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Educational difference in the prevalence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: a study in northern Iran
© Mohsen Maddah; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Received: 28 March 2011
Accepted: 3 November 2011
Published: 3 November 2011
Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease in the world and it is rapidly increasing in Iran. In this study the relationship between educational levels and osteoporosis was investigated among Iranian postmenopausal women.
Method and subjects
Seven hundred and six women aged 50-75 years old were randomly recruited from urban (n = 440) and rural (n = 266) areas in Guilan. Osteoporosis was diagnosed by quantitative ultrasound technique and dual X-ray absorptiometry. Serum 25(OH) D3, body weight and height were measured in all subjects. Other data including age, educational level, menopause age, medications and history of illness were also collected.
We found that the prevalence of osteoporosis was significantly greater among women with low educational level than women with high educational status (18.0% vs 3.8% P < 0.0001). However, women with low educational level had higher mean serum level of vitamin D than women with high educational level. Osteoporosis was significantly more prevalent among women living in rural areas than women living in urban areas (19.1% v.s 13.3%, P < 0.0001).
This study showed that educational level is associated with bone health in this population of postmenopausal women with significantly higher osteoporosis found in lower social groups. Therefore, we suggest that women with low social level should be carefully evaluated for signs of osteoporosis during routine physical examinations.
KeywordsEducational levels Osteoporosis Postmenopausal women
For most diseases and overall mortality a social gradient exists [4, 5] however the association of osteoporosis with social status has not been studied in Iran. Evidences show that peak bone mass among all age groups of Iranian population, is lower than European or American populations . A high prevalence of fractures due to osteoporosis was reported, in some less developed areas in Iran especially in low income groups [7–9]. However, there is less information on relationship between educational levels and osteoporosis in Iranian population.
Guilan is a province in northern Iran which half of its population live in rural areas. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational levels and osteoporosis among a population of post-menopausal women in urban and rural areas in Guilan, northern Iran.
Methods and subjects
The diagnosis of osteoporosis was carried out by quantitative ultrasound (QUS) technique using the Sahara Clinical Sonometer (Hologic Inc, Bedford, MA, USA) according to standardized protocol. The machine was daily calibrated with the physical phantom provided by the manufacturer. The outputs included broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA), speed of sound (SOS) and a machine derived parameter: calcaneal bone mineral density (eBMD) in g/cm2, eBMD = 0.002592 × (BUA+SOS)-3.687. Then, subjects with positive results were confirmed by dual X-ray absorptiometry .
A blood sample was collected and transferred to a private laboratory (Razi Medical Laboratory, Rasht, Iran) for measuring of serum 25(OH) D. Serum 25(OH) D) was measured by radioimmunoassay using a commercial kit (BioSource Europe S.A. Rue del'Industrie, 8, B-1400 Nivelles, Belguim). In this study, the levels of serum 25(OH) D lower than 15 ng/ml was considered as vitamin D deficiency. Anthropometric measurements were performed in lightly dressed women without shoes in the morning. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated using the following equation: weight (kg)/[height (m)]2. In this study, based on schooling years, subjects were divided into low (< 12 years schooling) and high (≥ 12 years schooling) educational groups. In this study all subjects signed a consent form and the study protocol was approved by the ethical committee of Guilan University of Medical Sciences.
Statistical analysis: means, standard deviations and percentages were used to describe the data. Student t test and Chi 2 tests were used to compare the differences between two groups. All data were analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 10.01 for windows, SPSS Inc® headquarter, Chicago, IL, USA).
Prevalence of osteoporosis, mean age, serum levels of vitamin D, urban/rural residence and BMI among women by their level of education
≥ 12 years schooling (n= 593)
< 12 years schooling (n= 113)
62.9 ± 6.9
56. 7 ± 5.9
Vitamin D3 (ng/ml)
20.3 ± 13.6
15.9 ± 5.9
BM I (kg/m2)
29.0 ± 5.3
29.8 ± 5.7
Urban resident (%)
Rural resident (%)
Prevalence of osteoporosis, mean age, serum levels of vitamin D, and BMI among women by urban/rural residence
Urban (n= 440)
Rural (n= 266)
61.6 ± 7.1
62.17 ± 7.2
Vitamin D3 (ng/ml)
18.2 ± 13.2
22.3 ± 2.8
BM I (kg/m2)
29.8 ± 5.3
28.0 ± 5.5
Low educated (%)
High educated (%)
Education is one of the most commonly used measures of socioeconomic status (SES) in epidemiological studies . We found that post-menopausal women with low education were more likely to have osteoporosis than high educated women. Although the mean age of low educated women was greater than high educated women, the prevalence of osteoporosis among low educated women was approximately five times more than high educated women. This finding is concur with the findings of western countries indicating that low educated women are more prone to low density bone and osteoporosis than high educated women [12, 13].
Many risk factors are associated with osteoporosis, including low peak bone mass, hormonal factors, use of certain drugs, cigarette smoking, low physical activity, low intake of calcium and vitamin D, and low BMI. Some of these risk factors are expected to be more prevalent in people with low educational levels, especially in developing countries. In Iran, the last National Nutrition and Dietary Survey showed that many Iranians, especially in low SES do not meet the Estimated Average Requirement for calcium . We previously showed that only a small proportion of Iranian elderly women, especially in low educational levels, used calcium/vitamin D supplement . There are evidence to indicate that in less developed regions of Iran, significantly higher rates of fracture are seen in lower income groups than higher income groups [7, 8]. Further research is needed to understand the mechanism of these associations and how they may contribute to increased risk of osteoporosis in subgroups of a population.
These data showed that high educated women had lower serum vitamin D than low educated women. In general, Iranian women, as Muslim, have limited sun exposure due to their wearing habits especially among urban women. In this study, most of low educated women were living in rural areas. Such urban-rural differences in vitamin D status may be explained by living condition and housing status of people in urban and rural areas. While elderly women in urban areas are more likely to stay indoors, rural women usually work as farmer even in old ages, therefore, and they have more sun exposure than urban women.
In conclusion, this study showed that social inequalities play an important role in bone health, with significantly higher osteoporosis among lower social groups. These data indicate that osteoporotic fracture risk may be higher in post-menopausal women with lower social status in Iran. Therefore, it is suggested that women with low social status should be carefully evaluated for signs of osteoporosis during routine physical examinations.
Acknowledgements and funding
We wish to thank Ms Morvarid for her help in data collection. We also thank women who participated in this study. This study was financially supported by Guilan University of Medical Sciences.
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5 WAYS TO DESIGN A WALL
Art & Living
Have you ever begun redecorating your room or space and run into a creative block? Moments like these can lead to empty spaces and empty walls, areas disorganized or poorly structured. But worry not, if you’ve ever run out of inspiration and ended up with an empty wall and that takes away from the whole aesthetic of the room, there are always ways to fix it without complicating or compromising on the idea or theme while being a reflection of your inner self and who you are. The idea is to add a piece or a few pieces that compliment that space and accentuate its design appeal while balancing the disorderly structure of the room and filling up potholes in the design plan. Here are five ways you can re-design a space to bring balance and visual appeal.
1.PLACE A WORK OF ART
A work of art is one of the fundamental or basic ways of filling up an empty wall. It has many benefits to it that make it such a vital and critical component of any space. First and foremost, a work of art stimulates and invites conversation. It becomes a focal point for prompting stimulating conversation. Installing a work of art also becomes a reflection of yourself, a reflection of the decisions you make and the dialogue you set. A significant aspect of this option is also the notion of fuelling the creative economy and enriching lives of artists by investing in the ecosystem. You can learn more about why you should live with art on ARTRA Magazine’s June 2020 E54. It doesn’t just have to be a single piece as you can opt for a triptych or polytych to add depth and character.
2.CURATING A GALLERY WALL
An interesting and alternative take on the work of art concept is one that is exciting to curate and can add value and meaning to your space. The curation of works of art to form a gallery wall can be a collection of diverse and dynamic mediums including photography, painting and mixed media. In fact, ARTRA Magazine’s April 2020 E53 has a comprehensive style guide on the how tos of curating your own gallery wall. Think of what you want your space to reflect and begin mapping out your placement of works. You can even frame them idiosyncratically to add aesthetic value and convey a reflection of your choices.
3.PLANTING A LIVING WALL
If you have an empty wall and nothing to place, consider adding a living wall of greenery. Planting a living wall will add a naturalistic element while existing as a connection to the outside world, a bridge between urbanity and nature. You could go for climbing plants like philodendron or pothos but you must also consider the living conditions such as light, climate, temperature etc. Once you choose what plants you want – you could choose multiple species or just one – you can begin installing them. To install them, you could use frames or planters and mount them in a way that allows the plant freedom to grow and stretch across the wall. To maintain the wall, you might need a self-watering system or do it yourself, however, remember to keep it clean to avoid moss.
4.CABINETS AND BOOKSHELVES
A more functional option could be the instalment of floor to ceiling bookshelves or book cases or even cabinetry that holds ornaments and vinyl. Choose the theme you want to elicit and go from there. You could even mount individual shelves and arrange them artistically to create a pattern and place photoframes and CD Cases. There’s also the option of turning the wall into a depiction of religious of cultural elements like statues. When curating these placements, remember to choose elements that complement the theme of the room and the ambience it emanates as opposed to throwing up random components to fill in a void.
5.INSTALLING A MANTELPIECE
Mantelpieces are often installed around fireplaces but if you don’t have one, you could still install a mantel to introduce a focal point. The mantel could hold sentimental components such as family photographs or you could even place statement sculptural pieces that are aesthetically valuable and convey meaning. Perhaps you could even hang a mirror above the mantel. Installing a mirror will not only complement the space but also make the room look larger as it is a reflective surface. You could consider adding ornamental pieces such as vintage candlesticks or place pots of greenery and plants that don’t take up too much space and subtract from the focal point.
The best way to brainstorm an idea for your space is to look at what you want the room to be and focus on a single perspective. Then build from the ground up by laying out and mapping the structure of your space. An empty wall could be redecorated as the focal point of your room or just as a functional piece. It all depends on the aesthetic and layout of the space, so remember to list down the purpose of your theme and how to best utilize space, whether functionally or aesthetically. | <urn:uuid:9c9d073e-8816-4cb1-b9a6-26f19a7063fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artra.lk/applied-art/5-ways-to-design-a-wall | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.932833 | 1,066 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Nervous System Evolution
ss2 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Mon Jun 3 04:57:59 EST 1996
In article <4oohk3$nns at mozz.unh.edu>, eet at hopper.unh.edu (Eric) wrote:
> If anyone knows of any references that discuss the origins of nervous
> tissue/nervous systems I would be much obliged. Much of what I have
> found focuses on the evolution of _mammalian_ nervous systems or some
> such. I am interested in the earliest structures. Thanks ...
Try looking for recent work by Nick Strausfeld in Arizona. He's been
comparing structures in arthropod brains (nearly ALL arthropods!),
especially mushroom bodies and the like.
Hope this helps
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How Leaders Can Take Charge of Change
By Jennifer J. Salopek
It’s easy to just say people “resist change.” The reality is that you can create an environment where a change initiative won’t encounter harsh skepticism.
TechnologyOur firm may be introducing Web-based training, a knowledge-management system. Whatever the flavor of the month, new technology can create real resistance in your workforce — and, in some cases, anxiety and fear.
David Dell, research director for capabilities management and HR at The Conference Board, has observed, “Both HR and IT have many new issues to address and many decisions to make and implement. But the speed of change in both areas makes the challenge more difficult as it increases the promise.”
Why do people resist change? Leslie Smith, a clinical psychologist and former Web designer in McLean, Virginia, outlines these reasons:
Fear of making mistakes or looking foolish.
A lack of understanding or confidence in the new system and its benefits.
Anxiety about doing more. Employees often feel overworked already, and resist learning something new when it’s layered on top of their existing duties.
Change fatigue. Once people learn something new, they’d like to stick with that new knowledge and take a rest.
Jeanie Daniel Duck, author of The Change Monster: The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation & Change, writes, “The knee-jerk answer (to failed change efforts) is the people ‘resist change,’ as if ‘resistance to change’ were some kind of sorry genetic code that, if it could be re-engineered, would magically produce people instantly eager to do things differently whenever anyone asked. The ‘resistance to change’ answer… is appealing because it takes the blame off the leaders and puts it on those ‘no-good followers.’”
Leaders must take charge of change. There are many things that you can do to ensure a more successful initiative, including:
Explain what benefits you expect from the new system and how people’s roles might change. Also, make sure that change is championed from the top of the organization and communicate that support.
Involve prospective users in change decisions and choices. Duck says it’s not the change that’s the problem, but the way it comes down. “People are changing all the time, but those are changes of their own choosing,” Duck says. “People resist being told they have to change.”
As Duck observes, people are powerfully motivated by self-interest. Technological change is likely to be more successful if people are shown what’s in it for them. “When they’re motivated, it’s amazing what people can do,” she says.
Look at the whole corporate culture, not just IT, to determine how many other changes people are being asked to deal with at the same time, such as a merger or reorganization. Perhaps it’s time to give them a breather.
Let people know it’s okay to complain, Duck advises. It provides a useful outlet. Although IT may feel like the corporate whipping boy, “that’s the nature of the beast. IT departments have a checkered past,” she says. “They must accept that and be more careful.” Further, allowing complaint and disagreement might enable you to measure resistance before you spend millions of dollars on that new initiative.
Mary Lynn Pulley, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. She maintains that the learning curve is upside down: “It’s more of a valley than a hill,” she says. “Whenever you learn anything, your performance actually declines before it improves.”
She refers to that performance dip as the Valley of Chaos and urges learners to remember that chaos and creation go hand in hand. “Things have to fall apart or disintegrate in some way so that they can come back together in a new way.” Managers must make it clear that mistakes are okay and avoid any kind of punishment for error in a learning environment.
Eradicate. “You must allow for the notion of un-learning as people abandon old ways,” Pulley says. Know that people have to rid their minds and routines of that which no longer works, but be aware that getting rid of the old and familiar can engender fear and confusion. | <urn:uuid:52d6e0f6-1fc8-46a4-9e19-30f928fc2356> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mypaths.com/how-leaders-can-take-charge-of-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.955 | 983 | 1.578125 | 2 |
My husband, Nate, and I are fans of the now-cancelled TV show "Flash Forward." The premise of the show was that on Oct. 6, 2009, the entire world blacked out for two minutes and 17 seconds. During this blackout, people saw their futures – more specifically, they saw what they were doing on April 29, 2010.
To harness all of the "futures" people saw, the FBI put together a website called the Mosaic. The goal was to help people make sense of what their visions meant. For the dramatic spin, many folks saw death, destruction, espionage, terrorism and all around evil.
Moving from fiction to reality, an Oregon technology company launched its own "Mosaic" website to capture suggestions on innovative solutions for stopping BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the company, the website is intended as a vehicle to organize these ideas, through the use of "crowdsourcing," to encourage new thinking and promote collaboration among interested people around the world.
While I hate when companies coin new words and phrases to hype their ideas, I do think it's an interesting concept.
"We believe the answer to capping the oil spill may emerge through the collaborative efforts of disparate individuals worldwide, from every-day tinkerers to professional scientists in the farthest corners of the world," says Dan Afrasiabi, president of Portland, Ore.-based ARM Insight. "We believe that complex problems require revolutionary solutions. Few problems require the urgent cooperation of global brain-power in the way the oil spill crisis does. Our hope is to quickly uncover the solution to this problem and at the same time produce a wealth of ideas to prevent or minimize the effect of future accidents which are likely to occur as the global hunt for deep water sources of energy continues."
It will be interesting to see if any of the solutions contained on this site will lead to the winning solution. For the sake of the environment and BP, let's hope it's sooner rather than later.
Do you have a suggestion? Visit the site at http://www.whatshouldBPdo.com. Make sure you let me know that you've posted a solution so I can vote for it -- I always want to support the CP community! In the meantime, I hope the Norwegian researchers that Seán Ottewell mentions in his column, Peat Moss May Save the Seas, find the time to post their solution.
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Observatories have been around for centuries, and they continue to play a vital role in the study of space. Some observatories allow visitors to look through their powerful telescopes, while others have libraries and classrooms devoted to astronomy.
What is observatory and what does it do for astronomy ?
The observatory is a place of wonder and mystery. Astronomical observatories are mainly divided into four categories: space-based, ground-based, airborne, and underground facilities.
Observatories were first built by early civilizations to observe the stars and planets. The large number of observatories attest to the importance that cultures have placed on astronomy. They have played a key role in the advancement of science and our understanding of the universe.
Space-based observatories are equipped with telescopes that are launched into orbit around Earth or another planet. These observatories can take high-resolution images and make precise measurements of astronomical objects. The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous space-based observatories.
How observatories have changed over time
Ground-based observatories are located on the surface of Earth and make use of optical, infrared, and radio telescopes. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with some being portable and others requiring a large amount of land to operate. The largest ground-based observatory is the Keck Observatory, which is located in Hawaii.
Airborne observatories are mounted onto airplanes or helicopters and can take measurements and images of objects that are difficult to observe from the ground. These observatories have been used to study everything from stars and galaxies to weather patterns.
The future of observatories in space exploration
Observatories have come a long way since their inception centuries ago. With the advent of space-based observatories, we have been able to learn more about our universe than ever before. As technology continues to improve, we can only imagine what new and exciting discoveries observatories will make in the future. Thanks to observatories, we now have a greater understanding of the universe and the place we occupy within it.
Top observatories around the world
There are many observatories around the world that are open to the public. Some examples:
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
The observatory at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
The observatory at The Vatican, Rome, Italy
Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, England
Sydney Observatory, Sydney, New South Wales
Each observatory offers a unique experience and offers visitors a chance to learn more about astronomy and space. With their ever-growing popularity, observatories are sure to play a key role in astronomy for years to come.
Why observatories ?
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Filed under: Freedom, History, The Constitution, The United States | Tags: 236 Years And Going Strong, A Simple Plan, Liberals Don't Get It.
From Jonah Goldberg this morning:
The people are the boss, the government is the servant. The Constitution is the government’s job description, the Declaration of Independence is its mission statement. Campaigns are the job interview, elections are the hiring and firing process.
Pretty good statement.
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Islam, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: Benghazi Libya, Cairo Egypt, White House Incompetence
Do you recall the years when you were 8, 9, and 10 years old? Think back and see what you learned in those years. Barack Obama lived in Indonesia, a Muslim country, from age five to age ten. This was apparently a formative experience for him and gave him a deep understanding of the Moslem world.
I lived elsewhere than my home from age eight to eleven, and I have distinct memories, but it never gave me a deep understanding of the city where I lived. Yet I think I understand what it means to Obama. In trying to learn just who you are as a person, exceptional experiences can make you feel that you have some unique qualities that others don’t, and that makes you special in a way. Obama, however, has taken it to an extreme. In New Hampshire, when he was campaigning for the presidency in 2007. Obama said earnestly to his interviewer:
I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated…the whole world looks at America differently. If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country…I understand their point of view….And that will ultimately make us safer.
Obama clearly believed a complete change in direction was called for, and attached enormous importance to his Cairo Speech, an excerpt is here:
A speech in which we are the perpetual villain, heaping praise on a backward society that chooses to explode in anger and riot and kill rather than accommodate themselves to the world in which they live. So we apologize for our progress and development and seek to show our deep respect for the religion whose rules are holding them back. This, of course, from a government that has little respect for our own religious organizations.
We hastened to get rid of Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak who were reliable allies even if they were noxious dictators, with no concern for what was to replace them. We now have the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and President Morsi is getting rid of 77 Generals in the army that has long kept Egypt under control. And in Libya, there was nothing to replace Gaddafi, and is now a very weak government with all factions jockeying for power. It was never about the video.
The press has spent a lot of energy speculating about marines. Marine detachments at embassies are small, and their purpose is to safeguard the most sensitive parts of the embassy, not to stop an assault on the outer walls. That is the responsibility of the host nation. If the host nation cannot stop the howling mob, embassy staff and marines have to protect classified materials as best they can, preventing their falling into hostile hands. Which, in Libya, they apparently did, endangering the Libyans who have worked with us. It was never about the video.
Our government, our State Department screwed up. Whoever authorized such a vulnerable and poorly defended facility has much to answer for. The anniversary of 9/11 is a very big deal— a day that radical Islam likes to celebrate. That both Libya and Egypt were unprepared is a major unforgivable failure. It was never about the video.
Obama’s great Islamist delusion has borne bitter fruit. His embassy in Cairo has issued a craven apology, the Secretary of State has groveled and blamed it all on a You Tube video that few have seen, apparently forgetting that we have a First Amendment that is not subject to Muslim demands. We had warning, in Egypt and in Libya, but it wasn’t “actionable” intelligence, since they didn’t have a timetable. It was never about the video.
Obama apparently believed firmly that his apologies and his life in Indonesia from age 5 to age 10 was a much bigger deal to him than it was to the Moslems.
Welcome to your Embassy in Tunis— under new flag, new management.
Filed under: Developing Nations, Environment, Science/Technology | Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, lesula, Newly Discovered Species
These are two young lesula (cercopithecus lomaniensis) a previously undiscovered species of monkey from the central Democratic Republic of Congo in one of the country’s last unexplored forest areas. The 6,500 square mile area where the shy lesula is found is remote and sparsely populated. The adult male has a unique and highly identifiable blue rear end. They say it is a new species, but of course it is only new to us.
Researchers say that the species is vulnerable as a result of hunting for bush meat. They called for controls on hunting and the creation of a protected area to conserve the lesula. Bush meat or wild game is dangerous in Africa as it may transmit Ebola or HIV to humans.
Species with small ranges like the lesula can move from vulnerable to seriously endangered in just a few years. The challenge for conservation is to intervene before losses become definitive. It’s complicated when the need for meat protein is high.
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There are hundreds of millions of PDF documents on the web. It is such a popular format because it can be viewed on most devices that attach to the web and because it looks the same on any of these devices. The producer of the document can be sure that what the reader sees is the same as that which was created. The documents contain a great deal of useful, interesting and important information, much of which is not available on-line in any other format. This information will be of interest to people with disabilities.
Adobe recognised in 2001 that the information in PDF files needed to be accessible by people with disabilities and extended the format with a set of tags that provided information that would make the files accessible to Assistive Technologies, such as screen-readers. However, as we approach 2009 most of the PDF files on the web are still not accessible. The reasons for this include:
- The producers are not aware that it is possible to create accessible PDF.
- The producers are not aware of the benefits of creating accessible PDF.
- Older PDF documents were created before 2001.
- Some authoring tools cannot produce accessible PDF directly.
- Other authoring tools can produce accessible PDF but it is not the default and the process is not simple.
- Tools for testing documents for accessibility and providing remediation have been very low-level technical tools. They could only be used by specialists with significant time available. They have not been usable by the majority of authors.
In 2008 a variety of authoring tools improved their ability to produce PDFs tagged for accessibility. However few of them get it absolutely right and there is therefore a need to test and then touch-up the document. Other tools do not produce tagged files and of course there are a vast number of existing files that are not tagged.
There is therefore a need for a tool to test PDF files to see if they are accessible and a related remediation tool to fix any issues. Adobe provides these functions as part of Acrobat. However there are two limitations to this support:
- There is a disclaimer on the testing tool that says: 'The Accessibility Checker can help you identify areas of your documents that may be in conflict with Adobe's interpretations of the referenced guidelines. However, the Accessibility Checker does not check all accessibility guidelines and criteria, including those in such referenced guidelines, and Adobe does not warrant that your documents will comply with any specific guidelines or regulations.'
- The remediation tools are editors that enable changes to be made to the internal structures of the documents including tags and content. These editors enable any required changes to be made; but they require a high level of skill, understanding, patience and time to create a fully accessible document. I believe that most document producers will struggle to make anything but minor changes using these tools.
NetCentric is a Canadian firm specialising in document compliance and has gained considerable experience providing consultancy and services to convert PDF documents into accessible PDF documents. Based on this experience they have developed CommonLook for Adobe Acrobat, a plug-in to Adobe Acrobat, which provides a more comprehensive testing tool and a higher-level interface for remediation.
The tools work on tagged documents so if the document is not tagged then Acrobat is used to add an initial set of tags.
The Logical Structure Editor is the main remediation tool. It is divided into two panes, one showing the source document and the other showing a simplified internal format. By outlining an area of the source the equivalent area of the internal format is highlighted. The highlighted area can then be tagged or dragged to its correct logical position.
On complex page layouts, for example one with multiple columns where headings and images cross multiple columns, Acrobat is not always capable of ascertaining the correct reading order. The logical structure editor allows the page to marked up with the correct order. It will bring together sections of text that Acrobat assumed were in separate columns, or divide a section of text into more than one column where Acrobat assumed that the text read straight across the page. Trying to fix this type of reading order error without CommonLook is very difficult and prone to error.
The Logical Structure Editor also has functions to create and modify tables. Once a table is created, areas of text can be highlighted and dragged into the correct cell. Again this is a task that can only been done by a highly trained expert using Acrobat by itself.
The editor includes a tool to automatically correct common errors such as the last word on one line being concatenated with the first word of the next line. These errors are often difficult to spot by hand and are very tedious to correct.
The Testing Tool is based around the Section 508 checklist. It provides automated checks where that is possible and identifies areas of the document that require some human checking. For example for each image it will show the image and the alternate text for the figure and ask the tester to confirm that the text is correct (pass), or not (fail). The tester can update the text at this point so that it will pass or add a comment as to why it failed. Tests include one to check if the document is readable by a person with colour-blindness.
When the test is complete CommonLook creates a report showing all the tests carried out on the document and the status. The report can be used as proof that testing is complete or handed back to the author to deal with the areas of failure.
To be able to use CommonLook effectively requires some training. After about an hour I began to feel fairly confident and some further clarification of detailed issues will make me fully proficient. Testing and remediation using CommonLook can still be time consuming, as each section of the document needs to be checked; however it is much faster, less prone to errors, and requires less skill than using Acrobat by itself.
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Climate action is a big topic for politicians in St. Paul. However, the city is behind in one policy area: allowing the sale and usage of gas-powered leaf blowers.
Washington, D.C., implemented a ban against gas-powered leaf blowers in 2022. The ban was approved by D.C. City Council back in 2018. “It’s time to phase out the use of these noisy, polluting leaf blowers,” Mary Cheh, D.C. Councilmember was quoted upon the council’s approval of the bill in 2018.
It is time. More areas are realizing this. Last December, regulators from the state of California voters approve banIn 2024, the sale of gas powered landscaping equipment, including leaf-blowers, will begin. In the same month, county commissioners in Multnomah County — home to Portland, OR. — also A plan was passed to phase outThe use of gas-powered leaf blowers.
However, St. Paul has been quite quiet. The city does not have any restrictions on leaf blower use, aside from a noise-related ban that prohibits the use of these ear-splitting devices between 10 p.m. & 7 a.m. These machines are powerful emitters of carbon and other harmful toxins. The city is making a grave mistake by failing to ban and phase out gas-powered leaf blowers.
St. Paul has committed that they will reach carbon neutrality by 2050. They’ve Considered big policy movesTo get there, large investments in green infrastructure and public transit are necessary. But the city’s environmental efforts seem to have mistakenly ignored gas-powered leaf blowers. Leaf blowers and other gas powered lawn mowers are common across the country. tools Create12% of all carbon dioxide emissions. A few years back, the California Air Resources BoardAccording to projections, 2020 will see gas-powered leaf-blowers and similar lawn equipment emit more ozone pollution that all other cars in the state. Leaf blowers are high capacity carbon-spewing machines.
Handheld leaf blowers can be particularly dangerous for the user, as they release toxins from their engines. Reports FromThe Environmental Protection Agency found that a gas-powered lawn is more effective than a grass-powered one. gardenEquipment, including leaf blowers can release dangerous particulate matter as well as volatile organic compounds. These include benzene, acetaldehyde, and acetaldehyde.
“If we’re using [leaf blowers] for a long time, cause you’re right over top of it, you can tell. You can get headaches and that kind of thing,”Michael Frazier, Macalester’s chief grounds person, said.
These toxins released by these machines’ small engines lead to long-term health problems. Sources say that these toxins are a long-term problem for health. These are the opinions of anti-leaf blower supportersThe toxins in Portland, Oregon expose workers to carcinogenic toxins and can cause respiratory problems. They can also cause hearing damage. Workers being allowed to use poisonous machines is against any claim of worker safety and protection.
The solution is electric-powered equipment. This reduces the carbon emissions, toxic fumes and excessive noise. In the summer of 2020, Macalester’s grounds crew took advantage of a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency grantsTo replace approximately half their lawn equipment with electric-powered ones. The grant paid half of the cost for new electric equipment tools.
As Macalester has learned, moving to electric leaf-blowers isn’t a perfect option; some trade-offs are involved.
“The only fallback is the power. Most of the stuff is fine, but it’s the backpack blower that kind of suffers. It just doesn’t have the power that the gas does,” Frazier said. But this isn’t a permanent state of affairs: “With that being said, it’s early, too. This stuff is all pretty new to us, and new to the industry.”
This technology will only improve. As Atlantic journalist James Fallows reportsOver the past two decades, battery technology has improved steadily.
As the market for leaf blowers with clean blades grows, this trend should continue.
Every investment in electrifying leaves blowers will make significant progress in reducing emissions in our city. However, waiting for private actors to make sufficient transitions on their own, is a fool’s task. Private landscaping companies will electrify their clients’ yards because the cost of switching to electric leaf-blowers upfront can be prohibitive and may make it less efficient for yard work. toolsToo slowly. Under the pressures of the marketplace, it will be hard for landscapers and yard workers to bear the costs of electrification while their competitors don’t have to.
This is where St. Paul’s influence can be significant. We should follow the example of other jurisdictions and eliminate leaf blowers. This can be a sensible and uncontroversial policy. We don’t need an immediate ban — we can do as other jurisdictions have, and give yard workers time to switch their equipment. We don’t have to force companies to bear all the costs of this change, which generates publicly shared benefits — we can maintain the Minnesota state grant program that Macalester utilized, which has More than 100 companies have been helpedTransition to electric lawn mowers | <urn:uuid:17eac22f-268f-4f21-aed7-9d1bc30d8201> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gardeningdaily.life/its-time-to-ditch-leaf-blowers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950999 | 1,133 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The question has been settled for more than 200 years: Hauling a judge before Congress to defend an unpopular decision is unconstitutional.
Newt Gingrich's latest terrible idea -- to have Congress subpoena federal judges who make unpopular decisions -- has spawned earnest questions about how subpoenas work between and among the branches of government. Why can't Congress use its subpoena power to force a sitting judge to come to Capitol Hill to answer questions about a particular opinion? I thought the answer was self-evident when I wrote about this on Sunday. It wasn't. So let me try again. Here's the simplest explanation I can offer.
First, Congress can subpoena anyone it wants. But just because it can issue a subpoena, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can enforce a subpoena. Lawmakers issue subpoenas all the time -- and all the time the subjects of those subpoenas show up at committee hearings. This is because those subjects don't have any legal justification -- or a legitimate political argument -- for seeking to quash the congressional subpoenas that have been issued to them. The law, for reasons that should be self-evident, doesn't make it easier for people to weasel out of their obligations to come forward and testify.
But the congressional power to subpoena -- like virtually all other powers of government -- is not absolute. Congress cannot subpoena the Secretary of Defense, for example, and require him to divulge classified information in an open hearing. If lawmakers sought to do so, the Pentagon would either simply ignore the subpoena or, more likely, go to a federal courthouse and ask a judge to formally quash the subpoena. The congressional subpoena power, like all subpoena powers, is subservient to the Constitution, which is interpreted, in the final analysis, by the federal judiciary and not by Congress.
The reason we don't see many constitutional showdowns over congressional subpoenas is because lawmakers, quite reasonably, have exercised the power judiciously. When they seek the input of members of the executive branch, or of the judiciary, they frequently invite those members to Capitol Hill. When they do subpoena members of an administration, typically over some piece of legislation, there is a legitimate nexus between the required testimony and the business of Congress.
The subjects of these subpoenas show up because, as a political matter, they cannot afford to blow off the request and because, as a legal matter, they know the courts won't protect them. This is happening right now, as early as today, with Attorney General Eric Holder, who evidently is being subpoenaed in connection with the Gunwalker investigation. The Justice Department will likely comply in a material way with the request by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and the Attorney General will soon find himself on Capitol Hill answering questions and producing documents.
None of those niceties apply, however, to the Gingrich plan to threaten judges. The reason you don't see federal judges hauled before Congress to answer for their rulings, and the reason you haven't seen such a spectacle, is because such use of the congressional subpoena power is patently unconstitutional. It is not within Congress' power to require a judge to be held accountable in that fashion. And if Congress sought to enact a statute making judges accountable in this fashion it is clear that the legislation would be dead-on-arrival in the federal courts. The federal judiciary, in other words, is protected from this sort of intimidation by the Constitution and its separation of powers principles.
So Congress may invite members of the judiciary to Capitol Hill -- the Senate Judiciary Committee did so last week -- to discuss legal matters in general terms. There is always the bookkeeping function that has to take place between those branches. And Congress could, I suppose, subpoena as a "fact witness" a sitting federal judge whose personal experiences had some bearing on some pending piece of legislation. But subpoenaing a judge for writing an unpopular decision is beyond the bounds of legislative authority -- and the matter has been settled for more than 200 years.
Could Congress hold such a federal judge in "contempt" for refusing to comply with a subpoena? I suppose. Congress engages all the time in all sorts of meaningless gestures. But so what if it did? Any attempt by Congress to enforce the contempt sanction against a sitting judge would be rejected by the courts. So, fortunately, you will never see the Sergeant-At-Arms for the House of Representatives or the Senate come to your local courthouse to try to haul away your local federal judge. There are some constitutional crises you should worry about. This is not one of them.
Don't just take my word for it. Here's what Laurence Tribe, the constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, thinks of Gingrich's idea:
The idea of compelling federal judges to come before Congress to answer for decisions that might be unpopular is one of the craziest and most obviously unconstitutional things the former Speaker has ever proposed. It represents a frontal assault on the independence of the federal judiciary, which is a bulwark of a constitutional system that has served us well as a nation ever since Marbury v. Madison. Judges explain themselves in their published opinions. When their explanations fail to convince, we're all free to criticize -- and to push back through appropriate lawmaking channels. In cases of statutory interpretation, Congress can push back by enacting a corrective statute, as it often does. In cases of constitutional interpretation, the nation can push back by amending the Constitution, a difficult but far from impossible process. And politics plays its proper role at the point when federal judges are nominated by the President and either confirmed or rejected by the Senate. Grilling and scolding those judges when the decisions they render fail to please those in power on Capitol Hill is worse than a dumb idea; it's a threat to our entire framework of checks and balances.
Don't just take Tribe's word for it. I passed along Gingrich's remarks to Bruce Fein, the respected conservative attorney who worked in the Justice Department during the Reagan Administration. Here's what Fein thinks of Gingrich's idea:
An independent judiciary with life tenure and authority to hold the legislature and executive accountable to the Constitution was its revolutionary crown jewel. Both Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have echoed that accolade from opposite wings of the High Court. James Madison, father of the Constitution, lavished praise on the federal judiciary as a bulwark against legislative or executive tyranny. One of the indictments against King George III in the Declaration of Independence was making judges "dependent on his will alone." In the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall explained that judicial review was the difference between a government of laws and a government of men. The 1805 acquittal by the United States Senate of Associate Justice Samuel Chase accused by the House of Representatives of impeachable offenses because of judicial rulings favorable to the Federalist Party established the time-honored principle that federal judges are not accountable to any other branch for their judicial opinions.Gingrich unwittingly is proposing to overthrow the Constitution that he would be pledged to uphold and defend if elected to the presidency. Attempting to subvert the Constitution, however, it an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor justifying removal of the President from office. The Constitution's entire purpose is to arrest the powers of the political branches irrespective of popular sentiments or ideas. To believe that Congress or the President would condemn their own acts as unconstitutional encroaches on the domain of delusion. Equally preposterous is the prospect of Members of Congress interrogating or instructing federal judges about statutory or constitutional interpretation when they are generally clueless about the meaning of laws or the Constitution.The spectacle would be like a dog walking on its hind legs. You are surprised not that it is done ineptly, but that it is attempted at all.
Don't just take Fein's word for it. Here's what a sitting federal judge, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane of Colorado, told me Monday about Gingrich's idea:
In the Federalist No. 78 Alexander Hamilton wrote: "For I agree, that 'there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers . . . this complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited constitution.'" That statement is as true now as it was when written over 200 years ago by one of the best and brightest of our Founding Fathers. Apparently Mr. Gingrich seeks to replace the rule of law with what, a rule of intimidation? Does he not know that judges always explain their opinions by making findings of fact and conclusions of law? If a judge errs in doing so, there is a court of appeals waiting to correct the error, and if a court of appeals errs, there is always the Supreme Court as the final arbiter. The process, unlike that suggested by Mr. Gingrich, is based on reason and cherished as a fundamental element of our national heritage.
What is truly scary about all of this isn't that Gingrich is roaming around the country trying to peddle this nonsense. What's scary is that so many people seem willing to buy it. Many of these people fancy themselves "patriots" and believe they are working to restore what Gingrich calls the proper Constitutional "balance" between the branches. But that argument is a perpetual loser. It lost when the Declaration of Independence was drafted. It lost when the Constitution and its Article III were ratified. It lost in the Chase case 206 years ago and it has lost every year since. Our independent judiciary may from time to time be a nuisance. But from time to time it's also all that stands between the rule of law and demagogues like Gingrich.
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4.1.1 Systems practice
Systems thinking seems to come more naturally to some people than to others who have to learn to think systemically. People trying systems thinking for the first time find it quite tricky in the early stages. The temptation to break down the situation into smaller bits is strong. The systems approaches you will briefly encounter in Week 7 take account of this and are designed to enable you to capture the complexity before you move on to exploring it.
This is what this course is about. It is an invitation to engage with systems thinking in such a way that you are better able to address the situations, complexities and opportunities that you encounter as you engage with the nitty gritty of whatever you do. Systems thinking provides tools-for-thought and the opportunity for a powerful way of looking at the world, whatever the context. The contexts stretch all the way from international issues such as global warming to the day-to-day problems that arise in work, in domestic life and in the local community.
Systems practice in the context of this course refers to the practice of systems thinking within whatever profession or calling you follow. You can be a systemic medical practitioner, a systemic wood turner, a systemic technician or a systemic manager by applying systems thinking, insights and approaches to the complexity that you encounter in any of these or other domains. | <urn:uuid:10ffbfd8-dcc1-4e31-b328-2cbf7eb50199> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=65604§ion=4.1.1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.949363 | 272 | 2.8125 | 3 |
52: Dementia, Memory Loss and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Transcript of Episode 52: Dementia, Memory Loss and Neurodegenerative Diseases
With Dr. Daniel Pompa, D.PSc., Warren Phillips and David Asarnow.
