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After the fire
for New Frame, Lesvos 2020
On 8 September 2020, Moria Camp, the biggest refugee camp in Europe and a symbol of the continent’s inhumane policy towards migrants, burst into flames.When the fires broke out, people left in a panic, grabbing their children and leaving behind their few possessions. When the fires broke out, people left in a panic, grabbing their children and leaving behind their few possessions. Many settled on a one-and-a-half kilometre stretch of coastal road, close to Mytilene, the small capital of Lesbos. Migrants slept on the pavement and used trees and foliage to erect makeshift shelters to protect themselves from the sun. It seemed unthinkable, but life had just become even worse than in Moria. There was limited access to food, water, sanitation or health care. Greek police erected checkpoints at both ends of the road, keeping people in.
Hopes that they would be transferred to the mainland were shattered when information came to light that a new camp was being built. Many were afraid it would simply be a continuation of the situation they faced in Moria and refused to leave the stretch of road. For over a week, daily protests were held, calling for their freedom. These were met by Greek security forces, who used teargas and stun grenades on the protesters. But the will to resist was quashed as it became known that unless they moved to the new camp, their asylum applications would not be processed. In the new camp, a policy of deprivation continues, with limited access to food, water and health care and no proper sanitation facilities. People who have tested positive for Covid-19 are in a separated area but get no special treatment. The experience of the fire, living on the street and now the uncertainty of the new camp, puts a heavy burden on the already strained mental health of many in the camp. |
We are witnessing a shift in medicine toward using innovative technology to enable prevention, maintain good health, provide more accurate diagnostics, and safer procedures. Also, these investments are expected to reduce the number of hospitalizations and the costs involved.
The healthcare system is rapidly evolving, and the digital transformation that will change the way the patients are treated is already here! Let’s take a look at six significant tech trends that will transform medicine as we know it.
Augmented reality and virtual reality in healthcare
AR and VR are expected to enable significant advances in healthcare. These digital technologies promise to allow medical experts to observe organs through high-definition visuals or in a 3D format, making accurately diagnosing the symptoms possible. They’ll be able to zoom in on problem areas. And when it comes to surgery, precision will be ensured as doctors will be able to rehearse the entire operation on models and explore potential outcomes before the real thing.
VR has the potential to assist in training clinicians via simulation, and also educate the patients. Simulated environments can help in coping with stress, PTSD, foster improvement in motor deficiencies (e.g., following a stroke), and even help fight memory loss.
Blockchain and data security
Blockchain technology is expected to improve the security and privacy in the healthcare system through a decentralized list of records linked through cryptography. Unfortunately, data breaches are not uncommon in this industry, so the integration of blockchain in healthcare is a step towards preventing hackers from stealing patient information.
These systems will protect patient data with passwords, with patients themselves granting access to their records when needed. Also, imagine you have traveled to another country and need a health intervention immediately. Blockchain could provide doctors fast access to your medical record.
Energy-efficient lighting technology
Energy costs for healthcare facilities can be high, so many hospitals and other healthcare institutions have already switched to LED technologies in order to improve efficiency and reduce the energy bills. Advancements in LED lighting technologies have allowed more than just energy savings (by up to 70 percent). Specialized lighting for clean room spaces makes difficult and delicate visual tasks easier for the medical staff to perform by providing excellent illumination. Also, LEDs have a longer lifespan and don’t require an expensive recycling process, thus reducing maintenance costs.
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
AI, along with machine learning, is a life-changing 200-billion-dollar industry that can transform the lives of millions of patients. It can improve and monitor their health by diagnosing diseases and treating people. Artificial intelligence will be invaluable in conducting medical research and monitoring and predicting epidemic outbreaks. It is even predicted that clinical AI will be able to provide cognitive behavioral therapy.
It is expected that this innovative technology will dramatically change the healthcare industry in the next ten years. And by 2035, autonomous AI will start replacing human doctors.
The internet of medical things (IoMT)
The IoMT consists of connected medical devices, sensors, and software applications that have a critical role in testing, monitoring, and diagnostics. Wearable medical devices like smartwatches or smartphones with health-related mobile apps can track and prevent disease, allowing patients to get health updates more frequently. This is especially important when it comes to high-risk patients so that MDs can have real-time health monitoring. There are various smart devices like EKG monitors, ECG, smart beds, and many more that can provide better health outcomes to patients.
Although chatbots have been initially invented for the business world, they have found their use within the healthcare system. They can deal with routine inquiries, allowing professionals to focus on more complex matters where their full attention is required. The healthcare chatbots could track patient health and analyze the data, enabling clinicians to focus on diagnostics and treatment.
Chatbots can also serve as assistants to the older people and provide timely reminders. Soon, we can even expect to see a humanized version of chatbots expressing feelings and empathy, which could allow the chatbot to assess the patient’s mood along with the other symptoms.
The potential of the newest health technologies is enormous. With the right tools and investments, we can expect improved accuracy, better treatment decisions, security, and timely predictions. |
Jesus and the Blind Man – From Father Andrew Bahhi
Today is the 6th Sunday of the Holy Lent, where we read the Miracle of the Blind Man. In the Bible, we see 3 times about Jesus Christ helping people who suffer from blindness. In each time, Jesus helped in different ways to heal them.
Today according to the Gospel of Mark, we read when Jesus helped a man called Bartimaeus or in Syriac called Bartimay. (Timay means somebody valuable, who has a very special place).
When we read the gospel about this miracle, we can say Bartimay was a man who was sitting on the side of the road begging, asking for money & help. On the side of people, there was an unknown person. He was not really an important person for his society. But in the eye of Jesus, he is Timaeus, which means very valuable.
In book of John 14, Jesus was talking with his disciples about himself and how important it is to follow his way. As we know Thomas is the one who doubts all the time. He asked Jesus “Where are you going, and how can we know the way?”. Then Jesus said “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
So, this miracle is very important for it’s the last Sunday of the Holy Lent. Next week we are celebrating Palm Sunday. In other words, If anyone feels unworthy or underestimates himself, Jesus Christ is saying to us on this Sunday that we still have hope if we come to Him, we cry out to Him.
There are six actions we need to emphasize on this miracle.
The blind man was sitting on the side of the road, begging, he heard Jesus, the blind man cried for help, the blind man threw his clothes and followed Jesus.
These actions on this miracle are drawing a map for the broken hearted. Or for the ones who underestimate their abilities or the ones who don’t trust themselves.
We each have ways to live our lives. The way of working, the way of fasting, the way of your relationship with God etc. This miracle shows us if we are not sitting on the way of Jesus Christ, we will end up on the way of the world. In other words, our prayers cannot move a mountain or we cannot help ourselves grow up spiritually.
So, when Jesus saw this blind man sitting by the side of the road, he wanted to change his way, get the good out of his heart. He wanted to change his life and show a good example to the people around him who thought he was a worthless person with no hope. As you are sitting on the side of your life, maybe it’s time for you to determine in which way you should go.
The blind man was begging for money, as we in this world are begging for love, forgiveness, need for care, attention and good words.
The blind man heard Jesus and cried out saying “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Luke 18:36-38). This verse tells us how much our prayers, cries and our faith to Jesus will change our lives.
And when people tried to calm down the blind man, he was crying out even louder and louder.
So, when we pray and God doesn’t answer our prayers, we should not be discouraged, deceived and stop praying. We should always trust the power of the Almighty one. When you call upon Him, you should know that He will answer.
As Jesus heard the blind man and called him, the blind man threw his clothes and walked to Him. If you want to come to Jesus, you need to throw out your old nature to confess and kneel down to Him telling “I love you and I believe in your mighty”.
Jesus asked the blind man “What do you want me to do for you? Luke 18:41. When Jesus asks you what you want, do not hesitate to answer, but do not ask for your material needs. Ask first The Kingdom of God. And everything else will be given to you abundantly.
It took just one word for Jesus to help the blind man. He said to him “See”. And it was end of his problem. You also can receive the blessing the same way. You just need to trust Him.
After he got his sight, the blind man followed Jesus in the way. So it’s all about the “way.” The way we think, the way we pray, the way we live. This is what Jesus came for. To change the old way that you are walking in, to the new way of eternal life.
This miracle that we are reading this week is to open our eyes while approaching the Holy week, to see Jesus in our lives. He is calling us “Come to me and I will restore you, I will open your heart and your thought, your mind , your whole life about new grace.
May the good Lord bless you and open all the blind areas in your life and make you a new creation. And after that don’t forget to follow Jesus in His way, not your way!
May the good Lord protect you and bless you all, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit Amen.
Learn and watch more in Father Andrew’s sermon video.
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Vacation is reflection time for me as well, so I bought a classic from Steven R. Covey. For some some of you this might be boring or bathetic, but Covey taught me a real big lesson about attitudes and behaviors. For most of you, it may be an easy one to understand that attitudes and behaviors are based on paradigms. Covey describes paradigms to see them as maps. But a map does not fit to all territories. For example if you have a map of Frankfurt and you are in Berlin, it will be hard to get to the center or even frustrating.
“You might work on your behavior – you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.
You might work on you attitude – you could think more positively. You still wouldn’t get to the right place, but perhaps wouldn’t care. Your attitude would be so positive, you’d be happy wherever you are.
The point is, you’d still be lost. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.”
And Covey explains paradigms by an easy illustration:
“Do you see a woman? How old would you say she is? What does she look like? What is she wearing? In what kind of roles do you see her?”
“But what if I were to tell you that you’re wrong? What if I said this picture is of a woman in her 60’s or 70’s who looks sad and has a huge nose? Who’s right? Look at the picture again.”
Try to focus on the nose – it is important to see the old lady first, before you continue to the next picture.
For those who are not able to see the old lady in picture 2, there is another one here:
This simple example brings up discussions about what you see and what you don’t – and they are not logical, they are psychological, based on your paradigms.
I wrote about the post The right attitude for #scrum and #life a view weeks ago which are based on my paradigms. So the next step will conclude into this:
I believe Covey shows a basic example in the daily life of everybody. I deal with similar issues every day when it comes to customer requirements, discussions about user stories, tasks and priorities. So I hope those simple examples helps to improve our daily life. |
Canadian incorporation can be a great way to start your business in Canada. There are several benefits, and the country is located near other key global economic centers. Which makes access easy for entrepreneurs looking into this option as they grow their company globally. This is where Start-up Visa comes into the picture.
Entrepreneurs and business owners can take advantage of the many tax benefits that Canada offers while applying for a Start-up Visa. This innovative program can speed up your path into this country with a quick and cost-effective immigration process.
About the program
Launched in April 2013, as a pilot, the Start-Up Visa program is a special immigration stream that caters to the needs of high-potential entrepreneurs. Nowadays, the Start-up Visa program became permanent and one of the best ways to come to Canada and start a venture. This program grants permanent resident (PR) visas to foreign entrepreneurs who intend to operate a business in Canada.
The Start-Up Visa program is designed for entrepreneurs who have the potential to become successful in Canada. All you need are some start-up funds and vision! The visa process starts with finding a designated entity that will support your venture.
The Start-Up Visa program allows up to five individuals who play an essential role in the qualified business to apply for a PR visa. Each applicant must have basic English or French communication skills, and adequate settlement funds. The spouse and children of the applicant may also apply for a PR visa under the same application.
It should be noted that the permanent resident visa, once granted, will not expire or be revoked. Successful applicants may apply for Canadian citizenship after physically living in Canada for a certain period as a permanent resident. This is in contrast to other start-up visa programs around the world.
The successful applicants come from a diverse range of countries, such as Iran, India, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Korea, Turkey and etc. They are all highly qualified professionals with extensive experience in their field. They also are coming from across a number of industries, including technology, food product manufacturing, education, medical research, banking, human resources, and advertising.
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Today Nature published graduate student Tyler Starr’s magnum opus*, Alternative evolutionary histories in the sequence space of an ancient protein. The paper reports on the first application of deep mutational scanning to a reconstructed ancestral protein. This approach allowed us to compare the genetic history the protein followed during its evolution to millions of alternate roads it could have taken, but did not. Lora Picton, our wonderful former lab manager and research scientist, is also a coauthor.
* This Latin phrase translates roughly as “four years of experiments in four journal pages.” |
Herbs, monoecious, prostrate or sprawling, or sometimes erect, branched, (1-)2-10 dm; branches opposite or subopposite. Stems green and striped, often blue-green when fresh, weakly ridged, sparsely scurfy to glabrous. Leaves: petiole 0.2-2.5(-3.5) cm; blade all entire or some or all triangular or lance-hastate with lobes spreading to antrorse, 5-100 × 3-80 mm, base abruptly to narrowly cuneate, entire or irregularly toothed. Flowers in loose glomerules, arranged in foliose, interrupted spikes or axillary, terminating stems and branches. Bracteoles green, becoming black or reddish to yellow brown, sessile or some short stipitate, venation obscure, ovate-triangular to rhombic-triangular, 5-13 mm, margin united almost to middle, with few irregular teeth or entire, apex abruptly acuminate, faces irregularly muricate, tuberculate, or smooth, inflated, spongy inner layer strongly developed at bracteole base. Seeds dimorphic: brown, 2.5-4 mm wide (often the only ones present), or black, (1.2-)1.5-2.9(-3) mm wide; radicle median, ± antrorse, of brown seed basal and spreading. 2n = 18, 36. Members of the Atriplex glabriuscula complex occupy saline or brackish marshes and saline coastal strands mainly in the eastern maritime provinces of Canada, with extensions in similar habitats into the northeastern United States. They are seldom, if ever, ruderal weeds and appear to be indigenous or perhaps early introduced in some part from similar European habitats. The constituent taxa have been regarded at specific level (P. M. Taschereau 1972; I. J. Bassett et al. 1983). They are, however, alike in all major morphologic features, and are apparently closely allied. For those who wish to treat them at specific level, the names are supplied in the synonymy.
Plants to 1 m, prostrate to sometimes erect; lvs green, the principal ones mostly 4-10 cm, usually deltoid-hastate and irregularly toothed above the lobes; infls of loose glomerules forming a terminal thyrse, leafy-bracteate throughout; fruiting bracteoles spongy- thickened toward the base, obscurely veined, mostly 5-13 mm, united nearly to the middle, ovate-triangular to rhombic-triangular, abruptly acuminate, the lateral angles rounded, with a few small teeth or entire, the back often roughened; brown seeds 2.5-4 mm wide; black seeds smaller, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, or wanting; radicle median, ascending; diploid on x=9. Sea beaches; Nf. and Que. to R.I., and widespread on the Atlantic coast of Europe, whence probably intr. (A. patula ssp. g.)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Citation: The vPlants Project. vPlants: A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region. http://www.vplants.org
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Wakefield are renewing their Autism Strategy and this will be shared when it is ready. There will also be an updated Autism Assessment Pathway.
The process for getting an autism diagnosis and support is called a pathway. The new Autism Assessment Pathway will be made available when it's ready.
Who can refer a child or young person?
Anyone can refer for Autism assessment, however all elements of the referral form must be completed, with as many relevant descriptions and examples as possible.
What does the referral pack contain?
The pack contains two sections. One to be completed by parents/carers and the other to be completed by an educational setting such as school or nursery if possible. If your child is not in school or nursery, it can be completed by any other setting where they spend a significant amount of time, or any other professional who knows them well.
If you home educate your child please ensure that this indicated on the form.
What if I need more help with the referral form?
Please contact the Autism Assessment co-ordinators Pathway team if you need any assistance regarding the referral form by emailing email@example.com
Autism Plus can give support and care for adults and young people.
Beat Autism offer drop-in clinics for parents and carers. They also offer training for school staff. |
Holy Cross Day – September 14, 2019 – John 12:31-36a – St. Mary’s Convent, Sewanee
The cross is everywhere. Signed on our foreheads, across our chests, and on our hands. Laid in our stonework, etched into our windows, and even baked right into our communion bread.
The cross is the Christian symbol, and for good reason: Jesus died on the cross. As an instrument of torture, the cross carries with it the baggage of violence, shame, and death, but God took this sign of torture and made it a sign of new life.
Imagine. An instrument of death becoming a symbol of new life. Like all good Christian theology, it’s paradoxical to the core.
Over the centuries some folks have, unfortunately, used the cross to inflict shame. Some who grew up attending rigid parochial schools or fire-and-brimstone churches are still scarred by the guilt they felt when they were told that they were responsible for hanging Jesus on it.
You and I know that the cross is not an emblem designed to manipulate our emotions. The cross is a tangible reminder of the intersection of human and divine life.
When we see God enfleshed on the cross, we witness God identifying with human suffering in an unparalleled way. Even Jesus, born of a woman, yet one with his father in heaven, did not escape the cold reality of death.
God, at one with our human nature, gets it. God gets that we suffer, and God shows us on the cross that he is with us when we do. Most importantly of all, God shows us that suffering and death do not ultimately get the last word. That belongs to resurrection.
On the cross we see the hard reckoning of human pain with the promise of new life in God who loves us beyond measure. Ironically, by dying, Jesus shows us just how powerful his life is. We are inheritors of that life—eternal life—in Christ.
We remember the cross today because of its sacred place in that eternal life. I’m not sure what happened to the real one, though its purported fragments abound. But that’s okay. The reality of its power does not depend on its archeological discovery.
The cross still marks the spot of Jesus’ death and ensures us of the promise of eternal life. On our bodies. On this altar. Built right into the side of this building. Baked right into this holy bread.
Rejoice friends, for wherever Jesus’ cross is, there God is at work, transforming death into life. Thank God it’s grafted on our hearts. |
In other fallout from that NYT story about Obama donors I mentioned earlier, Matt Yglesias had a great item over the weekend, arguing that campaign donors who supported Barack Obama last time around but are disappointed with him actually could use their money more wisely anyway.
That’s exactly right. What we know about all campaigning — and spending money is a subset of all campaigning — is that the more voters are already persuaded, the less campaigning matters. Obvious, right? In practical terms, that means that money matters less in general elections (when the strong effect of party identification is in play) than it does in primary elections. Next, money (and, again, all electioneering) is less important to the extent that voters have other sources of information. So the more news coverage that an election gets, the less campaigning matters. On top of all that, money has diminishing returns. That’s because “buying” name recognition or getting people to remember one or two things is a lot easier than getting them to learn a seventh or eighth item about a candidate — and invariably a full-strength campaign will waste money re-teaching voters things they’ve already learned.
So in terms of affecting the election outcome, as a donor you should prefer primaries to general elections, low-press-coverage elections over high-press-coverage elections, and underfunded candidates over well-funded candidates.
Against that are the effects of winning different types of elections. Money is more important in primaries…but if it mainly helps one candidate beat a very similar candidate, the outcome might matter less than defeating the other party’s candidate in a general election. Your $100 contribution is far more likely to swing a school board election than a presidential election, but presidents are far more important than members of the school board.
So there’s no mathematical equation for exactly how to spend your money, but Yglesias is certainly right: it’s hard to see presidential re-election as a good use of money, no matter how important the president is (and remember: as much as I’ll talk about presidential weakness around here, I’ve also always pointed out that the president is the single most important single elected official). My guess is that for most partisans, the best choices are open Congressional (House and Senate) primaries in party-friendly seats with retiring Members, and close Senate general elections. But then again I should mention that I tend to have a strong and probably unjustifiable bias towards national politics; it may be that state legislative races and local races are really the best bets for many people.
I should mention too that not all money donated to candidates is for the purposes of affecting election results (it’s also used for lobbying, or to secure access, and in some circumstances the motives are probably more social than political), but here we’re talking just about money given in hopes of changing who gets elected.
Either way, I think Yglesias has it exactly right: it’s very much a good idea to participate in elections, including giving money if one can do so, but giving to an incumbent president seeking re-election is almost certainly going to be one of the worst possible choices.
[Cross-posted at A plain blog about politics] |
A violent tornado hit off Venice, in particular the islands of St. Helena, Charterhouse and St. Erasmus, the garden of the lagoon. The Municipal Civil Protection, after an initial survey, reports that there is substantial damage to the island of Certosa with hundreds of trees felled. The restored buildings in recent times does not appear to be damaged. There were 300 hectares of agricultural land destroyed, and damage is estimated at around one million euros.
42 years ago, on September 11 1970, a violent tornado sunk hundreds of boats and caused death of 21 people by drowning in the same area. Perhaps strongest European tornado struck Italy on July 24, 1930. It was registered as F5 with gusts of about 500km/h. It leveled masonry buildings in city of Montello in Veneto and Friuli region and left 23 fatalities. Another strong twister struck Parma, Italy on July 4, 1965 with 25 fatalities and 160 injuries.
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On our way through Belgium, we stopped at Dinant at the river Maas, and later found by chance our way to the abbey ruins of Villers-la-Ville, which is an amazing site.
Dinant is the hometown of Adolph Sax, the inventor of the Saxophone. We didn’t know that, but from the number of saxophones you see in Dinant, we quickly realised, that Dinant is somehow connected to this instrument.
The city’s landmark is the Church of Notre Dame. It was rebuilt in Gothic style on its old foundations after giant falling rocks from the adjacent cliff partially destroyed the former Romanesque style church in 1227. Several stages for a pair of towers were completed before the project was abandoned in favour of the present central tower with the famous onion dome – a true landmark.
Impressive for us was the altarpiece and especially the stained glass window at the southern transept.
We were on the highway again, when we noticed a sign for some church ruins. We took the turn off and found the Abbey of Villers.
The Abbey of Villers was founded in 1146 by Cistercian monks from Clairvaux. Contemporary accounts suggest that during its heyday roughly 100 monks and 300 lay brothers resided within its walls. The lands attached to the abbey expanded considerably, with some 100 km² of woods, fields, and pasturage.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the abbey’s fortunes diminished. The number of monks and the abbey’s wealth dwindled, and it was finally abandoned in 1796 in the wake of the French Revolution. The abbey was sold and used as a quarry for decades. In 1855, even a railway line was built, going through the old abbatial grounds. In 1893, the Belgian state purchased the site and launched a conservation effort.
Today the grounds are well preserved and give a great impression of the once majestic abbey. When we came, the grounds housed a camp for young people running around in knights costumes. A special event must be the “Night of the Choirs”, an international festival taking place every year.
The church, although in ruins, is an outstanding example of Cistercian architecture, with imposing vaulting, arches, and rose windows. It took 70 years to build and was completed by the end of the 13th century. The church is 94 m in length, with the vaults of the nave culminating at 23 m.
The 13th-century two-aisled refectory is 30 meters long and 14 meters wide.
We will now leave Belgium again, and continue to the Netherlands, where we stopped at Breda first. More on our next post! |
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Penny Roberts wrote:
> Leaving aside the fact that <nobr> is not valid
It is not valid when DTDs defined by the W3C are used. It is valid if you
use a suitable DTD; see
> I would imagine that
> it could have some accessibility/usability problems:
It could. So could lack of it. When a string is broken into two lines in
an appropriate way, it can be difficult to many and impossible to some to
recognize the intended meaning. For example, if the string "-42", where
the hyphen is meant to act as a minus sign, is broken into "-" and "42",
> for instance if it were
> used on a very long section of text it would require horizontal scrolling.
That is correct. Here the basic question is prevention of line breaks, not
the technique used for it. The <nobr> markup is the technique that works
often and has no side effects, but there are many other techniques,
such as the nowrap attribute in a table cell, the no-break space, and
the word joiner (WJ) character
> Would there be any accessibility issues with it being used on a few words or
> as part of a form to keep form elements together? (No, I'm not using it,
> someone else might be.)
It's always possible that anything that creates a lower limit for the
canvas width causes problems to some users. The risk is negligible,
however, if you use <nobr> or other line break prevention technique to
"glue" two short words together. Besides, such "glueing" may improve
readability. Form fields are a different issue, and the prime rule for
forms fields should be: one field on one line, with label before the field
(or after it, for radio buttons and checkboxes). This is useful for
clarity and helps people with cognitive disabilities. Therefore, the idea
of forcing two fields to stay on one line is very questionable. On the
other hand, it might be a good idea to try to ensure that the label and
field are on the same line. They should normally be so short that this
should not be a problem.
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ |
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NEAR, adjective [This seems to be a contracted word, from nigher, the comparative of neh, nih or nieh; strait, narrow; to narrow]
1. Nigh; not far distant in place, time or degree. Regularly, near should be followed by to, but this is often omitted. We say, a house stands near a river; a friend sits near me; the man fell and was near destruction.
And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. Genesis 27:21.
Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Romans 13:11.
2. Closely related by blood.
She is thy fathers near kinswoman. Leviticus 18:6.
3. Not distant in affection, support or assistance; present; ready; willing to aid.
Call upon the Lord, while he is near Isaiah 55:6.
4. Intimate; united in close ties of affection or confidence; as a near friend.
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8. Next to one; opposed to off; as the near horse or ox in a team.
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Student travel promises to be an enjoyable trip. Not only do students can visit several places, they could also learn so much on every trip. And since air travel agencies as well as airlines provide student travel discount and special student travel rate, student travel is becoming more and more available for greater number of students who want to explore and learn more about the world.
For first time travelers, here are some historical destinations you can consider for you student travel:
As the center of knowledge, government, and system in the ancient world, every student would be amazed how this ancient city grew and evolved. Students can visit Acropolis, Agora, Library of Hadrian, Kerameikos, Olympieion & Southeast Athens, Pnyx, Roman Agora & Tower of the Winds, Arch of Hadrian, City Eleusinion and other ancient sites in this ancient city of Athens.
Visit one of the earliest civilizations founded in this part of the world. Egypt features 3000 years old city in the banks of River Nile. Egypt is also one of the oldest tourist spots in the world with visitors coming from the ancient Rome and Greece.
Moving your way south from Cairo, the nation’s capital, you can stop at Giza where the infamous Great Pyramid stands. It was built by Pharaoh Khafu in the year 2550 BC. Standing at 147 meters, it was the largest and the most ambitious structure built in the ancient Egypt requiring 2.3 million stone block to erect. Also at Giza, see the Pyramid of Khafre home if the Sphinx. It was built 30 after the Great Pyramid. As the second largest, the Pyramid of Khafre stands at 144 meters of 471 feet. The third pyramid located at Giza was the Pyramid of Menkaure which stands at 65 meters or 213 feet.
Further south, Saqqara is home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser built in 2630 BC. Pyramid of Pepi II, also located at Saqqara was the last pyramid built by ancient Egyptians. In Dahshur, the Bent and the Red Pyramids are located. And down south at Maidum, the Maidum Pyramid can be found.
See the temples, mummies, tombs, hieroglyphics, and Valley of the Kings and the Queens if you visit Egypt.
See ancient Rome still intact with evidences of Roman structure and architectures built more than 2000 years ago. Rome presents the living timeline from the Roman Empire to the shift of the Middle Ages, to baroque and renaissance, to the dawn of the romantic period and enlightenment. Rome preserves its temples, churches, arts, and priceless paintings and murals.
A former territory of the Roman Empire which stood strong for more than a thousand years against several barbarian attack. Turkey is in the easternmost part of Europe that features a diverse culture, religion, philosophy, and architectures.
Travel Far East and learn the history of the ancient eastern civilization that was once unknown until the last centuries. See the Great Wall, a remnant of the Zhou Dynasty along with other unique oriental culture and tradition. See the Chinese painting, calligraphy, paper cutting, and Chinese art.
As the center of the Inca civilization, Peru is a great destination for student travel for discovery of South American history. The 500-year old Inca traces could be relived in the Inca Trail that is both exciting and educational. Walk to the Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Machu Picchu, and Pisac. |
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It is common practice for countries across the world to have an official national animal. This animal is a symbol that creates an identity on the world stage. National animals are a symbol of patriotism, featuring in art, music, books, and even on a country’s coins, notes, and flag.
In the case of Japan, the country does not have one official national animal per se. Bucking the trend, Japan has chosen to promote a national bird, a national fish, alongside many other national symbols. Some of these symbols are official, and some are not so official.
For instance, the cherry blossom is Japan’s unofficial national flower. This article will showcase the unique and inspiring wildlife of Japan that has come to represent the country.
What Is The National Animal Of Japan?
Although Japan doesn’t have an “official” national animal doesn’t mean it isn’t rife with symbolism, of which animals are a big part. Japan is an island archipelago. From north to south, this vast country is home to a wide variety of climates and topography.
It is this geographical identity that, over time, has offered Japan native and endemic wildlife. The green pheasant, koi fish, and Japanese macaque are each considered national animals of Japan in their own right, so let’s take a look at them below.
Japan’s National Bird: The Green Pheasant
One such species that is widely regarded as Japan’s national bird is the green pheasant. The green pheasant is a native Japanese bird that is a subspecies of the common pheasant.
However, it is easy to distinguish the green pheasant from its more common counterpart via its dark green breast. Green pheasants also have dark green feathers on their flanks and necks.
On top of all its dark and striking green, the green pheasant also has a striking blue hood, red wattle, and grey-banded tail. Both male and female green pheasants have brown and black plumages and typically grow to the size of a large chicken.
Green pheasants are omnivores, meaning they eat both plants and animals. Their regular diet consists of worms, grains, and insects. Occasionally green pheasants will also prey on small animals like rats, mice, and other birds.
They breed once a year, laying up to a maximum of 15 eggs. Green pheasants are surprisingly fast flyers, reaching a top speed of 60 miles per hour.
Green pheasants have been immortalized in Japanese folklore as a messenger and are also regarded as having an innate power that rises above all other animals. They are, arguably, the animal that best represents Japan’s identity.
Green pheasants have been introduced to countries such as the United States and parts of Europe, but they are native only to Japan. For this reason, the green pheasant is a clear symbol of Japanese culture and is deserving of its national bird status.
Japan’s National Fish: Koi
Koi are everywhere in Japan. From the temple ponds of Tokyo to home gardens and wild mountain lakes, you won’t have a hard time spotting koi in Japan. It is, therefore, quite rightfully, the national fish of the country.
However, despite their immense abundance, koi aren’t actually native to Japan. They were introduced to Japan via their native homeland of China in the 1st Century A.D. Koi were originally introduced as a food source, but through the centuries they have become a symbol of Japanese culture.
Subsequently, they are less commonly eaten nowadays. Instead, they have been left to prosper in waterways and bring good fortune and luck to homes.
That’s right, it is thought that raising koi in a home pond brings Japanese families good fortune, prosperity, success, longevity, ambition, courage, and perseverance.
This is why koi are so highly regarded and so rarely eaten – no one wants to eat their fortune-giving fish. There are even annual koi competitions held every year throughout Japan, with the most prized koi fetching hundreds of thousands of yen.
Japan’s Unofficial National Animal: Japanese Macaque
Many Japanese people believe that their national animal is, in fact, a monkey. The Japanese Macaque is a species of monkey that is native to Japan. They are commonly referred to as “snow monkeys” on account of their snowy stomping grounds in the north of Japan.
