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NASHVILLE – This week’s Nashville Pick is Jenny Owen Youngs and her single Avalanche – The airwaves are about to be struck with a sonic landslide as indie folk diva Jenny Owen Youngs prepares to launch her first full-length album in over a decade, Avalanche, out September 22 via her new digs at Yep Roc Records. Avalanche is more than an album; it’s a powerful testament to Youngs’ ten-year journey, transmuted into a compelling suite of songs that waltz with the full gamut of emotions from heartache and loss to joyous self-discovery and renewed love.
With her announcement, Youngs has debuted the eponymous lead single “Avalanche,” complete with an artfully curated visualizer featuring – you guessed it – avalanches. In an added treat for fans, Youngs also dropped a live rendition of “Avalanche,” featuring a musical tête-à-tête with The Antlers’ Peter Silberman. The performance, premiered by Paste, has already drawn admiration, lauded as a “thoughtful, introspective indie-folk track” showcasing Youngs’ ethereal, mournful vocals against a backdrop of patient guitar and snare-driven percussion.
Co-written with Madi Diaz, the lead track, “Avalanche,” is a poignant entrepôt to Youngs’ deeply personal narrative crafted into this album. “An avalanche is an extreme force, it can cause great harm, and when it’s over, you can be certain things will be different than they were before,” Youngs muses. “The unifying theme of this body of songs is the idea of moving from destruction to restoration, traveling through pain to possibility.”
Youngs penned the album amidst a whirlwind of life changes – a divorce, falling in love again, uprooting from the bright lights of Los Angeles to the charming serenity of coastal Maine, remarrying – and finding solace in being on the other side.
Filled with shimmering moments of despair giving way to hope and love, Avalanche is a sonic roller coaster ride. “There’s a good deal of heartbreak and disappointment in this music,” Youngs confesses, “but it ultimately gives way to excitement and promise, to the incredible, immeasurable bliss of falling in love and finding yourself again. These songs travel the whole emotional spectrum.”
The album features the collaborative magic of a host of friends including S. Carey, Madi Diaz, Peter Silberman, Christian Lee Hutson, with the rhythmic heartbeat provided by The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick and produced by Josh Kaufman. The result is an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth – a testament to Youngs’ journey. The tunes, while deceptively calm, often mask the emotional torrents beneath, leading to an unflinchingly honest and deeply vulnerable body of work. It’s a musical phoenix rising, transforming Youngs’ past heartaches into hope and transcendence.
Youngs, born and raised in rural New Jersey, had her early love affair with The Beatles, progressing to The Cranberries and Elliott Smith in her formative years. Her self-released debut, Batten The Hatches, caught the eye of Nettwerk Records, thanks to a high-profile feature in the Showtime series Weeds, leading to her 2009 follow-up, Transmitter Failure. After her third album, 2012’s An Unwavering Band Of Light, Youngs shifted gears, moving to LA to write for other artists and for film and TV.
Her songwriting prowess graced Pitbull’s “Bad Man”, which debuted at the 58th annual Grammy Awards in 2016, she co-wrote Shungudzo’s “Come On Back,” which was featured in the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack; and in 2018, she co-wrote Panic! At The Disco’s smash hit “High Hopes,” which is now seven-times platinum and broke the record for most weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart. Along the way, Youngs also launched Buffering The Vampire Slayer, an episode-by-episode podcast devoted to Buffy The Vampire Slayer that attracted more than 160,000 monthly listeners and led to a book deal with St. Martin’s Press. Youngs has recently introduced her new podcast series, The eX-Files, and anticipates releasing a narrative fiction podcast next year. Brace yourself, Jenny Owen Youngs’ avalanche is coming.
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Finding Inspiration in Every Meeting
North American Society of Periodontists (NASP) is a group of eleven periodontists who have been working together for more than 20 years. The NASP focus is primarily non-clinical, with the members coming together once a year to explore how to distinguish their practices in the areas of marketing, management, practice development, growth of referrals, and staff issues. Additionally, key office staff members in managerial positions are also invited to participate.
The NASP Core Member Group
The Core Group represents some of the most successful and highly productive periodontal practices in the U.S. The doctors, if not always visible in the conventional lecture circuit sense, as defined by the American Academy of Periodontology, are nonetheless extraordinary models of excellence.
Once a year at their annual meeting, the membership is opened, by invitation only, to approximately thirty additional practices. These Periodontists, most of whom have become perennial participants, share the belief that real success in practice is only partly about who has the best clinical training and technical expertise.
The group is diverse, with some members having less than ten years of practice experience to several soon approaching retirement. The varied perspectives of this wide continuum of successful practitioners are what makes this group unique.
Annual Invitational Meeting
The Annual Invitational NASP meeting is a two-day event. The first day consists of a nationally recognized speaker, presenting material on the subject of practice management. Day two consists of The Doctors' Mastermind Session, considered by most of the attendees to be more valuable than the formal podium presentation.
Prior to the meeting, in preparation for the Doctors' Mastermind Session, a series of questions is posed to the participants. Each individual is required to come to the meeting with short answers to each question. Sample questions range from "What has been your most effective marketing strategy?" to "How do you deal with employee issues and manage overhead?" These answers must be printed and are distributed to each doctor in attendance.
In addition to the foregoing, there is often a topic for discussion such as "Provide us with one great clinical 'pearl.'" Each doctor is further asked to bring a sample of his or her most effective office form. Each participant has approximately five to ten minutes to present answers and explain what they have brought to share. Active discussion and participation occurs with everyone freely sharing information. Each participant returns home with a large body of information, often containing a year's worth of great ideas which can be selectively tailored and implemented into one's practice.
The staff members in attendance participate in their own Staff Mastermind Session, requiring answers to questions similar to those posed to the doctors. Their answers are also presented in written form, providing the material for a spirited discussion. The unique perspective that staff members bring to the table provides yet another benefit to the practices participating in the program.
In short, because of NASP's size and the skewed sample of successful doctors, it has accomplished what other more formal organizations representing Periodontists has failed to do effectively: help create successful businesses. The group's unique focus assists individual practices in developing strategies for success in the real world.
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Join Natchez Trace in Zeeland our first gig in a year and a half! Boy howdy, this will be fun!
We're packing up the instruments and firing up the band van for a beautiful night of music at Lawrence Street Park to "Feel the Zeel!" This is always one of our favorite gigs in such a cool little amphitheater. If you haven't been, it's outdoor theater bench seating, so no need to bring a chair. Just bring all your friends and sing along as we play all our favorite acoustic rock classics in three part harmony, Natchez Trace style. Gig starts at 6:30 and ends at 8:00. Can't wait to see you again!
Love Ya, Man!
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It was the worst naval disaster at sea in U.S. history.
Seventy years ago this week, on July 30, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine in the south Pacific. So began a five-day ordeal of thirst, hypothermia, salt-water poisoning, hallucination, drowning, and dismemberment in shark-infested waters.
Out of a crew of 1,196, only 317 men survived.
For years the story seemed destined to be forgotten. Until the movie Jaws hit theaters in 1975, and Captain Quint’s now-infamous monologue about the relentless shark attacks thrust the Indianapolis incident into public consciousness, it seemed almost no one knew about it. (Read about the string of shark attacks that inspired Jaws.)
The survivors, of course, found the event impossible to forget. Since 1960, they’ve been meeting for reunions in Indianapolis to bond with their shipmates, tell their stories, and commemorate the worst week of their lives.
Louis “Kayo” Erwin. Coxswain
“When the sharks were around, I would pull my legs up as far as I could.”
As last weekend approached, 14 of the 31 remaining survivors gathered here for the 70th anniversary of the incident. It was not lost on the hundreds of family members, friends, and dignitaries in attendance that there may not be a similar gathering on the 75th. The reunions have been held annually for the last few years (after being biannual for several years before that), but with most of the survivors in their nineties, a vote is now taken every year whether to continue.
“Our numbers are dropping fast” says Harold Bray, a retired police officer from Benicia, California, who at 88 is the youngest survivor left. “We’ve lost three since the last reunion. It’s really tough to belong to a club like this.”
An Unexpected Celebration
But for an event that on first glance seems overshadowed by death—past and future—the primary tone is celebratory. Because the story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is not just a story of sharks, or suffering, or even survival. It’s a story that Quint, who in Jaws had his tattoo of the U.S.S. Indianapolis removed because he wanted no reminders of the event, would not even recognize. (Read 'What You Should Know about Shark Attacks.")
It’s a story of victory. Four days before their ship was sunk, the crew of the Indianapolis landed at Tinian island and delivered the components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima less than two weeks later, bringing a fast end to World War II. By the time the survivors recovered from their ordeal—most were on the brink of death when they were accidently spotted and rescued by a passing pilot—the war was over.
It’s a story of reconciliation. Among the guests at this year’s reunion were the daughter and granddaughter of Mochitsura Hashimoto, the Japanese submarine commander who ordered the sinking of the Indianapolis.
“At first I wasn’t sure if I would feel like the enemy,” says Atsuko Iida, the granddaughter, who lives in Centralia, Illinois, and came to her first reunion in 2001. But she was warmly embraced, and the forgiveness goes both ways. Iida joined the applause when a speaker mentioned the Hiroshima bombing as the catalyst for the war’s end, even though her grandfather’s family lived in the suburbs of Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped.
'Biggest Thing For Me Healing Up'
It’s a story of healing. “We all came home and tried to forget the war,” says Dick Thelan, a burly survivor from Lansing, Michigan, who drove trucks for 44 years. “In seven years, I didn’t say one word to my wife about the sinking. She didn’t know nothing.”
That was the rule, and if there were exceptions, they were rare—until the survivors began gathering for reunions. There they began talking about their experiences with each other, which made it easier to finally talk about them with their families.
“That relieved a lot of pressure off a lot of people, including myself,” Thelan says. “I think it’s very important for my family to know what happened. I’ve got five kids here, and grandkids—four generations will be here this weekend. This reunion has been the biggest thing for me healing up.”
It’s a story of appreciation. When 91-year-old survivor Cleatus Lebow arrived at the Indianapolis airport on Thursday from his home in Memphis, Texas, he was wheeled off the plane to a cheering crowd organized by the USO.
“I’ll bet you there were 3,000 people there, all clapping and waving flags,” he says, tearing up. “It was the best feeling I’ve ever had.” (Jeff Lupe, the USO coordinator, says the number was in the hundreds, not the thousands, but that’s just quibbling. As one survivor told him, “This is the reception we didn’t get when we returned from the war.”)
It’s a story of heroism from unexpected sources, and the eventual righting of long-standing wrongs. One of the most honored guests at this year’s reunion was Hunter Scott, who as an adolescent became obsessed with clearing the name of the Indy’s captain, Charles B. McVay III, who was court-martialed for his decisions the night the ship was sunk.
To a man, the survivors of the Indianapolis had long considered their captain a scapegoat for the Navy’s failure to realize the ship was missing and send out search parties. Their five days waiting in vain and dying in droves? Not McVay’s fault, but the Navy’s. Thanks in no small part to Scott’s perseverance, McVay was exonerated by the U.S. Congress and President Clinton in 2000.
One Less Survivor
It’s a story of a broad and deep community. “I’ve been coming to these reunions since I was ten years old,” says Carol Burnside, the daughter of Chuck Gwinn, the pilot who spotted the surviving crew of the Indy bobbing in the ocean on the fourth day of their ordeal. (The survivors call him “the angel”).
“I’ve been in most of these men’s homes,” Burnside says. “I’ve grown up with their children. I’ve seen their kids get married. They embrace anybody who wants to know their story.” Which is why the reunions keep getting bigger, even as the survivors keep dwindling in number.
And it’s a story of faith—in life, and in the ability to carry on no matter what life brings.
Sunday morning, as a memorial service for the deceased drew the reunion to a close, the announcement came that Florian Stamm, a 91-year-old survivor from Wisconsin, had died the night before in his nursing home. His 24-year-old grandson Mitchell Stamm, who in college made a film about the Indianapolis survivors for a class project, placed a rose in a vase on the stage in his honor, as his parents watched from their seats.
There are now 31 living survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. The reunion is on for next year.
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Chandrababu Naidu files 2 bail petitions in AP skill development scam case
CID is yet to file a counter to their bail pleas. As a result, Rao noted that the hearing may not come up on Friday
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naiduhas has filed two bail petitions, interim and regular, at the ACB court, which remanded Naidu.
He has been currently remanded to 14 days in judicial custody for his alleged role in a multi-crore Skill Development Corporation scam. In the bail petitions, Naidu has denied all the allegations against him and stated that there was no prima facie evidence on record against him. "We have filed two petitions - one is for interim bail and another for regular bail. However, the case may not be heard on Friday," said advocate G Subba Rao, a member of Naidu's legal team.
The Crime Investigation Department is yet to file a counter to their bail pleas. As a result, Rao noted that the hearing may not come up on Friday. However, the CID has been served the notice.
Naidu was arrested in the early hours of Saturday, September 9 at Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh by the state police's crime investigation department (CID) in connection with the Skill Development Corporation corruption case.
The police also arrested TDP leaders Kaluva Srinivasulu, Bhuma Brahmananda Reddy, AV Subba Reddy, BC Janardhan Reddy, and Akhila Priya.
Naidu was camping in a caravan at Nandyal for the night after addressing a huge public meeting in the town, where he had criticised chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s government for its alleged corruption.
Government funds worth Rs 371 crore are alleged to have been misappropriated for the benefit of private firms and siphoned off using shell companies in the corruption scam.
CID insists that Naidu allegedly possesses exclusive knowledge of the transaction, and hence his custodial interrogation is necessary. The investigation is focusing on locating the missing funds, about which only Naidu knows, the CID claims.
CID ADG N Sanjay underscored that the agency would investigate the role of TDP general secretary and Naidu's son Nara Lokesh in the Fibrenet and Amaravati Inner Ring Road scams.
The police charges against Naidu relate to criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, breach of trust, destruction of evidence, and abetment. As some of these sections involve non-bailable offences, Naidu will have to seek bail in court.
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Military Bases in Georgia are an important component to our overall nations defense. Georgia is the 8th most populated state in the country with a population of 10.2 million. Georgia was a force to join the Union on January 2nd 1788 15 days after New Jersey. Georgia is ranked 24th in total area and is the third largest former Confederate state in the country.
Georgia is directly ahead of North Carolina population line so it’s approximately 200,000 more residents while Ohio is directly ahead of Georgia with 1.3 million more inhabitants. States that border Georgia are North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. The highest point in Georgia is known as the Brasstown Bald and is located 4700 284 feet above sea level the lowest point in the state is where the state meets the Atlantic Ocean at sea level. The largest city in the state is Atlanta with a population of 460,000 and is located in the northern half of the state despite the relatively small population and the city itself the entire metropolitan area has a population of 5 million. The second largest city is Augusta with a population of 200,000 The great state of Georgia is known for its peaches, great food and southern hospitality. Below is some information of the military bases located in the state.
Map of Military Bases in Georgia
Moody Air Force Base
This base was created in support of WWII prior to the United States becoming involved. Moody AFB is home to the 23rd Wing, also known as the Flying Tigers. They specialize in “first-in” combat search and rescue operations as well close air support and other operations worldwide. The 23rd has been very busy recently with the goings on in the Middle East. Moody also hosts the 347th and the 563rd Rescue Group and 9 other tenants, including the 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing, the 820th Base Defense Group and the 336th Recruiting Squadron.
Robins Air Force Base
Robins AFB occupies almost 7,000 acres 100 miles south of Atlanta, making it the largest industrial complex in the state. It has a huge runway, measuring 12,000 feet long and 300 feet wide with two overruns of 1,000 feet each. This makes it an ideal location for the Air Logistics Center where they handle maintenance of popular planes in the Air Force inventory. Robins AFB is also home to the 5 groups of the 78th Air Base Wing, the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing, the 402nd Maintenance Wing and the 542nd Combat Sustainment Wing. All units work together and provide support to the Air Force war fighters.
Dobbins Air Reserve Base
Dobbins ARB is located about 20 miles north of Atlanta and hosts the 94th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. The 94th AW consists of a headquarters and medical element, along with Operations, Maintenance and Mission Support Groups. All of them work together to overlook a fleet of Hercules C-130 aircraft. Their mission is to train Air Force Reservists for duty during a national emergency, contingency tasking or wartime. The C-130’s are used to deliver cargo and troops and evacuate them when necessary in a wide variety of places worldwide. They also provide transport for paratroopers and can airdrop equipment during combat.
Fort Benning Army Base
Fort Benning Army base is a large Army base, covering 182,000 acres of land in west central Georgia. 120,000 active servicemembers and their families, veterans and reservists work to uphold the mission of Fort Benning – to be “First in training, First in readiness, and First in quality of life”. Fort Benning is made up of four primary areas also known as cantonments. The Main Post offers housing for the 36th Engineer Group, the 29th Infantry Regiment and more. Kelley Hill houses the 3rd Infantry Division’s Heavy Advise and Assist Brigade Combat Team. Sand Hill belongs to the Basic Combat Training and Infantry Training Brigades, and Harmony Church supports the 1/29th Infantry, the 2/29th Infantry Sniper School and the beginning part of Ranger School.
Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem are closed
Fort Gordon Army Base
Fort Gordon serves all four branches of the US Military, but the Army is by far the largest and holds command of the camp. It has a rather large population, consisting of over 16,000 military personnel 21,000 family members and almost 35,000 retirees. Its primary mission is to provide signal and weaponry training to soldiers and is home to the 35th Signal Brigade and the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade. There are many other units and tenants located here, and all of them report to the Installation Management Command (IMCOM). Fort Gordon is also home to the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, which provides high quality healthcare to personnel located in the Southeastern United States.
Fort Stewart Army Base
Covering 280,000 acres about 40 miles from Savannah, Fort Stewart is the largest military facility in the Eastern United States. Here you will find the 3rd Infantry Division, which is made up of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Brigade Combat Teams, the 3rd Sustainment Brigade and the Combat Aviation Brigade. The reliable weather in this area allows the base to run tank, field artillery, small arms ranges and gunnery training with little worry about conditions. This helps Fort Stewart uphold its mission of providing first-class training that prepares recruits for immediate deployment all over the world.
Hunter Army Airfield Army Base
Hunter works very closely with Fort Stewart Army Base. Its main runway is a staggering 11,375 feet long, and the base was once an alternative landing facility for NASA and the Space Shuttle. There are 350 acres of land dedicated to aircraft parking, a railroad station and a 75,000 square foot Arrival and Departure facility. Hunter Airfield is ideally set up to assist Fort Stewart in their mission to deploy military cargo and personnel anywhere in the world.
Camp Frank D Merrill Army Base
The camp is named in honor of Frank Dow Merrill, a highly decorated leader during WWII. It is more along the lines of a school than an actual Army base, as the Army Rangers have an education and training facility located here. It is also a meeting place for the 5th Ranger Training Battalion. There are three phases of Army Ranger training. They are named Benning, Mountain and Florida. Camp Merrill hosts the second phase of training – Mountain. Drills here focus on ground operations, specifically adapting to movement and tactical infiltration while in mountainous surroundings.
Marine Corps Logistics Base handles combat equipment for the eastern side of the United States. There is a sister base to this one located in California that does the same for the west coast. This base manages logistics and supply chain management, development and upkeep of combat equipment and creates strategic pre-positioning capability with the end goal of enhancing the readiness of our troops. It also supports other missions as requested by the Department of Defense.
NAS Atlanta Navy Base – Closed in 2009
Kings Bay Submarine Navy Base
Kings Bay is located just north of the Florida border near the south eastern coast of Georgia. Commands located here include the Trident Refit Facility (TRF), Strategic Weapons Facility, Atlanta (SWFLANT) and the Trident Training Facility (TTF). There are five Ohio-Class TRIDENT submarines here, as well as guided missile submarines the USS Florida and the USS Georgia. This Navy Base believes deeply in its goal to support the Fleet, Fighter and Family, and works hard to foster a universal feeling of teamwork amongst all personnel. | <urn:uuid:c0d76ea3-1172-423d-9918-7352ece83fc3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nationalvaloans.com/us-military/bases/georgia/ | 2023-09-22T11:47:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.964101 | 1,563 |
Apple iPhone users urged to update devices after 25 major security flaws were uncovered
Apple have urged iPhone users to update to iOS 16.6 which provides critical fixes to flaws that have put millions at risk of cyber attacks
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Apple iPhone users are being urged to update their phones to the latest system software, as soon as possible. It comes after the American tech company discovered more than 25 security issues with the current iPhone software.
The new iOS 16.6 update will provide critical fixes to flaws within the systems software that has put millions of device owners at risk of cyber attacks. The update won’t bring many new or flashy features to your phone but could save it from being hacked by a cybercriminal.
Apple has fixed over 25 security issues with the current iPhone software, with two already being identified by real-life attacks on users. Despite updating iPhones to prevent any further cyber issues, the company hasn’t shared many details on what the security issues are.
Apple has chosen to not share details as it could risk identifying them to hackers and cyber criminals and create further attacks on iOS users. Apple said: “This update provides important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.”
Users who fail to install the iOS update could make themselves easy targets for hackers, which have been described as “pretty severe vulnerabilities”. At least 11 of the security issues are in the Kernel which is part of the core make-up of the iOS system.
How to update iPhone to iOS 16.6
Many iPhones will automatically prompt users to update their iPhone to iOS 16.6 with a pop-up window, telling you that the new update is available. Clicking this pop-up is the easiest way to install the new update quickly.
If you’ve missed the pop up then you can manually update your iPhone. Here’s how to update your iPhone:
- Tap the ‘Settings’ app on your home screen
- Select ‘General’ and then ‘Software Update’
- Click ‘Download and Install’ and enter your passcode to start update
- To install update agree to Terms and Conditions and then select ‘Agree’ again in the pop-up window
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by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the joint press point with President of the European Council Donald Tusk
President Tusk, it was a great pleasure to meet you again.
Only a couple of days after you have taken office.
We agree that the relationship between NATO and the European Union is fundamental.
We share the same values, to which you have been dedicated your whole life.
And we share the same challenges.
To the east and to the south.
We discussed developments in Russia and Ukraine. Russia’s actions continue to destabilise Ukraine.
And undermine Euro-Atlantic stability.
Russia has violated fundamental principles.
That borders cannot be changed by force. Disputes should be settled by talks, not by tanks. And the era of spheres of influence is over.
Those principles are the basis of the peaceful Europe we have built for two decades – together with Russia.
We maintain our channels of dialogue open, but Russia has to return to those fundamental principles.
To ensure stability Europe, we must keep NATO strong. And a stronger Europe will also contribute to that goal.
At the NATO Summit in Wales we agreed to stop the cuts in our defence budgets, gradually increase them as our economies recover, and to invest better by cooperating more.
The European Council this year will be a crucial stepping stone to meeting this pledge.
So it is important for all of us that we continue to work together.
And that our efforts reinforce each other.
So that in a dangerous world, we can be stronger together.
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Rebozo Closing Ceremony
Rebozo Closing Ceremony €185,- (duration 2,5 hours)
During the birth of your baby you open up, both physically and energetically. The Rebozo Closing Ceremony can be done from 10 days after your birth (until months afterwards!). The body of the mother is energetically “closed” again with the help of a Mexican Rebozo shawl.
Closing of your pregnancy period
The Rebozo Closing Ceremony is a very soothing and grounding experience, both for you and your partner, after which you come home to yourself and can handle more again.The Ceremony takes place in your own home and during the Ritual your baby can be with you and can be fed.
Relaxing, letting go and grounding
Before we start the Ceremony, you will be given the space to tell your birth story (which will help you process) while enjoying a relaxing warm foot bath; you may as well be pampered!
If you have participated in the HypnoBirthing® Course with me, you will receive 10 euro discount!
Every following 15 minutes €15,-
Travel and parking costs will be charged separately (30 ct per km from Delfgauw)
Drees Koren has participated in a Rebozo Closing Ceremony with me for Kiind Magazine and wrote an article about it (in Dutch).
If you like to give yourself this gift, you call me on 06-11146876 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org
I did the Rebozo Closing Ceremony with Salima.
The foot bath beforehand was wonderful and it was very nice to be able to tell and process my birth story.
The ceremony itself was very special. I was able to give a lot of things a place, very different things than I had thought of beforehand. Each wrapping had its own content and theme. It was also very good that my baby came to drink half way through, which was exactly as it should be. There was plenty of room for that too. For the first time since giving birth, I was able to really relax down to my bones. Salima is a super sweet woman, you immediately feel at ease with her. 100% recommended! | <urn:uuid:0dcb7353-7d56-4c83-9b1a-7d8ddbdf4bfc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.natuurlijk-bevallen.nl/en/rebozo-closing-ceremony/ | 2023-09-22T11:42:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.971805 | 475 |
I wrote this to be a general guide, but I want to note that I approach it from an engineering management perspective within the tech industry. I think there’s a tendency in engineering-driven organizations to ignore the complexities of human behavior, because it’s very different from interacting with computers. If you give a computer a command, it just does it. Humans are much more complex. This should be obvious, but I observe a prevalent lack of understanding and respect for good management practices in the Internet-era tech companies and startups, which I believe stems from an overarching focus on technology rather than on people.
