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Bread is a staple food for many households, and it’s not uncommon for dog parents to wonder if they can share this tasty treat with their furry companions. While dogs can eat bread in moderation, it’s essential to consider certain factors to ensure their health and well-being.
The Risks of Feeding Bread to Dogs
- Digestive Issues: Bread often contains grains such as wheat, which can be challenging for some dogs to digest. Consumption of large quantities of bread can lead to stomach discomfort, bloating, gas, and even diarrhea.
- Obesity: Bread is calorie-dense and can contribute to weight gain in dogs, especially if given in excess. It’s essential to consider portion sizes and factor bread into the overall calorie intake of your dog’s diet.
- Allergies and Intolerances: Some dogs may be allergic or sensitive to certain ingredients found in bread, such as wheat or gluten. If your dog exhibits signs of allergies like itching, skin irritation, or gastrointestinal distress after consuming bread, it’s best to consult a veterinarian.
- Nutritional Imbalance: While bread provides carbohydrates, it lacks essential nutrients that dogs need for a balanced diet. Feeding too much bread can lead to nutritional deficiencies if it replaces a portion of their regular dog food.
The Benefits of Feeding Bread to Dogs
- Occasional Treat: In moderation, plain bread can be a harmless and enjoyable dog treat. Small pieces of bread without added ingredients like spices, raisins, or chocolate can be a reward during training sessions or as an occasional snack.
- Fiber Source: Whole grain bread, in small amounts, can provide some dietary fiber to dogs. However, it’s important to remember that dogs have different nutritional requirements than humans, and their primary diet should consist of nutritionally balanced dog food.
Guidelines for Feeding Bread to Dogs
- Moderation is Key: Bread should only be given to dogs in moderation and as an occasional treat. It should never replace their regular dog food, which is specifically formulated to meet their nutritional needs.
- Choose the Right Bread: Opt for plain, unsalted, and unbuttered bread. Avoid bread with added ingredients like onions, garlic, raisins, chocolate, or artificial sweeteners, as these can be toxic to dogs.
- Watch for Allergic Reactions: When you introduce bread into your dog’s diet, please look for any signs of allergies or intolerances. If your dog shows adverse reactions, discontinue feeding bread and consult your veterinarian.
- Portion Control: Limit the amount of bread you give your dog, considering their size, weight, and overall calorie intake. Small dogs should receive smaller portions, and larger dogs can have slightly larger amounts.
While dogs can eat bread in moderation, it’s crucial to consider the potential risks and benefits. Feeding plain bread as an occasional treat can be safe, but excessive consumption can lead to digestive issues, obesity, or nutritional imbalances.
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Here’s a great double that’s very hard to find. These AS-grade Beretta O/Us are some of the finest shotguns the company made. With a straight grip and double triggers, this one would make a great field gun.
1959 – Beretta ASEL 12ga, 2-3/4″, 27-5/8″: IC / IC (.010 / .011), Double Trigger, Ejectors, English Stock, LOP 14″, Drop 1-3/8″ – 2-1/4″, Weight 7 lbs. 2 oz. Hand Built, Hand Engraved, Custom Grade Gun. These guns were built with the same care and right along side the SO Grade Berettas of the day. Basically, a Box Lock version of the SO Side Lock gun. Price:$3,850
Griffin & Howe has been importing these spanish-made side-by-sides for a while now. I’m pretty sure they’re made by Arrieta. Brand new at G&H, this is a $9,500 shotgun. If this one auctions off for $5,000, or less, it will be a steal.
Here’s the info on it, as provided by the auctioneer: Griffine & Howe 28 gauge double barrel shotgun with case hardened receiver, beautiful floral engraving. English stock and hand carved buttplate. Condition: new in original carrying case. Estimate: $6,000 – $10,000.
Wow – check out this 20 gauge Charles Daly Regent Diamond shotgun that just hit the market. it appears to be in excellent original condition. This side-by-side looks like it’s spectacular original condition. While it’s not cheap ($24,000), that price is pretty fair when you consider how rare and well made it is.
Regent Diamonds were the most “deluxe” of deluxe guns that Lindner made for Charles Daly (go to this post to compare it to a regular Diamond). The workmanship on them is absolutely top notch. Just check out how beautifully sculpted the action, fences and toplever are. Even though the gold on this one is a bit over the top, it’s well tastefully executed so that it helps make this a real elegant little gun.
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Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on February 27, 2013 and is republished here with permission.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will maintain their commitment to the current ICD-10-CM/PCS compliance date of October 1, 2014, according to a letter sent to AHIMA President Kathleen A. Frawley.
The letter was sent in response to AHIMA’s call for CMS to stand firm on its ICD-10 implementation date after more than 80 physician groups represented by the American Medical Association called on CMS in January to delay or abandon the ICD-10 conversion.
Robert Tagalicod, director of CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services, wrote that CMS agrees with AHIMA’s recommendation to continue progress toward ICD-10 implementation.
“Based on your feedback and other stakeholder input, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services believes that the one-year extension offers physicians adequate time to train their coders, complete system changeovers, and conduct testing,” Tagalicod wrote. “Furthermore, we have found that many private and public sector health plans, hospitals and hospital systems, and large physician practices are far along in their ICD-10 implementation.”
CMS’ Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner formally declined the AMA’s ICD-10 request in a letter sent February 6, stating a halt of implementation “would be costly, burdensome, and would eliminate the impending benefits” of ICD-10, according to an American Academy of Family Physicians blog post.
The AMA said that implementing the new code set would create additional and unnecessary burdens on physicians at a time when they are already inundated with other healthcare system changes.
Tagalicod wrote that CMS believes ICD-10 is a key part of ongoing healthcare reform efforts, and a “cornerstone” of several programs working to modernize and improve the healthcare system and lower costs.
“Integrated programs such as Version 5010, the ICD-10 code-set itself, the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs, and the Physician Quality Reporting System are all aimed at accomplishing these outcomes,” he wrote. “Together they move America’s health care system towards better coordinated care through greater interoperability and ease of transmitting electronic data; better quality measurement and reporting of clinical outcomes data; and lower costs achieved through operational efficiencies.”
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I Like Quirky Italian Design, He Prefers Moody British Interiors
Here’s how we navigated styling a home together.
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My boyfriend’s ultimate fantasy would be to live in a Downton Abbey-meets-Soho House countryside manor filled with dark bookshelves and leather Chesterfields (he is British, after all). I, on the other hand, gravitate towards lighter, more colorful and quirkier spaces (like if a quirky Milanese artist moved to a shack in Canada, sort of).
When we moved in together with only a few furniture pieces from my old apartment, I immediately started saving inspiration photos to a Pinterest board. One night over dinner, I excitedly ran him through the slideshow. He hated everything. However, he was eager to learn more about design and asked me to suggest a few Instagram accounts to follow.
Now, he sends me interiors he loves, most of them dark gray, traditional bathrooms or moody living rooms with red ceilings and forest green velvet sofas. But on a few occasions, he has sent me back the same images of things he’d knocked a few weeks earlier, like a striped pillow chair from ASH NYC. I’ve won half the battle. Pro tip: There’s something to be said about how repeated exposure can alter your taste.
Yes, meshing personal styles with a significant other can be a bumpy ride filled with fabric swatch disagreements and disliked heirlooms—but it doesn’t have to be. Curious to know how team Domino had navigated the experience, I asked around. Consider this your official guide to couples’ apartment therapy.
Capitalize on the Sliver of Style Overlap
If my boyfriend could live in a Restoration Hardware catalog, he would. His style skews more traditional, with touches of modern, and he’s pretty into matching furniture sets, i.e., a bed with coordinating nightstands. I, on the other hand, have an unhealthy obsession with trinkets and found objects. Almost everything I owned in my old apartment was either white or beige, but I had this indigo dresser in the middle of the studio that totally stole the spotlight.
Our styles may as well be polar opposites, but there is a sliver of overlap, and we’ve been working very hard to capitalize on that. I sold about half of my belongings before moving, and brought my sofa and dresser to the new place. He had to, begrudgingly, let go of his most prized possession: a charcoal velvet love seat that looked more brown than gray (no matter how hard he tried to convince me otherwise). —Anna Kocharian, brand partnerships editor
Stash a Few Sentimentals in the Closet
My husband is more of a traditionalist; he grew up in New England and really likes things that are Colonial-style. In terms of colors, he is more into neutrals and blues—cool tones in general, which I’m also into.
He found this vintage clock that reminded him of his childhood while we were traveling a few years ago, and it was something I wasn’t crazy about. But he felt strongly about it, and I was able to style it into our bookshelf in a way that doesn’t make it the focal point. Would I have picked it on my own? No, but I know it has value to Dan and I want to ensure we live in a home that isn’t dominated by only one partner’s taste or style. Of course, there are a few other items that are still stashed in a closet. —Andie Diemer, deputy photo editor
Assign Tasks (and Stick to Them)
My wife’s style tends more toward the delicate, sweet, and fresh, with floral touches and muted moodiness—we call it Snow White’s French Cottage. I lean toward raw, earthy surfaces with lots of patina filtered through a warm, soothing Scandinavian lens (think: a cheerier Axel Vervoordt).
Our decorating process has been a measured process of accumulation rather than trying to dash something together for the sake of being ‘finished.’ While both of us are very opinionated and aesthetic oriented (I do work at Domino after all), the ways in which we contribute to the space differ. I’m an idea forager—constantly pinning to our shared Pinterest board (an organization must!), saving pics on Instagram, and scouring vintage sites. Brooke, on the other hand, has a keen gut instinct and ability to avoid passing trends and favor timeless treasures. Thus, our decision-making process often looks like me showing her a range of options I think could work and her narrowing them down. —Cyrus Ferguson, membership and market manager
Know What You’re Good At
Three months into dating, I helped my boyfriend look for apartments. The idea that I would ultimately live there was already in the back of our minds. I finally moved in about three months ago and have tried really hard to just be in the space and not rush the decorating process. I’m a managing editor through and through: I have checklists, budgets, Pinterest boards, and IKEA planner renderings. Planning is more of a compulsion for me, and putting together a home with the person I love is definitely one of the more fun ways to channel that energy. —Liz Mundle, managing editor
Embrace the Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering
My husband and I have not technically moved into one apartment yet (we live in separate cities during the week), but we’ve started Marie Kondo–ing the furniture that exists in our individual apartments so that we’re only left with items that bring joy. In our new place, we’ll purchase items we both approve of. —Tracy Cho, general manager
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Songs About Greeks Far From Home
This CD, published by UNHCR with an informative booklet, includes sixteen songs narrating different aspects of migrating to foreign lands: departure and life in foreign lands; the lives of families left behind; death in foreign lands or a return home. It marks a new direction to Domna Samiou’s music publications: from now on all records released by her Association will be thematic and accompanied by extensive documentation.
Yet upon leaving his native city the ekistis, in antiquity the ‘settler’ and leader of any group of migrants, would traditionally take sacred fire from the fane of the divine Hearth and endeavour to keep it unquenched throughout the ensuing journey in order to place it in the temple newly build in the colony, a witness to the indissoluble ties of the migrants with their place of birth. Symbol of the wandering Greek, Odysseus ‘saw the cities of many people and learnt their ways', but neither the Sirens, nor Circe, nor the lotus-eaters were able to cloud the vision of his return to Ithaca or relieve his profound nostalgia for ‘a sight of smoke rising from the family hearth'.
A sense of nostalgia - the pain of separation and the desire for the home-coming (νόστιμον ήμαρ : the day of return) - persists throughout the centuries in every form of popular and cultivated literature: in antiquity (the Homeric epics, lyric poetry, ancient drama), in the middle ages (Byzantine epic poetry, popular ballads, metrical romances), and in modern times (demotic songs, folk tales and fables, proverbs, literature and poetry). It is not without significance that in common parlance the word νόστιμον has come to mean something pleasant, palatable, agreeable, while ξένος (foreign) has become synonymous with ugly, troublesome, unfortunate.
The foreign lands and deprivation, bitterness and Charon,
they put these four on to the scales, the foreign lands weighed heaviest.
Demotic songs about having to live in foreign lands belong to one of the most interesting categories of neohellenic folk poetry. This is so because, apart from their literary value which is connected with the more general style of the demotic song, an historical and anthropological approach to them is especially revealing in terms of the actual circumstances in which they have come into being, of the occasions on which they are sung, and of the extension of their applications.
Indeed, any study along these lines provides exceptionally rich material for the analysis of popular philosophy, ideology, and social behaviour in the modern age of Greece: how collective knowledge and memory confronted by a central, and frequently unavoidable, social phenomenon such as migration range themselves before it, and how the people's general consciousness and interpretation of the world in relation to the practical and ethical consequences of the phenomenon are given expression.
Despite the obvious truth that certain poetical motifs have a much older origin (such as the subject of the exile's home-coming A fair Trikeriotissa), the historical period in which most of the songs concerning migrant Greeks were composed coincides with the Turkish invasion and occupation of Greece (14th to early 19th century) and with the demographic, economic, and social impact these had upon Hellenism.
The more recent great migration movements towards the Americas - the USA, Canada, and South America - dating from the end of the 19th century, and towards Australia and the countries of Western Europe, mostly since the second world war, have not produced similarly remarkable examples of music and poetry. The circumstances in which popular creativity had to function changed with the foundation of the modern Greek state. Originality disappears after the mid 19th century: old poetic motifs and themes are adapted to contemporary conditions and popular melodies are simply reworked to suit the more modern musical instruments - klarino (clarinet) and violi (violin) - which have intruded from the West and displaced traditional ones like the zournas, phloyera, tsambouna, and lyra. Finally, there are the curiously few postwar songs about Greeks living abroad (such as ‘In Germany's great factories, and in the Belgian coal - mines'): their framework is the more recent urban music by named composers which came to the forefront following the decline of rebetico songs in the '50s and '60s; it no longer has much to do with earlier forms of music in this category. For this reason all the songs selected for this collection belong to the classical period of demotic song, in which later urban and Western influences are not so strong. In the course of time they have undergone a collective process involving the removal of redundant elements and the creative adaptation of what is alien or new to the traditional within this group. In this way they have been preserved through the years and continue to move both hearts and minds.
Ι want to lay a heavy curse on all three vilayets1 ,
on Constantinople, Bogdania, and also Wallachia,
for they play false with all our youth and give no thought to mothers.
The Turkish invasion of Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epiros, commencing in the 14th century, and the settlement of colonists drawn from warlike Mohammedan tribes in fertile and commanding districts caused a numerical decline and economic stagnation among the Greek population which then sought refuge or better conditions in less accessible mountainous regions or in Greek territories held by the Venetians, that is, in islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Conditions among indigent mountain communities, as also on most of the islands, barren and exposed as they were to piratical raids, were such that their members could provide themselves with only the bare essentials for existence. Very naturally they soon led to the first isolated or group instance of migration as well as to waves of refugee movements in the wake of devastating political or military upheavals. From the end of the 15th century, however, once the Turks had consolidated their conquests, people started, slowly at first, to leave their mountain fastnesses and, as the birth rate rose, the urban population began to grow. It was during this period that commercial transactions and trade began to blossom because of the new circumstances prevailing in Europe where Greeks, ever tireless travelers, bold seamen, and clever entrepreneurs, were called upon to play their part.
Thus from the 17th to the 19th century Greeks gradually established themselves outside their own country, the diaspora extending to all points of the compass: Italy, Central Europe, the North Balkans, Russia, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, Constantinople and Asia Minor, Persia, Egypt, Corsica, Iberia, France, England, and Holland. From the 8th century of our era there had been a Greek quarter (Haret el Roum) in Old Cairo (Fostat). There are 18th-century references to a Greek school and church in Erzerum in Armenia, in Calcutta in India, and in Gondar in Ethiopia. The first Greeks to settle in Florida, in 1768, arrived there from Corsica and the Peloponnisos. In 1829 seven Greek sailors reached the newly founded settlement of Sydney in Australia.
Sleep on, I've given orders for your dowry from the City 2,
I've sent away to Venice for your dresses and your jewels.
The Greeks have always had particularly close ties with Italy, even in antiquity through their colonies in Magna Graecia.There are records of Epirots living in Livorno, Naples, Sicily, and Venice in the 11th century. A growing number of Greeks settled in the latter city, especially after the Turks had captured its possession in the Peloponnisos in 1540 and after they had taken Cyprus in 1571. By 1585 they numbered 15.000 and fifteen to twenty Greek vessels were visiting the port every month. It was about this time that the Greeks wrested a considerable portion of the trade conducted throughout the Balkan peninsula by local Genoese and Armenian merchants who had dominated the market till then.
While George Sinas was monopolizing communications throughout the Austro-Hungarian empire, and thus acquiring the stature of a magnate, more and more Greeks were heading for Moldavia (the Bogdania of the songs) and Wallachia (Bucharest and Iasi).This movement intensified after 1711 when Phanariots, members of leading Greek families in the Phanar district of Constantinople, were appointed as local rulers. The Greek element in Russia - in Odessa, Moscow and Petrograd - was strengthened by the privileges granted by the empress, Catherine the Great, following the abortive Orlof uprising of 1770 when refugees from the Peloponnisos and the islands established exclusively Greek villages in Tiflis, Kerets and Taganrog.
See how in distant foreign lands they get along and manage,
see how they wrest a living there, and see what tongues they speak.
Geek colonies soon organized themselves into communes and the merchants into associations (kompanies). The first Greek news- sheets came off printing presses in Vienna and Venice where a remarkable publishing industry sprung up, while the great teachers of the Greek Enlightenment, such as Anthimos Gazis, Konstantinos Koumas and Neophytos Doukas, taught in the community schools in both cities. It was not long before this activity brought evident results, migrants and travelers becoming the vehicle of the new spirit they found abroad, transmitting to Turkish occupied Greece the messages implicit in the European movements directed towards wider economic, cultural, and political horizons. Impoverished mountain communities were revitalized: on Mount Pelion, in Epiros and in Western Macedonia costly mansions were erected with wall-paintings and richly carved interiors; in the islands the motley of clothing, the jewelry, furniture, and ornaments brought back by mariners gave a new direction to local popular arts. It is a fact that the greatest benefactors of the nation came from the Greek diaspora, most of them originally from Epiros which, together with Macedonia, supplied the majority of the migrants to Wallachia (Zappas, Arsakis), Austro-Hungary (Sinas), Russia (the Zosimadis brothers, Varvakis, Rizaris, Kaplanis), Egypt (Tositsas, Stournaras, Averof), and Constantinople (Zographos).
The Greeks' aptitude for language was enhanced and new words were introduced into local dialects. Liberal ideas paved the way to the Revolution of 1821 and to national independence. Rhigas Pheraios moved from Moldavia to Bucharest and published his patriotic songs and great map of Greece in Leipzig and Vienna (where there is still a Griechengasse today), while the Philiki Etaireia (Society of Friends), founded in Odessa in 1816, was to give the signal for the Greek uprising.
The time has come for us to leave, it's time for our departure.
Besides the flow of Greeks emigrating for a long while to join the prospering Greek communities in central Europe and the Balkans - the dream goal of all who wanted to leave so as ‘to bring back florins on their mules, and piasters on their horses' - there was also a seasonal migration with the object chiefly of acquiring necessities for the harsh winters in mountainous regions. Builders from the 'artisan villages' of Western Macedonia, from Zagori in Epiros, and Langadia in the Peloponnisos and also seasonal workers (among them carpenters, coppersmiths, tailors, herdsmen, harvesters and vintagers) journeyed to Thrace and Constantinople and farther still to Sofia and Bucharest, as well as to Asia Minor, seeking work alongside similarly motivated migrants of other nationalities: Albanians, Turks, Serbs, Croats, Jews, Armenians and Bulgars. It was their dream, too, to find favourable conditions somewhere where they might settle and so one day summon their families to join them or where, in some instances, they might marry, an event treated in song as a grievous betrayal (songs A cretan ship, White doves o mine, white ring-doves).
Such seasonal migrations were usually confined to the period bounded by the feastdays of the two great saints, Saint George (23 April) and Saint Dimitrios (26 October). In the words of a typical song from Macedonia:
‘Saint George and Saint Dimitrios fell out with one another.
- Saint George, you family scatterer, good George, you fearsome fellow,
I bring together families and you go scattering them,
I gather mothers with their young and goodwives with their husbands,
I gather loving couples, too, who love each other dearly...'
The Turks declared the same period to be free for navigation in their waters (during which, moreover, they pressed into their navy any Greek crews they could), while only a little earlier, usually during March, seafarers set out again on their voyages. Hence one song (I wish for all the months in turn) refers to March as the month that ‘fits galleys out for sea and slips a vessel's moorings'.
Good Rovas started out upon his journey to Wallachia,
full forty days, full forty days and nights he wended thither
until he reached Wallachia and wretched Bucuresti.
- I've brought one hundred lads to you, nad all from Yannina town.
In contrast with the seasonal migrants, most of the great caravans destined to Central Europe and the northern Balkans set out in September (usually on the 14th, Holy Cross Day). We know the names of some of the caravaneers (kyratzides): Rovas, Sinas (grandfather of the benefactor), Phetanis, Kiopekos, and others who appointed agents to assemble intending migrants from villages round about (song Forgetful, I am truly glad). The main starting-points were Yiannina, Divra (Zagori), Kozani, and Saloniki (Thessaloniki).
It was to these towns that Greeks living abroad sent their letters and money and gifts to be delivered to their villages by special ‘postmen' known as lartarides or amanatzides. Migrants' caravans comprised up to one hundred horses and mules, while commercial ones consisted of many more beasts of burden. The best animal (seraidaris or kalaouzos) took the lead and the caravaneer on his mount (beïnaki) brought up the rear. Sometimes two or three caravans linked up together, while wayfarers and members of seasonal gangs of artisans followed behind on foot or greater security from attacks by robbers, one of the chief troubles then confronting travellers. (Christos Christovasilis records instances of migrants arriving home destitute after robbers had waylaid them on their return journey and had seized everything they had saved up while working for years in a foreign country.)
The routes normally taken by caravans were these:
1 Yannina - Grevena - Kozani - Monastiri (Bitolia) - Skopje - Kumanovo -Belgrade (following the river vallies of the Aliakmon, Vardaris - Axios, Morava, and Danube).
2 Two routes led from Belgrade: one towards Budapest and Vienna and one towards Iasi and Bessarabia (now Soviet Moldavia), and Russia.
3 Yannina - Kozani - Saloniki - Serres - Constantinople - Philippoupolis - Sofia -Bucharest.
4 Another road led from Constantinople to Asia Minor (Brusa and Smyrna) and from there, via Tokat and Erzerum, to Persia.
The journey from Thessaloniki to Vienna took about thirty-five days, while the Yannina - Bucharest route was covered in forty to fifty. Travellers were on the road for eight to ten hours each day. They spent the nights at khans (inns) or, along the main routes, at caravanserai, most of which belonged to Epirots; the largest khan in Bucharest, for instance, was the Gretzi-Khani (that is, ‘of the Greeks'). Forty-five khans are recorded as lying along the route between Yannina and Constantinople; apart from providing shelter and food, they served as a kind of travel agency and as employment centers. Khans often gave their services on credit, migrants settling their accounts on their homeward journeys when eventually they returned kazantismenoi, in other words, with their purses full.
Songs also are composed of words, they're sung by those embittered,
they strive to oust their bitterness, but bitterness won't leave them.
There were periods when migration - a milestone in the life of a Greek - was an inevitable stage in his life-cycle (birth, marriage, migrancy, death), a stage predetermined by his fate within the limits of the roles he was called upon to play in his community.
Thus, in traditional society, ‘Migration came to be associated with any youth reaching manhood and thus being obliged to leave home and seek elsewhere his fortune and worldly knowledge - an event that acquired the character of a rite of passage. Like a birth or marriage or death, it was a turning-point in life, the point at which the individual passed from one social and existential condition to another, horn one country to another' (M. Terzopoulou - E. Psychoyiou).