Warren: Good morning, everybody. Cellular Healing TV, Episode 52. It’s amazing to see… David: Hey, this is our year anniversary. Warren: Anniversary year? David: Yeah, 52 weeks. Dr. Pompa: We did that at 50. Warren: Fifty, that was—I guess that was a joke by David. You know, we’re supposed to be laughing at 52. David: Maybe I’m losing my mind, and we’re forgetting about that. Warren: Oh, that is good. True. That leads us into the topic of today. That’s really funny, David, really creative. You are on fire today. Dementia and memory loss, a very hot topic. Dr. Pompa is actually writing a really powerful article on this. He’s been working on it not for weeks but, literally, for months, doing the research, having a team helping him research. I mean, this is going to be a massive article that you need to look out for. But today, we’re going to tease some of those topics to educate our Cellular Healing TV family. So, Dr. Pompa, how did you get into this, and why is this really heavy on your heart? And let’s share some of the beginnings of this work that you’re doing on memory loss and dementia. Dr. Pompa: Yeah, I told you. Actually, when I wrote the article, for the first time I actually started telling my mom’s story, which, actually, even as I started it, something hit me. That I’ve told many of my father’s stories. I think mostly just because they’re really funny. My dad was the bricklayer, the Italian bricklayer, who really knew nothing about nutrition, but in the end, he seemed just to know everything. There’s a lot of funny stories there, so… Warren: Like the bowling ball story. That was one of my favorites. Dr. Pompa: I shared a lot of stories, but there a lot of stories that are specific to health. I mean, no, my dad really did figure it out. I mean, he did. He ate—my dad intermittent fasted before we even knew there was a word, right? I mean, he did. He ate these very small meals, and then, of course, dinner was his big meal. He liked to have a little Scotch with dinner. My mom was convinced he was an alcoholic, but, honestly, no, my dad really—being Italian, I remember sitting at the dinner table saying, “Dad, you’re Italian. Why don’t you eat pasta?” “I’d get fat.” He would always call potatoes and these starches, right? He’s like, “If I eat starch, I get fat.” I mean, he really did figure out his genetics and stayed thin. Warren: Yeah, he was lean. He was a lean Italian. Dr. Pompa: Yeah. Yeah. And you know, funny too because my dad really doctored me as the Italian bricklayer. I would come home with gaping wounds, and he would, literally, just hold them together. Clean the wounds. I mean, I remember one time I was riding on the hill on my bike, and I let no hands go thinking I was being cool, and the handlebar went. I literally slid. Warren: We’ve all been there. Dr. Pompa: I literally slid what I thought was 100 yards, but I’m sure it was 20 feet. But even then, I came home. I mean, my whole side was opened up. I thought surely I was going to the hospital. I mean, I’m telling you. It was two months that he bandaged those wounds and re-bandaged those wounds. I mean, it was so deep. I would come home—because I would build a lot. I would take his hammers and nails—my son’s in a room here, and I wish he could hear that. Anyways, then I would go down into the woods and make tree houses. So I was always coming up. I would whack… Warren: I just did remember something though. David: What did you remember, Warren? Warren: I remembered. I don’t have memory loss. There is something to celebrate today. Not the 52nd show. The 52nd? Oh, my gosh. David: The 52nd show. Warren: The 52nd show, oh, boy, not—but this is good. We did 10,000 downloads on iTunes, the Cellular Healing TV episode. So that happened last night. So I was going to put that on as a tease. David: That is awesome. That is awesome. Warren: Ten thousand people, different people, now have downloaded this life-changing information, which is just simple. A Google Hangout, three guys, two dogs, and a couple cats, and we’re making a difference. David: You can’t forget. It’s actually three cats. Warren: Three cats. -Technical Issues- Warren: I know this topic, dementia and memory loss, I mean, it is one of those things that really rips into the heartstrings of so many people, and I think that’s where Dr. Pompa’s actually going when he’s talking about his dad. David: You know what’s interesting? We actually stopped in, and saw my grandmother who’s 92 years old when we were just down in Tampa. And it’s a really interesting topic because Dr. Pompa asked her, “What’s the number one fear of the people who are living in your Senior Living Center?” And they said, “The number one fear is losing their mind.” Warren: Right, because… David: It’s not dying because they all know that they’re—she’s even said it. She’s like, “Death is all around me.” It’s really—she’s never experienced anything like this because all of sudden someone’s not there, but their number one fear—I mean, they all know—it’s like, “Well, I’m 92. I’m eventually going to go.” But her number one fear is losing her faculties and her words. Warren: Yeah, I mean, it’s—and it’s the fear that your loved ones, that just can’t communicate with you, you’re just—you lose them, and you no longer have your mom. But she’s there in a shell, but you can’t communicate with her or your father. And it really hurts families, and unfortunately, it forces them into… David: Yeah, just log back in. Warren: Yeah, and forces them back into homes. Into care homes, elderly care homes, and no one wants to be there. David: So everyone, we’re live on—and I’ll continue on the conversation that—while Warren shares the link, is—I mean, for anyone who’s had to care for a loved one, or even experienced friends and their family that are going through it, it just pulls at everyone’s heartstrings when someone that you’ve known your entire life or someone that you just know, and you just see them not remembering things, it’s scary. And one of the things that, as soon as Dr. Pompa comes back on, we’re going to talk about is why—some of the reasons why this happens and some of the things that we can do to start protecting ourselves, making sure we’re doing the right things. And the interesting thing is a lot of the things that we’ve talked about from week one do help us. So that when you think about—and obviously, I’m not a doctor. I just play one on Cellular Healing TV. But when we think about today’s diets that people are going through, the low-fat, all the carbs, the glyphosate. All the things that we’re –the toxins that we’re exposed to every day, they accumulate up in our brain, and we wonder why people are having thesse challenges at a younger and younger age. It’s quite scary. Wouldn’t you agree, Warren? Warren: Yeah, I mean, it’s—you don’t get dementia. Dementia didn’t exist 30 years ago. It was very rare that something like that would happen, and usually it’s probably from a head trauma or something that happened that way. But if you look at all the dementia studies, Alzheimer’s studies, when—this is how Dr. Pompa and I got—one of the reasons we got on the 4:1 ratio oil. Everyone was pushing Omega-3’s, Omega-3’s, Omega-3’s, but when you look at the science, what’s in nature? Grass-fed meat, free-range eggs, all the natural ratio is 4:1, Omega-6 to an Omega-3. You become Omega-6 dominant by eating grass-fed meats and grain-fed animals. Grain-fed meats give a higher Omega-6, like 40:1, but really, it should be 4:1. And then when you did nothing else with the dementia or an Alzheimer’s individual, and you just wanted to… Dr. Pompa: Hey, I’m back. I’m back. Warren: Good. I’ll finish my 30 second point. Is that you put these people doing nothing else, a 4:1 ratio oil, and their Apgar scores is how they score people. It’s like a sheet, whether how far gone you are as far as Alzheimer’s, and you see these scores massively improve, cognitive function, memory, being able to communicate more clearly. So that’s one of the 5R’s. Heal the cell membrane. You’re back Dan. What’s wrong? -Technical Issues- Warren: Okay, so some of our initial research on this topic, when we’re looking how to get really sick people well, came down to healing the brain, restoring the brain, and of course, mercury, another major—one of the causes, R1, of causing memory loss, dementia, because of what it does at the neurological level in the brain. So a lot of these things, pituitary hormone dysfunction, so mercury is one of the top causes. They always say aluminum—you know the big craze back in the 90’s. Well, don’t use deodorant with aluminum in it or using tinfoil because what happens is that causes dementia. There was a study written on that. Okay, true. It does. Aluminum does cause dementia. However, mercury, major, massive, ten times the cause of Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory loss, than even aluminum, although, that’s one of the causes. So a lot of that research came out in the early 2000’s, late in the 90’s, and into the 2000’s, early 2000’s. And so when we were researching online, these are some of the things that we would find. And in that process, obviously, we looked into it more, and then even before the grass-fed movement came—and it’s here, grass-fed. I went to a restaurant last night for my wife’s and I’s Valentines early because we planned ahead so we didn’t have to fight the rush, and people were looking at us to get out of our seats. So we had a beautiful two and a half hour dinner, and everything’s grass-fed. The fats that they cook with were fats that your body can recognize. They get it. So it is mainstream more so now than it was even in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. So Dr. Pompa, you’re volume is on. You just don’t have video, right? Dr. Pompa: Yeah, let’s see if that works. Warren: Yeah, praise God. That’s good. Praise God, Dr. Pompa. Dr. Pompa: All right, well, let’s… David: Dr. Pompa. Warren: From Africa. Praise God. You’re back with us. Dr. Pompa: So anyways, I don’t know where I dropped you there, but… David: And you heard some of the conversations. You were actually talking about your grandmother. When you dropped off, I shared a little story about my grandmother that, actually, you got to meet this past week who’s 92. Dr. Pompa: Oh, yeah. She was… Warren: So you were transitioning into your—from your dad to your mom. Dr. Pompa: Yeah, exactly, so my dad with all these funny stories but I really felt bad because I really haven’t written about my mom, and she really is the one who encouraged me most of my life. So it really shocked me that I never wrote about her, but I think I learned why. It was very emotional watching my mom die over—the ten years were horrible. Watching her be in a nursing home. She lost her memory, post-stroke dementia, and it was absolutely horrendous. So I had a lot of guilt over it. When I actually wrote the article in that section, I wept hard. It was very hard to go on. As a matter of fact, I stopped writing the article at that point, and it was hard to tell the story. So when you see the article come out, you’ll get to see that amazing—it’s a story about an amazing woman who—I was going to say raised an amazing kid. No, not quite, maybe turning into an amazing adult? We’ll go with that. That sounds a little safer as an amazing kid. Warren: I’d say you’re an amazing adult. Dr. Pompa: Okay, all right. So we’ll go with that. Warren: Didn’t know you as a kid. I know you punched a few people I hear, I guess. Dr. Pompa: I still did desire to change lives. That’s for sure. But anyways, it is an emotional topic for me because watching that, it was really heart-wrenching. It was really sad. I said in the article, the days I would go in there she was actually more with it, and it felt like she did recognize me because, obviously, she didn’t recognize people anymore. It would rip me apart, so very hard. But anyway, so there’s something in this topic. It’s a very emotional topic for, I would say, most people. And the reason why is it’s once—if you lose a loved one, that’s one thing. But to lose a loved one where they’re still there but not there, I’m telling you, it’s very, very difficult. And the number one fear of people over the age of 60 is memory loss. That’s very common. I mean, that’s the thing—and you know, David, when we were discussing this with your 92-year-old grandmother, she said, “That was”—remember David? You probably don’t remember that, but she said, “Everybody here fears, not death, losing their memory.” Do you remember that? And I said I was… David: Yeah, she’s—losing their faculties. Dr. Pompa: Yeah, but… Warren: He actually did remember. David: I actually brought it up while you were offline. Dr. Pompa: Okay. I think the bad part was that… Warren: Your memory is great. Dr. Pompa: Is once they lose their memory, they go to a different building. And I said, “Oh, my gosh. There must be a lot of jokes about that around here.” She’s like, “Not really, actually.” David: You’re right. She’s like… Warren: No one wants to go into that building. David: You know what’s interesting? When we opened up her fridge, what does she have? She had sticks of butter, plenty of sticks of butter in there. It was all high-fat if you noticed in her fridge. Dr. Pompa: Yeah. David: Even as growing up, when we had—we used to have steak—she loved steak. She would always say, “Make sure you eat the fat. That’s the best part.” Warren: Yeah, that’s what my—that’s how—what my dad was like and my grandparents, all in their 90’s. All died naturally in their sleep with full memory, beating me at cards, even my great-grandparents. David: But look. That’s another thing. Dr. Pompa: I kept trying to lead her a little bit on like, “Well, why not margarine?” I thought, she’s at that age where many of our parents fell into the margarine trap, this man-made butter that’s so much better. She wasn’t falling for it, David. No matter what, she wasn’t taking it. She did say one thing that was hilariously funny, I thought, and gave us an idea for something we’re developing. She said what most say at that age, or even… David: Yeah, what “they” say. Dr. Pompa: And we were talking about—she said, “Yeah,”—we were talking about blood pressure, I believe, and she said, “Yeah, but “they” say that it’s better to have blood pressure when you’re older.” Which, actually, I agree, right? David: Higher blood pressure. Dr. Pompa: Yeah, I mean, at that age, right, they’re typically more vibrant, right? So anyways, but “they” say, and I turned to you and Phil, and I said, “Who is they?” And I think we need to define “they” because typically “they” is wrong. This time, “they” might’ve been a little bit right, but it’s funny because when we look at our 180’s, right, the 180 degree opposite, right, butter’s bad, margarine’s good. I mean, they said that, right? Our parents say, “Yeah, but they say this is better.” The question really is, who is “they?” I think that if we find “they,” then I think that we can get to the bottom of some of these things that we’re taught that aren’t right. So we’re going to have some fun with that. But anyways, let me give them some information. You all have been listening to us chat and me trying to figure out the internet, which is never good. So before I get cutoff again, I want to make sure some really good points that I think will help so many of you listening. Often times this starts with brain fog. I mean, people just like, “Where’s my keys?” And they’re looking for their keys. Unless we have the ADD-ers like Warren and half of my family, then that’s normal. So I don’t want to just say losing your keys is not a normal thing. David: How many times did I lose my keys in the past week? [Inaudible] David: I’ve got to tell you this. The time I’ve been home, I got out of that hotel environment and what we experienced down there, my brains back. Dr. Pompa: Yeah, David, you were getting hit harder with the mold hits than I was. I mean, those—I’ll tell you what. I don’t know if I could live in Florida just because there’s so much mold in those age facts, and we did a past show on mold. But it is absolutely horrendous. Your grandmother’s place, I mean, it’s—well, not her where she is but the main building. Oh, my god. But anyways, another topic for another day. Don’t get Warren and I down that road. You won’t pull us back at all. Warren: With the key thing, I left my keys in Florida. So I got home, at the airport, and didn’t have my keys, just saying. And David lost our van keys three times at the hotel. David: Four, four. Warren: Four times. I mean, point well taken. Dr. Pompa: So I’m actually talking to two ADD-ers here. That’s not a memory problem. That’s a different story. But when we’re talking about it, how about when you start—you’re going, “How do I get home again?” or you can’t negotiate your home or—when it starts to get worse, obviously, you can’t remember faces often times and people—things that you would be able to do. Add numbers in your head, you can’t do. I mean, these are the early stages when you have some of that cognitive decline, but it’s starting earlier and earlier. You all might not know this, but this is the fastest growing disease in the world right now. Did you know that? Warren: That’s bad. That’s bad. Dr. Pompa: Dementia, fastest growing. I mean, it’s now moved into the third leading cause of death in the United States. And by the way, there’s nothing that medicine offers that’s even working for symptom relief, right? I mean, heart attacks, we can do certain things, and open up the symptoms. We can give different medications, and at least take away symptoms sometimes. Not that it adds a day onto your life. Not that it necessarily does anything for your health, but hey, you can live—you can take a pain pill, and get rid of pain, right? But with this, there’s nothing. And it’s the scariest. The number one searched topic for people over the age of 60, memory loss, big fear. Well, here’s one of the other things I’ve found. I have been doing for years a certain set of therapies, if you will, things that I do with my clients. It’s never just one thing. You hear me talk about the 4:1 ratio oil. You all went into the fat conversation when I was trying to figure out the internet thing. We talk about these individual things, but we never—and if you just read last week’s article, I talked about skinning. That’s something I do. But I talked about high-intensity exercise, and how that affects your brain. You’ve heard me talk about intermittent fasting. I do it daily. How that not only affects the brain, but re-synapses the brain because of the growth hormone rises. Well, all these things work for the brain. The key is putting them together. When you look at the studies, they were always studying just one thing. And I can tell you this, for those listening. One thing never works. Not even the one things that I just mentioned but when you put them together, like a multi-therapeutic approach, then magic happens. So I found a study that actually did that. The irony of this study that was sent to me is that it does—it looked at most of the things that said to actually work, and they made the point that doing one of them isn’t the key. The key was doing them all together. Now, they didn’t call it a multi-therapeutic approach, but they said, “Look, when you do all of these things,” and that’s what we did in the study, “the results were spectacular.” They took ten people. Nine out of the ten got amazing, amazing results. And by the way, six of the ten were not able to work anymore. That’s how bad their dementia was. So within three months, on a multi-therapeutic type of protocol, these people got their lives back. And I have seen this again and again. As a matter of fact, I want to bring on a guest of one of these that—Warren, he worked in a dry cleaners. As a matter of fact, he owned a dry cleaners. And, of course, he ended up getting diagnosed with Parkinson’s and, obviously, memory issues, things like that. His family pointed it out, of course, before him. He was in business with his brother, a really horrific story but with a really great ending. But the point is this. So when we put these therapies together, when we put in these fats that most people were saying are bad together in a 4:1 ratio with intermittent fasting—and by the way, this gentleman did all of these things, with high-intensity training, which he started, and we put them in with a low-carb diet. It put them into ketosis, right? How many shows have we done on ketosis? Because that makes—it heals the brain. So when we put these things together—and obviously, there’s certain nutrients, nutrients that are in MoRS, EPIC, obviously, VISTA—and matter of fact, in this study, they use all of these same nutrients, with the same diet, with the same—I mean, everything that we do, and they got these types of results, the types of results that I see. It was kind of fun, I thought, because it’s one thing that what I do, but then seeing someone put this together in a study, I thought it was absolutely amazing. So that’s the approach. It works. Now if we dissected these slower individually—I’ll let you all ask me the questions there. Warren: Well, one thing I wanted to bring it up, and it was shocking statement, is that dementia is the number three killer in America. So heart disease, number one, I would imagine, and then cancer. I don’t keep up on the statistics, but how does dementia—one, that’s a crazy stat to me. Never heard that until you spoke that, didn’t see it on Facebook. Everyone knows how much I love Facebook, and I hang out there. David: We want to hear it again, Warren. I want to hear how much you love it. Warren: I love it. It’s a good one. I’m not going to go there. But, Dr. Pompa, how does dementia actually—it’s just the brain dies, or what happens? Dr. Pompa: Literally, when you look at a brain on a scan, MRI, the brain literally starts shriveling. I mean, you’re losing synapses. They’re falling off, if you will. I mean, and by the way, that’s what we see when we heal. When the healing occurs, the brain starts re-synapsing. So when you look at this multi-therapeutic approach, you need the building blocks, right? So there’s certain nutrients that we know fall off. I mean, certain things like folates and certain types of B12, obviously, certain fats. These are building blocks. These are all necessary to rewire. But then, you have certain things that you have to really increase to get the healing going, and growth hormones seems to be the big one. So when we look at high-intensity training, we know that’s the one that raises growth hormones. Not just endurance training, right? It’s very specific. Burst training works to rewire the brain. I pointed that out in the article last week. Now, when you put—and this is interesting because I tipped my hat a little bit in that article. Because I said when you put these two things together, high-intensity burst training with intermittent fasting daily—I explain that all in the article, so we don’t have to get into here. Go back and read last week’s article. And you put those two things together; the growth hormone spike is extremely high. Now we talked about it there. Mostly in the fact that it really kicks in fat burning, and you can really burn a lot of fat in so many hours after you do this. But what we get is brain healing, re-synapsing. I did mention that in the video that I did. So we get a rewiring of the brain. Now imagine putting in all of these other components to it. Getting into ketosis. I’ve written a lot of articles about ketosis. I call it Advance Cellular Healing Diet because the brain loves ketones for a couple reasons. They burn clean. It’s like I always say that fat burns cleaner than sugar. So think about sugar as the log burning in a fire. There’s a lot of smoke, right, or maybe a piece of coal, even worse. Now think of natural gas on your stove. Well, that’s like fats, and more importantly, ketones. They burn so clean that they—it really is not giving your cells anything to have to cleanup because that energy is burned in the cell. So the bottom line is is that it reverses a lot of this nasty brain inflammation and degeneration because it burns so clean. And also, it helps heal the membrane because it burns so clean, which is the key to fixing the brain. So, the bottom line is this, you put these things together and magic happens. We’ve heard all of the benefits about coconut oil, these medium change triglycerides that we utilize in ketosis, because they cross into the brain. They’re used by the brain. Again, it’s not just one of these things, and everybody’s trying to just do one thing. Everyone’s taking their Ginkgo Biloba. Good luck with that. But when you put some of these herbs together with the nutrients, and the fats, and the exercise, that’s where the magic happens. So this article is going to be groundbreaking, I think, because it’s really backed by studies. But once again, nobody’s talking about this, but this is the key. Who’s putting it together? Nobody, but it works. Warren: Yeah, it’s incredible. And again people just don’t know the truth. They don’t know the truth, and they need to hear the truth because there’s so many lives that can be transformed. Again, it comes down to folks not—oh, is Dan gone? David: No. Warren: All right then. Folks just don’t know the truth, and they sit there, and they suffer needlessly. And that’s a big part of our why Cellular Healing TV and why you have to share this. That there’s information out there if you’re looking for it that can transform lives. This isn’t hocus-pocus alternative care. I mean, this is the real deal from published journals and research. So it’s not Dr. Pompa’s opinion. It’s truth. And we need to share the truth on Cellular Healing TV because it’s needless suffering, needless dollars going into these—just wiping out their accounts, their legacy. Money that could be passed onto their children, yet, it’s being used for them to sit in an elderly care home and die over a period of ten years like your mom did. Dr. Pompa: I just thought of something as you were talking there. We do this multi-therapeutic approach with most conditions that we see, right? I mean, Warren and I, we did it, getting well. And I just thought to myself, what makes it so unique with this, the brain? I think because nobody—it seems like with the brain, everyone just focuses on one thing, right? It seems with other conditions, people tell you, “Change your diet. Do this. Do that.” But with this, it’s not happening. And all this research about dementia and Alzheimer’s is really being diabetes of the brain. I’m preparing for a lecture to give to a group of doctors with this information. And I really narrowed it down to six main causes that the literature supports, right? And the interesting part of it was—is the multi-therapeutic approach is really the only way to really cover all six, but glucose, elevated glucose, which I call the 800 pound gorilla in the room that most people aren’t paying attention to, even people in natural health, right? I mean, oh, and they eat healthy, they eat healthy, and then really, when you examine their diet, it’s throwing glucose spikes and insulin spikes through the roof. Well, we know that elevated glucose burning out these receptors in the brain—basically, insulin resistance of the brain. Type II diabetes of the brain is a big plank. So again, putting someone in ketosis fixes that. Giving them the certain fats that fix the receptors to these hormones fixes that. But again, with this disease, I think it’s unique because everybody’s focused on one thing, and they only seem to do one thing, the alternative world as well. So I think that should be… Warren: Right, right. Dr. Pompa: I want to point something out. I want the conversation to go this way because I think that everyone needs to really understand that there is something really scary going on, and that’s why I think that this topic is something that we need to have often because we are—we were not exposed to something that all of our family, children, are exposed to today. And that’s why I believe this disease is going epidemic. For this reason, I think, honestly, in particular. Well, there’s two toxins that play a major role here. Number one, which we’ll get back to, is heavy metals, which Warren and I, obviously, were very affected by. But something else, another one that actually makes heavy metals worse. It makes it penetrate the brain deeper and has an enhancing effect on heavy metals, which we know are connected to a lot of these conditions, but it’s called glyphosate. Warren, we did an article. I think two articles back, right? Warren: Yeah. Dr. Pompa: You and I did a video on the article that I’d written about glyphosate. And it is the active ingredient in the number one herbicide/pesticide used on the planet, Roundup. And we, in this article, talked about now how they are using this. Not just to kill weeds, which in the past was damaging enough, but they’re using it to spray on every conventional grain before harvest. Why? Because it increases profitability, bottom line. It makes it easier to harvest. It has—it’s called desiccation. It shrivels up the grain enough that it harvests easier, and actually, kills the seed. And it causes it to almost ignite more seed, so the harvest becomes much easier. So you increase your harvest dramatically, and make it easier to harvest dramatically. Therefore, profits go up dramatically. So this is being done on every conventional seed, every conventional, obviously, grain. And it is in levels of exposure that we’ve never seen before in humans. It’s creating something that’s affecting the brain. Number one, our gut is known as the second brain. It’s putting holes in the gut, but it’s also killing off specific bacteria that you need to make neurotransmitters for your brain. So I just want people to understand the connection. That glyphosate is killing off bacteria that we need to make certain neurotransmitters. Dopamine, oh, what is Alzheimer’s? It’s a dopamine deficiency. You see what’s happening? Parkinson’s, it’s the same. So we know that it’s serotonin. These neuro, these chemicals that your brain needs to work in re-synapse are being killed off because of this chemical. This is a new problem. So if you and your families are listening, make them listen. If you’re eating conventional grains, you’re getting exposed to levels that just becomes impossible for the body to get rid of. It’s causing leaky gut, autoimmune, and obviously, leading to Parkinson’s, dementia, and really, any neurodegenerative disease. I believe you’ll get one of your genetic, but this is a trigger. Now, it also, I said, increases the heavy metals. It enhances their nasty affect, aluminum and mercury in studies, particularly. So it’s a double whammy. And those out there listening, if you have trouble sleeping, glyphosate, it—what happens is is the pineal gland, which sits outside of the blood brain barrier, is very, very sensitive to it. So now it starts affecting your melatonin, which is also linked to, again, Alzheimer’s, etc., and now you don’t sleep as well. So you see some of these conditions or some of these connections here. So this is a big topic. Warren: Yeah, man. And it’s no wonder why it’s the number three cause of death in America right now. I mean, the brains are being shriveled just like the seed, unfortunately. David: Yeah, it does it to the grain. It does it to the seed. It does it to everything else. Warren: Yeah and no blame to the farmers. They’re being educated massively by Monsanto and the chemical companies. And they feel, well, why not? It increases the harvest. There’s more food. It’s good for them, and I hit my quota, and I get my bonus from the government, or however it’s driven, especially, some of these larger farms. And they’re just doing what they’re told. And in their hearts they’re doing the exactly right thing. It’s safe. They’ve been told a lie. Like margarine, safe. Not so much. That’s why we have to share this message. I think we should—any closing statement, Dr. Pompa, to leave? Wish we could see you because I love your heart and interaction. You can still hear it in your voice how passionate you are about this. Is there anything you’d want to say to end the show today? Dr. Pompa: No. But I think that if some people google Dr. Stephanie Seneff. You’ve heard me mention her at the turn of the year. I said she should be regarded as the scientist of the year. Where she is the senior scientist at MIT and she’s done a lot of great research on the topic of glyphosate, and how it’s affecting the brain, and how it’s affecting leaky gut, autoimmune, Parkinson’s, you name it, all of our topics today. I think if you want some really good reading on that topic, educate yourself further, google that one. We’ll try to get her on this show one day. We’re going to try to get her at one of our seminars. She’s a real crusader, and someone I have a lot of respect for. But this is a really important topic, obviously. And I think that it’s a topic—David, remind us to do again with a different spin. Maybe talk more specifically. If I’m at home, we can lay out the products, right? That’s what people want. Let’s lay out the actual products. I’ll pull them up, and we’ll be more specific. Let’s do the same show with more specifics. But the article, like I said, is coming out. Be aware or watch on that, and read last week’s article, a little tip there. So that’s my final word. David: Awesome. Thank you everyone. Warren: All right, thanks David. Thanks Dr. Pompa. And I know that you’re meeting with some more scientists today and tomorrow, so good luck on that. And I hope for some blessings and more breakthroughs there as well. So thanks everyone for watching. See you next week. Cellular Healing TV, share the message. Remove the cause. Heal the cell. Get well. We’ll see you next week. 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Shipowners reject EU ‘local’ carbon tax
The chamber of shipping believes a global cap and trade system would be a better option than the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Shipping accounts for more than 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions (Kazuhiro Nogi)
Britain’s shipping industry is resisting pressure to sign up to Europe’s green tax programme, insisting it simply “doesn’t work”.
Shipowners and brokers argue that it is impossible to pull the shipping industry into Europe’s complex Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for greenhouse gases.
The EU has yet to tell the industry how it intends to tax ships, but it could either hit those registered in Europe or impose the tax on those entering EU waters.
Either way, the British Chamber of Shipping believes there are better ways of incentivising the global industry to cut pollution.
Mark Brownrigg, director-general of the chamber, said the scheme won’t work because it is attempting to apply a regional fix to a global industry. “There is much more scope for abuse if you try to squeeze a multi-lateral, global industry into a narrow solution,” he said.
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Use find to filter for results specified by user
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Petros Katsoulis on 8 Nov 2019
I have a table with some data:
clothes = table;
clothes.Type = ["Suit";"Shirt";"Dress"];
clothes.Colour = ["Blue";"Red";"White"];
clothes.Price = [300;50;400];
I want to write a filter that allows a user to define what they are interested in in each category and return the result. A simple way to do this would be:
% User defined input
filters = struct;
filters.Type = "Shirt";
filters.Colour = "Red";
filters.Price = 50;
% Generate result
f = find(strcmp(clothes.Type,filters.Type) ...
& strcmp(clothes.Colour,filters.Colour) ...
& clothes.Price == filters.Price);
output = clothes(f,:);
Suppose the user doesn't want to filter for the price and wants to see all results relevant to Red Shirts. Is there a way to write the code in such a way that when the user doesn't set any value to the filter (e.g. filters.Price = ), the find function will return all table entries with Red Shirts irrespectively of price? I thought about checking if it is empty then set the filter to contain all unique values of the relevant column of the table, but the real dataset is quite large and it's not very efficient.
Jan Studnicka on 8 Nov 2019
strcmp is slower then == and you can use == with strings. You can also save space and get better performance by using categorical arrays instead of strings when it makes sence.
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Where winters aren't severe mistletoe latches itself on the northern part of a tree and will grow to about 3 feet in diameter.
From the earliest times, mistletoe was regarded as a bestower of life and fertility - so make sure it's only smooching your doing under it.
The common mistletoe is one of the most magical plants of European folklore. Mistletoe of the sacred oak was especially utilized by the ancient Celtic Druids. Julius Caesar's writings adds to the mystery of the folklore surrounding the plant.
Decorating the house with mistletoe may be a survival of the old Druid cult. The custom is also associated with certain primitive marriage rites. | <urn:uuid:5ceb8ea6-84b2-46e1-9d5e-013b5b96f5e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thingsgreen.com/blog/mistletoe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954762 | 142 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Asheville Is in Crisis
The city faces a severe problem of unaffordality and scarcity of housing. Our service workers, gig workers, educators, artists, and musicians can’t live near where they serve the needs of Asheville’s residents. Young people that have grown up in Asheville are now finding that they are shut out of their own neighborhoods. And as only the well-heeled can afford to rent or own in the city, those demographics that lack generational wealth, including Asheville’s Black population, are seeing their population numbers decline.
The Solution to Scarcity Is Abundance
Living in Asheville shouldn’t be a zero-sum competition. We don’t need to pit old-timers versus new comers and immigrants. And we don’t need to turn our backs on the houseless and precarious among us.
We reject the politics of division, the ideas that come from those in town that claim “I’ve got mine.” And we reject the idea that Asheville needs to be frozen in a moment in time. Its strict “exclusionary zoning” codes are the product of an era of segregation, designed to favor only the wealthy and the white. And its land use patterns recall a time when planners thought oil would flow forever.
We can have homes in Asheville for everyone that needs one, and this means embracing housing abundance: understanding that single-family homes, duplexes, quadplexes, row houses, townhomes, condominiums, and apartment complexes all have the potential to add to the city’s character, appeal, and measures of equity; by making it more lively, livable, sustainable, diverse, and welcoming.
Let's send a message to the incoming city council and mayor. Take action and sign our 2022 “Upzone Asheville” petition now!
Asheville For All's Three Pillars for Housing Abundance and Diverse, Sustainable Communities
Eliminate Status Quo Barriers
Exclusionary zoning (aka single family zoning), parking minimums, and other rules favor the status quo and intentionally make it difficult for builders to build the places where people need to live. Creating various types of housing should be allowed “by right” based on the ability of such housing to foster vibrant, walkable, sustainable, and livable communities.
Fund Public and Social Housing
City, county, and state governments should do their part to guarantee housing as a human right, and especially should build new public and/or social housing using “missing middle” styles and in locations with easy access to jobs, transit, and amenities.
Housing and Transportation Go Hand in Hand
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What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morality and justice is reduced to the language of a business deal? What does it mean when we reduce moral obligations to debts? … A debt is the obligation to pay a certain sum of money… This allows debts to become simple, cold, and impersonal–which, in turn, allows them to be transferable…
…a topic that will be explored at length in these pages, is money’s capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic–and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene…
However, when one looks a little closer, one discovers that these two elements–the violence and the quantification–are intimately linked. In fact it’s almost impossible to find one without the other.
~David Graeber, Debt: The First 500 Years, 13-14.
A particularly fine example of those outrageous or obscene outcomes, intertwining violence and quantification, are substitutionary atonement theories proposed by Christian theologians regarding the crucifixion of Jesus. From such a perspective, humanity is in infinite debt to God but is incapable of paying that debt. Therefore, God chooses to pay the debt himself (yes, the male pronoun is appropriate for God in this theory) by sacrificing his son or, from a different angle, by laying down his own life, and his death then abolishes or pays or satisfies or nullifies this debt and makes possible the forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with God, and so on. Variations of this go back to the very origins of Christianity — references to Jesus as a sacrificial Passover lamb can be found in the some of the earliest Christian texts found in the New Testament, “substitution” and “satisfaction” atonement theories are heavily favoured by the streams of Christianity that like to refer to themselves as “orthodox” (even if the various “orthodox” parties also have a history of condemning one another as “heretics”).
Sin as debt… owing God… perhaps with the devil acting as the repo man… quantification and violence… justifying obscene actions (like killing one’s own son, like suggesting killing an innocent atones for the sins of many, like suggesting that this is the only way things could play out)… all these things are woven together in such atonement theories.
I can’t say that it makes much or any sense to me. Does God really have to sacrifice his own son, does Jesus really have to die, in order to restore right relationships with us? How does that work exactly? What kind of God would do this? Who chooses to organize things in this way? Or did God make some sort of gentleman’s agreement with the devil and this was his (yes, his) only out? Despite all the suffering and harm that would happen to the world, God kept his end of the deal, but then forced the devil to overplay his hand (causing him to lose his “right” to humanity)? Really? Again, what would this say about God? What kind of God would this be? Why would the devil by given any “right” to humanity?
For a long time, I tended not to worry about such things because I favoured the Christus Victor atonement theory (which harkens back to the earlier ransom theory of Origen). From this perspective, the cross of Christ wasn’t so much about satisfying God’s wrath, or abolishing a debt, but was, instead, the moment when God triumphed over all the coordinated powers of Sin and Death (and the devil, too, but I focused mostly on the former two — with Sin being nothing more than the physical and material outworkings of Death in the world). I was content to leave things at that for several years and not worry too much about it (because, after all, this theory has problems, too: for example, what kind of God would choose to go about winning a victory in this way? Why wait til then? Wouldn’t this mean that God had been defeated up until this point? Why would God permit that?). To be honest, atonement theories related to Jesus (much like justification theories related to Paul) haven’t captured my interest all that much. How God saves us hasn’t been an intense area of interest for me, that God saves us — and may save us in the here and now — has captured my attention to a far greater degree.
However, a few things got me rethinking this subject — not least, Graeber’s book, which made me ask: what if I think about this outside of the monetary language of business and commerce? — and asking myself what I actually do believe about all of this.
The truth is that I don’t actually accept any of the standard atonement theories. They don’t make sense to me (including the moral influence theory which, although it has more going for it than substitutionary theories, still has its problems). Here’s the catch: I can’t imagine that anything changed — at least as far as God was concerned — on the cross or after the cross. Instead, what we see in the stories of the cross and resurrection is the way in which God chooses to be when in the company of a world that is broken and marked by Sin and Death. What we see, if we believe the stories, is the way God has always been from the beginning of creation. And what is this way? The way of self-giving love, of solidarity, of kenosis, and the pursuit of the beloved. What we see is that God is with us and there is no place so low, so terrible, or so godforsaken, that God is not also with us there. Not only that, but God is with us in order to love us, to make us new, and give us life. All that the cross of Jesus “does” is provide us with a particularly stark example of this. Hence, the cross is redundant to the extent that it does not inaugurate this way of God being with us — it just helps some of us to (finally) get the point that this is how God always has been and always will be. It is an apocalypse, a revelation of that which is, not an event that changes everything that was or will be.
Therefore, from this perspective, Jesus dies for the sins of the world — not because sin used to prevent God from saving us and now longer does so — but because that is what God chooses to do when in relationship with a world defined by Sin and, most especially, Death. God dies everyday for (i.e. because of) the sins of the world. That is God’s way of being with us. The crazy message of Easter is that this dying is not futile. And if the dying of God is meaningful then perhaps our living-unto-death is also meaningful. Perhaps death is not the last word for us. Perhaps, like the cross of Christ, we are redundant but not without meaning. | <urn:uuid:43928291-b6e5-413f-9481-93c946f9c16d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.danoudshoorn.com/2012/on-the-redundancy-of-the-cross-or-a-good-friday-meditation-with-an-overly-long-title-in-which-i-lose-any-last-shred-of-credibility-with-conservative-christians-and-embrace-that-which-those-who-like/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.966124 | 1,482 | 2.734375 | 3 |
COURSE: 54-471 Instructional Strategies and Learning Communities for Teaching Reading and the Integrated Language Arts, 4-12 (3)|
This course examines the theories and practices appropriate for balanced reading and language arts instruction and assessment in grades 4-12. The emphasis of the course is on functional techniques for improving student reading performance in the upper grades and incorporating reading into subject matter instruction. Effective reading and writing instructional strategies and assessments, including those that address the specific needs of second language learners, are modeled and practiced. Prerequisite: 2.75 GPA; Consent of Education Advisor; 54-242, 54-303, 54-353, 54-391. Offered: Every semester. | <urn:uuid:9a2f3010-3c2f-4e8b-95ec-5f9308617096> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lewisu.edu/academics/catalog/2011-12/coursedesc.htm?pcourseid=54-471 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00386-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901051 | 139 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Declaration of Trust
A Declaration of Trust is a document that can set out an agreement in writing where there is a discrepancy between the person who holds legal title to a property and the person who owns the underlying beneficial interest in the property.
The main benefit of preparing such a document is to provide written evidence of the agreement between parties as to who owns the underlying beneficial and equitable interests in the property. The Declaration of Trust will provide clear evidence of your agreement and intention at the date it is signed.
Examples of where a Declaration of Trust is used are:
- where a couple own a property in their joint names, but they provided different contributions to the purchase price, e.g. 25% and 75%, and wish their contributions to be reflected in a legal document; or
- where a husband or wife owns the legal title to their property in their sole name, and the other spouse (by consent) wishes the underlying beneficial interest (i.e. the net sale proceeds) to be reflected in a legal document.
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British Columbia Specific Information
A health care provider-patient relationship is an important part of your overall health care experience. The ongoing relationship between you and your health care provider establishes a long-term plan for your health, informed by your background, medical history and relationship with that provider.
If you are looking for a family doctor, visit the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia website for an online directory of family doctors in British Columbia. The directory identifies doctors who are accepting new patients; and can be searched by name, location and additional languages spoken. For more information or support finding a family doctor, visit the A GP For Me website. This program is sponsored by the Ministry of Health and the BC Medical Association and aim to provide all British Columbians who want one with access to a family doctor. This program is currently available in only a number of communities in B.C.
If you are new to B.C. and looking for information on how to find a doctor or another health care provider, or an overview of the health care programs in our Province, visit the Welcome BC website for an overview and useful links.
Choosing a doctor or another type of health professional to help with your health care is very important. Never before have people had so many kinds of doctors and other health professionals to choose from. The relationship you have with your health professional greatly influences the health decisions you make and, ultimately, your health.
Talk with your health professional about being a partner in your health decisions. He or she will most likely support your desire to take an active role in your health care.
Think about these important things when you are choosing a health professional:
- Is the health professional well-trained and experienced?
- Is the health professional certified? Is he or she a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or the College of Family Physicians of Canada?
- Will the health professional be available when needed?
- Will the health professional work in partnership with you?
- Does your health plan provide coverage for this service?
This topic lists many of the specialties and sub-specialties of medical doctors. It also provides listings for other types of health professionals you may see for your health needs. Each listing includes a description of the specialty and information about why you might choose that type of health professional.
Types of Specialists
Medical specialists are doctors who have completed advanced education and clinical training in a specific area of medicine (their specialty area). Examples of medical specialists include the following:
- Addiction psychiatrist
- Adolescent medicine specialist
- Allergist (immunologist)
- Cardiac electrophysiologist
- Cardiovascular surgeon
- Colorectal surgeon
- Critical care medicine specialist
- Developmental pediatrician
- Doctor of osteopathy (DO)
- Emergency medicine specialist
- Family doctor
- Forensic pathologist
- Geriatric medicine specialist
- Gynecologic oncologist
- Hand surgeon
- Hospice and palliative medicine specialist
- Hyperbaric physician
- Infectious disease specialist
- Interventional cardiologist
- Medical examiner
- Medical geneticist
- Neurological surgeon
- Nuclear medicine specialist
- Occupational medicine specialist
- Oral surgeon (maxillofacial surgeon)
- Orthopedic surgeon
- Osteopathic physician (DO)
- Otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat specialist)
- Pain management specialist
- Plastic surgeon
- Radiation oncologist
- Reproductive endocrinologist
- Sleep disorders specialist
- Spinal cord injury specialist
- Sports medicine specialist
- Thoracic surgeon
- Vascular surgeon
Other Health Professionals
Other health professionals include the following:
- Certified diabetes educator (CDE)
- Chiropractor (doctor of chiropractic medicine)
- Dental hygienist
- General practitioner
- Genetic counsellor
- Health care aide
- Licensed nurse (LPN)
- Mental health counsellor
- Naturopathic doctor (ND)
- Nurse practitioner (NP)
- Occupational therapist (OT)
- Physiotherapist (PT)
- Physician assistant (PA)
- Psychiatric nurse
- Radiologic technologist
- Recreational therapist
- Registered dietitian (RD)
- Registered midwife
- Registered nurse (RN)
- Respiratory therapist (RT)
- Social worker
- Speech-language pathologist (speech therapist)
Preparing for Your Appointment
Before the visit
Collect the following information before your visit. Take it with you to your appointment.
- Gather any medical records for previous treatment for the same or a similar problem.
- Make a list of all prescription and non-prescription medicines you are taking.
During the visit
- State your main problem or reason for your visit.
- Describe your symptoms.
- Describe your past experiences with this problem.
- State how this problem is affecting your life.
After the visit
- What your health professional thinks the problem might be.
- What you might expect to happen next.
- What you can do to manage your problem at home.
Questions to ask about medicines, tests, and treatments
- What is the name of the medicine, test, or treatment?
- Why is it needed?
- What are the risks?
- What are potential side effects?
- Are there alternatives?
- How much does it cost?
- Is the cost of the medicine covered by my provincial health plan or private insurance?
- What will happen if I decide not to have treatment?
- How do I take this medicine?
- How will this medicine react with other medicines I am taking?
- How do I prepare for each test or treatment?
Questions to ask at the end of your visit
- When should I return for another visit?
- When will test results be available?
- Should I contact you or will you contact me?
- Be sure to ask for copies of any test results.
- Are there any danger signs that I need to look for?
- What else do I need to know?
For more information, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
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Other Works Consulted
- Anspaugh DJ, et al. (2011). Becoming a responsible health care consumer. In Wellness: Concepts and Applications, 8th ed., pp. 453–484. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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How internet ‘echo chambers’ lead to faster radicalization
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As part of a series on extremism on the internet, Marketplace’s Molly Wood explores how people get radicalized online. Read about what the responsibility is of social media companies to curb this type of activity (if any) and why it really is not that hard to block the content.
This week Marketplace Tech is looking at how an online troll becomes a terrorist, how people are recruited and radicalized online through social media and how companies can deal with it. Host Molly Wood talked with Fathali Moghaddam, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University. In 2005, he published a paper called “The Staircase to Terrorism.” It was an exploration of how, out of millions of disgruntled people in the world, a very few rise up this metaphorical staircase and commit violent acts in the real world. He says radicalization isn’t new, but the internet can make it faster and easier. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Molly Wood: What are the things that move people, ultimately, to violence?
Fathali Moghaddam: It’s a slow process sometimes, but it can also be rapid. The key issues are that individuals feel that they are being mistreated, that there is injustice in the world. Particularly nowadays, through the internet, an echo chamber has developed and isolation takes place, so this group radicalizes. The radicalization takes place in relation to other groups. It’s what I call mutual radicalization. Gradually they get to a stage where one or two of them are ready for actual violent behavior.
Wood: It sounds like what you’re saying is that, not only is the internet particularly ripe for this type of behavior, but that, in fact, as online communities become radicalized, they radicalize each other. They up the ante.
Moghaddam: Absolutely. This is becoming the norm. We see this in politics. We see it in extremist ideology. There is a relationship between these radicalizing movements and the internet. This is taking place in the wider context of globalization.
Wood: You’ve said that the latter stages of this radicalization staircase are somewhat rare, but do you see this process becoming faster or more common?
Moghaddam: Yes, definitely becoming more common in the sense that the mutual radicalization taking place, the probability of more individuals moving up to that final level of the staircase increases. This is very much related to the type of migration taking place around the world. The kind of leadership coming through now is quite different from what was taking place 10 years ago.
Wood: How can individual companies and platforms combat this radicalization process on their networks?
Moghaddam: The large media corporations have a duty to take on this challenge. They have the tools available. They have the technical means to do this. They have to get more serious about controlling hate speech. They have to get more serious about controlling echo chambers and influencing echo chambers.
Related links: more insight from Molly Wood
Our guest Fathali Moghaddam also has a new book coming out called “Threat to Democracy: the Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty.”
CNN has an interesting piece this week about online radicalization and what big tech platforms can do about it. They spoke with a terrorism expert who says simply taking down extremist content just shifts the content and the audiences to smaller platforms. The chat app Gab is one example, which apparently is a favorite of neo-Nazi groups, anti-Semitics, racists and conspiracy theorists. The expert said algorithms shouldn’t amplify extreme content to begin with. But if they know it’s there, they could redirect people to forums with different viewpoints or even therapy resources.
In the United Kingdom there’s a startup called Moonshot that is trying to intercept extremist content with what they call “offramping” campaigns. These campaigns include sending messages that direct people to more positive content and even intervening online to connect potential extremists with offline help.
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International condemnation over the imprisonment of Kazakh journalist Sergei Duvanov continued this week. On Thursday, the European Parliament called on Astana to free the journalist, jailed on disputed rape charges, and urged the Central Asian state to respect human rights, international news agencies reported.
Duvanov, a prominent 50-year-old editor of a human rights bulletin and critic of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, was found guilty last month of raping a 14-year-old girl. The opposition said the charges were part of a government crackdown on independent media.
"In the wake of the dubious circumstances surrounding the arrest and sentencing...(of) Sergei Duvanov, MEPs [Members of the European Parliament] adopted a resolution calling for his immediate release and the launching of an independent investigation," parliament said in a statement after the vote.
An AP report quoting Kyrgyz security officials said on Wednesday that the banned Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir had become more active in the south of this former Soviet republic, a region that has proven a flashpoint for tension in the past.
Security service spokeswoman Chinara Asanova said several Hizb-ut-Tahrir activists had been detained in southern districts recently while distributing anti-government leaflets. "We are actively investigating this as we believe the printing of leaflets is being done in a centralised manner," Asanova said.
Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a secretive organisation that aims to unite all Muslims under a caliphate ruled by Islamic Shariah law, emerged in the Middle East and spread to former Soviet Central Asia in the 1990s. Although the group claims not to advocate violence, Hizb-ut-Tahrir faces its harshest persecution in neighboring Uzbekistan, where thousands of alleged members have been jailed.
Also in Kyrgyzstan, the UN’s cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO confirmed its readiness this week to finance to the tune of US $700,000 the restoration of a Buddhist temple dating back to the Middle Ages that was discovered during excavations near the village of Krasnaya Rechka in Kyrgyzstan’s northern Chuy Region.
Meanwhile in Kazakhstan, state media announced this week that according to government statistics, there had been a major drop in new HIV/AIDS cases in the northern Pavlodar region. There were 439 new HIV cases registered in the region in 2001. This dropped to 173 in 2002, the report said.
Doctors at the centre believe that the reduction comes as a result of the active syringe exchange points, which exchanged 99,000 syringes in 2001 and 550,000 in 2002. HIV/AIDS is a rapidly expanding problem in Central Asia's largest state and observers say official figures do not accurately reflect the extent of the epidemic.
A Tajik newspaper report from late January, highlighting a potential nuclear environmental threat, was made available on BBC Monitoring this week. Vecherniy Dushanbe reported that about 100 mt of radioactive waste was being stored in 12 tailing dumps in the northern Soghd Region. The waste reportedly does not meet appropriate safety rules and is situated in the immediate proximity of residential areas.
Tajikistan needs some US $15 million to rehabilitate the dumps. The first Soviet nuclear bomb was made from Tajik uranium. A tailing dump, a place where radioactive ore waste is thrown, is situated 100 m from the district hospital on the edge of a busy road linking the regional centre, Khujand, with Bobojon Ghafurov District.
An intergovernmental agreement on supplies of gas from Turkmenistan to Russia is set to be signed soon, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told journalists in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, on Monday. It is planned that from 2005 Russia will import 10 billion cubic meters of gas from the energy-rich state and increase this volume to 20 bcm by 2008, over and above volumes already agreed. | <urn:uuid:0a331eeb-9bcb-402b-9e0a-c6a39794d49b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.irinnews.org/news/2003/02/14/weekly-news-wrap | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00491-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960363 | 809 | 1.882813 | 2 |
British picture framemakers, 1600-1950 - B
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Peter Babell (d.1771) was listed in Long Acre in Mortimer's Universal Director of 1763 as ‘Designer and Modeller. One of the first Improvers of Papier Maché Ornaments for Cielings, Chimney-pieces, Picture-frames, &c’. He took out insurance with the Sun Fire Office as a papier mâché maker from Long Acre, near James St in 1763 and from James St in 1768.
An obituary notice in 1771 described Babell as ‘a draftsman in architectural ornaments, and one who chiefly contributed to improve the Paper-Machee art to its present perfection’ (London Evening Post 28 September 1771). It is unclear whether the design book by ‘Babel of Paris’, A New Book of Ornaments, published in London in 1752, was the work of the Paris-based master, Pierre Edmé Babel (c.1720-1775?) or of Peter Babell in London. In his will, made 7 August 1770 and proved 4 October 1771, Peter Babell of James St in the parish of St Paul Covent Garden, named his wife as Mary Babell and made provision so that she could choose to carry on his business of making papier mâché. He also referred to Peter Smith and Joseph Defoure, probably Joseph Duffour (qv). His widow appears to be the Mary Babell, who married John Cobb on 24 February 1772 at St Paul Covent Garden, probably John Cobb (c.1715-1778), the well-known cabinet-maker of 72 St Martin's Lane.
Little is known of Babell’s work but the Delaval papers document a commission in 1766 when Babell wrote on 24 July to Sir John Hussey Delaval at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, mentioning sending ‘The Border for the two Picture Frames’, and continuing, ‘I am Sorry the Work came above the Price that my Lady was pleas’d to mention. I have Charged the very lowest, But the Moulding being so Bold did take more Gold, than I thought at First. I have sanded the ground of the Border to give a Relief to the Ornaments’; Babell charged Delaval £8.15s for 70 feet of ‘Paper machee Rich Border Gilt in Oil Gold’.
Sources: Geoffrey Beard, ‘Babel’s “A New Book of Ornaments”, 1752’, Furniture History, vol.11, 1975, pp.31-2; John Cornforth, ‘Putting up with Georgian DIY’, Country Life, vol.186, 9 April 1992, pp.54-6 (for the Delaval papers, Northumberland Record Office); London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 144/195788, 150/204877, 180/253389.
William Badger, 97 Boundary Road, St John's Wood, London NW 1871-1887 as carver and gilder, 49 Dorset St, Portman Square 1877-1888 as manufacturing artists’ colourman.
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John Bainbridge, see Thomas Fentham
William Barry, see Francis Draper
*Samuel Bartington 1816-1845, Mrs Mahala Bartington 1846-1851, Mahala Bartington & Son (also described as M. & B. Bartington)1852-1860, Benjamin Bartington 1860-1866. At 24 Beckford Row, Walworth, London 1816-1828 or later, 4 Crown Row, Mile End Road 1832-1833, 95 Wardour St 1833-1848, 58 Wardour St 1849-1864, 45 Wardour St 1860, 24 Charlotte St 1865, 53 Wardour St 1866. Carvers and gilders, picture dealers, initially brokers of household goods.
Samuel Barnfield Bartington (1783-1845), initially a cabinetmaker, traded as a broker and picture dealer. After his death, his wife Mahala (d.1860) and youngest son Benjamin (b.1828) traded as picture framemakers. She died at 58 Wardour St in 1860, leaving effects worth under £200.
Samuel and Mahala Bartington had eight children between 1814 and 1828. In the baptismal registers for his children he is described as a cabinetmaker (in 1820 as a broker), resident at Princes St, Walworth in 1814 and 1816 and thereafter at Beckford Row, Walworth. Samuel Bartington traded as a broker of household goods at 23 and 24 Beckford Row, Walworth, according to his fire insurance policy of 16 December 1816 (London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, vol.472). By 1823 he was dealing in pictures, occasionally advertising the sale of portraits (The Times 28 May 1823, 20 May 1841).
Framing work: In 1853 M. & B. Bartington, claiming the business to have been established for 30 years, advertised 'their large collection of ancient and modern carved frames, of the most choice and scarce patterns; likewise a large assortment of carved and composition gilt frames ready for use' (The Times 14 May 1853). M. & B. Bartington framed G.F. Watts's portrait, Father of the Artist,1833 (Watts Gallery, Compton) in a complex moulding frame with a label from 58 Wardour St, and therefore probably dating to the 1850s (information from Lynn Roberts).
*Frederick Bartram, 3 Grafton Place, Euston Square, London by 1871-1881 or later. Carver and gilder.
Frederick Bartram (1827-1883?) was born in Stamford and was recorded there in the 1851 census as a carpenter, age 24. He was in London by 1855 when he married Charlotte Chapman at St Pancras parish chapel, with his brother Alfred as one of the witnesses. In subsequent census records, he was recorded in 1861 at 33 Gordon Square, St Pancras, as a carpenter and joiner, with his wife Charlotte and two children, and in 1881 at 3 Grafton Place as a master carver and gilder, age 53, born Stamford, with his wife and four children, including his eldest son, William, age 21, listed as a carver and gilder.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti used Frederick Bartram for moving and repairing a pagoda cabinet in 1870, and proposed to use him for framing work in 1871 (Fredeman, letters 70.50 and 71.176). In 1876 Rossetti tried ‘L. Bartram', probably the same individual, for picture framing, following a disagreement with Foord & Dickinson (qv); however, he criticised Bartram’s work and in the process he provoked a strong reaction from this framemaker: ‘The punched design on the flat I consider the best I have ever done in my life, in fact, the frame is a perfect specimen of good workmanship and materials of unsurpassed quality’ (Fredeman, letter 76.90, see also Simon 1996 pp.88, 89). John Everett Millais used Bartram for unspecified work, for which Bartram acknowledged payment in 1871 (Tate Archive, Millais loan, item 1/67).
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Contributed by Eveleigh Bradford, Leeds, January 2014
Edmund Bates, Leeds. Carver and gilder, picture framemaker, picture dealer.
Edmund Bates (c.1816-1896) was an influential figure in the art world in Leeds from the 1860s to the 1880s, both as a picture dealer and as a strongly-opinionated writer on art and the cultivation of individual taste. He was an active supporter of the Leeds artist, Atkinson Grimshaw, possibly influencing his decision in 1861 to give up his work as a railway clerk to become a professional artist, and promoting his work to potential buyers. He was an enthusiast for the Pre-Raphaelite movement, particularly Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he had some correspondence, and for whom he acted briefly as agent.
Edmund Bates was born c.1816 in Morpeth, Northumberland, but by his early 20s was working in Leeds as a carver. In the 1840s he was in partnership, firstly with John Storry until 1845, and then with James Adams as Bates & Adams, carvers and gilders, 5 Gascoigne Yard, Boar Lane, Leeds. In 1849 the firm is recorded as having made the ‘massive and richly gilt’ frame for the portrait of Dr Samuel Sebastian Wesley by W.K. Briggs, presented to Dr Wesley on his departure from Leeds Parish Church and now in the possession of the Royal College of Music, London. By 1849 the firm had moved to 9 Basinghall St, but the partnership was dissolved in 1851, and by 1853 Edmund Bates was running the business there on his own. In July 1863 Bates moved his showroom and workshop to 1 Upper Fountaine St, Leeds, where he was to remain for more than 20 years. It was also his family home, with his wife (Sarah Kitchen, whom he had married in Skipton in 1843) and six children.
The Leeds 1862 exhibition and its aftermath: In 1862 there was a call for the loan of works of art for a major exhibition marking the opening of the newly extended Lecture Hall and Museum of the elite Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, in Park Row, Leeds. Described as ‘one of the most important art exhibitions ever held in Leeds’, with loans from the Royal collection and South Kensington as well as from many of the local gentry, the event attracted over 35,000 (fee-paying) visitors during the six weeks it was on. Some 200 pictures were on display; Edmund Bates lent four, all by Atkinson Grimshaw.
Bates evidently visited the exhibition many times and set out his views on the selection and standard of the work on display in a printed pamphlet (1863), expressed in the form of a letter to one of the influential members of the Society, explaining his thoughts, in elevated and emotional style, not only on the exhibition but also on art in general. The pamphlet was entitled ‘Observations on Art Proper: its dignity, true principles and aim; with hints on the successful cultivation of individual tastes; having special reference to the Collection of Pictures now exhibiting in the Philosophical Hall, Leeds.’ He picked out various artists for praise, notably Rossetti, and made a passionate plea on behalf of Atkinson Grimshaw. The pamphlet included a useful record of all the pictures on display: their titles, artists and owners.
The pamphlet was presumably circulated among the members of the Philosophical and Literary Society, the leading citizens of Leeds, and may have reached a wider audience. Ellen Heaton of Leeds, a collector and friend of the Rossettis, sent a copy to Dante Gabriel Rossetti who kept it in his library. A further booklet was published by Bates in 1868, in Leeds and London: ‘A few observations and suggestions on art and art culture, having especial reference to the intended formation of a permanent public gallery in Leeds. This includes his proposals for an Art School.
Bates evidently saw himself as an informed critic and arbiter of taste: he wrote letters to the newspapers commenting at length on local art exhibitions, and his newspaper advertisements in the early 1870s stressed the high standard of his collection of fine art, particularly old masters, ‘deservedly entitled to a place in the best collections’.
Later years: In 1878 his business clearly struck a bad patch, and went into liquidation. All his stock was put up for auction: oil paintings by Hogarth, Tintoretto, Gainsborough, Turner, Breughel, Constable and others; etchings and prints; watercolours; ceramics and curios; and his library of some 2000 books. However he managed to survive: in 1881 he was still working as a carver and gilder, and employing three men. In 1884 he was engaged by the Corporation to oversee the selection and hanging of the art exhibition held to mark the opening of the new Free Library and Museum in Leeds. This was an important exhibition, seen as the first step towards providing a permanent public art gallery for Leeds, which he and many others had advocated. However, it does not appear that he was involved in the arrangements when the Leeds Fine Art Gallery finally opened in 1888.
By that time Bates had moved to new work premises at 46 Great George St in Leeds and was living in College St. He continued in business until his death in May 1896, aged 79. In his obituary he was said to have been ‘well-known as an art dealer and adviser with exhibitions of art’.
Sources: ‘The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’, ed. William E. Fredeman, letters 1879-81, ref. 79.93; 79.119; 79.119.1; 79.141;79.142; 79.148; 79.149; 79.150; 79.154; 79.177; 79.209; 79.214; 79.218; 80.1; 80.12; 80.18; 80.26; 80.30; 80.33; 80.36; 80.73; 80.88; 80.99; 80.119; 80.154; 80.250; 80.257; 80.264; 81.18. 1841 Census Return HO107/1349/4, sheet 22 [wrongly transcribed as Edmund Bat]. He was in lodgings. London Gazette 27 June 1846; Williams’ Directory of Leeds, 1845; Charlton’s Directory of Leeds, 1847. Leeds Mercury 1 December, 1849. The RCM confirms that the portrait is still in its original frame. London Gazette 31 January 1851; White’s Directory of Leeds, 1853. Notice in the Leeds Mercury 11 July 1863. Census Returns, 1861, 1871, 1881. Leeds Mercury 13 December 1862. Joseph Dempsey Holdforth, a wealthy silk merchant who evidently had a considerable collection and lent a number of pictures for the exhibition. Copy in the University of Leeds Library Special Collections, ref. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society: Y BAT. Rossetti thanked Ellen Heaton for the pamphlet ‘which is full of refreshing enthusiasm for Art’ (letter 63.19 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. William E. Fredeman.) For his library, see www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/dgrlibrary.rad.html . Leeds Local Studies Library, ref. 701B31L. An extract was printed in the Leeds Mercury 9 June 1868. Letter on the Bramley Art Exhibition, Leeds Mercury 30 July 1872; letter reviewing the 1875 Yorkshire Exhibition, Leeds Mercury 19 May 1875. He also published in 1872 an impassioned critique in verse of Walter Thornbury’s biography of J.M.W. Turner, calling himself ‘a Hewer of Wood’ (Leeds Art Library, ref. ALSR759.2TUR). Leeds Mercury 5 September 1874, 8 September 1874, 3 October 1874. London Gazette 3 May 1878. Advertisement in the Leeds Mercury 4 May 1878. Unlike other fine art dealers he did not charge for admission to his gallery: was this an aspect of his business failure? 1881 Census Return: he and his family were still at 1 Upper Fountaine Street. He was 64. Leeds Mercury 5 September 1884, 6 September 1884, 23 September 1884, 23 October 1884. In response to implied criticism, he published a pamphlet ‘Fine Art versus Local Journalism: Leeds First Public Library Exhibition’, Leeds 1884 (Leeds Local Studies Library, ref. L708B318). Kelly’s Directory of Leeds, 1888, 1893; 1891 Census Return: by this time he was widowed, his wife having died in 1889. Leeds Mercury 13 May 1896. He was buried at St Michael’s Church, Headingley, where his wife and eldest son George, who died of tuberculosis aged 34 in 1880, were also buried.
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Charles Bathurst,5 Ranelagh Road, Westborne Square, Paddington, London 1871-1891, road renumbered 1891/2, 39 Ranelagh Road 1892-1906. Carver, gilder and picture framemaker.
Charles Bathurst (c.1829-1914) may be the individual christened on 22 August 1830 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the son of George and Susanna Bathurst. His first wife, May Calder, died age 45 in 1867 and he remarried in 1869, to Eliza Farnden. He can be found in eight successive censuses (with his stated age varyingly suggesting that he was born between 1827 and 1829): in 1841, age 14, in the household of Elizabeth Bathurst, staymaker, age 60, in Bethnal Green; in 1851 in the household of Francis Gray, bootmaker, in Soho, when he was described as Gray’s son-in-law and a gilder, age 23, with George Bathurst, also described as a son-in-law, a picture framemaker, age 24; in 1861 in Paddington as a gilder, age 32, with his wife Mary, age 40, sons, Charles, age 4, born New York (where Bathurst and his wife had travelled in 1855), and George, age 3, born Soho, London; in 1871, 1881 and 1891 at 5 Ranelagh Road in Paddington as a carver and gilder, with his second wife, Eliza; in 1871 and 1881 with the children from his first marriage, Charles, George and Norman; in 1901 as an employer and carver and gilder at 29 Ranelagh Road; and in 1911 as a retired carver and gilder living with his wife in Maida Vale. He died in the Paddington district, age 85, in 1914.
His son, George Percy Bathurst, took on the business at 39 Ranelagh Road from 1907, continuing it at this address until at least 1930.
Picture framing work: Bathurst used his framing label, found on the picture by Philip H. Calderon described below, to advertise as a carver, gilder and picture framemaker, offering the usual services to clean, line and restore pictures, to clean and restore old prints, to mount drawings and to regild old frames. He provided the frame for Calderon’s Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Edward IV, parting with her younger son, the Duke of York, 1893, a running overlapping small-scale leaf pattern (Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, information from Robert Zilli, February 2013). There are three frames with Bathurst’s framing label in the Victoria and Albert Museum, given in 2000 by Mrs Lucy Jebb, a descendant of the architect John Hungerford Pollen, and one of these frames may possibly have been used for Pollen's 1887 Royal Academy exhibit, Ceiling for Blickling Hall.
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William Bayly, 15 Marshall St, Golden Square, London 1817-1872. Carver, gilder and picture framemaker.
This long-running little-known business at 15 Marshall St forms a bridge between Charles Salmon (qv), who was at this address at the beginning of the 19th century, and another carver and gilder, Charles Mitchell May (qv), at the end of the century, meaning that these premises were used for the same trade for more than a century. William Bayly took over the premises at 15 Marshall St in 1817 or a few years earlier and used a very similar trade card to Salmon, both in design and wording, describing himself and his business as ‘W. Bayly, (Successor to Mr. Salmon) Carver Gilder, & Frame Maker to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales & the Dukes of York and Clarence, Marshal Street, Golden Square, London. Funerals Performed.’ Salmon in his turn took the design from his predecessor at these premises, Sefferin Nelson (qv).
William Bayly (c.1785-1870) seems to have occupied the Marshall St premises for some 55 years, although the business was perhaps run by his son from about 1850. Described as a gilder of 15 Marshall Street, he took an apprentice gilder, Bernard William Holmes, in 1836 (Westminster Archives, indenture, Acc 2355). He can be found living in Chelsea in census records, in 1841 and 1851 in Sloane St; in 1851 at the age of 66 he was described as a proprietor of houses whereas his son, William Francis, living with him, was recorded as a woodcarver. Rather similarly, in 1861 the father was described as a freeholder and the son as a master gilder. He died in Chelsea, age 85, in November 1870, with his son, William Francis Bayly, as sole executor, leaving effects worth under £12,000. While the business was still listed in the 1872 London Post Office directory, in the printed electoral register that year Bayly was marked in pen as dead. It may be that the son continued the business as long as needed to wind it up. The Bayly business at 15 Marshall St was followed by that of another carver and gilder, Charles Mitchell May, in 1873, although it is not clear whether this transition included Bayly’s good will.
The son, William Francis Bayly (1816-1905), was born and baptised at St James Westminster in 1816. In the 1881 census, he was recorded as a proprietor of houses, indicating a private income, with his sisters. He died in 1905, leaving an estate worth £26,520.
James Bazin, see Benjamin Charpentier
William Beaumont may be the picture framer of this name, of St John the Evangelist Westminster, who took George Eller as an apprentice in 1764. He married Sarah Vialls at St Martin-in-the-Fields in September 1779. His trade card, bearing the date 1788 (Banks coll, repr. Heal 1972 p.5), describes him as nephew and successor to Thomas Vialls (qv), but unsurprisingly he is not mentioned in Vialls’s will in March 1779, which was made some six months before his marriage into the family. Beaumont took further apprentices in 1791 and 1792 and he is possibly the William Beaumont recorded at Mary-le-Bow-Fields in 1791.
Sources: DEFM, to which this account is indebted. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Joseph Bell, Bigg Market, Newcastle upon Tyne 1778, Above Nun Gate 1782, The St Luke, High-Bridge 1782-1801 or later, The St Luke, Newgate St. Painter, artist and colourman.
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William Benham, 9 Devonshire Terrace, Notting Hill Gate, London 1863-1888. Artists' colourman, printseller, picture framemaker etc.
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*Bennett & Jennison Ltd, Julian St,Grimsby, Lincolnshire by 1913-1919, Weelsby St 1919, Ladysmith Road, Grimsby by 1921-1955 or later. London showroom, 27 Chancery Lane 1924, Napier House, 24/27 High Holborn, London WC1 1929-1935, 67 Aldersgate St EC1 1936-1941. Picture frame and moulding manufacturers.
It was claimed in 1914 that most mouldings in Britain were foreign in origin but that Bennett & Jennison were producing British mouldings (Fine Art Trade Journal, vol.10, 1914, information from Jeremy Adamson). From the 1911 census, it would appear that the partners in the business were Solomon Bennett and George Robert Jennison, with Bennett listed as a picture frame manufacturer, born Russian/Poland and naturalised British, with five children, two of whom, a daughter and a son, were active in the business, while Jennison appears as manager of a picture frame manufactory, with wife and daughter. Solomon Bennett (c.1849-1916) previously traded, as a carver, gilder and artistic picture framer from 82 Cleethorpes Road, also providing services as a plumber, glazier, gasfitter and wholesale glass merchant, claiming that his business had been established in 1868 (Grimsby & Cleethorpes Directory, 1902). George Robert Jennison (1871-1949) died at Cleethorpes in 1949, leaving effects worth £17,099.
Bennett & Jennison Ltd was listed as fine art publishers in the 1909 telephone directory. There was a fire on their premises in 1917 (The Times 25 June 1917). The business exhibited at the British Industries Fairs in 1922, 1929 and 1947, offering a range of fancy goods, including picture frames, mouldings and framed pictures (Grace’s Guide at www.gracesguide.co.uk). In 1924 the business was described as makers of picture frame mouldings, photo frames, fire screens, advertising frames, mirrors and pictures in frames, wood stair rods, overmantles, etc, and from 1936 as fancy goods manufacturers in the Post Office London directory.
Bennett & Jennison advertised swept frames, antique gilt frames for artists and exhibitions, offering lists and moulding patterns on application, describing themselves as the largest frame and moulding works in Great Britain (The Year’s Art 1930). By 1951 the business was offering exhibition frames for artists in ‘Antique Gilt or Ivory and oxidised silver’, offering a new list, no.103 (The Artist’s Guide, 1951; see also The Artist, vol.41, April 1951, p.xi). The company was listed to be struck off the Companies Register in 1957 (London Gazette 18 October 1957).
*Jabez Benson, 28 Warwick St, Golden Square, London 1826-1828, 39 Warwick St 1829-1858, not listed 1859-1860, 20 Broad St, Golden Square 1861. Looking glass and picture framemaker.
Jabez Benson (c.1804-1864) was listed in the 1841 census as a framemaker, in 1851 as a carver and gilder, age 47, address 29 Warwick Square, and in 1861 at 62 Warwick St. He is probably the individual of this name who married twice at St James Westminster, firstly in 1827 to Mary Wilkinson, and then in 1834 to Caroline Osbourn. He died in 1864, described as a carver and gilder of 20 Wardour St, leaving effects worth under £300; his will was proved by his widow Caroline and his son Alexander George, barrister’s clerk.
Benson framed two portrait drawings for Adam Buck, Sarah Wright-Hewell, 1827, and Young boy and his two sisters, 1830 (Christie’s South Kensington, Interiors, 1 May 2012 lot 325, and Sotheby's 26 November 1998 lot 18). Both frames bear his trade label describing him as nephew and successor to the late Mr Gravel. This was Robert Gravel, who worked at 28 Warwick St from 1809 until his death in 1824 (DEFM).
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Bertram, see Frederick Bartram
*C.F. Bielefeld ?1826-1828, Bielefeld & Haselden 1829-1836. At 62 Edgware Road, London 1828-1836, 33 Great Windmill St, St James’s 1833-1835, 29 Oxendon St, Haymarket 1836. Papier mâché furniture and looking glass makers.
John Henry Bielefeld (Germany 1747-1813 St Marylebone) married Amelia Gosler at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1770; they had nine children between 1770 and 1788, mostly christened at St Mary Marylebone, including John Henry (1771-1848) and Charles Frederick (1778-1844). The name is sometimes found spelt as Bielefield, Billfield or Biellfield.
The father was trading as a music seller in 1781 in Oxford St, as a dealer in musical instruments at 127 Oxford St in 1787, and as a toyman in Oxford St in 1789, and father and son were listed at 1 Bolsover St from 1801 as Bielefeld & Son, wholesale toymen, and at 72 St Martin’s Lane from 1819, as toy merchants or as a toy warehouse. In 1817 the partnership was listed as J. & C. Bielefeld, perhaps no longer father and son but the two brothers John Henry and Charles Frederick. ‘John Henry Bielefeld senior’ (whether father or son) and ‘Charles Frederick Bielefeld’, 70 St Martins Lane, variously described as toymen or toy manufacturers, took out insurance in 1819 and 1821 with the Sun Fire Office. This partnership was dissolved in 1826 (London Gazette 22 May 1827), leaving J.H. Bielefeld, toyman, to continue to trade from the same premises until he was made bankrupt in 1834 (London Gazette 27 June 1834).
Following the dissolution of the partnership, Charles Frederick Bielefeld went into business with his nephew, also Charles Frederick Bielefeld (1803-64), and with William Haselden, as Bielefeld & Haselden, papier mâché furniture and looking glass makers, in or soon after 1826, the date subsequently given in trade publications for the invention of their improved form of papier mâché. In 1832 the partnership was dissolved ‘as far as regards Charles Frederick Bielefeld the younger’, leaving Charles Frederick Bielefeld the elder and William Haselden to continue the business of manufacturers of ground paper ornaments (London Gazette 27 March 1832). In 1837 what was presumably the remaining partnership between Bielefeld the elder and Haselden was dissolved (The Times 4 January 1837). In both cases the partnership was described as manufacturers of ground paper ornaments, Edgware Road.
The business published a catalogue in 1831, A collection of designs for the use of upholsterers, decorators, gilders &c, 3rd book, 2nd edition, 28pp (Winterthur Library). The trade card of Bielefeld & Haselden, ‘Inventors & Manufacturers of the New Papier Mâché Ornaments, by Appointment to his Majesty’s Office of Works’, shows them trading from 62 Edgware Road and also from 33 Great Windmill St, St James’s (Johnson coll. Trade Cards 23 (80).
The younger Charles Frederick Bielefeld (qv) went on to trade independently, while William Haselden set up as Haselden & Co, whose work was featured in a trade catalogue from 24 Golden Square in about 1840, Fashionable Window Cornices and Hangings with Glass Frames &c, being original designs, in which are introduced ornaments of papier mâché (British Library, 7808.i.16). In a series of changing partnerships, trading as Haselden & Co and as Hinchliff & Co, William Haselden and several members of the Hinchliff family, initially with George Cooke, traded in papier mâché furnishings and paper hangings until 1859 or later (London Gazette 24 November 1837,21 April 1843, 25 June 1850, 28 April 1859). Various Hinchliff family partnership, property and personal deeds, 1804-55, are in the City of Westminster Archives (M:Acc.0560).
Sources: DEFM; London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 262/395387, 342/528747, 482/953296, 488/980174. Information from descendants of the Bielefeld family, including Colin Smith, 25 April 2007, and Penny Poulton, 2 & 8 May 2007, concerning the family, particularly the various John Henry Bielefelds, and identifying Bielefeld as a music seller in 1781. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
*Bielefeld & Co 1833, Bielefeld & Knapp 1834, C.F. Bielefeld 1835-1864, Bielefeld & Co 1866-1869. At 18 New Road, Fitzroy Square,London 1833-1838 (see note below), 15 Wellington St North, Strand 1840-1861, street renumbered 1861, 21 Wellington St 1861-1869 (not listed 1865). Papier mâché manufacturer, including picture frames, mouldings and ornament.
Charles Frederick Bielefeld the younger (1803-64), son of John Henry Bielefeld the younger (1771-1848), was born on 24 February 1803 and christened at St Marylebone. He and his wife Elizabeth had three sons who survived infancy, Charles Edward (1829-61), Julius Martin (1832-1919) and Sydney Kirk (1836-66), christened in Marylebone, as well as four younger sons and daughters. By the time of the 1851 census, both father and son Julius, age 19, were listed as papier mâché manufacturers. In 1861 Bielefeld was living with his large family at 31 Gower St, when he was described as an artist and manufacturer of papier mâché ornaments.
Charles Frederick Bielefeld had left the earlier partnership of Bielefeld & Haselden (qv), which included his uncle, Charles Frederick the elder, in 1832. When he set up in business at 18 New Road, he went into partnership with Martin Knapp as Bielefeld & Knapp, advertising as manufacturers of the improved papier mache ornaments, for centre flowers and ventilators to ceilings, room and window cornices, glass frames, brackets, mouldings and every description of decorations (Johnson coll. Trade Cards 23 (81). This partnership was dissolved in 1834 (London Gazette 22 July 1834). Subsequently C.F. Bielefeld advertised in almost identical terms as ‘Modeller and Manufacturer of the Improved Papier Mâché Ornaments’, trading from 18 New Road, featuring among other products glass frames and mouldings, and referring to the availability of pattern books (Johnson coll. Trade Cards 23 (79). Early listings for this business are confusing, variously giving its address as 18 Quickset Row, New Road 1836-1839, and 18 Bath Place, New Road 1836-1839, but also recording it as New Road, Fitzroy Square 1833-1835 or more specifically as 18 New Road 1834.
Bielefeld’s first catalogue, Ornaments Drawn from Examples, Executed in the Improved Papier Mache, issued in parts in or soon after 1834 from 18 New Road, was illustrated with 32 lithographic plates. It was followed by catalogues of Gothic ornaments in 1835 and ‘in every style’ in 1836 (RIBA Library). Once Bielefeld had moved to new premises at 15 Wellington St in 1839 or 1840, built to the design of Sydney Smirke, he issued a series of more ambitious catalogues, entitled On the Use of the Improved Papier-Mâché in Furniture, which he initially advertised as consisting of some 800 plates, and later promoted as containing more than 1000 (copies in various libraries). A priced catalogue, probably a working copy used by the firm, details the cost of each component part of Bielefeld’s frames and other ornaments (Victoria and Albert Museum Print Room, see Simon 1996 p.169).
From September 1841 Bielefeld advertised in The Art-Union, featuring an expanded edition of his folio volume of patterns in February 1842, and his machine-made patent picture frame mouldings in 12 feet lengths without join in 1848 (The Art-Union Advertiser June 1848 p.cxi). A master of self publicity, Bielefeld benefited from a series of articles and promotional puffs in The Art-Union, The Builder and the Illustrated London News in the 1840s and early 1850s.
At one stage Bielefeld employed a workforce of not less than one hundred. His success brought its own problems; smoke from his works in Wellington St brought objections from local residents who also complained about the ‘hordes of vagabond boys’ employed there. However, this success was relatively short-lived: there was a fire on his premises in 1854 (The Times 10 March 1854), he was bankrupt by 1861 and died in 1864, leaving effects worth under £100. His business continued in other hands. By 1872 the Papier Maché Co Ltd (Walter Clare, Managing Director) was listed at the 21 Wellington St address. It was followed in 1887 by the Plastic Decoration and Papier Mache Co, partners Richard Brunton and Herbert Brewster, who formed a limited company in 1890, issuing a catalogue from 21 Wellington St in 1893 and continuing in business until 1895 (National Archives, BT 31/4869/32334).
In the nineteenth century technical advances allowed papier-mâché to be used much more widely in furniture and architectural decoration. It was employed for the throne canopy in the House of Lords, for the laurel-leaf friezes in galleries at the British Museum and even for a prefabricated waterproof papier-mâché village of ten houses exported to Australia (Simon 1996 p.43). In 1845 Bielefeld patented the use of a type of papier-mâché for architectural decoration; it was known as ‘fibrous slab’, or patent wood, and was used on the interior of the dome of the British Museum Reading Room.
Framing work: Charles Frederick Bielefeld advertised ‘Bielefeld’s Improved Papier Mâché Picture Frames’ in 1840. As Bielefeld’s catalogues show, his frames were assembled from pressed parts which were priced individually so that a frame like that on Richard Rothwell’s Mary Shelley, exh.1840 (National Portrait Gallery, repr. Simon 1996 fig.31) was made up from seven different elements. The large leaves are stamped CF BIELEFELD LONDON (Simon 1996 fig.32). An identical frame can be found on Samuel Laurence's Charles Babbage, 1845 (National Portrait Gallery). Though this frame was built on an open framework, others are closer to contemporary compo frames in appearance. A stamped papier-mâché frame with small-scale ornament applied to a wooden moulding was used for William Etty's Britomart redeems faire Amoret, exh.1833 (Sotheby's 24 November 2005 lot 66). A rather bolder design, clearly a reframing, can be found on John Rising's Henry Meynell, c.1790 (Temple Newsam House, Leeds).
Bielefeld supplied a frame, size 40 by 34 ins, for £3.7s to Charles Roberson & Co in 1843, together with a volume of patterns at £1 and some other more modest items, and a royal coat of arms in 1856/7 (Hamilton Kerr Institute, MS 944-1993 p.231, 180-1993). In turn, he had an account with Roberson, 1841-51, from 14 and 15 Wellington St North (Woodcock 1997).
In The Art-Union in 1842, it was claimed that papier-mâché frames had several advantages over compo, apart from appearance: they had 'all the effects of old carved work; many of the patterns represent exactly the finest carvings of the seventeenth century' (April 1842 p.91), and ‘they are cheaper, being about two-thirds of the cost…; next, they will not “chip” in carriage; and next they are so much lighter in weight’ (November 1842 p.257). Bielefeld offered a separate catalogue in 1843, which he described as a miniature work with 50 designs for picture frames (Liverpool Mercury 26 May 1843). In an advertisement for such frames, Bielefeld claimed that they would be 'found fully equal in style and finish to the finest carvings, at a cost not exceeding that of the common putty composition frames', offering an illustrated tariff of his frames and containing several designs made expressly for Art Union prints (The Times 13 October 1843). Despite Bielefeld’s claims, there was some feeling that papier mâché did not form such a good foundation for gilding as wood or composition, nor did it retain a firm hold of nails or screws. For whatever reason, the use of papier mâché in framemaking did not prosper beyond the 1860s (Simon 1996 p.44).
For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
William Biggs, Biggs & Son, W.H. Biggs & Co, see John Harris
**Frank Binning 1858-1878, Francis Binning 1879-1909, H. & E. Binning 1909-1910, Ernest Binning 1912-1940, Harry E. Binning 1946-1949, Bloomsbury Frame Works & Repairers (H.E. Binning) 1950-2005. At 9 Hyde St, Bloomsbury, London WC 1858-1860, 83 Theobald’s Road, WC 1861-1879, also 84 Theobald’s Road from 1876, road renumbered 1879, 118 Theobald’s Road 1880-1885, 120 Theobald’s Road 1884, road renumbered 1885, 130 Theobald’s Road 1886-1939, 62 Lamb’s Conduit St 1946-2005, 57 Exmouth St 1890-1895 as carver and gilder. Composition ornament and picture and glass frame manufacturers.
The interest of the Binning family business lies in its exceptional longevity over four generations in the specialist business of producing composition ornament for picture and looking glass frames. The late 1930s trade card of H.E. Binning, picture framemaker of 130-2 Theobald’s Road, gives 1837 as the year the business was established (repr. Alabone & Johnson, fig.4, see Sources below). However, the founder of the business, Francis Binning, is not known to have traded independently before 1858. He lived on the premises in Theobald’s Road at least from 1871 to 1901 and is described as an employer in 1901. His son Frank Binning lived in Exmouth St at least from 1895 to 1908 and in 1911 was described as a worker. Confusingly, the father Francis was sometimes named as Frank, and the son Frank sometimes as Francis. The evidence is incomplete but it would seem that the father traded in Theobald’s Road as Frank Binning until 1878, and then as Francis Binning until his death in 1909. The family had interests in nearby Exmouth St, where the business was listed in directories at no.60, 1863-5 (see Alabone & Johnson p.25), and at no.57 as carvers and gilders, 1890-5. Perhaps the son ran the Exmouth St workshop, since he is recorded as living there. Father and son apparently worked closely together.
The business remained in the hands of the Binning family until 2005 when, at the death of Peter Binning, it was incorporated into Joseph McCarthy (Fine Frames) Ltd, of Tunbridge Wells. The following account is indebted to the research of Gerry Alabone and Alastair Johnson.
The first generation: Francis Binning (c.1822-1909) married Sophia Edwards at Trinity Church, Marylebone, in 1853, when he was recorded as a joiner living in Norton St, the son of the late Richard Binning, a servant. He can be traced in census records, in 1861 as Frank Binning and there after as Francis Binning. In more detail: in 1861 at 52 Devonshire St, Finsbury, as a composition ornament and framemaker, age 35, born parish of St George Hanover Square, with his wife Sophia, age 30, born Winchester, a daughter Sophia, age 6, and son Frank J., age 4, both born in St Pancras. In 1871 at 84 Theobald’s Road, now a widower, as a glass and picture framemaker employing six men and two boys, with two sons Frank J., age 14, and Albert E., age 10. In 1891 at 132 Theobald’s Road as a picture framemaker, age 65, with his son Harry, age 18, as an assistant and three younger children. In 1901 at 130-2 Theobald’s Road as a picture framemaker and employer, age 70, with five sons and daughters given as workers in picture framing, namely Albert, age 41, Harry, age 28, Ernest, age 23, Alice, age 25, and Mary, age 20.
‘F. Binning’ advertised in the 1880s as a composition ornament, glass and picture frame, cornice, table and tripod stand manufacturer, also offering to supply work in any state to upholsterers and the trade (trade card, repr. Alabone & Johnson, fig.2). A view of his premises at 130 Theobald’s Road shows more than a dozen staff standing outside the shop (Alabone & Johnson, fig.3). At one stage or another, the Binning family used the adjoining premises at 132 Theobald’s Road as a newsagent and as a confectioner.
Francis Edward Binning died age 86 in the Holborn district in 1909. At his death in 1909, the business passed to his sons, Harry and Ernest.
The second generation:Four of Francis Binning’s sons were active in picture framing.The eldest, Frank John Binning (1857-1920), was born in St Pancras in 1857 and married Susan Bowers in the same district in 1876, when described as a carpenter, the son of Frank Binning, similarly described as a carpenter. He died age 63 in the Islington district in 1920. In census records, he was recorded as Frank J. Binning, except in 1901 when he appeared as Francis J. Binning; he was variously described as a picture frame maker or picture frame joiner. In 1861 and 1871 he was living with his father (see above), in 1881 at 21 Harrison St, St Pancras, age 24, with his wife Susan, 23, and two young daughters, Kate and Alice, in 1891 and 1901 at 57 Exmouth St with his wife and eight children, aged between 2 and 24, and in 1911 at 13 Hanover St, Islington, with his wife and four daughters, all described as book folders. He was living at 57 Exmouth St from at least 1891 to 1908, and at 18 Hanover St in 1915, according to the electoral roll.
The second son, Albert Edward Binning (1862-1924?) was born in the Holborn district in 1862. He can be found in the 1871 and 1901 censuses living at his father’s, and in 1911 as a picture framemaker and worker, living at 19 Whitfield Place, off Tottenham Court Road. He appears to be the individual who died age 63 in the St Giles district in 1924.
The third son, Harry Binning (1872-1910) can be found in the 1891 and 1901 censuses at his father’s. He died in September 1910 at the age of 38, just a year after his father, leaving effects worth £691.
The fourth son, Ernest Binning (c.1878-1960), has not been traced in birth registers for his presumed year of birth, 1878. He can be found in the 1891 and 1901 censuses at his father’s, and in 1911 as a picture framemaker and employer, age 33, with his wife Maud and two-month-old son, Harry Ernest. Following his father’s death in 1909, Ernest traded initially with his brotherHarry as H. & E. Binning (trade card, repr. Alabone and Johnson, fig.4), until his brother’s untimely death the following year. He then continued under his own name, with 17 employees in the business in 1913.He died in the Shoreditch district, age 82, in 1960.
The third generation:Ernest’s son,Harry Ernest ‘Monty’ Binning(1911-90), was born in the Holborn district in 1911 and married Betty McGrath in the same district in 1932. They had children Bryan in 1933 and Peter in 1937, both born in the Holborn district. Harry Binning started running the business before the Second World War and continued working in the shop until his death in 1990, as Gerry Alabone has traced.
The fourth generation:Peter Binning (1936-2005), Monty’s son, was born on 29 December 1936 and his birth registered in the Holborn district in 1937. Bryan M. Binning was born in the Holborn district in 1933. Following Peter's death in 2005 the moulds used by the Binning family were acquired by his long-time customer, Joseph McCarthy, and are now owned and used by Joseph McCarthy (Fine Frames) Ltd, 68 The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5TN . However, little of the business’s records appear to survive other than a few trade cards and photographs.
Sources: Gerry Alabone and Alastair Johnson, ‘Introducing the Bloomsbury Frameworks Project’, in Ed Gregory (ed.), Postprints from the David Harris Conservation Conference, 30 March 2007, privately distributed, c.2007, pp.24-8.
*James Birchall, Duke’s Court, St Martin’s Lane, London 1774-1780,433 Strand 1780,473 Strand (‘near St Martin’s Church’) 1780-1794. Carver and gilder, picture framemaker and printseller.
James Birchall (d.1794) appears to have married twice, firstly to Catharine Wyer at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1763, having three children between 1764 and 1771, the first two christened at St Anne Soho, and the third at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and secondly to Susanna Bennett at St Clement Danes in 1776, having four children between 1782 and 1791, all christened at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
James Birchall took apprentices John Hughes for £21 in 1771 and Andrew Collier for £10 in 1773. Birchall appears in the Westminster poll book for 1774 at Duke’s Court. He announced that he had moved from this address to 473 Strand, near St Martin’s church, in 1780, advertising a very good assortment of German glasses for prints, drawings and crayon pictures, from 18 by 14 ins to 40 by 32 ins (Morning Post and Daily Advertiser 6 September 1780); he used his trade card as a carver, gilder and printseller at 473 Strand to advertise in very similar terms (Banks coll., with added date 1780). He took out insurance in June 1780 with the Sun Fire Office as a carver, gilder, printseller and dealer in glass at 433 Strand, including £500 for utensils and stock and the significant figure of £630 for glass and china, subsequently insuring from 473 Strand in 1786 when his utensils and stock had increased to £1200 but china and glass were now given as £200. He was publishing prints from 473 Strand by 1780, initially with the engraver, John Raphael Smith. These premises had previously been occupied by John Sotheby (qv). In his will, made 9 December 1794 and proved 7 January 1795, James Birchall, carver, gilder and printseller, made bequests to his wife, Susannah, and his sons, Thomas and James William. His stock of engravings, including 90 gilt frames and 80 framed prints, was sold at auction in May 1795.