Where other monkey species dare not to venture, macaques are happy to endure the long and grueling winters of northern Japan. This makes them the northern-most monkey found in the wild.
In places where snow covers vast areas of mountainous ground for months of no end, you will find macaques living their best snow-covered lives.
The macaque’s affinity for cold climates doesn’t mean they don’t inhabit the south of Japan as well. In fact, macaques populate three of Japan’s four major islands.
You will find macaques on Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu as well as several of the country’s smaller islands. They do not, however, inhabit the island of Hokkaido.
Japanese Macaques are a terrestrial Old World monkey species, having strong ties to Japanese culture for centuries. Their first recording in Japanese history dates back to the 8th century when they were seen as sacred mediators between the gods and humans.
They are characterized by their thick brown-grey fur, as well as their red faces, red buttocks, and short tails. Macaques also have long whiskers and a beard. Fully-grown male Japanese macaques will grow noticeably larger than females.
In the past, macaques thrived in many of Japan’s low-lying regions. Due to human influence and habitat loss, today they are confined to mountainous regions with less urbanization.
They are prominent figures in Japanese religion, art, and folklore, which is why so many Japanese people regard them as their unofficial national animal.
From the green pheasant to the koi fish and the mighty macaque monkey, Japan doesn’t have one official national animal because that would be selling its affection for animals short.
In a country that is so steeped in history, full of culture and unique wildlife, it makes perfect sense why Japan is a nation with multiple national animals. |
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Doctor, Doctor, give me the news All man's days are numbered and known only to God, but physicians in some cases know a lot more than they let on. A dying patient's question, "How long do I have?" usually prompts an overly optimistic answer or none at all, according to a new study. Telephone interviews with 258 Chicago-area doctors found that 37 percent said they would give their best guess to a patient. The rest said they would give either no estimate or something different from their own estimation, says the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "The physician's primary obligation to their patients is to do no harm, but the very well-intentioned protection of patients can be damaging when a patient wants information, and not giving a frank disclosure can hinder that," said Dr. Elizabeth B. Lamont, who led the study. The researchers did not ask why the doctors answered as they did. They guess that the doctors were trying to spare patients some grief or keep the bad news from making them sicker. Each of the doctors in the survey had referred cancer patients to hospice care. But sometimes patients can pressure physicians into giving estimates when prognoses are unknown. When doctors avoid a specific time frame, they may be trying to avoid engaging in hypotheticals rather than simply withholding information. Fen-phen finís Pietr Hitzig calls himself the father of fen-phen, the diet drug that was a 1990s fad before it was pulled from the market. Now he faces up to 104 years in prison after a jury convicted him of illegally prescribing the drug over the Internet to patients he never saw. Prosecutors accused him of treating his patients like "human guinea pigs," prescribing fen-phen "for every illness known to mankind"-including Gulf War syndrome, chronic fatigue, drug addiction, AIDS, and cancer. 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I can’t think of another period in my lifetime that there’s been so much attention given to leadership – both the good and bad traits that stand out in the actions taken by people who’ve been given a leadership role. Comparisons abound in the news on a daily basis and it’s causing a lot of anxiety and stress for people. I think it’s important to keep in mind that we can all take on the mantle of leadership, even if we’re not currently in a role where people are looking to us to be a leader. All it takes is finding your leadership edge to get started.
If I asked you what leadership traits you most admire, I’d probably get a plethora of responses – some similar, some vastly different. What we respect in leaders is often a reflection what we value and expect from them.
Research in recent years has shown that stereotypical feminine leadership traits are what people want in their leaders. People see the value of inherent traits many women have, such as “empathy, openness, the willingness to nurture others.” I decided to outline five core traits that every leader needs to have to build trust in their ability to lead. If you put these into practice, it won’t matter if you’re in a leadership role or not – you’ll develop a leadership edge that will lead to new opportunities.
1) Commitment to communication
Honesty and transparency about decisions and direction make people feel like they’re valued members of a team. This is important for everyone, doubly so for those in leadership positions. It’s frustrating and demotivating to feel like you’re the last to know, so leaders who make a commitment to open communication create a collaborative environment that’s inviting and inclusive.
Personally, I’ve always believed that communication is foundational to good relationships. In my own life, just about every rocky spot in every type of relationship can be traced back to a breakdown of communication. It’s a wonder what we can accomplish when we actually talk to each other and work to understand.
2) Strong motivation fueled by purpose
Have you ever talked to someone who shared everything about their big plans but didn’t seem to have a clue why they wanted to do what they were doing? Knowing why is a critical component of finding your leadership edge. You can be fueled by a passion for the work being done, but if you don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish, you can’t be an effective leader. The purpose is your rudder – it keeps you going in the right direction.
That sense of purpose added to intrinsic motivation to get things done can keep others going as well. If you’ve ever worked with a leader whose passion meets purpose, it’s infectious. People want to go on the journey with them because they see how amazing it can be.
3) Creative approach to solving problems
We’re all human and we all have our faults. I don’t have all the answers and neither do you. Even if you have a strong sense of the right way to address an issue, it’s worth the time and effort to explore other possibilities. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be decisive. Getting input from others and giving them the opportunity to contribute a different perspective can help increase buy-in for the final decision once it’s made.
It also sends the message that you want to do what’s best for the greater good rather than push an agenda. Look at great leaders of the past – they’re known for how they’ve handled stressful, adverse situations. This is where true leaders shine.
4) Generous, positive spirit
We all need a safe place to gripe about things that aren’t going well. But leaders who make negative comments about people or work are hard to trust. Public forums are for building up the team and discussing opportunities (even when the opportunities come out of problems). The words we choose matter. Leaders who choose words that build up and encourage are inspiring to listen to and follow.
Leaders I’ve known who embody this generous, positive spirit are also leaders I can share real issues I’m concerned about. I can have conversations with them that may not be comfortable, but they’re necessary and valuable.
5) Confidence to lead with integrity
You can fake confidence if you’re new to taking the lead in any role, but you can’t fake integrity. Well, you can try, but it catches up with you. (Ooh, boy, have we ever seen this a lot this year!?) No one expects leaders to be perfect. Mistakes happen, but true leaders do what they can to avoid the big mistakes. But they also own up to the errors they’ve made when it’s required.
Where leadership is undertaken without integrity, everything falls into question. Trust, communication, respect, and motivation will all be lost. Developing a leadership edge without integrity is a house of cards no one wants to live in.
Your leadership edge starts with being true to you
You know the airline safety messages that we all ignore at the beginning of every flight? During one part, they tell adults traveling with children to put the oxygen mask on themselves before they secure it on the child(ren). After all, if the adult passes out due to lack of oxygen, they aren’t going to do the child(ren) any good. This admonition is important for leaders as well. You have to take care of your individual needs before you can effectively lead others.
For women, I think it’s important to be mindful of what we take on. A true leadership edge is one that’s realistic about what you can do. It’s focused on the skills, connections, and activities that will help you grow and meet your goals. And, while that may sound selfish, saying yes to something you don’t truly want to do and can’t benefit from won’t help anyone.
Check out our upcoming events so you don’t miss out on what’s coming! This month’s Wine Down and Mix and Mingle will both explore more about how you can find your leadership edge. And don’t miss the Annual Meeting of Members, Tuesday, September 19th where we’ll be talking about how this past year went and where we’re going in 2018!
WBN President, 2015-18
Senior Content Writer & Editor at Saba-Halogen Software |
Money. It’s a taboo subject when it comes to what we make, how we spend, whether we have a rainy day fund or if we’re on the right track to be ready for retirement. And that’s just personal finances. If you throw in business finances, it gets a lot more challenging.
“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”
– Gloria Steinem
I don’t have the magic bullet for you. I can’t tell you how to organize your finances – personal or business. But I can point you to some really smart people who have ideas that might help you. They’re also smart people who can teach you a thing or two about managing money, sometimes for your personal finances and sometimes in your business.
“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”
– Candace Bushnell
The best advice I’ve got? If you need to learn something, find a good resource to get the right information for you.
The second best advice? If you need to outsource to a bookkeeper and/or accountant, don’t even hesitate.
Since I’m not a money expert, I’m going to fill up this post with people who are way smarter and have better insights about personal and business finances than I ever will.
Check them out. Learn from them. (Some are US-based, but many principles still apply.)
Podcasts to help you with your money
Bad With Money
If you’re interested in exploring the feelings money engenders in you and others, check out Bad With Money (warning: language) for straight talk on this taboo topic.
Jean Chatzky of HerMoney firmly believes women need financial advice that’s tailored to their unique relationship with money.
Money Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for a Richer Life
I love the Q&D podcasts. They’re short, sweet and informative. And this one has personal finance, investment and business advice all in one place.
Get the money scoop from Jessica Moorhouse in this podcast that covers budgeting, saving, debt repayment, investing, side hustles and more.
The name says it all – Because Money, right? This podcast serves up real conversations about money in Canada.
Books written by people who are smart about money
This book promises to teach you all the things you missed out on learning about personal finance when you were in school. That’s definitely worth reading since personal finance isn’t taught in many schools.
Stop Over-Thinking Your Money! by Preet Banerjee
This book comes highly recommended, but I haven’t read it yet. It sounds excellent for many reasons. But mostly, I look at Preet’s picture on the cover and I think anyone who can look that chill about money is worth checking out.
The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
I got to see David Chilton speak when he was in Ottawa a number of years ago. I got so much out of just hearing him talk for an hour – I even remember quite a bit. Writing this is inspiring me to go re-read The Wealthy Barber.
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Don’t ever let money hold you back from what you’re trying to do. Hire smart money people to help and learn everything you can from them along the way. And, if you get your financial house in order, you’ll no doubt be in much better shape in your business, too.
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
WBN President, 2015-18
Chief Marketing Strategist and Storyteller
Karen C. Wilson Communications |
Moreover, in October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, which is based on scientific knowledge and stresses that many of the impacts of climate change could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels instead of 2°C. In addition, the Working Group I Report component of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report released in August 2021 states, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.”
In this way, international awareness has evolved from “global warming” to “climate change,” and now to “climate crisis.” Based on this heightened understanding, Casio has revised its social mission from “helping to achieve a low-carbon society” to “helping to build a decarbonized society.”
In order to promote emissions reduction targets that are consistent with scientific knowledge concerning the achievement of decarbonization, Casio has set its long-term targets.
In April 2021, based on the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD),*1 Casio strengthened its governance relating to climate change, formulated strategies based on climate-change risk and opportunity analysis, and disclosed climate-related financial risk information. In 2022, Casio conducted a scenario analysis to identify risks and opportunities and assess the impacts.
Information Disclosure Based on TCFD Recommendations
*1 TCFD: Established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, this initiative aims to help companies understand and disclose the financial impact of their climate change risks and opportunities. |
BOARDING HOUSE HANDBOOK
Our aim is to provide a safe home away from home for our students. We are dedicated to stimulating and positive character-building education, devoted to the best student pastoral support, and promoting the values of…
- Self-discipline and self-improvement
- Mutual understanding and respect
- A positive attitude when faced with new challenge
– Boarding staff must know where you are at all times. You must ask for permission from the Dorm Teacher or from the Head of Boarding if you need to leave the Boarding House momentarily. In the case of a student missing for more than 30 minutes we will be obliged to let the parents , the school authorities and Internal security know about it and then it is likely that we would also inform the local police authorities if the boarder cannot be found. If you are involved in an evening activity you must be supervised by a staff member. Dorm Tutors will check the activity lists.
– Electric blankets, electric kettles are not allowed in the boarding house. Any electronic item ( like air purifiers, blow dryer) must be switched off when you leave the room.
– Report any item that could be a threat to the boarders safety ( exposed live wire, faulty electrical plug, broken ladder from a bed…) to your Boarding Tutor for prompt action.
– Any dangerous items ( cutters, pocket knives, water guns, nunchakus etc…) are prohibited in the hostels. The use of small work out equipment ( small weights) are conditioned to a parental approval to be handed out to the Head of Boarding.
CHECKING OUT OF THE BOARDING HOUSE
You are not allowed to leave the Boarding House or the School premises without a CHECK OUT FORM duly signed by your Homeroom Teacher with the signature of Co-Heads of Boarding after Head of Secondary approval, or by the School Nurse. You must organize for the Check Out Form during school time before 4.30 pm. The Co-Heads of Boarding will sign a Check Out Form only on special occasions
Report any maintenance job or broken items that you can see in your room, in the shower, in the toilet or in the Boarding house to your Dorm Teacher for prompt action.
– Only light snacks are allowed in the Boarding House. Boarders are not allowed to eat junk food ( like Noodles) in the Dorm.
– Boarders are not allowed to order food from outside the campus. It will be confiscated.
– Boarders who wish to make a Birthday party for themselves or for a friend must prepare a list of participants and obtain approval from the Co-Heads of Boarding via the Dorm Tutor
– Boarders are not allowed to sell food in the Boarding House without the express permission of the Co-Heads of Boarding ( tuckshop, CAS activity, Business Club).
– Boarding Snack shop ( Boarding House first floor common room) opening times:
Monday and Wednesday : Grades 6,7,8 Boarders -> 7:00 pm – 7:55 pm
Tuesday and Thursday: Grades 9, 10, 11,12 Boarders-> 7:00 pm – 7:55 pm
– School Food cannot be taken out of the SCHOOL CANTEEN, particularly during evening snacks.
MOBILE PHONES AND LAPTOP COMPUTERS
Boarders are not allowed to have mobile phones or MP3 Players in the Dorm. They must hand their mobile phone to the Dorm Tutor on Sunday evening when they report back to the dorm. On Monday morning the Dorm Tutors will then hand over the phones to the Pastoral Co-Ordinator and /or Homeroom Teachers. Only grade 11 & Grade 12 Boarders are allowed to use a mobile phone.
Any mobile phone confiscated during the week in the Boarding House will be handed over to the Pastoral Co-ordinator. Sanctions enunciated in the School STUDENT HANDBOOK will then apply.
The Boarding House has 2 mobile phones that can be used by boarders between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm to call their parents for a school or boarding matter. Such calls will be logged in. As a reminder the school has a boarding landline that parents can call every school day between 2.00pm and 3.00pm. The number is: 88537722
Grades 12, 11 and 10 students are allowed to have a laptop computer in the Boarding House and in their room. Grades 9 & 8 boarders may use their computer during half of their supervised classroom studies (Only for study). They may also use it in the dorm between 7.00 pm and 7.55 pm during free time supervised by your dorm dutor. They must hand it over to the Dorm Tutor before Personal Studies. Grade 8 & 9 boarders are not allowed to use their computer on Sunday evening when reporting to the Boarding House.
The Boarding House will take no responsibility for the loss of money or any valuable item. Boarders should lock their money or items in their room cupboard, or hand them over to their Boarding Tutor. The Boarding House has a safe to keep such items. Any loss must be reported to the Boarding Tutor. Boarders are advised not to bring a big amount of cash.
ROOM INSPECTION AND FORTNIGHTLY BOARDING REPORT
Boarding Tutors will conduct Room inspections every 2 week with no specific day. They will then fill a fortnightly report that will feature in your fortnightly school report. Therefore it is important that you are ALWAYS particularly attentive to the following points:
– Following Boarding Staff instructions
– Private Studies
– Contribution to the Boarding House and supporting each other.
Each category is graded from 1 (poor) to 4 (excellent).
DON’T LET YOUR BOARDING REPORT TARNISH YOUR SCHOOL REPORT!
Full school Uniform is worn from Monday to Friday whilst at school, and when travelling to and from school. Failure to do so is dealt initially by withholding of rewards, contacting parents or students being removed from the school community until full uniform is worn. If your child is out of uniform, please ensure that he/she is provided with a note that gives the school the reason and the date by which time your child is back in full uniform.
Skirt ,pale blue long/shirt sleeved shirt, V-neck pullover, trousers, blazer, a tie, a winter coat, black shoes ( no white soles or sneakers) and black boots in winter. No bright trousers or trims. No clothing that is not school issued uniform.
Trousers, shorts, pale blue long/ short- sleeved shirt, V-neck pullover, blazer, sweatshirt jacket, a tie, a winter coat, black shoes ( no white soles or sneakers) and black boots in winter. No bright colours or trims. No clothing that is not school issued uniform.
Short or long-sleeved polo shirt, shorts, jogging pants, jacket, and black sports shoes.
A school uniform inspection will be conducted every morning by the Boarding staff. Boarders expose themselves to an evening detention ( losing their free time) if they fail to wear the appropriate uniform. Homeroom Teachers may also send them back to the dorm during Homeroom time ( 8.00-8.20 am).
Wear your uniform with pride!
SYSTEM OF SANCTIONS AND REWARDS
As we are a Big Family, Boarders are expected to have mutual respect with roommates and show respect to the Boarding staff to make life easy for everyone, and build up a nice family atmosphere where each individual member fulfills his/her talents and grows with the support and comfort of the Boarding Community. Co-operate with boarding staff.
- As a Team, Boarding staff, the Co-Heads of Boarding, the Secondary Boarding Co-Ordinator, the Boys and Girls Boarding Co-Ordinators, Homeroom Teachers , the Pastoral Co-Ordinators and Heads of school collaborate with each other with the Boarders welfare at heart.
- When boarding rules are broken, Boarding Tutors will first give the Boarders a verbal warning.
- If problems occur again then the Boarding Tutors will write a CAUSE FOR CONCERN form and discuss the matter with the Secondary Boarding Co-Ordinator and Head of Boarding. They will then take action ( usually the Co -Heads of Boarding have a meeting with the Boarder, and it could lead to a withdrawal of free time privilege, or a Boarding Detention ( from 7 to 8 pm). At this stage the Co- Heads of Boarding communicate with the Homeroom teacher ( who may inform the parents) and the Pastoral Co-Ordinator.
- If the problem persists, the Boarding Tutor, with the Co- Heads of Boarding , place the Boarder on BOARDING MONITORING REPORT. Every day the report is given to the Homeroom Teacher and Pastoral Co-Ordinator. The Homeroom Teacher sends the daily reports to parents. If there is no improvement after 2 weeks, then the Head of Boarding , Pastoral Co-Ordinator and Head of School meet to discuss further action ( which is likely to be a Boarding suspension).
- INCIDENT REPORT: If a serious incident takes place in the Boarding House, the Boarding Tutor submits an INCIDENT REPORT to the Head of Boarding who then discusses it directly with the Pastoral Co-Ordinator and the Head of school to decide on a course of action.
- SUMMARY: – verbal warning àcause for concern à boarding monitoring reportà suspension…
- Please note that any student on School Monitoring Report will have to present it to the Boarding Tutor in the evening for completion.
- Evening Detention for recurrent non respect of school uniform / noise makers / disturbance during Private Studies and after lights out / lateness for breakfast / skipping an ECA 2 or ECA 3 Detention (7.05 – 8.00 pm).
For low level offences Dorm Tutors are entitled to give their own sanctions like isolating boarders who disturb too much, or doing some small community works
- For each Fortnightly inspection and report, 1 girl room and 1 boy room will be rewarded with 5 Housepoints, together with 1 boy or 1 girl from each year group (2 Housepoints).
- Merits will be awarded for monthly winners or Assembly Certificates winners)
- The Boarding House is looking at developing the Reward system for consistent good conduct in various fields ( Cup for the best room that is awarded each month, and other trophies for consistent excellence in Private Studies, possible food treats, and Assembly rewards).
- Keep up with your good respect of timing:
– Breakfast: from 7:20 to 7:50 am ( lateness to Homeroom time will be sanctioned by Homeroom Teachers). All Boarders must be out of the Boarding House by 7:45 am
– Dinner: all boarders MUST report to the Canteen at 5:30pm (Boarders who are not reporting to Dinner will be given a Detention).
– Private Studies: 8:00pm. Make sure that you stay in your room and ready for 1 hour of self- study / reading. Get what you need (water, books) for 8 pm to avoid disturbing others.
– Lights out：No noise makers/ distubance
|Secondary Dormitory Schedule|
6:00 – 7:00
|Get up 、Wash、Housekeeping|
|ECA2 (Extra-Curriculum Activities 2)|
|Study time in the Homeroom|
|ECA 3/Evening Snacks/ Games/ Free Time / Inter-House activities/Evening Detention|
|Private Study in the Dorm room|
|Shower and quiet time|
|Lights out G6,G7,G8,G9|
|Light Off G10/G11/G12|
|Primary Dormitory schedule|
|06:30-07:20||Get up、wash、house keeping|
|18:50-19:45||Back to dorm room/shower/house keeping|
|20:00-20:30||Preparation for bed/reading|
|20:30-06:30||Light off/Sleeping time|
7:00 pm – 8:00pm
|Cafe and snack area||Optional|
|Television /Video rooms||Optional|
As part of the IB CAS programme Grade 11 and Grade 12 students, with the help of the House Co-Ordinators, will run an Inter House programme in the Boarding House during the 7.00 to 8.00 pm time.
As you are part of the Boarding Community you must keep the noise level as low as possible.
- On Friday morning you must have packed your luggage to go home and bring it to your homeroom classroom. You are not allowed to return to the Boarding House at Lunchtime on that day unless you have special permission form the Co- Head of Boarding.
- Your phone will be returned by your homeroom Teacher at school on Friday.
– When you return to the Boarding House on Sunday it must be done after 6.00pm. If you need to collect an item from school you must seek permission from your Dorm Tutor. You must be in your dorm at 9.00pm and stay in. Parents are requested to leave the Boarding House by 8.30 pm.
- During the school week, access to the Boarding House is not allowed during the school day, unless you have a special permission from the Co-Head of Boarding.
Boarding Policy on Parents’ visits to the Dormitory areas
- Sunday evening Boarders reporting: Reporting time for Primary and Secondary Boarders is between 6.00 pm and 9.00 pm. Parents are expected to park outside the school premises. Boarding time is crucial for the good installation of boarders. As a consequence parents are expected to leave the Boarding House by 8.30 pm.
- Friday departure: for Primary and Secondary boarders parents will be allowed in the boarding house between 2.15 pm and 3.30 pm. Boarding doors will be closed after 3.30 pm.
- Boarding parents bringing students back on Monday morning will drop them at the gate.
- Any Items that Primary or Secondary Boarders might need during the week must be dropped at the school boarding gate for collections. Boarders must make sure that they bring what they need for the week on Sunday evening.
- Any parental visit during the week should be organized with the homeroom teacher or the Co-Heads of Boarding. Arranged visiting time will only take place on Tuesday evening from 7.00 pm until 8.00 pm.
- Parents coming to the dorm without prior arrangement must wait at the Boarding gate or main gate for a Dorm Tutor to come and attend to him /her.
- It is in the interest of our boarders that they emerge themselves totally into boarding life. Parental visits can be detrimental to a good settling in particularly for new boarders
- The use of the lift by boarders is only allowed on Sunday evenings, on Friday after schooland on the last day of school before holidays.
The boarding management will inform you of any change taking place in the course of the year.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT SUPPORT IN DEVELOPING THE BOARDING HOUSE , AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT….
WE ARE A BIG FAMILY!!! |
We've received quite a few requests from you guys asking how you can password protect the movement from one panorama (or room) to the next. Especially for virtual escape rooms and e-learning where you want to make sure your visitors solved a problem before moving on, that is a crucial feature.
While there's not a general setting to request a password before moving on to another panorama, this will do the trick:
if (window.prompt('Enter Code') == '1234') window.location.href = 'https://www.domain.com/tour#media=2';
And that's how you can password protect certain media or areas of your virtual tour to keep sensitive data protected or to add a gamification element to your virtual tour.
Note: Careful if you want to securely protect sensitive data with this. What's password protected in this approach is the hotspot that leads to the new media. Somebody who knows or guesses the deep link URL may be able to directly access the media by typing in that deep link URL. If you really need to properly protect sensitive data, it would be better to create a second tour, password protect that entire tour (either in VT PRO if you host with 3DVista or else on your server) and then deep link to that other tour. That way, the password is based on the entire tour and your server rather than on the click of the hotspot icon which could be circumvented. |
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Rotator cuff tears can be career-ending for athletes, but they’re not exactly fun for the rest of us either. The painful problem involves the separation of tendons from the shoulder joint, and recovering from the intense surgery is almost as painful as the injury itself. Dr. Ted Schlegel, an orthopedic surgeon and former team physician for the Broncos and Rockies, searched for less-invasive techniques for more than 20 years. In 2014, he found his answer: a collagen-based implant that induces tendon growth. (Imagine patching fraying denim in your jeans and, over time, the patch growing to match the material around it.) Schlegel was the first doctor to perform the procedure in the United States, and he’s seen patients’ recovery times shrink from six months to about 12 weeks. He recommends the technique for partial tears (when some tendon is still attached to the bone) but is working to expand the technology so it can be used for broader applications—like (we hope) reviving the Rockies’ bullpen.
To get a better idea of the process, watch the video animation below. |
Mold Remediation Damascus
Despite the encroaching urban growth from nearby Washington, D.C., Damascus, the town at the intersection of Ridge Road and Damascus Road, retains its small town feel. With many of the area homes still sitting on large lots, a rarity in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., you can still see the remnants of the old farming community.
Damascus is also the highest point in Montgomery, with an elevation of 866 feet above sea level. The good news for area homes is that there likely isn’t a lot of subsurface water finding its way into the basements of those homes.
Unfortunately, like much of Montgomery County, Damascus is still subject to the hot, humid summers, and unpredictable hurricanes, blizzards, and thunderstorms throughout the year that can cause basements to flood, or at least stay damp throughout much of the year.
With all that moisture in your basement, you run the risk of developing mold and mildew growth. If your basement has been damp for a while, mold and mildew may have already set in, and your best bet would be to get professional mold remediation Damascus.
How Is Water Getting Into My Basement?
Due to Damascus’ high elevation, it’s unlikely that ground water is finding its way into your basement, but that doesn’t meant that there aren’t plenty of other sources of excess moisture. The most common one is just plain, old condensation.
Especially in the sweltering Damascus summers, hot, humid air can easily find its way into your cool basement. When that air meets the cool surfaces in your basement, condensation forms, leaving pools of water in your basement that encourage the growth of mold and mildew.
Another concern in places like Damascus with older homes, is leaky pipes. Pipes were designed to last, but even the best ones eventually succumb to decades of wear and tear, especially if the water pressure in your home is on the high side.
Pipe leaks are particularly bad because they can drip moisture in your basement behind walls, where molds can grow unchecked for a long time before anyone even notices. By the time the smell is bad enough for you to notice, it may have already caused extensive damage to your home.
Finally, even though ground water is not a problem, cracks and gaps in your foundation, which naturally develop over time, can let runoff into your basement after a storm before it has a chance to drain away from your property.
Regardless of the cause, water makes your already cool, dark basement into the perfect place for mold to set up shop.
Why Is Mold So Bad?
Humans often have a visceral reaction to mold. That’s because mold represents decay and decomposition. It’s a sign that something has gone bad, and it certainly produces the smell to prove it.
But mold is also responsible for very real health problems in people that are exposed to too much of it. The most dangerous types of molds produce mycotoxins, which have been associated with neurological damage, compromised immune systems, serious respiratory disorders, and even death.
Even molds that don’t produce mycotoxins can cause severe allergic reactions in humans with symptoms such as nasal and sinus congestion, skin and eye irritation, and upper respiratory obstructions that can cause significant, and often debilitating discomfort.
Mold also begins to decay anything made of organic matter in the basement. That means that wooden frames, drywall, carpet, insulation, wallpaper, furniture, cardboard boxes, and their contents are all at risk of being irreparably destroyed if mold is left unchecked for too long.
Professional Mold Remediation Damascus
If you suspect that you have a mold problem, you should get professional mold remediation in Damascus right away. You can try to clean up mold yourself, but you are just likely to spread the problem or deal only with parts of it. A company specializing in mold remediation in Damascus will most importantly isolate and prevent the spread of mold in your home while they remove and clean infected surfaces and items.
Professionals can also identify infected areas that may not necessarily be visible to the untrained eye, ensuring that all traces of dangerous mold are removed from your home. Finally, professionals can address the source of the mold problem—moisture—to ensure that the problem does not reoccur. |
It is variable. About 60–240 ml is fatal. But, even 30–60 ml have proved fatal and recovery has occurred after absorption of 500–600 ml of absolute methanol.
The smallest amount reported to cause death is 15 ml of 40% methanol and 4 ml is the lowest recorded toxic dose.
Usually 24–36 hours. But, may be delayed for 3–4 days.
Signs and Symptoms of Methanol Consumption
Signs and symptoms vary according to
- Amount Ingested,
- Presence of Folate Difienciency
- Whether or not there was simultaneous ethanol consumption.
Onset of symptoms is prolonged – as long as 24-36 hours – when sufficient toxic metabolites have accumulated
- Severe abdominal pain or cramps in epigastric region due to pancreatic necrosis
- Muscular weakness
- Effect on CNS is more intense and persistent than ethanol
- Visual disturbances – they vary from photophobia, blurred vision, concentric diminution of visual field for color to be followed by partial blindness. But, these visual changes are not uniformly noted. Cloudy, blurred, misty or indistinct vision (described as similar to ‘stepping out in to a show field’) is typical. |
Mind and Nature
The research node Mind and Nature aims at promoting trans-disciplinary research on the interaction between human and nature drawing on a range of approaches from research on cultural heritage, memory, conflict and post-conflict and natural and cultural landscape. The node will provide selected master students and teachers the opportunity for joint research, supervision and teaching within the above mentioned research fields as well as studies abroad in a multicultural environment.
The node has a website: http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/mind-nature/
Apart from the overall research topics included in the research frame of human and nature, the node will use and develop, in one special section of the project, the technical tool GIS (Geographical Information System). GIS is about not only Where, but also Why, something is. It is a system for understanding and visualization of layers of information, and it describes the conditions of things. The students will be specially trained in GIS and there will be case studies developed with particular focus on the different disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics in the node such as cultural and heritage landscape analysis, humanitarian action and environmental analysis. These case studies will be part of a laboratory learning environment connected to our different research topics. We believe it is of most important for the students in the humanities to take part in the technical development of the field.
Apart from the Master Programme in ALM several other master programmes will be involved such as the Master Programme in Global Environmental History and the Master Programme on Holocaust and Genocide Studies. A range of international networks are also part of the node.
At the Department of ALM (ABM in Swedish) there are at the present two courses available with linkages to the node on Mind and Nature. The courses are part of the Master program of ALM (ABM) aiming at museum and cultural heritage studies, but are also available as free choice courses open for all students at Uppsala University. The courses are: Museums and Cultural Heritage in Conflict and Disaster Areas (7,5, hp) (Autumn 2012, Spring 2013) and The Material Culture of Heritage and Environment (7,5 hp) (Spring 2013). The teaching language will be English.
The researchers involved in this node at the Department of ALM are: Dr. Inga-Lill Aronsson, who is the coordinator for GIS, humanitarian action, cultural and natural heritage landscape and conflict. CV (link).
