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Repatriation- Controversy, Ethics and Morals.
German Archaeologist illegally removing Neolithic Age artefacts in Greece, 1941, Original from here.
Repatriate or Repatriation; The process of returning a person or object back to it’s point of origin. (Oxford Dictionary Meaning).
Repatriation is a divisive and hard to deal with issue within the modern museum world. In museums repatriation deals with the return of cultural items to their original country or groups of people they belonged to. This can take the form of cultural objects belonging to Native Americans to art works looted by the Nazi’s in WW2, being returned to their rightful owners.
This issue is divisive as the request for the return of cultural objects jumps through many loop holes, from religious reasons to cultural reasons and the fact that the objects could have been illegally taken in the first place. One of the main groups that call for repatriation of objects are native peoples of America, Canada, Europe and Australasia. In particular, the indigenous population in both America and Canada have made requests to the North American and European museum diaspora.
‘Ghost Shirt’ from the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1891.
One particular item that was requested back by the Lakota Tribe of South Dakota, was the above pictured Ghost Shirt from the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1891. This shirt was in the collection of Glasgow Museums, after having being bought by the museum from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when it toured through the U.K. in the 1890’s. It had remained in the collection of Glasgow Museums, until a repatriation call was made for the Ghost Shirt in the late 1990’s.
Cole Morteon writes in the ‘The Independent on Sunday’, 8th November 1998, in the ‘Culture Section’, that the repatriation was tenuous and out drawn process. Moreton quotes the then head of curatorial services at Glasgow Museums, Mark O’Neil talking about the re-patriation of the Ghost Shirt. O’Neil argues that:
There is a justifiable case for saying that part of the object’s history was its arrival in Glasgow, and that the people of this city have some rights to it.’ *
It is justifiable that the history of a particular item is transitory dependent on where it is at any given point of it’s history. However, who truly ‘owns’ an object, as per se? Is it the original owner, or the person who owns it in the present moment? Essentially, if the object has passed through owner’s, all of the previous and future owner’s are legitimate ‘owner’s. They all have a part to play in the object’s history and its continuation as an object of interest. However, notwithstanding these arguments, in this case, the return of the Ghost Shirt was the right thing for Glasgow Museums to do. The object was important to the Lakota Tribe’s spiritual history and to the closure of a very painful episode in their past.
With this notion, of repatriation of an essentially illegally looted item brings up thoughts on the looted and confiscated art of World War Two. Besides, the Napoleonic sacking of collections throughout Europe, the looting of art work by the Nazi’s in WW2 is the largest the world has ever seen. The predominantly Jewish looted art, although many national and regional collections were sacked as well, was taken by force by the Nazi’s and collaborating forces in their occupied territories.
The Nazi’s looted art so that Adolf Hilter, could create his great ‘Fuhrer Museum’ of art (and degenerate art) in his hometown of Branau am Inn, Austria. The Nazi’s looted everything from Raphael to Picasso, Michaelangelo to Cezanne and Van Dyck to Degas. Their looting of art was all consuming and on a barbaric scale.
Unfortunately, before the end of WW2 many paintings and objects were destroyed by the Nazi’s as the allies advanced into Germany. This was done as a retaliation of Germany’s continuous losses throughout 1944 to 1945. This has lead to what is known as ‘The Lost Art of WW2’, with the paintings either being destroyed or ending up in private collections that no one can access to identify.
However, not all wandering art was lost; there has been many important restitutions in the past fifty years. This was due to many foundations including; ‘The Looted Art Commission’ and ‘The Monuments Men Foundation.’ (The Monuments Men was the nickname given to the joint Allied attempt to reconstitute looted art during and after WW2. The foundation continues their efforts).
Real life Monuments Men with various pictures found after the end of WW2.
One of the most important returns of looted art was Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch, entitled the ‘Gold Portrait.’ (As pictured below). This painting had been donated to the Austrian National Gallery in 1925, after Bloch’s death. Subsequently, in 1938 after the Anschluss with Austria, the Gallery handed it’s collection over to the German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
Fifty years later, the heirs of Adele Bloch hired lawyers to investigate the missing Klimt collection that belonged to the family. The investigation revealed that five of the family’s paintings were in the Austrian National Gallery, including the ‘Gold Portrait.’ After a lengthy legal battle, the paintings, including Adele Bloch’s portrait were given back to the family.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, or ‘The Gold Painting’, Oil on Canvas, Neue Galerie New York.
The return of the lost portrait above to its rightful owners, was a triumph over the perceived notion that one nation could destroy another’s nations culture by appropriation of that nation’s cultural history. However, one has to argue if the original painting was donated to the Austrian National Gallery in 1925 (in the Pre-Nazi era), then does it mean that the portrait was always the property of the Gallery? This sort of question is the fine line between what should and should not be returned.
If an item is donated to a museum, it is legal property of the museum. Therefore, should it remain at the museum? This is one of the ethical stances that people may take when they investigate claims for reclaiming lost art during WW2. It is a very precarious undertaking as the family and their lawyers have to prove ownership of the original item. This is incredibly hard to do as the Nazi’s were systematic in their destruction of records denoting the painting’s true origins.
Although, personally I believe if an art gallery has known pieces of art work, sculptures or objects d’art that belonged to Jewish or other patrons of art, they should be given back to the family. Of course, this is not in ignorance of statute of limitation laws that are in place in a lot of European countries. However, the ethical and moral thing to do would be to reconstitute these paintings back to their rightful owners. The Jewish people and other minorities (Christian’s, Muslim’s, Gay’s, Roma’s etc.) suffered enough at the tyranny of Nazism, and a reconstitution of their art work could go some way to relieve their suffering.
As can be seen by the above examples and my arguments for repatriation of various objects, repatriation itself is and continues to be so a divisive and stormy political issue. As the years go on, more and more calls for repatriation of objects or looted art works could be made. How do we draw the fine line on what to return and what not to return? Surely we have think carefully in what we give back, as then our museums will be sadly depleted of the treasures that they hold. Although, if the objects have a murky or bloody history, the right thing to do is to return to them to their point of origin.
As can be seen, this is an ongoing and vicious circle with endless debate over what is ethical and what is moral in the return of cultural objects. For more information on repatriation and looted art objects, please see:
*Mark O’Neil, as quoted in The Sunday Independent, Culture Section, 8th November 1998.’
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I am trying to build a data extension for contacts who have selected one option on a picklist on a form. The picklist has roughly 70 different options to select from, and I'm only looking to collect those contacts who selected one option - meaning it can be any of the 70 options, as long as they did not select multiple.
Right now my DE is surfacing all those who have entered any response. Do I need to go in and make it reflect "Picklist value is equal to A" OR "Picklist value is equal to B" OR "Picklist value is equal to C" etc., or is there a command I am missing that can select the field I'm looking to populate and then having it only surface those contacts who have selected just one value?
Appreciate the insight - Data Extensions are a whole new world to me and while I've worked through some Trailhead/accelerators I'm still getting the hang of it. Thanks!
• How are you populating the DE? SQL, Ampscript, API? – Rafał Wolsztyniak Jun 24 at 16:01
• Built a filtered DE off a base extension with all subscribers that meet the minimum requirement for that subscriber pool. – SS0022 Jun 24 at 18:27
• Ok, could you share an example of a value that shows that a customer selected multiple options from the picklist? – Rafał Wolsztyniak Jun 25 at 8:54
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Even if we take the high end, and say 100 micrograms per frog, you'd have to be stung by about 128 frogs to receive the LD50 dose from the head of A. brunoi. Even if you give the frogs ten-fold more toxin — an entire milligram — it still would take over a dozen of the animals to reach the LD50. A full-grown Bothrops asper, on the other hand, may have more than 1500 mg of its venom at the ready. Which means while you'd have to pull every drop of venom from dozens to hundreds frogs to hit that median lethal dose, each fer-de-lance is carrying enough venom to inject its LD50 dose into almost 720 people. But why the comparison to Bothrops, anyway? They're nowhere near the most potent snake. Oxyuranus scutellatus, the coastal taipan, has an intraperitoneal LD50 of 0.009 mg/kg, and can be milked for almost 900 mg of that venom in one sitting! So they can be slithering around with enough venom to inject more than a thousand people with an LD50 dose. And to put the frogs into perspective of non-snake venoms, the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex maricopa, boasts an impressive LD50 of 0.12 mg/kg, while both the ant and frog venoms are weaksauce when compared to the 0.01 mg/kg venom of the box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. And if you really want to talk deadly, did you know that tens of millions of people around the world face a toxin every year that's more than 140,000 times as potent than the strongest venom from A. brunoi? You might have heard of it — it's one of the nasty molecules from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, better known by its medical name — Botox. My point is, knowing how strong a toxin is doesn't tell us as much information as you might think.
According to the legend in the paper, this figure shows "edematogenic activity of A. brunoi venom." How did the mice in the 8 μg and 32 μg groups survive for three days? Oh, yeah, the subcutaneous LD50 is much, much weaker. Figure 2 from Jared et al. 2015 Of course, that's assuming the toxicity is accurate and meaningful to the route of administration, and to that end, there's something very important to notice in the data. If you look at the experimental protocols and results for the other two studies they did with mice — whether the venoms induced swelling or caused the animals to fuss with an envenomated area — they injected mouse paws with a range of doses of venom and watched for up to 72 hours to see how things progressed. All of which seems perfectly reasonable, until you look closer at those doses: they injected mice with 0.125 to 32 μg. The dose that killed half of the mice they injected, remember, was 3.12 μg — so how did a dozen mice survive 72 hours with 2.5 - 10 times that amount of venom injected into their paw? According to Brodie, "the effect on mouse mortality is very different depending on the site of injection." And he's right — injections under the skin (subcutaneous) can have different LD50s that ones into the body (intraperitoneal). Brodie also noted that "any dose above the LD50 would kill all mice," thus based on the fact that mice received 32 μg of venom in the paw and survived at least 3 days, the subcutaneous LD50 is over ten times less potent than the intraperitoneal one. Which really makes the comparison to Bothrops even sillier, since the spikes in these frogs are tiny — they're barely going to break the skin, and certainly aren't going to allow for venom delivery into the body cavity of any animal, especially not large, thick-skinned ones like us. So what really matters isn't the intraperitoneal LD50, it's the subcutaneous one, which Brodie says the team didn't attempt to figure out. If you still want to compare to the snakes, I couldn't find a subcutaneous LD50 for Bothrops asper, but Bothrops jacaraca has a subcutaneous LD50 of 7 mg/kg. The tiger rattlesnake (Crotalus tigris) has a subcutaneous LD50 of 0.21 mg/kg, and the inland taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is ten-fold stronger with a subcutaneous LD50 of only 0.025 mg/kg! Regardless of how potent the venoms are, focusing on how many people a gram of the toxin could kill or calling the frogs "lethal" or "deadly" when there's no evidence that they've actually killed anyone completely misses the point. I even asked the authors, and Brodie said there isn't a single known case of them killing a hopeful predator, let alone a person. "This just gives the impression the frogs are ridiculously toxic," says Fry, which isn't why they're awesome. These are the first venomous frogs known to science, and they're probably not alone. If their spikey skeletons have gone overlooked for so long, then who knows how many potently poisonous frogs are actually venomous! That's an incredibly huge finding, or as Fry told The Guardian, "unprecedented would actually be an understatement." When Fry spoke to at least one reporter, he cautioned about focusing on toxicity — apparently, his advice fell on deaf ears. "She chose not to include it, feeling perhaps that it detracted from the coolness of the story. Which it very much does not. It is an amazing discovery!" he wrote. Other venom scientists were equally frustrated. "I made exactly the same point!!!" commented Nicholas Casewell, a venom scientist from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He went on to say that the comparison with Bothrops was the only part of that paper he didn't like. Venomous frogs are way too awesome to be bogged down by lazy comparisons and ridiculous hyperbole. These little tree frogs deserve to be celebrated as the fascinating discoveries they are, not vilified as the killers we might wish them to be. They've been considered venomous for one day, and already, we're calling them "deadly" and a suite of other fear-mongering terms. Can't we talk about venomous animals without making it all about whether they're going to kill you? And even more to the point, with all the potential pharmaceuticals being discovered in venoms nowadays, these little anurans may turn out to be life-savers rather than murderers. So how about we relax on the toxicity talk and just enjoy them for the wonders they are, eh guys? Citation: Jared et al. (2015) Venomous Frogs Use Heads as Weapons. Current Biology, In Press, doi: 10.1016/ j.cub.2015.06.061
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Sleep Apnea
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Nevada
An oral surgeon may not be your first stop if you have obstructive sleep apnea. However, CPAP machines aren’t for everyone, and you may benefit more from a mandibular repositioning device, which improves airflow, or surgery to widen your airways. At Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Nevada, the Harvard-trained doctors provide sleep apnea therapy and surgery. To learn more, schedule an appointment online or over the phone at the Summerlin or East Side Las Vegas offices.
Sleep Apnea Q&A
What is sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea is a condition that interferes with your breathing while you sleep. If you have sleep apnea, you might stop breathing entirely or take shallow breaths. You may experience these disruptions to your breathing up to 400 times a night, and they last 10-30 seconds each.
Sleep apnea causes low-quality sleep. Even if you think you’ve gotten enough hours of sleep, you may feel unrested.
One sign of sleep apnea is loud snoring. However, not everyone who snores has the condition.
Anyone can develop sleep apnea, but it’s most common among men who are overweight or obese, at least 40 years of age, and have a family history of the condition. Certain inherited traits, like a narrow throat or thick neck, can block your airways and lead to the development of sleep apnea.
What are the complications of sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea prevents you from getting the oxygen you need and reduces your quality of sleep. Because of that, it can have serious health and personal consequences.
Not getting enough sleep can affect your mental health and cognitive ability. You may feel depressed or irritable, which can greatly impact your relationship with others. Poor sleep quality also makes it much harder to concentrate, which can lead to a decline in your job performance and unsafe driving.
When left untreated, sleep apnea can contribute to the development of life-threatening health conditions, including stroke, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. If you already have chronic conditions, they may worsen as a result of your sleep apnea.
How can an oral surgeon treat sleep apnea?
Your oral surgeon at Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Nevada offers alternative treatment options for sleep apnea. To confirm a diagnosis of sleep apnea and determine the best course of treatment, your specialist performs a thorough examination. This may include an X-ray to measure the level of obstruction, a nasopharyngeal exam (in the upper part of your throat), or an overnight sleep study.
The first-line treatment for sleep apnea is usually continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). CPAP involves wearing a mask while a device called a CPAP machine blows air down your throat.
CPAP is common, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Many people find it uncomfortable and have difficulty sticking with treatment. If you’ve had trouble with CPAP, or don’t like the idea of it, therapy or surgery from an oral surgeon may be more comfortable and effective.
One popular non-surgical therapy is a dental appliance called a mandibular repositioning device (MRD). It’s similar to a sports mouthguard, and you wear it to bed. The MRD holds your airways open so you can breathe more easily.
Your oral surgeon may recommend a procedure called uvulopalatopharyngoplasty to tighten, remove, or reposition excess tissue in your soft palate and throat that may block your airways. Your doctor may perform this surgery with the use of a special laser, or use a radiofrequency probe to tighten your soft palate.
The position of your jaw may be a contributing factor to your sleep apnea. Your specialist may recommend orthognathic surgery to correct jaw irregularities.
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Dog Heat Stroke Guide
Dog heat stroke happens when your dog gets too hot and his body isn't able to cool itself effectively.
Heat stroke in dogs is also sometimes referred to as heat exhaustion, and the correct medical name for it is hyperthermia.
Even though it's caused by your dog being too hot, heat stroke is not the same as a fever and is not caused by illness, but by external temperatures.
Dog heat stroke guide
A dog's normal body temperature is around 101F.
When your dog's core body temperature is forced to rise above that and reaches 104F, heat stroke begins to occur. A core temperature of 106F or higher in dogs is likely to be fatal. (jump to tips on how to take your dog's temperature).
Dogs can't sweat the way we do and their body's cooling systems are not very efficient. The only way for them to cool down is by panting, or by evaporation from the only sweat glands they have... which are on the bottom of their paws.
The most common cause of heat stroke in dogs are:
• Being outdoors too long without adequate shade or water
• Being left in a car during hot weather
* Even if he has access to shade and water, it's still perfectly possible for a dog to get heat stroke if he is outdoors for an extended period when it's hot.
Infographic showing how dangerous it is to leave a dog inside a hot car
Dog Heat Stroke Symptoms
There are a lot of symptoms that occur when a dog is suffering from heat stroke. Some of them are easy to see, some are not.
If you're in any doubt about whether or not your dog is in heat-related trouble, take his/her temperature right away.
Time is an absolutely crucial element in heat stroke recovery and can mean the difference between life or death for dogs with heat exhaustion.
Most common signs of heat stroke in dogs:
• Excessive panting
• Excessive drooling
• Red gums/tongue/lips (or possibly pale gums)
• Increased heart rate
• Fast breathing
• Shivering
• Lethargy
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Reduced urination
• Difficulty breathing
• Loss of balance/co-ordination
• Seizures
• Collapse
• Coma
Once heat-stroke has become severe there are major reactions in your dog's body including internal bleeding, heart arrhythmia, clinical shock, organ failure and heart failure.
These are very likely to lead to death.
Dog Heat Stroke Treatment
Heat stroke in dogs can often be treated successfully if it's recognized early enough and treated promptly.
A dog with heat stroke NEEDS to be seen by a veterinarian on an urgent/emergency basis.
But if his temperature is above 104 it's important to start cooling him down first.
The stress of a car ride added to the heat-damage that is being done to his body could be too much for him and make matters worse.
I strongly recommend calling your veterinarian as soon as you realize your dog is in trouble and ask for advice.
If your regular vet is closed, call a local 24 hour pet clinic/hospital. It's that important.
A vetarinarian will be able to evaluate over the phone and if you can take your dog's temperature that will give him/her valuable information.
If your dog is suffering from heat stroke/heat exhaustion but is walking, drinking, urinating normally and seems to be minimally affected you could just douse him with cool water a couple of times and get in the car with the A/C running to head straight to the vet.
It's a case-by-case situation with no one-size-fits-all answer.
Use your common sense, get veterinary advice and take it from there.
The key is realizing what is happening before your dog's core body temperature gets too high and starts to cause serious, life-threatening complications.
If his temp is between 104 and 106 faranheit taking the right measures quickly will most likely save the day.
Anything above 106F can cause irreversible damage to multiple bodily systems and lead to death, but that doesn't mean that there's no hope.
Here's how to treat dog heat stroke by cooling Fido down the RIGHT way:
1. Get him out of the heat
The very first thing to do is to move your dog from the sun into a shady spot, preferably where there is a breeze or at least free-flowing air.
The shade given by trees is several degrees cooler than the shade given by buildings so if there are trees so much the better.
If you can get him indoors into the A/C and into a bathtub or shower that's great but don't stress him out if it's too much for him or he's not familiar with doing that.
2. Take his temperature
It's important to know just how over-heated your dog is and the only way to do this properly is to take his temperature rectally.
BUT.. don't leave him lying/sitting there overheating while you run around looking for the thermometer.
If possible have someone start the next step of cooling him with water while you go find a thermometer, or vice versa.
If this isn't possible, choose cooling him first and once you feel that's well under way then you can find time to find a thermometer and take his temperature.
How to take your dog's temperature....
The only way to get an accurate reading of a dog's temperature is to take it rectally.
Don't worry, this is not as difficult as it sounds!
You don't need a special 'pet' thermometer.
Most thermometers, especially those designed for babies, are designed for oral and rectal use, check the packaging to be sure.
It's a good idea to keep an extra thermometer just for pet use, either of these work well for taking your dog's temperature FDA-Approved Clinical Digital Thermometer or WhiteCoat Fast Reading Digital Thermometer
Normal Dog Temperature: 101 - 102.5 F
Moderate Dog Heat Stroke Temperature: 104 - 106 F
Severe Dog Heat Stroke Temperature: 106 F+
You'll need to lubricate the slender end of the thermometer. Vaseline petroleum jelly or baby oil work well for this.
With your dog standing up, take hold of his tail between the base and the tip. You need to have a firm, but gentle, grip on it.
Lift the tail and hold it up out of the way, with the other hand gently insert the thermometer into your dog's rectum.
Giving it a tiny twist as you insert the tip will help it slide in more easily.
Don't push or force it, aim for a firm but gentle 'slide' in, and don't push it too far.
For small dogs allow about an inch of the thermometer to slide into the rectum. For larger dogs it can be two or three inches.
Wait for the thermometer timer to let you know it's ready, of if your thermometer doesn't has one of those one-and-a-half to two minutes is good enough.
Gently slide the thermometer back out, wipe it with a cotton pad or tissue and then read the temperature.
You want to aim to take his temperature at roughly 5 minute intervals.
Once your dog's temperature reaches 103 you can stop with the cooling efforts, dry him thoroughly and cover him with a dry towel or light blanket so that he doesn't get chilled. It's a delicate balance for sure.
3. Use COOL water and moving air
Water is a must when you're trying to cool a dog with heat stroke.
It needs to be COOL (not cold) water.
Cold water will make his situation worse, it needs to feel cool on your skin. A garden hose is the best option but watering cans or even buckets of water poured slowly over him will all work.
Soak him down and fan him if possible to make sure air is moving over his skin. A box fan, hand-held fans, or anything which creates a draft can be used.
Do NOT drape him with wet towels or blankets as this will stop the water from evaporating and cooling him, making things worse.
Cooling a dog with heatstroke using a garden hose
Keep the water flowing and the air moving as much as possible.
You can soak cloths or towels in cool water and hold them against his tummy and inside thighs where the skin is mostly free of hair and the cool water will get to his blood vessels more easily.
If your dog can stand, encourage him to do so and to walk slowly (support him and stay close by in case he gets dizzy or weak).
This will help keep his blood circulating and air moving around him and both will speed cooling.
Remember not to walk him away from the shade, fans or breeze!
During this initial cooling period take his temperature every five minutes or so and if it drops to 103F then you need to stop with the water, dry him off thoroughly and drape a dry towel or light blanket over him.
This will stop him from getting chilled and prevent his body temp from continuing to drop.
Although it's critical to cool your dog down if he is suffering from heat stroke, it's also vital not to cool him too quickly, or to allow his temperature to drop too low.
A temperature of 103F is where you stop cooling him, dry him well and cover with a light towel or blanket to prevent further chilling.
4. Encourage him to drink water
If your dog is suffering from heat stroke, chances are good he is also dehydrated.
Beagle drinking fresh water from stainless steel bowl outdoors
This is a serious condition in itself, but the over-heating of his core temperature is more critical so that needs to be dealt with first.
Once you've started cooling your dog down and his body is responding then it's important to try to get him to drink a little COOL water (not cold).
He'll probably be very thirsty, and if he's able to drink he may try to gulp as much down as possible. Don't let him.
Monitor his drinking and allow him to drink a little, then take a break for a minute or so, then allow him some more.. and continue like that.
If you let him guzzle too much water it could make him vomit which will make the dehydration worse.
It could also cause canine bloat, which is a potentially fatal condition where the stomach 'flips' over.
5. Get him to a veterinarian as soon as you can
A dog with heat stroke needs to be seen by a veterinarian urgently for evaluation and further help.
Your vet can continue the cooling process, monitor temperature, check blood values, evaluate dehydration and test things like kidney and liver function and look for signs of any potential serious (but possibly invisible) damage.
When you head off to the vet the best way to travel is with a wet dog and the A/C running.
You can protect your car with plastic sheeting or black trash bags and towels, but it's important to keep your dog cool as you transport him.
Dog Heat Stroke Recovery
All the steps above are what you need to do to treat a dog with heat stroke at the time it happens.
After-effects of heat stroke in dogs can last for 48 - 72 hours.
Your dog needs to be monitored by your vet and undergo certain tests during that time period.
If the heat stroke was severe and not caught early enough, irreversible damage is a potential complication and symptoms of this can take hours, or even days, to appear.
After severe heat stroke organ damage is a real possibility and it may need ongoing treatment.
A serious complication of heat stroke is a blood clotting disorder called Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (aka DIC).
DIC causes spontaneous, internal bleeding which the dog's body can't control as the blood doesn't clot properly.
Immediate veterinary care may be able to stop the bleeding, but DIC caused by heat stroke is often fatal.
Dog Heat Stroke Prevention
The best way to prevent heat stroke in dogs is simple - make sure they don't have the opportunity to become overheated.
Although ANY dog can get heat stroke/heat exhaustion if allowed to get too hot, some breeds are at a higher risk and have a lower tolerance for heat due to certain physical traits.
Dog breeds which are especially sensitive to heat include:
• Dogs with short muzzles such as Bulldogs, Pugs, Pekingese
• Nordic breeds such as Huskies, Malamutes, Akitas
• Dogs with thick, heavy coats such as Chows, German Shepherds, Nordic breeds
• Black or dark colored dogs such as Rottweilers, Dobermans, Black Labs
• Large and extra-large breeds such as Great Danes, Mastiffs, Newfoundlands
The dogs in the above list are just a few representatives of the breeds who can overheat more easily.
Any dog who is brachycephalic (ie has a short muzzle), is big and heavy, has a thick coat or is black or dark colored is also at higher risk.
But please remember, ANY dog of any size/shape/coat/color WILL suffer from heat stroke if they get too hot.
A few ways common sense ways in which we can keep our dogs safe in the summer include
• Keeping them indoors in the A/C as much as possible
• Taking them outdoors when it's cooler (early morning or late evening)
• Providing shade and water at all times
• Using cooling products
.... and more.
Visit this page to learn all about how to keep your dog cool, safe and comfortable when the temperature rises, that way you can prevent him from getting heatstroke and the dangers that go along with it.
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Volume 10 Number 9 - September 11, 2012
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As one candidate badmouths another, regardless of office being pursued, Americans prepare to vote.
Your company has plenty of competition. Is your strategy to badmouth all other organizations from which your market can buy?
I really don't hear Amazon.com, one of today's most successful businesses, badmouth their competition. Of course, they have so many competitors they couldn't possibly name them all.
Exxon doesn't badmouth Shell; Apple just keeps on designing great products, not wasting time reminding folks how unstable Microsoft products can be. Ford and JP Morgan fight through their own struggles, performing as the Top 10 earning companies they are, without highlighting their competitors' weaknesses. Each successful company focuses on letting the market know what they do well -- how they meet the needs of the customer.
I'm one of the best manufacturing operations strategists in the world. Why would I choose to bash others in my profession?
As you "vote" on your suppliers, your customers, your employees, your trusted advisors, and perhaps on your President, consider how they help you become more successful. If they badmouth their competition, they'll also not hesitate to badmouth you.
Take the high road to success. It's less crowded.
While driving Saturday I passed a downed power line. Being a good citizen, I wanted to let Cleveland Electric Illuminating company know about it. And they want to know!
Unfortunately, they appear to only want to know if you are a CEI customer.
Their website requires that you give them your account phone number and your First Energy company, which I don't have since I'm not a First Energy customer. But luckily the website also gives a "call this number!" option.
Again, unfortunately, the emergency number for reporting hazardous situations has an automated system that REQUIRES your account phone number and First Energy company.
Really? First Energy only wants to be informed of downed power lines by its own customers?
Utilities have a bad reputation for a reason.
Call all your automated systems from outside your phone system and follow the logic for both customers and non-customers who might call. Does it speak to them in ways that are logical for folks not familiar with your terminology? Does it give everyone who calls an easy way to reach a human if you've not anticipated their needs? Make sure your automated systems actually make sense.
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"We attempt to feel free by disobeying social orders, but in doing so, we miss the fact that liberation from limitations must, before anything else, take place within the consciousness. The distress is an inner distress, and therefore, the solution must take place deep within."
Many current books on eastern spirituality and meditation encourage readers and seekers to pursue the "here and now," without illustrating exactly how mindfulness and psychic integration with the universe may be achieved. Filling this void, Tubali offers a valuable guide for those seeking to move beyond the contraction of the mind and its resultant suffering, toward a state of total expansion—an authentic presence of unity, openness, wholeness, and freedom.
The manuscript first establishes a firm foundation by explaining the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the "White Light Expansion Method." Rather impressively, Tubali’s syncretic approach is well-researched and inclusive, drawing from familiar spiritual thinkers, such as Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Byron Katie, Victor Frankl, and Jiddu Krishnamurti, as well as a host of traditions from the Dutch school of holographic therapy to ancient Yogic practices. By artfully knitting together these theories, Tubali is able to offer a powerful alternative to the psychoanalytic approach to mental health, which arguably constricts the mind by encouraging one to "forever wallow in the psychological layers of our self" instead of promoting a "liberated state of being."
Intended for both practical and therapeutic applications, the book offers simple self-guided meditations, useful diagrams, and vivid testimonials. These testimonials are especially helpful in allowing the reader to readily comprehend the more abstract aspects of the method, such as the process of expanding an emotion beyond its perceived limits. Altogether, this book is recommended to anyone on a spiritual journey for a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. The foundational principles and techniques are simple enough for a layman to understand and compelling enough for even the most enlightened practitioner.
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Friday, July 21, 2017
An irrational perfectionist
Mike Bara, on working with Richard Hoagland as joint author of Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA:
37:55 "[chuckle] "It was exhausting. Exhausting. Richard is a... Richard is a... um, an amazing content editor, but he's also a perfectionist. To the... to the extent that I think it's not... it's not necessary. [..?..] I said he's a... he's an irrational perfectionist. He's a crazy perfectionist. And it just took a long time and it was very stressful. And I ended up with... with blood sugar in the mid- to high 300s. And I.. you know, I had to... I had to take a long break after we finished that one. But again, you know, I'm proud of the book and I'm... I'm so grateful that he gave me a... a platform upon which to build my own thing, that I'm doing here. Whatever it is I'm doing. So."
That was a little gem from 70 minutes of chat with Chris George Zuger (whoever he is), poured onto Youchoob as a show called Den of Lore (whatever that means) last night.
The split screen showed both Mike and his interlocutor, giving Mike ample opportunity to hold exhibits such as his book covers up to the Skype camera, and Chris Zuger, a recent renouncer of ciggies, to show us himself taking puffs from his vape tube. The discussion started with the Nazca mummy, and Bara reiterating the only correct opinion he's had in ten years. Then it wandered through his conversion to conspiracy theory by TWA800, to the usual artifacts on Mars and the Moon, to UFOlogy. He had a hilarious take on this thing:
photo credit: NASA
He said it's a picture of an Arctic lemming, taken on Devon Island, which NASA is "passing off" as a picture of Mars. It does look a bit like a lemming, indeed.
...but by what twisted logic would the Curiosity team at JPL resort to such deception? The image dates from September 2012, nowhere close to April Fool's Day. This is just more of Mike Bara confusing "looks like" with "actually is." (see Mars rat taking Internet by storm -- 31 May 2013.)
Update 27 July:
During a brief appearance on Coast-to-Coast AM, Bara let drop that he's completed a work of fiction. He didn't say whether this was a novel or a screenplay, but either way, God help us all.My bet is that, like his brother Dave's fiction, it will feature a hero who is utterly irresistible to women.
Chris Lopes said...
It sounds like Bara was able to put up with Hoagie's BS just long enough to collect a royalty check.
expat said...
By the way, Bara hinted that he was having trouble finding a publisher for his current book ideas, and was considering self-publishing. I suggest he takes a look at the sad history of Bret Sheppard & Karen Patrick's self-published Flyover Tsiolkovsky Crater: A Secret Base on the Moon. Published via CreateSpace on 15 December last year, withdrawn in April 2017 after negligible sales and an absolute clobbering by Amazon reviewers.
Two Percent said...
C'mon guys, it's just a poorly done, mutual back-scratching exercise, hopefully building up to a massive publicity storm for both authors and all their books. Can't you see that?
Of course, poor Mikey's wrong again. If Hoagie was a perfectionist, his books would be better, stronger, faster, more accurate. I guess that could be negated by being irrational, but again, that's not my perception or experience of perfectionists. They tend to be highly intelligent, and quite "rational" in a very narrowly focused way. (Lousy work-life balance and all that.) Steve Jobs is (ok, was) one example of a well known perfectionist. Can't say his products were shoddy... So, again, I could argue, Mikey is wrong on that as well.
Meanwhile, poor Mikey is also publicly admitting he's diabetic. That would explain a lot... Would it not? You guys knew that before?
expat said...
Yes, I knew he was diabetic but I'm not sure how much it explains. I don't think it explains his extreme homophobia or his ignorance of physics and astronomy.
He's also one of those unfortunates who gets excruciating back pain. I sympathize.
Chris Lopes said...
If Bara is looking to promote any books, it would be his and no one else's. The perfectionist stuff is just another way of saying Hoagie likes to add more shit to the material than Mikey thinks is needed. Bara is smart enough to not come out against Hoagland, but that doesn't mean they're best buddies.
As to his publishing problems, it might just be that the market for his brand of woo has played out. Without a dynamic radio host (Noory doesn't qualify) helping to promote such BS, the audience is likely to get bored and move on to other forms of irrationality. That's the problem with writing essentially the same book for the past decade or so. People get the feeling they've read all this before, because they have.
Two Percent said...
Chris, I defer to your greater knowledge.
expat, my experience of a number of (probably poorly self-regulating) diabetics is that even temperedness and self-restraint are qualities they frequently tend to lack. Fluctuating blood sugar levels are probably like fluctuating DC supply voltages to a computer: Memory dropouts, CPU crashes, ALU errors, peripheral disconnects, interrupt priority and control failures, component burnouts, you name it... Abusive outbursts are not uncommon. Vindictiveness seems to be greatly increased. Likely, existing phobias will also become "inflamed". The brain becomes unstable, when alternately drowned in too much, or starved by too little, blood sugar. (I had a very skinny gf once, who had to be regularly fed or the bitch inhibit switch would trip! A great survival mechanism, when you think about it...)
The ignorance, well, that doesn't require much explanation. It's just that some of us are not intelligent enough to recognise our own ignorance. That's a global problem, unfortunately, that even Presidents are not exempt from.
Ahh, back pain. An interesting human weakness.
Chris Lopes said...
I'm a diabetic myself, and I've never had any personality change due to it. Bara has always been an ignorant asshole. The diabetes didn't cause that.
Two Percent said...
You must know what you're doing, and take care. Long may it last, Chris.
I worked under a diabetic for a while, hence some of my observations. Also, my wife recently did a short term stint in a company which had a diabetic accounts lady. In the space of 7 months, she had two serious diabetic episodes, with fitting and convulsions or similar. At other times, she was simply grumpy, or "hilarious", laughing loudly etc. Her emotions were "all over the place."
Maybe Bara is a bit that way, but as I said before, it has nothing much to do with his obvious ignorance.
That said, there may be a connection. Maybe he used to know a lot more, and maybe he knows he used to know, but doesn't realise he no longer does. Diabetes can play hell with the memory too. And consciousness in general.
Anyway, I did a bit more research into Bara yesterday. I read some of his choice posts. Frankly, I don't know why you guys bother with him. He's a piece of trash. There are much bigger fish to fry. It's amazing what rubbish people will believe.
In my opinion, people like Bara, Morningstar and Hoagland do NASA a big favour.
expat said...
« Frankly, I don't know why you guys bother with him. »
It's a fair question, but the answer is that he has access to the mass media. As I've written more than once, Bara's interview performance is very good. He answers questions without wriggling and his answers are the right length. That makes lots of people believe him--and not just Las Vegas strippers either.
The same applies to Hoagland in many ways. He's very, very articulate and makes complete balderdash sound credible. So many, many people now quote "NASA -- Never A Straight Answer" and where did they get that from? Hoagland. Ask them to cite a few examples of NASA prevarication and they fall silent. It's the power of "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
Anonymous said...
In The United States of America, Patrick, a defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt by a jury of one's peers. That's one of the reasons why we kicked England's totalitarian ass. Now, if you have some new evidence to prove guilt rather than half ass debunk, that's too bad, because you can't be tried twice for the same offense in the US. Your typical snide slip shod approach to criticism is clearly exemplified here.
Chris Lopes said...
Your observation that people like Hoagie and Bara are actually doing NASA a favor is an interesting one. Hoagland has himself been accused of being a government agent, whose job is to discredit NASA skeptics. I think it's nonsense, but if he were, I don't know what he'd be doing different.
expat said...
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Sony utility disables UAC
Sony Hotkeys Utilities (SOAOTH-606A0000-0042.exe) disables User Account Control (UAC) on my Windows 7 machine.
After re-installing Windows 7 on my Sony laptop I wanted to make my hotkeys (like volume) work again so I installed the Hotkeys utility by Sony. A few weeks later I got suspicious when several programs I opened had “Administrator:” in the title when I hadn’t approved any UAC. I checked my logs and the last program to ask for privilege elevation was the Hotkey utility.
I re-enabled UAC dialogs and re-booted the machine. I re-downloaded the utility from Sony, installed it, and was asked to approve a UAC dialog (so UAC was definitely enabled). Sony software asked that I reboot the machine to “finish installation.” Immediately after the Sony dialog appeared a balloon in the bottom right appeared with the following text: “You must restart your computer to turn off User Account Control.” Sony’s software was the only thing running and I hadn’t opened any User Account Control settings since restarting the computer.
I let the software reboot the computer. After the reboot Sony software continued to install itself. I opened the User Account Control settings panel and verified that UAC was disabled.
Sony’s software finished installing itself, theoretically requiring UAC to do so, and asks to reboot a second time. I allowed it to reboot the machine and after the second reboot I pulled up the UAC settings again to verify that they were still disabled. As can be seen below the settings stayed with UAC disabled after two reboots.
Turning off UAC dialogs without user notification is a very dangerous thing to do. My computer spent several weeks in a state where any program that wanted to install could just do so without my approval. My programs were running with “Administrator” in the title because they were running with Administrator privileges (I manually verified this for PowerShell). No well behaved software should ever change security settings on a computer without notifying the user.
A couple of limitations to consider
• This is one personal computer, it is possible that the Sony utility is reacting badly with my computer’s setup.
• I tried the above steps three separate times, this is repeatable (at least on my machine).
Graph of attacks in real time
A map of the world showing the source of attacks and statistics about past attack rates.
Windows Event Viewer scam
Article from ARSTechnica detailing a phone scam where the caller uses the errors and warning messages shown in Windows Event Viewer to demonstrate the existance of “viruses” on the computer.
Certificate authority network
Researchers at Berkeley created a map of Certificate Authorities.
The EFF SSL Observatory also tracks Certificate Authorities and has a downloadable MySQL table of them.
Also ICIS Certificate Notary system by Berkely
Open source eye tracker
Open source code and open source construction directions for building an eye tracker.
Importing and exporting csv files in MySQL
To import/output csv you need some permissions. As root on mysql run the following code:
> grant all privileges
to 'YOUR_USER'@'localhost'
identified by 'your_password';
> GRANT FILE ON *.* TO 'YOUR_USER'@'localhost';
> flush privileges;
Exporting CSV from MySQL
For security reasons mysql can only export files to a limited number of directories, this is especially true with Ubuntu which now uses AppArmor. You can change permissions to get around the security restrictions, but it is a major headache. It is much easier to export the file to /tmp and then move it.
To export into the /tmp directory use the following MySQL command. Make sure to replace “database.table_name” with your database and table name.
select * into outfile '/tmp/outfile.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' from database.table_name;
Now move the file from /tmp to your favorite directory:
cp /tmp/outfile.csv /home/kami/data/
Unfortunately there is no way to remove /tmp/outfile.csv without using sudo.
Importing a csv file into MySQL
For security reasons the ability to load files from the local directory is disabled by default. To temporarily override this restriction use the “–local-infile=1” parameter when starting MySQL.
mysql --local-infile=1 -u USERNAME -p DATABASE
Lets say my csv file out.csv looked like the following:
The MySQL table I want to load the file into is called my_table and has columns a,b,c,d. I would use the following MySQL command.
