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There has been an air of controversy surrounding the logistics involved in the software manufacturing process ever since the inception of voice assistance technology. While many are thrilled by the impact smart speakers have had on their daily lives, others remain conflicted about whether or not owning them means sacrificing their privacy. In 2014, Amazon made waves in the tech world when they released the first ever smart speaker called “Echo.” The product is activated by wake words like “Alexa,” “Echo,” or “Computer,” although in an effort to humanize the interaction, “Alexa” has become the most popularly used. From setting alarms to streaming music, the voice interaction feature of the Echo has capitalized on its conveniency. The ability to make hand free commands is what has drawn millions of people to purchase the Echo and inspired other companies like Google and Microsoft to release their own versions. As globally successful as smart speakers are, many people are still fearful of the microphones installed in them. Skeptics of the devices worry about the voice software listening in on their daily conversations, leaving them to wonder what companies do with the private information they receive. It has been recently revealed that Amazon has a team of people designated to further improving the assistance capabilities of Alexa. Theses employees listen to the voice recordings that the Echo has access to and train its software to have algorithms that can cater to the nuances of human speech. Many people were shocked by the lack of privacy attained when buying a smart speaker. Fizza Abbas, a sophomore studying sociology claims that “privacy does not exist in this day and age. The collection of voice data is the only way for companies to give consumers the best service.” Amazon has openly said that they use the recorded requests to Alexa to train their “speech recognition and natural language understanding systems,” but have never explicitly admitted that it is humans who listen to the voice recordings. The company’s website also states that the Echo can only be triggered by a wake word, but it does not warn readers that the Echo can get set off by random noises and begin recording automatically. Amazon employees are required to review the audio, even if the activation was by mistake. Juhura Akhi, a sophomore studying early childhood education thinks that “buying these kinds of high tech products means trading in your privacy and that’s a fact you have to accept.” It is presumed that being very public about the manual labor involved in Alexa’s training process and the unfortunate faults of the system could instill anxiety in potential consumers of the device. Although the voice review process can be tedious and dull, workers will sometimes come across audio that is worrisome or embarrassing. From sexual assault to distraught children, the listeners hear it all and are left unable to take any action. An Amazon spokesperson has made it clear that the company takes “the security and privacy” of their “customers’ personal information seriously.” They believe that it would not be their place to report problematic recordings. After asking around the Queens College campus for students’ opinions on today’s technology invading people’s privacy, no one seemed to be surprised. Shazna Olid, a sophomore studying psychology believes this “sparks a bigger conversation about ethics vs. money, and which is placed on a higher pedestal.” The revelations about Amazon’s Echo also reaffirmed all her “conspiracy theories about how we are never truly alone.” Even with the controversial aspects of the Echo’s production process, Amazon believes that their choice to have a team of people listen to private recordings is the only way for them to advance Alexa’s human recognition abilities. If this is the case, then are consumers willing to sacrifice their privacy for the benefits of voice assistant services? As the world becomes more reliant on technology, and the expectation of its optimization only increases, it seems like they may no longer have a choice.
How does exercise make you feel? Whatever your current level of fitness, it’s likely that you already know that staying active has serious physical benefits. But what about the improvements we can’t necessarily see, but we can definitely feel? I’m talking here about the benefits to your mental health and wellbeing. It may surprise you to read that as a personal trainer, I believe these are of equal, if not greater importance than those well known physical benefits. I’ve experienced huge positive changes to my mental health as a result of regular exercise myself, having suffered with post natal depression and anxiety. I’ve also seen these changes happen in many other women, through my work as a personal trainer and in my experience, it really can be transformative. Read on to find out how you can use exercise to help your mental health and wellbeing, and why this doesn’t mean you have to spend your life in the gym. BOOST YOUR HAPPY HORMONES Does exercise actually help your mental health? Let’s start with the science. Research has shown that exercise increases your levels of feel good hormones and can positively alter your brain chemistry. This affects your mental health and wellbeing in a number of powerful ways, including helping your body respond better to stress, lifting your mood and even providing some natural pain relief. Some studies have shown that these changes are even greater when exercise is done outdoors in natural daylight and a “green” space. There’s nothing quite like being in fresh air and around nature, even if it’s just for a brisk walk around your local park, so get outdoors during the day if you can to maximise the benefits. FIND YOUR TRIBE If you don’t want to workout alone, then joining an exercise class, or heading out for a run with a friend can have additional mental health benefits. Feeling part of a community and being around like-minded people has an important role in our mental wellbeing. We have an innate need to feel connected to others and be part of the shared human experience, knowing we are not alone in how we think and feel. Sometimes the thought of being the new girl in an exercise class might seem the more stressful option, but believe me as someone who has taught many exercise classes – most people there will be too busy concentrating on what they are doing and how they are feeling to worry what you are up to! If you’re new to an exercise class and feeling anxious, let the instructor know beforehand. I often get messages like this from women coming to train with me for the first time and it’s really helpful for me to know as I can then answer any questions and allay any fears – remember it’s our job to help you feel at ease. CLEAR YOUR MIND Whether it’s concentrating on the moves in an exercise class, or getting absorbed in your surroundings on a run outdoors, exercise can really help to break the pattern of repetitive or unhelpful thoughts, which can be so draining when you are struggling with your mental health. Exercise quite literally “takes you out of yourself” and can help you to switch off. I often say that my runs act as a reset for my brain when it’s feeling particularly busy. If you don’t like the thought of being “alone” with your thoughts, then crank up the music. It can serve as a great distraction (as well as being another brilliant mood booster); or if you’re heading out for a walk or a run, why not try an audiobook or a podcast? GET MORE SLEEP Lack of sleep really can negatively impact our mental health, but regular exercise can have a positive impact on both your quality and quantity of sleep. There are lots of reasons why this might be, aside from the obvious reason that if you feel physically tired, then you are more likely to fall asleep! Exercising outside in natural daylight can also help to regulate your body’s circadian rhythms, which can make you feel more alert in the day and more sleepy at bedtime – yet another reason to take that workout outside! Whatever the reason, exercise can help improve your quality and quantity of sleep but a word of warning here – some people find that intense exercise in the last few hours leading up to bedtime can have the opposite effect, so save the HIIT class for the morning. IMPROVE YOUR SELF ESTEEM Looking after your body and challenging it physically can be hugely empowering and really help your confidence and self-esteem. Even if you’re a complete newcomer to exercise, stepping out of your comfort zone and trying something new can be very fulfilling and encourage you to feel proud of yourself. Goal setting is also key here – this can give you a sense of purpose and a feeling of moving forwards rather than being “stuck”. I always encourage my personal training clients to think beyond the usual aesthetic-based goals such as weight loss. I would encourage you to do the same and really think about what you would like to achieve through exercise, whether that’s mastering a full press up, or running a 5k. Not only this, but think about how you would like to feel as a result of exercising. More body confident? More patient and resilient? Better able to cope with low moods? Exercise can help with all of these goals. I’m often asked, what is the best form of exercise for your mental health and wellbeing? In short, one which you enjoy and one which fits in with your life, so you are able to stick with it. Sometimes this is a question of trial and error but I firmly believe there’s something out there for everyone! If you don’t know where to start, then book a session with a personal trainer. We’ve got a great overview of all of the options and can can tailor these to suit you, so you find something you really love and which helps you. Carly is a personal trainer specialising in women’s health. She is passionate about helping women work towards a healthy body and a happy mind, through her personal training business CLC Fitness, based in Guildford, Surrey. To find out more about working with her, click her profile at the top of the page.
France opened a probe into possible Russian interference behind the country’s Yellow Vest protests, after reports that social-media accounts linked to Moscow have increasingly targeted the movement. According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, about 600 Twitter accounts known to promote Kremlin views have begun focusing on France, boosting their use of the hashtag #giletsjaunes, the French name for the Yellow Vest movement. French security services are looking at the situation, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday in a radio interview with RTL. Russia has been criticized for using social media to influence elections in the U.S. and elsewhere. Attempts to use fake news reports and cyberattacks to undercut the 2017 campaign of French President Emmanuel Macron failed, but Russian-linked sites have pushed questionable reports of a mutiny among police, and of officers’ support for the protests. “An investigation is now underway,” Le Drian said. “I will not make comments before the investigation has brought conclusions.” The Twitter accounts monitored by the alliance usually feature U.S. or British news. But the French protests “have been at or near the top” of their activity for at least a week, according to Bret Schafer, the alliance’s Washington-based social media analyst. “That’s a pretty strong indication that there is interest in amplifying the conflict” for audiences outside France. The Alliance for Securing Democracy is a unit of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., which monitors pro-Kremlin activity. The assertion of police dissatisfaction — which doesn’t appear to be supported by facts — resembles other Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns that have tried to engender mistrust in Western governments and show that liberal democracies are in decline, Schafer says. Russian state media Much of the tweeted material comes from Russian state media outlets including the Sputnik news website, the RT television network, and Ruptly, a German-based video news agency that belongs to RT. These outlets are covering the French crisis closely; RT has said that 12 of its journalists have been injured in the protests, far more than any other news organization. Sputnik and RT have reported in recent days that most French police no longer support Macron and are siding with the protesters. Their sources: representatives of two small police unions that together won less than 4 percent of votes in nationwide union elections this month. Sputnik and RT also have shown a video – widely shared on French social media — of police in the southwestern town of Pau removing their helmets in what was described as a sign of solidarity with protesters. Local police and journalists on the scene said the description was untrue. They said some officers had briefly removed their helmets to talk with protesters before putting them back on. In response to questions from Bloomberg News, Sputnik later corrected its article about police in Pau showing solidarity with protesters, to say the report "hasn’t been backed by evidence so far." RT said its article about police siding with protesters, based on comments by the head of a minor police union, was justified because he had been quoted by other news outlets. Macron complained repeatedly during his 2017 campaign that Kremlin-controlled media outlets were spreading fake news about him, because he took a tougher stance on Russia than his chief rivals, Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front and François Fillon of the conservative Republicans. But negative stories, such as a Sputnik report claiming Macron lived a “double life” and was backed by a “wealthy gay lobby,” never gained traction. In one instance, a bogus website resembling the site of a Belgian newspaper reported that Macron’s campaign was being bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. The source of the hoax was never determined, but the European Union’s East Stratcom Task Force, which tracks Russian disinformation efforts, said it bore striking similarities to an earlier incident traced to a Russian “troll factory.” Separately, the Macron campaign was hit with repeated email phishing attacks resembling those used by Russia against Democratic Party organizations in the U.S. The Kremlin said it had no involvement in any fake news or cyber attacks on Macron, describing such accusations as “slander.”
One of the most depressing constants in industrial life in the UK is the life cycle of the average British business. They are frequently born from the minds of one of the country’s exceptionally well-educated workforce in the high-value manufacturing or software sector, before being built up through the efforts of skilled employees. Sadly, their contribution to the economy is often then hijacked by large, usually overseas, investment firms and conglomerates buying the business. At best, the decisions that affect hundreds of workers and the economies of whole towns are now taken in boardrooms in New York or Shanghai. At worst, the company is asset-stripped for its patents, techniques and talent before being wound up. In between this runs the spectrum of profit relocation (or tax evasion as normal people call it), layoffs, the imposition of hostile working practices and decline of quality. Even the largest and most successful of British businesses aren’t immune to this. When Cadbury’s was taken over by Kraft, the entire board resigned and their replacements subsequently shuttered dozens of factories across the world in a cost-cutting exercise. ARM Holdings, who make the microprocessors found in almost every mobile phone, were taken over by Japan’s SoftBank and then saw their Chinese arm sold to fuel Xi Jinping’s government’s strategy of acquiring foreign technology firms to jump-start China’s indigenous high-tech industry. Of course, the biggest losers in a takeover are often the people who work for the merged firm. Kraft reneged on a promise not to relocate production to Poland when Cadbury was taken over, resulting in the loss of 400 jobs. When Tata Steel sold their long products division, the workers were forced to give up their final salary pension scheme and accept a pay cut in order to retain their jobs. This is an all too common story in the world of British Industry. Labour’s plans to force large British employers to create workers’ profit-share funds is a noble attempt to return some of the profit from a firm that would otherwise go to the shareholders. However, the idea has limitations. Firstly, the policy only applies to larger businesses, and it only applies to British businesses. This creates perverse incentives to relocate to other jurisdictions and deliberately avoid having enough staff or raw turnover to trigger the condition. But what if there were another way to return the profits of a firm back to the employees, while at the same time discouraging the borderline criminal behaviour of overseas investment groups? Professor Virginie Pérotin of Leeds University conducted a review of the literature on workers’ co-operatives (where each employee owns an equal share of the firm) on behalf of Co-Operatives UK in 2016. This found that businesses run as a co-operative were more productive, just as large, had higher job satisfaction rates and at least as resilient as more conventionally organised businesses. Perhaps more importantly, they tended to fire fewer people during recessions, instead reducing profit to ensure employment (even if they also tended to hire fewer people in years of growth). This makes intuitive sense. Someone who has a real financial stake in their business is more likely to suggest improvements and work to enhance the operation of the firm than someone on an hourly wage. People are also much less likely to advocate firing their co-workers due to their personal connections and are more likely to tough out rough years than to decide that the balance sheet isn’t quite green enough and close-up. Despite the benefits of the co-operative business model, they’ve tended to be rare in the UK outside of their more famous incarnations in the Co-Operative group and the John Lewis Partnership (which, arguably, is set up as an Employee Share Ownership model rather than as a true co-op). This is partly because the default approach for many tech companies is the Silicon Valley “move fast and break things” model of business, and partly due to the fact that, simply, many people don’t really know a lot about worker co-operatives. In this respect the co-operative model can be used to help resolve the problem of malicious mergers, while helping propagate itself in the wider economy. Any future Labour government should commit to passing legislation requiring firms that wish to either float on the stock market or be sold to a third-party to be first offered to the company’s employees at market rate to be re-established as a co-operative. In this manner the owners of a successful firm could still “cash out” and either retire or move on to the next big thing, but they wouldn’t be able to lightly sell up to investors without giving their employees a chance to step in. To fund this exercise, given that going concerns are not cheap, the government should use its ability to borrow money below the base rate of lending to establish a state-run mortgage firm to back employee buyouts. Employees offered the chance to buy out their owners would be able to apply to the firm for a loan, with the money secured against the firm itself. This would operate in the same way as a home mortgage, with due diligence conducted on the company’s financials and operations to determine that the company is a valid going concern and to double check that the value of the business is concordant with the amount being requested. The term might be from twenty to forty years and the interest could be set at a few basis points above the government bond financing the purchase, to ensure that the state would be able to recoup its investment. The firm would be able to negotiate all the usual payment modifications associated with a commercial property mortgage: overpayment, underpayment and payment holidays to help the firm through boom and bust. If the company defaulted on the loan the state would then take possession of the assets and sell them to recover its investment. The company would also need to be based in the UK and be taxed on its profits at UK rates. Any attempt to evade the exchequer would render the loan invalid. Of course, not every takeover would be viable and not every company would survive the term. But that already happens. And those that did would be more likely to become enduring and fruitful contributors to the local and national economy in a way that firms taken over by far-away shareholders are too often not: improving productivity, providing stable employment and enriching the working lives of their employees. If we’re going to take back control, let’s start with our workplaces.
Cats, unlike dogs, are discerning and less eager to please their owners. A cat probably won't come when called and rarely will even respond to its name. And while a rare forgotten trip to the litter box or food bowl shouldn't be cause for concern, when a cat seems unusually confused, disoriented, or uncoordinated, a visit to the vet is warranted. It could be suffering from acute sickness, a seizure disorder, or could have been exposed to an environmental toxin, causing a temporary lapse of normal behavior. Any abnormal behavior that continues for more than 24 hours or several times per week could be the result of a serious health issue. A neurologic anomaly can only be diagnosed by a vet. What Is Inappropriate Mentation? Inappropriate mentation in cats refers to a host of disorders that can lead to disrupted cognitive functioning. This type of brain misfiring can result in memory loss, incoordination, and basic malfunctioning in everyday cat life. Sometimes these issues are small and acute, caused by temporary injury or inflammation. And sometimes brain disorders can be major, resulting in a compromised quality of life. Assessing the signs and discussing your concerns with your vet are the initial steps in the diagnosis and treatment of mentation disorders in cats. Signs of Inappropriate Mentation Cats learn by remembering. But a kitten who suffered an head injury early in life may have damaged the portion of the brain that affects short-term memory. A traumatic brain injury could account for difficulty remembering the location of food bowls or litter boxes. It can also explain an unsteady gait, incoordination, and balance issues. Traumatic injuries can also cause stunted growth. So a new pet that seems to be on the smaller side for its age and breed, or a kitten who fails to grow, may have previously succumbed an injury. Seizure disorders can also cause disorientation, pacing, and confusion just following an episode. And old age can result in senility, presenting as forgetfulness, anxiety, and uncoordinated behavior. When witnessed over and over again, this could be confused for a more serious brain injury. Some infections (e.g. feline infectious peritonitis) cause damage to the portion of the brain that controls balance and walking. Affected kittens show severe trouble walking, but can otherwise live a normal and happy life. There is much debate over whether or not a cat can have a mental illness. If your cat's behavior seems off, it could be ill or could have a more serious problem with its nervous system. "Slowness" can be the result of brain damage due to injury, infections, environmental toxins, seizure disorders, genetic mutations, and even cognitive dysfunction in older cats. In the case of brain injury or infection, a functioning cat is a happy cat. If its setback doesn't interfere with your cats daily functions, there's little you need to do about it. But a seizure disorder can result from a prior brain injury and genetic mutations can also cause seizures in cats, especially in purebred varieties. Get a firm diagnosis so you can take appropriate measures to prevent further seizures and neurological damage. Cognitive dysfunction (or feline dementia) occurs most frequently in cats greater than 9 years old. If you adopt an older cat and feel like its personality is "off," it could be suffering from senility. In addition to general uncoordinated behavior, cats with dementia can also show unnecessary aggression and may display incontinence. Information for Your Vet Before whisking your cat to the vet, take notes on your observations: Did Fluffy forget the location of its food? If so, how many times? And, did this occur after a noticeable trauma or other inciting event? Make sure you disclose your cat's age, any preexisting health problems, and record the names of any household chemicals or toxins that it might have been exposed to. A detailed account of when the problem started and the severity of signs will lead your vet toward the proper screenings, and determine if a CT or MRI scan or blood tests are needed or if immediate supportive treatment should be administered. At the vet's office, any potential brain injury is treated as an emergency, especially if it was a result of head trauma. So in addition to stabilizing your pet, the vet will perform an exam specifically looking at your cat's neurological system. The vet may determine an MRI or CT scan is needed. In the case of environmental toxin exposure—most specifically lead ingestion (which can cause a slew of neurological issues)— your vet will perform a blood test. If you cat has a seizure disorder, bloodwork is also recommended to rule in/out metabolic causes of seizures. MRI scans are done to rule out inflammatory conditions or tumors. Severe seizure cases require an EEG to measure the electrical activity in your cat's brain. For feline dementia, a vet will discuss your cat's full health history and, if necessary, perform blood tests to rule out other health conditions such liver or kidney disease. Any cat that suffers a potential head injury needs to be examined by a veterinarian. A vet will first stabilize the injured kitty using IV fluids and oxygen. However, a full recovery is not always guaranteed. After the injury, your cat may act different, lose its laser-sharp coordination, or have a change in personality. If this happens, the best you can do is provide a loving and supporting environment, reduce stressors, and eliminate unpredictable events as much as possible. Observe your cat's limitations and provide a lifestyle that works within them. Your veterinarian is an excellent resource for options. Cats exposed to environmental toxins also need to be inspected by a vet, as the extent of exposure could be fatal. Treatment by a vet may include inducing vomiting, feeding your cat charcoal to absorb the toxin, administering IV fluids and medication, and time to process the toxin. If your cat has a full recovery, any neurological signs should eventually subside. For seizure disorders (brought on by genetic conditions or other), a vet will prescribe medications to control the seizures. Most cats go on to live happy and healthy lives and any post-seizure temperament disorders should be alleviated. There is currently no cure for feline dementia. Maintaining a good routine, providing options for exercise, and feeding your cat a high-quality food will help treat further decline. Supplements like omega-3 fatty acids, SAMe, and melatonin may improve brain function in older cats and aromatherapy with essential oils can ease anxiety. However some oils can be toxic to cats so you must seek your veterinarian's advice before exposing your cat to these products. While you can't eliminate all chances your cat could sustain an injury that could result in brain damage, you can do everything to protect your cat from accidents and you can assure proper brain health in the developmental years. Early nutrition greatly influences kitten development, so feed your kitten high-quality food. Also, provide your kitten opportunities to exercise and sharpen its skills to create greater coordination down the road. And, of course, any cat needs socialization in order to establish behaviors that work well within the confines of domestication.
EDMONTON—The future of traffic in Edmonton will be watched over by smart signals controlling traffic in real time and adapting to flow needs. On Tuesday, the urban planning committee sent city administration to look at implementing smart signals down one or more corridors in the city that face traffic flow issues, but have said upgrading signals will include the smart technology from now on. What makes these signals smarter than those traditionally used is their ability to change traffic lights based on what’s going on in real time and will adjust based on traffic flow, bike traffic and pedestrian movement. “We know that this is just the way of the future,” said Councillor Andrew Knack after the hearing. “Anytime we’re replacing a traffic signal we’ll build it with the latest and greatest in mind.” It will begin with pilot projects proposed by city administration in September and the city hopes to start updating the traffic lights with smart technology as they get flagged for updates. Knack said he didn’t know what the exact cost would be — but estimated it would be lower than $100,000 per upgrade. “That investment allows us to future-proof our city for emerging technologies, particularly automated vehicles,” he said. In the administration’s report, costs were outlined but not fleshed out completely. They estimated upgrading existing signals already compatible with smart technology would cost $100,000. Upgrading signals that aren’t compatible with smart technology would be $200,000. A complete rebuild of a signal would cost around $400,000, they estimated. Edmonton’s current traffic system is set for a few scenarios like rush hour or light traffic, said Knack. It doesn’t adjust to what’s happening on the ground — unlike smart signals. Additionally, the smart signals can constantly collect data that’s normally collected once every two to four years, like vehicle counts. “You can use that data to inform future infrastructure work,” said Knack. The manufacturers of the technology say they saw a roughly 40-per-cent reduction in vehicle wait and travel times and a 30-per-cent decrease in emissions. However, Knack didn’t want to get caught up in numbers. “Even if this was a 5-per-cent improvement in your wait times, in your travel times, that makes a lot more sense,” he said. Also at the hearing was an entrepreneur from Edmonton who has developed technology for smart signals that includes a listening device meant for creating green light paths for emergency vehicles. Warren Sheydwasser said his company, Soltare, has developed the device to listen for sirens and then make sure the emergency vehicle doesn’t have to go through a red light to get where it’s going. He told his former employee’s story as an example for why the technology is needed. “He was at an intersection, the light turned green and he was broadsided by an ambulance. He just didn’t hear the siren and so wrote off his car, (and) put himself in the hospital,” he said. “To add insult to injury they gave him a ticket for failing to yield to an ambulance. So this is a real problem.” He says it creates a safer environment for road users, as well as a quicker trip for emergency responders. The city asked administration to talk to Sheydwasser about implementing the technology into smart signals. “It’s good that the city has an open mindedness to explore new technology and unconventional ways of solving some problems,” he said.
VANCOUVER— Though in recent years medical science has been uncovering the damaging effects of traumatic brain injury for professional athletes and the military, a UBC researcher is now gathering data on head trauma in a much-less-highlighted group: survivors of domestic violence in Canada. The goal of the study is to gather statistics that will eventually lead to protocols to help treat and support women who have suffered concussions and other brain injuries at the hands of their partners, said the study’s author, neuroscientist and health professor Paul van Donkelaar. “That work has changed the way we approach sports concussion,” he said. “Coaches, athletes, parents are way more aware, and we’ve had huge changes in that conversation and way we approach that at the early stages.” Van Donkelaar said there are some 400,000 concussions a year in Canada from contact sports — and roughly 100,000 women a year in Canada who suffer traumatic head injuries. “This is a hugely under-served and understudied population,” he said, The study collected information from 40 participants: a questionnaire looking at emotional challenges then sensorimotor and cerebrovascular assessments with blood draws to measure various markers of brain injury. Plans are to submit completed research for publication by the end of summer. The idea for the study came from an early dating conversation with now-life-partner Karen Mason. Van Donkelaar had been conducting research on sports concussions for years. Mason was the director of Kelowna Women’s Shelter. “The focus is so strong in sports and yet we have women who make up half the population,” Mason told the Star, estimating that at least one in three women will be subject of some form of intimate partner violence. “It just made sense to look into it.” At the Kelowna shelter, Mason and her staff found women could not accomplish tasks such as finding housing, employment or chores, she said. Day after day, they just didn’t have the capacity to move forward. “We expect women to parent their children effectively,” she said. “We expect them to remove themselves from abusive relationships and hold down jobs. And yet there aren’t dedicated services in place.” Mason wondered if TBI was part of the problem, especially since frontline services are not trained in assessment, symptoms or treatment of brain injuries. But there is little data in Canada linking the two, Van Donkelaar said, and the topic has gone largely unexplored. “It’s not surprising survivors of intimate partner violence just can’t do tasks,” he said. “TBI isn’t taken into account.” The impacts of TBI’s range from headaches, double vision, memory loss, deficits in learning and difficulty completing tasks. The stigma associated often leads survivors to return to their abuser over and over again, which van Donkelaar said increases the likelihood of multiple head injuries. “Researching this population can be challenging,” he said. And unlike athletes, survivors of intimate partner violence experience emotional difficulties such as PTSD, depression or anxiety. Also unlike athletes, there are typically no witnesses with domestic violence, meaning diagnoses aren’t made. Collaborating with the shelter was a huge advantage because survivors there “are committed to the reality that their partner has been abusive to them,” he explained. There is no doubt that brain injuries are associated with intimate partner violence, said Michelle McDonald, the executive director of Brain Injury Canada. “Many times they go for the head area because it makes the most impact,” she told the Star. “It’s becoming an increased area of interest.” McDonald said the numbers aren’t there because incidents go unreported or the correlation isn’t made between the act and the brain injury. When left untreated, symptoms can lead to depression, anxiety, financial stress, unemployment or even a family breakdown when other parties can’t understand why the survivor won’t get better, she added. But the research is only as important as the next steps, said Angela Marie MacDougall, executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services. Every week a woman in Canada is killed by her partner, according to BWSS statistics. More than 86,000 victims of violence by a spouse or family member was reported in 2017, according to Statistics Canada. “We’ve talked to women who have had neck and face injuries. That includes detached retinas, broken bones in the face, loose and missing teeth,” MacDougall said. Looking at the overlapping health outcomes still does not address prevention. But the research gives a deeper understanding of the social and cultural pressures that are barriers to women dealing with abuse, she added. Really preventing violence takes a community-based response, not just putting resources into policing. And organizations do a lot with little resources, she added. Dispelling the idea that intimate partner violence is a private issue would make it harder for abusers to continue their behaviour. She said it’s about community accountability. “These are social problems and the only way we will solve them is through our relationships with our community,” MacDougall said. “We should continue to build more of a helping culture for women while also holding those that impose violence accountable for their behaviours. That matters.” The research, which began in June last year, comes on the heels of the national Prevention of Violence Against Women Week running from April 15-21.
Science, Tech, Math › Science Mare's Tail and MacKerel Scales in Weather Folklore Share Flipboard Email Print NZP Chasers / Moment / Getty Images Science Weather & Climate Understanding Your Forecast Storms & Other Phenomena Chemistry Biology Physics Geology Astronomy By Rachelle Oblack Rachelle Oblack is a K-12 science educator and Holt McDougal science textbook writer. She specializes in climate and weather. our editorial process Rachelle Oblack Updated February 04, 2019 "Mackerel scales and mare’s tails make lofty ships carry low sails." If you have no idea what this means, you are not alone. Weather proverbs and folklore are being technologically ousted from our everyday vocabulary. In the past, people looked towards nature for clues to ever-changing weather patterns. The Meaning of the Weather Proverb In the past, people looked at the weather and related it to something in their lives. For instance, cloud types are often described by their shapes in the sky. The mare’s tails are wispy cirrus clouds while the mackerel scales are small clumpy altocumulus clouds resembling fish scales in the sky. In the days of large sailing ships, this meant a storm would be approaching soon and the sails should be lowered to protect from the accompanying high winds. How Has Technology Changed Weather Folklore? Today, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the Dial-A-Buoy program. Part of the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) the program is designed to give sailors advanced meteorological and oceanographic data. A sailor can literally call for data from a series of buoys all around the world. Dial-A-Buoy will give anyone wind speed and direction, wave height, dew point, visibility, and temperature are updated hourly and available for analysis. With access by phone or the Internet, the relay center at the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi generates a computer voice which will report the current information. With over a million hits a month and countless calls to the center, the NDBC is changing how we use weather information. Need to know the weather? Forget mackerel scales! Today's folklore is all about innovation. Are Mackerel Scales and Mare's Tails Good Predictors of Approaching Storms? In short, yes. The cloud systems that develop prior to a storm will often appear clumpy and wispy like a fish scale or horsetail!