There was nothing slight about the wish once uttered for newly-born or young Epirot children: ‘May he become a baker in the City (of Constantinople)'. For very often those children were destined to follow their elders from early on, from even only twelve years of age, in their search of fortune in a foreign land. Nor are I he poetic motifs, common to songs about both migration and marriage or death, quite fortuitous (see, for instance, the Pontic song about life away from home, (A cretan ship) known as katsangell' it is sung and danced at weddings at the moment when the mother-in-law ritually introduces the bride to her new home).
The departure of a family member, whether through marriage, migration, or death, was always a traumatic occasion within the close-knit unit of a traditional Greek family. And since the family is in fact crypto-matriarchal, it is the mother herself who undertakes in a ritual manner to 'banish' both her son to foreign lands (You scold me, mother out of home, You drive me mother out of home) and her daughter to an alien hearth, her husband's home or village (as one wedding song puts it: ‘One Friday and one Saturday evening, mother banished me...I leave weeping...') An entire ritual in which the kneading of bread-dough plays an important part is involved on both occasions of departure (Forgetful, I am truly glad). One of the resulting bread-loaves, scored with a cross, was preserved among the icons, while good fortune was invoked in various acts of sympathetic magic: a silver coin (a para) was inserted into the loaf handed to the migrant; on leaving he had to walk through a flock of white sheep, symbol of happiness; his last draught of water was drawn from the village well, and he cupped some of it in the palms of his hands and threw it behind him; and with his right foot he had to kick over a crock of wheat and coins as he emerged from his home, and then gather up both and take them away with him.
A curse upon the carpenters who build the sailing vessels,
in which young bridegrooms sail away and leave their brides a-weeping.
Songs about Greeks far from home are usually the creation of those who have been left behind, particularly the women folk, foremost among them being the mother and the wife or sweetheart of the migrant (a sister more rarely plays a part). The total absence of the father is wholly characteristic, as it is in all other cases of rides of passage in which the women predominate. In the poetic language of a traditional society the father may appear only in a strong and leading role. In the event therefore that he is unable to protect his family from the grievous consequences of migration he is excluded by the womenfolk, who impose their own sentiments, their own interpretation of the event, upon the song. For ‘if migration as a social occurence is the preserve of men, as a phenomenon subject to an individual's moral judgement in the name of the basic tenets of a popular society and of purely philosophic considerations it is the preserve of women' (Guy Saunier).
Thus the wife of a migrant, though at first she insists on his taking her with him to perform a wife's everyday chores (I wish for all the months in turn) or for companionship (When you go off to foreign lands), eventually submits lo his reply, ‘Where I am going, lissom one, no woman ever travels'. It was the same for the mother who had to ‘banish' her son so he should fulfil his role in society, though she might wish to thwart his departure (Forgetful, I am truly glad). Both of them, repositories of collective knowledge and memory, fear the outcome will be death (You drive me mother out of home) or, no less evil, ensnarement by another woman in a strange land and therefore mythicized in a negative manner.
Nevertheless, they are ready to acknowledge the material gains to be got from migration to a foreign country, indeed, in some songs the women compel the man lo return home and bring back his spoils (‘Go to the Polis's bazaars, and then to Saloniki / and bring a Frankish looking-glass and a hair-comb of ivory / bring copperas with you as well, so I may dye my tresses'). But being also the recipients of its harsh consequences, in the end they reject migration (‘May fire consume the florins up, and flames the goods he's gathered / I want my mate back home again, I want some play and laughter').
A curse upon you, foreign land, on you and all your doings,
you took my lad away from me and made him one of your sons.
Despite these familiar consequences, death and seduction, roles are pre-ordained and the dramatis personae are subject to them, just as their song underscores and prescribes their sentiments and reactions.
Any study focusing upon this aspect is particularly revealing of the inter -relationship of husband and wife, mother and son, mother-in-law and bride. There are verses in which an aggressive attitude may be detected (‘Dawn breaks upon the mountain tops while pretty girls are sleeping / and mother's sons in foreign lands are suffering oppression'); and others are play upon a mother's guilt for her sons migration and the hardships he undergoes, a guilt expressed in the wish that she had never given birth to him (Yorgalakis). Above all, however, there predominate the wife's sense of insecurity, her fear lest he have love-affairs, and the jealousy of other women felt by both wife and mother: ‘The first kiss only made him sigh, the second one ensnared him / the third kiss truly venemous, made him forget his mother'; or again ‘Whose husband's in Wallachia and son in Bucuresti / tell her not to expect them back, not vainly to await them / Vlach women are malicious ones with fine and curvy eyebrows / with eyes of olive hue and shape and brows resembling ribbons /They have eye lashes that are like the fiddlesticks Franks bow with'. They conclude with a heavy curse: 'A visitation of the plague on all Wallachian lasses' (also song I would I were a bird).
It was only to be expected that should the migrant fall for their charms, forgetting the mother and wife awaiting his return, the happening would be attributed to seduction, deceit, or magic in order to confirm the negative myths woven around the foreign land and particularly its womenfolk (A cretan ship and White doves o mine, white ring-doves in which the following distichs are sung: ‘I tightly saddle up my horse, it is at once unsaddled / I tightly buckle on my sword, it is at once unbuckled / I pen a letter to send home, the ink fades as I write it').
Mythicism attains monstous dimensions as that moral evil, the ‘uncleanness' of living in a foreign land, spreads until it invests every physical object (A cretan ship) : the migrant's kerchief dyes the river, the sea and the ships upon it, and whatsover fresh and green or vigorous (My love-bird far away from home) comes into contact with it (‘A mounted pasha passed that way, his horse was dyed all over / Also it chanced a bird flew by, its wings were dyed all over').
Could I but kneel before my sire, my mother's arms around me,
the hands of my beloved in mine, I'd lay me down and perish.
A tragic end to the fate of a migrant is his death in a distant country. At once harrowing and dishonourable, unattended as it is by any ritual, it is one of the most devastating of curses (‘...a foreign soil shall eat his flesh...'). The climax of the drama is the failure of the dead man to find repose, since the alien soil rejects him and desecrates his remains (Syrmatiko). Equally harrowing is the death of a seafarer far from his home, though the association of the Greek with sea is more familiar than with the foreign lands: the same waters break upon his island home and he always has his fellow seafarers to relieve his loneliness (There were three monks). Nonetheless, as Samuel Baud-Bovy has noted, the sea has inspired relatively few songs among the essentially maritime nation of the Greeks. The mountains, springs, and trees are very frequently referred to in demotic songs and lovingly, too, while on most occasions when it is introduced the sea evokes expressions of sorrow, separation, and bitterness (You quench your thirst... o sea).
I greet you, love, dear treasure-chest, with double locks protected;
I've been away these forty years, yet still she's waiting for me.
In most songs about life in foreign lands death is hinted at as a persistent threat, while the home-coming is never final but merely transient, an event that intensifies the pain of separation (‘You made me, mother, an ill match, you gave me to a Wallach / Twelve years he's in Wallachia, but three days in his home here'). An exception is to be found in the song ‘The return of the migrant', though it is connected with another category of popular airs, the ballads (paraloges). This is clear from their narrative character which does not recur in any other sons/s associated with Greeks abroad (their texts are generally of a lyrical and improvised nature, and thus variable in form). One of the oldest categories of Greek demotic songs, the ballad, has been the subject of numerous studies that have pointed to the similarities it bears to, for instance, the recognition scene in The Odyssey in which Odysseus is recognized by Penelope, but also with songs on the same theme sung by other European peoples, as well as with old Russian popular folk-tales (N. Politis, Samuel Baud-Bovy, S. Kyriakides, K.Romaios, I. T. Kakridis, D. Maronitis).
The migrant returns home in disguise, as did Odysseus on the oracle's advice, in order to verify his wife's fidelity. She does not recognize him, the natural consequence of a long abstinence during which his features have altered, an occurence often noted in the songs (‘I go up to my mother's door she looks at me and draws back / I then go over to my wife's, she does not recognize me'). The corroborative evidence is the same as in the Homeric tale: fruits of fertility (the apple and the grape), a particular room in the house (the bedroom), and physical characteristics. Moreover, identical words, the self-same lines, and similar expressions persuade one to the view of I. Kakridis: ‘There is a close inner association between The Odyssey and the song of the Migrant'.
Ballads (paraloges) of this kind, in the form in which we know them, date from the 9th century A.D. and originated in Asia Minor. With their distinct theatrical elements, such as setting and dialogue, they take their name from ancient drama and the parakatalogi, the recitation of the calamitous incidents in a tragedy, intoned to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. In one of the songs recorded here (A fair Trikeriotissa) all the verses are sung for the first time in recording history down to the point where most variations end: the recognition. Furthermore , it is worth noting one other significant aspect of this song: with the couple finding themselves together again, it continues more boldly, laying emphasis upon the couple's long abstinence from physical union: ‘Come, serving girls, come and assist, make up our nuptial bed / Three well-strewn pallets they deranged before the break of day / and yet another three deranged before the sun rose up / Christ, don't allow the cock to crow, nor yet the day to break / for, see, I hold in my embrace my white and gentle ring-dove'.
I know an oceanful of songs and choose the air that suits me.
Setting aside their historical and thematic content, the songs in this collection have been selected with an eye to including as many musical idioms from all parts of Greece as is practicable. The two songs (I wish for all the months in turn, A maid was singing longingly) from the Propontis are taken from the collection of Simon Karas' Society for the Dissemination of National Music, while melodies Yorgalakis and A fair Trikeriotissa were recorded by Domna Samiou in Keramidi on Mount Pelion and in Trikeri in Magnesia, respectively. The remainder come from various collections and private archives. An attempt has also been made to juxtapose verses from variants of the same song. Particular attention has been paid IO including a representative variety of scales, metrical rhythms, and musical instruments.
The scales of Greek popular music are modal and radically different from the diatonic scales of western music; they are distinguished by their use of intervals smaller than the semitone and by the arrangement of the intervals, which is different to that of the major and minor scales in the West. They are related to the harmonies of ancient Greece, the echoi (‘sound') of Byzantine ecclesiastical music, and the scales of oriental musical systems: the Arabic makams (‘roads'), the Persian dastgah, and the Indian ragas. Greek popular musicians use Arabic-Turkish terms to describe their scales. Noted below are their equivalents in Byzantine echoi, and their relevance to songs on these records:
Ussak - echos protos / (I wish for all the months in turn, You drive me mother out of home, I would I were a bird), Huseyni - plaghios tou protou (You scold me, mother out of home, A cretan ship, A maid was singing longingly). Rast -plaghios tou tetartou (You quench your thirst... o sea), Nigriz- - chromatikos plaghios tou tetartou (White doves o mine, white ring-doves). Hidjar -plaghios tou defterou (When you go off to foreign lands), Kurdi (A fair Trikeriotissa).
Two songs make simultaneous use of two different scales, moving from hidjaz to ussak (Yorgalakis), and from huseyni to ussak (Syrmatiko). The pentatonic anhemitonic scales (with five notes and no semitones ) of songs Forgetful, I am truly glad, Your kerchief, Yanni, and My love-bird far away from home are of particular interest. Studies carried out by Samuel Baud-Bovy reveal that these scales - found mainly in Epiros, in certain songs sung by Thessalian women, and in North Evia - have preserved into our own times the structure of the Dorian mode, the quintessentialy Greek ‘harmony' of ancient Greek music.
There are also two other elements found in songs in this collection that confirm the unbroken descent of Greek music from antiquity to the present day: the 7/8 rhythm and the iambic fifteen-syllable line. The panhellenic 7/8 rhythm (3+2+2) of the syrtos kalamatianos dance (White doves o mine, white ring-doves, I would I were a bird, A fair Trikeriotissa), linked according to Baud-Bovy to the ancient epitritos, is found in popular airs of antiquity, in Aristophanes' comedies, and also in Pindar.
Iambic fifteen-syllable lines, also found in Aristophanes' comedies, in Menander, and popular ancient songs, was especially widespread in Byzantium (where it acquired the name politikos, that is, popular) and ended up as the most representative metrical form in modern Greek demotic poetry (I wish for all the months in turn, Forgetful, I am truly glad, Yorgalakis, A maid was singing longingly, I would I were a bird, You quench your thirst... o sea, A fair Trikeriotissa). Of the remaining metrical forms, there is only one song with trochaic twelve-syllable lines (White doves o mine, white ring-doves), and one with iambic eight-syllable lines (A cretan ship), and one fragment, the refrain in You quench your thirst... o sea, with a trochaic eight-syllable line.
Apart from the three songs in 7/8 time, another four are of a free rhythmic type of a particularly melismatic, or decorative, character which confirms their close relationship with Byzantine ecclesiastical music. Most of the remainder are sung in duple or quadruple time, while similarly interesting instances are provided by the 12/8 time of the slow zonaradiko from Northern Thrace (You drive me mother out of home), the reversed 7/8 time (2+2+3) of the Pontic katsangell’ (A cretan ship) and the development of the syrmaticós air from Karpathos (Syrmatiko) from 6/8 time to 2/4 and 4/4 (as, conversely, the dance performed in Karpathos moves from a kato chows ('close to the ground') to gonatistos (‘with bended knees') to end as a pano choros (with low springs.)
Of special interest, too, is the occurrence of the ‘three half-line strophe' in certain songs (I wish for all the months in turn, You scold me, mother out of home, You drive me mother out of home, A maid was singing longingly, I would I were a bird, There were three monks, Syrmatiko) in which a melodic phrase covers not one but one and a half lines, a characteristic which stresses the antiquity of these songs in comparison with others in which the dominant feature is the rima (rhyming couplets, usually improvised, as are mantinadhes:When you go off to foreign lands, You quench your thirst... o sea).
Rhyming verse reached Greece with the Crusaders in the 13th century and made its first appearance in ingenious late 14th century Cretan poetry, gradually spreading to all of insular Greece since it is a verse from which lends itself particularly to poetic and musical improvisation. It is noteworthy, however, that this foreign borrowing was linked to the essential Greek verse form, the iambic fifteen-syllable line, which was taken over in turn by the French conquerors of the Aegean islands and of Cyprus, who introduced it into the popular songs of their home country. Thenceforth mantinadhes occupy a central position in Aegean tradition, displaying a diversity of themes reflecting the circumstances of the time. Indeed in some islands such as Crete and the Dodecanese the habit of improvisation is so general that the inhabitants often employ rhyming couplets when conversing among themselves, exchanging correspondence, or writing in the local press; in them, of course, couplets about their fellow islanders living abroad have a special place (When you go off to foreign lands, You quench your thirst... o sea).
As regards the musical instruments that accompany the songs, one notes the kompania, the typical musical ensemble on the mainland of Greece, which comprices the klarino, violi, and lagouto (clarinet, violin and lute), and sometimes the santouri (dulcimer) and a percussion instrument, either a toumbeleki or deli (pottery or frame drum): Your kerchief, Yanni, White doves o mine, white ring-doves, My love-bird far away from home, A fair Trikeriotissa.
The kompania's chief melodic instrument, the clarinet, found its way into Greek music as late as the mid 19th century (it is a western instrument, though it was brought to Greece by gypsy musicians from Turkey where it had been introduced in an attempt to Europeanize Turkish military bands). By adopting the technique of the phloyera (flute) (Yorgalakis) they managed so to adapt it to the style and manner of local music that it soon acquired the character of a national musical instrument, a symbol of demotic music (see Mazarakis, D., To Κλαρίνο στην Ελλάδα , Athens , Kedros 1984, 2nd ed.).
What is particularly interesting is the way in which gypsies, most of whom are clarinet players, ornament the melody (Your kerchief, Yanni, My love-bird far away from home) by a technique which not infrequently leads to an alteration of the original melodic line of the song.
The violi is the chief melodic instrument in insular Greece. Together with the lagouto it makes up the traditional zygia, or ‘pair', (There were three monks) to which other instruments such as the santouri, kanonaki,(zither), outi (oud), and toumbeleki may be added (I wish for all the months in turn, When you go off to foreign lands, You quench your thirst... o sea).
The particular construction of the kanonaki - the trigono or epigono of the ancient Greeks, the psaltirio (psaltery) of the Byzantines - permits it to render all the intervals of the modal scales (A maid was singing longingly: taximi, an improvization by Anies Agopian in the huseyni scale). It is one of the instruments once played by Greeks living in Asia Minor which, together with the outi (I wish for all the months in turn, When you go off to foreign lands, A maid was singing longingly) has been heard less and less frequently since the Greeks were uprooted from Asia Minor in 1922. The outi is now confined largely to Thrace (You drive me mother out of home), where one finds also the gavali, a long flute with a deep tone (You drive me mother out of home). The santouri, also introduced to mainland Greece by refugees from Asia Minor, is preserved not only in the mainland kompania, but also in the Dodecanese and the island of the eastern Aegean. However, this is not so with tamboura, a long-necked lute (Yorgalakis, My love-bird far away from home), one of the most antique of Greek musical instruments (the trichordo or pandourida of the ancients, the thamboura of the Byzantines, and the instrument played by warriors in the 1821 war independence) which has for some time been under threat of extinction, particularly since the second world war.
Finally, two types of lyra (a bowed string instrument) are a case by themselves: the ‘flask-shaped' kementzes played by Greek refugees from Pontos and the ‘pear-shaped' lyre once played throughout Greece, nowadays restricted to Crete and the Dodecanese. The characteristic dissonances heard in the playing of the Pontic lyre are due to the particular technique and to its tuning in perfect fourths, while the short curved bow favours the abrupt, nervy strokes demanded by Pontic dances (A cretan ship). The same applies to the bow of the traditional pear-shaped lyre which had, and in some cases retains, another unique feature: a row of small spherical bells known in Crete as yerakokoudhouna, ‘falcon bells', because in Byzantine times such bells were attached to that bird of prey, while in Dodecanese they often refer to them as asimokoudhouna, ‘silver bells'. With appropriate and skilful movements of the bow, they underscore the rhythm and accompany the melody with the characteristic drone produced by their timbre. It is a technique rarely encountered nowadays and also fast disappearing; it was once employed by troubadours in the middle ages on an instrument similar to the lyra, the rebec or viela, and is still extant in India, being played on the sarangi, as well as in the Dodecanese.
Finally, in completing this musical commentary on the songs in the collection, one should pause a while at the Epirot song Forgetful, I am truly glad, a representative example of some unique polyphonic songs found in Greece. It is one of the most striking musical forms in the world repertoire of popular polyphonic songs. These particular songs are located in the region of the present Greco-Albanian frontier (Pogoni. Deropolis, etc.) where till 1944 Greek and Albanian communities lived together. They are performed by four to ten singers, unaccompanied on musical instruments, with a strict hierarchy respecting the role and technique of each voice. The koryphaios (coryphaeus or lead singer), called the partis-sikotis, opens the song. The second singer, the yuristis, responds, while isokrates (drones) ‘sustain the pedal'. To this group may be added a klostis who contributes falsetto vocalization weaving in and out of the song between the tonic and subtonic of the melody, Both the yuristis and the klostis abruptly cease the song on the subtonic, thus creating with the partis a sharp dissonance (with an interval of a second) which imparts a unique sound to this polyphony. Though research work has not led to any certain conclusion, there is much evidence to convince one of the antiquity of these songs that retain the pentatonic anhemitonic scale. In addition, the influence of Byzantine ecclesiastical music has affected the melodic line of the yuristis and the isokrates.
NOTE: The selection elaboration, and order of the songs has generally followed the method established by Guy Saunier, author of the fullest literary study made to date of songs of exile (see Bibliography). The criterion has been the main stages in the development of migration, or rather of the image migration conjures up in the mind of the popular poet: the migrant' s departure, his life in an alien country, the life of his family back home, his death in a foreign land, and his homecoming.
1Vilayets: provinces of the Ottoman Empire
2The City: Constantinople
Lambros Liavas, Ethnomusicologist (1989)
Translated by John Leatham
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The gang struck a number of times in the Glencar area of the town.
During one attack they attempted to steal two cars belonging to the same family in the College Farm area.
They managed to reverse one of the cars out of a driveway but crashed it into a wall.
The gang then moved onto another house where they caused a serious amount of damage.
As well as breaking a number of windows, the vandals also let off a fire extinguisher in the unoccupied house.
Another house was broken into and a number of items were taken.
A Garda spokesman confirmed they were investigating a number of incidents.
“We are investigating a number of incidents of criminal damage and attempted robbery.
“We have interviewed a number of people and our investigations are ongoing.
“We would ask anybody who may have witnessed anybody acting suspiciously to contact us in confidence,” he said.
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A Donegal farmer, who sustained serious injuries after being attacked by a cow, has said he is lucky to be alive.
Brendan McLaughlin, 66, was on his farm near Manorcunningham treating a sick calf when the incident unfolded.
Mr McLaughlin, who farms 86 acres of land, is also the vice chairman of the Irish Farmers’ Association.
Bones in his leg and foot were broken and he was taken to hospital.
“The heifer had calved and the calf took sick,” Mr McLaughlin told the BBC.
“I have escape gates and everything but I didn’t see this coming. I’ll never trust a heifer again.
“She came behind me to the gate. She looked at me and didn’t move. I ran then as hard as I could.
“I ran through a feeding barrier which was only 12 inches wide, but she got me. She pinned my foot to the barrier with her head.”
Brendan McLaughlin has been a farmer for 40 years and decided to speak out to raise awareness for other farmers.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I was on my back before I knew it and kind of passed out.
“I had my phone in my pocket which was lucky and I got hold of my wife.
“The pain was severe and I knew there was damage done. I’m lucky to be alive.
“I broke the tibia in one place and broke the bottom of my heel. I have pins in my foot and the leg too.
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Campaigners who claim 'cultural vandalism' is taking place to Victorian bridges across the country have shared their concerns about a site in Dorset.
Bridport Railway Bridge was reported to be one of the structures being considered by Highways England to demolish of fill-in with concrete.
The HRE Group, who are lobbying against the proposed destruction and infill of disused railway bridges, claim to have obtained information via a Freedom of Information request showing that tree felling, drainage, access and ecology works have been authorised at 14 sites across the UK, from Dorset to East Lothian.
Works which the group claim are in preparation for the demolition or infill of the sites.
As part of the documentation, The HRE Group also says that utility investigations and tree felling were completed on Bridport Railway Bridge at a cost of £36,758.
Responding to the £36k spend, a spokesperson from Highways England confirmed theses costs and said that it also carried out 12 months of ecological surveying afterwards.
National Highways head of Historical Railways Estate programme, Hélène Rossiter, said: “The Historical Railways Estate (HRE) is an important part of our industrial heritage. This is why all infill and demolition plans were paused nationally and remain paused.
"The work has been paused to give local authorities and interest groups more time to fully consider structures as part of their local active travel plans or for heritage railways.
“However, we have continued with vegetation and ecology work on a number of structures. This is good practice and will keep the structures safe. The work is required irrespective of any decisions regarding the future of these structures.
“We are working with the Dorset Council Countryside Projects Team on the future plans for Bridport Railway Bridge. This is one of many cases where we’re working with local authorities to consider opportunities to improve access along former railway routes.”
The HRE advocacy group claims that the loss of Bridport Railway Bridge would effectively scupper plans to construct a narrow gauge railway along the former Maiden Newton-Bridport branch line.
DorsetLive has reached out to Dorset Council for comment.
The HRE Group say that works around other bridges across the country have also continued, including the removing of vegetation, felling of trees, and filling cracks with concrete.
All of which are deemed by advocates as being disruptive to natural habitats, cycle routes, walking trails and nearby drainage work.
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A ‘predatory’ man from Dorset has been found guilty of abusing his position to groom and assault two ‘vulnerable’ teenagers.
Keith Lancaster, aged 82, used his position as a Child Care Officer – now known as a social worker – to groom and assault two teenagers at locations across Bristol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A Trial of the Facts recently took place at Bournemouth Crown Court after Lancaster, of Lulworth Cove, was found not fit to stand trial.
Evidence was presented to a jury in relation to eight offences and it subsequently ruled he had committed them.
During the hearing, the jury was told how Lancaster took one of his victims to a restaurant as a “treat” before sexually abusing him at a secluded area of the Ashton Court estate.
