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In today’s episode, we are going to be talking about the top 11 mistakes to avoid in music production.
Over the years the producer’s role has changed dramatically. There was a time when a music producer was essentially the person that put the whole thing together. The “production” if you like but not the production you see now, the classic production of hiring the studio, getting the best musicians, getting the arrangers to write string arrangements or parts for the musicians, hiring the engineer. The point is, that’s what the job of the producer was, it was overseeing everything.
These days the job of a music producer is so vast that it covers pretty much everything. As a producer, you can be expected to also be the engineer, mixer, songwriter, therapist, quite often the record label, co-promoter, social media manager and all kinds of fun or less than fun things.
Luckily for many of us, those are the kinds of things we love to do and we love to be challenged. However, that does create a lot of grey areas and it’s in these grey areas that things can fall apart horribly.
So let’s talk about the top 11 mistakes to avoid as a music producer.
1) Not understanding the artist’s vision.
This is the most important one for me. It is really important as a music producer to understand the vision of the artist. I know that sounds really obvious but you need to scrape the surface.
2) Not being honest with the artist.
You need to be honest with the artist if they are playing references with huge open sounding vocals over a single acoustic instrument. But they want death metal or a huge EDM track, You need to say to them “it’s not going to be possible to have an open sounding vocal in a dense track.” You have to be honest with the artist you can’t say yes just to get the gig.
3) Don’t be tactful, know how to communicate.
This is huge, as an engineer, I’ve been in so many rooms where I’ve watched the producer and the artist, singer, guitar player get into fights. I’ve been in situations where I have been less than tactful and they have always backfired.
I have been doing this for years now and I have learned to communicate. The way to do it is to find what you do love about something and bring that to the floor because you want to empower the artist.
4) Not being responsible and reliable.
When someone hires you and pays you money, it may not be the biggest sum in the world but for an artist, they may have saved for months to be able to go into a studio and work with you.
If you are showing up after them, not giving them the time and sitting on your computer playing games or facebook, that doesn’t work. This is someone’s whole life, their art, their career and they’re putting it in your hands. They’re paying you for your time so give them your attention.
5) Always having an opinion.
One of the things I have learned over the years is that a producer doesn’t always have to tell the artist that something could be better or different. An amazing skill set is to only step in when necessary; you don’t always need to have something to say.
6) Releasing the song before being paid.
This is tough and difficult for many people to understand, quite often we end up creating great relationships with artists. But you have to remember it is still a business.
If you’re making a recording and let’s say its $2000, for the recording. I highly recommend taking $1000 upfront. Then make an agreement that you will receive your $1000 backend when you finish the recording. Do not send the final mixes until you get paid the back end.
7) Working without a contract in place
This is a big deal because not everybody has money for legal requirements. When I started mixing I paid a lawyer as much as I could afford to do a one-page agreement that had blank spaces for basic deal points, the amount they owed me, the number of songs, and the front and backend payments. That way the terms were always agreed to upfront.
8) Burning Bridges
I have made this mistake in the past and would get worked up with everything. All I cared about was the music that I was making, I was so massively and emotionally invested in it. If I didn’t get my proper credit and everything that I felt like I deserved then I would get angry.
The biggest lesson that I ever learned was that you need to keep really strong relationships alive. Sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and it’s quite often when you are just starting out. Understand that you need to keep these relationships.
9) Altering the term of the agreement after recording.
In the past, I have been hired to engineer albums, however, there are quite often ulterior motives. For example, if there is a younger less experienced producer on the project and they have gotten themselves into a position to be the producer on the project.
I often get hired for these roles because I know how to produce, play multiple instruments, write songs and know how to communicate with singers. So I’m hired as an engineer with the expectations that I’ll do a lot more than just engineer.
I’m aware of that and so if I’m hired as an engineer I know that going in. If I decide to then go in and produce the tracks and be involved with the arrangement. I cannot complain halfway through the record that I’m doing more than I’m being credited for. I knew from the beginning what I would be credited for.
10) Using samples of other works without clearing it first.
If you’re going to use other people’s music other than your own, wherever it’s coming from, you need to make sure it’s cleared and credited; Both of those things have to be done.
That person or people who created the music are inspiring you to write new music; they are cowriters of your song. Make sure you clear it, figure out the right percentage and do everything above board because if not it will come back to bite you pretty badly.
11) Believing you have to make everything perfect.
This is a double whammy, this is like sitting there and gridding everything so it is completely and utterly perfectly sample-accurate. Tuning everything so that there are no rough edges.
It is really easy to get obsessed with small imperfections that you may hear in solo. You’ll sit there and start removing some slightly aggressive low end that you can’t hear in the track and you end up with a track that has no energy or excitement.
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KAYTE YOUNG: From WFIU in Bloomington Indiana, I’m Kayte Young, and this is earth eats.
LAURA SCHEPER: Then we get into questions of--okay, based on life experience, based on the thoughts that have surfaced here for everybody, what, if anything, are you wondering? What kind of questions come to mind
On this week’s show we talk with Laura Scheper and Kayleigh Dance about pairing food with art for socially distanced cultural events. We visit a teaching kitchen featuring Japanese food and talk with the chef and owner, Mori Wilhite. And Josephine McRobbie talks with the owners of a sweets shop about how they stay organized. And we catch part two of Harvest Public Media’s series on big ag companies influencing university research. That’s all just ahead--stay with us.
Thank you for listening to Earth eats. I'm Kayte young. Renee Reed is back this week with food and farming updates. Hello Renee.
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JONATHAN AHL: Rural counties lost fewer jobs during the pandemic, and recovered faster than their urban counterparts. Harvest Public Media’s Jonathan Ahl reports on the findings of a study by the U-S Department of Agriculture. Unemployment in rural areas dropped steadily for 10 years until COVID-19 hit. Elizabeth Dobbs is an agricultural economist with the USDA. She says after a spike in April 2020, rural jobless rates went down through the summer of 2021.
ELIZABETH DOBIS: These rates are still higher than their pre pandemic values, but they demonstrate greater recovery in rural areas than in urban areas.
JONATHAN AHL: Dobis says rural counties with persistent poverty had an unemployment rate of 6.7% in July and the remaining rural counties were at 4.7%. Both of those were more than a point better than their urban counterparts. Jonathan Ahl, Harvest Public Media.
RENEE REED: The U.S. is on track to admit more agricultural guest workers than ever before, according to the Department of Labor. Most Midwestern states are on a similar trajectory. The influx comes as employers who hire through the H-2A visa program are complaining that it’s overly burdensome and expensive. Alexandra Sossa (SO-suh) is the executive director of the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project based in Illinois. She says those employers would be hard pressed to find labor locally.
ALEXANDRA SOSSA: It’s hard to find workers here, who are already in the United States, willing to do the work. Because the work is not easy work.
RENEE REED: Sossa says the rise in the number of ag workers could be due to perceptions that the Biden administration is more welcoming to immigrants, or the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines.
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For Bloomington expats Jason and Nicole Evans Groth who started the Raleigh-based bakery and coffee market in 2016 the key to success is only partially about baking tasty treats. The duo who both have a background in information science rely on their organizational and user experience skills to help the shop thrive.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: I'm standing with Nicole Evans Groth in her sweet shop Anisette as she makes her way through rows in a Google spreadsheet.
NICOLE GROTH: Chocolate chip cookies and cantuccini which is basically the Florentine version of Biscotti, these sort of like...
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: She's running me through a production schedule for what she'll be prepping and baking throughout the week. Another spreadsheet serves as a kind of Rolodex of treat recipes. Nicole estimates that she's developed over 84 recipes over the five years that she's owned her store.
NICOLE GROTH: But the nice thing about that is always having these things, these numbers in front of me, so I don't have to memorize it. Which I can spend my brain time doing much more interesting things then just memorizing.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: For Nicole and her co-owner and spouse Jason, it's this high degree of organization and control that allows them to remain creative and confident in their work. And Nicole who is a musician as well as a baker has a metaphor for this-
NICOLE GROTH: Every once in a while I'll measure something and I'll just happen the precise amount on the first try, and I imagine that that's what it feels like execute a guitar solo with your eyes closed.
(Groovy electric guitar)
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Anisette is something of a Hoosier home away from home for me. I met Nicole and Jason many years ago in Bloomington Indiana. We all moved to North Carolina around the same time when Jason and I both got jobs at NC State. Nicole had master's degrees in linguistics and information science from IU and she'd been teaching in the Kelley School of Business.
NICOLE GROTH: K201 Computer and business teaching fresh-faced freshmen and sophomores spreadsheets and databases and all that good stuff. And so I was doing all that...
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: The move to the south east in 2013 marked a new opportunity for Jason but also Nicole who love to cook, and bake, and talk about food. She was looking for a career change.
NICOLE GROTH: And so he took that job, we moved here to Raleigh. And I always kind of knew that there was some sort of food career that's going to happen eventually. Gosh, how do I describe this? I like to gamble. So I have no problem sort of foraging ahead and hoping for the best.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Soon after arriving in Raleigh, Nicole scored a job as confectioner at Videri, a local chocolate factory and store. At that time she didn't exactly have a resume full of restaurant or hospitality experience.
NICOLE GROTH: My very first job as a 15 year old was at Long John Silver's. Just a little jobs like that throughout college and high school. I did some sort of private catering for while, catering friend's parties, but other than that no. It was more than just learning stuff on my own at home.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: I asked her how she got that job.
NICOLE GROTH: Hm... charm? I guess. I don't know, it's probably obvious that I pay really good attention to food.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Nicole thrived at Videri Chocolate Factory. In 2015 her recipe for a strawberry anise ganache even won a coveted Good Food Award for the southeast. When she decided to branch out with her husband and start her own shop she was paying tribute to this particular chocolate.
NICOLE GROTH: So Anisette itself is like a category of liqueurs flavored with anise that you find in places like Italy and Turkey. And you see those flavors used in sweets a lot there. And those places were absolutely inspirations for the kinds of items that were making here.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: As Anisette prepared to open in 2016, Jason used skills that he'd acquired as a librarian to create systems and workflows for the store. He made Google forms and spreadsheets for opening and closing procedures, inventory tracking, and even coffee extraction math. Nicole also found that her previous career skills were serving her well.
NICOLE GROTH: I'm kind of doing the information science and linguistics type work, that kind of thinking, is actually really helpful. I think in terms of its be able to produce food in a way that you're going to sell a lot, to a lot of people, there's a lot of organization that goes behind that. And so I think having the creative desire and drive is one thing but if you can't be organized and figure out how to get that stuff out, you're going to have a hard time.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: It's all complex. But Nicole's core desire for the shop has always been simple.
NICOLE GROTH: I want people to have beautiful food that is not in any way intimidating. I want you to come here and feel welcome, maybe try something. I don't think that anything that we're doing here is particularly innovative or weird, but we're at times using flavors that maybe aren't traditionally found in an American bakery in cakes or pies or whatever, and maybe reimagining something that traditionally from an American Bakery might taste purely like sugar and fluff, and making it actually taste like something, and presenting that in a way that they don’t feel intimidated.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: I visited Nicole at Anisette recently where we immediately launched into what right now feels like a mandatory catch up conversation, by which I mean intensely processing your experiences of the pandemic.
NICOLE GROTH: Like stuff was happening around us and we were just moving.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE [CONVERSING WITH NICOLE]: Cause you know I was like...
NICOLE GROTH: Follow the rules and make sure you're wearing masks.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE [CONVERSING WITH NICOLE]: I know what you mean about not remembering March, because I...
NICOLE GROTH: Totally, and it was just one thing after the next, after the next.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE [NARRATING] : After all the work to move to a new state, train in a new field, and open a business, Jason and Nicole had settled into a period of stability at Anisette. They were hosting concerts and DJ sets on the back patio and had even opened a second location. But in March of 2020 there were several small signs that things were changing.
NICOLE GROTH: It seems like such a naive story now but the first thing that happened earlier in that week is that we took away all of the like creamers and such that people would put in their coffee themselves. And I think moved all of the seating outside and then eventually we thought, "Should we even have people sit outside?" So we took all the seating away. Also we got so busy.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Nicole's ability to gamble, to forge ahead, to be organized, to be creative these were all immediately put to a new test.
NICOLE GROTH: We suddenly had to figure out how... I think it was maybe a week of people calling in place to place their order. I don't know how we did that. We think, all of us just sort of flipped a switch and we became robots. I don't know, I don't even really remember it frankly. But yeah, we were so busy and then having to figure out how to get everything now online, which of course we have information science backgrounds so that was very helpful. I can't imagine how people who don't have that background did this and switched to an online system.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Over time and Anisette has adapted to the reality of covid with all pickups taking place in their front parking lot. They've been lucky to make it through the worst periods of uncertainty.
NICOLE GROTH: The average sales are considerably higher and we speculate that that has to do with the fact that you can so take your time ordering, you can see everything online.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: The two owners used to spend a lot of time chatting with customers in the store about the day's menu or maybe just a Donna Summer record that was playing through the speakers. An outdoor pick up model is not conducive to that same kind of lingering. And so they've recreated the vibe online for the time being with Jason producing weekly and very campy menu videos.
JASON GROTH: Pineapple glaze, decadent, delicious, and vegan. Apple pie is local apples, a flavorful and sweet crumble and a perfect flaky crust. A delicious take on the classic! Our quiche this week is potato and goat cheese. Order now and we'll see you later this week.
JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE: Now as restrictions loosen and Anisette staff is fully vaccinated they've been able to start looking forward in a meaningful way, instead of just reacting and problem-solving. And once the patio reopens and they can host events again Nicole is looking forward to leaving crisis-management mode and getting back to her core mission for Anisette.
NICOLE GROTH: It's like we're having a giant dinner party in months of welcoming people in, that's the idea. Making all of these things welcoming and inviting.
KAYTE YOUNG: That story comes to us from producer Josephine McRobbie. Find more on our website, eartheats.org.
LAURA SCHEPER: I think for me what I didn't expect was actually how many different perspectives there were and how differently people look at art.
KAYTE YOUNG: The pandemic has changed the way many of us experience education, dining, socializing, and culture more broadly, including the visual arts. Here it in Indiana University in the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Laura Scheper had to find new ways to engage the public with the Museum's collection.
LAURA SCHEPER: I'm Laura Scheper, my pronouns are she and her. I serve as the public experiences manager at the Eskenazi Museum of Art located on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
KAYTE YOUNG: Her role is to design experiences that facilitate connection between the artworks and the people visiting the museum. Without visitors in the physical space at the museum, Laura faced a challenging situation. She found inspiration in an informal Zoom call between her family, and another family - friends of hers for, where they cook together for a socially distanced culinary experience. It was so much fun that she thought it might make for an engaging experience with the museum.
She enlisted the support of a local foodie and social media influencer Kayleigh Dance.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: Hi my name is Kayleigh Dance, I am a social media specialist at Indiana University and I'm also a food influencer in the Bloomington community.
KAYTE YOUNG: Together they crafted a series of art and food pairings for monthly zoom sessions throughout the semester. For each session they invited someone from the food world to identify an object from the Museum's collection, something they felt drawn from a number of options that Laura shared with them digitally. Next they would think of a food pairing for the object and would join the food and art pairing Zoom session for a discussion. Participants could see the artwork ahead of time and consider their own food pairings and possibly even prepare them to enjoy during the session.
Laura's expertise is in guiding people towards engaging with art.
LAURA SCHEPER: The way it works is that we start with what we call a visual menu, and that menu is in artwork. Typically in most episodes will look a single artwork together, and then I facilitate conversation. So with that were asking people to look closely at the artwork, and we start by asking what do you see? And we ask people to describe with as much vivid detail as they can what we're looking at together.
So at that point we're not talking about memories, or other things. We're just strictly noticing the details of what we can see. And with any of these conversations the more people who are contributing, the more perspectives, we each notice different things. Kayleigh's eye might be drawn to something than my eye is drawn to. And the more people who are contributing we're going to pick out different details and that's going to lead us to a richer conversation and ideas in to in terms of food pairing.
After we talk about what we see, the next question that I typically ask is based on your own life experience, based on what you can see in this image here, what kind of thoughts come to mind? What are you thinking?
Once we talk about some of the thoughts, and what we're thinking we're looking at the image, then we can enter a question of "Okay, based on life experience, based on the thoughts that have surfaced for everybody, what, if anything, are you wondering? What kind of questions come to mind?"
And from there that's a natural lead into what kinds of food or beverage might pair with this particular artwork based on all these ideas that emerged, and people's curiosities, you start wondering one thing leads to another.
There's usually by then a vibe or a sense of feelings or different things that might be thoughts and so forth, and then we'll listen to ideas from the community from participants who were at the table, and then we'll take turns, Kaleigh and myself, and a featured guest, revealing specifically what did each of us choose to pair with this particular artwork.
KAYTE YOUNG: One of the things that appeal to me about the series is that there are no wrong answers when it comes to pairing food with art.
LAURA SCHEPER: I hope that everybody knows there's no right answers, cause I'm not sure if that's true. Honestly I really hope that, and I try hard to communicate that, it would be easy to think "Oh, I don't know like I'm not a chef. I don't know how to fancily do a food for an artwork" Or maybe you have to replicate the artwork and paint it.
KAYTE YOUNG: Not a chance!
LAURA SCHEPER: I hope that people realize that there's no right answer and the beauty of it is just expressing and finding a way to connect with it in your own life. And when I reached out recently to Mori she said, "Oh yes but I could use it but there's no connection to food."
I was like, "Well there doesn't have to be, we're gonna add the connection to food." (chuckles)
KAYLEIGH DANCE: I think for me what I didn't expect was actually how many different perspectives there were, and how differently people look at art. The individuality aspect of it is so cool because people do have different life experiences even if there are common denominators between two people, no two people are the exact same. So for me when I'm sitting here listening to other people share their stories, share their experiences, and share their thoughts on these pieces, it's really cool because in a way I'm getting to know this single person. And for me it's been really important to amplify my connection with other people because again we are in a pandemic. I can't go see everybody all the time. And one thing that I truly miss is going out and getting dinner or brunch with my friends.
So by doing this series that's essentially what I'm doing. Everybody who logs on whether it's 20 people are 40 people, they're all my friends at that point. We're getting to know each other we're connecting over zoom. And it's again just a reminder that basic human connection is just something that's so important. And I really feel like today we're taking advantage of all that we can in order to keep that connection.
LAURA SCHEPER: We think it's connected on a level beyond what I expected in terms of the feedback and the messages that I get, that people are just really appreciating right now the opportunity to do that.
KAYTE YOUNG: Food can serve as a familiar entry point for people who may not be used to talking about art.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: A lot of people don't have experience with art, and I was actually one of those people before Laura approached me. Of course I've been to museums, and I've seen art before, but I just kind of had a blind eye to it. I would see these art pieces and I would be like, "Wow that's really pretty." But what am I supposed to be feeling? What am I supposed to be doing? What am I supposed to be thinking? And I had no idea that it was more of this personal connection. It's more of, well what do you see? What do you think?
That kind of opened up my eyes to the art world. Now I walk into museums and I'm like, "Oh let's stop, I really want to stare at the details of this." And I always start asking questions with my friends now. I'm like, "What do you think like the artist was thinking when they painted this color instead of something else?" And it's so cool because it's just like I have this new lens now. And again it is thanks to you so I'm very thankful that you're introduced to me.
LAURA SCHEPER: Food is universal. We have all experience with food. It can feel like a safe entry point or something familiar, it may be an easy way to start talking about it. I think a great example would be one of the earlier artworks we looked at with executive chef David Talent. It's a painting of a forest stream, and as he talked about that and described what he saw, he had memories of walking across campus in the fall. And for me I was thinking picnics and other things, but for him thinking through the fall and the crunchiness the leaves, and he talked about for him but there was a seasonality to butternut squash in the local farmers asking him, "David are you ready to start cooking?" And they've got the squash and it's coming out earlier than he is ready for. He's not ready for the winter, and that change. And he said, "Not until leaves are down" that he starts to buy this and use this.
So he's bringing a really interesting personal connection just by looking at that image and starting to describe the leaves on the ground and what's he's seeing, and the trees and the change of seasons.
KAYTE YOUNG: I asked if they could think of any examples of what a guest chef chose as their pairing.
LAURA SCHEPER: Our featured guest was Candice Boyd Wiley of Food Love Talk, she is based in Indianapolis. The artwork she selected was titled "A study for support" There's actually a mural in Cleveland that this artist had made so the painting that we have us a watercolor painting the way the artist was preparing to make the mural. It is by the artist Darrius Stewart. It is a watercolor on a white piece of paper. Most of the painting is in the left half of the image, it's vertically oriented. You can see a woman with slightly darker skin and dark hair, and she is looking downward and gazing downward at a young boy of dark skin. He's got very short hair. He's only visible I would say from the neck up. Does that sound right?
KAYLEIGH DANCE: Yeah.
LAURA SCHEPER: They are reaching toward each other. Their eyes are connected. Lovely work.
So I think when we started to look at it together and describe, people were starting to see that connection between the adult female and the child. And we're thinking about the feelings of connection, and safety, and belonging, and uplifting. We wondered what was on their minds? What with what conversation was happening? What was she saying to him?
And then Candace paired it with several foods, it was actually more than one, which was a beautiful thing that evoked those feelings of connection. I think she had her braised collard greens, I should've looked at my notes before going in.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: She had cornbread too.
LAURA SCHEPER: She had cornbread, yes. And she had a cabbage with Johnny cakes, it was fantastic. There are several recipes I want to go back and look at again.
KAYTE YOUNG: I asked Kayleigh what she had paired with the artwork.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: I ended up pairing it with this southern style country potato chowder, which is something that my mom used to make for me every time I was sick. And it just reminded me like the mix between the art and the cold weather outside. I wanted to go home so the bad. So I made this chowder kind of just in her name essentially. And for each episode I do take photos of all the food that I had. So the image that I had posted was the bowl of soup, with a little Polaroid of me and my mom when I was younger almost kind of a little younger than the boy in the art piece. But I also had a little handwritten note of the most recent card that she had sent me. So it was very sentimental. But yes I did have a pairing.
KAYTE YOUNG: Sometimes the featured guests prepare their food pairing during the session. Mori Willhite of Katsumi's teaching kitchen at selected in ornate ceramic piece of stacked circular boxes has her art object. Then she taught a cooking lesson.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: She had made a Bento Box. She taught us how to make sushi actually on the episode. Such a cool experience! I wrote down her rice recipe almost immediately. I am so excited, and I'm so determined to make my own sushi roll one day.
KAYTE YOUNG: We'll be talking with Mori Willhite later in the episode. Even though meeting as a group for an art and food pairing workshop may still remain out of reach, the museum is now open to visitors and you might have a chance to see some of the artwork in person.
KAYLEIGH DANCE: I do visit the art museum to see the art works in real live and I get surprised every time. So one of the artworks that we had seen it was so much smaller than what I had expected. It was really like this big.
LAURA SCHEPER: The base was like this!
KAYLEIGH DANCE: And it's so tiny but when I was looking at it I'd imagined it to be this giant thing. And so when I went to the museum it was like a little scavenger hunt. I got to see some really cool art along the way while I was trying to find this art piece.
LAURA SCHEPER: That's a great point, I think seen that in person I feel the same way as you. It was smaller than I expected on that particular, it's a Japanese face. I remember you paired it with mochi, and I thought that was a brilliant! Like not only the colors in it, and the flavors inside, but even that roundness in the size. I thought brilliant!
KAYLEIGH DANCE: I had no idea. I didn't realize it was that small so when I saw it afterwards, I was like, "Oh, I hit that on the head."
LAURA SCHEPER: Yes. And that one we think it could be used for as a vase in a Japanese tea ceremony, so I went over to Cup and Kettle and got a tea to go with it. I believe it was an orange blossom tea based on some of the coloring in it. And then Eric Schedler from Muddy Fork Bakery paired it with a croissant with this particular technique where different types of clay are layered together in a very intricate way. So he likened it to the way a croissant is layered with layers of dough, there's a lot of similarities there. Again, just very interesting directions.
KAYTE YOUNG [INTERVIEWING]: Yeah so he's getting into like the structure of how something is made. And Dave Talent was giving in to what are the associations of the season. And that's really interesting. And Mori was talking about how she might use this or someone in her family might use this object, so that is a lot of really interesting connections. Maybe you can't visit the drawing in person, but maybe you could go looking for that mural.
LAURA SCHEPER: Sure.
KAYTE YOUNG [INTERVIEWING]: Maybe that's something you'll get to experience in person, and you would know to look for it, and you might get to actually see it.
LAURA SCHEPER: Sure, and then you might actually have new connections to it having been in that conversation together with everybody, the memories might mean something different than if you had not had that conversation with a guy on the street.
KAYTE YOUNG: Well thank you both so much you guys, I had you over here a little longer than expected.
LAURA SCHEPER: Thank you and thank you for asking and the opportunity to have this conversation today.
KAYTE YOUNG: Today our guests were Laura Scheper and Kayleigh Dance with the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Museum of art at Indiana University. Find more about their work at EarthEats.org. I'm Kayte Young and you're listening to Earth Eats. Stay tuned for a conversation and recipe with Mori Willhite of Katsumi's teaching kitchen.
Kayte Young here, you're listening to Earth Eats. One of the featured guests for the Eskenazi museum's food and art pairings was Mori Wilhite.
MORI WILLHITE: My name is Mori Wilhite. I am the owner operator of Katsumi's Teaching Kitchen.
KAYTE YOUNG: Mori has been running the teaching kitchen for about six years but recently moved her business into a storefront on Main Street in downtown Beech Grove, on the outskirts of Indianapolis. Mori describes herself as a snob when it comes to Japanese food. She said she gets that from her mother.
MORI WILLHITE: Not only my mom, my mom is a snob because my grandparents were. One of the earliest earliest memories I have a cooking is what I was like five or six in Japan, and I was helping my Japanese grandmother cook. And so whenever I get sad lonely depressed as I got older I always start cooking Japanese food and just makes me feel happier.
KAYTE YOUNG: Do you remember what she was making?
MORI WILLHITE: She was busy making whatever dinner it was, but she would have me wear the oversized Japanese apron, and the cut up something very badly, and then made sure everyone knew, "Oh Mori helped today, she cut the green onions!" stuff like that. So it's just food for I think not only me but everybody. If you have good memories with your family through cooking and all that stuff in the kitchen, that's what it represents most to me.
So I was born in '63 and we were in Japan for a little bit in the late 60's and back then sushi was only eating for special occasions, not as frequently as it does now. So for me sushi is like, "Oh my, something good happened." But now it's everywhere.
Then plus my dad, he's American someone, so he's a Polynesian too. So I've been eating Japanese style food and raw fish since I can remember.
We moved back to the states, Dad was in the Marine Corps. And Mom, we were in San Diego, you couldn't take the Japanese out of the girl. So Mom start cooking real Japanese food. And her parents, my grandparents, were sending in monthly Japanese rice and soy sauce and seaweed because there's nothing adequate in San Diego. So we ate like that.
I learned quickly that just because it's a Japanese restaurant it doesn't mean you're going to get what you got at home. And so that's why my sister and I, we didn't formally study cooking of course, but our taste buds were very refined. And as we grow up, as you grow up, you eventually have to leave home. That's when I really started learning how to make Japanese food because unless I learn how to make rice I couldn't wait till Thanksgiving or Christmas when I came back. I mean it's just no way I was going to give it up.
When I went to college of course I made friends with Japanese students, and we did cookouts there and I would pick up something here and there. What's even funnier is I was in the Army, and as soon as I settled somewhere, I'd have my mom send for my rice cooker. She sent it to me! (chuckles) I had my rice cooker with me in the barracks and I made Japanese food because I can't live without it. And you get bored, so you start expanding your menu.
KAYTE YOUNG: She describes herself as more of a teacher than a chef. She has a background as a Japanese language instructor, but she's found that sharing food is a fun way to connect with others around Japanese culture.
MORI WILLHITE: Everyone's happy around food. Everyone's even happier around good food.
KAYTE YOUNG: And running her own cooking school allowed her the flexibility she needed when she was caring for her elderly mother and her child with special needs. She started with what she knew from her family, and then dove in the research in Japanese Cuisine to fill in the gaps.
MORI WILLHITE: Cause people, when they ask you questions you better know the answer type-thing. So yeah a lot of it, thank god my mom was a food snob, because a lot of the stuff, especially here in the U.S., especially here in Indiana, she would tell me how she would get some of her things.
So one time we're having a sushi at my mom's house and then you know that tin container I have to put the seaweed in, so I picked up my mom's, I opened it. And the seaweed looked molded to me. And my mom's all typed out, "Oh my gosh she's keeping the molded stuff." I go, "Mom you should throw this out, it's probably bad."
And she goes, "No, you don't understand." and finally she confessed back to traditional Chinese medicine, when you ingest gold it's good for you joints. So my mom, I knew she had gold dusted green tea, and gold dusted salt, my mom had gold dusted seaweed. "Mom what the, what is this?" Well, she didn't want to share, because it's gold. God forbid she share it with her first born or something, she shared with her grandson. She wouldn't share... I go, "Mom I don't have to eat this but okay thanks for telling me." It's just totally hilarious in retrospect that she's hiding her gold stuff. Most people invest it, but my mom's eating this stuff so.
KAYTE YOUNG: Her mom's insistence on high-end Japanese ingredients did come in handy when Mori started her teaching kitchen. She knew where to get all the supplies. In her classes Mori takes the time to talk about specific ingredients and where to find them locally. And she goes over the different grades of rice and why it's worth paying a bit more for the good stuff, without going overboard as her mom sometimes did. Mori tells the story of her mom once paying $75 for a bag of the new crop of her favorite rice.
MORI WILLHITE: You couldn't wait a week mother? That sort of thing, because she just misses how, I understand and I go, "Next time you buy something like that don't tell me. I don't want to know."
KAYTE YOUNG: Mori's food and art pairing with the Eskenazi Museum of Art took place on a Saturday afternoon in January. The artwork she chose was a round stacked porcelain lunchbox, lavishly decorated with intricate patterns in shades of orange, and red, and blue. Laura Scheper and Kayleigh Dance lead the discussion of the artwork and guided participants to spend time looking at photos of the piece, and to share thoughts about associations they made. Mori talked about her first impressions of the piece.
MORI WILLHITE: What I like about this five tier Bento, it makes you anxious that the foods gonna be, when it's the outside and the containers are that pretty, what is the food gonna be like?
KAYTE YOUNG: Other participants talked about what the piece brought up for them, questions they had, and they speculated on whether the piece was decorative or something that was actually used for food.
Laura shared information about the history of the piece, where it came from and the type of porcelain that was used. Mori talked about the symbolism of the turtle and the crane figure she noticed on the top of the domed lid of the box. And she wondered if it might have been intended as a wedding gift.
MORI WILLHITE: Symbolically in Japan, when you go to a Japanese wedding, a tradition that they have is a crane as a present, because the cranes are monogamous. They mate with the same partner for life. And also there's a turtle on the bottom. Turtles represent 10,000 years of continuation or longevity. So that's why I brought up the wedding and hopefully you have a very stable monogamous relationship, for 10,000 or whatever. That's why I brought it up.
KAYTE YOUNG: Then Laura shared some background information on bento.
LAURA SCHEPER: So a Bento itself is a takeout or a home packed meal of Japanese origin. Though it's also used in other countries as well. So a bento box is a box or a container for that meal. They can range from a massed produced disposable container, to lacquerware, so in this case we're looking at porcelain. I think one thing Kayleigh asked is the right question, about when we might actually use this? And I think maybe for a very eloquent occasion.
Just a bit more on bento, for context, in Japan bento are readily available as takeout in a lot of different places, like a convenience store, a treat shop, a train station, or [inaudible] but it's not just for takeout meals. Japanese meal makers and others put time and energy to carefully prepare lunch boxes for their spouse, or their kids, or themselves.
KAYTE YOUNG: The discussion moved to what foods people had paired with the art object. Laura talked about a sesame ginger tofu dish. Kaylee mentioned some Japanese sodas she found at b-town International Market. And Mori said that she had chosen sushi.
MORI WILLHITE: The sushi has colorful, vibrant colors, which would set off the vibrancy of the food as well.
KAYTE YOUNG: After the food pairing discussion, Mori lead the participants through instructions for making a California roll. She talked about the importance of rice in sushi making. Mori makes the point in her sushi instruction of breaking down the origins of the word Sushi.
MORI WILLHITE: That's where the word sushi comes from. "Su" is vinegar, and "meshi" is rice. So it's supposed to be about the vinegared rice.
KAYTE YOUNG: This was a revelation to me. I always thought that sushi was all about the raw fish. But it makes sense to me. I've enjoyed plenty of sushi rolls with no seafood at all, with avocado, cucumber, or even asparagus in the center of that cylinder of sticky white rise cloaked in a sheet of shiny nori. My enjoyment of sushi has so often been about the elegant marriage of all of the flavors and textures. Dipping each piece in soy sauce, topping it with a dab of Wasabi, a sliver of pickled ginger. I always feel so awake and alive after eating sushi. And the few times I have not enjoyed Sushi, I will say it was the rice that ruined it.
If you've ever been fooled into thinking a tray of Supermarket Sushi might be a good idea, you know how disappointing it is to bite into that cold and crumbly rice. So it makes sense to me that Mori starts her instruction with rice. It's at the heart of making good sushi.
Mori recommends that her students take photos of the rice bags and other ingredient packaging in her class as a reference for when they go to the international market. They'll know what they're looking for.
MORI WILLHITE: Grades, all of this, the premium short-grain, super premium, it's all about the rice for sushi. The high-quality wise will make a difference as far, there is actually taste at this level. When you choose a rice, the more you choose, there's a sweetness to it. But more aside from the taste is that stickiness. You want your sushi rice to be just sticky enough so when you mold it, it will hold it's shape.
KAYTE YOUNG: Mori walked participants through an abbreviated set of instructions and demonstrated the assembly of the California roll. Then she placed her cut Sushi circles within the context of a Bento Box Meal that she had put together before the session. It was a lovely display of edible art.
When I had the chance weeks after the food and art pairing event to taste sushi that Mori had made after hearing about her careful selection and preparation of the rice, I was convinced good rice makes all the difference.
Visiting with Mori in her Beech Grove teaching kitchen, I was struck by her generosity. She readily reveals all of her secrets to making the perfect sushi rice, how to build umami flavors for a simple miso soup.
MORI WILLHITE: Get that umami flavor out and then I'll strain it in a second.
KAYTE YOUNG: After building a broth base called dashi by slow simmering water, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried Anchovies, and kombu - which is a type of seaweed, Mori is now adding the Bonito flakes. They're made from dried smoked fish that's been shaved into very thin flakes.
MORI WILLHITE: Strain it all out because you just want the good juices and everything.
KAYTE YOUNG [INTERVIEWING]: So the Bonito flakes weren't in there very long.
MORI WILLHITE: Uh-uh. They're very thin. You see that apple juice coloring? That's the dashi. This is the miso paste I use. You want to make sure that the miso paste dissolves properly. In the ladle I put some miso paste and I'm using my chopsticks to break it up, dissolve it better.
KAYTE YOUNG [INTERVIEWING]: So you added some of the broth to help.
MORI WILLHITE: Correct. It'll help it to dissolve quicker and better. I'm just adding. As I add some, some of the miso paste already goes into. So this will just make it more.
KAYTE YOUNG: Each of these ingredients--The mIso, kombu, shitake, bonito flakes, anchovy--they're all working together to build that fifth taste we refer to as umami. It's a deep and complex savory flavor.
MORI WILLHITE: The thing with the miso paste, since they have some micro-organisms in there, live ones to help with your lower gut, you don't want to have that water too hot cause it'll kill them. I'm gonna turn it down some more.
KAYTE YOUNG [INTERVIEWING]: So you always add that at the end, right before you serve it?
MORI WILLHITE: Yes. This is the easy part. The broth is what takes the most time if you're doing it from scratch. Here's some tofu that I cut up. The green onions I usually wait to about when I serve it, because they wilt so quickly and stuff. So in our family we put a little bit of sake in there to enhance the flavor. So dry is better. Understand, eyeball it, (add) just a little, like a teaspoon or so. Right before, towards the end. Cold days like this miso soup is best.
KAYTE YOUNG: While I was there, Mori also demonstrated how to make spring rolls, California sushi rolls as she had done in the art pairing session, and she even showed me how she bakes a cake in her rice cooker.
MORI WILLHITE: I can't believe we flipped that out of the rice cooker but it's one of those hacks that just turns out. I try to promote a lot of Americans go, "I don't want to just get one appliance to do one thing". Oh no, you can make cake, you can make mac and cheese, I try to introduce other stuff.
And as a good auntie Mori, most of my friends, their children go to college so I buy them a proper rice cooker, and I give them a bag of rice. If that's not love I don't know what is. So they spend time with me, make the rice, make all these Japanese dishes. So don't call me and tell me you're hungry, I sent you to college with a bag of rice. You know how to make stuff.
KAYTE YOUNG: With the covid-19 pandemic hitting the U.S. just as Katsumi's teaching kitchen had moved to its new location, Mori had to make some adjustments. She started teaching classes over Zoom, and even built her own DIY overhead camera mount out of PVC pipe.
MORI WILLHITE: And all the classes have been easy. Once you buy, you get the recipe and the shopping list. And I tell you call me if you can't find it, we will try to get something equal.
KAYTE YOUNG: I tried out one of the zoom classes with a few friends. We made a Japanese version of pork and cabbage pot stickers. It was fun to connect and to make food together from the comfort of our own kitchens. And even though she wasn't in the room with us, Mori made sure we understood each step including the tricky steaming and frying technique at the end. The pot stickers were fantastic.
You can see photos, find the miso soup recipe, and learn more about Katsumi's Teaching Kitchen at EarthEats.org.
KAYTE YOUNG: In 2013, the largest farmland asset manager in the world made a five million dollar gift to the University of Illinois to establish a research center. As part of the Big Ag U series, Harvest Public Media’s Dana Cronin reports on how the center was founded to study the very area of investment where the company has few rivals and has wandered into controversy.
DANA CRONIN: You probably know TIAA as a manager of retirement accounts. It’s a huge player in that market.
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DANA CRONIN: And part of that giant investment portfolio … is farmland. Because, as it turns out, farmland is a really good investment -- it’s stable and tends to increase in value year to year. And, as the saying goes, they’re not making any more of it.
So, farmland is increasingly viewed as a commodity … something to be bought, sold or rented. And the TIAA Center for Farmland Research, housed at the University of Illinois is evidence of that. The five million dollar donation that made the think tank possible is the fourth largest corporate gift the university’s agriculture department has received in the last ten years. That’s according to data obtained by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest through the Freedom of Information Act. Bruce Sherrick is a professor of farmland economics and the center’s director.
BRUCE SHERRICK: When people ask me what I do, I say I'm interested in anything that affects farmland values, anything that affects farmland values. Who does that matter to anyone who cares about farmland values?