The kindergarden "Krümelkiste" is located directly on-site the Thünen campus in Braunschweig More information about child care, education and living in Braunschweig on "Braunschweig best choice". Information about child care in Hamburg on "Hamburg/Kitas" (in German). "Es geht um die Balance zwischen Freiraum und Lernen" An interview with an apprentice trainer and her last apprentice in the Thünen-Institute in Waldsieversdorf (Source: Wissenschaft erleben 2013/2) Job offers of the Thünen Institute The Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, in Hamburg invites applications for a fulltime position in the working area Forestry Worldwide as with focus on silviculture, forest management and restoration of tropical forests. The position is limited to a fixed term of three (3) years and is to be filled as soon as possible. The position offers the opportunity for further development of scientific occupational skills with the goal to qualify for prominent tasks in scientific policy advice and applied research. The fixed-term employment is in accordance with §2 (1) 2 of the German Temporary Science Employment Law (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG) . The Thünen Institute of International Forestry is currently conducting the interdisciplinary research project Landscape Forestry in the Tropics (LaForeT, www.la-foret.org) together with partners in Ecuador, Zambia and the Philippines aiming at findings for science based policy advice to reduce tropical deforestation. Deforestation and degradation of tropical forest landscapes often result in negative outcomes for the provisioning of important ecosystem services for different land-user groups. They also represent the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions during land-use and land-use change. Therefore, research at the Thünen Institute aims at the elaboration of comprehensive analyses of silvicultural options for tropical natural forests, restoration and reforestation derived from examples in Ecuador, Zambia and the Philippines. Within this project different silvicultural options for the improvement of forest land-use potentials shall be identified and proposals for appropriate management guidelines shall be derived. The holder of the position will have the opportunity to qualify scientifically in time-series analyses or modelling techniques. Requirements (highly welcome): The employment is governed by the Wage Agreement for Public Services (TVöD-Bund). Remuneration is in accordance with tariff-category 13 TVöD. Part-time employment is in principal possible. The Thünen Institute promotes equality between women and men in the workplace and therefore, expressly welcomes applications from women. The Thünen Institute feels committed to inclusion. Therefore, applications of disabled persons are highly welcomed. These will be particularly considered. For further inquiries please contact PD Dr. Günter (E-mail: email@example.com). Preferably digital or written applications in English language (including motivation letter, CV, list of publications, certificates or letters of recommendation, names and addresses of personal references as a single pdf) should be submitted under the key word Forest Managementuntil 19.01.2020 to Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut Institut für Internationale Waldwirtschaft und Forstökonomie Dir. und Prof. Prof. Dr. Matthias Dieter Leuschnerstr. 91, 21031 Hamburg Informations about Artikel 13 DSGVO: www.thuenen.de/datenschutzhinweis-bewerbungen.
A letter written by John Quincy Adams to the 12th Congressional District regarding the use of the "Gag Rule" to prevent him from reading petitions by enslaved people on the floor of the House of Representatives. Adams argues that the Gag Rule is a violation of petitioners' rights, and to ignore this violation would endanger the rights of all Americans. John Brown was charged with murder, insurrection and treason after the raid on Harpers Ferry. After being found guilty and while awaiting his sentencing, he was asked if there was any reason he should not be given the death sentence. He responded with this speech.
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\|Home\|\|View Maps\|\|Find Maps\|\|Find Places\|\|Resources & Links\| Eastern High School (historical), Maryland Eastern High School (historical) is a school located in Baltimore (city) County, MD at N39.32733° W76.59997° (NAD83) and at an elevation of 242 ft MSL. It can be seen on the USGS 1:24K topographic map Baltimore East, MD. You can view this location or feature in our Topographic Map Viewer now. Click on map above to begin viewing in our Map Viewer. Here are some other places near Eastern High School (historical) that may be of interest: Note: Coordinates in the location and feature list above are referenced to NAD83 datum.
The competition took place in the context of a larger project for the neglected Berlin district of Alt-Köpenick. The historic centre of the district is shaped by medieval buildings but also, at the time, exhibited a number of unused gap sites. When Alt-Köpenick was designated as a redevelopment area, temporary interventions set the framework for the long-term objective. For this purpose, the KAiAk program was launched which sought to evoke the necessary creative impulses. Our proposal concerned an undefined space which so far had been used as an informal parking lot, due to the permanent lack of parking options. The idea was to create one public square with two functions on the same spot by implementing a multifunctional design. We suggested to turn the lot into an official parking space and to connect the same space with the second function of a market place. The square needed defining by a powerful colour and an eye-catching object to communicate its respective temporary function. The asphalt ground was painted in a bright red; purple lines and white numbers were applied to mark the individual parking spots and structure the space with a pattern, also useful for the market booths. A giant red parasol indicated when the place could be used as a parking lot (closed parasol) or it was market day (open parasol). In addition, an old-timer caravan with a red finish was installed to serve as a ticket booth. The dual functionality finally signalled flexibility which is an intrinsically urban mode. The fading of the pavements colours fits in this mode, as the space and its uses will change as the neighbourhood will develop.
GongTo / Shutterstock.com The Guardian has told TBO that it has rescinded a copyright claim filed against a YouTube video that itself criticised a video the newspaper published online. In a statement, the newspaper said that “in a gesture of goodwill” it has released its claim against a user who goes by the name of Sargon of Akkad. As TBO reported yesterday, June 11, the YouTube user published a video called “Heart of Stereotypes” on Tuesday, June 9 that criticised a video by the Guardian discussing the issue of how Africa is represented. The video contains clips from the Guardian’s video interspersed with sarcastic commentary. At one point the presenter on the Guardian’s video states that “stereotypes are everywhere”, to which the narrator on Sargon of Akkad’s video responds, “of course they are, they are f---ing stereotypes”. Yesterday Sargon of Akkad tweeted an image of YouTube apparently confirming the Guardian’s claim against the video. The video was in fact picked up by YouTube’s Content ID system, which is designed to look for potential copyright infringement. According to YouTube, uploaded videos are scanned against a database of works that have been submitted by content owners. When content in a video matches a work submitted to YouTube, the copyright owner can then ‘claim’ the video, with options including the muting of it or seeking to block it. But the Guardian said it has released the claim as a “gesture of goodwill”. “We hope to come to an agreement with Sargon of Akkad. We have also offered further guidance on how to engage with our content without breaching copyright,” the spokesperson added. The Guardian, YouTube, copyright, Content ID, Heart of Stereotypes
Four bridges and two tunnels that form a key part of New York City’s infrastructure and transportation network are to have their tolling systems replaced, with the project expected to take over four years. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has awarded the Austrian company Kapsch TrafficCom a contract to replace all roadside equipment in the mixed-mode, dedicated mode, and express toll lanes, at all bridges and tunnels managed by the bi-state transportation agency. Kapsch will replace the toll collection system at PANYNJ’s bridge and tunnel facilities, as well as perform ongoing system maintenance upon completion of the new toll system installation. PANYNJ is a joint venture between the states of New York and New Jersey that builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. Its facilities include the USA’s busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the PATH rail transit system, six tunnels and bridges between New York and New Jersey, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center. The initial contract is for the design and implementation of the replacement toll collection system (RTCS) at PANYNJ’s six bridge and tunnel facilities, including the Bayonne, Goethals, George Washington and Outerbridge Crossing bridges, as well as the Holland and Lincoln tunnels. Once Kapsch completes the RTCS installation, it will maintain the entire system for a six-year period, with options to extend for up to three two-year periods. The potential total value of the entire two-part project to Kapsch is approximately US$147m. PANYNJ is one of 38 agencies that use the E-ZPass RFID transponder system for its toll collection program. Kapsch is a leading provider of toll collection systems around the world, with a strong local presence in New York and New Jersey, and has provided products and services to the E-ZPass Group since 1994. The initial work on the PANYNJ network will commence in August 2016, with all toll collection system equipment to be replaced by the end of 2020. “As the first collaborative project between Kapsch TrafficCom and its recently-acquired Schneider Electric transportation business division, it represents the power of these newly-joined businesses to create original and unique value for our customers,” said Georg Kapsch, CEO of Kapsch TrafficCom. Kapsch was referring to the acquisition of the transportation business unit from the French energy management giant Schneider Electric, which was completed in April 2016. The deal included an industry-leading portfolio of integrated advanced traffic management software (ATMS) systems, such as Schneider’s EcoTrafiX product, for urban, highway, and tunnel applications; electronic toll collection; and transit solutions. Chris Murray, president of Kapsch TrafficCom North America, added, “Customers across North America continue to see the value in our quality and technical service commitment. We believe our collaborative and transparent approach to partnership creates unique value for our North American customers.”
Developing new methods to monitor biological rhythms Academic researchers and commercial partners presented their novel work on hormonal diseases and endocrine monitoring at the Ultradian conference in Bergen last week. “If you want this kind of data, today, the patient has to stay in bed while and draw blood continuously. Needless to says, this is quite intensive and unpleasant for the patient”, Stafford Lightman explains. He is one of the world leaders in studying biological rhythms in both human and animal models, and works for the University of Bristol. He is also a partner at the Ultradion project, and is responsible for the idea of a new sampler, which hopes to make the examination less tedious for the patients. “What this machine does is to sample the tissue fluid while the patient is doing his daily life activities. In this way he is freed from the bed and hospital, and when he returns after 24 hours, we sample and analyze the data”, he explains. “This is the future” The sampler is called U-rhythm and consist of a little machine, tiny enough to almost fit in your pocket. It is connected to your body fluid through a small catheter that are inserted at the hospital. The monitoring will be painless and almost effortless for the patient, compared to today’s monitoring of hormonal rhythms. The project also includes novel laboratory methods that can extract complex data that show hormonal rhythms throughout the day. At the Ultradian conference all the different partners were gathered to present their work. “We have invited speakers who visualize different aspects of biological rhythms and how it impacts hormonal diseases. Still some of the data are preliminary, but it looks rather good and we hope to publish our data quite soon", Eystein Husebye, leader of the Ultradian project, explains Commercialization is the next step “Right now we are working out what is normal and what happens when people has diseases. We have to do basic research, and as soon as we have published it, we expect people to start wanting it for their own hospitals”, he says. “Commercialization is the next phase. Hopefully, in the near future, the apparatus will be in the marked”, Huseby maintains. Ultradian an EU funded Horizon 2020 project.
Thanks to this activity and to his mature knowledge, the desire to make hunting tools of quality became his ambition. So in 2010 Alkiviadis decided to start making his own blades, and after they had been successfully tested in the field he made knives for several other hunters. Unfortunately he did not have the opportunity to learn from Masters (as knife making is not a recognized activity in Greece), but Alkiviadis did not lose his faith and took it on himself to find a lot of useful information from books and the Internet, learning with determination to forge and also to create blades by stock removal. He produces mainly hunting knives, as well as skinner knives or bowie style blades. For his forged blades, the Greek knife maker employs steels such as K720, 1095, but also scrap materials such as ball bearings or farrier rasps. For blades made by stock removal, generally he uses 01, D2 or 440C steels. As far as materials goes for the handles, he prefers the natural ones in particular stabilized woods (ironwood, olive wood, bubinga, palisander, etc.), but also deer or buffalo horns; he also employs synthetic materials such as micarta. All the manufacturing process is done without mechanical and automatic tools but only with simple hand tools (with many files and many sandpapers); also the leather sheaths are entirely handmade by the knife maker. Alkiviadis, thanks to his preparation, passion and determination, has become a benchmark for Greek knife makers, and he is also the owner and administrator of the only Greek forum (Greekblades.com) dedicated to knife lovers.
Down-regulated long non-coding RNA-ATB in preeclampsia and its effect on suppressing migration, proliferation, and tube formation of trophoblast cells.Placenta 2017; 49:80-87P Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome and is one of the main causes of maternal, fetal, and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Inadequate trophoblast invasion and failure of uterine spiral artery remodeling exert a major role in the development of preeclampsia, especially the early-onset one. LncRNA-ATB is verified to be aberrantly expressed in many cancers and promote the invasion-metastasis and proliferation cascades. But little is known of lncRNA-ATB's role in preeclampsia. The aim of current study is to identify the changes of lncRNA-ATB in preeclampsia and its effects on trophoblast. The lncRNA-ATB levels were decreased in placental samples collected from preeclampsia women (n = 51) compared to those of healthy pregnant women (n = 40) by qRT-PCR analysis. Besides, it is demonstrated that lncRNA-ATB was intense stained in the trophoblast of the placenta by performing in-situ hybridization. By designing RNA interference species to suppress lncRNA-ATB and specific plasmids designed to overexpress lncRNA-ATB, we identify the role of lncRNA-ATB on the functions of trophoblast cell-line, HTR-8/SVneo. Inhibition of endogenous lncRNA-ATB decreased migration, proliferation, tube-formation of HTR-8/SVneo cells. In addition, overexpression of lncRNA-ATB promoted migration, proliferation, and tube-formation of HTR-8/SVneo cells. Therefore, lncRNA-ATB might be involved in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia by regulating the process of trophoblast invasion and endovascular formation.
From Humanities to YOUTH Opportunities beyond EUro.. From Humanities to YOUTH Opportunities beyond EUropean Borders Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017 According to the Italian National Institute of Statistic (ISTAT), in 2012 the 23,9 per cent of the Italian young people between 15 and 29 years are unemployed; moreover, they are not even involved in training activities. This problem belongs to a large scale European phenomena generally known with the acronym “Neet” - Not in Education, Employment or Training. In Italy, the phenomena is particularly strong in the age group between 25 and 28 years (28,8% of the Italian young people). Therefore, the general objective of the project is the creation of a European and transcontinental network between youth organizations, public and private institutions active in the field of formal and non-formal education, and actors of the labor market to foster the cooperation in the exchange of experiences and best practices to better face common challenges related to the training and the entry into the labor market of young people who are not involved in studying and working activities as well as of young people with fewer opportunities. More precisely, the project aims at the strengthening and reintroduction of humanities (ancient and modern languages) in the training process of young people as the root of the education for citizenship, democracy and global policies, and of the socio-educational development to foster young people’s social inclusion and active participation in society. Specific objectives of the project are: - arrange new form of high-quality training modules in the field of old and modern languages as a combination of formal and non-formal paths, also in addition with general additional skills as a part of the university curricula, to foster the employment prospects of young people; - develop and disseminate new approaches and techniques in the study of humanities focusing on old and modern languages; - enhance synergies between youth organizations, formal and non-formal training actors in the field of humanities and the labor market to foster employability of young people with a liberal art education;- improve the attractiveness of university education among young people;- promote the entrepreneurship, the employment and the education of young people with a liberal art education inside and outside Europe;- arrange new forms of training modules fostering skills and competences in the field of media literacy applied to old and modern languages;- foster the virtual cooperation of the stakeholders through the implementation of the web-site portal “In-Youthmanities” promoting training, open source materials and the matching between the demand and supply of labor in the field of humanities.Specifically, the project will promote initiatives to involve Youth workers, trainers active in the field of formal and non-formal education both from public and private sector, staff of the institutions active in the field of labour market, policy makers in the field of Youth, local and regional authorities, in conferences, seminars and job-shadowing. Get Access to the 1st Network for European Cooperation
- Roman Urdu To English Dictionary - Parinday Ka Bazoo Roman Word Meaning In English Dictionary Parinday Ka Bazoo English Meaning - Translate Parinday Ka Bazoo (Wing) into English from Urdu \|Roman Urdu Word\|\|Parinday Ka Bazoo\| \|Parinday Ka Bazoo پرندے کا بازو\| \|Baal O Par بال و پر\| \|Ura Lay Jana اڑا لے جانا\| Definitions of Wing n. One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming. n. Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying. n. One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures. n. One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes. n. Passage by flying; flight. n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion. n. Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot. n. Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance. n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. n. Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. n. Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. n. One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece. n. A side building, less than the main edifice. n. The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work. n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another. n. The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc. n. That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle. n. One of the sides of the stags in a theater. n. Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, especially the flat or slightly curved planes on a heavier-than-air aircraft which provide most of the lift. In fixed-wing aircraft there are usually two main wings fixed on opposite sides of the fuselage. Smaller wings are typically placed near the tail primarily for stabilization, but may be absent in certain kinds of aircraft. Helicopters usually have no fixed wings, the lift being supplied by the rotating blade. n. One of two factions within an organization, as a political party, which are opposed to each other; as, right wing or left wing. n. An administrative division of the air force or of a naval air group, consisting of a certain number of airplanes and the personnel associated with them. transitive v. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity. transitive v. To supply with wings or sidepieces. transitive v. To transport by flight; to cause to fly. transitive v. To move through in flight; to fly through. transitive v. To cut off the wings of or to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; ; also, [fig.] to wound the arm of a person. Form : Noun How To Spell Wing : [wing] Synonyms For Wing , Similar to WingAileron, Appendage, Feather, Pennon, Pinion, Antonyms For Wing , Opposite to WingBase, Headquarters, Parinday Ka Bazoo Meaning from Urdu to English is Wing, and in Urdu it is written as پنکھ. This word is written in Roman Urdu.Parinday Ka Bazoo Meaning in English - Find the correct meaning of Parinday Ka Bazoo in English, it is important to understand the word properly when we translate it from Urdu to English. There are always several meanings of each word in English, the correct meaning of Parinday Ka Bazoo in English is Wing, and in Urdu we write it پنکھ. There are also several similar words to Parinday Ka Bazoo in our dictionary, which are Aileron, Appendage, Feather, Pennon and Pinion. Apart from similar words, there are always opposite words in dictionary too, the opposite words for Parinday Ka Bazoo are Base and Headquarters. After Urdu to English translation of Parinday Ka Bazoo, If you have issues in pronunciation than you can hear the audio of it in the online dictionary.
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Chapati - Indian Flat bread Chapathi or Chapatti Indian whole wheat flour Bread Chapati - chapathi - chappati, is a common Indian bread made everyday in most Indian houses. spelt and pronounced as chapatti, chapathi. Roti is a general name for any Indian bread in general. Chapathi is made of whole wheat flour, which makes it healthier as whole wheat flour is rich in fiber content. A little Soya bean flour is also added to make it more nutritious. Now a days multigrain atta(flour) is available in the market. Chapati-Indian Flat Bread The shape of a chapathi is generally round(it is mostly round). In the North Karnataka it is also made in a triangle shape. It is of course tasty whatever the shape. It is best eaten hot but is good after a few hours too. It is a good item to take as lunch to school or office. It is eaten generally at breakfast, lunch or dinner. That is, it is a part of a main meal. It is served with vegetable fries, curries, dals or chutneys. It goes very well with a potato subji or The kitchen tools needed for making chappati. Board and Rolling pin - Chakla - Belan - Polpat - latne frying pan or tava You need a rolling pin (belan - Latne - Lattanage) and a board (chakla - Polpat - Chapathi mane) for rolling chappatis.You may use your kitchen counter instead of a board but you are going to need a rolling pin. cast iron tava The iron girdle - skillet - tava is used for cooking chapathies. Generally, a concave iron tava is used for making chapatti. A chapati, made on a clay tava tastes great. You may use non stick flat tawa or fry pan if a concave tava is not available. But generally, chapathies, do not stick to the girdle when the dough is made properly and is of right consistency. A chapathi should be soft. By following the steps given below properly you will get a soft chapati.You can see the step by step images for cooking the chapaties. to make chapati - Healthy Whole wheat flour Indian flat bread Main ingredients for chapaties Ingredients for chapathi: - Whole wheat flour - 2 cups - Salt - 1/4 tea spoon - Water - to make a dough - Vegetable Oil - 2 teaspoons + some more to apply while folding. - Mix whole wheat flour and salt and two spoons oil. - Add water little by little and form into dough. - Knead and keep aside for 30 minutes. Method for Rolling Chapathi Knead the chapatti dough till it is smooth. - Divide the dough in lime sized balls. - Sprinkle a little dry flour on the board. Dip a dough ball in dry flour. Place it on the board and roll into a small round. - Spread a few drops of oil on this round. Fold in half and apply a little oil and again fold in half ( it will be a triangle now) . into a round or a triangle, not too thin. - Heat a girdle well and keep the heat on medium. - Place the rolled round on the hot girdle. Wait for 5 seconds. - Turn on to the other side and cook for 10 seconds. You can see the chapati puffing up. - Turn again. It will puff up. It is important to turn the chapathi at the right time. Chapati may burn if you do not turn it. - Both sides should have brown spots.That means the chapati is cooked properly as you can see in the image. Remove from fire. - Apply a little ghee or oil on the chapathi as soon as you take it off fire. - Make other dough balls into chapattis in the same way and serve hot. - Stack the chapaties one over the other in a box so they remain soft. - Serve hot or keep them covered so that they remain soft in case you are not planning to serve immediately. - Resting the dough after mixing is important. That makes the chapathis softer. - Some people add oil while cooking the chapathi on the girdle. So the chapati gets cooked with a little oil. prefer to apply a little ghee after taking the chapathi off the tava. - Once the tava is heated, you may keep the heat medium. High flame may burn the chapatti, very low flame will take longer to cook the chapathi and it will be harder. How to serve chapathi - What to serve chapatti with... Enjoy chapati with any of your favorite curries or with subjis or with dals / lentil curries. Leftover chapati recipes
- John D. Lyons ‘Saints, werewolves, knights, and a poète maudit: allegiance and character in the Middle Ages’ explains how the protagonists of medieval texts are presented primarily in terms of their loyalty because this was the principal value of a feudal society. In the feudal system, power, identity, and landownership depended on the person in power. The text identified as the first substantial work of French literature concerns its hero's decision about the Lord to whom he will be loyal. The conduct of the knight is the core characterization of the protagonists of epic. The protagonists of the romances had quite different virtues, but loyalty and honour are still tested.
Normally used for its aesthetic capabilities, body painting gains a much more political dimension in the work of Trina Merry.The artist, who includes painted bodies in all strands of her multimedia work, uses the human form to probe issues of power and limitations of freedom in stunning works that blend bodies into their surroundings. In her Lost at Wonder series, the artist painted a man’s body and photographed it at each of the renowned “Seven Wonders of the World.” From the Pyramids of Giza to the Great Wall of China, her subjects stoically blend into famous vistas in an attempt to create an alternative narrative to these touristic locations which are so heavily photographed and superficially absorbed by Western tourists. In her work, Merry states that she is “not trying to make people disappear completely—I’m not a magician and could more easily and cheaply use digital art as a medium. Instead, I’m trying to actually draw attention to the human in the environment and bring these places back to life. I want you to see the people who are invisible on the street; the man you just walked by but didn’t get to know. When I select a composition or location, I’m looking for an angle that people don’t ordinarily see.” Merry’s project Sweet Land of Liberty places nude, painted, and often coupled individuals at historically political US sites, like the White House and the Washington Monument to explore “the architectural symbols of power versus the people” and to “celebrate First Amendment freedoms and wanting to push them farther,” Merry explains. The artist’s preference for using humans as a canvas relates to the innate vivacity and ephemerality inherent to the medium. “Body painting has a heartbeat, a breath, a twinkle in the eye. My painting can scream, it can dance, it can stand still for incredibly long periods of time,” says Merry. “Temporal artwork is reflective of the contemporary culture, and the ‘experience’ is an essential act for our age.” However, Merry does not want to be considered solely as a "body painter," as she does more than just the painting in her work, “I consider myself a multimedia artist that simply includes body paint in my practice. I also do photography, videography, installation, painting, sculpting, and so on, but I include a painted person in each work I make.” Check out Trina Merry’s eclectic, multimedia body paintings here.
© This content is subject to copyright. A royal venue, for a royal wedding. After an initial reception at Windsor Castle on May 19, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will invite 200 of their guests to a more intimate party at Frogmore House. And it’s a royal residence packed with charm, history and hidden secrets. Like Prince William and Kate Middleton before them, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have two receptions for their May 19 wedding. The first one, a lunchtime reception hosted by the Queen, will take place at St. George’s Hall—the standard space for grand events at Windsor Castle. However, that evening, a smaller, more private gathering will occur at a more intimate venue: Frogmore House. To some royal watchers, Frogmore House comes as a surprise. Early on, reports surfaced that although Harry and Meghan wanted to celebrate there, aides asked them to pick a more “practical” option. Perhaps something changed, or perhaps the rumor was just that—a rumor. Either way, by choosing Frogmore House, the couple has chosen a place steeped in royal and personal history. Unlike Buckingham Palace or even Balmoral Castle, Frogmore House remains an elusive place for much of the public. It’s only open for three days per year during the spring. The rest of the time it’s a private property, tucked away from prying eyes, thanks to the 35 acres, and security, that surround it. Frogmore House has been in the royal family for over 300 years, since King George III bought it for his wife, Queen Charlotte. Most famously, it was the home of Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent. It’s said that the English queen frequently found solace at Frogmore, and she is buried there alongside her beloved husband, Prince Albert. Inside, the home is full of eccentricities: murals depicting Virgil’s Aeneid by French artist Louis Laguerre, a “flower room” filled with wax and silk blooms, and the Black Museum, home to Queen Mary’s collection of black papier-mâché furniture. Then there’s the Britannia Room. After the Royal Yacht was decommissioned in the late ’90s, Prince Philip redecorated a space with his favorite artifacts from the ship. Outside lies Frogmore’s vast garden, which is filled with lakes, and bridges, as well as over 4,000 trees and shrubs, including tulip trees and redwoods. With its picturesque and dreamy manner, Frogmore House has played a significant role in royal love stories of centuries past. King George VI and the Queen Mother spent part of their honeymoon there, and Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips held his wedding reception there as well. But most importantly, it’s become a special place for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It’s said that during their courtship, the couple enjoyed summer picnics on the lawn away from the paparazzi and urban sprawl of London. Then it became the romantic setting for their engagement portraits when they posed on its steps, and later, released a third candid photo in which they were walking on its grounds. Only 200 people will be invited to the evening reception at Frogmore House. They should consider themselves lucky, not only to be attending the royal wedding, but to bear witness to such a historic property. Photo credit : Getty images See also Vogue.fr: Tous les produits mis en avant dans cet article ont été sélectionnés indépendamment par nos rédacteurs. Les prix mentionnés dans cet article le sont à titre indicatif et susceptibles d’évoluer. Lorsque vous achetez via nos liens de vente, nous pouvons percevoir une commission d'affiliation.
The counties of eastern Texas take pride in being both decidedly rural and resourceful. That spirit is inherent in every resident you meet no matter if they are generations-deep or transplants seeking relief from the sprawl of Dallas or Houston. In Anderson County, no one might exemplify this better than Greg Chapin, County Commissioner for Precinct 1. With 254 counties, the most of any state in the U.S., more than 2/3 are classified as rural/non-metropolitan. Each county is run by a Commissioners’ Court consisting of four elected commissioners (one from each of four precincts drawn based on population) and a county judge elected from all the voters of the county. The burden these counties share is how to maintain their secondary roads and bridges, hundreds of miles not under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Transportation. There is an ongoing struggle to stretch current revenues and attract new tax dollars without upending the way of life. County commissioner is Greg’s third job, alongside being a rancher and a meat processor. A hands-on kind of man, he is as comfortable managing the county road budget as crawling into an excavator to move dirt. That gives him a tight grip on the precinct’s equipment needs. “We are dealing with limited proceeds. We are the elected purchasing agents for the county to make the right decisions,” he says. Precinct 1 maintains 311 miles of secondary roads, including 27 miles of dirt road. In addition to paving and patching, crews clean ditch lines to keep water flowing and prevent erosion, place culverts, widen roads and remove trees downed by frequent storms. “We had a Gradall with high hours. It became a process of working on it three days to work three hours. It did ditching work but was limited beyond that. I was venturing for something with more versatility,” Greg says. The Gradall’s retractable one-piece boom didn’t fit the bill for Anderson County, who needed the ability to retract and reach up and over fences and around mailboxes – common obstacles along most roadways. What if he could combine several machines into one? “It never occurred to me that a wheeled excavator could work for us, because I related an excavator to having tracks. Then I went to New York City and saw them running up and down the streets. I thought, ‘This is something I’d like to try,’” he says. Steve Breeden, account manager at ROMCO Equipment Co., had customers in two neighboring counties operating wheeled excavators. He was able to provide a EW180D demo machine to Greg and his operator to use for two weeks. Greg says, “That availability was a big selling point for us. It was practically brand new, with just 27 hours, and we tried everything – setting culverts, digging ditches, it just sold itself. It hands-down outperformed the Gradall, and that’s why we went with it.” Steve says the EW180 is a good fit for Anderson County because they have so many miles of tertiary roads with little traffic. “They can drive the excavator to most sites and carry all their tools in a dump truck, without the need for an additional trailer.” The EW180 has a max travel speed of 22 mph, so it is comparable to driving a farm tractor, covering 20 miles in less than 40 minutes. The two must-have attachments are a hydraulic thumb and tilting bucket, along with a hydraulic coupler for easy switch-outs from the cab. Says Greg, “You might have 20-30 trees down in one night from a storm. The thumb gives us the ability to drive along the road and pick up and remove the trees very quickly. We can also set tank cars (used as culverts) 16 feet deep and also have the reach and depth. The two-piece boom allows us to work right up against ourselves – that’s big for us. The versatility, mobility and cost are all factors.” Price is always a deciding factor for municipal governments with limited funds and the responsibility of making the right purchasing decisions for their constituents. Buying contracts are strongly encouraged by the state for efficiency and cost savings. Volvo Construction Equipment and ROMCO participate in national procurement programs HGACBuy and Sourcewell (formerly NJPA), which makes the government buying process for new equipment easy and efficient. “Using HGACBuy made for an easy purchase. If we had to buy outright we would have had to get three to four competitive quotes and go through the bidding process,” says Greg, adding that they saved over $50,000 by selecting the Volvo EW180 over other types of equipment. Secondary to savings is having operators accept the equipment that is purchased. David Perry, who has run backhoes, graders, dozers, loaders and excavators over his 40 years as an operator, gave the final stamp of approval. He says, “Between this and our Gradall, the controls are slightly different, but there’s not much to learn. The biggest difference is with the boom. (With the Volvo) it can retract and you can dig deep into a hole and go up and over a fence or dig underneath it.” These two unassuming Texans may seem unlikely ambassadors for a movement to switch to wheeled excavators, but their story is common among converts. Says David, “It’s a very good, versatile machine. If you’re thinking of getting a Gradall, I wouldn’t. With a Gradall you are limited.” Local Texas officials are using cooperative purchasing to buy wheeled excavators to replace their truck-mounted excavators.
