not sure when I first unconsciously encountered Popper’s ideas…? Ideas don’t always come branded with a maker’s mark. (We really need a time machine, so that scientists might travel back approximately 100,000 years ago, to observe the emergence of language; ancestor simulations might help. For example, any time anyone speaks the ultra-conserved units of culture that are the words “thou,” “I,” “who,” “not,” “that,” “to give,” “we” “fire” “bark” “worm” (etc), they could also give credit to the caveperson inventor of that word.
Example: Rather than simply ignore word-invention copyright, by saying “I am hungry”, we should all be saying: “I, as invented by the caveperson Ugg in the year 52,356 BCE – am, as invented by the caveperson Ik-Ik in the year 52,357 BCE – hungry… a word invented by Grok in 52,358 BCE, shortly before he starved to death.”
- This example raises the specter of The Four Functions of Language, identified by (Popper, 1962, p. 397), and building on his Ph.D supervisor’s three functions.
- See this video for details, if you like that kind of thing…
Q2: What type of impression did Popper (and his work) make on you?
- “Egad! This Popper guy’s sure: a great thinker, fascinating-problem-finder, and crystal-clear communicator…‽‽‽ (Why don’t they teach all his work/wisdom, in secondary schools?)”
- And, also: What an enormous relief – to read such wise and sensible writing, after being subjected to so much Postmodernist, anti-science, not-even-wrong nonsense, in academia.
Q3: How have Popper’s ideas made a difference in your life?
- A lot; I use his ideas in my work (as an Evolutionary Culturologist) all the time.
- I’m also less-worse at thinking & problem-solving, thanks to reading his work. Also:
- Popper’s units of culture (ideas, processes, & products; such as books) have helped me feel like, I understand how Science, Reality (ontology) & Knowledge (epistemology): works…?
- Also: have helped me to think more clearly about: Genuine Problems, vs. Pseudo-problems
- Provided a (priceless) Ontology Theory: namely his `Three Worlds’, (Popper, 1978), that – in a new scientific meta-paradigm I invented (Evolutionary Culturology) – I repurposed and extended, as a handy Taxonomic Tool for categorizing units of culture into 4 categories (1. ideas, 2. mental processes, 3. physical processes, and, 4. products)– as, it’s an extremely effective lens. See the Table below.
Table 1. (aka, The Table below).
And for those unfamiliar with Popper’s Three Worlds Theory, perhaps see this YouTube video:
Q4: How did you first find Popper’s work?
- In reading a lot of popular science (for pleasure), Popper’s name came up a lot… but – importantly:
- After reading Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd’s wonderful On the Origin of Stories (Boyd, 2009) which deftly uses the Popperian problem-solution schema (as also do: the masterful film theorist David Bordwell, and the legendary art historian Ernst Gombrich – etc.) Professor Boyd seriously turned me on to Popper’s work, when we were discussing cultural evolution and creativity.
- Popper’s work was a revelation to me. Such: penetrating insights! A small, brilliantly-illuminated clearing in the vast dark forest of endless humanimal ignorance. A scientific sermon in every sentence; an epiphany on every page.
Q5: First book of Popper’s you read?
- All Life Is Problem Solving (Popper, 1999), due to reading (Boyd 2009). I also very much admire Brian’s article:
Boyd, B. (2016). Popper’s World 3: Origins, Progress, and Import. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 46(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393116640282
Q6: The context [time, place, occasion] during which you encountered Popper’s oeuvre (body of work) for the first time?
- As an 18 year old (always very enamored of science, and also, hard science fiction such as Asimov and Clarke) I borrowed the book Lifetide (Watson 1979) from the local public lending library.
- In reading Lifetide, at home (time/place/occasion: mostly, in bed – probably?), I very soon discovered that in it, Lyall Watson (1979) invoked no less than four key ideas (units of culture) of Sir Karl Popper’s(!!!!) Specifically, on Watson’s (1979) pages: 90, 91, 144, 147, and, 178.
- On pp. 90-1, Watson (1979) recounts Popper’s `Three Worlds’ Theory, then segues directly to discussing Dawkins’ (1979) [still-disputed] `meme’ Theory. The Watson section in question ends with the phrase “Memes are alive”; a claim which I still see no scientific evidence for whatsoever, despite greatly admiring the work of Daniel Dennett and Susan Blackmore. I (and thus Evolutionary Culturology) also don’t see units of culture as self-replicating, but rather: units of culture (ideas, processes, products) can get selected and transmitted (i.e., communicated) by intentional agents (e.g. people, robots, AI, etc.) with problems (i.e. goals). So, “Meme Theory” is: problematic. …But–as a super-impressionable, credulously gullible 18 year old: Boy-howdy, reading and imagining that wild conjecture (that: ideas are… ALIVE–!!!) was an exhilarating emotional rollercoaster, even if, it is not at all, er, true. …After all, presumably, Watson’s problem (or, goal) was to write a fun, popular science book; so, maybe here and there, he played it a little fast-and-loose. (The book Lifetide does range wildly across hard science and philosophical speculation. Which is fine? If, you like that kind of thing.)
- On p. 144, Watson (‘79) also cites Popper, on how: the emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom is a great mystery, on par with the origin of life. (I note: We’ve made more scientific inroads, since 1979.)
- On p. 147, in discussing consciousness (evolutionary biologist) Watson agrees with Popper, that: “What is…” questions [e.g., `What is: consciousness?’ Or: `What is, love?’ etc.] can get you lost fast, down `definitional’ labyrinths – which can waste a lot of valuable problem-solving time.
- And – fourthly – on p. 178, Watson (1979) insightfully invokes Popper’s falsifiability demarcation criteria, of: Science, vs. non-Science.
- So, aged 18, I had never (consciously, or, strikingly-memorably) heard of Popper’s work, prior to those four brief encounters (in: Watson 1979)…
- Yet – Popper’s ideas (in Watson) certainly felt: profound, wise, super-exciting. And stuck with me. They: burned into my mind, like a steel spike skewering a watermelon.
- Or, in the words of the great philosopher, the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), “It was like a diamond bullet-point, entered my head…”
Q7: What happened, next?
- …Not much, and, for quite a while-! (If, we’re staying on topic: i.e., Popper’s ideas).
- Decades went by…
- But – those same 4 ideas incubated in my mind, for: years...
- Namely, as an 18 year old, having now successfully finished reading Lifetide, in my youthful ignorance, I sort of forgot all about Popper (but, not, those 4 striking ideas of his)…! Finished my schooling, went off farming, working in construction (and demolition), played in bands, and went off to university to study: Communication.
- Crucially, since the dreaded (wrongheaded) PoMo `held reign’ in the early 90s – sadly – Popper’s name rarely-if-ever came up, in my undergrad Comms course.
- Then I went off to film school, and had a career in Communication Media/Creative Industries for 20 years, making units of culture: movies, TV, videogames, books, plays, songs, and, whatever-else seemed to need making, at the time.
End: Flashback / Action resumes
- So after 20 years working in the Creative Industries, I bravely re-entered academia (fearing it was still rife with nonsensical PoMo ideas and ideology), to do a PhD in Cinema Creativity at The Newcastle School, and thus was led to study Cultural Evolution… So, I now (seriously, and carefully) read scientifically-illuminating books & papers by: E O Wilson, D S Wilson, Brian Boyd, Joe Carroll, Sir Karl Popper, etc…
- In the last year of my PhD, in solving how to empirically study units of culture in the cultural domain of Film, I was forced to create:
- A Scientific Grand Meta-Theory of all Culture (called: Evolutionary Culturology)–of which, Popper’s `Three Worlds’ idea (or, tool) solved 3/4s of one crucial part (of around 100 component parts)… When used as a lens, or tool. (See that Table, above.)
A Criticism of My Solution (my: `Answer #1’), above: A bit choppy, in places? Also, seems a biased (subjective) account, and rife with countless selective (and, de-selective) authorial choices.
(…How are we ever to know which precise parts of `the story’ have been: omitted?)
Furthermore: What overwhelming empirical evidence is there, that any of these claims made, are even remotely: true?
Frankly, I remain deeply skeptical. All of this needs to be tested for its truth-value, or else is mere shadows and dust, and should be committed to the flames – and over a low heat, whilst stirring occasionally; add salt and pepper to taste.
New Problems Created, Revealed, or Illuminated:
The author seems a little crazy, for one? These are grandiloquent claims: e.g. Someone having solved the hard scientific problem (or: mystery) of the unit of culture, enabling consilience (the unity of all knowledge), and talking about an EthiSizer to solve the world’s urgent wicked problems? Either, he’s one of the greatest geniuses that ever lived, or, crazy?
Furthermore, now we all have to go check those pages 90, 91, 144, 147, and 178 of Lyall Watson’s Lifetide (1979), as he could be making all of this up. …All of it!
Also, what the hell even is, a `spurious hundredth-monkey theory’?
This concludes a self-criticism of the author’s Conjectured Solution #1 to the problem at hand, namely: What’s so great, about all of Popper’s undeniably-great ideas?
Turning now to: The present author’s Conjectured Solution #2.
A Recapitulation of the Problem:
Recount how: Popper’s ideas made a difference in your life.
Conjectured Solution #2
In 1992 (for pleasure, of all things) I did at least three things:
(1) read the thrilling book Chaos (Gleick, 1987),
(2) watched a mind-blowing documentary on fractal geometry, and,
(3) read The Selfish Gene (Dawkins, 1989), which poses the burning question:
…What might be, the discrete units of culture?
In 1992, having now learned Shannon’s Information Communication Theory, I began pondering:
So, Watson and Crick solved the structure of all DNA, in 1953…
And so, along the same lines:
…What’s the Structure of: All Culture…?
Fortunately, I only had to snoop around for the answer for another 24 years, as the answer came to me one fine day in 2016, whilst grappling with a comparative PhD study of 40 narrative fiction feature films…
Part of the solution I found, was:
Popper’s `Three Worlds’ Theory is a very useful lens, on: Culture!
And especially so, when we also add a 4th `World’: physical processes.
See the diagram below…
In short, I can’t currently (nor, for the past 25 years) think of anything in culture, that’s not one (or more) of those 4 categories…?
But, here is, the USD$64M Question…
(I may well have missed one…?)
Also, I suggest: units of culture (units of information) change phase-state, across those 4 categories – and back again – due to the action of intentional agents (humanimals, or robots/machines, etc)…
Much like: how, water (good ole H2O) can change phase-state, between: plasma / gas / liquid / solid.
Notice how, I have Selected, then Varied, then (re)-Transmitted the diagram above, below…
Namely: as above, so below, but with some minor additions.
I also like how Jack Eccles, in Facing Reality (Eccles, 1970, p. 164) has a super-cool Table, with examples of Popper’s `Three Worlds’ items (i.e., World 1 objects: physical artifacts; World 2 objects: subjective mental states; and World 3 objects: abstract ideas that take on a reality of their own).
I find, Popper’s `Three Worlds’ idea (…plus, a 4th world, Physical Processes) covers: everything in culture…
(…Of course, I may be mistaken.)
But anyway – if you like this kind of thing (cultural evolution), you might even like, these articles?
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme) in Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts. In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0016-2.ch009
Velikovsky, J. T. (2017). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or, The Unit Of Culture. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 4666-4678). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch405
Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme) in Science, Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. In IRMA (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1590-1627). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch075
Velikovsky, J. T. (2019). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In D. B. A. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 795-811). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7368-5.ch059
Velikovsky, J. T. (2020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 585-604). Elsevier, Academic Press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.23862-5
I cite Popper in them, for obvious reasons.
And I (probably?) couldn’t have thunk them up (those: 5 articles–which are all really just: the one article), without reading, and thinking relatively deeply about, a whole lot of Popper, first…
(It was fun. Reading Popper is one of life’s great pleasures, just in my view… Maybe I’m weird.)
One nice thing about solving the units, levels, evolutionary mechanisms, and Three Laws of culture across all domains of culture (or, knowledge) is, it results in consilience or convergence, the unity of knowledge.
See that figure below.
Also, once the structure of culture is solved (via the lens of: fractal HOLON/partons) you can then go hog-wild–and build an EthiSizer, to solve all the world’s wicked problems at once.
(Yes, I am serious.)
The EthiSizer (video-demo) – 1 minute
And, partly by some ideas of Asimov, in a remarkable short story titled The Evitable Conflict (Asimov, 1950).
And partly by: lots of other ideas that frankly we don’t have time to go into, in a <3,500 word article.
But; those 5 book-chapters above, more or less, explain it…
A Criticism of My Solution (my Answer #2), above:
A bit chatty, in places? Also, seems biased, (subjective), and, rife with countless selective (and, de-selective) authorial choices.
Also: What overwhelming empirical evidence is there, that any of these claims made, are even: true?
Frankly, I remain deeply skeptical. All of this needs to be tested for its truth-value, or else it is all shadows and dust, and should be committed to the flames.
I mean, I guess, as a potentially falsifying test, you could take a book (at random) off your bookshelf, and see if it’s structured as a fractal HOLON/parton…? But still.
New Problems Created, Revealed, or Illuminated:
The author seems a little crazy, for one. A meta-meta-science…? Is that even possible?
And, now we all have to go check those 5 book-chapters on the fractal HOLON/parton structure of biology and culture (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), as he could be making all of this up. …All of it.
Also, what even is: a `fractal HOLON/parton theory of: the structure of all culture’…?
Evolutionary Culturology in a 1-hour nutshell (YouTube)
The Moral of the Story: Man, I wish Sir Karl Popper were still alive; would’ve loved to run this idea past him. (i.e., Ev Cult).
But as a scientist, sometimes just getting peoples’ attention is tricky… There’s so much stuff on Netflix-!
(Like, that great movie, Don’t Look Up. Which shows people ignoring: scientists.)
Also, did you see the Title of this Testimonial?
Worlds Memes of Karl Popper”
At first, I conjectured `Worlds’ – because of Three Worlds Theory – but then refuted that (
crossed it out), and then Selected, Varied, and Transmitted the unit of culture (the word) `Memes’ into the title, instead…
But, by `memes’, I only mean inanimate `units of culture’:
Ideas. Processes. Products.
…Popper had a lot of them…!
Vastly many of them–even now–are: new (original), useful (effective), and surprising (non-obvious)…
Anyway, enjoy: Ev Cult.
Watson, P. (2016). Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science – How the Different Disciplines are Coming Together to Tell One Coherent, Interlocking Story, and Making Science the Basis for Other Forms of Knowledge. Simon and Schuster.
Campbell, D. T. (1974). Evolutionary Epistemology. In P. A. Schilpp (Ed.), The Philosophy of Karl Popper (Vol. 1, pp. 413-459). La Salle.
See: McIntyre, L. (2018). Post Truth. MIT Press.
Wow; no wonder the (anti-science) PoMos hate the guy? They just say stuff that’s: not even wrong.
For a link to the PhD dissertation, see the StoryAlity PhD weblog: https://storyality.wordpress.com/ or, see: https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:24940
Actually, that’s what The EthiSizer is for (partly inspired by Popper’s The Open Society & Its Enemies). See: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html
Like The EthiSizer. See: Bostrom, N. (2003). Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? Philosophical Quarterly, 53(211), 243-255.
(…But how can anyone ever be certain? Keep questioning & checking/testing: everything. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, etc.)
And yes, I know the spurious `hundredth monkey’ theory in it is wrong. Who could forget that scandal? But in my experience, every book has a least one huge mistake in it, as we `humanimals’ are all: error-prone cybernetic organisms.
I actually find it’s much quicker just to point at whatever I’m talking about. I am not being glib. E.g. “What is THAT-?” [& points at: THAT, whatever that might be]. Pointing and looking closely at things to figure out what they are pre-dates language, and, for good reasons.
(This phrase of course assumes the mind is located inside the so-called head, but: violently elbowing the mind-body problem rudely to one side, for now.)
And, no doubt, a few others as well.
My multimedia showreel, from those years working in the so-called `Creative Industries’: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2020/01/multimedia-showreel-joe-t-velikovsky.html (all industries have new, useful, and surprising [creative] units of culture: ideas, processes, products.)
See Endnote #8 above.
(no relation, but that’s just how I think of him. Same with Kubrick, and Darwin. Like a friendly, helpful uncle.)
I call this the Selection, Variation, Transmission (SVT) evolutionary algorithm. Mainly because: that’s what it is.
Notice I didn’t say “Take on a life of their own”. I don’t think units of culture (units of information) are alive. I also don’t think they have agency, or intentions, or even intentional agency… Unless they’re a robot.
See: Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
See: Watson, P. (2016). Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science – How the Different Disciplines are Coming Together to Tell One Coherent, Interlocking Story, and Making Science the Basis for Other Forms of Knowledge. Simon and Schuster.
Bio: J T Velikovsky
Dr J. T. Velikovsky Ph.D. (aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle) is an Evolutionary Culturologist, and also Transmedia (movies / TV / games / new media) writer-director-producer-designer and consultant.
His 2016 (Evolutionary Culturology) doctoral dissertation is also known as The StoryAlity Ph.D. In the Appendix of that 2016 Ph.D., he published on his discovery of the HOLON/parton structure of the unit of culture (aka the `meme’), founding the meta-science of Evolutionary Culturology.
He is a graduate of The Newcastle School of Creativity and a member of the Cultural Evolution Society, the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative, the International Screenwriting Research Network, and the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab.
His Ph.D. weblog on movie & screenwriting creativity is: https://storyality.wordpress.com/ and his Transmedia Writing weblog is: http://on-writering.blogspot.com/ His satirical short story (PH3: Phlash PHilosoPHiction) weblog is: https://outrageous-bullshit.blogspot.com/ His Twitter is: @joeteevee His ORCID is: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X His Academia is: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky and his Researchgate is: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt-Velikovsky
Velikovsky of Newcastle’s research interests include: Applied Evolutionary Epistemology, ArtScience, Consilience, Systems Science, Communication Science, Narrative, Transmedia, Technology, Design, Creative Practice Theory, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Informatics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Information Science, Computational Creativity, and Evolutionary Culturology.
His hobbies include: not collecting stamps; not meeting new people; mind-wandering in the labyrinths of his memory; combining (synthesizing) things; separating (analyzing) other things; composing discrete symbolic units of culture (e.g., songs, jokes, books, words, films, inventions, weblog posts, tweets, symbols, &c.); quietly staring off into the middle-distance with a vague expression on his face while pondering a so-called `hard problem’; trying to communicate some of his resulting ideas, processes, and products; and compulsively trying to understand what, if anything, just happened.
See: Velikovsky, J. T. (2016a). `Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema: A comparative study of the top 20 Return-on-Investment (RoI) Movies and the Doxa of Screenwriting’ [University of Newcastle, PhD]. Newcastle, Australia. https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:24940
See: Velikovsky, J. T. (2016b). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts. In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0016-2.ch009
Root-Bernstein, B., Brown, A., Siler, T., & Snelson, K. (2011). ArtScience: Integrative Collaboration to Create a Sustainable Future. Leonardo, 44(3), 192.
And for many more such Testimonials on `How Karl Popper Improved My Life’ by many scholars, see
the Our Karl Popper website
with Testimonials from: Joski Agassi, Jaimi Hendrickx, Rafe Champion, Elyse Hargreaves, Danny Frederick, and many many more…!