Aged in his 20s and 30s at the time, Lancaster returned to the same wooded area near the deer park on several occasions with the boy to repeatedly assault him.
The jury also heard of another occasion in which he invited his victim to his house in the Portishead/Clevedon area before abusing him.
Lancaster’s second victim was also sexually abused around the same time.
Bournemouth Crown Court was told the vulnerable teenager had been abused by another man before he met Lancaster – who pretended to be his confidant before he himself attacked him.
The boy was sexually assaulted up to six times before he turned 18 – when the local authority stopped being responsible for his care.
Lancaster refused to cooperate with police investigating allegations against him – denying he was even employed as a Child Care Officer and denying working with his victims.
However, officers managed to obtain records from HMRC which proved he was employed by The Bristol Corporation (now Bristol City Council) at the time of the offences.
Following the hearing, Lancaster was told he will have to sign the sex offenders’ register for the next five years.
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Detective Inspector Neil Meade, the senior investigating officer, said: “Lancaster is a predatory sex offender who exploited his position to take advantage of young, vulnerable boys.
“His victims looked up to him as someone who was there to help but instead they had to suffer horrendous abuse over a sustained period of time.
“I want to pay tribute to the tremendous courage they’ve shown in disclosing what Lancaster did to them.
“Without their support, his heinous actions may well have gone unproven and I don’t underestimate the bravery it must’ve taken to talk publicly about what happened.”
He added: “While it’s unfortunate for the victims Lancaster wasn’t fit to stand trial, I hope the jury’s belief in them and what they endured gives them some sense of closure.
“I also hope this case gives other victims of sexual offences the courage to come forward and report incidents to us, no matter how long ago they were committed.”
If you’ve been a victim of sexual abuse, recent or non-recent, you don’t have to speak to the police. You can self-refer to The Bridge, a Sexual Assault Referral Centre available 24/7 365 days a year. Visit their website via this link – or call 0117 342 6999.
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As a religious organization, there are services you provide to members that can open you up to significant risk. These risks are related to abuse allegations, ministerial counseling, premise liabilities, vehicle accidents, and privacy and employment issues, among others. As a result, risk management is critical for religious organizations, and the following safeguards can help you mitigate some of the exposures associated with your operations.
Abuse and Misconduct Allegations
Religious organizations are at risk for abuse allegations when working with vulnerable adults, seniors and children. It’s important that your organization ensures there are adequate policies in place to protect the communities you serve. Thankfully, there are a number of practices you can implement to reduce your organization’s exposure to abuse or misconduct claims—claims that can ruin your organization’s reputation or lead to a costly lawsuit. To protect themselves, organizations should:
- Develop adequate policies—Policies should detail how many staff members are required to be present when working with vulnerable adults, children and the elderly. These policies ensure no at-risk person is left alone with just one adult—there must be two adults present at a given time. If your organization chooses to develop this type of policy, it’s important to determine who is responsible for ensuring procedures are followed and revising procedures if needed.
- Ensure the proper selection of staff and volunteers—When it comes to protecting vulnerable populations, it’s important to select the proper staff and volunteers. One place to look for help is within your organization’s membership. Hiring or selecting members of your organization helps reduce claims, as you’ve likely already built a rapport with these individuals. If hiring within your membership is not an option, consider requiring that individuals applying for a position have experience working with children at previous organization affiliations. Also, be sure to conduct in-person interviews to gain insight into the applicant’s background and why they’re interested in the position. Above all, background checks are essential and help determine if an individual has any previous criminal convictions. Your organization should follow state recommendations for what type of background checks to run.
- Perform reference checks—Reference checks, in addition to background checks, are a great way to screen applicants. This is because an individual may not have a criminal background, and you—as the prospective employer—can gain useful information (e.g., details regarding behavioral issues) from their previous employers you can use to inform your hiring decisions.
- Continue background checks—Religious organizations should continue to periodically run background checks on their employees and volunteers. This allows for continued monitoring and helps organizations identify any issues that may arise during employment. Your organization should have a well-communicated policy in place that requires regular background checks. This gives employees and volunteers advance notice that background checks will occur and shows there is a documented practice in place when it comes to hiring quality employees. It’s recommended that organizations run a background check every two to five years.
- Provide training—Train your employees, faculty and volunteers on abuse awareness and mandatory reporter training. This helps individuals identify any potential issues and report concerns.
Ministerial Counseling Considerations
If your organization offers ministerial counseling, there are a few risks to evaluate. Religious organizations should know:
- When to refer cases to a professional
- When the rules of confidentiality apply
- How to avoid undue influence
- How to reduce sexual misconduct risks
Each risk has its own set of risk management strategies, and providing your employees with counseling guidelines helps identify what procedures to follow for each issue.
Referring Cases to a Professional
As such, if a client is coming to the organization for spiritual counseling, the clergy counselor must know when the needs of the member exceed the help they can provide. Instances of this can include substance abuse treatment and severe mental health issues. Not referring a member to a qualified professional can lead to liabilities for your organization.
To reduce an organization’s risk, it’s important that there is a referral system in place.
A Client’s Right to Confidentiality
Another area counselors need education in relates to a client’s right to confidentiality. When a client comes to one of your clergy counselors for spiritual counseling, any information provided during the sessions must be kept confidential.
If the clergy counselor breaches this duty of confidentiality, it opens the religious organization up to legal liabilities and can give the organization a bad reputation. It’s important for organizations to train their staff on what appropriate counselor confidentiality looks like and how it can be breached.
Avoiding Undue Influence
Another consideration religious organizations should examine relates to undue influence on members of the church. This arises when an individual donates their money to the church when they die. This has the potential to be a problem if the remaining family chooses to contest it.
Religious organizations should document all their charitable donations and inform members that—if they intend to donate money to the church when they die—that they make sure there is documentation in place stating the donation was made independently.
Reducing Sexual Misconduct Risks
Religious organizations that offer counseling must be vigilant, as claims of sexual misconduct during a counseling session can arise. To help avoid sexual misconduct allegations, organizations can put safeguards in place for counseling sessions. Religious organizations that use counselors must ensure these individuals have been trained in child abuse reporting. Put simply, a counselor must know when and how to make a report.
To prevent liability risks, organizations should stay away from controversial therapies, like age regression or conversion therapy. Avoiding these types of therapies will protect your religious organization’s reputation and help you avoid significant legal costs.
Premises liability refers to a property owner’s responsibility for damages that arise out of injuries that occur on their property. Premise liabilities for religious organizations can stem from a variety of scenarios. Some common premise liability exposures include slips, trips and falls, equipment injuries or security issues.
Slip, trip and fall injuries can occur in many different ways at a religious organization. For example, your organization’s property conditions can cause a slip, trip or fall, leading to a personal injury for a member of your congregation. These property conditions can include unmaintained parking lots, uneven sidewalks, snow- or ice-covered walkways, or even wet floors caused by spilt water.
Organizations need to make sure their premises are free of issues that can cause slips, trips and falls. This involves fixing uneven walkways, steps and potholes in parking lots as well as removing snow and ice from areas people walk through during the winter. It’s important for organizations to inspect their premise and fix any issues that they find. Furthermore, while waiting for the issue to be resolved, they should warn their visitors of the issue to prevent injury.
An organization can be liable for an injury if it was caused by an issue on the premise that was foreseeable in nature. For example, if it snowed the morning of service and the sidewalks were not shoveled or salted and someone fell, the injured party could bring a claim against your organization. A religious organization could be held liable if the fall was foreseeable, meaning that the organization should know or should’ve known that someone could slip or fall on a snow covered, unsalted sidewalk. If the injured person is an employee, then the organization could have a workers’ compensation claim on their hands.
Any equipment your visitors use while at your organization must be inspected and in working order to prevent injuries. If there is an issue with the equipment, remove it from use and do not allow anyone to use it until it has been fixed or replaced.
For organizations with outdoor play areas, monitoring is important. Make sure all outdoor equipment is in working order. There should be enough staff on hand to monitor the use of the play equipment and ensure it’s being used properly.
Additionally, religious organizations should make sure their premise is secure. This can be done by installing good lighting in the parking lot and around the building. If a security system is needed, it’s important that the organization determine what type of security option best fits their needs. Organizations can install a security alarm or surveillance system, or hire security guards to assist them.
Vehicle accidents are another area that holds quite a bit of risk for religious organizations. Religious organizations are likely to have staff or volunteers who drive vehicles, especially during activities, trips and camp season. To reduce the risk of vehicle accidents, make sure your organization has policies in place that address:
- Who is allowed to operate different types of vehicles
- What the organization’s cellphone-use policy is
- What insurance requirements are in place for personal vehicles that are used for organizational purposes
There are a few employment issues that may arise for religious organizations that can create liability, including religious and moral discriminations. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), religious organizations can give employment preference to members of their own religion. However, this preference only applies to those institutions whose purpose and character are primarily religious.
Notably, religious organizations are still not allowed to discriminate based on race, color national origin, sex, age or disability. However, religious organizations are covered in some employment discrimination claims due to the ministerial exception, which is where courts ruled that clergy members generally cannot bring claims under federal employment discrimination laws. The exception comes from the First Amendment principle that government regulation of church impedes the free exercise of religion and constitutes impermissible government entanglement with church authority. This exception only applies to employees that perform religious functions, but has broadened to include lay employees as ministers.
The most important thing for your religious organization to remember is that consistency is key. Specifically, if you have procedures for how you hire or fire people, make sure your organization is consistent. Religious organizations that decide to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs should make sure that they convey what their religion is and be consistent with following it.
Religious organizations face numerous risks on a daily basis. If not properly addressed, these risks can detract from the core mission of a religious organization. But, through proper risk management, these risks can be greatly reduced. For more information on how to mitigate risk in your religious organization, contact Dowd Insurance Agency today.
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A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a profound psychological event that may occur to a person close to death or, if not near death, in a situation of physical or emotional crisis. Because it includes transcendental and mystical elements, an NDE is a powerful event of altered consciousness; it is not considered a mental illness.
Near-Death Experience Interesting Facts
1. Near-death experiences have been well documented all over the world. They do not seem to be culturally motivated nor do they have bias when it comes to age or gender.
2. Accounts can be found in the folklore and writings of European, Middle Eastern, African, East Indian, East Asian, Pacific and Native American cultures. Plato who was the first to write about it in his book Myth of Er, the end of book X which was written in 420 BC.
3. The International Association for Near-Death Studies says: “Every day in the U.S. 800 near-death experiences occur.”
4. People’s NDEs are classified either as “pleasurable” or “distressing.” Majority of near-death experiences are actually pleasurable experiences that lead to a heightened awareness of the beauty of life. We’re not dying to know how the distressing ones play out.
5. There are four phases in a pleasurable near-death experiences. The first phase disassociated, feels as if the individual is not connected to the psychical world, or even their body. The second phase called naturalistic which leads to the individual to have an heightened awareness of their senses. This is when colors and sounds come alive, and their vision. is sharpened. The third phase “Supernatural” encounters dead relatives passing. They can pass through the tunnel at warp speed seeing lights pass them. The forth phase “The Return” where they have an option to return to their body.
6. The term coined by French psychologist called Victor Egger experience de mort imminente (experience of imminent death), pertaining to climbers stories who had fallen and experienced this event.
7. Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, wrote a book about his near-death experience called Proof of Heaven.
8. George Michael wrote the song White Light about his own NDE. Other famous people experienced this phenomenon including Sharon Stone, Burt Reynolds and Gary Busey.
9. NDEs could be linked to the persons religion or their idea of what heaven is. People of all cultures and religious backgrounds have reported similar feelings.
10. Not to be confused with an out-of-body experience (OBE). This classifies as an experience that typically involves a feeling of floating outside one’s body and, in some cases, the feeling of perceiving one’s physical body as if from a place outside one’s body. This is often mixed up with a near death experience, though share similar sensations.
Psychological /Physiological Changes
Around 85% of the people who experienced near-death states say that their lives were forever changed by the experience. These changes can have a profound positive effect on the individual.
Psychological changes include no longer having a fear of death, and becoming more spiritual rather than religious and having increased psychic abilities. They are known to become engaged in abstract thinking, that on a philosophical level.
Experiences seem like an emotional roller coaster with bouts of anxiety and depression. Many have been known to have an ego death that results in them finding their inner child. Other changes can be felt not with the normal senses but of that of psychic senses.
Physiological changes ranging from sensitivity to sound and light, to faster synchronicity and creativity. Many report changes in the bodies diet, energy levels, and increased sexuality. Electrical sensitivity can occur around objects with any energetic force field causing them to be distorted.
Energy surges have been reported up and down the body , and can be accompanied by “lights” flashing beside them. Researchers usually regard this as the release of “kundalini”.
According to the Indian culture the kundalini energy is Sanskrit for “coiled.” In yoga, the kundalini applies to the life force that lies like a coiled serpent at the base of the spine and that can be sent along the spine to the head through prescribed postures and exercises. The upward movement passing the rest of the chakras leads to enlightenment. | <urn:uuid:1c4ff683-e1d4-403d-82fd-df7bb9d43c22> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.dreamdictionary.org/consciousness/near-death-experience-interesting-facts/ | 2023-09-27T10:37:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.962138 | 926 |
Dreaming of others repairing the roof
Dreaming of others repairing the roof what does it mean? How about dreaming that someone else is fixing the roof? The dream of someone else fixing the roof has realistic implications and reactions, as well as the subjective imagination of the dreamer. When you dream that someone else is repairing the roof of your house, you may receive a passionate love letter from a classmate. How will you cope at this time? This is a personal matter for you. A single person dreaming of someone repairing the roof of a house foretells the opportunity to travel, auspicious, but to prevent extraneous. Young people dreaming of others repairing the roof of the house, there will be minor health problems, more activities, the body will be more stretching. Dreaming that your roof is cracked with a big crack or a big hole, your property is going to suffer a loss. Dreaming of a thief on your roof can make you rich. To dream that the roof is made of lime or cement is a good omen. To dream that one climbs to the roof indicates that the dreamer has a spirit of constant upward mobility. To dream that you are standing on a roof means that the dreamer's power, network of connections or own ability has been very strong. To dream of repairing a roof is a sign that the dreamer will have a new income. To dream of decorating a roof means that the dreamer's situation will change for the better. If you dream of a roof, you will be empty. Dreaming of a thief on your roof can make you rich. To dream that the roof is made of lime or cement is a good omen. Dreaming of trees piercing through the roof is a sign that things will not go well in the near future. A woman dreaming of a grass roof will give birth to a glass A farmer dreaming of a brick roof has a good harvest in sight. A woman dreaming of a brick roof, a gift from her parents will make her husband richer. A businessman dreaming of a brick house roof will see a decrease in income. Dreaming of building a roof, the work you are doing will be well paid. Dreaming that your roof is cracked with a big crack or a big hole, your property is going to suffer a loss. To dream of focusing attention on the roof of a house indicates that the dreamer understands the protection he or she can offer to others." | <urn:uuid:7bc5a124-2639-4493-aa13-cfe95d6fd1c2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.dreammaster.org/category/643d564084d2c24df72ec413/Dreaming%20of%20others%20repairing%20the%20roof | 2023-09-27T11:04:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.953063 | 492 |
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Skirt and Top Set, Elegant Wedding Bridesmaids Outfit, Blush Wedding, Plus Size skirt and top for womens, Custom available.
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Thomas Fellow (guitars) – Stephan Bormann (guitars)
„They are fantastic!” – Tommy Emmanuel
They play with an intensity of a band and the timbre of an orchestra. And both guitar players accomplish the rare feat to make one forget both the stylistic and instrumental borders and to conjure music appealing to all senses. Hands On Strings already accomplished to equally delight audience and critics with their album “OFFROAD” published 2005 and played themselves instantly to a leading spot in the international guitar scene. This was followed by various invitations to festivals in the US and many European metropolis ranging from Rome to Hamburg.
Their new album “7/4” takes one into a mystery of sound, characterized by Arabic and southern American elements as well as concert music and Jazz and forms its own fascinating approach: some kind of GUITARRA NUEVA, one could say.
Thomas Fellow and Stephan Bormann are considered to be two of the most powerful protagonists in the current guitar world – Stephan not least because of his published works and his successful music projekts and meetings (Cristin Claas, Nils Landgren) and Thomas as percussive One-Man-Band at Friend ‘n Fellow and also as mastermind of the European Guitar Quartet.
Together as Hands On Strings they offer a compelling mixture of concert music, world music and Jazz – often breathtaking virtuous, always brisk new and independent. Furthermore both musicians are celebrating their pieces with a joy of playing which is carrying away the audience immediately.
„A New Experience of Guitar Music“
„Extraklasse“ (Westdeutsche Zeitung)
„Das soll ihnen erstmal einer nachmachen“ (Jazzpodium)
„Und der Hörer badet in … zeitloser und perfekter Schönheit“ (Akustik Gitarre)
„Meisterhaft…mitreißend virtuos.“ (Gitarre konkret)
“Although acoustic jazz guitar duos such as Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine, Biréli Lagrène & Sylvain Luc, and Ralph Towner & John Abercrombie long ago set the bar high in this arena, Hands on Strings ….have set it a little higher — into the stratosphere.”
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Pineapple juice extractor can automatically extract and separate golden pineapple into pineapple juice. The sweet and delicious quality of golden fruit; The thorn is uniform and the gold looks very eye-catching. Especially in Ghana, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries rich in gold pineapples, it can handle at least 500 kilograms of gold pineapples per hour, which can prevent the decline of pineapple prices, low profits and losses to many pineapple planting families.
Uses: pineapple, orange meat, grape, peach, mulberry, red bayberry, peach (nucleated), etc. They can not only make fruit sauces and separate fruit stones, seeds and thin skins, but also cut green vegetables (cut) tomatoes, peppers, celery (cut), etc. to obtain vegetable pulp juice and separate vegetable ribs.
Commercial pineapple juicer is an ideal machine for making jam, fruit juice and vegetable juice. It is an important equipment for food processing enterprises. The model can be used alone or together with production line operations.
|Raw material||Fresh pineapple|
|End product||Concentrated juice, clear juice, ,cloudy juice|
|Processing capacity||From 60tons/day to 1500 tons/day|
|Fruit consistance||10- 20Brix|
|End package||Aseptic bag/gable top box/PET bottle|
Working principle of pineapple juice extractor
The bottom diameter of the screw of the pineapple juice machine increases gradually along the direction of the slag outlet, and the screw pitch decreases gradually. When the pineapple is pushed by the screw, the volume of the screw cavity decreases to form the extrusion of the golden pineapple.
Details of automatic pineapple juice machine:
Width of feeding port: stainless steel, safe and stable, smooth feeding.
Smooth slag outlet: made of stainless steel, the slag outlet is smooth and the channel is unblocked.
Motor protective cover: the motor and pulley adopt stainless steel cover, which is safe to use, waterproof and moisture-proof, and prolong the service life.
Fruit juice tube: food grade fruit juice tube, long receiving, detachable and connectable, adjustable direction, safe and beautiful, time-saving and efficient.
Squeeze the long screw to increase the yield of pineapple.
Fine screen: 0.6mm filter aperture, butterfly screw, easy to disassemble and clean.
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Characteristics of pineapple juice Juicer
1. Advanced design, compact structure and beautiful appearance.
2. Pineapple juicer is composed of crusher and screw juicer, which can automatically complete the process of crushing, juicing and slag removal.
3. Conical screw is adopted, with large capacity and high yield of pineapple juice.
4. High efficiency, energy saving, low noise and no pollution.
5. All parts in contact with materials are made of stainless steel.
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Saudi Investment in Strategic Oil Storage
- 11 Mar 2019
- 4 min read
India has invited Saudi Arabia to partner in building strategic oil reserves and further invest in India’s refining and Petrochemical sectors.
- India is concerned about global oil balance and supplies for the following reasons:
- India’s energy needs are primarily met through imports.
- Concerns about rising international crude oil prices. The need for uninterrupted supplies of crude oil and LPG to India in view of the OPEC+ cuts.
- Sanctions imposed by the US administration on state-owned oil company of Venezuela.
- The US pull-out from 2015 accord with energy-rich Iran has limited the options for India to meet its energy demands.
Strategic Petroleum Reserves
- Strategic petroleum reserves are huge stockpiles of crude oil to deal with any crude oil-related crisis like the risk of supply disruption from natural disasters, war or other calamities.
- India’s strategic crude oil storages are currently located at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Mangaluru (Karnataka), and Padur (Karnataka).
- Recently, the government had announced setting up of two additional facilities at Chandikhol (Odisha) and Padur (Karnataka).
- The concept of dedicated strategic reserves was first mooted in 1973 in the US, after the first oil crisis.
- The concept of massive caverns deep below the surface of the earth has been traditionally marketed as an energy security measure that can be a defence against shortage of oil supply in future due to an attack or invasion.
- Underground storage is, by far the most economic method of storing petroleum products because the underground facility rules out the requirement of large swathes of land, ensures less evaporation and, since the caverns are built much below the sea level, it is easy to discharge crude into them from ships.
- The IEA predicts that by 2020, India could well be the largest oil importer, increasing the country’s vulnerability to threats of physical supply disruptions leading to sharp price fluctuations.
- Besides the energy security, there is a commercial angle to it as well. Even as limited storage option would offer India the leverage to be a serious player in the international oil markets, with the option of releasing inventory when prices surge and recharging reservoirs whenever the crude is on a downcycle.
- Experts point to the option of storage being leased out to West Asian refiners, especially since it reduces their freight costs into Southeast Asian markets.
- The three storage facilities to be implemented in the first phase can hold 13 days of India’s crude stock requirement where International Energy Agency (IEA) recommends 90 days.
- Therefore, there is a need to build more stockpiles before oil prices rise back given that OPEC nations have recently decided to reduce oil production to bring stability in global oil prices, in a meet held recently. | <urn:uuid:bcbc9aaa-e9af-417b-8433-00936c011866> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.drishtiias.com/daily-updates/daily-news-analysis/saudi-investment-in-strategic-oil-storage | 2023-09-27T11:00:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.947045 | 608 |
Researchers examined data on drugs approved by the FDA between 2001 and 2010, with follow-up through 2017. The investigators found that 32% of the drugs had safety issues after approval.
“That is very rarely a drug withdrawal, but more commonly a black-box warning or drug safety communication issued by the FDA to let physicians and patients know that new safety information has been determined,” said study leader Dr. Joseph Ross. He is an associated professor of medicine and public health at Yale University.
Of 222 drugs approved by the agency during the study period, three were withdrawn, 61 received boxed warnings and 59 prompted safety communications, the findings showed.
Drugs most likely to have post-approval safety concerns included biologics, psychiatric drugs and medicines approved through the FDA’s accelerated approval process. The report is timely because the FDA is under pressure to accelerate drug approvals, the study authors noted.
“It shows that there is the potential for compromising patient safety when drug evaluation is persistently sped up.” Ross said in a university news release.
To assess experimental drugs for safety and effectiveness, the FDA relies on pre-market drug testing and clinical trials. Most of the trials involve fewer than 1,000 patients studied over a period of six months or less. This makes it hard to detect safety issues that might surface once more patients use the drug over a longer time period, the researchers explained.
The findings were published May 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
When I review a new patient’s entrance case history the section on “current medication” is often a focus. Too often this section will list five or more medications. Often the patient provides a separate sheet of paper listing various medications. Sometimes patients leave this section blank thinking that the drugs they take are not relevant.
If I am not familiar with a drug, then I review it on drugs.com. If they are taking several medications then I must review the potential drug interactions. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, it is common for a drug to have serious interactions with several hundred other drugs.
However, if the drug is relatively new to the market, then I review the post-release reports. This section is where physicians reports side effects and drug interactions not listed by the drug company upon release. It is only after these reports pile up that the FDA takes a second look at the safety of a new drug.
Cipro and all the fluroquinones, broad spectrum antibiotics, are a good example. Patients suffered from tendon and ligament tears, neuropathy, and autoimmune issues for years before the FDA acted. It wasn’t until large internet support groups attracted media attention that the review process started. Today, with all the black box warnings on this group of antibiotics, there are still 31 million scripts written for Cipro every year. Most of them for UTIs (urinary tract infections) for which the use of Cipro is clearly contraindicated.