Good management is difficult to master, and managers have the particularly difficult responsibility of providing significant feedback — to reports, to peers, and to their manager. Learning how to effectively give and receive significant feedback is the foundation for personal development and growth as a leader. These are guidelines and resources for effectively giving and receiving feedback, as well as guidance for when feedback alone is insufficient.
Start with Yourself
Before giving any feedback, it’s important to understand that every relationship is two-sided. If you’re having interpersonal issues while working with someone, it’s just as much on you as it is on them to change, in order to get to a better working relationship.
It’s far easier to change yourself than it is someone else.
As the manager, model the behavior you want to see by proactively asking for feedback, and not only that, acting on it. You may not agree with feedback about your behavior, but this is when you want to dig deeper to understand where that feedback is coming from. Then you can choose how you want to address it. Get people to articulate the problem they’re seeing rather than jumping to a solution (that you may not agree with). You need to be sensitive to problems on your team even if it’s not articulated that way. If you’re having difficulty with someone, sometimes it will be that individual’s behavior that is problematic, but first check yourself.
One of the hardest parts of becoming a better person and a great leader is developing self-awareness. You are a leader because you have many strengths. However, it is also those same strengths that can be a source for blind spots. Our blind spots are the biggest hindrances to personal development, because they’re literally areas we cannot see. Which is why it’s all the more important to be open to feedback (even if you don’t agree with it) that you may need to change your behavior and the way you interact with others.
Changing yourself leads to change in others.
If you’re open to changing how you interact with someone else, you’ll find that others will change their behavior in response. There is a lot of research that shows the way someone is treated drives their behavior, e.g. students whose teachers expected them to do better, did better, a lot of psychology experiments have been discredited because of expectations set by the researcher conducting the experiment, e.g. even experiment of rats’ behavior was shown to be manipulated by the expectations of the person running the study. As a manager, it is essential to be thinking about how you may be treating people differently. While unconscious bias is unconscious, being open to the idea that you are introducing bias in how you treat people, is the first step to addressing the problem and developing more self-awareness.
Your expectations drive other people’s behavior.
Examine whether your expectations of others are setting them up for success and helping them achieve your team’s goals. When it comes to diversity and inclusion, the reasons why women and men and non-binary folks, or people from different backgrounds, or mothers and fathers, etc. achieve statistically different outcomes especially at work, is due to the way they are treated differently in the workplace, not due to some fundamental difference between how men and women are, or people of different backgrounds are (which are statistically negligible).
Be explicit and specific when setting expectations, e.g. “I want you to own task X and I think it will take Y time,” and invite the other person to add their expectations, e.g. “Do you think it will take longer? I know you also have project Z on your plate.” Work with them to get to a shared understanding of expectations and goals. It’s much easier to give feedback later when you have agreed on expectations beforehand.
Giving Critical Feedback
Once you’ve examined yourself and the situation, you may need to give critical feedback. Giving critical feedback is a key management function, but often difficult to do well. It can feel like you’re criticizing and making someone feel bad. However, telling someone about the problematic behavior you have observed is an essential first step to addressing it at the root. If they don’t know their behavior is causing problems, they don’t have a chance to change and correct it. Giving this feedback can feel very uncomfortable, but the discomfort you feel in the moment is much more preferable than dealing with significantly bigger issues in the future due to avoiding giving feedback.
The Radical Candor framework by Kim Scott is useful here. The tech industry, and more broadly American businesses, generally tend to veer towards obnoxious aggression — being brutally honest without regard for how people may feel. Yes, you can still achieve results, but at the expense of many people suffering unnecessarily.
A degenerate form of obnoxious aggression is manipulative insincerity — not caring about people and not being direct. If you find yourself under a manipulative manager or in an organization where manipulative insincerity is rampant, I would recommend changing managers or jobs as quickly as you’re able.
On the other end, ruinous empathy — caring a lot about people and being extra nice — is counter-productive, because people are not telling each other what’s wrong, for fear of making each other feel bad. Ultimately, ruinous empathy can be even worse than obnoxious aggression, because people don’t hear the feedback they need to, in order to improve. The organization stagnates, and eventually declines as high performers leave, because there is no growth.
Don’t be nice, be kind — Being nice is to be agreeable, to please others. Being nice is glossing over difficulties to avoid making people feel uncomfortable. Being nice could even be seen as selfish — to spare oneself the discomfort of doing something difficult, and say nothing at all. In contrast, you cannot be kind by doing nothing. Being kind necessitates benevolent action, and this may require being disagreeable. Telling someone who is failing that they are failing is undoubtably uncomfortable to say and displeasing to hear. Coupling that feedback with helping them understand why and how to overcome this challenge, is a great act of kindness.
Don’t do “The Sandwich” — Do not put critical feedback in between layers of positive feedback in an effort to make someone feel better about the critical feedback. This sends mixed signals instead of being direct. At worst, the recipient doesn’t hear the feedback at all, and instead thinks they are performing even better than they thought, and your feedback backfired.
Don’t jump into problem solving — When you see a problem with someone, don’t start problem-solving right away, at the expense of skipping giving necessary feedback. Give the other person space to hear your feedback and decide what to do. Similarly, if people bring you problems, you don’t have to come up with a solution right away. Take time to digest the information, and then decide what to do.
We want to strike a balance between telling people directly the problems we’re seeing with their performance or behavior, and doing so in a kind and caring way. As a manager, you have a responsibility to help those you manage to develop and improve — their careers are directly affected by your actions and inaction.
Preparing to Give Feedback
This grid, created by a cognitive psychologist LeeAnn Renninger, is a useful framework that walks you through preparing to give feedback. For significant feedback, consider using this framework to write down what you want to say, before delivering it.
Source: LifeLabs Learning.
Create Space for Giving Feedback
While you should deliver feedback early and often, for significant feedback, you should deliver it in person during a scheduled time, such as your 1-on-1, and ensure that you have enough time to cover the amount of feedback you have. In the meeting, before you’re about to deliver the feedback, give the receiver a heads up that you’re about to give feedback, e.g. “I have some feedback for you”. Also check in with yourself to ensure you are in a good mental space — you’re not feeling defensive, you’re calm and receptive. If the receiver is defensive or not taking the feedback well, continue to practice active listening, re-focus the conversation on shared goals, and ensure that you do what you can to create a safe space for this conversation.
Make Feedback Concrete
Focus on actions and behavior that you’ve observed or what you have verified based on credible feedback from others. Provide explicit examples. Start statements with “I” not “You”. For example:
“This is what I have observed…”
“Let’s talk through when you did …”
“This is input from people who have worked with you…”
“This is how I think you did on …”
Don’t personalize — Do not assign interpretation to the other person’s behavior. For example, if person X didn’t do something, do not interpret that to mean person X doesn’t care about doing that thing. Just ask person X why they didn’t do it, when you expected them to. (This is where having predetermined shared expectations is very useful!) Invite person X to share why. Maybe they didn’t understand your original request, or thought you meant something different, and you could have made your expectations more clear.
Do not “label” someone — For example, if person X consistently doesn’t do Y, and you keep telling them to do Y, do not label them as “person X is a careless thoughtless person.” Try to understand why and dig deeper. (See Deeper Feedback section.)
Do not use “blur” words — Blur words are words that need to be defined further. For example, don’t say “You didn’t run the meeting well.” Well is a blur word. What does a well-run meeting mean? Instead, say what specifically you didn’t you like about the meeting — did it go off topic, was there lack of preparation, were necessary people not invited, did you fail to get to an outcome, etc. Another example, “We need more clarity on the roadmap.” What about the roadmap is not clear? When preparing to give feedback, you need to do the work of getting specific on what it is you’re giving feedback about. Don’t expect people to read your mind.
Connect the Behavior to the Bigger Picture
Connect your feedback to how their behavior is affecting the team or the team’s ability to achieve its goals. Painting a broader picture of impact helps the receiver to digest and enact changes. If you cannot get them to agree to shared goals, then you may have done a poor job of setting expectations and aligning the team beforehand, or there is a mismatch between the person and the role you want them to play on the team or at the company. (See Deeper Feedback section.)
Don’t Make it About Being Right or Wrong
It took me a decade to learn that relationships, including professional relationships, are not about proving how right you are. I think this comes from the heavy mathematics influence on computer science as a discipline, that there is an objectively correct answer to everything. In the real world, that’s almost never the case when there is disagreement between two people. Whatever you do, don’t make giving feedback about you being right and them being wrong. You’re providing your perspective, what you have observed, and what you want to achieve together. Then you want to create a space for them to bring their perspective and align on shared goals.
Continuously Deliver Feedback
After you have given feedback, continue to give feedback and reinforce. Do not think that because you’ve told someone once, it’s mission accomplished. Your job is to ensure the feedback is not just said, but heard by the other party. You need to reinforce your feedback in and outside of 1-on-1s, and include recognition of changes they make in response to your feedback.
Repeat yourself — You may feel like you’re repeating yourself, but if a person is coming from a different place where they’re very used to doing something a certain way, they are going to need to hear it multiple times to change that behavior.
Give feedback early and often — When you start seeing a problem, even if it’s small, bring it up. You don’t want to wait so long that someone becomes really surprised by the quantity of feedback. At worst, your relationship could deteriorate to a point where they no longer trust you, and any feedback you give is ineffective.
That said, you may also want to observe behavior for a while, to establish a pattern. It is better to target a root behavior that causes many effects, than to target many small things to correct.
People do things a certain way for a reason, because they think it’s how something should be done. Instead of focusing feedback on what to do, e.g. a lot of small corrections of “stop doing X”, “do Y this way”, etc., you can be more effective by understanding the reasons behind their behavior, the why.
In the absence of having a PhD in human psychology and behavior, being able to identify a behavioral pattern is useful too. Helping the other person connect those dots better equips them for how to address the feedback themselves.
In some cases, you may uncover a personal issue that’s affecting their work. Instead of changing their behavior, you may need to change their circumstances, e.g. provide time off, change their responsibilities or work environment.
In other cases, you may discover a core misalignment in motivation or ability— the work is not aligned with their larger goals or there is a fundamental mismatch in expectations and their current skillset. In these cases, you need to start thinking about a change in role if possible. Sometimes people who used to be a great fit no longer are, because both the organization and the individual have changed in incompatible ways. Helping someone find another position that better matches their skills and goals could be better for both parties.
Limitations of Feedback
Many behaviors are deep-rooted, and a person doesn’t change simply because you have told them to. As a manager, if you observe that a behavior isn’t changing after repeated feedback, you may need to consider supplementing the feedback with a process, more support, or a structural or organizational change. Finally, if you’re unable to deal with an issue within your team with the tools you have, escalate it to your manager. If you suspect something could be a deeper issue, giving your manager a heads up in advance is a good idea even if it’s not actionable for them right away.
Going Beyond Feedback
When you want to change behavior at a team level, it’s insufficient to just tell people to behave differently, maybe they will for a short time, but then they will revert to their previous behavior.
To reinforce the behavior you want to see, create processes and use tools to make the desired behavior into a habit. An example from engineering is we want engineers to think about shipping in smaller increments. Ways to enforce that is to always break down large tasks into small chunks during planning, by limiting the size of pull requests, to have tools that make continuous delivery possible, etc.
Just as important as giving critical feedback is giving praise to reinforce positive behaviors, actions, and impact to the team and company. In practice this is generally easy, giving praise feels great! There are some guidelines here also:
Check how the person likes to hear positive feedback. Some people don’t like it in a public setting and may feel embarrassed. A personal note may be more appropriate.
If a person is under-performing, and you haven’t been able to effectively deliver critical feedback, don’t give them public praise in an effort to make them feel better. This can backfire, especially when the person hears the critical feedback, they will lose trust in you.
Align your positive feedback to what the other person values in their work.
That said, they may not realize a strength they have, because it’s natural to them. Positive feedback can highlight their strengths for them. Even better is providing them opportunities that play to their strengths.
Just acquiring the skills to be a good manager is already hard. Being a great manager requires even more — a big dose of self-awareness, which is very difficult to achieve. Remember that giving feedback sometimes says something about the other person, but it always says something about the person giving the feedback. Introspect yourself first, and then give feedback.
Crucial Conversations — if you only read one thing, make it this book. People have told me this book changed their life after I recommended it to them. I first read this book to improve my personal relationships. The lessons here apply widely in both personal and professional contexts.
Radical Candor (Caveat: how the book talks about men and women at work is a bit problematic, for the reasons discussed under Setting Expectations)
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There —read this if you want to understand better how your strengths are simultaneously the source of your weaknesses
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The MWR Card enables civilians to participate in the MWR Mayport activities below. Invite your non-military friends to join the fun!
MWR facilities that participate in the program include:
- Pinz Bowling Center
- Windy Harbor Golf Club
- Beachside Bingo
- Foc'sle Lounge at the CPO Club (all hands lunch)
- Bogey's Restaurant at Windy Harbor Golf Club
- Loggerheads Pub in The Beacon
- Ocean Breeze Conference and Catering Center
- Spinz Handcrafted Food
- Seaglass Wine Bar
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Cyber attack at UnityPoint Health puts 16,000 people at risk
Personal information from about 16,000 people could be in the hands of hackers after UnityPoint Health was the target of a cyber attack.
People who may have been affected were sent a letter on Monday. In a statement from UnityPoint Health, it reads,
"To date, we are not aware of any reports of identity fraud, theft, or improper use of information as a direct result of this incident. However, we want to make impacted individuals aware of the situation so they can take precautionary measures to protect their health information."
On Feb. 15, UnityPoint Health staff discovered they were the victim of a phishing attack that compromised employee email accounts. Staff quickly acted to try and secure information by changing passwords and had external cyber security professionals analyze the information that may have been compromised.
Personal information like dates of birth, medical record numbers, treatment information, surgical information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, providers, dates of service and/or insurance information may have been exposed.
a small number of impacted individuals may have had their social security numbers or other financial information compromised between Nov. 2017 and Feb. 2018.
UnityPoint Health is advising people who may be impacted to only share health insurance cards with your health care providers, family members who are covered under your insurance plan, or who help you with your medical care. It's important to review you "explanation of benefits statement" which you receive from your health insurance company. Also, ask your insurance company for a current year-to-date report of all services paid for you as a beneficiary.
UnityPoint Health offered this apologize:
"UnityPoint Health is committed to protecting your information and has taken steps to help prevent a similar event from taking place in the future. We are continually evaluating and modifying our security practices to further strengthen the protections for your personal and health information."
If you think you may be impacted by this cyber attack or want to know if you're at risk, call 855-331-3612. UnityPoint Health said it's toll-free and confidential. It's available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. | <urn:uuid:bdfe89b2-a3b0-4aa3-881b-b223ef23412a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Cyberattack-at-UnityPoint-Health-puts-16000-people-at-risk-480317303.html | 2023-09-22T12:41:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.963143 | 451 |
Odyssey over, David Perron excited about return to St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- David Perron had no idea what would happen when he became a free agent this summer. Then he got a familiar call.
Perron’s NHL odyssey has taken him all over his native Canada and the United States. But he always seems to find his way back to St. Louis.
The 30-year-old Perron is beginning his third stint with his first NHL team after signing a $16 million, four-year deal with the Blues. When it came time to pick a new home this summer, the veteran winger opted for an old one.
''I definitely like the mentality here,’' Perron said. ''I like the way things are and obviously a lot of the same familiar faces in the management, so yeah, it makes it really appealing to come back. I think I really enjoy the city for my family. It’s a city that when you get to know (it) you really enjoy.’'
Perron and his wife, Vanessa, have two kids; Mason, 3, and Victoria, 1. Mason just started preschool. Victoria was born in St. Louis.
''It’s the first time I buy a house in the hockey season, so to speak,’' he said, ''so we’re excited.’'
St. Louis is glad to have him back, too. Perron’s contract was part of an active offseason for the Blues after they fell just short of a playoff berth, ending a streak of six consecutive appearances in the postseason.
''Bottom line is he’s here because he’s a good NHL player,’' coach Mike Yeo said. ''The track record is there. He did it with us two years ago. He did it last year in Vegas, and I think it makes us stronger from top to bottom.’'
Perron was selected by St. Louis in the first round of the 2007 draft and made his NHL debut that same year at age 19. He played for the Blues for six seasons before he was traded to Edmonton in July 2013.
Following stints with the Oilers, Pittsburgh and Anaheim, he returned to St. Louis when he agreed to a $7.5 million, two-year contract in 2016. But the Blues left him unprotected for the expansion draft last June and the Golden Knights pounced.
Perron’s season in Sin City was a memorable one. He collected 16 goals and a career-high 50 assists, helping Vegas win the Pacific Division. He had nine more points in the playoffs as the Golden Knights made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final before losing to Washington in five games.
The experience in Vegas, being part of a wildly successful expansion team, changed Perron’s mentality on what it takes to win in the NHL.
''Just the way things were approached in Vegas, how loose we were, how much fun we had, and then we still found a way to get on the ice and take care of business and still have fun while doing it,’' he said. ''It’s definitely important. Sometimes you get too tense in a season. You overlook things. You overanalyze things and it’s definitely changed my perspective on things a little bit.’'
The Golden Knights’ run also shortened Perron’s offseason, and he noticed a difference early in training camp with the Blues. He was slowed by a groin and hip issue before making his preseason debut Tuesday night against the Capitals. He skated with Brayden Schenn and Jaden Schwartz before he got hurt, and then worked on a line with Tyler Bozak and Alexander Steen against Washington.
Wherever he plays, the Blues think Perron will be a key contributor in a much deeper group of forwards compared to last season.
''Highly skilled obviously, we know that,’' Schenn said. ''A right shot, which we badly needed. He’s able to make plays, see the ice very well, very skilled, so we’re looking forward to having him a part of our lineup.’'
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By Katie Clark
The first time I saw the movie, ON GOLDEN POND, I knew I wanted to one day live on a lake where I would listen to the beautiful call of the loon. When my husband and I started to look for a place to retire, we found a small lake in Newaygo County, Petit Lake. Just out from the beach on the lot we were thinking to purchase, swam two loons. I knew this was where I wanted to live.
Now, 7-years later, I’ve been assigned the lake’s Loon Ranger. No, this isn’t a joke. Petit Lake has become a member of Michigan Loon Preservation Association, which is a non-profit organization “whose mission is to preserve the Common Loon as a breeding bird in Michigan through public education, research, and the protection and management of loons and their habitat”.
Did you know that Michigan loons are endangered? There is an estimated population of less than 500 loon pairs. Unfortunately, the development of homes on lakes lead to the elimination of nesting places for loons and the use of motorized watercraft can scare them away. However, we at Petit Lake have decided to be a part of the LOON WATCH. We have large areas of natural lake shoreline and commit to keeping a safe distance from the loons when out enjoying the lake.
Check out the protocols we are taking to protect our loon pair: https://sites.google.com/view/pettitlakeloonsanctuary/home/loon-watch.
If you know of a lake that has a loon pair or pairs that may like to be a part of protecting these beautiful, endangered birds, contact :
Save The Loons
10181 Sheridan Road
Millington, MI 48746
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Stainless Steel Angel Wing Necklace
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Hiring a neck injury attorney is the first step in what might become a long and arduous litigation process. Suffering a neck injury is always a serious setback in life and might involve legal circumstances where financial compensation is justly due. However, despite the right to pursue a settlement or verdict, many patients lose sight of the far more important goal; recovery.
When neck pain sufferers begin a lawsuit related to a neck injury, most never realize that these litigious efforts might actually become detrimental parts of their recovery process. This is far from a universal occurrence, but is a serious consideration that should be understood by all prospective plaintiffs, before to choosing a lawyer to represent them.
This guide details some of the less often discussed aspects of how civil litigation can prevent injured people from recovering, due to unneeded treatment regimens, psychological nocebo factor and secondary gain caused by the monetary award potential of the lawsuit.
Hiring a Neck Injury Attorney
After suffering a neck injury, on the job, on private property, in an accident or through negligence, most people instantly consider the idea of suing for financial gain. Our legal system is designed to allow wronged parties to gain monetary compensation for their losses, as well as for their pain and suffering. In order to achieve these goals, one must retain a lawyer to bring legal action against the party that is responsible for the injury occurring.
Personal injury law is a highly profitable sector of the legal professions and these attorneys are experts in winning large sums of money for their clients. However, in order to do so, some will take control of the actual diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation processes for their clients, in order to maximize the economic potential of the case. This is where we hit our first and fundamental problem.
Lawyers should concentrate on providing legal support and presenting a case in the manner in which it naturally unfolds. The patient should be responsible for choosing their own care team, who will prioritize the patient as an injured human being, not as some cash cow that is ready to be milked for everyone’s financial gain, regardless of the health risk to the plaintiff. Therefore, while some personal injury lawyers might be very successful, the methods that allow them to achieve this prosperity are highly suspect: Suspect in terms of ethics and suspect in terms of providing for the client’s overall good. Attorneys are legally bound to provide for their client’s best interests, but often subjectively deviate from this path in order to best raise the value of their fee at the end of the litigation process.
Neck Injury Lawyers Controlling Medical Care
Once retained, many lawyers will assume control of their client’s entire medical therapy process. Of course, this is done subtlety, with recommendations and guidance, rather than forceful assumption of totalitarian control. Lawyers know exactly how to talk their naive clients into just about anything and the promise of more money will usually be all the incentive the plaintiff will require to get on board with any attorney recommendation.
Once the injured party is delivered to the attorney’s choice of doctors for diagnosis and treatment, the entire recovery process often goes awry. Instead of recuperating physically from the injury, the focus of care now leans towards keeping the patient in therapy for as long as possible and forcing them to endure as many serious treatments as possible, in order to inflate the monetary value of the lawsuit. The patients will be often diagnosed completely differently by their attorney’s puppet doctors. Every conceivable consequence of the injury will be exploited and aggrandized. The patient will never be made to feel as if they are recovering, but instead, will be labeled to be damaged goods who will never fully recover.
Doctors will network with one another to provide a diversity of care practices to this patient, often ending in some significant and life-altering surgical endeavor that is often not medically necessary or justified based on actual facts. However, when the lawyer gets done spinning the injury, these treatments will be used to enhance the economic value of the case beyond anyone’s expectations.
Neck Injury Lawyer Psychological Warfare
It is not just the physical effects of all these often unnecessary treatments that are harmful to the patient. Instead, it is the psychoemotional warfare utilized against them by their own lawyer. Plaintiffs must truly be convinced that they are damaged, in order to present a sympathetic picture in depositions and in court. To this end, many lawyers will stop at nothing to constantly plague the patient with nocebo messages, delivered directly and through the supervised care offered by the carefully chosen physicians.
Patients are made to feel as if they will never recover and might suffer negative health effects for the rest of their lives. This is the diametric opposite strategy offered by most ethical medical care practices, in which a positive mindset is known to be a fundamental force in achieving recuperation. After months or years of being told they are permanently injured, the psychological effects can not be undone. These patients have become what their lawyer wishes them to be; injured beyond repair and truly ready to make any jury open their wallets.
Neck Injury Attorney Cautions
At least the lawyer never lied to the patient. The case is surely worth more money after all the medical care and they are likely to receive a very large settlement or verdict. However, there were a few things that were never mentioned by this attorney prior to the case being decided.
First, the lawyer gets one third of the monetary award right off the top. They are the first one to get paid.
Second, the increased cost of all these treatments splits the next third of the case award among all the lawyer’s doctors. Each one gets paid handsomely for their time and contributions.
Next, the cost of incidentals is deducted from the award. The litigation costs, investigation costs, filing fees and any other expenses are taken from the plaintiff. When the dust settles, the injured person receives less than one third of the settlement or verdict.
Meanwhile, the plaintiff is still under the impression that they are permanently injured. They might not be able to work. They might still be in pain. Their life will never be the same. They have certainly not recovered, as would have been likely if this attorney did not take over their care from day one of the litigation process. Instead, they are lightly compensated and will likely burn through this money quickly, since they can not provide for themselves after the physical and psychological damage that has been perpetrated against them.
In essence, their suffering was equated into a monetary value and most of this money went to their sly lawyer and their greedy, exploitative doctors. Who really won here?