Also – there is this, you should know about:
And for more detail on Ev Cult, see this Ev Cult blog.
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The Chinese telephone company has a bigger number of lines than the London Underground. Its most recent item is a robot vacuum.
From water channels to automatons to electric bikes, Xiaomi isn’t timid about diving its fingers in each pie. Its new Mi Robot Vacuum is the most recent case of how the Chinese telephone company intends to assume control homes and make them more intelligent – for not as much as its rivals.
Looking especially like a Roomba, the round robot vacuum flaunts 12 sensors. Its laser removes sensor filters its surroundings 1,800 times each second, at that point maps out your home to clean it proficiently.
- Twelve sensors which include ultrasonic radar, a cliff sensor, a gyroscope and an accelerometer
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Made by Xiaomi’s biological community accomplice Rockrobo, it includes a Nidec brushless DC engine and cases to be ultra calm. Its 5,200 mAh battery guarantees 2.5 hours of cleaning. It goes at a bargain on September 6 in China for 1,699 Yuan, or, in other words, £195 and AU$340. By examination, CNET’s pick for best reasonable robot vacuum, the Neato XV Signature Pro, costs around $420 or £300.
Like its other biological community items, don’t anticipate that Xiaomi will formally dispatch this around the globe; however a few items, for example, its Mi Air Purifier, have been sold in nations like Singapore. Watch the video beneath of the Mi Robot Vacuum to see it in real life, as it clashes with another comparable robot vacuum in tidying up grain.
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Also known as swap options, quality options are investments that offer the seller choices when it comes to deliverables associated with Treasury note or Treasury bond futures contracts. Whichever options are chosen must comply with the terms and provisions that govern the contract between the buyer and the seller. This approach calls for deciding whether the buyer will be a fixed-rate payer or a fixed-rate receiver.
In order to understand the choices associated with quality options, it is important to grasp how Treasury bonds and Treasury notes are structured. Treasury bonds are debt securities issued by the United States government. The bonds carry a fixed rate of interest and normally require more than ten years to mature. Interest payments are calculated on a semi-annual basis, with the income from the interest subject to taxes at the federal level only. Treasury notes also have fixed interest rates, and mature at some point between one year and ten years. Like the Treasury bond, the note earns interest every six months, and is subject to federal taxes but not state or local taxes.
Within the scope of the agreement that governs the purchase of quality options, the seller can determine if the buyer is a fixed rate payer or a fixed rate receiver. In the case of the Treasury bond, the receiver would function more or less as a call option, while the payer would be along the lines of a put option. At some specified point during the life of the security, the buyer has the option of entering the specified type of swap outlined by the buyer. In return, the buyer enjoys the benefit of an option premium on the quality options that is highly competitive. This premium allows the buyer to sell the options at some specified point during the life of the contract, usually with the possibility of earning a decent profit.
While quality options can be lucrative for all parties concerned, there is still the need to look closely at the agreement that governs the transaction and the application of interest to the face value of the security. The investor should make sure the duration of the bond or note is acceptable, and that the rate of interest is reasonable before proceeding with the agreement. There is also the need to identify exactly when in the life of the security that it is possible to exercise the option to sell, if the buyer determines that he or she wishes to do so.
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Image: Timor-Leste Terrestrial Expedition #44
'Slugs and semi-slugs are terrestrial snails that have lost their shell or only have widely reduced shells. The helicariond snail shown here uses its flap-like mantle to disguise the fragile and shiny shell.'
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I've read somewhere that to say you are not good at something say for example Japanese language, you use:
but can I also use:
Is there anything wrong with this? What is the difference between the two?
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じゃ is the contraction of では. It's a contraction, because じゃ is one mora (one unit length) and では is two moras long.
じゃ is frequently used as contraction of では, especially in じゃない < ではない. As pointed out before by one of our native speakers on this site (@l'électeur), じゃありません is at risk of being overused by learners. Presumably, because the uncontracted では is a more natural choice to go with the polite/formal form of ある (which is あります, of course).
(The converse doesn't hold, though: ではない is also extremely common.)
Here are the numbers from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese
ではない 66121 results
じゃない 39664 results
ではありません 9910 results
じゃありません 1743 results
(Of course, these numbers are only for written Japanese.)
In any case, there is no difference in meaning between the two phrases. A remark about your choice of particle, though: You can only say 日本語は上手ではありません when you use は as the "contrast particle", i.e. when you intend to compare your Japanese skill to something else. The natural choice for a standalone statement would be が, as in
日本語が上手ではありません ／ 日本語が上手じゃありません
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2/Identify the marketing and logistics constraints of Zara?
In order to better understand Zara’s constraints we have to identify its business model.
First take a look at theoperating expenditures. Where Zara’s competitors spend lots of money in marketing and a few amount in production, Zara take into consideration the production rather than the marketing. In terms offacts, Zara do not produce garments in Asia, and instead of spending 3,5% of sales in advertising, they spend only 0,3% and consider more the location of its stores. They are also more involved in creatingnew fashion styles (12 000 style per year). Moreover, they produce new style in a few quantities where competitors produce a huge amount of stock.
According to those facts, Zara only has a margin of30% where competitor’s margin is about 60%.
So, how could Zara be efficient and survive?
As strange as it could be it is due to its business model: Zara do not forecast the future fashion stylesbut identifies them early when people already wear them. And when they identify the upcoming fashion styles, they produce them quickly and in few quantities. And those are Zara’s keys success factors:lots of styles for a short period, in a few quantity within only a month.
Depending on this business model we can now identify and make assumption concerning their marketing and logisticsconstraints. Basically, the business model of such a company requires constraints.
Let’s start with the marketing ones. Zara has decided to put only 0,3% of the sale in the advertising. If you want to beefficient without advertise, you have to put your store in the right place that is to say in the place where there are the most potential clients you have targeted considering your products. This is thefirst marketing constraint.
The second one, also according to their business plan is the creation of new fashion styles. Zara wants to produce lots of fashionable garments. That implies hiring...
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Date: Monday, January 3, 2022
Source: The New York Times
Almost as soon as Eryn Yates made it through her first trimester of pregnancy last spring, she started shopping for her dream nursery.
But getting the items she wanted turned into a nightmare.
The crib that she had ordered from Crate & Barrel arrived within weeks, but the rocking chair from Pottery Barn Kids was back-ordered for months, and then lost somewhere in transit. The delivery of the dresser she was going to use as her changing table was repeatedly postponed until West Elm informed her that it would be delivered in late April or May 2022 — more than six months after her daughter’s birth.
“I definitely thought that we were ahead of the game since we started ordering everything so early,” said Ms. Yates, 27, who lives in Winter Garden, Fla., and works in health care. “I was wrong.”
Global supply chain disruptions wrought by the pandemic have snarled the delivery of items as varied as medical devices, toys and Grape-Nuts. But perhaps no delays have provoked more familial angst in the last two years than those for baby items.
Unlike many products that are ferried through the supply chain, things like cribs, car seats and strollers for newborns have an unforgiving deadline in the form of a due date. And some parents-to-be, either superstitious or simply dilatory, hesitate to purchase baby items far in advance. That puts them at odds with supply chain turmoil that has sometimes made it necessary to buy items weeks or months ahead of time.
“When there’s a human on the other side of it who’s coming into the world for the first time, it’s a different ballgame,” said Sylvana Ward Durrett, the chief executive and a founder of Maisonette, an online marketplace for baby and children products.
Demand is unlikely to let up. Even with a declining birthrate, there were more than 3.6 million births in the United States in 2020.
The result of the baby-supply upheaval — besides higher prices and an ever-bustling hand-me-down market — has been an injection of new stress and uncertainty into an already emotionally delicate time. Expectant parents are scrambling to get items before they bring their babies home, and retailers and manufacturers are racing to reassure them that their goods will come, and devising hasty solutions if they won’t. Message boards on sites for new parents teem with complaints over back orders and repeated shipment delays. Retailers have become accustomed to soothing anxious parents-to-be.
“These are pregnant women that are all having their babies,” said Lauren Logan, the owner of the Juvenile Shop, a family-run baby retailer in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. “They are hormonal, but they are pregnant — they want their stuff. I don’t blame them. I want their stuff for them.”
Lead times for furniture and other items, made in Asia, Europe and the United States, are “longer than they’ve ever been,” said Ms. Logan, who has worked at the Juvenile Shop since 1979. Some products that used to take eight to 10 weeks to arrive now take 18 to 20 weeks, with potential snags all along the supply chain.
To help new parents, Ms. Logan has lent out floor models and products from the store’s warehouse, a stopgap that has relieved some pressure but that has also cost her business money.
“We are giving out loaner furniture, loaner chairs, loaner car seats, whatever it takes,” she said. “If people are having their babies, they need something.”
Maisonette, which works with nearly 1,000 vendors, said the bulk of products facing delays had come out of Asia, along with Peru, where Pima cotton for baby apparel and pajamas is produced. Babylist, a registry site, said retailers were having a particularly hard time keeping hot branded items like the Doona stroller, Snoo bassinet, Keekaroo diaper changing pad and Elvie pump in stock.
Sellers point to numerous supply chain problems, including the availability of parts and shipping containers, backlogs at ports, a lack of truckers and even logistical challenges once items finally arrive at warehouses or distribution facilities.
Production of a continuously sold item typically took 45 to 60 days, and it then required 12 days to travel across the ocean to California, said Joe Shamie, president of Delta Children, a major family-run seller of cribs and children’s furniture carried at retailers including Walmart and Pottery Barn. Now it takes a couple of months just to transport the items to the United States.
The cost of freight to import products has also skyrocketed, from under $2,000 to $15,000 or $20,000 per container, which the company has largely absorbed so far, Mr. Shamie said. A typical container can fit about 300 cribs, he said.
“We’ve had situations where we have a hot product and are rushing to get things in — this is not what this is,” he said. “This is a case of the actual system being broken down.”
Those kinds of challenges have led some sellers to diversify their supply chains and focus on best-selling products.
Million Dollar Baby, whose brands include Babyletto and DaVinci, has increased the number of freight carriers and trucking companies it works with in an effort to dislodge the shipping backlog, said Teddy Fong, the chief executive. It has also made the Babyletto Hudson and Lolly cribs, among its most popular items, a manufacturing priority in Taiwan.
Still, roughly 35 percent of Million Dollar Baby’s items are out of stock at any point, though they typically become available again in two to three weeks, said Mr. Fong, whose parents founded the company in Los Angeles in 1990.
“It’s all sorts of these stories and seemingly new bottlenecks that pop up every week,” he said. “It’s very frustrating because there isn’t a clear line of sight in terms of what needs to be done to get us out of the situation.”
On the receiving end are customers who don’t need another source of anxiety. First-time parents often research heavily before selecting strollers, cribs, car seats and other wares. And out-of-stock items can crimp registries; Babylist says new parents often select 100 to 200 items.
After Gina Catallo-Kokoletsos, 33, and her husband finally agreed on a crib from Pottery Barn Kids, her father placed the order as a gift in July. Originally, the crib was supposed to ship in October, giving just enough time before the couple’s baby was due in November. But when Ms. Catallo-Kokoletsos checked in September, she saw that the shipment date had been pushed to January.
“I called them, and they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s going to be delayed.’ And I said, ‘Well, my baby is due before that,’” said Ms. Catallo-Kokoletsos, who lives in Chico, Calif., and works at an animal shelter. She ended up canceling the order and choosing a crib from a small company she had never heard of. That crib arrived on time, but other items on her baby registry, including a rocking chair, went out of stock before she could get them.
“I knew none of it was the end of the world,” she said. “It just kind of gets frustrating after a while.”
Further complicating matters for some expectant parents are deeply ingrained beliefs about buying or receiving items before their babies are born.
Joelle Fox, 35, a naturopathic physician in Scottsdale, Ariz., who is expecting a baby boy in January, said she was wary of ordering anything in part because of a custom among many Jewish people of not having baby things in the house until the baby arrives.
“It’s kind of a tradition that women have done, and I was kind of following that,” she said, adding that she also wanted to research items carefully to make sure they were not harmful. But the supply chain issues compelled her to start buying some items for the nursery at the end of October, a decision that she said prompted “a lot of emotions.”
Even still, she said, the dresser she ordered from Wayfair is not supposed to ship until mid-January. “That has definitely put a bit of a damper on everything, because I can’t get the room completely set up,” she said.
At around 36 weeks pregnant, Ms. Yates in Florida, whose daughter was born in October, gave up on receiving the West Elm dresser and bought one from Ikea. She cut off its legs and replaced them with metal ones that matched the crib she had bought.
She had less luck with her Pottery Barn Kids chair, which she had ordered in June. After it failed to arrive, she felt so desperate that she emailed corporate customer service and copied the chief executive. By the time she was told in October that the chair had been lost, the color and fabric she wanted were no longer available. The company ended up sending her a loaner chair, in a different color, “so I at least had something in the room for me to use.”
Ms. Yates said that she was sympathetic to the companies’ struggles, but that the ordeal still had left her in tears.
“I was not a very emotional pregnant woman — I had a very short temper, rather than being a crier,” she said. “But when it came to the nursery, I cried a lot, because I had this picture of exactly what I wanted, and then it just felt like one thing after another.”
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Anyone with the patience to read the comments on this blog will have noticed that I've been having an interesting chat with Liz O'Neill about the teaching of textual analysis. This evening I scurried back from a very civilised lunch in the Rogano in Glasgow to see my two private pupils for the last time before I vanish to foreign parts for a bit and they vanish into their Higher prelim exams. In both cases we were discussing how to construct an effective Critical Essay under exam conditions: ie choose a question that has some connection with one of your texts, work out exactly what it is asking you to consider, plan how to use your knowledge of the text in order to answer the question and then write about 700 words - all in 45 minutes. Then do it again for another question and a text of a different genre from the first.
All this - and it's hard work, at this level - had me thinking further about the effective sharing of ideas on literature. It seems to me that the most meaningful learning happens when the student begins to make the connections for herself (both my current students are female, so we'll stick with that pronoun). This takes time and patience, and sensitive probing and leading to help the insecure to a place of confidence. But what if a pupil arrives in your class with four years of less than satisfactory experience of literature? (Not the case with my current pair, but a possibility) What if they've never read any particularly complex stuff until they fetched up in a Higher class? Suddenly you've got to get them to a pitch of expertise that will enable them to pass a demanding exam in January - and you've got about five and a half months to do it in, with four weeks of holidays in two blocks to break up the rhythm.
I don't feel like solving the whole mystery right here and now - the nice lunch is still affecting the brain - but would suggest the following for starters:
If you can, make sure they read a novel over the summer holiday before S5 really starts. Something big, like "Sunset Song". Start analysing it with them in week one of the first term. If they can't hack it, they'll realise something about themselves. If they find themselves passionately reacting to the situation of the heroine in the middle of discussing her home life, they're hooked. Real literature is really involving - and there is so very much to say about it. Anyone who has failed to do the reading suddenly realises that they've dealt themselves out of the conversation, and either gets the finger out or gives up the ghost.
If you leave something as big as that till later in the term, you'll never do it. They'll get bogged down in Maths homework (it was always maths) and have no time to sit and read an extended text. You'll be stuck with short stories or jounalism for the Prose option - and that's not always ideal. My aim was always to have the novel plus, say, two of Doris Lessing's short stories - Lessing because she is such a superb crafter of language that every word and phrase tells and nothing is redundant. But what you absolutely must build in is the opportunity to talk about these texts - with you, with each other - so that they own them. It's not enough to set them questions to wrestle with in writing when they haven't the basic personal understanding that is only achieved through discussion and turning back to the text to back themselves up. And it is we the teachers who have to ask the hard questions, the whys and the hows, the whats and the what ifs, that will set their critical faculties working efficiently - and it is we who have to be the first to react with enthusiasm when they start to get it. You can do this in class time - because when you're with them it's a better use of your time that sitting doing your own thing while they write. I used to do it orally - with them all joining in, I hoped. Now I'd perhaps do it differently - a blog might involve everyone simultaneously.
But I'd really miss the chat.
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OK, so you are a cell-phone user in rural Nigeria or Zimbabwe, and your provider is Econet Wireless. You've been a customer for a while, so you've accumulated loyalty rewards, just like airline frequent flier points. You live in a small hut in a village with no electricity, so you can't use your phone as much as you would like, because you can only charge it on market day at the district headquarters.
But now you can get a big discount on a solar lantern, or if you have enough Bonus Points, a rooftop home solar system from Econet -- electricity has become an added feature of cell phone service. But the wrinkle is that having electricity enables you to use your cell phone when you want to, instead of hoarding a charge -- so Econet can afford to discount the price of the lantern or home solar system dramatically, so that even the poorest cell phone customer can afford it.
The leader behind this model -- loyalty rewards that enable cell phone users to get clean solar electricity in remote villages -- is Strive Masiyiwa.
And today Econet launched its latest initiative, an affordable Home Solar Station, electricity in a box, which enables a poor family to electrify without paying the upfront costs of solar power -- they just pay for the electricity as they use it, thanks to a "slave sim card," which bills their cell phone account for each kilowatt hour, but at a rate low enough that even if the lights are left on all day the monthly bill is only a dollar, far less than poor families currently pay for candles or kerosene.
The basic Home Solar Station has four LED lights, a rooftop solar cell whose size varies on the household size, and an outlet which can be used to charge a cell phone, run a fan, or power a small computer. Larger versions can actually power a television which Econet is designing for this low voltage market. Masiyiwa is crystal clear. His business is not selling handsets, or solar panels -- it's selling airtime, or in the case of the Home Solar Station electron time. Customer loyalty is his holy grail -- and how better to obtain that loyalty than to provide his cell phone customers with light, fans, and electrical charging capacity in their own homes, however humble. (The systems are designed for the basic informal urban slum dwelling, the kind that fills the slums of Lagos or Harare -- or for rural huts. He'll also offer much larger systems for middle-class customers. This is power for everyone.)
It's a radical notion, and if he has the economics right, will transform the lives not only of his customers, but potentially of all 1.2 billion of the world's population who are currently denied light and electricity. Econet will license its technology to other cell-phone providers, and if the model takes off, competitors are sure to spring up.
And Masiyiwe understands that this model -- renewable power for the poorest -- is the key strategy to breaking the stranglehold of expensive, dirty fossil fuel technologies which in Africa keep the poor even poorer, because most of the continent must rely on expensive, imported coal, oil and gas. (In Kenya, for example, the bill for imported oil is one and a half times the country's entire trade deficit.) He has ambitions to replace the diesel generators of Lagos and other African cities with inadequate grids -- generators so prevalent that he says when the lights go out the entire city hums like a swarm of mosquitoes -- with roof-top solar systems that will dramatically reduce Africa's desperate power deficit.
Econet is also beginning to swap out its own diesel generators which currently back up the power for its base stations for solar.
This is the most exciting example I've seen yet of the much talked about, but still elusive concept that just as poor nations in Asia and Africa "leapfrogged" the conventional wired land-line telephone and went directly to cell phones, the emerging world could so the same with energy and spare the globe the catastrophe of compounding the climate crisis unleashed by the rich. Distributed solar charged to cell phone systems could scale, is affordable, and doesn't depend on the increasingly impossible vision of running an expensive copper wire attached to remote, dirty and unaffordable coal-fired power plant, to get a few kilowatts to village far from the city. The International Energy Agency admits that fully half of the 1.2 billion currently without electricity will never get wired -- but thanks to distributed renewables, they can be empowered.