For a long time, we have been giving uppermost importance to the regional origins of our raw materials. • We have our own deep-well pump, from which we take water to produce our beer. • We produce our own electricity from 3 hydropower run by Diemel river. • Barely mostly came from our neighborhood and often we know suppliers personally. • Hops come from fields of Munich and we know them from years. • Moreover, during 300 years we proudly breed our own officially registered unique yeast – WRB1. We take care both about products we use and suppliers we support, so the choice would always be made for ecological ingredients from a known producer. We believe that guarding such values is important especially in XXI. century when mass-production is dominating.
Police: 8-year-old girl tried to smoke pot at Ohio school PATASKALA- Police in central Ohio say an 8-year-old girl was caught trying to smoke marijuana by lighting a plastic baggie of it in a restroom at her elementary school, and they're working to determine where she got it. Police in Pataskala, east of Columbus, report the girl tried to discard the marijuana in a trash can and toilet when a school employee found her last week. Investigators recovered some of the discarded marijuana and a lighter, but no drug paraphernalia. The girl was suspended, and children's services officials got involved in the case. Pataskala police Chief Bruce Brooks says in nearby Newark that it's fortunate the girl didn't really understand how to light and smoke the marijuana. The superintendent says the school district is working with police. Desktop NewsClick to open Continuous News in a sidebar that updates in real-time. 'I do' at the zoo: Baton Rouge Zoo will now host weddings New proposal would allow surveillance cameras in special needs classes More than a dozen alleged drug dealers arrested in 8-month investigation Abandoned horse left to die, found burned in vacant Baton Rouge city... Local business shows off 'fishy' take on Mardi Gras delicacy
Why and How to Learn Git Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Anthony Feint has written a great article explaining Why and How Did He Learn Git. And you should also check out Git Immersion, which is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it. License: GPL License
- Define the brand image Every style guide has to start from the brand image. It is difficult to design or know how to design the other corporate elements if we do not know how the logo will be. This is usually the basis of the style guide, so to start with, we have to study the branding and the competition and know where we are going to leave. It is time to investigate, to study and to have in our mind ideas of how we can develop the image of the company. Once we have it developed, we can take the first step towards the design of our style guide, in which the logo will have been the one that feels the bases. - Different logo options Once we have defined our logo with its corporate colors, we have to take into account the different options in which the logo can appear, so it is appropriate to specify, as the design appears depending on the situation. As well as determining different measures of recommendation. Obviously the logo is editable and we can enlarge or reduce it, but depending on the design we can reach a point where we resize it so much that it loses its essence, and this is what we have to say at this point. - Define typography Once we have defined our brand image, we have in turn decided several elements such as colors or fonts. The colors will be fixed for the other elements, but the typography that we use in the logo may or may not be maintained for the different elements of the web. It is the first decision that we have to take into account, where we are going to use the typography of the logo, and in case we do not use it, what typography would be chosen, taking into account the combination between them. So well, we must create a guide in which to determine the typographies that are used, with the different sizes of text depending on the place in which it is. So that the hierarchy of the typography and also the color of the typography is defined. This section has to give us an idea of how typography will appear in the different elements that compose the mark. Obviously they can not all be represented, because we can find an element that needs a specific typographic design, but if it has to be a general guide of the different sizes and colors of text that are used in the mark.
What Condition Will My Material Arrive In? Unless noted otherwise, you are buying RAW CUT STEEL – AS IT COMES FROM THE MILL. NO SECONDARY PROCESSES HAVE BEEN APPLIED – SUCH AS SURFACE FINISH / TEXTURE, PAINT COATINGS, EDGE PREPARATION, BURR REMOVAL, ETC.. WARNING – SHARP EDGES! *If you are unfamiliar with mill steel, then you should consider having one of our approved fabricators assemble and weld these material kits for you. Sorry to be blunt, but we want to be up front with our customers.* For example, mill steel, will have some sort of rust inhibiting oil applied to it. This oil is usually black and dirty – YOUR MATERIAL WILL ARRIVE WITH A DIRTY / BLACK COAT OF OIL ON IT! RUST: While mill steel does have this dirty coat of oil on it which is designed to inhibit rust, your material could also have some surface rust on it. We try to keep surface rust to a minimum, because our lasers hate rust. We store our material inside and only source material from distributors that also store it out of the rain. However, it’s just the nature of the beast that we’ll get some slight surface rust. EDGE QUALITY: WARNING – SHARP EDGES! 99% of the time, we’re going to use our lasers to cut your steel parts. With precision up to .004″ tolerance – Lasers can produce the highest edge cut quality available on the market today. Many times better than saw cut, plasma cut, or torch cut. HOWEVER – Several factors control edge cut quality. 1. Oil on the steel. 2. Rust on the steel. 3. Run time (speed of the laser). While we can control all of these factors to produce an unbelievably polished edge cut, they all come with a cost. Our goal is to provide the best edge quality, for the lowest price. Therefore, you will have slight burrs and striations on the edges. These burrs and striations that lasers produce can be knocked of with a wire brush or light sanding, but this extra step is usually not needed for welding applications. Note: All burrs should be removed from the tabs and the intersecting slots, to ease assembly. WARNING – SHARP EDGES! Metal Memory: Yes – steel has memory from the mill and your parts you received will have this to some degree. For example, flat plate is actually made from a coiled roll of steel. The mill ships these coiled rolls to metal distribution centers, to save space. Once there, the coil has to be processed by “de-coiling” and flattening it. Metal memory is an inherent part of the steel manufacturing process and cannot be avoided. The flattened steel wants to go back to the shape it was rolled in by warping and twisting itself. Some parts of the plate have more memory that others. Further complicating this memory issue is something call stress relief – which is why some areas of the flat sheet will warp and twist more that others, once the steel is cut. Experienced welders, fitters, and fabricators know about metal memory and stress relief. Therefore, they have the tools and the experience with clamping the metal as part of the welding assembly. Another example is square tubing. Square tubing starts out as round tubing, rolled into coils from the mill. It is then processed through a series of dies an rollers to de-coil it and make it square or rectangle. Therefore, memory, and stress relief can affect tubular parts as well. EDGE PROFILE: Unless otherwise noted, all edges will be cut 90 degrees (square). Therefore, if your Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) calls for a weld bevel, the end user will need to grind, cut or form a weld bevel. SURFACE QUALITY: Mill Scale – The will be mill scale / oxidation on the surface. Scratches: THERE WILL BE A LOT OF SCRATCHES ALL OVER YOUR MATERIAL FROM THE PROCESSING AND HANDLING FROM THE MILL. Preparation of the Material The surfaces to be welded must be free from scale, grease, paint, water, etc. The basis here is to provide a good surface for welding. This is a very good practice and is mentioned in all welding codes. The surfaces must be sufficiently clean so that there is nothing that might contain hydrocarbons, which break down in the heat of the arc producing hydrogen, which can be absorbed in the weld and cause cracks. Preparation of the weld surfaces may be achieved by sand blasting, shot blasting, grinding, sanding, air carbon arc gouging, or a combination of any these process. NEVER USE OUR KITS FOR OVERHEAD LIFTING OR OVERHEAD SUPPORT! DISCLAIMER – AS IS WARRANTY: Weldables Inc sells material only. All of our materials must be welded, and / or assembled by the purchaser (or end user). 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Why should you spend time on designing, creating and maintaining a beautiful garden? - It adds value to your home and sets your home apart from others in the mind of potential buyers. - It encourages free physical exercise in the warm sunshine, providing your body with vitamin D and calming your mind. - Gardening is a great way to get to know your neighbours, and yet also provides privacy and a barrier to noise, dust & traffic. - Growing and harvesting your own food will add quality to your meals, reduce food expense and distance that your fruit and vegetables travel to your plate, reduce your intake of Genetically Modified Organisms, pesticides/ herbicides and storage-enhancing chemicals invisible on standard supermarket produce. - Freshly picked fruit & tomatoes taste superior to shop-bought, they teach children the wonder of nature, and instill a sense of joy in discovering new and unusual tastes. - A well-designed garden cools your house in summer and lets light through in winter, and it creates a safe haven for insects, bees, butterflies, frogs + birds, as well as other native animals. - It slows and filters rainwater that would otherwise rush off the paving and away into drainage pipes.
Excessive force imposed on muscles, tendons, joints and the nervous system by some job demands and working practises are the starting point to strain injuries occurring.Provided the forces exerted are of a short duration, with adequate rest periods, they will generally be within the physical capacity of the body sinews and tissues. However overloading of the tissues caused by very frequent exertions of forced static postures can be harmful, resulting in loss of capacity in the affected limbs. Holding a tool with a bent wrist whilst having to apply pressure combines force and awkward posture, and having to perform the same task repeatedly adds to the frequency factor further increasing the risk involved, so in that movement you have got static load and repetitive movement. Working overhead with the arms extended upwards, (wiring cable in) or having to work with the back bent and the arms extended horizontally in an awkward part of the building to reach the area needing attention, or holding a trowel and tray with mortar whilst plastering or pointing brickwork. Painting ceilings, where the head and neck is extended at an awkward angle and one arm applying the paint with brush or roller, and the other arm holding on to maintain balance. The Three Main Factors FORCE – the application of excessive manual force FREQUENCY AND DURATION OF MOVEMENT – including rates of working which are too intense and repetitive whether of a single or combined nature, and AWKWARD OR RIGID POSTURE – of hand, wrist, arm or shoulder, and where kneeling or crouching posture is required there will be strain on the legs, ankles and feet. The human body is designed to cope with a wide variety of movements, forces, pressures and stresses, but what is often not realised are the points in the body which give way under the strain, and that is where the limbs connect to the spine. At the top of the spine where shoulders and neck connect, this is known as the cervical spine area, and when damage occurs here pain can appear in the arms and sometimes the legs. This is known as referred pain, and is due to the damage in the discs, where a build up of tissue can cause pressure trapping the nerves. In the lower part of the spine, known as the lumbar area, again referred pain can occur in the legs, which is a pain similar to sciatica. When carrying out work which involves the three factors, it is important to take short rest breaks, particularly when working at a keyboard, to refresh the muscles/tendons, and perhaps incorporate a short exercise of flexing the limb, to remove the feeling of strain, stimulating the circulation, thereby refreshing the system and removing the toxins that build up in the system when you are still for too a long time. In the case of the head and shoulder stiffening, there are exercises available which again can correct the posture. For anyone experiencing pain, tingling, numbness, it is important to recognise what is happening to your body, report symptoms, look at the risk assessment on your job, seek help from your General Practitioner and a physiotherapist who is suitably qualified to a postgraduate level and who is knowledgeable about treating RSI. Named Types of Injuries Most publicity these days is given to cases of computer-induced injury, due to the increased computer usage in working life, and which is the least understood injury. Research at University College Hospital London calls this “Diffuse RSI” which seems to be nerve injury. However it is well documented that many manual trades suffered from various types of repetitive strain injuries, (Washer woman’s wrist, telegraphist’s finger, etc.) and I use the term RSI as an umbrella term to cover various named medical conditions. This collection of diseases and injuries, in itself a history of the afflictions that visit working people, shows the breadth and depth of illness and injury. In order to be recognised, for industrial injuries purposes, the medical condition must have been proved clinically beyond all doubt, and this is known as the epidemiology of the condition, and must have been approved by the Industrial Injuries and Advisory Commission, commonly known as IIAC. A4 Cramp of the hand or forearm due to repetitive movements. For example writer’s cramp. Anyone involved in prolonged periods of handwriting, typing of other repetitive movement of fingers hand or arm, for example typists, clerks and routine assemblers. (So you see even that is not necessarily totally due to clerical work – a routine assembler usually works in the electronics industry where small components are assembled). A5 Subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (Beat Hand). Manual labour causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure on the hand, for example miners and road workers using picks and shovels. But this also could include gardeners digging, or even the use of a screwdriver causing pressure in the palm of hand. A6 Bursitis (swelling) or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the knee due to severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the knee. (Beat Knee). Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the knee, for example workers who kneel a lot. A7 Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the elbow due to severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the elbow. (Beat Elbow). Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the elbow, for example jobs involving continuous rubbing or pressure on the elbow A8 Traumatic inflammation of the tendons of the hand or forearm, or of the associated tendons sheaths. (Tenosynovitis). Manual labour, or frequent or repeated movement of the hand or wrist, for example routine assembly workers. (However it is common among keyboard and computer mouse operators, and those whose arms and hands are involved in jobs as varied as stirring large containers of soup, butchering meat, planing wood, using a manual screwdriver regularly, and other repetitive/static load jobs too numerous to mention. A11 Vibration White Finger – the symptoms of episodic blanching (whiteness due to circulation seizing up) occurring throughout the year, in thumbs and fingers. Caused by handheld chain saws in forestry, or handheld rotary tools in grinding, sanding or polishing of metal, or the holding of material being ground or polished by rotary tools, or the use of handheld percussive (vibrating) metal working tools, are the use of handheld percussive drills or hammers, offer holding of material being worked upon by handling machines. (So you see this covers a wide range of tools). A12 Carpal tunnel Syndrome – this is caused by the use of handheld powered tools whose internal parts vibrate so as to transmit without vibration to the hand, but excluding those which are solely powered by hand. (Excluded for example, are sewing machines, which do vibrate, and upon which the hands do rest, but are not classed as causing the injury, as the machine is not handheld). What also is not generally known is that claim for industrial injuries benefit can be made even if you are still working, but you are injured due to a work-related condition. Another thing that is not generally known when claiming for industrial injuries benefit, is that if you have an accident whilst on the way to work, travelling to and from work or at lunchtime and on the way home, you can also claim for industrial injuries benefit. Therefore it is always beneficial to check via your union office, and then the citizens advice bureaux or local welfare rights advice centre, on whether or not you would qualify in the event of this happening to you. Useful leaflets, which can help regarding claiming benefits, are available from the Benefits Agency. © 2011 RSI Action…
The idea of nationalism is most relevant today . Though in our holy scriptures it is written ‘Janani Janmabhumishcha, Svargaadapi Gariyasi’ i.e. The mother and motherland are more precious than heaven. The biggest problem today is that many people are very much confused about this. Many confusions are created by some selfish politicians and some hate mongers. There are two extreme ends to thinking on this subject today. There are some narrow minded people, who do not allow a little deviation to their idea of nation and nationalism. There are others too, who totally disregard the idea of nationalism, they consider themselves to be world citizens and for them ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ are worthless ideas. Such people easily digest the slogans like ‘Bharat tere tukde honge, insha allah, insha allah’. Further, for them if somebody considers himself a true hindu, he is communal, a person can be anything, have any faith but being a ‘true hindu’ is not allowed. Pity is that such people receive international awards also, sometimes it appears that such ideas are internationally promoted. I remember a story by Munshi Premchand Ji ‘Padosi’ i.e. neighbor. It is a story about a Hindu and a Muslim, both being neigbour and it shows the deep rooted love amongst them. Today by the grace of our divisive leadership, we do not find such Hindu and Muslim neighbors in villages at least, in modern societies it might be there, but in “Societies’ there is no society actually, in most of the cases. I believe that a true Hindu and a true Muslim would never fight (and this is true about any true follower of any religion as such, Hindu and Muslim I wrote just for example). While we indians consider our motherland most sacred, we also believe in the idea of ‘Vishwa Bandhutva’, i.e. we consider the whole world as a family. Today we find people with very extreme views and activities, there are people who check in people’s houses, whether there is cow meat stored there and also beating people to death on the ground that somebody was carrying a cow (according to their imagination for killing). There are others also who like to tease others by publicly showing that they are eating cow meat. I only feel that we should love our nation by heart, but not force anybody else to express his love for the nation, the way we want him to do. If we feel that some activity is not as per norms, we can report it to appropriate authorities, but we are nobody to punish anybody as an unruly mob, in the form of ‘Mob Lynching’. Further if some people publicly express anti national sentiments, authorities should punish them properly, judiciary also should take prompt decision in such cases, so that others may not get encouraged to do such activities. So basically we all should love our country, anybody doing his own duty sincerely is doing national service. We need not become the judge by ourselves and remain law abiding citizens. Those who consider themselves to be nationalist by beating others, like on carrying a cow, according to them for killing are also anti-national. You are nobody to take law into your hands. Similarly those proclaiming to be progressive and world citizens, by expressing anti-national sentiments need to be dealt by an iron hand, but by appropriate authorities and not by an unruly mob. • These are my humble ideas on the #IndiSpire prompt- Time to revisit nationalism, patriotism, chauvinism, and anti-nationalism in the garb of freedom of speech. #nationalism. Thanks for reading.
As with any physical sport, warming up your muscles is the first step towards any successful Muay Thai workout or fight. Essentially this is one of the most important practices to conduct before any workout or fighting begins, to ensure that your muscles, ligaments and mind are physically and mentally prepared for the endurance to come. Not warming up adequately before any Muay Thai physical activity could lead to decreased ability and movement, or even injury throughout the workout or fight. There are several different methods and techniques available to choose from when deciding how best to conduct your Muay Thai warm up. By intricately knowing your body and the way in which it works and moves throughout the motions of a Muay Thai workout or fight, you can ensure that you are preparing the right muscles in the right way during your Muay Thai warm up. The aim of a Muay Thai warm up is to get your body moving and your blood flowing, all in preparation for intense engagement with the hardcore activity associated with Muay Thai and its movements. The first question to ask before conducting any style of Muay Thai warm up is, what are the most important muscles to warm up for a successful and comfortable workout or fight and what is the best way in order to prepare those muscles? Muay Thai utilizes all of the body throughout its techniques and movements ensuring that you’re defence and offence is of the highest quality and effect for a successful workout or fight. This style of Mixed Martial Arts makes nearly every muscle in your body a necessity throughout any practice of Muay Thai, meaning a successful warm up is a whole body warm up, waking up all of the muscles and ligaments in preparation for the extreme activity during Muay Thai. The easiest and most efficient way to prepare your muscles for any Muay Thai workout or fight is with basic movements such as jumping jacks, push ups and sit ups. These basic but vital warm up activities not only warm up all of the muscles in your body in preparation for extreme, hardcore Muay Thai workout or fighting movements, but also ease your muscles into these extreme movements to prevent and minimise injury throughout your body during a Muay Thai workout or fight. Another efficient and peaceful way of warming up your muscles and your mind before any Muay Thai workout or fight is with slow stretches and movements. The most effective stretches you can utilize in order to maximise your Muay Thai workout are leg stretches, arm stretches and back stretches, this varied range of muscle stretches will not only prepare you physically for the hardcore, explosive moments in any Muay Thai workout but also prepare your mind and enable you to focus with its tranquil setting and movements. All of the warm up methods and techniques available to Muay Thai fighters and practitioners are designed to prepare you mentally and physically for the intense engagement that comes with the practice of Muay Thai. With proper preparation, intricate movements and stretches, you can ensure you are warmed up effectively enough before starting any aspect of a Muay Thai workout or fight, minimising injury and maximising your Muay Thai training.
Family History and Genealogy Resources by Surname Noakes Surname Origin A corruption of Atten Oak, 'at the oak;' en was added to at when the following word began with a vowel, as 'John Atten Ash'--John Nash, that is, John at the Ash. Mr. John Nokes is a celebrated personage in legal matters, as well as his constant antagonist Mr. John Styles (John at the Style). The names are so common, that 'Jack Noakes and Tom Styles' designate the rabble. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import; Arthur, William, M.A.; New York, NY: Sheldon, Blake, Bleeker & CO., 1857. Noakes Surname Meaning and Family Facts There is more to Noakes family history than the origin of your surname: A Noakes Family History Thought: 'If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.' --Nicholas Boileau
RICHARD: They’d go home disappointed. Come back next year, Well one year has to be the year! RICHARD: So it says in the Book of Acts, There were devout Jews from all the surrounding nations come to Jerusalem…. for Shavuot. RICHARD: the Hebrew word; Pentecost. and guess what happens? RICHARD: Now instead of Mount Sinai in the desert, it’s Mount Zion in Jerusalem. RICHARD: It’s repeating it; God comes down with fire, like a mighty wind It’s on the Temple Mount; all this commotion, [laughing] all this noise! LARRY: Oh my goodness. RICHARD: I’m getting excited. LARRY: Oh yeah. RICHARD: [Excitedly] The people are running to the foot of the mountain! They hear all this, they see all this; now, God comes down in [laughing] tongues of fire, and speaks through. RICHARD: all the languages, to all. it. it’s amazing! LARRY: Now we don’t even think about. RICHARD: I know it! LARRY: that parallel. RICHARD: It’s , and then so now, instead of Moses, Peter gets up. RICHARD: and speaks! RICHARD: And now, to finish the story, instead of 3,000 dying, 3,000. it’s right. God is amazing!. LARRY: Wow; wow. RICHARD: (laughing) 3,000 gladly received His Word, and were added into the Kingdom of God. So they got baptized. The. Hebrew is Mikveh, and these baptismal pools– RICHARD: The ruins of them are still there. RICHARD: on the southern slopes of the Temple Mount. You can see where these 3,000 people got baptized there. RICHARD: Isn’t that amazing! LARRY: That’s, that’s. RICHARD: It is so amazing! It’s one book and. and one [laughing] story! LARRY: Well, and I can. RICHARD: (laughing) Wow! LARRY: just to let our viewers know, because so many people, when you actually mention the word Pentecost, they get scared, you know. They get. People think, Oh, Pentecost; we’re associating that with something weird, something bizarre. Pentecost is not something to be afraid of, number one, as Dr. Booker just explained. It actually means, at its root, 50; you know, 50 days. LARRY: And the wonderful thing, though, is Pentecost is not just an experience to happen one time. It was not just something that happened under the Old Covenant. And it wasn’t just something that happened one day, I-in the Book of Acts. Pentecost, I believe, is the experience that God is inviting every Believer to live under the influence of. If you are thinking to yourself, I wish I could experience God more; I. I wish I could actually, Taste and see that [He] is good. God was never just meant to be a list of rules, regulations, formulas, or concepts. He is a person, and I believe He is a person, through the Holy Spirit, Who wants to have an experience. a dynamic encounter with you. So when we come back, me and Dr. Booker are going to talk about how you can accept the Lord’s invitation, to experience the power and the presence of Pentecost in your life today. Don’t go away. [music] We’ll see you when we come back. LARRY: Welcome back to Something More. I’m your host, Larry Sparks, and I’m here with Dr. Richard Booker. We [claps] are going to talk about how you can experience the power of Pentecost in your life today. Now, some of you might be thinking one of two things. Maybe it’s like, I don’t know about that; I’ve never experienced God in that way. I. I want to be faithful to the Word. I’m a person of the Word. And I’ve got some good news for you: God wants you to love His Word; but that Word is an invitation, for you to experience the One it reveals. And number two, you might think to yourself, Well yeah, that Holy Spirit thing, I got that, maybe back in 1975, 1983, 1997. I got filled with the Holy Spirit, baptized in the Spirit, spoke in tongues, fell on the floor, and. and. and. LARRY: and I’m good; I got my badge.
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Have you ever noticed that women are typically the ones spearheading gender equality movements? Think of the suffragettes, the #MeToo, and #TimesUp movements, the March for Women; All fronted by women – but at what cost? Research increasingly shows that relying solely on female leaders is not enough to achieve equality. Perhaps in response to this, there’s been a recent upsurge in male-led initiatives, such as the HeForShe movement, and the Male Champions of Change initiative. Both of these call on men to use their privilege and power to place gender equality on the agenda. These types of initiatives aren’t just companies taking a stab at something new – they’re backed by social psychological research. For example, two recent studies looking at how leader gender affected individuals’ responses to calls for equality found that men and women were more likely to follow a male leader into action (Hardacre & Subasic, 2018; Subasic et al., 2018). Importantly, the only change between the study conditions was the leader’s name and pronouns (e.g., from “Margaret” to “Matthew”). Below, we talk about some of the reasons why female leaders struggle to mobilise people toward equality. “Think manager, think male”: Leadership prototype embodies masculine attributes In our heads, we hold a 'prototype' of particular categories and roles – a fuzzy set of characteristics, attitudes, and behaviours that define certain groups and occupations. For example, if you were to think of a leader, you might think confident, assertive, and even male. Turns out this “think manager, think male” mindset is pervasive. Numerous leadership theories emphasise the desirability of stereotypically masculine traits in leaders. In fact, female leaders are frequently seen as ineffective because individuals’ ideas of effective leadership overlap with agentic male stereotypes (assertive, dominant), rather than communal female stereotypes (warm, nurturing). Even when female leaders do adopt masculine behaviours (such as those seen as typical of leaders), they face backlash because they’re seen as “violating” their traditional caring stereotype. This signifies a Catch-22 situation whereby female leaders are “damned if they do and doomed if they don’t!” Female leaders face accusations of self-interest, while male leaders are seen as having something to lose. It’s also difficult for female leaders of gender equality movements not to appear self-interested and overly invested in their cause (with good reason, given that it IS in their group’s best interests to challenge the status quo!). Essentially, women’s efforts at reducing inequality can be seen as furthering the interests of themselves and their group, and the more women are viewed as trying to benefit their own group, the more cynicism and dismissal they encounter. This can undermine women’s efforts at social change because acts of self-interest are less convincing and influential than acts that seem to oppose one’s best interests. In contrast, because many view gender equality as a zero-sum game, when men challenge gender inequality they’re seen as having something to lose – namely the rights and privilege that accompany their membership of a high-status group. This ultimately affords men greater legitimacy and influence, and therefore greater ability to mobilise followers. Male leaders possess a shared identity with men and women, while female leaders only share an identity with women. Possessing a shared identity with those you are trying to mobilise is at the crux of effective leadership, because those considered “us” are considered more influential than “them”. Herein lies another problem for female leaders. In gender equality contexts, male and female leaders both share a cause with women engaged in gender equality movements whilst men benefit from an additional shared social identity with men.. Meanwhile, no such shared identity yet exists for female leaders looking to mobilise a male audience. Instead, they’re seen as outgroup members by men in terms of their gender group membership, but also in terms of shared cause because gender equality is often seen as a women’s issue and of no benefit to men. Paradoxically, by virtue of their gender and the privileges it permits, male leaders seem to have the ability to undertake gender equality leadership roles and mobilise men and women more effectively than female leaders. Research suggests that, among other reasons, this is due to leadership prototypes typically comprising masculine attributes, female leaders’ inability to escape accusations of self-interest, and male leaders’ possession of a shared identity with both male and female followers. It will be interesting to see how long the male ally advantage persists: in the longer term, effective feminist leadership will presumably eliminate the ironic inequality. - Guest post by Stephanie Hardacre (University of Newcastle). All researchers in the Social Change Lab contribute to the "Do Good" blog. Click the author's name at the bottom of any post to learn more about their research or get in touch. LAST 25 POSTS
You might find some of the following useful to have a look at: Burch, V (2008) Living Well With Pain And Illness: Using Mindfulness to free yourself from pain and suffering. London: Piatkus Books Kabat-Zinn, J (2001). Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using Mindfulness meditation. London: Piatkus Books. Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Wherever You Go There You Are (10th Anniversary Edition). New York: Hyperion Santorelli, S. (1999). Heal Thy Self. New York: Bell Tower. Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G., Teasdale, J.D. (2012). Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse. (2nd Edn). New York: The Guilford Press Williams, M. & Penman, D. (2011). Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World. London: Piatkus. Williams, M. Teasdale, J.D. Segal, Z.V. Kabat-Zinn, J. (2007). The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness. New York: The Guilford Press.
This turnkey renewable mechanical system is designed to provide domestic hot water and space heating with minimal external energy input. The vast majority of space heat and domestic hot water is provided by the geothermal heat pump and solar thermal system. This unique buffer tank configuration provides a true, high capacity geothermal preheat scenario by utilizing a ‘tank in tank design’. The large preheated storage capacity is ideal for sporadic, but large domestic hot water loads. The system is equipped with a boiler that brings the geothermal or solar preheated domestic hot water up to desired delivery temperature. The same boiler also proved peak heat to the building for the brief periods when heating demand exceeds 85% of building design heat loss. Utilizing a drainback configuration for the solar thermal provides passive freeze protection and overheat protection in routine operation, and in the case of a power outage or pump/equipment failure. It is the most reliable and cost effective way to move solar energy to water in a small application. The distribution system includes in floor radiant distribution in balanced loop controlled at remote manifolds. By employing reset strategy, the delivery temperature to the radiant slab is reduced when the heating load on the building is reduced (warmer outside). This is particularly useful in the shoulder seasons when the solar thermal provides a significant contribution at a higher efficiency than the geothermal system could. It automatically gives the best of both worlds. A 2 pipe per trench horizontal geothermal groundloop is a great way to reduce capital cost and preserve excellent performance. A geothermal ground loop is an excellent way to extract low grade energy from nature with no impact for many, many years to come.
We provide in school STEM based curriculum development during regular school hours. This area of education has a dominance over the conventional educational systems as it puts more weight on thinking and reaching own self-explanatory conclusions. We have over 30+ years of collective public and private school experience and understand the landscape of whats expected and whats possible in different arenas. YOU CAN LEARN The first ever Dekalb Academy CTAE Showcase was on full view for the public last week, as the school partnered with STEAM Teams to produce a first class affair to showcase the CTAE department and STEAM Teams course work. The event, held in the school’s gym on December 5th, displayed the future of CTAE and […] Philmore Academy, headed by Dr. Sherrie Raymore, has partnered with STEAM Teams to bring Digital Media and Film courses to the school’s middle school students. The curriculum will focus on an introduction to the many facets of Digital Media with a focus on film production work pipeline and photography. The students will have a major […] Dekalb Academy of Technology & Environment drops its newly released video NEVER GIVE UP, presented by STEAM Teams partners Universal Phoenix Group and Digital Dance Culture. The video includes a plethora of visuals from the STEM school along with some special featured dancers, King Imprint and Daniel Price. D.A.T.E. is committed to not only excellence […] Dr. Maury Wills STEAM TEAMS provides our students with electrifying , engaging, hands on experiences and activities that will promote applicable real world applications. Our students are motivated, and encouraged, ten times over, with what STEAM TEAMS is able to offer and deliver. STAY TUNED WITH US Subscribe now and receive weekly newsletter with educational materials, new courses, interesting posts, popular books and much more!
