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The glow from Las Vegas got a little bit brighter when the Neon Museum (neonmuseum.org) flipped its switch this fall. The new museum exhibits the largest collection of neon signs in the world, with more than 150 examples dating from the 1930s, when the rise in popularity of neon advertising met the legalization of gambling. Included are icons from the Desert Inn, Flamingo, and Stardust (with its whopping 11,000 lamps and 1.2 miles of neon tubing).
After collecting and restoring the signs over the past 15 years, the museum has now made them accessible to the public in a two-acre area called the Neon Boneyard, housed in the former lobby of the midcentury modern La Concha Motel. The lobby of the hotel—designed by architect Paul Revere Williams in 1961—was saved from demolition and moved downtown in 2006 for this purpose, as a house for neon.
For buildings that weren’t as fortunate as La Concha Motel—what with Las Vegas’s fascination with the shiny and new—their neon signs may be the only proof of their onetime existence. “Often, a neon sign is the only remaining piece of a place that holds significance for the history of Las Vegas,” says executive director Danielle Kelly. They are “visual treasures that serve as placeholders for the many stories of one of America’s most luminous cities.” Restored signs from the museum’s collection are also now installed back on the Strip and as public art downtown.
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Rules of Survival
- Stay on the trail. Do not wander off into more remote areas.
- Tell someone where you’re going and when you plan to return.
- Don’t travel alone.
- Take enough food and water to last for at least two days in an emergency.
- Bring a map and compass, and always orient yourself before leaving.
- Wear layered clothing.
- Don’t panic if you become lost.
Planning and preparation should keep you from having an outdoor misadventure. If something does go wrong—your vehicle breaks down, you run out of gas in a remote area, or you’re injured and can’t travel:
- Stay on or near the trail—it will be easier for others to find you.
- Switch into survival mode.
You now have three priorities: shelter, fire, and signal. After addressing these priorities, you can focus on water and food.
If You’re Lost in a Thick Fog
Don’t waste valuable time and energy traveling around aimlessly. Instead, stay calm and go into survival mode, especially after dark. Build a shelter and a fire.
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This series brings together all documents relating to Taking Part
|Newsflash: Taking Part User Event|
|DCMS will be holding an event for users of the Taking Part survey on Thursday 20th October. For more information and to sign up please visit the event booking page|
The Taking Part survey
The Taking Part survey is a continuous face to face household survey of adults aged 16 and over and children aged 5 to 15 years old in England. It has run since 2005 and is the main evidence source for DCMS and its sectors. The survey’s main objectives are to:
- provide a central, reliable evidence source that can be used to analyse cultural and sporting engagement, providing a clear picture of why people do or do not engage.
- meet the needs and interests of everyone who uses Taking Part data.
- underpin further research on driving engagement and the value and benefits of engagement. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and three partner organsiations (Arts Council England, Historic England and Sport England).
Information for survey participants
Participants in the survey are randomly selected from addresses from the Post Office’s list of addresses in England, this ensures results reflect the experiences and views of the whole population. You can find more information for survey participants on the Taking Part: survey participants page.
What the survey covers
The Taking Part survey collects data on engagement in:
- museums and galleries
It includes information on frequency of participation, reasons for participating, barriers to participation and attitudes to the sectors.
The survey also gathers information on demographics (e.g. age, education), and related areas including: social capital; activities while growing up; volunteering; charitable giving; and tv and internet use.
In March 2016 DCMS published a strategy outlining proposed developments to the Taking Part survey over the next five years, this includes details of changes to content and methodology.
How to access survey data
Survey data are available in three forms:
Latest statistical releases for the Taking Part survey can be found on the Taking Part survey statistical releases page.
Statistical releases are National Statistics publications and include biannual releases on trends in key data, published in July and December each year, as well as a series of Focus on reports which look at specific topics in more detail. Dates of upcoming releases are published in the DCMS Official Statistics Release Calendar
Online data analysis tools
A suite of tools has been published to enable users to produce bespoke tables and explore the survey beyond the information available in the headline reports. These tools are in development, and are being published at this stage to allow users to feed into the development process. For more information visit the Taking Part Survey: Data Analysis Tools.
Record-level Taking Part datasets can be accessed via the UK Data Service, University of Essex. These include data from 2005/06 to present, covering adult, child and longitudinal data. Please note that datasets are available for not-for-profit educational and research purposes only.
Additional research and analysis has been carried out using the Taking Part data by a range of organisations. DCMS funded research is published on gov.uk.
To continuously improve the survey DCMS undertakes a series of user engagement surveys and events. Further information can be found on the Taking Part: user engagement page.
To receive updates about Taking Part, including highlighting publications and user events, you can subscribe to the Taking Part newsletter.
We are always interested in hearing your views on the Taking Part survey. Please contact us by email at email@example.com.
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This week I am leading tours of the Elizabeth Treffry Collection on Women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly at Hypatia Trust HQ at Trevelyan House, Penzance. Hidden Treasures is a national campaign organised by the Collections Trust in association with the Independent newspaper who featured the campaign in the 2 June edition. About 54 organisations are taking part, mainly museums. Hidden Treasures aims to help give special access to collections that are usually not available to the public. The Hypatia Trust is the only Cornish organisation to open up its collections for Hidden Treasures!
Hidden Treasures of the Elizabeth Treffry Collection tours take place throughout the week at 2.30pm on each listed day:
Monday 4 June, Tuesday 5 June, Wednesday 6 June, Thursday 7 June and Saturday 9 June (no tours Friday 8 June).
Tours are free. All welcome. Visitors to Trevelyan House can also view the Redwing Gallery and browse the bookshop. Cornish books available at sale prices! All profits in aid of the Elizabeth Treffry Collection fund.
What can you expect?
The Elizabeth Treffry Collection is comprised of books and archives and therefore are not always visually appealing exhibits in the same way as a rare vase or exquisite painting. During the tours I try and get people interested in the subject, explain why collecting on women is important to Cornwall and Scillonian heritage and what’s in store for the collection in the future.
The Hypatia Trust has just started a campaign to fund a new permanent home for the collection in Cornwall and contribute towards creating a free online Index of Women in Cornwall and Scilly that will make a major impact on the way Cornish and Scillonian history, culture, art and literature is perceived, researched and used. We need funds to conserve rare items, especially archives, apply a better standard of curatorial care, furnish a new home and promote the collection to everyone with an interest in women’s and Cornish-Scillonian heritage.
Remember: we are talking about better representation for 51% of the population, past and present!
How’s it going?
The tours were featured in the local press, the Independent, promoted online through our very recent entry into the worlds of Twitter and Facebook and circulated via flyers, emails and word of mouth. Guess what? Word of mouth has won out so far. Today was the first day and we had 14 people turn up, albeit at various times of the day. We are treating the event quite informally and are happy to accomodate and chat to people at any time I or another Hypatia volunteer is available. We want to use this opportunity to get the word out there that the collection exists and what we wish to achieve with it. I’ll look forward to seeing what the rest of the week holds in store.
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Il libro Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World di Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse è pubblicato da Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
Many of the things we now live with do not take a purely physical form. Objects such as smart phones, laptops and wearable fitness trackers are different from our things of the past. These new digital forms are networked, dynamic and contextually configured. They can be changeable and unpredictable, even inscrutable when it comes to understanding what they actually do and whom they really serve.
In this compelling new volume, Johan Redstrom and Heather Wiltse address critical questions that have assumed a fresh urgency in the context of these rapidly-developing forms. Drawing on critical traditions from a range of disciplines that have been used to understand the nature of things, they develop a new vocabulary and a theoretical approach that allows us to account for and address the multi-faceted, dynamic, constantly evolving forms and functions of contemporary things. In doing so, the book prototypes a new design discourse around everyday things, and describes them as fluid assemblages.
Redstrom and Wiltse explore how a new theoretical framework could enable a richer understanding of things as fluid and networked, with a case study of the evolution of music players culminating in an in-depth discussion of Spotify. Other contemporary 'things' touched on in their analysis include smart phones and watches, as well as digital platforms and applications such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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Ecofeminism purports that sexist ideology and climate change denial are related, as prejudice, and its desire for power and nonuniversalism, create a disregard for both. In three studies we examined the associations between hostile and benevolent sexism with climate change denial. The first study (n = 270) demonstrated that hostile sexism explained unique variance in climate change denial over and above two strong predictors of prejudice and climate change denial, social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism. The second study (n = 294) reports on the significant indirect effects of willingness to make sacrifices for the environment on the relation between hostile/benevolent sexism and climate change denial. The third and final study (n = 514) found significant indirect effects of hostile and benevolent sexism, as well as willingness to make sacrifices for the environment, on the relation between power and climate change denial. Universalism demonstrated direct effects with climate change denial when benevolent sexism and willingness to make sacrifices for the environment were taken into account; direct and indirect effects were found when hostile sexism and willingness to make sacrifices for the environment were considered. Our findings provide support for a strong relation between hostile sexism and climate change denial and suggest underlying psychological processes that may represent paths through which climate change attitudes could be indirectly modified.
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This study provides a novel approach of building 3D simulation model with extremely shorter time needed using Rubis simulation software from Kappa Engineering. The study focused on X Field that is located in a turbiditic setting, mainly consisted of separated channel bodies filled with gas, located in a slope apron or passive continental margin of Mahakam Delta. Methods of the study is quite contradictive with common reservoir simulation where it includes data integration, data quality control, model geometry building, reservoir properties distribution, and is followed by wells definition to build the 3D simulation model. Afterward, the reliability of the structural model was checked by the volume calculation for each segment from GeoX model where all dynamic and static data used in the simulation were checked using history matching data derived from well-testing. In conclusion, simulation was run and X Field will be producing for 23 years with 3 years and 10 months plateau rate. Where the static and dynamic data are already provided, the simulation conducted here was very beneficial during the exploration phase of a gas field where the whole process of modeling and simulation could be done only for 3 to 6 months.
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Schaefer, M. C. Romberg Tiburon Centers, email@example.com
Wilkerson, F. C. Romberg Tiburon Centers, firstname.lastname@example.org
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DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR PROBES FOR FUNCTIONAL GENES OF GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE IN MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON
Most studies of the marine nitrogen cycle measure nitrogen uptake in situ and are unable to ascertain which components of the community are active in removing nitrate or ammonium. Applying functional gene probes for N assimilation enzymes in combination with in situ measurements offers a way to identify the active organisms. As part of a project to explore the use of molecular probes for detecting genetic capability for nitrogen transformations in Monterey Bay, CA, we have been developing functional gene probes for the ammonium assimilation enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS). Our target organisms include the diatoms Skeletonema costatum, Thalassiosira pseudonana and Chaetoceros debilis and the chlorophyte Dunaliella tertiolecta. It is likely that these algae have both GS II (45 kD)and GS III (70 kD polypeptide) (Robertson and Alberte, 1996). The GS II genes have been isolated previously in eukaryotes (including S. costatum) whereas GS III has only been isolated at the gene level from a couple of prokaryotes. We have designed degenerate GS II and GS III primers and tested them against cDNA from RNA extracted from our target organisms to give PCR products which have been cloned and are being sequenced. Preliminary results will be presented.
Day: Tuesday, Feb. 2
Location: Sweeney Center
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Four of every 10 home fire deaths resulted from fires with no smoke alarms in 2003-2006, according to a new report released today by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
"Smoke alarms are one of the greatest fire protection devices of our time and have significantly contributed to the decline in home fire fatalities since the late 70's," said James M. Shannon, president of NFPA.
Working smoke alarms cut the risk of victims dying in reported home structure fires in half. The NFPA recommends smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area, and on every level. They should also be interconnected so that when one sounds, they all sound.
Other key findings from Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires:
*Smoke alarm failures usually result from missing, disconnected, or dead batteries.
*In one-fifth of all homes with smoke alarms, none were working.
*Most homes still have smoke alarms powered by batteries only.
*More than half of home fire deaths that occurred where no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms were present happened between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
*The death rate per 1,000 reported fires is 84% lower when hardwired smoke alarms and wet pipe sprinklers are present.
According to NFPA approximately 3,000 people a year die in home fires.
NFPA offers the following tips for smoke alarms:
*Choose a smoke alarm that bears the label of a recognized testing laboratory.
*Interconnect all smoke alarms throughout the home. When one sounds, they all sound.
*Replace batteries in all smoke alarms at least once a year. If an alarm "chirps," warning the battery is low, replace the battery right away.
*Replace all smoke alarms, including alarms that use 10-year batteries and hard-wired alarms, when they are 10 years old or sooner if they do not respond properly when tested.
*Test your smoke alarms at least every month, using the test button or an approved smoke substitute and clean the units, in accordance with the manufacturers' instructions.
*Be sure that all doors and windows that lead outside open easily and that everyone in the home knows the escape plan.
*Consider home fire sprinklers when building a new home or doing a major renovation.
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A changed America pauses today for the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
We will honor those who died in New York, Virginia and in that farm pasture in Pennsylvania after a fourth plane slammed into the ground, never reaching its planned target, believed to be the White House or the Capitol in Washington.
George W. Bush will claim progress in the war against terror over the past 24 months but will also warn a long, bloody and expensive fight remains. He will ask Americans to be both patient and vigilant.
He will be asking a lot.
There’s no doubt a lot of things we took for granted vanished when those planes slammed into the buildings in New York and Virginia. Our sense of invulnerability collapsed along with the World Trade Center. A handful of fanatics armed with box cutters and no fear of dying turned four jetliners into lethal weapons and staggered the most powerful nation on earth.
The shock that gripped the nation during those first few hours defied description. Reports claimed a car bomb exploded outside the State Department, that another plane was just seconds away from first the Pentagon, then the White House and, finally, the Capitol. Fighter jets swooped over New York and Washington and low altitudes.
In New York, the first Tower collapsed into a cloud of smoke, dust and debris and a stunned Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show said “it looks like something has fallen off the building.” It took agonizing minutes before viewers realized the building was gone.
In Sarasota, Florida, Secret Service agents hustled Bush aboard Air Force One, cutting short a visit to a school. Those on the ground gasped at the near-vertical takeoff angle of the giant jet.
“I didn’t know a 747 could climb at such an angle,” a Sarasota police officer noted. Ordinary 747s cannot, but Air Force One is not an ordinary plane and these were not ordinary circumstances.
Bush wanted to return to Washington but was overruled by the Secret Service and his own security team. After two stops, his patience ran out and he ordered the plane to Andrews Air Force Base.
“Look Mr. President,” a Secret Service agent tried to argue.
“Try Commander in Chief,” Bush barked back. “We’re going home.”
Even those who doubted Bush’s ability to handle the job after the controversial 2000 elections applauded his calm, determined presence in the hours and days following the attacks. He rallied a stunned nation and the unity that followed showcased what America can, and should, be in times of crisis.
Unfortunately, that unity would not last as the determination to defeat a common enemy lost out to political expediency and conflicting agendas.
The trouble probably started when Bush got back to Washington and met with his cabinet. Afterwards, he pulled Attorney General John Ashcroft aside and said “John, I don’t care what you have to do. Just do whatever it takes to make sure something like this never, ever, happens again.”
Ashcroft took the President’s order as carte blanche to abandon the Constitution and create his own totalitarian government, one where rights to privacy no longer exist, where due process is expendable and where checks and balances get in the way.
He created the USA Patriot Act and rammed it through a shell-shocked Congress which, at that time, would have passed anything labeled “anti-terrorist.” The new law gave the attorney general and his Department of Justice unprecedented power to wiretap, snoop, detain and harass American citizens. Nobody knows for sure how many innocent Americans got caught up in this post 9-11 frenzy because Ashcroft uses the secrecy provisions of the law to block information requests and those detained cannot contact lawyers or family.
But Ashcroft wasn’t Bush’s only mistake in the aftermath of the attacks. The President moved quickly to consolidate federal law enforcement efforts under a new, cabinet-level “Department of Homeland Security,” a mammoth bureaucracy that would add 70,000 workers to the government payroll even after Congress was told the move was simply consolidation to improve efficiency, not an increase in government.
Two years later, DHS is an inefficient monster, gobbling up tax dollars. A recent study by Syracuse University shows one federal employee out of every 12 works for the department and that it has at least one full time employee in 20 percent of the nation’s 3,146 counties. DHS has increased the federal workforce by 4.5 percent.
Bush’s Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, authorized the Pentagon to create a new, information-gathering computer system called the “Total Information Awareness Project,” a super “big brother” that, when operational, would monitor the financial activities and travel of all Americans and look for patterns that might suggest terrorist activities.
Many on Capitol Hill were shocked to find retired Admiral John Poindexter running the program. Poindexter, a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, was convicted of lying to Congress but escaped prison time through an immunity deal. Congress cut off funding to the project and Poindexter later resigned but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is still working on a system to monitor what every American spends and where they travel on business or pleasure.
Using executive orders, Bush instructed all federal agencies, even those not involved in law enforcement or anti-terrorism activities, to fight any and all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from news organizations, advocacy groups or ordinary American citizens. The result is a government that operates in secret, free from the checks and balances mandated by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Those who question such activities are labeled “traitors” and accused of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Rumsfeld, over the weekend, attacked administration critics, leading Tonight Show host Jay Leno to note “Americans are not supposed to criticize American efforts to create Democracy in Iraq and give Iraqis the right to criticize their government.”
Yes, it is ironic. On Thursday, we will pause to remember those we lost on September 11, 2001.
But we should also pause to remember that on that same, tragic, day we may have lost something Americans used to cherish.
Something called freedom.
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Take a closer look at your grocery budget. Find ways to cut costs!
Grocery Budget Calculator
Use the calculator below to get an estimate based on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Low-Cost Food Plan.
How does what you spend on groceries compare to the estimate below? Remember, restaurant meals are not included here.
Figures for the grocery budget calculator are based on Official USDA Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home, Low-Cost level for latest month available.
Calculate Overall Costs
To calculate overall household grocery costs we:
- Adjusted food costs for each person in household.
- The Cost of Food at Home table provides an amount for each family member by their age and gender if they ate all their meals at home.
- From this amount 1/21 is subtracted for each meal they ate away from home.
- An adjustment is made for household size:
- 1-person — add 20 percent
- 2-person —add 10 percent
- 3-person — add 5 percent
- 4-person — no adjustment
- 5- or 6-person — subtract 5 percent
- 7- (or more) person— subtract 10 percent
- Summed the adjusted food costs for each family member to get the cost of food at home for the household. Note: cost of food at restaurants and costs for school meals are not included in the grocery budget calculator.
*This calculator can be exported to other websites – follow these simple directions to embed it on your own site.
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Halt the Stealth Threat of Parkinson’s Disease
Advanced Protection for the Aging BrainJuly 2010
By Julius Goepp, MD
Although the exact causes of Parkinson’s disease (PD) continue to elude scientific understanding, the single most important risk factor for its development and progression is well known: aging.1
The first subtle signs can manifest in victims as early as age 50. The risk of onset then follows a steady rise, with incidence increasing dramatically at age 60.2,3 Slowed movement, tremors, mild cognitive impairment, and difficulty standing up or maintaining balance are PD’s harbingers, as the central nervous system commences a profound, irreversible decline. Over time, these early symptoms may progress to near-total immobility, accompanied by mood and personality disorders, loss of sensory function, dementia, and death.4
To date there is no known cure. Fortunately, great strides have been made in research into the prevention and improvement of parkinsonian symptoms without drugs. Natural interventions have been shown to counter aspects of the pathological aging process that accelerate the senescence and death of neurons under attack from PD.5,6
In this article, we detail the underlying physiological mechanisms implicated in Parkinson’s disease, along with a range of safe, low-cost, readily available compounds most Life Extension® members already take that may halt the threat of Parkinson’s before it takes hold.
Parkinson’s victims undergo a progressive, deadly degeneration of the basal ganglia, a compact cluster of neurons in the brain associated with motor control and memory.7 Housed within this structure are the substantia nigra, whose cells release the neurotransmitter dopamine.
The incremental but relentless destruction of these dopaminergic neurons drives the devastation seen in Parkinson’s victims.8 Dopamine plays a central role in a constellation of mental and physical functions, including:
Every one of these functions comes under attack as Parkinson’s disease (PD) kills off successive layers of cortical brain tissue.
Conventional medical treatment understandably aims to elevate and restore optimal dopamine levels. The most common approach is to use a drug such as levodopa, which is converted into dopamine in tissue. Unfortunately, only a small fraction of this conversion actually takes place in the brain, resulting in excessive dopamine levels elsewhere in the body and accounting for troubling side effects, including uncontrolled movements, nausea and vomiting, and depression.5,9
The good news is that the pressing need for a broader array of effective preventive measures, along with additional options to improve quality of life in PD sufferers, has given rise to a steadily growing body of sound research.10,11
Energy Management, Inflammation, and Nerve Damage
The human brain requires enormous blood flow to support its intensive metabolic and neurological activity. Fully one-fifth of the blood pumped with each cardiac contraction goes to the brain. Accordingly, the brain must manage the resulting flow of energy and oxygen with high efficiency or sustain potentially severe oxidative damage generated by excess free radical activity.
As it happens, neuronal tissue is highly vulnerable to free radical damage over time. This is now known to be one of the underlying causes of death for the dopaminergic cells that control movement.7,12,13 A primary contributor to this oxidative stress is mitochondrial insufficiency, the inability of the intra-cellular “furnaces” known as mitochondria to effectively manage energy flow, resulting in an excessive production of oxygen free radicals.8,14
Oxidative damage in turn leads to adverse inflammatory alterations in brain tissue.15,16 The resulting domino effect (oxidative stress = inflammation = additional oxidative stress = more inflammation, and so on) is especially destructive to the vulnerable dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra.17
While the inflammatory cascade characteristic of PD appears to be both progressive and inexorable, it is its very complexity that makes it a paradoxically attractive target for prevention. A comprehensive set of interventions has been identified that effectively neutralizes oxidative stress and disrupts inflammatory processes before they spiral out of control. This multi-faceted, multi-factorial approach has generated significant interest in the world of neuroscience today—and a growing body of exciting new research.6,18
Creatine, a nitrogen-bearing organic acid that helps shuttle energy into muscle tissue, is also crucial to overall cellular energy management. Its deficiency in the brain has been associated with nerve damage, leading researchers to explore its neuroprotective effects.19 Several animal models have shown creatine to be effective in preventing or slowing the progression of PD owing to its potent “pro-mitochondrial” biochemical activity.20-22 As a team of influential Harvard neurologists noted in 2007, “Creatine is a critical component in maintaining cellular energy homeostasis, and its administration has been reported to be neuroprotective in a wide number of both acute and chronic experimental models of neurological disease.”23
Results from the first clinical study of creatine in humans were published in 2006 by the Neuroprotective Exploratory Trials in Parkinson’s Disease (NET-PD) team at the prestigious National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).24
They studied 200 subjects who had had a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease within 5 years, but who did not require medication for symptom management. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive creatine 10 grams per day, the drug minocycline 200 mg per day, or placebo for 12 months, while their scores on a standard PD rating scale were monitored.
Both performed well, though creatine showed a substantial edge in performance compared with minocycline. Tolerability of the treatment was 91% in the creatine group and only 77% in the minocycline group. This promising work was followed up in a 2008 study which provided further supportive data on creatine’s exceptional safety and tolerability.25
These findings are especially heartening given that they were derived from studies in aging individuals who already had PD, when much of the progressive damage to dopamine-producing (dopaminergic) cells had already been inflicted. It seems likely that creatine may offer superior benefits when used as a preventive and truly neuroprotective supplement. In the words of British neuroscientist Anthony H. Schapira, “Early dopaminergic support for the degenerating dopaminergic system per se provides significant long-term clinical benefit for PD patients,”22 leading to “a novel concept for neuroprotection, and that is simply to treat early rather than delay.”26
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Given the inflammatory cascade’s intrinsic role in PD, it is natural that scientists would turn to explore the anti-inflammatory effects of omega-3 fatty acids. Among their many beneficial characteristics, omega-3s happen to be the molecular precursors of inflammation-fighting substances the body uses in maintaining equilibrium between infection and inflammation. Further, their concentration in nerve cell membranes is known to decrease with age, oxidative stress—and in neurodegenerative disorders such as PD.27,28
Researchers in Norway have presented convincing evidence of systematic omega-3 deficits in PD, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism, indicating a potential therapeutic role.29,30 Supplementation with the omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) can favorably modify brain functions and has been proposed as a natural intervention for PD and Alzheimer’s management.31
Japanese scientists have shown that omega-3 treatment of nerve cells in culture prevents neuronal apoptosis, the programmed cell death that occurs in part as the result of inflammatory stimuli in the brain.32 Their work produced dramatically better results when treatment was introduced before the chemical stresses that induced apoptosis were imposed, leading them to conclude that “dietary supplementation with [omega-3s] may be beneficial as a potential means to delay the onset of the diseases and/or their rate of progression.”
Canadian researchers took this work to the next level in a study of mice given omega-3 supplementation before injection with a chemical that produces PD.33 The mice were fed either a control or a high omega-3 diet for 10 months prior to injection. Controls exhibited rapid loss of the dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra and dramatic decrease of dopamine levels in brain tissue. These effects were prevented entirely in the omega-3 supplemented animals!
Researchers also demonstrated actual changes in PD symptomatology in a study of monkeys.34 In this study, one group of animals was first treated with the PD drug levodopa for several months before being given the omega-3 DHA, while a second group was pre-treated with DHA before being started on levodopa. The researchers’conclusion? “DHA may represent a new approach to improve the quality of life of Parkinson’s disease patients.”34
Summarizing progress in omega-3 prevention of PD in late 2008, a leading nutritional scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville concluded, “The literature reveals growing mechanistic evidence that cognitive function of the aging brain can be preserved, or loss of function can be diminished with docosahexaenoic acid, a long-chain omega-3.”35
The strong connection between defects in mitochondrial energy management and its related oxidative stress have led neuroscientists to explore a number of supplemental compounds with energy-enhancing, antioxidant capabilities.36-40 Excellent laboratory and clinical evidence suggests that coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), also known as ubiquinone because of its omnipresence in living cells, is an outstanding contender in this field.41-43 Deficiencies in this vital coenzyme produce disruptions in these processes that can have catastrophic consequences, contributing to many age-related neurodegenerative conditions.10,42,44,45 CoQ10 levels are known to be low in plasma and platelets drawn from patients with PD. A late 2008 study from England demonstrated for the first time that CoQ10 levels are low in vital regions of the brain itself in PD sufferers.39
In 2002, neuroscientists at the University of California-San Diego launched a clinical trial of CoQ10 intervention in early-stage PD sufferers.46 In this multicenter controlled study, 80 patients with early PD, not requiring treatment, were randomly assigned to placebo or to CoQ10 at dosages of 300, 600, or 1,200 mg per day for 16 months or until disability required drug treatment. All subjects were scored on the standard Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), on which higher scores indicate progressively worsening disease.
The results were compelling: placebo patients ended the trial with a mean change (worsening) of 11.99 on the UPDRS score. Low-dose CoQ10 supplemented patients increased by only 8.81, middle-dose patients by 10.82, and high-dose subjects by just 6.69—a significant difference. All doses were well-tolerated. The authors concluded that “Coenzyme Q10 appears to slow the progressive deterioration of function in PD.”46 Two years later the same researchers showed that doses of up to 3,000 mg per day were safe and well-tolerated, though plasma levels reached a plateau at the 2,400 mg per day level.47
With the introduction of the superior ubiquinol form of coenzyme Q10 in 2006, far lower doses may very well provide these same benefits. Ubiquinol CoQ10 absorbs far better into the bloodstream than conventional ubiquinone.48,49
Strong laboratory evidence for high-dose CoQ10 alone or in addition to levodopa therapy came in mid-2008 from a group exploring mitochondrial dysfunction and its role in PD.50 They induced PD in rats by injection of a toxin known to create an accurate model of the disease.
Remarkably, after so much damage was already established, treatment with CoQ10 prevented cell death, restored ATP levels, and improved motor function in treated animals! The most dramatic effects were seen in rats given both levodopa and CoQ10 supplements—the researchers concluded that the “addition of coenzyme Q10 in a high dose in early Parkinson’s disease could be recommended based on its proved disease-modifying role on several levels of the proposed mechanisms, including improvement of respiratory chain activity.”50
Similarly encouraging results were recently reported from neuroscience labs at Cornell University, where researchers tested the effects of various doses of CoQ10 in food, finding significant protection against loss of dopamine.51 The researchers noted that their results “provide further evidence that administration of CoQ10 is a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of PD.”
Coenzyme Q10 appears to slow the progressive deterioration of function in Parkinson’s disease.
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In the advertising world, teenagers are simultaneously courted for their high ratio of disposable income, and discriminated against as a means of making older consumers feel comfortable buying a product. This is something that I find truly bizarre. I'm not insinuating that we live in any sort of post-discriminatory culture, but I am still surprised how accepted it is to just openly bash on teenagers. Take, for instance, this Allstate commercial posted by Lisa over at Sociological Images.
This commercial openly affirms a number of stereotypes about teenagers. It opens with a shot of a pink SUV cruising in a movie theater parking lot. Obviously it's pink, because pink is the color of idealized femininity, something all teen girls strive for. Also, it's a custom color, implying that this is not a hand-me down car or a used car. This giant gas guzzler was bought for our protagonist, who clearly doesn't care about the environment, or people other than herself. Like all teens, she's, like, soooo spoiled.
In the car, the "teen girl" speaks in internet lingo, saying things like, "my BFF Becky." Gasp in horror, onlooking adults, as she denigrates the English language! When she finds out her best friend has kissed her crush, a problem all-consuming in her tiny teenage world, she throws her bedazzled phone into the backseat. Look how little respect she has for her possessions! Gosh, teenagers are so unappreciative!
The video culminates with the teen crashing her behemoth of a stereotype-wagon into a modest, gray parked car. Adult Woman is pissed. She was just trying to do some shopping in her humble vehicle, but teenagers and their hit-and-runs are always messing up her day. The teenager in the car advises, "Get Allstate, you can save money and be better protected from mayhem like me."
Mayhem is defined as "needless or willful damage or violence." Watch out adults, teens are out to get you! We care about ourselves, don't care about our stuff, and certainly don't have any sense of responsibility when it comes to minding how we conduct ourselves in your world.
Seriously, though, all of these things are ridiculous. I think that you'd be hard pressed to find other television advertisements that so conspicuously mock a group of people through stereotypes. This commercial would never make it past production if it were meant to mock men older than 85, a demographic that causes more than twice as many car-related deaths as the teen girl demo.
This video is just one more indicator of how teenagers are one of the last true frontiers of discrimination. We have no significant income or power, so feel free to wreck on us as much as you want! Or don't... after all, media like this sets an expectation for people of all ages as to how is acceptable/expected for an adolescent girl to act. That is, if you don't want us behaving like this, stop telling us that we do.