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Japanese master sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie and his boat "Suntory Mermaid II" is all set to go for a trans-Pacific voyage.
The 69-year-old solo yachtsman and his boat made from recycled materials will embark on the 7,000-kilometre (3,780 nautical mile) trip from Honolulu on March 16 bound for Japan, the agent said in a statement.
AdvertisementHis double-hull boat, named "Suntory Mermaid II," is equipped with two special fins at the front that can move like a dolphin's tail each time the boat rises or falls with the rhythm of the waves.
The theory is that a vertical motion can drive it forward at a speed of three knots.
"Throughout history, mankind has used wind for power, but no one has appeared to be serious about wave power," Horie said in an interview with AFP late last year.
"I think I'm a lucky boy as this wave power system has remained virtually untouched."
The 9.5-metre (31-foot) boat -- which is made partially of recycled aluminium and has the slogan "Earth Partnership" painted on both sides -- is expected to arrive in the Kii Channel in western Japan in May.
Horie made international headlines in 1962 when he became the first person to sail solo across the Pacific to San Francisco at the age of 23.
He went on the three-month voyage despite breaking Japanese law, which at the time did not allow its citizens to sail on their own out of the country.
Since then, he has made 10 sailing trips across the Pacific and around the world.
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When light passes from a medium with less refractive index to a medium with higher refractive index, it bends towards the normal. But why normal . Of course we can take an example of a car moving from the road to the mud in an angle. Its first tire decides the direction. But what about light . It's not a car. It's way small and way too fast.
This is due to Fermat's principle, which states that light travels between two points along the path that requires the least time, as compared to other nearby paths. Light travels more slowly in a denser medium, and hence will bend more toward the normal.
Why then does light follow this path, and not other paths? This is because light also obeys the principle of least action, and the action for light is proportional to the time for which it travels. Thus, least action requires that the time taken be minimal.
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At the Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit 2007, analysts painted a scary picture for companies grappling with mobile/wireless security. According to John Girard, more than two-thirds of enterprises will experience security failures resulting from mobile users improperly connecting to insecure services or downloading malicious applications. Analyst John Pescatore predicts that mobile malware will become commonplace in 2007, with attacks causing real business interruption by the first half of 2009. Fortunately, most of these exploits will take advantage of vulnerabilities that are identifiable and resolvable. In this tip, we examine business strategies for securing mobile wireless devices.
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Cybercrime: Coming to a mobile near you
Wireless PDAs and smartphones have been used for years with few headline-grabbing security breaches. Pescatore argues that unsecured mobile devices have flown under the radar because mobile malware writers have been hampered by platform and operating system diversity. "There have definitely been examples of mobile malware," he said, "but most of it has been ineffective, caused very little real damage, and did not spread." For example, a recent McAfee survey of 200 mobile operators found that 83% had been hit by mobile infections, but just five of those incidents affected more than 100,000 devices.
Malware impact is likely to change, however, as the mobile workforce grows, mobile environments become more consistent, and business system connections expand. "This is the year that enterprises should begin to deploy security processes, architectures and controls to defend against mobile malware," Pescatore recommends. "Mass worms and viruses will not be the real threat .... Mobile malware will be more targeted to particular devices, applications and businesses. Enterprise protection strategies need to be developed with a new approach in mind."
Wireless interfaces used by mobiles represent another vector for attack. John Girard believes there have been few wide-area wireless exploits because carriers secure their own networks. "Digital satellite and cellular networks use two-way authentication and strong encryption to discourage attempts to eavesdrop, track communications, or decrypt data and voice streams," he said. In stark contrast, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth exploits have been frequent, caused by unpatched legacy vulnerabilities and end user misconfiguration. "Wi-Fi in smartphones is unfortunately yet another opportunity to repeat [those same] old mistakes."
Turning back the tide
Most companies are all too familiar with fighting Win32 malware and wireless leaks. An effective strategy for protecting business PDAs and smartphones will require a combination of existing best practices and new techniques and tools.
- Like Win32 notebooks, mobile devices with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces must be configured securely, taking advantage of robust data link security options like WPA2-Enterprise and disabling risky options like Bluetooth discovery. On-campus wireless activity can be monitored and controlled using best practices like 802.1X and WIPS, independent of client device type. New tools such as mobile VPNs will be required to impose consistent, end-to-end communication security on devices that roam from carrier 3G to corporate WLAN to public hotspot. Where 3G is viable and economical, mobile devices may prefer it to hotspots in order to reduce risk. Finally, companies should try to bake security into all new mobile business applications and client/server interfaces.
- Mobile devices can be equipped with client security measures that resemble those long used on Win32 notebooks, from power-on authentication, data encryption and backup/restore to personal firewall, VPN and antivirus. Mobile operating systems are still playing catch-up, so these often require add-on security software, designed to run on mobile devices. Girard estimates that the yearly cost for all of these mobile security tools will exceed the initial purchase cost of a basic smartphone through the year 2010. Companies may want to make this near-term investment for PDAs used in critical business processes, but pressure their vendors to include such capabilities with mobile devices purchased in the future. However, Pescatore cautions against depending solely on client-side mobile antivirus. "It hasn't been sufficient on a largely homogeneous Windows platform," he said. "It will never work for heterogeneous mobile devices."
- Instead, mobile client security should be complemented by server-side protection, including malware removal on corporate mail servers and mobile communication servers. "Enterprises should focus malicious-content protection investments on sync servers, wireless application gateways, and external wireless network service provider offerings through 2007," Pescatore suggested. Enterprises can also use server-side measures such as file activity monitors, database activity monitors, and messaging content filters to track and control mobile use of corporate data. Finally, network gateways can use NAC to grant selective access to employee-owned mobile devices or to block network access by stolen corporate devices. These diverse measures can mitigate a broad spectrum of threats, but they all benefit from being under IT control and (at least to some degree) transparent to mobile users. To offload the IT burden, some companies may opt to outsource certain mobile security tasks to wireless carriers or third parties such as iPass.
Most PDAs and smartphones used for business today are "bring your own" devices. Many employers could not begin to enumerate the devices touching their network, servers and data, much less take rapid action to stop a major mobile malware outbreak. That first outbreak may be coming soon -- or it may still be years off. Either way, it is simply common sense to start considering strategies for mobile security. Size the problem by inventorying the mobile devices already used by your workforce. Take near-term action to mitigate those existing vulnerabilities in accordance with business risk. Then resist the temptation to deploy mobile applications and devices without building a security strategy into those long-term plans.
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The title may seem a bit controversial, but this is a fairly common question I get from large (and small) companies – “Should I run A/A tests to check whether my experiment is working?”
I’ve been doing split and multivariate tests since 2004, and have watched nearly every one like a hawk. I I’ve personally made every test cockup in the book and wasted many days on fruitless effort, in order to become better and to continue to hopefully improve my ability to run valid tests. What does my experience tell me here?
There are better ways to use your precious testing time
Firstly I don’t want to come across as saying running an A/A test is wrong – just that my experience tells me that there are better ways to use your time when testing. The volume of tests you start is important but even more so, is how many you *finish* every month and how many from those that you *learn* something useful from. Running A/A tests can eat into ‘real’ testing time.
And the trick of a large scale optimisation programme, is to reduce the resource cost to opportunity ratio. To ensure velocity of testing throughput and what you learn, by completely removing wastage, stupidity and inefficiency from the process.
Running experiments on your site is a bit like running a busy Airline at a major International Airport – you have limited take-off slots and you need to make sure you use them effectively.
I’ve got 6 parts here to cover in answering this question:
- What kinds of A/A test are there?
- Why do people do them?
- Why is this a problem?
- The Dirty Secret of split testing
- Triangulate your data
- Watch the test like a Chef
- Machine Learning & Summary
What kinds of A/A tests are there?
A/A – It’s a 50/50 split
The most common setup here is just a 50/50 split in testing exactly the same thing. Yup. We run a test of the original page against itself. Why?
Well, the idea here is to validate the test setup by seeing that you get roughly the same performance from each variant. You’re testing the same thing against itself, to see if there’s noise in the data, instead of signal. In a coin flipping example, you’re testing that if you flip the coin a number of times, it will come out equally in terms of heads and tails. If the coin was weighted (like a magician’s special coin) then running the exercise would let you know there was some noticeable bias.
So, for people wedded to doing this, running an A/A is about validating the test setup. People basically use this to test the site to see if the numbers line up.
The problem is that this takes *time* that would normally be used to run a split test. If you have a high traffic site, you might think this is a cool thing to do – but in my opinion, you’re just using up valuable test insight time.
I’ve tried this and trust me – it’s a lot quicker just to properly test your experiments before going live. It also gives you confidence in your test where A/A frippery may inject doubt.
What do I recommend then? Well – this stuff:
- Cross browser testing
- Device testing
- Friends & Family
- Analytics Integration
- Watch the test closely
This approach is a lot quicker and has always worked best for me, rather than running A/A tests. Use triangulated data, obsessive monitoring and solid testing to pick up on instrumentation, flow or compatibility problems that will bias your results, instead of using A/A test cycles.
The big problem that people never seem to recognise is that flow, presentation, device or browser bugs are the most common form of bias in A/B testing.
A/A/B/B – 25% Splits
OK – what’s this one then? Looks just like an A/B test to me, except it isn’t. We’ve now split the test 25% into 4 samples, which happen to contain both A and B in duplicated segments.
So what’s this supposed to solve? Ah – well it’s to check the instrumentation again (like A/A) but also confirm if there are oddities in the outcomes. I get the A/A validation part (which I’ve covered already) but what about the results looking different – in your two A and B samples. What if they don’t line up perfectly? Who cares – you’re looking at the wrong thing anyway – the average.
Let’s imagine if you have 20 people come to the site, and 5 each of them end up in the sample buckets. What if 5 of these are repeat visitors and end up in one sample bucket? Won’t that skew the results? Hell yes. But that’s why you should never look at small sample sizes for insight.
So what have people found using this? That the sample performance does indeed move around and especially so early in the test or if you have small numbers of conversions. I tend to not trust anything until I’ve hit 350 outcomes in a sample and at least two business cycles (e.g. weekly) as well as other factors.
The problem with using this method is you’ve split A and B into 4 buckets, so the effect of skew is more pronounced, your effective sample size is smaller and therefore the error rate (fuzziness) of each individual sample is higher. Simply put, the chances that you’ll get skew are higher than if you’re just measuring one A and B bucket. It also means that because your sample sizes are smaller, the error rate (the +/-) stuff will be higher on each measurement.
If you tried A/A/A/B/B/B You’d just magnify the effect. The problem is to know when the samples have stopped moving around – this is a numbers thing but also done a lot by feel for the movements in the test samples. The big prize is not about how test results fluctuate between identical samples (A/A/B/B) – it’s about how visitor segments fluctuate (covered below).
A/B/A – A better way
This is one suggested by @danbarker and has the merit of helping identify instrumentation issues (like A/A) but without eating into as much test time.
This has the same problem as A/A/B/B in that the two A samples are smaller and therefore have higher error rates. Your reporting interface is also going to be more complex, as you now have 3 (or in A/A/B/B, 4 lines) of numbers to crunch.
You also have the issue that as the samples are smaller, it will take longer for the two A variants to settle than a straight A/B. Again, a trade-off of time versus validation – but not one I’d like to take.
If you really want to do this kind of test validation, I think Dan’s suggestion is the best one. I still think there is a bigger prize though – and that’s segmentation.
Why do people do A/A tests?
Sometimes it’s because it is seen as ‘statistics good practice’ or a ‘hallmark’ of doing testing properly. And it can certainly tell you when a test is majorly biased in some way you haven’t spotted.
It’s also seen as a clean way of running the test to have a dry run before the main event. For me, the cost of fixing the car whilst I’m driving it (running live tests) is far higher than when stationary in the garage (QA).
So for me, getting problems out of ANY testing is the priority and A/A doesn’t catch test defects like QA work does. It might be worth running one if you’re bedding in some complex code that the developers can re-use on later tests. I just can’t recommend doing A/A for every test.
What’s the problem then?
For me, the problem is always eating real traffic and test time, by having to preload the test run time with a period of A/A testing. If I’m trying to run 40 tests a month, this will cripple my ability to get stuff live. I’d rather have a half day of QA testing on the experiment than run 2-4 weeks of A/A testing to check it lines up.
The other problem is that nearly 80% of A/A tests will reach significance at some point. In other words, the test system will conclude that the original is better than the original with a high degree of confidence! Why? Well it’s a numbers and sampling thing but also because you’re reading the test wrong. If you have small samples, it’s quite possible that you’ll conclude that something is broken when it’s not.
The other problem is – when you’re A/A testing – you’re comparing the performance of two things that are identical. The amount of sample and data you need to prove that there is no significant bias is huge by comparison with an A/B test. How many people would you need in a blind taste testing of Coca-Cola (against Coca-Cola) to conclude that people liked both equally? 500 people, 5000 people?
And this is why we don’t test very similar things in split tests – detecting marginal gains is very hard and when you test identical things, this is even more pronounced. You could run an A/A test for several weeks LONGER than the A/B test itself and get no valuable insight, either on whether the test was broken or your ability to understand sampling <grin>
A good example here is that people who espouse A/A testing forget another bias in running tests. The Slower Converter and the Novelty Effect.
If you run a test for 2 weeks and your average purchase cycle is 4 weeks, you’re going to cut off some visitors to the experiment when you close the test. This is why it’s important to know your purchase cycle time to conversion as you might run an A/B test that only captures ‘fast converters’.
Ton Wesseling always recommends (I agree) that you leave an experiment running when you ‘close’ it to new visitors. That way, people who’re part way through converting can continue to see the experiment and convert *after* the end of the test. This is a way of letting the test participants flush through the system and add more sample, without showing it to new people.
And if you’re optimising the end of the testing cycle, by understanding purchase cycles, isn’t there some sort of bias at the start of testing?
Well part of this is ‘Regression toward the mean’ which we see in tests for all sorts of things, and the second part is the novelty effect.
If James has been visiting the website for 4 weeks and is about to purchase, he’s been seeing the old product page for all that time. On his final visit before converting, he sees a brand new shiny product page that’s much better and is influenced to buy. Your friend Bob, meanwhile, has been seeing the same page for 4 weeks and when he arrives, he still gets the old (control) version.
This means that new people into the experiment also contains ‘old’ visitors who are later in their lifecycle. This novelty spike can bias the data early in your test – at least until some of the cycles are flushed through the experiment. In theory, you ought to start the test a few weeks early and cookie all visitors, so you can only put NEW visitors into your experiment, not those who might be hit by a novelty effect late in the purchase cycle, for example.
My point of showing these two is that there are loads of sources of bias in our split testing. A/A testing might spot some big biases but I find that it’s inefficient and doesn’t answer everything that QA, analytics integration and segmentation can.
The dirty secret of testing
Every business I’ve tested with has a different pattern, randomness or cycle to it – and that’s part of the fun. Watching and learning from the site and test data during live operation is one of the best parts for me. But there is a dirty secret in testing – that 15% lift you got in January? You might not have it any more!
Why? Well you might have cut your PPC budget since then, driving less warm leads into your business. You might have run some TV ads that really put people off that previously responded well to your creative.
Wait a minute though. It might be performing much better than you thought. But YOU DO NOT KNOW. It’s the Schrödinger’s Cat of split testing – you don’t know unless you retest it, whether it’s still driving the same lift. This is the problem with sequential rather than dynamic testing – you have to keep moving the needle up and you don’t know if a test lift from an earlier experiment is still delivering.
Leave a stub running
To get around the fact that creative performance moves, I typically leave a stub running (say 5-10%) to keep tracking the old control (loser) against the new variant (winner) for a few weeks after the test finishes.
If the CFO shows me figures disputing the raise – I can show that it’s far higher than the old creative would have performed, if I had left it running. This has been very useful, at least when bedding a new tool in with someone who distrusts the lift until they ‘see it coming through’ the other end!
However, if you’re just continually testing and improving – all this worry about the creative changes becomes rather academic – because you’re continually making incremental improvements or big leaps. The problem is where people test something and then STOP – this is why there are some pages I worked on that are still under test 4 years later – there is still continual improvement to be wrought even after all that time.
Products like Google Content Experiments (built into Google Analytics) and Conductrics now offer the multi-armed bandit algorithm to get round this obvious difference between what the creative did back then vs. now (by adjusting the stuff shown to visitors as their behavioural response changes).
I postulated back in 2006 that this was the kind of tool we needed – something that dynamically mines the web data, visit history, backend data and tracking into a personalised and dynamic split test serving system. Something that can look at all the customer attributes, targeting, advertising, recommendations, personalisation or split tests – and *know* what to show someone, at *what* time. Allowing this system to self-tune (with my orchestration and fresh inputs) looks like the future of testing to me:
[Reference article: Multi Armed bandits]
Triangulate your data
One thing that’s really helped me to avoid instrumentation and test running issues – is to run at least two analytics sources. Make sure you completely use the split testing software capabilities to integrate with a second analytics package as a minimum.
This will allow you to have two sources of performance data to triangulate or cross check with each other. If these don’t line up proportionally or look biased to an analyst’s eye, this can pick up reporting issues before you’ve started your test. I’ve encountered plenty of issues with AB testing packages not lining up with what the site analytics said – and it’s ALWAYS been a developer and instrumentation issue. You simply can’t trust one set of experiment metrics – you need a backup to compare against, in case you’ve broken something.
Don’t weep later about lost data – just make sure it doesn’t happen. It also helps as a belt and braces monitoring system for when you start testing – again so you can keep watching and checking the data.
[Reference article: How to Analyze Your A/B Test Results with Google Analytics]
Watch it like a chef
You need to approach every test like a labour intensive meal, prepared by a Chef. You need to be constantly looking, tasting, checking, stirring and rechecking things as it starts, cooks and gets ready to finish. This is a big insight that I got from watching lots of tests intensely – you get a better feel for what’s happening and what might be going wrong.
Sometimes I will look at a test hundreds of times a week – for no reason other than to get a feel for fluctuations, patterns or solidification of results. You HAVE TO resist the temptation to be drawn in by the pretty graphs during the early cycle of a test.
If you’re less than one business cycle (e.g. a week) into your test – ignore the results. If you have less than 350 and certainly 250 in each sample – ignore the results. If the samples are still moving around a lot then – ignore the results. It’s not cooked yet.
Anyone with solid test experience knows that your data and response is moving around constantly – all the random visitors coming into the site and seeing creatives, is constantly changing the precision and nature of the data you see.
The big problem with site averages for testing is that you’re not looking *inside* the average – to the segments. A poorly performing experiment might have absolutely rocked – but just for returning visitors. Not looking at segments will mean you miss that insight.
Having a way to cross instrument your analytics tool (with a custom variable, say in GA) will allow you then to segment the creative level performance. One big warning here – if you split the sample up, you’ll get small segments.