This story is not a universal occurrence. Some lawyers are wonderful and truly place their patient’s health above all else during representation. However, from my extensive experience working as a trial preparation investigator in the largest legal forums in New York City, I have seen this exact scenario occur over and over again. Let this example serve as warning for anyone who is currently in the litigation process or thinking of commencing it. The lesson to be learned is to stay in charge of your own medical care and never allow your health to suffer for the promise of money at the end of a case. It will never be enough compensation for the actual damage that might be done to you; not by the injury, but instead by the “treatment”. | <urn:uuid:532f1ceb-7fad-4a46-bab2-9f3c01fc17b8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.neck-pain-treatment.org/neck-injury-attorney.html | 2023-09-22T12:44:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.975436 | 1,502 |
Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?
Marmodoro A., Murphy RA., Baker AG.
We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamental shotgun and storytelling mechanisms of the inherence heuristic are not clearly enough specified to distinguish them, developmentally, from associative or causal networks. | <urn:uuid:8d8425ec-417b-4b43-8ae1-9b1f2f598fa5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/publications/489788 | 2023-09-22T12:48:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.849715 | 105 |
Acta Neurochirurgica (2023) 165:2257–2265
Only two aneurysm formations in the internal carotid artery after gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for pituitary adenomas are reported so far.
Here, out of the 482 patients who underwent GKRS for pituitary adenomas at our institute, at least five developed aneurysms within the area of high single-dose irradiation. Three patients presented with epistaxis due to aneurysmal rupture and one presented with abducens paralysis due to nerve compression, while one was asymptomatic.
The interval between irradiation and aneurysmal detection ranged from 14 to 21 years. Aneurysm formation in those conditions may be higher than previously thought. | <urn:uuid:771b5e5b-7f9b-4f7b-90a9-59d057f54866> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.neurosurgery-blog.com/archives/17781 | 2023-09-22T11:14:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.930306 | 169 |
PIL filed in HC over deaths of sanitation staff
The application was submitted as part of an existing PIL by NGO ‘Manav Garima’ in response to the deaths of sanitation employees.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the state government over a PIL seeking steps to prevent deaths of sanitation workers and compensation to families of those who had died while cleaning drainage lines, septic tanks.
The application was submitted as part of an existing PIL by NGO ‘Manav Garima’ in response to the deaths of sanitation employees. Noting that the Gujarat government, through a resolution, had assigned responsibility to local bodies for payment of compensation and prevention of such events, the application seeks compensation of Rs 10 lakh to their kin.
Petitioner Purushottam Vaghela told this daily that “the government has yet to compensate 26 families for the 152 fatalities between 1993 to 2014. | <urn:uuid:a1d7bbf2-ab2e-4c07-840f-f4e5ff3d8a51> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/apr/19/pil-filed-in-hc-over-deaths-of-sanitation-staff-2567321.html | 2023-09-22T11:17:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.973254 | 194 |
When an incident occurs, having a plan that outlines what to do will help responders provide care for those involved. An incident investigation plan also provides a framework to gather the information needed to help prevent a similar incident in the future.
Several theories can be used to explain why an incident happens, but when someone is injured, none of those necessarily matter. What is important is that something went wrong and there is an immediate need to deal with the circumstance in a compassionate and organized manner.
Incident investigation plans, like other safety plans, should be tailored to meet the needs of the facility. They may include checklists or other pre-printed forms to help anyone responding gather the information that will be needed.
Here are the seven steps you should follow to thoroughly investigate incidents.
1. Deal With Immediate Needs
Taking care of victims’ needs should always be the first priority. Responders should be able to administer first aid or minor medical attention. Isolate the incident scene to provide privacy to the individual and to prevent other hazards from harming the victim or others in the area. If it’s appropriate, take pictures to preserve evidence of the scene, but be aware that in some situations this may be insensitive.
2. Preserve the Scene
Secure the area around the incident by putting up barricade tape or other physical barriers to prevent people from walking into the area. Prohibiting access to the area helps to preserve the scene so that anyone investigating can look at the details of what happened. Anyone who is investigating the incident should be taught not to remove, alter or disturb anything that could provide evidence of how the incident happened.
3. Make Notifications
Inform management, supervisors or anyone else that needs to know about the incident. They may need to be part of the investigation team or they may need to know for a variety of other reasons. They may also need to file reports with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the case of severe injuries.
4. Gather Supplies
Investigation preparedness starts long before an incident happens. As teams are trained to investigate incidents, one thing that helps them to be prepared is incident investigation kits that contain the tools and items that may be needed during an investigation. Kits can be customized depending upon unique needs of the facility or the abilities of the responder, but often include items such as:
- Ruler or measuring tape
- Caution tape
- Gloves, goggles and any other necessary PPE
- Pens, pencils
- Pre-printed forms
- Sample containers
5. Collect Information
Consider the use of pre-printed forms to prompt investigators to gather information. There should be space to document the incident and provide a framework for the team to review the facts and revise plans to prevent a similar incident in the future. Some basic things that may be documented are the time and date of the incident, the name of the victim or victims, any witnesses and the names of anyone on the investigation team.
In addition to documenting details on forms, take pictures or make sketches to record the specifics of what has happened. This is also a good time to conduct interviews while the incident is still fresh in everyone’s mind. Have a process to interview witnesses individually to help ensure the integrity of the information.
After the initial investigation, review the information that has been gathered to help further determine the root cause of the incident. Some of the items that can be helpful are equipment operation manuals, process safety documents, training records, previous audits and other similar resources. Plan a course of action to prevent this incident from happening again. For example, develop or update written plans, change process, update procedures or review PPE use.
7. Implement Changes
After the incident investigation committee has determined which recommendations to implement, update plans and procedures to reflect those changes. Employees will then need to be trained on any changes that affect how they perform their jobs so that an incident can be prevented in the future.
Investigating incidents takes time and practice. But when investigations are used to determine root causes and to make changes in plans and procedures that help prevent a future incident, they are a proven way to help ensure that the same incident does not happen again.
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The problems of the United States energy policy boils down more to the high cost of oil than to its source, Yossie Hollander, the founder of the Our Energy Policy Foundation and co-founder of the Fuel Freedom campaign tells Newsmax.
“The issue is not who we buy it from, it’s price,” he said in an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV.
The country spent $780 billion last year for oil and oil products, he said. “That’s too much. That’s bankrupting us.”
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“If we bought it all from Saudi Arabia at $1 a barrel versus $100 a barrel we wouldn’t care if we bought it all from them. So the issue is how do we get cheaper oil to the American public, not where we buy it. And we can get it all from America.”
Therefore the focus of his Fuel Freedom campaign is to reduce the price of oil to $2 per gallon at the pump, which could help give Americans “eventually $2,000 more in your pocket.”
“That’s what we want to do, to revive the American economy,” he said.
Unfortunately, he indicated that few of the solutions being addressed would actually help reduce the country’s dependence on oil.
In particular, “if we went all wind or all solar or all nuclear we will not replace one gallon of oil, only coal.”
Currently, the situation is “like basically [giving] Advil to a cancer patient,” Hollander explained. “We need to actually get replacement that will compete in the market. Expensive oil is not the answer.”
However, he expressed high hopes for hydraulic fracturing — known as “fracking” — so long as the country has an open market where everybody can decide what fuel they want to use.
“Then we’ll have a real competition and cheaper fuel,” Hollander said.
In addition, Hollander dismissed the Obama administration’s reluctance to embrace fracking as futile because “the train has left the station already. Fracking is so big here that it’s going to continue.”
The biggest problem he fears is a global oil shortage projected to hit this decade. This is because the world will not be able to drill its way out of it.
“Demand from China and India is growing so much faster than our ability to drill, and the world’s ability to drill,” Hollander explained, adding that the country has already reached the tipping point, which is “The reason we’re not growing.”
“If we spend $300 billion or less on oil — which is possible —a year, that would be $1,000 net per person.”
However, Hollander suggested the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline was “A classical example where the parties argue about something that doesn’t matter.” Regardless, he explained “the oil will flow, whether it will flow from Louisiana with a pipe or the west coast of Canada, it will flow.”
However, Hollander admitted the Keystone pipeline “does matter if we do more processing of the oil internally [because] there will be some more jobs.”
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Dowry means those gifts and presents which are given by a father or a guardian to his daughter at the time of her marriage. In ancient times, it was considered as a sort of help to the newlyweds to establish their own home. Mostly the dowry in those days was in kind, say a variety of things useful for new homes, and not in cash, as the system now prevails. Those gifts were given voluntarily and without any demands made under pressure.
About a hundred years ago, there was a custom that the prospective husband used to offer gifts and presents to his would-be bride’s father. But this custom proved a major handicap for many persons who could not marry early in life for want of funds to buy such gifts. There were many unfortunates who could not marry at all for this reason.
But custom are never stationary. They undergo changes. Now, at present this custom has been reversed. Instead of the prospective husband, it is the bride’s parents who have to offer gifts and presents to the bridegroom and his parents. As such, it has become extremely difficult to arrange a girl’s marriage without dowry. Now, the system has become a social evil.
Dowry system has become one of the greatest social evils these day and hundreds of innocent lives have been lost. Even the educated parents expect their daughter-in-law to bring money and gifts from her family. They use dowry system as a short-cut to amass wealth. They torture someone else’s daughter without thinking that their own daughter might also meet the same fate. We have legislations in our country to stop giving and accepting dowry. Yet this system is very much in existence. Unless we are ready to bring in a change of hearts, no legislation can be effective. Better burn your greed and spare your brides. | <urn:uuid:0a535517-8667-491b-bb9d-0d9e5cde2e3c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.newspeechtopics.com/5051-2/ | 2023-09-22T11:29:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.986171 | 388 |
There are a number of fruits and vegetable in whose large scale Production the male factor has been avoided. Banana, in India, is one of them. It was possible with gene therapy. The last decade of the millennium has been a remarkable period. In 1997 Dolly the cloned sheep, created by Roslin Institute in Edinburgh hit the headlines in newspapers throughout the world. More recently the piglets, nillie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom have been added to the new world created not by God but by man.
Chinese scientists, in 1998 claimed to have made a breakthrough in breeding the first transgenic goat with the help of a human gene. The goat produced rich protein milk. The experiment was made in the Shanghai Research Institute of Genetics. It has been reported that four goats bred by the institute would soon be able to produce milk containing the factor. In a few years the institute may arrange birth of more such goats.
Cloning is done in two ways. In the case of Dolly a tissue was taken from an adult sheep. It was fertilized in laboratory. When it crossed, the leadership that has not seen the united India giving a tight to the foreign rulers. The examples before the new generation are those of the West where fifteen countries were forcibly united to form the Soviet Federation, of thirteen countries voluntarily united themselves to form a Federation of United States of America. The blunder resulted in the assertion of the people as Bengalis, Tamilians, Nagas, Gujaratis, Keralites, Andhraites, Kannadas, Biharis or Rajasthanis-not as Indians. India became abstract and the artificially named states became real and substantial.
The so called states have stopped thinking at the national level. Every issue small or big becomes a regional issue. The neoconverts to Christianity in Nagaland and Mizoram call the non converts as foreigners. Chennai having been the centre of activities in the south during British regime and Tamil being the richest and the oldest to modern language an air of superiority Tamil leaders. The memories of the benign kingdom of Mysore and the supremacy of Tipu in the south in the past and the fine cultural background of Bangalore gives the Kannadas an air of sophistication. Similar are the conditions in Haryana and Punjab, Gujarat and Maharashtra, Orissa, Assam and Bengal.
The Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, The Indira canal water issue between Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana, the Chandigarh and the Sikh and non Sikh issue between Haryana and Punjab, The Nepalese and non Nepalese issue in Sikkim and Darjeeling, the tribal and non tribal issue in the tribal belt have taken the dimension of quarrels between two countries. They have resulted in riots, killings, arson, migration and uprooting of families from place they lived for hundreds of years.
The masses in almost all the regions are good and sensible. But good men are not in the control rooms. It is the mafias who are in control. It is very easy for them to instigate the poor and the uneducated. Once the lava of hatred comes out of the volcano of regionalism it spreads all around and burns the green pastures of the nation. People in certain areas have already started talking of a loose commonwealth of states on the lines of the commonwealth or the states of former USSR. The youth have to be vigilant not to allow the interstate quarrels take a shape that
may sow the seeds of further partition of the Motherland. Let them be guided not by the forces of disintegration but by those that are making concerted efforts for the consolidation and unity of the state petals to keep the flower of the nation blooming. Let India be a real federation of strong states that make the nation stage of embryo it was put in the womb of a surrogate mother. Here it grew into a full grown foetus giving birth to a creature identical to the one from which the clone was taken. In the case of Dolly the scientists were successful after making 270 attempts to get results.
After cloning sheep, monkey and pigs scientists have taken a fancy to clone human beings. It is especially helpful to the couples who don’t and can’t have children. Through cloning they can have a child identical to the husband or the wife. But human cloning has been banned in a number of countries where it is considered unethical. In South Africa genetic manipulation of sperm or eggs is not permitted as it falls under genetic manipulation.
Cloning on humans is possible in two ways. It can be through nuclear transplantation in which a human is grown out of a cell for through an embryo splitting. Nineteen European nations have enacted a law against cloning from human beings. Harold Shaipro of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission is of the view that “It (cloning) is something God like……it is not a part of human activity. We are going down the path of creation. On the other hand Dr. Richard Seed, a well known physicist of Chicago is ready to clone human cells. He has disagreed with President Clinton (of USA) who has asked the scientists to have caution against cloning.
The clone, according to Dr. Seed would develop from a cell taken from an adult who wants to be cloned. Scientists would fuse the genes from the cell with a specially treated donor egg cell whose own genes had been removed. It means the genes of the egg would be replaced by the genes of the cell. Now the cell would be allowed to grow into an embryo in a laboratory. The embryo would then be implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother i.e. the woman who fills the place of the mother from whom the egg has been taken.
The USA government has refused to financially assist such projects. But the Scientists are promised help from the industry. As back as January 1999 the scientists had concluded that they could create spare-part tissues. It can then be possibly used to repair the brain and other organs and to treat disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
Of late Britain is expected to lift the ban on the cloning of human embryos for medical research. Liam Donaldson, government’s Chief medical officer feels that the benefits of human embryo cloning are more important than the ethical problems it raises. Scientists believe that they can harvest “stem cells”. These are the basic cells. From these they can grow any kind of tissue, blood, bone and muscles. They will be able to grow body parts or organs for transplant. It would lead to cures for kidney, liver or heart disease. “This could allow us to re-grow a heart, muscle or bone marrow. It is not a threat to humanity. Cloning would ultimately prove a boon to humanity.
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A suspected Russian spy who has been deemed a threat to national security in Australia previously worked in Leinster House.
Marina Sologub, 39, who was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in Cork, has been ordered to leave Australia by the country's Security Intelligence Organisation, the Sunday Times reports.
In 2020, Ms Sologub got a job in Australia's space agency after gaining experience in the National Space Centre in Cork, where she is said to have been involved in projects linked to the American and Russian space agencies.
The security agency in Australia had conducted an operation that aimed to identify Russian intelligence workers among high-ranking employees, through which Ms Sologub was determined to be a risk.
She allegedly tried to cultivate contacts with Australian officials, including staff at the national space agency.
Work in Leinster House
Ms Sologub spent her teenage years in Glanmire, before studying politics and governance at University College Cork.
She then found work at constituency offices of TDs, granting her access to Leinster House.
She worked for Bernard Allen, former Fine Gael TD and then-chairman of the public accounts committee, as well as for Labour Party TD Willie Penrose at his office in Westmeath.
Mr Allen told the Sunday Times that he was 'gobsmacked' to hear of the allegations against Ms Sologub, having known her since she was a student seeking work experience.
Her experience working with Mr Allen and her fluent Russian helped secure her the job in Australia.
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TORONTO, April 11, 2017 /CNW/ - Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work in developmental services across Ontario will be in Toronto this afternoon to join the Equal Pay Coalition's Equal Pay Day rally.
"We will not break through the glass ceiling as one woman rising up," said Sara Labelle, OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President and the union's highest-ranking female officer. "It's all women rising up together. That's why OPSEU women will be out in force on Equal Pay Day."
The gender wage gap for full-time, full-year workers in Ontario still hovers around 26 per cent – wider for women who are racialized, Indigenous, an immigrant, a sexual minority, elderly, or who have a disability. Equal Pay Day falls on April 11 this year because the average woman who started working on January 1, 2016 has had to work until today to earn what the average man earned in 2016.
In conjunction with Equal Pay Day, OPSEU's developmental services sector is hosting a lobby day at Queen's Park today. As part of the union's campaign for pay equity across the sector, members will be speaking with Labour Minister Kevin Flynn, Minister of the Status of Women Indira Naidoo-Harris, and other MPPs to call on the province to "step in" where employers are not complying with pay equity law.
"This year marks 30 years since pay equity became law in this province," said Erin Smith-Rice, chair of the OPSEU Developmental Services sector. "And yet, we have members all over the province who are not being paid what they are owed. Some are owed thousands in pay equity payouts.
"It's time for this government to start funding and really enforcing pay equity law in Ontario."
"It's extremely problematic when, after years of pay equity law being ignored, women are at bargaining tables negotiating for rights they already have," said OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. "There are many factors that explain the gender wage gap, but employers not complying with pay equity law is a significant one.
"And when those employers are funded by the province, well, we know where part of the problem lies. Premier Wynne says she wants to close the gap. She needs to prove it. My union will take her head on until she does."
OPSEU recently launched a petition calling on the Premier to respect the Pay Equity Act. The union represents 130,000 Ontario workers, two-thirds of whom are women.
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Erica Jong and Her 'Fear of Dying' Deserve Respect
The 'Fear of Flying' author is back, once again striking a societal nerve
Erica Jong, best known for her 1973 breakout novel, Fear of Flying (which gave the world the iconic concept of “ziplessness”), and her follow-up memoir Fear of Fifty, is back with a new book — and, not surprisingly, a new fear.
This novel, called Fear of Dying, was 10 years in the making as Jong struggled with the heavy issues at its core: a midlife sexual crisis, a partner’s life-threatening illness, the slow decline of both parents, coming to terms with one’s own aging and, inevitably, the specter of death. Though Fear of Dying reads like a memoir, it is a novel, if one whose real-life models are thinly-veiled.
As Jong recently told The New York Times, “I’ve always wanted to write the books for women that didn’t yet exist, so I thought, I have to write about an older woman who is sexual, attractive and wants to reach out for life. That’s not celebrated, sadly, and I would hope that a lot of older women who read this book realize that sex doesn’t disappear, it just changes forms.”
This time, however, it’s not Fear of Flying heroine Isadora Wing who’s having the sexual exploits; it’s a new character, 60-something Vanessa Wonderman, who happens to be BFFs with Jong’s more famous alter ego.
Jong-as-Wonderman ricochets from discourses on the superficial (poodles, art, plastic surgery) to the gut wrenching (her husband’s erectile dysfunction, her daughter’s rehab, her parents’ deterioration). Propelling the narrative along are hefty infusions of wit, literary allusions, name dropping and various sexual encounters. (Warning: Jong is jauntily casual about dropping a blitzkrieg of “c-bombs.”)
But this is no cheap, cheesy, titillating airport novel. (Although it probably will fill many airport display cases and titillate a good number of probably older female readers.) Jong, as the New York Times has dubbed her, is a “feminist heroine of sorts and avatar of female sexual liberation,” and in this, her 18th book, she takes direct aim at outmoded cultural taboos, chief among them women of a certain age speaking — and acting — with candor about their sexuality.
If You’ve Got It…
As Wonderman says to a crowd, “But why do we as women always need permission to be ourselves? Who took away our self-given permission, and why?”
Neither Jong, Wing nor Wonderman has ever made apologies for her sexuality. In fact, all three proudly displayed their lusty appetites as a sort of calling card.
But it’s 2015, and things are different now. That’s clear from page one, where Wonderman says, “I used to love the power I had over men … how strange that I only completely knew this power when it was gone.” Then, she admits wistfully, she misses that power.
This time around, Jong’s alter ego is an over-the-hill actress whose most memorable role was an ersatz Erica Kane character (All My Children’s infamous rhymes-with-rich) in a long-running nighttime soap opera. She’s aware that while she’s lost her superpowers, her lust is decidedly still intact. And with a much-older husband who’s unable to satisfy her, Wonderman goes looking for love in all the wrong places, including a dating site called Zipless.com — whose name was a nod to, and a steal from, her wing woman, Isadora.
Wonderman’s (mis)adventures with potential partners, however amusing, are just a small part of the book’s arc. (And truth be told, there are only a handful of graphic encounters.) Mostly these interludes serve as spicy dangling carrots to keep the reader engaged in what’s at the book’s core: a philosophical treatise on aging, and the difference between lust/sex and love/intimacy.
The Other “F” Word
Historically, women’s sexuality has been enshrouded in taboo. But women (and a few iconoclastic men) have been chipping away at the barriers for some time. If Jong is the original “chick lit” author, early 20th-century writer Colette may be responsible for the first “cougar” novel (Chéri, in 1920), and Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir laid the foundation for modern feminism.
While valuable for its perspective, Fear of Dying is not going to win any major literary awards. For one thing, its meandering and self-referential storyline makes it feels like it was written over 10 days, not 10 years.
There are a number of sloppy errors, as well. Though assiduously sober for 272½ pages, the protagonist orders a glass of wine early on; JP Morgan/Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s surname is spelled like the precious gem; and the Hindu god Shiva is confused with Krishna in a passage that begs familiarity.
Plus the book is riddled with the kind of clichés and tired phrases that simply can’t sound fresh in 2015: “I was number one on his hit parade;” “dogs are our Zen masters;” “reciting chapter and verse” and engaging in “retail therapy.”
Yet Fear of Dying is important if only because of its provenance. Jong is part of the feminist pantheon that includes Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolf, and when she speaks up about the ghettoization of female sexuality, however flawed her narrative, we owe her a serious listen.
A Celebrity Voice
True, scads of middle-aged women have the same complaints and heartbreaks, but when Jong’s discussing them, she’s likely to capture a larger audience’s ears (and hearts). It’s like the way anonymous humanitarians can toil in their field for decades and not earn a fraction of the support that George Clooney can garner in a five-minute speech about Rwanda.
Regardless of how you feel about that, it’s undeniable that this is the positive power of celebrity. So I say kudos to Jong for unabashedly adding her voice to the crescendo’ing chant that women should not go gentle into that good night of sexual second-class citizenship.
While no one will confuse Fear of Dying with a self-help book (it clearly is a book by Jong, about Jong, for Jong), it still has much to offer women of all ages, namely, an affirmation that the desire to love and be loved doesn’t fade away, but that a deeper love often rushes in to fill the void left by retreating youthful passion.
Jong’s themes should resonate with many-to-most femmes d'un certain âge — or anyone dealing with a shifting sexual landscape, a fear of aging or (especially) the singular heartbreak of watching their parents decline and die. When you get socked with all those challenges all the same time, it can be overwhelming.
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The 74th Emmy Awards got underway on NBC, with host Kenan Thompson celebrating the concept of television. “If it weren’t for TV, what would we do with our time?” he asked. “Read books?”
The program then went on to a celebration of show theme songs, featuring both song and dance, including Friends and The Brady Bunch, with the Brady cast introduced.
The songs from Law & Order and Game of Thrones followed, before Thompson, in a blond Daenerys wig, introduced “the queen of all thrones, Oprah Winfrey!”
“Tonight is a par-tay!” said Winfrey, before giving out the best lead actor in a limited series trophy to Michael Keaton of Hulu’s Dopesick.
“My face hurts so much from all the fake smiling I’ve been doing,” he said.
Keaton acknowledged that he’s “had some doubters. Ya know what? We’re cool.”
He then saluted his “true believers.”
Best supporting actor in a limited series went to Murray Bartlett of The White Lotus on HBO.
Bartlett saluted creator Mike White. “Thank you for giving me one of the best experiences of my life,” he said. “I adore you and I admire you.”
Thompson delivered some more TV-related quips, including this about a certain HBO smash. “Succession is the only show that has three brothers…and no brothers,” he said.
He saluted the producers of Abbott Elementary for donating their Emmys marketing money to Philadelphia schools, and said he was doing something similar with his host pay–donating it to another needy cause in Netflix.
Sofia Vergara of America’s Got Talent gave out the prize for outstanding supporting actor in a drama, which went to Matthew Macfadyen of Succession. He said it was “a pleasure to play this bonkers gift of a role," and saluted creator Jesse Armstrong and the show’s writers. “They are truly amazing, they just are,” said Macfadyen.
Given out by Kerry Washington and Gael García Bernal, best supporting actress in a drama went to Julia Garner of Ozark. She said to the writers, “Thank you for writing Ruth. She’s changed my life.”