The node involves several of the departments and centers within the Faculty of Arts; The Hugo Valentin Centre, Department of Archeology and Ancient History, Department of History, Department of Art History, Centre for Gender Research, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. |
In my last few posts we’ve been talking about beans. We looked at the different types of beans and why you want them in your diet. I really believe that adding even half a cup to your diet twice a week can improve your overall health. If there one major drawback to beans, it’s that
Ok, so we all know that beans are good for you. In my last post, I listed the most common types of beans available. But what exactly are the beans benefits that makes them so great?
Most people know that beans are large plant seeds. What I’ll bet you didn’t know is that a bean is also known as a ‘pulse’. Not the heart-beating type of pulse, but the edible legume-type of pulse. Beans, peas, and pulses all belong to the legume family. Some studies show that legumes help prevent heart |
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The IB Middle Years Program (MYP)
The Middle Years Program (MYP) is a curriculum framework for learners aged 11–16. In ACSD, the MYP will be a four-year program designed for students in grades 7-10. Our middle and high school are working in a partnership to build and implement the program across buildings.
In an MYP classroom, students are at the center of learning. They are drawing connections between all subject areas. Learning is explicitly linked to the world around them, participation in a foreign language is required, and a variety of formal and informal assessments are used to inform teaching and learning. MYP learning experiences infuse global points of view wherever possible in order to promote understanding of other cultures, an awareness of the human condition, and an understanding that there is a commonality of human experience.
The MYP curriculum framework comprises eight subject groups, providing a broad and balanced education for early adolescents. Students take the core courses of language and literature, individuals and societies, mathematics, sciences, physical and health education, language acquisition, arts, and design. A unique feature of the program is that it extends the traditional curriculum to include immersion in four themes— approaches to teaching and approaches to learning, global contexts and concepts. Students also complete a personal project in their 10th grade year. The project is an independent piece of work that may be an essay, an artistic production or another form of expression (ibo.org, Middle Years Programme). |
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BMW Applies AI Solutions to the Paint Process
May 27, 2020—BMW is now applying artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to the paint shop at its Munich plant, according to a press release.
Every freshly painted car body must undergo an automatic surface inspection in the paint shop. Data gathered in these inspections are used to develop a comprehensive database for dust particle analysis. The specialists are now applying AI algorithms to compare live data from dust particle sensors in the paint booths and dryers with this database.
Data gathered from AI can determine if conditions are not optimal for the painting process, according to the BMW Blog.
The algorithm monitors over 160 features relating to the car body. |
As we tentatively emerge from lockdown, our thoughts remain with the many thousands who have helped to keep us and our loved ones safe over the last few months. Doctors and nurses have rightly come in for fulsome praise for putting their own lives on the line to protect ours. We won’t forget the images of people across Europe taking time out each evening to clap their efforts – it will be one of the lasting memories of a crisis we will want to forget. We are also indebted to their many less conspicuous colleagues who are only now being acknowledged – porters, cleaners, kitchen staff and others.
If you saw the RTE documentary MayDay: 24 Hours in Ireland’s Lockdown, you’ll undoubtedly have been impressed by the efforts of another forgotten group – van and truck drivers. You’ll have seen the exhausting hours they are putting in to ensure our supermarket shelves are stocked with food. Add to that the increase in online shopping – it has been up to this group to fulfil these orders, right across the country. Remember, this is a group that works long days even in normal times – a 2010 study in the US showed that truck drivers work 50% more hours than most workers.
For the lucky among us, one characteristic of the crisis is that things have been surprisingly ‘normal’. We’ve been able to get all the food we want, we’ve enjoyed Friday night meals delivered and we’ve kept the kids happy by ordering books, toys and so on. We have drivers to thank for this ‘normal’.
As we hear call for nurses to be recognised through better pay and conditions when things are back to normal, it’s time to think of our drivers too, and their safety. Employers clearly have a responsibility to staff spending so many hours at the wheel. Dangerous hours. Stressful hours. Not only is this stress harmful to the individual’s health but is considered one of the leading causes of collisions. And this is where adas.ie comes in. We are distributors of the Mobileye range of collision avoidance systems that reduce the risk of collisions in commercial vehicles by a series of alerts to the driver. The systems, retrofitted to the vehicle in a couple of hours at any of our adas.ie centres across Ireland, features warnings in respect of lane departure, likely forward collision, pedestrian collision, speed signs and more. What’s more, research is showing that the systems actually improve driver behaviour at the same time.
Don’t all our forgotten heroes deserve to be protected by such a system?
For more, see a very insightful article from Mobileye here on Protecting Tired Drivers During the Covid Pandemic. |
Prevention Efforts Save Lives
It is no secret that America has a drug problem. This would better be defined as a substance use problem since it includes alcohol, the nation’s most popular drug. But one subject that is often overshadowed and even obscured by our addiction epidemic is the growing issue of suicide. The two problems can often be intertwined, with no clear answer for one without solving the other. And unfortunately, these are issues that have become extremely common among our youth, particularly in postsecondary educational settings like colleges, universities, and vocational schools.
Adolescence and young adult life are critical times for preventing addiction. The early use of drugs increases a person’s chances of becoming addicted. In addition, drug use changes how the brain functions, leading to addiction and other serious mental health issues that can include suicidal ideation. Without early intervention and prevention efforts, substance use and suicidal ideation can become serious issues that may pervade adult life.
Substance use prevention alone has been shown to reduce the risk of suicide. But suicide prevention, as its own field, is also crucial. During transitional periods, adolescents and young adults are at an increased risk of mental health issues like substance use and suicide. There is even a link between substance use and suicide among young adults during these transformative years. The pressures of college and university, finding employment, the expectations created by parents and institutions, and the influence of peers can significantly increase stress.
This is where many people discover that drugs and alcohol can be misused to cope with stress. However, underlying mental health issues can be exacerbated by substance use. Or, new mental health issues can develop, including suicidal ideation. Drug education and prevention are essential aspects of suicide prevention efforts and can pave the way for overcoming stigma and making support and help readily available.
The Link Between Substance Use and Suicide
There are significant risk factors that can lead to drug addiction. These include behaviors like early first-time substance use and regular use of substances throughout the teen years. Other factors include growing up in an environment where drug use is common or acceptable and experiencing trauma or extreme loss. Some of the risk factors of suicide overlap these.
- Feeling hopeless
- Extreme or unexpected loss
- Financial distress
- Family history of suicide
In addition, many young people who experience drug addiction and suicidal ideation are struggling with other mental health issues.
Depression, substance use, and aggressive behavior disorders are among the most influential risk factors for suicide among adolescents and adults. Evidence has shown that adolescents who use drugs are at an increased risk of suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, and completed suicide. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, nearly one in twelve adults in the United States who committed suicide had a substance use disorder. In addition, opiates, including heroin and prescription pain medication, are present in 20% of suicide deaths in the United States. This disparity indicates that some of these people either had an undiagnosed substance use disorder or were not addicted to drugs but took them shortly before death.
Research has shown that the number of substances used seems to be more predictive of suicide than the type of substance used. Additionally, 22% of deaths by suicide in the United States involve alcohol intoxication. Alcohol or drug misuse significantly affects suicide rates because of the disinhibition that occurs when a person is intoxicated.
Illicit and licit drugs are used for different reasons. After high school, many students begin to experiment with different substances. They may be coping with external pressure while attending college or vocational school. The inability to manage external pressure and stress is one reason why many students experiment with drugs or binge drink. Unfortunately, suicidal ideation often follows as the pressure builds and the person sees no way out of addiction or the looming consequences of avoidance. More and more drugs are used to try and cope, and eventually, they discover that the drugs have made them unable to manage their negative thoughts and feelings towards life. This is when tragedy can occur.
Suicide is among the top three leading causes of death in young adults.
Suicide Rates Among Young Adults
According to the Centers for Disease Control, national suicide rates among persons aged 10 to 24 didn’t change much from 2000 to 2007. However, in 2007 it increased by 57.4%. Overall, from 2007 to 2018, suicide rates for this age group increased significantly in 42 of America’s states, with most states seeing somewhere between a 30% and 60% increase. Sadly, youth suicide has become an increasingly prominent public health issue.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has stated that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. In 2019, adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 had a suicide rate of 13.95 per 100,000. And while suicide rates for young adults have historically been lower than that of adults, since 2010, there has been a steady increase in the number of college and university students who received mental health services after considering suicide. And most recently, between 2019 and 2020, 36.9% of college and university students fell into this category.
According to the National Institute on Mental Health, suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34 in 2019. Among those aged 15 to 24, unintentional injury was the leading cause of death, followed by suicide. And when we examine adults across all age groups, the prevalence of serious suicidal thoughts was highest among those aged 18 to 25. These factors all point toward a serious and growing problem.
The External Pressure of College
Anyone observing a college or vocational school student can see that this is a phase of life where young adults are confronted with expectations—for example, new relationships, living situations, financial responsibilities, and planning for the future. Some stress cannot be prevented, and some of it is expected. Having a plan and support is essential. External pressure and stress left unhandled can easily lead to substance use, mental health issues, and suicidal ideation. Drugs and alcohol are unhealthy ways of alleviating this stress.
According to the Association of American Universities, stressful life events were high among college students. And these stressful events were associated with mental health issues. Approximately three out of four students reported having experienced at least one stressful life event last year. And roughly 20% of students reported experiencing six or more stressful life events in the last year. The data pointed out that mental health diagnoses and suicidality were common, and rates of troublesome mental health symptoms among college students are increasing. Substance use is among the most critical problem facing these students. Research has indicated that roughly 26% of male and 19% of female full-time college students use illicit drugs.
Peer influence and stress are significant factors that contribute to substance use among college students. In addition, numerous individual-level characteristics affect substance use behavior. Addiction is often also associated with more severe disorders that tend to be chronic and place the individual at a higher risk for suicide. These issues, coupled with the external pressure of success, are not easy to manage.
The first step in prevention is noticing the indicators of stress. Feeling lost or alone, unable to sleep or eat, and forcing a happy face are clear signs that support is needed. It is common for students to be pressured and, as a result, become less motivated, procrastinate, and not looking forward to anything. During this time, the individual may seem to be functioning even though they are struggling and are worried. Despite the effort to handle things independently, they may not be able to manage their academic workload along with everything else. Not reaching out for help and internalizing the problems increases the risk of substance use and suicide.
There is a strong association between acute and chronic stress and the motivation to misuse licit or illicit drugs. For example, psychological models of addiction view drug use as coping strategies to deal with stress. In addition to this, it is a way to reduce tension, self-medicate, and decrease withdrawal-related symptoms. Unfortunately, considerable evidence now shows that adolescents and young adults facing recent negative life events have increased levels of drug use.
Preventing Substance Use Can Prevent Suicide
Not all suicide attempts are connected to substance use. But according to studies, over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol and drug dependence, and 25% of individuals addicted to drugs and alcohol commit suicide. In addition, over 70% of adolescent suicides are complicated by drug and alcohol use and dependence. Thus, prevention and education regarding drug use can make a considerable impact on preventing suicide. Prevention programs enhance protective factors and reverse or reduce risk factors. In addition, prevention programs aimed at general populations during key transition points in life produce beneficial effects. Preventing drug use is a part of suicide prevention because if someone does not become addicted to drugs, it reduces their risk of suicide.
Suicide is preventable, yet it is underreported because of the stigma associated with it. In addition, nonfatal suicidal behavior or attempts to takes one’s life are often overlooked because the individual may never talk about it. But working to stop something from happening is easier than having to try and resolve it later. Drug use and suicide prevention efforts are never a waste of time or resources. There are numerous organizations, tips, and support services for young adults who are struggling.
Reaching Out for Help and Support
Preventing substance use and suicide is a serious matter that will require a collective effort. Prevention activities aim to educate and support individuals and communities by giving people knowledge and resources to better themselves. But even simply being more aware of the subject can bring about positive change.
Common warning signs of early substance use include:
- deteriorating academic performance
- dramatic mood changes
- preoccupation with death
- uncontrolled anger
- engaging in risky activities
- withdrawing from friends and family
- neglecting appearance
- increased alcohol and drug use
- giving away prized possessions
If one observes these behaviors, begin by asking the person questions. Don’t be fearful of inquiring about suicidal thoughts or excessive drug or alcohol use.
Most suicidal persons want to live but are unable to see an alternative to their current situation. They usually give warnings of their intentions, whether subtle or direct, but those around them are either oblivious or don’t know how to respond. Examples of these signs can manifest themselves differently, but paying attention to how a person speaks is essential.
Be aware if a person talks about:
- Killing themselves
- Feeling hopeless
- Having no reason to live
- Being a burden to others
- Feeling trapped
- Unbearable pain
- Wishing they weren’t alive
- How everyone would be better off without them
This type of talk can be indicative of suicidal thoughts, and it is vital to speak to someone if these warning signs are present.
Talking about suicide does not cause someone to be suicidal. Conversely, if a person talks about suicide or expresses their feelings, it does not mean they are now no longer at risk. Most suicide attempts are an expression of extreme distress, not harmless bids for attention. The best way to help anyone struggling with drug addiction or suicide is to show interest in helping them and be supportive.
Be direct and ask them if they are considering suicide or have a plan. At the same time, do not be judgmental, give advice, or argue with them. Do not swear to secrecy, but offer hope that alternatives are available. Finally, please do not leave the person alone; take action by getting them the help they need.
Resources for Suicide Prevention
If someone you know is showing signs they may be suicidal, be supportive and get them to professional help immediately. The following are resources that can be useful during this difficult time.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
By calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255) you will be connected to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
The nation’s leading organization bringing together people across communities and backgrounds to understand and prevent suicide and to help heal the pain it causes.
An Online Crisis Network. The first online network with 100% of its volunteers trained and certified in crisis intervention.
The Jed Foundation
As the nation’s leading organization working to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among college students, The Jed Foundation protects students’ mental health across the country.
An online resource for college mental health. It also includes a helpline for those with more serious mental health issues such as suicidal thoughts and how to help a friend. |
What is Collagen?
Collagen is one of the most numerous protein in your body, and it’s a huge part of your tendons, skin, bones, teeth, muscles and ligaments. Collagen provides your skin toughness and durability. It assists the cartilage in your joints continue to be flexible. It gives framework to your arteries, maintaining them solid and versatile. It provides your bones framework, too, by acting as ‘strengthening rods’. Collagen is an amazing construction product.
Collagen can be found in numerous types, but the vast bulk in your body contains types I, II and III. These types all create fairly lengthy fibers (compared to body cells). Type I collagen is – ounce for ounce – stronger than steel. Kind II collagen is thinner than type I, and also is utilized in cartilage all bunched up like springs for shock absorption. Type III is important for the hollow things in your body– like huge blood vessels, the digestive tract and bladder.
It is essential to understand that the ‘type’ of collagen is just appropriate when it’s currently a part of your body. When you consume it, your body just re-makes it into brand-new types.
Collagen is so large as well as hard that we can’t absorb it ‘as is’ when we consume it. What we can do though, is ‘hydrolyze’ the collagen, which suggests it’s broken down into a lot smaller sized pieces (‘ peptides’) by water, making it usable by your body. Collagen Facility supplies easy-to-digest hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
What are the Benefits of Collagen Supplements?
Each serving of VitaPost Collagen Complicated provides replenishing hydrolyzed collagen. Collagen supplements are not only helpful for your skin but additionally for your hair, nails, as well as joints. It can help with joint pain and arthritis in addition to making you feel extra vibrant.
VitaPost Collagen Complicated offers natural hydrolyzed collagen that sustains your body in the regular fixing of harmed skin; sustains the skin’s natural suppleness as well as framework; supports skin tone and also can enhance the noticeable look of great lines and creases. Researches have ended that supplementing with collagen can additionally enhance skin hydration.
VitaPost Collagen Facility might have wonderful advantages supporting the body’s upkeep of the skeletal system, particularly in women who are undergoing all-natural hormonal modifications. Studies recommend a diet supplemented with hydrolyzed collagen can support the upkeep of the bone collagen already present – indicating less all-natural degradation of the bones with age.
Collagen in your cartilage material is the mechanical reason why joints don’t simply fracture and break whenever you jump or run. Supplementing the diet with hydrolyzed collagen has actually been related to joint benefits for an entire variety of people, from age-related joint deterioration, to highly-active athletes that press their joints to the limit.
How to Choose a High Quality Collagen Supplement
This write-up will assist you make a decision which collagen supplement is best for you.
There are various sorts of collagen supplements on the marketplace today. With numerous alternatives, it can be hard to recognize which one is the most effective top quality. Below are some actions to follow when searching for a top quality collagen supplement.
1) Inspect how much time the company has been in business and what their online reputation is like.
2) Take a look at the ingredients and also ensure they have something that will help your needs (i.e., type 1, kind 2, kind 3).
3) Inspect if there are any fillers or other active ingredients that might not be as healthy as what you wish to take into your body and if so, locate one without any fillers or additives.
4) Read client reviews concerning the item.
What is the difference between hydrolyzed collagen and collagen peptides?
There is no distinction. Collagen proteins are long chains of amino acids. The procedure of hydrolysis breaks them down right into peptides, which are simply much shorter chains of amino acids. Collagen supplements are variously labeled as “hydrolyzed collagen” or “collagen peptides,” but they coincide.
That needs collagen supplements?
In my opinion, pretty much everybody might profit. Most people don’t consume bones, skin, and connective tissues– the parts of pets which contain collagen. That implies they don’t obtain the amino acids (specifically hydroxyproline, glycine, and also proline) that are discovered in collagen however very little in muscular tissue meat.
Just how much collagen should I take each day?
There is no RDA for collagen, and to my understanding, no researches have established ideal dosing guidelines. You could require essentially depending on your dietary intake. To be secure, it’s always a good concept to follow the dosage directions on your collagen supplement of choice.
Can you take too much collagen peptides?
Many things in nature comply with a J-shaped curve– too much or inadequate are both poor. The very same could be true for collagen supplements, but sadly, there’s no indication of what would comprise “too much.” There’s additionally no proof that collagen toxicity is an issue if you adhering to application standards.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT TAKE FOR COLLAGEN TO WORK?
It depends what you’re taking collagen to sustain. If you’re taking collagen for muscular tissue growth, positive adjustments will begin to take place nearly right away with your workouts– although you might not discover the development as soon as possible.
In researches looking at collagen supplements for joint pain and skin elasticity, participants experienced obvious enhancements in concerning four to 8 weeks of daily supplementation.
Like any supplement, collagen isn’t an overnight miracle treatment however sticking to an everyday supplement regimen will produce the most effective outcomes.
What Is Bovine Collagen?
Bovine collagen comes from cows– preferably grass-fed cows.
There are 3 various types of collagen: collagen I, II, and III. Each type of collagen supports different parts of the body. In bovine collagen made from hide, you’ll usually discover types I and also III which work in comparable means to support skin, bones, muscles, tendons, and also digestive tract wellness.
If you purchase a bovine collagen supplement made from cartilage, connective cells, or bones, this supplement should additionally include collagen kind II which assists support joint wellness particularly.
What Is Marine Collagen?
Marine collagen contains kind I collagen and also is generally sourced from wild captured fish. This sort of collagen is superb for boosting sustainability practices since it’s made from fish components that typically end up in the trash.
The wonderful thing about marine collagen is that it’s easy for the body to procedure as well as soak up.
Unfortunately, anybody on a vegan or stringent vegetarian diet plan can not take collagen supplements because it’s always sourced from some sort of animal product.
Nevertheless, unlike typical jelly, bovine collagen as well as marine collagen do not include any kind of pork-derived items so they appropriate for any person on a kosher or halal diet regimen.
Does Collagen Break a Fast?
Yes. Considering that collagen is a healthy protein, it quits the autophagy process generated during fasting.
Throughout recurring or lasting fasting, autophagy happens to remove the cells of built-up toxic substances. Collagen or any other kind of healthy protein is a precise no while fasting. |
There is a harmony to Zarafa. Perhaps it is the camp’s intimate size, the calming waters of the lagoon or the genuine nature of the staff, but whatever the case, it is a treasure. The privacy of the Selinda Reserve offers us the ultimate in flexibility. The options to explore the area by foot, pontoon boat or game drive vehicle open up endless opportunities for extraordinary sightings.
In keeping with the tradition of rising early to catch the morning light and the emerging activity, we usually depart camp at daybreak. At the peak of our dry winter months, we have counted at least 8,500 elephants in the Reserve – on par with populations found in Chobe National Park. Their antics are a joy to watch and photograph, especially when they are frolicking in the Lagoon and Spillway.
As is expected in a reserve of this size, wildlife varies from area to area in response to changes in vegetation and hydrology. Zarafa, due to its location close to Zibadianja Lagoon, has impressive pods of hippo and crocodiles that are a regular sighting. Water birds abound with frequent sightings of the amusing Black egret and stately Saddle-billed stork. Pied kingfishers dive for small fish while African fish eagles call in the distance. The whole scene is quintessentially Botswana.
Selinda Reserve is known for a few ‘specials’. African wild dogs have denned near camp for the last three seasons (2008, 2009 & 2010). Given this species plight, it is a true blessing to have fairly common sightings.The Selinda lions, affectionately known as the ‘surfing lions’ for their penchant for hunting hippo, are legendary. Their skill at hunting such large prey under trying conditions is unrivaled.
The open plains dotted throughout the Reserve provide ideal habitat for cheetah, and we’ve recently added two rescued young males to the population (from a rescue relocation operation near Ghanzi). Botswana is renowned for its leopard sightings, and Zarafa is no exception. A few residents often come through camp on their nightly prowls.
As the sun rises high in the sky and temperatures follow, we retreat to Zarafa Camp for a well-earned brunch and siesta. This is of course, only if we so chose. If we are tracking a sighting or witness to an extraordinary event, then we will stay in the bush to watch it unfold. Brunch can wait!
And finally, as the sun lowers again and the light softens we depart for our afternoon exploration and continue past nightfall in search of nocturnal species such as civet, genet, and possibly even aardvark. |
God is All We Need
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. (Psalm 23:1)
A shepherd cares for his sheep. If a sheep is hungry, sick or falls prey to a predator, he has no means to provide for or protect himself. It is the shepherd alone who tends to his needs whenever there is a problem. Though we are not literal sheep, that is the nature of our relationship with God. Because God blessed us with many things and abilities, including having hands to feed ourselves, we may forget that, even when we have absolutely nothing, losing all possessions and means (like defenseless sheep), God will still provide, because He loves us.
Because He provides and will never leave me unattended, He alone is sufficient. How does that truth align with my thoughts and worries each day? We worry about possessions and saving for rainy days instead of having contentment, which sometimes distract us from delighting in God and His providence. It is said that when God is all we have, then we realise He is all we need. When all is stripped away, we realise how much we need God, and every other possession pales in comparison.
God, our Father, thank you for all the blessings each day that are more than I deserve. They are so bountiful that sometimes, I forget they come from you. I even get conceited, thinking I earned them through my power and go on to desire more. Forgive me, and help me to not cling to possessions but to share them with others. Even if I lose them all, I lack nothing as you are my shepherd. |
Being proactive about your health has never been more important. The health care system in the United States is set up brilliantly to prevent you from dying and for maximizing profits of all parties involved. In fact, the United States spends more money by a wide margin than any other country on health care. Our health care system is set up to keep us from dying, not thriving. Our average life span barely makes it in the top 30 when compared to other nations.
As it stands now, the American health care system is poorly equipped to help us maximize our health span. Health span is defined as a period of time in which a person is generally healthy and free from serious disease. It’s up to you to manage your health and maximize your health span.
As health care costs in America continue to increase without actual positive change in our health status as consumers, our overall health delivery system continues to be strained. Medical professionals are being over burdened by daunting rules and regulations that limit patient care. There are rules that prevent creative personalized solutions because of “standard of practice” rules.
Thankfully, there are more consumer driven options to maximize health through novel self-quantification strategies. These individually designed options can help you to maximize your health.
- Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is a type of medical testthat identifies changes in chromosomes, genes or proteins. The results of a genetic test can confirm or rule out a suspected genetic condition or help determine your chance of developing or passing on a genetic
- Microbiome testing allows for individualized supplementation protocols in order to address unique epigenetic factors that can help you to maximize your health span while avoiding disease.
- Concierge medical services enables you to have a long term relationship with a physician (who is dedicated to a small number of clients) in order to help you to prevent disease and manage health concerns early.
It’s imperative that we take a leadership role in our own health care by continuing to be proactive.
Top Reasons Why You Should Manage Your Health:
Money – Health care is expensive. Many of the most common treatments and fancy diagnostic methods are not necessary. Costs are only going to rise more in the future. As this occurs, it will be even more important to be able to take care of the simple common place injuries and illnesses. It will save you a lot of time and money! Benjamin Franklin was right: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Empowerment – There is nothing more important than your health. You have control of most of the aspects in your life that affect your health status. Taking care of yourself and your health needs leads to a sense of empowerment. Understanding your body and your health is liberating and empowering. Our ability to understand our own unique body has never been more possible.
Improved Care – If you understand how to be healthy and take care of yourself, you will be able to assist your medical practitioner in making the best decision on how to manage your care. Remember, it is your body and your health. By being your own advocate, you can insure that you receive quality care. Knowing yourself is the best way to insure the healthcare you receive is appropriate for you as a unique individual.
Quicker Recovery Time – Often by taking out the middle man, you can help to increase the speed of recovery. You can address the condition and help your body to initiate the healing response to insure a faster recovery.
Emergency Situations – You never know when an emergency, such as a motor vehicle accident, inclement weather or pandemic, may occur. You may experience an injury or illness during a camping trip when resources are a far distance away. In the event of an emergency situation, you will be knowledgeable and equipped to take care of yourself and your loved ones. The healthcare system may not actually be accessible when you need it. (If necessary, please seek appropriate medical assistance as soon as possible.)
Healthy Living – Take the time to focus on your health. Often, small changes in your diet, activity level, and relationships can make a big difference. You can take control of your health and your life! Don’t underestimate what leading a healthy lifestyle can really do for you as you look to improve your overall health span.
Western medicine is designed to keep you alive, not to help you thrive. Taking a passive role in your health is not a wise choice in America’s current health care environment. Only YOU are responsible for your health. Decisions now will determine how successful you age in the future.
There is nothing more important than your health. You must be in control and manage your own health. You have control over most of the aspects in your life that affect your health and well-being. Take charge, and empower yourself. You must be your greatest advocate. Don’t delegate the most important job of taking care of yourself and your health and well-being!
Written by: Ben Shatto
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Ben Shatto, PT, DPT, OCS. Ben is a physical therapist and Executive Director of Bluebird Home Health as well as the founder and editor of the website www.thePhysicalTherapyAdvisor.com. His website is dedicated to help proactive adults of all ages to understand how to safely self-treat and manage common musculoskeletal, neurological, and mobility related conditions in a timely manner so they can reach their optimal health. |
OPINION PIECE: GM maize yields in SA proves it is the way to go
Society still argues about the use of genetically modified (GM) crops and specifically GM maize. Whilst some sentiments may be centred around consumer perceptions, empirical evidence has showcased two advantages in yields and savings on inputs that are difficult to contest.
Firstly, the GM crops have contributed to an increase in yields in countries that have adopted the seeds, most notably the United States, Brazil and Argentina amongst others. This is evidenced in a working paper by agricultural economists, Jayson Lusk,
Jesse Tack and Nathan Hendricks, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, an American private nonprofit research organization, in June 2017 (see here).
But there is also compelling evidence here at home. South Africa is the only country on the African continent to date that has adopted the use of GM seeds. Thus, it is not surprising that South Africa produced 16% of sub-Saharan maize in the 2018/19 production season while utilising a relatively small area of 2.3 million hectares. In contrast, countries such as Nigeria planted 6.5 million hectares in the same production season but only harvested 11.0 million tonnes of maize, which equates to 15% of the sub-Saharan region’s maize output.
GM maize crops were introduced in South Africa in the 2001/02 season. Before its introduction, average dryland maize yields were around 2.4 tonnes per hectare, as illustrated in Exhibit 1 below. These have since increased to an average of 5.2 tonnes per hectare over the past five seasons. Meanwhile, the sub-Saharan Africa region’s maize yields remain negligible, averaging at levels below 2 tonnes per hectare. Secondly, the non-yield benefits come in the form of labour savings, reduced insecticide use, and improved weed and pest control which has facilitated the ability to adopt low and no-till production methods and utilise higher planting densities (Lusk et al., 2017).
What’s more, a research study by agricultural economists Marnus Gouse, Debdatta Sengupta, Patricia Zambrano and José Falck Zepeda, published in the World Development, a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal, in July 2016, outlined non-yield benefits of GM in KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa (see here).
The study found that farmers value the labour-saving benefit of GM seeds. This was specifically the case among women farmers. Women farmers saved a substantial amount of time because less weeding is required, an activity that has traditionally been the responsibility of female farmers, specifically amongst smallholder farming communities in South Africa (Gouse et al., 2016).
Another study that corroborates the aforementioned observation is by agricultural economist, Graham Brookes, published in a Journal of Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain. Brookes assesses the economic and environmental impacts of using insect-resistant (GM) maize in Spain and Portugal over a period of 21 years (see here). The study found that the use of GM maize seeds resulted in reduced insecticide spraying, and as a result, decreased the environmental impact associated with herbicide and insecticide use on these crops. This ultimately is a contribution towards improving food security. While society might continue to hold different views about the use of biotechnology, the debates should be centred on research and informed positions. Whilst consumer preferences must be taken into an advantage, the debate should be conducted on an informed base and the one thing we should not ignore is the aforementioned benefits and the improvement thereafter to those in need of affordable food supply. There are true benefits in adopting genetically modified seeds.
Wandile Sihlobo is chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and the author of Finding Common Ground: Land, Equity and Agriculture (to be released in April 2020)
By Wandile Sihlobo, Business Day, 22 February 2020 |
Flow gauges are instruments used to measure linear, nonlinear, mass or volumetric flow rate of a liquid or gas. Before choosing flow gauges you need to have a clear understanding of the requirements of your particular application. Therefore, time should be invested in fully evaluating the nature of the process fluid and the overall installation conditions. When selecting flow gauges, determine if the flow rate information needs to be continuous or totalized, and whether this information is needed locally or remotely. If remote monitoring is needed, should the transmission be analog, digital, or shared? If shared, what is the required minimum data-update frequency ? Other factors need to be also taken into account when choosing flow gauges. For example the fluid and its flow characteristics are critical. The fluid pressure, temperature, allowable pressure drop, density, conductivity, viscosity, vapor pressure at maximum operating temperatures, toxicity, safety of fluid, abrasiveness of fluid, bubble content, ease of cleaning and sanitaton, possibility of slug formation, possibility of pulsation in flow.....etc. need to be considered when selecting flow gauges. Piping and installation conditions are also of utmost importance.