DANA CRONIN: He says that’s not just the center’s benefactor.
BRUCE SHERRICK: That's farmers, that's investors, that's input dealers, that's crop insurance people.
But some say focusing on farmland as just a commodity puts investors over the communities that rely on the land.Gabrielle McNally leads an initiative at American Farmland Trust that supports women landowners. She says corporate investment in farmland drives up the cost of the land. And that can make it harder for new people to own farmland.
GABRIELLE MCNALLY: And it is by and large women and folks of color who kind of make up this sort of new and beginning farmer group.
DANA CRONIN: Research also shows that conservation often falls by the wayside on plots of farmland owned by corporations.
TIAA has also come under fire for working with a land grabber to acquire some of their Brazilian farmland… That’s led some of TIAA’s own clients to speak out. Like University of Iowa anthropology professor Laura Graham. Her research focuses on indigenous communities in Brazil. Her retirement account? Managed by TIAA.
LAURA GRAHAM: And so it’s very ironic that my own retirement is supporting something that my research and my work with communities is in direct opposition to.
So she and other University of Iowa faculty demanded transparency and accountability from the investment giant.TIAA declined comment for this story. Sherrick -- head of the TIAA Center for Farmland Research back at the University of Illinois -- says that controversy hadn’t surfaced yet when the university received the gift. But he says that no-strings-attached corporate gift created a model for universities to dedicate themselves to research in perpetuity.
BRUCE SHERRICK: State funding had gone away. Federal funding had gone away. Our extension program. Finances have gone virtually, completely away, so we're substituting for those other sources.
DANA CRONIN: Others say this corporate model leaves out rural communities that schools also need to serve.
DOUG HERTZLER: We need to be looking at farm policies which would strengthen small-scale farmers and make land more accessible to them.
Doug Hertzler is a senior policy analyst with ActionAid USA.
DOUG HERTZLER: People that have a worldview that playing the market is what matters, aren't thinking about the well-being of those rural communities.
DANA CRONIN: Hertzler says creating more of these corporate-university research partnerships could ultimately hurt those whose livelihoods depend on farmland: farmers.
I’m Dana Cronin, Harvest Public Media.
KAYTE YOUNG: This report is part of Big AG U, an investigative series by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest on corporate influence at public universities across the Midwest. Find more at harvestpublicmedia.org.
That's it for our show this week.
Thanks for listening and we'll see you next time.
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KAYTE YOUNG: Special thanks this week to Jason and Nicole Evans Groth,
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How to pass your Driving Test?
How to pass your Driving test?
To answer this question you need to know what causes people who take the driving test to fail, in 2016 DVSA conducted 413,000 test and the driving test pass rate was 47% which means 53% (218,890) of people failed their driving test in 2016.
Here are 10 reasons recorded by DVSA why people fail their driving test.
1. Observation at junctions:
- Looking hurriedly left and right won’t win you any prizes from the examiner. You must be seen to scrutinise the road, not only for other cars but cyclists and motorcyclists, too, and of course any pedestrians hurrying to cross. Accurate observation will give you the confidence to pull out that the examiner is looking for.
2. Use of mirrors:
- Failure to use the mirrors applies to almost every one of the 10 reasons. The examiner wants to see you using them in a timely way. It’s not enough, though, to simply go through the motions; checking them should be a conscious procedure that properly informs your driving. Use them when changing speed or direction, when pulling away or turning. What is happening around you is as important as what is happening ahead.
3. Junction – turning right
- The test consist of taking all kind of junctions particularly turning right at T-junctions and roundabout during the driving test and some of these junctions can be difficult. Turning right at junctions makes one of the biggest test failures. It’s important to get your timing right for the turn and of course the correct procedure of MSPSL.
4. Steering control
- You will need to steer at the correct time for the speed you are driving at with enough steering to maintain control and road position. The tighter the turn then the slower the speed, with the correct gear selected. Hitting the kerb can also be marked as a steering fault.
5. Use of signals
- Failing to signal correctly is the fifth most common reason for failing the test. This may be failing to apply a signal in good time so other road users have enough warning of your intentions, it may be a confusing signal that was applied or simply not applying one when necessary.
6. Moving away safely
- Failing to move off under full control and/or without checking properly. You must move off checking mirrors and any blind spots, without causing anyone to change speed or direction as you do so.
7. Incorrect positioning
- You must make sure you’re in the correct position for the direction you’re taking. Get in the correct lane early when necessary, look out for road signs and markings. Go the wrong way if necessary.
8. Inappropriate speed
- You should drive at a speed suitable for each road and not unnecessarily hold up traffic. Driving too slow is likely to marked as a driving fault and driving much slower than necessary.
9. Reverse parking
- The most common reason for failing is people messing up one of the parking manoeuvres. The observation must be maintained and you must get reasonably accurate, correcting yourself if necessary.
10. Corner reverse
- Reversing around a corner requires reversing into a side road on the left. Like all manoeuvres good observations all around is very important and you must stay reasonably close to the kerb on this exercise without hitting it or going too wide.
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Electronic Parking Control Systems
Problems in the big parking lots near big people concentration places were researched. To control processes in parking lots electronic control systems are needed. These systems was analysed, systems architecture and their hierarchy structured. To ensure best performance in the multi floor parking lot with 2500 parking places electronic systems were implemented: parking guidance, traffic jams detection and control, intelligent administration and handling and emergency situation control. All these systems were developed, installed, tuned, tested and experimental data collected for modelling. To model these systems over 500000 measurements were done during experiment. To find a phenomenon appearing before traffic jam is formed in the parking-lot, recognize and forecast traffic jams in the parking-lot model with neural network using Levenberg-Marquardt optimization was done. Experimental and modelling results showed advantages of the Electronic Parking Control Systems. Ill. 15, bibl. 6 (in English; summaries in English, Russian and Lithuanian).
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This workshop will look at the development of policies and strategies for spent fuel management, radioactive waste management, decommissioning, extraction industries, and industrial / medical arisings.
It will be tailored as appropriate to the requirements of the party concerned utilising IAEA and NEA guidance, and international best practice.
At the end of the workshop delegates will have developed an understanding of what policy is, how it is established and what it should cover. Similarly, delegates will understand how policy is implemented through strategy development and the competences required to deliver this.
The course covers:
Introduction to radioactive waste management
- Understanding of what radioactive waste is
- Where and how it arises
- Options for treatment and disposal for different waste types
Policy (the “what”)
- What is Policy?
- The need for a Policy
- What areas should it cover?
- Spent fuel management, radioactive waste management, decommissioning, extraction industries, industrial / medical arisings
- Existing & future arisings
- Safety & security
- Allocation of resources & responsibilities
- Establishing the Policy
- Policy development with stakeholders
- Basis for developing strategies
- Basis for legislation / regulation
- Compatibility with IAEA Safety Standards and other guidance, and International Conventions
Strategy (the “how, who, where & when”)
- What are strategies?
- Implementation of policies
- Individual strategies for waste types
- How & when policy requirements will be achieved
- Establishing strategies
- Who’s responsible?
- Consideration of options for
- Spent fuel management
- Pre-disposal & disposal
- Competencies required
Course review and general discussion
Who would benefit from attending the workshop?
The training is designed for civil-servants, regulators, executives and managers within nuclear operators, government, NEPIOs and regulatory bodies in countries considering or are in the early stages of establishing nuclear energy as a component of their national energy strategy.
Lead Trainer: John Mathieson
John has over 45 years’ experience in the nuclear industry, primarily involving the areas of radioactive waste management and decommissioning. John worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Commission, participating in expert missions, technical meetings and working groups. He has worked on projects assisting many overseas governments to develop financing, decommissioning and radioactive waste management strategies and infrastructures. He is a Member of the Society for Radiological Protection and is a Board Director and Secretary of Waste Management Symposia Inc. which runs the annual Waste Management conference in Phoenix, USA.
How is the workshop delivered?
The workshop is delivered in a ‘classroom’ environment at the client’s site. The agenda and structure of the workshops will be tailored as appropriate to specific requirements of the client utilising IAEA and NEA guidance, and international best practice.
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3D or Not 3D?Cloudhopper Chess is a clever new approach to 3D chess. Rather than having a stack of chessboards, it uses the normal board as a base, and allows only aerial units to employ the third dimension.
Unfortunately, the aerial part of Cloudhopper Chess isn't very 3-dimensional. Of course, this happened because I wanted a game for which it would be easy to make physical equipment, but wouldn't it be nice to have a game with more 3D?.
Betza's Flying CircusThe ground forces are on the normal 8x8 chessboard, with the normal 16 pieces. Of course, I think you should use different armies, but that's another story.
Above the ground there are 3 levels of airspace, in which two kinds of unit may be found.
Each turn, you can make either a ground move or an air move.
The BomberThe Bomber is a dive-bomber. It can move one square on the same level, like a King, or down one level in any direction (that is, it can move to any of the 9 air-squares below itself), or straight up one level (only straight up).
The Bomber cannot attack other aerial pieces.
In order to capture, the Bomber must start from the topmost aerial level; it descends in one fell stoop to the botommost aerial level, diving straight down, and kills the enemy piece on the square just below it.
Of course, before it can capture again, it must climb to the topmost level.
Each side starts with two Bombers, on the lowest aerial level, above the King and Queen.
The InterceptorThe Interceptor is a fighter-plane. It can move one square in any direction (it is at the center of a 3x3x3 cube that defines its moves), or two squares (non-jumping) in a straight line in any of the 9 downward directions.
The Interceptor cannot attack ground forces.
The Interceptor can destroy enemy aerial units by moving into the same square.
Each side starts with two Interceptors, on the lowest aerial level, above the Rooks.
How to PlayAlthough it is possible to imagine some physical apparatus that would let you play this game on a real board, I suspect that a computer display would be better.
Strategy in the Game DesignThe air is relatively uncrowded. This seems more realistic.
The strength of the air units is limited so that they will not be overly important. In fact, an exciting gambit is to ignore the enemy air force; the tempi "lost" by aerial moves may allow a winning attack on the ground.
Oddly enough, bombers defend against bombers. A bomber directly below an enemy bomber prevents the fatal stoop. Of course, this is a defensive posture, and gives up the initiative.
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Automated and unsupervised detection of malarial parasites in microscopic images
Malaria Journal volume 10, Article number: 364 (2011)
Malaria is a serious infectious disease. According to the World Health Organization, it is responsible for nearly one million deaths each year. There are various techniques to diagnose malaria of which manual microscopy is considered to be the gold standard. However due to the number of steps required in manual assessment, this diagnostic method is time consuming (leading to late diagnosis) and prone to human error (leading to erroneous diagnosis), even in experienced hands. The focus of this study is to develop a robust, unsupervised and sensitive malaria screening technique with low material cost and one that has an advantage over other techniques in that it minimizes human reliance and is, therefore, more consistent in applying diagnostic criteria.
A method based on digital image processing of Giemsa-stained thin smear image is developed to facilitate the diagnostic process. The diagnosis procedure is divided into two parts; enumeration and identification. The image-based method presented here is designed to automate the process of enumeration and identification; with the main advantage being its ability to carry out the diagnosis in an unsupervised manner and yet have high sensitivity and thus reducing cases of false negatives.
The image based method is tested over more than 500 images from two independent laboratories. The aim is to distinguish between positive and negative cases of malaria using thin smear blood slide images. Due to the unsupervised nature of method it requires minimal human intervention thus speeding up the whole process of diagnosis. Overall sensitivity to capture cases of malaria is 100% and specificity ranges from 50-88% for all species of malaria parasites.
Image based screening method will speed up the whole process of diagnosis and is more advantageous over laboratory procedures that are prone to errors and where pathological expertise is minimal. Further this method provides a consistent and robust way of generating the parasite clearance curves.
Malaria is an infectious disease and causes serious health problems; half of the world's population, particularly in the developing countries is at risk of malaria . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria causes approximately nearly million deaths and over 250 million infections every year. and is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, of which Plasmodium falciparum contributes 98% of deaths . The diagnosis of the infections due to P. falciparum is still carried out via manual procedures especially in developing countries. Although there are advanced methods of diagnosis , manual microscopy of blood films on slides is still considered to be the gold standard. Manual microscopy has advantage over other techniques in that it is both sensitive and specific . One of the disadvantages of diagnosis using manual microscopy methods is that it requires extensive human intervention during the diagnostic process which can often lead to late and sometimes erroneous diagnosis. The microscopist requires extensive training to gain expertise in the diagnosis, and because of the sheer volume of the samples that need to be analysed, the method is not consistent and is dependent upon blood smear and stain quality, microscope quality and the expertise of the microscopist.
Some of the problems of manual microscopy can be overcome by exploring computer based, specifically image-based, diagnostic methods. The aim of this study is to outline a semi-automatic diagnosis method based on image processing and one that provides a reliable and consistent solution. The literature contains descriptions and details of several computer vision or image-based algorithms [4–9]. However, most of these algorithms are supervised and complex, that is they need manual intervention or calibration. Considering the high fatality rate and huge volumes of samples that need to be analysed we need a sensitive, practical and robust method with minimum human intervention. In this context, computer based diagnosis can help in the rapid, accurate and consistent identification of true malaria cases, ensuring that only those patients with malaria are treated.
Manual microscopy is carried out by examining thin blood films on slides under the microscope and reporting the percentage of parasitaemia (i.e. number of infected red blood cells (iRBCs) for over 100 microscopic fields). Microscopists also need to identify parasite morphology by various life cycle stages for speciation, described in The WHO practical microscopy guide . Giemsa staining is most widely used to highlight the parasites. The disadvantage of Giemsa is that it also stains other blood film features, such as white blood cells, platelets, and slide artefacts, such as dust particles. This problem of other stained objects needs to be considered carefully when comparing results of automated image-based diagnosis with manual microscopy. It is proposed that the method presented here be mainly used as a consistent screening tool to identify patients who are likely to have parasitaemia. This would significantly reduce load on medical technologists who can then focus their attention on those patients with positive tests to confirm presence of parasites and the level of parasitaemia with manual slide examination.
Each image as discussed below may not represent one complete microscopic field. Instead each image is considered as a segment of a field. The focus of this study is on the application of image analysis on low resolution images, which directly implies that smaller segments can be drawn from a larger field and analyzed separately for accurate results. This approach mimics the procedure that a pathologist would carry out as most pathologists or microbiologists would examine a section of a larger field to obtain accurate result.
In general thick smear screening is more sensitive than thin smear to detect parasites with a human microscopist. In endemic areas the thick smear is examined first and the thin smear secondarily used for speciation and to assess parasitemia. In general due to time constraints and visual human fatigue only 100-300 high-power fields (hpf) are examined on a thin smear- that is only a small fraction of the fields present on a traditional glass slide are actually examined.
The method proposed in this manuscript presents an unsupervised screening method for thin smear analysis, which has potential to be integrated into a diagnostic platform. For the proposed method to have clinical utility, close to 1,000 hpf would need to be analysed- this could happen on a traditional glass slide or on a yet-to-be-developed substrate. The image capture technology has yet to be developed suitable for a tropical laboratory. A 10-20 parasites/μL would be feasible on a thin smear generated with 10 μL of blood and > 1,000 hpf analysed.
An automated diagnostic method can be developed by understanding the diagnostic process and representing it by a specifically tailored image processing based algorithm. The image processing based algorithm should perform diagnosis more or less imitating the manual microscopy. The algorithm should be capable of operating in an unsupervised environment and needs to be robust with minimal false negatives (leading to high sensitivity). The unsupervised nature of the proposed procedure should reduce human intervention, and in so doing speed up the diagnosis process. The algorithm should also be sensitive enough to capture parasites at all stages particular at the early stages of their life cycle and do this without missing any parasites irrespective of image variations. In order to perform diagnosis, the method must be capable of differentiating between parasite and artefacts. The majority of the image based diagnosis methods [4–9] reported in literature do not address this requirement.
The challenge to achieve this high degree of sensitivity to parasites with an ability to exclude artefacts and debris in an unsupervised environment was carried out by developing a very novel and simple statistical method for image classification. The image classification problem performs the following steps: i) RBC enumeration, ii) potential parasite identification and iii) reports parasitaemia by counting the number of iRBC per every 1000 RBCs considering each image corresponds to a section of microscopic field. The steps that constitute the image processing and image segmentation tasks are summarized in the flowchart shown in Figure 1. The image based diagnostic method described below was developed using MATLAB2007b computational platform.
Anonymized thin blood film images were obtained from Alberta Health Services laboratories at the University of Alberta. The samples obtained mostly had low number of parasites in early stages (rings) of their life cycle. Such features are often hard to detect. In addition several samples did not have any parasites (negative controls). The samples were stained using a fast Giemsa protocol to highlight the parasites and were initially examined by haematopathologists with expertise in malaria diagnosis. Slide images were acquired using a charge coupled device (CCD) camera with different range of magnification. Some images had variable stain characteristics making computer-based detection more challenging. In total, 10 positive subject samples were examined and parasitaemia was reported as number of iRBCs per thousand RBCs. Thus, for each subject 10 images, each representing a section of microscopic field at 1,000 × magnification and containing approximately 100 RBCs were acquired. Ten (10) negative control cases were included in a blinded fashion to assess the specificity of the image-based method. In-total 20 cases were analysed i.e. 10 positive cases and 10 negative cases obtained from Alberta Health Services laboratories.
The purpose of pre-processing is to remove unwanted objects and noise from the image to facilitate image segmentation into meaningful regions. The steps required to carry out image pre-processing were implemented on low resolution images are as follows:
Load coloured (RGB) or gray scale image, the coloured image is converted to gray scale image. The contrast of the gray scale image is enhanced using local histogram equalization to enhance the visibility of the parasites and RBC.
The next and important step in image segmentation is to extract meaningful regions, or in other words, distinguish objects from background. The common way described in the literature is to use edge detection algorithms [10, 11] but edge detection algorithms use gradient information followed by morphological boundry closing. Its not always easy to detect edges and location of object in presence of substantial noise. This makes edge detection algorithms computationally exhaustive and less sensitive. A method is required which can overcome the problems of edge detection algorithms. Chan-Vese et al [12, 13] proposed energy minimization of the image to detect edges of objects embedded within an image. The goal of implementing Chan-Vese based boundary detection algorithm to segment image into meaningful regions, in our case separate RBC and artefacts from the background is shown in Figure 2.
The binary image of statistically similar region generated after Chan-Vese segmentation distinguishing RBC and background, but because of biconcave shape of the RBC, the central pallor is assigned the same features as the background as shown in Figure 3. It is required to remove the central pallor in the RBC and to perform this task a 'hole filling' algorithm was designed as described with a simple illustrative example in Figure 4. The technique to fill the holes in the binary digital image is to extract the largest connected component among all the connected components. Connected component analysis extracts the information on pixel connectivity in a two-dimensional image by labelling connected pixels possessing same intensities. All the connected components were extracted as shown in Figure 4b and intersection of the largest connected component i.e. the background was performed with the original image shown in Figure 4c. The reason for explicitly designing a hole-filling method is to be able to obtain an average diameter of the RBCs. To do this we need to obtain a count of the RBCs. The central pallor could easily get construed as an RBC and, therefore, it had to be masked or the hole had to be filled to capture the total number of RBCs and their size distribution. Secondly, the hole-filling algorithm provides an extra piece of information about the size distribution of central pallor which can be useful in detecting other blood diseases.
The hole-filled image is followed by minute erosion [10, 11] using disk-shaped structuring element of radius 5 pixels, the resulting image after hole-filling and erosion is shown in Figure 5. The erosion will remove any isolated pixel(s) in the image thus reducing the number of artefacts.
The number of RBCs in the pre-processed binary image can be calculated if the total area occupied by RBCs is divided by the area of one RBC and approximating the total count to the nearest integer for the total number of RBCs. The challenge was to determine the accurate area of one RBC for each image without any prior information (because the size of RBCs depend on factors such as a patient's age, magnification etc). A first attempt to automate this procedure in an unsupervised algorithm was to obtain a size distribution of RBCs in pixel units. To accomplish this, it is observed that RBCs possess almost circular shape, this feature of RBC can be exploited and various radius circles can be fitted to the RBC to generate a circle size distribution. The mean area generated from circle size distribution was used to determine the total number of RBCs in the image. The problem of fitting radii of various sizes to RBCs was implemented using the popular 'Hough transform' [10, 11].
Hough transform works as a powerful tool for image segmentation to extract pre-defined (line, circular, elliptical etc.) shapes in an image. Hough transform tries to determine if the group of pixels lie on a curve of specific shape. A commonly used version of Hough transform is used for extracting straight lines in the image. The method developed by Hough to extract straight lines can be extended to determine circles within an image. The circular Hough transform method is a modified from of conventional Hough transform, where the parameter equation for straight line is changed to the general equation of circle expressed in equation .
Now given a gradient angle (ø) at an edge point (x, y), a and b can be computed for pre-defined radius (r) or for given radius range. The edge points lying on the same circle are assigned to one accumulator array and this process is repeated for each point on the image. The algorithm terminates when all edge points have been assigned to one of the accumulator arrays thus each accumulator array possess the centre and corresponding radius of the circle.
As can be observed from a typical slide shown in Figure 5, the RBCs are not all perfectly circular, which leads to the suggestion of using the Hough transform for ellipse fitting . However literature studies [10, 11] indicate that as the number of parameters increases, as it would in ellipse fitting, the algorithm becomes slower and furthermore it may have severe memory allocation problems. Therefore, the Hough transform for circle of different radii was implemented and the results demonstrate the efficacy of the method in that it allowed the feature generation to be very robust and completely unsupervised. An example of this implementation is shown in Figure 6 followed by circle size distribution shown in Figure 7. Table 1 and Figure 8 represents results obtained from the analysis of one randomly picked subject M7.
The next part of the proposed methodology is the detection of potential parasites in Giemsa-stained thin smear blood slide images. Considering that parasites are small stained objects embedded within the RBC, they are often distinguishable from the RBC plus other background 'image noise' and artefacts (artefacts represents platelets, WBC, dirt, dye crystals etc.) in the image. Although the literature is archived with several methods for image segmentation based on edge detection or statistical methods using classifiers [6, 7] for the detection of parasites, the edge detection method as discussed earlier is dependent on gradient information of the image and tends to generate undesired results if the parasites are barely visible or in early stages of their life cycle. On the other hand, classification methods tend to overcome these problems, but development of a classifier requires access to historical information making it a supervised learning method.
The primary objective in this study was to have a robust unsupervised method for the detection and enumeration of malaria parasites. In this context, the property of parasites being stained can be exploited to separate them from the RBC and the background. To accomplish this objective, an unsupervised, sensitive and reliable segmentation method, which extracts parasite information from the image, is proposed.
The visual inspection of pixel intensity data plot as shown in Figure 9 reveals the distinguishable clusters of background, RBC and stained pixels. The pixel intensity data plot suggests the use of a non-hierarchical method of clustering technique such as k-means clustering (KMC) to segment the pixels into corresponding distinguishable groups. The advantage of clustering methods is to uniquely classify data, which in this case is based on the digital image, using an unsupervised learning methodology. These methods are also robust and can be easily implemented to achieve a desired level of image segmentation. The implementation of robust clustering method requires prior information of number of clusters and good initial guess of cluster centroids. Commercially available software packages (e.g. MATLAB) provide KMC as a tool for data clustering but these algorithms are not designed for image segmentation and in any case they require a good initial guess for the number of clusters and cluster centroids to have meaningful clustering. Figure 9 shows that the cluster of stained pixels, presumably representing parasites, has very few data points compared to RBCs and the background cluster. Clearly these giant data clusters easily overwhelm the small clusters, with the result that a clear demarcation between the RBCs and the parasites is not possible using conventional KMC.
To overcome the problems of unknown number of clusters, good initial guesses and retaining the information about small clusters in the presence of giant clusters, a modified KMC based algorithm has been developed. The problem of unknown number of clusters can be addressed as catching almost empty clusters, if KMC is initialized with more number of clusters than expected. If the algorithm encounters an empty cluster it reduces the number of cluster by one in an iterative process until the process reaches an optimum number of separable clusters. The problem of good initial guess was combined with the initialization of the clustering algorithm in order to facilitate the clustering process by segmenting the background cluster. The background cluster can be separated from the RBC and artefacts by superimposing the hole-filled image over the original RGB image as shown in Figure 10. The visual inspection of pixel intensity plot as shown in Figure 11 reveals that background intensity suppressed to zero makes the clusters more distinguishable. The pixel intensity of the background set to zero gives us the freedom to choose the initial centroids of equal weight between zero and maximum pixel intensity value. The sparseness of the pixel map combined with a good initial guess makes the KMC algorithm fast and robust. This initial guess serves as a default guess for all cases and thus rendering this as an unsupervised parasite detection and enumeration algorithm.
The parasite cluster as observed in Figures 9 and 11 is a weak cluster or in other words fewer pixels are stained. The small clusters (stained pixels) buried under a large population are clearly overwhelmed. Therefore, the small cluster information is lost during the process of clustering and hardly any of the small clusters appear as separate cluster(s). The solution to this problem is obtained by imparting higher weights to the small cluster(s) compared to the larger clusters. In this way the small cluster information is retained by making small cluster comparable to big clusters. The new modified form of KMC as designed with the modifications discussed above is defined as probabilistic k-means clustering (PKMC). The probability density function (PDF) for PKMC was designed using the binomial theorem as described below. The binomial theorem facilitates the application of dynamic choice of higher weights to small cluster(s). The algebra related to the binomial theorem is relegated in Additional file 1. In the case study considered here, ideally one would see three clusters to represent the background, RBC and stained pixels. The corresponding probability density function (PDF) generated for these 3 clusters is shown in Figure 12.
In reality some artefacts (such as the central pallor) could also show up as a separate cluster. In this case, the design parameters will be: the number of clusters (4 in this case), and the stained pixels would be represented by the third cluster. The resulting probability density function (PDF) from the Binomial theorem maximisation is shown in Figure 13.
The discrete probability density function designed as described (in Additional file 1) was used to select weights for the clusters. The stained pixels were given higher weights and lower weights were assigned to other clusters so as to retain parasite information buried in a large population.
The PKMC labels the clusters as follows: first cluster for the background, the second cluster for the stained pixels and the third cluster for the RBCs. The PKMC also gives the average intensity of each cluster and designates this as the cluster centroids. The last part of the algorithm is concerned about how to separate artefacts from the potential parasites. The artefacts can be visualized as stained WBC, platelets, dirt or dye crystals. To still enhance the sensitivity of the method PKMC work is in progress to develop clustering over true RBG (Red, Blue and Green channel) images instead of gray-scale images.
Potential parasite confirmation
The features of parasite need to be understood to separate them from artefacts. An intelligent separation scheme can be designed by exploiting the features such as: parasites are embedded with in the RBC and artefacts are more or less homogeneous objects. The method to separate parasites from the artefacts is described below by an illustrative example. Figure 14a represents a sample image after background intensity set to zero and with a parasite in one of the RBCs. Figure 14b is binary image of Figure 14a. Now each component in Figure 14a will have an average intensity and clearly the average intensity of platelet or WBC will be near to stained pixel intensity because of their homogeneous nature. An intensity based threshold can be used to separate the platelet and WBCs. Recall that PKMC returns three clusters of a) background, b) stained pixels and c) RBC as shown in Figure 15. Apart from clusters labels PkMC also reports the average intensity of each cluster as three centroids. The comparison of the average intensity of each component from Figure 14a to the centroid for stained pixel helps to distinguish between platelet or WBCs or any other artefact. This ensures that stained pixels, which are parasites, are retained and artefacts are removed as shown in Figure 16.
The parasite detection method was implemented over the 10 potential positive cases and 10 negative cases. The identity of the positive and negative cases was unknown at the time of examination. The detection of parasites in two examples is represented in Figures 17a and 17b are marked in black. The importance of the unsupervised algorithm has been validated on images taken in different condition. Also the platelets and WBCs in such images are not recognized as parasites.
The proposed method was tested on large variety of images with malarial parasites at different life stages to check for the sensitivity and specificity of the algorithm. The method is developed using few images from Alberta Health Services and then tested over different variety cases and individual images. The algorithm is designed to work on stack of images and provide cumulative results or it can generate results on a single image. The performance of the method was tested on cases provided by Alberta Health Services laboratories for 10 potential positive cases of malaria and 10 negative cases to cross-validate the method. The method was further verified and tested in a blindfold format on over 40 images from a data set provided by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the University of Washington. These results clearly show the robustness and practicality of the proposed method. The measure of performance and accuracy of the method was evaluated by two metrics: sensitivity and specificity . Sensitivity is defined as the probability (percentage) that patients with the infection will have a positive result using the test under evaluation. Specificity is defined as the probability (percentage) that patients without the infection will have a negative result using the test under evaluation. The values for sensitivity and specificity are expressed in terms of true positives (TP), false positive (FP), false negative (FN) and true negative (TN) as defined below in expressions 2 and 3:
The results of all the cases are summarized below, where the values of false positives, false negatives, true positives and true negatives are reported in Tables 2 and 3. Table 2 is prepared using blood slide images provided by Alberta Health Services in which there are 20 cases in total, 10 of which are positive (parasites present) and 10 are negative (no parasites) cases and each case consists of 10 images. Whereas Table 3 is prepared using blood slide images provided by Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, the 41 randomly images chosen for the analysis contain a large variety of images of which 12 had parasites while 29 contained no parasites and these results are summarized in Table 3.
Tables 2 and 3 give a good insight into the efficacy of the automated diagnosis process and the decision making by the algorithm. The large number of false positives can be attributed to the presence of higher number of artefacts and poor image quality. In any case the algorithm serves as a screening tool and is designed to be overly sensitive so that no true cases of malarial parasitaemia are missed. The benefit of the unsupervised method proposed here is readily evident from the minimal or no cases of false negatives.
Apart, from the combined results of all the cases, a detailed study for one random case is also presented. The results from each of the 10 images for this random case are reported in Table 4. This table gives a comparative study between results from the proposed algorithm and results from the pathologist. This study shows the sensitivity and accuracy of the proposed method. The errors in the iRBC count were due to high platelet count.
The parasitaemia level is a crucial factor to report and depends on the sections or fields of image observed. This is a fundamental limitation of manual microscopy, that is the ability to detect malaria depends on the number of microscopic fields observed . The automated technique presented here is successful in detecting a single parasite in a microscopic field.
The advantage of the method presented in this paper is that, even in the case of examination of an entire slide, it is able to significantly reduce the effective time of diagnosis when combined with an image acquisition system. Secondly, the unsupervised nature of the method will minimize human reliance and enforce consistency in reporting the level of parasitaemia and will bring down the effective cost of diagnosis. Lastly, the method not only focuses on detecting parasites, it also reports the size distribution of RBCs which could lead to the diagnosis of other diseases related to the size or abnormal size distribution of RBCs. This paper provides an automated, consistent, robust and unsupervised screening method for malarial parasites. Existing diagnostic methods in the literature depend extensively on skilled operators and require training. Compared to other diagnostic techniques, the reported method avoids problems associated with "rapid diagnostic" methods, such as being species specific and high per test cost. In contrast the proposed method is completely automated, once slides are made and imaged. The method was specifically developed to work on low resolution images and thereby removes dependency on high resolution microscopy which boosts the practicality of the algorithm. Combined with an image acquisition system this method will allow entire slide to be examined, minimizing human reliance. The necessity of reliable electricity is one principal obstacle in using this kind of system in developing countries or outside of healthcare facilities. However it is anticipated that such an algorithm can easily be incorporated in a battery operated digital camera that would have as its output: 'negative' or 'positive with count of parasite(s)'. There are various vendors which provide camera enabled microscopes however suitable "hand held" image capture technology has yet to be developed for a tropical laboratory, cell-phone based technologies could also be contemplated.
In summary, we present an unsupervised screening method for thin smear analysis, which has the potential to be integrated into a diagnostic platform. In reference to development of artemisinin resistance the need for speedy and cheap screening and accurate iRBC count is presented. The method presented has potential application in generating parasite clearance curves which is an important measure of anti-malarial drug efficacy . For this method to have clinical utility, close to 1,000 high power fields would need to be analysed- this could happen on a traditional glass slide or on a yet-to-be-developed substrate.
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We wish to thank NSERC and iCORE for funding this research project and Carolyn K Wallis, Microbiologist, at Harborview Medical Center (HMC) Microbiology, University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seattle, Washington for providing images that are reported in this work. The second author also wishes to thank Dr. Patrick E. Duffy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Washington DC for first seeding the idea of image-based screening of malaria.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
YP carried out the image analysis work for this study as part of his MSc thesis under the supervision of the second author (SLS). Both YP and SLS were involved in the development of the image-based screening method and in the preparation the first version of this manuscript. AM, GC, and AA gave support and expertise as pathologists and provided images for analysis and validation of the proposed algorithm. They also advised on the needs and requirements of an unsupervised algorithm and provided many comments on the earlier and this final version of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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"I am so glad that the remains of my forefathers are back, that was the dream of our former paramount chief, Kuaima Riruako, but it's also sorrowful," Junior Walter Ngueihita told DW in Windhoek.
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A virtual Sukkot Program was presented to JSDD residents and invited guests thanks to our innovative partners at The Friendship Circle. JSDD’s Judaic Coordinator, Hagit, distributed special kits chock-full of supplies needed to take the class provided by The Friendship Circle.
Participants watched an educational video and learnt about Simchat Torah, the holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of a new cycle. Eagerly working together while watching the instructor on Zoom, everyone was occupied in activities that were educational and artistic. Participants created an edible craft by decorating a cookie and then continued to be entertained playing the game of chance Bingo.
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Faculty shutdowns to prevent the unfold of COVID-19 have afflicted 1.5 billion small children all in excess of the planet, and the disruption can be especially devastating for women, threatening to roll back decades of progress. Out-of-faculty ladies are at higher chance of gender-centered violence and extra most likely to be pushed into early marriage. Lots of ladies may perhaps by no means return to the classroom.
Since the incredibly early days of the pandemic, UNICEF has been doing work to ensure that small children get the assist they need to keep on their instruction, tailoring applications to in shape the instances. For some, that usually means distance discovering, with lessons shipped via web, radio or television. For other individuals, it suggests the cautious reopening of school rooms using pointers organized by UNICEF and partners. Beneath, 3 women share their encounters of understanding and increasing in the time of COVID-19.
When faculties closed in Kamuli District, Japanese Uganda, 13-yr-old Nanyonjo Drive Catherine (earlier mentioned) tuned in to UNICEF-supported radio lessons to continue to keep up with her math, science and English lessons. UNICEF has supplied more than 2,606,405 little ones and adolescents in Uganda with dwelling-understanding elements considering that the pandemic commenced.
Now she and her classmates can visit their college to accessibility discovering components using a MobiStation, a suitcase made up of a laptop or computer that shows digital material on Kolibri, UNICEF’s progressive studying system. A absolutely free and open resource E-understanding portal created for students in hard-to-reach places, Kolibri is uploaded with electronic classes that college students can watch on demand, with no accessing the net.
“I get time to arrive listed here soon after executing my get the job done at residence,” she claims. “When I grow up, I want to be a lawyer. I also want to sit in all those huge offices. They [will] generate me in the vehicle and choose me to decide the suspect.”
In La Paz, Bolivia, 6-calendar year-aged Ángeles (earlier mentioned) spends a ton of her time on your own at household, maintaining up with her schoolwork, and drawing and portray. She’s also maintaining up with her buddies, by the Vino Tinto municipal sports school, which moved on to Zoom during the pandemic. On the very first working day, “I was a very little nervous,” she says. “We did leaping jacks and performed Simon suggests.”
Designed to get young ones up and shifting to continue to be bodily in shape, the UNICEF-supported application also encourages children’s emotional nicely-currently being, emphasizing values that build a healthful culture: peaceful coexistence, obligation, respect for self and others.
Sports faculty has produced Ángeles sense much less isolated during quarantine, her mom states. “She is aware of that she is not by itself, and that she can experience like other kids experience,” she claims.
When educational facilities closed in South Asia, 434 million small children were shut out of their lecture rooms. Girls were being a lot more adversely influenced than boys, a lot less probably to have access to digital units, extra probably to be burdened with housework and caring for their people.
Now more mature learners are returning to class in Afghanistan, like Sahar, 17 (previously mentioned), who lives in Kandahar. But some of her close friends have not reappeared. Even prior to COVID-19, up to 85 per cent of girls in her location were being not enrolled in school.
“I hope they will occur again to university,” claims Sahar pointing to the vacant desks in which her good friends utilised to sit. “Training is incredibly important for us women, primarily right here in Afghanistan. When I improve up, I want to develop into an engineer to build Afghanistan.”
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Since his swearing in, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of controversial Executive Orders. One frequently overlooked yet dramatically important issue that has yet to be addressed by Trump concerns the militarization of the police and the fate of Obama’s Executive Order No. 13688.
In response to the deployment of militarized police forces in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere, Obama’s order restricted the federal government’s provision of military equipment to U.S. police departments and established oversight mechanisms for its use. Yet, following the shootings in San Bernardino in 2015 and in Dallas in 2016, Republicans in the House of Representatives and some police sheriffs criticized the mandate, claiming it was detrimental to the security of law enforcement. On the campaign trail, Trump pledged to remove the barriers to police procurement of military equipment. Unsurprisingly, the National Fraternal Order of the Police –the largest police union in the US – expects him to deliver: They listed rescinding the order as the first “potential action” during Trump’s first 100 days in office.
Police militarization began in the US in the 1960s, with the establishment of the first SWAT unit in Los Angeles, and has increased exponentially in the decades since, from the “War on Drugs” to the “War on Terror.” It reflects a global trend — part and parcel of the general erosion of boundaries – between war and peace, the external and the internal, and armed conflict and law enforcement. Equipment and police units, which were originally intended to cope with exceptional situations, are nowadays deployed for any number of reasons, from serving warrants to maintaining public order. Paramilitary police units have mushroomed in cities and towns, large and small. Police are “acquiring” (free of charge from the U.S. Defense Department) armored personnel carriers, assault rifles, and armored vehicles, among a wide array of military equipment. Not surprisingly, the deployment of militarized police is more frequent in minority communities, who encounter militarized police on a regular basis.
Historically, the development of police in the United Kingdom and the US was accompanied by the constant fear that they would resemble the military. Thus, for example, early British protesters against the establishment of police resisted what they believed would be standing armies in their streets and neighborhoods. And indeed, in the United Kingdom, the reluctance to equip police officers with weapons has persisted to this very day. In America, police officers in New York City, for instance, initially refused to wear uniforms, arguing that only soldiers (and servants) wear them. Over time, however, these fears declined, perhaps because the line dividing police and the military was distinct and kept relatively stable. Yet in recent decades, police militarization has been normalized through the use of the “war” metaphor in different contexts.