The Bottom Line:
Drugs are not safe. They all have side effects. This is what happens when you force biochemical alteration in the human body. Sometimes drugs are necessary but they should be used with caution. Please be a self-advocate – learn everything you can about any drugs you take and limit medication, even OTC medication, as much as possible.
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At this point, we are starting to pencil in a release of the DROID Incredible 4G LTE some time during the next couple of weeks. A finished build of the device has been photo’d a handful of times, the DroidDoes.com page for it went live earlier in the week, and now we are seeing cases from players like Otterbox arrive in retail packaging. We had a targeted date at one point that referred to April 26 as being the day, but with that being yesterday and no phone in sight, we will focus on next week or the one after.
Verizon released the Spectrum and RAZR MAXX back in early Q1 and nothing important since. With it being 1 month into Q2, you have to assume that something will arrive any day now. The DROID RAZR HD is a possibility, but we are expecting the Incredible 4G LTE to launch well before it.
As a recap, this device will sport a 4.3″ qHD LCD display, 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, NFC chip, 4G LTE, 8GB of onboard storage, SD card slot to add on more, and 1GB of RAM. It’s almost like an HTC One S (our review), but with different screen tech, LTE, NFC and expandable storage. So yeah, that’s basically us saying that the Inc 4G is better. | <urn:uuid:14e9b940-cc2f-445f-bb0e-2c9074a6f974> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.droid-life.com/2012/04/27/first-look-at-the-htc-incredible-4g-lte-otterbox-defender-case/ | 2023-09-27T11:18:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.961759 | 298 |
For your viewing pleasure is this excellent 1959 Ludwig 6.5x14 Pioneer snare drum, which sports a beautiful blue and brass Trans badge. This drum is in overall excellent condition with no extra holes or modifications of any kind, and has been very well cared for. It is worth noting that many of these mahogany finished drums have checking/crazing to the finish from aging, which this drum does not have. It has an internal date stamp of May 25th 1959. The original P-83 strainer looks great and operates smoothly. The nickel hardware and brass hoops are beautiful, the top hoop has two hairline cracks which are cosmetic in nature and do not affect the sound or playability. The edges are original and true. Most importantly, this drum tunes up like a dream and is a blast to play. Enjoy!
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Stephen King is King
Published on 8th May 2012
Recent winner in the mystery/thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for his novel '11.22.63', Stephen King is a name so well known that little introduction is needed; think The Shining, Carrie, It, Misery, Christine, Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, Insomnia, to name just a few. I think it interesting that he has won this award insofar as I have seen it said that in the past critics have not viewed him as a serious writer. But whatever the views of the critics past or present, such a view if it is held has never detracted from his popularity with the reader.
As an aside, also nominated in this category was Irish author Eoin Colfer for his book, 'Plugged', and the subject of a previous post here on our blog.
'11.22.63' is the story of a time traveller from 2011, a young teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, who gets the chance to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author of more than fifty titles, King may be best known as a horror writer, but several of his writings cross over into other genres such as fantasy, western and suspense. Case in point would be 'The Dark Tower' series, volume eight ('The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole') of which has just been published (April 2012), and which I know is on its way to several of our branches (just not showing in the catalogue quite yet).
Of course many of his stories have been turned to film, and if I should mention one it would have to be a favourite film of so many, including myself, namely 'The Shawshank Redemption', which in fact is an adaptation of King's novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption', which is in his collection 'Different Seasons'.
King has also written under the pen name Richard Bachman, supposedly so that he could write more than one book per year, a limit imposed in order to avoid market saturation. He wrote eight books under this name, the last being 'Blaze' in 2007.
Given that I have introduced King here as a recent award winner, let me add that he has also been a winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers' Association!
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Programs have adapted while a critical aspect of their work has been eliminated: in-person observation of children and parents in their everyday environments.
Coronavirus Pandemic Poses New Challenges for N.C. Home Visiting Programs
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The number of firms that went bankrupt in the first three months of 2011 dropped by 13% compared with the year-earlier period, according to figures released by Dun & Bradstreet on Wednesday.
The reduction, to a total of 1,648, is visible in all sectors with the exception of hospitality where the number rose by 28% to 95 establishments.
The biggest fall was in March (25%), followed by February (9%) and January (2%), said Dun & Bradstreet.
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The Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day on Thursday with ceremonies and concerts nationwide.
The events commemorate 66 years since Germany surrendered and the end of World War II.
Events started in Wageningen where the Liberation flame was lit shortly before midnight. Torches were then taken by runners to other fires all over the country.
Germany signed the capitulation documents in Wageningen on May 5, 1945. The south of the country had been liberated months earlier.
Prime minister Mark Rutte will attend a service at the John the Baptist church in the university town and will later kick off the Liberation Day festival series at 13.00 hours. Musical events take place all over the country.
Meanwhile Remembrance commemorations on Wednesday passed off without incident. In Amsterdam, thousands packed into Dam square where the queen, politicians and military officials laid wreaths in memory of the country’s war dead.
Last year, some 60 people were injured in the panic which ensued after a mentally disturbed man began screaming.
The event was also marked at Schiphol airport, where take offs and landings were halted for the two minutes silence at 20.00 hours.
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Amsterdam’s mayor, public prosecutor and police chief are to investigate why the city’s police force used riot squads and water cannons on supporters outside the Arena football stadium on Wednsday, ahead of the Champions League football match between Ajax and Juventus.
Supporters groups have questioned the police show of force, describing it as an ‘over-reaction’.
Trouble broke out close to the Arena stadium, when some fans lit torches, despite the ban on fireworks which police had earlier imposed. This led riot police to turn water cannons on supporters, including children and people in wheelchairs, local broadcaster AT5 said.
In addition, police used horses to drive a wedge between the supporters, leaving Ajax fans describing their action as ‘over the top’. Their number includes city alderman Reinier van Dantzig, who was at the ground and who said the situation was ‘extremely chaotic’.
In total, 185 people, mainly Juventus fans, were arrested in Amsterdam before and after the game.
Honderden politiemensen stonden gisteren paraat om de wedstrijd veilig te laten verlopen. Uiteindelijk werden er 185 mensen aangehouden, voornamelijk Italiaanse supporters. Onder meer voor het gooien van stenen en hebben van vuurwerk, pepperspray, slag- en steekwapens. pic.twitter.com/w3A6hTzSNB
— Politie Amsterdam eo (@Politie_Adam) April 11, 2019
Mayor Femke Halsema, currently in New York, will report back on the police action at a full meeting of the council next week, AT5 said.
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A "child" of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, where he worked during his time as a student, Andreas came to Deutsche Welle as a trainee after the 2006 World Cup in Germany. During the so-called "summer fairy tale," he worked for the World Cup team at the ARD's Sportschau program.
Growing up near the Dutch border in western Germany, he studied medicine at the Rhineland-Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Aachen up to the first state examination before completing a degree in sports science at the German Sport University Cologne. He also studied media science at the Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway.
At DW, his path lead him quickly to the sports department, where he moderated and produced radio reports and wrote for the online website. In addition to sports, Andreas also freelanced for DW's science department and Europe program. Since 2013, he has been a permanent staff editor in the sports department.
His main interests, apart from the inevitable football, are basketball, Formula One and equestrian sports — show jumping being his preferred discipline. Alongside his work at DW, Andreas worked for the WDR program "Sport inside," which won a German Television Award in 2013. | <urn:uuid:11b32b00-c0a1-476d-9e43-f06130d038bd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.dw.com/en/andreas-sten-ziemons/person-18478647 | 2023-09-27T12:54:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.978044 | 265 |
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said Friday that it would probably make no sense to expect more talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the Trump administration.
Although Malmstöm admitted that senior officials in the EU executive Commission "don't really know what will happen," she said that the free trade agreement between the US and the EU "might not be the biggest priority" of the President-elect.
"There is strong reason to believe that there would be a pause in TTIP," she told reporters in Brussels.
Malmstöm's remarks came ahead of a meeting of EU trade ministers, who will also discuss anti-dumping measures to protect EU industry against unfairly cheap imports. It is unlikely, however, that they will officially call TTIP talks to be over.
Originally, the 28-nation bloc hoped to seal TTIP with the Obama administration by the end of the year. But in the course of three years of negotiations, resistance has been mounting on both sides of the Atlantic, preventing a breakthrough in recent months.
Critics fear that deregulating trade across what would be the world's largest free trade area will benefit large corporations at the expense of consumers and local employees.
Hopes for a free trade pact have been waning rapidly after Donald Trump won the US presidential election on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly argued that international trade deals hurt US workers and the country's competitiveness.
Trump has promised to get tough with China on the Asian country's huge trade surplus with the US, and said he would withdraw from the unfinalised 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as well as renegotiate or scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada.
Trump will likely appoint a trade representative in March or April. His choice could be key for the future of TTIP talks, with possible appointees ranging from the protectionist Dan DiMicco, former CEO of steelmaker Nucor, to libertarian PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
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The Girl On The Train starring Parineeti Chopra, Kirti Kulhari, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Avinash Tiwary is all set to release on Netflix on 26th February 2021. The movie is a remake of a Hollywood film which had the same name and starred Emily Blunt in the lead role.
Salman Khan and Aayush Sharma are currently busy with the shooting of Mahesh Manjrekar’s Antim. The film is a remake of the Marathi movie Mulshi Pattern and well, the teaser of the film has already created excitement among the audiences.
After the super success of Kabir Singh which was a remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy, Shahid Kapoor is gearing up for one more remake. He will be seen in the remake of the Telugu movie Jersey which starred Nani in the lead roles. The Shahid Kapoor starrer is slated to release on Diwali this year.
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This bank holiday weekend (29 Apr – 1 May), Round 2 of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship will roar back into life at Oulton Park, where Honda Racing UK will be looking to build on their opening round results. The Cheshire circuit is always a test of man and machine due to its physical nature and technical challenges when setting up the bike to minimise lap time.
The last time that the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP raced at the 2.6 mile circuit it scored an incredibly close second-place finish. The best finish at the circuit for the latest generation of Fireblade and highlighting the competitiveness of this current model.
Tom Neave, fresh from equalling his career-best result of 2022 at just the first round of the year, will be hoping to fire his Fireblade further up the finishing order as his physical condition improves. Meanwhile, teammate Andrew Irwin looks to ignite his championship and continue fighting at the front of the super competitive superbike class.
Racing in the Superstock class once more, John McGuinness MBE and Nathan Harrison continue their road racing preparations. This weekend they will also contend with a new qualifying format whereby the quickest 18 riders across free practice will proceed directly into Sunday’s 15-minute Q2 session. The remaining riders will then participate in Q1, with the top nine of that session graduating to join Q2. This intense 15-minute qualifying session will then decide the first nine rows of the grid.
Honda’s involvement in the weekend’s activities is not limited to the race team however, as on Sunday morning the manufacturer will take over a section of the start-finish straight to facilitate its Ride Free campaign. New riders will be able to have a go for the first time, with all the clothing and safety equipment provided, on the same spot that their heroes will race later in the day.
#68 Tom Neave
I’m feeling good for this weekend as my collarbone has had another 2.5 weeks to recover. At Silverstone, I was riding a little bit tentatively to be honest as I couldn’t afford to crash. I go into Oulton Park fitter, stronger and better prepared. Oulton is notoriously tricky, so I’m going to go into the round with an open mind. I want to build on round 1 and continue to develop the Fireblade with some new parts that we’ve got and I’m looking forward to it.
#18 Andrew Irwin
Oulton Park is a proper British track, the first one that we go to this season for round 2 and normally after Oulton you know where you are in terms of competitiveness. We’ve put round 1 behind us, I’ve been working hard over the last few weeks behind the scenes and so have the team. We come into the weekend with a solid mindset and we will try to be as close to the front as possible. It’s a track that I feel I can do well at as it is physically challenging and I feel really good in myself with my training. The bike is competitive there too as we saw last year in the final race. I am looking forward to it, we’re going to get stuck in and hopefully kickstart my season from here.
#3 John McGuinness MBE
Oulton Park is one of the most iconic tracks in Britain and one of the best, it is a proper rider’s circuit, fast flowing and high speed. It’s definitely one that every rider seems to enjoy, even more so because it’s up north! It’s the one before the North West and I’m looking forward to going there, getting the team altogether again and pushing hard to come up with some results.
#15 Nathan Harrison
Oulton Park has always been a bit of a bogey track for me, but something clicked there at the last round there last year and I went a second quicker in the last race. I’m hoping to build on that with the support of the Honda team and carry on moving up the leaderboard. We had a quick test at Cadwell Park last week to try some new bits which went really well. Thank you to the team for their hard work and making it happen. Oulton Park is as close to home as it gets for me! It’s a track that has a bit of everything and with it only being a week or so to the North West 200 it will give us a good shakedown in preparation for the two big road events of the year for me and the team! | <urn:uuid:32c81fcf-cccd-4eca-8378-6d9c10f2b8b7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eazi-grip.com/oulton-park-awaits-honda-racing-for-round-2-of-the-bennetts-british-superbike-championship/ | 2023-09-27T11:40:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.960382 | 950 |
Rory Skinner is set to make his eagerly anticipated world championship debut this weekend, when he lines up for the American Racing Team as a wildcard entry in the British Moto2 Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The 20-year-old from Perth, Scotland, will swap the Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Racing Kawasaki ZX-10RR he usually races in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship for a Kalex Moto2 machine as he makes the first of two wildcard appearances scheduled in August. It will be the former British Talent Cup and British Supersport Champion’s first outing on the world stage, fulfilling an ambition he has held since first competing in minimoto racing at the age of seven.
Skinner, who currently lies fourth in the British series, is under no illusions about the challenge of jumping from a 200+bhp production based machine to a lighter, stiffer and less powerful Moto2 prototype bike, nor the level of competition in what is regarded as one of the toughest racing classes in the world, but admits he’s ‘buzzing’ and grateful for an opportunity which eludes most aspiring British riders.
He said: “I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to make my Grand Prix debut at the age of 20. I know that might seem to some to be quite old compared to some of the riders from other countries, but in Britain we don’t tend to get those opportunities at an earlier age. I’m really grateful to Eitan and John at the American Racing Team for giving me the opportunity, and also to Darren and Nigel at FS-3 Racing for allowing me to realise a dream that I have had for as long as I can remember.
“To have the opportunity to make my debut at my home race is extra special, although I don’t actually have that much experience of the circuit. I’ve only raced on the full Grand Prix circuit twice before, in 2015 in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and then again in 2018, when I won the British Talent Cup race at the British Grand Prix, so I have some happy memories and do enjoy it, as it is a fast and challenging track. We use the shorter National layout in the British championships, so I suppose I do at least know six of the corners really, really well,” he joked.
“I am really buzzing to get this chance but there’s no expectation or pressure from John (Hopkins, American Racing Team Race Director) or anyone in the team. It’ll be nice for me to understand what it is like to ride a Moto2 bike and that will be a real help for me in deciding what route to go with my career. Grand Prix has always been my ambition and this experience will be invaluable at an important time in my life. I have ridden against quite a few of the riders I will be lining up against from the Junior World Championship and Red Bull Rookies, so I am under no illusions about the level of competition nor the challenges of jumping on a Moto2 prototype, which will have completely different characteristics to my Kawasaki superbike. I have been riding mainly production based machines for the past five seasons, so my hope is to enjoy the experience and to keep improving every time I get on the bike.”
August is going to be very busy for the young Scot. Following the British Grand Prix, he goes straight to Thruxton for round six of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, before heading out to Austria for a second round on the Moto2 bike. The month ends on the Kawasaki superbike at Cadwell Park which, like Thruxton, is a uniquely British circuit with very different characteristics to the Grand Prix style tracks on which he will ride in Moto2.
“It is especially good to have a second outing in Austria, as Silverstone is very much going to be a learning weekend,” Rory added. “My first time out on the American Racing Team Kalex Moto2 bike will be in Friday morning’s free practice session but at least in Austria I will have a race under my belt and will know what to expect. I’ve been to Red Bull Ring with the Rookies and like the track. I think I was in the first ever race around there and was actually the first lap record holder, so that’s a bit of a claim to fame! It’s been modified for this year too, which should mean I won’t be at such a disadvantage against the regulars there.” | <urn:uuid:0e1fd88e-209a-4bf4-acdd-e4f2864183eb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eazi-grip.com/rory-skinner-ready-to-make-world-championship-debut-at-silverstone/ | 2023-09-27T11:19:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.962126 | 950 |
Since loyalty is more difficult to earn and retain today due to unlimited choices in the marketplace, REVOLVE officials wanted to create an enhanced customer experience.
To achieve this, they took the next logical step: They asked their customers what they wanted to see in a REVOLVE loyalty program.
What they found was their customers wanted a fun and engaging program that rewards them for shopping their favorite brands.
As a result, they recently launched a new, free pilot program targeting their core customers called REVOLVE Loyalty Club.
Here are three things that makes the program unique.
1. The Focus is on Compelling Value
For REVOLVE officials, enhancing the customer experience focuses on the overarching point of value.
They realize that for consumers to engage regularly with any loyalty program it has to offer compelling value.
The REVOLVE Loyalty Club value proposition hinges on a program that offers compelling value and combines transactional and emotional loyalty drivers.
Everyone loves transactional benefits like discounts and consumers also crave experiential benefits that attract and retain your best customers.
By combining transactional and experiential benefits in a loyalty program, a brand will elevate the engagement of your best customers and entice new members.
REVOLVE Loyalty Club achieves this attractive loyalty dynamic and this will impact customer engagement in the future.
2. The Rewards Go Beyond Points
While transactional benefits make consumers feel smart, experiential benefits make them feel special.
As a next-generation fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers, REVOLVE realizes its customer base has specific expectations that need to be addressed in a loyalty program.
Going beyond points to include access to unique experiences, exclusive meet & greets with influencers and celebrities, and the chance to join REVOLVE trips is a great way to offer a well-rounded and engaging program.
“We developed this program entirely with our core customer in mind,” REVOLVE co-CEO and Co-Founder Mike Karanikolas explained. “We utilized our live customer service channels to confirm what inspires our customer and why she likes to shop with us. It was plain and simple, she told us she wanted access to a fun and engaging program that rewarded her for shopping her favorite brands.”
The importance of valuable and varied program benefits is also seen in a brand like Lululemon.
Members of Lululemon’s premium loyalty program receive a free pair of pants, free expedited shipping on online orders, and experiential benefits like free yoga and fitness classes.
All these factors create an emotional connection to the brand and a sense of community that give members that special feeling of exclusivity.
3. The Program Takes a Tiered Approach
REVOLVE Loyalty Club offers tiered rewards, which is a great way to attract, motivate, and highly engage your members.
The program’s loyalty tiers are: Insider, Star, VIP, and Elite.
The program serves customers with different tiers of rewards and perks on points garnered through each dollar of purchase. For every 2,000 points earned, customers will receive a $20 reward to spend on the site within three months and have the chance to make triple the points through REVOLVE’s brand of the month.
A tiered loyalty approach allows members of all engagement levels to enjoy the program experience and for the brand to show the value to lower tier members, which could motivate them to move up.
From a loyalty standpoint, a tiered program approach is an excellent one because it involves that many more people because they want to engage at different levels.
Another great thing about a tiered approach is it allows a brand to impact members at a certain level that would prompt them to move to a higher level.
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The world is set for an economic downturn as it recovers from the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and Singapore will not be spared. Economists have predicted that the Singapore economy could contract by 5.8 per cent in 2020, with many industries badly hit.
But we cannot afford to lose sight of longer-term priorities—the harnessing of new technologies, ensuring public health, getting workers prepared for future opportunities, and dealing with a much bigger challenge than Covid-19: Climate change. How can Singapore emerge stronger from this crisis? How can the government, business and society work together to address short term needs as well as the long-term resilience of our nation?
As Singapore hosts its annual Climate Action Week, join us on 18 August 2020 as we convene the leading minds to discuss the way forward and actions we can all take.
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Ever since Spyker reintroduced themselves as a boutique builder for limited production luxury sports cars, uncertainty filled the voids of expectations since nobody exactly knew what Spyker was going to do to stay afloat. For small companies like Spyker, it’s hard to remain financially self-sufficient since limited production and high initial purchase prices lead to low-turnover and thus, very specific profit margins.
But now, Spyker is looking to apparently up its game even more to become more of a prominent automaker by making a luxury crossover SUV powered by a preexisting and undisclosed V12.
Anticipated for a reveal at the Los Angeles International Auto Show later this year, Spyker’s CEO Victor Muller told AutoCar that the crossover will happen and will utilize the same V12 being sourced for their next sports car, the C12. And just by judging by these comments, it’s quite clear that Spyker has the Bentley Bentayga in its sights.
Because Spyker is aiming at a very specific and affluent market, Muller noted that he understands fuel economy and eco-friendliness aren’t exactly high on the priority list for the buyers they seek to market to. Regardless however, he’s still keen about offering the option for those who do want some sort of eco-friendliness with this new Spyker SUV. So the plan is to also offer an electric powertrain by 2017, cooperatively developed in partnership with a company called Volta Volare.
That said however, Muller also said not to expect a plug-in hybrid variant because of its complicated design and packaging issues for the new crossover SUV.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM)) in Rome informed the Egyptian Embassy in Italy that a boat carrying 250 illegal immigrants of different nationalities sank off the coast of Lamitoza city.
Ambassador Mohamed Abdel Hakam, assistant foreign minister for consular affairs and Egyptians abroad, said in a statement on Thursday that of the six Egyptian migrants on the boat, one was rescued and five were killed.
The boat left Libya and was heading for Italy when it sank. Italian authorities are searching for missing people, according to Abdel Hakam.
The diplomat said Egyptian authorities are trying to find information on the five dead citizens. Irregular migration from Egypt's North Coast to Italy has been an ongoing problems, especially when it became more difficult for Egyptians to leave from Libya.
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Wickford Dental Assoc Inc
Dentist in N Kingston Rhode Island
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Wickford Dental Assoc Inc is a health care organization in N Kingston with Dentist [Click to see all Dentist providers in N Kingston] listed as their primary medical specialization.
Wickford Dental Assoc Inc's practice location is: 181 West Main St N Kingston, RI 02852 [Directions available in one click below].
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Established Medicare Patient Min Payment:$19.152
Established Medicare Patient Max Payment:$151.080
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Max Copay for Established Patient:$37.770
Most Common Established Patient Fee:$19.090
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May 26, 2017 – Framingham, MA – Electronic House, the leading information site for smart home consumers, announces the winners of 2017 Products of the Year Awards recognizing the best technologies, products, and services for the smart home.
“Our annual Products of the Year contest exemplifies the amazing diversity of smart home technology, and this year’s submissions and winners are some of the most innovative products and systems available to consumers looking for ways to smarten up their homes,” says Electronic House editor Lisa Montgomery. “Selecting the best entry for several smart home categories wasn’t easy based on the high quality level of all the products entered, but in the end the judging panel was able to come to a decision and is please with the chosen winners.”
Winners’ products and technologies will also be announced in an email and press release showcasing the winners, a full-color award in display case, and exclusive use of the 2017 Electronic House Products of the Year winners logo.
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Winter Field Day 2023
With portable operations being the main focus area for the East Leinster Amateur Radio Club (ELARC), partaking in the Winter Field Day is not a surprise.
We set out to establish a station at the Irish Military Museum & Park. Access to the vast camping area was a factor in our success. Located on the north facing side of a hill outside Collon, just inside the Co Meath border. With good take-off for HF DX to the North, East and West.
Our setup consisted of several radio systems in the communication tent. We could operate on 160/80/40/20 metre bands. We used homebrew, dipoles, linked dipoles, EFHW , and Clansman military dipole for the 160m band.
80m and 160m antennas were deployed in NVIS fashion. Where the 40m and 20m were a bit higher relative to the wavelength. Our wires were supported by a 10m telescopic mast, a couple of fishing rods and local vegetation.
Radios were a standard HAM issue Yaesu FT-857D and FT-891. In total we were able to operate 4 bands at the same time. We did not seem to have too many issues with mutual interference.