Before purchasing flow gauges, buyers should also make a preference for either mass or volumetric units. For example, when measuring flow of compressible materials, using volumetric flow gauges does not make much sense. Our flow gauges are accurate and have outstanding repeatability specifications. If you are not sure which flow gauge to choose from our product brochures, contact us for our opinion. |
AidEx caught up with Julika Falconer, the CEO of the Futurelife Foundation Trust and speaker at this year’s AidEx conference programme to learn more about how they are working to resolve malnutrition for young children in South Africa.
Many people around the world suffer from malnourishment despite international relief effort, making them vulnerable to diseases. Futurelife began in 2008 as a social project to improve the lives of malnourished and disadvantaged people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is now used extensively throughout South Africa to feed malnourished children.
Having witnessed the immense suffering of vulnerable children in the region, Julika Falconer was determined to do something that could help bring health and happiness to their lives. So she joined Futurelife Foundation Trust in 2008 to further the organisation’s mission of alleviating hunger among South African children.
Speaking on the success of the project so far, Julika remaked: “Futurelife feeds an average of 200,000 highly nutritious meals every month and will reach a magic ten million meals donation mark towards December 2017.
Case study: The Virtuous Cycle Project
While the food itself is serving as an effective solution to malnutrition, Smartfood is being rolled out for sustainable improvement in the longer term.
Futurelife collaborated with The Virtuous Circle project to produce packaging that has enabled over 650,000 of Futurelife Smart Food meals to be distributed across South Africa in innovative dual compartment multilayer pouches designed to optimise transport, storage, preparation and consumption of nutritious children’s meals.
While the pouches are highly effective in terms of food waste prevention, the multimaterial multilayer packaging involved has traditionally been considered difficult, if not impossible, to recycle. One of the core aims of the Virtuous Circle has been to challenge this situation and test innovative methods of creating new products of genuine value from the recycled multilayer packaging waste. Virtuous Circle is important to help drive forward Sustainable Development Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 17 (Partnerships and Goals).
Julika Falconer will be speaking on a panel at AidEx 2017 in Brussels on the power of partnerships. Futurelife Foundation Trust will also be exhibiting. |
Some people wanted to live far from the city. For them, it is a place far from a problem and stress. But is it really true? People may expect Indigenous groups, like Inuit who live in northern Canada, to live longer than average people living in the city. Is that the truth about Inuit life expectancy? These doctors in Palm Beach advise annual checkups and a healthy lifestyle for Inuit people. Since they are far from the city, do they have access to public health services? This article will give you a view about the life of Inuit and the truth about their lifespan. |
How Good Phrases Unsuccessful People are Always Use I Know so many UnSuccessful People. All of them lives in a Bubble of Hopelessness. One person I know is so unhappy and stuck that he seems to always be moving backward, not forward faltering so much in his Lack of Productivity that it's almost comical. Being around Unsuccessful People is never so much of Fun. If You listen to folks who can't seem to push ahead in their Career or who have never Started a Company or led Large Groups of People, they all seem to mimic the same Speech Patterns. They all Talk the very Same Language. Here are some Good Phrases they Always Use. Spot this Negative Talk in others (or in YourSelf), and you will find the wrench in Your Business Growth. 1. That's Not Possible [ Impossible] The most Unsuccessful People are Always Pointing out What is not Possible. They Live in a World of ImPossibilities; They have a Solid Can't Do Attitude. |
Broom corn (Sorghum vulgare) is not only a hardy annual plant, it’s a beautiful plant that can last for years following harvest. This fact makes broom corn a plant that has numerous uses. As the botanical name suggests, broomcorn is a variety of sorghum resembling a tall grass that forms imposing and colorful tassel like, fan-shaped seed heads 16 to 20 inches long rather than of ears of corn.
Benjamin Franklin is recognized as introducing broomcorn to the United States in the early 1700s. In 1797 farmer Levi Dickenson from Hadley, Massachusetts, used a bundle of broom corn to make an extremely good broom for his wife and word of mouth took over.
This success led Dickinson to begin producing and selling straw brooms throughout his community, although the business did not really take off until 1810 when Dickinson invented a foot-treadle broom machine that made better brooms more quickly. By 1834 commercial broom corn production had spread to several Northeast states and began moving west. Small broom shops began to crop up all over the west and tens of thousands of acres of broom corn were grown annually, particularly in the mid-west where broom corn grew exceedingly well and still does today.
Broom Corn Resurgence
Today, broom corn is making a resurgence, but not as a plant used for making brooms. It’s now being used as a fashionable ornamental plant in garden beds and for borders by discriminating landscapers and gardeners. The gently waving, colorful and heavily-laden seed heads will add visually stimulating dimensions to your garden that are difficult to achieve with other plants.
Broom corn is also being grown, harvested and dried to use in fall (autumn) wreaths and arrangements rather corn because of it’s striking and unusual characteristics. It can be used in conjunction with other plants or very effectively by itself. Simply placing a few stems in an earthen vase with a couple of pumpkins around the bottom can provide a surprisingly sophisticated yet very simple decoration.
While it’s possible to buy cuttings of broom corn, it’s rather expensive and you may not be able to get the color(s) and or stem length you require. It’s also possible that the seed heads will begin to fall apart during shipping, which defeats the purpose unless you’re making brooms. With this in mind the best approach is to grow your own. By doing this you’ll get the best of both worlds.
- You’ll reap the benefits of having a unique and exceptionally eye-catching addition to your garden.
- You’ll feel enormously proud and satisfied that you’ve been able to grow your own broom corn and then harvest it to use in your very own fall and/or Thanksgiving decorations.
And don’t worry, growing broom doesn’t require a PhD in horticulture to be grown successfully.
Simple Steps for Growing Broom Corn
Broomcorn is a resilient plant and because it’s generally impervious to insect pests and mold, it’s pretty easy to grow. Broom corn is best planted sometime between May 1 and June 15. However, it should only be planted after all chances of frost have past and the soil is warm. A good rule of thumb is about 2 weeks after the last frost. It should also be planted in areas that will receive full sunlight for the duration of the growing cycle.
Depending on your requirements broom corn can be planted a couple of ways. If you want to harvest the plant for use in crafts etc. the seeds should be placed at a depth of about 1”, with seeds about 3-4” apart and in rows that are approximately 2-3 feet apart. This ensures that the large seed heads have sufficient space to mature in. At the same time it also helps prevent the stalks from bending over from the weight of the seed head. As broom corn grows to a height of 10-12 feet make sure the area you’re going to plant in will accommodate the plants height.
If on the other hand, you’re growing broom corn for ornamental purposes it can be planted much closer together. Keep in mind however; if you allow it to self-seed in succeeding years it won’t take long for it to become crowded. The first shoots will appear in about 7-10 days and will be ready to harvest around 90 to 110 days after planting. The plants should be watered frequently.
The seed heads mature in the fall in striking shades of red, black, amber and brown and is ready to harvest when the plant turns from a yellow to green color and before the seeds completely mature. It can be easily harvested with a sharp knife by cutting the plant with a long stem. It can be dried out easily by simply hanging it upside down or by laying it out on a flat surface or drying rack. If you want to make a broom you can remove the seeds with an ordinary hair comb or by lightly hitting the seed heads against a flat surface.
In sum, Broom corn is a robust annual plant that’s easy to grow and that will live on for many years after being harvested in the form of decorative wreaths, bouquets or as a broom. In addition to its craft uses broomcorn can also be grown as a rather stunning ornamental. The seed can also be used a bird feed. Lorenz’s OK Seeds, LLC has freshly harvested broom corn seed in red, black, or mixed available now. And remember, you can keep your seed fresh by simply storing it in a freezer until the following growing season begins. Moreover, buying seed early means that you may be able to save money as seed supplies do decrease and thus become more expensive as the growing season draws closer.
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In his Interacting Responsibly (and Responsively!) talk at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2012 Scott Jehl discussed ways we can improve Web performance by qualifying capabilities and being smart about how assets are loaded in browsers. He also shared a number of new tools he helped create that can help address these issues. Here's my notes from his talk:
- Building Web products to be universally accessible requires empathy. We have to walk in people’s shoes. This includes a lot more than just people with disabilities – it includes slow network connections, less capable devices, and more.
- Disgraceful degradation: a shockingly unacceptable user experience. We need to make performance a key part of our work. It’s crucial to even a decent Web experience for many people.
What Causes Poor Performance?
- Extra features are being sent that are not needed by a device/browser.
- Every http request we require is a gamble: a chance to fail.
- Being over presumptuous about our users’ situations and capabilities.
- We need to stop building things for developer convenience and instead build them for user experience. We can create rich experiences that solve these problems. Limitations can fuel creativity. Don’t get tied to particular solutions, revisit things that we previously dismissed. South Street is an umbrella project form the Filament Group that addressed problems around qualified application of features & improving delivery mechanisms.
HTML & Source Order
- HTML has an ever-increasing problem: we want to deliver more content across more devices.
- Ways to slim down a page: reduce features & remove what is not needed OR prioritize loading of essential content and defer the rest.
- Removing things isn’t always the answer but a tiered delivery of content could be.
- This technique can change how you think about document construction but it comes with a cost: everywhere you use it requires an additional http request.
- Sometimes HTML mark-up has to be in a specific part of the source order. In a responsive design, you might want to adjust where a set of code sits. You can use the AppendAround pattern to move code around using CSS.
- Cutting down the number of http requests is the best way to improve performance.
- CSS is a blocking element: browsers wait until it is all loaded before displaying a page. This prevents un-styled content from showing up.
- The mobile-first CSS pattern works really well at enhancing content as devices get more capable. But we are sending additional CSS to devices that can’t use them.
- Every browser downloads every CSS asset today –whether it needs it or not. While we want style sheets to be there when we need them, we don’t necessarily want them to be blocking page rendering.
- When combined with a server-side solution like quickConcat, eCSSential can reduce blocking CSS requests to two.
- Images are 63% of file size on Web pages.
- Background images can be managed with media query cascades to only be loaded when needed so they can be managed. Inline images are another story.
- Pretty much all responsive image solutions today break in one way or another. A picture element was proposed to address the issues in these solutions. It uses a series of image fallbacks with media query attributes to load the right image. This standard is evolving and in flux.
- Should we load retina images for devices that can use them or should we give people a choice of what kind of image they want? After all, serving retina images by default really increases download size.
- The picturefill solution can be used to load a standard definition image by default and then give people the option to load a high-resolution image if they choose on their retina device.
- Wrap.js (coming soon) is a simple lightweight DOM utility that’s very light and fast (2KB) and qualified to only work on modern browsers.
- Wrap works with AjaxInclude: which is commonly needed but does not require a complete library like JQuery.
We have the tools to create rich experience without excluding people. But we need to work responsibly to do so. |
The Grammys: Good and Bad
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards are set to take place on February 13, and the nomination list is pretty disappointing - at least given that you're not Katy Perry, and most of us are not. Unlike the Oscars, which are still revered as the gold standard film industry awards, the Grammys have largely ceased to be relevant or even interesting to the more-than-casual music fan. Has it always been this way, or did the Grammys start with the right intentions but gradually fall into a sinkhole? Let’s start with a look back at 1958, the year the Grammy Awards made their debut, and you can see for yourself if the gift-givers of those little gramophone statuettes haven’t always been clueless.
But first, some background. How does a person win a Grammy in the first place? Well, they send their recording to an organization called the The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (or the NARAS). Sound like big-shots, don’t they? Keep in mind that the organization’s main job is to hand out Grammys, and you should save your applause until we reach the end.
Who is the NARAS?
If you’ve seen the excellent movie This Film is Not Yet Rated, you were probably shocked and appalled to learn that the MPAA, who gives films their ratings, uses a secret panel to determine whether your favorite art film gets a NC-17 or R rating (hint: the gayer, the worse a rating). Unlike the MPAA, the NARAS is not as secretive , probably because they’re handing out awards and not ratings, which is ostensibly a good thing.
So a piece of music is submitted to NARAS, where 150 “experts” (their word) “make sure that each entry is eligible and placed in its proper category.” And then this happens: “First-round ballots are sent to voting members in good dues standing. To help ensure the quality of the voting, members are directed to vote only in their fields of expertise; they may nominate in the four general categories (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist) and in no more than nine (9) out of the 29 fields. Ballots are tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Deloitte.” Eventually we get five albums out of the morass, which become the “nominees.” We also need to distinguish, for clarity’s sake, between “Record of the Year," “Album of the Year” and “Song of the Year.” The “Record” award goes to “the performer and the production team of a single song,” the “Album” award goes to “the performer and the production team of a full album,” and the “Song” award goes to “the writer(s)/composer(s) of a single song.”
You might assume that Grammys are based on something like radio play and sales figures since the music that typically wins said awards almost always have a direct correlation with media exposure and popularity. The NARAS begs to differ. “[The Grammy] is truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions...” Huh. It seems odd that 150 “experts” would realistically prefer Katy Perry to Janelle Monáe, but that's not taking into account "spouting boobs" as a criteria.
Back in the Day
First debuting in 1958, the Grammys started off on strong footing. Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Henry Mancini, the guys who did “Tequila” - the award winners were respected and beloved by musicians and fans alike. We might take exception to “The Chipmunk Song” winning “Best Comedy Performance,” but at the time listeners hadn’t been inundated with a film franchise, so those squeaky bastards get a pass.
Some Old B******t
Moving on. The majority of nominations in the sixties are also pretty strong. Why argue with Astrud Gilberto, Mahalia Jackson, or Frank Sinatra? An in-depth look might reveal that the NARAS at the time were not as adventurous as they could have been, but it’s hard to rock the boat by committee. When we hit the big social changes at the end of that decade, the NARAS unsurprisingly clings to the safety of what they knew and loved - Sinatra’s A Man and His Music won Best Album in 1965, beating out The Beatles’ Rubber Soul - though the latter won “Song of the Year” with “Michelle.” Winners get cornier and folksier in the ‘70s, but then again so did the entire country. The Carpenters, James Taylor, and Carole King’s Tapestry were all lauded, and understandably so.
In the mid-seventies Olivia Newton John begins making multiple appearances, which obviously does not bode well. In 1975, sappiness - and in particular commercial sappiness - hits its peak. "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tennille wins “Record of the Year,” and the corny “Send in the Clowns,” “At Seventeen” and the fine but still syrupy Still Crazy After All These Years won big. And yet, this stuff isn’t necessarily bad (save for Captain and Tennille), but it sets a precedence for fluffy stuff to sweep award after award while more prescient and urgent music gets left in the dust. And that leads us to...
Yacht Rock might make for easy listening and fun watching, but the emergence of Kenny Loggins and Christopher Cross as multiple Grammy award winners as is an ominous sign that the NARAS was running off the rails. The 1981 awards lauded Cross’s “Sailing” and Anne Murray, as well as Pat Benetar and Billy Joel. It isn’t until 1983’s ceremony (for the recording year of 1982) that it appears the NARAS has finally allowed the soft-pop, airwave-friendly strains of Adult Contemporary to obscure any semblance of good taste - Toto’s album Toto IV won Album of the Year, and the song “Rosanna” won Record of the Year.
After that crucial misstep, the NARAS seemed intent on heaping awards on old favorites (B.B. King, Al Green) while keeping their picks for contemporary winners safe and predictable. Even with the assurance that record sales had nothing to do with the selection of Grammy award winners, it’s nearly impossible to argue for No Jacket Required without taking into account its massive commercial success. 1985’s best album? Did Patrick Bateman get multiple votes?
By 1995, it only made sense to throw accolades all over Tony Bennett and Sheryl Crow when most of the critical world was ensconced in heavier, more hearty stuff. Let’s be absolutely clear on one point - Crow and Bennett are talented artists whose work should not be overlooked, and the same holds true for a majority of Grammy nominees. Of course, the nominees for “Best Record” or “Album” or “Song” are typically already commercially successful enough that there’s really no chance that their music could be overlooked. Santana’s Supernatural had three hit singles and went platinum fifteen times. Would the album have done much worse had it not received nine(!) Grammys?
As we mentioned, this year’s biggest nominees are also the artists with the biggest production budgets and amount of star-making professional producers and songwriters - Perry, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Adam Lambert, etc. Exceptions abound, of course. Esperanza Spalding (nominated for Best New Artist) is an artist we’re looking forward to hearing in the future, and any category where Laurie Anderson gets nominated (Best Pop Instrumental Performance) can’t be that bad - despite the fact that she might lose out to Jeff Beck.
Still, the blind spots are legion. Looking at the nominees for both “Best Metal Performance” and “Best Hard Rock Performance” - whatever the difference is, we don’t know - is a flashback to 1997. Who else but the NARAS is still listening to the Stone Temple Pilots and Korn?
So, after all this shit-talking about the Grammys, do we have anything nice to say at all? Yes. Instead of neglecting the worlds of jazz and classical after they fell out of mainstream favor, the Grammys have actually increased the amount of attention they lavish on both musical worlds. The Grammys also have a nice, expansive list of awards for “American Roots” performers that includes an award for “Best Bluegrass Album,” “Best Hawaiian Album,” and “Best Native American Music Album.” Latin and Gospel are also given adequate notice. In fact, these categories represent a subsection of music that often isn’t considered outside of the Grammy nominations. So three cheers for Hawaiian and Native American music, and thank you, NARAS, for caring when so many other people don’t. We may not watch the telecast, or care whether or not Cee-Lo beats out Perry, but inherent in the fundamental mediocrity of the Grammy awards are clues that point toward something much more promising than auto-tune and lactating bras. |
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- 1. Name of the medicinal product
- 2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
- 3. Pharmaceutical form
- 4. Clinical particulars
- 4.1 Therapeutic indications
- 4.2 Posology and method of administration
- 4.3 Contraindications
- 4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use
- 4.5 Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
- 4.6. Fertility pregnancy and lactation
- 4.7 Effects on ability to drive and use machines
- 4.8 Undesirable effects
- 4.9 Overdose
- 5. Pharmacological properties
- 5.1 Pharmacodynamic properties
- 5.2 Pharmacokinetic properties
- 5.3 Preclinical safety data
- 6. Pharmaceutical particulars
- 6.1 List of excipients
- 6.2 Incompatibilities
- 6.3 Shelf life
- 6.4 Special precautions for storage
- 6.5 Nature and contents of container
- 6.6 Special precautions for disposal and other handling
- 7. Marketing authorisation holder
- 8. Marketing authorisation number(s)
- 9. Date of first authorisation/renewal of the authorisation
- 10. Date of revision of the text
1. Name of the medicinal product
Copaz 15mg/500mg TabletsCodipar 15mg/500mg TabletsCo-codamol 15mg/500mg Tablets
2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
Each coated tablet contains 15mg codeine phosphate and 500mg paracetamol.
3. Pharmaceutical form
4. Clinical particulars
4.1 Therapeutic indications
For the relief of moderate pain.Codeine is indicated in patients older than 12 years of age for the treatment of acute moderate pain which is not considered to be relieved by other analgesics such as paracetamol or ibuprofen (alone).
4.2 Posology and method of administration
Adults: The usual dose is one or two tablets every four hours as required. The total daily dose should not exceed 4g paracetamol (8 tablets in a day).Codeine should be used at the lowest effective dose for the shortest period of time. This dose may be taken, up to 4 times a day at intervals of not less than 6 hours. Maximum daily dose should not exceed 240 mg. The duration of treatment should be limited to 3 days and if no effective pain relief is achieved the patients/carers should be advised to seek the views of a physician.Elderly: A reduced dosage may be necessary.Paediatric population:Children aged 12 years to 18 years:The recommended codeine dose for children 12 years and older should be 30 to 60 mg every 4-6 hours when necessary up to a maximum dose of 240 mg daily. The dose is based on the body weight (0.5-1mg/kg).Children aged less than 12 years:Codeine should not be used in children below the age of 12 years because of the risk of opioid toxicity due to the variable and unpredictable metabolism of codeine to morphine (see sections 4.3 and 4.4).Dosage needs to be adjusted according to the severity of pain and the response of the patient.Method of administration: Oral.
Hypersensitivity to either Paracetamol or codeine, or any of the excipients of Copaz tablets.Children under 12 years of age.Patients who have taken MAOIs within 14 days.Severe renal or hepatic impairment.Copaz is contraindicated in patients for whom opiate medications are contraindicated.This will include some patients with acute asthma, obstructive airway disease, respiratory depression, acute alcoholism, head injuries, raised intracranial pressure and following biliary surgery.In all paediatric patients (0-18 years of age) who undergo tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome due to an increased risk of developing serious and life threatening adverse reactions (see section 4.4)In women during breastfeeding (see section 4.6)In patients for whom it is known they are CYP2D6 ultra-rapid metabolisers
4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use
The efficacy and safety of Copaz tablets in children below the age of 12 years has not been established, and use in such children is contraindicated.Copaz tablets must be used with caution in patients with increased intracranial pressure, acute abdominal conditions, the elderly, the debilitated, impaired hepatic or renal function, hypothyroidism, Addison's disease, prostatic hypertrophy and urethral stricture.CYP2D6 metabolismCodeine is metabolised by the liver enzyme CYP2D6 into morphine, its active metabolite. If a patient has a deficiency or is completely lacking this enzyme an adequate analgesic effect will not be obtained. Estimates indicate that up to 7% of the Caucasian population may have this deficiency. However, if the patient is an extensive or ultra-rapid metaboliser there is an increased risk of developing side effects of opioid toxicity even at commonly prescribed doses. These patients convert codeine into morphine rapidly resulting in higher than expected serum morphine levels.General symptoms of opioid toxicity include confusion, somnolence, shallow breathing, small pupils, nausea, vomiting, constipation and lack of appetite. In severe cases this may include symptoms of circulatory and respiratory depression, which may be life-threatening and very rarely fatal.Estimates of prevalence of ultra-rapid metabolizer in different populations are summarized below:
Post-operative use in childrenThere have been reports in the published literature that codeine given post-operatively in children after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy for obstructive sleep apnoea, led to rare, but life-threatening adverse events including death (see also section 4.3). All children received doses of codeine that were within the appropriate dose range; however there was evidence that these children were either ultrarapid or extensive metabolisers in their ability to metabolise codeine to morphine.Children with compromised respiratory functionCodeine is not recommended for use in children in whom respiratory function might be compromised including neuromuscular disorders, severe cardiac or respiratory conditions, upper respiratory or lung infections, multiple trauma or extensive surgical procedures. These factors may worsen symptoms of morphine toxicity.The increased hazard of paracetamol overdosage in patients with alcoholic liver disease.Patients should be advised not to exceed the recommended dose and not to take other products containing paracetamol or opiate derivatives.Patients should be advised to consult their doctor if symptoms persist.Tolerance to Codeine can develop with continued use. The incidence of unwanted effects is dose related.The risk-benefit of continued use should be assessed regularly by the prescriber.The leaflet will state in a prominent position in the 'before taking' section• Do not take for longer than directed by your prescriber• Taking codeine/dihydrocodeine (DHC) regularly for a long time can lead to addiction, which might cause you to feel restless and irritable when you stop taking the tablets.• Taking a painkiller for headaches too often or for too long can make them worse.The label will state (To be displayed prominently on outer pack- not boxed):• Do not take for longer than directed by you prescriber as taking codeine/DHC regularly for a long time can lead to addiction.
|African American||3.4% to 6.5%|
|Asian||1.2% to 2%|
|Caucasian||3.6% to 6.5%|
4.5 Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
The hypotensive effects of antihypertensive agents, including diuretics, may be potentiated by codeine.Quinine or quinidine may inhibit the analgesic actions of codeine.The CNS depressant action of Zapaain may be enhanced by coadministration with any other drug which has a CNS depressant effect (eg. anxiolytics, hypnotics, antidepressants, antipsychotics and alcohol). Concomitant use of any drug with a CNS depressant action should be avoided. If combined therapy is necessary, the dose of one or both agents should be reduced.Concomitant administration of Copaz and MAOIs or tricyclic antidepressants may increase the effect of either the antidepressant or codeine.Concomitant administration of codeine and anticholinergics may cause paralytic ileus. Concomitant administration of codeine with an anti-diarrhoel agent increases the risk of severe constipation, and coadministration with an antimuscarine drug may cause urinary retention.The absorption of paracetamol is speeded by metaclopramide or domperidone, and absorption is reduced by cholestyramine.Codeine may delay the absorption of mexilitine, and cimetidine may inhibit codeine metabolism.Opioids may interfere with the results of plasma amylase, lipase, bilirubin, ALP, LDH, AST, and ALT testsThe effects of codeine on the gut may interfere with diagnostic tests of gastrointestinal functions.The anticoagulant effect of warfarin and other coumarins may be increased by long term regular daily use of paracetamol, with increased risk of bleeding.Occasional doses of paracetamol do not have a significant effect on these anticoagulants.
4.6. Fertility pregnancy and lactation
Copaz is not recommended during pregnancy.Use during pregnancy may lead to withdrawal syndromes in neonates, and use during labour may cause neonatal respiratory depression.Codeine crosses the placenta and is found in breast milk.The use of codeine is contraindicated during breastfeeding (see section 4.3).At normal therapeutic doses codeine and its active metabolite may be present in breast milk at very low doses and is unlikely to adversely affect the breast-fed infant. However, if the patient is an ultra rapid metaboliser of CYP2D6, higher levels of the active metabolite, morphine, may be present in breast milk and on very rare occasions may result in symptoms of opioid toxicity in the infant, which may be fatal.
4.7 Effects on ability to drive and use machines
Patients should be advised not to drive or operate machinery if Copaz causes dizziness or sedation. Codeine may cause visual disturbances.
4.8 Undesirable effects
The commonest side effects of codeine are nausea, vomiting, light headaches, dizziness, sedation, shortness of breath and constipation. Some of these side effects appear more common in ambulatory: rather than non-ambulatory patients. Lying down may alleviate these effects they occur. In addition, miosis, visual disturbances, headache, bradycardia, respiratory depression, difficult micturition and urinary retention, and allergic reactions (including skin rash) can occur.Codeine can cause respiratory depression particularly in overdosage and in patients with compromised respiratory function.Euphoria, dysphoria, abdominal pain, and pruritus can occur as reactions to Copaz.Liver damage in association with therapeutic use of paracetamol has been documented; most cases have occurred in conjunction with chronic alcohol abuse.There have been some reports of blood dyscrasias thrombocytopenia and agranulocytosis, with the use of paracetamol-containing products, but the causal relationship has not been established.Regular prolonged use of codeine/DHC is known to lead to addiction and symptoms of restlessness andirritability may result when treatment is then stopped.Prolonged use of a pain killer for headaches can make them worse.Reporting of suspected adverse reactionsReporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard.
ParacetamolLiver damage is possible in adults who have taken 10g or more of paracetamol. Ingestion of 5g or more of paracetamol may lead to liver damage if the patient has risk factors (see below).Risk Factors:If the patienta, Is on long term treatment with carbamazepine, phenobarbitone, phenytoin, primidone, rifampicin, St John's Wort or other drugs that induce liver enzymes.Orb, Regularly consumes ethanol in excess of recommended amounts.Or c, Is likely to be glutathione deplete e.g. eating disorders, cystic fibrosis, HIV infection, starvation, cachexia.Symptoms:Symptoms of paracetamol overdosage in the first 24 hours are pallor, nausea, vomiting, anorexia and abdominal pain. Liver damage may become apparent 12 to 48 hours after ingestion. Abnormalities of glucose metabolism and metabolic acidosis may occur. In severe poisoning, hepatic failure may progress to encephalopathy, haemorrhage, hypoglycaemia, cerebral oedema, and death. Acute renal failure with acute tubular necrosis, strongly suggested by loin pain, haematuria and proteinuria, may develop even in the absence of severe liver damage. Cardiac arrhythmias and pancreatitis have been reported.Management:Immediate treatment is essential in the management of paracetamol overdose. Despite a lack of significant early symptoms, patients should be referred to hospital urgently for immediate medical attention. Symptoms may be limited to nausea or vomiting and may not reflect the severity of overdose or the risk of organ damage. Management should be in accordance with established treatment guidelines, see BNF overdose section.Treatment with activated charcoal should be considered if the overdose has been taken within 1 hour. Plasma paracetamol concentration should be measured at 4 hours or later after ingestion (earlier concentrations are unreliable) but results should not delay initiation of treatment beyond 8 hours after ingestion, as the effectiveness of the antidote declines sharply after this time. If required the patient should be given intravenous N-acetylcysteine, in line with the established dosage schedule. If vomiting is not a problem, oral methionine may be a suitable alternative for remote areas, outside hospital.
CodeineThe effects in overdosage will be potentiated by simultaneous ingestion of alcohol and psychotropic drugs.Symptoms:Central nervous system depression, including respiratory depression, may develop but is unlikely to be severe unless other sedative agents have been co-ingested, including alcohol, or the overdose is very large. The pupils may be pin-point in size; nausea and vomiting are common. Hypotension and tachycardia are possible but unlikely.Management: This should include general symptomatic and supportive measures including a clear airway and monitoring of vital signs until stable. Consider activated charcoal if an adult presents within one hour of ingestion of more than 350 mg or a child more than 5 mg/kg. Give naloxone if coma or respiratory depression is present. Naloxone is a competitive antagonist and has a short half-life so large and repeated doses may be required in a seriously poisoned patient. Observe for at least four hours after ingestion, or eight hours if a sustained release preparation has been taken.
5. Pharmacological properties
5.1 Pharmacodynamic properties
Paracetamol (N02B E51) has analgesic and antipyretic actions. It is a weak inhibitor of prostaglandin biosynthesis. Single or repeated therapeutic loses of paracetamol do not affect the cardiovascular or respiratory systems. Gastric irritation, erosion, or bleeding is not produced by paracetamol. There is minimal effect on platelets, no effect on bleeding time or excretion of uric acid.Codeine (N02A A59) is a centrally acting weak analgesic. Codeine exerts its effect through μ opioid receptors, although codeine has low affinity for these receptors, and its analgesic effect is due to its conversion to morphine. Codeine, particularly in combination with other analgesics such as paracetamol, has been shown to be effective in acute nociceptive pain.Codeine effects the CNS and the gut, including analgesia, drowsiness, mood changes, respiratory depression, reduced gastrointestinal motility, nausea or vomiting, changes in the endocrine and autonomic nervous system. Codeine's effect on pain relief is selective, and it does not effect other sensations such as touch, vibration, vision, or hearing.