If you have an A and a B creative, imagine them as two large yellow space hoppers, sitting above a tennis court. You are in the audience seating and you’re trying to measure how far they are apart. They aren’t solid spaces but are fuzzy – you can’t see precisely where the centre is – just a fuzzy indistinct area in space.
Now as your test runs, the position and size of these space hoppers shrinks, so you can be more confident about their location and their difference in height, for example. As you get toward the size of a tennis ball, you’re much more confident about their precise location and can measure more precisely how far apart they are.
Be wary of small sample sizes
If you split up your A and B results into a segment, you hugely increase the size of how fuzzy your data is. So be careful not to segment into tiny samples or just be careful about trusting what the data tells you at small numbers of conversions or outcomes.
Other than that, segmentation will tell you much more useful stuff about A/B split testing than any sample splitting activity – because it works at the level of known attributes about visitors, not just the fuzziness of numbers. When I get a test that fails, that should be of some insight to me but I always mine the segments to see what drove the average. That provides me with key insight about not only my hypothesis but how different groups reacted to my experiment.
And this is the most important bit – when you get a test that comes out ‘about the same’ as the original, guaranteed there is a segment level driver that will be of interest to you. The average test result might have come out ‘about the same’ but the segment level response likely contains useful insight for you.
Is the future of split testing in part automation? Yes – I think so. I think these tools will help me run more personalised and segment driven tests – rather than trying to raise the ‘average’ visitor performance. I also think they remove the need to have tools for personalisation, targeting, split and multi-variate testing – basically all experiments with ‘trying stuff on people’.
The tools will simply help the area of experimentation I can cover, a bit like going from using a plough to having a tractor. I don’t think it reduces the need for human orchestration of tests – just helps us do much more at scale than we could ever imagine doing manually.
Is there any useful purpose for A/A and A/A/B/B? – I can’t see one but I may have missed something. Let me know. I can’t see anything that outweighs the loss of testing time and precision.
What’s the best way to avoid problems? Watching the test like a hawk and opening up your segmentation will work wonders. QA time is also a wise investment as it beats the existential angst hands down, when you have to scrap that useless data four weeks later.
And thanks to many people for having the questions and insights that made me think about this stuff. A hat tip to @danbarker, @peeplaja, @mgershoff, @distilled and @timlb for refining my knowledge and prompting me to write this article.
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At a recent DCC Cabinet meeting, Conservative Councillors approved the launch of a trial to promote the use of Speed Indicator Device signs (SIDs). These are signs that measure the speeds of oncoming vehicles and then remind drivers of the speed limit.
Working with their local county councillor, parish and town councils will be able to purchase SIDs for use in areas where speeding is a local concern to encourage drivers to reduce their speed and promote road safety.
The launch is initially a 12 month trial so the County Council can collect data on the impact of the SIDs to feed in to wider policy reviews and enforcement measures.
Cllr Barry Lewis, leader of the County Council, said, “We had a manifesto commitment to do everything we can to improve road safety and this is a big step towards that. I know residents will welcome this new opportunity to try to tackle speeding by giving communities the power to install these signs where there are local concerns.”
Derbyshire County Council will be contacting all district, borough, parish and town councils to explain the process for purchasing SIDs over the next month. Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster is also supporting the initiative by launching a £150,000 road safety scheme, which will support with grants for communities wanting to install SIDs.
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The war of the cloud is raging. Don't expect to look into the skies and see a cumulonimbus drawing a lightning sword on an altostratus, though. This cloud war is digital, and the companies who are fighting to fulfill your online data storage needs are targeting one of your most precious belongings -- your massive collection of pictures.
You probably already know that your computer's hard drive isn't the ideal location for your beloved images. For one, hard drives routinely crash, sending the data stored on them into dark oblivion. Furthermore, pictures stored locally often get very little eyeball time, and in today's easy media-sharing environment, there's no reason your photos should be collecting digital dust. The only real question then, is this: What are the best ways to store and share your photos online?
The cloud has all of the answers. When we refer to the cloud, we're pointing to online services that store your images in servers that are available from just about any Internet-connected device. For instance, you can upload your pictures from your bulky office desktop PC to online storage and then show those images to a friend at a restaurant via your smartphone.
Cloud photo storage offers a number of tremendous benefits. First, you'll be able to share your pictures just about anytime, anywhere you have Internet access. Second, cloud services routinely back up their data, so you should never permanently lose your priceless and irreplaceable images, even if your own computer explodes into flames.
But balancing the storage and sharing aspects of online images takes a bit of work. With the following tips, you'll reign in the warring cloud factions and use their power for your own photo-tastic ends.
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Imagination at work: GE shares its process for creating bright ideas with customers
GE, whose corporate mantra is “Imagination at Work,” has given members of the Manufactured Housing Institute a lesson in developing innovative business processes.<br/>
Successful homebuilders typically have strong working relationships with lending institutions. But some members of the national trade group for the manufactured housing industry might not be in business today if not for that organization’s collaboration with GE Capital Solutions .
It wasn’t just financial assistance that GE lent the homebuilders. GE, whose corporate mantra is “Imagination at Work,” gave the builders a lesson in developing innovative business processes.
“We were struggling with a precipitous drop in business volume resulting from a number of factors,” says Gail Cardwell, president and CEO of the 400-plus member trade group known as the Manufactured Housing Institute —or MHI.
Cardwell says the issues MHI members needed to address included:
In May 2007, an executive with GE Capital Solutions, a longtime source of financing for the industry, approached MHI leadership about a program that GE uses to help its customers improve their business fortunes. Through this seven-year-old program called At the Customer for the Customer (ACFC), GE shares its own successful business principles and methodologies with customers free of charge.
“We’ll share what’s worked well with GE and help make it fit the customer’s reality,” says Karen Dougherty, GE Capital Solutions ACFC Leader. “We’re not trying to make our customers [into] mini-GEs.”
Members of the GE Capital Solutions ACFC team visited MHI’s New York campus, where GE staff coached MHI’s trainers. According to Cardwell, the ACFC team encouraged various MHI task forces to push the entire industry forward by addressing challenges head-on, identifying roadblocks to improvement, and then instituting the necessary changes to overcome those roadblocks.
“We wanted the members to take ownership of these initiatives—draw up problem statements, locate problem areas, and develop business plans,” Cardwell says.
Among other things, Cardwell says, the ACFC team caused an MHI home-finance task force to seek additional funding sources. That led the group toindustry’s customer base.
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Excellent report, unfortunately the source is unknown.
Second Peter 3:3-8 tells us that people who scoff at the Bible are "willingly ignorant" of the Creation and the Flood. In order to understand science and the Bible, we must not be ignorant of those two great events in Earth's history.
Over 500 Flood legends from all parts of the world have been found. Most have similarities to the Genesis account.
Noah's ark was built only to float, not to sail anywhere. Many ark scholars believe that the ark was a "barge" shape, not a pointed "boat" shape. This would greatly increase the cargo capacity. Scoffers have pointed out that the largest sailing ships were less than 300 feet because of the problem of twisting and flexing the boat. These ships had giant masts and sails to catch the wind. Noah's ark needed neither of those and therefore had far less torsional stress.
Even using the small 18-inch cubit (my height is 6'1" and I have a 21-inch cubit), the ark was large enough to hold all the required animals, people, and food with room to spare.
The length-to-width ratio of 6 to 1 is what shipbuilders today often use. This is the best ratio for stability in stormy weather.
The ark may have had a "moon-pool" in the center. The larger ships would have a hole in the center of the bottom of the boat with walls extending up into the ship. There are several reasons for this feature: a) It allowed water to go up into the hole as the ship crested waves. This would be needed to relieve strain on longer ships. b) The rising and lowering water acted as a piston to ump fresh air in and out of the ship. This would prevent the buildup of dangerous gasses from all the animals on board. c) The hole was a great place to dump waste into the ocean without going outside.
The ark may have had large drogue (anchor) stones suspended over the sides to keep it more stable in rough weather. Many of these stones have been found in the region where the ark landed.
Noah lived for 950 years. Many Bible scholars believe the pre-Flood people were much larger than modern man. Skeletons over 11 feet tall have been found. If Noah were taller, his cubit (elbow to fingertip) would have been much larger also. This would make the ark larger by the same ratio.
God told Noah to bring two of each kind (seven of some), not of each species or variety. Noah had only two of the dog kind, which would include the wolves, coyotes, foxes, mutts, etc. The "kind" grouping is probably closer to our modern family division in taxonomy, and would greatly reduce the number of animals on the ark. Animals have diversified into many varieties in the last 4,400 years since the Flood. This diversification is not anything similar to great claims that the evolutionists teach.
Noah did not have to get the animals. God brought them to him (Genesis 6:20, "shall come to thee").
Only land-dwelling, air-breathing animals had to be included on the ark ("in which is the breath of life," Genesis 7:15,22).
Many animals sleep, hibernate, or become very inactive during bad weather.
All animals (and people) were vegetarian before and during the Flood according to Genesis 1:20-30 with Genesis 9:3.
The pre-Flood people were probably much smarter and more advanced than people today. The longer life spans, Adam's direct contact with God, and the fact that they could glean the wisdom of many generations that were still alive would greatly expand their knowledge base.
The Bible says that the highest mountains were covered by 15 cubits [20 feet] of water (Genesis 7:20). This is half the height of the ark. The ark was safe from scraping bottom at all times.
The large mountains, as we have them today, did not exist until after the Flood when "the mountains arose and the valleys sank down" (Psalm 104:5-9; Genesis 8:3-8).
There is enough water in the oceans right now to cover the earth 8,000 feet deep if the surface of the earth were smooth.
Many claim to have seen the ark in recent times in the area in which the Bible says it landed. There are two primary schools of thought about the actual site of the ark. Much energy and time have been expended to prove both views. Some believe the ark is on Mt. Ararat, covered by snow (CBS showed a one-hour special in 1993 about this site). Others believe the ark is seventeen miles south of Mt. Ararat in a valley called "the valley of eight" (eight souls on the ark). The Bible says the ark landed in the "mountains" of Ararat, not necessarily on the mountain itself.
The continents were not separated until 100-300 years after the Flood (Genesis 10:25). The people and animals had time to migrate anywhere on earth by then.
The top 3,000 feet of Mt. Everest (26,000-29,000 feet) is made up of sedimentary rock packed with seashells and other ocean-dwelling animals.
Sedimentary rock is found all over the world. Sedimentary rock is formed in water.
Petrified clams in the closed position (found all over the world) testify to their rapid burial while they were still alive, even on top of Mount Everest.
Bent rock layers, fossil graveyards, and polystrata fossils are best explained by a Flood.
People choose to not believe in the Flood because it speaks of the judgment of God on sin (2 Peter 3:3-8).
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After a plethora of tests specialists couldn’t find anything wrong. It was my 13 year old son who was not sleeping and suffering depression. It was my father (his grandfather) who put two and two together. We moved him immediately and made the first prototype of Smartblock. (about May 2015).
Fortunately, we were able to ditch the scripts for medication and we all slept and felt better. The results were remarkable. We then trialled Smartblock on families who expressed interest. They were asked to keep a mood diary for 30 days and record sleep habits and overall well being.
All families sensed improvement and were able to keep their Smartblocks in return. The trial went out to 20 families. There were major improvements in households, especially where children were on the autism spectrum. In January 2016 Smartblock was officially launched. It’s made in Australia using high grade Australian aluminium.
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There are many health complaints that have been connected to radiation sickness.
This is concerning. The truth is that no one really knows the long term damage these EMF’s are doing to us. It’s more than a coincidence that people are presenting with this worrying symptoms and being prescribed sleeping medications and anti-depressants. There aren’t many GP’s who will ask “where is your bed in relation to your smart meter.”
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Hermetic books, ancient metaphysical works dealing essentially with the idea of the complete community of all beings and objects. Authorship of the books was attributed to the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, whose name was sometimes translated into Greek as Hermes Trismegistus [Thoth the thrice great] and was therefore equated with the Greek god Hermes. The books treat of a variety of subjects, including magic, astrology, and alchemy, and were particularly influential in the 3d cent. with the Neoplatonists and in France and England in the 17th cent.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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by Buzz Dahlen
By now, you have most likely seen parts of three or four, “It’s a wonderful life” showings. I am not sure that I have ever sat through the whole movie, but am pretty sure that I have collectively seen the whole movie over the years. It’s is a classic to be sure. George Bailey, the Savings and Loan, Bedford Falls, And “dance by the light of the moon.” I cry every time I watch it.
George gets to that place where many of have been at some time or another, “I wish I had never been born!” That’s a low spot in the road of life, circumstances piling up on top of us, nothing turning out right, everything going wrong, flat on your back, down on your luck, everything looks bleak, no place to turn, all alone… Wait a minute; this is supposed to be a Merry Christmas message. Well it is. The Christmas message is never more merrier then when you are at your lowest.
George was giving a glimpse of what life would have been like for the people he cared about if he had never been born. Remember, Harry would have drowned when he fell through the ice, hundreds of soldiers would have been killed because Harry wouldn’t have been there to save the day. The Pharmacist would have been sent to jail for giving out the wrong prescription. Mr. & Mrs. Feeney would not have been able to move into their own home and on and on. When you stop to think about it, one life does touch so many other lives… This past week I started to think, “What would life be like if Jesus had never been born?”
The obvious change would be that there would be no Christmas. Nope we would have nothing to celebrate during this time of year except the solstice, and a bunch more pagan festival days. Then there is the fact that we would not be celebrating Easter either. No, birth… no death. No death… no resurrection. No resurrection… well now we get into some serious changes.
If Jesus had never been born, He could never have died for our sins. If Jesus never died then we are not forgiven… without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Hebrews 9:22 If Jesus did not die then there was no resurrection… And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men… 1 Corinthians 15:17-19
Thank God, that Jesus was born and He lived here on earth and walk among men, and taught us the truth and showed us how to live and enjoy a relationship with God. Thank God that He loved us so much that He gave His Son to die on the cross, to pay for our sins and allow us to be forgiven. Thank God for raising Jesus from the dead and making a way for us to have life, eternal life, in Him. … But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 1 Corinthians 15:20-21
We have so much to be merry about, because Jesus was born. Merry Christmas everyone! For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
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FDA Approves Ticovac Vaccine For Tick-Borne Encephalitis
Ticovac is the only FDA-approved vaccine against the TBE virus for individuals visiting or living in TBE endemic areas.
Officials with the FDA have approved Pfizer’s tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine (Ticovac) for active immunization to prevent TBE in individuals 1 year of age and older, according to a press release from Pfizer. Ticovac is the only FDA-approved vaccine against the TBE virus for individuals visiting or living in TBE endemic areas.
“We are proud to deliver the first vaccine to help protect people in the US against TBE, if they are traveling to any risk areas,” said Nanette Cocero, PhD, global president, Vaccines, Pfizer. “This vaccine has helped to protect millions of people in TBE endemic regions since its first approval outside the US 45 years ago. This authorization helps to ensure that people from the US are also able to receive this vaccination if needed, reflecting our commitment to provide health for all.”
TBE, a viral infection of the brain and spine, can be transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected tick. TBE is not currently endemic in the United States, though it has been identified in more than 35 countries throughout Europe and Asia. One in 3 individuals with TBE experience long-term effects that last months or years, including cognitive changes, muscle weakness or permanent paralysis, and in rare cases, it can be fatal.
Pfizer’s TBE vaccine was developed using a seed virus that is similar to the TBE virus found in nature. The sequence and structure of the virus subtype match those of the natural virus, and as a result, it is able to induce neutralizing antibodies against the natural TBE virus. Clinical trials have determined that the vaccine is safe and immunogenic, having been assessed in patients 1 to 15 years of age and those over 16 years of age. Seropositivity rates were 99.5% in those 1 to 15 years of age and 98.7-100% in adults following 3 doses.
Ticovac has been observed to be generally well-tolerated, with no unexpected adverse events (AEs) or vaccine-related serious AEs observed. The most common AEs across both age groups were local tenderness, headache, local pain, fever, restlessness, fatigue, and muscle pain.
U.S. FDA approves TICOVAC™, Pfizer’s tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine [news release]. Business Wire; August 13, 2021. Accessed August 16, 2021. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210813005441/en
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Factoring means to rewrite an expression as a product. In this lesson we are going to take a look at the greatest common factor and the technique of factor by grouping. First we will learn how to recognize the greatest common factor for a list of different terms and how we can actually factor out that greatest common factor when you have a polynomial. The greatest common factor is the greatest quantity that would evenly divide into all of the terms. This could be made up of numbers and variables. A good way of breaking down a large polynomial is factor by grouping.
*These practice questions are only helpful when you work on them offline on a piece of paper and then use the solution steps function to check your answer.
Greatest Common Factor & Factor by Grouping
Lecture Slides are screen-captured images of important points in the lecture. Students can download and print out these lecture slide images to do practice problems as well as take notes while watching the lecture.
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Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins has revealed the role a volcano on Tenerife has played in his emergence as one of the favourites for this summer’s Tour de France, as well as his conviction that he can become the first British rider to win cycling’s biggest race.
Situated off the coast of North Africa, the summit in the Teide national park has become a magnet for pro cyclists undertaking altitude training, its location also guaranteeing good weather.
In today's Guardian, cycling writer William Fotheringham describes the beautiful yet harsh conditions, and also hears first hand how the 3,718 metre volcano – the road up it reaches an elevation of 2,100 metres – has come to play such a pivotal role in Wiggins’ Tour de France preparations.
The background lies in the 32-year-old’s disappointing performance in the 2010 edition of the race, his first participation in it with Team Sky, which had recruited the rider from Garmin-Transitions in controversial fashion to lead it in its debut season.
In 2009, the multiple world and Olympic champion on the track had made his big breakthrough on the road, finishing a remarkable fourth behind Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck and Lance Armstrong.
With Team Sky building its season around Wiggins’ Tour challenge, there were high hopes that he would become the first British rider to secure a podium placing in the Tour de France, but those were dashed as he lost time to his rivals in the mountains and eventually arrived in Paris in 24th position. He would later gain one place as a result of Contador’s disqualification.
As a result, Australian sports scientist Tim Kerrison, whose background was in swimming and rowing but not cycling, was brought on board by Team Sky to help Wiggins rethink his entire approach to preparing for the big races and in particular the Tour, which last year featured a greater amount of riding at 2,500 or higher than is seen in a typical edition of the race.
After participating in a two-week training camp on Tenerife, last June Wiggins went on to secure the biggest win of his career on the road up to that point, the Critérium du Dauphiné. His Tour de France campaign was derailed by a crash that resulted in him breaking his collarbone at the end of the first week, but he was back in August to race in the Vuelta, finishing third, with Team Sky colleague Chris Froome second behind Geox-TMC's Juan Jose Cobo.
Those performances were without doubt aided by that experience that Wiggis gained at altitude, although training on Tenerife has other benefits, as Kerrison related, saying: "Unlike some high-altitude venues, it's possible to train at sea level, which is less damaging at high intensity; unlike Alpine locations the weather is relatively stable in April and May."
Wiggins, who by his own admission has in the past gone through periods when training is not uppermost in his mind – after winning Olympic gold in the individual pursuit at Athens in 2004, he famously went on a bender that stretched into days, then weeks, then months – insists he is now fully focused on achieving his ambition of winning the Tour.