Garner thanked Jason Bateman “for taking a chance on me” and Laura Linney. “You’ve been such a guiding light,” she said.
A Simpsons clip followed, Homer slumped over the bar when Moe throws an Emmy at him.
Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers were out next to salute best supporting actress in a comedy.
Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary of ABC won. An emotional Ralph sang a verse from “Endangered Species.”
“I am a woman, I am an artist,” she sang. “And I know where my voice belongs.”
Finishing the verse, she spoke to the crowd. “This is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like,” Ralph said. “And don’t you ever, ever give up on you.”
Many in the room rose to their feet.
Lizzo then came onstage with Thompson. She gave out the supporting actor in a comedy trophy, to Brett Goldstein of Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso.
“I’m really going to try not to swear,” he said.
Goldstein thanked the producers “for creating this magical thing and letting me be a part of it.”
He then addressed his family in the U.K., sharing how his cursing the previous time up on the Emmys stage meant he was bleeped out and they didn’t get to hear him. This time, he was bleeped out again.
Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon of Squid Game presented the best variety sketch series prize, which NBC’s Saturday Night Live won. Lorne Michaels spoke about how Covid impacted the show, and its cast members, the past two years. “Lots of people who could’ve left didn’t,” he said, adding, “I want to thank them all for showing up.”
Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short from Only Murders in the Building were out next for best variety talk series. “Ya know what I love about working with these guys?” quipped Gomez. “No paparazzi ever.”
HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won.
“It is a thrill to be here. It is a thrill to meet Steve Martin and Martin Short–,” said Oliver before being bleeped out.
He added, “We know how lucky we are to make the exact show we want.”
Next onstage was Bowen Yang with some quips about Yellowjackets and President Trump.
Chandra Wilson and Freddie Highmore came out next. Both playing doctors on TV (Wilson on Grey’s Anatomy, Highmore on The Good Doctor), they saluted medical professionals, then awarded best supporting actress in a limited series. Jennifer Coolidge of The White Lotus won.
“To my fellow nominees, just to be in your company is incredible,” she said, then added how a lavender bath made her swell up and made it hard to speak.
Lead actress in a limited series went to Amanda Seyfried from The Dropout on Hulu. “It was the best time of my life,” she said.
Outstanding achievement in a competition program went to Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls on Prime Video.
“I need my big girls to come to the stage right now!” said Lizzo. “Right now!”
She broke out in tears while talking about the stories shared by those on the show.
“When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was someone like me in the media,” she shared.
Sarah Paulson and Shonda Rhimes gave out the governor’s award. Saluting Geena Davis, Paulson said Davis made it easier for women to bring smarts to the roles they play. “She was a complete person, bringing her whole self to the party,” said Paulson.
Davis’s roles include Thelma and Louise, A League of Their Own and Commander in Chief. She also launched the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Davis and Madeline DiNonno, CEO of the institute, stepped onstage.
“This recognition of our achievements means so much to Madeline and I,” said Davis. Echoing Lizzo, she added, “Television can directly impact how people see themselves and judge their value in the world.”
Diego Luna and Rosario Dawson came out to present the award for outstanding directing in a limited series. Mike White won it for The White Lotus. He saluted his parents. “My mom let me be the weird kid I wanted to be,” said White. “And my dad who’s struggling right now–”
White then broke down in tears.
“I love everybody here tonight,” he added. “I want to party with you later. Let’s party.”
The Emmy for writing for a limited series was given out by B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling. Mike White won that one too.
He spoke about his time on Survivor. He said the way to stay in the game was to lower your threat level. “Now I feel like I raised my threat level,” he said. “I want to stay in the game…don’t vote me off the island please!”
The Emmy for writing in a variety special went to Jerrod Carmichael for Rothaniel on HBO.
“I made something that was of great personal consequence to me,” he said. “This definitely contributes to the meaning of it.”
Anthony Anderson was out next to give tribute to the Hollywood icons who died, including Betty White, Peter Scolari, Bob Saget, Vin Scully, James Caan, Anne Heche, Ray Liotta and Jak Knight. John Legend sang.
Law & Order stars Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay were up next, giving out the trophy for lead actor in a comedy. Jason Sudeikis of Ted Lasso won.
Sudeikis mentioned the “amazing group that I was nominated with.” He said he was not prepared to make a speech, but “I did take classes in the Second City” and could probably wing it.
“It’s a joy to get to work with these guys,” he said of the cast, then concluded, “I’m truly, truly surprised and flattered.”
Will Arnett and Jimmy Kimmel gave out the Emmy for writing for a comedy series. Quinta Brunson of Abbott Elementary won. She singled out co-showrunners Justin Halperin and Patrick Schumacker “for believing in this story from four years ago and thinking it would make a good television show.”
Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White from The Bear gave out the directing in a drama series prize. It went to Hwang Dong-hyuk of Squid Game. He thanked Ted Sarandos of Netflix, and he thanked viewers. “It was you who opened up the door for Squid Game,” he said. “We all made history together.”
Kelly Clarkson came out to award the outstanding lead actress in a drama. It went to Zendaya of HBO’s Euphoria. She credited the producers for providing “a safe space to make this very difficult show.”
Zendaya added, “My greatest wish for Euphoria is that it would help heal people.”
Regina Hall awarded the lead actress in a comedy. Jean Smart of HBO Max’s Hacks won.
“I’m so blown away by our writers, who not only matched season one but surpassed it…this has just been such a thrill,” she said.
“I didn’t realize the breadth of the appeal of our show,” she added, mentioning being spotted as her Deborah character by boys in a shopping mall.
Molly Shannon and Vanessa Bayer toasted the directing for a comedy series winner. M.J. Delaney of Ted Lasso got the trophy. She said to the producers, “Thank you for creating this thing that people love, and letting me be a part of it.”
Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser gave out the award for writing in a drama series. Jesse Armstrong of Succession won.
“It didn’t feel always necessarily good when I was writing it,” he said of the episode that won. He encouraged the writers who are “blind to all the merits and you can only see the faults” to keep at it.
Ariana DeBose and Angela Bassett awarded the lead actor in a drama, which went to Lee Jung-jae of Squid Game. He thanked the Television Academy and Netflix, and credited the producers for making a “realistic problem we all face come to life.”
Juliette Lewis and RuPaul saluted the outstanding limited series. The winner was The White Lotus. Mike White made his way to the stage yet again.
“I forgot to thank HBO in my previous speeches,” he said, and proceeded to do so.
Pete Davidson came out next to announce the outstanding comedy. Before doing so, Davidson gave a shout-out to host Kenan Thompson, calling him “an absolute treasure and I’m honored to call him a friend.”
Ted Lasso won best comedy. Jason Sudeikis thanked the show’s Covid squad, noting how the production had no pandemic shutdowns in season two.
“The show is about good and evil, about truth and lies,” said Sudeikis. “It’s about all that stuff but mostly about our response to those things. Your response to our show has been amazing.”
Then it came down to outstanding drama. Selma Blair was there to open the envelope. Succession won.
“We are incredibly grateful to have this, it’s a wonderful honor,” said Jesse Armstrong.
He called the show “a team effort, starting with the engine room, the writers room.” He went on to credit the producers, directors and crew, and finally HBO, “who protect and support us.” ▪️
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The Detroit Lions have a new owner.
The team announced Tuesday that Martha Firestone Ford, who took over after William Clay Ford Sr. died in 2014, has stepped down as the principal owner of the team. Sheila Ford Hamp will succeed her mother as the club's principal owner and chairman.
"It has been a great honor for our family to be associated with the Lions and with the National Football League," Firestone Ford wrote in a statement. "I am gratified that this family tradition, which my husband and I began almost six decades ago, will continue under Sheila's guiding hand. It is clear to me that Sheila will provide superb leadership and is fully committed to competitive excellence and community involvement."
Shelia Ford Hamp has been groomed to take over the ownership role from her mother and was appointed to the NFL's Super Bowl and Major Events advisory committee last year.
"My mother has inspired all of us since taking on leadership of the Lions over six years ago," Ford Hamp said in a statement. "She has been a tireless leader to our family, our team and our community. Her smart decisions have given me a solid foundation to take the team forward. On behalf of the family and the team, I want to thank her for her countless contributions. I look forward to leading the Lions to excellence on and off the field."
William Clay Ford Sr. purchased the Lions in 1963. Upon his death in 2014, Firestone Ford, 94, took over the team. Tuesday's decision to hand the keys to the franchise to Shelia Ford Hamp ensures the Ford family will continue to drive Detroit's club into the future.
"Martha Ford has led the Lions with skill and grace for the past six seasons," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "I have appreciated her business insights, her love of the game, her deep commitment to the NFL, and her personal kindness. We are pleased that the Ford family will continue to own and operate this historic franchise. Sheila Hamp has become increasingly involved in team and league affairs over the past several years and we look forward to working with her and the rest of the club's executive team."
The team's announcement in December that it expected coach Matt Patricia and GM Bob Quinn to win-or-else in 2020 included a statement from both Firestone Ford and Ford Hamp. The dual statement indicated a transition at the top could be coming down the line, and it also ensures continued pressure on Detroit's brass to win with a new owner taking over. | <urn:uuid:25dde2a9-8feb-4d4b-aff6-a1f357f6cf73> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-owner-martha-ford-stepping-down-will-be-succeeded-by-daughter | 2023-09-22T13:16:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.982428 | 509 |
A number of football players have retired and become physicians. However, John Frank might be the only one who switched to medicine while at the pinnacle of his football life.
But those accomplishments never were Frank's goal while playing college football at Penn State.
"I became interested in medicine at an early age," Frank said of his "Second Act," the fourth part in an "NFL AM" series about former NFL players who have found success off the field. "So when I went to college, it really wasn't my goal to be drafted or be noticed. It wasn't even a consideration."
"My objective was to fulfill my potential as an athlete, and I was still developing when I got to the 49ers," said Frank, a 1984 second-round draft pick. "But I didn't want to do that at the expense of sacrificing my medical career.
"It was a struggle to play that fifth year. Nobody knew the academic peril I was facing. Just as luck has it, we win the Super Bowl that year."
At first, Frank specialized in ear, nose and throat patients. He now works in New York mainly on hair and scalp surgery at the Anapelli Hair Clinic.
"Those lessons as an NFL player were extremely valuable," he said. "I certainly miss those days. I miss the camaraderie.
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Also known as: juvenile scleroderma, localized scleroderma.
What is scleroderma?
Scleroderma (hard skin) is a rare autoimmune disease where normal skin (usually, though other organ systems may be involved) is replaced by dense thick scar like tissue.
There are two types:
- Localized scleroderma, common in children, particularly girls, which may present as bands of thick white tissue or morphea-patches (with purple borders) in the skin plus damage to muscle, bones and joints.
- Systemic scleroderma (sclerosis) which is rare in children, more severe and involves internal organs as well as the skin.
What causes scleroderma?
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disorder. This means that the body’s own immune system (which normally defends us against infections) mistakenly attacks and damages the body’s own tissues.
It’s believed that a combination of genetic and environmental factors can lead to this disease.
What are the symptoms of scleroderma?
Common skin changes include loss of the skin's ability to stretch, swelling of hands and feet, the tightening of the skin with hardening lines or streaks, tight oval-shaped patches of skin anywhere on the body known as morphea, fatigue and muscle weakness.
What are scleroderma care options?
Many children with localized skin scleroderma can manage it topical ointments or creams. In more severe instances, medications that suppress the body’s immune response may be required.
Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP
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Sunday breakfast: a celebratory corn story
Updated: Jul 28, 2022
Last year, after corn earworm ravaged my corn crop so thoroughly, I decided not to plant corn for a few years.
Come spring this year, however, when I was going through my seeds and deciding how to transition to a more waterwise style of gardening, I relented. I sowed the packet of ‘Festivity’ sweet corn from Native Seed Search which I had on hand
It germinated reasonably well but then the young plants were hard hit by an extremely hot spring with days of desiccating strong winds exacerbating the above average temperatures. True to their tough heritage, however, some plants hung in to tassel and form ears amongst cowpeas (Dixielee I think) and volunteer amaranth .
For the past week I have been gently peeking at the progress of kernel swelling on the plumpest ear. I picked it today at milk stage. The kernels are just starting to show colour.
I do love everything about zea mays.
Especially finding it, ten minutes from picking, having been lightly steamed, on my breakfast plate.
A very tasty variety. Corn fed, I am replete. | <urn:uuid:4b7cf3b2-975f-4aa0-8388-1f3e069693c9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nomaddreaming.com/post/sunday-breakfast-a-celebratory-corn-story | 2023-09-22T12:23:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.96238 | 255 |
Shazaaam! Announces Nonprofit Recipients of $1 Million
Press release (Jan. 26, 2012) — Public relations, marketing and social media firm Shazaaam! Public Relations is proud to announce the 10 recipients of the $1 million worth of pro bono services as a result of its Million Dollar Challenge. The firm, founded by entrepreneur Adrienne Lenhoff, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by gifting 10 worthy charities each $100,000 in pro bono services, a total of $1 million.
“We really feel that everyone who participated is a winner and all 104 charities worked extremely hard to get the word out and rally votes,” Lenhoff said. “In our eyes, every single one of the 104 charities is a winner and we wish all could have been the recipients of the $100,000.”
With more than 14,000 votes tallied, the recipients of $100,000 each are:
Lighthouse of Oakland County
Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation
The Salvation Army
Detroit Institute of Art
The Pink Fund
Motor City Blight Busters
Special Dreams Farm
Angels of Hope, A Family Cancer Foundation
Adopt a Rescue Pet
And wanting to give something back to all of the nominated organizations, Lenhoff and Shazaaam! are providing them with free seminars that will teach them marketing, media relations and social media skills to aid in their efforts to further their cause and present each organizations with opportunities for fundraising through Shazaaam! clients and friends of the agency.
“Although we could not award everyone with the pro bono services, from the start of this initiative we wanted to make sure that every participating agency was a winner and that there was something that we could give every participating organization,” Lenhoff said.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Newtownabbey residents pay tribute to monarch
and live on Freeview channel 276
Following news of her passing, community groups across the region have paid tribute.
Posting on social media, a spokesperson for Ballyclare-based Erskine and District Community Association said: “With profound sadness we join the rest of the country in mourning.
“We have laid a wreath and put the late Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Union flag at half mast in respect of the sad news that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Rest easy ma’am. The Queen has died, Long live the King.”
Floral tributes have been placed at a new mural created for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in the Queens Park area of Glengormley. Sharon McTaggart of the Queens Park Women’s Group said: “Respect shown in Queens Park.”
In Monkstown, members of the Monkstown Community Association paid respects to Her Majesty today (Friday).
Commenting on Facebook, a spokesperson for the group said: “This morning, Chair David Mccrea and Vice Chair Mark Cooper of MCA took time to reflect on the sad loss of Her Majesty the Queen.
“Back in June, we unveiled seven decades of devotion and we would invite our community to reflect, pause and lay flowers if they wish. Thank you. God Save The King.”
Members of Rathcoole-based RATH community group have invited members of the public to lay floral tributes at a recently commissioned mural marking the Platinum Jubilee in the estate.
A spokesperson for the group said: “There is a hole in our lives that will never be filled again. We recently opened a Platinum Jubilee mural at Clonmore Green, Rathcoole, BT37 9EE.
“We welcome the local community and further afield to pay their respects and/or lay tributes at the mural. In the near future we will also have a memorial service.
“We at RATH, on behalf of the Rathcoole community, send our deepest condolences to the Royal family. The Queen is dead, God save the King.” | <urn:uuid:e43d5e7a-e8bf-436d-b343-9733b1db17cf> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-newtownabbey-residents-pay-tribute-to-monarch-3837873 | 2023-09-22T12:22:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.914034 | 476 |
A Commitment to the Health of the Poudre River
In January 2020, the Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment approved Northern Water’s application for what is known as a 401 Water Quality Certification. Following a long period of careful study and monitoring, along with a robust process to incorporate public input, this certification found that “no significant degradation is expected as part of (NISP).”
The 401 certification comes as part of an ongoing, collaborative process that Northern Water has been engaged in over many years. Since 2015, Northern Water has collected hundreds of samples each year, investing approximately $450,000 annually into the Poudre River monitoring program. These efforts, among others, have included data collection and monitoring along the Poudre River, water quality and temperature modeling, examining potential NISP-related water quality and temperature impacts, and developing mitigation measures.
The data helps to evaluate possible changes in water quality associated with new water projects such as NISP, for example:
- Existing data are used to support modeling efforts and detailed assessments to understand what affects water quality in the river and to what extent future projects might change water quality.
- Data will also serve in the future to evaluate the effectiveness of enhancement and mitigation measures that will be required once new water supply projects are built. | <urn:uuid:1d169173-acd6-4301-812a-c4f976dafea3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.northernwater.org/NISP/environmental/water-quality | 2023-09-22T11:48:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.957767 | 278 |
In The Community
Connecting With You
Northern Water is a part of every community and irrigated farm we deliver water to throughout our 1.6-million-acre service area across Northeastern Colorado. We’re a part of West Slope mountain communities where we collect and store melting Colorado River snowpack before it travels east beneath the Continental Divide. We’re a part of East Slope communities that enjoy recreation on our Front Range reservoirs. We're also a part of Northeastern Colorado agricultural communities that receive supplemental Colorado-Big Thompson Project water to help grow our crops.
Providing Education About Water
Throughout these communities Northern Water offers an array of educational services and resources about the water projects we operate and our plans to meet future water demands. We’re available to share this information through presentations on a variety of water topics ranging from the history of the C-BT and Windy Gap projects, to future water projects such as Chimney Hollow Reservoir, to using water more efficiently in the yard and home.
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BS and BA, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
I am a self-confessed Chequamegon Bay transplant, and fall more in love with this area with each passing year. Following college graduation, I spent some time in Philadelphia briefly before settling outside of Minneapolis while I pursued a career in K-12 education. However, after years of visiting Mother Superior on vacation, my husband and I decided it was time to work where we live rather than living where we worked, and put an end to the constant rush out of the city each Friday. We've called this area home now since 2016 and I still pinch myself sometimes to make sure I'm not dreaming.
Northland is such a special place! The commitment to providing rich applied learning opportunities for students which offers a mutual benefit for businesses and community organizations sets us apart from other universities and colleges.
As a result of my professional work in K-12 Education, and community-based mental health care, I've learned I'm best when encouraging others to be their best. I'm looking forward to matching students with internships, networking opportunities, and work experiences that will support them in achieving their career goals.
I'm obsessed with my black labrador retriever mix, David! Most days you can find us hiking one of the many amazing trails or beaches in the area. | <urn:uuid:1961d9cd-7f92-40ba-95bc-f10cbd684185> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.northland.edu/dir/julie-winter/ | 2023-09-22T11:29:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.965502 | 273 |
Novi Wealth Partners was founded in 1998 under the name Private Wealth Management Group, as a Fee-Only™ comprehensive financial planning firm. We are located in Princeton, New Jersey and we service clients both locally and nationally. There are five CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® practitioners in the firm, all of whom are members of the prestigious National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA).
Novi Wealth Partners offers comprehensive financial planning, investment management, tax planning advice, retirement planning, estate planning advice, risk management advice and concierge level wealth management. We are committed to providing each of our clients a level of service as unique as they are and we are proud, as Fee-Only™ financial advisors, to offer unbiased financial expertise. | <urn:uuid:b24e08bb-aa8f-4a5e-86cd-5e6659a1821f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.noviwealth.com/our-firm-s-values | 2023-09-22T10:47:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.949633 | 165 |
Higher dry solids for a range of benefits
With our viscosity reducing enzymes, you can reduce the viscosity of mashes and liquids in all stages of your process. That means you can run at higher dry solids (DS) to achieve higher output. You can also cut your energy, water and operational costs. With lower viscosity you get less fouling, which means less wear on equipment and less cleaning. | <urn:uuid:930bbff1-db93-4052-b88f-5705681772d6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.novozymes.com/en/distilling/viscosity-reduction | 2023-09-22T11:54:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.961142 | 88 |
Ambassador Jean-Charles Berthonnet arrived in Indonesia in October last year, but even though he is still relatively new to the country, the veteran diplomat has a lot on his plate already – especially since Indonesia and France have agreed on plenty of new projects as the result of French President Francois Hollande’s visit to Jakarta at the end of March. NOW! Jakarta recently talked to the open-minded Ambassador about the relationship between the two countries.
How do you like Jakarta and Indonesia so far?
Indonesia is a very interesting country by its size, its diversity and its dynamism. I have already visited several places like Bali, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Medan, but I would very much like to explore more of Indonesia. With thousands of islands and ethnic groups, Indonesia is very attractive, and I am keen to better understand the way this country functions. I have a very good team around me, both from France and Indonesia, which really makes my work here much easier.
The most important agenda of the Embassy so far this year was the visit of French President, Francois Hollande. Could you tell us more about the main results of this visit?
First of all, I appreciated the helpfulness of our Indonesian counterparts during the preparation of President Hollande’s visit last month. We are of course quite happy that the event was a success. 35 agreements were signed, which will lead to investments of up to 2.6 billion dollars in Indonesia. This implies a promising future for bilateral relations between Indonesia and France. Both Heads of State, President Hollande and President Jokowi, discussed of political cooperation, including how to improve our work in environmental diplomacy. This is especially important because Indonesia has ratified the Paris Climate Agreement last year, and the country has the wish to increase the share of its renewable energies. We are working on several projects at the moment to help Indonesia achieve this goal. The President also expressed his commitment to help Indonesia overcome the challenges currently faced by its palm oil industry as it is an important issue here. President Hollande put forth several proposals in the defense sector, for which Indonesian government expressed its interest.
Three MoUs were signed in the creative economy sector to promote collaborations in fields such as cinema, fashion, digital industries, as well as video games. I’m also happy to announce that an Indonesian film will be aired next month in Cannes, and we are looking forward to a closer partnership between our national film industries as France’s National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (or CNC) has signed an agreement with BEKRAF to increase the exchange of culture and knowledge in this field. These are relatively new and dynamic sectors undergoing a rapid development, and President Hollande expressed his excitement to see the implementation of these projects. I think Indonesia and France already have solid relationship, the President’s visit undoubtedly strengthened the ties between the two countries.
In addition to bilateral cooperation, the Presidents’ meeting also resulted in agreements on international issues. Could you tell us more about this?
Yes, the other topics that were discussed during the meeting were international issues including the Middle East peace process. France and Indonesia share the same view when it comes to the necessity of supporting a Palestinian state, so we will continue our struggle to bring peace between Palestine and Israel based on a two-state solution. We also currently face the common threat of radicalism and terrorism, and we are keen to jointly promote the values of tolerance and dialogue.
How is the current French investment climate in Indonesia?
France has made a lot of direct investments in Indonesia. Our aeronautics sales to Indonesia are currently strong due to the rapid development of the air transport industry in Indonesia which requires a fleet of increasing importance every year. Outside of the field of aeronautics, we would like to bolster exports in cosmetics and agriculture in the future. We also have a considerable of companies operating in Indonesia in sectors such as renewable energy, tire manufacturing, and so forth. In general, French companies in Indonesia are happy with their business activities here. Of course, there are always problems here and there, like the complicated work permit procedure for expats and unexpected changes of regulations from time to time, which can be difficult to cope with. Companies will want to see a stable legal framework before investing for the long term, so I think this is something that could be improved in order to attract more business. Other than that, I see a bright future of trade and investment relations between Indonesia and France. Indonesia’s economy is growing, representing 40 percent of GDP in South East Asia. With its large population and a growing middle class, Indonesia is undoubtedly a strategic partner for France.
We noted that French delegations established French Renewable Energy Group (FREG) in February. What is the significance of this project?
One month before President Hollande’s visit, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault came to Jakarta to meet the Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources, Ignasius Jonan. Both ministers launched the French Renewable Energy Group (FREG) in order to promote more concrete projects in the energy sector. Indonesia has the ambitious goal to increase the use of renewable energy sources to 23 percent of the national energy mix by 2025. FREG is expected to enhance business-to-business contacts between French and Indonesian companies and to encourage more French renewable energy companies to invest in Indonesia. However, in order to ensure the sustainability of this programme, we need support from the Indonesian authorities. Their backing is essential to the viability of renewable energy projects which cannot yet compete with core power stations and thus generate electricity at slightly higher cost than average.
What are your professional goals and aspirations for the next 12 months?
The important thing for me now is to follow up on all the decisions and agreements made during President Hollande’s visit and certainly to continue strengthening the bilateral relations between France and Indonesia. On a personal note, I would like to get to know Indonesia better by exploring places like Papua, Sulawesi, Sumatera and many more. | <urn:uuid:735227f9-45b9-4406-a445-8d35c2e08e90> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nowjakarta.co.id/an-interview-with-h-e-jean-charles-berthonnet-the-ambassador-of-france-to-indonesia/ | 2023-09-22T11:07:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.969097 | 1,237 |
- Demonstrate understanding of business and business law in a global environment.
