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Drug Rehab Centers in Webster, SD
Northeastern Mental Health Center Webster Clinic is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 101 West 11th Avenue in Webster, SD.
The major treatment approaches at this program include Individual Therapy, Family Focused Counseling, Group Addiction Treatment. The facility also provides their services in various environments, including Outpatient Treatment.
Northeastern Mental Health Center Webster Clinic also offers a number of programs that are customized to meet the needs of specific individuals such as: Court Ordered Outpatient Drug and Alcohol Treatment. Lastly, Northeastern Mental Health Center Webster Clinic accepts various payment types, including Cash or Self-Payment, Medicaid for Addiction Treatment, Medicare.
We can help you find the right treatment facility that best fits your overall needs and financial requirements.
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Nearly a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snow packs and rising seas, created the nation’s most aggressive program to combat global warming.
The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash petroleum use in vehicles to levels not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.
Yet as the debate continues, a number of questions remain unanswered. Among them: Will other states or nations follow California in pursuing deep emissions cuts? Will California be able to meet the new targets, and if so, how? What are the total costs and benefits of the programs? How much will the price of gasoline and electricity increase?
Here’s some of what we do know:
- The state has emerged as a global leader in fighting climate change, despite producing only about one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It has created a dizzying array of programs to cut pollution, from reducing the carbon content of motor fuels to capping emissions at large factories.
- The 2006 law, Assembly Bill 32, established a goal of cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emission to 1990 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, emissions need to fall by six percent between 2013 (the latest year for which figures are available) and 2020. Brown and other political leaders expect that to happen. However, emissions have fallen only slightly since 2009, when the recession ended.
- An executive order issued by Brown this spring would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. That will be much harder to achieve. Over the 10 years leading up to Brown’s deadline, emissions must fall up to seven times as fast as during the preceding decade. And emissions would have to fall another 40 percentage points by 2050 if a bill currently before the Assembly passes.
- Cutting emissions brings costs. To date, consumers in the state have seen an estimated three to five percent rise in electricity rates, and are paying about an extra dime per gallon of gasoline, due to specific climate-related programs. Going forward, a study by a San Francisco consulting group found that deep emissions cuts by 2030 could carry costs of up to $23 billion yearly. That figure could go higher by 2050, according to the group, which did not tally the health benefits of cleaner air or the climate benefits of lower emissions.
- Despite the pioneering policies, emissions have fallen more slowly in the state than in the rest of the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions in California dropped by 7 percent from their peak in 2004 to 2013, compared to 9 percent nationwide over the same period. Reducing emissions is harder here because the state’s economy is already relatively energy-frugal.
When AB 32 passed, establishing the nation’s first broad plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists hoped the action would touch off a revolution. The target established by the law was ambitious, especially considering the continuing population and economic growth. It built on an earlier groundbreaking bill to reduce the greenhouse gases in car exhaust.
“We realized under AB 32 and the car bill, we’re not just talking about polar bears and arctic ice caps but this was real impacts to California,” said Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, an author of both bills. Melting mountain snows, rising seas, and poor health resulting from warmer temperatures — all resonated with Californians, she said.
At a signing ceremony for AB 32 on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that major nations like Mexico, Brazil, China and India would join the fight against climate change. So would the federal government.
“Trust me,” Schwarzenegger said to applause, as international flags fluttered behind him in the breeze. “I am convinced of that, that this will happen, because nothing is more important than protecting our planet.”
Change did not come as swiftly as Pavley and Schwarzenegger had hoped. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress tried to pass a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions nationally, but it failed. Pavley’s effort to clean up cars’ tailpipes did eventually become the basis of a national policy. But federal rules on climate change still lack the breadth of California’s. Nations like China and Brazil have also moved slowly, at least until recently.
But the state has forged ahead, still hoping to sow inspiration beyond its borders. To stop climate change, the whole world — not just California — must participate. As Brown travels to the Vatican this week and to a major United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December, he will surely argue that if one of the world’s largest economies can slash emissions, others can too.
A kaleidoscope of programs has arisen to accelerate California’s shift to a clean economy. The broadest and perhaps most controversial of these is a cap-and-trade policy, which subjects the state’s most-polluting companies to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to trade credits to pollute. The California Chamber of Commerce has challenged the legality of a key feature of the program. The state has prevailed so far, but the lawsuit is working its way through an appeal.
Other policies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions include a requirement for most electricity providers to get 33 percent of their energy from renewable source, such as wind farms and solar arrays by 2020, and a low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of fuels like gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-intensive by 2020.
Many other programs also exist, including goals making buildings more energy efficient, increasing the number of electric vehicles and maximizing the use of public transportation.
These rules, arcane and complex, remain largely invisible to Californians. But they result in slightly increased prices, notably at the gas pump, where economists say the cap-and-trade program has added roughly a dime to each gallon since the beginning of this year. Electric bills are also rising. The state’s Public Utilities Commission estimates that electric power rates have increased by three to five percent due to the renewable energy requirements.
“I wish we could mark on a nice spreadsheet the incremental cost for every regulation,” said Tupper Hull, vice-president of the Western States Petroleum Association.
It is difficult to find companies that have left the state specifically because of climate policies, as opposed to California’s broad basket of regulations. But industry groups and their advocates predict this will happen in the future, as policies grow stricter.
“Energy cost in the state will necessarily rise, and that will create challenges for retaining employment,” said Robert Wyman, Jr., a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Latham & Watkins, who represents many business clients. He argues that California’s system of interlocking policies has made compliance more expensive than it would be under a single, market-oriented system, like cap-and-trade.
California officials do not know how much their climate rules have cost or saved. The Air Resources Board, the state regulatory body that oversees the greenhouse gas reductions, stated in a key document last year that the law’s impact on economic growth remains unknown. Some years earlier, a knot of studies estimated that California’s gross state product could see anywhere from a 1 percent gain to a 2.2 percent decline as a result of AB 32. The models differed in their assumptions, such as how they forecast the pace of technological change.
Proponents of AB 32 say that in addition to cleaning the air, the law has contributed to a vibrant clean-energy industry that is innovating with startling speed. A survey released in December by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, an environmental organization co-founded by the billionaire and clean-energy activist Tom Steyer, found that employment in the state’s clean-energy sectors like solar and wind, along with nuclear and natural gas electricity generation, rose by five percent over the prior year. Another recent study, funded by the environmental innovation nonprofit Next 10, argues that using less gasoline (as electric and hybrid cars make possible) should free up spending and create jobs.
Mary Nichols, chair of the Air Resources Board, noted in an interview that jobs and investment are increasing in California. “We look at that happening at the same time that the cap and trade program has been in effect and we say, “‘What’s the problem?’” she said.
The long-term future of California’s greenhouse gas programs lies in two bills that have passed the state Senate and are being evaluated this summer by the Assembly.
Senate Bill 350 aims at three pieces of the energy puzzle — petroleum, electricity and buildings. It seeks to cut petroleum use in motor vehicles by 50 percent (a very difficult target, analysts agree), boost electric utilities’ reliance on renewable energy to 50 percent, and double the energy efficiency in buildings – all by the year 2030.
Senate Bill 32 would require the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century. It would codify into law an executive order issued by Schwarzenegger, a step that helps ensure that the goal is binding. The long-term targets are drawn from international climate science: If large nations cut their emissions that sharply, scientists believe it can limit the world’s warming.
What programs California will use to meet these tougher targets remains uncertain, though Democratic political leaders stress that they will bring more green jobs to the state and reduce unhealthy air pollution.
“Unless we do something, our economy will be severely damaged,” said state Senate leader Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, who co-authored SB 350. “The public health of our children will be severely impaired.”
An illuminating view came from a study this spring by Energy and Environmental Economics (E3), a San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the state to evaluate future greenhouse gas reductions. To reduce emissions by 26 to 38 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a level not quite as ambitious as the 40 percent reduction recently ordered by Brown — the group forecast a range of results, from savings of $8 billion to costs of $23 billion per year. (E3’s projections are in 2012 dollars.) A cut of 33 percent by 2030 could cost about $50 per Californian per year, the study found.
To meet those future goals, the model incorporated some technologies only minimally in use today, such as increased reliance on renewable diesel, according to Amber Mahone, director of climate policy analysis at E3. It also assumed that new or expanded regulations would be needed. For example, the analysis factored in more capture of the potent greenhouse gas methane from manure at California’s dairy farms, a sector that, for now, largely falls outside mandatory regulations.
The impact of reaching the tougher targets of slashing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels, the E3 study found, could range from a savings of around $15 billion to costs of almost $100 billion yearly, under a scenario in which emissions fall at a steady rate. This projection is highly uncertain, Mahone emphasized.
On the human level, modeling by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm, found that the cap-and-trade program could raise gasoline prices by 22 cents a gallon by 2025, though there is an outside chance of prices increasing by as much as 50 cents a gallon, according to Colleen Regan, a senior analyst with the firm for North American power and environmental markets. However, Californians should need less gas as cars become more fuel-efficient or electric.
Many of these numbers are hazy predictions. What is clear is that meeting long-term targets will be difficult.
In the words of a state plan on climate change released last year, “Progressing toward California’s long-term climate goals will require that greenhouse gas reduction rates be significantly accelerated.”
Not only must the emissions reductions come faster in the future, but the reductions may also be harder. That is evident already. California has not been able to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as the nation in recent years, as a comparison between state and federal inventories shows. Indeed, the data hint at difficulties ahead. Gasoline sales are ticking up. Emissions have been largely flat since falling steeply in 2008-9 as the recession hit, though state officials and outside analysts expect that future reductions, brought about by programs just starting to have an impact, will be sufficient to meet or exceed the 2020 goals.
“On greenhouse gas emissions, California has always been an A student,” said Ashley Lawson, a senior carbon analyst at Thomson Reuters. “So to perform any better, you have to work really, really hard to go from an A to an A plus.” The rest of the country, which is replacing coal-fired power plants with less-polluting natural gas plants, “was able to go from a C to a B, with almost no effort at all,” she said.
Critics like the Chamber of Commerce say that the drastic emissions measures planned for the future could harm the economy and take away jobs. Supporters counter that past sky-is-falling projections have not come to pass, and that technological innovation is speeding up.
When Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, above the howls of industry groups, electric cars had barely begun to hit the roadways, and a rooftop’s worth of solar panels cost more than a year at a private college. Prices have fallen rapidly since then, and California is getting cleaner.
The question for the future is whether it can get clean enough.
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Berlin Regionals 2018 to an end
Regionals in Berlin 2018 are over
A couple of days ago regionals in Berlin 2018 came to an end and here are some reflections about the spectacle that was held for three days. It may be sad it is over but it actually only feels like it has started.
The preparations and expectations for the regionals event in Berlin began long before the first event even started inside the Velodrome.
For me personally I got some insights with working together with the Media team already on the Wednesday before it all began. We did some photoshootings in town and went to different boxes so the CrossFit HQ could snap some good pictures to help promote the local boxes in Berlin.
We then went to the venue all three days and it was quite full already on friday. On saturday it became more crowded and on Sunday it was completely full.
I heard from someone on the inside that the tickets to Berlin sold out faster than any event before and that the meridian regionals now was suffering with less than 20% sold tickets 1 month before opening their gates. CrossFit HQ might be happily surprised with the high demand in Berlin but surely more concerned with what to do with the regionals in Madrid.
From my point of view CrossFit HQ probably chose Madrid because the market was growing fast down there and maybe they thought Spain would be a popular place to go for crossfitters and spectators. I have never been to Madrid, but I know Spain can be hot during summer and especially the inland of Spain where Madrid is located. As I see it there are other locations in Europe (ei. Nice, Barcelona, Split, Athens, Lissabon) that could draw more people purely for the tourism and travel but I can’t say it is “easy” to find the perfect spot.
Orestis on the photo above. Photo by: Daniel Anderson, CrossFit HQ (thanks guys!)
Berlin seemed to be a good pick anyway and it might be due to its cheap accomodation options, accessibility from almost anywhere in Europe and maybe the image “poor but sexy” appealed to the visitors.
The regionals ended with some surprises on the men’s side, now as we have two russian qualifiers to the games, what will this do to further spread CrossFit in Russia. Unfortunately I start to think about the Netflix documentary called “Icarus” but I hope Russian government will keep it hands outside this small nische sport.
For the women we didn’t get any bigger surprises but surely it was a good feeling to see Laura Horvath getting her deserved spot into the Games. I remember seeing her two years ago at the German Throwdown thinking; “how can a young girl like that be so fit already?”.
Personally this was a great expereience and I am happy we got the chance to record an episode with Adrian Bozman on the Thursday before the event. The episode will come live on http://www.escapistcorner.com
Here are my scores for some parts of the event:
CrossFit is a crazy sport. You never really know who is a spectator or not hence half of the audience is dressed up ready for a workout. I think supporters gave really good support to everyone during the individual events.
All athletes showed great sportsmanship and also sharing their feelings with the audience. It is an amazing sport where you have so many people actually even cheering on their “opponent”. For me, as a Swede, my heart got a bit warm by seeing two Swedish individuals, Lukas Högberg and Camilla Salmonsson Hellman, qualifying to the Games again.
Also a special greeting to Adrian Mundwiler who now returned to the games stronger than ever. When I saw him perform it really reminded my of the talk we had last year during the German Throwdown. (episode here)
The weather was perfect for all things outside the venue and all things seemed to work. There was even the big festival (Karneval der Kulturen) in the city the same weekend so plenty of crazy things for non-berliners to explore.
Access, reception and everything on time. Very professional.
This was the only thing bugging me and others. We sat too far away from the competition floor due to the velodrome track in the middle consuming a lot of space. For a CrossFit event the food was really bad organized by the catering company. The long cues to every food stand was also simply crazy. Good thing with the venue is that it is easy to access.
Ps. It was an honour to see my former Coach Dirk Wunderlich to perform at his first major event. If he sticks to it and finds good training partners and coaches he can go all the way.
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Who We Are
May 16, 1972 marked the inception of the COTABATO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. (COTELCO) to spearhead the rural electrification program in the Province of Cotabato by virtue of the provisions of Republic Act No. 6038 and later, by Presidential Decree No. 269 as amended. Originally, the cooperative’s franchise area is composed of five (5) municipalities, namely: Carmen, Kabacan, Matalam, Mlang and Tulunan, each represented by Judge Renato D. Raynaldo, Mr. Antonio V. Ulangkaya, Dr. Samuel S. Babol, Atty. Enriquito Tejada and Mr. Eduardo Alparaque as board of incorporators.
In June 15, 1978, COTELCO took over the old facilities of the then Kidapawan Electric Light and Power (KELP) prompting the local officials of the municipalities of Makilala, Magpet, Kidapawan and Pres Roxas to petition before the National Electrification Administration (NEA) their inclusion in the franchise area of the cooperative.
A non-stock and non-profit electric distribution utility, Cotelco serves the mission of providing an efficient, reliable, affordable and adequate supply of electricity to its member-consumers on an area coverage basis for which lies the predominant task of harnessing the economic potentials of the countryside as a nucleus of our country’s growth and development.
The cooperative serves eleven (11) municipalities and one (1) city of the Province of Cotabato, namely: Kabacan, Mlang, Matalam, Carmen, Banisilan, Tulunan, Makilala, Magpet, Kidapawan, Pres. Roxas, Antipas, and Arakan. Member-consumers representation in the cooperative is through the Board of Directors whose members are being elected in each municipality and plays the role of the policy-making body.
The main office is located in Matalam, Cotabato, while outlying offices are situated in the municipalities of Kabacan, Mlang, Antipas and Kidapawan City while service centers are ready to serve member-consumers located elsewhere.
Our employees, partners in our success, make our mission statement come alive in the way they work with every member-consumer. With the entire staff of Cotelco participating in making our vision of distinctive quality and unparalleled member-consumer service real, we are headed for even greater success.
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You can also allow selected apps or specific contacts to reach you when the Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 or S9+ is activated.
This Galaxy S9 guide shows you how to turn on/off and schedule Galaxy S9 Do Not Disturb (DND) and how to manage exceptions for the DND on Galaxy S9 and S9+. App rules and Do Not Disturb access were also discussed.
What is Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 and S9+?
In some situations, you may want not to get disturbed by the phone. Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 or S9+ was designed to help you escape from annoying notifications and sounds.
With DND on Galaxy S9 or S9+, you can silence the phone during a scheduled period, or at any time you need it. You can also allow certain apps or certain contacts to bypass the Galaxy S9 Do Not Disturb settings.
As usual, Samsung tweaked the Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 and S9+. Therefore, the Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 and S9+ may not work as in stock Android, or other Android phones.
How to enable and disable Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 and S9+?
By default, Galaxy S9 Do Not Disturb (DnD) is off. You need to enable it if you want to use it.
There are a couple of ways to turn on and turn off Do Not Disturb on Galaxy S9 and S9+. Here let’s try two of them.
Method 1: Use quick setting buttons
In quick setting buttons, you can find the Do Not Disturb button as shown in the screenshot below.
You may check this guide on how to use Galaxy S9 quick setting buttons.
Tap the button to enable (if currently off) or disable (if currently on) Galaxy S9 Do Not Disturb.
If you tap and hold (long tap) the button, you will get the settings page for Do Not Disturb.
Method 2: Use Galaxy S9 Settings
The traditional (not so efficient) way to turn on DND on Galaxy S9 is through Settings — Sounds and Vibration.
As shown above, in the sounds and vibration page, you can use the switch to turn … Read the rest
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Salon 356 aims to provide a positive salon experience to their clients with professionalism and compassion personal creative touch. Their passion drives their desire to serve their valued clients what they deserve. With extensive experience in hair care, their clients can get what they deserve – quality hair care with a personal touch. They make sure that everyone who walks through their doors goes out with a big smile on their faces.
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Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work!
French Island, island within the bay of Western Port, southern Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne, 84 square miles (218 square km) in area. Named Ile de France by the French scientist and explorer Nicolas Baudin in the early 19th century, the island is low and marshy in the northwest, rising to wooded hills. Farming is carried out on the island, and there is some tourism. The island harbours many birds, koalas, and rat kangaroos (potoroos). Pop. (2001) statistical local area, 81; (2011) gazetted locality, 116.
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Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia’s capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important economic and cultural centres of Sydney and Melbourne.…
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This rear-mounted hydration system holds two bottles and attaches directly in front of seatpost for easy hydration on the go.
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Black Specks Pouch Gifts Under R250, Accessories, Pouches, The Organiser, The Teenager
A black specks print pouch. This pouch has a brass finish zip and is lined for a luxurious feel. Can be used for make up, travelling, bits & bobs or anything under the sun!Professionally screen printed onto a thick heavy weight 100% cotton fabric. Size: 16cm x 24cmCare: Cold hand wash and hot iron with steam on reverse side of print.Includes pouch only & not display items used for photograph.
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A New Adult series as hot as the Country Music Capital of the World!
Three brothers. Three steamy romances.
Pleasure: The Whitmore Brothers #1 (Kaleb and Alexandra)
Kaleb Whitmore is a billionaire super agent to the hottest country music stars in Nashville. He is also handsome, charming, and skillful at the art of seduction.
Delight: The Whitmore Brothers #2 (Asher and Danielle )
Danielle is inexperienced and pure. Asher is not. The alpha billionaire is intrigued by the innocence of the young interior designer, and is determined to have her.
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(Finn and Brooke )
Finn Whitmore is not to be outdone by his brothers as he takes Brooke Kaplan on a wild ride. Don’t miss out on the final novel in the Whitmore Brothers series!
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This is an exclusive development of detached villas, located in the southern Costa Blanca town of Benijófar. The two-storey properties comprise of two double bedrooms (both with fitted wardrobes), two bathrooms, integrated modern fully-fitted kitchen and open-plan living/dining area, leading to a covered terrace and private garden, with the space to have a private pool installed (additional cost). The spacious rooftop solarium is accessed via the master bedroom and offers magnificent views across the countryside and towards the mountains. 2 Key ready villas with pool included price 204900€!
This info given here is subject to errors and do not form part of any contract. The offer can be changed or withdrawn without notice. Prices do not include purchase costs.
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It was the best turkey dinner you’ve ever made. But, now people are complaining about stomach pains, headaches, nausea, diarrhea and even vomiting. Some who experience these symptoms may pass it off as “stomach flu”, but there may be another reason: food poisoning.
Millions of Canadians suffer from food-borne illness every year. Food can spoil if mishandling occurs while being stored, prepared or cooked. So our team of experts at Public Health have some helpful tips to make sure your next turkey dinner is delicious and prepared safely.
You have a few choices when it comes to buying a turkey. You can buy a fresh turkey, a frozen turkey that must be thawed before cooking, or a frozen turkey that can be cooked from frozen. If you’ve purchased a frozen turkey, it should be taken home and stored in the freezer. It should not be left outside, in the garage, or in the basement where temperatures can’t be properly monitored.
If you need to thaw your turkey, we recommend doing so in the refrigerator. You’ll need to plan ahead, as it could take several days to thaw, depending on the size of your turkey.
- Allow 5 hours of thawing per pound - this means that a 20 pound turkey would take 4 to 5 days to thaw in the refrigerator.
- Place the turkey on the bottom shelf of your refrigerator in a container to prevent any juices from dripping onto other food.
- Never thaw your turkey at room temperature - even though the centre may still be frozen, the outside layer is a warmer temperature and bacteria can multiply and make you sick.
Be sure to wash your hands thoroughly before and after touching your raw turkey. Clean and sanitize any dishes, cutting boards, counters or utensils that come into contact with raw meat or its juices.
Cook your turkey thoroughly. The turkey is done when the internal temperature reaches 82°C or 180°F and the juices run clear. When using a thermometer, always probe the thickest part of the meat.
If you’re planning on stuffing your turkey, do so just before putting it in the oven. If you are preparing the turkey early, store the stuffing separately in the refrigerator until you are ready to cook the bird.
- Wash the cavity of the turkey with cold water.
- Loosely stuff the turkey and remove the stuffing from the bird immediately after the cooking process is done, and store separately.
- All stuffing, whether cooked separately or inside the bird, should be heated to a minimum internal temperature of 74°C or 165°F.
Time your foods to be ready at the same time. If this is not possible, keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold until you are ready to serve. Bacteria can grow on foods left at room temperature and cause illness.
If you have leftovers, try to refrigerate them as soon as possible after dinner. Be sure to remove the meat from the carcass before refrigerating, otherwise it will take too long to cool. Before eating leftovers, reheat the turkey to the original internal temperature of 82°C (180°F).
Will you be preparing a traditional turkey dinner this Thanksgiving?
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There are two ways of raising money to support your tuition-charging school. The first is development, which is the most challenging and time-consuming, but is the most effective way to ensure sustainable revenue for your school over the long haul. The other somewhat “easier,” less time-consuming, but more commonly used way – the way schools have done it for so many years – is fundraising. And although it’s becoming more and more tedious while generating less and less revenue, people still do it. Why? Because that’s the way they’ve always done it!
Before progressing further, there is a reason why this happens with fundraising, and it’s not “the economy,” even though that’s what usually gets blamed when fundraisers just done bring in what they used to. The reason is physics – The Law of Diminishing Returns. In economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal or incremental results of a process as the amount of a single effort which goes into it is incrementally increased, while all the other efforts that go into the process remain constant. In other words, more people are selling candy, and if everything else remains constant (the amount of candy sold by each person, the profit margin offered by the fundraising product provider, etc.), there’s a significant possibility that the net result will be less. Then leaders don’t understand what went wrong. The real reason is that in process thinking, changing one element should provide a different result, right? And it does! Unfortunately, it’s usually not the expected result. If you’d like to know how to combat this mindset, there are two things that must be done. If you’d like to know what they are, send an email to email@example.com with the words, “Two things to improve process outcomes.”
Also, it may help to acknowledge the other terms which have entered into the discussion between fundraising and development – namely, fund raising and advancement. You’ll see there is a difference between fundraising and fund raising (it’s more than just a space); “fundraising” will be described in this article, since “fund raising” is any type of activity done which generates non-programmatic revenue to support the mission of an organization. In the case of your school, and for clarity, programmatic revenue would be the tuition and fees your school charges.
As for advancement, our definition speaks to all the processes which are necessary to provide for your school’s firm financial foundation, including asset management, retention of school families with children currently enrolled in your school, marketing to attract new students and new donors, enrollment (that is, enrolling new students in your school), and development.
Today’s article is dedicated to the difference between fundraising and development because there are a number of individuals who are engaged with schools, such as parents, board members and even administrators, who believe those two words are interchangeable.
They’re not. They’re two different constructs!
Many consultative entities will say that you must make a fundamental shift in your strategies, moving from fundraising to development, but don’t provide a timetable for successful implementation. From a consultative standpoint, the first step toward change involves analysis and recommendation. Implementation is the next step of the process, and, while many schools will fund the first step of a major transitional initiative, the next step may cost additional dollars and time which the school has not considered. Sometimes, schools acknowledge the importance of development, but then may discontinue all their fundraising without the proper guidance in place. Guess what happens? They close, because they didn’t realize that fundraising has its place, and a bridge needs to be formed to successfully move from one mindset to the other. Sustainable financial support requires both strategies be utilized as the organization progresses from a fundraising mindset toward a development mindset. It’s not a change (which implies a one-time, immediate event); it’s a transition (which can have a very long timetable).
Think of it as trying to turn a large luxury liner around. It’s a long process. While it’s pretty easy to turn a speedboat around, a luxury liner has no choice but to reverse engines to get out of port, and then, when out in wide-open waters, can begin the turnaround process in order to move forward. The same happens with moving from fundraising to development. It’s a big transition…both in process and in mindset.
The usual time frame for a successful full-blown implementation is usually three to five years, and even then, traction may only begin to happen. When you consider that a development director is expected to achieve immediate results, you can then understand why the average life-expectancy of a Development Director is…ready?…18 MONTHS! When a new person is identified and hired, all those relationships that the prior development professional had built are severed, and they have to be rebuilt again, and, unfortunately, relationships take time to build. I’ve witnessed schools which have significant development success, and when the development director leaves, the successful processes that were in place were not continued because the duties of the position were re-assigned as additional duties to another staff member. Relationships were not continued, and therefore, development revenue levels dropped, which led to the inability to assist families in need, which caused enrollment declines. If a new administration realizes that changes need to be made, it will take time to rebuild relationships and institute successful processes to bring revenue levels to the point they were in past years. Sometimes, that requires not just time, but significant time.
Unfortunately, most school and finance boards expect instant successes. In these days of instant access to information, instant purchases of big-ticket items, and instant gratification, the expectation is that since there is a Development Director in place, monies will miraculously flow into the coffers of the school. Worse yet, the Development Director becomes the “catch-all” person for Box Tops for Education, Soup Labels for Education, Scrip and all the other fundraisers (one word) the school has. It’s important to realize that tasks and projects such as those are NOT the Development Director’s responsibility! Yet, boards and administrators point to the “Other duties as assigned” clause on the job description, and regardless of whether the task is fundraising or development, it falls on the desk of the Development Director…and usually to the detriment of the school.
Why is this? Because the Development Director is to be visible in the community, meeting with individuals and businesses. Unfortunately, most principals know how to monitor employees only when they’re at work IN the building! If they’re not in their offices, then people wonder what they’re doing and where they are. It’s a new supervisory process that many principals aren’t familiar nor comfortable with.
Then who’s responsible for those fundraisers? The Parent Teacher’s Guild/Organization. Fundraising is a part of your RETENTION element…NOT Development, as it involves engaging the current parent community. If you’d like to challenge me on that, bring it on. Show me a school that has their Development Director doing fundraising activities, and I’ll show you a struggling school that can’t figure out what they’re doing wrong. Fundraising is still important in the transition. The danger is when short-term development expectations for significant revenue generation are not met, then the school will resort back to focusing on fundraising. The words attributed to Jack Dixon are most important to remember: “If you focus on the results, you will never change; if you focus on the change, you will see results.”
When Development is in place, there may be some “Signature” fundraising events or activities you may wish to hold on to. If it generates significant income, it becomes identified with your school, and most importantly, parents look forward to it and have a fun time with it by inviting their friends who are not a part of the school community, by all means, keep it! Remember, it’s “FUN”draising…not “TEDIOUS”draising. It’s also “FRIEND”raising,” which is key to your development success (and now you see how a fundrasing event has just become a fund raising event, and potentially, a development event). It’s the continued meaningful involvement of individuals with your school’s mission and vision that will create it’s support base.
The following chart offers a framework to help recognize the important differences in these two concepts:
Short-term (planning done on a year-to-year basis)
Candy, wrapping paper, cookie dough, popcorn, candle, fruit, wreaths, or any other kind of “sales”
Family Movie Night, Roller Skating/Bowling or Dine to Donate Events
Non-threatening to other organizations
Long-term (planning done on a three-to-five year or five-to-ten year basis)
Tied into strategic planning, and a systemic framework of advancement
Annual alumni & community appeals
Planned Giving/Major Gifts/Bequests
Grants, Underwriting and Sponsorships
Partnering with community businesses
Threatening to other organizations
Threatening? Most school administrators don’t like to be threatening. It takes boldness to be a development director, and we have the gifts of the Holy Spirit to embolden us – especially courage and fortitude! Why is fundraising non-threatening and development threatening? That’s the topic of next month’s article!
© Michael V. Ziemski, SchoolAdvancement, 2006 – 2020
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Finding the perfect ink is hard. I by myself am on the search for the perfect dark, deep blue. I went for Asa Blue, Majestic Blue, Sargasso Sea and Oxford Blue in 80 ml flasks. My free samples are Sapphire Blue and Midnight Blue.
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Power Restored to Silverdale Businesses
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Setting up Mentoring
1. Mentors are typically booked in 3-hour blocks, three 45-minute appointments.
2. It's easiest to have mentors scheduled on a regular day and time of the month (i.e. the First Tuesday of the month from 9:00am-Noon)
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4. When someone requests a mentor appointment, go to the Gangplank Events calendar, find the requested date and time, type in the person’s name and include their email. Example:
10:00am – Katie Charland (Katie@gangplankhq.com)
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When an individual expresses interest in mentoring:
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To get started, I will need a 3-4 sentence bio and a headshot to include on our mentoring website. Our mentors are divided into areas of specialty, with a max of two listings. Please select from the categories below (descriptions available at http://gangplankhq.com/mentoring): - Early Stage - Design - Sales & Marketing - Creative Industries - Technology - Legal - Finances
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Example: Jim Goulka is the Executive Director of ATIF—Arizona Technology Investor Forum—the active angel investment group in Phoenix focused on new technologies. He is also a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum Venture Ready selection committee. He’s interested in straight talk about how—and which—Arizona start ups get funded. He also likes to get wowed by new ideas that address major market needs.
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Signature Design Bedroom Anarasia dresser B129
The Anarasia dresser's crisp cottage white gives traditional Louis Philippe profiling a delightful style awakening. The look is timeless. The feel? Right at home. Six smooth-gliding drawers with antiqued bail pulls beautifully accommodate.
Louis Philippe styling. Replicated white paint. Shapely top mouldings on the case pieces. Antiqued pewter color metal hardware complementing the Louis style.
- Dresser only; mirror sold separately
- Made of engineered wood
- 6 smooth-gliding drawers
- Aged pewter-tone hardware
- 59.76" W x 15.83" D x 32.48" H
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Fundraising and Upcoming Events
Hello Montana Mouthful community!
In Helena, we’re welcoming warm weather after a rather cool spring, but behind the scenes, things have been heating up since we received our 501(c)3 nonprofit status. We’ve been pulling together ideas for fundraisers, events, and workshops, so we can continue to publish this beautiful literary magazine.
Montana Mouthful is a free digital magazine with a print-on-demand option. Our vision is to continue to provide the digital magazine for free, and to keep the print-on-demand option, but to eventually sell print subscriptions in the future. Another primary goal is to pay our contributors, since we understand and appreciate how much work goes into creating great writing and artwork. To accomplish these goals, we need your help, so we’ve attached a donate button to this post on our Facebook page. If you enjoy the magazine, we’d appreciate any donation to keep it going.
Furthermore, one of our first local events will be at Snow Hop Brewery on Wednesday, August 28th. If you’re in the Helena area, please join us and learn more about our literary magazine. Montana Mouthful publishes short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from writers and artists around the world, but we love publishing work from fellow Montanans. We hope to see you there!
Other upcoming fundraisers and events include a Patreon campaign and some winter writing workshops. We’ll be sure to keep you posted as these events come up.
Last but not least, as a reminder, we’re currently open for submissions for our “Schooling” issue until August 12th, with the publication date scheduled for September 23rd, so keep polishing those school-related stories, essays, poems, and images.
Thanks so much for your readership, submissions, and support!
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Shoes to match your green halter neck dress
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Do you know what it takes to find breast cancer early? In many cases it's a mammogram, and here's everything you need to know.
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"We're looking for changes, we call it architectural distortion, so things that are kind of being pulled in a different direction. We're looking for actual masses with borders, and we're looking for those little grains of sand we call calcifications that are found in the breast."
Second, if you have dense breast tissue, which only your doctor can detect, you need a 3D mammogram.
"3D imaging is very important for women who have dense breast tissue and the reason it's important is because it allows us to look a little bit deeper through that tissue. I like to compare a 3D mammogram to flipping through a photo album of the breast, whereas a 2D mammogram is kind of more like a still picture of the breast."
And lastly, know that there will likely be changes in breast tissue that, most of the time, are not cancer.
"Out of 100 women, 10 will get called back. Out of those 10, six will be told, 'Go home, you're fine.' Two will be told to come for a follow-up and only two will end up actually needing a biopsy. And out of the biopsies we do, only 20 percent end up being cancer."
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2020-10-26
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http://janstudio.net/helpdesk/knowledge-base/updating-the-theme/
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Updating the theme
1. Auto Update
– Go to Dashboard > Envato toolkit > Input your Envato Username and API Keys
– To get Envato API Key you need login your Envato Account > Settings > API Keys > Generate API Key or copy exist API key
– Open tab “Themes” and Choose Look > Update Automatic
2. Manual Update
Try following this steps for this.
- Download the zip file from themeforest again
- Install it to different folder ( or just simply uploading via wordpress dashboard without removing the old one)
- Activating new theme version
- Set the menu to themes location at the ‘Appearance > Menu’ section.
- Save the theme option once
- Make sure everything is working properly and you can remove the old theme files out
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2020-10-26T03:28:51+00:00
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2020-10-26
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https://www.crawlspacecarolinas.com/service-area/horry-county.html
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Experienced Crawl Space Repair & Basement Waterproofing Company in Horry, SC
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basement waterproofing, mold remediation, crawl space repair estimate in Horry County, SC,
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basement waterproofing, mold remediation, crawl space repair company serving Horry County, South Carolina
We not only adhere to the highest industry standards, we strive to be the industry leader in the home improvement related services we provide. We also use state-of-the-art products and technology which are designed to fix your home. We are the authorized
Basement Systems dealer
in Horry County, SC.
Services we offer in Horry County:
- Wet/flooded basement waterproofing solutions.
- Lifetime warranty on all perimeter waterproofing systems.
- Crawl space sealing with CleanSpace vapor barrier.
- 25-year warranty on crawl space encapsulation systems.
- Financing Available
- FREE written estimates and inspections, and fast installation
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2018-05-15
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https://annwritesinspiration.com/2018/05/15/introducing-electric-eclectic-books-a-guest-post-by-karen-j-mossman/
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Although I have posted about the Electric Eclectic books brand before, I have envited Karen J. Mossman, owner of the Magic of Stories blog, to come onto my blog and give us a full overview. Take it away, Karen.