"I said I wanted to train for the Tour without any compromise," he revealed. "I'm getting to a point in my career where I want to look back with no regrets." That new approach sees him switch between intensive training camps and targeting wins in specific races, a strategy that this year has already reaped rewards in the shape of overall victories in Paris-Nice and the Tour of Romandie.
It is expected that by getting Wiggins used to defending a lead in high-profile races such as those, he will be better equipped to deal with the mental pressures should he find himself in the maillot jaune this summer.
The latest training camp, where Wiggins was accompanied by Team Sky riders who will support him in the Tour when it gets under way in Liege on June 30, took place this month, with the rider aiming to have accumulated 100,000 metres of climbing in his legs by the time the race begins.
The training has also become more intensive, as Wiggins himself outlined: "Yesterday was 25‑minute efforts in 35C heat, three of them. It's hard to tell a layman what it feels like: it's hard in a very sweet way, all mixed up with the endorphins."
Kerrison maintained that the training programme being followed will enable Wiggins to cope with the tougher ascents featuring in the Tour this year. "When I came in, people believed Brad was only good up to about a 7% gradient; now he can cope with up to 13%," he explained.
"Three of the lads were wasted by the end but you realise that, if you can do that effort now, it's the Tour winner," added Wiggins. "You can hardly breathe but it's the kind of effort that wins the Tour."
The ability to cope with such a demanding schedule also reflects the efforts the Team Sky rider has put in to areas such as core fitness and his upper body strength, which Kerrison and Wiggins believe helped him pull off a surprise win in a sprint stage at the Tour of Romandie.
Another advantage that the team’s base on Tenerife affords is the ability to focus on the task at hand, away from the stresses of the world. "When you are training as hard as we are it's nice to have no distractions,” Wiggins explained.” You don't end up sitting at a computer while you rest, you do basic things like reading a book or watching a DVD. It's very peaceful."
He fully expects to reap a reward from those sacrifices come July. "After 2009 I didn't really believe I could win the Tour,” reflected Wiggins. “I thought, 'That's for someone else, kids from Kilburn don't win the Tour.' But I really believe I can win it now."
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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How to Make Provolone Cheese Taco Shells
Tacos are delicious, and you can use your own imagination to fill them up with your favorite ingredients, and make them adorable. Normally, taco shells are made up of wheat or corn tortillas, but you can add a punch to them by making them with provolone cheese. These taco shells are delicious, and fun to make too. If you are looking for a high carb diet, then these will work great for you. If you are a cheese lover, you will be completely intrigued by these. Read this oneHOWTO article to find out how to make provolone cheese taco shells.
What is provolone cheese?
First of all, know what provolone cheese is, and why you should make your taco shells with it. Provolone cheese is an Italian cheese made out of cow’s milk. Its taste may range from sweet to sharp, and color may be from white to pale yellow. It is semi-hard in texture, and is known for its mild, sharp, butter, tangy, sweet or spicy versions. This cheese is loaded with proteins and calcium, but it has high amounts of sodium as well. So, people with high blood pressure problem should use it in moderation, that too with caution.
Making provolone cheese taco shells does not require many ingredients. You can make the shells with just provolone cheese slices, but adding Mexican spices and garlic powder to them will add them some extra flavor. Ingredients required include:
- Round slices of provolone cheese (One slice makes one taco shell- so, take as many slices as the number of taco shells you want to make)
- Mexican spices
- Garlic powder
Instructions to follow
Making provolone cheese taco shells is quick and easy. All you need is a microwave oven, and the tools that you require in normal baking procedures. If you have them, then making these shells is as easy as 1-2-3. Follow these step by step instructions to make your own provolone cheese taco shells:
- Preheat your oven at 375°F (190°C)
- Place a parchment paper or baking sheet over a cookie sheet
- Lightly spray some non-stick cooking spray on it
- Place three round slices of the provolone cheese on parchment paper or baking sheet
- Lightly sprinkle with Mexican spices and garlic powder
- Bake for around 10 minutes until the color becomes light golden
- Immediately pick up the shells one by one using a spatula with straight edge, and place them over an edge of a pan. You need to do this very quickly while the shells are hot. Otherwise, they will crack as they cool and harden on the edge. Instead of the edge of a pan, you can lay the slices on any round edge, like a handle of a knife, a tissue paper holder or anything else
- Let them cool and set for 5 minutes. The cheese will take its shape and create a taco shell. Once the shells have cooled, peel them off from the baking sheet or parchment paper
Your provolone taco shells are ready. Fill them up with your favorite ingredients and enjoy.
Making provolone cheese taco shell cups
Apart from the common taco shells, you can even make taco shell cups with provolone cheese to give them a different look. Surprisingly, these taco shell cups are made in muffin trays. Follow these instructions:
- Generously coat a muffin tray with non-stick cooking spray
- Line each muffin mold with a provolone cheese slice
- Preheat oven at 375°F
- Bake for 10 minutes, until the edges of the taco shell cups become golden in color
- Let them cool, after which they will set
- Fill them up with your favorite filling and serve
Making provolone cheese taco shell bowls
Another version is making the taco shell bowls. These bowls are also made in a muffin tray, but in a different way. Turn a muffin tray upside down, spray it with a non-stick cooking spray, and lay each provolone cheese slice in the space between four muffin molds. Bake for 10 minutes until golden brown, let them set, and fill to enjoy.
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Commonly found in Africa, the baobab fruit is high in vitamin C as well as omega-3 fatty acids that improve heart, are brain and eye health.
“All of these fruits like baobab have been around forever, but thanks to the Internet, people are finding out, ‘wow, you can actually have good nutrition and it can taste good too.’ These fruits taste good. It’s a great combination,” says David Wolfe, nutritionist and author of The Sunfood Diet Success System.
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Adoption Promotion this Weekend at Heritage Humane Society
There are so many wonderful pets at Heritage Humane Society waiting for that forever family to take them home. These pets deserve a second chance at love, which is why we are so excited to announce our Homeless Pet Awareness Adoption Promotion. This weekend, Saturday February 13 and Sunday February 14, all adoption fees will be 50% off for spayed and neutered pets six months and older.
This is a chance for dogs like Horton, an energetic 1 year old Pitbull mix, who came to HHS in early November, to get a family of his own. He's a clever sweet guy who would do wonderfully in an active family or as a running buddy.
It's also an opportunity for cats like Lily, a 1 year-old girl who runs to greet everyone who enters cat Colony 1. She was returned to us in late May and has been patiently waiting for a new family to add them to their hearts.
This week we hope to bring light to the hundreds of homeless pets, like Horton and Lily, of Hampton Roads. "Hampton Roads Homeless Pet Awareness Week" began on February 8 and during this week we hope to educate the public on all that goes into animals who have found a temporary home at an animal shelter. To show your support for homeless animals stop by the shelter to pick up an orange ribbon. The shelter is open 11-5 on Saturday, February 13th and 12:30-4:30 on Sunday, February 14th.
"By working with many of our partner shelters throughout Hampton Roads, we are able to raise awareness to a whole new level within all of our communities," said Heritage Humane Society's Executive Director, Kimberly Laska. "This is the 2nd Annual Event, and last year, 228 pets found their new home during this wonderful weekend. What a life-impacting collaboration for the pets in need."
For more updates on these animals, the Hampton Roads Homeless Pet Awareness Week and more please continue watching our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/HHSwilliamsburg/ and our blog postings. Come out and find your true love this weekend at HHS.
About Heritage Humane Society
The Heritage Humane Society serves as the compassionate steward of companion animals that are in transition from stray/surrender to forever homes. Heritage Humane Society will also educate the public about humane animal care and treatment, advocate animal welfare, and provide affordable adoption and spay/neuter services to measurably reduce overpopulation of unwanted companion animals. More than 90% of their funding comes from concerned citizens, corporations and foundations. Learn more at www.heritagehumanesociety.org or at www.facebook.com/hhswilliamsburg.
Kimberly Laska, Executive Director
Heritage Humane Society
430 Waller Mill Road
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Shelter Phone: 757-221-0150
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What happens when you eat too much salt?
As a nation, the UK are above the intake guidelines for salt, which, for an adult, is 6g per day. To put that into perspective, there's about half a gram in a small packet of crisps, or one ham and cheese sandwich. But what does salt do to our insides? Viknesh Selvarajah from Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, researches the impacts of salt and has a very unique perspective on the effects of high blood pressure, as he explained to Chris Smith...
Viknesh - I am a researcher in salt related disease and I had a stroke last year, interestingly enough. I had a bleed in my brain that was typical of a hypertensive stroke, which is a stroke you get with high blood pressure
Chris - Now we should be clear here. You're in your 30s. It's very young for someone, because most people who have strokes are older?
Viknesh - Yes. I had normal blood pressure, I had a healthy diet and I was a runner. So that was really unexpected and unlucky.
Chris - What happened that day?
Viknesh - Well, I was running a half marathon. I came back, I felt unwell and, about eight hours later, I lost my ability to speak. I lost all power of my right side, I lost my vision and I collapsed. I basically was close to dying but, fortunately, the bleeding stopped just in time for me to avoid surgery. The cause of the stroke was never clear.
Chris - Well you have made a very good recovery. Admittedly, you do struggle a little bit with movement...
Viknesh - I do.
Chris - ... but for someone to be in that state and to now be being interviewed on a radio programme. That's a dramatic turn around.
Viknesh - Certainly. My wife has been very supportive and I have done a lot of physio, and we were actually drilling holes, hanging up curtains this morning. So, it's been a long, long journey but I've been improving slowly and steadily.
Chris - For a kidney doctor who spends a lot of his time worrying about his patients' blood pressure, this must give you enormous insight into what the consequences can be?
Viknesh - Certainly. I've always told my patients to watch their blood pressure because high blood pressure is associated with stroke but, from now onwards, I can tell them I know what it feels like to have a stroke and I know nobody wants to have one.
Chris - What is the relationship between salt and blood pressure? What's that guidance based on - what's the evidence?
Viknesh - Over the last 100 years or so there's been a number of studies looking at the relationship between salt intake and blood pressure and, without a doubt, it's right to say that populations which consume more salt have higher blood pressure. What is also interesting is we used to think that increasing our blood pressure with age was inevitable when, in actual fact, with populations with low salt intake such as indigenous populations, you don't see a rise in blood pressure with age.
Chris - How do you know, when you talk about indigenous populations, that this is not a genetic thing? These people are all genetically the same and whether or not they add salt to their diet is just a confounding variable. It's one of these bystander effects, it has nothing to do with the reality of the blood pressure.
Viknesh - In the very large studies carried out more than 50 years ago called the Intersalt study, looking at indigenous people in their own environment and those people who move to the cities, and they watched these people change when they entered different environments and had more salt, their blood pressures went up.
Chris - Do we know why?
Viknesh - The actual mechanism for salt increase in blood pressure is debatable. Most people think that increasing your salt intake increases the amount of blood volume and that pushes up your blood pressure.
Chris - Why should eating more salt increase your blood volume? What's the mechanism of that?
Viknesh - Sodium controls where water goes, so the extracellular volume, which is one third of all the water in your body, tends to be bound to sodium. So, if you eat more sodium you tend to drink more and you tend to keep more volume in the extracellular space.
Chris - So if there's more water in the blood vessels, they're stretching the blood vessels more so, therefore, the pressures going to be higher?
Viknesh - Exactly.
Chris - Why do we think that people's salt intake has risen in this way?
Viknesh - It's interesting. Mose of the salt that we eat isn't from the salt that we add to our food. It's actually from processed foods. Things like bread, cereals, cheese, sausages and bacon. We've become very used to eating processed food and in processed food we have incredible amounts of salt. A slice of bread used to contain the same amount of salt as a packet of crisps. When this was highlighted by an organisation called CASH, the food and beverage industry realised they had to cut back on salt. And that was quite alarming that people were eating salt and not realising how much they were actually eating.
Chris - What you're saying is that because we all this intake, we've almost adapted to expect that taste and so when things don't have that much salt, we don't like them?
Viknesh - We certainly rely on salt to make food taste better. It appears that salt helps us to enhance the taste of sweetness and increase the taste of bitterness and make the flavour of the food taste more full. It's interesting that the processes by which this occurs is not fully understood but it certainly implies that salt makes our food taste better to us.
Chris - So what would you prescribe then - a better chef?
Viknesh - I would certainly encourage people to read the labels on what they buy. If you buy processed food like bread or meat, read what's on the labels. Very often, what you see is not what you expect. We advise that you eat no more than 6 grams of salt a day. You'd be surprised how easily you can reach 6 grams.
Chris - Where did that 6 grams come from?
Viknesh - A number of studies done over the years show that 6 grams is associated with ideal blood pressures and, therefore, reduce risk of heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure.
Chris - And what proportion of people do you think actually hit that 6 grams a day target?
Viknesh - The minority. The most recent survey called the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, the average salt intake for a male in England was 9 grams. The average salt intake for a woman was 7 grams so, overall, we are still eating too much salt.
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We are living in historic times. Two African Americans, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice are serving in high profile political positions within the Bush administration. I'm glad their expertise is being called upon to resolve conflicts around the world. Powell and Rice, through their highly developed skills, pry one more nail out of the box that limits African American contributions to music and athletics. In the vernacular of the African American community, "they do us proud."
Yet, we are also living in some confusing times. Many people have been lamenting a tragic incident that occurred on Chicago's south side several weeks ago. It was another case of African American-on-African American killings. Three African American women were sitting on a porch. A rental truck suddenly veered into the porch, sending all three women to the hospital. Then a crowd of African American men pulled the driver and passenger (both African Americans) from the truck beat them to death. Subsequently, one of the young women died. Seven or eight men are now in jail on charges of murder. The police chief, ministers, and others immediately spoke out against this crime.
These two events in the life of the African American community reveal a host of significant questions: Who bears the responsibility for shaping moral behavior of African American people? What role does the family play in shaping responsible moral behavior? In what ways was the church helpful in transmitting values that enhance the life of African American people and the human race generally? Does the community, in this case the African American community, bear any responsibility for shaping morality?
One of the fundamental truisms of life is this: to be a human is to be a social creature. And to be a human is to be a moral creature. It is near impossible for a human to be amoral; that is, without some value system that guides who one is, who one is to be, and how one is to act. It is possible, however, for humans to be immoral. For example, in the second event mentioned above, one of our judgments would be that the men acted immorally. That judgment is based upon standards or actions we consider appropriate for relationships between people. The men are immoral because they behaved in a manner outside our conceptions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, the common good and rank individualism. The question, though, is how does one decide what is moral behavior and immoral behavior?
I have always understood that the "we" is greater than the "I." Deep in the sensibilities and ethos of the African American community is the moral principle of uplifting the race. That is to say, all moral actions are judged to be moral when they honor, support, and enhance the race. To be an African American means one belongs not just to one's immediate family (i.e., nuclear family). One belongs to the African American community because it is presupposed that we have all been shaped by a context of racism and racial discrimination. Thus, one is expected to know and understand the history, beliefs, values, rituals, and strategies for survival of the community. The goal of morality is always what is being done to build the community.
I may be more of a traditionalist these days. Many sociologists, ethicists, and political types contend that many problems in society are due to the disintegration of the family. They may be right. However, it seems to me those views depend on the worldview they bring to the analysis of the family. If one begins with understanding the family as being a "nuclear" family, there may be moral disintegration occurring.
My own opinion is that when we investigate the African American family, a broader view needs to be taken. That is, family or more precisely the extended family and community are the same. The responsibility for teaching morality resides not just with parents. All members of the community: grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, ministers, teachers, police officers, barbers and beauticians take responsibility for shaping moral behavior. When parents for whatever reasons become dysfunctional, the community takes over.
How does the African American community nurture the transmission of moral behavior? The concept of "communion of saints" which we regularly confess each time we gather as a worshiping community is useful. This phrase points to an important motto so prominent within the African American religious and theological tradition, "the kinship of all people." Kinship, like communion of saints and the extended family, reminds us that we are all related to one another. Both concepts convey that our ancestors and our living kin play an important role is shaping who we are, who we will be, and how we are to act. There is a sense of solidarity.
This is one of the gifts of the African American community to the world. It is best captured in the proverb, "I am because we are, and since we are, therefore, I am." There is a sense of mutuality between how the community shapes the individual and how the individual shapes the community. From an ethics point of view, the individual can be formed only in community in its broadest understanding. And that means having conversations with each other.
It may well be that the specific mission of the Lutheran church in its ministry with and among African American people has to be more than introducing and inculcating the Lutheran ethos. It may well be the mission of the Lutheran church to reintroduce the folks to their cultural, religious, and ethical heritage. And that means being grounded in the moral wisdom passed on through the elders, songs, sermons, poetry, and proverbs. The "We" is greater than the "I." What do you think?
© August 2002
Journal of Lutheran Ethics
Volume 2, Issue 8
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The volume “Electroluminescence” for the first time covers (almost) all kinds of electroluminescence. In its broadest sense electroluminescence is the conversion of electric power into optical power – light. The way, in which this goal is accomplished, and the goal, the application itself, has varied over time. First reported in the scientific literature in 1936 by the French physicist G. Destriau, it was for quite some decades the glow of a powder embedded in a resin under the action of an alternating voltage. The dream of “cold light” for illumination was born in the 50s. Modern semiconductor technology, using p-n juntion, but not in silicon or germanium, but in GaAs and GaP, created in the 70s the tiny Light emitting Diodes. Today about 50 for every human being have been sold. They are everywhere for signaling and display of numbers and short texts. And they are at the verge of an era of solid state lighting, replacing gradually incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps. In the first half of 1999 several j
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RIM will be introducing an new feature in BlackBerry 7.1 called Application Resource Monitor. Application Resource Monitor is a feature that will monitor applications running on your BlackBerry that are abusing precious system resources. There is also going to be an option that will automatically shutdown background battery draining applications. Hit the break to find out more!
What It Does
BlackBerry Application Resource Monitor monitors applications when they are in the background (with the screen on or off) and when in the foreground when the screen is off. When the app is in one of these two states, it looks for excessive background wakeups (any sort of timers firing including rapid/constant repaints) and high CPU utilization.
When efficient applications are in these two states, they should not be consuming an excessive amount of CPU or exhibiting any sort of timer abuse. When the problematic application is identified, an alert may be presented to the user. If “Automatically shutdown background draining applications” is enabled, the user is alerted and the application is shut down. If it is disabled, the user is alerted and they have the ability to close the app from within the notification. The ability to automatically shut down background-draining applications can be enabled and disabled within the Application Resource Monitor options access on a BlackBerry® smartphone by going to Options -> Device > Application Resource Monitor. The default setting is for it to be enabled.
Applications can also be whitelisted so that they are not shut down by Application Resource Monitor. To whitelist an application, users need to first receive an alert. If the ability to automatically shut down background-draining applications is disabled, they are simply alerted about the problematic application. They can acknowledge the alert (OK), whitelist the app (Ignore Future Alerts) or choose to manually shutdown the app (Kill it Themselves). If it is enabled, the application will be shut down and an alert presented to the user. The user can then open the alert to acknowledge and dismiss it, or whitelist the application to ignore this application going forward. To remove items from the whitelist, users can go to Options > Device > Application Resource Monitor.