Michael EI6IRB deserves a special mention for operating top band on his modified Clansman PRC 320. All the radios were powered from the battery.
Frank EI8HIB had an excellent time operating on the 80m band. He made the most contacts during the weekend. Michael EI6IRB got himself into a net on top band. The participants of that net became very interested in his military radio equipment. Johnny EI8IPB operated in tandem with Tom EI5IEB on 20m. Vic EI5IYB entered the activity using Online Amateur Radio Club callsign EI2OARC and worked 40m.
We operated till early hours on Sunday. In the morning the smell of the fry-up got all of us out of the sleeping bags. Tom was at it again! Coffee, chats and we were operating again. We stayed until the 40m and 80m IRTS news bulletin to which we called. Later Stefan EI4KU helped Michael with top band experiments.
A successful Winter Field Day concluded, with the club having operated for over 24 hours off grid, in a field, in winter, fuelled by coffee and LiFePo batteries.
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ICEDID Configuration Extractor
Configuration extraction tool for ICEDID malware.
Python script to extract the payload from ICEDID samples.
For information on the ICEDID malware and network infrastructure, check out the following resources:
The recommended and easiest way to get going is to use Docker. From the directory this README is in, you can build a local container.
docker build . -t icedid_loader_config_extractor
Then we run the container with the -v flag to map a host directory to the docker container directory.
docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd)/data:/data icedid_loader_config_extractor:latest --help
Running it locally
As mentioned above, Docker is the recommended approach to running this project, however you can also run this locally. This project uses Poetry to manage dependencies, testing, and metadata. If you have Poetry installed already, from this directory, you can simply run the following commands to run the tool. This will setup a virtual environment, install the dependencies, activate the virtual environment, and run the console script.
poetry lock poetry install poetry shell poetry lock poetry install poetry shell icedid_loader_config_extractor --help
All samples need to be unpacked prior to execution extraction attempts.
We can either specify a single sample with -f option or a directory of samples with -d.
docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd)/data:/data icedid_loader_config_extractor:latest -d "C:\tmp\samples"
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
As the debate over the intelligence memos by both parties intensifies, both parties are showing no sign at backing down from their rhetorical positions. Increasingly, our world seems to be more about winning, succeeding, gaining fame and fortune, or vanquishing enemies than living faithfully and providing just enough to support our own. Many of us heap heavy loads of stress upon ourselves to always be the best, earn more money, or take on more responsibilities. While God’s plan for each of us includes seasons of challenges and hard work, He does not ever want us to lose Him in the pursuit of more in this world. In 2 Timothy, it says, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” Life is not about winning. It is about righteously stewarding the blessings and faithfully overcoming the obstacles of God’s plan for you. Today, lay down your heavy load of stress to succeed at Jesus’ feet, and focus your energy on praising Him.
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Top Cervical Support Pillow on Amazon
Do you stuff your elbow under your pillow for added loft and support? If so, your pillow probably doesn’t have enough cervical spine support. The ideal pillow for side sleepers covers the distance between the mattress and your shoulders, ensuring cervical spine alignment without using your elbow. Without a neck support pillow or cervical support pillow, you’re likely to suffer from neck and shoulder pain. In this article, we discuss why you have neck and shoulder pain in the mornings, and we review the best cervical support pillows in 2020.
What causes neck and shoulder pain?
Cervical spine misalignment is often attributed to injuries. However, the root cause of cervical spine misalignment is far more likely to be poor sitting or sleeping posture. Whether you’re sitting, sleeping, standing, or walking, you must ensure perfect cervical spine alignment. Without spinal alignment, you’re likely to suffer from sleep apnea, insomnia, and neck and shoulder pain.
According to the American Osteopathic Association, over 65% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 suffer from neck and shoulder pain. Most of them attribute neck and shoulder pain to the aging process, but it’s actually because of incorrect sitting and sleeping posture. The right kind of neck support pillow or cervical support pillow can relieve these problems.
What’s the difference between a cervical pillow for neck pain and a neck support pillow?
If you have neck and shoulder pain, or want to prevent neck and shoulder pain, you must use a supportive pillow for your sleeping posture. Regarding cervical spine support, you may have heard of two terms — neck support pillow and cervical spine pillow.
In most cases, cervical spine pillows and neck support pillows are interchangeable descriptions. Both of them provide support to your neck, supporting cervical spine alignment, keeping your neck in a straight line with your back and hips. However, cervical spine pillows usually have a contoured form designed to ensure spinal alignment, while neck support pillows are more traditionally designed.
In some cases, cervical spine pillows are orthopedic pillows meant for use when suffering from neck and shoulder pain. Cervical spine pillows offer neck traction, elongating the spaces between your cervical spine discs, ensuring optimal comfort. Such pillows aren’t very comfortable, and you don’t need to use them regularly, but they help minimize pain and discomfort immediately after injuries.
Best Cervical Sleeping Pillows in 2020
Elite Rest Contour Sleeper is a memory foam pillow suitable for side and back sleeping postures. This is a contour pillow for side sleepers with a loft height of 4 inches at the sides and 2.75 inches at the center. The elevated contour supports the crook of your neck, elongating cervical spine discs while minimizing discomfort. The ergonomic design helps you recover from neck and shoulder pain, but it’s comfortable enough that you can use it for long term cervical spine support as well.
Elite Rest Ultra Slim Sleeper is an ergonomic memory foam pillow suitable for back and stomach sleepers. This neck support pillow has a dual-sided surface — one surface is contoured while the other is flat. Side sleepers can rest on the contoured side because it supports the neck’s natural curvature. Stomach sleepers can rest on the flat surface or place it under the abdomen for optimal cervical spine support. Meanwhile, high-quality memory foam construction provides optimal support.
Perform Pillow Cervical Neck Pillow is the ideal contoured memory foam neck support pillow for back sleepers and stomach sleepers. As a contour memory foam pillow, it has a variable loft height ranging from 3.5 inches to 2.25 inches, making it perfect for stomach sleepers. The memory foam construction also distributes your weight evenly to ensure there’s no pressure on one point in your neck, preventing neck and shoulder pain. It also comes with a highly-breathable bamboo cover.
Coisum Cervical Pillow is an ergonomic memory foam pillow for side sleepers and back sleepers. This cervical pillow is made of firm memory foam layers ideal for those suffering from neck and shoulder pain. The sides of the pillow also feature two extensions or “horns” under which you can slide your arms or elbows. Furthermore, this contour memory foam pillow has a variable loft height, allowing you to choose the side and loft height that you’re most comfortable with. This memory foam pillow also comes with a breathable and machine-washable pillow cover.
Core Products Cervical Support Pillow is also called a tri-core orthopedic pillow because it has three contoured sides with a crater or valley in between. As such, this pillow has differently-sized ergonomic neck rolls that ensure cervical spine support while keeping your neck and shoulder stable. As an orthopedic pillow, it’s quite firm and hard, and may not be suitable for regular use, but it’s ideal for recovering from neck and shoulder pain. This neck pillow is available in a standard size of 24″ x 16”, but you can also get it in 22″ x 15” or 19″ x 12”.
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Filipinx Advocacy Day 2023!
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Uric acid is formed when the body breaks down purines- crystalline compounds that are found in certain foods. This naturally occurring waste product usually dissolves in the blood, passes through the kidneys and is removed from the body by the way of urine.
If you indulge in a diet that is high in purine, or if your kidneys are not able to get rid of excess uric acid, then this results in high uric acid levels, a situation also known as hyperuricemia, which ultimately leads to gout.
In gout (gouty arthritis) the uric acid crystals deposit in the joints, and most commonly in the big toe. High levels of uric acid can also lead to the formation of kidney stones and renal failure. Recent studies have also associated high blood uric acid levels with diabetes and heart disease. (1)
Causes of High Uric Acid Levels
The primary causes of high uric acid levels are increased production of uric acid and inability of the kidney in eliminating the uric acid from the body.
A number of secondary factors may also result in high levels of uric acid, like:
- Diuretics, sometimes called water pills, rid the body of salt and water
- Excessive alcohol
- Family history
- Immune-suppressing drugs
- Vitamin B-3
- Purine-rich diet like seafood, organ meats, processed food items, and foods high in fructose/sugar. (2)
- Inability of the kidneys to filter waste
- Cancers or chemotherapy
- Sugar-sweetened soft drinks (3)
- Hormonal issues
- Metabolic imbalances
Exercising, fasting and crash dieting may elevate uric acid levels temporarily.
Symptoms of High Uric Acid Levels
High levels of uric acid in the body are indicated by 3 types of symptoms:
- Joint symptoms – High concentration of uric acid in joints leads to symptoms in the form of gout which includes pain, inflammation, swelling, redness, and tenderness in the joints like heels, ankles, knees, fingers, wrists, and elbows when touched.
- Skin symptoms – After many years of high uric acid levels, the crystals of uric acid tend to form lumps beneath the skin, known as tophi. Though they are not usually painful, the tophi can become swollen and tender during gout attacks.
- Kidney symptoms – High uric acid levels may also lead to the formation of kidney stones, especially among men. The symptoms of which include back pain, pain in the abdomen, severe pain in the groin area, a high fever, cold chills, nausea and vomiting, and blood in the urine.
Testing High Uric Acid Levels
Uric acid levels can be determined with a sampling of blood. Additional testing may be used to rule out other conditions.
Normal uric acid levels are (values may vary at different labs):
- Men: 3.4–7.0 mg/dL
- Women: 2.4–6.0 mg/dL
The painful symptoms associated with gouty arthritis may be present even when uric acid levels are in the normal range.
Dietary Changes That Help Lower Uric Acid Levels
Here are some ways to control uric acid levels.
1. Changes in diet
The first step towards controlling the rising levels of uric acid is eliminating the primary agent resulting in increased uric acid, i.e., purine. Avoid indulging in purine-rich food and adopt an alkaline diet instead.
Purines are nitrogen-containing compounds that break down into uric acid, thus increasing levels in the body. They are mostly found in animal proteins.
Fresh green vegetables are helpful in alkalinizing the blood and can reduce uric acid levels. Limit meat and seafood intake as they typically contain purine, a compound that can contribute to uric acid formation.
An alkaline diet helps to reduce inflammation in the body and can alleviate the discomfort that accompanies gouty arthritis. (4)
According to a study published in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases in 2011, animal protein and seafood consumption led to higher chances of hyperuricemia while consuming soy products led to lower cases of hyperuricemia among middle-aged Chinese men. (5)
You can also drink green papaya tea to prevent the buildup of uric acid and treat uric acid and gout-related problems. The papain in green papaya helps the body maintain an alkaline state and acts as an anti-inflammatory agent.
2. High-fiber foods and starchy carbohydrates
Foods high in dietary fiber help lower uric acid levels by absorbing it and then eliminating it from the body. You can also eat foods with starchy carbohydrates as they contain only small amounts of purine.
According to the latest research, a high-fiber diet is helpful in inhibiting inflammation that is caused by monosodium urate (MSU) crystals resulting from gout. (6)
Whole grains, apples, pears, oranges, and strawberries are some examples of high-fiber foods that you can incorporate in your diet. Starchy carbohydrates are foods like rice, whole grain pasta, tapioca (also called sabudana), quinoa, potato, oats, and bananas. Avoid processed foods and excess sugar.
3. Lemon juice
Lemon juice actually helps to make the body more alkaline. It helps to neutralize uric acid by prompting the production of calcium carbonate. (7) It also contains vitamin C which can help lower uric acid levels. (8)
How to consume:
- Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into a glass of warm water. Drink it in the morning on an empty stomach. Continue for at least a few weeks.
- You can also take vitamin C supplements. For proper dosage and suitability, consult your doctor.
Cherries and dark berries contain chemicals that help reduce uric acid levels.
Purple and blue-colored berries contain flavonoids called anthocyanins that help lower uric acid and reduce inflammation and stiffness. (9)
Eat ½ cup of cherries daily for a few weeks. You can also drink 1 or 2 cups of tart cherry juice for about 4 weeks.
Drinking plenty of water helps optimize uric acid filtering. It helps dilute the uric acid and stimulates the kidneys to eliminate excess amounts from the body through urine. (12)
Drinking adequate water regularly can reduce the risk of gout attacks. It has been suggested that people who drank 5 to 8 glasses of water in the 24-hour period prior to a possible gout attack had a 40 percent decreased risk of an attack compared with those who drank only 1 glass of water or less.
Drink about 8 to 10 glasses of water throughout the day.
7. Dairy products
Low-fat milk and dairy products have been associated with lower plasma urate concentrations and reduced risk of gout. Skim milk, for example, contains orotic acid that decreases the re-absorption of uric acid and promotes its removal through the kidneys. (13)
How to consume:
- Drink 1 to 5 cups of skim milk daily.
- You can also include low-fat yogurt and other dairy products in your diet.
Tofu, too, can help alter plasma protein concentration and increase uric acid clearance. Soy milk, however, has been found to increase uric acid.
8. Wheatgrass juice
Wheatgrass helps restore alkalinity in the blood. It is rich in vitamin C, chlorophyll, and phytochemicals that promote detoxification. It is a good source of protein and amino acids as an alternative to eating animal protein. (14)
Simply drink 1 ounce (2 tablespoons) of wheatgrass juice mixed with a squeeze of lemon juice daily until your uric acid level comes down.
9. Apple cider vinegar
Though there are no scientific studies to prove its efficacy in controlling the uric acid level, apple cider vinegar has been found to be highly beneficial by many users.
A natural cleanser and detoxifier, apple cider vinegar can help remove wastes like uric acid from the body. It contains malic acid that helps break down and eliminate uric acid. Apple cider vinegar helps restore the alkaline acid balance in the body and provides anti-inflammatory and antioxidant benefits.
How to consume:
- Add 1 teaspoon of raw, organic, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar to 1 glass of water.
- Drink this solution 2 or 3 times a day.
You can gradually increase the amount of apple cider vinegar up to 2 tablespoons per glass of water and continue this remedy until your uric acid levels come down.
Note: Do not take apple cider vinegar in excess as it may decrease potassium levels in the body. It may interfere with diuretic drugs. Heavy consumption of apple cider vinegar may contribute to stomach complaints and erosion of dental enamel.
10. Baking soda
Baking soda, also called bicarbonate of soda, is highly beneficial for lowering uric acid levels and reducing gout pain. It helps maintain the natural alkaline balance in the body and makes the uric acid more soluble and easier to flush out of the kidneys.
How to consume:
- Mix ½ teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water.
- Drink up to 4 glasses of this daily for 2 weeks. You can drink it every 2 to 4 hours.
Note: Do not take this remedy on a regular basis. Do not follow this remedy if you suffer from high blood pressure or kidney issues. Contact your physician prior to starting this remedy.
Preventing High Uric Acid Levels
- Limit your alcohol intake as it interferes with the elimination of uric acid.
- Avoid high-fructose corn syrup or glucose-fructose syrup as they tend to increase uric acid levels.
- Get regular exercise and maintain a healthy weight. It is believed that fatty tissue tends to increase uric acid production.
- Eat a balanced diet that is high in complex carbohydrates and low in protein. Avoid refined carbohydrates such as white bread, cakes, and candies.
- Cut back on foods high in fat as it lowers the body’s ability to eliminate uric acid.
When to See a Doctor
You would need to consult the doctor in cases where there is:
- Localized joint pain, that is red and inflamed
- Shortness of breath, chest pain or discomfort
- Bleeding that does not stop in a few minutes
- Occurrence of new rashes on your skin – especially if you have started any new medication
Hyperuricemia can lead to serious ailments and complications if left untreated. So, it is important to consult a doctor if you notice any symptoms of this condition for proper diagnosis and treatment.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an interview with Mee‐Yan Cheung‐Judge and Linda Holbeche, co‐authors of Organizational Development.
The authors provide practical advice on using diagnostics techniques to identify an organization's needs and explain how to use them across a range of areas.
Mee‐Yan Cheung‐Judge is the founder of Quality & Equality Ltd and the author of many organizational development articles. She speaks, writes and delivers most of the organizational development (OD) training programmes in the UK and was voted one of the 25 most influential thinkers in human resources (HR) by HR Magazine in 2008. Linda Holbeche was previously Research and Policy Director at the CIPD and is currently an independent consultant and researcher in the fields of leadership, human resources, change management and sustainable high performance. Both authors use their expertise to advise companies who are looking to implement OD strategies within their business.
In this ruthless downsizing cost cutting environment, OD is an indispensable field for leaders and internal change agents because OD can provide tools and processes to help leaders to navigate through complex disturbance changes with sustainable outcomes.
Workplace culture is all‐enveloping, so much so that it can become invisible to people working in the organization. It affects how people feel and work. OD can be a means of stimulating new practice and knowledge‐sharing across the sub‐cultures so that organizations are more than the sum of their parts.
Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Organizational Development defines OD and describes how it can be used effectively in today's economy to create organizations which maximize organizational capability.
by Juliet Harrison, I. (2011), "Interview with Linda Holbeche and Mee‐Yan Cheung Judge, authors of
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Seeking help is not shameful, it's courageous.
In society, talking about sex is still seen as taboo. But why? I strongly believe it shouldn't be, simply because it's human to crave intimacy, sex, and everything involved. Perhaps you're struggling with maintaining a "spicy" connection with a partner, looking for a relationship, or experiencing difficulty navigating through life.
I understand that in BIPOC communities, sex is taboo and off-limits to talk about even when we need help. I pull from personal and professional experience to treat relationship incompatibility, sexual issues, and trauma, particularly in minority communities. I provide therapy services to individuals and couples looking to improve themselves and thrive.
My Professional Background
What Makes Me Stand Out
Credentials: APCC #12046, AMFT #134637
Supervised by Dr. Rossana Sida, LMFT #116114
June 2021 - April 2022
I provided mandated treatment to sex offenders by conducting individual and group counseling using a restorative justice approach. I provided psychoeducation pertaining to various topics including coping skills, cognitive distortions, social skills, transitional counseling, and processing trauma.
Lead Substance Use Disorders Counselor (SUDC)
As lead SUDC, I trained staff on writing session notes, group and individual counseling, and managed a caseload of my own. I provided substance use addiction counseling and offered insight on coping skills.
June 2020 - June 2021
Note-taking Services Assistant
January 2018 - October 2019
At CSULA, I was the assistant to the note-taking coordinator and I was responsible for ensuring students' accommodations were being met, specifically in the note-taking services department. I also volunteered as a note-taker myself for 7 years.
May 2019 - May 2021
I created a consulting business to assist individuals in applying for graduate school and searching for their profession. My specialties were resume-building, cover letters, personal statements, and job interviewing.
Tutor for Neurodiverse Students
I tutored many students who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). I helped with social skills building, organization, time-management, homework, and applying for college. Many of my students pursued higher education and are flourishing in their studies.
August 2015 - August 2019
Disabilities and Sexuality
To my knowledge, Togetherness Therapy is the first and only private practice in West Los Angeles to offer sex therapy to individuals with disabilities. As a certified rehabilitation counselor, I have obtained additional knowledge to better serve the disability community. I am devoted to helping you navigate challenges that are related to your disability and use your strengths to your advantage. Despite societal beliefs, I know that individuals with disabilities have sexual needs/wants and are able to foster romantic relationships. The problem is the lack of information and services catered to this community. Let's change that... one session at a time.
Interracial and Interabled Relationships
Interracial relationships are relationships where partners are from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. From personal experience and research, being in an interracial relationship can pose many challenges from cultural ideologies, society, and personal beliefs, however many of these issues can be resolved through effort and communication. Interabled relationships consist of a partner who has a disability and the other who does not. I specialize in both of these types of relationships and can help you work toward building a healthy relationship, reducing stigma, and fostering a loving connection.
Sexual Compatibility & Difficulties
We are human and our bodies are changing all the time. Healthy relationships require compromise and compatible views/lifestyles. I can help with sudden changes in sexual desire and navigating through relationship challenges. I have a specific interest in helping people who are asexual and ways to get creative in the bedroom.
Trauma can come with a wide array of positive and negative consequences. It is sometimes inevitable and can be very unfortunate. Sometimes it may feel like the damage and hurt placed on us will leave scars that are visible forever. As recent research and books suggest, trauma lives inside the body, and through therapy, we can reclaim what IS rightfully yours. Your body, mind, thoughts, sexuality, and more. Who says pain needs to last forever?
Learn more in the resources section.
Client-Centered / Person-Centered Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Get to Know Me
Ever since I was young, I knew I was different than others. A lot of times, I felt alone and lost. Little did I know that taking my first psychology class in high school would be the beginning of my profession. Learning about human behavior, past trauma, and other people's backgrounds intrigued me. And instead of watching others struggle, I wanted to be that one person who can reassure that everything was going to be okay, even though the light at the end of the tunnel appears non-existent at the time.
Growing up in an Asian community, I noticed people were very secretive about intimacy and their love lives. This became even more apparent when sex education comprised of textbook images of male and female anatomy and a short story about sex my P.E. teacher gave to the class. It wasn’t until college that topics and information about sex were more widely accessible and partially discussed. I was confused about why this was until I factored in cultural values, stereotypes, and misconceptions that were given by society. This was enough for me to pursue a sex therapy and rehabilitation counseling profession.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed Tuesday to step up the website's release of secret US cables as his defence team warned he could face the death penalty if he is extradited from Britain.
Lawyers for the Australian released documents outlining their case after a brief court appearance in London during which a judge ruled that Sweden's bid to extradite him would be heard in full on February 7-8.
Swedish authorities want to question Assange about allegations made by two women that he sexually assaulted them, but the 39-year-old insists the extradition attempt is politically motivated and linked to WikiLeaks' activities.
"Our work with WikiLeaks continues unabated and we are stepping up our publishing for matters related to 'cablegate' and other materials," Assange told reporters after the hearing at the high-security Woolwich Crown Court.
"Those will shortly be occurring through our newspaper partners around the world, big and small newspapers and some human rights organisations," added the former computer hacker, wearing a dark suit and tie.
He said he was "happy" with the outcome of the 10-minute hearing.
District Judge Nicholas Evans also agreed to change Assange's bail conditions for the full hearing, allowing him to stay at the Frontline Club, a media club in London, on the nights of February 6 and 7.
Assange has been living at the country estate of Vaughan Smith, one of the Frontline Club's founders, in eastern England since being released on bail on December 16, nine days after his arrest by British police on a Swedish warrant.
Despite the intense interest in the case, with more than 100 journalists from around the world packed into the court, Assange appeared relaxed in the dock, joking with two female prison officers.
Among the spectators in court were two of his high-profile supporters, socialite Jemima Khan and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger.
Hours after the hearing Assange's lawyers released documents containing their draft argument, in which his barrister Geoffrey Robertson accused Swedish prosecutors of "corrupt" behaviour.
The papers claimed the main Swedish prosecutor did not have the right to issue a European arrest warrant as only Swedish police can do so, and argued that it should not have been issued when Assange was only wanted for questioning.
But the documents also repeated Assange's argument that the allegations against him are linked to the WikiLeaks' disclosures about the United States, where he faces a widening criminal probe as well as widespread vilification.
If Assange is extradited to Sweden there is a "real risk" he will face extradition or illegal rendition to the United States "where there will be a real risk of him being detained at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere," they said.
"There is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty. It is well-known that prominent figures have implied, if not stated outright, that Mr. Assange should be executed," the papers added.
The whistleblowing website has also released classified documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cables were allegedly obtained by a renegade US soldier, Bradley Manning, now in custody.
A US court has reportedly subpoenaed the Twitter accounts of four WikiLeaks supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the leaks.
US Vice President Joe Biden last month described Assange as a "hi-tech terrorist."
In a statement overnight, Assange condemned the violent rhetoric against him by a number of US politicians and media commentators and demanded that those responsible face prosecution.
He drew parallels between the language used against him and WikiLeaks and accusations that similar rhetoric led to the shooting of Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona at the weekend.
"When senior politicians and attention-seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed, they should be charged with incitement -- to murder," Assange said.