Electric Eclectic Books
Karen J Mossman
What are they?
They are e-book novelettes by different authors and different genres.
Two reasons, 1. They can introduce you to an author you may not have discovered before and, 2. You might love reading, but don’t have a lot of time. Most of the books can be read in an evening or a weekend.
All books are just £1/$1/E1
Where Can I get them?
They are available on Amazon, and other digital formats sites.
Tell us More?
Electric Eclectic Books are very new, launching in November last year. On May 15th we had ‘Book Blatt’ to tell everyone we are here. You may have seen posters and teasers around the Internet.
Electric Eclectic even have their own website where you can find out more, enter the quarterly competition, meet the authors and see all the books together in one place.
People are so busy these days, me included, and I love reading, but settling down to a novel is sometimes impossible. So being entertained by a shorter read is perfect. Especially as the summer is just about upon us where we travel to our holiday destinations. Many of us like to fill the journey with a book, or just read on the beach, how perfect is that? With EE books, you get a complete story and a great choice of themes.
I published my first book under this banner at the beginning of December and it was appropriately called One Christmas. I always wanted to write a Christmas story and this family drama fitted the bill perfectly.
As a multi genre writer, it is great for me to explore different themes and I am trying to work my way through as many as I can. Electric Eclectic is the perfect stage to showcase my work.
After Christmas I released my first science fiction story, Distant Time, a time travel story going back to WW2. This was closely followed by Down by The River. One I had written a long time ago after being inspired by Richard Marx’s Hazard in the 90s. I would describe it as thriller crime novel, with a touch of paranormal. Then finally I went for a soppy love story with a little twist at the end and called it A Cry in the Night.
I have plenty more ideas for EE books and look forward to getting them out there. In the meantime, I would love you to discover the many great authors that write under this banner.
Electric Eclectic Website:
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2020-10-26
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http://www.plowtoporch.com/grilled-shrimp-with-roasted-garlic-cilantro-sauce.html
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Grilled Shrimp with Roasted Garlic-Cilantro Sauce
Easy Mediterranean style grilled shrimp with roasted garlic cilantro sauce. Perfect as an appetizer, or double the sauce and toss it with your favorite pasta for an easy dinner!
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Trim the top of the garlic head to expose a bit of the cloves, but keep intact. Drizzle generously with olive oil and wrap in foil. Roast garlic head in heated oven for about 10-15 minutes or until slightly tender and fragrant. When ready, remove from the oven. Let cool briefly. Peel and crush or chop the roasted garlic as finely as possible. (See cook’s tip #1)
- Now prepare the roasted garlic-cilantro sauce. In a small bowl, combine the roasted garlic with the remaining sauce ingredients of fresh cilantro, lime juice, white wine, extra virgin olive oil and chili sauce. Whisk together and set aside.
- To grill shrimp. Heat an indoor griddle or cast iron skillet over high heat. Pat shrimp dry and season with salt and pepper, drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil and toss. Arrange shrimp on heated griddle or skillet and grill on both sides for a total of 4 to 5 minutes. (Avoid overcooking shrimp, when it starts to turn pink on one side, turn it over and cook on the other side.)
- Transfer cooked shrimp to a bowl, pour the roasted garlic cilantro sauce on top. Toss to coat. Transfer to a serving platter and enjoy! (See Cook’s Tip #2 for serving ideas)
- Cook’s Tip #1: I often roast lots of garlic and keep it for later use. You can also use store-bought roasted garlic in this recipe, if you like.
- Cook’s Tip #2: This recipe will serve 4 to 6 for dinner. I highly recommend that you double the amount of sauce and toss the shrimp into your favorite freshly cooked pasta for dinner (no pasta sauce needed.) As an appetizer, this shrimp will serve up to 10. There are two ways to serve it as an appetizer. Toss the shrimp in the sauce and arrange on a platter, or you can serve the cooked shrimp plain and add the roasted garlic cilantro sauce next to it.
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2020-10-26T03:23:11+00:00
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2020-10-01
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https://naturecoast.fnpschapters.org/index.php?id=nature-coast-store
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Nature Coast Market
Purchase Calendars/Cards to Benefit the Nature Coast Chapter
A way to support the Nature Coast Chapter is to purchase beautiful 2021 calendars and Notecards created by chapter member, Pat Kelly.
To purchase calendars and/or cards go to the Facebook page (button on the right of this page) and order with your credit card. If you do not want to use a credit card email Pat at firstname.lastname@example.org to order and use a check. Calendars will be mailed or dropped off to you.
Pat will also have calendars and cards available for sale at the field trips in Oct., Nov. and Dec. Cash, check or credit card can be used then as well.
by Stacey Matrazzo (Author), Nancy Bissett (Author)- 28$
Gil Nelson, $25.00
Craig N. Huegel, $20.00
Go to facebook.com/Nature Coast Chapter Florida Native Plant Society to place an order for shipment. Facebook button can be found on the right side of this page.
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2020-10-26T03:22:21+00:00
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2020-10-26
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https://chrs.cblls.com/posts/giphy-sdk
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Part 1: The SDK
The SDK comes with two layout types: waterfall (a vertical multi-column grid) & carousel (a single horizontal row).
To help fit in with as many apps as possible, it also comes with two core color schemes: light & dark. Of course, the colors are also all individually customizable to suit everyone's needs.
As a core principle that we used to define the direction throughout, everything is customizable– not just the color scheme & layout, but also the entire flow. Want your users to open directly into search results, and forego any sort of gif landing or trending feed? Caaan do.
Personally, we as a team (and individually) feel a lot more comfortable being able preview a GIF before sending, but plenty of apps (Tinder, for example) prefer the quicker route of just sending the GIF right away. One of our optional screens is a GIF Preview that includes uploader attribution. (shown below)
With the help of front-end based-god Jonny, we created an SDK Example App to help communicate all of the various configurations.
Here's Unfold's SDK integration: With Unfold, your Instagram and Snapchat Stories will look like they took hours to craft—even if you pieced yours together in less than a minute.
Part II: The UI Kit
Where the SDK Example App was made to facilitate developers, for designers we also created an SDK UI Kit for Sketch. It's a (much cleaned up) version of the same file that we used to design the SDK.
Designers can drop their app into a single symbol and see the SDK come to life on top of it. Check out the kit and our design guidelines here.
Designs were made for both iPhone and Android – it's important to feel as native to the platform as possible.
Apps can use any entry point to the SDK that they'd like, but to get the ball rolling (and also to selfishly encourage our own branding!) we included a bunch of buttons.
Part III: The Branding
Designing the SDK is only one piece of this project – for the SDK to be successful, we need it to be used. Marketing for the SDK has to convincingly message that it's a cool and easy integration that will add value to their app. The full flow of our SDK touches project managers, engineers, end-users, & even GIPHY marketers.
For the branding, we worked closely with Dark Igloo. Working off of the concept of the SDK as "Building blocks of GIPHY", these pieces are all configurations derived from our logo.
After a few rounds, we landed on these three core configurations – they're variations on the corner piece of the GIPHY logo. We opted for an isometric 3d view, as the SDK can be seen as a "stack" on top of an app.
The last step for the branding was to morph the three configurations into a looping logo. I originally tried to get this done in software that I knew (After Effects), but eventually caved to learning Cinema4D. I quickly fell in love.
The final full logo.
Part IV: The Marketing One-Pager
A few low-fidelity stages of wires for the one-pager. We broke the page out into a few sections: 1) an attention-grabbing header, 2) the highest value hooks, 3) an interlude of GIPHY content, 4) a few snippets of how to integrate the SDK, 5) what it looks like, 6) our other pre-existing developer offerings, & 7) a final capture CTA.
Knowing that people will fall off with a page this lengthy, we prioritized content from top-to-bottom (and shuffled things around a bit during the wireframing process).
The header tells everything that's needed to be known as succinctly and visually as possible. Visitors can either scroll for more general information, dive into the docs, or get started right away.
An interactive carousel showing a few of the different layout & content-type configurations. We were super fortunate to be launching this product hand-in-hand with GIPHY Emoji, so were able to use the emoji as section accents.
Wow, that was a long one! The GIPHY SDK was a truly comprehensive product for us, touching ux/ui, branding, & motion. Interested in reading even more?? Take a look at GIPHY's Engineering Blog or some light press from Mac Observer.
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2020-10-26T03:22:02+00:00
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2020-10-26
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https://theswimit.com/products/premium-swim-it-yellow
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The Premium Swim IT!! The premium Swim IT retains all the design features of our classic model, but improves the experience with adjustable leg straps, side release buckles and an arming view port on the back.
Leg straps are custom made with UV resistant, elastic divers web and include an integrated "rubber weave" to keep the Swim IT in place for your long open water swims.
The arming view port on the back allows easy confirmation that your Swim IT is armed with a good CO2 and packed correctly.
The Premium Swim IT comes with the best single cell life jacket on the market. This urethane coated personal flotation device (PFD) provides 17lbs of buoyancy! More than enough to keep your head above water!
Sizes: Measure around the top of your right leg.
X-Small <20 inches
Small 20-23 inches
Medium 23-29 inches
Note: If you fall in between two sizes, we recommend sizing up. The leg straps are adjustable.
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2020-10-26T03:21:14+00:00
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2020-10-26
| 0
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http://www.nilesailing.com/contact.html
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Use our enquiry form on the left to send us your requirements or alternatively send us an email with any questions you may have to:
You can telephone us on the following numbers:
Alaa: +2 0100 527 2390
Jane: +2 0100 421 9541
Or Skype us by clicking the Skype button below. Please note that this requires Skype. If you don't have skype please go to Skypes Home Page to download and install it (it's free!).
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2020-10-26T03:20:41+00:00
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2020-10-26
| 0
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https://www.allteestore.com/products/eddie-van-helen-005
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Order Eddie Van Helen 005 Unique design for Christmas, Valentine's day, St. Patrick's day, Mother's day, Father's day, Birthday. You can gift it for mom, dad, papa, mommy, daddy, mama, boyfriend, girlfriend, grandpa, grandma, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, family, teacher …You aslo can Order Eddie Van Helen 005 for yourself.
**HOW TO ORDER?**· High-quality resin-coated photo base paper medium with a 260 gsm and a 10 mil thickness which provides a durable photo feel.· Vivid, lifelike images are similar to traditional silver halide prints. Premium Luster Photo Paper delivers highly saturated prints with high ink absorption rates and a wide color gamut.· Heavyweight (260 gsm) and a 10 mil thickness· Ships in protective tube· Last up to 200 years color and 400 years black-and-white
1. Select style and color
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3. Click “ADD TO CART”
4. Enter shipping and billing information
5. Done! Simple as that!
TIP: SHARE it with your friends, buy 2 shirts or more and you will save on shipping 100% Printed In The USA – Ship Worldwide!
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2020-10-26T03:19:31+00:00
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2020-10-26
| 0
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https://www.awpcontrols.com/genie-78903-joystick-p/78903gt.htm
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Shop for replacement joysticks for Genie lifts with AWP Controls. This is a Genie joystick controller categorized as a GS Gen 5 joystick with hall effect. It installs easily with Gen 5 slab scissor lifts, rough terrain scissor lifts and vertical mast lifts. For use with the following models (but not limited to): GR20, GS1930, GS1932, GS2646, GS3232 and GS 4390. Order today and enjoy free shipping with low minimums plus a 12-month warranty. AWP Controls offers competitive pricing on quality products for Genie lifts. Shop for the best replacement parts for aerial lifts and enjoy customer service from professionals with years of industry experience. Call 1-855-383-0222 to speak with a sales rep in either English or Spanish.
NOTE: Please verify your model and serial number before ordering.
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2020-10-26T03:18:52+00:00
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2020-10-26
| 0
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https://www.sunparadise.com/EN/Antigua-And-Barbuda/Consumer-Product-Detail/WINTER-GARDENS/KOMET-55/Antigua-And-Barbuda/1/5
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A thermally broken profile system for roof and tilt windows.
KOMET 55 is designed for installation in conservatories as well as for individual roof lanterns. The windows can be opened either electronically or manually with a crank handle.
Roof windows made of insulated aluminium profiles
Roof windows open upwards, downwards, left or right
The water can flow off roofs unimpeded using stepped insulated glass (no dirty edges)
Scope of Application
Can be installed in conservatories; as a roof window or roof lantern.
Can be openable manually with articulated arm or with a 230V-24V chain electric motor .
The frame of Komet55 skylight is 28mm high and can be mounted like a glass panel.
It is fitted with glass beads into the frame.
Roof windows The frame of Komet 55 skylight is 28mm high and can be mounted like a glass panel. There is the option to open from the top, bottom left or bottom right.
Maximum dimension is 1100mm x 1400mm.
If required a fly screen can also be installed.
Conical or polygon shapes are also available.
When used with HAWAII 80 winter garden roof systems, it offers a wide range of design possibilities.
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2020-10-26T03:18:43+00:00
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2020-10-26
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https://pinkboughie.com/collections/black-boughie-signature/products/black-boughie-mens-graphic-tee-1
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ABOUT THE DESIGN
Black Power by Black Boughie
Black Boughie Designed by Pink Boughie
Afro Centric art Juneteenth
Made to chill and designed for you, our Gildan Premium Cotton Men's Graphic Tee is supreme softness. Crafted with comfortable, wear-resistant cotton for a modern fit and feel.
Size & Fit
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2020-10-26T03:00:23+00:00
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2001-01-19
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https://www.salon.com/2001/01/19/moon_5/
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Freud said civilization begins the moment men renounce the instinct to pee on fire, but it seems to really hit full throttle when we shoot at the moon and jab burning spears into Mars.
Police in the town of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, detained eight men for firing their rifles at a lunar eclipse on Jan. 9, according to the Associated Press. It's a tradition, Istanbul's daily Hürriyet reported. But Kahramanmaras' chief religious official, Mehmet Baris, said such a tradition doesn't exist, and that the men were simply frightened.
"But they can't scare the moon by shooting at it," he pointed out.
Police in the city of Batman also responded to attacks on the eclipse, the newspaper reported. Batman is in the southeast, a Kurdish and "traditional" area of Turkey, according to the AP.
On the same day this was reported, New Scientist wrote that NASA is planning to sink a meter-long, 1,500-degree probe into the surface of Mars. It's looking for signs of life, and the giant drill bit promises to find evidence that has long since been buried. The extremely hot probe will melt through the rock and turn it to glass, keeping the sandy soil from spilling back into the newly drilled hole.
So it was a day for phalluses and outer space, for male efforts to penetrate the frustratingly mysterious. In one case there's endearing absurdity; in the other, measured cartoonishness. A day like this invites scrutiny.
Three American traditions -- cards, Frank Capra and alien films -- offer relevant facts: A) In hearts, you shoot the moon when you take all the tricks plus the queen of spades. It happens now and then and it's a macho maneuver. B) In "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey promises Mary he'll lasso her the moon. This is when he's young and virile, before the emasculation of bankruptcy and despair. C) In Martian movies, it's the Martians who attack. We scream and watch our skyscrapers razed. It's masochism for 90 minutes and then we beat them in the last 20, because it would be embarrassing to admit to masochism.
After the initial report
There's the problem of assessing the Turkey thing and the NASA thing and in fact any other anecdotal information vaguely evocative of themes. I don't actually want to think about male sexuality right now, or extraterrestrial aggression either. It would be risible. Maybe it's the obviousness of the suggestiveness. There's something about low-hanging fruit that inspires one to lie down under the tree. The men in Turkey and the red-hot drill -- these ripe images won't yield anything serious. They're for parties, if that.
Other applications of the theme, from a few years ago
Who hasn't eaten handfuls of dirt at the end of a cold fall day in upstate New York as the hallucinations wore off? Remember you two squatting on the dirt road laughing or crying? Things were a lark. The bending-over tree was pretty but insufficient. The shoes had come off, and the end of some private era was here or nearby. There was dark water. It was all you could do to fall back on the reliability of absurdity to articulate the stunningness and grief of that age, etc. The government would bomb the moon. That was the idea, the bigness and the smallness and the dumbness. It was the perfect something.
We go outside for eclipses, long for Martian residue. These speak to us. We lack satisfying responses so we find great absurd ones; the conversation limps impressively.
Back to the Freud. He says we want to pee out fires. It's a gesture of potency. When we resist, we're left with a burning fire, to be harnessed as we please. That's civilization. If we take the fire and make rifles and 1,500-degree drill bits, presumably that's even more civilization. Probably this is also the perfect something.
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2020-10-26T02:13:39+00:00
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2015-09-14
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https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/5892/differences-between-the-two-words-for-each-season-such-as-%E5%86%AC%E5%AD%A3-d%C5%8Dngj%C3%AC-and-%E5%86%AC%E5%A4%A9-d/5893
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There seem to be two words for each season. Each pair has the first character in common but for the second character one will have 季 (jì) and the other will have 冬天 (tiān).
For example "winter" is:
- 冬季 (dōngjì)
- 冬天 (dōngtiān)
What is the difference between the two? I can see the first uses the character for "season" and the second uses the character for "heaven", but this doesn't seem to tell me anything useful.
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2020-10-26T02:11:45+00:00
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2020-10-26
| 0
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https://buy-rare-seeds.com/products/biennial-dianthusbarbatus
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This is Dianthus barbatus, also known as Sweet William. This plant likes to live in the full sun, but could use some afternoon shade if you live down south. So if you do keep an eye on it and see if it starts looking sad in afternoon full sun. The birds, bees, and butterflies will especially love this plant when it is in the full sun. Growing to about a foot and a half high, this plant blooms in the middle of the Summer. This is a nectar source for the Giant Swallowtail, Palamedes Swallowtail, Yehl Skipper, Eufala Skipper, Clouded Skipper, Common Roadside-Skipper, and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies, and the Banded sphinx , and Heliothis phloxiphaga moths. The flowers of this plant are edible. This biennial or short lived perennial can survive the winter in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 8.
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen a flurry of new activity in Catholic liturgical life. Clergy are streaming live coverage of themselves celebrating the Eucharist and inviting others to join in by watching.
As lockdown eases in some places, the latest desire is to have a system – similar to that used for social distancing in shops – so that people can "receive Communion".
One group of clergy have gone so far as to issue rubrics on when the presider is to wear or not wear a face mask!
Meanwhile, many Catholics have expressed their sadness, now bordering on anger in some cases, that they cannot participate in liturgy.
Except that is not what they are saying: the form of their complaint is that if the church is closed they cannot have access to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
If they can only have streamed Mass, they cannot receive Holy Communion – and they want this because it is receiving the actual body of the Lord.
And, from their point of view, they are glad that there are many presbyters, and even a few bishops, who are supporting their demands to the civil authorities: they want the right to be able to go into their churches and do what they want.
They want churches in which to pray, so this demand should be fulfilled.
It seems no more standard Catholic practice. What could be more basic than "hearing Mass" and "receiving Communion"?
It also seems to be a matter of civil rights. They see themselves as being deprived, indeed oppressed. Is not freedom of worship mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Other Catholics, clerical and lay, are less bothered by not be able to be physically present at the liturgy.
After all, one can hear all the words, listen to the readings, hear the sermon, hear the priest saying the Eucharistic Prayer and see what he does (sometimes even more clearly than in the church)… So what's not to like?
It is true that one cannot receive actual communion, but there is "spiritual communion" that provides one with grace even if the wafer is not eaten. Isn't the end result the same?
Some say they listen more carefully sitting in their own living rooms than when they're in the distracting building. In privacy in front of the computer or TV, one can be quiet, private and prayerful. Did not Jesus recommend as much?
You see, you hear and you learn, all that is to be learned!
Moreover, most Catholics – though they do not admit it in the way members of other Christian denominations do – have the attitude that American liturgist Bryan Spinks calls "the worship mall": you pick the kind of worship you like.
I hear of people "shopping around" – note the phrase – "on the web" for the Mass they like best. One person I know goes on a web search every morning and samples "streamed Masses" until she finds one she fancies, and it adds spice to life to find another the next day.
Some have found "very good Masses" that just suit them. There is a priest in Ireland who has long had a local reputation for a "quick Mass" and for one-liner sermons on Sundays.
Barely 11 minutes most days and he makes a point of no Old Testament readings! If you like your religion fast and without frills, now that there's web access, he's your man!
Many people have become very discerning liturgical customers. Before the lockdown, when they were going to the nearby church, they never realized one could have so many tailored variations!
The web is an individualist's utopia!
Catholics of the same place or parish now have a choice. Each can go to his or her own space, even simultaneously, choosing the streamed Mass each one wants.
No need to argue here about whether or not there should be badly sung Latin chant or drippy 1970s folk hymns! There is an armistice in the liturgical culture war.
Chacun à son goût. Or, perhaps, de gustibus non disputandum est. Your choice!
When one says in a secular context that human beings construct their universe through shared rituals, many sneer and think that is just a theologian trying to smuggle religion back into the public space.
Yes, people used to have rituals, but that was in an older world of pomp and circumstance, now we just "cut to the chase"!
But the virus has seen rituals re-emerge within lockdown. Here in Britain most of us go outside every Thursday at 8 pm and clap our hands as an expression of thanks to our medical workers – I hope for those in care homes also – who are on the front line in coping with the virus.
It seemed to me a bit corny when I heard of it happening in Spanish cities – but now it has spread, literally, to my front door.
The TV channels announce that the common moment is approaching and cover it with scenes from around the country, firemen in one place, a street scene somewhere else, and outside my neighbors have improvised drums from saucepans and wooden spoons.
We are together – but correctly distanced – and we are acting spontaneously, expressing thanks and interdependence. We are being joyful in a vale of tears and expressing that we are a community, not just loners.
It is an attempt – as we say – "to give something back".
Ritual is conveying that which we could not otherwise convey. It is expressing our situation and we are going out of ourselves to be a thankful community.
There are umpteen little rituals like this that are emerging.
Just take the farewell: "stay safe!" It is a cross between the Gaelic word for "goodbye" which is slán leat(literally: may health be with you') and the Latin vale (may things go well for you).
It expresses not just "that's over" (as in "bye bye now"), but says that I am concerned for you in this time and I not only hope you will be well, but want us both to do all that we need to do to maintain that state.
It is a social pleasantry, a wish, but also an instruction about action. It is a ritual boundary marker more similar to the old "Let us move forward in peace" (Procedamus in pace) than to the banal "Cheerio! See ye!" we would have used several weeks ago.
We live in a world of transactions. I do something for you; and you, in return, do something for me. It is the very nature of all commerce. I have something you want, and vice versa, so we exchange to suit our needs and desires.
We should not criticize this process. This is what has built our world. It creates links and fosters peaceful co-operation.
It can, of course, get out of hand when someone corners the market and abuses fair-trading.
People cashing in on the sale of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) or using medical kit as political leverage during this crisis are examples of the transactional nature of human life running amok. But we try to spot robber barons and control them.
However, the transactional nature of our lives – which is the rationale underpinning every shop and every wage packet – can get out of kilter in other ways.
An obvious one is consumerism: I am only alive to the extent that I consume. I am what I buy.
Now the ability to trade becomes an obsession. I reduce everything to its ability to satisfy my needs and "devil take the hindmost" so long as my wants, desires, "needs" (i.e. not what I need such as food, shelter, relationships but "what I really, reallywant") are satisfied.
I am the center of the world; it flows into me and is only recognized insofar as it suits me. And so long as you have the money flowing in the opposite direction, there are many out there who want to confirm you in your consumerism (for exorbitant prices, of course).
But there is another danger of transactionalism that can only be understood by those who belong to the great monotheistic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and believe that the Creator freely chooses to create and so the whole universe is a divine gift.
It is one giant "free meal" that contradicts the transactional wisdom of "there's no such thing as a free lunch"!
Knowing this – that God is generosity and love – we discover two recurring human errors.
The first is that we think that transactions are all that there is in the universe – this is the theory of the selfish gene. We seek to explain everything in terms of exchanging needs/assets.
For example, love is just an illusion that dresses up a trade off in romantic terms. No human being is capable of pure "gift love" – to use a beautiful term coined by C.S. Lewis – because only God is without needs.
We humans also know that there is a profound difference between genuine human love and someone who only is performing a job.
One has just to look at that kind of love that makes someone who is poorly paid go on caring right now in a care home – and one sees that love is more than trading.
But there is a second error we continually fall into as monotheists. We imagine the relationship with God in terms of transactions.
This was fine in the polytheism of the Roman Empire where it was summed up in three words: do ut des. We could render it thusly: "I give to you, some god or other praise and sacrifice, so that you give me what I want."
Sadly, the attitude was carried on into Christianity. The result was to "get Masses said" for particular needs and to make vows in order to obtain something!
Transactionalism not only perverts the Christian vision of the God of infinite generosity – love itself – into a stingy Supreme Overlord from whom we try to extract favors, it destroys our relationship with God.
It is no longer love and praise, in union with the whole people to whom I belong. Rather, it is extracting what I want. And, as befits a transaction, I want the best value going. I want the most for the least cost.
The current crisis has brought us, on the one hand, a very genuine liturgy of a community celebrating thankfulness together. One could say that we are being Eucharistic towards health workers.
But, on the other hand, it has brought us a lot of transactionalism: "I want to receive communion"; "I want my time before a tabernacle"; or "I want my kind of liturgy."
We see the ritual of liturgy being streamed and we see the ritual on our doorsteps: which is more in line with, and more prophetic of our vision of the universe?
The coronavirus crisis has brought before us many who think liturgy is a matter of what the rubrics allow or what is "permissible". It has also brought out many people imagining that liturgy is something you get, or which clerics provide.
Perhaps this was inevitable. We have a long history of treating God as "the man upstairs" whose favor we try to corner, or as the policeman who checks off that we have done what he told us to do.
Moreover, much of our popular piety, inherited from a time when the piety of ordinary people rarely touched the official liturgy of the clerics, is deeply transactional and individualistic – and the crisis has made this visible.
And, of course, we know what we like. And we often demand what we like without asking any deeper questions.
But think about that woman who told me – just last Sunday – that she liked "shopping around for Mass". I suspect it reveals a deeper theological confusion than when she surfs between Amazon and Book Depository to see which has the best deal on a book!
In liturgy we are not consumers, but celebrants. Yes: each of us is a celebrant and not just the cleric who is leading the gathering.
It is we – as a people, not just a bunch of individuals – who are celebrating God's love.
Think again of the Thursday night ritual. We are all celebrating, we are all celebrants. We are certainly not out there, with our saucepans and wooden spoons, as consumers.
Thomas O'Loughlin is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and professor of historical theology at the University of Nottingham (UK). His latest book is Eating Together, Becoming One: Taking Up Pope Francis's Call to Theologians (Liturgical Press, 2019).
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- Penis Anatomy
- Penis Physiology
- ED Risk Factors
- What drugs treat erectile dysfunction?
- What is the treatment for erectile dysfunction?
- What are erectile dysfunction treatments for men with cardiovascular disease?
- Oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors
- Sildenafil (Viagra)
- Vardenafil (Levitra)
- Tadalafil (Cialis)
- Avanafil (Stendra)
- What are intracavernosal injections?
- What are intraurethral suppositories?
- What is the role of testosterone therapy in the treatment of erectile dysfunction?
- Other Treatments
Erectile dysfunction (ED, impotence) facts
Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is the persistent inability to have an erection that is hard enough for penetration and/or a hard erection that lasts long enough for completion of sexual activity.
- ED may have a significant effect on the sex life of a man and his partner.
- Symptoms of erectile dysfunction include lack of an erection hard enough for penetration and/or lasting long enough for completion of sexual activity.
- ED may occur with or without other sexual dysfunction, including decreased libido (decreased interest in sexual activity), orgasmic dysfunction (troubles achieving an orgasm/climax), and ejaculatory dysfunction (problems with the fluid released during sex, including lack of ejaculation [anejaculation], small volume ejaculate, ejaculation that occurs too quickly [premature ejaculation], ejaculate that goes backward into the bladder [retrograde ejaculation] and pain with ejaculation).
- Erectile dysfunction is common, and the risk of developing ED increases with age. Experts have estimated that erectile dysfunction affects 30 million men in the United States.
- The causes of erectile dysfunction include aging, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), depression, nerve or spinal cord damage, medication side effects, alcoholism or other substance (drug) abuse, pelvic surgery including radical prostatectomy, pelvic radiation, penile/perineal/pelvic trauma such as pelvic fracture, Peyronie's disease (a disorder that causes curvature of the penis and sometimes painful erections), and low testosterone levels.
- Erectile dysfunction is treatable in all age groups.
- Treatments include psychotherapy, adopting a healthy lifestyle, oral phosphodiesterase type V (PDE5) inhibitors (Viagra, Levitra, Cialis, Stendra, and Staxyn), intraurethral prostaglandin E1 (MUSE), intracavernosal injections (prostaglandin E1 [Caverject, Edex], Bimix and Trimix), vacuum devices, penile prosthesis and vascular surgery, and (in some cases) changes in medications when appropriate.
- Discuss over-the-counter products and/or supplements with a doctor before using them.
- New research is ongoing in the field of erectile dysfunction to find improved and effective therapies.
What is erectile dysfunction (ED)?
Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is the inability to achieve or sustain a hard enough erection for satisfactory completion of sexual activity. Erectile dysfunction is different from other health conditions that interfere with male sexual function, such as lack of sexual desire (decreased libido) and problems with ejaculation release of the fluid from the penis (ejaculatory dysfunction) and orgasm/climax (orgasmic dysfunction), and penile curvature (Peyronie's disease), although these problems may also be present. ED affects about 50% of men age 40 and over. This article focuses on the evaluation and treatment of erectile dysfunction.
What is normal penis anatomy?
The penis contains three cylinders, the two corpora cavernosa, which are on the top of the penis (see figure 1 below). These two cylinders are involved in erections. The third cylinder contains the urethra, the tube that the urine and ejaculate passes through, runs along the underside of the penis. The corpus spongiosum surrounds the urethra. Spongy tissue that has muscles, fibrous tissues, veins, and arteries within it makes up the corpora cavernosa. The inside of the corpora cavernosa is like a sponge, with potential spaces that can fill with blood and distend (known as sinusoids). A layer of tissue that is like Saran Wrap, called the tunica albuginea, surrounds the corpora. Veins located just under the tunica albuginea drain blood out of the penis.
How common is erectile dysfunction?
Erectile dysfunction (ED, impotence) varies in severity; some cannot have an erection at all, whereas other men sometimes have troubles getting a hard erection, and others get a hard erection but it only lasts for a short period of time. Approximately 50% of men over the age of 40 have troubles with erectile dysfunction.
While erectile dysfunction can occur at any age, the risk of developing erectile dysfunction increases with age. According to the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction was 52% in men 40-70 years of age. The prevalence of complete erectile dysfunction increases from 5% at 40 years of age to 15% among men 70 years of age and older.
How does erection occur?
Erections are neurovascular events, meaning that nerves and blood vessels (arteries and veins) are involved in the process of an erection and all must work properly to develop a hard erection that lasts long enough. Erection begins with sexual stimulation. Sexual stimulation can be tactile (for example, by a partner touching the penis or by masturbation) or mental (for example, by having sexual fantasies, viewing porn). Sexual stimulation or sexual arousal causes the nerves going to the penis to release a chemical, nitric oxide. Nitric oxide increases the production of another chemical, cyclic GMP (cGMP), in the muscle of the corpora cavernosa. The cGMP causes the muscles of the corpora cavernosa to relax, and this allows more blood to flow into the penis. The incoming blood fills the corpora cavernosa, making the penis expand.
How does a man sustain an erection?
As blood flows into the penis, the corpora cavernosa swell, and this swelling compresses the veins (blood vessels that drain the blood out of the penis) against the tunica albuginea. Compression of the veins prevents blood from leaving the penis. This creates a hard erection. When the amount of cGMP decreases by the action of a chemical called phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5), the muscles in the penis tighten, and the blood flow into the penis decreases. With less blood coming into the penis, the veins are not compressed, allowing blood to drain out of the penis, and the erection goes down.
What causes erectile dysfunction?
The ability to achieve and sustain erections requires the following:
- A healthy nervous system that conducts nerve impulses in the brain, spinal column, and penis
- Healthy arteries in and near the corpora cavernosa that when stimulated can bring increased blood flow into the penis
- Healthy muscles and fibrous tissues within the corpora cavernosa, which can distend to allow the penis to fill with blood
- Adequate levels of nitric oxide in the penis
- Normal-functioning tunica albuginea that allows for compression of the veins
- Appropriate psychosocial interactions
Erectile dysfunction can occur if a man doesn't meet one or more of these requirements. The following are causes of erectile dysfunction, and many men have more than one potential cause:
- Aging: There are two reasons why older men are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction than younger men. First, older men are more likely to develop diseases (such as heart attacks, angina, cardiovascular disease, strokes, diabetes mellitus, and high blood pressure) that are associated with erectile dysfunction. Second, the aging process alone can cause erectile dysfunction in some men by causing changes in the muscle and tissue within the penis.
- Diabetes mellitus: Erectile dysfunction tends to develop 10 to 15 years earlier in diabetic men than among nondiabetic men. The increased risk of erectile dysfunction among men with diabetes mellitus may be due to the earlier onset and greater severity of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) that narrows the arteries and thereby reduces the delivery of blood to the penis. Atherosclerosis can affect the arteries in the penis, as well as the arteries in the pelvis that supply the penile arteries. Diabetes mellitus also causes erectile dysfunction by damaging nerves that go to the penis, much like the effect of diabetes on nerves in other areas of the body (diabetic neuropathy). Diabetes can also affect the muscles in the penis, leading to troubles with erections. Smoking cigarettes, obesity, poor control of blood glucose levels, and having diabetes mellitus for a long time further increase the risk of erectile dysfunction in people with diabetes.
- Hypertension (high blood pressure): Men with high blood pressure have an increased risk of developing erectile dysfunction. Hypertension can cause troubles with erections related to atherosclerosis or from low levels of nitric oxide production from the arteries in the penis. Medications to treat hypertension may cause erectile dysfunction.
- Cardiovascular diseases: The most common cause of cardiovascular diseases in the United States is atherosclerosis, the narrowing and hardening of arteries that reduces blood flow. Atherosclerosis (a type of vascular disease) typically affects arteries throughout the body; hypertension, high blood cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking, and diabetes mellitus aggravate atherosclerosis. Hardening of the arteries to the penis and pelvic organs, atherosclerosis, causes insufficient blood flow into the penis. There is a close correlation between the severity of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries and erectile dysfunction. For example, men with more severe coronary artery atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries in the heart) also tend to have more erectile dysfunction than men with mild or no coronary artery atherosclerosis. Some doctors suggest that men with new onset erectile dysfunction undergo evaluation for silent coronary artery diseases (advanced coronary artery atherosclerosis that has not yet caused angina or heart attacks).
- Metabolic syndrome is associated with multiple risk factors for erectile dysfunction including diabetes, abnormal lipid profile, hypertension, and obesity.
- Cigarette smoking: Cigarette smoking aggravates atherosclerosis and can cause vasospasm (spasms of the arteries) and thereby increases the risk for erectile dysfunction.
- Nerve or spinal cord damage: Damage to the spinal cord and nerves in the pelvis can cause erectile dysfunction. Nerve damage can be due to disease, trauma, or surgical procedures. Examples include injury to the spinal cord from automobile accidents, injury to the pelvic nerves from prostate surgery for cancer (prostatectomy), and some surgeries for colorectal cancer, radiation to the prostate, surgery for benign prostatic enlargement, multiple sclerosis (a neurological disease with the potential to cause widespread damage to nerves), and long-term diabetes mellitus.
