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Anger is brewing in Tunisia after a fourth night of clashes between populations and law enforcement in several cities across the country. The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has passed and caused this situation of social upheaval. Dozens of protesters, mostly minors between the ages of 17 and 14, were arrested.
Braving the curfew put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus, young Tunisian protesters faced the police for a fourth night in a row. These clashes occur in a context of political instability and the deterioration of the social situation in Tunisia. Rising unemployment is one of the main causes of this uprising. Calls for demonstrations were launched as Tunisia commemorates the tenth anniversary of the “Jasmine revolution”.
In recent days, clashes have taken place in several working-class neighborhoods including Tunis, Bizerte, Menzel Bourguiba (north), Sousse and Nabeul (east), Kasserine and Siliana (north-west). Popular discontent which puts pressure on Tunisian Prime Minister Hicham Mechichi. Indeed, he announced on Saturday a cabinet reshuffle which will notably concern the Ministries of the Interior, Justice and Energy.
The month of January is regularly the scene of mobilizations in Tunisia, because this period marks the anniversary of several major social and democratic struggles. But local residents believe that this looting is the work of idle young people who just want to steal and have fun. “If we protest, it will be daytime and with our face uncovered,” said a resident of Ettadhamen. Others, on the other hand, argue that it is the police who are targeted. | <urn:uuid:118eb471-2b59-443c-9860-381198661e68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ze-africanews.com/en/tunisia-fourth-night-of-demonstrations-in-several-cities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.957703 | 337 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Two simple pillars of brick standing tall announce the entrance into a very noble place—a place of honor. Beyond the pillars, tucked away deep into the country side away from the hustle of traffic exists a place of peace—final peace. Driving along the pristine road lined with the beauty and tapestry of trees and bushes stands a sign which reads “Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.” Its appearance is as simple and noble as the pillars that stood at the entrance.
There, up ahead a short distance, alabaster head stones all aligned in perfect order begin to come into view. They are engraved with the names of our Nation’s heroes for they are, in my heart, all heroes. As if standing at attention, over
47,000 [as of the date this was written] honorable defenders of our Nation who have been laid to rest, welcome their brothers and sisters five days a week as the procession of family members and friends, be it a few or several, accompany their loved ones and enter these grounds as their final resting place of honor.
On this day, September 12, 2017, the early morning air is clean and brisk with a hint of fall hidden in the passing breeze. The leaves on the tress are beginning to give up their vibrant greens and in the following weeks surrender to gold, reds and every shade in between as this place of peace becomes alive with those new colors reflecting hope and the perseverance of our Country. On this day, and every day, we continue to honor those Veterans resting here and are grateful to those who are now defending our Country.
But today, on this day, here at The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery it is a different day than usual. This is a special day that happens once every three months. It is a day called a Direct Burial. This early morning started with a special ceremony where the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Squad stood at attention to honor twenty of our nations veterans who had been buried at the cemetery during the past three months having had no one present to honor them; no one here to pay them the respect that they so deserved after having served this Country. They were the homeless, or they were service men with no family representation. No one present as their final resting place was made for them—no one present to say their names out loud. But on this day— each veterans name is spoken out loud and they are whole once again.
After each name was announced a bell rang out and I couldn’t help but think that each one of them was shouting in silence, “I was here, I existed, I was once young and alive, able and strong, and now I am finally at peace.” I closed my eyes as the names of all twenty veterans were called. I tried to imagine what brought them here to this place alone without anyone to accompany them. I tried to imagine what hopes and dreams were never realized as each name passed through my heart. How alone each one of them must have felt in their final hours.
An empty casket which represented those hero’s was draped with our Nations flag. It was then folded with respect and honor as it is for every veteran and then presented to the person chosen to hold it dear to them forever. Taps played in the distance as a slight breeze started to flutter the flags lining the side of the shelter where people gathered. A rifle volley was then fired paying homage to our Nations defenders.
Then — a moment of silence.
They served our Nation and they were all a part of our Nation’s history, as all who served whether buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery or at another final resting place as my father, father-in-law, uncles, brother-in-law, and nephew. So this day, several people gathered. There were representatives from The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Squad who rendered those honors. On this day there were Freedom Riders, VFW Posts, American Legion posts, as well as others who wanted to attend and pay their respects and honor these brothers in arms who fought for the Freedom that so many of us seem to take for granted.
We say their names once again and they are whole.
There are 135 National Cemetery’s within the United States and The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, located near Elwood Illinois, is one of the largest, resting on 982 acres. John Whiteside (reporter for the Herald News) and U.S Representative George Sangmeister were instrumental in forming The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Squad. It was dedicated October 3rd, 1999, the 117th National Cemetery to have the privilege of being a final resting place for our service men and women. This place of honor, peace and serenity can eventually cradle 500,000 of our Nations Hero’s.
You can respect them by visiting these peaceful grounds, or any of the other National Cemeteries, and by saying their names out loud once again. Those buried here are, after all, a great part of why we remain a free nation.
Thank you to The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Squad who volunteers their time: who honors those Veterans or fallen active duty hero’s at the time of their final resting place with dignity, honor and respect—rain or shine.
Thank a Service Man or Woman when you see them.
Thank a Veteran who served this Nation.
It only takes a minute of your time but your words will last a lifetime to those you thank.
— Mary Donahue
September 12, 2017
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Through a student-led conference organised by the Kids Education Revolution (KER) 2019 at Bandra, students shared their experiences.
11 Feb 2019 4:41 AM
The initiative is being held for the fifth year and around 400 students took part.
10 Feb 2019 6:09 AM
As per officials, assessment has been put on a priority basis in order to avoid creating complications during students' campus placements.
09 Feb 2019 2:58 AM
The education department of the civic body will now dispose of this waste to make schools clutter-free.
08 Feb 2019 1:52 AM
Close to 600 students enrol for the LLM course at the varsity each year.
08 Feb 2019 1:50 AM
The civic body has proposed to start language and tinker labs, a sports and music academy, CCTV cameras, and Balbhavan for vacation activities.
05 Feb 2019 6:36 AM
As per the MIEB, for a provisional affiliation, BMC schools need to pay Rs 20,000 to the board, which will be for a period of three years.
04 Feb 2019 6:53 AM
The protesting research students of Mumbai university are eligible for NET fellowship.
01 Feb 2019 2:07 AM
These schools will not be mainstream but specifically designed for students who want to achieve beyond academics.
30 Jan 2019 3:13 AM
State board warns students not to even think about copying.
28 Jan 2019 1:39 AM
The software, once installed, will have a “blurring effect” on images and videos before being viewed or played by persons.
26 Jan 2019 7:18 AM
After classes, several girls went to meet the college trustees to complain about the statement made by Vandana Dube.
25 Jan 2019 2:17 AM
The schools claimed to have sent a request letter to the department, asking the latter to install extinguishers and other safety equipment.
24 Jan 2019 2:02 AM
Students who have cleared the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) are struggling, especially at the time of submitting their thesis research.
23 Jan 2019 2:16 AM
Around 250 students will be part of ‘Project Deep Blue’ .
20 Jan 2019 1:56 AM
Starting this year, SSC students won’t be having internal assessments for subjects except for Mathematics and Science.
19 Jan 2019 1:43 AM
The students have demanded a revision of the current fellowship from the Ministry of human reso-urce development (MHRD) and funding agencies.
18 Jan 2019 4:32 AM
No. of students fell from 4,01,367 in 2013 to 2,97,076 in 2017, says report.
17 Jan 2019 4:19 AM
Survey was conducted on 26K children in 990 villages.
16 Jan 2019 2:01 AM
City currently has close to135 night schools which starts from 5.30 pm to 10.30 pm.
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We Kneel to Our
"Therefore GOD also has exalted
Him and has bestowed upon Him the name that is above every name, so that AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD
BEND of those in heaven, on earth and under the earth,
tongue should confess that
the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of GOD the
in some parishes, the priest requires the parishioners to stand during the most
holy part of the Mass, the Consecration. When asked why they do this, they
either refuse to answer or they say that Vatican Council II requires it.
Let us see
exactly what Vatican Council II really does say regarding this
20. A bodily
posture common to all who are present is a sign of their unity with each other
as a congregation; it expresses the mental attitude and dispositions of those
taking part and enhances them.
21. To achieve this bodily posture the
faithful should heed the directions given to them in the course of the
celebration by the deacon, the priest, or other assistant. Unless some contrary
instruction has been given, they should in all forms of the Mass, stand from the
moment the priest enters or reaches the altar until the end of the Collect; also
at the Alleluia before the Gospel; during the Gospel itself, the Creed and the
Prayer of the Faithful; in addition from the Prayer over the Gifts until the end
of Mass except where indicated below.
They should sit during the readings which precede the Gospel
and during the Responsorial Psalm; for the homily, and during the Preparation of
the Gifts; also when it seems fitting, during the silence which follows the
distribution of Communion. But unless impeded by lack
of space, density of the crowd or other reasonable cause, THEY SHOULD KNEEL DOWN
FOR THE CONSECRATION.
excerpt from Vatican II can be found in "Vatican Collection Volume 1, Vatican
Council II, the Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents", Costello Publishing
Company, page 167.
As you can see, the
document from Vatican II does NOT say to stand during the Consecration, but it
does say to KNEEL DOWN. I have yet to see an "other reasonable cause" regarding
The Roman Missal says essentially the same
The General Instruction of the Roman
Missal (G.I.R.M. 4th edition) Issued 27 March,
Chapter I: Importance and Dignity of the Eucharistic
Chapter II: Structure, Elements, and Parts of the Mass
General Structure of the Mass Different Elements of the Mass Individual Parts of
the Mass Introductory Rites Liturgy of the Word Liturgy of the Eucharist
20. The uniformity in standing, kneeling, or sitting to
be observed by all taking part is a sign of the community and the unity of the
assembly; it both expresses and fosters the spiritual attitude of those taking
21. For the sake of uniformity in movement and posture, the
people should follow the directions given during the celebration by the deacon,
the priest, or another minister. Unless other provision is made, at every Mass
the people should stand from the beginning of the entrance song or when the
priest enters until the end of the opening prayer or collect; for the singing of
the Alleluia before the Gospel; while the Gospel is proclaimed; during the
profession of faith and the general intercessions; from the prayer over the
gifts to the end of the Mass, except at the places indicated later in this
paragraph. They should sit during the readings before the Gospel and during the
Responsorial Psalm, for the homily and the presentation of the gifts, and, if
this seems helpful, during the period of silence after Communion. They should kneel at the Consecration unless prevented by lack of
space, the number of people present, or some other GOOD REASON.
it is up to the conference of bishops to adapt the actions and postures
described in the Order of the Roman Mass to the customs of the people. But
the conference must make sure that such adaptations correspond to the meaning
and character of each part of the celebration.
Priests have no authority to circumvent the postures decreed by the
G.I.R.M.. If a priest has said we must stand during the consecration, the laity
has the right to respectfully decline to do so...
The Christian faithful have the right to worship GOD
according to the prescriptions of their own rite approved by the legitimate
pastors of the Church, and to follow their own form of spiritual life consonant
with the teaching of the Church.
1983 Code of Canon
In addition, the priest cannot refuse reception of
Holy Communion to those who respectfully decline to stand during the
1. The sacred ministers cannot refuse the sacraments to
those who ask for them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not
prohibited by law from receiving them.
1983 Code of Canon
Missal which is provided by all Churches, tells the parishioners what postures
to assume at which points in the Mass. It tells us all to KNEEL from the end of the Sanctus, to the end of the Great
Amen. The Sanctus is before the Consecration and the
Great Amen is after it.
In this writing, I have provided three authentic
Church documents, all of which say the same thing, we
do not stand for the Consecration, but we KNEEL to Our Lord Jesus
Bible references. We Kneel before our
1Kings 8:54, 2Chronicles 6:13-14, Ezra
9:5, Psalm 95:6-7, Isaiah 45:24, Daniel 6:10,10:9-10, Matthew 2:11,17:14, Mark
1:40,10:17, Luke 22:41, Acts 9:40,20:36,21:5, Rom 14:11, Ephesians 3:14,
"...For we all stand at the judgment seat of GOD; for it is written,
As I LIVE, says the Lord, to Me EVERY KNEE SHALL
BEND, and every tongue shall give praise to GOD."
this verse describe the Consecration? As the priest calls down THE WORD with his
word, the bread and the wine become the LIVING GOD in totality, BODY, BLOOD,
SOUL, and DIVINITY. Who would not feel in his heart, the yearning to kneel
before the LIVING GOD?
It would be even more reverent for us to
prostrate ourselves before Him.
Written by Bob Stanley, December 23,
Updated on April 3, 2004
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An interactive landmark
After the fireworks disaster, the urban suburb Roombeek (in Enschede) was rebuilt with innovative and unique architecture. “De Bellenblazer” is a nine meter tall landmark in the centre of this area. The statue is functioning as a meeting point and at the same time guiding visitors of Prismare to the entrance of the community building. The colors of the huge soap bubbles are changing interactively, triggered by both people walking under the statue as the local temperature and wind force data. One can see and hear the bubbles popping by stepping on the hot-spot ground level bubbles. The project was realized with the involvement of many inhabitants of Roombeek.
Design in collaboration with D.Boekhout.
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What is cryptocurrency?
For many people, this word does not make sense and they still do not know that cryptocurrency is a digital currency or virtual form and it is transacted without a bank and is stored in a digital wallet under the name of your account. In 2009, the first digital currency called bitcoin appeared and that was the beginning of the crypto market and more new currencies began to appear. The mission of cryptocurrency is to remain safe and secure as all transactions can be made anywhere in the world by any user and remain secure and confidential.
Cryptocurrency – how is it used?
It is a process in which computer processing power is used to solve complex mathematical problems, resulting in the generation of coins. Users can also buy currency and then store and spend them using cryptographic wallets, such as coinspot fee structure. But in financial terms, cryptocurrencies and the use of blockchain technology are still in their infancy; they are expected to develop rapidly in the future. In the future, cryptocurrencies can be used in trade transactions.
Unfortunately, there has been an increase in the number of crimes related to cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency fraud can take one of the following forms.
Fake websites. Fraudulent websites with fake reviews and crypto jargon promise huge guaranteed returns on the condition of continued investment.
Virtual pyramid schemes. Cryptocurrency scammers advertise non-existent opportunities to invest in digital currencies, creating the illusion of huge profits while paying off earlier investors with money from new investors. The Bit Club Network fraud scheme raised more than $700 million before its participants were indicted in December 2019.
Examples of cryptocurrencies:
There are thousands of cryptocurrencies. Here are the most famous of them, but for many people, even these currencies are not known because cryptocurrency has not yet become 100% safe.
Advantages and disadvantages:
- A cost-effective way to transact.
- With cryptocurrency, the transaction fee paid by the user is reduced to negligible or zero.
- Fast way to transfer funds.
- Security and privacy.
- Protection from inflation.
- Can be used for illegal transactions.
- Loss of data can lead to financial losses.
- Data can be stolen by hackers, giving them access to a large number of accounts.
- Susceptibility to hacking.
- No refunds or cancellation policy.
The world’s first cryptocurrency was bitcoin. Its creator is considered to be Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity remains undisclosed to this day. He wrote the code and formulated the principles of the future cryptocurrency network. This happened in 2009. And the very next year, bitcoin began its active expansion into the global economy.
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In Honduras, poverty, gang violence and corruption are fueling a domestic-violence epidemic in the Central American country where on average, a woman is murdered every 13 hours. As a result, many Honduran women flee the country and become part of a wave of undocumented immigrants to the United States. Special Correspondent John Carlos Frey reports.
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Determining Different Types of Scrap Catalytic Converters
Posted: October 26, 2020
Looking To Sell Your Cat?
Ship Your Cat & Get Paid In Days!
Recycling Your Scrap Catalytic Converters
Let’s talk about some catalytic converters. When you bring your cats down to the yard here is how we determine how to grade them.
How We Classify Your Scrap Converters
- Shell/Cover – The shell or cover of the cat is the first thing we look at to determine what makes the cat is from. Some things we are looking at include the shape, the size, and the cutouts of the catalytic converter so we can see inside.
- Stamping on the Shell – Some cats have stamps or numbers on the outside. For example Ford stamps most of their cats with their logo, Toyota has a number system to help identify their cats.
- Honeycomb – The honeycomb is the inside of the cat where all the precious metals are like platinum, palladium, and rhodium. We make sure it’s completely full if not, it will be downgraded from a full cat and be value much less.
- The Shape of the Comb – There are a couple of different shapes the honeycomb can be but the two most common are a honeycomb shape and the other is a foil/wire which is shaped like a fingerprint. The foil cats are always worth much less than a honeycomb cat.
- Pre Cats – Usually much smaller and have less good material inside. They can sometimes be connected to the same pipe as the regular catalytic converter.
- Aftermarket Cats – These are 3rd party parts that are usually a cheaper option when repairing vehicles. These aftermarket parts are going to be valued less when you are looking to scrap them. They sometimes have a silver plate on the outside with an arrow.
- Diesel Cats/DPF – These are classified differently than a gasoline cat. A general rule is any diesel cat from 2008 and older is on the lower price scale due to a lack of precious metals inside. After 2008 they changed over to a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). These are easily identified by the numbers stamped on the shells and also they are much bigger than any gasoline cat.
When you bring your catalytic converters into Rockaway Recycling, it helps us price them easier when you know the year, make and model from the vehicle it is off of. If you aren’t sure we can help you with a price quote by contacting us with pictures. We look forward to seeing you in our yard and helping you recycle your scrap metal.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports in a news release that its analytics system has helped the agency identify and prevent $820 million in inappropriate Medicare payments in the system’s first 3 years of operation.
Called the Fraud Prevention System, the release explains that it was created in 2010 by the Small Business Jobs Act, and it helps to identify questionable billing patterns in real time and can review past patterns that may indicate fraud. Predictive analytics are used to identify troublesome billing patterns and outlier claims for action, similar to systems used by credit card companies.
Per the release, the system identified or prevented $454 million in payments in 2014 alone—a 10-to-1 return on investment. And over the last 5 years, the administration’s efforts have resulted in more than $25 billion returned to the Medicare Trust Fund.
“We are proving that in a modern healthcare system, you can both fight fraud and avoid creating hassles for the vast majority of physicians who simply want to get paid for services rendered. The key is data,” says CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt, in the release.
In one case, the release explains, one of the system’s predictive models identified a questionable billing pattern at a provider for podiatry services that resulted in Medicare revoking the provider’s payments and referring the findings to law enforcement. The Fraud Prevention System also identified an ambulance provider for questionable trips allegedly made to a hospital.
During the 3 years prior to the system alerting officials, the provider was paid more than $1.5 million for transporting more than 4,500 beneficiaries. A review of medical records found significant instances of insufficient or lack of documentation. CMS also revoked the provider’s Medicare enrollment and referred the results to law enforcement, per the release.
“The third-year results of the Fraud Prevention System demonstrate our commitment to high-yield prevention activities, and our progress in moving beyond the ‘pay and chase’ model,” says Shantanu Agrawal, MD, CMS deputy administrator and director of the Center for Program Integrity, in the release.
“We have learned a lot in the 3 years since the Fraud Prevention System began, and as we learn, we continue to become more sophisticated in detecting aberrant billing patterns and developing leads for investigations and action,” he continues in the release.
In future years, CMS plans to expand the Fraud Prevention System and its algorithms to identify lower levels of noncompliant healthcare providers who would be better served by education or data-transparency interventions, the release explains.
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Learning about design and development: the roles of industrial design and concurrent engineering Online publication date: Mon, 22-Jun-2009
by Pekka Kess, Pekka Belt, Janne Harkonen, Pornthep Anussornnitisarn, Kongkiti Phusavat
International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL), Vol. 6, No. 6, 2009
Abstract: This research examines a design and development process for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SMEs have to perform this process well for business success. The study tackles the confusion over the roles of Industrial Design (ID) within this process. This confusion potentially hinders SMEs' long-term competitiveness. The study is part of the Concurrent Design in Networks (CODENET) project in Finland, which focuses on improving ID in design and development. A total of six case companies from the Oulu region are observed and studied. The findings show that the confusion highlights various perceived roles of ID, a lack of interaction and two-way communication, external design sources, etc. In an attempt to address these problems, a practical framework, derived from Concurrent Engineering (CE), is jointly proposed to case companies. This framework stresses the importance of working together across functional units within and outside an SME. It should be recognised that this framework is mainly for business-to-business circumstances.
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Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that coronavirus was spreading out of control in the city as she announced a record daily high of more than 100 cases and ordered new social distancing measures.
The finance hub was one of the first places to be struck by the virus when it emerged from central China.
But the city had impressive success in tackling the disease, all but ending local transmissions by late June.
However, in the last two weeks, cases have begun to spike once more, and doctors fear it is spreading undetected in the densely packed territory of 7.5 million people.
On Sunday, chief executive Carrie Lam said more than 500 infections had been confirmed in the last fortnight, bringing the city's total tally to 1,788 cases with 12 fatalities.
More than 100 were confirmed on Sunday alone, a record daily high for the finance hub.
“I think the situation is really critical and there is no sign the situation is being brought under control,” chief executive Carrie Lam told reporters.
Lam announced new social distancing measures last week, shuttering many businesses including bars, gyms and nightclubs, and ordering everyone to wear masks on public transport.
Restaurants were ordered to only offer takeout services in the evenings.
On Sunday, Lam announced new measures including plans to make it compulsory to wear masks inside any public indoor venue -- and a new order for non-essential civil servants to work for home.
As hospital wards fill up, officials are also scrambling to build a further 2,000 isolation rooms on barren land near the city's Disneyland resort to monitor and treat those who test positive, she added.
Hong Kong was already mired in recession when the pandemic hit thanks to the US-China trade war and months of political unrest last year.
The new partial lockdown has compounded the economic misery.
On Sunday, Lam called for landlords to look at lowering rents.
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The Bimota KB4 has been under development for quite some time and following the sketches and spy pictures, some interesting specifications about the motorcycle have surfaced.
Tubular steel and carbon fibre chassis
Same power figures as the Ninja 1000’s engine
Lighter and smaller than the Ninja 1000
Starting with the inline-four engine, it is identical to the Kawasaki Ninja 1000’s unit. It makes 140hp and 111.2Nm of torque and is paired with a 6-speed gearbox. Bimota has fitted its own exhaust system, with a single end can. For those wondering why Bimota is using a Kawasaki engine, it’s because the latter owns a stake in the Italian company. Engine aside, the Bimota KB4 is completely different from the Ninja 1000. Its chassis is a tubular steel and carbon fibre unit.
For the uninitiated, Bimota has always been known for taking production engines and putting them into sporty chassis that it develops. The Bimota KB4 is also lighter than the Kawasaki Ninja 1000 by 41kg, and tips the scales at 194kg.
In fact, the KB4’s dimensions are also much smaller than the Ninja 1000’s. The most significant of those is the shorter wheelbase, at 1,390mm. To do so, Bimota refrained from shortening the swingarm and instead appears to have moved the front wheel closer to the engine. However, as the suspension compresses under hard braking, they ran the risk of the front wheel hitting the radiator.
Bimota seems to have resolved this issue by placing the radiator under the seat, instead of in front of the engine, as is the convention. This explains the large air intakes on either side of the fairing and a carbon fibre tunnel that runs from the intakes to the seat area.
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We have some interesting facts & historic events all about March 23rd, including areas in religion, crime, health and more.
Keep reading for more interesting facts about March 23rd in history!
- Martyr’s Day.
- World Meteorological Day
- National Puppy Day
- Near Miss Day
- National Chip and Dip Day
- Melba Toast Day
1976: Japanese pornstar and ultranationalist Mitsuyasu Maeno poses next to his plane before flying off to Kamikaze his aircraft into the home of right-wing politician Yoshio Kodama, 23rd March 1976.
1965: Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp eighteen miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, March 1965. (AP Photo/Horst Faas) Colorized by me
1944: An elderly man sits on the pile of rubble which was once his home, following a V1 Flying Bomb strike in Upper Norwood, London, July 1944.He had been out for a walk as his wife prepared the Sunday lunch, and returned to find that his house had been destroyed and his wife killed.
1931 : On this day, March 23, the day when three great Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged in 1931. Every year this day is celebrated as Martyr’s day.
1917: Ottoman officials surrender the city of Jerusalem to the British, 1917.
“PEACE STRENGTH OF THE GREAT POWERS” Infographic from the Daily Mail – WWI
50 years ago USSR made an invasion of Czechoslovakia. There are photos of the events that have been named “Prague Spring”
1857: Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City in 1857.
1808: Napoleon’s brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain in 1808.
- Kyrie Irving was born
- Kangana Ranaut was born
- Michele Monaghan was born
- Bhagat Singh died.
- Shivaram Rajguru died.
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New Delhi: The arrests of actor Rhea Chakraborty and comedian Bharti Singh, and the questioning of many other celebrities for possessing or consuming cannabis — as little as 100 grams in some cases — are still fresh in memory.
But just weeks later, in the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held from 2-4 December, India has voted to remove cannabis and its resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which placed it in the category of most dangerous drugs, alongside heroin and others.
The move, experts say, is likely to soften India’s stand on the plant drug, possessing or consuming which attracts strict punishment under the current Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
But it will have no impact on the current drug laws in India, unless they are amended.
“It is an international convention, which cannot have a direct impact on drug laws in India. It will not be right to say that India’s stance on cannabis has softened,” a senior officer in the Narcotics Control Bureau explained.
“If there are any changes that are to be made in the law regarding cannabis, then it can only happen through an amendment in law. Else, the NDPS Act stands,” the officer said.
The UN convention
India is one of 53 members of the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs. Twenty-seven of these countries, including the US and many European nations, voted to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, where it is listed alongside opioids like heroin, while 25 countries (including Pakistan and China) voted to retain it, and one member abstained.
For 59 years, a UN statement pointed out, cannabis had been subjected to the strictest control schedules, which even discouraged its use for medicinal purposes. But the decision to remove it from Schedule IV is set to change the way cannabis is regulated internationally.
Cannabis was a part of both Schedule I and IV of the UN’s Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — and while drugs in Schedule I can be used for medicinal purposes with state consent, drugs in Schedule IV are strictly controlled and their usage is a criminal offence.
Sources in the Indian government said the country supports the use of cannabis (hemp) for medicinal purposes only.
In 2018, the sources said, a letter was sent from the PMO to the health ministry to determine the benefits of cannabis, which is extracted from hemp/marijuana plants. Its cultivation got legal approval in July 2018 and Uttarakhand became the first state to cultivate hemp on a pilot basis.
According to a government source, cannabis can inflict much less harm compared to other drugs that are listed in Schedule IV of the 1961 convention, and thus it is a welcome move to remove it from Schedule IV.
“Bracketing cannabis and its resin with heroin, and placing them under the same schedule, is not correct. In fact cocaine, which is more harmful than cannabis, is included in Schedule I but not Schedule IV,” the source said.
“The proportion of people coming with a problem of cannabis use is also much smaller. The number of people facing problems of opium use is much higher. It is a good move to delete cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 convention.”
Sanjeev Kumar, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s Rajya Sabha MP and lawyer who has handled many cases under NDPS, added: “It is high time we bring cannabis under soft drugs. It will help change the perception towards cannabis that has many medical benefits. It, however, is a long procedure as currently it is at a very premature stage.”
Amendment in law required
Since international conventions do not automatically become part of municipal law in India, removing cannabis from the list of dangerous drugs will require an amendment in law.
Supreme Court advocate Puneet Jain told ThePrint: “If the government wants to regulate use of cannabis for medical purposes, then an amendment will have to be brought in in the Drug and Cosmetics Act. Just like some drugs are available over the counter, some are allowed with prescription. It remains to be seen, how the government will plan to regulate use of cannabis.”
The current NDPS Act is meant to “make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances”, among other things.
Under its purview, a wide range of drugs and psychotropic substances, including cannabis, ganja, heroin and opium, are considered illegal. The law, however, does not apply to bhang, another form of cannabis that is consumed through eating or drinking.
The enactment of this law in 1985 can be traced back to the 1961 UN convention, which gave parties a maximum of 25 years to “completely abolish” non-medical use of cannabis, among other things. The NDPS Act has since been amended thrice — in 1988, 2001 and 2014.
The maximum punishment under the Act is death penalty.
Section 20(b)(ii) of the law allows punishment for production, sale, purchase etc. of cannabis. It says anybody caught with a small quantity of the drug can be punished with rigorous imprisonment of up to six months and a fine of up to Rs 10,000.
A “small quantity”, as defined by a central government notification, is 1,000 gm (1 kg) of ganja, a form of cannabis that is smoked.
Section 8 prohibits the cultivation of cannabis, except for medical and scientific purposes. Section 10, however, gives power to the state to regulate use, cultivation, manufacture and possession of cannabis. Section 14 too allows the cultivation of cannabis for industrial purposes with prior approvals from the state.
Section 8(c) of the Act bars production, manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation and consumption of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substances.
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Both portions included theophylline as a model drug. The screening process in between a number of products different with regard to proportions (dimension as well as size) along with comparable ratios in the inside along with outside portion had been accomplished judging by their within vitro drug discharge and the discharge system had been studied on a precise product. The co-extrudate exhibiting the required continual relieve ended up being decided on regarding in vivo bioavailability research. in selleck chemicals llc vivo reports verified your achievement of the purpose of the research, demonstrating the specified relieve theophylline about four wholesome volunteers. Appropriately, hot-melt extrusion method is a viable approach to produce in one step co-extrudates showing a new suffered release. Moreover, the actual created precise model Tariquidar inhibitor proved to be a reliable descriptor in the in the vitro and in vivo fresh files. (C) ’08 Elsevier W.V. All protection under the law set aside.Nearly all healing crops utilized versus malaria throughout endemic areas make an effort to deal with the particular acute symptoms of the sickness including temperature fevers along with periodicity as well as chills. In a few endemic parts of the actual B razil Amazon location 1 healing plant appears to be an exception: Ampelozyziphus amazonicus, in the area called “Indian beer” or even “Saracura-mira”, utilized to stop the illness when used everyday as being a frosty suspensions of powdered ingredients dried up origins. In previous operate all of us located zero action with the seed extracts against malaria blood vessels organisms throughout experimentally infected animals (rodents as well as hen chickens) or in nationalities associated with Plasmodium falciparum. Nevertheless, throughout microbe infections activated by simply sporozoites, flock treated with place ingredients were in part protected against Plasmodium gallinaceum as well as confirmed reduced numbers of exoerythrocytic forms from the brain. We now current stronger proof that the ethanolic remove involving “Indian beer” beginnings hampers within vitro plus vivo progression of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites, a new rat malaria parasite. Several rats treated with large doses from the plant draw out didn’t turn into attacked following https://www.selleck.co.jp/products/Cytarabine(Cytosar-U).html sporozoite inoculation, whilst other people were built with a delayed prepatent period of time and minimize parasitemia. Each of our information validates the application of “Indian beer” as being a fix for malaria prophylaxis within the Amazon online, in which the seed is available and also the illness symbolizes a crucial issue which is hard to handle. Reports looking to know the active substances to blame for your thus defined causal prophylactic activity are required and could lead to a brand-new antimalarial prophylactic. (C) 2008 Foreign Culture with regard to Parasitology Incorporated. Authored by Elsevier Ltd. Just about all legal rights earmarked.The particular catalytic uneven aminooxygenation associated with alkenes gives an efficient and easy way of prepare chiral vicinal amino alcohols. We’ve documented the copper mineral(Two)-catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular alkene aminooxygenation, making use of (A couple of,2,Six,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl (Speed) because the air origin, which leads to your combination involving chiral indolines and also pyrrolidines. Thus all of us divulge which kinetics reports say the response is 1st get in the substrate along with the [Cu(3rd r,Third)-Ph-bis(oxazoline)]OTf2 switch and zero purchase inside Beat.