LOAD DATA local INFILE '/home/kami/outfile.csv'
INTO TABLE my_table
This command will load the csv file ‘/home/kami/outfile.csv’ into the columns a, b and c in table my_table. It will also ignore the first row.
Further Reading
Digital Bill Of Rights
Privacy is a major point of contention between online consumers and companies. Advertising agencies track us across the web in order to build profiles about us so they can more accurately market products to us. Individual websites track us as we move our mice or scroll down the page so they can better design the sites both for content and advertisement placement. But what rights do we have in all this? Shouldn’t we be able to limit, view, or correct data stored about us?
Our Digital Rights tries to answer that question with a proposed set of rights people should have over data about them.
The digital self should be afforded equal standing as the physical self before the law and society.
Verifying certificate fingerprint
When opening pidgin on Ubuntu Linux I received the following warning dialogue with the message “Accept certificate for”. Clicking on “View Certificate” showed the second dialogue.
So how do you verify this?
To start with get the actual certificate from gmail and put it in a file
> openssl s_client -connect >
The file contents should look something like this:
depth=1 C = ZA, O = Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., CN = Thawte SGC CA
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:0
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/
  i:/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA
 1 s:/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA
  i:/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
Server certificate
issuer=/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA
No client certificate CA names sent
SSL handshake has read 2005 bytes and written 285 bytes
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA
Server public key is 1024 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
   Protocol : SSLv3
   Cipher   : ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA
   Session-ID: 45F9A9FA76661A382878C54AD89EB033C1D8CABB1840F6C154B32F406EC05D75
   Session-ID-ctx:
   Master-Key: 11FA086DFD76443E656F2C487A52B4BCF83A3F7B65C390A15FC2D876EE64E1EBF9FD1B9E8A22E5980D77CD86A11B2BE8
   Key-Arg  : None
   PSK identity: None
   PSK identity hint: None
   Start Time: 1331313945
   Timeout  : 7200 (sec)
   Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate)
Then calculate the fingerprint.
> openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -in
SHA1 Fingerprint=59:29:78:A7:2A:90:61:F7:0A:D7:C4:4C:4D:44:9D:CF:25:8C:D5:34
The above fingerprint is different than the one Pidgin was warning me about. In this case I rejected the certificate, told pidgin to re-connect and on the second attempt got a valid certificate.
Places-Players-Perils: Privacy Framework
Jim Adler writes about a new framework, or way to think about the privacy concerning practices of companies. His Places-Players-Perils framework is designed to help decide whether a company’s data practices are creepy and why we might perceive them to be so.
Journalist fired over a photo of her at Occupy Wall Street
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• What Are Axle Weigh Pads And How Does It Works, Where To Get The Best Axle To Weigh Pads?
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Why Emilie Ullerup Was Let Go From Sanctuary
Why Emilie Ullerup Was Let Go From Sanctuary
reprinted/forwarded from Brusimm.com; originally written on November 1, 2009
Every time I write something about Emilie Ullerup, I keep thinking this will be the last thing I have to say about the issue of Emilie Ullerup (Ashley Magnus) leaving Sanctuary. Or more specifically, why Emilie Ullerup was released from the cast of Sanctuary.
From what I’m seeing, this development has taken people by surprise and is frustrating them. Many are saying with Ashley gone, they are gone.
Ashley Magnus Death (played by Emilie Ellerup)
The writers played us along for more than an episode of Sanctuary while Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) kept coming up with ideas that might have led to finding Ashley alive.
Kate Freelander (played by Agam Darshi) The Replacement
NO ONE seems to like Kate Freelander. Kate Freelander is incredibly flat, dead panned and boring. Her character traits are ambiguous while the writers play her off as greedy with sporadic moments of nice. They’re taking the easy way out. (Notice I’ve criticized the character, not the actor.)
On top of Kate Freelander being dislikable, it’s such a blatant and insulting swap out of female support characters that I’m surprised at how the writers went about it.
The Studio Spin On Why Ashley Died
Inevitably, viewer and fan outrage throughout the internet has been heard by the studio / creator (Damian Kindler) of the show and they have put together their response to the outrage and frustration that viewers are expressing about Ashley dying.
Please Don’t Insult Our Intelligence
The very first sentence in my source article printed, from Kindler, is this:
To be very honest about it, it was a decision we arrived at with our two major networks in the U.S. and Canada creatively, and we really felt it would have the deepest, most dramatic impact on the series and the characters…
He said it was a strong choice and then he back pedaled in the same quoted sentence later by saying that
people don’t necessarily have to die in sci-fi…
Then Kindler acknowledges that Freelander is not very likable and that’s by design and that by season’s end of Sanctuary, we will like her.
In an upcoming episode titled “Penance,” (Guest starring Michael Shanks [Stargate-SG1]) Freelander will have a shining moment.
Sure, if you say so, but we’re still pissed about Ashley, so forgive us we don’t swarm all over this premise right away.
Aaaand The Back Pedaling Continues
Kindler addresses the premise that once they know about a 3rd season for Sanctuary, there will definitely by an Ashley story that will take place that they’re developing.
Folks… first you just said IF there’s a third season, but then you say you are developing an angle on Ashley for the 3rd season. That doesn’t seem to make sense. Did I not read that right, or are you confusing your tenses and excuses? I’m just wondering out loud there.
You’ve dropped Emilie Ullerup for whatever reason you say, but I’ve never seen an actor dropped from a show that’s doing well, just because it’s a great dramatic event. There has to be much more behind the scenes of why she was set free.
So Emilie is playing politically correct and taking the high road and the studios have tossed out the show creator, Damian Kindler to be the face man and take the brunt of the fan frustration.
Syfy did that to Ronald D. Moore when they split up the seasons of Battlestar Galactica. Instead of stepping up and telling us the truth of the matter that was decided more than a year previous, they shoved Moore out there and made him spin it.
I think the fans have been heard
I think the efforts that have just started to develop may just have an impact on what does happen, while Ashley Magnus is “mostly dead” in this ether zone of science fiction’s void of death that is not. I think this public statement was a knee jerk reaction statement and now they may have to figure out how to sort it all out… and now afford this extra cast member they’ve brought in.
My Honest Position:
Last year, I hated Ashley in the beginning. She was flat and predictable. But Ashley did grow on me and her last episodes were incredible. I felt like she carried the show because I’m having a hard time being pulled along by any emotion that isn’t happening when Amanda Tapping tries to force that accent she tosses out there. (That’s not a bad thing, but it’s just not working for me.)
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NSAID Archives - Animal Medical Center of Southern California
Pain Management
Animals and people have similar neural pathways for the development, conduction, and modulation of pain.
This biological similarity makes the expression of both acute and chronic pain comparable. Like humans, dogs and cats develop myopathies and neuropathies that lead to muscle and neurological pain and discomfort. Other painful conditions, which may be similarly expressed include ear infections, dental conditions, sinus pain, skin lesions, and the pain of acute and chronic, repetitive trauma. Untreated pain decreases the quality of life in all patients and prolongs recovery from surgery, injury, or illness. Today, with a better understanding of how pain develops and is perpetuated, pain management has become an essential part of high quality and compassionate patient care in the veterinary field. Providing adequate pain management helps pets recover faster, improving the human-animal bond and the pet’s overall well-being.
Different kinds of pain
When a negative, painful insult is encountered, the body’s endocrine system produces substances such as cortisol, catecholamine, and other inflammatory mediators that alter normal physiologic parameters. As a result of the release of these substances into the general circulation, substantial changes occur at the tissue level including decreased oxygen delivery to tissues, increased cellular metabolic demands, impaired immune function, increased risk of infections, delayed wound healing, prolonged convalescence, and cardiovascular stress.
In the past, the pain was most commonly classified either as acute or chronic. Recently, a newer approach has been to consider pain as adaptive or maladaptive.
Adaptive pain is a normal response to tissue damage. It includes all types of pain involving the release of inflammatory mediators that will cause heat, redness, swelling, pain, and loss of function of the injured area. Inflammation is a major component of pain and can be present both in postoperative/trauma patients and in chronic pain states such as osteoarthritis.
If the adaptive pain is not properly managed, it will eventually result in physical changes in the spinal cord and brain, which will lead to maladaptive pain. In maladaptive pain, the central nervous system becomes more sensitive and the thalamus, which serves as a relay station for nerve impulses from the periphery to the cortex, becomes a spontaneous pain generator. The adjustment from thinking of pain as either acute or chronic to adaptive or maladaptive makes it easier to understand why pain can be so difficult to control in certain patients.
How do I know my pet is in pain?
There are numerous signs that an animal can exhibit while experiencing pain:
• They can fail to exhibit normal behavior, as evidenced by being more lethargic, with perhaps a decreased appetite or decreased grooming tendencies, especially in cats.
• They may express an abnormal behavior, such as an increase in vocalization, aggression, altered posture and/or facial expression, hiding (cats especially), restlessness, and inappropriate elimination.
• An increase in body tension and reaction to touch, or hyperpathia, is also consistent with an animal experiencing pain in a specific injured body area or region. A distinct change in physiologic parameters such as an elevated heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and/or pupilary dilation is also indicative of pain.
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What can I do to help my pet?
Understanding the circumstances that can lead to the development of pain may help anticipate and properly manage the emergence of pain as a clinical condition. Attention must be paid to the development or presence of unusual bumps, scrapes, bruises, or sensitivities. Any change in an animal’s desire or ability to run, jump, play, or otherwise ambulate normally must be evaluated.
Simple basic lifestyle changes such as controlled exercise regimes and weight management can help reduce joint pain and stress.
Providing favorable environmental conditions to help prevent or alleviate pain and discomfort such as ensuring easy access to litter boxes, soft bedding, non slippery surfaces, limited access to stairs, and “warming up” your pet appropriately prior to exercise will help reduce the need for pharmacologic intervention in many cases.
How do we manage pain?
At our hospital, we utilize both pharmacological and a non-pharmacological treatments for pain management. Your doctor will recommend the best way to individually manage your pet’s painful condition.
Pharmacological intervention:
Prior to an elective surgical procedure, appropriate opioids will be administered. Based upon the type of procedure performed, the addition of local anesthetics, epidurals, and steroidal or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory will provide pre and intra-operative comfort and a better postoperative recovery period. Throughout the anesthetic recovery period, hospitalization and the immediate post-operative recovery period at home, additional non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opioids or opioid patches will be provided to your pet.
For maladaptive types of pain not associated with an elective procedure, numerous different options may be chosen by your veterinarian.
NSAID’s and Corticosteroids are the drugs of choice for many of the inflammatory conditions resulting in pain, acting by inhibiting substances released at multiple levels along the biochemical pain pathway.
Topical anesthetics are useful to manage well-delineated painful areas such as small burns or urine scalding.
When aberrant pain is refractory to traditional analgesics, specific drugs like Gabapentin, which acts on the central nervous system, may be required to restore normal central nervous system transmission and control pain and discomfort.
However, many patients with long term chronic, intermittent pain often benefit from the combination of pharmacological as well as non pharmacological therapy.
Non-Pharmacological intervention:
The newly developed high power Class IV lasers generate visible and invisible light beams that are absorbed as light energy by cells (photobiostimulation). This results in the activation of biological reactions, which have been shown to result in an increase in circulation to the damaged area thus creating an optimal healing environment.
Acupuncture has long been recognized by renowned medical associations for its analgesic properties. One of the ways acupuncture works is by slowly releasing an animal’s own opioid-like substances (endorphins) from the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves to help alleviate pain at its source.
Rehabilitation therapy is crucial to help the patient return to normal function or to help improve overall body condition. Rehabilitative techniques include heat and cold therapy, passive range of motion exercises, stretching, balancing exercises, massage, joint mobility, and controlled walking exercises.
Nutrition or “food therapy” is a science that selects food or herbs customized to each individual based upon their inborn tendencies, age, species, personality, and disease process. A specifically formulated diet can help prevent or help in the management of many painful conditions including but not limited to certain skin diseases, osteoarthritis, cancer, and gastrointestinal problems.
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(and sometimes the same)
At different moments throughout the day (and sometimes the same) they will reach for their phones, a reflexive text forming in their fingers that stops somewhere before the keys. Desire is put back in the pocket reluctantly as fingers twitch with observations of sky and city that remain unsent.
At different moments (and sometimes the same) they will see a glimpse of the other in a crowd, some flash of shoulder, some glance of hair, and they will trip mid-step before righting themselves and adjusting their eyes and hammering hearts to the smaller mouths and longer legs that in the throng could have been.
At different moments (and sometimes the same) when he is pouring the wine or she is making the bed they will encounter a dull ache to the bones and the muscle, and the world will constrict just a little as they try to breathe out the sadness through the first sip and the smoothed sheet.
At different moments and often the same they will wonder whether the other is travelling just as slowly through the minefield of their past. And each will wonder for just a moment if the other might too prefer an explosion to the quiet terms of this resistance.
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I am only three things for sure - an Atheist, a Feminist, and a Writer - one who obsesses over the grand themes of love, memory and connection.
12 thoughts on “(and sometimes the same)
1. This was simply beautiful! I am so glad you ‘liked’ my post on Optimystical so that I was able to discover your writing. Thank you.
1. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I am new to this and feedback means so much (I sort of feel naked in front of the class at the moment, ha).
2. This is nice writing. Rhythmic and rich with imagery. I bet you read Eliot.
And indeed there will be time
Time to turn back and descend the stair….
1. Thank you for saying that … I really wanted to capture missing someone in those early day when you are choosing not to contact them. It was inspired a bit by an Alanis song, “That Particular Time”. Those first few months are never easy x
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How Safe are Blockchain Technologies in Italy
Sep 26, 2019 at 10:41 // News
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That's why it was initially seen as a system without masters where everyone can participate, in theory.
One of the requirements of the blockchain to change a chain lock is that this decision is validated by the majority of decision-making power. Nothing could be more democratic, one would say. That's why it was initially seen as a system without masters where everyone can participate, in theory. Many Italians doubt whether technologies including cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc. are secure or not.
The problem, however, arises when this technology is guaranteed by the proof of work, a protection system that is based on encryption algorithms that require great computing power. Those who want to modify the system, to date, must have powerful tools, as many terahashes of capacity are needed: ASICS boards to be connected to many networked computers that work in parallel to find the solution to a mathematical problem at the sound of attempts. And they have to do it faster than the rest of the network.
Overcoming the Blockchain Vulnerability
The founder of Blockchain Zoo, Roberto Capodieci, also agreed on the vulnerability of the network based on proof of work: it is true; in some cases, it is difficult to reach 50% + 1 to rewrite it. However, recently the opposite has been demonstrated by attacking a minor blockchain: being the capacity available online, a hacker has rented miners, and instead of attacking a big blockchain like that of bitcoins - which would have required a lot of power to calculation, and therefore high costs to attach it to the point of not being convenient to do so - used the miners hired to rewrite a minor network, where relatively little computing power was sufficient to reach the majority of it, and rewrote the canceling payments for more than 1 million dollars.
With this mechanism, according to Capodieci, one of the characteristics, to date, of minor blockchains based on proof of work would fall: to be a safe technology, where nobody can control the majority and therefore rewrite the past. The miners are now eliminated as a security system and entrust it fully to the authentication of sequential digital signatures.
The Strength of Proof of Participation
An attack in this way no longer requires the control of capacity, which is no longer needed, but access to the digital signatures of all those who have maintained the network historically, from day zero. Systems are now being implemented to ensure that a common user who wants to become a node of the blockchain downloads historical information in just ten minutes against the two weeks they serve today.
Everyone talks about cryptocurrencies, but the value of the blockchain is to create a unique, non-duplicable digital title: someone can make digital music copies and distribute them to his/her friends, but he can't make copies of his bitcoins. If he passes his bitcoins to a friend, he remains without them.
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Stove and Cook Set
I have a JetBoil stove but what I use most on backpacking trips now is an alcohol-burning SuperCat plus a GSI Minimalist pot. Here’s the complete kit:CookSet In the back row are the pot cozy and the pot. The middle row features the two-fingered pot grabber, the stove, pot lid, and wind screen. The front row is stove lighting implements, the stove base, and the snuffer.
The wind screen is a piece of aluminum with corners rounded and edges smoothed. The square holes were already punched in it and are likely not important. I tried aluminum foil but it burned-though very quickly and had to be replaced for almost every trip. Weight = 18 grams.
The stove base is a cork disk covered with aluminum foil (shiny side out). This insulates the stove from the ground and reflects its heat – both things that help get the fuel boiling faster in cold temps. Weight = 6 grams.
The snuffer is a can larger in diameter and a bit taller than the stove. It is used to cover the stove and snuff the flame after the water has boiled so I can recover unburned fuel. I think this particular can contained dog food and isn’t an ideal size but it’s the best I could find at the time. The bottom has been pushed-out into a dome to create more clearance above the stove and a cork knob added. Weight = 16 grams.
The stove base is larger in diameter than the outside of the snuffer so that there is little if any gap for air flow when the snuffer is in place. The stove base is still small enough to pack flat inside the cook pot.
When packed, the wind screen is wrapped around the stove and inserted into the cozy. The stove, snuffer, etc fit inside and the lid goes on top. Total weight as show is 242 grams. Obvious weight savings would include replacing the 45 gram lid.
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How To Choose the Perfect Coffee Table Book
A Guide to Finding the Perfect Coffee Table Books for Your Home or as a GiftAnd a List of Our Favorites
Coffee table books can be interesting addition to your home décor because, not only are they aesthetically pleasing and functional (if you decide to read them), but they can also shed a little insight into who you are as a person. When I’m looking for coffee table books for my home or as a gift for a friend or family member, there are a few things I like to keep in mind:
If the colors on the cover match the rest of your décor, the book can be stacked
on top of others or placed alone on your coffee table. Or, if your home is mostly
whites and neutrals, it can provide a nice pop of color.
Sometimes, all you see is the spine so it doesn’t matter what the cover looks like.
If the spine matches your colors in your home, it’s perfect for stacking beneath
other books or placing it vertically in a bookshelf. Too many different colored
spines next to each other can look chaotic, unless you organize them by color.
I prefer a coffee table book to be on the larger side, but it all depends on the size
of the table or shelf. You can get away with smaller books on smaller tables and
shelves, and you can stack smaller books on top of larger ones for a little depth.
Hardcover books are sturdy and substantial looking, and if it has some kind of
texture on the front, even better! Occasionally, I will use a magazine or paperback
to stack between the books if it has a thick enough spine.
Lastly, but most importantly, when choosing a coffee table book, the book should
reflect the personality and interests and hobbies of the people in the home.
Otherwise, it would look like someone barged into your home and left a random
book on your table. If you are a gardening enthusiast, it would make perfect sense
to have a book about beautiful gardens or how to grow vegetables on display.
A few of our favorite garden themed coffee table books are:
1. Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening by Matt Mattus
2. Gardentopia by Jan Johnsen
3. Raised Bed Revolution by Tara Nolan
4. A Way to Garden by Margaret Roach
5. Gardenista by Michelle Slatell
Are we missing some good garden coffee table books that we should know
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Improvements in Robotic Lawn Mowers
Robotic lawn mowers are creeping their way in to everyday American life. Like the dishwasher, they were really more trouble than they were worth in the beginning. But technological advances have made the robotic lawn mower practical.
Robotic lawn mowers can now mow on a time schedule and return to the charging base all season long without human intervention, this is the breakthrough that makes them truly useful.
An advanced feature on at least one model is the self-programmable mode. As these robotic lawn mowers work they determine the size of the yard and how fast the grass is growing, when they go back to their charging base they calculate the next time they need to come out to keep the grass at the optimal height.
Rain sensors are becoming standard equipment. When it starts to rain or the sprinkler system activates, they return to their charging base. Mowing in the rain was a major complaint for early adopters.
Some robotic lawn mowers even have a wet grass detection system. Rain sensors are a step in the right direction, but it is the wet grass detection system that cures the problem. Heavy or long periods of rain can leave the grass wet and the ground soft for days. Heavier robotic lawn mowers could get stuck and dig trenches losing traction and spinning tires. Keeping bags of sand handy was just considered part of robotic lawn mower ownership.
Light weight lithium ion batteries allow mowers to cut longer and recharge much faster. In fact some can recharge in as little as 4 hours allowing the mower to go out twice a day if needed.
In addition to faster recharge times, lithium ion batteries do not have the ‘memory’ problems associated with lead acid batteries. Basically the memory effect is caused when a battery is not fully discharged on a consistent basis, they remember the shortened life cycle, reducing the useful length of time until the need to recharge.
Robotic lawn mowers have become more reliable too. The addition of thermistors that detect when motors are overheating and less heat sensitive circuit boards and higher quality components extend the life expectancy past 10 years, about the same as a new quality riding lawn mower.
Robotic lawn mowers are now pretty much maintenance free. Changing the blade once a year and winter storage is about all the attention needed on a routine basis.
Robotic lawnmowers are now able to handle yards as small as 1/8 acre up to 5 acres. Depending on the model, they can handle slopes of up to 30 degrees. All major brands of robotic lawn mowers are waterproof and can remain outdoors all mowing season long.
Residential robotic lawn mowers require a perimeter wire similar to an electric dog fence to be laid prior to operating. Laying the wire is a one-time event that will last the life of the mower.
Setting the perimeter wire is probably the scariest part of purchasing a robotic lawn mower. It is not difficult to stake the wire in place. It usually takes about 3 hours for 1,000 ft. of wire. The wire need not be buried as the grass and roots will grow over it in about 2-3 weeks.
If the mower should cross the wire boundary it will immediately stop. So there is no need to worry about it running away or mowing the neighbor’s yard.
Operating the robotic lawn mower is simple, actually easier than programming a VCR. In theory, programming the mowing schedule need only be done at the beginning of the season. The LCD screens have full instructions and are easy to read.
There are quite a number of internet sites that have detailed information about specific features of the different models of robotic lawn mowers. Hopefully this general description will give readers the interest to look into these new appliances.
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Education and coronavirus: What next for UK schools?
26 June 2020
We owe it to our children to ensure that their education remains as consistent as it can be
Dominic Lee
This pandemic has shone a light on many inequalities in our society, be that the sobering statistic that people from a BAME background are twice as likely to die from COVID19 or the neglect shown to the elderly in care homes. These issues have rightly fought their way into the headlines and have seeped into the public debate. However, there is one issue where it seems that most people are oblivious, and that is regarding the education of our children during these times. The decision taken to close schools was spoken about a long time before it happened, but even when it was announced, school leaders were unsure of what provision they should be offering. Were they to only offer education to the children of keyworkers? Should they be providing work for all pupils during these times? The answers did not come from the Department of Education, with little to no guidelines given as to what schools should be doing. This led to somewhat of a postcode lottery for children, with some benefiting from teachers preparing work, checking in with families, and supporting children with their learning, while others were cast adrift and left to their own devices, leaving parents to pick up the slack.
In my role as an educator, I have worked setting up Google Classroom for the children whom I teach,, with the aims of giving them structure, live feedback, and the interactions, albeit digitally, that come from being in a classroom. If schools are to remain closed to the majority of children until September, or perhaps longer, there needs to be some system put in place to ensure that schools are broadly offering the same provision up and down the country.
It was through setting up Google Classroom that my eyes were opened to another inequality in our society – that of access to internet infrastructure. Whilst many derided Labour’s policy in the 2019 general election of offering free broadband, this pandemic has shown just what a necessity internet access is. As recently as this week, Tony Blair has called for the introduction of universal broadband during a discussion with TIME magazine[1]. Blair should be lauded for addressing this; with his support, it helps to bring the issue into the political mainstream.
Indeed, in the very early throes of this crisis, the government did look into offering free broadband provision, and preliminary discussions with IPSA (Internet Services Providers’ Association) did occur; however, IPSA argued that any roll out of the internet would impact on the service, stating that connecting millions more to the internet would lead to slower speeds for all.[2] There has been no update from either the government nor IPSA since March on free broadband provision. Free broadband may be anathema to the Conservatives, but their election pledge to roll out fibre optic broadband is something that needs to happen immediately if they are serious about digital education.
When I spoke with parents at the school where I work, there was a sizeable percentage who said they simply had no, or limited internet access at home. The statistics back this up, with the BBC reporting that 80 per cent of homes have a fixed broadband line, and when mobile data is taken into account, 90 per cent have coverage.[3] That is still anywhere between a fifth and tenth of the population who are unable to get adequate internet access.
For context, I should say that this is in an area in South London where poverty is rife – our own school statistics show that we are more than double the national average for children eligible for free school meals. However, this does not mean that other areas in the country don’t face similar challenges. An internet connection fast enough for things like online learning may not be available in parts of Scotland, Wales and the South-West, based on data from Which?[4], the largest independent consumer body. This is not an issue that affects just one region of the UK.
In addition to limited Internet access, devices with which to use the Internet are often in scarce supply among many children. It is unworkable for children to use a smartphone to access work and expect them to get any level of real engagement or learning from it. Whilst a laptop is not much better, it is a step in the right direction. Indeed, local authorities did offer laptops to pupils between 16 – 19[5], limited to those who were care-givers or who received support from social workers. Having spoken with a head teacher in the Westminster area, he said that the local authority were unable to provide laptops and pointed him in the direction of a charity to plug the gap. What would happen to children in areas where such charities do not exist? This is not a way to ensure that the most vulnerable in our society have the basic equipment they need to access education.
There are several things that the government, along with school leaders and businesses, can do to address this. Firstly, bring forward their policy of rolling out fibre optic broadband so that more people have access to a good internet connection, and work in partnership with BT and IPSA to ensure a minimum level of free internet for those who need it. Secondly, companies like Google, in keeping with their corporate social responsibility (CSR) agendas, could work with the UK government to provide Chromebooks to all state funded primary and secondary schools. Not only would this fulfil their CSR obligations, but it would also be a way to promote the uptake of Google Classroom and to raise the profile of this digital learning platform. Finally, there needs to be a discussion about digital inequalities in our society and a grown-up conversation about how to address this issue. In the first instance, schools need to be much more aware of the levels of access that pupils have to the internet at home, and how many people their devices are shared between. This then needs to inform the conversation as schools and educational institutions move towards more online and blended learning. It is also an area that Labour can seize upon and take back the mantle of education from the Tories. Labour should be hounding the government on this, along with all their other missteps throughout this pandemic. The debacle over free school meals, with the government forced into a retreat over funding during the summer holidays, has shown how vulnerable the government are when it comes to schools and education. Labour should welcome Marcus Rashford’s recent campaign victory and build upon it for the future, using his approach of framing issues as simple, morally right things to do.
Coronavirus is here to stay for the foreseeable future. We owe it to our children to ensure that their education remains as consistent as it can be. Digital learning and focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable in our society is one way to do this. I hope for the sake of our pupils that the government gets to grips with this, and fast. | <urn:uuid:e2461d29-3fd7-48df-a42f-f96a147bd024> | https://policynetwork.org/opinions/blogs/education-and-coronavirus-what-next-for-uk-schools/ | en | 0.976768 | 0.026555 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Energy is the ability to cause change. The Second Law of Motion describes what happens to a huge body when it’s acted upon by an outside force. Count to alert the selection of objects.
The Basics of Free Fall Definition Physics
The acceleration is exactly the same as time passes. From then, it’s the exact procedure of utilizing the constant speed in the horizontal direction alongside the right time of flight to figure out the range. You might need to understand what your normal speed was since the speed varied during your journey.
The open source” model can work as a driver of sustainable improvement. As an example, work can be achieved by gravity. For instance, Research paper writers if a processor manufacturer wishes to observe how a competitor’s processor works, they can buy a competitor’s processor, disassemble this, and after that earn a processor very similar to it.
The materials that the surfaces are made from play a job. When the entire sample is now a liquid the temperature will start to rise again. There are various sorts of friction.
In case you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email me at any moment, especially in case you’d like more specific explanations on a few of the activities I do. As an example, in the kindergarten science section, motion is just one of the major areas. A favorite winter sport in many elements of the nation is ice skating.
You are unable to earn milk unspoiled. Look at a sealed jar that is full of water. Make math fun because it actually is!
Liquids, like solids, cannot be compressed. However, the displacement of the human body is in the upward direction. Weight is the amount of gravitation attraction an object has and is a kind of force.
Even though a vector has magnitude and direction, it doesn’t have position. Terminal velocity is understood to be the maximum velocity that may be accomplished by means of an object that’s falling through a fluid, such as air or water. An object doesn’t necessarily do precisely the same speed.
You will have to know the acceleration due to gravity along with the force which gets ignored during free fall motion issues. After the ball is at point A, the vertical part of the velocity is going to be zero. It requires a force to prevent the ball from continuing to roll once it’s set in motion.
Actually work achieved by gravity is one other way to define potential energy. There’s no general equation to find out the normal force but there’s an approach to work out the normal force. To begin with, you have to understand how you, as an individual, reacts to a change in the surroundings.
This phase is reported to be among the attractive moments of life. If you stack additional books in addition to the very first book to boost the standard force, the kinetic friction force increases. The web force is believed to be an inward or centripetal force.
Free Fall Definition Physics – Overview
Mathematics comprises hypotheses, whilst physics includes theories. Measurement is an integral component of human race, without it there isn’t going to be a trade, zero statistics. Physics can be quite so intimidating, yet this physics project presents the concepts in logical techniques to help facilitate deep comprehension.
A scientist is somebody who works in and has expert knowledge of a specific area of science. Many examples of the usage of calculus is found in aerospace engineering. Dimensional analysis to find out if an equation is dimensionally accurate.
To begin with, prepare the anchor points about ten feet apart. MRIs can be done on various components of your entire body. Also, as it is on the ground, it cannot go any lower.
HippoCampus isn’t a credit-granting organization, and doesn’t monitor, grade, or give transcripts to anyone employing the website. The efficacy of push notifications often is dependent on the kind of app. Data differencing is sometimes called deduplication.
Because the root of schizophrenia are still unknown, treatments center on eliminating the indicators of the disease. People with positive symptoms may drop touch with some facets of reality. Truth of the problem is you are never likely in order to know all the drugs that may show up on the NCLEX.
Accordingly, in this former example the body himself was used to produce the excess energy required to do some paranormal stuff. Look about and pick up the very first thing you see. 1 person becomes pushed from the mezzanine, and due to the way that they talk to one another, all of them go at the exact same moment.
The rest of The information has to be extracted from the problem statement based upon your comprehension of the above mentioned principles. There are a couple things to bear in mind before we get started. It’s almost always a fantastic idea to remain informed about the class, not fall behind.
When you’re solving a problem in which you want to find one of these variables but you’re lacking another one, you should combine both formulae to get rid of the unknown variable. The very best graphed is plain and the bottom graphed is precisely the same with some additional notes. These sentences contain abstract noun examples that have been italicized for simple identification.
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STEPPING Pilot actions in Alto Alentejo
AREANATejo promotes the implementation of a pilot action for the measurement and installation of energy consumption monitoring devices in public buildings in Alto Alentejo.
STEPPING project main objectives are to support the development and implementation of Energy Performance Contracts and development of actions leading to the implementation of the European Energy Efficiency Directives in public buildings. In order to meet those objectives, AREANATejo promoted the implementation of a pilot action in the field of measurement and installation of energy consumption monitoring devices in the 12 public buildings that integrate STEPPING Project, whose data are being integrated in real time common platform.
At the same time, they were developed energy diagnoses in the 12 buildings, aiming at identifying their energy consumption patterns and associated costs. As a main result of these diagnoses, 63 energy efficiency improvement measures were identified, focusing essentially on five main areas:
1. Production of sanitary hot water through the use of renewable energy (biomass);
2. Improvement of HVAC systems;
3. Installation of capacitor batteries to compensate the power factor;
4. Installation of solar photovoltaic systems for self-consumption;
5. Improvement of lighting systems.
With an overall investment of around € 725.000, the implementation of these measures will lead to a significant reduction in energy consumption, thus resulting in an annual reduction of around € 194.000, with a simple payback period of 3,7 years (without funding).
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Ideas that can bring change in India (Judiciary Special)
*Judiciary should also come under CPA (Consumer Protection Act)*
👉🏼In the Salman Khan hit and run case the LOWER court judge and the HIGH court judge had the SAME pieces of EVIDENCE to deal with.
👉🏼They also had the SAME Indian LAW to abide by and most probably they had similar education qualifications too.
👉🏼Yet they INTERPRETED the situation in absolutely CONTRASTING manner and gave verdicts which are poles apart.
👉🏼Just imagine what would have happened if a YOUNG doctor sitting in a GOVERNMENT hospital doctor catering to hundreds of patients in a day had diagnosed a celebrity patient presenting with gastric discomfort as GASTRITIS and another hospital had LATER on diagnosed that patient to be having a MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. I am sure that doctor would have been screwed and jailed.
👉🏼A JUDGE gets YEARS to decide on a case
unlike a DOCTOR who is expected to diagnose and treat everything in the BLINK of an eye.
👉🏼If a doctor making a wrong diagnosis can be prosecuted shouldn’t a judge giving wrong verdicts meet the same fate?
👉🏼If hospitals can be sued for not admitting poor patients shouldn’t the courts be prosecuted for having lacs of impending cases?
👉🏼Is it not appalling that a judge taking 12 years to give a wrong verdict gets away unhurt and a doctor making one mistake is screwed by our legal system?
👉🏼Doctors practice medicine which is more of an art than an exact science whereas law is absolutely 100% manmade, yet doctors are expected to be right on all occasions.
👉🏼If doctors and hospitals have a duty towards the society then does the judiciary not have a responsibility towards the socitey.
👉🏼If there is so much of hue and cry in media about doctors and hospitals charging huge sums from patients then why do we not ever hear a word on the fee that lawyers like Manu singhvi and Jethmalani charge for their court appearances.
👉🏼Government often talks about putting a capping on the fees doctors charge for various procedures but their is no talk of putting a capping on the fee that these lawyers charge to get justice for their clients.
👉🏼If health is a citizen’s right then so is justice. Shall we take our minds off worshipping false heroes & think?
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1. Thought provoking article. Would require long deliberations.
Although I would like to add that though all lawyers do learn the same thing in their respective schools but when in practice the law often is translated differently by different lawyers/judges solely with respect to whatever the case maybe. And how a lawyer is able to twist the same for the benefit of his/her client defines his/her calibre and that is why they charge such high fees.
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Grace is wise and driven. She is recognized by her husband, many in her community, and across Kenya, as an exemplary farmer and businesswoman. Grace credits her success to financing and the opportunities small, affordable loans make possible — like safe water for her farm and family.
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Grace first used a micro-loan from Equity Bank to purchase a few chicken coops. She raised small flocks of hens and sold them at the local market. Eventually, with wisdom and determination, Grace grew her farm from just dozens of chickens to acres with hundreds of chickens. Grace was so impressed with how affordable the financing process made it for her to start and grow a chicken farming business that she attended and graduated from a financial program offered by Equity Bank. After graduation, she became an advocate for the bank to help expand financing services to others in her community.
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Equipped with an understanding of financing, when Grace and the members of her Self-Help Group discussed their struggles to get access to water at home, she shared her experience with financing to start her chicken farm. The Self-Help Group, which is a small voluntary association of people who come together for the purpose of solving their common struggles, considered the opportunity to finance water solutions for their homes.
Because access to water is a challenge for all members of the group, they decided to use the power of their Self-Help Group and their savings to establish a consistent source of water at each of their homes. Together the group approached Equity Bank in Kenya for a loan to obtain water storage tanks.
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Grace discusses how water is captured in one of her rain storage tanks
Equity Bank is one of's partners. The bank lent the group 800,000 Kenyan shillings (KES) to purchase 18 water storage tanks – enough for each household to have at least one storage tank. The loan repayment period is three years. Grace and Joshua’s portion of the loan covered the cost of two storage tanks and requires them to make a monthly payment of 2,000 KES. This amount is equal to about $20 USD per month.
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Joshua and Grace hold a photo of their first chickens
With access to water on her property, Grace can feed her chickens, grow food in her garden, and use the water to cook, bathe, and do laundry. These are daily tasks she once struggled to accomplish because she lacked a nearby water source. Without water at home, Grace and Joshua paid high prices for water to be drawn from a local pond and carted to their property. The smart businesswoman did not want to continue putting money into this short-term approach. She drew upon her wisdom and experience with financing to not only give her family access to water at home but to help provide it for many others in her village as well.
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You probably have a clear idea of who your ideal customer is. But how much of this is based on assumptions and how much is based on data and research?
You’re trying to start a conversation with your target buyer. And while you focus your time on the broader themes of increasing web presence, your consumers are becoming more and more discerning about the type of content they engage with. Before you even think about starting to create your content, you need to understand who it is you’re creating it for.
One of the first steps to planning an inbound marketing strategy is paying attention to your target audience.
Short on time? Download the persona profile checklist for a list of the core questions to ask when researching to create your customer personas. (No forms, no cost, just helpful advice you can save and share with your sales and marketing teams to better define your target buyers.)
What is a customer persona?
You might know it as a customer persona. HubSpot calls them buyer personas. Whichever you prefer, the logic stands. Imagine how much a persona on your target buyers could inform your content marketing strategy and the conversations you're having with your customers.
It’s common for brands to assume that they're the main character in their stories, but if you want to engage your target buyer, you need create content that puts them in the limelight.
Your brand is the enabler, the wise man, Rowling’s sparkly eyed Dumbledore. You bring the knowledge, the expertise, the magic. The customer you're trying to reach? They're the small child trapped in the cupboard under the stairs, wishing for more.
Everything starts with who you're targeting, and this means understanding how to create their personas. Only by knowing your personas and looking at current trends for consumption will you be able to target your approach and resonate with today’s time-sensitive buyers.
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Download the persona profile checklist. You should use the questions on the checklist when doing research to create your buyer persona.
Tailor the questions as much (or as little) as needed to match your industry and the language used in it. For example, rather than asking 'Where do your customers go for information?', you could ask 'How do they research an expensive purchase?'
Step 2: Begin researching your buyer persona
Using the questions you identified in Step 1, determine a method of researching your buyer persona and getting the selected questions answered. You can research your buyer persona by:
• Interviewing current customers or prospects
• Surveying your customers or prospects
• Talking to your co-workers
• Asking questions on social media
Step 3: Use HubSpot or your existing CRM to review lead intelligence to help with your buyer persona research
Browse through some of your customers' contact records. Use top article views and most downloaded offers to identify relevant topics the buyer persona is interested in.
• What topics and types of content are your contacts gravitating towards? (Important for creating topic clusters that successfully engage your target buyers.)
• What are they most interested in on your website?
• What social media networks do they use?
Browse through some of your qualified leads’ contact records. Use top blog article views and most downloaded offers to identify relevant topics the buyer persona is interested in.
Step 4: Compile the answers to your initial questions
Once you've discovered trends from the answers to your selected questions, collect the data in one place. Highlight the trends and similarities in the types of responses people give. These trends or common responses are what should make their way into the beginning of your buyer persona story.
Step 5: Translate your notes into a complete persona
• What is a common job and demographic?
• What does their day look like?
• What are their challenges or pain points?
• Where do they go for information?
• What common objections do they have to your products or services?
Step 6: Add your buyer persona into HubSpot or CRM
Choose a picture and name for your persona. Why? It will help bring them to life for you and your team. It may sound cheesy, but actually asking 'would Sue read this?' will help you to put everything you do into perspective.
Add the high-level notes from your buyer persona story that you created in the above step. Add them to the internal fields labeled persona's roles, goals, and challenges.
Create a form field option that answers the question of how the contact would describe him or herself on a form. By creating a form field option, you are creating a drop-down form property option. Now your contacts can identify with a persona when they fill out a form, which will help you with deliver personalised content and segmentation.