- BPH: Benign enlargement of the prostate is associated with erectile dysfunction.
- Trauma: Trauma to the pelvis, including pelvic fracture, may cause erectile dysfunction, and an untreated penile fracture may result in erectile dysfunction.
- Substance abuse: Marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, crystal meth, and narcotic and alcohol abuse contribute to erectile dysfunction. Alcoholism, in addition to causing nerve damage, can lead to atrophy (shrinking) of the testicles and lower testosterone levels.
- Low testosterone levels: Testosterone (the primary sex hormone in men) is not only necessary for sex drive (libido) but also is necessary to maintain nitric oxide levels in the penis. Therefore, men with hypogonadism (low testosterone with symptoms) can have low sex drive and erectile dysfunction.
- Medications: Many common medicines produce erectile dysfunction as a side effect. Medicines that can cause erectile dysfunction include many used to treat high blood pressure, antihistamines, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and appetite suppressants. Examples of common medicines that can cause erectile dysfunction include propranolol (Inderal) or other beta-blockers, hydrochlorothiazide, digoxin (Lanoxin), amitriptyline (Elavil), famotidine (Pepcid), cimetidine (Tagamet), metoclopramide (Reglan), naproxen, indomethacin (Indocin), lithium (Eskalith, Lithobid), verapamil (Calan, Verelan, Isoptin), phenytoin (Dilantin), gemfibrozil (Lopid), amphetamine/dextroamphetamine (Adderall), and phentermine. Prostate cancer medications that lower testosterone levels such as leuprolide (Lupron) may affect erectile function. Some chemotherapies such as cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) may affect erectile function.
- Recreational drugs: Recreational drugs, including alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, nicotine, heroin and cocaine, are associated with erectile dysfunction.
- Depression and anxiety: Psychological factors may be responsible for erectile dysfunction. These factors include stress, anxiety, guilt, depression, widower syndrome, low self-esteem, posttraumatic stress disorder, and fear of sexual failure (performance anxiety). It is also worth noting that many medications used for treatment of depression and other psychiatric disorders may cause erectile dysfunction or ejaculatory problems.
What are erectile dysfunction risk factors?
The common risk factors for ED include the following:
- Advanced age
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- High cholesterol
- Cigarette smoking
- Recreational drug use
- Depression or other psychiatric disorders
- Pelvic surgery, including radical prostatectomy and colorectal surgery
- Pelvic radiation, such as for prostate cancer and some colorectal cancers
- Trauma to the pelvis (pelvic fracture), penis (penile fracture), and perineum
What are erectile dysfunction symptoms and signs?
Signs and symptoms of erectile dysfunction may include the following:
- Penile erection occurs, but the penis does not remain hard enough for completion of sex.
- Penile erections are not hard enough for penetration.
- There is an inability to obtain a penile erection.
- One can still achieve an orgasm and ejaculate with erectile dysfunction.
How do health care professionals diagnose erectile dysfunction?
Patient health history
Physicians make a diagnosis of erectile dysfunction in men who complain of troubles having a hard enough erection or a hard erection that does not last long enough. It is important as you talk with your doctor that you be candid in terms of when your troubles started, how bothersome your erectile dysfunction is, how severe it is, and discuss all your medical conditions along with all prescribed and nonprescribed medications that you are taking. Your doctor will ask several questions to determine if your symptoms are suggestive of erectile dysfunction and to assess its severity and possible causes. Your doctor will try to get information to answer the following questions:
- Is the patient suffering from erectile dysfunction or from some other form of sexual dysfunction such as loss of libido or a disorder of ejaculation (for example, premature ejaculation) or orgasm, or problems with penile curvature/pain (Peyronie's disease)?
- Is your erectile dysfunction due to psychological (stress, relationship problems, etc.) or physical factors? Your doctor may ask if you note erections at night or in the early morning. Men have involuntary erections in the early morning and during REM sleep (a stage in the sleep cycle with rapid eye movements). Men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction (erectile dysfunction due to psychological factors such as stress and anxiety rather than physical factors) usually maintain these involuntary erections. Men with physical causes of erectile dysfunction (for example, atherosclerosis, smoking, and diabetes) usually do not have these involuntary erections. Men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction may relate the onset of problems to a "stressor," such as failed relationship. Your doctor may suggest a test to determine if you have erections during sleep, which may suggest that there may be a psychological cause of the erectile dysfunction.
- 3. Are there physical causes of erectile dysfunction? Erectile dysfunction may be a symptom of underlying medical conditions, which if not detected may cause further medical problems. A prior history of cigarette smoking, heart attacks, strokes, and poor circulation in the extremities (for example, intermittent claudication or cramping in your leg[s] when you walk) suggest atherosclerosis as the cause of the erectile dysfunction. Loss of sexual desire and drive, lack of sexual fantasies, gynecomastia (enlargement of breasts), and diminished facial hair suggest low testosterone levels. A prior history of pelvic surgery or radiation and trauma to the penis/pelvis/perineum can cause problems with the nerves and blood vessels. Symptoms of intermittent claudication of the lower extremities with exercise may suggest a vascular problem as a cause of the erectile dysfunction.
- Is the patient taking medications that can contribute to erectile dysfunction (see causes above), including prescribed, over-the-counter, or recreational drugs? It is important to discuss your prescribed medications, as well as over-the-counter medications and drugs of abuse such as opiates, alcohol, etc.
The physical examination can reveal clues for physical causes of erectile dysfunction. A doctor will perform an assessment of BMI and waist circumference to evaluate for abdominal obesity. A genital examination is part of the evaluation of erectile dysfunction. The examination will focus on the penis and testes. The doctor will ask you about penile curvature and will examine the penis to see if there are any plaques (hard areas) palpable. The doctor will examine the testes to make sure they are in the proper location in the scrotum and are normal in size. Small testicles, lack of facial hair, and enlarged breasts (gynecomastia) can point to hormonal problems such as hypogonadism with low testosterone levels. A health care provider may check pulses in your groin and feet to determine if there is a suggestion of hardening of the arteries that could also affect the arteries to the penis.
The lab testing obtained for the evaluation of erectile dysfunction may vary with the information obtained on the health history, physical examination, and recent lab testing. A testosterone level is not necessary in all men; however, a physician will order labs to determine a patient's testosterone level if other signs and symptoms of hypogonadism (low testosterone) such as decreased libido, loss of body hair, muscle loss, breast enlargement, osteoporosis, infertility, and decreased penile/testicular size are present.
A doctor may ask for the following laboratory tests in the evaluation of erectile dysfunction:
- Complete blood counts
- Urinalysis: A high level of sugar (glucose) in the urine may be a sign of diabetes mellitus, and high protein in the urine may suggest kidney damage, which can cause erectile troubles.
- Lipid profile: High levels of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) in the blood can cause atherosclerosis.
- Blood glucose levels: Abnormally high blood glucose (sugar) levels may be a sign of diabetes mellitus.
- Blood hemoglobin A1C: Abnormally high levels of blood hemoglobin A1C in patients with diabetes mellitus indicate that there is poor control of blood glucose levels.
- Serum creatinine: An abnormal serum creatinine, a chemical that reflects kidney function, may be the result of kidney damage.
- Liver enzymes and liver function tests: Liver disease (cirrhosis) can cause low testosterone. Thus, a physician may need to test some men for liver disease.
- Total testosterone levels: Health care professionals should obtain a patient's blood samples for total testosterone levels in the early morning (before 8 a.m.) because the testosterone levels go up and down throughout the day. If you have a low testosterone level, a health care professional should check it again to confirm that it is truly low. In some men, a specialized test measuring the active form of testosterone (free or bioavailable testosterone) may be recommended.
- Other hormone levels: Measurement of other hormones beside testosterone (luteinizing hormone [LH], prolactin level, and cortisol level) may provide clues to other underlying causes of testosterone deficiency and erectile problems, such as pituitary disease or adrenal gland abnormalities. Doctors may check thyroid levels in some individuals as both hypothyroidism (low thyroid function) and hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid function) can contribute to erectile dysfunction.
- PSA levels: PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood levels and prostate examination to exclude prostate cancer is important before starting testosterone treatment since testosterone can aggravate prostate cancer.
- Other blood tests: Evaluation for hemochromatosis, lupus, scleroderma, zinc deficiency, sickle cell anemia, and cancers (leukemia, colon cancer) are some of the other potential tests that a physician may perform based on each individual's health history and symptoms.
Health care professionals do not routinely obtain imaging tests in the evaluation of erectile dysfunction.
Ultrasound with Doppler imaging (ultrasound plus evaluation of blood flow in the arteries and veins) can provide additional information about blood flow of the penis and may help in the evaluation of patients prior to surgical intervention. This study is typically performed after the injection of a chemical that causes the arteries to open up, a vasodilator (prostaglandin E1), into the corpora cavernosa in order to cause dilation of blood vessels and promote blood flow into the penis. The rate of blood flow into the penis can be measured along with an evaluation of problems with compression of the veins.
Rarely, a doctor may perform an angiogram (injecting a dye into the arteries that supply the penis and taking X-rays to look for areas of narrowing of the arteries) in cases in which possible vascular surgery could be beneficial.
Other health tests
Monitoring erections that occur during sleep (nocturnal penile tumescence) can help you and your doctor to understand if the erectile dysfunction is due to psychological or physical causes. The nocturnal penile tumescence test is a study to evaluate erections at night. Normally men have three to five erections per eight hours of sleep. The test can be performed at home or in a sleep lab. The most accurate way to perform the test involves a special device that is connected to two rings. The rings are placed around the penis, one at the tip of the penis and the other at the bottom (base) of the penis. The device records how many erections occur, how long they last, and how rigid they are. The test is limited in that it does not assess the ability to penetrate.
If there seems to be a psychological cause contributing to your erectile dysfunction, the doctor may ask the patient questions to help determine stressor, events, and relationship issues that may be causing your erectile troubles. It may be helpful to have your sexual partner involved in this assessment.
What drugs treat erectile dysfunction?
A number of medical treatment options exist for erectile dysfunction include the following:
- Oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors (sildenafil [Viagra], vardenafil [Levitra and the generic formulation Staxyn], tadalafil [Cialis]), and avanafil [Stendra])
- Intracavernosal injections (papaverine, phentolamine, and PGE1 [Trimix], Bimix, and alprostadil injection [Caverject, Edex])
- Intraurethral suppositories (MUSE)
- Testosterone in individuals with ED and other signs/symptoms of hypogonadism and an unequivocally low serum testosterone
A doctor can help decide what medication(s) may be the best for the patient. This is an important step to do so the doctor can help choose the best and safest drug(s) and other treatments so that men with other medical problems can get individualized care appropriate for their medical conditions.
What is the treatment for erectile dysfunction?
The following are treatment options for erectile dysfunction:
First-line treatment options
- Working with doctors to modify current medications to select medications that do not cause troubles with erectile function when possible
- Making lifestyle improvements (for example, quitting smoking and exercising more) may help improve symptoms or prevent the erectile dysfunction from getting worse.
- Taking oral therapies (drugs/medications) to treat ED, such as sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn), tadalafil (Cialis), or avanafil (Stendra)
Second-line treatment options
- Inserting medications into the urethra (intraurethral suppositories [MUSE])
- Injecting medications into the corpora cavernosa (intracavernosal injections)
- Vacuum constrictive devices for the penis
Third-line treatment options
- Penile prostheses
- Rarely vascular surgery to improve blood flow to the penis
Adjusting medications that may cause or contribute to erectile dysfunction
Many common medications for treating hypertension, depression, and high blood lipids (high cholesterol) can contribute to erectile dysfunction (see above). Treatment of hypertension is an example. There are many different types (classes) of medications for high blood pressure; these include beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics (medications that increase urine volume), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors), and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). Patients may use these medications alone or in combination to control blood pressure. Some of these medications can cause troubles with erections. For example, Inderal (a beta-blocker) and hydrochlorothiazide (a diuretic) cause erectile dysfunction, while calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors do not seem to affect erectile function. On the other hand, other medications (such as angiotensin receptor blockers [ARB] including losartan [Cozaar] and valsartan [Diovan]) may actually help with erections. Therefore, if possible, you may benefit from changing your medications, but this requires approval by your prescribing health care provider.
Quitting smoking, exercising regularly, losing excess weight, curtailing excessive alcohol consumption, controlling hypertension, and optimizing blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes are not only important for maintaining good health but also may improve or even prevent progression of erectile dysfunction. It is unclear if such lifestyle changes can reverse erectile dysfunction. However, lifestyle improvements may prevent progression of the erectile dysfunction. Some studies suggest that men who have made lifestyle improvements experience increased rates of success with oral medications.
What are erectile dysfunction treatments for men with cardiovascular disease?
ED is often the result of atherosclerosis, and as a result, men with ED frequently have cardiovascular disease. Sexual activity is associated with increased physical exertion, which in some men may increase the risk of having a heart attack (myocardial infarction or MI). The major risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease are age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, smoking, abnormal lipid/cholesterol levels in the blood, and lack of exercise. Individuals with three or more of these risk factors are at increased risk for a heart attack during sexual activity. The Princeton Consensus Panel developed guidelines for treating ED in men with cardiovascular disease. Thus, if you have ED and cardiovascular disease (for example, angina or prior heart attack), you should discuss whether or not treatment of ED and sexual activity are appropriate for you.
Oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors
What are oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors?
The common PDE5 inhibitor drugs approved in the United States are sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra and Staxyn, the generic form), tadalafil (Cialis), or avanafil (Stendra). All of the currently approved PDE5 inhibitors work in the same way. They differ in the number of available doses, how quickly they work and last in your system, the dosing, and to some extent in the side effects. However, they generally share the same indications and contraindications. Currently, tadalafil is the only medication that patients can take on a daily basis and is approved for the treatment of both ED and BPH (benign enlargement of the prostate).
How do oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors work?
When sexually stimulated there is a release of a chemical, nitric oxide (NO) in the blood vessels of the corpus cavernosum. The NO stimulates the production of a compound called cGMP, which causes relaxation of the smooth muscle in the blood vessels supplying the corpus cavernosum. PDE 5 is an enzyme that breaks down cGMP. By inhibiting the breakdown of cGMP by PDE5, these medications allow cGMP to build up in the penis. cGMP causes muscles in the corpora cavernosa of the penis to relax. When the muscle is relaxed, more blood can flow into the penis and fill the spaces in the penis. As the penis fills with blood, the veins in the penis are compressed, and this results a hard erection. When the effect on PDE5 decreases, the cGMP levels go down and the muscle in the penis contracts, causing less blood to flow into the penis and allowing the veins to open up and drain blood out of the penis.
Who should not use oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors?
Some men should not take PDE5 inhibitors. They can cause hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure that can lead to fainting and even shock) when given to patients who are taking nitrates (medications taken for heart disease). Therefore, patients taking nitrates daily should not take any of the PDE5 inhibitors. Nitrates relieve angina (chest pain due to insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle because of narrowing of the coronary arteries); these include nitroglycerine tablets, patches, ointments, sprays, and pastes, as well as isosorbide dinitrate and isosorbide mononitrate. Other nitrates such as amyl nitrate and butyl nitrate also are in some recreational drugs called "poppers."
If you are taking medications (alpha-blockers) for problems with an enlarged prostate, you should discuss your prostate medications with your doctor. Alpha-blockers also can cause lowering of the blood pressure. Thus your doctor will need to carefully watch your blood pressure when you start the PDE5 inhibitor. Common alpha-blockers include doxazosin (Cardura), terazosin (Hytrin), and tamsulosin (Flomax).
PDE 5 inhibitors are broken down primarily by enzyme, cytochrome P450enzyme CYP3A4. Medications that decrease or increase the activity of CYP3A4 may affect levels and effectiveness of PDE 5 inhibitors. Such drugs include medications for the treatment of HIV (protease inhibitors) and the antifungal medications ketoconazole and itraconazole. Thus caution is recommended.
What are side effects of oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors?
The various PDE5 inhibitors for the treatment of ED share several common side effects, including headache, flushing, nasal congestion, nausea, dyspepsia (stomach discomfort), and diarrhea. Differences exist in side effects of the different PDE5 inhibitors, and thus it is important to be familiar with the prescribing information of the PDE5 inhibitor you are prescribed.
There have been rare reports of priapism (prolonged and painful erections lasting more than six hours) with the use of PDE5 inhibitors such as sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil. Patients with blood cell diseases such as sickle cell anemia, leukemia, and multiple myeloma have higher than normal risks of developing priapism. Untreated priapism can cause injury to the penis and lead to permanent impotence. Therefore, if your erection lasts four hours, you should seek emergency medical care.
Rare side effects of all PDE5 inhibitors include a sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes (nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy [NAION]) and sudden loss of hearing. Patients have reported these rare side effects with all of the PDE5 inhibitors. Seek immediate medical care if you develop loss of vision or hearing.
Doctors have not tested the PDE5 inhibitors in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, an eye condition that affects the retina and can cause blindness, and so caution is recommended if you have this health condition.
What is sildenafil (Viagra)?
Sildenafil (Viagra) was the first oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor approved by the FDA in the United States for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (it is not approved for women). Sildenafil inhibits PDE5, which is an enzyme that destroys cGMP. By inhibiting the destruction of cGMP by PDE5, sildenafil allows cGMP to accumulate. The cGMP in turn prolongs relaxation of the smooth muscle of the corpora cavernosa. Relaxation of the corpora cavernosa smooth muscle allows blood to flow into the penis resulting in increased engorgement of the penis. In short, sildenafil increases blood flow into the penis and decreases blood flow out of the penis.
How effective is sildenafil (Viagra)?
Sildenafil treats erectile dysfunction of either physical or psychological cause. It is effective in treating erectile dysfunction in men with coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, depression, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and men who are taking antidepressants and several classes of antihypertensives.
How do patients take sildenafil (Viagra)?
Sildenafil is available as oral tablets at doses of 25 mg, 50 mg, and 100 mg. Patients should take sildenafil approximately one hour before sexual activity. In some men, the onset of action of the drug may be as early as 11-20 minutes. It's best for men to take sildenafil on an empty stomach for best results since absorption and effectiveness of sildenafil can be diminished if it is taken shortly after a meal, particularly a meal that is high in fat. Sildenafil and the other PDE5 inhibitors don't cause an immediate erection. Sexual stimulation is necessary for these medications to work.
What is the dose of sildenafil (Viagra)?
In prescribing sildenafil, a doctor considers the age, general health status, and other medication(s) the patient is taking. The usual starting dose for most men is 50 mg, however, the doctor may increase or decrease the dose depending on side effects and effectiveness. The maximum recommended dose is 100 mg every 24 hours. However, many men will need 100 mg of sildenafil for optimal effectiveness, and some doctors are recommending 100 mg as the starting dose.
Aging, liver and kidney problems, and concurrent use of certain medications (such as erythromycin [an antibiotic] and protease inhibitors for HIV) slows the metabolism (breakdown) of sildenafil. Slowed breakdown allows sildenafil to accumulate in the body and potentially may increase the risk of side effects. Therefore, in men over 65 years of age, in men with significant kidney and liver disease, and in men who also are taking medications called protease inhibitors, the doctor will initiate sildenafil at a lower dose (25 mg) to avoid accumulation of sildenafil in the body. A protease inhibitor ritonavir (Norvir) is especially potent in increasing the accumulation of sildenafil, thus men who are taking Norvir should not take sildenafil doses higher than 25 mg and at a frequency of no greater than once in 48 hours. Other medications that may affect the level of sildenafil include erythromycin and ketoconazole.
What are the side effects of sildenafil (Viagra) that may be different from some of the other PDE5 inhibitors?
Sildenafil (Viagra) may affect another phosphodiesterase enzyme in the eye causing transient abnormal vision (seeing a bluish hue or brightness).
Vardenafil (Levitra and the generic formulation Staxyn)
What is vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
Vardenafil (Levitra) was the second oral medicine approved by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Like sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra) inhibits PDE5, which destroys cGMP (as discussed earlier). It is the only PDE 5 inhibitor that has a generic form available.
How effective is vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
Vardenafil is effective in men of all ages, different nationalities, and in men with such medical conditions as diabetes mellitus and erectile dysfunction after prostate surgery.
How should patients take vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
The recommended starting dose of vardenafil is 10 mg taken orally approximately one hour before sexual activity. A doctor may adjust the dose higher or lower depending on efficacy and side effects. The maximum recommended dose is 20 mg, and the maximum recommended dosing frequency is no more than once per day. Patients can take vardenafil with or without food. As with sildenafil, for vardenafil to be effective, sexual stimulation must occur.
What are the side effects of vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
Vardenafil shares the same side effects as sildenafil but is not associated with the abnormal vision that may occur with sildenafil.
Who should not use vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
The same concerns regarding the use of sildenafil with nitrates and alpha-blockers apply to vardenafil.
Men with a rare heart condition known as long QT syndrome should not take vardenafil since this may lead to abnormal heart rhythms. The QT interval is the time it takes for the heart's muscle to recover after it has contracted. An electrocardiogram (EKG) measures the QT interval. Some people have longer than normal QT intervals, and they may develop potentially life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms, especially when given certain medications. Men with a family history of long QT syndrome should not take vardenafil, as it is possible to inherit long QT syndrome. Furthermore, vardenafil is not recommended for men who are taking medications that can affect the QT interval such as quinidine (Quinaglute, Quinidex), procainamide (Pronestyl, Procan-SR, Procanbid), amiodarone (Cordarone), and sotalol (Betapace).
There is insufficient information on the safety of vardenafil in men with the following health disorders:
- Unstable angina (chest pain due to coronary artery disease that occurs at rest or with minimal physical exertion)
- Low blood pressure (a resting systolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg)
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure (greater than 170/110 mm Hg)
- Recent stroke or heart attack (within six months)
- Uncontrolled, potentially life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms
- Severe liver disease
- Severe kidney failure requiring dialysis
- Severe heart failure or disease of the heart's valves, for example, aortic stenosis (hardening of the main artery in the body)
- Retinitis pigmentosa (a condition that affects the retina of the eye and can cause blindness)
Therefore, men with these health conditions should not use vardenafil without having these conditions evaluated and stabilized first. For example, men with uncontrolled high blood pressure should have their blood pressure controlled; and men with potentially life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms should have these rhythms controlled.
When there is angina or heart failure, the doctor may need to determine whether the heart has enough reserve to carry out the work necessary for sexual activity by performing cardiac treadmill stress testing.
What precautions should patients take when using vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn)?
Metabolism (breakdown) of vardenafil can be slowed by aging, liver disease, and concurrent use of certain medications (such as erythromycin [an antibiotic], ketoconazole [Nizoral, a medication for fungal/yeast infections], and protease inhibitors [medications used to treat AIDS]). Slowed breakdown allows vardenafil to accumulate in the body and potentially increase the risk for side effects. Therefore, in men over 65 years of age with liver disease, or who are also taking medication(s) that can slow the breakdown of vardenafil, the doctor will initiate vardenafil at low doses to avoid its accumulation. For example,
- men taking erythromycin or ketoconazole should not take more than 5 mg of vardenafil in a 24-hour period;
- men taking high doses of ketoconazole (Nizoral) should not take more than 2.5 mg of vardenafil in a 24-hour period;
- men with moderately severe liver disease also should not take more than a 5 mg dose of vardenafil in a 24-hour period;
- men taking the protease inhibitor (for the treatment of HIV/AIDS) indinavir (Crixivan) should not take more than 2.5 mg of vardenafil in a 24-hour period; and
- men taking another protease inhibitor ritonavir (Norvir), erythromycin, or ketoconazole, should not take more than 2.5 mg of vardenafil every 72 hours.
What is tadalafil (Cialis)?
Tadalafil (Cialis) is the third oral medicine approved by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Like sildenafil (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra), tadalafil inhibits PDE5 (as described earlier). Unlike the other PDE 5 inhibitors, patients should take tadalafil once daily and is approved for the treatment of BPH (benign enlargement of the prostate).
How effective is tadalafil (Cialis)?
Tadalafil is effective in treating erectile dysfunction in men of all ages and has been shown to be effective in men with diabetes mellitus and erectile dysfunction after prostate cancer surgery. Studies demonstrated that tadalafil improved the ability to get a hard erection and to have the hard erection last long enough.
How should patients take tadalafil (Cialis)?
Patients may take tadalafil as needed as with sildenafil, vardenafil, and avanafil or once a day. It is the only ED oral medication that patients can take on a daily basis.
The recommended starting dose of tadalafil for use as needed for most patients is 10 mg taken orally approximately one hour before sexual activity. A doctor may adjust the dose higher to 20 mg or lower to 5 mg depending on efficacy and side effects. Doctors recommended that patients take tadalafil no more frequently than once per day. Some patients can take tadalafil less frequently since the improvement in erectile function may last 36 hours. Patients may take tadalafil with or without food. Tadalafil is currently the only PDE5 inhibitor that is FDA-approved for daily use for erectile dysfunction and is available in 2.5 mg or 5 mg dosages for daily use.
What are the side effects of tadalafil (Cialis)?
Tadalafil shares the common side effects of the PDE5 inhibitors, however, due to its effect on PDE11, another phosphodiesterase located in muscle, tadalafil has been associated with muscle aches. Back pain and muscle aches occur in less than 7% of men taking tadalafil and in most patients will go away without treatment within 48 hours. When treatment was necessary, acetaminophen (Tylenol) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) or naproxen (Aleve) were effective. Rarely do the muscle aches and back pain cause men to stop using tadalafil.
Who should not use tadalafil (Cialis)?
Men taking nitrates should not use tadalafil as with the other PDE5 inhibitors.
Tadalafil should not be used with alpha-blockers (except Flomax), medicines used to treat high blood pressure, and benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) because the combination of tadalafil and an alpha-blocker may lower the blood pressure greatly and lead to dizziness and fainting. Examples of alpha-blockers include tamsulosin (Flomax), terazosin (Hytrin), doxazosin (Cardura), alfuzosin (Uroxatral), and prazosin (Minipress). Tamsulosin (Flomax) is the only alpha-blocker that patients can use safely with tadalafil. When tadalafil (20 mg) was given to healthy men taking 0.4 mg of Flomax daily, there was no significant decrease in blood pressure and so patients on this dose of tamsulosin (Flomax) can be prescribed tadalafil. The only alpha-blocker not tested with tadalafil is alfuzosin (Uroxatral), and no recommendations can be made regarding the interaction between the two.
As with vardenafil, doctors do not recommend tadalafil for men with the following conditions:
- Unstable angina (chest pain due to coronary artery disease that occurs at rest or with minimal physical exertion)
- Low blood pressure (a resting systolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg)
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure (greater than 170/110 mm Hg)
- Recent stroke or heart attack (within six months)
- Uncontrolled, potentially life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms
- Severe liver disease
- Severe heart failure or disease of the heart valves (for example, aortic stenosis)
- Retinitis pigmentosa
Therefore, men with these health conditions should not use tadalafil without having these conditions evaluated and stabilized first. For example, men with uncontrolled high blood pressure should have their blood pressure controlled; and men with potentially life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms should have these rhythms controlled.
When there is angina or heart failure, the doctor may need to determine whether the heart has enough reserve to carry out the work necessary for sexual activity by performing cardiac treadmill stress testing.
What precautions should patients take when using tadalafil?
In most healthy men, some of the drug will remain in the body for more than two days after a single dose of tadalafil. Metabolism (clearing of the drug from the body) of tadalafil can be slowed by liver disease, kidney disease, and concurrent use of certain medications (such as erythromycin, ketoconazole, and protease inhibitors). Slowed breakdown allows tadalafil to stay in the body longer and potentially increase the risk for side effects. Therefore, doctors have to lower the dose and frequency of tadalafil in the following examples:
- Medications such as erythromycin, ketoconazole (Nizoral), itraconazole (Sporanox), ritonavir (Norvir), and indinavir (Crixivan) can slow the breakdown of tadalafil. Therefore, men taking these medications should not take more than 10 mg of tadalafil and should not take tadalafil more frequently than every 72 hours.
- If you have kidney troubles, your doctor may recommend that you try a lower dose of tadalafil or change how often you use the tadalafil depending on your kidney function. Men with severe liver disease should not take tadalafil. Men with mild to moderate liver disease should not exceed tadalafil dose of 10 mg once daily.
Avanafil is the most recently FDA-approved PDE5 inhibitor to treat erectile dysfunction.
How effective is Avanafil?
Avanafil has been demonstrated to be effective in treating ED in men of various ages and has been shown to be effective in men with ED related to diabetes mellitus.
How should patients take Avanafil?
The recommended starting dose is 100 mg taken as early as 15 minutes prior to sexual activity, no more than once a day. The maximum dose is 200 mg. Avanafil may be taken with or without food. As with the other PDE5 inhibitors, sexual stimulation is necessary for avanafil to work.
Cautions with use of Avanafil:
If an individual is taking ketoconazole, erythromycin, or ritonavir, it is recommended that the maximum dose of avanafil not exceed 50 mg in 24 hours.
Similarly, if you are taking an alpha-blocker for prostate symptoms, the recommended starting dose of avanafil is 50 mg.
What are the side effects of Avanafil?
Avanafil shares the common PDE5 inhibitor side effects, contraindications, and cautions. No changes in dose are need for men with mild or moderate kidney disease. Individuals with severe kidney disease, severe liver disease, or those on kidney dialysis should not use avanafil.
What are intracavernosal injections?
Patient can inject medications directly into the corpora cavernosa to help attain and maintain erections. Medications such as papaverine hydrochloride, phentolamine, and prostaglandin E1 (alprostadil) can be used alone or in combinations to attain erections. All of these medications are vasodilators and work by increasing blood flow into the penis. Prostaglandin E1 (Caverject, Edex) is easier to obtain; however, it is associated with penile pain in some individuals. The use of combinations of two or three of these medications can decrease the risk of having penile pain.
Risks associated with injection therapy including bleeding, pain with injection, penile pain, priapism, and corporal fibrosis (scarring inside of the corpora cavernosa). There is also concern that repetitive injections in the same area could cause scar tissue to build up in the tunica albuginea that could create penile curvature. Thus, doctors recommended that one alternate sides with injection and perform injections no more frequent than every other day.
If you are on a blood thinner, you must be careful. After injection, patients should pressure to the site to minimize bleeding.
Patients should start with a low dose and increase in small doses until the dose that results in a rigid enough erection for completion of sexual activity is achieved. If one injects and there is an inadequate response, one should not reinject another dose of the medication at that time, due to the risk of priapism.
What are intraurethral suppositories?
Prostaglandin E1 (intraurethral alprostadil or MUSE) can be inserted in a pellet (suppository) form into the urethra to attain erections. It is available in four dosage strengths: 125 mcg, 250 mcg, 500 mcg, and 1,000 mcg. Most individuals need 500 mcg to 1,000 mcg for a satisfactory response.
How does intraurethral prostaglandin E1 work?
The prostaglandin E1 is contained in a small suppository located at the tip of an applicator. You should urinate first as this lubricates the urethra and makes it easier to insert the applicator into the tip of the urethra (urethral meatus, the opening at the tip of the penis that urine passes through). A patient can release the suppository into urethra by gently wiggling the applicator and pressing the button at the end. Rubbing the penis allows the suppository to dissolve, and the prostaglandin is absorbed through the tissue of the urethra into the penis. It takes 15 to 30 minutes for this occur. Once into the penis, the prostaglandin causes increased blood flow into the penis. The prostaglandin can be present in the ejaculate, and thus doctors recommend that men use a condom when having intercourse with a pregnant partner. Men may need to use a condom if vaginal irritation occurs in female partner.
It is recommend that the first trial of intraurethral prostaglandin be performed in the doctor's office due to the risk of hypotension with this medication.
Who should not use intraurethral prostaglandin E1?
Men with a known hypersensitivity to alprostadil should not use intraurethral prostaglandin E1.
Alprostadil should not be used in men with urethral stricture (scarring and narrowing of the tube that urine and the ejaculate pass through), balanitis (inflammation/infection of the glans [tip] of the penis, severe hypospadias (a condition where the opening of the urethra is not at the tip of the penis, rather on the underside of the penis), penile curvature (abnormal bend to the penis), and urethritis (inflammation/infection of the urethra).
Alprostadil should not be used in men at higher risk for priapism (erection lasting longer than six hours) including men with sickle cell anemia, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), polycythemia (increased red blood cell count), multiple myeloma (a cancer of the white blood cells), and is contraindicated in men prone to venous thrombosis (blood clots in the veins) or hyperviscosity syndrome who are at increased risk for priapism.
How effective is alprostadil?
Patients report success rates up to 65% with intraurethral alprostadil.
What are side effects of intraurethral alprostadil?
Side effects of intraurethral alprostadil include pain in the penis and sometimes in the testicles, mild urethral bleeding, dizziness, and vaginal itching in the sex partner. Patients rarely report syncopal (fainting) episodes with initial use, and thus the first trial of this medication should be performed in the physician's office.
What is the role of testosterone therapy in the treatment of erectile dysfunction?
In patients with low testosterone, testosterone treatment can improve libido and erectile dysfunction, but many men still may need additional oral medications such as sildenafil, vardenafil, or tadalafil. Some studies suggest that men with ED and low testosterone may respond better to PDE5 inhibitors when given testosterone therapy; however, this is controversial.
Men with ED without hypogonadism (a low testosterone level and symptoms related to this) should not use testosterone therapy.
Prior to starting testosterone therapy, it is important for a doctor to perform a thorough evaluation on the patient.
Evaluation should include a breast examination, rectal examination of the prostate, and a PSA level (prostate specific antigen) blood test. Patients who have breast and prostate cancers should not use testosterone.
Patients should continue testosterone therapy only if there is improvement in the symptoms of hypogonadism and should be monitored regularly. You will need periodic blood tests for testosterone levels and blood tests to monitor your blood count and PSA. Testosterone therapy has health risks, and thus doctors should closely monitor its use. Testosterone therapy can worsen sleep apnea and congestive heart failure.
A variety of testosterone therapies are available, including oral, topical (gel, spray, patch), intramuscular, and pellets. Patient should review the advantages and disadvantages of each of these with a physician, as well as the health risks and benefits of testosterone therapy.
Certain medications can alter testicular function, including some diuretics (water pills), some seizure medications, long-acting oral opiate pain medications, antipsychotic medications, and oral steroids.
Can a penis pump (vacuum device) help erectile dysfunction?
Mechanical vacuum devices cause an erection by creating a vacuum around the penis that draws blood into the penis, engorging it, and expanding it. The devices have three components:
- A plastic cylinder, in which the individual places his penis
- A pump, which draws air out of the cylinder
- An elastic band, which is placed around the base of the penis, to maintain the erection after the cylinder is removed and during intercourse by preventing blood from flowing back into the body (see figure 2).
- The vacuum device may be operated by hand or be battery operated.
How does the vacuum device work?
The vacuum device creates a vacuum to pull blood into the penis. Unlike a normal erection, the inflow of blood does not continue once the individual removes the vacuum device. The rubber band placed at the base of the penis constricts the penis to prevent the blood from leaving the penis. As there is no inflow or outflow of blood when the rubber band is in place, it is uncommon for the tip of the penis (the glans) to appear a little blue and the penis to be cooler. Once intercourse is completed, the individual removes the rubber band and the blood drains out of the penis.
Is the vacuum device effective?