Architectural three-dimensional (3 dimensional) vascularized constructs remains difficult as a result of wherewithal to kind prosperous microvessel cpa networks. With this review we all manufactured any prevascularized 3D mobile or portable linen create regarding muscle rejuvination making use of man bone fragments marrow-derived mesenchymal originate cells (hMSCs) along with man umbilical vein endothelial cells since cell resources. hMSCs ended up classy to forma solid mobile linen, and individual umbilical vein endothelial tissue (HUVECs) had been after that seeded around the hMSCs sheet to form networks. The single prevascularized HUVEC/hMSC cellular sheet had been folded for you to forma Animations develop with a revised cellular linen architectural check details approach. Within vitro results indicated that the actual hMSCs cell bed sheet marketed your HUVECs mobile or portable migration to create systems throughout horizontal and vertical directions. In vivo outcomes indicated that many bloodstream grew in to the Three dimensional HUVEC/hMSC cell page constructs following equipped inside the subcutaneous pocket regarding immunodeficient these animals. Your occurrence associated with blood vessels inside the prevascularized constructs has been above AZD6738 research buy in which within the nonprevascularized constructs. Immunohistochemistry staining even more established that Palbociclib in vivo in vitro preformed human capillaries in the prevascularized constructs anastomosed using the web host vasculature in order to create useful bloodstream. These types of benefits recommend the promising probable with this 3 dimensional prevascularized create making use of hMSCs mobile or portable page being a podium pertaining to extensive applications inside architectural vascularized tissue.Objective. Latest steady-state aesthetic evoked possible (SSVEP)-based brain-computer program (BCI) systems have used one particular regularity per goal, to ensure numerous goals need a large number of government wavelengths and for that reason a broader regularity music group. Nonetheless, individuals show good SSVEP responses just within a limited selection of wavelengths. Additionally, this issue is particularly problematic in the event the SSVEP-based BCI takes a Personal computer keep an eye on being a stimulator, which is merely capable of generating a restricted selection of frequencies. For you to minimize this issue, these studies presents a progressive programming means for SSVEP-based BCI by using intermodulation wavelengths. Approach. Synchronised modulations associated with stimulation luminance and colour at diverse wavelengths were utilized to stimulate intermodulation wavelengths. Luminance flickered in fairly big frequency (Ten, 14, 20 Hertz), while colour alternated at lower frequency (Zero.Five, A single Hz). A stylish characteristic of the suggested method was it would substantially boost the quantity of focuses on with a solitary playful frequency simply by changing colour modulated wavelengths. Determined by using this method, the BCI technique shown in this research recognized eight focuses on basically using a few playful frequencies. Main outcomes. The online benefits obtained from 15 subjects (18 healthy along with 1 using cerebrovascular accident) said an average classification exactness of 95.
The control site generally was missing these kind of species, along with harbored lichens far more associated with regional protected forests. Almost all internet sites didn’t have pollution-sensitive facial hair lichens (Usnea spp.) and also cyanolichens which can be present in shielded forests. Lichen Variety Value (LDV) investigation associated with macrolichens failed to resulted in anticipated routine of growing range farther away from town heart, because of a quantity of components. Even so, bad correlations were found involving lichen selection parameters along with human population as well as targeted traffic specifics, along with in between Cisplatin price shrub trunk dimensions along with crustose lichen diversity. Macrolichen species abundance and also plethora were greater about mossy trunks, yet crustose lichen variety has been reduce. Start barking texture and also humidity as well as air quality appeared to influence the framework along with arrangement of those lichen areas. To conclude, your lichen areas on the downtown bushes was affected by your region’s pollution both in regards to diversity and also species structure. Selection procedures might be best monitored when the overall neighborhood will be tested, not only your macrolichen aspect. Crustose lichen protection also need to be integrated in abundance reports.Cytochrome P450 aromatase is the vital thing enzyme within oestrogen biosynthesis, protected by simply CYP19 gene. Impairment of spermatogenesis associated with a reduction in ejaculation mobility and also being unable to feed oocytes within these animals as a result of lacking involving CYP19 has been witnessed. Nevertheless, it can be hidden in regards to the CYP19 functions throughout boar spermatogenesis along with sperm count. Therefore, the aim of these studies ended up being to check out mRNA as well as protein term regarding CYP19 within boar reproductive system tissues coming from boars with various semen top quality. Pertaining to mRNA and also health proteins expression examine Sorafenib datasheet , as many as six to eight boars were divided into two teams along with Party A single (G-I) and Class Only two (G-II) in which G-I was characterized with regard to reasonably a much better ejaculate quality. The effect indicated that the actual CYP19 records was not depicted through the entire man the reproductive system. mRNA term regarding CYP19 had been larger only inside testis. CYP19 phrase had been similar in testis obtained via G-I along with G-II boars. The particular CYP19 necessary protein appearance results from american mark ended up different together with the connection between qRT-PCR. The particular CYP19 protein has been increased inside testis collected through G-II as compared to G-I boars. Your CYP19 proteins localization within testis demonstrated a strong staining simply within the cytoplasm Leydig mobile. These kind of benefits drop brand new light for the functions of porcine CYP19 within spermatogenesis as being a certain focus on INCB024360 gene regarding testis.Little or no proof is out there in regards to the connection between conjugated linoleic acid (Conjugated linoleic acid) on unwanted fat decrease activated by vitality stops. In addition, though an impression of trans-10,cis-12-CLA upon lipolysis has been Advised, it has not necessarily recently been consistently proven.
Results: Zero correlation existed among Meniere period along with RQ calculated together with memory foam pad. Indicate RQ of the swing area in memory foam pad find more in Meniere’s individuals with unusual oVEMPs (1.Seventy-five +/- 2.92) has been drastically bigger than 1.Something like 20 +/- Zero.75 within those that have normal oVEMPs. Nonetheless, not cVEMP neither Fat analyze effects were connected with RQ about polyurethane foam sleep pad (r > Zero.05). Further, the location beneath the receiver operating attribute curve from the RQ of swing location in froth sleep pad inside elegance among typical and unusual oVEMP analyze had been 0.Sixty five (95% CI, Zero.51 for you to 2.Seventy nine; r < Zero.05), meaning that will RQ of the swing region upon polyurethane foam sleeping pad may serve as a significant forecaster for unusual oVEMP examination.
Conclusions: By getting rid of as well as reducing the two visual and also somatosensory information via froth posturography, the remaining vestibular cue, represented since RQ of sway area about foam sleeping pad, may well mirror utricular perform.Because the year 2000, clinical styles resembling tick-borne rickettsioses have been found in China-Russia border areas. Epidemiological data regarding species of your aetiological adviser, tick vector prevalence and distribution and also incidence associated with human situations within the selleck kinase inhibitor places continue to be short up to now. In order to recognize Rickettsia varieties happening inside the places, all of us researched Dermacentor silvarum accumulated from the decided on areas. Rickettsia raoultii had been the particular main Rickettsia seen in Deb. silvarum apparent together with ompA, ompB, gltA and also 18 kDa health proteins genes. The Rickettsia prevalence in Deborah. silvarum appeared to be 33.25 % without any making love big difference. The final results lengthen the regular knowledge about the geographic syndication regarding R. raoultii as well as candidate vector break types, which propose a good surfaced probable danger involving human being wellness selleck compound from the areas.Retrotransposon (RTN)-based guns, including the inter-retrotransposon zoomed polymorphism (IRAP) along with the retrotransposon-microsatellite made worse polymorphism (REMAP), are generally extremely useful, multilocus, and also reveal installation polymorphisms amid folks. These guns have been used for evolutionary studies, anatomical diversity evaluation, DNA fingerprinting, and detection associated with hereditary rearrangements induced through allopolyploidization. The hexaploid tritordeum ((ch)H(ch)AABB; 2n = 6x Is equal to 42) is surely an allopolyploid manufactured from crosses involving wild barley (Hordeum chilense Roem. et Schultz.) ((HHch)-H-ch; 2n = 2 times = 14) as well as durum wheat (Triticum turgidum T. conv. durum) (AABB; 2n Equates to 4 times = Twenty-eight). Using this examine, we all accomplished the particular Genetic fingerprinting of 2 newly formed hexaploid tritordeum lines (HT22 and HT27) along with their individual mom and dad, range H1 associated with . chilense and also series T81 associated with durum wheat, according to IRAPs, REMAPs along with inter-simple series repeat (ISSRs), so that you can identify potential rearrangements inside tritordeum derived from polyploidization. Your amphiploid nature in the HT22 as well as HT27 people was efficiently validated right after fluorescence throughout situ hybridization (FISH), that has been carried out on the mitotic chromosome propagates using genomic Genetic make-up coming from H.
The harmed cohort in which acquired CRD just before PRV shot confirmed an important reduction in EGFP-labeled tissues in the particular IML as well as remaining celiac ganglion compared to non-stimulated injured rodents. In comparison, your injured cohort that obtained CRD Ninety six right after PRV-152 inoculation demonstrated zero differences in EGFP-labeled cellular amounts in the IML as well as celiac ganglia versus non-stimulated injured rats. Interestingly, microglia around c-Fos-positive cells soon after serious CRD appeared much more reactive in comparison to non-stimulated spinalized rats, and also stimulated microglial cells significantly decrease viral transduction and progression right after PRV inoculation from the CNS. For this reason the outcomes signify greater CRD-induced c-Fos expression within the harmed model, just before however, not after PRV procedure, even more attenuates PRV-152 usage, maybe through alterations in neuronal activity and/or inborn find more neuro-immune replies.Aim all of us evaluated the effect of standardization of cancer of the colon surgical treatment using complete mesocolic removal (CME) on the good quality associated with medical procedures calculated by the pathological end-points of amount of farmed lymph nodes, substantial tie up regarding delivering boats, plane involving mesocolic resection along with rate involving R0 resection.
Method 100 as well as ninety-eight individuals along with colon carcinoma who experienced revolutionary surgery in between October 3 years ago and Feb 2009 had been separated into a couple of groupings, which includes people undergoing surgery before (90) or soon after (105) One July 08, while comprehensive mesocolic excision (CME) has been released because standard inside our hospital.
Results The complete imply substantial tie increased from Seven.A single (CI, 6.5-7.Half a dozen) for you to Being unfaithful.Half a dozen (7.9-10.3) centimetres (R < 2.0001) and also the indicate variety of farmed lymph nodes via Twenty-four.A few (Twenty two.8-26.A couple of) in order to 25.7 (Twenty-four.6-28.8-10) (R = 3.0095). There were zero PF-04929113 molecular weight substantial improves during these end-points in open proper hemicolectomy, along with laparoscopic sigmoid resection the quantity of lymph nodes would not boost substantially. The particular aircraft of mesocolic resection, the speed involving R0 resection and also the chance of complications failed to adjust drastically. The actual mean ACY-241 cost (array) duration of a hospital stay improved coming from Several (2-62) to 5 (2-71) nights (S Equals 2.04).
Conclusion Standardization of colonic most cancers surgical procedure together with CME appears to help the high quality associated with surgery without having helping the likelihood of difficulties.The accumulation of fat droplets inside the liver organ is a vital sign associated with liver organ disease. This research assesses gradations associated with steatosis in computer mouse button livers using crawling dunes, that happen to be interfering styles involving shear surf released to the hard working liver by exterior options. The particular moving waves are recognized simply by Doppler ultrasound exam image tactics, that are generally analyzed to appraisal the particular shear say speed like a aim of frequency among 190 as well as 360 Hz. | <urn:uuid:d07d5ca8-32e0-4750-8369-1b2de7735aba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apoptosisblog.com/index.php/2022/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937545 | 3,739 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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This is the first published English translation of one of the most important works of medicine and natural history in the world. It was translated into English in 1655, but never published until this edition in 1934.
About the book:
De Materia Medica (Latin for “On Medical Material,” a translation of the original Greek Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς) is a pharmacopoeia of herbs and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The five-volume work describes many drugs known to be effective, including aconite, aloes, colocynth, colchicum, henbane, opium and squill. In all, about 600 plants are covered, along with some animals and mineral substances, and around 1000 medicines made from them.
The work was written between 50 and 70 AD by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the Roman army. It was widely read for more than 1,500 years until supplanted by revised herbals in the Renaissance, making it one of the longest-lasting of all natural history books.
De Materia Medica was circulated as illustrated manuscripts, copied by hand, in Greek, Latin and Arabic throughout the mediaeval period. From the sixteenth century on, Dioscorides’ text was translated into Italian, German, Spanish, and French, and in 1655 into English. It formed the basis for herbals in these languages by men such as Leonhart Fuchs, Valerius Cordus, Lobelius, Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, John Gerard and William Turner. Gradually such herbals included more and more direct observations, supplementing and eventually supplanting the classical text.
Several manuscripts and early printed versions of De Materia Medica survive, including the illustrated Vienna Dioscurides manuscript written in the original Greek in sixth-century Constantinople.
The book is divided into five volumes. Dioscorides organized the substances by certain similarities, such as their being aromatic, or vines; these divisions do not correspond to any modern classification. In David Sutton’s view the grouping is by the type of effect on the human body.
Volume I: Aromatics
Volume I covers aromatic oils, the plants that provide them, and ointments made from them. They include what are probably cardamom, nard, valerian, cassia or senna, cinnamon, balm of Gilead, hops, mastic, turpentine, pine resin, bitumen, heather, quince, apple, peach, apricot, lemon, pear, medlar, plum and many others.
Volume II: Animals to herbs
Volume II covers an assortment of topics: animals including sea creatures such as sea urchin, seahorse, whelk, mussel, crab, scorpion, electric ray, viper, cuttlefish and many others; dairy produce; cereals; vegetables such as sea kale, beetroot, asparagus; and sharp herbs such as garlic, leek, onion, caper and mustard.
Volume III: Roots, seeds and herbs
Volume III covers roots, seeds and herbs. These include plants that may be rhubarb, gentian, liquorice, caraway, cumin, parsley, lovage, fennel and many others.
Volume IV: Roots and herbs, continued
Volume IV describes further roots and herbs not covered in Volume III. These include herbs that may be betony, Solomon’s seal, clematis, horsetail, daffodil and many others.
Volume V: Vines, wines and minerals
Volume V covers the grapevine, wine made from it, grapes and raisins; but also strong medicinal potions made by boiling many other plants including mandrake, hellebore, and various metal compounds, such as what may be zinc oxide, verdigris and iron oxide.
A lot more at wikipedia.
About the Author:
Pedanius Dioscorides (Ancient Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedianos Dioskorides; c. 40 – 90 AD) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De Materia Medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς) — a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than 1,500 years. He was employed as a medic in the Roman army.
About the translator:
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Parents ‘must not abdicate duties’ to teachers, says Ofsted
The UK Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) said this week that parents should not expect schools to police children’s eating and exercise, or toilet train pupils.
England’s chief inspector for schools believes the answer to the obesity crisis lies in the home, and parents should not “abdicate responsibility.”
Two studies have this year queried the benefit of school anti-obesity schemes.
In February, the British Medical Journal reported that a year-long anti-obesity programme involving more than 600 West Midlands primary school pupils yielded no improvements. Then, in July, an Ofsted study of 60 schools found no link between efforts to tackle obesity and pupils’ weight.
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Many of us are having online exams, classes, or assignment submissions during this time. The amount of screen time can get overwhelming sometimes. Tasty and healthy snacks can keep us munching and engaged as we are studying/working. Here is a ton of options that you can choose from:
Fruits and Vegetables
We all know that fruits and vegetables are not a student’s favorite but there are so many innovative ways you can consume fruits such as:
- A salad with apple slices, bananas, and papaya
- Watermelon slices just like that (because it’s a heavenly fruit)
- Cucumber slices with some black salt
- The wide range of berries– strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries with kiwi slices
- Fruit smoothie
- Baby carrots
- Granola Bars (famous as the Yoga bar): It is a convenient and healthy snack to help curb your mid-meal cravings.
- Mixed Nuts (or dry fruits): This is a fairly expensive choice for a regular snack but they have proven to be healthy and weight loss friendly.
- Dark Chocolate: It is loaded with nutrients and is one of the best sources of antioxidants.
- Greek/Low-fat Yogurt: It serves as a sweet and healthy snack. It has a good amount of B-vitamins, calcium, proteins, and other nutrients.
- Popcorn: It is air-popped and lightly seasoned healthy snacks. It contains high-fiber whole grain and helps in lowering heart disease risk, cancer, etc.
- Chickpeas: Dry roasted chickpeas serve as a good source of protein and fiber.
- Oatmeal: It serves as a filling, low-calorie, and healthy snack. It helps improve heart health and cholesterol.
- Pumpkin seeds: It is easy to carry and has a variety of nutrients such as magnesium, B-Vitamins, copper, iron, and proteins.
- Apricots: They improve digestion, aid healthy weight loss, and are great sources of vitamins and iron.
- Vegetable sandwich: This will have all the nutrients of all the veggies, proteins, and carbohydrates. It is a go-to option for students because it is very easy to make.
- Sweet corn or cornflakes: This is one of the most popular breakfast meals or a quick evening snack.
- Whole wheat biscuits: They may not be the tastiest choice of biscuits, but they are sweet and low-calorie snacks with a good amount of protein and dietary fiber.
- Boiled eggs: This requires water, salt, and eggs. Eggs fill your stomach and give you the energy to work or study.
The Exclusively Indian Section:
All these items have a wide variety of recipes but they are weight-loss friendly and help fill our tummies in the traditional Indian style!
- Baked Idli
- Baked Samosa
- Boiled chana/sprouts
- Corn chaat/chana chaat
- Masala Papad
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The most pleasant months of the year for Olive township (Clinton County) are June, August and July. In Olive township (Clinton County), there are 4 comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85°. July is the hottest month for Olive township (Clinton County) with an average high temperature of 82.4°, which ranks it as warmer than most places in Michigan. January is the snowiest month in Olive township (Clinton County) with 13.1 inches of snow, and 6 months of the year have significant snowfall. But there some days when the humidity becomes unpleasant, especially in July and August.
Summer High: the July high is around 82 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 16
Rain: averages 33 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 43 inches of snow a year
BESTPLACES COMFORT INDEX
The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for the Olive township (Clinton Cnty) area is 9.3 (10=best), which means it is more comfortable than most places in Michigan.
9.3 / 10
A higher score indicates a more comfortable year-round climate. The US average for the comfort index is 7.8. Our index is based on the total number of days annually within the comfort range of 70-80 degrees, and we also applied a penalty for days of excessive humidity.
Average Monthly High and Low (°F)
Hot, Freezing, Rainy, Snowy Days: Olive township (Clinton Cnty)
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When talking about hobbies, most of us think about reading books, cooking, swimming, and other ordinary activities we are used to.
But, Can Hanging Out With Family and Friends Be Considered a Hobby?
The short answer is no. Hanging with your friends doesn’t count as a hobby. Remember that humans are naturally social creatures. So spending time with your peers is natural, like eating, which isn’t considered a hobby.
Hanging with friends is something you don’t have to do as a necessity. Look at kids, for example. They easily make friends and always want to hang out with them. So as you see, we learn this behavior at a young age, which teaches us to bond with each other. Therefore, you cannot call this a hobby because, by definition, a hobby is a leisure time activity done for enjoyment.
How Can You Turn the Time You Spend Together into a Hobby?
Hanging out with your friends on its own isn’t considered a hobby.
But, what you do during this time can be a hobby.
Here are some cheap and fun hobby options:
1. Do a Movie Marathon
Most friends in your circle share the same interest as you.
So if you love movies, your friends probably love watching too.
As such, you can decide to watch every episode of a long series of short films back to back.
For instance, you can log into Netflix and watch every episode of Stranger Things, Pretty in Pink or any series you love.
2. Organize a Picnic
Even introverts will appreciate being outside once in a while. So why don’t you plan a picnic for you and your friends?
This can be a time to enjoy nature, relax and unwind the daily stress and anger. Aside from making your relationship stronger, it also promotes mental health.
But if planning for a picnic, make sure you choose the venue that everyone can access and also plan for food and refreshments.
3. Play Board Games
Take out Scrabble or Yahtzee and play with your friends.
You can even organize a tournament, compete against each other and award the winning team.
There are many free online board games like Boggle, Settlers of Catan and Battleship that can be played with your loved ones remotely.
4. Host a Video Game Tournament
Not everyone is into board games, and that’s completely fine.
Thankfully, there are many alternatives, and a video game tournament is one of them.
Playing against each other and awarding prizes or food to winners can make the time you spend with your friends more enjoyable, and you don’t have to break the bank.
5. Go Fishing
This easy hobby will help you and your buddies learn a lot from and about each other.
Watching your friends break their rods while trying to catch a fish can be fun. To make it more fun, divide yourselves into teams and award the team that catches more fish.
6. Play a Sport
Are you looking for physical activity to do? A sport may be what you and your friends need.
There are hundreds of sports to play, but we advise you to choose an easy one to get everyone to participate.
For instance, basic football isn’t that hard and doesn’t feature many rules.
So that can be a great start. But opt for these if you and your pals have some knowledge about complicated sports like golf and tennis.
7. Go Camping
You can share stories with your friends around a bonfire and sleeping in tents during this time.
Camping lets you enjoy scenic views of the country while growing closer with your friends.
Then it is time to go for a ride.
Biking allows you to enjoy beautiful views while exercising your body.
Plus, it also has a social side that your friends will love.
The best thing about it is that it is not expensive and if you have your bikes, you won’t spend a dime.
Just make sure you carry some water with you.
How Can You Share Your Hobbies with Your Friends And Family?
Human beings have different interests and preferences.
Therefore, your hobby might not be your friends’ hobby. But you can share them with your pals.
However, for that to happen, you need to make them see why you enjoy those hobbies and why they should join you. Here are some tips to help you;
1. Introduce to Them Easily and Slowly
Most hobbies have a varying range of difficulty, from easy to difficult and time-consuming.
Although you may enjoy playing card games for more than four hours, your friends may not.
Therefore, you may want to introduce them to short card games that last 30 minutes or so.
If you see they love it, then introduce them to longer games.
Bear in mind that you also took time to build your skills. So, be nice and allow them to do the same too.
You need to explain and demonstrate how your hobby is done before your friends can dive in. Many people forget how crucial narration is.
Sure, giving an example is great, but you need to explain what is going on in your head.
This way, your friends will know what to think and remember what is essential when approaching a challenge.
3. Explain Crucial Details
Many people love to learn and acquire new knowledge.
However, many of us only explain the basics of our hobbies and forget to explain the intricate elements.
The worst thing you can do is remind your beginner friends that they are beginners.
So be generous when sharing knowledge about your hobby.
You can explain its history and show them how it’s done.
Share some crucial details to make them gain some confidence and interest.
As we have seen, hanging out with your friends by itself isn’t a hobby.
However, you can do a real hobby with them.
Besides the ones mentioned above, you can also join a club, listen to music and take a tour of your community with your friends.
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Last spring, Angie Acevedo gave the senior speech in front of her graduating class at Bend Senior High School—the first person from a Hispanic background to do so in the 110+ years of commencement ceremonies at the school.
Born in Los Angeles, Acevedo and her family moved to Bend when she was two years old. At BSHS, Acevedo established a reputation as a strong student—graduating with honors—as well as an advocate for immigrant families and those experiencing poverty. Now age 19, Acevedo is a student at Central Oregon Community College (along with her older sister) and hopes to pursue a career in human services or politics.
- Megan Baker
- Angie Acevedo, now a student at COCC, hopes to pursue a career in politics or human services. Her award comes with a $4,000 scholarship.
*Updated from print version: Acevedo wrote this statement following her win:
Morgan Davis, dean of students at BSHS, nominated Acevedo for the Young Hero award, saying this in a letter he wrote to colleges on her behalf:
"This passion to create equity in our community has led Angie to be the Vice President of our Cross Cultural Club, where she helped to create the mission and vision statement. Angie has spearheaded projects such as writing Senators and House Representatives to protect the rights of DACA, advocating for changes in gun control, and reached out to students who do not feel connected by bringing them to the Cross Cultural Club." Acevedo also advocated against "period poverty," in Bend-La Pine Schools, attending a school board meeting and requesting the district offer free feminine products at local schools.
Here's what else Young Hero Angie Acevedo had to say.
Source Weekly: Is there someone in your life you'd like to acknowledge?
Angie Acevedo: My mom. My parents... my mom came here when she was 17, and I have just so much respect for them. Everyone has their own struggles and I understand that—right now, for me, going through college and transitioning from everything that high school... I tell her sometimes that I feel like I can't do it, that I want to drop out... but it's just crazy—my parents came here with nothing and they made this whole life for me and my siblings.
I have a lot of respect for my parents because they made it really clear to us not to be angry for the situations we have to go through—not to be angry and to appreciate the opportunities that we have.
SW: You mentioned growing up between two cultures. What do you see winning this award meaning to other people who may have a similar life story?
AA: It's just really hard growing up between two cultures, especially the ones I had to grow up in—they don't always welcome each other. It's kind of sad to see, because you love both of your cultures and you don't want to have to choose.
A lot of kids struggle with issues of identity because they don't know how to deal with it. Like sometimes they feel like they have to choose a side. When I'm here in the United States, I feel like I'm not from here. When I go to Mexico to visit my family, I have an accent and I didn't grow up there, so I'm not from there, either. It's like you're not really from anywhere but you're from both places at the same time. It's really confusing—and I hope I would be a role model, because it's really hard to grow up like that and it hits some kids harder than others, and I just hope I can be an example that you can do something good.
SW: Who is someone you look up to—someone you don't personally know?
AA: Martin Luther King, Junior. My graduation announcements had a quote from him: "Use me God, show me to take who I am, what I want to be and use it for a purpose greater than myself." For me, when I read that quote, it reminded me to use the opportunities that you have here—use the voice that you have, because you can speak up. Everyone's always like, 'everyone has a voice,' and it's true—but the reality is, not everyone is hurt the same. I feel like I do have some privilege. When last year there was a march downtown to keep the families together at the border, my parents really wanted to go and their friends really wanted to go too, but they were scared because they don't have documents—the kind of stuff like that, I should speak up for other people.
SW: What do you hope for other women in our community?
AA: I hope we all get empowered in our own way, because, like how I grew up—there's a lot of machismo in the Hispanic cultures. I've talked to my parents about it—it's not like they want it to be like that, but that's how they were raised. A lot of Hispanic households, the girls have to do all the housework—that's how I see it, mostly.
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Method comparison & evaluation
A mountain plot (or "folded empirical cumulative distribution plot") is created by computing a percentile for each ranked difference between a new method and a reference method. To get a folded plot, the following transformation is performed for all percentiles above 50: percentile = 100 - percentile. These percentiles are then plotted against the differences between the two methods (Krouwer & Monti, 1995; CLSI, 2003).
The mountain plot is a useful complementary plot to the Bland & Altman plot. In particular, the mountain plot offers the following advantages:
- It is easier to find the central 95% of the data, even when the data are not Normally distributed.
- Different distributions can be compared more easily.
In the dialog box for Mountain plot you enter the variables for the two or three techniques you want to compare.
You can enter variables for two or three laboratory assays. If there are three assays, the second and third assay will be compared with the first reference assay.
You can select an option to include all the data points in the graph. This option is very useful to identify outliers.
After clicking OK you obtain the following graph:
The mountain plot provides information about the distribution of the differences between methods.
If two assays are unbiased with respect to each other, the mountain will be centered over zero. Long tails in the plot reflect large differences between the methods.
In the example, the median of the differences is close to zero for both methods Assay2 and Assay3 as compared with Assay 1. The differences of Assay 1 with Assay3 tend to be smaller than the differences of Assay 1 with Assay2. Therefore Assay3 corresponds better with Assay1 than Assay2 does.
When you click an individual observation in the graph, the corresponding case is identified in a pop-up window (see also Select variable for case identification command).
When you double-click on observation, the spreadsheet window will open with the corresponding case highlighted.
Click Info on the context menu (after pressing the right mouse button) to get precise information on sample size, median, minimum and maximum and the most important percentiles of the distribution(s).
- CLSI (2003) Estimation of Total Analytical Error for Clinical Laboratory Methods; Approved Guideline. CLSI Document EP21-A. Wayne, PA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.
- Krouwer JS, Monti KL (1995) A simple, graphical method to evaluate laboratory assays. Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem 33:525-527. | <urn:uuid:f0b128f0-d5d6-49c0-aaee-decf46ea2d03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medcalc.org/manual/mountain-plot.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.849942 | 562 | 3.0625 | 3 |
There is no single rule for English title case. Most build on title-casing of individual words, so the rules for that first.
- Generally, one capitalises the first letter, and lower-cases the rest.
- Traditional lower-case abbreviations are sometimes not capitalised at all (e.g. op. cit. etc.) and sometimes initial-capitalised, but generally not used in titles anyway.
- All-cap abbreviations remain in all-caps.
- Words which have a partial capitalisation including both initial letter and another when normally written retain it, e.g. McLeod, O'Reilly, and some trade names.
- Words which have a partial capitalisation not including the initial letter may be written with or without capitalising that initial letter, that is some styles would write d'Este and some D'Este. Typically we do the latter in styles that would capitalise prepositions as described below.
There are other rules in other languages, such as Dutch words beginning with ij capitalising both (e.g. ijsberg becoming IJsberg) and some languages mutate words by prepending letters which are never capitalised. Such foreign rules may or may not be followed with foreign words borrowed into English, though it's generally considered correct to do so, and can even affect meaning if you don't (nAthair in Irish means father while Nathair means snake).
With those rules for title-casing words in place, some common rules for whole titles are:
- Upper-case the whole thing.
- Title-case everything except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions unless they are adjectival or adverb use of prepositions.
- As above, but also capitalise prepositions and conjunctions longer than four letters long.
- As per 2, but lower-case all prepositions.
- As above, but also lower-case other determiners like numbers.
- Lower-case the whole thing.
- Capitalise all nouns (more common historically than now).
- Title-case every word.
And there are yet others found. In addition, one might decide that a word that isn't title-cased is important to the title for some reason, and then title-case it. One might also capitalise after an initial Yes or No or if the title is an apostrophe starting with the word O, one might capitalise after that (so one could have "O For the Wings of a Dove").
One strong advantage of number 8 is that while it is often considered rather uncouth, it is easy to do programmatically. It's often found when some computer code is "fixing" titles from a source of mixed quality. Such computer code need only look for word boundaries, upper case the first letter and leave the rest as is. It gets a bit more complicated if your sources might have some all-capital phrases, but is still much simpler than having computer code determine if a word is a preposition, never mind whether it's being used in an adjectival or adverbal use or not.
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I was recently speaking with a founder I’m advising and we ended up in a discussion about sorting and ranking company opportunities.
I mentioned to him that, in some cases, I have used what I came to know as the “RIT” framework. It’s a framework which allows an individual numeric score to be assigned to the resources, impact and time (RIT) attributes of any potential initiative which then supports a total score. That total score can then be used to order the full list by relative business value, granted everything on the list was scored using the same scale.
Bryan Eisenberg was the first person to share this framework with me during an A/B testing discussion over breakfast circa 2012. Anecdotally, I heard that the RIT framework evolved out of Dell in the 2000s, but I don’t know if that’s true.
I do find RIT to be overkill for short lists or lists of items which could be accomplished by a person or team in a day or two. However, as lists grow longer more complex and persistent (e.g. company initiatives, feature requests, backlogs, bug queues) the RIT scale can help quickly focus the conversation and bubble the right priorities to the top. It’s especially useful when the lists are full of initiatives which are larger, mutually exclusive, budget-intensive and cross-functional.
Here is how RIT works:
Resources, Impact and Time basics
Each letter (R, I and T) gets a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. 1 is the lowest value score and 5 is highest value score. It’s inexact, and is a rough number score. As you work your way through your list, hopefully with your team or other stakeholders, you will probably create some loose rules about how you think about assigning the numbers, especially 2, 3 and 4. You might have to go back and rescore some of the early items after you have done a handful and you establish a bit more context for your decision making within the data set. The RIT scoring decisions should become relative to the list being scored and can change across lists, department or functions. I will give some examples later.
Also, more than one item can have the same score(s) assigned. It’s not a forced ranking system in which once a 5 is used, it can’t be used again. After R, I and T get assigned their number for each initiative, you then multiply the three numbers to get that item’s total score and relative value to the other previously scored initiatives. The best possible score is a 125 (R5 x I5 x T5) and the worst is a 1 (R1 x I1 x T1). Most actual scores land somewhere in the middle.
That’s RIT at a high level but there is obviously additional nuance. Read on for further definition.