Step 7: Review and update your buyer persona
Every quarter, review your buyer persona story to make sure the buyer persona story is still accurate. Update or add anything to make sure your buyer persona story is the best possible representation of your ideal customer.
Use customer personas to kickstart conversations with your most valuable prospects
Establishing what specific challenges prospects have, where they go for information online, what social media channels they use and engage with, their demographic information and their interests will help you define effective tone of voice guidelines and content topics. Crucially, it will help you build rapport with your prospects, helping you to kickstart those all important first conversations.
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It's not just the 2020 season at stake, but the future of MLB
Many of the folks inside baseball but outside of the Zoom labor negotiations assume that, eventually, cooler heads will prevail in the talks between the owners and the players' union. Because they have to -- right?
Because the alternative -- no attempted restart of baseball in 2020 because of a failure of the two sides to agree to terms -- bears catastrophic consequences, now and in the sport's future. The leaders on both sides have to see that -- right?
They have to understand this nuclear option is no option at all -- right?
They have to understand how baseball might need a generation or two -- decades -- for some fans to forget or forgive this ill-timed squabble over money, at a time when so many have lost jobs and increasingly struggle to meet the cost of shelter and food. Baseball's owners and players can't be so deeply mired in distrust and doctrine that they don't see this -- right?
But here we are, in a countdown to utter disaster for Major League Baseball, and sources of moderation on both sides are having difficulty identifying the path through which the parties will leave their respective bunkers to reach the agreement the industry must have. As distasteful as the terms might be for the owners and players, they should all recognize that while concern over player and staff safety could ultimately prevent games from being played, they must settle the question of player compensation -- whatever form that takes -- and shake hands on the deal and smile for the cameras. (Actually, please be sure to get it in writing that everybody acknowledges -- more later on how the failure to do that has contributed to the current stalemate.)
If that doesn't happen -- if they can't agree on a deal to play in 2020 -- baseball will become a loathed presence on North America's sporting landscape, scorned by many fans. The labor fight will merely be deferred, with escalation in some form all but assured because of the unresolved issues.
Next spring, with only months remaining in the current collective bargaining agreement, the players are more apt to use the threat of a strike. Owners, already damaged by the money losses this year, could be more inclined to dig in and wait out the players, aiming for a lasting reconstruction of baseball's financial model. The labor fight could go on and on, and by the time it all plays out, it's impossible to know how many fans, feeling alienated or disgusted, will leave baseball behind once and for all.
The only sure thing is that the owners and players will lose, unless they settle this standoff that risks mutually assured destruction.
So they have to make a deal. Right?
The fractures between the lead negotiating groups -- led by commissioner Rob Manfred and union chief Tony Clark -- have developed into a gaping chasm of suspicion and frustration. But each side will also have to work through competing internal forces.
Sources say there is a group of owners perfectly willing to shut down the season, to slash payroll costs and reduce losses, and the disparate views among the 30 teams have been reflected in the decisions to fire and furlough. The Pirates' Bob Nutting used the shutdown as an avenue to suspend team contributions to employee 401K plans -- savings best measured monthly in the tens of thousands of dollars rather than the millions that would actually be difference-making for a franchise probably worth at least $1 billion. The Oakland Athletics' John Fisher decided to eliminate the $400 weekly salaries of minor leaguers, which might save the franchise about the amount of the team's unpaid stadium rental bill. On the other hand, clubs such as the Tigers, Padres and Royals demonstrated greater humanity, with the Royals' John Sherman deciding to pay his minor leaguers.
The clash of clans on the players' side was illuminated this week by the Twitter spat between Trevor Bauer and Kyle Lohse, client of Scott Boras, after Bauer tweeted, in so many words, that Boras should butt out of union business. Over the past 2½ months of social distancing, raw exchanges like these have me wondering how we are so technologically advanced and yet so many seem unable to place a direct phone call.
I know what you're thinking: "OK, Boomer. That conversation stuff is so old-school." But better communication will be needed to overcome the union's internal division, to band the baseball brothers together and present a united front that was once a reflex position among the players.
The labor relations scars of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine are well-earned from his time as a union frontman during the '94-95 players' strike. He has never had a sledgehammer personality, so the message he seemingly tried to impart in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the other day was subtle and indirect but hardened. "If it were to come down to an economic issue and that's the reason baseball didn't come back, you're looking at a situation similar to the strike of '94 and '95 as far as fans are concerned," he said. "Even if the players were 100% justified in what they were complaining about, they're still going to look bad."
Keep in mind that the players' strike in '94-95 took place during a time of relative national prosperity. There was no global pandemic, record unemployment or growing civil unrest.
Looking back, Glavine said, "The accessibility thing was a miscalculation on my part. I just felt like if I did an interview on the radio or TV, or if I had five or 10 minutes, I could make somebody understand what was going on and come to our side. That just wasn't going to happen."
From the early-April interviews Boras gave to the statements released by Clark to Blake Snell's Twitch feed, it's as if there has been an effort to win a public relations fight. If asked -- and yes, the union would be well-served to seek the counsel of Glavine, David Cone, Todd Zeile, Johnny Bench and others who helped to construct the world's strongest union the current players inherited -- Glavine would seemingly tell them: Don't bother; you're not going to win in the court of public opinion.
Perhaps old union warriors Don Fehr and Gene Orza could offer useful reviews of the players' association's current logjam, given their knowledge of the baseball landscape and their decades-old understanding of the owners and leverage. Clark played 15 years in the big leagues, accomplishing things Fehr and Orza could only dream of -- 251 big league homers, the stature of a respected clubhouse leader. But Clark does not have a legal background, and in his one major negotiation, the CBA talks of 2016, the union lost enormous ground in agreeing to a deal that effectively fostered soft salary caps and continued tanking.
Bruce Meyer, Clark's right-hand man, has been in baseball for less than two years. The perception of Bauer, many other agents and management officials is that Boras is in a position of high influence right now, and while Boras is the most celebrated player representative in U.S. sports history, with record-setting deals, he also lacks front-line experience in negotiations that possess such long-standing ramifications for this and the next collective bargaining agreement.
Clark, Meyer and Boras have stood firmly behind an assertion that the late-March agreement between the union and MLB made clear that players would be paid their prorated salaries for any games, even without fans in the stands. On the other hand, management contends that the agreement contained an understanding that the question of player compensation would be revisited if there were no fans in the stands, and Joel Sherman wrote recently about the contemporaneous internal management memo that backs this position. There are players and agents who would like to see comparable documentation from union leadership, in the form of memos and emails.
The talks between the two sides are stalled over this important point, and if clear-cut language recognized by both sides does not exist, "it's the fault of the lawyers," said one agent. "The result is devastating."
One way or another, this issue has to be resolved. A question asked by moderates on the players' side: Who will make a deal?
And a question asked on both sides: Is it possible for the owners' side to refrain from the destructive practice of leaking offers to the media? This practice has repeatedly undercut the effort to construct a bridge of trust and shaped the perception of owners' motives. After MLB's most recent proposal was published before it was presented, pitcher Jake Diekman wrote on Twitter, "It's getting very irritating that all of the information regarding the start of the baseball season is getting leaked before 95% of the players can even see it."
On Memorial Day, union moderates thought some conceptual traction had started to build toward a deal, with some salary considerations swapped for some protection of the upcoming free-agent classes. But because the offer was so stark, with the highest-paid players asked to take cuts of up to 80%, and because of how it leaked, many moderates thought that the owners' offer backfired and pushed the players closer to Boras' position -- that negotiations about salary are over. The highly respected Max Scherzer, a member of the union's executive committee and a Boras client, tweeted that "there's no reason to engage with MLB in any further compensation reductions," citing conversations with "the rest of the players."
Thus, 80 days after baseball was shut down over the coronavirus pandemic, the two sides are completely at odds -- the owners asking for major salary concessions without being willing to open their financial books, and the union leaders settled behind what might be an unsettled issue, depending on what the negotiated language says.
Meanwhile, they're like two second cousins arguing loudly in the back pews during a memorial service. Everyone watching the spat is mortified and embarrassed for them.
They have to work it out. Don't they?
• Paul Hembekides sent along some notes about baseball's financial landscape:
1. MLB's financial proposal would be a big financial hit for high-earning players (obviously), but that is a really small subset. There were 1,410 players who appeared in an MLB game in 2019. There were 124 players who earned at least $10 million in 2019 (9% of the player pool); there were 140 scheduled to earn at least $10 million in 2020. Forty players earned at least $20 million in 2019 (3% of player pool); there were 47 scheduled to earn at least $20 million in 2020. (This does not account for those who did not play a game in 2019, such as Yoenis Cespedes.)
2. Over the past decade, the value of the average MLB franchise has increased by approximately 300%, to $1.85 billion. The annual contract of the average MLB player has increased by about 40%, to $4.4 million. As The Associated Press reported, salaries have stagnated over the past five years.
3. Baseball is a young man's game. The percentage of players by current service time (from 2019 40-man Opening Day rosters):
0-1 year: 30%
1-2 years: 16%
2-3 years: 11%
3-4 years: 9%
4-5 years: 6%
5-6 years: 6%
6+ years: 21%
Note: This does not add up to 100% because of rounding.
• If the two sides forge an agreement and baseball is played in 2020, it will be interesting to see if some players eligible for free agency in the upcoming offseason choose to not participate for reasons similar to why some NFL and NBA prospects bypass combines and bowl games -- out of concern for short-term risk.
Let's say a 29-year-old pitcher is set to become eligible for free agency in the fall and is leery about the possibility of injury, perhaps enhanced by the odd work schedule this year or some performance struggles in what promises to be a small sample size. That player might choose to sit out whatever season is played, opting to take his 2019 résumé into market.
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Friday: Mike Farrell and Brian Rivera, co-directors of the E:60 feature "Imperfect: The Roy Halladay Story," discuss Brandy Halladay's decision to talk with them, how they discovered an important video element and the ways Roy's story could impact others; Todd Radom's weekly quiz, and a discussion about PNC Park.
Thursday: Mark Teixeira gives a clear-eyed take about the ongoing negotiations between the owners and the players; longtime media relations director Jay Horwitz discusses his new book about his time with the Mets.
Wednesday: Yankees third-base coach Phil Nevin brings the stories from his time in baseball -- about Aaron Boone's impersonations, that confrontation he had with his former GM, and the best baserunner he has ever worked with. Paul Hembekides has numbers that back up Nevin's belief and discusses a dark day in baseball history.
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1. Cast in a low fire body clay, while wet cut out slices of the tree as shown in the picture. Make a groove in the base to allow the cord to fit so the tree will stand flat. Clean with a wet brush to smooth the cutouts, remove the seamline while wet.
2. Fire to 05. (dependant on clay using)
3. Thin SC-98 Slime Time with water so it is a pouring consistency, pour to the inside of the tree, make sure all the surface is covered, brush out the drips on the outside of the tree.
4. Brush three coats of SC-98 Slime Time to the outside of the tree including the base with the fan brush
5. Stir and shake SG-704 Peppermint well, brush one coat to the outside of the tree using the fan brush.
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Is Christmas Christian?
Good News Magazine
December 1976
Volume: Vol XXV, No. 12
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Is Christmas Christian?
Scott G Rockhold
In the minds of many, Christmas is the most important Christian holiday. Yet the facts of history show that this day and the celebrations which surround it are little more than a perpetuation of ancient Roman paganism!
Until the fourth century A.D., Christians did not celebrate the birth of Christ. The early church recognized that the most important days of Christ's life were those of His death and resurrection, hence they placed little or no emphasis on the day of His birth. The New Testament nowhere commands Christians to observe Christ's birthday, nor is there any example of the apostles observing it. The Gospel accounts do not provide enough information to be certain of the time of year (much less the day) when Jesus Christ was actually born, and the early church did not have the information.
Nevertheless, many Christian writers, early and late, have tried to determine the day on which Christ was born. Unfortunately, however, their dates must be regarded as pure speculation: one writer came up with March 28 as the day, others decided on April 19 or May 20. Most preferred the spring because they believed that since Christ died in the spring He had to be born in the spring. But others selected dates in the fall or winter.
Perhaps needless to say, the church as a whole paid little attention to these various dates. Among others, Origen of Alexandria (circa A.D. 200), one of the most famous' of early Christian writers, objected to the celebration of any birthday at all, pointing out that in the Bible only the heathen celebrated birthdays. Others ridiculed the idea of even trying to find out the time of Christ's birth.
Birth or Baptism? In some areas, the church did celebrate an event of Jesus' life besides His death and resurrection. This was His baptism. Some Christian groups decided on January 6 as the day for this observance. Why did they select this date? Historians point out that a pagan feast of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry, was celebrated on January 6, and was associated with the lengthening of the day. Also, in Egypt, January 6 was observed as the birth of the pagan god Aeon as well as being the special day of Osiris. It is virtually certain that the date of January 6 was originally selected because of the pagan worship connected with it. Perhaps some Christians hoped that pagan converts would be more attracted to the church if it could offer them a festival honoring Christ at the same time as their previous pagan celebrations.
At any event, the date of January 6 spread through the eastern part of the early church as the celebration of Christ's baptism, Eventually the day became associated also with Christ's birth — the night of the 5th-6th honoring His birth, and the day of the 6th honoring His baptism. Thus long before December 25 was celebrated as Christ's birthday, that event was commemorated on January 6.
Constantine the Pagan. For the first two centuries of its existence, the church had grown slowly. Christianity in many areas of the Roman Empire was an illegal religion, and persecution of Christians was common.
The reign of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 311-337) changed the situation. Constantine recognized that continued persecution would serve no purpose, and in his Edict of Milan (313) proclaimed freedom of worship for Christians. Later, Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. However, Constantine himself long remained a pagan, a sun worshiper, and sought to perpetuate a blend of Christianity and sun worship by designating the "day of the Sun" (Sunday), on which most' Christians commemorated the death of Christ by a "communion" or "Eucharist," as the official weekly day of rest of the Roman Empire.
Constantine's legislation led many thousands of people to convert to Christianity — people who had previously been involved in Roman sun worship, especially the worship of the god Mithras, a sun god of Persian origin. Interestingly, the chief day of the year honoring the sun (sol invictus, "the unconquered sun") was December 25!
On to Rome. The Christian church at Rome was now experiencing a dramatic influx of people newly converted from pagan sun worship and Mithraism. Doubtless many of these converts wished to continue their celebrations around the end of December. Besides December 25, the preceding week, December 17- 24, was the time of the Roman Saturnalia, a time of jubilant celebration, of" eating and drinking, partying and lovemaking. Such popular celebrations die hard.
At the same time, because of various theological disputes, certain parts of the church no longer wished to continue celebrating the baptism and birth of Christ at the same time their opponents did, January 6th. A new date had to be found on which to celebrate the birth of Christ. What better time than December 25, already the date of Mithraic sun worship celebrations and immediately following Saturnalia? The selection of December 25 as a major "Christian" festival would bring in many more converts to the church. So, sometime in the middle. of the fourth century A.D., probably in 354, Christmas was first celebrated in Rome on December 25.
To be sure, no Christian churchman of the day went so far as to admit that December 25 was deliberately chosen because of the pagan celebrations surrounding that date! Yet from their comments we can be sure the matter of sun worship was one of the motivations on their minds. Ambrose (circa A.D. 340-397), bishop of Milan, said in one of his sermons in which he contrasted paganism and Christianity, "Christ is our new sun!" However, it seems the ordinary worshiper had some difficulty making the transition. Thus Pope Leo the Great (A.D. 440-461) had to rebuke those who celebrated Christmas as the birth of the sun Instead of that of Christ. And even a considerable time later Augustine (flourished c. 600) still found it necessary to urge "Christians" not to worship the sun on that day, but rather Him who created the sun. Clearly, the observance of December 25 had been strongly influenced by sun worship.
This type of evidence, as well as other facts, has led many scholars to conclude that the adoption by the church of December 25 as a celebration of the birth of Christ was a deliberate borrowing from paganism. One scholar concluded: "... The festival of Christ's birth was changed over to December 25th, the great festival of the sun. Christ's birth was now linked up with the sun on December 25th in the same way as his resurrection with Sunday [the day of the sun]" (Cullman, The Early Church, p. 32).
ST. NICHOLAS presides over rites of December Saturnalia rebaptized under the name of Christmas.
Furthermore, not only just the day of worship became part of Christian observance, but the manner of observance as well. The pagan Roman practices of the Saturnalia (December 17-24), as well as the day of the " unconquered sun" (December 25), were perpetuated in the church, doubtless by the new converts from paganism. (Later, Germanic customs were blended with Roman practice.)
The same scholar noted: "Admonitions like those of Augustine and Pope Leo had now clearly become necessary, for this deeply rooted pagan festival of the 'unconquered sun god' did not, in fact, simply disappear, but persisted in many practices which passed over into the Christian festival" (ibid.). Thus a pagan celebration became a "Christian" observance. Some churches in the East, however, continued for many years to observe January 6; the Armenian church to this day continues to observe that date.
Meaning for Today. What does this often dry history mean for the modern Christian? Is Christmas a truly Christian observance honoring the Son of God? From the evidence presented here it is apparent that the selection of the date of December 25 by the church in the fourth century was heavily influenced by pagan Roman sun worship. Furthermore, many of the customs surrounding the modern celebration of Christmas derive from pagan Germanic or Roman practices. Christmas as observed by most does not, in reality, honor the Son of God, but rather the customs and the celebrators themselves: partying, revelry, the exchange of gifts.
Since the earliest church did not even deem the birth of Christ of enough importance to preserve its date (assuming it was even known) one should ask how relevant any such observance could really be in a Christian's life today. Rather than honoring Christ, one would also have to ask if Christmas, as it is presently celebrated and given its pagan origins, does not in fact dishonor Him.
For more evidence that Christmas is not Christian, read our free booklet The Plain Truth About CHRISTMAS.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
F**k Sabah and some Neo-Nazi movement
Interesting topic i read after Liverpool match against Manchester City which Liverpool won the game with 3 against 0. Great start for Reds with Andy Caroll, Luis Suarez and Kenneth Dalglish. Hell yeah!!Can't wait next season.
Another story, there's some west Malaysian (most of them kids) started a group with the name "Fuck Sabah" and we suspected the creator was this person:
Ejam Sajee (Nurul Jasmeen)
And his facebook profile is here. While the group, if you wanna check it out, just go search for it on Facebook or i already linked it with the name above..blehh!!
As the proof of their conversations, check here which i print-screen some:
It seems that his being dumped by Sara Jupiter and i don't know if she's Sabahan or not. But i found one Sara Jupiter on facebook. Which look like "otaku" to me.. hmmm.. bleehhh...
Some chick with "fake" facebook name as Lidya Hebat, provoking others to Fuck Sarawak.. damn.. bunch racist kids...
And remember, not everyone of them supporting this group. I refer to West Malaysian friends there. especially the guys above. I can see there's some murder threat being created by one boy "fake" facebook name Gada Sempoi (still teenager but smoker) bleeehhh....
So, for any Borneo people wanna mad at them, don't use bad words or whatever. All we have to do, go report to the nearest police station. Don't become to racial prejudice group which using word "pilak" to insult other races. If you say you hate this, why don't show your hatred towards this 2 pages, only brainless malformed retard don't want to have this 2 pages:
if you think you're honest against PTI, go work in a plantations, to be a cooly in the construction site under the heat of the sun. Practice what you preach. This is same like Nazi and if you want to know more about the definition and term of pilak, go here. http://talkoutmamind.blogspot.com
If you hate Fuck Sabah and claimed yourself not racist, why don't you go against the 2 pages too? Unless you're naturan born racist being inducted by your family or forefather. (I realize something about the pages, most of them racist and coward). Only people without iman in their heart will hate others. | <urn:uuid:0973021a-09b5-4636-81ca-65ef646227f5> | https://www.rahzamdy.com/2011/04/fuck-sabah-and-some-neo-nazi-movement.html | en | 0.947031 | 0.063303 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Naturalism Science & Philosophy
Introduction to Instrumental Rationality
Find it difficult to keep New Year resolutions? Want to lose weight and plan for it but have failed more than once? Finding your wardrobe full but frequently find lack of event-appropriate clothes? Let’s get introduced to instrumental rationality, a concept that might be the key for succeeding at such tasks.
What is Instrumental Rationality?
The definition of instrumental rationality, as given by Keith Stanovich in his book titled Robot’s Rebellion, goes as follows
It is clear from the definition that Instrumental Rationality is all about finding ways to achieve the defined goals. Given the resources, an instrumentally rational person chooses the most optimal route to attain the sought goals. The concept sounds extremely simple and obvious. But research shows that humans typically suffer from dysrationalia and frequently show disability in aligning actions with desired goals. That is the reason why it is easier to decide to lose weight but rather hard to implement it. Reflection on instrumental rationality can uncover the pitfalls in our thinking that can help us rectify this behavior. But before we get into more details we need to first understand its limitations.
How is Instrumental Rationality different from Rationality?
It is important to understand that instrumental rationality is not the same as plain rationality. Instrumental rationality is the ability to use available resources in accordance with beliefs to achieve the desired goals. But it leaves the value system, i.e. beliefs and desires, unchallenged. It does not bother whether the value system in itself is rational or not. Thus a person who believes s/he is a dog might be considered an instrumentally rational person as long as the person acts in accordance with the held beliefs and desires. By being instrumentally rational one might get what one wants, but one needs to be sure what one really wants. Evaluation of beliefs, desires and their consistency has to be done to be a rational person. Consider a typical 80s Bollywood movie where a character is so much after riches that he loses all his near and dear ones in that process and ends up alone and unhappy. What went wrong? S/He went after money, but actually wanted money and love. Instrumental rationality failed because of incorrect goals.
But once goals are properly decided, the playground for instrumental rationality opens up. Defining goals is only half the job, achieving them in an optimal fashion is the interesting bit, which is what instrumental rationality is about. Cultivation of instrumental rationality thus becomes important.
Why is Instrumental Rationality needed?
Humans are not ‘wired’ for instrumental rationality. We do not tend to track our progress and that is why most things get done at the 11th hour. We suffer from huge confirmation bias and do not systematically evaluate all options. We involve in probability matching resulting in sub-optimal gains. We also tend to conform to our group and succumb to peer pressure. To all this add the distractions gifted by modern technology and we have a being that is largely limited in instrumental rationality. To overcome all these shortcomings a deliberate and conscious effort towards imbibing instrumental rationality is needed. We need to constantly check whether our actions are instrumental. “Am I inculcating right habits and unlearning the wrong ones?” “Am I undergoing relevant skill acquisition?” “Am I sure about what I want?” “Is this an efficient way to achieve that?” We need to constantly ask such questions and seek answers for them. We have to be aware of our deficiencies and work on them. The irony is that the concept of instrumental rationality sounds extremely obvious, but we find it hard to be instrumentally rational. Our dysrationalia is that acute and instrumental rationality that essential.
The graphic shows a sprightly person with a briefcase ascending a staircase with steps labeled 'Define goals', 'Naturalism', 'Discipline' etc., leaving behind steps with labels like 'Tomorrow' and 'Procrastination'.
Design : Bala Bhaskar
Instrumental Rationality and Naturalism
Naturalism, a perspective that humans are fully caused beings, has interesting insights to offer with respect to instrumental rationality. Naturalism rids us of our belief in a ‘supernatural soul’. Naturalists can no longer rely on some contra-causal free-will that they can exercise and behave differently under exactly same circumstances. It leads to a raised awareness of the critical role that our environment plays in governing our actions. Being conscious about this fact and incorporating it in the belief system can significantly improve our chances of achieving our goals.
I would like to present to freethinkers an interesting personal revelation about effect of naturalistic perspective on rational thinking ability. I claim that rational analysis is useful only at the right time and right place, and it is not always a good idea to think. This would sound against tenets of freethinking, but its not so. We rarely bypass thinking process and act solely on emotions, but we need to accept the fact that emotions can tamper our process of thinking. Humans crave to rationalize their actions, and thinking at the wrong time can lead to pseudo-rationalizations. The reason people mostly fail at resisting temptations or tackling procrastination is seldom because some chemical process overpowered the conscious brain rendering a person as just plain emotional being. It is mostly because even the thinking brain starts rationalizing in favor of a temptation or procrastination.
A weight loss plan gets ruined because the rational brain starts shouting “how bad can a scoop of ice cream be” or “don’t I deserve to indulge myself” or “we live just once” or “just this time” or “what harm can biscuits do.” These pseudo-rationalizations are bound to happen when certain emotions get triggered. The best way to tackle such a problem is to not rely on thinking on such occasions, but rather adhering to a discipline. The thinking part should be done when brain is free for rational reflection. Once the plan has been drawn, sticking to the pre-deliberated decision with discipline is the best bet at success. At a restaurant pick the already known healthy dish without looking at the rest of the menu. Plan your grocery shopping in advance when you don’t have chips and fries right in front of your eyes. Plan your meals upfront, do not decide them on the table at the last minute. By not thinking when one is surrounded with temptations and distractions, there is lesser likelihood of giving in to pseudo-rationalizations. Thinking might be second nature to freethinkers, but using it when one really can and controlling it when one can’t is being instrumentally rational.
About the author
Kanad Kanhere
I am an Electronics Engineer working in the Semiconductor industry. I am interested in Physics, Philosophy and Freethought.
• A very precise and accurate analysis of the problem. “The reason people mostly fail at resisting temptations or tackling procrastination is seldom because some chemical process overpowered the conscious brain rendering a person as just plain emotional being. It is mostly because even the thinking brain starts rationalizing in favor of a temptation or procrastination.” Exactly so!
May I take the liberty of adding in a lighter vein that the ‘thinking brain’ can be really clever and devious on occasion, when it wants to outwit instrumental rationality? When one by-passes (by careful prior planning of the route) the racks displaying chips and fries in a supermarket or food store, and looks forward to commendation by the higher authority for having successfully avoiding temptation, the ‘thinking brain’ invokes quantum teleportation to have these undesirable entities tunnel through intervening shelves and aisles and land under the (approved) bags of oats and green vegetables on one’s cart. They lie there concealed and mysteriously get checked out at the counter before rationality can be exercised to detect and discard them…
• Lovely!
Been waiting for such topics to be discussed over our blogs since a long time, hopefully many more such articles will follow 🙂
Too bad this topic is so often hijacked by quacks and woo-peddlers(not my words, links to youtube channel of chaser’s war on everything, don’t sue me 🙂 .
I really want to know if there are any productive people who know fairly well why they are productive who have consciously worked to change themselves and have been fairly successful
In real life, I have seen people share some secrets right out of some silly self-help books, which do not and obviously cannot apply to anyone, and given how inaccurate they are about several facts, I wonder if they work even for the speakers themselves mostly because if they did, they should also work for speaker in other domains similar to the one they are good at, someone who is good at resisting hunger binges should also be able to resist gaming binges and vice-versa if their technique helps in resisting temptations as they claim.
Or perhaps their success is a result of some habit they acquired in childhhod, good parenting/ environment/schedule which they can’t reproduce.
Glad to see that we are finally taking the naturalist approach, and looking forward to a lot more articles in the future
Though again, what bugs me is, I do make the choices,but knowing what choice I should be making does not help much, even when I know that I should not be thinking much , I do, thought it is important that we know it, just like it is important that we know that we are fully caused, knowing that I should not be rationalizing has not helped me any more than knowing that I should not be trying to beat swarm control, moreover, it is not the case I am able to fool myself very well, there is always a part of me that keeps shouting in muffled voice, you know very well that you will not be studying even after finishing the game, you know very well you will not be able to finish this chapter in 2 hours, you know very well you will not be logging off facebook right after posting that.
In my long struggle against self, I have never stood strong for long, and I have moved on to trying to cheat myself than beat myself, if we are fully caused beings, we can cause something that we do not find difficult to do but at the same time, that does not take much effort but will ricochet back at me when I am at my vulnerable self.
Pretty similar to what you suggested, choose the first healthy dish, plan grocery in advance, though again, as V. bala’s comment jokishly tells us, even then sometimes,we do end up choosing the unhealthy dish, because not just are we not wired well, but ironically yes “The universe conspired to feed me chips” , smart marketing on part of supermarkets who put those attractive chips at the right places, sometimes right at the counter.
I have tried up a few hacks but there has not been much success, something that did work was when I woke up , and mostly pee and return back to the bed, I started putting my sports shoes and wear on the bed( I don’t really mind putting shoes on the bed and my parents are not around in my hostel to scold me 😀 )
Yes removing the shoes is easy, but still their mere sight and wee bit of effort to remove them tweaks the parameters in my favor to resist sleeping when I return after relaxing myself, to push this further I put those shoes blocking the door at the night, If I have to remove them, I might well put them on the bed.
Obviously it would not work for many others, and obviously it fails for me in my bad days, but if universe can conspire to fail us, it should also conspire to help us, the longest I had held onto exercising schedule was when I had a friend who I could jogging with, together and when shit really hits the top, I get myself banned from MMOs, or get my friends to kick me out of wi-fi.
It was much easier to get myself to study when I had my parents and teachers scolding me into it, we grow old and learn to have a better control of ourselves and learn better ways to handle the situation, but even in adult life friends play a major role, too bad company in hostel isn’t actually motivating, more so when praying is considered to have an casual effect on results or when I am constantly asked to spoke pot and not take life so seriously, though nirmukta community has been very helpful including the author 😉
So yes, kanad I’d be getting back to my stuff now 🙂
Though sometimes I wonder if we should have a community of such sort, of naturalist friends, who push each other and discuss hacks, I thought less wrong could give me that but didn’t work.
Though just the last thing, I do think, or perhaps I just hope that rationalists do have an advantage in the game, it might be much use, rationalizing at that moment even if we could easily stop us from doing it, it does help analysing when we are away, as this article by tom clark on a similar topic, he suggests, we can analyse the causes and influencing factors rationally and scientifically, and work at the opportunities of intervention, what he calls BDSB( belief, desire, situation and behavior), if not anything else we can atleast work on finding better and more credible sources of knowledge(fiber, salt sugar etc.) ref: this nirmukta article and NN’s comments.
And if we are good at refuting pseudoscience , we must also be good at refuting our excuses, they might have an advantage when they are in the head, with all the temptations helping them but let’s see how they fare when we put them on paper, I haven’t tried this and would ask anyone if they have, about their experience but the theory of Cognitive behavior therapy suggests that writing down your irrational thoughts and then refuting them rationally , practicing this periodically is supposed to help, will tell you if it worked 😀
And please share your experiences, everyone.
• Lalit,
We cannot undermine the importance of knowledge of our deficiencies for modifying actions. It can be a contributory cause ( Although its also important that Knowledge won’t be a sufficient condition. Its just another variable in the equation and as correctly pointed out, brain might figure out ways to circumvent that as well. But knowledge is unlikely to worsen the situation. So its instrumentally rational to want the knowledge 🙂
The part about analyzing rationally, when away, is extremely critical although I haven’t brought it out in my article. Rational analysis is utmost for devising a good plan. Its only at times when thinking abilities are compromised, the discipline should be invoked.
• When I analyse, I realize that I indulge often in procrastination but I rationalize by saying that it was because I was busy doing something equally important or more interesting. 🙂
The author’s suggestion “The thinking part should be done when brain is free for rational reflection. Once the plan has been drawn, sticking to the pre-deliberated decision with discipline is the best bet at success” sounds good.
Will try that and tell you if I have become instrumentally rational. 🙂
• The last paragraph is very good. Being a chronic procrastinator I would like to add this: Sticking to the pre-deliberated decision also fails after a while. The brain reasons you out of it. Only thing that works is pressure from parents, seniors or friends who can jolt you out of the falsehood that everything can wait.
• A third party perspective always helps a lot. Humans do show tendencies to get set in their ways and not change even post all the analysis. That is the very reason why to the questions like “Why do you do pooja?”, the answers are on the lines “Whats the harm?”. They indicate that we have some kind of law of inertia with our behavior and need impetus for any kind of change.
• No, you don’t "make friends" with someone who can get you a What kind of friendship would that be? But you can ask around in the group of friends you already have for tips on jobs they’ve heard about in their I know many people, including myself, who found good jobs like
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Factors to Consider When Renovating
Extra space and comfort are added when you renovate your existing house without additional cost associated with selling and buying a home. However, renovation is not an easy process as it requires a lot of research as far as materials and cost are concerned. You can visit this page to learn more about renovations. If you fail to carry out research, you might increase the cost of renovation beyond your expectation. Thus, there are several factors to consider when doing the renovation.
Develop a Plan
renovated living roomBefore you undertake the project, you should consider the type of additions needed. For example, are you planning to renovate the whole house or just an addition? After determining the need for additions, you should specify the scale or scope of the project. You should have a detailed work plan that ensures all contingency measures are put in place. The good thing about planning is that it ensures your project faces minimal crisis and setbacks. Thus, you can carry out hassle-free renovation.
Project Financing
Unless you have adequate savings, you will need to know how to finance your project. This is necessary to ensure that it does not stall mid-way because of lack of money. For example, it is quite expensive to renovate a floor. Thus, you need to consult interior designers to get an estimate of the renovation cost.
Hire Professionals
After coming up with a plan and how to finance the project, you should find professionals to help you execute the project. When you work with professionals, you ensure there is a minimal waste of materials. Moreover, project timelines are met. Also, there are certain renovations you cannot do. In such a case, you need to hire people who have the necessary skills. Thus, you can get the value for money since the professionals have the expertise needed to complete the project.
Obtain Permits
paintingBefore you start renovating or building, you should find the permits needed to initiate the renovations. The local governments have set requirements for homeowners to get the permits before any particular renovation or construction is done. In addition, having a permit ensures that renovations or construction work is within the legal requirements.
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
If you live in Seattle the ability to appreciate the rain sure is convenient…
The session started fine. My client came in, we talked, she lay down on the table and waited for me to place my hands on her. I took a few deep breaths and waited for the usual sense of quiet focus to come. Instead I felt twitchy and ungrounded. Searching for something to help me center, I noticed it was still pouring outside. The roof/ceiling in my office is flat and not-insulated. We could hear the rain perfectly. I closed my eyes and immersed myself in the sound of the rain. I felt the water gently falling and flowing on me, then running down through me like a river, running deep into the earth to ground me. Grateful to be able to center, grateful for the rain and my steady breath, I rested my hands on her shins and began.
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Travel is more than just a chance to get a change of scenery and take a break from everyday life. At the macro level, it’s a critical economic driver, especially for destinations that depend on tourism. Travelers in 2019 spent $1.1 trillion in the U.S., generating some $2.6 trillion in economic output, according to the U.S. Travel Association. The organization estimates that each American household would shell out almost $1,400 more in taxes if the country lacked the tax revenue that comes from travel and tourism.
Americans took 1.9 billion trips for leisure in 2019. But in 2020, that number could look very different. COVID-19 has had a huge impact on tourism across the country. Thousands of flights have been canceled by U.S.-based airlines. Tourist attractions, like Disney World, Broadway shows, The Alamo, the Statue of Liberty, Smithsonian museums, and the Santa Monica Pier, have closed—sometimes with no scheduled reopening date. And even if there were places to visit safely, Americans may not have the financial means to travel after the financial blow they’ve taken from the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
Some states are being hit harder than others by COVID-19’s impact on tourism. Stacker used WalletHub’s “States Hit Hardest by COVID-19’s Impact on Tourism” study, published on April 14, 2020, to compile a list of the states most affected by the lack of travel and tourism due to COVID-19. The states are ranked by their total WalletHub score, which evaluated the states based on 10 different metrics across two categories: dependency on travel and the tourism industry and aggressiveness against coronavirus. | <urn:uuid:83e6368a-85bf-4849-8c6d-d94060ed75aa> | https://1039thebreezealbany.com/see-states-ranked-by-covid-19s-impact-on-tourism/ | en | 0.954233 | 0.073851 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Earth photographed from space. Click to enlarge image
This image is made from multiple photographs and data to construct the best approximation of what earth looks like from outer space. Most of the data came from MODIS on a satellite 700km above the surface. Taken Feb 8 2002. Image: NASA compsite
We have undergone change since our species first evolved. Some changes were universal whereas others were more regional in effect. The changes apparent in worldwide populations include a decrease in both overall body size and brain size as well as a reduction in jaw and tooth proportions. Regional populations have also evolved different physical and genetic characteristics in response to varying climates and lifestyles.
Smaller bodies
We are now generally shorter, lighter and smaller boned than our ancestors were 100,000 years ago. The decrease has been gradual but has been most noticeable in the last 10,000 years. However, there has been some slight reversal to this trend in the last few centuries as the average height has started to increase.
The factors that affect body size are complex. They involve interactions between genetics, environment and lifestyle practices such as diet and technology.
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Average height of Homo sapiens over the last 40,000 years
This information is based on the average heights of European males because better statistics exist for this population, but the general trend is worldwide.
• 40,000 years ago: European males – 183 cm (6 feet). Cro-Magnon people were the first modern humans (Homo sapiens) to inhabit Europe. These hunter-gatherers lived a physically demanding lifestyle that would have required greater body strength than the average human today. Their recent African ancestry may have also affected their height, as tall, long-limbed builds are useful adaptations to the warmer African climate.
• 10,000 years ago: European males – 162.5cm (5 ft 4 inches). A dramatic reduction in the size of humans occurred at this time. Many scientists think that this reduction was influenced by global climatic change and the adoption of agriculture. Agricultural communities suffered from malnutrition as a result of failed crops and a more restricted diet. Furthermore, a close association with domestic livestock introduced new diseases into human populations.
• 600 years ago: European males – 165 cm (5 ft 5 inches). Poor diet and health were the main causes for the shorter stature at this time.
• Today: European males – 175 cm (5ft 9 inches). There has been an increase in height over the last few hundred years. In part, this increase is due to improved diet and health care. There may also be a genetic link as industrial expansion and urbanisation has brought together genetically isolated people and reduced the impacts of inbreeding due to a greater mixing of populations and their genes.
Smaller brains
For the last two million years there has been a trend toward a bigger brain that has affected many species in our family tree. This trend has seen a reversal in our own species and our brains are now the smallest they have been at any time in the past 100,000 years. Most of this decrease occurred in the last 6,000 years. In part, this is related to a decrease in body size that also occurred during this period, however, other factors are probably also involved.
Our brains now average about 100-150 cubic centimetres less than when our species first appeared.
• 100,000 years ago: average brain size: 1500cc
• 12,000 years ago: average brain size: 1450cc
• Today: average brain size: 1350cc
Smaller teeth and jaws
The trend toward smaller jaws and teeth that was seen in our ancestors has continued in our own species. In fact, some people today do not have enough space in their jaws to fit their 3rd molars or wisdom teeth.
Overall, these changes have occurred in proportion with a decrease in body size. However, over the last 10,000 years dietary changes and technology have played a major role.
A decrease in size has occurred in the jaws and teeth of Homo sapiensover the last 30,000 years. However, there has been a very slight reversal in this trend in the last century as teeth have increased in size. This is partly related to the introduction of fluoride, which thickens dental enamel, so making teeth a little larger.
Developing physical diversity: All one species but looking different
Humans today show an enormous diversity in appearance, however this diversity was not apparent in early Homo sapiens. Early members of our species lived in Africa and had evolved physical characteristics that were similar to each other in order to survive in that climate. When humans started to spread to different parts of the world about 100,000 years ago, they encountered a variety of different climatic conditions and evolved new physical adaptations more suitable to those new climates.
Recent DNA studies (since 2007) confirm that genetic traits have changed or adapted to new environments during this time. In fact, the rate of change of DNA, and thus the rate of evolution, has accelerated in the last 40,000 years. Areas of the human genome still seem to be undergoing selection for things such as disease and skin colour.
Physical characteristics such as skin and eye colour, hair type and colour and body shape are determined by genetics, but can also be influenced by the environment. Over long periods of time, the environment will act on the genes to develop particular characteristics within a population.
