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Using a clear coat is a great way to protect your wood pieces, whether it is an outdoor bench, indoor shelf, or kitchen tabletop. It will stabilize the wood and give it a nice look.
There are many options for finishing these items, and in this article, we will look at what you can use to protect your stained wood projects and furniture.
Before we start by looking at the actual products you can use, I will talk about background information regarding the two categories of finishes you can buy.
Then we will look at my preferred finishes for different situations, such as what finish to use when it is a heavy-duty use surface, more apt to water damage, or something lighter use like a wall shelf. We will look at the advantages and disadvantages of water-based vs. oil-based and what gives you the most durable topcoat.
Another thing to consider is your desired sheen. You can go with a high gloss finish (great for exterior projects) or a semi-gloss that will split the difference.
One thing to remember is that there is no perfect finish – for most, it will simply be a matter of taste. Try several different coats out and use them to find what you prefer as the best clear coat for stained wood. Decide which ones you like best based on ease of application and performance.
Table of Contents
- Types of Clear Coat Wood Finishes
- Which Finish Should I Use for Stained Wood?
Types of Clear Coat Wood Finishes
Penetrating Finish – Oil Based
This type of finish absorbs into the actual wood fibers and pores of the surface. Soaking into the wood allows it to penetrate and protect the top of the wood.
These finishes are not very glossy and give an excellent natural look to the wood. They can change the darkness of the wood or even the color, so be sure to test these before applying.
These are usually easy to apply because you can use a brush or a cloth to wipe them. Drying time varies between each specific oil or wax finish. You will need to look at the directions to know exactly how to apply your chosen finish.
Using Oil Based Finishes
Using an oil finish involves rubbing some type of oil mix into the surface to create a nice low sheen finish.
How much of an oil finish you use will depend on its intended use. For a tabletop or butcher block island countertop, you may need to put over three coats of tougher oil like linseed oil. As a general rule, with oil finishes, more coats are better. When applying oil-based finishes, you should use a damp rag or apply with a brush. This way, you can control the amount of oil you are putting on.
There are more strategies for applying oil-based finishes, but the best way to learn is to get your hands dirty. Below we will look at some options for oil-based finishes that are penetrating the wood.
Tung oil is a low sheen and great for interior and exterior use.
This oil is one of the top choices for cutting boards because it can be reapplied often and is naturally derived, so there are food-safe options available.
Linseed oil is another good option for a penetrating oil finish. It has characteristics similar to tung oil, but it can take a long time to dry.
This finish is a mix between oil and varnish that will add some extra protection. It will darken the wood, so be sure to take that into account when applying your stain. Some kinds of danish oil will come with added color/stain.
Wax is easy to apply and can be used to create a higher sheen, depending on what type of wax you buy. You simply apply with a cloth, let dry, and then buff it out after a few minutes.
Surface Finish – Oil Based and Water Based
A surface finish will create a layer on top of the wood that will become hard and protective. These finishes are commonly used on furniture and outdoor wood items. Choosing which one to use can depend on many factors, but for most uses, I will usually go with polyurethane.
It is not critical to go with the direction of the grain of the wood when applying your topcoats. With thin coats, you will be able to get a nice clear finish that is durable and ready for some wear and tear. When you sand between coats, I generally recommend going with the grain of the wood, but even then, it will not matter too much.
Polyurethane is a very protective finish that is suitable for many situations. It is a little more challenging to apply than penetrating oil, but it is still ideal for a beginner.
You can find polyurethane in different sheens, such as high or low gloss. There are also combination stains and finishes available too. It has some drawbacks, such as being difficult to remove brush strokes and dust from the final finish. It is also not great in high UV environments and prone to yellowing.
A polycrylic is great for a more DIY-friendly finish. It is lower VOC for better conditions when applying indoors or not well-ventilated areas.
It isn’t prone to yellowing like polyurethane, but it is less protective and doesn’t do as well in environments with moisture present. Here is a great choice for getting started with a polycrylic based finish.
Lacquer creates a great level of protection and is commonly used on furniture. It isn’t the best for a burnishing wax that will be applied after the finish.
One important part of lacquer is that it is almost always sprayed on. This requires spray equipment and a well-furnished spray area. The main advantage to this finish is that it will almost always be better looking than polyurethane.
A shellac finish, also known as a french polish, is an older style wood finish that can be found on many antiques. It is still a great way to finish furniture and is used often today.
It can be made into a very fine-looking finish, but it is more fragile and susceptible to water and scratches than a finish l like lacquer or polyurethane. You can brush this on, and it is also available in spray cans.
Which Finish Should I Use for Stained Wood?
Deciding which finish to use can be a difficult decision if you make it that way. The worst thing you can do is overthink it. For stained wood, you can generally use any of the products mentioned above. The main thing to keep in mind is that you will get the best results by matching the oil or water-based stain with an oil or water-based finish.
For the majority of my projects, I like to use a urethane-based finish from General Finishes. I will post a link to it below. It is easy to rub on with a clean towel, and after several coats, it provides a great protective coat.
Best Clear Wood Finish – General Finishes Urethane
This is the best finish I have found for indoor furniture, and this includes stained and painted furniture.
This finish works well in a ton of instances. I use it for tabletops, shelves, and other wood projects.
It is easy to apply by rubbing on and doesn’t seem to have too many bubbles doing it this way. You can lightly sand between coats and get a really smooth, crystal clear finish.
For outdoor projects, I like to use a spar urethane or spar varnish that is made specifically for that application. These types of finishes are common on exterior doors and boats where water will be encountered regularly. We will look at that below.
For flooring you will generally want to use a polyurethane because it is very durable, but it won’t be subjected to the UV rays that an outdoor finish will.
Best Clear Coat for Chalk Paint and Milk Paint
One option for sealing chalk or milk paint is using a protective wax. It is great for waterproofing and creating a protective layer. There are disadvantages to using wax, of course. Some disadvantages include :
Waxes can yellow over time. Some waxes are too hard and difficult to rub into wood surfaces, and they can leave a sticky, clear residue on the surface of painted pieces that can attract dirt or dust.
Clearcoat sealers can be used over painted furniture, including latex paint. Be sure to use water or oil-based depending on the underlying coat. You can use a water-based polyurethane type product over chalk paint, or a polycrylic is a good choice as well.
Do You Have to Seal Chalk Paint?
The short answer is yes. If you want to be able to use the furniture like most pieces, such as occasionally putting a drink on it or using it for setting books on it, etc., you will want a clear coat.
This will protect it from moisture and spills. If you have a piece that will be used exclusively for display purposes, then you can probably get away with leaving it unfinished, but even then, I would use a clear coat to protect it from dust or fingerprints.
Latex paint won’t require this treatment because it is already sealed. But even then, I would choose a clear coat if the piece will have any use at all.
You can, of course, use wax over milk and chalk paint furniture for this purpose as well.
Best Sealer for Outdoor Furniture
Choosing a clear coat for outdoor furniture is a decision you should not take lightly. It can be very difficult to effectively seal outdoor furniture properly, and we will look at some options you have to consider before committing to a product.
If you are painting, you will want to seal outdoor furniture within six weeks of painting because, during that time, the paint may not be completely cured yet and could possibly become damaged from the sun.
If you’re looking for the best sealer that’s going to last, you’ll want to read up on two major options: oil and varnish.
Some woodworkers apply an oil such as linseed or tung oils. These are usually painstakingly reapplied about once per year in order to maintain warmth from UV exposure and protection against moisture seeping through cracks. Unfortunately, this process doesn’t work well for someone who wants their wooden outdoor furniture looking its best without having the time or experience necessary for natural finishing.
The best type of exterior finish is probably a spar varnish. “Spar” refers to the masts of ships, and we use the vernacular now to refer to an exterior type of finish.
There are many companies that make an outdoor spar finish, such as Minwax Spar Urethane, Total Boat, or Epifanes Spar Varnish. I highly recommend trying one of these on your next outdoor wood project. These will all be oil-based, so be sure to have the appropriate thinner for your product.
I generally don’t recommend a water-based product for exterior use, but the ones they make now are usually high quality and will be great for outdoor use. Just be sure to get several coats and good coverage for a durable finish.
Should I Use a Water-Based or Oil-Based Finish?
One of the most important distinctions is whether you want a water-based or an oil-based finish.
Water-based finishes may have advantages in terms of ease of use and environmental concerns, but they also tend to yellow over time, whereas oil-based finishes are more expensive but will not react with oxygen which causes them to become dark through exposure to air (oxidation).
Oil-based finishes are typically preferred by professional furniture finishers because they provide greater protection against spills and wear than water-based products.
Ultimately this decision will come down to a few factors:
- What you are comfortable and familiar with
- What type you used for stain/paint
- Interior or exterior use
Do I Need to Spray or Brush the Finish
Unless you have a full setup for spraying a finish on, it will be best to either rub or brush apply. With my preferred method of using a polyurethane, I don’t see the need to spray except to speed things up.
If you have a large area to cover and need to reach within intricate details, a spray can be a good option.
If you don’t have the equipment to do the spraying, you can always use a hybrid approach and purchase some spray cans that will supplement your brush or cloth applied finish.
I choose a cloth to rub on the finish over a brush. A brush will leave brush marks and it is a little harder to apply an even amount. With a cloth you apply thin coat over and over until you reach your desired thickness.
The type of finish you end up using on your furniture will depend on a few factors, such as whether it is for indoor or outdoor use, what type of paint/stain was used and how much time and experience you have.
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Deadline: November 30 of each year
The Arthur Paulin Automotive Scholarship Award was named after long time AIA volunteer Arthur Paulin. Arthur served as President of H. Paulin and Company Limited for over 35 years and he became Chairman of the Board in 1990. Arthur never lost his passion for developing new products, new packaging, and new and better catalogues. He was a teacher and mentor to all who knew him. Mr. Paulin served on the AIA Board of Directors for more than nine years, and he served as President of AIA from 1965 to 1966, and then again from 1967 to 1968. He has the distinction of being the only person to serve as President of AIA for two terms of office. Arthur was a strong supporter of education, and AIA believes that he would be pleased to know that through this scholarship he is assisting future members of the automotive industry.
The Arthur Paulin Automotive Aftermarket Scholarship Awards program was established by members of the Automotive Industries Association of Canada (AIA) to provide monetary assistance to deserving students who wish to further their education in the automotive field. The Scholarship Awards were designed to:
- Promote professionalism within the automotive aftermarket,
- Create awareness of the aftermarket industry and attract new people to the industry, and
- Advance the state of knowledge within the industry.
To be eligible to win an Arthur Paulin Automotive Aftermarket Scholarship, applicants must be enrolled in an automotive aftermarket industry related program or curriculum at a Canadian college or university. This includes students pursuing their studies as an automotive apprentice. It also includes studies in any of the following automotive sectors: auto body, hard parts, heavy duty, or motive power (machinists).
Basis for Selection
In addition to the official scholarship application form, Arthur Paulin Automotive Aftermarket Scholarship applicants must provide the following documentation:
- A letter from the applicant stating his/her long-term automotive goals. The applicant's letter should briefly outline why they believe they should be considered for this scholarship. It may include a summary of past school and work experience.
- A letter from the applicant's primary automotive instructor stating why the instructor feels the scholarship applicant is worthy of receiving the scholarship. This may include the applicant's academic achievements, natural ability, hard work, professionalism, teamwork, attention to detail, initiative, etc.
- A copy of the scholarship applicant's most recent academic record should be included. Overall academic achievements, as well as achievements specifically related to the automotive sector, should be included.
- A brief outline of the scholarship applicant's demonstrated leadership and civic abilities. These abilities do not necessarily have to be automotive related, but should be evident in the applicant's interactions in their school or community environments. Examples of leadership and civic interests include, but are not limited to, acting as class president, working as a volunteer for a charitable or community group, and participating as a member of a service club.
- An outline of financial considerations as they relate to the student's pursuit of their automotive studies. The scholarship applicant's degree of need should be clearly demonstrated. Other scholarships or awards won by the applicant should be noted, as well as the applicant's ability to continue his/her studies based on financial considerations.
How to Apply
At least five scholarships will be awarded annually across Canada to qualified students enrolled in an automotive program in each of the following regions: Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, Western Canada. One scholarship will be awarded to a student pursuing studies at the Canadian Automotive Institute of Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario.
All applicants will be notified of the Selection Committee's decisions. Awards will be applicable to the academic year commencing in September of that year.
The administration of the scholarship program is carried out by the AIA National Office, under the direction of the AIA President and AIA Scholarship Trust Fund Trustees. The Scholarship Selection Committee is determined by the AIA Scholarship Trust Fund Trustees. The legal name of the Arthur Paulin Automotive Aftermarket Scholarship Awards is the "AIA Scholarship Trust Fund".
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For the most part, right brain kids don’t like to take the time out of their free-spirited play to organize. This can be a big negative because they can get overwhelmed and lose sight of what they were supposed to be doing. Be intentional about having them organize things around them. Start with simple things like their sock drawer or book shelves and eventually more of their room and personal belongings. Learning to organize the physical space around them will help develop order in their thinking too.
These are some of the things I think about when organizing for kids, or myself:
- Prepare the environment. Get things ready in the room before the activity begins. To get started, look at the structure of the room, the furniture, the way the room is used and consider ways to make it more effective.
- Shelves, Drawers, Baskets and Boxes are your friends. To create order and a more successful play space, put up a few shelves. Be sure they’re at a comfortable height for your child. Place toys and play sets in baskets and boxes to help make choices visible and keep pieces together. Don’t forget to add labels!
- Encourage Cleanup and Consistency. Now that you’ve created an organized space, be sure to teach your child how to use it and maintain it. Encourage one toy or activity at a time, be sure they know how to put things back before starting something new, and be the one to help maintain the order.
Here are some other ideas for controlling the chaos that seems to follow your right brain thinker.
- Make a list. Right brainers have racing minds. It’s easy to get frustrated when you think your kids aren’t listening or forget easily. Making to do lists, will help them stay focused and be able to complete tasks more effectively. With very young kids, keep the lists to three to five items and use pictures instead of words. With older kids use lists for chores, homework and help tracking their schedules.
- Make a plan – and stick to it. Our right brain kids are spontaneous but that’s not always such a good thing. And when they do have a plan, they are easily convinced to leave it behind. But it’s important for our kids to be able to make a plan and stick to it. Choose an upcoming activity or homework assignment and help your student plan it out. Decide steps, dates and times. Make a list so they can check it off as they work through it.
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A bitter crystalline alkaloid, C17 H19 NO3 · H2 O, extracted from opium, the soluble salts of which are used in medicine as an analgesic, a light anesthetic, or a sedative.
An alkaloid narcotic derived from opium or morphine and used primarily as an analgesic and a cough suppressant. Chemical formula: C18H21NO3.
A pacifying drug
Any drug or other substance used in treating disease, healing, or relieving pain
A highly addictive, yellowish-brown drug obtained from the pods of a variety of poppy, from which other drugs, such as morphine, are prepared.
Dope is defined as a drug, a stupid person, a thick liquid lubricant or sealer, or personal information.
A depressing experience, person, etc.
A drug that, by law, is illegal or designated a controlled substance.
Any of various drugs used to treat psychotic states; an antipsychotic drug. Not in scientific use.
Causing sleep or drowsiness; soporific
Inducing sleep; soporific
Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.
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To subject to a narcotic; stupefy
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New boardwalk and observation deck opens in Slaughter Beach
SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. – A project in Sussex County, that’s been a long time coming, is finally complete. The boardwalk and observation deck at Marvel Saltmarsh Preserve is officially open for visitors.
“When we did the groundbreaking in October, I really didn’t think we’d see it in April but we have,” says Mayor Harry Ward of Slaughter Beach.
Slaughter Beach has pristine nature all around. It’s a place that’s rich in marshland, unique habitats and wildlife.
“People come down here for the nature. People come down here to watch the ospreys. People come down here to watch the horseshoe crabs and to help terrapin turtles cross the road,” says Ward.
But before this boardwalk was created not everyone had a chance to see all of its beauty.
“We had six pallets that they could walk out on, into the marsh. And that was it. So they really couldn’t get an understanding of what’s in the marsh,” says Ward.
Now, it’s a completely different story. It’s a place for learning, for understanding and appreciating nature.
“That is really what this is all about. How do we connect the people of Delaware and the visitors of Delaware to the incredible nature and natural resources that we have here,” says Shawn Garvin, DNREC Secretary.
It’s a project that will showcase just how important it is to keep areas like this resilient, protected and admired.
“It really helps with our mission because the more you can get people out and really touching nature and seeing nature, they appreciate the needs to protect it,” says Garvin.
DNREC is looking to do more projects like this one in other coastal towns in Delaware. We’re told more than 2-thousand students visit the Marvel Saltmarsh every spring. And with this new boardwalk, they’re expecting to see even more visit.
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Creation Care 101 Class & Weekly Discussion Group
June 9 12:00 am - July 21 12:00 am
Class: Thursdays, June 9 – June 23 & July 7 – July 21, 6 p.m. central, online
Discussion Group: Tuesdays, June 14 – June 28 & July 12 – July 26, 6 p.m. central, online
Interested to connect your Christian faith to care for the earth? Want to learn how your church can live the faith through caring for creation? Or, want to improve your own stewardship? Join a free online course this summer, Creation Care 101, and participate in a weekly online discussion group the week following the class to get deeper into the topic. Details on content/schedule are given below. The discussion group will be facilitated by Lisa Brenskelle, the Houston Climate Communication Coordinator for Texas Interfaith Power & Light, Lutherans Restoring Creation – Gulf Coast team lead, founder of the Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston, and Creation Care Team lead at Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston. Lisa will aide attendees with resources and insights from her decades of earthkeeping ministry. And, we’ll help each other on our creation care journey.
Register for the weekly discussion group on www.eventbrite.com at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creation-care-101-weekly-discussion-group-tickets-332339746127.
Lisa will share the web meeting details for the course with everyone who registers for the weekly discussion group. All classes will be recorded, so don’t worry if you can’t make every class.
Contact Lisa Brenskelle at [email protected] for more information.
June 9 (class)/June 14 (discussion group): Faith, Science & Creation Care
June 16 (class)/June 21 (discussion group): Eating – Theology of Food
June 23 (class)/June 28 (discussion group): Purchasing – Living Simply & Justly
Note: no class on June 30 & no discussion group on July 5
July 7 (class)/July 12 (discussion group): Regenerating: Soil, Compost, Waste
July 14 (class)/July 19 (discussion group): Reframing: Water & Energy
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How Exercise Can Help You Cope After Major Life Changes
One thing that remains the same in life is that things are always changing. Sometimes those changes are small, but other times they realign your entire life. Things like divorce or seeking the aid of a San Francisco wrongful death attorney after a loved one passes away unexpectedly can leave you mentally and emotionally reeling.
Thankfully, there are lots of different ways to cope. Exercise happens to be one of the best options because it’s great for your body, and it’s good for your mind. Studies show that working out can improve your sleep, alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression, and boost your overall mood.
It can also help to clear your head and take your mind off something that’s negatively impacting your daily life. If you don’t have a workout routine, now could be a good time to start. Here are a few ways exercise can help you cope after major life changes.
Exercise and Stress
Psychological stressors can have just as much impact on your body as they do on your mind. You might feel tense, get headaches, have trouble sleeping, or any other number of physical symptoms of stress. These physical symptoms can create a vicious cycle of physical pain and psychological tension that seems like it will never end.
An effective way to stop the cycle is to get regular exercise. When you work out, your brain releases endorphins that work to relax your muscles and ease tension in your body. Kickboxing, for example, is a great way to release some tension and destress. When your body feels better, your thoughts and mind are sure to follow.
Exercise and Anxiety
One of the top recommended treatments for anxiety is exercise. Walking or running, especially outdoors is a terrific way to ease tension and stress. It’s a natural and effective way to boost your mental and physical energy because it helps to ground you and connects you with the outside world.
A great way to cope with anxiety is to go for a hike on a trail. Pay attention to the sights, sounds, and smells around you. Feel the air against your skin and the ground under your feet. Pay close attention to breathe deeply and be in the moment. Not only will the physical effects of anxiety improve more quickly, but you’ll also be able to ease the worries in your mind.
Exercise and Depression
If you’re experiencing mild to moderate depression because of a recent life-change, seeking counsel from legal aid like these OK divorce attorneys or a therapist is ideal. However, research shows that simple exercises like walking for an hour a day can reduce your risk of major depression by as much as 26%.
When you work out, your brain releases powerful endorphins throughout your body that immediately work to improve your mood. Exercise promotes neural growth in your mind that promotes feelings of calm and well-being. It also helps to reduce inflammation throughout your entire body, which will ease your aches and pains, allowing you to break those vicious cycles.
Other Benefits of Exercise
When you’re going through a major life change, it’s quite common to experience a whole host of problems. You might have difficulty concentrating or remembering things. You could be feeling bad about yourself or have low self-esteem. Perhaps, you’re having trouble sleeping or you’re feeling run down without motivation to get things done.
Regular exercise can help you with all these problems. Studies show that among the countless benefits of exercise, you’ll have a sharper memory and better ability to concentrate. Working out will boost your self-esteem, especially if you reach a fitness goal. Regular exercise will also help you sleep better at night and increase your energy throughout the day. | <urn:uuid:3c4eac2c-0f8f-4917-b89e-c5ee50bb1059> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jardal-paintball.com/how-exercise-can-help-you-cope-after-major-life-changes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.948279 | 770 | 1.875 | 2 |
SA must ride the organic wave
and intellect? These young people will be entering careers in a new era in agriculture totally unequipped for the role that will be demanded by their market. International market research has confirmed that health is the leading consumer trend. Modern consumers seek assurances that food is produced with their safety in mind. Foods produced with toxic contaminants and residues, which will compromise the family’s health, will be avoided. The move to organic and biological production methods has not been fuelled by input suppliers or large corporate promotional budgets, but rather by an increased knowledge and awareness by proactive farmers and health -conscious consumers who have experienced the benefits of the change. The health market has opened many new agricultural opportunities such as herbal medicines and indigenous teas, essential oils for therapeutic treatments, natural flavourings and perfume production. Value-added and ready-to-use products such as fresh cut will stimulate employment and enable SA agriculture to participate
as quality suppliers to the local and international market. My appeal to our educational institutions is to step out of their comfort zones and lead SA’s agriculture into a bright future. If they do not become proactive, SA’s agriculture will be joining the Dinosaur and Flat Earth Society in the realms of irrelevance and extinction. Jenny Slabber,
No one’s talking about eradicating useful aliens
It is clear that R Auret from Thornville is clearly misinformed about invasive alien plants, if the letter entitled “Whence this crazy cult of the indigenous” in Farmer’s Weekly of 30 March 2007 is anything to go by. Auret is obviously confused between the concepts of exotic, alien, introduced and invasive, and it is critical that the record should be set straight on these issues. I will only focus on plants because I have not heard of anyone in this country promoting the eradication of livestock because they are exotic, so the statement by Auret in this regard is totally unfounded. There are approximately 8 000 introduced plant species in South Africa, and these include all of our valuable crop and pasture species. Nobody in South Africa has ever promulgated the eradication or control of valuable crop species, the vast majority of which are not invasive other than guava, which is becoming problematic in higher rainfall regions.
Many of our important forestry species like black wattle, pines and gums (Eucalyptus spp) are invasive and at the same time important to our economy – which is why they are classified as Category 2 plants, meaning they can only be grown in demarcated areas, providing that there is a permit and that steps are taken to prevent their spread. Nobody in this “crazy cult” has ever suggested that we remove these important forestry crops from the face of South Africa – what we are trying to do is remove these invasive species from areas where they should not be growing.
Auret should note that the second-biggest threat to biodiversity after habitat destruction are alien invasive plant and animal species. Over 10 million hectares of land in alone have been invaded by alien vegetation. Invasions have reduced the value of fynbos ecosystems in South Africa by R80 billion, and the net present cost of black wattle invasions amounts to R14 billion. In the arid northern Cape it is estimated that mesquite (Prosopis spp), an invasive tree from the Americas, uses an 134 million m3 of scarce underground water annually, which could threaten the government’s ability to provide water for human demands. On there invasive plants reduce the yield of major crops, compete with preferred pasture species and in some cases, when consumed by domestic animals, taint their milk and meat and in extreme cases result in livestock mortality. Certain invasive plant species may also cause human health problems such as severe contact dermatitis and respiratory problems. Water weeds reduce the quality of drinking water and also promote the development of water-related diseases. uret acknowledges that invasive
species need to be controlled but notes that this should be the responsibility of farmers, which we are obviously in agreement with. Unfortunately, some infestations are so serious that farmers don’t have the means to control them, and others occur on state land. As a result, the Working for Water programme of the Department of Water Affairs was initiated in the 1990s, and employs thousands of previously unemployed individuals to clear areas of invasive plants. In this way the government “kills two birds with one stone” by creating jobs and protecting this country’s valuable resources. We are not a “crazy cult”– just passionate about protecting Africa’s natural resources, on which we all depend for our own survival. Arne Witt, | <urn:uuid:c1def063-6490-4cb9-a6a6-235f1d54a4e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/archive/letter-4-may-2007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.952618 | 973 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Email, or electronic mail, is the most common method of exchanging digital messages and remains one of the most popular services currently available via the Internet, with over 90% of US Internet users actively using email. Here you’ll find an overview of the modern email system and infrastructure, as well as its origin and use.
For a shorter, less technical overview, please see Are You Confused By The Technicalities?
Email systems consist of computer servers that process and store messages on behalf of users who connect to the email infrastructure via an email client or web interface.
When someone sends an email, the message is transferred from his or her computer to the server associated with the recipient’s address, usually via a number of other servers.
In more detail (please refer to the illustration on the right):
- A user (Alice) sends an email message and connects to an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server as configured in her email client or Mail User Agent (MUA).
- On the SMTP server, a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) looks at the recipient address and looks up the domain part of the address to determine its destination.
- After querying a Domain Name System (DNS) server for the name of the Mail eXchanger (MX) for the recipient’s domain name…
- …the SMTP server will send the message to that server via the SMTP protocol.
- The receiving server will store the message and make it available to the recipient (Bob), who can access it via web, POP, or IMAP.
Email was actually invented before the Internet itself, and was a crucial tool in the development of an interoperable computer network. Email is believed to have originated at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1965 to allow users of a local time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate with each other.
This quickly evolved to systems that could communicate with other, compatible systems, and from 1969 the ARPANET computer network of the United States Department of Defense experimented with inter-system email transfers using the now familiar “@” sign to separate usernames from machine names. From the early 1980s networked personal computers on Local Area Networks also started supporting simple email systems.
When ARPANET later evolved into what we now know as the Internet, email was already the standard method of communication.
Email servers are responsible for receiving, storing, forwarding, and delivering messages to and from email users. Messages are exchanged between servers using the SMTP protocol with various MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents) such as Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, or Exim. Messages can be stored on the server for the user to access, they can be downloaded and stored in the email client for offline use, or stored both places.
When an email server accepts a message it is obliged to deliver it, or otherwise return a delivery failure message to the sender. This ensures that an email message cannot disappear into thin air and implies that the sender of an email can trust the integrity of the email system.
Occasionally a message can be neither delivered nor returned, usually as a result of a spam message to a non-existent recipient from a falsified sender address (see What Is Spam and How To Avoid It for more information).
There are 3 main types of email servers:
- SMTP servers: A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server can refer to either a physical computer or a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), which is a software program running on the machine. The MTA receives and delivers messages to and from other email servers, and from email users (also known as “relaying”).
- POP servers: A Post Office Protocol server is a piece of software that gives an email user access to the email stored in the user’s account on that server. The user can download the messages using a MUA (email client) and store the email locally for later viewing.
- IMAP servers: An Internet Message Access Protocol server is a software program running on a server that provides full access to all the folders the user has created on the server. The email user can synchronize all the folders and messages on the server with the data stored locally using a MUA with IMAP capabilities.
A user can access the email messages stored on an email server using an email client or Mail User Agent (MUA) such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and Eudora.
The MUA connects to the email server via POP to download messages from a folder, or the more advanced IMAP protocol to synchronize all messages in the folders that exist on the server. When the user sends a message, the client connects to the server using the SMTP protocol.
A Webmail interface is a web-based email service that is accessible in a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Most email services offer web interfaces to the email stored on the server.
So-called webmail services are often faster because they access the stored data more directly via a web browser without the user having to download a piece of software that has to be set up and configured locally.
The enormous popularity of email has induced a large number of email services offering various types and levels of email functionality and related services.
Although most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) include simple email services with their accounts, many people prefer dedicated email services that provide more storage space, more functionality, other integrated communication services, etc.
The free service segment is dominated by companies such as Google and Microsoft that make money from advertisers who pay to expose the email users to advertisements. GMail, for instance, shows so-called contextual advertisements that relate to the actual content of the message being displayed. This has raised privacy concerns among some users, although many users instead focus on the benefits such as large storage space and user-friendliness.
Subscription-based services often provide more dedicated email services as they depend on customer loyalty to support their existence. Typically they offer more professional services with more advanced functionality, integrated with email and web hosting services, and they are usually ad-free. Paid services often provide better customer support as they are required to be more dependable than the free alternatives.
The actual email message contains text and characters that represent delivery information and content, and must adhere to certain standards defined by IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force) to ensure that it can be properly handled by the various computer systems that will process it.
An email message consists of two main sections: The header and the body.
The header can be thought of as the email equivalent of a regular envelope, and is structured into fields (lines) containing information about the sender, receiver, subject, date, etc of the message. It also includes one entry for each server that has processed the message on its way from sender to recipient, which is very useful for tracking its origin — especially if the message looks suspicious (for instance in phishing attempts).
More information: IANA’s (The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) full list of possible message headers.
The message body constitutes the content of the message, and can include several parts and attachments in many different formats.
In the early days email only contained plain text in ASCII format, but as email usage has evolved it has become necessary to support both HTML and other types of content. Today, email messages are usually encoded with the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) standard that allows email to support text in various character sets, attached files, multimedia content, etc.
Since such messages can contain both information and small pieces of software not apparent to the user, care should be taken by the recipient when opening HTML messages or attachments in a client — or use Webmail which is more secure as possible malicious software in the message can’t easily be run on the local computer.
In modern society people increasingly use email and other forms of digital communication to create and maintain social networks. Especially in academic institutions and in the business world, email was embraced early on as an effective means of asyncrhonous communication — somewhere in between the telephone and regular mail.
With the enormous increase in the number of email messages sent and received worldwide in recent years, it has become increasingly important to employ filters that can sort out legitimate email and user-friendly interfaces that simplify the task of processing messages.
Because email is an extremely cost-effective means of communication that allows a user to send large amounts of messages to a great number of recipients, it has become a very popular tool for spreading information and software programs that are unsolicited and/or malicious.
There are several challenges that both email administrators and email users should be aware of:
Spamming is the act of sending unsolicited commercial (or bulk) email, often to large numbers of recipients. Today it is very inexpensive to send millions of email messages, and only a few positive responses to an email advertisement can make spamming worthwhile to the individuals that send spam.
See our anti-spam section for information on how to avoid spam.
In recent years spammers have increasingly banded with malicious software makers, creating so-called email worms that infect vulnerable computers through email, multiply, and spread to other computers (often using contacts from the infected system’s address book), causing a constant barrage of junk email.
It is always advisable to use updated anti-virus software on your computer to avoid being infected.
See our anti-virus section for information on how to avoid worms and viruses.
Email spoofing is a technique to alter the header information of an email to make the message appear to come from a known or trusted source. Spoofing is often used in so-called phishing where individuals attempt to collect personal information in order to access bank accounts or other sensitive services.
Because the SMTP protocol was created in a time when email abuse was not yet conceived, it is fairly easy to falsify the content of a message and equally difficult to verify its origin. Several efforts are being made to standardize the verification of email messages such that sources of criminal email activity can be uncovered.
- What Is Spam, and How To Avoid It
- What Are Computer Viruses, and How To Protect Against Them
- Wikipedia’s article on Email: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail
- How E-mail Works: http://communication.howstuffworks.com/email.htm
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Nietzsche's worldview is a little topsy-turvy, and we should bear that in mind. For Nietzsche, 'conventional' morality — the kind of thing taught in churches, inscribed in law, learned at our parent's knee, or otherwise authoritatively delivered from on high — is almost entirely bankrupt. The people who convey it are not interested in morality, only in power and social control; the people who are obedient to it are merely concerned with the appearance of virtue and respectability, and don't give a thought to the substance of it. It's the height of hypocrisy: adhering to the letter of moral stricture while completely abandoning the spirit of it.
Nietzsche's übermensch, thus, wants to transcend 'conventional' morality to achieve a deeper and more thorough sense of morality. Unfortunately, the distinction between transcending conventional morality and discarding morality entirely is difficult to convey. The übermensch is never immoral, even when violating conventional morality directly, because s'he is responding to the essence of the moral spirit. The übermensch is never nihilistic. In fact, Nietzsche associates nihilism with the worst of those espousing conventional morality: the ones who speak 'moral' words with no interest in or understanding of their essence. But it is all too easy for someone to fall into nihilism while thinking one is following the path of the übermensch. Rejecting conventional morality is necessary, but not sufficient; transcending morality demands a level of philosophical insight that most people do not grasp. | <urn:uuid:68bace9e-37ec-48fe-9161-95ef336bde5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/78814/in-what-way-is-immoralism-good-for-the-%c3%9cbermensch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.927066 | 322 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Risk factors include obesity, pregnancy, smoking, hiatus hernia, and taking certain medicines. Medications involved include antihistamines, calcium channel blockers, antidepressants, and sleeping medication. It is due to poor closure of the lower esophageal sphincter (the junction between the stomach and the esophagus). Diagnosis among those who do not improve with simpler measures may involve gastroscopy, upper GI series, esophageal pH monitoring, or esophageal manometry.
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causes: alcohol, chocolate, fried foods (e.g. french fries), mint, onions, garlic, tomatoes
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No person wants to speculate that they have pancreatic cancer. And the reason should be obvious. With the official diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, a person basically given the death penalty since the prognosis of the disease is not very good.
However, if someone is experiencing common symptoms of pancreatic cancer, they still have to be tested for the disease. You can get more information about pancreatic cancer genetic testing online. The symptoms for pancreatic cancer are:
Stomach Pain Spreads May To Its Other Regions: Abdominal pain is one of the most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer. This happens because the tumor presses against the organs and nerves in the pit of your stomach. However, although this is sometimes the pain will spread to other areas of your body as it travels through the nerve pathways in the abdominal area.
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Middle and upper backs are examples: As far as how often the pain occurs, it can become chronic or occasional. So, do not always expect that in order to have pancreatic cancer, you must be in pain all the time.
Changes in appetite: As the pancreatic tumor takes over your abdominal region, they will deprive the healthy cells of essential nutrients. They also can suppress the stomach a little. As a result, you may experience changes in appetite. This could lead to weight loss, due to loss of appetite will naturally mean you do not eat as much.
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The report, commissioned by the Brewers of Europe, found that young Swedes actually have greater access to alcohol today than before it became a European Union member state in 1995.
What does BOE stand for?
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We were on Golden Ales with five others who ranged from Camra pubs director Bob Stukins to a journalist from The Publican, a professor in ruminant digestion (and beer expert) from the University of Maine, and the magnificently monickered, Brussels-based Rodolphe de Looz-Corswarem, secretary-general of The Brewers of Europe, an organisation representing 3,400 brewers from EU member states.
Figures distributed by the Brewers of Europe Friday showed excise duties charged on beer brought in revenue of 8.
THE PRESIDENT of the Brewers of Europe organisation Alberto da Ponte has warned of a "sharp decline in the beer market" across Europe.
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The evolution of the senses when it affects taste and smell leads to predilection; that is, to a pre-consciousness of that which is beneficent or harmful to man and to those with whom he is in affinity.
As the senses of taste and smell are capable of evolving to predilection, so the sense of hearing evolves to clairaudience, the sense of sight to clairvoyance, and the sense of touch, the primal and universal sense, to prediliction.
This development of the capacities of the senses is easily comprehensible even in the most material degree of density. The skilled musician hears sound which others do not hear; the painter sees forms and colors, lights and shadows which others do not see. The sense of touch is evolved in those who are born blind so that they feel that which those who see cannot distinguish.
The sense of intuition belongs to the psycho-nervo degree of being of the mentality: by its evolution man becomes conscious of the more rarefied degrees of being; through intuition he senses that which in his surrounding his material sense organs are incapable of sensing.
Clairaudience is awakening to activity and utility of the nervo, psycho and mental sense of hearing and the consequent capacity to hear in these three degrees of rarefication.
Clairvoyance is the awakening to activity and utility of the nervo-psychic and mental sense of sight.
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When I started in EDA the big three were Daisy, Mentor and Valid (DMV as we called them). Then came Synopsys in 1986 followed by Cadence, which was a clever merger between ECAD (Dracula DRC) and Solomon Design. Daisy and Valid were pushed aside and then there were, “Three dogs hovering over one bowl of dog food, not a pretty site.” said Joe Costello, former CEO of Cadence, June 1995, CEO Panel discussion, Design Automation Conference.
The fourth comer was Avanti which of course was undone by a “minor” legal problem. I worked for Avanti so I can tell you from personal experience that acquisitions made that company a shooting star and a lazy outside consultant brought it back down to earth. As a result Synopsys acquired Avanti in 2002 then there were three again.
Just a quick note on the Avanti acquisition, Cadence sued Avanti into submission and to save the company from annihilation there was a handshake merger deal with Mentor. Avanti then took that handshake deal to Synopsys and a better deal was made which included extra money for “key” executives meaning the Avanti CEO and his son. Handshake deals meant nothing to Avanti.
Twenty years later the big three EDA dogs are Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens EDA and the big three have never been bigger. So, how did Mentor become Siemens EDA?
Back in 2011 Mentor attracted the interest of stock activists. In fact, one of the most notorious stock activists, Carl Ichahn, made an unsolicited $1.9B bid saying Mentor must be sold to appease disenfranchised investors. As it turns out Carl was right but his timing was off and so was his price. In 2016 Siemens made a $4.5B offer for Mentor which was accepted but the question is why?