How to Avoid Being Shut Down
You can prevent your application from being shut down by Application Resource Monitor by detecting and adapting to the state changes described above. If we use the example of a game, you can put your game into a paused state where it is not making any game play calculations for things like physics or artificial intelligence, and so it is not refreshing the screen when the game has moved to the background or when the screen has turned off.
Via: BlackBerry Dev Blog
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There a huge number of introductions and tutorials about git on the internet. Some good examples:
And there are some handy manpages, too:
2. Example of how development could be done
DataSHIELD code is stored on Github. Github has its own useful guides for development and contributing to open-source projects. Here you can find more information about 'pull requests', which is one way of contributing to
Some basic setup
First, ensure git knows who you are:
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "email@example.com"
1. Pull from the repository
Make sure are up-to-date with the latest changes (and remember you may want to pull all the repositories). The first time you need to clone the repository where the repository origin is its web address. Subsequent updates can be done with
git clone https://github.com/....
The repository will be cloned or pulled into the directory from which the command is run.
2. Create a private branch off a public branch.
By default you will be on whichever branch you were last working on. You can check what branches exist by running the following in the copy of the repository on your computer:
You'll see that this lists both local and remote branches. The remote branches belong to
We shouldn't work on
master. Instead switch to
Note, this assumes there is a
dev branch. If
dev doesn't exist, then you can create it and move to it in one command by
In fact, working on
dev might get messy. So create a new branch that is a copy of
dev, that you can safely make a mess of:
3. Regularly commit your work to this private branch.
Now make all the changes you want, test it works etc etc. If you finish some part of what you're doing, or you want to 'save' your edits up to that point, you can save (that is, 'commit') the change. But first, you might want to check exactly which files you've changed:
Or, to see exactly which parts of the files you've changed:
You don't have to commit everything at once, if you've made multiple changes that are not logically related to each other. To pick the files you want (i.e. to 'stage' them):
If you want to see the difference between only those files that you have staged (i.e. run `git add` on) then simply pass the staged flag:
This can be very useful when using the commands below to stage only some of the changes within a file.
If there are multiple, logically independent changes within a single file then you can split those by:
Then, to commit those files you've added:
git commit -s -m '<explanation of changes>'
The '-s' option adds a nice little "signed-off by: <your name>" at the bottom of the commit message.
The '-m' flag is not optional, it is the message that describes the commit.
If you want to add everything and commit it in one step, you can:
git commit -am '<commit message>'
And if you want to edit the message you wrote for the last commit you made:
- Note, to amend the messages of older commits you can use
git rebase -i, see below.
4. Once your code is perfect, clean up its history.
You may have made lots of changes and lots of commits on your
messydev branch; and so it will be messy. To see just how messy:
If you want more detail about the changes in each commit:
If you want less detail and just a summary then:
or, for a really pretty summary:
git log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate
You might want to re-order some of these commits, or squash a series of commits together into one, more logical commit:
This selects the last three commits; you can then choose how to manipulate them. You can specify any number of commits counting backwards from HEAD. However, don't manipulate any of the commits from the
dev branch, just those that you have added on your
messydev branch. Rebasing is a way of changing the history of what has been done.
Alternatively, you can specify a particular commit to rebase to. So if commit 054966b is 5 commits back from HEAD, then you can select them all 5 with:
Note: The caret '^' at the end of the commit means this commit itself is included in the rebase. If you omitt the caret, then only those commits up to this one will be included in the rebase.
5. Merge the cleaned-up branch back into the public branch.
First, switch back to the
Before the merge, you might want to check there have not been other changes made to
The simplest way to do the merge is:
Also, you can merge in different ways. For example, you can squash all the changes you made on your private
messydev branch into a single commit and just merge that:
git merge --squash messydev
Or you can ensure that the merge creates a new commit keeping a record of the merge in the commit history:
git merge --no-ff messydev
6. Push to the shared repository and delete your private branch.
If you cloned the git repositories, then by default you will have a remote defined (origin). You can view this by:
You may or may not have permission to 'push' your changes back to this remote repository. For example:
git checkout dev
git push origin dev
Even if you have permission, never push to the
If you don't have permission to push to the remote repository, then you can either:
- Push to your own personal github repository (if you have one, if not, 'fork' the datashield repository you're working on) and submit a 'pull' request (i.e. a request for the DataSHIELD team to pull in your changes).
- Create a patch for your changes, and email these to the DataSHIELD team. For example, using
git format-patch and
After you have pushed your changes, delete your private branch:
7. Let someone else do the housekeeping
Alternatively, push your private branch to github and let someone else do the housekeeping with the history and manage the merging of the branches, and who will then delete your private branch from the shared repository on github.
git checkout messdev
git push origin messydev
git branch -D messydev
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Incident hyperglycaemia among older adults with or at-risk for HIV infectionSarit Polsky, Michelle Floris-Moore, Ellie E Schoenbaum, Robert S Klein, Julia H Arnsten, Andrea A Howard
Corresponding author name: Andrea A Howard
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Citation: Antiviral Therapy 2011; 16:181-188
Date published online: 12 January 2011
Background: HIV infection has been associated with development of prediabetes and diabetes. Optimum screening practices for these disorders in HIV-infected populations remain unclear.
Methods: We screened 377 adults, with or at-risk for HIV infection, for incident hyperglycaemia (prediabetes or diabetes) using two oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) a median of 18.6 months apart. We determined proportion of incident cases detected by fasting and 120-min plasma glucose levels. Independent predictors of incident hyperglycaemia were identified using logistic regression.
Results: The baseline OGTT was consistent with diabetes in 7% of participants and with prediabetes in 31%. Among 352 normoglycaemic and prediabetic participants at baseline, 19 (5%) developed diabetes on follow-up. Among participants normoglycaemic at baseline, an additional 38 (16%) developed prediabetes. Overall 52% of incident hyperglycaemia cases were detected by fasting plasma glucose alone, 33% by a 120-min glucose level alone and 15% by both. Factors independently associated with incident hyperglycaemia included age ≥50 years and body mass index ≥30 kg/m2. Neither HIV infection nor highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use were associated with increased risk of diabetes.
Conclusions: Incident hyperglycaemia is common among older adults with or at-risk for HIV infection. HIV-infected individuals with classic diabetes risk factors should be screened for hyperglycaemia regardless of HAART use. OGTTs might be the preferred screening strategy in HIV-infected individuals at high risk for developing hyperglycaemia.
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Justin Peterson’s review published on Letterboxd:
The fury of the Hamlet legend gets back to its roots, by unleashing the most badass Norse warrior imaginable!
"It is not enough to be the man that never cries, prince Amleth. The prince that turned from his fate. A beast that care for not! A beast that brings tears from the eyes of man! Now remember for whom you shed your last teardrop!"
Between my Scandinavian heritage, appreciation of Viking lore, and love of intense medieval action ... I was lined up perfectly to be apart of the key target audience for Director Robert Eggers' The Northman. With this being such a familiar story, Eggers mostly flexes his abilities by bringing us into this incredibly violent and mystical world of Vikings. Complete with amazing production design and atmospheric dream sequences.
"You must choose between kindness for your kin, and hatred for your enemies."
(Quick Hits) ... Spoilers:
- If I had a complaint it would be that we did not get to see even more of
Alexander Skarsgård's character Amleth going into berserker mode
- While watching I thought they were actually calling him Hamlet, but it turns out the legend of Amleth was the inspiration for Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'
- As much as I love viking culture, I suppose it is important to remember these guys were a mighty savage ravenous hoard
- I have never been much of an Anya Taylor-Joy fan, but she is breathtaking in this as she rises to the occasion as an upcoming Norse Queen
- It was also neat to see Nicole Kidman in the role of Queen Gudrún, and she certainly has a surprise up her sleeve at the end
- Ethan Hawke's character King Aurvandil War-Raven's demise felt so tragic. Although I will have to go back and see if there were any hints that foreshadow Gudrún's claims at the end ... or maybe she had just gone native
- Wow, how creepy cool was Björk as a soothsayer
- Amleth is introduced as this incredible warrior, so it was a nice touch to see him go more covert and unleash a slow and sinister revenge plot on his uncle. Including terrorizing them by stringing up massacred bodies
- Wait was that a viking warrior with braces riding into Valhalla?
- Hats off to Eggers for hooking me in so deep, that I become uncertain of how the climax would end up playing out
Now I am curious to find out if there are any other amazing Viking movies I have been missing out on. 'Valhalla Rising' comes to mind, can you all recommend any others?
Thanks for reading.
Happy movie watching ... Skål! 🍻
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- 1 Which is the best Indian biryani?
- 2 How many types of Indian biryani are there?
- 3 What is the famous food of biryani?
- 4 What is bejawada biryani?
- 5 Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
- 6 Which type of biryani is best?
- 7 Is biryani healthy or unhealthy?
- 8 Which biryani is spicy?
- 9 Who is the father of biryani?
- 10 Who made biryani first?
- 11 Is a biryani hot?
- 12 What is masakali chicken biryani?
- 13 Why is Vijayawada called bezawada?
- 14 What is temper chicken biryani?
Which is the best Indian biryani?
10 Best Biryani Places in India
- Lucknow. Originating from the Awadhi cuisine, Lucknow prepares its biryani’s meat and rice separately.
- Hyderabad. Another gem of the biryanis is the famous Hyderabadi biryani originated from the kitchens of the Nizams of Hyderabad.
How many types of Indian biryani are there?
15 Types Of Biryani You Have To Try In India. India is known for its rich and diverse culinary traditions, but one of its most iconic foods is enjoyed throughout the country. Almost every region in India has its own version of the biryani, and there are over 26 types of biryani in India.
What is the famous food of biryani?
The crown dish of Hyderabadi Cuisine, Hyderabadi biryani developed under the rule of Asaf Jah I, who was first appointed as the governor of Deccan by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. It is made with basmati rice, spices and goat meat. Popular variations use chicken instead of goat meat.
What is bejawada biryani?
Unless the Hyderabadi Dum Biriyani. As this is a fried chicken biriyani, you gonna fry the chicken pieces first and then prepare the masala. The assembling is much similar how you did for the hyderbadi Dum Biriyani.
Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
Biriyani has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent and is popular beyond the region. The word “biryani” comes from the Persian word “birian” which means “fried before cooking.” This South Asian mixed rice dish has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.
Which type of biryani is best?
Ranking The Top 10 Biryanis In India: A Foodies Ultimate Guide
- Kampuri Biryani.
- Ambur Biryani.
- Goan Fish Biryani.
- Kashmiri Biryani.
- Bombay Biryani.
- Sindhi Biryani.
- Thalassery biryani.
- Lucknow / Awadhi Biryani.
Is biryani healthy or unhealthy?
While biryani is known to be a high calorie-rich diet with each serving having an average of 500 calories, the ghee, vanaspati and red meat used in their preparation lead to NAFLD.
Which biryani is spicy?
Hyderabadi biryani is usually meaty and spicy and has a good color of zaffran. Lucknowi biryani, on the other hand, is smooth and its meat is marinated in yoghurt and herbs.
Who is the father of biryani?
While there are multiple theories about how biryani made its way to India, it is generally accepted that it originated in West Asia. One legend has it that the Turk-Mongol conqueror, Timur, brought the precursor to the biryani with him when he arrived at the frontiers of India in 1398.
Who made biryani first?
Many historians believe that biryani originated from Persia and was brought to India by the Mughals. Biryani was further developed in the Mughal royal kitchen. the Mughal soldiers looked undernourished. In order to provide a balanced diet to the soldiers, she asked the chefs to prepare dish with meat and rice.
Is a biryani hot?
The Biryani is classed as a medium on the heat scale and has more of a tomato-based taste rather than a creamy texture. Often used as a vegetarian alternative, the meat in a Biryani can be replaced with either seafood or simply grilled vegetables.
What is masakali chicken biryani?
Boneless Chicken Masakali (Spicy) pieces cooked with basmati rice, flavored with saffron and aromatic.
Why is Vijayawada called bezawada?
A tale behind its acquiring the name Bezawada is that Goddess Krishnaveni (River Krishna) requested Arjuna to make a passage for her to merge into the Bay of Bengal. Hence, Arjuna made a bejjam (hole) through the mountains and the place came to be known as Bejjamwada which later changed to Bezawada.
What is temper chicken biryani?
That there’s a chain of restaurants devoted to biryani says something about the heady, perfumed, intensely spiced Indian rice dish so commonly served on special occasions. The “temper” in this case refers to a cooking style where the spices are cooked in oil or ghee before being mixed with the rice.
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Chiller causes issues for researchers
An aquarium chiller malfunction has posed a life-threatening situation to an unknown amount of fish at UWM’s Freshwater Sciences building, according to staff members.
Dr. Berri Forman, assistant director and research veterinarian for the Animal Use and Care Committee, says that there can be as many as millions of fish- a majority being babies- at the School of Freshwater Sciences. The number of fish endangered by the chiller malfunction is unknown. The Animal Use and Care Committee (ACUC) met Friday, Oct. 25 to discuss this ongoing issue.
Dr. Kurt Svoboda, an associate professor for the Environmental and Occupational Health program, almost lost 10 years of research with the last problem they had.
“I’m from Louisiana, and I felt more uncertain up here and the way this was handled than I did living through a hurricane that almost took down a city,” he said.
Svoboda says that it is stressful having a research program at the Freshwater Sciences building because they have influctions of heat and cold all of the time.
According to Greg Adams, Director of Facility Services, the chiller was a problem when it was first put in.
“There was a lawsuit,” says Adams, “[but] none of it was in their control because it was a state project.” However, University Relations has no record of any complaints filed with the ACUC.
Svoboda says that an easy fix to the problem would be to have confident people oversee the infrastructure.
The maintenance support staff for the chiller said they will provide the support necessary, but they ask that the staff in the Freshwater Sciences building “keep [their] hands off.” Maintenance says that staff interference has been a problem in the past. One staff member advised the Freshwater Sciences staff to “let us do our job and don’t interfere.”
Part of the Animal Use and Care Committee’s mission statement is to provide for the care, health, and well-being of animals used for research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Forman says that the animals that are kept on campus vary, but can include rats, mice, fish, and birds. The animals vary based on what research is being conducted. It is up to the ACUC to ensure that the correct procedures are followed and that everything is up to code.
Adams concluded the meeting segment with a promise.
“You have my commitment. We’ll maintain that building the way that building is supposed to be maintained. When work is called in and its not done, I’ll know it’s not done and we’ll get it done. That’s my commitment. I’m sorry about what happened in the past. I can’t fix what happened in the past, but you have my plan and you have my commitment. I’d much prefer face to face engagement with my customers and with my colleagues.”
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World-Stock-Exchanges.net features a list of world stock exchanges, securities commissions and other regulatory agencies, as well as stock market resources.
Top 5 Stock Exchanges
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) - Headquartered in New York City. Market Capitalization (2011, USD Billions) – 14,242; Trade Value (2011, USD Billions) – 20,161.
The largest stock exchange in the world by both market capitalization and trade value. NYSE is the premier listing venue for the world’s leading large- and medium-sized companies. Operated by NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., NYSE offers a broad and growin array of financial products and services in cash equities, futures, options, exchange-traded products (ETPs), bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. Featuring more than 8000 listed issues it includes 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 82% of the S&P 500 stock market indexes volume.
NASDAQ OMX - Headquartered in New York City. Market Capitalization (2011, USD Billions) - 4,687; Trade Value (2011, USD Billions) – 13,552.
Second largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization and trade value. The exchange is owned by NASDAQ OMX Group which also owns and operates 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed invome, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. It is a home to approximately 3,400 listed companies and its main index is the NASDAQ Composite, which has been published since its inception. Stock market is also followed by S&P 500 index.
Tokyo Stock Exchange - Headquartered in Tokyo. Market Capitalization (2011, USD Billions) – 3,325; Trade Value (2011, USD Billions) – 3,972.
Third largest stock exchange market in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies. It had 2,292 companies which are separated into the First Section for large companies, the Second Section for mid-sized companies, and the Mothers section for high growth startup companies. The main indices tracking Tokyo Stock Exchange are the Nikkei 225 index of companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the TOPIX index based on the share prices of First Section companies, and the J30 index of large industrial companies. 94 domestic and 10 foreign securities companies participate in TSE trading. The London Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange are developing jointly traded products and share technology.
London Stock Exchange - Headquartered in London. Market Capitalization (2011, USD Billions) – 3,266; Trade Value (2011, USD Billions) – 2,871.
Located in London City, it is the oldest and fourth-largest stock exchange in the world. The Exchange was founded in 1801 and its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul’s Cathedral. It is the most international of all the world’s stock exchanges, with around 3,000 companies from over 70 countries admitted to trading on its markets. The London Stock Exchange runs several markets for listing, giving an opportunity for different sized companies to list. For the biggest companies exists the Premium Listed Main Market, while in terms of smaller SME’s the Stock Exchange operates the Alternative Investment Market and for international companies that fall outside the EU, it operates the Depository Receipt scheme as a way of listing and raising capital.
It is the world’s 5th largest stock market by market capitalization and one of the two stock exchanges operating independently in the People’s Republic of China. Unlike the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the SSE is not entirely open to foreign investors. The main reason is tight capital account controls by Chinese authorities. The securities listed at the SSE include the three main categories of stocks, bonds, and funds. Bonds traded on SSE include treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and convertible corporate bonds. The largest company in SSE is PetroChina (market value – 3,656.20 billion).
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Axis.org - Signup for The Culture Translator. Want to better understand the world your student inhabits? The Culture Translator provides weekly insight into how pop culture, technology, and media are influencing your students while equipping you to start biblically based conversations.
David Eaton and Melanie Mudge coach parents on how to talk to their kids about true freedom and explain why living without boundaries isn’t freedom at all.
Bob: Who is having more influence on your children today?—you as Mom and Dad?—the Bible?—or their peer group? Melanie Mudge says one of those voices is operating on steroids in our day.
Melanie: Peer pressure is, obviously, super powerful—I mean, we’ve all been there—but even today, it’s even more powerful; because that peer pressure is constantly buzzing in our pocket. It’s not just like—“Oh, I go to school; and I get this peer pressure from my friends to look this certain way, or do a certain thing, or be a certain way, or kiss this boy, or…”—whatever. It’s, now, constantly in their pockets.
Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, February 9th. Our host is Dennis Rainey; I’m Bob Lepine. How can we help our children care more about what God thinks than about what their peers think? That’s an ongoing struggle; right? We’re going to spend time talking about that today.
Stay with us.
And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. There is a classic moment from the history of FamilyLife Today. In fact, we’ve played this not long ago. It’s that moment where your daughter was feeling completely trapped in the Rainey household. She felt like Mom and Dad were her jailers. You remember the story; right?
Dennis: Oh, do I remember it?! I lived it! [Laughter]
Bob: This was your daughter, Rebecca. She was out with a friend—
Dennis: —Christian friend.
Bob: —and she was complaining about all the rules and all of the boundaries.
Dennis: In fact, the Christian friend’s father used to work at FamilyLife.