And it's not just an isolated incident.
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How to brush a cat's teeth
Regular brushing of a cat’s teeth can help prevent oral disease that can spread bacteria to other parts of a cat’s body. Make sure clients understand how important it is to get their cat comfortable with tooth-brushing using the methods in this video (you can embed it on your practice website quickly and easily—just follow these instructions on how to embed a YouTube video).
No time to watch the video? Download this client handout instead.
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With a provincial election due next year, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Quebec’s Liberal government has resorted to ugly wedge politics around issues of religious identity. The Harper Conservatives tried it with their niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies and their “barbaric cultural practices” tip line.
Premier Philippe Couillard apparently thinks he can succeed where Harper failed.
On Wednesday his Liberal government passed Bill 62, which is designed to force Muslim women to uncover their faces while receiving public services. Passed in the name of “religious neutrality,” it’s a fairly transparent attempt by Couillard to weaponize anti-Muslim and xenophobic sentiment for electoral purposes.
“You speak to me, I should see your face, and you should see mine,” said Couillard, who has recently changed his tone towards Quebec’s Muslim population. His rhetorical shift is especially alarming given that it came just months after a hate crime in which a Trump-supporting extremist shot and killed six Muslims at a Quebec City mosque.
“I think this is a horrible law designed specifically to criminalize the bodies of some Muslim women and to remove them from public space,” said Itrath Syed, a Muslim PhD candidate and instructor in Vancouver.
“The purpose of this law is to define who belongs and who doesn’t. This law gives legitimacy to Islamophobia. This is nothing to do with ‘neutrality.’ If the state is neutral, then it should stop legislating over women’s bodies.”
Trudeau dithers, Singh takes a clear stand
Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh told a media scrum in Ottawa on Wednesday that he is “completely opposed to the bill,” noting that it would almost certainly face legal challenges.
“The laws that exist now will be able to provide an option to protect those freedoms,” Singh added in apparent reference to the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights and freedoms.
“We can’t have the state telling people what to wear, what not to wear,” Singh added.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in contrast, sounded a more equivocating note. According to a Canadian Press report, he refused to say whether he felt Bill 62 was unconstitutional.
“In Quebec and Canada we are not necessarily used to seeing a woman with a veil,” he added. “That makes us uncomfortable. We wonder why she is doing that. Is she required to do that? But if you want to prevent women from being forced to wear a veil, maybe you don’t want to be a society that forces women not to wear a veil.”
The operative word in that answer is “maybe.” While sensitivity towards Quebec and its right to self-determination is warranted — especially given the long history of demonization campaigns against Quebec by the pundits and power brokers of English Canada — we can’t afford politicians at any level remaining neutral in the face of Couillard’s xenophobia disguised as “religious neutrality.”
With Trudeau dithering, Singh and the NDP have an opportunity to distinguish themselves as principled defenders of human rights. In doing so, they can paraphrase Trudeau’s father: The state has no business in the wardrobes of the nation.
Quebec solidaire calls hypocrisy
Quebec solidaire’s elected representatives voted against Bill 62.
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the party’s co-spokesperson and MNA for the riding of Gouin, took aim at the Couillard government’s hypocritical approach to secularism in Quebec. In a Facebook post issued in both French and English, Nadeau-Dubois blasted the Quebec premier: “Unable to get rid of a religious symbol like the crucifix that hangs right in the middle the National Assembly, Philippe Couillard prefers to legislate on clothes worn by a minority of Quebecers.”
“This law is absurd and impossible to apply,” Nadeau-Dubois added.
Here’s hoping. But even if Bill 62 proves to be unenforceable or is defeated in the courts, it nevertheless represents a dangerous ramping up of xenophobia and state targeting of Muslims.
“This is just the latest episode in a long series of moral panics over Muslim women’s bodies, both in Quebec and outside of Quebec,” Syed noted.
“Political leaders and activists need to condemn this law and the exclusivist ideology that created it.”
Let’s see who shows the political courage to follow this urgent advice. So far, at the federal level, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are leading the way.
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How to Crack Lumion Pro 7 License Key
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Things to do in Santa Fe
Book a Native American cookery course
Enrol in one of the overwhelmingly popular half-day or day-long classes at the Santa Fe School of Cooking (tel: +1 505 983 4511; www.santafeschoolofcooking.com) to learn how to reproduce the intriguing Hispanic and Native American cuisine particular to this region. Plump for the hands on course, which includes field trips to local markets, farms and wineries.
Discover the sweet taste of mead
Visitors are often surprised to discover that New Mexico produces excellent wines. Fans of popular varietals should visit Estrella del Norte Vineyard (tel: +1 505 455 2826; www.estrelladelnortevineyard.com), north of the city whilst the more adventurous should stay in the city. Falcon Meadery and Winery (tel: +1 505 819 8323; www.falconmead.com) produce mead (wine made from honey) and offer daily tasting tours.
Hike the Santa Fe Canyon Preserve
Get out of the city and into the surrounding mountains to soak up Santa Fe's gorgeous scenery on foot. Just a few minutes' drive from the Plaza, Santa Fe Canyon Preserve (tel: +1 505 988 3867; www.nature.org) boasts 35km (22 miles) of marked trails whilst bird-lovers should visit Randall Davey Audubon Center (tel: +1 505 983 4609; http://nm.audubon.org) for a walking tour.
Ski the Santa Fe slopes
In winter, take the quick but twisting drive uphill from the Plaza to the area's 3,710m-high (12,175ft) ski mountain. Skiing and snowboarding keep snow bunnies happy from mid-November through until at least early April. With equipment hire and 79 different trails, Ski Santa Fe (tel: +1 505 982 4429; www.skisantafe.com) offer a great day trip.
Try a Native American spa massage
With its clear light, pure high-altitude air, laidback character and pervading sense of spirituality, Santa Fe is the perfect city for a relaxing spa experience. Spas around the city offer an enticing range of treatments, with many, like the Downtown Day Spa (tel: +1 505 986 0113; www.downtowndayspa.com), inspired by Native American massage techniques and rituals.
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Remove Indian carburetor and take out nipples on manifold and put them in schebler manifold. Attach manifold connection to manifold leading to cylinders. Remove Indian control rod and substitute control rod furnished. Remove Indian gasoline union and solder line into schebler gasoline union and adjust carburetor according to instructions below. If in attempting to start the engine for the first time, it does not run perfectly, first see that it has proper ignition, as per your instructions. If the difficulty seems to lie in the carburetor, proceed as follows:
Intermediate Adjustment. See that the leather air valve ‘A’ seats lightly, then open throttle until lift lever roller rest at ‘II’. Next open knurl button ‘I’ about three turns; turn knurl button ‘I’ to right until mixture becomes so lean that the motor backfires or misses; then turned ‘I’ to the left until motor and smoothly.
Low speed adjustment. Close throttle and open low speed are adjusting screw ‘L’ about three turns, then turn low speed cam adjusting screw ‘S-6’ to the left until mixture becomes so lean motor backfires or misses. Turn ‘S-6’ slowly to right until motor runs smoothly. If, with this low speed adjustment motor runs too fast, turn ‘L’ to the right or in.
Hi speed adjustment. The carburetor is now ready for the high speed adjustment and the throttle and spark should be advanced. The adjustment is now made by the pointer ‘Z’ which, as it moves from ‘1’ toward ‘3’, increases the supply of gasoline; moving the indicator from ‘3’ toward ‘1’, cuts down the flow gasoline. When the indicator reaches the right point, the engine will run without missing or backfiring. If, when lever ‘Z’ is turned to figure ‘3’, mixture is still too lean, causing motor to backfire, increase tension of air valve spring by turning air valve adjusting screw ‘12’ to the left. The high speed air valve on the side of the carburetor is to be used only for extreme high speed. This valve should be kept closed when adjusting the carburetor.
Starting. The air valve can be locked in a closed position, which materially helps easy starting. It operates as follows: Pull out knurl button ‘12’, give one quarter turn. When motor is started, turn button ‘12’ back. This release is air valve ’A’ and allows it to operate in the customary manner. The Locking feature of the air valve does not in any way alter the instructions for adjustment of the air valve. When first starting the motor if it backfires, on account of the motor being cold, do not readjust the carburetor, but wait until the motor warms up.
Remedy for flooding. Great care should be taken to see that there are no particles of dirt or foreign substance in the tank or line, as any foreign matter impedes the regular flow of gasoline, and causes the carburetor to miss, or backfire. Oftentimes particles of dirt or sediment from the gasoline will lodge under the float valve ‘H’, prevent same from seating properly, and cause flooding. In order to clean out the float valve seat: remove the bowl cap and raise float valve, allowing the carburetor to be flushed thoroughly. To clean out the bowl of the carburetor, remove the bowl by disconnecting the gasoline line and removing the bowl lock nut at the bottom.
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Have you ever wondered if your Veterinarian or Registered Veterinary Technician keep up with their skills?
The answer is: they sure do!
Just like in human medicine, veterinary medicine and surgery are continually changing and evolving. New research and innovative ideas are always occurring, whether it is at veterinary teaching schools, through pharmaceutical companies, reputable veterinary pet food companies and even at non-veterinary universities – the veterinary world is constantly improving, and that’s a great thing!
Even in my 17 years as a Registered Veterinary Technician, I can think of a particular example: renal failure in cats. What was recommended back then is entirely different to current recommendations. All because of innovative science. We just keep getting better, and the quality of our pet’s lives do too!
Did you know that your Veterinarian is required to get a minimum of 50 hours of continuing education (CE) each year? And many Veterinarians exceed this! Registered Veterinary Technicians in Ontario are also held to a high standard and must maintain a minimum of 20 CE credits every two years to maintain their “Registration” status. Some of the ways this can be achieved are through reading published veterinary journals & articles, submitting articles, attending full-day learning conferences, evening & lunch hour lectures, webinars and many many more!
As we head into the winter months, many of us will take this opportunity to attend multi-day conferences where we will meet with colleagues & veterinary specialists to share the wealth of knowledge so that we can continue to improve upon what we do every day.
Next time you see your Veterinarian or Registered Veterinary Technician, ask them what they’ve learned recently because you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
Written by Angela Noble, RVT & Practice Manager
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Stanford Engineers Build Computer with Carbon Nanotubes
Engineers at Stanford University have created a small computer using transistors built with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) rather than silicone.
The device uses 178 transistors made of the "semiconductor material that may replace silicon in computer chips. This change could launch a new generation of electronic devices that are smaller, cheaper, faster and more energy-efficient than those of today," according to a news release from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which helped fund the research.
"People have been talking about a new era of carbon nanotube electronics moving beyond silicon," said Subhasish Mitra, an electrical engineer and computer scientist at Stanford, in a prepared statement. "But there have been few demonstrations of complete digital systems using this exciting technology. Here is the proof."
Though CNTs have shown promise "to take electronics to a magnitude in performance beyond silicon, inherent imperfections have stood in the way of putting this promising material to practical use," according to the news release. "CNTs do not necessarily grow in neat parallel lines, as chip-makers would like."
Approximately half of one percent of CNTs —dubbed "metallic" tubes — also conduct electricity at all times, without any ability to turn their conductivity off as with a semiconductor.
To deal with misaligned CNTs, the team created an algorithm "that maps out a circuit layout that is guaranteed to work no matter whether or where CNTs might be askew," according to information released by the university. Metallic tubes were dealt with by turning off the conductivity of the semiconducting CNTs, then pumping the circuit full of electricity, which concentrated in the metallic tubes and created so much heat that they vaporized.
"Nanotubes are like spaghetti," said NSF Computer Information Science and Engineering Program Manager Sankar Basu, in a prepared statement. "They are like a mound of entangled strings of materials with different conductivity. This new, 'imperfections immune design' makes this discovery truly exemplary and the most likely avenue for implementation."
"We have entered the third generation of nanotechnology," said Mihail Roco, senior advisor for Nanotechnology at NSF, in a prepared statement. "Building this prototype computer was only part of the achievement. Determining how to use it, precisely identifying which tiny devices will be tested and found to run more efficiently with this incarnation — these remain to be seen. It will be exciting to watch for the next steps in the years ahead."
Subscribers to the journal Nature can read more about the research at nature.com. Non-subscribers gain 48-hour access to the article for $3.99.
Joshua Bolkan is the multimedia editor for Campus Technology and THE Journal. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The: 3 Little Letters Reflect a Large Divide
The cops, the protestors, the Trumpers, the Snowflakes, the media, the . . . Several years ago, Larry Woiwode was a visiting professor at the University of North Dakota. Some friends took his class, and I was kicking myself for not signing up. A fellow writer was raving about how much she was learning.
“What? Tell me! What have you learned?” I asked. “Well, for one thing, he said to be judicious about the use of ‘the.’” “The?” “Yeah. He said we don’t need it as much as we think we do.” Seriously? You paid for that advice? “The” is an essential article. How do you write stories (this was a fiction writing class) without using “the”? I dismissed the advice as pretentious. “Pff! Don’t use ‘the’?! What’s next? ‘A’?” But the advice wormed its way into my brain. I began noticing when I wrote the word and when others wrote it. What do you know? He had a point, a very good one.
Listen and look: Use of this 3-letter word can be revealing.
I say to you, “Please grab me the wine.” You say, “Which wine?” I say, “The wine.” What does this indicate? Well, it indicates that there is probably only one bottle of wine left (it must be Sunday night). If I said, “Please grab me wine,” it would indicate that there is a selection of wine from which to choose and I'm not picky (probably on Friday evening). This little word can help with clarity and ultimately communicating ideas. But . . .
The use of “the” also reveals a focus on the other. While labeling groups of people in and of itself separates us (black men, white women, disabled kids), the addition of “the” exacerbates that distance. Okay, I know this is beginning to sound like a 3 a.m. conversation while sitting around a bong with English majors. Please stay with me. Consider these:
The blacks, the whites, the Cubans, the Puerto Ricans, the Mexicans, the Italians, the Irish, the Jews, the Muslims, the Hindus, the Mormons, the Christians, the atheists, the Natives, the Trumpers, the liberals, the rich, the poor, the illegals, the immigrants, the gays, the Millennials, the Boomers . . .
(By the way, I never hear anyone around here say “The Norwegians.” I might need to go to Sweden for that.) Seriously, though, do you see what happens when we put a “the” before the noun? It may only be three little letters, but it emphasizes the chasm between us and them. There's "us" and then there's "the others".
The other day my hubby said, “’The media! The media!’ I don’t understand what people mean by ‘the media,’ like it’s this homogeneous, terrible THING.” He and I get our news from various sources. We flip between networks – MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX – yelling at the screen. I subscribe to Public Radio. Now and then I will go on Canadian Broadcasting and the BBC to get a glimpse of what we look like to another country. (Scary) I randomly pop onto The New York Times and Grand Forks Herald websites. He looks at the Huffington Post and Drudge Report. We both consume mass amounts of fairly diverse, news sources. So we find it perplexing when people say, “the media,” like it’s a singular, propaganda machine to get us all to buy into the same narrative.
How did we get here? 24/7
On June 1, 1980, CNN launched the first 24-hour news network. They and others that followed needed to fill those hours. You’d think we’d get news from all around the world, or maybe just all around the U.S., but we didn’t, and we don’t. It’s due to the cost of gathering all that news (I’m just guessing). Unless it’s a major story effecting X amount of people, we in Every City, U.S.A. won’t hear about it because news' producers know most people only tune in to find out information that has a chance of impacting them or those they know.
So, yeah, the major networks and newspapers do decide on which narratives we hear. The camera and photos show what the producers think is relevant. They package the news for us in slick little bites before moving onto the next Viagra commercial.
If you compare public radio/television's reporting to commercial news, however, you will find the former spends more time on a particular story. There's more diversity of content, too. Right now compare NPR's landing page to Fox News to CNN to BBC. Interesting, isn't it? NPR is also not beholden to commercial sponsors, so they can dig in and examine the nuances of a story. (If you haven't already, check out public radio. There's national and state. Not only will you like it, you deserve it. (And make a donation while you're at it. The government is always trying to reduce its funding. Hmm, wonder why?)
Let's be careful when we refer to "the" media." "The" media is the wall that protects fascism from taking over our democracy. Without legit reporting, people would not know that men in unidentifiable camo "uniforms" are shoving protesters into unmarked vans in Portland. In America. (No article needed.) Despite it's short comings, we must stop blaming "the media" for the country's ills. I hear people say that the media is simply fear mongering, and Barry Glassner in his book The Culture of Fear lays out this thesis, but -- hello! -- there is a lot to be afraid of these days. We cannot simply tune out and listen to our neighbor's take on what they heard on talk radio. In a world where news has become entertainment, we must
Work harder to tease out hyperbole
Distinguish between a news anchor delivering news and a news pundit delivering opinion
Break out the ole Google machine and do our own fact checking
Use the remote control to flip channels
Demand citations and dates and -- please, please, please -- credentials
Diversify the news outlets we tune into.
Ultimately, we must become smarter consumers of media not "throw the baby out with the bath water."
This photo was used in ad paid for by "Evangelicals for Trump" to depict protesters in Portland beating up an officer. It was actually taken 6 years ago in Ukraine when Ukrainians were demanding their freedom. With the election rapidly approaching, all sorts of deceitful tactics will be used by both sides. If we value our democracy, we will do the work required to tease apart the lies from THE facts.
Writing challenge: Go on. Listen to how frequently people use the when it’s not needed. Listen to how often you do. What does it suggest about how you feel about the subject? Do you add emphasis when you say the word the? As in “THE Republicans”? Is the word dipped in disdain? Why not just “Republicans”? Why not just Americans? Would it help tone down our rhetoric if we deleted a the here and there?
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Monitor your teens and get to know about their daily activities
Parents are the first teacher. They have to provide a perfect track to their children to grow up. The technological advancement has changed the way of living. The standard of life of many people has changed a lot. Is technological progress a boon or bane for humans? Everyone should use the technology in a limited and precise way. The optimization of its use will help people to have a better look in the modern era.
Smartphones and apps make it easy to access almost anything. The social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and messengers like Whatsapp and Skype are one of the popular browsing among people. Teens love to share their pictures and comment on them. They are able to connect with their friends all the time.
Do parents need to track their teen’s activity? It may happen that you have noticed some changes in their behavior in the recent past. After asking for many times, you are not able to find the reason. They are not willing to share the fact, and you always find them using Skype.
Yes, monitoring the activities is much needed. Tracking Skype conversations are needed when you want to know about your kid’s activity. It is easy to follow them by using phone spy apps.
How can you tracking Skype conversations?
Today’s teen are more intelligent, and they know how to use technologies in a better way. You must learn about the use of technology to ensure your kids safety. Learn the skills and ways to monitor your teen’s habit. You can ask for training and coaching. You can learn about Skype and tracking Skype conversations will be so easy for you.
Other than that you can install phone spy apps in their smartphone to track the details. Phone spy apps like MxSpy is one of the best phone spy apps to track the details. You have to install it and hide it from the home page of the smartphone. Your child will not able to rectify any change in his smartphone.
You will get notify about phone calls, text messages, GPS locations, WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype on your MxSpy account. It is easy to access the account from any web browser. Just visit the MxSpy website and login to your account.
How can this help to the parents?
When you track the details, you will get to know about the activities of your child. If you find anything mischievous then, try to find the reason for it. Tracking Skype conversations and call details will clarify you about it.
You can ask your kid about the fact directly. They may tell you not to interfere in the matter. They will personally solve the issue. As a responsible parent, you have to take care of your child all the time in every condition. It is not a way to enter in their privacy. But, it’s a way to keep your children safe and protected in all their way. It will also help you to keep them away from any wrong doings.
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The young American rock climbing phenom, Ashima Shiraishi, becomes the youngest woman to send 5.14d. Some have suggested the route might be as hard as 5.15a.
Shiraishi is one of only a few climbers to have sent a route harder than 5.14c at the age of 13. Shiraishi is currently on spring break in Sprain. The route she sent, Open Your Mind Direct in Santa Linya, was recently upgraded from 5.14d because of a broken hold.
There is a chance Open Your Mind Direct is now 5.15a, meaning Shiraishi is the youngest person ever to send 5.15a.
At 11 years old, Shiraishi became the youngest 5.14b and 5.14c climber. Adam Ondra was the first 13-year-old to send 5.14d.
In 2005, Josune Bereziartu made the second ascent of Bimbaluna 9a/9a+ (5.14d/15a). If indeed Open Your Mind Direct is 5.15a then Shiraishi is the first woman to send a solid 5.15a, not bad for 13 years old!
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Relatively, there isn’t a lot of great information about accessibility out there. You really have to seek it out. How many of you know what JAWS is? After popping up IE6/IE7/IE8 et. al. to ensure website compatibility, do you also check your content in a screen reader?
I would argue that it’s more important to make a site accessible than pretty for older browsers. For some people, an accessible Internet literally makes a world of difference. Although I’m a backend programmer, I’m still ashamed at how little I know. How about you?
Much effort is going into the semantics of HTML5 for the purpose of accessibility. I’ve been toying with this idea for a couple years, but now the time has come to ask for your help. Let’s work together and fix this oversight in our knowledge. As a community, we can work together to change the world.
First, let’s agree on a Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This will be a day of the year where web developers across the globe try to raise awareness and know-how on making sites accessible.
On this day, every web developer will be urged to test at least one page on their site in an accessibility tool. After fixing up the page, they are urged to blog about what they changed and inspire others to follow suit.
To plan for this day, meetup organizers, like myself, will be urged to plan an accessibility talk. If you can get someone who uses JAWS or a screen reader to attend and educate, this will be a nice bonus. Perhaps a hackathon is appropriate.
If you speak about web development, you are urged to prepare talks on this topic. You are among the most influential people in our industry.
If anyone reading this knows of organizations that would like to be involved in this effort, please help hook it together.
Let’s pick a day, tentatively, May 9th. Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
So what can you do today?
Spread the word. Provide suggestions; e.g. what would be a good hashtag for this effort? If you’re in the meetup scene, start planning. If you’re not in the meetup scene, then join.
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A Perfect Friendship: Remembering Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto had a tripartite intellectual and artistic life. He was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University; a successful artist; and, also, an art critic. Early on he made his reputation with books on Nietzsche, on historiography and on the theory of action, a technical concern of analytic philosophers. And all the while he was leading an independent life as a practicing artist- he did marvelous woodcuts, which, to his surprise and pleasure were rediscovered and written about, near the end of his life. And then, in mid-life, he published his legendary treatise on aesthetics, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981) and had the good fortune to be appointed art critic of The Nation, where he published reviews until almost the end of his life.
Arthur’s “My life as a philosopher,” an essay published in The Library of Living Philosophers (Volume XXXIII. The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto, Chicago, 2013) presents the story of his public life in a characteristically lucid way. That account deserves to be supplemented by his amazing “Munakata in New York: A Memory of the 1950s,” republished in his Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays (Berkeley; University of California Press, 1999). This latter piece is as much about his own life as that of his Japanese artist friend. In a similar way, because for more than forty years our intellectual lives were closely linked, in telling my story of his life I am also, to some extent, presenting some parts of mine also. Arthur had a great gift for friendship, and so soon accounts by others will, I expect, supplement mine.
I first met Arthur around 1966, when I began studying philosophy in graduate school. These were confused times in the life of our country, certainly in my personal life, and also in the life his university, which was occupied by the students in 1968. In 1972, I received a PhD for a thesis on the philosophy of art. At this time, when he wasn’t yet doing research on aesthetics, my chief inspirations were the writings of Richard Wollheim—who had visited at Columbia in the 1960s—and Arthur’s colleague and intimate friend, Richard Kuhns. I was lucky to have three such great teachers. I remained always close to them. Only later, in the 1970s when I was teaching philosophy in Pittsburgh did Arthur and I become frequent correspondents and, also, close friends. Thanks to his love of letter writing, and my regular visits to Manhattan, we shared experiences. And then in the early 1980s, we took a driving tour together in Northern Italy, the first part with my wife Marianne Novy. Going east from Turin, we had a marvelous luncheon on a hot July day in Verona; and then spent a happy evening wandering amid the street festival. We talked endlessly about just everything—ours was then, and almost always remained a perfect friendship. He explained, to my astonishment, that he wrote only two hours a day, noting that if you are focused you can do a great deal in that time. On a later occasion, he told me, he wrote a New York Times op-ed editorial in fifty minutes. His letters, and there were many, were always in the style of his published prose. In my long experience, Arthur the private person was pretty much like the figure a close reader knowing just his prose might imagine. After I got to know him, I realized that I could as-it-were hear his voice in dialogue with me. Then writing philosophy became easier, for I only had to record our conversations. No, of course nothing so literal was possible!, but his presence was crucial for me.
Inevitably as a philosopher of the next generation writing about visual art, I was very much concerned with sharing my ideas with Arthur, and, at least early on, with seeking his approval. Some famous intellectuals create disciples. But while Arthur certain appreciated my interest in his writings, which he acknowledged generously publically, he wasn’t at all interested in having followers. Some of my topics engaged him—he loved, for example, my book about comics, which extended his ideas to a domain of art he’d not written about. But others of my chosen topics were not his. He politely read my book on Poussin, which didn’t persuade him to admire an artist he disliked intensely. Indeed, I remember walking with him in the Harvard museums where, after looking at an immense variety of art with great enthusiasm, I had almost to drag him into look at Birth of Bacchus. Arthur appreciated my account of the methodology of art history, but in honesty, there his concerns as a philosopher of art were very distant from mine. And when, late in his life, presented a world art history, that topic was not one that engaged him. Nor did he take an interest in my book about his colleague Rosalind Krauss, or my approach to Warhol, which differs from (and takes issue with) his well-known account. When I pressed him, “Arthur, isn’t there something Catholic about your aesthetic theory” (it is after all presented in a book referencing the transfiguration) he said: “There is no Catholic side to me, I am completely Jewish.” Even when we wrote about our mutual great friend Sean Scully, we said very different things.
One a famously cranky critic criticized Arthur by calling him a happy philosopher. In truth, he really was happy—for conflicts were not his thing. Of course he faced intellectual disagreements. And, as an art critic he had to deal with severe differences of taste. But on the whole, with surprisingly few exceptions, he wrote about art, books and people he admired—or, at least, found admirable. And he was given to catholic enthusiasms. As he explains in his autobiography, when he was a young professor his life certainly had bumpy moments. Later on, of course he was very famous and so much in demand as a speaker and writer. Leaving aside his personal life, what is his vision of what he calls our post-historical period if not the vision of a happy man? (This vision is realized in the art of his second wife, Barbara Westman.) Certainly he responded with total sympathy to moments of despair, both personal and political despair. But I suspect that he was, as he often told me, essentially happy, and would have been so even had he remained a marginal scholar. Here, as in other personal ways, I learned from him.
The artists who read Arthur’s criticism and purchased his books on aesthetic theory were aware, perhaps, of his purely philosophical writings. And certainly his philosopher colleagues knew that he took a very active interest in the contemporary art world. But on the whole, his audience was divided, for philosophers—even philosophers of art—usually remain mere readers of art criticism, while artists rarely are professionally competent scholars of philosophy. And so, as yet it is not clear how future generations will respond to his writings. But in describing the division of his interests between philosophy and art criticism, I left out reference to the most influential commentators about contemporary art—I mean art historians. That omission is deliberate, for while Arthur knew a great many art historians, and wrote about some art history books with characteristically enthusiasm, on the whole he was not much engaged by recent art history, especially the most fashionable approaches to contemporary art.
I never felt as comfortable as I did in Arthur’s company—talking or looking at art. Or in his company at a distance, in our correspondence. Near the end of his life as critic, we went to the Met together to look at the Morandi exhibition. I could see that his life was nearly over, but I believed—what was I thinking?—that we would go on talking forever. Arthur was a totally secular person. Death, he once told me, is just the end. And so nothing in our relationship prepared me to realize how much I now miss him.
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If you’ve ever played a game of Bingo, you may have stumbled upon Lotto. This game has many similarities to bingo, including the use of picture cards to indicate the number on the drawing. You can also buy scratch-off lottery tickets or spread your money between various draw-based games. The game can be played for single players or up to 48. To learn more about Lotto, read the following paragraphs.
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Italians love to play Lotto, a game of chance, and the lottery is one of the most popular games in Italy. Its origins date back to the 16th century, when the first lottery was held in Genoa. In the years that followed, the lottery expanded to five cities, including Milan, Naples, and Rome. Today, there are three weekly draws, and the winning numbers are determined by a computer program.
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With an update from the Iberian Lynx breeding centre in Portugal, volunteer Sarah Havery describes the telltale signs of lynx courtship, and how it feels to welcome a new generation of the world’s rarest cat species.
It has to be said, Iberian lynx courtship is far from an example of ideal society. I arrived at the ICNB centre in Portugal well into the breeding season, the couples were all paired up and the hormones were running high. So, as Alex Rowell did previously, I took up the role as a ‘video vigilante’ which involved 24 hour CCTV surveillance monitoring of the behaviour of the individual lynx, including the whole process of their courtship, which proved to be quite an interesting tale.
Being the most endangered cat species in the world, with just over 300 left in the wild, there is little room for romance – the pairing is mostly down to genetics.
With numbers dwindling to critical levels there is a real need to maintain genetic diversity to reduce the effects of inbreeding. So somewhere far beyond the fences the couples were determined mainly by their genetic compatibility to help save the species.
When I first arrived, one of the key aspects of our work as video vigilantes was to observe and record the interactions between each pair to determine how the relationship was developing. Being solitary animals, lynx can be pretty feisty, so it was important to observe whether this newly formed relationship would lead to a blossoming romance or just end in a cat fight.
In the lynx world, a favoured way of getting to know each other is interacting through ‘cabeçadas’, where they literally bang their heads together. Naturally, this can go either way.
If they have hit it off, then it appears it is best to get straight to the point. She shows her new suitor her genitals, and he is permitted to have a sniff. Interactions like these continue, and the relationship develops. The individual behaviour can then change accordingly; both cats may become more active and possibly stop eating. He starts to follow her everywhere and observes her intensely.
This is it. The signs we’ve been waiting for. The female has come into heat.
From then on the male will generally become very persistent. He is entranced with the female, watching her every move, staring at her while she sleeps, and continuously pacing in circles around her… waiting for that opportune moment.
Once that moment has arrived they will mate every 2-3 hours for 2-3 days, each copulation lasting for around 2-3 minutes. There is no room for privacy when the survival of the species is at stake, therefore our job was to observe and determine the quality of each of these copulations. Luckily the lynx are blissfully unaware of this, as being observed and judged by a group of mostly female Homo sapiens is unlikely to boost morale.