In 1780 he invoiced the 3rd Duke of Dorset for £11.11s for framing Nathaniel Dance's Anthony and Cleopatra (Kent Record Office, U269, A243/10, information from National Trust files). In 1783 and 1784 he invoiced Lord George Germaine for a total of £14.17s for various frames, including a half-length 'Salvator Rosa pattern', carrying out further work in 1785 (Drayton House archive, information from Bruce Bailey, 2002).
Sources: Maxted 1977 (recording Birchal’s address at 433 Strand in 1780, his death in 1794, and entries in London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 284/429920, 337/519680); Ellen G. D'Oench, ‘Copper into gold’: prints by John Raphael Smith 1751-1812, 1999, pp.73-4; David Alexander, ‘The Historic Framing of Prints: The Treatment of English Prints in the Eighteenth Century’, in NancyBell (ed.), Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours, Drawings and Prints, Institute of Paper Conservation, 1997, p.6 (Birchall’s sale catalogue). For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Blundell & Pritty 1811-1813, William Blundell 1813?-1815, Blundell & Sanderson 1815-1824, William Blundell 1823-1836. At 6 Little St Andrew St, Seven Dials, London 1811-1826, 21 Little St Andrew St 1825-1832, 36 Church St, Soho 1833-1836, 9 Meard’s Court, Soho 1836. Composition ornament makers, from 1823 sometimes listed as a carver.
The partnership between William Blundell and Robert Pritty, composition ornament manufacturers of Little St Andrew St, was dissolved in 1813 (London Gazette 11 May 1813), although it continued to be listed in Kent’s London directory for 1814 and 1815. William Blundell, composition ornament maker, 6 Little St Andrew St, Seven Dials, insured his premises with the Sun Fire Office in 1815 (London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, vol.466). He may have been followed in business by G. Blundell at 59 New Compton St in 1839.
Descriptions such as ‘Blundels Dolphin ornament’, 'Blundells bead' and 'Blundells flat laurel', appear in the account books of John Smith (qv) from 1812, suggesting that Blundell was among the sources used by Smith for composition ornaments for his picture frames, perhaps directly rather than through a subcontracting supplier as was often the case (see also Simon 1996 p.140).
For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Boots Ltd, 1 Angel Row, Chapel Bar, Nottingham, Boots Cash Chemists Ltd, Station St,Nottingham, with shops at many locations. Chemists; also artists’ materials retailers and picture framemaker c.1894-1963 or later.
In 1894 the business was advertising as ‘Printsellers, Carvers, and Gilders, Picture Frame Manufacturers, Artists’ Colourmen’, selling ‘English Gold Frames of the Highest Quality’, as well as cleaning and regilding frames (The Year’s Art 1894). For fuller details of this business, see British artists' suppliers on the National Portrait Gallery website.
*John Boson (active 1719, died 1743), parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1719-1725, parish of St George Bloomsbury 1732-1733, Saville St, Burlington Gardens c.1734-1743. Carver.
A leading carver, rather than a gilder, John Boson (?c.1697-1743) made a few splendid frames for Frederick Prince of Wales but was otherwise not primarily a picture framemaker.
Boson may have been the ‘John Boson, son of Michael Boson of Witham, Suffolk', who was apprenticed to Jarvis Smith, a joiner, for eight years in 1711 (Roscoe 2009 p.123). He married Martha Rayer in 1719 at St Anne Soho, and had five children, three christened at St Martin-in-the-Fields between 1722 and 1725 and two at St George Bloomsbury in 1732 and 1733.
Boson's yard was at Greenwich (Roscoe 2009 p.123). He took a building lease from Lord Burlington on the east side of Saville Row, now nos 22-23, for 62 years from 1 March 1734 ('Cork Street and Savile Row Area: Burlington Estate Lease Tables', Survey of London, vol.32, St James Westminster, 1963, p.562). Described as a joiner, Boson took an apprentice, James Thorn, for the considerable sum of £50 in 1740 (Boyd). He was a member of the Beef Steak Club, along with painters, William Hogarth, George Lambert and John Thornhill (John Timbs, Clubs and Club Life in London, 1872, p.126).
Boson’s death was reported in the London Evening Post on 14 April 1743. In his will, made 29 April 1740 and proved 15 April 1743, John Boson, carver of St James Westminster, left his estate in trust to his executors, the surveyor James Horne, John Thornhill and George Lambert, making specific bequests to his brothers Michael and Francis, and sisters Martha and Mary, to his foreman Thomas Nicholls the elder, to Mary Norman, daughter of Barak Norman, musical instrument maker, also naming his father-in-law as Francis Rayer. His bequest to Mary Norman included provision for her children born within nine months of his death. The lease of his house at the end of Savile St, Burlington Gardens, was advertised for sale in August 1743 (Daily Advertiser 25 August 1743) and his household furniture was sold in October that year, when his ‘curious Models in Terra Cotta’ were advertised for sale, as well as his plasters, books, prints, drawings and carvings (London Daily Post 17 September 1743, Daily Advertiser 15 October 1743).
Framing work: Boson’s output as a carver is discussed in standard biographical works (see Sources below) and included work for various churches in the 1720s and 1730s (Terry Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain, 2011, see documents on the CD-ROM as indexed). As a framemaker, he supplied a picture frame for All Souls' College, Oxford, in 1733 (Roscoe 2009 p.125) and provided ‘two rich glass frames’, among other furnishings for Chiswick House, as recorded in his account of 11 September 1735 (Michael Wilson, William Kent: architect, designer, painter, gardener, 1685-1748, 1984, p.108). For Frederick Prince of Wales at Leicester House in 1743, Boson carved two large frames for battle pieces by John Wootton, apparently The Siege of Lille and The Siege of Tournay, which Paul Petit (qv) then gilded at a cost of £112.12s (Millar 1963 no.551; see also Survey of London, vol.34, St Anne Soho, 1966, pp.448n, 450). He also supplied carved frames costing £24.5s in 1738 and two frames ‘in the French Manner’, according to a bill submitted by his executors in 1746 (DEFM).
Sources: DEFM; Roscoe 2009 (with an extensive list of works). For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
*William Boswell 1839-1859 or later, William Boswell & Son by1864-1869, W. Boswell 1869-1916 or later (also trading as William Boswell's Galleries 1906-1910), W. Boswell & Son(s) by 1920-1960. At Magdalen St, Norwich 1841-1869 or later, 15-16 Exchange St 1863-1869 or later, 37 London St by 1871-1877 or later, 48 London St by 1883-1929, St Ethelbert’s House, Tombland 1930-1948, 24a Tombland 1950-1960. Carvers and gilders, looking glass manufacturers, later also upholsterers, artists’ colourmen, photographers, picture dealers and restorers, antique dealers.
William Boswell (1810-77) was apprenticed to William Freeman (qv) in 1824 and was admitted as a Norwich freeman in 1831 (DEFM). He founded a frame making, picture dealing and picture restoration business which lasted into the mid-20th century in one form or another. He took over the business of John Thirtle (qv) at his death in 1839, as is evident from his trade label (repr. Stabler 2006 p.57), and also apparently that of Charles Jeremiah Freeman (qv) in about 1870.
In census records, William Boswell was listed in 1841 as a carver and gilder in Magdalen St, with a year-old son, also William Boswell, in 1851 in Magdalen St, employing seven men and in 1871 in London St, by now age 60, a carver, gilder and upholster employing 14 men and boys. His partnership with his son, William Boswell the younger, as carvers, gilders and photographers, trading as Boswell & Son, was dissolved at 31 December 1868 (London Gazette 12 January 1869). The business had an account with the artists' suppliers, Roberson, 1863-71, from Exchange & Magdalen St and 37 London St (Woodcock 1997). William Boswell died in June 1877. His will, as a carver and gilder of Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, was proved by his widow Lucy and his son William, an ironmonger at Dartford in Kent, with effects under £5,000.
W. Boswell was described in Harrow & Co’s 1877 directory as carver, gilder, picture frame manufacturer, looking glass, cabinet ware, and paper hanging warehouseman. A later trade card from 48 London St, records the business as ‘Carver, Gilder, Picture Frame Maker, Upholsterer, Cabinet & Chair Maker… Artists’ Colourman’ (Johnson coll. Trade Cards 24 (85).
In William White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Norfolk, 1883, the entries for Samuel Howard Boswell and James Charles Boswell are both followed by the name, W. Boswell, suggesting that they were the active partners in the business, which traded as W. Boswell. Samuel Haward Boswell (1850-1928) was recorded in 1881 census as a house furnisher and James Charles Boswell (1852-1920) as a picture and furniture merchant. In the censuses in 1901 and 1911 James Charles Boswell appears as a fine art dealer. He died in 1920 at 48 London St, leaving effects worth £2335, with probate granted to his widow Faith and to Samuel Haward Boswell. The latter died in 1928 at 48 London St, leaving effects worth £10,458, with probate granted to his widow Alice, to Bernard Boswell, art dealer, and to Geoffrey Boswell, oil merchant.
By 1906 the business was advertising as W. Boswell’s Galleries from 48 London St, making the untenable claim that it had been established in 1722 (The Year’s Art 1906, and subsequently), and promoting artists such as Crome, Cotman, Lawrence, but no longer mentioning picture framing as a service. Following James Boswell’s death in 1920, a sale was held by S. Mealing Mills & Co in June 1920 (Elzea 2001 p.336). Subsequently, the business was managed by William Boswell's grandson, Bernard Boswell (1885-1959) (Stabler 2006 p.105). In 1924, William A. Boswell, picture framemaker, whether connected or not, was listed at 22 St John Maddermarket. The later history of the business is not traced here but apparently it closed in 1960 (‘Summary History of Norwich Framers’, typescript supplied by Cathy Proudlove, 2006).
Framing work: The business supplied some of Frederick Sandys' early frames, 1858-70; examples include those for the painting, Queen Eleanor, 1858 (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff), and the drawing, W.H. Clabburn, 1870 (Norwich Castle Museum). Other works with the Boswell label include Henry Bright’s Shore Scene near Leyden, Holland, 1852, John Joseph Cotman’s Whitlingham Lane, Norwich, and Alfred Stannard’s Seascape, 1840s (Magdalen St label) (all Norwich Castle Museum, information from Cathy Proudlove, 30 January 2005).
Picture restoration: The business was actively involved in picture restoration in the early 20th century, as can be seen from a series of testimonials in W. Boswell & Son’s pamphlet, Art in Picture Restoring, 1922. From this pamphlet, it would appear that the business was responsible for restoring a picture described as a Velasquez Spanish Lady for Sir R.S. Adair at Flixton Hall, Bungay, 1856, cleaning, lining and restoring pictures at the Guildhall and St Andrew’s Hall for Norwich Corporation, 1911, restoring pictures at the Castle Museum over many years, restoring watercolours and oil paintings for Russell Colman including transferring from canvas to canvas Middleton’s Cringleford picture and restoring J.S. Cotman‘s Beauharnois Place, 1911, as well as restoring pictures for Henry Birkbeck at Westacre, 1915, Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Blo’ Norton Hall, Thetford, 1911, J.H. Gurney at Keswick Hall, Norwich, 1915, Sir Charles Harvey at Rainthorpe Hall, Norwich, 1915, the Earl of Leicester at Holkham, 1915, Lord Stafford at Meretown House, Newport, Shropshire, 1915, and Lord Suffield at 17 Pont St, London. The dates given up those of the testimonials, rather than of the restoration work.
Sources: Simon 1996 p.175 (for Sandys); Elzea 2001 pp.336-9 (listing Boswell among others); P.K. Scott, A Romantic Look at Norwich School Landscapes, 1998, p.100, quoting from a summary history of the business inW. Boswell & Son, Art in Picture Restoring, 1922 (photocopy available at Norwich Castle Museum); John Stabler, 'A Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers 1700-1840', Regional Furniture, vol.20, 2006. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
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(Arthur) James Bourlet 1850-1895, James Bourlet & Sons 1896-1910, James Bourlet & Sons Ltd 1911-1983, James Bourlet Frames 1980-1982 (also trading as Bourlet & Patrickson 1975-1976), (James) Bourlet Frames Ltd 1980-1991, Bourlet from 1994. At 34 Foley St, London 1850-1855, 10 Foley St 1855-1863,17 Nassau St (later named Titian House), Middlesex Hospital W1 1864-1974. Also at 18 Nassau St 1895-1974, 12 Union Mews, Middlesex Hospital W 1865-1908, 13 Union Mews 1882-1890, 11 Union Mews 1895-1908, 77 Mortimer St 1899-1903, Chelsea depot 133 King’s Road 1915. From 1975: 36 Dover St, W1X 3RB 1975, 263 Fulham Road 1976-1990, workshop 247/249 Fulham Road 1975-1980, workshop 7 Distillery Road, Hammersmith 1981, 32 Connaught St, W2 2AY from 1991. Carvers and gilders, picture framemakers, fine art packers and exhibition agents, picture cleaners.
Bourlet’s was founded by James Bourlet and continued under his sons until bankruptcy forced a sale to the Blackley family in 1908. David Blackley and his son actively developed the business. Since 1973 the business has changed hands several times. It continues to trade as Bourlet.
The Bourlet family, 1850-1908: The founder of the business, Arthur James Bourlet (c.1828-1895), was apparently the son of John William Bourlet (1804-71), carver and gilder of 70 Judd St, New Road, and Ellen Brown (c.1802-84). Known as James Bourlet, he was apprenticed to Mr Smallhorn, most probably John Smallhorn (qv) (MS by David Blackley; information from Lynn Roberts). He took over his master’s premises at 34 Foley St in 1850 or before. He was recorded in the 1861 census as a carver and gilder, age 33, at 10 Foley St; in 1871 as a master gilder, employing three men, at 17 Nassau St, with four sons, Arthur John age 20, James age 14, Ernest Albert age 7, and Frederick Francis age 4; and in 1891 as a carver and gilder, with his sons, Louis age 29, and Frederick age 24, also carvers and gilders. The father died in June 1895, described as a carver and gilder and picture frame manufacturer of 17-18 Nassau St, leaving effects worth £3566, with probate granted to William Hardy, accountant, and Robert Longford, gilder’s manager.
In the next generation, Arthur John Bourlet (1851-1910), ‘Fine Art Agent’, was recorded at 17 Nassau St in the 1881 census, with wife Louisa, son Arthur J.B. Bourlet, and daughter Maud.
James Bourlet's trade label advertised his services as a looking glass and picture frame manufacturer and conveyancer and packer of fine arts, with appointments to Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He advertised as ‘Carver, Gilder, Fine Art Packer, and Exhibition Agent’ (The Artists’ Directory 1875, p.195). A cartoon in Punch (4 May 1878) has ‘Mr Bourlet and his crew’ collecting rejected Royal Academy exhibits. In 1889 Bourlets acquired the frame making business of Smith & Uppard (qv) at 77 Mortimer St. James Bourlet is said to have rebuilt his Nassau St premises in 1896 (Bourlet, annual trade publication, 1960). However, by this time the business was in possession of James Bourlet’s sons, who advertised the following year as Frame Makers to the Queen, established 50 years, also offering services in cleaning, lining and restoring pictures and as fine art agents for numerous London and provincial exhibitions (The Year’s Art 1897). The business went bankrupt in 1908 (London Gazette 21 January 1908), when the partners were the brothers, Louis Henry Bourlet (1861-1934 or later) and Frederick Francis Bourlet (1867-1913?).
Bourlet’s frame label can be found on Laura Alma-Tadema’s drawing, George Eliot, 1877, and James Sant’s Adelina Patti, exh.1886 (both National Portrait Gallery), Walter William Ouless's 7th Duke of Rutland, 1886 (National Portrait Gallery) and Sir G.M. Humphrey, 1886 (Fitzwilliam Museum), and Frank Walton’s Summer has gone on Swallows Wings, c.1890 (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, see Payne 2007 p.33). Pictures in the Royal Collection with frames recorded as by Bourlet include the following: Frank Holl's 'No Tidings from the Sea', 1870, George Koberwein’s Prince Sigismund of Prussia, 1867, James Sant's Prince Leopold, and Duc d'Aumale, both 1869, James Jebusa Shannon's Mrs Henry Bourke, 1881, and George Housman Thomas's The Review at Potsdam, 1859, The Marriage of the Prince of Wales, 1864, and Aya with John Clark, c.1864 (Millar 1992 nos 341, 381, 608-9, 630, 773, 777, 780).
It is worth noting that there were various other carvers and gilders trading by the name of Bourlet in the 19th century, their relationships to determine. These include William Bourlet, trading 1808 to 1829 or longer, Thomas Bourlet, trading 1851 to 1882 or longer, Thomas James Bourlet trading 1860 to 1870 or longer and Arthur Bourlet, probably James Bourlet’s son, who began trading in 1886. Under a subsequent owner, the Bourlet business claimed to have been established in the eighteenth century (MS by David Blackley; information from Lynn Roberts).
The Blackley family, 1908-73: Following the bankruptcy of the Bourlet brothers in 1908, the business was sold to the Edinburgh-born theatre designer, David Blackley (1863-1947). It was subsequently managed by other members of his family, including his son, Armand David Blackley (1891-1965) (Bourlet, annual trade publication, 1960). The business began to advertise extensively once in the hands of David Blackley, in 1909 offering 'a large quantity of Old Gilt Frames, carved wood and composition', as well as new picture frames (The Studio, vol.48, November 1909, p.xxvi), in 1910 ‘300 distinct and different mouldings in stock’ (The Year’s Art 1910), in 1912 Titian Gilt Frames (The Studio, vol.55, March 1912, p.xi), describing their frames in 1915 as ‘made with a view to enduring the wear and tear of exhibitions’ (The Year’s Art 1915). In its catalogues, the business promoted ‘new patterns coloured to meet the conditions laid down for the guidance of artists sending in other than gilt frames [to the Royal Academy]’ (catalogue, January 1921).
Bourlet produced an annual illustrated catalogue, or Professional List from at least 1919 until 1964 or later (copies in Imperial War Museum Dept of Art 1919, V&A Furniture Dept 1921, 1938, 1964, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1931, V&A National Art Library 1935, 1939, coll. Jacob Simon 1937, 1960, 1963). It also produced a separate catalogue, trading as the Bourlet Galleries, 1922 or later, Lamps, Shades, Mirrors, 31pp, with essays by M. Landseer Mackenzie and Isabel Savory.
The 1937 catalogue contains interior views of the mounting room, the packing warehouse and two showrooms. It features 53 frame patterns, mainly of historic patterns named after well-known artists. Modern patterns include Whistler, in ‘Titian Gilt’ or silvered oak and Dod Procter, a cassetta section in imitation antique silver or gilt oak. The 1960 catalogue features 15 frame patterns including Louis XIV, Louis XV and other French and English 17th and 18th century style frames, as well as more modern designs, including the ‘Churchill’ pattern, said to have been designed for Sir Winston Churchill for a portrait of his mother. A service to colour and tone frames to harmonise with the painting was offered for some models. Finishes varied from ‘Ivory, Shaded, or Stripped Wood’, to gold leaf and decapé.
Further study is needed to distinguish Bourlet’s label as fine art packers from their business as framemakers. It appears that Bourlet may have framed or transported work for Maurice Greiffenhagen, including his Self-portrait, 1920s? (National Portrait Gallery) and his Sir George MacDonald, 1929 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery). L.S. Lowry also used Bourlet: in 1938 Alexander J. McNeil Reid saw several of the artist’s paintings waiting to be framed by the firm (Obituary, ‘Mr L.S. Lowry’, The Times 24 February 1976), and the business still owns a Lowry frame drawing and note (information from Gabrielle Rendell, 30 July 2007).
Bourlet’s auditor in the 1950s or 1960s looked at the business in a very different way to the owner, as an auditor of their accounts remembers: ‘I noted a long long list of bad debt reserves. When I questioned this …, the answer I got was, "Have you ever heard of an artist who died and left any money?" Artists never paid until they came for the next frame so they always owed one frame!’ (information from Sean Little, August 2013).
David Blackley died in 1947, leaving effects worth £35,019, with probate granted to his son Armand David Blackley, who in turn died in 1965, leaving effects worth £84,091.
The business since 1973: Bourlet’s changed hands several times in the late 20th century. The business was purchased by Sotheby's in 1973 (The Times 6 April 1974), and was the vehicle used by Sotheby’s to acquire J.J. Patrickson & Sons Ltd (qv) in 1974 (The Times 20 September 1974). By 1975 the business was operating as fine art packers and forwarding agents from 3 Space Waye, Feltham, and as a picture cleaners and framemakers from Fulham Rd. It is the latter division which is traced further here. The business was sold by Sotheby's in 1982 to a group of former employees at a knockdown price (The Times 28 May 1982). It has been owned by Gabrielle Rendell since about 1990. The business was the subject of a rather inaccurate feature article in 1978, with reproductions of the workshops at Fulham (Honor Head, ‘James Bourlet & Sons Ltd’, The Artist, vol.93, 1978, pp.16-18).
Bourlet Frames made the ‘Derain Moulding’ frame to the artist’s specification for Margaret Foreman’s Lord Butler, 1981 (National Portrait Gallery); the invoice refers to Chantfane Ltd, presumably a parent company. The business also framed Paula MacArthur’s Frederick Sanger, 1991 (National Portrait Gallery, information from Gabrielle Rendell, 30 July 2007).
For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
G. Bowen, see George Morant
John and Thomas Bowers, see John Smith
Philip Boyd, see George Morant
Added January 2017
Outside the scope of this online resource but included here in summary for his significant role with leading framemakers. Jim Bradford studied at the Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art after wartime service in the navy. At Chelsea, Robert Medley and Ceri Richards were particular mentors. Afterwards he taught life drawing in London art schools. He took up framemaking and gilding from about 1955, at first for Robert Sielle (qv) when living in Cornwall Gardens, close to Sielle’s workshop, but he did not stay for long, perhaps because of personal differences with Sielle. He next worked for Robert Savage (qv), who was undertaking work for Graham Sutherland and other contemporary artists. In the 1960s he undertook gilding for Alfred Hecht (qv), including the large burnished frames made for Francis Bacon. He was close to Hecht and their mutual friend, John Hewett, the art and antiquities dealer. He painted in his retirement. This account is closely based on information kindly supplied by Bradford’s former wife, Betty Elzea, October 2015 and July 2016. For a longer biography, see www.jennaburlingham.com/artists/37-jim-bradford/biography/ on the website of Jenna Burlingham Fine Art.
*Bradley & Co 1890-1911, F. Bradley & Co 1912-1914. At 81 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Square, London 1890-1914, warehouse in Tottenham Mews 1890-1907. Fine art packers, exhibition agents, carvers and gilders, picture framemakers.
George W. Bradley (c.1843-1901) was listed at 81 Charlotte St in both the 1891 and 1901 censuses, in 1891 as a picture framemaker, age 48, and in 1901 as an art packer (worker), age 58, born in Bloomsbury. In the 1881 census he appears to have been listed as a waiter. He died at 81 Charlotte St in 1901, leaving effects worth £4779, with probate granted to his sons, Francis John Bradley, fine art publisher, and Herbert Howard Bradley, picture framemaker.
Bradley & Co was primarily a fine art packing company which also carried out artists’ frame designs (The Year’s Art 1897), advertising in 1902 as carvers, gilders, and picture framemakers. By 1905, their primary listing was as fine art packers. They were forwarding agents for major art societies in the United Kingdom, and also for the Paris Salons, the Dresden International, the Munich Secession and other continental exhibition venues.
Smith Brand, Brand & Noble, Edinburgh, see Thomas Noble
*James Brewer, 33 Snow Hill, London by 1779-1790, 126 Newgate St 1790-1804. Carver and gilder, looking glass maker.
James Brewer (1751-1820 or later) was the son of the joiner and carver, Richard Brewer (d.1772), and his wife Jane. He was admitted a member of the Joiners’ Company in 1772, and was the Company’s Master for 1808 (information from Gerry Alabone). For many years he was a member of the City’s Common Council. He took apprentices James Lloyd in 1774, George Woolmore in 1775 and Robert Ames in 1783.
He was recorded in business by 1779, making looking glass frames and some picture frames. He took out insurance with the Sun Fire office in 1779 and 1781 (DEFM). The business was listed as Brewer & Son, looking glass manufactory, in Holden's 1802 London directory, and as John Brewer in the Post Office directory, 1800-4.
James Brewer, 33 Snow Hill, invoiced the 3rd Duke of Dorset in 1779 and again the following year, on both occasions for £4.4s for oval spandrel frames (Kent Record Office, U269, A243/10, information from National Trust files). He supplied the Corporation of the City of London with the picture frame for John Singleton Copley's Siege of Gibraltar in 1793-4 (Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press, 1966, p.334). Further details have been published by Gerry Alabone: Brewer submitted a drawing and an estimate for making the frame at a cost of £130 in May 1793, completing work by December 1794, only to find that alterations to the room chosen for the picture meant that the frame had to be adjusted. The total cost was £178.5s.6d, a significant sum but much less than the rumoured £400 (Simon 1996 p.146). Payment was also made to George Dance ‘for making drawings for mouldings and design for the frame’.
James Brewer’s brother, Willoughby Brewer, traded as a carver and gilder at 33 Snow Hill at some time between 1779 and 1789 (DEFM) and had eight children between 1771 and 1780, including a son, James, christened at the nearby church of St Sepulchre in 1777. In 1825, Nathaniel Brewer, connection unknown, attended a meeting of more than fifty master carvers and gilders who resolved to resist the demands of journeymen for an increase in wages (The Times 30 June 1825).
Sources: Gerry Alabone with Louise Dandy, ‘The Defeat of the Floating Batteries off Gibraltar by John Singleton Copley: History and Display’, in Sally Woodcock (ed.), Big Pictures: Problems and Solutions for Treating Outsize Paintings, 2005, p.133. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
*John Brooker 1819-1844, John Brooker & Son 1845-1859, Alfred Brooker 1860, Alfred Brooker & Sons 1861, John Brooker & Son 1862, Thomas Brooker 1863-1893. At 33 Gloucester St, Queen Square, London 1819, 5 Southampton Row 1820-1862, 23 Upper King St, Bloomsbury 1863-1865, 59 Southampton Row 1866, 55 Southampton Row 1867-1893. Carvers and gilders, looking glass and picture framemakers, picture dealers, later printsellers and publishers.
John Brooker (c.1788-1857/8) and his family were in business in and around Southampton Row for more than 70 years. John Brooker may have been the ‘Brooker’ who used the specialist composition ornament maker, George Jackson (qv), in 1816 and 1817, to supply runs of ornament and composition details for decorating frames (see Jackson account book, V&A Archive of Art and Design, AAD/2012/1/2/1, p.330). He was certainly a customer of George Jackson & Sons in the years, 1837-42 (V&A Archive of Art and Design, AAD/2012/1/2/3).
John Brooker, 5 Southampton Row, carver, gilder, picture frame, looking glass manufacturer and picture dealer, took out insurance with the Sun Fire Office in 1821, 1822, 1827 and 1832. In 1825, J. Brooker attended a meeting of more than fifty master carvers and gilders who resolved to resist the demands of journeymen for an increase in wages (The Times 30 June 1825). He can also be found described as John Brocker (DEFM) and by the 1830s the business was sometimes listed as Brooker & Son although generally as John Brooker. In 1830 J. Brooker & Son of 5 Southampton Row are recorded as having established a branch in Market Hill, Cambridge (DEFM). The business had an account with the artists' suppliers, Roberson, 1831-9 (Woodcock 1997). John Brooker was declared bankrupt in 1843 (The Times 7 October 1843).
John Brooker was listed in the 1851 census as a carver and gilder, age 63, employing three men and four boys, with his son, Stephen, age 25, also listed as a carver; he died in the St Giles district in 1857 or 1858. In the 1851 census Thomas Brooker (c.1821-1893?) was listed as a journeyman picture framemaker, age 29; in 1861 at 6 Hastings St, St Pancras, as a picture framemaker, age 42; in 1871 at 55 Southampton Row as a gilder and picture framemaker, age 49, with a son as a gilder, age 23; and in 1881 at 55 Southampton Row as a picture framemaker, age 59. He is presumably the man of this name who died in the St Giles district at the age of 72 in 1893. Alfred Brooker (1833-61), perhaps his younger brother, was listed in the 1861 census at 5 Southampton Row as a frame gilder and picture seller, age 28; he died later the same year, leaving effects worth under £1500.
Sources: London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 485/976383, 490/991380, 507/1061061, 530/1141514; see also DEFM. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Updated March 2014
Henry Brookes by 1781-1800, H.H. Brookes 1797-1799, Brookes & Temple by 1801-1808. In parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London from 1769, Coventry St, Haymarket from 1781, at the Golden Head, Coventry St 1783-1784, 8 Coventry St 1784-1791 or later, 28 Coventry St by 1797-1808. Stationers, printsellers and portfolio and picture framemakers.
Henry Brookes (d.1795) is presumably the carver and gilder of this name, resident in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, who took apprentices James Stewart in 1769 and Samuel Howitt in 1770. He was listed in Coventry St in rate books from 1781 to 1793. He is known from 1783, when an advertisement appeared, ‘At Brookes’s… the Golden Head, Coventry Street’, offering portfolios, drawing paper, stationery and bookbinding (Morning Herald 2 December 1783). His primary business was as a stationer and printseller but he also published a few caricatures and prints in the 1780s and 1790s (BM Satires nos 7063, 7830, 8238; British Museum collection database). He was acquainted with Thomas Johnson (qv), who used his premises at8 Coventry St as a mailing address (Simon 2003 p.14).
From late 1784 an instrument for taking silhouette profiles was on sale at 'Brookes' Portfolio Manufactory' at the Golden Head, 8 Coventry St, next house to the corner of Oxendon St (Morning Herald 28 December 1784, Morning Post 1 January 1785; see also Sue McKechnie, British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860, 1978, pp.524-5, 546-7). McKechnie gives the address as 2 Coventry St, naming the silhouette artist, Abraham Jones as the inventor of this instrument, and stating that Henry Brookes paid the rates at 28 Coventry St for at least 15 years, 1785-1800.
In his will, made 19 January and proved 4 February 1795, Brookes described himself as a stationer and called himself Henry Brookes the elder, describing his nephew as Henry Brookes the younger, and referring to certain payments due under articles of agreement made between them on 9 January 1795. It would seem that this nephew carried on the business, soon going into partnership with Thomas Temple (qv), who was one of the witnesses to his uncle’s will and who had previously traded elsewhere.
Although the business was listed in Holden's and some other directories as stationers, 1804-1809, it also supplied frames and other carved work. ‘Brooks and Temple’ provided gilt mouldings at a cost of £91 for Old Grosvenor House in or before 1808 (Survey of London, vol.40, The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, 1980, p.243n). In September 1808 the partnership between Henry Brookes and Thomas Temple as picture framemakers and stationers was dissolved (London Gazette 27 September 1808). By 1809, Thomas Temple (qv) was operating independently from 50 Great Titchfield St, describing himself as a carver, gilder and picture framemaker, 'removed from Coventry Street'. Temple became one of the leading London framemakers, building up a considerable clientele.
Three pencil-and-wash portrait drawings by Henry Edridge show the changing nature of the business, from Henry Brookes in 1798 to Brookes & Temple in 1802 and Temple by 1809. Edridge’s Lord Sheffield, 1798 (National Portrait Gallery) bears Brookes's trade label from 28 Coventry St, advertising work 'In The Present Taste and at the Lowest Price’s', including picture and glass frames, girandoles, chimney pieces, ornaments for panels and all sorts of carving and gilding. Edridge’s drawing, The Duke of Cumberland, 1802 (Historical Portraits Ltd, repr. in the catalogue, Philip Mould Historical Portraits, n.d. but 2006, pp.56-9), has the label of Brookes & Temple while his Mrs Whaley and her daughter, 1809 (Christie's 12 April 1994 lot 27), has the label of Temple on his own.
Sources: Maxted 1977. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
*William Brooks 1828-1865, W. Brooks & Son 1866-1904. At 19 Little Wild St, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1828-1831, 14 Great Queen St, Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1831-1904. Carvers and gilders, picture frame and looking glass makers, printsellers.
William Brooks (c.1799-1871 or later) was in business by the late 1820s. As William Brooks, picture framemaker, he took out insurance at 19 Little Wild St with the Sun Fire Office in 1828, and then as picture framemaker and dealer in pictures and prints, and as carver, gilder and picture framemaker, at 14 Great Queen St in 1831 and 1835 (London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, vols 516, 528, 545). He was a customer of the composition ornament maker, George Jackson & Sons (qv), 1836-42 (see Jackson account book, V&A Archive of Art and Design, AAD/2012/1/2/3). He was declared bankrupt in 1848 (London Gazette 14 November 1848).
In the 1851 census Brooks was listed as a picture framemaker, age 52, employing four men, in 1861 as a carver and gilder with a son, William Elliott Brooks (c.1833-1914), age 28, picture framemaker, and in 1871 again as a carver and gilder. In 1862 the business was listed in trade directories as carver, gilder, composition ornament, fancy wood, glass and picture framemaker. William Brooks received an appointment as a carver and gilder to Queen Victoria in 1863, an appointment which was regranted to his son, William Elliott Brooks, trading as W. Brooks & Son, in 1884 (National Archives, LC 5/244 p.225, 5/246 p.27). The business was listed in 1884 as carvers and gilders to the Queen and the Prince of Wales and in 1903 Brooks & Son advertised as ‘Carvers and Gilders to the King… Established 80 Years’, offering ‘Frames to Artists’ Designs. Plastic work out of gelatine moulds. Wood moulding to any pattern. Gilding and colour work.’ (The Year’s Art 1903). In the 1901 census William E. Brooks was listed as a picture framemaker, age 68, at 13 & 14 Great Queen St, and it was presumably on his retirement that the business closed in about 1904. He died in 1914, leaving effects worth only £15.
The business was extensively employed by Queen Victoria, for many years and certainly 1865-85 (Joy 1969 p.684). It supplied ‘Lawrence’ frames in 1865 and an ‘Alhambra gold frame’ in 1868 (National Archives, PP2/98, 9474 and PP2/125, 13375). Many works framed by Brooks are identified in the catalogue of Victorian pictures in the Royal Collection (Millar 1992). These include Scottish landscapes by August Becker, framed in gold ‘Lawrence’ frames in 1865 (nos 151-3, 158), portraits of dogs by Thomas Musgrove Joy of 1843-5 (nos 352, 354-5, 357-8), portraits by George Koberwein, 1873 (nos 386, 389), animal portraits by George Morley, 1837, 1841 (nos 503, 508-10), John Partridge's Queen Victoria, 1840 (no.532), portraits by James Sant, 1872 (nos 603, 605-6), portraits by Rudolph Swoboda, 1888-1900 (nos 667-72, 674, 676, 729, 737, 739, 743, 745, 747-9, 751, 753-6) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter's Louisa Duchess of Manchester, 1859 (no.925).
For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Edwin B. Brown, see Frederick Henry Grau
**Frederick Brown senr, 36 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Sq, London W 1869, 22 Charlotte St 1870-1871, 32 Charlotte St 1872-1886, 179 Wardour St W 1896-1911, 24 Park Terrace 1898, 80 Park Road, Regents Park NW 1899, carver and gilder, picture framemaker. Frederick James Brown, 32 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Sq, London W 1886-1913, carver and gilder, picture framemaker.
Frederick Brown and his son, Frederick James Brown, traded in London as carvers and gilders and picture framemakers, with the son taking over the father’s premises and the father apparently moving elsewhere.
The father: The carver and gilder Frederick Brown (b. c.1839), traded initially at 36 Charlotte St, previously the address of another carver and gilder, William Stannard, before moving to 22 Charlotte St and then to 32 Charlotte St. In census records he was recorded in 1871 as a carver and gilder at 24 Charlotte St and in 1881 as a framemaker at 32 Charlotte St with his wife and six children. From 1886 his son took on the business at 32 Charlotte St and he himself appears to be identifiable with the carver, gilder and picture framemaker, Frederick Brown senr, trading at 24 Park Terrace in 1898, 80 Park Road, Regents Park in 1899 and 179 Wardour St 1896-1911.
Frederick Brown senr’s frame trade label from 32 Charlotte St as 'Framer', can be found on Frederick Sandys' drawing, Morgan le Fay, c.1863 (Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904, 2001, pp.176-7, perhaps reframed) and as ‘CARVER & GILDER, FRAME MAKER &c’ on John William Waterhouse, Saint Eulalia, exh.1885 (Tate, N01542). A different label, in the form of a cherub holding up a cloth pinned to branches, reads 'FREDERICK BROWN SENR., Practical Carver and Gilder, Picture Frame Maker, 179 WARDOUR STREET (12 doors from Oxford Street.) W, LATE of 32, CHARLOTTE ST' (example on Joseph Mordecai's Sir Arthur Pinero, exh.1891, National Portrait Gallery).
The son: Frederick James Brown was born in about 1862. In 1886, he took over the business at 32 Charlotte St. He married Jessie Baynes in 1890 at St John Fitzroy Square and they had four children, 1891-6. In the 1871 census, he was recorded in his father’s household at 24 Charlotte St. In subsequent censuses, always at 32 Charlotte St, he can be found in 1881 still in the household of his father, now described as a framemaker, in 1891 in his own household as a carver and gilder, with his wife Jessie, in 1901 as a carver and gilder and employer, with his wife and three children, and in 1911 as a picture framemaker trading on his own account from his home, still with three children.
Another individual, Frederick Brown, picture restorer and gilder, was recorded in the 1901 census at 37 Grafton St, St Pancras, age 29.
Sources: Kathleen Cheesmond, a relative of Frederick James Brown, kindly provided details of his marriage, children and the 1911 census entry, in February 2012.
James Honeyman Brown 1871-1873, J.H. Brown & Co 1874-1883. At67 Berners St, London 1871, 4 George Yard, Princes St, Soho 1872-1875, 40 Cranbourne St, Leicester Square 1873, 121 Wardour St 1875-1878,street renumbered 1878, 193 Wardour St 1879, 197 Wardour St 1880-1883. Picture dealer, subsequently carvers and gilders, picture framemakers, drawing mounters.
James Honeyman Brown (c.1838-1884) married Rose Love in 1868 in the Camberwell district and, secondly, Rosa Elizabeth Coton in 1872 in the Kensington district. In censuses he was recorded in 1871 in Peckham as a fine art merchant, age 32, born in Scotland, with wife Rose, age 28, and in 1881 in Shepherds Bush, age 42, as a master carver and gilder employing six men and one boy, with wife Rosa, age 30, and three young children. He died in 1884 at the age of 46 in the Hendon district.
James Honeyman Brown’s partnership with Colin Rae Brown (1821-97), the writer and publisher, perhaps his older brother, trading as frame manufacturers at4 George Yard, was dissolved in 1873 with James Honeyman Brown carrying on the business (London Gazette 7 November 1873). James Honeyman Brown, picture frame manufacturer of 121 Wardour St, sought a meeting with his creditors in 1876 under the terms of the Bankruptcy Act (London Gazette 14 November 1876).
James Honeyman Brown & Co advertised as having ‘always in stock a large assortment of Mouldings of the newest designs’, also offering, ‘Gentlemen’s Collections Re-arranged and Hung’ (The Artists’ Directory 1875, p.186).
Thomas Brown, see Stewart and Brown
*John Brydon, 48 Brewer St, London 1780, 7 Charing Cross (‘opposite Northumberland House’) 1783-1801, 4 Charing Cross 1800-1805, 218 Oxford St 1805-1808. Printseller, print publisher, carver and gilder, picture framemaker, looking glass warehouse.
In 1780 John Brydon, carver and gilder, took out insurance at 48 Brewer St with the Sun Fire Office. He is perhaps to be identified with John Brydon, broker, who took out insurance at Great Windmill St, Golden Square in 1777. He is presumably the carver and gilder who took Giles Fry as an apprentice in 1785. There was also a John Brydon, enameler of Charing Cross, presumably connected, who took an apprentice, Richard Pitt, in 1797.
Brydon was trading from Charing Cross by 1783. Brydon advertised looking glasses, glass and picture frames and girandoles in 1784 (Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser 12 February 1784). He also offered prints for sale from his ‘Looking-glass and Print Warehouse, opposite Northumberland-house, Charing-cross’, which he also described as his ‘Exhibition Room’ (The Times 10 November 1792, 19 January 1793). He distributed prints for Valentine Green from as early as 1783 (Clayton 1997 p.220; see also J.C. Smith p.592, BM Satires no.8243); Green's Duchess of Rutland was altered and republished in 1793 by Charlotte Brydon, 7 Charing Cross, as the Duchess of York (J.C. Smith p.583).
Brydon was responsible for framing Guy Head's full-length portrait, Viscount Nelson with a Midshipman, 1798-9 (National Portrait Gallery), for Nelson himself, who wrote to Emma Hamilton on 8 February 1801, 'I hope Mr Brydon has executed the frames to your satisfaction' (Simon 1996 p.166). Indeed, when advertising his forthcoming set of engravings of the Battle of the Nile in April 1799, Brydon claimed Nelson’s patronage, and his permission to dedicate the prints to him (Sun 30 April 1799).
In 1800 Brydon thanked his patrons for their favours received over the previous 18 years, and advertised that he had opened a house for furnishing funerals at 4 Charing Cross, where J. Brydon junr was in attendance (The Times 5 June 1800). Brydon was listed as a bankrupt in 1801 as William Brydon (The Times 17 June 1801), but in subsequent reports he was named as John Brydon. His extensive stock-in-trade as a bankrupt was advertised for sale, including paintings, drawings, engravings, copperplates, paper, printing presses and picture frames (The Times 3 September 1801), as was the lease of his ‘substantial’ house and shop, the premises described as upwards of 50 feet deep and four storeys high, at a rental of £150 a year (The Times 14 September 1801). He continued to make payments to creditors until 5 June 1804 (Maxted 1977 p.33). The business was listed asBrydon & Co, print merchant,1802-1805, in some directories.
Sources: Maxted 1977 (giving the address, 7 Charing Cross in 1783); London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 289/436154, see DEFM, and note also an earlier policy, 257/383803, from 1777. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Updated March 2016
Buck & Scott 1876-1881, F.C. Buck 1881-1928, F.C. Buck & Son 1929-1962. At 76 Wigmore St, London W 1876-1888, factory 12 Marylebone Lane 1879-1880, premises renumbered 1880/1, 48 Marylebone Lane 1881-1890, 59 Wigmore St 1889-1900, 78 Baker St 1897-1900, 21 Baker St 1900-1923, 48 Baker St 1924-1962. Carvers and gilders, later fine art dealers.
Frederick Charles Buck (1850-1929) was born in Hackney in 1850 and died at the age of 79 in the Hampstead district in 1929. He was initially in partnership with Alfred Robert Scott, trading as Buck & Scott, carvers and gilders, printsellers etc, at 76 Wigmore St but this partnership was dissolved on 1 January 1881 (London Gazette 1 February 1881). In censuses, he was recorded in 1881 at 76 Wigmore St as a carver and gilder, age 30, in 1891 at 78 Baker St, in 1901 living at 93 Finchley Road with two sons and in 1911 as a fine art dealer and picture framemaker with his eldest son, Charles Frederick, age 20, assisting in the business. He is possibly the Frederick Charles Buck referred to in a court case concerning his father’s will in 1900 (The Times 26 June 1900). He himself died in September 1929, leaving effects worth £52,980, a considerable sum, with probate granted to his solicitor and to his son Charles Frederick Buck, fine art dealer.