Bob: The Christian friend’s daughter said to your daughter—
—said: “You’re just a caged bird. You just need to get the key, and let yourself out of the cage, and be free.” Your daughter was like, “Yes; that’s what I need!” She said, “I had no idea what that meant, but it just felt so right—that I should be free.” Of course, living in the oppressive Rainey household, we all understand why she felt that way. [Laughter]
Dennis: It was just terrible. We laugh about this today, and it was the saddest act I have ever seen of any childhood play.
Bob: She came to you and—[Laughter]
Dennis: Oh, she was in tears [falsetto voice]: “I just want to—I just feel like a caged bird! I just want out! I want out. You’ve just got me trapped.” Now, she’s a mother to six kids. So, she’s learning about freedom and about how to let the birds out of the cage.
Bob: And when not to let the birds out of the cage.
Dennis: Well, we’ve got a pair of folks, who work at Axis, which is a great ministry that’s been developed over the past decade to address the needs of teenagers—
—helping them connect with their parents/grandparents. David Eaton and Melanie Mudge join us again on the broadcast. Melanie/David, welcome back.
David: Thanks for having us!
Dennis: Let’s talk about this subject of freedom. Melanie, we were talking to you about “What are the issues today that young people are facing?” You said, “Freedom.” I said, “That’s kind of an old-fashioned term.” [Laughter] That’s been around for a while; hasn’t it?
Melanie: It has.
Dennis: What are you seeing kids struggle with today—teenagers, especially?
Melanie: I think it’s the definition of freedom: “What does it mean to be truly free?” Culture is telling them all the time that: “Freedom equals the ability to do whatever I want, whenever I want, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else.”
Dennis: —with no boundaries?
Melanie: —with no boundaries; yes. “Freedom equals no boundaries.” I think they think that’s what adulthood is too. They can’t wait to get out of the house; because then they can be free, and no boundaries, and do whatever they want; but that’s not the real world.
I mean, we all know, even if we don’t want to have consequences for our actions, they are still going to be there.
I think part of being an adult is realizing there’s no such thing as that kind of freedom. Real freedom is freedom from the power of sin in our lives, and it is freedom to live that abundant life; but they are not taught that. They hear this message over and over again from culture—that freedom equals the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want—and that’s what they believe it is.
Dennis: So, parents are listening—they are going, “I’m hearing this echo from my kids.” In fact, it’s starting at earlier and earlier ages today, I believe. What would you coach a parent—to do, to say, how to behave / how to talk to a child—so they don’t dismiss their desire to be grown up, to be older and responsible? We want them to grow up / we want them to be free of our control; but in the process of growing up, they’ve got to make some mistakes. They’ve got to make it while they’re at home so we can coach them how to handle it.
David: So, I love this G.K. Chesterton quote. He talks about how boundaries are created by God so that good things can run wild. I think, with freedom, there has to be this overarching goal of like: “God has made the world a certain way. He’s made you a certain way. So, I want to see good things run wild in your life.”
Bob: We were talking, earlier, about the Passport2Purity® resource that FamilyLife® developed many years ago. We actually developed a follow-up to that—parents were asking us for something—so, we came up with Passport2Identity™. The beginning of this—this is for 13-/14-year-old kids and their parents—but the whole premise at the beginning is: “A 14-year-old wants freedom, and Mom and Dad want you to have freedom at the right time. There is a connection between responsibility and freedom. There’s a connection between life management and freedom. So, as you demonstrate, as a young person, that you know how to handle responsibility and how to manage your life well, more freedom will come.”
But we start with the premise: “Your goal, as a teenager, and our goal, as a parent, is the same. We both want freedom for you. Now, we’ve got to figure out what’s the path from where you are today to where you want to get to.”
Dennis: And if you’ll send in a donation to FamilyLife Today for $50, Bob will come to your teenager and say just that. [Laughter] That was masterful, Bob! I was going, “Where were you when I was raising teenagers?” [Laughter]
Bob: Well, the wisdom comes after the kids are gone. [Laughter]
Dennis: Oh, it does! Now: “I have rehearsed the speech so many times.”
David, you’ve got a young daughter. You need to listen carefully—
Bob: —take notes.
Dennis: —to what he is saying.
David: I just am taking notes. I love that he also said—is the wisdom comes, oftentimes, in the do over; right?
David: You’re a grandpa now; and so, grandparents have this awesome opportunity to, maybe, fix some things that they did wrong. Oftentimes, when parents—of course, we see this, because we travel and we speak to a lot of parents—is where parents get so like frustrated and uptight of:
“My daughter keeps asking for freedom and like all this stuff. It’s offensive to me.” Grandpa or Grandma can slip in—they’ve got the long play—they’re not as offended in the now, and they can help kind of cultivate that bigger picture.
Bob: The thing about freedom that paralyzes us, as parents, is the culture is saying life is found in all of these things that we know, as parents, can be enslaving / can be damaging.
Bob: So, when our kids say, “We want freedom,” we go: “We’re afraid of what you’re going to go investigate,” or “…where that’s going to take you.” In fact, I heard about a dialogue taking place between some middle school kids recently; and they were talking about gender and sexuality. They were expressing kind of their sense of freedom—what that should look like. One of the kids was saying, “I think I’m probably 70 percent hetero and, maybe, 30 percent gay.”
This whole issue of fluidity in gender and sexuality is one of these areas where, when parents think about that and freedom, they go: “Uh-uh. No; I’m putting my daughter in a convent right now, and my son is going to a monastery.” [Laughter]
David: Well, I think whenever you hear that, the first thing you need to do is practice your “I’m not shocked,” face—so, just whatever that is. Right now—if you’re driving right now, and you’re hearing this; or you’re at home—just practice that “I’m not shocked,” face; because the next generation—it’s kind of normal where you just grow up and you might feel like there’s this 70 percent / 30 percent.
When we grew up—you know, I’m 34—it was just like, “You’re a boy,” or “You’re a girl,”—that was actually a gift that was given to me. It was like those were my options. Now, if you’re on Facebook®, you have over 50 options; or it’s LGBTQAIAA?—you know all of these different options. So, again, this is a byproduct of that idea of freedom.
Again, to come back and say, “Hey, God has made us in a certain way so that good things can run wild,”—is really great—I love that you went after that in Passport2Identity, because that is the question.
It used to be all about apologetics. Then, it was all about worldview. Then, it was all about “What is your story?” Then, it was all about spiritual formation, and habits, and liturgy. I mean, these are all things that we’ve kind of noticed at Axis over the years. Now, it’s the question of the soul or the question of identity: “What does it mean to be human?”—that’s the starting point, where I think I have the conversation about the gospel.
Bob: And it’s not a new question, because every 14-year-old who has ever been a 14-year-old has been asking the question: “What am I good at?” “How do I get people to like me?” “Where do I fit in this world?” “What am I here for?” All of those questions in middle emerge. People make life-shaping decisions, at the age of 14, based on a quest to understand their identity.
Dennis: And that’s what I want to ask you two to coach parents on—is how to handle peer pressure. Coach parents at understanding how lethal peer pressure really is with their teenager and how they should go about engaging with their teen without feeling like they’re trying to run off all their friends from them.
Melanie: Peer pressure is obviously super powerful—I mean, we’ve all been there—but even today, it’s even more powerful; because that peer pressure is constantly buzzing in our pocket. It’s not just like—“Oh, I go to school; and I get this peer pressure from my friends to look a certain way, or do a certain thing, or be a certain, or kiss this boy or…”—whatever. It’s, now, constantly in their pockets, telling them: “You need to be this way,” or “…pursue this thing,”— or whatever.
I think parents need to understand, first and foremost, whatever peer pressure there was before has now been magnified a hundredfold because of these devices that we have. Then, in order to talk about it with their teens, I think it’s not a matter of just telling them: “Hey, your friends are dumb,” or “They’re 12, and they don’t know better than me,”—because that could be the temptation—
—is just kind of be like: “This is ridiculous. How could you even think that that even makes sense?”
But really, it’s looking beneath the surface and saying, “Why is this pressure so powerful to my kid right now?” Maybe, it’s that pressure to start wearing makeup—that was my thing when I was a teenage girl—was I couldn’t wait until I got to wear makeup and wear name-brand clothing. That was huge, because my mom always went to Costco® and Walmart®. I was so embarrassed of my non-name-brand shoes.
I mean, she [mom] knows / she sees from her perspective: “None of this has any significance. It doesn’t matter,”—but, really, it’s understanding: “Why is this captivating to my daughter’s heart? Why is this thing so drawing to her? There is a reason why she wants this so badly, and it’s something that’s not going to fulfill her. So, how do I help her see that there is something better to pursue?”
Dennis: Help parents understand, though, what’s happening with the cell phone that’s buzzing in their pocket. I found that really interesting that you would call that peer pressure.
Most of us, as parents, think about face-to-face peer pressure and getting in a crowd; but it is happening 24/7.
Bob: And it’s Facebook-to-Facebook peer pressure; right?
David: There’s—you’ve got to realize there’s no safe place anymore. There is a job—social media gives you a job, as a student—where you are always on, always performing, always comparing, always feeling less than or hoping that you get likes.
One of your things—as you were talking about peer pressure, Dennis—is: “How can you create a safe place as a parent?” It used to be, hopefully, the home was a safe place. You came home from school: [Parent]: “Did you make the baseball team?” “Did the girl like you back?” “Did you pass the test?” [Student]: “Ah; here I am. At least, I’m at home; and now, it’s safe.”
But now, that you’re home, you have social media lights up. I think an opportunity for parents is to really figure out: “How do we create these safe moments?—these safe places?” Then, you have to approach it—I think three things that come to my mind are: experience, story, and blessing. You want to realize:
“Have you created the right experience in your home, or wherever you’re at, with your son or your daughter, where they feel safe?—where they feel like the conversation can happen?”
Bob: —where they don’t get the shocked face.
David: Right; right. Well, yes; so, they say, “Hey, I saw two girls making out at school today.” Practice the “I’m not shocked” face so you create the experience, where they feel safe enough to bring that up.
The second thing is—you’re going to hear things that you didn’t face. There are going to be a lot of times, where you have to remember, “Oh, this is what it felt like”; but how do you have that level of curiosity and that interest in their story to know: “How does it really feel like to live in a world with LGBTQAIAA—all these acronyms? How does it really feel to have social media?” So, to have that level of curiosity and listen to them is going to make them feel so loved. It’s going to help you understand how to insert the last thing, which is the idea of a blessing.
How can you, in conversations—not where you spiritualize things or force things in—but you’re trying to bless their vision of reality and realize:
“Yes; that really doesn’t lead to life,” or “Man, we really missed out on this,” or “Wow! You’re so amazing at that. I love how intuitive you are at figuring out that situation at school. I just want to bless that as a part of who you are.”
Bob: Melanie, I’m thinking back to your Costco tennis shoes. [Laughter] I’m thinking, “You didn’t really care what tennis shoes you were wearing—
Bob: —“what you cared was that you had the social approval.”
Melanie: Correct; yes.
Bob: That’s where the mom and dad need to be able to clue in and go: “What is the real desire behind what my kids are asking for? What’s the need that they’re really expressing?”
It’s not that: “I have to have these tennis shoes, because my feet will feel better,” or “…I will perform in an athletic function more efficiently.” It’s because: “If I go with Costco shoes, I sit at this table at lunch; and if I go with Jordan’s, I sit at the other table at lunch. I want to sit with the cool kids”; right?
Melanie: And “I don’t want to be made fun of anymore.”
Melanie: That was part of it too—especially in middle school—that was the time.
David: “I don’t feel safe.”
Melanie: Yes; “I don’t want to be made fun of.”
That is what is crazy about these devices—is it used to be just: “Who do you know?” and “Those are the people who can pressure you.” Now, it’s someone in New York City, who wears the coolest clothes, and posts online, and is on Instagram® and Snapchat®. That person can also pressure me to feel not good about myself or that I don’t add up. Peer pressure isn’t even really peers anymore—it’s just anyone’s pressure.
Dennis: Yes; I agree.
I want to go back to something you said, David. You ran through a list, LGBTQAIA—something or other. So, what do all those letters represent?
David: We live in a world with—our students are faced with all kinds of gender options. So, LGBTQAIAA—I’m trying to think of them all right now, off the top of my head. So, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Inter-gender, Agender. The last one, I want to—there’s a question mark for Questioning or Queer. The last one is A—which is Ally—
—so that means a straight person, who is an ally of other people who are same-sex attracted.
Melanie: You mean Assist-gender straight person.
David: Yes; Assist-gender, which is—
Dennis: See, now, that’s what we’re talking about.
David: This is why you sign up for The Culture Translator—right?—because it’s going to continue to change / it’s going to continue to get longer. You don’t want to spend your time just hunting this stuff down, online. We want to bring that to you.
Dennis: A parent needs to understand this; but secondly, a parent has to understand that their kids have a face to all these letters—
Dennis: —all these genders. They’re relating to these kids, as human beings.
David: That’s really good.
Dennis: How do they have convictions and, yet, still love? How would you coach parents to train their kids to have convictions and, yet, still be a person who has compassion, love, and grace toward others?
David: This is a super complicated conversation. We’ve actually made a conversation kit on gender. We worked with Sean McDowell, Josh McDowell’s kid, and John Stonestreet, as well, to kind of—
—because you have to make a larger case for gender, sexuality, marriage. You also have to realize: “What kind of world do we live in with this idea of freedom?” So, you have to redefine your terms.
One term that is really big and is really insidious is authenticity. Oftentimes, you say: “I want freedom—freedom to be authentically me. I’ve got to be true to myself. I’ve got to be me. I’ve got to do me.” There’s all these “Whatever floats your boat,” and all these things. Here’s a complicated thought—I think you’re going to love it: “Authenticity is the new hypocrisy,” / “Authenticity is the new hypocrisy.”
Let me unpack that. When you are authentic to a lie / when you are authentic to a false story, it is very similar to being a faker or a hypocrite. So, a hypocrite is someone who is acting their way. With this idea of: “I have to be authentic to my sin nature,” / “I’ve got to be authentic to my predispositions to anger,”—
—“…to rage,” “…to alcoholism,” “…to all of these things,”—if you’re being authentic to that, no one says that’s a good thing. “I’ve got to be authentic to my selfishness,”—no; we live in community, and we’re better in community than in isolation—we are made for that.
So, when someone says, “I’ve got to be authentic,” there’s this sneaky gospel big-picture moment to say, “You’re being authentic to a world that’s way too small.”
Bob: Kevin DeYoung, in The Art of Parenting video series makes the statement—he says, “That great theologian, Lady Gaga, is teaching, ‘I was born this way.’”
Bob: He says, “That’s part right.”
David: That’s so true; yes.
Bob: But he says, “What we miss is that we were born one way, but we’re to be born again another way.” That’s the point you’re making. Yes; we—authenticity says, “I’m going to be controlled by my sin nature.” Redemption says, “No; I’m going to have victory over my sin nature.” That’s the real me—
—is the one who defeats my passions and my enslaving, sinful desires.
David: —because I trust that God loves me, and He has good plans for me, and He has a better world where I’m going to become more fully human.
I think that’s the really interesting part that we live in; because it’s all about—in a world of freedom, as Melanie was talking about earlier—it’s all about happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. The Bible says, “Happiness is great, but it’s secondary to holiness.”
Holiness is going to ground you. Holiness is going to allow you to enter into the core relationship with God and get that relationship right, first, so that you can have right relationships with others / so you can have right relationships with this world. Then, all of a sudden, you realize, “Life is so much more meaningful / has so much more depth.” They can handle the evil that seems confusing and insane in certain situations.
You can just say, in that moment: “You say you want to be authentic, but your world is just a little too small. There is a bigger, richer narrative for you to live into.”
Dennis: You know, we live in a culture today where the young people are taking the bait.
The bobber is going under this happiness bait that: “Live for yourself, and you’re going to be happy.” I think you guys pointed out in some of your research that 26 percent of the teenagers are struggling with depression compared to a population number of like 6 percent of adults. This is a group of young people who are being damaged by these choices.
As parents, we must do our job—as parents and grandparents—to be engaged with this generation / not allow them to push us out when we need to be in their lives. We need to love them—guide them / pick them up just like we did when they got an owie on their knee when they tripped and fell when they were three—help them deal with their owies, as young men and women, because they’re going to have them; and they’re going to have them, later on, as adults.
And I’m just grateful to God for you guys—that you are addressing the needs of parents, and teens, and grandparents today so they can better connect.
Thanks for your ministry at Axis, and I hope you guys will come back and join us again sometime.
David: We would love that.
Bob: Well, in the meantime, let’s encourage moms and dads to sign up to get The Culture Translator that comes out Fridays. You can sign up, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com—click the link you see there, and get all signed up to receive this free email each week that will keep you clued in as to what’s going on in the culture in which your teen is living.
We also have online resources that we’ve created, here, at FamilyLife to help parents and teens through what can be a turbulent season. We’ve got Passport2Purity / Passport2Identity. Dennis has written some books for parents of teens: Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date / Aggressive Girls, Clueless Boys. What we’re trying to do, at FamilyLife, is create resources to help moms and dads stay on track as you guide your kids through these years.
So, again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about the resources that are available.
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Foreign money enters France to build mosquesJune 26, 2012
From Vlad Tepes on a Moroccan-funded mosque in Blois, France:
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According to article 220 of the moroccan criminal code, christians who engage in proselytism in the moroccan kingdom have to face penalties of up to 6 years behind bars, churches are closed and foreigner christians are expelled if they dare to publicly display their faith. Moroccans have no right to convert to another religion, and according to the constitution, a christian is not allowed to get moroccan citizenship.
Meanwhile the building of mosques in France and its control by Morocco (and other muslim countries) increases. This is about a territorial conquest of the zones under muslim colonization which are multiplying mainly in France, but also in other european cities.
After the building of the great mosques in Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne, which were financed by Morocco, now it is the turn of the town of Blois. A mosque and a madrassa in being built on a 1500 square meter plot of land. The king of Morocco donated 787.000 euros to help finishing the building of the complex.
The building of the “Bilal cultural and religious centre”, begun 2 years ago, was at a standstill. The first 600.000 euros collected by the regional muslim community were entirely spent. On the occasion of a private visit of the King of Morocco to one of his numerous properties in France, he was handed over a report explaining the details about the project and the difficulties the project was going through. The king’s reaction was positive and he donated the money needed to end the project
More than 30.000 muslims live in that region: Moroccans, Argelians [Algerians], Turks and Africans of different nationalities. The founding stone was laid down in december 11, 2009. The mosque will have an area of 1500 square meters,including a prayer hall of 450 square meters and a 9.20 meters high minaret.
And from Al Arabiya on the Saint-Étienne mosque:
A new mosque bearing the name of Moroccan King Mohamed VI is now open in France amid praise of the cooperation of the French authorities.
President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (Conseil Français du Culte Musulman- CFCM) Mohammed Moussaoui inaugurated the Mohamed VI Mosque in the southwestern French city of Saint-Étienne.
The mosque, built on an area of 10,000 square meters, boosts a 14-meter high minaret and accommodates more than 1,000 worshippers.The mosque bears the name of Moroccan king Mohamed VI who donated five million Euros of the total eight million of the construction cost.
The inauguration was attended by Moussaoui, mosque manager al-Arabi Marchich, Moroccan Minister of Endowments Ahmed Tawfik, and representatives of Saint-Étienne’s municipal authorities.