Yes, the vacuum device is effective. In fact, with use of the vacuum device, 88% of men will have an erection that is satisfactory for completion of sexual activity. The vacuum device may be the only therapy that is effective after the removal of a penile prosthesis. Patients also use vacuum devices as part of penile rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy to help preserve the tissue of the penis and prevent scarring within the penis and loss of penile length. Its use, however, is limited by the mechanical nature of it and the time taken to pump the device and apply the band. Sex partners may complain of the penis being cool to touch.
What are the risks of the vacuum device?
Individuals must remove the rubber band immediately after completing intercourse. Leaving the band on too long can harm the penis. Rarely, bruising of the penis or blood in the ejaculate/urine may occur.
What about psychological therapy for erectile dysfunction?
Experts often treat psychologically based impotence using techniques that decrease anxiety associated with intercourse. The patient's partner can help apply the techniques, which include gradual development of intimacy and stimulation. Such techniques also can help relieve anxiety during treatment of physical impotence. If these simple behavioral methods at home are ineffective, a doctor may refer an individual to a sex counselor.
Surgery for erectile dysfunction
Surgery for erectile dysfunction may have the following as its goal:
- to reconstruct arteries in order to increase the flow of blood to the penis; and
- to block veins that drain blood from the penis (currently not recommended).
- Currently, placement of a penile prosthesis is the most common surgical procedure performed for erectile dysfunction. Penile prosthesis placement is typically reserved for men who have tried and failed (either from efficacy or tolerability) or have contraindications to other forms of therapy including PDE5 inhibitors, intraurethral alprostadil, and injection therapy.
Currently, there are several different types of penile prostheses. The simplest is the malleable penile prosthesis and the most complex, the three-piece inflatable penile prosthesis.
Malleable implants usually consist of paired rods, inserted surgically into each of the corpora cavernosa. The rods are stiff, and to have an erection, one bends them up and then when finished with intercourse one bends them down. They do not change in length or width. The malleable implants are the least mechanical and thus have the lowest risk of malfunction. However, also have the least "normal appearance."
The most common inflatable prosthesis is the three-piece penile prosthesis. It is composed of paired cylinders, which doctors surgically insert inside the penis. Patients can expand the cylinders using pressurized fluid (see figure 3). Tubes connect the cylinders to a fluid reservoir and pump, which doctors also surgically implant. The reservoir is usually in the pelvis. A doctor places the pump in the scrotum. By pressing on the pump, sterile fluid transfers from the reservoir into the cylinders in the penis. An erection is produced primarily by expansion of the width of the penis, however, one model can increase in length a small amount also. Lock-out valves in the tubing prevent the fluid from leaving the cylinder until a release valve is pressed. By pressing the relief valve and gently squeezing the penis, the fluid within the cylinders transfers back into the reservoir.
The surgery for placement of a penile prosthesis is typically an outpatient surgery. Doctors often perform a penile prosthesis through a single incision, and all of the components are hidden under the skin. Health care professionals often give patients antibiotics at the time of surgery and often after the surgery to decrease the risk of developing an infection. Depending on your health history, a health care provider may leave a catheter in your penis to drain your bladder overnight.
Penile prostheses are very effective, and most patients who have a prosthesis placed are satisfied with the prosthesis. However, placement of a prosthesis causes scarring of the tissue within the corpora cavernosa, and if the prosthesis requires removal, other forms of therapy, except for the vacuum device, are often not effective. Thus, most physicians reserve placement of a prosthesis for men who have tried and failed or have contraindications to other therapies.
Complications of penile prosthesis placement
Infection is a concern after placement of a prosthesis and is a reported complication in 8%-20% of men undergoing placement of a penile prosthesis. If a prosthesis becomes infected (redness, pain, and swelling of the penis and sometimes purulent drainage are signs of infection), the prosthesis must be removed. Depending on the timing and severity of the infection and your surgeon's preference, the area can be irrigated extensively with antibiotic solutions and a new prosthesis placed at the same time or removal of the infected prosthesis and an attempt to place a new prosthesis made at a later time when the infection is totally cleared.
Mechanical malfunction is another risk of the prosthesis. However, advancements including lock-out valves and special covering over areas of the tubing have decreased the risk of mechanical malfunction.
Erosion of the prosthesis, whereby it presses through the corporal tissue into the urethra, may occur. Symptoms and signs may include pain, blood in the urine, discharge, abnormal urine stream, and malfunction. If the prosthesis erodes into the urethra, a physician must remove it. If the other cylinder remains intact, it can be left in place. A physician leaves a catheter in place to allow the urethra to heal.
Other risks of penile prosthesis include over- or undersizing of the prosthesis, which can cause an abnormal appearance to the erect penis or reservoir or pump migration into abnormal locations.
Surgery to repair arteries (penile arterial reconstructive surgery) can reduce impotence caused by obstructions that block the flow of blood to the penis. The best candidates for such surgery are young men with discrete blockage of an artery because of a physical injury to the pubic area or a fracture of the pelvis. The procedure is less successful in older men with widespread blockage of arteries.
Physicians do not recommend surgery on the penile veins.
Can over-the-counter (OTC) and/or natural or home remedies treat erectile dysfunction?
The U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has a list of 29 OTC products that claim to treat erectile dysfunction. Patients should avoid these because many contain harmful ingredients. Other natural or herbal remedies such as DHEA, L-arginine, ginseng, and yohimbe are supplements that have been used but have not been proven safe and effective according to some researchers. Before using such compounds, individuals should consult their doctor. According to some experts, acupuncture does not effectively treat erectile dysfunction. Other home remedies for reducing ED symptoms include diet changes such as eating blueberries and citrus fruits and drinking red wine.
Is it possible to prevent erectile dysfunction?
Prevention of some of the causes that contribute to the development of erectile dysfunction can decrease the chances of developing the problem. For example, if a person decreases their chances of developing diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension, they will decrease their chances of developing erectile dysfunction. Other things like stopping smoking, eating a healthy diet (heart healthy with adequate vitamin intake), and exercising daily may reduce a person's risk.
What is the prognosis for erectile dysfunction?
Currently, there are no therapies that cure erectile dysfunction. However, a number of effective therapies are available that allow an individual to have an erection when desired. Depending on the cause of the erectile dysfunction, certain therapies may be more effective than others. Although there is limited data on lifestyle modification, intuitively, decreasing risk factors for erectile dysfunction may help prevent progression of disease.
What erectile dysfunction studies are under way? What are future treatment options?
Combination therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction has been under investigation. Most of these studies have been small trials, and long-term data regarding their effectiveness and safety are lacking. However, with thorough evaluation and counseling, there may be a use for combination therapy for certain individuals with ED.
An alprostadil cream that patients apply into the tip of the penis (the urethral meatus, the opening that urine passes through) is currently available in the UK and Europe. It is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After application of the cream, an erection occurs within five to 30 minutes, and the erection lasts one to two hours in men who respond to the cream. Doctors recommend that one use the cream for a maximum frequency of two to three times per week and no more frequent than once every 24 hours. It has essentially the same contraindications and side effects as the other formulations of alprostadil. The cream may cause vaginal burning in roughly 4% of partners. Men should not use alprostadil cream for sexual intercourse with women of childbearing potential unless a condom is used. Researchers have performed controlled trial studies to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of this drug. Overall, 52% of men reported improvement in their erections compared to 20% of men receiving placebo. A later analysis demonstrated that 36% of men using the alprostadil cream had a clinically relevant improvement in vaginal penetration ability and 31% clinically relevant improvement in ability to have successful intercourse to ejaculation.
Other medical therapies under evaluation include ROCK inhibitors and soluble guanyl cyclase activators. Melanocortin receptor agonists are a new set of medications being developed in the field of erectile dysfunction. Their action is on the nervous system rather than the vascular system. PT-141 is a nasal preparation that appears to be effective alone or in combination with PDE5 inhibitors. The main side effects include flushing and nausea. These drugs are currently not approved for commercial use.
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The Foreign Minister says an incident involving Australian passengers at Doha airport has been referred to the AFP
Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen has retained his title as world chess champion, vanquishing rival Viswanathan Anand for the second year in a row.
The 23-year-old world number one beat India's Anand, champion from 2007 to 2013 until being dethroned by Carlsen, in the 11th game of the competition.
Carlsen, who became a chess grandmaster at just 13, said it was a challenging match ... even if he slept through part of it.
"I am very happy with the way I pulled myself together after that," he said.
"It was a tough match, almost from the start, and today was one of the toughest days of all."
Anand conceded he was defeated by a better player this year.
"Overall, throughout the match, Carlsen played better than I did," he said.
"I tried, but the risk didn't work out. Carlsen didn't make a mistake. I had nothing left to do but take risks."
Carlsen had been playing since November 8 against Anand, who is nearly 20 years his senior, in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The victory will mean 1 million euros ($1.4 million) in prize money for Carlsen just a week before his 24th birthday.
Before he captured the title in 2013, the last Westerner to hold the world champion title was American legend Bobby Fischer who relinquished it in 1975.
Introduced to chess by his father, Carlsen showed off his genius as a toddler.
His breakthrough in chess came in 2004, when the 13-year-old defeated Russian former world champion Anatoly Karpov, forced Garry Kasparov to a draw, and became a grandmaster.
At the age of two, Carlsen knew by heart all the major car brands and later memorised the long list of Norway's municipalities, with their flags and administrative centres.
A fashion model in his spare time, he made it to the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
Carlsen has been hailed by Russian legend Kasparov as a Harry Potter-type "super-talent".
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A shame it was a white sky day in Montreal yesterday. I cannot imagine how much longer the snow will stay on branches around here. Already simple evaporation and the weight of the snow is changing the strange sculptures we see around us. These pictures certainly would have been more spectacular with a blue sky but, there you are, sometimes we have to take what we can get. I love the old red stone mansion, high on the hill with its guardian fir trees and I included the spectacular overhang at the police station up on Mount Royal. That is enough to discourage me from going in. The whole roof snow -cover had slid down, hung the wind-formed icicles and now is suspended about two feet over the main entrance. The Narnia road shot is from the top reaches of the cemetery. I went to place an evergreen decoration and had to wade through knee -deep snow, floundering about in the almost obliterated markers until I found the right stone. A good day to look at snow.
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Across the 52 projects that we have catalogued here, there is great variation across a number of different axes. The following subsections provide some possibilities for subdividing the landscape along some of the more obvious lines.
Some projects we catalogued are straightforwardly oriented to journal publishing. Some (especially given the Mellon Foundation’s recent funding moves1 2) are oriented to monographs and books. But a substantial number occupy a space in between—agnostic with regard to journals or books, and sometimes reaching for new forms altogether.
Several projects we catalogued are designed around a central hosting model where there is considerable value in how the project host supports the software centrally; a prime example is Fulcrum, developed and hosted by the University of Michigan Library and Press. Other projects, like OJS, are designed around a distributed model where anyone can download and deploy the software. An increasing number of projects seem to anticipate a hybrid position in which any number of third-party hosting/integration partners will take care of deployment (and effectively become partners in the operational life of the software). None of these projects, by virtue of their open-source licenses, are strictly constrained to one or other deployment model; our observations here are about how the development is unfolding currently.
As might be expected, we were able to catalogue a wealth of new projects, and a smaller number of older, more established projects. OJS is the longest-running project we catalogued, established in 2002. Some other notable projects are the bibliography manager Zotero (est. 2006), the French journal platform Lodel (est. 2006), the conversion tool Pandoc (est. 2007), the authoring tool Omeka (est. 2008), the annotation platform Hypothes.is (est. 2011), and the Math typesetting system MathJax (est. 2011). By contrast, fully half of our catalogue has emerged since 2015, with more than a dozen of these projects having their first release since 2018.
This, again, makes comparison difficult. Brand new, bursting-with-promise projects simply aren’t directly comparable to those that have weathered time, competition, and the ongoing demands of users. Conversely, longevity tells a story of fitness, but is difficult to make generalizations. A ‘graveyard’ of old and abandoned projects does not really exist, as Github only emerged as a common platform for software development projects in around 2012 - 2013. Projects older than that, even if the source code is still available, are not easily findable.
Very few of the projects we catalogued even do the same things. Some are attempts to create end-to-end functionality for an entire publishing process; an example is the Libero suite from eLife. Others offer very specific functionality, but may be usable in concert with other components; the best example here is Hypothes.is, which does one thing—annotation—very well and can be integrated in a variety of contexts.
To help visualize the functional scope of various development agendas, we propose a hypothetical publishing workflow that covers a number of stages in order to show how various projects address different functional areas. But we must emphasize one serious caveat: even though different projects may address the same workflow stages in this diagram, they most likely do so differently, with different boundaries and different goals. Our focus here is with software development priorities, rather than “features” per se. We thus offer the following diagram for illustrative—but not comparative—purposes:
The projects we catalogued also differ in development features, languages and frameworks, and licenses. Some are well supported by external funding, some struggle to maintain financial support, some (including some important projects) are effectively unfunded. We offer the following summary data, again for illustrative purposes:
License: Seventeen projects are released under the MIT License; seven under the GPL v3, seven under the GPLv2, and seven using a BSD license. The remainder use AGPL, Apache, or ECL licenses. Comparing these numbers with a 2018 report by Ayala Goldstein 2018, the proportions here are close to the proportions for Github as a whole.3
Funding: About a dozen of the projects we catalogued claim multiple funding agencies; this unsurprisingly tends to correlate with the age of the project. Another dozen projects appear to have no funding at all—apart from the developers’ time on the project. At least fourteen of the projects have received funding from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
It would be easier to examine publishing software if we all weren’t simultaneously in the midst of reinventing publishing itself. If publishing functions and the scope definition of journal or monograph publishing were stable over time, it would be more straightforward to judge software offerings against a functional standard. But, at the same time that we are re-building publishing infrastructure (in both open-source and proprietary contexts), we are broadly at work redefining publishing itself, as well as the forms and genres that define scholarly communications.
Journal publishing, while the most transformed by a three-decade shift to online distribution, at least sees some stability in its essential forms. A great deal of the innovation in journal publishing is concerned with the drive to scale and production efficiency, leaving the basic form of the article alone (there are of course exceptions, as in eLife’s Reproducible Document Stack and similar data-rich, interactive formats).4
Book publishing is another story, where a key source of innovation comes from the desire to produce and publish interactive scholarly works that have comparable size and significance to a traditional book, but share little with them production-wise. The latter shift has been identified and encouraged by the Mellon Foundation in recent years.5
At the same time, the affordances of web publishing have spawned a host of publication formats and platforms that are web native—neither journal nor book—that proceed less from a sense of traditional forms than a sense of what can be done, quickly and elegantly, online.
These trends complicate our landscape analysis. Some of the projects we catalogued seek very straightforwardly to model existing publishing practices while extending their efficiency or flexibility through digital media. OJS is perhaps the original case, aiming to pave the way to a fluid, open-access ecosystem. Its original design principles sought to embody existing best practices in journal publishing. OJS was not designed to be disruptive; rather its goal was to allow journal publishers to move their existing operations into an online, indexed environment.
An example of modeling existing publishing practices in book production is Editoria, developed by the Coko Foundation, the University of California Press, and a community of other interested academic publishers. Editoria is an editorial and production system for scholarly monographs designed to provide a web-based, collaborative platform with much more output flexibility than traditional proprietary tools offer. Editoria’s aspiration to be a drop-in replacement for existing tools makes it an ambitious development effort, but perhaps a necessary one if uptake in traditional university press operations is the goal.
While tools like OJS and Editoria serve established publication models, many of the tools we catalogued seek to break new ground and open up new possibilities in scholarly communication. MIT’s PubPub provides a full-featured platform for research teams to communicate with colleagues and the wider world; PubPub could be used to publish traditional scholarly works (journals, books), but it opens up a faster, more reader-centric modality that isn’ neatly contained by current publication norms. The University of Minnesota Press and CUNY’s Manifold Scholarship can hold scholarly monographs within it, but the point of the tool is to facilitate and capture the ongoing discourse around a book, rather than just the book’s content. Well-established tools like Omeka and Scalar exist to break new ground with the integration of multiple media and non-linear content organization.
Special-purpose components—from web-based word processors (Wax, Texture, and FidusWriter) to typographic toolkits (Hyphenopoly, KaTeX) and annotation and reference systems (Hypothes.is, Zotero)—often are agnostic to the publishing formats or genres they can serve, with the exception of assuming the Web as a common platform. It is worth noting that we also include contemporary examples of print production tools (Paged.js, Vivliostyle).
The software projects surveyed here represent a variety of approaches to contemporary problems, and as such provide a rich snapshot of contemporary thinking about publishing and software strategies. While the vast majority of these projects are web-based in one way or another, they vary greatly in their priorities and the bids they make to exist in a much larger ecosystem. The following are some significant trends we noted:
Most of the software we surveyed involves representation of text: for authoring and editing purposes and for display and publication. XML is central, in one way or another, to almost all of the projects. But what does that mean, exactly? Two dominant approaches to XML are evident: the first, employing the JATS XML schema for rich semantic markup and robust in-document metadata, seems to be a popular choice with projects focused on journal publishing workflows. The Texture editor from the Substance Consortium (including eLife and PKP) provides an excellent open-source, JATS-based authoring and editing platform which can then be incorporated into other tools. ELife’s Libero Producer is designed around Texture, building a JATS-native6 editing interface right into the core of eLife’s platform. OJS, which for most of its history has eschewed dealing with the text directly (opting to move .doc and .pdf files through its review workflow), now allows Texture integration as an option, and PKP seems enthusiastic about Texture’s development and future. Janeway, designed for the Open Library of the Humanities platform, is also based on JATS and seems poised to adopt Texture as well. This is a potentially important moment for JATS XML. While a ‘standard,’ JATS has not enjoyed actual standardized practice, because JATS-based workflows are typically buried in proprietary toolchains owned by corporate publishers. The emergence of an open, common editing tool for JATS is a welcome development for XML-based publishing ambitions.
The second major current of XML development is the use of web-native HTML as the basis for content and workflow. Owing to the ubiquity of this format and the wealth of readily available tools and standard ways of working, many of the projects we surveyed have opted for an HTML-first approach. This is true of journal-friendly projects like PubPub and Vega, but is especially the case with the more book-oriented projects such as Fulcrum, Manifold, Editoria, Pressbooks, and Scalar. In an HTML-based workflow, rendering in the browser comes more or less for free, and the associated EPUB standard (which includes HTML as its core text representation) provides a handy distribution or import/export format. More interestingly, authoring and editing tools for HTML are by now in their third or fourth generation, and sophisticated software is not hard to come by. An emerging open-source toolkit, ProseMirror has already seen significant uptake on the web (major news sites like New YorkTimes and The Guardian have reportedly built editorial tools around ProseMirror) owing to features like collaborative editing. ProseMirros is found in PubPub, Coko’s Wax editor (part of Editoria), and the science-oriented FidusWriter. There seems to be increasing interest in ProseMirror as an adaptable foundation for building specialized HTML editing environments.7
A third alternative, which puts markdown before markup, is seen in some production systems such as ElectricBook and Getty’s Quire. The markdown approach relies on a simplest-possible authoring environment (in a text editor) and up-converting to HTML or other XML formats. Markdown is also a straightforward import format for tools like Manifold, PubPub, and Pandoc. ProseMirror seems able to work as easily with markdown as with HTML, so the apparent distinctiveness of a markdown-based workflow may fade over time.
LaTeX deserves a mention here. One of the original OSS publishing tools (LaTeX, and TeX especially, predate the term “open-source” by many years), LaTeX is still alive and well in scientific publishing. Its support for equations and formulae remains hard to beat, despite efforts to move LaTeX’s features into more modern environments. In our survey, LaTeX appears in only a few cases. We examined here one contemporary platform, Tectonic, which seems to be an easily adoptable typesetting tool. We considered including Overleaf, the leading commercial LaTeX-based production system, as their codebase is open-source and accessible on Github, but we ultimately decided to remove it as it seems to have no substantial interest beyond Overleaf’s own application. LaTeX also appears in a few web-typography tools aimed at math typesetting: KaTeX from the Khan Academy, and MathJax, both of which aim to provide a browser-native math typesetting system that does what LaTeX does, and indeed can speak LaTeX.
Despite the maturing contexts of XML in publishing, it appears to be a largely unchallenged fact that “authors will write in Word.” Word processor documents, despite the advent of XML file formats over the past decade, are just not structured documents, because the scope of possibilities that an author can express in a tool like Word is not constrained by any schema. Further, the vast legacy of online publishing has been the proliferation of PDF files—again, not a structured content format. So any publishing system that attempts to leverage structured content while allowing content to come from unstructured sources must have a strategy for ingesting these source documents and making sense of them.
This problem is as old as XML—indeed as old as SGML—and toolchains to solve the problem as numerous as the grasses; it appears that people continue to build these today. The emergence of XML-based word-processor file formats at least has made parsing a bit more straightforward, allowing XSLT to be used to at least take the original document apart. In our landscape survey, we have catalogued at least half a dozen projects dedicated to import and conversion, and at least as many larger projects have ingest tools built into them.
The traditional way to convert legacy documents is to parse them—either via XSLT or some other way of reading the native file format, and then attempting to make reasonable guesses about what the formatting means: the big, boldfaced line at the beginning of an article is likely the title, for instance. If the original document was formatted using named paragraph- or character styles, so much the better. Some of these parsing tools are mature and can handle a good many variations. Pandoc, for instance, is a robust conversion utility that has been in development for over a decade, with support for dozens of input and export formats. It is usable as a tool on its own, but it is also incorporated as a library or a component in several of the tools in our survey.
A traditional strategy for managing conversion from legacy formats is to constrain the scope of possibilities. Building a conversion tool around documents that consistently look like journal articles is easier than building a general-purpose converter. PKP’s Open Typesetting Stack8; has been designed using this approach, as is OpenEdition’s Lodel. Open Typesetting Stack is composed of a series of tools that are designed to take apart journal articles: front matter, body text, bibliographic references, and so on.
A newer approach altogether is to forgo parsing the internals of a file and instead pay attention to the visual and presentational characteristics of a PDF. Grobid, a machine-learning tool trained on a corpus of many thousands of journal articles, exemplifies this strategy. The latest versions of PKP’s Open Typesetting Stack include Grobid in its arsenal. Machine-learning tools improve over time and over larger datasets, so it seems likely that this approach will become common, if not dominant, in large-scale conversion and ingest of journal articles. Grobid —like several other tools (including le-tex Transpect, Lodel)—uses the Text Encoding Initiative’s (TEI) extremely rich and flexible descriptive XML tagset as an intermediate conversion target before normalizing to JATS XML for publication purposes.
Scholarly publishing is typically characterized by formal editorial review processes, including blind peer review. Modeling and capturing these formal review stages in software is a hallmark of scholarly publishing applications. OJS first established a formal model for peer review workflow nearly twenty years ago, designed around a hierarchy of editorial authority, explicit hand-offs from stage to stage, and a series of automated email reminders keeping every member of the process on task. OJS’s fine-grained, formal peer review has clearly stood the test of time (the model was made more modular in OJS 3), but developers and aspirants have been re-thinking and re-building editorial and review workflows ever since. The most recent generation of publishing software carries on this tradition, and re-designing workflow management is a feature in most of the projects we examined.
Some approaches aim to make submission and review simpler. PubPub, for instance, aims to make collaborative reviews easy and intuitive. Vega takes a similar approach, establishing a new conceptual vocabulary around the review model. Manifold brings robust commenting and annotation to its review process, perhaps more in the spirit of ‘open review.’ Ubiquity Press, while relying on OJS as the core of their journal-publishing platform, have made customizations for article review and have built an entirely different system, Rua, for managing book editorial processes.
The Coko Foundation and its partners have taken a somewhat different approach by building a layered and modular framework for workflows. Coko’s PubSweet framework exposes a set of components for integration. Specific applications—like eLife’s Libero Reviewer or Hindawi’s Phenom—configure these to the specific business/editorial needs of their publishers. EuropePMC and Wormbase’s micropublications framework also manage submissions this way. On the book-publishing side, Editoria is also built on top of the PubSweet framework, as is the BookSprints platform. As such there are at least six different workflow applications based on the PubSweet workflow system, and Coko’s promise is that many more are possible.
Whatever the specifics of workflow management in various contexts, it would appear that many people still see this as a problem that needs a solution—or indeed more solutions. It may be the case that workflow modeling is something that resists being solved once and for all. In an interview, one of the PKP team quipped that once some of the newer projects have been around for as long as OJS has—and if they are to serve a diverse user base—their simple workflows will need to evolve to serve those diverse needs. The many attempts to address workflow models in the current catalogue seems to support this view.
Many of the projects in this survey also seek to push the envelope, to expand the possibilities of digital scholarly publishing. These range from infrastructural innovation to blue-sky revolutionary thinking—like dokie.li’s decentralized, distributed authoring/publishing project, which is part of a rethink of the entire World-Wide Web from a linked-data perspective. Most projects we surveyed are a little more conventional, but many break new ground in thinking about how scholarly communications actually happens.
The University of Michigan’s Fulcrum project, for instance, makes a significant structural change in how we think about infrastructure. Fulcrum does not take great strides with user interface, but by building a robust, media-friendly ebook platform on top of the Samvera repository, developing robust metadata linkages between books and media objects, and integrating a set of modular tools for displaying and embedding these, Fulcrum has potentially emerged as a major new platform for digital book distribution, one that several other publishers seem to find attractive. Fulcrum potentially changes the ecosystem for scholarly ebooks, making media rich content workable and discoverable, at scale.
The University of Minnesota & CUNY Graduate Centre’s Manifold Scholarship also elegantly integrates a set of good ideas, while pushing out the post-production scope for book-length works. Manifold aspires to gather the discourse around a book—review, commentary, annotation, and even social media discourse—and collect it within the book itself. The result is that books expand over time as they gather their surrounding discourse. Manifold was initially designed as a monograph publication tool but has already found applications in open educational resources and in critical digital editions, owing to its reader-focused feature set.
MIT’s Knowledge Futures Group offers PubPub, a scholarly publishing tool that hosts journals, books, reports, and related content types, but seems poised to gain a devoted audience by making it incredibly easy for a research lab or team of like-minded scholars to collaboratively develop and publish media-rich content on an ongoing basis. It is early yet to tell if PubPub will evolve into a research-publishing platform or a turn-key publishing alternative. Vega, designed by Cheryl Ball after many years of publishing the Kairos journal, aims to bring multi-media authoring and collaboration into the centre of scholarly discourse. Vega has been long anticipated by those inspired by the promise of its model; it appeared in alpha release in early 2019.
Omeka has been in development for more than a decade already, but it, as well as ANVC’s Scalar, and Washington State University’s Mukurtu pushes on the boundaries of what a book might be in a natively digital mode. Omeka, Scalar, and Mukurtu have all been focused on scholars and researchers first, as opposed to presses, but the wealth of content and projects published on these systems already (including the Ravenspace project from the University of British Columbia and University of Washington Presses, which draws in ways on all three) means that these platforms are part of the discourse around the nature of the book in an online context. Stanford University Press’s embrace of Scalar-based projects is evidence that this platform is being taken seriously by traditional publishers.
An emerging genre of writing tools—exemplified by Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio’s Shiny, and the Stencila project (part of eLife’s Reproducible Document Stack initiative)—integrates written documentation with live code and data in a publishable interactive environment. A researcher can write an article, incorporate a dataset, and feature live code snippets and data visualizations in the body of the article. Shared or published online, a reader can then interact with the data or the code directly, effectively bringing into play a richer way of constructing and communicating a scholarly or scientific argument. Shared between two researchers, these tools are clever enough; all three projects are pushing towards much broader scale publication of interactive documents.
Two well-established projects—the Hypothes.is annotation system and the Zotero reference management software—plus one newer one, the Rebus Foundation’s Ink platform for research-based reading—deserve mention here too. These are not publishing tools per se, but they serve critical parts of the publishing and scholarly ecosystem. Hypothes.is, while not being the only approach to annotation represented here, has established a standard approach to web annotation that now appears to be essential. Zotero, which as a networked platform is much more than the personal reference manager most people use it for, is the primary open-source platform for large-scale bibliography handling. Both Hypothes.is and Zotero should, at this point in time, be judged in terms of their integration with other applications in the publishing and scholarship ecosystem; certainly no one should be developing in this space without considering the contributions already made by these tools. Which brings us to the Rebus Foundation’s Ink project: funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Ink is an experiment in developing a better integrated environment for scholarly reading, reference and document management, and annotation. Ink’s development is made with tools like Hypothes.is and Zotero already established; if it comes to fruition, it should shift the thinking around what happens to scholarly publications when they reach readers, an aspect somewhat under-developed currently.
Waters, Donald., “The Monograph Is Dead! Long Live the Monograph!”‚ presented at the Jisc-CNI Leadership Conference, July 2, 2018. https://www.slideshare.net/JISC/the-monograph-is-dead-long-live-the-monograph
Maxwell, John W., Alessandra Bordini, and Katie Shamash. “Reassembling Scholarly Communications: An Evaluation of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation‚” Monograph Initiative (Final Report, May 2016).‚ Journal of Electronic Publishing 20, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0020.101
Goldstein, Ayala., “Top 10 Open Source Licenses in 2018: Trends and Predictions.‚” Whitesource, December 13, 2018. https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/top-open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions
See: Jupyter Notebooks; Shiny; Stencila.
Waters, "Long Live the Monograph!"
Texture's XML file format is .dar, which is an encapsulated collection of XML content (compliant with a Texture-specific JATS subset) and its related assets, plus a manifest file listing the contents. See https://github.com/substance/dar
See, for commentary, Triglav, Jure., “Open Source Collaborative Text Editors.,” A Case for Spaceships (blog), May 7, 2019. https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/
PKP's Open Typesetting Stack is based in part on Martin Eve's now-dormant meTypeset conversion tool. Both are unfortunately misnamed, as they aren't typesetting tools at all.
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As apart of our 2020 Tax Time Special, we have launched two new products that are sure to help you run a little smoother.
The LOKRING and LOKCLIP connection technology will make it easier for you to repair connections in the refrigerant circuit. Conventional methods such as soldering, welding or threadcutting are time-consuming, cause damaging soiling and lead to weak spots in the refrigerant circuit.
Automatic stations are a revolutionary product that will change the way you complete jobs, and will be the new employee you’ve been needing.
We understand that in business, there is rarely a solution that is one size fits all. That is why we stock a wide range of 4-in-1 stations that are designed to help you improve your workflow.
We have spoken a lot about the benefits of Agricold and other workshop based 4-in-1 machines in the past, highlighting a range of the benefits including increased efficiency and a decrease in costs. So we thought we would keep all of this information in one, central location for quick reference for you.
When it comes to servicing machinery on-site, you can expect to face varying requirements in terms of access points, sometimes making it cumbersome, tricky and potentially risky to get your tools in the spot you need them in.
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The first CARES Act provided aid to US airlines in three ways: subsidies to keep people employed, loan opportunity for those who couldn’t get enough help in the private markets, and a temporary suspension of the 7.5% excise tax usually levied on all airline tickets. The employment pass-throughs end in just a few weeks, and some airlines have put out Worker Adjustment and Retraining (WARN) notices of large layoffs to come effective October 1 under the assumption that these subsidies are not renewed. Should the government extend this grant and give even more help to airlines? I think the answer to this is yes.
Airline travel is a critical infrastructure industry. Economists call airline travel an “intermediate good”. This means it is an input to a final product, meaning that most people do not fly because they want to be on an airplane. They are doing business, going on vacation, visiting friends and family, and supporting the economy in many other ways. Freight needs airplanes for perishable or quicker turnaround goods. Any economy needs people and goods to move, and so without a rebound in the US airlines it is safe to say that economy will not fully rebound either.
Airlines need airplanes, and airplanes are the country’s leading export with a positive trade balance of over $70 Billion, according to the FAA. The US airline industry supports over 11 million jobs, many of these high paying and thus high tax paying also. Laying off tens of thousands of direct workers will have the domino effect of others getting laid off who support these workers, and is Washington really going to let this happen a few weeks before a national election? I would hope that politics would not play a role in this, but that would be naïve.
I wrote an earlier article about why I felt the first grants made sense. Since then, airlines have been prudent about adding capacity and travelers, based on TSA check throughs, have been slowly increasing though at a choppy rate. It’s hard to be truly optimistic but small signs suggest that there is some discretionary traffic flying again, but the numbers are complicated to interpret because of typical seasonality that the industry always sees from about mid-August through September. Since the first CARES Act, airline employees have stayed current thanks to the subsidies, and with Dr. Fauci confident of a vaccine soon there is no reason to delay an economic recovery by sending thousands of workers home.
Some will question why give help to airlines and not restaurants, or other businesses. The answer is because of the catalytic employment impact of airline flights. It is this foundational structure that transportation plays in making the economy work that means every $1 the government gives to the airlines in this time will result in a large multiple of that $1 in economic benefit. That is not true for many other businesses, even though of course ideally it would great to be able to help all businesses during this crippling time. More people flying means more people eating out and shopping, circulating dollars through the economy in ways that a single restaurant or shop does not.
Another frequent argument is that aid to airlines helps investors and not workers. In the structure of the grants like the first CARES Act, this is simply not the case. Stock prices reflect the discounted value of future earnings, and no investor will think that short term subsidy of wages will contribute to long-term earnings. Rather, employees will not be laid off and will stay on payroll, making their rent and car payments and being ready to launch new flights as demand justifies. This would be a worker-centric policy.
A new pass-through subsidy grant would not stave off bankruptcy either. Airlines have successfully generated liquidity since March, and many airlines did not even take the CARES Act loan because they felt the terms were onerous. This is not about these companies surviving or not. The industry was structurally sound going into this crisis, thanks to significant restructuring and use of the bankruptcy code over a decade ago. It is about employment, and the ability to ignite the economy though more flying quickly without having to re-train thousands of airline workers. Continuing this employment subsidy for a few more months at least gives the economy a chance to start really moving forward again by early 2021. That possibility alone makes it good policy.
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Here’s a thought experiment for you. Imagine yourself in an alternate United States where the First Amendment is not as a matter of settled law considered to bar Federal and State governments from almost all interference in free speech. This is less unlikely than it might sound; the modern, rather absolutist interpretation of free-speech liberties did not take form until the early 20th century.
In this alternate America, there are many and bitter arguments about the extent of free-speech rights. The ground of dispute is to what extent the instruments of political and cultural speech (printing presses, radios, telephones, copying machines, computers) should be regulated by government so that use of these instruments does not promote violence, assist criminal enterprises, and disrupt public order.
The weight of history and culture is largely on the pro-free-speech side – the Constitution does say “Congress shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”. And until the late 1960s there is little actual attempt to control speech instruments.
Then, in 1968, after a series of horrific crimes and assassinations inspired by inflammatory anti-establishment political propaganda, some politicians, prominent celebrities, and public intellectuals launch a “speech control” movement. They wave away all comparisons to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, insisting that their goal is not totalitarian control but only the prevention of the most egregious abuses in the public square.
So strong is public revulsion against the violence of 1968 that the first prohibition on speech instruments passes rapidly. The dissidents used slow, inexpensive hand-cranked mimeograph machines and hand presses to spread their poison; these “Saturday Night Specials” are banned. Slightly more capable printers still inexpensive enough to be owned by individual citizens are made subject to mandatory registration.
A few civil libertarians call out warnings but are dismissed as extremists and generally ignored. Legitimate media and publishing corporations, assured by speech-control activists that their presses will not be affected by any measures the speech-control movement has in mind, raise little protest themselves.
Strangely, the ban on Saturday Night Specials fails to reduce the ills it was intended to address. Violent dissidents and criminals, it seems, find little difficulty in stealing typewriters, copiers, and more expensive printing equipment – none of it subject to registration.