Updated for 2019! This annual report recognizes—and quantifies—the commitment of StopWaste's member agencies to landscapes that provide multiple environmental and community benefits, including carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas reductions resulting from applying compost to the soil.Read More Side and top dressing with compost gradually builds up soil health, fertilizes plants, and is really easy to do. To side dress, sprinkle compost or worm castings at the base of plants. To top dress, spread compost on soil just right before planting.Read More The Alameda County Waste Reduction and Recycling Initiative (Measure D), levies a surcharge on solid waste landfilled in unincorporated Alameda County. Fifty percent of Recycling Fund revenues are disbursed to cities and sanitary districts that meet criteria contained in the law. Funds disbursed to municipalities must be used "...for the continuationRead More - \| 05/24/2019 At a recognition event this week, StopWaste acknowledged the recipients of the 2019 StopWaste Business Efficiency Awards, given for outstanding achievements in waste reduction.Read More - Topic Briefs Since 2000, StopWaste has recognized dozens of businesses for exemplary waste reduction practices as part of its Business Efficiency Awards. In 2019, StopWaste is recognizing six Alameda County businesses who stand out in their efforts to help the county achieve its waste reduction and energy efficiency goals.Read More
The layover facility is described as a building structure that has a 46,000 square foot footprint with a height of 37 feet to accommodate up to three locomotive train sets. Cooper E80 train loadings were used for soils engineering. Geotechnical challenges included a deep sand marine regressive delta with shallow groundwater within a sand and gravel aquifer. A combination of test borings with SPT sampling, groundwater observation wells, and seismic cone penetration tests (SCPTu) were performed by SGS using an AMS PowerProbe 9500 VTR to investigate the subsurface conditions. The use of SCPTu provided site specific shear wave velocity testing for improved earthquake seismic design, liquefaction analysis, and soil response from dynamic train loads. Brunswick Amtrak Layover Facility Summit Geoengineering Services provided geotechnical consulting for the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) layover facility in Brunswick, Maine.
Government Information Office Minister Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) said on Tuesday that the cross-strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) was a giant step forward in overcoming the country's economic isolation, building trade and speeding up Asian integration. Chiang said the “momentous” deal would tighten the bonds between Taiwan's high-tech economy and China's lucrative markets, but added that it was “not the end goal.” The government now plans to hold talks with Taiwan's other trading partners in a push for other trade deals to become more integrated into the Asian and global economy, he said. “Trade is Taiwan's lifeline,” Chiang told a luncheon sponsored by the Carnegie Council and the Overseas Press Club of America. “So we cannot allow ourselves to become economically marginalized.” Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) hailed the pact as historic, saying it signaled progress on deepening cross-strait ties. However, Taiwan's opposition says the pact will hurt the nation's economy by making it overly dependent on China and ultimately pave the way for political unification, its greatest fear. China is Taiwan's largest trading partner, with two-way trade accounting for about 29 percent of Taiwan's total external trade last year and 41 percent of its exports, Chiang said. However, he insisted Taiwan was not putting “all its eggs in one basket” and has put the other 49 percent into India and other emerging markets “to diversify our trade and exports.” Asked about the opposition's concerns that the trade deal would lead to political integration, Chiang said President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has said that his administration would not deal with the issues of unification, independence or the use of force across the Taiwan Strait. The trade agreement “represents three giant steps forward,” Chiang said. “Number one is one giant step for overcoming Taiwan's economic isolation. Number two, it is also one giant step toward mutually beneficial cross-strait trade and cooperation. And finally, it is one giant step for speeding up integration of Asia,” he said. FAMILY FEUD: Weng Jen-hsien, who was convicted of killing six people in 2016, was the second prisoner to be executed since President Tsai Ing-wen took office A death row inmate was executed on Wednesday, less than a year after he was convicted of killing six people by setting fire to his home. Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) said that he signed the order and the death sentence was carried out on Wednesday afternoon in New Taipei City. The Supreme Court on July 10 last year sentenced 53-year-old Weng Jen-hsien (翁仁賢) to death after he was convicted of killing his parents, niece, nephew and nephew’s wife and his parents’ caregivers. Weng set fire to his home in Taoyuan’s Longtan District (龍潭) on Feb. 7, 2016, after a family feud HOME AWAY FROM HOME: The central government is offering subsidies to hotels to house people who have been ordered to undergo 14-day home quarantine Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday elaborated on the rules for “social distancing” and said that the government is providing subsidies to encourage more hotels to become quarantine hotels. Chen on Tuesday urged the public to practice social distancing by keeping at least 1m apart outdoors and 1.5m apart indoors. If maintaining such distances is not possible due to confined or crowded spaces, then everyone should wear a mask, Chen yesterday told a daily news briefing at the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taipei. The center also suggested that people avoid exhibitions, sports events, concerts and other social STRENGTH IN UNITY: The Executive Yuan respects KMT legislators’ viewpoints, but has no comment on calls for the premier to step down, spokeswoman Kolas Yotaka said The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday accused Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) of treating the Legislative Yuan with disdain and demanded that he apologize or step down for saying that KMT Legislator Chen Yu-jen (陳玉珍) is unfit for her job. Prior to a question-and-answer session at the legislature on Tuesday, Su was asked by reporters to comment on Chen’s remark on Monday that Taiwan is not a country. “Then she is not qualified to be a lawmaker,” the premier said. Chen made the remark during a question-and-answer session with Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chen Ming-tong (陳明通), when she asked him about his view At a campground in Nantou County, a team of women are using ropes to shimmy up a towering seven-story tall Chinaberry tree, fighting their fear of heights and reconnecting with nature. Tree climbing remains somewhat niche in Taiwan, but a growing number of women are embracing the challenge thanks to the island’s first international certified female climber arborist. Sylvia Hsu (許芢涵), 26, said she was inspired to set up her own women-only tree climbing classes after seeing the popularity of similar gatherings in Europe. “A women-only camp is a more relaxed environment,” she said. “I was hooked on trees after my first climb...
The US Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates another quarter of a point on Tuesday, and it suggested that it would keep raising them gradually over the next year. \nIt was the Fed's third rate increase in three months. Coming less than seven weeks before the presidential election on Nov. 2, the decision pushed the federal funds rate on overnight loans between banks up to 1.75 percent from 1.5 percent. \nWhile incumbent presidents nor-mally cringe at the prospect of higher rates before an election, the increases are not expected to pose a threat to President George W. Bush because consumers and businesses have felt almost no tangible impact. \nLong-term interest rates, which determine home mortgage rates and many commercial loans, have edged down since June as fears of inflation have receded. \nAnd because this was the Fed's last policy meeting before the election, consumers are unlikely to feel any more pinch from rates before the election than they have already. \n"If anything, the effect on consumers has been positive," said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo Bank in Minneapolis. \nRates on 30-year fixed rate mortgages have declined from about 6.25 percent in June to 5.63 percent in the middle of this month, and the housing market remains almost as hot as ever. Stock and bond markets reacted very little to the decision, suggesting that long-term interest rates are likely to remain steady through the election as well. \nShortly before the Fed announced its decision, the Commerce Department reported that housing construction, which had been expected to slow as rates went up, climbed to an annual rate of 2 million homes last month. That was the highest level in five months. \nThe main question ahead of Tuesday's decision was whether the central bank would signal any change in its goal of raising rates at a measured pace of regular quarter-point increases over the next year. \nIt did not, and if anything expressed greater optimism about the economy and therefore greater confidence about raising rates than it did after its previous policy meeting on Aug. 10. \n"Output growth appears to have regained some traction, and labor market conditions have improved modestly," the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement accompanying its decision. \nReiterating previous statements, the Fed stressed that interest rates were still low. \n"Even after this action, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative," the Fed said in its statement. \nFed officials have made it clear that short-term rates, which were pushed down to 1 percent last year, are too low to be sustainable. HELPING HAND: Taiwan is ready to help other nations and will not sit idly by while the global fight against the coronavirus continues, President Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan, as a responsible member of the international community, is to offer humanitarian assistance to nations hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic by sending them masks and medicine, as well as sharing with them an electronic system that the government has been using to track down people that need to be quarantined, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday. With the nation’s daily production having reached 13 million masks and soon to reach 15 million, the government is to donate 10 million masks to medical personnel in nations most severely affected by the coronavirus, Tsai said at the Presidential Office in Taipei. The NINE NEW CASES: The CECC said two locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, and seven imported ones – five women and two men – brought the nation’s total to 348 People who refuse to wear a mask on public transportation after being asked to do so would face a NT$3,000 to NT$15,000 fine, effective immediately, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday after announcing nine additional COVID-19 cases. In a move to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications on Tuesday announced that people must wear masks on trains and intercity buses, while Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, on Tuesday said that people should wear them when they cannot maintain a social distance of 1.5m indoors. Chen yesterday TRILLION PROPOSED: The premier said the goal was to keep ‘businesses solvent, the unemployment rate down, transportation and logistics going, and cash flowing’ The Executive Yuan yesterday announced an expanded economic stimulus package totaling NT$1.05 trillion (US$34.64 billion), including NT$81.6 billion in subsidies for employers to prevent a spike in unemployment. The increased budget comprises a special budget of NT$210 billion, up from the NT$60 billion already passed by the Legislative Yuan; NT$140 billion — up from NT$40 billion — to be appropriated from the general budget; and NT$700 billion in loans to industries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Minister Chu Tzer-ming (朱澤民) told a news conference at the Executive Yuan in Taipei. The NT$150 billion increase in the The Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday released a set of revised criteria for reporting suspected COVID-19 cases, while also announcing its guidelines for disclosing patients’ personal information. The center said that its advisory specialist panel revised the definition for “severe pneumonia with novel pathogens” — COVID-19 infection — by expanding the criteria needed to report suspected cases. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that physicians should report people for testing if they meet one of three clinical conditions: They have a fever, acute respiratory infection, or a lack of smell or taste; there is a
A woman sits at a restaurant studying the menu with furrowed brow. She has begun an exercise routine and knows that her frequent meals out could slow her weight loss results if she wasn't careful. When the waiter comes she is still deep in thought over what to order. “What can I get for you?” he asks with a smile. She looks up and frowns, no closer to arriving at a decision. On a whim she blurts out, “I’m trying to eat healthy but I have no idea what to order. What do you think I should eat?” The young waiter looks startled but quickly rattles off his idea of a healthy meal. “The eggplant and roasted pepper pasta is filled with vegetables. You could get that with a salad.” The woman smiles. Yes, vegetables do sound healthy. So she orders the veggie pasta with a side salad and a diet soda, then sits back to enjoy a few slices of bread. That’s a true story. Not surprisingly the woman was unable to lose weight even though she was exercising regularly. It is said that 80% of your weight loss results are derived from diet, and the remaining 20% from exercise—so you can see how important it is for you to stick with a healthy eating plan. Here’s Your Guide to Eating Out Healthy… Appetizers: Appetizers are a great way to start out a leisurely meal, but can also quickly derail your good intentions.
Peers and MP’s have warned that laws aimed at tackling money laundering carry too many loopholes and are “unenforceable”. Government Ministers have drawn up a list of foreign individuals and overseas businesses who own property in the UK and are using the property market as a mechanism to launder money. The register is intended to be publicly available. In 2016 the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, hosted an anti-corruption summit and announced plans to introduce the register. However a committee of MP’s assessing the “Overseas Entities Bill” have been critical of the legislation claiming that it doesn’t have sufficient “teeth”. The Chairman of the committee, Lord Faulks, has commented, “The legislation is well drafted but there are some loopholes in the draft bill which, if unaddressed, could jeopardise the effectiveness of this important legislation.” A follow up statement said, “Time is of the essence, the Government must get on with improving this Bill and making it law”. From 2004 to 2015 the UK instigated criminal investigations into property dealings worth £180 million. Furthermore during 2017, alone, £4 billion pounds worth of property transactions were identified as having been bought by, what has been described as, “high corruption risk individuals”. It has been suggested that whilst law enforcement agencies cannot access the required information regards “anonymous” foreign buyers, that the introduction of civil penalties may be a more effective solution.
Yes, folks, it’s true - mLearning or mobile learning, at least in concept, has been around for decades. In fact, I remember learning conversational Spanish by listening to audio tapes on my Sony Walkman (oops, I think I just dated myself) over 30 years ago. Although only somewhat effective and heavily reliant on one’s dedication to repetition, my conversational Spanish on tape was a form of mobile learning. So what’s the big deal now? Why is it being talked about so much? Why are so many organizations considering this approach? And why do we have conferences and expos that are dedicated to this concept? Well, in my opinion, it’s an explosive area and one that needs further definition or, dare I say, no singular definition at all. Just as "learning" can be an umbrella term for a lot of things such as training, education, knowledge sharing, performance support, etc., so can "mobile learning" mean a lot of different things to different people. Many of the existing definitions of mobile learning are usually too learner-focused or too device-focused. A singular, widely accepted definition seems improbable...so for now, we need to generalize our description of it to allow for a growing number of mobile learning scenarios as well as future capabilities of new technology and device types. Mobile learning should be viewed as a way to augment the learner through the use of technology that provides access to content and information, anytime and anywhere. Unlike other learning technologies, mobile learning is unique in that it can accommodate both formal and informal learning in collaborative or individual learning modes. I am sure we will get to a point sometime where we can be more definitive of what we are striving to develop, e.g., mobile training, mobile performance support, mobile content management, etc. But for now, most of us are only comfortable using the blanket term...mLearning...whatever that means for your organization.
What will you find in this article? Why Take Probiotics for Weight Loss? The peoples of most nations are currently in the grip of an unprecedented and dangerous global obesity epidemic. This is nothing like the world has ever seen before. The state of entire populations is nothing short of a tragedy. First we saw fat adults, and then came fat kids, and now we’re even seeing fat babies. The cause of this is a combination of poor diet and sedentary lifestyles. It’s a little more complex than that, but this is the simplified version. Technology has indirectly contributed to global weight gain too. Automation has given more comfort and convenience to us all, too much, some would argue. We don’t need to put in as much effort as we once did to achieve certain jobs. This applies both home and work life. The number of sit-down jobs has skyrocketed in recent years, and it will continue to rise. We have, to all intents and purposes, become button pushers and finger tappers. The only physical workout a lot of us get nowadays is lip and finger exercise. Lip exercise is through eating, shouting and talking, etc. And we get finger exercise from tapping electronic devices all day, every day, for most of the day. Other than that, there’s a lot of sitting going on in any given day for most of us. How Probiotics for Weight Loss Work Using probiotics is an effective tool for weight loss and weight maintenance. It is an all-natural way to shed weight safely. There are other weight loss supplements available that manufacturer’s market aggressively. However, these are produced using synthetic and chemical based ingredients. A lot of them come with their own set of unpleasant side effects too. Rigorous exercise is one way that contributes to weight loss, but on its own exercise is useless. Exercise is also unpopular with people of a certain size for obvious reasons. The bigger someone is, the more effort it takes to work out. This is why exercise is not sustainable for a lot of folks. OK, let’s now take a look at how probiotics might help with weight loss and weight maintenance. Lactobacillus Gasseri for Weight Loss So do probiotics really help with weight loss? This is a question that interests those who want to lose weight in a way which is not only natural but effective too. Probiotics offer this and without any pain or unpleasant side effects. Imbalances in the microbiome have links to obesity and diabetes; this is according to past research. The microbiome is a collection of microbes that colonize our bodies. It consists of trillions of bacteria all residing in the gut. What we eat can shift our bacterial communities for better or for worse. Probiotics, known as the “good bacteria”, help to restore and maintain healthy colonies. According to health experts, L. gasseri weight loss is a natural and safe probiotic. Furthermore, anyone can try it, irrespective of his or her age or gender. Most scientists agree that L. gasseri is a unique species of probiotic. It’s also an extremely powerful probiotic for weight management. L. gasseri protects against harmful organisms too. The research so far suggests the strains of L. gasseri speed up metabolism and encourage weight loss. A 2013 study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, is of particular interest. Obese adults who took L. gasseri SBT2055/LG2055 lost more than eight percent over a 12-week period. They did this simply by adding this probiotic strain to their diet. In other words, there was no change to their diet and no increase in physical activity. They just took the probiotic. There is nothing to lose by trying the best probiotics for weight loss. Mind you, this is not an armchair solution to good health, but it’s a great start nonetheless. To improve one’s health, diet and physical activity are vital components too. Anyone who gets to lose weight with probiotics will start to feel and function much better as a consequence. When this happens, there will be a lot more incentive to improve in other areas too. More on Probiotics Probiotics are live microorganisms found in bacteria. They are critical to the overall health of humans. Probiotics are your body’s friendly bacteria that assist with digestion, but that’s not all they do. Probiotics also balance the ratio of good and bad bacteria in our system. This “bad” bacterium is what promotes nasty diseases when left unchecked. In short, probiotics assist in healing your gut. Probiotic weight loss supplements are obviously beneficial for weight management. But probiotics more generally don’t just help with weight issues. If you can identify with any of the points below, then you might want to look into probiotic supplements. - Your diet is typical western (lacks in nutrients) - You’re overweight or obese - You take antibiotics - You have a prolonged (chronic) illness - You are over 60 years of age All these things and more besides have an impact. They can deplete the healthy bacteria from the gastrointestinal tract quicker than it can be replenished. Probiotics are available in most yogurt based drinks and natural yogurts. They can be found in abundance in some other foods too. These include goat’s cheese, kefir, kimchee, sauerkraut and buttermilk. But if you want strict control over probiotics, then taking supplements is the way to go. Effect of probiotic (VSL#3) and omega-3 on lipid profile, insulin sensitivity, inflammatory markers, and gut colonization in overweight adults: a randomized, controlled trial. To evaluate the effects of probiotic (VSL#3) and omega-3 fatty acid on insulin sensitivity, blood lipids, and inflammation, we conducted a clinical trial in 60 overweight (BMI > 25), healthy adults, aged 40-60 years. After initial screening the subjects were randomized into four groups with 15 per group. The four groups received, respectively, placebo, omega-3 fatty acid, probiotic VSL#3, or both omega-3 and probiotic, for 6 weeks. Blood and fecal samples were collected at baseline and after 6 weeks. The probiotic (VSL#3) supplemented group had significant reduction in total cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, and VLDL and had increased HDL (P < 0.05) value. VSL#3 improved insulin sensitivity (P < 0.01), decreased hsCRP, and favorably affected the composition of gut microbiota. Omega-3 had significant effect on insulin sensitivity and hsCRP but had no effect on gut microbiota. Addition of omega-3 fatty acid with VSL#3 had more pronounced effect on HDL, insulin sensitivity and hsCRP. Subjects with low HDL, insulin resistance, and high hsCRP had significantly lower total lactobacilli and bifidobacteria count and higher E. coli and bacteroides count. - Mediators Inflamm. 2014;2014:348959. doi: 10.1155/2014/348959. Epub 2014 Mar 26. Effect of probiotic (VSL#3) and omega-3 on lipid profile, insulin sensitivity, inflammatory markers, and gut colonization in overweight adults: a randomized, controlled trial. Rajkumar H1, Mahmood N1, Kumar M1, Varikuti SR1, Challa HR1, Myakala SP1.
There are many different reasons to pursue interior design, from cleaning up a cluttered home to choosing the perfect finishing touch for a room. Interior design can be an intimidating subject, but with the right advice, it can be surprisingly easy to make your home look perfect. When you are decorating your children’s room, try to look at things from their perspective. Decor in their room should be practical and age-appropriate. If you have young children, get down and look at things at their eye level. This will help you decide how to make the most of the space in their room. Have a theme in mind. Is there a specific color scheme you rather enjoy? Do you have a fondness for retro furniture? Deciding on a theme before you even begin your planning phase can save you a lot of time and effort. Make sure you know what you’re going for before you start planning for it. Speak with friends or family before you take on a project. This will help you to get ideas that you may not think of, which you can incorporate into your project. Also, this helps you to reduce the chances of making an error as someone else may be able to spot it. If you are designing a new kitchen in your house, it is beneficial to contact a professional contractor. Your ideas might involve electrical and plumbing work that is beyond your scope of expertise. By contacting a professional, they can help you to outline the exact project so it is done right and within budget. There is such a thing as too much, as adding too many items to a room will make it look cluttered. If you have too much stuff in too small a space, it is going to appear cramped. Make sure you don’t add more furniture to a space than you need to keep your space open. Create some elegance in a room using sconces for lighting. The dim light that comes from a sconce is considered to be fancy and romantic. You can also get them in a variety of shapes, colors, and designs so that they will fit in perfectly with the theme of your room. Remodeling your kitchen can be one of the most extensive (and expensive!) interior-design jobs in your house. Despite the hassle and expense involved, resist the temptation to save money by buying cheap cabinets. There’s an enormous difference in quality between premium and cut-rate cabinets. You’ll only end up replacing discount cabinetry a few years down the line. One stumbling block you might run across when you change up your kitchen’s decor is your appliances. You may have durable, reliable appliances that clash with your new design concept. You don’t have to replace them to get the look you want! Appliance repair professionals are also capable of refinishing old appliances. They can upgrade your old avocado-colored fridge into a gleaming stainless steel model if that’s what your remodeling job calls for. You do not need to feel daunted by the prospect of interior design. Once you get an idea of what you’re shooting for, it’s easy to improve your home’s look. Keep in mind the advice found above, and begin utilizing it right now.…
[This local archive copy mirrored from the canonical site: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980716.eicommercenet.htm; links may not have complete integrity, so use the canonical document at this URL if possible.] CommerceNet to use XML Web site for registry By Nancy Weil Posted at 9:30 AM PT, Jul 16, 1998 XML Exchange (http://www.xmlx.com), which was launched 10 weeks ago, will now be run by CommerceNet, a non-profit I-commerce industry group with more than 500 worldwide members, CommerceNet announced. The Web site was acquired for an undisclosed sum from XMLSolutions, a Washington consulting company. XML was finalized as a standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in February, and within weeks was hailed as the heir apparent to HTML. A subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), XML allows programmers to make it easier to find and index information on the Web. HTML cannot identify text. That means, for instance, that HTML cannot distinguish when a number is a price. Nor can it determine in a search query the specific meaning of a particular word. As a result, a search of the word "Boss" might turn up listings for a model of a guitar, the musical genre bossa nova, Bossier Parish in Louisiana, the Boston Celtics, and an anti-stress page called "My Boss Sucks!" Even trying to pare down the search with more exact keywords will result in wildly disparate listings. As long as programmers of various Web sites agree on definitions -- "price" or "cost," for example -- then XML-based sites will interoperate and that ability is seen as having a major effect on I-commerce in particular, not to mention making it easier to search the Web. Of course, one hurdle to XML's use is that programmers have to agree on definitions, but the registry service set up by CommerceNet is supposed to help coordinate the definitions. The definitions are written as tags, which is code contained in angled brackets. CommerceNet's eRegistry Service is intended to allow developers to quickly post new definition tag sets, to ensure accuracy of tag-set submissions and downloads, enable availability and keyword searching of content, and to create discussion forums, CommerceNet said. XML Exchange includes topical forum areas created by members covering a range of subjects. The areas, which are being set up now, will allow XML programmers to discuss and post information on customizing XML for use in vertical industries including automotive, education, genealogy, history, insurance, military, real estate, and Web management. It also lists resources, such as books, and tracks XML news. "XML will have a dramatic impact on the future development and growth of electronic commerce," said Randall Whiting, president and chief executive officer of CommerceNet, in the written statement. The role of XML in advancing I-commerce has been widely underestimated, he said. Because the programming language enables interoperability between applications, companies, and industries, Whiting predicted that XML will allow companies to better integrate supply chains and cooperate on product design and development. Nancy Weil is a correspondent in the Boston bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright © 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. InfoWorld Electric is a member of IDG.net \| SiteMap \| Search \| PageOne \| Reader/Ad Services \| \| Enterprise Careers \| Opinions \| Test Center \| Features \| \| Forums \| Interviews \| InfoWorld Print \| InfoQuote \|
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LabVIEW 8.0 or later contains an OPC server called the Shared Variable Engine (SVE). The SVE supports OPC Data Access 2.x and OPC Data Access 3.0. You can publish data from the SVE using shared variables. To connect to the SVE from a third-party OPC client, use the ProgID National Instruments Variable Engine. If the OPC client allows you to browse for OPC servers, you can locate the National Instruments Variable Engine under OPC version 2.x or 3.0, depending on which versions the client supports. In the third-party OPC client, you can browse all data items published by the SVE. The SVE allows connections to scalars and arrays of scalars but does not recognize data items of complex data types, such as clusters. You can browse FieldPoint and DAQ data items under their device categories.
Complete Guide to the Turkish Get-Up10/18/19 While exercises like the squat and deadlift often compete for the “best” exercise around, truth be told, the Turkish Get-Up might just beat them both. The Turkish Get-Up is an exercise that works everything from head to toe and will challenge your stability, mobility, strength, and patience. It can be utilized by bodybuilders, powerlifters, Crossfitters, and casual fitness enthusiasts looking to increase their training intensity and build more functional strength. In this guide, we’ll tell you how to perform the Turkish Get-Up, what are the benefits of performing Turkish Get-Ups, and what are some common mistakes to avoid when executing the lift. Let’s get started. How to Perform the Turkish Get-Up - Place a kettlebell or dumbbell next to the working shoulder - Lie on the floor and cradle the weight into both hands. The working hand should grasp the weight with the non-working hand covering. - Roll onto your back with the weight resting on your torso. - Bend your right leg to 90-degrees. Keep your left leg straight driving the heel into the floor. - Press the weight in your right arm straight up and extend your left arm perpendicular to the side, pressing your left palm into the ground. - Tighten your core and press through your right heel and left elbow to come to a seated position (weight still over your head). - Once you’ve achieved the seated position, contract the glutes to lift the hips, keeping the left arm extended and in contact with the floor - Make sure to maintain straight (vertical) alignment between your wrist, elbow, and shoulder. - Slide your left leg underneath you, so that your left knee is directly below your left hip - Sit back on your back foot with a vertical torso so that you achieve the bottom position of a lunge with your right foot forward and the weight held overhead in your right hand - Step forward with the back (left) leg while continuing to press the weight overhead and assume a standing position. - Congratulations! You’ve just completed your first get-up. Now it’s time to get back down… - While looking forward, step back with your left leg into a lunge so that your knee is on the floor - Swing the left leg back around so that it’s perpendicular to the front leg - Hinge at the hips and place your left hand on the floor in front of your left knee on the floor - Stick your left leg out in front of you and put your butt on the floor - Roll down onto your left elbow, and then onto your back - Lower the kettlebell to your torso - Roll to your side and place the weight on the floor. As you can see, there’s A LOT that goes into this movement. That’s part of what makes it such an incredibly amazing exercise, but it’s also what makes the Turkish Get-Up one of the more difficult exercises become proficient in. So, don’t be discouraged if it takes you a while to get accustomed to the lift. Benefits of the Turkish Get-Up Total Body Builder When you step back, take a second, and consider all of what goes into correctly performing just a single rep of a Turkish Get-Up, it’s easy to see why it’s such an effective exercise. Within each rep, you’re performing: - Hip hinges - Overhead hold - Overhead pressing - Glute activation - Core stability - Unilateral strength - Leg drive - Shoulder stability Add all that together and you have the makings of what could possibly be the most complete exercise ever! Increase Shoulder Stability Throughout the entire exercise, the muscles of the shoulder and rotator cuff have to fight like hell to keep the weight overhead and stabilize it so that it doesn’t come down and smash your face. Remember, you’re only as strong as you are stable. The Turkish Get-Up is a prime example of an exercise that can help build stability and strength. Increase Shoulder Strength Building off the last point, in addition to challenging shoulder stability, the Get-Up also tests your strength endurance as you have to hold the weight above your head for the entire rep, from start to finish. There is no “easy” part of the rep once you start it. Furthermore, there’s really no way to “cheat” the rep, unlike overhead presses where you can hyperextend your back and use excessive leg drive to press the weight overhead. In order to successfully complete the rep, you must maintain core stability and spinal alignment to avoid falling over and/or dropping the weight. Improve Lower Body Mobility The Turkish Get-Up involves knee flexion, hip extension, and ankle mobility. Basically, every primal function of the lower body is challenged in the Turkish Get-Up. When you add a heavy kettlebell or dumbbell to the mix, the athlete is forced to maintain good form and not jeopardize their alignment, which requires the utmost hip mobility. If you’re unable to move through the Get-Up pattern without compromising your form, hip mobility exercises need to become a top priority. We’ve touched on this a couple times already, but if you want to have any chance of successfully completing the Turkish Get-Up, you better have a rock-solid core. Failure to properly tighten and stabilize your core will result in improperly completing the rep and potential injury. Common Turkish Get-Up Mistakes Just like any other exercise, individuals attempting the Turkish Get-Up the first few times are prone to some common mistakes, including: Not keeping the arm fully extended When you allow the elbow to bend, you place all the tension into the muscles, instead of allowing the body’s support structure to work as it is intended. Bending the elbow also creates instability in the shoulder, increasing the likelihood of injury. Improperly Gripping the Weight When you grab the weight, it should be gripped deep in your palm, not near the top of the palm, close to the fingers. Doing so will cause the wrist to bend, increasing stress on both the wrist and elbow. This weak grip position also increases the chances of your fingers giving out and dropping the weight, possibly on your head. Not Packing the Shoulders We’ve stated over and over again how important the shoulders are to this exercise. Creating a stable shoulder entails packing the shoulders -- pulling them down and back like you would if you were going to perform a bench press. If you need a mental cue to pack the shoulders, think about performing a “reverse shrug” where you focus on pulling the shoulders down instead of shrugging them up. Who Should Perform the Turkish Get-Up? Anyone looking to improve core strength, mobility, shoulder stability, and functional fitness levels can use the Turkish Get-Up. It can be programmed for both strength and hypertrophy set and rep schemes. It can also be included as part of a general fitness program. If you’re just starting off with the Turkish Get-Up, aim to perform 3-4 sets of 3-5 repetitions with 2-3 minutes rest between sets using a lighter weight. If you’re more experienced and looking to build strength, perform 3-4 sets of 1-3 repetitions with 2-3 minutes of rest with a relatively challenging weight. The Turkish Get-Up is a top-notch exercise for building muscle and strength. It requires a considerable amount of patience and practice, but your effort will be well worth it as the Get-Up works everything from head to toe. If you’re looking to up the ante on your workouts and implement more functional total-body exercises into your workout, give the Turkish Get-Up a shot!