The premises at 78 Baker St seem to have been used for trading in antique furniture. The business was listed in the Post Office London directory as fine art dealer by 1924 and antique picture frame dealer by 1941. F.C. Buck & Son's invoice paper in 1938 described the business as 'Dealer in Antique Furniture, Works of Art', specifying 'Chromos, Prints, Drawings &c Mounted, Pictures Cleaned, Lined & Restored, Looking Glasses & Picture Frames Cleaned or Regilded' (example in National Portrait Gallery records, RP 1935).
Framing work: The business supplied frames or materials for works by some well-known artists. Frederick Sandys's small panel, Hero, 1871, has the label, 'Prepared panel. Fredk. C. Buck. Dealer in Works of Art. Frame Maker. Wigmore St. London' (Elzea 2001 p.240). Frederick Buck was mentioned by William Holman Hunt in a letter, 1898, and he made the now lost frame for Hunt's The Miracle of Sacred Fire in the Church of the Sepulchre, exh.1899 (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA). The aedicular frame to the artist's design on Hunt's The Beloved, 1898 (Royal Collection) has Buck’s label from 76 Wigmore St (Millar 1992 p.126: repr. Bronkhurst 2006 p.323, see also p.279 n.27). It is one of Hunt’s symbolic frames, incorporating pomegranates and mignonette, in a Renaissance scrolling design.
John Singer Sargent used Buck for antique frame from at least 1894, probably for Mrs Graham Robertson, 1894 (Watts Gallery, Compton) and certainly for two portraits for Biltmore, the North Carolina estate of the millionaire art collector, George Washington Vanderbilt, the full-lengths, Richard Morris Hunt for £25 and Frederick Law Olmsted for £42.10s including alterations (The Biltmore Company, Biltmore House).
Later, Philip de László used Buck as a source for old frames, for example in 1923, according to recent research into the De László archive (National Portrait Gallery). In 1933, the artist claimed that Buck had been supplying frames to his sitters for the last thirty-two years (De László archive, 076-0041), although the first mention of Buck in the archive is apparently in 1911. When de László’s portrait of Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire, 1927-8 (Chatsworth) was copied in 1928, the artist recommended Buck, as a dealer in old frames, as one of two framemakers for the job but it was Emile Remy (qv) who got the commission on price (see Philip de Laszlo and picture framing on the National Portrait Gallery website).
The collector, George Salting, purchased picture frames from Buck, 1881-1909, of which the most expensive was a carved French swept frame for a Ruysdael painting in 1903 (Guildhall Library, MSS 19742, 19747, Salting papers).
The business also worked for leading museums. Buck supplied the National Gallery with an old carved frame for £30 for Frans Hals’s recently acquired Family Group in a Landscape in 1909 (National Gallery archive, NG13/1/9, 8 April 1909). Buck came back into favour when Augustus Daniel became Director, supplying frames to the value of £78 in 1929, £50 in 1930, £97.10s in 1931, including an old ‘reverse leaf frame’ for a picture by Moretto (NG 299), since removed (Nicholas Penny, The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, vol.1, Paintings from Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona, National Gallery, 2004, p.177), £55 for three frames in 1932, £115 for frames in 1934, £8 in 1935 and £75 in 1936 (NG13/1/10-11). For the Ashmolean Museum Buck & Son supplied two Italian frames in 1932 (Ashmolean Museum, Dept of Western Art, receipted bills, 16 December 1932). The business supplied frames to the National Portrait Gallery in 1938 and 1942 (National Portrait Gallery records, RP 2935 and account book 1935-42, 21-B-3).
For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
Albert Edward Burling (b.1872) was born in Notting Hill. At the time of the 1891 census, he and his older brother James were recorded as picture framemakers living as lodgers at 113 Upper St, Islington. Albert Edward married in 1892 in the Islington district. He had set up in partnership as a picture framer by 1897, advertising in 1898 ‘Green Stained Oaks or Special Patterns made to Customers’ requirements’, as well as ‘French, Chippendale, Swept and Louis Frames in English Gold’ (The Year’s Art 1898), but the following year on 31 May 1899 his partnership with Ernest Walter Wesson (1873-1951), trading as A.E. Burling at 101 Great Portland St, was dissolved (London Gazette 29 September 1899). In the 1911 census, he was living in Walthamstow, as a picture framemaker (worker), confirming that he had ceased to trade on his own account, with his wife Annie and 18-year- old son, also Albert Edward, a cabinet maker.
There were other businesses going by the name of Burling, connection unknown, trading in frames at this time. Burling & Weatherall, picture framemakers, were listed at 99 Talbot Road W, 1895-9, and Burling & Co, picture framemakers, at 103 Talbot Road, 1899. James Burling, picture framer, age 30, was listed at 15 Theberton St, Islington, in the 1901 census.
Thomas Butler, Oxford, see Robert Archer
*James Byfield 1777-1790, James and Thomas Byfield 1790-1799, Thomas and James Byfield 1802, James Byfield 1805-1808, Thomas Byfield 1809-1828, T.B. Byfield 1822-1824, T.B. Byfield & Son 1823-1827, James Byfield 1829-1834. At Wardour St, Soho, London 1777-1793, Wardour St (corner of Holland St) 1777, 16 Wardour St 1785-1793, Compton St 1795-1799, 39 Old Compton St 1802-1828, 37 Old Compton St 1819-1834, 11 Richmond Buildings, Soho Square 1836, 9 Richmond Buildings 1837-1840. Carvers and gilders.
This carving and gilding business in Soho, begun by James Byfield by 1777, continued over more than one generation, with a relative, Thomas, in partnership by 1790, and Thomas’s son James continuing the business subsequently. There were a number of men by the name of James Byfield active in London. Further research is required to clarify the history of this business.
James Byfield is probably the individual of this name who was apprenticed to Henry Doughty, carver and gilder of St Margaret’s Westminster, for £31.10s in 1771. His apprenticeship must have been for less than seven years for him to have taken out insurance with the Sun Fire Office in January 1777 as a carver and gilder at the corner of Holland St in Wardour St. ‘Mr Byfield’, Compton St, attended a meeting in 1795 of fifteen consumers and manufacturers of leaf gold which resolved to resist an attempt by journeymen goldbeaters to increase their labour charges (The Times 22 December 1795). It is not clear whether he is identifiable with the James Byfield who died in 1812 at 39 Frith St, leaving his estate to his wife, Nancy Ann.
Thomas Byfield (c.1752-1826), in partnership by 1790, may have been James Byfield’s brother, son or nephew. Like many framemakers, ‘Byfield’ used the specialist composition ornament maker, George Jackson (qv), to supply runs of composition ornament, 1812-7, including ’200 ft Large beads’ at 16s and ‘100 ft Rope & Bead’ at 10s in 1813, perhaps for decorating frames, and ‘24 ft 6 in of oak leaves acorn & rope’ at £1.13s.1d in 1815 for the cornice of an unidentified throne (see Jackson account book, V&A Archive of Art and Design, AAD/2012/1/2/1). In 1825, Byfield attended a meeting of more than fifty master carvers and gilders who resolved to resist the demands of journeymen for an increase in wages (The Times 30 June 1825). Thomas Byfield of Compton St died in 1826, age 74, and was buried at St Anne Soho.
His son, James Byfield the younger (c.1803-1853?) continued the business. He was baptised at St Anne Soho in 1803, the son of Thomas and Mary Byfield. He would appear to be the individual listed at 37 Old Compton St as a cook in the 1831 poll book. He was listed in the 1841 census as a carver and gilder, age 37. He was recorded as a composition ornament maker at 5 George Yard, 23 Crown St, Soho, in 1841 and advertised his stock of looking glass and picture frames, stating that he had been several years mould carver to Messrs Jackson (qv) and to Messrs Criswick & Ryan (qv) (The Times 12 February 1841). In the 1851 census he appears as a carver and gilder, age 48, employing 3 men and a boy. Some of the Byfield frame moulds were auctioned by Criswick in 1863, according to the sale details (The Times 9 February 1863). He may be James Henry Byfield whose death, age 50, was recorded in the St Pancras district in 1853.
It has been suggested by Judith Butler that this carver and gilder was James Byfield (d.1813), who had six children by his wife, Susannah, between 1788 and 1800, christened at St Mary Marylebone, or at Providence Chapel, Great Titchfield St, three of whom became wood engravers, John, Ebenezer and Mary. However, it is recorded that this family was based in Clerkenwell, making it difficult to sustain the link with James Byfield the Soho carver and gilder.
Framing work: Thomas Byfield was carver and gilder to His Majesty, following on from William Robert Adair (qv), who died in 1807. His appointment was renewed in 1820 at the accession of George IV; he was followed at his death by James Byfield in 1826 whose appointment was renewed when William IV came to the throne in 1830 (National Archives, LC 3/69 pp.28, 92, 158). Thomas Byfield is recorded in the Royal Household accounts, 1808-27, supplying frames including for royal portraits for ambassadors and governors, totalling more than £4200 (DEFM; National Archives, LC 9/397). In December 1808 he provided the Lord Chamberlain with an account of work then in hand, namely a large rich picture frame for a portrait of the King for the Speaker’s House and two pairs of frames for portraits of the king and queen for the governors of Jamaica and Dominica (National Archives, LC 9/414 part 2).
Sources: London Metropolitan Archives, Sun Fire Office policy registers, 254/379756; Judith Butler, ‘Ingenious and Worthy Family: The Byfields’, The Private Library, 3rd series, vol.3, 1980, pp.149-50. For abbreviations, see Resources and bibliography.
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By Kenny Berkowitz
Kenny Berkowitz is an Assistant Editor at Training & Conditioning.
Training & Conditioning, 13.6, September 2003, http://www.momentummedia.com/articles/tc/tc1306/atc.htm
Chris Albright never planned to become an athletic trainer. After graduating from Lock Haven University in 1983, Albright went to nearby Punxsutawney (Pa.) High School as a wrestling coach. But four years later, the school lost its athletic trainer, and Albright found himself with a new assignment.
“I actually got this job by default, simply because I knew how to tape an ankle,” says Albright, ATC, EMT, who recently finished his 20th year at Punxsutawney High School. “I thought you had to have more credentials than that, but at that time in Punxsutawney, you didn’t.
“The athletic director asked if I could tape an ankle, I said yes, and he appointed me athletic trainer,” continues Albright. “Then I started to learn more about the work, got really interested in it, and here I am—the first certified athletic trainer the school has ever had.”
Famous as the home of weather-predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney is a small town in western Pennsylvania, set in the middle of coal mines, rolling hills, and hardwood forests, with a 900-student high school that sends most of its graduates to college. It’s a town where one person can make a difference to the whole community, and Albright, who grew up about an hour away, is happy to raise his two children here, calling it a “small-town USA kind of place where people treat each other well.”
In 16 years working as the school’s athletic trainer, Albright has continually expanded his responsibilities. He now covers home games for 17 different teams at the high school, travels with teams for playoff games, and takes care of athletes from Punxsutawney Area Middle School. He’s created an academic class in sports medicine, which he teaches alongside a full course load in health and physical education, and spends his vacations running a training and conditioning program that’s open to all Punxsy athletes. At the same time, on his own initiative, he recognized the importance of certification, and balanced work, study, and family life to complete his ATC at Clarion University in 2002.
For consistently going beyond his required duties, Albright receives T&C’s Above the Call Award.
“We would be totally lost without him,” says Athletic Director Gary Juart. “He spends countless hours at work. If there’s an event, he’s here, whether it’s after school, at night, or on weekends. And the kids really appreciate all the work he does to keep them healthy.”
“Mr. Albright is one of the most respected teachers in our school,” says senior Justine Juart, an athletic training student aide who works with the volleyball team. “He knows how to be a friend to the kids, and he knows how to be a good authority figure. He’s very understanding and very patient, even though he’s probably the busiest person in the school. He always treats students with respect, and in turn, they treat him with respect, too.”
In conversation, Albright is modest and soft-spoken, giving credit to Punxsy’s coaching staff, his student aides, and his own mentor, Clarion University Athletic Trainer Jim Thornton, ATC, MS, PES. Albright says he has grown quieter and more relaxed since he stopped coaching, and even though he misses that sense of competition, he’s glad he made the switch.
“I wrestled in high school and college, and I always enjoyed coaching it,” says Albright. “I would have been happy to keep doing it, but the school really needed an athletic trainer, so that’s the path I chose to take.
“I felt I could help more people in this position, so I decided to transfer my energies, and the more I studied, the more my priorities changed,” he continues. “If I’d kept on as a wrestling coach, I would have been busy for one season, and that’s it. Instead, I’m working the whole year.”
Albright’s daily schedule during the school year begins at 7 a.m., when he arrives in the training room, and ends as late as 9:30 p.m. if he’s working a home game. His summer schedule, which begins a few weeks after the end of classes, is centered on a free camp that’s open to all Punxsy athletes and runs every weekday morning from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m..
Albright keeps the camp focus on functional strength training and balances work in the weight room with medicine ball drills, agility exercises, and plyometrics. Even though he does the work as a volunteer, having taken over when the previous strength coach retired, Albright sees it as part of his mission: working to prevent injuries.
“In the long run, this camp makes my job easier,” says Albright. “Of all the kids I worked with last summer, I had to treat only three during the school year, and they had minor injuries. So I’ve also started working with kids during the winter, and that’s helped a lot, too.”
Albright also treats students from the middle school down the road—even though that’s not officially a part of his job, either. Staying in regular radio communication with middle school staff, Albright is on call throughout the day, taking charge of athletic emergencies, treating athletes for overuse injuries, and preparing the middle school’s 10 varsity teams for home games. Essentially, he’s treating athletes from all six grades and both schools, and to do that, he’s created a strong core of athletic training student aides from Punxsy High.
“They’re absolutely invaluable to me,” says Albright. “My student trainers are my arms and legs, and there’s no way I could do all this work without them. They’re also my eyes and ears, looking out for potential injuries. They’ll tell me, ‘This player isn’t walking the way he normally walks,’ or they’ll let me know when a player says, ‘I’m not telling Albright I’m hurt, because he’ll make me sit.’ They know the kids better than I do, and that makes them a huge asset to my program.”
“The kids all look up to him and try to be like him,” says senior Becky Morrison, an athletic training student aide who plans to go to college to become an athletic trainer. “He’s really made a difference—not just for me, but for the whole school. It’s funny, because when we have ‘reverse’ days at school, where the kids dress up like teachers, almost all the guys will dress like him.
“When I first moved here, I had a lot of problems getting adjusted to high school, and Mr. Albright was always there to offer support,” continues Morrison. “He supported me when my mother died, and when I was feeling depressed he would call and talk to me every night on the phone. He got the teachers together, and laid out a plan to help me graduate. He’s taught me that no matter how hard life gets, there’s always a way to work things out.”
Since gaining his ATC certification, Albright has worked on a handful of post-surgery rehabs and some sport-specific retraining after ACL injuries and fractures. His greatest emergency occurred when a visiting basketball player went into convulsions on the court after being hit on the head, which required a helicopter flight to the nearest hospital. But for Albright, the hardest part of the job is knowing how to relate to each individual athlete.
“The biggest challenge is in knowing how to motivate your athletes,” says Albright. “Some kids have to be held back to keep them from hurting themselves, and some kids have to be pushed a little to get them moving. It differs with each kid, and you have to figure out exactly what’s going to work for each of them. The hardest are the ones that don’t come to see you until you catch them limping through the hallway. Those are the kids you have to take aside and say, ‘You need to give this a little rest now, or you’re going to have to give this a lot of rest later.’”
After 10 years working as an athletic trainer, Albright decided it was time to get his certification, and he’s glad he did. “Before I went to Clarion for the ATC, I figured I knew a lot about the human body, and that the coursework wouldn’t be too hard,” says Albright. “But there was a lot more to it than I realized, and the classes really opened my eyes.”
The training has given Albright a new appreciation for the profession, and he’s taking seriously his responsibility to spread the word about what the job entails. “Most people still think of the job as a glorified Band-Aid distributor,” says Albright. “So I educate them by talking about what I actually do, and demonstrating what I’m capable of.”
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What is Coaching - my view
In coaching the Coach and the Coachee enter a professional dialog for a given time frame to deal with person-, process- and organisation-related issues. In systemic coaching the Coachee is at the center of his/her personal system.
My personal beliefs regarding the development of individuals are grounded in the tradition of Carl Rogers and the humanistic-constructivistic approach. An example is the belief that every human being has the potential to advance and enhance their potential in a positive way. This potential for development has to be activated, and thus change made possible.
Coaching supports developing new mindsets, attitudes and behavioral routines. It helps changing no longer viable beliefs or getting rid of blockades and enables selfreflection and reflection of one´s own personal or occupational system.
My personal guiding ideas on Coaching:
The Coachee already owns every ability and skill necessary to implement change. The Coach serves as an unbiased mirror and poses critical or powerful questions, she supports the process by means of an empathetic and appreciative attitude.
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An on-line video game is merely a computer game which is either entirely or partly played by means of the Internet or a few other computer network worldwide. Most of them are games which can be played for free while others may be for investing in. There are a lot of online games to choose from that it might in some cases come to be really complicated to pick one from among all. Many online game gamers also have social networking capabilities with making use of chat rooms, discussion forums as well as various other comparable alternatives that make on the internet game play a lot more delightful. The Net has as a result end up being a popular location to play video games as well as a medium to advertise and also sell numerous things.
An on the internet video game gamer can choose from hundreds of online games, which are all really pleasurable. People from every ages and walks of life can be located playing these games. They can be very addicting as well as the player can spend many hours just trying to defeat their high ratings. A lot of them are multiplayer video games and hence a solitary gamer game would hardly obtain half a hr of enjoyment. These games can for that reason be a fun as well as revitalizing means of investing leisure along with close friends or enjoyed ones.
There are many different type of on the internet games. A few of them are really intricate, while others are fairly very easy and also basic. One can choose from simple flash games or more complicated ones which need a good deal of thought as well as strategic thinking for the player. There are numerous web sites that give totally free online game demonstrations, pointers and also suggestions that are excellent for beginners.
There are various ways of winning an on the internet game. The initial means is by racking up as several factors as feasible within a specific period. The second is by getting the highest rating throughout a set time limit. These games are usually multiplayer video games meaning that a person can collaborate with close friends or relative to participate and enjoy the video game. There are also social networking features available in some of these video games to make sure that close friends can complete versus each other and also boost the factors they need to be the leader.
Most of the video games are affected by pop culture. For instance, the on the internet video game ‘Sims Middle ages’ permits the individual to spruce up their characters making use of a significant selection of clothing from the age, developing a true to life appearance. There are dream based games too, which provide the customer an opportunity to end up being a warrior, or illusionist or witch. Several of the most prominent video games are Wow as well as Eve Online, which have 10s of hundreds of individuals playing them every day. There are numerous various other ones such as the video game Tetris where the purpose is to finish the video game within a short time structure. daftar judi slot
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Marcaine (bupivicaine) is a local anesthetic used to prevent or block pain. It is used in many procedures, from dental work to childbirth.
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Marcaine combined with a steroid can be injected directly into a joint to control pain from surgery, trauma or a chronic condition such as rheumatoid arthritis. Marcaine can ease the pain for eight to 12 hours or longer while the steroid works to calm inflammation.
Marcaine injections are used in a discogram to help find the source of spine pain. By anaesthetising specific nerves as they emerge from the spinal cord, your doctor can determine exactly which nerves are sending pain signals to the brain, and can then treat these nerves individually, allowing you to reduce or eliminate systemic painkillers that can affect your overall function.
A Marcaine injection is also used as a "spinal" during childbirth. This blocks feeling in the woman's lower body but does not interfere with labour. Because the anaesthesia is regional, it does not affect the baby.
According to the site RxList.com, an allergic reaction to Marcaine can cause "hives, difficulty breathing and swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat." For these, tell the person giving the injection immediately, call 911 or go to the nearest ER.
Less urgent but still serious side effects can include slowed breathing, slow or fast heartbeat, anxiety, dizziness/fainting or trouble urinating.
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Samsung is reportedly (via WSJ) preparing for a smart home control interface that uses your smart TV to recognize basic hand gestures, directed at the objects you actually want to control. So, for example, it would allow you to point at a lamp to turn it off or on, or to other nearby objects to affect them in different ways.
The shift is a bit of an extension of what Samsung already offers, which is basic gesture control of their smart televisions, but turning the TV itself into a sort of smart home hub. The report from the WSJ claims that Samsung is in talks with VTouch, a tech startup that creates the gesture control software, which explains how its so-called “virtual touch” interaction software would replace on-screen controls and manual reports with the finger tip and pointing.
Typically, these control interfaces haven’t been huge successes with users, but that’s down to performance being inconsistent and not entirely accurate. VTouch tells the WSJ that its version of gesture interaction is better because it takes into account not only the hand motions themselves, but also a user’s eye movements, to help prevent detection of accidental input and better determine user intent.
VTouch says that its tech should make its way to shipping TV sets by 2016, and those will be Samsung sets if the deal goes through and these talks continue. The ability to control devices that aren’t necessarily themselves ‘smart,’ through the use of a central hub like a camera-enabled smart TV makes a lot of sense, in terms of ushering in the smart home to the general consumer population within the next few years.
Samsung won’t be alone in chasing this evolution of consumer tech, either. Microsoft is already doing much more with gesture control and user recognition with the Kinect on the Xbox One, and others are looking to make sure devices with embedded cameras and other sensors are more aware of the users who are interacting with them. That might not make every user comfortable, but it does mean there’s a large opportunity for unlocking the current limits on gesture control models. | <urn:uuid:5f4e06ca-5b62-478a-8b57-d63a1565e27a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/samsung-working-with-startup-partners-to-add-gesture-based-smart-home-control-to-tvs/?ncid=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00077-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946512 | 430 | 1.914063 | 2 |
To start off, preprocessing replaces certain pieces of text by other text according to a system of macros. Next, compilation translates the source program into assembly instructions, which are then converted to machine instructions. Finally, the linking process establishes a connection to the operating system for primitives. This includes adding the runtime library, which mainly consists of memory management routines.
Source program preprocessing ¯ Source program compiling ¯ Assembly program assembling ¯ Machine instructions linking ¯ Executable code
Figure 7.1: Steps in the production of an executable.
The lexical analysis stage transforms a sequence of characters to a sequence of lexical elements. These lexical entities correspond principally to integers, floating point numbers, characters, strings of characters and identifiers. The message Illegal character might be generated by this analysis.
Sequence of characters lexical analysis ¯ Sequence of lexical elements parsing ¯ Syntax tree semantic analysis ¯ Annotated syntax tree generation of intermediate code ¯ Sequence of IL optimization of intermediate code ¯ Sequence of IL generation of pseudo code ¯ Assembly program
Figure 7.2: Compilation stages.
Syntax errorindicates that the phrase analyzed does not follow the grammar of the language.
Standard compiler graphical notation is used for describing the components in figure 7.3. A simple box represents a file written in the language indicated in the box. A double box represents the interpretation of a language by a program written in another language. A triple box indicates that a source language is compiled to a machine language by using a compiler written in a third language. Figure 7.4 gives the legend of each box.
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A Dangerous Education of Human Ignorance
By: VLA Teacher, Aaron Kaczmarek
I never will understand why people need to assert their dominance by yelling any derogatory terms at any human being for any reason. Teachers may teach kids how to share crayons with classmates, but my teachers never emphasized how to respect everyone, especially beyond the school playgrounds. For whatever reason, we didn’t talk about acceptance on a macro scale. We forgot a crucial link in education.
When I reflect on this man’s attempt at repression and assertion of dominance, I am reminded of why I teach. Students are more than vehicles for meeting standards or objectives: they are whole people developing dispositions towards oppression, prejudice, and understanding. “Who was this guy’s second grade teacher?” I wonder. Had he or she taught him to respect all people, not just some? Had they even mentioned important terms such as: stereotypes, internal and external identities? Why was that not a priority?
The sway and power of a teacher is immense, and thus teachers have a social responsibility. One fundamental alteration in experience can change a student for a lifetime. Think back to your worst memory from school. How does that shame and embarrassment still stick with you? How did it impact you for that year and beyond?
“Read a book!” My friend responded. With that, the man asked, “Which one?” I immediately listed off about 15 children’s books in my head. These books on tolerance I have read and discussed with my students in our first unit: All About Me (which discussed topics like the social construction of race and difference, identity, tolerance and needs of individuals and communities). I then wondered how much good reading a book would have done for someone whose experience has predisposed him to somehow assert hatred to random strangers? That person would probably need hundreds of books (perhaps a library) and lots of discussions.
In my second grade class, we talk about building schema through experiences, learning, and reading. We talk about difference all the time and talk about how we can learn from any experience in or out of the classroom. Perhaps this guy’s schema was lacking (or in second grade language, “his brain had not grown enough yet”). An education that exposes and deconstructs traditional lines of repression ultimately leaves its pupils unable to strip humanity away from anyone. As I look forward to the year, I will be documenting how the second grade class achieves this end.
It is due time that we don’t only give our kids (regardless of their background) a good education, but a phenomenal education: one that people once said, “they never deserved or would be able to get.” This type of education equates to not only a raising of standards, but also a raising of human consciousness among students. Students must become aware of their own potentials and their neighbors.
By developing a critical perspective amongst young people, they will approach difference not as a point of conflict, but as a springboard for learning and understanding. Rather than asserting hate when life intersects across lines of race, gender, class, viewpoints, religion, or sexuality, they will ask what they can learn. By doing so, they can turn back centuries of oppression and be vehicles of change.
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Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - "Put the Word of God in the center of life and put it into practice in life" is the exhortation to 243 catechumens who received Baptism, Confirmation and first Eucharist at the solemn celebration that was held on May 28 at the Cathedral of the Diocese of Xi Kai in the diocese of Tian Jin. According to Faith of He Bei and diocesan sources, the new believers are the fruit of collective mobilization for evangelization, launched by the parish and the pastor in person, with the slogan "Everyone has to preach, and in service." In addition to the personal commitment of hundreds of volunteers and catechists, evangelization on-line contributed to this gratifying result, a new initiative of the parish exclusively for young people and Internet users. According to statistics released by the parish, the 243 newly baptized on average are around 32 years old, 70% of those who enrolled in catechism. Among them, 70% are graduates, 78% live in an urban area and 11% in rural areas. The new catechism course was announced, which begins on August 28.
The Cathedral of Xi Kai, dedicated to St. Joseph, of the Diocese of Tian Jin, was built in 1914 in Romanesque style and can accommodate over 2,000 people. The "French Church" was called Mission of the Lazarists by the locals. The parish now has more than 30,000 people, it is very lively and also uses modern technology and mass media to promote evangelism. It was among the first parishes to open a website and recently opened a blog on evangelization. The Diocese of Jing Tian is a great Catholic community, where Catholicism has had a remarkable development. And one of the most important metropolises in China, under the direct administration of the central government, such as Beijing, Shang Hai Chong Qing. According to the Guide to the Catholic Church in China 2008, the diocesan community has over 100,000 faithful, thirty or forty priests and religious of the Community of Charity, as well as a few dozen seminarians. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 05/30/2011) | <urn:uuid:da234158-dc32-491b-ab35-af6b74330440> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fides.org/en/news/29126 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977801 | 455 | 1.609375 | 2 |
While 25% of Internet users surveyed expressed interest in watching downloaded TV shows and movies on their PCs, 38% of those surveyed prefered to watch that downloaded material on a TV screen. For 18- to 34-year-olds, there is even more preference for TV-set viewing: 68% would watch downloads on their TV while only 45% would watch on their PCs.
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“In this PC and iPod generation, consumers still want to watch TV shows and movies on a TV, whether the programs are broadcast or downloaded,” said Stewart Wolpin, senior consulting analyst for Points North Group. “And that’s the one piece of hardware where Web-based video is not yet available.”
While Sony and Microsoft have developed “media-center” PCs designed to manage digital content in the home, the technology falls well short of seamless integration of platforms. Analysts have speculated that in the not-so-distant future Apple will unveil a product that facilitates the transfer of digital content between PCs, TVs and portable devices. But at the moment no hardware is currently available that easily and wirelessly connects the PC and the TV, although anyone with a digital video recorder can load a TV show on to that device’s hard drive.
If you want to watch Web-only content, like videos, it’s still pretty inconvenient to view it on your TV screen, unless you are one of the few who have hardwired your computer to your TV. Video files also can be burned onto a DVD then transferred via “sneakernet,” hacker slang for physically carrying a removable media (like a DVD) from one computer to another.
But even if you were to go to the trouble, the picture quality of downloaded material is not great; the quality is analogous to VHS rather than DVD. A discerning videophile might not enjoy this level of resolution on a big screen.
“Getting Web-based content to the TV should be the industry’s primary goal and will unlock by far the biggest revenue opportunities,” Mr. Wolpin said.
In the past few months there has been a proliferation of deals to make TV programming available for download through the Internet. Apple’s iTunes offers, among other things, replays of current ABC hits “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” for $1.99 each. Google also has a video-download service that sells everything from rebroadcasts of NBA games to episodes of classic series such as the “Brady Bunch.”
The success of TV series on DVD has opened the network’s eyes to the possibilities of extracting post-broadcast revenue from original content. Networks are starting to realize that they may be able to make money out of old programming gathering dust in their vaults. The pay-per-download business model could generate revenue with little further cost to the network.
Downloaded content could also become an effective platform for advertisers. An earlier study by the same research firm showed that by greater than a 3-1 margin, consumers would prefer free on-demand TV programs with commercials (62% of those surveyed) rather than pay $1.99 per download (17%). Twenty-one percent of the survey’s respondents were undecided.
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“Cohort” is a term used in sociology and education that refers to a group of people that experience a certain set of events simultaneously as they move through time. Cohort isn’t a perfect term, but I wonder if we are coming to a point where we need a term that gets rid of the meddlesome baggage associated with a class, but preserves the idea that there’s a particular type of peer instruction that benefits from everybody being on the same lesson at the same time.
Or failing a consensus on that point — at least a term that allows us to discuss the issue, which lately I see popping up all over the place, from Philipp’s quoting John Seely Brown to talk about founding principles for P2PU type efforts:
Together, members construct and negotiate a shared meaning, bringing the group along collectively rather than individually. In the process, they became what the literary critic Stanley Fish calls a “community of interpretation” working toward a shared understanding of the matter under discussion.
To Tony Hirst looking for ways to get OCW content delivered serially:
In contrast to syndication feeds from continually or regularly updated sources, a serialised feed is an RSS feed derived from an unchanging (or “static”) body of content, such as a book, or OpenLearn course unit, for example.
The original work is partitioned (serialised) into a set of separate component parts or chunks – in the case of a book, this might correspond to separate chapters, for example. Each chunk is then published as a separate RSS item. By scheduling the release of each feed item, a book or course can be released as a part-work over a period of time, with each part delivered as a separate feed item.
To Shirky’s recent observation that struck me as so absolutely true in a known and completely mundane way : “…what you see with these user groups, whether it’s for reality TV or science fiction, is that people love the conversation around the shows.” Not that that was his main point here. But it’s true, right? We negotiate experience differently when we feel like we are all going through it for the first time. There’s less of a caste system of amateurs and old-timers. We’re bolder about our pronouncements, more democratic. The possibility for reinterpretation is more dramatic with 99 people going through a course at once than for 99 people being absorbed into a profession or discipline one at a time.
It may be good, it may be bad, but it’s there.
I’ve been thinking about how this is such a pervasive problem in all aspects of culture. TV should be dead, by rights. Ages ago. But the one thing it provides is a serialization mechanism for art, where there’s at least a chance that you could talk to somebody that has seen Episode 8 of Lost, but not Episode 9.
Netflix could solve this of course, and reinvigorate a lot of series in the process. What you would need, ala Hirst, is a serialization mechanism (and here, again, talking in terms of the original meaning of serialization, not it’s specialized computer science meaning). You and your friends sign up to watch the mid-90s series Earth 2, and it delivers you an episode a week. Or every three days. Or each night. Whatever — as long as it allows for shared reflection in between the events.
In other words, you become a cohort, moving through these series in sync so that everyone shares a similar interpretative environment. If Netflix added that, and just that, to its Watch Instantly offerings, it would would change the digital delivery of old TV shows into something entirely different. The same way P2PU would transform the face of OCW use, and the same way Tony’s experiments are pushing the delivery bar.
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Advanced ideas of the popular MACD indicator:
- It detects and displays classic and reverse divergences (three methods of detecting divergences).
- It uses different color to highlight an uptrend and a downtrend.
- Two methods of determining a trend: а) MACD crosses the 0 level (classic signal); б) MACD crosses its own average (early signal).
- This is a multi-timeframe indicator: it can display MACD data from other timeframes.
- Two methods of drawing: classic histogram and line.
- It generates sound and visual signals when the trend is changed and the divergence is formed. It sends emails and push-notifications to mobile devices.
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- Fast EMA period - fast EMA period.
- Slow EMA period - slow EMA period.
- Signal Line period - signal line period.
- Shift relative to the current TimeFrame (can be >0, <0, =0) - shift of the timeframe relatively to the current TF. 1 means higher by 1, 2 - higher by 2. -1 means lower by 1 period etc. For example, when the current period is M15, if you set the parameter to 1, the indicator will display MACD data on M30, and if you set it to -1, the indicator will display MACD data on M5.
- The style of drawing MACD - way of drawing MACD (histogram or line).
- MACD color change and Method of Divergence calculating - methods of determining a trend (MACD changes color) and detecting divergences (crossing the zero level (classic method) or crossing the signal line (earlier signal).
- the Elder's method - method offered by Elder in his work "The Strongest Signal in Technical Analysis" (MACD and 0 crossing, the end of a peak/bottom is a bar following the extremum) - signals are activated earlier, but the number of false ones is increased;
- at simple Zero-Level crossing - simple MACD and 0 crossing (standard version) - accurate signals with a considerable delay;
- at Signal Line crossing - MACD and signal line crossing (optimal version) - accurate signals with a small delay.
- Enable Divergence - enable/disable display of divergences
- Show Reverse Divergence - display reverse divergences
- Draw Divergence Lines in indicator's subwindow - if allowed, divergences will be also displayed as lines in the indicator's window (complementary to signal arrows).
- Draw Divergence Lines in chart window - displaying divergence lines in the main window.
- Classic Divergence line style - style of classic divergence lines.
- Reverse Divergence line style - style of reverse divergence lines.
- Classic Bullish Divergence color - color of classic bullish divergence.
- Classic Bearish Divergence color - color of classic bearish divergence.
- Reverse Bullish Divergence color - color of reverse bullish divergence.
- Reverse Bearish Divergence color - color of reverse bearishClassic Bearish Divergence color - color of classic bearish divergence. divergence.
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The American College Health Association now recommends COVID-19 booster shots for all university students, faculty and staff. Boosters and vaccines remain the best public health measure to protect people from COVID-19, slow transmission, and reduce the likelihood of new variants emerging.
Boosters help you with potential quarantine if you are exposed as, currently, boosted individuals DO NOT have to quarantine following direct exposure, whereas even fully vaccinated individuals do need to quarantine if a booster is due.
Do You Qualify?
- Anyone 12 and older who received their initial Pfizer series more than five months
- Anyone 18 and older who received their initial Moderna series more than five months
- Anyone 18 and older who received Johnson and Johnson more than two months
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, data from South Africa and the United Kingdom demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection for two doses of an mRNA vaccine is approximately 35%. A booster dose restores vaccine effectiveness against infection to 75%. COVID-19 vaccination decreases the risk of severe disease, hospitalization and death from coronavirus.
If you have tested positive for COVID-19 within the last 90 days, please report it to Stetson using the Report It form, as this will impact your testing requirements and possible quarantine if exposed.
Report Your Booster
If you already received your COVID-19 booster and/or vaccine, please submit your vaccination record to Stetson by using the online form. This data is a vital component of our decision-making process for several reasons:
- Knowing what percentage of our campus population is vaccinated and boosted will help us to make accurate decisions about moving in our tier system.
- Knowing your status helps Stetson communicate with the DOH about how many vaccines and boosters we believe we still need for future on-campus events.
Vaccination data is available only to Stetson Health Service, Risk Management and Human Resources staff assisting in the verification process.
Stetson Encourages Use of Higher Quality Facial Coverings
Stetson University strongly encourages the use of respirators (such as N95 and KN95), especially in classroom settings, as they are proven to be highly effective in containing the spread of COVID-19 and all of its variants.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines on masks on Friday, Jan. 14. The update stated, “While all masks and respirators provide some level of protection, properly fitted respirators provide the highest level of protection.”
What is the difference between masks and N95 respirators?
- Masks, including the cloth and surgical masks that are commonly seen, are designed to contain your respiratory droplets and particles. They also provide you some protection from particles expelled by others.
- Respirators, such as the N95, made in the U.S. and KN95, made in China, are designed to protect you from particles, filtering out +90% of respiratory droplets, including the virus that causes COVID-19. In doing so, they also contain your respiratory droplets and particles, so you do not expose others.
What to know about N95’s and KN95’s:
- Filter up to 95% of particles in the air when approved by NIOSH and proper fit can be achieved
- Seal tightly to the face when fitted properly
- Since they form a seal to the face, they may feel harder to breathe through than a cloth mask
- Cannot be washed. They need to be discarded when they are dirty, damaged, or difficult to breathe through
- Tend to be more expensive than masks
More information on masks and respirators can be found at CDC – Facial Coverings.
Please remember, Stetson University moved to Tier 3 to better safeguard our community as we return to campus for the Spring 2022 semester due to Omicron. This included mandating the use of masks indoors for everyone. Our current face covering policy and tier status will be reassessed in two weeks.
On-campus SalivaDirect PCR-based COVID-19 testing is free for students, faculty and staff with a Stetson ID and no insurance is required. Below are the ongoing testing dates and registration links for Spring 2022. Testing will be provided every other Tuesday 8:30-9:30 p.m. and Wednesdays 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in the CUB Faculty/Staff Lounge. Please make a note of your registered testing date(s) and time(s) as appointment verification is only provided upon registration and via email 24 hours prior to your test(s).
What Do You Do If You Think You Might Have COVID-19?
Any member of the Stetson community who has been to campus in the last 14 days and feels they may have come into direct contact with the virus causing COVID-19 or is experiencing flu-like symptoms (fever over 100.4 F, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, or possible hearing loss) should alert Stetson immediately.
- Fill out this online form: COVID-19 Health Report a Concern Form (https://stetson.edu/reportit).
- Stetson staff will contact you as soon as possible. If you are concerned about someone else’s exposure, also let Stetson know – don’t just tell them to do so.
For additional information, please visit the Safer Stetson website.
Latest COVID-19 Test Results
Asymptomatic On-Campus Testing
- Jan. 4-9 – Ongoing Gateway Testing results: 465 tests, 50 positive, 10.75% positive
- Jan. 5-8 – On-campus voluntary testing results: 298 tests, 30 positive, 10.06% positive
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When something damages one or more nerves around your body, you might lose all sensation in the affected region. If you’re experiencing areas of numbness, Jonathan Donath, DC, and Vinh Tran, DC, CCSP, at Joint Effort Chiropractic in White Plains, New York, can help. These experienced chiropractors resolve common causes of numbness like compressed nerves using advanced, noninvasive techniques. To benefit from their expertise in resolving numbness, call Joint Effort Chiropractic today or book an appointment online.
Numbness is a common problem that arises when your peripheral nerves stop sending messages back to your brain. Peripheral nerves are the ones that spread throughout your body from their origins in your spinal cord.
These nerves have many functions, including transmitting sensations to your brain such as pain, hot and cold, and information about things you’re touching. If anything damages or pinches the nerves, they can transmit faulty information, for example, sensations like:
In some cases, nerves become hypersensitive. If this happens, you might feel pain in response to a light touch. In other cases, the nerves send no messages, causing a loss of sensation or numbness.
Numbness is a symptom of numerous conditions, including:
Neuropathy is a term for pain and other symptoms coming from the nerves outside your spinal cord.
There are many ways in which neuropathy might develop, but one of the most common is diabetic peripheral neuropathy. This is a complication of diabetes that causes nerve damage due to high blood sugar levels. It causes pain, tingling, and numbness that usually affect the feet.
The carpal tunnel is a collection of small bones in your wrist. Carpal tunnel syndrome develops when a thickened ligament or other tissue in the wrist compresses the median nerve that runs between your shoulder and your hand.
Symptoms include numbness in the hand and wrist that’s usually most severe when you wake in the morning.
Radiculopathy is nerve compression in the spine. The spinal cord, where all your peripheral nerves come from, is in your spinal canal inside the vertebrae. When the nerves leave the spinal cord they have to go through gaps in your vertebrae to travel into the rest of your body.
If anything in your spine presses on or pinches a nerve, it can cause pain and other problems — commonly tingling and numbness that spreads into your arms or legs, depending on where the problem occurs.
Common causes of radiculopathy include osteoarthritis, bone spurs, herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and subluxations (misaligned bones).
The treatment your provider at Joint Effort Chiropractic recommends for numbness and tingling depends on the cause. If you have a condition like a herniated disc, Non-surgical spinal decompression could help by gently opening space in your spine so the disc can return to its position.
The team can also use chiropractic techniques, including Cox flexion/traction and the McKenzie protocol, to treat spinal restrictions, spinal dysfunctions and realign the vertebrae.
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Optimal Rate-Adaptive Data Dissemination in Vehicular Platoons
Ref: CISTER-TR-190909 Publication Date: 2020
Optimal Rate-Adaptive Data Dissemination in Vehicular PlatoonsRef: CISTER-TR-190909 Publication Date: 2020
In intelligent transportation systems, wireless connected vehicles moving in platoons can improve roads' throughput. For managing driving status of the platoon, a lead vehicle transmits driving information to following autonomous vehicles by using multi-hop data dissemination. We study a novel data dissemination protocol which investigates a chain-based transmit rate control to reduce data dissemination latency. The optimal resource allocation algorithm is formulated to minimize the total dissemination latency of the platoon under guaranteed bit error rates, and can be judiciously reformulated and solved using standard optimization techniques. A novel dynamic programming algorithm is presented to solve the platooning resource allocation optimization, which uses backward induction to significantly reduce the resource allocation complexity. In addition, we interpret the vehicular platoon as one-dimensional Markov chain, and derive a closed form of dissemination latency. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed dynamic programming algorithm. The numerical results show that our algorithm achieves optimal solutions with cutting off the complexity by orders of magnitude, while improving dissemination rate in the vehicular platoon.
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851 voters in Decatur County face cancellation
More than 850 voters who have been listed as “inactive” status for more than three years and have had no contact with election officials may have their voter registration cancelled.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office is making routine and legally required updates to Georgia’s voter file that will reduce the size of the voter roll by 4 percent statewide. The statewide list contains 313,243 records, or about 4 percent of Georgia’s total number of registered voters. In Decatur County, 851 voters out of 17,122 are on the list to be cancelled if they fail to update their status.
These updates are required by federal and state law in order to ensure that the state has the most up-to-date voter information.
“Election security is my top priority,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “Accurate and up-to-date voter rolls are vital to secure elections, but at the same time I want to ensure that anyone potentially affected by this routine process has notice and opportunity to update their information. That is why my office is releasing the full list to ensure that people who are still eligible voters can update their information.”