5.2 Pharmacokinetic properties
Paracetamol is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract with peak plasma concentrations occurring about 30 minutes to 2 hours after ingestion. Paracetamol is metabolised in the liver and excreted in the urine mainly as the glucuronide and sulphate conjugates, with about 10% as glutathione conjugates. Less than 5% is excreted as unchanged paracetamol. The elimination half life varies from about 1-4 hours. Plasma protein binding is negligible at usual therapeutic concentrations, although this is dose dependent. A minor hydrolated metabolite which is usually produced in very small amounts by mixed function oxidases in the liver and which is usually detoxified by conjugation with liver glutathione may accumulate following paracetamol overdosage and cause liver damage.Codeine and its salts are absorbed from the gastro-intestinal tract and peak plasma concentrations are produced in about 1 hour. It is metabolised in the liver to morphine and norcodeines. Codeine and its metabolites are excreted almost entirely by the kidney, mainly as conjugates with glucuronic acid. The plasma half life is between 3 and 4 hours.
5.3 Preclinical safety data
6. Pharmaceutical particulars
6.1 List of excipients
Maize Starch siftedMethylcelluloseTalcCalcium StearatePovidonePurified WaterHypromelloseMacrogol 3350
6.3 Shelf life
6.4 Special precautions for storage
Do not store above 25°C
6.5 Nature and contents of container
Polyethylene capsule container with low density polyethylene child resistant closure.OrAluminium foil over PVC/PVDC or ACLAR film blisters.In pack sizes of 28, 30, 56, 100 or 112 tablets.
6.6 Special precautions for disposal and other handling
7. Marketing authorisation holder
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Understanding your upcoming surgery
Before your operation, discuss with your surgeon any questions or concerns that you have, such as:
- What are the indications for your surgery? Why is this surgery necessary?
- Are there any alternative treatments available?
- What will be the likely results if you do not have the operation?
- What are the basic procedures involved in the operation?
- Will any other surgeons be assisting your surgeon during your procedure, and what task will they perform?
- What are the risks?
- How is the operation expected to improve your health or quality of life?
- What can be expected during your recovery period?
- When can you expect to resume normal activities?
This operation is being performed for you, and you should seek information necessary to improve your understanding, so do not hesitate to ask questions. No doctor can guarantee outcomes, because each operation is different depending upon your health status, existing disease, and the response of each patient.
You should feel that your questions have been answered before giving permission to do the surgery. |
Sleep: We need it to survive, yet most of us don’t get enough of it.
Why is so important to get adequate sleep? What are the benefits of sleep? Here are 10 good reasons to hit the sack earlier tonight:
1. Aids in immune system function
Chronic sleep-deprivation can suppress the immune, making a person more susceptible to colds and other illnesses (WebMD).
2. Helps with problem solving
Sleep, particularly REM sleep, appears to enhance creative problem solving (Science Daily, 06/09/09).
3. Boosts creativity
This goes along with problem-solving. Being creative often requires the ability to solve problems and think outside the box—hard to do when all you’re yawning every 2 minutes.
4. Improves mood
Being tired can cause a person to become cranky, agitated, and quick to anger.
5. Increases motivation
When sleep-deprived, it’s hard enough to have motivation to stay awake, much less do anything else.
6. Enhances athletic performance
Anyone who has been too tired to exercise doesn’t need a scientist to tell him that you can’t perform at peak athletic performance with sleep deprivation—it’s hard to even get off the couch, much less go to the gym. A study found that getting 10 hours of sleep a night improved the skills of women tennis players at Stanford University (New York Times, 06/17/09).
7. Boosts self-control
A research study in mice found that sleep disruption affected the mice’s prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision-making, which in turn affects self-control (Psychology Today, 10/28/09).
8. Helps with weight control
Research has shown that the amount of sleep we get influences grehlin and leptin, hormones which regulate appetite (WebMD). Besides, if you’re sleeping longer, you’re awake fewer hours in which to eat.
9. Increases libido
Perhaps getting adequate rest doesn’t increase libido as much as lack of sleep dampens it. More time in bed might just mean more time in bed…doing other things.
10. Helps with decision-making
A lack of sleep may affect whether we make good decisions. Being tired may also cause difficulty making up one’s mind, period.
So, how much sleep is enough?
The recommended amount is 8-10 hours, but genetic factors largely determine how much shut-eye an individual needs. Research has shown that not getting enough sleep shortens a person’s life. But to make matters confusing, a study published a few years ago found a lower death rate in people who get more than 7 hours a night.
The bottom line is that most people know when they are not getting enough sleep. The afternoon slump probably has less to do with what you had for lunch than how much sleep you got the night before. If you have a strong urge to take an afternoon nap, you probably could have gone to bed a little earlier the night before. If you are falling asleep within 5 minutes of your head hitting the pillow at night, you are clearly sleep-deprived.
You are not missing out on life by going to bed earlier; you are enhancing your waking hours so you can feel happier and more alert—and, as a result, approach life with more zest and enthusiasm. |
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Electric vehicles are certainly a hot topic, as you’ve likely seen them mentioned through the media recently. We have collected some information here to help you stay informed. Certainly, if you are in the market for one of these vehicles, we hope this information will help you – beginning with the simple encouragement to do your homework. While these vehicles will have a lot to offer, a purchase will not be as simple as driving the car off the lot.
As transportation and electricity become linked, MTEMC’s goal remains to provide members with reliable, affordable power. For example, MTEMC is participating in a national Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) study that models the impact of EV charging on power distribution. Also, MTEMC employees are serving on the Nashville Advisory Board for The EV Project and helping to assess potential charging locations in the community. |
The 16th annual Vermont Cancer Center breast cancer awareness conference was held today. Survivors, patients, doctors - and supporters all came together.
We see the pink ribbon and automatically think breast cancer. That in itself shows we've come a long way raising awareness.
"It’s still cancer but it's now becoming a treatable disease," Kimberly Luebbers said, of the Vermont Cancer Center.
The number of survivors is on the rise - and early detection can mean all the difference.
"You’re too young to have cancer is what I was told," Erica Zimmer said. At just 34 Zimmer was doing her monthly self breast exam and found a lump. "This felt like somebody implanted, a smooth, round river stone under my skin." "It was that hard?" "It was that hard and it had very clear ridges," she said.
After surgery, chemo therapy and radiation Zimmer is a year out - and doing well!
"If I hadn't found it, I would have been dead in less than a year, that’s how aggressive it was."
Kathleen McBeth is also one year out from her breast cancer diagnosis."I’m the poster child for early detection," she said!
It was her annual mammogram that revealed the life-changing news. So it's events like the breast cancer awareness conference that unite those with similar stories - and to remind us of the support, resources, technology and hope that's available.
And as you may know – FOX44/ABC 22 has partnered with the American Cancer Society - this Sunday is the Making Strides Against Breast cancer Walk in Rutland county. Registration starts at one - at Castleton College - it's a four mile walk. We look forward to making strides together! |
Every citizen of India got the registration of marriage, death, and birth through the services of the Registrar office or sub registrar at the Ghaziabad Nagar Palika that is the office linked with the department of Public Health. The birth and death certificates registered before the death or birth within 30 days were registered by the authorization office of Registrar or sub Registrar. At the NPPM, the authority of the hospital registered all the births took place. Under the time period of 21 days, all the death cases and new born baby got registered under the responsibility of the hospital. When the death and birth were happened outside of the hospital, then all the registration should be undergone at the CFC center for their certificate. |
Notary Bulletin Hotline Tip: What Is A Confidential Marriage Certificate? By NNA Staff on June 08, 2009 in Hotline Tips A confidential marriage certificate is a marriage certificate that is not available as a public record. California is the only state that authorizes their use. They often are requested by couples seeking additional privacy. Celebrities, for example, often wish to keep details about their marriages out of the public eye. In California, a limited number of specially authorized Notaries in each county are authorized to issue confidential marriage certificates for weddings. Issuing a confidential marriage certificate is not the same as officiating at a wedding. California does not authorize its Notaries to perform marriage ceremonies, only three states -- Florida, Maine and South Carolina -- do so. Email Share Leave a Comment Required * Name * Email *(for verfication purposes only) Comment * Enter the text shown in this image *(text is case sensitive)All comments are reviewed and if approved, will display. |
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) form when sugars and fats react with a protein, causing a structure to change irreversibly, and then attach to many things in the body and cause damage. While we can create AGEs in our body after eating sugar, we can also straight-up consume these AGEs via foods that are processed and/or heated. Browning, caramelizing, grilling, roasting, broiling and frying create AGEs. Highly processed and canned foods heated during processing, as well as high-fat dairy products like cheese, are also culprits. AGEs can increase inflammation and oxidation that cause aging and age-related diseases affecting the heart, brain, bones and joints, kidneys, insulin resistance, anemia and skin.
Youth Boosters: Your best bets to reduce the consumption of AGEs are to eat raw when possible, eat foods in their whole form and cook them with a water-based method (like steaming, poaching or boiling) or marinate in an acid (like vinegar or lemon juice) before cooking. Eating a variety of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory foods can also help reduce the inflammation and oxidation that AGEs cause, so go for berries, sweet potatoes and leafy greens. |
MSC Software to develop national center for digital manufacturing technology
Published on April 10, 2014 at 9:14 AM
MSC Software Corporation, a global leader in helping product manufacturers to advance their engineering methods with simulation software and services, today announced that it is part of the 41-member consortium that won a U.S. government competition to develop a national center for digital manufacturing technology.
During a press conference in March, President Obama announced that the Chicago-based University of Illinois Labs (UIL) led team was awarded a $70 million federal grant to establish the first of its kind Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation (DMDI) Institute. The Institute has been established to serve as a national hub/clearing house for US-Based manufacturers seeking to integrate advanced computer aided engineering, design, and simulation technologies into their operations- from beginning to end- to reduce development times and production costs.
MSC is joined by several major universities and companies including Boeing, Cray, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft to organize and focus their collective efforts to enable interoperability across the supply chain. The ultimate mission of the DMDI is to develop and demonstrate enhanced digital capabilities to design and test new products, with the end goal of reducing costs in manufacturing processes across multiple industries.
MSC will contribute high-end simulation and materials expertise to the DMDI, which is one of the first in a planned network of 45 manufacturing technology institutes throughout the U.S. The institutes are the expression of the National Network in Manufacturing Innovation initiative (NNMI) to bolster the U.S. manufacturing sector.
"Our mission to help manufactures thrive in competitive environments with the application of engineering simulation methods aligns perfectly with the objectives of the DMDI initiative," said MSC Software President and CEO Dominic Gallello. "For any manufacturer today, innovation and "first time right" is simply a must. We look forward to contributing our ideas and expertise in this very important endeavor."
The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute is the fourth facility to be established in the "National Network in Manufacturing Innovation" (NNMI) initiative. The collection of NNMI institutes will serve as regional hubs linking applied research and product development by bringing together companies, universities, research institutes and federal agencies to invest in key technologies. |
THE war against spam is entering a new phase. Security researchers have identified patterns in the way spam is created that could give the upper hand to anti-spam software.
More than 90 per cent of all email is spam. Anti-spam software recognises it by looking for key phrases, and also blocks emails from blacklisted websites or mass mailings of identical messages from the same address. To overcome this, spammers use networks of compromised computers, called botnets, to churn out new varieties of spam that can elude standard filters.
To learn how to fight back, Christian Kreibich of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and colleagues, infiltrated a botnet called Storm and analysed the way its complex internal communications worked. They found that the unidentified controller of the botnet sent commands through websites to a set of computers called proxy bots. These proxies then sent instructions to ...
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After years of trying to improve public education in New York City Eva Moskowitz threw in the towel, but she didn’t walk away.
Instead, the former New York City Council member decided that if her efforts inside the system weren’t working she would work from the outside.
Moskowitz, author of the new book, “Mission Possible: How the Secrets of the Success Academies Can Work in Any School,”
tells Newsmax.TV that she “spent about seven years trying to get the monopoly of public education to improve.
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“I looked at art and special ed. and science and math instruction. I looked at all the operational issues. And I was able to maybe move the needle five percent on a good day,” she said.
“But it became very, very clear to me that there had been waves of reform for the last half century and that that just wasn’t cutting it fast enough … and so instead of trying to fix what was wrong, I thought what about trying to get it right from the get go. And that’s why I founded the first Success Academy in August 2006.”
Success Academies are charter schools and there are currently 14 operating in New York City with nearly 4,900 students enrolled in kindergarten through 7th grade. According to their website, the organization plans to open six new schools in August of 2013. One of the hallmarks of the schools is the requirement that parents be actively involved.
“We place an enormous amount of emphasis that the adults are responsible for the quantity and quality of student learning and that if the adults don’t have ownership over student learning then it will not happen at a high level,” she said.
“And that requires an enormous investment in the adult. We do an enormous amount of training at our schools. Teachers come about four weeks before the kids do and during the course of the first two years that a teacher joins our organization, she or he has minimally six months of training during that two year period. But we also, while we invest in the adults and their development, we also hold the adults highly accountable for student outcomes.”
The schools do not let the students off the hook either.
“One of the core principles of the book is that the fastest and cheapest and easiest way to improve your instruction or school or district is to up the rigor bar,” she said. “We have, in this country, underestimated children intellectually. They are short but they are not stupid.
“Our children are incredibly smart and we have to up our intellectual game and the kids will rise to our expectation, and that doesn’t cost any money to raise the rigor bar," she said. "It’s a question of our attitude toward children and what they’re capable of. So one of the solutions in the book, one of the major pieces of advice in the book, is that schools across America need to become much more rigorous.”
The methods have been paying off. In 2009, in New York State’s standardized tests in math and English only 31 other schools scored higher than Success Academy.
Moskowitz bemoans the fact “education is not as prominent in the national campaign” as she would like.
“We are in a crisis in this country and I think a lot of people think of the crisis in American public education as being limited to urban areas or the least advantaged members of society,” she said.
“We see the problems of education as a sort of poor person’s problem. It actually goes far beyond that. All the international data indicate that even our highest performing students in American across the nation perform far more poorly than the lowest performing or middle performing kids across the world. And we are going to be losing the international education race very, very shortly if we do not turn this country around.”
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Fireside Chats 2007
Contact: Dave Kronk, 906-387-2607 ext. 206
Please join us for all six presentations about the natural or cultural resources of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore during this “Fireside Chat” series of one hour programs given by Lakeshore staff. Snacks will be served around the warm pot-bellied stove at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center, 1505 Sand Point Road in Munising, located across from the Munising Memorial Hospital.
Tuesday, February 27, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. "Who's Knocking at the Door?" This program is about non-native species of the waters of the Great Lakes region, and will be presented by Lora Loope, Aquatic Biologist.
Wednesday, March 7, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. "Restoration Activity at the Au Sable Light Station," will be presented by John Ochman, Facility Operations Specialist.
Tuesday, March 13, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. “Environmental Leadership at Pictured Rocks” will be a discussion of the lakeshore’s nationally recognized Environmental Leadership program, by Facility Manager Chris Case. Elements covered will be the park's Environmental Management Program, and the Green Energy Parks initiative. Lakeshore examples of solar power, alternative fuels, green purchasing, workplace toxin reduction and environmental Best Management Practices will be highlighted during the program.
Tuesday, March 20, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. Biologist Bruce Leutscher will review “Vegetation Communities of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.”
Tuesday, March 27, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. Park Ranger David Kronk will present a program about the Blast Furnace Era in and around Munising, “The Early Years of Munising – 1796 -1896.”
Tuesday, April 3, 7-8 p.m. at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center. Jerry Belant, Chief of Science and Natural Resources, will discuss “Ecology of Forest Carnivores: Bears, Fishers, and Martens.”
For more information, please visit the lakeshore’s website at www.nps.gov/piro, or call park headquarters at 906-387-2607.
Did You Know?
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is home to two arctic disjuncts, plants whose normal range is far to the north. Arctic crowberry and thimbleberry thrive because of the cool and moist microclimates caused by Lake Superior. More... |
As anxious officials waited by phones in Washington and New York in the middle of the night, F.B.I. agents sat in a small jet on the runway of an airport on the outskirts of Cairo.
Then Mahmud Abouhalima arrived in the back of a car driven by Egyptian officials, who took him aboard. But not until they had left and the agents had arrested Mr. Abouhalima, a major suspect in the bombing of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, did the fears subside that Egypt's worries over the wrath of Islamic fundamentalists could undo a deal that had been worked out in a week of delicate diplomatic negotiations.
In the talks, which officials said involved a number of countries, American officials had sought to soothe Egypt's concerns about possible reprisals if it agreed to hand over Mr. Abouhalima. Carefully Crafted
The final arrangement was carefully crafted to allow Cairo to surrender Mr. Abouhalima while bypassing an extradition treaty that, if invoked, would have called attention to the fact that the suspect was in Egyptian custody, United States officials said today.
That highly unorthodox procedure was conceived in sensitive talks that took place in both Washington and Cairo, the officials said. But they said Egypt remained so concerned about retaliation by Islamic fundamentalists aligned with Mr. Abouhalima's mentor, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, that it had extracted a pledge of secrecy from American officials about the full extent of its cooperation.
Apart from disclosing that the discussions had also involved other governments in Europe and the Middle East, senior Government officials declined to provide many details about the negotiations, which apparently took place as Mr. Abouhalima remained in an Egyptian jail.
A senior United States Government official indicated, however, that as part of the agreement, Washington and Cairo had reached a tacit understanding that the United States would return Mr. Abdel Rahman to Egypt if a United States court gives the Government permission to deport him. Visa Already Revoked
The sheik, whose American visa has already been revoked, is blamed by Egyptian authorities for inciting the Islamic fundamentalists into a wave of recent violence. While Mr. Abouhalima was returned to the United States today aboard a jet specially chartered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, however, the official said the United States effort to hand over the sheik would likely follow a more conventional route.
Although a Federal magistrate earlier this month rejected his request for political asylum, the official said appeals proceedings would mean that it could be more than a year before the sheik could be deported.
The American decision to take custody of Mr. Abouhalima outside the extradition treaty's terms will almost certainly mean the arrest will face a legal challenge, the officials said. But they expressed confidence that United States courts would rule that the arrangement was permissible.
Officials noted that the United States Supreme Court, in a case involving the kidnapping of a Mexican doctor, last year gave the Government broad authority to apprehend suspects in foreign countries even over the objections of the host government. In the case of the killing of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro, American warplanes forced down an airliner carrying the suspects when the Government of Italy refused a request from the United States Government that the suspects be held in that country.
But because Egypt agreed to hand over Mr. Abouhalima, a senior Clinton Administration official likened the circumstances of the arrest to those used by Federal authorities in 1990 to take custody of Manuel A. Noriega, the ex-Panamanian leader. 'Just Turned Over'
"This was not an extradition," a senior Administration official said of the transfer of Mr. Abouhalima to United States custody. "He was just turned over."
He defended the arrangement as "perfectly appropriate," saying, "A person isn't wanted in another country and we give him a place to go."
Saying they were honoring the Egyptian request, the officials refused to say which governments beyond Washington and Cairo had taken part in the discussions. But Germany, the country for which Mr. Abouhalima holds a passport, was understood to have played a role in the talks, as was Saudi Arabia. Other countries were asked by the United States for assistance in refueling the chartered aircraft as it carried the suspect back to New York.
In New York, Washington and Cairo, officials described an atmosphere of high tension surrounding virtually every element of the case. While security officials in Egypt in recent days repeatedly denied that they had any information or knowledge about the arrest, the officials said tonight that Egypt's intelligence service had secretly taken Mr. Abouhalima into custody at least 10 days ago. It was last Tuesday morning when three F.B.I. agents and a police detective boarded the plane and flew to Cairo. Fear of a Backlash
American officials said the reason for Egypt's secrecy was its fear of a possible backlash by Islamic militants if the detention of Mr. Abouhalima became public before he left the country. But some senior investigators expressed frustration that Cairo had not been forthcoming.
Mr. Abouhalima, they pointed out, was already in Egyptian custody when United States law-enforcement officials began hearing rumors that the suspect may have fled to that country. Federal officials pointedly refused to disclose how they had finally been informed of the arrest.
While insisting on anonymity, Clinton Administration officials expressed sympathy for Cairo's predicament and praised what they described as its full cooperation. "The Egyptians had an incentive to deal with us," one senior official said, "because in this case our problems are their problems." |
IT SOUNDS like a case of divided loyalties. His family may have founded the Albrighton Hunt, but John Giffard, the Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police, knows where his loyalties will lie when a hunting ban is introduced.
The police chief has never followed a hunt. He has not ridden a horse for 40 years and as far as he is concerned the pursuit will be banned in February 2005 when the Hunting Act takes effect.
But as the 29th squire of Chillington Hall, near Codsall Wood in Staffordshire, Mr Giffard is surrounded in hunting history, with his great-great grandfather - Walter Giffard - establishing the Albrighton Hunt in 1830.
The 4,000-acre estate, whose gardens were landscaped by Capability Brown in the 18th century, continues to be a picturesque backdrop for the Albrighton.
But while there is deep resentment among many in the local community about the ban, Mr Giffard's beliefs are clear - anyone hunting on his land once the ban is introduced will be trespassing.
The chief constable, who enjoys some countryside sports such as shooting, said: "At the moment, hunting is a lawful pursuit and my father would be very distressed if the hunt were not allowed onto my land. But as soon as the ban is in place, that's the end of it. If they come here they will be trespassing. As to whether they are breaking the law, that will be for me and my officers to decide."
Mr Giffard spends his weekends running the estate, which was given to his family as a reward for helping William the Conqueror win the battle of Hastings in 1066.
His father, Peter Richard de Longueville Giffard, was the hunt's vice chairman and used to hold grand hunt balls at the family home.
"I accept the family tradition and everybody knows that. But everybody knows that, as Chief Constable, I will enforce the law," said Mr Giffard.
"The Hunting Act will be enforced by my officers in accordance with whatever guidelines the Association of Chief Police Officers produces.
"There will be no different instructions locally and my position should not be considered to have any part in this at all."
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said there was no conflict between Mr Giffard's position as chief constable and his family connections with the Albrighton Hunt.
Mr Giffard will have no direct responsibility for policing hunts in Staffordshire when a ban comes into force, with that responsibility falling onto his assistant chief constables, the spokesman added.
Margaret Busby, secretary of the Albrighton Hunt, said: "Obviously the official line is that hunting will be illegal from February 19th. and as his position as Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police there will be no fox hunting and therefore no need to go on his land.
As reported previously, many hunt supporters have vowed to defy a ban when it comes into force on February 19th., as well as embarking on a campaign of civil disobedience.
Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers is considering the implications of the ban on hunting with hounds. |
Free Genealogy Biography
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Pennsylvania Volunteer of the Civil War
James Addams BeaverJames Addams Beaver was born on the 21st day of October, 1837, at Millerstown, Perry Co., Pa. He was the son of Jacob and Ann Eliza (Addams) Beaver. He was educated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., where he graduated in August, 1856, having previously passed two years at the academy at Pine Grove Mills, Centre Co., Pa.
He studied law in the office of H. N. McAllister, Esq., in Bellefonte, and was admitted. to the bar in January, 1859.
As a member of the Bellefonte Fencibles, a volunteer company, of which Hon. A. G. Curtin was captain, he acquired some knowledge of military tactics.
When the echoes of rebel guns turned upon Fort Sumter aroused the North, the Bellefonte Fencibles promptly tendered it services, and was the third company to arrive at the camp of rendezvous at Harrisburg. General Beaver was chosen first lieutenant, and it became Company H of the Second Regiment, 2nd Regiment, for the three months' service.
He was hardly mustered out of the three months' service when, July 22, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania, 54th Regiment, which was ordered to South Carolina, and the lieutenant-colonel was placed in command of five companies at Fort Walker, occupying the works' commanding the entrance to Port Royal Bay.
Engaged in active duty upon the islands before Charleston, for the most part having an independent command, be frequently met the enemy by day and night in hostile encounters.
In July, 1862, the regiment was ordered northward, and Sept. 4, 1862, Lieut.-Col. Beaver was promoted colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, 148th Regiment, a new three-years' regiment, recruited mostly in Centre County. The Antietam campaign was opening, and he was ordered to guard a portion of the Northern Central Railway most exposed to incursions by the enemy, and one of the main lines of supply for the capital and the army. Upon the eve of the battle of Fredericksburg he was ordered up, but was not put into the fight.
At Chancellorsville, Col. Beaver, while leading his command, and while at close quarters with the enemy, was shot through the body and carried off the field. He was removed to a hospital in Washington, where he received the most skillful medical aid and attendance. It was near the middle of July before he was sufficiently recovered to return to his regiment.
In the mean time the battle of Gettysburg had been fought and won, and the army was again advancing into Virginia. At Bristoe Station and at Mine Run he was actively engaged, at the former place the enemy being handsomely repulsed.
At Po River, on the fourth day after the opening of the spring campaign of 1864, Col. Beaver led his command in a determined fight, holding his ground in the most intrepid manner. At Spotsylvania, the North Anna, and Tolopotomy the struggle on the part of the two armies was no less desperate, but still indecisive.
In the first of these Col. Beaver was struck by a Minie-ball, but fortunately was shielded from its full effect by a memorandum-book, in the thick cover and leaves of which its deadly power was spent. In the charge delivered at Cold Harbor by the division to which he was attached, the most desperate resistance was met, and upon the fall of the leader of the brigade, Col. Beaver succeeded to its command. Here, too, he was again struck, but not disabled.
In the first assault upon the works before Petersburg, on the evening of the 16th of June, while gallantly leading his brigade amid the crash, of musketry and a terrific fire of artillery, he received a serious wound from the fragments of a shell, inflicting internal injuries and cutting a ghastly gash in the side. He was again confined to the hospital for weary weeks.
Eager to be with his men at the front, he left it before he had entirely recovered. He chanced to reach the field just as his division was preparing to go into battle at Ream's Station, Aug. 25, 1864. Finding his regiment had moved to the battle-field, he pressed on and joined in the line of battle only in time to be struck down by a ball which crushed his thigh and maimed him for life with the loss of a leg.
Nov. 10, 1864, Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, notified Col. Beaver that for highly meritorious and distinguished conduct throughout the campaign, and particularly for valuable service at Cold Harbor, the President had appointed him a brigadier-general of volunteers by brevet, to rank from the 1st day of August, 1864.
With the close of the war Gen. Beaver resumed the practice of law at Bellefonte, and Dec. 26, 1865, was married to Miss Mary A. McAllister, daughter of H. N. McAllister, Esq. His living children are Gilbert, Addams, Hugh McAllister, and Thomas Beaver.
His services in the cause of education have been laborious and highly honorable, as president of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania State College and member of the boards of Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pa., and Lincoln University at Oxford, Pa.
He was one of the commissioners who supervised and built the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren.
General Beaver's distinguishing characteristics are his earnestness in the discharge of duty, complete mastery of every subject he undertakes, and the thoroughness with which every item of business, however diversified, is disposed of. His career (thus far) culminated in his unanimous nomination for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania by the Republican party, made in convention May 10, 1882.
Source: History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania; John Blair Linn; Philadelphia; Louis H. Everts; 1883
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Severe Neck Pain
There are many causes of severe neck pain, which can be both acute and chronic. Some of these problems may only be short-lived, whilst some can indicate a serious underlying dysfunctional state.
Acute Causes of Severe Neck Pain
Involvement in an accident where the neck is impacted in some fashion is likely to cause severe neck pain. Motor vehicle collisions, or falls from a bike, chair, or a horse, can cause whiplash and neck pain which may be acute and lead to chronic problems. Injuries from contact sports like football, or martial arts may cause muscle tears and strains, as can over-training at the gym.
If severe neck pain is felt whilst exercising, it is important to stop and check to ensure that any equipment is being used safely and correctly. Unfamiliarity with gym equipment can lead to poor posture and incorrect usage, with ramifications for shoulder, neck, and back pain. Over time this could lead to uneven muscle tone, and require realignment and physical therapy from a professional such as a chiropractor or osteopath.
Warming Up - Even for Yoga!
Even supposedly ‘gentle’ exercise, such as yoga, can cause severe neck pain if warm-ups are not conducted thoroughly to get the circulation going to the muscles and to gently stretch the limbs prior to attempting any more extreme stretches. A good yoga instructor will generally begin a class with the more gentle warm-up exercises and advance as the class warms up.
Swimmers and Neck Pain
Swimming can also pose a potential risk of severe neck pain as many people strain to keep their heads out of the water whilst swimming, forming an unnatural shape to the neck and straining the muscles in both the neck and shoulders. If it seems difficult to find a comfortable head and neck position when swimming then it may be worth talking to an instructor at the pool to try and adapt the style of swimming that causes the strain. Unfortunately, when swimming it is easy to keep pushing and doing more and more lengths, whilst simultaneously reinforcing a postural problem by creating/maintaining uneven muscle tone. It is quite difficult to alter the style of swimming after years of doing it one particular way; it is never too late to try though.
Inflammation and Severe Neck Pain
If inflammation is present then there may be a number of reasons for the experience of severe neck pain. Problems with infected lymph nodes, neck glands, and cervical spinal tissues can all contribute to acute, and chronic, severe neck pain. Whether this is right-sided neck pain, centralised, or ubiquitous, it is important to discover its aetiology, so as to address the underlying issue. Inflammation may be reduced through the use of cold/ice packs, or NSAIDs. Alternative anti-inflammatories may also be useful, such as Devil’s Claw, Fish Oil, Capsaicin, Glucosamine, and MSM (methylsulphonylmethane).
Specific Conditions Causing Severe Neck Pain
With some degenerative spinal conditions, such as spinal stenosis, and ankylosing spondylitis, the pain may escalate from mildly irritating to severe within a number of weeks or months. It may be that neck surgery can rectify some of the problematic compression involved with these sorts of conditions, and lessen the amount of pain medication the patient uses. Epidural injections are rarely used for cervical spine problems, due to the complexity of the anatomy of the neck.
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is a potential cause of severe neck pain, which is sometimes left undiagnosed due to the myriad nature of the syndrome’s symptomatology. This involves a problem with the neurovascular system in the neck and can result in both chronic low-level pain, and acute, severe pain, alongside other symptoms.
If the lymph nodes are inflamed, then there is likely to be an infection causing inflammation and pain. As the lymphatic system has a high concentration of lymph nodes in the neck it is likely that these nodes will become inflamed before noticing any other symptoms in the body. It may be that the inflammation of a particular node causes pressure on a nerve or other structures and that this is what causes neck pain.
Dental abscesses, or even cavities exposed to heat or cold, can send acute and severe pain signals throughout the neck. If the neck pain is more severe when eating then it is likely a trip to the dentist will uncover the source of the pain.
As the thyroid gland is located in the neck, around the oesophagus, any problem with this key body system can lead to issues with the neck. If the thyroid is underactive then the gland may increase in size, creating a goitre (swelling of the neck), which can then put pressure on the other structures, such as the oesophagus, vocal cords, arteries, veins, and nerves.
In the case of severe neck pain, medical attention should be sought to address the problem. If there is no clear reason for the pain, i.e. getting tackled roughly during football practice, then see a doctor immediately. Even if low levels of this type of neck pain are experienced due to a chronic condition, a sudden escalation to severe pain can indicate an acute problem and change in the structures of the neck and its tissues; this also necessitates immediate medical attention.