All one species – how climate affects physical characteristics
• Body builds: Short, stocky builds are typical of humans living in cold climates. The reduced surface area compared to weight allows more body heat to be retained. A thin, long-limbed build is typical of humans in hot regions. The larger skin surface compared to weight allows for body heat to be lost more easily.
• Skin colour: Lighter skin allows the penetration of the sun’s UV rays. These rays help the body to synthesise vitamin D. Darker skin protects the body from absorbing too many UV rays. This can cause cancer or destroy important vitamins and minerals.
• Noses: People living in hot, humid climates tend to have broad, flat noses that allow inhaled air to be moistened and the moisture in exhaled air to be retained. People living in hot, dry climates typically have narrowed, projecting noses. This type of nose reduces the amount of water that is lost from the lungs during breathing. People living in cold, dry climates generally have smaller, longer and narrower noses. This type of nose moistens and warms the incoming air.
• Hair: Tight, curly hair keeps the hair off the neck and exposes more areas of the scalp than straight hair. This helps with cooling and evaporation of sweat. Straight hair is common in people living in colder climates as it keeps the neck and head warm. Straight hair also allows cold moisture to run off the scalp more easily.
• Face shape: Inuits have adapted to extreme cold by retaining layers of fat on their faces for additional warmth. Populations in northern Asia and the Arctic tend to have broad, flat faces as these reduce the effects of frostbite.
• Mouth shape: Thick lips have a larger surface area to help evaporate moisture and cool the body. The larger surface also allows cooling by moistening of the lips.
• Eyes: The epicanthic fold common among Northern and Eastern Asian populations is an adaptation for protecting the eye from the hard driving snow typical in these regions, and also to reduce snow glare. Blue eyes are better adapted for vision in regions where there is reduced light, as they let in more light than darker coloured eyes.
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1. I think it is really cool and interesting that you literally landed at Ellis Island. How old were you? Where did you and your family come from? Any interesting stories/memories you want to share about the experience? As far as being frugal, I'm not sure how it happened (my sister is quite different than me). As a young child I remember playing video games that would inevitably give me some awesome resource (powerful gun, healing potion, whatever). I wouldn't use the resource because at some point in the future I might really need it. I'd always get to the end of the game without using it despite having unnecessarily struggled through a few of the levels. As far as I can remember that attitude has always been with me but I don't plan to get to death without using my retirement savings :) ...I do remember during college shedding some tears of frustration because I couldn't afford to go to the dentist and for a time I had to beg for food from students who had the meal plan. That certainly played a role in my intense desire for financial independence. I applaud Virginia, I didn't know about that. Steve, I'll look into Google Analytics. I tried to use Google Search Console but it doesn't seem to tell me much. Wordpress does give me some useful info though.
2. Tony, I agree completely about wishing people would learn more about financial matters. We start off by not providing any financial education to our kids in public schools and then we make financial discussions taboo (I hypothesize it's because we tie a person's worth to their wealth). That is a vicious combo that I frankly don't blame people for not overcoming. ...plus in my family nobody really had money so there was nothing to discuss even if it weren't taboo. Steve, thanks! I've seen some traffic coming from Facebook that I think came from you.
3. I was under the impression that a 10% bond holding increases risk-adjusted returns. I haven't read Bernstein but I do love a quote that I believe is attributed to him, "Act as if every broker, insurance salesman, mutual fund salesman and financial advisor you encounter is a hardened criminal."
4. I like the argument that bonds can prevent people from freaking out and committing behavioral errors, which are the biggest dangers out there. I hope people aren't buying bonds because they hope/think it might outperform.
5. If anybody has the time or interest to fact check me, I've put together a breakdown of the 5 best 403(b)/457(b) vendors offered in Florida. https://educatorsfightingforfairness.wordpress.com/floridas-best-403b-457b-vendors My website has gotten a few non-OCPS(FL) visitors and I'd like to provide them with a solid overview of what are probably their best options. I listed the total fees and funds to use for both a 3 fund portfolio and a 1 fund portfolio. If you're able to find any omissions or errors please let me know. Maybe I'm even missing an awesome vendor? I'll be reviewing it for the next few days before I actually link to it from my site. Thanks!
6. I am so happy to have played a role in you enrolling in Direct Invest. Congratulations! This effort has been a bit taxing and the mostly online/anonymous nature of it can be a bit isolating. So I am thrilled when people let me know that I've helped. It keeps me motivated, thank you! I hope you can spread the word to all of your co-workers! When I spoke to the head of our Retirement Services department she said something to express doubt that these plans are as bad as I've described them to be because supposedly I'm the only one who has complained. So it may make some small difference to let Retirement Services, Director of Risk Management, School Board, Chief Financial Officer, etc know how dissatisfied you are/were. If you ever feel the urge to push for systemic change then I'd be happy to help in any way possible. Just out of curiosity, do you want to share the state/district you're in?
7. Thanks, I missed that one. Sure would be nice if Fidelity gave you a few allocations to choose from. At least 85/15 is appropriate for most "young" people.
8. My 401k currently charges me 0.31% to buy domestic index funds (I max it out). My employer from 1.5 years ago charged me way more. I think it was more than 1% for a bond fund and even more for a stock fund. I didn't mind maxing it out to get 36k in tax advantaged space before quitting and rolling it over to a low cost IRA. Still, I did and continue to find the exploÌtation to be unacceptable. My wife and I ask just one question when selecting 401k/403b/457b funds. Of the diversified funds which has the lowest ER? Then we use our taxable and IRA to fill in the gaps. Some of the people who've been in this 403b/457b fight for a while probably roll their eyes a bit when I complain about a 0.35% fee. They've seen (and continue to see) fees as high as 4% so a 0.35% fee probably feels like success but I strongly prefer your stance. We shouldn't allow wildly unacceptable behavior (4% fee) to normalize unacceptable behavior (0.35% fee). If you decide to advocate you're always welcome to attend OCPS board and/or union meetings and make the case with me...or if I can gather enough teachers for meetings/workshops you're always invited. Although, I don't know the first thing about Florida Virtual School I'd be happy to help with anything on that front as well. This is what I've found about low cost vendors currently being used in various school districts in Florida... NEA DirectInvest3 fund portfolio costs about 0.07% plus $35/year (if under $50k). Their 1 fund option (target date) is very expensive, 1%+ territory. Fidelity3 fund portfolio costs about 0.06% plus $25/year (can't be waived?). Their 1 fund options (target date and fixed allocation) are expensive 0.53-0.78%. Vanguard3 fund portfolio can't use admiral shares so it probably doesn't make sense. Their 1 fund options (target date and fixed allocation) cost 0.12-0.16% plus $15/year for owning the 1 fund. ASPire3 fund portfolio costs about 0.21% plus $40/year (can't be waived?). Their 1 fund options (target date and life strategy funds) cost 0.27-0.31% plus the $40/year (can't be waived?). PlanMember Direct3 fund portfolio costs about 0.41%. Their 1 fund option (target date) is very expensive 1%+ territory.
9. Hi Jill, it sounds like you're maxing both so the order wouldn't matter. If that isn't the case then it sounds like you don't have access to a traditional IRA so I guess the question is if a Roth with low fees is better than a traditional with an extra 0.35% fee. I don't know the answer to that but I remember coming across a spreadsheet on bogleheads.org that somebody created to compare Roth to traditional. You may be able to find that and tweak the calculations to make the traditional slightly more expensive?
10. ...it still burns me up that EVERY adviser (retirement account or not) isn't required to be a fiduciary. Nearly everybody already thinks their adviser is required to act in their best interest. The whole thing is a racket.
11. So it sounds like states still have the ability to go down this road but not the requirement to do so? When I first read about this regulation I was puzzled. Why would tying an IRA to an employer help somebody? Don't they already have access to an IRA? I think the idea is, if your HR admin comes to you and asks if you want to enroll then you're much more likely to do so compared to the onus being entirely on you? I also have a vague memory of reading about some of these plans being less than ideal. I think one state (California?) wouldn't let employees invest in stocks. I think it would be ideal if by default your employer enrolled you in a target date fund with a Vanguard IRA and took contributions straight from your paycheck (opt-out obviously being an option).
12. Thanks Tony, "fire in your soul" is quite the compliment. I appreciate it.
13. Without having dived into the details, it looks like you're stuck with nothing but high cost options. Perhaps a more knowledgeable person will come along and quickly give you a definitive answer but... If I were you I'd gather data on every vendor, that means every fee and the name of every available fund. Their websites probably will hide this information. You'll probably have to do most of this over the phone. It'll probably take forever and be very frustrating. Then you can decide if the fees are so bad that you're better off investing in a taxable account instead (you're almost certainly better off maxing an IRA first). ...if you're so inclined you can lobby for reform as I am doing (it is an incredibly long road though).
14. If "Security Group" is the same thing as "Security Benefit Group" then they have a fantastic option called NEA DirectInvest. At least in Orange County, Fl you can build a fully diversified portfolio called the "3 Fund Portfolio" for rock bottom costs. I write about this option and the fees on my web site https://educatorsfightingforfairness.wordpress.com/best-ocps-403b. Plan Member Services has something called the "Direct Program". At least in Orange County, Fl you can build a fully diversified portfolio called he "3 Fund Portfolio" for rock bottom costs. Unfortunately, they add on a 0.35% fee. I consider this to be "expensive" but still FAR better than these other options that charge 2% or more! I write about this option and the fees on my web site https://educatorsfightingforfairness.wordpress.com/best-ocps-457b. I believe every other option you listed is no good. I have a particular dislike of AXA, which I wrote about here. I'm sorry you got caught up with them but I'm happy you're about to break free!
15. I wrote about the misplaced shame associated with investing in a bad 403b/457b (or any plan really). https://educatorsfightingforfairness.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/your-adviser-should-be-ashamed-not-you I want everybody to know there is nothing to be embarrassed about. We need to get this exploîtation out in the open and address it.
16. If this issue were happening to me it wouldn't just be about the (probably small) effect it has on my retirement. It would be more about the fact that some organization is potentially profiting off of me against my will and without even providing me a service.
17. I completely agree that savings rate should be everybody's #1 priority. But when you're already maxing out your 401k and investing 70% of your take home pay then it's time to dig into secondary issues. Either that or sell your home and move your family into the woods. Sadly my wife can't handle living with the mosquitoes in 90 degrees & 80% humidity :)
18. This quality isn't limited to educators. There is nothing more powerful than a personal, human connection. People need to be able to look you in the eyes, shake your hand, feel your pasion, and see your authenticity. You need to connect with their fundamental humanity and show that you care about their well being. I keep tying this back to politics and whatever you think about Trump or Bernie, they have the most loyal followers because they held massive rally after massive rally and reached out to people in the flesh. The internet is great for sharing information and cultivating a following but it has to start with a spark from grassroots, on the ground work. Maybe I'm a fool but I deeply believe that here in Orange County we're not limited by the number of people advocating. I genuinely believe we're limited by my (or others') ability to get in front of people and speak from the heart. If I were a school employee or if I could find a way to speak to these folks, I just know we'd build momentum. The message is a gift from god, greedy wall street types have rigged the system to steal from your retirement. They don't care that you're already underpaid or that you're doing some of the most noble work our society requires. They've stolen from me, they tried desperately to steal from my wife, they're targeting you, and we're going to put a stop to it once and for all! Enough is enough. It writes itself! ...sure we'll have to talk about expense ratios, sales loads, diversification, etc but we have to lead with a fundamental message of fairness. You've worked your butt off, played by the rules, and these greedy greedy people have crafted a plan to specifically take advantage of you. It isn't fair and we have the power to stop them! I'm fired up and if I can start getting in front of teachers then I won't stop until it is fixed. The biggest and most bitter disappointment for me were the unions. I wholeheartedly support the concept of organized labor because it is needed to balance the power. They have a sacred responsibility to help the people and to discover the role they've played in the 403b/457b issues has disgusted me.
19. We use Security Benefit's NEA DirectInvest and new contributions show up almost immediately. I haven't measured it exactly but 0-2 days? ...I'm apprehensively waiting for the bear market that causes each purchase to be worth less than a day or so earlier. So let's enjoy the record highs while they last!
20. That is interesting. Like you hear all the time in politics, the people need to get involved and take matters into their own hands. Educate each other about the best options. Call retirement services every single day and complain about the crappy options. Overwhelm the school board meetings. Change would happen overnight. I have been so underwhelmed by OCPS. I don't like to guess at motives but their actions demonstrate that helping the employee isn't a top priority. The woman in charge of Retirement Services told me she likes having the agents because they educate employees about the 403(b)/457(b) plans. Meanwhile she claims it would somehow be illegal for Retirement Services to help employees understand the plans...how ridiculous is it that Retirement Services won't tell you about the retirement plans!? In the best case scenario these folks simply don't care, want their job to be easy, and/or are afraid of vague legal threats the TPAs bring up. In the worst case scenario the whole thing is corrupt and the decision makers are in the pockets of these financial companies. Either way if we would just organize then we could fix the problem!!!
21. That is another great idea! I'm going to get to work on that in the morning. Thanks.
22. LibraryLady, I love what you're doing! Great job! I'm working on something similar down here in Florida and I'd love to learn from your experiences. If there are any lessons you'd like to share or advice you'd like to give, I'm all ears!
23. KFord, what I'm about to say is not meant as a personal attack on you but is meant as a general critique of the techniques you've used in this thread: 1. You're playing to people's fear...stock market crashes are scary and not having enough money for retirement is terrifying. 2, You're playing to people's greed...who wouldn't want to get more than the market returns? 3. You speak the "language" with confidence...the uninitiated will assume you know better than they do. 4. You reference authorities in the indusry (Buffett and Bogle) to borrow their credibility...yet reach conclusions in direct conflict with said authorities. 5. You never reveal what you'd actually do with all of your knowledge...so it is impossible to definitively assess you. These techniques are regularly used to manipulate and prey on people in all arenas of society/industry. I find it to be manipulative, deceitful, and I don't like it one bit.
24. You still haven't answered my questions but you sure typed a lot of words.
25. Can you cut through all of the noise for everybody and just tells us what you're doing with this information? Have you changed your portfolio and if so how? You've repeated yourself a few times but what is the bottom line here? I want to hear actionable, concrete items from you rather than philosophical musings on the market in general, appeals to authority, and out of context quotes.
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What is the standard of care in intraoperative neuromonitoring cases?
07 Jul 2017
That’s a complex question. The term “standard of care” is used by medical malpractice attorneys in malpractice cases. The standard of care is typically defined as what other similarly trained attorneys in the same geographic area with about the same amount of experience would do in a particular situation.
Intraoperative neuromonitoring means monitoring the nervous system during certain surgical procedures to ensure that the body is responding as it is supposed to. In some intraoperative neuromonitoring cases, the monitoring is not correctly performed and the surgery goes poorly.
To determine whether or not medical malpractice has occurred, in most cases you look at the standard of care and compare it with what actually happened. Currently, there is no clear medical standard of care for intraoperative neuromonitoring or for when it should occur. Some surgeons who perform spinal surgeries use it in all of their cases, and some use it in only some surgeries. Some surgeons do not use it at all because of a belief that it does little to help with safety.
However, just because standards of care in intraoperative neuromonitoring do not exist or are still developing does not mean that you cannot seek compensation if you are harmed during a procedure involving intraoperative neuromonitoring. Call me, Conal Doyle, IONM attorney if you had a surgical procedure that was being monitored go wrong. My team can help. Call us today at 310-385-0567 to learn more. | <urn:uuid:4fc430b6-30db-454a-a888-2ba2c7402a84> | https://conaldoylelaw.com/standard-care-intraoperative-neuromonitoring-cases/ | en | 0.956486 | 0.159345 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Passover Seder: Why Next Year In Jerusalem? (70 Sec)
We finish the haggadah by saying Next Year in Jerusalem. We say this twice a year, but why is it not happening? Where’s Mashiach and the redemption? Some say that it’s because we say “Next Year!” Why not Now? Perhaps we are delaying it, by saying “NEXT YEAR”? Rabbi Pessin shares a beautiful insight into what exactly we mean by Hashana Habah BYerushalyim.
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Is there any IRC client that's compliant with elementary's human interface guidelines? If not, is anyone trying to build one?
Note that I'm asking for an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, not a general purpose chat client that supports 10+ chat services.
A good suggestion is probably the IRC client Relay currently in development by agronick and specifically aimed at elementary OS.
You can install it with:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:agronick/relay
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install relay
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Is there one? Maybe, I'll get to that after the second part. Is anyone trying to build one?
Yes - from Reddit.
Tom Beckmann is working on a chat plugin for Gala.
Here's a mockup by Daniel Fore. http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/Chat-Bubbles-405110826
Here's the code for it https://code.launchpad.net/~tombeckmann/gala/plugin-chat Still in early development.
The mockup:
Does one exist? Well, here's the code for that one.
I don't have time to read the Human Interface Guidelines, but from those mockups I'd say Google Hangouts is similar with the floating bubbles:
Here is a newer post.
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• I wonder: Why and how is that a Gala plugin and not just a "normal" app? And is the project actually still active and usable? – quassy Jul 5 '15 at 0:12
• @quassy The reason for it being a Gala plugin was to have a smoother interaction with notifications. As in, these bubbles can easily re-arrange or dodge. However, now that we're introducing the notifications indicator, we have a lot to consider as far as changing notifications behaviors – Daniel Foré Jul 5 '15 at 1:18
• I think you mean FB Messenger? Google Hangouts does not have floating bubbles. P.S. WRT answer quality - this answer doesn't say whether this fits the HIG or not. Maybe someone can confirm? – RolandiXor Jul 5 '15 at 3:46
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@RolandiXor No hangouts is now floating: pocketables.com/images/2014/10/… – user3 Jul 5 '15 at 9:22
• @Tim is that on ChromeOS/Chrome only? I don't see that anywhere. – RolandiXor Jul 6 '15 at 1:02
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The Power of Protest: Part I
As the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sparks mass protests around the world, Critical State’s next two editions of Deep Dive focus on recent research about protest movements and their capacity to produce durable change.
A new article in the American Political Science Review looks at the effect of black-led civil rights protests in the 1960s on voting patterns.
Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow offers a model for thinking about how protest movements make electoral progress through what he calls “agenda seeding.” Wasow posits that protests allow groups that normally have little power to determine what the country cares about, either in politics or in news coverage, to gain temporary control over the agenda. This power grows when violence breaks out, although the effects change depending on who is seen as primarily responsible for the violence.
Mass understanding of protest is typically mediated through what news organizations decide to cover and how they decide to cover it.
Even when protests are widespread, few people experience them directly. Instead, mass understanding of protest is typically mediated through what news organizations decide to cover and how they decide to cover it. In order to test his theory that agenda-seeding exists and drives voting behavior, Wasow first had to test that protests — and not civil rights-oriented political campaigns — were actually the main drivers of civil rights news coverage in the 1960s. Drawing from a large database of newspaper articles and polling data, Wasow found that both news headlines and the percentage of the public rating civil rights as the country’s most important problem are much more closely correlated to levels of protest participation than to presidential elections. This suggests that it really is grassroots movements — not elite discourse — that put civil rights on the national agenda in the 1960s.
Wasow also found that violence at the protests, whether by police or protesters, made news coverage much more likely. A protest in which both police and protesters engaged in violence would receive almost three times as much coverage in the New York Times on average than a protest that was non-violent on both sides. Those articles also tend to be longer, doubling in average length depending on whether the protests became violent.
With the role of protest in setting the agenda established, Wasow tried to measure what forms of protest moved the needle in major national elections. He looked at county-level vote share in presidential elections in 1964, 1968, and 1972, and sorted counties by their proximity to protests — one way of measuring their likelihood to experience protests through local media. In counties that were over 90% white — that is, where direct political organizing as a result of civil rights protests was unlikely — Wasow found that being next to a county that had a non-violent civil rights protest increased vote share for Democratic presidential candidates an average of 1.6%.
However, when the protests were violent, regardless of police response, white voters responded differently. When neighboring counties experienced violent protests, 90% white counties actually saw roughly 2% dips in Democratic presidential vote share. The same violence that drove press coverage also cut voter support once white voters heard about it, largely through white-run news organizations.
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The Most Advanced Billboard Ever!
Making its way around the virality of nearly every social network lately, is this very cool billboard that IKEA put up in Stockholm. The billboard has 3 different messages on the same panel, but it is lit by 3 different colored bulbs. When the red bulbs are lit, it displays one message, when the blue bulbs are lit, it displays a different message and then again when the green bulbs are lit, a 3rd unique message is seen. The core message of the billboard is about making good use of limited space. It’s an ad for IKEA, makes perfect sense and it’s cool enough that it is getting it’s intended viral resonance as well. Now, the technology we’re talking about here isn’t new; in fact, it’s as old as light itself, but the way they used it is interesting. On the heels of that story, there was a free-standing board advertisement on a subway platform that used sensors detecting sound from an approaching subway train, and when the train pulled up the video on the board had a woman’s hair blowing from the wind generated by that train. A little more advanced, still pretty cool. Technology is moving forward so fast and finding so many applications, and it is fascinating to see, but I still want more!
I want this; A billboard fitted with a telescopic camera that can see into the cars driving past, recognize the face in that car, search a database of social media profiles, web history, and online shopping patterns, and show an ad to that person that fits their lifestyle. If you’re a home remodeling company, you have no interest in renters as an ad audience, homeowners are all that is important to you.
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3 Reasons Why Weird Baby Names are OK
About unusual baby names.
A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled The Ultimate List of Alternative Baby Names. The post is very popular and has been pinned on Pinterest several thousand times. But due to some profanity laden negative feedback I kept receiving, I disabled the comment section on the post. Someone even commented, "That's the kind of sh*t you should name a dog. Not a child. If you name a kid that - that's child abuse."
Many people feel some of the names on the list are outrageous and that's ok. They're entitled to feel however they want, but what they shouldn't do is judge any parent for giving their child an unusual name. Why should you have negative feelings towards someone who named their child something you don't like? How does it affect you? Is it your child? Nope.
But some people claim their disdain for the name is out of concern for the child's well-being stating: "The child will be bullied. The child will resent their parents later in life. Their parents are irresponsible and cruel."
Even I'll admit with my quirky self that I feel some names are too much - such as Jermaine Jackson's naming his son Jermajesty, and Dweezil, son of Frank Zappa.
But you know what? Those aren't my children. I wasn't present during their baby naming process and I don't know why they chose those names. But what I do know is no loving parent intentionally names their child something weird so that they will be bullied later in life.
If you're trying to gain a better understanding into what's up with the odd names these days or if you're wanting to find the courage to give your child a unique name you like, here are three very simple reasons why "weird names" are ok.
1. Kids will make fun of ANY name.
I know many parents shy away from unusual names for their children because they fear they're setting their child up to be bullied: "Kids will make fun of my child because their name sounds like..." or "Because it rhymes with... So, I better stick with something more normal."
My name is Hollie and children used that to pick on me. They called me Hollie Pocket and Hollie Wanna Cracker. Yeah, those weren't very good nicknames but kids used those names to taunt me daily. As a child those nicknames hurt my feelings, not because the names were mean, but because the children were purposefully trying to hurt me, and that in and of itself is enough to bring a child down.
My sister's name is Jessica and growing up, kids called her "Jessicurl" because she had a Jheri curl. My mom was a hairdresser and gave my sister that Jheri curl - she didn't ask for that hairstyle but the kids in the neighborhood didn't care and showed no mercy. They took a perfectly normal name and turned it into a weapon to use against her. Once again, the nickname was lame, but how would you like to be followed and heckled all day with a stupid alteration of your own name?
So, instead of discouraging parents from giving their children unusual names, how about we teach our children to not make fun of children for having unusual names? Or even better - let's all teach our children to not make fun of anyone - period.
No bullying!
2. All names were invented.
All names came from someone making up something so who are we to decide what's normal and what's not? Even the most common and "normal" names like John, Mary, and James came from the top of someone's head. Those names didn't just magically fall from the sky. They were created by someone.
The point is: Just because it's a new and made up name doesn't mean it's weird - it's just new and different.
3. What's up with the double standards?
Why is it ok to name a girl Rose, Jasmine, or Lily but not Sunflower or Marigold? Why is Star an acceptable name but not Comet? Joy is a cute name, so what makes Happy so bizarre? Cherry, Basil, and Clementine are acceptable but Apple is not? Robin and Raven aren't uncommon so what's wrong with Falcon or Eagle? I think I've asked enough of those to make my point on this one.
My advice to anyone desiring to name their child something offbeat is don't be impulsive. Make sure the name is genuine and not weird for the sake of being weird. Don't let your child's name be a reflection of your sense of humor - your kid should never be the butt of your own joke. Think long and hard about the name your child will go by for the rest of their lives and don't fight them if they wish to go by something else. You're not in competition with anyone to create the weirdest baby name (like I'm sure they're doing in Hollywood) but if the name Audio Science or Banjo truly makes your heart sing, then by all means - go for it. It's your child.
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Keep kids warm, healthy and safe! Tips to protect your children in winters
Published: January 13, 2020 2:04 PM
Whether you’re out and about with your little one braving the elements, or getting cozy at home, don’t let cold-weather play a spoil-sport. Here are some tips to keep your kids protected this winter season.
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By Meenal Arora
The winter season is in full swing. The cold weather can take a toll on your children’s health as their immunity is at its lowest during this time of the year. Whether you’re out and about with your little one braving the elements, or getting cozy at home, don’t let cold-weather play a spoil-sport. Here are some tips to keep your kids protected this winter season.
It all begins with the wardrobe: Layer your kids!
As your little ones get ready for school, bundle them up in appropriate clothing to shield them from the biting cold outside. Dress them in breathable lightweight winter wear and not in bulky clothes. Go for a cotton under-layer over which you can add a woolen sweater or a warm jacket.
Always make sure to dress up your children in layers when sending them off to school, so that they can take off just the upper layer when they feel a bit hot. It’s better if the outer jacket has a zipper so that the child can easily remove it.
Mittens can be used to protect the hands while a snuggly fitting cap over the hood of the jacket can be used to protect the head and ears from the cold.
Make your indoors safe and comfortable
Use a cold-air humidifier in your children’s room to add moisture to the inhaled air and prevent stuffy nose and nosebleeds. Saline nose drops can also be used to help keep their nose moist. Also, don’t forget to aerate their rooms. A closed warm room can attract more microbes than a room that has proper air inflow. You do not need to open all the windows and doors. You can just leave the windows and doors open for a few minutes when the sun is shining bright so that clean air can flow through the room. Sunlight is a natural disinfectant and should be allowed to let in your rooms.
Don’t forget to drink water in winters
Just because your children do not feel thirsty in this cold weather doesn’t mean their body is hydrated. With layers of clothing and turned on heaters, your children’s skin tends to lose its moisture and become chapped and dry.
Drinking adequate water is crucial to prevent winter dehydration. Water plays a vital role in regulating your children’s body temperature, help them stay energetic, and protect their immune system to fight back cold and flu. So, do ensure that they drink plenty of water throughout the day. Since these days water will be slightly on the colder side, make it lukewarm and keep it in a thermos flask for drinking.
Change bath time routine
In winters, children are prone to catch a cold while taking showers, and hence, bath times need to be briefer. You should not leave your kids in warm showers or hot water tubs for too long as it can rob their skin off its natural moisture. A shower should be preceded with a good oil massage and followed with dollops of moisturiser to ensure that your children have soft, supple and healthy skin that glows even during the harshest of winters.
Mustard oil, sesame oil, olive oil and almond oil are good options for massage during winters. Also milder versions of soap should be used for kids to prevent their skin from drying out. Baths should not be skipped as it can lead to infections and communicable diseases like cold, flu, pneumonia.
Indulge in outdoor sports, but with care
Ensure that your children are getting the required amount of daily workout. Winters do not mean that your kids need to spend the entire day indoors under the blanket. Just make them put on their winter gear and step out with them for regular exercises. But going outdoors during early morning hours should be strictly avoided.
The harmful smog and severely low temperatures during morning hours puts your children’s health at risk. You can go for afternoon game sessions with your children to help them stay active. Enhanced fitness will ensure that they develop the desired immunity to fight off the winter infections like flu and the common cold.
Keep their skin safe with sunscreen
Nothing beats the feeling of basking in the winter sun. Exposure to sun can fulfill 90% of your child’s vitamin D requirement. Although the sunshine in winters is enjoyable and good for your children’s overall health, it also contains the harmful UV rays. If you are going to expose them to the sun for a prolonged period of time, it may lead to sunburn and skin cancer in them. So make sure you do not forget to slather some sunscreen on their skin whenever they go outdoors.
Keep a watch on what they eat
Keeping a check on your children’s diet during winters is of utmost importance to strengthen their immune system. Whole grains like rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, oats etc. have a warming effect, and should be an integral part of their diet. You can combine these with powdered nuts and offer to your child in the form of halwas, laddoos or milk porridge.
Protein-rich lentils also help to retain the warmth of the body. Make it a point to include more garlic in their diet for its antiviral properties. Carrot, beetroot, sweet potatoes, radishes and other root vegetables, and leafy greens should be a regular in your child’s diet as they help build the immunity naturally. Fruits like pomegranates, apples and oranges are also great picks during winters.
Don’t let your child bulk up on junk food. A smarter choice would be low-sugar juices that are high in vitamin C, and which can lessen the severity of winter colds. Even a hot, comforting bowl of chicken soup really works well to prevent a cold and survive the coughing and sneezing season.
These are a few ideas to keep your kids warm, healthy and safe during winters. So enjoy the chill with your children, and have a happy winter!
The columnist is Founder Director, Shemford Group of Futuristic Schools. Views expressed are the author’s own.
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Reader in search of clear-cover planner
Reader Melissa emailed me with the following question:
1. Well, you could go Circa/Rollabind, and either buy or make your own clear cover. The link above resulted in a 404 for me, so I'm not sure if I'm clear on what you are looking for, but the Circa/Rollabind route can be very useful. I think Staples calls it "Arc". You can just buy the rings and then make your own covers, pages, etc. I've bought clear covers and pockets and dividers designed for regular 3-ring notebooks and then cut them to size and punched them before. This does require a punch, which can be kind of expensive. However... playing with Circa is fun too! (Circa is the Levenger name for Rollabind products). (No, I don't work for any of the above named companies.)
2. Sarah thanks for letting me know the link wasn't working, I have now fixed it. :)
3. I wonder if the clear cover idea would work for a weekly? I think it would be too thick, esp. during the May-Jun-July months to insert the pages into the cover. Otherwise, I think the clear cover is cool!
4. I vote for the Circa from Levenger as well. You can buy a starter Circa which you can customize to suit you. There is also a Levenger Outlet on eBay where you can find expensive items (like the Circa hole punch) for much less. Good Luck!
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Meet the Immigrants Who Took On Amazon
How a group of Somalis became leaders in the fight to change a tech behemoth.
Amazon workers holding protest signs
Hibaq Mohamed demonstrating outside of Amazon's MSP1 facility in Shakopee, Minnesota. Photograph: Jenn Ackerman
It was 11 days before Christmas in 2018, and Amazon’s warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, was operating at full tilt. At the rear of the facility, waves of semi trucks backed up to a long row of loading docks, some disgorging crates of new merchandise and others filling up with outbound packages. Inside the warehouse, within dark, cyclone-fenced enclosures, thousands of shelf-toting robots performed a mute ballet, ferrying towers of merchandise from one place to another. And throughout the cavernous interior, yellow bins brimming with customers’ orders zipped along more than 10 miles of conveyor belts, which clattered with a thunderous din.
Negotiating all the distances and tasks that fall between those pieces of machinery were the people. Like most of the 110-plus US facilities that Amazon calls fulfillment centers, the warehouse known as MSP1—named for its proximity to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport—employs more than a thousand workers, including hordes of temps brought in for the holidays. They power-walked (running was forbidden) across roughly 850,000 square feet of polished concrete, following green-taped paths on what amounted to a giant game of Pac-Man the size of 14 football fields.
Additional reporting by Saraswati Rathod.
Among them was William Stolz, 24, a lanky Wisconsinite who’d been at Amazon for a year and a half. As a “picker,” his job was to hover at the dim perimeter of a cyclone fence and retrieve customers’ orders from the robot-borne storage pods that came to his station. He would stoop, squat, or climb a small ladder to grab items and then rush to place them in one of the yellow bins that sped off to the packaging department. There, another crew of workers boxed orders, reportedly at a rate of 230 per hour, sending them off in cardboard cartons bearing the trademarked Amazon smile logo. Stolz says he and his fellow pickers were expected to fetch more than 300 items every 60 minutes. And, according to workers, Amazon’s inventory-tracking system closely monitored whether they were hitting their marks.
The pace that Amazon demanded was inhumane, Stolz thought. Many of his coworkers endured pain from leg, back, and shoulder injuries as they strained to hit their hourly rate—which was one of the many reasons Stolz had decided to walk off the job that afternoon, December 14, at precisely 4 o’clock.
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Photograph: Jessica Chou
Stolz and several coworkers had been planning the coordinated walkout for weeks, but now, as he counted down the minutes, he felt anxious and alone. “I was watching the clock at my station. You know, ‘3:57 … 3:58 …’” he recalls, “just getting really nervous.” His work station was relatively isolated, and he couldn’t see anyone else around him who planned to participate. He was momentarily gripped by the fear that he’d be the only one to go through with the plan.
Reminding himself that he’d made a commitment, Stolz summoned his courage; when the clock struck 4, he logged off his computer and headed for the stairwell. As he reached the ground floor, he felt a sense of relief. Trickling down the stairs after him he saw the familiar faces of other workers he’d been getting to know over the past several weeks as they had discussed what to do about conditions in the warehouse. Unlike him, most of his fellow strikers were Somali Muslim immigrants. Many of their faces were framed by hijabs.
Clocking out quietly, they walked through airport-style metal detectors, past private security guards. They stopped at their lockers to bundle up in heavy coats, gloves, and hats. “We gathered by the front doors for a few minutes,” Stolz recalls. “That way, if anybody was coming out late, they wouldn’t get scared.”
Stolz estimates that about 50 workers assembled before they streamed out into the bracing air. (Amazon says the number of workers who walked out that day was more like 15.) A cheer rose up from the far side of the warehouse parking lot, where a crowd of off-duty Amazon workers and local community allies—more than 200 by some estimates—had been watching the doors and waiting for them. They stood amid patches of crusted snow as the strikers crossed the asphalt to meet them. The protesters brandished signs that said, “Safe jobs now!” and “Respect the East African community.”
Stolz settled into a place at the edge of the crowd. He had joined friends at political protests before, but he’d never participated in anything like this. As American labor rallies go, this one offered a striking remix of the genre’s usual conventions. The organization presiding over the event was not a union but a fledgling organization called the Awood Center, whose motto was “Building East African Worker Power.” (Awood is the Somali word for power.) In the middle of the crowd was a portable PA system, and the first speaker received an ecstatic welcome: US representative Ilhan Omar, who had just weeks before become the first Somali American elected to Congress, promptly led the group in singing “Aan Isweheshano Walaalayaal” (“Let’s Get Together With Our Brothers and Sisters”), a classic Somali solidarity anthem.
Then the mic went to a young warehouse worker from Somalia named Khadra Kassim, who delivered a jibe about working for the richest man in the world. “It’s sad to see that the head of Amazon—God is the greatest, and God is above all of us—doesn’t know who his workers are, and what they are faced with,” she said to laughs from the crowd.
As the sun set, the protesters began marching toward the warehouse, back to the glass doors where Stolz and the other strikers had emerged, so that managers could hear them. As if on cue, several Shakopee Police Department patrol cars rolled up to intercept them, misery lights blazing. Flashes of red and blue strobed through the twilight, illuminating the marchers’ faces and picket signs. The officers called for backup. Squad cars arrived from five other towns—Bloomington, Burnsville, Eden Prairie, Jordan, and Savage—and the Scott County Sheriff’s Office. Within minutes, some 15 vehicles, including an ambulance, had converged on the scene. Armed with pepper spray, police formed a human barricade across the glass doors of the lobby.
The crowd started to dissipate when darkness fell. But not all the protesters went home. For several, it was time to start the night shift. Wending their way through the police barricade, they presented their Amazon badges in the lobby and disappeared through the turnstiles, back to the grind of robots and conveyor belts and Christmas.
All told, the walkout at MSP1 lasted less than two hours. Amazon characterizes it as a “small protest” rather than a strike, arguing that it had no appreciable impact on operations. But according to multiple labor experts, it marked the first coordinated strike at an Amazon warehouse in North America—and it wouldn’t be the last time that workers in Shakopee would set precedent. As the protesters cleared away from the police line, they chanted “Amazon, we’ll be back,” and they would soon make good on the promise.
In the 25 years since Amazon was founded, it has become the second-largest private employer in the United States. Over that time, the company has displayed an extraordinary knack for dictating its own terms to suppliers, local governments, and laborers. For years, the company has induced cities and states to compete to host Amazon facilities; it has managed to extract tax breaks, costly infrastructure upgrades, and valuable public data, even as it builds out a logistics network without which Amazon’s retail empire couldn’t function. What Amazon offers those communities in turn are jobs with competitive wages and benefits for full-time workers, and the expectation that workers—managers, pickers, or stowers—will do their part to uphold the company’s principles of “speed, innovation, and consumer obsession.” In presiding over that bargain, the company has enjoyed tremendous leverage over its US employees, terminating workers if they fail to meet their hourly productivity rates and going to great lengths to fend off labor organizers.
In recent years, however, Amazon’s leverage has weakened ever so slightly. With US unemployment nearing record lows, workers have become harder to find and to replace. And though opinion surveys suggest that Amazon remains one of the most highly regarded American companies, it has been caught in a riptide of public criticism over its enormous market power and its treatment of workers. Numerous stories have tracked the bodily impacts of the company’s devotion to speed: In 2018, accounts began coming out of the UK that Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles for fear of missing their required productivity rates. (Amazon disputed this account of its working conditions.) Then came stories that Amazon delivery drivers—who, according to ProPublica, are required to deliver 999 out of 1,000 packages on time—have been involved in scores of serious road accidents. (Amazon countered that “the vast percentage of deliveries” arrive without incident.) Donald Trump has frothed against the company’s effect on retailers on Twitter; US senator Elizabeth Warren has made breaking up Amazon a theme of her presidential campaign. In September of 2018, with Amazon in his sights, US senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to tax large corporations whose low-wage workers rely on government assistance. He called it the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies—or Stop Bezos—Act.
Last year, in a rare concession, Amazon raised the minimum wage for all of its US employees to $15 an hour. In a statement, Bezos said that Amazon’s leaders had “listened to our critics.” But critics keep lining up, some of them inside Amazon’s own buildings.
In many ways, MSP1 is just like the dozens of other Amazon fulfillment centers in the US. But it differs in at least one significant respect: At least 30 percent of its workers are East African. Many are Somali Muslims who have been in the country for only a few years. Some are refugees who survived years of civil war and displacement, only to face anti-immigrant sentiment and Islamophobia in their new home. This relatively small group—bound together by shared neighborhoods, mosques, cafés, and Somali shopping malls—has managed to pull off feats of organizing unmatched by workers at any other Amazon warehouse in America. The group has staged walkouts, brought management to the negotiating table twice, demanded concessions to accommodate Muslim religious practice, and commanded national attention—all without the clout of a traditional union. Of course, Amazon is still in a hugely dominant position; Somalis in Minneapolis sometimes compare it to a lion. So how did a two-year-old organization made up of immigrants become such a thorn in the lion’s paw?
Nimo Omar
Photograph: Jessica Chou
One of the most important people at the rally on December 14 was neither a politician nor an Amazon employee. Running operations behind the scenes alongside workers was a 23-year-old college student named Nimo Omar, who also helped cofound the Awood Center. The American-born daughter of East African refugees, Omar stands 5' 1". A devout Muslim, she wears a headscarf, black plastic-framed glasses, and a slender hoop in her nose. She speaks four languages—English, Somali, Oromo, and Amharic—and her favorite expression of approval is “dope.” At the Awood Center, people affectionately call her “the lioness.”