When problems such as crime, drugs and isolated terrorist attacks are referred to as “war,” we should not be surprised that police militarization follows. Thus, in the United States, militarized policing proceeded uninterrupted starting in the 1960s, with the help of an elaborate federal bureaucracy. While policing in the United States is mostly a local affair, the federal government funnels billions of dollars to cater to state and local police units who want to militarize. Indeed, the federal government incentivizes militarized police, for example, by encouraging the hiring of military veterans, and by giving away surplus military equipment, through a federal program known as Program 1033. The police only have to transport and maintain the equipment, also made possible with the help of grants from the Department of Homeland Security. Such equipment transfers have become even more available now that US troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have wound down.
But, in 2014 police militarization was brought to the forefront as the American public became increasingly aware of what had been happening to local law enforcement. The deployment of militarized police in Ferguson, essentially converting the small town into what might have appeared to be a war zone – with camouflaged police training sniper rifles on protesters – raised concerns from both the right and the left that militarization had gone too far. A backlash against militarization followed, gaining some support from the Obama administration, which sought to curtail the transfer of military equipment to the police. With the election of Trump, however, the United States is set to reverse course yet again, reverting to its pro-militarization stance.
But what is wrong with police militarization? In a new draft article, we try to provide a principled answer to this question, which goes beyond the usual consequentialist arguments (for instance, the claim that militarized police leads to excessive force). If the problem with militarization were only that, then presumably it could be easily resolved by training and discipline. However, even in such a (hypothetical) case, militarization would still be problematic, as we would still be met by police that look like soldiers when walking down the street. There is something, then, that outcomes-based arguments do not capture.
Instead, we argue that the core problem with police militarization is that it establishes a presumption of threat, meaning it normalizes the presumption that those being policed are threatening to an extent which justifies the deployment of combat-ready forces. Crucially, however, a liberal order must assume the exact opposite: Citizens cannot be presumed to be a threat, neither to one another nor to the state, if the state is to be any different from the nasty and brutish reality of the Hobbesian state of nature. The threat/non-threat dialectic is, to us, a key difference between liberal democracies and totalitarian states.
In our view, police militarization implies a presumption of threat because it exhibits two salient characteristics. First, it is primarily preventive rather than strictly reactive. The deployment of militarized police reflects the anticipation of extreme violence, of the type that could require a forcible response. Second, it is collective. Since it is not (always) aimed at specific individuals, it tends to rely on collective assumptions about violent potential. When militarization becomes normalized, the presumption of threat becomes normalized as well. And when it is the police that becomes militarized, normalization of the presumption of threat is enhanced, precisely because the police – contra the military – are elements of the normal, rather than exceptional, legal order.
The double nature of police militarization as preventive and collective closely resembles the presumption of threat found in the basis of the law of armed conflict. The enemy is presumed threatening and thus targetable. Furthermore, status-based targeting is based on collective, rather than an individual threat. These presumptions are channeled to the policed community through the perceptible symbolism of militarization: uniforms, weapons, and vehicles. This results in the distinction of the policed community as the enemy, which amounts, as Carl Schmitt famously argued, to de facto exclusion from the body politic. To be sure, it is not necessary for militarized forces to actually fight the civilian population, like militaries fight. Rather, the essential effect of the presumption of threat – manifested in militarization – is symbolic or expressive. Actual combat is not needed: The mere deployment of militarized police carries the symbolic power to exclude the policed community from the political collective.
Of course, proponents of militarization would respond with a set of instrumental objections, which would supposedly eclipse our principled stance. Namely, they would argue, militarization protects police officers. However, it is fair to ask whether this is indeed so, or rather, militarized police only creates militarized criminals. Furthermore, a valid question concerns the limits of legitimate police risk aversion. We seem to expect police to take personal risks to protect the values we believe in. Indeed, democracy, and due process cannot exist with zero risk to police. The reason police can use deadly force only as a last resort acknowledges that police work involves risk-taking.
Proponents might argue further that militarization deters criminals. Even if this were true (which we doubt), a major question concerns the type of deterrence invoked here. We should ask those who invoke deterrence, what is the “or what?” that underlies deterrence through militarization? In the context of war, it is clear that the “or what” is death and destruction. However, in the context of law enforcement, the stick of deterrence must be understood as consisting of justice through due process. Deterrence by militarized police conflates law enforcement deterrence with war deterrence, and as such is illegitimate in a liberal democracy.
As we come to grips with the Trump administration and the global trend that it reflects, we need to discuss the limits of state power on a principled level – precisely since it seems that those principles might be giving way to “alternative facts” and an “anything goes” form of instrumentalism. This is true in general, and much more so in the context of the limits on policing, as the ultimate instrument of state coercion. Law and order should not be conflated with a presumption of threat and the construction of policed communities as domestic enemies. | <urn:uuid:84a9e93b-8131-4bdf-819e-831334f38d43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.justsecurity.org/37125/police-militarization-trump-era/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955991 | 1,858 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Editor, the Nelson Daily:
I appreciated the recent editorial cartoon of Harper and his welcome mat to China in your recent edition.
Just after I saw that, I read that the Wildrose Party of Alberta had proposed a pipeline policy for Canada that seems -- dare I say this about a right-wing party? -- "progressive." An all-Canadian pipeline to Atlantic Canada, not meant to sell oil to China or the USA, but to share our nation's resource with all provinces -- this is the Wildrose Party's idea.
In other words, a policy that says the natural resources of Canada are owned by us all and we should all benefit by using them, not just letting corporations sell them and "share" with us by the jobs some of us will get from Alberta oil.
How does a society form its consensus on large issues like the proper share of its national public wealth to be made into private profit for private corporations?
On the proper levels of education and health and welfare and preservation of its habitat? In a society whose economic philosophy is market-driven, capital-intensive, individual-egoistic, competitive, materialistic, rationalist, secular and non-moral, we do it by constant battles.
Our battles of ideas are fought in public media, universities, legislatures, town halls, advertising, and ultimately in action, in confrontations over political and economic policy using marches, strikes, consumer boycotts, work stoppages, and tax revolts.
It is to me somewhat of a mystery how the corporate order altered the national consensus that once held good in Canada and wealthy nations generally, that corporations should bear a significant share of the burdens of a country's costs for supplying a good life to its citizens.
A good life, and whether all citizens "deserve" one by being born Canadian, are other questions of vast import with answers that do not stay constant over time.
Pierre Trudeau, more a socialist than a classic liberal, asked these kinds of basic questions. He did the best he could inside the Liberal Party to build his vision of the Just Society.
His National Energy Policy was one of the planks of his design, as was his Guaranteed Annual Income plan (which he knew would be attacked as "communist").
Trudeau's vision failed more than succeeded, and his memory still provokes rage in the West where capitalist economics and resource exploitation are the determinants of opinion.
The West sees Harper as its kind of leader. The NDP cannot find a leader of principle and strength.
I was born in 1951. In that year, around half the revenues of our federal and provincial governments came from taxes on corporations and their profits.
Today BC likes to boast how low our tax rates are for corporations, as if to tell the world we will gladly part with BC resources for minimal cost to big business. And while we do that, we reduce our healthcare and education service levels, and increase consumer costs with new fees and pay-for-use billing.
With Harper, our federal government now takes aim at regulations that protect the environment because such rules interfere with corporate pursuit of resource wealth extraction. He charges that foes of his BC pipeline plan are in the pay of Americans, tapping into phoney patriotism and anti-US sentiment (which he feels not at all, loving the USA).
Canada is still a nation bearing all the imprints of a colonial origin, with its basic ground of social, political, and economic ingredients laid by the era in which we attained independence, roughly from 1870 to 1930.
The eras of Victorian morality, high Imperialism and its racist assumptions, patriarchal militarism, and the rise of anti-democratic fascism and bolshevism. Those historical contexts for our origins have deep roots in our consciousness yet.
British institutions underlie Ontario and the Atlantic region, and Ontario was the powerhouse province whose businesses extended their reach to the West and North and whose people populated those regions or at least supplied the elites and the bureaucracies.
White Anglo-Scot Protestants -- WASPs -- laid the groundwork. They were possessed of powerful "racial" senses of righteousness typical of the 19th century, the Calvinist work ethic, individual "pioneer character", domineering judgement over inferior types of people and class, and the superiority of their national origins.
Rugged individualism is as much Canadian as it is American.
These Canadians, shaping the national public mind, determined that Canada would not have collective notions of sharing our territory's wealth with all social classes that was characteristic of France or Germany where socialism had potent traditions.
WASPs have trade unionism in the blood from the Victorian and pre- WW II era, but not socialism, and we have followed the British since Thatcher into rejection of socialist blueprints for a fair or just society.
Britain has a Labour Party, not a socialist one, and we have the NDP. But we once had the CCF, a truly Canadian invention of political philosophy, also.
Paradoxically, it was the West that gave us the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) -- a party whose social ethics were Christian in inspiration and whose interests were farmer-generated. The CCF did not try to base policies on urbanized industrial workers, a fatal flaw in a 20th-century party as it turned out, and one which led to a lethal defeat in the 1958 federal election.
Thus in 1961 Canada got the New Democratic Party, an amalgam of the CCF with the trade union movement at a time when the latter was still in forward motion, gathering strength. After 1980, unionism went into retreat. It still is, feebly trying to reverse the slow bleeding away of public support for unions.
In BC we see it in the Liberals' ability to hammer the BCTF and other public-sector unions into submission.
The NDP has no answers; it has moved rightward. It wants power more than it wants to be inspiring.
The Regina Manifesto of 1932 declared the founding principles of the CCF: "a planned and socialized economy in which our natural resources and principal means of production and distribution are owned, controlled and operated by the people."
Stirring words, and for the most parts, words so alien to the present mindset as to seem merely bizarre. Writers at the National Post love to sneer and snicker at the words:
"No C.C.F. Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Co-operative Commonwealth. ... planning will supersede unregulated private enterprise and competition, and in which genuine democratic self-government, based upon economic equality will be possible.
The present order is marked by glaring inequalities of wealth and opportunity, by chaotic waste and instability; and in an age of plenty it condemns the great mass of the people to poverty and insecurity.
Power has become more and more concentrated into the hands of a small irresponsible minority of financiers and industrialists and to their predatory interests the majority are habitually sacrificed. When private profit is the main stimulus to economic effort, our society oscillates between periods of feverish prosperity in which the main benefits go to speculators and profiteers, and of catastrophic depression, in which the common man's normal state of insecurity and hardship is accentuated.
We believe that these evils can be removed only in a planned and socialized economy in which our natural resources and principal means of production and distribution are owned, controlled and operated by the people. The new social order at which we aim is not one in which individuality will be crushed out by a system of regimentation.
Nor shall we interfere with cultural rights of racial or religious minorities. What we seek is a proper collective organization of our economic resources such as will make possible a much greater degree of leisure and a much richer individual life for every citizen.
This social and economic transformation can be brought about by political action, through the election of a government inspired by the ideal of a Co-operative Commonwealth and supported by a majority of the people. We do not believe in change by violence."
Admittedly, capitalism has avoided a "catastrophic depression" in spite of the dire events of 2008 when unregulated finance capitalism led to incomprehensible sums of money being assumed as national debts by governments in the West who had to save the system at the behest of their ruling classes.
But we do not even like those words I use, "ruling classes." I would remind people that no less a capitalist than Warren Buffett loves to say, "there is a class war, and my side is winning." However, class warfare now seems a concept as weird as scientology.
A new kind of mind is at large in the West, not the kind formed in my generation by the detritus of World War Two and the Sixties' "social and cultural revolution."
The new mind is the mind of generations X, Y and www, generations I try to understand by reading about "Urban Tribes" (E. Watters) and "post-modern consciousness."
(K.Wilber). These young people are not conditioned to like unions, or socialism, as I was by my 1960's upbringing. They do not have any loyalty to capitalism either.
They live by a new idea of the good life. "Follow your bliss. Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life."
A recent eye-opening conversation with some twenty-somethings has let light into my understanding of their tribal values. I was told how very many of them and of their friends are deeply in debt.
"To us, and to our friends who are all deep in debt for student loans or business start-ups or first-home mortgages, money is not truly real. The whole system is a big game, it's all just huge numbers, and it is all going to crash and burn.
Paying back the debt one day is not seriously a real worry. Student loans are easy to keep running on; you can get breaks when you have no income. We just pay the interest, it's not hard to do that much.
The government is paying for us to keep on living how we do and that is good enough for the moment. It is hard to find a job that you can feel is what you are meant to do, so you just take crap jobs and live your real life away from work. We live in the moment."
I totally get this new mind of the young. It is not traditionally scientific/materialistic, it has an element of fantasy to my kind of mind, it believes that our thoughts and intents and values "manifest reality" and "we create what the world is."
Charles Eisenstein is still the finest writer I know to explain why this mind makes sense at this point in human history, and that it will be part of our solutions, rather than a problem.
I have an old socialist's mind. I am shocked by the approval of the Jumbo project by the BC Liberals, even though it is perfectly consistent with the many people who hang on to the operations of global capitalism as it has always been.
These minds do not see that the system is a game destined to fail horribly if not altered within the time available to create a new one. Is there still time? Yes, and no.
We can do it.
We cannot avoid mass misery and death of millions now as we stumble through the excruciating transition to a new order. How many humans died today of war, famine, disease, poverty, crime, ecological breakdowns? Many, and all once were avoidable if different choices had been made as recently as three decades ago.
The window is shrinking.
The 1% still rule and will not agree to give up the system that enriches them.
The film "The Lorax" lays it out quite starkly. You have to choose a side now. Another film, "The Iron Lady" shows you a person who knew her mind, and did much to propagandize for capitalism.
Margaret Thatcher or the Lorax? Her slogan -- "There is no alternative." (TINA).
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health reported Thursday that 27 more Hoosiers have died with COVID-19 and another 5,653 people have tested positive.
There have been 17,060 confirmed deaths and 1,112,735 positive cases since the pandemic began.
An additional 592 probable COVID-19 deaths have also been reported.
A total of 2,317 Hoosiers are in the hospital with COVID-19, an increase of 73 since Wednesday. Additionally, IDOH said 19% of intensive care beds are available across the state with 26.3% in use by COVID-19 patients.
According to IDOH, 70.3% of hospital ventilators are available in Indiana.
There have been more than 15.52 million COVID-19 tests administered to more than 4.54 million individuals with a 24.4% cumulative positivity rate among unique individuals. Indiana's seven-day positivity rate among unique individuals through Nov. 25 is 23.6%.
Among all tests, the cumulative positivity rate is 8.7%, while the seven-day positivity rate is 12.7%.
A total of 7,799,123 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Indiana. The number includes 3,496,948 first doses and 3,446,898 individuals who have received a second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and are fully vaccinated. Another 855,277 Indiana residents have received a booster dose.
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The QIAH has been conducting work at Freiha since 2009, revealing dense, complex occupation. This video is a time lapse of my good friend (and coworker) Ruth Hatfield excavating a series of intercutting firepits. Photo and Video Credit: Qatar Museums Authority – QMA.
We built a small structure over a fraction of the firepits to provide shade and then Ruth did her thing, digging all of the firepits under the shade in two hours. This time lapse demonstrates the principles of single context recording on a microscale–Ruth would dig and record the fills and cuts, all in stratigraphic sequence, showing which of the pits were dug last and working back in time. The last little bits were dug (and burned) first and truncated by later firepits. In some ways it is too bad that the camera was on a timer–you only see Ruth measuring or taking photos a couple of times. I’d like to do a time lapse that shows the entire recording process for each feature–but that might be just too tedious. Sadly I had to use iMovie to edit–my old Final Cut Pro license expired and the new FCP is appalling.
Incidentally, the font for the video is one of my favorites, Lavanderia, inspired by the writing in the windows of the San Francisco Mission:
The music is licensed under Creative Commons and is available on Soundcloud:
Kitab el 3omr by Yussof El Marr
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In the past four years, Nguyen Dan Hau Giang Co. Ltd has always strived to bring organic food to consumers in Hau Giang and neighboring provinces.
Modern production lines
At that time, he was a real estate trader in Ho Chi Minh City. When the property market was somewhat lackluster, he decided to seek a new business and Hau Giang was the land of his choice. He learned that Hau Giang province was attracting investment inflows, particularly for potential fields like processing agricultural products and foodstuffs, he visited the websites of the Department of Planning and Investment and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to find further information. Also stemming from his concerns about food hygiene and safety, he decided to invest in a pig slaughterhouse and established Nguyen Dan Hau Giang Co., Ltd.
Starting this plan in 2016, he contacted local authorities and people, established business projects, bought land and started investment steps quite favorably. Project establishment, licensing procedures and site clearance were all prompt. As soon as the business was deployed, however, Vu faced a lot of difficulties: This was the first large-scale centralized slaughtering project, but there were no specific regulations and standards on investment incentives; the project was not located in the industrial zone or planned in advance; a business license granted by district authorities required only 5,000 square meters to build a slaughterhouse but the area of 10,000 square meters was required for this by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
After a nearly 3-year effort for change and adjustment, the centralized slaughterhouse was completed and put into operation from January 1, 2019 in Lang Ham C Village, Thanh Xuan Commune, Chau Thanh A District. Costing over VND10 billion, the slaughterhouse, covering 12,000 square meters, is capable of processing 400 pigs a day in the first phase. The water is boiled by solar electricity. 50% of production lines are automated. The slaughtering time of a hog is only 2 minutes 42 seconds. Waste is treated in an anaerobic medium in five serial biogas tunnels to keep the surroundings protected. The project was certified by the Hau Giang Department of Animal Health and Livestock Production for food safety and rated the most modern of its kind in the province. The facility has met cattle slaughtering demand in the east of Chau Thanh A district, Phung Hiep district and a part of Chau Thanh district.
As soon as its expectations had just been heightened, Nguyen Dan Hau Giang Co., Ltd faced operational challenges. According to initial commitments, the local government would put an end to manned and smuggled slaughterhouses, but this process was, in fact, carried out quite slowly due to conflicting opinions (the province and district wanted to stop operating manned slaughterhouses near centralized ones. However, authorities in some communes said that this action would hurt small merchants. As a result, the facility could buy only 100 hogs a day, just meeting 20% of the designed capacity and causing damage to the company and waste to society. To compensate for this shortfall, the company had to sign a contract with CP Vietnam Company to buy pigs from other provinces for the facility and then supply products to customers in Can Tho City, Dong Thap, Vinh Long, resulting in lower-than-expected earnings.
Director Nguyen Dan Vu said, as of mid-2020, the company invested VND21 billion in grounds, factories, machinery and equipment, but it could not work effectively given the above difficulties. Soon defining these difficulties, he never gave up the business because it importantly met urgent local demand and brought organic food to local people. That was also the reason why the company installed the second production line to expand the capacity to 800 units a day in order to better serve growing consumer demand in late 2020 and early 2021.
Stabilizing prices and ensuring organic foodstuff supply
African swine fever epidemic, which broke out in late 2019, resulted in supply shortages that inflated hog prices. Adopting pork price stabilization measures, in mid-June 2020, Nguyen Dan Hau Giang Co., Ltd proposed and agreed to coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade and other relevant bodies to open price-fixed pork selling places in the province (the selling price was 10-20% lower than the market rate). This right policy drew positive response from local people and close engagement by all levels of government. After conducting a survey, the company agreed to open 18 selling points in markets in all eight districts and towns of Hau Giang province.
After more than two months of implementation, in September 2020, the company completed investing VND300 million in the first store in Nga Bay City, planned to be opened from October 2020. Stepping into this field in the early stages is completely not for profit but for branding. More importantly, this move will provide consumers with organic fresh meat with clear origin and reasonable price. However, the opening of other selling stalls was slower because of different opinions about locations. Director Nguyen Dan Vu said, a not-for-profit store cannot survive if it is not located in a good place. The company also plans to bring this model to industrial zones in Hau Giang province, but it cannot find good locations for investment.
Director Nguyen Dan Vu added, the company was recently approved by the Hau Giang Provincial People’s Committee to invest VND15 billion in Nguyen Dan Hau Giang 2 centralized cattle and poultry slaughterhouse on an area of 12,000 square meters in Vi Thanh City. The facility has a processing capacity of 900 hogs, 100 cattle and 2,000 fowls a day. It will fully apply environmental protection measures. All waste is collected and treated; regulations on fire prevention, food safety, disease control and environmental incident response are strictly obeyed. Kicked off in early 2020, the project will bring more organic food to consumers in Vi Thanh City.
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What is the quickest and most straightforward method of tie dyeing a shirt?
- Using Bleach to Dye Your Shirt is an option. Take, for example, reverse tie-dye. Using a little mist of water, mist the garment. Find a shirt in a bright color. Rubber bands should be tied around the shirt. Protect yourself as well as your clothing from harm. Make a solution of bleach and water. Make a little amount of bleach and apply it on the garment. Allow time for the bleach to take effect. Remove the rubber bands and clean the area well. Remove the garment from the dryer.
- 1 How do you tie a tie dye shirt?
- 2 How do you tie dye a shirt for beginners?
- 3 Should shirt be wet or dry to tie dye?
- 4 How do you tie dye fabric step by step?
- 5 Do you let tie-dye dry before washing?
- 6 Do I rinse tie dye in cold or hot water?
- 7 Do you wash tie dye in hot or cold water?
- 8 What to do with tie dye after you dye it?
- 9 Why did my tie dye wash out?
- 10 Why did my tie dye bleed?
- 11 How do you tie dye without squirting bottles?
- 12 What kind of string do you use for tie dye?
How do you tie a tie dye shirt?
How to do it:
- Place your shirt flat on the surface of your workstation. Consolidate the shirt into a ball by wrapping it with six to ten rubber bands, enough to ensure that it retains its shape. To dye the shirt, use your squeeze bottle to apply a single color of dye to the whole garment. However, it should not be dripping wet but should be well pigmented.
How do you tie dye a shirt for beginners?
Let’s get started learning how to tie dye.
- Prepare the necessary items. Prewashing the clothing is required prior to dyeing them with tie dye. Make a mixture of your dyes. If required, pre-soak your item before washing it. Fold and knot the clothing you’re wearing. There are a plethora of different methods to fold and knot your cloth. To use the dye, apply it. Allow time for the colour to set. Wear your clothing once it has been rinsed and washed.
Should shirt be wet or dry to tie dye?
Organize and prepare the necessary resources. It is necessary to prewash the items before to dyeing them in tie dye. Make a dye mixture. It may be required to pre-soak your garment. Fold and knot the outfit you want to wear. Folding and tying your cloth may be done in several ways. The dye should be applied. Allow enough time for the dye to set. Wear your clothing once it has been rinsed and washed;
How do you tie dye fabric step by step?
How to Tie Dye Fabric (with Pictures):
- Prepare for battle. As you labor, dress in old clothes or a thick, protective apron with rubber gloves on your hands. Make the dye mixture according per package directions. Prepare the cloth by washing and drying it. Fabric should be dyed. Test the dye work many times.
- Repeat. Allow time for the colour to set. Remove the cloth from the dryer.
Do you let tie-dye dry before washing?
According to The Adair Group, an Atlanta-based apparel manufacturer, you should wait around 24 hours before washing your garments to ensure that the dye has had enough time to set. Wearing gloves and giving your items a thorough rinse under running water to remove any extra color is recommended when it comes time to give them their first cleaning.
Do I rinse tie dye in cold or hot water?
Tie-dyed fabrics should be washed in cold water first, just as they should be when hand-rinsing. This permits the free dye to be washed away gradually, avoiding the cloth from losing too much color all at once, as would otherwise happen.
Do you wash tie dye in hot or cold water?
Other garments will be stained by the loose and extra colour. Use hot water to achieve the greatest results since the strong heat helps to establish the color. Also, make sure your washing machine is set to the lowest load possible.
What to do with tie dye after you dye it?
Once your dye has had time to set, it’s time for the moment of truth to arrive. Return to the sink or bathtub and remove any rubber bands from your masterpieces to unveil them to the world once again! Each item should be rinsed individually under warm water until the water runs clear, removing any excess colour.
Why did my tie dye wash out?
Temperature: If the mixture of colors, cloth, and soda ash was not sufficiently heated (above seventy degrees Fahrenheit or twenty degrees Celsius), the reaction will not proceed as expected. During the cooler months, if I’m dying outside, I wrap each item in plastic wrap so that it may be stored in a warm spot overnight before washing it.
Why did my tie dye bleed?
What caused my tie dye to bleed? Using too much dye may cause the colors of your tie dye to blend together. When the dye is no longer able to soak into the shirt, it forms puddles on the fabric, which can subsequently seep onto regions of the shirt that you intended to keep dye-free.
How do you tie dye without squirting bottles?
Close one hand around the point of the tee-pee and secure it with a rubber band; then continue to secure it along the length of it with rubber bands. stripes: fold the shirt vertically or diagonally, like an accordion or fan, in 2″ to 3″ broad folds, to create stripes on the shirt’s front and back. Then, using rubber bands every 2″ to 3″ or as needed, secure the package.
What kind of string do you use for tie dye?
A kite string is the most commonly used substitute for rubber bands when doing tie-dye projects. Most craft stores have this sort of string, which is inexpensive and readily available. The string may be just about any type of string, but kite string in particular is both inexpensive and durable. Another alternative, which is more complex, is to use waxed thread. | <urn:uuid:c8e32c2e-e92c-4bb6-a3da-18982488ea46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lasostashop.com/interesting/how-to-tie-a-tie-dye-shirt-perfect-answer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931 | 1,334 | 2.359375 | 2 |
A rugged 2262 square mile landlocked region bounded by the Jordan River and Dead Sea in the east and the Jordanian frontline of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in the west has been associated with many names over millennia of human inhabitation. Presently, the area is most commonly referred to as the ‘West Bank’ or ‘Judea and Samaria.’ The West Bank is the translation of an Arabic term differentiating land on the west and east banks of the Jordan River which was popularized after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Judea and Samaria refers to the homeland of the ancient Israelite tribe Judah and the ancient city Samaria which became the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Judea and Samaria has rich religious and historical significance to the major Abrahamic religions because most of the events in the Bible occurred in that region. Key events such as Abraham’s migration to Canaan (a biblical name for the region), the ancient Israelites’ re-settlement of Canaan around 12th century BCE, and much of the following millennium of the Hebrew biblical record took place in Judea and Samaria. Many New Testament events also occurred in Judea and Samaria including Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, Jesus’ healing of the blind near Jericho, Jesus’ crucifixion in Jerusalem, and various acts of the early Christian church and apostles. Judea and Samaria is uniquely important to Muslims because the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey to heaven occurred in Jerusalem at the present-day shrine the Dome of the Rock. This rich and complex religious history continues to shape geopolitical realities and international relations in Judea and Samaria and the surrounding region.
In the wake of World War II, the United Kingdom withdrew its mandate to govern Mandatory Palestine (comprised of present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the United Nations issued Resolution 181 to make Jerusalem an international city and partition the territory into independent Arab and Jewish states. The newly formed Arab League rejected this proposal and domestic tensions grew into a civil war between Arabs and Jews in 1947. When the Jews declared the creation of the State of Israel, neighboring Arab countries declared war on Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ensued. As a result of the war, Israel lost control of Judea and Samaria including East Jerusalem. In the following decades, Israel would reclaim Judea and Samaria in the Six-Day War (1967) and sign the Oslo Accords (1993 and 1995).
The Oslo Accords created mutual recognition between the State of Israel and the newly created quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority. Additionally, the Oslo Accords were designed to offer greater self-governance to Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Significantly, the Oslo Accords divided Judea and Samaria into three zones which have changed over time but currently have the following characteristics:
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The CSA voucher benefit provides direct value to your employees at the same time as supporting the local farm economy. CSR programs demonstrate a commitment to the community and, particularly in the case of organic farms, a commitment to the environment. Sustainable CSR programs support healthy communities, a healthy environment, and healthy businesses. They also strengthen image of the employer in the community.
Culture of Wellness in the Workplace
CSA employees contribute substantially to creating a culture of wellness in the workplace through discussions of nutrition and food preparation strategies. Work-site delivery creates unique food environment for employees. 1
Healthy Employees are Present and Productive
Studies show that workplace wellness programs help reduce absenteeism in employees by creating healthier workers. 2
CSA Impact on Medical Expenses
Health care and insurance costs are rising nationally. CSA participants report positive changes in food lifestyle behaviors. These changes may lead to lower health expenditures over time. 3
Health Benefits are Particularly Amplified Among Lower Health Employees
While most CSA participants experience some positive lifestyle changes, individuals in lower health prior to CSA notice the largest changes. 4
Impacts and Benefits Get Stronger Over Time
Employees gain familiarity with vegetable-based food preparation and can learn from participation in supplementary education programs. Longer-term participants noticed the most profound changes in food lifestyle behaviors. 5
Food as a Family and Community Builder
CSA participants create relationships with farmers. They gain a sense for where their food comes from, how to prepare meals, and where they can find local food in their community. 6
CSA unique broader impact in employee family/household
CSA participants share produce with their families, friends, and co-workers. The potential wellness impact extends beyond the immediate recipient of the CSA.
Employees feel better about their employer
In surveys conducted after CSA season, participants consistently note having a more positive feeling about their employer. They begin recognizing the employer’s longer-term commitment to their health. CSA is a strong and unique complement to other traditional existing employee wellness programs.
Cost-effective program for the employer
With many potential health and lifestyle benefits, CSA may reduce medical costs and increase usage of preventative medical care. CSA incentives cost about $200/year per participant + program support. The experience lasts 20-22 weeks. The weekly repetition of the CSA program creates an important educational experience for the participant. 7
1 Many organizations, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, are interesting building a ‘Culture of Health’. Work-sites are important locations for creating healthy communities. See www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/building-a-culture-of-health.html
2 Berry, Mirabito, and Baun (2010). “What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs?” Harvard Busines Review, December. Mays Business School Research Paper No. 2012-68.
2 Parks and Steelman (2008). “Organizational Wellness Programs: A Meta-Analysis.” J Occup Health Psychol. 13/1:58-68.
3 Rossi, J. J., Woods, T. A., & Allen, J. E. (2017). Impacts of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Voucher Program on Food Lifestyle Behaviors: Evidence from an Employer-Sponsored Pilot Program. Sustainability, 9(9).
4 Allen IV, J. E., Rossi, J., Woods, T. A., & Davis, A. F. (2017). Do community supported agriculture programmes encourage change to food lifestyle behaviours and health outcomes? New evidence from shareholders. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 15(1), 70-82.
5 See Allen et al. 2017 as cited above.
6 See Rossi et al. 2017 as cited above.
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Which Country Is Best For Study And Part Time Job?
It is the dream of every student to study abroad. Many get a chance to study in the US or Europe. Canada and Australia are also great favorites as a student destination. The reason for this is not hard to discover. The universities abroad have curricula that are updated more frequently after interaction with industry. In a changing world, it is necessary that the degree is as up-to-date as possible.
But when to comes to study abroad not only does a student need a superb academic record as well as pass a test of English language,
such as TOEFL or IELTS, they also have to spend quite a large sum of money. A scholarship may pay for tuition but not for board and
food. The cost of living abroad is enormous and in terms of Indian currency, not something most students can afford. Hence a part-time
job is the best source of income. Aspire World Immigration offers tremendous amount of guidance to students travelling abroad who need
advice about part-time work. And also have Free Online IELTS Coaching Classes you can learn Ielts online free of cost.
But all countries do not allow part-time work easily. Many do grant a part-time work visa for students, but it is by no means a given. Different countries have different rules and requirements for part-time work by someone who is not a citizen.
Nations that allow part time students to work
Here is a list of nations that allow work while studying:
Germany - For those who are not language students can take up full-time employment for up to 120 days. Those working part-time are allowed to work 240 days in a year.
United Kingdom - Students who are in the UK on a Tier 4 student visa can work 10 to 20 hours every week. This increases to 40 hours a week during vacations such as summer and Christmas period.
Ireland - Ireland does not allow a fresher to work. After completing a year of study, a student is allowed 20 hours a week of part-time work. During vacations, one can work full time.
Singapore - For those who are enrolled with a government approved university a temporary work permit is issued which allows up to 16 hours of work every week.
Australia - During the term period, the student is allowed to work for 40 hours during every 14 days. During vacation, there is no restriction on full-time work.
It is difficult to single out the best nation in this respect due to difference in minimum wage but Germany allows maximum number of working days to students and has no minimum wage restrictions in place.
Thus a student can underbid other possible employees and receive work quite easily.
It is important than any student who is studying abroad checks the latest rules upon arrival in the country. Unemployment is
a thorny issue around the world. The local population does not like foreign students undercutting their labor rates and taking
up employment. Breaking rules may result in deportation and a tremendous waste of finances and energy. Usually, all universities
that allow foreign students to study have a student handler assigned for the first 6 months to a year. They are able to provide
accurate information about which jobs to apply for to make ends meet.
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Many Catholics were cheered this week upon hearing that the dictator of Cuba Raul Castro has told the pope he might return to the folds of the church. When the game is cheating the devil out of souls, deathbed conversions are considered the ultimate Hail Mary pass.
So hopes were lifted when Castro, upon meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican during a visit to thank him for brokering an unequal deal with President Obama, said, “if the pope continues to speak this way, sooner or later I could start praying again and return to the Catholic Church. I’m not kidding.”
But the odds are that the angels will have to wait for Castro’s conversion a bit longer. One supremely cynical action he took during his trip Sunday should put us on notice that his statements to the pontiff were in keeping with traditional communist duplicity to confuse believers and skeptics alike.
In the official exchange of gifts, Castro gave Pope Francis a picture of a cross made of migrants’ boats and with a migrant kneeling before it. In doing this, Castro and the cadre that surrounds him once again proved themselves to be canny observers of world events and of having a deep understanding of their host’s concerns.
Europe is being hit by a new wave of desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North and sub-Saharan Africa. Hundreds have died as crammed makeshift boats sink during the perilous voyage. Francis has clashed with European governments by asking them to throw their doors open to the migrants.
The men from Havana were obviously well aware of this situation and knew this was a media opportunity they could not pass up—show the world you’re on the side of the compassionate by siding with the oppressed and their spokesman, Francis.
In other words, Castro and his henchmen were behaving like communists always do. As we know from a recent Catholic News Agency interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa, one of the highest ranking Iron Curtain defectors in the 1970s, the KGB itself created Liberation Theology.
This quasi-Communist movement, very important in Latin America in the 1970s and 80s but less so today, emphasized the oppressed vs. oppressor Marxist narrative. As Pacepa told Catholic News Agency, the plan was that the “the KGB take secret control of the World Council of Churches (WCC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and use it as cover for converting Liberation Theology into a South American revolutionary tool.”
The depths of cynicism were reached of course not in the motives for the gift but with the gift itself. Cuba became a wealthy island in the 20th century by producing many things: sugar, tobacco, rum, music, etc. Since the Castros took over in 1959 and established communism shortly thereafter, Cuba has been known for producing only one thing: exiles.
Between one-tenth and one-twentieth of the population have fled (estimates vary), and they’re the lucky ones. Those left behind have all of their civil rights suppressed—whether it’s freedom of the press, of religion, of free speech, of free association, etc. None of them now exists.
No wonder then that Cubans still constantly try to flee the land of their births by crossing the shark-infested Florida Straits on rickety rafts. Tens of thousands have died at high seas, according to Maria Werlau, executive director of the Cuba Archive Truth and Memory Project. But the shame for Raul Castro and his goons doesn’t stop there.
When they catch these rafts and boats, they don’t tow them back to the island, they sink them. It happened most recently—that we know of—on Dec. 20, three days after Obama announced the U.S. would extend recognition to the Castro regime.
Any talk that Raul Castro would be seen crossing himself on a regular basis at a pew at Havana Cathedral would be belied by his government’s track record of repressing Catholics, keeping them out of the Communist Party, the universities, the good jobs and all the perks that come from keeping your head down in his socialist paradise.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
I have recently returned from a nine-day trip to Turkey. It’s been almost five years since I’ve traveled internationally, so I was excited that a trip that I thought would most likely not happen this year due to the COVID pandemic in fact did.
I was able to travel with my dad through Educational Opportunities, which is a company he has been a host with for a few years. The trip gave us the opportunity to be a part of a group that explored the country and learned about the history behind prominent places in the early Christian church.
As excited as I was to get to take part in this opportunity, I was somewhat dreading it as well. With three kids, two of which are in the throws of spring activities and one who is at the age where all you do is chase him, it makes leaving the country a logistical nightmare for my husband without help. In addition, having one work project that had gone haywire and two more that needed to be wrapped up, led me to be apprehensive about leaving for an extended period of time. I was exhausted preparing to be gone by the time I got on the plane to exit the country.
Nevertheless, travel is and most likely always will be an opportunity for me to grow and learn. I need to set aside time to do it. The trip reiterated for me the importance of building the muscles of openness to experience and what benefits it can bring to our people interactions, work performance, and leadership skills.
Psychology Today describes openness to experience in this way and articulates some of its benefits:
In the field of psychology, openness to experience refers to our measurable individual interest in art and beauty, our attention to our sensations and feelings, our intellectual curiosity, our preference for variety, and our active imagination. Put simply, it is the drive to explore novel aspects of human experience and the willingness to consider perspectives different than your own.
Openness is also an essential trait of successful innovators and creatives throughout history. With an appreciation of diverse perspectives and a willingness to try new things, you can better navigate daily challenges and discover novel solutions. Studies even show that openness to experience positively correlates with increased job performance and more creativity.
Openness to experience is also positively correlated to leadership.
Travel is one of the best ways to cultivate “novel aspects of human experience and the willingness to consider perspectives different than your own.” But you don’t have to travel halfway around the world to strengthen your openness to experience muscles. Here are four steps to thinking about travel as a way to grow your openness experience and thus your ability to innovate, think creatively, and lead:
1. Travel the place you call home. No matter how small the place you call home is, you most likely have not seen it all. There are streets I’ve never driven down in the town I live in. I drive the same routes seeing the same things every day, as most of us do. Take a day to go a different way to work, or school or the store, paying close attention to the novel surroundings. Pick a place that is close to home where you’ve never eaten, never shopped, or never explored and go there instead of where you always frequent. What new thoughts do these new places bring to mind?
2. Travel through a good book. Opening your mind may just mean opening a new book as often as you can. Choose books about places you’ve never been, people who are different than you are, and on topics, you’ve never explored. What can the book teach you about something you’ve never experienced and where does it prompt you to explore further?
3. Travel through new relationships. One of the most fulfilling things about our trip to Turkey was our local guide, “Art”. Art’s knowledge of Turkish history, as well as current events, was unbelievable. Raised in a conservative Muslim home where she often felt controlled and stifled, she was the first person in her family to receive a college education. She spoke openly about her opinions about politics, religion, and the history that has impacted the country she calls home. She referred to us all as “family” and was an open and active listener when it came to both the group’s questions and opinions that may or may not have mirrored her own. Despite so many differences in my experiences and hers, I found so many parallels as well, and I will continue to reflect on her impact.
Art in action in Ephesus.