- Prepare and analyze financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Analyze and apply managerial and cost accounting principles
- Apply computer skills efficiently and accurately to office tasks using a variety of computer application programs
- Demonstrate application of integrated accounting software
- Demonstrate professionalism in preparation for the workplace
Equity and Inclusion Statement
- The Accounting program will adapt program courses to include culturally responsive material to grow toward meeting Equity 2030 goals.
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The Financial Times is running an article about German/euro-style board games such as Settlers of Catan and Carcassone that covers why the games are so popular in German, how they’ve expanded beyond its borders to the UK and America, and the sustainability of this niche market.
It’s a good read; I think there’s a real concern here that the market is being over-saturated with board games, as the Germans pump out more and more new games. There’s all the makings of a bubble there (and if we’re talking bubbles, then it’s already happened). But while the German market may be coming supersaturated, I think there’s still plenty of room to grow in the United States. Heck, I think they’ve only barely touched on what’s possible here — sure my gaming group has been playing these kinds of board games for years, but the larger population still things board game equals Monopoly or Sorry.
We can change that though. My wife, the non-gamer, loves Carcasssone and Ticket to Ride. My mother-in-law loved playing Ticket to Ride so much that we bought her copy of the game for Mother’s Day. We’ve introduced our friends to both games as well, and they enjoyed them. Maybe not enough to go out and buy their own copies … but enough that they’ll ask to play them when we have them over for dinner.
I don’t think that the American party game and “kid” board game inertia can be totally overcome, but there’s definitely room to grow if we’re willing show non-gamers that there’s more to board gaming than passing Go and collecting $200. | <urn:uuid:32e66673-14f2-4dbb-99ff-f4bdf6507424> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nuketown.com/financial-times-why-we-still-love-board-games/ | 2023-09-22T12:31:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.961296 | 376 |
My first attempt at blogging! After an in-depth discussion with my daughter and my sister, (both of whom have experience with blogs and both of whom worked hard to be patient and kind, thanks guys!), I have decided to take the plunge and begin sharing my experiences as an Infant/Fussy Baby/Sleep Specialist. I’m sure you are wondering what that is, well more on that in a later blog. The first thing you need to know is that I am lucky enough to be invited into the lives of Moms and Dads and babies every single day. I am dedicating this first blog to these families. I am grateful to these families for many things. Here are just a few:
- Honesty and vulnerability amid confusion and fear.
- Inviting me into your homes and hearts, no matter how messy you think they are.
- Letting me share in your anxiety and joy.
- Giving me the opportunity to get to know your precious baby.
- Watching parents grow and develop right alongside their babies.
- Baby and parent tears and laughter. I love it all.
I am so happy you found my blog and Nurturing Newborns, LLC. Stay tuned for future blogs that will support you as you navigate this new journey of parenting an infant! | <urn:uuid:ad0afdc0-20fd-4647-a95f-c04328af1439> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nurturingnewborns.com/blog/my-very-first-nurturing-newborns-blog/ | 2023-09-22T11:58:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.959815 | 267 |
B360 Experts Share Knowledge and Experience with NUST Students
Six Swiss-based industry experts undertook volunteer guest lecturing assignments at NUST during the first semester of 2023, as the B360 Sending South Programme continued its legacy of sharing know-how and skills transfer between European professionals and undergraduate students in Namibia.
Jeffrey Matthews and Marc Buser arrived in Namibia in February 2023, kicking off the volunteer lecturing assignments organized by B360 Education Partnerships for the year. Matthews and Buser, both employees of Swiss multinational healthcare company, Roche, visited NUST’s Faculty of Health, Natural Resources and Applied Sciences, where they taught senior Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) students.
Matthews and Buser delivered B360’s Career Starter Week during the first week of their assignment to experience at NUST, the two B360 experts pointed to the connections they formed with Namibian students and seeing these very individuals grow and development over a very short period of time as the highlight of their trip. “It was amazing to see how quickly they grasped new concepts and applied them in creative ways,” Buser said.
Next to arrive on Namibian shores from central Europe were Prof Corrinne Gantenbein and Dr Susanne Pfenninger. Dr Gantenbein, a Food Microbiologist at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, lead microbiology laboratory practicals for 3rd year students. Dr Pfenninger is the Head of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance at Emmi Schwiez AG, the leading manufacturer of dairy products in Switzerland. Dr Pfenninger also taught Health Sciences students in NUST’s Faculty of Health, Natural Resources and Applied Sciences.
Both Prof Gantenbeing and Dr Pfenninger have visited NUST before and had become well acquainted with the staff in the Department of Health Sciences and the International Relations Unit at the institution. They have also had previous exposure to Namibian students, and the lure of working with eager, intelligent and inquisitive African youth proved irresistible. “It was very enriching to have the opportunity to pass on a small portion of my professional experience to young people who have the future ahead of them,” Dr Pfenninger said. Prof Gantenbein shared similar sentiments when asked about her visit to NUST. “I was impressed by their passion for education and their determination to succeed. It was inspiring to see how much they valued educations as a means to improve their lives and the lives of their families,” she said.
Mirembe Izagiire-Waccholz visited NUST from late February 2023 through to the middle of March 2023. Being the Head of Roche’s Diabetes Care Global Supply Chain Improvement Programme, Izagiire-Waccholz visited NUST’s Faculty of Commerce, Human Sciences and Education. She taught students enrolled in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management programmes at the institution. Amongst other topics, she taught Procurement Management and Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management. During her first week at NUST she also assisted Matthews and Buser on the delivery of the Career Starter Week.
“I have had an incredibly enriching experience in Namibia in general and in particular at NUST,” Izagiire-Waccholz said of her trip. She added that the engagement with students and lecturers created for a new dimension in work-related travel that she had not experienced previously. “The staff in the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme are excellent, I think the students are lucky to have such knowledgeable and dedicated individuals at their disposal,” she said. | <urn:uuid:a7294ca1-dc9a-448e-8f8d-b21f0a2f803c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nust.na/b360-experts-share-knowledge-and-experience-nust-students | 2023-09-22T11:35:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.97165 | 766 |
Eating allergen free is a lifestyle we began over 15 years ago as a young family with the birth of our older daughter, who has multiple food allergies including the top 8 – wheat, dairy, soy, eggs, nuts, peanuts, fish and shellfish, as well as corn, rice, yeast and potatoes, among others. Our other three children also have allergies to nuts, eggs and seafood.
Recipes were born of necessity when we discovered that all the usual ingredients for gluten free goodies were also allergens to us. With a desire for inclusion and a taste for sweets, I looked to my Asian roots, experimenting with ingredients atypical to the Western palate to invent our cakes and cookies. I continue to experiment with new ingredients and play with old recipes to expand our offerings. We find our baked goods tempting and tasty and hope you do too! | <urn:uuid:08546f73-89fd-4d23-bae8-c907058a97a9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nwteafestival.com/content/askatu-bakery | 2023-09-22T11:35:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.978806 | 179 |
Designed with style, comfort, and convenience in mind, the ModernMom TummyControl Shapewear is empowering moms to look and feel their best everyday
Mothers have always desired to be a supermom. However, this doesn’t mean they want it to be their full-time job. Knowing how important those little me-times can be for moms, Chelia launched a bodysuit called ModernMom TummyControl Shapewear to help modern moms stay on top of their game while they can.
ModernMom TummyControl Shapewear is perfect for moms who desire a modern look and require tummy control solutions that can easily fit into their existing self-care routines. Recognizing that self-care or “me time” is often a luxury for busy moms, Chelia created shapewear that can seamlessly integrate into their self-care routine, making them feel better about themselves.
“Empowering moms with style and comfort, we cherish their precious ‘me-time’ and ensure they always shine, because at our core, we believe in celebrating motherhood every step of the way,” shares the team behind Chelia.
As its name suggests, ModernMom TummyControl Shapewear offers effective control and support for the abdominal area, giving moms a sleek and toned look. Its smooth and seamless appearance under clothing ensures a discreet and polished outcome while its skin-friendly materials provide all-day comfort and a gentle touch.More importantly, it effectively does its job of enhancing the body’s natural curves for that much-needed self-esteem boost.
Unlike other shapewear or bodysuits, Chelia designed its shapewear for all-day wear without compromising on functionality and ease of use, so that it blends effortlessly into existing self-care practices. Not only is it quick and easy to put on and remove, but it also provides the perfect fit every time – making it the ideal choice for moms on the go.
In addition, Chelia offers a Shapewear Satisfaction Pledge to make the entire shopping experience at their store super easy for busy moms. This means Free Expedited Shipping, which promises delivery in 3 days or the order is on them; Free Expedited Exchanges, meaning fast size or color replacements withouthaving to wait for the return; and Free Returns for a hassle-free returns process.
For more information about Chelia and the ModernMom TummyControl Shapewear, visit http://chelia.uk.
Chelia is a clothing brand that offers high-quality, stylish yet comfortable shapewear for modern moms.
Company Name: Chelia
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Travel by car is often the mode of transportation chosen by pet owners, and one that many pets thoroughly enjoy. A car trip can be fun for both pets and their people, since it offers them an opportunity to view the scenery, travel at their own pace, and enjoy rest stops and walks along the way.
For a safe, fun road trip:
Make sure your pet is fit for traveling. Older pets in particular, or those who have medical conditions, should be examined by a vet prior to travel. If your pet shouldn't travel, or doesn't enjoy it, find a responsible and trusted kennel or pet-sitter. Take frequent rest stops so that you and your pet can stretch your legs and take a bathroom break. Pets have been known to escape out the car door, so be sure he is securely restrained before opening the door.
Keep your pet in the back seat. It's safer for both you and him, and will help to prevent him from distracting the driver or getting in the way in case the driver needs to perform some emergency maneuvering. Please don't allow your pet to ride in the open bed of a pickup truck, even if leashed - many dogs have jumped or been thrown from the truck and suffered serious injury and even death.
Consider the use of a restraint such as a kennel or a pet seat-belt. It will offer extra protection in case of an accident, as well as prevent nervous or excitable pets from distracting the driver.
Don't let your pooch hang his head out the window. Flying debris can be kicked up from tires or it can fall off the car or truck in front of you. Any of this may hit your pet and can cause injury.
Offer water regularly. Pets can become dehydrated, just like we can. Keep a supply of cool water and a dish in the car. You can even freeze small containers of water for travel.
Keep your pet comfortable. In cold weather, pets should have adequate warmth at all times and thus should not be left alone in the car for extended periods. In warm weather, be aware that even a few minutes in a hot car can cause serious damage. It can even be fatal! Consider alternatives such as having a picnic instead of eating in a restaurant, or take turns staying with your pet if he cannot accompany you on an activity.
Bring appropriate documentation just in case.
Make lodging plans in advance. It can be a challenge to find rentals that will accept your pet, particularly at the last moment. By booking ahead, you will ensure that both you and your pet have a safe place to stay.
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Why not try some of the ‘wow’ science activities together as a family or watch these fascinating videos!
A resource filled with exciting science investigations that you can carry out at home.
Watch some amazing science investigations and how a go yourselves!
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Growing up with house music literally all around her, Chloe Sharville, known as Loéca, has been building her reputation here in Ibiza for well over 5 years. She has house music in her veins. We are super proud to have Loéca here with us every Monday & Friday throughout the Summer! Playing for Hed Kandi and at Pool Party. Discover more about our favourite girl here in this exclusive O Beach Ibiza interview.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, how long have you been DJ’ing for and what made you start ?
I started DJing at the age of 14. I grew up listening to house music because of my parents. When I was 13
years of age I started to get really obsessed with it and so asked for decks for Christmas and when I was 14 I had my first residency in a local club. I played all over Ireland and Ibiza for the following 4 years but then had a break from DJing as I went to study Law at university. But I’ve been back at it a year now and loving it.
So what or who has been the biggest inspiration to your music?
I would say again my parents have probably been the biggest inspiration to my music. My dad was a DJ turned promoter in Northern Ireland in the late 80s/early 90s so I was constantly surrounded by DJs growing up, even Carl Cox was in my house when I was around 2 or 3. Also, a really good friend of my mum’s, Joanne, was an extremely popular DJ in Ireland in the nineties so she was a big inspiration as she was the first female DJ I ever met, I used to listen to all her house and garage mix tapes as well as a friend of my dad’s, Paddy Frazer, he got me hooked on Italian piano house. All the music I play today is inspired by that era.
You’ve lived in Ibiza for many years, what’s your favourite thing to do on the island when you’re not behind the decks?
Honestly my favourite thing to do when I’m not DJing is to be on the dance floor. I live for music and that’s why I’m here on the island. Or if I want to chill out I love relaxing on one of the many beautiful beaches the island has to offer with a huge gin and tonic in hand!
What has been the highlight of your career so far?
O Beach Ibiza of course! I absolutely love being a part of the great team of DJs that work there and joining Lovely Laura on Mondays! Playing in Amnesia when I was 17 was pretty spectacular too. And joining Hed Kandi’s International roster was really special too as I always loved the brand.
What’s behind the name Loeca and where did it come from?
Everyone thinks there is a cool story behind the name and there isn’t one! My first name is Chloé (but that
was already taken by another DJ) and my middle name is Catherine. So I took the end of Chloé and the beginning of Catherine and came up with Loéca. I just wanted to have something short and sweet.
What are the top 5 tracks that you love to play?
What can we expect to see from Loeca in 2016?
This summer I have residencies across the island in O Beach Ibiza, Savannah and Nassau Beach Club which allows me to play to a broad spectrum of people. And the winter will consist of gigs around the world with Hed Kandi. Hopefully I will have 1 or 2 tracks out before the end of the year too!
MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS OUT seeing loÉca in action this suMMER !
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Tom Nejman, 67, of Hammond, IN passed away on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Tom is survived by his husband Anthony Radulovich; mother, Joan Nejman; father, Carl Nejman; siblings, Tim Nejman (Peggy), Laura Stamps, Lisa Davis, and Greg Nejman (Josie). He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends are invited to visit with the family for a memorial gathering on Monday, December 5, 2022 at Calumet Park Funeral Chapel, 7535 Taft Street, Merrillville, IN 46410 from 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM. For more information, please call Mileva or David at 219-736-5840. | <urn:uuid:cf16c1ad-c025-4617-b33a-21e24e86b624> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.obits.mycalumetpark.com/memorials/thomas-w-nejman/ | 2023-09-22T10:36:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.932347 | 158 |
It looks like the snow has come to us all in this week of February. Here on the boat we are cosy and warm with our central heating system and electric fan heaters. Actually, with the small space we have, it warms up quickly and we feel less cold than in our house in Ronda, when we were there last winter.
We do have some condensation though, so everything needs to be aired continually. However, this is not really a problem.
The flurries came thick and fast, covering the boat and pontoon with a white layer of snow. We did ask the Capitainerie to put some salt on the moving pontoon as the low tide makes a steep and potentially slippery walk. They kindly obliged and our day was without any broken bones !
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29th August 2022
Another packed show, with good news of new releases from the Dualers, Dajla and Surfer Girl who is also the double up artist, burning spear as the selectors choice too … but not so good news of cancelled tours and the loss of a reggae great.
- 1The Dualers - Hole In My Pocket
- 2DENM, Landon McNamara - Wild Trip
- 3Israel Vibration - Natty Dread
- 4Dajla - Pas A Pas
- 5Aiesha - Burning House
- 6MikkiM - Bidlibam Skank (Ft. MC Turner, Earl 16)
- 7Surfer Girl - Doghouse (Ft. Shwayze)
- 8Surfer Girl - Bag Of Bones
- 9Flying Raccoon Suit - Tell Another One
- 10Raging Fyah - Raging Fyah (Dub Style)
- 11Black Uhuru - Youth Of Eglington
- 12Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
- 13Burning Spear - Tradition
- 14John Holt - Stick By Me
- 15Bitty McLean - It Keeps Raining (Tears From My Eyes)
A couple of suggestions as to albums you should be listening to and maybe even buy!
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Hybrid Vs Memory Foam: How To Select The Best Mattress For Your Requirements Leesa Mattress Floor
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When you’re wanting to purchase a new mattress, deciding which type to get can be difficult. Memory foam mattresses are popular and tend to get excellent reviews, but there are also plenty of people who choose hybrid mattresses, which combine memory foam with other materials like springs or cotton. In this short article, we’ll discuss how memory foam and hybrid mattresses vary, what makes each popular in the first place, and assist you select the best type of mattress for your needs based on your sleeping routines and other factors like budget plan and chosen convenience levels.Leesa Mattress Floor
If you remain in the marketplace for a brand-new mattress, it can be challenging to choose in between the many choices readily available. Do you want to go with memory foam or choose a natural hybrid mattress? If you have actually heard of both, however don’t understand much about either, this post will describe their differences and help you decide which one is right for you.
What Should We Consider When We Select A Mattress?
Selecting the right mattress is a financial investment, so picking one that matches your requirements and way of life is essential. Assembling a bed takes time, so you want to make certain you get the best possible sleep from your mattress. Here are some essential elements to think about when selecting a mattress. The overall quality and durability of the item, whether it’s encouraging enough to handle long-term usage, and whether it features that may be very important to you, such as adjustable firmness levels or removable padding.Leesa Mattress Floor
When you’re looking for a new mattress, there are numerous elements to think about:
Initially, you’ll wish to think about what your mattress needs are. For instance, if you have a bad back, you’ll want to find a mattress that will give you the assistance and convenience that you require. If you have back problems in general, then an anti-back pain mattress might be best for you. You may also want a memory foam mattress if you suffer from insomnia or other sleep issues.Leesa Mattress Floor
Next, think about just how much space is readily available in your house and whether or not there’s enough room for a storage system that can store your old mattress and cover it when it’s not being used.
Finally, consider whether the cost is right for what it is – if it costs more than other options readily available on the market today then it may not be worth it in the long run!
Benefits and drawbacks Of Hybrid Mattress
Hybrid mattresses combine 2 or more layers of product in one mattress, usually combining coils and foam. Hybrid mattresses offer outstanding assistance for your body and assistance to decrease motion transfer.
Superior support and convenience.
Enhanced air flow.
The capability to customize the mattress to the user’s needs.
The potential for noise when walking around on the mattress.
A higher cost than other mattress types.
Does not work well with individuals who weigh more than 200 pounds.
Advantages and disadvantages Of Memory Foam
Memory foam mattresses are made up of layers of viscoelastic foam. They are extremely comfortable, complying with the shapes of your body for pressure relief. Memory foam mattresses offer excellent movement seclusion and can help in reducing noise from motion during sleep.
Excellent pressure relief and convenience.
Seclusion of motion.
Temperature level regulation.
Can trap body heat.
Heavier than Hybrid mattresses.
Potential heat retention due to the high-density foam utilized in the mattress.
When Should You Buy A Hybrid Mattress?
If you’re looking for remarkable assistance and convenience, a hybrid mattress is a fantastic option. If you sleep with a partner, hybrid mattresses are likewise excellent at reducing motion transfer. Lastly, if you choose an adjustable mattress with several firmness options, a hybrid mattress is a perfect option.Leesa Mattress Floor
When you’re buying a mattress, you have a great deal of options. You can buy an all-natural cotton mattress, or you can select a latex one that’s 100% natural and chemical-free. But if you’re trying to find something in between, that’s when hybrid mattresses can be found in. Hybrid mattresses are made from a combination of latex and foam – they’re not just natural or artificial; they’re both. Hybrid mattresses are best for those who want to sleep on something that seems like it becomes part of their body – but without getting the adverse effects of chemicals or long-term allergies to latex.
When Should You Buy A Memory Foam Mattress?
If you’re searching for excellent pressure relief, a memory foam mattress is a way to go. They are also much better matched for hot sleepers due to the lack of heat retention compared to hybrids. Memory foam mattresses are also terrific for those on a budget because they tend to be more affordable than hybrids.Leesa Mattress Floor
Buying a memory foam mattress is a great concept if you have a great deal of pain in the back, are wanting to get a more comfortable sleep, or want to help your body heal from injuries. Memory foam mattresses are made from unique materials that allow the mattress to contour to your body’s unique shape. This suggests that no matter how many times you roll over on it, the mattress will constantly feel comfy and supportive. Memory foam also helps reduce pressure points on your spine and hips, which can make you feel more relaxed in addition to improve circulation in your bloodstream. The outcome is much better sleep and better health.
When it concerns Hybrid vs Memory Foam mattresses, it eventually comes down to individual choice. Both types of mattresses provide a comfy and encouraging sleep experience, however depending upon private needs and sleeping practices, one might be much better than the other. Hybrids are great for those who want both the cushioning convenience of a foam mattress and the firm support of a traditional innerspring mattress.Leesa Mattress Floor
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From Tom Kelleher, in answer to a question posed to the OHA several years ago.
The Appalachian Mountain Club huts in the New Hampshire White Mountains are managed by the hut crews. These are full service mountain lodges, serving 2 meals a day, to 34-90 overnight guests. So 2 times a week, each crew person has to pack 60-80 lbs of food up 3-6 miles of trail to the hut. Even when you’re in shape, this is exhausting. So you plan on taking several rest stops on the trail, usually in the exact same places, on every pack run.
Each rest stop is a ‘crump’. That’s a made up word that is a combination of crumple (as in crumple to the ground) and crap (because these rest stops are usually where you’d take a potty break). The word actually dates back to the 1920’s.
Crump is both a verb (‘It was so hot packing today, I had to take 5 crumps’) and a noun (‘My favorite crump is the boulder at the end of the 3rd switchback’).
So if crump is the word, then crumpus is the fake Latin version.
‘Solvitur’ is a real Latin word that is part of an obscure Latin quote ‘Solvitur ambulando’, which means ‘It is solved by walking’. So if you substitute crumpus for ambulando, you have the final meaning of ‘solvitur crumpus’, which is ‘It is solved by crumping’.
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Thomas Stephen Richardson
October 16, 1949 ~ August 1, 2023 (age 73) 73 Years Old
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Thomas Stephen Richardson of Providence, Rhode Island died peacefully at home surrounded by his loved ones after a long battle with COPD. Tom leaves behind a loving wife, Barbara, of 47 years, Daughter Teresa from Berkley, MA, son Tommy, from Brockton, MA, step-daughter Michelle and her husband, Marshall Johnson both from Manchester, NH. Thomas also leaves behind three beautiful grandchildren, Skyla Marmorstein, Dylan Morse from Berkley, MA, and Serena Brandt from Rhode Island.
Tom was born in Boston to the late Robert Richardson and the late Nellie Cole Richardson. He leaves behind his loving sister Jean Finlayson from Middleboro, MA and her late husband Donald. Tom was the late brother of James from Revere and his wife, Gail. He leaves behind many nieces, nephews and friends and in-laws.
After growing up in Boston and attending high school he joined the Navy and was a crash firefighter during the Vietnam era. Later he worked at St. Patrick's Parish for over ten years. He was a great influence to many while hosting a virtual Christian site for AA. He was loyal, dependable and an inspiration to all.
The family would like to give a huge thank you to the great staff at Hope Hospice. The loving care the gave should and made it possible to respect Tom's wishes to stay home.
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Restoration Healing Prayer For Menopause :
Lord, You are my Defender; please deliver me from these waves of concern that batter me like a hurricane. These sentiments and ideas are tearing me apart and destroying my soul. Please hold my hand and raise me out of the fear and weight that are stealing my joy.
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…paired me with a therapist but they do say that it uses up to i think 24 hours so the first thing i did was i made certain to arrange a consultation…Philip Defranco Betterhelp Copypasta…
Live video session
You can also arrange a video session with your therapist if you’re somebody who enjoys face-to-face discussion. Simply go to at your consultation time and your counselor will trigger you to start the video chat.
Buckley said patients should inspect services’ personal privacy policies before signing up. “Not all online counselling websites utilize professionally trained therapists or comply with an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the very first instance. Similar to all type of services and support, what works for a single person might not work for somebody else,” he stated.
Marc Bush, chief policy consultant at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, “they should not change face-to-face therapy with a skilled expert. If a young adult is struggling, we would motivate them to speak with their GP in the first instance, or to call an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.”.
For Rackham, who has actually generalised stress and anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn’t the ideal fit. “I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to really get a sense of the issues I was handling, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I think I realised after that online session how vital interpersonal interaction was.
” I’m a huge fan of using innovation in all locations of my life as an option to everyday problems. I have apps for whatever, but when it pertains to psychological health, you need to choose how technology contributes in your recovery very thoroughly.”.