If you love the great outdoors and all the green that nature has to offer, your ideal vacation might not include staying in an expensive hotel. Most nature lovers prefer camping to staying indoors. This type of vacation allows you to remove yourself from all the stress, noise and dirt of big cities and gives you the opportunity to do the things you love without any distractions. However, camping is much more than just enjoyable. In fact, camping can be very beneficial to your health. Here are just some of its benefits. You’ll spend time in fresh air While air in big cities is polluted and unhealthy, most camps and good camping spots are far away from this type of pollution, often in the middle of intact nature and surrounded by trees, bushes and everything that’s green and good. Other than being pleasant to look at, all that green is a sign that there’s plenty of oxygen for you to breathe. The clean air that you can find in places with lots of trees can promote good lung health and give you the chance to breathe deeper breaths, which then provides your cells with more oxygen. Other than that, fresh and clean air can boost your immune function and energy levels, which is always good for your overall health. You’ll be in the sunshine Nature’s gifts don’t stop with clean air. In fact, sunshine can be just as beneficial to your wellbeing. This is mostly due to vitamin D. As the levels of this valuable vitamin rise, it can encourage the health and strength of your bones by helping the phosphate and calcium function in your body. It can also lift your mood, keep depression at bay, maintain good blood pressure and may even be helpful with certain heart problems. Vitamin D is produced naturally in your skin, but it has to be activated by sunlight. The only problem is, you can’t be wearing sunscreen for this. So, try not to expose yourself to direct sun from about 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, since that’s when it’s strongest, but rather early in the morning, or before the sun goes down in the evening. While the sun is at its highest in the sky, you should always wear sunscreen, as well as a hat, some sunglasses and other protective clothes. You’ll sleep better Spending your days outdoors, surrounded by sunshine, fresh air and engaging in physical activities which normally accompany camping, such as hiking, swimming or cycling, can mean that you’ll fall asleep more easily than you do when you’re at home. Furthermore, since you’ll have to strain your eyes less due to the lack of artificial light, your mind and entire body will be given a great opportunity to adapt to the natural light and dark cycle. And let’s not forget the calming yellow light of campfires, which can increase your melatonin levels and consequently make you feel sleepier and more tired. Finally, you should also make sure that you invest in a quality camping sleeping bag, so that you’re warm and comfortable enough at the end of your day and that your sleep is restful and uninterrupted. This will make you more cheerful and focused the following day, so that you can make the best of your vacation. You’ll be more relaxed Everyday life, work and all sorts of other obligations can cause stress, which can have a bad influence on your health. If you choose a crowded and noisy tourist destination for your vacation, you’ll probably just build that stress up. On the other hand, if you opt for camping, you’ll get away from these stress triggers and you’ll spend less money on your trip, which means less worrying and more joy. By simply leaving behind all those phone and computer screens, conference calls and long office meetings, you’ll find it easy to unwind. Add all the fresh air and sunshine to the equation, and you’ll calm your mind in no time. Therefore, when packing for your camping trip, leave all the electronic devices at home. And if you have to bring some of them with you, keep them off for as long as possible. A digital detox might just be what you need to get rid of stress and recharge surrounded by the serenity and the treasures of nature. If camping is something you’ve already tried before, there is a high chance you’ll want to go again. The good feeling and the health benefits of it will refresh your body and mind, which you will certainly want to experience more than just once. And if you’ve never been camping and you’re curious about it, perhaps you can skip that posh hotel this year and exchange its five stars with the billion of those you’ll be able to see on a clear night’s sky.
Taking Extra Steps in Home Security December 31, 2018 Looking to take a few extra steps in order to secure your home? If not, you should be. Residential homes make up the vast majority of targets for burglary. In fact, in an FBI study, it was reported that 71.6% of all burglary offenses were targeted towards the residential sector. What’s worse? That number is growing. Professional criminals know how to spot a home that lacks proper security. The best option, obviously, is to install a reliable effective security system into your household. That said, let’s assume you already have a home security system. What can you do to take extra preventative measures? It may be surprising how simple it is to bolster your homes defenses, and the extra effort can go a long way in securing your residence, family, and valuables. Here is what we suggest! Secure entry points Practicing good safety habits can do quite a bit to improve your home security here. Before you consider putting any money into better doors or locks, remember that none of this will matter if you carelessly leave your doors and windows unlocked. When leaving your home or going to sleep, always check that you’ve locked up all the entry points to your house. As absurd as it may sound, the front and back door are the most common ways a burglar will enter a residence. Most thieves will aim for easy targets that allow them to get in and out without making any noise- so an unlocked door or window simply tells them they can gain entry without kicking down a door or breaking a window, possibly alerting your neighbor. Even when you are at home, it is wise to keep your home locked up. Roughly a quarter of break-ins occur while someone is still home. If your home has a sliding door, you may want to consider placing a plank across the frame, keeping the door from sliding. Locks on sliding doors often have simple locks that are easy to pick, so adding an extra layer of defense here can eliminate a potentially easy entry point. Arm your doors with heavy deadbolt locks to give them a bit more muscle. They are harder to pick, and if a thief is desperate enough to try and kick the door in, a heavy deadbolt will give him a challenge. When dealing with your windows, avoid using window installed AC units or fans. They are simple to knock out and grant easy access to your home. Having glass break detectors installed is an efficient and cost-effective alternative to placing motion detection monitors on all windows, and well worth considering. Know how to “display” your home Experienced burglars know what to look for when searching for a target. These minor steps are effective ways to deter their attention. - Don’t place boxes from expensive purchases where they are visible. Break them down and place them in a garbage bag BEFORE putting them outside. Leaving it out in the open only advertises your valuables. - Practice good lawn care, don’t let things get out of control. Not only will your neighbors appreciate it, but letting your lawn get out of control will lead criminals to assume you’re out of town. - Place signs from your security provider in your lawn where it is clearly visible. Feel free to throw a “beware of dog” sign up too! - Don’t publicize your vacations on social media. If you are going on vacation, get a trusted friend or family member to house sit. - Make sure you regularly bring in your mail and newspaper. Light increases visibility! Criminals hate visibility. Simple, right? The smartest thing you can do with lighting is to install motion sensor lights at your front door, back door, and garage. If you aren’t home at night, leave your front porch light on anyways, along with a TV inside the house. Creating the illusion that someone is currently at home provides a great amount of deterrence. If your home security system offers home automation, you can remotely turn your lights on from your phone, which is a nice perk to have if you are getting home late and don’t want your home appearing vacant. A home security system is certainly your best option for securing your home, family, and valuables from malicious intruders, but it never hurts to go the extra mile. Following these tips can protect what matters most, and provide a bit more peace of mind!
The mind is also empty of true existence, of existence from its own side. This quality of mind, known as Buddha-nature, gives us the potential to free ourselves completely from all suffering, including disease, and the causes of suffering and to achieve any happiness we wish, including the peerless happiness of enlightenment. Since the mind has all this potential, we do not need to feel depressed or hopeless. It is not as if we have to experience problems forever. We have incredible freedom to develop our mind in any way that we wish. It is simply a question of finding the right way to use the potential of our mind. ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “Ultimate Healing” Whatever realization may come by way of silence, our happiness is never won that way. Happiness is not happiness unless it is shared. For happiness is the one thing in all the world that comes to us only at the moment we give it, and is likewise increased by being given away. ~ Clark Strand, “The Wisdom of Frogs.” Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past, there is no reason to be unhappy. If we can remedy it, then why be unhappy? And if we cannot, there’s no use in being unhappy about it—it’s just one more thing to be unhappy about, which serves no purpose at all. ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “Enduring the Fires” The scriptures say that when the mind indulges in sensual objects, it becomes agitated. This is the usual state of affairs in the world, as we can observe. In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness. They never have the chance to experience a greater joy that comes with peace and tranquility. ~ Sayadaw U Pandita, “A Perfect Balance.” The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of things. Things do exist. When we say that all phenomena are void of self-existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence, that we are repudiating that things exist. Then what is it we are negating? We are negating, or denying, that anything exists from its own side without depending on other things. Hence, it is because things depend for their existence upon other causes and conditions that they are said to lack independent self-existence ~ His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists pages 31-32. Although desires can be remarkably stubborn, they share a goal — happiness — and this can form the common ground for an effective dialogue: If a desire doesn’t really produce happiness, it contradicts its reason for being. – Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Pushing the Limits” Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Allow yourself to experience the transient nature of thoughts and feelings, welcoming everything that arises as Just this, not me, not mine. ~ Sandra Weinberg, “Eating and the Wheel of Life”
Interested in promoting a healthy lifestyle? Study disease, exercise and nutrition. Learn about birth control methods and human sexuality. Study how alcohol, cigarettes and drugs affect health. Understand the factors that boost wellness and longevity. Health Education Classes From first aid to health and aging, learn how to promote health. While Sierra College does not offer Health Education degrees, the classes count toward your degree and transfer.
A National Requirement Contributing to a National Problem As an 8the grade student, I have bought lunch too many times to count because it was easy and convenient. Yet, I never theought about what I was eating until I took up running and began to focus more and more on my eating habits. It was then that I realized just how bad thee food available in schools really is. School lunches are not healthey enough and are causing kids to become obese, theerefore leading to diagnosis such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Kids are seeing shorter life expectancies and restrains because of being obese theat might not be theere if they ate better. At every school they offer lunch to the students. Most schools want to pay thee cheapest they can for food, and in return the food they buy is not healthey. Due to this unhealthey food, schools are choosing to jeopardize kids’ health in order to save money. I once needed to get a small side for my lunch because I had not packed enough for lunch. I walked into the cafeteria hoping to find a healthey snack, but I had no such luck. After searching through all thee items for sale and coming across an almost unlimited section of candy bars and every chip possible, I decided on a bag of salty pretzels, the healthiest thing theee. Thinking back to what my humanities teacher had told me, I came to a simple conclusion. Chips are cheaper thean salads, and due to thee price difference we get served thee unhealthy chips. I took a survey of 16 of my classmates about how they feel about thee school lunch program and found that most of them thought it was very unhealthy and sales would increase if they served healthier food. I asked them three simple questions. First, I asked how often they bought lunch. Three people bought daily, nine people never bought, and four sometimes bought. Next, I asked if they think the food served in the cafeteria is healthy. All 16 people said it is not healthy. Then, I asked if it was healthier, would they be more inclined to buy more often. Six people said they would for sure buy more often, one person said no because they already buy every day no matter what is served, and eight people said they might buy more often if it was healthier. Healthier food in schools could also help put an end to bullying. Unfortunately, I have seen plenty of kids get bullied to their weight. A recent study shows that “Children in Grades 3 the rough 6 who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal-weight peers.” Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience depression or related problems later in life and will be overall less happy. If we can help put an end to bullying through a simple thing like changing food at schools to help fight childhood obesity, we need to change the food. Anotheer reason schools should change their food is because it can have an impact on kids later on in life. If kids begin to eat healthy at school and find food they like that is good for them, they could potentially change their eating habits and become overall healthier. When I was in 6th grade, the 8the graders in foods class did a veggie wars. In this game, each group of students had to find and cook a recipe for a vegetable. Then, each group would have a day where samples of their vegetable- cooked by the students- would be handed out in the cafeteria and full servings would be for sale. I got hooked on asparagus through theis program, and now look forward to vegetables at dinner instead of dreading them. On the other hand, many people believe that what is served to students for lunch does not really matter or make a big difference in their overall health. People argue that withe kids only eating 33% of their meals at school, who cares what they eat. There is discussion that kids habits are made at home not at school, so what they eat won’t affect theem. Yet, it does. If students get into the habit of choosing a candy bar over an Apple, or begin to view fries as a large vegetable serving (which is what they are marked as at my school), they will never break their habit and will become obese and unhealthy. Studies show that kids spend more time in school then they do in work when they are adults. If we leave kids exposed to unhealthey food and do notheing to change it, they will never learn what food is good to eat. The military is seeing less and less people available for spots in combat because they are overweight. Life expectancies are being shortened because of childhood eating habits. If school administrators don’t remove theis food from school, America’s future will be ruined.
What is Dental Hygiene at WVU like? Dental hygiene is an exciting profession with many rewarding and challenging career opportunities that include clinical/patient care, administration, education, research and sales/marketing. Dental hygienists are employed in diverse settings, such as private dental practices, clinics, hospitals, geriatric and special needs homes, correctional facilities, public health departments, school systems, allied dental education programs, national, state and local government agencies, and private/business industry. As a licensed health professional and oral health educator, the dental hygienist has an important role in the overall health and welfare of the public. Dental hygienists are an integral part of the dental team, providing direct patient care based on the prevention of disease. The educational background of a dental hygienist provides the knowledge, attitudes and skill necessary to be successful in a wide variety of careers. At a Glance Interested in this major? Here are some suggested next steps:Apply NowRequest InfoVirtual TourVisit WVU
Greetings from Music City! I am Kathryn Bowen, Vice President for Research & Evaluation at Centerstone Research Institute. I am involved with the planning, implementation, and reporting of multiple program evaluations. Universal professional values like honesty, integrity, accountability, tolerance, and respect for people influence all my work. My feminist values are aligned with fairness, social justice, equity, and empathy regardless of political, social, economic, geographic, gender, ethnic, and age differences. I intentionally design evaluations to increase the likelihood that the data collected, analyzed, and reported help me understand the multiple realities and lived experiences of women and sensitizes me to social structures that perpetuate inequity, oppression, social injustice, and powerlessness of women. This is done most commonly by including multiple and mixed methods in my evaluation/analysis plans. My ultimate aim is to generate knowledge to create change that makes a difference in the lives of women. A disclosure and conscious decision on my part is that in some program contexts I need to conduct these feminist evaluations without out “framing it” as feminist. - I have found that using the term feminist can undermine the intent of the evaluation work. Instead, I strive to be clear about values and objectives of the evaluation. - Depending upon the program context and the culture/perspective of program participants, my approach as feminist might exclude rather than include women impacted most significantly by the program. - It is important to recognize that my concerns as an educated, white, middle class woman may not be normative for traumatized women enrolled in co-occurring mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. - Systematic oppression can be totally invisible to women who have internalized it from the cradle. - To integrate feminist guidelines that help to frame the evaluation planning and implementation it is best to be transparent about what I mean by “feminist evaluation” rather than being strident about using the term “feminist” or labeling myself a “feminist evaluator”. - Feminist evaluation principles need to be reflected clearly and words marked by authenticity rather than a label. - As a feminist evaluator, clearly frame your values, seek to understand the values of program stakeholders, and establish ways to communicate shared and divergent values in the process. This can help you understand lived experiences and identify structural inequality that exists in organizations, institutions, governments, or social networks where embedded bias provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for others. - George Lakoff’s book: Don’t think of an elephant!: know your values and frame the debate. - Exploring feminist evaluation: The ground from which we rise. A chapter in the book: Feminist evaluation: Explorations and experiences - Relational Framing Theory Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or content to extend this aea365 contribution? Please add them in the comments section for this post on the aea365 webpage so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to submit an aea365 Tip? Please send a note of interest to firstname.lastname@example.org. aea365 is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and provides a Tip-a-Day by and for evaluators.
The public spaces, exhibitions and programs at the National Museum of African Art are designed to be accessible for visitors with disabilities. Arriving and parking Vehicles displaying the international symbol of accessibility may park in the designated parking spaces on Jefferson Drive. Metered parking is also available on Independence Avenue. The main entrance to the museum, located on Independence Avenue near the gate to the Enid A. Haupt Garden, is designed to accommodate visitors in wheelchairs and with strollers. All levels of the museum are accessible by elevator. Wheelchair availability and accessibility Wheelchairs are available at the security desk (Independence Avenue entrance) on a first-come, first-served basis. Exhibition spaces and public facilities are accessible by elevator. To obtain a list of available publications or to request a specific Smithsonian publication for recording, call the Accessibility Program at 202.633.2921 (voice). More information about the Smithsonian and accessibility is available here Exhibition materials in large-print formats are available on request at the information desk. To request a hands-on object gallery tour, call 202.633.4646 (voice) at least two weeks prior to your visit. Requests for sign language interpreters If you would like a sign language, oral and cued-speech interpreter for a guided museum tour, please email Vanessa Jones or call her at 202.633.4641. Because the museum does not have interpreters on staff, advance notice is necessary in order to arrange for interpreters. Assisted Listening Devices are available for tours and public programs. Please ask for a receiver at the Information Desk. In light of the heightened security throughout the nation, the Smithsonian has instituted new security measures. Visitors should be prepared to have their bags and belongings inspected. Disaster Preparedness Vital Information The Smithsonian offers a centralized web site dedicated to health issues as well as proper guidelines for Sheltering-in-place (SIP), among other tips.
Prostitution is said to be ‘the oldest’ profession. It has traversed epochs, institutions, ages, developments and even geographical boundaries. A study on Bonobo Chimpanzees show the behavior of ‘prostitution’ based around access to food and other gifts. By definition, prostitution is the sale of sexual services. Some of the earliest forms of prostitution on record are the sacred prostitution supposedly practiced among Sumerians. In ancient sources - Herodotus, Thucydides - there are a number of pointers to sacred prostitution. In Babylon, a woman had to reach, once in a lifetime, the sanctuaries of Militta (Aphrodites or Nana/ Anahita) and have sex with a foreigner as a sign of hospitality for a symbolic price. Prostitution is depicted in both males and females. In Cyprus (Paphus) and In modern-day Kenya, prostitution is blossoming. It would be hazardous to bury heads in the sand and pretend it is not happening for it is time to find ways of dealing with it so as to reduce the problems associated with it. Prostitution has developed different names depending on methods it adopts. A sex worker is anyone who earns a living by providing sexual services. Some use this term to refer to a prostitute whereas other people use the term to refer to erotic actors, nude models for pornography, striptease dancers and performers in peep shows as well as providers of erotic massage and phone sex workers. Prostitution varies with socio-economic class. We have street prostitution where commercial sex workers solicit potential customers from strategic corners of certain streets. Recently, brothels have started to emerge. Here some tycoons pay young girls and hire them out to men at a fee. Call-girls is yet another kind of prostitution that carters for a wider client base including Asian girls, Somali girls among others. Last but not least are home-based prostitutes, who rent houses from where they serve their clients. An example of this is what is observed in Majengo slums of Nairobi. One can adopt more than one kind at convenience although some prostitutes prefer that which earns them most. Some also consider that which guarantees most security. Women in this business cite their involvement as erratic and emanating from economic hardship, as attested to by the lady from Machakos who was interviewed by an IREN Kenya staff recently. Most of them lack formal education to make them competitive for employment in the formal sector. The issue of the girl child being sidelined in favor of the boy child is rampant in our communities and it cannot go without mention. It is perhaps one of the greatest contributions to the emerging cases of prostitution amongst most girls/ women. With the increase in the cost of living and poverty catching up with over 56% of the Kenyan population, many parents have also joined the scheme of shoving themselves and their young girls into prostitution. Cases of human trafficking of women to other countries have also been reported. Apart from abduction, some young girls and women are sold to brothels to become prostitutes. While in the brothels they are denied their rights and dehumanized. Traditions that initiate and perpetuate prostitution have been cited in several communities in Kenya. In some communities, a circumcised boy is expected to go out and “test his manhood”. The testing involves having sexual intercourse with as many girls/women as possible, many times to gain the social ‘caste’ of ‘a man’. In the course of this, many young people end up in hard-core prostitution. Areas that long distance track drivers rest during their drives teem with potential clients. Some prostitutes have related their current behavior to previous abusive sexual relationships; rape, incest or wife beating, broken relationships and widowhood to mention but a few. They always feel they are ‘dirty’ hence engaging in activities to show a rebellion they have to the ‘normal’ society. Drug abuse and addiction has also been listed amongst the many causes of prostitution. In some incidences, the drug addicts pay for the service through sex. For some, sex comes in after the use of drugs due to lack of self-control. Non-moralists have talked about prostitution as a form of lucrative trade so long as it is carried out with all fairness. However, it is hard to know where the boundaries of fairness fall and who or what determines them? For moralists’ prostitution is illegal, it is sinful and should be cut from its roots. Violence is commonly and frequently an effect of prostitution. Since the law does not allow prostitution, the victims are molested, dehumanized and even harassed. Occasionally, the disagreements on payments end up in violently. In other circumstances, prostitutes are the targets of gangsters and serial killers. In extreme cases, some religions and social stigma associated with prostitution makes them a hit point. The medical problem is the biggest effect of prostitution. Prostitutes tend to have large numbers of sexual partners and this increases the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS. Some proposals put across on fighting prostitution include banning prostitution, legalizing it and introducing a system of registration for prostitutes that mandates health checks and or educates prostitutes and their clients on the use of condoms. For some, proscribing prostitution is counter productive, since it doesn’t eradicate it, it only drives it underground, making treatment and monitoring for those infected more difficult. Encouraging safe sex with routine testing for STIs would be successful if applied consistently as STI drugs are free in the government facilities. However, having them available consistently would be challenge. Granted, the option of beginning income generating activities that expose them less to health hazards is recommended. NGOs, community-based organizations and other financial grantees should be willing to invest in the society. With increased legal business environment, one can attract more women into legal business. There should also be a strategy to provide continuous health education to the commercial sex workers and their clients. Prostitutes, if legalized should have a union to help them push their rights. They are still human beings and should not be dehumanized. Such an organization could also enable them to access drugs and other essentials for their trade. It is also prudent that the government sets up policies that support small-scale enterprises. Without such defined policies we will continue seeing many turning to prostitution to earn a living. Prostitution, as it were, involves drug abuse. Which is why it is important to invest in counseling services and strategically target a variety of clients. You will be quite surprised of the number of people who can, when well guided and counseled, change their behavior. Stigma reduction towards prostitutes can serve to resolve the problem. The society should learn to appreciate the presence of commercial sex workers and work towards helping them deal with the risks they face.
Back to School The summer is winding down and a new school year is fast approaching. The start of a new school year comes with a whole new set of hopes and expectations for the coming months. It's exciting, it's a little bit daunting, and it's a fresh start for a new year. One of the things my kids always loved about this time of year was shopping for new school supplies. Pristine notebooks, shiny new rulers, not-yet-gnawed-on pencils... It's almost like an early practice run for Christmas! As always it got me thinking about what it was like to start a new school year in the past, and what it could have been like for the characters from A Girl for All Time. I did a little digging and turned up some interesting facts I did not know before. For example, even Tudor children would have had new school supplies in the form of a newly carved hornbook . That oldest one dates back to 1450 discovered in England and they were usually horn paddles ( or books ) that were covered with letters of the alphabet or numbers or perhaps a specific verse. Victorian school children would have had chalk, slates, and maybe a few books that were carried all bundled together in a leather strap or - if they were lucky- in a leather satchel. Instead of notebooks like we have today, paper to practice writing on would have been pages of newspaper with plenty of space in between the print to practice your penmanship. Mid-century American school children would have been reading Dick and Jane books while school children in the UK would have been reading Janet and John Paper notebooks were really not affordable until the 1960s when they became readily available and were at a price most people could afford. Some of the designs produced during that time are still in use today. If you've ever had the black and white composition books, then you know the ones I am talking about! School supplies may have changed over the years, but I don't think the excitement and anticipation about the new school year is any different today than it was centuries ago.
Students in ECON 244 view art objects in the David McTavish Art Study Room. Photo: Tim Forbes Anishinaabe Artist (attributed), Bandolier bag, late 19th century, cotton, wool and glass (M77-068) Heather Parker and Anya Hageman bring Indigenous economies to life through objects from the collection. Photo: Tim Forbes Faculty from all departments and disciplines have been taking advantage of the rich resources at Agnes for vivid experiential learning. Professor Anya Hageman recently brought her Economics of Indigenous Communities (ECON 244) class to the gallery for two sessions. Students explored the Indigenous art exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts and encountered works from our collection including dentalium shell earrings, a beaver hat, a bison-horn cup and beautiful beaded bandolier bags. “Seeing objects expertly crafted from local and traded materials really brought pre-contact and early-contact indigenous economies to life for us,” said Professor Hageman. “The paintings we examined illustrated how Europeans’ view of Indigenous peoples was often romanticized, contributing to their marginalization.” Agnes has expanded learning-through-art initiatives this year with the help of Heather Parker, Associate Curator, Academic Outreach, who is on a term appointment made possible by the Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund. She has made creative connections between the exhibitions, programs and collections at Agnes and diverse course offerings. This targeted approach has attracted classes from Law, Nursing, Geography and Planning, Global Development, and Languages, Literatures and Cultures, along with Art History, Classics, Drama, Education, English, Film Studies, Gender Studies and others. While introducing young adults to art as a resource for lifelong learning, these encounters support students in developing the visual analysis and observational skills that will enrich and inform them in their disciplines and as global citizens.
During the past years Agriom and partners have worked intensively together to improve a multitude of crops. Sometimes offering the actual breeding as a service, if not then often as a partner in projects. Well known examples are begonia, Poinsettia, Succulents and for example potted carnations. Some of the more recent partnerships are in an early stage of development and end-products still not available. Examples of young projects are Alstroemeria and Chrysanthemum of which commercial varieties will be released shortly.
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) is the interprofessional association which represents the Alaskan fishing industry. With headquarters in Juneau, Alaska and offices in Seattle, Barcelona, Paris, London, Tokyo, and Beijing. ASMI promotes Alaska seafood products with educational, research and advertising programs in its principal markets. ASMI is one of the major participants of the Market Access Program administered by the Foreign Agricultural Service of US Department of Agriculture Alaska: always wild, always natural Alaska is fish country. For thousands of years, the fishes of Alaska’s seas and rivers have supported human use, from fisheries used by Alaska’s indigenous Native peoples since prehistoric times, to today’s modern seafood industry. Alaska is home to abundant stocks of many species of fish, and offers some of the cleanest marine, freshwater, and upland habitats in the world. Effective state and federal institutions manage fisheries that are productive and sustainable, clean and healthy. Alaska is the only State in the USA whose Constitution explicitly mandates that all fish, including salmon, shall be utilized, developed, and maintained on the sustained yield principle.
Tips for learning the stages of love from modern science. Fortunately, modern sciences such as psychology and biochemistry can help lovers sort out their feelings. Based on their data, right off-the-bat we can say that love at first sight does not exist. Any encounter between two people goes through different stages, and only rarely does that reach the stage of love. Identifying the stage of the relationship you are in with your partner will help you know which option suits you best, and how to guide your relationship to true love. The stages of love A couple’s relationship goes through various stages that can be identified as attraction; the romantic or "I love you" stage, and finally "love." This is the rosy and exciting stage when one person feels strongly attracted and fascinated by the other. These feelings are so strong and pleasant that many people think that this is love. However, the attraction that binds two people together is just the effect of substances called pheromones, which not only alter our senses and make us feel great joy and passion at the slightest contact with the other person, but make us believe that we could not be happy with anyone else. That is, the physical pleasure is so strong that the mind remains blinded or fascinated. That is why the lovers do not see their beloved’s flaws and even doubt that they could have any. Everything seems perfect. Along with this lack of objectivity, when someone is in love, he might lie about himself and exaggerate his virtues, since he will do whatever he can to win over the person who gives him such pleasure. Infatuation is a phase where pleasure predominates, but it is unrealistic stage because we do not yet know who the other person really is. In fact, when we are falling in love, what we love in the other person is not precisely who they are, but what we feel when they touch us, talk to us, or attract us. These feelings are passing, since the effect of pheromones lasts for three years at most. If, during this time the couple has not had the chance to talk frequently and make an effort to know who the other really is, then instead of staying enchanted by pleasant but meaningless exchanges, the relationship will end. If you have sex during this time, the blinding effect of pheromones will double, creating a fictitious sense of intimacy. Infatuation is not the stage for the self-giving that comes with sex and married life. The Romantic or "I Love You" Stage In the romantic stage, the couple starts to share more and so get to know each other better. When we enter into the world of the other person and discover their tastes, ideas, characteristics, skills, and so on, then the things that really attract us begin to appear, and not just their body. We start to enjoy who the person is, not just the feelings they inspire. Some of the characteristics that we discovered in the person are real. We can already see some flaws, but there may still be a lot of fantasy or idealization. (We love the dreams that the other person awakens in us.) That is why it is important to remember that we are just starting to get to know the other person. Along with passion, tenderness appears in the romantic stage. It seeks to reach deep into the other person to flatter her or make her feel good. But the romantic stage is not yet love. We do not know the other person enough to know if we would be ready to give them the keys to our house or the secret code to our bank account. And if that is the case, then it is a sign that we are not yet ready for the full self-giving of sexuality or marriage. Support Aleteia takes a minute If you’re reading this article, it’s precisely thanks to your generosity and to that of many other people like you that make possible the evangelization project of Aleteia. Here some numbers: - 20 million of users around the world read Aleteia.org every month. - Aleteia is published daily in eight languages: French, English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Slovenian. - Each month, our readers view more than 50 million pages. - Nearly 4 million people follow Aleteia’s social media pages. - Each month, we publish 2,450 articles and around 40 videos. - All of this work is carried out by 60 people working full-time and approximately 400 other collaborators (writers, journalists, translators, photographers…). As you can imagine, behind these numbers there is a big effort. We need your support so we can keep offering this service of evangelization to everyone, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. Support Aleteia from as little as $1 – and only takes a minute. Thank you!