Siemens made the call to Mentor at the right time. The stock was down and activists were again starting to rattle sabers. The real issue was a change in customers: EDA was transitioning from chip companies as the majority of customers to systems companies, and systems companies do business differently.
EDA was really founded on the point tool concept. Point tool companies would bring innovation to EDA with the ultimate goal of being acquired. Chip companies used point tools to get better chips and better pricing from the big EDA companies. Selling just chips is a much smaller margin proposition than systems so EDA budgets were always tight. I remember routinely being told by big chip companies that they were cutting budgets but they wanted more tools.
Systems companies however look for a complete vendor solution covering as many steps in the systems development process as possible. Apple is a perfect example of a systems chip company and now there are many others.
Unfortunately, Mentor had fewer pieces of the systems puzzle than Synopsys and Cadence so they were at a disadvantage. Synopsys and Cadence also had a much more aggressive acquisition strategy than Mentor so the lead was widening.
Now comes Siemens which is the largest engineering solutions company that sells more than $60B to systems companies around the world every year (Synopsys and Cadence combined revenue is around $6B). Definitely a game changer for EDA. And having been with quite a few EDA/IP companies that have been acquired (including by Siemens) I can tell you by experience, Siemens is in this to win this.
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The federal government has declared Monday, June 13, as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day which comes up on June 12.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola announced this via a statement which was signed on his behalf by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr M. L. Shuaib Belgore on Thursday, June 9.
Aregbesola urged all citizens to support the present administration in its efforts at ensuring a secured, united and prosperous nation.
He also admonished Nigerians to use the occasion to reflect on the long journey the country has made towards the enthronement of civil democratic order, before Independence in 1960 till date and the sacrifices of our patriots.
The statement read:
“As we mark another Democracy Day in the history of our dear country, let us reflect on the efforts of our founding fathers and ensure that Nigeria remains one united, secured, peaceful and an indivisible entity, noting that no development can take place in an acrimonious environment.
“With the challenges we face in Nigeria today, I see an opportunity for us not to break up or break down, but to break open; open up to ourselves in truth so that we may appreciate each other, understand each other, honour each other and live together in peace and prosperity.
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Sushant S. Mahajan1, David H. Hathaway2, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo3, & Petrus C. Martens1
1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2. W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
3. Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
4. High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA
5. National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA
The Sun’s axisymmetric flows, differential rotation (DR) and meridional flow (MF), play key roles in virtually all models of the Sun’s magnetic dynamo. The differential rotation (variation in rotation rate with both latitude and depth) stretches the radial and latitudinal components of the magnetic field in the longitudinal direction – thereby increasing the field strength and changing the field direction. The meridional flow transports the radial and longitudinal components of the magnetic field in the latitudinal direction – thereby building up the polar fields on the surface and annihilating oppositely directed longitudinal fields across the equator in the solar interior. Thus, measurements of the meridional flow are important for the prediction of the buildup of polar fields that in turn are good predictors for the next solar cycle.
These flows have been measured on the solar photosphere using several different techniques including local helioseismology, tracking small scale magnetic features, tracking granules, and tracking supergranular-scale magnetic or velocity patterns. Local helioseismology and granule tracking are known to be plagued by a center-to-limb error that makes it seem that the Eastern limb of the Sun rotates at a different speed than the western limb[1,2]. This is a systematic error with a hitherto unknown origin. We have discovered a similar center-to-limb error in local correlation tracking of supergranular-scale magnetic patterns using the Sun’s line-of-sight magnetograms. Magnetograms recorded by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) onboard Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) from 1996 to 2010 and from the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from 2010 to 2020 were analyzed in this study.
Local correlation tracking of supergranular-scale magnetic patterns involves masking out active regions and tracking supergranular-size blocks in the magnetograms over time. Each selected block in one magnetogram is correlated with a block chosen from another magnetogram at a certain time-lag and this process is optimized to find the displacement of the block at which it shows the highest correlation.
Figure 1| The first shows the residual rotation rate measured at one hour time-lag obtained after removing the average rotation rate measured at each latitude, while the second column shows the residual rotation rate measured at the equator at several time-lags. The third column shows the residual meridional flow speed measured at one hour time-lag obtained after removing the average meridional flow speed measured at each latitude, while the fourth column shows the latitudinal variation of meridional flow speed at several time-lags.
Figure 1 shows the residual rotation rate of the Sun measured at the equator (after subtracting the mean rotation rate) as well as the meridional flow profile measured at different time-lags. Apart from creating an apparent east-west asymmetry in rotation rate, the center-to-limb effect also makes meridional flow at high latitudes seem faster at lower time-lags. The numerical extent of this effect decreases as the time-lag between successive magnetograms used for tracking increases.
We developed a robust methodology to measure and correct such a center-to-limb error in measurements of velocity. Even though this methodology was developed for tracking supergranular-scale magnetic patterns using local correlation tracking on solar magnetograms, it is scalable and applicable to tracking of other features using other techniques.
The measured displacement at each time-lag (nΔt) was decomposed into three components, all of which are independent of time-lag: a baseline (true) velocity (v), a constant shift (Δ) that is present at all time-lags and a quantity with the dimensions of acceleration (δ) that allows for small changes in the flow profile as a linear function of time-lag (nΔt). Here, Δt was one hour for HMI magnetograms and 96 minutes for MDI magnetograms. Thus, the displacement at a time-lag of nΔt can be written as
In order to solve for the baseline velocity (v), the constant shift (Δ) and the acceleration parameter (δ), we used three sets of Carrington rotation averaged velocity measurements at time-lags of 1, 2 and 4 Δt. The results are shown in Figures 2 & 3.
Figure 2| From left to right: vMF, the baseline meridional flow velocity, constant shift ΔMF and the time-lag dependency parameter δMF derived from combinations of measurements at different time-lags as in Equation 1 and averaged over one year from May 2010 to April 2011 for HMI. Their agreement supports our assumption that Δ, δ and the baseline flow are independent of time-lag.
Most of the east-west asymmetry in rotation rate turned out to be a part of the constant shift (Δ) while the baseline velocity obtained using different combinations of time-lags was found to be nearly identical (see Figure 2). The meridional component of the constant shift made meridional flow at shorter time-lags appear faster than it actually is. The constant shift parameter also accounts for most of the difference between MDI and HMI making velocity measurements during their overlap period in 2010 consistent. This constant shift parameter is nothing but the center-to-limb error.
While there is no clear explanation for the acceleration parameter δ, we speculate that this parameter entails depth dependency. As we track the magnetic pattern at longer time-lags, we are biased towards tracking longer lived, stronger magnetic features that may be anchored deeper into the Sun and thus may move with the speed in deeper layers. Thus, it may be indicative of the weakening of meridional flow and speeding up of rotation with depth.
Figure 3| Latitude-time plots of the components of displacement and the temporal variation of Legendre coefficients of the baseline velocities. The top row shows the baseline meridional flow and torsional oscillation obtained from over 23 years of measurements from MDI and HMI data in units of m/s. The boundaries of active latitudes obtained from Royal Greenwich Observatory records are marked with solid black lines. The corresponding plots for Δ (in km) and δ (in m/s/hr) are shown in the second and the third row respectively. The bottom row shows the scaled sunspot number (in black) and our fitting coefficients of associated Legendre polynomial of order 1, degree 2 to the meridional flow profile and of order 1, degree 1 to the torsional oscillation (translated by 55 m/s) with 2σ errors in blue whereas the fitting coefficients from Ref are shown with red dots and standard error.
The variation of center-to-limb error with the phase of the solar cycle seen in Figure 3 clearly indicates that the center-to-limb effect cannot be assumed to be constant in time and it has to be calculated synchronously with the flow profiles. If it is assumed to be a constant, as in many previous studies, its temporal variation may contaminate measured flow profiles.
The baseline velocity, Δ and δ measurements as well as the Legendre fitting coefficients to baseline flow profiles shown in Figure 3 are available in an easy-to-use form at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/lct-on-solar-magnetograms [5,6].
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National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
With technological advancements, it has become more difficult to manually analyze solar data collected from all of the world’s telescopes. As an example, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) now returns high resolution data for a variety of wavelength channels, some with cadences as short as 45 seconds. As such, automated ways of processing and analyzing the data have become necessary and this was the reason behind the creation of the SDO Feature Finding team.
To ease the burden of analyzing white light sunspot observations, STARA (the Sunspot Tracking And Recognition Algorithm) was developed. The algorithm allows fast, robust detections of sunspots from full-disk, white light data1. It is regularly used with SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI data, and ground based observatories such as Kodaikanal2 and Kanzelhöhe have used a modified version for their own white light observations.
The methodologies of detection are relatively straightforward using techniques from the field of morphological image processing, a nonlinear image processing technique that uses shape and structure in digital images to aid in feature detection. All operations in morphological image processing can be broken down into a combination of two operators, erosion and dilation. These operators work as would be expected based on their names. Erosion reduces the area of a shape by removing pixels from the edges and dilation increases the area by adding pixels along the edges. For STARA, a combination of erosions and dilations known as the top-hat transform is used.
The top-hat transform is defined as T(f) = f – ( (f ⊖ s) ⊕ s) where f is the original data, ⊖ is the erosion operation, ⊕ is the dilation operation, and s is a probe known as the structuring element chosen specifically for the required problem. By applying this to the white light solar data, we find morphological elements that are smaller than the structuring element while still maintaining some similarity to its shape, and are darker than their local surroundings. The local surroundings constraint is important and useful in this context as limb darkening affects the level of solar intensity as a function of location on the disk. Therefore, this technique removes the need for limb darkening to be calculated or modeled for each image due to the local nature of the detection. This increases the speed of the algorithm over some other methods as the limb darkening correction is folded into the feature detection step, which is crucial if used as part of a feature detection pipeline. Additional advantages of this method involve the algorithms dependence on relative intensities as opposed to absolute intensities, making it easily adaptable to different data sets. However, the entire procedure is heavily reliant on the structuring element, or probe shape, used. To ensure the detections were as accurate as possible, a test data set was used containing human sunspot detections and was treated as a ‘ground truth’ for the algorithm allowing the optimal structuring element to be chosen.
Once the parameters of the algorithm were established, the SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI data was processed and a catalog of sunspot properties from these datasets were recorded. These catalogs are publicly available at http://www.nso.edu/staff/fwatson/STARA.
Figure 2 : The sunspot number determined by STARA for SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI compared to the International Sunspot Number reported by the SIDC. Due to the International Sunspot Number being a group-weighted count and the STARA number being a raw count, the STARA data has been scaled up to the same magnitude as the International Sunspot Number.
The catalogs have been used for a variety of sunspot studies to date including determining the depth of sunspots (known as the Wilson depression), obtaining distributions of sunspot numbers, areas and magnetic field strengths, as well as the time evolution of these parameters3. In addition to this, the sunspot properties listed in the catalog have been used in comparisons with umbral magnetic field strengths from the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope4, and sunspot areas measurements made at Debrecen Observatory.
It is hoped that these sunspot catalogs will be of use to the solar community. We welcome people to begin analyzing the data in conjunction with their own datasets. The data currently available in the STARA catalog includes the following.
- Observation date and time
- Location in solar coordinates
- Maximum magnetic field strength in umbra (from ME data for HMI and LOS data for MDI)
- Number of spots
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Ravindra, B. et al., 2013, A&A, 550, A19
Watson, F.T., Fletcher, L, Marshall, S., 2011, A&A, 533, A14
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Today is National Independence Day (Narodowe Święto Niepodległości), a national holiday in Poland, when Poles commemorate the 101st anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918, after 123 years of partition
Across the country homes, buildings, streets, even buses and trams will be bedecked in the red and white national colours proudly displaying the national flag, including a 22m flag draped over Kościuszko Mound, whilst the Bernatka footbridge and Tauron arena will be illuminated in red and white.
In Kraków the main Independence Day events are:-
10am Independence Day Mass & Parade (1130) – Wawel Cathedral to Pl Matejko
The traditional Mass. will be held in Wawel Cathedral. At the conclusion of the mass, (approx 1130) the Independence Day military parade will begin from the Wawel Hill at the Katyn Cross, where wreaths will be laid. The parade continues along the ‘Royal Route’, ul. Grodzka, to the main square and via Florianska to pl. Matejko.
1200 – The national anthem will be played from the tower of Mariacki church
1400 – Rynek – Polish ‘white and red singing hits’
The public are invited to sing along to traditional Polish hits with well know Polish singers, leading the proceedings on stage. This year a special Independence cake will be available to those taking part. „IV Ogólnopolskie śpiewanie biało-czerwonych przebojów”.
Krakow Independence Run, Błonia.
The Krakow Independence Run (Krakowskim Biegiem Niepodległości), is described by the organisers as ‘a historic 11 km route, a charity event, more than 4,000 runners for 4 years and great fun!’
– 11km run – start at 14:00
– 1918m Krakow Independence Mile – start at 12:00
– competition for children – start at 11:00
For more information visit www.biegniepodleglosci.com.pl
1700-1900 ‘Joy of Independence’ Singing Lesson
The 75th Krakow Singing Lesson, will take place on the Rynek, led by performers from Loch Camelot cabaret. Songbooks will be given out to help you sing along.
You can read more about it here.
1030 – 1430 – Patriotic Tram
Once again the “Patriotic Tram”(tramwaj patriotyczny) will travel through Kraków. On the tram young Poles from school choirs will sing patriotic songs. Passengers are encouraged to join in and will be handed song books, flags, badges, and leaflets to help get them in the mood. The tram will run around Planty from 10:30 until 14:30. Route: Poczta Główna, Plac Wszystkich Świętych, Filharmonia, Bagatela, Basztowa, Długa, Dworzec Towarowy, Dworzec Główny, Poczta Główna.
PROTESTS FROM RIGHT WING ELEMENTS, IS IT SAFE?
Will there be right wing, (extreme or not) elements on the streets of Krakow? – yes, certainly.
Fortunately, Krakow has been largely free from the more extreme violent disorder caused by the extreme right wing groups which have, at times, afflicted Warsaw in past years. Even in Warsaw, the parades have been free from larger scale disorder for the past few years, which hopefully will continue. There is always a large Police presence, fortunately these events have mostly, (if not always), passed off without violence in Kraków.
In our opinion, there is no reason to stay at home or be afraid, based on some media reports, yes, there has been trouble in the past, though mostly confined to the Warsaw event.
Go out, enjoy the various events and parades and join the important traditional Polish celebrations of their Independence.
Images from Previous Independence Day Parade
© David McGirr
Be aware that due to the parades and independence day run, some streets will be closed and there will likely be temporary traffic congestion in the area of the events. Full details in the link below.
Independence Day is also a national holiday with many shops and businesses closed.
The founder and editor of Kraków Expats Directory, and our sister site Kraków TV www.krakowtv.pl.
David fell in love with Kraków 22 years ago, and made it his home in 2011.
In 2020 David was awarded the title of Kraków’s Ambassador of Multiculturalism, by the President of Kraków.
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IHC Workflow Optimization Toolkit
Every IHC laboratory is unique and given the daily challenges the laboratory faces, no two days are alike and there is no “perfect” workflow that can anticipate sudden workflow changes, both planned and unplanned. Therefore, the ideal workflow is likely not one that is concrete in nature but adaptable to accommodate the changing needs and challenges laboratories face.
This guide aims to assist you in better understanding your current IHC process by identifying critical points in your current workflow. The tools provided in this guide will help you measure and improve the workflow at these critical points to help you determine the optimal workflow for your lab not only for today, but how to assess and adapt to future changes for your future workflow as well.
This toolkit will provide you the following items to assist you with your workflow assessment:
- Workflow Guide Instructions
- Current High-Level Workflow Assessment Questions
- Current Workflow Data Spreadsheet Templates
- Equipment Strengths/Weaknesses Assessment
- Manual vs Automated IHC Assessment
- Identifying Waste Checklist
- Workflow Analysis Tools with Guides & Templates
- Root cause analysis
- Process mapping
- Pareto charts
- Spaghetti diagrams
- Impact matrix
- Customized Tools
- Common workflow analysis scenarios
For the use of any product, the applicable product documentation, including information guides, inserts and operation manuals should be consulted.
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Financial Management – CBSE Notes for Class 12 Business Studies
1. Business Finance Money required for carrying out business activities is called Business Finance.
2. Financial Management It refers to efficient acquisition of finance, efficient utilisation of finance and efficient distributing and disposal of surplus for smooth working of company.
According to Howard and Upton, “Financial management involves the application of general management principles to a particular financial operation.
3. Role of Financial Management
(i) Size and composition of fixed assets
(ii) Amount and composition of current assets
(iii) The amount of long term and short financing
(iv) Fixing debt equity ratio in capital
(v) All items in Profit and Loss account
4. Objectives of Financial Management
5. Financial Decisions
The financial functions relate to three major decisions which every finance manager has to take
(i) Investment decision
(ii) Financing decision
(iii) Dividend decision
6. Investment Decision (Capital Budgeting Decision)
This decision relates to careful selection of assets in which funds will be invested by the firms.
Factors affecting investment/capital budgeting decisions are
(i) Cash flow of the project (ii) Return on investment
(iii) Risk involved (iv) Investment criteria
7. Financing Decision This relates to composition of various securities in the capital structure of the company. Mainly sources of finance can be divided into two categories
(i) Owners fund
(ii) Borrowed fund
Factors affecting financing decisions are
(i) Cost (ii) Risk
(iii) Cash flow position (iv) Control consideration
(v) Floatation cost (vi) Fixed operating cost
(vii) State of capital market
8. Dividend Decision This relates to distribution of profit earned. The major alternatives are to retain the earnings or to distribute to the shareholders.
Factors affecting dividend decisions are
(ii) Stability of earning
(iii) Cash flow position
(iv) Growth opportunities
(v) Stability of dividend
(vi) Preference of shareholders
(vii) Taxation policy
(viii) Access to capital market consideration
(ix) Legal restrictions
(x) Contractual constraints
(xi) Stock market reaction
9. Financial Planning It means deciding in advance how much to spend, on what to spend according to the funds at your disposal.
10. Objectives of Financial Planning
(i) To ensure availability of funds whenever these are required,
(ii) To see that firm does not raise resources unnecessarily.
11. Importance of Financial Planning
(i) It facilitates collection of optimum funds.
(ii) It helps in fixing the most appropriate capital structure.
(iii) Helps in investing finance in right projects.
(iv) Helps in operational activities.
(v) Base for financial control.
(vi) Helps in proper utilisation of finance.
(vii) Helps in avoiding business shocks and surprises.
(viii) Link between investment and financing decisions.
(ix) Helps in co-ordination.
(x) It links present with future.
12. Capital Structure Capital structure means the proportion of dept and equity used for financing the operations of business.
Capital Structure =Debt/Equity
13. Financial Leverage It refers to overall capital
Financial Leverage = E/D
Where, D = Debt, E = Equity
14. Factors Determining the Capital
(i) Cash flow position
(ii) Interest Coverage Ratio (ICR) = EBIT/Interest
(iii) Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR)
(iv) Return on investment
(v) Cost of debt
(vi) Tax rate
(vii) Cost of equity
(viii) Floatation cost
(ix) Risk consideration
(xii) Regulatory framework
(xiii) Stock market condition
(xiv) Capital structure of other companies
15. Fixed Capital Fixed Capital involves allocation of firm’s capital to long-term assets or projects.
16. Importance or Scope of Capital Budgeting Decision
(i) Long term growth (ii) Large amount of funds involved
(iii) Risk involved (iv) Irreversible decision
17. Factors Affecting Requirement of Fixed Capital
(i) Nature of business (ii) Scale of operation
(iii) Technique of production (iv) Technology up gradation (v) Growth prospects (vi) Diversification
(vii) Availability of finance and leasing facility (viii) Level of collaboration/joint ventures
18. Working Capital
Working Capital refers to excess of Current assets over Current liabilities.
There are two types of working capital
(i) Gross working capital (ii) Net working capital
19. Operating Cycle
20. Factors Affecting the Working Capital
(i) Length of operating cycle
(ii) Nature of business
(iii) Scale of operation
(iv) Business cycle fluctuation
(v) Seasonal factors
(vi) Technology and production cycle
(vii) Credit allowed
(viii) Credit avail
(ix) Operating efficiency
(x) Availability of raw materials
(xi) Level of competition
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Creating UI Elements Dynamically
Oct 4, 2012
SAP Web Dynpro ABAP is an excellent tool to create huge data related applications easily and efficiently. However most of the time we create applications that has predefined screen design. So most of the people are quite unaware about manipulating UI elements dynamically. But Web Dynpro indeed has the capability to do anything dynamically. It is a perfect Object Oriented System just like Java Swing or .NET’s Forms. I would like to give a brief introduction on creating UI elements dynamically.
There is a simple rule. Whatever you want to do dynamically with the UI elements, you have to do at
WDDOMODIFY function of the view.
WDDOMODIFY will be called every time the screen updates. And the screen is updated every time an action takes place on the view.
VIEW is the key to access the UI elements of a view which is not available on other WD methods such as
FIRST_TIME parameter is very useful to create and populate UI elements on the view during the start of the application.
Now we will see the architecture of UI elements. Each type of UI element has a corresponding class with name of the UI element preceded by
CL_WD_. For example
CL_WD_INPUT_FIELD is the class of the element input field. All these classes are similar to UI classes in Java Swing or .NET Forms. You can not only access any property of a UI element but also bind attributes of context nodes to any property using the methods available on these classes.
The following code will create a new input field and add it to view.
method WDDOMODIFYVIEW . data: input_field type ref to cl_wd_input_field, flow_data type ref to cl_wd_flow_data, uicont type ref to cl_wd_uielement_container. if first_time = abap_true. input_field = cl_wd_input_field=>new_input_field( bind_value = 'NODE.TEXT' ). flow_data = cl_wd_flow_data=>new_flow_data( input_field ). input_field->set_layout_data( flow_data ). uicont ?= view->get_element( 'ROOTUIELEMENTCONTAINER' ). uicont->add_child( input_field ). endif. endmethod.
bind_value attribute carries the name of the attribute in the context node which should be bound to the input field (context nodes and attributes can also be created dynamically, I would like to write about that some other day). Here create the context node as follows.
Every UI element should have the layout information needed. So we have to add the layout information and this layout information should be compatible with the layout of the parent container. The following picture helps you understand what is layout information in the context of static input fields (This changes with the type of layout of the parent container).
ROOTUIELEMENTCONTAINER has flow layout associated with it. We have added our input field to the root container.
CL_WD_GRID_DATA is the class for grid layout. Browse through SE24 and find the other layout classes.
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- "Now, according to The Who, all you need to be a 'Pinball Wizard' are supple wrists. But being a teenage boy will have no advantage in this particular contest. Here, you need guts and mechanical power! Each of our surviving robots will try and score as many points as possible, by attempting various challenges...the harder the challenge, the bigger the points! Whoever gets the lowest score will be thrown into the mods and rockers outside!"
- — Craig Charles introduces Pinball in Series 2, Semi-Final 1
Pinball was a Trial event that featured during the Semi-Finals of Series 2 of Robot Wars. After qualifying through The Gauntlet, five competitors would have to score as many points as possible within the one minute time limit, by hitting targets, knocking down objects and attempting various challenges. Several House Robots appeared in the arena to make the competitors' runs more difficult, with Dead Metal, Matilda and Shunt protecting 50- and 75-point targets, and Sir Killalot being given free reign of the arena. The robot which scored the fewest points by the end of the Trial would be eliminated.
The points offered by the Pinball obstacles in Series 2 varied depending on their difficulty, and were as follows:
- Barrels - 10 points each.
- Bricks - 5 points each if knocked down or pushed into a pit.
- See-saw ramp - 15 points for a completed run.
- Silver sphere - 20 points if it was knocked into a pit.
- Side targets - 50 (2 targets) or 75 points (1 target) if pressed.
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Section 3734.25 | Paying portion of costs of closing facility or abating pollution.
(A) The director of environmental protection may make grants of moneys from the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code or the hazardous waste clean-up fund created in section 3734.28 of the Revised Code for payment by the state of up to two-thirds of the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by a municipal corporation, county, or township for the proper closure of or abatement of air or water pollution or soil contamination from a solid waste facility in which significant quantities of hazardous waste were disposed of and that the political subdivision owns and once operated.
(B) A municipal corporation, county, or township shall submit an application for a grant on forms provided by the director, together with detail plans and specifications indicating the measures to be performed, an itemized estimate of the project's cost, a description of the project's benefits, and such other information as the director prescribes. The plan for closure or abatement of air or water pollution or soil contamination may be prepared in consultation with the director or the board of health of the city or general health district in which the facility is located. The director may award the applicant a grant only if the director finds that the proposed measures will provide for the proper closure of the facility and will abate or prevent air or water pollution or soil contamination, including, but not limited to, those measures necessary or desirable to:
(1) In the case of a facility at which land burial of hazardous waste occurred, establish and maintain a suitable cover of soil and vegetation over the cells in which waste is buried in order to minimize erosion, the infiltration of surface water into the cells, the production of leachate, and the accumulation or runoff of contaminated surface waters and to prevent air emissions of hazardous waste from the facility;
(2) Collect and treat contaminated surface water runoff from the facility;
(3) Collect and treat leachate produced at the facility;
(4) Install test wells and other equipment or facilities to monitor the quality of surface waters receiving runoff from the facility or to monitor air emissions of hazardous waste from the facility;
(5) Regularly monitor and analyze surface water runoff from the facility, the quality of waters receiving the runoff, and ground water quality in the vicinity of the facility, and regularly monitor leachate collection and treatment systems installed under the grant and analyze samples from them;
(6) Remove and dispose of hazardous waste from the facility at a suitable hazardous waste disposal facility where necessary to protect public health or safety or to prevent or abate air or water pollution or soil contamination.
(C) The director shall determine the amount of the grant based upon the director's determination of what constitutes reasonable and necessary expenses for the proper closure of the facility or for the prevention or elimination of air or water pollution or soil contamination from the facility. In making a grant, the director shall enter into a contract with the municipal corporation, county, or township that owns the facility to ensure that the moneys granted are used for the purposes of this section and that measures performed are properly done. The final payment under a grant may not be made until the director inspects and approves the completed cleanup.
The contract shall require the municipal corporation, county, or township to execute an easement whereby the director, an authorized employee of the agency, or a contractor employed by the director may enter upon the facility to sample, repair, or reconstruct air and water quality monitoring equipment constructed under the contract. Such easements shall be for a specified period of years and may be extinguished by agreement between the political subdivision and the director.
When necessary to protect public health or safety, the contract may require the municipal corporation, county, or township to enter into an environmental covenant with the director in accordance with sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code.
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Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on what basis the ethnicity factor in the additional educational needs allocates extra resources to all ethnic groups; if she will publish the evidence that her Department has used to assess need under the AEN factor; how many children receive increased funding from the ethnicity factor with the AEN; how much funding was distributed under the ethnicity factor to local councils in the years 200001 and 200102; and what her Department's estimate is for next year.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: Under the current system of Education Standard Spending Assessments (SSA), extra resources are allocated to LEAs in recognition of the additional educational needs of children in minority ethnic groups on the basis of country of birth data taken from the 1991 national census. The number of children covered is 12 per cent. of the total population of children under the age of 16. The amount of funding distributed using this factor was #434 million in 200001 and #448 million in 200102. The amount of funding to be distributed for Additional Educational Needs for 200304 will depend on decisions yet to be taken about the new formula for LEA funding to be introduced from April 2003. Those decisions will be informed by research undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a copy of
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Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures will be taken over the next year to ensure that disruptive pupils are removed from classes in the run up to major exams.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: We believe that schools should be orderly and disciplined places of learning at all times. In that context it is right that teachers and headteachers should have the power to remove disruptive pupils from the classroom. This may mean excluding them from school, for a fixed period or permanently, while maintaining their education in alternative provision.
Since taking office the Government has devoted far greater resources than ever before to supporting teachers in dealing with disruptive behaviour in the classroom. There are now over 1,050 Learning Support Units in schools helping to tackle classroom disruption. Further expansion of our Excellence in Cities (EiC) and Excellence Clusters programmes will provide a further 140 Learning Support Units. The #66m package announced in the Budget will fund, among other things, more Learning Support Units, Behaviour and Education Support Teams and summer activities aimed at improving discipline.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: Section 52 of the Education Act 2002 replaces the previous arrangements for exclusion appeal panels which have been in existence in various forms since being introduced by the Education (No 2) Act 1986.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: Information on exclusion appeals is only collected on an annual basis. The latest figures available are for the 2000/01 school year, when 9,210 permanent exclusions gave rise to 983 appeals. 314 permanent exclusions were overturned on appeal3 per cent. of the total number of permanent exclusions.
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Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what changes there have been to the monthly average of (a) exclusions, (b) appeals and (c) successful appeals since the publication of the 200102 Education Bill.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: This information is not held centrally. My Department collects data on permanent exclusions and exclusion appeals annually in relation to the school year as a whole. Provisional data for the last school year200102will be published in a Statistical First Release in May 2003.
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidelines there are for local education authorities to allocate funds for special needs teaching in schools broken down by type of school.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The allocation of funding to maintained schools by local education authorities is governed by regulations made under section 47 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. The current (2002) regulations give wide discretion to authorities in the factors and criteria to be used for the funding of special needs, both in mainstream schools and in special schools. In November 2001, the Department issued good practice guidance The Distribution of Resources to Support Inclusion, on approaches to the delegation and distribution of resources for meeting the needs of pupils with special educational needs and those with other additional needs in mainstream schools. From 2003 onwards the schools forums established under s.43 of the Education Act 2002 will advise local education authorities on their funding arrangements for special needs.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made by each local education authority in developing strategies to improve accessibility for disabled pupils; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Stephen Twigg: This information is not collected centrally. The statutory duty on local education authorities to improve accessibility for disabled pupils came into effect from 1 September 2002 and requires them to publish their strategies on 1 April 2003. OfSTED will be monitoring the implementation of this new duty, including the quality of local education authorities' accessibility strategies.
The School Access Initiative was established in 1996 to help local education authorities improve the accessibility of their schools to disabled pupils. Over #174 million has been made available since that date, including some #70m in 200203. A further #300m will be available during 200304 to 200506.
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the subject areas in the national curriculum that will not be available to children taught in asylum seekers' accommodation centres.
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Mr. Stephen Twigg [holding answer 21 October]: All the National Curriculum subjects will be taught in accommodation centres. Departmental officials are working with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) to agree how this commitment can be delivered to maximise the educational opportunities for children and young people who will be in these centres for a maximum of 9 months. There will also be intensive support provided to help them learn English.
Mr. Stephen Twigg [holding answer 21 October]: On arrival in an accommodation centre, children will receive an initial assessment, covering their previous educational experience, attainment and knowledge of English. It will be the responsibility of the education contractor to conduct these assessments and, by so doing, identify any gifted and talented children. After which appropriate provision will be made, if necessary, (but exceptionally) outside the accommodation centres.
We will look carefully at the findings in the context of our interest in the role of early intervention in addressing special educational needs. Officials plan to meet with representatives of the Dyslexia Institute to discuss the findings and other issues associated with dyslexia and literacy.
Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to educate (a) children seeking asylum and (b) other children recently arrived in the UK separately from other children.
Mr. Stephen Twigg [holding answer 21 October]: All recently arrived children, whatever their immigration status, are given the same opportunities as all other children to access education. The Department has no plans to provide separate education for unaccompanied asylum seeker children or for the vast majority of other children recently arrived in the UK.
A minority of children whose families seek asylum and are destitute may be educated in accommodation centres which will provide a complete support package for the family, including education. This education will be of the same breadth and quality as that delivered in schools and will be specifically tailored to meet their particular needs. There will be also be intensive support provided to help them learn English and the education provision will be inspected by Ofsted.
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Pritpal S Tamber is a specialist in medicine. Today, we will learn about him and his idea of optimising clinical knowledge.
Have you ever heard about Optimising Clinical Knowledge? It is a famous company in the United Kingdom which creates a huge impact on the healthcare of the world.
with the ingenious leadership of the director Pritpal S Tamber, this company has supported strongly many medical clinical organizations.
In this article, we will dig into the details of the Pritpal S Tamber and his impressive contributions to world health care.
Who Is Pritpal S Tamber?
Doctor Pritpal S Tamber is a master specialist in medicine. He has devoted all his time and effort to taking care of the health of society in the most dedicated way. Besides, he also works as an independent writer and consultant of the Optimising Clinical Knowledge.
His insight goes deeply into nowadays health care. Therefore, he can see the terrible downside of it, as nowadays health care becomes unstable each day due to the failure in appreciating the sociality health definition of clinical science.
On the famous newspaper Community & Health, he often reviews the overlooked evidence and shares the hard work of the medical practitioners. On the other hand, he shows strongly his opinion on any work that is called “social health” or “health community determinants”.
His Research About Optimising Clinical Knowledge
As a consultant of Optimising Clinical Knowledge, Pritpal S Tamber aims to write to explain to other organizations the real definition of medical knowledge with the hope that they can use this definition to improve their daily work and understand their important position in health care industry.
Working as a physician editor of TEDMED, he can have better insights and different thoughts about the care. As a sequence, he starts to explore himself to the clinical knowledge of “health beyond health care”. This idea is also his wish to make a better future for the health of society.
His writings talk straightly to the state of the health care service. As he has seen so many disrespects to the patients and the political meddling in care, he shows that this problem is so big and complex that it may lead to social unrest.
Understanding his idea that “true health care” is more than just “an absence of disease”, the medicalization has been positively impacted and the care service has improved. With the health sector, leaders can now understand community contexts to have more responsibilities.
His Application In Real Life
Since he works as the physician editor of TEDMED, he has launched an exploration named Wellthcare to help people understand his optimising clinical knowledge.
From his writings on Wellthcare, people know the true civic value of health. As a sequence, they can accuse public health that has wrong moralizing and make a Manifesto.
Having received some assistance money, he starts a project named Creating Health Collaborative. In this project, he digs deeper into his own clinical knowledge of “health beyond health care”. And just like the ”Wellthcare”, this project is highly appreciated.
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In this lesson, students deconstruct gender portrayal and depictions of boys and girls in the media.
In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.
From the tablet to the TV screen, media are a huge influence on how we see ourselves and our world. Nowhere, perhaps, is that more true than when it comes to gender: media provide many of our ideas of what “male” and “female” are, and many of our models of how to behave, what to avoid doing, and whom to emulate in order to play the role we’ve been assigned.
The new Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum released this year by the Ontario Ministry of Education is the first major revision to the subject area in almost 30 years.
In this lesson, students learn to question media representations of gender, relationships and sexuality. After a brief “myth busting” quiz about relationships in the media and a reminder of the constructed nature of media products, the teacher leads the class in an analysis of the messages about gender, sex and relationships communicated by beer and alcohol ads. Students analyze the messages communicated by their favourite media types and then contrast it with their own experience. | <urn:uuid:d26050a9-8854-4038-a9a3-d538352b5034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mediasmarts.ca/node/17767/mid/5253?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955609 | 252 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Data analytics are an essential factor in helping to increase a company’s growth. Not only can you gain a better knowledge on how to make informed decisions, but you can also gain a deeper customer insight. Every business, no matter how big or small, should consider data as one of their most valuable assets.
Every company should consider creating a data management strategy to ensure that data is readily available to them when they need it. Here are some top tips on how your business can effectively manage its data.
Outline Your Aims and Goals
Companies can sit on a lot of data, and you’ll tend to find that a lot of it will have no use but take up a large amount of space in storage facilities. When it comes to data management, it can be smart to firstly sit down and outline your company goals. Question what you will plan to do with your data when you collect it and don’t keep any information which doesn’t relate to your goal.
You may have a goal to find patterns in customer buying habits. If that is the case, make sure you are storing this data where it is easily accessible to you.
Comply With Regulations
You will want to avoid falling victim to a data breach. The last thing your customers want is their personal information to be endangered. You should ensure that your company is complying to the correct regulations. Doing this will ensure the privacy of your leads and customers. This is a crucial step to maintaining your customer base and proving your reliability.
If you are creating a data management team within your company, it is advised that you use employees who have the correct knowledge to handle data correctly.
Utilise Data Centres
Data Centres can help ease the workload when it comes to the management of data. They host computer and storage systems to provide and deliver web services for your company. These centres tend to be reliable as they provide you with a strong network and power supply. If your company is struggling to store their data due to an increase in growth, these can be a great storage solution and can help you take control of operations.
If you still want to have full control of your IT equipment, then your company can look into colocation hosting, provided by organisations like VIRTUS Data Centres. Colocation provides you with all of the benefits a data centre has whilst letting you remain in control. You can find out more about colocation hosting online if this sounds more suitable for your business.
Focus On Quality
The quality of your data should regularly be assessed. Your sales and marketing team will not benefit from old and outdated data as this can be unreliable. You should ensure that any employees who are handling data are trained on how to check it accurately before it is used in analytics. Data quality should be one of your data teams top priorities to ensure data is also not inputted incorrectly as this can cause major problems down the line. | <urn:uuid:57be592b-52d2-4211-b0be-499b1fb1091e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bq-magazine.com/manage-your-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.951487 | 594 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Michael Young caused some controversy today when he claimed, in an opinion column entitled Downward, Christian soldiers, that Lebanon's Christians are being increasingly marginalised and becoming less important in shaping the country's development. Young argued that much of the Christian community's woes are self-inflicted, particularly as reflected in the decline of the Maronites which he sees as stemming from their political choices. This decline, Young argues, manifests itself in "...a disturbing lack of political vigor, economic innovation or intellectual dynamism in the community."
What Young, and most Christians, fail to recognise is that this decline and dissatisfaction are shared by the other Lebanese groups, although it might manifest itself in different forms owing to the specific dynamics of each group. The Sunnis are certainly no longer in the same jubilant mood that followed the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, and the recent rapprochement with Syria has left a bitter taste with many. The recent Druze about face performed by Walid Jumblatt also left many feeling demoralised although it was perceived to be necessary under the circumstances. Hezbollah's, and consequently the Shiite, apparent ascendancy masks the deep sense of anxiety and lack of real social and economic progress among one of the most dispossessed groups in Lebanon. Many failed to register that Hezbollah's recent moves were defensive in nature and betrayed a deep sense of insecurity.