In the early 1990s, in the midst of the Somali Civil War, Omar’s parents, who had fled to Kenya as refugees, emigrated to Atlanta, Georgia. Not long afterward, the couple split up, and Omar’s teenaged mother found herself isolated with two small children in a sprawling Southern city with few Somalis. “She didn’t know English and had never driven across the country,” Omar says. “But she knew she had relatives in Minnesota.” So she bundled Omar and Omar’s older brother into their car seats for the 16-hour road trip north.
Somali refugees had been clustering in the Twin Cities since the ’90s, with each new migrant reinforcing the attraction for the next. Eventually, some 52,000 people who live in Minnesota would report Somali ancestry, the largest population in the US.
Omar’s family moved in with a cousin in Rochester, a city about an hour and a half south of Minneapolis. Omar’s father, meanwhile, began spending much of his time back in East Africa, eventually remarrying there. So in 2006, Omar and her brother temporarily moved to join him in an ethnically Somali region of Ethiopia.
Those years in Africa made Omar conscious of how many advantages she had relative to other Somalis. “I was a 10-year-old girl who grew up in this privileged country,” she says. During one trip, a relative who had recently given birth visited Omar’s father’s house, then lost the newborn to preventable illness; Omar watched her grief-stricken family wash the infant’s body, preparing it for a funeral. When she was 15, not long before she moved back to the US, Omar and her brother were detained by Ethiopian immigration agents who claimed they owed $3,000 in fees. Omar spent three nights sleeping on the concrete floor of a jail cell, sharing the space with around seven Somali women who’d been trying to make their way to France. What stuck with Omar, once her family had raised enough money to free her, was the women: how they’d told her about surviving without food or water in a series of detention centers, how curious they were about America—and again, how much privilege she had relative to them.
Life back in the States, meanwhile, would make her conscious of how little privilege she had relative to other Americans. By the time Omar returned, her mother had relocated to Las Vegas. There, Omar was the only girl who wore the hijab in her high school. White boys taunted her, threatened to trip her on the stairs, called her a terrorist, and asked her what she thought of Osama bin Laden. She remembers thinking, “I’m not a part of the fabric of this country.”
Omar was alienated but ambitious. During her senior year of high school, she moved back to Minneapolis, where she later enrolled in community college; by her sophomore year of college, she’d been elected president of the student senate. She also began getting involved with Black Lives Matter—just in time for the protest movement to swing its attention to the Twin Cities.
On November 15, 2015, police in Minneapolis shot and killed Jamar Clark, 24, an unarmed black man, after responding to a domestic violence call. Many witnesses claimed that Clark was already handcuffed when police shot him in the head. Police denied it and said he’d engaged them in a scuffle, during which Clark allegedly reached for one officer’s gun. Local Black Lives Matter activists took to social media, organizing a march to the city’s Fourth Precinct police station under the hashtag #justiceforjamar, which evolved into an open-ended occupation of the street outside the precinct, with tents and banners stretching down the block. Omar settled in for the long haul.
On the night of November 23, eight days in, Omar happened to be helping with security for the encampment when four masked men rolled up in a car. She approached one of them, a guy in red flannel, and asked him to leave. As other protesters helped her escort him away from the crowd, Omar heard what she mistook for fireworks. Another of the masked men had shot five protesters. Two of the victims—brothers she’d met earlier—were lying on the pavement near her, one shot in the leg, the other in the stomach. Omar and her friends rushed to use winter coats to stanch the blood. (None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, and the assailants were later arrested.) The attack was terrifying, but the protesters didn’t disband. Three days later, the occupiers celebrated “Blacksgiving” together, feasting on donated turkey and sweet potato pie, huddled around fire pits in the slushy drizzle. “That was the best Thanksgiving I ever had,” Omar said.
The ensuing year brought a string of disillusioning events for Omar: On the 18th day of the occupation, police used bulldozers to clear the encampment, and county authorities eventually declined to press charges against the officers involved in the Clark shooting, concluding that Clark was not handcuffed when he was shot. Other developments were broadly terrifying for Somalis: In Minnesota and other Midwestern states, the run-up to the 2016 election saw enthusiasm for Donald Trump fused with increasingly virulent anti-Somali, anti-Muslim, anti-refugee rhetoric. Weeks before the election, federal agents intercepted a plot by three men to blow up a Kansas apartment complex full of Somalis just after voting day. And when Trump announced his ban on refugee admissions during his first week in office, it felt personal. But still, Omar was invigorated by activism.
In the fall of 2016, she heard that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was looking for someone who was fluent in Somali to help organize workers, many of whom were East African, at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Omar took the job. After a month of intense work, a majority of the roughly 600-person workforce voted to unionize. Omar was thrilled.
On a warm June evening several months after the airport victory, Omar was sitting on the cushion-strewn front porch of an SEIU organizer named Dan Méndez Moore. They chatted about their next moves. Nearly a decade earlier, Méndez Moore’s wife, Veronica, had cofounded a workers’ center—a nonprofit focused on training non-union workers to organize themselves around their own goals—originally for the local Latinx population. The group went on to help wrangle victories for employees at fast-food restaurants and Target stores and to organize all kinds of people.
Given the success of the campaign to organize East African airport workers, Omar and Méndez Moore thought that a similar kind of effort might work for Somalis. And they knew just where to start.
The summer before, Amazon had opened a warehouse in Shakopee after officials agreed to spend $5.7 million to improve local roadways. To fill jobs in a city with just 3.5 percent unemployment, Amazon went all out to attract East African workers. Recruiters hired people virtually on the spot in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, known colloquially as Little Mogadishu. Recognizing that many immigrants lacked cars, the company chartered coaches to shuttle workers between the neighborhood and the Shakopee warehouse. They ran multiple times a day, seven days a week.
Omar’s brother and uncle had both worked for Amazon, so she knew a little about what went on in the warehouse: the productivity quotas, the relentless pace. She wanted to learn more. So she started visiting the Amazon shuttle stop before dawn, greeting bleary-eyed workers as they headed off to the warehouse. “At first, people didn’t want to talk to me,” she says. Some were downright rude. But gradually people started offering up their phone numbers, saying they’d be willing to meet up later.
A robot enclosure at MSP1.
Photograph: Jenn Ackerman
When MSP1 first opened in the summer of 2016, things weren’t so bad. Hibaq Mohamed, a Somali refugee, started that August as a stower—a worker who scans and shelves products that have just come into the warehouse. She says she was required to process just 90 items per hour. Amazon’s shuttle service made for a pleasant, efficient 45-minute commute. And in November, just before the peak shopping season set in, the warehouse’s workers were given the chance to win gifts for good performance: speakers and big-screen TVs, as well as credit to spend on gas, food, and Amazon’s website.
But the honeymoon didn’t last, she says. With the holidays came greater demands. Mohamed says she now had to stow 120 items per hour, the first of several productivity upticks. And relations between the warehouse’s managers and its East African workers were becoming increasingly testy.
The managers at MSP1 were predominantly white, and barely any of them spoke Somali. The language barrier, Mohamed says, led to frequent, excruciating misunderstandings. Once, Mohamed watched a manager admonish an East African worker who thought he’d been paid a compliment; he smiled, giving the boss a thumbs-up. Mohamed, who spoke English better than many of her colleagues, often tried to step in and translate.
Mohamed was a natural leader. As a teenager in Somalia, she had worked on an aid convoy, which once thrust her into a verbal confrontation with armed men trying to interfere with emergency food deliveries. She had also traveled to small villages dispensing mosquito nets and advice to local women on caring for newborns—all before the age of 17. In Shakopee, her superiors soon tasked her with showing new workers the ropes. In February, they offered to officially designate her as a “fulfillment center ambassador,” a role that involves training other workers and boosting morale—but with no authority and no increase in pay. Mohamed turned the offer down.
She did, however, continue informally orienting workers to life in the warehouse, serving as a sounding board and dispenser of advice. And as the summer of 2017 approached, Somalis were becoming more and more nervous about how Amazon would accommodate them during Ramadan, the monthlong religious observance when Muslims fast during the day, which would begin that year on May 26.
Working at Amazon already created challenges for devout Muslims, who answer the call to prayer five times a day. While federal law protects their right to worship, there were no designated prayer rooms in the warehouses at the time; instead, workers say, they prayed on the work floor or by the coffee machines in the break room. Workers also say they were losing time against their rate during every minute that they faced Mecca. It was hard enough to meet the escalating quotas, and Muslims worried about how they would keep up during Ramadan, when they weren’t eating or drinking and as the temperatures rose in the warehouse.
Sure enough, when Ramadan came around, it was an ordeal. The Shakopee warehouse had no air conditioning on the work floor at the time, and some days were sweltering. Because the latter part of Ramadan that year coincided with the summer solstice, Muslim workers’ daily periods of fasting were especially long. Several Muslim workers reported exhaustion and dehydration, though Amazon disputes those reports. Managers, for their part, seemed largely unprepared for the holiday’s demands on observant Muslims, workers say. By the time Ramadan was over, East African workers were desperate to avoid a repeat of the debacle. They just didn’t know how.
Safiyo Mohamed, an Amazon worker.
Photograph: Jenn Ackerman
The grievance that first made workers truly interested in talking to Omar was a relatively small one. In October, Amazon announced that it would cancel its direct shuttle service from Cedar-Riverside to the Shakopee warehouse. In its place, the company had convinced the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority to add a permanent Shakopee warehouse stop to an existing bus route. Now the trip would include a transfer and take an hour and a half—twice as long as the shuttle ride had been.
To William Stolz, the picker, Amazon’s cancellation of the shuttle seemed like a bait and switch. Stolz lived in Cedar-Riverside, and he dreaded making the longer commute in freezing winter months. Having just graduated from college with a liberal arts degree, Stolz had taken a job at Amazon thinking he would put his head down and pay off his student loans. What he hadn’t anticipated was how much he would come to enjoy the company of his coworkers. Working among so many immigrants, he says, was like being in “a small United Nations.” And now Stolz was worried that few of those coworkers seemed to be aware of the impending shuttle change. Amazon says it announced the transition in morning meetings and posted notices of the news, but many of Stolz’s colleagues seemed not to have gotten the memo.
Stolz had met Omar amid her efforts to chat up Amazon workers. So now he started to help her spread the word at the bus stop, letting people know what was coming.
“Workers were super furious,” Omar recalls. It didn’t help that the new pickup point was farther than the shuttle stops had been from the area where many of the workers lived. Some of them—particularly Muslim women who wore the hijab—worried about their safety walking to and from the bus stop after dark.
Eventually, Omar would post herself outside the Shakopee warehouse itself, greeting workers who had just clocked out and bringing up the canceled shuttle. “Y’all, this is an issue that we all need to talk about,” she remembers telling them. One night, some 20 people followed her to a nearby Caribou Coffee. They went on to form a new group they called the guddiga xalinta—Somali for “problem-solving committee.”
In November, the Awood Center launched its website and officially opened its doors, with funding from the SEIU and support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a major Muslim advocacy group. A Friday night kickoff event drew about 50 people for a catered Somali dinner at the center’s new headquarters at Bethany Lutheran Church, a weathered brick structure across the street from a halal grocery near Cedar-Riverside.
Just a few days later, Awood made its presence known to Amazon. While Omar had been chatting with MSP1 workers about their commutes, she had also been talking to East African delivery workers at two nearby Amazon facilities that sends vans, trucks, and cars out to dispense packages to customers. One driver claimed that an Amazon subcontractor owed him hundreds of dollars. So Awood’s first outing became a protest against alleged wage theft by Amazon contractors. (Neither the worker nor his previous employer could be reached for comment, and Amazon has since ended its relationship with that subcontractor.)
On November 20, Omar, Stolz, and a handful of delivery drivers gathered outside a delivery station in the suburb of Eagan. They stood in the parking lot, bundled up in hats and puffy coats, holding a giant Awood banner. When an Amazon manager emerged to see what was going on, the drivers said that they were getting stiffed by Amazon’s subcontractors. The manager listened and promised to look into their concerns, then hustled back inside. Now it was certain: Awood was on Amazon’s radar.
Abdirahman Muse
Photograph: Jessica Chou
William Stolz
Photograph: Jessica Chou
That fall, Stolz and a few other workers began bringing a petition to work with them at the Shakopee warehouse; it was addressed to Jeff Bezos, and it asked the CEO to restore direct bus service between Cedar-Riverside and Shakopee. As Hibaq Mohamed tells the story, she and Stolz happened to meet each other one day while they were warming up their food in the break room microwave. He told her about the petition (which she signed) and about Awood (which she hadn’t heard about), and eventually they agreed to meet up later with other workers at a local library not far from the warehouse.
Mohamed, who worked in a different part of the warehouse from Stolz, was energized by the chance to air all the frustrations she’d been hearing about. She was quickly brought into the fold and started attending the meetings that Awood was holding once or twice a month at Bethany Lutheran. Amazon workers would file into the church’s doors, past signs advertising the parish’s soup kitchen and its LGBT-friendliness, to learn about their rights under US labor law and compare notes about problems in the warehouse. When Representative Ilhan Omar came to one meeting to hear about Amazon workers’ experiences, Mohamed and Stolz were among those who stood up to talk.
In general, the workers shared a deep sense of dread over the pace of Amazon’s hourly stowing, picking, and packing rates—which they saw as not only exhausting but unsafe. People were getting hurt in the course of meeting their quotas. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires companies to log any work-related injuries or illnesses that involve loss of consciousness, work restrictions or reassignments, or treatment that exceeds basic first aid, along with a few other criteria. In 2017, according to OSHA documents obtained by WIRED, the warehouse in Shakopee reported an average of eight such events a week, mostly sprains, strains, and contusions. The month of July, which includes Prime Day, Amazon’s summer version of Black Friday, saw the most logged incidents. The other two months with the most such events were November and December—the peak holiday rush. (In 2018, the company says, it invested more than $55 million in safety improvements.)
The workers who gathered at Awood were also constantly afraid of being fired or “written up” for falling behind on their quotas amid breaks for prayer. But above all, they came to focus on one fact that heightened all their other anxieties: Ramadan was coming around again, and they wanted to do something to avert how bad it had been the previous year.
In early May, Amazon management announced that they’d heard some concerns about Ramadan, so they scheduled two open meetings where workers could discuss the holiday with them inside the warehouse. Small crowds showed up for the sessions, which took place inside a conference room with managers at the front. Workers rattled off a number of desires: lower productivity rates for the holiday, more breaks, some kind of respite from heat, time off for Eid al-Fitr, the festival that concludes the holy month. According to Stolz, the managers’ replies were noncommittal. (Amazon says the purpose of these meetings was just to hear from the workers.)
Awood’s response, meanwhile, was tactical. That month the center had hired its first executive director, Abdirahman Muse, a 36-year-old Somali immigrant who had worked as a warehouse laborer, organizer, and policy aide to the mayor of Minneapolis; Muse says that his first goal, now that Awood had built up a base of support, was to “take the fight to Amazon publicly.”
So workers in Shakopee promptly began to hand out leaflets calling for Muslim employees to show up for work on the first day of Ramadan—May 15—wearing shirts and hijabs that matched the color of the Somali flag. The show of force, called Blue Day, was meant to draw media attention to Amazon’s failure to accommodate Muslim workers for the holy month.
Soon after those flyers went out, Awood says, warehouse management agreed to create dedicated prayer rooms and promised to lighten quotas for Ramadan. Blue Day was called off. Shortly thereafter, an Awood organizer spotted two Amazon managers at Karmel Mall, a Somali shopping center, negotiating with a merchant over the cost of 60 to 80 new prayer rugs.
On May 15, 2018, Amazon distributed its new prayer rugs and agreed to convert a conference room into a quiet prayer room, though it would be available only on Fridays. The company also says it began allowing workers to transfer to the night shift so they wouldn’t have to work during periods of fasting, approving leaves of absence for Ramadan—though workers say these were unpaid—and offering unlimited time off to workers who wished to celebrate Eid. (An Amazon spokeswoman says, “Our policies on religious accommodations were made as part of long-term plans, not as a direct result of Blue Day.”)
The promise of a prayer room heartened the activists, and it helped that the warehouse was also now cooled by large fans. But then Ramadan began, and workers say the quota system didn’t change. When Amazon fired one Somali American who fell behind on her rate while fasting, the Awood Center posted an online petition that would receive more than 12,000 signatures. It read: “Before Ramadan, Amazon promised its Muslim employees that the company would ease off its usual grueling daily productivity requirements during the holy month. But just three days into Ramadan, [a Muslim worker] was fired by Amazon for—you guessed it—not meeting her productivity requirements.” The group demanded that the worker get her job back. (The worker could not be reached for comment. Amazon does not speak publicly about individual cases but said that productivity quotas are evaluated over a long period of time and that the company provides dedicated coaching to underperforming employees. Amazon did not comment on whether it ever committed to lighter quotas.)
Awood upped the ante again, inviting reporters to a protest outside the Eagan delivery station on June 4. That day, a handful of Amazon employees stood chanting “Yes, we can!” in Somali (“Haa waan awoodnaa!”) and English. They presented managers with a list of demands, including lighter workloads during the Ramadan fast. Stories about the protest appeared on Minnesota Public Radio and in local news outlets, and the media blitz put Amazon on the defensive; the company responded by touting its workplace benefits and its plans to build a permanent prayer room for Muslim workers at the facility. But on some points, Amazon would not budge: Workers who prayed, the company made clear, were still expected to meet the same hourly quotas, unless they wanted to dip into their unpaid time off. The principle of speed, it seemed, was not up for negotiation.
Behind the scenes, Amazon agreed to meet with the workers who had organized under Awood. And on September 25, after much back and forth, about 12 workers, three Islamic community leaders, Muse, Nimo Omar, and four Amazon managers met in a rented conference room at a Minneapolis institution called the African Development Center. The walls were decorated with paintings of Somali pastoral scenes. The group of workers explained their concerns about hourly productivity quotas, the warehouse’s response to workplace injuries, and the lack of African managers, among other things. Amazon, which says it welcomes diversity at all levels, promised to look into the issues they had raised. One of the workers, Khadra Kassim, was delighted to notice that the managers seemed nervous.
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At a second meeting, on October 28—for which Amazon flew in a Libyan American manager from Texas—the company presented the group with some responses to their concerns. The workers then broke away to discuss whether they were satisfied with Amazon’s presentation. They weren’t. So they gave Amazon until November 15 to give them a better answer. Amazon’s second response felt like more of the same.
On November 20, The New York Times published a story about Awood’s meetings with Amazon under the headline “Somali Workers in Minnesota Force Amazon to Negotiate.” The story underscored how rare the Minneapolis workers’ successes seemed to be: “Labor organizers and researchers said they were not aware of Amazon coming to the table previously in the United States amid pressure from workers.”
Amazon’s response to the story, meanwhile, showed how ambiguous labor organizing without a union can be. In comments to the press, the company has repeatedly classified its meetings with Awood as mere community engagement, analogous to its outreach with veterans groups and LGBT advocates: “We were never ‘coming to the table’ in the sense that’s described,” says an Amazon spokeswoman. The purpose of the meetings with Awood, she says, was to “deepen our understanding of the East African community and deepen their understanding of Amazon.”
Nonetheless, for Awood, it was a moment of triumph. The scrappy Somali workers had created a classic David versus Goliath tale, and as soon as the Times posted its story, calls of support started rolling in from around the country. Seizing the momentum, Awood announced on Facebook that it was planning its biggest event ever: a protest at the Shakopee warehouse on December 14. Everyone was invited.
With the Awood Center suddenly commanding national attention, Amazon projected a measure of seemingly strategic benevolence during the week before the protest. The company held a job fair in the heart of Cedar-Riverside on December 10, advertising it with a video in English and Somali. On December 13, Bezos pledged $2.5 million to Simpson Housing Services, a Minneapolis nonprofit that serves the homeless. Awood organizers decided to escalate their plan further: They would stage a walkout in the thick of the preholiday rush.
On December 14, as Stolz watched the minutes tick down to 4 pm, Awood members, supporters, and reporters gathered on the far side of MSP1’s parking lot, hugging themselves against the cold. It was a moment of euphoria. But in the days and weeks after the protest, some workers would come to feel less secure than they had before.
Khadra Kassim, an Amazon worker.
Photograph: Jessica Chou
Amazon has fended off unions ever since it was young. In 2000, when the company was still largely a bookstore, the Communications Workers of America tried to organize the company’s customer-service employees. Amazon ultimately closed the call center that had been the focal point of the organizing drive, calling the move a reorganization that “had absolutely nothing to do” with the unionization effort. In 2013 and 2014 the company repelled an organizing push in Delaware, reportedly with the help of an anti-union law firm. And in September 2018, when whispers of a union drive began passing through the workforce at Whole Foods, Amazon sent out a roughly 45-minute training video to the grocery chain’s managers about how to snuff out organizing campaigns while steering clear of US labor law violations.
The video, which later leaked to the press, crystallizes the company’s attitude toward organized labor, which Amazon regards as incompatible with its core principles of speed, innovation, and customer obsession. “We are not anti-union, but we are not neutral either,” the video’s narrator says. “We will boldly defend our direct relationship with associates.”
In one sense, Awood doesn’t threaten that direct relationship the way a union would. Omar and Muse take pains to clarify that Awood does not represent workers as a bargaining agent, it only helps them organize themselves—which perhaps also helps explain why Amazon doesn’t classify its meetings at the African Development Center as “coming to the table.” But that hardly means that coordination between even small groups of workers is exactly welcome. Amazon prefers to deal with workers not only directly, but as individuals—to resolve issues one on one. And as the leaked training video makes clear, the company trains managers to keep tabs on “warning signs” of workers organizing in numbers.
In animations vaguely reminiscent of South Park, the video instructs managers to stay alert for workers who suddenly start to linger in break rooms after their shifts are over, or clumps of workers who scatter when managers approach, or the use of terms like “living wage” or “grievance.” The video tells supervisors what they must not do, according to labor law—threaten workers, interrogate them, spy on them, or promise rewards if they reject a union—but then coaches managers through lawful ways of achieving many of the same ends. (“To avoid your comments being an unlawful threat,” the video says, “avoid absolutes. Speak in possibilities instead.”) In general, says Janice Fine, a professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, the workplace at Amazon “is one that makes it really clear to workers that they’d better not engage in any kind of collective action.”
Within days of the rally in Shakopee, several workers say they began to feel distinctly uncomfortable in the warehouse. One Somali night-shift worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, says that as she approached one of her supervisors, she realized he was reading news about the walkout on a warehouse computer. She says he zoomed in on a photo of her face and then told her that he was very interested to see who was at the protest. She felt shaken; his look suggested that it wasn’t idle interest. Then, in May, three East African workers filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying that, almost immediately after their participation in the December 14 protest, they “began experiencing a campaign of retaliatory harassment from Amazon management.” Amazon, for its part, says it has a zero-tolerance policy toward harassment and retaliation.
Meanwhile, some workers in Shakopee noticed that, for the first time, the warehouse appeared to be hiring only temporary workers. So on March 8, 2019, nearly 30 stowers at Shakopee—about a third of the department working that shift, by Stolz’s estimate—walked off the job around midnight. (Amazon puts the number at less than 15.) Together with Stolz and Nimo Omar, most of them decamped to a Perkins restaurant. Three hours later, they returned with a list of demands, handwritten on a sheet of notebook paper. They included “stop temp hiring” and “end unfair firings.” (At one point during the night, Omar and one of the men who had walked off the job recognized each other. He was one of the workers who had initially been rude and dismissive to her back when she was hanging around shuttle stops in the wee hours of the morning, asking about what it was like to work at MSP1.)
Amazon is a nearly $1 trillion company with almost unlimited resources for legal fights, public relations campaigns, and strategic planning. But in the church where Awood and warehouse workers met to strategize, there was no falling back. They decided to plan a new strike, this one to be held on Prime Day itself. European Amazon workers had been doing it for years, but as with a number of things Awood was doing, it had never happened before in the US.
An inspirational display at MSP1.
Photograph: Jenn Ackerman
On July 15, 2019, MSP1 was decked out as if for a pep rally, with Prime Day banners and mylar balloons and free commemorative T-shirts for everyone. Amazon had decided to expand its annual consumer bonanza into a two-day affair, featuring a brand-new service: free one-day shipping for Prime members. Analysts predicted the event would drive a record-breaking $5.8 billion in global sales. For the company, the stakes were high. Mandatory overtime was in effect. In the early morning, managers stood outside the lobby, high-fiving workers as they arrived for 11-hour shifts.
A week earlier, the Awood Center had announced its plans for the strike. Since then, it had drawn widespread attention. A group of white-collar Amazon tech workers was flying in from Seattle to attend the protest and lend their support. In Germany, where a Prime Day strike was also planned, a participant composed an ode called “Flowers of Dignity” for his Minneapolis comrades. That morning, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren had tweeted: “I fully support Amazon workers’ Prime Day strike. Their fight for safe and reliable jobs is another reminder that we must come together to hold big corporations accountable.”
The strike was due to start at 2 pm. By 1:30, about 50 people—including off-duty Amazon workers and local labor activists— were marching in a circle with picket signs in the warehouse’s truck lane. Ashley Robinson, a senior Amazon public relations manager, had flown in from Seattle and was greeting reporters at the warehouse. Outside, as the temperature hit 91, the air was thick with humidity. Torrential storms were predicted for later that day. “The weather might work in our favor,” she said.
Meanwhile, Omar was stationed outside the lobby, waiting for people to walk out. “My job is to corral workers and make a march,” Omar said. As had happened back in December, the rally was taking place on the far side of the massive parking lot. On the hot summer day—under the scrutiny of managers—the expanse seemed like an impassable desert, and the idea was to give workers a feeling of strength in numbers.
Inside the warehouse, however, things weren’t going as planned. Stolz, who’d arrived around 5:30 that morning to hand out strike flyers in the parking lot, was trying to rally the day shift. He made the rounds of the break rooms, where he saw managers handing out snacks and chatting up employees. People were getting nervous. Some told Stolz they didn’t want to lose their unpaid time off. Others balked when they neared the lobby, where Shakopee Police officers and Amazon’s in-house security team had gathered.
Only a few people trickled out to strike, and Omar gave up on the idea of leading workers away from the warehouse in a parade. According to Awood, about 35 people took part in the walkout; Amazon would later say, yet again, that only 15 employees participated and it didn’t see the event as a strike, either. Inside the warehouse, reporters were handed the following press statement:
“An outside organization used Prime Day to raise its own visibility, conjured misinformation and a few associate voices to work in their favor, and relied on political rhetoric to fuel media attention,” it read. “The fact is that Amazon provides a safe, quality work environment in which associates are the heart and soul of the customer experience, and today’s event shows that our associates know that to be true.”
By 4 pm, a stage had been set up across the parking lot. Despite the heat and the poor showing of strikers, the protest took on a festive mood. More than 200 people had gathered. There were trays full of beef sambusas, large thermoses of chai tea, and a performance by a Somali dance troupe; at one point, Hibaq Mohamed jumped into formation with them. Finally an emcee—an Amazon worker named Sahro Sharif—took the stage.
“There were a lot of people who were afraid to come out and stand out here today because of the management that’s going on inside,” Sharif declared. “For the people that actually came out tonight, I want to say thank you and welcome, and let’s make it great!”
When the speeches were done, Omar and a small group of activists walked back to the warehouse to see if more strikers would emerge. The shifts were changing, and an employee leaving the warehouse looked at the activists disdainfully. “There’s plenty of jobs for you!” he hollered. “There’s Target! There’s UPS! There’s Walmart!”
The air smelled sharply of ozone, and forecasters were now issuing a tornado warning. Omar and her group posed for a selfie in front of the warehouse, and then the sky opened up. Drenched, they hustled back across the parking lot to help break down tables and shade tents.
Today, there is no end in sight to the jousting match between Amazon and Awood. Immediately after the Prime Day strike, 13 members of Congress—led by Representative Ilhan Omar and Senator Bernie Sanders—led a call to investigate Amazon for workplace abuse. Less than a month later, 50 to 80 workers staged a walkout at the Eagan delivery facility, wearing yellow reflective vests and singing “Aan Isweheshano Walaalayaal,” the same anthem Representative Omar had sung the year before.
When labor experts characterize what Awood has accomplished overall, they tend to focus not on any specific concessions the group has extracted thus far (which Amazon denies are concessions anyway) but instead on the national attention the group has attracted—and its implications for other workers in warehouses and in tech. Awood bears a certain resemblance not only to worker centers that focus on low-wage industries, but to recent efforts by Google employees and other tech workers to organize themselves and learn labor law without the structure of a union. “Tech workers are in this situation where they’re trying to figure out: Where is their leverage? Where is their ground to stand on? How do you negotiate with an algorithm?” says Fine, the labor scholar at Rutgers. Awood has become one of the prime examples to learn from. Amazon, in other words, is not the only one watching a few Somalis very closely.
Jessica Bruder (@jessbruder) is a New America fellow and the author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.
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after all
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I was checking on our memberships to next year's WorldCon, and found that the kid has only a Supporting Membership. Now, I'm sure he didn't vote in Site Selection, because he was a Child then, but he's now old enough to be a full Adult.
Their website,, lists the conversion price for people who voted and, on a different page, the costs of an Attending Membership and a Supporting Membership.
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Progressive Hitting Drill: Square-Open-Regular
Hitting a baseball is, in the opinion of many, the most difficult thing to do in all of sports. Here is a progressive hitting drill that is designed to help get a hitters hands on the right path.
In the video below Ed Servais, Creighton University Head Coach and 4x Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year, demonstrates the Square-Open-Regular Hitting Drill progression.
In the first of three segments of this drill the hitter will begin facing the tosser with his chest and feet facing forward. Prior to the ball being tossed the hitter will close his front side (shoulder is now pointing towards the tosser) and will hit the tossed ball using only his hands without the aid of the lower half of his body. This forces the hitter to focus on his hands and getting them on the correct path. The goal is to make solid contact and drive the ball back up the middle.
In the second segment, the hitter will assume an open stance. The front side will be closed as before, but now there will be some slight involvement of the lower body.
In the final step of the progression, the hitter will assume a regular stance. The hitter should focus on using his hands correctly while incorporating the aid of his lower half.
This drill is just one of 25 hitting drills in Coach Servais DVD. For more informati0n about that coaching tool, click the link From Tee to Machine: 25 Hitting Drills for Baseball.
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They do have other volunteer opportunities, as well, like helping with other chores around the farm.
They had me at “Pig Cuddler!” My husband and I are signed up to get down and dirty with some piggies in April! Cannot wait!
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Realism, transnationalism and social class theories are three distinct philosophies that predict different orientations to human relations within a nation and a cross nations. The difference between the three theories is embedded on their view points. Realists first and foremost believe that foreign policies that usually define the relationship between nations are embedded on each country’s national interests and not on legal considerations. More so, the behavior between nations is subject to power relations and not on any legal derivatives. Transnationalism on the other hand is the opposite of realism as it establishes that international relations should not be pegged on individualistic and short term interests, but rather on mutual corporations and understandings. The focal point in transnationalism especially with regard to the world’s great nations is that they should not view each other as competitors as well as military threat, but rather as friends and a family. Class system which has dominated contemporary thinking divides the world in terms of division of labor, hence dividing the world into three distinct groups of periphery, semi periphery and core countries. With regard to latest developments in the world where globalization has made the world to be a global village, it therefore looks perfectly clear that transnationalism is the best of the three theories in explaining relations between nations.
My best criticism of the theory of class system comes from the positivists’ scholars who in deed found out that the theory lacks specific focus as it heavily relies on generalization of issues instead of using concrete quantifiable data. However, the least of my critics are the Orthodox Marxists who refused to see the other side of the world and would criticize anything that deviates from their principles such as stressing on the arrangement of class structure.
Marx and Engel developed five stages of development in their definition of class struggle. These stages are primitive communism which is usually defined in terms of gathering and hunting and commonality of property. The second stage is the slave society which they considered to be the advent of class society and private property ownership, whereas the third stage is the feudalism which developed after the collapse and extinction of the slavery period and was characterized by systems such as theocracy and aristocracy. The fourth stage is that of capitalism which developed as a result of the dreaded bourgeoisies’ revolution. Capitalism is characterized of such systems as market economy, democracy and private economy. The last stage is the socialist’s stage which develops after the working mounts a spirited revolution to overthrow the capitalists.
I don’t agree with Wallerstein’s stand point that the capitalists economy cannot survive. It is evident today that his point been disapproved as almost 100% of the world’s economies are defined in terms capitalists structures. Halliday identified three systems of international competition that always define the major struggles of the world. These are technological competition, completion for arms and wealth which by default has been the source of most of the conflicts the world faces even today. At the same time, the key assumptions from Noam Chomsky’s speech clearly depicts the fact that America which boasts of itself as core nation has been manipulating the semi and peripheral nations to their disguise.
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D.A.K. war diary entry 6 March 1941
6 March 1941
Arrival and Departure of Subordinated Troops:
Arrived in the Operational Zone
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At 19.00 hours the 7th shipping column arrives in Tripoli. It carries M.G.Batl.2 and supply services. During the evening a meeting is held in the Hotel Uaddan between the Commander and the newly appointed Fliegerfuehrer Afrika, Major-General Froehlich. | <urn:uuid:bb66b35a-298b-4b16-ad7b-ca4894c353a5> | https://rommelsriposte.com/2016/03/06/ | en | 0.761991 | 0.019292 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Woman Sticking out Tongue
Your tongue is one of those body parts that you probably don’t think about all that often…until there’s a problem! Then you become acutely aware of how difficult it is to carry on a conversation, enjoy a meal, or even drink a glass of orange juice in the morning.
So, why does your tongue hurt and what can you do about it? As a dentist in Richardson, we’ve talked to many patients about these issues, so we thought we’d write a blog to address four of the most common questions and concerns we hear. Keep reading to find out more!
If your tongue suddenly becomes swollen, red or tender, you could be having an allergic reaction to a medication, a certain food, or an oral care product.
The first step is to determine what you’re allergic to, so you can know what to avoid. Your dentist may recommend that you keep track of when your symptoms occur to try to pinpoint it.
If you have BMS, you might experience a burning or tingling sensation in the mouth, which could come and go or may be chronic.
Doctors haven’t been able to pinpoint an exact cause of burning mouth syndrome, but there are many potential possibilities, including anxiety, stress, ill-fitting dentures, allergic reactions and nutritional deficiencies.
Since the causes of this condition aren’t well understood and can vary widely, your dentist will recommend ways to treat the symptoms based on your individual history.
If you notice a small, oval-shaped ulcer on your tongue, you might have a canker sore. They’re fairly common and are oftentimes a bit painful.
However, beyond the initial discomfort they’re nothing to be concerned about. There are a variety of causes, including:
• Stress
• Hormones
• Certain foods
• Physical trauma, such as biting the tongue
• Quitting smoking
• Vitamin deficiencies
Canker sores will typically go away on their own within 1-2 weeks. In the meantime, you can use over-the-counter pain medications, mouthwashes and ointments for any pain.
Thrush often appears as a white film on the tongue or back of the throat and might be accompanied by tenderness or a burning sensation.
Thrush is due to an overgrowth of a fungus called candida that’s normally present in the mouth in low amounts. It’s only when candida overgrows that it becomes a problem, which can sometimes occur after taking a round of antibiotics.
If you have thrush, your dentist can prescribe anti-fungal medication to treat it.
When it comes to keeping your tongue and mouth in good shape, regular dental care and great hygiene are the foundation of good health. Since the tongue harbors a lot of bacteria, it’s always a good idea to brush it or use a specially designed tongue scraper as part of your daily hygiene routine.
Also, because stress is a risk factor in many of the conditions we discussed, stress management is a great way to prevent many potential problems.
And remember, if you ever have an urgent situation with your tongue, like trauma or a severe bite, you can always call an emergency dentist in Richardson!
Throughout his career, Dr. David Nguyen has made professional excellence a priority. Having pursued extensive advanced education on a wide variety of topics, he has a thorough understanding of pathology and can educate his patients about the causes, treatment and prevention for any painful conditions in their mouth. If you have any questions, he can be reached via his website or at (972) 994-1577. | <urn:uuid:8b923ac0-c404-40cc-ba22-3c5ca3225889> | https://www.dentistryinrichardson.com/blog/2018/april/top-4-reasons-your-tongue-might-hurt-from-a-dent/ | en | 0.941607 | 0.033519 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Liu Fang, a blind teacher: Helen Keller in the mountains of China
For ten years, she went from light to darkness.
It is said that the person who is blind the day after tomorrow is the most painful, but she not only was not swallowed by the darkness, but with a warm heart illuminated countless people around.
Why are there so many extraordinary stories in her ordinary life?
Her name is Liu Fang, a female teacher in Guizhou Rural Middle School, known as Helen Keller in the mountains of China.
seize Light in Darkness
In 2007, a fate judgment fell from the sky, doctors said Liu Fang’s eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, the incidence of only 1/1000000. She was 26 years old and had just worked for four years in No.3 Middle School in Baiyun District, Guiyang. She married someone in love, and her 8-month-old son was babbling in swaddling clothes.
Liu Fang’s vision is getting narrower every day, and his vision is getting blurred year by year.
In 2001, she read the last paper book, The Smiling、Proud Wanderer.
In 2006, the last two words she saw were the “language” on the cover of the textbook.
In 2007, she was completely surrounded by darkness.
But many people who first meet Liu Fang do not believe that they are blind.
At home, she sweeps the floor, wash clothes, pour boiling water, make coffee, cook vegetables, exercise on the treadmill, and she is almost as skilled as anyone else. With the help of blind software, she texted faster than many other people. At school, she can approach 100 meters alone, go down two floors, turn around 5 bends, and easily find a public toilet.
Few people understand how she survived over the years.
At the beginning of 2008, when the snow disaster, the district water outage, she was carrying a bucket, groping for the next 6 floor to carry water. A giant lump of ice was crumbling over her head. It was freezing and cold. She slipped one step at a time. Finally, she was so tired that she fainted to the ground.
I don’t know how many times she tripped, knocked down, hit the wall, burned out blisters, touched the cup, and now she’s still covered in bruises on her shank. Desperate, depressed, discouraged, she thought about giving up. But on second thought, again relieved: “crying is also a day, smile is also a day.” If you can’t change your life, change your attitude. ”
When she was advised to fall ill or rest, she declined: “then my life will really end.”
If a blind man wants to stay on the podium, it will undoubtedly take more than a few times as much effort as the average person.
She sometimes writes askew and sometimes overlaps together. Once, did not pay attention to the edge of the platform, a foot empty, fell on the trash can. The student ran to help her and said, “the last two words have been written on the wall.”
Eyes sink into darkness, only the heart can grasp the light.
When she was not completely blind, the students once found that Miss Liu had taken her textbook upside down and kept talking, so she knew that she was not reading at all, but reciting the text.
In order to teach a good book, Liu Fang learned all of the three years of junior high school classical Chinese, other key points, difficulties also remember one by one, a few large thick handout all packed in the heart. Eyesight is getting worse and worse, but the lesson is getting more and more wonderful.
Speaking, learning, teasing, singing, she almost became a crosstalk actor, the classroom filled with laughter and laughter. “the eyes are not good, the class must be vivid, can attract dozens of eyes to me here.”
She corrected her composition with her ears. The students read aloud, and she and the class immediately commented on it. Listening, speaking, reading and writing, many kinds of training at the same time, than unidirectional teacher evaluation effect is better.
In her vision constant decline, her class scores not only did not retreat, but taught two language subjects in the first place, in Baiyun three has not been surpassed.