Gardening season starts when you open your first seed catalog in the dead of winter, and it doesn’t end until you’ve dug your last carrot, plucked your final Brussels sprout or eaten your last pickled pepper of the season. But the rewards of gardening start coming the minute you open that catalog, long before you get to eat anything. The act of planning a garden makes you deeply consider many things, including where and who you are. In addition to knowing your environment, gardening requires a firm understanding of your culinary needs and habits. As you sort through your seed catalogs, perhaps you’ll be reminded of a long-forgotten childhood treat of summer. And as you plan your garden, remember: It should be tailored to fit into your overall food-getting game plan. That, in turn, depends primarily on the answers to two basic questions: What do you want to eat fresh from the garden? And what do you hope to eat from your garden all year long? For me, the tomato falls into both categories. I want to be able to run out to the garden on a whim and grab some slicing, salad, cooking or juicing tomatoes whenever I like. But I also need to make gallons of salsa, tomato sauce and oven ratatouille for storage and year-round consumption. So while my little tomato patch gets me through the summer, I rely on bulk-purchased tomatoes to get me through the winter. Ideally, the latter will be farmer-direct. Other good things to grow in a kitchen garden are herbs, strawberries, melons, peas, spinach, other greens, and some kind of onion or shallot whose green tops you can also use from time to time. Most gardens, including mine, are too small to produce enough food to get one through the winter. But in addition to feeding me in summer, my garden does important things for my big picture year-round food plan. For one, it is a lab; a place of chaos and research, where I can play with techniques like letting my parsley re-seed itself, and experiment with varieties I’ve never tried, like Moon and Stars watermelon. My garden is also a last resort for things I know I like but nobody else seems to grow, like Rose Apple fingerling potatoes and Arledge chile peppers. And then there are the things I need in quantity, like garlic and shallots, that can be expensive to buy and that I’m a snob about and need to be grown my way. This is the most serious aspect of my garden, and I haven’t paid for garlic since the ’90s. Whatever your needs and aspirations, now is the time to start scheming and planning, calculating all of your food needs and sources, and curling with a cup of tea around a good seed catalog, which is like a good magazine. As you flip through the pages you may be confronted with intriguing plants you’ve never heard of but may want to experiment with. My Jung catalog, for example, from Randolph, Wis., contains a native American heirloom called Mango Melon (aka Vine Peach), whose “vigorous, spreading, very productive vines” make “white-fleshed fruits with the flavor and texture of a mango.” Uh, OK. I’ll try that. And while I’m at it, I’ll order some of their chocolate cherry tomato seeds. Now is the time to start curling with a cup of tea around a good seed catalog, which is like a good magazine. But beware of plants that need be started from seed in pots and then transplanted, like those chocolate cherries. Seedlings take extra skill and consistent attention, and the attempt can often lead to failure. So I buy most of my plant starts from the experts at the farmers market. The only plants I start from seed are the experimentals, those unavailable elsewhere, and shallots. Shallots taste like onions but pack more flavor per pound. Since I must have them, and they’re too expensive to buy in bulk, I grow my shallots and buy my onions. Most people grow shallots from “sets,” little mini-shallots that grow into bigger shallots; but you get a much better yield growing shallots from seed. Like onions, shallot seeds should be started indoors by early March. There are many seed catalogs out there, each with its own personality, specialty, informational wisdom, and selection of gear and supplies. Most seed companies post online catalogs, but I recommend you request a hard copy—the better to spill coffee and jot notes on and leave around the house for when you have a moment to daydream of summer. Some of my favorite seed catalogs are: Fedco: The beautifully illustrated and whimsical catalog of this cooperative seed and garden supply organization is slightly reminiscent of the Whole Earth Catalog, offering, in addition to seeds, networking information, news, opinion and notable quotes. fedcoseeds.com Johnny’s Seeds: Perhaps the tightest ship in the seed business, Johnny’s is the go-to supplier for many commercial growers and gardeners alike. The catalog offers glossy photos and speedy delivery. johnnyseeds.com Jung: A new discovery to me with an interesting selection, including the aforementioned Mango Melon, as well as the intriguing “Biggie Chile.” jungseed.com High Mowing: An up-and-coming Vermont-based company with high ethical standards and great seeds. Like Fedco, High Mowing is driven as much by mission as by profit. highmowingseeds.com Seed Savers Exchange: Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization of gardeners dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds, with a mind-boggling heirloom tomato section and many other seeds too. seedsavers.org Summer might seem distant, but the days are getting longer. This is time to dig in, prepare a garden to capture some of next year’s free solar energy and plan your upcoming year in food. The payoffs will begin immediately.
Collaborative Exploratory and Unit Testing Maaret Pyhäjärvi & Llewellyn Falco How to harness the insights of bug discovery to protect your code. Course length: 1 day Registrations for this course are now closed. Cross-functional teams have team members with specialized in-depth skills. Collaboration between team members has a significant impact on the team’s ability to deliver value efficiently. In this course, we teach you how to pull together a tester-facing discipline of Exploratory testing and the developer-facing discipline of Unit testing. To do this, we create insights into the product and code through exploring and leverage these insights via unit testing. This course invites testers and developers joining to learn to boost their collaboration to new level. The course teaches from the premise of combining forces of machines and humans, leveraging developer and tester skill sets. Machines are particularly well suited for exploring large computational space. Machines enable us to cover variations, in cases where manually we would sample and potentially miss problems. In variations and repeating, computers will easily outperform humans. What they can’t do is have any insight or creative ideas. That’s where humans excel and testers in particular have refined the skill to creatively understand and use software to gain understanding and insight into its quality and weaknesses. While the focus of the course is on harnessing the insights of bug discovery to protect your code with automation, you will also shape up your basic skills on how skilled testers think while exploring to effectively find problems with the product. This is a hands-on course, where a laptop per pair is required. What will participants be doing? The course allows for a mix of managers, testers and developers to participate. We explore in pairs and implement unit tests in a mob with a style of pairing where the navigator on the keyboard gets to follow the instructions from the group (strong-style pairing). The facilitators help in getting the tasks done balancing the available skills in the group. Why should a developer join this course? - Improve understanding of experimenting with the product through exploratory testing - Boost ability to deliver value by collaborating well with testers - Improve ability to turn testing observations into useful ideas for unit testing - Get ideas on how to use ApprovalTests-framework to boost your unit testing capability; from spot checking to brute checking Why should a tester join this course? - Become more helpful for developers by not only communicating bugs found but also ideas from exploration that could be used to improve unit tests - Build understanding of the connection of insights from exploring the product, to exploring the code to creating a unit test - Enhance skills in testing: from test cases to exploring with understanding of what information developers would find useful - Extend abilities to implement relevant checks Why should anyone join this course? - Improve collaboration skills in paired and grouped hands-on work - Build mutual understanding and respect for developer and tester skill sets - Learn how to foster developer-tester collaboration in teams About the instructors Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a tester extraordinaire specializing in breaking illusions about software through means of exploratory testing. She is a software specialist with soft spots for hands-on testing, helping teams grow and building successful products and businesses. Llewellyn Falco is a brilliant developer with the skill to bring out the best in others through pairing and facilitating group work. He specializes in technical agile practices on legacy code and excels in unit testing. He has created ApprovalTests as a means of supercharging unit tests with powerful asserts.
A jet remote opening device (JROD) is used by Explosive Ordnance Personnel (EOD). The JROD is filled with water and mounted on a stand or on a robot. A charge in the JROD’s base is remotely activated which causes the water to shoot out explosively. Question about this artifact? Email the Collections Manager, Hal Sellars. Every artifact in the Air Mobility Command Museum, including this one, is part of the United States Air Force Heritage Program. We are not able to loan artifacts in the museum's collection.
The Meritorious Service Medal was established on Jan. 16, 1969 and is awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States who distinguished themselves by outstanding non-combat meritorious achievement or service to the United States. Col. Charles W. “IE” Hardie served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1989. As a pilot he flew C-124, C-7, C-123, and C-141 aircraft for a total of 11,002 flying hours. He served at Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, in 1969. He was stationed at Dover AFB, Delaware, from 1980-1989. This Meritorious Service Medal was awarded to him. Question about this artifact? Email the Collections Manager, Hal Sellars. Every artifact in the Air Mobility Command Museum, including this one, is part of the United States Air Force Heritage Program. We are not able to loan artifacts in the museum's collection.
Everything That You Need To Know When It Comes To Starting A Home Greenhouse You might have already decided to these start a home greenhouse for yourself. It is very important for you to know that you are not alone in deciding that you want to start a greenhouse, in case you’re the kind of person who has already about decided that this is what you want to do and the reason why we are saying this is because you will definitely find very many other people out there who have also decided that they want to start a greenhouse. There are actually very many Americans that you will find growing their food in their households. Actually, you should know that growing your produce in your very own house is something that will be very exciting and very fun to do, especially when it comes to passing time but you should also know that growing food in your household and actually finding that they have grown and gotten to the point that you can eat them is not something that about is very easy. Most people do this kind of thing because it is a hobby this company to them but it is quite important for you to know that you will have to take it much more seriously than that because it will definitely need for you to have enough skills, for you to be quite dedicated and for you to have ample knowledge concerning. It is possible that you will find yourself not getting it right in your first season, but it is important for you to know the benefits of trial and error when it comes to growing things in your own greenhouse. Make sure that you read the following tips and guidelines that we have outlined below for you that have to do with how to get a greenhouse discover more started and how to make sure that it is producing thriving in plants within no time. It is very important for you to make a couple of considerations when it comes to your home greenhouse and the very first consideration that you should mak is the kind of form greenhouse that you will really want to have because they are different kinds of greenhouses that you will find in the market today. It is quite easy for you to find yourself getting pretty excited and doing some history research on the internet and you might also find yourself crashing out of your house so that you can buy greenhouse supplies.
A short explanation of the Boys Town point card motivational system Sarah and I are settling into the routine of our life at Boys Town. We currently have three teenage girls living as a part of our family. This is something that I could not have predicted would be my reality even six months ago. But it is, and it’s quite the adventure. Of course, even though we run a very structured home with a detailed schedule and very specific expectations we still experience lots of unpredictable moods, behaviors, and drama. But even on the hard days, there’s a deep-seated satisfaction that comes from seeing these girls working on their social skills, changing their behaviors, and maturing as individuals. At Boys Town we never punish the youth. So what do we do when the girls are not behaving according to our expectations or using appropriate social skills? Well, we make a big deal about getting to enjoy various privileges. And we make sure that their behaviors at home and at school determine whether or not they get to enjoy those privileges. That’s where our use of a point card system as motivation comes into play. I’ve mentioned the point card system as a motivator before, but I thought I’d describe it a bit more in detail. If people know anything about the residential home program here at Boys Town, they usually know that we use point cards as a motivator for good behavior. It’s a very thorough and well-developed system that has been refined since the 70s, but the point card is used write down the behaviors and social skills we are teaching to these girls. So if we give an instruction to a girl to go unload the dishwasher and she looks at me and says, “Ok” with a pleasant voice tone and then goes right away over to the dishwasher, unloads it, and afterwards checks back with me, then she has followed the steps of the social skill of “Following Instructions.” For using the skill of following instructions I’m going to then tell her something along the lines of the following: “Hey! Great job following instructions! A couple minutes ago I gave you the instruction to unload the dishwasher. You looked at me, said “ok,” you did the task right away, and then you checked back with me. That was awesome. You’ve earned a positive 1500 points for following instruction, and we’re going to highlight the specific behavior of just saying “ok” with a pleasant voice tone. So you can write down 1500 positive points, for the skill of following instructions, and used pleasant voice tone. When you do that it shows that you are being respectful towards the person giving you the instruction. Does that make sense? Ok! Well great job following instructions.” That’s an example of a effective praise of a girl’s behavior and having her earn those 1500 points. (We as family teachers never give points. The girls always earn both positive and negative points.) Ok. So let’s say that the same girl when I told her to go unload the dishwasher said something like, “Ughhh! Why do I always have to unload the dishwasher?!” This is how my interaction with the youth would go: “Ok, could you go get your point card? I know it’s not fun unloading the dishwasher, but just a moment ago I gave you the instruction to go unload the dishwasher and you said something like ‘Ugh, why do I have to always unload the dishwasher?’ So you’ve earned a negative 3000 points. When someone gives you an instruction you need to just look at the person, say ok, do the task right away, and then check back. When you just say ‘ok’ it makes it so the task gets done a lot faster and you can get back to what you were doing. Does that make sense? Ok, great. So I’m going to need you to write a negative 3000 points for following instructions, and the specific behavior is ‘didn’t say ok.’ Great job accepting this consequence.'” You might have noticed that when the girl followed the instruction, she got 1500 points. But when she didn’t, she got a negative 3000 points. 3000 is the standard for negative behaviors. But we don’t stop there. We give them the opportunity to practice doing a positive behavior. We call this a “positive correction.” So after earning the negative 3000 points, I would probably tell her something like this: “Ok, so I’m going to give you an opportunity to earn some of those points back. We’re going to practice the skill of following instructions. When you’re given an instruction you need to look at the person, say ok, do the task right away, and then check back. Ok? Great. So right now I’m giving you the instruction to go wipe down the counter.” When she checks back after following that instruction, she’ll earn a positive 1500. We always give an opportunity for a positive correction after every negative consequence earned. Every day they also check back from school, telling us a couple social skills they think they did really well. They have a school card which their teachers mark down positive and negative behaviors that help guide us in this discussion. After checking back from school we count up all their points. When girls start out at Boys Town they need to earn a positive 10,000 in a day to “make privs.” So when we count their points on their card and if they hit 10,000 or more points it means that they have made privs. That means that during their free time they get a sweet or salty snack (a cookie or a snack size bag of chips). They get some time to watch TV. They can go to the field house to play basketball, go swimming, or play volleyball. Some girls like to work on crafts, or draw, or read, or listen to music. Those are all privileges. However, if they don’t make privs, then they don’t get to enjoy those things. And in replacement of those things they are given skill work to work on. That means writing out social skills, thinking through rationales of how the behaviors will help them be successful. It can mean extra chores. The tasks and skill work we give them are not punishments, but ways of making a strong distinction between privileges and non-privileges. Do you think these girls are motivated to make privs? We all have bad days. We all have certain social skills which we aren’t very good at. This is true for these girls, too. If a girl has a particularly hard day where she’s earned lots of negative points, it may mean she doesn’t make privs. And that’s a bummer. That means not getting to enjoy going to the field house, watching TV, and doing the fun activities they enjoy. But it doesn’t last forever because every day is a new day. As soon as their previous day’s card is totaled up, they start on a new one. So they can then start earning positive points immediately to make privs the next day. Every day is a new day. That helps them know that it’s ok to have a bad day every once and a while. We don’t get mad. It doesn’t mean they’ve failed as a person. And they can have confidence and move forward knowing that they have a chance to do better the next day. Obviously the point card doesn’t exist in the “real world” and we make sure to remind them of this. So as we teach them these skills we are also intentional about making sure to generalize our rationales about their behaviors beyond that of Boys Town. “When you follow instructions by simply saying ok and doing the task, that will be a skill your future bosses will appreciate and notice.” Like I said, the point card motivation system is very well thought out and goes far beyond what I’ve just explained here. For example, girls don’t stay at 10,000 points a day. After a while they make it to a system where they need to earn 40,000 points a week to make privs, which means we are teaching to them less because hopefully over time we don’t have to keep teaching the same skills over and over. Then it drops to 20,000 a week, and then eventually they get off the card and work on certain goals. This helps prepare them for when they leave Boys Town. Progression on the point card system helps with motivation. It helps them learn. It helps prepare them to be successful outside of Boys Town, too. And it works. Every day we’re getting better at teaching. Every day there’s new situations to teach to and to learn from. Every day is a new day.
Priest and Priest Spouse: Ministry Together During the height of the civil war in Sudan in 1986, 12-year-old Daniel Abot was exiled to Dima Refugee Camp, Ethiopia. He, as part of the Lost Boys of Sudan, walked a thousand miles from Duk village in South Sudan to Ethiopia. He spent six years in Ethiopia and nine years in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, where he and his wife Rachel met. In 2003, Bishop Daniel was priested in the Episcopal Church in Nairobi, Kenya. After coming to Australia in 2003, Bishop Daniel studied and worked for Anglicare, where he assisted newly-arrived refugees. In 2014, the Diocese of Duk was established, and the people of Duk County, South Sudan, proposed that Daniel be their first Bishop. After consultation with Rachel, Daniel returned home to South Sudan in September 2014. Daniel was consecrated as the Bishop of Dioceses of Duk in the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan on 30 November 2014. The Duk Diocese is on the geographic border of two ethnic groups, the Dinka and Nuer. Bishop Daniel sees his current task as peacemaker to help bring peace between the two tribes. He is also involved in an orphanage project which addresses child trafficking; in the building of guesthouses in Duk to generate revenue; in clergy capacity development; and, in adult education focusing on eradicating child marriage. While Bishop Daniel is in South Sudan, Rachel supports his groundbreaking work and takes care of their seven children in Toowoomba. Can you tell us a little about your journey as a married couple together? Bishop Daniel and Rachel: We met in 1993 in a refugee camp in Kenya, and we married two years later. We have seven children – three boys and four girls. Where do you currently live and where do you worship? Bishop Daniel: We live in Toowoomba, although I also spend a lot of time in South Sudan. Returning to South Sudan to serve as Bishop wasn’t an easy decision, as I had to leave my job and family in Australia to return to Duk, a place destroyed by decades of wars. I am not paid in my role as Bishop of Duk and I don’t have a permanent residence, so I sleep in any hut that I can find, and spend most of my time in the bush supporting my people. The Diocese of Duk is right at the crossroads of the conflict zone and close to 66,000 of my flock live in the displaced camps within South Sudan, and in refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda. Only about 10 per cent of these people live in the actual Diocesan geographical area. Duk has 47 offshoots islands in the Sudd wetlands adjacent to Duk. The people of Duk inhabit these islands, which are only accessible by airboats. When I am visiting my family in Toowoomba, I worship with Rachel and our seven children in two Anglican Churches – St James’ where a service is said in Dinka and St Bart’s where the services are said in English. How long have you been involved in the Anglican Church and in what roles? Bishop Daniel: I was ordained a Deacon in the refugee camp on 30 May 1999, and then priested on 16 November 2003 in Nairobi in Kenya, just a week before arriving in Toowoomba in 2003. I was consecrated Bishop on 30 November 2014 in South Sudan. Rachel: I have been involved in the Anglican Church since before we got married. I was a Sunday School teacher and youth leader in an Anglican Church in the refugee camp in Kenya. What is your current role and what does your role involve? Bishop Daniel: I serve as Bishop of the Diocese of Duk in South Sudan at the cross roads of the conflict zone where two of the largest groups, the Dinka and Nuer, in South Sudan clash all the time. I volunteer as Bishop to support peace initiatives between the Dinka and Nuer. Rachel: I support my husband in his role and care for our young family and their needs. What projects and activities are you currently working on? Bishop Daniel: I am currently working on an integrated project to support Duk orphans and other children. This project addresses education, health and nutrition and child trafficking, and helps find homes for orphaned and disadvantaged children. I am also focused on raising up new leaders within the Diocese of Duk. I am also working on peace and reconciliation initiatives between tribal groups. I saw a very strong need for our church and community leaders to rise above tribal loyalties and work for peace and reconciliation for the better of our country. What have been the highlights of your roles so far? Bishop Daniel: In South Sudan it has been very pleasing to see individuals and groups who have been enemies come together and work through their differences. Rachel: Seeing my children progress in life, even when they face challenges, and also seeing my children care for one another. What have been the key challenges of your roles so far? Bishop Daniel: Operating in dangerous zones and seeing people suffer, sometimes being killed and having their children kidnapped. In November 2017, 51 people lost their lives in conflict, including women and children. 56 children were abducted, and only three returned. 19 others, mostly children, sustained serious injuries. What are your plans and goals for the next 12 months? Bishop Daniel and Rachel: God willing, as per James 4.13-15, we will attend the Lambeth Conference for Bishops and their spouses in England next year. In South Sudan we want to see lasting peace as a basis for stability and progress so that people can return to their homes. How can members of our Diocese support you in your mission? Bishop Daniel: Prayer is always a key. As well as prayer, practical support is always welcome, especially for the children in orphanage homes and refugee camps in both Uganda and Kenya. What advice do you have for couples who are new to the roles of being a clergy person and a spouse of a clergy person? Bishop Daniel and Rachel: Togetherness, even when physically apart, is so important. Being of the same mind (Philippians 2.2) and regular communication are essential. We talk on the phone every day when we are apart, as Daniel is now based in South Sudan for the sake of the gospel. Can you tell us a little about your personal faith journeys? Bishop Daniel: Though I was baptised as a child and grew up in a nominal Christian home, I only came to a personal faith during my own time on the run in exile in Ethiopia and then in the refugee camp in Kenya. I was one of the ‘lost boys’ of South Sudan, formerly Sudan. Rachel: I lost contact with my parents when I was six and was raised by my grandmother. It was as I grew up in a refugee camp that I came to a personal Christian faith. How does your faith inspire you and shape your outlook, life choices and character? Bishop Daniel: My circumstances developed in me perseverance and hope, without which I would not have survived without my father and mother in a refugee camp in Ethiopia and Kenya for many years. Rachel: This is true for me as well, as our life choices are often shaped by these two qualities, perseverance and hope. What is your favourite scripture and why? Bishop Daniel: Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” When you find yourself in a nation where leaders are not doing the will of God, it is only Divine provision that sustains you. Rachel and I would have not have made it without God’s provision and protection in the refugee camp. Rachel: Romans 8: “Who shall separate me from the love of God?” Why this verse? Because the joy of the Lord is always there with his people regardless. What person of faith inspires you the most and why? Bishop Daniel: In my teenage years, I was inspired by reading about the visionary and hard-working Italian Catholic missionary Bishop, now Saint, Daniel Comboni who worked in Khartoum in the 19th Century. Bishop Comboni was the founder of both the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and the Comboni Missionary Sisters who transform many lives in Africa. What are the primary strengths of the Church and what is the best way to make the most of these for the benefit of our communities? Bishop Daniel and Rachel: Its variety, its sense of purpose and its commitment to make a difference locally and in the world. What are the primary challenges currently encountered by the Church and what is the best way to overcome these for the benefit of our communities? Bishop Daniel: Early Christians used to connect to God and to one another through the unifying power of the Holy Spirit. But the 21st Century world’s busyness in our lives distracts us, so that every moment pulls us away from God’s presence. The Church must prioritise its vocation as presenters of God’s presence in the world. Church should find ways to encourage physical gatherings, including meals together in neighbourhoods, bodily movement in worship, and shaking hands and hugging each other to promote relationships among Christians. What do you do in your free time to recharge and relax? Bishop Daniel: Reading the Bible and listening to Christian music. What is your favourite movie and why? Bishop Daniel: I like to watch films about Jesus and play with my children, as I miss them a lot when I am in South Sudan. Note from Bishop Cam Venables Both Daniel and Rachel are inspiring people, and the ongoing sacrifice they make for Daniel to serve in South Sudan is very significant. Daniel is not paid in South Sudan – and Rachel works in Australia to support her family. People who want to financially support Daniel’s ministry can send money to one of two Bendigo Bank accounts that Helen Briffa and I manage for Daniel (account details are below). The first is a personal account to assist Daniel with travel and food when necessary, and the second is for Duk Diocese which Daniel uses principally for two strategic projects: the first of these is the ongoing sponsorship of 10 teenage orphans from Duk Diocese (five girls and five boys) whom Daniel has sent to a boarding school in Uganda, and the second is to sponsor theological training for key clergy at the Bishop Gwynne Theological College in Juba. Both accounts are with Bendigo Bank – Clifford Gardens, Toowoomba Daniel Abot – Duk Diocese BSB No: 633-000 Account No: 155046006 Daniel Abot – Personal BSB No: 633-000 Account No: 159852664
Note: I've found this program works best using the Google Chrome browser with the browser microphone enabled. A funny story about this project: I was finishing writing this program and for some reason, could not get the word 'anemone' to appear. After about an hour of pleading with my computer, I realized that I . was pronouncing 'anemone' as 'amenome', and it was me, not my computer, who was wrong. The word 'anemone' and its correct pronunciation are now burned into my brain.
“It chilled me,” the father said. “It was the worst 40 minutes of my life.” That was a cruel hoax! However, death is no hoax. It’s real, and it’s horrible! 1. How did Jesus acknowledge and empathize with the grief of His friends Mary and Martha over Lazarus’s death? John 11:33–35 “When Jesus saw her [Martha, Lazarus’s sister] weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. . . . Jesus wept.” Death was never part of God’s plan. In the beginning, “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7). The expression “living being” (Hebrew: nephesh), translated “living soul” in earlier Bible versions, literally means “living creature” (see Genesis 1:20, 24, in reference to animals). 2. Adam and Eve were created for immortality, but it was conditional. What was that condition? Genesis 2:16, 17 “ ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’ ” Obedience to God was the condition. The serpent, Satan (see Revelation 12:9), in deceiving Adam and Eve, contradicted God and said, “ ‘You will not surely die. . . . You will be like God’ ” (Genesis 3:4, 5). 3. What did Jesus accomplish by His death? Hebrews 2:14, 15 “[Jesus] shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death — that is, the devil — and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” 4. What did Jesus call death? John 11:11–14 “ ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.’ . . . Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.” The Bible says, “The dead know nothing” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). “Their plans come to nothing”; “Who praises you from the grave?” (Psalm 146:4; 6:5). 5. What did Jesus say that He was, and what did He say would happen to those who believe in Him? John 11:23–25 “ ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha answered, ‘I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.’ ” Jesus demonstrated this by raising Lazarus from the dead (John 11:43, 44). Russell Chandler, former religion writer for the Los Angeles Times, writes, “The Christian claim is not to be confused with the Platonic idea of immortality of the soul. The Christian concept is that the resurrection of the soul cannot be separated from the bodily resurrection. Thus, the integrity and unique personality of each individual are preserved at death.” 6. What would it mean if there was no resurrection? 1 Corinthians 15:16–18 “For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.” Jesus spoke of two resurrections: “ ‘Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned’ ” (John 5:29). Revelation 20 shows that these two resurrections will be separated by a thousand years. 7. What determines which group we will be in? John 3:16 “ ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’ ” Bible Discovery by Errol Webster. Reprinted with permission by SIGNS. Biblebay© 2002 - 2020, AnswersForMe.org. All rights reserved. Click here for content usage information.
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Praxis II Biology Exam Prep iOS Universal Education Dynamic Path’s Praxis II Biology Exam Prep app is the perfect tool to help prospective teachers prepare for the Praxis Biology subject test. The module contains 150+ simulated exam questions addressing nearly all the topics commonly covered on the exam. Each question is followed by a clear and insightful explanation paired with a Key Takeaway. The key takeaway summarizes the key learning point of the question, ensuring comprehensive understanding of the material. This app covers all the topics on the Praxis II Biology exam, including: - Cellular Biology - Molecular Biology - Classical Genetics and Evolution - Diversity of Life - Plants and Animals Dynamic Path apps are designed with an exclusive intuitive UI. They provide a Study Mode, where questions are paired with clear explanations and the user can proceed at their own pace. They also feature a Test Mode designed to simulate the exam experience, where the user can set question and time restraints and their results are presented to them upon completion in both an aggregate and a question-by-question format. Dynamic Path is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the ETS. Updated for iOS 11
Charles Jencks, 78, the co-founder of Maggie’s Centres, which support cancer patients, wants to give 90-minute tours to visitors to his £5.5 million villa in Holland Park. It houses his archive, including original plans by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Dame Zaha Hadid. Mr Jencks, a Harvard graduate central to the post-modernist architecture movement, set up Maggie’s in the Nineties with his wife Maggie Keswick-Jencks, prior to her death from the disease. He believes the transformation of his home would provide a “significant cultural benefit” to London. A planning application submitted to Kensington and Chelsea council states that he “has considered the option of handing over the archives to a university but has decided to retain [them]”. But some neighbours close to Mr Jencks’ house in Lansdowne Walk are fighting the plans for it to open between 9.30am and 5pm for visits by appointment. Sixteen objections have been lodged by residents.