Young's characterisation of Christian dissatisfaction could be reiterated to reflect what most of the Lebanese feel. The failure to spot this disaffection among the 'other' is but a feature of how Lebanese communalism has been transformed in the past two decades. It is striking how this major socio-political transformation has went unnoticed, with commentators clinging to tired old formulas in attempting to understand the dynamics of Lebanese society. In its most obvious manifestations, the old confessional system in Lebanon has given way to a version of multi-culturalism that is not as unique to Lebanon as is generally thought.
On the political level, a distinct absence of hegemonic projects among the larger confessional groups signals a major variation in the way through which the Lebanese system developed for the first five decades of its existence. No political project today comes anywhere near the Maronite domination of all aspects of public life in Lebanon in the post-independence era. The last gasp attempt at reviving that role was attempted by Bachir Gemayel in the early 80s only to end disastrously. Since then, the only hegemony to prevail was a foreign one, with the vacuum afterwards being filled by power-sharing arrangements that tilted very slightly to one side. Even at the height of the 'cedar revolution' the anti-Syrian camp left significant space for the other side, which was reciprocated by Hezbollah in the lead to the last parliamentary elections not mounting a serious attempt to gain power and going out of its way to ensure that the other side won the majority.
The downside to all of this is the rise of the language of victimhood and the way it shapes how people perceive themselves and their position within society. Rather than being a response to unique situations, victimhood has become a de facto position for Lebanese groups to see themselves through. The perception that Christians are under a constant existential threat in a largely Muslem context is mirrored by the Shiite anxiety about everyone else conspiring to disarm Hezbollah and consequently marginalise the Shiites once again. The Sunnis and the Druze in turn share similar concerns, and it noticeable how much archaeological effort is being expended to revive ancient theological divisions between Shiites and Sunnis in order to highlight their contemporary differences. The problem is once you start portraying yourself as a victim, you also start behaving like one and all conflicts are automatically elevated to the level of existential threats.
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Mar 24, 2022 · Dr. Vivek H. Murthy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021 to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. As the Nation's Doctor, the Surgeon General's mission is to help lay the foundation for a healthier country, relying on the best scientific information available to provide clear, consistent, and equitable guidance and resources for the public.
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Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19 th Surgeon General of the United States appointed by President Barack Obama. As the Vice Admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he commanded a uniformed service of 6,600 public health officers globally.
Jul 23, 2022 · Be that as it may, The Epoch Times reports on the subpoenas. White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other top Biden administration officials have been served with discovery requests after a federal judge ordered the administration to comply with discovery requests stemming from a lawsuit alleging government collusion with Big Tech.
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Authors: Rebekah Luff
Addresses: Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Abstract: This qualitative paper examines the use of empathy by care staff working in care homes, and how this empathic engagement relates to the care they provide. Taking an interpretative analytical approach of 36 interviews with care assistants working in 5 UK care homes, it is argued that several different types of empathy are undertaken by care staff in their daily work. These different forms of empathy include direct empathy, placing themselves in the position of the resident, indirect empathy, thinking how they would feel if the resident were a loved one, as well as empathy relating to individuals, groups, specific and general situations. It is argued that these different forms of empathy influence direct care, are used to form caring rules and also relate to care staff|s own |philosophy of care|.
Keywords: care assistants; emotion work; interpretative methodology; old people; empathic engagement; UK; United Kingdom; direct empathy; residents; indirect empathy; individuals; groups; direct care; caring rules; philosophy of care; residential care homes; elderly mentally infirm; work organisation; emotion; virtual feelings; visceral feelings.
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 2010 Vol.3 No.3, pp.302 - 316
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Do you hate your job? I used to. I bounced between thinking management just didn’t give a damn about its employees and thinking they’re doing evil things to us on purpose just to see how much we’ll take. It sometimes seemed like they were trying to make us miserable. I now realize how absurd that was. Whether or not your bosses actually care about you is irrelevant. Your happiness is not management’s responsibility.
Even if you have the coolest boss in the world (mine manager’s pretty freaking cool), do you really want to leave something as important as your well-being up to someone else?
[Don’t forget to check out the video at the end.]
Bosses Have Bosses Too
They’re just doing what they can to get their jobs done. In spite of how their means or motives might seem, they’re not out to get us.
Although there may be questions about whether individual executives care about our well-being, the truth is that management is probably not trying to make us miserable.
Your Happiness is Your Responsibility
When I published Your Happiness Is your Responsibility a few months ago, I didn’t think to apply it to work. I’ve noticed in my 25 years that it’s really easy to forget to apply life lessons to work.
Work is one of the best places to learn these valuable lessons. Still, we don’t apply them to our jobs for some reason. I’d say maybe that’s just me, but I’ve seen too many people miserable in their jobs.
Responsibility for your own happiness applies to work too, though. Whether your company is nurturing and supportive or cold and demanding, don’t leave your well-being up to them.
Steer your own ship.
Does it Make Sense for Bosses to Care?
I think it does. Not every industry is the same. In some industries, a patent, a machine or a software program might be the most valuable asset.
In companies that need employees to create and solve and in companies that need employees to interact with customers, employees should be the most valuable asset.
Investing in employee well-being would in general boost employee happiness and would usually increase employee’s energy, creativity, and productivity. A few will be miserable no matter what.
That investment may cost more in the short-term, but it’s reasonable to expect good returns on investing in employees over the long-term to the company, the customers, and the shareholders. And the executives.
Plus, treating people well just seems like the right thing to do, doesn’t it?
But what if they don’t? Or what if what they do doesn’t appeal to everyone?
Here’s what doesn’t work. What doesn’t work is just being miserable because “management doesn’t care about me.”
Don’t Give ‘em the Power!
I need to emphasize a crucial point.
Just as depending on management to make us happy is a bad idea, letting them prevent our happiness is equally bad. Do not allow anyone else to ruin your Happiness.
“Don’t allow anyone else to ruin your Happiness.”
Not even your job.
Especially not your job.
Don’t Leave Well-Being Up to Them Either Way
Even if they do care about your happiness, and they probably do, maybe. How likely are they to get it right?
That’s the connection we don’t make. We probably ignore it because it takes the responsibility and instead of letting someone else have it.
We’ll blame the execs. We’ll think and say that they don’t care about us, that they’re just idiots who don’t know how to run a company or both. Then we’ll blame them for making us miserable.
Why would we give someone so ruthless or inept control of our happiness?
Short answer: Don’t.
Even if they do care. Even if they’re brilliant, they won’t get it right for everyone. They may not get it right for you, so don’t leave it up to them.
Remember they have bosses too.
They might be just as miserable as we are. They might need a corporate survival course. If they’re not happy enough themselves to make treating others well a priority, they are the wrong person to entrust with something as important as your well-being.
Does Management Care about Your Well-being?
Some execs care about our well-being. Some don’t. Chances are we’ll admire and appreciate the execs who are skilled in at least pretending to care. We too easily despise the ones who don’t seem to care.
It’s dangerous to give others power over our well-being, especially corporate management.
Even if they care.
Your well-being isn’t management’s responsibility.
And Now the Video
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PIP INFORMATION FROM OUR PERSONAL INJURY CHIROPRACTIC TEAM
Our personal injury chiropractic team will tell you what you NEED to know about the new PIP laws and what the government and insurance companies DON’T want you to know.
What is Personal Injury Protection (P.I.P.)?
P.I.P. stands for Personal Injury Protection. It is also known as “no-fault” coverage. All Florida motor-vehicle owners are required to maintain P.I.P. by law. It pays medical expenses related to a motor-vehicle collision up to the first $10,000 regardless of fault.
January 1, 2013: PIP laws changed
1. Patients now only have 14 days to seek treatment from an approved medical doctor or you will lose full PIP benefits.
2. Patients are required to see an approved doctor for an EMC (Emergency Medical Consultation) to help the insurance decide whether you need your entire PIP.
This forces patients to rely on their health insurance to pay for medical bills that are related to their auto accident. Previously, these bills and expenses were covered under the PIP coverage that is required by the state of Florida.
3. Only approved doctors can consult for the EMC required to obtain full PIP benefits. The following doctors are able to diagnose and declare an EMC: Medical Doctors (MD), Osteopathic Doctors (DO), Physician Assistants (PA), Dentists (DMD), and Registered Nurses (RN). Chiropractors (DC) are no longer given authority to diagnose for EMC.
Most people getting personal injury chiropractic treatment after an accident report the greatest relief from motor vehicle accident injuries and experience an easier path to recovery from soft tissue injuries.
4. Massage Therapy and Acupuncture treatment are no longer covered under the new PIP laws.
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There’s a lot of excitement in the world of cancer research about the compounds that naturally occur in marijuana as a treatment for various tumors. There’s a research group out of Spain, led by a Dr. Guzman. And his group actually did one of the first human studies that documented in a group of really severe, late stage brain tumor patients that if you injected their brain tumors directly with a solution that contains THC, one of the compounds in cannabis, that you can actually observe through scans a reduction in the size of those brain tumors. That was in a group of less than 15 patients. But it was a pilot study and it was a very exciting result, that in the majority of those patients tumors shrunk. But they kind of expected that as their hypothesis because they had seen so much data from their petri dishes and their animal studies that these tumors can shrink. Especially these tumors of the brain called glioblastomas, a very debilitating tumor in the brain, that has a very low survival rate.
So the more we study, we find out that breast cancers, prostate cancers, lung cancers, a whole range of tumors in the body have been shown in animal studies and petri dish studies to be reduced and attacked by chemicals in marijuana. Usually the chemicals in marijuana do this by making those cancer cells kill themselves, reducing the blood supply to those cancers, and reducing the amount of, how those cancers spread in other parts of the body. So there are cancer groups calling for the inclusion of the chemicals of marijuana in chemotherapy regimens as a treatment for cancer. That’s very interesting and exciting future there.
And I think there are a lot of natural compounds that have anticancer properties. And I think cannabis is going to go right in there as one of those ones that can potentially be useful for a lot of different cancers.
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Gone are the days when English Learners are the sole responsibility of the ESL/ESOL teacher. Today, our English Learners belong to everyone in the building and everybody plays an integral role in supporting and advancing language development for these students. You know what they say; all hands on deck.
Activities that help promote classroom interaction
There are many activities that a classroom teacher can utilize to help promote classroom interaction. These activities will pay big dividends in increasing language proficiency for his/her English Learners. I have used the Inside/Outside Circle from the 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP® Model book to promote practice with key concepts and develop oral language. It works!
Inside / Outside Circle
An Inside/Outside Circle is an interaction technique that allows students to respond to questions and/or discuss information with their classmates. It is successful for many reasons, but I believe the main one is that it lowers the affective filter for English Learners because they are not speaking to the entire class, they are only speaking to one or two peers. Another key success factor is that it allows for oral rehearsal for your lowest levels of English proficiency. Students get multiple opportunities to speak using academic language within the content areas. It surprised me how much students enjoyed the activity and have asked to replicate it. I also learned that it can be used as a wonderful formative assessment tool for the teacher when summarizing key concepts from a lesson. As a teacher, I was able to circulate the room and listen to student responses to inform my future instruction.
Process / Protocol
It will be important that you teach the process/protocol to your students prior to setting them loose on the Inside/Outside Circle. I found that using something that was not content ladden and more basic in language was an easier way to introduce the protocol. We practiced several times before we put it to use with content and language-specific tasks. Procedurally speaking, a teacher could set this up by dividing the class in half and start with two lines instead of a circle. Students on the two lines would face each other and take turns answering their prompt/question. The teacher would have one of the lines move while the other remained stationary to speak to their new partner. Once the students are proficient at the process with two lines, it would be an easy transition to create the circles—same exact process, just changing the line to a circle. The circle will take up less space in the room and could allow for several inside/outside circles to happen concurrently, depending on the task.
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What is the Legal Age of Consent in Florida?
In the United States, the age of consent is the legal age in which a person is legally considered mature enough to engage in sexual relations. Every state has its own laws outlining this specific age. The state of Florida says that the age of consent is 18-years-old.
If you are above the age of 18 and engage in sexual activity with a minor (someone under the age of 18), you can face serious legal trouble. Engaging in sexual relations with a minor can result in a statutory rape charge among other things. In this situation, it’s essential to familiarize yourself with Florida’s age of consent laws and seek legal counsel.
Unlawful Activity with Certain Minors
Section 794.05(1) of the Florida Statutes states that “A person 24 years of age or older who engages in sexual activity with a person 16 or 17 years of age commits a felony of the second degree.” It’s important to note that “sexual activity” does not exclusively refer to sexual intercourse. Someone 24 or older can violate this law with any vaginal or anal penetration or oral sex.
Florida does have certain exemptions to this statute. The “Romeo and Juliet law” is a close in age exemption that prevents the prosecution of young couples who engage in sexual relations. This exemption applies when both persons are considerably close in age to each other, even if one or both of them are underage.
Charges for Violating Age of Consent Laws
There are four statutory sexual abuse charges in Florida whose purpose is to prosecute age of consent and child abuse violations. Violators can be prosecuted for one or more of these charges. Awareness of the differences between the four charges is essential to understanding the punishments one can face.
Each violation has a specific severity and punishment alongside it. The four charges are:
- Computer pornography or traveling to meet minors
- Lewd or lascivious offenses committed on or in the presence of a minor
- Sexual battery
- Unlawful sexual activity with certain minors
Criminal charges of this kind require harsh punishments. If you are found guilty of any of the above, you can face consequences such as first or second-degree felonies and a lifetime of legal trouble. Enlisting the help of an experienced criminal defense attorney is vital to making sure you have the best representation in front of the judge.
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Master plan for coal exploration, use likely
M Azizur Rahman
The government is likely to prepare a master plan aiming to develop the country's coal mines and encourage the use of locally extracted coal.
"The master plan will aim at achieving an ultimate coal production capacity of 30 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) in phases over the next two decades," a senior official of the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) told the FE.
He said the plan might suggest export of sufficient quantities of coal in the initial years to cover the large investments to be made by the foreign energy companies.
Coal exports might be brought down once the local demand for the fuel rises, he said elaborating the key features of the proposed plan.
A draft coal policy prepared by the Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Centre (IIFC) has emphasised on framing of a master plan to ensure the country's energy security in the coming decades.
The EMRD under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) is expected to prepare the master plan with the help of foreign consultants and local experts.
To accelerate coal sector development within the next 10 years, a sustainable coal production level of 10 to 15 Mtpa or more and a minimum generation of 1000 MW coal fired electricity should be achieved.
The government plans to generate at least 3000 megawatt (MW) from coal-fired plants by the next 15 years.
At present there is no coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh, whereas, coal accounts for 30-70 per cent of total electricity generation in many countries.
To carry out the transitional activities and functions of the coal sector a high-powered committee, to be known as the Coal Sector Development Committee, is to be established for a period of five years under the proposed plan.
The EMRD Adviser will head the committee, while Director of the Bureau of Mineral Development (BMD) will act as its member-secretary.
The secretaries of EMRD, Power Division, Communications and Shipping, the chairmen of Petrobangla and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and the director general of Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) will be the members of the proposed committee.
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God has called every Christian to missions, calling us all to share the Gospel and make disciples. “You are the light of the world,” Jesus says in Matthew 5:14. “Let your light shine before others.”
But that’s easier said than done. Sharing your faith, having spiritual conversations, sharing the Gospel and how God is working in your life aren’t things that come naturally to most people. We’re used to more superficial conversations. And in most cultures, we’re taught to respect other beliefs and not try to convince someone of our own. So how can we do this well? How can we live our life on mission, so that the very way we live is a light that shines before others?
Recently Indigitous co-founder Simon Seow gave a talk about this topic at the Digitally Mobilized Church conference, hosted by Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lagos, Nigeria. In the talk, Simon focused on how the mobile app MissionHub can help you live a life on mission by making it easier to take steps of faith.
MissionHub is a free app that helps you be intentional with those around you one step of faith at a time. “Step by step, it helps users develop habits of missional living,” Simon says. By developing those habits, what had once seemed awkward will eventually seem totally natural, as you go about your normal, everyday life in a way that communicates the Gospel to those around you.
There are three principles MissionHub uses to guide you as you take those steps of faith.
1. Every Person Matters
For a lot of people, when they think about mission work, they think of traveling to some far-away community in another part of the world. Or maybe they think of a big revival meeting with a packed tent or arena. But you don’t have to think that big. Every person matters to God. Think of the people in your life — your friends, family members, coworkers, classmates, or neighbors, God has put those people in your life and you have an opportunity to make an impact in their lives.
Each of those people in your life has their own story and is on some stage of a spiritual journey. To live on mission with them, you must know their story and understand where they are on that journey (stages below).
“When we live on mission, it means we are engaging people all across this spectrum of this spiritual journey with the Gospel intentionally to help them move towards Christ,” Simon says. Once you know which spiritual stage a person is at, you can be intentional about meeting them there and guiding them towards their next spiritual step.
2. When taking steps of faith, every step counts
It’s easy to focus on major steps, such as sharing the Gospel or asking someone to pray to receive Christ. But depending on where a person is in their journey, they might not be ready for that yet. Every step counts, even those that might seem insignificant at the time. “A step of faith to walk next door to meet a neighbor, or to invite a friend over for dinner to ask someone how we can pray for them, each of these steps is significant,” Simon says.
MissionHub has four different kinds of steps that it suggests:
3. Take steps of faith in community
“It is not good for man to be alone,” God says in Genesis 2:18. We were created to live in community with God and with others. You should live your life on mission in community as well.
Communities within MissionHub are designed to help you grow as you live on mission. “It’s a place to do mission together. You can see and celebrate and challenge each other as you reach out to those around you,” Simon says.
If you’re not currently living on mission, and even if you are but feel you need some help, we recommend you try MissionHub. With its community, suggested action steps for each person in your life, and notifications that can remind you to take steps, the app makes it easier to live on mission.
Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. (Habakkuk 2:2)
- Download the MissionHub app.
- Use MissionHub to take steps of faith with at least two people in your life.
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Traditional classrooms are realizing the benefits of nature and taking students outside for student learning and growth. A key component of Kinderforest is multiple return visits to a natural location, at least once per month. Activities on a Kinderforest day connect to classroom topics, spark new ways of engaging this content and are linked to state standards.
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Application For New Surface Water Appropriation and Acquisition of Existing Surface Water Appropriation
The energy shortage and the need for development of alternate sources of energy have created a greatly increased demand for water. Due to the availability in the Western states of large deposits of uranium; oil shale; and low-sulphur coal which can be converted into synthetic natural gas, gasoline or other energy products, or which can be used as fuel for boilers replacing oil or natural gas, there exists a unique problem to be solved by industry. Plentiful supplies of these minerals are located mainly in the semiarid West, a geographic area that does not have an abundance of available water. How, then, does industry locate and develop an adequate and secure supply of water so that it may convert these minerals to an alternate energy use?
In this paper we will consider only surface water of a western state, both streamflow and reservoir. Ground water, Indian water, reserved Federal rights, and water available from Federal reservoirs will not be discussed since these are subjects of other papers being presented at this Institute.
Traditionally, the western states subscribe to the appropriation doctrine as opposed to the common law riparian rights doctrine. The riparian rights doctrine grants to the owner of land contiguous to a stream the privilege of having the stream flow through his land undiminished in quantity and qualit
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As you've probably heard, five Texas police officers are suing Tesla for $1,000,000 following an incident where a Model X crossover crashed into them and their patrol cars. The crash happened during a traffic stop after dark back in late February 2021.
The Tesla Model X was reportedly on Autopilot, and the driver of the Model X was reportedly drunk. This makes the situation quite complicated. However, if the police officers win the lawsuit against Tesla, it will set a crazy precedent that may have a monumental impact in the future.
We should side with the police officers here, and we do. No one should have to go through what they do. We appreciate their service. Officers have to deal with scary situations all the time, and they put their lives on the line. We can only imagine how upsetting it would be if a drunk driver nearly killed us and our colleagues. That said, we're don't really know if suing Tesla is their best course of action here.
The officers filed the suit against Tesla and Pappas Restaurant. According to Electrek, a statement from the lawsuit reads, :
"Due to the design and manufacturing defects known to Tesla, Tesla’s failure to adequately warm of those defects, and Tesla’s unwillingness to admit or correct such defects, the Autopilot and Tesla’s system safety features failed to detect the officers’ cars or to function in any way to avoid or warn of the hazard and subsequent crash.”
Pappas Restaurant is included in the lawsuit since it's the establishment that served the Model X driver too much alcohol prior to the crash. The complaint also adds:
"Tesla knows and encourages drivers to think that their autopilot and self-drive modes are better than regular cruise control, but then in their written warning to consumers, tell them to maintain the type of control over the vehicle that would be expected and appropriate with any standard cruise control system."
It's important to understand that no matter what you think of how well, or badly, Tesla Autopilot performs, or how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have worked to "advertise" the technology, it may not make any difference in a case like this.
One of the main reasons drunk driving is illegal is that it clouds our judgment. Not only does it slow down reaction times and do a whole lot of other things to our bodies, which make it difficult to drive safely, but it also makes us decide to get into the car in the first place. People make very terrible decisions when they're drunk, and it's their responsibility not to get drunk in the first place, and to own up to their actions, as well as the consequences if they do get drunk and do something stupid.
To say that Tesla and Elon Musk have convinced this driver it's safe to drink and drive on Autopilot is a tough case. Sure, Tesla makes it clear that drivers are supposed to remain attentive and ready to take control at any time while Autopilot is activated. However, we know full well that many drivers don't follow those rules, and it's scary. However, there's little possibility that a drunk driver can remain alert and in control of any vehicle, regardless of its technology.
To be honest, this is such a challenging set of circumstances that makes it nearly impossible for us to form a valid opinion, nor can we forecast how the case will play out. We're not legal experts, and we don't have all of the information that's available to the police offers.
For this reason, we ask you. Perhaps we have some lawyers or people with experience in the legal system that can break this all down? We encourage you to visit the comment section and start a conversation about this topic.
Inspired by a comment below, which we figured we would be, we've added the following text:
Comment from Wla Home: "If gun manufacturers can basically be immune from prosecution I don’t see how Tesla could be found guilty here. The restaurant on the other hand…"
Our response: Guns kill. Gun manufacturers are aware guns kill. Gun manufacturers tell people to use guns responsibly. However, people still kill people with guns, and sometimes those murderers are drunk. Have any gun manufacturers been held responsible? If a judge rules against Tesla in this case, should gun manufacturers worry?
What do you think would have happened if a car's advanced driver-assist systems were found to save officers' lives when a drunk was behind the wheel? In this case, Autopilot didn't take over and avoid the drunk driving crash, but it has in many other instances.
If a driver of a non-Tesla vehicle was drunk, hit police officers, and then it was later learned that the car was equipped with forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and/or other collision mitigation systems, would the automaker be at fault? If Tesla is found at fault here, will all drunk driving crashes be the fault of the automaker if its advanced driver-assist systems failed to engage? | <urn:uuid:fa905f7a-ad52-4ba4-8b05-123e2429030e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insideevs.com/news/537234/tesla-sued-drunk-crashes-police/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.978772 | 1,029 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Athens – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and partner Médecins du Monde (MdM) announced today (5 December) that together they have rapidly provided primary health care services to over 1,200 migrants and refugees on the Greek mainland. The services were provided via mobile medical units during a two-month period between September and October 2017.
The medical teams also conducted over 3,400 primary health care consultations – an average of almost 80 daily – since the EU-funded project began in September. Consultations cover examinations, prescriptions of medicines and referrals to other facilities for secondary care in three open-accommodation facilities in Greece.
Gianluca Rocco, IOM Greece Chief of Mission, explained that thousands of migrants and refugees currently living in Greece face health issues that require immediate care. However, they often face difficulties in accessing the National Health System outside the accommodation facilities where they reside.
"The medical assistance is very much needed,” Rocco said. “Improving the health of migrants and refugees is a fundamental step in helping them begin to rebuild their lives.”
“We are collaborating closely with MdM in Greece and supporting the Greek Government and authorities to alleviate suffering, protect human dignity and safeguard the human right to health,” he added.
IOM and MdM also are working closely to ensure a smooth transition and handover of health services to the Greek Government from 2018, and they welcome the integration of migrants and refugees into the national healthcare system.
“We are very satisfied with our cooperation with the International Organization for Migration and the European Commission,” said Christos Dimopoulos, Protection and Integration Projects Manager of Médecins du Monde in Greece.
“Through this project, we have been able to provide needed health care services to vulnerable migrants and refugees while also moving towards handing over their health coverage to the National Health System,” Dimopoulos explained.
The mobile medical units are comprised of general practitioners, pediatricians, dentists, nurses, interpreters and drivers who provide primary healthcare services five days per week in morning and afternoon shifts. They work in open centres in Thermopylae, Serres and Oinofyta.
The units conduct health consultations and provide primary health care services for minor medical issues such as viral infections, colds and injuries. They also prescribe medicine and monitor people with chronic illnesses such as heart diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and gynecological health problems.
For people in need of secondary health care, MdM medical units facilitate referrals to hospitals by organizing appointments, and by providing transportation and escorts where possible.
"Health care is essential for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece, as it is for every person,” said Evangelos Petratos, the European Commission's Humanitarian Expert in Greece. “For this reason, the European Commission supports its humanitarian partners in the country in their efforts to provide them with primary health assistance.”
“We are glad to see the achievements so far and the good cooperation between our partners and the Greek health authorities,” he continued.
The joint IOM - MdM project is funded by the European Commission.
For more information please contact Christine Nikolaidou at IOM Greece, Email: [email protected], Tel: +30 210 99 19 040 ext. 248;
Nikolaos Kallakos at MdM Greece, Email: [email protected], Tel: +30 210 32 36 224;
Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela at the European Commission, Email: [email protected], Tel. +32 22 96 53 22, Mobile: +32 46 07 91 716
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Outcomes following clonidine ingestions in children: an analysis of poison control center data
International Journal of Emergency Medicine volume 12, Article number: 14 (2019)
This paper sought to characterize pediatric clonidine ingestions, report trends in incidence, and evaluate outcomes using the Florida Poison Center’s data over a period of 15 years, from 2002 to 2016.
There were 3444 total exposures. Forty percent of the cohort was female. The median age was 5 years. The age distribution changed over time to a higher proportion of teenagers exposed (p < 0.0001). From 2002 to 2016, exposures increased from 182 to 378 with a rise in incidence from 4.8 to 9.1 per 100,000 children. Acute on chronic exposures increased from 29.3% to 42.2% (p < 0.0001). Female intentional ingestions increased from 52 to 70% (p < 0.0001). Twenty-four percent were managed at home, 34% were discharged from the emergency department, 8% were admitted to the floor, and 25% were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Major medical outcomes were associated with older age (p = 0.0043, 95% CI 0.0015 to 0.0080) and higher clonidine dose (p < 0.0001, 95% CI 0.0347 to 0.0600). Older children were more likely to ingest a larger dose of clonidine (p < 0.001, 95% CI 0.0531 to 0.0734), while younger children were more likely to be admitted to the ICU (p < 0.001, 95% CI − 0.0092 to − 0.0033). Males were more likely to have acute on chronic ingestions (p < 0.001, 95% CI − 0.1639 to − 0.0982); females were significantly more likely to be admitted to the ICU (p < 0.0001, 95% CI 0.0380 to 0.0969).
Our analysis shows an increase in the incidence in pediatric clonidine exposures over time despite adjustment for population growth.
Clonidine is a familiar drug readily available in many households. Initially prescribed for adults with hypertension, it has since been applied to other clinical contexts including opioid withdrawal, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders [1,2,3,4]. Clonidine has increasingly been used for behavioral control in pediatric patients particularly since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2010 for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children aged 6–17 years [4,5,6]. Expanded prescribing and thereby access to this drug has increased the risk for both accidental and intentional ingestions. Emergency providers thus need to be aware of this drug as a potential cause for altered mental status or hemodynamic changes in the pediatric patient. Proper recognition, triage, and disposition of pediatric patients who have accidentally or intentionally overdosed are essential for the emergency medicine provider. By stimulating alpha2-adrenergic receptors, clonidine reduces sympathetic outflow from the central nervous system and decreases peripheral resistance, renal vascular resistance, heart rate, and ultimately blood pressure [7, 8]. At times, reactions resemble opioid toxidromes . Commonly experienced adverse reactions include somnolence, fatigue, abdominal pain, and headache [7, 8]. However, clonidine in toxic amounts can cause central nervous system depression and cardiopulmonary instability with features such as apnea, bradycardia, and hypotension [10,11,12]. Thus it has been included on the “One Pill Can Kill” list for fatal ingestions in pediatric patients [2, 9, 13].
This paper sought to characterize recent trends in incidence of pediatric clonidine ingestions while also evaluating outcomes of pediatric clonidine ingestions.
Materials and methods
This was a retrospective review of all clonidine ingestions in children aged less than 18 reported to Florida’s Poison Control Centers from January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2016. Over the study interval, the number of poison control centers in Florida remained stable at three. The total pediatric population of Florida grew by 9.86% over the years 2002–2016 with an annual growth rate of 0.70% .
Patients were followed for a minimum of 24 h. Exposures were characterized by intentionality (“unintentional” versus “intentional”), polydrug versus isolated clonidine ingestion, and acuity (“acute” if the event was a one-time ingestion versus “acute on chronic” if the patient was previously receiving long-term clonidine therapy and overdosed on his own medication). Total clonidine ingestion when available was listed. Medical outcomes were classified as minor (symptoms that were minimal and resolved rapidly) and major (symptoms that were systemic, required treatment, or were life-threatening). Disposition was characterized as managed “on site” (home or a non-healthcare facility), discharged from the emergency department (ED), admitted to a medical floor, admitted to a psychiatric facility, or admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU).
The primary outcome of this study sought to characterize the frequency and incidence rate of pediatric clonidine ingestions in Florida over a period of 15 years. Children with an exposure to Catapres® (Manufacturer: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, CT, USA), Catapres-TTS® (Manufacturer: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, CT, USA), and Kapvay® (Manufacturer: Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc., Oakville, Ontario, Canada) were included. Secondary outcomes included description of the exposures in relation to age, sex, dose, intentionality, acuity of exposure, medical outcomes, and disposition.
Poison control data were collected through the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS). The authors would like to acknowledge the Florida Poison Information Center-Tampa for their assistance in providing the TESS data for analysis. Data were abstracted onto a predesigned standardized data collection instrument by personnel blinded to the outcomes of interest. Descriptive statistics and data analysis using multivariate regression analysis were performed using Excel.
The Institutional Review Board at the University of Central Florida determined that this study met criteria for exempt status.
Three thousand four hundred forty-four potentially toxic clonidine ingestions were reported to the Florida’s Poison Control Centers throughout the 15 years examined (Table 1). Forty percent of the cohort was female. Further, 50.6% were less than 6 years old, 28.0% ages 6–11, and 21.3% were greater than 11 years of age. The median age was 5 years (interquartile range (IQR) 2 to 10). The age distribution changed over time to an increasing proportion of teenagers exposed from 19.7% in 2002 to 32.2% in 2016 (p < 0.0001, z test for proportions).
Total clonidine exposures increased from 182 to 378 exposures (range 131–378) over the study period. Similarly, the incidence rate increased from 4.8 per 100,000 children in 2012 to 9.12 per 100,000 children in 2016 (Fig. 1). When examined in age groups of < 6, 6–11, and 12–17 years, an increase in clonidine exposures over time was still observed separately in all groups (Fig. 2).
Moreover, 36.5% of total patients overdosed on their own medications; when examined by age, clonidine was the child’s own medication in 13.6%, 64.0%, and 54.0% of children < 6, 6–11, and > 11 years of age respectively. Over the study period, there was an increase in the exposures deemed to be acute on chronic from 29.3% in 2002 to 42.2% in 2016 (p < 0.0001, z test for proportions)
Intentional overdoses accounted for 15.5% of total exposures versus 0.3%, 7.0%, and 62.0% of exposures by < 6, 6–11, and > 11 year olds respectively. While total exposures were consistently higher in males, the percentage of intentional ingestions by female patients increased over time from 52% in 2002 to 70% in 2016 (p < 0.0001, z test for proportions).
In terms of disposition, 24% were managed at home, 34% were seen in the emergency department and discharged, 8% were admitted to the floor, 25% were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), 3% were admitted to psychiatry, and 5% left against medical advice (AMA) or were lost to follow-up. Over time, the percentage of patients admitted to an inpatient setting increased (Fig. 3).
There were no deaths reported during this timeframe. Within the cohort, 36.2% had a major medical outcome. Major medical outcomes were associated with older age (p = 0.0043, 95% CI 0.0015 to 0.0080) and higher clonidine dose (p < 0.0001, 95% CI 0.0347 to 0.0600). Polydrug versus clonidine-only ingestion and exposure acuity were not statistically significant. The median clonidine dose was 0.2 mg (IQR of 0.1 to 0.5, range of 0.025 to 27.5) for the entire population. Older children were more likely to ingest a larger dose of clonidine (p < 0.001, 95% CI 0.0531 to 0.0734): median dose ingested for children less than 6 years was 0.2 mg compared to 0.5 mg for those over 11 years of age. Then, 31.4%, 10.2%, and 28.2% of children less than 6, 6–11, and greater than 11 years of age respectively were admitted to the ICU. However, when considering the entire population, younger children were statistically more likely to be admitted to the ICU (p < 0.001, 95% CI − 0.0092 to − 0.0033).
Males were more likely to have acute on chronic ingestions (p < 0.001, 95% CI − 0.1639 to − 0.0982): 40.6% of males versus 28.5% of total female ingestions. Females were significantly more likely to be admitted to the ICU (p < 0.0001, 95% CI 0.0380 to 0.0969): 22.1% of total male compared to 28.9% of total female ingestions.
There have been numerous case reports and case series but very few larger studies examining pediatric clonidine ingestions were published in the literature [11,12,13,14,15]. The study described in this paper adds to the limited data available on this topic; and to our knowledge, is the longest study period to date, examining exposures over a 15-year span. This allowed for examination of trends and changes in outcomes over time related to pediatric clonidine overdoses.
Our analysis shows an increase in the incidence in pediatric clonidine exposures over time when adjusted for population growth; this is similar to a previous study which demonstrated a rise in the number of exposures from 1993 to 1999 . In our study however, there was a relatively abrupt increase in the incidence rate around 2010 which may be partially attributable to change in prescribing patterns . This may also explain the increase in acute on chronic exposures over time, as later on in the study period, children were more likely to overdose on their own medications. The increase in clonidine ingestions parallels an increase in clonidine prescribing which has been consistently documented in the literature, even preceding FDA approval of this drug for ADHD [16, 17]. A study by Zito et al. looked at statewide clonidine utilization among preschool Medicaid enrollees aged 2–4 years old and noted a 28-fold increase in the prevalence rate per 1000 from 0.1 to 2.3 during 1991 to 1995 . Another study demonstrated that from 2003 to 2008, the proportion of Medicaid children 3–18 years old receiving clonidine nearly doubled across all age groups . Currently, clonidine usage in very young children, those 5 years and younger, still constitutes off-label prescribing, which raises concerns due to the limited safety and efficacy data in this specific population [5, 19].
Clonidine ingestions can lead to serious adverse effects [8, 10, 13]. Our study had no deaths related to clonidine exposure, similar to other published observational and case reports [20,21,22]. Clonidine-associated pediatric fatalities have been rarely reported in the literature: the study by Klein-Schwartz reported one fatality out of 10,060 exposures . While mortality is rare, the significant morbidity caused still results in a need for hospitalization, invasive monitoring, and mechanical ventilation [12, 23]. Still, 24% of our patient population was managed at home. This reflects current Florida Poison Center standardized recommendations which indicate a patient may be monitored at home if the patient is asymptomatic and has consumed a quantity of clonidine less than 0.1 mg for children < 5 years of age, 0.2 mg for children 5–8 years, < 0.4 mg for children 9 and older. For an ingestion in asymptomatic children who was regularly taking this medication, referral to a hospital setting was not indicated if the child had ingested less than double their therapeutic or prescribed daily dose.
In our study, the proportion of patients admitted to a medical floor or ICU increased over time. Twenty-five percent were admitted to the ICU which was slightly higher compared to 20% reported in a similar study from the 1990s . Younger patients were more likely to be admitted to the ICU, which likely reflects the higher proportion of young children in the study population. This may also be related to the unreliable effects of clonidine ingestion . In our study, higher clonidine dose was associated with worse outcome. While some studies have attempted to establish a dose-response relationship, there is no clear weight-based dose at which clonidine is toxic or lethal [12, 22, 25]. Thus, this may prompt physicians to practice conservatively and admit younger patients to a higher care setting.
While we included all known reported clonidine ingestions during the study time period, data were limited to cases called in to poison control. If individuals or providers chose not to call, these data would be lost. Some patients were lost to follow-up which may limit outcome results; in our study sample, this was 5.3%. The dataset does not differentiate short-acting vs. extended-release clonidine which could affect outcomes. Also, outcomes may be affected in the setting of polypharmacy ingestion; however, our study found no relationship between polydrug versus clonidine-only ingestions and outcomes. We studied only clonidine ingestions and did not include ingestions of guanfacine, a similar agent. Guanfacine is a newer drug and thought to be less sedating compared to clonidine which may affect prescriber patterns; it received FDA approval for ADHD of pediatric patients in 2009, similar to clonidine .
This study demonstrated an increase in the incidence of pediatric clonidine accidental and intentional ingestions over the study period. Given clonidine’s high yet unpredictable potential for neurologic and cardiac effects, these patients are being increasingly admitted to a monitored setting.
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Amico, K., Cabrera, R. & Ganti, L. Outcomes following clonidine ingestions in children: an analysis of poison control center data. Int J Emerg Med 12, 14 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12245-019-0231-1
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1921 - 1944
Bombardier aboard 42-37856 (Fancy Nancy III)
Margraten cemetery, Netherlands.
Plot : M , Row : 17 , Grave : 16.
Emil was born May 1, 1921, Pennsylvania and later moved to Detroit, Michigan.
His parents are from Czechoslovakia.
In Dec 2, 1942 he enlisted to the air corps.