New relationships could be with people that live in your neighborhood, or it could be with someone halfway around the world. Our relationships with the literal neighbors we have that are in different stages of life than we are have been invaluable. Just as valuable has been the relationships I’ve cultivated with “neighbors” around the world; I had the privilege of attending graduate school with a diverse group of people. One individual was a Fulbright Scholar from Oman. She now lives back in Oman and has three children. My two oldest children are now pen pals with her oldest two. The dialogue between children living a world away, with a different faith background, and in a very different culture has prompted wonderful questions from my children that I know will grow their openness to experience whether they ever get the chance to visit the Middle East in their lifetime or not.
What “neighbor” across the street or around the world can you correspond with regularly? What can you gain from their insights and experiences?
4. Travel to a faraway place. What place(s) in the world would you suspect are the most different from your day-to-day world? If time and resources allow, I’d encourage you to go there. Whereas Turkey was more westernized than I had envisioned, there were so many unique aspects of the country that exposed me to new landscapes, people, food, architecture, and ways of operating. The call to prayer five times a day regardless of whether we were in Istanbul, a city of 18 million people, or in a rural town where most people are farmers was an opportunity to reflect on a cultural norm in a country that is 99+% Muslim all while exploring the foundational places of the early Christian church. It provided a very unique way to reflect on religion and faith and the way in which both have shaped history and current events.
As travel opens back up across the globe, how can you set aside time and resources to make a trip full of learning and reflection happen for you?
Novel experiences allow us to reflect on new norms and ways of being that could be relevant to our world and open us to broader possibilities. You don’t have to travel around the world to be open to and experience something new and for the journey to be fun.
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In this modern day and age, it’s common to be fearful of the many diseases that are around. Indeed, there are lots of horrible diseases out there, which can be particularly harmful for children. One of the most common, and serious diseases that afflict children is the Chikungunya virus. As a parent or guardian, it’s our duty to make sure that our children do not contract such serious illnesses such as Chikungunya. Hence, this article will go through tips on how parents and guardians can make sure that their kids do not get the Chikungunya virus.
First of all, it is important to understand what exactly Chikungunya is. Chikungunya is a viral illness which is known to cause very high fevers along with rashes all over the body. The virus is primarily transmitted through mosquitoes and is very prevalent in poorer, rural communities. In addition, the mortality rate of the virus is quite low in comparison to other diseases, with 1 in 1000 people contracting the diseases dying from it. That being said, it is still quite a serious disease and children are especially prone to getting the virus.
One of the best tips for preventing Chikungunya in children is to always make sure that insect repellant is applied generously before going out into shrub, forest or dense environmental areas. Mosquitoes, specifically ones that carry the Chikungunya virus are most commonly found in very densely inhabited natural environments, such as rainforests. If you and your children are going to go camping or hiking in an outdoor environment, always make sure to have insect repellant at the ready to ensure that no mosquitoes will be biting any of you.
Furthermore, another important tip in preventing Chikungunya not only in yourself but your kids is to wear proper clothing. You may have heard that the best way to avoid getting bitten by a snake is to wear long pants which covers all of your legs. The same goes for preventing a mosquito transmitting Chikungunya. Always wear clothing which covers all of your bare legs, and if possible, a shirt which covers all of your arms. Making sure to cover your exposed body parts will make it much more difficult for mosquitoes to come and transmit the Chikungunya virus.
Another important tip is to do your research before going into a densely inhabited environmental area. Look up on the internet and ask locals about the prevalence of Chikungunya in the area. There are many informative sites on the internet which will show you high risk areas for Chikungunya. It is these places that you and your kids should avoid to further ensure that no-one will get the horrible viral illness.
All of the tips presented in this article will ensure that you and your kids will have a great time outdoors without ever having a worry about contracting a horrible illness such as Chikungunya. Make sure to read over this article to make sure you understand each and every point presented in the article. | <urn:uuid:414a2f89-ff87-45fb-be3b-9758734e7b59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebloggingdoctors.com/best-tips-keep-kids-chikungunya-virus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960413 | 624 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University is proud to make available this exciting excursion in which we will travel through Romania (including Transylvania), Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. Among the heavy wave of settlers into Central Appalachia during the early 20th Century's Industrial Revolution, many immigrants came from these Eastern European countries. Settling in coal camps and other industrial places, these Eastern Europeans brought with them varied traditions, customs, storytelling, and other folkloric elements that are still perpetuated in parts of Central Appalachia. Unfortunately, until 1989, Eastern Europe was a foreboding place, plagued with the remnants of war and communism. Now Eastern Europe is open and welcoming. The time is right, therefore, for this culturally diverse area to be studied and celebrated. Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe, collected by Dr. Ruth Ann Musick, is an important guide to various sites and content that will comprise this particular study abroad program. Our hosts for this special adventure will be Dr. Judy Prozzillo Byers, Director, and Noel W. Tenney, Cultural Specialist, both of the Folklife Center. They will travel with us and help us connect to the similarities between folklife in our Appalachia and the unique countries we will be visiting. The myths and legends will fascinate and entertain us along the way. We will visit castles, folklife museums, famous cities, historical villages, cathedrals, and ancient sites while learning about and researching this truly fascinating region of Europe. | <urn:uuid:f43288f5-0f95-4752-ba44-a94735f3e7ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fairmontstate.edu/folklife/roads-appalachia-study-abroad/roads-appalachia-through-eastern-europe-2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.935708 | 317 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Have a Makey Makey at home?
Ready to start inventing from home? I’ve been working really hard at creating a course that kids can take on their own while they are at home! The first five lessons are live, but I am still making new classes to help you start inventing with everyday objects you have at home!
With Makey Makey, you can plug and play right out of the box, make a banana piano, or create a game controller with Play-doh. Take this course from the resource page on our website so you can invent musical instruments, create voting machines, or even light up paper circuits.
Connect Makey Makey to the conductive objects in your home and you can instantaneously give the objects in your living room new purpose!
Lesson One: How Does a Circuit Work?
Learn how a simple circuit works so you can create your first circuit and light your first LED! You will learn how to craft a simple circuit, learn how Makey Makey works by completing a circuit, and learn how humans can connect to make a key press on your computer!
Make and Craft a Simple Circuit
Lesson Two: How Does Makey Makey Work?
Learn how Makey Makey works so you can start inventing! You will, make a simple sketch of Makey Makey, use your hands to trigger Makey Makey for piano, build a human circuit, and play and explore with Makey Makey.
Head to Hands on a Makey Makey!
Lesson Three: What is Conductive?
Makey Makey works by alligator clipping into everyday things that have some conductivity. When you hook an alligator clip into a banana and you hold an alligator clip connected to EARTH, you are actually the conductive stuff that closes the circuit and makes Makey Makey work! But what materials can we use with Makey Makey besides bananas? What does it mean for an item to be conductive? or an insulator? or even a resistor? Let’s set up a simple experiment to find out! In this lesson, you will make a conductivity testing board to test items for conductivity; learn that everything in the world is either or conductive or an insulator; and start to ideate inventions with everyday stuff you can find in your home.
Experiment with What is Conductive?
Lesson Four: Can you Draw a Playable Instrument?
In this lesson, you will draw your own instrument and plug it up to our piano app to play it. However, there are many pianos you can use to plug and play with Makey Makey, or you can even design your own instrument app in Scratch!
Lesson Five: Coding Key Presses in Scratch
If you have not used Scratch with Makey Makey before, this class is designed for you! Try following along with the create-along style video to code key presses in Scratch. Learn more about specific areas of Scratch to help you learn how to create your own game with ease! | <urn:uuid:1ff93b41-4fb3-496f-9d62-d4d51287c33e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://colleengraves.org/2020/04/15/athome-steam-learning-for-kids-at-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.913292 | 654 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Fresh green beans are available year around in the produce section of our grocery stores. Or, you may have an abundance of green beans in your garden. I remember when I was growing up, my Mom would spend several days canning green beans because we had so many of them. But, we enjoyed the canned green beans all year long.
Because they are so readily available, I usually cook them at least once a week But, if you are a beginning cook…. or one who has always cooked vegetables from the canned goods section or the freezer section…..what do you do with fresh green beans???? Here’s my success secret for fresh cut green beans….
Rinse the beans thoroughly under cool running water in a colander. Use kitchen scissors to clip off the ends of each bean. Clip the ends in a bowl to discard and put the clipped beans in another bowl. ( Have you noticed that I use kitchen scissors in almost every meal? They are such a great time saver for many of the chores we do.)
Now you are ready to cook the beans. Be sure to try my Crock Pot Green Beans recipe that is pictured here. It combines green beans, halved new potatoes and chunks of ham for home style goodness. And the best part of this recipe is that the crock pot does all of the work for you. | <urn:uuid:ed053a63-4234-4ef9-a19d-d329a86ac1e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makelifespecial.com/success-secret-how-to-snip-fresh-green-beans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950891 | 272 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Social Security System is widely regarded as an untouchable “third rail” in electoral politics. Since I am not running for public office, I’ll tell you about the dark side of this granddaddy of all federal entitlement programs.
First, it started with a lie. In 1935, the Social Security Act received enough congressional votes to pass only after adoption of the Clark Amendment - a promise by Social Security’s sponsors to study proposed private-sector alternatives to Social Security so that Americans could have a choice. That promise was broken once President Roosevelt signed the act on Aug. 14, 1935. Thus was an uncompetitive government monopoly foisted on the American people.
Second, it undermined our constitutional order. The Constitution doesn’t authorize the federal government to become involved in the personal financial planning of American citizens, yet Congress and FDR arrogated that extraconstitutional power to themselves. Ever since, the Constitution has been progressively mutilated.
Third, it raises the price of labor, thereby reducing demand for labor. When this wage tax was first collected in 1937, a time of high unemployment, it aggravated the Great Depression’s unemployment problem. The tax then was 2 percent (1 percent showing on workers’ pay stubs and another 1 percent collected from the employer). Today, the combined tax on employment for Social Security and its Medicare amendment is 15.3 percent. It is no coincidence that with this significant tax on workers, unemployment rates seem permanently higher than before.
Fourth, it inaugurated the reckless fiscal policy of “spend now, pay later” that has become standard operating procedure in Washington. Elected officials repeatedly added numerous benefit increases during election years. Politicians discovered that Americans love a Santa Claus government that bestows gifts upon them, and they refined the art of buying votes with money we don’t have.
Fifth, it created a moral hazard. The savings rate of Americans declined over the years as Americans grew to expect that government would care for us during retirement. So dependent did Americans become on Uncle Sam that we even stopped procreating enough children either to take care of us directly or to provide enough workers to fund promised payouts.
Sixth, it has perpetrated a massive fraud on us. During its “golden age” from 1940 to 1980, Social Security seemed too good to be true. From Ida May Fuller, the first recipient retiree, who drew out $22,888.92 after paying $24.75 into the system, up to 1980, when the average retiree would go on to receive lifetime benefits of $203,000 on payments into the system of $93,000, Americans fell in love with Social Security, elevating it to the “sacred cow” status it still enjoys. Social Security’s handsome returns weren’t economic reality, but an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Today, it is projected that an average-earning worker retiring in 2030 will get back $62,000 less than he pays in to Social Security.
Seventh, Social Security is socialistic in tendency. It explicitly forbids private competitors and commingles workers’ taxes with general revenues under the total control of the federal Treasury. In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled in Flemming v. Nestor that Social Security “contributions” are not “accrued property rights.” Commentators often regard Flemming as an indication that the government will someday default on its promised payouts. Another possibility is this: Since property rights already have been disrespected in the structure of Social Security, why won’t additional property rights be trashed when the government starts to have difficulty funding promised payouts? President Obama and his liberal congressional allies would love to redistribute property from “the rich” to keep the Social Security program going.
Eighth, Mr. Obama did us a favor on Sept. 8 by explicitly calling Social Security deposits “a tax,” thereby finally putting to rest the dissembling mumbo-jumbo that workers pay “contributions, not taxes.” However, Mr. Obama more than offset this favor by extending last year’s reduction of payroll deductions paid into the system at the very time that its expenditures exceed revenues, thereby exacerbating its fiscal woes.
Ninth, the accrued unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare total in the tens of trillions of dollars. These entitlements are the major reason why the United States finds itself squarely on the path to national bankruptcy.
Tenth, and finally, look ahead: Social Security is already actuarially unsound. What will happen when biotech breakthroughs enable most of us to live to be 100? Some researchers say these developments are imminent. Wouldn’t it be ironic if we literally can’t afford to live longer?
Sorry to rain on your parade and your comfortable delusions about Social Security, but it has been a disaster for our country. This “sacred cow” is a destructive beast. We never should have let government get involved in something as personal, private and important as our retirement and health care. We seem too addicted to Social Security to wean ourselves from it, and soon the piper will come to be paid.
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Eating Seasonally and Locally with Community Supported Agriculture
The first box arrived in March, filled with asparagus, bok choy, chives, chickpeas, cilantro, mixed greens, rhubard, and spinach. Each week the bounty continued until only a couple of weeks ago, ending with the twenty-sixth delivery. Included in the last box were pumpkins, apples, radishes, bok choy, tomatoes, brussels sprouts, gourds, leeks, butternut squash, and acorn squash.
I miss Thursday afternoons. That was the day that we’d head down the dusty, dirt road to pick up our delivery. Even though the drive was only one mile from our home, my family anticipated the outing.
My family ate well over the course of several months and we are so thankful for Schreiber and Sons.
Two pumpkins remain, waiting to be consumed. For Thanksgiving our family savored a pie made from one of the several pumpkins we received over the last several weeks. Tomorrow we’ll dine on pumpkin soup. The pumpkin puree that’s left over will go into the freezer. We'll add the puree to muffins, pancakes, and more soup.
Baking a Pumpkin
Once you’ve used fresh pumpkin in a recipe, you may never open a can of pumpkin puree again.
To make pumpkin puree, cut a pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds and place halves cut side down in a large pan covered with a thin layer of water. Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes until soft. When cooled, remove the pumpkin from the shell and puree in a blender or food processor. Excess puree may be stored in the freezer.
Use the seeds to make toasted pumpkin seeds. Rinse off the seeds, pat them dry, and spread a layer of seeds on an olive oil greased pan. Sprinkle with a bit of salt and bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 20 minutes.
Here’s a soup recipe that is simple to make and flavorful.
Pumpkins - Not Only Used for Jack-o’-lanterns – Soup
1 diced onion
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 cups chicken or vegetable broth
4 cups cooked, pureed pumpkin
½ cup cream
½ cup milk
In a large pot, sauté onion in 1 tablespoon of olive oil until translucent. Add broth and pureed pumpkin and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring periodically. Gently stir in cream and milk. Remove from heat. Top each serving with a dollop of sour cream and toasted pumpkin seeds. For an extra kick, add chili pepper flakes. Yields 6 servings. | <urn:uuid:e68ee942-579d-4438-948c-4b8702d6de1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://legacy.grit.com/food/gratitude-buffet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.925488 | 572 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Our dairy farmers are very aware that their livelihoods depend on their land and their animals. As one of our dairy farmers stated, “We make our living from these cows. We’ve got to treat our land and our animals with the utmost care – it wouldn’t make any sense to do it otherwise.” Today, dairy farmers use the most innovative tools available to enhance the productivity of their land, practice the most modern care for their animals, and protect the environment.
- Women make up 36% of today's farmers
- Farming employs more than 24 million American workers (17%) of workforce
- The world population will jump from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, farmers will need to double food production by then to keep pace
- While there are more than two million farms across the country, farmers and ranchers make up just 2% of the U.S. population | <urn:uuid:c463c86b-a93c-4e39-b46e-6bbfed05f5d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://southwestdairyfarmers.com/pages/farmer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948889 | 191 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Months after Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico, the island continues to face numerous challenges, among them, an overwhelming animal welfare crisis. An incalculable number of companion animals were lost and abandoned during evacuations, further contributing to the island’s growing stray population of more than 100,000 animals. Those pets who remained with their owners on the island remained at risk to deadly illnesses due to contaminated water and food, as well as the lack of available veterinary services and their owners’ ability to afford care. Small numbers of animals have been transported from the island to be adopted on the mainland, but what about all the pets left behind?
BISSELL Pet Foundation’s Emergency Grants allow us to act quickly to provide needed assistance in cases of natural disasters. In the fall of 2017, BPF supported You Can Make a Difference, Inc (YCMAD), a BPF partner in Florida’s panhandle, with a $10,000 grant to help hundreds of pets in Puerto Rico. The BPF grant allows YCMAD to address the growing need for veterinary care and provide vaccine and wellness services for the pets on the island, as well as spay/neuter procedures to reduce the future homeless population. In a time of so much frustration and sadness, the grant gives welcome relief to both residents and pets of Puerto Rico.
As of late January, YCMAD has used grant funds to issue 100 vouchers to give pets vaccines and spay/neuter procedures, with a waiting list of prospective residents also hoping to receive assistance. While many pets remain in need, the grant made a significant impact in an urgent situation. Additionally, BPF and YCMAD’s work contributes to a broader effort of raising the island’s awareness about animal welfare and the importance of spay/neuter. The future is already brighter for pets in Puerto Rico.
You Can Make A Difference saw the need and truly made a difference for pets that were forgotten and owners who were desperate for help. BISSELL Pet Foundation is proud to partner on such an important project! | <urn:uuid:2506d30e-b26e-4725-aadd-db35d7fd5276> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bissellpetfoundation.org/news/making-difference-pets-puerto-rico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.954939 | 428 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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The effects of curve registration on linear models of jump performance and classification based on vertical ground reaction forces
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Functional principal components define modes of variation in time series, which represent characteristic movement patterns in biomechanical data. Their usefulness however depends on the prior choices made in data processing. Recent research showed that better curve alignment achieved with registrati...
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Functional principal components define modes of variation in time series, which represent characteristic movement patterns in biomechanical data. Their usefulness however depends on the prior choices made in data processing. Recent research showed that better curve alignment achieved with registration (dynamic time warping) reduces errors in linear models predicting jump height. However, the efficacy of registration in different preprocessing combinations, including time normalisation, padding and feature extraction, is largely unknown. A more comprehensive analysis is needed, given the potential value of registration to machine learning in biomechanics. We evaluated popular preprocessing methods combined with registration, creating 512 models based on ground reaction force data from 385 countermovement jumps. The models either predicted jump height or classified jumps into those performed with or without arm swing. Our results show that the classification models benefited from registration in various forms, particularly when landmarks were placed at critical points. The best classifier achieved a 5.5 percentage point improvement over the equivalent unregistered model. However, registration was detrimental to the jump height models, although this performance variable may be a special case given its direct relationship with impulse. Our meta-models revealed the relative contributions made by various preprocessing operations, highlighting that registration does not generalise so well to new data. Nonetheless, our analysis shows the potential for registration in further biomechanical applications, particularly in classification, when combined with the other appropriate preprocessing operations.
Curve registration; Dynamic Time Warping; Functional Principal Component Analysis; Analysis of Characterising Phases; Countermovement jump; Classification models
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Then, Larry Krauss responds.
To assume that the universe is fine-tuned for life because we exist in a universe in which we can exist—this is a little like a single individual, alone in the world, looking down at his legs and finding that they are remarkably fine-tuned to touch the ground. A millimeter shorter and they wouldn’t make it. A millimeter longer and they would be buried underground. Thanks to gravity, no such fine-tuning is required. In a cosmic sense, we are like the isolated individual. We simply do not know enough to ascribe significance to things that may be accidental, or that may be governed by some underlying principle, like the existence of gravity.Lawrence Krauss, “Cosmology without Design” at Inference Review (Vol. 5, No. 3 / September 2020)
Cosmological fine-tuning exemplifies just the kind of evidence we would expect to find if a purposeful and intelligent agent had acted in the past to design the universe as a fit habitat for life. It does not seem to be the kind of evidence that one would expect if the universe had arisen from “blind, pitiless indifference.” Nor do Professor Krauss’s arguments alter this probability calculus.Steve Meyer, “Cosmology without Design reply” at Inference Review (Vol. 6, No. 1 / April 2021)
If, as Meyer seems to require, life must be like the life we experience on earth, presumably designed in the image of God, then the Universe is a horribly poor environment. In almost every other location we see in the Universe, life like our own cannot arise. Indeed, even here, our survival involves a constant battle against a harsh and seemingly indifferent universe that is trying to kill us, as it eventually will. But why must life be like our own? Meyer argues, without any underlying evidence, that life has to exist on rocky planets like our own. But some, like my late colleague Freeman Dyson, argued cogently that in the long run, other sorts of intelligent life could arise even in the very “diffuse clouds of hydrogen” that Meyer finds so inhospitable—the black clouds of Fred Hoyle. The rules for such life-forms would undoubtedly be very different than for us.Lawrence Krauss, “Cosmology without Design reply” to Meyer, at Inference Review “(Vol. 6, No. 1 / April 2021)“
We await Meyer’s reply… he won’t disappoint us.
If you are stuck in some ridiculous lockdown, be sure to find a link to Inference Review and order in lots of good coffee.
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Looking for a new family dentist in your area? Since there are different types of dentists to choose from nowadays, choosing the right one is important. Ready to learn more about the benefits of choosing a family dentist?Considering choosing a family dentist in Brooklyn? People choose family dentists to provide them with the dental care…
Bring Your Teen to a Family Dentist for Their Oral Health
Bring your teens to our family dentist office on a regular basis. While teens can do a better job of brushing and flossing their teeth than younger children, parents need to understand that teens still need to visit the dentist on a regular basis. It is easy for parents to think that because they are older, teens can handle all of their oral health care needs on their own.
While this is certainly true in some ways, it is not true in every way. A teen is very unlikely to visit the dentist on their own. In fact, they are unlikely to even suggest scheduling an appointment. Thus, it may become necessary to handle these matters for them even if they go to college.
Oral Health Routines are important
Routines that you establish when a child is young can help to set the stage for their oral health routines as they age. Brushing and flossing with them and encouraging healthy decisions in regards to food that is selected, are all important for long-term oral health. Naturally, parents tend to be very good at this when a child is young.
As the child gets older, some parents become laxer with keeping a steady routine. While teens can be responsible, oral hygiene may be one area they slack off.
Here’s a tip for your teen’s dental health:
Continue to remind the teen and encourage making healthy decisions. These healthy routines also need to include a trip to the family dentist office. This is something that everyone, regardless of age, needs to do twice per year. By scheduling an appointment, we can remove any plaque or tartar left behind after brushing.
Protection for teeth
Good oral hygiene and regular trips to our dentist office help teeth to remain in good condition. This is important because healthy teeth are stronger teeth. Teeth that do not have cavities are less likely to break or sustain damage when connecting with something hard or just as normal course of action. Another way that parents can help to protect their older children's teeth is to encourage wearing a mouthguard while playing sports.
A guard surrounds the teeth so that if a fly ball or random elbow were to collide with the mouth, the teeth will be protected and preserved. Otherwise, it is all too common for teens to experience significant dental damage when playing sports.
Dental restorative care
If a teen does damage a tooth either through an accident or tooth decay, we have the tools necessary to restore it to a natural appearance. Keep in mind that a teen's teeth are their permanent adult teeth so it is important to ensure that any restorations look as good as possible. We use ceramic fillings and solutions like dental bonding to correct any damage. We can complete the process relatively quickly.
Bring them to our family dentist office
Help your children remain in excellent oral health as they age by scheduling an appointment with our dental office today.
For more information or to schedule an appointment with MG Dental, request an appointment in our Brooklyn dental office here: https://mgdental.com. Or call us at (718) 416-6444.
Family dentists are certified general dentists who specialize in treating patients of all ages, including children and adults. Because family dentists focus their efforts on general dentistry care, they are often tasked with diagnosing and treating cavities. Cavities are known to be infections in the teeth, which can result in long-term damage if the appropriate…
You entrust your family dentist to protect your kids’ teeth. They do not just clean the teeth, but they can also offer suggestions for maintaining oral hygiene. Find out what a family dentist has to say about juice and soda. Should kids avoid these drinks altogether or are they fine in moderation?Children tend to enjoy…
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BACK to school needn’t mean going back to boring packed lunches.
Stick to some basic rules to ensure that your kids get all the nutrition they need — then you can let your perfect picnic imagination run wild.
Always include some starchy carbohydrates — ideally wholegrain. But it needn’t be plain old slices of bread. You could try rolls, pitta breads or wraps.
Morrisons nutritionist Bryonie Hollaert says: “If your kids refuse wholegrain, try one of the white with wholemeal mixtures. They’ll never know!”
Also aim to include protein, choosing from things such as chicken, hummus, tuna, eggs and salmon.
Fruit and vegetables are essential, too.
If your kids refuse wholegrain, try one of the white with wholemeal mixtures. They’ll never know!
Bryonie says: “Fruit is usually the easy bit but it’s important that children eat plenty of veggies, too.
“Cherry tomatoes, carrot and cucumber sticks are an easy win, but you could also try sliced sweet red and yellow peppers, celery or crunchy sugar snap peas.”
Add cubed hard cheese but watch out for added salt in some pre-packed cheese snacks.
And instead of sugary yoghurts, Bryonie suggests trying plain yoghurt in a reusable pot, with raisins or other dried fruit added for sweetness.
4 tortilla wraps, 4tbsp tomato and basil hummus
2 large carrots, grated
2 little gem lettuce, shredded
2 tomatoes halved and thickly sliced
1 avocado with stone removed and thickly sliced
3 pickled beetroot cut into batons
150g sweetcorn canned and drained
Lay two tortillas, overlapping slightly, on a piece of greaseproof paper.
Spread half the hummus over the middle of the tortillas then top with half the carrot, little gem, tomato, avocado, beetroot and sweetcorn and season.
Fold the sides of the tortillas in, then roll up tightly from the bottom edge, using the paper to keep it tight.
Finally, wrap the paper round the sandwich and twist the edges to secure the roll.
Cut at an angle across the middle to create two wraps.
Repeat to make two more wraps.
The munch bunch
KEEP their tummies happy with these tasty fillings. . .
— Hummus and grated carrot.
— Cheese and avocado.
— Marmite, cream cheese and cucumber.
— Tuna and sweetcorn.
— Egg or prawn mayonnaise with lettuce and tomato.
— Tinned mackerel blended with cream cheese.
— Falafel with hummus or plain yoghurt.
— Leftovers – roast chicken or beef, sausages or salmon. Just add salad.
Apple & oaty biscuit lollies
175g self-raising flour
1tsp baking powder
80g porridge oats
1 pinch cinnamon
2tbsp golden syrup
50g dried apple finely chopped
20g chocolate dots
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4. Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking parchment. Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and stir in the oats and cinnamon.
Melt together the butter and syrup then pour over the dry ingredients, add the apple and mix well to form a soft dough.
Divide the mixture into 16 balls, push a lolly stick into each one, cover the stick with foil to prevent it browning and place well apart on the baking trays.
Flatten each one slightly and scatter with a few chocolate dots.
Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden, allow to cool on the tray for ten minutes then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
Go nutty for seeds
TRANSFORM your hungry little monsters into angels by filling them up with healthy after-school snacks.
Home-made flapjacks and whole-wheat muffins can pack in wholegrains and fruit and keep added sugars to a minimum.
Pre-packed plainer cakes such as malt loaf and scones are also good choices.
Air-popped popcorn, or homemade with just a pinch of salt or cinnamon for sweetness, contain fibre and always feels like a treat.
Combine almonds, peanuts and hazelnuts with pumpkin and sunflower seeds and toast in the oven for a few minutes, then mix with raisins and chopped, dried fruit and keep in an airtight container.
Or go for whole-wheat crackers, such as oat biscuits, with their favourite topping and a piece of fruit.
Other options are fruit toast, teacakes, brioche or a bagel topped with nut butter.
And yoghurt blended with a handful of frozen fruit makes a delicious smoothie.
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10 most expensive books writers of the 20th century
"Ulysses" Joyce, "The Catcher in the Rye" Salinger, "Harry Potter" JK Rowling and other books of famous writers, sets record at auction after 2000
The first editions of famous writers can decorate any book collection and be a good investment. Factors that shape their prices - is, first, edition (usually limited, sometimes several hundred copies), and secondly, the presence of the author's signature on the inside cover, and thirdly, general books, and Fourth, the merits or regalia author. Before you 10 most expensive first editions of famous writers, whose books were first printed in the last century, and sold at various auction sites for a maximum cost of this century.
"Ulysses" by James Joyce - $ 460,500
Copies of the first edition of the legendary novel "Ulysses" became a legend among booksellers and collectors in the first half of the twentieth century. This fact is explained simply: small Parisian publishing Shakespeare and Company in 1922, printed in all from 100 to 150 copies of the novel in the way the Dutch paper. We also know that Joyce has signed only two copies of the first edition. And in October 2002 at Christie's auction it was sold to just one of these books signed! The inscription is addressed to the publisher, Henry Kaiser and dated October 1922. So it is not surprising that the final cost of the rarity was a record $ 460 500 at the maximum pre-assessment of $ 300,000.
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway - $ 366,400
The novel "The Sun Also Rises" has become a milestone in the work of Hemingway. Unfortunately for his publishers it was just another book budding author. The novel was released a limited edition Scribner's Publishing House in 1926. Copy was sold at Sotheby's auction in New York in April 2004 for a record sum - $ 366,400, exceeding the maximum estimated value of more than three times. Explain this is simple: first, the ideal preservation of books, and secondly, the author's signature on the inside cover. It was addressed to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey and stretched by as much as 20 lines, so it is more correct to call it a letter rather than a signature.
"The Road" by Jack Kerouac - $ 185,500
Kerouac was a key figure among the Beat writers, and his novel "The Road" became a cult for representatives of the "beat generation". Over the past 30 years on the auction sites cropped up in all four signed copies of the first edition of the novel, published by Viking Press in 1957. On the famous Christie's October auction in New York, one of these books has set a record price. Its sale price exceeded the maximum estimated more than 2, 3 times and amounted to $ 185 500. The inscription on the inside cover addressed to a friend of Kerouac - Joyce Johnson. It is noteworthy that under the inscription by the writer drew a curve a face that had just been in his spirit.
"The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald - £ 84,000 ($ 167,487)
"The Great Gatsby" is probably the best literary monument Jazz Age, and remains one of the peaks of not only creativity Fitzgerald, but the whole of American literature of XX century. Its first edition, issued by the New York publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons, sold out instantly. To have survived not so many copies of the first edition in perfect preservation. But they periodically pop up on various auction sites and set price records. So, in June 2007 at Sotheby's in London, one of these books was sold for £ 84 000. The first edition is famous for a large number of typos and design jacket: a woman's face on a blue-green background.
"Marble Faun" by William Faulkner - $ 95600
Faulkner is primarily known as an outstanding novelist and writer of the XX century, but few people know that the very first of his book was a collection of poetry. Small Boston publishing Four Seas Company in 1924 published "Marble Faun" money poster edition of just 500 copies. Special impression on critics and readers of the book is not produced, and the first edition of the "Marble Faun" spoke only when Faulkner was the eminent writer. An instance of this collection with the inscription the author's parents was put under the hammer in October 2002 at New York's Christie's auction for $ 95,600, but the sale price and could not exceed the maximum evaluation, which was $ 120,000.
"1984" by George Orwell - £ 46,850 ($ 75,428)
The first edition in the legendary US dystopia was released by publishing house Harcourt, Brace and Company in June 1949, and in January 1950 the writer was gone. It is not surprising, that in itself is the first American edition is a collector, and signed copies of "1984" can be counted on the fingers. In December 2012 one of them was sold at London auction Sotheby's for £ 46 850. The dedication on the inside cover is addressed to British writer Osbert Sitwell: presumably, the author signed the book in September 1949, when he was in one of the English hospitals.
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck - $ 41825
The novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is considered one of the best works of the Great Depression. It is for him Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, and it is for him, John Ford shot the film, received two "Oscar" in 1941. The novel was first published in 1939 by publishing house Viking Press. The book became a bestseller: just over 430 000 copies were sold the first year. But it is sold in the same New York Christie's auction that the first copies of "Ulysses," "Marble Faun" and "On the Road" is unique - it is signed by Steinbeck, and the inscription is addressed to the editor of the publishing house Marshall Best.
"Harry Potter" by JK Rowling - £ 19,700 ($ 40,326)
In July 1997, a small London publisher Bloomsbury risked unknown writer to publish a book about the adventures of the young wizard. First edition was only 500 copies, and most of it went straight to the school library. Only a small number of books fell into private hands, and they became the dream of many collectors around the world - because of its rarity and attractiveness. Exactly 10 years after the publication of a copy of the first edition was sold at Christie's auction in London for £ 19,700 at a maximum estimated value of £ 12 000, and in fact once the books cost only £ 5-10!
"The Catcher in the Rye" by Jerome Salinger - $ 32900
Salinger did not like the publishing house Little, Brown and Company has designed jacket of the first edition of "The Catcher in the Rye." He demanded to be removed from the rear page a portrait, but in vain: for the explicit request of the author only listened with new editions. The first edition of the book was literally swept off the shelves in the first months after the release of second-hand and become a rarity in the lifetime of Salinger. The most expensive copy is a book which has been started under the hammer in April 2001 at Christie's auction. the cost of sales exceeded the maximum estimated more than quadrupled to $ 32 900. It is difficult to imagine how such a book would have cost if it had been signed by the author.
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury - £ 4000 ($ 6110)
Ray Bradbury has become a classic of science fiction during his lifetime. Due to the "lack of seriousness" his chosen genre he never put on a par with Joyce or Hemingway, but to deny the fact that his work had a strong influence on the minds of several generations of readers, it would be foolish. Especially it is necessary to distinguish among them the novel "Fahrenheit 451". It was first published by publishing house Ballantine Books in 1953 and immediately became a bestseller. By themselves, the first edition of this novel are particularly rare and are not just a few hundred dollars. However, the signed copies, of which only 200 are estimated to have thousands Thus, the London Sotheby's in July 2010, one of them was sold for £ 4,000. | <urn:uuid:27c035f0-cb5c-4dba-8bc8-f8a32167c87e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://style-people.com/publication/1795213/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.975424 | 1,762 | 2.15625 | 2 |
RedboxVR specialises in supplying Virtual Reality Kits designed for the classroom. We are all about providing our customers with a high quality, hassle-free experience.
With a worldwide customer base, we believe we produce the most complete all-in-one solution for bringing Virtual Reality content into the hands of students.
Located in the UK
Based in the North West of England, we deliver to clients throughout the UK and Europe and as far away as the Middle East, Far East, the US, Africa and Australia. Our continuing research into the latest advances in virtual and augmented reality allow us to provide the ultimate immersive learning experience.
All RedboxVR kits are UK made and self-contained so absolutely everything you need is included and ready to go. This is technology that doesn’t get in the way, it paves the way for engaging, exciting learning like never before!
Contained within the RedboxVR iNcharge case there are the following items:
- Intelligent device management system.
- Built-in electronics detect what device is plugged into it and charges it accordingly.
- Dual Band WiFi router. The router is built into the kit and requires no setup or external power. It creates its own WiFi network to allow our kit to work independently of any school infrastructure.
- Full HD 5.5” Android or ARCore student devices. These are fully pre-configured and set up to be dedicated student VR/AR devices assigned to the schools GSuite for Education account.
- Android 10.1” Teacher device.
RedboxVR Classroom Kits work with any of the 1000s of Android based apps available on the Google Play Store. They are compatible with all the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality apps. Every single RedboxVR device has passed these compatibility tests.
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A Pest Inspection, also known as a ‘Timber Pest Inspection’ is recommended before purchasing a property to ensure that no hidden structural issues exist. Timber pests include termites, wood borers and wood decay fungi (wood rot). These timber pests are common in all properties and can undermine timber structures.
All homes contain timber elements that are vulnerable to attack from timber pests. It is estimated that one in five Albury Wodonga properties contain some form of termite activity.
A Pest Inspection is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED and looks for four very important things:
- Subterranean Termites or evidence of termite activity and termite damage as well as evidence of any previous Termite treatment. (Very Important)
- Timber borers or evidence of timber borers and damage.
- Wood rot (wood decay fungi) damage and potential safety hazards in timber structures such as rotten timber steps, handrails and balconies.
- We report on any conditions that may be conducive to Termite attack or conditions that can cause wood rot.
- We also report on safety hazards with regard to timber structures.
What is a Timber Pest?
Customers often ask us what the difference is between a ‘Pest Inspection’ and a ‘Timber Pest Inspection’. We use both these terms interchangeably to mean the same thing. The official terminology is ‘Timber Pest’.
Timber pests include Termites, Wood Decay Fungi (wood rot) and Timber Borers. They are considered pests because they weaken timber structures, such as decks, handrails and roof, wall frames, floor frames, floor boards etc. These pests can weaken timber structures, posing serious structural problems and possible safety hazards. The damage caused is often invisible to the untrained eye. Without detecting such problems, unforseen costs and hassles can occur.
When should Albury Wodonga buyers arrange a Pest Inspection?
When you purchase a property and exchange contracts there is a 5 day ‘cooling–off’ period. During this time, you have the option to cancel the contract providing you give written notice.
Many buyers arrange a Pest and Building Inspection during the cooling off period. It is recommended however, that you arrange the inspection before you exchange contracts as this gives you ample time to digest the information and the ability to adjust your offer based on the inspection findings.
We strongly recommend that Albury Wodonga property buyers carry out a Combined Building and Pest Inspection to provide you with full insight into a property. We are available to carry out Building and Pest Inspections Albury Wodonga wide from Monday to Saturday.
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If you can get through your whole life without having to understand the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony, then that will mean you have avoided trouble, but if you are facing the prospect of either a misdemeanor or felony charge, then understanding the difference is key to how you move forward. Police, investigators, and prosecutors have leeway in building and prosecuting cases as either a misdemeanor or felony charge based on the same conduct, and the differences are profound for you as the defendant both now and for many years into your future. Thus, having an experienced criminal defense attorney who can successfully work your charges down from a felony to a misdemeanor (or to no crime at all) is often crucial to restoring your future.
Misdemeanors and Felonies in Oklahoma
While every jurisdiction has both misdemeanors and felonies, Oklahoma state law provides specific definitions for the two types of crimes. A felony is defined as “a crime which is, or may be, punishable with death, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary.” A misdemeanor is then defined as every other crime that is not a felony.
In a misdemeanor crime, a defendant faces up to one year in a county jail, although some misdemeanors may carry shorter sentences as well as criminal fines.
A felony crime means a defendant can be instead sent to the state penitentiary, and felony sentences are generally for multiple years. Separate felony crimes usually have their own specific sentences, but if a sentence is not included in the law, a person can be sentenced to up to two years in the penitentiary. Under state law, felons are required to serve at least 85% of their sentences.
The Additional Costs of a Felony
In addition to the longer prison sentences, those convicted of felonies often suffer consequences that go far beyond their prison terms. A felony conviction on your criminal record can make it very difficult to work in a profession later on or pass a background check, whereas a misdemeanor conviction carries less negative consequences for you. Also, felons are stripped of certain rights such as voting and gun ownership rights.