New genetic testing technologies can provide patients with information regarding options that may help with the success of the treatment and reduce the chances of having a child with a certain genetic condition. The available options (if applicable to your case) and their individual merits will be discussed with you during your consultation. Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS or PGT-A) PGS (also known as aneuploidy screening) involves checking the number of chromosomes in embryos. Embryos with abnormal chromosome arrangements often result in a failed treatment, miscarriage or the child may have an abnormal genetic condition (like Down’s syndrome). During PGS, a small number of cells are removed from the embryos. The DNA of these cells is then tested to see whether they have any chromosomal abnormalities. Only embryos without chromosomal abnormalities are placed back in the womb. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD or PGT-M) PGD is a type of embryo testing that can be beneficial for people with serious inherited conditions. During PGD, a small number of cells are removed from the embryos. The DNA of these cells is then tested and only embryos free of the condition are placed back into the woman’s womb PGD with haplotype testing is a form of embryo testing which can be helpful in the treatment of children with life-limiting blood disorders who need an exact tissue match for their treatment. Where there isn’t an exact tissue match within the family, it’s possible to undergo IVF and test embryos for an exact tissue match. Extended carrier screening Carrier screening tests can determine whether you or your partner are a carrier for certain genetic diseases. If both you and your partner are carriers for the same disease, although as you have two copies of each gene you will not be affected, there would be a 25% chance that the embryo may inherit one faulty gene from each parent and have the disease. This test looks at the odds of this occurring so that embryos can be tested by PGD if there is a risk. Extended carrier screening for treatment with donor eggs and sperm Many donor egg and sperm banks now provide extended carrier screening results for their donors. Most people are carriers for one or more genetic diseases. You may wish to have carrier screening to check that you do not carry the same genetic disease as your donor to reduce the risk of having an affected child. Genetic counselling will be recommended if you are considering chromosomal or genetic screening of your embryos, or to discuss the results of carrier screening. The counselling can be helpful in planning and taking an active role in decision-making about your treatment, especially if you have a personal or family history of a genetic disease or you are known to be a carrier of a genetic disorder or chromosomal condition. If you require more detailed information about these options please email email@example.com
THERE’S A SLOGAN in a running-shoe commercial that says, “Just do it.” Kamloops City councillors should remember it when they talk about banning plastic bags. A notice of motion from Coun. Dale Bass will be discussed at next week’s council meeting. When it comes up for debate, there will undoubtedly be hesitation. Some will want to go fast, some will want to go slow or kick it into somebody else’s court. Mayor Ken Christian, for example, would rather see it done at the provincial level. He wants it discussed with retailers, too. He’s a cautious man. Caution is often a good thing, but disposable plastic has been talked to death. As many are now realizing, and as Bass pointed out, it’s killing the planet. It piles up in our landfills and in our environment. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote an editorial headlined, “Does council have the gumption to ban plastic bags?” Mel Rothenburger is a former mayor of Kamloops, former school board chair, former editor of The Kamloops Daily News, and a current director on the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board. He was awarded the Jack Webster Foundation’s lifetime achievement award in 2011. His editorials are published Monday through Thursdays, and Saturdays on CFJC Today, CFJC Midday and CFJC Evening News. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
For the fall 2010 issue, Oregon Quarterly received a class note from Eric Benjaminson '81, sharing the news that he had been confirmed as ambassador to the Central African Republic of Gabon and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe. Eric and his wife Paula Benjaminson, a career foreign service officer, would be headed to the region in a few weeks. OQ passed the note to John Manotti, an assistant vice president in the University Development office; he thought it would be of interest to professor of political science Dennis Galvan, codirector of the UO's Global Oregon Initiative and a veteran researcher in West Africa. As it turned out, Manotti was right. Late last year the Gabon-Oregon Transnational Research Center on Environment and Development was established, funded by a $20 million investment from the government of Gabon. The money will be used to set up centers at the UO and in Libreville, Gabon, where researchers from the two countries will work together and collaborate with Gabonese partners in the transition from an oil-based economy to one based on sustainable natural-resource management and ecotourism. The many new partnerships between Gabonese and UO researchers will also contribute to the development of the nation's educational system and support increased entrepreneurial endeavor. The UO is a natural choice for this partnership, according to Gabon's president Ali Bongo Ondimba. "The University of Oregon is a leader in the fields of natural resources management, sustainable development, green technology and architecture, and urban planning—the foundations on which we aspire to build in Gabon," he said during the signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., last June. A country of just 1.6 million people, Gabon has been living off income from its enormous reserves of oil since gaining independence from France in 1960 (current annual oil revenues amount to $14 billion). But the oil is expected to run out within 20 to 30 years. "They need to diversify," Benjaminson says. "It is not a healthy economy in the long term." Fortunately, oil is not Gabon's only resource. Eighty percent of the country is covered with relatively pristine rainforest, and there are also rich deposits of minerals. "The forest is a smaller version of the Amazon forest—the way it used to be," Benjaminson says. "They also have wonderful marine and riverine environments, and good offshore fisheries." Effectively managing these resources is a challenge. While Gabon has the world's largest population of forest elephants, for example, their numbers have declined dramatically due to poaching for ivory. Similarly, the rainforest is also under pressure from logging and agriculture. The Gabonese government has pledged to work on a host of issues, including sustainability, climate change, education and housing reform, land use, and infrastructure such as roads, sanitation, and telecommunications. "This is the Camelot period in Gabon," Galvan says. "They have a relatively young president who has a small group of close, young advisors around him who are the country's best and brightest." In 2003, then-president Omar Bongo Ondimba (Ali Bongo Ondimba's father) put more than one-tenth of the country's landmass into 13 national parks. Gabon now has the most protected rainforest of any African nation, Galvan says, but the parks are fairly inaccessible due to limited roads and lodging. Park management is complicated by the fact that many Gabonese have traditionally hunted and gathered in those areas. "We need to consider the needs of conservation alongside the needs of people facing poverty," Galvan says. Collaboration will be a key element in devising, refining, and carrying out research projects. "Every project will have Gabonese partners," Galvan says. "If I come up with a research topic, my topic will change as it gets infused with the Gabonese sense of what a good research project is and how to go about doing it." Enhancing Gabon's education system is also a strong component of the program. The country's only university has an extremely limited PhD program and is "underresourced," Benjaminson says. UO professors will have the opportunity to create partnerships with professors in Gabon and train students who can then come to the UO for graduate study, he says. At the same time, all of the center's activities will include community outreach, turning research into lessons for primary school kids, with special emphasis on girls and women. While the UO will lead the program, a number of other Oregon campuses will also be members of the Oregon African Studies Consortium, including Oregon State University, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland State University, and Willamette University. Possible areas of research include everything from forestry and environmental studies to ethnobotany and parasite-destroying drugs to antipoaching initiatives and economic modeling. "Across all the campuses, we have many types of expertise," Galvan says. Brendan Bohannan is one of several UO professors looking forward to collaborative research in Gabon. "We hope to help broaden their economy by working together to include low-impact ecotourism, sustainable use of the forest, and bioprospecting," he says. Bohannan, a professor of biology and director of the UO's Institute of Ecology and Evolution, has been studying the effects of deforestation on microbial biodiversity in the Amazon Basin for many years. Tiny forms of life such as bacteria and fungi have extremely important biological functions. "The vast majority of bacteria don't cause disease," he says. "Many are necessary to our health." Besides working with the Gabonese on issues of rainforest management, Bohannan also sees potential in rainforest bioprospecting—looking for novel organic compounds that could have medical applications. "We hope to establish a long-term research site and exchange students between the two countries," Bohannan says. "UO students could train in Gabon and better understand the rainforest, and Gabonese students would have the opportunity to come here and be trained in the environmental sciences." Seven Gabonese students are already attending the UO. Gleen Landangoye is majoring in business administration, with a focus on green business and tourism. He plans to put his studies to use at home in Gabon. "We've been counting on the forest for our economy," he says, "but we have never known that we should protect the forest as well as use it. The whole point is to learn to use our country's resources more wisely." Galvan couldn't agree more. "Hopefully this collaboration can produce a whole generation who think like Gleen," he says. The Gabon-Oregon program is under the auspices of Global Oregon, one of five Big Ideas established in 2009 to help guide the future direction of the university. Global Oregon is a strategic initiative to make the student experience, faculty research, and the university's outreach more international. (To learn more about the Big Ideas, go to www.provost.uoregon.edu/content/big-ideas.) Of the $20 million Gabon has invested, $5 million will cover setup costs for the program, including creating the centers at the UO and in Gabon. The remaining $15 million endowment will be managed by the UO Foundation, with distributions from the fund financing operations and research at the two centers. "Resources will be pumped into both sides of the relationship," Galvan says, "and we'll have the opportunity to learn from each other. I'm excited about this opportunity." —By Rosemary Howe Camozzi '96
Sometimes a handful of soil can spark a family’s interest in sustainability. Vincent and Colleen Sicca came to ASAP’s community storybooth to share how their family gained a greater understanding of how food is grown. Vincent and Colleen wanted to teach their three children about the life cycle of a tomato plant and how growing food is influenced by different factors in the environment. “We did it almost like a science experiment where we took a tomato plant and we used just organic soil and then we used the organic soil with a mixture of the vermicompost,” Colleen explains. Before we find out the results of the experiment, what exactly is vermicompost? “Vermi” means worm, and compost is organic matter that has been decomposed. Vermiculture uses worms to speed up the composting process, turning food waste into nutrient-rich soil. The family’s hypothesis was that the compost created by worms would result in a better tomato plant. They were surprised by how much faster the plants grown in verimiculture matured and the flavor differences between the tomatoes. “It was really amazing,” Vincent says. Their kids loved the activity and it got Vincent and Colleen thinking—could they turn their family’s excitement for vermiculture into a business? They were concerned about local food waste going to landfills and wanted to establish a community service that would turn food waste into soil. “What we do is we collect food waste from the community, residential and commercial, and we divert it from going to a landfill,” Vincent explains. “We have monthly subscriptions and containers that they deposit their food waste into. We then collect them on a bi-weekly basis and compost it with worms. Then we return a portion of the compost back to our customers, another portion goes back to community gardens, and then there’s a little portion that we actually sell.” They named the company WormaCulture and they were surprised by how excited residents were to receive their composted soil. “It really wows people to see that worms turn this pile of garbage that we’re going to send to a landfill into something that’s the most natural fertilizer on Earth. And when they see their product coming back to them, they’re hooked instantly and they’re talking about it kind of like we were talking about it back in 2017 with our children. It’s eye opening experience,” Vincent says. Some of the soil is delivered to local community gardens, including the Shiloh Community Garden in Asheville and Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth, and Families. Home gardeners often seek out vermiculture as a way to reduce the waste that comes with food preservation. Vincent tells the story of a customer who ordered extra containers to dispose of her canning waste and left his family a gift in return. “She left us homemade salsa and dill pickles so that was really rewarding to see someone that’s using our service to divert her canning waste to give back to us as a family. We give her compost; she creates vegetables in her garden. She creates salsas and pickles, gives them back to us, and supports our business. It’s really nice,” he says. Now that their vermiculture experiment has shifted from a fun activity to the family business, Colleen hopes to pass on some of the lessons she’s learned about starting a local business to her kids. “I just want to teach them that there are so many things out there, so many things that you can try, so many things that you can gain from learning how to do things locally, and just to be involved in the community,” she says. Hear more stories from our community storybooth at www.asapconnections.org/broadcasts
TOKYO -- Japan's prospects of welcoming 40 million international visitors as planned in 2020 are already starting to fade as the new coronavirus cuts into the flow of Chinese travelers. Japan drew 2.66 million visitors from abroad in January, down 1.1% on the year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. This owed mainly to South Koreans being far less inclined to visit amid bilateral trade frictions since last summer. Travelers from South Korea numbered 316,800, down 59.4%. Although visitors from China jumped 22.6% to a January record of 924,800, flights and cruise ships from the country have plunged since late January, according to the Japan Tourism Agency. There were about 20% fewer Chinese travelers during the Lunar New Year peak travel period of Jan. 24 to Feb. 2. The China numbers are sure to drop precipitously in February and beyond amid coronavirus-inspired travel bans there, fueling pessimism even within the Japanese government that "it may even be challenging to maintain year-on-year growth in inbound travelers," let alone reach 40 million, as one official put it. The annual target had been seen as overly ambitious from the start, exceeding last year's tally of 31.88 million by 25%. Skeptics have pointed out the overreliance on traffic from China, South Korea and elsewhere in East Asia. With 9.59 million visitors from China and 5.58 million from South Korea last year, the two countries together accounted for around half of all international arrivals. The outbreak makes it all the more apparent that attracting visitors broadly from Europe, the U.S. and Southeast Asia is essential to meeting the goal. Communities across Japan enjoyed the cash brought in by the growing influx of foreigners -- particularly Chinese, who were responsible for nearly 40% of all inbound tourism spending. Tourism businesses and retailers in smaller cities and towns are bracing for the blow from losing such revenue. The government has pledged financial support as a temporary measure, but businesses will likely ask for additional help. The rise in domestic infections may also reduce Japan's appeal. The country has been targeted by a travel advisory from Thailand, which in 2019 trailed only China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. as a source of visitors.
- June 10, 2015 - Posted by: atlantadmin - Category: Blog The economics of malicious software separate into multiple facets, two of which are mass malware distribution and targeted malware. Mass malware distribution depends on a network of services itself – groups delivering hacked websites and compromised hosts for file storage, groups delivering compromised advertising networks and groups providing services to make malware undetectable. For the criminals having compromised legitimate websites (at a certain point even Forbes.com was compromised for several months, delivering targeted malware) means that your automatic malicious url blacklisting systems would not work and they will be able to pass through your defenses easily. Having access to compromised (or just willing to deliver anything for the right price) advertising networks means criminals can deliver malicious software on virtually any website – including Youtube, for example (there have been multiple occurrences of the same). Combined the two above create an unprecedented threat environment where any website can deliver a malicious payload to your users – when even whitelisting, believed to be a draconian measure, would not help much. Moving on to MAAS – or Malware As A Service Malware as a service delivers on two promises – at any point in time your adversaries will have access to compromised hosts and undetectable malware. If a certain number of vendors start detecting the malicious sample, their fully automated service will generate a new sample and deliver it where needed – no interaction needed. As soon as a compromised host or website gets on any blacklist, the malicious code automatically moves to a new set of compromised hosts. This is part of their SLA (service level agreement) – and as mature business people they are well aware of the reliability they need to maintain in order to retain their customers in a highly competitive underground market. Their model is solid and proven – and relies on return on investment just as any other business model. In order to disrupt their operations against your business, you could do only one thing: raise their costs of attacking you using their automated methods so much as for the attacks to become unprofitable – at this point they will move to another target. That is IF you are not targeted specifically – at which point it will be only a matter of time until the actual compromise occurs – where your incident response and digital forensics capabilities will be put to the test, but that is a discussion for an entirely different chapter. Preventing Exploit Execution If you followed through on the previous chapters and have implemented applocker/software restriction policies and / or a commercial product to control the execution of unknown applications / code, if you have full control over powershell and have blocked malvertising to the maximum possible extent – it is time to move on with prevention of exploit execution. There are commercial and free solutions for this purpose, but you have to be extra careful when testing and evaluating them as what is advertised is not always what is in the box. Years ago a well-known name in the AV industry sent a project for evaluation – and they had a point where their ‘unique anti-exploit functionality’ had to be tested. They promised protection from a specific RDP exploit. So I tested the exploit and lo and behold, the protection was working! I was surprised, but digging deeper it turned out all the product did was use the Firewall to block RDP connections from outside. Turn off the firewall functionality and the exploit crashed the system completely. Exploit prevention? Always test and ask tough questions before spending a considerable amount of money on software licenses. In the end, not even the money spent is at risk – it is the protection of your assets (or lack of the same). Malwarebytes Anti-exploit (https://www.malwarebytes.org/antiexploit/) is one product I would recommend you to try out and compare to its free counterparts. One suggestion I always give when evaluating a security company: look for signs of non-commercial community work. For example, releasing useful, non-marketing targeted tools designed to actually help users to fix their information security problems. Malwarebytes excels in this field – if you look at their free tools section you might find plenty of good ones – https://www.malwarebytes.org/downloads/#tools. The operating systems widely deployed at the endpoints are vulnerable. God forbid you’re still using Windows XP – but I’ve seen even the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command of the USA visit my website from an XP box, so I guess everything is possible? Even Windows 7 is outdated by modern standards – but migrating to a newer operating system is not always possible due to multiple reasons, especially in larger environments. 3rd party software is also rarely updated, mostly due to lack of knowledge and experience on the side of IT staff – they don’t see the reasons or don’t know how to update to the latest PDF reader or Flash version (but why even have Flash on the endpoints, is another question), they don’t patch the installed office applications with their latest security patches unless forced specifically by an audit requirement or finding. Since at least 3 years there has been a ‘silver bullet’, guarding against application vulnerabilities and preventing exploitation by adding a second layer of defense between the operating system kernel and the applications on Windows systems. The name of this silver bullet is EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit). At the time of this writing the latest version is 5.2 – a very mature application, I would say. I am constantly amazed by how many IT “experts” have not heard of or are not using EMET. Given its effectiveness and price – FREE – and given its developer – Microsoft – with the sole purpose to protect Microsoft Windows operating systems from exploitation, it really is difficult to comprehend why people ignore this product. This is likely one of your best and most effective defenses against exploits – even when they are attacking non-updated plugins like Flash, Java and Silverlight. And let’s be honest, does your company auto-update all plugins to their latest versions as soon as one is available? Sadly this is almost always not the case. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, you can get yourself acquainted on the following links: Please, break the rule and read the manual! After that, go ahead and download and install the tool. The installation page will offer you to download the manual as well – do it and read it. It’s not the best manual out there, but that is why my book exists! Let’s get into the technical details. The settings you see on this screenshot are not the default – they are the recommended ones (by me and by Microsoft). On first launch, just click the dropdown menu and choose “Maximum security settings”, then reboot your computer. Note: some AV products might interfere with EMET. If that is the case, you can contact them and ask for support or uninstall them and get a better AV product. In all cases – EMET should be preferred over an antivirus product anytime. After all, if you follow the advice in this book, you will never need to rely primarily on an antivirus for your security, ever again! Most people don’t even get to this point – they install EMET and consider their job done – and it’s not. Next, you need to click on Import, go to C:Program Files (x86)EMET 5.1DeploymentProtection Profiles and import Popular Software.xml. You can also import the other two xml files, but this one is most important. This step will add additional configuration settings for widely used applications which will prevent nagging crashes and issues of incompatibility. If you encounter application compatibility issues – namely, some apps crashing and the EMET window popping up saying it has blocked something – or if you see events in the event log that emet has closed an application due to some kind of mitigation – you have two options: either it has been a legitimate threat (exploit) or you have encountered a bug in the application. Sometimes these conditions are caused by a very long uptime, when EMET confuses memory addresses used by apps and thinks it’s an exploit. Sometimes these crashes are caused by a conflict with other security software. Sometimes you just need to update the crashing application, and sometimes… you need to re-configure EMET. Here is how to do it. Go to the main screen, then click on the Apps icon: You will see the following window: Usually the event log will tell you which mitigation has been triggered – most often it is Caller Mitigation. If this happened to you, you can turn off this specific mitigation for this specific application – fully aware that you are losing a part of your security. Never disable mitigation settings unless you are absolutely sure this cannot be rectified by updating your application, OS, EMET or AV. There have been blog posts about certain security consultancy firms bypassing EMET – I can assure you these were written primarily for marketing purposes. It is still not common for attackers to use exploits capable of bypassing EMET and it is still advisable that you implement it in your company as soon as possible. If you think about it, everything can be bypassed – does that mean that if a protection measure can be bypassed, you should not install it? Other malware prevention measures I wish NIST 800-83, http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-83/SP800-83.pdf – Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling” was made mandatory for implementation everywhere. My recommendations on this document: there are action items which you can mark (with a colored marker) for implementation and add these to a project, something similar to “Malware prevention measures” – then add all the action items on a timeline and task the IT / IT Security teams for their implementation. Simply reading will yield little benefit as the document is a bit high level, not getting into much technical details, which I think is on purpose, as otherwise they would have to go down to the vendor level configuration settings, which is not the purpose of the document. Other server / workstation hardening ideas I generally recommend getting rid of any binary which is not essential to the business operation of a workstation or a server. Deleting non-essential binaries Does a specific user need cmd.exe, reg.exe, regedit.exe, cscript.exe, at.exe, psexec.exe, nbtstat.exe, ftp.exe, bitsadmin.exe, makecab.exe, quser.exe, ieexec.exe, schtasks.exe, netstat.exe, sc.exe, xcopy.exe, nslookup.exe, taskkill.exe, tasklist.exe, route.exe, regsvr32.exe, ping.exe, wmic.exe, powershell.exe? There are several ways of dealing with the situation. - Delete the binaries, when needed – bring them with you to the machine - Restrict execution with a policy - Rename them – cmd.exe could become dmc.exe, for example (after the proper tweaking of the system’s self-preservation mechanisms trying to return such system files to their original form). Renaming renders useless many automated attack scripts / exploits / etc, just as well as deleting or restricting with a policy. The same applies to any operating system. Please use proper change management, testing and implementation for all such changes – some systems management software uses powershell, some enterprise scripts might need cscript to run – take this advice with a grain of salt and always test for an extended period of time before rolling out such drastic hardening measures across the enterprise. Rendering a system unusable is worse than not implementing a hardening measure. More on PowerShell: A security expert (Nikhil SamratAshok) recently posted a set of posts on his blog, named “Week of PowerShell Shells”. If you’re not familiar with what a shell is in this context – it is a way to obtain a remote ‘command line shell’ via non-standard techniques, for example by sending and receiving ICMP (Ping) packets. So while you’re sitting there and looking at your clean traffic showing only ping packets traveling between system A and system B, someone might actually be having full remote control of said systems. Well, it would be best to just read the blog posts to get a better picture: The above blog posts prove just one thing – if PowerShell is available on a system it represents almost everything an attacker needs to utilize the system and penetrate deeper into your network. It is yet another reason to lock it down and make it accessible to administrators only and only on specific machines, definitely not on all your endpoints. The following 2 posts by Microsoft will help you lock down your PowerShell: “PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles” – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2008/09/30/powershell-s-security-guiding-principles.aspx and “PowerShell Security Best Practices” – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/16/powershell-security-best-practices.aspx
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a town in the district of Ansbach of Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia), the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. It is well known for its well-preserved medieval old town, a destination for tourists from around the world. It is part of the popular Romantic Road through southern Germany. Rothenburg was a Free imperial city from the late Middle Ages to 1803. In 1884 Johann Friedrich (von) Hessing (1838–1918) built Wildbad Rothenburg o.d.T. 1884–1903.
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ASSESSMENT, The syllabus tells you specifically which items to prepare for from day to day In the interest of continuous. learning you are required to complete your reading assignments BEFORE the material is scheduled to be discussed. No graded work will be accepted after the due date noted on the schedule or stated in class. 1 Participation in class,2 Projects Tests Quizzes,3 Final Project. As the material is to be read prior to its discussion in class Chapter Section Lesson as the book calls them. Quizzes can be administered without notice, An unannounced materials check will occur once per grading period 4 times total worth 100 points each These. points cannot be made up, You will receive a weekly grade for your participation Participation is graded according to the following. guidelines, A You participate actively in free conversation without waiting to be called on You have prepared content well. at home and almost always communicate correctly, B You wait to be called on but then respond You have content at home and usually respond correctly. C You wait to be called on are sometimes unable to respond You have not prepared well and only sometimes. respond correctly, D You hardly ever contribute in class and are often unable to respond. F You do not contribute and when called on respond incorrectly. OVERVIEW OF CLASSES, Dates may change due to school events or weather delays cancellations. Assessment,Date Topic Activity beyond,Participation. 8 10 8 Lesson Quizzes,Ch 1 Creating a Nation Beginnings to 1877 pg 1 70. 1 Origins of the American Nation,2 The Young Republic. 3 Antebellum America,4 Sectional Crisis,5 The Civil War and Reconstruction Ch 1 Test. Video Aftermath Beyond the Civil War 129 Min Analysis of Video. Paper w partner, 20 24 8 Ch 2 Settling the West 1865 1890 pg 71 88 Lesson Quizzes. 1 Miners and Ranchers,2 Farming the Plains,3 Native Americans. Ch 3 Industrialization 1865 1901 pg 89 110 Lesson Quizzes. 1 The Rise of Industry, 2 The Railroads Video The Trains that conquered the West. 3 Big Business Video Edison vs Tesla 1 hr,4 Unions Ch 3 Test. 4 9 7 9 Lesson Quizzes,Week 5 Ch 4 Urban America 1865 1896. 1 Immigration,2 Urbanization Video Steel Metropolis 30 min. 3 Social Darwinism and Social Reform 4 Politics of the Gilded Age 5 The Ch 4 Test. Rise of Segregation,Videos The Men Who Built America. 10 14 9 Video Discussion,Week 6 Above Videos continued. Group Project Preparation Videos about Captains of Industry. 17 21 9 Group Project Robber Barons or Captains of Industry groups of 3 Per attached. Week 7 Essay and PowerPoint about one particular Industrialist Rubric. Per attached,Group Presentations Rubric referred to. 24 28 9 Lesson Quizzes, Week 8 Ch 5 Becoming a World Power pg 139 158 1 The Imperialist Vission. 2 The Spanish American War,4 New American Diplomacy. Ch 6 The Progressive Movement 1890 1920 pg 159 180 1 2 The Roots of. Progressivism The Roosevelt Years,3 The Wilson years Ch5 6 Test. 1 10 5 10 Lesson Quizzes, Week 9 Ch 7 World War I and Aftermath 1914 1920 pg 181 204. 1 The U S enters World War I 2 The Home front,3 A Bloody Conflict 4 The War s Impact. Video Analysis,Video Paris 1919 2 hrs,8 12 10 Video Analysis. Week 10 Preparation for group project Videos WWI through Arab eyes 1 hr quiz. Per attached rubic, Begin Group Project The Treaty of Versailles Are WWI and WWII one. cohesive war and are we still fighting it Essay groups of 3. Week 11 Above continued,Essay grade per, Groups present their arguments classroom discussion above rubric. Fall Break,29 10 2 11 Lesson Quizzes,Week 12 Ch 8 The Jazz Age 1921 1929 pg 205 228. 1 Politics of the 1920 s 2 A Growing Economy,3 A Clash of Values. 5 9 11 Ch 9 The Great Depression Begins 1929 1932 pg 229 244 Lesson Quizzes. 1 The Causes of the Great Depression,2 Life during the Great Depression. 3 Hoover s Response to the Great Depression Ch 9 Test. 12 16 11 Lesson Quizzes, Week 14 Ch 10 Roosevelt and the New Deal pg 245 262. 1 The First New Deal,2 The 2nd New Deal,3 The New Deal Coalition Ch 10 Test. 219 20 11 Video Hitler and Stalin Roots of Evil 44 Min. Week 15 Video Discussion,Video The Gathering Storm 56 Min. Video Discussion,26 30 11 Above Continued,Lesson Quizzes. Ch 11 A world in Flames 1931 1941 pg 263 283,1 The Origins of World war II. 2 From Neutrality to War 3 Holocaust,3 Video Why We Fight 63 Min. Ch 11 Test Video,Discussion,3 15 12 Per attached, Week 17 18 Semester Final Project Hitler Stalin FDR Create a Video groups of 3 Rubric. 17 21 12 Graded per, Week 19 Finals Week Viewing Discussion of Group Videos attached Rubric. Winter Break,2 4 1 Lesson Quizzes, Week 1 Ch 12 America and World War II 1941 1945 pg 283 314. 1 Wartime America,2 The War in the Pacific,3 The War in Europe. 4 The War Ends Ch 12 test, 7 11 1 Ch 13 The Cold War Begins pg 315 340 Lesson Quizzes. 1 The Origins of the Cold War,2 The Early Cold War Years. Week 3 3 The Cold War and American Society,Ch 13 test. 4 Eisenhower s Cold War Policies,21 25 1 Lesson Quizzes. Week 4 Ch 14 Post War America pg 341 358, 1 Truman and Eisenhower 2 The Affluent Society The Other Side of. American Life,Video Soviet War Scare Able Archer 2 hrs. Ch 14 Test, Week 5 Ch 15 The New Frontier and the Great Society pg 359 376 Lesson Quizzes. 1 The New Frontier,2 JFK and the Cold War,Video Discussion. Videos On the Brink Doomsday Cuban Missile Crisis,Video Discussion. Video Man Moment Machine Wernher von Braun,Ch 15 Test. 3 The Great Society,Week 6 7 Ch 20 Lesson 4 The End of the Cold War. Video Discussion, Video Berlin Wall Military Version Reagan and the Cold War. 18 22 2 Per attached, Week 8 Group Project The Cold War Analytical Essay PowerPoint Rubric. 25 2 1 3 Graded per above, Week 9 Above continued and group presentations Rubric. 4 8 3 Lesson Quizzes,Ch 16 The Civil Rights Movement pg 377 396. 1 The Movement Begins,2 Challenging Segregation,3 New Civil Rights Issues. Video Discussion, Video LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement Ch 16 Test. 11 15 3 Ch 17 The Vietnam War 1954 1975 pg 398 414 Lesson Quizzes. Week 11 1 Going to War in Vietnam,2 Vietnam Divides the Nation. 3 The War Winds Down, Ch 18 The Politics of Protest pg 415 430 Lesson Quizzes. 1 Students and the Counterculture 3 Latino Americans Organize. 2 The Feminist Movement Ch 17 18 Test, Week 12 Ch 19 Politics and Economics 1968 1980 pg 431 456 Lesson Quizzes. 1 The Nixon Administration,2 The Watergate Scandal. 3 Ford and Carter,4 New Approaches to Civil Rights. 5 Environmentalism,Ch 19 Test,New Approaches to Civil Rights. Spring Break, 1 5 4 Ch 20 The Resurge of Conservatism 1980 1992 pg 457 478 Per Attached. Week 13 Rubric,Reagan Poster Project,8 12 4 Ch 21 A Time of Change pg 479 497. Week 14 Lesson Quizzes,1 The Clinton Years,2 A New Wave of Immigration. 3 Technology and Globalization Video Stream of Consciousness 60 Video Discussion. 15 18 4 Lesson Quizzes, Week 15 Ch 22 America s Challenge for a New Century 2001 Present pg 497 424. 1 Bush s Global Challenge,Video Discussion,Video Killing Bin Laden 1 hr. 2 Focusing on Afghanistan and Iraq,3 Domestic Challenges. 22 4 26 4 4 The Obama Presidency, Video The End of the Road How Money Became Worthless 1 5 hrs. Video Discussion,Video Oil Apocalypse,Video Discussion. 39 4 3 5 Trump Presidency the USA in a global invironment Class discussions and. Week 17 debates about domestic and international challenges. Week 18 19 Group research possible key topics for Final Project. Above Continued,Per attached, Final project groups of 3 The USA s Global Role Past Present Future Rubric. 20 22 5 Graded per above,Week 20 Finals Project Presentations Rubric. PLAGIARISM, A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas words or statements of another person without appropriate. acknowledgment A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness. whenever he or she does any of the following, Quotes another person s actual words either oral or written. Paraphrases another person s words either oral or written. Uses another person s idea opinion or theory or, Borrows facts statistics or other illustrative material unless the information is common knowledge. Any assignment that is determined to have been plagiarized will receive a 0 without the opportunity to make it. This course will survey the major historical events in African American history from Reconstruction up through the present. Major themes addressed in the course will include: the creation of African American identity, the construction of race in the context of the U.S., the relationship of people of African descent to American The American Record presents history through a broad perspective. Volume 1 covers the span from the European conquest of America through Reconstruction; Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present. Volume I: To 1877 (softcover), 384 pp. 978-0-07-294958-2 Volume II: Since 1865 (softcover), 384 pp. 978-0-07-294959-9 Annual Editions teaching history. We will work together to undercover the hidden stories of history from the bottom up. Thank you for allowing me to lead you on this journey into American history. Course Description: This course is a chronological survey of American history from 1877 to the present, focusing on COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of United States development from 1877 to the present. Emphasis is on the economic, social, political, cultural, and religious contributions of the United States to the modern world. RATIONALE: Why study history? It is an important part of a liberal education (see below), it teaches us that places, and events and their impact on the growth of American History during the Post-Civil War Era until the late-20th Century. This will allow students to have appropriate material for the three in class exams and the numerous discussion group questions that they need to answer to successfully complete this course. Text and References
The U.S. economy continues to heal within the aftermath of the Great Recession. Within the first quarter of 2017, the demand for items and services (actual GDP) was roughly $135 billion (about 0.7 percent) lower than what the economic system was able to supplying (potential GDP). The Fed said it could begin promoting $four trillion in Treasuries after the fed funds rate has normalized to about 2.zero %. Actual GDP by state progress ranged from three.four % in Texas to zero.1 % in Kansas and Mississippi. Progress erasing the roles deficit was slow for some time, but the financial system has now recovered the 8.7 million jobs misplaced between the beginning of the recession in December 2007 and early 2010 and continued to add jobs since. Earnings and private present switch receipts have been the main contributors to progress for the nation and in most states. Annual information: Actual gross home product (GDP) increased in 292 metropolitan areas in 2015, led by growth in skilled and business providers; wholesale and retail trade; and finance, insurance coverage, real property, rental and leasing. Even that, however, is somewhat larger than what’s required to keep up with potential labor pressure development (the pace of job creation that’s appropriate once the economic system is again to full health). The excellent news for the economy is that it additionally lowered the cost of transportation, food, and uncooked materials for business. The Labor Division’s most complete various unemployment charge measure — which includes people who wish to work but are discouraged from looking and other people working part time because they can’t find full-time jobs — recorded its highest studying on record in November 2009 in information that go back to 1994.