The Georgia General Assembly passed additional laws in 2019 requiring election officials to mail a personalized notice to the last known address of people prior to removing them from the voter rolls due to a change in address. The statewide list of voters is on the Secretary of State’s website.
Next week, election officials will mail a notice to the last known address of people who have been in “inactive” status for more than three years and had no contact with election officials during that time. A registration is moved to “inactive” status when the person fails to respond to a pre-addressed, postage paid confirmation card asking them to confirm or update their information. The confirmation card is required to be sent to people who have filed a National Change of Address Card with the U.S. Postal Service indicating that they have moved to a new address, had election mail returned as undeliverable, or did not have any contact with election officials (including not voting) for the three prior years.
The process started under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, signed into federal law by then-President Bill Clinton. Additional laws were passed in Georgia regarding list maintenance in 1994 by a Democrat majority General Assembly and signed into law by a Democrat Governor. Lastly, these laws were implemented by a Democrat Georgia Secretary of State.
Both federal and state law require election officials to conduct list maintenance on registration records where the person has died or moved to a different address. Georgia law specifically requires elections officials to remove registration records that have been in “inactive” status for two general elections and have had no contact with election officials during that time.
Raffensperger is initiating an additional feature beyond the notice required by the 2019 law. As a convenience to those on the list, the notice they get in the mail will include a postage-paid postcard that they can simply sign and drop into any mailbox, no stamps required. He also decided to post the list online.
Anyone can search the list of registrations that are subject to cancellation. Only information that is public pursuant to state law is included. If your name is on the list and you are still an eligible Georgia voter, you can simply update your registration at https://registertovote.sos.ga.
Contact is usually is in the form of voting – either in person or absentee, but updating their registration, signing a petition, or requesting an absentee ballot also counts. Renewing or updating their driver’s license will also count as a contact with election officials unless the person opts out.
The list of registrations subject to cancellation can be viewed here: https://sos.ga.gov/admin/
How a registration becomes subject to cancellation
A registered voter files a change of address request with the U.S. Postal Service or Official election mail is returned undeliverable or
A person has no contact with elections officials for three years. Contact can be in the form of voting in any election or primary, signing a petition, updating voter registration, or renewing or changing a driver’s license.
Not responding to a confirmation letter mailed by the county voter registrar.
Having no contact with voter registration for two additional general elections, meaning not voting in any election or primary, signing a petition, updating voter registration or renewing or changing a driver’s license.
Failing to respond within 30 days of the notice which they are being sent by either
a. returning the attached postage-paid postcard they will receive or
b. updating their registration
2. smartphone app, or
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DNA and Chocolate Cake – Understanding the Obesity/Genetic Link
Countless studies have shown that there is a definite link between your risk of becoming obese and having overweight or obese parents. The way your body stores fat and burns calories when you eat chocolate cake or any other food is closely related to your genetic ancestry. How your body converts food into energy is also a process which can be a result of your DNA.
The Family Lifestyle Impact
Even if genetics played little to no role in deciding your body weight, your family’s lifestyle certainly does. If your parents lead a sedentary life, suffer from poor nutrition and do not put a big priority on exercise, you will grow up in inherently learning those lessons. The simple fact is that families tend to enjoy similar lifestyle habits, including exercise and nutrition.
Can Your Fat Friends Make You Obese As Well?
Aside from an increased risk of obesity through family relationships, your sedentary friends can have a negative impact on your health as well. Studies have shown that people with a few obese friends are much more likely to be obese themselves. This could be because obese friends were each raised by overweight parents, and naturally tended to bond because of similar interests and social factors as they were growing up.
Can The Genetic/Obesity Relationship Be Defeated?
The Mayo Clinic reports that, ultimately, environmental and personal factors are responsible for you being obese, overweight or at a healthy body weight. Their research shows that even with a “genetic predisposition” towards obesity, your lifestyle will eventually be the determining factor in whether or not you are healthy and fit.
This is because, for most people, nutrition determines from 50% to 60% of their level of physical fitness and health. That is how incredibly important eating right is, especially if you are battling a hereditary obesity history. Drink lots of water, and exercise 2.5 hours each week. Walk instead of sitting whenever you have the opportunity. Choose fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and non-processed foods over sugar-filled, salty, processed fast foods, drinks and sweets. Proper diet and exercise can keep you slim and trim, fit and healthy, even if everyone in your family is overweight or obese.
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Editor's note: In this series, local author David Aaron Moore answers reader-submitted questions about unusual, noteworthy or historic people, places and things in Charlotte. Submit inquires to firstname.lastname@example.org.
I work in Charlotte and recently moved to Denver, N.C. My daily trip home takes me past what appears to be a very old factory by the river, with giant metal smokestacks. Do you know what it is? - Kimberly Owens, Denver
It's not a factory, actually. It's an old coal-burning electrical plant known as the Riverbend Steam Station. In years past it was most often used to supplement electrical demands during peak usage points. As of April 1, the giant old relic was officially shuttered.
As a child my parents often took my family to the Riverbend access ramp on the Catawba River, where we would scavenge the shoreline for shells and rocks and take an occasional boating trip. I can recall seeing the plant and finding it odd. Perhaps it was just the somewhat goth architectural style and the massive smokestacks, but I never could quite put my finger on why it gave me the chills.
Brought online the same year the Great Depression hit - 1929 - it has long been a source of controversy and a thorn in the side of Duke Energy.
After receiving your question and digging into the site's history, I think I understand the creepy factor.
According to various environmental reports, the pollution it has released into the atmosphere and into ground water has impacted human and animal health in years past with a particularly toxic blend of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury.
In 2009, it was rated as one of the worst "high-hazard potential" sites in the entire country by the Environmental Protection Agency. According to a report issued Oct. 26, 2012 by the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, multiple discoveries of coal sludge pond seepage have made their way into Charlotte's main source of household water, which supplies 860,000 people in Charlotte, Gastonia, Huntersville, Pineville, Mint Hill and Matthews.
Among the chemicals found in the leaks were barium, arsenic, chromium and lead.
Prior to these discoveries, the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation had tested sediment, fish tissue and the water in Mountain Island in 2010 for heavy metals and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). The results, from 2010, showed high levels of both, which led to a state advisory on fish consumption. PCBs have been shown to cause cancer and ill effects on the immune system as well as other parts of the body. The manufacture of PCBs were banned in the United States in 1979 - it's frightening to think levels could be classified as "high" thirty-one years later.
Although the plant has discontinued operation, there continues to be major worries from the foundation. According to its website:
"The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation is particularly concerned that Duke (Energy) might propose to permanently leave the coal ash in the existing ash ponds on the banks of Mountain Island Lake, which would mean that the ash and continued seepage from the ash ponds will continue to pose a threat to drinking water supplies in the Charlotte area. Even if the ash ponds were capped, we believe that there would be significant health risks from closing the ash ponds in place."
Really makes you not want to drink the tap water, huh?
As to the fate of the site, Duke Energy has indicated that it will eventually be razed. While it has stood as a dramatic landmark for over eight decades, its toxicity confirms that not all history is worthy of being saved.
Moore is the author of Charlotte: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem. His writings have appeared in numerous publications throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The photo caption incorrectly stated when the plant was built. It was built in 1929.
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Does Being Present Mean Availability?
Presenteeism in the workplace is an overt behavior or an act that pertains to employees forcing themselves to attend work even when they feel physical discomfort that qualifies for sick leave (Cooper & Lu, 2016).
Presenteeism is expressed as being at work physically but not mentally. It is defined as the fact that employees are physically present in the workplace but do not fully perform the expected performance for various reasons, or that employees continue to come to work despite being sick (Martinez & Ferreira, 2012).
In the literature, presenteeism is predominantly associated with health in that it occurs when a worker is ill but continues to work and often results in a loss of productivity, which is noted as the amount of work performed within a given timeframe, as well as a loss in work quality.
One of the most important objectives of the business is to earn profit. Productive and physically and mentally healthy employees are required to achieve this goal.
However, irregular and long working hours and working conditions that exceed legal regulations adversely affect the employees and work life balance. This situation can cause employees to face the problem of presenteeism in the workplace.
Results of Presenteeism
Presenteeism is an important phenomenon for organizations. Among the results of presenteeism, the most important factors are decrease in productivity Opens in new window, absenteeism Opens in new window and cost. Presenteeism damages the quality of work life and causes failure because it reduces productivity (Radix, Mora & Johnson, 2013, p.9).
The most important factor affecting the productivity of business is the human element. While the financial losses of business can be easily eliminated, it is often difficult to eliminate the losses arising from the habits and mistakes of the employees (Kaplan et al., 2001, p.93).
The continuation of work while the employee is sick reduces both the numerical efficiency and the quality of the work done (Thompson & Waye, 2018). Presenteeism not only results in loss of productivity but also creates safety and health problems for employees.
Prater and Smith (2011, p.1) state that workers’ productivity losses due to health and similar problems cost about one billion dollars a year for business.
On the other hand, it is seen in the researches that although the employees are physically at work, continuing to work due to illness or different reasons causes more productivity loss than their absence (John, 2010).
Presenteeism also causes significant losses that negatively affect businesses (Cser, 2010). In addition, health status of employees who have presenteeism in the workplace may be adversely affected in later life. Therefore, it is accepted that presenteeism has negative consequences for business and individuals (Holland & Collins, 2018, p. 404).
Relationship Between Presenteeism and Absenteeism
Sickness absenteeism and presenteeism are thought to be similar concept. It is called absenteeism Opens in new window. Sickness absenteeism is defined as not going to work due to illness.
Miraglia and Johns (2015, p.5) state that presenteeism is related to health and absenteeism is related to work performance.
When the relationship between presenteeism and absenteeism Opens in new window is examined, the cost of absenteeism to the business is the decrease in productivitiy and cost due to the absence of the employees.
The cost of presenteeism is hidden because the employee is at work but cannot finish the job. In absenteeism, most employees do not come to work if they do not feel well. Conditions like allergies, back pain, calcification, etc. affect them and their productivity the most.
Some employees come to work with illnesses such as cold and flu and that cause them to perform below normal. In studies, it was found that presenteeism causes more cost loss than absenteeism. However, both presenteeism and absenteeism are factors that cause loss of productivity (Caverley et al., 2007, p.304).
Causes of Presenteeism
Sick individuals may continue to work because of some reasons. Loss of income, lack of substitute staff, concerns caused by the burden on patients, customers or colleagues, and competitive disadvantage are among these reasons.
The reasons of presenteeism vary according to the occupational and workplace environment (Laupland et al., 2019, p.1) and the concerns of employees are ignored.
As mentioned earlier, presenteeism is predominantly associated with health, but also it is emphasized that individual, organizational and environmental factors are also important for this problem. In this context, the causes of presenteeism have been considered under three headings as:
- organizational, and
Individual causes of presenteeism were examined under six headings: personality, burnout, stress, workaholism, demographic characteristics and health related issues.
A person first takes his place in the organization with his own personality structure. If the personality structure of the person is in harmony with the work and the organization, the success of the individual in work life increases.
When the studies on personality and presenteeism were examined, it can be said that responsible personalities positively affect presenteeism behaviors because there is desire to complete the job (Yildiz et al., 2015, p.207).
Also presenteeism has a positive effect on people who are open to experience, responsible and have emotional balance (Ulu et al., 2016, p.167).
Burnout causes presenteeism, absenteeism, staff turnover and unwanted dysfunctional employee behaviors. It is also known that burnout negatively affect the organization and job satisfaction Opens in new window (Lee & Asforth, 1993, p.7).
Burnout can vary in gender. In studies, women’s emotional burnout level was found higher than men (Budak & Sürgevil, 2005, p.103). Time pressure also affects the occurrence of burnout (Freudenberger, 1974, p.159).
Work stress and change in the organization are now widely accepted as two important issues in organizational life (Vakola & Nikolaou, 2005, p.160).
Stress is one of the most important factors that inducing presenteeism. To prevent stress,
- workplace and environmental conditions should be improved,
- adequate lighting and ventilation should be provided, and
- noise should be reduced (Bacak & Yigit, 2010, p.43).
In a study conducted on hotel employees, it was found that a stressful work environment greatly affected employees’ health. When perceived work stress is low in the work environment, hotel workers experience low levels of presenteeism (China & Chu, 2016, p.52-53).
Another reason of presenteeism is the concept of workaholism. In a study, it was seen that those working in accommodation establishments were or might be workaholics, and a positive relationship was found between workaholism and service orientation.
However, the increase in the tendency of workaholism causes a decrease in the service levels of the employees. It is seen that there is a decrease in the service levels since there is an increase in the error making levels of people who tend to do more work.
According to the study conducted on small and medium-sized business owners/managers, 38.7% of the participants experienced absenteeism, 82.5% experienced presenteeism and presenteeism caused 50% less productivity (Cocker et al., 2013, p.5062).
It is also stated that presenteeism mediates the relationship between workaholism and work-family conflict (Mazzetti et al., 2017, p. 174).
- Demographic Characteristics
Researchers show that women experience more presenteeism (Bockerman & Laukkanem, 2009, p.43). The role of women as mothers is one of the most important reasons for this. As this role brings responsibilities, the illness or problems experienced by the child cause the mother to be directly affected.
Male dominance of business organizations is also a problem for women. If the employee is not satisfied with the family life or wants to escape from family responsibilities, he may start to devote more time to the job.
On the other hand, it is stated that age has an effect on presenteeism but it can be seen in many age groups.
It is stated in the studies that presenteeism increased with the advancement of age (Bierla et al., 2013, p.1536), or vice versa, presenteeism decreased with the advancement of age (Macioch et al., 2006). And presenteeism is seen more in the young or middle age groups (Reuter et al., 2019, p.1).
- Health Related Causes
Chronic diseases such as asthma, arthritis, allergies, depression (burnout, stress), painful diseases, diabetes, respiratory disorders, influenza (flu), headache and obesity are among the leading health-related causes of presenteeism (Willingham, 2008, p.11).
It is clear that working life has an impact on health. However, the degree of this impact remains unclear. Some studies have found positive effects, while others have found negative effects. It is reported that health problems such as muscle pain, fatigue, increased stress and physical and mental problems arise as the working hours increase (Berniell, 2012, p.3).
Presenteeism has been found to be significantly related to job security, employer support and job satisfaction (Caverley et al., 2007, p.304).
- Work related causes to the presenteeism are defined as overtime, role stress and initiative.
- Factors affecting presenteeism in individuals and companies can be stated as health and life quality, increasing health care costs, having negative colleagues, increased occupational accidents associated with distraction, decreased service and product quality (Lack, 2011, p.77).
People have a limited amount of energy, and they try to distribute it in accordance with the tasks they will do during the day. Employees adjust their energy by taking into consideration the time they will spend in their workplaces.
In case of overtime without the necessary planning and working hours, without considering the social and cultural needs of the employees; the balance between work efficiency and working hours deteriorates and individuals appear to be over-tied (Camkurt, 2007, p.89). Cooper (2006) states that overtime is an important factor that causes presenteeism.
- Role Stress
Different definitions of stress have been made over the years. Initially, it was defined as the pressure from the environment and later as the pressure within the person. Today, however, the generally accepted definition is:
It is a case that arises as a result of the interaction between the situation and the individual.
It refers to the psychological and physical condition when the individual’s resources are insufficient to deal with the demands and pressures of this situation. Therefore, in some cases and in some individuals, stress is experienced more intensely than others. Stress can prevent the achievement of goals for both individuals and organizations (Michie, 2002, p.67).
Stress reduces job satisfaction and increase health costs, reduces the quality and quantity of care, leads to absenteeism due to illness, high staff turnover and inefficient organizations.
For these reasons, role stress increases. Performance decreases under stressful situations. In some studies, it has been determined that there is a relationship between job performance and job stress and low job performance causes high job stress. The presenteeism level increases when high work stress is experienced. Work stress is among the main causes of presenteeism.
Taking an initiative means activating your creativity, solving a problem, taking advantage of opportunities, making creative changes in customer service or changing the current business environment. If employees cannot take initiative or do not know their duties and responsibilities fully, the uncertainty they have experienced and the uneasiness of being unable to do their jobs cause problems related to mental health and then physical health. For this reason, it is inevitable that they face presenteeism.
- Work Environment
When employees feel comfortable in the work environment, their job satisfaction will be high and they use their unpredictable capacity limits efficiently. Psychosocial work environment is one of the important issues related to the work environment in contemporary societies.
Researches show that a large proportion of employees in the European Union are exposed to psychosocial stressors at work. The negative effects include:
- skeletal disorders,
- heart disorders,
- mental disorders,
- decrease in quality of life,
- labor turnover rate and decrease in motivation and productivity (Kristensen et al., 2005).
These results are consistent with the reasons of presenteeism and cause employees to experience presenteeism.
- Organizational Culture
Organizational culture Opens in new window is a system of cooperation that results from the union of the efforts of two or more people to achieve a specific purpose.
Organizational culture consists of emotions, norms, interactions, activities, expectations, assumptions, beliefs, attitudes and values shared by members of the organization. Organizational culture, which is defined as attitudes and values shared jointly within an organization (Erdem, 2007, p.64), is a strong organizational component for employees in the working life (Iscan & Timuroglu, 2007, p.121).
The pressures by the organizational culture on the person can cause presenteeism. Most of the organizational culture develops as a result of leadership.
Organizational culture can also affect development. For example; operational leaders have organizational culture, rules, procedures and norms. Transformational leaders interpret the existing organizational culture with a new perspective on shared values and norms (Bass & Avolio, 1993, p.112). It can be said that the characteristics of the leaders of the organization also affect presenteeism in the organization.
- Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction is particularly important for both employees and business as it has the potential to be a source of happiness or unhappiness for employees in their business and private lives, and it can increase or decrease productivity and quality for business. At the same time, job satisfaction Opens in new window is an important indicator of a healthy and productive environment in the organization (Toker, 2007, p.93).
According to a study on office workers under the headings of employee engagement, job dependence, job satisfaction, a negative relationship between presenteeism and job satisfaction was found. As job satisfaction increases, both work dependence and employee loyalty increase and presenteeism decreases (Murray et al., 2015, p.100).
The phenomenon of mobbing means acting together with someone or psychologically applied terror. Mobbing leads to severe work and psychological consequences (Leymann, 1990, p. 119).
Mobbing is defined as severe forms of social stressors at work.
Among the reasons that arise from the organization that causes mobbing, leadership and business organization cause mobbing (Zapf, 1999, p.70). It is said that employees are adversely affected by pressures in the workplace and it cause presenteeism (Dietz & Scheel, 2017, p.1).
Globalization and technology make working life easier in some respects and also make it difficult in some respects. The environmental causes of presenteeism are:
- economic and political uncertainties,
- environment and traffic problems.
- Economic and Political Uncertainties
Uncertainties in the country or the world economy, crises, unemployment and dismissals, cost of living, high inflation, low level of welfare and the inability of individuals to meet their basic needs are important sources of stress. And stress is one of the most important factors causing presenteeism.
- Environment and Traffic Problems
Heavy traffic, noise and all kinds of pollution arising from it are important sources of stress in the city where the workplace is located.
Both for a clean environment and for the peace of mind of employees, it is important for the business to follow environmentally sensitive policies, to ensure that its employees adopt these policies and to raise public awareness about the environment (Baysal, 2012, p.17).
Solution and Recommendations
Presenteeism in the workplace can lower productivity and business competitiveness and may cause customer dissatisfaction as a result of the service that cannot be provided correctly. There are several factors that provide protection from presenteeism. These include:
- regular working hours,
- daily plans,
- sleeping adequately,
- eating a balanced diet,
- knowing the time when the person has high energy levels,
- maintaining the balance between work and family life,
- not ignoring the leave days and
- creating time for relaxing (Shuster & Cynthia, 2003).
Since these factors will positively affect employees’ physical and mental health, they will support them in avoiding presenteeism. To avoid presenteeism, employees should not think that s/he will lose his/her job if s/he cannot continue to work due to any illness or various reasons.
Psychological relief of employees, and low anxiety and stress is very important for the health of the employees and the businss. If measures are not taken on these issues, they are more likely to experience presenteeism.
There are studies indicating that a supportive working culture should be established for the employees and communication should be established with them to reduce presenteeism (Nagar, 2018, p.74).
Improvement practices such as leave of absence with pay when employees become ill, improvements in medication and treatment aids, paid leave on sick days, free medication and flexible working hours will ensure the reduction of presenteeism (Cohan & Harman, 2012, p.172).
In addition, the organization of necessary human resources policies and improving the sensitivity of managers and employees through training are among the measures that can be taken (Dalkilic & Seren, 2018, p.129).
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problem1) Following scenario is required to answer problems. You are required to use the formats provided where applicable.
Mr Jack Black has been involved in pool construction for 20 years. He worked hard for Creative Pools CC over the past 20 years. Sadly, Creative Pools CC was declared insolvent and Mr. Black lost his job.
Mr. Black wasn’t that unhappy about losing his job as through years he had built good relationships with clients in pool industry and had always wanted to start his own business. He seized the opportunity and decided to go for it.
Mr. Black decided to start his business on 1st March 2012 as the sole proprietor trading as Peoples Pools and hoped that in time the business will grow and he will be able to convert business to the private company. He opened the bank account in the name of the business and deposited R400 000 cash into it as his capital contribution on the 1st March.
In order to start business, Mr. Black had to get the following assets:
1. A “digging” machine was purchased at the cost price of R55 000 from Global Diggers (Pty) Ltd. Mr Black paid cash for the machine.
(The machine is depreciated at 15% per annum – straight line)
2. A Ford truck was purchased at the cost price of R265 000. Mr Black paid R26 500 cash on the truck and the remaining balance was finance by the loan obtained from ABC Bank. Loan carries interest at 15% paid per annum and is repayable in five equal annual installments starting on the 28/2/2013.
(The truck is depreciated over five years, being its estimated useful life)
3. Tools were purchase from The Poolmans Warehouse (Pty) Ltd at the total cost of R40 000-00. Mr Black paid cash for the tools.
(Tools are depreciated at 20% diminishing balance method.)
He paid the deposit (prepayment) of R5 000 for the offices he had let from 1st March 2012. He would receive full deposit back at the end of his stay, must the offices be in good condition. Lease contract was for 10 years.
Mr Black had taken the loan out from his brother for R200 000 cash. Mr Black and his brother agreed that loan will carry 10% interest payable per annum but loan itself would be paid in full at the end of 5 years.
All of these activities mentioned took place in a first week of March 2012 and all the assets were delivered and ready for use at the same time.
With his experience in building pools Mr Black has designed the pool that he knows will be ideal for the South African climate and will be popular amongst local consumers. He intended on only building this particular shape and size pool.
Furthermore, as Mr Black had made such good connections in the pool construction business, he had landed his first contract with ‘Developerz 101 (Pty) Ltd’. Contract stated he needed to build pools for them starting on 1st April 2012. Contract was for total of 55 pools at 5 pools to be built per month. ‘Developerz 101 (Pty) Ltd’ have agreed to pay R65 000 per completed pool. All pools were completed, sold and paid for by year end.
The cost of making a single pool as mentioned above is made up as follows:
Concrete needed per pool 5 000
Sand needed per pool 5 000
Re-enforced wire needed per pool 3 500
Bricks needed per pool 10 000
6 casual workers employed at a rate of R150 per hour at 24 hours per pool required.
All materials were paid for in cash when purchased and casual workers were paid their wages on time at the end of each completed pool. There was no opening or closing balance of materials for the period.
Mr Black also had some fixed overhead expenses which require to be considered as follows:
• Mr Black had taken on the advertising contract from month he started his business, to gain exposure, at an amount of R10 000 a month.
• Mr Black had employed Mrs Black to take care of all his HR needs. She was employed from the 1st March 2012 and was paid R10 000 per month on the last day of each month.
• Mr Black had also employed Mr White. Mr White has his code 10 drivers license to drive the truck and is also qualified to operate digging machine. Mr. White was paid R5 000 per month and would also be paid on the last day of the month.
Other expenses which need to be accounted for are:
Monthly rental of the offices 5 000
Monthly rates and taxes 3 000
Petrol and supplies paid for the year 12 000
Telephone line rental per month 1 100
Mr. Black has cashed in his entire pension to be able to give this business venture a chance. He really wants to be successful in being an entrepreneur doing what he knows best. After his first full year of trading (ending on the 28 February 2013) he has serious doubts and concerns and has approached you to assist him with some advice and in compiling certain accounting statements.
2.1 Compute the cost of making a single pool.
2.2 Create an Income Statement for the period ending 28 February 2013 assuming that everything has gone according to plan.
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If you’re a business owner in the healthcare industry, then you know that staying ahead of the curve is essential to success. In today’s digital age, that means implementing a successful strategy for digital marketing for Healthcare Industry. But what are the best practices for doing so? And what’s the importance of digital marketing for healthcare industry? It’s more important than ever to stay up to date on the latest best practices, and luckily, we’re here to help. In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of digital marketing for the healthcare industry, and we’ll also share some of our best tips for getting the most out of your campaigns. So whether you’re just getting started in digital marketing or you’re looking for ways to improve your strategy, read on for some valuable insights.
Here Are Some Of The Factors That Prove The Importance Of Digital Marketing For Healthcare Industry:
Digital marketing is important for any healthcare organization. It can help you reach new patients, promote your services, and build a stronger brand. Make sure you’re following the latest digital marketing trends, and keep an open mind to new technologies. With the right approach, you can connect with more potential patients and build a successful dental practice.
There are a few things to keep in mind when you’re marketing a healthcare organization. First, you need to make sure you’re compliant with all regulations. second, your marketing should be sensitive to the needs of your patients. And third, you need to consider how you can use technology to reach your goals.
Here are a few tips to get you started in Digital Marketing:
1. Make sure you’re compliant with regulations.
The healthcare industry is heavily regulated. Before you start any marketing campaign, make sure you’re familiar with all the rules and regulations that apply to your organization.
2. Be sensitive to the needs of your patients.
Your marketing should be sensitive to the needs of your patients. Consider their privacy needs and make sure you’re communicating in a way that is respectful and helpful.
3. Use digital marketing technology to your advantage.
There are a number of digital marketing technologies that you can use to your advantage to help you reach your target market. These technologies include:
-Digital marketing automation
-Social media marketing
Digital marketing is a great way to reach new patients, promote your services, and build a stronger brand. Just make sure you’re compliant with regulations, sensitive to the needs of your patients, and utilizing technology to your advantage.
Here Are A Few Ways To Get Leads Through Digital Marketing For Healthcare Industry :
Healthcare providers are turning to digital marketing to generate leads. By creating a strong online presence, providers can reach more potential patients and grow their business. Through a combination of search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, and social media marketing, providers can attract new patients and grow their customer base.
Let’s summarize some of the most effective strategies and best practices.
1. Establish a Strong Online Presence
The first step to effective digital marketing is having a strong online presence. This means having a well-designed website and using effective SEO techniques to ensure that your website appears at the top of search engine results pages. You should also make sure that your website is up-to-date and informative, with relevant content that will interest potential patients.
2. Make sure your website is search engine optimized.
If people are looking for healthcare services in their area, they’ll likely search for them on Google or other search engines. Make sure your website is optimized for search engines so you can rank higher in the search results and reach more potential patients. This will ensure that your website appears as one of the top results when people search for terms related to your business. You can use a variety of methods to optimize your website, including using keywords throughout your site, optimizing your titles and meta descriptions, and submitting your site to search engines.
3. Use targeted keywords in your online advertising campaigns.
When people are searching for healthcare services online, they’ll likely use keywords and phrases like “dentist,” “doctor,” “surgeon,” and “chiropractor.” Make sure your online advertising campaigns target these keywords, so you can reach potential patients who are actively looking for your services.
4. Use social media to reach potential customers.
Social media is a great way to connect with potential patients and build relationships with them. Make sure you have a strong social media presence and invest in social media advertising campaigns to reach more people.
Social media can be used to reach potential customers by posting about your business on various platforms. This can help to increase awareness and interest in what you have to offer. Social media can be used to reach potential customers by posting about your business on various platforms. This can help to increase awareness and interest in what you have to offer. You can also use social media to connect with customers and get feedback.
5. Utilize lead generation techniques such as content marketing and email marketing.
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Digital marketing is an important tool for healthcare professionals to use in order to reach potential patients beyond their local community. It allows healthcare providers to showcase their expertise and build a professional reputation.
The significance of digital marketing in the healthcare area can’t be undervalued.
Laying out an online presence is basic to the development of your healthcare business as it permits you to contact a more extensive crowd who stays nearby in the digital world.
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The Village Academy faculty and staff are composed of some of the most creative and committed professionals from the public and private sectors in central Ohio. Based on a firm foundation of mutual respect, collegiality, and a commitment to students, the Village Academy faculty and staff are the foundation for the School’s tight-knit community.
The distinguished faculty and administrators at Village Academy are experts in their fields with publications and accolades in the central Ohio community and beyond, and are frequently recognized on a national and international level. More than 52% of the faculty have advanced degrees, and 13% also have the designation of “Master Teacher” with 26% working toward completion of “Master Teacher” certifications. Each teacher brings creativity, enthusiasm, and interaction to their classrooms. They implement curriculum which is consistent with the mission of Village Academy, and foster independent thinking skills, creative problem solving, and abstract reasoning.
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Ms. Marangoni has held several positions at Village Academy over her fifteen-year tenure and views each of them important to student success. Her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction is the catalyst for the rigor and vigor of the curriculum and ongoing academic conversations surrounding trends, policies, and educational politics. Ms. Marangoni’s current educational endeavor is a certification in pediatric graphoanalysis.
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Having graduated with an MA in history in 1993, John Frame embarked on a doctoral thesis in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Frame defended his thesis during the summer of 1998, and has since built a career in the field of education at both the secondary and tertiary levels. His teaching positions have taken him from Aberdeen to Charlotte, NC, to New York City, until 2003 when he joined the faculty at Village Academy.
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An intensifying focus on the environment by employers across Canada is creating new career and business opportunities.
Some industries, such as accounting, are seeing the positive impact on their business of tighter environmental measuring, monitoring and reporting regulations. Additionally, companies are creating dedicated positions to oversee firms' environmental targets and strategies.
Workers in the traditional environmental sector are also watching their range of services, and the employees who deliver them, evolve with the times.
In the financial services sector, some companies are seeing benefits to their bottom lines by reducing paper usage, for instance, while they also see an emerging area of business to help their clients become greener.
"As an industry, everyone is looking for what those market opportunities are right now," says Mario Paron, chief human resources officer for KPMG LLP in Canada.
He says the firm has to walk the talk if it wants to have credibility with clients. "Every client will automatically ask you to tell them how you've implemented this or what you're doing in this area."
KPMG's employees eagerly share with those clients how they've integrated an environmental strategy into their operations.
As one of this year's greenest employers in Canada, as ranked by Mediacorp, KPMG stands out for launching initiatives such as reducing the amount of paper used in the office, funding environmental groups and moving into a new gold-level certified green building this fall in Toronto under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
"Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly important to business," says Tania Carnegie, national leader of corporate citizenship for KPMG, which launched a broad environmental performance initiative in 2007.
Being a green employer also gives the firm a competitive advantage in recruiting younger employees.
"When (young recruits) are assessing their choices as to what type of organization they want to be associated with, the entire (CSR) and green aspects are definitely things they ask us about," says Paron.
"You have to put your money where your mouth is," adds Carnegie.
Many other sectors are becoming aware of the advantages of green initiatives. Intrawest ULC at Whistler Blackcomb created "environment co-ordinators." They are dedicated to helping the company reach its goal of having a carbon-neutral footprint by 2010 through such initiatives as building a $32-million hydroelectric plant inside its ski hill area that will produce surplus electricity to sell back into the grid.
New Flyer Industries Canada ULC also created an environmental co-ordinator to ensure it meets its own environmental targets, while companies in the traditional energy business are also contributing to the development of new green jobs.
Enmax Corp. in Calgary created Alberta's largest wind energy farm with 32 turbines, and the firm's chief executive turned his own home into a small cogeneration plant that sells electricity back into the grid.
Architects are increasingly adding a green dimension to their skills, too, as firms such as Busby Perkins+Will Architects Inc. and HOK Canada get more of their staff LEED-accredited. Both firms have more than 750 certified staff worldwide as part of their parent companies, or as much as 60 per cent of their workforces.
Governments are also contributing to the rise of green jobs. Alberta, for example, has committed $2 billion to carbon capture and sequestration technology for the oilpatch, while the federal government has committed $3.4 billion to clean up federally owned sites through the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan.
Meanwhile, the traditional environmental sector, which includes a range of environmental scientists, engineers and technologists, is also going beyond its historical focus on remediation of old, contaminated sites to ensuring new sites are built to be environmentally friendlier.
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Why are t-shirts popular?
One of the most popular clothing items in the world is a T-shirt. More than 10 billion T-shirts are sold each year, and they come in an incredible number of shapes, sizes, colors, and styles. So what's so great about them? In this article, we'll explore that question - why are t-shirts such a popular item?
1. Most wearable item in your wardrobe
A simple plain colored shirt that you wear daily is also known as T-shirt. No matter what kind of body type you have, no matter how old you are and where you were brought up - be it colleges campuses, schools, shopping malls, or your home – T-shirts have been a part of our lives from the very beginning.
2. A perfect gift for everyone
You can present a t-shirt as a gift to anyone - men, women, and children alike because it's just not gender-specific. It is also a perfect gift for all kinds of occasions, be it birthdays, weddings, baby showers, graduation parties, and so on.
In addition, they come in handy when you need something quick yet thoughtful to give away during an impromptu get-together with friends or family members.
It is its main feature that you can wear even at bedtime or during lazy Sunday mornings with jeans and shorts, get-togethers & casual getaways, etc.… They are made using cotton, a breathable fabric; since it absorbs sweat quickly, they are effortless to wear. They are also soft against the skin and comfortable, allowing you to move freely in them, whether you are working out at the gym, cooking in your kitchen, or just relaxing in your bedroom.
4. Free shipping
Many websites offer free shipping both ways, making it easy to try various brands regularly without worrying about the expenses of exchanging clothing items. The best thing about shopping for t-shirts online is that there's no limit to choice. There are many stores offering t-shirts of different brands, prices, and designs. So whether you need a t-shirt for daily wear or some for an upcoming party, there will definitely be something that will suit your needs.
5. Easy shopping
The wide variation in color, design and budget makes shopping for t-shirts an entertaining and rewarding experience. You can choose from trendy short sleeve or long sleeve tees to formal business casuals, which are essential to have in addition to several plain-colored tees that go with almost everything you wear!
It brings out one's creativity! You can be different by wearing a printed t-shirt of your favorite brand, sports team, or movie character to school or college campus on an outing or while hanging out with friends at parties, etc...
You can coordinate a combination of a cool printed tee with a pair of jeans and sneakers for a casual look or dress it up with. Other accessories to look stylish anytime, anywhere…
T-shirts are very cheap compared to other clothes. Although their quality may vary depending on fabric, manufacturer, etc., t-shirts cost much less than any other type of garment made from the same material!
Moreover, they are usually part of bundles, which means you pay less if you buy more pieces at once.
8. Can be worn anywhere, anytime
They can be easily combined with other clothes! For example, you may start your day wearing a suit and tie, but after a few hours when you get off from work, you could change into casual clothes such as jeans and a t-shirt. What do we need? Just one shirt that combines both styles!
9. A constant presence in youth culture
Since they appeared on the market, t-shirts have always been associated with youth subcultures which created new trends by adding their own ideas and eventually changing the t-shirts' status from "mundane" into something fun and exciting!
One of the most famous examples is probably Marlon Brando's t-shirt in "A Streetcar Named Desire," later worn by James Dean. Youth cultures created new trends by inventing new ways of wearing t-shirts and adding slogans or pictures that showed who they were and what they liked…
10. Simple and easy to wear
Even though the latest fashion wonders may seem complicated to wear, usually t-shirts are very simple. They don't have many pieces, and they are generally made from stretchy materials. Therefore, we may say that the only "complication" is how to combine different t-shirts with each other or with other garments of our wardrobe. For this reason, it's essential to know about t-shirt types to be easily dressed!
11. Familiarity leads to comfort
As mentioned before, t-shirts are everywhere! You can find them at clothing stores but also at supermarkets or even gas stations! This means you can buy them almost any way, anytime, and the best part is: Most of us already own some since we grew up wearing these shirts - especially if we come from western countries.
12. Easily found in every country
For a fashion trend to spread from one country to another, its products must have an international availability. This means the product must be produced, easily distributed, and finally sold all over the world. Well, t-shirts are effortless pieces of clothing that can be mass-produced in factories, so they perfectly fit this necessity! But there is more: They also have a universal look that makes them appropriate in many social contexts. So, for example, even if you travel thousands of miles, you will still find people wearing them since they are familiar with most cultures.
The popularity of t-shirts is in their versatility and sheer ubiquity. From the office to a night out, there's no shortage of occasions where you can show off your favorite slogan or design on a comfortable and affordable garment. MIDA offers an incredible selection of men's and women's tees for every occasion at prices that won't break the bank. And if you're looking for something with more color than standard white cotton, we've got plenty! So go ahead, browse our collection today and find the perfect shirt for any event. | <urn:uuid:c51e2fde-580a-46fd-b79d-3232b61746a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://midatshirts.com/blogs/news/why-are-t-shirts-popular | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.964335 | 1,288 | 1.5 | 2 |
The USA Women's Soccer Team did an entire country proud when it took home the World Cup in early July 2015 with a 5-2 win over Japan. But there was more that went into that victory than just five goals. The team followed a formula for success, which all sales teams can emulate.
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team earned $2 million for winning the World Cup, although money was not their primary motivation for victory. That payout may seem rather diminutive when compared to the $35 million payout the German men's team received for its 2014 World Cup Victory. Nevertheless, there were more factors pushing them to victory other than money.
While patriotism may be a key motivator, losing proved to be just as inspirational. The USA women's team bowed out of the 2011 World Cup on penalty kicks after playing Japan to a 2-2 tie in the tournament's final match. That defeat festered, brewed and haunted Team USA until it had a chance for redemption this year.
Switching gears to the sales game, salespeople are obviously motivated by the financial rewards that come with doing their jobs successfully. However, sales managers cannot rely on that as sole motivation for their teams. Managers can think of their own incentives outside of financial means. Those incentives can include encouragement, support and mentoring. Making each of those incentives a priority will essentially lead to more financial rewards.
However, sales managers cannot motivate everyone the same way. What they can do is hold all of their team members to the same high standards and stay involved with their sales reps by welcoming questions and sharing ideas. It takes a lot to keep teams motivated for long periods of time. But if done consistently, sales reps are eventually going to motivate themselves as well.
Score when it counts
The 2015 World Cup women's final between USA and Japan was the most watched soccer match in U.S. History, that includes both men's and women's matches. FOX Television estimated that 23 million viewers watched that fated match on July 5th. That audience is on the same level as that of the MLB World Series. All of the sudden, women's soccer has vaulted into the spotlight.
The outpour of support was also felt inside the stadium in Vancouver as many American supporters made the trip up to Canada. And unlike the 2011 World Cup Final, Team USA scored when it counted. It actually jumped ahead quickly with four early goals and never looked back.
In the same breath, sales reps can score early in the game by identifying quality leads. The first step is to make sure the lead meets qualifying criteria. First, find out if that lead is the actual decision maker who is authorized to make a purchase. Secondly, track where the lead came from before investing time trying to sell. Lastly, gather information on the lead and make sure it passes through all through the criteria of what constitutes a qualified lead.
Much like the USA women's soccer team, sales reps should not worry about high-pressure situations. Actually, those situations are only as high pressure as salespeople make them out to be. The USA women's team went about business as usual and won the World Cup. Sales reps and managers can do the same.
Salespeople can control the pressure with their language. Pushy questions like "When do you want to move forward" or "When can I stop by to see you" create unneeded pressure. Instead, reps should try focusing more on solving problems for potential clients and designing their language in accordance with making a sale, not forcing a sale.
It would be a bit cliche to say that teamwork is what won the World Cup for Team USA, but it definitely proved to have its advantages. In its opening game, Team USA relied on excellent goalkeeping from Hope Solo to fight off an early surge by Team Australia. Withstanding a flurry of offensive attacks, USA emerged as 3-1 victors. Solo's streak continued from there as she held opponents scoreless for the next five matches.
By the time the championship match rolled around, it was Carli Lloyd's early hat trick that brought the nation to its feet. While those three goals were the highlights of that final game, there were a lot of other reasons that led to victory. While some teams in the tournament may have rivaled Team USA in talent, the American women would not be outworked. After a tie with Sweden, the team relied on sound defense and goalkeeping to complete one shutout after another.
Sales teams can take a lesson from that kind of work ethic as perseverance often determines the difference between a good and bad salesperson. Customer relations also tend to grow when customers are able to work with more than one sales rep. It doesn't mean passing off clients from one sales rep to another. It means having more than one sales rep become very familiar with current clients. It is as simple as passing the ball down a soccer field.
Teamwork cannot be overstated in sales as working together can not only strengthen sales, but help analyze strategies as well. Members of a team can share which sales pitches work and which do not. Constant communication is key to developing the real sense of a team. Just because people work together does not automatically make them a team. There has to be an ongoing and concerted effort to pass around ideas and strategies, which ultimately lead to achieving a goal.
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Danica Knight employs trust-based interventions to help troubled youth.
Talk about tempers and trouble.
Soon after two youths at a residential juvenile justice facility started arguing, their heated exchange turned physical. One of them injured a staff member who intervened, which triggered an automatic security alert.
Though the teen had been making significant progress in controlling his violent outbursts, he faced daunting consequences for the assault: isolation, a transfer to a more secure facility or going to an adult prison, depending on a judge’s decision.
But jumping to the punishment phase might not benefit anyone in the long run, said Danica Knight, professor of psychology. Many children and teens feel frustrated or angry and don’t know how to handle those feelings, so they act out.
“The first thing caregivers tend to do is jump in and correct,” Knight said. “Instead, they could pause to think about what the need behind the behavior is. What is the child dealing with? What is the bigger issue?”
Often, those issues can be traced back to challenges the child faced early in life, such as abuse, violence or poverty.
For three decades, Knight has been studying how young people go awry. Often, youth delinquency and substance abuse stem from a combination of childhood trauma and not learning to self-regulate.
She spent 27 years with TCU’s Institute of Behavioral Research, where she led multimillion-dollar grant projects to develop substance abuse intervention programs for young people. In 2019, she moved to the university’s Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development, where she serves as associate director of research.
One of the principles Knight teaches caregivers is that they need to see the need to meet the need.
After the altercation, another staff member pulled the youth aside to understand why he had turned physical. The adolescent said he had been provoked by the staffer who intervened and couldn’t handle his frustration. As a result of their conversation, leadership at the facility determined the situation was not the teen’s fault, which helped his mother advocate for her son when he faced the judge over the incident.
The judge gave the kid a second chance to complete his rehabilitation program and stay at the facility. There, he continued to work with the staff and his mother as he addressed his problems. With support systems in place, he could learn how to manage his impulses rather than turning to risky, potentially fatal decisions as he entered adulthood.