In 1943 he arrived in England to join the 401st BG
His last mission, Jan 30, 1944, just before Target Brunswick, the plane was hit by a FW 190.
Unfortunately, Emil was killed
He was awarded with an Air Medal and a Purple Heart Medal
In 1944, when Emil died on the age of 21 he left behind his family :
His step father, Stephen Kuchka, age 57
His mother, Anna Kuchka, age 49
His (step)brother, Andrew Lahoncht, age 29
His (step)sister, Anna Lahoncht, age 23
Mission to Brunswick, germany, just before target the plane was hit by a FW 190 , German fighter.
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- Name of crew member : Smetana , Emil.
- Rank : 2nd Lt.
- Serial number : 0-688496
- Position : Bombardier.
- Did he bail out ? : No knowledge.
- Last contact just prior to loss of plane ? : When enemy fighters were sighted Lt. Smetana said :
" OK Gunners, get on the Ball ".
- Was he injured ? : Not at that time.
- Where was he last seen ? : Before take-off.
- Any explanation of his fate ? : Might have been killed during fighter attack or could not bail out before ship
- Total number of missions of above crew member ? : 5.
- Date and destinations if possible ? : Dec 31, 1943 Cognac , France
Jan 5, 1944 Tours , France
Jan 21, 1944 Notre Dame de Ferme , France
Jan 29, 1944 Frankfurt
Jan 30, 1944 Brunswick
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Standing L to R: Ray Surowski, John Morreale, Homer Arbogast, Cliff Barker. Kenneth Dickerson, Lowel Reif.
Kneeling L to R: Stanley Johnson, Emil Smetana, Ronald Rohner, Frank Leonard.
Taken at Redmond Oregon in final days of training.
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Lychee or litchi are delicious fruit that grows on the native tree of the same name. These are native to China but is now cultivated in many regions of the world. Being a good source of many nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, etc. they have proved to be very beneficial for our health. In addition to the health benefits, lychees also provide a number of beauty benefits for our skin and hair. Although lychees are great for our health, skin, and hair, still it is important to eat them in moderation as there are also some side effects of eating too many lychees.
Side Effects of Eating Too Many Lychees
(1) May Cause Hypoglycemia
Lychees are very beneficial for us and provide a number of health benefits. One such benefit is the ability of lychees to lower our blood sugar level, and this helps with diabetics patients. However, over-consumption of lychees is bad as it can lower our blood glucose level to an extremely low level, and give rise to hypoglycemia.
In addition to this, if you are a diabetic patient and already taking medication to control blood sugar level, then consumption of lychees could worsen the situation.
The extremely low blood sugar level is bad for our health as it can cause hypoglycemia which is characterized by the symptoms like blurry vision, rapid heartbeat, sudden nervousness, pale skin, headache, dizziness, shaking, unconsciousness, fever, seizure, etc. ( source )
(2) May Drop Blood Pressure To Extremely Low Level
One of the most important health benefits of lychees is its ability to provide relief from high blood pressure. This helps in controlling hypertension which could otherwise give rise to a number of problems like a headache, severe anxiety, breathing difficulty, an increased risk of cardiovascular problems like heart attack, heart stroke, irregular heartbeat, etc ( source ).
This benefit of lychee is mainly due to the abundance of potassium in them. Consuming just 100 grams of lychees provides around 171 mg of potassium. Being a vasodilator, potassium relaxes our blood vessels and ensures that blood flows through them smoothly.
Although lychees are good for regulating blood pressure, one should not consume them too much as overeating lychees could reduce our blood pressure to an extremely low level and give rise to conditions like dizziness, blurred vision, nausea, cold, extreme tiredness, shallow breathing, etc. ( source ).
If you are already taking medication to regulate your blood pressure level then you should be very careful about the consumption of lychee and eat them in a very moderated quantity.
(3) High Sugar Level
Lychees are good for people with diabetes as they help in regulating our blood sugar level. However, one should not forget that they have a high sugar level.
Consuming too many lychees in short duration can cause a sudden rise in our blood sugar level and worsen the condition of diabetic patients. It could also work otherwise and drops our blood sugar level to dangerously low level.
For a safe side, both eastern and western doctors advice consuming no more than six to seven lychees at a time.
(4) Lychees are “Hot”
They may be sweet and so delicious in taste, but as per Chinese culture, they are “hot ” in nature. Consuming too many “hot” food is bad for our health as it is believed to throw off the balance of our body, and give rise to conditions like bleeding nose, sore throat, mouth soreness, etc.
For this reason, it is better to eat lychees in a limited quantity.
(5) Lychees During Pregnancy And Breastfeeding Stage
Lychees are a good source of many nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, etc. and provides a number of health benefits. However, not much is known about whether or not they are safe during pregnancy and breastfeeding stage.
For this reason, pregnant and nursing women are advised to be on the safe side and avoid eating lychees. Or, if you want to eat lychees then get in touch with your doctor and follow their advice and recommendation.
(6) Lychees and Auto-Immune Diseases
You never know when advantage could turn into a disadvantage and lychees are a perfect example of this. They are an excellent source of vitamin C which is an antioxidant that fights with the free radicals of our body and prevents them from causing oxidative damage to our body cells ( including the immune system ).
By protecting our immune system from oxidative damage, lychees make our immune system more active and this protects us from various disease-causing microbes like bacterias, viruses, etc. However, there is a disadvantage to this.
Consuming too many lychees make our immune system hyperactive and this increases the risk of auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis, lupus ( systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, etc. For this reason, it is advised to be cautious and eat lychees in moderate quantity.
(7) Lychees And Allergies
No doubt lychees provide a number of health benefits and are very delicious in taste, but unfortunately, not everyone can enjoy their benefits and taste.
It has been found that individuals who are allergic to birch, sunflower seeds and other plants belonging to the same family, mugwort, and latex are also allergic to lychees.
These individuals should avoid consuming lychees as it may otherwise cause symptoms like hives, itching, labored breathing, swelling of lips and tongue. ( source )
(8) Interference With Surgery
If you have a surgery scheduled, then it is advisable to stop consuming lychees at least two weeks prior to surgery, and even after surgery, wait for at least two weeks before including lychees in your diet again.
This precaution is necessary because lychees could interfere with the blood sugar control during and after surgery.
In addition to this, lychees also lower our blood pressure level and this could also have an adverse effect on our health during surgery phase.
(9) Lychees And Weight Gain
Lychees are low in calories and this makes them very beneficial for the individuals who are on a weight loss regime.
Consuming 100 grams of lychees provides only 66 calories. They are also a good source of dietary fibers which keeps our stomach full for an extended period and decreases our urge to eat again and again. This controls overeating which is a major behind weight gain and obesity. In addition to this, lychees are mostly water ( which means no calories).
All these factors combined together, make lychees very beneficial for weight loss.
So, does that means we can consume as many lychees as we want without worrying about weight gain? The Answer is “No”.
Every bite counts and if you start consuming too many lychees then you’ll end up acquiring a higher number of calories and this could interfere with your weight loss plan, and even lead to “weight gain”.
(10) High In Carbohydrates
Another important reason to eat lychees in moderate quantity is their high carbohydrate level. Lychees are high in carbohydrate and most of which is “sugar”.
Consuming a single cup serving of lychees provides around 30 grams of sugar, which is much higher in comparison to the sugar present in apples ( 13 grams of sugar per cup) and blueberries ( 7 grams of sugar per cup). Although there is no limit on the sugar obtained from natural sources (like fruits) too much of carbohydrates are bad.
As per the Institute of Medicine, adults should get no more than 65 percent of their calories from carbohydrates and rest from fat and protein. Lychees lack fat and protein and if you are consuming too many lychees then it means you are getting a large portion of calories from carbohydrates.
This side effect is a matter of concern only when you are consuming lychees in excessive quantity and when your diet lack protein and fat. If you are balancing things, then there is not much to worry, but as a matter of precaution, it is better to stay within limits.
(11) Lack of Certain Nutrients
Lychees are a good source of many nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, etc. and this makes them beneficial for our health.
However, it should be noted that lychees lack certain nutrients like proteins, essential fatty acids, calcium, etc.
All these play an important role in our body and if you want to stay healthy, then we need to have a balance of all these things in our diet. For this reason, too, it is advisable to eat lychees in moderation.
(12) High Sugar In Canned Lychees
Lychees are high in sugar and this level could be even higher if you are eating canned lychees.
A single serving of canned lychees contains about 27 grams of sugar. Another reason to worry is that not all of this sugar is obtained naturally from fruit. So, if you are eating canned lychees then you may surpass the limit of added sugars recommended by the American Heart Association.
As per the American Heart Association, men should not consume more than 150 calories and women should not consume more than 100 calories from added sugar.
The information contained in the post is for general purpose only and shouldn’t be considered as medical advice or as an alternative to medical advice. Although I’ve tried my best to keep the information contained in this post as accurate and updated as possible, I make no guarantee of the accurateness of the same.
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On the 29th of November in the USA the people celebrate thanksgiving day, a day when they give thanks for all the ways they have been blessed, blessed with family, blessed with friends, blessed with health etc. If I reflect on my own life in the 1st world, I can almost be overwhelmed by all I have been given. God has been very generous to me. None of my gifts has been earned – God has been lavish in His goodness.
In that struggle between being generous and being self centered, I need never fear being generous. Ann Frank once wrote “Nobody has ever become poor by giving”. As I reflect on that wonderful Christmas day I realise that the joy I received on that day far outweighed any giving on my part and for that I will treasure that day forever in my heart.
This great generosity on the part of God asks me to look at my own generosity – how generous have I been with others in my life? Am I a person who freely gives of my treasures? Do I hold what I have been given with open hands or do I clutch it to myself? Isn’t it so easy to allow a quiet guilt to smother our generosity?
One of the great experiences for me was Father Christmas Day at Missionvale on the 8th of December over eight thousand children queued for Father Christmas to receive a present, a drink and some ice cream. Even though the presents were small in first world mentality, the extraordinary joy etched in the faces of those children who I met will never leave me.
A small gesture can mean so much, particularly if you have very little. I was left thinking a lot about that wonderful day and what does it mean to give freely. Maybe to give feely is to give with no strings attached. Just how many times do I hear myself saying: I am not sending him a card this year, he didn’t send me any last year. Or I am not going to give her a present, she never even bothered to send a “thank you” note for the last one. Or I am not going to volunteer to work in my own community – what have they ever done for me? There is always a tension in my own life between being self loving and being self centered I find myself walking that line every day. | <urn:uuid:66a111f4-3a2a-4a54-8c25-651749320b1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.missionvaleireland.org/donaghs-blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.977556 | 479 | 1.515625 | 2 |
“I’m certain I have a virus! My machine is running really slow! How do I find it?”
Good instinct. Granted, sometimes devices run slowly because they are old, or because you’ve filled up their memory. But malware (the term usually used these days instead of “virus”) can also eat up your computer’s processor power. So it’s worth checking to see if that’s the problem.
Your first steps are:
run your security software and
get a clearer picture of what’s going on.
Here’s where you go back to the name of your security software, which, as I said in Keep Calm and Log On, you should write down somewhere near your device so you can refer back to at times like this. Go looking for that name on your device, and run its scan to see if it turns anything up.
Don’t have security software, or don’t know if you do? Some devices today also come with built-in security scans. Here’s how to get to them on Microsoft. If you’re looking for add-on security scan software for Apple or Android devices, I recommend Malwarebytes.
For the most part, antivirus software will do a good job of removing malware which has snuck onto your machine. If it doesn’t turn anything up, it’s time to take further action.
It’s time to take a step back and figure out whether the device is just running slow because you’re running out of space on your drive, you have too many browser windows open, or you’re running too many apps at once. Here are some places you want to look, and what to do while you’re there:
What is eating a lot of your memory?
Sometimes our machines run slowly because we just don’t have much space left on them. The first thing to check is how much disk space you have left. Here’s how to do that on Mac, Windows, Android, and iPhone (here’s a video for that last one), with some tips on managing space, too.
The rule of thumb is you should have 15% of your drive space free at any time. So if you have less than that left, it’s time to move some extra junk to the cloud or an external drive, or delete it.
What is slowing your device down?
On most devices, you can get a look at what programs are running on the device. On a Mac, use the Activity Monitor. On a Windows machine, the Task Manager. Android devices may have processes running in the background. iPhones usually don’t.
Use those tools to see which programs are using more resources than others (they’re usually first in the list, and their numbers are much higher than others).
Write down the names of anything unfamiliar in those lists.
You’re now at the “Google the name” stage of the chart at the bottom of this article—go ahead and do some searching for the unfamiliar software.
Don’t delete anything yet—just hold on to your notes.
What strange things start running when your device starts up?
Restart your device. If it’s a desktop or laptop, write down notes on what appears to start up when the machine starts up. This may be weird words in the all-text part when the Windows machine starts, or apps which bounce in the dock on your Mac. (This is like 80% of the work “experts” do when they fix your computer. Writing down the names of problematic software. I’m serious.)
Now it’s time to take those notes and use them to figure out what’s going on:
If you’re running out of memory, a disk usage visualizer can help you easily see what’s hogging your memory. GrandPerspective is free for Mac. For Windows, I like TreeSize, but here’s a list of other disk usage tools, too. Take notes on the names of things using huge blocks of space, so you can delete them (if you know they’re not being used) or look them up to see if they’re related to malware.
If apps eating memory are ones you recognize, try quitting them and re-starting them.
You may also want to clear cookies in your browsers, but be aware, this may log you out of some sites and forget other information you like to have stored in your browsers. But if browsing the internet is still going slowly for you, clearing cookies may help.
If you’ve found some suspicious software, it’s time to move on to the next step. You can do this yourself with these guides! But this is also a fine time to ask for help. Whoever is helping you will appreciate your notes, so bring them along.
This is not something you should do in every case. But if you see the same problem from the same malware over and over, it may be time to take more aggressive steps.
Bleeping Computer has a series of excellent step-by-step guides for removing some malware by hand, including ransomware (they even have anti-ransomware downloads to help you eliminate some kinds of ransomware—look in the security section of their downloads).
To use them, first use Bleeping Computer’s search engine on the name of the specific malware you’re seeing on your device. Sometimes you can even search for the wording you’re seeing in a strange error message, like “Can’t play this video!” or “Your Windows 10 is not updated” (they have guides with those messages as titles). Then follow the steps they list to weed out as many traces of the offending software as possible.
There are also a few browser extensions which can help block malware before it is installed. uBlock Origin helps fight malware by keeping ads from loading as you browse online. Ads are common sources of malware, as well as being drains on our attention. Here’s where to get uBlock Origin for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.
Ad Aware is also effective, but does not default to blocking all ads. You’d need to train it to block more things.
But remember: no one device or app can protect your security. Your own security behavior is critical to protecting your digital valuables. For more tips, check the security section of this website, and take a look at Keep Calm and Log On.
“Someone else usually does this for me. I’m not good at computers. I don’t know what’s malware and what isn’t!”
Look, nobody is born knowing how to fix a computer. Everyone who has helped you with your device has learned to do this at some point—and a lot of the time, the way they learned was by looking around in all the deepest parts of their machine to understand what it was doing. To be honest, most of the basic security settings on our machines are a matter of turning something on with a single button.
The cartoonist Randall Munroe provides this guide to how computer “experts” fix things:
This dangerous era of cyberattacks calls for us all to know more about the devices in our lives, to protect ourselves and our communities. It’s time to step up! For more tips on how you can support the global cybersecurity effort, check the security section of this website, and take a look at Keep Calm and Log On. | <urn:uuid:da242de5-b6ee-4e59-a32e-04de58a0cc96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.keepcalmlogon.com/pub/how-do-i-know-if-virus-remove-malware/release/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.936754 | 1,602 | 2.4375 | 2 |
If you are looking to try out authentic Chinese dishes, the one thing that you cannot do without are chopsticks. From disposable to expensive handcrafted, chopsticks are an important eating utensil in Asian countries. You can find them in Asian grocery stores and have become popular all across the world.
A typical Chinese chopsticks manufacturing process begins with milling the wood and cutting it into several pairs of sticks, which are wider and longer than the end product. The sticks are then inlaid with contrasting wood, which gives them a unique texture. After the chopsticks completely dry up, they are removed from the wood block and milled again to get the chopstick shape. The rectangle ends are made smooth and curved using a sandpaper so that you don’t get splinters in the mouth while eating food. Rest of the chopsticks are smoothened using sandpaper. In the last step, the chopsticks are either finished with paint, oil, or lacquer.
Over the years, there have been many creative innovations in the chopsticks world. Some innovations have made chopsticks more comfortable to use, while others have made chopsticks a wonderful gifting option. Let’s take a look at 12 creative chopstick innovations you need to know about:
If you love dining classy, you will love Mater’s angle chopsticks. They are made of stainless steel and designed ergonomically to reduce the stress on your wrists while picking food up.
As the name suggests, narrowed chopsticks are narrowed in the area where you hold them. The innovation gives a comfortable grip to the user.
If you have a tendency to keep one chopstick away from the other, you need to purchase magnetic chopsticks. They also create the feeling of pulling disposable wooden chopsticks apart.
Clothespin chopsticks make an amazing gift for someone who has just started to learn how to use chopsticks. Two chopsticks are held together with a metal spring, which helps the user get a hang of the movement.
Sauce dispensing chopsticks is one of the best inventions ever. You have to unscrew the lower part of the chopstick and fill liquid in the upper half. Screw them up. Every time you pick up the piece of food, the sauce will trickle down. You can fill the chopsticks with two different sauces.
If you are busy on call or finishing assignments, the Frogget Mee chopsticks will help you pick up the food pieces easily. The pair comes with a soup spoon on the other end, which you can use to drink the soup.
Kids love to use chopsticks even if they aren’t able to pick up food with them. You can get them chimp chopsticks, which are joint at one end and have tiny hands at the other end. They are also smaller than an average-sized pair of Chinese chopsticks, which offers the kids are a more manageable experience.
Tukaani chopsticks are great for learners. They are curved and linked at one end, so picking food up with them is very easy.
Carbon fiber chopsticks look like any other pair of chopsticks but they are environmentally sustainable and extremely durable. They are available in multiple colors but we suggest you to stick to uncolored ones because the color might contain lead.
If you are backpacking in Asia, you might need this pair of folding chopsticks. After you use them, wash clean and fold and keep the chopsticks in the backpack. They fold into half the size of average Chinese chopsticks.
Forkchops chopsticks have a knife and a fork at the other end. You can use them to cut up steak or veggies in small pieces before eating with the chopstick end. They are mostly made up of disposable plastic and a great replacement to the usual fork and knife during parties.
Kobayashi chopsticks are slightly curved at the narrow end. When you place them on the table, the narrow end doesn’t touch the surface.
We use chopsticks made out of wood, plastic, or bamboo, which are affordable options. They are also available in silver, gold, platinum, bone, ivory, and jade, which make them wonderful gift options. You can personalize the chopsticks by getting them painted or carving the person’s name on them.
European and American tourists who have visited Asia over the years take home elaborately designed chopsticks as souvenirs for friends and family. Here are four tips to remember while selecting chopsticks as a gift:
Do you want to gift chopsticks for them to keep it on the showcase as a memory or do you want them to use it? Porcelain chopsticks are a great choice if you want to gift it as a remembrance of your time together or friendship. If you want them to use it, you can gift gold-plated wooden chopsticks.
Lacquered chopsticks or stainless steel chopsticks have a smooth surface and are difficult to use. If the person you are gifting to is a newbie, you should purchase a pair that has slight texturing for a better grip.
There are different varieties of chopsticks to choose from the shape of the tip is the most important. Chopsticks with squared tips are the easiest to use, while those with round tips can be a little tricky.
Chopsticks as a gift are incomplete without giving a box to store them in. Engrave the person’s name on the box to make the gift even more special.
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History of Kedareshvara Temple
Balligavi, housing the idol of Kedareshvara Temple, was a city of great significance during the Western Chalukya rule in 11th - 12th century. The town, having various centers of learning known as agrahara, was then termed as Anadi Rajadhani, means ancient capital in medieval inscriptions. The architectural style adopted for the building of the temple has been termed as 'later Chalukya, non mainstream, relatively close to mainstream' by Adam Hardy, a famous art historian, who states the date of the construction of the edifice as 11th century. The fact is attested by an inscription caved on the temple that mentions about the various developmental activities undertaken by the Hoysala rulers until 1131 A.D.
Architecture of Kedareshvara Temple
Kedareshvara Temple, a specimen of Hoysala architecture, is trikuta in plan i.e. it has three shrines, facing west, north and south and each adorned with a sikhara. The shrine facing the western side has a vestibule while the ones on the northern and southern side have ardhamantapa or half hall. The monument chiefly built of soapstone is simple and modest in its execution. All the shrines extending up to a huge hall known as mahamantapa, is supported by six ornate pillars. These are headed by a large gathering hall known as sabhamantapa with entrance gates located on the north, south and eastern directions. The hall elaborately carved is square in plan. The projections of the walls of the hall are well decorated with architectural expressions.
The garbhagriha of the shrine enshrines a Shivalingam while the cella on the northern side houses the image of Lord Vishnu. The exterior walls of the shrines, carved elaborately, exhibit the stupendous craftsmanship of the Hoysala artisans while the pilasters coroneted by miniature towers have been kept unadorned.
The exterior walls of the temples are rather simple but the pillars are crested by small ornamental towers. The superstructures consist of three tiered vesara which is an amalgamation of north Indian and south Indian style. These also include sculptural details which are present in each of the tiers. The shrine displays various other characteristics that are standard in Hoysala style temples. These include a large ornamental domed roof above the tower; a decorative pot or kalasha placed at the top of the dome; and a Hoysala crest above the tower over the hallway. The crest includes an insignia of a Hoysala warrior killing a lion.
The dome of the temple covers a surface area of around 2x2 m and is known as Amalaka. The shape of the dome generally resembles the pattern and form of the shrine. The tower above the hallways of the 3 shrines appears as extensions of the main tower.
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Selectmen say restriction on Holliston cross stands
Selectmen last night rejected an application from firefighter Gregg Lewis to erect a 6-foot lighted cross on the Central Street Fire Station's hose tower but offered him the chance to put it in front of Town Hall.
"That's not going to happen," Lewis said after the meeting. "I just really think it should be up there (on the fire station). It's been up there forever."
Selectmen Will McColl and Carl Damigella said that when officials drafted the 2004 holiday display policy, they designated the lawn in front of Town Hall as the venue for seasonal displays.
The policy came as a result of a 2003 lawsuit against the town by Rabbi Mendy Kivman of the Chabad Center of Greater Milford, requesting a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court to force Holliston to allow him to erect a menorah at Town Hall. The suit was withdrawn after officials allowed Kivman to set up the menorah.
Because the Town Hall lawn has traditionally served as a public space where individuals or groups can erect displays, Town Counsel William Mayer said it would be more appropriate for the cross.
Mayer said he had been researching Supreme Court rulings before last night's meeting to find a precedent to help determine whether it is, in fact, constitutionally permissible to erect a cross on town property.
Mayer cited a 1995 Supreme Court case - Capital Square Review and Advisory Board vs. Pinette - in which the court ruled the Ku Klux Klan could erect a cross at the Statehouse plaza in Columbus, Ohio, because it was a public forum.
The court ruled that barring the KKK from erecting the cross would be a violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
"My opinion is that they have the ability to do that and the legal right to do that," Mayer said about putting the firefighters' cross on the Town Hall front lawn.
The town has only one designated spot for religious displays and they cannot be put up on any other town property.
Damigella said that while there isn't enough time to re-examine the holiday display policy this year to accommodate the firefighters' wishes, the policy should perhaps be redrafted next year to allow displays to be put elsewhere in town, such as the front of the fire station.
"I can feel the same sympathies all of you feel," said Damigella, a former firefighter. "Serving on the Fire Department for over 20 years, I don't know how many times I put that cross up."
Lewis said he most likely would not file another application to put the cross in front of Town Hall and the firefighters would probably put it at the top of a tree behind the station on private property.
The group of firefighters attending last night's meeting were visibly disappointed with the outcome.
"I'm 100 percent behind Gregg," said Brett Morrison, a 27-year veteran of the department. "I'm disappointed. I wish it was going back on the station."
"I knew this was going to happen," said Lewis, adding that while he would like to see the cross atop the fire station, he could understand officials' trepidation, given the chance of litigation that comes with the approval or rejection of a religious display.
"I can see where they are coming from," he said. "And I don't want a dime taken away from this town.
"We are going to need a new ladder truck at some point," he joked.
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Sr. M. Antona Ebo, whose courageous words March 10, 1965, in Selma became a rallying cry for the Civil Rights movement, died Saturday, November 11, 2017, at her home at The Sarah Community in Bridgeton. She was 93 and had been a Franciscan Sister of Mary for 71 years.
A Mass of Farewell celebrating her life will be held on Monday, November 20, 2017, at 11 a.m. at St. Alphonsus Liguori (Rock) Church, 1118 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., with visitation at the church at 9 a.m.
Besides her heartfelt commitment to the struggle for equal rights, Sr. Antona was a pioneer throughout her life. She was one of the first three African American women to enter the Sisters of St. Mary in 1946 (in 1987 the Sisters of St. Mary reunited with the Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville, Mo., as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary). She was the first African American woman to administer a Catholic hospital in the United States, and she served in congregational leadership at the time of the reunification of the congregation.
She was a founding member of the National Black Sisters’ Conference in 1968 and served as its president. She was awarded six honorary doctorates and has received countless awards and distinctions. She continued to speak on her experiences into her 90s, challenging listeners to live out the truth that all God’s creatures are equal in the eyes of God. | <urn:uuid:7f909dbb-a7b3-487c-a6c3-736434684b53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intranet.fsmonline.org/news/sr-antona-ebo-fsm-pioneer-civil-rights-passes-away/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.984123 | 314 | 2.234375 | 2 |
There are many aspects of the climate change/global warming debate that are clearly frustrating for many of those involved, but one might think that fundamentally everyone is interested in the same thing: understanding the science associated with climate change. It may not be true, but it’s possible. Given this, maybe one should expect climate scientists to hide their frustrations and try and engage openly and decently with “skeptics”.
The problem I have with the possibility that deep down everyone is interested in the same thing, is that I regularly encounter things that make me seriously doubt that some really have any actual interest in understanding the science. One example that I encountered today was Andrew Montford promoting Murry Salby’s tour of England. So, why is this an issue? Firstly, Andrew Montford is regarded by some as an honest broker. Secondly, Murray Salby is very simply wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, but almost completely wrong. If even someone regarded as an “honest broker” can promote someone who’s ideas are completely wrong, what does that say about “skeptics” in general.
Why is Salby wrong? Well, if you want to know more, you can read one of my earlier posts or you can read Skeptical Science’s take on Salby’s ideas. Salby is also quite famous for showing two graphs, one of which indicates a huge mismatch between temperature and CO2. At best, this is an incredibly embarrassing mistake and at worst, intentional deception. Tom Curtis explains why here.
The point is, some things are just wrong and should be acknowledged as wrong. Some of Salby’s mistakes are so trivial that if you don’t realise that they’re wrong, you really should stop considering that you understand anything about science and start listening to those who do. I think engaging in discussions about climate science and global warming is fascinating. There is much we can all learn. However, I do find it incredibly frustrating engaging with those who seem willing to consider ideas that are trivially shown to be incorrect. If I’m frustrated imagine how actual climate scientists feel. Maybe we should give more credence to those willing to engage without letting their frustrations show. On the other hand, maybe showing a little more frustration may help some people to realise that some of what they think has merit really doesn’t. | <urn:uuid:e2093564-0a6f-4a99-9a45-0c644f60547b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/why-it-must-be-frustrating/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.971017 | 497 | 1.882813 | 2 |
British Dialect. doomed; fated to die.
Chiefly Scot. appearing to be under a spell; marked by an apprehension of death, calamity, or evil.
supernatural; unreal; enchanted:
elves, fairies, and other fey creatures.
being in unnaturally high spirits, as were formerly thought to precede death.
whimsical; strange; otherworldly:
a strange child with a mysterious smile and a fey manner.
interested in or believing in the supernatural
attuned to the supernatural; clairvoyant; visionary
(mainly Scot) fated to die; doomed
(mainly Scot) in a state of high spirits or unusual excitement, formerly believed to presage death
“of excitement that presages death,” from Old English fæge “doomed to die, fated, destines,” also “timid, feeble;” and/or from Old Norse feigr, both from Proto-Germanic *faigjo- (cf. Old Saxon fegi, Old Frisian fai, Middle Dutch vege, Middle High German veige “doomed,” also “timid,” German feige “cowardly”), from PIE *peig- “evil-minded, hostile” (see foe). Preserved in Scottish. Sense of “displaying unearthly qualities” and “disordered in the mind (like one about to die)” led to modern ironic sense of “affected.”
/Italian fiboˈnattʃi/ noun 1. Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe Fibonacci (fē’bə-nä’chē) Italian mathematician who popularized the modern Arabic system of numerals in the western world and discovered the Fibonacci sequence of integers.
[fee-boh-nah-chee] /ˌfi boʊˈnɑ tʃi/ plural noun, Mathematics. 1. the unending sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … where each term is defined as the sum of its two predecessors.
1. variant of before a vowel: fibrin. fibr- pref. Variant of fibro-.
[fahy-bran, fahy-bran] /ˈfaɪ bræn, faɪˈbræn/ noun 1. viscose rayon made from spun yarn.
[fahy-ber] /ˈfaɪ bər/ noun, Chiefly British. 1. . [fahy-ber] /ˈfaɪ bər/ noun 1. a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos. 2. a slender filament: a fiber of platinum. 3. filaments collectively. 4. matter or material composed of filaments: a plastic fiber. 5. something resembling a filament. 6. an essential character, quality, or […] | <urn:uuid:a68a70cb-5fad-438b-a34a-ea8fd3f0b06e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://definithing.com/define-dictionary/fey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.832974 | 765 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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Mid Canterbury Junior Rugby Philosophy
In 2004 the NZRU Community Rugby Plan declared its #1 priority to be “establishing rugby as the first choice game for all NZ kids”. To achieve this, the NZRU implemented the Small Blacks Development Model across New Zealand – a set of rules and guidelines on how rugby should be played for different ages to assist with the progressive development of the skills and knowledge required for all involved to enjoy the game.
Reflecting this is the Mid Canterbury Junior Rugby Philosophy:
“To grow the game by giving everyone involved the opportunity to learn and participate in an enjoyable and safe environment so they develop a life-long love of the game”.
GOALS for Mid Canterbury Junior Rugby
To have as many players as possible playing the game.
Each player shall have as many involvements in each game throughout the season.
Every player will play at least half a game on each occasion their team plays.
To have the best and fairest competition structure possible.
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Judy Darragh Artist Talk
Meet in the exhibition
Join artist Judy Darragh as she unveils her mural work Pecking order.
Judy Darragh ONZM (b. 1957 Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist renowned for her brightly coloured sculptural assemblages, collage, video, photography, and poster art. Her practice came to prominence during 1980s, at which time Darragh’s trademark and eclectic iconoclasm modeled a fleet-footed critical position in response to the rampant materialism and free-market reforms that characterized this period of New Zealand history. In 2004 Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand mounted the major survey exhibition Judy Darragh: So... you made it? which was accompanied by a full colour catalogue published by Te Papa Press. Judy Darragh lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland where she has played a significant role in the development of ARTSPACE Aotearoa, artist-run spaces in Auckland such as Teststrip, and Cuckoo, has taught widely at both secondary and tertiary level, and has taken on mentorship roles for wide range of artists. She was a co-editor of Femisphere a publication supporting women’s art practices in Aotearoa. Darragh continues to exhibit extensively throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and her works are held in numerous public collections including Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch; Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand ,Wellington; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland; and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. | <urn:uuid:c7769247-d511-4876-95cb-3d82192216d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/events/judy-darragh-on-judy-darragh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.957871 | 361 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Money is something that every person in the world wants. The amount of money may vary from person to person, but everybody wants some amount of money in their life. Everybody tries their best in their own way to get the amount of money that they desire. It is also true that some people are trying to get their desired amount of capital. Throughout history, people have tried to find ways to generate a large amount of cash legally in a short amount of time. Today we are going to discuss one of the fastest money making methods – playing in casino online.
The answer that has prevailed throughout history is gambling. Gambling is the legal way in which a person can earn a large amount of capital in a short amount of time. But all good things have a catch. Gambling can make a person experience euphoria, but at the same time, gambling can also make a person experience the deepest despair. But many games in the gambling world have low odds of losing and are easy to understand. One of those games is Roulette.
Introduced in the eighteenth century by a man named Blaise Pascal, the name roulette means “little wheel” in French. It is a casino game with casinos worldwide having at least one roulette table in their business. Roulette is made up of a little wheel and a small white ball. The wheel’s purpose is to rotate, and the ball is placed on the wheel in such a way that it rotates opposite to the spinning of the wheel.
More About Roulette:
The little wheel has various numbers engraved on it. The numbers vary from one to thirty-six or from zero to thirty-seven or from zero to thirty-eight depending upon the roulette version a person is playing. There are various ways in which a person can place a bet in roulette:
● A person can bet on the number the ball will land on.
● They can even bet whether the ball will land on an odd or even number:
● Similarly, there are two colors on the little wheel that depend on the casino, generally red and black. A person can bet whether the ball will land on the black or red one.
● Similarly, there are high numbers from 19 to 36, and low numbers from 1 to 18. A person can bet on high numbers or low numbers, depending on their choice.
Roulette is indeed a very simple and yet enigmatic game to play, but if a person fully understands the game, he\she can easily make a career out of it. So, in the end, roulette and its different versions are heaven for professional gamblers and amateur ones. However, because of this, players have a very high probability of winning the high stakes. Even if they lose the bet with a penalty, it is less, which generates the drive for the professional player to play these high-stakes games.
But only relying on mathematics will also lead people to the path of doom. It is the combination of skill, talent, knowledge about odds, and some amount of luck that makes an amateur player into a professional one in casino online. | <urn:uuid:d726ab0a-e86d-4bdd-a328-f17108803479> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twroomnice.info/exploring-the-plain-yet-enigmatic-game-roulette/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.965403 | 634 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Kinds of Gambling
Betting for a whole is a very interesting subject to discuss. In reality, one can easily talk about it for hours without speaking much about any details. That is because there are so many interesting things about gaming that people just don't have enough time to talk about all of them. Thus, I'll try to encounter some interesting and significant truth about gambling that will hopefully give you a few new and intriguing ideas concerning the topic. Hopefullyafter reading this report, you should be able to bring some new components to your gaming game.
Gambling is basically an activity where a thing of value is put on the risk that somehow something of higher worth may also be obtained, depending on the unpredictable outcome of a certain occasion. Therefore, the elements of risk and unpredictability to betting contribute to the riskiness and into the appeal of gaming. One can consider gaming as a type of sport gambling or even playing the lotterynevertheless, there are a good deal of variants and various variables for this, including both technical and social elements.
Betting originated in early Greece, even although it is not exactly known when gaming began. What we do know is that it grew in popularity during the Hellenistic period, which has been a period of amazing wealth for Greek taxpayers. Hence, some historians believe that the popularity of gaming began during the rule of Alexander the good, who reigned over the nation for nearly a decade. Though gambling has origins in ancient Greece, it has spread throughout the Middle East and to other parts of the world, including areas like Brazil, Russia, and Mexico.
There are two different types of gaming, card or wheel gambling and craps betting. The later is considered as the more dangerous kind of betting, as a result of high amount of human error included. However, lots of individuals are still willing to gamble with their own hard-won cash, particularly in places like Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Lots of individuals view these gambling establishments as real casinos, albeit a lot of them aren't.
The earliest types of gaming that developed were card games, that were initially developed in early Egypt. Including the game of blackjackthat were first introduced in the 15th century in Spain, and which is currently one of the hottest casino games now. Card games have a random number generator, which is the reason why every time a card has been dealt, the end outcome differs. This way, it is possible to think of unique chances, including the possibility of winning the game, or dropping the match. Blackjack is among the most famous games of all, and this is 1 reason why it became a favorite gambling game for people from various backgrounds.
Still another very famous card game is poker, which was introduced in the USA in 18vd. This has an extremely large history in the USA, which goes back for a good deal of centuries. Even though it has fallen out of favor in the past few decades, it has been recently revitalized and made available again online casino floors. Poker is now a favourite game for people from all walks of life, irrespective of social status. It's also among the most favourite games among those who frequent internet gaming, and it has grown extremely common in the cyberworld.
One of the most preferred types of gambling throughout history is the lottery. Lotto is believed to be a harmless kind of gambling that is supposed to bring in additional money. Nonetheless, in recent decades, lottery gambling has been dominated and legalized in the United States. That is only because lottery scams and cash generators are widespread in the lottery sector over the last couple of decades.
A rather new kind of gambling is video gambling, which basically means betting through the net. This kind of gaming first gained fame in the uk from the early nineties. Most nations in the world to have legalized gaming through the world wide web, however, the U.S. has been lagging behind nearly every other country in regards to legalized gaming. Many assert that since the U.S. lags behind other countries in regards to legalized gaming; this is the reason why there is still a great deal of corruption over the gaming industry. As stated before, all kinds of gambling, whether it's the lottery, lottery or video poker, can potentially create a good deal of revenue for any particular gambling game. That being said, the only way that you will have the ability to determine whether a specific gaming game will make a good deal of revenue for you is by simply visiting your community online casino and analyze your luck! | <urn:uuid:7ced7734-5777-465d-bb82-f2fcb34e82d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://johnnyqtzw141.bearsfanteamshop.com/sage-advice-about-casino-from-a-five-year-old | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.97728 | 915 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Betty Woolsey was a member of the first U.S. Women’s Olympic Ski Team and captain of the women’s international team in the 1930s. She occasionally spent free time in the winters skiing in Cornwall Bridge with members of her extended family, the Woolseys and Calhouns. During at least one trip to Cornwall in the late 1930s, she brought along her coach and fellow teammates from the U.S. Women’s ski team.
Betty established herself in the world of competitive skiing at Vermont’s Suicide Six in 1934, and became one of four women on the first U.S. women’s Olympic Alpine ski team in 1936. She was captain of the team, and tied for 14th in downhill. The next two winter Olympics, scheduled for 1940 and 1944, were never held.