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The question “why do bad things happen to good people?” is a classic of philosophy and theology. But rather than address that question head on, perhaps it is better to pursue a more practical inquiry. Once we accept the premise that “bad things happen to good people”, the practical question is “how should one deal with bad things happening?” Obviously, there is no shortage of literature and philosophy that could shed light on this question. The Book of Job, Augustine’s Confessions, Epictetus’s Handbook all spring to mind, and those are just among the writings that have already been featured here. But time is short and my beer is getting warm, so I’ll limit myself to three examples of how calamity may be met: When the title character of Robinson Crusoe found himself stranded on a desert island his reaction seems somewhat undignified. He relates: “After I had got to shore and escaped drowning, instead of being thankful to God for my deliverance, having first vomited, with the great quantity of saltwater which had got into my stomach, and recovering myself a little, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, ‘I was undone, undone!’ till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground to repose, but durst not sleep for fear of being devoured.” But eventually, Crusoe was able to turn his mind and energies toward practical work. He collected necessary goods from among the shipwreck, including books, paper, and ink. He also set about constructing a habitation complete with shelves and furniture. Only after he had taken care of the immediate bodily concerns of his predicament could he turn to contemplation and religion. It looks like dedicating one’s energy to the labor of surviving is the key to bridging the gap between despair and contemplation. One can’t properly reflect while still in a panic, so Crusoe must settle himself down by establishing his settlement. But what happens when there is no labor to be performed? What if all work is already accomplished or if all work is futile? This is the condition of Boethius in his Consolation of Philosophy. Boethius was imprisoned by Theodoric the Great on a charge of treason. Realizing that his situation was inexorable, he fell to weeping. Like Crusoe, Boethius was initially consumed by despair. But unlike Crusoe, Boethius had no practical labor to turn his mind from his grief. But he did have a pen and ink. Even without the bridge of practical work, Boethius was able to direct his mind to philosophy. In a prison cell, sure that he would lose his life shortly, he produced what proved to be one of the most influential philosophical works the in world. Boethius was able to move directly from despair to contemplation, without needing some labor to take his mind off of his predicament. And finally, for those who have neither the practical skills of Crusoe, nor the intellectual powers of Boethius, one can always take the Baudelaire approach to dealing with the inevitable calamities of life: Get Drunk. Beer of the week: Staropramen Unfiltered (Nefiltrovaný) – This unfiltered wheat beer is quite a treat. Unlike many wheat beers, this one has a strong aroma of floral hops. The beer itself is very cloudy and the remaining yeast provides some extra texture and spice. Although it is sweet, with hints of fruit, the hops and coriander provide a finish that really balances the sweetness. Reading for the week: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, Book I, Sections 2 &3 – Last week’s claim that Chaucer was a profound thinker is somewhat bolstered by the fact that Chaucer translated The Consolation of Philosophy from Latin. It was, in Chaucer’s day, perhaps the single most popular philosophical work. Question for the week: What do you do when bad things happen? There are more forms of intoxication than alcohol induced drunkenness. And I am not referring to drugs. “Drunk with power” is more than fanciful speech. Euphoria after exercise is a kind of intoxication. Byron suggested music as an intoxicant. Baudelaire advocated poetry and even virtue for a reliable high. But these other sorts of intoxicants can be quite as dangerous as any drug. Three coincident events led me to consider the dangers of such intoxicants. First, I started receiving Lapham’s Quarterly. Lapham’s is a literary magazine that includes a very wide range of excerpts and poems. I feel confident that more than a few readings on this blog will be inspired by Lapham’s. Second, Pope Francis is visiting the United States until Sunday evening. And finally, the recent Republican debates have spent a fair bit of time focused on how to “deal with” ISIS and Iran. These may seem unrelated, but in one of the back issues of Lapham’s there was an excerpt from Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions about Pope Urban II riling the people to war in the Holy Land. History repeats itself and, as Da Vinci said, “everything connects to everything else.” Two particularly dangerous intoxicants are combined in Mackay’s story: personality cult and military adventurism. Some people are positively enraptured by the presence of a strong personality who has a way with words. And some people seek the thrill of conquest as incessantly as any junkie seeks his next fix. These two intoxicants are often combined with disastrous results. Among the greatest classical examples is the failed Sicilian Expedition by Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Alcibiades was a captivating figure and was able to stir the Athenians so thoroughly up that they neglected wiser advice and set about the course of events that would eventually see their own city fall into enemy hands. Luckily, the current pontiff is not rallying the people to war. But his popularity, even among non-Catholics, is worthy of critical examination. Many people who see him on his American visit are genuinely ecstatic. And like all intoxication, intoxication with a personality can cloud one’s judgement. More dangerous, probably, are the Republican presidential hopefuls (to say nothing of the equally dangerous Democratic hopefuls.) They aspire to have their own personality cults. Some of the candidates are already cult figures in some circles. And since the politics of the United States is war, there is little doubt that whoever wins will drum up military adventures that intoxicate the thrill seekers and zealots. Some drugs are safer than others, and I wouldn’t take a sip of any drink that was mixed by somebody I don’t trust. Beer of the week: Svyturys Ekstra – Lithuania has been a predominantly Catholic nation since the relatively successful Northern Crusades, when the Pope Celestine III declared holy war against the Baltic pagans. Catholicism was officially forbidden during the period of USSR control, but it has bounced back considerably. (Astute readers will have noticed that the map in this photo predates the dissolution of the Soviet Union, so Lithuania is not displayed as an independent nation.) Svyturys Ekstra is straw colored. There is not much aroma to speak of, except a little sweet grass and citrus. Malty sweetness dominates the flavor, with biscuit notes and a hint of tart bitterness at the end. Reading of the week: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay – “Urban the Second,” writes Mackay, “was one of the most eloquent men of the day.” The pope expertly rallied an eager crowd to war in a distant land. Promising salvation for fighting the infidels yielded an unexpected result (although in hind-sight a quite natural one.) Sure of their absolution, the crusaders engaged in all manner of vice and debauchery. Question of the week: Moderate consumption of alcohol is not unhealthy, what about a moderate indulgence in getting intoxicated by personality? Happy Friday the 13th! Today I will focus on one of the spookiest, creepiest poets of all time: Charles Baudelaire. His poems are dark as Guinness stout and chilling as… a simile about cold beers. When I first read the works of Charles Baudelaire, I was none too impressed. Had he been an American teen in the early years of this millennium, Baudelaire would have been a goth kid with whiny LiveJournal. Everything is corpses and skulls with that guy. “Nobody likes me,” his poems lament, “but that is because my soul is a that of a beautiful poet and everybody else is a dick.” (By the way, I am only half making this stuff up. His poem The Albatross compares the poet to a majestic bird that is mocked when it condescends to land among normal men.) But Baudelaire was more than just a whinging kid with macabre tastes. Perhaps his greatest contribution to literature was his translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. (Which sheds some additional light on his morbid sensibilities.) It seems that Poe was more or less forgotten in the United States in the generation after his death. Luckily, Baudelaire translated Poe into French and popularized his works. The so-called Decadent Movement spread across Europe, to England, and across the Atlantic, and it brought Poe back into vogue with it. Of course, Baudelaire’s own work is not without value. I particularly like his poem Get Drunk. The ceaseless crushing gears of time are unbearable unless one gets drunk. “Get drunk! Stay Drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue, on whatever you want.” Find something that intoxicates you, something that alters your perception of time. And if you should wake up with a hang-over on the steps of a palace or in the grass of a ditch, ask the world what time it is. And the answer will be: time to get drunk! Beer of the week: 5 Vulture Oaxacan-Style Dark Ale – Find a photo of Baudelaire and tell me that he doesn’t look like a cartoon vulture. Which, given his dark style, seems totally appropriate. 5 Vulture Ale is brewed by 5 Rabbit Cervecería, a Latin American inspired brewery near Chicago. This dark ale is brewed with ancho chili peppers. The color is dark amber and the head is tan. The aroma is distinctive and sweet. The taste has hints of dark chocolate and a subtle fruit presence that I can’t quite pin down. The ancho chilies used in the brewing give a pleasant tingle at the end, though I’d actually prefer a bit more spice. It also feels thinner than one would expect from such a dark, flavorful beer. It is so different that I really don’t know what to think about it. Reading of the week: Get Drunk by Charles Baudelaire – The first version of this poem that I read was an English translation that included the word “beer”. When I checked the French, I was disappointed (though not surprised) to find that the word used was “vin”. Beer would have been better, but wine will do. Question of the week: I am sure that I understand being drunk on wine. I think that I understand being drunk on poetry. But I can’t quite get my head around being drunk on virtue. What can that mean?
There are many miserable, annoying things about school, the worst being studying. Not only do we have to spend the majority of the day learning, working, and listening to lectures. We also have to go home do more school work and study for upcoming quizzes or tests. Everyone has their own studying method, whether it be being tutored, flashcards, or even cramming right before the test. Whatever your study habits may be, here are some tips on how to improve your study habits. These helpful tips are what you need to go that extra mile and get an A on your exams. - Watch Youtube Videos The internet is filled with information on about any subject that comes to mind. Youtube is a great, easily accessible resource to use when in need of a quick study session. It is a website filled with educational videos that can easily help you retain the information in a more fun, simple way. Using Youtube is not only easy, but also much more entertaining than rereading a textbook. Try a channel like Crashcourse, which has a wide variety of educational videos ranging from the humanities to the sciences. - Study Out Loud Whether you are alone or with a group of friends, studying out loud will make the information much easier to remember. It is scientifically proven that talking out loud improves memory retention. You may look odd talking to yourself, but studying out loud improves information retention by differentiating bits of knowledge. - Rewrite Your Notes When teachers give lectures and notes, how much of that information do you actually retain in that moment? It is very difficult to write, listen, and fully retain the information all at the same time. By rewriting your notes, it helps with comprehension. Also it can be more conducive to remembering than just reading. - Teach Others The ultimate test to determine whether you fully understood the information. By teaching someone who is not as familiar with the subject, it confirms your comprehension and understanding of the information. Along with studying outloud, it improves retainment abilities and memory, which will ultimately help you succeed on the test. If you are confident in your knowledge, then that is the first step in receiving good grades on the exams. - Get a Good Night’s Rest Using sleep to your advantage is more important than you could imagine. It is scientifically proven that the brain actually commits a lot of material to memory while you sleep. Without allowing your brain the time to catch up and consolidate all of the information, it is more likely that all of those hours spent studying will be for not. By Claire Imazu
UFFI / Formaldehyde Formaldehyde is known to be carcinogenic. Levels typically found in houses are generally too low to cause cancer. However, prolonged exposure to moderate levels can cause irritation of the nose, eyes and throat. It may also intensify asthma symptoms. Health Canada considers that indoor air presented no issue with levels below 50 μg/m3 (0.04 ppm). However, prolonged exposure to more than 50 μg/m3 (0.04 ppm) could lead to health problems, particularly in children. At 123 μg/m3 (0.1 ppm), risk of irritation or burning sensation in the eyes, nose and throat increase. 6 Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation (UFFI) Marketed in the 60s in Europe, UFFI was widely used in the 70s in Quebec, before being banned in 1980. It was mainly used to insulate outer walls between brick layers and interior walls of the house. You can spot that UFFI was used by the presence of finishing points in the brick joints that fill injection cavities every 2 to 3 feet. Most formaldehyde released by UFFI happened at the moment of, or a bit after installation of the product. As it was banned in 1980, and most major cases decontaminated shortly afterwards, it is now rare to find house insulated with UFFI that release high levels of formaldehyde in the air. In some cases, the product deteriorates with time and humidity. It thus releases fine particles of UFFI, or formaldehyde vapours, which linger in indoor air. An air analysis will ensure that your home meets safety standards. For further info on UFFI or formaldehyde, call us at (514) 360-3386 or click below.
Written by Riley Clark \| Last Updated March 3rd, 2020Riley Clark is a Content Specialist at Best Company covering car warranty and VoIP. She prides herself on delivering honest, factual, and relevant content to her readers. She goes through books faster than most people go through Netflix seasons and has made it her goal to be outdoors as much as humanly possible. Here at Best Company, we reached out to VoIP industry leaders and business professionals who have had personal experiences using VoIP technologies. Read on to hear what they had to say: What is VoIP? Simply put, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a modern phone system that uses the same networks that your business already uses for the internet. This make it possible to bypass conventional phone lines. This phone system is managed by a VoIP company and your information, calls, etc. are kept in the cloud. Typically, you will pay for this service through a month-to-month contract. Some of the most popular benefits are automatic call forwarding, voicemail to email transcriptions, and the ability to see detailed data of calling history. Uses the internet to make calls “VoIP is a way to use the internet to make telephone calls. It allows you to use your computer to make calls to other computers, much like you would from a phone to another phone. With VoIP, the call is sent digitally, rather than over analog phone lines. Since VoIP does not use traditional phone networks, it is cheaper compared to traditional phones.” — Nikola Baldikov, Brosix "It uses the underlying technology of Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) to connect two parties." — Saurabh Jindal, Talk Travel “When sending anything over the internet, that data is packaged up as something called a packet based on a particular protocol. The protocol simply describes the method of packing the data. When it is received, the recipient looks at the protocol so that it knows how to unpack this particular packet. It's like taking something apart to ship it and including assembly directions for whoever opens the box. VoIP is simply the protocol used to pack up this data. This tells the recipient that this particular packet is audio and should be unpacked that way." — Shayne Sherman, CEO, TechLoris Common among remote workers “VoIP technology is becoming more common among businesses, freelancers, and remote workers” — Ryan Pitylak, CMO, ZenBusiness “The technology first came to light in the mid-nineties as a way to get around long distance charges. But, the early versions were rough, as the internet was considerably slower back then. And you had to listen to ads before during and after calls. These days, VoIP tech has grown from something that kind of worked to an industry that is changing the way we communicate. Everything from video calling to sending faxes is possible over the internet. It's even possible to run a full call center using VoIP technology.” — Reuben Yonatan, Founder and CEO, GetVoIP "This digital phone service is more extensible and often more reliable than a landline public switched telephone network (PSTN, also known as plain old telephone service, POTS) provided by the local phone company. Companies and individuals can access VoIP phones wherever there’s a reliable internet connection through a VoIP telephone or a computer. VoIP’s portability makes it particularly useful for companies with distributed call centers and sales representatives." — Abby Dykes, Technology Advice Advantages of VoIP "Scalability is referred to as the ability of a system to add an extra workload within the system without affecting its current performance and efficiency. In other words, if you want to add a new user, then it will not affect the existing system’s performance and efficiency. A benefit of VoIP is that to add something you will not need to change anything in the existing system. In technological terms, VOIP voice to digital signals occurs using software not from hardware, so it will be easy to alter and maintain the entire system without interrupting any component." — Tarun Gurang, iFour Technology Little to no additional hardware "VoIP solutions require little to no hardware or setup and provide individuals and businesses with an array of communications options that can increase collaboration and productivity. Like other cloud communications, VoIP takes advantage of mobile and on-the-go access, making it easier to manage your personal and professional lives from anywhere." — Anand Janefalker, Founder and CEO, UJET "By using VOIP technology, every employee can multi-task without any interruption, increasing their productivity and directly increasing the productivity of an organization. VOIP allows users to attach documents, conduct meetings, manage contact lists, access voicemail, and share data via video conferencing. That makes it indistinguishable compared to traditional telephonic communication. Employees can also work remotely, which also cuts down utilities and office space for organizations. Hence, any employee or organization can stay in touch with their clients from anywhere at any time through a variety of channels." "The benefit of VOIP is that you save the money you'd spend on a land line, anywhere from $35 to $50 a month, so the savings are significant." — Maryanne Steidinger, Critical Manufacturing "Long distance call costs can get expensive, but VOIP services are generally affordable (can be as cheap as $10 per person) and don’t generally require additional fees for long distance calls since it just requires an internet connection." — Colin Ma, Founder, Digital Software Products Disadvantages of VoIP Unfortunately, VoIP also presents its own unique set of obstacles that typical landlines don’t face. Slightly less reliable than traditional phone lines "Even if there are issues with the internet, many VoIP services have a fail safe that will forward it over to your cell phone number; you don't even have to have the backups installed. However, the VoIP phones go through the cloud and because of that, there can be issues. Traditional land lines don't have those issues because they don't go through the cloud. However, the trade off for innovation is worth it. If you don't switch to VoIP, you are going to get left behind." — Brian Peterson, VP of Engineering, Dialpad "The biggest limitation of VoIP is its dependence on a stable internet connection. Since a VoIP service is significantly affected by the quality of a broadband connection, it becomes less reliable as a communication channel. Users have to put up with distorted voice quality simply due to congested networks and poor bandwidth. In some cases, a specialized VoIP router may be required to enable a smooth experience during crucial calls. Even with stable networks, data packets can be hit with delays or errors in re-assembly causing latency and jitter. This can be a major hurdle in using VoIP as a single trusted source of business communication." — Damien Martin, ShuftiPro “If your internet connection goes down, you lose your phone service as well, especially if you live in an area that has blackouts or brownouts, this would be a consideration. Landlines do not have this problem.” Electric power dependence “Because it relies on the internet, it has its own set of setbacks. If there are internet issues, then the quality and reliability of the calls are affected. It also needs electricity to run so you won’t be able to use it during power outages, unlike regular telephone networks.” — Kenny Trinh, NetBookNews
Garbage disposals are great conveniences of the modern kitchen. One of the most popular units comes from a line of compact, durable disposals designed for residential use, the Waste King L-2600. In this article, we’ll go over what makes a quality garbage disposal, and review the L-2600 so you can see if it’s right for you. An architect named John Hammes invented the garbage disposal in 1927. The handy device has grown to be an American staple, one owned by half of US homes as of 2009. Waste King’s L-2600 comes from a branded line of affordable units that are durable, effective and easy to install. Before jumping into the review, let’s go over important features and challenges of disposals to get the full story. Buyer’s Guide: Residential Disposals Most residential disposals are designed to be fed continuously with waste as the water runs. The batch-fed method means the grind hopper is filled before running. The batch-fed method is less convenient but might be safer, because the stopper must be locked before running. Horsepower (HP) is the main power rating for disposals. Residential units are usually powered by 1 to 1/3 HP, which is plenty for most food waste. High torque is best for efficient grinding, which is delivered by either an induction motor or a universal series-wound design. Another important number is RPM. Induction motors run between 1,400–1,800 RPM, but universal motors hit over 2000. Universal motors spin faster and offer higher torque—though they are a bit noisier too. Older induction motors have been largely overtaken by universal models that offer better performance. Quality disposals are usually made of stainless steel. Other metal compounds can be used, but stainless steel is always preferred for the grinding parts. Metal disposals can be noisy when mounted in a stainless steel sink, so some models incorporate plastic in their casing and inner machinery. Installing a disposal falls into the gray area between a DIY project and the need to hire a contractor. Replacing an old unit in a tough spot may require a pro, and some models are complex and need expertise. There are disposals made for simple installation, however, so you can do it yourself if you are handy. Be aware this will be an instance when you really do need to read the instructions. A broken, leaky, corroded garbage disposal is an unwanted problem at best. You don’t want to have to replace them often, so do research to avoid becoming a customer service issue. It’s best to check the warranty for assurance of reliability. Waste King L-2600 Review The Waste King Legend series is a line of affordable disposals that are compact and energy-efficient, yet powerful enough for most households. The L-2600 unit has a 1/2 HP high-torque universal motor that spins at 2600 RPM for effective grinding, and a nylon grind chamber and hush mounting to keep the noise down. The L-2600 has plastic polymer casing for corrosion resistance and noise reduction, but it’s stainless steel underneath—including the impellers. It’s compact enough to fit comfortably in most sink cabinets. The disposal is sleek and modern-looking. It’s usually out of sight, so its looks don’t matter too much–but the ease of installation sure does. The L-2600 fits a standard sink opening and comes with a 32-inch power cord, so you can simply mount the unit and plug it in. It’s safe for correctly-sized septic tanks. The L-2600 provides capacity for continuous feeding, with grinding machinery made of stainless steel—including the all-important impeller blades. The chamber and drain housing are composed of an advanced glass-filled nylon polymer to prevent corrosion and rust. Named for its high 2600 RPM, the L-2600 grinds scraps quickly without jamming. The high-torque, 1/2 HP universal motor contains permanent magnets for quick startup which further reduces jams. The powerful assembly is energy-efficient too–though power consumption isn’t much of an issue with these short-action devices. The L-2600 has sound insulation to minimize noise from its universal motor. The grind chamber and drain housing are designed with an innovative nylon material for quieter operation. The mounting has a special noise-squelching cushion gasket too. - Removable splash guard The black slotted rubber guard can easily be removed for cleaning without sticking your hand inside. - Convenient Reset A front-mounted button instantly resets the disposal in case of a circuit shut-down due to jamming. - Rubber stopper A handy fitted cover for the feed opening is included. Reliability & Longevity This model is popular in part because of its dependable operation and durability. The polymer chamber and drain construction resist corrosion and rust, while the stainless steel grind elements are built to last. For further proof of the L-2600’s durability, Waste King offers a 5-year in-home warranty, too. The L-2600 has a twist-and-lock EZ Mount system for easy and fast mounting. The unit doesn’t require electrical work as long as an outlet with a switch is available. It comes with a pre-installed 32-inch power cord and all the hardware you’ll need. - Compact design - 1/2 HP High-torque Universal motor - 2600 RPM - Corrosion-proof nylon grind chamber and drain housing - Easy to install - 5-year limited warranty - Lacks power for high waste loads Waste King’s L-2600 is one of the most popular disposals on the market because of its easy installation, reliability and long life. There are quieter models with more powerful motors, but they cost more too. If you want to simply set and forget your garbage disposal–while keeping the safety and performance features–the L-2600 is one to recommend.
Steven Lancaster, Bethel Psychology Professor and Iraq Veteran, uses past experiences to spark new research for understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Christine Ramstad \| Features Editor Steven Lancaster is a big deal in the PTSD research world. Psychology professor at Bethel and Iraq war veteran, his past has become part of his future. Lancaster’s experiences in war provoked questions about the effects of traumatic events, but it wasn’t because those experiences were traumatic for him personally. “I feel like I flourished there,” Lancaster said of his time in the military. “It gave me a chance to grow up while also learning that there are people who aren’t Christians who are good people. It was a very eye opening experience for me.” Lancaster was deployed in the fall of 2003 and withdrew from classes during his senior year at Bethel. At the time, he felt unprepared for graduate school and his deployment didn’t derail any major plans. Lancaster served as a Combat Engineer in Tuz Khormato, Iraq: a region where the Iraq/Iran War had occurred most heavily in the 1980’s. After Iran pulled out of the violent conflict, thousands of explosive weapons — what are known today as Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs — were left behind. Lancaster’s mission was to find, gather, and destroy these weapons in order to protect civilians. For civilians in this desperately poor area, the selling of the scrap metal from the bombs was a deadly source of income. “They would literally dig the explosives out of old bombs and occasionally they would go off… it was obviously very fatal when that happened,” Lancaster said. The explosives were a readily available threat. Lancaster remembers driving through fields and finding bombs scattered all around. He remembers the sound of gathered explosives rolling around in the back of the vehicle. The explosives were gathered into piles and blown-up by Lancaster’s troop before ending up in the wrong hands. “This was kind of a fun day,” Lancaster said while watching a video he took during a mission to destroy explosives left on a cart pulled by a donkey. Someone had led their donkey, pulling a cart full of explosives, to the roadside and then released the donkey, who chose to stay by his cart. “This was designed to kill people specifically in tank vehicles. This was designed to kill us,” Lancaster said. In a scene similar to a child playing with a remote control car, the troop operated a camera robot so they could inspect at a safe distance. On the camera was a fuse; ready to detonate once it was near the explosive-laden wagon. “He’s just a donkey. He’s just hanging out,” Lancaster added moments before the confused, cart-loyal donkey is knocked over from the blast. Though Lancaster was relatively comfortable during his time in service, he was struck by how negative the experience was for many of his troop members. He remembers wondering how people could experience the same things and react so differently. “Other people were really, really miserable and hated it. As for me, that wasn’t my experience at all,” Lancaster said. ‘I remember thinking ‘what’s going on here?’” Lancaster remembers being impacted by a philosophy of science course he took while a Bethel student. “It really opened my eyes to the idea that the thing we study in science has a lot to do with what’s going on in the field and within the broader social aspects,” Lancaster said. He began to analyze the ways in which psychology is, in part, a cultural phenomenon because of social factors that make particular theories and research possible. He cites money pouring into PTSD research because of the wars, as an example. “He was a more serious student when he came back,” Psychology Department Chair, Joel Frederickson, recalled when Lancaster, his former student, returned from Iraq. “He was a very good student before but he was quite focused when he came back,” Frederickson said. He also notes how impressed he is with the quality of research that Lancaster is doing. After homecoming weekend at the beginning of October, fliers were all over campus advertising a free iPad for the first 30 people to arrive at Lancaster’s office. “Dr. Lancaster comes into my office to show this to me and I burst out laughing,” Frederickson recalls about the moment Lancaster came to ask who had done it. Turns out, Lancaster was a freshman RA and over the weekend his freshman residents were on campus for their 10 year reunion with a trick up their sleeve for their RA turned Professor. “It was fantastic. It was hilarious,” Frederickson said through his laughter. Lancaster’s current research is focused on the concept of Military Identity and its correlation to PTSD and Veterans’ welfare. The question Lancaster is seeking to answer is this: Does the degree that someone associates themselves with the military indicate how they’re doing now? Veteran clothing, veteran license plates, organizations, tattoos, bumper stickers, etc. can illustrate what strongly identifying with the military might look like on the outside. This type of group identification can be seen other places such as college campuses; however, Lancaster explains how the identification is seen on an entirely different level for people who have been in the military. In his research of veterans, Lancaster has found an intense type of group identity called Identity Fusion. “Identity fusion goes beyond the thought ‘I am apart of this group’ and goes to ‘I am the group and the group is me,’” Lancaster said. Research shows that when identity fusion occurs, the affected individual is more likely to fight for the group and support extreme behavior. However, they are also more likely to help someone from the group who is in need. Lancaster has found that identity fusion is associated with positive outcomes – lower levels of anxiety and depression. Lancaster is currently working on six different manuscripts headed for publication. He is actively researching how military identity and the centrality of a traumatic event correlate with PTSD. “It all goes back to how do people make sense of themselves and the world after bad events,” Lancaster said. Bethel Senior, Garrett Anderson, is researching with Lancaster. They are conducting expressive writing experiments to learn more about the ways identity changes after a traumatic event. “He doesn’t just give you [meaningless] work,” Anderson said. “He allows you to learn and he’s not afraid to critique you if you aren’t learning correctly.” Lancaster is now a leading researcher in the psychology field – a path he never saw himself on before understanding what research really is. “Research is not about statistics or methods. It’s about answering the questions you have about people and the world,” Lancaster said.

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