The company describes BetterHelp as the “biggest online therapy platform worldwide,” tailored towards assisting people dealing with problems “such as tension, anxiety, relationships, parenting, anxiety, dependencies, eating, sleeping, injury, anger, household conflicts, LGBT matters, grief, faith [or] self esteem.” The company’s frequently asked question area on its site clearly mentions BetterHelp’s app and counselors shouldn’t be utilized for people dealing with an extreme mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) or for people considering self-harm. Rather, the app prides itself on having actually licensed therapists and psychological health specialists offered to assist individuals via text, telephone call or video chat. That’s what numerous YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company frequently state in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and sensations bordering on anxiety or anxiety. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane | <urn:uuid:c3768ded-d25c-43fd-ba38-f030b77f5c61> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.onceawave.org/philip-defranco-betterhelp-copypasta-09/ | 2023-09-22T10:38:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.943096 | 597 |
…paired me with a therapist however they do say that it uses up to i believe 24 hours so the first thing i did was i made sure to arrange a visit…Talkspace Change Nickname…
Live video session
If you’re someone who takes pleasure in in person discussion, you can also set up a video session with your counselor. Simply log on at your visit time and your therapist will prompt you to begin the video chat.
Buckley stated clients should inspect services’ privacy policies before signing up. “Not all online counselling sites utilize expertly trained therapists or abide by an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a recommendation in the first instance. Similar to all type of services and assistance, what works for someone may not work for somebody else,” he said.
Marc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, “they shouldn’t change in person therapy with a trained expert. If a young person is struggling, we would encourage them to speak to their GP in the very first circumstances, or to get in touch with an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.”.
For Rackham, who has generalised stress and anxiety condition, online counselling wasn’t the right fit. “I felt it was near impossible for the therapist to really get a sense of the problems I was handling, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I understood after that online session how essential social interaction was.
” I’m a big fan of using technology in all locations of my life as an option to everyday problems. I have apps for whatever, but when it comes to psychological health, you need to pick how innovation plays a role in your healing very thoroughly.”.
The company explains BetterHelp as the “largest online counseling platform worldwide,” geared towards assisting individuals handling problems “such as stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, depression, dependencies, consuming, sleeping, injury, anger, family conflicts, LGBT matters, sorrow, faith [or] self-confidence.” The company’s frequently asked question area on its site clearly specifies BetterHelp’s app and therapists shouldn’t be used for individuals dealing with a serious mental disorder (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder) or for people considering self-harm. Rather, the app prides itself on having licensed therapists and psychological health specialists available to assist people via text, call or video chat. That’s what lots of YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company frequently say in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and sensations verging on anxiety or anxiety. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane | <urn:uuid:f6c47c6b-854b-4c4f-8a5f-5a0ace077288> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.onceawave.org/talkspace-change-nickname-09/ | 2023-09-22T11:57:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.943818 | 595 |
Private Medicare beneficiaries face high access barriers and increased mortality rates following oncologic resection than patients with traditional Medicare plans.
Patients with cancer enrolled in private Medicare plans have less access to high-volume hospitals and face increased 30-day mortality rates for certain surgeries than those who are enrolled in traditional Medicare plans (TM), according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries faced significantly higher 30-day mortality rates than their TM counterparts for gastrectomies (adjusted risk difference [ARD], 1.5%; 95% CI, 0.01-2.9; P = .036), pancreatomies (ARD, 2.0%; CI, 0.80-3.3; P = .002), and hepatectomies (ARD, 1.4%; 95% CI, 0.1-2.9; P = .04). The median cost of index hospitalization and the global 90-day costs of all hospitalizations were significantly lower for MA beneficiaries compared with TM beneficiaries, which was consistent with privatized Medicare offerings.
“MA beneficiaries have significant barriers in accessing optimal surgical cancer care,” wrote Mustafa Raoof, MD, MS, surgical oncologist at City of Hope, and coinvestigators. “Except for pancreatic operations, MA beneficiaries were more likely to wait longer between diagnosis and therapy compared with TM beneficiaries. Furthermore, MA beneficiaries were significantly less likely to receive care at teaching hospitals, [Comission on Cancer (CoC)]-accredited hospitals, or [National Cancer Institute (NCI)]-designated centers. We also observed a significantly lower access to high-volume hospitals among MA beneficiaries (compared with TM) for lung, esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, or rectal operations.”
MA plans are gaining popularity in the United States, according to study authors. These plans can be differentiated from TM by the way the government requires that private insurers limit the beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket spending. These plans also integrate prescription-drug coverage and supplemental benefits, such as dental care, vision, and gym memberships, which is unique from TM. Part of how private insurers provide these services is by restricting beneficiary options to certain in-network providers and hospitals and regulating the use of specialists through utilization-management techniques, including prior authorization.
It was estimated that 29 million Americans were enrolled in privatized Medicare health plans (Medicare Advantage) as of April 2022, comprising 46% of Medicare beneficiaries nationally. Over 6 million patients are California residents, and nearly half (47%) are enrolled in MA plans.
This study looked at a sample of 76,655 patients requiring a cancer operation in California, where cancer care reporting is mandatory. Most evaluated patients (61%) were TM beneficiaries (n = 46,494), fewer (39%) were MA beneficiaries (n = 30,161). The median age was 74 years and just over half (51%) were female. The sample included 31,913 colectomies, 10,358 proctectomies, 4604 gastrectomies, 2895 pancreatectomies, 3639 gastrectomies, 1555 esophagectomies, and 21,691 lung resections.
Insurance played a role in what type of hospital patients were likely to attend. For example, patients with TM were more likely than MA beneficiaries to receive treatment at teaching hospitals (23% vs 8%), CoC-accredited hospitals (57% vs 33%), and NCI-designated cancer centers (15 vs 3%). Additionally, these patients were more likely to undergo procedures at institutions with a higher volume of available beds (median, 374 vs 286), intensive care unit beds (28 vs 24), operating rooms (18 vs 14), and annual inpatients surgical volume (4276 vs 3690).
Access to Optimal Surgical Cancer Center
Except for esophagectomy and pancreatotomy, MA beneficiaries experienced greater delays (> 2 weeks) between diagnosis and frontline therapy than TM beneficiaries. The percentage of patients who underwent resection within 2 weeks, respectively, was 29% and 22% for lung resection, 36% and 30% for gastrectomy, 26% and 15% for hepatectomy, 45% and 34% for colectomy, and 29% and 22% for proctectomy.
Regardless of operation, TM beneficiaries had more opportunities to receive care at a teaching hospital, CoC-accredited hospital, or NCI-designated cancer center than MA beneficiaries. They were also more likely to receive their operation at a high-volume hospital for higher-complexity operations. The percentage of patients able to have their higher-complexity procedures conducted at a high-volume hospital, respectively, was 22% vs 9% for lung resection, 11% vs 4% for esophagectomy, 31% vs 21% for gastrectomy, 36% vs 8% for pancreatomy, 74% vs 61% for hepatectomy, and 46% vs 40% for proctectomy. Compared with MA beneficiaries, TM beneficiaries were less likely to receive intermediate-complexity operations, such as colectomies, at a high-volume hospital (32% vs 42%).
MA beneficiaries needed to travel more for Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)-low regionalized operations, including colon, rectum, and stomach operations. The difference between the median distance traveled for these operations were clinically, yet not numerically, significant, (0.6-1 mile), according to investigators. Yet, for even more regionalized operations, or ones with high HHI, or esophagus, pancreas, or liver procedures, those with TM traveled 1.3 times farther than MA beneficiaries, suggesting that TM beneficiaries were more likely to receive care at higher-volume hospitals than MA beneficiaries, even if it required travel, and MA beneficiaries are more likely to receive cancer surgery at a low-volume hospital.
Ultimately, insurance type did not wield significant influence in 30-day mortality rates for lung, esophagus, colon, or rectal operations, although it did for stomach, pancreas, and liver operations. The failure-to-rescue was identified as higher in MA beneficiaries for liver operations alone (ARD, 5.5%).
Complication rates, both serious and total, were higher among TM beneficiaries for lung, esophagus, colon, or rectal operations, but were not different between the 2 beneficiaries for liver, stomach, or pancreas operations. TM beneficiaries were also more likely to have a prolonged length of stay compared for lung, liver, colon, or rectal operations, and they were also more likely to be discharged to another facility, as well as more likely to be readmitted.
“Our data demonstrate that managed care imposes decreased mobility for more regionalized operations,” study authors concluded. “Although MA beneficiaries incur less hospital costs, limited access to high-volume hospitals for liver, stomach, and pancreas operations may explain significantly worse postoperative outcomes after adjusting for covariates. For policymakers and insurers, these data suggest that ensuring access to high-volume hospitals for MA beneficiaries needing complex cancer surgery may improve short-term surgical outcomes.”
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ONE INITIATIVES Q1 FY2023
Singapore, 31 July 2023 - Ocean Network Express (ONE) is pleased to release the latest “ONE INITIATIVES” at the end of FY2023 Q1.
For the past few months, global industrial production is generally positive, and consumer spending is holding up. But with ongoing headwinds from future interest rates and inflation, it is now more likely that signs of a strong recovery in orders and inventory rebalancing will not be so apparent until later this year.
At ONE, we held an investor relations and media event to highlight and update its latest strategy updates on sustainable growth and its mid-term plans, while enhancing its e-commerce services including a new e-payment platform to its 23,000 customers. On the network side, we have announced further enhancement to our Intra-Europe network and launched a new Korea to Southeast Asia service.
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OnePlus Ace Pro review, advantages, disadvantages & specifications
OnePlus Ace Pro comes with Fluid AMOLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+, 500 nits (typ), 800 nits (HBM), 950 nits (peak), It presents a size of 6.7 inches, 108.0 cm2 (~87.9% screen-to-body ratio) that is suitable for watching videos, playing games & browsing the internet, It offers a resolution of 1080 x 2412 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~394 ppi density), and it has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for screen protection.
OnePlus Ace Pro advantages
OnePlus Ace Pro offers the latest operating system of Android 12, ColorOS 12.1, It presents Qualcomm SM8475 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 (4 nm), It offers a powerful CPU, It has Octa-core (1×3.19 GHz Cortex-X2 & 3×2.75 GHz Cortex-A710 & 4×1.80 GHz Cortex-A510), It contains Adreno 730, and it gives you superb performance without any lags.
OnePlus Ace Pro gives you lots of RAM & a large memory, It offers a high internal memory of 256GB 12GB RAM, It has 256GB 16GB RAM, It offers 512GB 16GB RAM that is useful in multitasking performance, it gives you UFS 3.1, It comes with a high-end processor & graphics processor.
OnePlus Ace Pro comes with a primary camera which is Triple, It has 50 MP, f/1.8, 24mm (wide), 1/1.56″, 1.0µm, PDAF, OIS, It offers 8 MP, f/2.2, 120˚ (ultrawide), 1/4″, 1.12µm, It has 2 MP, f/2.4, (macro), It presents features such as Dual LED flash, HDR, panorama, It presents a video of 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps, gyro-EIS, It has a selfie camera which is single 16 MP, f/2.4, 24mm (wide), 1/3″, 1.0µm, It has features such as HDR, It offers a video of 1080p@30fps, and it presents superb selfies.
OnePlus Ace Pro has 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2, CDMA 800, It contains 3G bands HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100, It has 4G bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, It offers 5G bands 1, 3, 5, 8, 20, 28, 38, 40, 41, 77, 78 SA/NSA, and it offers a speed of HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, 5G.
OnePlus Ace Pro is announced on 2022, August 09, It will be released on 2022, August 15, It contains body dimensions of 163 x 75.4 x 8.8 mm (6.42 x 2.97 x 0.35 in), It has a glass front (Gorilla Glass 5), plastic frame, glass back, It comes with Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by), It has a loudspeaker, with stereo speakers, and it offers 24-bit/192kHz audio.
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OnePlus Ace Pro offers a high resolution, It contains a high pixel density that makes the display very clear & bright, It has superb photos with high quality, It includes a premium & impressive design, It offers a flash that enables you to take amazing photos in low light conditions, It has superb software, It presents a fast & accurate fingerprint sensor.
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OnePlus Ace Pro does not have expandable memory via card slot, It has a bit heavyweight of 203.5 g (7.20 oz), It does not have a 3.5mm jack, It does not have FM Radio, It does not have a barometer or a temperature sensor, It presents only two colours which are Moonstone Black & Jade Green, It does not offer Infrared, It does not contain a water and dust resistant.
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What can I say about the lads from my hometown? The Sussed formed in 1993 in Pittsburgh, PA when a few friends messed around with some instruments during their free time. Within a few weeks, the band started belting out their own classics such as "Toy Soldiers" and "Spirit of Oi!". The lineup currently consists of Joe on vocals, Dave on guitar, Joey on bass, and Jack on drums. Their sound can best be described as a cross between Major Accident, Blitz, Infa-Riot, and the Cockney Rejects (so says Joe anyways). Sadly, the band broke up sometime last year.
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Hip hop is a fundamentally subversive genre. It has become a universal medium of social and political expression for young, dissident, and marginalized people everywhere. What Arabic hip hop has given the Arab world is a widely-accessible and unfiltered medium for disseminating revolutionary ideas. It's important not to overstate the influence of Arabic hip hop on the Arab uprisings, though. Arabic hip hop is an underground phenomenon. Since there's no real Arabic hip hop industry to speak of, Arabic-language rap artists must distribute their music online or sign with western labels. Despite this, the genre's popularity and influence are growing remarkably fast because Arabic hip hop powerfully speaks to our desire for dignity, human rights, and a brighter future.
The internet and the revolution
Social media and expanded internet access weren't the cause of the Arab uprisings, but they were crucial to their success. In 2008, massive protests erupted in the southern Tunisian mining town of Redeyef. For six months, 3,000 police besieged this city of 25,000 people while its citizens bravely demonstrated against corruption and chronic unemployment. Because of the state's violent repression and its stranglehold on media outlets, the protests failed to spread or gain much attention. Without developed social networks, the thousands of Redeyef's citizens who obtained protest footage on CDs or computers had no way to let most Tunisians see it. Fahem Boukaddous, a Tunisian journalist who covered the protests, said, "In 2008, Facebook wasn't at all well-known, especially in poor cities like here." In fact, fewer than 30,000 Tunisians were on Facebook when Redeyef exploded in early 2008. By the end of 2010, Tunisia's internet landscape had been transformed. A January 2011 survey found that Tunisia, a country of 10 million, had 1.97 million Facebook users - 18.6% of Tunisia's entire population and 54.73% of its online population. By this time, Facebook, along with YouTube and sites such as ReverbNation.com, had become the primary medium for distributing Arabic hip hop. The internet's great gift was that it allowed Tunisians and Arabs, for the first time, to effortlessly share their testimony with each other and with the world.
The aura of hip hop
You can legally download almost any revolutionary Arabic hip hop song for free online - that's exactly what the artists want. As Mark Levine argues, the uncommodified, do-it-yourself character of this hip hop gives it “the aura” that pre-modernity artistic expression enjoyed. This aura, which "previously had given art such aesthetic, and thus social power by highlighting its singularity, irreplaceable and incommensurable value, was for all practical purposes lost" because of the commercialization of the music industry in the twentieth century. That's a really complicated way of saying, "Arabic rap is awesome because its rappers aren't sell-outs." Commercialization inevitably leads artists to compromise their politics and their message because every music industry is run by rich, powerful people with a huge investment in the status quo. The Arabic music industry is especially reactionary and patriarchal. "A lot of the music that comes from here, from the region, is pop," El Général told Lauren Bohn. "It's all the same and it isn't art. They're making harmful inroads into the arts, actually. There's no engagement. And music without engagement isn't art." Many Arab artists, including El Deeb and Arabian Knightz, have lamented how foreign media supports and promotes Arabic hip hop more than Arabic media does. The reason is simple. Arabic hip hop scares Arab elites because it's profoundly subversive, while western elites like Arabic hip hop because it makes the revolutions seem non-radical and friendly to the west. To understand Arabic hip hop, though, you need to approach it on its own terms, not on yours.
El Général and the Tunisian Revolution
On November 7, 2010, Hamada Ben-Amor, a young rapper from Sfax known as "El Général," posted this jeremiad against the regime of Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on Youtube and Facebook (Full lyrics here):
"Rais Lebled" became an immediate underground sensation.
The secret police bugged El Général's phone, blocked his Facebook
page, and tailed him wherever he went. On December 17, Mohamed
Bouazizi's self-immolation sparked pro-democracy demonstrations across Tunisia.
The world media hardly noticed. Then, on January 6, state security,
allegedly acting on the orders of the president himself, arrested El
Général. The arrest brought Tunisia far more international attention than it had witnessed on any single day since the trouble began.
For a few days, the voice of a 21 year-old rapper from Sfax was more
powerful than the voice of the dictator of Tunisia. The regime released
El Général a few days later. It didn't matter. On January 14, 2011, Ben
Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after the Tunisian military refused to
guarantee his safety. In his place, a caretaker government promising a
transition to full democracy came to power.
There's a delicious irony in Tunisian rap music's role in the events that led to Ben Ali's overthrow. In 2006, the Tunisian and French governments sponsored a (bad) film that promotes hip hop as a counter to jihadi ideology. Much as it used "state feminism" to co-opt women's movements, the regime appropriated Tunisian hip hop for its own ends. The government controlled song lyrics, concert licenses, CD distribution, and all TV and radio access. Tunisia's rappers had a choice: make apolitical, commercial rap and have the chance to earn a livelihood or go underground, rap freely, and face poverty, imprisonment, torture, and death. Most Tunisian rappers chose the first option.
Before the revolution, El Général wasn't
well-known even within Tunisia's small underground community. Now,
he's an international celebrity and hip hop enjoys wide respect throughout Tunisian society. Even al-Nahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi enjoys it. El Général was interviewed on Al-Jazeera and named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. Demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Bahrain's capital of
Manama chanted "Rais lebled" in the streets. Today, the only person who's a bigger icon of the Tunisian Revolution is Mohamed Bouazizi himself. As El Général told Lauren Bohn, "Arab rap is finally on the map, and we're blowing up the world."
Algeria and Morocco: the cradle of Arabic hip hop
Francophone hip-hop's influence helped make Morocco and Algeria the first real Arabic hip hop scenes in the early 1990s. Lotfi Double Kanon, Arabic hop hop's most influential MC, hails from Algeria. Born in 1974 into a modest family from Annaba, Lotfi started his rap career while earning his Master's in engineering in the late 1990s during the height of Algeria's horrific civil war. His music attacks le pouvoir ("the elite") and speaks for the voiceless youth of his dispossessed generation. The Algerian government hates him, of course, but it generally leaves him unhindered. (Full lyrics here)
The Moroccan rap scene's size, longevity, commercial sophistication, and Arabic dialect set it apart from other Arab rap scenes to a certain degree. Moroccan hip hop is deeply commercialized and closely integrated into the Arabic music industry, which reflects both the genuine success of Moroccan hip hop and the compromises with power that it's made. Moroccan hip hop gets numbers of hits on YouTube - as many as several million per video - that dwarf those of other Arabic hip hop scenes. Yet, as Zahir Rahman pointed out on Twitter, "The problem with Moroccan hip hop is that the big namers get co-opted by the government." Fnaire's "Mat9drsh bladi" was used as a national unity theme song by the Moroccan government. Don Bigg is a reactionary who performed at the outlandish, government-sponsored Mawazine festival that outraged February 20 activists. At the same time, Morocco has some of the bravest revolutionary hip hop anywhere. The pro-February 20 rapper L7a9ed (Haked) has been imprisoned by the government on trumped-up assault charges. Soultana, a young MC from Rabat, is an incredibly brave woman - just check out her video "Sawt Nssa" and you'll see what I mean.
Malikah: revolutionary Arabic hip hop ventures into the mainstream
Lebanese hip hop started taking shape in the mid-1990s. Artists such as Rayess Bek, Fareeq el Atrach, and Malikah 961 make up a vibrant Lebanese scene today. Malikah is an absolutely fearless MC who vies with Palestine's Shadia Mansour for the title of "The First Lady of Arabic Hip Hop." Like Soultana, Malikah's infuses her music with revolutionary themes and powerful advocacy for Arab women. Here's "Ya imra2a" ("O woman!") [Full lyrics here].
The Saudi rapper Qusai, the first host of MTV's Hip HopNa, makes some conscious hip hop but nonetheless fully represents the Arab music industry and the powerful more generally (he made a video for, of all things, Mastercard). Fredwreck, the other host, is an American who produces for Snoop Dogg and other stalwarts of the American music industry. By working with people like them, Malikah has become successful and famous. The industry, however, will use every tool it has to dilute the politically and socially revolutionary message of her music. In the rap game, materialism is the enemy of the subversive. Malikah needs to be very careful about this. In this video, she shows AFP her new Mercedes and says, "This is my car. I've dreamed of buying a car for years. You understand? It must have class because I am Malikah and Malikah must have the car she deserves." Malikah is a true revolutionary, but she will always have to fight the industry ferociously to maintain her authenticity and her artistic freedom. She's such a strong woman, though, that I think she's up to the challenge.
Ibn Thabit and the Libyan Revolution
Although he's largely unknown in the western press, Ibn Thabit, Libya's leading rapper, enjoys almost universal recognition among the Libyan diaspora and a huge fan base in Libya itself. His pseudonym comes from Hassan Ibn Thabit, the favorite poet of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the past four years, Ibn Thabit routinely took astonishing risks by releasing his music while moving between living abroad and in Libya itself. His obsession with toppling Gaddafi and his indifference towards fame, money, or other topics give his music as pure a revolutionary ethos as you'll find anywhere. This song came out just days before the Libyan Revolution began (Full lyrics here):
Ibn Thabit's music ranges all the way from love song (Tripoli is Calling, Libya: A Love Song) to diss (Shukrun, Shayateen Al Inss) to celebration (Misrata, Mabruk el Horria, Benghazi, Ms. Revolution) to mourning (Martyrs, Shohada2na) to Arabic (Western Mountains) to R&B (Tassa 7amra, La Shek) to gangsta (Temla, Lookin for Freedom) to whimsical (Hallucination Pills, Warrior Song). His songs tear down Gaddafi's regime, celebrate Libya's society, culture, and people, and explore how to build a new, free Libya. He promotes reconciliation by giving shout-outs to all elements of Libyan society and by arguing that vigilantism and revenge killing have no place in the new Libya. A few weeks ago, Ibn Thabit shocked his fans by announcing his retirement from hip hop (video here). Now, he says, he wants to help build a new Libya in a new way.
Egypt and January 25
In Mubarak's Egypt, unlike Libya, Syria, or Bahrain (check out "Athletes of Bahrain"), artists could manage to attach their real names to revolutionary forms of expression while keeping themselves out of jail. Artists such as El Deeb (video here), Ramy Donjewan (video here), Zap Tharwat, MC Amin, Revolutionary Records (video here), and Ismailia Soldiers created a vibrant revolutionary underground scene in the years preceding the revolution. Arabian Knightz even managed to get a little play on Egyptian satellite channels (video here). By being a direct forum for revolutionary expression, Egyptian Hip hop played a small but key role in the decade-long buildup of the movements, organizational infrastructure, and political consciousness that led to the January 25 Revolution. Now, as the massive recent anti-SCAF protests demonstrate, hip hop is an established part of Egypt's political discourse. (Full lyrics here)
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Somewhat of a prologue:
“But strike against only a handful and copious number of peoples are hypnotized into inaction.”
It is a quote from Eskinder Nega’s “Letter to My Son,” smuggled out of prison and published in March 2014. Eskinder is a veteran Ethiopian journalist whose career spans over 15 years. Since his first newspaper was founded in 1993 Eskinder counts a PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write and several other awards to his name. Yet, his life as a journalist in Ethiopia, like that of so many of his colleagues, has been one also marred by persecution- including eight instances of imprisonment, torture and trials for treason and terrorism. His only child, Nafkot, was born in prison where Eskinder’s wife was held at the beginning of the latter’s latest incarceration which lasted seven years before he was released, on general pardon, on 14th February 2018.
In Letter to My Son, Eskinder tries at once to explain and to understand the “reasons for his imprisonment” examining events, personal and national, going as far back as his childhood. He delivers a perspective on Ethiopian “modern political history” – which he dates to the 1960s- extending from the student movement that preceded the advent of the Derg regime, a “nihilist”, unrooted and unguided effort with dire consequences, to the passing of the Prime Minister of the government in Ethiopia in 2012. Eskinder’s intimate and saddened look at the “mediocrity” and the persisting penchant for violence which it eventually has come to, reveals nonetheless a man steadfast in his belief in democracy and convinced in a bright future for his country.