Skiing was not Betty’s only sport: she also competed at squash and challenged herself with mountain climbing. With Europe inaccessible during World War II, Betty and other skiers found new slopes at Sun Valley and Jackson Hole. Betty fell in love with Wyoming and purchased a ranch near Jackson Hole in 1943.
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Love Alone is Credible with Dr. Larry Chapp, Ph.D. – pt. 5
With Dr. Larry Chapp Ph.D., we conclude our conversation by discussing the sections Love as Deed, Love as Form, and Love as the Light of the World.
From the section entitled Love as Deed:
But the genuine saints desired nothing but the greater glory of God’s love; this alone is the condition of possibility of what they do. A person would contradict them outright if, thinking he knows better, he were to interpret their deeds as means of self-glorification. The saints are lost in the depths of God; they are hidden in him. Their perfection grows not around the center of their ego, but solely around the center of God, whose inconceivable and incalculable grace it is to make his creature freer in himself and for himself to the extent that he becomes freer for God alone. We can resolve this paradox only if we understand, in the light of God’s self-gift, that he is love, which is just as jealous as it is without envy, so that it can gather exclusively to itself just as much as it casts itself out to all.
The sole credibility of the Church Christ founded lies, as he himself says, in the saints, as those who sought to set all things on the love of Christ alone. It is in them that we can see what the “authentic” Church is, that is, what she is in her authenticity, while she is essentially obscured by sinners (as people who do not seriously believe in God’s love) and turned into a useless enigma, which as such deservedly provokes contradiction and blasphemy (Rom 2:24). Christ’s apologetic, by contrast, can be summarized in the sentence: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13:35). This, however, means demonstrating the truth of dogma: “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me” (Jn 17:23). Love as deed: a deed that is as genuinely human (with a heavy emphasis on corporal works of mercy) as it is therefore genuinely divine (because it is granted by God’s patience and humility), and thus a deed that becomes effectively present through everything that happens in the Church (in the preaching and the Mass and the sacraments and the organization and canon law)—this is the “proof of spirit and power”.
It is only at this point, concluding with a flourish, that one can speak about the ultimate mystery of love. This is the magnum mysterium of the “one flesh” (Eph 5:31), as being “one in spirit” (1 Cor 6:17), as “one bread, one body” (1 Cor 10:17). A mystery of unspeakable unity, “no longer living for oneself” (2 Cor 5:15), but henceforward living only for the One who loves, indeed, “no longer do I live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20), “God himself shines in our hearts” (2 Cor 4:6). A reciprocal indwelling that lies beyond all imagination, proceeding from the perception of the “unveiled vision of the glory [of love] of the Lord” to an “ever more glorious reflection through the transformation into the same image, which the Lord works through the power of the Spirit” (2 Cor 3:18).
Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Love Alone is Credible. Ignatius Press. Kindle Edition.
Balthasar: Beauty, Goodness, Truth is a series of conversations with noted theological scholars about the life and teachings of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, who is considered one of the most important Catholic intellectuals and writers of the twentieth century.
In Hans Urs von Balthasar’s masterwork, The Glory of the Lord, the great theologian used the term “theological aesthetic” to describe what he believed to the most accurate method of interpreting the concept of divine love, as opposed to approaches founded on historical or scientific grounds. In this newly translated book, von Balthasar delves deeper into this exploration of what love means, what makes the divine love of God, and how we must become lovers of God in the footsteps of saints like Francis de Sales, John of the Cross and Therese of Lisieux.
Based in the theological aesthetic form, Love Alone is Credible brings a fresh perspective on an oft-explored subject. A deeply insightful and profound theological meditation that serves to both deepen and inform the faith of the believer.
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The validity of UNAIDS/WHO estimates of the burden of HIV/AIDS is rightly questioned by politicians, scientists, and activists - especially since the 2003 estimates to be released in July, 2004, will show substantial drops in the burden of HIV/AIDS in several countries, and increases in others. However, the estimates are based on an explicit attempt to meet criteria we believe should guide the generation of international morbidity and mortality figures. These criteria extend beyond the quality of the input data to include features of the estimation process such as transparency and participation. The 2003 estimates now include plausible ranges for estimates rather than a single best estimate. This reduces the chance that insignificant differences in estimates from different sources are given importance. Here, we describe the levels of uncertainty associated with the UNAIDS/WHO estimates of HIV/AIDS. We explain the reason for moving to the use of plausibility bounds, the factors that determine the width of the bounds, and the implications for polic\y makers and programme managers.
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Coincidences in the Novel: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot to Evelyn Waugh and David Nichols
- Extra Reading
If, as displeased reviewers and readers sometimes complain, coincidences mar good plots, why do so many novels turn on them? From Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, to Sebastian Barry and David Nichols, novelists have relied on coincidences.
While these can reveal the weaknesses of a novel’s design, they can also be put to creative use: as we will see, novelists, like Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, choose to emphasise coincidences, making them entertaining and revealing.
Coincidences in the Novel
Professor John Mullan
2nd March 2022
If you want to know how a novel works, look at how it uses coincidence.
It might sound paradoxical to talk of novelist’s ‘using coincidence’, for often a reliance on coincidence is declared to be a weakness – even a fatal weakness – of a novel. Here is a notorious example.
In 2008, Sebastian Barry won the Costa Book of the Year prize for his novel The Secret Scripture. Shortly after the winner was announced and the prize presented, the Chair of the Costa judges took the unusual step of announcing that The Secret Scripture had won despite its ending.
‘“The novelist Sebastian Barry was named the winner of the Costa Book of the Year award last night in spite of writing a novel that was, according to the judges “flawed in many ways”. …
Matthew Parris, the columnist and chair of the judges, said the competition between Barry and Adam Foulds, who nearly claimed the prize for his poetic works, The Broken Word, was “extraordinarily close”. Parris said the judges agreed to give the prize to Barry’s book despite its less than perfect ending.
“It was an extraordinarily close finish among the judges,” said Parris. “There was huge support for both. The feeling among judges was that there was a lot wrong with it [The Secret Scripture]. It was flawed in many ways, almost no one liked its ending. For some, this was fatal. I don’t think the ending works, no-body thought the ending worked. But there was a feeling among the judges that many great works of literature are also flawed.”’
The Independent, January 28, 2009
What so irked the judges that they wanted to attach this caveat to their decision? It was a coincidence.
The novel consists of two interleaved, first-person narratives. One of the narrators is Roseanna McNulty, a woman nearly a hundred years old, who has been an in-patient in an Irish ‘mental hospital’ for half a century. The other is the psychiatrist in charge of her case, Dr Greene, who is intrigued by her history and begins digging in to her past.
Roseanna’s story is also a small history of Ireland in the early decades of the twentieth century. Brought up a Protestant, she has incurred the enmity of the local priest, the grim and unyielding Father Gaunt. He (wrongly) believes that she has been having an extra-marital affair and persuades her husband to have their marriage annulled. Ostracised by her rural community, she lives as a kind of hermit. Yet she becomes pregnant – by her former husband’s brother, as it happens - and has a child, who is taken away from her. The priest ensures that she is branded a ‘nymphomaniac’, sectioned, and confined in the mental hospital.
Dr Grene’s increasingly obsessive research take him to England, to a Catholic orphanage where, he has found, Roseanna’s child ended up. The child was a boy and was given up for adoption. The orphanage still has the records. The adoptive parents were Mr and Mrs Grene, of Padstow, Cornwall. Dr Grene is, in fact, Roseanna’s son.
There is a little machinery to explain this breath-taking coincidence. The caretaker at the hospital turns out to have been the son of the man with whom Roseanna was supposed to have had an affair. He has sought her out, watched over her, and tried to bring her and Dr Grene together. But still …
Sebastian Barry has himself referred to it as a ‘Dickensian ending’.
Here, indeed, is a great work of literature that similarly plumped for a coincidence to provide a sense of an ending.
It is the revised ending that Charles Dickens wrote for Great Expectations, after his friend, Bulwer Lytton, told him that his readers would resent the ending that he first wrote – in which Pip encounters Estella, now married to a Shropshire doctor, in the street in London.
In the ‘improved’ version, Pip returns to Kent to see Joe and Biddy, now married with children. In the evening, he walks to the ruined Satis House, where he once visited Miss Havisham.
‘“A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. But, the stars were shining beyond the mist, and the moon was coming, and the evening was not dark. I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where the brewery had been, and where the gates, and where the casks. I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it.
The figure showed itself aware of me, as I advanced. It had been moving towards me, but it stood still. As I drew nearer, I saw it to be the figure of a woman. As I drew nearer yet, it was about to turn away, when it stopped, and let me come up with it. Then, it faltered, as if much surprised, and uttered my name, and I cried out,—
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Ch. LIX
Dickens left his own acknowledgement of the sheer unlikeliness of this encounter.
‘“We sat down on a bench that was near, and I said, “After so many years, it is strange that we should thus meet again, Estella, here where our first meeting was! Do you often come back?”
“I have never been here since.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Ch. LIX
It is as if Dickens is signalling: you want this happy meeting – see how improbable is has to be.
In London, of course, all encounters are possible – perhaps probable. Here is Maggie, arguably the central character in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl, explaining to her (in fact adulterous) husband, Prince Amerigo, how she has detected his relationship with her father’s young wife, Charlotte. By chance, she has bought a golden bowl that the Prince and Charlotte once rejected, for being flawed. The shopkeeper has visited her home to tell her that he has overcharged her, seen photographs of the Prince and Charlotte, and told Maggie that he has seen them together. The bowl that is the novel’s central symbol is the embodiment of coincidence.
Here the Prince speaks:
‘“I agree with you that the coincidence is extraordinary—the sort of thing that happens mainly in novels and plays. But I don’t see, you must let me say, the importance or the connexion—”
“Of my having made the purchase where you failed of it?” She had quickly taken him up; but she had, with her eyes on him once more, another drop into the order of her thoughts, to which, through whatever he might say, she was still adhering. “It’s not my having gone into the place, at the end of four years, that makes the strangeness of the coincidence; for don’t such chances as that, in London, easily occur?”’
Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904), XXXIV
Geography often has something to do with coincidence in fiction.
When the word first starts being used in English, it means occupying the same space. Only later, in the late 17th century, does it mean ‘A notable concurrence of events or circumstances having no apparent causal connection’: OED records the first use as Sir Thomas Browne in 1682.
When coincidences happen outside London, they are likely to be less credible.
Which incontrovertibly great novel contains the most absurd coincidence?
There are plenty of candidates, but I offer this one.
The heroine of Jane Eyre, discovering at the altar that Mr Rochester is already married, flees in despair from Thornfield, travelling blindly across England until her money runs out, then wandering through unknown country until she collapses, exhausted, at the doorstep of an isolated house.
‘“You are not, perhaps, aware that I am your namesake?—that I was christened St. John Eyre Rivers?”
“No, indeed! I remember now seeing the letter E. comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me; but I never asked for what name it stood. But what then? Surely—”
I stopped: I could not trust myself to entertain, much less to express, the thought that rushed upon me—that embodied itself,—that, in a second, stood out a strong, solid probability. Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order: the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight,—every ring was perfect, the connection complete. I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.’
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847), Vol. III, Ch. VII
Later, on the brink of accepting that she must marry the coldly virtuous St John Rivers, she seems to hear a voice, Rochester’s voice, calling to her. She returns to him. As he tells the story of the fire that has destroyed Thornfield and the death of his wife, he tells Jane that he called out to her.
‘Reader, it was on Monday night—near midnight—that I too had received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which I replied to it. I listened to Mr. Rochester’s narrative, but made no disclosure in return. The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed. If I told anything, my tale would be such as must necessarily make a profound impression on the mind of my hearer: and that mind, yet from its sufferings too prone to gloom, needed not the deeper shade of the supernatural. I kept these things then, and pondered them in my heart.’
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Vol. III, Ch. XI
Characteristically, Jane tells the reader, in confidence, but does not tell Mr Rochester. The very inexplicability of this ‘coincidence’ is evidence of its significance – and of the spiritual as well as physical bond between her and him. But we have already been prepared for this discovery by another fervent declaration by the heroine.
‘Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension. And signs, for aught we know, may be but the sympathies of Nature with man.’
Jane Eyre Vol. II, Ch. VI
With the very force of her convictions, Charlotte Brontë’s narrator may dare us to disbelieve what she is telling. Yet hers is but one way of making sense of the coincidences on which all Victorian novels seem to turn. Here is a very different kind of coincidence – far-fetched in its own way – from a novelist who is famous for her ‘realism’ – her obedience to laws of probability: George Eliot.
You won’t get any mystical ‘presentiments’ in Middlemarch, the great novel of ordinary men and women muddling their ways through life. Yet even here, the guiding hand of coincidence is required.
Deep in the novel, the shady, boozy John Raffles turns up to try to squeeze some money out of his stepson, Joshua Rigg, who has just inherited a small fortune from the rich miser Peter Featherstone, whose illegitimate son he is. Rigg, who was beaten by Raffles when he was a boy, is anything but welcoming – but, while threatening him if he ever comes again, he agrees to give him one sovereign and a drop of brandy.
‘He jerked forward the flask and Rigg went to a fine old oaken bureau with his keys. But Raffles had reminded himself by his movement with the flask that it had become dangerously loose from its leather covering, and catching sight of a folded paper which had fallen within the fender, he took it up and shoved it under the leather so as to make the glass firm. ….
He played this part now with as much spirit as if his journey had been entirely successful, resorting at frequent intervals to his flask. The paper with which he had wedged it was a letter signed Nicholas Bulstrode, but Raffles was not likely to disturb it from its present useful position.
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-2), Ch. XLI
There. Eliot has placed her note. It just happens to be to hand at just the moment when it is needed for another purpose. Eliot has prepared us for this essential bit of business a little earlier, at the opening of the chapter. She tells us,
‘As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes of a scholar, through whose labors it may at last fix the date of invasions and unlock religions, a bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe. To Uriel watching the progress of planetary history from the sun, the one result would be just as much of a coincidence as the other.’
Sure enough, the next time Raffles appears in the novel, it is to accost the aforementioned Nicholas Bulstrode, the puritanical banker. Raffles has been triggered, as we might say. He has been led by the letter to find Bulstrode, for he knows the secrets of his past: that he concealed from the rich, elderly widow, Mrs Dunkirk, whom he married, years earlier, that her daughter was still alive – thus ensuring that, when she died, he would inherit all her money.
‘“I did not indeed expect to see you in this remote country place.”
“Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine,” said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. “I came to see him here before. I’m not so surprised at seeing you, old fellow, because I picked up a letter—what you may call a providential thing. It’s uncommonly fortunate I met you, though; for I don’t care about seeing my stepson: he’s not affectionate, and his poor mother’s gone now. To tell the truth, I came out of love to you, Nick: I came to get your address, for—look here!” Raffles drew a crumpled paper from his pocket.’
Middlemarch, Ch. LIII
Raffles, of course, will proceed to blackmail Bulstrode. The intrusion of Bulstrode’s past into the novel is essential (the daughter he disinherited was the mother of Ladislaw, whom Dorothea loves). It is managed by coincidence.
Coincidence can be a novelist’s only way of jolting a plot.
When it comes to unlikeliness, Forster’s Howards End is a strong contender. At the wedding reception of Evie Wilcox, Leonard Bast and Jacky arrive with Margaret Schlegel’s sister, Helen. Jacky becomes drunk. Henry Wilcox, the wealthy widower to whom Margaret is now engaged, becomes twitchy about her presence.
‘“She’s overtired,” Margaret whispered.
“She’s something else,” said Henry. “This won’t do. I can’t have her in my garden in this state.”
“Is she—” Margaret hesitated to add “drunk.” Now that she was going to marry him, he had grown particular. He discountenanced risque conversations now.
Henry went up to the woman. She raised her face, which gleamed in the twilight like a puff-ball.
“Madam, you will be more comfortable at the hotel,” he said sharply.
Jacky replied: “If it isn’t Hen!”
“Ne crois pas que le mari lui ressemble,” apologised Margaret. “Il est tout à fait différent.”
“Henry!” she repeated, quite distinctly.
Mr. Wilcox was much annoyed. “I congratulate you on your proteges,” he remarked.
“Hen, don’t go. You do love me, dear, don’t you?”’
E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910), Ch. XXVI
A first-time reader is likely to take as long as the unworldly Margaret to catch on to the truth. Henry Wilcox is not grumpy about the presence of a vulgar drunk; like Eliot’s Bulstrode, he is being made to confront his past. Margret may be in her 30s, and intellectually sophisticated, but she is sexually innocent – as her husband to be does not comprehend.
‘Margaret began to grow frightened. “I don’t know what it is all about,” she said. “Let’s come in.”
But he thought she was acting. He thought he was trapped. He saw his whole life crumbling. “Don’t you indeed?” he said bitingly. “I do. Allow me to congratulate you on the success of your plan.”
“This is Helen’s plan, not mine.”
“I now understand your interest in the Basts. Very well thought out. I am amused at your caution, Margaret. You are quite right—it was necessary. I am a man, and have lived a man’s past. I have the honour to release you from your engagement.”
Still she could not understand. She knew of life’s seamy side as a theory; she could not grasp it as a fact. More words from Jacky were necessary—words unequivocal, undenied.’
E.M. Forster, Howards End Ch. XXVI
Forster, as if in politeness to his heroine, does not tell us what Jacky actually says. Out of all the possible candidates in the wide world, it was she who was Henry Wilcox’s mistress.
Forster did not need this coincidence (he could have found another way of revealing that Henry had not been faithful to Ruth Wilcox, his first wife). But he wanted it. He wanted not just to show Margaret that her fiancé was not the utterly proper person he pretended to be – but also that, in all the arrogance of his wealth, he was not really ‘above’ the Basts. Forster (arguably) manages to get away with the coincidence by letting Margret’s confusion take possession of the scene.
The smuggling of coincidences into a novel can be a high art.
So, Jane Austen offers her reader the pleasure of seeing how she can smuggle any really important coincidence into a novel.
In the opening chapters of Persuasion, the feckless Sir Walter Elliot’s lawyer, Mr Shepherd, has found a tenant who will rent his house – an Admiral Croft. He reassures Sir Walter and his daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, that the Admiral has a wife, who will ensure that the property is well looked after.
‘‘And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be,’ continued he; ‘asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at Monkford. Bless me! what was his name? At this moment I cannot recollect his name, though I have heard it so lately. Penelope, my dear, can you help me to the name of the gentleman who lived at Monkford: Mrs Croft’s brother?’
But Mrs Clay was talking so eagerly with Miss Elliot, that she did not hear the appeal.’
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818), I Ch. III
It will be Anne who has to supply the name of Mrs Croft’s brother: Wentworth. He is the man whom Anne loved and still loves. The man to whom she was engaged – and from whom she was persuaded to part – eight years earlier. Austen wants to bring him back, and so makes him, by coincidence, the brother-in-law of the man who will move into Anne’s once-family home.
In all these examples, the novelist has to either smuggle in the coincidence, or offer some explanation of it. Before the 19th C., neither sleight of hand nor explanation were needed.
In the mid-eighteenth century, Henry Fielding’s novels relied without embarrassment on multiple coincidences. Indeed, they revelled in them. Here we are at the dénouement of his first novel, Joseph Andrews, who hero is (apparently) a humble servant, the son of Mr and Mrs Andrews. Expelled from his position for declining the sexual advances of his mistress, he wanders the country with his companion, Parson Adams. One night, fleeing thieves, they turn up at the isolated home of a Mr Wilson, who takes them in (and narrates his life story). He promises to visit Adams if he ever passes through his parish. Which, later in the novel, is what he does. He turns up just as Mr and Mrs Andrews are recalling how their daughter was taken from them as a baby, with a sickly boy being substituted. He had a strawberry birthmark.
‘The reader may please to recollect that Mr Wilson had intended a journey to the west, in which he was to pass through Mr Adams’s parish, and had promised to call on him. … Mr Adams had no sooner mentioned the discovery of a stolen child, and had uttered the word strawberry, than Mr Wilson, with wildness in his looks, and the utmost eagerness in his words, begged to be shewed into the room, … Joseph complied with the request of Mr Wilson, who no sooner saw the mark than, abandoning himself to the most extravagant rapture of passion, he embraced Joseph with inexpressible ecstasy, and cried out in tears of joy, “I have discovered my son, I have him again in my arms!”’
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Bk. IV Ch. XV
Joseph is, after all, the son of a gentleman.
Here the novelist really is like God, arranging providential outcomes. The comic coincidences that proliferate in Fielding’s novels belong to a Christian view of the world.
Contemporary novelists need their coincidences too. We do not have providence anymore, so they are likely to disguise their coincidences. Here is an artful example.
MONDAY 15 JULY 2002
The radio alarm sounds as usual at 07.05. It is already bright and clear outside, but neither of them move just yet’
David Nicholls, One Day
It is the opening of the sixteenth chapter of the hugely successful novel One Day. As many of you will know, it begins on 15th July 1988, with the two central characters, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, university students who have finished their final exams, spending the night together without actually consummating their relationship. They go their separate ways, each subsequent chapter revisiting them on the same day, 15 July (St Swithin’s Day) in each subsequent year. They keep in touch with each other, keep re-encountering each other, and now, finally, after many a missed chance and wrong step, they are back together – married, and living (where could be happier?) in Belsize Park.
Yet the date means something. Spoiler alert! Two chapters later – two years later – 15 July 2004, Emma is cycling to work and she is knocked off her bike – and killed. Quite a coincidence that it should be the very same ‘one day’ on which they first came together. Yet the novel’s ingenious structure has disguised the novelist’s manipulation of events.
Immediately after Emma’s death, we turn the page and we find this epigraph, from one of Nicholls’s favourites novelists.
‘She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year; the disastrous night of her undoing at Trantridge with its dark background of The Chase; also the dates of the baby’s birth and death; also her own birthday; and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there.’
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Ch. XV
Nicholls said that this is the passage that sparked the idea for his novel. If it had come any earlier, it would have prepared us for his heroine’s death – and the coincidence on which the book rests.
Coincidences abound in Hardy’s fiction, and they are often fateful – even deadly. As here. Shortly before their marriage, Angel Clare discovers that Tess is distantly related to the once aristocratic d’Urbervilles. He is foolishly pleased.
‘“…For your own sake I rejoice in your descent. Society is hopelessly snobbish, and this fact of your extraction may make an appreciable difference to its acceptance of you as my wife, after I have made you the well-read woman that I mean to make you. My mother too, poor soul, will think so much better of you on account of it. Tess, you must spell your name correctly—d’Urberville—from this very day.”
“I like the other way rather best.”
“But you must, dearest! Good heavens, why dozens of mushroom millionaires would jump at such a possession! By the bye, there’s one of that kidney who has taken the name—where have I heard of him?—Up in the neighbourhood of The Chase, I think. Why, he is the very man who had that rumpus with my father I told you of. What an odd coincidence!”
“Angel, I think I would rather not take the name! It is unlucky, perhaps!”
She was agitated.’
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Ch. XXX
No wonder she is ‘agitated’. The ‘very man’ is, of course, Alec d’Urberville. The ‘odd coincidence’ that Angel notes is the sign that he is still playing a part in her life – that the bad luck of that name will return upon her. Angel brushes up against her secret – which will, in the end, destroy their happiness.
Such are the coincidences that signal tragedy. Yet there are also the delicious coincidences of comic fiction. Dickens was the connoisseur of these.
‘On the coincidences, resemblances and surprises of life Dickens liked especially to dwell, and few things moved his fancy so pleasantly. The world, he would say, was so much smaller than we thought it; we were all so connected by fate without knowing it; people supposed to be far apart were so constantly elbowing each other; and tomorrow bore so close a resemblance to nothing half so much as to yesterday.’
Here, David Copperfield meets Dora Spenlow, the daughter of his employer, and falls instantly in love with her.
‘There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
‘I,’ observed a well-remembered voice, when I had bowed and murmured something, ‘have seen Mr. Copperfield before.’
The speaker was not Dora. No; the confidential friend, Miss Murdstone!
I don’t think I was much astonished. To the best of my judgement, no capacity of astonishment was left in me. There was nothing worth mentioning in the material world, but Dora Spenlow, to be astonished about. I said, ‘How do you do, Miss Murdstone? I hope you are well.’ She answered, ‘Very well.’ I said, ‘How is Mr. Murdstone?’ She replied, ‘My brother is robust, I am obliged to you.’’
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-50), Ch. XXVI
By a chance in a million, Dora’s paid companion is the gruesome Miss Murdstone, forbidding sister of Mr Murdstone, the man who married (and helped kill) David’s mother. But, like David, we cannot be ‘much astonished’. She was bound to turn up again. Who better, as a guard against the approaches of young men than the life-denying Miss Murdstone?
Later in the novel, another old friend turns up again. David’s former headmaster, Mr Creakle, now manages a model prison and invites David and his friend Traddles to visit, in order to appreciate his system for ‘making sincere and lasting converts and penitents’.
‘Mr. Creakle directed the door of the cell to be unlocked, and Twenty Seven to be invited out into the passage. This was done; and whom should Traddles and I then behold, to our amazement, in this converted Number Twenty Seven, but Uriah Heep! …
Twenty Seven stood in the midst of us, as if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum. That we, the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon us all at once, orders were given to let out Twenty Eight.
I had been so much astonished already, that I only felt a kind of resigned wonder when Mr. Littimer walked forth, reading a good book!’
David Copperfield, Ch. LXI
There is no keeping down a real rogue. Here is a great reader of Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, sending Paul Pennyfeather, the naïve protagonist of Decline and Fall, to prison – taking the rap on behalf of the Honourable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, whom he planned to marry.
‘Paul found another old friend at Egdon Heath Prison: a short, thick-set, cheerful figure who stumped along in front of him on the way to chapel, making a good deal of noise with an artificial leg. ‘Here we are again, old boy!’ he remarked during one of the responses. ‘I’m in the soup as per usual.’
‘Didn’t you like the job?’ Paul asked.
‘Top hole,’ said Grimes, ‘but the hell of a thing happened. Tell you later.’
That morning, complete with pickaxes, field-telephone and two armed and mounted warders, Paul and a little squad of fellow-criminals were led to the quarries. Grimes was in the party.
‘I've been here a fortnight,’ said Grimes as soon as they got an opportunity of talking, ‘and it seems too long already. I've always been a sociable chap, and I don't like it. Three years is too long, old boy. Still, we'll have God's own beano when I get out. I've been thinking about that day and night.’
‘I suppose it was bigamy?’ said Paul.
‘The same. I ought to have stayed abroad. I was arrested as soon as I landed.’’
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Part Three, Ch. IV
Of course (we say again)! There is Captain Grimes, the dissolute prep-schoolmaster who was Paul’s colleague when he himself was a master at the terrible Llanabba Castle school. Inevitable, really, that he would turn up in the very same prison.
Evelyn Waugh cannot resist telling us why we will keep bumping into Grimes.
‘But later, thinking things over as he ate peacefully, one by one, the oysters that had been provided as a ‘relish’ for his supper, Paul knew that Grimes was not dead. … Grimes, Paul at last realized, was of the immortals. He was a life force. Sentenced to death in Flanders, he popped up in Wales; drowned in Wales, he emerged in South America; engulfed in the dark mystery of Egdon Mire, he would rise again somewhere at some time, shaking from his limbs the musty integuments of the tomb.’
But, to end, let us return to that most ridiculous coincidence in Jane Eyre. Here is a telling comment by a late twentieth-century novelist, Muriel Spark.
‘Well, I was always very interested in the Brontës. I think they were a remarkable set of people and very non-Victorian. They came straight out of the eighteenth century and into the twentieth century, or almost. They were extremely advanced. A little group of people in Haworth in the North, with only the old father to bring them up. Really they brought themselves up. He was a very interesting man, the father, the minister of the Parish. He let them have a lot of leeway and he had an Irish turn of thought. He was very much a radical, and they were radical. They were free-spoken for young women of the time, very advanced and the books are charming. Jane Eyre is an absolutely lovely book, full of improbabilities and ‘dragged-in’ coincidences. I thought that Emily Brontë’s book was marvellous too.’
Muriel Spark, interview with Martin McQuillan, November 1998
Spark was the post-modernist doyenne of coincidences. Who else would begin a novel in the Paris consulting room of a successful but fraudulent psychiatrist who has two patients claiming to be Lord Lucan?
Graham Greene, a friend and a great admirer of her fiction, rightly took coincidence to be one of her special – and frightening – skills, when he wrote to her in 1970. He had just finished reading her new novel, The Driver’s Seat.
‘I enjoyed it thoroughly, beginning it suitably in a restaurant crowded with old American couples on a cruise except for one solitary middle-aged woman who waited for me beside the lift & pounced — but I was warned by your book & saw the headlines, American Hostess Found Strangled in Author’s Bed & left her coldly at the door — on the same floor as mine, a sinister Sparkian coincidence, & I finished your novel in my bed—safe’
Graham Greene, letter to Muriel Spark, 1970
Greene must have had in mind precisely this, the return of Lise, the novel’s protagonist, to a hotel in some unspecified Southern European city.
‘Meanwhile the new arrival, having been jostled by Lise, turns to look at her. He starts, and bends to pick up his bags.
Lise touches him on the arm. ‘You’re coming with me,’ she says.
‘No,’ he says, trembling. His round face is pink and white, his eyes are wide open with fear. He looks neat in his business suit and white shirt, as he did this morning when Lise first followed and then sat next to him on the plane.
‘Leave everything,’ says Lise. ‘Come on, it’s getting late’. She starts propelling him to the door.’
Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat (1970), 7
We should have known, but we know now, that she has seen him before. He was the young man who sat next to her on the plane, but who had to move seats when he saw her.
‘Suddenly her other neighbour looks at Lise in alarm. He stares, as if recognizing her, with his brief-case on his lap, and his hand in the position of pulling out a batch of papers. Something about Lise, about her exchange with the man on her left, has caused a kind of paralysis in his act of fetching out some papers from his brief-case. He opens his mouth, gasping and startled, staring at her as if she is someone he has known and forgotten and now sees again. She smiles at him; it is a smile of relief and delight. His hand moves again, hurriedly putting back the papers that he had half drawn out of his brief-case. He trembles as he unfastens his seat-belt and makes as if to leave his seat, grabbing his brief-case.
On the evening of the following day he will tell the police, quite truthfully, ‘The first time I saw her was at the airport. Then on the plane. She sat beside me.’’
Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat, 3
Spark’s novel carries that post-modernist requirement to keep being aware, as we read, of how the narrative is being made. In the reconstruction of Lise’s fate, from the accounts and perceptions and reactions and future memories of others, she is a woman who seeks her own murder – and her own murderer. When she bumps into that young man again, it is he who is fearful at the coincidence.
She gets into the driver’s seat – of course! – and drives off with him. He says, ‘I don’t know who you are. I never saw you before in my life.’ But this is a reflex at the dreadful coincidence. According to him, none of this is his fault.
Hardy’s coincidences alert us to tragic fate; Dickens’s coincidences alert us to comic logic; Spark’s coincidences alert us to the malice of narrative pattern.
Unlike many novelists, all three want us to notice coincidence. The offence against probability is the very power of coincidence that each of them uses.
As I said at the beginning of this lecture, if you want to know how a novel works, look at how it uses coincidence.
© Professor Mullan 2022
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State Primary & Secondary Schools
In Victoria, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) is the body responsible for all State Schooling: Primary, Secondary and Special Development schools.
What Do They Do?
Schools provide education to all children and young people from 5 years to 18 years. There is a broad curriculum offered, including literacy, numeracy, social studies, arts and physical education.
Some students have access to integration aides within their Primary or Secondary state school while others who have greater needs have access to the Special Schools.
Organisational Structure and Culture
Within Victoria, each Region operates independently of each other.
School Principals are directly accountable to their School Board and their respective Regional Manager. All individual school cultures vary considerably, yet most are strictly timetabled and are driven by bells and weekly commitments. All Victorian state schools operate within the Victorian Educational Learning Standards (VELS) Framework.
Why Might They be Involved in an FHL Project?
Schools are the key organisations for implementing FHL in communities across Victoria. Schools are where most of the young spend most of their time. Implementing whole-school strategies for emotional health and wellbeing is crucial for school communities and the FHL model provides a framework for enhancing this.
Which Positions/Programs within the Organisation Might Be Involved?
The Principal and/or Assistant Principal is the initial contact person. Staff involved with health and the arts are commonly involved, yet it depends entirely on the school and their commitments at the time.
Some Pointers for an Effective Relationship:
• It is essential for the leadership team to be engaged with the project.
• Highly organised and appreciate forward planning.
• “Hanging around” the staffrooms is invaluable for meeting the staff and understanding the culture.
• Also “being on yard duty” aids getting to know the school and it’s community.
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The basis of the Battle Mountain Miner's Henley Shirt derives from an 1880's cotton blue and white striped henley shirt found in a mine in the Western United States. Most henley shirts from this Victorian period are constructed of wool, it is very uncommon to see one in cotton. Also unusual, is the sateen cotton neck and buttoned cuffs. This fabric is exclusively milled for High Grade U.S. Standard.
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Open-domain Question Answering: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Question answering (QA) is one of the earliest and core topics in natural language processing and has played a central role in many real-world applications such as search engines and personal assistants. The problem of open-domain QA, which aims to automatically answer questions posed by humans based on a large collection of unstructured documents, has (re-)gained a lot of popularity in the last couple of years. This talk will review some of the exciting advances in the field, including some of my earlier and recent experiences in building neural QA systems. In particular, I will discuss the role of pre-training in question answering, learning dense representations for retrieval, and the trade-off between accuracy, storage, and runtime efficiency. I will conclude with current limitations and future directions.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Today, we can build a single end-to-end neural open-domain QA system that can answer 50\%-70\% of the questions accurately based on the full English Wikipedia.
- The progress is largely driven by the development of pre-trained language representations and effective methods for learning dense retrieval.
- Representing text source as a collection of dense vectors opens up a new possibility for building next-generation knowledge bases.
Danqi Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and co-leads the Princeton NLP Group. Danqi’s research focuses on deep learning for natural language processing, with an emphasis on the intersection be- tween text understanding and knowledge representation/reasoning and applications such as question answering and infor- mation extraction. Before joining Princeton, Danqi worked as a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research in Seattle. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University (2018) and B.E. from Tsinghua University (2012), both in Computer Science. | <urn:uuid:48bd5cd5-b3eb-4979-b441-6054a4840712> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.re-work.co/events/deep-learning-virtual-summit-2021/speakers/danqi-chen-46b6cc22-1376-4d0e-9f17-1b8cdd33a536 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.948655 | 392 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Failing to keep your dog under control outside, and in private areas, can result in a large fine, a significant prison sentence, or both.
The information in this guide clarifies the rules for controlling your dog in communal areas and how Public Spaces Protection Orders work in England and Wales.
Letting a dog be 'dangerously' out of control is against the law, no matter where! Besides a dog owner's home, the rules also apply at:
UK law considers a dog as 'dangerously out of control' if it makes someone feel worried about getting injured, or it causes an actual injury.
Important: The United Kingdom bans the ownership of certain types of dogs (see below). But, the law about controlling your dog in public areas applies to all breeds of dogs.
In some cases, the courts may also consider dogs as being out of control and acting in a dangerous manner, if (either):
The penalties for having a dangerous out of control dog is an unlimited fine or being sent to prison (for up to six months) - or both.
In the most severe cases, the authorities may destroy the canine and ban the person responsible from owning a dog in the future.
It can get worse:
Allowing your dog to injure another person can result in a prison sentence for a period up to five (5) years, being fined, or both. Deliberately using a dog to injure someone can result in a charge of 'malicious wounding'.
The person in charge of a dog that kills someone can be sent to prison for a period of up to fourteen (14) years, receive an unlimited fine, or both.
Important: Allowing your dog to injure an assistance dog (e.g. a guide dog) can result in a prison sentence for a period of up to three (3) years, being fined, or both.
The United Kingdom outlaws the ownership of certain dog breeds, including:
Furthermore, it is an offence to sell (or give away), breed from, or abandon any of the banned dogs. However, the characteristics and features of a dog (not only its breed name) can also determine whether it belongs with the banned types.
This is also true even if:
But, according to the law, if the banned dog is discovered at:
The next step is for a council dog expert (or the police) to determine the actual breed and whether they consider it as a danger to the public (or if it could be).
Following that, they will (either):
They will not allow you to visit your dog during the time that you are waiting for a decision from the court. But, you can choose to give up your ownership (they cannot force you to do so).
Giving up ownership means they may destroy the animal and you may not need to attend the court.
Going to court gives you an opportunity to prove your dog is not one of the banned types. But, it would be your responsibility to do so.
If you are successful, the court will order the return of your dog. Being unable to prove it (or pleading guilty), means you would be convicted of a crime.
Note: Having a banned dog is against the law in the United Kingdom. It can result in an unlimited fine, prison for up to six (6) months, or both. They would also destroy the dog.
The courts do not consider all banned dogs as a danger to the public. In this case, they may have it registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs and allow you to keep it.
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You would receive a Certificate of Exemption, which would be valid for the rest of the dog's natural life. But, the animal would need to be:
Furthermore, the owner must (by law) be at least sixteen (16) years old, have insurance against it injuring other people, and:
In England and Wales, Public Spaces Protection Orders has become the new name for the outdated Dog Control Orders (DCO). Hence, if a PSPO covers a public area, you may need to keep your dog on a lead, or.
The penalties for ignoring a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) can be a:
Informing members of the public about areas where there are PSPOs in force is one of the responsibilities of local councils. For example, they must display proper signage if dogs are not allowed in a park.
Likewise, the council must give notice (and publish it on its website) if it plans to enforce a new PSPO. Moreover, it must inform you where it will apply and where you can view an appropriate map.
Another section explains the latest advice about the 'stick and flick dog poo' method and how it is helping to clean up the countryside.
Anyone can file a report to the police about a dog and their owner. You can also report a dangerous dog to your council dog warden services department.
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THE R.E.A.L. Program
Cygnus is a proud supporter of the City of St. John’s REAL Program. The vision of this program is that all children and youth in the City of St. John’s are able to participate in recreation and leisure activities which help boost their self-esteem, promote healthy active living and support personal growth through increased knowledge and skill development.