Work With an Attorney to Reduce Your Felony to a Misdemeanor
In many types of cases, prosecutors can choose to bring a felony or a misdemeanor charge based on the same conduct, for example by choosing to bring an aggravated assault felony charge rather than a misdemeanor felony charge over an altercation. By investing in an experienced criminal defense attorney who can pursue legal strategies in your defense to work a felony charge down to a misdemeanor charge, you can minimize your potential consequences and preserve your life opportunities going forward.
Aggressive Criminal Defense Attorney in Oklahoma
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Our eyes are constantly absorbing the world around us. Whether we’re reading a book or driving a car, they’re tirelessly at work to help us make sense of reality.
Although our eyes are one of our smallest organs, they are extremely complex with many intricate parts. With each tiny movement of the eyes, there are numerous muscles working with stunning precision to ensure that our world stays in focus.
Unlike other parts of our body, our eyes often don’t get a lot of attention when it comes to self care. For example, a lot of people go to the gym to exercise their arms and legs, but how often do you hear people talking about doing eye exercises?
Just because most personal trainers don’t teach eye exercises doesn’t mean they aren’t important. In fact, our eyes are one of the busiest parts of our body, so it only makes sense to take care of them so they can continue doing their job well.
In this post, we’ll discuss the eyes from a Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong perspective, as well as share four simple yet powerful exercises that you can do at home to help cultivate healthy eyes.
A Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong Perspective on Eye Health
In Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong, every sense organ is related to one of the Five Elements. The eyes are connected to the Wood Element, which is also connected to the liver.
The wood element embodies the qualities of strength and flexibility—two key components for healthy eyes. When the wood element is healthy within us, our eyes can easily adjust and adapt to the various views before us.
The wood element is also associated with the season of Spring and the characteristic of expansiveness. As the world emerges from the depths of winter, both humans and animals embrace the energy of rebirth and a renewed inner and outer vision for the future. Of course, our eyes are an important part of outer vision.
Because the eyes are connected to the liver, it’s common for conditions in the liver to manifest in the eyes. For example, if a person drinks too much alcohol, the excess heat in the liver will cause the eyes to turn red.
In addition, our daily behaviors and activities can have a significant impact on the wellbeing of our eyes. When our eyes are exposed to a variety of images and views, they have a chance to exercise, allowing them to cultivate strength and flexibility. However, if we spend too many hours staring at a single object (such as a computer screen), they can become tired and depleted.
At Holden QiGong, we’ve received a lot of questions over the last year about vision and eye health.Because of the Pandemic, most of us are spending far more time at home in front of our computers and smartphones. Therefore, it’s not surprising that many of us are experiencing eye issues.
Modern technology certainly makes a lot of things easier, but it also has a tendency to pull us away from our natural way of life. Our ancestors didn’t need to think about whether or not they were spending too much time in front of screens or getting enough exercises. However, with all of our modern conveniences come a personal responsibility to make choices that serve our health and wellbeing.
When it comes to cultivating healthy eyes, there are a few simple exercises that help to strengthen our eyes and increase their flexibility. Even though some of these exercises are used beyond the Qi Gong community, we still call them “Qi Gong” practices because they work with the energy of the eyes on both a physical and energetic level.
All four of these exercises can be practiced in just a few minutes, making them excellent tools for everyday life, especially when you find yourself in front of your computer for long periods of time.
Like all of the exercises we share, we suggest that you read through the instructions before beginning your practice.
Four Exercises to Cultivate Healthy Eyes
Start by sitting or standing in a position you find comfortable.
In this first exercise, you’re simply going to look to the left and right ten times while keeping your head in the same position. Allow your eyes to go all the way to the right, and then all the way to the left. You can move your eyes at whatever speed you prefer but just make sure it feels comfortable and isn’t causing pain.
After you’ve looked right and left ten times, do the same thing except vertically. Move your eyes up and then down. Each “up and down” movement is one set. Complete ten sets and then relax.
In the second exercise, you’re going to move your eyes in a big circle. Do this ten times and then change direction. By the end of this exercise, you will have done ten full circles in the clockwise direction, and ten full circles in the counterclockwise direction. As with the previous exercise, you can move your eyes at whatever speed you prefer as long as you feel comfortable and aren’t experiencing any pain.
For the third exercise, start by holding your finger about twelve inches in front of your face. Then, pick an object that is at least twenty feet away. If you’re sitting next to a window, perhaps find a tree or mountain off in the distance. The object can certainly be more than twenty feet; twenty feet is just the minimum.
Now, alternate your vision between the distant object and the finger in front of your face. For example, look at the distant object for two seconds and then look at your finger for two seconds. The idea is to exercise your eyes so they get used to focusing at both close at far distances. Do this ten times, making sure that your eyes feel comfortable and aren’t experiencing pain.
For the last exercise, if you wear glasses, you’ll want to take them off before starting.
Now, start rubbing your hands together so they cause friction and generate a bit of heat. This should be an invigorating exercise that charges your hands with energy and warmth. After about fifteen to twenty seconds, stop rubbing your hands together and put them over your eyes — your right hand over your right eye and your left hand over your left eye.
As you put your hands over your eyes, imagine your hands transmitting nourishing and healing energy to your eyes. Allow your eyes to receive the warmth and experience a feeling of vitality. Keep your hands over your eyes for a few moments as you relax and take some deep breaths. Whenever you’re ready, release your hands, open your eyes, and continue enjoying your day.
If you’re interested in learning more exercises to cultivate the Wood Element and eye health, be sure to check out our pre-recorded Qi Gong for Spring Workshop.
Pre-Recorded Online Qi Gong for Spring Workshop
The season of Spring invites us to harness the qualities of growth, transformation, creativity, and abundance.
In the world around us, nature is reawakening after the long winter. It’s a time when new life is born and opportunities emerge. For humans, we can learn from this energy and allow it to manifest in our own lives.
At Holden QiGong, we have a special, pre-recorded workshop that teaches powerful practices specifically designed to cultivate the qualities of Spring. Like all of Lee’s teaching experiences, he integrates both spoken lessons and experiential Qi Gong exercises so students can gain a full understanding of the ancient practice.
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The BC Court of Appeal in Kish v Sobchak 2016 BCC65 discussed that the relief sought in wills variation claims is discretionary to the trial judge and how the appeal court should handle discretionary remedies on appeal.
The entire jurisdiction of the trial judge under the statute is discretionary in character. The relief which may be granted under it is completely dependent on his opinion, first, as to whether adequate provision for proper maintenance and support has been provided for the spouse and children under the will, and second, if adequate provision is not thought to be made, as to what provision should be made.
This being so, that Court has the power and the duty to review the circumstances and reach its own conclusion as to the discretion properly to be exercised.
The line between the exercise of judicial discretion and the finding of facts is not easy to enunciate.
An issue falls within a judge’s discretion if, being governed by no rule of law, its resolution depends on the individual judge’s assessment (within such boundaries as have been laid down) of what it is fair and just to do in the particular case. He or she has no discretion in making his findings of fact. There is no discretion in the rulings on the law. But when, having made any necessary finding of fact and necessary ruling of law, he has to choose between different courses of action, orders, penalties or remedies he then exercises a discretion. It is only when he reaches the stage of asking himself what is the fair and just thing to do or order in the instant case that embarks on the exercise of a discretion.
The standard of review applicable in Canada to the exercise of judicial discretion is found in Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada (Minister of Transport) 1 S.C.R. 3. T
The law as to the reversal by a court of appeal of an order made by the judge below in the exercise of his discretion is well-established, and any difficulty that arises is due only to the application of well-settled principles in an individual case. The appellate tribunal is not at liberty merely to substitute its own exercise of discretion for the discretion already exercised by the judge. In other words, appellate authorities ought not to reverse the order merely because they would themselves have exercised the original discretion, had it attached to them, in a different way. But if the appellate tribunal reaches the clear conclusion that there has been a wrongful exercise of discretion in that no weight, or no sufficient weight, has been given to relevant considerations such as those urged before us by the appellant, then the reversal of the order on appeal may be justified.
That was essentially the standard adopted by this Court in Harelkin v. University of Regina, 2 S.C.R. 561, where Beetz J. said, at p. 588:
Second, in declining to evaluate, difficult as it may have been, whether or not the failure to render natural justice could be cured in the appeal, the learned trial judge refused to take into consideration a major element for the determination of the case, thereby failing to exercise his discretion on relevant grounds and giving no choice to the Court of Appeal but to intervene. [At 76-7; emphasis by underlining added.]
This standard was affirmed and supplemented more recently in Penner v. Niagara (Regional Police Services Board) 2013 SCC 19, where the Court stated:
A discretionary decision of a lower court will be reversible where that court misdirected itself or came to a decision that is so clearly wrong that it amounts to an injustice: Elsom v. Elsom, 1 S.C.R. 1367, at p. 1375. Reversing a lower court’s discretionary decision is also appropriate where the lower court gives no or insufficient weight to relevant considerations: Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada … [At para. 27.]
Summary Trial Determinations
Well before Tataryn was decided (but after Swain v. Dennison), summary trial procedures had of course been introduced in British Columbia and elsewhere. It was clear, certainly in this province, that summary trials were not limited strictly to cases in which there were no conflicts in the evidence. In Orangeville Raceway Ltd. v. Wood Gundy Inc. 6 B.C.L.R (3d) 391 (C.A.), which was not a WVA case, this court discussed the standard of review on appeals from summary trial judgments. At para. 44, the Court considered whether it was entitled to set aside the judgment below and substitute its own views for those reached by the chambers judge “simply because he did not have the advantage of observing the witnesses as their testimony was tested by cross-examination”. Mr. Justice Goldie for the Court answered this question in the negative, adopting the comments of Mr. Justice Taylor in an earlier case as follows:
So far as findings of fact are concerned, the onus on the appellant in an appeal against a summary disposition of issues made without oral testimony under R. 18A, cannot be merely to persuade the appeal court to a different view of the evidence. The appellant must show that the chambers judge reached a conclusion which cannot reasonably be supported. That is a heavier burden than merely to establish that the appeal court would have made different findings, or have drawn different inferences.
It has been said that an appellate court is in as good a position to draw inferences from proven facts as the trial judge. But this states only half the equation. The appellate court may be in as good a position but the burden is still on the appellant to demonstrate error, that is to say, that the position reached below after a summary trial cannot reasonably be supported. | <urn:uuid:c3f8bf34-a04a-430c-9222-f5ac28dd9940> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://disinherited.com/portfolio/wills-variation-s-60-wesa-is-discretionary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973731 | 1,186 | 1.664063 | 2 |
24 Feb Tips for motivating employees in the workplace
An employer, a manager, an executive, a manager: all these people have different responsibilities. Among these, there is undoubtedly that of motivating employees and pushing the team to give the best of themselves to achieve company objectives. A properly motivated employee is a worker who is more committed to every single action, who is more willing to make some small sacrifices for the company, and who hardly decides to leave their job to go to work elsewhere (in this sense, motivate employees becomes an excellent action also for the employee retention strategy). But how do you motivate a team effectively? Before looking at specific actions for motivating employees in the workplace, let’s look at the general approach to your team.
Tips for motivating employees in the workplace
Define the objectives in detail: even before starting to motivate employees, it is necessary to clarify the objectives they must strive for. It is not uncommon for managers to give instructions to their team without clearly indicating the final objectives. Those who do not involve employees cannot think they can motivate them in the right way: reaching the goal is a victory for the company and the employee, and this must be clear from the outset.
Create a happy work environment
If employees continually face obstacles, difficult hours or manager’s a bad mood, they cannot be happy to work. The first move to motivating employees is to make them feel at ease, valuing the workspace and always addressing them with the respect they deserve. Creating a happy work environment means eliminating dangers, providing areas for relaxation, and so on.
Recognize good results
When the team or an individual worker reports a good result, it is necessary to recognize it and emphasize that that action has been noticed. Some managers, assuming that employees are paid exactly to do their best, tend not to highlight workers’ small successes. But it is a big mistake: recognizing the goals achieved is one of the best ways to motivate the entire team and also allows you to establish a fundamental emotional connection within the group.
Don’t think about rewards just in terms of money
Employees undoubtedly value financial rewards very much. To motivate employees, however, cash rewards are not particularly effective: when a worker already has fair play, it should be emphasized that purely economic incentives tend to lose importance, affecting little or no employee’s daily satisfaction. . So yes, salary increases are certainly significant to encourage the worker to always do his best but, beyond a certain threshold, it is good to think about other bonuses.
Grant autonomy to employees
Granting a margin of autonomy to the team means demonstrating one’s trust in employees. There is no doubt: everyone likes to be masters of their time and energy, and for this reason giving more autonomy is equivalent to effectively motivating the team.
How to relate to your collaborators
What is the correct way for managers to relate to their collaborators? We must assume that the relationship between the coordinator and coordinated involves at least four different aspects on a psychological level. First, the manager must transfer the objectives to be achieved to his subordinates, translating them for each employee into personal tasks. Then he must work to improve the relationship with the people of the team to work serenely and in a context of full sharing of information and knowledge. It must also be able to properly stimulate employees in order to improve results and encourage teamwork. Finally, it must analyze collaborators to identify their strengths and make the most of them, identifying weaknesses simultaneously.
It is critically important that every team member feels part of the group. A perception of imbalance regarding fairness within a workgroup can ruin the climate and drastically lower individual members’ performance. Several actions can give the perception of inequity: even going to reward a collaborator who has distinguished himself for commitment and results achieved, if done in the wrong way, can lead to a negative perception for the other members of the group.
Everything is about setting up communication between managers and subordinates correctly to build a transparent, direct, loyal and sincere relationship. First of all, communication must always be equal. This does not mean that the manager must stop being a manager: rather, it means that, while fully respecting their respective roles, each discourse must be carried out through an equal discussion, in which the opinion of the manager does not automatically have the upper hand.
It is also necessary to always express your opinion in time and instead avoid doing it after the game is over. The manager must give precise instructions, inquire and discuss before each action, and encourage other members to do the same instead of avoiding giving their own opinion afterward. No team can work calmly until the “I would have done differently” attitude is one of the most frequent.
Words are also important with regard to the relationship between manager and subordinates. Therefore, when in doubt, it is always good to speak literally, without using words that could be misunderstood or overloaded with meaning.
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The spinal cord is a tubular bundle of nervous tissue and supporting cells that extends from the brainstem to the lumbar vertebrae (lower back). Along with the brain, it forms the central nervous system (CNS) which is responsible for movement, sensory perception and control of all bodily functions. The spinal cord is free to move within the spinal column which is important as the spine lengthens.
Tethered cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached or tethered to tissue around the spine, thereby limiting movement of the spinal cord. This can cause abnormal stretching of the spinal cord as the spine grows and can lead to nerve damage, pain, gait problems, incontinence and structural deformities of the spine or legs along with a range of other symptoms.
Primary tethered cord syndrome is present from birth and is often characterised by the presence of a fatty tumour, caudal tail, hairy lesion or discolouration on the lower back. Spina bfida, dermal sinus tract and diastematomyelia are all congenital conditions that cause tethered spinal cord syndrome that are often identified in the first weeks after birth. In some cases, the syndrome is not diagnosed until later in childhood or early adulthood as the strain on the spinal cord increases, leading to sensory and motor problems.
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AMY had it easy. Her introduction to the literary world did not come as a sudden idea or a vivid scene fully formed in her head awaiting birth onto a page. No eureka moment. No quiet spells from the muses. Here she tells us it was assigned. Her novels began in the most unexpected form. Once
upon a time, it started in the classroom with her teacher. It was a typical day but a defining one.
Meet Amy Zhang, the youngest Young Adult author who wrote “Falling into Place” about a Liz Emerson putting Newton’s Law of Motion to practice by steering her car into a tree. Back then as a teenager, Amy didn’t know that the short stories she had written for her English class were to become parts of a larger one. It opened the gates to scenes and characters all crowding in at the helm waiting for their turn to be heard, to be written and to be explored and taken further.
The thing about Amy is that she did not wait for the right moment to write or the right writing experience. A young adult fiction novel would’ve been the last thing on her mind. The little pieces of Amy’s experience and encounters seemed to be falling into place and led her to where she is exactly meant to be—the beginnings of successfully published endings.
Now at 20, she speaks with a vibrant energy and yet such is the evident contrast to “Falling Into Place,” and her recently released novel, “This Is Where The World Ends” about best friends whose friendship is more destructive than it seems. Following a nonlinear narrative of flashbacks, Amy reveals just how close her characters really are to her and explains how her friendships, and the defining moment with her teacher have shaped the writer that she is today.
How young were you when you wrote the book, “Falling into Place?”
I was 15 and I was 16 when it was sold. “Falling into Place” starts as two short stories. I wrote both for my English class and I really liked them. I combined them and wrote a novel.
Would you say there is a bit of Liz in you?
I feel like I put a lot of myself into Liz and to the rest of the characters. I think Liz exhibits what we all have within us. Everybody does things they’re not proud of in high school. I generally did things that were unkind and I watched people do unkind things and didn’t say anything, and I watched my friends do unkind things and didn’t say anything. Liz came out from a place of guilt and unhappiness.
What kind of student were you back in high school?
Back in high school I was really a straight A student. I really cared but not so much now. (Laughs). I was a fairly happy kid. I had a great group of friends. I really liked my friends. I was confident in my classes. I liked high school.
What’s the worst memory you have of high school?
I don’t have a specific worst memory but 8th grade to freshman year I made a group of friends who weren’t particularly good for me, and I wasn’t particularly good for them. We weren’t really similar people. I don’t think they helped me grow as a person. I don’t think we had that much in common. I made a group that I didn’t really get along with. I drew on that a little bit to write Micah and Janie–having a friendship that’s more useful than helpful.
Freshman year, I was transitioning—friend groups. That wasn’t good for me either. I guess being in between friends isn’t really fine. Later on, I fell in a group that I finally got along with. I’m so close to all of them.
And your favorite memory?
Favorite memory is anything that we’ve done like since then! It was five of us and we were very ridiculous! We thought we could do whatever we wanted. We did well in school and got along well with our teachers. There was this one time when we locked our teacher out of the classroom because we could! No good reason for it. Young and dumb. (Laughs). We didn’t get in trouble for it. We were doing a project we didn’t want to do and our teacher wouldn’t listen to us when we said we didn’t want to do it. He was annoyed but we didn’t get into trouble for it. (Laughs).
I hated physics. I didn’t like my physics teacher. I took it when I was younger so it wasn’t particularly fun for me. Also, I was never really strong in the sciences. None of them were fun for me. (Laughs).
And yet you wrote about it.
I did! The very, very basic—fourth grade physics. That’s about all I can do!
What did you want to explore when you used the concept of physics in the story?
I think Liz wanted physics to mean more than it did. She was so unhappy. She struggled to make meaningful connections with people. The only person who showed interest in her was her physics teacher so the subject had such an impact on her. I don’t think it would have otherwise. For me, physics was a way to tell the story. For Liz, it was the one connection that tried to make with her.
Was there anything in the book you wanted to change?
No, but only because I’m really afraid of that feeling. Once I turned in my last draft, I never opened the book again so I don’t think about it. I haven’t read “Falling into Place” since 2013. (Laughs). I’m sure there are a lot of things I want to change but I just can’t think of that.
Tell us about the new book, “This is Where the World Ends.”
It’s about this two best friends, Janie and Micah, who have known each other their entire lives, who have grown up together and have known about everything. There’s no two people in the world that know the two of them better than themselves. They have this really close friendship. What I wanted to explore was how terrible that can go. I was fascinated by the idea of two people loving each other so much that they end up hurting each other. It’s about Micah waking up in the hospital having no memories of the last three months and Janie has disappeared. He was so alone in the world he didn’t know what to do. Alternating with those chapters are Janie narrating before the few months of her disappearance and then come in together to reveal what actually happened.
What made you write it?
I was in a dark place when I started writing it. I just moved from St. Louis, Missouri—a big city and diverse—to Sheboygan, Wisconsin with a population of 2,000 and an abundance of fields and cows. (Laughs). Everyone in school had known each other since kindergarten so it was hard in my last year of middle school. I left all my friends behind, and I was mad at my parents. I was unwilling to make new friends because I wanted to go back to my old friends. Writing was my way of dealing with it–my way of escape.
It was also an act of rebellion because my parents didn’t want me to write. They wanted me to be in math and science, so writing was like me saying, “Whatever. I hate you. You make me move.” (Laughs)
How does that work for them now that you’re a successful writer?
They’re very supportive now though my dad is worried about my financial well-being! Dad prefers lawyer, engineer, finance, something stable! (Laughs). My mom is so great and supportive and she has been all along. I’m much more close to her.
The book used a nonlinear narrative. Was that something you planned or decided on at some point?
They were very much coincidental. I didn’t mean for either of them to be nonlinear. I didn’t think of nonlinear when I wrote “Falling into Place.” I wrote it that way because that was how the story looked to me in my head. I knew there had to be parts where Liz was in the hospital, and I knew there had to be months before the accident. I knew how these pieces had to come together. That was how the story was meant to be told. I didn’t even think of it as nonlinear until my editor pointed it out to me.
As for “This is Where the World Ends,” it didn’t start out as a nonlinear thing. It started with just Micah and I finished that and it just didn’t seem right that Janie didn’t get to tell her story so I went back in and wrote Janie’s sections.
Your books have a dark and tragic feel to them. Where do you draw this from?
After the book, “This is Where the World Ends” came out, my roommate from my freshman year of college texted me. She said, “You know I’m having a difficult time picturing Janie as a redhead because in my head she looks like you.” I was like, “I don’t think that’s a compliment!” (Laughs).
I mean, I put a lot of myself into my characters such as the way they think is very similar to the way I think but in an exaggeration. I think everyone has felt sad and lonely at some point and very unhappy with the state of the world. That’s something I feel too. This is “Where the World Ends” came from a place of frustrations like how the world treats women. I definitely have these feelings. Also, I feel like writing has made me grow so much as a person. On hindsight, I deal with things a lot better than I did when I was writing those books. Obviously, I had my own problems in high school but I was never in such a bad place.
How do you think anyway?
The relationship I have with my friends is in my place because we like talking to each other about things that don’t necessarily matter to other people. My best friend and I live together and we stay up until three or four pretty regularly just talking about things. Those are the things I find meaningful in friendships and in life. Conversations like this make me want to write books.
Are your friends somewhat amazed now that you’re a writer?
It’s not new to them. The conversations we have are very much about the things in my books.
When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
I guess when “Falling into Place” came out, I said to myself I guess I’m writer now. (Laughs). No, I guess when I had the contract for “Falling into Place” and knew it was going to be a book and be published, I knew then that being an author is something that I really wanted to be. My parents are both very deep into math and science fields. My grandparents are as well. My mom is an Actuary Science and my dad does Nuclear Engineering. It never occurred to me that I’d want to be a writer until I had actually done it. I thought maybe I could be an engineer or be a lawyer! I never thought I’d be more on the creative side.
How did you juggle being a writer and a student?
My normal day just doesn’t include writing! (Laughs). But while I was writing “Falling into Place” back in high school, I thought of everything at four, wrote until six, then went to school. After school, I went to tennis practice or whatever activity I had that day, and hang out with friends for a bit. I’d come home and eat dinner, do homework and go to sleep.
Literary figure you look up to?
Margaret Atwood. She completely changed my life, my feminist being. I’m in love with her works. My favorite book of her is “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Also, Markus Suzak.
You seemed to have enjoyed doing yoga in Shangri-La as shown on your Instagram.
I did tripod yesterday and I got some really weird looks. There was this old couple sitting on the side maybe thinking, “What is she doing?” (Laughs). I really like doing tripods and headstands. I like playing around in wheels. It feels nice. I like power yoga. Every Tuesday and Thursday, I just need to do it!
Who is Amy Zhang as a person?
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A water pressure regulator (sometimes called a pressure-reducing valve, or PRV) is a specialized plumbing valve that reduces the water pressure coming into the home through the main water line. This valve brings down the pressure to a safe level before the water reaches any plumbing fixtures inside the home. Too much water pressure can cause many plumbing problems, so it is very important to keep the water pressure under control. Although it is not necessary for every plumbing installation, a water pressure regulator can be essential in situations where the municipal water supply enters the home at a very high pressure, or where water pressure is irregular.
Most home plumbing fixtures are designed to work best at a pressure of about 50 psi (pounds per square inch), but it is not uncommon for municipal water supplies to enter the home with pressures as high as 150 or 200 psi. If such high pressures is present on a regular basis, the strain can eventually cause joints to fail, faucets and other fixtures to leak, and appliances to break down. Clothes washers, dishwashers, and some other household appliances have built-in pressure regulators, but a whole-house water pressure regulator still offers protection to those appliances, and it also serves to protect all the pipes and fixtures throughout the house.
How a Water Pressure Regulator Works
A water pressure regulator is a dome-shaped brass fitting that generally is found just past the main shutoff valve, where the main water line enters the house. It usually has an adjustment screw on top. Inside, a water pressure regulator has a variable spring-loaded diaphragm that automatically widens and narrows depending on the amount of water pressure entering the valve.
When the water enters the regulator at high pressure, the inner mechanism constricts the diaphragm to narrow the flow of water. This can reduce the pressure into a range of 50 to 80 psi, greatly reducing the stress on pipes and fixtures installed past the valve. Conversely, when the incoming water pressure drops, the diagram opens wider to allow more water to flow through the valve. An adjustment screw on the top of the regulator can be tightened to increase the tension on the inner spring (thereby reducing the pressure of the water as it exits the valve), or loosened to allow water to flow more freely through the valve (thereby increasing the outgoing water pressure).
When the system is protected by a water pressure regulator, there is less stress on the inner valves of appliances, faucets and shutoff valves will be less likely to leak, and fluctuations in water pressure are evened out.
Do I Need One?
To determine if you need a water pressure regulator, test the water pressure of the main water supply to your house. You can buy a simple, effective pressure gauge at a local hardware or home improvement store. Screw the pressure gauge onto any hose bib or washing machine faucet and turn on the cold water tap to measure the water pressure. If the pressure is between 40 and 60 psi usually, then you should be fine, but water pressure that is frequently above 80 psi is probably causing excessive stress on pipes, fittings, and fixtures. City water pressure can fluctuate considerably, often increasing at night when the overall load goes down, so make sure to test at various times of the day. And during the test, make sure that water isn't being used anywhere else in the house, such as at garden spigots or appliances.
You can also ask your local water company, who will likely be able to tell you if a pressure regulator is recommended in your neighborhood.
Watch Now: How to Test Your Home's Water Pressure
If you need a water pressure regulator, it is best installed immediately after the main shutoff valve controlling the water line coming into your home. This position allows the regulator to protect all pipes in your house, and it also makes it easy to quickly shut off the main water valve if you need to replace or repair the regulator.
If you already have an existing pressure regulator, it usually is quite easy to replace it with the same brand and model. Most manufacturers do not change the shape or size of their regulators, so a new one from the same brand should fit exactly as the old one did. It can be as easy as shutting off the water, disconnecting one or two union fittings, then replacing the regulator with a new one installed in the same way.
A new installation, on the other hand, is more difficult because it will require some work on the main water line. Unless you are fairly experienced at plumbing work, it may be best to call in a plumber, as the installation may require repositioning the main water shutoff valve to create the necessary space for the water pressure regulator.
After installation, test the water pressure, and adjust the regulator, if necessary. To adjust, loosen the locknut on the adjustment screw, then turn the screw up or down until the water pressure is at the desired level, as measured by a pressure gauge attached to a threaded hose bib somewhere in the home.
Like all plumbing fixtures and valves, water pressure regulators eventually grow old and fail. If you notice water hammering of any type, or experience variations or inconsistencies in water pressure, it may be a sign that the water pressure regulator is no longer working properly. Testing the water pressure at least once a year is always a good idea, or whenever you have questions about the regulator's effectiveness. If the regulator's adjustment screw no longer has any effect on changing the water pressure, the valve is due for replacement.
Remember that too much water pressure will put extra strain on the home’s plumbing systems and can cause toilets to run, faucets to drip, water hammer to occur in the walls, and in extreme cases, it can even cause burst pipes that can flood your house. For these reasons, a failing water pressure regulator should be replaced as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:fd1ac613-910f-41fa-8c74-dd062ec7ee4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thespruce.com/water-pressure-regulator-2718696 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.943764 | 1,209 | 3.640625 | 4 |
From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic—and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people—one-third of the global population at the time—came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge—and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year! | <urn:uuid:59613e53-2d69-41dc-a825-3427e0cfe5f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://noble.overdrive.com/media/3318508 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.944196 | 282 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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(p. A15) There are almost no private businesses or entrepreneurs on Indian reservations because there are no property rights. Reservation land is held in trust by the federal government and most is also owned communally by the tribe. It’s almost impossible for tribe members to get a mortgage, let alone borrow against their property to start a business. The Bureau of Indian Affairs regulates just about every aspect of commerce on reservations.
Instead of giving Indians more control over their own land–allowing them to develop natural resources or use land as collateral to start businesses–the federal government has offered them what you might call a loophole economy. Washington carves out a sector of the economy, giving tribes a regulatory or tax advantage over non-Indians. But within a few years the government takes it away, in many cases leaving Indian tribes as impoverished and more disheartened than they were before.
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What American Indians need first is less regulation. There is a reason that Native Americans say BIA, the initials for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, really stands for “Bossing Indians Around.”
For the full commentary, see:
NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY. “The Loophole Economy Is No Jackpot for Indians; Running casinos or selling tax-free cigarettes can’t substitute for what tribes truly need: property rights.” The Wall Street Journal (Thurs., July 28, 2016): A15.
(Note: ellipsis added.)
(Note: the online version of the commentary has the date July 27, 2016.)
The above commentary by Riley is related to her book, which is:
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10 things everyone should know about reincarnation
1. The soul exists.
The soul isn’t just a myth or an illusion or a relic of anscient superstition. All human beings are a combination of physical, mortal body and non-physical, immortal soul. Your soul is the absolute essence of you — the only true answer to the question, “Who am I?” It is who you always are regardless of how you feel or what you believe or how you perceive yourself.
From the body’s perspective, the soul is the conscious, animating life force within it. From the soul’s perspective, the body is a vehicle for inhabiting the physical world and experiencing physical existence. The soul is pure consciousness, pure energy, pure being. It exists on a timeless, non-physical level of reality. It is a piece of Spirit or God or Source, a spark of divine light and love, a fragment of absolute perfection.
2. The soul evolves.
All souls are on a mission to evolve (grow, develop) through their own experiences and efforts. To evolve as a soul is to become increasingly self-aware and self-capable as a unique expression of Spirit. By evolving, the soul changes in its level of being and consciousness, from new-born innocence to greater and greater levels of love, power and wisdom. In effect, that which is created re-joins the Creator — after eons of evolution.
3. The soul evolves most effectively in physical form.
Evolution of the soul comes about through individual experience and choice.
A soul evolves most effectively by facing and making choices as a separate individual, making choices big and small, and experiencing the effects of each choice. To do so, the soul incarnates — that is, the soul fuses with a physical body for a whole lifetime, from birth to death.
By doing so, the soul gets to experience being physically limited and physically separated from others and from all-that-is. This is actually an illusion, a trick of the senses, as the soul itself is never really limited or separate. But the illusion creates enough desire, fear and other pressures to cause the soul to experience conflicts and dilemmas and to make choices. It also puts the soul’s own perceptions, feelings and decisions under the microscope, as it were. The experiences and choices of a lifetime serve as lessons for the soul once the life is completed. After death (the soul’s exit from the physical realm), the soul and its guides review what happened during the life and what lessons can be learned from it.
The soul not only reviews its own experiences and choices but also discovers the effects of its own choices on others during the life. For example, the decision to steal a sum of money at one point may have caused the victim significant hardship and anxiety.
The soul learns that all choices have experiential consequences, not just for the self but for everyone involved.
4. The soul undergoes the full range of meaningful experiences and choices by reincarnating.
One lifetime is not enough to experience the whole gamut of life circumstances and to make all choices. For example, the soul needs to experience life as both male and female; as both victim and perpetrator; as both student and teacher… Hence, the soul re-incarnates many times over in order to experience the full spectrum of life. Being human again and again, each time with a different body, different life circumstances and different relationships, enables the soul to experience the full range of possible perspectives and relationships and all the lessons that these entail.
Through many different human experiences, the soul gradually becomes more self-aware, gradually discovers more of its true capabilities (love, power, wisdom), and gradually learns how to overcome the illusory limitations of being physical.
Generally, the soul learns best through a “compare and contrast” process, not through blind repetition. Hence any given lifetime may be completely different in some way from the last one. (From the soul’s point of view, there is little value in repeating the same kind of life again and again — unless, that is, there is a specific lesson within that lifestyle which has yet to be learned — in which case, Groundhog Day is an excellent metaphor). Each human lifetime is an opportunity to learn specific lessons. One lifetime, for example, might focus on learning greater self-responsibility while the next might focus on being kinder to others. If in one lifetime the soul experiences being a man with a lot of power over women, say, it would then be of value to contrast that with the experience of being a powerless woman. The soul has no preference for one side of the equation or the other, since both sides help draw out different aspects of the soul.
5. The soul has no nationality, creed, race or gender.
There is no such thing as a Jewish soul or a Chinese soul or whatever. We are just souls, and as souls we are free to experience the whole variety of human cultures across the planet. We choose our birth location, race and nationality to suit our purposes for any given lifetime. Sometimes race and creed are a deliberate choice; at other times they are merely incidental to what the life is about.
Because the soul learns through a process of “compare and contrast”, one who has just experienced a life as (say) an Israeli soldier might decide to be (say) a Palestinian orphan in the next. There is no such thing as a male soul or a female soul. Gender is a biological phenomenon, not a spiritual one. Human beings are of two sexes and so we have to choose which one to be before each life begins.
Because we want to experience, compare and contrast all possible perspectives, we will choose to experience lives as both men and women. We can be male or female as often as we please. We can be male in one lifetime and female the next. Or we can be male for ten lifetimes and female for the next fifty lifetimes. It is all a matter of choice. Even if we have a strong preference for one gender, we will still tend to incarnate as the other gender every now and then, just to maintain a balanced perspective.
6. The soul sticks to one species at a time.
Contrary to certain teachings, the souls of human beings reincarnate only as human beings. That’s not to say we did not experience life in simpler life forms before that. But at some point in our earlier evolution, we selected the human species as our vehicle of choice (no pun intended) to evolve as self-aware individuals.
The soul’s mission is to expand in consciousness, and there is no value for the soul already at the human level in experiencing life at a “sub-human” level of consciousness. There may be rare exceptions where a soul who is normally human experiments with being a dolphin, say, but as a rule we do not return as insects or cows or blades of grass or what have you. We are spiritual beings on a human journey, learning to be ourselves through human experiences, human relationships and human choices.
7. Each lifetime is planned.
Before taking birth, the soul (along with its guides in spirit) will decide what experiences and choices the life should include. The appropriate circumstances and relationships will be chosen and set up with the cooperation and agreement of other souls who will be involved.
For example, let’s say the soul wants to experience being compassionate towards children. The soul may decide that the life to come should include its own childhood experience of abandonment by the mother. This would help drive the personality in adult life to want to help abandoned children. Another soul will then agree, out of love, to be the mother who abandons this soul in childhood.
Most major events in life are planned: the birth, the family, the school, the relationships, the career and so on. This includes deaths, accidents and illnesses. There is, however, plenty of room for unplanned things to occur. The choices we make on the ground matter far more than “destiny”.
The body is also chosen by the soul before birth. Souls are aware of which foetuses are viable and which are not, and which are going to be terminated before birth. (Hence, abortion is not really ‘murder’.) Some lifetimes are explicitly set up for the soul to undergo a particular learning experience (such as being a teacher, for example), while some are actually undertaken for the benefit of others‘ learning experiences. For example, we might opt to live a life as a much-loved child who suddenly dies while still young, purely in order to help another soul undergo the experience of tragic loss.
8. There is a law of karma…
… but it is not like many people think it is.
If soul a kills soul B in one lifetime, then in a later lifetime soul B will kill soul A. That is the effect of karma.
But karma is not (repeat not) about cosmic justice or divine retribution. From the perspective of Spirit, there is no need for cosmic justice because there is no such thing as cosmic injustice. Karma is really about learning through “entanglement”. If I do something in physical life that violates your free will, we become entangled. We both feel the lack of equilibrium between us. It’s like we have become tied together by a rope. The only way to restore equilibrium is to undo the entanglement—by having you violate my free will in a similar way. That way, we both know from experience what it is like to be both the violator and the violated.
Souls tend to commit karmic acts in the early stages of their reincarnations when they have less experience of human existence.
Typical karmic acts are: murder, rape, dismemberment, imprisonment, abandonment. In all cases, one person imposes something on another against the others’ will. There is no karmic entanglement for acts that are accidental or not by choice.
9. Reincarnation has a beginning and an end.
Contrary to certain teachings, we are not tied to a wheel of endless death and rebirth, to be saved only by renouncing the world and seeking spiritual liberation.
The whole journey of evolving through reincarnation begins with us at a certain level and ends once we reach another level. It takes (typically) well over 100 lifetimes. From first human life to last requires thousands of years, depending upon the availability of physical bodies. In spirit, the whole path is clear to us and we know exactly what we are doing. Each lifetime is a deliberate adventure and is undertaken out of love and a desire to evolve.
10. There is no urgency.
Contrary to what many teach on the subject, there is no urgency for us to become enlightened, or to complete our reincarnation cycle. It is not “better” to evolve quickly over a few lives than to evolve slowly over many lives.
Reincarnation is not a challenge to reach the end of evolution as quickly as possible.
We are not “caught” in the cycle of human death and rebirth.
The physical world is not a hell-hole to be climbed out of.
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Thailand sees record new infections ahead of major festival
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand reported 985 new coronavirus cases on Monday, its highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic, and health officials said they were worried the number of new infections could be far higher after this week’s traditional Thai New Year holiday.
Health experts said the third major surge in the country was proving more difficult to control as it was mostly a variant of the virus first found in the U.K. and has mostly affected younger people because it broke out at nightclubs and bars.
“The third wave is different. The origin is the young generation who have active lifestyle. They went to clubs, go back to their hometowns on very long holidays and caused the wide spread,” said Dr. Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, a senior consultant for Health Ministry.
Millions of Thais are traveling around the country — often from urban areas to rural villages — for this week’s annual Songkran festival, which marks the traditional Thai New Year. The government has not prevented people from traveling, as it did when it canceled the festival last year.
The current surge — which has infected at least one Cabinet minister and forced a number of others into self-quarantine — is increasing criticism of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s government and its handling of the pandemic. While Thailand has only recorded 33,610 infections and 97 deaths, critics say the vaccination drive is too slow — less than 1% of the population has gotten their jabs — and support for people whose livelihoods have been wiped out by the pandemic is lacking.
So far, Thailand has been using a relatively small supply of the Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines, until a local plant can start producing and distributing the AstraZeneca vaccine mid-year. Even then, Thailand has ordered enough doses for about half the 60 million people living here, and there is still no clear timetable for the general public.