Something that has become universally apparent across species is that some males just cannot get it right. One particular male began well, the interactions were positive and the female came into heat. He went for the copulation. He grabbed her neck, aligned his body… and then proceeded to mate with her back. Not the way to get a female pregnant. Unfortunately, despite 37 attempts (way above the average), his technique did not improve. After one particularly bad attempt, the female simply turned to look at her partner, before deciding to bang her head against a tree. That’s frustration for you.
Fortunately most of the males got it right and, as time went on, it became clear that some of the females were pregnant.
From here onwards watching the pregnant females took utmost priority. It was such an exciting time to be at the centre, you could feel the anticipation and excitement rising every day as we drew closer and closer to the due date. Watching for the signs of pre-labour became a priority – signs such as not eating, burying food and increased activity.
I was watching one of the females the day before her due date. She seemed uncomfortable and more active than usual. Then, whilst she was patrolling her territory, she suddenly paused and squatted. Her eyes narrowed. My heart rate rose, my palms went clammy. I called the keeper through from the office, and as he arrived we got to watch her defecate. She was constipated.
Despite feeling like a fool for getting so excited about some poo, tenesmus is actually another common sign of pre-labour.
Unfortunately I had to leave the centre during this very exciting time, but a day later I received a phone call; “Sarah! We have cubs!”
I can’t even describe the feeling those words gave me.
So there we have it – the future of this amazing species.
Video courtesy of: ICNB
Naturally the captive breeding centres alone cannot guarantee a future for the Iberian lynx. The other key aspect for their conservation is habitat protection and restoration, which involves partnerships between the government, local NGOs (for example, Liga para a Protecção da Natureza in Portugal) and international organisations such as Fauna & Flora International (FFI).
One of the main causes for the decline of the Iberian lynx in the wild is a lack of food, the downside of being fussy eaters. They feed specifically on rabbits, which have declined dramatically due to disease and some degree of habitat loss; therefore in addition to protecting habitat the main focus of field work is to boost rabbit populations in potential sites for reintroducing the lynx.
However, despite all the efforts with the captive breeding of lynx, habitat protection and the reintroduction of rabbits, there will need to be a real shift in people’s attitudes to reduce the threat of shooting, trapping, road kills and other human-related threats. Only then will the lynx be able to roam across Portugal once more.
One of my colleagues was asked where she worked when she took her car to the local garage. “I work with the lynx,” she said. The mechanic simply laughed and replied:
“The lynx? The lynx is a myth!”
Although the road ahead is long with many challenges to overcome, one day I really hope that the lynx will no longer be considered a mythical creature in Portugal, but a reality.
Main photo credit: The Iberian Lynx Ex-Situ Conservation Program
Want to know more? Take a look at the other blogs in this series: Lynx lineage lies with good breeding by Alex Rowell and A record-breaking season at the Iberian lynx breeding centre by Maike Demski and Tom Smith.
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furry black beasts, from 2 inches to 100 pounds
ISEEM TO BE A MAGNET for furry black creatures, a trend that I suppose started when the cat of my dreams adopted me all those years ago. This week, he and I have been visited by two other thick-coated types: the biggest caterpillar I have ever seen, Hypercompe scribonia (above, who will become the giant leopard moth), and a not-so-big (but big enough, thank you) American black bear, Ursus americanus, who completely terrorized resident fur-bearer Jack the Demon Cat in the overnight hours last night.
I was alert enough to notice the 2-inch-long caterpillar inching along the surface of the driveway the other day, and picked him up carefully (on a leaf) because I know many such caterpillars pack a poison in their bristles that can cause skin rashes or worse. Hypercrompe scribonia, who is related to a couple I profiled not long ago, has the most beautiful orange-red bands between the segments of its body—and, I learned once indoors doing some homework, doesn’t sting. It likes many plants that grow here, including cherry, violet, maple, willow and dandelions.
The caterpillar will overwinter here before pupating to a stunning white moth (wingspan, from 2 to nearly 3 inches) with the most beautiful black-spotted wings and a blue and orange abdomen. You can see an image of the moth life phase at BugGuide [dot] net, my favorite entomology site. Like the woolly bear and various others I’ve seen here in the garden this year, this one’s a cousin in the taxonomic tribe Arctiini (the tiger moths).
I slept through the latest bear escapade, but poor Jack (whose many beds are downstairs, not up) apparently had an eyeful from the first-floor windows, and staged a protest against going outside this morning in apparent terror. Though I could quickly locate the damage—feeder poles bent to the ground, an empty feeder removed and hauled away—I couldn’t find the breach in the fence that surrounds the place.
At least at first. I was looking for the usual crushed panel in my deer fence—something big and obvious that an adult male of up to 300 pounds could do—but this one was more of a clever, tidy type. I figure a bear of 100 pounds or so could get through there, if not a whopper.
Rather than get upset (tell that to Jack!) I get curious at such goings-on here, and always try to learn something in the process—besides the obvious lesson of not falling asleep watching a movie without taking in the feeder. Did you know that cubs are typically born while the female is hibernating, in January or February, and spend not just that winter but the second winter of their lives with their female parent (who bids them farewell at about 17 months of age)? Or that humans are their primary predator (though wolves, where present, or mountain lions may prey on cubs)? (More on the black bear at the University of Michigan zoology site.)
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“Write what you know” is one of the most often heard phrases in the writing world. When I began seriously writing, my first reaction to this bit of advice was, “Oh heck no. No one is going to tell me what to write!” I didn’t want to write what I knew. That would be boring. I wanted to explore new worlds and dive into old ones.
It didn’t make any sense to me because I was hearing it very literally. I kept thinking, “Well, if writers only wrote what they knew, we’d have no fantasy or scifi or historical novels.” I mean, unless people were out there falling in love with vampires or having their home planets overrun by meat-eating aliens, it just wasn’t possible to always write what you know.
What I finally realized was that the best writers really do write what they know. Now, does that mean Stephenie Meyer has recently run into a family of vegetarian, sparkling vampires? Or that J.K. Rowling once stumbled upon a whole community of magical kids running around undetected by all the muggles somewhere in Britain? Of course not! (Well, not that I’m aware of in any case).
So how do writers write what they know? They infuse their stories with all of the emotions, knowledge, and life that they’ve experienced and use all of it to build their characters and storyworlds into incredible books that suck their readers into a new reality. I’m willing to bet that Ms. Meyer has, at some point in her life, experienced fear and loss and that total exhilaration of first love. J.K. Rowling was certainly never a magical teenage boy fighting a weird, snake-looking wizard…but she probably knows what it feels like to be terrified, excited, helpless, alone…to find friends who love you, fight for something you want, and maybe have things turn out great in the end.
To write what you know, you need to write about something you care about, something that touches you. That connection you have to your subject will come through in your work.
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut sums it up perfectly:
Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is the genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
Agent Rachelle Gardner had a great post about writing what you know last year. In her opinion:
Write what you know means write with authenticity about thoughts, feelings, experiences of life. Be honest. Write from a deep place. Don't write from the surface. Whether you're writing about parenthood or cancer or anything else... be real.
Don't reflect what you know from other people or the media... write what you know from your own inner life.
There is a more literal approach to the “write what you know” statement as well. It really is necessary to be familiar with your genre and the world of which you are writing. There are little quirks and “rules” to every genre – what works for a romance might not always work for a thriller.
Agent Scott Eagan posted about this in his blog a few months ago. He stated:
It is crucial for you to write in the niche that you know the best. By doing so, you understand the twists and turns to that genre that others might not get. More importantly, you understand the voice that is commonly associated with that genre.This can also be an area when a little research can come in handy. If you are writing a book set in Ancient Greece, it is necessary for you to do enough research that you really know what you are talking about. Otherwise, you will never be able to truly transport your readers into the world you are trying to describe. Mary wrote a wonderful post about how familiarity breeds authenticity. You may not be able to personally experience the day Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii, or what it is like to live beneath the ocean, but you can familiarize yourself enough with the pertinent details that you can convince your readers that your characters are living through those experiences.
This applies to the worlds you create yourself as well. Fantasy and science fiction writers create their own worlds, true. But there are certain rules even within the realms of fictional worlds. Maybe in your world, women have supernatural powers and men don’t. Or maybe blondes can see the future and brunettes can fly. You can make whatever rules you’d like for your universe, but you have to stick to them. And you have to have enough knowledge of that world to convince your reader that the experiences and emotions of your characters are authentic and appropriate for the world in which they live.
When you write a book, you want to suck your reader into your world – whether that world is set in the past, the present, the future, or on some other planet or reality…you need to know enough about that world, your characters, and the things they will feel and experience to draw your readers in. Using your own emotions and experiences, and your own specialized knowledge about the world you are creating, will help you craft an amazing story.
In other words, my dear writers…yes, write what you know ;-)
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CEMETERY SAFETY ALERT
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 —With the Memorial Day weekend upon us, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is encouraging the public to be cautious and at all times aware of their surroundings when visiting area cemeteries
Sheriff Dart is joining with Catholic Cemeteries to increase public awareness of crimes that can sometimes occur while visiting gravesites. Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend kicks off the cemetery visitation season, and along with it, increased crime. Over the course of just six weeks last summer, Catholic Cemeteries’ locations had fifteen thefts from vehicles that occurred while visitors were paying their respects at gravesites. The thefts involved cars that were left unlocked with valuables exposed, as well as “smash and grabs”.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is urging cemetery visitors to practice the same general safety measures they would in any other public area, such as at a park or train stop. The following safety tips are suggested for those who plan to visit a cemetery this holiday weekend and beyond:
- Lock your car and take your keys with you;
- Take your purse or wallet with you to the gravesite or lock them in the trunk of the car;
- Do not leave items in plain view inside your car;
- Keep your cell phone with you in case of an emergency;
- If you see someone suspicious, report it to cemetery staff and/or police;
- Travel with others while visiting a gravesite, particularly if you are elderly.
“This safety message is not meant to discourage visitation and remembrance,” Sheriff Dart said. “Our goal is to remind the public that sacred grounds are not treated by everyone as sacred and to urge precautions accordingly.”
In addition to vehicle thefts, this year the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has investigated a growing number of metal thefts from cemeteries, including stolen sewer covers, bronze vases and bronze memorials. Many thieves view cemeteries as targets for crimes of opportunity, and public awareness is the key to thwarting criminal activity.
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Today I want to talk to you about two animals that you know very well – the crab and the Buffalo and what’s the difference between the two?
Oftentimes, especially in our daily lives, we operate from the place of a crab and what I mean by that is when you put a crab or a series of crabs into a pot, what happens is one of the crabs starts to crawl out of the pot because it’s getting hot, and then the other crabs pull them back down.
Now, this is a phenomenon that’s been seen time and time again. You also see this with people. So oftentimes what happens is if somebody starts to uplevel their lives whether be in their business, or relationships are very common as well, the people around them get scared.
They get scared because they realize that they’re not doing those things that they should be doing in their lives and so they are not up leveling. What they tend to do is get scared and look at the things that are happening in their lives which cause fear and cause them to pull somebody else back down.
Another analogy to use with a crab is that there are two ways to have the tallest building in the world. One is to burn everybody else’s building down. The second one is to build it up as high as you possibly can.
Now, I would say that being a crab is actually more common than you might think. Look at social media. Look at your social media posts and profiles. When you actually post something or go out on a limb or shoot a video like this, you’re going to have a lot of people out there criticizing you and pulling you down. These are the crabs. The crab is the majority.
Now, in contrast, we have the Buffalo. The Buffalo is known for when a storm comes. The animals are running away because the storm is coming, the rain is coming down and it’s going to get vicious. Yet, the Buffalo runs to the eye of the storm. It runs to the eye of the storm because it knows that after going through that adversity of the storm, it’s going to get the sweetest grass, the freshest, wet, delicious grass that no other animal will get because it is actually there.
The Buffalo knows that if it persevered through the true tragedy or through hardship, that on the other end of that hardship is where the sweet stuff lies.
And I see this time and time again with clients that I’m working with both as a professional coach for high-level clients but also on my businesses when I’m working with other people.
Oftentimes, people sell themselves short because they’re worried about what other people will think. They’re worried about the crab. And even more importantly and what most people don’t realize is it’s the own crab that lies within you.
What is it inside of you…. that little voice that constantly says, “No, maybe I shouldn’t be doing that or I’m not good enough”. Or, “What are other people going to think?”.
These are all common crab stories. So, my question for you today is: “Where in your 5 To Thrive are you being a crab versus a Buffalo?”.
Where in your mind, your body, your soul, your relationships, or your business are you allowing little things to pull you down and not up level to the power that we actually know is inside of you?
Where do you need to step up and be the Buffalo and run to the eye of the storm so you can get that sweet reward at the end?
That’s it for me today. I’d love to hear your thoughts in our Author of Your Own Story community and of course go over to AuthorOfYourOwnStory.com where you’ll get more tips, tricks, and insights on how you can uplevel your life where you can actually become more of a buffalo.
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Toledoan and former Air Force B52 pilot Rick Hartley, left, makes a glass flower with the help of glass facilitator Brandon Price during glassblowing day for veterans at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion.
It’s no secret that some of the most dedicated, mission-oriented people in this country are veterans of the armed forces.
Increasingly studies are showing that the best thing we can do for those who have served the country is to find something for them to occupy their time, whether it’s work, volunteer activities, or even hobbies.
With that in mind, the Toledo Museum of Art last Saturday provided free glassblowing demonstrations for vets. The event preceded Veterans Day and was a way to give back to those who served.
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It was an opportunity to feel the heat of the glass furnaces, get hands-on with the heavy duty tools of the trade, and walk away with a glass flower or paperweight.
Navy veteran Chuck Nichols was there to show off the ships in a bottle that he has made. Men and women from various branches of service and of all ages tried their hand at the craft with the help of museum facilitators.
The end result was an experience that proved you get something in return when you serve your country.
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Lincoln is located in Lancaster county and has a population of 225,581.
Social Work schools in Lincoln charged students an average tuition of $11,498.00 if they were Nebraska residents, and $12,937.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
The cost, on average, for books and supplies needed for social work schools in Lincoln is $955.00. Students who live on campus while attending a social work school in Lincoln, can expect to pay an average of $5,799.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $3,511.00. Students have a choice of three social work colleges in Lincoln to attend. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 65 students completed social work programs in Lincoln.
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This moth is as large as a true Hornet, but is yellower and lacks the wasp-waist.
Searches for exit holes and old cocoons can be done any time of the year.
Adults can be found at rest on Poplar trunks after emergence, usually early morning, on cool, cloudy days. (7am - 8.30am).
Pheromone attractants: api New: hor
Moth activity times: 07:30-10:30.
Overwinters as a larva, at least twice just beneath the bark of the food plants.
Open woodland, parks, poplar plantations.
Recorded in 33 (12.2%) of the 270 2km squares of Huntingdonshire.
Last recorded in July 2020
Recorded date range (Adult): 21 May to 24 July
Recorded date range (Larva/Leafmine): 22 March to 03 November
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Bidding is an offer (often competitive) of setting a price one is willing to pay for something or a demand that something is done. A price offer is called a bid. The term may be used in a context of auctions, stock exchange, card games, or real estate. Bidding is used by various economic niche for determining the demand and hence the value of the article or property, in today's world of advanced technology, Internet is one of the most favourite platforms for providing bidding facilities, it is the most natural way of determining the price of a commodity in a free market economy.
Bindings are arranged by the first disclosinInternet the time frame for posting the bids may be a topic of interest.
Many similar terms that may use or may not use the similar concept have been evolved in the recent past in connection with bindings, such as the reverse auction, social bidding, or many other game class ideas that promote them self as bidding. Bidding is also sometimes used as ethical gambling in which the prize money is not determined solely by luck but also by the total demand that the prize has attracted towards itself.
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Argument on Islamic Faith: Is Faithlessness Possible?
17 January, 2010 9:12 am
Dr. Naik and Javed Ahmad Ghamidi on Yazid (Comments on Contemporary Scholars)
23 December, 2009 4:29 am
Zahid Hamids Conspiracy Theory (Comments on Contemporary Scholars)
22 December, 2009 7:24 pm
Tehatar (73) Firko ki Haqeekat
17 November, 2008 7:19 am
Puray Quran ka Asal Mawzu
17 November, 2008 6:41 am
Kiya Qurani Ehkam Har Zamanay kay leeyah haa?
17 November, 2008 5:36 am
8 February, 2014 3:43 pm
Dialogue between people of different faiths is a pressing necessity. Yet, relatively few dialogue initiatives have been launched by Muslims. This is because Muslims, generally speaking, don’t believe in building bridges with non-Muslims in religious matters. They believe in converting them. And there is a deep-seated sense of superiority over people belonging to other faiths. Therefore, by and large, they don’t like to enter into bridge-building religious dialogues.
2 February, 2014 5:08 pm
Why is the Pakistani Society ambivalent about the militants? The fact is that a large number of Pakistanis see Taliban doing what they think are some extremely good and some extremely bad things which cause them to not be able to decide whether they are on the balance a blessing or an evil.
November 17, 2008
Humility and Arrogance
The concept of Shayateen and their origin
The Return of Jesus
Non-muslims not allowed in Mecca/Madina
Non clarity of God's message
Rewards for men and women in paradise
The Age of Hazrat Aisha at Marriage
Is Stoning to Death an Islamic punishment?
Paid Academic Writings
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At a moment of bitter division in the United States, Australia has produced a ray of bipartisan sunshine in Washington. Startled by the rapid deterioration of Australia’s relations with China, and outraged by a faked tweet sent by Beijing’s foreign policy spokesman, Republicans and Democrats are singing a rare note of agreement.
The State Department has emphasised that America will “stand with our Australian partners in calling out” the Chinese foreign ministry “for spreading disinformation”. Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden’s national security adviser, tweeted that “America will stand shoulder to shoulder with our ally Australia”. These days, agreement between the outgoing and incoming administrations is about as common as the black-flanked rock-wallaby.
There was more. Biden has expressed the hope of working more closely with other democracies; the Washington Post editorialised that Australia would make a good place to start. The Trump White House announced it would feature Australian wines at a holiday reception. (Australians might question the wisdom of holding a pandemic-era party in the first place, but at least the sentiment was clear.) Republican Senator Marco Rubio slammed Beijing for employing “economic coercion” against Australia, and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez described the foreign ministry tweet as “despicable” and deserving of an apology.
The rhetorical solidarity is clear, and so has been admiration at Australian resolve. About 40 per cent of Australian exports go to China, after all, and Beijing’s new, very heavy duties on wine follow recent restrictions on barley, coal, beef and other Australian exports. Standing firm in the face of such threats is no easy task.
Yet thus far Australia has done precisely this, and in the process has defended not only its dignity and foreign policy interests, but also the vibrancy of its democracy. The now-notorious 14 grievances issued by the Chinese embassy in Canberra decries legislation aimed at blunting foreign interference in Australian politics, criticism of China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere, Canberra’s position – made in accordance with international law – on the South China Sea, and its calls for an independent inquiry into the origin of COVID-19.
This last appears to be, in Beijing’s eyes, Australia’s cardinal sin. Wishing to discover what caused the worst pandemic in a century would seem to the casual observer as nothing more than the exercise of responsible international leadership. For the Chinese Communist Party, however, bent both on muddying the virus’ origins and avoiding blame for it at home or abroad, such a call must be resisted, opposed and punished. And so it is, with Beijing imposing economic measures that reveal to Australians the price of questioning China.
At home, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come in for some criticism for his press conference, in which he denounced the faked tweet and hit back against Chinese provocations, with some commentators accusing the government of overreaction. More striking, however, is the way in which Canberra has generally kept calm and carried on, neither tolerating abuses nor dramatically fuelling tensions. A more stable period in its relations with China may be close as both sides step back from the brink.
The Australian response also raises the question whether the real targets of Beijing’s moves lie elsewhere. Across the Indo-Pacific, numerous countries wrestle with economies partially dependent on China and remain keen to uphold their interests and freedoms. The threats and coercion amount to a regional message about the costs of crossing Beijing.
And yet Australia is, so far, sending a message of its own: that a combination of firmness, prudence and resolve is the best way of dealing with China in an era of sharpened competition.
Washington appears to be absorbing a lesson of its own. For all the disparaging of American allies over the past four years, the tide is quickly turning to a more traditional way of calculating their value. Faced with problems like an assertive and coercive China, most now agree it is better to move together than separately. In its own competition with China, America’s alliance relationships represent a critical advantage. But alliances are two-way streets, and the United States has to give as well as get. Hence the statements, from across the political spectrum, about the importance of standing with Australia in a time of difficulty.
The task for the next American administration will be to move from statements to action. The new team is replete with ideas for working closely with likeminded democracies against the kinds of challenges posed by China and others. All indications point to an early test of its approach to both friends and competitors.
Richard Fontaine is chief executive officer of the Centre for a New American Security in Washington, D.C.
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System.exit() in Java
The java.lang.System.exit() method exits current program by terminating running Java virtual machine. This method takes a status code. A non-zero value of status code is generally used to indicate abnormal termination. This is similar exit in C/C++.
Following is the declaration for java.lang.System.exit() method:
public static void exit(int status)
exit(0) : Generally used to indicate successful termination.
exit(1) or exit(-1) or any other non-zero value – Generally indicates unsuccessful termination.
Note : This method does not return any value.
The following example shows the usage of java.lang.System.exit() method.
arr = 1 arr = 2 arr = 3 arr = 4 exit...
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Performed in 1977, 106 mins. Comes with both Japanese and English commentaries, subtitles and notes. Region Code : All, NTSC. Act VII. Gion Ichirikijaya (The Ichiriki Teahouse at Gion) This is the longest and one of the most famous kabuki acts. It gives a taste of the bustling atmosphere of the Gion pleasure quarter in Kyoto. Yuranosuke pretends to fall into a life of debauchery at the same tea house as Okaru has been bound. He is forced to accept food on the anniversary of their lord's death, and his sword is found to be rusty, giving the impression he has no thoughts of revenge. When he thinks he is alone, Yuranosuke reads a secret letter scroll about preparations for the vendetta. Okaru comes out to cool herself in the evening breeze and also reads the letter reflected in a mirror. Kudayu, standing under the verandah reads the scroll too as it is unrolled. Yuranosuke realizes he has to kill them both to silence them. Okura's brother Heimon enters and realizing Yuranosuke intends to kill her, persuades her to let him kill her instead, saving their family honour. Yuranosuke stops them, and gives Okura a sword and guides her hand through the floor boards to kill Kudayu.
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Some politicians, particularly those on the right, recommend bombing the sources of fire in the Gaza Strip. The most extreme demand that we reconquer Gaza and remain there until further notice. Other politicians, mainly on the left, call for calming nerves and renewing the cease-fire. The most extreme recommend beginning direct negotiations with Hamas. But there is one thing that everyone agrees on: The current situation, in which the people are paying the price for the struggle between Israel and Hamas (and for tensions between Hamas and Fatah), cannot continue.
Restraint - or "containment," to use the term preferred by the Winograd Committee that investigated the Second Lebanon War - is not a dirty word. A government can, and sometimes even must, practice restraint and sustain damage, including even fatalities, in the short run. But that is on condition that the leadership knows where it is going in the long run. After the bitter experience of the Second Lebanon War, one would thus have expected the Olmert government to devise a clear strategy for the Palestinian arena - though it was too ambitious to hope that decision-makers would recognize the limits of the Israel Defense Forces' enormous power in dealing with a nonstate army, and therefore seek a diplomatic solution.
The ongoing crisis on the southern front should have taught every thinking Israeli that sitting and doing nothing is not an acceptable option. The Israeli-Palestinian struggle is like a weed: As long as you fail to completely eradicate it, it will continue to spread in every direction and deepen its hold. But sometimes, as was the case with the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, doing half a job is worse than doing nothing. Israel's unconditional evacuation of that terrority was viewed by the Palestinians as a decisive victory for the school that advocates violence over the school that advocates dialogue. And it was similarly viewed by many Israelis.
Even though the withdrawal from Gaza was executed without an agreement, the Qassam rockets have become the decisive proof of the failure of Israel's efforts to reach a "land for peace" agreement. Public opinion polls reveal that a sweeping two-thirds majority of Israelis does not believe anything will come of negotiations with the Palestinians. A poll commissioned by Hebrew University's Truman Institute found that almost 60 percent of Israelis oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders, a division of Jerusalem and an agreed solution to the refugee problem. On the other hand, the latest Peace Index poll conducted by Tel Aviv University's Tami Steinmetz Center found that more than 70 percent of citizens favor continuing the negotiations, and almost 60 percent agree that the Palestinians deserve an independent state. Isn't it wonderful to be a centrist?
The syndrome of avoiding making hard decisions has turned into a plague in recent years. Politicians who sit on the fence, with one foot on either side, have become the flavor of the month. It is enough for someone to announce that he favors continuing the talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and to denounce the "hooligans" in Hebron to be viewed as a centrist by everyone.
Just yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying that when the opposition leader met with Nicolas Sarkozy, he told the French president that he was "in favor of conducting negotiations with the Palestinians." The statement added that Netanyahu said Jerusalem must remain "united under Israeli sovereignty." It is also important for us to know that he told Sarkozy Israel must remain on the Golan Heights. But tomorrow, we will hear that he told somebody else that resuming the negotiations with Syria is very important to him. This is a sign of extreme "centrism."
It is clear that any decision - or, more accurately, any lack of decision - regarding the crisis on the Gaza front, like any statement made to the media about negotiating with the Arabs, is affected these days by electoral considerations. But it is possible that the day after the election, the newly elected American president will force the new Israeli government to get off the fence and abandon the warm, comfortable center.
Meanwhile, what should residents of Sderot do on February 10? They should carefully read the two advertisements that appear every Friday in Haaretz. The right-wing ad informs "the people of Israel" that "the Arabs of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] have no right to a state." The left-wing one demands that the candidates for prime minister "advance Zionism on the basis of the Arab peace initiative."
The Sderot residents should decide which of these two approaches has a better chance of extricating them from their shelters, and which party will adopt it. But the middle of the road is a surefire recipe for a frontal collision.
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Pixar – EVE (Extra-Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is a sleek, state-of-the-art probe-droid. She’s fast, she flies, and she’s equipped with a laser gun. EVE, also called Probe One by the captain of the Axiom (the enormous luxury mother ship which houses thousands of displaced humans), is one of a fleet of similar robots sent to Earth on an undisclosed scanning mission.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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All too sad to explain
In the days when murderers in Britain could still be executed by hanging, the Home Office used to receive five unsolicited applications a week for the position of hangman (not even the most rigidly doctrinal feminist has ever demanded that we use the word hangperson). The desire to kill one’s fellow beings in the pursuit of a good cause, in this case the preservation of law and order and the prevention of murder, is therefore quite widespread, even under the most civilized conditions.
There is no doubt that a good execution has its attractions. Once when I arrived in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, I found it deserted, a ghost city: Everyone was away at the public executions. The television report later that day said that the crowd was very nearly disappointed, because the execution ground had been waterlogged, but fortunately — at least for the spectators — a dry area was found into which the stakes could be driven so that the criminals could be shot after all.
Doctor Johnson thought that, if one of the purposes of an execution was to deter, it should be held in public. Certainly public executions were very popular, and in the past everyone loved a good one: When Dr. William Palmer, for example — the Prince of Poisoners — was hanged at Stafford Gaol in 1856, the number of spectators exceeded the population of the town by three times. (Palmer was in advance of his time as far as the precautionary principle was concerned. Approaching the somewhat rickety and ramshackle scaffold with the hangman, he turned to him and asked, “Is it safe?”)
Charles I was beheaded with an axe: Such a death was considered nobler and more dignified than mere hanging, a form of execution unbecoming for the upper classes. Beheading remained the prerogative of the well-born in Europe until Dr. Guillotin, in the name of humanity, proposed his democratic beheading machine after the Convention decreed in 1792 that all executions henceforth should be by decapitation; the machine swiftly proved popular with the crowds and was last used in public in France in 1939. There was once a considerable and learned medical debate in France not only about the most humane method of severing the head from the body, but about whether consciousness survived beheading, the lips and eyes of the beheaded having sometimes been seen in the basket to move for some seconds after separation from the neck.
Since then, our sensibility in the matter of decapitation has changed greatly. During the war the Japanese beheaded many of their prisoners, not as a tribute to their nobility, but as an expression of complete contempt for them. This provoked our revulsion. Beheading of any kind henceforth seemed to us barbaric and primitive. One might have moral qualms about the hygienically sound, quasi-medical, almost euphemistic executions by injection that take place in chambers bearing a too-close resemblance to operating rooms, but no one would propose beheading as an alternative.
Except, of course, in the Islamic world. There has been no change of sensibility there, at least in two important Islamic states and among Islamist terrorists. Saudi Arabia still favors public beheading as a means of execution, and Iran has used it in special cases. But of course it is the terrorists who use it to the greatest effect. The video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl, the writer for the Wall Street Journal who was killed in Pakistan, is among the items regularly seized by British police during raids on households suspected of harboring Islamist terrorists. The video is used as recruitment propaganda.
Islamists have beheaded hostages and opponents in Algeria, Chechnya, Iraq, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Thailand. In late June, for example, a traveling salesman from northern Thailand was publicly beheaded by Islamists outside a teashop in southern Thailand and his head thrown away a mile or two down the road by his executioners. No doubt this will stifle theological debate in the area for some time.
You don’t have to be a follower of Jung to discern something deeply symbolic in these beheadings by self-appointed executioners. To sever the head from the body, at least nowadays when we have a more refined sensibility, is not merely to kill: It is symbolically to annihilate not only the biological existence of the beheaded, but the very thoughts he has had during his lifetime. To throw away a head as if it were a worthless inanimate object is to deny in the most categorical way possible any ideas that it might have had while living. It is to imply that only correct thoughts can henceforth be allowed to exist in heads, the kind of thoughts that the executioners themselves have; not until there is unanimity in thoughts, they imply, will our heads rest easy on our shoulders.
One hardly needs to emphasize the terrifying demonstration effect of the decapitation of supposed infidels by people to whom plenty of bullets are available as an alternative, swifter, and more certain method of procuring death. We conclude, as we are intended to conclude, that these are fierce and ruthless people whose belief in their own desert-tribal righteousness is unshakable. We should never forget that to commit barbarity in the name of righteousness is one of the greatest joys known to man — or at least to many men — and not just to Islamists, though at the moment it is they alone who have the courage of their barbarity, and rejoice publicly in it.
But is beheading Islamic? Clearly it is not uniquely so, or it would have been unknown elsewhere, which is certainly very far from the case. Nevertheless, in the modern world at least, beheading seems to be largely the prerogative of people acting in the name of Islam. This is a sociological fact, whatever the doctrinal justification for it. But is beheading permitted or enjoined or forbidden by true Islam?