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KidSport is childrens charitable program which addresses barriers including the rising costs for sport registration fees and equipment were negatively affecting childrens’ participation in sport, especially kids from challenging backgrounds.
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The Canadian Tire Jumpstart is a charitable program created by the Canadian Tire Foundation for Families to help kids in financial need participate in organized sport and recreation. This program allows youth to participate in a sport and recreation in their community without having to worry about their financial constraints. This program places emphasis on children and youth who are inactive with the goal to assist them to take the necessary steps to make healthier lifestyle changes.
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4:3 (1.33) is a very good ratio. It's aesthetic and easy to get a nice composition in both horizontal and vertical orientation. It's also closer to square, which makes best use of optics (larger aperture, less vignetting, etc). All photography ratios that were actually designed are pretty close to 4:3 (1.33) : 4x5" (1.25), 5x7" (1.4), 8x10"(1.25) large formats, and 6x6cm (1.00), 6x4.5cm (1.33) medium formats.
3:2 (1.5) is not a "real" ratio. It comes from a desperate attempt to stitch two existing but tiny 4:3 cinema frames together to get better picture quality required for still. The biggest reasons it's still around is compatibility with legacy equipment and people being taught to treat 3:2 as "professional". Which is nothing but an acquired taste, as 35mm 3:2 was introduced as amateur format back when 4x5" was professional.
The 16:9 ratio of your laptop is also not an artist's choice. It was chosen as a compromise between TV ratio of 4:3 and highly panoramic (up to 2.35:1) ratios of cinemas. It was chosen to semi-acceptably display both types of content without pan&scan process that's expensive due to human labor. One of the major reasons of inventing a new ratio was to create immediately recognizable brand for HDTV, like first digital watches had numeric faces just to make them instantly recognizable. And it that regard it was very successful. Displaying still photography was probably not even considered, computer screens were almost exclusively 4:3 at the time.
The square works best for photography, not only because of artistic reasons (which are subjective) but also because cost of optics depends on diagonal. So square makes biggest bang for the buck. On the other hand, the cost of screen depends on area. That means that the longer the better, because you get less area for a given diagonal. 16:9 21" screen has about 20% less area than 4:3 21" screen. So you can market wide panel at same price bracket, but with 20% larger profit margin, that's every sales department wet dream. Sensors being silicon go same way as screens, cost-wise, but price of optics still dominates the cost of modern cameras.
Now, the bottom line is that none of those matter today. You can easily turn on crop on an expensive DSLR (eg Nikon D3, D4, D810 to 5:4 or Canon 5DS to 4:3) or a cheap point-and-shoot to 16:9. You have access to free editing programs to crop, you can even do cropping on your smartphone. In photography cropping is cheap and easy, and with digital it's taken for granted.
So why do we keep using 16:9, 3:2 and 4:3? Because those ratios became recognizable brands of HDTV, DSLR and pocket cameras, respectively. Except from consumer awareness there is actually no reason to stick to any of those. From purely technical point of view, our screens would be best at something like 2.35:1 and our cameras at 1:1. | <urn:uuid:bb676f64-3a31-49b8-a261-32f989081d95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/85533/why-do-compact-cameras-keep-using-43-and-not-32-like-dslrs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.965008 | 690 | 1.765625 | 2 |
PARIS – President Francois Hollande says his plans to put France's bloated government on a diet include cutting state aid to companies.
The Socialist leader says previously announced plans to trim state spending by €10 billion this year will target more than 7,000 types of state aid for companies, worth a total of nearly €80 billion.
In his New Year's address to top civil servants on Tuesday, Hollande also said 100 state-backed commissions "whose usefulness is not proven" — about 15 percent of the total — will be shut this year.
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For many years in Sri Lanka, tensions have existed between the Tamils, 12.6% of the total population, and the Sinhalese, representing 74% of the population. One of the main root causes of this conflict could be traced back to British colonization, which saw partiality displayed by the British toward the Tamils through concessions and the subsequent marginalization of the Sinhalese.
Activism against militarism in the toy industry began in the 1920s with groups such as Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the New York-based Women’s Peace Society. These groups aimed to induce the public and leaders of the toy industry to re-conceptualize their ideas of childhood and toys. They believed that childhood is the most malleable time in a child’s life where their conceptions of violence and peacemaking are formed. War toys normalize violence for children. | <urn:uuid:1a3ae363-0b9b-49bd-bb99-6fb244f7952d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/browse/Canada/all/Change/all/Peace | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.958806 | 187 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Keto
You might be wondering what the Keto diet is all about if you’re considering adding it to your diet. Fortunately, you are not alone. You are not the only one who has experienced success with this diet. This guide will help you get started on the keto diet and achieve optimal weight loss.
What is a Keto Diet?
You may be unfamiliar with the ketogenic diet. It is a low-carb diet that uses body fat for its primary source of energy. It lowers insulin levels. This makes the body a fat burning machine. MCT oil increases ketone production. You should look out for recipes with this type of fat.
You can eat fatty meats, eggs and fish on the ketogenic diet. Avoid sugary foods including artificial sweeteners. Alcohol is also strictly prohibited, as are many beers and sugary drinks. You may also want avoid sweeter wine. It’s possible to get enough protein while on the keto diet.
While the ketogenic diet isn’t the most appealing option for everyone, there are many advantages to it. The ketogenic diet is designed to help you lose weight while improving your mental focus and mood. It increases energy and mental focus. If you’ve been wondering what the ketogenic diet is all about, keep reading for more information. This diet is becoming more and more popular because it’s the best choice for many people.
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The Keto diet is not a great way to lose weight, but it does have its advantages. You can have more digestive problems and higher cholesterol. You may start to crave foods you used love. Your body may not be getting enough fiber and may not function properly without it. Aside from that, the diet is not very nutritious for your gut.
Ketoacidosis, which is the most common complication of diets, is the most serious. This condition can potentially be life-threatening. It occurs when your body’s pH falls below normal. The good news? Ketoacidosis can be prevented in healthy people. Ketoacidosis will not cause any serious complications, as ketones don’t have enough to lower your blood pH.
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A beginner’s guide for Keto should contain easy-to follow recipes that are free from sugar, carbs, and other unhealthy ingredients. This will keep you on the right track to success and ensure you are satisfied for many more days. The biggest problem people run into while doing Keto is sticking to the diet. You can ask for help from a support group, or send an article. This will help them to stay accountable and motivated to complete their program.
Keto isn’t for everyone, this is something beginners should be aware of. Before you begin the diet, discuss with your doctor any restrictions or health improvements. You should keep your diet simple and stick to whole, healthy meals. A beginner’s guide to Keto is not hard to find, but it does require a bit of research. There are many keto-friendly recipes. They emphasize the importance and benefits of whole foods, protein, and healthy oils.
The Ultimate Keto Meal Plan
The Ultimate Keto Meal Plan: Beginner is designed to help beginners understand the basics of healthy eating. These include protein and carbohydrates, fat, as well as macronutrients like iron and zinc. It is important to have a balanced intake for all macronutrients. This is a complex formula, and it is best to seek out a qualified nutritional advisor to determine what foods to include in your daily diet.
A ketogenic diet prohibits most carbohydrate-rich foods, including fruit juices and most starchy vegetables. Cheese is high in fat but not associated with an increased risk of developing heart disease. Non-starchy vegetables are excellent choices for this diet because they contain fiber and low calorie. They also contain antioxidants that protect your body from free radicals.
The Ultimate Keto Meal Plan For Beginners includes recipes for the morning and evening meals. It includes recipes and meal prep instructions you can download to your tablet or smartphone. The program also contains a complete grocery list. This list was specifically created for keto dieters. It will help you lose weight faster, feel better, and it will help you live an active lifestyle.
Visit www.claudiacaldwell.com for Best Keto Plan
The 30 Days Keto Plan provides a step-by, step guide to lose weight and maintain ketosis. Claudia Caldwell is a weight loss expert. This plan includes easy-to-follow meals and recipes. The plan also uses only chemical-free ingredients to reduce carbohydrate intake and promote a slimmer body.
Claudia Caldwell offers Keto meal plans on her official website. The meal plans are priced at $67 but currently on sale for $27. Her meal plans make it easy to get the Best Keto Plan. She has been helping people get their ideal bodies for over two decades, and has seen the positive effects of the ketogenic diet for herself and her patients.
Claudia’s 30-Day Keto Plan will help you lose weight quickly and effectively. It has been proven to be effective for many people. It is easy to achieve ketosis with meal plans and recipes that incorporate low-carb meals and healthy meals. It has many benefits such as helping to fight cancer, epilepsy or Alzheimer’s.
Learning how to burn calories is the first step in a ketogenic lifestyle. We have grown up in a Western culture that eats a steady supply of carbohydrates. Our bodies are not trained to burn fat for fuel. With a little knowledge, beginners can learn to reduce carbohydrates and increase healthy fats. Moderate protein intake is recommended.
What to eat on the keto diet
The macronutrient ratios are a great place to start when deciding what to eat on a ketogenic diet. You should aim to eat between 0.6 and 1.0 grams of protein per pound of lean body mass. For example, if you weigh 250 pounds, you have 75 pounds of fat and 175 pounds of lean body mass. Therefore, your daily protein intake should be between 105 and 175 grams.
A keto diet has many benefits, including a decreased appetite and increased energy. The keto diet has been well-received by those who have tried it. They report feeling less hungry and more energy. This doesn’t happen overnight. It takes between two and seven days for your body enter ketosis. This means that it will begin burning fat. In the first few days you may experience the following symptoms.
A keto diet is a well-designed one that focuses on electrolytes, minerals balance, and a higher consumption of green vegetables. This may be a good option for athletes, who tend to sweat more than others. It is necessary to supplement your diet with minerals as sweat and exercise deplete minerals. Although this plan is more difficult to keep, it can be much easier in the end. Supplementation may be an option for those who aren’t comfortable eating high-carbohydrate meals.
What to Avoid with the keto diet
While there are many things you can enjoy when following a keto diet, you need to be aware of what to avoid. Avoid nuts, which are naturally low-carbohydrate, for example. You can vary in the amount of carbs they contain, but you should be careful not overdo it. You can still eat nuts, but you should limit your intake. You should choose non-starchy, healthy nuts. You can also choose to eat healthier options like sunflower seeds. It is best to drink water, not soda. Although you can’t consume alcohol or coffee, you can enjoy flavored waters, including sparkling water. Seltzer is available in many flavors.
Meat should be consumed in moderation. Although meat is the staple of a keto diet it also contains hidden carbs, sugar, and other harmful substances. Avoid eating processed meats because they contain fillers that increase the body’s carbohydrate count. Seafood is a great source of protein and fat, but shellfish may contain significant carbohydrates. If you are on medication to treat hypertension, your doctor should discuss the Keto diet with you.
What Should You Eat and Drink on a Keto Diet?
You may be familiarized with the Keto diet, and its restrictions. This diet is primarily focused on protein and fat and has a limited amount of carbohydrates. Many artificial sweeteners, legumes, and fruits are out of reach. It is also forbidden to consume alcohol, including sweeter wines, sugary cocktails, as well as many beers. What should you eat and drink when following a Keto diet plan? These are some helpful tips.
Sugar is a major enemy of the Keto diet, despite its name. Many foods are labeled as “healthy,” but they often contain hidden sugar. Processed foods can also contain other types of sugar that could be harmful to your health. There are many sugar-free sweeteners that you can substitute for sugar in the keto diet. Continue reading to learn more about what you should avoid.
The ketogenic diet is not strictly a zero-carb diet. You can consume as many as 50 grams of carbs per day. Even though it might seem impossible to keep to a strict diet, there are ways to cheat every now and again. About 34 grams are found in one large doughnut and one cup of marshmallows. Although you may feel satisfied, too much sugar can cause your body to react negatively, increasing your risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
You may want to think twice about alcohol. You can still enjoy alcohol, even though it contains carbohydrates. However, you might need to reduce your carb intake by eating Greek yogurt or fruits. However, weight loss can be made more difficult by alcohol. Your body must burn alcohol calories first, before fat calories. If you are tempted to drink alcohol, choose a low carb version.
Honey should be avoided while following a Keto diet. Honey is high in carbs, despite its good reputation. Similar results can be found in other natural sweeteners. These include maple syrup, coconut sugar and agave syrup. Avoid sugar alcohols like sucralose anderythritol. These sweeteners will not work with the keto diet.
Some people dislike honey, so you might want to try a keto-friendly substitute. These low-carb sweeteners provide the sweetness you desire without compromising your keto diet. Abbey Sharpe, a dietician, warns against artificial sweeteners. Instead, she suggests using honey from local sources. Honey can be used as a sweetener for many other reasons. Honey is naturally sweet and has many health advantages, so don’t be afraid to try it.
Monk fruit is 200-times sweeter than sugar. Monk fruit extract can be naturally sweetened with sugar, but manufacturers sometimes add sweeteners to their products. This increases the calorie content and can contribute to metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes and other diseases. Honey is a sweetener but has fewer calories than sugar. You can also substitute monk fruit extract for honey. You should be cautious when purchasing monk fruit extract.
Maple syrup should not be consumed
Many people are concerned that maple syrup is off limits for those on the Keto diet, but this is not the case. While maple syrup does contain more sugar than other types of syrups, it is still lower in carbs than other types. Unlike coconut sugar, which has few carbs, maple syrup contains a high amount of total carbs. It is worth noting that maple syrup contains vitamins and minerals which make it a healthy substitute to regular table sugar.
Maple syrup has a lower glycemic index than other sugars. However, it can cause digestive discomfort due to the high levels of fructose. To make the sweetener keto-friendly, it should be in powder form. Maple extract can be used as a flavoring. It should be used sparingly, as it could make your sugar-free syrup gritty. You should consult your doctor if you are uncertain about maple syrup’s suitability for the Keto diet.
Maple syrup can be used in place of sugar-free alternatives. Glucomannan can be used as a low carb substitute. It melts in hot fluids to create the syrup consistency you desire. You can also use maple extract instead of maple sugar. Maple extract tastes similar to maple syrup. It can also be mixed with vanilla for the same effect. Xanthan gum helps thicken the syrup and gives it the same mouthfeel as maple syrup.
Avoid gluten-free breads
It doesn’t matter if you eat low-carb or high-gluten, but most grains contain gluten. Gluten proteins are found in wheat (rye) and barley and are responsible the dough’s chewiness as well as its sticky texture. Although wheat naturally contains gluten it is also added to bread and pizza. Gluten helps foods stay together by binding them together and raising their volume. It can also have a negative impact on your health.
If you follow the keto diet, you will want to avoid bread, pasta, pizza, and other gluten-containing foods. While it might be tempting to skip gluten-free breads and pasta, these items are unlikely to have the same nutritional value as those made with wheat flour. If you are concerned about wheat allergies, cereals may be a good option. They often contain gluten-like proteins. You should also avoid processed meats, alcohol and cheese.
A common misconception about gluten-free breads and pasta is that they contain no carbs. This is true for products bearing the gluten-free label. However, it doesn’t mean they’re keto-friendly. Even with a label, many of these products still contain high levels of carbohydrates. Gluten-free versions may contain wheat-alternatives like potato starch or modified foods starch. These are high in carbohydrates and can cause ketosis.
You may be wondering if you can include beans in your keto diet. Although technically beans can be included in your keto diet, beans are high-carbohydrate foods. A cup of beans contains approximately half your daily allowance of carbohydrate. Consider other beans that are suitable to a ketogenic diet. Continue reading to learn why beans should be part of your daily diet.
Beans are a common staple, rich in fiber and nutrients. Beans can contain both insoluble and soluble fiber. Soluble fiber works by binding to cholesterol in foods and helps regulate blood levels of cholesterol. Insoluble fiber attracts water, which is crucial for cell function and weight regulation. Both of these fibers promote regularity. As a result, beans are an excellent choice for those following a ketogenic diet. They are also gluten-free.
Beans are generally forbidden on a ketogenic diet. However, some beans can be eaten on a low carb diet. Soybean has only 2.3g per 100g of net carbohydrates. Other beans, such as Green beans and Lupins, have 10g or more of net carbohydrates per 100g. Beans have virtually no fat, which is the biggest enemy of ketosis.
Avoid eating fruits
Keto diets should restrict your fruit intake. However, this doesn’t mean you have to cut out all fruits. Many fruits are incredibly healthy and nutritious. Even though they might not be in season right now, you can still enjoy them throughout all year. Here are the top fruits you should include in your Keto diet. You may be surprised at the results! And, you’ll be surprised at how many fruits you can enjoy.
Apples have the highest carb count of any fruit, with just 25g per serving. Strawberries contain half of your daily carbohydrate limit, and are high in fiber. Other fruits, like strawberries, are better choices. These fruits can be tried out depending on your sugar tolerance. Strawberries are one of the best fruits to eat while on Keto. If you aren’t sure which one to choose, taste some strawberries first.
You can have a cup or two of coffee, but avoid sugary drinks. These beverages can be rich in fiber but too many carbs for the keto diet. Sugary drinks like soda, sweetened tea, and sports drinks are not recommended for a Keto diet. Regular water is the best option to stay hydrated while on a keto diet. You can even replace sweetened drinks with sparkling or unsweetened water.
Avoiding processed snacks
A keto diet requires that you avoid eating processed snacks. These foods are often full of sugar and carbs, despite the appealing flavor. Beverages such as wine and beer are acceptable for a low carb diet. However, it is best to limit the intake of these drinks. Starchy vegetables like potatoes, corn, and even beets contain more carbs than fiber. Avoid high-sugar fruits like bananas, apples, and many other berries as they can spike blood sugar more quickly than vegetables and proteins. Instead, opt for plain yogurt or Greekyogurt. These two types of yogurt have fewer carbs than regular yogurt.
The ketogenic diet encourages you to cut down on snacking. Avoid processed snacks completely and eat only two real foods at meals. Eating a complete meal will help curb your snacking urges and delay your next meal. You are training your body for fasting and keeping fat stores full by delaying hunger until you eat a full meal. You can also replace your snack by scrambled or hard-boiled eggs. These are easy to prepare, and will not cause you to eat a Keto diet.
You should avoid fruits and vegetables as well as foods that contain wheat gluten or products made with these ingredients. Refined foods like white bread, BPA -lined cans and HFCS, should be avoided. Avoid factory-farmed meat, which contains omega-6 fatty acid and may be contaminated by PCBs or mercury. Seafoods may also contain mercury and PCBs, so you should avoid them. | <urn:uuid:15c089b4-cf5b-40f3-8d72-946bb9d3d7f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nativeamericainc.com/keto-restaurants-memphis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.947342 | 3,754 | 1.703125 | 2 |
I think we can now say with much greater confidence that the photo revealed in last week’s History Channel documentary is indeed that of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on Jaluit Atoll after their capture by the Japanese in July 1937. The ship has been confirmed as the IJN Koshu, as I suggested it might be last week.
The best support came of out of Tokyo, ironically. Defeated by facial recognition software all the Japs could come up with was the old pre-date the photo and stick it in the national archives trick. They’re claiming the photo was taken in 1935. I am not even sure that Amelia and Fred were IN the Marshall Islands, alone on Jaluit Atoll, in 1935.
The island was then under Japanese control. There was a small airfield there (you guys very properly bombed it in the war), but why would the Japs grant permission to American flyers to use it, at a time when they were secretly fortifying the Marshall Islands in breach of international law? And what would fliers be doing down at the docks anyway? They would hardly have arrived by sea.
The clincher, aside from tracking Amelia and Fred’s movements in 1935, is that the KoshuMaru appears not to have been in service in 1935! I believe that she did not appear in the Lloyds Register until 1937, when she was taken over by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Then there’s the small matter of the plane being towed on a barge, which happens to be the same length (38ft) as a Lockheed Electra (we’re not talking the later turboprop here!). How do the Japs explain that away?
Amelia’s last flight
The 1937 round-the-world flight was originally planned to be west-east, as I pointed out last week. For recon purposes over the target areas in the Carolines and the Marshall Islands, however, east-west made more sense, as they needed to arrive overhead in daylight. It made little aviation sense of course, as it meant flying AGAINST the prevailing winds.
The fact that Amelia and Fred were flying mostly into wind is important when it comes to determining which model Electra they were flying. Mary Lovell, her biographer, who is critical of Amelia’s flying skills, and others unwilling to confront the brutal truth that Amelia and Fred were murdered by the Japs, claim that she was flying the same aircraft, a Model 10 Electra, tail number N16020, which she so skillfully crashed on take-off at Honolulu.
That cannot be right however. On the way out to the Pacific, the intrepid duo were delayed at Fort Lamey by a leaking oleo (undercarriage leg) strut. The landing ground at their next stop, El-Fasher, was unlit. They were running to a tight schedule, partly because the ONI had arranged a rendezvous with a warship at Camden Island, which they would not have wanted hanging around.
For whatever reason, Amelia and Fred could not risk a day’s delay, so they set off late for El-Fasher. This meant that Amelia had to pour on the sauce, as they used to say in the Royal Flying Corps. This in turn betrayed the true capabilities of their impressive machine.
The boys at Burbank had fitted her with the uprated, military-specification Pratt & Whitney R-585 engines developed for the pressurized XC-35 version of the Electra. Some have even claimed that she was flying an XC-35, even though photos of the plane taken at Lae, New Guinea,and elsewhere en route, clearly show that the aircraft lacked a pressure cabin. Although the Fairchild high-resolution cameras were good, they weren’t that good, i.e. there was no requirement for high-altitude flight.
Between Fort Lamy and El-Fasher, Amelia was cruising at up to 240 mph, some 50 mph faster than the maximum cruising speed of a Model 10 Electra. Bear in mind that the aircraft was fitted with long-range tanks and was heavily loaded.
Lovell and others have never sought to engage with these arguments, any more than the History Channel, which is generally sympathetic to the Axis powers, will try to deal with my arguments about the Koshu. (Perhaps the folk at the History Channel are afraid of being beheaded with a samurai sword!)
In Spyhunter I gave a maximum fuel load figure of 1,100 Imperial gallons. I am aware the aircraft was designed using the Winchester gallon, but she was refueled at Lae in the British Empire, where the fuel on board figure was calculated by the refueler, Robert Ivedale, in Imperial. I stand by the figure I gave in Spyhunter, which has not been challenged in the three years since the book was published.
I also stand by my range calculation – 4,800 statute miles in still air allowing for take-off and climb to 10,000 ft. That was a very impressive figure for 1937, but achievable, indeed it largely follows from the massive 1,321 US gallon tankage.
The last flight was clearly intended to be Lae-Truk-Marshall Islands-Camden Island. It wasn’t a bad plan by ONI, but of course it was betrayed.
Fred Noonan wasn’t drunk, by the way. As commenters on last week’s column correctly pointed out, he had been drinking but was sober by take-off. He was a consummate professional, a brilliant navigator and didn’t let his drinking interfere with his work. He was only a bottle a day man anyway – hardly an alcoholic!
I should also let readers into a little secret. If you’re a pilot and you’ve been at the sauce you can recover pretty quickly with a few whiffs of oxygen. In the old days, during the Cold War, it was not unknown for RAF pilots in Germany not to be entirely sober at take-off. (As my old man would no doubt be able to tell you, there were some rather good parties in officers’ messes at British air bases!). There were very few if any drink-related accidents, however, partly because of oxygen, but mostly because the pilots were pros.
Sad to relate, the RAF has gone PC these days. I gather that there is an expectation that pilots should be entirely sober before climbing into their aircraft. They’re not even allowed to bomb Germany any more – political correctness gone mad!
Who were the guilty men?
I name them in Spyhunter: William T. Miller, James Forrestal and Ernest ‘von’ King. Each was an agent of the German Abwehr and each knowingly conspired in the capture of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan by the Japanese. Happily, Miller was probably spotted and taken out during the war.
James Forrestal was very properly sanctioned by President Harry S. Truman and executed, informally, by the ONI in 1949. He was the first Secretary of Defense, but hopefully not the last, to be thrown from the top of a tall building. I gather that he screamed all the way down.
Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman
The cover-up has continued for 80 years. As part of the cover up, I think that the brilliant stunt flyer Paul Mantz was murdered during the filming of the movie ‘Flight of the Phoenix’ on July 8th 1965. Paul was Amelia’s right-hand man and saw her shiny, powerful new Electra close up.
The finding by NTSB that he had excess alcohol in his system was almost certainly flawed, indeed it suggests that NTSB knew that the scratch-built Phoenix plane had been sabotaged and were anxious to cover it up. The NTSB as an organisation lacks integrity, with respect, like its counterparts at Farnborough and in Paris.
I suspect that Paul Mantz’s colleague Frank Tallman was also murdered, possibly using a fake ADF beam, on April 15th 1978, over the Santa Anna Mountains. The crash was never properly investigated, which is another way say of saying that the NTSB handled the investigation.
The little guy’s still hanging in there. Mr Justice Francis, who very frankly should have recused himself, has adjourned the proceedings for further medical investigation. That’s all very well, but many are asking why a judge should even think of over-ruling decisions by loving parents as to who should treat their child. Baby Charlie is not in the care of the state. For a court to order treatment where parents have been delinquent is one thing. Banning parents from taking a child abroad for treatment by reputable and registered medical practitioners is quite another.
Great Ormond Street Hospital used to be good but is clearly behind the times. GOSH should back down and let better American doctors, who know what they are doing, try to save Baby Charlie’s life. No one is saying that there are guarantees – there aren’t. What Baby Charlie’s supporters are saying is that he should be given a chance at life.
The Russia Thing
Much ado about nothing! The MSM in the UK are touting Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was given a visa to enter the US by the Obama Administration, as a ‘Kremlin confidante’. I have seen no evidence that she is any such thing.
She has also been described as a state prosecutor, but is in fact a defense lawyer. She knows the chief prosecutor, absurdly described as a ‘crown prosecutor’, but not apparently that well. Unlike Britain, modern Russia’s state prosecutors are independent of the government.They are also probably far less political than the Department of Justice, which regularly brings political prosecutions and is currently engaged in highly partisan attacks on the Trump Administration.
We know that the Russia smear is being co-ordinated by the Correa/COREA Group in Frankfurt and is being pushed mainly by pro-German assets in Washington. If Goldstone is close to anybody he is close to the Krauts, not the Kremlin.
On the face of it, it looks as though both parties to the meeting were deceived by the intermediaries: Donald Trump Jr thought he was going to get political intelligence on Senator Clinton and Veselnitskaya thought the Trump Campaign had a serious interest in changes to US adoption law.
The meeting was clearly a non-event. The Democrats and the MSM are making themselves look ridiculous. One Democrat Congressman ranting away on the BBC’s Today program this week sounded semi-deranged. Even the anti-Trump presenter (all the BBC’s presenters are anti-Trump and most are anti-American) seemed embarrassed.
On the BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news program on Tuesday this week, Euro-fanatic Matthew Parris claimed that “Brexit is dying”. Nothing could be further from the truth.
After the defeat comes the occupation. Having failed to lie and murder their way to victory in last year’s referendum campaign, unwilling to accept the verdict of the people, Euronutters like Parris are having a gigantic hissy-fit. (In fairness I don’t believe that Parris, who is intelligence-illiterate as well as economically-illiterate, was in the loop on the German decision to assassinate Jo Cox, indeed I’m sure that he wasn’t.)
The countdown to Brexit continues. The Article 50 notice has been served and the UK will comeout of the EU, at long, long last, on March 29th 2019. That will be the occasion for great national rejoicing, although if May is still PM we’ll be luck to even get fireworks.
Freed of the massive burden of EU membership, the British economy will thrive. Unemployment will cascade downwards and the housing shortage will ease as upwards of three million semi-skilled and unskilled European workers go home.
The Spanish King’s Insult
We may even get a war with Spain, which will be at least as much fun as the Spanish-American War in 1898 was for you guys. That was the last time that the Spanish fleet was engaged in major combat operations by the way. (The last time the Spanish Air Force engaged in major combat they were flying Messerschmitts.)
I know that war can be hell, what the hell, if you can’t have fun killing Spaniards, when can you? The Spanish are down on their knees literally begging for war with Britain over Gibraltar. That much was made clear last week when His Catholic Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain chose to mount a deliberate insult to Britain and our Queen over Gibraltar.
Speeches to both Houses of Parliament are an honor for visiting Heads of State. We do not expect them to be used as a platform for insulting us, or threatening war, either impliedly, as His Majesty did last week, or expressly. There is no way that we are going to hand over Gib. The Spaniard knows this, and presumably is planning a military attack again, as 1941 and 2002. The 1941 and 2002 attack plans were aborted, of course.
Clearly the Royal Navy is going to have to singe the King of Spain’s beard again. Don’t buy real estate in Cadiz! We need an emergency naval building program and we need it now. The RAF also needs a new bloody paralyzer, able to bomb both Berlin and Madrid on internal fuel with maximum bomb load, on a hi-lo-lo-hi mission profile, with supersonic approach to and egress from the target.
At the moment it would take the RAF weeks to flatten Madrid, which is ridiculous. In the meantime we keep wasting money much needed for defense on fripperies like overseas aid, EU membership and the NHS.
Viscount St Davids
In another sign of tensions over Brexit, Viscount St Davids was jailed this week by District Judge (MC) Emma Arbuthnot for making some with respect ill-advised comments on Facebook about Gina Miller, the unpleasant anti-Brexit campaigner who went to the courts in a desperate effort to reverse the referendum result. Miller has been linked to the Hungarian George Soros, identified by the distinguished Israeli historian Dr Robert Kaplan as a German agent. Neither Miller nor Soros has denied the accusations against them.
Viscount St Davids, who sadly is bankrupt, no doubt due to death duties, offered £5,000 to the first person to waste Miller, but His Lordship can scarcely have meant it. Apart from anything else, His Lordship didn’t have £5,000. Trustees in bankruptcy tend not to approve requests for five grand to pay hitmen to whack anti-Brexit campaigners, however badly they may have behaved.
I regret to say that DJ Arbuthnot (DJs used to be called Stipendiary Magistrates, and if they are going to go about jailing viscounts arguably ought to go back to being called ‘stipes’) was rude to His Lordship. She conspicuously failed to address him as ‘My Lord’ and approved charges drafted by the, with respect, equally impertinent Crown Prosecution Service, which apparently failed to identify His Lordship correctly.
I respectfully upbraid the District Judge for her impertinence. As a member of the lower social orders, with respect, she should have known better. I hope that His Lordship will be treated with greater respect in prison. The prison officers will need to remember to doff their uniform caps when addressing His Lordship. I sincerely hope that the governor of the prison invited His Lordship to dinner on Friday evening, with wine, and that arrangements have been made to bring His Lordship’s dinner jacket into prison. It is sad to see the decline in standards in this country.
This Week’s Movie Review: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, dir. Matt Reeves)
Released to theaters in the UK this week, this is a slightly odd movie, in that it’s billed as being about a war between mankind and speaking apes for control of Planet Earth. In fact the action takes place within a comparatively narrow compass. It’s about a battle, not a war.
None of the apes takes a selfie, but they continue to demonstrate their riding and fighting skills.
Caesar, the nice ape leader, continues to be portrayed as having American values. He prefers peace, but will fight if forced to. (His predecessor, the bad ape Koba, displayed more German values, such as paranoia, nastiness and aggression).
It’s actually very well-made and acted, with a superb score. The director is clearly on the side of the apes and has very obviously never been bitten by one.
It’s good fun, and the end is very moving. If anything, it’s better than the first two in the trilogy. I still miss Charlton Heston, however!
Michael Shrimpton was a barrister from his call to the Bar in London in 1983 until being disbarred in 2019 over a fraudulently obtained conviction. He is a specialist in National Security and Constitutional Law, Strategic Intelligence and Counter-terrorism. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Intelligence Studies at the American Military University. | <urn:uuid:7db4a5a6-661a-4478-a591-bca7a0a20a6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/07/15/amelia-earhart-the-truth-part-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.978959 | 3,642 | 3 | 3 |
Changes in the system of the Polish election administration in 2018–2020
Recently there have been made many amendments to Electoral Code. They concerned mostly electoral administration and further are being announced. The article is an attempt to summarize made and proposed changes from the perspective of basic principles concerning electoral management in democracy, in particular impartiality and efficiency of electoral management bodies. Analyse shows mainly the lack of complex vision for electoral administration, which is highly inadvisable. | <urn:uuid:16eb6f01-f107-43f4-92ac-28344a9e1644> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/component/tags/tag/electoral-management-bodies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.96799 | 91 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Early Portugal was shaped by the Romans for over 600 years, the Visigoths for the next two centuries and African Muslims (the Moors) for almost 800 years. Portugal was recognised as a separate kingdom in 1143 under the rule of King Afonso I and with the help of Christian military groups, the last remnants of Muslim power were defeated by 1249.
The Age of Discoveries
During the 15th and 16th centuries, Portuguese sailors embarked to explore the unknown world. Successful expeditions were made to Africa and the Americas, and Vasco da Gama’s passage to India opened up a sea route to the empires of the east. The Age of Discoveries was a time of tremendous wealth and the Portuguese Empire expanded worldwide, establishing colonies in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea (presently Guinea-Bissau), Brazil, Goa, Macau and East Timor. With the success of these voyages, Portugal emerged as one of the richest countries in the world and a major European power in terms of economic, political and cultural influence.
Decline of the Empire
Over the next 300 years, Portugal was occupied by the Spanish, invaded by the French and endured trade rivalries with British and Dutch fleets. Internal struggles and disputes over sovereign succession caused Portugal to lose much of its wealth and status. In 1755, the catastrophic Lisbon earthquake destroyed much of the capital as well as areas of the Algarve. The cumulative turmoil caused by centuries of invasion and civil conflict ushered in an era of social discontent, political instability and economic decline.
Republic, Repression and Revolution
In 1910, the monarchy was overthrown by military forces and Portugal declared as a Republic. António de Oliveira Salazar was appointed Prime Minister in 1932 and soon devolved into a fascist dictator. Portugal was transformed under his rigidly authoritarian Estado Novo (New State), which controlled the media and elections, as well as the civil liberties of the population.
On 25 April 1974, the regime was overthrown by a peaceful, left-wing military coup, known as the Carnation Revolution. Portugal’s Liberation Day is commemorated with streets named “Rua 25 de Abril” in nearly every town.
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Feasability study for the project Cyber Security for vechicle IT
|Coordinator||RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB - Energi och cirkulär ekonomi, Göteborg|
|Funding from Vinnova||SEK 500 000|
|Project duration||December 2017 - February 2018|
|Venture||Digital infrastructure and cyber security|
|Call||Feasability studies within cyber security and reliability|
Purpose and goal
The purpose of the study was to find out how the consequences of treating social and personal integrity data in connected vehicles are highlighted. The aim of the study was the answer to the question: Can a project on cyber security for connected vehicles - with a focus on social and personal integrity - be implemented? Compliance: A project can be carried out. The consequences are highlighted by developing a model for ethical and privacy impact assessment, with implications for both privacy and security, when implementing technical solutions or changes in traffic systems.
Expected results and effects
The result was that a project can be carried out if the participant constellation is a triple helix and interdisciplinary, an LCA perspective is available and if the project is agile and initiated by a deep study. A suitable announcement within the Horizon2020 is SU-DS05-2018-2019. The effect of the study is that RISE continues the work of preparing researchers and actors for an application phase against different Swedish and European contributors. In addition, staff at several authorities has received comprehensive information about the problem.
Planned approach and implementation
The study was conducted with situation analysis, studies of scope, implementation and effects, future requirements, goals and milestones. Workshops with the reference group and the working group were planned and conducted. The working group consisted of researchers from SICS, Interactive Institute, Viktoria Institute and RISE. Viktoria Institute deviated due to economic reasons. Existing workgroup could replace their competence. The SWOT analysis was replaced in the situation analysis with other systematic analysis that was judged to work better in the context. | <urn:uuid:a5e5c10f-0008-4df7-a1c0-1a162435d3b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vinnova.se/en/p/feasability-study-for-the-project-cyber-security-for-vechicle-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.928463 | 441 | 1.828125 | 2 |
World’s most favourite tourist destination is also known as perfect destination for study abroad. Educational period is full of wide and interesting student's life and excellent academic achievements and research. With diverse landscapes, cultural variety, recent technologies and high standards of living and education, studying abroad in Switzerland can consider as an experience of a lifetime. Foreign students usually worry about the tuition fees in Swiss Universities. However, each student can reduce educational fee according to educational activities or earn some money during educational period. Foreign students can join a Swiss University with an amount of annual educational fee about $1,500. This fact opens Switzerland as one of the top places to continue education in Europe.
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Plant extracts have become an important source of biologically active compounds for many drug discovery programs, and several important drugs have been isolated and identified from plants. In any separation procedure where the final product is a drug or lead compound, some type of bioassay screening or pharmacological evaluation must be used to guide the separation process to obtain pure biologically active ingredients.
The choice of the bioassay to be used usually depends on the target syndrome and the available information about the plant to be studied. Ví dụ, if a plant has a history of ethanol pharmacology for a specific disease, then people will rationally use a specific bioassay technique that can predict a well-known therapeutic activity to isolate the lead that causes that biological activity.
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Summary: Putting up and fixing cornice and coving. Learn how to measure, cut and fit cornice and coving and make a mitre block.
Cornices and coving create an attractive feature between the top of a wall and the ceiling. Coving is a concave length of moulding while a cornice is a more decorative moulding, but the method of fixing is similar for both.
- From the ceiling measure down the wall the width of the coving – the dimensions should be on the packaging. Repeat along the wall to produce a guideline where the lower edge of the coving will sit.
- Taking an off-cut of coving and addressing its lower edge to the guideline, mark another guideline on the ceiling where the coving’s top edge will come. To ensure both guidelines are parallel to the walls and ceiling, it’s advisable to mark around the whole room before starting to fix the coving into position.
- By scratching the wall and ceiling surfaces between the guidelines you will produce a better grip for the adhesive.
Although there is no right or wrong place at which to start fixing the coving, it is recommended that you start on one of the longer walls, leaving more difficult areas such as chimney breasts until later.