The director-general of the Department of Disease Control, Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, said the figures after the Songkran holiday will define the direction of the Thailand’s latest surge.
“The trend is still upward. We have to look at the figures after Songkran,” Opas said.
In an effort to stop the spread, 37 or Thailand’s 73 provinces took their own decisions and enacted travel restrictions. They included mandatory 14-day quarantines, virus tests and even prohibitions on entry for non-residents.
Such daily increases in new infections are rare for Thailand, which has weathered the coronavirus pandemic far better than many nations through measures including strict border controls that have decimated the country’s lucrative tourism industry. Thailand has also experimented at times with everything from curfews and alcohol bans to closures of schools, shopping malls and restaurants.
The current outbreak is the largest the country has seen since one in December that was centered around a fresh food market that employs a number of migrant workers from Myanmar. This time, however, the outbreak has been traced to a number of bars and nightlife venues in the heart of Bangkok, including many popular with the rich and powerful. | <urn:uuid:d4595b18-61ec-49bd-a271-b4aae5996372> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-asia-pacific-thailand-98f51655704122467692d4ddd9b9c161 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.970148 | 683 | 1.890625 | 2 |
A survey conducted by the Ashanti Regional Correspondent of modernghana.com indicates that some men in the Ashanti Region would not even think of dating single moms let alone marrying them.
Their reasons are as untenable like the subjective and prejudicial views of the regional citizenry. In the years gone by, single moms were seen as a marital failure, bad example to emulate and wrong influence on younger women.
As many as 74% of our respondents in the survey conducted by Akwasi Brobbey sees single moms as ‘wayward’ which it believed was why they had or raised children out of wedlock. At social gatherings, at that time, single moms were treated like outcasts, even by members of their own families.
“Born One Moms” as teased are treated as “sex-addicts” in their early stages of their lives. Most of them do not even gather the courage to continue their education after delivery. Those who gather the courage to also pursue their education dream feel so shy to let others know they have a son or daughter somewhere.
Modernghana.com new research, measuring public perception on single mom further revealed that some parents even threatened that, they will not accept the marriage proposal from their sons if they approach them with the plans of marrying a “born one” – single mom.
Who is a single mom? She is that woman with potential for greatness, the queen of her future husband, mother of children, adorable daughter-in-law and a great manager of family resources who, by fate, ignorance, mistake or desperation, become a mother.
Some become moms by naivety while in school, others by infatuation, deceit, waywardness, peer pressure or influence, failed marriages or relationships and sexual abuse like rape or incest. Only a few get pregnant in a bid to hook men into marriage.
The only single moms acceptable to the society are the widows. The truth remains that being a single mom is not a crime. It is wrong to stigmatize them. Quite a number of single moms are more truthful than some “innocent” women who pretend and lie about everything.
What people don’t know about single moms is that, single moms are humble, friendlier, persevering and contented. They seem to value men more than their married or single counterparts. In Nigeria, at least, three single moms had become First Ladies of the country.
There’s no denying the fact that being a single mom has lessened the pressure of marrying in desperation for the purpose of having children. It has also allayed the fear of infertility or a prolonged delay in fruitfulness.
To marry a single mom is a confirmed open market, not a black market. Single moms do show understanding in times of need, rather, they strive to add more value and support to their partners.
They appear to be more dependable in a relationship and pleasant in marriage.
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In an interview with DW Chief International Editor Richard Walker, Zhang Junhui, envoy of the People’s Republic of China in Berlin, defends Beijing’s military response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
As Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, departed Taipei Wednesday after meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen and making a “bedrock promise” that the United States will “always stand with Taiwan,” the island is preparing for China to respond with a massive show of military force. Shi Yi, spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), said in a statement that the military operations are “deterrence against the major escalation” by the US on the “Taiwan question.”
The last time China carried out a show of force of this magnitude near Taiwan was during the 1995-96 “Third Taiwan Strait Crisis,” which was a response to a US visit by Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, Lee Teng-hui.
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Finding the motivation to lose weight can be a challenge when you’ve tried all the fads and failed miserably at each one. Requiring determination, self-care and patience, losing extra fat is no easy feat, especially if you’re not someone who loves salads or exercise.
Changing your lifestyle to lose weight requires knowing how to burn fat effectively. The idea that you should move more and eat less may seem simple enough, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Fat loss is influenced by what we eat and how we exercise. Here are things you can try to will help you lose extra body fat:
1. Create a healthy sleeping habit.
You can achieve and maintain a healthy weight by going to bed earlier or setting your alarm clock later than usual. Studies have linked sufficient sleep with weight loss. While everyone needs a different amount of sleep, most studies show that at least seven hours of sleep per night has the greatest impact on weight management and overall health.
To support a healthy sleep cycle, you should stick to a regular sleep schedule, limit your consumption of caffeine in the evening and try to minimize your use of electronic devices before bedtime. Aside from reducing hunger and appetite, getting enough sleep may also lower your risk of weight gain.
2. Include supplements in your diet.
Supplements can provide a range of benefits to your body, such as boosting immunity, destroying cravings and balancing energy and mood levels. They are particularly beneficial for a speedy metabolism.
When used in conjunction with a healthy and balanced diet, supplements found at https://phenq.com have the potential to aid in considerable weight loss in anyone with the determination to realize such benefits. They boost energy and slow down fat accumulation.
3. Try intermittent fasting.
Several studies have discovered that short-term intermittent fasting leads to weight loss for most individuals. Intermittent fasting is a pattern of eating that involves switching between eating and fasting on a regular schedule.
There are a few common methods for intermittent fasting. Here are some of them:
- The 5:2 diet: Fast every two to seven days. On fasting days, consume 500 to 600 calories.
- Alternate-day fasting (ADF): Fast today. Tomorrow, eat whatever you like.
- The 16/8 fasting: Eat within an 8-hour window after 16 hours of fasting. For effective fasting, you should adopt a healthy eating pattern during your non-fasting days to avoid overeating.
4. Add fiber to your diet.
When fiber-rich foods absorb water, they form a gel, which helps food pass more slowly through your digestive tract. The fiber of this type encourages weight loss by making you feel fuller for longer, which naturally causes you to eat less.
You should try to consume high-fiber foods on a daily basis. There are a number of foods that contain soluble fibers including wholegrains, popcorn, brussels sprouts, broccoli, avocados, beans and dried fruits.
Consuming fiber reduces calorie absorption by increasing fullness, which leads to weight loss. Make sure your weight loss diet contains plenty of high-fiber foods.
5. Try a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout.
Fat loss advocates and personal trainers alike recommend HIIT workouts as an excellent method of burning fat. It works by exercising for intermittent bursts of intense activity, alternating with periods of rest or slow activity. Its effectiveness is grounded in the fact that it burns more calories faster than other types of exercise.
You can incorporate any type of exercise with HIIT. Try one minute of jumping jacks and one minute of walking in one spot. Or sprinting for five minutes and jogging for one minute until your heart rate has decreased.
6. Avoid buying your favorite snacks.
This method can be difficult for those who prefer to treat themselves after a hefty workout. But if you’re really dedicated to slashing those extra pounds, it’s a good idea to implement some self-control to limit those extra calories if only for a few weeks.
Instead of sugary sweets, keep easy-to-prepare items nearby. Stock up on filling snack foods like nuts and seeds, fruit and vegetables, yogurt and eggs.
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WHAT IS MOVNAT?
by Erwan Le Corre
MovNat is a school of physical competence for the real-world. Our goal is to equip people with the movement skills, physiological preparedness (strength & conditioning), and mindset necessary for practical, adaptable performance – both fundamental and high level.
As a physical education system and fitness method, MovNat is entirely based on the practice of Natural Movement skills, i.e. movements that the human body was designed or “selected” to perform. These skills can be divided into three categories:
Locomotive skills include ground movements (crawling, get-ups), balancing, walking, running, jumping, climbing, and aquatic skills.
Manipulative skills include lifting, carrying, throwing, and catching.
Combative skills include grappling and striking.
MovNat’s method symbiotically develops positional and breath control, spatial awareness, coordination, balance, mobility, stability, strength, power, endurance, adaptability and resiliency, as well as focus/mindfulness and mental fortitude.
Skill is the “new” sexy
The progressive practice of movement skill is the foundation of the MovNat method. Making the body stronger and more conditioned is like upgrading your hardware – but the movement skills are the software that governs the hardware. In other words, improving movement skill is not only essential for performance – it actually drives performance.
At the fundamental level, this concept should be obvious – but as we’ve gradually disconnected from our natural environment it has become less so. In our modern society, our environment doesn’t require physical performance – therefore most of us view “fitness” as a chore to keep our bodies looking socially acceptable while avoiding the pains associated with a sedentary lifestyle. But this logic only leads the great majority to develop an unnatural, unhealthy fear of moving.
Nurture your true nature
In the bigger picture, Natural Movement is an instinct that we have been conditioned to suppress from a young age. By reconnecting to Natural Movement in a progressive, systematic way we are able to safely and effectively unleash our natural drive to move – improved conditioning, strength, mobility, body aesthetics, and overall state of health become the consequence.
Ironically, MovNat sits at the “cutting edge” of the fitness industry because it represents authentic movement in a natural balance; as an unspecialized system, it truly is for everyone. In fact, anyone from an elder to an elite athlete can benefit from the practice. MMA fighter Carlos Condit understands this concept, as he benefitted from working with me, both indoors and outside, on specific movement skills that dramatically improved his game. By working on skills and specific drills that required lower gait stability and a higher level performance of his feet, I was able to improve his stance, footwork, and overall stability – something his coach Greg Jackson admitted he saw was needed but was unable to correct.
Strong to be helpful
Imagine enjoying a relaxing evening on a rocky coastline. Suddenly, you notice someone in the distance is in a dire situation – nearly drowning. You subconsciously analyze the rugged environment, which makes you hesitate and question “Am I capable of saving this person, or should I sit back and hope someone else is?” Or, while precious seconds pass, you find yourself thinking “Should I put my shoes on first?”
MovNat is bigger than movement; its a mindset. Real world strength – what we call “physical competence” – is and always will be our biological call of duty. Its the strength of self-reliance: to be able to work hard without quitting, get dirty playing with your kids, and step forward with something to offer when a helping hand is needed.
Imagine if the vast majority of people possessed such an empowered, self-actualized mindset to not only preserve their own vitality well into old age, but also consider that of others and the environment at large. The positive effects on our civilization would be far and deep. For that reason, the mindset that is cultivated through Natural Movement – not extreme stunts in nature – is the highest goal of MovNat.
In summary, MovNat’s purpose is three fold:
1 – Reawaken the natural human drive to move naturally
2 – Develop human performance via effectiveness, efficiency, and adaptability in Natural Movement
3 – Educate professionals to teach Natural Movement in a comprehensive, intelligently designed method
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Are you looking for a way to recontour your gums, or treat tongue tie without oral surgery?
Laser Dentistry is changing the way patients receive dental care. Dr. Mohammad Izadi offers soft tissue laser procedures as part of his comprehensive orthodontic services. Laser dentistry uses state of the art laser technology to treat a range of oral health concerns, without sutures, downtimes or invasive surgery.
Laser dentistry is safe, effective, and can be used for children and adult patients.
The health and apperance of our gums are essential for a balanced, beautiful smile. Patients with gummy smiles may feel self-conscious of their smile, even after successful orthodontic treatment. Gummy smiles occur when a patient’s gumline rides too low on the surface of the tooth. Teeth may appear short, or too small while the gums remain the visual focal point of the smile.
Using laser technology, Dr. Izadi can recontour the gum line for a more aesthetic, natural looking smile. Laser therapy is highly effective for treating gummy smiles. The laser precisely removes excess gum tissue leaving more of the natural teeth exposed.
Tongue tie is a condition where the flap of skin that attaches the tongue to the base of the mouth is too long or tight. This piece of skin, also referred to as a frenulum, prohibits the patient from using the full range of motion of the tongue. Tongue-tie in children can inhibit speech development and make it difficult to breastfeed as babies.
Dr. Izadi offers a laser treatment called a frenectomy. A frenectomy is a process of detaching the frenulum, restoring the full range of motion of the tongue. Laser frenectomies are safe and effective for young children. Treating tongue-tie early on in oral development can allow for a more natural development of the teeth and gums.
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Scholars agree that Western interference has helped to shape Iranian political life before, during, and after the revolution. Share your thoughts on the question:
Has Western influence been good for a country like Iran? Should the West try to have more influence, such as on Iran’s nuclear power program and their politics? Or has Western influence been more negative – or problematical – and, therefore, the West should be very cautious about imposing itself?
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From the perfection of imperfection is arises the Articulada, a experimental typography inspired by children with different capabilities. What inspires us? Since children were trained to prefer the perfect, to the different. Is nature beautiful because it is symmetrical or because it is harmonious and structured spontaneously? In the process of generation of Articulada, I was inspired by the similarity of the human body with the typographic. And I identified in the articulated doll, the "driving force" of children any disability: the joy of being uniques. The 3 pieces that form all characters of Articulada, provides special aspects: their heights vary between letters and their endings, emphasize the motricity. | <urn:uuid:d39ac9de-ac36-44e0-bbdf-af26909463a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fontpro.com/articulada-font-6184 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.933652 | 234 | 1.703125 | 2 |
I went to the Permeke library in the center of Antwerp yesterday evening and loaned these:
- Les Symbolistes (Serge Baudiffier; Jean-Marc Debenedetti , 1990)
- Sade / Surreal
- Ghislaine Wood’s Art Nouveau and the Erotic
- Owen S. Rachleff ‘s The Occult in Art
- William Rubin ‘s Primitivism in 20th Century Art
Two of these books I had already loaned, the work by Rachleff, which is excellent, and the sublime Sade / Surreal, which I’ve mentioned before here. Sade/Surreal is a pricey book (a French bookseller currently wants more than 300 EUR for it, but a German vendor is currently letting it go for less than 40 Euros, which is a bargain, if you have deep pockets, consider buying it for me as a present). For the last hour of so, I’ve been updating my wiki with the names found on the opening and closing pages of the book (pictured below), which reads like a who’s who of Sadean thought, a summa sadeica, as it were.
Opening and closing page of Sade/Surreal
There were only a couple of names I could not identify, any help is welcome: Retz (either Gilles de Rais, or the cardinal with the same name, Young (perhaps Mr. Young of Night Thoughts?), de Saint Martin, Bertrand (probably Aloysius Bertrand ?) and Constant (Constantin Meunier?). The rest is indentified.
Also in the same book is the engraving below, which I find lovely, like a cake-building or a building of collapsing blubbery wet clay.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Animal rights group claims breach of Article 10
Animal rights group Animal Defenders International have been granted permission to challenge by judicial review the ban on “political advertising” that prevents many campaign groups from promoting their views on radio and television as a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
Sections 319 and 321 of the Communications Act 2003 prohibit advertising on radio and television which is directed at “influencing public opinion on a matter … of public controversy”. Applying this legislation in a different case, Ofcom recently banned a television advertisement for the Make Poverty History campaign. In 2001, the RSPCA had an advertisement campaigning about the rearing of broiler chickens rejected by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre because of its ‘political’ nature.
Animal Defenders International are expected to argue that the ban is unfair and constitutes a disproportionate interference with their freedom of expression. They point out that companies can advertise their environmental credentials but environmental organisations are severely constrained in any response.
The rules have previously been challenged by Amnesty International and the RSPCA, but ADI’s challenge is the first since the coming into force of the Human Rights Act. The High Court is likely to hear the application for judicial review, issued against the Department for Media and Culture which is responsible for the 2003 Act, early in the New Year. | <urn:uuid:86e82fa8-7d5c-450d-94ce-aa1c5bacc807> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.5rb.com/news/challenge-to-ban-on-political-advertising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959814 | 274 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Anne Applebaum, a journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author, began her lecture on Soviet totalitarianism by reading aloud the anthem of the East German Communist Party.
The song extolls the virtues of the Communist Party: “the party, the party, she is always right. And Comrade, so it shall remain.”
She went on to explain that everyone in the period just after World War II sang this song, whether or not they agreed with it.
Applebaum covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent for The Economist from 1989 to 1991. Since then, she has written for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, among others. She has also written several books.
“Communism seemed to some people like the only viable alternative to the Democratic capitalism which had failed so spectacularly in the 1930s,” she said.
Communism spread so successfully in part because the Red Army and the Soviet Secret Police were well prepared to lead a totalitarian takeover. They had already practiced in Russia’s Central Asian republics in the 1920s and in the Baltic states in 1939. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, was confident that all of Europe would be Communist at some point, Applebaum said.
The radio was a key institution that the Soviets took hold of because, at the time, it was the most effective way to contact the most people at once. The Soviets had faith in the effectiveness of their own propaganda, so they knew certain kinds of people-predominantly low-income and working-class citizens-would support them no matter what, Applebaum said.
The radio was the most effective way of communicating to all of these people at once. “In those days the Secret Police cared about radio far more than newspapers or magazines partly because they reckoned radio was the medium that could reach the masses-the peasants and the workers whose support they expected to receive,” she said.
Applebaum then moved on to another of the Soviet Army’s techniques: targeted terror tactics. The Secret Police targeted prominent, elite people like ex-politicians and businessmen. They also targeted athletics, charities, anything remotely religious, and in particular, children’s groups. Christian Democratic youth group leaders were also at a huge risk, she said.
This was effective because they focused on anyone capable of leading or organizing a spontaneous demonstration. Applebaum also mentioned elements of society under control for seemingly no reason, like the Association of Christian Democratic Tobacco Workers in Hungary.
Independent music was also banned, as the Young Communist Movement demonstrated when members stormed into a Polish YMCA and destroyed all of the jazz records in 1949. Oddly, hiking clubs were also completely prohibited, she said.
“Ultimately, they were determined not only to control the government, the police, the media, and the economy, but also all the elements of what we now call civil society,” Applebaum said.
The Soviet government and army intended to create a totalitarian regime in Eastern Europe. Although they did not always succeed, the goal was for everything to be controlled by the state. By about 1948, Communist regimes controlled the economy, property, the political sphere, sports, leisure time, hospitals, universities, summer camps, children’s after-school activities, art, music, and museums, Applebaum said.
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When getting out of the Marine Corps, there are many paths that a Marine can take to prepare for the next chapter of their careers. An excellent option that is becoming more accessible to Marines is an apprenticeship. To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week in November, here is some information and testimonials from the Camp Pendleton Veteran in Piping 2018 and 2019 cohorts.
The Veterans in Piping (VIP) Program is a free, accelerated 18-week Welding & Pipe Fitting Training for active duty service members that leads into a high probability of employment with a United Association (UA) union.
Benefits of the UA VIP Program:
“Best course I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of. This was much more than a welding course. Sean and Jason taught me so much about life and what it takes to be successful. We were provided everything we needed to succeed at no cost and a guaranteed job after the military. I don’t know what could be better. Hopefully in the future, more of my brothers will be able to attend this course.”
- Sergeant Andrew Anderson, USMC
“Very good program. More than just a welding program. Hope this program grows so more military service members get the chance to succeed.”
- Sergeant Gustavo Cortez, USMC
“Awesome program. I went from no welding experience to being a certified welder. Absolutely loved it.”
- Sergeant Seth Coverstone, USMC
The United Association Veterans in Piping program is currently available at Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune. If you are interested in these programs, there will be three welding classes available during 2020. Follow the links above to complete an application. If you are curious about other apprentice programs contact your installation’s Transition Readiness staff or join the Marine for Life Network and connect with a local M4L Representative.
In honor of National Retirement Security Week, here are some tips on getting prepared for your transition to civilian life.
Do you know about the SkillBridge program? It connects Marines with training, apprenticeship, and internship opportunities to get ready for civilian employment! Learn more about how to participate.
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NASA Image and Video Library allows users to search, discover and download a treasure trove of more than 140,000 NASA images, videos and audio files from across the agency’s many missions in aeronautics, astrophysics, Earth science, human spaceflight, and more. Users now can embed content in their own sites and choose from multiple resolutions to download.
Visitors can browse NASA’s most recently uploaded files, as well as discover historic and the most popularly searched images, audio files and videos.
Additional features include:
- Automatically scales the interface for mobile phones and tablets
- Displays the EXIF/camera data that includes exposure, lens used, and other information, when available from the original image
- Allows for easy public access to high resolution files
- All video includes a downloadable caption file
NASA Image and Video Library’s Application Programmers Interface (API) allows automation of imagery uploads for NASA, and gives members of the public the ability to embed content in their own sites and applications. (That’s geekspeak for a pretty cool feature.)
The library is not comprehensive, but rather provides the best of what NASA makes publicly available from a single point of presence on the web. Additionally, it is a living website, where new and archival images, video and audio files continually will be added. | <urn:uuid:1ad4ff9e-d327-4b8e-8b02-1d7af55e9cf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naptownbuzz.com/2017/03/nasa-launched-new-public-multimedia-library/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.897763 | 279 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Dai (DAI) is a stable coin that determines its price by the US dollar’s value. DAI’s value regulates through MakerDAO, its decentralized governance community, for price stability. While actual DAI stable coins create its Maker Protocol platform, which takes a variety of cryptocurrencies as collateral, DAI can also be purchased directly on most regulated crypto exchanges using fiat money (such as the US dollar).
What is Dai?
DAI is an ERC-20 currency created with the Ethereum blockchain in mind. ERC stands for “Ethereum Request for Comment,” a standard for building and enabling smart contracts on the Ethereum network developed in 2015. Because of its relationship to the US dollar, one of the main advantages of DAI is that it offers the transactional benefits of a cryptocurrency with little volatility.
You can buy Dai through various cryptocurrency exchanges or decentralized exchanges (DEXs). You can also borrow DAI using the Maker Protocol by pledging Ethereum-based assets as collateral to guarantee the amount of DAI borrowed. DAI needs a bigger collateral deposit than DAI borrowed to ensure network liquidity. The collateral may forfeit if the value of your crypto-collateral falls below the value of the issued DAI tokens. However, if the value of your collateral rises, your DAI borrowing limit increases in proportion. The Maker Protocol works similarly to an escrow account, where the collateral is there until the loaned DAI and processing costs pays back.
If consumers wish to buy DAI, they can use ETH to acknowledge the equal dollar amount in DAI on an exchange or utilize the Maker Protocol to collateralize ETH and other assets.
DAI Coin Price Today
Users who do not wish to sell their ETH can still buy DAI the latter way.
When the price of DAI falls below its mandated value of 1 USD, Maker DAO raises loan interest rates, incentivizing users to sell their Dai and pay off their loans. The supply is limited because the returned Dai is driving up the price. When DAI costs more than 1 USD, an entirely different system kicks in.
Maker DAO can change the Dai intelligent contracts as the protocol’s owners, such as controlling the types of approved collateral, collateralization ratios, and interest rates for borrowing or storing Dai.
How is this, however, still decentralized? Any changes you make to intelligent contracts are accessible to everyone on the blockchain. As a result, Dai embraces blockchain’s overall openness and trustworthiness.
Dai was introduced in December 2017, almost three years after MakerDao, the project’s governing decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) (see below).
Dai’s price is always around $1 because the cryptocurrency tethers to the US dollar. However, its price has changed away from that level on several occasions. It usually happens when the stable coin’s supply and demand fluctuate. Dai’s price tends to hover below $1 when the collection is high, but demand is low, and vice versa.
In September 2020, Dai reached an all-time high of $1.14, and in June 2021, it reached an all-time low of $0.8935.
Because Dai issues on demand by individuals who provide the proper collateral, there is no maximum supply. Users in debt can activate Dai’s burning mechanism by repaying the principal of their loan balance. However, interest payments made in dai will recirculate on the open market.
Users can only receive the stable coin if they submit the required collateral at the specified collateralization rate.
Dai is a cryptocurrency that exists on the Ethereum network. It lacks a native consensus method and any additional capabilities beyond those supplied by Ethereum.
Thanks to the asset’s reliability, users can utilize dai to lend, borrow, and invest in various apps, protocols, services, and products. Some exchanges have integrated dai as a primary trading option alongside other stable coins, making it a currency to trade against crypto assets.
When a user borrows against their locked collateral, dai creates- typically, 150 percent of the lent amount requires collateral upfront. The loaned amount repays within a particular time frame, or the collateral will be forfeited automatically. For example, if you wanted to make $1,000 worth of dai, you’d need to put down $1,500 in ether.
How to buy Dai?
Create an account
The most straightforward approach to buying Dai is registering an account with a crypto broker that accepts the coin. Dai offers various broker platforms, so you’ll be able to choose from several different brokers when you open an account. When selecting a broker, you may wish to examine the following factors:
— The trading platform used by each broker
– Commissions and fees
– There are more cryptocurrencies to buy and trade.
— Availability in your area
Purchase a wallet.
After you’ve decided on a broker, you’ll need to create a private wallet to keep your tokens. A cryptocurrency wallet gives you a unique set of keys that you may use to store your bitcoin investments on your preferred exchange. Cryptocurrency wallet divides into two categories:
Hardware wallets are USB-like device that allows you to keep your tokens offline. Unlike software wallets, hardware wallets are more expensive, but they give a higher level of security for your tickets.
Software wallets are desktop or mobile applications that allow you to keep track of your tokens and coins in a secure online wallet. Though software wallets aren’t as safe as hardware wallets (because they require internet access to access your investments), they offer investors a free method to keep their assets outside the exchange. Compared to hardware wallets, software wallets are usually open-source, which means they support a more comprehensive range of tokens.
Dai may store practically any Ethereum wallet that supports ERC-20 tokens. If you’re not sure where to start, check out our list of ERC-compliant wallets below.
Purchase what you want.
It’s time to make your buy after you’ve set up both your trading account and your wallet. Although the particular processes you’ll go through will vary depending on the broker, here are the fundamental steps you can expect to go through when buying DAI:
Step 1: Deposit into your brokerage account. Most brokers allow you to acquire cryptocurrencies with a direct bank transfer, but an increasing number of them accept credit and debit card payments. You’ll need to add a financing method to your brokerage account before you can buy or sell cryptocurrencies. Before proceeding, double-check that your correct funding method is linked and cleared.
Step 2: Decide what kind of order you’d like to place. Most brokers give you a variety of order types to choose from, ranging from fast-acting market orders to tightly restricted limit orders. Choose the ranking you wish to place and check out the current DAI pricing. In most circumstances, the cost will be nearly identical to $1.
Step 3: Complete and submit your order. Set a price and the number of DAI you want to buy, then place your order on your trading platform. You can now sit back and relax, knowing that your broker will complete your order according to the restrictions and parameters you specified.
Depending on current market circumstances, your broker may take anything from a few minutes to an hour to complete your order. Your tokens will appear in your exchange wallet when your broker completes the order. Your broker will either leave the order open indefinitely or close it after the trading day if they cannot fill it.
Where to buy Dai?
There are several ways to get DAI, and we’ll walk you through each one, explaining the benefits and drawbacks of each.
You can purchase Dai on several standard cryptocurrency exchanges, much like most cryptocurrencies. Kraken, Coinbase, and Bitfinex are the most well-known exchanges list DAI. To buy DAI, you’ll need to put fiat money into your exchange account, just like any other cryptocurrency.
If they are not available in your area, several smaller regional exchanges list DAI, including:
Custodial wallets are those in which the provider holds the cryptocurrency on behalf of their customers.
The distinction between buying on an exchange and buying from a wallet is technical. It is not readily apparent to the end-user: whereas sales support trading on their platforms, custodial wallets connect to businesses and other brokers when selling crypto to their users. As a result, purchasing through a wallet is generally more expensive than buying via an exchange.
Beginners will like custodial wallets since they relieve them of the obligation of storing their private keys. The provider holds the money for you. However, this implies that you don’t have complete control over your assets.
What is Dai worth?
The most significant advantage of DAI is its soft peg to the US dollar’s pricing.
Even the most significant, most liquid coins, like Bitcoin, are infamous for their volatility, with price fluctuations of 10% or more (both up and down) occurring multiple times in a single day. Traders and investors are naturally inclined to add safe-haven assets to their portfolios under these conditions since their constant price may assist in countering substantial market volatility.
Stablecoins, of which DAI is an example, is one type of asset. These are cryptocurrencies whose prices link to assets that have a relatively steady value, such as traditional fiat currencies like the US dollar or the euro.
Another significant benefit of DAI is that a decentralized autonomous organization governs it via a software protocol rather than a corporate firm. As a result, Ethereum-powered self-enforcing smart contracts manage and publicly record all token issuance and burning instances, making the entire system more transparent and less prone to corruption.
Furthermore, the development of DAI software is managed more democratically – through direct voting by frequent token ecosystem users.
How to mine Dai?
Unlike most cryptocurrencies, you cannot mine Dai.
Unlike Bitcoin, where once all 21 million bitcoin are there and in circulation, they are all there will ever be in the universe—the supply of Dai is neither predetermined nor rigidly constrained, which is one of the reasons the coin may remain stable.
Dai Market Cap
According to the most recent data available, the current price of Compound Dai is $0.022, and CDAI ranks in the entire crypto community. Compound Dai has a circulating supply of 0 and a market capitalization of $0.
The cryptocurrency’s current value has dropped by 0.27 percent in the last 24 hours. When we compare the present market capitalization of the CDAI to the previous day’s market capitalization, we can see that the market capitalization is likewise down.
Dai Price Prediction
Other cryptocurrencies are finding it challenging to accept Compound Dai. The CDAI has dropped to roughly -0.37% in the last seven days. The currency has been showing risky framing segments for the previous few days; while the coin has excellent fundamentals, we do not believe it will be a successful asset in the immediate run.
DAI coin is a decentralized tendency with no central authority. A smart contract that holds various digital assets (mainly in Ethereum (ETH)) keeps 1 DAI equal to 1 US dollar. When DAI coin’s price rises, the intelligent contract pricing mechanism tries to lower it, and vice versa.
In the previous 24 hours, Dai has been low. Dai has a market capitalization of 8.92 billion dollars. DAI volume is $345.49M in 24 hours. With a circulating supply of 8,920,278,859 and a maximum supply of 8,920,278,859, it is ranked 26 in market capitalization. Compound Finance ($71.81 million), Curve Finance ($55.28 million), and Uniswap V3 (Ethereum) ($54.26 million) are the top three exchanges for Dai. Over three years ago, Dai hit an all-time high of $1.1526. Dai has traded on 2,321 active markets in the previous day, with the top volume trading pairs being CDAI ($71.82 million), ETH ($41.08 million), and USDC ($35.27 million).
MakerDAO’s DAI model is distinct from those of other popular stable coins. DAI, for starters, has a hitherto unheard-of level of decentralization. At the same time, stable coins such as Tether provide a cryptocurrency backed by a reserve of fiat assets maintained by a central institution, DAI, issued by no single company. Instead, people interested in holding DAI must deposit Ethereum-based assets into a smart contract that uses them as security to keep DAI tied to the US dollar.
Second, unlike other stable coins backed by cryptocurrency, various platforms support Dai. It includes ETH, BAT, USDC, wBTC, COMP, and others. At the time of the Near Protocol, only accepted ether as collateral. The technology modifies in November of 2019 to accommodate BAT and USDC, resulting in today’s multi-collateral DAI system. The increasing quantity of collateralizable currencies lowers user risk and improves the price stability of DAI. The MakerDAO community continues to introduce new collateral options by voting.
Third, holders of DAI tokens receive interest on their DAI. MakerDao’s native governance token, MKR, is used to establish the DAI Savings Rate and act as guarantors for DAI, which means their MKR tokens liquidate if the system crashes. This arrangement incentivizes guarantors to ensure the DAI system and its collateralized tokens run smoothly. | <urn:uuid:d1069e8f-fdb5-422f-80a5-f01cb42967a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://knextweb.com/dai-price-stock-value-prediction-mining-market-cap/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93523 | 2,887 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Before Lebron James announced his second departure from the Cleveland Cavalier one of the biggest sports stories in Cleveland was all about a basketball shot that was never taken. In game one of the NBA finals last month the Cavs lost a chance to win a critical game against the Golden State Warriors because J.R. Smith held the ball in the closing seconds of the game instead of shooting what could have been the game-winning shot. It appeared that Smith was confused, thinking the Cavs were ahead when in fact the score was tied, and he heard about it from irate sports fans.
Bob Oller, a sports writer for the Columbus Dispatch, took an interesting approach to that story. He went to one of the most admired sports heroes in Buckeye country, the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Ohio State running back Archie Griffin. To quote Oller’s article, “Archie knows what it means to extend grace and receive mercy. Arch fumbled his first carry in his first game at Ohio State. It happens. Woody Hayes gave Griffin another chance and he made history with it. Archie also recalled another more glaring error he made when he fumbled a kick off on football’s biggest stage, the Super Bowl.” Archie’s take on JR Smith’s blunder: “It appears he lost track of the specifics of the situation….It’s a human mistake.”
Most of us don’t make our mistakes on national TV, but we all make them. What is something you regret that you wish you could undo? Words spoken in anger? Being self-absorbed with a problem and failing to notice the pain of a friend or loved one? Being distracted while driving and causing an accident or nearly doing so? As someone said recently, doing bad things doesn’t make us bad people, it makes us human.
In this sermon series we’re considering different aspects of love. Last week Pastor Chris talked about the first part of the great commandment – to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind and strength. And most of us know the second part of that commandment which is to love your neighbor as yourself. We’re going to deal with the neighbor part of that verse in coming weeks, but today I want to focus on those final two words in the great commandment, “as yourself.” We often put so much attention on love of God and neighbor that we lose sight of those final two words that are a critical prerequisite to doing the other two.
To love anyone else as we love ourselves obviously means we have to first love ourselves, and that may be the hardest part of this whole deal. Loving yourself is hard for several reasons: 1) we are often taught directly or indirectly that it’s not cool to boast or brag about ourselves, that we should be humble; and often we get carried away with that because 2) we alone know the whole truth about all of our own dirty laundry. I believe it was Lincoln who said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
That may be true, but even more true is the fact that you can’t fool God or yourself any of the time. No matter how good we are at hiding our faults from others, deep down our less desirable qualities are always with us like a perpetual bad hair day. Yes, we can rationalize or talk ourselves into doing something we know is not right, but deep down we still know it’s wrong and have to live with the guilt.
One of the biggest barriers to loving ourselves is perfectionism. Most of us don’t expect perfection from other people. We’re willing to cut them some slack, especially if we take time to consider that jerk who cuts us off on the freeway may be hurrying to get to a family emergency, or that rude clerk at the store is worried about her daughter who has run away from home. We know other people are just human, but why is it we often hold ourselves to a higher standard? I read a great line in a murder mystery the other day. The heroine of the story was beating herself up because she got taken in by a bad guy, and an old wise neighbor gave her this great advice. He said, “If I cried over every mistake I made I’d have drowned by now.”
Great advice, but part of the reason we have trouble loving ourselves is because we’ve got this accumulation of bad thoughts and behavior that seems to compound like credit card debt the longer we’re alive. And sometimes the church contributes to the guilt. I often joke that without guilt the church would be out of business. I may have borrowed that idea from the comedian, whose name I can’t remember, who joked about a church called “Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt.” But in all seriousness recklessly loving ourselves doesn’t mean excusing or sweeping our mistakes under the rug. Reckless love means embracing the good, bad and ugly, not just in others but first in ourselves, and that’s not easy to do.
The hard cold truth is that there is an evil streak in human nature. If we look honestly at the violence and suffering humans inflict on one another we have to admit it. Listen to what the writer of Ephesians says in the first part of chapter 2 that we read earlier: “You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.”
“You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived… we were by nature children of wrath.” Those are harsh words to swallow and unfortunately they are the only words some people ever hear from the church. As Frederick Buechner puts it, “The Gospel is bad news before it’s good news.” And because some Christians who don’t love themselves get their jollies beating other people up with the bad news many folks don’t stick around long enough to hear the good news. And can you blame them?
A few weeks back Pastor Mebane preached a very good sermon on integrity and used the analogy from the game of golf about the honesty it takes to call a penalty on yourself. I was sitting up here that day and if you noticed I was squirming a little it was because she was getting too close to home. Anybody else feel that way, or was it just me that got my toes stepped on? Sometimes the truth hurts like when I look in the mirror expecting to see Brad Pitt and this old geezer keeps looking back at me.
I am old enough to remember a couple of previous versions of the United Methodist hymnal, and one thing I remember was that the old communion ritual had a prayer of confession that said, “We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed, against thy Divine Majesty.” How’s that for a marketing strategy to attract folks to come to church? I can see the Facebook invitation now, “Come to Northwest this Sunday and bewail your manifold sins and wickedness!” I much prefer Jesus invitation, “Come to me you who are tired and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
Another thing I remember from the days when we used that old communion liturgy is that attendance on communion Sundays in many churches was always lower than average. I have no scientific evidence for why but I have a sneaking suspicion that people stayed away to avoid being saddled with a bigger load of guilt than they already had. Now it’s true that if you made it through the confession there was the Good News of salvation offered in the Sacrament itself, but I fear that once the guilt trip was triggered people didn’t hear the Good News of forgiveness. Out of curiosity I asked the office staff to give me the attendance numbers for the last 18 months here at Northwest. I was pleased to learn that over that period our average attendance on communion Sundays is almost identical to non-communion Sundays. I attribute that to the kinder, gentler language we use in celebrating communion that stresses how all are welcome at the Lord’s Table. And yes, ALL does mean ALL.
Please don’t misunderstand; I am not saying we don’t need confession as part of worship. We all have plenty to repent of as individuals and as a society, but we have to be very careful to be sure the Good News of the Gospel doesn’t get drowned out by the bad news. We get plenty of bad news all week and in order to recklessly and completely love ourselves we need to not only hear about the radical redeeming love of God, we need to feel it and experience it.
I John chapter 1 is a perfect example of the whole Gospel. Verse 8 says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” If we stop there loving ourselves is pretty hard to do. But the very next verse says, “If we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Today’s text from Ephesians says the same thing. Once it faces squarely the evil streak in all humans it shows us the way to self-love. Beginning at verse 4 it says, “But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ and raised us up with him, For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast.”
We can recklessly love ourselves, not in a boastful way, only because of the reckless love of God that saves us from our sin through freely given grace. It’s a love so reckless that Christ is willing to die a horrible death to show us the depth of God’s love; a reckless love that is like a sower who throws the seeds of grace everywhere, not just in “good” soil; a reckless love that runs down a dusty road to meet and embrace every prodigal child who repents and returns home.
In these days when the evil viruses of racism and nationalism and tribalism seem to be spreading like a plague it is easy to lose hope and to fear what the future holds. But fear is the lack of love, a lack of trust in God’s grace. If we trust God completely what have we to fear? As the great hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” says, “The body they may kill, God’s truth abideth still,” and that truth is deep unconditional love.
Set free from fear by God’s grace we can stand up and speak up for truth and justice. We can worry less about what others think of us and do what’s right and instead of what’s popular. When we speak and live the truth we have nothing to fear because God has our back.