The mosque includes a cultural center which is intended to act like a branch of the famous Paris-based Arab World Institute, according to Marchich.
The construction of the mosque, said Moussaoui, offered a proof of the cooperation of French authorities with the Muslim community in France to promote freedom of worship.
“This mosque replaces an old one built on a land the municipality of Saint-Étienne became in need of,” he told Al Arabiya. “So we gave up the land and they gave us another one to build a new mosque in addition to an amount of 180,000 Euros.”
The construction of the mosque, he added, was also not faced with any objections on the part of the French population in the city.
The mosque became popular as soon as it was opened. In fact, Muslims in the area started praying in it even before its construction was complete. The imam of the mosque is a Moroccan who speaks fluent French.
The Saint-Étienne mosque joins a long list of French mosques whose numbers have been on the rise in the past few years. In 2005, the number of mosques whose area exceeded 1,000 square meters was only 34 while now the number has reached 200.
According to CFCM reports, more than 1,000 mosques have been constructed in France in the past 10 years.
Apart from big mosques, the number of small and medium prayer halls exceeds 2,300, compared to 1,600 in 2005.
A French law issued in 1905 and which aims at protecting the secularism of the country forbids the state from funding the establishment of places of worship regardless of the faith to be practiced in them.
Mosques in France are usually funded by donations from members of the Muslim community in France in case of small mosques while big mosques are usually funded by other Muslim countries especially Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Morocco, Algeria, and Turkey.
In some French cities, Islamic associations can rent rooms or halls to be used for prayers for amounts as small as one Euro per month. Those contracts usually last for several years after which those halls are returned to the French state.
(Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid)
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A couple years ago, an extremely influential article entitled A Simpler Way To Save: The 60% Solution popped up on MSN Money. It proposed a very simple way to budget:
After analyzing our spending patterns over the past couple of years using our Microsoft Money data file, I determined that we needed to keep our committed expenses at or below 60% of our gross income to come out ahead at the end of the month.
* Basic food and clothing needs.
* Essential household expenses.
* Insurance premiums.
* Charitable contributions.
* All of our bills — even such non-essentials as our satellite TV service.
* ALL of our taxes.
I’m not saying that 60% is a magic number. It’s a workable goal for my family, and it’s a nice round number. But your number might well be a bit higher or lower. At any rate, it’s a good place to start.
Then I divided up the remaining 40% into four chunks of 10% each, listed here in order of priority:
Retirement savings: consisting entirely of my 401(k) contribution, which is subtracted automatically from my paycheck.
Long-term savings: also automatically deducted from my pay to buy Microsoft stock at a discount as part of an unusual stock-purchase program. The relative lack of liquidity (i.e. the difficulty of turning these shares into cash) makes it harder to spend this money without some planning and a series of deliberate steps. In a real emergency, though, I could sell and have the cash wired into my bank account within three days, so this is also our emergency fund.
Short-term savings for irregular expenses: which are direct-deposited from my paycheck into a credit union savings account. Money in this account can be easily transferred into our checking account, as needed, via the Web. Over the course of a year, I expect to use all of this money to pay for vacations, repairs, new appliances, holiday gifts and other irregular but more or less predictable expenses.
Fun money: which we can spend on anything we like during the month, so long as the total doesn’t exceed 10% of my income.
So, they spend 60% of their income each month on required expenses (food, house, taxes, etc.), sock 10% away into a 401(k), sock another 20% away into long term and short term savings, and spend the other 10% on fun stuff. This general framework became so popular that it has been incorporated into recent versions of Microsoft Money, making it easy for people to organize their finances using this model.
I basically feel that this is a fantastic framework for people who are trying to get their money straight but have no idea where to start. A few little caveats, though:
60% is a baseline, not a hard and fast rule. If you dive in, I suggest starting with 60% and seeing how it goes. If you actually find it easy, try some frugal things and see if you can turn it into the 50% solution (and kick that extra 10% into savings); if it’s extremely difficult, make it a 65% solution for a while.
Frugality helps. Being frugal cuts down on that 60%, making it easier for you to reach that target or, even better, enable you to beat it. Doing things like installing CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs and practicing good shopping habits simply shave money off of what you owe every single month, resulting in some serious breathing room.
The short term savings is basically an emergency fund. As I’ve mentioned before, an emergency fund is one of the best assets you can have because it can earn at a solid rate, plus protect you from going into debt when the inevitable happens. If you don’t have one and are thinking of diving into the 60% solution, I would redirect some of the long term savings into short term savings until you reach a pretty solid number for your emergency fund. Personally, I’m shooting for eighteen months’ worth of emergency fund as soon as I can manage it – a very large emergency fund is personally important to me.
Don’t beat yourself up if you try it and at first don’t succeed. This is true for any personal finance goal, because such goals are a lot like diets: people set very difficult goals right off the bat, fail to reach them, and thus use that as an excuse to fall back on bad habits.
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Every New Year, thousands of well-meaning rookies will join gyms and fitness facilities with their resolutions at the ready. By the end of 30 days, almost half of them will be back to square one, defeated, discouraged and no closer to a healthier life.
It turns out that fitness is just like any addiction – it all starts with a small dose. “Too many people make the mistake of leaping into exercise when baby steps are what’s needed,” says Bryce Hastings, Les Mills Head of Research. He suggests any newbie exerciser keeps these three things firmly front of mind:
- Start slow – Don’t push your body too soon, stop your workout when things are feeling tough
- Build gradually – Aim towards staying for a full workout as your fitness builds
- Mix it up – Include a mix of strength, cardio and flexibility training
A slow start, building gradually and incorporating variety is an approach that’s scientifically proven to work.
Get Fit Together, a study conducted by Penn State University, followed 25 sedentary adults through a 30-week program of LES MILLS™ classes including a mix of cardio, strength and flexibility.
The group saw awesome results – so awesome that they extended their life spans by an average of 3.6 years. You can read more about the results here.
But the really interesting news was that over the 30 week study, 20 out of 25 study participants never missed a workout – a compliance rate of 98.8 per cent – almost unheard of in studies of this type.
Despite each of these programs being highly engaging, the real key was the gradual way in which the exercisers adapted to their new routine. An initial six week period encouraged them to “dip their toes” into fitness before ramping up the intensity with a full six-day-a-week exercise schedule.
So instead of being overwhelmed by it all, feeling sore from overworking unfit muscles and giving up, they actually enjoyed it.
Using these research insights (and a wealth of wider fitness and motivation expertise) we developed the SMART START program – a six guide to successfully taking your fitness to the next level.
Get the SMART START workout schedule here.
Remember, the first step to fitness isn’t a leap. The key is to start slow, keep it fresh but most importantly, have fun and the results should follow!
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I cannot stress this enough: The Dark Knight is not a movie for children, as it induces nightmares in experienced adult action fans. While being an awesome action movie, I am shocked that it wasn’t R-rated based on the level of violence, cruelty, and overall negativity.
The Batman franchise has always been effective at covering the story of Batman from different angles through different media sources, in what is now called transmedia. Pre-Batman Begins Batman transmedia is discussed in Will Brooker’s Batman Unmasked and Roberta Pearson’s & William Urrichio (eds.)’s The Many Lives of the Batman. As Henry Jenkins has written, before the release of Batman Begins, DC comics had origin story comics specifically telling more about the back story of this version of Batman. But officially sanctioned transmedia Dark Knight Batman becomes deeply troubling by completely ignoring age and maturity distinctions.
The most jarring transmedia storytelling for tykes takes place in four stories, all the type of paperback “flippy book” usually featuring Little Critter, the Bernstein Bears, Dora the Explorer, Thomas the Tank Engine, Sesame Street, and other children’s favorites. Two are branded as “I Can Read Level 2,” the same level as A Bargain for Frances, the Amelia Bedelia series, the Arthur (chimp, not aardvark) series, and the Frog and Toad series.
But the Dark Knight‘s Gotham is no Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy Town.
The Dark Knight is a dark, dark, dark movie, and these children’s books seem almost made in a different universe, perhaps the world of Batman as personified by the 60s television show. Adult Batman fans, especially those familiar with fanworks or the “What If?” and the “Elseworlds” series, can suspend canon / “what I know to be true” for an enjoyable story (even if it is Batman the Vampire).
However, these Dark Knight books are for children, small children, who just cannot handle the movie! Creating children’s books based on this movie is like Two-Face, seemingly nice on the surface, but with underlying pointless cruelty, once the kiddies who have read the book are subjected to the movie.
In discussing video games directed at children, Sarah Grimes mentions transmedia branding deliberately being used to involve kids in non-appropriate materials:
I too think that children are poorly served by the games industry [with] a lot of badly designed games using popular media-brands (Bratz, Spongebob, etc.) as a Trojan Horse to create intertextual value and to get kids’ playing them.
These books are essentially ads for movies that are inappropriate for children and the Federal Trade Commission and the MPAA should prohibit this kind of licensing for products intended for those who are too young to see the movie.
The idea of a masked crusader who fights bad guys and makes everything better can be done in a (reasonably) child-friendly way. For example, there is a-non Dark Knight movie Batman book that simply describes the origin story, Batman: The Story of the Dark Knight by Ralph Cosentino (interview here). Bluntly, this is the cutest version of Batman I’ve ever seen, perhaps because he looks like a Lego person. While still too scary for the sensitive child, this book is age-appropriate in a way the Dark Knight movie-tie-ins aren’t. I will be reading the Consentino book to the superhero-loving children in my life when they are old enough.
While some fan-created works, such as Harry Potter fanfiction and fanart, has been criticized for taking a children’s series into a more adult arena, in that situation, fans rather than content owners were creating the not-appropriate-for-small-children material. Oftentimes, owners and creators talk about how only they can be true to the story and characters, stating that official equals best.
But in this Dark Knight transmedia case, the owners of the material are creating materials for children that have no legal differential from other intellectual property (copyrighted or trademarked materials) in the Batman pantheon (there is no cause of action for misuse or spoilage of one’s own trademark!). And until the FTC decides to step in, DC has no economic disincentive or legally compelling reason to stop — there is no larger marketplace of ideas for Batman (ownage) and DC can do whatever they want with him. For example, have Batman and Robin work with Scooby Doo and Shaggy in the 70s.
I strongly believe that basing children’s books directly upon the storytelling in a just-about-R-rated movie is a wrong step in creating seamless transmedia storytelling — children deserve to not be introduced to a world beyond their emotional capability through a back door.
Official Dark Knight products include a coloring book, subtitled “Official Movie BIG BEST BOOK to color” by well-known Batman comics artist Mike De Carlo.
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ALLEN INSTITUTE New Perspectives
Jun 24, 2005, 11:22
Hebron, CT Peter Love, PhD - Program Director
The Allen Institute-Center for Innovative Learning “provides a caring and nurturing environment where students with learning disabilities are encouraged and expected to reach their potential.” On the website it says the staff communicates daily on individual student challenges, progress and successes while reinforcing the value of becoming a self-determining adult by developing individual plans that integrate different areas of the students' lives. The Allen Center believes that the post-secondary education and college experience is essential for most students to make a successful transition from home to the workplace or continued higher education in a community based setting.
According to the website, the counseling program assists students with self-growth and self-respect through the development, strengthening and maintenance of positive coping skills and positive interpersonal relationships.
According to the information on the website, the program offers a variety of educational opportunities for students that include both an Associates and Bachelors degree programs, Pre-College Experience and L.I.F.E. Program. Students in the degree program participate in online coursework through an educational partnership with Charter Oak State College in New Britain, CT. The Pre-College Experience, the website says, “is designed to assess a student’s readiness to master college level coursework while helping them to develop a range of college preparatory skills.” The L.I.F.E. Program gives “students a person-centered approach based on the Project-based Learning educational model, and the skills they will need to work and live independently.”
The Allen Institute “is committed to working with each student to strengthen their existing abilities and develop practical tools to negotiate the challenges of multiple environments.” Based on this goal, the information indicates the program is focused on a combination of study and learning that establishes clear goals for academic study, total wellness, independent living skills, social competence and a student’s strategy for managing his/her environment. The academic component follows the core principles of adult learning.
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Since 1950s, Cyprus Island has become both threats and sometimes opportunities for USA, EU and Russia because of the conflicting interests of two nations living in the Island (Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots) and three countries which are NATO Allies (England, Greece and Turkey). The issues around Cyprus made those countries to be involved in the Cyprus problem.
Cyprus problem has been on the agenda of international societies over sixty years and a solution is still expected to be found. The problem caused loss of the lives and the assets of the Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Besides, Cyprus problem made both nations to live in uncertainty and worry about their futures. Cyprus problem also has gained an international dimension because of being both local and international threat to international peace and safety. Therefore approval of the international society is required for the solution.
SEPRC of NEU aims to generate ideas with different motion options and provide enlightening information to public opinion and decision making authorities with a purpose of better understanding the international political issues and taking the convenient positions in that field. Therefore the establishment aim of the centre is to make predictions towards future by following the developments in the world particularly TRNC and Turkey, presents real, dynamic solution suggestions and politics towards national interests with decision authorities by making economical, legal, cultural, political scientific research, examination, analyses and evaluation towards the structural, geopolitical, mutual, local and multi regional international relationships of TRNC.
Our main aim is to foster the quality works of cross-disciplinary intellectuals and competent researches specialized in their fields in order to create efficient solution suggestions relevant to Cyprus negotiations, and to provide ease in hosting academician, bureaucrats, state authorities, strategists, journalists, businessmen and the representatives of STK, and to provide opportunities in sharing information and knowledge between both TRNC/Turkey and world public opinion.
Our world is experiencing a rapid changing process began with Glasnost and Perestroika that lead to disintegration of SSRU in the last quarter of 20th Century. Consequently, the Cold War came to an end and globalization concept highly affected individuals, societies and the medium of international relations. Equilibrium of power that lasted for centuries has changed. In the line, the foundations of the new world order have been put up.
The states which managed to keep up with this changing benefit the wealth and richness of the world ultimately. Those who could not keep up with this changing, suffer from hardening and complicating economic problems. Therefore, determination of appropriate policies for oncoming future in accordance with economical and political factors that changing rapidly in our days and to be successful in applying these policies are important.
When we examine the Turkish History, it can be easily seen that wise men with well established knowledge were at the background of the successes achieved in the past. It is essential that to gather dynamic researchers having different race, disciplines and opinions under one roof in order to keep up with the latest developments all around the world, determine the realistic predictions about future and produce the right policies.
As SEPRC, our vision is to produce alternative policies through realistic ideas and raise the professionals who will be able to produce and carry out these policies.
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When someone has lost an animal they love, as many did during the devasting fire in Southern California last October, friends often want to help them. Unfortunately, most people are so afraid they are going to say or do the wrong thing that they often do nothing, hoping the situation will go away, or the person will get over it. Doing nothing or saying nothing is really the worst thing you can do.
To be supportive to someone grieving, you have to be willing. You have to be willing to see your child, friend, or co-worker in pain. You have to be willing to be speechless or simply say, "I don't know what to say". You have to be willing to just to stand beside that person with tissues in hand and let him/her cry. You have to be willing to let someone stomp and yell about life being unfair. You have to be there and in simply being there, you will be of comfort.
While saying something rather than nothing is good, there are certain things it is better not to say. For example, so not say, "You will get a better dog" or "You have other horses" or "Your cat is in a better place" or "Your insurance will cover it."
It is best to say something personal about the animal if you knew him/her. Connect an experience of yours with one you shared with your friend or co-worker and his/her animal, bringing the three of you together in a memory. "Do you remember when we first learned to ride? It was here, on that old paint. I'll miss that horse." Encourage the person to talk about their loss. All you have to do is listen, listen, and listen some more.
Practically, offer what you can in terms of helping someone rebuild their life, whether it's bringing over a home cooked meal, offering to help feed or house animals, or perhaps making a donation in your friends' name to an animal shelter. Think about what you can do. Then do it. Maybe you know how to post missing/found animals on a website so that animals and owners may be reunited. Apply your skills to their best use. Grieving is an exhausting experience. Just getting through every day is a challenge. Offer to help with the basics. Take kids to school so parents can regroup. Help with chores so they are not so overwhelming. Pick up coffee, groceries, stamps, and just drop them off. It's as important to do the little things as it is to help shoulder the larger burdens.
All living things have a light of life within them. When someone or something dies, a part of that light stays behind, like a star, illuminating the dark. If someone you care about has lost someone they love, tell them to look to the night's sky. The light of every living creature that has ever loved is there in the sky above us, guiding us, reminding us we are not alone. The nights will be brighter for some time to come, for there are more stars in heaven now.
Ann Van Buskirk is a engaging speaker and author of One More Star in Heaven Now: A Guide to Comforting Someone who is Grieving in Life and at Work.
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Why does wet fabric appear darker? When fabric gets wet, light coming towards it refracts within the water, dispersing the light. In addition, the surface of the water causes incoherent light scattering. The combination of these two effects causes less light to reflect to your eyes and makes the wet fabric appear darker. Why does water not calm the tongue after eating hot spicy food? The spices in most of the hot foods that we eat are oily, and, like your elementary school science teacher taught you, oil and water don't mix. In this case, the water just rolls over the oily spices. What can you do to calm your aching tongue? Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called "casein" which will bind to the spices and carry them away. Alcohol also dissolves oily spices. Why is blue for boys and pink for girls? In ancient times, it was believed that certain colours could combat the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents. Although baby girls did not have a colour associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black. It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls. Why is it called a "loo?" The British word for toilet, "loo", derives from the French "garde a l'eau!" In medieval Europe people had little conception of hygiene and threw the contents of their chamber pots out the window into the street below. In France the practice was preceded by "garde a l'eau!" ("watch out for the water!"). In England, this phrase was Anglicised, first to "gardy-loo!", then just "loo", and eventually came to mean the toilet/lavatory itself. The American word for toilet, "john", is called after the John Harington who in 1596 invented an indoor water closet for Queen Elizabeth I. Why is the sky blue? When sunlight travels through the atmosphere, it collides with gas molecules. These molecules scatter the light. The shorter the wavelength of light, the more it is scattered by the atmosphere. Because it has a shorter wavelength than the other colours, blue light is scattered more, ten times more than red light, for instance. That is why the sky is blue. Why does the setting sun look reddish orange? When the sun is on the horizon, its light takes a longer path through the atmosphere to reach your eyes than when the sun is directly overhead. By the time the light of the setting sun reaches your eyes, most of the blue light has been scattered out. The light you finally see is reddish orange, the colour of white light minus blue. Why do onions make you cry? Onions, like other plants, are made of cells. The cells are divided into two sections separated by a membrane. One side of the membrane contains an enzyme which helps chemical processes occur in your body. The other side of the membrane contains molecules that contain sulfur. When you cut an onion, the contents on each side of the membrane mix and cause a chemical reaction. This reaction produces molecules such as ethylsufine which make your eyes water. To prevent crying when you cut an onion, cut it under a running tap of cold water. The sulfur compounds dissolve in water and are rinsed down the sink before they reach your eyes. You can also put the onion in the freezer for ten minutes before you cut it. Cold temperatures slow down the reaction between the enzyme and the sulfur compounds so fewer of the burning molecules will reach your eyes.
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