Students are becoming more and more fond of her. Heard that she may no longer be the head teacher, the students ran to ask the principal, crying said: “must leave Miss Liu ah!” After graduation, they took their younger brother and sister to Liu Fang’s hands and called them into her class.
Open a Heart door
Due to the serious impact of visual acuity, Liu Fang accepted the school arrangement from 2008, as a psychological guidance teacher for students, “leading the way” for students. It is rare for a blind person to be comforted by a blind person.
One day in 2009, Zhang Yujia, a young teacher, turned to Liu Fang for help, her voice shaking: “there is a girl in our class who wants to kill herself.”
To find the girl Liu Fang reached out and touched the thick gauze on her slender wrist. The normally quiet little girl came from a reorganized family, and she felt she was a superfluous person.
Liu Fang covered her eyes with a piece of cloth and said, “just follow me all day and try how I live.”
A day later, Liu Fang asked, “is it easy?”
“not easy.”
“I live like this every day. I can live well, you have eyes, beautiful and lovely, you can live a better life than me, why give up on themselves? ”
The girl’s tears fell on Liu Fang’s hands.
Liu Fang visited the girl’s house again. She could not see the road, but she could only let Zhang Yujia lead her. When it was dark, they drove for more than an hour, walked through the narrow country path and counted the poles before they found the remote village.
Liu Fang told parents that their children are not short of anything, what they lack is a little love. She took her mother’s hand to the scar of her daughter’s wrist and said, “Don’t you love her?”
“Love.” Simple peasant women have never exposed their feelings in life, and when the word “love” was exported, the dust-laden heart door finally opened, mother and daughter hugged together and cried.
At that time, the psychological guidance of rural schools in Guizhou is basically blank. Baiyun third Middle School is located in the urban and rural areas, adolescence and social transformation intertwined, more than 1,000 students with psychological problems.
Liu Fang summed up his work in four words-listening with love.
In her “growth portfolio”, students crammed into various notes and confided “secrets” that they did not want to tell to Liu Fang-“I can’t hold back my good feelings about her.” My heart always floats up and down, and I don’t know what to do. ” Or, “Today, my favorite grandmother died. I wanted to be strong, but I couldn’t stop my tears.” And, “now my parents are very kind to me, but as I grow older, I suddenly want to go back to my biological parents.”
Students from rural areas and migrant workers from the Baiyun third Middle School, a lot of poor students. Liu Fang always does more to poor children.
Not long ago, on Teachers’ Day, Yuan Fengmei, who had graduated from university and became a teacher, sent a text message: “Liu Ma, thank you for appearing in your fate.”
When she was in the third year of school, Yuan Fengmei’s father died, and Liu Fang took care of her as a daughter. Yuan Fengmei recalled: “when I was the most difficult, Liu Ma was always around.” She seldom touched my grief, and contained me like the sun. ”
Before the middle school test, Liu Fang hugs Yuan Fengmei to ask: “is there any problem?”
“you have to trust your daughter.” Yuan Fengmei said, “you can’t see your eyes, and you have taught us so well.” Why should I not learn well? ”
That bit by bit of love, in the children’s hearts left a long time warm.
Love and Power
Liu Fang saw the face of his son, Niu, for the last time. He was only seven or eight years old, and now he is in college. For more than a decade, every memory of my son has been accompanied by sweetness and stinging pain.
Only 3 years old, A Niu will say: “the mother does not hold, the baby walks by itself.” At that time in the Baiyun area, people often see this scene: a small child holding her mother’s hand, left and right looking over the zebra crossing. When he had a car, he said, “Mom, don’t move.” Can pass, shout: “Mom run!”
Liu Fang’s husband works outside all the year round. In the years before his mother moved in, Liu Fang took care of his children alone. Children who are honed and precocious have a deeper love for their mothers.
“my mother was a very ordinary person, but she did something extraordinary.” In the composition of elementary school, Aniu wrote, “her eyes see the world is dark, but her heart will shine everywhere.”
Since Liu Fang insisted on standing on the platform, on the continuous criticism: “A blind person, what books still teach ah?” But she has a stubborn self-esteem-the more pressure, the more straight! And from the side of love and support, is her source of strength.
Many colleagues have been Liu Fang’s “secretary”, help her print materials, collate teaching plans, lead her to dinner, shopping, chat. The students scrambled to help her, lead her to the podium, and put chalk and black eraser in a fixed position so that she could reach for it as soon as she reached for it.
Her kindness, optimism and strength also infected everyone around her. A colleague’s daughter had an operation and there was not enough plasma. She was the first to sign up for blood donation. The whole school knows her passbook password, and anyone who needs it can borrow it.
“Liu Fang gives us a lot of strength.” My colleague, Mao Yanhong, said, “she lives in earnest. What reason do we have to be casual?”
Liu Fang loves reading. Even after she became blind, she used to go to bookstores. Open a book, bury your face in it, take a deep breath, and when the ink perfects your chest, it seems to fly out, encircling her like a firefly, making her intoxicated.
She wrote her first poem in the fifth grade and later published some small works in the press. When the computer installed software for the blind, it became her greatest pleasure to often knock on something. Amazingly, she has completed two novels, one in 170000 words, the other in 280000 words, one of which has been published.
More than 80% of the “pomegranate green”, which lasted for eight months, was true-a group of “post-70s” young teachers stuck to the joys and sorrows and joys and sorrows of the western countryside. The book is brightly colored and humorous, and many subtle observations are sharper than other writers.
In the preface to the novel, she writes a sentence: “A river is a river when it is running on the ground, or a river when it flows underground, and finally they all run to the sea, where their souls are equal.” (Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Keyong Li Chunhui)
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A water treatment system can provide cleaner and safer water throughout your home. An analysis is necessary for choosing the right system to treat your water. The most effective water treatment system depends on the condition of the water, the type of plumbing, and the water usage in the home. The most common types of household water treatment systems use filtration systems, water softeners, distillation systems, and/or chemical or physical disinfectants. Many homeowners choose to install a water treatment system in their home to remove contaminants or improve the task of their drinking water.
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• agriturismo umbria maesta delle quattro chiavi bevagna
The Maestà delle 4 Chiavi farmhouse is immersed in the magnificent hilly landscape characteristic of Bevagna, in a strategic position and a few steps from the main tourist attractions of Umbria, such as Assisi, Montefalco, Spello, Todi, Spoleto, Orvieto and Trevi.
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Seen from above, the fertile plain, crossed by communication routes and furrowed by waterways, which are accompanied by numerous hydraulic works, looks like a colorful mosaic in which crops of wheat, corn and tobacco alternate. In the hills the vine prevails for the production of D.O.C. and the olive tree. The woods, rich in Mediterranean flora, with warm autumn colors, offer a suggestive sight.
In a dominant position there are some castles, rich in medieval vestiges, built around the year 1000 to defend the territory of Bevagna.
Assisi is a hill town in Umbria, in central Italy. It is the birthplace of San Francesco (1181-1226), one of the patron saints of Italy. The basilica of San Francesco is an imposing church on 2 levels consecrated in 1253. The thirteenth-century frescoes depicting the life of San Francesco have also been attributed, among others, to Giotto and Cimabue. The crypt houses the saint’s stone sarcophagus.
Landmark of the wine region where Sagrantino di Montefalco and Montefalco Rosso are produced, it is part of the club of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
Montefalco, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, is located on top of a hill overlooking the plain of the Topino and Clitunno rivers. For this favorable panoramic position, from 1568 it has been attributed the nickname “Railing of Umbria”. From here, on the clearest days, it is possible to admire, from various viewpoints, a 360 ° panorama that ranges from the entire valley between Perugia and Spoleto, from the slopes of the Subappennine to those of the Martani Mountains.
It is part of the circuit of the most beautiful villages in Italy and boasts the Orange-Tourism quality mark, awarded by the Italian Touring Club.
The surface of the municipality of Spello extends into the mountains, hills and plains. The municipality rises, together with nearby Assisi, on the western slopes of the Monte Subasio chain, in the Umbrian-Marche Apennines.
Todi is a hill town in Umbria. The medieval buildings that frame the central Piazza del Popolo are the Palazzo del Popolo and the Palazzo del Capitano. The latter houses the Archaeological Museum and the Municipal Art Gallery. Under the square there are 2 Roman cisterns, part of a series of tunnels and underground wells dating back to the 2nd century BC. C. The facade of the centenary Concattedrale della Santissima Annunziata has a rose window.
Spoleto is a city surrounded by hills, olive groves and vineyards. Dating from the 12th century, the Spoleto Cathedral has a porticoed facade embellished with a mosaic. Inside, it houses a cycle of frescoes by the medieval artist Filippo Lippi. The complex of the National Archaeological Museum displays objects from the Bronze Age and the Roman era. It also includes the restored Roman theater.
Orvieto is a small village in Umbria perched on a tuff cliff. The Duomo (1290) with its mosaic facade houses a marble sculpture of the Pietà. The Pozzo di San Patrizio (16th century) has a double spiral staircase. A network of underground caves testifies to the Etruscan roots of the town. Artifacts from that period, including ceramics and bronze objects, are exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum.
Trevi extends from the valley floor to the Brunette and Serano mountains. It can be equally divided into three distinct areas of plains, hills and mountains, covered by equally differentiated vegetation. In the plains, the land irrigated by numerous streams, formerly occupied largely by the “lacus Clitorius”, lends itself to the sowing of annual species. The hill, made of “loose” alkaline limestone and therefore draining, is ideal for the intensive cultivation of the olive tree. Finally, the mountain is covered with woods and meadows. | <urn:uuid:d20ddd3e-2868-4f8e-a8a8-06caa14840c6> | https://www.maestaquattrochiavi.it/en/surroundings/ | en | 0.923057 | 0.054581 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Clean Up Lead Before It Wrecks More American Lives
Lead paint peeling off a wall in a homeWhen I was a kid, my dad half-joked that the Roman Empire fell because the Romans used lead to make their pipes, thus poisoning their drinking water supply. Even at age 7, I found that one hard to believe. But maybe, in some crucial ways, my dad was on to something. Strong evidence shows that lead is a uniquely toxic substance that can wreak permanent and devastating changes on both the human brain and a human life. Lead is also still ubiquitous in the U.S.
Like the Romans, the U.S. uses lead to supply water -- about a third of all U.S. water systems use lead pipes. And until just a few years ago, plumbing fixtures containing as much as 8% lead could be sold as “lead-free.” When those pipes become corroded, as they often do, people start consuming lead. And don’t be misled by the photos of brownish-yellow water coming out of pipes in the famously lead-contaminated city of Flint, Michigan -- lead in drinking water is generally colorless, tasteless and odorless.
People are breathing and eating lead too. Many houses built before 1978 have lead paint in them, sometimes buried under more recent coats of paint. When the old lead paint chips, cracks, crumbles or gets eroded by water, lead particles are released, and gets swallowed and inhaled by kids. Even worse, the lead dust often gets into the soil, where it can get into garden plants, kids play in it, and it can even contaminate local water supplies.
When kids ingest lead, it gets stored in their bones, kidneys, livers and brains. It’s the last of these that is particularly insidious. Scientists continue to find ways that lead damages brain function, but that doesn’t explain exactly how the brain damage will contribute to altered behavior and consciousness. The only way to determine that is to examine the behavior of children who were exposed to lead (since children are more susceptible to the metal’s effects). Kids with high levels of lead in their blood do worse on tests, have trouble paying attention and do poorly in a number of other visible ways.
In the past, only children with blood-lead concentrations of 10 micrograms per deciliter were considered exposed to lead. But a number of studies from around the world have shown that even lower levels can have major deleterious effects on brain function. So even though official levels of lead poisoning have gone down substantially in rich countries -- especially after the banning of leaded gasoline -- there are still probably a very large number of American children whose personalities and cognitive capacities are being altered.
Perhaps the worst consequence of this silent brain damage is crime. Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum has been tireless in collating the vast pile of evidence regarding the link. Much of the research focuses on making sure that it’s not poverty or other social factors causing the correlation between lead and crime.
For example, a 2018 paper by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie used the banning of leaded gasoline, together with families’ proximity to roads, to estimate the effect of lead on school suspensions and juvenile detention in Rhode Island, while looking at differences between siblings to control for family disadvantage. They found that when blood lead falls by one microgram per decileter, the probability of a boy being sent to juvenile detention falls by a jaw-dropping 27% to 74%. The biggest effects were for poor African-American boys. Most of these students had blood-lead levels well below the official cutoff for lead poisoning, showing the destructive effects of even small amounts of the metal.
A 2019 paper by economists Stephen Billings and Kevin Schnepel addressed the question from another important angle. The authors identify lead-poisoned children who were eligible for interventions, including blood-lead reduction, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and compared them to children who just missed the cutoff for intervention. Tracking the kids throughout their lives, they found much lower crime rates among those who had received the interventions.
These are only two particularly well-done studies amid a growing mountain of evidence on the link between lead and crime. This evidence suggests that cleaning up lead paint, replacing lead pipes and removing lead from soil could have major beneficial effects for those cities still wracked by high levels of violence.
So far, lead cleanup hasn't been a central issue for most of the Democratic presidential candidates. An exception is Texan Julian Castro, who has released a comprehensive and detailed plan for lead remediation, detection and treatment throughout the U.S. The plan, which would cost only $5 billion a year for 10 years -- a tiny percentage of the federal budget -- could do a lot to reduce the country’s still-high levels of violence, crime, school delinquency and other form of social pathology. Let’s hope other candidates will soon follow suit with plans of their own.
Lead poisoning may not send the U.S. down the path of ancient Rome. But just in case, we should clean up all the lead.
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Brilliant Scientists’ Advice: Take Brain-Altering Drugs
Brilliant Scientists' Advice: Take Brain-Altering DrugsThey might need to come out with a new version of that “This is your brain on drugs” ad if a group of scientists get their way. In a paper titled “Towards Responsible Use of Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs by the Healthy” published in Nature, seven scientists from the US and UK advocate the use of brain-enhancing prescription drugs like Adderall and Ritalin as study and work aids in a manner similar to caffeine. Their Peter Tosh-like solution to “legalize it” aims to make these drugs legal, stopping an illicit trade that, according to the article, is sweeping through college campuses around the world.
The stigma of using “drugs” is hard to overcome, but the scientists want us to realize the benefits of medications like Adderall and Ritalin, prescribed primarily to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Positive side effects include increased focus and attention span, enhanced memory, heightened reflexes and the ability to start fires with your mind. (I’ll have to double-check that last one.)
The report argues that these drugs should be no more controversial than brain-boosting activities like reading, sleeping, going to school, using the computer, eating and exercising:
However, the scientists do realize the need for further study of the drugs’ effects and, if legalized, the need for their regulation:
The scientists stop short of mandating brain-altering drugs in schools and workplaces (gee, thanks, Big Brother), declaring:
However, they add:
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
From Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism to Litigation Jujitsu
by Michael Dorf
1) Commercial speech. My latest Verdict column discusses the recent announcement by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb of the initiation of an administrative procedure aimed at barring the labeling of plant-based milk -- such as soy milk, almond milk, and rice milk -- with the word "milk." I explain that the move comes in response to dairy industry lobbying and while cloaked in the mantle of consumer protection and health, it serves neither.
Of course, the fact that a law or regulation does not serve the public interest does not render the law unconstitutional, so long as one can imagine circumstances under which lawmakers had a "rational basis" for adopting it. Indeed, the leading SCOTUS case in the area upheld a ban on so-called "filled milk."
However, I go on to explain that if the government does not ban a product, it cannot limit the speech of the sellers of the product without satisfying heightened scrutiny. After following a few twists and turns, I conclude that there is a decent chance that a free speech challenge to a regulation adopting Commissioner Gottlieb's proposal or a pending Senate bill that would do much the same thing could succeed. In so doing, I rely on commercial speech cases that, in my view, grant too much protection to commercial speech--especially a 2012 DC Circuit ruling that invalidated mandatory graphic warnings on cigarette packages. In other words, I invoke commercial speech decisions that I regard as wrong to attack what I regard as corrupt ends. Jujitsu.
Commercial speech and the First Amendment will be growth areas in the coming years. Writing in the NY Times last month, Adam Liptak described "How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment." Liptak is right. Existing and emerging First Amendment doctrines pose threats to antidiscrimination law, to unionization, to reproductive choice, to fair elections, and more. Overall, the First Amendment as construed by the Roberts Court exerts a baleful influence.
Nonetheless, in the short run, liberals and progressives can and should use First Amendment arguments on offense--to protect whistleblowers, to protect liberal gazillionaires and unions in their directing of campaign funds, to protect civil rights activists seeking to record interactions with the police, and more.
2) Anti-commandeering. When it was first announced in 1992 with regard to state legislators and when it was extended to state and local executive officials in 1995, the "anti-commandeering" doctrine--which forbids the federal government from issuing commands to state officials--divided the Supreme Court on ideological grounds. Since then, as illustrated by this past Term's decision in the sports betting case, the liberal wing of the Court has come to accept it.
Yet whether the anti-commandeering doctrine is a generally conservative doctrine that liberals have come to accept or a generally neutral one, liberal lawyers would be well advised to take advantage of it. And indeed, they have, especially in litigation by local governments that have refused to voluntarily do the bidding of the federal government in rounding up undocumented immigrants. How that litigation will ultimately end up may depend on whether Congress tweaks the law to convert what has been an executive policy into permissible conditional spending, but in the meantime, the anti-commandeering doctrine can be a powerful tool for liberal states or liberal enclaves within conservative states to resist repressive federal policies.
3) Sixteenth Amendment. When Congress enacted changes to the tax code late last year, it lowered taxes substantially for corporations and high-earning individuals, temporarily lowered taxes for ordinary workers, and eliminated the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT), thus effectively raising taxes for upper-middle-class taxpayers in mostly Democratic-voting states. At the time, I suggested that the elimination of SALT deductibility might violate either the First Amendment (as punishing people for voting for Democrats) or a principle of equal sovereignty of the states. That latter suggestion relied on a jujitsu maneuver, as the equal sovereignty principle was announced in the Supreme Court's 2013 decision gutting the pre-clearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act. Nonetheless, I was not optimistic about either ground as a basis for a civil lawsuit.
Undeterred, last week the states of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Connecticut filed suit against the Secretary of the Treasury, alleging that the change in the tax law is unconstitutional. The complaint does not rely on either of the two theories I floated. Instead, it contends that the elimination of SALT deductibility exceeds the power of Congress under the Sixteenth Amendment or any other power.
The states' complaint recounts the history of the Sixteenth Amendment's adoption and concludes that it was ratified only upon the assumption and assurances of SALT deductibility so that the states would not lose their sovereign control of their tax base. I have not studied the primary sources in sufficient detail to know how accurate that is as a characterization of the history, but the argument meets with an immediate objection: Whatever the subjective understanding of the people who proposed and ratified the Sixteenth Amendment, its text is sweeping. It doesn't say anything about necessary deductions.
To meet that objection, the brief engages in some litigation jujitsu. It cites the anti-commandeering cases as examples of the Supreme Court reading historical understandings into the Constitution. There is no anti-commandeering clause of the Constitution, but that has not stopped the Court from describing the anti-commandeering doctrine as rooted in the "historical practice and understanding" as well as "the structure" of the Constitution.
That is a nice piece of jujitsu, but the lawyers for the states could have gone further. An even better parallel would have been the Supreme Court's state sovereign immunity doctrine, which goes well beyond the text of the Eleventh Amendment to find an unenumerated principle based on what the People were described as having taken for granted when they ratified both the original Constitution and the Eleventh Amendment.
The SALT lawsuit strikes me as a long shot, in part because it is not clear that the states have standing. Yes, they will undoubtedly feel a shortfall over the long run, but the immediately injured parties are state taxpayers, who could not sue the Secretary of the Treasury directly but instead would have to first pay the tax and then sue for a refund in tax court. Thus, on procedural grounds, these lawsuits might be dismissed as an effort to circumvent a jurisdictional limit.
That said, and despite the omission of the comparison to state sovereign immunity (which might be remedied in an amended complaint), I commend the state attorneys for their pro-active use of "conservative" arguments for progressive ends. Jujitsu!
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As a general proposition, Audre Lorde's aphorism "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" is wrong. Nathan Robinson gets it about right when he says that "the master’s tools seem like the ideal way to demolish his house. If the master has kerosene and a lighter in his shed, his house will not be long for this world. If he’s got a wrecking ball, well, there goes the house." Etc. Yet as Robinson goes on to explain, Lorde did not mean the aphorism as a universal truth, but more as a metaphor, as something like two wrongs don't make a right.
My mini-series on defensive crouch liberal constitutionalism and now litigation jujitsu makes Lorde's question salient and provokes others. Is it hypocritical to rely on doctrines one thinks wrong to advance particular goals one thinks right? Always? Never? Sometimes, and if so when and when not?
Are both defensive crouch liberal constitutionalism and litigation jujitsu ultimately suckers' games, because legal doctrine is always sufficiently malleable that when the stakes are high enough, the conservative justices will disavow a liberal result that was seemingly ordained under principles they previously espoused? If new loopholes and exceptions will arise and prior categorical statements will be qualified, is the game worth playing?
To answer these questions would require more expertise in psychology than in constitutional law. At this point, I think the best we can do is to deploy defensive crouch liberal constitutionalism and litigation jujitsu where feasible and hope for the best. Meanwhile, it is important to remember that constitutional law is mostly an epiphenomenon of politics and so to keep our eyes on the real prize.
T Jones said...
To answer your last two questions: It's a dangerous game to use arguments you believe are wrong, particularly when dealing with unprincipled opponents who can be counted to throw those arguments back at you in defense of their next outrage. And, yes it's a sucker's game to hope that logical arguments, e.g., using Thomas's or Alito's previous reasoning to support a "liberal outcome" this time, will get them to decide a case consistently with those words rather than consistently with their policy objectives.
Joe said...
tjones is so cynical.
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Keep Your Spirits Up, President Buhari Tell Muslims In Eid Mubarak Message
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Muslims to keep their spirits up in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, “which caught the world off guard, and has put a damper on what would otherwise have been a time of celebration for the Muslim faithful to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting period.”
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
In his Sallah message to Muslims on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitr, the President noted that “for the first time in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the people’s spiritual, social and economic lives.”
“Let me use this opportunity to commend the sacrifices of both Muslims and Christians for their cooperation in the enforcement of the social distancing guidelines. I am well aware of the inconveniences these tough measures have brought on the lives of Nigerians, including limiting religious activities and gatherings in large numbers,” the President noted, adding that “No government would intentionally impose these tough and demanding measures on its citizens if it had a choice.”
President Buhari also appealed to other Nigerians “whose businesses and means of livelihoods were badly affected by the prolonged lockdown measures for their understanding and cooperation.” He assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures would not go on longer than necessary because they would be reviewed from time to time to ease the increasing hardships on the people.
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The only problem is that there are several factors that could affect the results if the pregnancy test is not taken during the recommended time.
• The knowledge on how the pregnancy test works is the key to understanding when is best to have the test.
Understanding how a pregnancy test works
Pregnancy test kits, whichever brand you may choose are engineered to detect a hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin in the body (HCG). The hormone is secreted by the placenta in early pregnancy.
• The HCG reads positive on the pregnancy stick if the hormone is present in urine and negative in the absence of the hormone.
Pregnancy test sensitivity is determined in millimeter unit per International units (mlIU). Pregnancy test range in sensitivity from 6mlIU to 40mlIU/ml.
The lower the sensitivity number, the more sensitivity the test, the earlier it can detect pregnancy.
Is taking a pregnancy test at night accurate?
While one may choose to have a pregnancy test at any time of the day, a night pregnancy test is likely to give inaccurate results.
The pregnancy hormone HCG is low in urine at night especially in early pregnancy because of continued dilution during the day.
If you happen to be pregnant, you are likely to see a faint second line in the evening, as compared to a clear second line if you happen to test in the morning.
When is the best time of the day to take a pregnancy test?
Why does it matter what time of the day I take a pregnancy test? For accurate results, it does matter when you take your pregnancy test. Urine fills the bladder while you are sleeping.
The hormone levels in the first-morning urine will be high and easily detected on a test.
• Morning urine is best because of its undiluted nature.
When should you take a pregnancy test after a missed period?
How soon should I take a pregnancy test after my missed period? A day after your missed period is the best time to take a test. An early pregnancy test is likely to be false-negative.
This is because before a missed period the pregnancy is usually low in urine. For best results, you are advised to take your pregnancy test 7 days post a missed period.
• Research has shown that pregnancy tests did a day or two after a missed period is 99 percent accurate.
• The earliest that you can take a pregnancy should be a day after a missed period.
How to take an accurate home pregnancy test
Adhere to the following guidelines and have accurate pregnancy test results:
1. Avoid testing too early
The pregnancy hormone, HCG is released in small amounts during ovulation. If you happen to test early than 14 days post ovulation, you are likely to get a false positive.
Similarly, you may get a false negative if you happen to test before your missed period.
• Avoid emotional torture and confusion by testing at the recommended time.
2. Check validity
It is important to check the expiry date of the pregnancy test you intend to purchase. Additionally, check the packaging and make sure it is not tampered with.
Do not use a pregnancy test that has been lying around in the house for more than a month.
3. Read the instructions carefully
There is always an instruction sheet in the test box. Different brands have different instructions for their pregnancy tests.
• Methods of urine collection, the testing time and symbols differ widely among the test kits.
4. Get familiar with the symbols
It is almost impossible to get accurate pregnancy results if you happen not to know how to interpret the symbols on the strip. There is always a telephone number on the pack. You may call to get clarifications about the symbols.
5. Test as instructed
Do not rush, relax and take your time, collect urine and test as instructed. Also be patient and wait until the instructed testing time has elapsed before you can look at the results.
6. Do not pee on the test strip
For an accurate pregnancy test, get the urine sample in a cup. Peeing on the stick does not give enough concentration to detect the pregnancy hormone.
Also if you collect your urine in a cup, you may take a second test if you happen to doubt the first test.
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Testing using two different branded sticks will erase any doubt in your mind. In case one is faint, and you are unable to tell whether it is negative or positive, the second pregnancy test stick is likely to clear your doubts.
8. Use a sensitive pregnancy test.
The pregnancy tests are sold as per their sensitivity. The most sensitive test kits could be expensive but worth the penny. Clear blue and first responses are the most sensitive pregnancy test on the market today.
The two can detect 11mIU and 6mIU of HCG respectively. For this reason, the two pregnancy tests can be used to detect pregnancy 4-5 days before a missed period.
How accurate are home pregnancy test?
There are several factors that could affect the accuracy of a home pregnancy test. However, the accuracy of the test is 97-99 percent accurate when all instructions are followed to the latter.
In some isolated cases you might continuously get a negative pregnancy test despite the presence of pregnancy symptoms.
Visit your doctor as soon as you can if this happens, you could be pregnant or have an underlying medical issue.
False positive, what could have gone wrong?
Having a false positive pregnancy test is rare. A false positive detects pregnancy while in the real sense you are not pregnant. Here are the reasons for false positive:
1. Prolonged reaction time
If you read the result way past the recommended time, you are likely to get inaccurate results. The pregnancy test changes every single minute, a longer reaction time than instructed could be the cause of false positive.
2. Medications
Fertility drugs that are prescribed to trigger the release of HCG could be a reason for false positive. The impact of HCG clears 14 days after its use. Take a pregnancy test after 2 weeks of fertility treatment.
3. Chemical pregnancy
A chemical pregnancy occurs when conception occurs, but implantation fails. In some other cases, implantation occurs, but a miscarriage occurs afterward.
The pregnancy hormone is produced at the start but clears off shortly leading to a false positive
Is there a possibility of getting a false negative pregnancy result?
home pregnancy test
False negatives are common. There are several reasons for this as follows:
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If you take a pregnancy test before the hormone HCG is secreted into urine, you are likely to get a false negative result. The chances of false negative are high if you take your test before a missed period.
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Urine dilution occurs throughout the day. If pregnancy is done at this time, it could lead to false negative. Morning cloudy urine is highly concentrated and therefore the best for accurate results
Where can you get a pregnancy test?
A pregnancy test is available over the counter at the local pharmaceutical store or on online platforms. Besides, you may opt to visit your doctor for a pregnancy test.
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March 26, 2015
On Work, Resilience and Intent: The Changing Legal Environment
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Task performance is increasingly automated, and platforms for ever more sophisticated problem solving are emerging. Kaggle, for example, invites those scientifically inclined to compete on solving tough problems related to ocean health, flight paths or malware with predictive analytics. Kaggle partners with many leading companies to address issues of strategic importance to them. GE Aviation for one, learned how to save millions in engine fuel through a Kaggle competition.
Such innovation is accelerating. For more than ten years Fondia has been changing legal industry rules and ways of engaging clients. Digital channels (virtual lawyer services) and novel pricing models have been introduced that allow professional law experts to focus on proactively contributing to business decisions.
Inspired by the example set by Fondia, I reflect on some observations that may have bearing on future innovation.
First, as business environments are becoming open in terms of the flow of ideas and innovations, legal astuteness is needed. It is not enough to have a lawyer on the other end of the telephone but employees need to be more skilled in continuously coping with sharing and protecting knowledge. In an article with prof. Sirkka Jarvenpaa (California Management Review, Fall 2014), we identified a number of such interactive revealing practices in an opportunity creation network. These sharing and protecting practices allowed the network participants to innovate together. I suggest legal astuteness is of increasing importance as employees work together across company boundaries. Much like quality became 'everyone's job' in the 1960's, using knowledge to innovate is now 'everyone's responsibility' but it will require astuteness to do so: Know what to share and what to protect, and how. Experienced legal professionals may be good teachers of such astuteness.
Second, business risks are harder and harder to manage in any planned way. New strategies are emerging that suggest continuous testing of company defenses to reveal their vulnerabilities. Cyberattacks exploit such weaknesses. The vulnerabilities are exposed only after someone has managed to breach through. There may be an analog to law here. How resilient is the foundation on which the company builds its legal defenses? Similarly as in cybersecurity, constant testing of the foundation may be needed to find the vulnerabilities before someone is able to exploit them. Perhaps lawyers - on your side – increasingly provide the smart evaluation of such potential exposure?
Third, strategy literature knows the term strategic intent that suggests a direction the company is heading. Strategic intent also describes the ambition that the company sets for itself, perhaps a stretch target or a visionary goal. A few decades ago Canon sought to beat Xerox (and did). More recently, Toyota – before (ironically) succumbing to quality problems, became a larger car manufacturer than the-then-world-leader, GM.
I suggest companies would do well to reflect on their legal intent. In a competitive business environment that challenges companies to consider their innovation strategies, from open to closed, it seems legal intent, or the company's direction and ambition in terms of sharing and protecting its knowledge base, is important. In business models that build on freemium-pricing or that provide the code free, service on charge, or that include a free product in a package of services, or that uses fluid resources from outside the company to perform work, legal intent may increasingly be the most important component in the company's strategy. How do we enhance our competitive edge while building our ability to continue innovating and engaging customers?
Making the client as an effective co-innovator, partnering with competitors or outsourcing key tasks means opening the company's knowledge resources and sharing them with others. The legal intent ought to guide those involved in their engagement and ensure that the company is able to innovate faster than its competitors or otherwise protect its future business potential.
In the world where work is splintering and being shared around – TaskRabbits, Kaggle data scientists and others performing tasks and solving problems and perhaps even finding the soft underbelly for attack – it is easy to lose sight of the big picture.
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The body dysmorphic disorder that’s affecting teen boys, and what to do about it
For individuals with MDD, popularly known as reverse anorexia or bigorexia, the body type desired is not thinner as we see in anorexia nervosa, but bigger and more muscular. Driven by the fear of not being muscular enough, individuals with MDD exercise compulsively, restrict their diets, take protein and other supplements, and even use performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids. | <urn:uuid:d334e65f-70aa-4102-8e94-bdfc53ea02de> | https://obsessiveanxiety.com/the-body-dysmorphic-disorder-thats-affecting-teen-boys-and-what-to-do-about-it/ | en | 0.94189 | 0.423422 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
'I didn't want to': Trump says it's too soon to meet Iran FM | USA News | Al Jazeera
Iran's top diplomat was at the G7 meeting at the invitation of French president Macron.
US President Trump told reporters at the G7 meeting he was not surprised that France had invited Zarif [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]
US President Donald Trump has said it was "too soon" for him to meet Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who made a surprise visit to the G7 meeting in France following an invitation by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron has been trying to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between the United States, Europe, Iran and Russia after Trump pulled out of the deal last year. But Trump told reporters at the G7 meeting on Monday that he was not surprised at France inviting Zarif.
"I knew he was coming," Trump said of the visit. "I knew everything he [Macron] was doing and I approved everything he was doing," Trump said, adding the French president "asked for my approval".
"It's too soon to meet, I didn't want to," Trump said, adding that he wants to see a "strong Iran" and that he was not looking for regime change in the country.
A year after the US's exit from the nuclear deal, Tehran began scaling back some of its commitments under the accord.
In July, Washington imposed sanctions on Zarif, blocking any property or interest he had in the US.
US officials said the censure was meant to send a "clear message" to Iran as tensions further escalated over alleged Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, a significant trade route in the Gulf.
Following Zarif's visit to the G7 on Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran was open to dialogue even though talks with Western countries would have a slim chance of success.
"We should do our job and take action," Rouhani told a crowd in Tehran.
"Even if the odds of success are not 90 percent but are 20 or 10 percent, we must move ahead with it. We should not miss opportunities."
Zarif sent out a tweet on Sunday, saying Iran "was in pursuit of constructive engagement".
"Road ahead is difficult. But worth trying," he said.
In July, Iran's government said it had rejected an offer from Trump for Zarif to visit the White House for talks while the latter was in New York for meetings at the United Nations.
China willing to reopen negotiations
Trump also responded on Monday to growing fears that a trade war between the US and China will lead to a global economic recession.
When asked by reporters, Trump said Chinese officials called American negotiators on Sunday in the hopes of restarting the conversation to solve the dispute.
"They mean business, they want to be able to make a deal. They've lost three million jobs and it's why President Xi is a great leader. It's going to be great for China, it's going to be great for the US, it's going to be great for the rest of the world," Trump said.
The US and China have been entangled in a trade dispute, with both countries levying tariffs on each other's goods, leading to China's currency hitting an eleven-year low.
Trump's comments come shortly after China's top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, said he opposed an escalation of the trade war.
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Cardiologist and the Technician
A technician was removing a cylinder head from the engine when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his car when the technician shouted across the garage, “Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?”
The cardiologist, a bit surprised walked over to where the tech was working on the car. The tech straightened up, and gestured with his surgical-gloved hands and asked, “So Doc, look at this engine. I opened its heart, took the valves out, repaired or replaced anything damaged, and then put everything back in. When I finished, it worked just like new. So how is it that I make $35,000 a year and you make $1.7 million when you and I are doing basically the same work?"
The cardiologist paused, leaned over, and whispered, “Try doing it with the engine running.”
This tip is just to let technicians out there know that they are valued. Vehicles are now almost as complex as the human body. The doctor is just wanting to get the body fixed, mended, and on the road of life. Technicians just want to get the vehicle fixed, mended and back on the road.
There is also another similarity. Doctors have to document everything they did to repair the body so that the doctor and the hospital get paid for what was done. That is why medical billing is such a hot job. Every test and procedure has a code that the medical billing administrator must code to accurately get everyone paid the correct amount. If tests are left off, scans used, and supplies are billed in error then everyone stands to lose.
It is the same with the technician story. What you record in your story is every bit as important as the doctor is. That is how everyone is going to be compensated. When you leave out important information money is left on the table.
Just like medical insurance companies, the automobile industry is looking for ways “not” to pay the entire claim but rightly so. In the world of so much information, it is assumed that if you did not say it, then they should not have to pay for it! And they are right!
This week’s tip is just a little reminder to all of you that your story is as important as the repair.
What you do is valuable so make sure you get the value of being properly reimbursed by stating every test and step taken for accurate payment.
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How relationships become blessings
Whatever be the nature of the relationship, the fundamental aspect is, you have a need to be fulfilled.
Published: 24th February 2013 12:00 AM | Last Updated: 23rd February 2013 01:10 PM | A+A-
For most of you, the quality of relationships that you hold in your life largely decides the very quality of life that you live. When it is playing such an important role in your life, it needs to be looked at. So what is the basis of a relationship? Why do human beings need a relationship at all?
Whatever be the nature of the relationship, the fundamental aspect is, you have a need to be fulfilled. The needs may be physical, psychological, emotional, social, financial, political—they could be any kind. We may claim many things for whatever purpose we have formed a relationship, but if those needs and expectations are not fulfilled, relationships will go bad.
These needs within a human being have risen because of a certain sense of incompleteness. People are forming relationships to experience a certain sense of completeness within themselves. This piece of life is a complete entity by itself, why is it feeling incomplete? Why is it trying to fulfill itself by making a partnership with another piece of life? The fundamental reason is that we have not explored this life in its full depth and dimension. Though that is the basic issue, there is a complex process of relationships as such. There are expectations and expectations.
If you go about doing management with these things, there is no way you can gauge it 100 per cent. If you try to mind-read the other person and constantly try to fulfill their expectations, you will become a wreck. To some extent you have to do it, but that is not the basis of a beautiful relationship.
Fundamentally, why have we sought a relationship? You are seeking a relationship because you want to be happy, you want to be joyful. Or in other words, you are trying to use the other as a source of your happiness. If you are forming relationships, trying to squeeze happiness out of somebody and that person is trying to squeeze happiness out of you, this is going to be painful after sometime.
But if your life becomes an expression of your joy, not in pursuit of happiness, then relationships will be naturally wonderful. Shifting your life from the pursuit of happiness to an expression of joyfulness is what needs to happen if relationships have to really work on all levels.
Right now, your body, mind, emotions and on a deeper level, your very energies, are made in such a way that you still need relationships. If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationships, we call this yoga. All
these efforts are just to become one with something else, because somehow, being who you are right now is not enough.
The whole system of yoga is about this. The word “yoga” literally means “union”. Whatever is the longing behind any relationship, you will never really know that oneness. But if you experience all this life around you as a part of yourself, now the way you exist here will be very, very different. Now relationships will only become a way of looking towards the others’ need, not about your own because you have no need of your own anymore.
Once there are no compulsions within you and everything that you do becomes conscious, relationships will become a true blessing, no more a longing, no more a struggle.
The writer is a world-renowned spiritual leader.
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Why You Need More Than a Time Tracking App to Boost Productivity
Creating a highly productive workplace is critical to the long term success of any business. Productivity allows businesses to increase sales, enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction, improve their bottom line, and realize the full potential of their human resources. It doesn’t just benefit companies - productivity offers many benefits to the employees, too.
By achieving results that lead to a successful and growing business, employees are far more likely to enjoy incentives including bonuses, pay raises, increased benefits, and other perks as the business continues to grow and thrive.
Businesses around the world are searching for useful tools and apps in the hopes of boosting employee productivity. Some of the most popular productivity boosting solutions currently being used are time tracking apps, which log the time employees spend working on various projects, sales calls, cold calls, and other important tasks. Time tracking apps give employers a clearer picture of whether their employees are spending their time working, or scrolling through their Facebook feed for the fifteenth time.
While time tracking apps certainly have their place in an organization, they’re often not a wholly effective way to increase productivity. The only real purpose they have is to assist billing in organizations where employees or contractors bill for time. In order to boost productivity in a meaningful way, your business needs more than just a time tracking app.
The pros and cons of employee time tracking apps
Time tracking apps can be an extremely useful tool for businesses, letting you and your employees accurately log billable hours letting you bill more accurately, as well as better manage and keep track of time spent on projects and tasks. They can also be used to identify tasks that may be taking up valuable time, like responding to emails and meetings, as well as common time wasters like social media and streaming video. By using a time tracking tool to identify these distractions, you can better understand how your employees are spending their time and why they might not be working as productively as they could in a less disruptive environment.