Effective interventions are the goal of Knight and her research team, including project director Yang Yang and project coordinator Lainey Tinius. As part of a new National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research project, they are testing whether their intervention programs in justice facilities can curb drug abuse once a juvenile returns home.
This project is a joint venture between the Purvis Institute and the Institute of Behavioral Research and is part of the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-Term, or HEAL, initiative. The federal program is a multidisciplinary effort to find science-based solutions to the opioid crisis in the United States.
The overarching goal of Knight’s project is to right the ship for struggling young people so they can steer past dangerous behaviors like opioid abuse.
The answer, more often than not, means dealing with childhood trauma through interventions that involve the whole family.
The basis of Knight’s new project, Trust-Based Relational Intervention®, was developed in the early 2000s by TCU’s Karyn Purvis and David Cross, who worked with families of fostered and adopted children.
Cross, the Rees-Jones director of the Karyn Purvis Institute and a professor of psychology, served as Purvis’ adviser when she came to TCU for degrees in child development and psychology. Their research, based on attachment, sensory processing and neuroscience, addresses the physical, relational and emotional needs of children who have experienced trauma.
Attachment is the theory that a child’s emotional needs stem from the bond formed between the caregiver and the child during the first two to three years of life. “When a child is raised in an environment where their needs are met consistently, an emotional connection between parent and child is made,” Knight said. “The child can learn to self-regulate in partnership with the parent.”
A rift in that relationship happens when the child’s physical and emotional needs are not met. Consequently, the child never forms the bond of trust that allows the caregiver to teach self-regulation skills amid healthy and appropriate boundaries.
Using Purvis and Cross’ materials, Knight’s research team, which includes TCU students and faculty, developed a two-track intervention curriculum for families with sons and daughters in the juvenile justice system. The program’s intent is to mend the family relationship so the child has a supportive environment that fosters healthy communication. This is the first step toward addressing the roots of the behaviors that can eventually lead to substance abuse disorder.
Most children and teens in the justice system have experienced multiple traumatic events or ongoing, prolonged trauma, known as complex trauma. Knight said that children who have experienced this type of trauma possess heightened emotions and do not self-regulate well, making them more likely to engage in substance abuse and other risky behaviors.
Those uncontrollable emotions stem, in part, from neurochemistry. Children who have experienced complex trauma tend to produce more cortisol, one of the stress hormones that is part of the body’s fight-or-flight system. These children struggle socially because they are unable to express themselves in constructive ways and tend to respond to difficult situations with anger, fear or withdrawal.
In the youth-focused training sessions, adolescents learn how to communicate what they are feeling and react to difficult situations in healthy ways.
In adult-focused training sessions, caregivers learn how to recognize their child’s needs and respond in ways that equip children to regulate their impulses.
Then adults and youth attend combined sessions, called nurture groups, to practice what they learned and begin to build trusting, supportive relationships that will continue once the children go home.
Knight said that trust-based intervention can change the trajectory of an entire family.
Opioid abuse has been an escalating problem in the United States, and federal agencies are desperate for research-backed creative interventions.
In 2018, the NIH HEAL initiative reported that 10.3 million Americans 12 and older misused opioids, including heroin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that between May 2019 and May 2020 more than 81,000 people died from drug overdoses — the majority involving synthetic opioids.
Studies indicate that people between ages 16 and 30 are the most at-risk group for initiating opioid use, misusing opioids and dying from an opioid-involved overdose. Children and teens in the justice system are especially at risk for future opioid addiction.
Knight said she gravitated toward the NIH initiative because it targeted vulnerable adolescents, including those in the justice system. That population was at the center of the work she had long done at the Institute of Behavioral Research.
“Ninety percent of kids in the juvenile justice system end up using substances at some point and often do so at the point of having a substance abuse disorder,” Knight said.
In 2019, the Purvis Institute and the Institute of Behavioral Research were jointly awarded funding for the one-year development phase of Knight’s study. The development phase was completed in August 2020, and in October 2020 the two institutes were awarded $4,460,305 in additional funding for the four-year main study phase of the project.
In March 2021, Knight’s research team began recruiting youth in 10 secure residential facilities in Texas and Illinois, as well as their caregivers, with a goal of 360 youth/caregiver pairs over a three-year period. In the first phase, families will take part in assessments to document the youths’ progress after release. In 2022, the project will recruit families to participate in assessments plus Trust-Based Relational Intervention training to examine the value added by the intervention. All the families will go through the dual-track intervention sessions.
Currently, TCU staff conduct the intervention groups and assessments. In the last year of the five-year project, facility staff will be trained on how to implement the intervention groups. But in the meantime, facilities that want to use TBRI strategies with youth in day-to-day interactions will get the training and support.
The research team will check in with the families to determine whether parents and youth continued using the skills and techniques they learned in the training sessions once the kids returned home.
The team will also conduct long-term studies to identify whether early intervention helped deter later misbehavior and opioid use.
Knight said the preliminary results are promising. She cited one example of a youth who had a history of aggressive outbursts. While spending time at a secure facility that used her curriculum, he spiraled into anger. He told one of the staff members that he was “in the red,” a phrase he learned in the training sessions that indicates feeling out-of-control frustration.
“This simple statement represents a milestone for this youth,” Knight said. “Because of using that one phrase, he was able to identify his emotions, recognize that he was not in an ideal place — in the green — and signal to an adult his need for help.”
Aliya Moore, a senior psychology and Spanish major, worked with Knight translating documents and surveys for Spanish-speaking families in the research program. One of her major takeaways was that intervention is a team effort. “Each person on the project plays a crucial role to the success of the participants in the project, including the participants themselves.”
Knight said she agrees that a team-based approach is necessary: “Children live and function in multiple contexts — families, schools, etc.”
She said she hopes that her work will eventually be used by all adults who interact with children, including teachers, counselors and probation officers. “Imagine how a child would thrive if in all these contexts adults paid attention to what they truly needed and found a way to meet that need.”
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One fact for Michael Caine’s next volume of things that not a lot of people know about: Plymouth is on the same latitude as Kiev, in the Ukraine. Compare and contrast weather patterns, especially those in winter. Kiev routinely has winter temperatures which we would find grim – exceptionally so.
We don’t tend to get grim winters, because not only do we have the benefit of the Gulf Stream, bringing warmer water from the Gulf of Mexico, the prevailing wind direction is usually from the south west, bringing milder if wetter weather with it. But when the wind direction turns, winters turn colder, and the assembled hackery gets terribly worked up.
First out of the blocks this autumn are the obedient servants of the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre at the Daily Mail. There is, they tell us, to be a “big freeze”, with “Polar winds” on the way, along with “heavy snow”. It sounds authentically apocalyptic. And as with any overinflated hype, a few prods of enquiry and it falls flat in short order.
The cold snap, it is conceded, is due to the wind turning to the north, due to a depression over Scandinavia. But then, the article explains, the high pressure area that has given settled and dry weather over the last few days will then reassert itself – and temperatures will recover.
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A report by the national Cervical Screening in Australia has found that many South Australian women are dying from cervical cancer despite having regular screenings through pap smears. The report said 81 SA women died of cervical cancer during 2001-04 more than the 66 in 1997-2000.
In the 85 and older age group the death rate was highest with 15 deaths during the period. Professor David Roder, from The Cancer Council SA, said that many women who died from the cancer had not had a pap smear in the two-year interval.
Advertisement"Since 1990, the cervical cancer death rate in SA has fallen by 40 per cent and the report's small increase is disappointing," Professor Roder said. "We are not sure whether it will firm up into a sustainable trend or if it's just a random fluctuation at this point. But we have to get better coverage of pap testing to women difficult to reach such as those from poorer, remote areas and indigenous communities."
He added that cervical cancer was one of the most curable and preventable cancers if found early. SA Cervix Screening Unit manager Bernadette Kenny said women are risking their lives by not getting regular screenings. "More than 90 per cent of cervix cancers are preventable with regular screening which makes early intervention absolutely crucial," she said. | <urn:uuid:f955569b-86ed-4d36-bd95-e054f5ec633b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=13553 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00087-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982063 | 267 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Linfield University operates under the assumption that all students are honest and ethical in the way they conduct their personal and scholastic lives. Academic work is evaluated on the assumption that the work presented is the student’s own, unless designated otherwise. Anything less is unacceptable and is considered a violation of academic integrity. Furthermore, a breach of academic integrity will have concrete consequences that may include failing a particular course or even dismissal from the university.
Violations of academic integrity include but are not limited to the following:
Using or attempting to use unauthorized sources, materials, information, or study aids in any submitted academic work.
Submission of academic work that includes material copied or paraphrased from published or unpublished sources without proper documentation. This includes self-plagiarism, the submission of work created by the student for another class unless he or she receives consent from both instructors.
Deliberate falsification or invention of any information, data, or citation in academic work.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
Knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate the university’s policy on academic integrity.
Faculty recognize their responsibility to help students understand academic integrity and how to conduct themselves with integrity in the classroom. To this end, faculty shall include a clear academic integrity policy within their syllabus.
In dealing with breaches of academic integrity, the instructor shall have discretion as to what penalty to impose regarding the course grade. Within ten days of the discovery of an offense, the instructor must submit in writing a description of the offense to both the student and the Dean of Students or designee. This description should include the course consequences for violations of academic integrity and the penalty given in the specific case. If the student disagrees with the accusation of a breach of academic integrity, the student will use the Academic Grievance process as outlined in the section entitled Academic Grievances. In addition, it is recommended that faculty issue an academic alert for any violation of the academic integrity policy.
The Dean of Students, or designee, will maintain a confidential list of students who are reported for violations of academic integrity in order to track repeat offenses. The dean will have discretion to refer a first time offender to the University Conduct Board; however, any subsequent violations by the same student will automatically be referred to the Conduct Board. This decision on referral will be communicated in writing to the student and to the instructor(s), who has (have) a legitimate educational interest.
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Russian citizens with disabilities have a uphill struggle to convince politicians and taxpayers to make Moscow more handicap-accessible.
Misha Friedman, a former Russian citizen who now lives in New York, took the photo above on a 2013 visit to Russia and describes the image:
“A wheelchair-bound amputee holds on for balance as he ascends an escalator. Moscow’s metro system, like much of the country, is not equipped for access for disabled people. There are very few elevators in the system, and many stations lack ramps on the stairways. Most of the transfers between stations are connected only by stairs and, generally, at least one flight of stairs leads from street level to the Metro entrance.”
Russia is notoriously handicap-inaccessible thanks to the length of time spent under Communist rule, during which the government claimed that handicapped citizens didn’t even exist.
“During Soviet times, people said there were no disabled Russians, and if you did meet someone with a disability, people thought it was because their parents were alcoholics or drug addicts,” said Zhenya Lyapin, a Russian scriptwriter.
As a result, the city has steep hills, rocky roads, and many subway stops without any handicap access.
Yulia Simonova spent most of her childhood stuck in her home after breaking her back participating in gymnastics at the age of seven, and she has come forward since then to speak about her situation on television. Simonova is now an activist, lobbying to get children access to public schools.
Ten years ago, only one school in Moscow was accessible to handicapped children, but today that number has risen to 95 thanks to the efforts of those such as Simonova. Unfortunately, those 95 schools still represent only six percent of the total schools in Moscow.
Having access to a car can greatly improve the ease with which citizens with disabilities can get around the city, but that isn’t without its problems. While Moscow does set aside special parking for handicapped citizens, government corruption is rampant, and anyone willing to pay a little extra money under the table will be given access to those spots.
Thankfully, Russia put on an exceptionally strong showing at the 2012 Paralympic games in London, taking home 36 gold medals and coming in second place overall, behind China.
This great achievement has brought the plight of the handicapped to the forefront of public attention in Russia, and the government has pledged to spend 30 million dollars per year for the next two years on improved handicap access and inclusive employment.
Moscow is also planning a multi-million dollar urban redesign, which is important for people like American-born Denise Roza. “In a lot of places you’ll see a fantastic ramp,” she said, “but once you’re back on the pavement, it’s too high to get down to the street.”
Protests by people with disabilities in Russia have been making some headway. Additional hope also came with the 2006 passage of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, affecting everyone with disabilities worldwide. Russia signed the document, which promises equal human rights for all the world’s people with disabilities.
It may still be a long time before people like Lyapin no longer have to struggle with long, convoluted routes, physically demanding roads, and inaccessibility every single day just to have anything resembling the normal life that the majority of Russian citizens take for granted.
Voluntary, strategic advocacy for those with disabilities in Russia has already begun, as you’ll see in the video below. What’s your advice for Russian citizens with disabilities to help them advocate for widespread accessibility? | <urn:uuid:617d2ad3-0868-423e-8431-e10602621ed1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.amsvans.com/blog/moscows-citizens-with-disabilities-face-a-fierce-uphill-battle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957772 | 769 | 2.609375 | 3 |
I used to be able to quickly go to any directory in win9x. I can't do it in XP: Hit a hotkey (e.g., F5), get prompted for a string (e.g., I enter tmp), see a list of numbered paths that end in the string, then when I pick a number - up comes my filemanager (I use xplorer2) in that directory.
I know FARR and/or plugins can do this, but I do not have the expertise to know how. There is a program that almost does it, with advantages to something like locate32: WCD creates a database of all directories in all partitions. When you feed it a string, it displays a list of possible directories, using alphabet letters (not numbers). This gives you up to 26 possibilities. When you type a letter (e.g., d), it does to the directory corresponding to `d'. Alas this all happens in a dos or cmd.exe box. For windows xp, it generates a wcdgo.bat file f that basically executes ``cd targetdirectory''
If I can get the output list of a program like locate32 or wcd in the list box of FARR, this would be an adequate approximation. I would only get 9 choices for a directory, but this would do. Ideally, I could write an alias that runs wcd in FARR's window, instead of a dos box. That is: wcd tmp makes farr show a list of tmp directories. I hit, say, number 7, and xplorer2 launches showing directory number 7 (xplorer2 takes a directory as an argument).
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I finally received my order at SeeedStudio last Wednesday. It came nicely packaged and until yesterday, I had not a chance to test the Stalker. After a few hours playing with it, I must say that this is a really cool Arduino board from which you can do plenty of stuff.
I went through the tutorial for the Stalker v2.1 on the Wiki and experienced a few glitches for which I found solutions that might help some of you :-)
The problems I had where mostly related to:
- compatibility with Arduino 1.0
Fixes for the DS3231 library
The first three examples from the DS3231 library did not work as expected with Arduino 1.0. The reason being that Arduino 1.0 made a non-backward compatible change to the Wire library.
This can easily be fixed by:
- replacing the import of
WProgram.hwith an import of
- replacing all
- replacing all
- casting some few calls to
Wire.write()(on line 160 replace
Wire.write((uint8_t) DS3231_SEC_REG), on line 176 replace
You can otherwise download my modified DS3231.cpp file.
Proper soldering of the RTC Interrupt Jumper
If you want your RTC to wake up your Arduino uC, you need to solder a jumper. By soldering this jumper, you’ll have the DS3221 connected to
INT0 on the Arduino.
The documentation was wrong in the Wiki! I made a modification in the page, so that the instructions are now valid. You had to do the instructions written in the Wiki page for the Stalker v2.1 page describing the various jumpers.
So instead of soldering
PD3 to INT, solder
PD2 to INT.
This make sense when you have a look at the bottom of the board.
I lost quite some time figuring out what was wrong after I had soldered a wire between
PD3 and INT (soldering SMD pads is no fun!).
I now have my room running a Stalker and logging temperature every minute, sleeping between measures. I will finally know how cold the nights can be when my VAC is off, when some doors are closed, or if improvements to my thermal isolation may save energy, hence money :-)
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Rick Snyder came into office promising to be a new kind of Republican governor, focused on budget and economic issues and not on social hot button issues like abortion and gay rights. Despite those promises, he has now signed into law one of the country’s worst laws on abortion, passed by the Republican-dominated state legislature.
The law has many provisions, all of which are designed to make it more difficult to provide abortion services in the state. First, it requires that any facility that performs more than 10 abortions a month be a freestanding building with full surgical facilities — even if they don’t perform surgical abortions at all. Second, it requires doctors to certify that the woman was not coerced into getting the abortion (a laudable goal, but a solution in search of a problem). Third, it requires that a doctor actually be present even if the woman is choosing an RU-486 abortion, which will make it far less likely that rural clinics can stay open. Here’s the real purpose:
Critics of the Michigan law fear its insistence on new, standalone facilities will hurt women in rural and low-income areas as it could force some clinics to close. They say questioning women on whether an abortion is voluntary subjects them to a type of interrogation.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion rights group that opposed the measure, said it could force many existing abortion providers in the state to either tear down their offices and rebuild from the ground up — or shutter their practices.
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which also opposed the law, called its passage a setback for reproductive rights and the health of women.
“Safety was never the intention of this law. The only thing this law accomplishes is to make a difficult decision even more difficult,” said Rana Elmir, the communications director for the Michigan ACLU.
This is the religious right doing everything it can to make it more difficult for women to exercise their reproductive rights and make it prohibitively costly to keep clinics open, clinics that also provide a great deal of important primary medical care for women, especially in rural and inner city areas. | <urn:uuid:268b3a06-4a8d-44c3-9539-7e56ad0bd56c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2013/01/03/michigans-restrictive-new-abortion-law/?wpmp_switcher=desktop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00142-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966398 | 435 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Three decades ago Therm-a-Rest rethought the air mattress, adding foam and creating the self-inflating, insulated sleeping pad. Now they’ve rethought the concept again and come up with another novel approach to adding warmth to an air mattress.
The Therm-a-Rest NeoAir utilizes a reflective barrier embedded in the middle of a 2.5-inch thick air mattress. Heat from the sleeping user is reflected back upward instead of radiating to the cold ground. The NeoAir also reduces convective heat loss within the mattress by utilizing a multitude of small chambers arranged head-to-foot in two layers, instead of the 4 or 5 long tubes typically found in other air mattresses. Internal baffles of semi-permeable fabric divide the chambers (Therm-a-Rest calls this the “Triangular Core Matrix”) and inhibit air movement within the mattress. This design is also said to improve stability and comfort.
Therm-a-Rest claims that the NeoAir is three times warmer than any other non-insulated air mattress, with an R-value of 2.5. It will be available in April 2009 in four sizes, ranging in price from $120 to $170.
Small: 20 x 47 in. (51 x 119 cm), 9 oz. (260 g)
Medium: 20 x 66 in. (51 x 168 cm), 13 oz. (370 g)
Regular: 20 x 72 in. (51 x 183 cm), 14 oz. (410 g)
Large: 25 x 77 in. (63 x 196 cm), 1 lb. 3 oz. (550 g)
Therm-a-Rest has also redesigned and re-named their ProLite pads for Spring 2009. The ProLite 3 will become the ProLite and the ProLite 4 will become the ProLite Plus. The new versions of both pads will be lighter, and the ProLite Plus will be slightly warmer: angled perforations make it so that at every point on the pad there is at least some foam between you and the ground. | <urn:uuid:d79a91ba-ab32-4565-9cbf-86137f381525> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.trailspace.com/blog/2008/08/09/therm-a-rest-neoair.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00518-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913156 | 437 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Food System Data Center combines an interactive mapping platform with information and data on local agriculture to tell the story of our local farm and food system. The project was developed by multiple public agencies and non-profit organizations committed to using data to better understand, analyze and measure the health and viability of our food system.
The King County Farm
and Food System Map
allows you to view spatial information in an interactive map. It is your window to a wealth of information on topics including farmland, soils, food production, and natural resources.
Food System Indicators allow us to track progress towards our goals under the Local Food Initiative and better inform the development of policy and funding decisions. By compiling and sharing those data we seek to improve the assessment, understanding, and collaboration of efforts to grow our local food system. | <urn:uuid:b8758047-10c9-42f0-9584-561eabc3be12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.farmkingcounty.org/data-center/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.906703 | 162 | 2.546875 | 3 |
What comes to mind when you hear the word meditation?
You might think of a monk in orange robes, sitting lotus style on the floor for hours on end, mind perfectly still and at peace. It’s a lovely image, and a worthy ideal. Who couldn’t use a bit more inner peace?
But when we sit down and try it for ourselves, our experience is very different. It feels awkward and uncomfortable. After just a few minutes (if you even manage to hang in there that long), your back starts hurting, your joints ache, your muscles get sore and tense.
And a quiet mind? Forget about it. Your thoughts are racing like a pack of greyhounds. You’re obsessively analyzing a conversation from earlier toda1y, and going over your list of things to do tomorrow, pausing every so often to ask yourself, “Am I doing this right? I sure don’t feel at peace…”
I know that’s how I felt the first time I tried meditation, more than twelve years ago. I didn’t know how to meditate properly, and I felt ridiculous trying. But I kept at it. And eventually I worked through my discomfort, and developed a practice that worked for me.
I even started a meditation group to help others learn the art of meditation and reap the benefits in their own lives.
Over the years I have heard the same comments from many people new to meditation. They’re not sure how to do it. They’re frustrated because they can’t stop thinking. They get discouraged and give up because of how easily they get distracted.
Much of this frustration and confusion comes from our modern information overload. Ask Google, “how do you meditate?” and you will find dozens of classes and books on the subject, all teaching different styles and techniques. With all the varied — sometimes conflicting — instructions, it’s hard to know where to begin.
There is no one, “right way” to meditate. But there are definitely some methods that are easier than others. And when you’re learning any new skill, it’s best to keep things simple, right?
So here is a basic meditation technique for beginners, broken down into 5 easy steps:
1. Prepare Your Space
Find a place where you can enjoy some quiet solitude. With practice, you will find it easy to meditate anywhere, even if it is noisy and busy. But when you are first learning, it is better to be alone, and free from distractions.
I love to meditate outdoors, where I can listen to the sound of the wind and the singing of the birds. But that might not work for you if you live in a bustling urban area, or if the temperature is twenty below zero.
If you opt for an indoor location, take a minute to prepare the space. It will be easier to relax if the area is clean and tidy, not jumbled and disorganized. Some people like to turn off the lights, burn some incense, light a candle, etc. Do whatever helps you to get “in the mood.”
2. Set A Timer
This is crucial. In the beginning, the urge to give up and go do something else can be overwhelming. If you don’t commit to meditating for a set amount of time, the odds are you’ll quit before you give it a fair chance.
So get a timer or stopwatch, or just set the alarm on your phone (be sure to choose a soft and soothing tone, rather than a harsh, screeching one). Decide how long you are willing to practice; it can be as short as 5 – 10 minutes, but you will reach a much deeper state of relaxation if you give yourself more time. I personally recommend you start with 20 minutes.
Then make a commitment to yourself to practice until the time is up — no matter what. Distractions will happen. Your phone might ring, your pet may come begging for attention, etc. Most of all, your restless mind will come up with an endless list of things you could be doing instead.
Don’t fall for it! You’re better than that. You can do this.
3. Settle In
Find a comfortable sitting position. It’s not necessary to fold your legs a certain way, pinch your middle finger and thumb together, or assume any bizarre and unnatural posture. What matters is that you sit upright and keep your spine straight, but relaxed. Stay loose, not rigid.
If you elect to sit on the floor, you might find it helpful to use a cushion (or two), in order to raise your behind and relieve pressure on your legs. Some people use a meditation bench. It’s perfectly okay to sit in a chair, as long you sit upright and don’t slouch.
Once you find your comfort zone, it’s time to close your eyes and settle in…
4. Breathe and Relax
Pay attention to your breath. Feel the air as it flows in and out. Feel your chest and belly expand and contract. Each time you breathe out, let yourself relax more and more deeply. Little by little, release any tension that you feel in your body.
As we sit with our eyes closed, with nothing to keep us busy or distracted, we usually discover places that are tight and tense — especially our shoulders, legs and lower back; or the muscles around your eyes, your neck and jaw. Wherever you find yourself clenched up, just relax and release.
With every out breath, feel yourself relaxing more and more; sinking deeper and deeper into a calm state of rest.
5. Observe, Don’t Judge
You will find that it doesn’t take long for your mind to wander off somewhere. After a minute or two you will realize that you aren’t paying attention to your breath at all. Instead you’re thinking about an email that you need to answer, or what you’re going to make for dinner, or there is a memory or a movie scene running through your head on repeat, or… you get the picture.
That’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong, or that you can’t meditate. This is meditation!
As you sit and breathe and relax, thoughts will come and go. Don’t judge them as good or bad. Don’t judge yourself for thinking them. Whenever you notice that you’ve wandered off, just gently bring your focus back to your breath, to your body and your senses.
That’s all there is to it.
Meditation is really the practice of paying attention. Paying attention to what you see and hear, and how you feel; instead of getting lost in your head, carried away by thoughts, memories, daydreams, or whatever. It’s the practice of staying present, staying awake and at the helm.
And, like any skill, it gets easier — and more enjoyable — the more you do it. You don’t pick up an instrument for the first time and expect to play it perfectly. You can’t expect to sit down and meditate for the first time and be able to instantly quiet your thoughts, find inner peace or “enlightenment.”
But if you practice the steps above once or twice a day, I guarantee it will change your life for the better!
Meditation has many health benefits (such as lowering blood pressure and stress cortisol levels) that come with being more relaxed. It makes you more self-aware, which is key to succeeding in any kind of personal development.
It changes the way you respond to the people and circumstances in your life. It can improve the quality of your relationships, make you more focused and productive at work, and generally make you a more patient, calm and peaceful person.
But most of all it helps you be more present, here and now. It helps you truly feel and experience each moment, rather than going through life on autopilot, stressed out and distracted. And that’s the real secret of happiness: to savor each precious moment, and be content with what we have, instead of always looking for something else, something different, something more.
So try putting the steps above into practice, every day for two weeks. See what a difference it can make in such a short time. Find a meditation group near you to practice with. Have any questions, or tips of your own? Leave them in the comments below.
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(CNN) -- Think about this scenario: A leader misspeaks, the comments are posted on a blog three minutes later, and within an hour media organizations have picked up the comments, reporting them on television and online.
Meanwhile, this leader's BlackBerry buzzes every 30 seconds with bosses, colleagues and family members all wondering the same thing: Did you really say that?
Today's leaders are facing challenges their predecessors never knew -- an up-to-the-second era where technology connects us all, where multimillion dollar business deals can be sealed from most any corner of the world and where the BlackBerry and Treo can track you down at any second. It's an information smorgasbord where the demands are ever growing and the pace is frantic.
What does it take to lead amid such an intense environment?
For starters, experts say vision and integrity, along with an ability to adapt, multitask and manage people. Being media savvy also is a plus.
"Leaders have to spin many more plates today than they had to 20 or 30 years ago," D. Michael Lindsay, an assistant sociology professor at Rice University and leadership expert, said.
"That's just the nature in which society grows and develops. As it grows and develops, you have more people to satisfy, more demands on your time, more expectations. It seems that those kinds of elements never go away, they just increase."
'You've got to motivate'
But the best of this new breed of leaders -- in business, politics, technology, health and entertainment -- have been able to adapt to the changes, evolving their styles to meet modern needs, experts say. They've developed qualities and skills that guarantee results among their employees, constituents or customers.
"Integrity has always been important and a vision," said Marshall Goldsmith, a leading executive coach and author of "Global Leadership: The Next Generation."
"But the reality is that will be important a thousand years from today, and would have been important a thousand years ago. The real differentiating variable in leadership today is the fact that leaders today manage knowledge workers."
That applies to not just the business world, but all aspects of leadership, he said. "The role of leadership has changed from the top-down -- 'I'm going to tell you what to do approach' -- to a more asking, listening and participating [approach]."
Included in that, he said, is the ability to share a tangible goal or vision. President John F. Kennedy's push to the moon and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech are shining, historical examples of such goals.
Due to the shift in modern-day leadership, the need for solid visions is all the more important, especially for those in the corporate world.
"You're managing a bunch of smart people," Goldsmith said. "You can't tell them what to do and how to do it, you've got to involve them, you've got to listen, you've got to motivate them."
He added that the most difficult thing is "getting people involved so they own the vision."
"The great achiever: It's about me. The great leader: It's about them," he said.
Always within reach
Leadership has become increasingly difficult in an age of technology, where e-mail, BlackBerries and an array of other gadgets have made it so that officials, executives and managers are never out of reach.
"These people work as hard as McKinsey and Goldman Sachs because they feel under much more pressure than they've ever felt before," Goldsmith said.
Another trend is how 24-hour news media outlets have affected the shape of leadership. "Today, with 24-hour news channels, the actions of leaders are followed very carefully, and scrutinized very quickly by not only average citizens, but talented analysts who can make judgment calls," Lindsay said.
"And this naturally influences what leaders have to do. ... Leaders can cast a much larger shadow over their institution and over society today because media spotlight amplifies that shadow," he said.
While media organizations are often blamed or credited with drawing attention to leadership scandals, Lindsay said, media can just as easily amplify good.
"The media is an excellent tool to getting out positive publicity, just as it's an excellent tool of holding those who commit misdeeds in leadership to accountability," he said.
While not leaders in the traditional sense, some celebrities are masters at this type of media manipulation. "Celebrity status allows [people] to garner a lot of power that in previous generations wasn't a possibility," Lindsay said.
Angelina Jolie -- the famed actress who is also a U.N. goodwill ambassador -- is one such example. She, in part, achieves her goal of raising awareness for the plight of refugees by traveling to poorer areas such as Costa Rica or Namibia. Celebrity photographers follow her there, and she is able to pull attention to these corners of the world that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Those are all key traits -- charisma and passion with an ability to charm the media -- for quality leadership, according to the experts.
An effective modern leader "has to be incredibly focused and dynamic, and really, I believe, pretty intuitive about the needs that are out there," said Georgie Ann Weatherby, a professor in Gonzaga University's sociology department.
"They don't just talk about what needs to be done. They go out and take action."
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The Consumer Watchdog organization has put a spotlight on Google for its Wi-Spy activities. Google initially received some heat after it was discovered that some of the company’s Street View cars not only captured pictures of streets, but also scanned and retained information from open wireless networks in the area. Now it has been pointed out by Consumer Watchdog that Google’s practices may be a national security issue.
Consumer Watchdog went to the residences where some members of Congress lived and discovered that at least one home had an open wireless network which could have allowed Google to record possible national security information. That belief is further backed up by the fact the home belonged to Rep. Jane Harman, D-CA, chair of the Intelligence Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee and former member of the Intelligence Committee. Four other residences of congressional members including Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA; Ed Markey, D-MA; John Dingell, D-MI and Rick Boucher, D-VA were also checked and found to have open wireless networks in the area, though Consumer Watchdog could not verify that the wireless networks resided within the residences.
As a result of their findings Consumer Watchdog has sent an open letter to Rep. Harman with the information they were able to obtain from their tests. The letter asks for the House Energy and Commerce Committee to hold hearings on Google’s Wi-Spy activities and what the consumer advocacy group claims is an invasion of privacy.
Read more at Consumer Watchdog.
If Google did scan for open networks and record data collected from those scans that is indeed alarming. In fact, that practice alone should result in hearings so that Google can be scrutinized for such clear invasions of privacy. If Google recorded information that was coming from a computer being used by a member of Congress that too may have national security implications, but I don’t think Google has all the blame for that.
I have a bigger question. What member of Congress in their right mind would have an open wireless network in their home? If you’re going to blame Google for collecting the information you should also put some blame on the representative who allowed an open wireless network to be connected in their home.
Now to be fair. There is no proof that these open networks discovered are being used by representatives to access and read material that relates to national security. Consumer Watchdog is making a leap of faith in drawing that connection. For all we know, the open wireless network is so the kids in the household can easily hookup their Nintendo Wii. Still, I will be the first to admit any open wireless network in the home is a bad idea, especially for a member of Congress. | <urn:uuid:04a5833b-4100-4b96-8eae-987780dc1ed7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.geek.com/news/watchdog-group-claims-google-wi-spy-has-national-security-implications-1269089/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00324-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971656 | 550 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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The minimal protection required by your state is frequently legal responsibility coverage, but lots of lenders call for comprehensive protection. Comprehensive coverage refers to equally collision and extensive insurance plan, and it might be expected by your lender if you’re funding your vehicle. Liability coverage covers damages to Other individuals’s house while in the celebration of an accident although not your individual car or self. Bodily harm liability and house problems liability coverage could be merged to present you with the most beneficial protection at an extremely acceptable value.
Regardless of whether you’ve got collision protection on your car insurance policies policy relies on your situation. Although you may not be expected by regulation to have this coverage, lenders will most likely need it if you intend on funding your automobile. Lenders can also need you to carry collision insurance For those who have a financial loan, which implies you need to invest in entire coverage vehicle insurance policy. This protection is a requirement for most of us who finance a car, regardless of whether new or utilized.
Collision coverage pays the total price of your car while in the party of a mishap. Whilst the insurance provider pays all the expense of repairs, it will not be sufficient to exchange the car if It truly is stolen or totaled. You may also really need to pay back some personalized revenue to switch the vehicle. In case you have this kind of coverage, be sure you recognize the stipulations in advance of obtaining auto insurance policy. It’s also wise to fully grasp the deductible, which happens to be individual in the collision deductible.
There are many factors to take into consideration when looking for a car or truck insurance coverage Monthly bill. Some states have to have minimum amount boundaries on Residence and Uninsured motorist coverage, which pays for the distinction between your fees plus the plan limit of the at-fault driver. Other states don’t have to have underinsured motorist protection. Here are several guidelines to assist you to shop for the ideal insurance plan coverage for your requirements. Hopefully, the following pointers can make the procedure just a little easier and save you dollars.
Legal responsibility protection for auto insurance plan is essential in an effort to defend you as well as your residence versus promises of injuries or residence damage. This coverage can cover the expense of defense or settlement should you be found at fault for a mishap. There are many sorts of coverage, so it is vital to grasp the difference between them in order to avoid expensive surprises. Condition Farm presents common rates for various levels of protection. You might obtain it far more beneficial to choose a medium coverage degree.
For most states, you’re needed to have liability coverage inside your plan, which covers damages to other people’s residence and injuries to Others. Such a protection also guards you in the event you lead to a collision with A further driver. This coverage will be the default coverage in the majority of states, and is recommended for drivers in several countries. On the other hand, it is important to realize that legal responsibility insurance boundaries are quite diverse in Every point out. Your legal responsibility Restrict will decide simply how much you’ll have to pay to include damages.
In almost every condition, it is prohibited to drive without liability coverage, which incorporates residence damage liability. Should you result in harm to some other person’s residence, liability protection pays for repairs. Even so, your automobile coverage plan isn’t going to address your own personal car or truck’s damages. Your point out may have unique minimum amount requirements for liability protection, so it is vital to examine your plan before buying it. Property coverage is likewise significant for the economical protection. It helps you avoid getting remaining with enormous insurance plan bills should you bring about an accident.
Your insurance policies policy must have some kind of property hurt protection to compensate you from the celebration of a collision. This protection pays for almost any damages you bring about to a different man or woman’s auto, which include repairs. In addition, it pays for the removing of particles following an accident. Assets coverage is often penned with 3 numbers, such as bodily damage coverage per accident and assets damage protection for each incident. Larger limits, nevertheless, present much more protection. Make sure you go through your policy and talk to your insurance agent if you will find any exclusions or limitations.
In Ny, you’ll be able to claim uninsured motorist coverage if another driver does not have plenty of insurance to go over the price of your collision. This coverage applies when one other driver just isn’t recognized at all as well as accident is a hit-and-operate. The Insurance plan Legislation SS 5217 specifies that the uninsured motorist coverage have to be bought in any Bodily collision, but courts have interpreted this provision to only apply inside of a Bodily collision.
Underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage are optional in some states, but in other states, you have to have them both equally. Obtaining both coverages will give you further protection in the event you ought to pay healthcare bills or other expenses. If your uninsured driver leaves you having a ruined auto, the uninsured motorist protection can purchase the repairs. Although this protection isn’t required, it could be a clever idea to carry a minimum of the minimum degree of legal responsibility protection.
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Most insurers supply no claims discounted protection for any cost of all-around PS25. It enables you to make a particular range of claims each year without worrying regarding your rates heading up. Additionally it is doable to include it to a new policy if you have a no claims bonus. Furthermore, you may transfer your no promises price cut to a different insurance company if you want. To maintain your no statements discounted, it is best to think about switching providers each and every year or two.
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While raising your deductible is not the right preference for everyone, it will help you preserve thousands of dollars in excess of the long run. Whilst the amount you end up picking to raise your deductible will depend on your economic scenario, authorities endorse saving not less than two months’ worthy of of dwelling expenditures. On top of that, it will decreased your insurance coverage expenses every month. You will also help save a big sum of money if you ever produce a claim.
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In Big apple, the normal human being spends 2.eight % in their revenue on motor vehicle coverage, which happens to be a bit higher compared to countrywide regular of 2.40 percent. Men and women of their 30s, 40s, and 50s pays slightly lower than the average. The 70+ age group will pay increased premiums than motorists with fewer driving knowledge. Those who are married pays marginally increased rates, but still decrease than one men and women.
In combination with decreased charges, drivers may also choose defensive driving classes. These lessons are 320 minutes in size, and involve conversations of driver Mindset and targeted traffic rules. They also educate defensive driving approaches that may substantially cut down the price of insurance. They might also aid to improve their driving history, so finishing a course can decrease the price of an automobile insurance coverage quote. Nevertheless, if you’re unsure about the precise coverage you may need, you could check Together with the Insurance policy Information Institute.
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Missouri is The most cost effective state for complete-protection car insurance, paying just $944 lower than Louisiana. Additionally, this condition has amongst the bottom expenditures for every capita, and it is rated fifth regarding cost of living. In distinction, Texas motorists pay back essentially the most for his or her car or truck insurance, paying about 33% of their once-a-year profits in total. This disparity may be as a consequence of The reality that the condition has a superior number of uninsured motorists and a lot of lawsuits.
The countrywide ordinary for complete coverage automobile insurance policies is $1,771 a 12 months. The state with the most costly insurance high quality is Louisiana, which has a quality of $two,839, a 19% improve from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s normal insurance policies premium is simply $858. This is due to no-fault states have better insurance premiums. The cost of an automobile insurance coverage policy in other states can differ significantly. There are plenty of factors to take into consideration, such as your condition’s legislation on insurance policy.
For those who are trying to find higher-possibility driver auto insurance policy close to me, you could be pondering ways to get a small-Price tag policy. Higher-possibility drivers pay back higher insurance plan rates than regular drivers. This is due to they have an inclination to own additional accidents or violations on their own report. According to the condition, the Restrict can be three years or 5 years. In some instances, you will get discount rates if you are taking a driver safety training course.
Whilst the countrywide averages for high-danger driver auto insurance close to me are really steady, you’ll discover that premiums change wildly from condition to state. Some corporations adjust their premiums to various states, so if you reside in a specific condition, it’s possible you’ll see that just one insurance company delivers you the very best coverage for just a low price. The most cost effective large-risk driver car insurance coverage close to me comes from State Farm, that has an extended-standing reputation for delivering exceptional service.
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Regarding the article ``College Students - at a Loss for Words (on Paper),'' Dec. 15: It's unfair to blame the proliferation of the computer for poor writing skills.
I remember reading about studies lamenting the writing skills of my own high school graduating class (nationwide), yet we did not have computers in school. The skills that these studies test - such as writing letters and reading schedules - are rarely taught in school. The computer is simply a tool, like paper and pencils. It can make writing faster and more fun, but the user still must have writing skills. Suzanne Soule, Vista, Calif. The horrors of Bosnia
When Steven Spielberg received his well-deserved Oscar for ``Schindler's List,'' he urged us not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust. However, he forgot to mention the holocaust that is going on in Europe. Thousands of people are giving their lives in Bosnia for their ethnic origin. The word ``ethnic cleansing'' has become a cliche. The recent cease-fire has produced some hope for peace, but full peace can never be achieved as long as the war criminals are free. It can only be achieved when justice will be done to those who have suffered the ultimate trauma of war. I would rather watch the trial of the war criminals right now than a ``Schindler's List II,'' many years later, when it will be too late. Junaid Ahmed, Bloomington, Ill. Power Rangers: violent role models
I was deeply disappointed when House Speaker Newt Gingrich promoted the violent TV characters, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, to entertain the children of the members of Congress (``A Whole Newt World in Washington,'' Jan. 6). I was hoping the new Congress would be more alert to the hazardous effect of television violence on our children. Through this type of programming, our precious seedlings have unnatural acts poured daily over their developing minds. I know of a boy who thinks it is fun to kick and punch like Power Rangers; he can't just play normally with a friend. Joella Hoole, DeWitt, N.Y. Prop. 187 needs rethinking
The opinion-page article ``Harassment in the Wake of Proposition 187,'' Dec. 27, misses the point in claiming that Prop. 187 is bad because of its unintended consequences. It is bad because it is a proposition.
Such populist measures may restore ``power to the people but in the process they are destroying the republican form of governance guaranteed under the Constitution.
Let's not delude ourselves. Propositions, initiatives, and referendums may well have their place in government. But when they are used to avoid rather than complement representative government we will eventually reap a whirlwind of democratic anarchy that our Constitution was designed to prevent. We had better give serious thought to our frantic pursuit of happiness before we catch up to it. John R. Carter, Earlysville, Va. The welfare debate
The author of the article ``The Welfare Discussion We Really Need,'' Dec. 29, made an excellent point of exposing the myths surrounding our welfare system. However, I take issue with the conclusion that we must look for targets (i.e. ``deadbeat corporations'') to blame for the creeping social malaise of our culture. My spouse and I have been married 10 years. We have two children and we both work very hard just to stay financially afloat. The notion that someone can have children out of wedlock and then become rewarded with an apartment, food stamps, and free medical care from our government is repugnant, to say the least.
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It is well known that sequencing problems are notoriously difficult to solve. There are two kinds of sequencing problems: traveling salesperson problem and shop scheduling problem. Today I’d like to introduce how to solve those kinds of problems using Excel Solver.
1 INDEX function
The index function can be used to return a value from within a table. Here is the syntax for the INDEX function.
|INDEX(array, row_num, column_num)|
|array||A range of cells.
If the array contains only one row or column, the corresponding row_num or column_num is optional.
If the array has more than one row and more than one column, INDEX returns the entire row or column when only row_num or column_num is used.
|Row_num||Selects the row in the array from which to return a value.|
|Column_num||Selects the column in the array from which to return a value.|
It returns the value in the cell at the intersection of row_num and column_num if both the row_num and column arguments are used. For example, the intersection of the first row and second column of table C3:G6 is cell D2 and the value in cell D2 is 0. Therefore, the INDEX function returns 0 in cell I3. You can look into other cells from I4 through I6 to figure how the INDEX function works.
2 Travelling Salesperson Problem
Suppose that Jack is a salesman who lives in Dallas. He needs to visit each of the cities listed in the below table and then return to Dallas. Please note that the data in the below table are only dummy data. In what order should Jack visit the cities to minimize the total distance he travels?
2.1 Set up model
To set up the model, distances between cities have been entered into cells from D3 through N13. For example, the distance between Boston and Chicago is 983 km. Dallas is 1815 km away from Boston. We put city no in range P3:P13 and cells in this range serve as By Changing Cells.