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O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Today’s Gospel, which you read in your home rite of Spiritual Communion this morning, tells the story of the risen Jesus making himself known to two dejected disciples as they walked home to Emmaus on the night of Easter. Rumors of the corpse of Jesus having disappeared from the tomb were circulating, and they weren’t sure what to think. But they were sure that the man they had believed to be the Messiah was dead, and that along with him had died their hope that a new creation would come about through his leadership.
Alleluia, Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! This year we can’t all cry out those words together in a full church, but it is nonetheless true, and it is a proclamation that is even more meaningful right now: Death is conquered. Christ is risen.
I watched a webinar a week or two ago in which one of the guests was Dr. Lydia Dougdale, a physician at Columbia University who specializes in treatment of the aged and in medical ethics. She has a book coming out called “The Lost Art of Dying Well,” which responds to the fact that unlike countless previous generations, we Westerners whose lifespans have happened to fall in the past century or so have been uniquely able to skirt the topic of death, and especially to avoid talking about the fact that we ourselves will die. We have forgotten how to receive mortality as an opportunity to ask big questions, how to prepare intentionally for death.
And we need to relearn this, because mortality has once again taken center stage, along with its colleagues powerlessness, anger, and fear. Over 20,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the USA so far. There aren’t enough beds, there isn’t enough equipment. We don’t know what will happen -- to our businesses, to our retirement savings, to our plans for 2021, to our vulnerable family members; we don’t know, if the disease claims someone we love, if we will even be able to go to their funeral. And, as Dougdale says, contemporary people like us are not used to thinking about these kinds of things. We don’t easily ask, “Am I ready to die? Am I spending my life in a way that really counts?” But now, the times force us to pose such questions.
There are people who treat the Christian proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus, of Easter, as a sort of analgesic, designed to dull the pain of questions like that. A comforting story that helps us feel better and keeps us distracted from suffering. Some of us have probably had people try and use it that way on us, try to rush us out of our crushing grief at the loss of someone especially dear: don’t feel sad, he’s in a better place, just remember she’s with the angels now, you should be happy for her.
If we have anything to say (and this year especially) on Easter Sunday with integrity, it had better not sound like any of that. It had better start with the truth that Jesus suffered and died in agony. Like the people in ICUs all over the world, he gasped for breath on the Cross as his lungs filled with fluid. Like the people confined and quarantined, he faced his torment without his friends and colleagues, and in his final hour even without the felt presence of God, whom he said had also forsaken him. He was crushed by shame. He descended into hell.
This is what happened to God in Christ. We can’t skip over that. We shouldn’t ever, but especially not this year. Because we need that truth now -- not just to know that ever since then God is with us, completely with us in the sickness and the isolation and the powerlessness and the approach of death. We need so badly to know that God accompanies us there, that he understands completely the experience of isolation and powerlessness and fear.
But we also need to know something else. We need to understand that all this is what Jesus was raised from, raised through, raised against, raised to conquer. In his resurrection Jesus does not suddenly waltz onstage like some bespangled assistant we just saw a stage magician cut into three pieces, delightfully whole and cheery at the end of what only seemed an ordeal, waving and accepting applause and saying “See! I’m fine after all! Thanks, ladies and gentlemen!”
No. Jesus appears carrying everything he has been through, the wounds to prove it still gaping open. He appears bearing in his now risen and glorified body the entire incalculable weight of sin and death, soaked through with every drop of human fear and despair and hopelessness throughout the ages, his pierced heart full to overflowing with every wailing widow, every abandoned or abused child, every steadily mounting fever, every flatlined heart monitor, every gasp for breath that has ever been. In his risen flesh he is carrying it. Carrying it all, yet radiant.
By his death and resurrection Jesus has acknowledged, and taken into himself, and metabolized every atom of evil that has ever corrupted and destroyed the creatures of earth, and returned it as good. Every atom of death that has ever broken a human heart, and returned it as life. Not just more of this life, a few extra years to string out the distractions and the stresses we all used to take so seriously before COVID-19, but everlasting life, God’s own life, a life that is immune to evil. That life starts the moment Easter starts, the moment the tomb is empty, the moment Jesus’ lifeless and destroyed body becomes his risen body.
The life of the resurrection has not avoided, not downplayed, but faced and conquered evil, and it invades our world on Easter morning. It comes determined, having raised Jesus, to raise everyone and everything else with him. And it cannot be stopped.
Hear me right: the risen life Jesus has won for us today will not keep you from passing through death, or from losing your retirement savings, or from being hospitalized with COVID-19. God does not promise such things. But he does promise that none of that, when you face it anchored in the life of the Risen Christ, can conquer you. None of that can kill you. None of that can ruin you. Because Christ has already conquered, killed, and ruined death, and you belong to him forever. | <urn:uuid:5fb87dfe-829c-41a5-90b9-993a2171429c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.emmanuelmemorialepiscopal.org/sermons/archives/04-2020 | 2023-09-27T11:46:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.979105 | 1,432 |
MERCHANT RUSSIA: EXHIBITION OF GRAPHIC WORKS BY BORIS KUSTODIEV IN MURANOVO
Dates: December 16, 2022 – February 26, 2023
Venue: Exhibition hall of the Muranovo Estate Memorial Museum-Reserve (Moscow Region, Pushkin city district, the village of Muranovo)
The Muranovo Estate Memorial Museum-Reserve in partnership with the Research Museum under the Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of the eminent Russian artist, Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Boris Kustodiev. Entitled “Merchant Russia” it features the master’s 17 graphic works including watercolors from the Russian Characters series, as well as pencil sketches on the topic of peasant, provincial, petty-bourgeois and merchant life from the collection of the Research Museum.
“… love for life, joy and cheerfulness, love for our “Russian” - this was the only “theme” of my paintings”, - wrote Boris Kustodiev. The interest in the national life has been a distinguished feature of the artist’s work for all his life. He has created several series of canvases dedicated to peasant and petty-bourgeois life – fairs, village feasts, Pancake Day, carnivals, winter holidays. According to the artist’s words, his favorite season was winter with its frosty, fabulous days with frost and ringing air, the creaking of runners on crisp snow and crimson sun in the fog.
The centerpieces of the exhibition are watercolors from the Russian Characters series resulted from the last stage of Kustodiev’s creative work. Being confined to a wheelchair he painted Russian types dear to his heart until his last days. The series was intended for Isaak Brodsky’s and Evgeny Zamyatin’s publication “Russia. Russian Characters of Boris Kustodiev”. With gentle humor Kustodiev depicts imposing merchants and merchant’s wives, respectable tradesmen and brisk innkeepers, haggard nuns, cunny priests and others demonstrating us his art of high professional level. | <urn:uuid:53e5cdda-9efa-4edb-bb5e-d6783fd225c6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eng.rah.ru/museum_and_exhibition_activity/exhibition/detail.php?ID=59091 | 2023-09-27T11:38:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.935562 | 465 |
The Nintendo Switch is pretty popular, but its included Joy-Cons aren’t for everyone. Some players feel the detachable controllers are a bit small for their hands. Many players miss having a regular D-pad. Whatever your reasons for wanting to upgrade your Switch controller situation, know that there are alternatives — it’s just a matter of picking the one that fits your needs. We tested out a bunch of options to see which are the best Nintendo Switch controllers for your money.
For casual gaming: Joy-Cons
Honestly, there’s a lot to like about the included Switch Joy-Cons. They come right in the box and can be separated from the system so two gamers can play. The system also includes a special gamepad grip so you can hold them in your hand like any standard game controller. So if you are in fact, happy with your Joy-Cons, there’s no need to switch them out. Just tweak them a little depending on your needs. Find them a tad too small? FastSnail’s matte rubber shells can make them a little easier for large hands to hold, and Hori’s Analog Caps can make the thumb sticks grippier.
There’s really no good way to replace the Joy-Cons entirely with a third-party copy. Some Joy-Con-like controllers won’t connect wirelessly, while others lack key features like vibration or an NFC reader. But there are some tradeoffs that are worth it. For example, if you like to play a lot of 2D platformers in handheld mode, Hori’s D-pad controller will restore the beloved cross-shaped directional button to your gameplay. If you’re looking for something that’s also more comfortable in your hand, the company’s Split Pad Pro is also worth a look. It has a D-pad on the left side and a more ergonomic grip than your standard set of Joy-Cons. But it also makes the entire assembled Switch a lot chunkier.
If you like to play your Switch with groups (or you’ve experienced the dreaded “drift” issue), chances are you’ve picked up one or two extra pairs of Joy-Cons. Which means you’re going to need a place to charge the spares in between gaming sessions. PowerA makes an excellent $25 charging station that can be plugged into your Switch dock (or any device with a USB port) and handles four Joy-Con-like controllers at once — that includes third-party gamepads as well as Nintendo’s own Switch-compatible NES controllers (see below).
For action-packed games: Pro-level controllers
Sometimes you just want a standard controller to play your favorite action titles — and standard in 2020 means something like you’d get packed in with an Xbox, with grips for the heels of your hands, shoulder buttons and triggers, two thumb sticks, a set of four buttons on the right and a D-pad on the left. Nintendo knows that, which is why it created the Pro Controller. This first-party gamepad pairs easily with the Switch and features a D-pad on the left, while still maintaining features like the infrared sensor and HD rumble functionality that might go missing on third-party alternatives. The only downside of the Nintendo Switch Pro controller is the $70 price, but avid players of games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will appreciate the refined controls and increased comfort.
While you can plug your Pro Controller directly into your Switch dock to charge, it’s not the most elegant solution. PowerA also makes an attractive $25 dock that accommodates both Joy-Cons and the Pro Controller, which should keep your gaming area nice and tidy.
If the price tag of the Pro Controller is a bit rich for your blood (or it's out of stock), PowerA makes its own version with the same arrangement of buttons. The Enhanced Wireless Controller skips the rechargeable battery in favor of AAs, which has its downsides, but at least when it runs low on juice you can just pop in a new pair of batteries and get right back to gaming. Unfortunately, there’s no USB-C port to connect with so you’ll have to pair the device wirelessly — which can be finicky and may take a few tries before your Switch recognizes the controller. It also lacks vibration, so you won’t get tactile feedback in games where it’s helpful. And the plus and minus buttons are placed a bit closer to the center, so those with smaller hands will have to reach a bit further to press them.
If you’d prefer not to have to recharge — or buy batteries for — your gamepad, PowerA also makes a wired version of the same controller that connects via USB. It’s got the same look and feel, but you won’t have to struggle as much with getting your console to recognize it, and there’s no potential for wireless lag, making it ideal for fast-paced shooters and fighting games. The included cord is 10 feet long so it should reach most couches just fine.
While most third-party controllers tend to mimic the Xbox style of gamepad, anyone more familiar with the PlayStation’s distinctive DualShock design will probably prefer the $50 Pro 2 from 8BitDo. The retro-styled controller has the same general layout as the classic SNES gamepad, but adds twin thumb sticks, palm grips, back buttons, control remapping and even sensitivity adjustments. It’s truly the Swiss Army knife of Switch controllers.
For old school gaming: Niche and retro controllers
Twenty years later and the preferred controller layout for Super Smash Bros. players is still the one made for the GameCube, which is why today it’s still possible to buy new gamepads straight from Nintendo. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Edition GameCube Controller is identical in layout and design to the original gamepads, though now it connects via USB so it can be used with the Switch. The only downside to the reissue is that it doesn’t come in a bold shade of purple anymore.
However, if you’re still sporting a classic GameCube controller with its proprietary connector, you can also pick up an adapter that will let your Switch accommodate up to four old-school gamepads. Nintendo sells one on its store, but the Y Team controller adapter is also a good alternative that costs less and can be bought at Amazon.
But you might not want to be tethered to your console — especially if you have fond memories of kicking back on your couch with a Wavebird in hand to play GameCube games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Killer 7. PowerA’s Nintendo GameCube-Style wireless controller is the closest you can get to recreating that feeling short of plugging a few RF dongles into a GameCube adapter.
What if your retro tastes go even further back, say to the NES and SNES era? If you’re subscribed to Nintendo Online, you have access to over 100 classic titles, so you might want a more “authentic” controller to use with them. Nintendo Online subscribers can buy retro-style wireless gamepads directly from the company, though the $60 set of two small, rectangular NES controllers will remind you why we’ve moved on from that design. The dog-bone shape of the $30 SNES model is more hand friendly and can still be used with the NES games, so it’s a better use of your funds should you decide you want to recreate your childhood gaming experiences.
If you don’t need an exact copy of your beloved childhood gamepads it’s worth looking at 8BitDo instead: It makes a variety of classic-styled controllers that add just enough modern features to make them useful for a wider variety of games. Its models are almost all wireless, and there are some design changes to make the controllers more comfortable and easier to use. We’ve already recommended the DualShock-like Pro 2, but the SN30 Pro also offers features like dual thumb sticks and vibration in the dog-bone controller style.
If you’re looking for a more portable controller alternative, the $25 8BitDo Lite is smaller and swaps out the thumb sticks for two D-pads, keeping the four button arrangement on each side. It’s great for 2D games and it even matches the color scheme of the Switch Lite.
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(LONDON) — Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte, co-founder of global circus company Cirque du Soleil, is being investigated for growing cannabis on his private island in French Polynesia.Laliberte, 60, turned himself in to police and was subsequently detained for questioning in the territory’s capital of Papeete, located on the island of Tahiti.Laliberte, who surrendered on Tuesday, was being held in custody as part of a drug trafficking investigation, a spokesperson for the French Polynesian national police force told ABC News.Investigators recently detained a man on suspicion of drug possession and found photos on his cellphone purportedly showing Laliberte’s marijuana plantation, according to the police spokesperson.Laliberte’s company, Lune Rouge, confirmed in a statement Wednesday that he is being investigated “for alleged complicity in cultivation, possession and use of cannabis.”The company described Laliberte as a “medical cannabis user” who grows the plant “for his personal use only” at his estate on the remote, tiny atoll of Nuketepipi in the South Pacific Ocean, which forms part of the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia.The Center of Specialized Consultations in Alcoholics and Drug Addiction, a specialized addiction service in French Polynesia that’s under the supervision of the health ministry, says on its website that growing cannabis, “even for personal consumption,” is illegal.The entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding Cirque du Soleil in Quebec in 1984, appeared in court in Papeete on Wednesday and left the courthouse that afternoon “without any conditions,” according to Lune Rouge. He has not been charged with drug trafficking.”Mr. Guy Laliberte categorically denies and dissociates himself completely from any rumors implicating him in the sale or the traffic of controlled substances,” his company said in a statement.In a statement released through his company later Wednesday night, Laliberte said he “will continue to cooperate with the judicial authorities of French Polynesia.” He added that the police officers have treated him “in a professional and respectful manner which is a bright spot in this misadventure.””The disproportionate importance given to this matter, which is generally trivialized for someone in possession of several plants of cannabis for strictly personal use, greatly surprises me,” Laliberte added.Copyright © 2019, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
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The breaststroke is swum with the body facing down. The arms perform semicircular movements, and the legs perform a frog kick.
Breaststroke is, without a doubt, the most popular swimming stroke. In fact, for many people, it is the only stroke that they use regularly.
This can be explained by the fact that this style allows you to swim with your head above the water and therefore breathe freely and keep your eyes open. This can be helpful for beginners and more casual swimmers.
Experienced swimmers, as well as competition swimmers, however, dip their head underwater during the glide phase, which improves their position in the water and reduces drag.
In terms of speed, breaststroke is the slowest swimming stroke. This is due to the fact that during the leg recovery, the thighs are pulled forward into the water against the swimming direction, which creates a lot of drag.
Breaststroke Swimming Technique
In the next section, we will describe the swimming technique of breaststroke.
In breaststroke, the body position changes continuously during the stroke cycle. It moves from a horizontal position during the glide phase to an inclined position during the arm pull.
Assume that the starting position is at the end of the glide phase when the body is horizontal and streamlined, the arms extended forward, and the legs straight and held together.
Now, when the arms pull backward in the water, the body moves to an inclined position, with the torso assuming a 45-degree position above the water at the end of the arm pull while the hips and legs remain in the water.
The body returns to a horizontal position when the arms are extended forward during the arm recovery and subsequent glide phase.
The head remains in alignment with the body. During the horizontal glide phase, the head is in a neutral position, facing down.
During the arm pulling phase, the head remains in a neutral position.
After the arm pulling phase, when the body is inclined at 45 degrees, the face is directed downwards and slightly forward, the eyes are fixed at a point about 3-6 feet ahead.
A common mistake is to look towards the end of the lane instead of looking down and slightly forward.
Let us assume again that the starting position is at the end of the glide phase when the body is horizontal, and the arms are extended forward.
When the arms begin to pull, they first move outwards, backward and downwards until the arms are bent 90 degrees, the elbows are at shoulder level, and the upper arms and hands are in line and pointing downwards.
In the second phase of the arm pull, the arms move further back. The upper arms move to the sides of the body, while the hands move towards each other under the chest.
At the same time, the upper body rises out of the water until it is inclined at 45 degrees.
When the hands meet under the chest, the arms are extended forward in a line to return to the starting position. At the same time, the body returns to a horizontal position.
Leg Movement — Breaststroke Kick
Let us assume, again, that the swimmer is in the starting position, i.e., he lies horizontally in the water. The arms are extended forward, and the legs are extended and held together.
The legs remain more or less extended during the pull phase of the arms.
At the end of the arm pull phase, the knees bend, and the feet begin to move towards the buttocks.
As the arms recover forward, the feet move farther towards the buttocks until they are close to the buttocks.
Now, the knees move apart, and the feet begin to move outwards and backward. This is also the beginning of the propulsive phase of the kick.
The feet move further outwards and backward, and then inwards and backward so that the legs come together. We are still in the propulsive phase of the kick.
At the end of the kick, the legs are extended and together again, and now a short glide phase takes place before the stroke cycle starts all over again.
Breathing in breaststroke is relatively straightforward.
Inhalation begins as soon as the head is above water at the end of the arm pull.
Exhalation begins as soon as the head is submerged in the water again during the arm recovery forward.
Exhalation should continue as long as the head is underwater so that the lungs are empty just before the head emerges.
This is the breathing pattern used by fitness and competitive swimmers. On the other hand, more casual swimmers can keep their heads above water at all times and breathe freely.
Learning to Swim Breaststroke
As explained above, breaststroke is suitable for beginners because you can keep your head above water, which allows you to breathe freely and swim without goggles.
That is why, at least in European countries, breaststroke is often the first swimming stroke that is taught.
In this article, we explain our method for learning breaststroke. Our method is divided into the following steps:
1) In the first step, the arm movements, leg movements, and breathing exercises are practiced individually on land.
3) In the third step, the arm and leg movements are practiced simultaneously in the water, with the help of pull buoys and swimming noodles, like in the previous step.
4) The last step, which consists of swimming without any aids, is done when the student has gained enough confidence in his swimming skills.
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Volume 40, Number 1, January-February 2006
|Page(s)||49 - 61|
|Published online||23 February 2006|
Best N-term approximation in electronic structure calculations I. One-electron reduced density matrix
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Inselstr. 22-26, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. firstname.lastname@example.org; email@example.com
2 Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, 24098 Kiel, Germany. firstname.lastname@example.org
Revised: 11 August 2005
We discuss best N-term approximation spaces for one-electron wavefunctions and reduced density matrices ρ emerging from Hartree-Fock and density functional theory. The approximation spaces for anisotropic wavelet tensor product bases have been recently characterized by Nitsche in terms of tensor product Besov spaces. We have used the norm equivalence of these spaces to weighted spaces of wavelet coefficients to proof that both and ρ are in for all with . Our proof is based on the assumption that the possess an asymptotic smoothness property at the electron-nuclear cusps.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 41A50 / 41A63 / 65Z05 / 81V70
Key words: Best N-term approximation / wavelets / Hartree-Fock method / density functional theory.
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2006
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Luxury fashion and goods retailer Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) announced plans to discontinue selling animal fur products by 2023, as part of its forthcoming ESG strategy. The new policy applies to all NMG stores, including Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. The retailer will also close its existing fur salons.
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Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck earned first-team Academic All-American honors Thursday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany coach Joachim Loew has been hospitalised following a sports accident and will miss their upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers against Belarus and Estonia, the German Football Association (DFB) said on Friday.
It said Loew needed to be taken to hospital due to “the effects of a sports accident” that had squeezed an artery and required treatment.
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“I feel well again but I have to take it easy for the next four weeks,” Loew said in the DFB statement. “I am in constant touch with the coaching staff and will remain in tight contact over the phone ahead of the two matches.”
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“We have registered 80,000 crimes committed by Russian invaders and over 9,000 civilians have been killed, including 453 children,” Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential staff, said at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.
“We will not forgive a single (act of) torture or life taken. Each criminal will be held accountable,” he said, reiterating that Ukraine wants a special international tribunal to try Russian political leaders and reparations for the destruction caused by Russia’s invasion.
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Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. – 50 years of listing
Today, Carlo van Noort (CFO) and Martijn Schuttevaer (Director IR & Communications) of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. sounded the gong to celebrate their 50 years of listing at Euronext Amsterdam. They were welcomed by Euronext Amsterdam’s CEO Simone Huis in ’t Veld and Head of Listing René van Vlerken.
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Denmark introduces action plan on plastic waste
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Just How Hard Is It To Get A Grant
One of the most misunderstood things about grants for online college is that the probability of winning one is so small that it isnt worth the effort to apply. In reality, it is this belief that leads to a large number of grants being unclaimed every year. In spite of the rising cost of college, millions and millions of award dollars go untouched. Nearly $3 billion in federal grant money went unclaimed in the 2014 academic year, according to a higher education study.
What Is A Scholarship
For colleges and universities, scholarships are financial aid awards designed to help students pay for an undergraduate degree. Sometimes a scholarship is a one-time check. Other school scholarships are renewable and provide money for students each semester or school year. These awards differ from student loans in that they dont have to be repaid.
Students might receive the money directly as a check in their name. In other cases, the money is given to the students school. In these cases, the student would then pay the school for the difference on any money owed for tuition, fees, room and board. If the scholarships and other forms of financial aid are enough to cover the direct college costs, the excess money is refunded to the student.
What Is A Grant For College
Grants for college are a form of financial aid that does not usually get repaid. They cover a variety of education-related expenses, such as tuition and fees, room and board, and books and supplies.
Grants along with scholarships are often called gift aid, or free money for college, but they are not the same. Scholarships are awarded for merit or talents, while grants tend to be given out based on financial need, although sometimes merit can come into play.
When it comes defining that need, the best thing to do is to take a closer look at the types of grants available.
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Where Can You Get Grants For College
There are a few major sources of grants for college students. Because theres no standardized application, protocol, or eligibility criteria for all grants available to college students, things can seem a bit complicated at first.
Not to worry, though – things arent as complicated if youre able to break down grants by funding source. Here are the most important places to find grant funding, along with basic eligibility criteria for each funding source.
- Federal Government – Eligibility requirements for federal grants are laid out in our Pell Grant guide. Overall, the requirements are pretty lax – the major ones are that you need a high school diploma or GED, and you need to be enrolled in a college or career school.
- State Government – Eligibility requirements for state-based grants will, unsurprisingly, vary by state. At the very least you should meet all federal requirements in addition to being a state resident. Get more detailed information about state financial aid programs.
- Your School – In the context of this post, Im defining a grant as an award thats strictly need-based. Schools may award grants or scholarships that are based on financial need, not merit, to students who have been accepted and need help paying the full Cost of Attendance. Eligibility reqs will vary by school, but some schools tend to be more generous than others.
Federal sources should be your first consideration when you start looking into grant opportunities.
Grants For Online College: How To Get Paid To Go To School
College costs are rising, whether for distance learning or traditional campus study and grants for online college exist just like they do for traditional on-campus education. But, did you know there are specific classes of grants just for online students? These grants are best way to cut the cost of your online degree. Read on for expert tips on how to get awarded free money and potentially even get paid to go to school.
An online college grant is a one-time award of money, based on merit or financial need. Unlike online student loans, grants represent free money that never needs to be paid back.
Grants are the best type of financial aid for both residential and online students. Grants are essentially free money to study online.