While these are important metrics for employers, time tracking tools can also have a number of drawbacks in terms of productivity. Many time tracking apps are not intuitive and take time to set up, configure, and log time. While this might seem like a minor detail, the amount of time spent manually configuring, setting up, and logging time can eat into employee productivity, completely negating the point of tracking employee time in the first place. There’s also the fact that simply tracking time the spent performing tasks misses out on valuable intangibles like brainstorming and research. Tasks such as these are difficult to track with time as the sole metric, but are essential to employee productivity. In order to accurately measure the full scope of employee productivity, you need to look beyond time.
Is it possible to monitor employee productivity accurately?
Using time as the only way to measure employee productivity simply isn’t giving you an accurate picture. Employers are constantly searching for ways to accurately track employee time, but don’t think about how productive that time actually is. Studies have revealed that the average employee is productive for just 2 hours and 53 minutes of a regular 8-hour work day, meaning that just because an employee spends a certain amount of time completing a task, doesn’t mean that time has been spent productively. With this realization, businesses have started searching for a more accurate way to measure employee productivity, including business insight tools and employee monitoring software.
In order to improve employee productivity, you first need to understand how your employees work. Business insights tools like Prodoscore let you access information about how your employees work, including what tools they’ve successfully adopted, how productive they are within each tool, volume of activity, and much more.
All this information is summarized by a productivity score for each employee, letting you view employee productivity at a glance, how they compare to other employees, and how they measure up to the organization as a whole. With this information at your fingertips, you can work to improve employee productivity by rewarding high performers, reallocating resources to assist employees who are in need of assistance, and coaching lower performing employees.
Discretion and integrations you can trust
Business insights are especially important for businesses currently hosting a remote workforce. Solutions like Prodoscore eliminate the uncertainty involved with working from home, giving you real-time information about how your entire team is working, allowing you to pivot when something just isn’t working for your remote workforce.
When using business insight tools to monitor productivity, employees don’t need to worry about manually logging time or configuring their app - employers can set it and forget it, with the app discreetly measuring employee productivity in real-time without alienating employees or putting unnecessary pressure on them. Prodoscore integrates with all your favorite workplace solutions, including G Suite and Microsoft Office 365, CRM solutions, phone systems like Salesforce and Zoho, and more.
Productivity is so much more than time spent completing tasks - in order to accurately monitor employee productivity, you need real measurable insights. Business insights are the most effective way to understand the way your employees work, letting you improve trust between you and your employees, increase revenue results by addressing productivity issues head-on and allowing employees to focus on what they’re best at, and improve employee retention by letting you accurately recognize the employees who are thriving, and focus your coaching efforts on those who are struggling.
If your business is looking for a way to monitor employee productivity, it’s time that you start looking beyond tracking time. Business insights give you measurable visibility into how your employees are performing, when they’re working best, what their favorite tools are, and what could be done to improve revenue results, enhance employee coaching, and most importantly, boost employee productivity.
Contact us to set up a demonstration of Prodoscore today.
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Weigela My Monet®
Weigela My Monet®
Weigela florida 'Verweig' PP#16,824
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Gardeners have long known the joys of growing Weigela, and even more are going to have the chance with this charming little dwarf! My Monet® only grows 12-18" high and 18-24" wide, making it perfect for small spaces, such as front-of-the-border plantings or containers.
Grown mostly for its variegated foliage -- white to cream edges on sage-green leaves -- My Monet® is decorated with trumpet-shaped, dark pink, hummingbird- and butterfly-attracting blooms throughout summer. It tends to be unpalatable to deer, however, so you don't have to worry about night-time feeders damaging it.
My Monet® prefers well-drained soils but is extremely adaptable to other types of soil, and with its wonderful versatility, you'll change how you've always thought of using shrubs. Its diminutive size allows you to use it in the same way you would a low-growing perennial or annual, as a groundcover, or in a mass planting. Its multi-season color and ease of growth will bring you years of enjoyment, no matter where you plant it!
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How is the plastic bottle made?
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How is the plastic bottle made?
How is the plastic bottle made? The health care product plastic bottle manufacturer will introduce to you below:
There are two main manufacturing methods for plastic packaging bottles: extrusion blow molding and injection blow molding. The main injection molding process for plastic packaging bottles is that in the process of injection molding, the main mold of the plastic bottle used for molding comprises a female mold and a male mold. Use the injection molding machine to inject the plastic melt into the cavity of the mold under the high pressure. When opening the cavity, be sure to remove the male mold from the inside of the female mold and push the bottle out. The following mainly introduces the characteristics of injection molding of plastic packaging bottles.
The melt of the plastic bottle is injected into the parison mold and is subjected to a corresponding orientation effect around the inside of the cavity. In addition, the ambient temperature of the parison blow molding is lower than that of the extrusion blow molding, and the orientation effect generated during the blow molding process can be retained a lot. This phenomenon can improve the overall strength of the plastic packaging bottle and the like. performance.
The size and accuracy of the plastic packaging bottle are high and accurate, and it is relatively easy to ensure the thickness of the plastic bottle wall is uniform and the specifications are the same according to the manufacturing requirements. The surface of the plastic packaging bottle does not form a joint seam, and it does not need to be trimmed after molding. Under normal circumstances, no residual material of the corners is generated, and the scrap material produced by extrusion blow molding is generally 5-30%. The plastic packaging bottle The degree of gloss is relatively high, and the use of transparent polymers to produce molded plastic bottles is more transparent.
The sliding bottom module can be designed on the blow mold of the plastic bottle, so the flexible design of the bottom shape of the plastic package is relatively large. It is more suitable for the manufacture of molded plastic bottles and wide-mouth plastic bottles. In general, most of the plastic bottles used for injection blow molding are relatively small plastic bottles. For products with very complicated shapes, the energy consumption rate will increase significantly.
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ALDS Games Two, 2019
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• We started watching Brokenwood on PBS instead, and I couldn’t stay awake through that.
1. Also, if I were pitching against the Dodgers, I would only throw off-speed pitches and cutters/sliders. Why not? We keep swinging at them.
2. I am still trying to understand this Disquis stuff also I have changed my number.
3. Hey RBI and Link
What is going on? How do you feel about this season’s playoffs? I felt good about the Dodger’s chances until last night. Still I think they have a good shot.
4. I keep replaying last night’s 9th inning. If A.J. had taken ball four, we’d have first and second, no outs. A shaken pitcher would then have to pitch to Muncy. After that, who knows? I really hope A.J. finds his groove. Not to mention Cody. Otherwise, we may not advance.
• Cody is reminding me of Cody last postseason. From Houston MItchell’s Dodgers Dugout column in today’s LA Times:
The Cody Bellinger postseason tracker
Game 2: 0 for 4, 2 strikeouts
NLDS: 0 for 6, 2 walks, 4 strikeouts, 1 run scored
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Lamplighter Gold Rush is Vegan Friendly
by Lamplighter Brewing Co.
Address: 284 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachussets
Checked by: Brigi
Double checked by:
Added: over 1 year ago
Company email (January 2019)
"We're always making new beers, so I can't be certain what those will look like but I can give you some information on the beers we've made up until this point.
Some general information: We don't use a filtration system (a lot of them use algae or fish scales), and everything is brewed, fermented, and packaged in house. We also have a barrel aging program that is aged either in house or in our separate warehousing facility (all of our production is solely operated by us).
We aren't purposefully vegan, and can't promise that there is no cross contamination for allergens, gluten, or animal products. We do use honey in some of our beers (it's always stated in the description, current beers using honey are Lawyers, Guns, and Honey, and Group Theory). We also use lactose sugars in our milk stouts (Moondance, Brunch, After Midnight, Night Cap) so depending on how you are defining your veganism, those may or may not qualify. We get asked about our sours fairly frequently, and although they use "bugs," in this case bugs are bacterium, not actually bugs/insects. Any other beer that doesn't list honey or lactose in the ingredients."
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'Twas the Night Before School...
'Twas the night before school,
And all through the class,
Two teachers were stirring
Amongst the mass...
Of papers, and piles, and tables that were still dirty!
There was so little time to make this place purdy pretty.
The crayons were all hoarded nestled in their boxes with care,
Whiteboards and erasers ready to share...
As we stumbled around in our end of summer daze,
We knew we only had hours before the first day of school craze.
Then, just as predicted, as if the clock heard us call.
Out on the hooks, in our once vacant hall...
22 tiny backpacks and students filled with cheer.
Lined up and ready and looking a little bit like deer caught in headlights.
They found their new desks, with water aplenty...
For the summer was mild, but the first day of school was disgustingly muggy.
We read them a story about a raccoon,
who kisses a hand by the light of the moon.
Then, they quickly glued their own kissing hands for parent goodbyes.
And, we stood with a basket of tissues for any tears in their eyes.
As the parents headed out, we might've heard a holler...
But, paid no attention because it was time for them to color.
We passed out our Welcome Worksheet *freebie*, which helped them keep busy.
While we dug through backpacks and supplies that were making us dizzy.
They colored the front, and gave the back a go!
Writing capitals and lowercase letters, numbers and words...
No first day attempt was considered absurd.
The rest of the day went rather smooth.
Nobody melted, cried, or got lost...
So, we think we're back in the groove?
We ended the day feeling tired as ever.
"Oh well, summer is totally overrated",
said all teachers
So, with a flick of our lights and a ding of our bell,
We just might make it through this back to school spell...
Fluttering Through First Grade
1. Adorable girls....you two are the CUTEST!!!! Glad it went well xoxo
2. So adorable! Looks like you are off to a fabulous start! Can't wait to see what else you have in store this year!
3. Hahaha! Your room looks fantastic, ladies! Looks like you had a good day! :)
Mrs. Wheeler’s First Grade
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Monday, July 28, 2008
The Return of the Killer Trees
Hey there friends. I live in Southern California and I regularly listen to a small radio station by the name of KROQ. I've been listening to that station since forever and after this weekend, I was brought back to a moment where Kevin and Bean could not stop talking about killer trees. I remember several years back, they were obsessed by the "killer trees" and "killer monkeys". There were many accidents around that time where people were smashed by trees or smashed into trees and them, being the dumb asses that they are, said that the trees were out to get us. Well... I'm beginning to think that Hollywood may have gone out and stole their concept.
A few weeks back when my compadre STRONGLY recommended that we watch The Happening. He didn't give anything away and he claimed that Shyamalan redeemed himself with this one. After the disaster that was Lady in the Water, I figured that maybe he righted his wrongs and it was worth a look, especially after he made a bad ass film like the Sixth Sense, I knew he had it in him to make a great film.
Well, it wasn't happening. My babe and I went to check it out and I was semi-disappointed while she was extremely disappointed. lol She straight out said, "That's it!" after the movie. The whole movie attempts to build suspense but fails to do so and when it "climaxes", it doesn't really feel like it cause, well... it's the fuckin' trees and plants that are causing the people to kill themselves. The movie pretty much tries to scare us stupid into believing that the plant life will kill us off unless we start taking care of Mother Earth. Point 1 for the killer trees.
This weekend, we rented out The Ruins. I'm not sure where we say the previews for this but it looked suspenseful and when it came out of DVD, we decided to check it out. The movie lags, big time. Felt like we were forced to watch the first 30 mins or so waiting for something to happen. Americans having a good time in a foreign land (*cough cough Touristas, Hostel, cough cough) and then some bad shit happen to them. In this case, it's the ruins of some city in the shape of pyramids. After the climb the pyramids, the locals will not let them leave, they surround the perimeter of the ruins and will kill anyone who tries to leave it.
Again, the movie lagged it. My wife tuned out about 40 mins into the movie and she started playing some "Pop-it" game on her phone. lol I continued to watch. lol At this moment she made this comment, "Damn, babe, you sure know how to pick em. First it was The Happening, and now this. This movie better not have some stupid ending like some killer trees or plants." Well, guess what... The movie had killer plants. LMAO I didn't tell her that since she was too busy playing the game, but I couldn't believe it and I started tuning out of the movie too and started playing Pop-it on my phone. This movie was a complete disappointment. I think I caught a glimpse of the ending and again, not satisfying. Nowhere near what I hoped for. Point 2, killer trees.
What triggered all of this? Some show my wife was watching on E!, her favorite channel by the way. I walked by and heard something along the lines of "...Ever since her husband, Sonny Bono, passed away..." I'm assuming it was Behind the Music: Cher, or that show True Hollywood Story. Somehow, I brought up the fact that he passed away due to a skiing accident. He swerved and smashed into a tree. That thought brought me think of the movies we saw, and ultimately, to Kevin and Bean.
It's funny how we associate things or make connections with things. I get that all the time. It's pretty common for someone to say to me, "Where did that come from?" lol Who would've thought that Cher would be bring me back to the days of Kevin and Bean where funny man, Jimmy Kimmel was doing sports. lol I still sing his intro song sometimes, "KROQ Sports with Jimmyyyyyy". lol Later!
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Scielo RSS <![CDATA[South African Journal of Chemistry]]> vol. 72 num. lang. en <![CDATA[SciELO Logo]]> <![CDATA[<b>Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxidation of N-acetyl-d-penicillamine in Acidified lodate and Aqueous Iodine</b>]]> The oxidation of the biologically-active thiol, N-acetyl-d-penicillamine (NDPen) by acidified iodate and aqueous iodine has been studied. The stoichiometry of the reaction is 1:1 in which the thiol (RSH) is oxidized to its sulfonic acid (RSO3H) without cleavage of the C-S bond. In excess acidified iodate the reaction displayed a short induction period, followed by formation of aqueous iodine. Overall stoichiometry in excess iodate was 6:5:6IO3- + 5RSH + 6H+ ® 5 RSO3H + 3I2(aq) + 3 H2O. The direct reaction of aqueous iodine and was relatively fast, over within 100 ms and had a stoichiometry of 1:3:3 I2(aq) + RSH + 3H2O ® RSO3H + 6 I- + 6H+. The reaction is essentially diffusion-controlled and our stopped-flow with a mixing time limitation of 1.00 ms could only catch the reaction of the last iodine molecule. This reaction is, however, strongly inhibited by the product of reaction, I-. This is due to the formation of the relatively inert triiodide anion: I2(aq) + I- ® I3-. Mass spectrometry results showed that the reaction proceeds through the sulfinic acid with negligible stabilization of the sulfenic acid. In excess of reductant, the dimeric species is the favoured product due to a rapid condensation-type reaction between the electrophilic unstable sulfenic acid and unreacted thiol. <![CDATA[<b>Photocatalytic Activity of MOF-derived Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu/C/Ag Porous Composites</b>]]> Cu2O/Cu/C/Ag porous composite was synthesized by heat-treatment and wet-chemical method using a typical metal-organic framework (Cu-BTC) as precursor. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis). The results showed that the original structure of Cu-BTC was retained by high temperature calcination in nitrogen atmosphere. Uniform doping of Cu, C and Ag provided a triple trapping of photogenerated electron hole pairs and the Cu2O/Cu/C/Ag exhibited an enhanced photocatalytic activity for degradation of Congo Red under visible light irradiation. Heat-treatment of the MOFs with high temperature is a facile and effective way for preparation of photocatalytic composite with desirable properties. <![CDATA[<b>Production and Characterization of Carbon Molecular Sieves from Bituminous Lafia-Obi Nasarawa Coal by Pore Size Modification with Spent Engine Oil</b>]]> In this work, a carbon molecular sieve (CMS) was produced from a bituminous Lafia-Obi Nasarawa coal. An initial activated carbon (AC) sample was prepared via chemical activation from the coal, from which the CMS samples were then produced through heat treatment processes and carbon deposition from spent engine oil. Spent engine oil was pyrolyzed in order to deposit carbon at the pore mouth of coal-based AC to yield CMS. The effect of reaction temperature and holding time variation on the surface area, micropore pore volume and pore size of CMS was studied. Reaction temperature was varied at 400, 550 and 700 °C while holding time was varied at 30 and 60 min. The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method was used to calculate the surface areas, while the Dubinin-Radushkevich (DR) and Horváth-Kawazoe (HK) methods were used to determine the micropore volumes and pore sizes of the AC and CMS, respectively. The CMS sample with the largest BET surface area (5.824 m² g-1), DR micropore volume (0.172 cm³ g-1) and HK pore size (6.317 A) were obtained at 700 °C reaction temperature and 60 min holding time. In addition to this, a molecular sieving ability test to separate benzene from a mixture of benzene and o-xylene in solution was carried out on the AC and CMS, with the CMS having a selective benzene percentage uptake of 61.36 %. <![CDATA[<b>Comparative Effects of Silver Nanoparticles, Sucrose and Sodium Chloride as Osmotic Solutions for Tomato Slices: Antioxidant Activity, Microbial Quality and Modelling with Polynomial Regression Model</b>]]> This study has reported comparative effects of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), sucrose and sodium chloride as osmotic solutions on antioxidant activity and microbial quality of 10 mm tomato slices. 40 g of tomato slices were dehydrated osmotically (OD) at different temperatures (60,70 and 80 °C) and time (30,60,90,120150 and 180 min). Water loss, solid impregnation, water and solid diffusivities of tomato slices were found to increase with increase in solution temperatures and concentrations with AgNPs having the greatest influence. Antioxidant activities using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl increased with increase in solution concentrations but decreased with increase in temperature. Three-way ANOVA (R² = 0.998) revealed additive statistically significant effects of osmotic agents, concentrations and temperatures on antioxidant activity; F(8(54)) = 67.854, P = 0.00. Polynomial regression analysis with response surface methodology validated experiments such that for each unit increase in concentration and temperature, antioxidant activity increased with good coefficients of determination; sucrose (R² = 0.87), NaCl, (R² = 0.89) and AgNPs (R² = 0.91). Potato dextrose and nutrient agars were used for isolating and identifying microorganisms in OD tomato slices. Tomato slices dehydrated with AgNPs had the highest microbial inhibition of fungi with growth occurring after 7 days, unlike in treatments with sucrose and NaCl where fungal growth appeared after 2 and 5 days, respectively. Aspergillus niger was the most prevalent fungus. It can be concluded that AgNPs may serve as a viable means to dehydrate and preserve tomatoes without loss of antioxidant activity. <![CDATA[<b>Kinetics of Oxidation of Triaryl Methane Dye, Brilliant Blue-R with Chlorine Dioxide</b>]]> The fast decolourization of multi-purpose dye, Brilliant blue (BB-) oxidized by chlorine dioxide was investigated using the stopped flow technique under varied pH conditions by monitoring its oxidation kinetics. The products were identified and reaction mechanism is described, which is confirmed by kinetic simulations. Under [ClO2]0 > [OH-]0 > [BB-]0 conditions, the oxidation kinetics showed first-order dependence on BB- and chlorine dioxide. The overall second-order rate coefficient enhanced with increasing pH, and values were 30.2 ± 0.2 M-1 s-1,42.5 ± 0.8 M-1 s-1 and 117.9 ± 0.8 M-1 s-1 at pH 7.0,8.0 and 9.0, respectively. In the pH range 7.0 to 9.0, the catalytic constant for [OH-] catalyzed reaction was 9.0 X 10(6) M-2 s-1 with energy of activation of 50.06 kJ mol-1. Observed negative entropy of activation of -658.73 J K-1 mol-1 suggests the formation a compact transient activated complex. <![CDATA[<b>Determination of Phytocomponents of Twenty-one Varieties of Smokeless Tobacco using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS)</b>]]> Smokeless tobacco (ST) leaves are being consumed by millions in Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen, where the locally manufactured form is called shammah. We intended to explore and compare the phytocomponents of 21 different varieties of shammah that are commonly available in different cities of Jazan province of Saudi Arabia using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). A total of 61 different constituents were tentatively identified in these samples including both hazardous and non-hazardous compounds. Solvents of different polarity, such as petroleum ether, chloroform, ethanol and water were used to prepare the extracts. Interestingly, a number of new and unusual constituents were identified in some samples. N-methoxycarbonyl-amphetamine was detected as 6.76 %, 4.88 % and 2.58 % of total compounds in Khadrah, Arishi and Sudani shammah samples, respectively. Similarly, the presence of caffeine (0.44-1.41 %) in Adani cold from Jazan city and Abu Arish and Adani hot shammah from Abu Arish suggested the possibility of adulteration. Extremely hazardous arsenic and benzopyran derivatives were present in Sudani shammah from Sabya in small but significant amounts. Furthermore, carcinogenic components were also detected in significant amounts which indicate a relation between ST amounts used and different types of cancer, especially oral cancer. Chemometric hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) revealed the existence of sufficient differences between samples from different extracts based on the polarity and dendrograms. <![CDATA[<b>Air Sampling: A Mini-denuder Sampling Device for Direct Desorption in an Inlet of a Gas Chromatograph for the Analyses of Airborne Gaseous Phase Pollutants and Airborne Particulate Phase Pollutants</b>]]> We introduce a compact mini-denuder air sampling device consisting of a regular gas chromatograph (GC) inlet liner for the simultaneous concentration of separate airborne gaseous and particulate phases in a single-step. Denuder materials are thermally desorbed in a regular inlet of a GC using routine equipment available in any chromatography laboratory. The simplicity of the technique makes it ideal for resource-poor laboratories. <![CDATA[<b>Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Solid Phase Extraction followed by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography as an Efficient and Sensitive Technique for Determination of Meropenem in Human Plasma and Urine</b>]]> A new and selective sorbent for molecularly imprinted polymer solid-phase extraction (MIP-SPE) was prepared to extract meropenem from plasma and urine samples. The extracted analyte was analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with photodiode array detection. Methacrylic acid (MAA) as functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) as cross-linker, azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an initiator and meropenem as a template molecule were used for the MIP preparation. Imprinted meropenem molecule was removed from the polymeric structure using acetonitrile in water (1:9, v/v), as the eluent solvent. Under the optimized conditions, the limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were 35 and 120μg L-1, respectively. The developed MIP-SPE method demonstrates that it could be applied for the determination of meropenem in plasma and urine samples. <![CDATA[<b>Understanding How Chemistry Teachers Transform Stoichiometry Concepts at Secondary Level in Lesotho</b>]]> This qualitative study sought to investigate how secondary level chemistry teachers transform and represent subject matter knowledge (SMK). The study drew its theoretical framework from the notion of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) that foregrounds the teachers' ability to transform and represent SMK for students to understand the content presented. Seven qualified chemistry teachers participated in this study which used questionnaires, follow-up interviews, and lesson observations to collect data. The teachers were observed teaching the topic of stoichiometry to grade 11 students. Data analysis started with a coding system that resulted in themes of meanings suggested by teachers. The results show that chemistry teachers participating in the study were aware of different teaching strategies but their choice of those strategies was not informed by an attempt to transform the concepts. It is argued that teachers' failure to transform concepts will have a negative impact on students' understanding of these concepts. <![CDATA[<b>A Liquid-Solid Two-phase Flow Computational Fluid Dynamic Modelling of the Operational Characteristics Effects on the Cleaning Time of a Circulating Flow Loop</b>]]> Flow loops and computational fluid dynamics are the main research approaches for resolving the hole-cleaning problems. Cutting transport phenomena can be considered as a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) model by using Eulerian assumptions for the turbulent liquid-solid flow in concentric annuli. The effect of time along with the main operational characteristics on the hole-cleaning phenomena is not negligible but recent studies have had paid little attention to it. Poor near bit cleaning causes many problems such as bit balling, decline in the rate of penetration, pipe sticking, etc. In addition to the effect of inclination, drill pipe rotary speed, cutting size, nozzle velocity and fluid viscosity as well as the effect of the bit nozzle arrangement on the cutting transport process were discussed. The results demonstrate that at a critical inclination angle of 30 degrees the cutting transport is inefficient. For all sections, the effect of drill pipe rotary speed was negligible at high velocities. In the horizontal section, at low flow rates and high drill pipe rotation speeds, Newtonian viscous fluids or water has no effect on the time needed for initial hole-cleaning butby removing the drill pipe rotation speed in similar conditions, a dramatic influence on time is observed. In inclined annuli, increasing the cuttings size and decreasing the nozzle velocity result in having no cutting in the output. Under critical inclination (30 degrees) the effect of the nozzle angle pattern on the hole-cleaning time is negligible. However, for a vertical annulus, the nozzle angle significantly influences the cutting transport. The best performance is obtained when the nozzle angle was perpendicular to the drill pipe axes. <![CDATA[<b>Co-encapsulation of Rifampicin and Isoniazid in Crude Soybean Lecithin Liposomes</b>]]> Despite the well-known anti-mycobacterial actions of isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF), the clinical success of tuberculosis (TB) therapy requires prolonged administration of multiple drugs in high doses, which often result in frequent adverse effects and low patient adherence. Although liposomes are promising candidates for controlled delivery of anti-TB drug, the high cost of synthetic and highly purified natural lipids currently used in liposomal technology might preclude the universal application of therapeutic liposomes. This work aimed at evaluating the potential of a cost-effective lipid material, crude soybean lecithin (CL), to co-encapsulate RIF and INH for liposomal dual delivery. RIF was encapsulated in CL-liposomes with/without cholesterol using film hydration method, after which INH was incorporated using a freeze-thawing technique. Dynamic light scattering, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction and dialysis were used for liposome characterization. Liposomes containing CL alone (CLL) exhibited 90 % encapsulation efficiency for RIF and 59 % for INH. The mean size and surface charge of CLL were 1114 nm and -63 mV respectively. In addition, CLL showed a controlled release profile for the co-encapsulated drugs. CLL would be promising vehicles for macrophage-targeting drug delivery. The present findings demonstrate the feasibility of using CL for preparation of combination products for liposomal delivery. <![CDATA[<b>Selective Removal of Organonitrogen Compounds in Fuel using Functional Polybenzimidazole Nanofibres: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study</b>]]> Organonitrogen compounds present in fuel oils are deleterious to the environment as well as refining catalysts. Herein, functional polybenzimidazole (PBI) nanofibres fabricated in the presence of N-compounds (nitrogen-containing compounds) were employed for the selective adsorption of quinoline, pyrimidine and carbazole, largely found in diesel fuel. Adsorption capacities of 11.5 mg g-1,11.8 mg g-1 and 11.0 mg g-1 were observed for pyrimidine, carbazole and quinoline, respectively. Density functional theory (DFT) studies indicated π-π interactions/stacking and hydrogen bond interactions between the nitrogen atom of N-compounds and PBI. The study clearly shows the potential of PBI material use for the selective removal of organonitrogen compounds in fuels. <![CDATA[<b>Mononuclear Schiff Base Complexes Derived from 5-Azophenylsalicylaldehyde with Co(II), Ni(II) Ions: Synthesis, Characterization, Electrochemical Study and Antibacterial Properties</b>]]> In the present research, 1,2-di[N-2-phenylthio-5-azophenylsalicylidene]ethane (H2L¹, 1,3-di[N-2-phenylthio-5-azophenylsali-cylidene]propane(H2L²) and 1,4-di[N-2-phenylthio-5-azophenylsalicylidene]butane (H2L³) were synthesized. ML¹,ML² and ML³ complexes were prepared through the reaction of H2L¹,H2L² and H2L³ with Ni(II) and Co(II) acetate salts. The prepared ligands and their complexes were characterized with FT-IR, ¹H-NMR, elemental analysis, conductivity and magnetic measurements, ESI-mass, UV-Vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The complexes had monomeric structure according to the mass spectral data. All of the complexes had a six-coordinated octahedral geometry. The electrochemical behavior of the ligands, Ni(II) and Co(II) complexes was investigated by CV in DMF under argon atmosphere. The results show that the coordination of Ni(II) causes the ligands to be deactivated. The voltammogram of Co(II) complexes shows that the reduction of CoL¹ is harder than CoL³ and CoL² is inactive. Their antibacterial activity was investigated and the complexes exhibited better antibacterial activity than the free ligands against selective bacteria. <![CDATA[<b>Development of a Thiol-capped Core/Shell Quantum Dot Sensor for Acetaminophen</b>]]> Acetaminophen (AC) is a frequently used pharmaceutical which has been detected in water systems and is of concern due to its potential environmental impacts. In this study, three quantum dot (QD)-ligand systems, namely L-cysteine (L-cys)-, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC)- and glutathione (GSH)-capped CdSe/ZnS quantum dots, were synthesized and tested for the fluorescence detection of acetaminophen. Among the synthesized aqueous core/shell quantum dots, L-cys-CdSe/ZnS QDs were found to be optimal with high sensitivity for the fluorescence detection of acetaminophen. The L-cys-CdSe/ZnS QDs were of a zinc blende crystal structure and displayed excellent fluorescence intensity and photostability and provided a photoluminescence quantum yield of 77 % . The fluorescence of L-cys-CdSe/ZnS QDs was enhanced by the introduction of AC enabling the development of a fast and simple method for the detection of AC. Under optimal conditions, F-F0 was linearly proportional to the concentration of AC from 3.0-100 nmol L-1 with limits of detection and quantification of 1.6 and 5.3 nmol L-1, respectively. Some related pharmaceutical compounds including epinephrine hydrochloride (EP), L-ascorbic acid (AA), uric acid (UA), dopamine hydrochloride (DA) and 4-aminophenol (4-AP) did not interfere with the sensing of AC. The probe was also successfully applied in the determination of AC in tap and river water matrices. <![CDATA[<b>Calcination of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate with Surfactant-assisted Agglomeration - A Non-isothermal Topochemical Approach</b>]]> It has been shown that precipitated calcium carbonate prepared by surfactant-assisted agglomeration (PCC-SAA) provided higher capacity for the carbon dioxide capture during calcination carbonation cycling as compared to commercially available calcium carbonate. It was also shown previously that the capacity was maintained over multiple cycles while commercially available calcium carbonate significantly lost its capacity. In order to understand the differences in the calcination behaviour of the PCC-SAA sample as compared to the commercially available laboratory-grade calcium carbonate (AC) sample, a non-isothermal topochemical approach was adopted to delineate the various controlling mechanisms for calcination of CaCO3. Activation energies were calculated using iso-conversional methods such as Friedman's method, the KSA method, and the FWO method. In addition, the mechanism was identified at different heating rates by applying the Malek's method and evaluated in some cases using the JMA kinetics. Finally, four mechanisms were used to calculate the pre-exponential (frequency factor). Some key differences such as the initiation temperature, and mechanisms were found between the two samples. Generally, it was found that the differences in the two samples were primarily due to the structural causes. It was observed that the initiation temperature for CaCO3 decomposition, activation energies and mechanisms were a function of the heating rates. D2 or D4 was identified as the controlling mechanisms at lower temperatures for the PCC-SAA sample in contrast to JMA (n > 1) kinetics for the higher heating rates. For the AC sample, 3D diffusion process appears to control the calcination of the AC sample. <![CDATA[<b>Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Dexamethasone and Fluoroquinolones; <i>in vitro </i>Study</b>]]> A precise, accurate and sensitive liquid chromatographic method is presented for the simultaneous analysis of moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and dexamethasone in reference drugs, ophthalmic dosage form and in physiological fluids. Separation was achieved on a C1(8)analytical column with acetonitrile-phosphate buffer (35:65 v/v) as mobile phase which was pumped isocratically at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min-1 and monitored at 254 nm wavelength. The calibration curve was linear in range of 40-10 000 ng mL-1. Test results in pharmaceutical and physiological samples showed excellent drug recovery (96.5-102.3 %) with good precision (0.81-2.3 % RSD). Test results were linear to sample concentration and correlation coefficient was more than 0.9990. The small value of quantification and detection levels showed the method to be sensitive enough for use in clinical and industrial investigations of all the mentioned drugs. <![CDATA[<b>Caffeine and Ciprofloxacin Adsorption from Water onto Clinoptilolite: Linear Isotherms, Kinetics, Thermodynamic and Mechanistic Studies</b>]]> In this study, clinoptilolite was used to sequester ciprofloxacin (CIP) and caffeine (CAF), two emergent contaminants, from aqueous solution using batch equilibration method and the effects of contact time, pH, initial contaminant concentration, temperature and adsorbent dosage investigated and herein reported. The adsorption kinetics was described by the pseudo-second-order model (PSO) and pore diffusion was not the sole operative rate-controlling step as depicted by the intraparticle diffusion model. The equilibrium data were modelled using three linear forms of Langmuir equation and Freundlich model and was best fitted by the Lineweaver-Burk linearization of Langmuir equation (type-1). Linearization is shown to induce errors that may lead to discrepancies in parameter values estimation. The derived thermodynamic functions revealed the adsorption processes are exothermic, spontaneous and physical in nature. The adsorption mechanism of CIP is strongly controlled by electrostatic interactions while CAF adsorption is weakly affected by changes in pH. The findings demonstrate that clinoptilolite in its unmodified form is a potential low-cost and eco-friendly adsorbent for removal of pharma-ceutically active ingredients from water. <![CDATA[<b>An Investigation into the Corrosion Rates of Inconel 600</b><b>™</b><b> in Different Corrosive Solutions</b>]]> Inconel 600™, an austenitic high nickel alloy, has relatively low corrosion properties and is used extensively for aerospace and nuclear engineering applications. Other applications include exposure of the material to caustic and acidic environments and possible use in prosthetic implants. Electrochemical techniques, which include potentiodynamic polarization and polarization resistance, provide a means to rapidly determine the corrosion rates and the suitability of the alloy in a specific corrosive environment. The results from these two techniques were used to determine the corrosion rates as well as other thermodynamic properties for the alloy exposed to various strong and weak acids, salt and Ringer's solution. The results showed slight differences in the corrosion rates determined by the two electrochemical techniques, with those from the polarization resistance technique being on average larger. The corrosion activation energies determined for the alloy in different solutions were indicative of the corrosion rates with some anomalies in values for results observed in the 10 % acetic acid solution. The microstructural composition of the alloy was also investigated by SEM-EDS and showed peculiar inclusions that can contribute to an acceleration of the corrosion rates. <![CDATA[<b>Concentration of Total Mercury in Convenience Fish Products and Cooked Fish</b>]]> Convenience fish products are very popular culinary items among South African customers because they do not require any preliminary preparation before cooking. To the best of our knowledge, convenience fish products had never been a subject of analysis for mercury (Hg) content in South Africa. A Zeeman Mercury Analyzer was used for direct determination of Hg in these products after thermal decomposition of samples followed by atomic absorption detection. The Hg concentrations in convenience fish products, namely 'Hake crumbed AA portions' and 'Hake AA portions' was found to be at a very low level (8.2 ± 1.1 ng g-1), and in the other convenience fish products 'Fish bites' and 'Battered mince portions' it was in the range of 48-64 ng g-1. In 'ready to eat' deep-fried fish, the concentrations of Hg varied in a much wider range (from 55 to 306 ng g-1). To estimate the health risk associated with Hg in these products, the safe amount of cooked in-store fish and convenience fish products have been calculated. <![CDATA[<b>Combining Alkali and Peroxide for Pretreatment of Sugarcane Wastes, Bagasse and Trash, for Bioethanol Synthesis</b>]]> The use of agricultural waste material in the production of bioethanol can provide an alternative to fossil fuels that is renewable and readily available. This research sought to use a combination of chemical pretreatments to make available reducing sugars from sugarcane bagasse and trash for fermentation into bioethanol. A combination of alkali and peroxide was used. These results indicate that pretreatment with alkali peroxide is quite effective in reducing the levels of hemicellulose sugars and lignin in particular. The slight changes in cellulose quantities are an indication that alkali peroxide preatreatment conserves the quantities of cellulose and does not result in a loss in cellulose as compared to other pretreatment processes such as acid hydrolysis. The drawback is that this can also mean that the crystalline structure of the cellulose was not disturbed, which could slow down downstream processes of enzyme hydrolysis and subsequent fermentation. The pretreated bagasse contained significantly higher levels cellulose of 48 % and 63 % after pretreatment with 3 % and 5 % alkali peroxide, respectively. This represents a 28 % increase and a 70 % increase, respectively, in available exposed cellulose for use in further processes of enzyme hydrolysis and fermentation. <![CDATA[<b>Synthesis of Indeno[1,2-<em>b</em>]benzofurans using TPAB as Highly Efficient and Recoverable Catalyst</b>]]> Herein we report the synthesis of some novel indeno[1,2-b]benzofuran derivatives by reaction of ninhydrin with cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds including cyclopentane-1,3-dione, cyclohexane-1,3-dione, dimedone, 4,4-dimethylcyclohexane-1,3-dione, meldrum's acid, barbituric acid, thiobarbituric acid, 1,3-dimethylbarbituric acid and indane-1,3-dione. We also used tetra-propylammonium bromide (TPAB) as an organocatalyst. <![CDATA[<b>Experimental, Statistical Modelling and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Concept of <i>Sapium ellipticum </i>Leaf Extract as Corrosion Inhibitor for Carbon Steel in Acid Environment</b>]]> The inhibitive performance of Sapium ellipticum leaf extract as green corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel in varying concentrations in hydrochloric acid has been investigated. To determine the adsorption strength and phenomenon of inhibition, density functional theory was adopted to model the molecular structure of the extract. Also to evaluate the inhibition efficiency weight loss, electrochemical method and statistical modelling was employed. Optimum inhibition efficiency of 89 % was achieved from electrochemical study atconditions of 1.5 g L-1 SE concentration, temperature of 303 K and 1M HCl, respectively. The electrochemical study signifies that the phenomenon of inhibition is under mixed control and the inhibition process is in accordance with Langmuir isotherm. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) of the corrosion particles and surface examination (SEM) confirms the existence of the protective film on the metal surface through the adsorption of extract species. <![CDATA[<b>Molecular Structure, FT-IR, NMR (<sup>13</sup>C/<sup>1</sup>H), UV-Vis Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations on (2Z, 5Z)-3-N(4-Methoxy phenyl)-2-N'(4-methoxy phenyl imino)-5-((E)-3-(2-nitrophenyl)allylidene) thiazolidin-4-one</b>]]> In this study, some molecular properties of (2Z, 5Z)-3-N(4-methoxy phenyl)-2-N'(4-methoxy phenyl imino)-5-((E)-3-(2-nitro-phenyl) allylidene) thiazolidin-4-one (MNTZ) are evaluated using a combination of spectroscopic characterization (FT-IR, ¹H and 13C NMR chemical shifts) and theoretical calculations. Molecular geometry, vibrational wavenumbers, gauge-independent atomic orbital (GIAO), ¹H and 13C chemical shift values and NBO analysis are investigated using B3LYP and PBE functionals with the 6-31G(d,p) basis set in the ground state. The calculated geometrical parameters and vibrational spectra are compared to available experimental data and each vibrational frequency is assigned on the basis of potential energy distribution (PED). The electronic transitions are calculated using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The energy band gap between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies are obtained by computing the frontier molecular orbitals using the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) and PBE/6-31G(d,p) levels along with the global reactivity descriptors. Mulliken atomic charges and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) are simulated using both functionals to find more reactive sites for electrophilic and nucleophilic attack. Finally, the thermodynamic functions (heat capacity, entropy, and enthalpy) from spectroscopic data are obtained and discussed in the range of 100-1000 K. <![CDATA[<b>Kinetic Approach to Determine 3-Amino Methyl Hexanoic Acid in Pharmaceutical Formulations</b>]]> A simple and sensitive colorimetric spectrophotometric method based on application of chemical kinetics was produced and developed for the quantitative determination of 3-amino methyl hexanoic acid (pregabalin) in bulk and pharmaceutical preparations. Ninhydrin, a chromogenic agent was reacted with pregabalin at 70 °C and the absorbance was measured at 575 nm and kinetic correlation was evaluated between absorbance and time. The initial-rate, rate-constant and fixed-time (80 min) methods were employed for the estimation of pregabalin in the range of 10-30ug mL-1 which showed good correlation >0.9990 in all three cases with LOQ values ranging from 1.2-1.5 mL-1and LOD values ranging from 0.76-0.95 mL-1. Method validation was carried out using ICH recommendations and the variables were evaluated and optimized. The newly developed method has useful applications to determine pregabalin in pharmaceutical formulation with good recovery (98.38 to 102.12 %t) and precision (RSD < 1.4 %). Standard free energy changes and association constant were found to be 1.212 X 10³ and -4.747, respectively, as determined by the Benesi-Hildebrand equation. <![CDATA[<b>2,4-Dioxo-1,3-diazaspiro[4,5]decane-3-sulfonic Acid as a Novel Solid Phase Halogen-free Acid Catalyst: Preparation, Characterization and Evaluation</b>]]> N-sulfonated cyclohexylhydantoin (NSCH), a new N-sulfonic acid compound, was prepared and characterized using FT-IR, NMR, 13C NMR, UV-Vis and TGA analysis. The potential catalyst efficiency was examined, using synthesis of chromene, xanthene and hydroquinoline derivatives under solvent-free conditions. All of the examined model reactions gave excellent yields, and required short reaction times. Simple catalyst preparation and work-up under mild reaction condition, with low cost and the ability to recover the catalyst for reuse without significant loss of activity are some of the notable advantages of the introduced catalyst. <![CDATA[<b>The South African Journal of Chemistry 1918-2018: A Celebration</b>]]> In celebration of the centenary of the first publication of the South African Journal of Chemistry, the history of the Journal is traced, with reference to the personalities involved in its development and its relationship with the South African Chemical Institute. The impact of online publishing on the format of the Journal and the ways in which the handling of submitted manuscripts have changed over time are discussed. Some statistics are presented illustrating the changing topicality of the various chemistry disciplines over time, as well as the expansion of the potential pool of authors arising from the internationalization of the scientific publishing field. Reference is also made to the quantitative measures by which the integrity and international acceptance of the Journal are judged. <![CDATA[<b>Un-functionalized Gold Nanoparticles as a Simple Colorimetric Probe for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Dopamine</b>]]> A dopamine (DA) colorimetric probe based on the growth and aggregation of un-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is reported. Upon addition of AuNPs to dopamine at various concentrations, the shape, size and colour change of the nanoparticles results in spectral shifts to higher wavelengths and hence colour change is the mode of detection. The colour change can be easily observed by the naked eye from as low as 5.0 nM DA, even under sub-optimal conditions. Under optimal pH conditions the calculated limit of detection was 2.5 nM (3σ). The probe was successfully applied to whole blood sample and showed good selectivity and sensitivity towards DA. The simple, sensitive and selective probe could be an excellent alternative for on-site and immediate detection of DA without the use of instrumentation and would thus be useful for rapid diagnostic applications. <![CDATA[<b>Structural and Morphological Behaviour and Study of the Colorimetric and Reflective Properties of Commercial Inorganic Pigments</b>]]> Characterization of colourful materials must include reflective, spectroscopic and colorimetric properties. Therefore, powder commercial pigments (Xadrez®) were investigated to identify their structure, morphology, composition and real colour, in order to use them as patterns to new materials. Results from X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and electronic spectros-copy indicated the compounds that give colour to the pigments brown, red, yellow and black as, generally, iron oxides, in the phases hematite (a-Fe2O3), goethite (a-FeOOH) and magnesium ferrite (MgFe2O4), in different proportions. Meanwhile, blue and green pigments contained copper phthalocyanine and other compounds responsible for their colour. Commercial pigments presented different degrees of solar reflectance: the highest value was 44.7 % to white pigment and the lowest 2.2 % to black pigment. Colorimetric data made it possible to calculate the real colour of the pigments, using the free software of ColorMine library, and, then, to assess the colour of new synthetic pigments. <![CDATA[<b>Control of Electric Dipole Moment using Deformation induced by Functionalization of (5, 0) Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes as Gigahertz Oscillators</b>]]> Electric dipole moment (EDM) required for the relative motion of carbon nanotube (CNT) walls in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) such as actuators and oscillators is studied by functionalization. Pristine (5,0) zigzag carbon nanotube with little inherent electric dipole moment (ì) were deformed by adding three -OH functional groups to its end rims. The properties of eight yielded isomers are studied. The Gibbs free energy calculations demonstrate that the eight structures are more stable than pristine CNT. The induced deformation resulted in charge imbalances which developed large electric dipole moments for each case. The values of dipole moments produced for all cases are calculated. The bandgap energy, conductivity, density of state (DOS) and IR spectra of these structures are also computed and analyzed. The study revealed that the location of the -OH positioning (site selectivity) which gives rise to different degrees of deformation has a significant impact on all of the above parameters, especially the magnitude and direction of the electric dipole moment. The functionalization produced large ì of about 6.9 D for 60 carbon atoms nanotube which is higher than in the previous study. Applying an external electric field to the isomers causes the CNTs with large dipole moments to either get attracted or repelled and hence physical movement or oscillation of the nanotube occurs. The frequency of this oscillation is in gigahertz scale. <![CDATA[<b>Speciation Study of L-ascorbic Acid and its Chelated Cu(II) & Ni(II) Complexes: an Experimental and Theoretical Model of Complex Formation</b>]]> Different species of L-ascorbic acid and their corresponding complex formation ability with Cu(II) and Ni(II) metal ions in aqueous medium has been studied in the pH range from 2.0-12.5. The stability constants of different complexes of Cu(II) and Ni(II) with the bidentate ligand, L-ascorbic acid were determined theoretically using MINIQUARD software. Speciation of ligand and complex of Cu(II)/Ni(II) ascorbate were experimentally investigated by the titration method in solution within this pH range. Different Cu (II) and Ni(II)-L-ascorbic acid species percentages with variation of pH were calculated within the studied pH range with the help of another computer programs SIM and SPECIES. Different species distribution diagrams and the equilibria for the formation of the species were also investigated and at higher pH, ML2 species was found to be the major species in the case of both the metal complexes. All the theoretical possible structures of Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes with L-ascorbic acid were optimized and square pyramidal and square planer geometry have been evaluated for Cu(II) and Ni(II) respectively by Gaussian09 software. Their corresponding HOMO-LUMO energy and reactivity parameters such as chemical hardness (ç), ionization potential (I), electron affinity (A), electro negativity (χ), chemical potential («), electrophilicity index (ω) have been calculated in order to provide a better understanding of the electronic structure of complexes with the experimental results. <![CDATA[<b>Solvent Extraction of a South African Bituminous Coal using a Model Biomass-derived Phenolic Mixture</b>]]> A model biomass-derived phenolic mixture was investigated for its solvent ability for extraction of a South African bituminous coal at temperatures of 300-360 °C. A previous study showed that phenol gave the highest extraction yield of 49.5 wt. % (daf) for bituminous coal at 360 °C, with an oil yield of 26.3 wt. % (daf). The phenolic products produced from sweet sorghum bagasse via an alkaline liquefaction process were identified and reported earlier and a model biomass-derived phenolic mixture was formulated, evaluated and results used in this study. The model mixture gave an extraction yield of 37.1 wt. % (daf) and oil yield of 16.9 wt. % (daf) at 360 °C. This solvent mixture was found to be less effective for high extraction yields when compared to phenol at mild temperatures. This could be due to phenol being a better hydrogen carrier than the solvent mixture during the internal redistribution of hydrogen in the coal. The infrared spectroscopy results of the coal and extraction products obtained using the model mixtures showed similar functional groups. These results demonstrate that the use of a model biomass-derived phenolic mixture has the potential to depolymerize coal and produce high-value chemicals from coal. <![CDATA[<b>Novel Coumarin Derivatives: Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity</b>]]> The novel coumarin derivatives (2,3,4,5,6,7) have been synthesized from the reaction of o-acetyloxy benzoic acid with thionyl chloride yielding 2-acetoxy benzoyl chloride, which on further treatment with ethylacetoacetate gave 4-hydroxycoumarin. Substituted pyrazolones and thiazoles reacted with 4-hydroxy coumarin to give pyrazolones and methyl thiazoles related coumarin derivatives. The newly synthesized products were characterized with IR, ¹H and 13C NMR, mass spectroscopic techniques and elemental analysis. The synthesized compounds were screened for their antibacterial and antifungal activity. All the compounds were found to have significant activity against the tested microorganisms. <![CDATA[<b>Structural Characterization and Thermal Properties of the Anti-malarial Drug: Lumefantrine</b>]]> The anti-malarial lumefantrine was characterized in the solid as well as the solution state. The solid state analysis was carried out by single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), DSC, TG-DTG and ATR-IR. The single crystal structure of lumefantrine has been solved. The structure is stabilized via inter- as well as intra-C-H...Cl interactions, intra hydrogen bonding O-H.. .N interactions and C-H.. .O weak interactions. The Hirshfeld surface intermolecular interactions have been studied using the crystal structure. Solution structure analyses have been done by NMR, COSY/NOESY, HSQC and mass spectrometry. The thermal properties were studied by solid-state differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis of the drug under nitrogen as well as in air. <![CDATA[<b>Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Isothermal Modelling of Liquid Phase Adsorption of Methylene Blue onto Moringa Pod Husk Activated Carbon</b>]]> This study focused on the liquid phase sorption of methylene blue (MB) using low cost agro-waste from moringa pod husks. Moringa pod husk was carbonized at 450 °C for 30 min, which was later activated with 0.1 M phosphoric acid. The physico-chemical properties of moringa pod activated carbon (AMP) were determined. The results of the physicochemical parameters are: moisture content (13.6 ± 0.02), ash content (2.61 ± 0.11), point of zero charge (pH ZPC) (7.2) and bulk density (0.6 g L-1). The sample was also characterized using Brunaeur Emmett Teller (BET), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The BET surface area obtained for AMP is 1340.234 m² g -1. The effect of optimized parameters such as initial concentration, contact time, pH, adsorbent dosage, and temperature on methylene blue removal was investigated. The obtained maximum monolayer adsorption capacity value (q max)is 9.5785 mg g-1. The three adsorption isotherm models, namely Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin, were employed to describe the fitness of equilibrium data. The Langmuir equation fitted the adsorbent system better with a R² value of 0.9958. The pseudo-second-order kinetic equation also fitted the data well. 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Reflective Words
Find Your Heart; Find Your Purpose
Your heart will always chase and run after it passions. The heart searches for constant satisfaction and fulfillment.