R – Resources
This is the amount of resources, typically money and time, it will take to accomplish the initiative at hand. As an example, I used to say an example R5 is one person working on their own, taking a day or two with limited budgetary needs. Easy lift. Conversely, some example R1s could be a cross-functional team working for 6 months or a project only the CEO can do herself in a month or a $250,000 system implementation. These are long, heavy or expensive lifts. Another example of an R2 that baselines off the previous examples could be a cross-functional team working on something for 3 months or the company spending $100,000 on a new tool. Less costly than an R1, but still relatively heavy lifts. See the difference in my scale between and R1 and R2? Remember, resources in this context are both time and money. My point (I’ve made a few times) is that the score is relative to the other types of things that are on the list you are scoring. The lightest lifts taking the shortest time to complete should get a 4 or 5 while the biggest investments taking the longest time with the most people involved should get the lowest numbers. Again, 2s, 3s and 4s are more nuanced judgment calls compared to what you are doing for the other R decisions. You will get better as you go.
I – Impact
This is the impact on the business, usually measured via financial gain or risk mitigation. How far will this initiative move the needle in relation to the other items we’re stacking it against? How much risk does this mitigate compared to the others? 1 is the smallest impact and 5 is the largest impact, in relative terms. Also, depending on what function the initiatives reside within, the impact can certainly be measured for other non-financial KPIs, like employee engagement or brand reputation. I’d still argue those outputs can ultimately be rolled up to support the top or bottom line, however.
As mentioned above, remember, you are calibrating your list as you go. Different teams may calibrate their lists differently, but the items on any single list need to be scored using the same rough scale. Some hypothetical examples from an executive-level list might be an I1 for $1M in revenue impact with an I5 being $50,000,000 in revenue. If this was the A/B testing backlog, you might divide those values by 10x when the product team scores their list. Alternatively, if the list happened to be internal counsel’s, an I1 could be insulating against $100,000 of single-state tax compliance exposure or an I5 could be ensuring that customer data privacy statutes are adhered to, avoiding $1M+ in fines.
T – Time
This is the tricky one, but only because it’s named poorly. “Time” is this context is NOT time to complete. Time to complete is covered under Resources (R) above. Time (T) is the time for the business to realize the impact of the work or, said differently, the “payback period”. T1, the heaviest lift, could be more than 3 years for something like a new product line, innovation or revenue stream development. Conversely, a T5 might be instantly valuable, potentially impacting customers, staff, costs or revenue streams immediately. A good example of a T1 might be an R&D initiative while a T5 could be a Shopping Cart Conversion optimization for an eCom business.
(Side note – For simplicity, I should call this framework RIP and use Payback Period (P) instead of Time (T). I don’t know why it wasn’t named that way from the beginning. It would be less confusing. I could have just changed the damn name of the post and framework before you read all this, so I guess I’m guilty as well for propagating the confusion. I didn’t want to seem like I ripped off someone else’s work because, you know, I’m sure a wide swath of engineers from Dell in the ’00s subscribe via RSS. #sarcasm)
Completion and Examples:
Now that each initiative has a number score for each RIT letter, the numbers are multiplied to create the final score. The final score should nicely order your list while also demonstrating greater disparity between the weaker and more valuable opportunities. If the RIT numbers were simply added, there would be less score dispersion and the final list would be harder to scan at a glance. It also makes sense that things on the same lists could very well be exponentially more valuable than each other.
Here are a handful of scored examples with supporting KPIs from a fictional product feature list that most of us in B2C can relate to:
- 100 – R5I4T5 – Implement a new banner on the site to highlight “Free 2 day shipping on all orders” to boost conversion
- 60 – R3I4T5 – Implement One-Click Buy functionality utilizing Apple Pay, Paypal or Venmo, where applicable to boost conversion
- 50 – R2I5T5 – Implement a new shopping cart process, working with creative, merchandising and digital product (conversion, avg ticket)
- 32 – R2I4T4 – Implement a new loyalty program, working with finance and marketing departments (churn, frequency, LTV)
- 24 – R2I4T3 – Implement new project management system across design, project management and digital product departments (speed to market, efficiency)
Just imagine long sad lists of 50+ features, bugs, initiatives or projects living in spreadsheets and/or PM tools with limited context around how they are arranged and the value they could provide. How useful are those backlogs to the teams or to their managers? How easy are they to revisit? How easy are they to be gut checked for value or degree of difficulty at a glance? Can decisions of what got prioritized be supported objectively and simply in a postmortem?
Now think of those same sad, sometimes messy lists ordered by business value using a contextually useful scoring framework which has been collaboratively debated and applied by the team that is responsible for the list and its potential completion.
That’s a much happier list and a much happier team by way of the highest value items getting prioritized more easily. That should yield happier customers and, in turn, “happier” company performance overall. | <urn:uuid:afca5227-7a10-4bbb-9ccd-2ebd49922025> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.anthonybucci.com/2019/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.944147 | 1,968 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Smart crypto policy could keep India’s tech dominance on top
There’s no denying that the Indian government shares a contentious relationship with cryptocurrencies, as was made clear recently when the government indicated that it plans on banning all private cryptocurrencies — a list that could potentially include just about every digital asset in the market today — after it had previously lifted all such restrictions back in 2019.
To elaborate, it is expected that as the government reconvenes for its Winter Session, it will discuss the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2021, which as the name suggests, seeks to create a legislative framework wherein all private cryptocurrencies can potentially be banned.
That said, there is still a lot of confusion regarding what the term private crypto constitutes, with some people speculating that it may refer simply to security-centric tokens such as Monero (XMR) or ZCash (ZEC). On the other hand, Naimish Sanghvi, founder of crypto news website Coin Crunch India, thinks that the Indian government’s definition of a private asset could expand to include pretty much every crypto in the market, stating:
“In the 2019 Department of Economic Affairs report on cryptocurrency, they essentially said that everything that is non-sovereign is designated as a private cryptocurrency. And by that logic, it means that Bitcoin and Ethereum will come into that definition.”
Blurred lines galore
Nischal Shetty, CEO of Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX, told Cointelegraph that it is hard to comprehend what the government means by private cryptocurrencies, especially since prominent assets like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are essentially public cryptos that have been built atop transparent blockchain infrastructures — with each project featuring its very own set of specific use cases.
Shetty further highlighted that people cannot use the Indian rupee or Tether (USDT) to pay for fees on the Bitcoin or Ether blockchains. Instead, they need crypto to use decentralized applications (DApps) and create nonfungible tokens (NFTs). He said:
“While the description of the draft bill appears to be the same as in January 2021, several noteworthy events have occurred since January. First, the Parliamentary Standing Committee invited a public consultation, and then our Prime Minister himself came forward to call for crypto regulations in India.”
Sumit Gupta, CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform CoinDCX, told Cointelegraph that there is no official label for a private cryptocurrency anywhere else in the world — and so now, the public eagerly awaits the Indian government’s definition of a private asset.
He further pointed out that since the full details of the bill are not yet available, it is best not to speculate about what it may potentially entail. However, one thing that is clear is that the government recognizes the transformative potential of blockchain, and is paying closer attention to its various uses and applications in our everyday lives. Gupta noted:
“A complete ban is unlikely as it will challenge India’s ability to harness blockchain technology to transform our industries — an outcome we believe policymakers would rather avoid. Crypto is a powerful trend that is shaping economies around the world, and we remain confident that our policymakers will formulate regulations that will enable our economy to reap the full benefits the global crypto industry has to offer.”
A blanket ban looming on the horizon?
When asked about the possibility of an all-out ban rearing its ugly head once again, Shetty noted that it is best to wait and find out more about the bill. He did admit that he is optimistic about India’s general outlook towards crypto, citing Finance Minister Nirmala Setharaman’s recent comments wherein she noted that India may only look to “regulate its digital asset sector” rather than stifle all of the innovation emanating from it irrevocably.
Shetty alluded to the comprehensive Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines that were proposed at this year’s G20 summit which stated that crypto is not a threat to the local economy of any country, adding:
“A blanket ban will also lead to an increase in OTC markets, fake exchanges and brain drain from India. The crypto industry today directly/indirectly employs 50,000 people today and generates millions in tax revenue for the government. The crypto industry is open to being regulated, but a blanket ban is something that will harm the entire country’s financial and technology ecosystem.”
Similarly, Gupta is willing to welcome any bill, as it assures that policymakers are beginning to acknowledge the importance of this new asset class, as well as the growing appetite from retail and institutional investors in India. “While we will not speculate as to the full details of the bill, we are confident that the government will act in a manner that best positions our economy for inclusive growth,” he added.
In his view, a balanced approach between innovation and regulation should ideally be maintained, with the government clearly spelling out the specific parameters critical in transacting with crypto without overly stifling the technology’s potential.
Regulation rather than an all-out ban
Recent reports from local Indian media outlets claim that an outright ban may not be in offing. Rather, the government may devise a well-crafted governance framework with how digital assets can be administered in the region.
News media organization NDTV revealed that it had been able to get its hands on a “cabinet note” related to the proposed crypto bill. As per the document, there are only suggestions to regulate cryptocurrencies as assets that are overseen by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) rather than outlawing the market completely. Not only that, the note reportedly specifies that investors will be given a set amount of time in order to declare their crypto holdings as well store them in platforms that are regulated by the SEBI — a move that suggests private wallet operators may be banned completely from operating within the region.
Lastly, the document suggests that the upcoming crypto laws will not allow for any digital assets to be recognized as legal tender. However, the government may consider the creation of its very own central bank digital currency somewhere down the line.
Policymaking and India’s digital dominance
As things stand, India boasts of a vibrant tech and innovation sector that hosts the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world. In this regard, Gupta noted that investor confidence in the country has only continued to grow recently, with Indian crypto companies amassing over $500 million worth of funding investment over the course of 2021 alone.
Furthermore, foreign direct investment in the sector is also estimated to grow to over $25 billion by 2025 and is likely to cross $200 billion by 2030. In this regard, he added:
“Just recently, Singaporean crypto exchange Coinstore entered the Indian market despite the looming regulatory uncertainty, signifying India’s strength as a crypto hub that continues to attract international companies. If a blanket ban does come into effect, it will not only affect access and adoption-related to digital finance for consumers but also limit innovation and technological advancements for the wider economy.”
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Compliance in multifingered hand improves grasp stability and effectiveness of the manipulation tasks. Compliance of robotic hands depends mainly on the joint control parameters, on the mechanical design of the hand, as joint passive springs, and on the contact properties. In object grasping the primary task of the robotic hand is the control of internal forces which allows to satisfy the contact constraints and consequently to guarantee a stable grasp of the object. When compliance is an essential element of the multifingered hand, and the control of the internal forces is not designed to be decoupled from the object motion, it happens that a change in the internal forces causes the object trajectory to deviate from the planned path with consequent performance degradation. This paper studies the structural conditions to design an internal force controller decoupled from object motions. The analysis is constructive and a controller of internal forces is proposed. We will refer to this controller as object motion- decoupled control of internal forces. The force controller has been successfully tested on a realistic model of the DLR Hand II. This controller provides a trajectory interface allowing to vary the internal forces (and to specify object motions) of an underactuated hand, which can be used by higher-level modules, e.g. planning tools. | <urn:uuid:94634278-aa3a-4896-a899-9ba213758ffd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.aggravi.eu/misc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.908965 | 252 | 1.515625 | 2 |
About Our Castle Tour
This tour includes a little of The Royal Mile and a lot of The Castle. We meet on the Royal Mile and start by giving a little background history to Edinburgh, helping to put everything into context. While moving up to the castle esplanade you will learn about the history of Edinburgh Castle. You will also learn about the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and two of the most famous figures from Scottish history. These are of course, Robert the Bruce and Mel Gibson… I mean William Wallace!
Entering the Castle, we stop by the Argyle Battery where you will learn about the 1 o’clock gun. Moving on we head down to the Hospital Square where we get impressive views from the Western Panorama. Following on from this we will head up towards the castle barracks and prisoner of war camp. All of these areas have enthralling stories that only a guide can truly bring to life.
We then climb to the top of Castle Rock entering the medieval section of Edinburgh Castle. Here we see the oldest building in Edinburgh, St Margaret’s Chapel and Mons Meg, a monstrous canon.
The tour finishes in the Crown Square which is the heart of Edinburgh Castle. While here you will learn about the daring attacks against this iconic fortification.
Know Before You Go
THE ENTIRE TOUR TAKES PLACE OUTSIDE
What? Are we not entering the Castle?
Well, yes, but Edinburgh Castle is so much more than just a castle. It’s more like a small village behind the castle walls. We will enter the castle walls and take you through this village pointing out all the museums and attractions on the way. Once the tour is finished you will be able to enter the many buildings within the castle walls. Your guide will certainly be happy to advise on what to see inside them after your tour. As this tour takes place outside and happens year-round it is important that you dress for the weather.
LEAVE TIME AFTER THE TOUR TO EXPLORE THE CASTLE
The purpose of this tour is to guide you through the castle complex, helping you to understand the complex history. Our aim is to put everything into context so you can fully appreciate what you are seeing. At the end of the tour you will need time to go around and explore the various museums by yourself. It’s recommended you give yourself at least another hour to explore the castle at the end of the tour. The castle sits on one of the highest spots in Edinburgh and is often exposed to wind, rain and snow. The only time this tour will cancel is when the wind is blowing above 65kph (40mph) and the castle closes. On the rare occasions this happens we can either transfer your booking to another day or offer you a full refund.
IT’S ON A HILL
Edinburgh Castle sits on top of an extinct volcano. For the duration of this tour you will be walking uphill and at times on uneven ground. A moderate level of fitness is needed for this tour and it is not recommended for people with severe mobility issues. Edinburgh Castle does offer a mobility service if you are visiting the castle by yourself, however if you take advantage of this service, you will miss the bulk of the tour. We do not recommend joining our tour if you plan on using the mobility service.
NO BAGS OVER 30l OR DANGEROUS ITEMS
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Umfang: XXXIV, 378 S., 4 s/w Illustr., 4 Fotos, Farbtafel
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2012
Einband: gebundenes Buch
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author's approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).
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Top Career Opportunities in the Finance industry in 2
The banking sector is one of the most career–oriented sectors. The sector has been witnessing a phenomenal growth since the 2008 recession and offering lucrative job opportunities. The COVID-19 outbreak however has slowed the growth of the BFSI industry. With increasing opportunities for banking professionals, stock traders, insurance agents, investment bankers, private equity professionals, the sector is getting back on track.
What’s promising, however, is the opportunity the BFSI sector has brought and promises to change the way it functions. The present time is apt for the BFSI industry to reinvent itself and add innovative business models that are digitally –driven. By using advanced technologies and digitizing workflows, the industry can build new and more optimized business processes.
BFSI industry is a pivotal sector that can accelerate the growth of the country. According to a National Skill Development Corporation report between 2008 and 2022 is estimated to reach over 4.2 million.
Let’s see various job opportunities, career prospects, and skills required to fulfill the requirements of the job.
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Retail bankers assist customers with their financial needs and resolve their queries. Financial needs include opening savings account, getting mortgage, loans, investing in banking products, certificates of deposit (CDs), capital markets, and other commercial banking products. Retail bankers also assist customers with retirement planning. Retail bankers need good communication and interpersonal skills, strong knowledge of financial products, and good mathematical and analytical aptitude.
Investment banking is one of the most lucrative career opportunities in the BFSI industry. Investment bankers work with high –profile investors, high net worth individuals (HNIs), corporates, and more to help them with investment opportunities. An investment banker needs strong knowledge of financial models, understand financial statements, cash flow, and more. An investment banker is also expected to have good relationship management and communication skills.
Financial Analysts are employed by companies to track financial health of the company. They work with corporate teams to analyze financial metrics, organization growth, operations, and other growth-deciding metrics to make business recommendations. A financial analyst is expected to have strong analytical skills and are supposed to be well-versed in macroeconomic and microeconomic scenarios. The primary responsibility of a financial analyst is to gather financial information and suggest changes to the company to improve financial health of the company.
Stockbrokers work with brokerage firms that assist investors as well as institutional investors to sell and buy stocks and other similar securities. Usually, this is done in exchange for a commission and fixed amount of fee. Stockbrokers are registered specialists.
Insurance agents are salesman who work with insurance firms and individuals to sell insurance policies. Insurance agents receive a fixed salary as well as commission on achieving sales targets. Insurance agents can be associated with firm or work independently on a commission basis.
The starting salary of a finance professional can range between $10,000 to $1,00,000 based on their role. The salary of an investment banker, for instance, goes up to $1,00,000 even in the beginning. In brief, the salary of a finance professional can be as high as desired.
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The pain of losing a beloved dog can often feel too great to bear. For so many of us, our dogs are more than just our pets. They are members of our family, and research has shown that losing a dog can trigger the same level of grief and sorrow as when we lose a human friend or relative. Many dog-owners struggle to move on after losing their four-legged best friend and even feel anxiety anticipating her death.
However, there are many meaningful ways to help you commemorate your dog’s life and to help you cope with the loss. Here are six to consider:
1. Write An Obituary
When a family member dies, we find solace in remembering her life and recounting her acts of love and service. Putting pen to paper can be a cathartic exercise, and this is no different when it is a dog who passed away. Buy some fancy stationary and a nice pen, and spend an afternoon writing down some of the things you loved best about your dog, as well as your favorite memories of your time together. When you are finished, you can frame your obituary and put it in a place of honor next to your dog’s picture. Or you could write the obituary on your computer and email it to friends and family who loved your dog and are sharing your grief.
2. Hold A Remembrance Ceremony
Invite your friends, family and neighbors over for a special ceremony to remember your beloved pet. Serve your dog’s favorite foods (such as hamburgers or cheese or chicken), and raise a glass to her memory. Ask everyone to share a favorite moment or read the obituary you wrote aloud. If anyone has any pictures or mementos of your dog, ask them to bring them to the ceremony to share.
3. Plant A Tree
Whether you are burying your dog on your property or having a cremation, consider planting a tree, bush or flower bed in your yard as a special reminder of your pet. Whenever you look out the window and see that plant flourishing, it will remind you of your dog and the circle of life.
4. Make A Necklace
You can personalize a necklace, bracelet or medallion to help you remember your dog and keep her close to your heart forever. There are many different shops which offer this service, but I love this gorgeous option from Etsy shop GIGIMEY.
5. An End-Of-Life Photo Shoot
If your dog has not yet passed away, but you know that she is gravely ill, you might consider an end-of-life photo shoot. The idea is that you spend one last day with your pet doing all of her favorite things, while simultaneously having pictures taken to help commemorate your last moments together.
If your dog has already passed away, you could consider making a photo book in which you put together all the best snaps of your pup. You can even include captions, dates, quotes and more. Check out MixBook for possible options.
6. Donate To Dogs In Need
You can honor your dog’s memory by donating time or money to an animal charity. For example, if your beloved dog was a pit bull, you could donate to BadRap, an organization which is devoted to improving dog welfare and enhancing the bond between owners and their dogs.
Or if your dog was elderly, you may connect with an organization like The Grey Muzzle Organization, which works to improve the lives of senior dogs in shelters.
Or if your dog was big and fluffy, consider donating to the Big Fluffy Dog Rescue, which specifically helps large dogs like chow chows, Newfoundlands, Great Pyrenees, and Saint Bernards.
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A new study has shown that a plant which is a parasite of another communicates with the latter by exchanging pieces of RNA.
Whether or not plants hear and talk to us, they sure talk among themselves – some of them, at least. This has been established by scientific research in the past: plants communicate to each other via signals in the form of chemicals. Some species of plants, in fact, have sophisticated means of interacting with others of their kinds: while some can share genetic information, others send warning messages of possible insect attacks. The former form of communication entails parasitic plants attaching onto their hosts.
Dodder, which is a parasite, attaches onto the other plant known as Arabidopsis, stealing some of its nutrients in the process via an appendage. However, to have their meal of nutrients, Dodder has to first identify its host. It was previously thought that it uses chemicals to do so. Now, a new study has demonstrated that dodder uses a genetic method: it exchanges RNA with the plant. These two plants thereby ‘talk’ to each other as they exchange pieces of mRNA.
What do they say to each other then? Mystery, mystery. Perhaps, Dodder signals its host to ‘allow’ it to drain its nutrients by tricking it to lower its defenses?
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While we sleep, our self-awareness and our awareness of the outside world are reduced. Why? Habib Benali, Director of Research at the Inserm functional imaging laboratory (Unit 678 Inserm/UPMC) and his team have been investigating this phenomenon. The research scientists have shown that during nonrapid eye movement sleep, the brain’s activity is re-organized into networks that communicate less with each other than during wakefulness. The results of this study on brain activity have been published in the PNAS review.
Deep slow sleep is a sleep phase in which our self-awareness and our consciousness of the outside world are considerably reduced. Yet the neurons in our brain are still highly active during this phase. So consciousness is not just associated to brain activity, but rather to its ability to process information. This is the conclusion of the study carried out by the research scientists from the functional imaging laboratory (Inserm/Université Pierre et Marie Curie) of Pitié Salpêtrière, and the Cyclotron research center of Liège.
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wakefulness (on the left) and during nonrapid eye movement sleep
By measuring the quantity of information exchanged between different areas of the brain, the research scientists were able to show that the flow of information in the brain during sleep was different from that observed during wakefulness.
“During sleep, the activity of the brain seems to be organized into a multitude of smaller networks. Inside each network, data exchange is just as active, even more active than during wakefulness, but communication between these networks decreases“, explains Habib Benali, Director of Research at Inserm.
The figure shows that the brain (B) contains different networks (colored circles) that group together several brain areas (small peripheral black dots). The longer the black lines connecting these structures (colored circles and black dots), the more able they are to process information independently. During sleep (situation on the right), the distance between these structures increases, meaning that the information in these small clusters of brain areas is processed on a more local scale.
The research team believes that this is due to a hierarchical reorganization of the flow of information during NREM sleep, since this has been observed repeatedly at several levels in the brain. “We suggest that the modification of the information flows between areas of the brain reduces the brain’s ability to generate a unified representation of the person and the outside World” states Habib Benali.
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The Female Athlete Triad is a medical condition often observed in physically active girls and women, and involves three components: (1) low energy availability with or without disordered eating, (2) menstrual dysfunction and (3) low bone mineral density. Female athletes often present with one or more of the three Triad components, and an early intervention is essential to prevent its progression to serious endpoints that include clinical eating disorders, amenorrhoea and osteoporosis. This consensus statement represents a set of recommendations developed following the 1st (San Francisco, California, USA) and 2nd (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) International Symposia on the Female Athlete Triad. It is intended to provide clinical guidelines for physicians, athletic trainers and other healthcare providers for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of the Female Athlete Triad and to provide clear recommendations for return to play. The 2014 Female Athlete Triad Coalition Consensus Statement on Treatment and Return to Play of the Female Athlete Triad expert panel has proposed a risk stratification point system that takes into account magnitude of risk to assist the physician in decision-making regarding sport participation, clearance and return to play. Guidelines are offered for clearance categories, management by a multidisciplinary team and implementation of treatment contracts. This consensus paper has been endorsed by the Female Athlete Triad Coalition, an International Consortium of leading Triad researchers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
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This consensus statement is the first of its kind and represents a set of recommendations developed following the 1st (San Francisco, California, USA) and 2nd (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) International Consensus Meetings on the Female Athlete Triad (Triad). It is intended to provide clinical guidelines for physicians, athletic trainers and other healthcare providers for the treatment of the Triad and to provide clear recommendations for return to play. The Consensus recommendations herein were developed using a consensus-based approach similar to that utilised by the International Consensus Statement on Concussion.1 This consensus statement will serve as a supplement to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) revised position stand on the Triad published in 2007. The 2007 position stand provided the scientific evidence documenting the existence and causes of the Triad.2 Practical information for athletes, coaches, parents and a list of resources and helpful information on the Triad can be readily viewed on the Female Athlete Triad Coalition website at http://www.femaleathletetriad.org. This consensus paper has been endorsed by The Female Athlete Triad Coalition, an International Consortium of leading Triad researchers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
While agreement exists concerning the primary guidelines and recommendations communicated in this document, the authors acknowledge that the underlying levels of scientific evidence regarding some elements of the Triad, particularly related to treatment strategies, are still evolving. The treatment guidelines and return-to-play recommendations proposed herein are based on the published literature available to date, with consensus from the international team of experts convened at the two meetings. As such, management and return-to-play decisions should be based on informed clinical judgement keeping in mind individual risk factors and concerns as described herein.
Definition of the Female Athlete Triad Model
The Triad is a medical condition often observed in physically active girls and women, and involves any one of the three components: (1) low energy availability (EA) with or without disordered eating (DE), (2) menstrual dysfunction and (3) low bone mineral density (BMD)2 (see figure 1). Female athletes often present with one or more of the three Triad components, and an early intervention is essential to prevent its progression to serious endpoints that include clinical eating disorders (EDs), amenorrhoea and osteoporosis.2
In 1997, the Task Force on Women's Issues of ACSM published the first Triad position stand which described a syndrome of three distinct but inter-related conditions: DE, amenorrhoea and osteoporosis.3 Subsequent cross-sectional studies defined the Triad based on critical endpoints for each of the three Triad components to include ED, amenorrhoea and osteoporosis. The components of the Triad are known to be inter-related since energy deficiency associated with DE plays a causal role in the development of menstrual disturbances,4–6 and an energy deficiency and a hypoestrogenic environment associated with amenorrhoea play a causal role in low BMD.7–10
In studies conducted after the publication of the 1997 Triad position stand, investigators identified negative health consequences of the Triad associated with subclinical/less severe conditions than the aforementioned clinical endpoints. Reports of a high prevalence of subclinical menstrual disturbances, including luteal phase defects and anovulatory cycles, were observed in athletes and recreationally active women.11 ,12 Investigators have documented mild-to-moderate low BMD among athletes with oligomenorrhoea and subclinical menstrual disturbances (ie, anovulation and luteal phase defects).13 ,14 Other investigators have identified that a delay in menarche,15 ,16 a history of oligomenorrhoea and amenorrhoea17–19 and/or low BMD (not just osteoporosis) were significant risk factors for stress fractures and bone stress injury in athletes17 ,18 ,20 and female military recruits.21 ,22 Findings from controlled laboratory studies indicated that low EA caused hormone disruptions characterised by suppressed metabolic and reproductive hormones, suppressed bone formation and increased bone resorption.9 ,23–25 A causal relationship for the induction of menstrual disorders associated with low EA was carefully documented in the literature.5 ,26 ,27 The reversal of amenorrhoea was also demonstrated to be related to EA.5 ,27 Therefore, to better reflect the most recent research, as well as to more comprehensively identify athletes at risk for developing negative health consequences, there was a clear need to revise the 1997 definition of the Triad.
In 2007, the Triad was redefined as a syndrome of low EA with or without DE, functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea (FHA) and osteoporosis.2 EA is defined conceptually and behaviourally as the amount of dietary energy remaining after exercise training for all other physiological functions each day.28 The new Triad model represented each component as the pathological endpoint of one of the three inter-related spectrums ranging from a healthy endpoint to subclinical and clinical conditions.2 At the ‘healthy’ end of the continuum, each Triad component is optimised, that is, EA meets total energy expenditure, reproductive and bone health needs; ovulatory menstrual cycles are maintained and bone mass is normal.2 At the ‘unhealthy’ end of the continuum, each Triad component presents the clinical endpoints of the syndrome, including low EA with or without DE, FHA and osteoporosis.2
The goal in presenting Triad conditions along a spectrum was to highlight the importance of recognising athletes who exhibit subclinical abnormalities and thus allow for early intervention. The panel supports the notion that prevention and early intervention remains the key to avoid the more serious clinical endpoints of the Triad (ie, ED, amenorrhoea or osteoporosis). Furthermore, given the recent focus on subclinical menstrual disturbances and bone-related concerns, the panel agreed that the 2007 presentation of the Triad model as a spectrum is most appropriate and most useful for designing treatment and return-to-play guidelines.
Health consequences associated with the Triad
Why is the Triad harmful to an athlete's health?
Chronic low EA can have significant effects on health and physical performance, particularly when a clinical ED is present.29 Low EA plays a causal role in the induction of exercise-associated menstrual disturbances.5 ,30 Hypoestrogenemia associated with prolonged reproductive suppression can negatively impact musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health.7 ,31 ,32 Low EA can also have negative musculoskeletal effects independent of hypoestrogenism.7 ,8 Bone stress injuries, including the spectrum of stress reactions and stress fractures, are more common in female athletes with menstrual irregularities and/or low BMD,15–20 as well as female military recruits.21 ,22 Bone stress injuries also sideline female athletes and reduce competitive performance. Poorer sport performance has been documented in junior elite swimmers who exhibited ovarian suppression and evidence of energy deficiency when compared with their normally cycling counterparts.33 Other medical complications of Triad disorders can extend to the endocrine, gastrointestinal, renal and neuropsychiatric systems.2 ,34–36 A complete discussion of the health consequences of the Triad is beyond the scope of this paper and can be found elsewhere.2 ,37
Screening, risk stratification and diagnosis of the Triad
What are the best tools to screen for the Triad?
Early detection of athletes at risk is critical to prevent the Triad. Screening for the Triad should be undertaken as part of the Pre-Participation Physical Evaluation (PPE).38–40 The PPE should include questions that address all aspects of the Triad spectrums. The current standard screening PPE form, endorsed jointly by six US medical societies,41 includes nine questions related to the Triad. Likewise, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)-endorsed Periodic Health Examination40 proposes eight questions to screen girls and young women for the Triad.
Although there is limited evidence related to the efficacy of screening questions,42 the Consensus Panel recommended that female athletes undergo annual screening with the Triad-specific self-report questionnaire displayed in box 1, followed by a more in-depth evaluation if the athlete has, or is at risk for, any Triad component. While such screening is most typically completed at the collegiate level, the panel recommended screening for younger athletes (high school age) as well.43 ,44 A major point that the panel emphasised is that existence of any one Triad component should prompt more thorough investigation for the others. Screening and early intervention in adolescent females for components of the Triad are especially important when one considers that 90% of peak bone mass is attained by 18 years of age,45 thereby providing a window of opportunity for optimising bone health.
Triad Consensus Panel Screening Questions*
Have you ever had a menstrual period?
How old were you when you had your first menstrual period?
When was your most recent menstrual period?
How many periods have you had in the past 12 months?
Are you presently taking any female hormones (oestrogen, progesterone, birth control pills)?
Do you worry about your weight?
Are you trying to or has anyone recommended that you gain or lose weight?
Are you on a special diet or do you avoid certain types of foods or food groups?
Have you ever had an eating disorder?
Have you ever had a stress fracture?
Have you ever been told you have low bone density (osteopenia or osteoporosis)?
*The Triad Consensus Panel recommends asking these screening questions at the time of the sport preparticipation evaluation.
What are the most important risk factors to screen for?
The Panel stated that the risk factors that should be assessed for the Triad include: (1) history of menstrual irregularities and amenorrhoea2 ,46; (2) history of stress fractures2 ,46; (3) history of critical comments about eating or weight from parent, coach or teammate47 ,48; (4) a history of depression49–51; (5) a history of dieting51 ,52; (6) personality factors (such as perfectionism and obsessiveness)53–55; (7) pressure to lose weight and/or frequent weight cycling52; (8) early start of sport-specific training52; (9) overtraining52; (10) recurrent and non-healing injuries56 and (11) inappropriate coaching behaviour.52 ,54 Physical examination signs such as low body mass index (BMI), weight loss, orthostatic hypotension, lanugo, hypercarotenaemia, or other signs of an ED, such as parotid gland swelling and callus on the proximal interphalangeal joints (also known as Russell's sign), should also prompt further evaluation. Obtaining an accurate menstrual history is important, starting from age of menarche to the current and the past menstrual patterns, noting months of consecutive missed menses and the number of menses per year since menarche.41 ,57 Evaluation of secondary amenorrhoea in girls can begin after 3 months or more of missed menses.57 A medication history should be obtained, including medications which may affect menstruation and/or BMD, such as oral contraceptive pills or other contraceptive agents, such as depot medroxyprogesterone acetate.58 A history of physician diagnosed bone stress injuries and other fracture history should be noted,41 as well as a family history of ED, osteoporosis59 and/or fractures.
Diagnosis of the Triad
How are Triad conditions diagnosed?
Following screening, accurate diagnosis of any of the Triad disorders is dependent on a thorough evaluation of the athlete by the physician and other members of an experienced multidisciplinary healthcare team. Members of the multidisciplinary team should include a physician, a sports dietitian (a registered dietitian, who preferably is a board certified specialist in sports dietetics)60 ,61and a mental health professional, if the athlete has DE or a clinical ED. Other members of the team may include an exercise physiologist, certified athletic trainer and medical consultants.