- If the wall is longer than your length of coving you will be able to start with a complete length, otherwise measure the wall and cut to size.
- To fix the coving to the wall use a Gypsum-based adhesive specially formulated for good ‘grab’ and adhesion. Spread the adhesive along the upper and lower edges of the coving and press in place with the edges flush to the guidelines. Wipe away any excess adhesive from the edges.
- Long lengths of coving should be supported with panel pins under the lower edge to stop the coving slipping before the adhesive hardens.
- When two lengths of coving are joined together between two corners they can either be butt-joined or mitred. It is important to support the coving on either side of joint with panel pins.
- When joining lengths of coving at a corner you will have to use mitre joints employing a mitre block (see blow) to cut the coving at the correct angle. Depending on whether it is an external or internal corner the coving needs to be cut in a certain direction.
- Always check the internal or external corners fit neatly before fixing the coving to the wall.
When the adhesive has dried remove all the supporting panel pins and fill the small holes with filler. Then using your finger or a filling knife, fill any small gaps at the internal and external mitre joints.
Making a mitre block
A mitre block can be made quite simply and consists of a baseboard, a fence and a stop batten. The baseboard will represent the ceiling while the fence will represent the wall.
- From a piece of 18mm (3/4in) plywood or chipboard cut a baseboard 200mm (8in) wide x 450mm (1ft 6in) long.
- Then cut a piece of 100mm x 50mm (4in x 2in) planed softwood to the same length as the baseboard to create the fence.
- Take the fence and glue it along one edge of the baseboard.
- The stop batten is also fixed to the baseboard. Its position is determined by where the edge of an off-cut piece of cornice or coving comes when addressed to the fence.
- Nail the stop batten to the baseboard maintaining an even gap between batten and the fence.
- After the glue has dried, make three separate cuts in the fence. The cuts should carry down to the baseboard. One cut should be at right angles to the face of the fence. The other two cuts should be at 45° but in opposite directions and on either side of the first cut. Use a sliding bevel to ensure the angles are accurate.
- Tape measure
- Panel saw
- Filling knife
- Claw hammer
- Mitre block
- Coving adhesive
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A Conversation between Benjamin Godfrey and James Semple: How Two Prairie Entrepreneurs Shaped the River Bend Region
November 6, 2019 | 1,319 views
Presented at the Hayner Genealogy & Local History Library, re-enactors John Meehan and Kerry Miller portrayed Benjamin Godfrey and James Semple discussing both major events from their lives and the shaping of the river bend region.
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When it comes to avenues of commerce, nothing beats the nation’s electric power grid.
That’s right. Those wires running down the street, or underground in your neighborhood, are responsible for more than $350 billion in sales each year. It’s secure, reliable and – judging by recent weather events – can be practically destroyed and rebuilt in short order.
But it’s operated mainly by proprietary hardware, telecommunications, and software platforms that make it more expensive to run than it should be.
So how do we make the grid simpler to operate, and less costly? Interoperability.
Just like your laptop can operate with devices from many manufacturers interchangeably, the electrical grid of the future needs to be able to exchange data with different devices from many manufacturers locally in the field.
Unfortunately, many utilities are “siloed” by proprietary technologies that backhaul data to a centralized hub such as a head end server. Without cross-industry collaboration and tactile evaluation of device interoperability in the field, support for the technology requirements to realize the potential benefits will never occur.
Duke Energy has initiated research projects to build and deploy low-cost controllers in the lab and in the field to better manage the electric grid. This requires building a field message bus to exchange data between assets.
This data exchange can only happen if these devices are connected either through wired or wireless technologies. Once connected, the data exchange is facilitated by non-proprietary protocols and open standards – always keeping data privacy and security at the forefront.
Obviously, non-proprietary protocols and open standards sound easy enough. But every company has its own “secret sauce” that must work only with all the other secret stuff they make. It’s one of the main challenges to the concept of the internet of things.
In this proof of concept, Duke Energy is using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol (MQTT). The OASIS MQTT standardization process is making MQTT an open, simple and lightweight standard protocol for M2M telemetry data communication. Implementations of a field message bus and distributed intelligence applications for the electric grid have the potential to enable interoperability at a low cost and to achieve significant cost savings. These savings are attributed to improved operational performance, faster response times, and better management of distributed energy resources (DER) and utility-owned devices.
The key to unlocking these values is for utilities and vendors to implement a standards-based, interoperable field message bus that facilitates the translation and sharing of relevant local data between disparate assets. This will enable the development of distributed intelligence applications to enhance the performance of existing centrally managed systems.
In testing, Duke Energy has successfully connected meters, communication nodes, cellular modems, capacitor controls, battery management systems, solar inverters, transformers and a DMS system from multiple vendors. The data from these devices is now shared locally, via a field message bus, providing for more efficient decisions with lower latencies. Changes in equipment status are backhauled to higher-priority systems and models are then updated.
So, is interoperability a pipe dream? No. Duke Energy is out to prove that multiple vendors can work together over a field message bus with distributed applications – all while increasing security, reducing latencies, compressing data traffic and saving money. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), an independent organization, oversees the path to interoperability–the ability to link smart grid hardware, software and systems from multiple suppliers throughout the modernized power grid.
SGIP helps utilities like Duke improve regulatory treatment for investment recovery, gives manufacturers enhanced commercial opportunities worldwide and keeps customers competitive, informed and well-connected. This “orchestration” enables energy modernization efforts globally.
Duke Energy is an active member of SGIP. Interoperable standards are key to the success of the electric grid, which ultimately paves the way for our economic well-being.
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Then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains and the agony of giving birth.
Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.
She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and to his throne.
When my middle daughter was five she had a foot-tall Darth Vader figure destroy Bethlehem in her Fisher-Price nativity scene set. Then she surrounded Vader with the animals, shepherds, wise men, Mary, and Joseph in front of the manger. I could almost hear him breathing, “Jesus . . . I am not your father.”
It was not your typical nativity scene. Very violent and “dark side of the force,” like today’s text, where John describes the spiritual realm on Christmas morning.
In a sense, we’ve domesticated the nativity story, casting the scene as a cozy barnyard bed and breakfast. But John’s vision shows the birth of Christ as a cosmic war story, with Satan going after Jesus at his birth.
Now Satan is someone we either pretend doesn’t exist, or blame for every bad thing that happens (#DevilMadeMeDoIt). Neither is helpful, and I don’t want to give the devil too much credit. But Scripture shows he is part of the story.
Later on, John writes, “Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. This great dragon’the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.” (Rev. 12:7–9)
Jesus said, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!” (Luke 10:18).
Peter said: “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith” (1 Peter 5:8–9).
And Paul reminds us:
“Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 6:11–12)
Jesus in the manger is the light in the darkness. But when we see the darkness he’s coming into, we have to recognize there is more going on behind the scenes. Pete Greig, in his book Dirty Glory, says:
Satan’s not particularly interested in sin. His primary objective has never been to tempt you into violating a particular set of rules. His number-one aim is simply to divert your attention away from Jesus. He’ll use sin to do it, for sure. But he’s equally able to use busyness, or shame, or pain, or religion . . . or an obsessive relationship, or a golf handicap, or a pay raise, or an illness to distract you from the Lord. Satan hates the fact that when we fix our eyes on Jesus, broken relationships get fixed, and when we love him with all our lives . . . then death itself can lose its sting.
This is the enemy who sold Adam and Eve the lie that led to humanity’s mission failure. And this is the enemy who was going after Jesus at his birth . . . the birth to redeem the lie we all suffer under. The enemy didn’t take it well then, and still doesn’t now. I believe that’s why Satan tries to distract us with smokescreens like the “Merry Christmas” versus “Happy Holidays” skirmish. It’s an intentional tactic to take our eyes off the real battle.
This week, as Advent turns to the stable, we must still remember the clouds. Jesus’ return is the final victory, but his birth is the transfer of power from darkness to light, to “on earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). This is not the domesticated, warm-fuzzy, live nativity scene version we’re used to telling. This is God loving the world so much that he would not only give, but risk, his Son being born. That’s why we take a season to get ready, because there really is a war on Christmas.
Christ was born. Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again!
Pete Greig, Dirty Glory: Go Where Your Best Prayers Take You (Illinois: NavPress, 2016), 37.
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How to: Changing wheels on your 4×4… what you need to know
If you want to spruce up your rig with a new set of wheels there are a few important technical requirements and legalities you need to be aware of.
THERE ARE several reasons you might want to fit a new set of wheels to your 4×4. The obvious one is aesthetics, and there’s no denying a set of shiny new wheels can instantly transform the look of your vehicle giving it more on- and off-road cred.
There are also more practical reasons, such as upgrading from a set of old steel split-rims to one-piece wheels that will accept tubeless tyres, or fitting a set of wheels that will accept a specific tyre size. Some four-wheel drivers will also upgrade their wheels and tyres to match their trailer, while others will have a set of standard rims for on-road duties and a set of aftermarket rims fitted with mud-terrain tyres for off-road driving.
No matter the reason for upgrading to a set of aftermarket wheels, there are several things to take into account when deciding on what rims are best for your rig. After all, you don’t want your vehicle to be unsafe, or to fall foul of the law or your insurance company.
Steel or Alloy
Even before you’ve started to browse online wheel catalogues, chances are you’ve already decided whether you’re going to fit steel or alloy wheels to your vehicle. This decision may have been primarily about aesthetics, or it may have been a purely practical one.
Other than their shiny, flash appearance, the obvious advantage of alloy wheels is they’re lighter than steel wheels. This not only makes them easier to handle when you have to perform a tyre change, but also reduces your vehicle’s unsprung weight, which can benefit ride, handling, on-road performance, braking and fuel economy.
Although alloy wheels are very strong, they are also very hard, and if they cop a big hit off-road they can crack. And unfortunately, a cracked alloy wheel can’t be repaired, rendering it useless.
Steel wheels are better suited to off-road driving; they are tough and if they cop a hit off-road and are bent out of shape, they can usually be bashed back into round with a hammer, without affecting strength to a great degree.
On the downside, steel wheels are heavier than their alloy counterparts and they’re not as aesthetically pleasing to some, with only basic designs available. But if you intend to do a lot of off-road driving, particularly in remote areas, then steel is the best option.
Stud pattern and offset
For an aftermarket wheel to fit properly to your vehicle it must have the correct stud pattern or PCD (pitch circle diameter). In the case of many 4x4s the PCD will be listed as 5×15, 6×114.3 or 6/139.7. The latter, for example, is the PCD of a six-stud Toyota HiLux; the ‘6’ refers to the six studs and the 139.7 refers to the PCD in millimetres, which is basically the diameter of an imaginary circle drawn through the centre of the wheel’s bolt holes.
The wheel offset is also an important consideration. The offset is the distance from the wheel’s hub-mounting surface to the centreline of the wheel. A wheel with zero offset means that the hub-mounting surface is even with the centreline. A wheel with positive offset has the mounting surface closest to the outside face of the wheel, and a wheel with negative offset has the mounting surface closest to the inside of the wheel.
If your vehicle’s standard wheels have zero offset, for example, and your new aftermarket wheels have negative offset, the new wheels will increase the vehicle’s track. If the track is increased in this way by more than 25mm it may increase the loads and stresses on the vehicle’s axle and other components, as well as affect handling and potentially cause the wheels to interfere with the vehicle’s bodywork. For this reason, a track increase of more than 25mm due to a wheel offset change is not legal in most states.
It should also be noted that the use of spacers between the vehicle’s hub and the wheel’s mounting surface to overcome offset discrepancies is not legal unless the vehicle manufacturer specifies them as original equipment.
The laws pertaining to allowable wheel sizes vary around Australia, so you should check what is legal with your relevant state registration authority.
Most state road authorities don’t allow the fitment of wheel and tyre combinations much bigger or smaller than the vehicle’s original equipment set-up. In NSW, for example, you’re not allowed to fit tyres that are more than 26mm wider than the largest optional wheel recommended by the vehicle manufacturer, and the overall rolling diameter must be no more than 15mm over the largest wheel and tyre combination specified for that vehicle, nor 15mm smaller than the smallest wheel and tyre combination fitted to that vehicle. And, as mentioned, the fitment of aftermarket wheels must not result in an increase to wheel track of more than 25mm. Wheel and tyre combinations that exceed these guidelines require the vehicle owner to source an engineering certificate.
There are a lot of rules and regulations pertaining to the fitment of aftermarket wheels and tyres, but fortunately there are also a lot of experts out there who can help.
Most reputable wheel and tyre outlets, along with most four-wheel drive specialist outlets, will be able to point you in the right direction when it comes to fitting a new set of rims. The latter will not only be able to help with legalities, but also offer advice on what wheels and tyres will best suit your needs depending on your vehicle and the type of driving you subject it to. | <urn:uuid:c5754189-6461-4564-a61e-b98edd378852> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://practicalmotoring.com.au/car-advice/how-to-changing-wheels-on-your-4x4-what-you-need-to-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.948685 | 1,242 | 1.546875 | 2 |
REACHING AN URBAN GENERATION
First a confession, I’m just a small town East Texas boy. For generations my family has lived in small towns and farming communities. When I was 19, I was on a YWAM School of Evangelism outreach for two months in the big city of Chicago. You might as well have taken me to Mars.
It could not have been more foreign to me. In just a little more than a mile radius from where we were staying were hundreds of thousands of people from over 150 nationalities, speaking over 100 languages, all living side by side and stacked on top of each other. The life of the city was not just diverse in ethnicity but in culture, art, and expression.
With that much life and story surrounding me, I was both overwhelmed and exhilarated. I’ve come to call that life of the city, urban adrenaline.
How did we get here? One hundred years ago, only about 14 percent of the world was living in a city. Though cities have existed throughout the ages, the global human story has for centuries been primarily a rural and village story. A story marked by small towns and communities where for generations most lived among a singular or predominate ethnicity and culture. Even by 1960, after a century marked by an industrial revolution, only 30 percent of the world was living in urban environments.
However, in the last three decades around 1.5 million people a week have been leaving the villages and rural areas and moving to cities across the globe. In 2008, the first Urban Generation came into existence with over half of the world’s population living in diverse cities.
Just ten years later, there are now almost 60 percent of us who call complex city life home. At the current rate, 90 percent of the globe will live in cities by the end of the century.
The world is redefining how it lives and views itself. The generation today has new sets of values and a desire to live not isolated but in complex diverse forms of community.
Where did this redefinition begin?
The technology of the Nineties brought about global access to a diverse human story. The cell phone and the internet gave a generation a sense of global self awareness. Young people from every culture were beginning to see themselves as a global family, sharing global struggles, as well as global dreams. The Millennial generation no longer saw themselves simply through the lenses of their own nationality or culture but as part of an emerging and globally connected community.
This global awareness is ramping up urbanization. No longer is economic survival the only reason for city migration, we now have a generation that wants to live together, create together, and find meaning together.
This Urban Generation has three great values: Intensely diverse forms of community; Truth that can be seen and experienced, and a collective purpose to the human story. It is a generation with great purpose and possibilities.
We have an opportunity to discover with this generation the God of the human story who is Himself a diverse and intense relator, who made truth incredibly visible by becoming a part of humanity, and One who has definition and meaning to this collective global community that we are so aware of.
~ Guest Author: Brad Stanley, has been engaged in reaching cities for Jesus for many years. He and his team started YWAM Chicago and have served in city ministries around the world. Check out his book Finding God in the City: Making Sense of the Urban World.
Whether you are someone who has come from the city or simply someone who has begun to identify with the drives of this global Urban generation, we invite you to join us at YWAM Tyler’s next Urban DTS in the fall of 2019. Come and experience knowing God and making Him known in this ever growing Urban World. | <urn:uuid:d18c10e2-8030-407b-8ebb-92a6332ef2d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.ywamtyler.org/reaching-urban-generation-missionary-dts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.972007 | 780 | 1.9375 | 2 |
- 1 Is Tun Tavern still there?
- 2 Who was the first Marine?
- 3 Where was the original Tun Tavern?
- 4 How were the first Marines recruited?
- 5 Can Marines be Navy Seals?
- 6 Why are Marines called Devil Dogs?
- 7 Can you call a Marine a soldier?
- 8 What are Marines called jarheads?
- 9 Have the US Marines ever lost a battle?
- 10 Where is the birthplace of the US Marines?
- 11 What is known as the birthplace of the Marine Corps?
- 12 Are Marines tougher than soldiers?
- 13 Who is better Marine or Navy SEAL?
- 14 Are the president’s own real Marines?
Is Tun Tavern still there?
Tun Tavern burned down in 1781, near the end of the Revolutionary War. It’s unlikely to be reconstructed, at least not on its original site, which is now occupied by Interstate 95. But a memorial plaque close to the original site commemorates this important piece of American history.
Who was the first Marine?
The first Marine landing on a hostile shore occurred when a force of Marines under Captain Samuel Nicholas captured New Providence Island in the Bahamas from the British in March 1776. Nicholas was the first commissioned officer in the Continental Marines and is celebrated as the first Marine commandant.
Where was the original Tun Tavern?
Historic Beginnings. The Tun Tavern (the “Tavern”) was a brew house built by Samuel Carpenter in 1685. It was located on Philadelphia’s historic waterfront at the corner of Water Street and Tun Alley leading to Carpenter’s Wharf near what is today known as “Penn’s Landing.”.
How were the first Marines recruited?
According to tradition, Tun Tavern was where the United States Marines held their first recruitment drive. On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress commissioned the innkeeper and former Quaker Samuel Nicholas to raise two battalions of Marines in Philadelphia.
Can a Marine be a Navy SEAL? An active-duty Marine cannot become a Navy SEAL. If a Marine wants to become a SEAL, they will most likely have to finish their contract and then go visit a Navy recruiter to re-enlist and receive a SEAL contract.
Why are Marines called Devil Dogs?
We got our nickname Devil Dogs from official German reports which called the Marines at Belleau Wood Teufel Hunden. It has been said that this nickname came about from Marines being ordered to take a hill occupied by German forces while wearing gas masks as a precaution against German mustard gas.
Can you call a Marine a soldier?
Marines are not soldiers, though they have been referred to as “soldiers of the sea” in past recruiting posters. In the U.S., people not in the Army are not soldiers, especially so for Marines — who will strongly protest being painted with that brush.
What are Marines called jarheads?
The Marines have long used a uniform with a high-collar, originally made of leather, which once led to the nickname “leathernecks”. That high collar was thought to have given a Marine the appearance of his head sticking out of a jar, thus leading to the “jarhead” moniker (which was adopted around World War II).
Have the US Marines ever lost a battle?
Marines have never surrendered. Biggest myth ever. Civilian contractors are marched off to captivity after the Japanese captured Wake, 23 December 1941. U.S. Marines are (and should be) proud of their battlefield heroics, from battling Barbary pirates to fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Where is the birthplace of the US Marines?
Lewis “Chesty” Puller (1898-1971), was a 37-year veteran of the USMC, ascended to the rank of Lieutenant General, and is the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps.
What is known as the birthplace of the Marine Corps?
Tun Tavern: Birthplace of the Marine Corps.
Are Marines tougher than soldiers?
The Marine Corps members are called marines, not soldiers, and they typically have to go through much more intense basic training than those in the Army do, creating a reputation for being some of the toughest and most highly trained fighters.
U.S. Navy SEALs are an elite unit, more exclusive and harder to be admitted to than the U.S. Marines. “SEAL” is derived from their capacity to operate at SEa, in the Air, and on Land – but it’s their ability to work underwater that separates SEALs from most other military units in the world.
Are the president’s own real Marines?
The Marine Band has been uniquely known as “The President’s Own” since 1801 due to the historic connection to the President of the United States. The relationship between the Marine Band and the White House began on New Year’s Day 1801, when President John Adams invited the band to perform at the Executive Mansion. | <urn:uuid:06de36a3-2695-484e-a3d0-f52973272670> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ymso.org/marines/quick-answer-who-was-the-first-marine-corps-recruiter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.966373 | 1,057 | 2.390625 | 2 |
1950’s Memories of Scouting
My name is David Sherin. I joined the 2nd. Southampton Scout Troop in about 1952, which at that time was situated in Vaudrey Street off of Church Street. The Troop Hut was a former Builders Yard and store, and at that time it reminded me of a Tudor building with the upper floor overlapping the pavement.
The higher floor was used as the Scout Headquarters, and the lower or ground floor was split into two rooms, and as far as I can remember, one was used as the store for the Trek-Cart and the other for all of the camping gear, tents, etc.
Everything was so dusty. The tents that we used then were all old bell tents. They were big and very heavy especially when wet.
The uniform that we wore (again as far as I can remember) was a bush hat a neckerchief with a woggle to hold it in place, a lanyard, a green jumper on which you would sew your badges, starting on the sleeves.
We would also wear a pair of grey shorts, and a belt with the scout insignia on the buckle we also wore long grey socks with green tabs on elastic to hold the socks up and to finish our uniform off. Your very special Sheath Knife which was to us kids was the be all and end all for us, who had probably never to have been allowed to carry a knife of any sort at all before we had joined the Scouts.
When we went camping we would usually take the Trek-Cart which would be loaded up with our ruck sacks and all of the rest of the gear necessary to camp for the weekend. The Trek-Cart would be pulled and pushed by all and would eventually get us to our destination. One of the most local of our campsites was the wooded area on the corner of Deerleap lane and Hunters Hill On the A35 at Colbury, and some other sites in the New Forest in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst etc.
We were taught all sorts of useful things like knot tying, measuring heights of buildings and the like using our wooden staff. We also learnt to light a camp fire, cooking, first aid etc. When we went camping in and around the New Forest, we would usually get to wherever we were going by pulling the Trek Cart with all of our gear on it. There would be two boys pulling on the T bar while the rest of us would be pulling on the ropes each side of the cart which was fixed on a ring attached to the axle.
Unfortunately, I could not go to all of the camps as I had to help my father in the family business, quite a lot of that time, but when. I did manage to go; it was delightful with the comradeship and the friendships that were formed because whatever we were asked to do we did willingly and worked as a team. To me, the highlight of the day was, after our evening meal and all of the clearing up had been done. We would sit around the camp fire drinking cocoa and singing camp fire songs.
The campsite at Bank was close to where The New Forest Reptile Centre is now and we set up camp in an area where the Highland Water was on two sides of the site just below where the Highland Water and the White Shoot Waters met. It was on this site that I remember having my first lesson in camp cooking, having to mix up some flour and water to make the dough which was attached to a stick and placed over the fire to cook, and as expected half of it fell into the flames.
During our summer holidays from school we would go out on Bob-A-Job to earn money for the Scouting Movement, we would do all sorts of jobs, cleaning Windows, clearing out garages, pruning trees, etc. We would do anything to earn money. Then, of course, there were the usual annual parades; Remembrance Day, St. Georges Day, and of course the Church Parades all of which made us proud to belong to such a wonderful movement for young people and to help us understand the benefits of being a team member. | <urn:uuid:ef0b814b-b273-492d-ab53-5f57a1fdc7ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://2ndsotonscouts.org.uk/history/1950s-memories-of-scouting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.98817 | 852 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Big Books in Times of Big Data: a book by the former IAS Junior Core Fellow
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature in a media genealogy which includes film and television but also online databases, social media, selfies, and Global Information Systems. This study makes a case for the cultural agency of the big book—as a material object and a discursive phenomenon, entangled in complex ways with questions of canonicity, mediality, gender, and power. Van de Ven takes us into a contested bookish terrain beyond the 1,000-page mark, where issues of scale and readerly comprehension clash with authorial aggrandizement and the pleasures of ‘binging’ and serial consumption.
In the next 36 months Inge will be working on her project TL; DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read): Close and hyperreading of literary texts and the modulation of attention at the University of California in Santa-Barbara, University of Stavanger in Norway and Tilburg University int he Netherlands. | <urn:uuid:196b4d29-0c7c-48b4-879b-ba3cb8b123d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ias.ceu.edu/article/2020-03-05/big-books-times-big-data-book-former-ias-junior-core-fellow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.857643 | 313 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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The study of animal personalities is rapidly become one of the fastest growing areas of research in behavioural biology and ecology. The term ‘personality’, within this context, is used to describe significant behavioural and physiological differences between individuals of the same species, which are consistent over time in different contexts or situations. For field researchers, the personalities of their study subjects may have important implications for their results and thus for conservation efforts.
For example, just as we humans may react differently in different situations, other species may exhibit differential responses or vulnerability to certain stressors in their environment or certain social situations. Does this mean that for some populations we may eventually be able to identify and quantify personality characteristics, such as brave or committed, timid or resourceful? Perhaps.
What will this mean for the way in which we define populations or sub-groups within those populations? How might this influence conservation and protection efforts? Only time will tell. At present we are left watching, often in amazement, at some of the interesting events that unfold in the natural environment; where an individual from one species apparently adopts an individual from another, or comes to their aid. There’s been a variety of such awe inspiring whale and dolphin stories circulating over the last few months. It would be timely to reflect upon some of these tales and consider what personality traits might possibly be in play and how this may highlight the uniqueness of each of these individuals. Many dolphin species live in complex social groups, some can innovate and then learn from each other. For example, there are some bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia that use sponges as tools to help them forage.
Research shows that the female ‘spongers’ (as these tool-using dolphins are known) tend to be more ‘cliquish’ and preferentially associate with other dolphins that ‘sponge’ suggesting that, like humans, these female dolphins prefer to associate with those individuals who share their sub-culture (in this case, the use of sponges as tools). Let’s consider just a few of the recent stories in the media, which help to give us some other rare glimpses into the private lives of dolphins and whales.
Common dolphins come to the aid of another group member In a compelling account from Korean waters, a group of five common dolphins were recorded using their bodies as a raft to try to keep another stricken dolphin afloat. A full account of the event is available in the journal Marine Mammal Science. There have been a number of recorded incidents of dolphins supporting dead or stillborn calves near the surface using their bodies. This is not unexpected, as air breathing mammals, once a calf is born the mother must ensure the youngster reaches the surface swiftly enough for his or her first gasp of air. However, cases where females have been recorded supporting the bodies of their dead calves, sometimes for many days after the calf has died, also raise speculation about these individuals exhibiting grief. What is unusual about the story from Korea is the collective and coordinated effort of these dolphins (reported up to 10) to keep their companion afloat. The researchers reported that the dolphins appeared to take on different roles, with some attempting to keep the stricken individual afloat, whilst others circled around, perhaps providing protection. They note that five dolphins at a time lined up to form a raft to support the ailing dolphin, whilst another used their mouth to keep the dolphin’s head (and blowhole) above the water.
Stricken dolphin calmly permits help from a diver In an equally amazing story an entangled dolphin allowed a scuba-diver to delicately cut away the fishing line from his or her pectoral fin and mouth. This video footage is so compelling that it quickly became international news. Perhaps the most remarkable part of this entire event is the point at which the dolphin leaves the diver to surface for air and then returns so that the diver can continue to cut away and remove the fishing line.
Sperm whales and a dolphin with a deformed spine Another incredible story, again between species, details how a bottlenose dolphin, born with a severe spinal curvature, was apparently ‘adopted’ (at least in the short-term) by a group of sperm whales. The researchers note that the dolphin was observed for eight days interacting with the whales. It is difficult to determine the motivations on either side for such behaviour, nevertheless this is a fascinating account of unusual inter-species interaction.
Dolphins call each other by name? And finally, if any reconfirmation of the importance of social bonds between dolphins were needed, the results of some interesting research on dolphin signature whistles, demonstrates that dolphins actually copy the signature whistles of other dolphins when separated from them. This research concludes that: ‘This use of vocal copying is similar to its use in human language, where the maintenance of social bonds appears to be more important than the immediate defence of resources’.
Why do scientific reports AND anecdotal accounts matter? Scientific research helps us to understand the complexity of the world around us. Anecdotal reports can give some good clues about which scientific questions we should be asking. Personal, individual accounts, such as some of those described here, enable us to opens our minds about the way in which whales and dolphins may live; how they interact with each other and their environments. Some of these compelling stories inevitably challenge us to consider whales and dolphins as ‘who’ not ‘what’, with individual personalities, capable of experiencing a range of emotions.
In stark contrast, the shocking analysis of the brutal killing method being used to kill dolphins caught in the Japanese drive hunts in Taiji, challenge us to reject these hunts, not only on the basis of the insurmountable animal welfare issues, but also on the basis that these are all unique individuals, each contributing in their own distinctive ways to their complex communities. Beyond our initial reactions to the horror depicted in the footage from the dolphin hunts in Taiji and elsewhere, it is important to consider the true nature of dolphins to better understand the extent of the atrocities being committed. I wonder what the unique personality traits of the dolphin killed in this footage might have been, or whether they had a unique name within their social group. One thing is certain, for that individual, we will never know. If you haven’t done so already, please sign our petition. | <urn:uuid:aeb17b91-0aa1-43bc-8ea7-d9b31626a641> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://au.whales.org/2013/04/22/identifying-and-respecting-other-personalities-stories-to-inspire/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955853 | 1,302 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Jacob was the third patriarch, who received a different name in the similar fashion to his grandfather. He became known as Israel, and is recognized as the patriarch of the tribes of Israel, which continued through his sons. When famine struck Canaan, he moved the Hebrews to Egypt, but later returned. In this article, you will learn about the Period of the Judges and a united monarchy.
The land of Egypt is prominent in the history of the Hebrew faith, as Jacob’s son Joseph is sold to Egypt, and it is also the place where Moses was born (around 1300 B.C.). There is still some debate about some of these events, as there is no archeological evidence to support these claims.
Period of the Judges
Around 1399, another significant time period begins. It is called the Period of the Judges and involves the 40 years that the Hebrews spent in the wilderness. This event is told in the Book of Exodus. During this time, Moses dies before reaching Canaan. At the end of their journey, the 12 tribes of Hebrews finally reach their ‘promised land’ but encounter recurring conflict with neighboring regions. They must prepare for battle and need leaders to guide them through this struggle. The leaders were called judges and they were in charge of handling traditional judicial matters as well as the welfare of the people. The first judge is named Joshua.
In regards to this time period, there is archaeological evidence of Israel available to historians. The information comes from the Merneptah Stele, which is currently dated to 1209 B.C.
From 1025 to 928 B.C, the Hebrews saw a period of time that marked the united monarchy, which involved the judge Samuel reluctantly anointing Saul as the first king of Israel. Following Saul leading the way towards defeating the Ammonites, the 12 tribes saw him as their king. He ruled from Gibeah, which he made his capital. When Saul was king, the Philistines attack. This was around the same time that a young shepherd named David volunteered to go against one of the fiercest of the Philistines , thus the origin of the David and Goliath tale. It only took one stone from a slingshot to defeat Goliath, and David earns a reputation that rivals the king himself.
The Bible goes on to speak of the change of power. David is expected to become king of Israel. However, when Saul dies, it is one of his sons that is appointed ruler. There is a difference of opinion. At Hebron, the tribe of Judah declares David king. Saul’s son is assassinated, which is when David replaces him as king of the reunited monarchy. A fortified capital is constructed at Jerusalem.
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Israeli forces have uprooted some 350 palm trees and bulldozed lands in Jericho city, Jordan Valley.
Journalist Adel AbuNemah, reported to the PNN that the land was razed and the trees were uprooted, even though it is located in area B and not C, as Israel claims.
The land is private property of farmer Mohammed Awajneh, who said that his land was among other agricultural lands razed by Israeli bulldozers without prior notice.
The trees were planted two years ago.
According to the Palestine Information Center (PIC), around 150,000 Palestinian citizens live in 542 residential communities located partially or completely within Area C, while 325,000 Israeli settlers live in the same area in 135 settlements and about 100 outposts, in violation of the international law.
70% of the lands of Area C are located within the boundaries of the local councils of the Israeli settlements; therefore, Palestinians are prohibited from using or developing them.
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Ocean cruising to Gibraltar
Gibraltar is without a doubt the sunniest place in Britain and that’s because it’s nestled on the southern coast of Spain. A British Overseas Territory for 300 years, this tiny speck of land was once ruled by the Moors and then the Spanish, before becoming a British territory in 1713. Gibraltar is dominated by ‘The Rock’, a 5km-long limestone ridge that reaches a height of 426 metres, and which hides a labyrinth of tunnels and fortifications dating back to the 14th century, but also boasts great gardens and beaches. Brits may feel slightly incongruous as they pay in pounds (British or Gibraltar), stroll past a red pillar post box and step out of Marks & Spencer into the scorching Spanish sun on a Gibraltar cruise.
Why choose Gibraltar cruises
Gibraltar is a favourite cruising destination for British passengers, giving them the feeling of being at home while being away. The territory features on Spanish and Mediterranean cruises, located between the major cruise ports of Cadiz and Málaga. Gibraltar is a stop on British cruise lines like P&O Cruises, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, Cunard and Marella Cruises but Royal Caribbean, Oceania, Princess and Celebrity Cruises also sail here. For a smaller-ship experience, you can also sail to Gibraltar with Saga, Azamara, Crystal Cruises, or Windstar.
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Gibraltar cruises: Best places to visit in Gibraltar
The main street and town
Gibraltar was once described by British writer Laure Lee as a 'piece of Portsmouth sliced off and towed 500 miles', but Gibraltar is a wonderful mix of British and Spanish influences. The territory has a great main street and shopping area sitting in the shadows of The Rock, and its streets have a distinctly Spanish feel to them. Start in Casemates Square with its indoor food market before heading to the Fine Arts Gallery, offering a wide selection of local paintings, arts and crafts. Being the site of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 wedding, the town also has the unique Julian Lennon’s Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition – a large collection of family photos and memorabilia set up by John’s son.
Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar lords over the territory at five kilometres long and a peak of 426m high and is a thriving eco-system and fascinating historical and natural monument. As a monolithic limestone cliff, most of its upper area is covered by a nature reserve, attracting 300 Barbary macaques and plenty of cyclists and hikers. Travellers can get to the top using the cable car, offering a spectacular vista. The lower part of The Rock is a network of tunnels, miles of British military defence tunnels carved deep within the rock that once housed soldiers, guns and artillery. Today some of the tunnels on the Upper Gallery form the tourist attraction known as the Great Siege Tunnels.
St Michael’s Cave
St Michael’s Cave is one of the most beautiful and fascinating sites in Gibraltar, a network of limestone caves hidden within the Upper Rock inside the Upper Rock Nature Reserve of Gibraltar. The caves are at a height of 300 metres above sea level and receive almost 1 million visitors a year, thanks to their mesmerising display of colourful stalactites and stalagmites and rich history. The caves have been used as a military base and as a venue for picnics, parties, concerts, weddings and duels (in the Victorian era). Today they’re sometimes used as a concert venue – thanks to the acoustics, concrete stage and seating for 100 people – hosting the Gibraltar World Music Festival in June.
Before being overtaken by the British, Gibraltar was ruled by the Moors, the Muslim dynasty that ruled over the Iberian Peninsula and left behind grand castles and forts. Much like the famous Alhambra in nearby Granada, Gibraltar also has its own Moorish Castle, compromising of gates, fortified walls and ramparts which travellers can visit. Highlights of the castle include the Tower of Homage, the highest point in the castle, the Queen Charlotte’s Battery and Gate House, with its cupola roof. Part of the castle was actually the prison of Gibraltar right up until 2010 when it was relocated.
Gibraltar Botanic Gardens
Thanks to its sun-soaked position on the south of Spain, a Gibraltar cruise is a verdant territory home to some fantastic wildlife and bountiful gardens. The Gibraltar Botanic Gardens (or Alameda Gardens) are definitely worth a visit, built by order of the British Governor General of Gibraltar in 1816 as a pleasant recreational area for soldiers to enjoy off duty. Today tourists and locals can enjoy the shady gardens and walkways lines with 1,900 species of indigenous and international plants like aloes, palms, dragon trees, sunken garden brimming with colourful flowers. The garden also stages productions and concerts in its own open-air theatre.
Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park
The Gibraltar Botanic Gardens not only houses 1,900 species of plants, but dozens of species of exotic and adorable animals in its Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park. Nestled within the lush gardens, this small wildlife park began as a safe haven for parrots, tortoises and monkeys confiscated from illegal traders passing through Gibraltar and is now home to a large collection of rescued animals and former exotic pets. The park raises awareness for the illegal animal smuggling trade and its main focus is conservation. Visitors will come face-to-face with macaques, iguanas, Chinese water dragons, parakeets and lemurs.
Gibraltar isn’t just military monuments and British shops, there are also some fantastic beaches and swimming spots like Catalan Bay. It is located on the more peaceful eastern side of The Rock and features a wide sandy beach and lovely colourful fishing village built on the rocks. With a more Spanish/Euro feel than British, the charming bay has a number of delicious fresh seafood restaurants lining the beach and is home to an old town dating back to the 1600s. Visitors to the bay can also see the Our Lady of Sorrows Church and might be lucky enough to catch the Bishop of Gibraltar blessing the sea in the village’s main religious festival in September.
Europa Point is the most southerly point on the Gibraltar Peninsula and worth a visit for the fantastic views across Algeciras Bay and the African coast and the Trinity Lighthouse dating back to 1838. Europa Point is steeped in history and visitors will also find the old chapel of Nuestra Señora de Europa, Harding Battery – a restored fortification built in 1859 – and the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque. Other notable sites in Europa Point include Nun's Well, an old 19th-century underground water store once used to make beer, and Gibraltar’s only dedicated cricket oval, home of the Gibraltar national cricket team.
Gibraltar cruises: Best things to do in Gibraltar
Visit a museum
Having such a rich military history, Gibraltar has some fantastic museums and tourist attractions in its main town. Top sights include the Gibraltar National Museum, Great Siege Tunnels and the Military Heritage Centre.
Wander the old town
Gibraltar has an old town in the north-western corner of the territory, which is a bizarre homage to an English high street. You’ll find Debenhams, M&S, British pubs, and fish and chips shops nestled amongst Spanish architecture.
Relax in the sun
What to do in Gibraltar from a cruise ship? Gibraltar has some great beaches to sunbathe and relax on, on the same stretch as the Costa del Sol and just over the water from North Africa. The best are main beach Eastern Beach and the more laid-back Catalan Bay.
Ride a cable car
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As referenced in the Wikipedia article on Principles of Grouping this is one of 5 Gestalt laws of grouping.
Objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups.
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731224 - Lecture SB 01.15.46 - Los Angeles
Prabhupāda: Now, recite.
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. (devotees repeat) (Prabhupāda and devotees repeat)
Prabhupāda: . . . (indistinct) . . . hmm.
Pradyumna: Do you want me to read the text?
Prabhupāda: No, that's all right. That will be reference.
Pradyumna: (leads chanting of verse)
- te sādhu-kṛta-sarvārthā
- jñātvātyantikam ātmanaḥ
- manasā dhārayām āsur
- (SB 1.15.46)
te—all of them; sādhu-kṛta—having performed everything worthy of a saint; sarva-arthāḥ—that which includes everything worthy; jñātvā—knowing it well; ātyantikam—the ultimate; ātmanaḥ—of the living being; manasā—within the mind; dhārayām āsuḥ—sustained; vaikuṇṭha—the Lord of the spiritual sky; caraṇa-ambujam—lotus feet.
Translation: "They all had performed all the principles of religion, and as a result rightly decided that the lotus feet of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are the supreme goal of all. Therefore they meditated upon His feet without interruption."
Prabhupāda: Hm. Te sādhu-kṛta-sarvārthā. Artha means interest. Everyone has some interest. The animal has got also interest. The man has got also interest. The big politician, he has also interest. Everyone has got interest. But nobody knows what is real interest. That is missing. Everyone has created his interest, and he is working in that way. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum (SB 7.5.31). Real interest is, for the human being, to know what is God, what is my relationship with Him, and how I shall achieve the highest perfection of life. That is real interest.
Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum. Svārtha. Svārtha or artha. Svārtha means own interest, and artha means general interest. The general interest is, for the human being, dharma artha kāma mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, CC Ādi 1.90). Because human life is not dog's life, cat's life, so there must be dharma, religion. And religion means no God (dog?). That is first interest. This is first interest. Otherwise how shall I distinguish my life with cats' and dogs' life? They are also eating, sleeping, mating and dying. And if I also, like the cats and dogs, eat, sleep and have sex life and die, then where is the difference? The difference is religion. The dog society, cat society, there cannot be any religion, but in the human society, there is necessity of religion. Otherwise it is cats' and dogs' . . . (indistinct) . . . society. So they do not understand it. They are avoiding religion. Nowadays the so-called advanced civilization, they are avoiding religion. That means they are coming to the platform of cats and dogs. And actually, they have come. Especially in this age, Kali-yuga . . .
Yesterday we were discussing about the Kali-yuga: the most fallen age. People are most degraded. So there is, by calculation, that seventy-five percent irreligion and twenty-five percent religion in comparison to other ages. But this twenty-five percent religious life also will reduce. Before explaining this verse, I shall give you reference to some of the symptoms of this age. This is also explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Twelfth Canto, Third Chapter.
(aside) Where is that? Give me that book. We have not yet published, so I am reading reference.
Anyonyato rājabhiś ca kṣayaṁ yāsyanti pīḍitāḥ (SB 12.1.41). It is described in the Second Chapter, Twelfth Canto, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So:
- tataś cānu-dinaṁ dharmaḥ
- satyaṁ śaucaṁ kṣamā dayā
- kālena balinā rājan
- naṅkṣyaty āyur balaṁ smṛtiḥ
- (SB 12.2.1)
This description of the Kali-yuga is given in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. This is called śāstra. This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was written five thousand years ago, when the Kali-yuga was to begin. Now, what will happen in future, everything is given there. Śāstra means . . . that is . . . therefore we accept śāstra. Tri-kāla-jña. The śāstrakāra, or the compiler of the śāstra, must be liberated person, so that he can describe past, present and future. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam you will find so many things which was told to be happening in future. Just like in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is mention of Lord Buddha's appearance. Similarly, there is mention of Lord Kalki's appearance. There is mention of Lord Caitanya's appearance, although it was written five thousand years ago. Tri-kāla-jña. Know; they know what is past, present and future.
So about the Kali-yuga, discussing, Śukadeva Gosvāmī is describing the chief symptoms of this age. The first symptom he says, tataś ca anu-dinam. With the progress of this age, Kali-yuga, dharma, religious principle; satyam, truthfulness; śaucam, cleanliness; kṣamā, forgiveness; dayā, mercifulness; āyuḥ, duration of life; balam, bodily strength; smṛtiḥ, memory . . . just count how many. dharmaḥ, satyam, śaucam, kṣamā, dayā, āyuḥ, balam, smṛti—eight. These things will gradually reduce to nil, almost nil.
Now as I told you, the Kali-yuga . . . in other yugas . . . just like Satya-yuga, the duration of Satya-yuga was eighteen hundred thousands of years. And the human being was living in that age for one hundred thousands of years. One hundred thousands of years. The next age, the duration of that age, twelve hundred thousands of years, and the people used to live for one thousand years, not over . . . ten thousand years. Ten times reduced. The next age, Dvāpara-yuga, again ten times reduced. Still, they used to live for one thousand years, and the duration of the age was eight hundred thousands of years. Now the next age, this Kali-yuga, the limit is one hundred years. We can live utmost up to one hundred years. We are not living one hundred years, but still, the limit is one hundred years. So just see. Now, from one hundred years . . . now at India the average age is about thirty-five years. In your country they say seventy years? So it is reducing. And it will so reduce that if a man lives for twenty to thirty years, he will be considered grand old man in this age, Kali-yuga. So āyuḥ, duration of life, will reduce.
Memory, smṛti, that will also reduce. We see nowadays, people are not very . . . of sharp memory. They forget. Daily work they forget. Doing something daily, still, he is forgetting. The loss of memory. Similarly, āyuḥ, bodily strength. Everyone can understand. Your forefathers, your father or grandfather, as they were bodily strong, you are not so, I am not so. So bodily strength will reduce. Memory will reduce. Duration of life will reduce. Then dharma . . . there is no question. It is almost reduced. Nobody is interested in religion. The churches, temples are being closed, locked up. This was a church. Where we are sitting, this was a church, and it was sold, because nobody was coming. Similarly, we are purchasing in Australia a very big church. They are selling. In London I have seen many hundred of churches, nobody is going there. Not only churches. In India also, except a few important temples, ordinary, small temples, they are being closed. They have become habitation of the dogs.
So dharma, religiosity, is reducing. And truthfulness. And kṣamā, forgiveness, that is also reduced. We are very sorry that one thing has happened; he was excused, but again he was shot dead. Just see. No forgiveness. Vengeance. Formerly, if somebody has done something wrong, the other party . . . just like Arjuna, you see. Even in the battlefield, he was so much tortured by the other party, still, he was, "Kṛṣṇa let them go. I don't want to kill them." Forgiveness. So even for a small interest, they will kill. This is going on. So satyam, śaucam, kṣamā, dayā, mercifulness. Even if you see in your front somebody is being killed, you will not take interest. No mercifulness. It is happening already.
So satyam, śaucam, kṣamā, dayā, āyuḥ, duration of life, bodily strength and memory. These eight kinds of things will reduce, reduce, reduce, reduce.When you will see these symptoms, you will find, "Now the age of Kali is making his progress very nicely." This is progress. Then another symptom is vittam eva kalau nṟṇāṁ janmācāra-guṇodayaḥ (SB 12.2.2). Formerly, according to spiritual understanding, one man's position was calculated. Just like brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa was honored because he knew Brahman. He was aware of the supreme spirit. So now in Kali-yuga, actually there is no brāhmaṇa. That will be also described, how a brāhmaṇa is. So janma ācāra, birthright. Birthright was there, but according to the behavior. If a man is born in a brahmin family or kṣatriya family or vai . . . he must behave like that. That was the king's duty, to see that, "This man is not falsely representing himself." Just like in England there is lord family. So to maintain their aristocracy, the family had to deposit some money with the government so that they may not deteriorate in their aristocratic behavior. Still, it is going on. But now things are finished.
So aristocracy and respectability, these things were according to culture, according to education. But nowadays, what is that? Vittam eva kalau nṟṇām. If you get money somehow or other, then everything is there. That's all. You may be a third-class, fourth-class, tenth-class man, but if you get money some way or other, then you are very respectable. There is no question of your culture or aristocracy or education or knowledge. There is no . . . nothing. This is Kali-yuga. And then, dharma-nyāya-vyavasthāyāṁ kāraṇaṁ balam eva hi (SB 12.2.2). And if you have got some influence, strength, then in your favor everything will be decided. You are the most irreligious person, but if you can bribe the priestly order, he will certify, "Yes, you are religious." So money, not actual qualification.
So if you discuss these things . . . long affairs, shortly. Then again it says, dāmpatye abhirucir hetur māyaiva vyāvahārike (SB 12.2.3). Dāmpatye. Dāmpatye, husband and wife relation, will depend on abhiruciḥ. Abhiruciḥ means liking. A girl likes boy, and a boy likes, "That's alright. Now let the marriage take place." They do not see what will be future of this girl and the boy. Never. Therefore everyone is unhappy. Six months after marriage, divorce. Because the marriage took place simply on superficial liking, no deep understanding. So things are taking place like that.
Formerly marriage, at least in India, at least up to our time, the marriage was taking place not on the liking of the boy and the girl. No. It was decided by the parents. So . . . just like I was also married man. I was married when I was a student, and I did not know what will be the . . . jut the parents arranged. What to speak of me; I will give you another very brilliant example, that you have perhaps heard the name of Dr. Rajendra Prasad. He was the first president of Indian . . . he has written his biography. He was married at the age of eight years. Formerly, in India the marriage was taking place like that. I know. My father-in-law was married when he was eleven years, and my mother-in-law was seven years. You see? So actually, the point is that the marriage was taking by the calculation of past, present and future, with astronomy, astrological calculation, "Whether this couple will be happy in their life?" In this way marriage was taking place. Not that a grown-up girl, grown-up boy mixes together, and he likes, she likes; then again he leaves or she . . . this kind of marriage was not sanctioned.
But in this Kali-yuga it is said that dāmpatye abhiruciḥ. That's all. Abhiruciḥ. Boys and girls are intermingling freely, and if she likes, that's all right. But no future calculation. This is Kali-yuga. No future calculation, whether in future marriage is sanctified life, the man and the woman live peacefully, make spiritual culture, each one will help the other so that they will live very happily and become advancement in spiritual life and then go back to . . . that is the system. But nowadays, in Kali-yuga, it will be simply liking. Liking means next moment disliking. That is a fact. You see? Liking has no value. As soon as you based on liking, then you expect next moment disliking. That's all.
And strītve puṁstve ca hi ratir vipratve sūtram eva hi (SB 12.2.3). You know, the brahmin, they are offered sacred thread. So people will consider, "Now I have got sacred thread, I have become brahmin. I may act like the caṇḍāla, it doesn't matter." That is going on. We introduced this brahminical culture, but things are deteriorated. I am very sorry, that taking brahminical initiation, he is acting as a caṇḍāla, angry caṇḍāla. You see? So this is Kali-yuga. He does not understand that as brahmin he has got so responsibility. But because he has got the two-cent-worth sacred thread, he thinks now he has become brahmin. Vipratve. And strītve puṁstve ca hi ratir eva hi, and husband and wife, they will remain together because it was liking. And as soon as there will be sex difficulty, there will be disliking immediately.
Liṅgam eva āśrama-khyātau (SB 12.2.4). Liṅgam eva. A dress simply. Taking white dress, a gṛhastha, he may do like anything, he is gṛhastha. No. There are so many duties. Taking a saffron cloth, he is sannyāsī. These are the . . . if we explain, it will take more . . . but these are the symptoms. Avṛttyā nyāya-daurbalyaṁ pāṇḍitye cāpalaṁ vacaḥ. If you have no money, then you will never get justice in the court. This is Kali-yuga. Nowadays the high-court judges, they are also taking bribe to give you a favorable judgment. You can purchase judgment. So if you have no money, then don't go to court. To push good money after bad money. No. No.
Avṛttyā nyāya-daurbalyaṁ pāṇḍitye cāpalaṁ vacaḥ. If a man can talk expertly, it doesn't matter what he talks. Nobody requires to understand him. Then he is paṇḍita. He is learned scholar. (speaks gibberish) "Haperkulasvena bhagavad dagvendikali gundulas, by the lacticism of wife . . ." like, if you go on speaking, nobody will understand. (laughter) Nobody will understand, and people, "Oh, see how learned he is." (laughter) Actually it is happening. There are so many rascals, they are writing book, and "Oh, such and such, oh . . ." "What you have understood?" "Oh, it is inexplicable. Inexplicable." (laughter) This is going on.
- sādhutve dambha eva tu
- svīkāra eva codvāhe
- snānam eva prasādhanam
- (SB 12.2.5)
Anāḍhyatā. If you are poor man, then you are dishonest. People will understand that, "This man is actually not honest, because he does not know how to earn money by hook or crook." Svīkāra eva codvāhe, "And marriage will take place by agreement." And that is very much experienced in your country. In our country also. Now government has appointed marriage magistrate. So any boy and girl likes, simply go to him. Maybe there is some fee: "Yes, we agree to marry," and certifies, "They are married." No. Not like that. Formerly, as the father and mother used to select and see the future. Svīkāra eva codvāhe. Svīkāra. Svīkāra means agreement.
Snānam eva prasādhanam. Snānam eva prasādhanam. Cosmetic. Simply if one can take little shower bath, then everything is finished. Actually, snāna means sandhyā. You have to take bath nicely, then you have to put tilaka and candana, then perform your gāyatrī-mantra. This is called snāna. Tri-sandhyā-snāna. Now they are simply taking somehow or other bath, and finished, "No more." But Kali-yuga, this will be snānam eva. And then dūre vāry-ayanaṁ tīrthaṁ lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam. Just see how future tell. At the present moment, Kali-yuga, a man will think himself, he has become very beautiful by keeping long hairs. You have got very good experience in your country, long hairs. Just see how future. Who knew that there are people would be interested for keeping long hairs? But that is stated in the Bhāgavata. Just see. Keśa-dhāraṇam. Keśa means hair, and dhāraṇam means keeping.
Dūre vāry-ayanaṁ tīrtham. And pilgrimage, it must be far away. Just like in Calcutta there is Ganges. So nobody cares for Calcutta Ganges. But they'll go to Haridwar. The same Ganges. The Ganges is coming from Haridwar down to the Bay of Bengal, but people will like to go to Haridwar, taking so much hardship to take bath there, because that becomes tīrtha. Every religion, they have got tīrtha. The Muslims, they have got mosque. What is that? Mecca, Medina. The Christian, they have got, where? Jerusalem. Similarly, the Hindus. Then they must travel very long. That will be tīrtha. But actually tīrtha means tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni. Where there is saintly person, that is tīrtha. Not to go ten thousand miles and simply take a dip in the water and come back. Then:
- . . . udaraṁ-bharatā svārthaḥ
- satyatve dhārṣṭyam eva hi
- dākṣyaṁ kuṭumba-bharaṇaṁ
- yaśo 'rthe dharma-sevanam
- (SB 12.2.6)
Udaraṁ-bharatā, the interest. I was speaking of interest. Now, in Kali-yuga, the interest will be if you can eat some day very sumptuously, then your all interest is fulfilled. That's all. (Bengali: Means.) people will be so hungry, so nothing to eat; therefore if they can eat some day very sumptuously, that will be fulfillment of all interest. And satyatve dhārṣṭyam eva hi. And one who will simply play jugglery of words, he will be considered as very truthful. Another, dākṣyaṁ kuṭumba-bharaṇam: one shall be considered very expert if he can maintain his family—wife and children. That means this will be difficult. It has already become difficult. To maintain a wife and a few children, that is also a great burden at the same . . . (indistinct) . . . Therefore nobody wants to marry.
Evaṁ prajābhir duṣṭābhir ākīrṇe kṣiti-maṇḍale (SB 12.2.7). In this way, when all the people will be infected by the poison of Kali-yuga, brahma-viṭ-kṣatra-śūdrāṇāṁ yo balī bhavitā nṛpaḥ. So it doesn't matter whether he is a brāhmaṇa or a kṣatriya or vaiśya or śūdra or caṇḍāla. One who is powerful in getting votes, he will occupy the presidential post or the royal post. Just see. Formerly the system was that not the brāhmaṇa, er, vaiśya or śūdra can occupy the royal throne. Only the kṣatriyas. Now, in the Kali-yuga, there is no such thing, who is kṣatriya, who is a brāhmaṇa, who is a . . . anyone, hook and crook you get your votes, democracy, and occupy . . . and whatever you may be—you may be rascal number one—but you will be posted on the supreme exalted presidential post. Then:
- prajā hi lubdhai rājanyair
- nirghṛṇair dasyu-dharmabhiḥ
- yāsyanti giri-kānanam
- (SB 12.2.8)
Now, these classes of men who goes to the government post by votes, mostly they are . . . their qualification is lubdhai rājanya, greedy government men. Nirghṛṇair dasyu-dhar . . . their business is plundering. Their business is plundering you. We actually see that they are, every year they are exacting heavy tax, and whatever money is received, they divide amongst themselves, and the citizens' condition remains the same. In every government we can see like that. Prajā dasyu-dharmabhiḥ. In this way, gradually, all people will be so much harassed, ācchinna-dāra-draviṇā, that they will like to give up their family life. Ācchinna. Dāra. Dāra means wife, and draviṇā means money. Ācchinna-dāra-draviṇā yāsyanti giri-kānanam. They will go in the forest. Then these symptoms are also there.
So in this way there are so many symptoms. It will take long time to describe. This is Kali-yuga. But there is remedy. There is remedy. Kaler doṣa-nidhe rājan. The faults of this age, just like ocean. Just like in the ocean you cannot . . . Pacific Ocean . . . if you are put into the Pacific Ocean, you do not know how your life will be saved. It is very difficult. Even if you are very expert swimmer, so it is not possible that you can cross the Pacific Ocean. That is not possible. Similarly, the Kali-yuga, as it is stated in the Bhāgavata, that infected with so many anomalies that there is no way out. But there is one medicine only: kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51). That is also described that, "If you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra," kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya, "especially the name kṛṣṇasya, mukta-saṅgaḥ, you will be relieved from the infection of this Kali-yuga."
(break) The five Pāṇḍavas, te sādhu, they have been described as sādhu, very honest, saintly, sādhu. Kṛta-sarvārthāḥ. They have executed all their duties. The human being has got duty. There are so many duties. Devarṣi-bhūtāpta-nṛṇāṁ pitṟṇām (SB 11.5.41). Devarṣi. We have got duties. We are ṛṇī. Ṛṇī means indebted. Whom we are indebted? As soon as you take your birth on this planet, you are indebted to so many persons. What are they? Now, first, deva. Deva means the demigods or God. Actually God. God has got many assistant demigods. So you are indebted. Just like you are getting the sunshine. Just like we are getting this electricity. Now, the bill will be presented. If you don't pay, the next day your electricity will be cut off. So the . . . by nature's or God's arrangement, there is sunshine. Therefore you have to perform yajña. If you don't perform yajña, then there will be no sunshine. Therefore in the Western countries there is very difficulty to get sunshine. This is the natural sequence.
So we are indebted to the sun-god. We are indebted to the Indra, who is supplying water. Just like you have got electricity department, water department, this department, so many departments, similarly, so big kingdom of God is going on, there are also different departments. But rascals, they do not know, "Why I am getting?" Just like a child does not know how this electricity is coming. He thinks it is coming automatically. Why automatically? Is it coming automatically? You have to pay for it. There is powerhouse, there is connection, so many things. But he does not know. Similarly, all the rascals, they will say: "Oh, sunshine is by nature, automatically. Moonshine, automatically. This is automatically." What do you mean by "automatically"? What thing happens automatically unless there is arrangement? And because there is so nice, good arrangement, it is to be understood there is good government. And as soon as you accept this, you must have to accept necessity of God, without which, arrangement cannot be done.
So we are debted to God. So just like, if you don't pay taxes to the government, the government does not become poor, but your supply will be stopped. You will suffer. Similarly, if you don't accept there is supreme government, the supreme governor . . . the governor is quite sufficient. God is completely munificent, or rich. He will not suffer, but you will suffer. Therefore it is said, te sādhu kṛta-sarvārthāḥ. Just like if you remain cleansed, paying all your taxes, then you are very honest citizens. Similarly, if you become obedient to God and His government, then you are sādhu. Otherwise you are dishonest. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā: sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ (BG 9.30). Api cet su-durācāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk. One who is very much obedient to the laws of God, he is sādhu. Not that changing dress one become sādhu.
So te sādhu kṛta-sarvārthāḥ. They have executed all duties. Kṛta-sarvārthāḥ. Jñātvā ātyantikam ātmanaḥ. We are hankering after happiness, temporary, but we do not know what is ultimate happiness. So they knew what is the ultimate happiness. Ātyantikam. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam (BG 6.21), Bhagavad-gītā. Ātyantikam. The ultimate happiness is not perceived by these gross material senses. The ultimate happiness is appreciated, understood, by transcendental senses. The same senses . . . means now the senses are covered by material infection. So when you purify this material infection, then your senses become pure. And in that pure senses, you can enjoy . . . (indistinct) . . . real happiness. Therefore here it is said, ātyantikam ātmanaḥ manasā dhārayām āsuḥ.
So they knew what is the ātyantikaṁ dhār . . . vaikuṇṭha. Vaikuṇṭha-caraṇāmbujam. Vaikuṇṭha. Vaikuṇṭha means vigata-kuṇṭha. Kuṇṭha means anxiety. And God's another name is Vaikuṇṭha. If you take shelter of the lotus feet of God, Kṛṣṇa, then you become without anxieties. This is the only. Everyone is full of anxiety. Even a bird, even a beast, even a small ant, what to speak of our position. The material world is such, that we must be full of anxieties. That is explained also, asad-grahāt. Because we have accepted something flickering as shelter. If you accept something which is not permanent, which is tiltering . . . in a boat suppose, which is tiltering, at any moment you will be drowned. So you cannot be free from anxiety. But if you accept a strong, very big ship, you are assured that, "I will not be drowned." Similarly, we are accepting this shelter, that shelter, that shelter, that shelter—avoiding the shelter of God. Therefore we are full of anxiety. If you want to become free from anxiety, then here is the prescription, vaikuṇṭha-caraṇāmbujam: take shelters of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
Thank you very much.
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- Mclaren Report reveals the covering up of urine samples of Russian athletes from virtually all sports before and after the Sochi Games.
- The Moscow laboratory operated, for the protection of doped Russian athletes, within a state-dictated failsafe system, described in the report as the 'Disappearing Positive Methodology'.
- Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow laboratory, used a variant of the system ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London.
- WADA calls for Russia ban from all international competition, including Rio Games.
- The IOC promises it "will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated".
The integrity of the Olympics received one of the most devastating blows in its history on Monday after a state-sponsored doping regime was shown to have effectively sabotaged the Sochi 2014 Winter Games and left Russia’s place at Rio 2016 hanging by a thread.
At least 10 national anti-doping organisations – including those in the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada – have already grouped together to request a complete ban on Russian involvement at the Rio Games and the International Olympic Committee is likely to come under increased pressure to take action following the latest in a stream of revelations.
Monday's report, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and conducted by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, confirmed all of the shocking allegations made by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Moscow's Wada-accredited anti-doping laboratory, who spoke out earlier this year over his part in ensuring drugs cheats could prosper at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
FULL STATEMENT FROM WADA
WADA have just released a full statement following the publication of the McLaren report, after Ben Nichols, the Lead Spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency, earlier declared that "there can no longer be presumption of innocence". You can read the full statement here, but the essential information from the statement is listed below:
Accordingly, WADA recommends to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to consider, under their respective Charters, to decline entries, for Rio 2016, of all athletes submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Paralympic Committee. Furthermore, any exceptional entry of a Russian athlete should be considered by the IOC and IPC for participation under a neutral flag and in accordance with very strict criteria.
WADA also recommends that Russian Government officials be denied access to international competitions, including Rio 2016. [2.] The Investigation determined that a high number of Olympic sports, non-Olympic sports and Paralympic sports benefited from the system orchestrated by the Russian Ministry of Sport. The presumption of innocence from Russian athletes in these sports is therefore seriously called into question.
Accordingly, WADA recommends to International Federations (IFs) to consider their responsibilities under the World Anti-Doping Code as far as their Russian National Federations are concerned. (It is noted that a number of IFs have already taken steps under their rules in this regard.)
Further reaction from Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch
UK Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch, has described the publication of the McLaren report as a "wake-up call to the sporting world."
Professor McLaren's report has exposed the extreme lengths some will go to in order to cheat.
This shocking report is a wake-up call to the sporting world and I hope it will act as a catalyst for us to work even harder to protect the integrity of sport and the Olympic movement itself.
I welcome the steps WADA and the IOC are taking to clamp down on doping in sport and I look forward to discussing these issues at the next WADA Foundation Board meeting in November.
More on Mutko
As reported earlier, the McLaren report found that: it was "inconceivable that Minister Mutko was not aware of the doping cover-up scheme".
The WADA investigator also claims that Mutko, who is a member of world football body FIFA's ruling council and chairs the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup being hosted by Russia, 'personally intervened' to cover up a doping case of "at least one foreign [soccer player] in the Russian League."
The report then goes on to say that 11 positive tests by Russian football players were 'made to disappear' in the state-sponsored doping program, which existed from late 2011 to 2015.
A 'mind-blowing level of corruption'
This from the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, who has said in a recently published statement that the McLaren report into the Russian doping scandal confirms a "mind-blowing level of corruption" within Russian sports and government.
Spot what's missing from that short statement? Any call for a full ban of the Russian team from the Rio 2016 Olympics, similar to that what WADA is currently pushing for. Last week, Tygart had said he would campaign for such a punishment if the report was 'as damning as predicted'.
Vitaly Mutko promised that he would walk away from his position as Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth policy if either himself or the Russian Sports Ministry were found to be directly involved in the doping scandal.
'The IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available'
The IOC could take Rio Olympics sanctions as early as Tuesday.
More from Thomas Bach:
The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games.
Therefore, the IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated.
The IPC President Sir Philip Craven has made the following statement following the publication of the McLaren report. The report found that there were 35 ‘disappearing’ positive samples from Paralympic sport between 2012 and 2015.
We are truly shocked, appalled and deeply saddened at the extent of the state sponsored doping programme implemented in Russia ahead of Sochi 2014. The findings of the McLaren report mark a very dark day for sport.
The IPC will now analyse the report’s findings in detail to evaluate what impact they have on the Paralympic Movement and Para Sport.
After an initial review of the report, we note the 35 ‘disappearing’ positive samples from Paralympic sport between 2012 and 2015 and have sent a letter to WADA and the report’s author Richard McLaren seeking further information on these samples. We have also requested urgent clarification from both parties to better establish how the findings implicate the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and Russian Para athletes as the report defines the Sochi Games as the XXII Olympic Winter Games.
Once we have the further details we have requested from both parties, the IPC Governing Board will convene for a telephone conference. The Board will discuss the findings of the report and decide what relevant action needs to be taken to protect clean athletes competing in Paralympic sport. This may include provisional measures and sanctions with regards to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
Earlier today, Vladimir Putin said that any attempt to prevent Russian athletes from travelling to Rio 2016, which is essentially WADA's preferred course of action, would be 'unfair and uncivilized'.
People who have no relation to the violations, why should they suffer for others? It does not fit at all in any frame of civilized behavior.
I hope that we will find some solution here, but it does not mean that we are going to take offense and say that we are against the fight against doping. On the contrary, we will strengthen the fight against doping.
'There can no longer be presumption of innocence'
This from Ben Nichols, the Lead Spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), no less:
WADA:doping scheme across 30 sports mean there can no longer be presumption of innocence.Russian doping control system called into question— Ben Nichols (@WADA_BCNichols) July 18, 2016
Russian Olympic chief reaction
Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov said on Monday he was pleased a World Anti-Doping Agency report into allegations of state-backed cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games had not made recommendations to the International Olympic Committee, TASS news agency reported.
Several anti-doping agencies, including those of the United States and Canada, called on Saturday for a complete ban on Russia competing at this year's Rio Olympics if the report's findings were damning. Reuters.
In the last few minutes, the UK Anti-Doping Chief Executive, Nicole Sapstead, has released this statement:
UKAD recognises the importance of the McLaren Report for international sport. Now is the time for the entire sporting community to come together to find a way forward and ensure that the right processes, legislation and safeguards are in place to protect the rights of all athletes to clean, fair and honest competition.
As an experienced national anti-doping organisation, we have an obligation to help safeguard clean athletes around the globe by working closely with international partners to support the development of robust anti-doping practices in countries where these are weak. Everyone has a responsibility to support this process for the sake of clean and honest athletes.
'Foreign footballer is Russian top flight'
The Mclaren report also claims that: “at least one foreign footballer playing in the Russian League had that benefit of a ‘save’ order (a positive sample replaced by a false negative in the Moscow lab)".
McLaren report finds 11 doping cases in football were 'disappeared' in Russian system from late 2011 to 2015— Graham Dunbar (@gdunbarap) July 18, 2016
This would suggest that the alleged state-sponsored doping campaign extends far beyond the Olympic Games.
And how will Russia react?
Unsurprisingly, the media in Russia had preempted a negative outcome from the findings of the commission, and a number of newspapers this morning ran editorials worrying over the immediate consequences of the report. The report "may have irreversible consequences for Russia for years to come," read sports news website Sport Ekspress, whilst newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets declared that today could be the "darkest" day in the history of the entire Olympic movement.
In equally unsurprising news however, some Russian news outlets rushed to defend the country's respective governing bodies, and slammed the report as western propaganda. 'This is a co-ordinated anti-Russian plot', the popular sports website Championat.ru suggested.
Such a reaction largely mirrors that of Russian officials, who have repeatedly denied claims that athletes were doped. The Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen to have staked his reputation on the Sochi Games, where Russia topped the medal table with 13 golds. They cost the country $50 billion to host, becoming the most expensive in Olympic history.
The UK sports, tourism and heritage minister, Tracey Crouch, tweets:
This chart is taken directly from the damning Mclaren report, and shows the complete range of sports (and not just track and field events) where 'disappearing positive test' results were discovered.
Russian state-sponsored doping sabotaged Sochi Winter Olympics
Grigory Rodchenkov,the former director of Moscow's Wada-accredited anti-doping laboratory, spoke out earlier this year over his part in ensuring drugs cheats could prosper at the Sochi Winter Olympics. His damning allegations have today been confirmed by the Mclaren report, commissioned by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), as integrity of the Olympics received one of the most devastating blows in its history.
Rodchenkov had claimed he was responsible for doping dozens of athletes as part of a government-orchestrated plot where he had orders from the country’s sports ministry to “win at any cost”. He also exposed a detailed process of opening and re-sealing supposedly tamper-proof doping sample containers before removing samples from his laboratory through a concealed hole in a wall at night.
Corroborating Rodchenkov’s allegations, the report stated its three main findings:
“1. The Moscow laboratory operated, for the protection of doped Russian athletes, within a state-dictated failsafe system, described in the report as the Disappearing Positive Methodology.
“2. The Sochi Laboratory operated a unique sample swapping methodology to enable doped Russian athletes to compete at the Games.
“3. The Ministry of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athlete’s analytical results or sample swapping, with the active participation and assistance of the FSB, CSP, and both Moscow and Sochi Laboratories.”
Announcing his findings in Toronto, Canada, McLaren insisted he was “unwaveringly confident in my report.”
He added: “Let me make it clear, Russian athletes in a wide range of disciplines were involved. This is not just about track and field. It covers many sports.”
This latest expose of Russian doping comes the day before 68 of the country’s track and field athletes are due to present their cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a bid to overturn their ban from Rio.
A blanket ban on Russian track and field athletes has been in place since last November and CAS is expected to reach a verdict on whether to uphold or overturn their exile on Thursday.
Speaking ahead of the McLaren report’s findings, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that Russia will not accept any wholesale bans on its sportsmen and women.
“The Kremlin has traditionally categorically opposed the politicisation of sports,” he said.
“The Kremlin has also – and President [Vladimir] Putin has stated this repeatedly – strongly opposed the use of doping and outlined the fight against doping use as a priority.
“At the same time, the Kremlin has traditionally believed that while athletes found guilty of using doping should be punished accordingly, sanctioning innocent athletes who have every right to compete under the flag of their own country is unfair.
“There is a whole range of legal means available to defend the interests of our athletes, and, of course, the Russian side will use these means fully."
The investigation also found that the ‘Disappearing Positive Methodology’ of hiding positive drug tests was in place ahead of a number of major sporting events including the 2013 Athletics World Championships in Moscow and 2015 Swimming World Championships in Kazan.
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The Australian Defence Force (ADF), U.S. Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) and Indonesian National Armed Forces recently completed Exercise Crocodile to enhance trilateral coordinated response to humanitarian crises and provide disaster relief. The annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise was conducted in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the United States Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and the Indonesian Search and Rescue National Agency (BASARNAS). Staged at Robertson Barracks in Darwin, Crocodile Response deployed HADR capability by air and sea to the Gove Peninsular township of Nhulunbuy more than 600km east of Darwin.
Commander Headquarters Northern Command Colonel Marcus Constable, who oversaw the exercise said,” was a tangible demonstration of how Australia, the US and Indonesia would stand together in times of crises. Working with DFAT, BHA & BASARNAS – the lead agencies in the event of a crisis – allows us to conduct planning and coordination for a partnered mission, building and fostering mutual cooperation between our forces and governments for future interoperability. Capability also deployed to Nhulunbuy to conduct HADR-related tasks such as landing zone assessments, water purification, establishing C2 nodes and supporting civilian or non-government agency distribution.”
Lead US planner for the exercise Major Bret Waters said,”The exercise supported the strategic objectives of US forces in the region. The MRF-D deployed significant and self-sufficient capability to a remote and austere part of Arnhem land. We were also able to work with the United States Navy landing ship dock USS Ashland to conduct interoperability rehearsals at sea with ADF and USMC assets, a significant capability which we would look at using in the event of a real-world crisis. At the same time as Crocodile Response, we fielded a warfighting force in Queensland for Exercise Southern Jackaroo alongside our ADF and Japanese Ground Self Defense Force counterparts.”
The Australian Army, US Marines and Indonesian troops act in accordance with COVIDSAFE protocols in the Northern Territory, and all have been subject to strict screening and testing requirements prior to this exercise. The exercise is designed to have only a minor impact on the Nhulunbuy community, with most of the activities taking place inside the compound. Exercise Crocodile Response featured the use of MV-22B Osprey aircraft coming and going from the Nhulunbuy South Oval throughout the training. The Australian Army has been part of the Arnhem Land community for almost 100 years. Exercise Crocodile Response 2022 is important because it will train our forces to deploy together and support people overseas after a crisis like a cyclone. | <urn:uuid:3f2511af-c36b-4cdf-a8a2-2fd781732ac3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://militaryleak.com/2022/05/29/australia-indonesia-and-us-completed-exercise-crocodile-to-tackle-natural-disasters/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.944323 | 569 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Basic Research in Infection Biology
Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens - viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites - that enter and multiply within our bodies or colonize our skin or mucosal surfaces. Pathogens infect their hosts via distinct routes of transmission, for example through inhalation of aerosol droplets, intimate contact with infected hosts, consumption of contaminated food or the bites of disease-transmitting vectors such as mosquitoes or ticks.
Some pathogens invade multiple or particular types of cells in our body and propagate within them, whereas others remain extracellular and thrive for instance in the intestinal tract or in the bloodstream. Equally diverse are the symptoms associated with different kinds of infectious diseases – some elicit acute disease while others cause chronic infections, some take an asymptomatic or mild course yet others have severe or fatal consequences.
Elucidating Pathogen-Specific Biology
Independent of the type or kind of infectious agent, all pathogens evolved remarkable molecular strategies allowing them to successfully infect their hosts, to inhabit specific parts of our bodies, to tolerate or evade our immune defense mechanisms or to secure their transmission from one host to the next. Infection biologists employ a large number of different experimental approaches to elucidate the functional and mechanistic basis of such pathogen- and host-specific biology, and open up new avenues for the development of new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines.
Infection Biology Research Areas at Swiss TPH
We strive towards acquiring new scientific knowledge in the fields of
- pathogen virulence, survival and transmission;
- infection dynamics and pathogenesis;
- innate and adaptive immunity;
- mechanisms and evolution of drug resistance; and
- pathogen diversity, evolution and population structure.
Our researchers and students apply state-of-the-art methodology in the fields of molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, in vitro cell culture, immunology, microbiology, genetics, population biology and bioinformatics.
Infectious Diseases in Focus at Swiss TPH
Our Research Units in the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology conduct cutting-edge basic research on infectious diseases of poverty including
- Malaria (caused by Plasmodium spp.),
- Tuberculosis (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis),
- Buruli ulcer (caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) and
- Sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis (caused by Trypanosoma brucei).
Malaria and tuberculosis are two of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide causing hundreds of millions of clinical cases each year. Buruli ulcer and African trypanosmiasis are so-called neglected tropical diseases that affect the poorest communities.
Malaria is caused by unicellular parasites of the genus Plasmodium that are transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. P. falciparum is accountable for the majority of severe and fatal malaria cases. P. falciparum blood stage parasites are our main study objects. We explore various crucial aspects of the biology of these intracellular parasites such as red blood cell invasion and remodeling pathways, antigenic variation or sexual differentiation. We are furthermore interested in understanding anti-parasite immunity in malaria pre-exposed populations and the mode-of-action of select anti-malarial drugs.
Human African Trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness) is caused by the flagellated unicellular parasites of the species Trypanosoma brucei, which are transmitted via tsetse flies in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In humans, T. brucei multiplies extracellularly in the blood stream and lymphatic system, known as the first stage of the infection. The second stage of the infection, initiated by parasites crossing the blood-brain barrier, causes severe neurological complications and is fatal if untreated. We investigate the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in T. brucei combining genetic and bioinformatic approaches. | <urn:uuid:a5112dfc-525d-48af-8664-0aea84ee7200> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.swisstph.ch/en/research/basic-research-in-infection-biology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.884314 | 831 | 3.125 | 3 |
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