Every action is personal…
It is a good day to write this somewhat pompous response to Eskinder’s now four years old letter. This letter, for God is indeed generous, belongs to all of us. But I have appropriated this public good from the moment I read it not for the selfish reasons which have guided most of my life decisions but their total opposite. What is the opposite of selfishness? A man once said that “America was his country but Paris was his home”. He was reacting as humans should to something exquisitely beautiful: be filled with hope, derive a personal, deeply secret meaning from it and perhaps, with some luck, be inspired to become slightly better.
It is a good day then. We are a few days into the 123rd year since Adwa, marked this year with an almost frightening, and ironically now permitted, display of fervor. It is a good day too because the inmate is no longer an absent father.
This day, we find Ethiopia pushed to a cross-roads where each individual, scattered or home, needs to make a choice. It is not a rare occurrence. So many of these cross roads have lost their cross to remain roads and we’ve threaded them “tant bien que mal” (equally as good as bad). But as I have done in moments of near despair before I recently returned to “Letter to my son” to mine a bit of its generosity to our society, warmth to the country’s faults and gentle nudge to all of us. To each year that is added to my life this smuggled letter offers one more reward.
Seven years is as a grain of sand for one who maintains “two centuries is but a plunge”. On a personal level, returning as I did in one last attempt to work with Ethiopia (twist intended), just as Eskinder, to my complete oblivion, was thrown in jail, then deciding to leave again… (re?) discovering social media and the hashtag that upstaged my life and then stumbling upon your letter, to this very good day where I find myself still alive, the past seven years have been the same ones where Ethiopia took proportions in my consciousness (transposed with naiveté to the “real world”) which was all consuming.
As long as I considered Ethiopia an accident of my birth about which I knew most but not necessarily will have to make my home, human rights, despite my studies, was like the Bible: a document that is good to know but does not translate into daily life. Like a common convert, I waited until I became affected to start preaching it.
I was there then when a “sports car parliament” took shape, when in a televangelist episode sounding mania about a dam gripped the country, when the “NGO law” took effect, when the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation grew devouring teeth, when Birtukan Mideksa left the country and when the now historical series of imprisonment followed. Yet “all was for the best in the best of worlds.”
I was hopeful. I was hopeful that they will read that report and act upon it; I was hopeful that the note to the prime minister will make that happen, I was hopeful that I have sufficiently exposed my students to the right choices… Perhaps, in the final analysis of a life lived to make proud a worshipping immutable fan of a father and determined not to emulate the woman who gave birth to me, it was in my own self that I believed.
It is a good day too to find one-self looking back ….and to try to take stock of all the signs that I missed. I admit hindsight is a cheat.
…but every reaction is social
For in the background of the excesses which more or less make it to news, or at the very least to the archives of some organization or other, took place the sequel to Eskinder’s letter.
The post-2005 purge of career technocrats from civil service, in the series of vengeful actions against Addis Ababa, first disguised as “business process reengineering” claimed its debt. The universities were first to fall losing their already weak teaching capacity to consultancy. Discarded technocrats themselves licked their wounds and those still of employable age either fled or became consultants. The age of consultancy impoverished an absent knowledge economy by fueling an already highly rent-seeking economy, by cloaking quick information as knowledge and by artificially propping a dysfunctional civil service. It got to a point where people were placed in high levels of civil service including diplomatic positions, academic headship and financial sector leaderships just for speaking a passable English. The state which had so far been ingenious in co-opting multiple levels of the society with all sorts of tactics became within three to four years, fully captured by utter incompetence.
This inorganic layer pumping quick cash into the inflated service sector of Addis Ababa created another form of overnight middle class further overblowing a foul entertainment culture- alcohol, pornography, meat, drugs and even a lowly breed of televangelism.
The state media’s idolatry of reporting any new introduction with comparisons to some country or other is another example. Poor imitation became the order of the day at all levels tragically extending to as far as worshipping all things foreign and discrediting of anything “not from abroad.”
Dislodge and disorder
Behind the scenes, the dislocation of populations was in full swing. It was also the other specter hanging over the people of Addis Ababa. There is no merit in repeating a method of dislocation much discussed. Its impact on community ties, on trust building, on urban consumption, on gainful employment opportunities for the urban rural poor, on community led socio-economic safety nets and on their relationship with the capital’s geography as a whole is not enough analyzed. The blurring of divide between residential and commercial centers had the added nefarious effect of making forbidden material more accessible than say food items seriously endangering child rearing (consider how quickly you get to the next khat shop to the distance between your home and your grocer’s.)
The internally displaced of Addis Ababa attempting to fashion a livelihood in their unfamiliar and remote locations were pitched against their new neighbors, themselves unjustly dislocated, and an emerging rural youth unable to find any exit but an exodus to the capital. As an endearing trait of Ethiopians goes any social phenomenon is first expressed in comedy (my favorite is “we occupy both the top and the bottom”). It slowly turned to pointing fingers: they were dirtying the city, they are responsible for the rise in crime, they have no morals and they are brutes. This vengeful urban “planning” and diseased economy driven demographic movement even plays out now on football fields.
The physical impact on the city is of course too ridiculous in the sheer magnitude of its insanity to whine about here. Even if one feels most of it is done with the purpose of erasing history and eliminating public gathering spaces. How it is once again the urban poor, whether migrant or old, who pay for these foreign named “high” rises is the real tragedy. The craze for unnecessary public infrastructure, viciously greedy for cash, the dependence on imports, aggravated by a changing urban consumption as well as the construction sector, the near stagnation of the productive sector, sickened from the absence of attention and the ignorance of civil service, itself leading to proportions of price inflation impossible to hide with cooked numbers, all decimated the “middle class” Eskinder refers to but made survival strenuous for the poor.
The rural youth, who were the pioneers of “foot migration,” were now joined by their peers from the capital. As another joke goes “we were everywhere before; now we are anywhere.” The state only glorified remittances. An emerging economy of 40 million 18-26 year olds shaped in the acceptance of the fabricated: facilities sprouting overnight, fast cash, fast cures, fast degrees.
Discernment and discrimination
A patronizing state was bound to prompt a top bottom decadence in societal behaviors. This particular state has its tentacles in the lowliest professions, leaves nothing to chance or even to itself. Another lunacy, this time that of slogans, has gripped the state, in a highest level of manifestation of its incompetence. A comparison with the prevailing misconception of hard work devoid motto for cause, historicism for history, transposition of foreign terminologies for synthesis and mobbing behind hashtags and words for activism is inevitable. If the sole purpose of the student movements was “nihilism,” we seem to be living in an age of exaltation of victimhood.
This emerging youth economy, made urban by force or by choice, also had to grapple with global phenomena brought closer by social media: The rise and fall of Obama, the migration crisis he left Europe to fumble with, the rising antipathy for the other powered by ailing economies, the ensuing increase of extremism and a “war for and against terror” gone cyber, the love for sensation motored by the atomic level mincing of media and content generation. The events, movements, concepts and geopolitics that swept to power anti-progressive (to say the least) elements from Hungary to Scandinavia, from Poland to the United States trickled their dirty footprints on Ethiopian social media in the form of words without context- from feminism to so or so lives matter, from fake news to dispossession, from “occupying” to “boycotting” – the sensational trumped the rational. Tragicomically cultivated by a severely paranoid state.
The guidance and structure are still missing today. This generation however is forced to process at an unnatural speed a whole soup of information brought right to its pocket.
To give credit where it is due, those that do the organization, the leg work, the voicing and the pressure also came out from this “generation”. Similarly, the rare bouts of sentiments, as during the slaying of Ethiopian migrants in Libya and the abuses of Ethiopian maids in Arab countries that spill over Meskel Square, would, at times, baffle anyone’s views.
Those are also symptoms of the systematic, sustained elimination of what Eskinder called “conduits” – of reason, of merit, of structure, of (to steal from a friend) “filters”. The death of free press has caused the hijacking of Ethiopian information generation by foreign journalists in turn propagated by a disconnected diaspora and their innumerable media. The death of merit has caused a monopolization of activism by zealots. Social media follower numbers are equated with intellect and hero-ification of ordinary acts is followed by humiliating chastising of minute errors.
“On the ground”, as some remind those who write about Ethiopian social media, and in Addis Ababa, as others remind those who write about Ethiopia, the sentiment is no less fractured. The “them” vs “us”, “us” vs “you” banter of state media has found reflection not just in an agenda setting informed only by action and reaction but also in a perverse competition of fervor- religious and/or patriotic zeal, ethnic and/or clan loyalty. A counter-reaction? What originated as an expression of defiance of divisive state propaganda has muted in this context into a reason defying breed of puritanism, minus the ideology, political correctness, minus the love, romanticizing of rural Ethiopia, minus the most basic knowledge of a farmer’s livelihood and conservatism, minus the belief system.
It remains a good day. It is a good day for one like me who has no other country but Addis Ababa. It is a good day to hope to see how a unifying narrative, weaved from love and reason and not from polarization and much less from hatred for a common enemy, can emerge from this chaos. It is a good day to welcome back home the voices whose silencing had “hypnotized us to inaction.” It is a good day to write this. | <urn:uuid:b8720675-b8e8-419d-a036-6c3780753214> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.opride.com/2018/03/17/a-sequel-to-ethiopian-journalist-eskinder-negas-inmate-letter/ | 2023-09-22T12:34:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.9695 | 2,910 |
Blue & Black Orchids: Do They Really Exist?
Author: Celeste Booth15 Comments
Orchids blossom in a variety of different beautiful colors. Vibrant reds, pinks, purples…the list goes on. There are two shades, however, that orchids do not naturally blossom in: a true blue or a true black. They simply do not have the genetic makeup to make these pigments. There are some varieties of purple orchids that look very blue, but upon close inspection are really a shade of purple. Similarly, black orchids have an extremely rich pigmentation that looks almost black but is not a true black color.
So what about the bright blue orchids you may have seen at your local Lowe’s or grocery store? Those are actually white orchids that have been artificially dyed blue. If they were to blossom again, they would have white flowers. And while they look exotic and vibrant, once you know they have just been dyed that color, they lose much of their charm.
Even though there exist no pure blue or black orchids, the following varieties are among some of the closest shades of blue or black you will find in nature:
Cymbidium Kiwi Baron
Dendrobium dedicatulum: Eerika Schulz
Cymbidium Kiwi Baron: Orquideas.com
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Impact resistant gloves serve to safeguard one's hands from mechanical dangers such as vibrations and pressure. These gloves are particularly made to endure significant harm and provide trustworthy hand protection while employed in a variety of industries and professions.
In addition to being extremely flexible, metal mesh gloves also allow for easy mobility and dexterity, both of which are essential for occupations requiring precision handling or fine motor abilities. They may add additional protection because they come in a variety of sizes and designs to match different hand shapes.
For employees dealing with cryogenic chemicals, cryogenic gloves are an essential piece of safety equipment as they enable insulation, dexterity, and defense from very low temperatures. They come in an array of forms, and in order to maintain their life and efficacy, they should be used and cared for properly.
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Orlando Tree Trek Adventure Park introduces an Annual Pass for year-round fun
Climbers can purchase a pass for $199
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (July 14, 2017) — Orlando Tree Trek Adventure Park always brings the fun—and now, the fun doesn’t have to stop just because the day is over.
The park has introduced an Annual Pass, allowing those who buy it to climb all year round. Annual Passes are $199 and are valid for one year from the purchase date.
And those who have climbed within 30 days can save big. If they bring in the cash receipt or booking reference number, $40 will be deducted from the cost on an annual pass.
Passes can be purchased at the park, and guests can call 407-390-9999 to reserve one.
Tree Trek is an aerial obstacle course featuring 97 games and challenges for climbers of all levels. Courses get progressively higher and more challenging, bringing climbers up to 50 feet atop a pine tree forest. The park also features two 425-foot zip lines.
Tree Trek uses a world-class safety system, and climbers are given a safety demonstration beforehand by trained instructors.
The park is designed for ages 7 and up. Reservations are encouraged and can be made at orlandotreetrek.com or by calling 407-390-9999.
About Orlando Tree Trek Adventure Park
Orlando Tree Trek Adventure Park is more than just zip lines — it’s Orlando’s most thrilling tree-top experience. The park is built on a 15-acre pine tree canopy, and it features an aerial obstacle course with 97 games and challenges for climbers of every level. The courses take climbers higher as they go, reaching up to 50 feet atop the trees and ending with a pair of 425-foot plunging zip lines. The park is designed for ages 7 and up and provides heart-pounding fun for everyone. Orlando Tree Trek is located at 7625 Sinclair Road, Kissimmee. Departures start at 8:30 a.m. Visit www.orlandotreetrek.com or call 407-390-9999 to make a reservation. | <urn:uuid:929435c5-8060-4523-be09-f70220634a6f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.orlandotreetrek.com/orlando-tree-trek-adventure-park-introduces-an-annual-pass-for-year-round-fun/ | 2023-09-22T12:54:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.915712 | 474 |
In Vitro Diagnosis (IVD) refers to extract blood, body fluids, tissues and other samples from the human body, and use in vitro testing reagents and instruments to test and calibrate the samples, which are divided into three major categories according to the methodology: biochemical diagnosis, immunological diagnosis and molecular diagnosis.
The IVD market volume is very large, among which chemiluminescence technology in immunodiagnostics is the most advanced technology in the sub-sector due to its advantages of high sensitivity, wide linear range, accurate quantitative detection, stable results, small error and easy operation, occupying more than 70% of the share of immunodiagnostics, and the annual market growth rate is over 30%.
However, the domestic chemiluminescence diagnostic market, Roche, Abbott, Danaher and Siemens, the four giants occupy more than 70% of the share, the other brands only account for a small share, most are still on the road of research and development. During chemiluminescent diagnostic reagents development process, how to improve the sensitivity and increase the kinetic range? How to avoid false positives, false negatives or other non-specific interference? How to improve stability and reduce inter-batch variation? The answer is to start strict control from upstream raw materials and select high-quality and stable diagnostic reagent raw materials.
As the most abundant protein in plasma, albumin is the transport carrier of hormones, lipids and free fatty acids, and widely used as an important raw material in diagnostic reagents because it can reversibly bind many substances. Its effects are as follows.
1. As a stabilizer
Albumin is a macromolecular stabilizing protein that binds antibodies, antigens or enzymes to make these sensitive components more stable under proteolytic and denaturing conditions.
2. As a Sealing Agent
Albumin can be used as a blocking agent against non-specific solid-phase interference in immune reactions and is used to seal non-specific binding sites in immune reactions.
3. As a carrier protein
Ligands bound by albumin include fatty acids, cationic and neutral detergents, acetylcholine, ascorbic acid, penicillin, thyroxine, digitalis, hormones, metal ions, bilirubin, sugars, etc.
4. As a plasma matrix
Albumin is used in conjunction with PBS to simulate human plasma in certain index tests, to prepare standard control solutions, and to determine standard curves
5. As a buffer/co-mixer
Albumin can be used as a good buffer component or as a co-mixing reagent to release bound components into the reaction mixture and can adsorb impurities from the medium.
Albumin includes human serum albumin (HSA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA), of which human serum albumin is divided into natural plasma derived human serum albumin (pHSA) and recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA). Are all these albumins good raw materials for diagnostic reagents? Of course not!
Natural plasma derived human serum albumin (pHSA) is extracted from human plasma by low-temperature ethanol protein separation and treated with virus inactivation. In addition to albumin, there are many kinds of fatty acids, lipids, hormones and growth factors, and there are large inter-batch differences between different batches of pHSA from different manufacturers, which can interfere with the detection of certain indicators and bring batch volatility to the finished diagnostic reagents. Another important point is that pHSA, as a clinical shortage drug, is not easy to buy in large quantity and is often out of stock.
Bovine serum albumin (BSA), also known as the fifth component, is usually an accessory product after the slaughter of beef and is also obtained by ethanol precipitation. The quality of BSA varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, from batch to batch from the same manufacturer. Usually, the purity of BSA (SDS-PAGE) is less than 95%, the color of BSA lyophilized powder is yellowish, the odor is heavy, and the content of hormones and heavy metals is high, which may cause greater interference when used in diagnostic reagents, and the great batch-to-batch difference will certainly cause the quality fluctuation of finished diagnostic reagents.
The plant-derived recombinant human serum albumin (OsrHSA) expressed through rice endosperm cell-specific efficient expression platform OryzHiExp, used in in vitro diagnostic reagents, has the following advantages.
1. Higher purity
OsrHSA purity is more than 99% (SDS-PAGE), non-animal source, less impurities, which used in diagnostic reagents can avoid non-specific interference.
2. Better stability
OsrHSA has the same raw material source and large capacity in a single batch, so it can be used for diagnostic reagents to reduce batch volatility.
3. More stable supply
OsrHSA has achieved mass production with annual capacity of i metric-ton or more, which can supply in large quantity and stably, and diagnostic reagent manufacturers have no risk of stock out.
4. Better protection effect
OsrHSA has better protection effect on sensitive substances such as enzymes and antibodies/antigens than BSA, which in turn enhances the stability of diagnostic reagents.
Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "Healthgen Biotech") is committed to the researc h and development of a series of protein products using the "rice endosperm specific expression platform",. It has established a complete industrialized system of plant biopharmaceuticals in China, and initially formed an internationally renowned biopharmaceutical enterprise focusing on biopharmaceuticals research and product development of plant systems.
The plant-derived recombinant human serum albumin (OsrHSA) independently developed by Healthgen Biotech was approved by the National Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) (Now National medical Products Administration, NMPA) to enter clinical research on April 28, 2017, and again approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enter clinical research on August 10, 2019. Plant-derived recombinant human serum albumin is the first class I innovative drug based on rice endosperm cell bioreactor production in China and even internationally, and has finished the clinical trials phase I in U.S. and is currently undergoing clinical trials phase II.
In addition, there are a series of recombinant growth factors and recombinant proteins, such as recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (OsrhbFGF), recombinant human epidermal growth factor (rhEGF), recombinant human insulin-like growth factor (rhIGF-1 LR3), recombinant human vascular endothelial growth factor (OsrhVEGF), recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor (OsrhKGF), recombinant human lactoferrin (OsrhLF), recombinant human serum albumin (defatted) OsrHSA (Fatty acid free). The production system has been certificated by ISO certification and is complianced with GMP production. | <urn:uuid:9830b564-6059-4d43-8667-af025cb5c000> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.oryzogen.net/view/166.html | 2023-09-22T12:44:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.913617 | 1,505 |
What does Tabea mean?
The meaning of Tabea is "gazelle".
Tabea is generally used as a girl's name.
It consists of 5 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced Ta-be-a.
The Given Name Tabea
Tabea is a name with authenticness.
Simple yet chic, the name is a great blend of character and flair.
An elegant name that will rock parents.
Tabea falls into the animal name category.
In contrast, the year before less than 5 girls were given the name. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
The trend's your friend. See how Tabea has changed in popularity since 1880 by visiting the Tabea Name Popularity Page.
Tabea Related Names
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WHAT: King, Kimpton Hotel Fontenot’s newly opened brasserie and bar, is hosting a Garden Party at the restaurant on Friday, September 15, 2023. Guests will enjoy a three-course taste of the French Riviera prepared by Executive Chef Samuel Peery paired with complimentary Moet and Chandon offerings. DJ Spinelli will provide tunes for the duration of the event, 11 am to 3pm, and Moet will bring a hedge wall and the Moet cart for fun photo ops.
The special prix fixe lunch menu will start out with Pastry Chef Lanna Talley’s Quiche with Summer Truffles with delicious golden chanterelles. The second course will bring late summer vegetable succotash, tarragon and sweet corn butter into a dish of Marcona Almond Crusted Sea Scallops. Finishing the meal is the Santa Rosa Plum Pavlova with orange crumble and the flavors of smoked black peppercorn and sage. Each dish has their own unique beverage paired to enhance the flavors and experience.
The Friday Garden Party will further introduce diners in the city to King’s menu rooted in the beloved brasseries of the French Riviera region while also weaving in the flavors and traditions of New Orleans and the freshest Gulf seafood. A few of the King menu favorites include the Crawfish Beignets with crab fat aioli, the Grilled Octopus with a vadouvan and sweet potato curry and lardons of Benton’s bacon to give it a smoky finish, the Gulf Fish, the Wild Boar Provençale, and the King Carbonara with a sauce made from sea urchin, reduced cream and parmesan. But there’s much more to explore. And don’t forget the King Bread Service with baguette, focaccia, brioche, caviar tapenade, olive oil and whipped butter. The prix fixe meal is $45 per person. Reservations are recommended and can be made online at kingbrasserieandbar.com.
Chef Lanna’s Quiche with Summer Truffles
Golden chanterelles, baby gem lettuce, mimolette cheese
Chandon garden spritz
Marcona Almond Crusted Sea Scallops
Late summer vegetable succotash, tarragon, sweet corn butter
Moet Blanc de Blanc
Santa Rosa Plum Pavlova
Orange crumble, smoked black peppercorn, sage
Hennessy French 75
WHEN: Friday, September 15, 2023 | 11am - 3pm
WHERE: King brasserie & bar, 521 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, LA 70130
More information on King can be found at kingbrasserieandbar.com. You can also follow King on Instagram and Peacock Room on Instagram.
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Patio String Lights: Tiki Head Light String Set - Luau Party Patio Lights
Tiki Head Light String Set - Luau Party Patio Lights
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Two episodes of “House of the Dragon” are done, and it looks like the new one this Sunday will keep the momentum high.
In episode two of the hit HBO series, viewers got an introduction to Craghas Drahar, who is better known as Crabfeeder. It appears he’s going to be a major problem in “House of the Dragon” as he holds the potential to wreak havoc on the waters and destroy shipping commerce.
The people in charge, especially Lord Corlys, can’t tolerate anyone who represents a massive threat to Westeros.
Judging from the preview for episode three, it’s going to be an absolute killfest as battle rages between the Crabfeeder and those out to stop him.
Obviously, there’s plenty in the preview for episode three to indicate Princess Rhaenyra is not happy with her father marrying Alicent Hightower.
That’s evident to anyone with eyes who watched episode two and was paying attention. Upon hearing the news, she stormed out of the meeting.
Now, in the preview for the episode this Sunday, we know tensions will only further escalate.
However, as a viewer without any knowledge of the back story, I think it’s fair to say Crabfeeder is what demands my attention.
Look at how menacing, sinister and downright scary the dude looks. He has people being eaten by crabs. Is there any more terrifying way to die? I’m not so sure, and that’s the kind of vibe and energy that makes “House of the Dragon” just like “Game of Thrones” before it.
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A viral video showing a man being yanked towards a cage by an orangutan is all the rage this week due to the nature of what the negative Nancys see as the animal trying to kill the man.
According to reports, the incident took place June 6 at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in Indonesia when a visitor went rogue and climbed over a barrier separating guests from the animals…so the man could get a video.
Now that’s a genius idea because it leads to content when the pissed-off orangutan goes in for a bro hug. You want to get some flaming hot content? Watch what I can do to your leg.
Seriously, you want content…let’s make content! Get over here — NOW!
“We, from the Kasang Kulim Zoo, apologize and hope this doesn’t happen again,” staff said during an Instagram press conference as this video started to make its way around the world.
Folks, you don’t have to apologize for the moron jumping the fence. In fact, you should be commended for him jumping the fence. Here in the United States, the 24-hour content business needs morons like this to keep this Internet thing humming along. Fence jumper guy would end up on at least 50 radio stations to talk about his experience.
And trust me, here in the U.S., people were rooting for the orangutan to do serious damage because we’re a demented society that wants to see the animals win these showdowns. That’s why the American public rallied after the death of Harambe, the sweetest of princes.
While I’m at it, don’t let the world tell you it’s just dumb Americans doing this stuff to create content. Plenty of people around the world fall off cliffs and are dismembered by animals. This clearly isn’t an exclusive business for Americans.
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At the ispo sporting goods show in Munich, Germany, various categories give a variety of awards. Some include training- and fitness-oriented products. Here’s a short summary of the winners. Look for more detail on some of these products in upcoming SNEWS® reports.
The Runner’s World ispo Awards, given in collaboration with Germany’s Runner’s World magazine, are chosen based a variety of criteria, including innovation, usability, potential for widespread use, good cost-value relationship, design and durability. Four categories this year were running shoes, running apparel, accessories, and walking/Nordic walking.
Winners were: Asics Gel Kinsei (shoes); Falke Ergonomic Sports System (apparel), which is knitted and seamless base layer garments by the German Falke company; and adidas-polar Project Fusion (accessories). The project is a cooperative system of adidas clothing that knits transmitter belts into shirts onto which the user snaps the transmitter, thus eliminating the need for a chest strap. The shoe has cavities in the sole under the footbed for a speed-distance device, if desired.
In the walking/Nordic walking arena, Ciclosport introduced a heart-rate monitor that incorporates a pedometer that measures steps using a magnetic sensor.