Someone unversed in classical Arabic is, of course, dependent on translations, but translations of the very same verse of the Koran that is relevant to the question vary so much that it is impossible to be sure what the verse really means. Some say that the verse means only that the neck of an enemy may be struck, and that this by no means entails that he may be killed; others that his throat can be cut, Ã la Theo van Gogh, but that he cannot be decapitated; others again that beheading is permitted, but only under the strictest juridical control, and that freelance beheading is certainly not permitted in Islam. It seems to me that a scholar could devote a lifetime to the question, and not come up with a definitive answer.
But the very terms of the debate are the most significant thing about it, and demonstrate the lack of, as well as the burning need for, an Islamic Enlightenment. For the assumption behind the debate is that the answer to the question, “Can people taken more or less at random, who are however members of a class or nation perceived to be an enemy of Islam, rightly be beheaded?” is to be found somewhere in the Koran or the Hadith, and nowhere else. Original thought is unnecessary, since the answer to every question has already been given, if only we are diligent enough to find it in irreproachable texts. If the Koran or the Hadith says that such beheading is right, it is right; if it says it is wrong, it is wrong. If Mohammed says we can cut off people’s heads whenever we choose, then we can; if he doesn’t, then we can’t. Compared with this, even the most literal-minded Bible fundamentalist in the West lives, de facto at least, like the child of Voltaire, for even such a fundamentalist probably wouldn’t dare justify decapitation as a policy by reference to David and Goliath. And if by any chance he did, he would rightly be laughed at by his fellow citizens.
Of course, adept scholastics can find almost anything in any text. For example, enthusiasts find abortion and euthanasia writ large in the American Constitution. The urge to decapitate no doubt precedes the attempted justification for it in Islamic texts, which merely turns a pleasure into a sacred duty.
The mixture of scholasticism and a thoroughly modern sense of grievance or resentment is a highly combustible one, especially where the texts in question can be interpreted bloodthirstily, even if they need not be. Cruelty is never worse than when higher authority is invoked not merely to justify, but to demand it.
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LE MORTE DARTHUR
Le Morte D'Arthur
Le Morte D'Arthur
At the time when the late Mr. Joseph Malaby Dent commissioned Aubrey Beardsley, and the latter undertook, to furnish drawings for a new illustrated edition of the “Morte Darthur,” publisher and artist were alike strangers to the public. The firm of Messrs Dent & Co. had but recently started on its career of publishing, while as to Aubrey Beardsley, his name, which was destined shortly to became a household word, was then quite unknown to fame. It happens that Mr Dent had told Mr Fredrick H. Evans (then a bookseller in Queen Street, E.C., with whom Beardsley, in the days when he was short of cash, used to barter drawings for books) that he was contemplating an illustrated edition of the “Morte,” if only he could meet with a suitable artist. Mr. Evans then remembered Beardsley and kindly recommended him to Mr Dent, who asked Beardsley to submit a specimen drawing for the purpose. He produced the drawing which forms the frontispiece to this volume, the wonderful “Achieving of the Sangreal,” and it was on the strength of it that Mr Dent decided to give him the order for the whole book. It was Beardsley’s first serious commission, for hitherto he had made practically nothing of his art. On the part of the publisher it was an exceedingly courageous venture to entrust so important a task to an obscure young man—he was not yet twenty-one years old—and Mr Dent deserved all the credit which this his early association with Beardsley subsequently brought him.
Meanwhile Beardsley had been introduced, at the house of Mr Wilfred Meyenell in Palace Court, to the late Mr Charles Lewis Hind, who (at that time sub-editor of the “Art Journal”) was full of the project of a new artistic magazine, which eventually materialized in “The Studio.” Having found Mr Charles Holme to finance his scheme, Mr Hind, who promptly recognized Beardsley’s extraordinary genius, secured a number of Beardsley’s compositions for the new publication. Before, however, the first number of the “Studio” (which bore date April 1893) saw the light, Mr Hind had been offered the editorship of the “Pall Mall Budget.” Being released by Mr Holme from his obligation, Mr Hind had already severed his connection with the “Studio” by the time that it made its appearance, and it fell to his successor, the late Mr Gleeson White, to make the necessary arrangements with Messrs Dent. Nevertheless, since Mr Hind was actual editor at the outset, it was his task to prepare the first number for publication, and it was he who was thus responsible for the immense distinction which the “Studio” obtained from the inclusion of the young artist’s work in its pages. At the same time it must be allowed that Beardsley himself received a splendid advertisement from the appearance of his designs in this popular form and through the widespread circulation which the “Studio” instantly won both for itself and for his art.
Among the examples of Beardsley’s work comprised in the first number of the “Studio” there were published four specimens from the “Morte Darthur,” viz., an initial letter I, an ornamental border, a frieze of six men fighting, and a full-page plate depicting “Merlin taketh the child Arthur into his keeping.” These four samples from the “Morte” anticipated by two months the issue of the first instalment of the book itself. ..................................................
.................Beardsley started illustrating the “Mort” with the utmost enthusiasm, but he quickly tired of it, and declared he would not go on with it. He used to put off doing it as long as he could. Toward the close of each period when the date for the delivery of the covenanted installment of drawings approached, he would be behindhand, and it was only by dint of pressure on the part of his publisher, seconded by the persuasions and entreaties of Beardsley’s mother, that he could be induced to apply himself to the irksome task. The publisher was driven to despair. He tried first one plan and then another to save the “Morte” from being abandoned. One such expedient was the offer of other work to the artist, as a diversion to enliven the monotony. Accordingly, while the “Morte” lagged, Mr Dent gave Beardsley a further order, that of illustrating “Bon Mots,” published in 3 volumes in 1893. He also suggested that Beardsley should try his hand at some illustrations for “Evelina,” of which, however, only the title page by Beardsley appeared in the book.
The fact is Beardsley was constitutionally incapable of sustained effort. His moods and interests, instead of marching and developing with the leisurely passage of years, changed and leaped from one phase to another, weekly or even daily, in rapid transition. His life, as he himself was fully aware, was bound to be short, and into that brief span had to be crowded all the manifold episodes which the average person might reasonably expect to have plenty of time to experience. What wonder, then, if, in Aubrey Beardsley’s case, mood followed mood in lightening succession? He would take up some idea or project with absorbing interest. He would discuss it and formulate it with minute precision and elaboration, and yet, long before he had had the opportunity to carry it out, he zeal would evaporate and turn to utter weariness, and he would have become absorbed in some fresh scheme.
This accounts for the extraordinary inequality of the “Morte Darthur” illustrations. The circumstance is one which can scarcely fail to strike even a casual observer, but it would have been still more evident if all the drawings had been published in the exact order in which they were produced. Some, however, were held back from a time; others were repeated in later pages of the book. The decline is thus not so noticeable as it must otherwise have been ..............................
...............It had already been mentioned that the “Morte” designs were not all placed in the book in the same order in which they were drawn. Some indeed were begun in the flood-tide of enthusiasm, and laid aside, but half done, to be finished later. These, though naturally the find a place toward the end of the book, yet, so far as they go, exhibit a higher standard of endeavour and efficiency than many of those whose inception and uninterrupted execution belong to the later period. Among the drawings thus projected for the “Morte”, but only half sketched in at the outset, are some which were destined never to be completed in accord with their original scheme. Thus in one instance a horseman is depicted, but only the near hindquarter of his mount is shown! Obviously Beardsley found it quicker and easier, when he took up this unfinished drawing, to fill in the unoccupied space with a wash of black, instead of supplying the full details yet needed to perfect the picture. That part of the composition, however, which is actually complete is of such a high order as to excite profound regret for what should have been and yet is lost beyond recall. ...............................
The interesting part: Beardsley never read the book.
Go to Le Morte D'Arthur page
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The name “Foxconn” has been much maligned in the past year, and for, to some extent, good reason – workplace abuses have been well documented. Despite that, this video taken by marketplace.org Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz gives another side of the story. It’s one that might force many to scale back the volume of their cries of alarm.
Schmitz’ video starts out with a look at the iPad assembly line, where Apple’s tablet is made by hand, albeit with some machine assistance. Machines help to put the motherboards together and test gyroscope functionality, but much of the work is done by hand. That work looks a lot like the boring, tedious brand of factory labor that you’ll find in just about any country with a factory.
Of course, tedious work isn’t what people are up in arms about when it comes to Foxconn. The factory, located in Shenzhen, first got a bad name when word got out about the spate of suicides, attempted suicides, and threats of suicide, along with abusively long working hours and low pay. There are no interviews in the video, but Schmitz recounts some interviews he had with Foxconn employees. Again, their words might force some to reconsider their positions on Foxconn.
The most striking part about the people who make up Foxconn’s labor force is how many of them there are – a staggering 240,000 people work at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, with hundreds more showing up at the gates every day to apply for positions. Most of those people are migrants from other parts of China who have left their homes to make money to send back to their families, and about 50,000 of them live in dormitories on-site. That means that the best description of this Foxconn facility isn’t to call it a factory – it’s more accurate to call it a city.
The residents of that city initially make about $14 a day working for Foxconn. A day often means 10 hours or more of labor. That’s low, but, as some employees whom Schmitz interviewed pointed out, it’s much higher than what they or their families make living in rural China, often off of subsistence farming. Some workers, when told about current the perception of Foxconn abroad, laughed about it, saying it’s not all that bad. The main complaints from employees were unfair treatment from supervisors, not getting paid properly for overtime, and being forced to work when sick. To a lesser extent, they are complaints not wholly unknown in the Western world.
The rosier picture of Foxconn is also supported by the fact that it tends to pay its workers on time – something many claim does not happen in other factories in China. Also, that “city” comes with amenities, like athletic fields, fast-food restaurants, banks, cafes, grocery stores, a library, and swimming pools.
Of course, the video is no reason to let Foxconn – or Apple – totally off the hook. The pay, though it represents a large step up from much of the poverty-stricken areas of rural China, is still incredibly low, even considering the far lower price of goods and services in China compared to the West. The mass suicide threat of 150 workers happened for a reason (a pay dispute involving raises promised and not delivered), and allegations of child labor have been substantiated. Maybe the most important thing to keep in mind is that the Shenzhen facility is only one of 13 Foxconn factories in China, and is by far the largest and nicest. Most of the other factories lack the amenities of “Foxconn City,” and have much harsher working conditions.
Others interviewed in China’s rural areas claim that, by farming and performing odd jobs, they have been able to save more than those who work at Foxconn. Factory workers complain of the tedium, with most stating that their Foxconn stays will only last for a few years, while they save up money to help their families.
The report paints a very contradictory picture of Foxconn and China. So, is Foxconn a sickening example of labor exploitation or a misunderstood company that genuinely cares about its employees? The answer is clear from the report – there is no answer. The situation, like all other situations involving us humans, is infinitely complex and unclear. The best we can do is try to understand using the information presented to us, and Schmitz’ report does a terrific job of helping us to do that – by letting the people speak for themselves.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund have long been connected with baseball. So it’s only fitting that the new statues of Dana-Farber founder Sidney Farber, MD, and 12-year-old Einar Gustafson, one of his early patients, reflect this historic relationship.
Gustafson of New Sweden, Maine, was the young cancer patient who helped launch the Jimmy Fund. In a national radio broadcast in 1948, Gustafson – dubbed “Jimmy” to protect his privacy – was visited in the hospital by members of the Boston Braves baseball team as listeners were encouraged to champion the fight against cancer. The statues on Jimmy Fund Way in Boston were created by Brian Hanlon; they show “Jimmy” in his authentic Boston Braves uniform and cap given to him by the team.
Long-time Dana-Farber supporter James “Jim” Vinick commissioned the statues to celebrate Dana-Farber’s rich history, and to preserve the story of how a young patient’s love for baseball helped launched a fundraising movement.
Vinick’s son, Jeffrey, and daughter, Beth, were both pediatric patients at Dana-Farber. Jeffrey passed away, but Beth was successfully treated for a brain tumor when she was 12, the same age as Gustafson in the statues.
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Kelly Goodsir mentored Ellen Carney, teacher at Guardian Richmond in 2021. This is a reflection Ellen wrote of an inquiry they engaged with children and her learning over 6mths.
The beginning of this year posed many challenges for our kindergarten classroom with plenty of change and uncertainty inside and outside the classroom. I found myself faced with a number of complexities within my group: Big behaviours, anger, distress, worry, anxiety. Whilst these feelings are all ok to have, they were outweighing the feelings that keep a level of balance in a group setting. Feelings like calm, happiness, peace to name a few. One thing I knew we had going for us was our strong trusting relationships, so I knew deep down we would get through this difficult start to the year. I did often wonder: How were we going to do it?
Beginnings are always hard, trying to see the wood through the trees. I decided to just start with something I knew, the zones of regulation, a common tool associating colours with feelings. Each day we would explore this at our yarning circle, sharing feelings and making connections to the zones. In a way, this built our common language around connecting what we do with what we feel.
This year (2021) I am working with Kelly Goodsir alongside me as my mentor. She could see this was a strength in our classroom. She could also see its limitations. Kelly made a welcome suggestion to move away from the commercial element of the zones and allow children to make connections to their own thinking and ideas within their play contexts. What would it mean to really dive into the messy and complex world of feelings and self-regulation she asked? What possibilities might exist if we explore many pathways in the hope to make stronger connections to what Dr Stuart Shanker calls the ‘calm, ready, alert’ child? So that is what we did - instead of seeing the zones poster as the place of conversation we shifted the self regulation conversation into the play context more.
The power of listening, observation and data collection
We started engaging with a new way of collecting data. We gathered the threads of meaning the children naturally engaged in through their words, drawings, photographs and creations. The children used multiple media to really inform a conversation about how they already showed an understanding of their feelings, and the management of them. Observing and listening in this way is an empowering strategy. It takes the pressure off and positions children with the answers; we just needed to listen differently.
The slowing down and collecting data in this way allowed us to really see and to meet children as collaborators in the decision-making process. It was about not rushing ahead with a teaching outcome in mind. Instead we trusted that in the messiness of day to day play children would reveal insights that would off offer us the building blocks for moving forward in our planning. Kelly and I would have planning conversations every month where we discuss and reflect what I’ve noticed; what was unexpected; and which ideas were having traction in play. These conversations allow us to stay tuned into what sustains children’s attention and not planning ahead unnecessarily. We are always navigating the best way to support children’s ability to either come back to ‘calm, ready and alert’ to learn or to be in a state of ‘calm, ready, alert’ to learn longer. Six months later, here is what made a significance difference to what is now an overall calm, peaceful and productive learning environment.
Working from a strength based perspective has to be quite the conscious choice, especially when items are being thrown, voices are raised and safety is of concern. An immediate response is always necessary and often co-regulation must happen. It is my intention to support each child to find ways to manage themselves too. When Kelly suggested 1:1 agreements with children where we collaborate on individualised strategies with the child, I was keen to give this a go. I did wonder, would it really work? This changed a lot for me as a teacher. I was able to have conversations with children when they were calm and come up with an agreement with them that was fair and reasonable. Then, if the agreement no longer worked, we could revisit it together and problem solve again. It was a working document and yes, it was a slower process, but the long-term outcome meant children came to trust that an agreement was a way to have their voice heard. We were building up the skills to self-regulate by collaborating with children as part of the solution, and by making amendments to the agreement as children’s needs changed. This meant we could reflect on our progress and celebrate this over time.
A Peaceful Zone
One of the conversations that came up quite early after removing the commercialisation of the zones of regulation was a new association: The ‘purple zone’. The children described this as ‘calm and peaceful’,with one child saying ‘you need to make the room quiet, so slow and close the door. That’s peaceful’. Of course, a calm and peaceful classroom is what these children were craving after the stress and anxiety they had been facing. I tried to delve into this more. The children were creating very interesting purple images. I didn’t feel as though I was truly tapping into the depth of this idea. It was more of an association with the colour that I was making. It didn’t feel that meaningful to them, so back to listening and noticing again.
Then along came the conversation on dreams one morning. I noticed it kept coming up again and again. We would share stories about the weird and wonderful dreams we were having exploring questions like: What is a dream and why do we have them? One child noted ‘when I close my eyes I have colour in my brain. Normally when I have my eyes really closed I have a dream, but today I was just looking at the colour’.
We began sharing our dreams every day, this acted as a way for children to develop their storytelling skills and make connections to one another. They were making each other laugh, they were revisiting dreams they had had, they were including one another in their dreams. These discussions were bringing us together as a community. They were something we could all relate to in one way or another. Inspired by a book I was reading ‘Unearthing Why’ by Jill McLachlan and Clare Britt I decided to engage the idea that ‘art is their (children’s) living tool to seek understanding in the world; to creatively express responses to and questions about life; to attempt to connect with others’ expressions, questions and meaning making, and to seek to be understood by others; to collaborate, share and communicate the joy of creating in community with others.’
This idea of using the arts to deepen our thinking about dreams and strengthen the connections these conversations were making made sense as the next planning step. I invited the children to draw their dreams, and their ideas really came alive on paper. As a provocation, we created a ‘dreamcatcher’ in the centre of the table where we meet, a talking point and a place to gather our documented dreams. As time went on and the children continued to share their dreams, we started to include their own ‘dream book’; a journal of sorts where they could make visible their ongoing stories about dreaming.
It started to become evident to me that the classroom atmosphere was much more peaceful and relaxed. It was the obvious next step to make our own dream catchers. Threading and beading became a great strategy to add to our toolkit of strategies for being ‘calm, ready and alert’ to learn. This repeated practice offered children who struggle with social interactions an opportunity to be with, and work alongside others and practice their social skills in a calmer setting. For some children, this time was their favourite part of the day offering time to connect, and bringing a sense of overall peace and stillness to the classroom.
Connection to materials…
I started to think about the impact of using different materials in our program and how this can have a positive impact on our wellbeing. On one of Kelly’s early visits she introduced a small group of children to Zentangle, a drawing technique with spirals, circles and intricate shapes drawn inside a square on a small piece of paper. It’s almost a meditative practice, and the children were really taken by it. I invited the children to engage with this practice during our ‘quiet time’ and day after day they were focused and calm and creating more and more intricate designs. This was a true reflection of what peaceful meant – it was not about the matching colours or zones of colours anymore, it was about being calm and what helped our bodies feel this calm.
Learning to self-regulate is not as simple as teaching children a feeling and classifying it to a colour. It is about experiences in everyday play that offer an opportunity to listen closely and partner with children from where they are, then gently build using emotional literacy in the moment. It is the combination of working with the individual and the group as a whole to connect their feelings to strategies throughout the day - making self regulation a collaboration and one that always needs to be in the forefront. For me, I have come to find myself more at peace as a teacher with the complexity of this process understanding not to over simplify a skill by sticking with associations to colour or any other prescribed method - children are highly creative and capable of complexity in their learning. It has been wonderful to now have a calm and peaceful environment....and have a shared language and approach when we don't.
Written by Ellen Carney supported by Kelly Goodsir
Kelly was a mentor as part of the Department of Education and Training Victoria, Improving Quality Through Educational Program & Practice Program, provided by Semann & Slattery and consortium members fka Children's Services. This article was also first published in
'The Space Magazine' in 2021
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Mr. Thomas N. Cooper
Certified Safety Professional
Fire Safety Specialist
1666 L.J. Freehafer
Hall of Administrative Services
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1666
Dear Mr. Cooper:
This is in response to your letter dated September 13, concerning the interpretation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) standards 1910.134 and 1910.156 which address the requirement for workers who are actively conducting operations in atmospheres that are immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH). Specifically you were concerned about an alert that was distributed on August 1, by the Indiana Public Safety Training Institute (PSTI) to all Indiana fire fighters, regarding it interpretation of IDLH atmospheres.
In response to several inquires, OSHA issued an interpretation on requirements for the number of workers required to be present when conducting operations in atmospheres that are IDLH. Because the interpretation covers several issues relating to IDLH atmospheres, this letter will address those provisions regarding the application of OSHA standards to fire fighting operations. As you will note, OSHA does not consider all fires to constitute IDLH situations. Incipient fires which do not create IDLH situations, or external fire fighting efforts at a major interior structural fire, are not covered by our interpretation. The interpretation does not mandate the number of personal necessary to staff a fire apparatus leaving a station.
The interpretation covers the number of persons who must be on the scene before fire fighting personnel may begin the interior attack on an interior structural fire. An interior structural fire (an advanced fire that has spread inside of the building where high temperatures, "heat" and dense smoke are normally occurring) would present an IDLH atmosphere and therefore, require the use of respirators. In those cases, at least two "outside" (standby) persons (in addition to the minimum of two persons inside needed to fight the fire) must be present before fire fighters may enter the building. This would allow one of the standby personnel to enter the building if an emergency arises requiring rescue of the fire fighters. (The incident commander may be one of the two outside.) Until those persons arrive on the scene, fire fighters may fight the blaze from outside the structure and carry out rescue activities.
Under the National Fire Protection Association standards relating to fire fighter safety and health, the incident commander may make exceptions to these rules if necessary to save lives. OSHA recognizes that the incident commander has the training and experience to recognize when the nature and extent of the fire would call for such exceptions.
With regards to the Indiana PSTI Alert, we contacted Mr. David Bear, Deputy Commissioner, Indiana Department of Labor, regarding the Indiana Public Safety Training Institute's interpretation of OSHA's requirements for IDLH or potential IDLH atmospheres and specifically, its Alert which was sent to all Indiana Firefighters on August 1, 1995. Deputy Commissioner Bear assured us that the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (IOSHA) interpretation is identical to Federal OSHA's interpretation. The Deputy Commissioner also indicated that he has personally contacted the Indiana Public Safety Training Institute to clarify IOSHA's interpretation of the requirements for IDLH atmospheres and, the application of the OSHA standard to fire fighting operations.
I hope this information is helpful to you, and will clarify both Federal OSHA's interpretation and the State of Indiana's interpretation.
Paula O. White, Director
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Menopause is approaching and we start to tremble, it seems a cruel irony of fate that just when we start to relax because we no longer have to worry about the period, we get a lot of new annoyances: hot flashes, incontinence, bad mood, vaginal dryness and to top it off, we can also gain weight! But rest assured, you will prevent fat from settling on the waist if you take the necessary measures in your diet and in your training.
Keys to Not Gaining Weight with Menopause
When we eat too many refined carbohydrates like white bread, mashed potatoes, sugary drinks, sweets, and alcohol, we promote an immediate spike in blood sugar. We force the pancreas to secrete large amounts of insulin to regulate the glycemic index. Too much sugar in the blood for long periods of time eventually leads to insulin resistance. In general, insulin and blood sugar levels are better regulated through a diet of complex or unrefined carbohydrates (foods such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains). Such diets help balance hormones and alleviate many of the symptoms of menopause and per menopause by:
- -reduction of fatigue, better quality of sleep and more energy
- -more athletic endurance
- -more ability to increase muscle mass
- -less hungry
- -dream deeper and better quality
- -a stable mood, more optimism
Don’t go on miracle diets
Now you will need fewer calories due to the loss of muscle mass, but the solution is not drastic diets, but slightly reducing your caloric intake, it will be enough for you to eat about 250 kcal less a day. Basically, be careful what you eat.
If you follow the previous point and consume less sugar, you will have already reduced your daily calorie intake. Carbohydrates should represent between 45-60% of total calories, proteins, between 10 and 15% and fats between 20 and 35%.
The ingested proteins must be of high biological value, so that they provide the necessary amounts of essential amino acids (legumes, nuts, lean meat, fish and chicken are healthy sources of protein). However, don’t go overboard with protein because excess protein can prevent the body from absorbing calcium. As for fats, substitute olive oil or butter, margarine and lard.
Sunbathe (in moderation)
The body needs to be in the sun to make enough vitamin D to absorb calcium. But there are few foods that contain it: avocado, blue fish, wheat germ. On the other hand, one of the easiest ways to obtain this vitamin is to expose you to solar radiation, but do it carefully.
Always use sunscreen. In winter, you can be in the sun for up to two hours to receive your vitamin D ration, in autumn and spring limit yourself to half an hour and in summer leave it only for 10 minutes. That is your best ally for osteoporosis. In addition, a study in medical news today reveals the close relationship between increased amounts of abdominal fat and low levels of vitamin D.
During menopause, collagen production decreases and its regeneration is slower. The skin loses luminosity, becomes more sensitive to external agents, small wounds take longer to heal and redness appears. It is very important to be well hydrated. The skin is not the only one that needs hydration in menopause, so does your body.
Drinking water will help you drain, to expel unnecessary waste from your body and will satisfy you at mealtime, so the caloric intake will be lowed. Plus, hydrating properly helps alleviate some of the worst symptoms like hot flashes, dry mouth, and dizziness.
This is the key, the most important thing to avoid gaining weight during menopause is to lead an active life. Train every day: swim, walk, ride a bike. Combine aerobic training with strength work. The latter is very important for two reasons: because it helps increase muscle mass, which makes you burn more calories per day, and because strength exercise is a great ally to protect against osteoporosis, since one of its benefits it is the stimulation of the cells responsible for generating bone mass.
In other words, strength training helps us with the two things we lose with menopause: muscle and bone. According to a comprehensive study published in the obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America, physical activity is probably the most powerful tool for health promotion and disease prevention in premenopausal and menopausal women.
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Pyongyang, Apr 10 (ANI): North Korea is willing to sacrifice much-needed US food aid by ignoring America's warming on conducting missile tests in order to strengthen popular support for the country's new leader, Kim Jong-un, according to analysts.
The United States recently said that any provocative action by North Korea, either a rocket test scheduled for the coming days, or what would be the country's third nuclear test, would only further isolate the backward communist nation.
Experts believe that Pyongyang is, however, taking things differently and is constantly ignoring US warnings in an attempt to bolster the country's young leader, The Christian Science monitor reports.
According to the paper, experts believe the regime's decision to disregard its February agreement and proceed with the launch suggests an internal disagreement surfaced over the deal with the US.
Some analysts suggested that one possibility is that the military overruled a deal reached by civilian officials.
According to the paper, the willingness to scuttle a food deal with the US suggests the regime's top priority at the moment is shoring up support for Kim Jong-un.
The regime aims to convince its people that the world is transfixed by every decision he makes, like a "glorious" rocket launch.
The report also said that some experts believe the physical evidence of an imminent nuclear test may be squarely aimed at the US.
They speculate Pyongyang may be going through the motions of test preparations, whether or not it actually plans to carry out such a test, to present a sort of bargaining chip to coax the US to reinstate the rescinded aid deal. (ANI)
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Sound Recollection Collection
There is a growing body of scientific literature that explores the potential of adding natural sounds to a living environment. An example is Designing Supportive Soundscapes for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia; Paul Devos, et.al. In it is stated, “..a soundscape (e.g., containing natural sounds) can also have a positive effect on health and well-being. What they are proposing as a soundscape is more complex, but these panels are an excellent way to introduce such “natural sounds” into your residential community. We suggest experimenting with sound combinations residence can create, like Horses and Cows, which may share a pasture, or Frogs croaking and Little Ducks chirping.
Read more about how familiar sounds can benefit people with dementia on our blog:
• Digitally enhanced audio for superior sound
• Laminated images accept commercial cleaners
• Sound button located on side
• Includes AAA lithium batteries
• Security hardware
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- Caribbean gateway to Central America and the Caribbean, as Belize is commonly viewed as the most convenient hub for gaining access to both regions.
- Belize is bordered to the North by Mexico, South and West by Guatemala, and by the Caribbean Sea on its East.
- Belize is characterized by a variety of incredible biological and geographic diversity. The mainland contains tropical rainforests, coastal forests and grassland that host precious tropical flora and fauna.
- The Belizean shore is distinguished by its more than 100 coastal islands and the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere – spanning over 180 miles (290 kilometers).
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Sparkolloid is a proprietary fining agent which is effective against a wide range of hazes. Sparkolloid carries a positive charge and thus combines with negatively charged particles, removing them from the wine. It should only be used on wine which has been racked at least one time.
Mix 0.5 to 2 grams ( 1 to 1.5 tsp) of Sparkolloid in 30 ml (1 fluid ounce) of water per gallon of wine to be fined. Heat to boiling in a double boiler and simmer for half an hour. Prevent scorching by frequent stirring. Replace any liquid which is lost by evaporation with additional water. Stir the wine with a dowel and slowly add the hot Sparkolloid while still stirring.
The Sparkolloid will settle within a week at which point the wine should be racked again. The sediment from Sparkolloid is easily disturbed, so great care must be exercised during racking. It may be beneficial to follow the Sparkolloid fining with bentonite to give more compact sediment. The bentonite should be hydrated and added after the Sparkolloid has settled out completely.
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Definitions for SWAKas initials or swæk
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word SWAK
When Tony opens a mysterious letter thinking it's for him, a small puff of white powder comes out and it releases a possible deadly virus. Kate calls for help and soon she and Tony are isolated in a bio-hazard isolation room for precausion. McGee and Gibbs work to discover who sent the envelope and how to cure their friends before its too late for them. Meanwhile, Tony's health gets worse...
The numerical value of SWAK in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
The numerical value of SWAK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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George, M J and Rao, P Vedavyasa (1966) A new species of Metapenaeus (Decapoda, Penaeidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 8 (1). pp. 146-151.
Whilst examining a collection of prawns from the Gulf of Kutch area, three specimens showed clear diflFerences from others. A closer study of the important generic characters made it difficult to assign these specimens to any of the species of Metapenaeus Wood-Mason and Alcock described so far, and hence they are reported here as species new to science.
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This has been a sobering autumn for the Federal Reserve Board. With foreign capital fleeing U.S. shores and oil nudging $40 a barrel, the Fed is left with mostly unhappy choices. Allow interest rates to fall and the dollar gets weaker, as additional money departs for overseas. Leave interest rates alone and the economy loses sap as stock prices tumble. Inflation, meanwhile, lubricated by the oil shock, has run rampant just when the economy appears to have entered a state of torpor. Friday's report on wholesale inflation showed prices galloping ahead 1.6 percent in September. That was on top of a 1.3 percent gain in August. With numbers like that, Fed members probably would just as soon forget Thursday's upcoming report on inflation at the consumer level.
Watch for: Another shocker, with a leap in the consumer price index for September of 0.9 percent. As long as the increase stays below 1 percent, some analysts can be expected to call for the Fed to ratchet interest rates downward.
Recession talk refuses to be silenced, though not all analysts agree the United States has entered a slump. If a recession is underway, it probably began in June, says professor Victor Zarnowitz of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. "There was a decline in July and August in economic indicators relating to employment and industrial production," he notes. Zarnowitz says it takes about six months to clearly identify a recession.
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As we age, skin cells divide more slowly, and the inner skin (or dermis), starts to thin. Fat cells beneath the dermis begin to atrophy, and the underlying network of elastin and collagen fibers loosen and unravel. Fat cells provide “scaffolding” for the surface layers, skin begins to visibly lose its elasticity. When pressed, it no longer springs back.