You can get free grants from the federal government, state government, your college, and a variety of private sources, such as trade and professional associations.
The online education experts at GetEducated outline some of the most popular federal college grant optionsavailable to online education students as well as campus students. Use this list to explore the best free money grant programs available from the government and private sources to boost your online school financial aid portfolio.
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What Degrees Will Amazon Pay For
The Amazon Career Choice Program will pre-pay 95% of tuition and associated fees at accredited schools for courses that lead to technical and vocational certifications or associates degrees in eligible in-demand fields, such as Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical and Electrical Trades, Healthcare.
Types Of College Grants
The first step in applying to grants for college is understanding the different types. There are grants to help cover financial need or specific to demographics, major or location. Federal and state governments as well as schools and private institutions all have different kinds of grants for college students.
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Turns Out There Are A Few Differences Between A Federal Student Loan And A Private Loan:
Most federal loans dont require a credit check.
Federal loans often have low, fixed interest rates,which vary based on the first disbursement date of the loan. The interest rate for Direct Subsidized Loans, Direct Unsubsidized Loans, and Direct PLUS Loans for undergraduate borrowers first disbursed on or after July 1, 2020, and before July 1, 2021, is 2.75%
Federal loans are tax-deductible.
Federal loans can also be deferredmost commonly, students will defer their loans for up to 6 months after they graduate .
Lastly, federal loans are eligible for loan forgiveness in some special cases.
While this list may make federal student loans look nicer than what Mr. Local Banker Man would has to offer, it should be noted that student loans are still debt. Taking out a student loan means spending money you dont have and that you will have to pay back… with interest.
Taking out a multi-thousand dollar loan at 18, with no career or even the guarantee of a good job once you graduate? Thats a financial gamble. For better or worse, it will impact your life long after college.
Given that, lets talk about the different kinds of federal student loans you could apply for and the impact they can have on your financial future.
Federal Grants And The Fafsa
To apply for a federal grant, students need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid . The FAFSA helps administrators assess students’ financial need and eligibility. Students will need to divulge many facts about themselves, including:
- One parent’s date of birth and social security number
- Any drug convictions
- The family’s latest income tax return
- Family income estimation
The federal government expects the applicant’s family to contribute to educational costs, too. The common term for this is the Expected Family Contribution . Most federal grants are meant for students who have a greater financial need and might otherwise not be able to afford to go to school. As a result, a student from a family making income above the cutoff isn’t eligible no matter what that student’s academic performance might be.
The Federal Pell Grant is one of the better-known grants available to students in the United States. Undergraduate students from low-income families are eligible for the Pell Grant as long as the student doesn’t already have a bachelor’s degree. In 2010, the maximum amount the government could grant a student under the Pell Grant was $5,500 . Congress determines the maximum payment — the amount can change over time.
In all cases, federal grants come from a limited pool of resources. Once that money is gone, even an eligible student won’t be able to secure a grant until Congress replenishes the grant budget.
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Is It Hard To Get Hired At Target
Its a competitive place to apply, but keep trying! Having worked for Target for 4 years, let me tell you one thing its probably going to be one of the most fun day of your work life. The Target culture is great and a lot of employees have stayed at Target for close to 35 plus years because of this reason.
Grants From Your College
Most colleges, especially private colleges, award grants out of their own funds. While financial need is the basic criteria for grants, colleges can adjust grant amounts based on the student’s academic qualifications or other factors. Check with your college to find out the application process, if any. The best way to qualify for the most generous college-based grants is to be the kind of student the college wants to enroll.
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Iowa National Guard Educational Assistance Grant
The Iowa National Guard Educational Assistance Grant provides awards to Iowa National Guard members who satisfactorily complete required Guard training and maintain satisfactory performance of Guard duty. Students must be pursuing a certificate or degree. This grant is not available for the summer semester.
Grants By Degree Level
To determine your financial eligibility, fill out a . Although most grants are awarded to undergraduates, graduate grants are available and very generous. Graduate grants will often fund your education and pay for career advancement opportunities such as internships and research positions. If you are employed and plan to return to school, check with your employer about scholarship and grant opportunities. Private companies often fund employees who are looking to get a masters, and may offer an increase in pay after the degree is attained. If you plan to utilize your employers financial aid, anticipate working for that company post-graduation.
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Summary: How Grants Can Help You
Grants – which are available from all sorts of sources – are a great way to make college more affordable, especially if your family is relatively low-income .
To optimize the amount of grant money you receive, you should check out funding from federal, state, institutional, and private sources. This may mean that you juggle several deadlines and applications, but I promise that if you do your due diligence ahead of time, the money you save will prove worth it in the long run.
Applying For State Grants For College
Unfortunately, the following three states dont currently have active, publicly-funded grant programs:
- New Hampshire
Thats not to say these states dont offer resources. Nevada, for example, helps parents save up for their younger childrens college costs by providing matching funds through the Silver State Matching Grant.
But wherever you live, review your states aid options. For full details, you could click on the DOEs map of contact information for each states department of education. You might also go directly to your school. If you are looking for Texas grants for college and are enrolled at Texas State University, for example, youd find the financial aid offices listing of available grants.
Applying for state grants for college is an essential step in paying for your education and it just might save you the trouble of taking out student loans.
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Who Can Get Grants For College
The number of students attending 4 year colleges and receiving aid is on the rise. At last count, the federal government awarded $30 billion dollars in need based grants. Recent figures show that 63.3% of college undergraduates receive grants. The average amount of grant money received by a college student is $7,400.
Eligibility to receive a grant for college varies. But to qualify for federal student aid one needs to meet a few basic requirements below:
- Show financial need
- Be a U.S. citizen or legal resident
- Have a valid Social Security number
- Be registered with Selective Service
- Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a regular student in an eligible degree or certificate program
- Maintain satisfactory academic progress in college or career school
- Sign the FAFSA, committing to the terms
- Show you are qualified to obtain a college or career school education
Proper Research Will Lead You To The Grants You Need
Finding the right grant programs to help pay for college takes time, research and diligence. You can begin by talking to your high school advisers and teachers, and then continue your investigations on your own. At this point the internet will be a primary tool in your search for education grants, as will your local libraries.
Any successful grant search begins with knowing yourself, your status as a student and your academic interests. This will help you narrow your focus, and will allow you to eliminate those grant programs for which you are not eligible. Remember, there are need-based grants, merit-based grants and career specific grants, and the first step is understanding the type of program youre looking for. For example, if you are an Hispanic woman going to college to become an accountant, you will want to search for grant programs that are dedicated to Latin-American female students enrolled in business and accounting studies.
Begin your grant search early, to allow yourself plenty of time to find, and apply to, the various grant programs for which you may be eligible. As you begin to search for possible education grants, you will find that they come in all shapes and sizes. You will also find that many grant programs may be found in the most unlikely of places. Look deeply, leave no stone unturned, and you may find the necessary education grants that will help meet your college costs.
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Getting More Than Grants
Because the government funding used to pay the federal grants is limited, usually the amount of grants a student receives does not pay for the entire cost of tuition and fees and other college costs. A first-year college student usually does not receive as much grant aid as they do in later years of enrollment in college. Federal grants are based upon financial need which is calculated by the federal aid program.
When you apply for a federal grant, a needs analysis is completed by the government or the college to determine the expected contribution of the student and that of the students parents. This expected contribution amount affects the amount of federal grants that are available or awarded to the student. The amount of pell grant a college student could receive ranges from $609 to $5,550 per student for the 2010-11 financial aid award year. The amount of pell grant each college student is awarded varies and is based upon the students financial need.
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Using Grant Money For Living Expenses
Grant money is either paid directly to the student or to the school. If you have a federal grant, for example, money is often paid directly to the school. They will then apply it toward your tuition and fees, as well as your room and board if you live on campus. Any excess money will be disbursed directly to you to use on books, supplies, rent, and other living expenses.
Grants are typically disbursed to the school in two payments per academic year and then paid out to you at least once per term. Federal student aid programs require that you have access to funds within the first week of the start of each term, so you can buy books and course materials.
If your grant is a specific housing allowance or housing grant, you will need to apply that directly to your room and board costs. Much of the time, grants for college expenses are flexible: As the student, you can put them toward what you need to live while attending school.
When going to college, you have two options for housing: on and off campus. On-campus housing is usually in the form of a dorm. In this case, the school is typically the landlord. Grants that are disbursed directly to your school will be used to pay the costs of room and board directly. If you live off campus, you may need to use excess grant money that is disbursed to you directly to pay for your living expenses.
Indiana National Guard Supplemental Grant
Description: State grant for eligible members of the Indiana Air and Army National Guard
Eligibility: Certified by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and the Indiana National Guard
Contact: Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 101 West Ohio Street, Suite 300, Indianapolis, IN 46204-4206, 888.528.4719,
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How To Find A State Grant
Many states offer college grant programs for state residents. This tool on the Department of Educations website can help you find the agency that distributes each states grants. To be eligible for grants, most states require that you fill out the FAFSA. Some including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York have a separate grant application in addition to the FAFSA. | <urn:uuid:d1e3ec3a-e2f3-4179-a7f6-92e2f6858235> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.everythingcollege.info/how-grants-work-for-college/ | 2023-09-27T10:35:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.951945 | 3,627 |
Audi RS 7 Performance review
This story started with a blank. Well, obviously with a blank page, but my mind too was blank. And this does not usually happen when there’s a very fast car to drive.
So there we were, in time to catch the sun rise over our favourite driving road outside Pune, streaks of mud courtesy the incessant rains wiped clean off the flanks, a glorious day dawning over a glorious car – a car that I’m rather familiar with. In three years of evo India we have done not one, but three major features with the RS 7. And now here we are, staring at a fourth. Where do I find the adjectives for yet another story? Heck there aren’t even lashings of carbonfibre to differentiate this RS 7 Performance from the hardly-shabby-on-performance RS 7. This car hasn’t even been launched in India so I can’t make any wisecracks on what obviously will be a mountain of money that Audi will happily relieve you of should you want to enter this club.
Gaurav is equally flummoxed. “What’s new?” he asks. What remains unsaid is, “Why did you wake me up at 4am?” Well, for that I have a very good reason – when offered a car that has an overabundance of horsepower you always say yes. Always. Even if there’s no story in sight.
Screw the photography then, let’s go for a drive. Engine in Sport. Gearbox in Sport. Steering in Sport. Differential in Sport. Suspension in Comfort. Lavasa, here we come. Left foot on brake, right on accelerator. Launch. F*#k! Nothing to write??? Launch an RS 7 and you can fill all 300 pages of this magazine with expletives. My god, this is bonkers!
The thing is you aren’t prepared for it. In an R8, for example, you expect your kidneys to be mashed into pulp by g-forces. In an M or AMG there’s such a big bonfire in the rear wheel arches that your mind goes into self-preservation mode, only rebooting at the speed at which apps now open on my iPhone newly updated with iOS 10.
The RS 7 just goes. Hunkers down on the rear dampers, a lightness to the helm to indicate weight transfer, no tyre smoke – just tremendous, a truly tremendous build up of pace. It’s vicious, violent and, most of all, an unexpected punch in the gut. Gaurav, a man with a hardy stomach for automotive violence, finds words to earn a smack from his mother.
Yet I can’t figure out what’s new with this RS 7 Performance. Okay, that’s a lie. I’m old school in that I read press kits before going out on a drive and I know what’s new with the RS 7 Performance – and that is 45bhp. I also re-read what I had earlier written about the RS 7 and no where could I find a hint for more horsepower. Yet somebody, definitely, asked for more power. And he’s my new best friend. Can you imagine the swagger required to rock up at an Audi dealership, take the RS 7 out for a spin, and walk out complaining that 552bhp was… not enough. Whoever you are, wherever you are, please know that you have a free subscription to this magazine for the rest of your life.
Anyway, to keep my new best friend happy, Audi extracted an additional 45 horses from the bi-turbo V8 and stuck a ‘Performance’ suffix to the RS 7. Not that it says that anywhere on the car (why?) but here we have a four-door, four-seat saloon car, a car that is usually to be found running a 3-litre diesel engine, sporting 600 Pferdestärkes (or 597bhp in plain English). And, even more mind-boggling-ly 750Nm of torque. That’s 190Nm more than an R8. WTF!
Anybody who says they can feel the extra 45bhp on the road, a public road at that, is evidently a better driver than me. Definitely a better tester than I. 552bhp is already enough power to make you soil your pants. Taking that up to 597bhp, well, your breakfast is already in your pants so it’s not going to make much difference, is it? And the figures back it up. 0-100kmph is quicker by two tenths, 3.7 seconds from 3.9 seconds. The difference lies in the 0-200kmph sprint that is quicker by 1.4 seconds. That’s your prison sentence extended to life.
And, for a car built for a 3-litre diesel engine (you do know that the A7 is an A6 with a sexy roofline), the
RS 7 – well the RS 7 Performance since that is the car we are talking about here – isn’t overwhelmed by all those horses. On a greasy road with more corners than straights the RS 7 – RS 7 Performance, sorry – is just mighty, a damn sight easier to drive to its limits than an AMG or M. It’s effortless performance. Once you’ve deployed your breakfast in your pants, deploying 597bhp on the road is way, way easier than it should be. It grips and goes. Pop your brave pills, give it more gas on the exit of corners than is wise, and you can feel the limited slip rear differential coming into play, the back end describing a slightly wider arc than the fronts, a smidge of oversteer to tell you it is oversteering but not to the point that your already bulging eyeballs pop right out of their sockets. The extra horsepower, actually the extra torque, does make it easier to bring the tail into play, or (and I’ll be completely honest here) it could just be the extra greasiness of a road subject to overnight rains. I also thought there was more whistling and whooshing from the two turbos but any car tester who can say that with a measure of certainty without back-to-back testing with the not-the-Performance RS 7 should really be working (and making more money) at Bose.
All said the RS 7, Performance or otherwise, is an epic driving experience. It even rides surprisingly well for a 597bhp monster – and because this is India, these things do matter, even more so than fuel efficiency (around 5kmpl and I don’t know why you’re asking). What the RS 7 is not, is as involving as a rear-wheel drive AMG or M. You can’t smoke the rears and that’s a bummer. Getting the rear to do a (slight) wiggle needs more commitment than what you mustered to stay awake all night copying those engineering sheets prior to final submission. And if the rear does get seriously sideways, oh boy, you need a little divine intervention to avoid a big f*#king bill. It does take away some emotion from the ‘Thrill of Driving’ but performance is truly Himalayan; even behind the wheel you can make yourself sick. Gaurav had enough an hour ago and is following in our tracking car.
Does the RS 7 Performance make any sense? Why the heck not? At 30 odd lakh rupees more than the RS 7’s 1.4 crore the price hardly matters then, does it? The only problem is another car that the go-faster boys at Audi make. It’s called the RS 6 Avant – it has similar performance, has space for two huskies, and is so cool that everything in your pants ice over. Now for my new best friend to bring his swag to Audi Gurgaon and place a deposit for one. | <urn:uuid:d8bd7a00-ea03-47b9-bacb-b78c0420cc55> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.evoindia.com/cars/audi-rs7-review | 2023-09-27T11:45:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.94444 | 1,713 |
In the past decade many of the most popular Best Selling books about parenting and raising healthy children, have proffered profoundly important and deep messages. Using a mix of research and empirical observation, illustrated with countless anecdotal case studies, they have taught us repeatedly these breakthrough revelations:
• Spoiling kids is bad for them.
• Too much instant gratification (e.g. media) is bad for them.
• Too much ‘left brain’ school work – especially at young ages – is bad for them.
• Too much sugar is bad for kids.
• Exercise and movement is crucial for healthy development
• Play, especially outdoors, is good for kids.
• Creativity and imagination is good for kids.
• People don’t have to go to an ‘elite’ college to have professional success in life.
Let me repeat that last one as it is almost mind blowing in its assertion: People do not have to go to an IVY to have professional success in life. Really – read it yourself if you don’t believe it.
I mean, isn’t this stuff BLATANTLY OBVIOUS?
Don’t we all know this from our own upbringing and life experience?
Don’t we all know thousands of people who are successful in the careers without having gone to a prestigious school?
Don’t we all know that we feel healthier, more centered and more alive after a good long hike or swim in the outdoors?
Don’t we all know that most of the joys of our childhood came from countless hours of spontaneous play?
Do we really need to read books scientifically proving these things and validated by expert endorsement?
Ironically, apparently the answer is yes.
But why? Why have so many highly educated, successful, intelligent Gen-Xers forgotten what works? What is distracting us, scaring us, confusing us, convincing us, to ignore what we instinctively know to be true?
Beginning next week I will be posting a series of very critical entries about this topic.
It is time we step up and take back rationality, reason and our humanness.
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As renewable energy gained national popularity, scientists developed production mechanisms that reached toward smaller footprints. Recent tax incentive extensions provide financial support for wind turbine customers, increasing residential and commercial purchases. The government’s support of clean energy development is up against significant ecological challenges, however.
Like all technological devices, wind turbines generate carbon emissions. Until America develops enough renewable power to support all industrial production, turbines may continue generating atmospheric pollution. Over time, professionals predict the effects will decrease as society transitions away from fossil fuel-reliant energy.
A Life Cycle Assessment
When evaluating the carbon footprint of any device, professionals must conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA). Rather than examining direct emissions, the evaluation begins its carbon identification starting from material extraction. The five phases of an LCA begin with material production and extend through turbine dismantling.
Mining and producing aluminum, steel, concrete and more, all affect the environment. If a production facility runs on fossil fuels, the assessment adds the emissions to a turbine’s footprint. The construction process produces nearly 80% of a turbine’s emissions.
The transportation of materials and turbines additionally creates a sustainability challenge. In the U.S., the transportation sector generates 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Over time, when combined with production pollution, turbines can generate a large carbon footprint.
The Kuznets Curve
A 1900s economist developed the Kuznets Curve theory, explaining industrial development and the leveling of class divisions. Environmentalists took the approach and aligned it with pollution, demonstrating the effect of technological advancements. Based on the Kuznets Curve, the initial production of turbines may cause increases in carbon emissions.
Over time, renewable energy may become the dominant source of electricity, eliminating in-use emissions. Additional advancements in the industry may promote low-emission power production. For instance, a team of researchers developed a method of producing hydrogen for fuel cells using wind turbines.
Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy sources generate zero emissions when developing electricity. The combustion process associated with coal and natural gas produces atmospheric degradation. Unfortunately, the modern era of development disproved the environmental association with the Kuznets Curve.
After the industrial revolution, America’s emissions began decreasing. Rather than developing low-emission technology, national companies started outsourcing their work and materials from less developed nations. U.S. emissions were slowing because other nations’ emissions were rising.
Fortunately, environmental scientists recognized the problem, labeling it the “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) phenomenon. As a result, rather than outsourcing pollution, America began taking responsibility for its actions, in part by increasing industrial transparency.
Environmental engineers began development on wind turbine advancements, reducing production emissions and material pollution. Increasing the longevity of a system significantly reduces waste over time. One team developed a sustainable sealing device, increasing the lifespan of a turbine.
Conventional sealing materials degrade quickly when exposed to sunlight. The new H-profile device maintains efficiency over its lifetime. Additionally, it decreases grease pollution and material waste.
Increasing the efficiency of wind energy production also decreases emissions and pollution. Engineers increase the sustainability and electricity conversion rates of turbine generators, maximizing power development. Creating optimal renewable energy storage systems also increases the efficiency of wind power.
Renewable energy storage is a relatively new industry, creating sustainability challenges. The space and materials needed for conservation and meeting real-time demands limit the sustainability of energy storage. Compressed air systems offer a low-emission and pollution-free alternative to conventional energy storage techniques.
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Microsoft has entered into a patent agreement with Velocity Micro, a maker of Android-based tablets. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed by either company.
Velocity Micro’s Cruz tablets target the “value” audience, with price-points below most other Android devices on the market. The 7-inch Cruz T301 e-reader retails for $199.99 and runs Android 2.2, supporting applications such as Facebook and Twitter, while the $149.99 Cruz R101 e-reader runs Android 2.0 and comes stocked with Borders e-books.
This marks the second time in a week that Microsoft has reached an agreement with a manufacturer over patents related to Android. On June 27, the company announced a deal with General Dynamics Itronix wherein the latter would pay publicly unspecified royalties on Android-based products.
For several quarters, Microsoft has pursued a stark strategy with regard to manufacturers of Android devices such as smartphones and tablets: pay royalties, or face a patent-infringement lawsuit. Microsoft claims the Android platform infringes on a number of Microsoft-held patents.
Other companies have entered into similar royalty agreements with Redmond. In April 2010, HTC announced that it had agreed to pay Microsoft in exchange for the use of “patented technology” in its Android-powered smartphones. In the wake of that, rumors circulated that Microsoft was actively seeking similar arrangements with other unnamed companies.
However, other Android manufacturers have been willing to put up a fight. Barnes & Noble, whose Nook e-reader uses Android, filed a countersuit against Microsoft after the latter sued it for patent infringement.
The bookseller’s counterclaim, filed April 25 with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, described Microsoft as repeatedly arguing that its patent portfolio would “entirely preclude the use of Android Operating System by the Nook,” and mentions that both HTC and Amazon have entered into patent-licensing deals with Redmond.
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Guest post by Eric McDonald, Founder and CEO, DocuTAP
Expediency, exceptional service and a reasonable price. It’s the ideal for American consumers, particularly in healthcare. Because of that demand, patients were the drivers behind the adoption of the urgent care industry.
It started in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Family practices started taking walk-in patients. While it wasn’t branded as such, that was the inception of urgent care. Since then, the urgent care industry has morphed into what it is today – a walk-in facility with extended hour service for adults and children with acute illnesses and injuries. But, that definition doesn’t do urgent cares justice. Urgent cares are setting the tone for what healthcare consumers want. They want unscheduled appointments, they want stellar service, they want a location that’s easy to find with accessible parking, they want distinguishable amenities, and they want the cost to be lower and more transparent.
There are approximately 9,000 urgent care centers in operation, according to the Urgent Care Association of America. The UCAOA’s 2012 Urgent Care Benchmarking Study concludes that urgent care centers see three million visits per week, totaling more than 160 million visits annually. The urgent care industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the country. With roughly two clinics opening every day, it’s expected there will be 15,000 urgent care centers by 2019.
With the boom in the urgent care space, some in the healthcare industry are concerned about the flow of patient information. Considering urgent care visits are typically one-offs, some patient information isn’t getting back to the primary care providers and health systems as it should. However, the healthcare industry is making strides to combat this through technology, interfaces, federal initiatives, and health systems partnering with urgent cares.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 129.8 million people go to the emergency room annually. Many of those patients could have just as easily been seen in an urgent care. On average, those people would have spent $784 less and saved nearly three hours by going to an urgent care center (UCAOA 2012 Urgent Care Benchmarking Study). Those statistics are why many health systems are realizing the need to get into urgent care. Despite that, hospitals historically haven’t been as successful at running urgent care centers. Hospitals use emergency room doctors at emergency room rates and often see urgent care as a feeder rather than an actual revenue stream. Instead of making 20 percent to 30 percent profit, the hospitals barely break even.
That’s why many major health systems are partnering with urgent care centers through an Independent Practice Association (IPA) or an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The partnerships provide the hospital with further brand recognition, referrals, and the patient’s medical record. This also allows each specialty to concentrate on what they do best. In turn, the urgent care becomes part of the ecosystem of the health system. The IPA and ACO model is a win-win for both the health system and the urgent care. Many see these partnerships as the future of urgent care.
For entrepreneurs, the urgent care space is attractive. It caters to the entrepreneurial spirit — exceptional service is rewarded with relatively high profit margins. Private equity and corporate owned groups see urgent care centers as an opportunity. There’s also a high level of competitiveness. Urgent care centers are pushing health systems to give consumers what they want – price transparency, cost comparison, and a focus on patient experience. Quickly, the urgent care industry is changing the face of healthcare.