The Consensus Panel agreed that essential to the process of screening, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment is the athlete's honesty and willingness to participate in each of these steps. Each member of the multidisciplinary team must develop a therapeutic alliance with the athlete. The process of engagement and active participation in treatment is often ongoing, reflecting the challenges of restoring adequate EA. The panel emphasised that written policies regarding screening, evaluation and treatment of the Triad need to be reviewed with athletes and their parents, and supported by coaches and administrators.
How is low EA diagnosed? The Panel emphasised that low EA cannot be diagnosed by estimating energy balance because athletes who have been in a state of negative energy balance may experience a suppression of physiological functions that restores energy balance and weight stability.2 Weight stability has been reported in amenorrhoeic athletes.62–65 Thus, an athlete could be in a state of energy balance but also in a state of low EA at the same time, and a stable body weight should not be used as an indicator of adequate EA.
As a first pass, overt signs of low EA can be indicated by low energy stores such as a BMI <17.5 kg/m2 or in adolescents <85% of expected body weight. In adolescents, absolute BMI cut-offs should not be used. The BMI percentile method for calculating estimated body weight examines an adolescent's weight in relation to the 50th BMI percentile (which is their expected body weight).66 Deviations for this point are used as an indicator of medical stability to set a target weight and to assess progress in adolescents with DE and ED.66 BMI percentiles adjusted for age and gender are recommended until age 20 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov/growcharts). When body weight is not particularly low, more detailed information regarding food intake and energy expenditure is necessary to diagnose low EA. Other markers of low EA in the absence of DE and recent weight loss that should be explored include physiological signs of adaptation to chronic energy deficiency, such as reduced resting metabolic rate (RMR),4 ,67 low triiodothyronine (low T3)4 ,67 and a ratio of measured RMR/predicted RMR less than 0.90.7 ,68–70
It is important to note that methods for assessing EA, dietary intake and energy expenditure are improving but are imprecise. An experienced sports dietitian or an exercise physiologist can help provide expertise on completing these assessments. A particular index of daily EA is defined as energy intake (kcal) minus exercise energy expenditure (kcals) divided by kilograms of fat-free mass (FFM) or lean body mass.28 This index has been significantly associated with changes in reproductive6 ,24 and metabolic hormone concentrations and markers of bone formation and resorption9 that occur in controlled laboratory experiments where EA is manipulated using varying combinations of reductions in food intake and increases in exercise energy expenditure in women. From these short-term experiments, a threshold below which detrimental physiological changes in reproductive function, metabolism and bone occur has been identified as 30 kcal/kg of FFM/day.6 The Panel noted that outside the laboratory, determination of EA using this index is more difficult and is dependent on less precise measures of exercise energy expenditure, dietary energy intake and body composition (weight and per cent fat). Strategies to estimate dietary intake include 3-day, 4-day and 7-day dietary logs, 24 h dietary recall and food-frequency questionnaires.71 Regardless of the method chosen, accurate assessment of dietary intake can be challenging due to a number of factors such as under-reporting of intake, modified intake during the period of reporting and imprecise recording of portion sizes.71 Ideally, athletes thought to be at risk for nutritional deficiencies should undergo a comprehensive nutrition assessment by a registered sports dietitian.61 Actual estimates of energy expenditure can be accomplished using heart rate monitors and accelerometers,28 but practical estimates of exercise energy expenditure are also available, and are dependent on self-report. There are numerous web-based calculators of exercise energy expenditure; however, the Panel recommends that the 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities be used to calculate exercise energy expenditure, whereby kilocalories of energy expenditure=metabolic equivalent of task × weight in kilograms × duration of activity in hours.72 All methods of estimating energy expenditure have an error associated with them, and any directional bias needs to be considered on an individual basis.73 The third component of the EA equation is kilograms of FFM, which is obtained from measurement of body weight in kilograms, and from an estimate of body fatness. Various methods can be used to estimate body fat. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is a precise method and widely available74; other clinically accessible methods commonly used among athletes include air-displacement plethysmography, skin fold measurements and bioelectrical impedance.75 Having gathered the aforementioned data, one can access the EA Calculator provided on the Female Athlete Triad Coalition website (http://www.femaleathletetriad.org/calculators/) to estimate EA. Ideally, physically active women should aim for at least 45 kcal/kg of FFM/day of energy intake to ensure adequate EA for all physiological functions.2 ,28
How is amenorrhoea diagnosed? The Panel explained that athletes and physically active women presenting with primary or secondary amenorrhoea require evaluation to rule out pregnancy and endocrinopathies since no single blood test can confirm a diagnosis. The diagnosis of FHA in athletes secondary to low EA is a diagnosis of exclusion. An algorithm, modified from the Jameson and De Groot textbook of endocrinology76 for the diagnosis of primary/secondary amenorrhoea can be viewed in figure 2. Endocrinopathies that must be ruled out include (1) thyroid dysfunction, (2) hyperprolactinaemia, (3) primary ovarian insufficiency, (4) hypothalamic and pituitary disorders (genetic or acquired), (5) hyperandrogenic conditions including polycystic ovary syndrome, virilising ovarian tumours, adrenal tumours, non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia and Cushing's syndrome.77 ,78 Outflow tract obstruction is important to rule out in patients with primary amenorrhoea. The most common causes of amenorrhoea are usually identified following a thorough medical history, physical examination, a pregnancy test, as well as evaluation of thyroid stimulating hormone, follicle stimulating hormone and prolactin, to assess for thyroid disease, primary ovarian insufficiency and hyperprolactinaemia. A serum oestradiol and/or a progesterone challenge test (medroxyprogesterone acetate 10 mg for 10 days) may be useful to assess the degree of hypoestrogenism. If there is physical evidence of androgen excess (ie, hirsutism, acne and androgenic alopecia), additional laboratory testing may include total and free testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone and its sulfate (DHEA/S). An early morning 17-hydroxyprogesterone may be obtained in those with hyperandrogenism to assess for non-classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency (the most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia) on initial or follow-up testing. A pelvic ultrasound may be obtained in those with clinical or biochemical hyperandrogenism to confirm polycystic ovaries or to rule out virilising ovarian tumours.77 ,79 The primary care physician should refer to or consult with an endocrinologist for endocrine disorders they are not experienced in diagnosing or treating.
How is low BMD diagnosed? The Panel has utilised the definitions published by the International Society of Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) for low BMD and osteoporosis in children and adolescents (see box 2) and for premenopausal women (see box 3)80 as well as ACSM suggested criteria for female athletes involved in regular weight-bearing sports.2 Criteria are described below for who and what site should be considered for a DXA scan and how often DXA should be performed.
Definition of low bone mineral density (BMD) and osteoporosis in children and adolescents (ages 5–19)
The diagnosis of osteoporosis in children and adolescents requires the presence of both a clinically significant fracture history AND low bone mineral content (BMC) or low BMD
A clinically significant fracture history is one or more of the following:
Long bone fracture of the lower extremities.
Vertebral compression fracture.
Two or more long-bone fractures of the upper extremities.
Low BMC or BMD* is defined as a BMC or areal BMD Z-score that is ≤−2.0, adjusted for age, gender and body size, as appropriate.
Source: Lewiecki et al.80
*American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) defines low BMC or BMD as a Z-score that is less than −1.0 in female athletes in weight-bearing sports.2
Who should get DXA scans for BMD testing
The Panel agreed that indications for obtaining a DXA scan for BMD testing in an athlete should follow the Triad risk stratification (see Clearance and return to play section) and include the following:
≥1 ‘High risk’ Triad risk factor:
History of a DSM-V diagnosed ED81
BMI ≤17.5 kg/m2, <85% estimated weight, OR recent weight loss of ≥10% in 1 month
Menarche ≥16 years of age
Current or history of <6 menses over 12 months
Prior Z-score of <–2.0 (after at least 1 year from baseline DXA)
≥ 2 “Moderate risk” Triad risk factors:
Current or history of DE for 6 months or greater
BMI between 17.5 and 18.5, <90% estimated weight, OR recent weight loss of 5–10% in 1 month
Menarche between ages 15 and 16 years
Current or history of 6–8 menses over 12 months
One prior stress reaction/fracture
Prior Z-score between –1.0 and –2.0 (after at least 1 year interval from baseline DXA)
In addition, an athlete with a history of ≥1 non-peripheral or ≥2 peripheral long bone traumatic fractures (non-stress) should be considered for DXA testing if there are one or more moderate or high-risk Triad risk factors (see figure 3). This will depend on the likelihood of fracture given the magnitude of the trauma (low or high impact) and age at which the fracture occurred. Athletes on medications for 6 months or greater that may impact bone (such as depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, oral prednisone and others),84 should also be considered for DXA testing.
How often should athletes get DXA testing
The Panel agreed that the frequency of BMD assessment by DXA will depend on the initial BMD and ongoing clinical status of the athlete. We agree with the ISCD 2013 guidelines that repeat DXA screening should be obtained when the expected change in BMD Z-scores equals or exceeds the least significant change.85 Those with definitive indications for DXA testing may require BMD testing every 1–2 years to determine whether there is ongoing bone loss, and to evaluate treatment.
Which sites should be screened with a DXA scan
BMD Z-scores (and not T-scores) should be reported for all children, adolescents and premenopausal women.
Adult women ≥20 years
Weight-bearing sites (posteroanterior spine, total hip, femoral neck)
Non-weight-bearing sites, namely the radius (33%) if weight-bearing sites cannot be assessed for any reason
Children, adolescents and young women <20 years
Posteroanterior lumbar spine bone mineral content (BMC) and areal BMD
Whole body less head if possible (otherwise whole body) BMC and areal BMD80
Adjust for growth delay (with height or height age) or maturational delay (with bone age)
Use paediatric reference data, and when possible, report height-adjusted Z-scores.86
Non-pharmacological treatment guidelines for the clinical sequelae associated with the Triad
What evidence exists in support of non-pharmacological treatment strategies?
Documentation of weight gain and restoration of menstrual function following amenorrhoea has been provided by Kopp-Woodroffe et al87 and Dueck et al88 in case studies, in a retrospective analysis of female athletes following a clinical intervention89 and in experiments in female cynomolgus monkeys.5 Studies in anorexic women demonstrate the efficacy of weight gain (and fat mass) for restoration of menses.90–93 In case studies of five amenorrhoeic athletes and recreationally active women in whom energy intake was increased via consumption of a sport nutrition beverage (approximately 360 kcal/day) and exercise training was reduced by 1 day/week for 12–20 weeks, weight gain of 1–3 kg was observed and three of the five women resumed menses.87 ,88 In a 1-year prospective case study of two amenorrhoeic athletes undergoing controlled increased energy intake, recovery of menses coincided closely with increases in caloric intake and weight gain; body weight increased by 2.8 kg (5%) and 4.2 kg (8%) at 12 months in the two participants.94 In a 5-year retrospective study of college athletes undergoing non-pharmacological therapy, Arends et al89 reported a significant increase in weight of 9% (mean weight gain: 5.3±1.1 kg) in the 17.6% oligomenorrhoeic or amenorrhoeic athletes who resumed menstrual function (mean time to recovery: 15.6±2.6 months) versus minimal weight gain (weight gain of 1.3±1.1 kg) in those who did not resume menses. Causal evidence of the efficacy of increased energy intake to reverse menstrual disturbances was provided by Williams et al5 in female cynomolgus monkeys who demonstrated that restoration of menses was accompanied by an average weight gain of 5.7%.
Weight gain that leads to recovery of menstrual function is linked to improvement of other clinical outcomes characteristic of exercise-associated amenorrhoea including low BMD90 ,95 ,96 and impaired endothelial function.97 More research is necessary to establish the time course of weight changes and the sensitivity, specificity and success of nutritional and dietary interventions.
What are the components of non-pharmacological treatment for each Triad condition?
Owing to the multifactorial aetiology of the Triad, the Panel has established that an optimal treatment approach must address the underlying cause of the Triad, that is, low EA.2 Energy status must be normalised primarily through modifications of diet and exercise training, if necessary, with the goal of increasing EA.2 ,29 The consensus of our recommendations is focused on restoration or normalisation of body weight as the best strategy for successful resumption of menses and improved bone health.2 ,89 ,90 ,96 ,98 The Panel notes that the development of any Triad treatment plan should include a consideration of the goals of the athlete, her unique diet and training practices, any coexisting conditions and a system for monitoring changes.
Specific non-pharmacological recommendations for interventions in athletes with low EA
Specific treatment recommendations developed by the Panel depend on identifying how low EA developed in the athlete. There may be four unique pathways to low EA, and as such, four unique treatment recommendations.
If the cause of low EA is inadvertent undereating, then referral for nutritional education is sufficient. Nutritional education should ideally include a sports dietitian. An exercise physiologist can also complete an assessment of energy expenditure and EA.
If the cause for low EA is DE, the referral should be to a physician and for nutritional counselling with a sports dietitian.
If the cause for low EA is intentional weight loss without DE, then referral for nutritional education is sufficient.
If the cause for low EA involves clinical ED, treatment should include evaluation and management with a physician, nutritional counselling with a sports dietitian and referral to a mental health practitioner for psychological treatment.2 ,99 In this case, the reversal of low EA will not be possible without psychological treatment.2 ,99–102
In general, the primary goal of treatment is to restore or normalise body weight, concomitant with an improvement in overall nutritional and energetic status.2 ,103 ,104 When DE is apparent, the Panel emphasised that the treatment plan in these athletes must focus on the modification of unhealthy attitudes, behaviours and emotions related to food and body image that may perpetuate the DE.101 ,103 ,104 Weight gain is a primary concern for athletes with FHA who are underweight and it is important to emphasise that the amount of weight gain that typically leads to resumption of menses is variable among individuals.87 ,88 ,94 In studies thus far, a range of approximately 5–10% of body weight or 1–4 kg of weight gain has been observed.87 ,88 ,94 This weight gain is often comprised of gains in fat mass in anorexic women,91–93 but in exercising women without clinical ED, gains in FFM have also been observed.87 ,94
Treatment targets for low EA
The Panel identified that targets of treatment are varied and depend on individual circumstances. Specific treatment targets may include one or more of the following:
Reversal of recent weight loss105;
Return to a body weight associated with normal menses90–94;
Since the treatment goal is to restore or normalise body weight, the Panel recommended an increase in dietary energy intake, a decrease in exercise energy expenditure, or both. Recommendations should consider individual preferences and may depend on where the athlete is in the competitive season (reductions in training volume may not be feasible in season; acceptance of reductions in training volume may be better received vs increased energy intake). Prescribed changes in energy intake to achieve an increased BMI and/or body weight goal should be gradual, beginning with an approximately 20–30% increase in caloric intake over baseline energy needs, or the amount of energy required to gain approximately 0.5 kg every 7–10 days.87 ,88 ,94 For an athlete consuming 2000 kcal/day, this would represent a gradual increase of 200–600 kcal/day, accomplished over several months. If EA (intake kcal−exercise kcal)/kg of FFM can be reliably estimated, the target should be at or greater than 45 kcal/kg of FFM. Specific strategies that have been successful in female athletes have been detailed in case study investigations.87 ,88 ,94
Steps in a plan to increase EA
Step 1: Perform an assessment of baseline energy needs that includes a thorough body weight history including questions about associated changes in menstrual status. Energy intake can be assessed using diet logs and dietary analysis programmes. Energy expenditure can be estimated by measuring or estimating RMR and exercise energy expenditure. RMR can be estimated using one of the several algorithms,109–111 and multiplying by an activity factor112 ,113 will account for exercise energy expenditure, thereby providing an estimate of total energy expenditure needs.
Step 2: Using the appropriate target for EA, meal plans should be developed that incorporate a variety of factors. Specifically, diet quality, diet variety, food preferences and practical aspects of food availability should be considered. Goals would include achieving an adequate balance of macronutrients and appropriate intake of micronutrients, particularly calcium, vitamin D, iron, zinc and vitamin K. Whenever possible, the recommendation should be to increase intake of real foods versus dietary or meal supplements. Dietary recommendations should include incorporation of energy and nutrient-dense foods such as fortified milk drinks and essential fatty acids in the form of fish, healthy oils, nuts avocados and dried fruit. If there is a possibility of gastrointestinal discomfort with high caloric loads, small and frequent meals should be consumed throughout the day, with timing dependent on practice and competition. Particular attention should be paid to identifying times across the day where dietary energy intake may be particularly low.114 Adjustments in dietary strategies for increasing EA should also take into account changes across the season in accordance with competition schedules.
A successful treatment plan requires standardised periodic monitoring of body weight. Athletes should be weighed on the same scale, wearing minimal clothing, such as shorts and a t-shirt, to reduce the likelihood of falsifying their weight.115 The frequency of weight monitoring depends on the degree to which weight determines health and eligibility to participate in sport. A reasonable frequency is weekly when initiating a treatment programme.
Specific recommendations that target ED
The goals of treatment for exercising women with ED is to normalise pathological eating behaviours, reduce dieting attempts and alter negative emotions and beliefs associated with food and body image.116 Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment approach for exercising women with ED117–119 and may be more beneficial than nutritional counselling alone in some women with amenorrhoea particularly if DE behaviour is present.120 CBT may assist women with DE behaviours and body image disturbances to comply with an increased energy intake prescription and associated weight gain.
Specific recommendations that target low BMD
In exercising women with low BMD, the Panel recommendations include increasing EA and optimising weight gain and resumption of menses.121 Calcium and vitamin D status should be addressed.
The aetiology of bone loss among amenorrhoeic women includes energy deficiency-related factors and oestrogen deficiency.7 ,9 ,122 Thus, weight gain and subsequent resumption of menses are key to prevent further loss of bone mass.90 ,95 It is estimated that amenorrhoeic women will lose approximately 2–3% of bone mass per year if the condition remains untreated.90 ,95 ,96 Data on recovery of bone mass in amenorrhoeic athletes secondary to increased energy intake are limited. However, significant improvements in bone health outcomes were observed in case studies of amenorrhoeic female athletes who gained weight.105 ,106 In studies of anorexic women, investigators provide evidence of increases in BMD (1–10%) associated with weight gain and resumption of menses,90 ,95 ,123 ,124 whereas, continual decreases in BMD were observed in those who did not recover menses.90 ,95 Miller et al95 reported that resumption of menses occurred in 75 anorexic women who gained 4 kg of body mass, on an average, and the combined effects of weight gain and resumption of menses contributed to significant improvements in lumbar spine (3.1%) and hip BMD (1.8%). Misra et al90 demonstrated that menstrual recovery and weight gain attenuated further decreases in BMD in 34 anorexic girls aged 12–18 years over a 12-month period of time. In other prospective studies, similar findings are reported.124 ,125
In a retrospective study by Arends et al,89 percentage weight gain was identified as the strongest predictor of resumption of menses in female collegiate athletes, and may also be a predictor of gains in BMD. Findings from case reports105 ,106 and retrospective analyses89 published to date demonstrate that weight gain can lead to substantial increases in BMD in an energy replete environment. Prospective, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are necessary in large samples of exercising women with amenorrhoea and low BMD to confirm the beneficial effects of increased body weight accomplished by increased energy intake on BMD.
Furthermore, substantial evidence exists in support of the positive effect of weight gain alone on BMD. Weight gain independent of resumption of menses has been shown to have a positive effect on BMD, and to restore the coupling of bone formation and resorption.90 ,124–127 However, in spite of some recovery of bone mass, normalisation of BMD is unlikely to occur with weight gain alone. From a treatment standpoint, energy and oestrogen-dependent mechanisms of bone loss must be addressed in order to promote optimal increases in BMD. In summary, nutritional and hormonal recovery is recommended to improve mineralisation of trabecular bone and the growth of cortical bone.90 ,95 ,128
Weight-bearing exercise is a primary non-pharmacological strategy for increasing and maintaining BMD and geometry across the lifespan.129 Bone tissue is highly responsive to dynamic and high-magnitude loading,130 high-impact loading131–135 and resistance training.136 ,137 Experiments in animals provide evidence of the positive effect of mechanical loading for optimising bone formation.138 ,139 In a recent meta-analysis (n=521; 7 studies—randomised controlled exercise trials ≥24 weeks) of the effects of exercise on BMD in premenopausal women,140 significant improvements in femoral neck and lumbar spine BMD were observed following weight-bearing exercise training. This finding highlights the utility of exercise (aerobic, strength and/or high impact) for improving BMD at weight-bearing sites in premenopausal women. Specifically, programmes with a combination of high-impact loading and resistance training represent effective methods of optimising bone in the premenopausal years.141 Notably, in studies of the effect of high-impact loading or resistance training alone on BMD, investigators demonstrate mixed results.141 ,142 The majority of weight-bearing exercise interventions involved 2 or 3 days of training per week.141 For a review of the effects of exercise and bone, the reader is referred to the ACSM Position Stand on Bone Health and Exercise.143
To date, prospective studies are lacking wherein investigators explore the impact of resistance training and high-magnitude loading on the bone health of amenorrhoeic athletes. However, lean mass has been reported to be a strong predictor of hip BMD among anorexic adolescents144 and also adolescent athletes and non-athletes.145 In agreement with these results, a longitudinal study assessing skeletal recovery in anorexic women over the course of 6–69 months demonstrated that per cent change in FFM was a significant positive predictor of the change in hip and lumbar spine BMD and, furthermore, was a stronger predictor of BMD change than the change in fat mass or body weight.95 These results suggest that increases in lean mass may be an important component of weight recovery, and, as such, the lean mass gained through resistance training may be beneficial for BMD in amenorrhoeic athletes. Increases in lean mass may also be beneficial for increasing bone size,146 thus improving bone strength and decreasing the risk of fracture, and improving athletic performance.
The Panel expressed concerns that high-impact activity in females with low BMD (±fractures) may in fact result in fracture.147 Further studies are necessary to determine the impact of combined weight-bearing programmes on BMD and fracture risk in athletes with low BMD. There is also the notion that oestrogen may be permissive for the osteogenic effects of mechanical loading,148 as data have demonstrated poor osteogenic benefits of mechanical loading in chronically amenorrhoeic athletes.128 ,149 ,150
What is the recommended time course of non-pharmacological treatment (including follow-up)?
Treatment of the Triad conditions by increasing EA will result in recovery of physiological systems at different rates. Notably, the time to resumption of menses may vary among exercising women and is dependent on the severity of the energy deficiency and duration of menstrual dysfunction.89 ,90 ,94 An increase in EA can positively alter metabolic hormone profiles within days to weeks, with concomitant changes in body weight occurring over weeks and months. Weight gain has been observed as a clinically positive outcome associated with resumption of menses and enhanced bone health in exercising women.87 ,90 ,95 ,105 ,106 The recovery of menstrual function with strategies to increase EA can occur within several months94 but may take longer than 1 year.89 Improvements in BMD will occur more slowly, often over several years. Whether or not BMD can be restored to levels appropriate for age and training status remains unclear.151–153 A schematic of the time course of recovery of Triad factors is displayed in figure 3.
Summary comments regarding non-pharmacological treatment
Overall, successful treatment of athletes and exercising women is contingent on a multidisciplinary approach for recovery from the Triad,2 ,154 including a primary care and/or sports medicine physician, a sports dietitian and mental health practitioner. Depending on the individual situation, consultation from an endocrinologist, orthopaedic surgeon, psychiatrist, exercise physiologist, certified athletic trainer, family members and/or team coach (if applicable) may be helpful. This treatment approach is based on trusting and respectful interactions between healthcare providers and affected individuals. Consideration of the effects of treatment goals on health status, athletic performance and personal identity/lifestyle is necessary to ensure treatment compliance and post-treatment adherence by affected female athletes and exercising women.
Pharmacological treatment strategies for the clinical sequelae of the Triad
Non-pharmacological measures should constitute initial management in female athletes with the Triad. For treatment of osteoporosis and/or in those athletes with multiple fracture history, the panel emphasised that pharmacological management is to be considered if there is a lack of response to non-pharmacological therapy for at least 1 year and if new fractures occur during non-pharmacological management. Pharmacological management may also be necessary in the psychological treatment of ED and DE, especially if there are significant comorbid conditions.
Low energy availability, disordered eating and eating disorders
The Panel emphasised that low EA indicates that there is a problem, but does not differentiate between transient energy imbalance, DE and clinically significant ED. Individuals who have unintentional low EA or mild DE may respond well to nutritional education designed to eliminate low EA. Individuals with significant DE may benefit from counselling with a mental health practitioner, in addition to nutritional education. In contrast, individuals who have an ED require intensive interdisciplinary attention and treatment. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of ED recommend a multidisciplinary team approach to treatment including a physician, mental health provider and sports dietitian.155 Results of small randomised trials involving treatment approaches that include mindfulness training, dialectical behaviour therapy and other therapeutic approaches are emerging.156 ,157 Antidepressant medications, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, can be helpful in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.158 The APA Practice Guidelines describe limited evidence to use medications to restore weight, prevent relapse or treat chronic anorexia nervosa. Other psychotropic medications can be beneficial in treating comorbid conditions, such as anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive behaviour.155
One of the challenges in addressing low EA is that it may be difficult to identify which individuals have an ED that requires more comprehensive treatment. This can be amplified by denial that there is a problem and minimisation of the difficulty in changing behaviours, which are common themes for individuals with ED. The team physician should work closely with the multidisciplinary team to determine the best treatment approach for an individual athlete. Readers are referred to the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed (DSM-V) for full diagnostic criteria of ED.81
Pharmacological strategies that target menstrual dysfunction are mostly experimental, as are strategies to optimise bone accrual in the adolescent athlete and to optimise BMD in adult athletes and exercising women, defined as at least 20 years old.
When considering pharmacological strategies to address amenorrhoea and hypoestrogenemia in athletes and exercising women, the Panel emphasised that it is essential to reiterate that combined oral or non-oral routes of contraceptive therapy do not restore spontaneous menses; indeed, contraceptive therapy simply creates an exogenous ovarian steroid environment that often provides a false sense of security when induced withdrawal bleeding occurs.159 Moreover, combined oral contraceptive (COC) therapy is not consistently associated with improved BMD in amenorrhoeic athletes160–162 and may in fact further compromise bone health given first-pass effects on hepatic production of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), an important bone trophic hormone 163–165 (details in ‘Replacement of gonadal steroids’ section). Therefore, the Panel emphasises that non-pharmacological treatment strategies should be prioritised, particularly focusing on achieving resumption of menses,95 ,106 given the importance of menses and normal oestrogen status to bone health.8 ,29 ,128 ,145 ,166
Consequences of hypogonadism (FHA) in athletes for which pharmacological treatment should be considered include:
Symptoms of oestrogen deficiency, such as vaginal dryness and dyspareunia;
Impaired bone health (despite implementation of non-pharmacological therapy).
On the basis of the aetiopathogenesis of the Triad and the specific consequence of associated hypogonadism that requires treatment, several possible pharmacological strategies may be considered if non-pharmacological management is unsuccessful. This paper will address pharmacological options more specific to the consequence of impaired bone health.
Replacement of gonadal steroids
The major gonadal steroids include oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone, all of which are low in the amenorrhoeic athlete.
Oestrogen replacement: Overall, investigators have shown that oral oestrogen–progesterone combination pills are not an effective strategy to increase BMD in low-weight conditions such as anorexia nervosa (in adults and adolescents).167 ,168 Studies of COCs or hormone therapy in athletes with FHA are less definitive.169 Available studies in women with FHA include retrospective,170 ,171 prospective172–174 and cohort studies175 ,176; however, very few RCTs have been performed.160–162 ,177 In addition, most of these studies in women with FHA did not specifically target exercising women with FHA.
Pharmacological treatment that aims to restore regular menstrual cycles with COC does not normalise metabolic factors impairing bone health and will therefore likely not result in reversal of low BMD in the athlete with Triad disorders.2 ,159 ,172 The lack of efficacy of oral oestrogen in improving BMD in conditions of low-weight and possibly normal-weight exercise-induced amenorrhoea has been attributed to the suppressive effects of oral oestrogen on hepatic IGF-1 production.163 ,164 ,173 IGF-1 is a bone trophic factor that is secreted by the liver in response to growth hormone and is also produced locally in an autocrine manner by target tissues such as bone.178 It is speculated that the first-pass effect of exogenous oestrogen through the liver suppresses IGF-1 production and upregulates the synthesis of binding proteins, such as IGFBP-1, which bind to IGF-1, further reducing its bioavailability.163 Given the low endogenous concentration of IGF-1 in amenorrhoeic athletes,145 a further reduction in IGF-1 levels secondary to the administration of oral oestrogen likely limits the beneficial antiresorptive effects of oestrogen.179 In addition, the type and dose of oestrogen have been implicated in the lack of efficacy of oral oestrogen in increasing BMD in energy-deficient states.168 As is stated in the 2007 ACSM Female Athlete Triad Position Stand, however, for women with FHA, increases in BMD are more closely associated with increases in weight than with COC administration,2 ,161 so these treatments likely need to be implemented in combination with non-pharmacological treatment to optimise the effectiveness.161
Transdermal oestradiol administration when given in replacement doses does not suppress IGF-1164 ,180–182 and therefore warrants further investigation as an alternative to COC therapy in the amenorrhoeic female athlete with the Triad. In a RCT in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa, transdermal oestradiol administered at doses of 100 μg twice weekly, along with cyclic progesterone (2.5 mg daily for 10 days of every month to prevent unopposed oestrogen stimulation of the uterus), increased their BMD without a reduction in IGF-1 levels.180 Bone accrual rates in girls with anorexia nervosa who received transdermal oestradiol approximated that in normal-weight controls after controlling for weight changes, and BMD Z-scores were maintained.180 However, bone accrual needs to exceed that in controls for ‘catch-up’ to occur and for BMD Z-scores to normalise to >–1.0. Likely because other hormonal alterations persist, catch-up does not always occur, as was shown in the same study.180 Although there are no published data regarding use of transdermal oestradiol in FHA, RCT studies are ongoing to address this possible treatment strategy, and further study is warranted.
Vaginal oestradiol administration also circumvents hepatic first-pass metabolism, and a vaginal oestrogen–progesterone combination contraceptive ring is now available. However, data regarding the impact of this form of oestrogen administration on BMD are conflicting with one study suggesting maintenance of BMD, and another suggesting that it may be deleterious to bone compared with no treatment in premenopausal women.183 ,184 Thus further research on vaginally applied oestrogen is necessary.
Data are limited regarding the impact of pharmacological therapies on muscle perfusion, although one study reported an improvement in endothelial dysfunction with use of COC therapy.185
Testosterone replacement: The other gonadal hormone that is low in conditions of low weight and in amenorrhoeic athletes and exercising women is testosterone, which has antiresorptive effects (direct and oestrogen mediated)186 ,187 and also bone anabolic effects.187 ,188 There are no data available on testosterone administration in amenorrhoeic athletes and exercising women. However, a recent study in adult women with anorexia nervosa demonstrated no improvement in BMD with low-dose testosterone administration, despite increases in lean mass and initial increases in surrogate markers of bone formation.189
Normalising gonadotropin pulsatility and secretion
As stated earlier, the Panel contends that increasing EA through nutritional intervention is the best strategy for normalising gonadotropin pulsatility and secretion. From a pharmacological perspective, experimental strategies include administering hormones that are low in Triad conditions and that mechanistically can contribute to amenorrhoea and to low BMD, such as leptin and IGF-1, or administering antagonists of hormones that are high in Triad conditions and can contribute mechanistically to amenorrhoea and low BMD, such as ghrelin, peptide YY (PYY) and adiponectin.
Leptin: Few studies have examined the impact of administering metreleptin to women with FHA.190–192 Although metreleptin improved ovulatory status and increased BMC in women with FHA, the women sustained significant weight loss and reductions in fat mass, even when doses of the drug were carefully titrated.190–192 These data are concerning and suggest that leptin administration is not a good therapeutic strategy to normalise gonadotropin secretion and increase BMD in energy-deficient states, as in amenorrhoeic athletes and exercising women.
IGF-1 replacement: An important contributor to low BMD in amenorrhoeic athletes and exercising women is low IGF-1, particularly in those who are low weight. In adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa, administering recombinant human IGF-1 (rhIGF-1) increases the levels of surrogate bone formation markers,193 ,194 and in one RCT in adult women with anorexia nervosa, giving rhIGF-1 (a bone anabolic hormone) with oral oestrogen (antiresorptive) led to a 2.8% significant increase in BMD when compared with the group that received neither.194 Data are lacking regarding the efficacy of rhIGF-1 administered alone or with oestrogen in improving bone health in exercise-induced amenorrhoea.