Think of the saints throughout our faith history who loved themselves enough to boldly love others. I love the women in the Moses story who defied Pharaoh’s authority and conspired to save Moses’ life – the midwives who refused to kill the Hebrew baby boys at birth, Moses’ mother and sister who put him in the bulrushes where Pharaoh’s own daughter would rescue and raise him. Without their courage Moses would never have grown up to lead his people out of slavery.
Where does love of self come from? Or if we’re born with it, what happens to it? One great answer to both those questions is captured in the words of a poem by Dorothy Law Nolte. It’s called “Children Learn What They Live.” Her words should be posted in every nursery and classroom. In part she says:
“If a child lives with criticism, she learns to condemn.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with shame, she learns to feel guilty. (That’s the bad news, but the poem goes on…)
If a child lives with encouragement, she learns to be confident.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, she learns to like herself.
Kids are so impressionable that the golden rule is doubly important for them and all of us whenever we interact with them. We can all help instill a healthy love of self by treating the little ones as we want to be treated, with patience, forgiveness and reckless love.
It occurred to me while working on this sermon that reckless love of ourselves boils down to applying the Golden Rule to how we treat ourselves. If I treat myself badly by living with self-criticism, fear and shame, then I’m going to treat others the same way. What if we simply begin by treating ourselves as we want others to treat us?
We can begin to do that by changing the way we do something that all of us do on a daily basis. Who do you see when you look in the mirror, when you really look? Do you see yourself flawed and imperfect physically or morally? Or do you see a child of God saved by grace, flaws and all, set free to serve God and others by the reckless love of God and self? When you look in the mirror from now on don’t compare yourself to people society tells us are beautiful or special, but see yourself through God’s eyes.
Treat yourself with kindness; treat yourself as you want others to treat you. Be like Martin Luther who it is said each day when he bathed rebatptised himself and reminded himself he was a beloved child of God, one who in the words of Ephesians is “created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”
Reckless love is really quite simple: Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Vegan bone broth
A new fad diet is on the rise, but unfortunately it’s impossible for vegetarians and vegans to indulge in. The bone broth diet has gained speed in recent years due to the nutrients in animal bones, which some say help reduce inflammation in the body, as well as support healthy joints, skin, hair, and nails.
What is Bone Broth?
Bone broth is made by cooking down animal bones and leftover tissue for hours in order to extract the nutrients, such as the amino acids glycine and proline. Other nutrients, like calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, are also extracted from the bones and tissue over time. All of these nutrients work together to battle inflammation, as well as break down mucus, and provide a huge dose of nutrition all at once. Perfect for someone battling a cold or the flu!
These are obviously great health benefits, so what’s a vegan animal lover supposed to do? Create a vegan version, of course! Because so many plants have the same beneficial properties as animal bones, it’s incredibly easy to whip up your own cruelty-free bone broth recipe with whole food ingredients that are often cheaper than meat. Bonus!
Vegan Bone Broth Ingredients
A few key ingredients to any vegan bone broth recipe are celery, soybeans, seaweed, kale, spinach, and beets, because these plants also have nutrients that help reduce inflammation. And that’s not to mention their alkaline properties, which help lower acid levels within the body (from coffee, alcohol, and sugar). These vegetables also contain plenty of calcium and micronutrients too, which only add to vegan bone broth’s healthful qualities.
Now ask yourself, how could bone broth made from animal products be as nutrient-rich as a plant-based alternative? The simple answer is, it’s not! And you don’t have a guilty conscious to battle with, either! Win-win.
Read below to see some of our favorite vegan bone broth recipes. Each variety has it’s own unique spin on the popular fad, making it easy to sample a different version each and every week. You can even make a huge batch and freeze it for when you feel a cold coming on. Easy cruelty-free wellness!
Created with beets, celery, dried wakame, and miso paste (among other wholesome ingredients), this vegan bone broth by Organic Authority is incredibly hearty and delicious.
Combine shiitake mushrooms, turmeric, coconut oil, ginger, and chili pepper for a substantial and heart warming dish by Wallflower Kitchen.
Stylecaster’s take on vegan bone broth includes garlic, onions, carrots, cilantro, and spirulina steeped together for a flavor-intense alternative to the animal version.
To make One Green Planet’s No-Bone Broth, simply combine onions, cloves, zucchini, carrots, parsnips, and arame with a few other ingredients, and let it all soak together. The liquid smoke adds a unique flavor, as well!
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Our 6th-8th Middle School Group
"For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."
The goal of Illuminate is to equip students with a love and a knowledge of the Gospel. While the goal of the children’s program here at Jville Pres is to give students a solid foundation and basis for their beliefs in Christ, the goal of youth ministry is to help students take those foundations and apply them to their lives so that they can own their faith.
Our staff and volunteers are committed to “fanning the flames'' of our middle schoolers so that they may feel truly compelled to open their hearts and let the Lord illuminate them from the inside out.
Meeting time: 7:00pm-8:30pm at the church campus every Tuesday night. We hang out, play organized games, worship, learn about the Gospel, and grow together in discussion groups.
Our 9th-12th grade High School group
“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Similarly to Illuminate, the goal of the Ignite group and our entire K-12 program here at JPC is to equip students with a love and a knowledge of the Gospel in order to give the Holy Spirit room to ignite a fire that compels them to show Christ in their actions. So while the goal of Illuminate is to help students fan the flames of their own faiths, the goal of Ignite is to help them burn so bright that they ignite a fire in those around them.
Meeting time: 7:00pm-9:00pm at the church campus every Wednesday night. We hang out, eat a meal provided by the church, play organized games, worship, learn about the Gospel, and grow together in discussion groups.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Yes! We welcome families of all faiths from all different walks of life.
All of our volunteers are believers in God and are members of the church. They have gone through an interview process to assess whether their values align with the EPC’s, we have run a background check on them, and they have a passion for youth ministry.
There are a couple of options. The easiest way is to get in touch with the Youth Director Nate at [email protected]. You can also call the church office at (541) 899-1287, you can come to the church office, or you can find a staff member during any of our Sunday worship services.
For Illuminate, we have Tuesday night youth group and Friday night Light Night (every other week). For Illuminate, we have Wednesday night youth group, and Friday night Light Night (every other week).
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Women's rights groups praised the move saying it would help to end FGM but warned about the difficulty of changing mentalities as the practice is deeply entrenched in Sudanese culture.
In a significant victory for women and girls’ rights in Sudan, the country’s transitional government banned on April 22 and reported by The Guardian on Friday, the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail and a fine.
Women's rights groups praised the move saying it would help to end FGM but warned about the difficulty of changing mentalities as the practice is deeply entrenched in Sudanese culture. Now the bill still needs to be passed by members of the sovereign council, which was created following the ousting of former dictator Omar al-Bashir.
“There is so much work to be done. This is a start, a good start,” communication officer of the United Nations Children’s agency (Unicef) in Sudan, Fatma Naib, said.
“The crucial step will be to ensure there are consequences for those who perform the cut on their girls.”
Sudan is one of the world’s countries with the highest FGM rates. Eighty-seven percent of Sudanese women have endured the practice, according to the U.N. Girls are usually cut between the ages of five and 14.
“Sudanese women along with the Egyptians and Somalis have been leading the fight against FGM,” leading anti-FGM activist Nimco Ali who heads up the Five Foundation, a global partnership to end the practice, said.
“Sudanese women have always wanted to end FGM. Sudan took the same path as Egypt politically – and that means women can also lead and be part of the transitional government.”
FGM, also known as "cutting," involves the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons. Girls can bleed to death or die from infections, while FGM can also cause fatal childbirth complications later, according to health experts.
The U.N. raises the number of women and girls who suffered from the practice to 200 million worldwide.
The traditional ritual is prevalent in at least 27 African countries. But a report published in March said the number could be much higher as FGM is carried out in more than 90 countries, many of which do not collect data.
Unlinked to any particular religious faith, the procedure is also practiced in parts of Asia and the Middle East, as well as in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
"This practice is not only a violation of every girl child’s rights, but it also is harmful and has serious consequences for a girl's physical and mental health," Unicef Representative in Sudan Abdullah Fadil said.
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South Africa, Scotland and Georgia have prohibited all physical punishment of children.
Recently, Kosovo and France became the 55th and 56th countries, respectively to prohibit all physical punishment of children.
Congratulations to this group of PDEP Facilitators who are participating in the Integrating Senior Newcomers Project – a partnership between PDEL and Families Canada.
[Re-post from 6 Nov. 2018]: All are welcome to attend the first Annual General Meeting of Positive Discipline in Everyday Life (PDEL).
[Re-post from 6 Nov. 2018]: We are happy to welcome a new group of Facilitators and two new Country Trainers who were trained in Indonesia in August 2018 by Christine Ateah and Shamail Khalil. Thank you to all who made this possible!
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The smartest exam desk on the market?
Updated: 6 days ago
Exam desks have been in need of an update for a while...
Now that the en core table is available, we have compared the 2 products in detail.
There is also a handy comparison chart which summarises the differences at the bottom of the page.
Folding exam desks are made up of different components which makes it time consuming to separate out the parts to be recycled. The MDF top uses glues to bind the fibres together which makes recycling more complex (the glues have to be extracted in the recycling process). This means a folding exam desk is not 100% recyclable.
One of the most notable differences is the en core table is 100% recyclable. It is a one piece product made from reinforced polypropylene which means it is 100% recyclable at the end of its product life and most importantly, PP is very easy to recycle.
Most folding exam desks fail to meet EN1729 standards.
Part one of this standard is to help determine safe working heights for students and 730mm is not a recognised table height.
Part 2 of EN1729 relates to the strength, durability and safety of a product to determine if it is able to withstand the challenging environment of the classroom. Amongst other requirements, it is tested to see if it can support a weight of 100kg.
The en core table is certified to EN1729 and is available in a range of sizes to suit each age group.
More information on EN1729 compliance can be found on this link: https://www.spaceforme.co.uk/post/what-is-bs-en-1729-and-why-is-it-important
Where is it manufactured?
Almost all folding exam desks are manufactured overseas and are imported to the UK.
en core tables are manufactured in the UK.
As well as supporting UK manufacturing when buying an en core table, manufacturing in Britain helps us to reduce the carbon footprint of the product.
Our folding exam desks come with a 12 month warranty.
A folding mechanism increases the risk of damage during use.
The en core table comes with a 10 year warranty.
This is achievable as it is a one piece design with no moving parts so the chances of damage during setting up are dramatically reduced.
Exam desks are typically solely used during the exam seasons.
This means that the desks are sat idle for the majority of the year.
One of the great advantages of the en core table is its ability to be used in different environments.
The en core is an agile table that can be used in a classroom, cafeteria, break-out area or even outside. There is a linking device to connect tables to allow students to work together in groups and different classroom layouts to be created.
On a standard exam desk there is a router groove in the 600x600 table top. This is only a few millimetres deep meaning pens can still get knocked off when moving paper around.
The en core table has pen grooves on top of the legs meaning the 600x600 top remains fully useable. The grooves are recessed so that pens sit below the level of the worktop. This means they are less likely to get knocked off the table.
There is also the option of a pen groove insert to add a splash of colour to the table.
Folding exam desks have metal frames which can make unwanted noise when leant on during an exam. This noise is reduced with the en core table as it is made from one piece.
Traditional exam desks look dated.
We have seen a shift towards the more modern one piece plastic chairs in the classroom and the en core offers this same styling for a table.
Taking inspiration from the en one chair, the en core table matches the chair and uses the same colour palette.
The en core has a reduced set up time as it has no folding mechanism.
It weighs 6kg so can be quickly stacked on a dolly for transportation or storage.
The upfront cost of a folding exam desk is less, however, when you take into account the life expectancy of the product - the en core table actually works out better value long term.
The ability to use the en core table all year round in different environments along with its ease of recycling makes it a great investment for schools.
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Factory Feed VS Prepared Animal Feed
The decision between factory-made feed and self-prepared feed for an animal farm is influenced by a variety of factors. Sometimes you find it hard to decide feeding animals formulated feed or factory feed.
Animal feed must be prepared to meet the many parameters of growth performance, production efficiency, and animal health maintenance.
Here is a constructive comparison of factory manufactured feed and formulated feed to help you make a feed selection decision.
Factory prepared feed
The benefits and drawbacks of factory-produced feed are discussed below. Dependence on factory-prepared feed is lucrative and convenient for commercial or farmer-run large-scale animal operations. Let’s have a look at some typical disadvantages and advantages to be aware of before deciding between factory-produced feed and self-made feed.
|No||Advantages of factories’ feed||Disadvantages of factories’ feed|
|1.||It saves you time (machines mix faster)||Expensive due to value additions|
|2.||Buying feed materials in small quantities is very expensive||Ingredients listed on bags may not match the formulated feed|
|3.||Feed materials are well mixed||They may get contaminated in the process of transporting|
If you want to buy factory-made feed, you should first investigate their history and how effectively their feed benefits farmers. You may simply accomplish this by questioning farmers in the area. Over here we have reviewed feed manufacturers in Ghana. Buy quality animal feed in Ghana.
Mixing your own feed
Making your own animal feed offers various advantages, but there are also negatives to consider. When you have the time and don’t trust the feed manufacturers near you, you can mix your own feed. At all times, safety comes first.
|No||Advantages of mixing own feed||Disadvantages of mixing feed|
|1.||You are hundred percent sure of what you supply to your animals||Expensive due to materials transport|
|2.||There is no movement, and that prevents contamination||Farmers suffer in times of feed material scarcity|
|3.||You do not pay for value-added tax like company sacks printing||Takes a lot of time to mix in the absence of a feed mixer|
So, if you want to consider mixing your own feed, please read these mixing your own feed tips.
What are the types of feed?
Technically we have three types of feeds. Conventional, mixed, and roughages feed.
- Roughages are pasture forages, hays, silages, and byproduct feed with high fiber content. Basically, roughages are fed in ruminant production. Goats, cows, rabbits, sheep, horses,s and other ruminants are fed with high fiber.
- Concentrates include energy-dense grains and molasses, protein- and energy-dense supplements and byproduct feeds, and vitamin and mineral supplements. Concentrates are purely factory-made feed assisted by laboratory examinations. This type of feed may contain products you may not find easily on the market to buy.
- Mixed feeds might have a high or low calorie, protein, or fiber content, or they can give “full” balanced meals. Mixed feeds are very popular. Farmers use the trial-and-error method to formulate mixed feeds.
How is animal feed made?
For you to make animal feed you need the following;
- Feed formula
- Feed materials
- Energy materials like maize
- Weighing scale
- Sacks to preserve
- A mixer
Livestock feed manufacturing business
The livestock feed production sector is very profitable since most animal producers, including the poultry industry, rely on their goods to run their businesses.
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Corrine Molz was like many idealistic teenagers who said they wanted to change the world, but never had a face for their noble mission.
Thanks to the Archdiocese of Baltimore-sponsored Justice Action Week, the 17-year-old Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, parishioner now does.
She joined 31 teenagers from the Archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington in the annual city immersion project. Participants visited Baltimore City agencies and neighborhoods and worked with people dealing with hunger, immigration, drug addiction and poverty, among other issues.
Like the other 30 participants, Corrine found herself transformed by the experience that spanned July 12-17.
“Before, I was like, ‘I want to help people,’ ” Corrine said. “But, I never got the people part. It’s just getting to know who they are, what they’re going through.”
The teenagers worked in, among other things, soup kitchens and visited You Are Never Alone, a refuge for women and girls ensnared in human trafficking
Ted Miles, Justice Action Week’s program director, said teenagers took away a bead from each site they visited to remember people they encountered.
“We’re careful to select agencies that give insight into the vast array of issues that not only affect Baltimore, but all of humanity,” Miles said.
The teens slept at New All Saints, Liberty Heights, and participated in a simulation project in the parish hall. Given a series of roles that reflected the socio-economic hardships people face daily, the youths found themselves emotionally stirred.
Phil Liotta, 16, of St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville, played a Hispanic father illegally residing in the city forced to split up his family so they could stay in the United States.
“There were a couple of times where I really got angry,” Liotta said. “It definitely made me think about immigration more and how hard it is to become a citizen.”
Kristin Witte, the director for pastoral care in the archdiocese’s division of youth and young adult ministry, said the teens realize they are stepping into a larger world.
“They’ve now been formed in a way that they’re going to see service as part of who they are, instead of seeing it as charity,” Witte said. “They now see themselves as part of a larger community, and they’re willing to work and fight for the dignity of other people.”
The week featured support from clergy during the week, including Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden; Father Donald A. Sterling, pastor of New All Saints; Father Richard J. Bozzelli, pastor of Corpus Christi, Baltimore; Father Matthew T. Buening, pastor of St. Paul, Ellicott City; Father Michael Triplett, associate pastor of Church of the Resurrection, Ellicott City; Father Patrick E. Besel, the archdiocese’s associate director of vocations; Monsignor William F. Burke, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, Baltimore; Capuchin Franciscan Father Roger White, pastor of Transfiguration Catholic Community, Baltimore; Father Richard T. Lawrence, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore; and Missionary of St. Paul of Nigeria Father Augustine Inwang, pastor of St. Veronica in Cherry Hill.
Witte said the week was the embodiment of Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate.
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Les nucléaires et les choses, 2019
Record of Coastal Landscape, 2014
Memory and representation of catastrophe - the potentiality and responsibility, 2017
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
Record of Bombing, 2016
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
Mujō (The Heartless), 2019
Photo: Ito Tetsuo
The Primary Fact, 2018
South Barbarian Screens, 2018
Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Playing Japanese, 2017
Photo: Keizo Kioku
2.8 Declaration of Independence | Reading in Japanese, 2019
The Educational System of an Empire, 2016
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
Interview with an award winner
Fujii Hikaru has primarily presented video installations that rethink history on his own terms. Those works are of two orientations: using a cinematic technique, in which he creates a script based on a historical phenomenon and carries out a performance of it, and a documentary technique, in which he records the context behind its production and the situation in which the performers were placed.
“Art is created with a close connection to society and history.” Based on that thinking, he examines the cultures and histories specific to various countries or regions through careful research and fieldwork. His efforts to press deep into delicate territory, in political or social terms, in response to contemporary social issues, have attracted attention in Japan and overseas.
This award represents our high appraisal of Fujii’s work as addressing, through videos, historical phenomena and nearly lost memories with the lucid methodology and aesthetic quality to convert them into contemporary issues.
With the work currently in progress, Fujii has chosen a theme deeply connected to his own history and had planned the narration to be performed by himself. In addressing his past in the postwar context, his is an unprecedentedly subjective approach. We expect new developments from this new work, but the covid-19 pandemic has stalled his research and production.
My working style is to refrain from talking in advance about the concept or plan for a new work or my progress on it. I model my creative process on that of artists who struggled past censorship in the former communist bloc and artists who determinedly create under oppressive regimes in Asia. As in my work up till now, I can say that I produce within a collective, collaborating with other Asians, and not just people in Japan.
But now, with the pandemic and the need for social distancing, communication with sources overseas and actually going there to conduct research are difficult. I create my works through detailed conversations and negotiations that cannot happen in the sort of space composed of verbal meanings alone, as in using Zoom. Thus, I am finding it hard to move ahead. (Fujii)
In recent years, Fujii has continued to participate in many exhibitions and art festivals. He spends from one to three years bringing one work to completion, confronting a single theme and subject over that extended period. Because he works in themes intimately related to contemporary society, his style responds sensitively to social upheavals such as that caused by this pandemic and is influenced by their relationship to his creative methods and subjects.
For our final selection meeting, committee members from some regions participated remotely. It proceeded by Fujii’s presenting a lecture-performance in which he reflected on his activities and then responded to questions posed by the committee members in each country.
In my work, I address the question of critical catastrophes and the arts, a question that goes back to human prehistory. This lecture-performance has developed as I create my work running parallel to thousands of years of human history. I received questions from the committee members on my work thus far and on a wide range of topics, including the history of art that influenced me and the relationship between politics and art. As I have added years and experience, my work has become more formalized and systematic. How will I critically review that work? Can I receive guidance to refresh myself? I feel that those new outlooks are expected. I have been asking myself how I will transform myself in response to a tumultuous society. (Fujii)
The lecture-performance is a mode of expression that has been attracted attention in contemporary art and the performing arts, particularly in the last few years. In Japan, producer Soma Chiaki, who directed Festival Tokyo until the spring of 2014 and now heads Art Commons Tokyo, a nonprofit she founded, which has launched Theater Commons, has actively incorporated the lecture-performance format. She is treating it as a core means of artistic expression that transcends genre. These expressive settings that have emerged in response to contemporary needs have become a vital platform for Fujii’s creative activities.
I think of Theater Commons as the very place for contemporary art. That is because it is a place for picking up artists’ creative expression with no need to ask whether we can call this art or not, at this moment, at this time when it must be expressed here. (Fujii)
His context is an international art scene in which the lecture-performance and other creative modes that push the persuasiveness of commentary and research to the fore have become the mainstream. The global trend is to share political and social questions and go beyond regional differences and cultural spheres in discussing them. Arguably, no period in the arts’ long history has seen them as politicized as they are now.
Fujii’s creative stance has been consistently aligned with that trend, which has become a global standard. In talking about the position of the artist taking a hands-on approach to social problems, as he does, he brings up an event that has attracted worldwide attention in the field of sports.
The tennis professional Osaka Naomi announced that she will boycott a major competition to assert that there are things more important to herself and to society than tennis. (Later, in connection with the Black Lives Matter movement, she took part in tennis matches while wearing masks with the names of victims of violence against Blacks.)
If the same problem occurred among artists, artists would have no means of expressing themselves other than by abandoning their art. Today’s social networks in which we are active are places where various forces dynamically compete, exchange, and clash. Artists can align themselves autonomously through thought and dialogue, but they also encounter situations in which they are forced to change by factors external to themselves. To repeatedly assume, in advance, such forced, compulsory circumstances is my usual working style. That is because, while changing adaptively in response to circumstances, there must be not even one millimeter of slippage in my own orientation. At times, when a powerful force is operating, I may be faced with the choice of whether to fight back, to the point of giving up my creative work. I am the type to choose fighting back, even if it means halting my creative activities. (Fujii)
Also, Fujii thinks of social networks as “settings for interactions between diverse sensibilities.” For example, of the problem of the various forms of discrimination and division that are erupting now, in our “with corona” age, he says, “Art is one technique for creating a perceptual space. The time and space it creates should be a world perceptibly different from that of politics or the everyday world.”
That pride as an artist, that philosophy, is deeply connected to the artistic quality of Fujii’s visual works, which this committee has evaluated. To artists, these are difficult times, but we expect that his new work will progress steadily, even a little. He may also encounter new methodologies for responding to these critical social circumstances and present a creative universe that will make us recall vibrant visions in this troubling age.
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Oil refiners racing Congress to protect butane loophole
WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, oil refiners didn’t realize what a moneymaker they had in butane — at least for tax purposes.
They do now.
Over the last few years, the IRS has seen an avalanche of amended excise tax forms from the industry. Their claim is that butane, a liquefied petroleum gas and byproduct of the oil refining process, qualifies as an “alternative fuel” under the 2005 surface transportation law and is, therefore, eligible to receive a 50 cents-per-gallon tax credit.
Lawsuits filed by refiners such as Valero Energy Corp. and Philadelphia Energy Solutions in federal court are reaching back more than six years to claim the previously unclaimed credit. If just those two claims are successful, the companies could win a combined $538 million — with PES seeking $416 million of that — or almost as much as the entire tax credit was estimated to cost for 2017, the last year it was in effect.
The IRS wouldn’t provide data on how much they’ve been peppered with in back claims. But as the agency points out in a January 2018 revenue ruling denying that butane mixtures should qualify any more, “(e)very gallon of gasoline sold in the United States contains butane,” a cleaner-burning additive to reduce smog and help vehicle engines perform better in colder months.
Refineries are now belatedly estimating how much butane was blended into their gasoline deliveries in years past. Tax returns can be amended for up to three years after they are filed; informal estimates circulating around Capitol Hill about how much the IRS could be on the hook to pay out if the agency were forced to by the courts range from $10 billion to $18 billion.
“If you file it three years later and everybody jumps on the bandwagon, it’s a lot of money,” said Oscar Garza, a Houston-based lawyer who has represented refiners in the dispute.
Leaders in both parties and both chambers of Congress are pushing tax legislation that, while renewing the alternative fuels credit, would take the unusual step of retroactively squashing any pending or future claims for the credits on the basis of butane-gasoline mixtures.
The catch is any claims that have already been paid before the legislation is enacted, including those stemming from court settlements, would be grandfathered in. And the tax extender bills that the language is included in are hung up in a broader dispute between the House and Senate over offsets.
Valero and PES filed their lawsuits in early April. The Senate bill that would deny their claims was introduced a month earlier. That measure is backed by Finance Chairman Charles E. Grassley of Iowa — who’s gone toe to toe with oil refiners for years over their opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires refiners to buy costly credits to demonstrate compliance.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved that chamber’s version in June.
Complicating matters for PES: Last month’s explosion at their Philadelphia refinery that disrupted East Coast gasoline supplies actually started in a butane vat.
Tax code semantics
House Ways and Means ranking member Kevin Brady said Congress should leave it to the courts to decide whether the companies should get the tax credits.
“We should not be in the business of imposing retroactive tax increases or intervening in ongoing legal disputes,” the Texas Republican said. The retroactive change is “unconstitutional and will invite legal challenge,” he said.
The company lawsuits all make the same argument: that one of the substances the tax code identifies as an alternative fuel is liquid petroleum gases. LPGs are identified elsewhere in federal law as including butane.
U.S. Venture, an Appleton, Wisconsin, fuel marketer, purchases butane from third parties to mix into fuels it sells. They point out in a separate suit seeking $33 million in back payments that butane is “universally regarded” as an LPG, including by government agencies like the Energy Department.
The IRS, however, denies that butane qualifies as an alternative fuel. Butane is the same as gasoline, diesel and kerosene, according to the agency’s early 2018 guidance, which are “taxable fuels” upon which excise taxes are paid. Excise taxes are reduced by blending in alternative fuels, which qualifies for the 50 cents per gallon credit.
The 2005 law creating the tax credit did not define what an LPG is. Regulations associated with another tax code section dealing with “special motor fuels” specifically cite butane as an LPG, but the IRS points out that there is an exception for products taxable under a different section of the code. And under that section, the agency says, since butane is used in the production of finished gasoline, it is therefore a “gasoline blendstock,” which is taxable — and two taxable fuels do not an alternative fuels mixture make.
During last month’s Ways and Means markup, Rep. Earl Blumenauer argued that the credit was created to incentivize the use of renewable fuels. The Oregon Democrat said the refining industry knows the “loophole” it recently discovered is “contrary to the intent of the law.”
“This is outrageous,” Blumenauer said. “I see no sense in rewarding them with a $10 billion windfall.”
Alex Hendrie, chief tax counsel for Americans for Tax Reform, sees the retroactive change as a way to artificially lower the cost of the House bill. “Getting rid of this makes it easier to get their tax extenders passed,” Hendrie said.
ATR opposes the tax extenders package generally, including the alternative fuels credit, though it argues against the retroactive fix, saying the issue should be resolved in the courts.
The $10 billion estimate is in stark contrast to what had been a sleepy little credit involving users of more readily recognized alternative fuels like natural gas.
In February 2018, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated a one-year extension of the alternative fuel credits would cost just $555 million. But that changed dramatically over the course of last year as claims for the mixture credit exploded. By November, JCT was estimating that a one-year extension of the tax credit would cost $7.1 billion with the lion’s share going to settle past claims.
A Senate aide said the IRS already has about $9 billion in claims pending, and believes the number could increase to $18 billion.
The impact on government coffers could be even higher if the U.S. Supreme Court takes a case filed by Sunoco, which is arguing that it shouldn’t have to treat alternative and renewable fuels tax credits as income — rather, they should be able to deduct the credits from taxable income.
“If Sunoco wins and these folks win on the butane-gasoline (mixture), now you get your butane tax credit and it’s tax-free,” Garza said.
Meanwhile, Garza said he isn’t particularly worried about the bills to retroactively quash the butane credit.
While some industry lawyers feel the need to beat Congress to the punch and file lawsuits before a law is passed barring the IRS from paying past butane-related credits, Garza said the congressional reaction might actually strengthen future lawsuits.
By revisiting the law and “clarifying” that butane, and propane, aren’t alternative fuels, Congress is adding credence to the position that before the clarification, these LPGs were alternative fuels.
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Now it appears that Mr. Xi’s display of solidarity may have, possibly unwittingly, emboldened Mr. Putin to gamble on going to war to bring Ukraine to heel.
A retracing of Beijing’s trail of decisions shows how Mr. Xi’s deep investment in a personal bond with Mr. Putin has limited China’s options and forced it into policy contortions.
Before and shortly after the invasion, Beijing sounded sympathetic to Moscow’s security demands, mocking Western warnings of war and accusing the United States of goading Russia. Over the past two weeks, though, China has sought to edge slightly away from Russia. It has softened its tone, expressing grief over civilian casualties. It has cast itself as an impartial party, calling for peace talks and for the war to stop as soon as possible.
The quandaries for China, and Mr. Xi, remain.
Publicly, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin had vowed that the friendship between China and Russia had "no limits." Now it appears that Xi's display of solidarity may have, perhaps unwittingly, emboldened Putin to gamble on going to war. https://t.co/Dd3eMjFM32
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The body produces a number of hormones that, when produced in the correct balance, keep the body functioning normally. However, if the body produces too much or too little of even just one hormone, then this can affect the way the body functions and the way you feel.
Your endocrine system works sort of like an orchestra. Even one overactive or underactive hormone gland can have a cascade of effects.
Hormones are incredible chemical messengers in our body that affect our brain, heart, bones, muscles, and reproductive organs and are an essential part of the workings of every cell in the human body. Hormones work best when balanced, but they can become imbalanced.
Balancing Hormones – One Example
Here’s one little example – it’s a story that makes a point about hormones.
Recently my shoulder started to get stiff and painful. Over a period of a few days it worsened so much so that I could hardly use my arm at all. I had a hard time getting to sleep, as it was so painful that I couldn’t get comfortable enough and it would often wake me up once I did finally doze off.
I started researching to figure out what this was and concluded it was a condition called “frozen shoulder”. This condition most often affects menopausal women. As I read up more and more about this condition, I got more and more freaked out. It can last a year. Painful physical therapy is most recommended. Most pain meds don’t help it. I studied all of the top medical sites – Mayo Clinic, WebMD and others. It all just sounded absolutely horrible.
The thought of losing the use of my arm for a year and enduring this pain was more than depressing. Overall, it was looking pretty bleak.
So, I started digging a lot deeper to find alternative treatments and stumbled upon a few obscure articles and some forums that talked about the relation of “frozen shoulder” to hormones. It made sense because this most often affects women in menopause. After reading everything I could find about it, I ended up slathered on some of my bio-identical hormone creams (both estrogen and progesterone).
By the time I woke up the next morning it was greatly improved, and I mean a LOT. By the following day it was completely back to normal.
Can you imagine going through a year of agony by not knowing that some hormones could handle the whole situation within a day or two? WOW!
That blew me away.
Not to mention the fact that I had also been experiencing more joint pain, and what do you know, it had everything to do with my estrogen levels dropping when I went into menopause.
Here is one article about it: https://www.34-menopause-symptoms.com/joint-pain.htm – see under “Causes of Joint Pain” section.
There is a somewhat common condition called estrogen dominance that can affect women. Even if your estrogen levels aren’t that high, if your progesterone levels are very low (too low for the proper balance between the two), then you can still have estrogen dominance. I think some doctors are maybe a bit too fast to say estrogen dominance, but there are certainly women who have benefited greatly by an increase in progesterone that balanced out those hormones.
There is an excellent article on this that I recommend reading:
https://www.womentowomen.com/hormonal-health/estrogen-dominance/ – not only does it explain this is much more detail, along with symptoms, but it also explains several options of how to treat it.
Men can likewise have issues with testosterone being low, which can adversely affect their muscle tone and stamina.
The Important Role that Balancing Hormones Can Play
Another example of the importance of balancing hormones is shown in a number of studies done on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which found that many patients had lower cortisol levels, a stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands. It has been suggested that such cortisol deficiencies could be largely responsible for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients having impaired or weakened responses to psychological or physical stresses such as worry, infection, or exercise.
It is also quite common for those suffering from Fibromyalgia, CFS and other chronic illnesses to have low thyroid (hypothyroidism), in addition to low adrenal hormones [cortisol and DHEA], as well as low pregnenolone.
Rather than trying to explain each hormone and the varying issues that can occur with each, the best thing to do is to get complete hormone testing done.
Get proper hormone testing done through a qualified doctor and work to correct deficiencies or imbalances either through diet and lifestyle changes, natural supplements or prescribed bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. It is possible that balancing hormones may help to relieve or even eradicate one or more of your symptoms. | <urn:uuid:92179187-9e6b-4e58-838f-6f805d3f67df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fibromyalgiarecovery.com/balancing-hormones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.961863 | 1,024 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Creating a new website can be challenging, especially before you start creating the site. There are common myths about web design that can cause you to spend time and money on things that aren’t worth it. We are here to debunk these myths and make building your website easier.
Web Design Myths:
Creating a website is a one-off process.
While you may only need to build one website for your business, there are many aspects of online design that change over time. Your business may grow, you may want to add new features, or you may want to create an entirely new look. A good web designer will revisit your website every few months and update it as necessary.
More features are better.
You don’t need every bell and whistle out there—just the ones that will help your business succeed! It’s important to understand what features are crucial to attracting visitors and giving them what they’re looking for so they’ll convert into customers (or whatever else you want them to do). A good web designer will help you decide what features are worth including and which ones aren’t necessary for your business goals at this point in time.
Only online businesses need websites.
While it’s true that online businesses need websites in order to operate online and sell their products, offline businesses also benefit from having a presence on the web. You can use your website as an extension of your brick-and-mortar location—for example
Once your website is online you’ll immediately attract visitors
There are many factors that go into attracting visitors to your website. The quality of your products and services and the marketing strategies you employ. Your website’s design should be professional and easy to navigate, but it’s not the only factor that will make people want to visit your site.
Building a website is too expensive
The truth is that building a website is not expensive. It is much more expensive to do nothing. Building a website allows you to reach new customers and generate leads at a low cost. In fact, if your business does not have a website you are costing yourself money every day!
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If you want to share vision between architect and client, it’s impossible to ignore VR and architectural visualization. They are natural match and with a Lumion 360 panorama and a VR headset, you can step into your design and feel what it would be like to inhabit that space. Let’s see how you can do it inside Lumion.
When creating a panorama in Lumion, the first step is to assign a viewpoint. You should choose an area of the project you wish to render. Remember, you can render multiple viewports to show various space to your client.
To enhance the look and feel of your panorama, don’t forget to add effect. There are some you should consider, like Sun, Shadow, Precipitation, Real Skies and many others. With the addition of 3D grass, you can ensure that the landscapes of your panoramas feature that crisp, realistic grass.
However, not all of the effects are included in panorama mode, so you should make use of the available one.
After setting up the panorama viewpoints and effects, you will need to customize the render output by selecting the correct settings relevant to how you plan on using the panorama.
There are 2 ways you can choose. You can render a single panorama viewport by hitting “Render 360 panorama” button, or you can select the green “Render all 360 panoramas” button on the right-hand side of the screen to render all of the viewpoints.
Next, there are multiple settings to help you define exactly how you want your render to look, and how you plan on using the render in your presentation. Keep in mind that these settings will also impact render times.
For example: the “Output quality” setting lets you assign the quality of the render. With 5 stars, Lumion will render the image with 16x anti-aliasing but it may take a considerable amount of time compared to 3 or 2 stars.
In addition to render quality, the other important render setting to consider is “Monoscopic” vs. “Stereoscopic.” In short, monoscopic images render much faster and they are ideal for 360 panorama views. A stereoscopic image, on the other hand, creates a 3D image and gives the illusion of depth, and these are ideal for uploading into a VR headset.
You can consider some settings below, to have a best result for your panorama rendering:
- Target device, which features special settings for GearVR / Oculus (cubic panorama format) headsets as well as generic devices (equirectangular projection panoramas).
- Eye-to-Eye distance (IPD), which measures the interpupillary distance (the distance between the centers of the pupils of the eyes) and can help configure the clarity and image sharpness for every individual.
- Horizontal slices, which helps improve quality. A higher setting means a higher quality panorama, but render times will be longer.
This tutorial video will help you to learn about the different panorama options:
Lumion 360 panorama mode, if used wisely, can take your client to the small and exciting adventure of your rendering. Now you don’t need to render every angle of your building. Instead, you can simply build and render the spaces that the client needs to see.
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LYNN NEARY, host:
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Im Lynn Neary. Michel Martin is out sick.
Coming up, we have an update about two shooting deaths by New Orleans police officers during Hurricane Katrina, and a conspiracy to cover them up that is now unraveling. Thats in a few minutes.
But first, President Barack Obama took aim at the nations high dropout rate during a speech yesterday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The president put pressure on high school educators and students to master the basics that lead to graduation.
President BARACK OBAMA: We know that the success of every American will be tied more closely than ever before to the level of education that they achieve. The jobs will go to the people with the knowledge and the skills to do them. Its that simple. In this kind of knowledge economy, giving up on your education and dropping out of school means not only giving up on your future, but its also giving up on your familys future, and giving up on your countrys future.
NEARY: To make his point about ending the dropout rate, President Obama focused on Central Falls High School in Rhode Island where all of the teachers and administrators were fired.
Here to discuss this with us is Elisabeth Harrison, education reporter at Rhode Island Public Radio. Welcome to the program, Elisabeth.
ELISABETH HARRISON: Its nice to be here.
NEARY: So, fill us in on the background here. Why were these teachers and administrators let go?
HARRISON: Well, Central Falls was identified by the state as being one of the worst 5 percent of schools in Rhode Island under a federal program that calls for turning around failing schools. Its funded partially through stimulus money, and its also part of the No Child Left Behind legislation.
So through that program, they had some choices about what they could do with the school. One of them is to keep the current staff in place and make some pretty major reforms like lengthening the school day, adding more time for teacher training, for tutoring and for meeting and planning time for teachers. And another option is to fire the staff and rehire no more than 50 percent and replace the principal.
So in this particular case, the school was hoping to do the option where you keep the staff in place but make some reforms. But they just couldnt come to an agreement with the teachers union about the specifics of those reforms. And so in the end, they said well, in that case, well have to fire everyone.
NEARY: Id like to play a piece of tape here. This is the Central Falls superintendent Fran Gallo. And shes pointing out that many of the students in this school live in poverty and that that may affect what happens in school. Lets listen to that tape.