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As you just read, there are many quick and healthy ways to keep your teeth shining and white. Improving the health of your teeth can improve the health of your mouth as well. White teeth can give you the confidence you have been lacking and a healthy smile can open doors to a great self-esteem. Mix lemon juice and table salt to construct a paste then brush your teeth using a small layer of your paste. Avoid using this mixture if your find that your teeth are too sensitive to salt. Start with very clean teeth to maximize your home whitening efforts. The cleaner your teeth are, the better results you’ll have if you try to whiten them yourself. The best way to prevent uneven whitening is by thoroughly cleaning your teeth before applying any whitening products. Try using a whitening toothpaste. They’re not as strong as more intensive methods, but they’re useful in preventing and treating new stains. This is because they contain a silica abrasive that is mild enough to clean your teeth without damaging the enamel on them.
When you have reached the level of whitening that you want on your teeth, be sure to stop and go into maintenance mode! Because of the affordability of many teeth whitening products, it’s very tempting just to keep going. In this instance, more is not better! You can seriously damage your teeth with ongoing usage. At this point, do the whitening sessions only once or twice every year.
Approximately half of all patients who try some sort of whitening treatment, especially those at home, will experience some level of tooth sensitivity as a result. If this happens to you, try lowering the concentration of the product that you are using, and see if that corrects the problem. Tooth whitening will not have any effect on your crowns. While your teeth may change color when using a teeth whitening process, the crowns will remain the same as they were.
For an easy, cost-effective tooth whitener, mix some baking soda in water. Baking soda, due to its nature as a mild abrasive, can leave your teeth super-clean and shiny-white after you use it to polish teeth stains away. Just wet your toothbrush and dip it into the baking soda for a no-mess way to mix your paste. Consume larger quantities of dairy foods. Low fat cheeses, milk and yogurt are all good choices to support healthy teeth and gums. These same minerals also boost tooth enamel and protects them from further discoloration. Because of all these things, you will notice whiter teeth by including dairy foods into your daily diet. Go see your dentist for advice before using whitening treatments. If you require any complex or extensive dental work to be done over the next few months, you may want to delay your teeth whitening procedure until this work has been completed.
After you undergo a teeth whitening procedure, it is important that you brush your teeth after every meal. This is because bacteria will grow on the teeth due to the food remnants. If your teeth have not regained the hardness they had prior to the procedure, the bacteria could significantly damage them. Therefore, it is extremely important to brush your teeth after consuming any type of food.
Fruits can sometimes also prove to be great teeth whiteners. In particular, strawberries and oranges can be great for whitening. Squashing a bunch of strawberries into a fine paste and applying it for five minutes is a great way to whiten your teeth. Also, grinding an orange peel against your teeth can whiten them.
Fruit are also great teeth whiteners. A whiter, brighter smile can be achieved by using strawberries and oranges. You can make a paste from strawberries. Mash them and put them around your teeth for about five minutes. Another excellent way to whiten teeth is to rub an orange peel on them.
Use natural tooth whiteners, such as baking soda, orange peels, or lemon peels. Mixing any of these with a little salt can make an excellent cheap tooth whitening product. Be sure to wash your mouth out thoroughly after using any of these methods, as the harsh acids can damage your teeth. |
We all want our pets to be as healthy as possible. Many families view their animals as part of the family. In the age of information, more and more pet care tips are at our fingertips, but sometimes well-meaning advice can be misguided, or even flat-out false. Here are the top nine veterinary myths I’ve heard from my clients:
1. Pets are Very Affordable
Taking care of an animal is a huge responsibility, not only in terms of time and commitment, but financially as well. Estimates for the annual cost of pet care can range widely from lower estimates around $800 per year, to thousands. And that’s for a healthy pet. Veterinary care can be very costly. Even routine care, such as annual exams and vaccines can sometimes be difficult for pet owners to afford. This is why I am a huge advocate of pet insurance. Pet owners should consider cat and dog insuranceas a way to ensure their pets receive the medical attention it needs in the case of an unforeseen illness or accident. Having pet health insurance may help the pet owner provide the best care to their pet, without having to worry about financial strain.
We all want our pets to look and smell their best.’Grooming’ should involve more than just hair coat maintenance and all breeds, including cats, can benefit from it. Regular grooming, especially teeth brushing, is important for overall health. Most grooming routines can be done at home with a little know-how, practice and patience. How often grooming is necessary can be variable depending on your pet’s breed and lifestyle. For example, most cats don’t require regular bathing at all, but some dogs can require weekly bathing to stay odor free. Here are some tips for keeping your pet’s appearance in tip-top shape:
1. Pearly Whites
This is probably the trickiest part of a regular grooming routine. Many pets don’t care for it, and brushing can take time and patience. When just starting out, keep it fun and short. Allow your pet to sniff and chew on the toothbrush and taste the toothpaste. Use lots of praise and rewards. Gradually lengthen the time you spend actually brushing as your pet gets used to it. Always use a dog or cat formulated toothpaste, as our toothpaste is toxic to pets.
At times, pets can be very expressive with their body language. A tail wag that moves the whole hind end easily translates feelings of happiness and joy. Conversely, dogs and cats can also communicate when they aren’t feeling well, but often the clues are more subtle. As a pet owner, being aware of behaviors that can indicate an illness are an important part of keeping your pet healthy. Because accidents and illnesses can strike at anytime, I always recommend pet insurance to my clients. Here are nine subtle clues that might indicate it is time to call the veterinarian:
By Dr. Fiona, a veterinarian and guest blogger for pet insurance provider, Pets Best Insurance.
U.S. dog parks are the most quickly growing portion of city parks in the US. The dog park is a summertime fun staple for dog owners. It’s a place for friends to meet and allow your dog some off-leash time to explore and play.
Dog parks can be a great way to provide exercise and enrichment to your dog’s everyday life, but the dog park can come with a few possible dangers as well. Accidents and illnesses can occur at any time, it’s always a good idea to have a dog insurance in place. But here is what you need to know about the most common dog park injuries, when to treat at home and when to make an appointment with the vet:
As a practicing veterinarian and pet insurance enthusiast, I’m constantly asked for yummy, pet-safe recipes. And since summer time is perfect for experimenting with cuisine, why not take the opportunity to bond with your four-legged best friend over a tasty treat tailored for the canine palate that’s yummy for you too?! Here are some summertime recipes to try. But remember to always feed your dog in moderation and in portion sizes appropriate for their size. Treats are only meant to supplement a healthy balanced commercial diet as well. And because food allergies and illness can occur at any time, it’s a good idea to speak with your veterinarian about your pet’s diet and to have pet health insurance as a back up for unforeseen problems.
Canini (yummy for you too)
Ingredients (yields 2)
-3 peeled carrots
-3 peeled oranges
-5 peeled tangerines
-dark brown sugar |
Recycling Plastics – So Much Potential
Exciting new advances in recycling technology now allow many kinds of plastic packaging to be recycled right here in Canada. The packaging is recycled or remanufactured into valuable new products like fleece clothing, picture frames, outdoor furniture, drainage pipes, office supplies, back into packaging, and plastic lumber that is used for boardwalks, decking, and railings.
A whole new green economy is emerging which is capable of employing thousands of Canadians coast to coast in recycling and remanufacturing. Plastic packaging should NOT have to be shipped overseas to be recycled and remanufactured.
Plastics recycling technology is advancing rapidly. The Canadian plastics industry is committed to continuing to increase plastics recycling across the country – developing technologies and new markets for the recycled plastic.
At the same time, industry is working with Canadian governments on opportunities to expand the recycling infrastructure so that more and more plastic packaging is recycled and remanufactured right here at home.
What can be recycled
Quite simply, plastics are a valuable resource - too valuable to waste
Plastic packaging accounts for 10 percent of all household waste and approximately 80 percent of the plastic is recyclable.
Most household plastic packaging can be recycled – yogurt, ice cream and deli containers; plastic shopping bags and plastic film; foam cups and clamshells; cushion packaging used to protect electronics and other sensitive products during shipping; plastic tubs and lids; and pop, water, detergent and food bottles.
More plastics need to be recycled
Increasing plastic recycling will help extend the life of this valuable resource, and create green manufacturing jobs in the process.
What plastic packaging can be recycled
Please check with your local municipality to see what types of plastic packaging can be recycled in your area. |
PROVIDENCE, R.I . — The Rhode Island Senate on Wednesday evening approved a bill that would delay implementation of the NECAP test until the Class of 2017.
Sen. Adam J. Satchell sponsored the bill in order to give school districts more time to introduce the new Common Core curriculum. In addition, he wants to make sure that students are prepared to take a new standardized test that will be rolled out next year.
The Senate voted 29 to 5 to approve the bill.
The measure now goes on to the House.
The NECAP, or New England Common Assessment Program, took effect for the first time with this year’s high school seniors. There has been considerable opposition to the test from critics who say that the test wasn’t designed to measure individual student achievement.
On Monday night, the Rhode Island Board of Education decided to stick with using the NECAP as a graduation requirement, despite months of vigorous opposition from union leaders, students, teachers and advocacy groups.
The decision followed more than an hour of testimony on Monday for and against high-stakes testing, a movement that has engendered impassioned debate nationwide as school districts grapple with how to raise education standards.
Meanwhile, Steven Brown, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, issued the following statement:
“The ACLU is grateful for the Senate’s action today. Legislative intervention has become necessary because the state Board of Education has repeatedly refused to grapple with the valid criticisms that have been raised about its increasingly untenable high stakes test requirement. In fact, only two days ago, the Board once again rejected calls for public discussion of the issue.
“The futures of too many high school seniors are hanging in the balance on the basis of a completely arbitrary high stakes testing requirement and a just as arbitrary waiver process. We are hopeful that the House will now follow the Senate’s lead and take prompt action so that the anxiety and uncertainty plaguing all these students are put to rest.”
This item has been updated with reports from Donita Naylor |
7 QC relief projects help 20,000 in Somalia
DOHA WITH about QR1.2 million donated by benefactors from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Qatar Charity (QC) has established seven relief projects in Somalia for the benefit of 20,000 displaced families.
Executive Director of International Development at QC Jassim al Salem said that the projects aim to facilitate the return of the displaced as well as the reconstruction of areas affected by drought.
“This will enable the returnees to have a decent stable life in their original places, transferring them from people in need to productive people,” Salem said.
Targeting Bay, Bakool and lower Shabelle provinces, the projects include the provision of basic cooking equipment at the cost of QR602,000 for 3,000 families, plastic sheets costing QR424,000, for 7,750 families, a childhood malnutrition project worth QR33,000, a potable water project worth QR28,000, a project to provide water tank to an orphanage at the cost of QR15,000, a project to provide support to the Afgooye Centre for Maternal and Child Care at QR11,000, and a project to purchase and distribute mosquito nets costing QR70,000.
Salem said that the implementation of the projects was based on the urgent need of the affected families and in line with the mission and objectives of QC.
The childhood malnutrition project is expected to benefit 200 beneficiaries daily, including displaced children, mothers and pregnant women, in the Poly Tknico IDP camp in Mogadishu.
Each of the 200 beneficiaries will receive soup and high nutrition biscuits.
The Afgooye Centre project was executed due to the large number of people suffering from malnutrition and serious diseases in the Afgooye area and the inadequacy of the available health centre to provide the necessary health services. The project focuses particularly on maternal and child health care and aims to reduce the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics.
It will benefit 120 people daily.
The mosquito net project, according to Salem, is intended to reduce the infant mortality rate, the incidence of malaria and other infectious diseases spread by mosquitoes within the camps, and will benefit 5,000 displaced families.
The potable water project is expected to provide safe drinking water to the displaced, reducing the level of disease due to contaminated water.
The need for the project to provide a water tank for the House of the Mother of the Believers orphanage came after a visit to the orphanage by a QC delegation, which decided that a water tank would be an effective means to improve the living conditions of the orphans. The project will benefit over 200 orphans, as well as the orphanage staff.
Salem added that educational facilities would also be provided, as well as income generating projects to enable self-sufficiency, agricultural facilities, and the distribution of dry rations to the people for a period of three months. |
In June 1994, the Christian Democrat celebrated a famous victory. It had forced the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, to amend his Criminal Justice Bill to make the British Board of Film Classification much more stringent about what was allowed on to video. Howard hadn't adopted their amendment-one which had been drafted at a meeting of the Movement for Christian Democracy in March-outright. But its main thrust, without question, was accepted.
How had they done this? By a combination of arguing and lobbying. They had talked of the need to protect children. They had spoken of gratuitously violent films and videos, and how bad they are for the young. And they had played on memories of recent cases where young people, even children, had so obviously gone to the bad. And they got their argument into every newspaper in the land, and on to many radio and television programmes. The effect, as their Parliamentary sponsor David Alton himself put it, was that they had 'changed the terms of reference' in which 'films of this kind' would henceforth be discussed.
That was no small achievement. And it owed much to one thing: a report by Professor Elizabeth Newson published in April 1994, just two weeks before the 'Alton Amendment' reached the floor of the House of Commons-a report which, as this essay aims to demonstrate, was wildly misleading (Newson, 1994). But the most important thing to note is not just its appall-ing quality of evidence and argument, but that, because of the nature of what it was arguing, those weaknesses went wholly unnoticed. What we have, in the Newson Report, is a classic case of 'common sense writ large'. By this I mean that its claims have the same status as medieval witchcraft accusations. When a 'witch' was denounced, a whole array of evidences and proofs could be adduced; but these could only ever convince because those hearing them were already completely persuaded that these were the only likely explanations. You can only believe someone to be a witch if you believe there |
Depression Drug Usage Up by Third; Economic Climate Blamed
Byline: SARAH JUDD
TEESSIDERS' use of antidepressants shot up by almost a third in four years. The number of prescriptions issued for the drugs - used for mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety - stood at 492,833 for 2007/08.
But it had rocketed by 30% to 639,768 in 2010/11.
Latest figures for the four Tees primary care trusts - Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton and Hartlepool - also show Middlesbrough has seen the highest increase at 33%.
Stockton - which recorded the highest number of prescriptions for the medication in the most recent year - has seen a 28.5% increase on the earlier figure.
Redcar and Cleveland logged a 30% increase.
In Hartlepool, the antidepressant prescription rate has increased by 27% over the period, according to the figures issued by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
It also reported that, across England, just under 46.7m prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed in England in 2011 - a 3.9m (9.1%) increase on the 2010 equivalent.
This was the largest rise in prescription items from 200 sections listed.
Mental health nurse Lol Butterfield, who has been open about his own previous battles with depression, said the increase in antidepressant use across Teesside "did not surprise him at all".
He works with the national Time To Change programme, which aims to end stigma and discrimination around mental ill health.
The Gazette described recently how he had advised producers on their portrayal of Emmerdale's Zak Dingle's mental health battle. … |
Hegemony Conditions in the Coproduction Cinema of Latin America: The Role of Spain
Villazana, Libia, Framework
The Spanish have been able to capitalize on their geographic and linguistic location in respect to Latin America. . . . Language is an asset for them.
Javier Protzel, former director of the Peruvian National Cinematography Institute, 2003-6
The story of Latin American international film coproduction begins with a Spanish intervention, as does a large part of Latin American history. Thus, it started in 1931 with the establishment of the First Congress of Hispano- American Cinematography (Primer Congreso Cinematográfico Hispanoamericano) held in Madrid, Spain. The resolutions reached in this meeting regarding coproduction were revised and expanded in a second meeting, the First Hispano- American Cinematography Competition (Primer Certamen Cinematográfico Hispanoamericano) held in Madrid in 1948.1 This last meeting gave rise to a number of coproductions between Spain and Latin America-such as Bella la salvaje (Raúl Medina, CU/ES, 1952). However, by 1948 film coproduction was already a common practice among the countries of the subcontinent, particularly between Mexico and Cuba.2 This is not surprising since Mexico-and to a lesser extent also Argentina-had the most prosperous film industry of the subcontinent during the 1940s and 1950s. This was the so-called Golden Age for Mexican cinema. From 1948, collaborations in film productions between Mexico, Cuba, and Spain started booming.
Nowadays, almost all Latin American countries hold a coproduction agreement, mainly with Spain, but also with other European countries and with Canada. Since the 1940s the interest of Latin American producers in propelling international film coproduction agreements has increased at an extraordinary pace, particularly with Spain. In the 1940s for instance, only one film was coproduced with Spain; in the 1950s it went up to forty-two films. In the 1960s there were sixty-eight, in the 1970s eighty-four, in the 1980s sixty-six, in the 1990s 126, and between 2000 and 2006 there were at least 201 films co-produced.3 From these figures it is feasible to identify two main periods where film production collaborations between Spain and Latin America significantly escalated; during the 1950s and then again in the 1990s. This essay is focused mainly on the 1990s and the successive decades, as the dependency of Latin American producers on foreign backers has seen a significant increase since then.
Two principal elements were at the root of the upsurge in film cooperation during the 1990s. The first was the emergence of coproduction within television networks during the 1980s, which was extended to film.4 The second was the proliferation during the middle of the 1980s and 1990s of multilateral film coproduction bodies involving Latin American countries. These organizations are Fonds Sud (a French fund, devised in 1984), Hubert Bals (a Dutch fund set up in 1988), and Ibermedia (an Ibero-American Aid Fund originally conceived in 1989 and ratified in 1997). Of these organizations, Ibermedia is the most active, with 201 films5 made in coproduction. The United States has not created a body that regulates long-term film coproduction agreements with Latin America. However, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has established a partnership with leading film enterprises in the subcontinent such as Patagonik Film Group in Argentina. Thus, Ibermedia and Patagonik are taken here as paradigms of the principal financers of film coproduction in Latin America.
1. The Financial Backers of Coproduction in Latin America
Ibermedia was ratified during the Ibero-American Conference of Heads of States and Government (Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno) that took place in Margarita, Venezuela, in 1997. The aim of the Fund is to stimulate the development of the Ibero-American film and media sector. The fund is maintained by a compulsory annual contribution of U.S.$100,000 from its current fourteen member countries. … |
In a move applauded as a national first, Coles Myer has moved tobacco displays out of sight in all of its supermarkets across Tasmania.
Quit Victoria, has welcomed the action and encouraged retailers in Victoria to follow the lead of the supermarket giant.
Executive Director, Mr Todd Harper, said by removing the display of tobacco products from its supermarkets, Coles Myer was helping to shut down one of the last bastions of promotion for the tobacco industry.
""As one of the last avenues for tobacco promotion, point of sale displays are extremely important for the tobacco industry especially when it comes to recruiting new, often younger smokers.""
“By giving tobacco pride of place among everyday items such as confectionary or magazines, we almost encourage the idea that cigarettes are “normal” products, when in reality they kill up to 2 out of 3 lifetime users,” said Mr Harper.
Mr Harper said one of the benefits of putting tobacco products out of sight is helping people who have just quit avoid a relapse.
“By eliminating the visible presence of cigarettes at point of sale, Coles Myer is helping people who are trying to quit, and assisting former smokers to stay quit by removing what might be strong influence.”
“I would strongly urge a all retailers in Victoria to follow the example of Coles Myer in Tasmania, and take this next important step in reducing public exposure to the point of sale marketing tactics of the tobacco industry.”
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Tributes to family man Keith Ingham,
50, found dead in car in Exeter
"We all spent a nice family Christmas together at my sister's, and the last time we were all together was Boxing Day. I remember him saying he had flu-like symptoms, but he thought it was just a chest infection and didn't bother going to the doctors.
A post-mortem examination has taken place and he is understood to have died from natural causes. It is believed he was suffering from pneumonia.
The above comments describe another likely H1N1 death that is not included in the official HPA number, which has the H1N1 death toll at 45 as of January 5, 2011, a number without credibility.
The above case is a classical H1N1 fatality involving an adult under 65 who develops flu-like symptoms followed by pneumonia and death. In the above case the victim died without see a doctor or receiving treatment, which is not unusual. That is why seasonal flu deaths are extrapolated numbers. Most deaths are in patients over 65 who are not tested and frequently are not hospitalized. In contrast, and official H1N1 requires lab confirmation as well as a declaration that the death was caused by H1N1. These requirements greatly reduce the number of confirmed and reported H1N1 cases, which helps to create a low number like the most recent report by they HPA.
Those weekly reports not only grossly under-report the number of H1N1 deaths, but now they are selectively releasing the data on patients with underlying conditions and creating ratios that are quite different than the initial reports. The latest numbers create statistics that are more in line with agency comments on vaccinations, which are recommended for at risk groups, and ignore the large percentage of H1N1 in previously healthy young adults.
These young adults have filled up the ICU beds and maxed out ECMO machine usage. The vast majority have not been vaccinated, but the latest sequence data suggests that the newly emerging H1N1 will generate vaccination breakthrough and will be able to infect those who were vaccinated or infected last season.
The latest sequence data demonstrate two receptor binding domain changes in 36 of the 41 sequences. 22 of the HA sequences have S188T, while 14 more have S186P. These changes are adjacent to positions targeted by seasonal H1N1 when H274Y was fixed in 2009. In those sequences virtually all had A193T plus at least one additional change at positions 187 (N187S or N187D), 189 (G189A, G189N, G189S, G189V) or 196 (H196H, H196N), which created vaccine breakthroughs. Thus, the high frequency of changes in the UK at positions 186 and 188 indicate a similar immunological escape strategy is in place for pandemic H1N1.
Two changes in pandemic H1N1 have severely taxed the UK health care delivery system, and more genetic changes in pandemic H1N1 are likely. The reaction of the HPA to these changes is to reduce transparency by reporting significant undercounts in cases and imposing a media gag order on additional cases. Moreover, they withhold key demographic data from the scientific community, without real justification.
It is time for increased transparency in reports on H1N1 deaths and sequences. The current policy of withholding data and publishing partial data which lacks credibility is hazardous to the world’s health. |
Lundin Makes Small Oil Discovery in Barents Sea
by Rigzone Staff
|Monday, November 26, 2012
Sweden's Lundin Petroleum has made a small oil discovery around 7 miles northwest of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, according a statement issued by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Monday.
The NPD said that the wildcat well, designated 7120/6-3 S, was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic ages. The well encountered oil in a gross column of approximately 29 feet in thick sandstone strata, which was itself situated above an approximately 80-foot sandstone sequence in the Kolmule formation.
Although preliminary estimates indicate the discovery is not profitable, evaluation and analyses will be performed to further clarify the resource potential of the discovery.
The well was drilled by the Transocean Arctic (mid-water semisub) drilling facility, which will now proceed to production license 475 in the Norwegian Sea where it will drill wildcat well 6407/1-6 S for Wintershall Norge.
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A Christmas ToastTo Crews who sail Men of War
and those that build them on the shore,
Men in Freighters, men in Tankers,
Men inships financed by Bankers,
Ships Designed for extra speed,
Slow ships, fast ships,
ships which need radar screens for times of fog,
Ships with records on the log,
Ships which sail on Christmas day
torn by wind and washed with Spray,
Ships in Harbour, ships at Sea,
Ships which carry oil and tea,
Ships importing meat and grain,
Ships which bring us home again,
Ships with masts Aloof and tall,
Mastless ships and ships quite small,
Motor ships and Ancient steamers,
Ships conceived by daring dreamers,
Ships of orthodox design,
Ships which often cross the line,
Ships which ply on coastal waters,
Ships with ice upon there quarters,
Submarines down in the deep,
to gaurd our shores a watch to keep,
To all who sail, and those who build,
ships of any kind,
we've filled our glasses,
now here come the toast.
WE wish each one of you a most
Happy Christmas and New Year.
Much to please and none to fear,
good health, much wealth,
good times, good sport.
God speed, good luck.
Come home safe to port. |
Halton residents urged to use alternative health services unless conditions are serious (From Runcorn and Widnes World)
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Doctors remind Halton residents A&E is only for serious and life-threatening conditions
As Easter approaches, health chiefs are urging Halton patients to consider how they use 999 and A&E over the four-day weekend.
As people dabble in DIY or light barbecues to celebrate with friends and family, residents are asked to think before dialling 999 or visiting accident and emergency departments over the bank holiday.
Doctors stress that A&E and 999 services are only for serious and life-threatening conditions such as heart-attacks, strokes, serious accidents and breathing conditions.
Dr Cliff Richards, chairman of Halton Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “With the increasing pressure on emergency services over the busy Easter period, we are stressing the importance of people using alternative health services and taking care of themselves to ensure A & E and the 999 number are kept free for genuine medical emergencies.
“When people are taking up the time of hospital and ambulance staff with minor issues which could be dealt with much closer to home, people with life threatening illnesses are not being seen to as quickly as they could be.
“It is vital to remember that the ambulance service and A & E should not be used as an alternative to your GP if your surgery is closed.
“If you require medical assistance outside of normal surgery hours this bank holiday, patients in Halton have access to a wide range of alternative health services available including GP out-of-hours services, walk-in centres and pharmacists who are qualified to offer advice and treat common, everyday illnesses.”
These include GP out-of-hours services, walk-in centres and pharmacists who are qualified to offer advice and treat common, everyday illnesses.
Halton CCG is run by representatives from the borough’s 17 GP practices and plans and commissions health services for 126,400 patients.
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“I Survived Being Bullied”
A brave 15-year-old finds strength by telling her story
Adama used to eat lunch in the bathroom to escape her bullies. Today, she is happy in school.
I was not popular in sixth grade, but I had friends. In seventh grade, those friends started being mean to me. Soon I became the target of the popular girls.
Samantha* was the leader. She and her friends bullied me all the time. I was one of the few black students at my school in Kentucky. Samantha and her friends would call me names and tell me to “go back to Africa.”
The insults made me feel terrible. But being left out was even worse. I would lock myself in a stall in the bathroom and cry my eyes out. Sometimes, I even ate my lunch there. It was the only place I felt safe.
When eighth grade started, I hoped things would be different. But things got worse, and I became very depressed. After a few days, I went to the school counselor. I told him that I wanted to kill myself. He called my parents.
Telling an adult was the first step to changing my life. My parents helped me come up with a solution that worked for me. I transferred to another middle school. I didn’t have many friends there, but no one bullied me. I felt safe.
At the end of the school year, the chorus at my old school had a concert. I went with my mom. Afterward, I went backstage to see a friend. There, I saw Samantha and her friends.
I thought we could put the past behind us. I walked up to them and started to talk, but Samantha stopped me. “Shut up, Adama,” she said. “No one here likes you. Go back to your other school.”
She called me every name under the sun. Her friends all laughed. I stood there with tears in my eyes. Finally, I left with my mom.
MY BULLY STORY
Later that year, I had an idea. I wanted to tell someone my story. I wanted to give other bullied teens a place to tell their stories too. I decided to build a Web site.
During ninth grade, I called every Web-site-building company I could find. They all wanted way too much money. Finally, I found a good deal. I used $1,000 of my own money. I had saved that money from years of babysitting, allowance, and birthdays.
When I started high school last year, everything got better. Today, I never sit alone at lunch. I hardly ever even walk down the halls alone. I get tons of texts on my phone. People know me and like me.
I finally launched my Web site last spring. It’s at www.yourbullystory.com. A boy who posted his story wrote to me. He said that he felt better after sharing his story.
I hope thousands of kids, teens, and even adults post their stories too. Sharing my story made me realize I’m tougher than I thought I was. I am proud that I survived being bullied.
*This name has been changed. |
Sunday won't be so special for some mums
While many mothers across the world will be honoured this Sunday, others won't be so lucky.
Ah Fung, 42 and a single mother of an eight-year-old daughter, is one of the less fortunate ones. Celebration will not be on her to-do list for that day - she will be working an extra shift on a construction site. "I don't mind working hard to feed myself and raise my daughter," said Ah Fung, who arrived from the mainland about a year ago.
"But at the least, society has to allow and help us to contribute."
She talks about her search for work, no matter how lowly the jobs could be, but employers were often reluctant to hire mothers such as herself, fearing they would not be able to devote themselves fully to the job.
"The first question employers ask is, 'Do you have children?' After I say yes, they ask me to wait for their call about giving me the job, which they never do."
As a single parent, Ah Fung must also deal with the demands of running a household and bringing in an income. She wakes up at 6am on days she is working in order to prepare lunch for her daughter. She travels to the construction site to work a full shift, then at 6pm picks up her child from school. After buying food at the market, she heads home to cook dinner.
Ah Fung has no relatives in the city and lives in a subdivided flat with her daughter in To Kwa Wan. She said the area lacked a childcare centre that could help look after her daughter.
"If I knew my daughter was under close watch by professionals, I could focus on my work without worrying about her."
Her Mother's Day wish is not about obtaining wealth but merely that the government provide more daytime childcare services.
Yeung Mei, executive director at New Women Arrivals League, a non-governmental organisation helping newly arrived mainland women, said the government should adjust its childcare policy for single parents in order to provide more flexibility new arrivals to the city. |
Be Inspired: Winning Youth Essays on Injustice
Three girls – all Lake Washington Girls Middle School students – won the King County Civil Rights Commission’s 14th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Essay Contest, open to all eighth grade students attending public and private schools in King County. The purpose of the essay contest is to get local students to think critically about Dr. King's legacy of peace and justice.
This year's essay contest theme was: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Congratulations to first-place winner Quinn Lysaker-Angelou, second-place winner Chloe Sheppard-Shaw, and third-place winner Ada Bowles. Their awards were presented on Jan. 17 at a special event at The 5th Avenue Theatre. To read their remarkable essays, visit the King County Civil Rights Commission website.
Patricia Hearn, first teacher and founding Head of School at Lake Washington Girls Middle School, said: "This contest is unique in that it doesn't ask the usual questions about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy. Rather, the contest asks our students to reflect on encounters with diversity and injustice in their own lives, and this, we find, is much more challenging work. The writing that emerges from this work is grounded in the girls' life experiences, truth and emotion.”
Since Lake Washington Girls Middle School’s opening in 1998, the topics of social justice and diversity have been intentional, welcomed and fostered in the classroom. With a humanities curriculum molded around human rights, social movements and activism among different minority groups, the girls are taught not to shy away from difficult topics and conversations.
To learn more about the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Essay Contest, and be inspired by winning essays from past years, visit www.kingcounty.gov/exec/CRC/MLKEssayContest/MLKEssayWinners.aspx. |
The Stone Is Rolled Away
Sermon shared by Steve Malone
Summary: The Stone was rolled on resurrection morning not for Jesus but for us, and that rolled away stone has a message for us today.
Denomination: Christian/Church of Christ
Audience: General adults
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"The Stone Is Rolled Away!"
It was dark as they arose that Sunday morning... The two got up and put on their garments grabbed their spices and headed out on the dirt road that lead out of the city.
As they headed out on the road and as the sun began to rise the path was lined with many dark shadows... but no shadow or darkness could compare with the darkness that hovered over their soul.