Other hormones: Although in vitro studies and studies in rodents have demonstrated that high ghrelin, PYY and adiponectin inhibit gonadotropin secretion,195–197 and high PYY and adiponectin are deleterious to bone,197–200 there are no data in animals or humans examining the impact of antagonists to these hormones on gonadotropin secretion and bone metabolism. In addition, a ghrelin antagonist runs the risk of eliminating the adaptive increase of an orexigenic stimulus, namely ghrelin, in this energy-deficient state.
Bone mineral density
Data are lacking regarding the efficacy of pharmacotherapy in treating low BMD with or without a fracture history in female athletes. While pharmacological therapy is recommended in postmenopausal women and men ≥ age 50 years201 with osteoporosis, the threshold for pharmacological treatment in the young female athlete with low BMD, stress fractures and/or impaired bone accrual is less clear.
It should be noted that the bones of amenorrhoeic and eumenorrhoeic athletes are subject to greater stress and strain secondary to specific athletic activities than that experienced by bones in non-athletes.202 Indeed, weight-bearing athletes should have higher BMD and other proxy indicators of bone strength secondary to chronic mechanical loading when compared with non-athletes.128 ,130 ,203 The 2007 ACSM Position Stand on the Triad thus suggested that BMD Z-scores of <−1.0 in athletes involved in repetitive or high-impact stress may be low enough to increase fracture risk, especially in those with additional risk factors for the Triad.2 In addition, athletes with Triad risk factors who sustain bone stress injuries may have a delay in return to sport.18 However, it is still not clear whether pharmacotherapy is beneficial in athletes with low BMD in the absence of a fracture history, and more importantly, whether or not treatment in this population prevents fractures and/or improves healing time and recovery in those who have sustained bone stress injuries.
Furthermore, some girls and women may have a genetically determined low peak bone mass, or may have had previous insults to the skeleton (such as poor nutrition and FHA) that have since resolved. In these cases, BMD may have stabilised, in contrast to a female athlete with ongoing low EA and amenorrhoea, who may have continued decreases in BMD, which could increase vulnerability to bone stress injury and fracture. Serial DXA measurements may be helpful in making this determination. There are currently no guidelines regarding the timing of initiation of pharmacological treatment in young female athletes with established osteoporosis or for DXA assessment and follow-up (boxes 2. and 3).
Definition of low bone mineral density (BMD) and osteoporosis in premenopausal women
The diagnosis of osteoporosis in premenopausal women cannot be diagnosed on the basis of BMD alone.
A BMD Z-score of ≤−2.0* is defined as ‘below the expected range for age’.
A BMD Z-score above −2.0 is ‘within the expected range for age’.
Osteoporosis is diagnosed if there is a BMD Z-score of ≤−2.0 plus secondary causes of osteoporosis.
Source: Lewiecki et al.80
*American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) defines low bone mineral content or BMD as a Z-score that is less than −1.0 in female athletes in weight-bearing sports.2
The Panel has concluded that the decision to treat or not with pharmacological therapies does not depend on BMD Z-scores alone, but also on additional risk factors such as fracture history, genetics,204 cumulative Triad risk factors, which have been associated with an increased risk for low BMD and bone stress injury, and rate of bone loss with non-pharmacological management.17 ,46 The Panel suggests that the nature of athletic activity, response to non-pharmacological management as demonstrated by return of menses and/or as noted on serial DXA assessments,2 severity of the medical situation, fracture history and genetic predisposition should all play a role in the decision to treat with pharmacological therapy.
The Panel emphasised caution when considering FDA-approved postmenopausal treatment strategies for use in premenopausal women and children including Triad athletes and exercising women. Bisphosphonates have a very long half-life, and should be used with extreme caution in women of childbearing age for concerns of teratogenicity,205 ,206 although data to date are reassuring. The decision to initiate treatment with bisphosphonates in any premenopausal woman should be made on a case-by-case basis. Consideration should include individual fracture risk and potential medication-related adverse effects. There is concern regarding long-term use of bisphosphonates and the association with atypical femur fractures207 ,208 and osteonecrosis of the jaw.209 In addition, there are no published studies of bisphosphonate use in exercising and athletic women with Triad disorders. In one study in adult women with anorexia nervosa, bisphosphonate therapy (specifically risedronate) increased lumbar spine BMD compared with placebo189; however, a study in adolescent women with anorexia nervosa demonstrated no increase in spine BMD with alendronate given for a year.210 Bisphosphonates act by inhibiting bone resorption, and the differential effect of bisphosphonates in adults versus adolescents may relate to increased bone resorption in adults compared with a reduction in bone resorption in adolescents.211 There are a few special considerations for using bisphosphonates in the younger population, such as glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and osteogenesis imperfecta212–214 The Panel emphasised that any use of bisphosphonate therapy in young women with the Triad should only be executed by or in consultation with a board-certified endocrinologist or specialist in metabolic bone diseases. “It must be emphasized that the aforementioned pharmacological therapies are not currently approved by the FDA for increasing BMD or for fracture reduction in young or adult athletes.”189 ,215
To date, there are no published studies of denosumab or teriparatide use in girls and women with Triad disorders. A preliminary report in older women with anorexia nervosa demonstrated that treatment with teriparatide for 6 months increased bone formation (158%) and lumbar spine BMD (anteroposterior spine 6% and lateral spine 10.5%) compared with placebo.216 There is also a case study that suggests that 4 weeks of teriparatide was associated with bone healing, reduced pain and resumption of normal activities in two premenopausal women with stress fractures.217
Pharmacological treatment considerations
Which athletes and exercising women should be targeted for pharmacological therapy?
The Panel emphasised that non-pharmacological therapy is the mainstay of treatment for all athletes with one or more components of the Triad.
The Panel concluded that there is no evidence at this time to unequivocally recommend pharmacological therapy in athletes with the Female Athlete Triad disorders due to lack of evidence-based research in this population. The Panel discussed that lack of response to non-pharmacological management (see definition below) may present a situation in which pharmacological therapy would be considered in an athlete with low BMD and a clinically significant fracture history. ‘Pharmacological medications other than oestrogen and progesterone are not recommended in the absence of a fracture history’.
Pharmacological therapy may be considered in an athlete with:
BMD Z-scores between −1.0 and −2.0 with a clinically significant fracture history (boxes 2 and 3) and ≥2 additional Triad risk factors1,7 ,46 (figure 4) AND lack of response to at least a year of non-pharmacological therapy.
Transdermal oestradiol replacement with cyclic progesterone may be considered in young athletes ≥16 and <21 years of age with FHA to prevent further bone loss during this critical window of optimal bone accrual if they have
BMD Z-scores ≤–2.0 without a clinically significant fracture history (boxes 2 and 3; figure 4) and at least one additional Triad risk factor17 ,45 (in addition to FHA; figure 4) AND lack of response to at least 1 year of non-pharmacological therapy.
Lack of response to therapy has been defined as
A clinically significant reduction in BMD Z-scores after at least 1 year of non-pharmacological therapy, or
Occurrence of new clinically significant fractures during non-pharmacological treatment over the course of 1 year.
Further research is warranted to assess the outcomes of pharmacological management and potential risks in this population. Although stress fractures are generally believed to be less concerning than non-stress fractures, they are a common and frequent cause of morbidity, time away from training and competition in athletes and loss of school and work days. In certain instances, these stress fractures can progress to devastating complete fractures at high-risk sites, such as the femoral neck,218 ,219 with consequences that can result in surgery and negatively affect exercise activity and quality of life. Of note, prolonged non-pharmacological management despite lack of response is of concern in younger athletes who are in the process of accruing peak bone mass, because the adolescent and young adult years are a critical window in time during which to optimise bone accrual,149 ,220 and deficits incurred at this time may be irreversible.152
As stated, there are no current treatments approved by the FDA for this specific population.215 Further research on pharmacological treatment alternatives is needed in this higher risk group of athletes with low BMD and a fracture history, as well as those with low BMD without a fracture history.
What therapy can we offer?
Increasing EA and optimising energy status
The Panel unanimously agreed that all athletes and exercising women, particularly those who are considered candidates for pharmacological therapy, should be counselled regarding lifestyle and behavioural changes to increase EA and optimise energy status.
Non-pharmacological management should continue, even if pharmacological therapy is prescribed.
Calcium and vitamin D
Calcium-rich foods should be recommended with optimal calcium intake between 1000 and 1300 mg/day.221
Vitamin D status should be optimised. Daily intake of 600 IU of vitamin D is recommended by the Institute of Medicine for adolescents and adults up to age 70.221 Higher doses may be needed if they are deficient or insufficient in vitamin D. The panel recommended that vitamin D levels be maintained between 32 and 50 ng/mL.222
Oestrogen administration in female athletes with FHA or prolonged oligomenorrhoea who have failed non-pharmacological management
In athletes and exercising women with FHA and prolonged amenorrhoea of hypothalamic origin who meet criteria for pharmacological therapy, a reasonable option is oestrogen administration with cyclic progesterone after ruling out other causes of amenorrhoea. It is also essential to consider contraceptive needs of the athlete. Before starting therapy, a thorough history and examination should be conducted to rule out contraindications for oestrogen therapy.
COC therapy containing 20–35 μg of ethinyl oestradiol may maintain BMD in those with very low BMD measures, although data are not definitive.168 ,172 Most of the studies in adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa and in amenorrhoeic athletes suggest that COC therapies are not effective in increasing BMD161 ,162 ,167 ,168 or in reducing stress fractures,161 although they are effective for contraceptive needs when used in recommended doses.
Transdermal oestradiol (100 μg of 17β oestradiol) with cyclic progesterone maintains BMD Z-scores in adolescents with anorexia nervosa,180 and is a consideration for low-weight, amenorrhoeic athletes who meet criteria for pharmacological intervention. Athletes who are symptomatic with this dose for oestrogen-related side effects such as nausea, bloating and breast tenderness may be started on a lower dose of the transdermal patch (50 μg) and the dose increased to 100 μg after 1 month.
Cyclic progesterone is necessary in those on transdermal oestradiol to avoid deleterious effects of unopposed oestrogen on the uterine lining, and we recommend 200 mg of micronised progesterone or 5–10 mg of medroxy progesterone acetate for 12 days of every month.223 ,224
Of importance, the combination of transdermal oestradiol and cyclic oral progesterone in the described doses has unproven contraceptive efficacy, and other contraceptive methods are necessary if contraception is desired.
If oestrogen replacement is considered in an athlete with a known or family history of thrombophilic disorders, we recommend consulting with a haematologist to assess whether tailoring the oestrogen dose, route and regimen to minimise risk is an option, with full written informed consent of the patient.225 If oestrogen replacement is instituted, management should include ongoing follow-up with a haematologist.
Testosterone, DHEA, leptin or rhIGF-1 replacement is not recommended at this time in athletes who meet criteria for pharmacological therapy, due to lack of studies in the female athlete population and potential adverse effects.
When should pharmacological options other than oestrogen be considered as options for treatment?
Pharmacological options other than oestrogen replacement/COC
In rare instances, pharmacological management other than oestrogen replacement/COC therapy can be considered when athletes meet the criteria for osteoporosis and have failed non-pharmacological therapy (with recurrent fractures), and meet one of the following criteria
Contraindications to oestrogen;
Lack of response to oestrogen replacement after ≥18–24 months in a compliant patient;
Eumenorrhoeic athletes/exercisers (not hypoestrogenic) who meet criteria for therapy;
Athletes with multiple debilitating fractures and significant morbidity.
For the last two indications, patients should undergo a complete metabolic work-up, and genetic testing may be considered depending on the history of the patient and her family history.
Other pharmacological options include bisphosphonates and teriparatide, which are effective strategies for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis226 ,227 and osteoporosis in special populations,212 ,213 but for whom data are limited, that is, in younger women, including female athletes. If such options are considered, the athlete/exerciser should be referred to an endocrinologist or an expert in metabolic bone diseases for further management, and treatment should be implemented only in conjunction with the endocrinologist or expert in metabolic bone disorders.
Teriparatide is administered once daily as a subcutaneous injection and is bone anabolic. While this is a promising agent in adult athletes and studies are ongoing, data regarding its efficacy in a younger population are lacking at this time. Of note, this drug is contraindicated in pregnancy, and there is a black box warning for those at increased baseline risk for osteosarcoma, namely children with open epiphyses, individuals with unexplained elevations of alkaline phosphatase, those with Paget's disease and individuals with a prior history of external beam radiation therapy or implant radiotherapy of the skeleton (Product Information: FORTEO(R) subcutaneous solution, teriparatide subcutaneous solution. Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, 2004).
Bisphosphonates are effective in increasing BMD in adult women with anorexia nervosa,189 but should be considered in athletes who meet criteria for pharmacological intervention with options other than oestrogen replacement, only when no other strategy is effective or when other strategies are contraindicated. Reproductive age women taking bisphosphonates should be prescribed birth control measures and counselled at length regarding the very long half-life of these medications and potential teratogenic effects on the fetus should pregnancy occur. If bisphosphonate therapy is prescribed, a time limit for these ongoing treatments, as in adults, should be considered due to potential risks of prolonged therapy.205 ,206
There are no known studies using denosomab for osteoporosis treatment in premenopausal women or children, and thus this pharmacological alternative is not recommended and remains experimental in this group.
Clearance and return to play
Despite widespread awareness and educational efforts on the Female Athlete Triad,2 ,3 ,228 there have been no standardised guidelines for clearance and return to play. As a result, many female athletes with the Triad are being cleared at their preparticipation physical examination without being adequately assessed, managed or treated, and often return to play without structured follow-up.
How can risk stratification be used to evaluate health and participation risk?
Recent studies assessing health outcomes of single and combined risk factors for the Triad have demonstrated that there is an increased cumulative risk for the outcomes of low BMD,46 stress fracture and bone stress injury,16 ,17 resulting in a dose–response relationship that is related to the magnitude of risk of Triad disorders and subsequent impact on bone health and susceptibility to fracture. These findings are of significance with regard to management of the Triad, clearance and return to play, and emphasise the important role that risk stratification may have in optimising the athlete's health and minimising risk for injury and illness.
Prospective return-to-play data have demonstrated that female collegiate runners with menstrual dysfunction had more severe bone stress injuries on MRI compared with eumenorrhoeic runners.18 Low BMD and higher MRI grade bone stress injuries were independent predictors of delay in return to play. In addition, athletes with bone stress injuries in skeletal sites of predominantly trabecular bone structure (femoral neck, sacrum and pelvis) had a delay in return to play compared with those athletes with bone stress injuries at cortical bone sites.18 Marx et al83 found that female athletes with stress fractures in regions of mostly trabecular bone had lower BMD than those at cortical sites. These studies18 ,83 highlight the importance of Triad risk factors on bone stress injury outcomes and the value of risk stratification. Future research is needed to assess the impact of Triad risk factors on return to play.
What is the role of the team physician in the return-to-play decision for Triad athletes?
According to the 2012 Consensus Statement on “The Team Physician and the Return to Play Decision,”229 the physician's duty is “to return an injured or ill athlete to practice or competition without putting the individual at undue risk for injury or illness.” In addition, the team physician's role is to establish a return-to-play process, evaluate the athlete with medical conditions, treat and rehabilitate the athlete and return the athlete to play after it is determined to be safe to do so.
In summary, with increasing evidence that the athlete's risk for unfavourable outcomes of low BMD and/or bone stress injuries is greater with cumulative risk factors for the Triad,16 ,17 ,46 evidence that Triad risk factors may contribute to more severe bone stress injuries and a delay in return to play,18 and due to the lack of standard of care guidelines for the Triad, the Panel recommends the following risk stratification protocol to be implemented (figures 4 and 5). This risk stratification protocol has been translated into a worksheet for the physician (figure 4) that incorporates evidence-based risk factors for the Triad,16 ,17 ,46 and takes into account the magnitude (or severity) of risk, assigning a point value for risk factors in each Triad spectrum based on risk severity (low, moderate and high risk). This cumulative risk stratification protocol is then translated into clearance and return-to-play guidelines for the Triad based on the athlete's cumulative risk score (figure 5). Future research is needed to assess if implementation of a risk stratification model results in improved outcomes for female athletes with Triad disorders.
Risk stratification and the multidisciplinary team
Who are the members of the multidisciplinary team?
The Panel emphasised that the primary goal of the risk stratification protocol is to optimise health and reduce risk for injury and illness associated with the Female Athlete Triad. Best practice for outpatient management of the Triad can be accomplished with a multidisciplinary team consisting of the team physician, sports dietitian and often a mental health practitioner.102 Other team members may include the athlete's coach, athletic trainer, family members and other professionals, depending on the athlete's unique situation.
What are the recommendations for clearance and return to play based on risk stratification?
Athletes at low risk, by risk stratification for the Triad, can be fully cleared (assuming otherwise healthy). Referral to the multidisciplinary team for the low-risk athletes is not required, and can be individualised. Athletes at moderate risk for the Triad can be cleared provisionally or receive limited clearance. Provisional clearance would include clearance for full training/competition, with the understanding that the athlete will be compliant with the recommendations outlined by the multidisciplinary team. With limited clearance, the athlete is cleared, but there are limitations specified with the athlete's training and competition, based on the athlete's health status. The athlete may be able to participate progressively in more training/competition as health status improves, as specified and outlined by the multidisciplinary team. It is recommended that athletes at moderate or high risk for the Triad be referred by the team physician to the appropriate multidisciplinary team member(s) and that a follow-up be scheduled to assess progress and review results of any tests ordered.
Those athletes determined to be at high risk are restricted from training and competition. In this category, the athlete's status can be provisional or the athlete may be disqualified. If the healthcare team determines that the athlete may be able to reach the stated health goals, the status is provisional, and a plan is outlined by the multidisciplinary team for a given period of time, and re-evaluated as the athlete's health status improves, if appropriate. If the severity of risk is determined to be too high for athletic participation at the time of the preparticipation examination, and prognosis determined to be poor, the athlete is disqualified and clearance/return to play re-evaluated with clinical progress, if appropriate. In such instances, the athlete may require more intensive outpatient treatment, inpatient hospitalisation or residential care prior to reassessment for clearance and return to play.
Similar to the FRAX algorithm developed by the WHO230 ,231 that uses clinical risk factors with or without BMD to assist with clinical decision-making in postmenopausal women and men to reduce fracture risk, it is hoped that this risk stratification developed for the Triad will assist healthcare providers working with female athletes to minimise risk associated with the Triad disorders. With ongoing research, updates to the risk stratification can be implemented in hopes of guiding treatment and decision-making for clearance and return to play.
How does the team physician utilise contracts?
Athletes in the moderate-risk and high-risk categories should receive a written contract that is reviewed and presented to them by the team physician after their initial evaluation. Although a verbal contract may be sufficient, the Panel recommends a written contract. The goal of the written contract is to specify the criteria necessary for ongoing or future clearance and return to play for the female athlete with the multidisciplinary team members, and to ensure a shared understanding of how the clinical status of the athlete will be followed with each member of the multidisciplinary team.
The team physician coordinates the treatment goals with each multidisciplinary team member, and includes the specific recommendations in the contract, in addition to the requested frequency of visits and expectations for each team member. The team physician then reviews the recommendations with the athlete, and answers any questions. In the case of the written contract, athlete and team physician sign the contract after it is discussed. (Please see online supplementary appendix for an example of a written contract for the Female Athlete Triad, which can be modified based on the athlete's clearance status.)
Decision-based model for return to play
What other factors play a role in clearance and the return-to-play decision?
In addition to risk stratification, the team physician must take into account the athlete's unique situation in making the final decision for clearance and return to play.232 The decision-based return-to-play model developed by Creighton et al233 points out the complexities in return-to-play decision-making. There are medical factors and severity of risk considerations that need to be considered in the return-to-play decision. In addition, the return-to-play decision also involves consideration of sport risk modifiers (such as type of sport and competitive level) and willingness of the athlete to participate in her treatment. Athletes participating in leanness sports, for example, have been found to be at higher risk for Triad disorders.234 Although low BMI and/or low body weight are included as risk factors in the Triad risk stratification table (figure 3), it is important to recognise that low body fat is not independently associated with menstrual dysfunction, low BMD and stress fracture.19 ,235 It is not the recommendation of the expert panel convened to systematically address body fat in female athletes, but to consider low body fat as a consequence of inadequate dietary intake and/or excessive exercise, and address those issues in the continuing effort to optimise EA, restore normal reproductive function and promote bone health. A decision-based model for the Triad, modified with permission from Creighton et al,233 illustrates some of the complex issues that need to be considered prior to the decision for clearance and return to play of the female athlete (figure 6).
In the evaluation of health risk and participation risk, an important consideration is also the age of the athlete. The preadolescent and adolescent athlete has more vulnerability to physeal and other skeletal injuries, especially during periods of rapid growth. Adolescence is a period of rapid bone mineral acquisition.45 ,149 ,220 Inadequate EA and menstrual dysfunction may result in a delay of bone mineralisation that lags behind bone linear growth.236 The mechanical stresses from repetitive loading in this population may increase susceptibility to fracture147 in an already vulnerable area of bone, which may have potentially catastrophic consequences. Case reports of devastating displaced femoral neck stress fractures in female adolescent athletes with Triad disorders are concerning and suggest that better screening and management of the Triad is imperative to minimise future fracture risk and potential for life-long disability.219 ,237 ,238 Furthermore, prospective studies are needed to identify thresholds of physical activity and sport beyond which may be detrimental to bone health.
Similar scrutiny should be directed towards athletes meeting DSM-V criteria for an ED.81 While the presence of an ED is considered a high-risk attribute in the Cumulative Risk Factor Assessment (figure 3), it should be noted that patients with EDs have a higher risk of premature mortality when compared with individuals with other psychiatric diagnoses, and that is especially true for those with anorexia nervosa.239 Risk factors associated with a higher premature mortality rate among individuals with anorexia nervosa include: (1) longer duration of illness (>10 years); (2) lower BMI (<16 kg/m2); (3) concurrent alcohol abuse and (4) poor social adjustment.239–241 It is the recommendation of the Consensus Panel that athletes diagnosed with anorexia nervosa who have a BMI <16 kg/m2 or with moderate-to-severe bulimia nervosa (purging >4 times/week)81 should be categorically restricted from training and competition. Future participation is dependent on treatment of their ED, including ascertainment of BMI >18.5 kg/m2, cessation of bingeing and purging and close interval follow-up with the multidisciplinary team.241
In some cases, participation in sport becomes fully integrated with an ED and isolation and treatment of the ED, such that resuming participation in the sport is not a realistic goal for the short or moderate term. It is important that EDs be recognised as a serious mental illness and that their impact and potentially long and pernicious course not be underestimated.
Finally, it is of paramount importance that the team physician has the ultimate say in the decision-making process for clearance and return to play.229 ,232 ,242 Although the team physician has this authority to make the final decision, the decision is often the product of consultation with the multidisciplinary team, and other concerned parties. The physician must always have the athlete's health and safety as the first priority in the decision-making process, which should supersede all other pressures or circumstances that may arise.
Young girls and women with the Female Athlete Triad have significant health risks. Historically, many of these athletes have been cleared for sport participation without appropriate evaluation, management and treatment. Similarly, after medical illness or injury, athletes with the Triad often return to play prematurely, and without adequate treatment and follow-up. It is the team physician's responsibility to ensure that each and every athlete who is cleared for participation in sport or returning to play after an injury or illness return only when it is determined safe to do so. The 2014 Female Athlete Triad Coalition Consensus Statement on Treatment and Return to Play of the Female Athlete Triad Expert Panel has proposed an evidence-based risk stratification point system that takes into account the magnitude of risk to assist the physician in decision-making regarding sport participation, clearance and return to play. Guidelines are offered for clearance categories, management by a multidisciplinary team and implementation of treatment contracts. Future research is needed to study whether risk stratification, clearance and return-to-play guidelines are an effective means of optimising health and reducing risk for injury and illness for the Triad.
The authors and expert panel would like to acknowledge the contributions of Jim Whitehead, Executive Vice President and CEO, American College of Sports Medicine; Mimi Johnson, MD; and Tyler Wadsworth, MD. Their encouragement, expertise and support contributed to the successful development of this document.
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Expert Panel Members Michelle Barrack, PhD, RD, California State University Northridge, Northridge, California, USA; Louise Burke, PhD, Australian Institute of Sport, Australia; Barbara Drinkwater, PhD, FACSM, Washington, USA; Connie Lebrun, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada; Anne B Loucks, PhD, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA; Margo Mountjoy, MD, McMaster University, Guelph, Ontario Canada; Jeanne Nichols, PhD, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA; Jorunn Sungot Borgen, PhD, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
Contributors All authors have contributed substantially to the manuscript and have been involved in designing and drafting the manuscript. MJDS, AN, EJ and MM planned, constructed and drafted the article and were also involved in revising the manuscript. NIW, MO, MG and GM were involved in drafting, reviewing and editing the manuscript. RJM and JCG were involved in writing and revising the manuscript and creating tables and figures. Members of the invited Expert Panel participated in Consensus Conference meetings held in June 2012 and June 2013 as well as provided the authors with guidance and feedback on the consensus process and manuscript.
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Lack of Affordable Housing
In the United States there are
affordable units for every
extremely low income households1
In the Baltimore Region
of extremely low income renters are severely housing cost burdened2,3
According to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, households that are severely housing cost burdened spend 38% less on food and 62% less on healthcare than similarly situated households who are not severely housing cost burdened.
Community Disinvestment and Segregation
Along with a lack of affordable housing, Baltimore residents continue to suffer from the city’s legacy of segregation. A study conducted by the Urban Institute in 2019 highlights one of the ways that segregation in Baltimore City impacts neighborhood investment. Neighborhoods that were less than 50% African American saw almost four times the investment that neighborhoods that were more than 85% African American saw. This lack of investment means that predominately black neighborhoods often lack the quality resources and educational and employment opportunities that community members need.
Traditional HCV Program
The traditional HUD HCV Program, though well-intentioned, can lack important elements, like counseling and landlord recruitment, that make it possible for households to move out of areas of concentrated poverty.
families with children that use traditional HCVs lived in low-poverty neighborhoods in 2017
BRHP addresses the problems of affordable housing access, segregation, and concentrated poverty by providing a combination of tenant counseling, rent subsidies in areas of opportunity, and landlord outreach.
BRHP families live in opportunity areas
average neighborhood poverty rate of BRHP families
Accessing areas of opportunity can make a big difference in the life of a family for generations. Read the following articles to gain a deeper understanding of the impact Housing Mobility Programs have on families:
Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Project by Raj Chetty Describes the long-term impact of the Moving to Opportunity experiment that moved families from high-poverty housing projects to low-poverty neighborhoods. In the experiment, children under the age of 13 were more likely than the control group to attend college, had higher incomes in their mid-twenties, were less likely to become single parents, and were more likely to live in low-poverty neighborhoods as adults.
The effects of a housing mobility experiment on participants’ residential environments by Q.C. Nguyen, D. Acevedo-Garcia, N.M. Schmidt, & T.L. Osypuk Describes the impact of the Moving to Opportunity experiment moves on the neighborhoods that they lived in. Participants who were in the low-poverty group, meaning they needed to initially move to a low-poverty neighborhood, had better neighborhood environments, even after the period where they were required to move ended. Participants ended up in neighborhoods with better economic conditions, social systems, physical features, and health outcomes than the control group.
The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Adult Health and Economic Self-Sufficiency by L. Sanbonmatsu, et. al. Describes the impact of the Moving to Opportunity experiment on adults. Adults who received low-poverty vouchers were less likely than the control group to have diabetes, extreme obesity, physical limitations, and psychological distress.
Walking Away From The Wire: Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore by S. Deluca & P. Rosenblatt Describes the neighborhood outcomes for families who moved through the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program. Families who were in the program for up to 9 years lived “more affluent and integrated neighborhoods [and] in school districts with more qualified teachers and fewer poor students.”
“Living here has changed my whole perspective”: How escaping inner-city poverty shapes neighborhood and housing choice by J. Darrah & S. Deluca Describes the ways tenants participating in the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program shifted what their preferences when choosing a home for their families.
1Data from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition’s report on the shortage of affordable housing
2Data from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s report on America’s rental housing in 2020
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Notes on the data: Health risk factors
Estimated male, female or total population, aged 18 years and over, who were obese or overweight, 2017-18
Policy context: Each increment in a person's body weight above their optimal level is associated with an increase in the risk of ill health. Overweight arises through an energy imbalance over a sustained period of time. While many factors may influence a person's weight, weight gain is essentially due to the energy intake from the diet being greater than the energy expended through physical activity. The energy imbalance need only be minor for weight gain to occur, and some people, due to genetic and biological factors, may be more likely to gain weight than others. Overweight is associated with higher mortality and morbidity, and those who are already overweight have a higher risk of becoming obese.
Being obese has significant health, social and economic impacts, is more prevalent among disadvantaged populations and is closely related to lack of exercise and diet . Obesity increases the risk of suffering from a range of health conditions, including coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, knee and hip problems, and sleep apnoea .
Over more than two decades from 1995 to 2017-18, the proportion of the Australian population aged 18 years and over who were overweight or obese increased by 19.0%, from 56.3% to 67.0%: the increase was greater for females (27.0%) than for males (17.0%). Of major concern is that whereas the proportion who are overweight has decreased slightly for males (down by 7%) and increased only slightly for females (up by 3%), the proportion who are obese has gone up by 67%, from 18.7% to 31.3%. The increase in obesity for males was greater than for females, at 75.7% and 65.9%, respectively .
The increase, from 2014–15 to 2017–18, in the proportion of the Australian population aged 18 years and over who were overweight or obese was also driven by an increase in those categorised as obese .
In 2017-18, the proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who were overweight or obese in general increased with age. However, there was a large increase for those aged 18-24 years, with 38.9% overweight or obese in 2014-15 compared with 46.0% in 2017-18 .
A fact sheet on obesity and overweight rates can be accessed here.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Measures of Australia’s progress, 2010. (ABS Cat. no. 1370.0). Canberra: ABS; 2010.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Unpublished.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Overweight and obesity. National Health Survey: First Results, 2017–18 — Australia. Canberra: ABS; 2018. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/by%20Subject/4364.0.55.001~2017-18~Main%20Features~Overweight%20and%20obesity~90: last accessed 15 October 2019.
Differences from data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS):
Data by quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage and Remoteness will differ to the extent that data extracted from Survey TableBuilder have been randomised, whereas those published by the ABS are not. In addition, rates published by the ABS for modelled estimates are generally crude rates; rates published by PHIDU are age-standardised.
In the absence of data from administrative data sets, estimates are provided at the Population Health Area (PHA) level for selected health risk factors from the 2017–18 National Health Survey (NHS), conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The estimates at the Population Health Area (PHA) are modelled estimates produced by the ABS (estimates at the Local Government Area (LGA) and Primary Health Network (PHN) level were derived from the PHA estimates).
Details of the method used and accuracy of results are available from the ABS paper Explanatory Notes: Modelled estimates for small areas based on the 2017-18 National Health Survey, available here.
For the Primary Health Network (PHN) data, differences between the PHN totals and the sum of LGAs within PHNs result from the use of different geographic correspondence files.
Estimates for quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage of area and Remoteness Area are direct estimates, extracted using the ABS Survey TableBuilder.
Users of these modelled estimates should note that they do not represent data collected in administrative or other data sets. As such, they should be used with caution, and treated as indicative of the likely social dimensions present in an area with these demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
The numbers are estimates for an area, not measured events as are, for example, death statistics. As such, they should be viewed as a tool that, when used in conjunction with local area knowledge and taking into consideration the prediction reliability, can provide useful information that can assist with decision making for small geographic regions. Of particular note is that the true value of the published estimates is also likely to vary within a range of values as shown by the upper and lower limits published in the data (xlsx) and viewable in the column chart in the single map atlases.
What the modelled estimates do achieve, however, is to summarise the various demographic, socioeconomic and administrative information available for an area in a way that indicates the expected level of each health indicator for an area with those characteristics. In the absence of accurate, localised information about the health indicator, such predictions can usefully contribute to policy and program development, service planning and other decision-making processes that require an indication of the geographic distribution of the health indicator.