Like I said in my previous post, Every time you wish for a thing, it’s because your heart desires it. And when those desires finally become a reality, you feel excited. As a being, we are naturally looking for maximum satisfaction.
Your Heart-Source of your Happiness
This will lead us to defining our purpose because if you know why you exist, why you are here and why you are still breathing, finding your satisfaction won’t be difficult. If you understand your heart and its longings, you will know your purpose for living. Remember, your satisfaction is derived from fulfilling your heart desires.
So, my point is, you get satisfaction when you get what you want or what you are chasing or what you longed for. The question, then, is what are you living for? Why are you still here? Why do you keep doing what you do? If you can answer these questions, you may be able to find fulfillment.
I will walk through examples to help resonate this point. At the dawn of each day, the first thing is to get up and get out to work or do something that resides in your heart. This may be to go to work, complete a project, meet for the conference, call a friend, etc. Once your heart finds its desires, your purpose works to align with it to bring you satisfaction.
The reason you do a thing is because it’s been in your heart over a period of time. Search your heart and your desires will not be too far-fetched.
The longings of your heart ( what you really wish or desire) is your purpose for living.
If your purpose is to make the world a better place, the solution is to find the little you can do to make this a reality. Your purpose may be to help sick people, help young children, assist a manager on a project, complete a task, find the cure to a killer disease, support your community, care for the needy, write good stories for others to read, raise godly kids, serve in your church or community, whatever it is, as long as your purpose is well defined, your heart will work to bring this to satisfaction by acting as your driving force.
Therefore, search your heart and you will find your purpose for living.
As I said, your purpose can be just raising your kids in a godly and acceptable manner while a purpose can also be to lead a country where people of all diverse backgrounds have equal opportunity and right to all basic supports, and people living happily within a viable society.
Whatever it is, your purpose is within your heart and will work to bring your purpose to reality.
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By A.M. Adebayo
My name is Adeyemi Michael Adebayo. For many years now, I have been thinking about what I can do to be fulfilled and affect people positively. God impressed in my heart to teach and write what He has put in my heart that this is the purpose of this blog–that you will find resources that bless your life. Be blessed and live a fulfilled life.
Your comment on Living A Better Life is appreciated.
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How to Nurture Your Inner-Child
Inside every woman, there is an inner child. This child is vulnerable; in some people more than others. However, having a vulnerable inner child is not a bad thing. This vulnerability calls forward an awareness for us to take action and meet our needs.
Why is important to connect with our inner child?
Our inner child will act up when our needs are not met. It may be through frequent cold or headaches, asthma, allergies, and unexplained raw emotions. This last one will usually surface around our menstrual cycle. Some people may call it PMS, but upon further examination, you will see that the same emotional issue will come up month after month around the same time. It will arise as a type of discontent for about a week and then forgotten until the following month when it will disturb core again.
inner child
This discontent is the results of unmet needs. It will increase after the age of forty if we don’t give a voice and an outlet for expression and healing.
Having the inner child is an asset for every woman. It reminds us when our needs are not being met. It’s essential that we give her a voice and nurture her to the best of our abilities.
In adolescence, women were taught to let their childish ways behind. She needed to grow up, be strong, and take care of others. As a result, women learn to silence her the voice that advocates for fairness, love, fun and being cared for. We all have seen how children are outspoken, honest and advocate for their desires. That essence still exists in all of us.
What can we do?
Here is a simple exercise to hear your inner child and be guided on how to nurture our needs.
Find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed for 15 to 20 minutes. Turn your phone off; the world will survive without you during this time – trust me. Get paper, preferably a journal so you can refer back to it at a later date, a colored pencil or crayon, and a black or blue pen.
The colored pencil or crayon represents your inner child. The pen represents your grown-up self.
Write these questions with the black or blue pen and answer each one with the colored pencils. Write and answer one question at a time. Let the pencil flow, don’t rationalize, and stay with the question until you receive the answers from your inner child.
1) Why are you upset, angry or hurt (whatever emotion you are feeling)?
2) How long have you been feeling that way?
3) What brought these feelings?
4) What can I do to help you?
5) Then feel free to write an apology, love or nurturing letter to your inner child and tell her everything you want or need to say.
Take your inner child’s advice. She knows what you need.
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1. I really needed this !! I’m 44 yrs. Old and I too have noticed recently that the week before my cycle I feel not like myself as you said “DISCONNECTED ” I put it off as PmS! And also the beginning stages of perimenopause. Now I’m going to do the practice and give my inner child her voice!! Thanks for sharing!!
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‘Hibe and sleep’…
Drawing by Sarah Adam, 7th grade, Doe Creek Middle School
By Christina Harkleroad, intern coordinator
Dani’s Dreams Outdoor Education Center
Now in the midst of winter, some animals are in a stage called hibernation. This is a state of inactivity where their body temperature decreases and their heartbeat and breathing slow down. Their bodies go through this to conserve energy that the animals spent all fall saving up. During fall time, the animals eat an increased amount of food to increase their overall body fat. This allows them to be insulated and they will use it throughout their hibernation period for energy.
Many animals hibernate. Some animals in our area that hibernate are skunks, chipmunks, some squirrels, and some bats. Also, bears hibernate but those are not in our area. They are mainly in mountain regions to our south and east. These animals hibernate to conserve energy in the winter months when food is hard to find. As animals prepare for hibernation, they eat enough food to last them through the upcoming winter months. Their bodies produce special fat tissues around their brain, heart, and lungs to provide extra insulation in those areas.
Animals who use lots of energy throughout the winter days, but do not hibernate, become dormant during parts of the day. This is similar to hibernating however instead of sleeping throughout winter, they sleep for a major part of the day in order to conserve energy. Hummingbirds and some small bats are examples of animals that are dormant for parts of winter.
During winter you see less squirrels, chipmunks, and skunks, now you know that they’re just in hibernation and once spring rolls around, they’ll be back to their playful ways. In my next column, I will be exploring what germination is as spring time grows closer and the flowers begin to bloom.
Check out the Dani’s Dreams Facebook Page to see the Top 10 Coolest Hibernators! Become a Dani’s Dreams Team Member here and find out how to track animals with our winter newsmat! You’ll get a wristband and a certificate, too!
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A Rise in Auto Thefts
According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, a car is stolen every 7 minutes. That’s 205 cars a day, or 74,825 a year. If these numbers seem higher than normal to you, it’s because they are! In 2017 there was a 15% increase in auto thefts across Ontario, with a new form of theft contributing to these rising statistics. If you own a vehicle with keyless ignition, one of those vehicles that can be started simply by having the keys in the car and not in the ignition, you may be at higher risk.
Auto Theft Using Wireless Key Fobs
Stealing a car in 2020 is much easier for thieves – forget the days of hot-wiring. Any car with a wireless key fob can now be tricked. These key fobs are constantly giving off wireless signals, so as long as your keys are in range anyone can hijack and imitate these signals. Thieves are accessing these signals by placing a relay box close to your home in an attempt listen to the specific key fob signal inside, and then forward that signal your car in the driveway. Once they are able to relay the signal, they simply open your car doors and drive away with your car.
This type of theft is occurring in cities across Canada. CBC recently reported on a theft happening as close to home as London Ontario. To read the article, click here.
Another way that thieves are stealing your car is by capturing the key fob signal when you lock your car from a distance at the mall. We have all done it; you leave your car, check that you have everything while you walk towards the mall door. Then realize you haven’t locked the car. A quick press of the key fob and the vehicle is locked. Unfortunately, you may have unknowingly allowed a thief to capture your unique key signal. Using the same relay boxes, thieves are able to capture your key fob signal from afar and gain access to your car while you are shopping.
How Can You Prevent This?
The solution to this is actually quite simple: at home, don’t keep your keys close to the front door. By keeping the keys away from your front door, they’re not able to get a strong enough signal to unlock the door. Additionally, it’s suggested you store your key fob in a metal container with a lid, something like a cocktail shaker works great!
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VIDEO: ‘Morning Joe’ Says Trump Is Like ISIS. Here’s The Ludicrous Reason Why.
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough has joined with the vast majority of liberal left-wing media outlets across the country in attempting to somehow find a way to blame President Trump for the recent attack that went down in a California synagogue, comparing the commander-in-chief to radical Islamic terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Is there anything horrible that happens in this world that isn’t somehow the president’s fault? This is getting ridiculous.
“A spate of shootings during the Trump administration, inspired white nationalists, inspired by different events, but it all seems to come back to the same theme, and that is, again, hatred for Jews, hatred for blacks, hatred for others,” Scarborough said in a clip flagged by NewsBusters. “And you can go all the way back to Charlottesville.”
“And the Trump administration’s doing nothing about it. You look at the former coast guard member who had a kill list of media members, but also the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the Senate, Democratic presidential candidates,” Scarborough continued. “This was a guy that had a kill list, he had a manifesto, he was inspired by a Norwegian mass murderer, a white nationalist who killed over 70 people, slaughtered dozens and dozens of children at a day camp.”
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Scarborough then falsely claimed that “Donald Trump and Attorney General Barr and the Trump Justice Department let [the suspected terrorist] walk.”
MSNBC contributor Chris Watts then made the absurd comparison between Trump and Islamic terrorist organizations.
“If you took a lot of the statements by politicians right now in this country and you compare them to what Al Qaeda or ISIS clerics said that inspired attacks around the world over the last decade, they would look remarkably similar,” Watts said. “This is incitement to violence in many cases.”
Good grief.
You know who is responsible for this most recent shooting? The liberal news media. They are the ones who promoted stories about the Christchurch shooter and his hateful agenda which then inspired this young nutcase to carry out a similar attack.
Or, and this might sound strange, we stop blaming anyone and anything else other than the individual who carried out the crime? That sounds like a healthy dose of common sense, wouldn’t you agree?
The only person responsible for this vile wickedness is the individual who took it upon himself to procure a gun and use it to harm innocent people. Ultimately, this young man made a choice. Were other factors an influence on him? Sure. But those influences didn’t make him do it. He chose that himself.
When are we going to return to a time of personal responsibility? A time when each person is held accountable for the actions and choices they make on their own without immediately pointing the finger and passing the buck?
Trump is not to blame for the hate that is spreading through this country. The mainstream media, which has continually pushed a racially divisive and oftentimes anti-Semitic worldview and message, has helped plenty in that regard.
If these folks want to see a big change made, perhaps they ought to lead the way?
Source: Daily Wire
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ShootQ and Pictage... Worried
Today Pictage announced a price hike in their starter level from $19 to $29 a month. Although is just $10. As it stand right now, Pictage is the most expensive online proofing system with the worst customer service (this does not mean that is bad, but that compared to all the other alternatives is the worst).
For example, Smugmug is at least half the price of the Starter level and the sales fee is only 15% compared to 20% for Pictage. And SM offers 24 hrs 7 days a week support and typically, in a slow day, you get an answer within two hours.
But what bothers me is the explanation for the price increase. "To keep" non pro out! So, to keep non -pro out I have to pay more?
Then, we are told that we are getting free album design... yeah but is not really free because to make an album through Pictage is more expensive. As a matter of fact, they few things they are adding are things that benefit them more than us.
I wondered (and I did ask them) why not better lower the 20% to a 15% or allow us the be able to use the free album design but use our own album company? Why not make sure that those using Pictage are really pro photographers? The response? those things are two subjective... and if you cannot pay $10 more a month you are basically... cheap. Hec, If I was paying $99 a month for Pictage I think I can pay $30, but I am just not willing to drink the kool aid.
So, How all these ties up with ShootQ? Because ShootQ belongs to Pictage. Because their reasoning shows the mindset of the company that owns ShootQ. And I do not like it. And I am concerned that a tool that I love and have built my business around (ShootQ) will be affected by the Pictage "Kool Aid" mentality. I am concerned to the point that for the very first time since 2008 and I am seriously entertaining the idea of checking what else is in the market.
I hate to say it, but for the first time I regret the sale of ShootQ to Pictage.
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“I see wit’ my hands!”
Owen was on his tippy toes, shouting, trying to upend a fragile art creation of Leonora’s from where it rested just out of his reach upon a shelf.
We’ve all heard the expression, “Look with your eyes and not your hands.” Idioms, expressions, euphemisms. They’re a reminder of how confusing the world can be for those that are neurodivergent. Sometimes the misinterpretation can be simply awkward and results in hilarity but unfortunately the miscommunication can venture towards dangerous as well.
Case in point, we woke at 5 a.m. this morning and Owen requested his latest obsession, the Lego movie. I explained that we all needed a break from watching it but we could do a “marathon” of Bob’s Burgers episodes instead. His eyebrows furrowed in a confused knit and Leonora hesitated before shouting “ok” as they peeled away from my body trapped under the covers.
I stumbled through assembling a quick breakfast and marveled yet again at the ritualistic habits of my offspring. I’m a creature of habit in regards to a few things but I certainly don’t hold that title compared to them. They waited patiently, under their velour blankets on the couch, huddled together like survivors from a natural disaster. In reality, it was simply their morning tradition as they waited for breakfast.
“Ok, who’s going to help me?”
They scurried out and raced behind me on my heels towards the kitchen to line up like goats at the half door. A sight, no matter how I feel or how tired I am, that brings a smile to my face. Even if I’m too tired to show that smile.
“Ok, we ready for our marathon?”
They looked apprehensive and Leonora nervously asked, “What’s a “marathon”?”
I groaned, apologized, and explained. They both looked relieved and she giggled, “I thought you meant we were going to go running.”
She looked over my shoulder outside into the dark. She wasn’t joking. They both were visibly frightened then thankful to hear otherwise. Moments like these remind me how carefully I have to monitor my language choices. A simple error in diction can result in hours of miscommunication. There are no safe assumptions. Clear, written instructions with a time table is how we make it through the day. It’s antithetical to every fiber of my being.
I like being organized and knowing my options for the day but having to schedule everything down to the minute is a little too reminiscent of working in corporate America for my taste.
So later that same morning we go to a park as agreed at the appointed time. One that’s a short drive from our house that’s in the shade, rarely crowded, with plenty of safe yet challenging equipment to climb, and is liked by all of us. Great, right? Except we happen to show up on a day that a family has decided to celebrate their child’s birthday ON the playground WITH a pinata…yeah.
It took a lot of patience and many speedy exits over the years to find a handful of parks, restaurants, and venues that work for our family to attempt a social outing. Even now, those tried and true spots are still rife with peril. Like that day. A moth to a flame, there was no deterring Owen from that pinata and that baseball bat. The collection of adults and kids made no move to include us and outright glared as Owen melted down under their stares.
Jamie gathered him up and carried him away to the car so he could melt down in privacy as I steered Leonora away to the swings. She silently climbed onto the swing and made no comment about what just transpired. I pushed her in the swing until she asked me to stop. I stepped around to gauge her expression but it was blank as she continued watching the birthday party from a distance. Her face brightened as I seemingly read her mind.
“It’s not fair of those people to take over the playground like that, huh?”
She smiled and looked down.
“It’s a public park. I don’t blame Owen for being confused about why he couldn’t join in. I understand.”
She shifted her body and leaped onto the swing so she was soaring on her stomach. I watched her and tried to remember when I felt that free and protected. Not for the first time, I thought about how all the parenting approaches and self help books can’t replace the simple act of being there for your child and showing them that you see them. That you try to get them and know them where they’re at. They don’t care if you’re using the correct vernacular or fulfilling a checklist of actions. They just want you.
Owen returned and looked a bit happier and we all were relieved to see that the birthday party had given way, pinata demolished and shared without a trace left, and the playground open once again for its proper use. Our friends weren’t able to make it and I exchanged a look with my husband that he didn’t understand and I was met with, “What?”
We gathered flowers in the field and waited a little longer then gave up to go eat. The disappointments were mounting in Owen’s mind and I was fearful of where the day was going. It was well intentioned if not misguided that we then decided to go out to eat for lunch. All started well and Owen was trying so very hard to stay in the booth, food came quickly, everyone was eating happily but it’s always the least likely action or event that can tip his sensory balance.
Leonora finished coloring the back of her kid’s menu and presented it to Owen, “Look Owen, I drew you!”
It was an amazingly accurate and flattering drawing that most adults would find difficult to accomplish much less to do so on a scrap of paper with crayons in less than five minutes. Yet Owen is very sensitive to how he’s viewed because of being bullied and it’s taken a lot of effort to get him to like seeing his reflection in the mirror or in photos. It was the feather light straw that broke his back because, to him, she was saying this was how he actually looked. There is no ambiguity in his world and he mistook this offering as an insult since other kids draw pictures of him to be cruel.
He grabbed the picture, crumpled it into a wad, slid under the table and commenced pounding and screaming, “NO!”
We paid up and went outside to let him run in circles where his mood immediately changed. I reassured Leonora that he liked the drawing, that it was impressive, and that his meltdown had nothing to do with her. In fact, by the time we got home, the picture was proudly displayed on the wall and Owen had no reaction to it whatsoever. That’s a typical day in our house. The mercurial emotions run up and down the barometer without warning. Much like the weather on an island, if you don’t like it just wait ten minutes and it’ll change.
Here’s to all of the caretakers, careworkers, parents, neighbors, friends and family of our little emotional pressure pots. May the weather be fair today for you on Mother’s Day and if not that it changes quickly. To all of you who care for others, young and old, thank you. | <urn:uuid:b2ce9443-f0f1-4d56-9093-b4ec77c5dcb2> | https://kelsokids.org/2019/05/12/i-see-wit-my-hands-2/ | en | 0.979395 | 0.035442 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Kristal did this to herself
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:15:13 GMT
I started season 2 yesterday while on a mini road trip. I have to say, the more evidence I hear and the deeper into the season I get, the less and less I have sympathy for Kristal in any way. 1. She abandons her daughter to go do drugs in the mountains of Colorado under the guise of some “spiritual” mumbo jumbo. 2. I strongly believe she set up Eli to get killed so that she’d have full custody of Kasha and the guy didn’t succeed. 3. She made a conscious decision to live a destitute lifestyle despite having a family to care for. 4. She seems like an all around degenerate who would’ve wasted her life away or overdosed on something either way. 5. By all accounts, she chose to hang around the shadiest and most sketchy people in creating which is saying a lot for crestone. Kristal is a bad person, I don’t feel bad for her one bit. The only person I feel bad for is her daughter who will have to eventually live with the fact that her mother abandoned her. Keep in mind, Kristal abandoned her daughter BEFORE she was murdered. Kasha already didn’t have a mom by the time she was killed
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 07:16:49 GMT
possible, and unlikely, remember it is always the easy explanation that is the most tru. all the conspiracy’s are most likely our way of comprehending an treble incident, to make it more then just something of a simple act of chaos and anarchy. although your theory makes for an interesting twist for a detective novel :) .
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:31:55 GMT
Wow. That's a scummy take. Also, where is there any evidence that she set Eli up to be attacked? And by all accounts she was constantly in touch with and visiting with Kasha in person. Kasha certainly seems to have loved her. Just because someone doesn't fit your beliefs of what a mother or father should be doesn't mean they're a bad person. Nor does the fact that she fell into drugs or was a poor judge of character. Similarly, the entire implication of your post, that we somehow shouldn't value this life enough to look into her disappearance, or that the victim is somehow to blame for her own rape and murder is so completely despicable. You should be ashamed of yourself. | <urn:uuid:08e4b6f4-8b1f-4f74-95f6-1cd4bacd5b5c> | https://muut.com/i/upandvanished/season2-comingaugust20th:kristal-did-this-to-herself | en | 0.976204 | 0.144942 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tofu and Peanut Fried Rice
Aug 24, 2010Dinner, Recipes
This meatless main dish can be on the table in about 20 minutes. It makes a hearty and satisfying entree, but can also be served as a side dish, making it ideally suited to serve when you have both carnivores and vegetarians at the table.
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons lower sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 (14-ounce) package extra firm lite tofu,
drained and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
4 teaspoons minced ginger
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup frozen peas and carrots, thawed
1 1/2 ounces unsalted peanuts
3 cups cold cooked white rice
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1. Combine the hoisin sauce and soy sauce in a small bowl.
2. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high. Add the tofu and cook until lightly golden, stirring occasionally, 7-8 minutes; transfer to a bowl. Add the eggs to the skillet and cook until set, breaking into smaller pieces, about 1 minute. Transfer to the bowl with the tofu.
3. Return the skillet to the stove over medium-high heat and add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Add the ginger and garlic; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add the peas and carrots and peanuts; cook 2 minutes. Stir in the rice and cook until hot and well mixed, 3 minutes. Add the tofu and eggs and cook until heated through, 1 minute. Stir in the hoisin mixture and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Remove from the heat and add the green onions.
Nutrition Information:
419 Calories, Protein: 20g, Carbohydrates: 47g, Fiber: 4g,
Fat: 17g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 93mg,
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How to Select Eye-Catching Colour Combinations - Part 1. Tone
May 25, 2015
Selecting multiple colours for colourwork projects can be a daunting task. There are just SO many colours and SO many choices that it can become really overwhelming. Fear no more! Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some tips about how to put together eye-catching colour combinations. This week we'll be looking at tone.
Tone is defined as the lightness or darkness of a colour.
It's a well-known fact that tone plays a huge role in making or breaking a colourwork project. Tone, quite simply, is the lightness or darkness of a colour. When it comes to colourwork, you want your colours to vary in tone as much as possible. If there is not enough variation in tone, colours will simply fade into one another and the colourwork pattern will be lost. There is, however, a simple 'light, dark and bright' method that I use when selecting colours, that will help you focus on tone when you're selecting yarn for your next colourwork project.
Light, dark and bright
To explain the light, dark and bright method, let's pretend that you're wanting to knit the very popular Colour Affection shawl by Veera Välimäki (pictured above). Say you're shopping online or browsing through your LYS, looking to buy three skeins of sock yarn in different colours to make this shawl. Start off by selecting one colour, something that really draws your attention; this will be the colour that you will use to base your other choices on.
Tip! If you're shopping online, use the cart to help visualise your colour combinations. Most carts will display your yarns in a list formation, which makes it easy to see what they will look like together.
Step 1. Decide if the colour that you've just chosen will be the light, dark or bright tone in the trio. For example, I chose Citrine, a greenish yellow and I've decided I want this to be the light colour in my project.
Step 2. Now that I have my light colour, I need to select two more colours that are darker and brighter. These colours don't have to come from the same colour group, they just needs to be darker and brighter in tone. So, after looking around I've chosen a navy blue that will act as the dark tone in the trio.
Step 3. I have my light and dark colours, all I need now is a bright. Again it doesn't have to belong in the same colour group, it just needs to be brighter than the other two skeins. You want this colour to really pop! I've chosen a bright fuchsia.
And here is my colour combination:
When knitted up, this trio of colours will contrast really nicely together because they all differ significantly in tone: one is light, one is dark, and one is bright.
Tip! For a never-fail colour trio, select a light and dark neutral of the same hue (for example, grey) then add a bright pop of colour like fuchsia, lime or yellow.
What happens if you're wanting to select only two colours?
For projects that only require two colours, like the Daybreak shawl by Stephen West, you can still use the light, dark and bright rule, but this time you only need to select two tones - a light and dark, a light and bright, or a dark and bright. In the picture below we can see that Stephen West chose a dark brown with a bright rusty orange. Both colours contrast really nicely against each other; as you can see, the orange really pops against the dark brown.
What about projects that require four or more colours?
For projects that require more than three colours, like Kate Davies' beautiful Fair Isle cardigan Cockatoo Brae which is worked with six contrast colours, you will need a selection of light, dark and bright colours. It's really important when selecting colours for fair isle designs that you use the light, dark and bright rule - otherwise if you use colours that have a similar tone the colours will merge together and the design will be obscured due to lack of contrast. Don't be afraid, just use the three steps mentioned above. First, select a background colour. If it's a light background (like Cockatoo Brae), make sure the rest of the colours are darker and brighter or, if the background is dark, choose light and bright colours. In Kate's design, she chose a light, white background with contrasting bright pops of red, yellow and blue, and dark green and purple.
Tip! Use an image editing app on your phone or tablet to test tonal differences between colours.
Photographic Evidence!
You've gathered your yarns, but you're still not sure if there is enough difference in tone between each colour. Don't panic, this is where technology comes to the rescue! Grab your mobile phone or tablet and take a picture of all your skeins side by side. If you're shopping online you can still use this method: all you need to do is take a screen shot of your cart, or simply use your phone or tablet to take a picture from your computer or laptop. Now, upload the picture to Instagram, VSCOcam or any other photo editing app that enables you to add a black-and-white filter. After you have turned your picture to black and white, you will easily be able to see if there is any difference in tone between your colours. For example, let's look at the colours that I chose above for the Stripe Study shawl. Here they are again in colour, and below in black and white:
As you can see, there is a huge difference in tone between these three colours. The first colour is a light grey, the second is a dark grey/almost black and the third is a medium shade of grey. We can now be confident that these colours will contrast nicely, and thus make an eye-catching colour combination. Now let's look at another example, one which shows a colour combination that has little or no difference in tone:
See how, in the black-and-white picture, there is little-to-no difference in tone between these three colours. They all appear to be a similar shade of grey. This particular colour combination would not contrast well together and should be avoided.
To Sum It All Up
• Tone is the most important factor that can make or break a colourwork project.
• For a colourwork project to pop vibrantly, each of your colours must differ in tone.
• To help you focus on tone when selecting colours, use the light, dark and bright method.
• Use an image-editing app on your phone or tablet to test tonal differences between colours.
I hope you have found this post helpful! Next week we'll be exploring the colour wheel and how to use it when selecting colours for eye-catching combinations. If you've found this post useful, please let me know in the comments below and be sure to share it with your fibre-loving friends.
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Building the Mary Rose
The ship the Mary Rose was named after King Henry VIII’s favourite sister Mary Tudor, who, ironically was once the bride of the King of France Louis XII…
The building of the Mary Rose was a critically important action in the reign of King Henry VIII who invested heavily in guns and fortifications. The threats of an invasion by France and Spain dominated much of his reign.
King Henry VII built the great dock in Portsmouth in 1495 and it was there that the ship the Sovereign was ‘docked’ in 1496. It is therefore unsurprising therefore, that King Henry VIII chose to use the dock at Portsmouth to build new war ships to bolster the fleet.
Portrait of the Mary Rose
Portrait of the Mary Rose from the Anthony Roll
So what was Portsmouth like in the early C16th?
When King Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509, one of the first tasks he undertook was to ensure that he had sufficient ships and arms to defend against England’s enemies. Between 1509 and 1512, Henry set about building himself a new fleet.
Portsmouth was a small town which thrived in times of conflict, contained by its city walls and thronging with craftsmen, sailors and itinerant workers. It had the reputation of being a rough and disease ridden place but perfectly placed to defend against a French attack.
The Portsmouth hinterland was able to provide all the necessary materials for ship building. The great Forest of Bere and the Wealden forests to the north supplied the massive oak timbers needed to make the ship’s frames. Nails, brackets and bolts came from the iron foundries of the western Weald and closer to home the blacksmiths at Havant forged the nails.
The town would have thrived during the ship building, workers needed accommodation, food, ale and all the other things necessary to while away the lonely evenings, plenty of work for all.
Henry’s first ship was the Sovereign and then the keels of two more ships were prepared, the Mary Rose and the Peter Pomegranite. This was just the beginning in these three short years Henry had built 9 new ships, rebuilt two others and captured or purchased ten others. The Mary Rose was just one of many in Henry’s new army.
Who built the Mary Rose?
The shipwrights who built the King’s ships were highly skilled and highly prized men. The King placed great value on their skills and so it is no surprise to learn that they were given bed and board, they had a coat allowance and 2 1/2d per day for bread, beef and ale. Cooks prepared their food, chambermaids made their beds, which were lavish for the time with flock mattresses and blankets.
The men who built the Mary Rose were as well looked after as any servants in the King’s household.
What was the Mary Rose used for?
The Mary Rose was just one of a hard working fleet of ships and some of her movements can be traced through documents such as accounts from the ‘Clerk of the Kings Ships’. From this we know that the Mary Rose was moved from Portsmouth to the Thames in 1511 where through the rest of the year the ship was fitted out with decking, rigging and armaments.
Finally the ship was adorned with banners and streamers, all painted in the King’s colours and moored on the Thames, close to Greenwich Palace and the King’s quarters. She was set for war if necessary but her first task was to protect the Channel and keep it clear of enemy, that is French ships.
The new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth provides fantastic detail of the life and times of the Mary Rose.
First battle for the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose became the flagship for Admiral Sir Edward Howard and in August 1512 she left Portsmouth to lead an attack on the French fleet at Brest. The attack was successful, with many French ships and prisoners taken and brought back to Portsmouth. These skirmishes continued with the Mary Rose dominating the fleet. She was refitted in 1536. By 1538 the threat from a combined French and Spanish attack grew to such an extent that King Henry set about fortifying the southern coasts, including the building of Southsea Castle.
The sinking of the Mary Rose
In 1545 the French had amassed a huge number of ships and men with the intention of attacking Portsmouth and destroying King Henry’s fleet in its own harbour. The English strategy would be one of defence and confidence was high. The details of the battle in which the Mary Rose sank in 1545 can be read in the post The Battle of The Solent. In reality it was not a great battle but more of a skirmish and contemporary reports talk of the Mary Rose heeling, that is leaning heavily to one side. She was heavy with cannon and men, many of them unused to being on a ship and unable to take orders.
The Mary Rose, her gunports open continued to heel, water surged in and she sank, quickly and unexpectedly, in front of her King, with most hands lost. It was an undignified end to one of King Henry VIII’s greatest ships.
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