The skin’s ability to retain moisture also decreases as the sweat and oil-secreting glands become less productive. Skin becomes drier and is slower in repairing itself.
Facial expressions–or dynamic motion–also cause permanent creases over time. Frown lines (those between the eyebrows) and crow’s feet (lines that radiate from the corners of the eyes) develop because of repeated small muscle contractions and habitual facial expressions form characteristic lines.
The degree of wrinkling depends on your genetic makeup, but smoking, dry skin and sun exposure (especially sunburns) make it worse. In fact, exposure to ultraviolet light, UVA or UVB, from sunlight accounts for 90% of the symptoms of premature skin aging. And most of the photoaging effects occur by age 20, even though it may take years to see it.
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I was brushing my teeth last night and as I squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube, I started thinking back to when I was growing up. I think we predominantly used Aim toothpaste at home, but that’s not the point. The point of today’s post is how we got the toothpaste out of the tube. Everyone in our family basically just squeezed the tube wherever they could to get the toothpaste out. Not my dad. He used to squeeze from the bottom and every couple of days, he’d run the tube across the edge of the counter or something to push all the toothpaste up to the top of the tube, so it was easier to get out. I mean, it’s a minor thing, but it does make it easier. Still, he was the only one in the house who did it. Now I do it, too. I think it’s pretty rare that people do this with their toothpaste – or is it? Do you or anyone you know do it?
My dad does a lot of stuff like this – making things easier to access and/or find and being orderly with things. I think it’s because he doesn’t want to deal with the prospect of having to fight with the tube or waste time looking for something. Maybe he can comment if I’m wrong, but that’s what I’m thinking is the reason.
Extreme Makover update: they’ve pretty much finished the exterior now and most work going on is on the interior. We’re lucky to live so close – at about 6pm, the throngs of the curious public emerge, walking orderly past our house (nobody is allowed to drive on the road except residents and HUGE trucks) to see the job site. The nice part is that during the day there’s almost nobody out there, so you can get a front row seat. I’ve been out there during my lunch each day this week, taking it all in. It is awesome to watch.
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The way consumers shop has been evolving for some time now. The steady pivot away from brick-and-mortar shopping to online purchasing has accelerated significantly over the last few years. Over half of American consumers prefer to shop online according to research compiled by Fit Small Business. This trend in consumer preferences presents both challenges and opportunities for online retailers.
In this post, we’ll explore the importance of e-commerce packaging and the role that it plays in connecting retail brands with consumers. We’ll cover the most common types of e-commerce packaging and share some tips to make yours stand out. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some inspiration from ten companies that are taking full advantage of the opportunities that innovative product packaging presents.
What is E-commerce Packaging?
E-commerce packaging is, at face value, the vessel your product comes in when customers order from your e-commerce business. This includes the shipping materials as well as the product packaging. The purpose of e-commerce packaging is to protect the product while also representing your brand. For well-designed e-commerce packaging, you must go beyond simply fulfilling the purpose.
Well-designed e-commerce packaging is important for multiple reasons. First, the shipping materials protect the product from distributor to consumer. Since customers aren’t visiting a physical storefront and carrying their purchases home themselves, extra care must be taken in getting the product to its destination. Second, e-commerce packaging is your chance to showcase your brand’s personality and give your customers that personal touch without face-to-face interaction.
Types of E-commerce Packaging
There are a number of ways to package products for e-commerce applications. The right choice for your products will largely depend on what you’re selling. First, you’ll need to consider the outer packaging for your product (if applicable). Here are some common and not-so-common outer packaging concepts.
- Folding cartons – Folding cartons dress up and add extra protection to your product. This extra layer can also serve to display required information about your product, allowing you to use the label as a canvas for your creativity.
- Paper tubes – Paper tubes are a unique packaging concept that adds interest to any product type. Companies like Paper Tube Co. create customizable rigid cardboard tubes of varying sizes that protect your product and provide a fun unboxing experience.
- Fabric bags – Fabric bags can add a premium look and feel to your product. Providing texture and a memorable unboxing experience, fabric bags can also become a fun branded keepsake for your customers.
Next, you’ll need to choose your shipping materials. Your choice here depends on what type of product you have and how fragile it might be. Check out the most common outer shipping materials for e-commerce packaging.
- Corrugated cardboard — The most indestructible of all e-commerce packaging materials, corrugated cardboard can take quite a beating while protecting its precious contents. Double- and triple-walled boxes are the most common way to package and ship e-commerce orders. They’re ideal for shipping just about anything that’s likely to break if it sustains a hard impact.
- Padded mailers — This material is ideal for products that are unlikely to break on impact but need a little extra padding. Think books, jewelry, or clothing. Padded envelopes are cheaper to produce and cost less to ship than corrugated boxes.
- Poly mailers — The lightest and cheapest of all e-commerce packaging, plastic mailers provide very little protection during the shipping process. If you’re selling clothing, fabrics, or something else that can be bent and flexed without damaging the product, their very low production and shipping costs make poly mailers hard to beat.
Additionally, you’ll need to consider infill. Choosing the right infill is extremely important as this is what protects the product within and prevents it from being jostled during shipment. If you’ve ever ordered something from a large e-commerce store and received it in a box too large with a small square of bubble wrap, you know the irritation customers can feel when their products aren’t packaged properly. Here’s a list of some common infill types, though this is by no means a definitive list.
Infill for packaging
- Packaging paper – This infill can fulfill a variety of needs, making it one of the most common infill types. Packaging paper can be used to wrap individual items for extra protection and balled up to fill in empty space and protect corners. Best of all, this infill is easily reused and recycled. A similar but even cheaper alternative to packaging paper is recycled newspaper, especially if you aren’t shipping a large number of items.
- Bubble wrap – We all know this infill. Not only is it a fun stress-reliever to stomp on, but it also makes for a very versatile infill type. Bubble wrap creates a very secure cushion for breakable items and is extremely pliable so it can contour your product and fill your box. The only downside to bubble wrap is that it is very rarely made from recycled materials, so it may leave a sour taste in the mouths of eco-conscious businesses and consumers alike.
- Crinkle paper – Shredded paper that has been folded up like an accordion, this infill is whimsical and versatile. Crinkle paper easily fills all empty space within boxes and creates a cushion for your product. It is also compostable and recyclable. The downside is that it can be messy (those little bits of paper just go everywhere) and the base cost of this infill can be a little steep.
Cost of E-commerce Packaging
Speaking of price, you also need to consider the cost ratio between your product and its packaging. You don’t want your e-commerce packaging to meet or even come close to the cost of your product. If it does, say goodbye to any profits you would’ve made. Stick to a small percentage for your packaging materials, around 1-3% of your product cost.
Here is an example. Let’s say you create hand-poured soy candles that cost $30 each. The packaging costs should be around $0.30-0.90 per product. To help save money, you could run special deals for your candles to motivate customers to buy multiples at a time. Instead of buying one candle at $30, offer two candles for $55, the customers save $5, however, you can then package them in the same box and save more than if you were just shipping one candle.
Buying in bulk is the easiest way to keep packaging costs low. If you’re selling small units at first, you may need to keep customization to a minimum but that doesn’t mean you have to eliminate it altogether. Branded stickers can do just as much for your brand as custom printed packaging. A few thousand custom printed stickers with us would cost you around $0.10-0.15 – use most of them for your e-commerce packaging and resell the rest for some extra revenue.
Alternatively, you can also choose to partner with a copacker to keep costs low. Copackers usually have many customizable options for you to choose from, and they handle everything from designing the packaging to filling and shipping. Copackers typically have minimum order quantity requirements, so this option may only be viable once your business has gained some momentum.
Benefits of Great E-commerce Packaging
E-commerce packaging extends far beyond just protecting your product as it travels to your customers. The online shopping experience has reduced the number of touchpoints brands have with consumers. As a result, product packaging now plays an outsized role in marketing efforts.
Strategically packaging your product to make a lasting impression on consumers is an invaluable way to build brand loyalty. Creating a memorable unboxing experience presents an easy opportunity to differentiate your brand from competitors. By weaving in high-end touches, custom-designed packaging, or surprise add-ons, you can build a following and the opportunities for repeat sales that come with it.
5 E-commerce Packaging Tips
E-commerce sales provide almost unlimited options for creating memorable packaging experiences. From boutique packaging options to customized packing insert cards, the sky’s the limit.
1. Use Innovative, Sustainable Packaging
Sustainability sells. Consider creating e-commerce packaging that’s eco-friendly. Whether you choose to use 100% recycled cardboard or bioplastics for your poly mailer, be sure to emphasize how your packaging goes light on the planet. You can go a step further by purchasing paper packing materials that are infused with wildflower seeds to contribute even more green to the planet. That way, you and your customers are partnering together to help the environment.
For certain high-end products, creating packaging that’s too pretty to toss is an easy win. Product packaging with a second life as a decorative storage container extends your advertising reach far beyond the life of the product it originally held. Gorgeous glass or ceramic vessels for candles find a second life as storage containers or even mini planters. Custom-printed fabric bags double as makeup bags, jewelry holders, and more.
2. Use Your Packaging To Tell Your Brand’s Story
Your e-commerce packaging can serve as a canvas to educate consumers about what your company stands for. Use your box and other packaging elements to convey your unique message. Print your mission statement on the inside of your boxes, or include a short paragraph about your company on the outer packaging of your product. Sharing your company’s story helps customers feel closer to you and more likely to buy from you again.
Shipping materials that include your branding and mission statement reach more people because they’re easily seen. Whether using a logistics company like UPS or shipping products via the USPS, many hands come in contact with your products as they travel to your customers. Why not take advantage of that exposure?
3. Creatively Brand Unexpected Packaging Elements
Think beyond the box. Packaging tape, tissue paper, shredded filler, and inserts can all be tailor-made to fit your brand. If your budget doesn’t allow for branding all of your e-commerce packaging, determine which elements offer the most bang for your buck and customize them in unique, creative ways. This can be as simple as choosing tape or other materials that match your brand colors; custom-printed items can be enticing but pricey.
4. Connect With Consumers for Product Reviews
Online product reviews are the lifeblood of e-commerce retailers. Potential customers regularly rely on these as a trusted source of information when making purchasing decisions. Consider using an insert or sticker to ask for a favorable review on the platform your prospective customers frequent. Make it easy by listing the website URL along with the ask or, better yet, using a custom QR code.
5. Use Custom Inserts To Add Value
When the consumer is opening your box, they’re a captive audience. Keep their attention longer by including stickers, coupons, or an informational brochure describing your product’s unique value proposition. Customized packing inserts are relatively inexpensive to produce and, when used creatively, can punch far above their weight. Handwritten notes are especially effective, particularly among small businesses who want to make lasting connections with their customers.
10 Examples of Great E-commerce Packaging
1. Warby Parker
A nationally-known purveyor of budget-friendly, cutting-edge eyewear, Warby Parker’s e-commerce packaging is designed to delight. Whimsical messages like “Good Things Await You” are printed on the exterior packaging and help to build anticipation. “Nice to see you” greets you as you open the glasses case. Even the cleaning cloths come with a fun Warby Parker themed short story printed on them. Simple, concise directions printed on the inside of the outer box ensures a well-oiled experience.
2. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream
If the concept of mail-order, artisan ice cream wasn’t exciting enough on its own, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has an unboxing experience to match. Their box sports a colorful, logoed exterior with two packaging insert cards. The first one is a customized thank you note, and the second is a visually appealing product description that goes into depth on what makes their product exceptional.
3. High Peak Cannabis Co.
High Peak Cannabis Co. makes some of the most Instagram-worthy THC-infused confectionaries out there. Everything about this company is fun, from their products to their e-commerce packaging. Their polyhedral truffles look like a work of art in themselves, and they’re packaged in custom-printed boxes with designs that complement the treats themselves. Their chocolate bars feature colorful custom printed wrappers and their bite-sized candies, like gummies, are packaged in uniquely designed pouches.
4. Tiesta Tea
Tiesta Tea is an energetic and festive tea brand, and its e-commerce packaging shows it. Fun branded tape on the outside of Tiesta Tea’s shipping box gets customers excited to open the package. Inside, teas can be seen through a clear window in the primary packaging, inviting customers to go ahead and enjoy a cup. Their labels sport bold color palettes unique to each flavor, creating an almost collector-like experience when trying their teas.
SQUEAK is a company dedicated to clean cleaning products. Their passion for safe cleaning products results in packaging that is bright, transparently educational, and (for lack of a better word) clean. SQUEAK displays their ingredients on the front of their labels because they’re proud of their products, a bold move that reinforces their company’s passion and purpose. They also communicate their mission on their shipping materials as well, effectively ensuring that they spread their message of safe cleaning products to everyone, including the many hands involved in getting their products to their customers.
6. Casa dell’Unknown
Casa dell’Unknown is a handcrafted luxury candle brand that embraces both form and function for its e-commerce packaging. Their candles are poured into beautiful matte black vessels and feature a minimalist label. The outer packaging, however, is a matching matte black paper tube with custom printed labels on top. The reason for packaging the candles in paper tubes is twofold; they add an extra layer of branding as well as extra security during the shipping process. The result is an absolutely stunning finished product. As a small business, Casa dell’Unknown also reuses shipping materials from their suppliers in order to keep costs lean and reduce stress on the environment, a worthwhile technique to adopt for large and small businesses alike.
7. Homebody Candle Co.
Homebody Candle Co. is a candle and home fragrance company with a focus on positivity. Their candle line called Burn + Bloom is one of the most interesting products they offer. Their opaque white candle vessels include a beautifully designed label and a wildflower seed-infused dust cover. Once the candle has been burned completely, they advise planting the dust cover in a bit of soil either in a planter or in the empty candle jar itself. This packaging approach is brilliantly eco-friendly and feels like the customer is getting two products in one.
Buying mattresses online is now the norm in many ways. Brands like Purple Mattress have understood the assignment by taking their branding to the next level. The proprietary purple color of their mattress materials permeates throughout their branding. When you order a mattress from Purple, it’s delivered to you in a large purple plastic tube and includes extras like a matching sleep mask and even purple mini-mattresses to showcase their unique technology.
9. The Musgrave Pencil Company
The Musgrave Pencil Company is an American family-owned pencil manufacturing company that’s been in operation for over 100 years, but don’t let their longevity fool you–the packaging for their pencils marries legacy and modern design perfectly. Their crown jewel is their Pencil Variety Pack. This bunch of twelve unique pencils is packaged in a gold-embossed paper tube that is designed to look like a pencil. The paper tube is durable enough to store pencils and other items for years to come, thus solidifying Musgrave Pencil Company as a staple for lovers of analog writing implements.
10. Am Happy Soap
Am Happy Soap is a small e-commerce business that sells beautiful handmade soaps. When packaging their product for customers, they either hand wrap them in custom printed tissue paper with a custom label, or they fit them snugly in a branded box with a custom label. Either way, their e-commerce packaging feels like opening a present with each order. A final personal touch Includes soap samples in every shipment, beveled and wrapped with care.
How Does Your Packaging Represent Your Brand?
E-commerce packaging is one of the most effective avenues brands have for building loyalty with online consumers. By strategically packaging products in ways that appeal to the target audience, brands create a new, powerful touchpoint that they can leverage to increase consumer engagement and the likelihood of repeat, future sales.
You might also like:
- Beginners Guide to Packaging and Labeling
- The Ultimate Guide to Skincare Packaging
- 10 Characteristics of a Well-Designed Product Label
This post was originally published in December 2020 and has been updated on November 22, 2021 with new information.
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The Victorian Automative Chamber of Commerce (VACC) may be an organisation with a long and rich history but its new North Melbourne headquarters is very much inspired by the future.
The building’s design is at the forefront of modern sustainable technology, making it a fitting companion for the fast-moving and ever changing industry located within its walls.
Subtle nods to the automotive industry are peppered throughout the building’s architecture including a façade inspired by the grille of the classic Ford Mustang.
The resulting distinctive architectural language supports a passive environmental strategy to reduce direct solar heat gain.
Inside a striking atrium rises through the building’s core to create a sense of grandeur upon arrival and invite abundant natural light into the building.
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Suppose u = x^4*y + y^2*z^3, where x = r*s*e^t, y = r*s^2*e^-t, and z = sin(t)r^2*s. Find du/ds.
So I believe you plug in x, y, and z into the equation to get:
u = (rse^t)^4*(rs^2e^-t) + (rs^2e^-t)^2*(sin(t)r^2s)^3
And I know you have to treat all the variables except s as a constant, but I'm just getting confused with all the numbers. Thanks!
Sep 10th 2009, 03:28 AM
If so, then just change all the other variables to simple ones.
1. re^t --------> A
2. re^(-t) -----> B
3. sin(t) r^2 --> C
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Continual gains, both in strength and muscle size is one of the most common goals to working out and training. However, the longer you train, the harder it is to experience greater gains. One of the tried and true methods of maintaining continued improvements is to always be changing your program. But how often should you be changing your program? And how do you go about choosing what type of program works best for you? This week’s Q & A will address the popular question of ‘How often should I change my workout program?’
1. How often should I be changing my workout program? What is the best way to change my workout program?
The first 6 months of resistance training and weight lifting are always going to be your best. This is the time where you’re making the most strength and muscular gains. This is due mainly to improved neuromuscular connections (mind-muscle connections) that improve the neural connections and recruitment of muscle motor units to help you lift more. After those first 6 months, your body is still particularly sensitive and adaptive to increasing intensity and volume of exercise, which helps you to further gain strength and muscle. Unfortunately after about two years, things start to plateau and taper out. By the second year of training, significant gains in strength and muscle size will be progressively harder to achieve. However it is still possible and comes about through changes in training as well as through nutrition and supplements.
Changing and choosing the right workout program for you though takes a fair bit of time and effort. Studies have shown that individuals respond differently depending on the stimuli. Some trainers work better with higher volumes, whereas some trainers work better with lower volumes. In addition, everyone adapts at different rates to training stimulus as well. When designing or choosing your own workout program, you should always focus on a few key principles:
- Intensity (Load or weight)
- Volume (reps x sets x load)
- Rest Intervals
- Exercise Selection
- Repetition Speed
- Muscular Failure
Each time you change your workout program, you should be changing one or more of these variables depending on your overall goal, whether it’s to increase strength, power or hypertrophy. Programs commonly last 4-12 weeks, however, you should try to change your program around once you have 2 weeks where there is no obvious improvement. Again, this figure is subjective, but is a good guide.
Take Away Point – Listen to your Body
Plateaus are easy to pick up, but most people tend to persevere through a lull in their progress. While that can work sometimes, it can make for a longer process of gains. When you have a period of 2 weeks where you feel like you’re putting in some decent effort, but are seeing very little results in terms of gains in strength or size, then it’s a good indication for switching up your program. Change and adjust the variables as mentioned above and always monitor your progress. Information is power.
1. Schoenfeld BJ. ‘The mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy and their application to resistance training.’ J Strength Cond Res. 2010 Oct;24(10):2857-72.
2. Finn HT, Brennan SL, Gonano BM, Knox MF, Ryan RC, Siegler JC, Marshall PW. ‘Muscle activation does not increase after a fatigue plateau is reached during 8 sets of resistance exercise in trained individuals.’ J Strength Cond Res. 2014 May;28(5):1226-34.
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The visitor to Kenilworth today is greeted with ruins that give a hint of the castle's former splendor. The oldest fortification on the site dates back to Norman times and is the large blocky keep. The castle was enlarged and modified through and past the reign of Elizabeth I. The castle fell into ruin after the English Civil War.
One turret of the old Norman keep had a clock in Elizabethan times, and some of the markings can still be seen. The building did not originally have so many windows, as they were added in Tudor times when the castle ceased to be a structure for defense. The addition of the large windows would have allowed much more natural light into the keep.
The forebuilding of the keep was altered in 1570 to make a loggia (an arcaded gallery) which led from the Inner Court to a garden in the Outer Court. In medieval times, the forebuilding would have served as protection for the main entrance to the keep, but this would not have been a necessity in the relative peace and stability of the 16th century. A reconstructed Tudor garden was added next to the keep in 1970.
Kenilworth and Henry VIII
Henry VIII visited Kenilworth and moved the Pleasaunce buildings constructed outside the castle by King Henry V back to the castle site. He also had timber buildings constructed in the area between the chapel and keep, but these building have long since disappeared. The Tudor stables still remain, although the towers at either end are ruins and date from an earlier period. The upper part of the stables would have served as housing for the horse grooms and palace servants.
Henry VIII gave Kenilworth Abbey (near the castle) to John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, after the dissolution of the monasteries. Dudley aquired Kenilworth Castle in 1553 in the reign of Edward VI, but was executed only a short time later after the failed plot to place his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey on the throne after Edward's death.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
During the reign of Elizabeth, Kenilworth came into the possession of John Dudley's son Robert, who made many modifications and additions to the castle. Kenilworth is probably most associated with the visit that Elizabeth I paid to Dudley in July 1575 and the extravagant festivities held in her honor. The revelries lasted 19 days and no expense was spared for the Queen.
Dudley had the large structure now called "Leicester's Building" constructed to modernize the castle to late 16th century standards of luxury. Leicester's gatehouse, which can still be seen today, placed the entrance to the castle to the north, as opposed to the south where it had previously been. The new entrance provided easier access to the hunting park, provided a great view of the castle on the approach from the Coventry road and was wider than the old entrance, which allowed access for wheeled carriages. The style of the gatehouse is typical of the Tudor period with octagonal turrets at the corners like those seen at Hampton Court Palace. The gateway arches were filled in by a later owner for more room and the gabled building on the side was also added after Dudley's time. Robert Dudley's initials can be clearly seen over the door. The gatehouse also has a fireplace from 1571 that was probably brought over from Leicester's Building in the 17th century.
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Fruits in season are all that Mitri Hanna Moussa, owner of Al Salam Sweet Parlor in Beirut, uses to produce his sought after Arabic gelato. The reputation of his mouthwatering ice cream has reached far and wide, with international media outlets calling it one of the world's best.
By Mostapha Raad
Nearly seven decades ago, a young man launched his own sweets parlor on a narrow street in eastern Beirut’s upscale Achrafieh district in 1949.
Hanna Mitri Moussa named his shop Al Salam, Arabic for peace, way before Lebanon struggled with its 15-year civil war that started in 1975. The name was derived from a Lebanese soccer team which trained close to his parlor.
Little did Moussa know that his one-room store will go on to become a worldwide hit for one specific delicacy: ice cream.
International media outlets have dubbed Al Salam as one of the best ice cream parlors in the region, and one of Lebanon’s hidden gems.
Nothing has changed over the past 67 years at Moussa’s shop. Even the marks from bullets that sprayed the old building where Al Salam is located during the Lebanese civil war remain visible.
The only thing that has changed is that Moussa now runs his late father’s shop, after the latter passed away in 2012. And he has carried on his father’s legacy well by continuing to produce the most delicious traditional Arabic ice cream, based on a secret family recipe that was passed on from father to son.
The shop opens daily from 8 a.m. and closes at 7:30 p.m. Moussa brags that the parlor never closed during the civil war, despite bombs, some of which fell nearby.
“It was another normal working day for my father, when the shelling of eastern Beirut by the Syrian army [shattered the glass of his shop]. One of the Christian fighters tried to warn my father from heading to the shop that day, but my dad insisted on opening [shop] according to his regular working schedule,” Moussa tells Newsweek Middle East.
Moussa’s father didn’t care much, he cleaned up the broken glass and “continued work as if nothing has happened,” he says with a smile, while gesturing at the small shop’s only glass facade.
There is one narrow door for the customers to walk in, pick up their order, and leave. The 3-meter square store has no space to accommodate an eat-in style parlor, but there isn’t a moment that the shop is void of customers who walk in at different times of the day to get their ice cream fix.
“I get customers in the morning whose breakfast is my ice cream,” Moussa proudly tells Newsweek Middle East.
Though he occasionally produces other types of sweets during holidays, such as maamoul(Lebanese date-filled biscuits), it is still ice cream that makes Al Salam stand out from its competitors.
One thing that Moussa’s customers know for sure is that he will not compromise on the quality of ingredients he uses in making his delicious treats.
The fruits he uses to produce his gelato-like ice cream must be fresh and in season—two key factors that Moussa ensures about his produce.
“The taste of strawberries at the beginning of the strawberry season varies from their case towards the middle or end of their season,” Moussa says as he scoops a lemon-flavored ice cream ball into a biscuit cone, before handing it over to one of his customers.
“The source of the fruit itself is also vital in determining its flavor,” he adds, explaining that after washing and sterilizing the fruits, he waits for them to dry naturally before he turns them into natural ice creams and sorbets without any chemicals or additives.
At the moment, Moussa produces eight flavors —four sorbets, and four that are milk based.
Al Salam’s sorbets are flavored with lemon, rosewater, strawberries, and apricots with pine seeds.
As I stand close by to take photos, Moussa stirs the milk, which he boils in an aluminium cooker for over an hour, sometimes two, to thicken the milk by adding mastic —a resin produced by trees and used to produce chewing gum— and a special powder known as sahlab, derived from the grounded root tubers of a Mediterranean orchid called “the naked man orchid.”
The result is a heavenly ice cream with rich flavors and smell, that is not only tantalizing to the taste and smell buds, but can also turn into a serious addiction as soon as you take the first bite.
Aside from the sorbets, Al Salam offers milk-based ice cream which comes in the following flavors: pistachio, chocolate, caramel and croquant—an almond-brittle batter with milk ice cream.
Moussa also produces seasonal flavors based on the availability of the ingredients, including watermelon, cantaloupe, mango, oranges and others.
“I buy the mango from some farmers in Cote d’Ivoire, which are organic, haven’t been sprayed by any chemicals or are genetically modified. My mission is to create real ice cream and not an artificial product,” he adds.
To make sure he serves all his customers, Moussa wakes up early in the morning to prepare the fruits with his mother. The word additives does not exist in his dictionary.
It is perhaps the natural flavors, his refusal to change the shop’s decor since 1949, including the sign board above the shop that is rusting and askew, and his traditional way of producing ice cream that has garnered the attention of international media to visit his shop and write about it.
This includes a report prepared by the New York Times, years back, comparing Moussa’s way of manufacturing ice cream to an Italian lady who continues to produce gelato in New York City the way her grandfather used to make it.
Al Salam Sweets is also mentioned in the Wall Street Journal’s report on the 10 best sweets parlors in the world. And the reports continue from U.K.’s Guardian newspaper to France’s Paris Match and Le Figaro. Apart from print media, broadcast television channels such as CNN and TV5 took interest in Moussa’s shop and were curious to learn why he is the best ice cream maker in the region.
At the moment Moussa’s shop is listed on the website Trip Advisor as one of the best sweet shops in Lebanon.
But despite all this fame, Moussa remains reluctant from entering the world of social media and says he has no time for that.
“The word of mouth put out there by my loyal customers is more than enough,” he says.
However, Moussa plans to move his shop for the very first time in seven decades to a new location soon “because of the deteriorating situation of the building,” he tells Newsweek Middle East.
The secret of making the delicious treats will move with him, but perhaps it won’t be passed on to the next Moussa generation.
At the moment, none of his three children, a boy and two girls, help him with work.
“I will not force them into this. They have studied specific majors, and it is their choice,” he adds.
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"I was in a position to see exactly what happens in the human hand. I got the basics of what it's all about and thought yeah, I'll make my own."
Richard van As is recalling the moment in May 2011 when he sat in a Johannesburg hospital waiting to hear if his fingers could be stitched back on. Just an hour earlier, he had been in his carpentry workshop sawing wood when the saw slipped and ripped diagonally through the four fingers on his right hand. "It all happened too quickly to know what actually happened," he remembers.
Rather than fear the outcome, or dwell on the repercussions of losing his fingers, he was already thinking of ways to fix the problem, like a true carpenter.
After days of scouring the Internet he couldn't find anywhere to buy a functional prosthetic finger and he was astonished at the cost of prosthetic hands and limbs which began in the tens of thousands of dollars. But his online surfing paid off as it brought him to an amateur video posted by a mechanical effects artist in Washington State, by the name of Ivan Owen.
Together, the pair developed a mechanical finger for van As, but their partnership has also gone on to benefit countless hand and arm amputees around the globe, through the birth of the company "Robohand."
Officially launched in January 2012, Robohand creates affordable mechanical prosthetics through the use of 3D printers. Not only that, but it has made its designs open source, so that anyone with access to such printers can print out fingers, hands and now arms as well.
Using the process of additive manufacture, the specialized printers use the thermoplastic material Polylactide (PLA) to print body parts such as knuckles and joints, which when combined with stainless steel and aluminum produce a personalized prosthetic which customers can assemble and fit themselves courtesy of a free open-source manual available to them.
"Within five minutes of getting it fitted, people can actually use it," explains Leonard Nel, the communications manager in the team. "It's anatomically driven by the wrist, elbow, or shoulder once fitted," he adds -- meaning its movements are controlled by the user.
The first Robohand ever created was made for five-year-old Liam, from South Africa, who was born with amniotic band syndrome (ABS), which left him with no fingers on his right hand. Within minutes of fitting his newly printed mechanical hand Liam beamed excitedly and expressed how he could now "pick up stuff," describing its movement by saying: "it copies me."
"They all have their special moment," says Nel.
Van As drives the whole process on simplicity, voicing his desire to remove unnecessary red tape and cost when providing people with something as essential as a limb. A full adult hand costs as little as $2,000, takes five and a half hours to print and approximately 10-15 hours to assemble.
Ordering a prosthetic is also quite simple. Customers are sent measurement forms to complete and send those in combination with 3-D scans of their hands for translation into the software, which will print out the parts for their desired prosthetic. Where 3-D scans aren't feasible, hard molds can instead be made and shipped to the team in South Africa.
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How To Turn a Hobby Into a Business In 4 Steps
“How to turn a hobby into a business”
Michael Dermer claims that being able to combine your passion with the capacity to make a living at it is the definition of success. Dermer, a former mergers and acquisitions attorney in New York, left his job to launch his own company, a business that provides incentives and rewards for healthy behaviors. He founded Lonely Entrepreneur, a platform where he could educate others on the difficulties of starting and operating your own business, after selling his business in 2016 to dive on the ways and how to turn a hobby into a business.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that having a good idea, along with a lot of grit and passion, is enough to turn a hobby into a business. But you have to realize that you’ll probably cause some harm if you dive into something with passion but no expertise. Before setting out on a mission to monetize your hobby into a money making business, you are advised to give serious consideration to your passion for it and the joy it brings you. Read also 9 Creative Digital Marketing Ideas For Small Businesses To Attract Real-Time Customers
How To Turn a Hobby Into a Business
Would you like to start a business out of your hobby? Because it loses its joy for some people, it turns them off that passion. Are you willing to give up some of it if it was something you did for fun or pleasure? As the business owner, you’ll probably have to wear all the hats for a while, whether it’s selling your delectable baked goods, going pro with your photography, or bringing an entrepreneurial idea from launch to a public IPO. Throughout the trip, it will be essential to tap into knowledge networks, support systems, and communities of other business owners who can share their knowledge. Read also 13 Most Profitable Online Business Ideas For Web Developers And Internet Users
4 Steps To Monetize Your Passionate Interest Profitably
The following four actions will help you lay a successful foundation after adopting that attitude and idea of how to turn a hobby into a business.