The relatively high survey response rate in the NHS provides a high level of coverage across the population; however, the response rate among some groups is lower than among other groups, e.g., those living in the most disadvantaged areas have a lower response rate than those living in less disadvantaged areas. Although the sample includes the majority of people living in households in private dwellings, it excludes those living in the very remote areas of Australia and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; whereas these areas comprise less than 3% of the total population, Aboriginal people comprise up to one third of the population. The survey does not include persons usually resident in non-private dwellings (hospitals, gaols, nursing homes - and also excludes members of the armed forces).
This and other limitations of the method mean that estimates have not been published for PHAs with populations under 1,000.
The ABS used a number of methods to measure the quality of the estimates, one of which is the relative root mean squared error (RRMSE) of the modelled estimates. The RRMSEs are included with the data. Users are advised that:
- estimates with RRMSEs less than 25% are considered reliable for most purposes;
- estimates with RRMSEs from 0.25 and to 0.50 have been marked (~) to indicate that they should be used with caution; and
- those greater than 0.50 but less than 1 are marked (~~) to indicate that the estimate is considered too unreliable for general use.
The Body Mass Index (BMI) (or Quetelet's index) is a measure of relative weight based on an individual's mass and height. The height (cm) and weight (kg) of respondents, as measured during the NHS interview, were used to calculate the BMI, and overweight (but not obesity) was determined where a person’s BMI was between 25 and less than 30. Adults with a BMI equaling 30 or over where classified as obese. The BMI is a useful tool at a population level for measuring trends in body weight, and helping to define population groups who are at higher risk of becoming obese, and therefore developing long-term medical conditions associated with a high BMI, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Note that the modelled estimates are based on the 66.2% of persons 18 years and over in the sample who had their height and weight measured. For respondents who did not have their height and weight measured, imputation was used to obtain height, weight and BMI scores. For more information refer to Appendix 2: Physical measurements in the ABS publication National Health Survey: First Results, 2017-18 (Cat. no. 4364.0.55.001).
Geography: Data available by Population Health Area, Local Government Area, Primary Health Network, Quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage of area and Remoteness Area
Numerator: Estimated number of males, females or persons aged 18 years and over who were assessed as being overweight (not obese) or obese, based on their measured height and weight
Denominator: Male, female or total population aged 18 years and over
Detail of analysis: Indirectly age-standardised rate per 100 population (aged 18 years and over); and/or indirectly age-standardised ratio, based on the Australian standard
PHA, LGA & PHN: Age-standardised rates are based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, produced as a consultancy for PHIDU, from the 2017—18 National Health Survey.
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Working at home has its challenges but add children into the mix and there’s a whole other set of issues to contend with. What you need to know as an employee and employer.
Older children will have school work, social media, Netflix (other platforms are available…), etc. and will be able to entertain themselves, even being able to take themselves out for a walk / exercise if they’re old enough, but younger children and babies who are normally in nurseries are going to be more difficult to look after while balancing work.
Key workers aside, employees will need to work out what work they can do at home (assuming they can perform their work at home).
- They may need to change or reduce their hours (and pay) for example if they can’t juggle work with their caring responsibilities or take holiday or unpaid leave.
- Another option, which isn’t long term, would be to allow employees to take time off in lieu now but make up the time later (TOIL in reverse). As the social distancing and self-isolation restrictions are set to last until further notice this could amount to a significant amount of time and therefore should only be used as a temporary measure.
- For those employees who work part-time they may be in a better position as they can spread their hours over seven days as opposed to say three. Those lucky to have a partner to help share the caring side will help.
- For single parents however, this isn’t an option. One possible solution could be to link up with another single parent and form a temporary pseudo family to help with caring and working (obviously social distancing will be imperative to prevent the further spread of the virus and possibly even self-isolation of pseudo families which may be a lot to ask of employees but fine if they want to do so).
Clearly if working from home is not an option due to the role itself (customer-facing, for example) employees will have to take holiday, unpaid leave, unpaid career breaks or sabbaticals, etc. Unless they can get childcare for some of the time which may be possible but parents are unlikely to be able to rely on grandparents given Government guidance (according to some statistics, grandparents help out with the care of their grandchildren in 97% of families).
One final note, with children knocking around, extra precautions will need to be taken regarding loose cables and computer equipment so that children do not trip or pull monitors over.
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Cancer is caused by an uncontrolled growth of body cells. Patients who have this disease undergo a very painful period during the treatment. There is lot of physical and mental suffering due to cancer. Chemotherapy is a part of cancer treatment and it causes a lot of hair fall. Some patients become bald due to hair loss. The treatment kills cancerous and healthy cells both. The treatment is very harsh for the hair and kills the hair roots. The condition is temporary and the hair re-grows once again in the next 3 months time. It may take up to 10 months for the hair to grow again fully. We will give some hair care tips for chemotherapy patients.
Following Are Some Useful Tips On How To Take Care Of Hair Growth After Chemo:
Take Protein Rich Diet
Protein is an important nutrient that helps hair in growing well. Include protein rich foods in your diet. Vegetarians can get protein by eating beans and lentils. Non-vegetarian people should increase the intake of eggs and meat.
Take Vitamin Rich Diet
Taking some types of vitamins helps the hair in growing very fast. It includes Vitamin B, C, E and biotin. Eat foods that contain these vitamins or take supplements of these vitamins. Vitamins are important for increasing circulation in scalp and making the hair follicles healthy.
Do Gentle Brushing
The hair that grows after chemotherapy becomes weak and fragile. The hair tends to break easily. The hair is lacking in protein. Applying pressure on hair or doing harsh brushing can damage the hair further. So comb and brush the hair very softly and gently. Avoid harsh brushing and don’t put force on hair.
Wash Hair With Cold Water
Very hot water is harmful for the hair. Instead of washing the hair with hot water, you should wash hair using cold water. Water at very high temperature causes harm to hair follicles. Thus, avoid hot water for washing the hair.
Use Shampoos with Plant Oils
Harsh shampoos that have sulfates are very harmful for hair after the chemotherapy treatment. Avoid such shampoos. It is best to use shampoos that contain natural plant oils. These ingredients help in conditioning the hair. Choose shampoos that have jojoba oil in it.
Use Moisturizing Shampoos
There is lot of itching in the scalp after chemotherapy. It is best to use hair products that have moisturizer in it. Use shampoos that contain moisturizer. You should massage the scalp with lotion. Use moisturizing conditioners.
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RCM celebrates 'birds and bees,' trees on latest commems
- Published: May 11, 2012, 8 PM
“The birds and the bees” is more than the topic of an uncomfortable talk with your children — it might be one way to label the latest outpouring of collector coins from the Royal Canadian Mint.
Just add “trees” to the list, though.
In the Royal Canadian Mint’s April 16 release, the third launch for the RCM in calendar year 2012, the narrow focus of themes touches on the season, spring, offering collectors coins featuring a bird, bee, flower, and lots and lots and lots of maple leaves.
Birds and bees
The ninth release in the popular series depicting Birds of Canada honors the rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), which winters in central Mexico and northern South America before returning to the heavily wooded second-growth deciduous and mixed forests spread from British Columbia to Nova Scotia.
The reverse of the Specimen-finish copper-nickel coin shows a bright-chested male rose-breasted grosbeak perched delicately on the stem of a maple tree, in a scene actually struck on the coin (unlike some earlier issues, which appear as color applied to a smooth surface). Arnold Nogy designed the reverse.
All of the coins feature the Susanna Blunt effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse.
The oversized 25-cent coin measures 35 millimeters in diameter, compared to the 23.88-millimeter size of a standard circulating 25-cent coin. The oversized coins weigh 11.6 grams; the standard 25-cent coin, 4.4 grams. The Grosbeak 25-cent coin has a mintage of 20,000 pieces and is priced at $29.95.
A colorful aster and bumble bee design is shared (though with some differences in detail) by another oversized Specimen copper-nickel 25-cent coin and companion Proof .9999 fine silver $20 coin. The two coins together compose the second issues in an annual series honoring colorful flowers and their “friends,” according to the RCM.
The reverses of the two coins, designed by Maurice Gervais, show a bee, or as the RCM describes it, “nature’s canny cultivator,” engaged in pollination with a purple aster.
The Specimen 25-cent coin measures 35 millimeters in diameter and weighs 11.6 grams; it has a mintage limit of 20,000 pieces and costs $29.95.
The Proof $20 coin with the same theme is adorned with a handcrafted glass bumble bee from Murano, Italy, by artist Giuliano Donaggio; the glass bee has a different appearance than the die-struck bee on the 25-cent coin. The $20 coin weighs 31.39 grams, measures 38 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 10,000 pieces.
The $20 coin had an original issue price of $139.95 but the mintage quickly sold out (though the RCM website lists the coin as delayed shipping until May 18); distributor Talisman Coins has the coin on the secondary market for $229.95.
Canadians are inextricably linked to the maple leaf, and the latest batch of coins is decidedly weighted to honor the deciduous doyenne of the north.
A Proof Maple Leaf Crystal Raindrop .9999 fine silver $20 coin is the fifth in a series of colorful coins adding a crystal element to the maple leaf on the reverse design. A Swarovski crystal “drips” from the tip of the auburn leaf (an admittedly fall color choice) in a design by Celia Godkin.
The coin weighs 31.39 grams, measures 38 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 10,000 pieces (all previous issues have sold out, according to the RCM). It is priced at $119.95.
Also launched are five different versions of a Maple Leaf Forever design by illustrator Luc Normandin, showing three different maple leaves stacked, their stalks touching. Certain specifications and legend details appear in different locations on the coins, depending on the version, but the design of three leaves is a constant.
Normandin’s design appears on a Specimen .9999 fine gold $5 coin, the first in a planned series of small gold coins featuring Canada’s iconic emblem, according to the RCM.
The $5 coin weighs 3.13 grams, measures 16 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 25,000 pieces. The issue price is $229.95.
A Proof .9999 fine silver $10 version offers the Maple Leaf Forever theme (with a circle behind the design) in a small-size silver coin. The $10 coin weighs 15.87 grams and measures 34 millimeters in diameter. It has a mintage limit of 100,000 pieces at a price of $34.95 each.
Three other Proof Maple Leaf Forever coins are targeted at collectors who want investment-grade precious metal versions of the designs, offering silver, platinum or gold.
A .9995 fine platinum $300 coin weighs 31.16 grams, measures 30 millimeters in diameter, has a mintage limit of 250 pieces and is priced at $2,999.95.
A .9999 fine silver $250 coin weighs 1,000 grams, measures 101.8 millimeters, and has a mintage limit of 1,200 pieces; its price is $2,249.95.
A Maple Leaf Forever 1,000-gram .999 fine gold $2,500 measures 101.6 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 30 pieces. The coin has a price tag of $69,000.
Prices are listed in Canadian funds. The U.S. prices for collectors in the United States buying directly from the RCM will fluctuate with the exchange rate, calculated at the time of purchase.
Telephone the RCM inside the United States at 800-268-6468. In Canada, telephone the RCM at 800-267-1871. Visit the RCM website at www.mint.ca.
United States distributors for the RCM carry the various coins at fixed prices in U.S. dollars.
Gatewest Coin Ltd., Brian Jenner Inc. and Talisman Coins are all official distributors for the RCM.
To contact Gatewest inside the United States, telephone the firm at 204-489-9112 or visit it online at www.gatewestcoin.com.
Telephone Talisman at 888-552-2646 or visit its website, www.talismancoins.com.
Write to Jenner at P.O. Box 2466-a, Pasco, WA 99302, or telephone him at 509-735-2172. ¦
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Here’s a beautiful story that’s perfect for Veterans’ Day. When Adam Morton was moving to Michigan, his beloved service dog, Quincy, ran away, and Morton feared he’d never see the dog again. Having served two tours in Iraq, Morton relied on Quincy to lessen the effects of post traumatic stress disorder.
Luckily, Quincy was found by an animal control officer in Iowa, who discovered through a microchip that Quincy is a service dog. He contacted Morton who was elated. But the question was how they could transport the dog 600 miles.
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Markets can remain irrational for long periods of time, and this is doubly true for Bitcoin (BTC), an esoteric cryptocurrency that continues to divide the broader financial community over its usefulness and intrinsic value.
Whatever you think about Bitcoin, it is almost certain at this point that BTC’s bullish calculus has plummeted in the past few weeks as the world’s largest cryptocurrency plunged to its December 2020 price levels, aided by the complete internal collapse of Terra’s UST stablecoin.
Against this background, Bitcoin is about to undergo another test. For intelligence, the world’s number one cryptocurrency is now approaching a crucial support level against the price of gold. Keep in mind that many analysts appreciate Bitcoin’s relationship to gold, especially in light of the Store of Value’s narrative about both assets.
As can be seen from the BTCUSD/Gold chart above, Bitcoin is approaching multi-year support. If the cryptocurrency fails to maintain this level, its price is likely to undergo further correction. After all, the next major support area is at the 9-11 ratio level, which corresponds to the theoretical Bitcoin price of around $16,000, based on the lower end of this range and the current gold price around $1800.
Readers should note that bitcoin is typically down around 80 percent compared to an all-time high in bearish cycles. This relationship persisted during the last three bearish phases, and there is a high probability that the current phase of weakness may also involve similar losses, corresponding to the lows around $13,000.
Combining these two factors, we believe that Bitcoin could practically touch the $15,000 price level if it fails to maintain its nearby support in relation to gold.
Tailwinds: long-term contract holders and spot ETFs
Of course, Bitcoin also has a secular tailwind that can play an important role in stabilizing sentiment around the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
Interestingly (but not surprisingly) the 60% drop in Bitcoin did not deter HODLers. The number of bitcoins held for more than 10 years is stable at 13%. / 7 pic.twitter.com/ksibTyBOhT
– Joren Timmer (@TimmerFidelity) May 16 2022
For example, long-term Bitcoin holders – also called HODLers – are currently flat. The lack of any surrender among this hawkish group of investors is a major tailwind for the cryptocurrency.
Moreover, recent weeks have seen major developments around Bitcoin ETFs. Keep in mind that the SEC has only allowed futures-based BTC ETFs. However, these have a significant drawback – contango.
Contango is the standard in the futures market and refers to the situation in which the future price of a commodity increases as the expiry time of the contract increases. This results in an upward sloping forward curve. ETFs that invest in futures contracts are required to extend the first month’s contract as expiration approaches by buying one at the end of the contract. For example, consider a scenario in which the ETF maintains exposure for six consecutive monthly contracts. Also assume that the January contract is about to expire. Thus, the ETF will buy the July contract, with the February contract becoming the first month contract. However, due to contango, the ETF will buy the July contract at a much higher price than the spot price. Over time, if contango continues, this practice leads to higher costs and underperformance of the ETF relative to the spot price. Because of this phenomenon, futures-based bitcoin investment methods are not conducive to widespread institutional adoption.
However, Canada recently approved the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, which is now in circulation and currently has over 36,000 Bitcoins. In addition, Australia has also allowed the trading of two spot market ETFs: the 21 Stock Bitcoin ETF and the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF, which allows Australian investors to access the Canadian Bitcoin ETF from Purpose Investments.
These are major developments that could play an important role in facilitating greater funding around Bitcoin. However, as with almost all good things in life, there is a downside to it. As most of our readers know, we have been constantly highlighting Bitcoin’s increased correlation with US stocks in recent months, which we believe is indicative of greater institutional adoption. This correlation system prevented bitcoin from serving as a true store of value in light of the persistent inflationary impulse. However, financial trends never last, and we believe that the current high correlation regime will end once there is sufficient secular demand for Bitcoin.
This leads us to a growing headwind around the world’s leading cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin Headwinds: The Growing Role of China and the Chaos of the Stablecoin World
Our readers will remember that China unleashed a wave of crypto destabilization in 2021 when it completely banned mining of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which led to a mass exodus of mining activities to the United States and other parts of the world.
# bitcoin Mining in China is about 20% of the total hash rate
– And grow again!
Bitcoin Archive 🗄🚀🌔 (BTC_Archive) May 17 2022
Well, we have bad news for this account now. China’s role in bitcoin mining is gaining ground once again, having taken the second place in terms of hash rate in recent days.
Given Beijing’s tendency to drop the hammer on bitcoin any time the cryptocurrency begins to gain prominence in the Asian country, we believe bitcoin miners are preparing for another regulatory campaign under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party.
On the other hand, the stablecoin world continues to grapple with the repercussions of the internal collapse of Terra’s algorithmically-modified terrestrial reservoirs. Brilliant, Fantom Stablecoin (DEI) recently became the latest stablecoin to lose its peg to the dollar. Moreover, the circulating supply of Tether (USDT) has fallen by $7 billion in recent days amid high recoveries. Stablecoins act as an engine oil in the cryptocurrency world, allowing liquidity to flow seamlessly from one corner of the market to another. Tether is the biggest player in the field. Although USDT is fully backed by reserves, there are pockets of investors and analysts who keep questioning whether Tether actually has enough reserves.
A stablecoin is a tokenized money market fund
There is no “secret sauce” in money market funds. They are the simplest investment funds
– Julian Klymochko.eth (@JulianKlymochko) May 15 2022
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Having been unable to protect a sacred village site from Coastal GasLink’s wrecking ball, the Wet’suwet’en are now fighting to protect a vital watershed as the pipeline company moves to drill beneath a pristine river in northwestern British Columbia.
The access road to a worksite on the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River) “was destroyed and blockades have been erected ‘to stop the drilling under the sacred headwaters that nourish the Wet’suwet’en Yintah and all those within its catchment area’,” reports Bloomberg, citing a release from the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).
The news agency adds that “the latest flareup of protests is another snag in a project that’s already behind schedule because of COVID-19 work restrictions.”
Unmentioned in the Bloomberg report is CGL’s recent destruction of an ancient village site to make way for the pipeline, which will deliver fracked gas to the LNG Canada operation in Kitimat, the biggest private investment in Canadian history. Known as Ts’elkay Kwe, the site is revered by the Gitdimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. In a Facebook video taken while the destruction of the site proceeded, Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) of the Cas Yikh House of the Gitdimt’en can be seen calling for “boots on the ground.”
In an interview with The Tyee in early September, a few weeks after learning that CGL had secured a permit from the BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) to destroy the village site to make way for its pipeline, Sleydo’ said the site contained legal evidence of her people’s occupation of the land.
“If they come and destroy this, they’re wiping us off this territory,” she said. “They’re erasing the evidence of us being here.”
The B.C. government’s own archaeologists have agreed with those findings, The Tyee notes, citing excavations in 2015 and 2019 that “turned up lithics, material related to stone tools, including an obsidian scraper and flakes, fragments, and shatter—pieces that fell away while tools were being chiselled and formed. The obsidian, a volcanic rock sourced hundreds of kilometres away, would have made its way here through a complex trade network with coastal First Nations trading it for local goods like berries and caribou hides.”
Such discoveries led the archaeologists to recommend that “the pipeline route avoid the site altogether,” The Tyee writes. The report added that, “if avoidance is not possible, mitigation options will be determined in consultation with the client, Archaeology Branch, and relevant First Nations.”
“For industry, that means applying for a site alteration permit and potentially hiring archaeologists to recover any remaining artifacts before the site is destroyed,” explains the Tyee.
While CGL did receive the required permit, defenders of the Ts’elkay Kwe have repeatedly charged that it was not secured in good faith and is, for all intents and purposes, illegal.
“Neither CGL nor the BCOGC undertook consultation with Cas Yikh or the Office of the Wet’suwet’en for the permit,” said IEN in a September 23 release. “The consultation process and the permitting system is deeply flawed and acts merely as a rubber stamp process to allow industry to continue.”
As an example, the IEN says files sent to the Office of the Wet’suwet’en were password protected and could not be opened, “thus the information contained inside was never able to be reviewed, let alone consented to.”
“Silence does not equal consent and to push forward with destroying a culturally significant heritage site is deeply disturbing and violent,” said the IEN statement.
Asked by The Tyee to comment on the status of the permit in early September, the BCOGC responded that “it referred Coastal GasLink’s site alteration permit application to the Office of the Wet’suwet’en in May 2020 but did not receive any comments.”
In its release, IEN says it sent a cease and desist letter to “all parties, including provincial ministers in charge of lands and forests.” The letter invoked Article 11 of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which states: “Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect, and develop the past, present, and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies, and visual and performing arts and literature.”
In the wake of Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, it is worth noting that the process by which CGL secured its permit to bulldoze the sacred site also stands in hostile contradiction to the 94 Calls to Action recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Most transparently, it is deaf to the 92nd call to action, which urges the corporate sector in Canada to “commit to meaningful consultation, building respectful relationships, and obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples before proceeding with economic development projects.”
With their ancient village site in ruins and the location of its contents unconfirmed, Sleydo’ and her nation are now turning their efforts toward protecting the Wedzin Kwa. Describing the river as a sacred home to spawning salmon and “a critical source of pristine drinking water,” Sleydo’ warned that “our way of life is at risk … Wedzin Kwa [is the] the river that feeds all of Wet’suwet’en territory and gives life to our nation.”
In the Indigenous Environmental Network release, the Gidimt’en vowed to protect the river and defend Wet’suwet’en law. “We will do everything in our power to protect our waters and to uphold our laws,” they wrote in the September 22 email.
They added: “Gidimt’en Checkpoint has issued a call for support, asking people to travel to Cas Yikh territory to stand with them.”
And as the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation was barely under way, police have violently arrested a land defender determined to protect the Wedzin Kwa, IEN reported yesterday.
“On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, reconciliation is dead,’ said Sleydo’. “The government, industry, and police are still invading our yintah.” | <urn:uuid:e7c3fdad-afc0-417b-8a4b-258201503562> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/10/01/wetsuweten-call-for-more-support-as-coastal-gaslink-threatens-sacred-river/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.943599 | 1,448 | 2.40625 | 2 |
While Uruguay has garnered attention for its potential as an IT hub, its high percentage of people with broadband access and its relative affluence compared to its nearest neighbors, in recent years the country was frequently overshadowed by Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries.
The tiny republic is in the spotlight once again, however, thanks to President José Mujica, a former guerrilla and farmer who has been in office since March 2010.
Mujica joined the Tupamaros guerrilla movement in the early 1960s. The movement drew some inspiration from the Cuban revolution and performed some violent actions that earned it notoriety, while at the same time performing other more sympathetic actions that fueled the Robin Hood mythology of the guerrilla. It was crushed shortly before the military dictatorship in 1973.
Some say he was shot six times, some say nine, some say less during his stint in the movement. He was imprisoned for 14 years, most of which were spent in solitary confinement. He has often stated that his time spent in prison helped him shape his thinking and taught him that one can always start again.
Mujica donates 90 percent of his salary — an estimated US $150,000 a year — to charities that his own political party runs, the majority of them related to providing housing for the poor.
He also shuns the presidential palace for a modest farmhouse on the outskirts of Montevideo. He lives there with his wife, Senator Lucía Topolansky, also a Tupamaros member, and their dog Manuela. Mujica is not the first Uruguayan president to remain in a private residence. His predecessor Tabaré Vázquez did the same. Vazquez lived in a well-to-do residential district, however, while water is taken from a well and clothes are hung from a line at Mujica’s farmhouse.
Mujica travels with no entourage, except for two police officers who don’t wear their uniforms inside. He drives a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle to his office, after years of driving an old Vespa to Parliament, where he spent two periods as MP. Again, the lack of bodyguards or chauffeurs is not exclusive to Mujica, in a country where other politicians regularly jog along the promenade or do their shopping at local supermarkets, all a result of the country’s still high ranking in terms of safety.
Poverty and Popularity
The president, who is usually referred to as “Pepe,” addresses the issue of his personal austerity by quoting philosophers, often present in his rhetorical repertoire. “I am not poor. Poor are those who work to keep an expensive lifestyle, always craving for more.”
He seems to be relaxed about his recent drop in popularity within the country. “I don’t give a damn” he is reported to have said, adding that if he believed in polls he wouldn’t be president.
It is worth mentioning that his popularity abroad is higher than ever, with media from all over the world producing sympathetic pieces about his persona, even when he gets himself into trouble by making “off the record” statements that get leaked, like when he recently referred to his ally, Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner, as “that old hag.”
Since his election, Uruguay has passed bills legalizing same-sex marriage and abortion, two extremely sensitive issues. Mujica himself prompted a debate on the legalization of marijuana, suggesting it would be an effective way to combat drug trafficking. After polls revealed that the majority of the population did not agree, he asked MPs to withdraw the bill and consider discussing the matter again in the next legislative session.
His government has also drawn international attention for the encouragement of alternative energy sources, like wind and biomass.
Whether he was shot one, two or six times, what cannot be denied is that President Mujica has reinvented and recycled himself, challenging every single notion of what a traditional leader does and becoming the austere president that many rich nations would like to have.
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The Scientific Approach to DUI Defense
It is illegal to drive under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol in California. This “influence” can be determined by observing your driving behavior or by measuring how much alcohol was in your blood at the time you were driving. This measurement is the blood alcohol concentration or content level of the defendant. This is generally referred to as a BAC level. The BAC level is a key piece of evidence in many California DUI cases. Your BAC can be tested using a breathalyzer test, a blood test, or a urine test. Each test has its own weaknesses.
The breathalyzer test is the most common. It is a relatively reliable method of testing blood alcohol concentration and can be done conveniently using a hand-held device. It has significant downsides, however, because it does not directly test your blood. It essentially tests the alcohol level in your breath, not your blood. It is supposed to test the air deep in your lungs, called alveolar air, but sometimes captures the air in your mouth. The air in your mouth is not the same as the air in your lungs. The alcohol affects the air in your lungs after it has already been absorbed into your blood stream. The air in your mouth is only affected by alcohol that has not yet been absorbed into your blood stream. Because the BAC threshold is supposed to be a measurement of the alcohol in your blood stream, which you have ingested, a BAC level affected by mouth alcohol is not accurate.
Because of the potential inaccuracies, breath test results are sometimes challenged in court. There are many different questions that can be raised when challenging breath test results. Mouth alcohol is one of them. Mouth alcohol is the alcohol present in your breath in your mouth, not from your lungs. Drinking alcohol can raise your mouth alcohol, but so can a number of other things. First, alcohol-based products, such as mouthwash and breath sprays, can raise your mouth alcohol. Certain medicines, such as cough syrups, contain alcohol and could raise your mouth alcohol levels, too. Certain medical conditions, such as acid reflux disease, GERD, and heartburn can raise mouth alcohol levels as well. Even pieces of dental work, such as dentures or bridges, can trap alcohol in the mouth resulting in inaccurate test results.
The maintenance and calibration of the actual breathalyzer device can sometimes used as a defense to a DUI as well. Each device must be properly maintained and routinely calibrated and must be only used by a trained officer. If these standards aren't adhered to, test results could be inaccurate. The officer must also wait 15 minutes before administering a breathalyzer test. This is called the observation period. This time allows the officer to monitor the person who will be taking the test to ensure they didn't do anything that could change their mouth alcohol, which would skew the results. If an officer does not wait a full 15 minutes, it is possible the test results may not be as reliable as they could've been had the officer followed the protocol.
If you are facing DUI charges, you should speak with a California DUI defense attorney as soon as you can. Challenging your BAC test results can be complex, but it has been done successfully. I have seen many clients have their cases dismissed because of questionable BAC level test results. You may be able to challenge your test results, but it is important to start the process as early on in your case as possible and to do so only with skilled legal representation. An attorney can evaluate your case and advise you on whether or not challenging your BAC test results could be successful in your case. He or she can also assist you with the process of building a strong defense against your test results and presenting them skillfully in court.
If you are facing charges for a DUI in the Tulare, Fresno or Kings County area, call experienced DUI defense attorney Christopher Martens today for expert counsel. At The Law Offices of Christopher Martens, we can challenge the evidence against you and defend your dignity in court. Attorney Martens has over ten years of criminal defense experience and will fight hard for your rights. Contact our Visalia or Hanford, CA offices at 559-967-7386 or email us at [email protected] to discuss a possible plan of action for your case. | <urn:uuid:b22c11aa-c59d-4bcd-9bc8-72bc38247b1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.martenslawfirm.com/blog/2016/july/what-is-mouth-alcohol-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.96592 | 890 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Durham County Council has introduced a new system called One Network that makes Road Closure and Diversion information available to residents, businesses, and motorists via the web on your mobile phone, tablet and computer as well as through the Sat Nav system in your vehicle. Click on the email icon on the left top of the page and register an account either as a private individual, business person, etc from the drop-down list.
As well as using the searchable list, the One Network mapping system can be used to check live information regarding road works in your area. To do this you simply type the address in the search bar and select the period of time you are interested in (Today, 2 weeks, 3 months, 12 months).
Another useful feature is the ‘Alerts’ feature which allows you to receive email alerts within in defined area every time new road or street works are recorded. You can set the system to tell you only if the works are high, medium, or low impact and choose to receive email notifications daily, weekly, or monthly. Simply register with One Network and select your preferences.
In addition to the above, the One Network system can provide you with a whole host of additional information with new information being added frequently.
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Feb. 15, 2000 (Atlanta) -- The common antacid medication Zantac (and the generic equivalent, ranitidine) can significantly increase blood alcohol levels and impair driving ability, shows a new study in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
"The effect was striking," says author Charles Lieber, MD. In a three-hour test period, conducted under conditions similar to social drinking, the study showed that ranitidine can increase blood alcohol content by 38%. Levels reached in the study exceeded the legal drinking limit -- and the effects lasted up to two hours after drinking stopped.
Lieber's previous studies have shown that a similar medication, Pepcid (famotidine), had little effect on blood alcohol levels. Studies of ranitidine showed that it also had little effect -- but was only tested with one small drink.
"But, of course, social drinkers just don't drink one little drink, they drink several. In this study, we showed that if you do that after taking ranitidine, there's a cumulative effect, and it's quite significant. The blood levels impair driving function. People should be warned that when they drink moderately, they would find themselves driving home somewhat impaired. We felt this was an important point. In some countries, like Denmark, there's a warning label, but we don't have that yet," he tells WebMD. Lieber is professor of medicine and pathology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and chief of the Alcohol Research Center at Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
In this study, Lieber and colleagues first screened 12 volunteers to find those who were able to process alcohol normally. Up to 30% of healthy people actually develop higher blood alcohol levels after drinking due to differences in their livers.
To simulate a social situation, the remaining nine volunteers were first given a standard breakfast, then were given four 10-ounce drinks at 45-minute intervals (potato chips were also provided during the drinking period) and blood levels were frequently measured. For the next week, each volunteer then took 150 mg ranitidine (comparable to two Zantac) daily, and the test was then repeated. That time, blood levels were higher after each drink -- high enough to significantly impair driving or judgment.
When asked for objective commentary, Patrick Waring, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University and co-director of Emory's Swallowing Center, tells WebMD, "We've always thought there was some interaction, but didn't think it was to the point that you would choose one drug over the other."
Better medications are available to treat gastrointestinal problems, says Waring. "Frankly, I don't prescribe a lot of ranitidine. ... More and more people are using the proton pump inhibitors like Prilosec, Prevacid, and AcipHex, and I don't think there are significant problems with alcohol use with those medications. When we talk to people about their [gastrointestinal] problem, their ulcer or reflux, we tell them that alcohol can aggravate their medical problem. If they are taking ranitidine for these symptoms, they shouldn't be drinking for that reason."
Arnold Wald, MD, gastroenterologist with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, tells WebMD, "I thought [the study] was done very well. ... It's a very good lab. Charles Lieber is well known for alcohol research. ... But at the risk of being flip, I think you shouldn't drink four drinks and drive, whether you're taking ranitidine or not."
- Researchers report that subjects who took a common antacid and consumed alcohol in a simulated social drinking situation had a 38% higher blood alcohol level than would be expected from drinking.
- The researchers note those who take this antacid and drink moderately should know they are impaired more than they may realize and should not drive.
- Observers note moderate drinkers probably should not be driving anyway. Also, newer antacid options mean fewer patients take the antacid that was used in the study. | <urn:uuid:69a826af-9f36-4d6c-9ecd-fb150db0a40d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20000215/zantac-alcohol-dont-mix | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972266 | 842 | 2.1875 | 2 |
January is the month for a healthy lifestyle reboot. At this stage in the month though, resolve starts to dissolve and it gets tougher to stay on that wagon.
We’ve been thinking about why this period becomes such a sticky phase for so many. It isn’t just healthy eating that suffers, so there is obviously psychology in play.