In the BrandNew area, one product of the eight winners was noteworthy: The technical Stridelite jackets have built-in lights with compartments for batteries worked into the jacket’s pockets. | <urn:uuid:2b4d49d2-7e4e-4d7a-b264-49dfa26effcf> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/trade-shows-and-events/did-you-hear-germanys-ispo-show-awards-include-running-fitness/ | 2023-09-22T10:36:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.933894 | 331 |
Serious Candidates for Serious People
David Brooks declares Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, and Jon Huntsman the only serious candidates for the Republican nomination.
MARK SHIELDS: But one test, Jim, that is a great test is how candidates handle something like this. And what I did was go through and look at how each of the Republican candidates, which one of them praised President Obama, while praising the SEALs and praising the action and the result.
Tim Pawlenty did, as you heard in Kwame’s piece. Mitt Romney did. And Mitch Daniels did. And Newt Gingrich didn’t, and Mrs. Palin didn’t. Gov. Palin didn’t. And, obviously, Rick Santorum didn’t. And the others didn’t.
DAVID BROOKS: Yes. That’s actually a very good test, because of the people you mentioned who did, those are the serious candidates.
And I might throw in another. Jon Huntsman seems to be running. And I suspect he’s a serious candidate. I’m not sure what his odds are. But it’s going to be a — the good thing about this debate was, there were only five people up on the stage.
Mixy is not persuaded:
I realize that many an electron will be spent extolling the seriousness of this new fantastic four, but will the energy of tens of fingers hitting hundreds of keys really matter? Is there still a Republican electorate motivated to go to the polls and vote for a Mormon (bad), a Mormon Obama likes (worse), an Arab (shudder), or a wimp? How exactly is the admittedly immense potential energy of David Brooks’ imprimatur transmitted to the average Republican primary voter? I don’t quite understand the physics or chemistry of that reaction. Because what I see is a party controlled by its rump, a bunch of angry white tea partiers who don’t give a shit about what David Brooks thinks is “real” or “serious”.
While it’s doubtless true that a vanishingly small percentage of the Republican nominating electorate much cares what Brooks thinks, I happen to think he’s right here.
Looking to the handful of truly bizarre candidates who ran on the Republican ticket in some statewide races in the 2010 cycle gives a mis-impression of the power of TEA Party voters on the nominating process. A small number of highly motivated people can have outsized influence in small turnout contests. That’s one reason why the Iowa Caucuses are such an idiotic first stage in the presidential cycle, since it’s often about organizing rather than real appeal. But, overall, a presidential nominating contest rewards those who start of with strong name recognition, have enormous message discipline, a strong organization, and the ability to raise lots of money.
There’s zero chance Trump, Palin, Gingrich, or Santorum is the nominee. They’re just too superficial, polarizing, or both to make much traction once people start focusing. And there’s little chance that someone other than those listed by Brooks and Shields can jump in at this point and grab the nomination. Ron Paul is a niche candidate. Gary Johnson is a more serious Ron Paul but he’s too unknown and has too many views that place him outside the tent. Herman Cain is appealing but has lost the only political race in which he’s ever run.
The race will be Romney’s to lose. The Mormon Question matters, especially in the Deep South. But Romney isn’t some mythical Mormon but an actual person. Prejudices are almost always generic rather than specific. RomneyCare will, naturally, be something he has to deal with. But he’s got a lot of time to put it behind him.
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As the Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP) moves towards its final exciting stages before completion, involving the opening of the new, raised road bridge on South Farm Road, and the breach of the embankments, it is interesting to consider how much of this work represents a reversal of previous ‘improvements’ by generations determined to engineer the landscape for their advantage.
The Clinton Devon Estates (the Estate) are particularly fortunate in having an archive which charts in detail the modifications of the last 250 years, both those completed, and a few mad cap ideas planned but never carried out.
An illustration of this enthusiasm to improve conditions for man is the significant change brought about by the building of the embankments in the early 1800s. Take the example of the bridges over the River Otter – before the embankments led to drier conditions in the Runnie (the name given to the marshland at the Otter Estuary), the first bridge crossing was at Otterton, two miles upriver. Looking at this map of 1765, the reason is clear, the river was simply too wide to span below this point.
Even now it has been a major engineering project to build up the existing South Farm Road and insert a new bridge at its western end to allow the re-instatement of the river’s natural flood plain, while ensuring safe passage across the valley.
This level of engineering would not have been possible in the early nineteenth century, and so the eastern side of the river had no settlements below Otterton. At the eastern end of the road is White Bridge, which has been in place in various forms for many years. This photograph, taken at the time of the floods in November 2012 shows how the road flooded badly but the bridge remained above water.
So, when did this all change? The range of historic maps in the Estate’s archive illustrate the development of roads and bridges in the area along with the establishment of new farms, and the expansion of population centres. These were used extensively to inform LORP, and show the emergence of South Farm Road and the bridge that was variously known as Otter Bridge, South Bridge, and finally, White Bridge.
The big change came about as a result of the construction of the embankments in the early 1810s and they were sold as an idea to Lord Rolle (the Rolle family later married into the family of the Barons Clinton) by James Green. He produced an intricate plan of the river meandering across the marsh with the works needed to drain the Runnie for agricultural land, straightening parts of the river to form a canal, and enhancing the navigation of the river. Both measures stood to boost the area economically as food prices at the time were rising and canals were all the rage as a new form of transport in this pre-railway era. Below shows the original course of the river close to where White Bridge now stands with his ambitious plan for narrowing it to make a bridge crossing feasible.
Successive maps show a bridge and pathway in place providing the communities of Kersbrook and Budleigh Salterton with a short route to the eastern side of the river. By the time the tithe map for the parish of Otterton was drawn up, a bridge was in place and a trackway leading to South Farm, built in 1802. Previously, the land was farmed as part of Otterton Barton with the farmhouse in Otterton itself.
Later still, the first edition 25” ordnance survey plan shows clearly the straight road crossing the valley, over the bridge and curving round past South Farm Cottages to South Farm itself, just as it does today. This remains the only route for vehicles across the river without going north to Otterton.
The bridge must have been an asset for the area easing communication between the east and west banks, but these photographs of c.1880 show it was a modest and rickety affair, more like an illustration in a children’s story book than a load-bearing bridge. It was likely used by people on foot and packhorses only, and was certainly under water when the river was in flood.
Soon after, in September 1888, it was replaced by a more serviceable bridge with distinctive white wooden boards, which is probably when it underwent a name change to White Bridge. The bridge was swept away in the exceptional floods in February 1930 but was rebuilt in much the same style and replaced with a concrete bridge in the 1960s.
Plans for another bridge over the Estuary were discussed in the 1880s. It was meant to stretch from the end of the shingle bar to the eastern cliff right on the sea edge and was proposed by the Rolle Estate as a public amenity. It was probably always an impractical suggestion to produce a stable bridge in the shifting pebbles, especially as the design would require a movable bridge to accommodate the masts of mackerel boats running for shelter in storms. Although the idea would be highly popular with visitors to Budleigh Salterton today, it was rejected at the time by Budleigh Salterton’s Board of Health, Exeter City Council, and the Board of Trade, and so White Bridge remains the only crossing below Otterton Bridge.
Today White Bridge and South Farm Road represent a modification brought about by human intervention, but they are an intervention that has been retained and improved by LORP to exist in harmony with the natural landscape. The best of both worlds has been achieved – easy communication for the local community between the east and west banks of the river, while the river flows again into its natural floodplain. | <urn:uuid:789df6f9-805b-429f-8711-99a4ffb5b787> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pacco-interreg.com/bridging-the-gap-between-intervention-and-restoration-the-history-of-white-bridge-and-mans-impact-on-the-lower-otter-valley-by-charlotte-hodgson-estate-archivist/ | 2023-09-22T11:44:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.9772 | 1,170 |
11 years later, Guam International FilmFest continues to tell stories
In its 11th year, Guam International Film Festival took up the theme “New Voices,” aimed at curating work from new filmmakers and films centered around untold perspectives.
“When you think of ‘new voices,’ it is that ability to feature newer filmmakers or newer stories so that we can all add to the film industry and representation here in the Pacific,” said Lawrence Lizama, GIFF technical coordinator.
With 10 years of experience behind it, GIFF is no longer the new kid on the industry block. The project has come a long way since it was founded by local filmmakers, Don and Kel Muna, also known as The Muna Bros in October 2011.
For last year’s milestone anniversary, GIFF took a retrospective look at itself, with special attention to filmmakers in the Marianas, said Myracle Mugol, GIFF project manager.
“So this year, we wanted to focus on the growth of the industry on Guam,” Mugol added.
As GIFF grows, so has the locally grown filmmaking talent. From the beginning, GIFF organizers were clear in their intentions: to highlight and foster local talent.
“What we’re excited about is the number of films coming from our region has increased. Even though it's just like one or two, for Guam, that's like 200 percent,” Mugol said.
The early days of GIFF featured movies with local talent such as “I Heart GU” and “Mga Dayo" (Resident Aliens).” These works paved the way for the shorts and documentaries that followed.
This year, GIFF will screen 32 selected movies, including three that were made on Guam, two from the Northern Marianas, and another filmed in the states that follows a CHamoru family.
“The quality has gone up locally,” Mugol said. “It’s exciting. We're getting funded by organizations like Pacific Islanders in Communications. We're getting noticed. The humanities councils in both CNMI and Guam are realizing that film projects need to have support as well.”
Even with accomplishments made over the past decade, the creative lot still faces barriers. Many creators have day jobs and find pockets of time and space to feed their art in their free time. Mugol calls them "weekend warriors." These artists are innovating without much funding.
“I think one of the biggest things that stop people is budget,” Mugol said. “But if the passions and drive are there, the project will happen. But the budget does hurt."
Mugol added that while it’s better now than years ago, there’s still a lack of willing mentors, people to help other people get their creations off the ground.
A lack of confidence can kill new voices too, according to Lizama, who is part of Tåhdong Marianas a collective of young CHamoru artists, activists and filmmakers.
Lizama is familiar with feelings of doubt that come with the challenge of producing something worthy and valuable. He would hesitate when an opportunity presented itself. Lizama said it was a challenge to shift his mindset, but now he has more confidence in accepting opportunities that come his way.
“As long as I know that my passion is in it, my heart’s in it, my confidence is there, I’m good. It doesn't matter if this is strange territory to me," Lizama said. "As long as I know that I can put my whole heart and passion into it, then that's what will carry me."
GIFF hopes this year’s festival gives birth to new voices and new viewers who find inspiration to tell their own stories.
“I think I would want them to walk away with feeling inspired and either wanting to make their own films or stories or wanting to support those filmmakers and artists in our community,” Lizama said.
Echoing Lizama’s sentiment, Mugol said she hopes viewers become entrenched in the stories and the characters. She urged viewers to reach out to the directors and creators and tell them about watching their work and ask them questions.
“I want them to want more,” Mugol said. “I want them to want more information, want more films, want more content. Because the more people want more, then the more people will drive for more of this kind of stuff.”
2021 GIFF screenings start Friday, Nov. 5
The pandemic had festival organizers incorporating remote-friendly ways to give audiences the festival experience. People in Guam and the CNMI will be able to view the GIFF selections through the PBS Video smartphone app, which is free to download.
Showings on the app will take place from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday starting from Nov. 5 through Nov. 19. The films will also be televised locally on PBS Guam KGTF Channel 12, the schedule is available on guamfilmfestival.org.
GIFF will broadcast panel discussions on their Facebook page. The 2021 winners for five out of the six categories have been announced:
● Best Narrative Feature: “Tiong Bahru Social Club” (Director Tan Bee Thiam, Singapore)
● Best Narrative Short: “Georgia” (Director Jayil Pak, Singapore)
● Best Documentary Feature “Lamafa” (Director Bon Ishikawa, Japan, Indonesia)
● Best Documentary Short: “Mawhialeo Ote Alowha / Our Love” (Director Valeriya Golovina, New Zealand)
● Best Made In The Marianas: “Kåntan Hereru - A Blacksmith's Song" (Director Sean Lizama, Guam)
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It's our Anniversary!
It may not be our anniversary just yet, but here at Pacific Plate we thought it'd be fun to fool around a little and have an encore release of our 1st and 2nd Anniversary Ales.
Kickoff our April Full of Beer Friday, April 1st with an encore release of our 2nd Anniversary Ale. This Belgian Style Blond Tripel is brewed with Kaffir lime leaves which give a smooth and refreshingly zesty finish to this 9.5% ABV Ale.
The April foolishness continues Friday, April 15th with the encore release of our 1st Anniversary Ale. At 10% ABV, this Belgian Strong Dark Ale pours a deep ruby color and is packed with complex flavors of chocolate, caramel, and ripe fruit. | <urn:uuid:31ffebee-e314-489c-ac26-f33adde4eee4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pacificplatebrewing.com/post/april-full-of-beer | 2023-09-22T11:45:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.93317 | 165 |
Following the success of last year's Gin and Jam sessions, we will be returning with live music sessions with some of Malta's hottest bands.
Launching on the 14th June, the schedule features some of our resident favourites including Red Electric, Gianni and Papps, Nick Barrett and his band, whilst also featuring some brand new artists like Ema Vella.
We kicked off the season with Nick Barrett and his band. The first of Gin and Jams was an exclusive Christian Drouin Experience. Christian Drouin is best known for the Calvados range, though have been in the gin game for some time. We featured some exclusive cocktails made with Le Gin by Christian Drouin mixed with their own Calvados. These were exclusively available on the opening night. The Christian Drouin Experience was hosted in collaboration with Farsonsdirect.
Our cocktails come with a theatrical performance by Molecular Fusion. Dry ice meets spectacular flavours as the cocktails make their way to your table and fuel the night ahead. Bring your dancing shoes and be prepared for a magical night under the stars.
Our Head Chef David Giacomelli has re-invented the bar bites menu with some seasonal dishes that lend themselves to a night of cool gins and music in the summer evenings. If you feel like something more substantial, the restaurant will be open, so you can dine in the garden whilst enjoying that summer vibe.
Or, if you are after a proper meal, why not sit down at our restaurant and indulge in the best that this season has to offer. You can still see the band and feel that Gin and Jam vibe from your table. Reduced menu to ensure smooth service throughout the night.
Date: Every Wednesday from 14th June
Time: Opens at 7:30pm with live music starting between 8 and 8:30pm
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What should be the interior design of modern office? Minimalist and restrained, or bright, innovative, creative and stylish? Before answering this question, it is necessary to consider three important factors:
- Area of your business. Selecting the overall style and design will depend on the specific services that you provide. Office interior design should be the reflection of your company. It is important to take into account all the nuances from the preferred clothing style of your employees and customers (casual or business), to a work schedule, habits, behavior and rules of communication for all company representatives.
- Comfort workplace. The main objective of the interior design project of any office - to create the most comfortable conditions for the work that will enhance productivity. Here, taking into account the number of employees and visitors, company size and activities. It is necessary to correctly choose the color scheme, furniture, think through layout and decoration.
- Office location. Specificity room layout is very important. This may be as a separate building, and a small room in a large heart.
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|Event:||Microsoft Ignite 2016|
|Date:||Monday 26 September – Friday 30 September, 2016|
|Location:||Georgia World Congress Center
285 Andrew Young International Blvd. NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30313
|Enrolment :||Sold out|
Microsoft Ignite, a hands-on experience
This year’s Microsoft Ignite will take place in September, in Atlanta. With the objective of helping senior IT professionals drive business transformation, this conference provides insight, learning, and plenty of networking opportunities.
With more than 1,000 sessions to choose from, the event’s portal makes it easy for you to select the most relevant ones, allowing you to filter by profile, product, session types, among other criteria.
Get certified at half price
Microsoft Ignite presents a good opportunity to get those certifications you or your team have been postponing for a while. At the Certification Central, you can find and choose preparation sessions to take the exams.
During the conference week, all Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams will be offered at a 50% discount exclusively for Microsoft Ignite attendees, and all practice tests will be free to attendees who activate them in the study hall.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PPR has shifted our weekly learning groups to a virtual platform. Our in-person services are now offered by appointment only.
All staff and visitors are required to wear a face mask when onsite because we have many community members who could be impacted if exposed to COVID-19 and variants of concern. Medical exemptions may apply. Face masks will be provided onsite.
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Charity: How a Little Horseracing Helped ManKind
Our recent Park Lane Group senior management team away day provided a helpful donation to ManKind, the Eastbourne support and listening group for men.
Group chief executive, Russell Beswick, organised a day at Lingfield Racecourse as a thank you for the team. To pay it forward, they decided to donate their winnings.
According to managing director, Sue McGreevy, “It’s great to support ManKind. Their presence locally is invaluable. As a business in the construction sector with a high number of male employees, subcontractors and partners, we really advocate the importance of getting help and taking care of your mental health just as you would your physical health. And what they offer as a free support group is really plugging a gap.”
Since its inception in 2020, ManKind has grown. It now holds a free support group every Wednesday evening in Eastbourne and every Thursday in Heathfield. Their ‘Cold Club’ takes place on the first Sunday of the month with a bracing sea swim and breakfast barbeque with the Pevensey Plungers. They also work in collaboration with the Old Bank Wellbeing Trust who provide counselling and psychotherapy. | <urn:uuid:9f573a5b-44a1-4e70-a0b4-ca91ac9d4d98> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.parklanegroup.net/news/community-news/charity-how-a-little-horseracing-helped-mankind | 2023-09-22T10:59:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.950664 | 258 |
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CLS 1/766/1 - 4
Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent: A record of the Landscape - Hard Copy.
Debois Landscape Survey Group - 1999
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A handsome and useful mid 19th century Swedish birch bookcase/cabinet in two parts.
The top section is glazed and the doors fold back into two parts.
Its interior has four shelves for books and objects.
The base is a golden honey colour that has four doors each with decorative ebonised diamond panel in relief.
Inside there are more shelves with plenty of room for storage.
It has separate keys for the top and bottom.
This is a good looking and decorative piece that would blend well in both a classic and modern interior.
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Linda Jean Sohn, 61, passed away Thursday, May 13, 2021 at United Hospital District in Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held at 11am on Tuesday, May 18th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth with Rev. Dr. Jeanette Bidne officiating. A time for visitation will be held on Monday at Patton Funeral Home from 4-6pm and one hour prior to the service at church. Burial will take place at Riverside Cemetery in Blue Earth.
Linda was born on March 28, 1960 in Blue Earth to Duane and Janice (Evans) Sohn. She graduated from Blue Earth Area High School in 1978. Linda graduated from the Child Development Program at Rochester Area Vocational-Technical Institute on May 30, 1980. Her 36 year career of teaching and caring for children, ages birth through pre-school, began at Little People in Blue Earth. She retired in 2017 to care for her mother and spend more time with family.
Linda enjoyed baking; she was famous for making her great-grandma Malinda’s sugar cookies. She was a long time member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. She enjoyed helping children during both Sunday school and Wednesday release time. Most importantly, Linda cherished her family and her faith, both being very important aspects of her life.
Left to hold dear to such wonderful memories are her mother, Janice Kay Sohn; siblings, Michael (Patty) Sohn of Blue Earth, Deborah Sohn of Woodbury, Thomas Sohn of Blue Earth, Mary (Jeff) Doherty of Byron, and Mark (Vickie) Sohn of Blue Earth; nieces and nephews, Jennifer, Kurt, Alli, Lani, Corin, Willie, Amy, Rachel, and Dane; several great-nieces and great-nephews; and, too numerous to count “temporary” kids.
Linda is preceded in death by her grandparents on both sides; her father, Duane Sohn; and brother, Jeffery Sohn.
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17.739 +/- Acres Prime Krome Avenue Corner. Paved Road Frontage on Two Major Thoroughfares: Krome Avenue and SW 288th Street. Lots of Potential in this Area of Rapid Growth. Property has Been Farmed and is Nicely Fenced. The Property is Zoned Agricultural and Has an Agricultural Exemption. Suitable for Row Crops, Grove, or Nursery. Lots of Future Potential. Frontage on Newly Four Laned Krome Avenue.
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Generally I do not eat tofu or tempeh. But there comes a time when I simply feel like it.
I have made a scrambled tofu which is (OMG!!!) heavenly tasty!
Catch the recipe:
- 1 smoked tofu
- vegan yoghurt
- chopped: tomatoes, basil, chives, red paprika
- freshly grounded black pepper
- 1/2-1 spoon of turmeric
- Kala Namak salt
- coconut oil
Melt the coconut oil on a saucepan. Crumble tofu and fry for a few minutes. Add 3-4 spoons of vegan yoghurt and stir. Add chopped tomatoes, basil, chives and red paprika and fry for a minute or two.
Ready! Serve on a plate with fresh vegetables and/or salat. Enjoy!
P.S. Remember that both tofu (a high protein product) and anything fried are very hard to digest and eliminate from the GI track. Eat it with gratitude, without prickles of conscious, but in moderation (from time to time only)! | <urn:uuid:e8f7454d-254b-4e08-a57a-630c48a0f367> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.paulinaslifestyle.com/post/scrambled-tofu | 2023-09-22T10:38:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.905867 | 223 |
As a member of the Coalition for Equality, PHA is involved in planning and assisting with the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Celebration held in Pekin. 2023 marked The Coalition for Equality’s 30th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Celebration, held at Grace United Methodist Church. After 2 years of adjustments due to CoVID-19, it was decided that a combined presentation style would be offered– three live sessions held in person, and also three live streaming sessions during the same time. Students currently enrolled in 3rd and 6th grade within District 108 were invited to participate, via in person, or virtually. A total of 1,300 students were in attendance. All Students were provided a light breakfast/snack, (including those tuning in virtually). All Teachers participating (including those tuning in virtually) were also provided a set of diversity-themed books to keep in their classrooms. Pam Purnell, a storyteller, musician, and poet was the Speaker for this event, and was able to deliver her message in a fun and energetic manner. | <urn:uuid:1321c4e8-62c6-4eea-9382-712f19f503be> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pekinhousingauthority.com/2023/03/martin-luther-king-event-2023/ | 2023-09-22T12:45:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.987626 | 220 |
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Procrastination can be costly. When you get a late start, it may be difficult to make up for lost time. | <urn:uuid:979bf507-f060-4dd2-a3be-c0afc53435a4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pellerandcompany.com/resource-center/retirement/tuning-your-social-security-benefit | 2023-09-22T11:34:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.825189 | 100 |
About Pendleton Community Library
Traditional Library Services
Despite all of the ways that public libraries are evolving, we still consider traditional library services to be at our core. Whether you need help researching your ancestors, using a new electronic device, or just looking for your next great read, the library is here to help. The library holds a collection of nearly 70,000 titles, and our librarians are always working to make sure that the collection is fresh and relevant to the needs of our patrons. We have books, movies, and magazines, as well as a copier and a fax machine. The Pendleton Community Public Library is all you’d expect it to be, plus so much more.
We enjoy trying new things, and sometimes we’re pretty darn good at it. Check out the Pendleton Community Garden, the Alpha Seed Library, and Read ‘n’ Feed as examples of how thinking outside the box can build a community. Did you know that you can visit the library for free Yoga instruction or one-on-one help with your resume? Stop in to see what’s going on in the teen department. There just might be a book discussion, video game tourney, or meeting of the Anime Society. We are always looking for new ways to serve our patrons, and we love to surprise you.
Staying up-to-date with technology is a challenge for everybody, and your library is here to help. Get your work done at a desktop computer, equipped with Microsoft Office. Or bring your own device and tap into our free, fast wi-fi. Our color copy machine can scan to email, free of charge. Check out a Google Chromebook to use at the library. Or take home a wi-fi hotspot to provide access to the Internet wherever you are. Check out streaming music and movies. Or download the latest and greatest ebook or audiobook. The library even has a 65” touchscreen computer for exciting programs and productive meetings.
Once you walk in to the Pendleton Community Public Library, you’ll feel right at home. With windows everywhere, warm woodwork, and cozy colors, you’ll forget all of your preconceived notions of the public library. Sit in our café and enjoy a freshly brewed cup of coffee. Build, play, and explore in the children’s department where there is always a new puzzle, toy, or activity to keep your little one busy. And, when the weather is warm, connect to our wi-fi, and sit outside on our patio to enjoy the sunshine.
Friendly, Helpful Staff
We are committed to doing our very best to help you during every visit, no matter what you need. Our staff is friendly, helpful and genuinely likes to interact with people from all walks of life. We get excited with the thrill of a hunt and always enjoy a good challenge. Finding answers to your questions is our specialty here at the library. It’s simply what we love to do! | <urn:uuid:506756ff-e0bb-43d4-b26e-d127c46072d5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pendleton.lib.in.us/about | 2023-09-22T11:53:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.93937 | 632 |
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