1. Locate a Playground
The best starting point of how to turn a hobby into a business. Some refer to it as finding your niche. Performing market research and competition analysis in order to create a go-to-market (GTM) plan is known as this in business jargon “Finding a PlayGround”. Finding a playground where nobody else is playing is what is referred to. These days, it’s harder than ever to avoid oversaturation because it seems to be present everywhere. The world is so disorganized. You must identify the particular area where you are the only one selling oranges while everyone else is selling apples. When companies struggle to prosper and are forced to pivot or refocus, it’s likely because they had a strong competitive advantage or failed to pinpoint their target audience. Many individuals don’t give it nearly enough time. But if you’ve really gotten a handle on it, it endures.
Beware of inaccurate marketability indicators, such as equating a social media following with the presence of paying clients. The truth is that you may have a million Instagram followers but no customers. Finding your audience requires testing, and it’s important to accomplish it in a manageable and small-scale manner. Consider selling at a farmers market, hosting a pop-up shop event, or providing your goods or services to your neighborhood. Can you get someone to give you money for it in person? You can test out many iterations of your product during this stage to determine what is well-liked, what you should concentrate on, what functions well and what doesn’t, and most crucially, how much consumers are prepared to pay for it. It’s excellent if you bake cookies and people will pay you $10 for a dozen. Perhaps you could charge $20 for a dozen. Perhaps that’s too much, but testing is necessary to see what the market will tolerate. Read also How To Make Your Business More Profitable With a Four-Step Approach
2. Create a Financial Strategy
To make a great living from your passion, you must clearly understand how much money you need to bring in. Along with keeping some extra cash on hand for unforeseen needs, this includes outlining all of your beginning costs for the first year, including overhead, supplies, hiring, and insurance and tax fees. In addition to being essential for securing any outside funding you might require, having a strong financial plan in place will also enable you to manage your money when you start off and set reasonable expectations.
Your personal ambitions, such as wanting to earn a million dollars and sell your business for a billion dollars, should come first in your financial strategy. Or perhaps all you want to do is assist others. No matter how big your aim is, you should be sure that your business strategy can accommodate it. Financial planning assistance is readily available online, including free templates and sample plans. Browse websites like the Lonely Entrepreneur’s Learning Community, which offers a free two-week trial period, BPlans, the U.S. Small Business Administration to help you on how to turn a hobby into a business that works perfectly for you. Read also 20 Simple Steps To Start A Profitable Soap Making Business From Home
3. Determine Your Operating Priorities
You’ll unavoidably have a large list of activities to complete in order to launch your business. This could entail finding startup capital, putting together a team, releasing a product, and other things. Young businesspeople are urged to construct that list and then focus on their top three priorities. How do you use your limited resources and all that passion to ensure that you are aligning them with the three most crucial things you can do to progress your business, given your go-to-market strategy and financial plan? Additionally, there are some situations that you might be in a position to handle on your own. Perhaps you are more at ease with a particular aspect of the business, such as accounting, marketing, or SEO, which you feel comfortable relying on. However, choose the route that presents the fewest obstacles in locations that may be more difficult. You are advised to outsource as soon as they can if you need to hire an accountant or other support. Read also 9 Creative Digital Marketing Ideas For Small Businesses To Attract Real-Time Customers
4. Have Scaling Skills
How to turn a hobby into a business? Have a scaling plan! The demand for your product may seem like a nice thing to have, but if you can’t keep up, it’s ultimately bad for company. How can you create enough cookies to meet demand if your clients adore your baked goods? There are a limited number of hours in a week. If you anticipate needing to recruit staff, rent a larger facility, or make equipment purchases, consider your alternatives and set your budget objectives in advance. Verify that any expansion will be funded by your income or reserves.
Growing your product or service offerings is only one aspect of scaling your business. Business owners need to consider how they’ll continue to attract new clients in the future. Exist referral partners for you? What about marketing and sales? Consider the size at which you want it to be present and how you’ll create demand for it. In the end, whatever you may have read online is likely to need more effort than it appears. You’ll read on the internet that it’s easy, but it’s not. But if you have a lot of passion, tenacity, a smart idea, some useful new abilities, and a strong business plan, you could succeed at turning a hobby into a business. Read also How To Start A Successful Travel Agency Business In 16 Smart Steps
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Two reporters for The New York Times were detained Wednesday while covering protesters at the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in Wood County in East Texas. The two reporters, Dan Frosch and Brandon Thibodeaux, who identified themselves as members of the media, were handcuffed by a pipeline company security guard and a local police officer. After ten minutes, the two were released, but told they had to leave the property or face arrest. They were on private property at the time at the invitation of the landowner.
When the incident first came to our attention, we emailed several questions to TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline. They sent a statement to the media (which you can read after the jump) that failed to address our questions, but promised they would get to them. After 24 hours, we now have some answers. And, inevitably, more questions.
TransCanada says the two Times reporters were in the pipeline’s right of way at the time of the arrest, and that they were detained by an off-duty police officer contracted to provide security for the pipeline construction.
The company has hired local police to provide security, but they point out that this doesn’t mean that the police officers cease to be authorities when working for the pipeline. Even when off-duty, as in this case, TransCanada says the police have the right to act as officers and detain and arrest people for violating the law. The off-duty police and private security are also coordinating with the Wood County sheriff’s department when making arrests, TransCanada says.
TransCanada’s statement (below) that the reporters were allowed to “resume their work in a safe area” seems to contradict the account given to StateImpact Texas by the Times, which said that the reporters were told to leave the private property or face arrest, so they complied and left the property.
TransCanada spokesperson David Dodson acknowledges the ambiguity of the situation. “The New York Times account is not incorrect,” he says. “When our [security] guy talked to the reporter … we were under the impression that he had been told by security, ‘Here’s where you can be.’ But that conversation took place the night before the incident.”
Dodson says it’s possible that the reporters were told not to just leave the right of way, but also the entire private property. “I’m pretty sure what he said was, ‘You need to get off the easement or risk arrest.’ But whether he said ‘property,’ I don’t know.” According to the law, reporters on private property at the invitation of landowners, staying outside of the pipeline’s right of way, should not be arrested.
Dodson also isn’t sure if the location where the two reporters were arrested was the same area where TransCanada’s security had told them they could be the previous evening. “There’s a considerable amount of fog around this,” he says.
Confusing the situation in East Texas is the fact that two individuals claiming to be freelance reporters who had camped out at the tree sit-in for a week were arrested the day before, according to the protest website Tar Sands Blockade.
We searched for any professional work by the two, Elizabeth Arce and Lorenzo Serna, and didn’t find anything. They have no bylines in Nexis, but web searches reveal they are part of the Occupy movement. So part of the issue here may be that some protesters were claiming to be journalists, confusing the situation. According to an account on Tar Sands Blockade, when Serna was arrested at the tree sit-in, he yelled ”I’m a journalist!.”
“There have been, on more than one occasion, where protesters have claimed to be journalists,” Dodson of TransCanada says. “And that has made us very sensitive to these claims.” Dodson says the influx of protesters at the pipeline construction is a safety issue, where trees are being felled and welding is taking place. “We don’t want to hurt anybody,” he says. “That’s the last thing we want.”
The two protesters were held in a Wood County jail overnight Tuesday and released Wednesday.
Here is TransCanada’s statement from yesterday afternoon in full:
“As for why TransCanada has security on the right of way:
The right-of-way is an active construction site, and only authorized personnel are able to go on this area. It is important to us that all of our worksites are safe and our workers go home safe each and every day.
TransCanada does not make the laws, enforce them or provide direction to law enforcement about how to carry out their duties to the people of Wood County. If individuals choose to trespass and not leave when instructed by law enforcement, they leave them with no choice but to take action. Anti-pipeline activists are tying up Wood County’s scarce law enforcement resources that would be better utilized on patrol and crime prevention activities.
Yesterday, four individuals attempted to come onto the right-of-way. Two individuals claiming to be journalists would not identify themselves to law enforcement and left the area. Law enforcement then confirmed that two others were legitimate journalists, and let them resume their work in a safe area. We truly appreciate their understanding. TransCanada has encountered a number of people claiming to be journalists who are in fact professional activists. Producing valid credentials to be on private property is not asking too much, especially when these activist groups seem more focused on breaking the law and preventing thousands of hard-working Americans from building this pipeline and providing for their families than they do in respecting the fact that TransCanada has the legal authority to build this pipeline.
Our only issue with where media and others can go is on the right-of-way, as noted above. If legitimate media are interested in viewing the site, we encourage them to contact us so we can work with them to make sure they are able to do so from a safe area.”
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The same way Einstein assumes the speed of light to be a constant of reference for his Theory of Relativity, the philosophy of biomimicry assumes Nature as a constant of reference to a performance-based beauty for design.
Imitating nature has become a meaningful approach for contemporary architects and design futurists to the built environment, especially for those who foster a future that doesn't compete with nature but coexist with it. At the light of recent natural disasters around the world, especially those geologically associated such as tsunamis and earthquakes, which have proven its destruction power over the current built environment; architects and structural engineers have found in biomimicry an ecological approach in order to improve future building's disaster resilience.
Bio-Structural Analogues in Architecture, by the Singaporean architect Joseph Lim (2009) emphasize that "central to the idea of a design strategy in developing the architectural concept, is a form of technological thinking which drew inspiration from other forms of knowledge". Scientific thinking on architecture has leaded a bottom-up approach for resilient structure's design. As wrote by the biologist D'Arcy W. Thompson, every form in Nature is essentially the product of the diagram of forces acting on it or which have acted on it. That technological feature of the living structures proves to be a resilient parameter of its morphology, basically because its tessellation grows in intrinsic relationship with the ecosystem and its natural flows.
Present built structures are unresponsive to the Earth dynamics and aren't completely adapted to the ecosystem flows of forces. This fact leads to an important concern of the global building industry about its resiliency capacity toward the future and its potential dangers by natural hazards. Geological associated hazards have caught great attention by the design community at important forums throughout the world. Recent major earthquakes throughout the world have proven the inefficiency of the current building paradigm and have warned building professionals to adapt structures in order to withstand future seismic events. Principles of a BioTectonic Culture master degree thesis takes Puerto Rico as a laboratory for the design of biomimicry-driven structures made of reinforced concrete in order to improve its resilient output.
Puerto Rico is a great case study model due to the active seismic faults around the island, the predominance of heavy materials for construction such as concrete and masonry, some unsustainable approach for structure's construction and its dangerous vulnerability due to the existence of great percentage of structures designed and constructed following poor seismic regulations or even built without professional assistance. Puerto Rico has a particular environment, it is located at the boundary of two tectonic plates (the Caribbean plate and the North American plate) having the potential to produce a major earthquake with magnitude 8.0 or greater. In fact, according to the US Geological Service (USGS), at least four major earthquakes have been affected the island until 1918. Besides, Puerto Rico vulnerability combines dangerously with the fact that those buildings designed before the implementation of the 1987 Puerto Rico Building Code may be considered as inadequate to resist earthquakes events. Under this premise approximately 70%~80% of existing structures could be under risk.
Although present construction at the island includes all required seismic codes, there are still some design-construction principles that can be optimized in order to improve the building adaptation to a seismic event. Besides, concrete structures in Puerto Rico needs to adapt congruently to the current ecological trends in order to reduce pollution associated with cement fabrication. For the thesis proposal, such kind of resiliency standard was achieved focusing on a structural design concept inspired by the performance and material efficiency of a "state of the art" static model bio-structure: the human skeleton.
The research proposal aims to produce a concrete structure driven by the natural flow of the force generated by an earthquake within the material. Such kind of desired "force-driven form" founds great resemblance with organic bones. The human body and its skeleton adapts according to function and loads that are normally encountered. Because of these loads, for instance, femur bones in legs becomes thicker and bigger than other bone because it has to carry out about 63 percent of the body weight. In result, the compact tissue in each particular bone becomes thicker where it experiments greater loads, and decrease density according to loads declining. That technological feature translates each bone's diagram of force into its morphology.
The human femur, the longest and strongest skeleton bone, provides optimum technology parameters for the design of structures located in seismic zones. The femur's hollow shaft design provides maximum strength with minimum weight, ideal design features in order to reduce the seismic intensity on a structure. Using biomimicry principles, the research achieves the architecture of an adapted structural system of reinforced concrete capable to withstand, not only gravity loads, but lateral loads such as earthquake’s loads, in a more efficient way than a conventional structure.
As a matter of fact, reinforced concrete was conceived emulating a bone structural properties where the collagen provides tension resistance such as steel bars, and mineral provides resistance to compression such as concrete. The type of loads which experiments the femur are very similar to those in typical beams and columns: tension, compression and bending. Then, the bio-structural parameters selected from the femur includes the mid-diaphysis (middle-cross section) geometrical properties associated with its maximum stress resistance value (about 4,000 pounds per square inch); and its response to mechanical stress, according to the Wolff’s law, which implies that a bone’s anatomy reflects the common stresses it encounters. The proposal undertakes those biological features of the femur bone to extrapolate morphogenetic parameters to the building structure in order to improve contextual integration and encourage better use of concrete.
Based in the bio-tectonic technological features extrapolated from the femur, the product achieved was a non-prismatic lightweight components deeply related to the bending-moment diagram of the typical frames which is normally generated by the effect of the lateral loads. Hence, the earthquake typical effect on the frame becomes a key parameter to its morphology design. Furthermore, due to the same principles, a lighter frame was obtained which also represents an achievement because implies the decline of the earthquake general intensity on the building. The structure proposal achieves a force-driven morphology implying some grade of mechanical resilience, and ecological adaptation.
According to computational analysis, such proposal becomes highly efficient for seismic vulnerable zones because the total base shear (earthquake force intensity) was reduced due to the effect of lateral loads. Furthermore, the proposed architecture implies a reduction of concrete use for structures which also means a reduction of CO2 emissions. This fact becomes very important considering that concrete is responsible for 7 to 10 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it the third largest contributor to Global Warming after transportation and power generation. Current trends indicate that the future of the building industry would be greatly associated to Nature and the living technologies. Structuring biomimicry is an effort to provide the building's structures with the capacity to be responsive to environment in real time such as the living structures are. Furthermore, it is the definition of a novel paradigm which adapts current inert materials for construction to its ecosystemic surroundings in order to improve the built environmental resiliency.
Written by Wilfredo Mendez, M.Arch, AIT for IEET.org
Lim, Joseph (2009). Bio-Structural Analogues in Architecture. BIS Publishers.
Thompson, D'Arcy (1961). On Growth and Form. Cambridge University Press.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — For the past three decades, a mobile response unit has been assisting Eugene, Oregon police respond to non-violent 911 calls.
Now, an East Bay city appears to be on track to launch their own version of the program. On Thursday, KRON4’s Haaziq Madyun spoke to the program’s executive coordinator and Eugene’s chief of police to get their takes on how it works.
A mobile assistance crisis response pilot program will soon be on the streets of Oakland. It is modeled after Eugene, Oregon’s CAHOOTS program.
“CAHOOTS stands for crisis assistance helping out on the street,” Chris Hecht said.
Hecht is the executive coordinator of the White Bird clinic in Eugene, Oregon. White Bird operates 10 different programs that primarily serves the unhoused community, CAHOOTS being one of them.
“A CAHOOTS team consists of two people. One person is a medic or EMT,” he said. “One person who has experience in behavioral health counseling. CAHOOTS staff are not police. They’re not trained in policing. They don’t carry weapons.”
The mobile crisis response program operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
“We have three vans out on the street during the day time,” Hecht said. “At night we go down to two.”
Over the past year, the city of Oakland’s police commission has been laying the foundation for Oakland’s version of the CAHOOTS program called “Macro.”
“I am concerned that we do have to continue to respond to those 911 calls and a scathing grand jury report just came out saying that Oakland is not doing a good enough job,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said.
“It’s not like we’re trying to build a piano here,” Chris Skinner said. “Let’s have mental health first responders respond to behavioral health issues.”
In fact Eugene, Oregon Police Chief Chris Skinner says the additional help with non-violent calls for service is a benefit for his officers.
“Ultimately do some of these calls really need a police response or do they need a behavioral health response? So when you have a system like CAHOOTS we are able to triage those calls on the front end, which frees up our police officers to do what I think community members want them to which is be in their neighborhoods patrolling and keeping them safe,” Chief Skinner said.
Oakland city officials anticipate rolling out their version of the CAHOOTS model as early as fall 2020.
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The focus of this first part of a series is based on a principle that is indefensible if you are caught. FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES!!
In short, once fraud is detected everything that sits upon it is now in question. Your credibility is shot! Who would disagree with the logic of found fraud destroys the validity of everything? It’s reasonable, predictable and has the power to instantly change the direction of one’s perception, even those that were held sacred. Fraud has no limits by those who engage in it and it’s been around along time. Do you think real fraudsters stop at just one fraud? Or do you think they keep going and going until they die or get caught? The answer is a simple one. Why would you ever stop lucrative fraudulent activity if you haven’t been caught? So the chance for systemic fraud once initial fraud is found becomes a virtual certainty.
To further muddy the waters, NASA was founded by Satanic worshiping occultists and black magicians. This is not idle rumor but fact. NASA is a Military-Hollywood-Pseudoscience-Satanic Cartel, whose true aim is to use taxpayer funding to promote and profit by developing and deploying pseudoscience technology and methodology. The first fraud in my opinion is the true origins of NASA and the cast of characters that had significant influence. Go to NASA and search for them and you’ll find whitewashed bios or no information available.
It’s no coincidence that NASA has been erasing and trying to rewrite it’s true origins. The mighty pillars of scientific certainty that NASA supposedly sits upon are actually satanic black magicians of the occult. This is probably a small trivial fact that is omitted in today’s school curriculum.
NASA has sprouted from the likes of the self-acclaimed “wickedest man in the world” Aleister Crowley, Mass-Mind-Control-Black Magician-Satanist L. Ron Hubbard and Uber-Occultist-Black Magician-Satanist Jack Whiteside Parsons to begin the early formation of NASA. In addition to the unholy trinity there were two more later additions to the NASA Dream Team, Werner von Braun and Walt Disney. All the elements were in place to create one of the greatest financial and theological frauds in human history-NASA
Parsons and Hubbard idolized Aleister Crowley and were avowed satanists. Taken all to together NASA certainly did not sprout from humble beginnings. L. Ron Hubbard said it best. “You don’t get rich writing science fiction, if you want to get rich start a religion” Fate is not without it’s ironies. NASA got rich because of science fiction and for many people NASA is a religion.
1. Jack Whiteside Parsons – Occultist, Black Magician, Satanist, Head of Ordo Templi Orientis California Agape Lodge
2. Aleister Crowley – 33rd degree freemason, Leader of Ordo Templi Orientis, Black Magician, Satanist, The Beast ‘666’
3. L.Ron Hubbard – Mass Mind Controller, Black Magician, Satanist, Founder of The Church Of Scientology Cult
4. Werner von Braun – Ex-NAZI director of the German V-2 Rocket program and recruited into the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. Quite likely he was the most normal of the bunch.
4. Walt Disney – Occultist, Mass Mind Controller, Black Magician, Illuminati-Pedophile, Freemason and founder of The Ordem DeMolay
As the capstone to the NASA Dream Team, the adoption of pseudoscience provided the template that makes the NASA hoaxsters rockets go up, up and away. NASA didn’t have to look far for a sterling example of pseudoscience. The Soviets had perfected the kraft of pseudoscience as both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. engaged in the “fake cold war“. The cold war was pre-engineered by the Khazarian-Rothschild-Zionist-Bankster Cabal (Khazarian Mafia) after world war ll and had financial control of both governments.
Not surprisingly, both countries went on a spending rampage and billions of taxpayer dollars were funneled into the mythical masonic space race with the Soviets. The father of pseudoscience was a man named Trofim Lysenko who worked under the Jesuit trained mass murderer Joseph Stalin. Lysenko eventually became the official scientific voice of Russia and no matter how absurd his assertions were, to disagree would mean a trip to the gulag. Pseudoscience is not science, but science and political science combined to generate revenues by creating false scientific dogma reinforced with repetitive brainwashing. NASA has studied Lysenkoism well and has deceived the world by their slight of hand. But thanks to the internet, we’ve had a chance to catch-up and actually analyze what we’ve been shown and told from the all-knowing portal to the stars — NASA.
Today’s incarnation of NASA is a Military Masonic Controlled Entity that acts as the sole gatekeeper to information about the cosmos and our place in it. To think NASA’s black magic and occult origins haven’t been refined by Freemasonry is certain naivete. If you are not familiar with secret societies click here.
Vast industries controlled by the Khazarian Mafia have been spawned that orbit around NASA and the military industrial complex. Take a small sampling of The Top Aerospace and Defense Contractors from 2014 and look up the major shareholders (investors.morningstar.com) and look for four institutions, Vanguard Group, BlackRock Advisors LLC, Fidelity or State Street Corp. Roughly 80% of the industry is owned by these Khazarian Rothschild subsidiaries. On top of that take a cursory look at the various investment funds and you’ll see the same four companies.
Raytheon, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics Corp, United Technologies Corp, are just a few you may be familiar with. No doubt, hundreds more contractors exist. The Masons of NASA take in billions of taxpayer dollars, only to redistribute it amongst the Kharzarian Rothschilds majority owned companies and subsidiaries in the military industrial complex.
The level of compartmentalization among these interconnected companies is so tight, everyone is on a need-to-know basis which means only the top of the structure knows the final desired outcome. Everyone else is virtually kept in the dark, just the way NASA likes it.
NASA constitutes the biggest “black hole” ever discovered created especially in regards to funding. NASA is the king of ‘black ops’ with technology and advanced military craft that civilians have no idea exist. Billions of dollars have been embezzled by NASA and are reallocated for other nefarious uses by the Khazarian Mafia. In return for our obedience and gullibility, we get a fake fairy-tale saga about the cosmos, directed and produced by Hollywood at a fraction of the actual cost. It’s certainly more profitable to fake-it than make-It. The line between Hollywood and NASA is virtually indistinguishable to the unwitting observer.
Disney — Vanguard, BlackRock & State Street Corp.
Hollywood has cashed in big-time and perpetuates the worship of NASA through the endless genre of space sci-fi movies. Don’t be surprised to find the same institutional majority shareholders of major Hollywood companies and subsidiaries such as Disney, Comcast, MGM, Time Warner, Dreamworks, Sony Entertaiment. Again, go to invest.morningstar.com and look-up these companies. Vanguard Group, Fidelity, BlackRock LLC and State Street Corp. are majority shareholders, and thus Hollywood becomes a defacto propaganda machine for NASA. The Controlled Major Mass Media is also controlled by the Khazarian Mafia and hardly a day goes by without an article(s) written about the incredible exploits of NASA and it’s quest for life in the void of space. One problem, it’s all bullcrap!
NASA SPENDING SINCE 1958
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Ham is one of Noah’s sons. He travelled to Africa, becoming forefather of its nations. ‘Children of Ham’ is the Republic’s name for African-Americans. Supposedly, they are being ‘resettled’ in the National Homelands (Midwest).
The term "resettlement" was used by the Nazis as a euphemism for the transportation of Jews and other "undesirables" to the death camps of Poland. The Children of Ham may well face the same fate.
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Trans Mountain: tar sands oil to and from our coast
The Canadian government is pushing to expand the Trans Mountain Pipeline between Edmonton and Vancouver, and then export its oil via tanker from Burrard Inlet to Asia. The existing and expanded proposal would deliver 890,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day to Vancouver. Oil storage capacity at Burnaby would triple, adding 14 new tanks to store another 3,900,000 barrels. The pipeline would cross more than 500 streams in the Fraser River watershed. Tanker visits would increase by 574% above 2010 levels to more than 400 oil-laden trips through Burrard Inlet, the Fraser estuary, the Gulf Islands, Haro Strait and Juan de Fuca Strait, every year.
Raincoast’s most recent video summarises the threat from oil tankers to Southern Resident killer whales. Importantly, even if the project goes completely according to plan, with no oil spills and no ship strikes, the increased noise alone from more than 800 tanker transits annually (in and out) significantly increases their risk of extinction. When cumulative effects are considered, these whales face more than 50% chance of functional extinction within the next century.
All Raincoast’s evidence submitted to the NEB can be reached at the government website here.
Raincoast is an intervener in the National Energy Board hearings
Raincoast is an intervener in the National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposal. We are legally represented by Ecojustice in these hearings. As an intervenor, we review and question Kinder Morgan’s application to construct and operate the project. Importantly, we also submit expert evidence on our own scientific findings about project impacts. Raincoast’s focus is on wildlife. We concentrate on highly vulnerable species where our assessments yield different conclusions from Kinder Morgan’s; we also present relevant information not provided to the NEB by Kinder Morgan. Below are our Information Requests (IRs) and our evidence submitted to the NEB on May 27, 2015.
Final NEB Arguments
Raincoast submitted its final arguments to the National Energy Board in mid-January and presented its final oral arguments on January 26, 2016. You can
- download our final written arguments here,
- watch the video of our oral summary arguments here, and
- download written final legal summary here.
Evidence submissions to the NEB
Raincoast filed 4 expert submissions to the NEB on our concerns for salmon, killer whales and forage fish. A summary is available here: Statement of Written Evidence of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Detailed reports are found in 1-4.
1. Southern Resident Killer Whales: Population Viability Analysis
Southern resident killer whales are endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Trans Mountain’s tanker route transects critical habitat necessary for their survival and recovery. This submission describes a Population Viability Analysis (PVA) conducted by leading scientists studying killer whales, acoustics and endangered populations. A PVA can assess risks to wildlife populations and evaluate the likely effectiveness of recovery options. This PVA assessed the viability of the southern residents in light of their cumulative disturbances and threats, including increased ocean noise resulting from additional vessel traffic and oil spills. It also examined the role of Chinook salmon abundance and contaminants. The Southern Resident population has experienced almost no population growth over the past four decades, and has declined in the last two decades. Our analysis shows that the Trans Mountain Project will intensify existing threats, accelerating their rate of decline and possibly leading to complete extinction. Conversely, reducing existing vessel noise and increasing Chinook availability increases their likelihood of long term survival.
Download the pdf RCF- SRKW PVA for NEB -May 2015
2. Southern Resident Killer Whales: Acoustic disturbance from vessel traffic
Southern resident killer whales are endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Trans Mountain’s tanker route transects critical habitat necessary for their survival and recovery. This submission describes the importance of sound to killer whales (as important as vision is to humans) and the concern for even more noise in their critical habitat. Southern resident killer whales produce and listen to sounds in order to establish and maintain critical life functions: to navigate, find and select mates, maintain their social network, and locate and capture prey (especially Chinook salmon). The existing level of noise has already degraded critical habitat and studies suggest it has reduced the feeding efficiency of these whales. The Trans Mountain Project will increase noise levels with adverse affects to southern resident killer whales.
Download the pdf RCF – SRKW acoustics-NEB
3. Wild Salmon of the Fraser River and Salish Sea: The risk from oil spills
The Fraser River and its estuary is one of the most productive salmon watersheds in the world and the most economically important in Canada. The proposed pipeline and tanker route traverse and transect vital salmon habitat. This submission examines the potential consequences to Fraser River salmon populations from exposure to oil spilled from a pipeline rupture in the lower Fraser River or from an oil tanker spill in the waters of Georgia Strait. The Lower Fraser, its tributaries, and its estuary are used by 42 fish species throughout the year either for incubating eggs and embryos, as juveniles for rearing and overwintering, and as adults for migration and spawning. For salmon, the Lower Fraser River acts as a bottleneck through which the entire diversity of Fraser River salmon populations must pass twice during their lifetime. There is no safe time of the year when the impacts of a spill would be low. A spill during peak migration of unique Conservation Units or at risk species could be devastating to these populations.
Download the pdf RCF – Salmon-NEB-May 2015
4. Forage fish of the Salish Sea: The risk from oil spills and tankers
Forage fishes are crucial components of coastal marine ecosystems. This submission examines the potential impacts from Trans Mountain oil tankers and spills on Pacific herring and other forage fishes. Situated in the mid-trophic levels, they represent a vital link between the bottom and the top of the marine foodweb and support a diversity of predators, including humpback whales, Chinook salmon and seabirds. As such impacts to forage fishes have the potential to cause cascading consequences to the broader ecosystem, including species at risk. Trans Mountain’s review of forage fish suffered from information and methodological deficiencies, failed to assess all avenues for potential harm, and failed to identify the potential for project-related impacts on forage fish to result in negative consequences to the surrounding ecosystems.
Download the pdf RCF-Herring-NEB-May 2015 (PDF)
Information Requests (IRs) and other NEB exchanges
Response No 1 from Kinder Morgan to Raincoast
Other information & materials
Our threatened coast: Nature and shared benefits in the Salish Sea
Raincoast’s latest report demonstrates how the value of the region’s biological diversity –its plants and animals- reflect our values, have shaped our cultural identity, and are linked to economic benefits in the billions of dollars. We encourage decision makers and residents of the Salish Sea to fully consider what is at stake from a host of proposed coastal energy and shipping projects.
With the public participation in the NEB review of the Kinder Morgan expansion restricted, Directly Affected seeks to provide a voice to those left out, in the form of a short documentary.
Learn how you can Take Action to help stop the spread of oil in the Salish Sea.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a frequent target of criticism over the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, announced last week that she is resigning. Editorial cartoonist Chip Bok says Sebelius was thrown under the bus on the Obamacare issue, while Steve Sack thinks the Republicans might regret having tried to push her out the door.
The Obama administration announced this week it will delay the deadline for the Affordable Care Act for those who encounter difficulties signing up. Editorial cartoonist Chip Bok says this is President Obama’s latest “red line” on Obamacare, while Nate Beeler thinks Obama would also like to delay this year’s midterm elections.
Only 27 percent of Americans who have signed up for the Affordable Care Act are in the 18-34 age group, significantly lower than the Obama administration’s target of 40 percent. With this year’s deadline looming, editorial cartoonist Joe Heller says young people aren’t showing up in the Obamacare picture, while Nate Beeler suggests the administration is turning to desperate measures to sign them up.