Another factor for the struggle is to do with the parameters we set for ourselves in order to be healthy – why does healthy food have to be… so… well… boring!
Our response is that it doesn’t and we think that this could be the key to successfully clambering back on that wagon and getting your 2016 off to the healthiest start ever. Here are our top tips for forming, and sticking to, some great healthy habits this month:
- Instead of flying straight from the extreme of over-indulgence to a saintly regime, ease yourself in gently. The phrase a little bit of what you fancy does you good is a cliché for a reason! That said when you go for a treat opt for the most sensible option you can bear and work towards that saintly apple in a week or two.
- Once you have decided to hop on that wagon help yourself to stay there by making a plan. Diets usually bite the dust as soon as we get too hungry and haven’t got that instant solution. A weekly meal plan and then just buying in the ingredients that you need will save you time and money as well as help you to stay healthy.
- Stock your fridge and cupboard with a few basics that will get you out of trouble when plans change. Chopping up pineapple or melon and just having a bowl in the fridge as a go-to can give you that sugar hit you need to think through the next meal without risking your regime.
- Keep it interesting – if you have something tasty to eat the healthy attributes will not really be relevant. Try cooking with a selection of herbs and spices. Add a little bit of chopped ginger, crushed garlic or lemongrass just to give your tastebuds a reason to dance again.
- Take a small snack with you when you pop out so that you are not tempted by calorific snacks that are all too easy when out and about.
Check out Chef Jean-Luc’s TV debut (27:26) talking through one of his healthy eating options on the Chrissy B Show back in December.
Get Chef Jean-Luc’s tagine recipe and other healthy eating ideas here.
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There’s something to be said for the determination of former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. Even after he was officially removed from office on Saturday he remained outspoken regarding his commitment to lead Catalonia to independence in the future. On Saturday afternoon after the Spanish government suspended Catalan autonomy, dissolved its government and assumed control of government functions in the region, Puigdemont released a prerecorded address to Catalans. In it he called Madrid’s actions ‘predetermined aggression’ and promised to continue the fight for independence through ‘democratic opposition.’ Regardless of his promises and desires Puigdemont is, for all intents and purposes, a man without a country.
Madrid is imposing direct rule on Catalonia, as Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy promised would happen if events continued along the independence path. The declaration of independence passed by the Catalan parliament on Friday is now officially inconsequential. Whatever power base separatist politicians believe they had following the referendum appears to be dissolving, if it ever truly existed in reality at all. Polls published by the Spanish newspaper El Pais this weekend show more Catalans in favor of dissolving the regional parliament and holding new elections. Fifty-five percent of Catalans who responded to the poll opposed the declaration of independence, with forty-one percent in favor. Those numbers are not encouraging signs for deposed Catalan MPs and other pro-independence and separatist politicians who want to continue the fight.
Whether the separatists refuse to acknowledge it or not, the writing is on the wall. The bid for independence was doomed from the beginning. Even if the pro-independence politicians had removed the blinders and recognized that the level of support they believed they had was in fact a mirage, there is no conceivable way the Spanish government would’ve ever allowed one of its most valuable regions to break away from the mother country. Had the shoe been on the other foot and Catalonia had somehow won independence from Spain, Puigdemont and his newly formed government would have found their new state to be a pariah on the international scene. Spain’s allies in Europe, along with the European Union, and the United States strongly opposed Catalan’s independence experiment. Although the EU, and a handful of European states offered their help in negotiations between Catalonia and Madrid should it come to that, all foreign states and bodies have recognized publicly that the Catalan Crisis is an internal matter.
The crisis has not passed just yet. There are still hurdles for Madrid to overcome, and it has to determine if and when full autonomy will be returned to Catalonia. The coming weeks and months will be a time to mend wounds and forge a stronger relationship between Madrid and the region. Failure to do so on the government’s part will only invite Catalan separatists to resume the fight for independence at some point down the line.
When he stepped up to the podium to address Catalonia’s parliament today, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont had three choices to select from. He could declare independence and single handedly plunge his region, and its parent nation of Spain into a veritable civil war. Or he could do the complete opposite and back down entirely, taking the prospect of Catalan independence off the table for good. The third choice was to walk a fine line between the aforementioned options, do neither, and craft a compromise that does not extinguish the flame of regional independence. Politically speaking, this was the most palatable choice available. Not surprisingly, Puigdemont took the compromise approach and laid it out in his address today, but it remains to be seen if he grasps that there was no other choice for him and that his actions since the referendum have dramatically undercut his position.
Puigdemont, in his address, said the people of Catalonia have chosen independence but it should come through a negotiated settlement with Madrid. Catalan officials claim the results of the 1 October independence referendum indicated over 90% of Catalan voters supported independence from Spain. The vote results are not official since the referendum was declared illegal by the Spanish government and Spain’s Constitutional Court suspended it. Spanish police prevented voters from entering many polling sites, causing a series of sharp clashes between Catalan voters and police in the streets of Barcelona and surrounding towns.
Puigdemont points to a desire to de-escalate the tension around the issue as his motivation for wanting to negotiate now. This represents a 180 degree turn for a man who was poised to issue a declaration of Catalan independence the moment the referendum ended. There was no talk of negotiating with Madrid in the lead up to 1 October. If the referendum went in favor of independence, Puigdemont gave every indication that Catalonia would secede quickly. When that moment came, though, he found that he had miscalculated the Spanish government and the Spanish people. Catalonia’s separatist designs served to rapidly revive Spanish nationalism. Video and images of Catalan citizens assaulting Spanish police during the referendum has had a dramatic effect on the Spanish populace. The spectacle of Catalonia simply walking away from Spain has touched off a furious wave of nationalism across the country.
Puigdemont did not for one moment believe this was how Spain and its citizens would react. He overplayed his hand and has chosen to pull back and regroup, believing that Madrid will negotiate a Catalan exit in good faith. The current mood in Spain, however, appears to say otherwise.
Catalonia’s ill-advised, and illegal independence referendum has placed Spain on the verge of a constitutional crisis. If Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont follows through on his promise to declare independence in a matter of days the stage will be set for a major confrontation between the government and Catalonia. The Spanish government would almost certainly block the move by any and all means including the use of force. Spain is well within its rights should it feel compelled to use military force. Catalonia’s government leaders, police officials, and referendum organizers incited rebellion against the state with their actions thus far.
Madrid cannot and will not allow an independence declaration to stand. If Catalonia is permitted to detach itself from the rest of the country and form a new nation-state, the Kingdom of Spain would dissolve within a year, carved up and Balkanized. The Basque region will follow Catalonia’s lead and declare independence next. Although a permanent ceasefire exists between the Spanish government and Basque Separatists, Catalan moves are being watched closely in the western Pyrénées. A whiff of independence is already in the air and if Madrid wavers even slightly in its standoff with Catalonia, Basque Country’s declaration will come quickly.
The rest of Europe is watching this crisis carefully, cognizant that the wrong move by either the Spanish government, or the Catalans may trigger a chain reaction of similar events across the continent. Spain is not the only EU nation with a separatist movement within its borders, and a few European nations have experience in fending off separation such as Belgium. Some European leaders are calling for a dialogue between Madrid and the Catalans, however, the statements generally end there. At this point no one wants to appear to be interfering in another nation’s domestic affairs. And for the moment the Catalan situation falls squarely into that category.
Today’s events in Barcelona serve as a grim reminder that the problems Europe faced in 2016 are still alive and well in 2017 despite individual and collective efforts by EU member-states to create the illusion of improving conditions across the continent. Since President Trump was inaugurated in January he has served as a scapegoat for all ailments European. In the aftermath of the populist tsunami last year, EU leaders have countered by portraying Trump and his seemingly anti-EU positions as the common enemy to be challenged. The true challenges facing Europe like terror, and the renewed refugee influx, have been minimized by pro-EU politicians and the media. Non-starter issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Trump’s tweets, and European diplomatic forays into non-European matters have replaced them.
Although the number of refugees arriving in southern Europe is increasing once again, little is mentioned of it by pro-EU politicians and the European media. The same held true for terrorism until today. Apparent terror incidents in Germany are systematically ruled to be otherwise with astonishing speed. The same European media outlets which covered last year’s incidents with intense focus have downgraded their level of coverage, as was seen with the most recent car attack in Paris. Then came today’s Barcelona attack. As of the time of writing, thirteen deaths and over 80 wounded bystanders have been confirmed. Two men are in custody and a manhunt is underway across Spain for a third man, as anti-terror operations take place at various points around the country.
As much as the EU, and many Europeans try to pretend otherwise, terrorism is no less of a problem today compared to last year. If anything, terror is becoming an even greater security threat. ISIS and other Islamic terror organizations have an infinite pool of potential attackers to select from, and the EU, for fear of appearing politically incorrect for lack of a better term, is dragging its heels in monitoring the people who are potentially serious threats.
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Nursing certifications are an extension of the multi-layered path of nursing education. Consisting of nine separate colleges, which includes the College of Education and Human Sciences, they supply various certificate programs for Specific Education. Once more, initial outcomes from over 10,000 test takers had 77% passing, only three% at the mastery” level. Candidates with prior PA certificates in early childhood N-three, elementary K-6 or PreK-4, middle college 4-8, and K-12 certified reading specialists are eligible for this selection. They are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
MARGARET FORTUNE is a member of the California State University board of trustees and president of Fortune College of Education, a nonprofit charter college operator. Students must total the certification requirements for Early Childhood Education certification (PreK-four) or Middle Level Education (four-8) certification to be eligible for Particular Education PreK-8 certification. Special Education Certification as an undergraduate requires Dual Certification with Early Childhood Education or Middle Level Education or Secondary Education. Completion of the special education certificate on-line via Penn State offers people with a exceptional chance to tackle disabilities with comprehension and reading. The Division of Education certificates plan at Rutgers was founded in 1923.
Candidates ought to hold New York State teacher certification in early childhood, childhood, or adolescence education. The hassle-free online format of the Special Education Certification accommodates almost any schedule and offers you the freedom to earn your degree and accomplish your educational goals while meeting your experienced obligations. After the Special Education teacher has completed their internship, they can apply for the five-year normal license for grades K-12 Mild/Moderate. Later that very same year, a pilot project was created to test the concept of operate knowledge for youth with disabilities.” (CDE, 2012).
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NATO and Russia did not make significant progress on saving the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance headquarters on Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Barring a last-minute decision by Russia to destroy a new medium-range missile that NATO says violates the INF, the United States is set to pull out of the accord on Aug. 2, arguing that it needs to develop its own warheads to deter Moscow.
Moscow says it is fully compliant with the INF treaty negotiated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers.
"We have not seen any signs of a breakthrough," Stoltenberg told reporters after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, a closed-door forum that allows for dialogue between the two sides' diplomats and officials.
Stoltenberg said the chances of a resolution were "going down, day by day" but that NATO had not given up on trying to convince Moscow to destroy the SSC-8 ground-launched cruise missile, which it says the treaty ban on land-based missiles with a range of 500 kilometers to 5,500 kilometers.
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The United Nations Building 3D Model on East 45th Street NY.
United Nations Headquarters, or the UN headquarters, is a complex of buildings in New York (USA) that serves as the official office for the main working bodies of the UN.
The buildings are located in the eastern part of Manhattan between 42nd and 48th streets, First Avenue and the East River Strait. The land within this square covers an area of 18 acres (~ 73,000 m²) and is an international territory owned by all Member States . However, in accordance with the agreement between the United States and the UN Pub. L. No. 80-357, 61 Stat. 756 (1947), the headquarters district remains within the judicial jurisdiction of the United States.
In addition to buildings in New York, the United Nations has three more supporting regional headquarters: in Geneva (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria) and Nairobi (Kenya). However, the most important decisions of the organization are made in New York, since most of the meetings of the General Assembly and the UN Security Council are held here.
In total, the working bodies, agencies and centers of the United Nations around the world work about 61 thousand employees from about 170 countries. At headquarters in New York is about a third of the organization’s staff.
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The artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden hit the gun range on a sweltering Monday in July. The air was sticky inside the facility, but her routine would not be denied. She shoots every week and avoids weekends, when the range gets crowded and loud with men firing off assault-type rifles, inviting sensory overload. It might be a familiar activity for some Americans. Less so for an artist. But McClodden, 41, a star of the 2019 Whitney Biennial who has three major presentations of work now up in New York City — at 52 Walker, the Shed, and the Museum of Modern Art — didn’t purchase guns and get her carry license two years ago with art in mind. At least at first. She did it — like many other Black Philadelphians, she recalls — after the pandemic drained the streets, and then the George Floyd protests and counter-protests filled them with interlopers and a sense of swirling violence. Safety and self-defense were her concerns.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s artistic practice resists categorization. The talent excels as a painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and curator. She is the founder and director of Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery and library centered on Black thought and artistic production. Her work explores shared values and traditions within the African diaspora, the “Black mentifact,” as she calls it. Now, with a solo show on view at David Zwirner’s Tribeca outpost 52 Walker, and another opening August 3 at The Shed in New York, McClodden has firmly established herself as a leading voice in contemporary Black culture.
The picturesque summer manor Frank Lloyd Wright designed on a cliff in Derby is the setting for two contemporary outdoor sculptures and several more on both floors of the recently restored 1926 Graycliff estate. The outdoor sculptures provided by Albright-Knox Art Gallery for the exhibition "Sarah Braman: Finding Room" will be on the grounds until October 2023, with the indoor pieces on view until March 2023. "This exhibition is unlike anything Graycliff has ever hosted," said Anna Kaplan, Graycliff Conservancy's executive director. "It is a real opportunity to invigorate our now restored historic grounds and interiors with brilliant contemporary art that is sure to challenge perspectives, and allow us to experience our historic site in an entirely new way."
The Trace of an Implied Presence meditates on the living history and influence of contemporary Black dance in the United States. The exhibition centers on a multichannel video installation inspired by the artist’s research into the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 1983 landmark festival, Dance Black America, a dynamic presentation of American dance that featured legendary Black dancers, choreographers, scholars, and dance companies. In The Shed’s Level 2 Gallery, the installation features four individual dance floors that function as stages for projected images of archival dance footage, film portraits of key figures involved with the festival, and the artist’s own documentation of the Philly Bop, a Black social dance from her native Philadelphia.
The night the newest edition of the FRONT International opened in Cleveland, the show’s curator, Prem Krishnamurthy, could be found at karaoke bar called Tina’s, belting out a beery rendition of Britney Spears’s Toxic. Before him was a rag-tag crowd of local barflies, goth kids, rust-belt cowboys, baseball bros—as well as a cadre of the international art world there for the show. Everyone was singing along. Tina’s wasn’t one of the official sites of the triennial exhibition (which is funny, because seemingly every other venue in Northeast Ohio is), but Krishnamurthy called the event the “crux of the show.” “Karaoke,” he said, “can be such a leveling force. There, in that big room, there are all these different people you don’t know, but everybody’s cheering each other on. When somebody sings, everybody else claps for them and everybody else joins in. To me, that is beautiful.”
Gideon Appah is a master of romance. The Accra-based artist creates landscapes full of atmospheric elements: clouds, stars, expanses of desert—realms that have been described as “primordial” and “post-apocalyptic.” He populates these spaces with contemplative and unknown figures, perfectly poised members of the canvas who hang out or drift through. Appah first started working with Ghanaian newspaper clippings, but now he paints on layered canvas, a technique that sees him coloring from dark to light rather than from light to dark. The result is a muted, strangely disembodied color palette, one that seems to exist somewhere between heaven and earth. The modest and affable Appah, now 34, is making a splash in the art world. In 2022, he’s received solo shows at Ghana’s esteemed Gallery 1957 and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. With an exhibition of Appah’s recent works having opened last week at the Triennale in Milan, AIR MAIL catches up with Ghana’s hottest young artist.
"MASK / CONCEAL / CARRY" is a new show featuring work by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, a 41-year-old multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator based in Philadelphia. McClodden is familiar to lots of New York arts audiences — she's got works in local museums, and she's been involved with programming at places like The Kitchen. Her show is at 52 Walker, the new Tribeca outpost of David Zwirner Gallery that's directed by dealer and curator Ebony L. Haynes. The space is run by an all-Black staff, and it's intended to offer something different than the conventional gallery experience. Shows here will stay on view for months, rather than weeks. And while you're free to snap pictures and post them on your social media feeds, the gallery doesn't share images from its shows on its website — the idea is that you're meant to come in and have the experience yourself.
Across the harbour from Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where yachts can be spotted gliding out to Lake Erie, two water spouts shoot skyward like whale exhalations. This fountain is part of To Those Who Nourish (2022), a three-year project by London-based duo Cooking Sections that addresses low oxygen levels in the lake caused by agricultural runoff. Organised by Spaces gallery and commissioned by the Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, whose second edition opened 16 July after a one-year pandemic delay, the work is a tribute to nine Ohio farms committed to eliminating chemical fertiliser.
The exhibition considers a proliferation of art concerned with the marginalized state of being socially and culturally invisible or, conversely, hyper-visible. Work by queer artists, women and artists of color is on view. Twenty-five artists from multiple generations have been assembled by Marcelle Joseph, an independent curator based in London, and Legacy Russell, executive director at the Kitchen, an experimental interdisciplinary art space in New York. They worked with ICA L.A. curatorial assistant Caroline Ellen Liou. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos are included, with one and sometimes two pieces per artist featured. Things kick off in the parking lot with a brightly colored, four-panel wall mural by Argentine artist Ad Minoliti, its flat but snappy mix of suggestive geometric and organic shapes said to describe an “Aquelarre no binario / Non-binary coven.” Loose suggestions of interlocking limbs, heads and other human or animal body parts dart in and out of view among graphic signs, so you can’t be quite certain what you are seeing.
When General Idea first started making art in the 1960s, the older generation was already getting its share of shock from the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that defined the era. But nothing could prepare them for what was coming courtesy of artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal. In a first, the National Gallery of Canada is acknowledging the group (don’t call them a “collective,” Bronson, the only surviving member, said) with a massive survey of their work from its very beginnings. After its run in Ottawa, the show is set to head to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. What started as an experiment grew into a powerful force in the Canadian contemporary art milieu. Up to that point, no one talked much about non-normative sexual and gender identity. General Idea wanted to talk—and so they did, starting a conversation that might not otherwise have happened in polite, middle-class society.
“It’s pretty rare for two artists to succeed in a relationship together,” says Sam Moyer, in the front seat of her car alongside husband Eddie Martinez on a recent summer morning. The two artists have just dropped their young son off at camp and are sitting side-by-side to discuss their joint show at the South Etna Foundation in Montauk, where they were soon headed for the recent holiday weekend. The pair have welcomed two dual exhibitions out east: in addition to South Etna, which opened the first weekend of July, a sculpture show at Landcraft Garden in Mattituck, curated by Ugo Rondinone, opened in June. “It’s serendipity that they were the same summer,” says Moyer. “We were laughing about it, that we were gonna have the North Fork and the South Fork covered this summer.”
When asked by Martha Wilson about the affinity for contradiction within his work in a 1996 BOMB magazine interview, artist Pope.L pointed to his own family experiences as one clue, noting how the “desire to keep things together,” kept coming in conflict with “this tendency for things to fall apart.” Rather than accept these impulses as mutually exclusive and in opposition, Pope.L, who is known for his gonzo interventions into art and life, dives into the tensions, curious as to how one makes meaning within such a shifting and unstable environment. He embraces contradiction and nonsense as but one method of engaging with our social realities and understanding how those realities are structured by ideologies like racism, consumerism, and more.
A standout artist in Cecilia Alemani’s marvelous “The Milk of Dreams” exhibition in this year’s Venice Biennale, where she has a whole wall full of paintings, the Austrian painter and sculptor Kiki Kogelnik got her start as an abstract artist in Vienna. By the 1960s, however, she had found her way to New York, where she added Pop Art references to her colorful canvases, and later took another turn toward more feminist subject matter in the 1970s.
From 20th-century master painters to contemporary icons, prominent Hamptons artist couples have long captivated the imagination: Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, April Gornik and Eric Fischl. This weekend, Eddie Martinez and Sam Moyer join the list of East End heavyweights when their pas de deux exhibit opens at the South Etna Montauk Foundation, founded in 2021 by Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann on the tip of Long Island’s South Fork. The show juxtaposes Moyer’s latest stone paintings—made from marble slabs and slate the artist sources from local quarries with a plaster underlay that references classic fresco and stucco walls—against Martinez’s recent paper-pulp works in his signature, electric language of abstract patterns and shapes, butterflies, flowers and mushrooms. Ahead of the show, the husband-and-wife talents reveal the secret to coexisting art practices.
An upcoming exhibition of the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude at Aspen’s Hexton Gallery (opening August 1), as well as the current and impressively monumental survey of French duo Les Lalanne at London’s Claridge’s and Ben Brown Fine Arts both offer the unique chance to better understand the gender dynamics of working married couples in the arts. However, as of Christo’s passing in May of 2020, all four have already left behind this mortal existence. But the new and concisely titled exhibition Eddie Martinez + Sam Moyer – opening tomorrow, July 2 at the South Etna Montauk Foundation – allows for a very different opportunity to view how those dynamics are playing out IRL in a very different, 21st Century context.
Pygmalion’s Ugly Season (2022) is the 28-minute visual adjunct Satterwhite created for Ugly Season (2022), the latest album by Mike Hadreas, a musician who performs under the stage name ‘Perfume Genius’. The video opens with Satterwhite’s body disintegrating into a network of worlds situated at his joints and chakras. Ever the builder of fantastical dreamscapes, Satterwhite overlays the avatars of pirouetting men in bondage wear with footage of an evangelical Christian congregation overcome by the holy spirit. In another scene, two cyborgs lashed to a travelator made of bike chains convey a bare-chested man, who is cradling a limp Hadreas, through intergalactic space. These vignettes, as wild and attention-seeking as they may seem, are cloaked meditations on desire, human nature, healing and finding utopia.
Enigmatic artist Pope.L works across performance, installation, and video to explore race, identity, language, and material culture. For his second solo show at Vielmetter, he has transformed the gallery into a series of sheds through which viewers must navigate. They will encounter four video works characterized by their unsettling tone, and a sculpture, I Machine, that is composed of two stacked overhead projectors and a contraption that drips liquid into a bowl, the sound of which is amplified. Also on view will be elements from “The Black Factory,” an ongoing archive since 2004 of “black objects” gathered from the public, that have been secured in compression boxes.
Mitchell-Innes and Nash’s second solo presentation of Kiki Kogelnik comes on the heels of the artist’s posthumous inclusion in the current Venice Biennale. It features 10 of her graphic, boldly colorful paintings and 21 works on paper, dating from 1962 to 1985. Kogelnik’s depictions of women seemingly in search of personal determination were inspired by her own struggles as a woman artist, such as when she and her fiance, artist Arnulf Rainer, moved in together and she was relegated to the attic, while he got a whole floor as a studio.
Earlier this month, the multimedia artist Jacolby Satterwhite was mingling at the Guggenheim Young Collectors Party. He’s perhaps best known for his maximalist 3D animations, and a preview of his latest video project was to be projected on the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. He’d been doing final edits up until the event. “It’s the biggest labor of love I’ve had by far,” he said. “The magnitude and dynamism in the piece was a feat that I thought I couldn’t handle.” Pygmalion’s Ugly Season is Satterwhite’s 27-minute symbiotic companion to Ugly Season, the just-released album by Mike Hadreas, who performs and records under the moniker Perfume Genius. The collaboration grew out of mutual fandom; after the two were introduced and embarked on a yearlong phone relationship, the project germinated organically.
General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists — AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal — that formed in 1969. The trio was anti-establishment, queer and punk. Most importantly, they made art with a wink and a smile, becoming known for cheeky projects like staging a beauty pageant for artists and sending strangers mail with intimate questions. General Idea proved that art could be provocative and fun while still tackling issues that matter, like the AIDS crisis, which had a huge influence on their work. Sadly, AIDS led to the deaths of two of the group's members. Bronson is the sole surviving member of General Idea. He joined Q's Tom Power from his home in Berlin to discuss the National Gallery of Canada's massive new retrospective celebrating the group. Follow along with the conversation using this visual companion guide.
Jacolby Satterwhite is a postmodern video artist and unparalleled green screen wizard. His latest, Pygmalion’s Ugly Season, is a companion to Perfume Genius’ surreal avant-garde pop masterwork. Satterwhite’s images emphasize both the madcap goofiness and tenderness of Perfume Genius’ music: elements often overshadowed by the album’s unnerving passages of orchestral brood. The film imagines a queer utopia represented in landscapes of 3D saturated and computer-generated artifice. Eroticized male bodies dance across synthetic architecture and communities form through touch and movement. Satterwhite’s film presents a queer utopia divorced from all notions of purity, aesthetic or otherwise: a liberating rapture of hyper-digital images.
Informed by a biography that bespeaks binary tension—imagine dividing thirty years of your life between crawling in Manhattan and schooling well-to-do students in rural Maine—Pope.L, working with the curator Dieter Roelstraete, opens his first solo exhibition, ‘Between a Figure and a Letter,’ in the darkened octagonal basement of Berlin’s Schinkel Pavillon. Most visitors to the exhibition are likely anticipating the installation located in the sunlit hall two floors above which is, on the arrival of an audience, activated by a dramatically loud performance. Curiosity thus permeates the bifurcated space as one wonders what the acutely sarcastic critic of contemporary culture has drawn up or, rather, torn down for Berlin.
As the weekend getaways to the Hamptons begin to fill many art-lovers calendars, a garden in Mattituck promises the perfect stop in North Fork to enjoy another husband and wife’s joint show. Organized by New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone and Landcraft Garden Foundation, Sculpture in the Garden 2022 features works by Sam Moyer and Eddie Martinez who are both primarily celebrated for their two-dimensional art. The show however invites visitors to explore the third dimension in their practices, featuring eleven sculptures by Martinez and three by Moyer. The elements of energy and texture in abstraction have been critical for both artists’ approach to surfaces, and with the outdoor sculptures, they further their experiments on similar notions with the vistas of a lush garden.
When I looked at Gideon Appah’s paintings in his solo exhibition Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes at the Institution for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, I found gestures toward many things – with the dourness of his palette, the figures in suits smoking, the shy front-facing nude, the nude woman wielding daggers with her back turned to us, the dying (or dead) figure. In these portraits and other figurative paintings, there are allusions to Ghanaian cinema, with references to films like The Boy Kumasenu (1952) and I Told You So (1970). Paintings of landscapes and neighborhoods evoke the heyday of entertainment and film in Ghana, which spanned the 1950s to the early 1980s. And paintings of nudes leave us more than a little curious not only as to their stories but to the place of the individual against the disintegration of cultural memory.
Julia Child and Craig Claiborne are sitting in a small wine bar at the Pittsburgh airport, luggage at their feet.
Martha Rosler utilizes various media in her work, primarily video and photography, and also installation and sculpture; she also writes about art and culture. Her work has for decades considered matters of the public sphere and mass culture; war and geopolitical conflict; housing, urbanism, and the built environment, and systems of transportation—especially as these affect women. Many of her projects have been extrainstitutional or developed and enacted with groups of people. Rosler sees her work, her teaching, and her writing as continuations of a broader engagement with the currents of cultural critique and social and political change. Her work may best be summed up as both a conceptual art and an activist practice—focused on questions of representational form but joined, however uneasily, to a commitment to political agitation. Video, which she adopted in its infancy, presented itself as at the crossroads of both.
General Idea, an art group that pioneered a queer aesthetic, is celebrated in a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada (opened during Pride Month and running until 20 November 2022). Surviving member AA Bronson speaks about their origins, and impact on art and social justice.
Formed as part of the 1960s Toronto counterculture, General Idea was a radical artist-led group founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945–1994) and Jorge Zontal (1944–1994). Together they invented a ground-breaking and provocative multi-disciplinary practice that challenged social and artistic norms and altered the development of postwar art over 25 years – from the group’s formation in 1969 to the deaths in 1994 of both Partz and Zontal from AIDS-related illnesses. This major retrospective of General Idea will bring together more than 200 works, including installations, paintings, drawings, videos, sculptures, publications and archival material, to explore the crucial role General Idea played in developing art and activism in Canada, the United States and Europe. The exhibition will also chart General Idea’s influence on future generations of creators, informing new ways of reimagining and changing our world through art.
The Canadian artist AA Bronson was one of founding members of the art collective General Idea along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. The artists lived and worked together for twenty-five years, exploring themes ranging from mass media and popular culture to queer identity and the AIDS epidemic. Since the death of Partz and Zontal in 1994 from AIDS, Bronson has become increasingly interested in the practice of healing and often incorporates healing processes into his artworks, focusing on specific historical and contemporary traumas. The work of General Idea is the subject of a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from 3 June to 20 November.
The eclectic Canadian trio General Idea, who attained international acclaim during their 25 years of practice (1969-94), are about to hit the heights again as the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The show, opening this week, will feature around 200 works, including major installations, publications, videos, drawings, paintings and sculptures. Although the exhibition’s curator Adam Welch admitted surprise that such a retrospective had not come until now at the National Gallery (Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario did stage one a decade ago), the group has hardly gone unnoticed in the Ottawa-based museum. As Welch told The Art Newspaper: “We have outstanding works in the collection and this exhibition has allowed us to delve much more deeply into those holdings, and, of course, to engage in close research with AA Bronson.”
For his first institutional solo show in the US, ‘Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes’ at ICA VCU, Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah presents a series of newly commissioned, large-scale canvases. In the first gallery, Red Valley and Ten Nudes and a Landscape (both 2021) depict hazy, magma-like landscapes onto which the silhouettes of various figures – dancing, reclining – have been lightly superimposed. They might be the ghosts of clubbers in some primordial land, or visions of future party-goers in a post-apocalyptic world.
Gideon Appah’s “Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes” at the ICA looks at death, myth and reality impacted by the pandemic. “Gideon started his career thinking about the rise and fall of culture, leisure and democracy in Ghana,” says Amber Esseiva, curator at the ICA. “He was looking at how that is reflected in news media.”
For his first institutional solo show in the US, ‘Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes’ at ICA VCU, Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah presents a series of newly commissioned, large-scale canvases. In the first gallery, Red Valley and Ten Nudes and a Landscape (both 2021) depict hazy, magma-like landscapes onto which the silhouettes of various figures – dancing, reclining – have been lightly superimposed. They might be the ghosts of clubbers in some primordial land, or visions of future party-goers in a post-apocalyptic world. Alongside these works hang three smaller paintings of mythic nudes: gods to occupy these otherworldly scenes, perhaps. Appah’s figures are usually composites of friends, characters from popular Ghanaian films and chance acquaintances. These paintings, which mark a departure from his earlier work about Ghanaian nightlife, increasingly incorporate shamanic or tarot-like symbols: The Young Minotaur (2021), for instance, who looks pensively off into the distance across a stormy sky, two fleshy skin-tone horns sprouting from his head.
In a partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Public Art Fund, works by Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite will help reintroduce Geffen Hall this fall. When David Geffen Hall reopens on the Lincoln Center campus this fall, two new artworks — by Nina Chanel Abney and by Jacolby Satterwhite — will be splayed across the 65th Street facade and a 50-foot media wall in the renovated lobby. These highly visible pieces, commissioned by the performing arts center in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Public Art Fund, are positioned to help reintroduce the longtime home of the New York Philharmonic to the city and will inaugurate a rotating program of visual artists invited to put their stamp on Lincoln Center.
Jacolby Satterwhite’s video The Matriarch’s Rhapsody (2012) draws upon sketches created by the artist’s late mother, Patricia Satterwhite, while she was contending with schizophrenia. For more than a decade, Jacolby Satterwhite has created 3D animated video works, sculptures, and immersive installations that explore themes of consumption, fantasy, and utopian desire. In works such as Country Ball 1989-2012 (2012) and Reifying Desire 5 (2013), Satterwhite’s surreal, bacchanalian image-scapes blend influences as diverse as queer theory, voguing, performance, and video-game fantasy genres.
In her latest works, conceptual artist Annette Lemiuex, a member of the Pictures Generation, mines TV, film, and literary history to focus on “isolation, division, and brokenness,” according to the gallery. In one work, titled Midnight Sun and made in part from a film still from The Twilight Zone, Lemiuex depicts an artist painting in vain amid a heatwave that melts the pigment off her canvas. In part a reflection on the difficulties of the vocation, the work also references wider looming troubles ahead.