As they walked up the path towards the tomb... thoughts and sights of the last week -- ripped through their minds like violent tornados..
They had been there when Jesus rode in on the colt before thousands shouting his praises, what an incredible moment that was. But unfortunately their minds and the events of last week didn’t stop their.
Try as they might they couldn’t stopped those other thoughts, those terrible scenes from playing out again and again in their minds.
They saw Jesus tied to a post a Roman scourge filled with broken pieces of pottery, glass and bones ripping across His back. As they recalled the purple robe -- the beatings, the cruel mocking and the crown of thorns, the tears began to flow again.
They had seen it all -- they had seen Jesus, their teacher, their friend, their Lord they had witnessed everything that Jesus went through...
And these 2 women, these two Mary’s (Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James) were there at the cross...
They saw Jesus hanging there on that rough cross of wood... they saw His body struggle and wince with pain with every breathe that he took...
They were there when Jesus cried out, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI -- MY GOD MY GOD WHY HAS THOUGH FORSAKEN ME" -- and they saw his head fall as he cried, "IT IS FINISHED."
They where there when Jesus died, and when he died they died to.. O’ they were still alive physically but their hopes and joy died on that cross with Jesus, on that dark friday nearly 2,000 years ago.. Their Lord was dead... And their hope was gone.
So what are they doing up so early on this sunday morning? Why aren’t they lying in bed wallowing in their misery... What was it that drove them from their beds before dawn, and put them on this dark up hill climb.
The thing that drove them, was their love for and devotion to Jesus -- someone had to prepare the body for burial and no one else had volunteered; Peter didn’t, James didn’t, neither did John -- So it was up to these 2 faithful followers, 2 women who had never left the side of Jesus, who were with Him until the end -- it was up to them to do it, and they did..
The task they were going to preform was a somber task, a difficult task... They would be the ones, who would wipe the blood from the brow, from the legs, from the sides, They would be the ones, to clean the blood from the body of Jesus... they would be the ones, to remove the blood that had matted in his beard, They would be the last ones, to touch his face and close His eyes.
And as they were nearing the tomb -- suddenly a problem -- something they hadn’t thought of until now, entered their minds and they said to each other,
"MARY WHO IS GOING TO REMOVE THE STONE -- HOW CAN WE GET INSIDE TO JESUS IF THE STONE IS IN THE WAY?"
"AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE, FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND, GOING TO THE TOMB, ROLLED BACK THE STONE AND SAT ON IT. HIS APPEARANCE
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Attention! Attention! Rural Women are Marching!
October 15 marks the International Day of Rural Women, as declared in 2007 by the United
Nations. Rural Salvadoran women from all over the country came together to celebrate
their day with the Second Rural Women’s National Congress in San Salvador. While various issues could have been chosen, this year the group decided to focus on food sovereignty and security.
As an extension of the one-day meeting and in celebration of the International Day of Food
Sovereignty, on Tuesday, October 16, organized rural women marched from Cuscatlán
Park to the Legislative Assembly. The women organized the march to draw attention to
the many needs and struggles that rural Salvadoran women face in their daily lives, and to pressure members of the Legislative Assembly to consider their demands.
Women from all 14 departments participated, stopping traffic with their banners, batucada drumming, and chanting. “Attention! Attention! Rural Latin American women are marching!” was one of the many slogans shouted during the march through downtown San Salvador. Both young and older women took part, mothers brought their children, and a few supportive men dotted the march as well.
Several participants shared their thoughts with us. Many we talked to work with SHARE counterparts or members of SHARE sister communities. Santos, from the community of Huisisilapa in northern La Libertad, spoke about food security. “This march is important because this is the only way [the Legislative Assembly members] will recognize us, remember that here in the city, we [rural women] are valuable. We grow and produce the food they eat here.” Irma, one of the members of the batucada drumming group Crescente Batucada (formerly known as Sihua Batucada), reflected on the meaning of the march, “We are participating in this march in order to encourage other women, to show them ‘Yes, we can!’” Irma is also a former SHARE high school scholarship recipient. She graduated in 2011.
The event ended at the doors to the Legislative Assembly. Leaders of the Rural Women’s Congress and march organizers met at the entrance to the Assembly to present a letter to FMLN parliamentarians, declaring the necessity of national policies geared toward women’s development, including a focus on gender equality, environmental sustainability, and food security and sovereignty. Parliament members Emma Julia Fabian Hernandez from the department of La Libertad and Delia López from Chalatenango came out to receive the leaders and march organizers, and affirm their support for the document presented by the group of rural women who marched and gathered at the Assembly entrance. Members of the press were also in attendance throughout the march to capture images and video of the presentation at the doors of the Legislative Assembly. |
Avoiding private mortgage insurance
The big question with private mortgage insurance is knowing where the money goes to, since it does not go towards paying off the home loan. Instead, the private mortgage insurance insures the mortgage company against a default on the home loan. Especially since Louisiana mortgage broker tend to be high, many people cannot finance a full 20 percent. It has been said that paying less than 20 percent down payment on a home loan increases the chances of defaulting on a loan. Because of this, mortgage companies require the private mortgage insurance so they can bounce back easily in case of default. Generally, without the security of the private mortgage insurance, the lender would probably not make a loan. But since they are insured, they are willing to take the risk as long as the borrower has private mortgage insurance.
The borrower could see lower interest rates for a home loan, but after the private mortgage insurance is added on, the mortgage insurance premium may not be saving any money in the long run. That being said, private mortgage insurance can be disconcerting to the borrower because it is not tax deductible as other mortgage interest rates are. The insurance is paid and never seen again. It is best to get rid of the insurance as soon as possible. This is done by getting the loan-to-value ration down as quickly as possible. The mortgage company cannot force the payment of private mortgage insurance once the value is less than 80 percent. However, they will advise as to when eligibility is reached to discontinue the coverage and stop making mortgage insurance premium payments. This figure is determined from the most recent Maine home loans statement by dividing the remaining principal balance by the original purchase price of the home. It is up to the borrower to track the debt on the home loan and to figure out the debt to value ratio. It is even possible to qualify to quit the payments by virtue of appreciation. This is generally the case when the home increases in value shortly after it was purchased.
There are ways to prevent paying for private mortgage insurance and still have less than 20 percent down payment. Many Maine home loans companies offer two loans. For example, they will offer one home loan with a mortgage of 80 percent of the homes value, and another home loan with 10 percent of the homes value, and the down payment will be 10 percent. The same amount of money is being borrowed, but the lender in the first mortgage is only lending 80 percent of the entire loan amount, which makes it less risky than borrowing the full loan amount. Consequently, there is a smaller down payment and tax-deductible interest. Not to mention that the total monthly payments are often smaller than one larger loan with private mortgage insurance.
Another way to avoid private mortgage insurance is to get a loan that can build the private mortgage insurance into the interest rate. In this situation, the borrower agrees to pay a higher interest rate in exchange for a larger loan than normal. The interest rate is still tax deductible and is simpler than making two Maine home loans transactions. |
Try to pop as many balloons as possible that have the right color. But watch out for the little bird playing with the balloon attached to the sign that indicates the correct color. Visitors will throw eggs when wrong balloons are popped and will eventually hit the little bird. Do what you can to save it.
There are two game types:
KIDS’ BALLOONS makes use of touching balloons with your finger.
With BIRDS’ BALLOONS the app becomes the currently best balloon popping game for Apple devices and a challenge for every age. Accelerometer steering (tilting the device) comes into play and is used to control an additional bird to pop the balloons. But be aware of the black bird.
★ Realistic, physical simulation (gravity, wind, …)
★ Internal leaderboards for competing on one device
★ Global leaderboards for competing online (Game Center, OpenFeint)
★ Animated introduction to explain the game
★ Above-your-head playing: Accelerometer steering (with BIRDS’ BALLOONS) was developed to be used also when lying
★ HD graphics for iPad Retina (2048 x 1536 pixels) & iPhone Retina
Balloon Snake for iPhone, iPad, iPod is presented to you by Snakestein. |
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Ustica: Long Lived Island
For me, Ustica is "the long-lived island": not just for the age of this rocky outcrop 70 km off the coast of Palermo, tip of an extinct volcano jutting out of the acquamarine sea, but because long-lived Pasquale Palmisano born on Ustica 96 years ago embodies for me the ancient, long-lasting - eternal FEEL of this Sicilian island. I visited him recently on my fourth trip to the island. I found him still sitting under the gnarled ancient olive tree where I had left him last year. He was still weaving baskets of reed and cane with his gnarled hands. His wide-brimmed straw hat (which he wears trotting along on his donkey, transporting vegetables) was on the ground beside him. His blue eyes twinkled with an unextinguishable light as he shared memories of his childhood on the island. I never tire of hearing his stories. "Shoes?!" he grins, "we never had them on our feet til we reached 20. Mamma and Papa made us scarpe di pile (N. B. Sicilian dialect for "shoes of skin") whenever a donkey died. They skinned the donkey, dried the skin and made as many shoes as they could from the old beast. But there were 11 of us... there were a lot of shoes needed... and a lot of mouths to fill!"
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Pasquale, his brothers and his sisters all went to school until fourth grade and after that, their help was needed on the land. "All the land was cultivated in those days... right down to the sea." As Pasquale grew older, he took on extra jobs to help feed the family. "I transported melons - our island has always been famous for melons - and lentils, too, of course. I took the melons by boat - sailboat, no other kind then! - to the mainland. But first we had to get the melons from the fields to the port, loading them into the two grandi baskets on the flanks of the donkeys. I've been making these baskets since I was about 11. We always needed lots of baskets: baskets for all the crops the donkeys hauled in from the fields, baskets for picking lentils and then olives, baskets for the grape harvests, baskets for draining fresh ricotta, baskets for the cheese-making, baskets for sifting out the chaff from the wheat grains, baskets for the shopping Mamma carried on her head from town (not much: we ate mostly what we grew), baskets for the wash Mamma did at the cistern."
As Pasquale whittled the reeds for the baskets, his nephew Pietro - who works in Milan and returns to Ustica for the summers - and grandson Pasquale (in Sicily, boys are named for grandfathers) picked melons in the field just behind us. Pietro stopped to chat: "My uncle comes from a long-lived race: average life-span is 90. Zio Pasquale's mother died 3 months short of 100. When I leave in September, Zio Pasquale always says - 'I might see you next summer'. I just laugh...." Pasquale smiled as he whittled. Those blue eyes twinkled with that irrepressible light. I could have stayed all day talking to Pasquale but the sun would soon be too hot to walk the road to the rocky cove where I like to swim. I thanked him, saying "ci vediamo la prossima estate" ( "see you next summer"). I meant it. He knew it... and smiled.
Young Pasquale walked across the road to the wall where Pasquale's baskets hold the produce they sell to summer visitors: eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, onions, dried beans, lentils (the famous tiny lentils of Ustica cook quickly - and ah, what flavor!), capers, plums and peaches. He tells me to help myself and take some peaches. I take a large round one, bite into it and walk up the road with juice dripping down my wrist, heading to the nearby home of my hosts, elderly Signor and Signora Alessandri. This visit was my third stay with them. During our August visits with Pino's family in Palermo, we frequently take jaunts to Sicilian jewels and for the past couple years, the island of Ustica has been a favorite. We always rent a room with bath in the Alessandri home just outside the little village of Ustica (there is only one village on the island). Guido Alessandri has the weathered face of years on the land in the sun, translucent green eyes and a thick shock of white hair. He is still a very handsome man. Signora Alessandri too has lovely thick white hair - a stark contrast to the black dress she always wears. The only gleam of color, the gold chain with cross worn around her neck. Porta il lutto (she "wears the mourning") for her middle-aged daughter who died in her sleep just a few years ago. "She just wanted to stop living", her mother says simply and with resignation. Her daughter's death came four years after she had lost a child to serious illness. A lovely woman - her photo is here and there in their house. Signora Alessandri talks wistfully about her deceased daughter and granddaughter.
On each visit to Ustica, Signora Alessandri and Signor Guido have shared with me many stories about their family and about life on Ustica during their youth. For years, they had to live apart as the rocky soil of Ustica offered an insufficient income for a family. Like many an islander (the population is 1200 now - and once was nearly triple that), Signor Guido went to work in Switzerland for a number of years, while the Signora lived on her own with their four children in Palermo. Many an island family has suffered this separation due to limited schooling on the islands. (When their children were small, they could go to school only up to 8th grade on Ustica. Now the island has a high school).
We talk in the evenings as we sit on the patio of their white stuccoed house, festooned with fuchsia bougainvillea, flaming red hibiscus, crawling white-flowered caper vines, looking out over the sea.
These are the colors of Ustica: pristine white and pastels of the stuccoed houses, black of the volcanic rock walls dividing the fields, red and purple bouganvillea and red, white, pink hibiscus bursting in flashes of color, here and there. White-flowered caper vines grow from crevices in the the black rock walls and crawl along the cliffs which drop to the acquamarine sea. Silver-green olive trees, pungent wild fennel and low-lying vineyards (low-to-the-ground pruning diffuse in southern Italy) grow alongside fields of melons, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants in fields of reddish soil. Deep-green maritime pines and date palms shade family gardens and eucalyptus and multi-colored oleander grow along the roads. Prickly pears crawl along the rock walls and cling to the rocky cliffs which plunge to the sea: translucent blues (like Pasquale's eyes) and emerald greens (like Signor Alessandri's) intermingle in the gently lapping waves in the coastal coves below.
Casa Alessandri is just a few minutes walk outside of the one small village on the island. The ochre-stuccoed church sits at the highest point on a small piazza, like a guard. The single main street of Ustica winds from the church down to the port, lined on both sides with a couple cafés, a gelateria, small shops, a few restaurants, a grocer, and a baker. Narrow backstreets run parallel and one or two hotels are tucked there in the midst of the village houses. Elderly women sit in front of the houses, with baskets on laps, cleaning lentils or shelling speckled borlottti beans which they sell to visitors. Above them, colorful murals painted by various artists in the 1970's splash brilliant colors on stuccoed walls: a mural echo of the myriad colors of Ustica's waters and brilliant vegetation.
Ristorante Da Umberto is just off the main village street, set back on a small piazza, awning shading the outdoor tables. Owner Umberto is small, wiry but strong, with snapping black eyes, buzzing about, he reminds me of a field mouse.
His hard-working family has created a small empire on the island: he and his wife Giovanna run the restaurant with the help of a daughter-in-law, one son runs a pizzeria, another has apartments for rent. The family organizes boat trips around the island, with stops in coves for swims and a wonderful seafood meal served on board. They can arrange excursions anywhere on the island. We eat at Ristorante Da Umberto quite often while on the island. The menu includes not only a wide-variety of seafood pastas and seafood second courses but also specialties typical of Ustica and/or typical of the culinary prowess of Signora Giovanna! Polpette ("meatballs") of fish, breadcrumbs, herbs, and pinenuts and her excellent polpette of breadcrumbs, local cheeses and the island wild fennel are my menu favorites. On this visit, Signora Giovanna shared a few of her recipes with me. (See Giovanna's recipes for Zucca Gialla Agliata - "Garliced Squash" - at the end of this article).
Not far from Ristorante da Umberto, one single road leads out of the town, winding along the coast and orange minibuses take visitors to the coves for swimming in water which could be taken for the Caribbean. Ustica was the first Marine Reserve - Area Marina Protetta ("Protected Marine Area") - established in Italy in 1986 expressly to preserve the integrity of the seabeds and the astounding natural beauty of the territory.
Some visitors hop off the orange bus at the same spot daily, others try one spot in the morning and choose another cove for late afternoon swims: Cala Sidoti, Acquario, Il Faro, il Bancone. Masks and snorkels are in nearly every beach bag. One day while at Cala Sidoti, I eavesdropped on a group of children swimming in the coves with masks and snorkels. They were taking a course with a naturalist working for the Riserva Marina. They surfaced periodically as the instructor taught the children about the algae, fishes, marine life they were seeing below. Deep-sea diving courses are also taught at various points off the island.
Early morning walks on the island lead to fortified huts and an extensive streetch of Bronze Age walls (about 1300 BC). Inhabited continuously from the 3rd century BC, the tombs of the Roman necropolis and remains of Roman farms trace the history of the earliest settlements.
The Benedictines concluded centuries of monastic life on the island in the 14th century and the island then became the haunt of pirates. In the 18th century, the Bourbons colonized the island, bringing in slaves from Tunis to build fortified towers, constructed as a defense system along the Bourbon coastal routes. The same Tunisian slaves also built some of the ancient stone houses on the upper edge of the village. Ustica soon became the perfect place for political exiles - from the Bourbon reign to fascism. Enemies of the Bourbon Crown, patriots of the late 19th century Italian Risorgimento, opposers of Italy's colonial wars and shirkers of military service, Libyan deportees and antifascists were all exiled here.
The island of Ustica now invites another kind of exile: a glorious self-imposed one on this rocky outcrop rising out of the acquamarine waters of the Mediterranean sea.
Recipe Zucca Gialla Agliata (Garliced Orange Squash) - about 8 servings Of Signora Giovanna, Ristorante da Umberto, Ustica - province of Palermo
Use enough orange squash to slice into about 24 slices, approximately 4- 5" wide and approximately 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick (note: as is typical of any good cook, Giovanna has never used a recipe so her instructions to me were very "approximate" - do experiment, therefore!) Heat olive oil* - add garlic clove or two and lightly fry til golden. Remove garlic cloves from oil. Raise heat to "sizzling". Be sure that there is at least 1/2 in. olive oil in the pan and that oil is "spitting", though not smoking. Flip over, browning squash slices on both sides. Remove from heat and drain. Prepare agrodolce ("sweet/sour") mixture: mix about 1 c. wine vinegar with 1 tsp sugar. (Giovanna points out that sugar/vinegar proportions will depend on personal taste.) Leave just a bit of olive oil and return squash to pan. Add shredded carrot, shredded garden fennel and wild fennel seeds (if not available, use dill), salt and pepper as desired. Pour agrodolce mixture over all and simmer uncovered until liquid evaporates. Then serve.
*Hint: when frying, use part sunflower seed oil to reduce smoking tendency of olive oil.
© Annesitaly - Anne Robichaud
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This essay was first published on Anne's website www.annesitaly.com. Edited by Slow Travel.
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Eastern Utah counties are so steamed about federal plans to pull back hundreds of thousands of acres from potential oil-shale leasing that they're banding with their Wyoming and Colorado neighbors to demand the Obama administration reverse course.
The Uintah County Commission passed a resolution last week calling on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to keep vast parts of the Uinta Basin open to shale leasing.
The BLM has proposed curtailing the leasing zone for oil shale and tar sands, first approved at the end of the Bush administration, from about 2.3 million acres to 553,000 acres until companies prove a technology to extract oil from rock is feasible.
"BLM entered into a sweetheart deal with the environmental community," Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee said Wednesday, noting that the new plan resulted from a lawsuit settlement directing the agency to look anew at the leasing program.
The resolution alleges the BLM is bucking congressional direction to start leasing the rock, and that in doing so, it's harming America's energy security.
"[T]he rising price of gasoline, coupled with ever-increasing loss of good-paying jobs due to the administration's policies against energy development on Western lands," the resolution states, "result[s] in increasing hardships for families and the local economy."
Opponents of wide-scale leasing say the resolution is littered with inaccuracies, starting with the statements that "development and production of oil from oil shale has been proven beyond a doubt to be technologically and economically feasible" and that "it requires little to no water."
For use as oil, the rock must be heated either in place or as crushed ore. It can be done, companies have proved, but doubters point to Chevron abandoning its Colorado test lease this year as evidence that it's not economical.
Companies looking to test Utah shale, such as Enefit and Red Leaf, say they won't need much water. But Sierra Club organizer Tim Wagner said they haven't offered any evidence.
The BLM plan allows plenty of acreage to test technologies, Wagner said, but limits the potential for ripping up lands or entering a speculative boom-and-bust economic cycle before the industry is proved.
"The counties," Wagner said, "are taking a very radical position in telling the BLM to scrap this process, because it's very reasonable."
Haphazard test leasing could repeat some of the mistakes of unfruitful 1980s Colorado tests, warned Ken Theis, Utah coordinator for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
"The Tavaputs and Book Cliffs under consideration [for mining] are highly valued wildlife lands," Theis said. "The impacts that occurred in Colorado show that it's not a benign situation. They did have significant impacts to the mule deer and elk populations over there."
Other counties including Utah's Duchesne and Daggett, Wyoming's Lincoln and Colorado's Garfield and Mesa are on board with substantially the same resolution. McKee said the joint effort sprang from a March meeting in Vernal, where he invited the other counties and Kathleen Clarke, public lands adviser to Gov. Gary Herbert, to discuss oil-shale strategy.
The meeting went into a closed session to discuss the strategy, which Wagner argued violates the state open-meetings law. McKee said it was allowed because the topic involved legal strategy for potential litigation.
The Bureau of Land Management's environmental study revising lease acreage for oil shale and tar sands greatly reduces lands available for proving the resources' value:
Oil shale's leasing zone would shrink from 1.9 million acres to 462,000 in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Tar sands' zone would go from 431,000 to 91,000 acres, all in Utah.
The plan is available for public comment until May 4. |
Now that you are thinking about installing a solar geyser in your home in Pretoria North there are several important factors you need to take into consideration. Choosing the wrong system or a system that will not deliver your requirements can be very costly. Make sure you speak to a reputable company like Solartech with offices around the country that have the expertise and experience to advise you correctly regarding all the considerations for solar geysers in Pretoria North.
Sometimes the home owner will ask the particular solar geyser dealer just what the actual benefits of the solar domestic hot water product is in comparison to the old-fashioned electrically powered geyser. That may result in an extremely extended conversation amongst the two given it is usually a difficult question to answer based on circumstances.
The advantages typically depend upon the sort of hot water system the homeowner currently has, the type of power sources available attached to the house, the local weather factors, accessible water supply, available roof space, roof orientation and also room for the water storage tank. However, the most important things to consider would be the home owner's preferences, and then the financial budget considered against their expectations.
There's a wide range in preliminary costs associated with buying any kind of hot water heating system, however the true cost may only become seen over the years which follow. A person's month-to-month electric bill might be greatly impacted by the system you finally choose, and this is amongst the various factors you should consider when buying a hot water heating system for your residence.
Most solar geysers will be significantly cheaper to run than any other type of system. However, the up front costs of going solar are normally three to four times greater than a straight electric to electric heater system swap.
Many South Africans have already made the move to solar hot water and many more are following. It makes perfect sense when you consider the increase in the electricity tariffs each year, and the bill is just getting bigger and bigger. For most a solar geyser is a large investment to fork out but you are very likely to see a substantial drop in your electricity bill which is well worth the investment over the next few years.
Every home owner should be made aware of the fact that solar hot water systems are more complex than the normal old electric geyser. You are not just swapping a geyser for another one, the solar geyser system is a lot more complex. It is a very efficient energy system and keeping in mind the pollution being caused by the generation of electricity it is a logical system which is very environmentally friendly. It is also a fact that it will require maintenance every now and again to keep the system functioning optimally.
Budget needs to be considered by home owners not only for the initial costs but also the ongoing costs of spare parts and maintenance. You do not want to be faced with a problem two years down the line and find out that the spare parts are not available anymore. The installer should be transparent about the ongoing costs as well as the expected lifespan of the unit. Consider these before deciding on which type or brand to buy.
Solar water heating systems come in all sizes for all domestic and larger uses in Pretoria North. So no matter what your circumstances are there will be a solar geyser system that will suit your needs. For instance in areas where the water might not heat up as expected due to weather conditions a electrical backup can be installed to ensure you always have hot water when needed.
There is no surprise that quite a big part of your electrical use goes directly towards water heating. On an average this can make up around forty percent of you monthly electrical bill. Now by making the change to solar you are able to cut these costs easily and save the money, or use it for something else that you have always wanted.
With solar climate plays an important role and is one of the main considerations you have to take into account before taking any decision. Changing to solar has many options and everything taken into account there will be a system to meet your needs.
In the areas where the temperature drops below zero during the winter season it will require that you install a more complex system that can cope with the weather conditions. However if you are lucky and live in an area where the temperature never goes below freezing you will only need a simple solar system to meet your requirements.
There is no substitute for experience and from us you can rest assured of the best advice when deciding to go solar. With offices and technicians located across the country all the information about each area is available to us at all times. We will make sure that you install the correct system for your area and do any modifications that might be required. Our products are guaranteed just as our workmanship. Spare parts and replacement parts are always available and any problems with a solar geyser is dealt with quickly and efficiently. |
Health Care Strategic Solutions
by June Beck
Managing health care requires more individual attention than ever before. A comprehensive health care strategy must include attention to the health care plan, prevention, scheduling and financial planning. Understand your health care plan, and view your overall health with open eyes.
Make exercise a part of your health care strategy in order to minimize your needs for health care. The Mayo Clinic states, "The merits of regular physical activity--from preventing chronic health conditions to promoting weight loss and better sleep--are hard to ignore." Plan an exercise program that fits into your lifestyle and stick to it.
Make diet a part of managing health care. Eat fruits and vegetables. The Harvard School of Public Health states, "It's hard to argue with the health benefits of a diet rich in vegetables and fruits: Lower blood pressure; reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and probably some cancers; lower risk of eye and digestive problems; and a mellowing effect on blood sugar that can help keep appetite in check." Plan meals that include generous servings of fruits and vegetables.
Exercising and a healthy diet help keep weight under control. Of course, obesity links to several serious medical conditions but even being overweight can cause health problems. "Fortunately, even a modest weight loss of 10 to 20 pounds can bring significant health improvements, such as lowering one's blood pressure and cholesterol levels," contends WebMD.com. Managing health care means managing your weight.
Take advantage of all preventive care covered by your health insurance. Optimize prevention as a part of your health care strategy.
Schedule all non-emergency procedures and treatments needed after the deductable is met when possible. Plan bladder lifts and colonoscopies, for instance, with financial considerations in mind.
Work with the doctor's office. Talk openly with insurance coordinators about your financial considerations. Help them to help you as you plan in order to optimize what your health care plan can do for you.
Discuss health care with your doctor. The California Office of the Patient Advocate says, "Most treatments have both benefits and risks. To make the best choice, ask questions. Learn about your condition and the treatments. Then work with your doctor to decide on a treatment plan."
Avoid problems by following the directions provided by your insurance provider. Understand and carefully meet all specific criteria. This will save money in the long run. |
Artist's rendering of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle on a deep space mission.
To embark on its next chapter in human space exploration, NASA has created a new department to oversee manned spaceflight in the post-space-shuttle era.
The department is called the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and combines two previous organizations, the Space Operations Directorate and the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate.
The reorganization is part of top-to-bottom changes moving through the space agency, which finds itself at a turning point. This year NASA retired its 30-year-old space shuttle program, which was the focus and most visible part of its activities over the last few decades. The agency is now gearing up for an era of human missions to deep space, including trips back to the moon, then on to asteroids and Mars.
President Obama has charged NASA to put astronauts on a space rock by 2025, and on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s. To reach those goals, the United States must develop a new heavy-lift rocket capable of traveling that far, and a capsule to bring people safely there and back again. [Photos: NASA's New Spaceship for Deep Space]
The new Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate will be responsible for overseeing all this and more.
"America is opening a bold new chapter in human space exploration," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement. "By combining the resources of Space Operations and Exploration Systems, and creating the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, we are recommitting ourselves to American leadership in space for years to come."
While NASA is targeting human missions farther out into the solar system than ever before, it hopes to pass on the torch of low-Earth orbit travel to the private space industry. The new office will oversee NASA's Commercial Crew Development program, which aims to stimulate the development of private spacecraft to carry people to orbit, as well as the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which does the same for cargo.
Meanwhile, NASA will continue operating the International Space Station. Until private spaceships are ready, U.S. astronauts will rent rides to the station aboard Russian rockets. The orbiting laboratory is planned to run through at least 2020. This, too, will be supervised from the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.
Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier, previously the associate administrator for Space Operations, will head the new office. |
Bell peppers, also known as sweet pepper or capsicum are basically peppers of less pungent varieties which are available in different colours such as yellow, red, green, purple and orange. These plump, bell shaped vegetables were cultivated more than 900 years ago in south and central America and were given the name pepper by the European colonizers of North America. These can easily grow in different types of climate.
Sweet bell peppers are a great combination of tangy taste and crunchy texture. These are scientifically known as Capsicum annuum and belong to the category of nightshade (solanaceae) family of plants comprising of chilli pepper, cayenne pepper, potatoes, tomatoes and eggplant. Green and purple peppers are slightly bitter in taste whereas red, yellow and orange have a sweeter and fruity taste.
The substance ‘capsaicin’ which controls hotness in peppers is present in very small amounts in bell peppers making it less ‘hot’. Though, they are available throughout the year, they are most abundant and tasty in the summers. The content of vitamin C and carotenoid also increases when the pepper is at the peak of its ripeness. These colourful and attractive vegetables are enjoyed all over the world in a variety of cuisines.
A. Health Benefits Of Bell Pepper
Apart from imparting flavor and attractiveness to bland dishes, bell peppers are loaded with nutrients like vitamins A, C and K, carotenoids and dietary fiber which makes them immensely beneficial for the overall good health. Bell peppers also have vitamin B6 and folate that help to lower homocysteine levels, thus reducing the risk of heart disease. Some of the health benefits of bell peppers are given below:
1. Good for Eyes:
Being high in vitamin A, red bell peppers help to support healthy eyesight, especially night vision. They are a rich source of a carotenoid called lutein that helps in lowering the risk of macular degeneration of the eyes. Macular degeneration of eyes is the most common cause of age related visual loss. Bell peppers also protect your eyes from cataracts due to their high levels of beta-carotene and vitamin C.
2. Burns more Calories:
Red bell peppers help in activating thermogenesis and increase the metabolic rate. Capsaicin which is responsible for increasing the hotness of other peppers is found in bell peppers in very small amounts. Thus, they have a mild thermogenic action that increases the metabolism without increasing the heart rate and blood pressure unlike hot peppers. Hence, they can support weight loss.
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3. Anti-Cancer Benefits:
Being rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, bell pepper provides several anti-cancer benefits. The risk of cancer increases due to chronic excessive inflammation and chronic unwanted oxidative stress. These factors can be offset with regular intake of phytonutrients having antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Moreover, bell peppers also contain health supportive sulphur compounds. The enzymes in bell pepper help to prevent gastric cancer and esophageal cancer. The carotenoid lycopene is found to be effective in the prevention of prostate, bladder, cervix and pancreas cancer.
4. Cardiovascular Benefits:
Red bell peppers are rich in lycopene, thus making them excellent for a healthy heart whereas green bell peppers are a good source of cholesterol lowering fiber. Increased homocysteine levels can lead to a higher risk of heart disease. Bell peppers contain vitamin B6 and folate which help to lower homocysteine levels. In addition to these, the powerful antioxidants vitamins A and C present in these vegetables help to wipe out free radicals. Potassium contained in bell peppers lowers about 162 milligrams of blood pressure which is also beneficial for heart.