The city no for the first city that Jack needs to visit was put in cell P3 and city no for the second city that Jack needs to visit was entered into cell P4. Formula “=INDEX($D$3:$N$13,$P3,$P4)” in cell Q4 can return the distance that Jack will travel from the first city to the second city. By copying this formula into cells from Q5 through Q13, we can get distances that he needs to travel between other cities. Since he needs to travel back to his first city, formula “=INDEX($D$3:$N$13,$P13,$P3)” was entered into cell Q3 to calculate the distance between the last city and the first city. By sum values in range Q3:Q13, we can get the total distances that he travels. To minimize the total distance is our objective and cell Q14 is our target cell.
With the help of VLOOKUP function, we can retrieve the city name in the range R3:R13. For example, the formula in cell R3 is “=VLOOKUP($P3,$B$3:$C$13,2,FALSE)”. Formulas in other cells are copied from this formula.
2.2 Apply Excel Solver to solve the problem
Click on Solver in Analysis group to open Solver Parameters dialog box. Fill the Solver Parameters dialog box as shown in Figure 2.2. You can see that Evolutionary engine was used here.
Constraints “$P$3:$P$13 <= 11” and “$P$3:$P$13 >= 1” are used to ensure that values should be between 1 and 11. Other constraints are that city no should be an integer and they should be different from each other.
2.3 Results returned by Excel
Excel returns solution as shown in Figure 2.3 after we click on Solve. You can see that the minimized distance is 8995 km.Perhaps you’ve already noted that the first city in range Q3:Q13 is not Dallas. It seems that this does not meet the problem’s requirement – Jack lives in Dallas and has to return to Dallas finally. Never mind. What Excel returns is only an order and we can start at any cities. Replace range P2:P13 with data in Figure 2.4 and you will find that the total distance is still 8995 km.
3 Shop Scheduling Problem
A small job shop needs to schedule six jobs. The due date (days measured from today) and days needed to complete each job are given in the following table. There are two machines to work on those jobs. In what order should the jobs be scheduled to minimize the total number of days needed to complete all tasks?
|Job||Days needed||Due date|
3.1 Set up model
Days needed and the due date for jobs were entered into cells from C3 through D8. Cells in range G3:G8 are the By Changing Cells in this case and the job no will be entered into these cells.
By copying formula “=VLOOKUP($G3,$B$3:$C$8,2,FALSE)” from cells H3 into range H4:H8, we can get days needed for each job. Similarly, by copying the formula “=VLOOKUP($G3,$B$3:$D$8,3,FALSE)” into cells K4:K8, we can get days left for each job.
We cannot do the next job without finishing the current job. Therefore, we have to sum days needed for the current job and previous jobs (finished on the same one machine) to compute the total days. Per the problem, the total days should be less than the left days.
Those two machines can start work at the same time. But they may not stop working at the same time because different jobs require a different number of days. Therefore, we need to use the formula “=MAX(I5,I8) to get the total number of days needed to complete work. Cell G9 is our target cell and our objective is to minimize it.
3.2 Apply Excel Solver to solve the problem
Click on Solver in Analysis group to open Solver Parameters dialog box. Fill the Solver Parameters dialog box as shown in Figure 3.2. The evolutionary engine was used here.
The job no should be integers between 1(including 1) and 6(including 6). And they also should be different from each other. Another constraint is the jobs should be finished before the due date.
3.3 Results returned by Excel
From the returned solution shown in Figure 3.3, you can find that we need at least 36 days to finish those six jobs. Job 2, 3, and 6 are done on the same machine. The other 3 tasks are to be completed on another machine.
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What’s tougher than feeding a billion people? Feeding nine billion.
Many of the seven billion people today (including you hopefully) will share the world with another two billion by 2050. Theoretically, our survival is hinged on a simple equation: we must produce enough food to feed everyone three squares daily.
The problem is that 925 million or about one in seven mouths are already going to bed hungry tonight. The natural systems we rely on for food are assailed by overuse, pollution and climate change.
Farming, humanity’s main food generator, requires lots of water, fertilizer and farmland – something we’re running out of unless we cut down our remaining forests. It’s also a major driver of climate change – emitting more greenhouse gases than all the world’s cars, trains and aircraft combined.
Aquaculture is a solution, but still requires huge amounts of feeds and can introduce ravenous invasive species like tilapia and golden kuhol which can wipe out native aquatic life. So which food production system requires no fresh water, fertilizer or farmland?
Blue Food Factory
The oceans. Covering 71% of the planet, the big blue turns sunlight and nutrients into plankton, fueling the creation of vast shoals of fish. Enough to feed ocean giants like tuna, sharks and whales. Enough to feed you and me with leftovers aplenty.
“Wild fish are the world’s most cost-efficient protein source. They are renewable, low-carbon and much cheaper to produce than chicken, pork or beef,” explains Oceana Philippines head Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos.
Oceana is the world’s largest nongovernment organization working to conserve the world’s seas. It was created from the realization that oceans produce food for free – and that 25 nations produce 90% of the world’s seafood. “If we can reduce overfishing, prevent bycatch and protect vital marine habitats in these 25 countries, then we can rebuild the world’s fish stocks,” adds Ramos.
By protecting fisheries with science-based policies and empowering coastal communities to defend their home waters, humanity can raise yearly wild seafood yields by 100 million metric tonnes – enough to feed a billion people every day, forever.
Oceana’s famed battle-cry, a clarion-call for good fisheries governance, is now heard in boardrooms, fishing villages and other hubs in a hundred nations: save the oceans, feed the world.
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The emerging knowledge of molecular changes in an array of brain tumours has resulted in a substantial shift in how these tumours are diagnosed, managed and treated. glioma. Almost all (90%) of both astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas bring a specific stage Protostemonine mutation (R132H) in the gene , which may be detected immunohistochemically using a mutation-specific antibody . The recognition of the various other mutations (Fig.?1) requires sequencing from the and genes [20, 36]. The current presence of an or mutation can be necessary for the medical diagnosis of oligodendroglioma and anaplastic oligodendroglioma. The previously known entity of oligoastrocytoma was described on histological grounds just and is currently extinct , as there is certainly robust evidence the fact that mutations segregate either using the chromosomal codeletion of 1p/19q in oligodendrogliomas, or using a lack of function mutation in the gene (alpha thalassaemia/mental retardation symptoms X-linked) in astrocytomas (Fig.?2). Mixed 1p/19q reduction (also called 1p/19q codeletion) could be examined with several molecular methods, such as for example fluorescent in situ hybridisation (Seafood), qPCR and different array technology. Mutations in the gene are consistently examined generally in Rabbit polyclonal to SMAD3 most laboratories by immunostaining for the ATRX proteins, which detects lack of expression caused by nearly all gene mutations [23, 25]. Nevertheless, a small percentage of mutations in the gene will not lead to the increased loss of proteins expression, Protostemonine and therefore aren’t detectable by immunohistochemistry. Sequencing from the gene will be desired, but happens to be not useful in regular diagnostics generally in most laboratories, because of the huge size from the gene as well as the wide variety of mutation sites. Diagnostically useful may be the extra screening for mutations in the promoter area of telomerase invert transcriptase (promoter (C228T or C250T) are highly connected with oligodendrogliomas. Whilst promoter mutations will also be observed in a percentage of IDH-wildtype glioblastomas and additional tumours, they aren’t observed in IDH-mutant astrocytomas . IDH-mutant glioblastomas hardly ever display EGFR amplification, unlike their IDH-wildtype counterparts (observe below) . Of notice, mutations are also mutually unique with mutations in the gene (observe below and Fig.?2). Open up in another windows Fig.?1 Frequency of and mutations inside a cohort of 747 oligodendroglial and astrocytic tumours (extracted from the info in ) and two added uncommon mutations. The remaining area of the graph displays an average histological picture of immunostaining within an R132H mutant astrocytoma with an antibody discovering this type of mutation. Around 90% of most IDH-mutant tumours and 95% of mutations are recognized with this antibody. The rest of the mutations Protostemonine and everything mutations are mostly recognized by sequencing the hotspot on codon 132 (mutation is usually? ?6% inside a 50-year-old individual and reduces to? ?1% in individuals aged? ?54?years Open up in another windows Fig.?2 Simplified plan of known hereditary alterations in the most frequent glial and glioneuronal tumours. The internal circle displays the presumed drivers mutation, such as for example (green), histone H3.3 K27M, G34R, fusion (brownish), or (dark blue), and (lighter blue tones). The center circle displays known extra mutations that are from the particular tumour entities. For instance, in the band of IDH-mutant tumours, the 1p/19q codeletion defines the oligodendroglioma, whilst the ATRX mutation defines the IDH-mutant astrocytoma. The IDH-wildtype glioblastoma (light brownish) currently doesn’t have a defined drivers mutation, nonetheless it contains a combined mix of personal alterations such as for example or amplifications, promoter mutation as well as others. The external circle displays the histological analysis using the abbreviations related to the next histological entities: astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma, oligodendroglioma, anaplastic oligodendroglioma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, ganglioglioma, anaplastic ganglioglioma, pilocytic astrocytoma, diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumour, rosette developing glioneuronal tumour. The gray Protostemonine shades for every histological analysis indicate the prognosis: light gray. | <urn:uuid:b7de85cc-4a22-4835-af74-8bb21c13373c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://at-406.net/the-emerging-knowledge-of-molecular-changes-in-an-array-of-brain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.871593 | 1,082 | 2.46875 | 2 |
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Pablo Picasso was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was baptized Catholic, but would later convert into being an Atheist. His father, a painter, specialized in painting birds and other animals. Pablo Picasso showed a passion for art at an early age. According to his mother, his first words were “piz piz”, an abbreviation for the spanish word “lapiz” which means “pencil”. Starting from the age of seven, Picasso started receiving artistic training from his father. In 1891, the family moved to A Coruña, a city in Galicia, Spain, where his father became a professor at the School of Fine Arts. Unfortunately, in 1895, Picasso lost his seven year old sister, Conchita to diphtheria. Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness and an infectious disease. Despite being traumatized by his sister’s death, he managed to make it into an advanced class at the school where his father taught. At the mere age of 13, he began his first oil paintings which were portraits of his family and the same year his sister died, he began to exhibit and sell his work. His father, Ruiz, persuaded the people at the academy he was working at, to allow Picasso to take an exam to be accepted in the advanced class. Where most kids would’ve taken nearly a month, Picasso only took a week to complete all the aspects of the exam and got admitted at age 15. Picasso spent most of his adult life in France and died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. Pablo Picasso had three, different periods throughout his career. Picasso’s Blue Period, which began in 1901 and ended in 1904, was a collection of sad paintings that was done in shades of blue and blue green. Picasso’s Blue Period was influenced by a trip he took through Spain and by the suicide of his friend, Carlos Casagemas. After his Blue Period, then came his Rose Period which lasted for about two years (1904-1906). His Rose Period was a more uplifting period with cheery colors such as orange and pink and that featured circus people like acrobats. This period began when his psychological condition began to improve. The Rose Period has been considered influenced more by the French while the Blue Period is more Spanish influenced. The harlequin, a comedic character usually drawn with patterned or checkered clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso. Picasso had an African Period as well which lasted from 1906 to
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Survive and Conquer in the Business World With These Simple Tips
There are a few things that some business owners never even come to realise. Running your business is a lot like playing a game. Each and every day you and your business will be facing new challenges. As your business grows, these challenges will grow as well. You could think of your business as a well-oiled machine. If you don’t do everything just perfectly, then it will eventually fall apart. That does not mean that your business can’t run itself because it can. In fact, most successful businesses do run themselves. It just takes a little bit of time to get them there. You may need to babysit your business until you get all of the kinks worked out, but once that happens, your business should be able to run itself.
Surviving the First Year
This can be one of the most difficult tasks for any business. This is when your business will face its toughest challenges, and this is the year where most businesses fail. There are several reasons for this. The most common reason is simply inexperience.
Most business owners jump in head first without any prior business knowledge. This may seem like the way to go, but it can be costly. If you have any past business experience, then your first year is going to be one heck of learning curve for you and everyone else involved in your business. If you want to be able to survive your first year, then you are going to need some basic business knowledge and a plan of action.
Understanding Your Business Plan of Action
Some people call them business plans, other don’t. The bottom line is this. As a business owner, you must be prepared for the worst. You need to know how you are going to handle every little problem that is going to be coming your way, and there is going to be a lot of them. That is what a business school will teach you. It will teach you how to prepare for all of these little challenges.
One simple thing that most first time business owners overlook is growth. They all want it, but sometimes it can happen to fast. If your business can’t handle the sudden surge in demand, then it will crumble faster than a sand castle on an incoming tide. Knowing how to handle explosive growth is extremely important, and your business could ultimately depend on this one simple factor. This is something that you might be able to learn in business school, but it is hard to say.
There is no way that you can be over prepared for this type of situation. Being prepared will likely be the single biggest thing that you can do for your business.
There is no crystal ball that is going to start explaining everything to you. You will need to roll up your sleeves and get to work if want things to be a success, but there is nothing wrong with being prepared. In fact, preparation could possibly save your business.
About the Author: Michael Brown is a freelance writer who contributes his knowledge and expertise to a wide variety of websites and blogs. He knows how important business electricity suppliers can be to businesses. That is why he shopped around when his business was in need of a gas supplier.
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What happened to Pluto
Posted February 7, 2012
"People love Pluto!" says Morehead Planetarium Educator, Amy Sayle.
Referring to the 8 planets in our solar system during planetarium shows still brings up lots of questions about Pluto. Some visitors have gotten quite worked up about demotion. It's not just adults that grew up with Pluto the planet, kids have lots of opinions about the subject as well. Even mentioning the the IAU brings some "good natured boos" from audiences young and old according to Sayle.
So why did astronomers feel the need change something as seemingly basic as membership in our solar system? The answer lies in the definition of, or lack there of, the word "planet".
It all started in 2005 when CalTech professor of planetary astronomy discovered Eris, icy dot in his telescope beyond Pluto with an even more eccentric orbit. Initially Brown was championed as the discoverer of the tenth planet, something that had not been done seen since Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, but this got astronomers thinking. Is Eris really a planet? Beyond Pluto (and now Eris) there's a lot out there, over 1000 objects are known today. Are they all planets? What is a planet?
The following year, The International Astronomical Union (IAU) the professional organization of astronomers responsible for naming celestial bodies, provided a more formal definition during its annual meeting. To be considered a planet a body has to meet 3 criteria, 2 of which gauge its size: it must be in orbit around the sun, must have assumed a spherical shape, and "cleared the neighborhood". It's that last one that cost Pluto it's planetary status. It lacks enough mass to clean up it's path around the sun.
The IAU offered an olive branch of sorts to Pluto fans with the creation of the designation "Plutoid" for anything that met those first 2 criteria. Pluto fans weren't appeased, even prompting student protests.
Astronomers didn't anticipate the backlash this created, or the confusion among some kids who thought this meant that Pluto had somehow gone away or even ceased to exist. Not only did countless textbooks instantly become outdated, the mnemonic that we learned in elementary school to remember the order of the planets had to change as well. Our very eager/earnest/educated mother started serving nachos instead of nine pizzas. 3rd grade boys studying the topic seem to prefer: "My Vicious Earthworm Might Just Swallow Us Now."
The controversy remains a boon for planetariums who have called it "the greatest thing to happen to astronomy education". 6 years later it still sparks questions and conversations about what lies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Morehead's fulldome digital video system installed
2 years ago helps keep that going that as audiences travel out to Pluto and it's "friends" in the Kuiper belt, as Sayle calls them.
For all this attention being paid this little icy ball just 0.21% the mass of Earth, we know relatively little about Pluto. That will change when NASA's New Horizons reaches there in July 2015. Launched 8 months before that faithful IAU meeting, the spacecraft is traveling at nearly 36,000 miles per hour towards its target. To put that into perspective, if you could get the family minivan up to that speed it would cut that summer vacation trip from Raleigh to Orlando to just under 59 seconds. That is assuming the family minivan can handle mach 50.
In the end, Pluto hasn't changed, only a label has. It is still making its way around the sun, though it takes nearly 250 Earth years to do so. The same sunlight that shines on us, shines on Pluto, though it takes another 6.6 hours to get there. It's still in the same eccentric orbit tilted away from the rest of the solar system.
Its still kept company by Charon (the two are called a double planet by many) along with moons Nix and Hydra as well as S/2011P1. That last moon with the boring name was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope last year theorized be the result of a collision between Pluto and one of it's "friends" in the Kuiper belt.
Even under optimal conditions with a massive telescope, Pluto will appear as an easily overlooked dull gray dot. If you are up just before dawn look to the east above the handle of the the teapot in Sagittarius to Pluto's location.
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One effect of this tragedy is definitely that there's more patriotism in America now than before. People are raising the flag.
I just hope that the stupid Americans stop beating up random people who "look like Arabs" (which seems to have been happening in all the chaos), because Arab Americans are part of the flag that people are raising.
Here's a poem by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese American poet, about America.
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When John F. Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country," he was actually quoting Kahlil Gibran when he addressed the people of Syria and Lebanon half a century earlier.
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Description: Tansor Court and Attached Quadrant Walls and Gates
Date Listed: 25 January 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 232692
OS Grid Reference: TL0532990996
OS Grid Coordinates: 505329, 290996
Latitude/Longitude: 52.5067, -0.4496
TANSOR FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
TLO9SE (East side)
6/136 Tansor Court and attached
quadrant walls and gates
Rectory, now house. 1858/59 for Rev. H. Living by John Norton of London,
extended as datestone 1869 and early C20. Squared coursed limestone with
Colleyweston slate roof. Irregular double-depth plan. 2 storeys. Entrance front
of 3 irregular bays. Large 5-light, Early-English-style, stone mullion staircase
window, to left, has gablet over. Small 2-light stone mullion window to ground
floor centre. Square, stone mullion bay window, to ground floor centre, has
castellated parapet. Bay to right is blank and has large lateral stack. Doorway
to left of centre has 2-centred arch head. Attached covered way of 3 bays has
Gothic style outer gateway with 4-centred arch head, and decorated spandrels.
Flanking gabled buttresses and gablet over with central coat of arms. Ashlar
gable parapets and ashlar lateral and ridge stacks. Iron gates attached to outer
gateway and double quadrant walls attached to either side of gateway forming
outer forecourt. 2-window range attached to left of entrance front is similar,
with stone mullion windows, and was originally the service wing. Single-storey
billiards room, attached to front left, is dated 1869 on return gable. All in
similar style. Datestone D.L. 1676 to rear left is reset. Elevation to right of
entrance front is of 2 bays with gable breaking forward to left. 2-storey,
5-light stone mullion, bay window with transoms to left and similar
single-storey canted bay window to right. Small Early English style window, with
gablet over, to first floor centre. Garden front, to rear of entrance front, is
of 4 bays with gables to left and right, that to left breaks forward. 2-storey
canted bay window, similar to others, to left. 2- and 3-light stone mullion
windows, with transoms, to centre and right. 2-light Early English style window,
with gablet over, to first floor left of centre, and circular turret to first
floor right of centre, with conical roof and stone mullion windows. Lean-to
porch to left of centre. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and ashlar stacks at
ridge and ends. 2 bays to right in similar style added early C20. Interior;
staircase with C17 style balustrade rises around an open well. Drawing room,
Study and principal bedrooms have the original Gothic Style fireplaces.
Principal rooms also have panelled dados. An earlier Rectory formerly stood in
the grounds to the east. Tansor Court ceased to be used as a Rectory in 1903.
Listing NGR: TL0532990996
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
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All forms of paper money are characterized by the possession of the credit feature briefly explained in the first chapter. Each and every one represents and in some way expresses the obligation of some person, corporation, or government to pay the sum indicated on its face. The intrinsic value of these notes is, of course, practically nothing. Why, then, do they circulate side by side with silver and gold coins without displacing them or being displaced by them ? Attempts to answer this question have probably given rise to more controversy than any other subject in the range of monetary science, and it is not best in this chapter to enter into a discussion of the various pertinent questions; but it is desirable to call attention at this time to the fact that the principles which we have discussed in the preceding section may be applied here. For example, if the paper money is made redeemable on demand at its face value in standard coins, it will readily circulate without danger of depreciation. If the quantity issued does not exceed the demand for it for currency purposes, and its legal-tender quality be limited, there will be no danger of its substitution for coin in large quantities or of the disappearance of coin from circulation. Without entering in any way into the discussion of controverted questions, therefore, we may understand at least one method of maintaining in concurrent circulation metallic and paper currency. The application of these principles to the various forms of paper currency issued by governments and banks, and the danger of their violation in this case as well as in that of silver and gold coins, will be made clear in the appropriate place.
* The reasons for making these exceptions and the unfortunate experiences which have followed them will be treated in the chapters on Bimetallism.
On subsidiary currency see, for a discussion of the principles involved, Nicholson, ch. iv; Mill, bk. III, ch. x; Nasse, ch. vii; and Report of the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis Convention, §§ 42 to 45.
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Thunderbolt I/O ports, which Apple has already installed in its newest MacBooks and iMacs, are up to 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0 ports. Apple and Intel jointly developed the technology, and if included on iPhones and iPads, it would make data transfers significantly faster that what is offered now. Using Thunderbolt ports would mean faster re-charging as well.
Apple’s latest batch of patent applications, which were first spotted by Patently Apple, were released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this morning. Patently Apple points out that Apple may be creating its own cabling technology to handle Thunderbolt connections, and that owning patents related to it will help it achieve these goals.
While we don’t expect the next version of the iPad — rumored for release in March — to include a Thunderbolt port, it’s not hard to imagine the iPad 4 including one, based on these patents. As for the iPhone 5, which will likely see release in summer or fall 2012, a Thunderbolt port would be a nice but unlikely surprise.
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Sunday, June 29, is the historic and world-famous NYC pride parade to commemorate LGBT empowerment, history and progress. The parade will travel its usual route, ending in the historic seat of the LGBT liberation movement, the West Village.
Here is what you need to know:
1. The Parade Starts at Noon at 36th & 6th<img src="http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-28-at-10-37-25-am.png" alt="(NYCPride.org)” width=”640″ height=”458″ class=”size-full wp-image-729793″ /> (NYCPride.org)
The pride parade will begin at noon at intersection of 35th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan. The parade will then march south, cutting west at 8th Street, and then will end in the heart of the West Village at the intersection of Christopher Street and Greenwich Street.
2. The Grand Marshals Are Laverne Cox, Rae Carey & Jonathan Groff
The leaders of the parade, the honorific role of Grand Marshal, will this year be given to actor Jonathan Groff of HBO’s Looking and Frozen, Orange is the New Black‘s Laverne Cox, and Rae Carey, an LGBT activist and the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
3. The Entire Event Will Be Livestreamed on Youtube
In a collaboration between Google, Mashable and the parade, the entire parade will be live streamed on Youtube in what the organization is calling “#PrideCast. You will be able to watch all of the events live via NYCPride.org starting a 12:30 p.m.
4. The Parade Commemorates the Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots
The parade is held every year in late June to commemorate the June 28, 1969, Stonewall Riots. The riots occurred when, after decades of police oppression of LGBT individuals and LGBT friendly establishments, cops attempted to raid the Stonewall Inn, a legendary gay bar in the West Village. After a spirited decade of protest and more than enough humiliating raids and arrests, the LGBT community protested against one late night raid by refusing to comply with the police. What began with throwing quarters and bottles at police, quickly escalated when a massive crowd chased the police out of the neighborhood.
The event is remembered as the beginning of the gay liberation movement.
5. One Year Ago DOMA Was Defeated by the Supreme Court
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5 Ways To Set Your New Business Up For Success
Dawson County Chamber of Commerce strives to help small businesses succeed. When you need information about the local business climate, are searching for networking opportunities, need pertinent information about grants or events, or just want to connect with other area businesses, let your Chamber be your touchpoint!
If you're an entrepreneur ready to launch your own business, the process may feel daunting at times, especially if you've heard the statistics. Per statistics cited by Website Builder, 20 percent of small businesses fail in their first year. Though this may sound discouraging, it isn't all bad news. There are documented reasons why most of those small businesses fail, and knowing what those are and following some best practices can help you avoid the same fate.
1. Research and Prepare
Many small businesses fail because there's no real demand for the products or services they offer. Research and survey your demographics to be sure you understand who your customers are and what they need. As Epic Marketing explains, proper market analyses can help you identify these critical factors, and that’s a key to success.
Secondly, running out of cash is another big issue for new businesses to fail, and that speaks to a lack of research, knowledge, and preparation on their part. If you are sure there's a market for your business, you also need to have an accurate picture — and forecast — of the costs associated with running your business. That includes everything from production, to marketing, to operating costs and beyond. Once you know how much money you'll need, securing enough funding is your next priority.
2. Find the Right Bank and Secure Enough Funds
It’s easy to get lost in the sea of small business banking, but in general, your account should have plenty of useful features, such as:
High-yield interest rates
Business credit cards
Free instant deposits
Accessibility (online and in-person locations)
3. Develop a Marketing Strategy
A marketing plan is essential to the success of any business but is critical for small businesses right from the outset. A successful marketing strategy can be broken into five basic steps:
Define your business goals
Determine how you will quantify and measure success
Develop a strategy and decide how you will implement it to achieve your goals
Devise a plan of execution, including who and what needs to be involved
Detail your progress in reports
4. Network With Other Professionals
Networking is much more than just swapping business cards at happy hour; it's about establishing relationships with other business professionals with whom you can exchange support, information, advice, and referrals. Join your local Chamber of Commerce to give credibility to your business, increase your visibility in your community, and network with others. You can also join a business networking group or participate in online communities of other entrepreneurs in your field to keep up with the latest information, trends, and tricks of the trade.
5. Cultivate Your Confidence
You might be surprised to discover that, according to experts at The W Community, confidence is the "secret ingredient" to the success of small businesses. A lack of confidence often leads to poor decision-making, avoiding growth opportunities, and even giving up.
The best prescription for developing confidence, in the business sense, is accessing more accurate and reliable information through the kind of benchmarking systems and analysis that larger companies utilize. Knowing this upfront could have a significant impact on your business and how you approach leading it forward. Plus you can take those milestones and celebrate them! And don’t just keep them to yourself — share them with your customers and colleagues. A little well-earned pat on the back can help put your business on the map.
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Is the sport called soccer or football? Should swaps be traded on Swap Execution Facilities (SEF) or Organized Trading Facilities (OTF)? For that matter, should organized be spelled with a ‘z’ or an ‘s’? While some of these debates are as old as the U.S. Declaration of Independence and others brand new, they highlight differences between how Europeans and Americans approach the rules. The real question however, is do these differences matter?
The G20 agreed that regulated trading venues are good, and we should push as much of the over-the-counter derivatives market on to those platforms as possible. Not just traditional exchanges but essentially any trading platform (preferably an electronic one) regulated by the local regulatory authority. The U.S. put its money where its mouth is and included in the Dodd-Frank Act language that requires exactly that: “With respect to transactions involving swaps subject to the clearing requirement … counterparties shall … execute the transaction on a board of trade designated as a contract market … or … execute the transaction on a swap execution facility…”
Interestingly, the European Commission’s (EC) proposal on OTC derivatives lacked the so-called trading requirement. Anything that can be cleared must be cleared; all OTC derivative transactions must be reported. Trading, it seemed, was not viewed in Europe as important to reducing systemic risk. The greatest fear of major U.S. banks apparently had come true even after their months of lobbying – with U.S. laws much more stringent than those in Europe, swaps trading was leaving for London and we’d all have to go with it or find another line of work.
Enter the MiFID Review. Remember the original MiFID? The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is what allowed new trading venues, called multi-lateral trading facilities (MTF), to pop up all over Europe and wrestle market share away from the incumbent equity exchanges. The likes of BATS, Chi-X and other new pan-European venues ultimately drove the once dominant LSE into a marriage with the Toronto-based TMX Group and encouraged Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext to merge.
A review of MiFID was always planned for a few years after the initial implementation. Furthermore, MiFID was always intended to cover much more than the equity market – hence the “Financial Instruments” in the title. But it goes without saying a lot has changed since MiFID was first approved in 2007 and the result is a much shorter timeline and a proposal that brings about more sweeping front-to-back reform across a much broader list of asset classes including, of course, the trading of OTC derivatives.
So it turns out that Europe will likely have a swaps trading requirement after all. More precisely: “the MiFID framework directive could be amended to require all trading in derivatives which are eligible for clearing and sufficiently liquid to move either to regulated markets, MTFs, or a specific sub-regime of organised trading facilities…”
With that statement we see that the U.S. and Europe are going down similar paths. But as with all things as complex as the swaps market, different – albeit equally intelligent – people will undoubtedly find different solutions to the same problem. That takes us back to my original question: Do these differences matter?
How to trade
U.S. regulators have come to agree that dictating the exact method by which swaps must be traded on a SEF is not a good idea. A lightly disseminated draft proposal from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission included a requirement that the most liquid swaps contracts needed to trade in a central limit order book – an attempt to mimic the current approach used for exchanged-traded products everywhere in the world. Thankfully this requirement was removed from the official release a week later.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) recently published its views on how the use of regulated traded platforms will impact the swaps market and their findings matched the decision made by the CFTC agreeing that “a flexible approach to defining what constitutes an organized platform for derivatives trading” was in everyone’s best interest.
MiFID II takes a similar stance on trading style requiring only that venues “have dedicated systems or facilities in place for the execution of trades.” But in this case, the devil is very much in the details. In an attempt to support the G20’s request for transparency, the MiFID II proposal goes on to state that venues “would be required to make its quote both in terms of price and volume available to the public.” In practice this would require RFQ responses to be made public – also known as the transparent RFQ.
It sounds sensible, but with that model the mere presence of a price quote for an instrument that may only trade once a week will alert the market that someone is trading in that particular instrument. This awareness opens the door for aggressive firms to use that information to trade against the firm that initially requested the quote.
A gaping hole for gaming the market is not a good way to kick-off a new regulatory regime. Transparency is good; liquidity-killing information leakage is not.
Promote or Require?
That brings us to another difference in approach – the need for pre-trade and post-trade transparency. Post-trade transparency sees limited debate. Concerns exist around how quickly a trade must be reported and exactly what details must be reported, but by and large post-trade reporting is common across nearly every regulated financial market and no one expects the swaps market to evade that requirement.
The EC and the CFTC both like pre-trade price transparency as well, but what they expect of the swap venues in this regard is different. The CFTC states that a SEF must “promote” pre-trade price transparency whereas MiFID II would “require pre- and post-trade transparency for all trades in specific nonequity products, whether executed on regulated markets, MTFs, organised trading facilities or OTC.”
Requiring rather than promoting pre-trade transparency leaves many market participants uneasy. In liquid exchange-traded markets, pre-trade price transparency comes naturally as a side effect of the order book model. Since market makers are always posting prices to the screen (in many cases they are obligated to do this) it is possible for a potential buyer or seller of that instrument to get an idea of the current market price for the instrument before deciding to interact with the market. In traditional OTC markets and RFQ markets, it’s not so easy.
The swaps markets these rules are intended to reform are relatively illiquid, with some instruments trading only a few times a day, or even a few times a month. The only way to get the current market price is to value it yourself (which may not reflect what others are willing to pay) or ask someone. Asking for a price, via the phone, an RFQ platform or some similar method, constitutes interacting with the market which in turn may tip off the market that you’re up to something. As we already discussed, that’s information leakage.
Because of this distinction, mandatory pre-trade price transparency would undoubtedly drive the use of the order book model even in places where it wasn’t suitable for the liquidity profile of the product. Forcing the use of an order book model would then require dealers to post continuous two-sided quotes. For dealers to safely post two-sided quotes, they would need to keep spreads artificially wide; it’s the only way to limit their downside risk as a market maker. Artificially wide spreads mean that for a trade to be done, a phone call would still be required to get the “real” price. Even if quotes posted to an SEF had to be firm, no one would execute there because they would know that a better price exists under the covers. That being the case, even with an order book model, pre-trade transparency doesn’t really exist as the posted prices create only a range, not the current market price.
The point is that pre-trade price transparency can be very helpful to growing a market but it’s not always possible. By all means we should promote it, but it’s in no one’s best interest to require it.
When will this be settled?
I’ve only scratched the surface. The U.S. and Europe are following the same guidelines – those put forth by the G20 – as they work to reform the OTC derivatives market but we can’t expect the end result to be identical. There is good historical precedent for this: The original MiFID in Europe and Reg NMS in the U.S. had similar goals – to increase competition in the equity markets. On both sides of the Atlantic that’s exactly what we got, but the approaches were very different. For example, Reg NMS spelled out what best execution meant with a focus on price and MiFID left it up to the market participants. These and other differences didn’t drive New Yorkers to London or the French to Chicago, and neither will the differences in the U.S. and European approaches to OTC derivatives.
Unfortunately this won’t be settled for some time. The U.S. will have its final rules in July but the implementation periods for those rules will likely span years as phased in approaches are a must considering the size of the market and the scale of the change. Europe is a bit behind the U.S., but not as far behind as many believe. By the time U.S. rules are really up and running in mid-2012, the European markets will have some closure to their rules.
It would be nice if the U.S. and Europe could agree on a single label for swaps trading venues – it would make the topic much easier to discuss – but that’s unlikely.
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No man living is more free from this passion than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise! 1 — The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name 2 malignity; for ’tis a quality always hurtful, always idle and vain; and as being cowardly, mean, and base, it is by the Stoics expressly and particularly forbidden to their sages.
But the story 3 says that Psammenitus, King of Egypt, being defeated and taken prisoner by Cambyses, King of Persia, seeing his own daughter pass by him as prisoner, and in a wretched habit, with a bucket to draw water, though his friends about him were so concerned as to break out into tears and lamentations, yet he himself remained unmoved, without uttering a word, his eyes fixed upon the ground; and seeing, moreover, his son immediately after led to execution, still maintained the same countenance; till spying at last one of his domestic and familiar friends dragged away amongst the captives, he fell to tearing his hair and beating his breast, with all the other extravagances of extreme sorrow.
A story that may very fitly be coupled with another of the same kind, of recent date, of a prince of our own nation, who being at Trent, and having news there brought him of the death of his elder brother, a brother on whom depended the whole support and honour of his house, and soon after of that of a younger brother, the second hope of his family, and having withstood these two assaults with an exemplary resolution; one of his servants happening a few days after to die, he suffered his constancy to be overcome by this last accident; and, parting with his courage, so abandoned himself to sorrow and mourning, that some thence were forward to conclude that he was only touched to the quick by this last stroke of fortune; but, in truth, it was, that being before brimful of grief, the least addition overflowed the bounds of all patience. Which, I think, might also be said of the former example, did not the story proceed to tell us that Cambyses asking Psammenitus, “Why, not being moved at the calamity of his son and daughter, he should with so great impatience bear the misfortune of his friend?” “It is,” answered he, “because only this last affliction was to be manifested by tears, the two first far exceeding all manner of expression.”
And, peradventure, something like this might be working in the fancy of the ancient painter, 4 who having, in the sacrifice of Iphigenia, to represent the sorrow of the assistants proportionably to the several degrees of interest every one had in the death of this fair innocent virgin, and having, in the other figures, laid out the utmost power of his art, when he came to that of her father, he drew him with a veil over his face, meaning thereby that no kind of countenance was capable of expressing such a degree of sorrow. Which is also the reason why the poets feign the miserable mother, Niobe, having first lost seven sons, and then afterwards as many daughters (overwhelmed with her losses), to have been at last transformed into a rock —
thereby to express that melancholic, dumb, and deaf stupefaction, which benumbs all our faculties, when oppressed with accidents greater than we are able to bear. And, indeed, the violence and impression of an excessive grief must of necessity astonish the soul, and wholly deprive her of her ordinary functions: as it happens to every one of us, who, upon any sudden alarm of very ill news, find ourselves surprised, stupefied, and in a manner deprived of all power of motion, so that the soul, beginning to vent itself in tears and lamentations, seems to free and disengage itself from the sudden oppression, and to have obtained some room to work itself out at greater liberty.
“Et via vix tandem voci laxata dolore est.”6
In the war that Ferdinand made upon the widow of King John of Hungary, about Buda, a man-at-arms was particularly taken notice of by every one for his singular gallant behaviour in a certain encounter; and, unknown, highly commended, and lamented, being left dead upon the place: but by none so much as by Raisciac, a German lord, who was infinitely enamoured of so rare a valour. The body being brought off, and the count, with the common curiosity coming to view it, the armour was no sooner taken off but he immediately knew him to be his own son, a thing that added a second blow to the compassion of all the beholders; only he, without uttering a word, or turning away his eyes from the woeful object, stood fixedly contemplating the body of his son, till the vehemency of sorrow having overcome his vital spirits, made him sink down stone-dead to the ground.
“Chi puo dir com’ egli arde, a in picciol fuoco,” 7
say the Innamoratos, when they would represent an ‘insupportable passion.
“Misero quod omneis
Eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,
Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi,
Quod loquar amens.
Lingua sed torpet: tenuis sub artus
Flamma dimanat; sonitu suopte
Tintinant aures; gemina teguntur
Lumina nocte.” 8
Neither is it in the height and greatest fury of the fit that we are in a condition to pour out our complaints or our amorous persuasions, the soul being at that time over-burdened, and labouring with profound thoughts; and the body dejected and languishing with desire; and thence it is that sometimes proceed those accidental impotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover, and that frigidity which by the force of an immoderate ardour seizes him even in the very lap of fruition. 9 For all passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate:
“Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.”10
A surprise of unexpected joy does likewise often produce the same effect:
“Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troja circum
Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris,
Diriguit visu in medio, calor ossa reliquit,
Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur.”11
Besides the examples of the Roman lady, who died for joy to see her son safe returned from the defeat of Cannae; and of Sophocles and of Dionysius the Tyrant, 12 who died of joy; and of Thalna, who died in Corsica, reading news of the honours the Roman Senate had decreed in his favour, we have, moreover, one in our time, of Pope Leo X., who upon news of the taking of Milan, a thing he had so ardently desired, was rapt with so sudden an excess of joy that he immediately fell into a fever and died. 13 And for a more notable testimony of the imbecility of human nature, it is recorded by the ancients 14 that Diodorus the dialectician died upon the spot, out of an extreme passion of shame, for not having been able in his own school, and in the presence of a great auditory, to disengage himself from a nice argument that was propounded to him. I, for my part, am very little subject to these violent passions; I am naturally of a stubborn apprehension, which also, by reasoning, I every day harden and fortify.
1 “No man is more free from this passion than I, for I neither love nor regard it: albeit the world hath undertaken, as it were upon covenant, to grace it with a particular favour. Therewith they adorne age, vertue, and conscience. Oh foolish and base ornament!” Florio, 1613, p. 3
2 La tristezza
3 Herodotus, iii. 14.
4 Cicero, De Orator., c. 22; Pliny, xxxv. 10.
5 “Petrified with her misfortunes.”— Ovid, Met., vi. 304.
6 “And at length and with difficulty is a passage opened by grief for utterance.”— AEneid, xi. 151.
7 “He who can say how he burns with love, has little fire” — Petrarca, Sonetto 137.
8 “Love deprives me of all my faculties: Lesbia, when once in thy presence, I have not left the power to tell my distracting passion: my tongue becomes torpid; a subtle flame creeps through my veins; my ears tingle in deafness; my eyes are veiled with darkness.” Catullus, Epig. li. 5
9 The edition of 1588 has here, “An accident not unknown to myself.”
10 “Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb.” — Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.
11 “When she beheld me advancing, and saw, with stupefaction, the Trojan arms around me, terrified with so great a prodigy, she fainted away at the very sight: vital warmth forsook her limbs: she sinks down, and, after a long interval, with difficulty speaks.”— AEneid, iii. 306.
12 Pliny, vii. 53. Diodorus Siculus, however (xv. c. 20), tells us that Dionysius “was so overjoyed at the news that he made a great sacrifice upon it to the gods, prepared sumptuous feasts, to which he invited all his friends, and therein drank so excessively that it threw him into a very bad distemper.”
13 Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia, vol. xiv.
14 Pliny, ‘ut supra’
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"What Is New Thought?" Video Presentation
by the Rev. Dr. Mary Tumpkin
"New Thought is a term used to cover a wide range of approaches to God, to the world, to life and its seeming problems."
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This past weekend, several thousand American demonstrators gathered around New York City’s Financial District to protest what they feel is Wall Street’s stronghold on U.S. government and society. Although the protest, called “Occupy Wall Street,” has overtly demanded higher taxes for corporations and criticizes Capitalism, there is also an underlying sentiment of a call for truth.
Lupe Fiasco attended the wide scale protest demanding the truth, specifically behind the events of 9/11 and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Millions of people have died behind that,” Lupe told media outlet We Are Change. “For the sake of what? For the price of what? What really happened to cause millions and millions of people to die? If it was just a terrorist attack, then so be it. Let that be known. Let that be out and vetted so the public can see it. And I think [the U.S.] would get more support. I think you would get more support from Muslim countries if it was just a more open and honest kind of thing instead of this kind of cloudy, mysterious, behind-the-scenes kind of operation.”
He added that those who question too much, including Occupy Wall Street’s demonstrators, are perceived as “crazy” by the rest of society. But he asserted that they were normal “firefighters, demolition experts, engineers,” who question the existence and power of influential groups, including the New World Order.
“I think the New World Order is something that is deliberate and it’s in the public. I do think that there are some parts of it that are done in secret simply because it is a private kind of situation with private individuals who hold private stake in certain parts of the world…you don’t invite everybody to dinner at your house. I don’t think that they’re as nefarious as people make them out to be. I think it’s the stuff that we silently allow [them to do]. I think that we’re complicit.”
Lupe explained that although America is a society dependent on consumption, sometimes that consumption cannot be averted. “We’re a society based on consumerism…We blur our own lines between what we need and what we want. There could be somebody who lives in Harlem who works [on Wall Street] and you could [tell him], ‘Hey, just take a bike.’ And [he would say], ‘Yo my man, I can’t take a bike every day. I need a car.’ But when you get in that car, you have to put fuel in that car, so you’re financing Exxon Mobile, you’re financing Ford or whatever car company it is. You’re paying the city because you have to pay for registration, you have to pay taxes [on that car]. So you’re financing the system just so you can say, ‘Hey, I don’t want to bike to work every single day because I’m gonna be tired at the end of the day.’
“For me it’s about critical thinking and being critical about everything that’s going on around you.”
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It's not a netbook. It's not a smartphone.
The 10-inch, 1.5-pound tablet computer, with a touch-sensitive screen and a virtual keyboard, plays games and video, runs apps, and surfs the Web.
Of course, so does Apple's iPod Touch. The difference: a hundred dollars, since Apple's iPod Touch tops out at $399 and the iPad starts at $499. At that price, you're basically buying some more screen real estate. (Forget comparisons to the iPhone, since the iPod Touch lacks a camera and a phone.)
For $499, you can buy a solid netbook -- a cheap, Web-browsing-focused PC -- from the likes of Dell, Acer, or HP. Of course, then you're stuck with the dreariness of the Windows operating system, or the geeky experience of Linux.
The iPad's biggest selling point is the promise that media companies will customize their offerings for its larger screen. But few have done so yet. And if they charge a premium for e-books and e-newspapers, it seems unlikely strapped consumers will shell out even more money, when free media abounds on the Web.
The natural home for the iPad seems to be the comfy sofa in the living room -- a toy one brings out when relaxing at home, not a workhorse, go-anywhere device like the iPhone or a productivity machine like the MacBook.
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