The speech-control movement insists that stricter laws regulating speech instruments are the answer. By about 1970 convicted felons are prohibited from owning typewriters. A few years later all dealers in printing supplies, telephones, radios, and other communication equipment are required to have federal licenses as a condition of business, and are subject to government audits at any time. The announced intention of these laws is to prevent dangerous speech instruments from falling into the hands of criminals and madmen.
In 1976 the National Writers’ Association, previously a rather somnolent social club best known for sponsoring speed-typing contests, is taken over in a palace coup by an insurgent gang of pro-free-speech radicals. They display an unexpected flair for grass-roots organization, and within five years have developed a significant lobbying arm in Washington D.C. They begin pushing back against speech-instrument restrictions.
But the speech-control movement seems to be winning most of the battles. In 1986 ownership of automatic so-called “class 3” press equipment is banned except for federally-licensed individuals and corporations. The media is flooded with academic studies purporting to show that illicit speech instruments cause crime and violence, though for some reason the researchers making these claims often refuse to publish their primary data sets.
In unguarded moments and friendly company the speech-control movement’s leadership describes its goal expansively as confiscation and bans on all speech instruments not under direct government control or licensing. For public consumption, however, they speak only of “common-sense regulation” – conveniently never quite achieved, and always requiring more restrictions designed to increase the costs and legal risks for individuals owning speech instruments.
Free-speech advocates begin referring to the speech-control movement’s tactics as “salami-slicing” – carving away rights one “reasonable” slice at a time until there is nothing left. Document leaks from major speech-control lobbying organizations confirm that this is their strategy (they call it “incrementalism”), and that they intend to continue lying about their objectives in public until the goal is so nearly achieved that admitting the truth will no longer prevent final victory.
But much of the general public, the American moderate middle, takes the speech-control movement’s public rhetoric at face value. Who can be against “reasonable restrictions” and “common-sense regulation”? Especially when pundits assure them that free speech was never intended by the framers of the Constitution to be interpreted as an individual right, but as a collective right of the people to be exercised only as members of government-controlled or sponsored corporate bodies.
But by 1990 many individual private owners of telephones and computers, though themselves still almost untouched by the new laws, are nevertheless becoming suspicious of the speech-control movement and increasingly frustrated with the NWA’s sluggish and inadequate counters to it. Awareness of the pattern of salami-slicing and strategic deception by the other side is spreading well beyond hard-core free-speech activists.
In 2001, an eminent historian named Prettyisland publishes a book entitled “Printing America”. In it, he argues that pre-Civil war Americans never placed the high value on free speech and freedom of expression asserted in popular history, and that ownership of speech instruments was actually rare in the Revolutionary period. He is awarded a Bancroft Prize; his book receives glowing reviews in academia and all media outlets and is taken up as a major propaganda cudgel by the speech-control movement.
Within 18 months dedicated free-speech activists led by an amateur scholar show that “Printing America” was a wholesale fraud. The probate records Prettyisland claims to have examined never existed. He has systematically misquoted and distorted his sources. Shamefaced academics recant their support; his Bancroft Prize is revoked.
The speech-control movement takes a major loss in its credibility, and free speech activists a corresponding gain. Free-speech advocacy organizations more willing to confront their enemies than the NWA arise, and find increasing grassroots support – Printer Owners of America, Advocates for the First Amendment, Jews for the Preservation of Computer Ownership.
The members of these organizations know that many people advocating “reasonable restrictions” and advocating “common-sense regulation” are not actually seeking total bans and confiscation. They’re honest dupes, believing ridiculous collective-rights theories because that’s what all the eminent people who gave Prettyisland’s book glowing reviews told them was true. They honestly believe that anyone who doesn’t support “common-sense regulation” is a dangerous, out-of-touch radical.
Free-speech advocates also know that some people speaking the same moderate-sounding language – including most of the leadership of the speech-control movement – are lying, and are using the people in the first group as cat’s paws for an agenda that can only honestly be described as the totalitarian suppression of free speech.
Increasingly, the difference between these groups becomes irrelevant. What has happened is that four decades of strategic deception by the leadership of the speech-control movement has destroyed the credibility of the honest middle. Free-speech activists, unable to read minds, have to assume defensively that everyone using the moderate-middle language of “common-sense regulation” is lying to hide a creeping totalitarian agenda.
The moderate middle, unaware of how it has been used, doesn’t get any of this. All they hear is the yelling. They don’t understand why the free-speech activists react to their reasonable language with hatred and loathing.
The preceding was a work of fiction. But I’d only have to change a dozen or so nouns and names and phrases to make it all true (some of the dates might be off a little). I bet you can break the code, and if you are “moderate” you may find it explains a few things. Have fun!
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Canadian Coronation Street fans are furious they have been ‘snubbed’ by the soap.
Fans of the ITV soap from the land of Maple Syrup have hit out at the show for featuring an American flag blanket and not a Canadian one.
Yesterday the soap’s Twitter page released it’s Saturday first look spoiler pictures from filming.
One of them sees Gemma Winter and Chesney sharing adult times on the sofa but it’s what’s covering Gemma up that’s caused the trouble.
She’s clad in just an American flag blanket, and it has not gone down well with North America’s other country.
One furious fan tweeted: “HEY??? What’s with all the American love on the show?
“The American blanket???? Do they watch as much as we Canadian’s. I think NOT.”
Another added: “What’s with the blanket with the American flag?? Why not a Hudson’s Bay blanket???”
Hudson’s Bay is a classic Canadian company known for its distinctive blankets.
Last year actresses Katie McGlynn and Lisa George toured Canada to visit Corrie’s loyal following over there, so the soaps a big deal.
But it wasn’t just the blanket causing decorative fury with fans – Chesney’s choice of staircase accoutrements also had fans hitting out.
One said: “What the hell is that all about with the skulls up the staircase? Poor Joseph must have nightmares!”
And it won’t just be Joseph having nightmares if recent reports about Gemma falling pregnant with quadruplets is true – the couple will need to build up into the loft.
A source told The Sun: “The show’s new boss, Iain MacLeod, is keen to inject a bit of old-fashioned humour into Coronation Street like in the years gone by and this storyline will have viewers in stitches.
“Gemma doesn’t miss a trick and instantly thinks of ways she can make some dosh out of her and Chesney’s unexpected news.”
Were you offended by the blanket? Leave us a comment on our Facebook page @EntertainmentDailyFix and let us know what you think!
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Tom Coleman, a longstanding pastry chef at The Chesterfield Mayfair, has shared with us his recipe for chocolate scones, a British tradition with a whimsical twist.
If you enjoyed making this recipe, please share your photos with us on Instagram, tagging @ChesterfieldMayfair.
- 450g flour (sieved)
- 50g baking powder
- 100g butter
- ½ pint milk
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 100g caster sugar
- Handful of chocolate chips
- Pinch of salt
- Combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Rub in the butter with your fingers.
- Add the milk, being careful not to overmix.
- Fold in the chocolate chips in small batches before gently bringing the mixture together by hand into a round ball.
- Roll out the mixture to a 1 - 2cm thickness and cut out using 5cm cutters (a cup or mug will work if you don't have cutters).
- Bake at 200°C (400F) for approximately 10 minutes.
Enjoy your scones with jam and fresh cream, the perfect afternoon treat.
For more recipe ideas, check out our at home blogs for inspiration.
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I went to the dentist today and had a bonding done on my front teeth to close a gap I got from biting down on a salad fork. When I paid my bill it hit me how much stuff I could have gotten for the Wing, especially during the Christmas sale that just finished, for that $310 that the dentist charged. With a full face on no one could really notice the gap but they would have noticed some of the goodies I should have put on. I am such an idiot!! Oh well, I will have to ride a little more cautious to protect this new dental work.
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Noun(1) an elderly man(2) an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set(3) a person who exercises control over workers
(1) Predicting a better period under Smith, he has been impressed by the new gaffer .(2) The gaffer is such a good manager that he is bound to attract interest from bigger clubs.(3) Obviously, the gaffer is far superior in international football compared to me.(4) An old gaffer sold me a whole crate of them for the price of a bottle.(5) The overall squad isn't the biggest, so the gaffer needs as many players as possible and if everyone is fit, the squad is in better shape all round.(6) We have added seven players, the gaffer has freshened things up and kept competition for places at a premium.(7) Then he assembled a meeting between himself, Norman, Savannah, the first A.D., the cinematographer and the head gaffer and let them know what was going on.(8) But the gaffer thought I'd looked all right in training and gave me the chance and I didn't want to let anyone down.(9) The gaffer and the players kept asking if they could see it, so why not?(10) At first Pak Rabun reminded me of an old English gaffer .(11) The gaffer has spoken to the chairman and told me to just get on with organising everything.(12) The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.(13) The gaffer huffed and puffed behind his camera man.(14) The gaffer 's man-management skills really shone through when we lost seven games on the trot earlier in the season.(15) street cleaners stopping for a smoke when their gaffer isn't in the vicinity(16) He is joking with the gaffer , and during the hour of the shoot, goes out of his way to speak to each of the crew, signs autographs, makes small talk.
(1) gaffer tape :: শ্রমিক-সর্দার টেপ
1. chief ::
2. boss ::
3. foreman ::
4. honcho ::
English to Bengali Dictionary: gaffer
Meaning and definitions of gaffer, translation in Bengali language for gaffer with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of gaffer in Bengali and in English language.
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What gaffer means in Bengali, gaffer meaning in Bengali, gaffer definition, examples and pronunciation of gaffer in Bengali language.
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The European Union and Vietnam held on 19 January 2015 in Brussels the fourth round of their annual enhanced Dialogue on Human Rights in the spirit of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) signed in June 2012.
The EU delegation was led by Mr Ugo Astuto, Director for South and South East Asia in the European External Action Services (EEAS). The Vietnamese delegation was led by Mr Vu Anh Quang, Director General of the International Organisations Department of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and included experts from various services, agencies and ministries.
The Dialogue allowed the two sides to exchange views on a wide range of issues and was conducted in a frank and open atmosphere. It provided an opportunity to take stock of positive developments in the area of human rights in Vietnam, such as progress towards the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and the successful 2014 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The Dialogue was complemented by a meeting with the European Parliament the same day and a visit to a prison in Berlin on 20 January.
The EU raised issues relating to freedom of expression and the media, including internet legislation and expressed concern regarding extensive application of national security provisions in Vietnam’s penal code. The EU reiterated its serious concerns regarding the situation of a number of human rights defenders, activists, bloggers and their relatives. The EU also raised the issue of implementation of freedom of religion or belief, noting both positive developments such as the long-awaited visit by the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief last July and concerns as to persisting restrictions. The EU encouraged Vietnam to move towards a more open society, based on the international standards of rule of law and respect for human rights.
The EU, together with some of its Member States, is supporting legal and judicial reforms under preparation in Vietnam, in the light of the Constitution amended in 2013, through technical assistance. The EU pointed to the revision of the penal code as an opportunity to ensure coherence with the principles established in the Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The EU stressed the importance of access to lawyers and the right to a fair trial, as well as the need to improve prison conditions. The EU regretted the high number of death sentences handed down in 2014 and reiterated its call on the Government of Vietnam to take steps towards eventual abolishment of capital punishment. In this context the EU encouraged Vietnam to further reduce the number of offences punishable by death penalty and improve prison conditions for persons on death row.
The two sides discussed cooperation in international fora, both on thematic and country-specific issues. The EU welcomed Vietnam’s increased engagement with international human rights mechanisms, encouraging Vietnam to use its membership in the UN Human Rights Council to more visibly champion respect for human rights internationally and domestically, and to present soon a roadmap for the implementation of the UPR recommendations. The EU welcomed Vietnam’s willingness to engage further with UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups.
Vietnam shared its views on the work of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) adopted in 2012. The EU appreciates Vietnam’s positive and constructive role as coordinator for EU relations within ASEAN and reiterated its commitment to strengthen dialogue, consultation and cooperation with AICHR.
The EU also raised a number of individual cases of persons in jail, reiterating its request for their immediate release, in particular those in poor health. Furthermore the EU asked to be granted more visits to these and to be allowed to attend more trials.
The fifth round of the enhanced human rights dialogue will be held towards the end of 2015 in Hanoi.
EU-Vietnam relations: http://eeas.europa.eu/vietnam/index_en.htm
The EU and human rights: http://eeas.europa.eu/human_rights/index_en.htm
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Every great idea starts somewhere.
More than 570 students from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University applied, with the top 165 selected to participate in the 48-hour hackathon, with a goose called Charlie as a mascot.
On Friday night, students piled into buses and headed to the Communitech Hub in downtown Kitchener for opening ceremonies.
Opening the night was the Teds Talk, which featured local entrepreneurs Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Interactive, and Ted Hastings, President of Perk, covering everything from building a startup to why they chose to do it in Waterloo.
Students also had the opportunity to meet with local tech companies and Communitech’s innovation partners before heading back to UW’s campus to set up shop for the weekend.
For the next two days, students hacked away with the help of expert mentors from local tech companies and a Smörgåsbord of food, including late-night meals of McDonald’s, Fat Bastard Burritos and pizza. And other meals such as sushi, quiche, french toast, rice bowls and an Indian buffet made for a well-rounded weekend.
To break up the day on Saturday, students had the chance to attend learning sessions with Google, Thomson Reuters, SAP and Manulife RED Lab.
By Sunday morning, 25 teams submitted and pitched a project, with 10 making it to the final round.
Judging was left in the capable hands of Wes Worsfold, Associate Director of Velocity; April Blaylock, Senior Engineer at Aeryon Labs; and Liam Horne, co-Founder of Hack the North and CTO of PiinPoint.
The top three teams, chosen for their creativity, innovation and app completion, were:
- Group 536, who created the Myo Muse, an app that changes the tempo of a song to match your running speed.
- Shakespeare NLP, which developed a natural language processing app to unify various programming languages used by software developers.
- Memble, which built a Pebble watch app that can be used by caregivers to track and support Alzheimer’s patients.
Continue reading this article on Communitech.
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Noho C and Vienna weatherproof loudspeakers deliver high-quality music, intelligible announcements across large new public space
BOSTON, August 7, 2012 - The Larkin Development Group of Buffalo, NY has unveiled a multi-purpose public space in the Larkin District of Buffalo, NY to further unite the community. The newly developed Larkin Square is alive with outdoor concerts, retail markets, office buildings, lounge areas and more, bringing people together in a vibrant open-air environment.
Stretching the length of one city block, Larkin Square features an exceptional professional audio system equipped with 25 Technomad advanced audio loudspeakers. The new audio system supports the "Live at Larkin" summer concert series, a weekly Wednesday evening entertainment
Local systems integration firm Powerhouse Pro Systems strategically positioned the loudspeakers throughout the square to maximize coverage for large audiences. The weatherproof loudspeakers deliver background music and announcements, including public safety information, to roughly 10,000 people gathered in the square each week.
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"Technomad loudspeakers were designed to perform under a multitude of weather conditions, whether it's 90-degree heat in the summertime or below-zero temperatures during winter," said Spencer. "We get both in Buffalo, so having durable, weatherproof construction that could withstand snow and ice buildup was of major importance. We also wanted loudspeakers that offered good projection and delivered well-rounded audio with an admirable amount of bass. The Noho and Vienna were the perfect fit for this project as they are the ideal size, and deliver superbly intelligible speech and unmatched audio."
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The Technomad system is performing without fail, and Spencer notes that there are future plans to expand Larkin Square with additional shops and recreational space. "I'm used to Technomad performing well, and that's why I continually rely on their excellence," he said. "When they expand, we'll turn to Technomad again. There's no other choice in my mind."
Technomad LLC, founded in 1995, designs and manufactures loudspeaker systems for the professional audio and security/military technology industries. The company invented the first reliable full-range weatherproof loudspeaker and now offers nine models ranging in power from 60-watt loudspeakers to 1250-watt subwoofers - most available in Turnkey PA System packages featuring amplifiers, mixers and other signal processing equipment in pre-wired racks. The company also manufactures a variety of audio infrastructure and communications equipment including playback and recording systems, weatherproof power amplifiers and turnkey remote audio systems. Contact Technomad at 617-275-8898 or visit www.technomad.com for more information.
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TED FURMAN’S goal in the 47th minute blasted Ballymun into their first
Leinster club football final since 1982 in Newbridge yesterday.
The Dublin champions had to weather a downpour of rain as well as a
second-half Sarsfields onslaught along the way.
But — on their own Newbridge patch — the Kildare side sank under the weight of
their own wastefulness that saw them clock up FIFTEEN wides over the
In contrast, the assured display from Paul Curran’s Ballymun boys was a lesson
in efficiency as they booked a date with Portlaoise in Mullingar on December
With the match in the balance, Furman chased down a high ball that looked
destined to be cleaned up by the Sars defence.
And when goalkeeper and defender collided, he was there to pounce and give
Ballymun the breathing space they needed.
Ballymun boss Curran said: “We’re just delighted to be through. It’s a
different type of football, scrappy stuff, and every point is important.
“We were sound defensively, we only conceded five points. It was a great team
“Their 15 wides sounds an awful lot but a lot of them were poor wides — I
don’t think they ever really threatened us. A lot of the shots were outside
the scoring zone.
“We are happy to be in a final but we know we have to improve — we know we are
playing Portlaoise who have come out of Laois six times in a row.
“And I know they weren’t too happy the last couple of years and had eyes on
“They are a step up for us but we have a couple of weeks to work on a few
A bright crisp morning gave way to a dark and damp afternoon with St Conleth’s
Park looking gloomy for the visiting Dubs.
The home side dominated possession from the throw-in.
But after a lot of fine approach play, their shooting was shocking.
Sarsfields shot FIVE wides in the first 11 minutes — and NINE
in the first half alone.
Ballymun’s Dublin senior star James McCarthy opened his team’s account with a
point in the eighth minute — and they were as sharp as they were economical.
It was the 16th minute before Sarsfields’ county man Alan Smith got them off
Yet by then, The Sash looked increasingly uneasy as a lot of fine work from
their attacking half-backs was going to waste.
Full-back Sean Campbell had done an impressive job marshalling Ballymun
dangerman Dean Rock.
But the pressure and quality of ball inside eventually told as Rock expertly
scored after receiving a long pass from Elliott Reilly in the 20th minute.
And then a minute later he won a ball and set up Kevin Leahy to clip over.
Ballymun’s smart foot-passing stood out and they were led confidently by
Philly McMahon at full-back.
When Rock scored a free won by McCarthy in the 25th minute it pushed them 0-5
to 0-1 clear.
But moments later Smith could have done more damage when he won a knockdown
and blasted over the bar from close range.
Sarsfields trooped off at the break three points down after hitting a host of
wides — but they were much improved after the restart.
Their first act was to see the hard-working Conor Tiernan blast another wide,
but they kept the pressure up.
And they were helped by some cheap frees from the Ballymun backs which enabled
Pádraig Brennan and Ray Cahill clip frees to leave only one in it.
Matty Byrne and Gary White refused to wave the white flag in midfield and
continued to make life difficult for Ballymun’s McCarthy and Davy Byrne.
But the loss of Smith to a knee injury in the 40th minute was a serious blow
for the Kildare men.
Ballymun’s defence withstood the pressure impressively with goalkeeper Seán
Currie punching dangerous balls clear.
And the Dubliners got their big break in the 47th minute when the stylish
James Burke and Reilly combined and a high ball inside unsettled Sarsfields for Furman to pounce.
With Sarsfields unable to find their range, Ballymun were able to rely on the
dead-ball excellence of Rock from a 45 and from a tough free out on the wing
to make sure there was no late drama.
Sash boss John Crofton insisted it was not a six-point game afterwards, but he
knew that 15 wides left them with no excuse.
He said: “It’s disappointing. I can’t believe we kicked that many wides.
“And when we only scored five points we picked the wrong day for that to
happen because a lot of them weren’t necessarily kicked under tremendous
“We’d been running up a lot of good scores off limited possession and
ironically we got a lot of possession and failed in the task of shooting.
“There is still great pride in the voyage here. We were a bit of a shambles
this time last year after the quarter-final defeat in Kildare.
“So there is great pride in getting this far but a bit of disappointment that
there might have been an opportunity there.”
That opportunity is all Ballymun’s now.
Curran added: “The game will bring us on.
“It’s all new to these fellas but when you scrape away everything it is just a
game of football and they are good footballers.
“To be looking forward to a Leinster club final is terrific.
“There were no cups presented today so we’ll prepare for the next one like we
did for this one.”
BALLYMUN KICKHAMS: S Currie; Enda Dolan, P McMahon, Eoin Dolan; A
Hubbard, K Connolly 0-1, J Burke; D Byrne 0-1, J McCarthy 0-1; E O’Reilly, K
Leahy 0-1, J Whelan; T Furman 1-0, D Rock 0-4, 1 45, 2f, S Forde. Subs:
Derek Byrne for Forde h-t, A O’Brien for Derek Byrne 48mins; S George for
Reilly 50; J Small for Leahy 56; F Andrews for Furman 58.
SARSFIELDS: P O’Sullivan; S Hurley, S Campbell, C Duffy; C Tiernan, N
O’Callaghan, D McDonnell; M Byrne, G Whyte; C McDonnell, R Cahill 0-2, 2f, R
Confrey; P Brennan 0-1, 1f, A Smith 0-2, D McKenna. Subs: C Walsh for Smith
40mins; D Nea for Brennan 50.
REFEREE: E Kinsella (Laois).
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Instructors: it’s time to place your orders for textbooks, course reserves, coursepacks and other fall class materials
Now is the time for instructors to submit their orders and requests for fall 2020 course materials and readings. July 25 is the deadline to ensure your students will have access to what they need by the start of term.
However, if you are using a custom publication — something you’ve created with an external publisher — or if you are ordering an overseas publication, please make that order immediately. It could take more than eight weeks to arrive due to the global pandemic’s effects on supply routes.
Both print and digital textbooks will be available from the Concordia Book Stop this fall. Though a new adoption tool will be launched at the end of August, until further notice please continue to use the Textbook Adoption Tool on MyConcordia.
The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore will offer digital textbooks only for the fall. A new online platform is coming soon. For now, send orders or inquiries to email@example.com.
As a third option, consider adopting an open textbook. These materials are free and accessible to all students. Open textbooks can be downloaded, printed and copied as needed. Consult the Library’s Open Education Resources Guide for recommendations and assistance.
Please note that Concordia Library copies of print textbooks will NOT be available to students while the Course Reserve Rooms remain closed.
Other books, articles, videos and more
The Concordia Library offers a vast digital collection of books, articles, streaming videos and other resources that you may use in your courses. Chapters from print books can even be scanned and made available to your students. Use the Library’s online Course Reserves service to curate all of these materials for your course at no cost to students.
Coursepacks and ePacks are another way of curating content for your students. Concordia Print Services still allows you to customize your readings to your specifications, then makes them available for purchase by your students through the Book Stop store and online. Contact firstname.lastname@example.org and complete the online form.
Beginning July 7, you can also stop by the temporary drop-off space in the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (room EV 1.162) if you wish to include printed texts in your coursepacks:
- Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Thursdays from 12 to 5 p.m.
Both the Concordia Library and Print Services will ensure copyright compliance for your course reserves, coursepacks and ePacks.
And remember, your subject librarian is available for support in identifying suitable course materials.
Though Concordia instructors can add to their course lists throughout the summer, if you want to ensure that your materials are available by the first week of class, please submit orders by July 25.
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This week in my garden: one little clump of my brand spanking new late tulips (Tulipa tarda) bloomed! (The other clump was first dug into by squirrels, then chewed on by jackrabbits – at least no one went hungry. Sure happy I could provide). This is my first time growing these and they’re such a delight.
Do you grow tulips? What are your favourite cultivars, colours, etc.? Please feel free to link up to any blog post you’ve written about them – I know I’ve seen some pretty spectacular tulip photos on some blogs recently! Do share!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend! What are your plans, gardening or otherwise?
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A Hayle man was arrested for drink driving and possession of cocaine while waiting at a McDonald's drive-thru.
Oliver Beumkes, of Churchtown, Gwinear, appeared at Truro Magistrates' Court on Monday (July 9), where he pleaded guilty to possession of a Class A drug and driving while over the alcohol limit.
Police were called to the McDonald's on Trevenson Road, Pool, in the early hours of Friday, June 22, following reports about Beumkes’ driving.
On arrival officers saw a red Peugeot 107 parked in the queue for the drive-thru and blocked the vehicle in so the driver could not flee.
Beumkes, 24, was driving the vehicle and subsequently failed a breath test, blowing twice the legal drink drive limit (75 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath).
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He told the court: “It was a genuine mistake and I’m terribly sorry.”
Beumkes was fined £300 for each of the two offences, and must also pay a £30 victim surcharge and £85 in court costs.
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He was offered a drink driver’s rehabilitation course, which if completed will reduce the length of the ban by five months.
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Lawrence Goldstone is the author of Higher, Steeper, Faster: The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies, a new book for children about early aviation pioneers. His other books, for adults, include Drive! and Birdmen. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe.
Q: Why did you decide to write this book for kids about early aviation pioneers?
A: My main goal in writing Higher, Steeper, Faster was to demonstrate to kids (and their parents) that there were stories of real people every bit as gripping and fun as the fantasy and contrived fiction that dominates the young reader market.
That kids can also learn while being entertained is obviously an added benefit.
If there was more of this sort of non-fiction in the young reader mainstream, I'm convinced, middle school students will be that much more engaged when they get to high school and college.
I chose the early aviators because they epitomize the commitment, personal magnetism, and heroism that I thought would be most appealing to kids and, again, parents.
Q: You’ve written on a similar topic for adults—what are some of the differences between the two books, and what was it like writing your first book for younger readers?
A: In Birdmen, my book on early aviation for adults, there was a good deal of emphasis on the ferocious competition, both in the air and in the courtroom, between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss.
There was also a good bit of technical information on the scientific and engineering problems that needed to be solve to enable powered, controlled flight.
There aren't too many middle schoolers who want to read about patent law, or spend time plowing through technical specifications of airfoils, so these sections had to be severely restricted in a book for kids.
Also, the Wright brothers were extremely controversial--far more than they are generally portrayed--and I didn't feel it useful to spend a lot of time on personality issues.
In terms of the writing itself, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of making the language sufficient explicable for young readers without in any way dumbing it down.
I sent early drafts out to some middle school kids I know and was gratified...and not a little relieved...that they all like the style a great deal.
Q: One of the figures you highlight in the book is the aviator Lincoln Beachey. What are some of the most intriguing things about his career?
A: Lincoln Beachey, who also is prominently featured in Birdmen, is one of the most unique and fascinating figures in the history of aviation...and perhaps in the history of anything.
He was a man totally without fear, yet he had enormous respect for the dangers that he courted every time he took to the skies. He was a genius in an airplane, a total natural--a Bobby Fischer or Michael Jordan. He performed feats that not only no one of his era could begin to match, but it is doubtful that anyone since could as well.
Beachey was also a total oddball--he didn't smoke, didn't drink, loved women...copiously...and opened bank accounts under phony names in almost every city in which he performed. He made more money in one day than most Americans made in a year, and was better known than the President.
There is no way in such limited space to begin to detail either his achievements or his oddities.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I have proposed a book on Constitutional Law for middle school, specifically about the civil rights decisions of the Supreme Court in the late 19th century that enabled the horrors of the Jim Crow era. The proposal is currently out with editors.
Now before everyone goes shaking their heads and saying, "What!!??? Constitutional Law for middle school!!??" here's an excerpt from the proposal explaining what I want to do and why.
I believe that everything I said in the first answer about Higher, Steeper, Faster is true of this story as well--and am equally convinced that both kids and parents will find it compelling and riveting.
“We are living in a time in which the rules have changed. Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency not only left most political professionals stunned and perplexed, but inspired fear and despair among the record number of voters that denied him a popular majority.
No election since that of Abraham Lincoln has exploited such a division in America. But Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln. Many believe that under his presidency the very democratic system under which our country has been governed for more than two centuries is at risk.
In the wake of Trump’s election, many of those who had previously thought it unthinkable—both liberals and conservatives—blamed the stunning ignorance of the American voter. How could so many fail to distinguish between legitimate debate about how our government should be administered and diatribe denouncing the institutions of government themselves?
The answer lies not in what those intoxicated by Trumpian rhetoric chose to watch and listen to as adults, but that they grew into adulthood with no grounding in how American democracy actually functions…and has functioned in the past. Conspiracy theories, after all, can only flourish in the face of ignorance.
There is nothing more vital, therefore, than to begin to correct these errors where they began—in school and in the home. Currently, however, children’s education as to the history or workings of American government is all too often either superficial or reverential.
Phenomena such as slavery or the savage conquest of Native American homelands are generally portrayed as anachronisms, anomalies, which in no way reflect the overall soundness or fundamental fairness of the American legal system. The Supreme Court in particular is rarely depicted as an instrument of inequality and repression.
History, however, tells a different, more layered tale. The Supreme Court is made up of men—and more recently women—whose views, politics, and prejudices more often than not seep into and even guide their decisions. As a result, the Supreme Court has been responsible for some of the most important confirmations of freedom and equality in our history, such as in Brown v. Board of Education.
But it has also experienced frequent dark periods, one of which came at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century when it literally rewrote two Constitutional amendments and thereby ushered in and enabled the Jim Crow era.
These were terrible times during which black Americans were denied the vote, forced into segregation, and were regularly beaten, raped, and even murdered with no recourse at all to a legal system that had been created to protect them. And, where every schoolchild knows Brown, how many know of these earlier decisions, which made Brown necessary?
Today’s middle-schoolers must be made aware of America’s full history, for this is a time when the rules for what our children read should change as well.”
--Interview with Deborah Kalb. For a previous Q&A with Lawrence Goldstone, please click here.
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The Big 12 issued reprimands Tuesday for the conduct displayed by Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield and multiple Kansas players during the Sooners’ win over the Jayhawks on Saturday.
Mayfield’s reprimand came because he screamed profanity at Kansas “bench and fans” and also because he grabbed his crotch (while screaming profanity) after a third quarter touchdown.
“Mr. Mayfield’s actions are unacceptable and should not be tolerated,” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement. “I am grateful for the efficient management of this matter by the coaches and administration of the University of Oklahoma. Baker Mayfield is a truly outstanding competitor and I generally appreciate his style of play and the manner in which he competes. However, the behavior he exhibited on the sideline during the Oklahoma-Kansas game was inappropriate and contrary to our sportsmanship policies.”
Mayfield issued a teary apology for his actions Monday. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said the Heisman favorite would not be a captain for the team’s senior day game vs. West Virginia on Saturday and would also not start the game. Mayfield said he was hurt he couldn’t be a captain but understood why the discipline was handed out.
The quarterback was fired up before the game began when Kansas captains didn’t shake his hand before the pregame coin toss. KU players Dorance Armstrong Jr., Jeremiah Booker, Joe Dineen and Daniel Wise were reprimanded by the league.
“The refusal of these student-athletes to shake an opponent’s hand during the pre-game ceremony is contrary to tradition and inconsistent with common courtesy,” Bowlsby said in this reprimand. “The pre-game handshake among team captains is symbolic of good sportsmanship. This breach of protocol is not in keeping with the standards of the Big 12 Conference. I am grateful for the work of the Kansas administration and coaches to resolve this matter.”
Kansas coach David Beaty said three of the players reprimanded would be stripped of their captaincy for KU’s final game of the season against Oklahoma State.
Beaty says Dineen, Wise, Armstrong will not be captains this week following Mayfield handshake snub. Beaty says that will be extent of public punishment. Those guys are available to start.
— Jesse Newell (@jessenewell) November 21, 2017
The public reprimands are just that — public reprimands. And nothing more. The league is not issuing any tangible discipline towards the players.
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The official unveiling of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music’s high-tech library, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center, was cause for celebration. Faculty, friends, alumni and trustees-with mango martinis in hand-gathered outside the building during the dedication ceremony late January.
“This marks the third major contribution of the Weeks, and we are profoundly grateful,” William Hipp, dean of the School of Music, said in his remarks. “Very few schools of music can boast having a free-standing music library and technology center.”
The Weeks, longtime benefactors of the University, initiated their string of philanthropic contributions to the School of Music in 1998 with the L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance. Soon after, they created the L. Austin Weeks Music Scholarship Endowment, which provides financial assistance to more than 20 undergraduate students each year.
Dean Colson, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said he thinks highly of Marta Weeks.
“She is really one of those special people in the world,” Colson said of Marta Weeks.
“Marta is a wonderful human with a strong sense of ethics,” UM President Donna E. Shalala said. “She is a model for philanthropists.”
The Frost School of Music possesses one of the nation’s significant university music library collections. The new, 28,000-square-foot library also houses the music school’s extensive collections of media, from books, journals and videos that were previously in the Richter Library to scores and recordings that were in the Pick Music Library.
Shalu Patel can be contacted at
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The first edition "Projects and Operations Management" written for students of PG courses. The subject matter is written in a simple and easily understandable language with adequate support from realistic information.
This is an endeavor to provide the students with thorough understanding of projects and operations management concept. While writing this book we have benefited greately from the studies of a number of books and the articles written by scholars widen over diversely.
In writing the book special care has been taken to avoid gaps in the sequential arrangement of topics in the syllabus and logically developed the various facets of project and operations management step-by-step of an integrated approach with a view to make it a comprehensive and complete volume by itself. Topics covered are discussed, as far as possible, in a fairly self-contained manner.
1. Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
2. Project Life Cycle, PERT/CPM
3. Budgeting, Costing and Risk Management
4. Nature & Scope of Production & Operations Management
5. Quality Management
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Twice, Darlene Love had to stop midverse, dropping the microphone to her side in frustration. She was coming through the speakers scratchy and thin, this only hours before she was to sing at the premiere of a documentary about her voice.
"We could do five sessions in a day, and each session could be three hours," she tells New Times the next morning about the beginning of a singing career that has spanned more than five decades. "Eventually, we started taking Saturdays and Sundays off. We had to. We were the girls," she says with a shrug. "But if you're good enough, you start getting known."
She's being modest. Darlene Love was the most powerful singer in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound productions and has sung on records with everyone from Buck Owens to Bruce Springsteen. For 27 years running, Love's performance of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" has been a holiday tradition on David Letterman's talk shows. She's a legend among American vocalists but largely unknown to the average American. Her nearly endless misses with fame and success are detailed in the documentary Twenty Feet From Stardom, opening at Regal Cinemas South Beach this Friday.
On the afternoon of the film's opening-night gala at the Miami International Film Festival in March, however, something wasn't right. She stood alone on an otherwise empty stage at the Olympia Theater, an instrumental recording of "Lean on Me" surging all around her. She sipped water and looked up at the swirling projections of night sky on the theater's ceiling.
"Sorry," the sound technician told her as he took the microphone from her. He adjusted some settings and handed it back. His apology carried across the theater as he tried to whisper to Love: "We have a lot of singers here. But I don't think we've ever had any that can sing as loud as you."
"That happens quite a bit when I don't have my own sound guy with me," she laughs the following day. "I just happened to be blessed with a very powerful voice."
But when her career began in late-'50s Los Angeles, she often had to mask her vocal power. She was the leader of the Blossoms, a group whose members quickly became known for being able to tailor their voices to any genre of music. They sang on records with Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Paul Anka, and Jan & Dean. Brian Wilson used them to fill out the Beach Boys' sound on "In My Room" and several other classics.