Big box retail chains also see healthcare as an attractive industry. But, keep in mind, retail chains only offer limited care for the most minor of illnesses, such as an earache or a sore throat. The providers at these stores are unable to suture, take an x-ray for a possible broken bone or provide ambulatory care. A licensed physician is not required to operate at these stores. Big box retail chains are not urgent care centers.
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If your patients wanted to wait on a doctor appointment, they probably wouldn’t be at your urgent care. Getting patients in and out is a key to building your business. But what’s the average wait time for urgent care patients? According to DocuTAP research reported in the Urgent Care Quarterly, that depends on how patients schedule their visit.
There can be a significant difference not only in wait time, but in the way patients react to the wait.
At every patient touch point, you have an opportunity to streamline the process and prove that your practice understands the need for convenience and the importance of providing an experience focused on patient satisfaction.
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In celebration of Expo 2020 Dubai's Veganuary (Vegan + January), we're sharing a few of our favorite plant-based dishes you can find at Expo 2020 Dubai!
When I first started planning my trip to Dubai, I was admittedly a little worried! I love exploring cultures through their food, but wasn't quite sure how I'd do that at the Expo. Luckily though, after what felt like hours of research (lots of scrolling through the Expo App!), reaching out to Eat at Expo, and just walking around, I was able to find a ton of places that had plant-friendly options! See below for some of my favorite dishes.
Located next to the Waterfall, Alkebulan has food options for everyone! Take a walk through both floors to see all the options. We got food from Penja (Juicy No Chicken Burger & Fried Plantains and Red Red Green) and drinks from Jiko and Bar Cane (not pictured).
Warning: Not everything pictured is vegan, but they have a lot of options! If you want to experience authentic Emirati food, you NEED to try Arabian Tea House. They have several locations in the city (pictured above), but this one is located right inside next to Al Wasl. Be sure to go with a friend so you can try as many things as possible! Pictured here is one of their breakfast platters. We also tried one of their dinners to go (while listening to Alicia Keys live!) and it was just as delicious.
Lunch with a view! After learning all about sustainability at Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion, head on up to the roof for lunch at Mudrá. This restaurant comes from famed vegan chef, Matthew Kenney and has a location in Buenos Aires. This was one of our first meals at the Expo - off to a great start! We really recommend XYST (menu) too, also in Terra.
On your way out of Terra, stop by Floozie and pick up a cookie or two! They have a few different options, as well as a rotating seasonal one! Warning - they have a gooey filling and are a bit sweet! Pro Tip: They have another location near the Japan Pavilion - we recommend grabbing a soft-serve while you wait in line!
When you think of Spain, is there anything better than a warm bowl of paella?! Hop on over to the Spain Pavilion for not one, but two options! Choose to sit down and order at a table, or order some quick paella to go.
The Expo has no shortage of coffee! While there are a lot of coffee shops through the site, stop by Rwanda for a free espresso shot! Thanks to our friends at World Expo Museum for the tip.
Located in one of the food truck areas in the Mobility District, Spout has a range of options from dumplings to Mac n Cheese to popsicles! They also seemed to have some great deals while we were there!
If you're craving a classic burger & fries, check out the Impossible Burger at Adrift, also located in the Mobility District. With outdoor seating perfect for the evenings, order from the extensive drink menu and enjoy a burger from a Michelin-rated chef - David Myers. Bonus: they have outdoor seating, so you can also enjoy the beautiful evening weather.
The theme for the Netherlands was "Uniting Water, Energy, and Food," so it's no surprise that they had some sustainable food options as well! After wandering through the Dutch Pavilion, you enter into a room filled with the smell of freshly made stroopwafel! We highly recommend you try one - but they also have to-go lunch meals like this "chicken" bowl."
There's not much else on the menu that's vegan, but this dessert was delicious. The sorbet is a mix of berries and lavender. We also ordered a lavender lemonade!
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How does an old media guy do new media? With big budgets, but not too big. And with his eyes on the prize of crossing over any one project onto all sorts of platforms.
In his “old world” experience of producing young adult media properties, Albie Hecht, CEO of web studio Worldwide Biggies and former president of Nickelodeon, said the upfront cost for a live action series could be $2 million; for an animated series, $10 million; or for a movie, $50 million. Now, he said, “It costs us under $50,000 to prototype something, max a quarter million to bring it to the marketplace.”
Hecht, who said his goal is to have both an IP library like Warner Bros. and a game library like Parker Brothers within 10 years, employs 25 in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. His latest project, El Vacio, will be released on Atom.com tomorrow. (Initial reports about the series when it was birthed during the writers’ strike used the English version of the title, The Void.)
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Unlike many other web series these days, the show wasn’t created with sponsors in mind (and in wallet). Revenue is coming through web distribution, at least initially; Atom has signed an exclusive license to the show. And Hecht claimed Comedy Central, which is closely affiliated with Atom.com through parent company Viacom, has expressed interest in showing the series on TV.
Hecht used a baseball analogy to lay out for us his strategy of monetizing a web series. Singles and doubles are casual games, revenue shares, PC games at retail, deals for branded or syndicated web series. Triples are TV distribution, console games, or virtual worlds. The “home-run derby” is movies and licensing. “We can survive on singles and doubles,” he said. It also helps that the company raised $9 million in August 2007 from NBC Universal, Platform Equity, Hearst Corp., Greycroft Partners and Prism VentureWorks.
The company wants to launch four more properties per year. Though investor NBC has an option to distribute and sell advertising against Biggies projects, that hasn’t happened yet.
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Growing up my parents didn't drink much but every Christmas my dad would make Grasshoppers, a frozen mint chocolate cocktail drink. We kids would just sit there and stare at the adults indulging what seemed like the most amazing Christmas dessert ever. Finally, I can have a grasshopper milkshake whenever I want, especially at Christmas time.
Grasshoppers drink is a boozy milkshake that mixes ice cream, creme de menthe, and creme de cacao together for a perfect mint chocolate drink or dessert. These are the perfect dessert on hot summer nights or after opening presents on Christmas. The mint lovers in your life will thank you for these grasshoppers.
- Cream De Menthe - This liqueur comes in both a clear version and a green version. If you want the grasshopper drink to be green, you have to buy the green creme de menthe.
- Creme De Cacao - Just like the creme de menthe, the creme de cacao comes in brown or clear. But you want to buy the clear for the grasshoppers!
- Cream or Ice Cream - Now, this recipe is for the grasshopper milkshakes. But you could easily make this grasshopper drink with cream. Much like the white Christmas cocktail.
Then I got a crazy idea to throw an Oreo cookie in the blender to make it a mint oreo milkshake. We are all sorts of fancy around here.
To make the grasshopper without alcohol, just buy some mint syrup and also use some chocolate syrup to make it chocolatey or not.
The big debate isn't if you put an Oreo in your Grasshoppers but rather how much creme de menthe and creme de cacao you put in. It appears my dad and I don't have the same view on pours. It appears my hand has a heavier pour. So, I will give you a weaker recommendation on how much booze to use, but feel free to pour a bit heavier.
To get the color right you need to be clear creme de cacao and green creme de menthe. If you send someone to town to buy these items for you, they could come home with clear creme de menthe and brown creme de cacao. I may or may not have these versions of the booze in my cabinet. They will nail the flavor but maybe not the color you are going for with the grasshopper frozen cocktails.
Simply add the ice cream to a blender. For every half-full blender of ice cream or about 3 cups of ice cream, I add a quarter cup of each creme de menthe and creme de cacao. For a full blender, or 6 cups of ice cream double the volume of booze. Toss in an oreo or two to give it cookies and cream essence to go along with the minty frozen drink cocktail.
- Chill your booze. I keep a lot of my liquor in the freezer. This helps the cold drinks be colder, like these milkshakes without melting what is already frozen. To keep the milkshake from getting too runny, start with booze from the freezer.
- Use a hand-heated ice cream scoop. If you are going to use rock-hard ice cream, I recommend getting an ice cream scoop that heats to the temp of your hand.
- Change up the ice cream. Just because I use vanilla doesn't mean that cookies and cream, chocolate, or even mint chocolate chip wouldn't be good in this grasshopper.
Grasshoppers Drink - Boozy Mint Chocolate Milkshakes
- 3 cups vanilla ice cream
- ¼ cup creme de menthe
- ¼ cup creme de cacao
- 1 oreo cookie optional
- whipped cream optional
- Combine the ice cream, creme de menthe and creme de cacao in a blender.
- Blend to combine, stopping to stir as needed. Add the oreo at the end.
- Pour into cups and top with whipped cream.
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Castle in Tuscany Project
Starting from June 2022, the FAU Italian Program organizes a summer research camp in the medieval castle of Castiglione del Terziere, in Lunigiana, the hilly northern part of Tuscany. The castle was the home of Loris Jacopo Bononi, M.D., poet and mecenate of the arts, and it houses a unique collection of first printed editions of Italian literature.
Thanks to the friendship of the castle owner, Raffaella Paoletti, every summer we offer a Poetry and Creative Writing Camp. Watch Dr. Paoletti's invitation. The camp is open to a limited number of students and friends of the FAU Italian program, as an invitation to participate in your Professors' research. Research assistantships are available.
The 2023 Research Camp: June 16 to June 18, 2023. The topic was free as students came from all backgrounds. Alessio Giovene worked on an original autograph letter by Giacomo Leopardi; Barbara Salani worked on the opera "Amalia e Carlo," her dissertation topic; Architecture students, Marianna Moricci and Alessio MacPherson, worked on the renovation of the castle windows and the castle crest; Orianna Soublette and Lea Lavandel worked on a XVII century hand-written Titolario belonging to the Duchess of Tuscany; Zoey Wychert described the castle's views; Ilaria Serra furthered her research on Bononi's poetry, topic of her forthcoming article. Alumnus Federico Tiberini also joined the working group.
2023 group on the castle terrace. Click on the picture for the final video
The 2022 Research Camp: June 26 to June 30, 2022. The participants were undegraduate students, Allison Acosta, Francesca Cocilovo and Laura Possu-Zapatoski; graduate students Barbara Salani and Manuela Filomena; alumni Cat Coule and Zachary Scalzo. The camp was directed by Prof. Ilaria Serra and Dr. Emanuele Pettener. Watch Dr. Serra's invitation.
A study moment under the pergola. Click on the picture to view Francesca Cocilovo's description of the study area, 2022
Dressed for the opera reading of "Amalia e Carlo." Click on the picture to view Barbara Salani's description of the camp, 2022
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Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro have become the latest additions to the Pixel lineup. The two devices come shipped with Android 13 out of the box and a lot of customization. Google devices have been among the most popular Android devices for custom developments.
- I would say the difficulty depends on your specific device.
- Now, close the SP Flash tool and unplug your smartphone.
- Nandroid backup is necessary in order to create a secondary backup of your current stock ROM or modified ROM in any Android device.
- The backup themselves can still be restored, but you’ll need some extra leg work to get them.
If you’re having trouble, you can also turn on Google One’s Backup by Google and go through the on-screen instructions. Devices that have Android 4.0 and above can be backed up from the Android SDK and saved to a file on your PC. This process will allow you to have all of the data from your phone placed into a backup file on your computer. Backing up your Android phone to your Google account is a simple and effective way to keep your data safe.
- Your Android device should be backed up in this manner.
- In the respective tables below, you will find the links to download all versions of the SP Flash Tool for Windows and Linux computers.
- When it’s done, simply tap “Reboot System” to wrap things up.
- Rooting is an important process that must be done to Android device, so you can backup the system data or stock ROM so as to keep the same way the device works as before.
Android’s default recovery seems to have come a long a way as I recently noticed it now includes a backup and restore data function. I first noticed it on the Infinix Zero 3 then recently on the Oukitel K6000 Pro. Before going to install stock ROM you need to take a backup of all your messages, photos, and apps from your smartphone. In order to do so, you are going to need a flashing tool called Odin. It is a tool for Samsung devices that helps users flash ROMs on their devices. It can also be used to flash custom recoveries as well as doing some other tech stuff. Connect your phone to your PC, go to ADB installation folder, open a command window from there and issue the below command to flash stock recovery image.
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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have been announced as the headliners for BST Hyde Park 2023, performing on Saturday, July 8th. The legendary artist behind “Born To Run” will take the stage at 7pm.
It comes after another Bruce Springsteen show on Thursday with different support acts. Both nights completely sold out and sadly, very few resale tickets are coming through on official channels or via ethical resale site Twickets. The cheapest ticket on Viagogo is currently £589.
For those fortunate to possess a ticket, we have provided the complete stage times for Saturday below.
BST Hyde Park Saturday 8th July: Bruce Springsteen set times
Great Oak Stage
- 7:00 PM – 10:20 PM: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
- 5:00 PM: The Chicks
- 3:30 PM: James Bay
- 2:30 PM: Brittney Spencer
- 6:00 PM: Pa Sheehy
- 4:25 PM: Sam Barber
- 6:00 PM: Kingfisher
- 4:20 PM: Kezia Gill
- 3:00 PM: Kelly McGrath
All BST Hyde Park 2023 set times
- Thursday 6th July: Bruce Springsteen
- Friday 7th July: Billy Joel
- Saturday 8th July: Bruce Springsteen
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Poodle + Bernese Mountain Dog
Why a Bernedoodle?
A Bernedoodle is a cross between a Bernese Mountain Dog and a purebred Standard Poodle. The Bernese is not only gorgeous, but is also considered one of the most loyal family dogs. The Standard Poodle is known for its intelligence, and because they don't shed, they are hypoallergenic. They're also full of goofiness and have a character that you'll fall in love with.
The cross between these two breeds gives you a healthier dog through hybrid vigor. You also get the hair from the Standard Poodle, meaning little to no shedding. With the combined good looks of the Bernese and the smarts of the Standard Poodle, Bernedoodles make the perfect family pet!
Watch this to get a general 101 on Bernedoodles and Fife & Wife's breeding program, and see why we are rated one of the best Bernedoodle breeders worldwide.
Bernedoodles have a playful personality that thrives in the family home. Like the Bernese, they're smart, loyal, and caring, making them easy to train and ideal for children, elderly, and service occupations. Bernedoodles are happiest as inside dogs because they want to be part of the family. They love the outdoors, though, and with the power of the Bernese and hunting skills of the poodle, they're extremely athletic and agile. However, if you want to flop on the couch, they are more than happy to join you!
Your puppy will have curly hair with low to no shedding. The curler the hair, the less shedding. If you have allergies, this is a great dog to have, but please note that those with severe allergies may still experience symptoms. The Bernedoodle has half hair, half fur. Hair you have to cut, fur you don't. Bernedoodles should be groomed every 8 weeks, but if you're consistent with your brushing and bathing, you can wait longer. If grooming is neglected, Bernedoodles will mat, meaning the hair will begin to knot. This could cause red marks, itchiness, irritation, and odor. Please groom your dog. It makes a HUGE affect on their mood and health. I would LOVE to groom your puppy. I am a certified groomer.
Everyone loves the look of the Bernese Mountain Dog. The beautiful markings are striking. I strive to provide this through selective breeding, producing beautiful tri-color, black and white, phantom, brindle, merel, and sable puppies. They are all gorgeous, unique, and adorable.
Hover over pictures to see the descriptions of each coloring type.
Sable is red coloring on the back with white and brown markings
Tri is the three Bernese colors: black brown and white
Black and white is just that, black and white
Brindle is striping on the coat in typically darker colors
Phantom Merle is the gray spotted color on the back with brown on the legs and face
Phantom is black and brown markings
Standard Bernedoodles can range from 45 to 90 pounds. Sometimes it's hard to tell exactly how big they will be. My puppies will grow to 65 to 85 pounds.
I will be adding Moyen Poodles to my program to bring a much smaller Bernedoodle to those who need a smaller dog. Moyen Poodles range from 17-20 inches in height and 20-35 pounds. This cross will produce Bernedoodles that are 40-65 pounds, and won't compromise the integrity of the Bernese.
I believe in breeding only F1's because that's where you get hybrid vigor. They make for the healthiest cross along with the best hair. F1's hair does not get matted as quickly as your F1b's and other generations. I know this personally because I have had to shave several dogs that have this coat. From my professional opinion F1's are the superior cross. The 50/50 is the perfect breed. I like to describe F1s are similar to ice cream and chocolate I am not trying to reinvent the two but putting the two together makes for a perfect combination.
Socializing your puppy
From 0 to 4 weeks of age, the puppies live in my front living room, getting them used to the goings-on of family life. Puppies are not raised on slick floors; I believe being raised on slick floors can cause hip dysplasia. They are raised on blankets , rubber mats and shavings as their potty area. As their eyes open at two weeks, they start to get interested in noises and movement. This is when the fun begins. I do ENS training on the puppies which I have seen first hand how big difference this makes on puppies as they mature. ENS stands for Early neurological stimulation. Learn more here.
From 2-6 weeks, the puppies receive a a professional groom at least twice. This includes pads, sanitary, bath, blow out, ears cleaning, and anal glands expressed. I deworm at two weeks - four weeks - six weeks. They are brushed and blow dried on a regular basis to get desensitized. Exposing the puppies different environments along with them being treat trained and litter box trained. We also do activities where they search for their food.
I start working on basic commands and leash work at 7-8 weeks. The puppies have training sessions morning, noon, and night. Consistency is KEY. I also begin getting them used to the crate. That does not necessarily mean they will be crate trained; I believe my job is to expose the puppy to everything I can so the transition into a new home isn't as scary for them. Farm life allows me to provide that strong foundation to your puppy. It gives them the opportunity to run around on 32 acres of mud, sand, puddles, ponds, grass, weeds, gravel, and much more. They interact with pigs, chickens, cats, cows, horses and my kids. They are taken on car rides and treated like family.
From 4 to 8 weeks they move out of my home and live in what I like to call their own cozy "dog barn." It's insulated and has electricity, as well as a spacious run when weather permits. By giving the puppies their own space, they learn that they don't need to be around people 24/7. This cultivates a confident puppy with a healthy dose of independence.
I also let them experience being in a pack of adult dogs. Other canines are truly their best teachers, because they know exactly what they need to grow and develop.
If this is how you would like your puppy to be raised, fill out my adoption application and we can find the puppy that's right for you.
The Volhard method is very helpful in picking a puppy. Puppies have this test done at 49 days old, and that's when puppy picking will happen. Matching the right personality to the right owner is crucial for a successful partnership with your puppy.
Bernedoodle & Poodle care
Being a professionally certified dog groomer, I highly recommend taking your dog to a professional groomer at least once every 8 weeks. But of course I understand if you want to try and do it yourself. Just please note that grooming is much more difficult than you expect, and there are safety concerns of cutting your dog having to take it to the vet. That being said, learn how to do it properly, and if you feel comfortable, then by all means give it a try.
The style that you wish your dog to be groomed is up to you. There is no such thing as a doodle groom, so there's a lot of creative liberty here! Your dog's hair grows back, so have fun with it. Change it up and see what you like. Your first groom is half off if you bring the puppy back for me to groom! Visit my grooming services page for more info.
Training your dog trains you. I am a big believer that you can have the perfect pet if you put the time and dedication into your training. I have never had any problems with my dogs. I have had a Siberian Husky, German Shepard, Standard Poodles, Bernese Mountain Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers, but the training never differs. I'm planning to create training videos to help you make your Bernedoodle the perfect pet.
Any personality of dog can be trained. Bernedoodles are especially quick and willing learners. I suspect this is partially what drew you to them, along with their calm nature, willing to go and do anything with you, even watch a Netflix series. But for this to happen, you need to set boundaries and rules. All creatures need a purpose in life, and the puppy's job is to be your companion. This requires consistent training.
We also learn a lot from our dogs, too. Your dog reflects you as a person. If you're uptight, your dog will be uptight. If you're nervous, they're nervous. They mirror you. It's a great way to check yourself and know where you're at in life. You help the dog, the dog helps you. I truly believe that God gave us these creatures when we would listen to no one else but them. They help us learn who we are and what we need in life. They are our angels.
Feeding your puppy the right food is crucial for their health and happiness. I personally love NurtiSource grain-free and Earthborn grain-free. I have seen these foods fix problems that other brands failed to.
In choosing your dog food, make sure to read the ingredients. If it says byproduct, or lists grain as the first ingredient, that dog food is not good quality. It needs to list chicken, fish, bison, etc. as the first ingredient.
I feed my dogs a mix of dry food, raw meat, and goats milk that I grow on my homestead. I believe this is the best diet I can provide for my dogs.
Checking for parasites
There are two parasites that are common in dogs coccidia and giardia. They can be found in most dogs gut and won't show any signs of having such parasite but when stressed it can come out. Change in environment, change in food, weaned or shipped.
Puppies can pick up Giardia by licking water in a puddle licking their feet when we go for walks. It's pretty much everywhere. Birds can bring it in, wild life can bring it in. With that being said, I choose not to kennel my dogs by giving them the opportunity to explore the world. I raise my puppies on the farm, where they get to experience more than most puppies 0-8 weeks old. As a breeder, I try my hardest to keep my puppies free from such parasites, but it can come at a risk of over deworming the puppies and ruining their gut for life, leading to sensitivity to foods.
So what do I do? If you over-deworm puppies and over sanitize their area, that kills the parasites, but also kills other good bacterias that are beneficial to the puppies immune development.
I have come to the the conclusion that it's way more important that your puppy is allowed to go outside and be socialized, explore, and be in a big space where they can run and be free to move their body. I will do my best to keep parasites such as coccidia and giardia under control, but not over sanitize so you're dealing with sensitive stomach issues for the rest of your puppies life.
In conclusion, I will socialize your puppy to the best of my ability. The joys of being on a farm and the socialization that comes with it are what I take to be more important. I of course will deworm, but not at the cost of over doing it to the health of your puppy.
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The most recent footage of Molly McCann on one of her UFC fight appearances may have seen her charging around the arena in celebration, waving championship belts in the air and drinking from bottles of whisky, but the the “Meatball” who arrived in London for her second straight appearance in the English capital is one with a real sense of responsibility and humility.
McCann’s spectacular spinning elbow KO of Luana Carolina at UFC London in March was one of the most stunning knockouts of the year, and her wild celebrations – both after her win and after the victory of her friend and teammate Paddy Pimblett – will live long in the memory.
But while McCann’s highlight-reel win and celebration may have propelled her into the hearts and minds of many MMA fans around the world, the proud Evertonian is keeping her feet firmly on the ground.
“I think notoriety and all of that kind of thing means f**k all,” she told Fighters Only, and other reporters, at media day ahead of her upcoming UFC London bout with Hannah Goldy.
“None of it’s real. Just because you go out and people know my name, it doesn’t really change me as a person. It doesn’t change my life. It doesn’t change my family’s life.”
McCann explained that her ability to stay grounded despite her new-found global notoriety is down in large part to her support structure, whether it’s her family, friends, training partners, or simply the people of her home city.
“Liverpool has got a really good way of sometimes keeping you humble,” she smiled.
“I walk in that gym every day and get humbled by my training partners. My mum, my family, my girlfriend, everyone – I’m the butt of the joke all the time. Just because I fight, it doesn’t mean anything.”
While McCann said notoriety may not mean much, she hopes to leverage it for the benefit of others, and she revealed that it has also helped sharpen her focus on what she wants to achieve in her MMA career.
“I try to be more of a role model and less of just a bevvy head!” she laughed.
“I’ve tried to drink less and do more for the community since getting more notoriety, so that always keeps you humble.
“Through all of this journey, and through everything, and from the last fight, I’ve just realised I just want to be a world champion. I can’t look too far in the future, I’ll take every day and every fight as it comes.”
Her next test comes in the form of Goldy, who claimed a submission win on her last outing. It’s a fresh new test for McCann, who knows that whatever she did in her previous bout will count for nothing when she returns to the octagon on Saturday night.
“Like I say, I can’t live off that (last) performance forever,” she acknowledged.
“I need to make sure my next one outdoes that. However the finish may not ever outdo that last one, the fight IQ and the decision making should, and will.” | <urn:uuid:5974c6b1-885a-4064-84d5-267c9458f82c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fightersonlymag.com/latest-news/molly-mccann-staying-grounded-and-focused-ahead-of-ufc-london-return/ | 2023-09-27T11:14:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.962105 | 695 |
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