By Angela Williams and Rhonda Fields
As policymakers and members of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado, health disparities among African-Americans have long been a concern. African-Americans are 55 percent less likely to have insurance, and much less likely to have access to health care. At the same time, we have higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, certain types of cancer, and many chronic illnesses.
That’s why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It fills critical gaps and addresses many of the health disparities that have affected African-Americans for decades. So now, in the middle of Black History Month and approaching the open enrollment deadline on March 31, we are urging African-Americans who need insurance and better health care to enroll in a health care plan through Connect for Health Colorado.
And if you need help figuring out the process, the Center for African American Health in Denver is a designated community navigator.
Last week’s Congressional Budget Office report predicted that the Affordable Care Act will shrink the U.S. workforce by more than 2 million jobs over the next decade as those who rely on their jobs for health coverage would quit working, reduce their hours or stop looking for employment. Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley says the health care law will free those who have been chained to their jobs, while Chip Bok suggests President Obama might call the unemployment rate the “liberation from work rate.”
By Eric M. Patashnik and Julian E. Zelizer
Special To The Washington Post
Both liberals and conservatives believe they are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the Affordable Care Act. With the HealthCare.gov website running more smoothly, liberals are confident that the health care plan will soon be entrenched. Just as Republicans in the 1950s came to accept Social Security to avoid electoral defeats, ACA supporters insist that conservatives are courting political disaster if they continue to oppose the law.
Republicans have a different perspective. They point to millions of canceled insurance policies, ongoing enrollment problems, and repeated implementation delays as signs that the law is on the brink of collapse. The ACA remains fundamentally flawed, they claim, and all these Band-Aid improvements will never repair a program that was defective from the start.
But what do we really know about the dynamics of “policy entrenchment” — that is, whether programs survive after Congress creates them? There are a lot myths and half-truths circulating in our national dialogue about ACA. It’s time to take stock of what political science research actually tells us.
1. Government programs never die.
Given how difficult it is to revise an existing law, it might seem that a program’s entrenchment is assured once it has been enacted. In his 1976 book “Are Government Organizations Immortal?” political scientist Herman Kaufman argued that “government activities tend to go on indefinitely.”
President Obama reversed course this week and said millions of Americans should be able to renew health insurance plans that had been canceled because of the Affordable Care Act. Editorial cartoonist Rick McKee says that’s like pardoning a turkey after cutting off its head, while Nate Beeler says Christmas came awfully early this year for the Republicans.
What the nation’s political commentators are saying about President Obama in light of his speech on the Affordable Care Act Thursday:
Obamacare is owned by Democrats
As the only socially transformational legislation in modern American history to be enacted on a straight party-line vote, Obamacare is wholly owned by the Democrats. Its unraveling would catastrophically undermine their underlying ideology of ever-expansive central government providing cradle-to-grave care for an ever-grateful citizenry.
— Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group
Taking stock of the president
There are important questions about whether the fix President Obama offered today for Americans whose insurance policies were canceled will help them, whether it will hinder the broad goals of the health insurance reform law, and whether it will satisfy the opponents of reform. .. But this was also one of those moments when a nation takes stock of its president. And it seemed worth nothing here that Obama has dealt another blow to his own already damaged credibility with this latest reminder of how he and his team bungled the rollout of health care reform.
— Andrew Rosenthal, The New York Times
Obama ignoring provisions of act
Obama’s announcement should also put an end to the argument that the health-care law would be working great if only Republicans weren’t sabotaging it. … But it isn’t Republicans who are flouting the law anyway. It’s Obama, who has just announced on national television that he is — once again — going to ignore its provisions.
— Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg News
“If you like your plan, you can keep it” — a broken presidential promise, obvious political hyperbole, or somewhere in between? Regarding President Obama’s repeated claim regarding the Affordable Care Act, editorial cartoonist John Cole suggests the president has a forked tongue, while Pat Bagley thinks the law’s opponents have also missed the mark on telling the truth.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized for troubles with the federal health exchange website Wednesday, taking blame for its failures. Editorial cartoonist calls the problems a giant egg on the face of the federal government, while David Fitzsimmons wonders if Sebelius will take the Charlie Sheen apology route.
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Q: Spring must be coming as a large flock of red-wing blackbirds showed up yesterday to join a large flock of robins who have been here for awhile. They are clearing the apples off a crab apple tree, which was overloaded from last fall.
Daffodils have pushed through the ground on the south side of the house about two weeks ago. It must be near, unless we get a surprise snow fall in April for a reality check.
— Fran [and Pat]
A: You are correct, spring must be coming, and I wish you told us where. Both birds are on schedule, if not a little early. The robins may either be migrants from the south or wintering birds that will probably be moving north. Either way, they inspire thoughts of season's change.
Also, love is in the air, if not spring weather, with both of our bluebird boxes already being occupied by house sparrows, that I will soon evict. This is one of the few species we can evict, discourage or otherwise intimidate legally. I prefer bluebirds, but will settle for bluebirds in one box and tree swallows in the other.
Q: While hiking up the Gorge Trail above Schermerhorn Falls in Lenox Dale/Lee, Mass., I saw some movement out of my peripheral vision. I saw three of these "fly" from a small ash sapling into this huge hemlock.
When I say fly, I mean they jumped and soared at least 10 feet from tree to tree! This guy stayed where I could get a photo of him. Never saw anything quite like him. Doesn't appear to be a squirrel, let alone a flying squirrel. Doesn't seem to be a chipmunk, at least not by the fur and those big eyes. Any thoughts?
— Tom H.
A: Because flying squirrels are so nocturnal and rarely seen during the day, or at all for that matter, it is easy to think of them as rare. They are not rare, and are far more common that we think.
The photos you included confirm it is a flying squirrel, but does not say which species, but the northern species is almost entirely nocturnal. Here, in the Berkshires, we may encounter both the northern flying squirrel and the southern flying squirrel.
Northern flying squirrels occur at altitudes of 1,000 feet or more, often in cool, dense forests of mature mixed hardwoods and conifers. Apparently, they prefer pure stands of hemlock-birch or hemlock-maple forests. while southern flying squirrels prefer hardwood forests of red maple, oak, birch, beech and aspen. To confuse the matter, they sometimes occur in mixed coniferous-hardwood forests, even old orchards and occasionally attics or lofts.
The name "flying squirrel" is a misnomer as they do not fly as do bats and birds, but instead glide by jumping off a tree and gently dive on parachute-like membranes outstretched between wrist and ankle. Sometimes they can glide some 150 feet from a height of 60 feet. While they can't glide upward, they can and do make turns to avoid slamming into a tree trunk or other obstacle as in cartoons.
I once raised a baby flying squirrel whose parents had abandoned the nest and young. It was comfortable spending the day sleeping in my shirt pocket as I went about my duties at the Berkshire Museum.
Bird feeder report
I read in your column about a birder with a shortage of birds this year and I was writing to let you know that up here, in Florida, Mass., I have more birds this year than in the recent past.
This year, I have a pair of cardinals, six titmice, a few nuthatches, many gold finches, about eight woodpeckers and, of course, dozens of chickadees and blue jays. All of these birds except the finches wintered here. The finches showed up in January.
I even had a cedar waxwing eating in my mountain ash trees in January.
It has been a very unusual year for birding up here. I am only feeding them with black oil sunflower seed and suet.
I can't explain it, but I like it.
— Chuck, Florida, Mass.
Thom Smith welcomes your questions and comments. Email him at Naturewatch@live.com or write him care of The Berkshire Eagle, 75 S. Church St., Pittsfield, MA 01201.
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The world is getting smaller and smaller every day, thanks to how easy it’s becoming to connect with people from every corner of the earth.
But this brings with it its own challenges – how to develop a global brand strategy that is meaningful at a local level and accross cultures.
And research solutions also need to take account of these differences – each market is different, will 'do' things in a unique way and have nuances in methodologies, profile criteria and social norms that need to be fully understood and accomodated in both the devleopment of the project and the output.
MindSpark has developed '10 Golden Rules of Global Research' – broken up into planning, fieldwork and insight phases of the project. A useful reminder of the potential pitfalls and how to avoid those 'obvious' mistakes …
PDF reproduced by kind permission of MindSpark.
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EMI: Exploration with Mutual Information
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 97:3360-3369, 2019.
Reinforcement learning algorithms struggle when the reward signal is very sparse. In these cases, naive random exploration methods essentially rely on a random walk to stumble onto a rewarding state. Recent works utilize intrinsic motivation to guide the exploration via generative models, predictive forward models, or discriminative modeling of novelty. We propose EMI, which is an exploration method that constructs embedding representation of states and actions that does not rely on generative decoding of the full observation but extracts predictive signals that can be used to guide exploration based on forward prediction in the representation space. Our experiments show competitive results on challenging locomotion tasks with continuous control and on image-based exploration tasks with discrete actions on Atari. The source code is available at https://github.com/snu-mllab/EMI.
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Are you struggling to get a good night’s sleep? Take a look at these 10 quick and easy steps to move closer to a beautiful night’s sleep quicker than you can say Zzzzz…
Sleep is so important for our health. Without enough of it we can feel grumpy, low in mood, lacking in memory and struggling to concentrate. Over time, this can evolve into fatigue, further issues with cognition and even mental health problems and an increased risk of physical issues.
One of the easiest ways to get better sleep is to boost your bedroom in all the right ways. To help you make your way to a dreamier bedroom, try following these 10 easy steps:
1. Pick The Right Room
It is so important that you choose the right room as your bedroom. Sometimes if there is a choice, we might choose the labelled ‘master bedroom’ when in fact another room has a better view, or less noise pollution. Don’t be afraid to move rooms if it could mean better sleep.
Whichever room you are going to be sleeping in, it should be totally free of clutter. A disorganised room that is untidy is essentially a room full of distractions and thoughts. You wouldn’t go to sleep in a room full of people shouting your name would you? A cluttered room is a similar thing, so it is important to deal with the problem before you do anything else. Declutter items from your room into your affordable self storage unit, or the spare room. You can always sort them out later, after you’ve had a good night’s sleep hopefully!
3. Choose The Right Curtains
It is a good idea to have blackout curtains for your bedroom because a dark room is best for good sleep. You could have your current curtains lined, or you could invest in a thick pair just for this particular room.
Air quality is so important for your entire home, but especially the room you sleep in as you are breathing the air in all night. Open the window and ideally, have a door or another window open so the air actively moves through. The only reason not to do this is if your window opens out onto a main road or somewhere there are strong smells or smoke fumes that can make their way in. These kinds of fumes will potentially keep you awake and could actively decrease your air quality. Having the windows open also helps moisture escape from the room which will help with mould prevention.
What you can do if the windows cannot be opened (or even if they can) is to let a fan move the air around every now and again. This will help with ventilation and stopping that dead air feeling happening in the room. Some people are also investing in portable air conditioning units which will cool the room right down, but they use a lot of electricity and can be very loud too so do your research. Another potential option if you want to boost the air quality in your bedroom is to get an air purifier. Again, they differ in how loud or effective they are but they could be worth a try, particularly if you struggle with allergies.
It might seem a lot of effort to go to just to improve the air in your room, but the quality of the air and the temperature of your room are both highly impactful, not only when it comes to your sleep, but with your overall health. For that reason, it’s not a bad part of your life to spend money on overall.
5. Deal With Any Mould
Mould is very bad for your health, and can often be found in bedrooms, causing all kinds of issues and potentially aggravating (or even causing) problems like asthma.
Look for black or brown spots in damp corners and deal with them as soon as you can using certified products and preventative measures. You should also deal with the source of damp causing the mould and may need to speak to your landlord about this if you rent. It’s a health risk so they should want to take action to get it fixed.
6. Get A New Mattress Topper
You should be comfortable in your bed, and often the key to that is the mattress. If you can’t afford a new one that suits your needs, consider getting a good mattress topper instead, which will be cheaper.
They can be so helpful improving the quality of a mattress that isn’t high quality, or that is past its best.
Some good pillows (perhaps hypoallergenic or memory foam) can also be helpful when it comes to ensuring you’re as comfortable as possible in bed.
7. Choose Comfortable Bedding
The bedding you choose should be breathable and ideally, naturally cold. This is best for keeping you cool and comfortable whilst you sleep.
8. Make It Cool
The bedroom should be cool to help you get the best possible sleep. As humans, we don’t sleep well when it is warm and if we are too hot, we tend to toss and turn. Turning the heating off in that room, and avoiding sleeping in too many clothes will help.
In winter, using hot water bottles and a layered bed (with sheets, quilts and blankets) means you can add and remove warmth as and when you need to, which is easier than having a room that is very hot in temperature, and a thick winter duvet that doesn’t allow much temperature flexibility.
9. Ban The Blue Lights
It is so important that you try to keep technology out of your room. Phones, televisions and computers all omit a blue light that disturbs our natural circadian rhythm, making it harder to get to sleep. The experts say the bedroom should be for sleep and sex, and realistically if you can ensure that it is, you’re likely to get better sleep in that room.
10. Don’t Forget The Other Areas Of Your Life
Even if your room is perfectly suited to sleep, if you don’t address the other areas of your life when it comes to sleep, you won’t have much success. Eating well, dealing with stress sources and exercising are such important aspects of a healthy life, and if you can improve those, you’re likely to get better sleep as a result.
The ten tips above are a great starting point for getting your bedroom set for a good night’s sleep. By putting in the effort and making small changes, you’ll see big improvements in your sleep, for dreamy and peaceful rest that you need and deserve to feel 100% during your waking hours
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Access to reliable and robust energy data is a key requirement for effective energy planning - and for the economic growth that it drives. Currently, Ghana's energy data is scattered among many organisations who do not always make it accessible. This impedes the expansion of access to clean energy.
To address this issue, an Energy Access Data (EAD) task force was set up at a meeting of energy sector board chairs and CEOs in 2011 to facilitate the development of a shared energy database. The goal is to bring data together under one umbrella and to make it accessible on the energy commission’s website. This will guarantee that energy policy-makers, clean energy investors, app developers and the general public can make informed decisions.
The initiative will also help widen the data in the GIS-based Energy Access Review (GEAR) Toolkit, an interactive decision support tool for energy access policy –makers based on a Geographical Information System (GIS).
The database resulting from this project will feed into the National Energy Data Processing and Information Centre (NEDPIC).
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China building world's highest altitude telescope in Tibet
China has started building the world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet, close to country's Line of Actual Control with India.
With a budget of $18.8 million, the telescope will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere.
Yao Yongqiang chief researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said, construction has started for the first telescope, code-named Ngari No.1,30 kilometers south of Shiquanhe Town in Ngari Prefecture. Parts of NGARI is last Tibetan prefecture at China's border with India.
The telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere. It is expected to be operational by 2021.
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Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild (née Fould-Springer) (1916-2003)
Liliane Elisabeth Victoire Fould-Springer was born on 11 May 1916, the youngest of the four children of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer, descendant of Napoleon III's Finance Minister Achille Fould and a member of the European banking house Fould Oppenheim. Her mother Mitzi was only daughter and heiress of Baron Gustav Springer, the Austro-Hungarian industrial magnate.
Liliane married Baron Elie de Rothschild (1917-2007) in 1942. Liliane had a good eye for pictures and a flair for design. When, in 1967, the old premises of the family bank in Paris, de Rothschild Frères, at 19 rue Laffitte, were demolished to make way for a modern building, it was she, in collaboration with Michel Boyer, who supervised the interior decoration.
She was also a guiding light in the decoration of the hotels and restaurants established by the French Rothschilds' enterprise PLM (an acronym deriving from two Rothschild railway companies which were merged in 1857, the Paris-Lyons and the Lyons-Méditerranée), of which Baron Elie was president. An example was the 812-room Hôtel Saint-Jacques, which opened in Paris in 1972.
When, in the late 1950s, she and her husband moved into 11 rue Masseran, a Paris hotel built for Prince Masserano by Brongniart in 1785, Liliane de Rothschild decorated its interiors with a most effective mixture of Rothschild portraits and objets d'art, French furniture by the greatest 18th-century cabinetmakers, Old Master paintings and the 20th-century works of art that she and Baron Elie collected.
Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild, press cuttings and ephemera, c.1949-1990
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Collection of press cuttings, publications and ephemera collected by Liliane, including publications about Rothschild art, news cuttings, bibliographies, souvenirs of Rothschild events, etc. Includes copy of Les Rothschild Gouvieux-Chantilly 1880-1930, detailing Rothschild estates in the area; photographs of Rothschild polot teams in the 1960s; article from Town & Country, 'The Queen of Paris: Marie-Helene', 1970s; sale catalogue Meubles et Objects d'Art provenant du Château de Ferrières appartenant au Baron Guy de Rothschild, Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 December 1994.
Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild, sundry correspondence, 1958; 1980-1981; 2001; 2012; 2015
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Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild, (née Fould-springer) (1916-2003), sundry correspondence.
- Letter to Miriam Rothschild from Liliane, 22 May 2001, in which she mentions the death of her maid Jeanette, whose length of service with the Rothschild family totals 130 years when combined with that of her father. (000/0982)
- Letters to Liliane from various authors, including a letter from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 13 October 1980, regarding objects held there with a Rothschild provenance; letter from Ina Freidman, 22 June 1981, regarding a book she is writing on the Holocaust; a graphology study of Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949). (000/1115)
- Original correspondence from Liliane and her daughter Nelly to Nurse MacRae, May 1958, and covering letter, July 2015 from Ms MacRae to the Archive. In the late 1950s, Baron Elie de Rothschild was in Oxford, England, receiving treatment at the Wingfield Orthopaedic Hospital. He learnt that a group of nurses (including Nurse MacRae) who had relieved the Baroness and the children's nanny in sitting with him during his recovery, were going on a visit to Paris for the first time. Elie arranged for a visit to his office, a trip to Paris nighclubs and drinks with him and the Baroness at their Paris home, followed by dinner. After the visit Nurse MacRae wrote to Liliane to thank her, enclosing the gift of a doll for Nelly. These letters are the replies from Liliane and Nelly, kept by Nurse MacRae.
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Memorial booklet for Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild (1916-2003). Copies of a valedictory speech given in honour of Liliane de Rothschild.
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Liliane, Baroness Elie de Rothschild (nee Fould-Springer) (1916-2003): private papers. A collection of sundry documents, photographs, printed material and press cuttings collected by Liliane. The collection includes photographs of Baron Elie de Rothschild and Robert de Rothschild (1880-1946), Liliane's father-in-law. The colelction conatins asingle letter addressed to Adolphe de Rothschild (1823-1900), Geneva, from Ernest Lévy, dated 28 October 1870 and sent by balloon.
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What you should know about the Waste Framework Directive review
Earlier this year, on 25 January 2022, the European Commission officially kicked-off the review of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) by opening a call for evidence for an Impact Assessment. The Commission’s proposal for the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, which was last reviewed in 2018, is expected to be published in Q2 2023.
This review will be more targeted than the one carried in 2018 and will address waste prevention, separate collection, waste oils and textiles. The review of the WFD also incorporates the Commission’s initiative to set up EU targets for food waste reduction.
On 24 May 2022, the European Commission opened a 12-weeks public consultation on the file, which will remain open for stakeholders’ feedback until 16 August 2022.
WHAT DID YOU MISS?
- Studies support the WFD review: The WFD review process is supported by several studies led by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and a consortium of consultancy firms including, amongst others, Ramboll, Wood, Prognos.
- The JRC is leading a study focused on separate waste collection, focusing on the bio-waste, paper, glass, metals and plastics (dry recyclables) streams.
- In parallel, the consortium of consultants’ study to support the impact assessment is focusing on waste prevention, preparation for reuse and recycling. The waste streams covered by this study are waste electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and accumulators, bulky waste, household construction and demolition waste, hazardous household waste, wood packaging and ceramics packaging.
- Waste oils and textiles will be addressed in a separate workstream and set of stakeholder workshops.
All these studies, led in parallel, will feed into the impact assessment of policy options for the revision of the Waste Framework Directive.
- 13 September 2022: Second stakeholder of the study to support the impact assessment (preparation for re-use and recycling and waste prevention), focused on proposed policy options and impacts.
- Q4 2022: Publication of the final JRC report on separate waste collection and end of the study.
- Q2 2023: Expected publication of the Commission proposal for a review WFD.
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Perito Moreno Glacier
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Genius or Madness?
- Extra Reading
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide" (Dryden). There often seems to be a link between creativity and mental illness. Many great poets, playwrights, artists and composers suffered from depression, alcoholism, obsessionality, bipolar or psychotic disorders at some time in their lives. How strong is the link and what might account for it? Are these disorders beneficial to the creative process or a drawback that must be overcome?
This is a part of Glenn Wilson's series of lectures as Visiting Professor of Psychology, 2012/13. The other lectures are as follows:
Personality and the Brain
Mind over Matter
Sleep and Dreams
How to be a lie detector
The Psychology of Money
6 November 2012
Genius or Madness?
Professor Glenn Wilson
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide”
(John Dryden, 1681).
“There is no great genius without a tincture of madness”
(Seneca, 1st Century A.D.).
Many great artists and scientists appear to have gone slightly mad following their lofty achievements. Isaac Newton was arguably the greatest physicist of all time, introducing the concept of gravity and making major advances in optics, mechanics and mathematics. He was also intensely suspicious and distrustful of others and in later life dabbled in alchemy and sought hidden messages in the Bible. Of course, alchemy was not thought a mad pursuit in Newton’s day and he could have been afflicted with mercury poisoning as a result of his experiments (Keynes, 2008).
Beethoven and Van Gogh are also said to have gone progressively mad, though the reasons are equally debatable. Beethoven’s mania may have been due to alcoholism, syphilis, or lead poisoning (apart from his profound deafness, which would distress anyone, let alone a musician). There are theories that Van Gogh’s mood swings were caused by porphyria rather than bipolar disorder, that he lost his ear in a duel with Gaugin (claiming self-injury to maintain his friendship) and that his “suicide” was an accidental shooting by two boys playing cowboys (whom he also protected).
For others, the genius and madness appear in parallel. Nikola Tesla was a brilliant applied scientist whose inventions rivalled those of Edison. He obtained around 300 patents in radio and electricity technologies, pioneering alternating current and hydroelectric power. However, he claimed to be in communication with other planets, to have invented “death rays” and suffered from bizarre compulsions.
John Nash, the Nobel-winning mathematician who developed “game theory” for the social sciences also suffered paranoid delusions throughout his career. He was hospitalised involuntarily and had to feign sanity to be released. He still heard the voices but learned how to live with them and not to talk about them. “I wouldn’t have had such good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally” he said.
Sometimes it is a matter of chance or social milieu that determines whether an individual is deemed brilliant or crazy. To the Counter-Reformation Church leaders, Galileo was not necessarily mad (probably just heretical) but they clearly failed to appreciate his genius and subjected him to a lifetime of house arrest. In other times and places Picasso and Einstein might have been committed to an insane asylum rather than revered for their original thinking.
Many lists of creative achievers throughout history have been compiled along with mental health symptoms and diagnostic categories retrospectively assigned to them. Unfortunately, these are mostly anecdotal, speculative and lacking in proper controls for comparison (Waddell, 1998). Some have argued that the connection between genius and madness has been over-egged because of a few high-profile cases such as those described above.
The best evidence in support of the genius-madness link comes from behaviour genetics (Kuszewski, 2009). The close relatives of creative people are more likely to be schizophrenic and vice versa (psychotics having more creative relatives). Einstein, for example, had a son who was schizophrenic, while Bertrand Russell had many schizophrenic relatives. According to Simonton (1999), “creative hits and crazy misses” are mixed within many illustrious family pedigrees, including the Darwins, Galtons and Huxleys.
The first degree relatives of creative people are actually more prone to mental disorders than creatives themselves. This is because actual illness (as opposed to its genetic predisposition) is likely to impede a creative career. The exception seems to be writers, who themselves show high rates of many behavioural disorders, including psychoses, mood disorders, substance abuse and suicide (Kyaga, 2012).
Could the environment also be involved? Traumatic events in childhood and orphan status seem more common in thosewho make outstanding contributions to art and science (Simonton, 1999). In a study of 700 high achievers, Goetzel et al (2004) found that three-quarters had troubled childhoods, especially loss of a parent. The “school of hard knocks” could provide motivation and inspiration (Dickens and Chaplin come to mind here) while at the same time generating psychological disorder. However, this idea is opposite to the common-sense view that parental support and encouragement is beneficial to achievement, rather than maltreatment and deprivation. Indeed, the Goetzels found that wealth was more common in the backgrounds of famous people than poverty. And of course, pathology in the parents may be genetically transmitted to their children, thus accounting for some of the associations reported.
Similar thought processes, such as unusual and grandiose ideas, together with a determination to promote them, seem to link genius and psychosis. Certain neurotransmitters and gene loci have been cited as common to both, including the male sex hormonetestosterone, a gene relating to a growth factor involved in neural development and plasticity called neuregulin 1 (NRG1) (Keri, 2009) and genes modulatingdopamine transmission in the brain, e.g., DARPP-32 (Rosack, 2002).
According to Eysenck (1995), unconventional thinking is characteristic of a constitutional personality trait called Psychoticism (P). This has many facets, including tough-mindedness, lack of empathy, impulsiveness, risk-taking, adventure-seeking, bizarre thinking, and a refusal to adhere to social norms. High levels of P predispose to psychopathy and clinical psychosis, as well as to creativity, thus accounting for the overlap between them. A good deal of research over recent decades has supported this theory. A related trait is calledschizotypy. An optimum number of indicators for this relates to creative achievement, rather than full-blown schizophrenia (Kuszewski, 2009).
Dopamine function (or dysfunction?) may account for the link between genius and madness (Gromisch, 2010). Dopamine is the chemical messenger in the meso-limbic and cortical areas of the brain concerned with approach, reward, positive mood and achievement-seeking. Genes that modulate dopamine levels are reported to affect novelty-seeking behaviour and to relate to Impulsivity and Psychoticism. Recreational drugs that are addictive and sometimes lead to delusions and hallucinations (e.g., amphetamine psychosis) tend to raise levels of dopamine in the brain. By contrast, anti-psychotic medications are usually dopamine antagonists (this being one of the reasons why compliance is difficult). Untreated schizophrenics have more D2 receptors in the striatum and lower D2 binding in the thalamus (Manzano et al, 2010).
Genius and psychotic are both inclined to loose associations (i.e., “thinking outside the box”). This can be observed as unusual responses on a word association test or in some of Salvador Dali’s surreal images (e.g., the Lobster-Telephone and the Mae West Lips Sofa). Such flexibility of thought seems to be increased by dopamine.
Another description of the schizophrenic thinking style is that it tends to be over-inclusive, with the boundaries of relevance being set more broadly. To most people, an apple falling off a tree and the movement of planets in the solar system would appear to have nothing in common, but Newton was insightful enough to connect them under the grand unifying concept of “gravity.” Of course, not all such generalisations turn out to be that useful but many great scientific theories depend upon the ability to perceive improbable connections.
Exactly how loose associations or over-inclusive thinking promote genius is unclear. If enough crazy ideas are generated, one or two might hit the target by chance alone. This approach is deliberately harnessed in “brainstorming” sessions which use random “flashcards” as a means of generating fresh ideas. Certainly, it is difficult to be creative operating within received wisdom and some of the greatest artists and composers were the “rebels” least shackled by the traditional rules of their art. However, the “shotgun” theory smacks slightly of “monkeys on typewriters”. (It would take a long time for them come up with the complete works of Shakespeare). Outstanding advances in science, like the theories of evolution and relativity, and great works of art, such as Wagner’s Ring Cycle, cannot be generated by chance alone. Profound imagination and high-level spatial intelligence is usually required in addition.
Application to the point of “work addiction” is also often involved. Edison reckoned that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Simonton reports that the most creative people are also the most productive. There is a positive correlation between quality and quantity of output, implying that each masterpiece is likely to be interspersed with much that is mediocre.
The human tendency to apophenia may be implicated in both creativity and madness (De Young et al, 2012). This refers to seeing meaningful patterns where they do not exist and it underlies superstition and hallucinations (e.g., seeing ghosts and hearing “voices”). This perceptual style has survival value because failing to spot a predator in the forest is a bigger (potentially fatal) mistake than seeing one where it does not exist. Exaggerated apophenia is characteristic of schizotypal individuals and is enhanced by dopamine.
Another mental “illness” linked with creativity is bipolar mood disorder (previously called “manic-depressive psychosis”). This is characterised by extreme mood swings, occurring over a period of months, and it seems particularly to afflict artists, writers, musicians and comedians. Among highly talented people who appear to have suffered mood disorder are Peter Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Spike Milligan, Paul Merton and Stephen Fry (who presented a TV documentary on bipolar disorder detailing his experiences).
Genetic analysis shows links between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (Lichtenstein et al, 2009; Owen et al, 2007). Sufferers are often tortured souls, particularly when the “Black Dog” afflicts them, and their feelings may be tapped to give greater depth and sensitivity to their art. On the other hand, the “flight of ideas” experienced in the “manic” phase of the mood cycle can result in exceptional productivity (Jamison, 1993). As with the trade-off between schizophrenia and genius, bipolar disorder balances troughs with peaks in a way that might account for its evolutionary survival. Treatments are available for bipolar disorder but there is a danger that, by smoothing mood, they could impede the creative forces.
Then there are the autistic spectrum disorders (such as Asperger’s syndrome) in which a deficiency in social communication is sometimes accompanied by “savant” skills in fields like music, mathematics and spatial intelligence (Jarrett & Sutton, 2008). In the film Rain Man (1988), Dustin Hoffman plays Raymond Babbitt an autistic whose exceptional memory is exploited by his brother to count cards in Las Vegas casinos. (This was loosely based on a real-life savant called Kim Peek, who may in fact have had a chromosome disorder).The artist Louis Wain, who became famous for his surrealistic cat paintings was hospitalised for schizophrenia, but others have argued he was actually autistic.
These various “disorders” can all contribute to extraordinary contributions to art and science. Some tendency to psychotic traits seems to be beneficial (thus accounting for the maintenance of such genes) but too much makes the individual disorganised and is hence detrimental. It is notable that creative artists and writers have profiles similar to those of psychotic patients on clinical scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) but are less extreme – in fact, roughly half-way between normal controls and full-blown schizophrenics (Simonton,2005).
What is the mechanism whereby schizophrenic genes promote survival? The clue may be in the behaviour of bower birds, the males of which make colourful and elaborate constructions in order to attract a female (the Taj Mahals of the bird world). Creativity has also been shown to promote mating success in men, as measured by number of sex partners. Since there is no such connection for women, it is not surprising that men’s productivity in art and science exceeds that of women by around ten times (Clegg et al, 2011).