"What we did was not so much hold back as blend," she says of the Blossoms' role. "I see it like we're soldiers. They have to act as one machine. We want to sound great but do it so that no one voice is louder than the others. And we blend so not only do we sound like one but we fit with and lift the whole song."
Rarely did Love and her fellow singers know that what they were working on was destined to be a lasting part of the cultural firmament.
"We were lucky with the songs we were on," she says, "especially since a lot of West Coast records never got out East."
Darlene Wright became Darlene Love when she joined Phil Spector's operation in the early '60s. Though their work together brought her some notoriety, she faults him for her career never hitting the big time.
"He pushed for himself, not for us. He never helped me to become a star. He didn't put my name on songs -- just 'Produced by Phil Spector' was all he cared about."
It was worse than that. He took her work and credited it to his other groups. Just one egregious example: the Crystals' number one hit, "He's a Rebel." That's Darlene Love on lead and her group the Blossoms backing her up -- no Crystals involved. She still tenses up when talking about Spector all these years later. Asked if she has ever thought about sending him a care package in prison, she smiles.
In the years after leaving Spector, she starred on Broadway. She played Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies. She didn't stop singing. Even when she took a break after her career cooled, fans such as U2 and Cher would still request her to sing on their records or tours.
"Oh, Cher?" she says with impossible nonchalance. "I've known her since she was 16, and she and Sonny would play on Phil's songs. He would use anyone he could -- he just wouldn't pay them."
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Love is 71 now, but as Twenty Feet from Stardom continues to open around the country, she sees a new stage of her career beginning.
"I want to take care of my family, my grandchildren," she says, "to sing where I should have been singing, to make the records I should have been making. I started out as a back-up singer like the others in the film. But what's next is what my entire life has been taking me toward."
Back at the Olympia Theater, the instrumental track started over, and this time the sound system was prepared for that voice. Big. Loud. Honeyed. Each note telling a story of struggle and triumph. Now it just remains to be seen if the rest of the world is ready for Darlene Love.
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PHATOAK is the cutting-edge clothing line from Dutch designer, Natasja van den Elzen. It is so called street-couture. The concept takes denim and other luxurious materials, and combines the cool feel of ‘street’ with the sophisticated cut & quality of ‘couture’. Each piece is tailored, edgy and unique. With perfect fitted pants with names as the “Sugar, Sky and Saint”, made in high quality fabrics, you will wear them with pride and never wanting to take them off again.
Successfully launched in 2006, at a selected group of concept stores in the Netherlands, PHATOAK originally started designing for women who have an eye for original, wearable designs, for women who want to stand out from the crowd. Since than PHATOAK constantly works on new washes and fits, in their Studio located in Istanbul. Together with her husband, everything is passionately being developed and controlled in their own production-place. After the birth of her eldest daughter, the collection has grown bigger adding Phatoak-MINI and Phatoak-KIDS. Little versions of the PHATOAK adult line, only brought in the softest-stretch denims available and designed for babies & kids who are destined to be street savvy little fashionistas.
PHATOAK takes its name from the Dutch slang ‘vet ook’ (phonetically identical), which means great, exciting, and desirable. That’s Phat!
the NEW !
By launching the webshop, PHATOAK is making a fresh step forward with a new logo, attitude and vision: “HAUTE DENIM”
At PHATOAK we believe we can no longer remain blind to the fact that fashion has an enormous environmental and social footprint.
So we continue to producing more and more carefully, more sustainable, being mindful of our resources right now.
Therefore we have added a new approach to produce on demand, the so called Made-to-Order, because we truelly don’t want to increase the worldwide problem of landfill.
We are careful about our waste, our water-usage and people. Our goods are washed in-house to have full control on all levels.
Another project we are working on is “UPCYCLE“: we are upgrading existing fabric and fashion to a ‘HAUTE’ level. So that can be pants turning-into jackets, or fabric stocks and cutted material having another purpose. Making edgy and unique pieces, for fair prices, trying to leave our fashion footprint as green as possible ! Find them here
Latest projects such as “1OAK”, acronym for “one of a kind”, where we really can show our unique handmade pieces, are only available online. Find them here
** MTO / Made-to-order: produced or prepared specifically when someone requests the item. With an extra feature that you can customize the item as desired.
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2019/20 is the year we need to put in place the loan repayment charge we anticipate with the go-ahead of the Community Centre. Assuming we draw down the full £700,000 available to us, the annual repayment charge will be £28,000.
Recognising the pressure this places on our total budget, we have managed to partly off-set this charge by achieving a significant reduction of £9000 in our operating budget, as follows:
- major reductions to our Training and Communications budgets now that the new Accounts, Cemetery and Allotment software is embedded.
- significant reduction to our Insurance Costs through smarter purchasing
- reduced Cemetery spend now that the graveyard audit has been successfully concluded and the extensive tidy-up nearly finished.
These reductions partnered with continuation of the £20,000 Community Centre budget put in place last year, would allow us on an on-going basis, to fund the loan with no Precept increase. However, we do need to budget an additional £20,000 in what will likely be this year only, to fund the Professional Fees of the Project Manager who will oversee the Community Centre construction.
Pulling this all together , the Precept will increase from £74,959 in 2018/19 to £93,338 in 2019/20.
If you’d like to see further detail, please find links below to:
- a breakdown of the individual elements of the 2019/20 Budget
- an overall Summary comparing 2019/20 to previous years
If you have any questions, we’d be very happy to try to answer them.
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Stages: April 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
- Marta the Divine in El Paso
- Celebrating Denise Wagner
- Writing by the seat of our pants
- We ask you for a donation
Marta the Divine in El Paso
On March 4, a group of UMass Theater students, staff and faculty flew to El Paso, TX, where they had a unique opportunity to restage last semester's world-premiere production, Marta the Divine, before an international and bilingual audience at Chamizal Memorial, a park that sits on the border between the US and Mexico.
Celebrating Denise Wagner in person and in e-print!
Denise is still retired. We still miss her. We're sure you do, too!
If you do, here's a reminder that if you'd like to contribute to our all-Denise issue of Stages coming out next month time is ticking. Please send us any and all Denise anecdotes, gentle roasts, photos, and other tributes you'd like us to include: email@example.com.
Our deadline was April 10, but since that's a Saturday and we won't be editing anything until the following Monday, we won't turn down any contributions we receive by the end of the day on April 12.
In the meantime, if you'd like to raise a glass to Denise in person, please make plans to attend this year's Play-In-A-Day on May 8. The show is at 8 p.m. in the Rand (see related story below below). After the performance, our traditional post-show party will be held on the Rand stage in honor of Denise. There will be a cake and a cash bar, and we'll raise our glasses in honor of our favorite secretary-singer-actress!
Writing by the Seat of Our Pants
We’re loading up on coffee. We’re stocking up on brain food. We’re practicing the divine art of the 10-minute catnap. In short, we’re preparing to stay up all night writing plays for Play-In-A-Day 2010.
This May, UMass students and faculty, in collaboration with special guest writers like Rob Corddry '93 (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Heartbreak Kid, Hot Tub Time Machine), Julia Brownell (Smart Cookie, Show and Spell), Meryl Cohn, aka the hilarious Ms. Behavior, will spend exactly 24 hours writing and rehearsing six brand-new plays for your enjoyment! The writers will spend the night creating brand-new works, and, come morning, they’ll hand the pages off to the directors, actors, and stagehands who will have until 8 p.m. to figure out a way to bring those works to life on the stage.
Come join us at the Rand Theater at 8:00 p.m. on May 8th to see the results of their mad scramble. There’s certain to be excitement, laughter, and a gaffe or two. The evening will also honor long-time department secretary Denise Wagner (see accompanying article above), and we'll raffle off a number of special prizes (bring cash!).
You don’t want to miss it!
To those alumni and friends still hiding in the proverbial shadows of the internet: Come out, come out, wherever you are!
We love when people we haven't heard from in a while check in with us to let us know how they're doing, and it seems that a number of you have been persuaded to do so.
So: Welcome! Don't be a stranger! Stay in touch!
And now, on to the news (and be sure to check out the links where we've included them — one of your college classmates could be doing something really interesting right where you live!):
Joél Avilés '06 sent word of his latest project, directing Laughing All Along, A Rom Com by Michael Marceline '06. The piece will be performed this June at The Director's Company Studio in New York City
311 West 43rd St, New York, NY.
Rachel Braidman (née Cummings) '07, and fellow alumni Scott Braidman '07, Sheila Siragusa '05G, and have started The August Company in the Pioneer Valley with a few non-UMass friends. Other Department of Theater alums working with the company are Mark Teffer '08, Eliza Green-Smith '08, Claire Kavanah '08, Cate McLaughlin '09, and Anna Norcross '09. The company kicked off its first season this past September with The Taming of the Shrew in Look Park's Pines Theatre. In February, the company performed a well-received 5-minute version of The Sound of Music as a part of Northampton Art's Council's Really Big Show. This May, the company is producing its first OnWord production (a show made up entirely of pieces of literature and songs not originally written for the stage, all centered around one theme word). And this summer 2010, the company plans to do two full productions (one show TBA at the end of July and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the end of August).
Jeremy Browne '07 will be in Boston this summer. "Just a quick update," he writes, "to let you know I'll be playing Montano in this summer's production of Othello produced by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (free Shakespeare on the Commons) and directed by Steven Maler. … I'm sure you remember Jeff Donovan's Hamlet; while Montano may be a small part, I'm pleased as pie to be asked to return for my second season!"
Rachel Cardillo '07 emailed us in the nick of time to make this issue of Stages with her update. After training and working as a House Manager at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, during the company's 2009 summer/fall season, she began to pursue work in House/Company Management. She worked with fellow alum Shawn LaCount's ‘09 theater company, Company One, as a House Manager for its production of The Overwhelming. That led to a job at the American Repertory Theater as the Company/Front of House Management Associate. She adds, "I've been working at A.R.T. since November and am loving every minute of it! :) "
Alumna Lisa Channer wrote with the exciting news that she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. She and her family are planning to head to Russia in spring 2011. In the meantime, you can visit her theater company website.
Jacob Hellman '09 sent us a list his activities over the past few months: He spent 6 months in Israel as a dramaturg, serving as production dramaturg for the Israeli premiere of the Jason Robert Brown musical 13 as well as the world premiere of the play Silence Not: A Love Story by Cynthia L. Cooper. He also went to Cyprus and met many members of the theater community in Nicosia and Limassol.
Click for more information about 13 and Silence Not.
While two of his latest plays are out circulating, Professor emeritus Julian Olf is keeping very busy. This spring he directed two UMass Theater alumni, Eliza Greene-Smith '08 and Steve Pierce '06, in a short play by the Los Angeles-based playwright, Rose Martula. Also this spring he joins The August Company as an actor in its OnWord Project. There he will perform a monologue based on a piece of fiction by Dennis Quinn.
Robin Reed '97 wrote and shot a pilot last year called Carroll Gardens (set in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn) — alumnus Skid Maher co-stars alongside Robin and alumna Carrie Haugh makes a classic cameo in the opening credits. They just finished editing and it's being pitched by The Gersh Agency. Robin joined the cast of Radio Happy Hour at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC and performed alongside Norah Jones, Michael Showalter, Andrew WK, Tunde Adebimpe, Kumail Nanjiani, Chuck Klosterman, The Hold Steady, Jolie Holland and Jessi Klein. They're doing a mini tour in April to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Minneapolis (venue TBA). You can also hear Robin nationally as the voice of Campbell's Soup, GE Appliances, Wheat Thins, On-Star and Publix.
Charlotte Lettis Richardson '76 got in touch after many years to update us on her life so far: "I am a filmmaker and track and field coach! My most recent film is a documentary about three generations of women runners, before and after Title IV. It is called Run Like A Girl. I am currently living in Portland Oregon with my husband, Kirk Richardson. I am the Head Track and Field Coach for men and women at Lincoln High School in downtown Portland." She's been married to Kirk for 27 years and the couple has two sons, 25 and 21. She recalled performing in Canterbury Tales and going on to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. "This was an amazing cast!" she writes.
Lucas Maloney '04 writes that his company, Molotov Theatre Group, "just wrapped up a very successful run of Mondo Andronicus. The play was a special-effects-filled, goretastic reduction of Titus Andronicus that focused on the most violent parts of the play. One critic described it, 'like seeing Sir Patrick Stewart, as Henry II, make an appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse.' We received the script from San Francisco's Thrillpeddlers, the country's oldest Grand Guignol company. Pictures of the show, which I directed and did lighting design, will be on our website soon. We also recently received our 501 c3 non-profit status to help us to continue to cut tongues and arms off and splatter innocent audience members with various bodily fluids. If anyone is in the Washington DC area in July, I will be acting and lighting designing for our world-premiere production of The Horrors of Online Dating. The play is about a schizophrenic serial killer who finds her victims online and then ritualistically tortures and kills them. Oh, it's a musical comedy. In less violent endeavors, I will soon be acting and writing with a team in DC's 48 Hour Film Festival in April and playing Lancelot Gobbo in a radio production of The Merchant of Venice with Lean & Hungry Theater in June." See pictures of Mondo Andronicus on the Molotov Theatre Groups website.
Aaron Schmookler '09G has moved to the Tacoma, WA area, where his theater company, Gold from Straw, recently got a warm welcome from a local arts blogger, One Foot on Shore. An excerpt from the post:
"…I can’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had with other frustrated Tacoma theatre folks who have to commute 40-60 minutes north or south to find paying gigs, the opportunity to do new works, or even the opportunity to be taken seriously for what we do.
Now, Gold From Straw is looking to add something new to the Tacoma theatre scene….
It’s clear that Aaron knows exactly the kinds of plays he wants to produce with Gold From Straw. As the company’s current mission says, 'With a commitment to the highest artistic standards, we stage an eclectic array of new works and classics that are raw, substantial and sophisticated while simultaneously sincere, and optimistic.'
I like the last part: Optimistic."
Horror film fans: Michael Walton '01 has a movie coming out nationwide on April 9th called The Black Waters of Echo's Pond. He plays one of nine leads. He's also looking forward to launching another project: He has raised the proper funds for Topdog/Underdog, which he will be launching this year in Hollywood.
David Zucker '70, shared what he's been up to, as well as a Richard Gere story (the two were friends when they were here). First, what he's been doing: He is a nationally-recognized and award-winning actor, director, mime, and producer of Children's Theatre productions, participating in over 300 performances a year all over the USA since 1977, for Young Audiences, Inc. In addition, he is a T'ai Chi and Chi Kung teacher for 30 years and a senior consultant with The Ariel Group, conducting communications workshops for corporate executives all over the world. He and his partner, Elizabeth Bunker, have two kids, Sam and Michaela. And, asked to share a memory of his time in the department, he offered the following: "Browbeating Richard Gere into riding with me to our first professional auditions for the 1969 P-Town Playhouse summer season. He wasn't going to go. He got hired, I didn't :) He still owes me."
We ask you for a donation
We value the many alumni and friends who offer us their support in so many ways, from the 'attaboys' we get for our shows to the valuable advice and artistic expertise they share. As ever, though, we are in need of your financial support. Please visit our donation page for details about the project we are working on this year. Many of you have already given and we are very grateful. We're not quite at our goal yet, though, so we'd much appreciate any 'pennies for drama nerds' you might have to spare. Thank you!
As of this fall, we've switched exclusively to an emailed/online format of Stages, which will save paper and money, as well as allowing us to share more interactive features and lots more photos. If you'd like to receive email notices whenever a new issue of Stages has been posted and you're not sure we have your email, please click on Send Us Updates in the sidebar. You can also use the update form to send us your news.
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HOTTEST NEWS PREDICTIONS- Psychic News by Clairvoyant House Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna - Ebook by Clairvoyant/Psychic Dimitrinka Staikova (Author)
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2012. Israel/UK/France. Dir: Eran Riklis. With Stephen Dorff. 110 min.
During the 1982 Lebanon War, a captured Israeli pilot forms a tentative pact with a Palestinian boy to escape back over the border.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Eran Riklis.
Tonight / 8 p.m. / Goldsmith Family Cinema / Free
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Madonna: 'The Crucifix Was For Charity'
Brave Madge defends her controversial tour...
Madonna has defended her mock crucifixion on stage as part of a charity appeal.
The queen of pop courted controversy by splaying herself across a disco cross on her Confessions tour.
Church groups understandably did their nuts, but she told the New York Times: "I don't think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I'm trying to send."
She claims that part of the show was designed to encourage the audience to give to charity - including an AIDS charity.
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Handmade sheep grazing from the German brand Holztiger. A perfect complement to the children's toys as the wood animals help develop the child's fine motor skills, language and not least imagination. They are available in many different sizes and groups of animals such as farm animals, forest animals and savanna animals. The wood animals are made of wood and painted with non-toxic water-based paint. The wood animals are CE marked, approved according to ASTM and the European standard for toys; EN71. They are recommended from 3 years.
Made of: wood and non-toxic water-based paint
Size: 6.2x9.7x2.4 cm
Color: brown, beige
Age: from 3 years
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Sonic Acts Summer Sale! Sale Ends 1 July
Summer is upon us, and what better way to spend it than to delve into one of our many publications. For that reason, we're offering various discounts at the Sonic Acts webshop, including great discounts on Travelling Time and The Dark Universe (€5 each instead of €17,50). Take advantage of our package deal on publications: Travelling Time + The Dark Universe + Sonic Acts Academy Vol. 1 (€12,50). You can also cool off in the warm weather with one of our many Sonic Acts t-shirts (€7,50 instead of €15). Go to www.sonicacts.com/sashop and get a free bag with every purchase!
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1470 Solutions and counting.
Dartboard is an Eclipse plugin for Dart development. It allows to easily edit Dart source code with analysis as-you-type and syntax highlighting, execution of Dart programs directly from the I...
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PSDT is a PostScript IDE for Eclipse, including editor, debugger and documentation. It cooperates with the Ghostscript interpreter in a platform-independent way.
This plugin is a complete set of tools dedicated to "Tmar", the new executable specifications framework:
A smart specification editor (with syntax coloring, table auto-formating and copy-paste, ke...
The React pack for CodeMix 3 brings the best extensions for React coding from VS Code directly into Eclipse. From smarter editing to integrated debugging, CodeMix with React can work seam...
There are a number of features in preview and experimental for the C/C++ IDE. These are not included in the C/C++ IDE Package.
This entry adds those features. This includes support for CMake, Qt...
The Python pack for CodeMix 3 brings the best extensions for Python from VS Code directly into Eclipse. From smarter editing to integrated debugging, CodeMix with Python can work seamless...
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e(fx)clipse is a set of plugins who make developing JavaFX 2 application with your favorite IDE an excellent experience. It provides wizards, specialized CSS and XML editors needed for JavaFX usage...
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Updated! Integrate anything from Vue to React in your daily development. eLearning courses right inside your IDE get you going fast.
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The PHP IDE project delivers a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses the development components necessary to develop PHP-based Web Appl...
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The Groovy Development Tools (GDT) provides Eclipse and Maven (m2e) support for the Apache Groovy programming language. GDT adds full-featured IDE support including editors, wizards, content assist...
Editor, IDE, Programming Languages, Languages
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XML, Programming Languages, Web, IDE, Editor
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LiClipseText is an editor which enables Eclipse to be used as a general-purpose text editor, providing support for multiple languages out of the box.
It's the Open Source (EPL-based) counterpa...
Programming Languages, General Purpose Tools, Editor, IDE
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Now with Angular 9! Content assist, TypeScript 3 support, real-time validation, formatting, debugging, and more. Standalone version at Angular IDE.
Web, Programming Languages, Editor
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:39 by Tim Webb
An eclipse plugin for Cucumber .
New Feature list in the version available from the update site:
Lambda Expression support for Cucumber-Java8
Content Assistance for feature fi...
Testing, Application Development Frameworks, Programming Languages, Languages, Tools
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CMake Editor adds syntax coloring, code completion and code templates for CMake files.
Editor, Programming Languages
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:39 by Martin Weber
GoClipse is an Eclipse extension that adds IDE functionality for the Go programming language. A Go installation and other additional tools are required for full operation of GoClipse. See project p...
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:28 by Bruno Medeiros
TypeScript plugin with: syntax coloring, content assist, tsconfig.json support, real-time validation, formatting, jump to definition and more. Built on CodeMix 3 for superior technology support.
Programming Languages, Editor, Web
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:40 by Tim Webb
Please consider using The Arduino Eclipse IDE and plug-ins named Sloeber for your future Eclipse CDT powered Arduino development.
The Eclipse C++ IDE for Arduino which had been maintained by the...
Mobile and Device Development, Internet of Things (IoT), IDE, Programming Languages
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Linux Tools, Mobile and Device Development, IDE, Languages, Programming Languages
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 10:27 by Doug Schaefer
Sourcecode Visualizer is an Eclipse plugin for visualizing Java sourcecode. It draws a control flow graph alongside of Java source code. It is an indispensable tool for sourcecode review.
Modeling Tools, Programming Languages, Testing, Editor, Code Management
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Install on Eclipse IDE to get advanced Java code completions
Codota completes lines of code based on millions of open source Java programs and your context helping you code faster with fewe...
Editor, Search, Tools, Documentation, Programming Languages
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Provides tools for Android development. Andmore is being developed under the Eclipse Foundation and is the successor of the Google ADT plugin and the Motorola MOTODEV plugin.
Programming Languages, Tools, Mobile and Device Development, IDE
Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:30 by Kaloyan Raev
Lua Development Tools (LDT) is about providing Lua developers with an IDE providing the user experience developers expect from any other tool dedicated to a static programming language.
Last Updated on Monday, February 4, 2019 - 13:55 by Simon Bernard
An Eclipse plug-in for working with MapStruct
The plugin gives some assistence in projects that use MapStruct to generate bean mapping code.
Completion of target and sou...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 14:29 by Andreas Gudian
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My kids always ask for this soup, it’s comforting, especially when they are sick. So simple, yet so tasty!
1 tbsp unsalted butter
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp sugar
2 cups passata (strained tomatoes)
4 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup of alphabet past, or any tiny pasta, such as the stars I used
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
- In a pot, melt butter. Add garlic. Saute until fragrant.
- Add in spices, salt, pepper, sugar, and bay leaf-(bay leaf is not pictured in video.)
- Add the tomatoes. Stir well. Add the stock. Boil, add pasta, and lower heat and cover.
- Cook for around 6 minutes.
- Add olive oil and parmesan cheese. Turn off heat. Stir. Cover and let sit for one minute.
- Uncover, stir again, and serve with more parmesan cheese. Enjoy!
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New Day Children’s Theatre provides theatrical exposure to children and youth of all experience levels. New Day provides a nurturing environment where children come together to build relationships and develop character through mutual respect and teamwork. It is a safe place to express their creativity. At New Day the kids participate in all aspects of the production, from acting to lights to taking tickets at the door. The process of the theatrical experience is as important as the product and equal weight is placed on education and fun. Whether center-stage or behind the scenes, and regardless of experience level, there is a place for every child at New Day.
It is important to everyone at New Day to provide a quality arts program for the children in our community. As the only drama program in the mid-south dedicated to children we believe in:
- Edifying and empowering kids always
- Building relationships in an nurturing environmentM/li>
- Developing character through mutual respect and teamwork
- Conducting all business with honesty and integrity in a fiscally responsible manner
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Class: 8-10 year olds
Teach the kids that we have to take care of the animals.
VERSE TO MEMORIZE
A righteous man regards the life of his animal... (Proverbs 3.6)
Educator, search on the Internet photos of animals and welfare institutions, people with their animals and animals receiving veterinary care. Start now by asking the question: What is the similarity between these animals? (Wait for their participation.) All these animals are been cared for and in today's story we will learn about the importance of taking good care of our animals.
LEO LIVED in a big countryside house full of animals. Since childhood, he helped his father care for the animals. Leo played, petted and fed the little animals with care. He knew how to care for them and all looked strong and healthy.
One day, Leo's family moved to a house in the city. There, the child could not have many animals but a cat only. Leo could not understand why the city had so many abandoned and injured animals. His desire was to take the animals home, but there was not enough space for that.
He made many friends at his new school, became friends with Paul, a very funny child, but he had a flaw: he did not like animals. He did many bad things to his dog, and always did something against the animals that he happened to find on the streets near his home.
Until one day, Leo was very sad with the way his friend was treating his dog and then decided to ask Paul to give him his pet so he could care for it, and the boy gave it to him.
Leo, along with his father, looked after the dog caringly. After a few days the animal was healthy and strong. When Paul saw his dog so well looked after, he asked: Leo ... What makes you love animals so much? My pet looks so different now! "What happened? And Leo said, smiling:
I'm just treating this animal with love. My father and me gave him food, played and walk with him, did everything to treat it well, just like the Word of God teaches us. Does the Word of God talk about animals? Asked Paul "Yes, God in the Bible, we learn that good people take good care of their animals, but people that have a bad heart are evil with their pets. And Paul said: I do not want God to be sad with me. Starting today I will no longer be evil with any animal and I will treat them very well, said Paul repented of his bad attitude.
Children, God created the world through His Word. He gave life to all living things. God did not forget the animals and placed man (humans) to take care of them. So we should treat animals with kindness and respect, and hate violence against animals as this is displeasing to God.
You will need brown tape. Start by choosing the kids that are with a white blouse or a similar tone. Ask the educator assistant you to take them to the back of the class where others cannot see them. The educator assistant should place pieces of tape on the blouse of the children selected and then take them to the front of the class. Educator, ask the class: Look closely at these children. (Point to them). Is there something different about them? Look at their clothes. What do you think? (They will probably notice the tape) Conclude: The difference is that in their clothes there is a bit of tape, Children as this bit of tape caught the attention; God also sees when we're doing the right things and the wrong things. Even the little things, God sees, so the children that have a habit of abusing and mistreating animals end up losing the blessings of God. Who here wants to please God in everything? Then we will pray for Him to forgive us of our bad actions and bless us. Educator, ask the following questions:
1. Do you have a pet? Do you take good care of it? 2. What is your opinion about Paul's behavior? 3. In your opinion, why was Johnny so kind to animals? 4. Have you seen someone mistreating an animal? 5. Have you mistreated an animal? Have you repented? Educator, allow the kids to express themselves and give the opportunity for those who want to talk.
Learning the verse. 1. Read the verse of the week and write down what you have understood 2. Comment on the verse.
Imitating the animals. Take to the classroom pictures of
animals: dog, cat, horse, frog, kangaroo, bird, chicken,
monkey etc (you can use the
same as in the introduction). Place the illustrations in the
decorated shoe box and start talking about what was taught in the story.
Ask a child to grab a picture and to name the animals. Then
get the class to imitate the animal. Continue until you finish
all the illustrations.
Caring with joy. Educator, for this activity you need birthday balloons (the quantity according to the quantity of groups formed), strips of paper, tape, markers, candy or lollipops in quantity for the whole class. Write on strips of paper the names of animals (cat, dog, rabbit, fish, etc.), then place the papers inside each balloon. Divide the class into groups of four components and each group will choose a balloon. Members must pop the balloons; write on a paper some necessary care of the animal, the ones that were inside the balloon and explain what kind of care does it need. Then ask questions about the importance of caring for animals and loving them.
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Conformal coating Conformal coating systems SCH supply a range of conformal coating systems that are perfect for practical production processing because of our expertise and knowledge. First of all we know that the key to getting the application process right is choosing the right conformal coating equipment. Yet this can often be problematic due to errors in the selection process. Therefore, you need a range of equipment to select from. SCH has that range. Why choose our conformal coating equipment? All of all our equipment is designed for practical function and value for money because we need the right conformal coating systems in our coating services. Consequently, we know the equipment meets the highest criteria for quality coating production because we use it all the time. Further, we supply conformal coating systems globally and they are used all the time. Hence, we know our machines work. Furthermore, we have a range of systems and options to select from. This is because no one system fits all. First of all we have a range of coating systems for different volumes of printed circuit boards. We can provide machines for low, medium and high volume production while still meeting the quality and cost requirements. Second, we have coating systems for both batch and inline processing because customers prefer choices. With our systems you have the options for lab production, stand alone batch machines or fully integrated inline systems. Finally, we have many different options for process control since it can be very important in a production environment. This gives you the options to choose the right equipment to suit your needs because no system fits all production needs. As a result conformal coating processing can be successful because we can help guide you to the right solution now. Conformal coating systems available Our comprehensive range of conformal coating application, process control and curing systems includes: Inline dip systems Batch dip systems Bench top dip systems Spray booths Drying cabinets and ovens Conveyors for UV curing UV cure lamps UV lamp meters Conformal coating automated inspection (AOI) systems Inspection booths UV inspection lamps Thickness measurement Ionic contamination test systems Surface energy testing Choose our conformal coating systems because we have the right level of experience and expertise to help you. Links Coating equipment Conformal coating equipment Nano-coating equipment Parylene systems UV curing equipment Inspection equipment Process equipment Special offers Contact us Call us on +44 1226 249019, email us at email@example.com or click Contact Us to send us your requests.
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Why don't female doctors like to examine naked male patients? I was 9 around the time. Answered Nov 12, I had to stand fully nude and was feeling very much embarrassed and helpless. Amateurs Hidden Pov Voyeur Hospital.
She call me to came near to her.
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Passing nude gyno medical test. So it was bit embarrassing for me to get naked in front of strangers. She asked me whether I have had any wet dreams and I said I had once. She call me to came near to her. I went inside that cube, few minutes later that nurse came with some forms etc to note down details.
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Compare and contrast the photographs of kids and a new car and the sharecropper family in Macon County. How do these two pictures relate to the Finch children and the Cunninghams? How do they relate to the Great Depression? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
Listen to the interview with Rosa Jackson. Explain how Atticus Finch would have reacted to Rosa’s arrest. How is Atticus similar to Judge Abernathy? How is Tom Robinson similar to Rosa Jackson? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
Look at the photograph of the children on the playground. Find a quotation from the book that could caption this picture. How does this image show Scout’s feelings about Jem’s school experience? What emotion does the picture evoke?
Look over the review of Alabama schools, specifically in rural areas. Reread chapter two about Scout’s first day of school. What do we learn about rural schools in Alabama during the Great Depression from a historical document and a fictionalized account? Use textual evidence from the novel to support your answer.
Scout tells the reader in chapter one that “there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with...But it was a time of vague optimism for some people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." This historical allusion is from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address. Read the first page of the address. How could this speech help revive a nation in the depths of a Great Depression?
At the conclusion of the novel, have students read the Scottsboro trial calendar. With a partner, have students create a Tom Robinson trial calendar. Next have students read The Crime at Scottsboro. Emulating the tone of the excerpt, have students write a one-paragraph editorial proclaiming Tom Robinson’s innocence. Finally, show the “Scottsboro Limited” pamphlet, the flyer, the photograph of mothers, and the photograph of the Communist parade. Allow students to discuss. Students should describe the items, explain what is happening in each, explain how each makes them feel, and identify how each is connected to To Kill a Mockingbird.
This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set,
, in the classroom. It offers discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools. It is intended to spark pedagogical creativity by giving a sample approach to the material. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt the resources in this guide for your teaching purposes.
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The increasing prevalence of obesity in many countries means that it should now be considered a pandemic. It is widely recognized that obesity increases the risk of a variety of life-threatening conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. Bariatric surgery is often the most effective way to treat such morbid obesity. Nevertheless, while various bariatric procedures have been proposed, to date standards have been lacking. In this book, leading experts from around the world discuss all aspects of bariatric surgery and present their own favored versions of surgical procedures with the aid of informative illustrations. Technical nuances are carefully described, and detailed attention is devoted to potential complications and how to avoid them. The expertise of the authors and the range of techniques considered guarantee that both trainees in bariatric surgery and experienced surgeons will find this book to be an invaluable source of information and guidance in their daily work.
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When using a touchscreen monitor with an Eos family console, the cursor appears "reversed" as if you were touching the opposite side of the screen. The cursor may mirror your touch input across one or both axes.
Description/Explanation of Issue
Windows 7-based Eos family consoles support both modern Windows-compatible touchscreen monitors as well as ELO Accutouch monitors. However, the drivers that support ELO monitors interpret USB touch data differently than the drivers that support generic monitors. If ELO calibration data is present for a generic touchscreen or vice-versa, the touch input will be interpreted incorrectly, resulting in the cursor being moved improperly. To resolve this issue, you must remove the incorrect calibration data from the console.
- Exit to the console shell.
- Select Settings.
- In the General tab, select Monitor Arrangement.
- Click on the affected monitor.
- If you are unsure of which monitor to select, click Identify to show the monitor designations on your displays.
- Select "Reset Calibration" from the options below the monitor diagram.
- Recalibrate the monitor.
- For an ELO monitor, choose "ELO Monitor Settings" and then "Align ELO Touchmonitors," then follow the on-screen prompts.
- For a generic Windows-compatible monitor, choose "Calibrate."
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https://hdmo.uno/the-hows-of-us-2018-watch-online-free/
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A young couple dream of growing old together as they as they deal with the struggles of being in a long-term relationship.
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Finnish site Taskumuro has produced an incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes history of Nokia's wonderful, yet doomed, MeeGo OS. Talking to current and ex-employees of the phone maker, it learned that a tablet (codenamed Senna) and CDMA Nokia N9 for Verizon were both in development before Stephen Elop killed the project dead around the time of the "burning platform" memo. The report also claims that the company's decision to develop Maemo (later MeeGo) in tandem with Symbian led to a developer turf-war, that the Swipe UI was cooked up at the 80/20 Design Studio in New York and the team had planned an Apple-esque strategy of releasing a single phone every year. If you'd like to learn more (and about how the original article was translated from Finnish into English in under 10 hours), head on down to the source links.
[Thanks, Masa and Justus]
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Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Source: MECW Volume 9, p. 27;
Written: Written by Engels about March 9, 1849;
First published: in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 242, March 10, 1849
We have today a new Austrian Bulletin. Before we examine it more closely, however, we should like to return briefly to the battle at Kapolna and to mention some observations taken from the pro-Metternich Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung which, coming from that newspaper, are altogether highly "indicative". This paper, which usually supports so enthusiastically the black-and-yellow cause, comes out with the following complaints:
"As is the case with most of the army's communiques from Hungary, in the communique dealing with Kapolna (see below) we unfortunately find that very important points are again missing: one learns nothing about the strength of the respective combating armies, the previous movements of the enemy, the divisions comprising the enemy's forces, the names of their leaders, not even the name of their commander-in-chief. And yet the report otherwise contains many details which are to some extent trivial."
And it goes on to say:
"It is equally remarkable that the Bulletin dealing with the battle at Kapolna also talks of the enemy's numerical superiority, although the combined forces of Windischgrätz and Schlick were involved in the fighting there. The Field Marshal can hardly have fewer than 100,000 to 120,000 men under his command in Hungary. It is true that they are widely dispersed throughout the country, and Windischgrätz has to try to encircle the enemy in a wide are with his various army corps. But neither can the Magyars operate with their combined forces from one central point; Komorn, Peterwardein, Szegedin etc. are still holding out, and there is still fighting in the Banat, in Transylvania and on the Theiss. We have searched in vain through the Vienna, Agram and Temesvar newspapers for information on the questions which thrust themselves upon one in this context."
Such doubts expressed by the Augsburg Allgemeine martial-law paper make any further comment from us superfluous. Now to turn to the 27th Army Bulletin:
"On February 26 and 27 the head of the column of the advancing main army under His Highness Field Marshal Prince zu Windischgrätz attacked the rebels from behind the Tarna between Kapolna and Kaal and drove them back. The columns of Lieutenant-Field Marshal Schlick, which had advanced towards Verpeleth and Erlau, had taken the enemy in the flank and, as a result of this successful move, threatened his line of retreat towards Miskolcz and Tokaj. On February 28 the Field Marshal advanced all along the line and on that day moved his headquarters to Maklar, just after the enemy had left it and retreated towards Mezö-Kövesd.