Ms. FRANCES GALLO (Superintendent, Central Falls High School): We have dysfunctional families. We have a community that is struggling to keep its head above water. And, yes, theres abuse. Theres teen pregnancy, high, high rates against any of the Rhode Island standards. But what do we do? We give them a shoulder to cry on. Well, thank you, but thats not all that a teacher must do.
NEARY: So, to what degree has the nature of this school, the fact that many of the kids do come from poverty - to what degree that has been taken into account in assessing this schools failure?
HARRISON: Well, I think thats a good question. Its certainly a school that faces many challenges: A lot of immigrant families, a lot of students who do not speak English at home, a lot of poverty. And those things make teachers jobs harder to do and theres no question that thats a factor. I think state officials in Rhode Island have basically said, yes, thats a problem. But we are seeing schools in New York and elsewhere who are succeeding with similar students, and we think that we can do the same.
NEARY: Is this the first time that this kind of extreme step has been taken in Rhode Island?
HARRISON: No, its not the first time. Theres a school in Providence called Hope High School, and that school was essentially closed and reopened. The staff was laid off, and teachers had an opportunity to reapply for their positions, similar to what were seeing at Central Falls High School. And the results there have been, I would say, mixed.
In some ways, the district feels the school has made great progress in terms of changing the culture of the school, student behavior, improving relationships between students and their teachers. But the test scores, while they have improved somewhat, are nowhere near what I think district officials were hoping to see. So theres still work to be done there.
NEARY: Now, not surprisingly, this is a move that is not sitting particularly well with teachers. We have some tape here from a math teacher at this school, a woman named Kathy Luther. Lets listen to that now.
Ms. KATHY LUTHER (Math, Central Falls High School): Ive been in Central Falls for 28 years and I have done nothing to deserve to be fired, absolutely nothing. I give my heart, my soul to my job, and I dont deserve this at all.
NEARY: So is there a sense there that some teachers who maybe are doing a good job are being hurt by the failures of others, that maybe this is just too drastic a move?
HARRISON: Absolutely. There are a lot of veteran teachers there. In fact, there are a lot of teachers in Central Falls who went to Central Falls High School, and they love their jobs. They clearly love their students and their students have rallied in their defense as well. So clearly, you know, there are students who love their teachers there and who feel their teachers are doing great work.
And at least 50 percent of them or up to 50 percent of them, I should say, can be rehired in this process, so some of them may be back. But theres no question that theyre caught up in the crossfire of this effort to turn around the school.
NEARY: You mentioned that the administration of the school was not able to come to terms with the union on, I guess, reforms that they were trying to make. What is going on now with the union? How is the union reacting to this? What steps are they planning to take?
HARRISON: Well, the union is very upset. They feel that this really is an attack on their right to bargain over working conditions. And they have pledged to take action. What exactly theyre going to do is not totally clear. They are going to appeal the terminations to the school board, which will trigger a hearing process. But the school board has already approved this policy. So its not clear what the result of that would be. Theyve also said they plan to file a complaint with the State Labor Relations Board. So, this looks like its headed into legal territory.
NEARY: Elisabeth Harrison is education reporter for Rhode Island Public Radio. She was good enough to join us from member station WRNI. Thanks so much for joining us, Elisabeth.
HARRISON: Thank you.
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negative effects of Ritalin and What do you think the punishment should be for students who sell the
What are the possible negative effects of Ritalin use for someone who does not need it for ADD or ADHD?
More information on this topic can be found at the following links, which should be used to inform your answer:
Dramatic rise in ADHD medication mishaps among kids, report finds
Part Two: What do you think the punishment should be for students who sell their Ritalin to others? Explain your answer, making sure to support your opinion with facts.
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Not content with screwing its customers with over-priced Internet access, Gogo is now compromising secure websites
Gogo is issuing fake SSL certificates to people who access ostensibly secure websites via its in-flight Internet service, according to Neowin, which has advised readers to change their passwords for websites visited during a flight on one of Gogo's airline customers.
Spoofing certificates could trick consumers into thinking their connection to a website like Google is secure even though it really isn't. The practice might also allow attackers to inject malware into consumers' Web browsers via previously secure site connections.
Gogo's decision to fake the certificates is also worrisome because the company has admittedly exceeded its required cooperation with law enforcement by adding features "that would serve public safety and national security interests" to its in-flight networks.
It seems that Gogo is intentionally weakening connections made through its networks. Whether that's because it wants to share more information with law enforcement or simply because it wishes to market its service to travelers is, unfortunately, unclear.
And it's not the only company making its customers insecure. Comcast has started to inject advertisements into websites accessed via its public WiFi hotspots, according to Ars Technica, which first reported on the practice in September. As I wrote at the time:
Consumers are once again presented with two options: maintain a modicum of security by staying off public networks, especially Comcast’s, or expose themselves in exchange for a few minutes of connectivity. The only problem is that many people don’t know about the risks, which means that they’re unwittingly compromising their security for convenience’s sake.
Unintended security vulnerabilities are an inconvenient truth in the Internet age. But here, Comcast has knowingly compromised someone’s security just to put its personal stamp on a public WiFi network. That’s not just annoying; it’s unacceptable.
Now those same consumers are being presented with a similar choice: either maintain their digital security by avoiding Gogo's in-flight WiFi or compromise their safety to get access to a slow, over-priced Internet connection as they fly through the skies. It seems like a no-brainer, but for people who have to work during flights, it's a tough decision. | <urn:uuid:a262f059-3224-4efb-881b-19a75abdc470> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pandodaily.com/2015/01/05/not-content-with-screwing-its-customers-with-over-priced-internet-access-gogo-is-now-compromising-secure-websites | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97411 | 462 | 2 | 2 |
The Taiwan Relations Act: 40 Years of Mutual Benefit – Now More Relevant Than Ever
ETHAN YANG/AUGUST 2, 2019
Forty years have passed since the signing of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) on April 10, 1979. Adopted with bipartisan support, TRA enabled the United States to maintain its close economic and strategic ties with Taiwan while establishing diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It has been affirmed by seven US presidents weathering four decades of shifting political landscapes and priorities. Taiwan has been a key but less well-known ally in advancing critical security and commercial objectives in the fastest-growing region of the globe – the Asia-Pacific. Taiwan is a natural geopolitical partner sharing our core values of liberty, democracy and free markets even as its neighbor China eschews them within its own borders and seeks to undermine them across the Strait. Today the TRA is more important than ever as American strategic interests and liberal democratic ideals are challenged by authoritarian states such as China and North Korea. The fortieth anniversary of this far-reaching and pivotal piece of legislation is an important milestone worthy of commemoration.
Taiwan’s situation is informed by a complicated recent history, and the TRA has provided the tools to navigate relations for four decades. In 1949 the Chinese civil war concluded with the Soviet-backed Communist faction declaring victory over the US-backed Nationalist faction. The Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan just off the coast of mainland China, declaring itself the Republic of China (ROC) while the mainland became the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The US initially recognized the ROC as the legitimate Chinese state while the two factions continued to be at odds with one another. In 1979, the Carter Administration formally recognized the PRC but subsequently introduced the TRA to maintain a relationship with Taiwan. Today Taiwan remains in a state of limbo being officially recognized as a nation by just a handful of countries not including the United States yet totally independent from the authoritarian rule of Beijing.
Taiwan, enabled by the TRA, has been a critical actor for the maintenance of democracy, freedom and commerce in East Asia. To this day China threatens to invade and annex the island of Taiwan which would result in subjugating its free people to a brutal authoritarian regime. The TRA has been the primary deterrent against Chinese aggression preserving Taiwan’s independence. This has preserved free and open trade routes in the region and prevented harassment by the Chinese navy.
The US-Taiwan relationship features a strong economic component as well. Although Taiwan is only a small island of 20 million people, it is America’s 11th largest goods trading partner with two-way trade totaling $76 billion — $94.5 billion when services are included. The TRA is the cornerstone of this successful, mutually beneficial commercial relationship.
Taiwan has grown into a significant regional and global role model. During its short history, it has had political and democratic missteps – some quite dark – but has emerged as a vibrant democracy with dynamic markets and strong civil liberties. According to Freedom House, the island is now amongst the freest countries in the world, even more so than the United States. This is in stark contrast to its neighbor China where the Chinese Communist Party continues to censor thought, persecute religious minorities, stifle economic freedom and prop up regimes such as North Korea. Although China has offered to allow Taiwan to operate under the “One Country Two Systems” model if it were to reunify, its treatment of Hong Kongshows Chinese promises of sovereignty are often hollow. Ronald Reagan commented in 1980 that the TRA is a result of “the timely action of the Congress, reflecting the strong support of the American people for Taiwan.” It was clear then and it is even clearer now that our relationship with Taiwan is one based on shared political and free-market values and a common vision.
After 40 years of cooperation and friendship with Taiwan the TRA has proven itself to be a bipartisan success story. It has provided invaluable guidance in navigating thorny relations between China and Taiwan and is a critical component in our security and strategic interest in the Indo-Pacific Region and facilitating commerce while restraining authoritarian regimes. Taiwan, because of the TRA, has been a loyal ally that has reformed its political system in the mold of freedom. The island’s political orientation has more in common with the philosophies of Reagan and Jefferson than with Mao Zedong and Kim Jong-un. The Taiwan Relations Act was wise policy forty years ago and remains so today.
台灣的成長是亞太地區也是全球的重要榜樣，在台灣短暫的歷史過程中，曾有政治和民主的缺失，有些相當黑暗﹔但終能呈現充满活力的民主，擁有勁爆的商機及堅實的公民權利。根据自由之家(Freedom House)的報告，台灣島已成為世界最自由的國家之一，甚至比美國還自由。這與隔隣中共統治下的中國，思想審查、迫害少數民族及宗教，扼殺經濟自由，為北韓的暴政撐腰等，形成強烈對比。雖然中共對台灣提出「一國兩制」謀求兩岸「統一」 ，然而看看中國對待香港，顯示北京對自主權的承諾是時常落空的。1980年雷根總統對台灣關係法的評語是「美國國會適時行動的成果，也反應出美國人民對台灣的支持」，昔日如此，今天更顯示我們與台灣的關係是基於共享政治與自由市場的共同願景。 | <urn:uuid:fa42b6af-b137-4033-a74a-b2488832c6cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tahistory.org/the-taiwan-relations-act-40-years-of-mutual-benefit-now-more-relevant-than-ever-%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E9%97%9C%E4%BF%82%E6%B3%95%EF%BC%9A40%E5%B9%B4%E7%9A%84%E5%85%B1%E5%90%8C%E5%88%A9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.71857 | 3,600 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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Other Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Hamstrings, Shoulders, Glutes
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You’ve been tasked with getting a new website created and you don’t know where to begin. Find out how to get started.
If you’re reading this, the chances are that you have been given the task of writing a brief for a new website or a redesign of your old website. You’re in luck: this page will help guide you through the process. It’s not the definitive list of what you’ll need, but it’s certainly an excellent starting point, and will serve as food for thought.
We have broken this guide up into a number of stages to make it more manageable.
The web design company will need to know a bit about your company in order to get a feel for how they should design your website. A good starting point would be to list the following:
- A couple of paragraphs about your company
- The products your sell or services you provide
- The size of the company – e.g. the number of employees, a rough turnover figure (if you want to provide it – there is a lot of difference between how a KES 100,000 company and a KES 100,000,000 company should look!)
- Are you an international company? If so, which countries?
- How long have you been established?
- Describe the company using five or ten words (e.g. young, vibrant, technology based etc.)
The old website
If you have an existing website, firstly let the web design company know the URL! (the web address) Then answer the following questions:
- What is good about the website?
- What is bad about the website? (i.e. old colour schemes, out-dated design)
- How long ago was it built? and who built it?
- What levels of traffic is it currently receiving?
- What percentage of the traffic is from smart phones & tablets?
- Which countries are you visitors from?
- What are the top 5 web browsers and platforms (Mac/PC/Android/iOS) visiting your website?
- How often do you get a genuine sales lead through the website?
- Who is responsible for updating the site?
In order to meet your requirements, any design agency would need to know why the old website is no longer suitable. So also detail anything else that could be relevant.
The new website
You must now examine what you need from the new website. So, a good starting point would be to consider the following:
- Outline the aims of the website ( e.g. to increase traffic, increase product awareness, generate more sales, offer e-commerce, advertise a new product or service)
- Who is the target audience? Has this changed from the old site? What are the demographics (e.g. children, adults, social class, income levels, location, etc.)
- How will your target audience be accessing your site – via their phones, tablets or desktops?
- Is the new website part of a re-brand, or a new product launch?
- Is there other advertising taking place that the new website should tie in with?
- What are the unique selling points for your company, your products or your services?
- What industry are you aiming the website at?
- Is the market already saturated with competitors?
- List a few competitors’ websites.
- For e-commerce websites, you should detail who you bank with – this will be important for deciding on which payment gateway you should use.
Outlining your budget is very important. Have no doubt, you will get better, more accurate quotes in response. If all of the agencies know what the budget is and are working to the same brief, you’re likely to get very similar quotes, which is good, right? At least you can compare apples with apples.
- What is the budget for design and development of the website?
- Is there a budget for ongoing support and maintenance?
- What is the digital marketing budget for the next 6 months?
The look and feel of the new website
The website should be an extension of any offline media, advertising or branding that you have. It is always helpful to be provided with a brochure, some marketing literature or the annual report to help get a feel for the company, so include them with the brief.
In order to get an idea of the kind of site that you want, it is worthwhile noting three or four websites that you like – not necessarily competitors’ or sites related to your industry, just give a few example sites that you like the colour schemes of, the navigation, or the interactive elements.
The content of your new website
Start thinking about how you want to populate your new site.
Resist the urge to duplicate your existing content in your new site – if your existing site is letting you down in some way, the chances are that the content is no longer up to scratch. Having thought about your target audience, take the opportunity to review whether your content still meets their needs.
Don’t put this off until the end of the project – start thinking now about how you’re going to produce the copy text. Do you have the resources or skills to create and supply the text to go on the website? If the answer to these questions is no, you will need a web copywriter as well – we can provide this service if necessary.
- Do you have the skills & resources available to carry out a content audit of your existing website?
- Who will be responsible for generating content
- Can you provide any brand guidelines (preferably incorporating details on tone of voice, phraseology etc)?
- Do you have any corporate images, photography or videos?
- Can you provide your logo & corporate identity pack? Ideally in a vector format such as .eps, .pdf or .psd?
You should outline any special technical requirements that your company might have:
- Do you already own the domain?
- Will you require hosting?
- Is it an intranet/extranet or internet site?
- If it is an intranet, is it a Windows only environment?
- Are you on a Windows server or a Linux server?
- Should you be catering specifically for text only browsers, audio web browsers or Braille readers?
- Is your site likely to be targeting people with special needs or requirements? I.e. limited mobility, colour blind, deaf, learning difficulties etc.
- Considering your exiting website’s analytics – do you have a particularly high proportion of mobile users?
The ongoing maintenance of a website is an often overlooked aspect of the website’s design:
- Who will be responsible for the on-going maintenance of the website?
- Do you have the skills, resources and time to maintain the website in-house?
- What happens if that member of staff leaves the company?
- Would you prefer to make an arrangement with the website design/ website development company for them to handle website maintenance?
You are investing in a new website, so you want customers to see it, right? Now detail how you will promote it. An online business is no different to a traditional business it needs marketing.
The digital marketing of a website is often overlooked when considering the website brief. The promotion of your website, in terms of increasing visibility in search engines and generating a sense of engagement, is vitally important to the continued success of the site.
There are a number digital marketing activities that you should consider:
- Social media campaigns.
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
- Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and Display Network adverts (image & rich media adverts on relevant websites) – paid listings you see in search engines.
- Email marketing.
- Content marketing – i.e blogs, video content, newsletters, social media.
- Banner advertising on related websites.
- Affiliate marketing
A website can also be supported by an offline marketing strategy, perhaps consider some of the following activities:
- Direct mail
- Brochures and flyers
- Outdoor advertising
- PR exercises
- Vehicle wraps
You might be thinking, ‘why do they need to know about offline promotion’? This is crucial if your communications are to be consistent across various channels. The decision making process is complex, people view product and services across a variety of devices and channels, at different times of the day. You need to ensure you capture their interest and engage with them at the right time, on the right channel.
You should finish your website design brief with a short conclusion, outlining what you would like to receive back from the design agency. As a rule of thumb, at BioCard we provide a full proposal, detailing how the site would be built, the layout, the costs (initial and on-going), the timescales involved and any assumptions and conditions that we have made.
Don’t forget to include timescales and be realistic; a proper proposal can take a number of days to prepare, so don’t ask for it back in 2 days time.Good luck with your website design brief and don’t forget to include us on your list of companies to tender for the development work… | <urn:uuid:4141abce-c2de-4d38-8ebf-5966eaad3677> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biocard.io/write-brief-website/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.929425 | 1,953 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is due to meet with Twitter employees Thursday in an apparent effort to assuage concerns about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform.
Musk reached a deal to acquire Twitter in April, but he has clashed with the company repeatedly since then. Musk said he was putting the deal on hold on May 13, something he may not have the legal authority to do unilaterally. Musk said he needed more data from the company about automated “spam bot” accounts on the service. Twitter has reported its bot estimates — accompanied with an admission that they may be too low — to securities regulators for years.
The billionaire has also implicitly criticized the Twitter workforce, as when he mocked the company’s generous work-from-home policy by suggesting that its headquarters could be turned into a homeless shelter because, he said, so few employees actually work there.
Twitter employees could have other reasons to be nervous about Musk’s impending takeover. The irascible billionaire has levied a barrage of criticism at the company's moderation and safety policies, which he terms a threat to “free speech” and its ban of former President Donald Trump following the January 6, 2020 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which he has pledged to reverse.
If history is any guide, Musk might also consider moving the company to Texas, as he did with Tesla’s headquarters in December 2021. An unabashed crypto devotee, he has floated ideas about accepting the cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment for premium Twitter accounts. Musk also once had Tesla purchase $1.5 billion in bitcoin and for a brief period allowed buyers to pay for their cars using cryptocurrency.
Musk undoubtedly also has plenty of fans in the Twitter workforce, as he does throughout the tech industry.
It’s not clear if this week’s meeting means that the two sides have come closer together on resolving their issues. Shares of Twitter have been trading well below the $54.20 per share that Musk has agreed to pay amid Wall Street doubts that the deal will be consummated. | <urn:uuid:7a29985d-9285-4217-aef9-8ebe87abc6ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/16/business/elon-musk-aims-ease-concerns-address-twitter-workers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97847 | 430 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Five Ways Construction Companies Can Cut Costs Without Cutting Corners
In recent years, the construction industry has been under increasing pressure to lower costs. This is due to various factors, such as the rising cost of materials, the need to meet stringent environmental regulations, and the increasing difficulty of obtaining financing. As a result, many construction companies have been forced to make cuts in their budgets, which has often led to substandard workmanship and increased safety risks.
Thankfully, there are many ways you can save money without compromising the quality of your construction work. Here are but five ways you can reduce costs without cutting corners:
Use Recycled or Reused Materials Whenever Possible
There are many benefits to using recycled or reused materials in construction, such as reducing the need to mine for new materials, lowering transportation costs, and helping to reduce environmental pollution. In addition, using recycled materials can often be just as strong and durable as new materials.
Some of the recycled or reused materials you can use are:
Try to use recycled or reused materials in your construction projects as much as possible. You may be surprised at how much money you can save. You can even wow your eco-conscious clients looking forward to working with a green construction company.
Rent or Buy Second-hand Equipment or Tools When Possible
One of the most significant expenses for any construction company is purchasing new equipment, tools, or vehicles. When you’re just starting out, this can be a huge barrier to entry. Thankfully, many companies allow you to rent or buy equipment or tools at half the cost of buying them outright.
You also have the option to buy pre-owned utility vehicles like flatbed trailers. Many construction companies use such trailers to haul equipment and materials from one job site to another. You can find good-quality used trailers for sale online with a bit of research.
Find a dealer with a good track record and a warranty on their products. This way, you can be sure that you’re getting reliable equipment or tools that won’t break down on you in the middle of a job.
Optimize New Technologies
Before, construction companies had to rely on manual labor to get the job done. This often led to errors that could be costly and time-consuming to fix. Due to new technologies, such as drones, 3D printers, and virtual reality, construction companies can work more efficiently and accurately.
Drones, for instance, can be used to survey land, inspect roofs, and take photos or videos of job sites. This helps to reduce the need for costly on-site visits. You can use 3D printers to create prototypes of structures, while virtual reality can be used to train employees or show clients what the finished product will look like.
Opt for Energy-Efficient Construction Methods and Materials
As energy costs continue to rise, it’s becoming more and more important for construction companies to use energy-efficient methods and materials. Not only will this help you save money in the long run, but it will also allow you to market your company as eco-friendly.
According to a study, the construction sector accounts for approximately 40% of energy use worldwide. This is a huge amount of energy, and it’s essential to find ways to reduce this consumption. There are many energy-efficient construction materials and methods you can use, such as:
- Insulated concrete forms
- Passive solar design
- Recycled steel
- Solar panels
- Thermal mass materials
- Wooden windows and doors
Talk to your suppliers about energy-efficient construction materials you can use. They can help you find the best products for your needs and budget.
Hire Experienced and Skilled Employees
When you’re just starting, it’s tempting to hire unskilled or inexperienced workers to save money. However, this often leads to more problems than it’s worth. Inexperienced workers are more likely to make mistakes, which can end up costing you more time and money in the long run.
Hiring experienced and skilled employees is better, even if it means paying them a higher salary. They’ll be able to work more efficiently and effectively, saving you time and money in the long run. You don’t have to worry about training them; you can be confident that they’ll do a good job.
You can always hire freelancers or contractors if you can’t afford a large team of experienced workers. Just be sure to do your research and only work with reputable companies or individuals.
These are just a few ways you can save money while running a construction company. By following these tips, you can reduce your costs, increase your savings, and reap many other benefits in the long run. You won’t have to lose customers just because your work won’t be compromised even after efficiently cutting costs. | <urn:uuid:248497ac-1cfc-492d-a132-971a425a2d6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pensivly.com/five-ways-construction-companies-can-cut-costs-without-cutting-corners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950701 | 1,014 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Looks can be deceiving, as with this 1967 world champion button. The Chicago Cubs did not make it to the World Series in 1967, let alone win it, that honour went to the St. Louis Cardinals. Though the Cubs did hold the top spot from July 2nd, 1967 to July 25th, they were not able to hold on to their lead, losing to the Cardinals 4-3 on the 25th and falling into 2nd place. After that loss the Cubs were not able to rally and ended the season in 3rd place in the National League standing with 87 wins and 74 losses.
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Puberty blockers are hormone blockers that are available as over-the-counter medications to delay the physical changes of puberty in children. Although these medications do not cause permanent changes to a child’s body, they pause the signs of puberty. With the help of these medications, children dealing with precocious puberty can have a normal growth spurt by delaying puberty. Also, children dealing with gender dysmorphia are allowed enough time to decide their gender identity without affecting their mental health.
Read on as we discuss the types, benefits, and side effects of puberty blockers in children and their working mechanisms.
What Are The Types Of Puberty Blockers?
The following types of puberty blockers are available on prescription (1):
- Histrelin acetate is a flexible rod that can be implanted in the skin of the arm. Its effects usually last a year, after which the rod is removed or replaced.
- Leuprolide acetate is an injection given once a month or every three or four months, depending on the requirement.
Puberty blockers are not cross-sex hormones, which means they do not contain female or male sex hormones, like estrogen or testosterone. Puberty blocking medications only prevent pubertal changes in children. In contrast, cross-sex hormones are part of hormone therapy, which helps transition children with gender dysphoria from their biological gender to their desired gender and improve their quality of life (2).
Are Puberty Blockers Safe?
The US Food and Drug Administration approves puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty, where the child reaches puberty at a younger age. Most experts agree that puberty blockers are safe. The Endocrine Society and World Professional Association for Transgender Health also support puberty blockers in children who wish to prevent or delay unwanted physical changes (3).
When Should You Start Taking Puberty Blockers?
The ideal age to start puberty blockers may vary depending on the purpose and other individual factors. Usually, these medications are prescribed when the body begins to show signs of puberty (3). However, children with precocious puberty may only receive prescriptions after diagnosis. The results are evident in a month or two in most children.
Children with gender dysphoria may be examined by various specialists, including psychiatrists, to assess if they fit the criteria to receive puberty blockers. After a detailed assessment, children are referred to hormone therapists for treatment, including counseling and training sessions for the families.
Guardians’ informed consent and a court order are often required to treat children with gender dysphoria. Treatment can be obtained through the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) or similar organizations in your area (4). Beginning the treatment early can result in better outcomes and reduces the psychological issues caused by physical puberty changes.
How Do Puberty Blockers Work?
Puberty blockers suppress or prevent puberty by blocking the testosterone and estrogen hormones. Since these hormones are responsible for puberty-related changes, blocking them helps delay the following changes related to sexual maturity in children (1):
- Breast growth
- Widening of hips
- Facial hair growth
- Voice deepening
Children can continue to have normal pubertal changes after stopping the use of puberty blockers. Thus, these effects are reversible and temporary. Puberty blockers do not stop acne, underarm and pubic hair growth, and body odor since estrogen and testosterone hormones do not regulate these changes (3).
What Are The Benefits Of Puberty Blockers?
Puberty blockers can delay puberty in children with precocious puberty, allowing them to have normal growth and development. Additionally, children with gender dysphoria can avoid the stress and discomfort caused by the development of secondary sexual characteristics.
The benefits of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria may include (5):
- Reduction of anxiety and depression
- Elimination of future surgeries and procedures
- Decrease of actions or thoughts causing self-harm
- Improved interpersonal relationships and social interactions
- Improved mental health
Although puberty blockers suppress puberty, they do not ease gender dysphoria. However, this treatment may also allow children enough time to decide whether to continue with their biological gender or desired gender. If the child prefers their biological gender, they can resume puberty by stopping these medications.
Do Puberty Blockers Have Side Effects?
Although these medications are proven safe and effective, some children may experience side effects. The possible long-term side effects of puberty blockers may include (6)
- Low bone density may occur in some children, possibly increasing the likelihood of fractures. However, calcium and vitamin D supplements, exercise, and regular monitoring of bone mineral levels can help prevent this.
- Taller adult height may be seen due to growth spurts caused by delayed growth plate closure. Height may also be monitored in the follow-up visits.
- Underdeveloped genital organs (secondary sexual characteristics) may be seen in some cases, possibly limiting the options for sex reassignment surgeriesin the future.
Some children may experience the following short-term side effects (6):
- Muscle aches
- Mood swings
- Changes in body weight
- Breast tissue changes
- Spotting or irregular periods if menstruation has begun and has not been fully repressed by puberty blockers
The mental health benefits of puberty blockers often outweigh these risks. Hence, children who want to prevent or delay physical changes often get prescriptions after assessment. Fertility is not affected by puberty blockers alone. However, children who receive cross-hormone therapy after using puberty blockers could permanently damage their fertility (3).
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Do puberty blockers affect the brain?
Gender dysphoria can also affect the brain due to long-standing mental health problems. Research has shown evidence of brain changes in adolescents undergoing therapy with puberty blockers and replacement hormones. However, the evidence from these studies is limited to whether these brain changes are effects of puberty blockers or the expression of secondary sexual characteristics of the desired gender (7).
2. How much do blockers cost?
The cost of puberty blockers may vary depending on the manufacturer and the place of your residence. In the US, puberty-blocking injections can cause nearly $1,200 per month, and implants can cost around $4,500 to $18,000. Estrogen hormone supplements are the least expensive and cost around $4 to $30; male hormone replacement (testosterone) can cost around $20 to $200. You may seek financial aid for these therapies from various organizations (8).
Puberty blockers allow children and families to take time and discover their preferred gender with careful guidance, possibly avoiding future interventions for gender transitions. Seek medical care from approved institutions and practitioners regarding gender reassignment therapy and puberty blockers. It can help prevent side effects and illegal and inappropriate treatments.
- Puberty blockers help delay puberty and treat conditions where children reach puberty early.
- Usually, they are prescribed when the individual begins to present the signs of puberty.
- Although proven safe, some children experience side effects such as low bone density and underdeveloped genitals.
- What are puberty blockers?
- B. Fabris et al.; (2014); Cross-sex hormone therapy for gender dysphoria.
- Puberty Blockers.
- Treatment: Gender dysphoria.
- Pubertal blockers for transgender and gender-diverse youth.
- Puberty Blockers.
- Your brain on hormones: understanding the effects of hormone therapy on brain development.
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What is prayer, and why should we pray? In this previously unpublished collection of late writings, Robert Llewelyn, one of the wisest spiritual teachers of our time, offers advice and insights from a lifetime of spiritual experience, including the lessons we can learn from Julian of Norwich.
A Prayerbook for Orthodox Young Adults The very popular prayerbook for Orthodox youth, Hear Me, has now been revised to include more prayers, answer more questions, and tackle additional difficult subject matter that our young people are constantly faced with. At 4” x 6” the prayerbook is designed to fit their lifestyles better, in a [...]
Annalisa Boyd knows motherhood—its challenges, its joys, and its potential for spiritual growth. In this prayer book she offers a wide selection of prayers mothers can use to intercede for their families as well as to grow in virtue themselves.
The Philokalia – a collection of the best writings from Orthodox spiritual masters across many centuries – is a treasure trove of direction for the spiritual life. But it can be overwhelming at first glance. Popular author and podcaster Angela Doll Carlson set herself the mission of reading through The Philokalia in a year and [...]
Although the literary form is poetry, this is a book about the spiritual life. Think of it as an armchair visit to a monastery. Focused around monastic themes, it speaks to the spiritual seeker and curious bystander alike by presenting a range of spiritual experiences in accessible language. The poems are grouped according to a [...]
Saints who experience the power of prayer say it gives them wings to fly: wings of elation from being in proximity with Jesus Christ and relief from the burden of a sinful conscience. Once engulfed in the grace of the Holy Spirit, the person in prayer experiences death to sin, resurrection in the Spirit, and [...]
This is a book for those of us who are struggling to establish an effective prayer life. Written neither for monastics or scholars, A Beginner’s Guide to Prayer speaks to the average man or woman on the street who desires a deeper relationship with God but is unsure how or where to begin. Drawing from [...] | <urn:uuid:7c397d2b-24d1-4060-8884-20eddf6e3a05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stmosesbookstore.org/product/why-pray/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.946857 | 459 | 1.921875 | 2 |
How 2020 catalyzed the rise of the robots
- The stock of industrial robots operating in industries around the world today is the highest it’s ever been — 12 million robotic units worldwide in 2020
- Robotics were on the rise, but the pandemic has shifted things up a gear as businesses realize the increased value in automation
It’s been exactly 100 years since the word ‘robot’ was coined by a Czech playwright — the word meant ‘forced labor’.
Fast forward a century later, advances in sensors, speech recognition, and computer vision — combined with shrinking hardware costs — have made these fictional beings, real machines. Even in the last few decades, robots have quietly accelerated largely from the confines of sci-fi fantasy to viable real-world deployment.
Today, dog-like quadrupeds are roaming the decks of oil rigs — reading gauges, looking for corrosion, and watching the horizon for anomalous objects. They are picking and packing our online groceries in warehouses. They have, for a long time, been mechanized stalwarts on car production lines.
In early 2020, the covid-19 pandemic ripped through supply chains across the world, revealing just how delicate our complex production and logistics really are, especially when they’re reliant on a healthy and mobile labor force who can work in safety on-site.
What the crisis affirmed is that the years-long quest to automate supply chains, outfitting them with technology from robotics, data analytics, and IoT in order to optimize processes, will make these systems more reliable, resilient, and much less prone to downtime and disruption in any kind of crisis.
But this isn’t the first time the sustainability – or survivability – of the status quo will have been brought into question among business leaders and supply chain gurus; just look at political factors such as the US-China trade war, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and Brexit in the UK.
Now, organizations of all sizes which rely on production, warehousing, and logistics are in urgent discussions around how they can enact damage limitation strategies moving forward and regain traction. Automation technology holds the key.
Business leaders in the manufacturing and logistics sector will have little doubt today that their investments into automation will be money well spent, and we can expect investments in Industry 4.0 technology to be expedited and the pace of innovation to ramp up further as vendors eye the forthcoming boom in interest from new stakeholders. The progress of 5G cellular technology, too, is adding further excitement, promising to enable companies across industries to extend their robotics capabilities beyond warehouses and production facilities and into the open world.
2020 — the year of robots
The global robotics industry is now tipped to be worth more than US$100 billion, according to Statista. But that figure is expected to double by 2025, hitting nearly US$210 billion.
Companies like ABB and Rockwell Automation have seen their share prices rise during the Covid-19 pandemic due to increased interest in robotic technologies. Brain Corp has seen increased demand for its floor-cleaning robots especially among companies that have been under shutdown orders during the lockdown while ForwardX Robotics announced it had secured US$15 million funding to help it expand into the North American market earlier this year.
The new World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report showed a record of 2.7 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world – an increase of 12%. Sales of new robots remain on a high level with 373,000 units shipped globally in 2019. This is 12% less compared to 2018, but the third-highest sales volume ever recorded.
President of the International Federation of Robotics, Milton Guerry, said: “The stock of industrial robots operating in factories around the world today marks the highest level in history.
“Driven by the success story of smart production and automation this is a worldwide increase of about 85% within five years (2014-2019).”
Data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) shows that Asia remains the strongest market for industrial robots whereby operational stock for the region´s largest adopter China rose by 21% and reached about 783,000 units in 2019.
Meanwhile, Europe reached an operational stock of 580,000 units in 2019 – plus 7% as Germany remains the main user with an operational stock of about 221,500 units – this is about three times the stock of Italy (74,400 units), five times the stock of France (42,000 units) and about ten times the stock of the UK (21,700 units).
The USA, meanwhile, is the largest industrial robot user in the Americas, reaching a new operational stock record of about 293.200 units – up 7%, followed by Mexico that comes second with 40,300 units, which is a plus of 11% followed by Canada with about 28,600 units – plus 2%.
It wasn’t just business interests that spurred innovation in the robotics industry forward this year, though. The technology made its mark where we needed it most this year, playing a vital role in assisting health workers and scientists while minimizing inter-human contact.
In many cases, autonomous machines played crucial roles in the healthcare industry, from robotic nurses enabling health workers to take temperatures, measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation from patients remotely, to robots that looks like large fluorescent lights rotated vertically travels throughout a hospital disinfecting with ultraviolet light.
Cart-like robots have brought supplies to people quarantined in 16-story hotels, while quadcopter drones ferried test samples to laboratories and watches for violations of stay-at-home restrictions. In Singapore, a robotic ‘dog’ from tech company Boston Dynamics was even trialed in enforcing social distancing at a local park.
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If you're reading this blog, you probably love coffee, and drink a lot of it every day. Everybody has their own way to make coffee but there are only 3 ways to do it perfectly:
2. Hawaiian method
First get some good coffee -- kona coffee is one of the best in the world. Use 1 tbsp. per 6 oz. cup of coffee. Grind right before you brew. Grind fairly fine. Some people use a medium - coarse grind. Cold water.
Get some good coffee -- kona coffee is one of the best in the world. Grind for drip using 1 tbsp. per 6 oz. cup of coffee. Pour cold water into a pan. Add the ground coffee. Bring it to an almost-boil -. wait until it the first bubble breaks through the coffee grounds floating on top of the water. Take the pan off the heat and stir once. Wait five minutes. Strain into your coffee pot using a sieve and paper towel or paper coffee filter.
It costs sooo much money to get an adequate espresso machine for home use that you should just forget about it. To have an awesome espresso you need to produce the ever-important crema. What's crema you might ask? Here goes: (stolen from another coffee site)
"Your espresso should have a thick, brownish layer on top, the crema coating. If this coating fails to cover the entire top of the cup at least an eighth of an inch thick (who measures?), there was insufficient pressure during the brewing process. Crema is more sought after in the coffee world than any other aspect of the discipline. Once you have it, you have it always, for that machine anyway! As usual and as I have mentioned, you are at the mercy of the elements hence you may need to pack the grounds tighter, grind the beans finer, or get a machine that produces more pressure. Any rituals or religious observations come in very handy at this point."
That's crema. It usually has everything to do with the machine in terms of getting enough pressure. It costs big bucks to get the right machine. If the salesperson can make a great cup of espresso with crema, sell your car and buy the machine. Then buy a good grinder. Then …
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Le mogli e le arance is characterized by a wonderful sereneness. It is the kind of quietude which many of us connect immediately with the south. Everything seems to be in its perfect place, and time is just passing. In the setting of a sanatorium a nobleman is practicing idleness and slow-motion mind games. Does it sound boring? Yes, it does. But it is not, the uneventfulness is definitively enthralling. The film director tries to narrate time, time itself, as such, for its own sake: a rare experiment.
Lucio D’Ambra haunts Italian film historiography for reasons not too obvious to an outsider. He seems to raise or have raised hopes that Italian cinema of the silent period had been distinguished by the presence of that most desirable type of film director: an Author. You recognize your author by his – authors are men – outstanding talent and unique style. By being an author he elevates the popular entertainment that is cinema to the safe level of art, and so protects educated film lovers from the danger of liking the same thing – a film – in the same way uneducated people do.
There are now more works by Lucio D’Ambra around than in the past, and viewing them one after the other, it becomes clear that they are amateurish rather than auteurish. The first three reels of Carnevalesca (not in the program) are downright awful, lacking even the basic ability of conveying content by images, not to mention timing. Then, so I imagine, Borelli stamped her foot, hissed “Enough!” and took over directing the film, filling the final reel with a great diva shtick.
Looking at Le mogli e le arance you see (vaguely – in the screened print details are drowning in overly dense Desmetcolor) a delightful revue, a fashionable Capriccio, bearing the signature of Caramba (Luigi Sapelli) everywhere. Since 1900 the leading producer of operettas in Italy, Caramba was also famously the supreme master of art direction and of set and costume design for the Italian theatre, opera and ballet. He is the author of the exuberant variety of hats on display in Le mogli e le arance, of the choreography of pretty girls moving like a corps de ballet, of the lovely Shadow theatre and other charming visual ideas in the film. Popular jeune premier Luigi Serventi has the role of the jeune premier – and Lucio D’Ambra wrote the intertitles. He also published rather smug articles to promote himself as a writer who was now active in cinema, which in fact he was, directing some twenty films between 1918 and 1922. Since he published texts, latter-day film historians mistook him for an author.
Cast and Credits
T. ted.: Himmlische Orangen. Scen.: Lucio D’Ambra. F.: Giulio Rufini. Scgf.: Caramba [Luigi Sapelli]. Int.: Luigi Serventi (marchese Marcello), Myra Terribili (Caterinetta), Paolo Wullman (barone Sanglot), Alberto Pasquali, Rina Maggi, Stella Blu. Prod.: Do.Re.Mi. 35mm. L.: 1532 m (incompleto, l. orig.: 1919 m). D.: 74’ a 18 f/s. Tinted
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