Obviously, it does not do to be totally and permanently “away with the fairies”; some measure of control needs to be maintained. Consider James Joyce and his daughter Lucia, who was being treated by Carl Jung for schizophrenia in 1934. Joyce doubted she could be schizophrenic because her thought patterns were so similar to his own. Jung disagreed, comparing father and daughter to two people who had arrived at the bottom of a river. According to Jung, James had dived there, whereas Lucia had fallen in.
Genius and madness have much in common but there are also important differences between them. Mostly these are to do with intelligence, self-insight and contact with reality. Salvador Dali said: “There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know that I am mad”. Certainly, Dali was eccentric, self-absorbed and grandiose with a flamboyant moustache and a manic stare. But he was also a skilled draftsman, who produced brilliant, imaginative artworks, which made him rich, famous and able to enjoy a life of luxury. He was not, therefore, totally mad.
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© Professor Glenn D Wilson 2012
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How Your Credit Score Works
Your credit score is a pivotal part of your own account. There are 3 significant credit authorities that include your credit report: Equifax, Experion, and TransUnion. The credit score is a number that is gotten from the data on your credit record.
For what reason is your credit score so significant?
Basically, having a decent credit score will set aside you cash. On the off chance that you have a decent credit score, you’ll have the option to arrange the best rates on advances. This may incorporate vehicle credits, contracts, understudy advances, or some other sort of advance. Somebody with a high financing cost on an advance should pay more cash during the life of the credit. Somebody who has a low financing cost will wind up paying less cash over the life of the credit.
What makes up your credit score?
As per FICO, there are 5 measurements that involve your credit score:
35% Payment History – If you take care of your tabs on schedule, your score improves. On the off chance that you pay them late, your score drops.
30% Credit Utilization – You should expect to use around 10 percent of your credit limit each month, however close to 25 percent. This will keep your credit use proportion on favorable terms. Additionally, don’t close your credit card accounts superfluously on the grounds that this will antagonistically influence your use proportion.
15% Length of Credit History – The more you have a credit history, the better your score. It’s essential to continually utilize your credit cards from month to month to keep them spinning. On the off chance that you don’t utilize them, your record will be closed down and your history will be affected.
10% Types of Credit – Lenders need to see that you have a balanced getting history, so it bodes well that 10 percent of your score is influenced by having various sorts of advances.
10% Recent Searches for Credit – A hard request influences your score. A hard request is the point at which you apply for credit through a loan specialist. On the off chance that you search for a vehicle and are attempting to get an automobile advance, don’t stress over looking for a rate. FICO has an electronic calculation set up that distinguishes this, and you won’t be punished for rate-shopping inside a 2-multi week time frame.
Does checking your credit influence your score?
Primary concern, no. You can’t hurt your credit score by inquisitive about it. Be that as it may, your credit score will fall in the event that you apply for credit excessively. For instance, your score is influenced if a bank checks your score when you’re applying for a credit.
The most effective method to check your credit
You can get a free duplicate of your credit report each year from AnnualCreditReport.com. It’s imperative to determine the status of the strength of your credit each year. You should verify whether it’s improving. You’ll additionally have the option to see whether you’re a survivor of wholesale fraud.
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Exercise is a great way to improve your health, even as a senior. It helps reduce the risk of certain health conditions and ensures that you stay active. As easy as it sounds, physical activity can be quite difficult for seniors as they combat the effects of aging. However, there are exercises that you can implement in your life that will improve your fitness level and even increase life expectancy.
Chair exercises have proved to be a popular exercise program amongst older adults and seniors because it offers a number of health benefits. A chair workout is a low-impact resistance training that improves balance, strength, and flexibility. Whether you are active or have limited movement, these exercises are a great option for you. At LOAIDS.COM, you will find a collection of daily aids that can help seniors who are restricted with movement. (1)
In this article, we will explore some quick and easy exercises that will help you stay at your optimal level for a long time:
Raised Arm Extension
Raised arm extension is one quick and easy routine that targets your shoulders, biceps, and lats. All you need to do is sit on a chair with your back straightened and your feet well apart. Once you are in position, you must extend your arm towards the sky and bring it back down. Repeat the same with the other arm to complete a rep and do around 20 to complete a set.
Ankle and Wrist Rolls
Ankle and wrist rolls are excellent exercises that improve blood circulation and mobility. To do this, you must sit on a sturdy chair with your back straightened and feet apart. Then you need to flex your fingers a couple of times which means you open and close them. Afterward, you should clench your fists and roll your wrists in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. The same technique is also offered to your feet, where you curl and straighten your toes and then roll your ankles to make the most of your exercise.
Toes and Heels Raise
In this exercise routine, you begin sitting on a chair and your feet well placed on the floor. After getting into position, you need to lift your toes while your heels are still on the floor. Hold it for a moment before you bring them back to the floor. Then do the same process again, but this time lift your feet while your toes are still touching the floor. Do this around 15 times as it will improve your calves, ankle extensors, and so on.
Seated Hip Marches
Performing this exercise improves your flexibility and mobility as it targets your hips and abdominal muscles. We start with you sitting on a chair and feets placed flat on the ground. Then you take the support of the slides or the armrest of your chair and lift your right leg with your knee bent. It should be similar to doing a high-knee march, and once you comfortably lift your leg, lower it with control and repeat on the other leg.
Sit to Stands
Another excellent chair workout you must try is the sit-to-stand, which can be slightly challenging but brings exceptional results. Begin by sitting comfortably on a chair as you would typically do, maintaining a good posture and toes facing forward. Stretch your arms forward while in your sitting posture and move from sitting to standing. Repeat this for ten reps, as it will build muscles in your hips and legs.
Jumping jacks is a great exercise that can be done while seated. It is well known to improve strength and endurance, even in chair exercise. Let’s start with sitting on a chair, but this time slightly forward. Make sure you are not at the edge but have proper balance and stability before you begin. Extend your legs forward, making a V while sitting with your arms towards the ceiling, creating a V as well. After that, return to your original position and repeat; however, if moving both arms and legs is confusing or complicated. You can consider separating them as two sets as per your comfort.
This exercise routine is where you target your obliques and is often considered a medium difficulty level. To do this, you sat on a chair comfortably and clasped your hands together in front of you. Then you focus on your clasped hands and twist your upper body side to the site while your feet are flat on the ground. This routine may get you dizzy if you do it too fast, so start slow and gradually find the rhythm that works best for you.
These are several chair exercises that you can do as a senior at home. While they are quite effective in improving your quality of living, make sure that you choose a sturdy chair and avoid folding chairs or chairs with wheels. If you feel any pain or discomfort, stop immediately and get it checked by your doctor for further diagnosis. If you are interested in asserted living, this guide will tell you everything you need to know and help you get started. (2)
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Mons is somewhat away from the beaten track for Western Front visitors, located in the south of Belgium, with poor roads from Ypres and limited access from Arras or the Somme. We were delighted to make our trip there; St Symphorien is one of the most symbolic Great War locations.
Set on a woody knoll, the cemetery is worthy of a Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal. It’s arranged in different areas, or garden rooms, as they would tell us at the Royal Hospital. The plot is beatifully maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Mons is the location where the British Expeditionary Force first met the German advance across Belgium, endeavouring to forestall the invasion at the Mons-Conde Canal. With valiant efforts against a superior force, they failed and many perished. Losses include the first British casualty on the Western Front, John Parr of the Middlesex Regiment. He lived near to me and worked as a greenkeeper at a local golf club. John was killed on 21st August 1914, allegedly mistakenly by French infantry. This Page is published on the 105th anniversary of John’s death.
Mons was held by German forces forces until the day of the Armistice. St Symphorien became a burial plot for the advancing Canadian and British losses, notably George Edwin Ellison of the 5th Lancers; the final British casualty on the Western Front. As an illustration of the futility of the conflict, John Parr and George Ellison lie in plots opposite each other, towards the rear of the cemetery.
The final Commonwealth casualty of the Western Front also lies in St Symphorien. Pte George Lawrence Price of 28th Bttn, Canadian Infantry was killed at 10.58am, two minutes before the Armistice. He was originally buried in Havre Old Communal Cemetery, before his remains were relocated to St Symphorien.
The cemetery was created by the Germans and they clearly took great care to provide suitable recognition of all soldiers who were lost in the conflict. There are quite a few locations where a few German plots are situated in British cemeteries, but most German burials were relocated to larger concentration cemeteries after hostilities ended. St Symphorien retains different areas alocated to German and Commonwealth casualties, creating a peaceful resting place for men from both sides of the conflict; another clear reminder of the cost of war.
Every grave creates a commemoration for the loss of a young man. The first postumous Victoria Cross award is remembered with Lt Maurice Dease VC, with too many more to mention in this brief post.
This is a resonant location of numerous facets that will remain etched in my mind. Politicians met here on 11th November 2018 – the Centenary of the Armistice. This was a perfect location for them to consider the impact of conflict and ideally recognise the cost of their policies, propoganda and decisions.
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8 Tips For Successfully Completing Basic Training
Boot Camp Tips
Before you go to boot camp, be sure you have taken care of the every-day issues in your life. Check with your recruiter if you have questions or are unsure about how to handle any of the following matters:
- Who will receive your mail?
- Does your family have access to your finances? Bank accounts, etc?
- How will your bills be paid while you are gone?
- Does someone know what bills are due and when?
- What other things could pop up in the time you are away?
- Does your family know whom to contact in the event of an emergency?
- Have you set up a bank account prior to your arrival?
Here are some great tips for once you begin boot camp. Follow them and you'll be in good shape to pass!
1. Shut Up and Listen
The basic rule of thumb is that recruits should be seen and not heard. Another way of putting it: when it comes to your Drill Instructors, don't speak until spoken to.
2. You Don't Make the Rules
Don't argue with your Drill Instructors, EVER! There is no way on earth that you will win, and it will no doubt cost you in terms of extra PT. In the battle of wills, they hold a decidedly unfair advantage.
3. Pick Me
Be careful what you wish for. Standing out can have its rewards, but it is a double-edged sword. You won't likely be asked to volunteer for a leadership assignment, like squad leader, but if they pick you, you will find yourself responsible for not only your own performance but also those in your squad.
In Boot Camp your life is going to be broken down into two piles; things you want to do (like sleep, read or write mail, talk with your buddies) and things you have to do (shine your shoes, roll your laundry, buff floors, scrub toilets). The temptation will be strong to slack off and procrastinate. Don't. Take care of what you have to first. Remember, the military will not make you disciplined, but your Drill Sergeants can make you wish you were.
5. Stay Focused
Boot Camp is 80% mental, and 20% physical. Don't get discouraged or give in to the temptation to give up (namely because quitting is not an option.) Don't look too far ahead and stay focused on the task at hand.
6. Help Your Buddy
You will live, eat, sleep, fight and die as a team. The sooner you learn to work as a team, the sooner life will get better for you. Boot camp is about being part of the team; individuals are weeded out and swiftly taken care of. You need to be focus on the "WE" aspect of everything you do.
7. Break the Rules at Your Own Risk
There are very few rules (no smoking, no going to the movies, no drinking alcohol, etc.) unique to Boot Camp, but they do expect you to follow them. Failure to do so may convince the military that you are not worth wasting time or resources on. At the very least you will find yourself poorer financially and more invigorated physically.
8. Do Not Question the Logic Behind What You're Doing
Just about everything you will do in Boot Camp has a purpose, even if that purpose is nothing more than to confuse you. There will come times when you will want to question why you are doing something, which, in your opinion, is stupid and a waste of your time. Boot Camp is a one-size-fits-all method and so it never sits well with anyone, so just suck it up and remember point #5.
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This Technical Report (TR) describes a methodology to firstly identify the specific nature of oils spilled in marine, estuarine and aquatic environments and secondly compare the chemical composition of spilled oil or oily samples with that of suspected sources. Specifically, the TR describes the detailed analytical methods and data processing specifications for identifying the specific nature of waterborne oil spills and establishing their correlation to suspected sources. Even when samples or data from suspected sources are not available for comparison, establishing the specific nature (e.g., refined petroleum, crude oil, waste oil, etc.) of the spilled oil may still help constrain the possible source(s) of the spilled oil. This methodology is restricted to petroleum and petroleum products containing a significant proportion of hydrocarbon-components with a boiling point above 200°C. Examples are: crude oils, higher boiling condensates, diesel oils, residual bunker or heavy fuel oils, lubricants, and mixtures of bilge and sludge samples. While the specific analytical methods may not be appropriate for lower boiling oils (e.g. kerosenes, jet fuels, or gasoline), the general concepts described in this methodology, i.e., statistical comparison of weathering-resistant diagnostic ratios, may have applicability in spills involving lower boiling oils. This method is not directly intended for oil spills impacting groundwater, vegetation, wildlife/tissues, soils, or sediments, and although its application in these matrices is not precluded, it requires caution. The reason for caution is that the extractable compounds in these matrices may alter and/or contribute additional compounds compared to the source sample, which if left unrecognised, can lead to "false non-matches". Including these "non-oil" matrices in this oil spill identification method may require additional sample preparation (e.g. cleanup) in the laboratory prior to analysis and consideration of the extent to which the matrix may affect the correlation achieved. Evaluating the possible effects in these matrices is beyond the scope of this guideline. Whether the method can be used for this kind of "non-oil" matrices may depend on the oil concentration compared to the "matrix concentration" of the samples. In "non-oil" matrices containing a relative high concentration of oil, a positive match can still be concluded. In "non-oil" matrices containing a relative low concentration of spilled oil, a non-match or an inconclusive match could be achieved due to matrix effects.
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Questioner: On several occasions the question was raised as to whether the universe is subject to the law of causation, or does it exist and function outside the law. You seem to hold the view that it is uncaused, that everything, however small, is uncaused, arising and disappearing for no known reason whatsoever.
Maharaj: Causation means succession in time of events in space, the space being physical or mental. Time, space, causation are mental categories, arising and subsiding with the mind.
Q: As long as the mind operates, causation is a valid law.
M: Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts itself. No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is. When the source and ground of everything is the only cause of everything, to speak of causality as a universal law is wrong.
The universe is not bound by its content, because its potentialities are infinite; besides it is a manifestation, or expression of a principle fundamentally and totally free.
Q: Yes, one can see that ultimately to speak of one thing being the only cause of another thing is altogether wrong. Yet, in actual life we invariably initiate action with a view to a result.
M: Yes, there is a lot of such activity going on, because of ignorance. Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
Q: If everything is an expression of the totality of causes, how can we talk of a purposeful action towards an achievement?
M: The very urge to achieve is also an expression of the total universe. It merely shows that the energy potential has risen at a particular point. It is the illusion of time that makes you talk of causality. When the past and the future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a common pattern, the idea of cause-effect loses its validity and creative freedom takes its place.
Q: Yet, I cannot see how anything come to be without a cause.
M: When I say a thing is without a cause, I mean it can be without a particular cause. Your own mother was not needed to give you birth; you could have been born from some other woman. But you could not have been born without the sun and the earth. Even these could not have caused your birth without the most important factor: your own desire to be born. It is desire that gives birth, that gives name and form. The desirable is imagined and wanted and manifests itself as something tangible or conceivable. Thus is created the world in which we live, our personal world.
The real world is beyond the mind’s ken; we see it through the net of our desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do so, for the net is full of holes.
Q: What do you mean by holes? And how to find them?
M: Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them — your very seeing them will make them go.
Q: Since my seeing the contradiction makes it go, is there no causal link between my seeing and its going?
M: Causality, even as a concept, does not apply to chaos.
Q: To what extent is desire a causal factor?
M: One of the many. For everything there are innumerable causal factors. But the source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility, the Supreme Reality, which is in you and which throws its power and light and love on every experience. But, this source is not a cause and no cause is a source. Because of that, I say everything is uncaused. You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is, because the universe is as it is.
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Ganglion Cyst of the Wrist and Hand
What is a Ganglion Cyst?
A ganglion cyst is a tumor or swelling on top of a joint or the covering of a tendon that looks like a sac of liquid (cyst). Inside the cyst is a thick, sticky, clear, jellylike material. Depending on the size, cysts may feel firm or spongy.
One large cyst or many smaller ones may develop. Multiple small cysts can give the appearance of more than one cyst, but a common stalk within the deeper tissue usually connects them. This type of cyst is not harmful and accounts for about half of all soft tissue tumors of the hand.
Symptoms of Ganglion Cysts
- The ganglion cyst usually appears as a bump (mass) that changes size.
- It is usually soft, and doesn’t move.
- The swelling may appear over time or appear suddenly, may get smaller in size, and may even go away, only to come back at another time.
- Most ganglion cysts cause some degree of pain, which is usually nonstop, aching, and made worse by joint motion.
- When the cyst is connected to a tendon, you may feel a sense of weakness in the affected finger.
Diagnosis of Ganglion Cysts
A physical exam is often all that is needed to diagnose a ganglion cyst.
- Your doctor may get further confirmation by using a syringe to draw out some of the fluid in the cyst or ultrasound.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to see the wrist and is very useful for ganglions.
Treatment of Ganglion Cysts
Many ganglion cysts can disappear without any treatment at all. Various treatments have been proposed over the years including the use of a needle to remove the cyst’s contents (aspiration), or surgery.
Aspiration includes placing a needle into the cyst, drawing the liquid out, injecting a steroid compound (which acts as an anti-inflammatory agent), and then splinting the wrist to keep it from moving.
Surgical removal of the cyst is needed when the mass is painful, interferes with function, or causes numbness or tingling of the hand or fingers.
We want to be your trusted Orthopaedic Specialists of New Orleans. If you are experiencing the symptoms of ganglion cysts of your writs and hand, please call our office at (504) 897-7877 and a member of our caring staff will be happy to help you.
Thank you for trusting us with your care!
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Narrow Your Investigation To Make Informed Decisions?All | Demographics | Education | Geography | Economic | Housing | Government | Taxes | Weather | Crime
People run the government through election of representatives and officials. Local governments are important to provide cohesion between individuals who must share public places. Worthwhile laws need to be debated, passed, and then enforced for a community to remain viable. Communities such as zip code 35582 are often affected in positive and negative ways by government performance.
Address: 211 Hospital Rd, Red Bay, Alabama 35582
Ownership: Voluntary Non Profit - Other
Certified Date: 1/20/1994
Address: 211 Hospital Road, Red Bay, Alabama 35582
Hospital Type: Critical Access Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary Non-profit - Other
Address: 106 Tenth Avenue North, Red Bay, Alabama 35582
Ownership: For Profit - Corporation
Number of Residents: 82
Percent Occupied: 91%
Name: Browns Ferry
Address: PO Box 2000; Decatur, AL 35602
Distance: 63 Miles
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Expected learning outcomes
The candidate have knowledge of plan-driven and agile methodologies in software development and understand basic administrative and technological aspects of the specification, development, testing and maintenance. They know the basic principles in software architecture and design and the value of user participation.
The candidate can apply object-oriented methods and techniques of requirements specification and are able to establish project procedures using agile development methodology. They can work from project idea to a recommended sketch for a software solution in small projects and know the benefit of tools in different parts of the software development process.
The candidate gain awareness of the software's role in business and community and the role of management, teamwork and documentation in software projects.
The role of software applications in companies.
Plan-driven and agile software development methodologies
Project management and risk analysis
Methods and techniques in requirement specification and analysis (UML)
Principles in Architecture, Design and Testing
Tools and Configuration management
Form(s) of Assessment
Written exam, 3 hours
Evaluation of Project(s)
Form(s) of Assessment (additional text)
Written Exam, 3 hours (counts 40%)
Evaluation of Project(s) (counts 60%)
Each part must be individually approved of.
Alphabetical Scale, A(best) – F (fail)
Re-sit for the written exam in August.
Code D: No printed or hand-written support material is allowed. A specific basic calculator is allowed.
Read more about permitted examination aids.
Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 10th ed
Additional materials will be available at semesterstart.
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How to make your Korean parents happy:
1. Get a perfect score on the SATs.
2. Get into HarvardYalePrinceton.
3. Don't talk to boys.*
Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting into an Ivy League school. So winning assistant concertmaster in her All-State violin competition and earning less than 2300 on her SATs is simply not good enough.
But Patti's discovering that there's more to life than the Ivy League. To start with, there's Cute Trumpet Guy. He's funny, he's talented, and he looks exactly like the lead singer of Patti's favorite band. Then, of course, there's her love of the violin. Not to mention cool rock concerts. And anyway, what if Patti doesn't want to go to HarvardYalePrinceton after all?
Paula Yoo scores big in her hilarious debut novel about an overachiever who longs to fit in and strives to stand out. The pressure is on!
*Boys will distract you from your studies.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From Paula Yoo:
Okay, I admit it. Like Patti Yoon, I play the violin. Yes, I was concertmaster of my Connecticut All-State High School Orchestra. And I snuck out occasionally to see a couple of cool bands (sorry, Mom & Dad). But this novel is a work of fiction. Although I too was forced to undergo a really bad home perm, it burned my left ear, not my right. And there was a cute guy in my homeroom who played rock guitar and asked me to work on a few songs with him, but his name was not Ben Wheeler.
When I'm not writing novels that allegedly have nothing to do with my personal life, I also write TV scripts. I was born in Virginia and grew up in Connecticut. I've also lived in Seoul, South Korea; New York; Seattle; and Detroit. I now live in Los Angeles with my husband, who plays guitar—and yes, we jam occasionally, just like Patti and Ben.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Book Description HarperTeen, 2008. Library Binding. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # DADAX006079089X
Book Description HarperTeen, 2008. Library Binding. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # P11006079089X
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The Sativa dominant Power Plant weed strain was developed from South African plants in the mid-1990s in the Netherlands. You’ll understand the ‘power’ part of the name when you sample this potent marijuana.
Power Plant cannabis gives a rapid, euphoric high that will leave you ready for partying or for physical and mental activity. The weed has a smooth, skunky flavour and smell with earthy notes. For a quick pick-me-up, this weed is ideal.
The plants grow to a medium height indoors, but let them have their head outdoors and they can grow quite tall. The leaves are long and thin and mid-green in colour, while the buds are light green with a covering of orange hairs. THC content comes in at 15 percent.
Power Plant seeds grow well indoors with the SOG method and careful pruning will produce more buds. Left to its own devices, the plant will give fewer but larger buds, as long as 20 centimetres. Flowering time is from eight to nine weeks and yields are up to 500 grams per square metre.
Outdoor growth is not recommended for cooler northern climates. Power Plant does well in a Mediterranean summer, producing as much as 600 grams per plant, and even more in optimum conditions.
Power Plant weed has all the best characteristics of Sativa – a euphoric high that will leave you grinning and alert. It produces good yields and it’s not too hard to grow.
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A vegan wedding is usually very similar to a traditional wedding, except that no animal products are used in the planning of the wedding or during the ceremony. Components of a vegan wedding include dresses and suits made from fibers that do not come from animals, a meal that is plant-based, and a dairy- and egg-free wedding cake. Some couples may choose to make the occasion vegan-friendly only by serving a vegan meal at their wedding, while others may decide to make the entire affair a vegan one.
Garments worn at traditional weddings are often not vegan. For example, a silk wedding gown is not vegan because it is produced by silkworms. At a vegan wedding, a bride may choose to wear a gown made of a synthetic satin rather than silk and may ask her bridesmaids to do the same.
The groom's suit or tuxedo may need to be made of an alternate fabric as well, as wool is not vegan either. Vegan suit options include linen or synthetic materials, such as polyester. As many grooms may prefer not to wear polyester on their wedding day, a few companies manufacture suits from a fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.
A vegan bride and groom may also wish to avoid leather shoes, belts, and other accessories. Non-leather shoes are available for both men and women, and a groom may be able to find a synthetic belt. The bow ties or neckties will also need to be made out of a synthetic fabric rather than silk.
Food at a vegan wedding can present a problem for some couples. A couple may wish to serve only plant-based foods, but guests may expect meat. Some couples work their away around the issue of food by serving a vegan meal that is still impressive and not something a person would eat on an everyday basis. Many vegans strive to show guests that they don't eat only so-called rabbit foods and that a vegan diet can be full of delicious and rich foods.
A few catering companies, especially those in large cities, are specifically vegan. If there isn't a vegan caterer in their area, a couple may request that that a standard caterer prepare only vegan dishes for their wedding. Another option is to hire the kitchen staff at a local vegan or vegetarian restaurant.
The cake at a vegan wedding typically doesn't contain milk products or eggs. Some bakeries specialize in preparing vegan cakes for weddings, while other bakeries that prepare standard cakes will make a cake vegan if asked. Instead of a traditional tiered cake, some vegan weddings serve an assortment of vegan cupcakes.
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Berryman, M., & Woller, P. (2011). Early intervention services: Effectively supporting Maori children and their families. Kairaranga, 12(1), 3-9.
Permanent Research Commons link: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/7333
This paper examines Early Intervention (EI) service provision from within one Ministry of Education region in New Zealand. It does this in order to better understand what works well and what needs to change if children from Maori families, of Early Childhood age, are to be provided with the most effective EI services. By engaging with Maori families in group-focused interviews-asconversation, and then with their service providers, about their experiences of working together, researchers learned about what could provide effective services for other Maori families in similar situations.
© 2011 Massey University. Used with permission.
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Looks Like An Ordinary Swing Set, Right? Nope… Look Again. This Is Brilliant!
Here’s a cool swing perfect for hot summer days. The Waterfall Swing is an art installation designed by the team at Dash 7 Design.
This special swing was made so that water recirculates through controlled solenoid valves at the top of the swing which creates a wall of water. This water starts from a collection pool on the ground and is pumped through a pipe that feeds the solenoids. Rotational encoders mounted on the swings gather information about the speed and angle of the swing. The information is sent to a computer that predicts the action of the rider.
Riders swing through without getting wet.
The swing can also make designs in the water.
Wouldn’t this be awesome to have in your backyard? Here are the specifications to build your own waterfall swing.
This would be every kid's dream come true! Share this with others by clicking the button below.
Source: waterfall swing
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you’ve by now heard that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has decided to sit on the bench during the national anthem for the indefinite future as his way to protest “racial oppression” in America.
Every time a celebrity or professional athlete does something like this, the Internet is immediately overrun by hot takes on both sides of the issue. In Kaepernick’s case, his detractors immediately cried that his protest was somehow disrespectful to the military, which doesn’t really make a ton of sense; the national anthem isn’t a military anthem or a song about honoring the military specifically – it’s a song of pride for the whole nation. Refusing to stand for it isn’t disrespectful of the military in particular, it’s disrespectful of the whole country as an abstract concept – which is sort of Colin Kaepernick’s point.
Kaepernick’s defenders meanwhile have objected to criticism of Kaepernick my claiming that Kaepernick has a free speech right to say whatever he wants. That’s true, but the right of free speech only means that the government can’t punish you for speech – and it also means that people who are big on showing respect for the national anthem can drown Kaepernick in a deafening chorus of biting criticism, if they want. That’s how free speech works.
I don’t really have strong feelings one way or another on Kaepernick’s protest. I don’t have a major problem with Kaepernick taking a stand against perceived injustice and I think some of the arguments against his protest are kind of silly. For instance, people seem to think that it’s improper for Kaepernick in particular to engage in this protest because, as a professional athlete, he will likely make more this year than the average white person does in their entire lifetime. I mean, I guess that’s true, but that’s kind of how protests work – if you aren’t rich and/or famous, the chances that any protest you engage in will get noticed are virtually nil. Kaepernick is doing this specifically because he is rich and famous, because he realizes that his being rich and famous provides an opportunity to start a conversation that ordinary schleps don’t get.
However, if I did have a problem with Kaepernick’s protest, I would not react to it the way some people currently are. Kaepernick right now is on the way to playing himself into a bench spot behind Blaine Gabbert in spite of his massive contract. As I just noted, he is clearly trying to use his position as a starting quarterback playing in the most watched sport in the world to get people talking about this issue. The level of vitriol directed at Kaepernick, complete with jersey burning, insults and wild anger, provide an excuse for the media to keep talking about the issue, and the protest, which is exactly what Kaepernick wants.
So go on, boo Kaepernick if you want. If he spends the whole season hearing a chorus of boos every time he touches the ball, I suppose that’s really the risk Kaepernick takes by protesting something by dissing the national anthem. But the public game of trying to one-up everyone else’s outrage on social media about what a football player does or doesn’t do during the national anthem just plays right into Kaepernick’s hands.
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The purpose of this study was to pilot test the effects of a theoretically driven intervention program (COPE=Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment) on the coping outcomes of critically ill children and their mothers.
Thirty mothers of 1-to 6-year-old children in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) were randomly assigned to receive COPE or a comparison program.
Mothers who received the COPE program :
(a) provided more support to their children during intrusive procedures ;
(b) provided more emotional support to their children ;
(c) reported less negative mood state and less parental stress related to their children's emotions and behaviors ;
and (d) reported fewer post-traumatic stress symptoms and less parental role change four weeks following hospitalization.
Results indicate the need to educate parents regarding their children's responses as they recover from critical illness and how they can assist their children in coping with the stressful experience.
Mots-clés Pascal : Hospitalisation, Soin intensif, Enfant, Homme, Coping, Comportement, Attitude, Support social, Personnel sanitaire, Echelle évaluation, Angoisse anxiété, Stress, Programme, Evaluation, Comportement aide, Femme, Mère, Etats Unis, Amérique du Nord, Amérique
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Hospitalization, Intensive care, Child, Human, Coping, Behavior, Attitude, Social support, Health staff, Evaluation scale, Anxiety, Stress, Program, Evaluation, Helping behavior, Woman, Mother, United States, North America, America
Notice produite par :
Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Cote : 97-0180750
Code Inist : 002B30A03B. Création : 21/05/1997.
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Womenpriests - A New Model of Ordained Ministry
Agape – a Community of New Hope is one of several communities using male and female priests to preside over our masses. According to a booklet, “Here I Am, I Am Ready: A New Model of Ordained Ministry,’ Roman Catholic Womenpriests’ (RCWP) is an international movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The first seven Womenpriests were ordained by two bishops on a boat in the Danube River in Germany on Palm Sunday, 2002. Since then, scores of women all over the world have been ordained, including our presiders Kathy Rolenc and Susan Vaickauski.
“Vocation is a ‘Love Gift' from God," says Susan. “It is given for the purpose of serving more fully and completely the People of God. Vocation comes from that place within us where our deepest desires align with God’s desire and in the end, God always prevails.”
Before ordination, women called to the priesthood must complete a Masters of Divinity or Masters of Theology program and take courses in Sacramental Preparation, Liturgical Practices and Spiritual Discernment under the supervision of the RCWP.
Ordinations of Roman Catholic Womenpriests are valid, according to the RCWP, “because of our apostolic succession within the Roman Catholic Church. The principal consecrating Roman Catholic male bishops who ordained our first women bishops are bishops with apostolic succession.”
“Vocation is not a goal that can be pursued,” Susan adds. “It is listening to our life telling us who we are, who God intends us to be.”
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