"Quickly following the hurried retreat of the enemy the cuirassier regiment of Prince Karl of Prussia came upon the rearguard of the enemy which was concentrated near Mezö-Kövesd, a fierce cavalry battle took place, this being supported by the Wyss and Montenuovo brigades which were moving forward. In this first battle Major Prince Holstein and two officers were wounded. On March 1 the Field Marshal undertook large-scale reconnaissance along the whole line across the whole of the plain, which stretches from Mezö-Kövesd via Istvin to the Theiss, however this did not produce the desired results because of the heavy fog and the snow.
"In the meantime the corps of Lieutenant-Field Marshal Schlick was operating on the right flank of the enemy, who was thus obliged in the course of that day to evacuate Mezö-Kövesd and retreat via Szemere and Eger Farmos towards Poroszlo. The Deym brigade, from the corps under the command of Lieutenant-Field Marshal Schlick, occupied Mezö-Kövesd.
"About midday, when the fog had lifted somewhat, the reconnoitring vanguard reported that the enemy had moved off in the direction of the Theiss and his crossing-point at Tisza-Füred. The Field Marshal at once dispatched three brigades along the enemy's line of retreat, and his rearguard was contacted at Szemere.
"At Eger Farmos the enemy tried once more to offer resistance but was thrown back, and in the evening the place was occupied by our victorious troops. At the same time the Field Marshal had dispatched a brigade of the first army corps, under the command of Major-General Zeisberg, from Besenyij along the road to Poroszlo, and on the morning of March 2, the date of the last report from the headquarters at Maklar, the whole army was advancing towards the Theiss."
As was to be expected, the Magyars have once more withdrawn beyond the Theiss. We have said it a hundred times: it would have been irresponsible and reckless of them if they had engaged in a decisive battle on the right bank of the Theiss without being quite sure of victory. The superior strength of the Austrians was still too great, a fact which is borne out by the above report from the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung. The Austrians were able to concentrate their main forces, whilst the Magyars had had to leave a strong reserve force behind, in particular a large part of their young troops at Debreczin, and generally beyond the Theiss. They have demonstrated to the Austrians that they are dealing neither with "cowards" nor with a motley "rabble", and they did well to retreat once more beyond the Theiss after having achieved their aim.
Just how much respect Herr Windischgrätz now has for the Hungarian army is clear from all his operations. On February 28 he occupies Maklar, i.e. advances by only one hour. On March 1 he has reached Mezö-Kövesd, i.e, he is yet again one mile further on. There he does not attempt anything like a general attack but merely "large-scale reconnaissance"!! We notice that after his immense victory at Kapolna Windischgrätz pursued the Magyars with such vigour that after two or three miles he had already lost trace of them and had to reconnoitre to establish where they were!
Meanwhile Schlick was operating "on the right flank of the enemy"—and his great achievement, as a result of this, was that the "enemy" retreated to the very point to which he would have had to retreat without this splendid manoeuvre, namely to Tisza-Füred, his main crossing-point on the Theiss. All in all, Schlick, in his flanking movement, which incidentally looks highly peculiar on the map, has apparently treated the withdrawing Magyar army with just as much respect as Windischgrätz has at the front. In short, on March 2 the headquarters of the courageous Windischgrätz was still at Maklar, i.e. exactly one mile further on from the position held by Windischgrätz on the morning of February 26, six days before his great two-day victory!
From this position, on March 2, the whole army was "advancing towards the Theiss". We know that this is the third time that the imperial troops are "advancing towards the Theiss", and presumably they will have the same success this time that they had previously, and that will mean stopping at the Theiss and having to confine themselves to casting longing glances over to the unattainable Debreczin heath.
From the north we hear:
"The division of Lieutenant-Field Marshal Ramberg had already pushed its vanguard from Kaschau along the road which forks at Hidas-Nemethy, leading to Tokaj on the left and Miskolcz on the right."
In plain language: the above-mentioned division has pushed forward its vanguard exactly four miles, and this along a road where no large enemy forces are roaming about, but at most enemy guerillas, Kossuth hussars. Immense progress, achieved with remarkable bravery!
The Bulletin goes on to tell of several battles before Komorn, which are more evidence of the courage of the Komorn garrison than of progress on the part of the Austrians. The reader will recall that as early as January the Kölnische Zeitung had the Komorn garrison hoisting the white flag at least ten times. And the alleged "initial bombardment" of Komorn, which was said already to have taken place, is now shown to have meant that, not the Austrians were firing bombs at Komorn, but on the contrary the Komorn garrison fired shells at the Austrians. The Bulletin says:
"At Komorn several battles occurred on the right bank of the Danube between the insurgents and the troops of the Lederer brigade—thus, as early as February 17, the garrison at Komorn made a sortie with nine companies, two guns, and half a squadron of hussars, and protected by brisk cannon-fire launched an attack from the bridgehead upon the left flank of the detachment occupying O-Szöny, under the command of Major Kellner of the Khevenhüller infantry. Major Kellner attacked the insurgents and drove them back, killing seventeen of them.—The garrison attempted a similar sortie on February 24, this time with two battalions of infantry, half a squadron of hussars and three guns. The enemy opened fire briskly on the position of Major Kellner, who was occupying O-Szöny with the second Khevenhüller battalion, half a squadron of Fiquelmont dragoons and half a battery of twelve-pounders. Forty shells hit the place causing fires in five points, as a result of which several houses were burned to the ground. Thanks to Major Kellner's expedient measures and the determination of his troops it was possible to check the fire. When, later, the offensive was begun, actively supported by a division under Captain Schmutz's command from the same regiment, which was dispatched with two cannon to the enemy's right flank, the insurgents, who lost fifty men, were driven back within the range of the garrison's cannon by the brave battalion, which thus managed to repulse this sortie as well.—Now Lieutenant-Field Marshal Simunich's division has arrived there on the left bank of the Danube. The Veigl brigade, which is part of it, is stationed on the left bank of the Waag. The Sossay brigade, which already arrived in N. Tany several days ago, is occupying the island of Schütt, and at Gönyö they are busy trying to construct a pontoon bridge in order to link up the two banks of the Danube for the besieging troops. As the battering train from Leopoldstadt has arrived at Komorn the bombardment of the fortress will begin within the next few days."
Finally we learn the following, something which, printed in a royal imperial Army Bulletin, must astonish us:
"According to official reports from Cracow, which are dated March 3, 600 Cossacks are occupying the Russian border on their own territory from Michalovice to the Weichsel and from there to the Pilica. Cracow, which according to other reports was said to have been bombarded and even occupied by the Russians, was quiet, although numerous emissaries and gun-runners were bent on disturbing the peace. Lieutenant-Field Marshal Legeditsch there was perfectly prepared for any eventuality."
So Cracow is now also part of the theatre of war. When the official royal imperial bulletins start declaring this themselves, one is obliged to draw strange conclusions!
So much for the official news. From the unofficial sources we report the following:
The Karlowitz Napredak reports from the Banat:
"Subotica (Theresiopel) has been taken by the Serbs. The battle was fierce. The troops consisted of detachments from Todorovich's forces and a section of the Serbian auxiliary corps under the command of Knicanin. The Serbs lost 144 men, the number of Magyar dead is not yet known. The Magyars have suffered their most significant defeat here."
From Transylvania only one report from Malkowsky has come in, telling of the curious operations at Bistritz. As we have already examined this we do not need to touch on it again today. The only thing of interest to us is the following naive aphorism, which appeared in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, referring to the Germans' surprise at the arrival of the Russians:
"The Austrian army wishes, of course, to wage this battle without outside aid, but the Austrian and Russian armies ore old comrades in war and have fought side by side countless times on German battlefields. This is something those people apparently wish to forget who talk in such exaggerated terms of Russian support"!!?
Finally, for the amusement of our readers, we include the letter written by the Vladika of Montenegro to the Serbian leader Knicanin, to accompany the decoration sent to him:
"To the illustrious Mr. Stephan Knicanin,
"Oh pride of our nation! You have totally justified the reputation of the heroes of Dushan and Karageorge. I, and every true Serb, owe you the deepest gratitude. Your noble spirit prompted you to sacrifice yourself for your nation and to hasten to the aid of your suffering comrades. For these reasons I shall always love you and hold you in great esteem, and in deepest gratitude for your untiring efforts I am sending you this likeness of the immortal Obilich. It will most fittingly adorn the breast of the victor of Tomasevec and the deliverer of Pancsova. Receive it then, heroic young scion of heroic forefathers, receive it with the same sincerity and delight with which, accompanied by fraternal greetings, it is sent.
Cetinje, January 28 (February 9), 1849
Vladika of Montenegro, P. Petrovic Njegos, m.p.
Moreover, just how close to the verge of bankruptcy Kossuth has brought the Austrians is evident from the following "proclamation":
"Since the news that Hungarian banknotes in Austria were to be withdrawn from circulation and confiscated has reached wide sections of the public, we wish to reassure the public and to announce that withdrawal or confiscation of Hungarian banknotes does not apply to private transactions in Hungary. Ofen, March 2, 1849. Royal imperial army general headquarters."
To sum up: At most Windischgrätz will reach the Theiss, the Serbs are at the Maros, Malkowsky is outside Bistritz.—All of them are just as far as they were four weeks ago. This is the "second stage" that, according to yesterday's Kölnische Zeitung, the Hungarian war has entered.
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Competition to Name India's First Bullet Train, Design its Mascot Announced
claims to have big plans for India including making Talgo trains in the country for domestic use as well as export. (Image: Talgo)
New Delhi: Like Air India has a mascot in Maharaja, India's first bullet train is all set to get a name and its own identity with NHSRCL announcing a nationwide competition to christen the train which will run from Mumbai to Ahmedabad by 2022.
The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHRCL) which is spearheading the project has asked for entries for the name and designing of mascot for the train by March 25, a statement said.
"The mascot essentially should be a well designed character which will personify the value system of NHSRCL and will also be able to communicate effectively. Naming the bullet train will provide it an identity which will help people to establish a connect with the bullet train," it said.
It will be an open online competition on mygov.in and interested participants can find more details by logging into the website.
The name of the train and the mascot will be shortlisted through a nominated committee and the winners will be awarded a cash prize along with a certificate confirming their participation in the contest.
There will be five consolation prizes also in each category.
The logo of the organisation which was adopted in the year 2017 through a similar competition, symbolies speed and is represented by a "cheetah", while the red and blue lines symbolise calm and reliability.
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There are many reasons why you might want to choose a natural alternative to treat your cough: Sometimes you are too far away from a doctor to go for an overall check-up when you want to sort out the symptoms of your cough, and other times you might find that you want an alternative to pharmaceutical methods that will leave you feeling much better and have little to no contraindications. There are many natural alternatives you can use to take care of a cough before it turns into a more serious respiratory infection.
Here are 16 powerful home remedies for a cough that we’ve tried and can recommend to you. This is not meant to be a replacement to medical advice, and you should visit your doctor if your symptoms don’t get better through some of the treatments you will see here. But before you call your doctor, here are some methods you can try at home for that nagging, dry or hacking cough first.
You can buy a humidifier for pretty cheaply from most health stores, or you can even find them at some pharmacies; if you don’t find one there, then you can just order one from Amazon for much cheaper than you might think. Many coughs are caused by environmental factors, for example the air being dry or polluted; this can also aggravate conditions of the respiratory system such as asthma, and the conditions can send someone straight into a severe asthma attack.
This, of course, is where a simple cough turns into a dangerous medical condition that could put someone’s life at risk. Humidifying the environment can help take care of a wide assortment of coughs, including specifically dry coughs or ones that are caused by dry or dirty air in your immediate environment. If the cough doesn’t stop, then make an appointment with your doctor to find the deeper cause.
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Aquagold Fine Touch
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As we approach the end of 2018, we are left to reflect on the year that was and the extent to which sport continues to make positive contributions in the lives of Jamaicans. As I reflect on the many successes, I also think about the missed opportunities. However, I feel confident that we will continue to see sport as a vehicle for positive change in our society.
As we move into 2019, there are some challenges that need to be examined to see how best we can become a model for the rest of the world. Sport doesn’t just happen on the field of play but can also be a crucial tool in addressing social issues such as discrimination (gender, race, class, age), gender-based violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, and corruption.
This year, many of these issues arose in sport globally. There was the imprisonment of USA Gymnastics’ national team doctor, Larry Nassar, for sexual assault. In Jamaica, a physical-education teacher allegedly used a PVC pipe to physically abuse a student athlete. I am happy to hear that the Office of the Children’s Advocate is now involved in this matter. Local sporting organisations need to implement policies aimed at protecting minors in sports. I know there are general laws to safeguard minors, but there are still serious challenges in creating safe spaces for our children who want to participate in sport.
It’s time for all associations to implement specific child/minor policies and ensure that all officials involved with children submit some form of ‘fit and proper’ documentation and/or police certificates of character. Internationally, we saw the Safeguarding Children in Sport Initiative’ that implemented the Be a Champion for Children campaign in November. Coaches, parents, teachers and sports organisations are encouraged to implement the International Safeguards for Children into their programmes – something we could examine and adopt.
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In the grand scheme, is a place for motorcycles assured?
On 11 April 2007, Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Mark V. Rosenker gave a speech at the Northwestern University Transportation Center that presented an intriguing glimpse into the future of American roadway transportation. I encourage you to take a moment and read the transcript:
In it, he projects his vision of the roads of tomorrow … a virtual railway of computer-controlled conveyances (think cattle cars) enabled by a mind-boggling array of intelligent transport systems (ITS), highway automation, vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure integration … reinforced with telematics for vehicle navigation (and occupant tracking) … and prefaced by the following:
“In aviation, the average is 700 to 800 fatalities a year, almost all associated with private pilots in small general aviation aircraft… By comparison, about 43,000 people lose their lives on the nation’s highways each year. For aviation fatalities to match those of highway, we would have to have a commercial airline hull loss accident every day… So, while you may know of the Safety Board based on our aviation work, tonight I’d like to focus on highway safety… [W]hile we accomplished much in the past decade to improve the crashworthiness of automobiles, we have reached some practical limits in combating the physical forces involved in crashes. It is time to move beyond crash mitigation and enter a new era where technology will help us prevent accidents. I recognize that this will be a tough battle to win. Less than 1% of accidents are fatal, so to save one life, we must prevent more than a hundred crashes… We can no longer be satisfied with trying to protect people who get into crashes. We must instead use the technology at our command to prevent crashes from happening.”
Mr. Rosenker’s acknowledgement that far more highway injuries and deaths can be prevented by targeting crash avoidance rather than crash survival is encouraging. But on the other hand, the fact that he failed to include or even mention motorcycles in his grand scheme of intelligent transport and highway automation systems forces me to ask this question:
IS there a place for motorcycles on the highways of tomorrow?
This is not a new question, and I am certainly not the first one to ask it. The debate goes back a decade or more, as is reflected by this 1998 article originated by the Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations (FEMA), and the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF)…
…in which FEMA’s Simon Willard advised the following:
“[R]oad transport is undergoing some fundamental changes. It is the responsibility of all riders to make efforts to ensure that motorcycling remains enjoyable for future generations by becoming active in their own national riders’ rights organisation.”
Mr. Willard’s concerns were reiterated in this 2003 paper transmitted by FEMA, the MRF, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and allied organizations…
…which contained this request:
“The recognition that certain types of vehicles will not be compatible with some ITS applications, requires that the rights of the owners and users of such vehicles be considered… It is also a general principle that regulations applied to one vehicle category should not result in the owner or user of another category of vehicle being disadvantaged… The parties to this paper therefore request the relevant United Nations bodies formally to recognize the following principle: ‘That where a vehicle or a category of vehicles are not compatible with an ITS application, it is accepted that the vehicles’ incompatibility will not result in its being excluded from any part of the road system that the vehicle currently uses and that in future would utilize that ITS application.'”
Is that request being honored? Australia’s Monash University Accident Research Centre attempted to answer that question, at least in part, with their research study entitled “Intelligent Transport Systems and Motorcycle Safety”, published in July of 2006:
Their research was comprehensive, but left them with more questions than conclusions. Two of their conclusions, however, seem as relevant here in the U.S. as they are down under:
“Some motorcycling groups have expressed concern about the potential for ITS technologies to automate aspects of the riding task or to compromise motorcycle safety. It is critical that the views of the motorcycling fraternity be properly researched and understood, and that this knowledge be used to inform the design and deployment of technologies which are acceptable to them. There have been no formal studies of the acceptance of riders to ITS in motorcycles.”
“There is no known strategy for the design, development, deployment and evaluation of ITS in motorcycles.”
But wait a moment. Does that second conclusion really apply to us? Maybe so, maybe no:
Mr. Rosenker did not include motorcycles in his vision of our road transport future. And, I was unable to find anything that resembled a “strategy for the design, development, deployment and evaluation of ITS in motorcycles” on the website of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) ITS Joint Program Office:
BUT… intelligent transportation systems for motorcycles were discussed during the NTSB Public Forum on Motorcycle Safety on 12-13 September 2007, and those comments are available in the searchable (but not copyable) PDF transcripts for both days downloadable from here:
AND… intelligent transportation systems are an explicit part of the mission and agenda for the newly-formed Federal Highway Administration Motorcyclist Advisory Council (MAC-FHWA)…
…whose members include the following:
Mark Bloschock [email@example.com] -Texas Dept. of Transportation Jeff Hennie [firstname.lastname@example.org] - Motorcycle Riders Foundation Darrell Killion [email@example.com] - ABATE of South Dakota Ken Kiphart [firstname.lastname@example.org]- State Motorcycle Safety Administrators Robert McClune [email@example.com]- North American Potters Industries Ed Moreland [firstname.lastname@example.org] - American Motorcyclist Association Gerald Salontai [Gsalontai@kleinfelder.com] - Kleinfelder Incorporated Kathy VanKleeck [email@example.com] - Motorcycle Industry Council Donald Vaughn [VaughnD@dot.state.al.us] - Alabama Dept. of Transportation Steve Zimmer [Cambolt@aol.com] ABATE of Ohio Inc
In a transcript of their meeting on 24 October 2006…
…ABATE of Ohio’s Steve Zimmer had this to say:
“Intelligent transportation is another issue we need to be concerned about because as intelligent transportation systems develop we need to make sure that motorcycles are considered in the development and are not excluded at the end.”
I think Steve is right. And based on the research I just shared with you, I fear his statement may be prophetic. I fear that the answer to the question…
“IS there a place for motorcycles on the highways of tomorrow?”
…just might be NO.
So… what are we as motorcyclists to do about that?
For many years now, visionary bikers’ rights activists have been warning us that we should be “concerned” about being “excluded” from the roadways of tomorrow. A decade ago, we were advised that “[it] is the responsibility of all riders to make efforts to ensure that motorcycling remains enjoyable for future generations.”
And have we met that responsibility? Apparently not. And why not? BECAUSE WE HAVE FAILED TO FOCUS ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT. As I wrote last December:
“Political history teaches us that few things bring people together like the threat of a common and formidable foe. That’s what United our States … how the Allies won World War II … and why Dubya got re-elected. But for some perplexing reason, the motorcycling community seems exempt from that axiom… At a time when we should be banding together as brothers, instead we squabble like Scottish Lords. Rather than broadening their political base by focusing on issues of interest and benefit to all motorcyclists, some MROs and their mouthpieces are leading the charge in the opposite direction. Platforms purported to champion bikers’ rights are often subverted soapboxes for agendas that serve no purpose other than to isolate and alienate the very riders we most desperately need to attract and enlist. MRO leaders bemoan increasing apathy and declines in membership. But rather than narrow their focus to timely and relevant issues with broad appeal, some seek out only the decreasing few who share their world view, chastising or ignoring all others.”
This must end. We must narrow our focus to the issues of greatest importance and broadest appeal if we are to succeed politically and survive socially. And I can think of no other issue that should unite all motorcyclists more than…
OUR RIGHT TO RIDE OUR MOTORCYCLES!
Until Next Time … Ride Long, Ride Free!
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One is a shiny new arena whose luster does not keep its anchor tenant (the Sacramento Kings) from losing. The other is a shiny new restaurant and bar whose handsome burnish does not prevent its food and service from faltering.
The comparison seems stronger when factoring in former King Kenny Thomas’ stake in El Rey (“the king” in Spanish) as part of an ownership team headed by nightlife impresario Trevor Shults (BarWest).
The analogy eventually falls apart, however, because the Kings win more often than El Rey does.
El Rey bills itself as “Sacramento’s freshest Mexican street food experience,” a description in conflict with a Caesar salad containing lettuce with brown edges and a frozen dessert that arrived with a thin layer of ice crystals – suggestive of an extended slumber in the freezer – atop it.
Elsewhere at El Rey, the food is fresh enough but flat-footed. Chef Bryce Palmer, also executive chef for Irish pub Malt & Mash – El Rey’s sister restaurant housed in the same historic Ochsner building – came over from Crawdad’s, another Shults venture. Palmer previously worked at Biba, Grange and the Golden Bear, restaurants any chef would want on his or her résumé. But Palmer’s talents are more obvious in the creative, well-seasoned bar grub at Malt & Mash than at El Rey, where the food is still in search of flavor dimension.
The fish in El Rey’s blackened-rockfish taco tasted mostly of salt, and the “spicy” element was undetectable in its spicy peanut shrimp taco.
Mole sauce can be one of the most compelling elements on a Mexican food menu, with its notes of chocolate and different spices. El Rey’s rojo mole beef taco, featuring meat slow-braised in a chipotle cinnamon sauce, shows the complexity of an Instagram supermodel.
Though El Rey’s house-made chorizo is not greasy, it tastes too fresh – more like ground pork on its own, without the spiciness or smokiness associated with chorizo. This chorizo did little to spruce up its potato companion in an El Rey specialty taco and served as dull topper to an already bland queso fundido starter.
Palmer and crew show some finesse with the Meatless Marvel taco, a lively yet soothing blend of black beans, roasted peppers and sweet potato stewed in habanero sauce. A crisp yucca-root chip atop the taco adds earthy taste and textural variance.
The pork in the smoked carnitas nachos is tender but offers little flavor beyond the smoke. Yet that smoke overabundance did little to curtail our enjoyment of the nachos, the thing to order at El Rey. They hold a wonderfully tangy cheese sauce made from browned butter, serrano peppers, cream, Oaxaca, cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses and brightness-adding juice from Palmer’s house-pickled onions.
It’s hard to believe these nachos, which come in an order big enough for three, carry the same $12 price tag as the Caesar, which, brown lettuce aside, offered few hints of anchovy or other distinctive flavors in its dressing.
El Rey’s pricing is curiously inconsistent. Some prices, like $12 for that Caesar salad and $7 for overly thick, borderline-burnt chips and three so-so salsas (they are not gratis here), seem outrageous. Others, like $4-$4.95 for each street taco, merely seem too high. Yet the cocktails we tried were a reasonable $7-$8.
Those drinks outshone the food, with El Rey offering several margarita options that balance sweetness and tang (especially the “skinny margarita”). Two of our favorite El Rey cocktails are made with whiskey but evoke margarita tartness: The Black Cadillac, with Jack Daniels, blackberry jam and lemon juice, and the Border Town, with Old Forester bourbon, Campari, agave and citrus juices, taste like something Orson Welles might have sipped while making “Touch of Evil.”
There also was treasure to be found, during the dessert course, beneath the aforementioned light dusting of ice crystals, on El Rey’s choco taco. Similar conditions had never stopped me from eating ice cream out of my mom’s freezer, so I dug in. My arctic explorer’s heart soared when I tasted Palmer’s masterful use of sweetness-offsetting salt in the batter of the waffle-cone foundation and the dark chocolate sauce covering scoops of Gunther’s ice cream.
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Such displays of skill suggest the food will improve at El Rey as the restaurant matures. It will need to, once the 700 block of K Street fills with other nightlife options. Right now, El Rey and Malt & Mash are the only new restaurants on the block.
On a game night, the 4,800-square-feet El Rey, which holds about 200 people at a time, can serve 4,000 tacos. And not just to bros wolfing them down alongside tequila shots.
On the nights we visited, before a CSU Sacramento vs. UC Davis/Cal vs. San Diego State doubleheader, and a Kings game, those bros, clad in NBA and college team sweatshirts, composed 15 percent of diners. But their whoops, which bounced off El Rey’s wood floors and stone and brick walls, accounted for 25-30 percent of the noise in a restaurant where everyone eventually must raise their voices to be heard by their dinner companions.
The rest of the crowd consisted primarily of middle-aged guys in pairs or with their senior fathers, and lots of couples in their 30s or early 40s, some with kids. You know: People who can afford tickets to Golden 1 Center events.
On the Kings game night, I watched people enter the restaurant from my cozy perch in one of El Rey’s raised banquettes. The colorful vinyl seating vies with the restaurant’s many TVs to be the interior’s most vibrant element.
Though the crowd was diverse, their facial expressions, as they entered the restaurant from the street and took in all the stimuli while scanning the place for a rare empty seat, showed a similar arc. Most started with a flash of anxiety (this is what we’re doing?) and ended with tight-smiled resignation.
To turn these obvious game-night first-timers into repeat visitors, El Rey might want to smooth out its service. Our server on one visit started out great but disappeared for at least 20 minutes as the place filled up. Though her absence likely is more reflective of staffing issues than her job performance, a lag is a lag.
Two people have a good shot at a pleasant dining experience at El Rey on a game night, for less than $40, if they arrive early enough to grab a good seat and order the nachos and two cocktails or beers.
But there’s also the option of eating at El Rey’s immediate neighbor, the Golden 1 Center. Though it is more expensive to eat and drink there, the food is generally better than El Rey’s. And given El Rey’s noise levels, crowds and hard, backless bar stools, the comfort level might be similar. Even in the arena seats without cupholders.
723 K St., Sacramento. 916-400-4170, www.elreyonk.com
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. daily. Hours can vary depending on events at nearby Golden 1 Center.
Beverage options: Full bar, with 35 tequilas and an array of margarita options. Eight beers on draft, including Track 7. Short list of sparkling, red and white wines.
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Gluten-free options: Yes
Noise levels: Exceptionally high
Ambiance: Before the crowd rushes in on a game night at nearby Golden 1 Center, the place looks lovely, with its many rustic wood touches and vibrantly colored banquettes. But the bar stools are uncomfortable, as are noise levels once the place fills up.
The 3-month-old restaurant’s food and service are not there yet.
The food is better at the nearby arena, and at El Rey’s sister restaurant, the Irish pub Malt & Mash, with which it shares an executive chef. El Rey’s food generally lacks flavor dimension, though there are highlights, like the nachos and Meatless Marvel taco.
The service staff showed ingenuity and knowledge, but our server was missing for a long stretch after the place became busy just before a game at Golden 1.
The $12 Caesar salad is outrageously overpriced, and $4-$4.95 for a single street taco and $7 for chips and three so-so salsas is too much. But the $12 nachos are a deal.
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The Moon Wobble
destructive cosmic phenomenon affects us all
The regular triggers for terrestrial disasters, whether natural (earthquakes; tidal waves; eruptions etc) or manmade (wars; terrorism; crashes, etc) seem to be the eclipses and the Moon Wobble. Rob Tillett, one of the founders of Astrology on the Web, explores the meaning of this major cosmic phenomenon. If you thought Mercury retrograde was a problem, compare the Moon Wobble!
In addition to the planets, asteroids, comets and moons that revolve in our solar system, astrology considers the effects of two "Shadow Planets" called the Moon's Nodes, the Dragon's Head and Tail. These nodes are not real rocks, like the Moon, Mars or Venus, but sensitive points that mark the movement by declination of the Moon from the southern celestial hemisphere to the northern (the North Node) and vice versa (the South Node), where the path of the Moon around the Earth sweeps across the ecliptic, intersecting the apparent path of the Sun. The nodes form an axis, so the South Node is always directly opposite the North Node in a stately cosmic quadrille. Nevertheless, the Moon's Nodes are vitally important in terms of the destinies of all who dwell on Planet Earth. See The Moon's Nodes for more on this.
I was originally prompted to write the first edition of this article because of the devastation wrought by the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province of China which killed thousands, the horrors of Cyclone Nargis in Burma (Myanmar) which slaughtered tens of thousands and left millions homeless, deadly tornados in the USA, bombings in the Middle East and so on. There were a number of astrological pointers, including the stations of Saturn and Jupiter, the two Great Chronocrators, with Neptune and Mercury about to turn retrograde, but the significant trigger might well have been the stressful square aspect of the Sun to the Moon's Nodes on May 13, 2008. This phenomenon is known as a Moon Wobble.
Rescuers at work in 2010 Haiti Earthquake
There have been further major disasters associated with Moon Wobbles already this year, 2010, as there are every year, including the widespread earthquakes and flooding associated with the Wobble before the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Capricorn on January 15, 2010, and of Saturn turning retrograde opposing retrograde Mars on Jan 13.
The most striking so far in the current cycle have been the horror weather in the US, Europe and Australia, a series of minor earthquakes, then a catastrophic quake which has shattered Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, in the Caribbean, on Jan 12. This occurred just one day after the peak of the Moon Wobble. It's significant that a Lunar Eclipse occurred on New Year's Eve exactly conjunct Haiti's natal Sun in the 11th degree of Capricorn. The Moon Wobble (the exact conjunction of the Sun with the North Node) occurred on Jan 11 in the 22nd degree of Cap. The Earthquake occurred the next day, with the Sun and Venus tightly conjunct the North Node, transiting Pluto exactly conjunct Haiti's natal Mars, and transiting Mars retrograde exactly conjunct Haiti's natal South Node. Interestingly, the earthquake Moon is exactly conjunct the Galactic Core, a profoundly potent cosmic location, again first discovered in the 1930's. It's notable that Haiti is currently undergoing a Saturn Return, with earthquake Saturn stationary about to turn retrograde (Jan 13) in tight conjunction with Haiti's natal Saturn. And to top it off, a Solar Eclipse will occur on Jan 15.
So the moon-wobble and the eclipse cycle is not the only weakening factor, as other aspects have to be considered. But when these aspects coalesce—and there is a Moon Wobble—you can bet that the trigger will be the moon-wobble. Geo-scientists did warn months before that Haiti was on an unstable fault-line, but had they paid attention to the eclipse and moon-wobble cycle, the people could have taken precautions.
Since that time there have been a number of heavy disasters, notably flooding with loss of life and massive dislocation in spots across the world, not all related to this phenomenon. However, as the next one approaches on July 4, the pace is hotting up. You can see the list of moon-wobble associated disasters for yourself in the table at the end of this article.
Carl Payne Tobey
Moon Wobbles were discovered in the 1930's, when research by astrologer Carl Payne Tobey (1902-1980), the original editor of Astrology Magazine, revealed that disasters occur in cycles associated with the conjunction (0°), opposition (180°) and square (90°) from the Sun to the Moon's Node. These powerful contacts occur when the Sun and the Node are in the same sign, or the opposing sign, or when the Sun is in a square aspect to the nodal axis.
Carl Payne Tobey
They are especially potent when the New Moon or Full Moon are square to the Nodes. On October 18, 2009, we saw the New Moon in Libra forming a partile square to the Nodes, emphasising the potency of the aspect, for the Sun and Moon are both precisely square the nodal axis at the New Moon.
As he discovered after a painstaking examination of a large number of major disasters, many of the most serious and traumatic catastrophes involving fire, bad weather and loss of life occur in association with eclipses, when the Sun and Moon are conjunct the Moon's Nodes, especially when other unfortunate planetary aspects coincide. However, not all of these evils are exclusively linked with eclipses, for many are associated with the Sun forming a T-square to the nodal axis, i.e. when the Sun is in a 90° aspect to the nodes.
Storm over Volcano in Iceland 2010 (Marco Fulle)
This he called a "Moon Wobble", because in fact it is when the Moon is "wobbling" in its path by declination. So when the Sun forms an aspect to the nodes of 0°, 90°, or 180°, we experience a significant likelihood of massive environmental damage with much loss of life and property.
These Moon Wobbles occur every 86.5 days on average, with an orb of approximately 5 degrees (days) on either side of the precise date, when the Sun forms either the T-square with the nodal axis, or the conjunction with the North or South Nodes. Tobey notes that when the Sun squares the Nodes, judgement is notoriously poor and unstable, especially for people under stress or in leadership positions. Some astrologers hold that the two weeks before the partile aspect are problematic, with the week following the aspect also being notable in terms of disasters, but my view is that we can allow 10 or more days on either side of the peak aspect, as shown in the table.
Moon Wobble Patterns
The Sun takes a year to complete one revolution of the Zodiac, usually making four or five contacts with the Lunar Nodes in the process. For example,
during the current Capricorn/Cancer nodal transit, which commenced in July/August 2009, the Sun in Libra reaches the Square aspect with the Nodes on at the New Moon of October 18, 2009, and again on September 30, 2010.Sun/Node Alignments
When the Sun is in Libra on Oct 18, 2009, the New Moon makes a square (90°) aspect to the Nodes. This is a truly powerful aspect.
When the Sun is in Capricorn in January 2010, we will see the conjuction of Sun and North Node (an opposition to the South Node) on January 11, associated with a Solar Eclipse in Capricorn on Jan 15.
When the Sun is in Aries square to the Nodes on Apr 6, 2010, it precedes the New Moon on April 14, so will not be as strong as the Libra '09 alignment [or so I thought, but if we look at the effects, I was too optimistic!]
When the Sun is in Cancer, in July 2010, we will have a conjunction with the South Node (opposition to the North Node, as the nodes are always an axis) on July 4, associated with a Lunar Eclipse on June 26 and Solar Eclipse on July 11.
When the Sun is in Libra, in September 2010, it squares the nodes on September 30 associated with a New Moon on October 7.
When the Sun is in Capricorn, in December 2010 we see a conjunction with the North Node on December 24, associated with a Lunar Eclipse on Dec. 21.
The Lunar Nodes move through each sign of the Zodiac in a little over eighteen months, so for a Moon Wobble to occur in the same sign and configuration with the Nodes it takes around 19 years. Each Moon Wobble pattern is thus unique until repeated some 19 years later.
Man picks through debris of 2009 Samoa Tsunami
As Jim D'Amato points out, ancient astrologers associated the beginnings and ends of wars, major battles, mine explosions and animal stampedes with eclipses, both solar and lunar. These two types of eclipses generally happen about two weeks apart every six months and really make a notable splash once every two years. Tobey found that disasters happened about every three months; he correlated them as well to the geometric and mathematical square to the possible eclipse points, the Moon's Nodes. This is a clear indication of the stress and tension in the collective consciousness denoted by subliminal patterns marked by the interaction of the Sun and Moon when associated with the Moon's Nodes. Plato is reputed to have had the phrase "Let no-one enter who is ignorant of geometry" (ageômetrètos midèis eisitô) inscribed above the door to his Academy. This motto is more subtle than you might think!
During these Moon Wobble periods, time and space seem to be more unstable, almost as if the fabric of the heavens has somehow weakened. People die – sometimes in great numbers – through dramatic releases of energy, especially explosions, fires, mass murders, earthquakes, floods and transportation accidents. For this reason, it makes sense to keep track of the Moon Wobble phenomena and to note where they fall in your own chart.