5. Supports the Immune System:
Vitamin C is vital for maintaining a healthy immune system and for building strong collagen to support skin and joints. It is instrumental in lowering the risk of arthritis and reducing inflammation. Vitamin K aids in the formation of blood clots. It is important for developing strong bones and protection of cells from oxidative damage.
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6. Great source of Vitamin B6 and Magnesium:
The combination of vitamin B6 and the mineral magnesium leads to decrease in anxiety levels, particularly due to pre-menstrual symptoms. Being a natural diuretic, vitamin B6 helps to reduce bloating and prevents hypertension.
7. Cures Iron Deficiency:
Red bell peppers provide almost 300 percent of the daily vitamin C requirement. Vitamin C is essential for the proper absorption of iron. Thus, those suffering from iron deficiency should consume red peppers.
8. Benefits of Capsaicin:
Capsaicin is found in the white membranes of peppers which is responsible for imparting heat to the seeds as well. It lowers the cholesterol levels and triglycerides. It kills the ulcer causing bacteria in the stomach and boosts immunity.
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9. Detoxifying Properties:
Bell peppers help in clearing out the congested mucus membranes in the nose and lungs and eliminate toxins through sweating.
10. Benefits of Potassium:
Bell peppers are good sources of potassium. This mineral helps in keeping the fluids and minerals balanced in the body. It enhances muscle function and regulates blood pressure.
11. Other Benefits:
Bell pepper juice has proven to be effective in curing gastrointestinal disorders such as ulcers, diarrhea and dyspepsia. It also lowers the incidence of several respiratory problems such as emphysema, asthma and infections in the lungs. Drinking bell pepper juice is an effective remedy against sore throats and nose bleeds.
Hair Benefits Of Bell Pepper
Getting healthy, long and thick hair is everyone’s dream. But unfortunately an unhealthy lifestyle and lack of proper supply of nutrients in the diet often lead to several hair problems like hair thinning, dandruff, split ends and hair loss. Now this might appear strange, but bell pepper can support hair growth by improving the circulation of blood to the scalp. Given below are the benefits of bell peppers for hair.
12. High Silicon Supports Hair & Nails:
Green bell pepper has a high content of natural silicon, which may support healthy hair and nails.
13. Stimulates Hair Growth:
By stimulating circulation, bell peppers improve the effectiveness of other herbs. Red bell pepper is a natural hair growth stimulator and is highly effective in curing hair loss. In case of hair loss, capsicum improves blood flow which is vital for proper growth of hair and protection of hair follicles from the effects of dihydro testosterone (DHT).
14. Strengthens Hair Follicles:
One of the reasons why bell peppers plants and the fruits are good for hair is the fact that they are excellent sources of vitamin C which is essential for hair health. Vitamin C helps in proper absorption of iron, thus ensuring that there is enough iron in red blood cells to carry oxygen to hair follicles. Vitamin C is also used in the formation of collagen. Collagen is required by hair follicles, blood vessel and skin to stay healthy and for their optimal growth. Vitamin C deficiency can cause dry, splitting hair that breaks easily.
15. Enhances Hair Growth & Health:
Applying bell pepper on hair can be effective in triggering hair growth through the improvement of blood circulation in the scalp. Boil a few dry red bell peppers in water and leave it for 5 to 6 minutes. After cooling it, massage it on your scalp with the help of a cotton pad and leave it for 10 to 15 minutes. Then wash off the hair. This should be done twice a week for best results. The spiciness of bell pepper enhances the growth and health of the hair.
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Skin Benefits Of Bell Pepper
A healthy and radiant skin plays an important role in enhancing the overall appearance. Some of the common skin problems faced today by many people are the appearance of wrinkles, discolouration, thickening and decrease in elasticity. Though genetics largely determines when the skin starts showing signs of ageing, there can be other causes as well such as skin damage and unhealthy lifestyle. Oxidation is a chemical process in which the free radicals steal electrons from healthy cells, thereby causing skin damage. Most of the skin damage occurs due to exposure to smoking and sunlight.
16. Fights Oxidative Damage:
Red, green and yellow bell peppers are rich in vitamin C which helps in the production of collagen. Collagen keeps the skin firm and protects the cells from further damage. It increases the ability of the skin to fight against oxidative damage.
17. Turns Skin Healthy & Youthful:
The antioxidants and phytochemicals present in bell pepper juice makes the skin healthy and youthful.
18. Heals Shingles & Athlete’s Foot:
Due to their anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties, bell peppers can alleviate infections like shingles and athlete’s foot in combination with proper medication.
19. Reverses Signs of Ageing:
Consumption of bell pepper juice helps in reversing the signs of ageing due to its high antioxidant levels. Bell peppers protect the skin from damage-causing free radicals, thus promoting healthy and younger looking skin.
20. Clears Skin Blemishes & Rashes:
A mixture of carrot and green bell pepper juice can be very effective in clearing blemishes and rashes on the skin.
Nutritional Value Of Bell Peppers:
All peppers are good source of vitamin A, C and K; however, the red ones are the highest in nutritional value. Red peppers also contain carotenoids such as lycopene and beta-cryptoxanthin. They are rich in phytochemicals and have significant amount of fiber. A substance capsaicin which occurs in the white membranes of other peppers is present in lesser amounts in bell peppers. Some of the nutrients available in bell peppers are given below.
Bell Pepper Nutritional Chart, USDA:
|Peppers, sweet, green, raw|
|Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)|
|Energy||84 kJ (20 kcal)|
|- Sugars||2.4 g|
|- Dietary fiber||1.7 g|
|Vitamin A equiv.||18 μg (2%)|
|- beta-carotene||208 μg (2%)|
|- lutein and zeaxanthin||341 μg|
|Thiamine (vit. B1)||0.057 mg (5%)|
|Riboflavin (vit. B2)||0.028 mg (2%)|
|Niacin (vit. B3)||0.48 mg (3%)|
|Pantothenic acid (B5)||0.099 mg (2%)|
|Vitamin B6||0.224 mg (17%)|
|Folate (vit. B9)||10 μg (3%)|
|Vitamin C||80.4 mg (97%)|
|Vitamin E||0.37 mg (2%)|
|Vitamin K||7.4 μg (7%)|
|Calcium||10 mg (1%)|
|Iron||0.34 mg (3%)|
|Magnesium||10 mg (3%)|
|Manganese||0.122 mg (6%)|
|Phosphorus||20 mg (3%)|
|Potassium||175 mg (4%)|
|Sodium||3 mg (0%)|
|Zinc||0.13 mg (1%)|
- Vitamin C: Bell peppers are rich in vitamin C. In fact, they contain more than double the amount of vitamin C found in citrus fruits. A cup of chopped bell peppers provides more than 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of antioxidant vitamin C which is essential for tissue health and immunity.
- Vitamin A: Vitamin A is vital for vision, red blood cell production and a healthy immune system. A cup of chopped bell peppers provides more than a day’s requirement of vitamin A. Green bell peppers contain 551 international units of vitamin A per 149 grams whereas red bell peppers provide 4666 IU of vitamin A which is almost equivalent to a day’s requirement based on a 2000 calorie diet.
- Carotenoids: Different types of carotenoid nutrients like lycopene, luteine, cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin, alpha-carotene and beta-carotene are present in bell peppers. Yellow, red and orange bell peppers are rich in carotenoids. The availability of carotenoids depends upon the ripening of this vegetable.
- Calories: Bell peppers are low in calories, providing around 30 to 40 calories per cup of chopped pepper. Due to their sweet and crunchy flavour, they can be a good substitute for high-calorie chips.
- Fiber: Intake of fiber is vital for digestion and reduces the risk of constipation and hemorrhoids. The daily recommendation of fiber is 21 to 25 grams for women and 30 to 38 grams for men. A cup of green bell pepper provides about 2.5 grams of fiber.
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Tech center rededicated
NORTHBORO — Saint-Gobain recently rededicated its Higgins Technology Grinding Center after moving it from the company’s Greendale campus in Worcester to its Research & Technology Center in Northboro. The center, named for one of Norton Co.’s founding fathers, Milton P. Higgins, is a “one-of-a-kind facility committed to grinding process innovation through collaborative alliances and provides researchers with a unique opportunity to test and evaluate new products while also serving as a place to use technology to solve problems for end-user customers,” according to a company press release.
Company spokeswoman Lauren Petit said Saint-Gobain invested $18 million in the expansion of its Research & Technology Center in Northboro in 2006, as well as an additional $6 million to renovate existing buildings in Northboro.
“This enabled Saint-Gobain to consolidate its superabrasives, thin wheel and bonded abrasives research & development teams, as well as the Higgins Grinding Technology Center, to Northboro,” Ms. Petit wrote in an email.
“The move was completed in 2012, and affords Saint-Gobain the opportunity to centralize all research and development while also maximizing equipment and synergies, and increasing collaboration and productivity,” she wrote.
Sixty-two Saint-Gobain employees, along with their equipment, moved from the Greendale space to the new facility in Northboro.
The space left behind in Greendale is currently empty, she said. The company is reviewing its options for the space, but has no plans to refurbish it.
WBDC seeks building credits
WORCESTER — The new owner of the former Telegram & Gazette building at 18-20 Franklin St. has let the Historical Commission know that it may be interested in pursuing federal historic tax credits for its redevelopment.
Julie Holstrom, project manager for the Worcester Business Development Corp., told the commission that the WBDC is in the process of putting together plans for redevelopment of the property.
She said while the building isn’t necessarily a historic one — it is not listed anywhere as having any kind of historical significance — she said it is an old building and, as a result, the WBDC is interested in pursuing federal historic tax credits.
She said the original building dates back to 1890 and since then underwent nine renovations or additions.
She said the old T&G building is in effect an amalgamation of five different buildings. She said the WBDC would like to turn the five buildings into three, with each building separated by a fire wall and having its own access. She said that would make the buildings more serviceable.
“Trying to normalize the floor plans has become an issue in putting this project together,” said Ms. Holmstrom, who added that her going before the Historical Commission was strictly for informational purposes.
Hearing needed for modification
WORCESTER — The Zoning Board of Appeals has determined that plans to modify an existing comprehensive permit for Illyrian Gardens represent a substantial change and will require a public hearing before the board.
In 1988, the zoning board granted a comprehensive permit for construction of a 72-unit, low-rise building at 545 Salisbury St. The housing development is known as Illyrian Gardens.
Illyrian Gardens Inc. wants to modify the comprehensive permit and reconfigure the property boundaries to allow for the transfer of excess land to create two new parcels.
The newly created parcels would be combined with land abutting nearby Flower Hill Drive for a future development proposal of three single-family homes on one parcel and six additional senior housing rental units on the other.
The reconfiguration of the property would reduce the current lot size of Illyrian Gardens from 3.6 acres to 2.8 acres.
“We are looking to reduce the size of the (existing) parcel so additional land can be put to productive use,” Donald O’Neil, a lawyer representing Illyrian Gardens, told the zoning board last week. “It will not effect any activity taking place at Illyrian Gardens.”
But Joel Fontane, director of planning and regulatory services, said the proposal represents a 28 percent reduction in the total area of the existing lot for Illyrian Gardens.
He said it is considered a substantial change to a comprehensive permit when the area of a property is reduced by 10 percent or more.
“I think it warrants another look and a hearing,” he said.
Retail conversion plan approved
WORCESTER — Plans to convert the former Central Plumbing Supply Co. building at 10-14 East Worcester St. into retail sales and personal services uses has received a green light from the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Last week, the board granted Condron Worcester Realty LLC, owner of the property, three special permits so it can proceed with its plans.
Todd Rodman, a lawyer representing Condron Worcester Realty, said the three-story brick building has historically been used for commercial purposes.
He said it was the longtime home of Central Plumbing Supply, and the upper floors were also used for offices and storage.
Mr. Rodman said the owner has relocated the plumbing supply business and is in the process of renovating the building’s interior so it can accommodate retail and a personal service shop (hair salon), as well as office uses.
Because the building is in a manufacturing-general zone, a special permit is needed to allow retail and personal services uses. Office use is already allowed in a manufacturing zone.
In addition, the owner sought a waiver for 15 required off-street parking spaces. Under the city’s zoning ordinance, at least 156 off-street parking spaces would be needed under the proposed combination of uses for the building, but the developer can only provide 141 spaces.
ZBA approves housing units
WORCESTER — The Worcester East Side Community Development Corp. has received permission to build eight market-rate housing units on vacant lots at 47 Westminster St., 12 Forbes St. and 17 Perkins St.
Todd Rodman, a lawyer representing the group, said two duplexes will be built on four lots.
To do that, however, the group petitioned the Zoning Board of Appeals for two variances — one to provide relief of 1,228 square feet from the 6,000-square-foot gross dimensional area requirement for one lot, and another to provide relief of 1,265 feet from the 6,000-square-foot gross dimensional area requirement for another.
The Worcester East Side CDC owns all the properties, which are in a residential-general area and used to have housing on them.
By right, the group would be able to construct seven housing units under the city’s zoning ordinance; the variances will allow for an eighth unit.
Mr. Rodman said the new housing will be rental units. Because they will not be built with any federal or state subsidies, he said, it will be a “true market-rate” project.
Fallon announces grant winners
WORCESTER — Fallon Community Health Plan has announced the winners of its 2012 Community Benefits Grants.
Fallon awarded more than $100,000 in grants to support innovative, community-based programs aimed at improving access to good nutrition and promoting physical activity, providing health and social services for seniors and preventing health and social services for children during the first five years of life.
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations:
• Square One: A grant of $20,000 to support The Launch Program for preschool-age children providing physical exercise and overall wellness lessons at homeless shelters, community agencies and schools in greater Springfield and Holyoke.
• Community Harvest Project: A grant of $10,000 for the Volunteer Farming Program, which will engage community volunteers in farming in order to grow and donate produce to the 83,000 residents of Worcester County utilizing hunger relief services.
• Regional Environment Council Inc.: A grant of $15,000 to support the Urban Garden Resources of Worcester program so that Worcester’s low-income, high-risk neighborhoods can access and consume healthy produce by growing it themselves.
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THE WORK OF Merce Cunningham is the starting point for any discussion of Laura Dean's theater of today's avant-garde dance. For Cunningham first pioneered an idea Dean and her contemporaries take for granted: that dance is an independent structure. Cunningham required his dancers to count an entire dance in their minds and muscles, not to rely on external cues. The con-centration involed is so demanding that a new performance style evolved as its inevitable consequence--the choreographer directed his dancers to present movement rather than project meaning. As a result, Cunningham audiences confront the countenances of dancers intensely concentrating on movement, rather than dramatizing character, onstage. A second Cunningham innovation is the conception of dance as an "amplification of energies." In this respect Dean is no less in his debt than in the first instance.
Laura Dean is considered a "post-modern" choreographer. Although she and her peers carry forward many of Cunningham's ideas, they diverge from the master's path in significant ways. While Cunningham never directly collaborates with composers--occasionally his dangers do not hear the sound accompaniment until opening night--Dean for several years worked closely with musician Steve Reich, and now composes her own music. She's intersted in showing how dance and music connect at the deepest level: in the use of the physical self as instrument. Unlike Cunningham, who exploits the illusion of randomness by splaying dancers around the performing space, Dean relies on absolute repetition, absolute unison, absolute symmetry.
Mathematics, rather than Cunningham's chance or game structures, underlies Dean's work. A frequent device is the repetition of sequences in units of arithmetical progression. For instance: 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Dean systematically explores the stage space using the most basic configurations: circles of varying breadth, columns and lines, an occasional diagonal. Clarity, precision--some viewers would say transcendence. Like a minimalist painter, Dean discovers meaning in subtle variations and trans-formations of repeated units. They are simple units immediately accessible to perception: one section consists of spinning, another of jumps.
The funny thing is that recent Cunningham pieces have a similar look, the same precise repetition of unison movements. (As in music, repetition is a fundamental structural principle in dance--sometimes it's buried, other times exposed on the surface.) Why Cunningham, an older artist working directly from his own sensibility, has come to the same sorts of dance ideas as a younger generation of choreographers--which he in the first place inspired--is a puzzle critics seek to explain. Each era, each time has its invisible current--a pulse the significant artist fuses with his own.
FROM "NOTES ON CHOREOGRAPHY" BY LAURA DEAN (1975):
The body is a symbol.
Dancing is the most immediate manifestation of the ability to project thoughts outward into physical form.
The body is our most intimate symbol of consciousness.
The personality is the medium for the translation of feeling into movement. This personality is unique. The one common denominator it contains is energy. Energy, although invisible, can be mathematically worked out and felt intersified. Pure mathematics, I see, as a meeting point with another layer of reality.
The body is a symbol. (E.mc2)
Two friends and I sat down at the Rendezvous after Saturday night's concert, and David told a Zen story:
There was once an old recluse known as the greatest mountain climber in the world. Young students searched the mountains to find him, eager to learn from the great master. Discovering him at last in his solitary cabin, the students were surprised to see no climbing gear, and asked the old man why he had none. The recluse answered that he had realized climbing was an act of the mind and the spirit and not of the body.
That, to David, was the essence of Laura Dean.
And essence is what Dean is about. As does all great dance, here offers an implicit definition, a revelation of what makes dance; something so present, so there that it stays in your gut and grows more powerful afterwards.
A revelation of the most simple thing: gesture, subsumed by rhythm, becomes dance. Dean makes use of a steady pulse to cohere a broad range of movement qualities, sharp and sustained, weighty and light, and movement styles--ballet and tap are two she uses.
A revelation of the most important thing: the sense of pure energy radiating from beyond the dance. Ensemble produces a whole greater than the dancers through which the performers as individuals emerge. If music is, as Henri Bergson implies, our intuition of inner time made concrete, then dance makes concrete our sense of inner aliveness, the sensation of blood through our veins, of that inner motor that keeps us living. Laura Dean creates dances as metaphors for being totally and completely alive. |
Correctional health care establishes itself as an industry model.
It comes as no surprise to anyone working in this field that we in corrections inherit the most challenging individuals society has to offer in terms of physical and mental health. Higher burdens of infectious diseases are well-documented. Chronic illnesses that receive, at best, episodic care and, more often, no care at all prior to reaching our gates are the norm. Patients with severe mental illness, for whom care was desperately needed but inaccessible, find themselves inside the walls of our institutions.
What many may find surprising, though, are the excellent clinical outcomes now being achieved by correctional health care professionals. In Oklahoma, a recent look at clinical outcomes demonstrated this clearly. Using outcome measurements defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ARHQ) and the CDC's Healthy People 2010 Database, we looked at how we are doing compared to national benchmarks. Take diabetes control for example. In our population, the percentage of individuals with diabetes whose most recent Hgb[A.sub.1]C was less than 7, was 46 percent. The 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report by AHRQ puts the national figure at 39.8 percent. Similarly, for blood pressure control (<140/90 among individuals diagnosed with hypertension), the Healthy People 2010 goal is 50 percent of the population at or below goal. In our population 67 percent of individuals with hypertension have achieved blood pressure control. The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) revealed that only 15 percent of individuals with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) had their LDL cholesterol at target (<100 mg/dl at that time). In our system, 60 percent of CAD patients have reached that goal LDL level.
I'm not just bragging about Oklahoma here. Other correctional medical directors I've talked to are seeing similar striking clinical outcomes. Among a population that comes to us in the worst possible shape, how is this happening? In my mind, it is attributable to three factors: a strong primary care foundation, evidence-based preventive care and chronic disease management, and a spirit of collaboration.
During the past few decades, primary care in the "free world" has experienced an erosion of support as health insurers and other payors reward a high-tech, specialty-based health care system. This approach comes at quite a cost--not only financially, but in terms of health care quality. In many cases, as a nation, we are quite far from the Healthy People 2010 goals for disease control and adherence to evidence-based treatment guidelines, and there are only two more years to get there. In correctional health care, though, we are already exceeding Healthy People 2010 goals in many areas. We are firmly grounded in primary care, and we are committed to providing universal access to basic preventive care and chronic disease management.
In health care, we are fortunate to have a large and growing scientific foundation upon which to base our practice. We also have standard methods of describing the quality of evidence upon which recommendations are based. Organizations like the Cochrane Collaboration synthesize volumes and volumes of research into practical, useful answers to everyday clinical questions. Agencies like the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute convene expert panels to provide distillations of research into evidence-based practice guidelines. Outside corrections, however, the challenges in translating the guidelines into practice are enormous: arguments with insurance companies (for those patients lucky enough to be insured), a dozen or more formularies to keep straight, transportation problems, medication nonadherence, conflicting work schedules, and much more. The same challenges apply in corretions of course, but to a much lesser degree. It is the strength of correctional medicine that makes it possible to still provide high-quality, evidence-based primary care and achieve the kind of outcomes it does.
At the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health Care held earlier this year in Massachusetts, there was a call to establish a research infrastructure for correctional medicine. This is further proof of the caliber of health care professionals that currently exists in corrections. If applying the evidence that was developed outside the correctional environment has helped us already exceed the Healthy People 2010 goals, imagine what we can do with evidence derived from our own populations.
None of our successes is created in a vacuum. Our strength comes from our internal collaborations as a family of corrections professionals. For example, in this issue, Dr. Melanie Spector describes an innovative approach to bringing community providers and inmates together in the form of health fairs at community corrections centers. In addition, preparing for the inevitable influenza pandemic in the correctional setting requires collaborations with public health, emergency planners and many other partners.
The American Correctional Association has led the way in forging these collaborations by bringing together the many professionals that make up the "big tent" of corrections. Groups like ACA and the forums they offer are crucial to fostering the dialogue that helps us understand and respond to each other's needs. There remains much work to be done and progress to be made, but as a team, we have proved that we are up to the challenges before us.
By Mike Jackson, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
IRISH TÁNAISTE EAMON Gilmore will join his EU peers at a meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brussels this morning.
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade will be taking part in the meeting today to discuss the worsening crisis in Syria.
Speaking in advance of the Foreign Affairs Council, the Tánaiste described the crisis in Syria as “a major human tragedy”, noting that 9 million people are now in urgent need of assistance.
Ireland has been taking a lead in calling for a UN Security Council Resolution to ensure that humanitarian agencies can reach those who desperately need aid. A Security Council Resolution would increase pressure on the parties, especially the Assad regime, to lift the unacceptable restrictions which are preventing emergency assistance from reaching millions of people.
Last week, the Government pledged an additional €12 million in funding to provide food, shelter and basic healthcare.
Gilmore said that in discussions today on the prospects for the Geneva II Conference taking place in Montreux, Switzerland, on Wednesday, he will emphasise Ireland’s “clear support for the Geneva principles as the best means of assisting the emergence of a post-Assad and post-conflict Syria and a viable peace framework”.
Foreign Ministers will also discuss the crisis in the Central African Republic.
The Tánaiste noted that EU partners will discuss increasing support to the country, a move which Ireland supports.
Ministers will also discuss relations with Russia in advance of the EU-Russia Summit at the end of this month, as well as reviewing the current situation with the Middle East Peace Process. |
"I have lived about fifteen ordinary lives. I would like to have had somebody who saw my past and could picture it to the public. It would be the most God damn interesting reading in the country."
Yep, that TOM HORN.
The notorious Western gunman.
The Indian fighter.
The bounty hunter.
The rodeo champ.
The drunken braggart.
The hired killer.
The real-life subject of one of Steve McQueen's last film.
The private eye.
Choking on that last one? But it's true. For four years, Horn worked as an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and his official job title in the years following was ostensibly "range detective" or "stock detective." What he really was is another story.
Born in Tennessee in 1860, Horn was raised on a farm, but ran away from home at fourteen, after his father gave him a severe beating. The young boy headed west, working on the railroad, driving wagons for a freight company, and later, stagecoaches.
At sixteen, he joined the army as a scout, and rose through the ranks to become chief of scouts in the Southwest region in 1885. It was as chief scout that he tracked down the notorious Geronimo and negotiated Geronimo's surrender.
After quitting the army, Horn wandered the gold fields, working as a prospector and eventually a ranch hand, and in 1888 even won a rodeo championship for steer roping. It's also thought that Horn may have killed his first man sometime in this period, a "coarse son of a bitch" he would later boast, possibly in a dispute over a prostitute.
He worked as a deputy sheriff in Colorado for a spell. His pursuit and capture of a gang of horse thieves, plus his reputation as an Army scout and Indian fighter in the 1880s, attracted the attention of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which he joined in 1890. He worked out of the Denver office, roaming the Rocky Mountain area, hunting down train robbers and other outlaws, and promptly acquired a reputation for fearlessness. On one occasion, for example, Horn rode -- alone -- into the deadly outlaw hideout known as Hole-in-the-Wall, and captured the train robber Peg-Leg Watson, without firing a shot.
But it soon became clear that he had no problem firing his gun if he had to, and he became known for other, far less heroic acts. Supposedly in the four years he was employed by the Agency, he was responsible for the deaths of seventeen men. Worse, at least from the agency's viewpoint, was that while employed by them he committed a robbery in Nevada. The Agency frantically scrambled to cover it up. Fellow Denver operative Charlie Siringo, who befriended Horn, related in his book Two Evil Isms that "William A. Pinkerton (the head of the agency at the time) told me that Tom Horn was guilty of the crime, but that his people could not let him go to the penitentiary while in their employ."
Not too surprisingly, Horn and the agency parted ways, with Horn resigning in 1894, complaining of the "good many instructions and a good deal of talk given the operative regarding the things to do and the things that had been done," and the violence, saying: "I have no stomach for it anymore."
But he must have had a pretty resilient stomach, because his next career move was to sign up with the powerful Wyoming Cattlemen's Association as a freelance "range detective." His job was to recruit men for the association's rather formidable army, to combat the growing tide of homesteaders and rustlers. It was that "army" that later massacred homesteaders in the legendary Johnson County Range War, although there's no evidence Horn took part in any of the actual killing.
But by 1894, that point was rather moot -- when Horn was hired by the Swan Land and Cattle Company, he may have been ostensibly there as a "stock detective" or a "horse breaker," but it was quite obvious what he was really expected to do -- kill. He was paid $600 for each rustler he killed. Coolly and methodically, Horn went about tracking rustlers down and shooting them, often with a buffalo gun, usually from a distance, and frequently in the back. He'd then place a large rock under the corpse's head, a sort of advertisement for his skills. "Killing men is my specialty," he once boasted. "I look at it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market."
In fact, it was Horn's drinking and boastfulness that eventually sealed his fate.
After a short stint in the army as a mule skinner during the Spanish-American War, Horn returned to Wyoming, this time hiring on with wealthy cattle baron, John Coble. But his business remained the same: hired killer. The death of a homesteader's son, a fourteen-year-old boy, in 1901 proved to be the last straw. In 1903, Horn was arrested by lawman Joe Lefors in Denver, after a controversial drunken confession, and hauled back to Cheyenne, where a jury tried, convicted and sentenced him to death by hanging.
After a botched escape attempt, Horn spent his last months writing his memoirs. The legend goes that his last words, uttered from the gallows, were, "Hurry it up. I got nothing more to say."
Maybe he should have thought of that when he was boasting about all the men he'd killed.
As for the McQueen film, well, it has very little to do with history -- it attempts to portray Horn as a victim, just a poor misguided scout facing his execution on trumped-up charges, not a hired killer whose luck finally ran out. It suggests that at worst, Horn accidentally killed a child, mistaking him for a wild animal.
Still, taken as fiction, it's a decent enough flick, a little messy at the edges, but McQueen's performance, all quiet dignity and weary resignation, is impressive.
Bad, Bad Eyes.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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Non-toxic, odourless and decorative glue trap with a large colour-printed glue surface for catching flies in all living and working areas.
The cardboard Fly Trap is coated with a non-toxic odourless glue. It can be hung from the wall or the ceiling or any convenient hook or bar. The special glue, the colouring and the contrasts lure the flies to the glue surface where they are trapped. Attractive pattern hides insects as they are caught on the trap. The Fly Trap can be used in the workplace and all around the home including the kitchen. Safe for use in food-handling and food storage areas.
To expose the glue, it is important to pull off both protective strips in one swift movement from top to bottom. Attach the trap to the wall or ceiling with the push pin provided or with the hanger. When hanging from the ceiling, ensure the glue is exposed on both sides to double the effective sticky area. When there are many flies present use additional traps.
The effect lasts for one season (e.g. from April to September) or at least as long as the trap is covered with flies. After use the Fly Trap can be disposed of in household waste. In case of contact, the glue can be removed with vegetable oil.
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If, like me, you are a fan of first-person computer games and space exploration, you may be more than a little excited to hear about this news. A group of companies are currently working with NASA to create a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) based around the space agency’s endeavours. They will use a game engine more familiar driving first-person shooters than online roleplay adventures; the tried and tested Unreal Engine 3 technology.
The Internet has a growing number of vast space-based MMORPGs, but NASA is hoping to use one of the most advanced gaming engines to develop an engrossing first-person online adventure, where players can choose their own mission to explore space, interact with other players and build settlements on other worlds. All this will take place in a scientifically accurate vision of a near-future Universe in 2035…
“Players will pick a profession like a roboticist, space geologist, astrobiologist or mechanical engineer and work together as a team as they explore space and complete missions, establishing bases and outposts and traveling to the farthest reaches of the solar system,” explained Jerry Heneghan, founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes, one of the companies involved with developing the NASA MMORPG Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond. “The game will offer both individual challenges and team-based objectives to encourage players to use real-life applications of science, math and engineering to unlock new in-game vehicles, spacesuits, robotics and mining apparatus that will propel them further into space.”
MMORPGs are increasingly popular gaming platforms, where players can participate in seemingly boundless virtual universes. Popular examples of MMORPGs are World of Warcraft (which dominates with a monthly subscriber base of 11.5 million people), Second Life, EverQuest and space-based rollplayer games such as EVE Online and Star Trek Online.
Now NASA is hoping to create a very popular online gaming/educational experience that will not only entertain, but get young people interested in a career in science and engineering. What’s more, it is hoped the game will incorporate the Unreal Engine 3 Editor so that players can design their own content, from spaceships and stations to mission profiles. The developers will also include scenarios, such as the threat of near-Earth asteroid impacts and other reality-based events as the online community develops. This will provide a problem-solving/adventure element, while keeping the science grounded in science fact.
There are concerns that a NASA space reality platform may not be very popular, as other in-space universes offer space fantasy, with epic spaceship battles and alien encounters. Also, the technical detail in carrying out “mundane” astronaut tasks may be a turn-off; virtual universes depend on exploration rather than educational tasks. Hopefully NASA and MMORPG developers will strike a healthy balance between education and entertainment.
However, I’m very excited to see Astronaut appear online sometime next year. |
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