Moon Wobble Periods
Even though Tobey gave it an orb of 5 degrees (days), the effects of the Moon Wobble tend to appear some 10 days before the partile (exact) configuration, the peak date, and cease pretty much around 10 days after the peak date, especially when associated with major planetary aspects involving the outer planets. That makes a sensitive period of up to 20 days, four or five times a year, regular as clockwork. I'd say this is due to the wide orb of the Sun (17°), which moves on average slightly over one degree per day through the zodiac.
Crushed Cars in 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Needless to say, disasters are not the exclusive province of Moon Wobbles (the massive 8.8 Mg earthquake in Chile on Feb 28, 2010 was not associated with a moon-wobble, although it was with the potent Full Moon in Aquarius that has been the trigger for widespread major weather disasters during March 2010), but they are disaster-prone phases, especially when associated with problematic planetary aspects, or with major retrograde periods. These phases bring suppressed tensions to the surface, both in human beings and in natural scenarios, often with catastrophic results. The effects on individuals depends on where the aspect falls in their charts, but by and large these phases are warnings to be appropriately prepared and not to undertake major decisions, as reality is clouded during these periods. It's worth ordering a forecast from us that will explain the potential effects of the Moon Wobble phases for the year ahead on your own life.
Some notable example of disasters that occurred during the Moon Wobble phase will drive home the point. There is a very long list of them, far too many to list, although since October 2009 I have covered more, especially the manmade nasties, such as bombings and the like. Disasters occur not only in the lead up to malefic aspects around an eclipse or Moon wobble, but also as the affected degrees are subsequently activated. See Ian Thurnwald's detailed analysis of the aftermath of the massive Solar Eclipse in Aug 99 for examples of this.
The location of disasters indicated tends to follow the path of the preceding eclipse, as this has already been sensitised, the cosmic fabric having been weakened, so to speak (see, for example, the January 2009 eclipse and the July 2009 eclipse; more detail with links can be seen on our Eclipse pages). So given the vast sums involved in researching and predicting storms, earthquakes, tsunamis and the like, not to mention the horrendous costs of cleaning up, it might be worth the authorities investing in some astrological research and qualified staff. This would be worth much much more than the cost.
|Moon Wobbles 2008|
||Relevant Aspects & Associated Disasters
|• Solar Eclipse Feb 7
• Lunar Eclipse Feb 21
||• Mars opp Pluto:
• Feb. 3, Congo: 45 killed and about 450 injured after two strong earthquakes, of 6.0 and 5.0 Magnitude.
• Feb. 5-6, U.S.A..: 55 killed and hundreds injured after violent tornadoes rip through southern United States.
• Feb. 7, U.S.A.: explosion at sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia kills 14 and injures many more.
• Feb. 21, Venezuela: Passenger plane crashes into mountain in Sierra La Culata National Park killing all 46 aboard.
|• Taurus Sun sq Nodes
||• May 2, Burma: Cyclone Nargis, when hundreds of thousands were killed or displaced
• May 12, China: Sichuan Earthquake killed nearly 100,000, leaving 4.5 million homeless.
• May 13, India: 80 people killed in serial bomb blasts in Jaipur.
|• Solar Eclipse Aug 1
||• Mars opp Uranus:
• July 24 Japan: 90 injured & thousands of homes lose power in a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake near Iwate.
• July 26 India: 57 killed in Ahmedabad after 18-odd synchronised bombs went off in less than 2 hours.
• July 27 S.E. Europe: major flooding in Ukraine and Romania kills 18 causing $300 million in damages.
• Aug 1 Pakistan: avalanche on K2, world's second-highest mountain, kills 11 climbers, injures others.
• Aug 4, India: 150 die as landslide rumours cause stampede in Hindu Goddess fest. at Naina Devi temple.
• Aug 5, N. California: 9 firefighters die in helicopter crash/burn in Shasta-Trinity Nat. Forest. Cause unknown.
• Lunar Eclipse Aug 16
• Mars sq Pluto:
• Aug 10, Canada: explosions at gas facility force thousands in Toronto to evacuate. Some injured, 1 dies.
• Aug 20, Spain: 153 die as passenger plane skids & bursts into flames during takeoff in Madrid.
• Aug 23, U.S.A.: 12 die & thousands of properties flooded as trop. storm Fay makes landfall 4 times in Fl. and Ga.
|• Scorpio Sun squ Nodes
• Mars sq Neptune; Saturn opp Uranus:
• Oct. 29, Pakistan: 6.4 Magnitude quake hits S.W. Pakistan, kills 170 & wrecks 15,000 homes.
• Oct. 30, India: explosions in Assam kill 55 and wound over 200.
• Nov 7, Haiti: 90 students die & over a hundred injured in school collapse in Port-au-Prince.
• Nov 9, Sea of Japan: 20 die and 21 injured in Russian submarine fault.
|Moon Wobbles 2009|
||Relevant Aspects & Associated Disasters
|• Solar Eclipse Jan 26
||• Venus opp Saturn:
• Jan. 24, France & Spain: 15 die & a million homes without power as 100 mph winds hit; worst storm since 1999.
• Jan. 26, Turkey: avalanche slams 17 Turkish hikers on Mt Zigana, dragging them 1,640 ft, killing 10.
• Jan. 27-28, S.W. U.S.A.: 23 die in severe storms. Schools close; a million homes left without electricity.
|• Lunar Eclipse Feb 9
||• Saturn opp Uranus; Mars sesquisq Saturn; Mars semisq Uranus :
• Feb. 9, Australia: over 160 die when arsonists start about 400 wildfires—some of the worst in Australia's history.
• Feb. 10, U.S.A.: cluster of tornadoes rip through Oklahoma, killing 8 and injuring over a dozen.
• Feb. 12, U.S.A.: 50 passengers and crew die as flight from Newark crashes near Buffalo, killing 1 on the ground.
|• Taurus Sun sq Nodes
• April 6, Italy: earthquake Magnitude 6.3 kills 200, injuring 1,000. Town of L'Aquila is the epicentre.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for April 2009.
|• Lunar Eclipse, Jul 7
• Mars sq Neptune; Mars sq Jupiter:
• June 30, Italy: freight train derails and crashes into small town, killing 12, injuring 50. LNG container explodes.
• June 30, Indian Ocean: Yemeni Jet hits ocean trying to land at Comoros. 152 killed; 1 survivor, a 14-year-old girl.
• July 6, China: ethnic riots in Urumqi between Muslim Uighurs & Han Chinese & the police kill 156.
• July 15, Iran: Caspian Airlines plane crashes en route to Yerevan, Armenia, killing all 168 passengers.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for July 2009.
|• Solar Eclipse, Jul 22
• Mars sq Neptune; Mars sq Jupiter:
• July, India: massive flooding in India kills scores and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless.
• July 24, Iran: 16 die as Aria Air flight skids off the runway, catching fire in Mashhad, Iran.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for August 2009.
|• Lunar Eclipse, Aug 6
• Mars sq Pluto:
• August 7, Philippines: 22 tourists on Mount Pinatubo trapped and killed in heavy rain, flooding & landslides.
• August 8, New York: helicopter and plane collide over Hudson River, killing all 9 on the private plane.
• August 10, Taiwan: Typhoon Morakot causes mudslide burying schools, homes, killing 600.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for August 2009.
|• Libra Sun sq Nodes
• Merc opp Uranus; Sun sq Pluto; Saturn contra Uranus; Merc sq Pluto; Mars conj SN:
• Sep 28, Philippines: 90 die in and around Manila in flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana
• Sep 29, Samoa: hundreds die, thousands left homeless in tsunami caused by Magnitude 8.0 undersea quake
• Sep 30, Indonesia: thousands die, buildings destroyed in Mg. 7.6 quake near Padang, Sumatra. Massive aftershocks.
• Oct 1, Indonesia: further death and destruction in Mg. 6.6 quake near Bengkulu, Sumatra.
• Oct 2, Tonga: further deadly quakes in the region, including Mg. 6.1 near Hihifo, as undersea volcano erupts.
• Oct 5, India: millions affected, hundreds dead in worst flood on record across Central India.
• Oct 7, Thailand: 40 injured, 4 killed in terrorist bomb attacks in South Thailand.
• Oct 8, Indonesia: asteroid explodes over Bone, Sulawesi, with 2 to 3 times the force of Hiroshima & Nagasaki atom bombs.
• Oct 9, Philippines: 160 killed as torrential rains cause mudslides. (Since Sep 26 over 450 killed due to storms.)
• Oct 9, Afghanistan: suicide bomber blows up Indian embassy in Kabul; kills 17 & injures many more
• Oct 10, Pakistan: climax of weeklong violence, attack on Pak GHQ Rawalpindi; 11 soldiers & 4 Taliban die, many wounded.
• Oct 10, Nigeria: over 70 killed as fuel tanker flips & explodes in Anambra.
• Oct 10, Haiti: UN plane crashes killing 11 on border of Dominican Republic, 45 km from Port-au-Prince
• Oct 11, Cambodia: 17 killed after river ferry capsizes on a tributary of the Mekong.
• Oct 12, Pakistan: car bomb in Shangla marketplace kills 41. Pakistani jets bomb Taliban camps kill 17.
• Oct 13, Nepal: 4,000 families displaced; 152,000 affected, 62 die; houses, crops destroyed in W. Nepal floods, landslides.
• Oct 15, Pakistan: coordinated series of terror attacks focusing mainly on Lahore kill 39. Pakistani jets bomb Taliban, kill 60.
• Oct 16, Iraq: 12 killed, 70 injured by suicide bomber in Sunni mosque at Tal Afar, near Mosul.
• Oct 18, India: At least 33 killed in Tamil Nadu as explosion sets fire to firecracker warehouse.
• Oct 18, Mexico: Hurricane Rick, massive cat. 5 storm produces 180mph winds & 50' waves; heading for Baja California.
• Oct 19, Austria: Hailstorms decimate wild animals; thousands killed; hunting banned;$100 million damage to crops, property.
• Oct 19, Thailand: Remotely detonated motorcycle bomb injures 24 in marketplace at Yala. Muslim separatists blamed.
• Oct 21, Pakistan: 4 die, 18 wounded in twin blasts at International Islamic University, Islamabad. Taliban claim responsibility.
• Oct 21, Yemen: Dozens killed as Saudi forces clash with Houthi rebels in North Yemen.
• Oct 21, India: At least 21 die & 20 injured when trains collide near Agra, en route to Delhi.
• Oct 22, Hindu Kush: Strong earthquake (mg 6.2) in towering Hindu Kush mountains shakes eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• Oct 22, New Zealand: Windows 7 unleashed at midnight on fearful world...
• Oct 23, Pakistan: Terror blasts rock Peshawar, Islamabad, Mohmand (nr Ghalnai); at least 21 killed, many injured.
• Oct 25, Afghanistan: 2 chopper crashes in South & West of country kill 14 US soldiers, injure 26 (14 Afghan, 12 US).
• Oct 25, Iraq: Coordinated suicide bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 155, injure 500. Al-Qaeda blamed.
• Oct 28, Pakistan: Massive car bomb kills 91, injures 200 in Peshawar market. Taliban deny responsibility.
• Oct 28, Afghanistan: Suicide attack on UN quarters in Kabul kills 8. Taliban say this is the first of many to disrupt election.
• Oct 30, USA: San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge failure scares commuters as 5000 pounds of iron falls on traffic.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for October 2009.
|• Lunar Eclipse Dec 31
• Saturn sq Pluto; Merc retro; Mars retro:
• Dec 17, UK; Europe: Blizzards in East UK and West Europe. Airports closed, vast traffic jams.
• Dec 18, UK; Europe: Eurostar trains stuck in Channel Tunnel for days due to bad weather.
• Dec 18, Malawi: Mg 6.4 quake kills 4, displaces 32,000; 3,000 children under 5 affected.
• Dec 21, USA: Powerful snowstorms bury East Coast
• Dec 21, Montserrat: Soufrière Hills volcano on Caribbean island Montserrat erupts spewing vast plumes of ash.
• Dec 18–23, W. Europe: 55,000 travellers trips cancelled or jammed in snowbound trains. Airports closed; flights out.
• Dec 22, Fiji: Cyclone Mick creates havoc across Fiji, costs millions, damages schools, kills 4.
• Dec 24–31, UK; Europe: Avalanches, traffic accidents kill several. Airports, ferries, trains cancelled; celebrations disrupted.
• Dec 26, West Africa: Widespread fires cause destruction
• Dec 28, Philippines: Mayon Volcano erupts 500 km SE of Manila causing 48,000 to flee homes.
• Dec 28, Montserrat: Soufrière Hills volcano on Caribbean island erupts again.
• Dec 28, Colombia: 60,000 affected; wide material losses after 48 hrs heavy rain NW Colombia.
• Dec 28, Argentina: 3,000 displaced by floods 100km north of Buenos Aires
• Dec 28, Peru: Floods and landslides affect thousands
• Dec 29, Mexico: Mg.5.8 quake in Baja California rocks U.S.-Mex border region, felt 100 miles west in San Diego.
• Dec 29, Australia: Floods destroy property, threaten lives in NSW and Qld (E. Coast), fires ravage WA (W. Coast).
• Dec 30, West Australia: Wildfires destroy 40 homes, scorch 33,000 acres of land north of Perth.
• Dec 31, USA: Disaster area declared in Kansas due to storms.
• Dec 31, Afghanistan: Suicide bomber kills 7 CIA operatives, wounds 4 at US Base near Pakistan border.
• Dec 31, Afghanistan: Roadside bomb kills 5 Canadians, injures 5 near Kandahar.
• Dec 31, Finland: Gunman kills 4, injures others in shopping mall at Espoo, near Helsinki. Gunman & girlfriend suicide
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for December 2009.
|Moon Wobbles 2010|
||Relevant Aspects & Associated Disasters
|• Solar Eclipse Jan 15
• retro Merc/Pluto squ retro Saturn; Chiron conj Neptune; retro Mars at avatar; Jupiter enters Pisces:
• Jan. 1, Brazil: 60 die, many injured as hillside collapses, destroying houses at resort near Rio.
• Jan. 2, Colombia: Galeras volcano erupts. Red Cross says 8,000 need to be evacuated.
• Jan. 2, Congo DR: Volcano Mt Nyamuragira erupts 25 km from Goma (pop. 600,000). Lava threatens people, chimps.
• Jan. 2, Pakistan: 75 killed, scores injured by Taliban suicide bomber at volleyball match in NW Frontier province.
• Jan. 3, Tajikistan: 20,000 left homeless as Mg.5.3 quake strikes Pamir Mountains near Afghan border.
• Jan. 3, Australia: Massive flooding in northern NSW hits hundreds of farms. 1,200 evacuated. Stock losses.
• Jan. 3, Philippines: Mg. 5.3 quake hits Mindanao Island 102km SE of Davao.
• Jan. 3, Mexico: 2 more earthquakes (Mg.3.1 & 4.0) strike Baja California; felt in San Diego.
• Jan. 3, Solomon Is.: Mg. 6.3 quake 100km SSE of Gizo, then aftershock Mg. 7.2 an hour later in same area.
• Jan. 4, USA: Mg. 4.1 quake shakes Cedar City Utah; Mg 4.1 quake shakes Redway, NW of Sacramento California.
• Jan. 5, USA: Bad weather freezes Eastern States from Florida up. Major crop damage. Has been serious since solstice.
• Jan. 5, Costa Rica: 11,000 ft Turrialba volcano (last active 19th C) erupts, spewing ash and steam. Families evacuate.
• Jan. 6, USA: Frigid weather hits mid-west. Blizzards, snowdrifts, chill factor of –52 reported Nebraska, N. Dakota.
• Jan. 6, UK: England freezes: traffic accidents, transport delays, animal deaths; sea freezes in Dorset; 10,000 schools shut.
• Jan. 6, Sthn Ocean: Sea Shepherd protest boat Ady Gil hit by Jap. whaler Shonan Maru 2. International incident feared.
• Jan. 7, Sudan: Ethnic clashes kill 140, wound 90 in S. Wunchuei region. 30,000 cattle stolen. Civil war threatens.
• Jan. 7, N. Europe: Big freeze kills; Eurostar stranded in Channel Tunnel. Flights disrupted UK, France, Ireland, Netherlands.
• Jan. 7, Germany: At least 9 homeless men have frozen to death.
• Jan. 7, Sweden: Temp. in central Sweden plunges to –40°C, coldest weather in 25 years.
• Jan. 8, Southern Ocean: Damaged protest boat Ady Gil lost at sea under tow. Furore hots up calls for govt action
• Jan. 8, Angola: 3 killed, 9 injured in rebel ambush of bus carrying Togo International football team in northern province.
• Jan. 9, USA: Mg 6.5 quake shakes N. California. Power out for 25,000 at Eureka, jumble of debris.
• Jan. 11, USA: Mg 4.3 quake rocks Banning Ca, 80 miles east of L.A. preceded by several smaller quakes, the largest Mg 3.2
• Jan. 12, Haiti: Mg 7.0 quake shatters Port-au-Price. Thousands die; tens of thousands of homes lost; worst quake ever in Haiti.
• Jan. 12, New Guinea: 40 die, 8 injured when 2 buses collide on the Highlands Hwy, 100km from provincial capital Lae.
• Jan. 13, Guatemala: Mg 6.0 quake 60 miles SE of Guatemala City on Pacific coast near El Salvador. No casualties reported.
• Jan. 14, Afghanistan: Suicide bomber kills 20 in busy marketplace town of Dihrawud, in central Uruzgan province.
• Jan. 15, Venezuela: Mg 5.6 quake near coastal town Carupano. No casualties reported.
• Jan. 16, Argentina: Mg 6.1 quake 220 miles SE of Ushuaia, between Argentina and Antarctica. No casualties reported.
• Jan. 17, China: Mg 3.4 quake & mudslides in SW Guizhou province kill 7, injure 9.
• Jan. 18, Cayman Islands: Mg 5.8 quake struck 40 miles from George Town. No casualties reported.
• Jan. 18, Egypt: Torrential storms, floods on Red Sea coast & Sinai kill 7, many missing. Hundreds of homes destroyed.
• Jan. 18, Ecuador: Tungurahua volcano erupts 180 km south of Quito, spewing ashes and lava. Evacuations, no casualties.
• Jan. 18, Afghanistan: Taliban attack Kabul in major assault. Suicide bombers & gunmen occupy buildings, battle security forces.
• Jan. 19, USA: Lone gunman kills 8, downs police helicopter, near Appomattox, Virginia.
• Jan. 19, Japan: JAL, Asia's largest airline, files for bankruptcy protection, owing $25bn. Will cut 15,700 jobs.
• Jan. 20, Haiti: Mg 6.1 aftershock shakes Port-au-Prince after 8 days of chaos, many smaller shocks.
• Jan. 20, USA: Hundreds in fire-ravaged areas ordered to evacuate across California as powerful storm batters region.
• Jan. 21, USA: Rain, snow, tornados pulverise S. California in 5th day of extreme weather. Power outages. Mudslides threaten.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for January 2010.
|• Aries Sun sq Nodes
• Pluto turns reto; retro Merc trine retro Pluto; Saturn retrogrades into Virgo; Saturn opposes Uranus:
• Feb. 27–Mar. 25: Massive Earthquakes and bad weather have struck worldwide so far this month, notably the 8.8 Mg quake near Concepcion in Chile on Feb 27, which killed some 500 people and wrecked thousands of homes. However, these are not associated with the moon-wobble phenomenon, although the quake chart had Saturn conjunct MC, with nodes rising right on the ascendant/descendant axis almost to the minute. Chile's natal chart was heavily afflicted, with natal Moon in the nodal degree, as well as quake Moon in the nodal degree. Chile's chart has its own nodes rising conjunct the ascendant to within a degree. This was one of the worst quakes ever recorded. Too much info for this section, but I hope to do an article outlining the cosmic factors and protections that reduced the evils to a manageable situation, unlike in Haiti, where the gods took their toll in full.
• Mar. 26, Chile: Mg 6.2 quake strikes northern Chile near Copiapo, 380 miles north of the capital of Santiago. No casualties
• Mar. 26, USA: Mg 3.4 undersea quake strikes Channel Islands off Sth California near San Miguel Island. Largest of 4 quakes in Channel Islands & Santa Monica Bay in past week.
• Mar. 28, China: 153 miners trapped by flood & collapse in Wangjialing coalmine, Shanxi province. Number killed unknown.
• Mar. 29, USA: Strong low system over Ohio Valley continues violent storm activity into Mid-Atlantic. Injuries; houses damaged.
• Mar. 29, Bahamas: Tornado kills 3, injures 4 at Freeport, western Grand Bahama. Trees uprooted; hotel windows blasted.
• Mar. 29, Russia: 2 female suicide bombers hit Moscow subway, killing 40 people and injuring 90. Islamist rebels blamed
• Mar. 29, Korea: S. Korean 1,200-ton corvette Cheonan sunk by suspected N. Korean torpedo. 40 sailors killed.
• Mar. 30, USA: Record-breaking rainstorms flood Eastern Coast from Miami to New York. Storm surges warned.
• Mar. 31, USA: Flooding on scale rarely seen in New England forces hundreds from homes, washing out bridges & highways from Maine to Connecticut. Rhode Island hardest hit by worst floods in 200 years.
• Mar. 31, Iceland: Volcano under Eyjafjallajokull glacier in south Iceland forms new craters spewing lava; began erupting 10 days ago, forcing hundreds to evacuate; flights diverted.
• Mar. 31, Russia: 2 suicide bombers kill 12 near Dagestan/Chechnya border. Russian govt. battles Islamist insurgency in Nth Caucasus.
• Apr. 1, Mexico: Dozens of gunmen in coordinated attacks target 2 army garrisons in northern Mexico; firefights kill 18 attackers.
• Apr. 2, Iraq: Gunmen in Iraqi military uniforms raid homes in Sunni village south of Baghdad, kill 25, execution-style, including 5 women.
• Apr. 2, Pakistan: Govt planes bomb insurgents, kill 18 in Orakzai, in NW province.
• Apr. 3, Australia: Chinese coal-carrier Shen Neng 1 aground on pristine Douglas Shoals, Great Barrier Reef east of Great Keppel Is., Queensland. Breakup & oil-spill threatens.
• Apr. 3, Russia: Pres. Lech Kaczynski & many of Poland's highest military & civilian leaders die as presidential jet crashlands in thick fog in W. Russia, killing 96. Poland declares week of national mourning.
• Apr. 4, Mexico: Mg 7.2 quake 19 miles SE of Mexicali, on US/Mex border; biggest in region in 18 years. Major damage, 2 killed in Calexico 1000 aftershocks & "triggered" quakes on both sides of border.
• Apr. 5, Worldwide: Sharp gust of solar wind carrying charged particles hits Earth's magnetosphere at approx 0800 UT, sparking strongest geomagnetic storm in 4 years.
• Apr. 5, USA: Swarm of small quakes at a Mount Redoubt volcano 100 miles SW of Anchorage, Alaska, threatens eruption.
• Apr. 5, Pakistan: Taliban suicide bombers kill 8 at US Consulate in Peshawar; earlier suicide attack kills 41 in NW Province.
• Apr. 5, USA: Explosion rocks coalmine in Montcoal, W. Virginia; kills 12 & traps at least 10 thousands of feet underground in worst U.S. mine disaster since 2006.
• Apr. 5, Brazil: Worst rains in Rio's history bring floods, mudslides, kill over 100; 300,000 homeless.
• Apr. 6, Indonesia: Mg 7.8 quake at 5:15 AM 125 miles northwest of Sibolga in Sumatra. Tsunami warnings later withdrawn.
• Apr. 6, Iraq: Wave of terror bomb attacks kill 100, wound 160 in Baghdad & across country.
• Apr. 6, India: 73 police killed as 700 Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh (East Central India) ambush 120 personnel with bombs & gunfire.
• Apr. 7, Kyrgyzstan: 100 killed, 400 wounded in as police open fire on thousands of protesters at Bishkek.
• Apr. 8, Brazil: Mudlsides bury 200 in worst rains in Brazil, destroying homes in Niteroi near Rio.
• Apr. 9, Pakistan: Pak troops kill 54 insurgents in airstrikes in Orakzai. Scores of militants slain in recent days in NW province nr Afghan border.
• Apr. 10, USA: Mg 4.5 quake rattles San Diego in swarm of seismic activity, after Mg 7.2 quake on Mexican border last week.
• Apr. 11, Solomon Is: Mg 7.1 quake hit south-west of Kira Kira island in the South Pacific, about 130 miles south-east of the capital Honiara.
• Apr. 11, Thailand: Tourists warned after worst political violence in two decades kills 21, injures 874 in Islamic uprising in South Thailand.
• Apr. 11, Ireland: IRA dissidents detonate bomb outside British spy HQ in Northern Ireland, protesting new local Justice dept. 50 evacuated.
• Apr. 11, Italy: Landslide derails train in Northern Italy, kills 9, injures 28. Cascade of rocks, debris slam into train near Austrian border.
• Apr. 12, USA: Mg 4.0 quake strikes off Humboldt County, northern California. No immediate reports of injuries or damage.
• Apr. 12, Spain: Mg 6.2 quake strikes near Granada 320 km south of Madrid, but is deep underground, so little damage expected.
• Apr. 13, Peru: Huge glacier breaks off, plunges into lake in Andes near Carhuaz, 200 miles north of Lima; 23-metre tsunami destroys town.
• Apr. 14, India: Cyclone in West Bengal and Bihar kills 68, destroys 60,000 homes in North Dinajpur district, about 600 km north of Kolkata.
• Apr. 14, China: Mg 7.1 quake kills 1100, injures 10,000, destroys villages in Qinghai province, near Tibet. Series of massive quakes in quick succession flatten buildings, bury thousands.
• Apr. 14, Iceland: Volcano under ice in South erupts again. 800 evacuated. Smoke disrupts UK air traffic. Thousands stranded as flights grounded.
• Apr. 15, Myanmar (Burma): Ethnic rebel bombs hit Yangon (former capital aka Rangoon) kill 9, injure many more at New Year celebration.
• Apr. 15, Europe: Deadly volcanic ash from Iceland grounds flights to & from UK & Europe. Travel delays across globe as flights cancelled.
• For a list of other disasters, fires, earthquakes etc: Natural Disasters News for April 2010
|• Lunar Eclipse Jun 26
• Merc sq Mars; Jupiter & Uranus to Aries; Merc opp Pluto; Merc sq Jupiter; Sun opp Pluto; Moon conj Pluto:
• Apr. 20–Jun. 16: Since the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, which remains an ongoing environmental and economic catastrophe, there have been a very large number of natural and manmade disasters, too many to list, with the worst being floods and landslides in China, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, US, Brazil, Australia, deadly cold in South America etc. These are not directly associated with the Moon Wobble, but with other infrequent problematic developments in the cosmos, such as the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus with the malefic fixed star Scheat at the Aries Point, combined with the impending Cardinal Grand Cross that also features Saturn in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn, Nodes in Cancer/Capricorn and other nasties leading up to the Cardinal Climax on July 31, 2010. This current eclipse cycle is associated with this Cardinal Cross and subsequent Climax.
• Jun. 21, China: Huge floods in South kill at least 175, displacing 800,000. Many injured & missing; vast crop & property destruction.
• Jun. 21, Congo: 60 killed, 450 injured in rail accident 60 km from Pointe-Noire, Congo's second city, main commercial centre & port.
• Jun. 22, Brazil: Severe flooding decimates towns in Northeast, killing at least 41 & leaving over 120,000 homeless.
• Jun. 22, Turkey: 5 killed, 12 wounded in Kurdish rebel bombing of bus in Istanbul.
• Jun. 23, Canada: Thousands flee offices as mg 5.5 quake hits capital Ottawa, shaking Toronto & Montreal. Felt in New York. No casualties.
• Jun. 23, USA: Obama dismisses Gen. McChrystal from role in Afghanistan due to insubordination. Gen. Petraeus takes command.
• Jun. 23, Spain: 12 killed, 14 injured in rail accident at Castelldefels, south of Barcelona.
• Jun. 24, Australia: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd overthrown in "palace coup" by his deputy, Julia Gillard and treasurer Wayne Swan.
• Jun. 25, China: Deathtoll from floods in South climbs to 377. Millions displaced, hundreds missing; $11 billion in damages so far.
• Jun. 25, Bangladesh: Lancet documents "largest mass poisoning in history" as 77 million in Bangladesh exposed to toxic levels of arsenic.
• Jun. 26, India: 23 killed, 25 injured as bus collides with truck in Bihar, east of country.
• Jun. 27, Mexico: 9 killed in attack by gunmen on rehab centre in Gomez Palacio, north of country. Drug cartel suspected.
• Jun. 28, China: 100 buried in landslide at Dazhai, Guizhou prov. Rains & floods kill hundreds, displace millions this month in S. China.
• Jun. 28, Senegal: 11 killed in terrace collapse in Matam in north of country, while watching Senegal-South Korea football match on TV. Many injured.
• Jun. 29, Iraq: 8 killed including Iraq Army general in series of bomb attacks by militants.
• Jun. 29, India: 26 police killed in Maoist Naxalite rebel attack in central Chhattisgarh. Follows death of hundreds from attacks in April, May.
|• Solar Eclipse Jul 11
• Mars conj Saturn; Mars/Saturn opp Uranus/Jupiter; Jupiter sq Pluto; Mars sext Sun/Moon:
• Jun. 30, Mexico: 6 killed, severe flooding as Hurricane Alex lashes Gulf Coast. Monterrey flooded, 12 tonne statue Virgin of Guadalupe topples. Alex also kills 2 in Guatemala & 2 in El Salvador.
• Jul. 1, Turkey: 17 killed in Kurdish rebel attack on military base in SE Turkey.
• Jul. 1, Pakistan: 41 killed, 174 wounded in suicide terrorist attack on Sufi shrine in Lahore.
• Jul. 1, Japan: Toyota recalls 270,000 vehicles over engine fault. Follows 8 million recalled earlier this year over accelerator fault.
• Jul. 1, Mexico: 21 killed in battle 12 miles south of Mex/US border between rival groups associated with drugs & people-trafficking. Police arrest 9.
• Jul. 3, Congo: At least 220 die in fuel tanker accident in Sange, near Rwandan border, east of country. Scores injured as village burns.
• Jul. 3, South Korea: 12 die, 12 injured as bus plunges from bridge near Incheon International Airport, 70km west of Seoul.
• Jul. 4, Philippines: 15 killed, 48 injured in runaway bus crash on central island Cebu. Driver smashes into wall to avoid bystanders.
• Jul. 4, Red Sea: Pirates hijack oil tanker MT Motivator with crew of 18 Filipinos, near strait between Red Sea & Gulf of Aden.
• Jul. 5, Afghanistan: 64 militants & drug traffickers killed in Helmand province. 16 tonnes drugs seized + weapons, explosives, suicide vests.
• Jul. 5, Thailand: Govt extends state of emergency in 19 provinces, including capital Bangkok, in fears of renewed violence.
• Jul. 5, Romania: 10 (possibly 11) killed, 3 injured, in military training bi-plane crash close to Tuzla airport, just after take-off.
• Jul. 6, Egypt: Disgruntled bus driver kills 6, wounds 16 near Cairo with automatic weapon. He was depressed, say reports.
• Jul. 7, Iraq: Bomb attacks kill 50, wound 100 Shia pilgrims converging on shrine in northern Baghdad, say police.
• Jul. 9, Pakistan: Suicide motorcycle bomber kills 102, wounds 115 in Yakaghund village in Mohmand tribal region, bordering Afghanistan.
• Jul. 9, Afghanistan: Gunmen kill 11 wound 3 in ambush of Pak bus carrying Shia tribesmen on detour to avoid danger.
• Jul. 10, Spain: 1.1 million demonstrators march in Barcelona to claim Catalan autonomy, as Spain is gripped with World Cup fever.
• Jul. 11, Colombia: 12 rebels killed in midnight commando raid on FARC guerilla base, remote Tolima Mountains. 10 soldiers die in other battles.
• Jul. 11, Uganda: 64 killed, 65 injured in twin blasts in capital Kampala. Rugby club & restaurant bombed as fans watch World Cup final.
• Jul. 12, Haiti: 1700 displaced, some injured as electrical storm hits Corail-Cesselesse refugee camp north of Port-au-Prince.
• Jul. 13, Russia: 233 drown, scores die from heat in past week. Many drown taking swim after too much vodka. Worst drought in 100 years; 19 regions declare state of emergency. Roads melting; crops shrivelling.
• Jul. 13, Philippines: 68 killed, 84 missing in Typhoon Conson, north of Manila. Manila blacked out; 3 vessels sink including LPG tanker.
• Jul. 13, Japan: 2 killed, 3 injured in severe storms & landslide near Hiroshima.
• Jul. 13, China: 41 die in rain-triggered landslides in Western China; over 100 killed by flooding this month so far.
• Jul. 13, Germany: 3 killed, 11 injured in tornados & extreme weather; heavy rain & winds unroof houses.
• Jul. 14, Iran: 30 killed, 100 wounded in twin suicide blasts at Grand Mosque in SE city, Zahedan. Wahabi extremists blamed.
• Jul. 15, Chile: 2 strong quakes, Mg 5.3 (Tirua) & Mg 6.5 (300 miles S. of Santiago). Thousands flee in pre-dawn hours.
• Jul. 17, Vietnam: 600 homes damaged, 43 boats destroyed, 17 missing as Typhoon Conson strikes.
• Jul. 17, Pakistan: 18 Shia die in convoy ambush in Kurran tribal region near Afghan border. Sunni militants blamed.
• Jul. 17, Puerto Rico: Mosquito-borne Dengue Fever epidemic kills dozens, sickens thousands across entire Caribbean. Hospitals overloaded. Authorities fear increase as rainy season advances. US secure so far.
• Jul. 18, China: At least 38 miners killed in 3 separate accidents in dangerous coal mines. Lax safety blamed.
• Jul. 18, Mexico: Pre-dawn gun attack on birthday party in Torreon kills 17, injures 10. Drug runners suspected.
• Jul. 18, Argentina: 9 die in cold snap; more die in Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay & Uruguay. Patagonia temp: –14°C. Snow in Buenos Aires.
• Jul. 19, India: At least 40 killed, 100 injured as passenger train ploughs into another at Sainthia station, W. Bengal.
• Jul. 20, China: Flood update – 701 killed, 347 missing, 645,000 houses lost, 131 million people affected; 7 million hectares crops destroyed; $21 billion direct damage.
|• Libra Sun sq Nodes
• Full Moon in Aries; Saturn sq nodes; Jupiter conj Uranus; Mercury sq Pluto; Venus conj Mars:
I have not had time to update this sequence yet. In any case, I'll be scaling it back to truly major events, as I think the point has been made. However, I notice that the University of Nevada in Reno has just gained a $12.2 MILLION dollar grant to expand its earthquake lab. Perhaps they could incorporate the Moon's Nodes into their calculations? Or send a couple of mill in this direction and I'll do it for them. :)
|• Lunar Eclipse Dec 21
||• Mars sq Saturn; Mars conj Pluto:
What is the point of this table? Astrology is not all about prediction. It is also about research: honing our knowledge so we can make predictions about the future with more accuracy. That's how science works. Astrology is a spiritual science, but it also can be applied to mundane events in the world. This type of tabulation gives us a clue to the application of aspects and planetary alignments, in order to warn of future social and environmental problems before they happen. Astrology combined with relevant scientific observations can be a very valuable pointer and locator of natural and manmade disasters. The word "disaster" indeed means "ill-starred" in its original sense.
[This is the end of the article. Check back regularly for updates.]
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