How is the transient experience of being a young woman captured and preserved? The memories tied up in the experience of girlhood and how young women express their identity and autonomy are explored in the Henry Art Gallery’s exhibition, “Double Dare Ya: Burns, Kurland, & Ross-Ho.” Running Feb. 4 through May 29, “Double Dare Ya” is a new exhibit in the Henry’s ongoing “Viewpoints” series, in which members of the UW community are encouraged to join the discourse on the artwork being exhibited. The “Viewpoints” series is organized by Nina Bozicnik, the assistant curator, and Kira Sue, a graduate curatorial assistant.
Schinkel Pavilion presents “Between A Figure and A Letter”, the new exhibition by American artist Pope.L, curated by Dieter Roelstraete. Known for his provocative interventions in public spaces, the artist is addressing issues and themes ranging from language to gender, race, social struggle, and community. The exhibition is open from April 8th until July 31st, 2022.
This Wednesday, 6th April, from 6:30-8pm, the Tate Modern will present Jacob Satterwhite’s Birds in Paradise—a six-part, two-channel film installation—which will be followed by a conversation with the artist. Birds in Paradise is a suite of films, titled after a key record that speaks to the visual motifs threaded throughout the work, is scored by a conceptual folk record the artist made from a cappella recordings written and sung by his late mother, the artist Patricia Satterwhite. Generating its narrative from an archive of borrowed anecdotes, personal mythologies, drawings and experimental dance performance footage accumulated by the artist throughout his life the work is a juxtapositions of queer Boschean tableaus decorated with performances by artists, queer activists, dancers, sex workers and actors from his community. Together, the six works depict the resilience of collective bodies in a time of existential crises, grief and post-apocalyptic fantasies. The suite of films have recently been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Haus der Kunst, the Athens Biennial, the Gwangju Biennial, and the Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon, among others.
For its second edition, the Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art will feature more than 75 artists whose work meditates on the notion of healing and its many meanings. The triennial will run from July 16 through October 2, and will be curated by team led by Prem Krishnamurthy, who has titled the exhibition “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” a quotation from a poem by Langston Hughes, who lived in Cleveland as a child. As with the first edition, staged in 2018, this year’s Front International will be staged across sites in Cleveland and the nearby cities of Akron and Oberlin.
In New York City, hand gestures speak much. They talk about our ethnicity and our gods. “Praise New York,” an exhibit of Karl Haendel’s large-scale drawings of the religious hands of our city, is taking place from March 10th to April 16th in Chelsea, Manhattan at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, 534 West 26th Street, open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM. The artist Haendel explores the world with his own hands by drawing portraits of other people through a close look at their hands. The drawings are larger than a human being is tall which in the gallery creates the feeling of hands as living fashion models standing in poises of praise and offerings of grace. He says, “It’s a novel way to make a portrait, allowing people to express themselves with gesture and nuance” using hands rather than faces, which moves too quickly in our day and age to invoke standards of beauty rather than portraits of the soul.
Haendel’s nearly nine-feet tall, wow-inspiring realist depictions of the hands of some of New York City’s Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian and Sikh faith leaders on exhibition at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery in West Chelsea, is certainly a fresh way to create a group portrait. On view until April 16, “Praise New York” honors a diverse group of pastors, imams, rabbis and priests who helped New Yorkers cope throughout the worst days of the pandemic.
The first painting greeting us in the Mitchell-Innes & Nash exhibition is, aptly, a self portrait. Smaller than the other pieces in the show, monochromatic, it packs the power of dynamite. The man represented closeup looks aghast, terrified even. His eyes stare down with dismay at something off canvas, an abyss? Hell? Malleable, the face is agitated by a chaos of brushstrokes. The boundaries between the head and its surroundings are unclear, as if everything was made of the same substance: mud. Mud, here, is nicely symbolic not only for its biblical intimation — Man being dipped, thrown, trampled in and yanked from the “miry mud” — but the muddiness of mind is also equally appropriate. While his portraits often halted at an opacity in the sitter, Kossoff had a pretty good idea of what he was about: uncertain about everything. He could, he tells us, hold onto nothing solid, either on the outside or the inside. “The important thing is to somehow keep going. This is ‘the straw to which we cling.” This credo, shared in a rare interview, could serve as caption for all of his mature paintings.
Artists who do the most interesting work with digital media often start elsewhere. Auriea Harvey studied painting at the Parsons School of Design before learning web design and then, with Michaël Samyn, founding the game studio Tale of Tales, which released experimental interactive experiences that expanded notions of what video games could be. Jacolby Satterwhite earned an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied painting, and only after graduation he began teaching himself Maya, which he used to create the engrossing, multidimensional hybrids of animation and video he’s known for today. Both artists still work in multiple mediums. Recently Harvey has focused on physical and virtual sculpture, blending 3D prints with natural materials and building digital models. Satterwhite returned to painting and showed the results in a recent exhibition at MoMA PS1. He is currently building an interactive virtual world for Cleveland’s FRONT International, a triennial that opens this summer. Harvey and Satterwhite met to discuss their shared love of video games, their interest in virtuality as an enhancement of the real, and how they achieved mastery through total dedication to craft.
Big Apple native Karl Haendel's "Praise New York" exhibition, inauguarted Thursday at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash art gallery in the West Side Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea and scheduled to run through April 16, pays homage to rabbis, priests, imams, pastors and other faith leaders who have shared vital resources and boosted the city's morale over the past two years.
In recent times, Gideon Appah explored the Ghanaian cultural memory through a series of portraits expressed through paintings, drawings and media ephemera. The primary source of inspiration was the legacy of the country’s film production from the 1950s to the 1980s. By employing entertainment posters, newspaper clippings, and films from the period, Appah has created a vibrant tableau that commemorates the cinema and leisure.
Ascendent Ghanian artist Gideon Appah is currently enjoying his first institutional solo show at The ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. A plethora of new paintings, drawings and media ephemera make up the display, which aims to “chronicle the cycle of Ghana’s cultural memory – from heyday to bygone”. Appah has drawn on archive newspaper clippings, posters and films for the purpose, resulting in a series of dreamy, gesturally rendered tableaux that consider “the rise and fall of Ghana’s cinema and leisure culture”.
London modernism doesn’t get the same credit as its Paris or New York counterparts. That only means the work of the richly expressive painters of the London School—not just Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, but also Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, and R. B. Kitaj, among others—continues to surprise. “Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting,” at New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash, provides a deep dive into the thick impasto of this British painter.1 Born in London in 1926, and focused on the lives of its working-class neighborhoods, Kossoff imparted the weight of experience in the thickness of his line and heaviness of his brush.
A survey of paintings by the celebrated postwar British artist Leon Kossoff, who died in 2019, is timed to the publication of the Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings. On view are 16 paintings, ranging in date from the late 1950s to 2016. Kossoff was part of the “School of London,” a postwar movement that included artists such as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Frank Auerbach. The show includes Kossoff’s main themes—family members, nudes, and London landscapes—which are at once poignant and mundane. The Mitchell-Innes and Nash show is part of a three-gallery effort and is the first posthumous and largest exhibition of Kossoff’s paintings in a commercial setting to date. Annely Juda organized a show in London in September, and L.A. Louver in Los Angeles has a concurrent exhibition through March 26.
There was something unintentionally fitting about seeing Kossoff’s complex, sobering art under our currently disrupted circumstances. The show’s earliest painting, “Seated Woman” (1957), is a 5-foot-tall panel laden with pounds and pounds of thick, dark paint. Kossoff dragged his brush through the chocolate brown mud, exposing rich tones of purple, crimson and forest green buried within, literally carving out the linear form of a dozing figure, hands clasped in her lap, mouth a hooked slash.
Kossoff’s greatness lies in the extreme way he pits the two basic realities of painting — the actual paint surface and the image depicted — against each another. First there is the startlingly heavy, even off-putting, impasto of his oil paint, which sometimes seems more ladled on than conventionally applied with a brush (even a big one), and which gives his surfaces an almost topographical dimension. Then there is the reality of his images, initially swamped in paint, that ultimately battles its way to legibility through a process that thrillingly slows and extends the act of looking.
Julian Stanczak: The Light Inside at Diane Rosenstein Gallery. Exploring the artist’s intuitive use of color and geometric abstraction to create a sense of radiant light, this historic series of paintings resonates with the themes of the California Light And Space movement. According to the late artist, his minimal compositions are emotional landscapes that express his desire to transcend the surface containment of the painting as object and connect with the viewer through perception.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting the group exhibition “Olvido, Sombra, Nada” (“Oblivion, Shadow, Nothing”), featuring work by the artists Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Lucas Samaras, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Open from February 3 until March 5, the show follows the tension in portraiture between acts of revelation and concealment, named for the poem Espejo (“Mirror”) by Octavio Paz, which looks at understanding and misunderstanding in relation to self-reflections. From Samaras, ten works from the artist’s Sitting series (1978—1980) reveal the artist himself photographed into the shadows of his portraits. Sepuya’s featured works use methods of exposure and props like black drop cloths, translucent screens, and smudged mirrors when capturing indirect or partial portraits of human figures. And from McClodden, viewers will find a suite of black polished leather objects and a series of 65 prints seen for the first time, which come together to create a self-portrait of the artist that at once reveals and challenges elements of identity.
“Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (through March 5): London modernism doesn’t always get the same credit as its Paris or New York counterparts. That means the richly expressive painters of the London School—not just Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, but also Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, R. B. Kitaj, and others—continue to surprise. This month at New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash, “Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting” provides a deep dive into the thick impasto of the British painter Leon Kossoff (1926–2019). Born in London, and focusing on the lives of its working-class neighborhoods, Kossoff imparted the weight of experience in the thickness of his line and heaviness of his paint. This exhibition of sixteen works ranging from 1936 to 1993 is timed to the release of the 640-page Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Modern Art Press and is curated by its editor, Andrea Rose. A west-coast version of the exhibition also opens this week at California’s L.A. Louver gallery.
We are born to recognize faces. But by 1969 Kossoff had worked on a number of portraits in which the faces never cohere (bodies, as figures, are easier to read, because more abstract to begin with). His Seated Woman (1957) is a good example. Self Portrait No. 1 from 1965 may be a better one. In this work, one can strain to make Kossoff’s or any face appear, but it would just be an affirmation of one’s own credulity, akin to seeing Jesus in a water stain or a slice of burnt toast.
In Portland, California-native Chris Johanson’s swirling “abstract flows of colour” also reference mandala paintings. “I focus on not knowing what I am doing while my body carefully and slowly paints these colours next to each other,” writes Johanson in Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And (published by New York gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash). “All the while, I think about everything else – past, present and future, myopic and hyperopic.” Working on raw canvas slows down the painting process. “You think about things slowly, too,” he says. “The process is perfectly time consuming; it just mellows me out completely. They’re peaceful paintings to make. And I think you can see it. That’s why they resonate.”
Artist Gideon Appah’s story begins with homemade comic books of dinosaurs living among people and the adventures of Night Man, his very own masked crusader. "He fought for justice, kind of like Superman or Batman," Appah says via teleconference from Ghana.
In a relatively short career, the West African painter has gone through many different stylistic phases, exploring — and combining — surrealism, nature scenes and portraiture. The 35-year-old rising star will have his first solo U.S. exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU this year from Feb. 11 to June 19. More than 30 of his paintings, most of them new works, will be showcased on both sides of the museum's upstairs gallery.
The New York–based gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash now represents Tiona Nekkia McClodden, a closely watched artist whose work recently appeared at the Prospect New Orleans triennial. The gallery presented work by the artist in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach last month. Mitchell-Innes & Nash will include McClodden’s work in a group show at a seasonal space in Mexico City next month, with a solo show to follow in New York in 2023.
How does one capture a sense of time bedeviling itself? Experimental filmmaker and artist Pat O’Neill’s show here, “The Decay of Fiction,” interrogated this notion. The first time I visited, I felt as if I were witnessing a palimpsest of hauntings—decades of ghosts sealed inside a building’s many surfaces roaming freely. Yet the second time around I experienced an additional sensation: a sustained feeling of displacement caused less by the spooks’ presence than by an uncanny sense of their being both stuck inside a specific historical moment and forever pushed outside it.
In our current state of ever-evolving social and ecological catastrophe, we find ourselves needing not just inspiration, but examples of best practice – and the septuagenarian performer, installation artist, healer, zine publisher and activist AA Bronson weighs in on both counts. As one of the founding members of the art collective General Idea, Bronson was an important early responder to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Then, following the deaths from AIDS in 1994 of his life partners and General Idea co-members, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, he has had to find ways of making work that make sense within the context of ongoing and devastating grief.
The conversation on documentary photography often comes with leitmotifs as “giving voice”, “raising awareness”, and “making a change”, which are unquestionably honourable aims, but with minimal effects, if the act is limited to freezing the “decisive moment”, suggesting that producing images is the summit of the photographic event. Instead, it is our engagement with pictures through discussion, consumption, and reaction, which defines the power of photography to fuelling change. This research focuses on the participatory photography potential to set the environment for taking collective action; starting from dismantling the idea of single authorship and leading to the definition of photography as the democratic tool for excellence.
This long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together the paintings of Leon Kossoff, one of the most important 20th-century British artists. Kossoff was part of the School of London along with other figurative painters including Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. He returned to familiar subjects throughout his career, including London landmarks such as Christ Church Spitalfields and Kilburn underground station, creating numerous works inspired by Old Masters such as Nicolas Poussin. The author Andrea Rose curated Kossoff’s exhibition at the 1995 Venice Biennale when he represented Great Britain. “As part of the catalogue raisonnéproject, he gave her a level of access to him, his archive and his studios that, as an intensely private person, he had withheld from all others,” according to the publisher. An accompanying exhibition, which first opened at Annely Juda gallery in London, tours to Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York (13 January-5 March 2022) and L.A. Louver Gallery in California (26 January-26 March 2022).
One might presume that a collection of Pope.L’s writing spanning the artist’s decades-long career would be, itself, a performance. My Kingdom for a Title enlivens the artist’s fascination with language as a core mode of inquiry. An artist known for his strenuous public crawls that often include pedestrian and volunteer participation in a mixture of rehearsed and spontaneous study, such as “The Great White Way” (2001-09) and most recently “Conquest” (2019), My Kingdom for a Title is equal parts a peek at the artist’s sketchbook and a career retrospective through Pope.L’s iterative textual analysis.
Teaching was a way to earn a living that intersected with and was supported by my own artwork. I’ve grown to appreciate that the conversation supported by the University of Chicago embodies values that are distinct from those of the commercial art world; the intersection of the two yields richness not found in either alone.
For a presentation as part of Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s booth, Tiona Nekkia McClodden presents several new works that build off her 2016 work Se te subió el santo? (Are you in a trance?), which served as a “disclosure” of parts of her identity that she had previously kept private. “This is me—the first way I see myself,” she said. The other works on view stem from a series of photographs from related performances and film works as well as a recently completed leather lineman harness, titled A.B. 4 88B.
A key figure of the London School, Leon Kossoff (1926–2019) captures the life force of the British capital—his birthplace and lifelong muse—in all its dolorous splendor. Never has a palette perhaps best described as “shades of gloom” (the dried-blood reds and rusts of postwar Victorian tenements, the gray-brown murk of the Thames) seemed so vigorous.
Surveying six decades of production and organized together with Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York and L.A. Louver in Los Angeles, “A Life in Painting” opens with a series of Kossoff’s portraits.
Art Basel Miami Beach has twice been disrupted by seismic world events. In 2001, what was to be the inaugural edition of the art fair was postponed a whole year in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Last year, the coronavirus pandemic was the culprit, though the live fair was replaced with an online viewing room.
In the intervening years, the fair became the linchpin of a booming Miami art scene and a larger cultural economy.
Now, as Art Basel returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center from Thursday through Saturday with 253 galleries from 36 countries and territories, it meets a pent-up demand — you could say that the supply chain for a certain kind of prestige fair has been unclogged.
These gloomy reflections were, however, quickly dispelled by Jacolby Satterwhite’s Birds in Paradise (2017–19), a video installation weaving footage of the artist being shrouded and baptised into a digitally animated world that is Boschian in its scale and imaginative scope. In building a new reality, Satterwhite’s dream-logic weaves together Yoruba rituals, rodeos, classical architectures, extraordinary flying machines and the artist’s own dancing body. The sheer vitality of the work is a reminder that disaffection in art is inherently conservative, more typically a sign that a bourgeois creative class is mourning its own obsolescence than a harbinger of the end of the world.
I was in the grip of despair. I had arrived to interview the artist Leon Kossoff at his home in Willesden, North London, for the Independent on Sunday, but when I arrived, after toiling long and hard uphill by bicycle, I found him to be profoundly unenthusiastic about the prospect. I explained to him that he had already agreed to talk to me, and that I had come all the way from South London. Finally, grudgingly, he let me slip, side-on, into the rather under-lit front hall — but only into the hall.
Yes, he would do it, he said in the end, still havering, but he had never anticipated such consequences of having his work shown at the Tate and the Venice Biennale …. I soon discovered that this gentle, wary, vulnerable man of 75 possessed a will of steel.
Centered in the gallery rests a motorcycle, a relic of someone whose absence has been palpable since she left the realm of the living in 2019. Barbara Hammer is the subject of a museum-quality show, albeit in a gallery, curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Marking the opening of Company’s new space on Elizabeth Street, this exhibition is steeped in rigorous research and careful preparation on par with any large institutional endeavor. Acutely aware that she herself would no longer be here to witness it, Hammer chose McClodden, without the latter’s knowledge, as a possible curator for this show. Viewing exhibition-making as an art practice in its own right, McClodden has long been invested in research-based projects that use installation as a kind of portraiture. Primarily focusing on Black queer genealogies, the artist is known (among many other things) for her curatorial interventions focusing on the poet Essex Hemphill (Affixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, 2015) and the composer Julius Eastman (Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, 2017).
For the inaugural show at its new space, Company Gallery has mounted the first solo show in New York dedicated to the feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer since her death in 2019. Titled “Tell me there is a lesbian forever…”, the show is curated by artist and filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden, who delved deep into Hammer’s archive to gather videos, photos, and drawings from the first few decades of her practice starting in the late 1960s, when she came out as a lesbian, rode off on a motorcycle with a Super-8 camera, and started creating her experimental films, such as Dyketactics in 1974.
Satterwhite has explored the boundaries of new media throughout his prolific decade-long career, drawing on the visual language of video games, art history and queer theory to create futuristic landscapes where science fiction and personal narrative intertwine. Both political and deeply intimate, his immersive visual worlds operate with their own internal syntax and logic—a dense symbolic lexicon that has continued to grow in both scope and ambition over the years.
Though they maintain separate practices, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson regularly collaborate on hand-hewn pieces that are subtly autobiographical.
Los Angeles filmmaker Pat O’Neill had only ever been inside the Ambassador Hotel once in his life before he began work on a project about the building that would absorb him for years. It was the 1950s. He was a boy. And his great-grandfather was visiting from Kansas.
“He was a grand sort of person,” O’Neill says of his great-grandfather. “He stayed there, and we went to visit him and have dinner with him.” At that point, the Ambassador, which had opened its doors in 1921, was more than three decades old. “It already was quite worn,” he recalls.
He hardly could have imagined then what would become of the building — or that he would spend years in the 1990s working on a film that would take place within its walls.
The National Academy of Design (NAD)--the venerable New York-based association of artists and architects established in 1825--has announced the induction of eight new National Academicians. The artists Julie Mehretu, Rashid Johnson, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Joanne Greenbaum, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Gary Simmons, Peter Halley and the architect Andrew Freear join more than 400 international NAD members.
On September 20th at Art Basel Unlimited, Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York), Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich), Maureen Paley (London) and Esther Schipper (Berlin) will jointly present AIDS Cross (1991/2021), the most recent of General Idea’s history of AIDS works in various media. All four galleries will additionally present works by General Idea in their respective fair booths, alongside a suite of works by their other represented artist.
For many, existential uncertainty can be paralysing. Quite the opposite goes for Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite, though. In fact, it’s a force that’s driven his practice forward over the past decade, through illustration, music production, performance, painting, sculpture, photography, virtual reality, video game design, writing and more. Restless as that may seem, all of these strands braid together in Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth, the first major monographic survey of his work that just opened at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
On the occasion of the three solo exhibitions dedicated to the drawing of Silvia Bächli, Allyson Strafella and Jessica Stockholder in the spaces of the Galleria Raffaella Cortese in Milan in via Stradella 7, 4 and 1, we interviewed one of the most important and influential protagonists of the international art scene.
AA Bronson: We moved here eight years ago, on Valentine's Day 2013. I was invited to participate in something called the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD), which is a fellowship program by which they invite artists to come and live and work in Berlin for a year. They give you a studio and allow you to bring your family, whoever that might be. It's an amazing program.
During his more than 40-year career, Chicago artist Pope.L has explored power disparities in language, gender, race, community and the environment across many mediums and disciplines. His exhibition with Modern Art centers on Skin Set, an ongoing project involving a number of text-inflected works that consider the construction of language, identity and stereotype as notation, holes and— frequently— humor.
MARIO PÉREZ: Curators are supposed to elaborate a kind of narrative discourse on the works shown at an exhibition but, did it happen that your work was included in any exhibition and you though the curatorship had nothing to do with the image you made?
ANNETTE LEMIEUX: If I am understanding your question correctly – a very long time ago a curator wanted to include my work in an exhibition that was about abstraction. I refused to be part of the exhibition, as my work wasn’t abstract in my mind. the relationship ended badly.
On August 14, Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Institute for Contemporary Art will debut Jacolby Satterwhite’s “Spirits Roaming on the Earth,” the first solo survey of the artist’s work. It’s one of several projects that Satterwhite — who incorporates animation, performance, drawing, and other mediums — has coming down the pipeline: Along with the Miller ICA show, he’ll return to painting with a group show at MoMA PS1 and is at work on his first public art project for the Cleveland Clinic.
Artist Jacolby Satterwhite’s first large-scale monographic exhibition is opening at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Institute for Contemporary Art on August 14, marking a major milestone in the artist’s career.
But big shows like this aren’t all glory. Satterwhite now counts dozens of exhibitions to his name all over the world, including at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Gwangju Biennale, and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn (where he lives), and they take a ton of work.
Pope.L’s exhibition with Modern Art centers on his ongoing project, Skin Set, a constantly growing and shifting group of text-inflected works across many media that consider the construction of language, identity and stereotype as notation, hole and frequently absurdity and humour. The show, installed on both floors of the gallery, contains video, silkscreen, assemblage, floor pieces and paintings made between 2015 and 2021. On view are several medicine cabinets originally shown at the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium earlier this year.
For a long time, if anyone ever asked for his contact details, Pope.L would produce a business card proclaiming him to be “The Friendliest Black Artist in America”. Sure enough, when he pops up on a video call from his ramshackle studio in Chicago, the performance artist and painter is amenable and thoughtful. In trucker cap and checked shirt, he shifts between smiles and pensive frowns as we track his journey from “difficult” childhood to one of America’s foremost artists, whose work deals with race, economics and language.
Down the street, in the posh, wood-paneled drawing room of the Neubauer Collegium gallery, Pope.L framed out a scrappy room-within-a-room to display five small paintings. The floor was covered in rolls of construction paper taped together at the seams; the walls and ceiling were made of two-by-fours; mirrored medicine cabinets, their doors hanging open, housed the canvases and still wore cling film, which quivered in the breeze generated by tower fans. Also fluttering were hundreds of disposable face masks dangling from the rafters, like festive paper banners—but not. The overall impression was of a medical construction project riskily abandoned halfway through.
In the gallery’s third exhibition on the late Op Art innovator Julian Stanczak, Mitchell-Innes and Nash has honed in on 10 large-scale, multi-panel paintings that capture the artist’s proclivity for working in series. A rare approach among other standard-bearers of the movement, seriality reflects how Stanczak’s entrancing abstractions were grounded in observation of natural phenomena, such as the way light gradates from dawn to dusk or autumn shifts to spring. This connection takes the show’s sensual pleasures beyond the realm of good vibes and grounds them in something more knowable, tangible, and memorable.
Each of the 12 large-scale paintings in Keltie Ferris’s exhibition “FEEEEELING” is set within a handmade frame, and all of them were made in the past year. Considered together, the paintings act as an inventory of the innovative techniques the artist has used over the past decade. A series of looping monochrome compositions made with graphite give way to compact geometric assemblages, which are interspersed with multilayered paintings made by imprinting canvas onto canvas. This is Ferris’s trip down memory lane, but the works still feel fresh.
After more than a year without art fairs, Frieze New York is back. But this highly anticipated pandemic-era edition looked a little different. Rather than setting up shop in the usual sprawling tent on Randall’s Island, some 60 international galleries occupied the Shed, the multidisciplinary performing arts space in Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side.
Founded in 1969 by the artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, the collective General Idea made heady but playful work that dealt with sex, art, money, and the AIDS crisis. This solo presentation offers a scattershot but substantive introduction to the group’s oeuvre. Their signature poodles appear both in cheerfully self-aware drawings with mounds of pasta-like curls and on canvas in a discreet ménage-à-trois.
The cross-Atlantic partnership between New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Berlin’s Esther Schipper has resulted in an excellent booth devoted to the output of
General Idea, the collective formed in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal. The presentation features some of their most distinctive works, like their paintings and drawings of frollicking, frilly poodles (priced between $15,000 and $168,000), and their darkly comic 1992 group self-portrait Playing Doctor (priced at $150,000). The work was created at the height of the AIDS crisis that would ultimately claim Partz’s and Zontal’s lives. The booth’s centerpiece is the set of nine abstract panels El Dorado Series (1992), an abstracted interpretation of 18th-century Spanish caste paintings that sought to establish a hierarchy among ethnic groups in South America.
This article appeared in the April 26, 2021, issue of New York Magazine.
Thomas J. Lax: AA, Thank you for speaking with Christophe and me. Can you tell us where you are—and, perhaps a more complex question—how are you?
AA Bronson: Greetings, always a pleasure! I am in Berlin, with my husband Mark, in our rambling Berlin apartment on Fasanenstrasse—before the Wall came down, and even before that, this was the heart of Berlin’s art and culture world, but now it is pleasantly old-fashioned, with gas street-lamps, small auction houses and galleries, spreading chestnut trees, and a generous population of Russian expats. And despite the pandemic and the almost constant lockdown, we are okay here. To be truthful, my life—as an old man—has not changed that much. Except that my occasional forays into Berlin nightlife regretfully have come to an end.
In 1942 Ben Shahn, employed by the United States Office of War Information to create propaganda in support of the Allied cause, borrowed imagery from his fellow artists for a series of five posters depicting the “methods of the enemy.” “Suppression” was represented by Edward Millman’s We Must Win!, 1942–45, a rendering of a gaunt visage gagged by a swastika-emblazoned cloth; Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Torture, 1943, featured a scarred muscular figure whose hands are bound behind his back. Käthe Kollwitz’s 1923 lithograph of begging children allegorized “starvation,” while Bernard Perlin’s exquisite lifeless female head provided an unsettling emblem for “murder.” For his contribution, titled Slavery, Shahn adapted his own 1935 Resettlement Administration photograph of Sam Nichols, a white tenant farmer in Boone County, Arkansas. In the illustration, the artist deepens his subject’s skin tone and fences him in with barbed wire. Conveying the war effort as part of a universal struggle for human dignity and liberation, the posters—deemed too challenging for their conceived purpose—were never reproduced. All five, however, are depicted side by side in Shahn’s gouache-and-tempera painting We Fight for a Free World!, ca. 1942, and appear as though they’ve been tacked onto a brick wall graffitied with the canvas’s title.
This work inspired “We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz.” Invited by the Jewish Museum in 2017 to respond to the resurgence of anti-Semitic violence in the US, Horowitz, following Shahn’s example, expanded the curatorial scope to embrace broader movements against racism, oppression, and ethnonationalism, presenting his own art in heteroglossic congress with work by more than seventy contemporary and historical artists.
Winding through a one-mile stretch of the University of Houston’s park-like campus is a series of colorful, bright, large-scale sculptures, offering visitors an emotional lift and escape to fun. Lace up your most comfortable shoes and feel the joy of color in “Color Field,” open to the public through May 31. Presented by Public Art of the University of Houston System (Public Art UHS), “Color Field” is an outdoor temporary exhibition featuring 13 works of art by seven contemporary artists.
After nearly a full year of closure, the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium will reopen its gallery to the public—doing so with a new exhibition from acclaimed artist Pope.L.
On display through May 16, My Kingdom for a Title features recent work by Pope.L, a scholar in UChicago’s Department of Visual Arts. The show contains allusions to the COVID-19 crisis with a degree of directness that is unusual in Pope.L’s work, which is often elusive and ambiguous.
The art world of today is an arena of confrontation, encounter, conflict, and also imagination for Black people. This is true in relation to questions of representation in contemporary art itself as well as in relation to the politics of the spaces where art is gathered, collected, and shown. After all, what we call visuality is not neutral, it is not simply looking, it is a regime of how to see and where one is located on that scale of seeing and being that is founded in the logic of the plantation. La Tanya Autry, cofounder of the advocacy initiative Museums Are Not Neutral, writes succinctly about museums and this power.
Meaty and heady, Eddie Martinez’s densely packed paintings, rich with associations and imagery—all in the form of quotidian objects, sports paraphernalia, kitchen and dining items, art-history fragments—refuse to commit to a specific time or style. Martinez’s sensibility is part of a diffuse modernist past—Dada, Fluxus, Neo Realism, Cubism, Surrealism, food art, and so on—as well as a huge sampling of the contemporary zeitgeist, including skateboards and graffitied walls. In a canvas titled Embarcadero 88 (2020), frightening black-outlined, ghostlike faces stare out at us like terrified immigrants or victims of a natural disaster, while organic shapes punctuate paintings in the company of board games, lots of flowers, and playing cards.
It's sometimes unfair, as an observer of art, writer or (gulp) a critic to project onto an artist when it comes to intention or what you want from their work. I've tried to avoid it, but sometimes you have to recognize when you have borrowed a thought, or an observation, from an artist. I had this with Eddie Martinez a few years back, in the midst of an interview with him for the magazine. We were talking about his famed blockheads, but mostly we spoke about volume and process; this idea of "exhausting compositions." I loved it; the phrase felt so visual. He said, "But someone like Picasso, not only was he making all kinds of work in different mediums all the time, he was also exhausting the same sort of compositions and imagery because he just felt like they were always variable. That's something that has hit me. That's something I just respond to with his work right away because it feels natural to me anyway. And seeing someone who did it their whole life sort of gave me more confidence to do it."
Portland, Oregon-based artist, musician, skater and surfer Chris Johanson has teamed up with Vans for a sustainable capsule that encourages you to “Be Cool to Your Living World.” Consisting of five sneakers plus several pieces of apparel, the offerings from Johanson and the California-based footwear behemoth practice what they preach thanks to mindful materials like eco-rubber compounds, organically grown cotton and much more.
Jonathan Horowitz’s art has long turned a critical eye toward American politics, but it took on new urgency in the Trump era. His altered photographic image of the former president golfing into a fiery hellscape became an instant symbol of our apocalyptic political era, with critic Jerry Saltz suggesting it become Trump’s “official presidential portrait to hang in all federal buildings, courthouses, and post offices.”
Most recently, Horowitz organized a timely exhibition at the Jewish Museum, titled “We Fight to Build a Free World” (through February 14), which looks at artistic responses to authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and racism throughout history, including work by artists such as Kara Walker, Judith Bernstein, and Glenn Ligon.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden is both an artist and a Santería priestess. Also known as La Regla Lucumí, this Afro-Caribbean religion is, like Haitian Vodou, an amalgamation of Roman Catholicism and Ifa, the religion of the Yoruba people in West Africa. McClodden is American, and much of her work centers around being dispossessed of, and later reclaiming, her religious heritage.
The most difficult thing to do is to make art during civil unrest and the collapse of capitalism in the world,” says artist Jacolby Satterwhite. And yet he has still managed to make art —a lot of it. In 2019 alone, Satterwhite, who specializes in the creation of futuristic, Hieronymous Bosch-like dreamscapes, held two solo exhibitions: one as the artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (a title previously held by the likes of Louise Bourgeois, Carrie Mae Weems, and Chris Burden), and another at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, a showstopper that featured expansive works reworking recordings and drawings from his late mother, who suffered from schizophrenia.
Originally made 20 years ago, Justine Kurland’s captivating series Girl Pictures was this year made available via a publication from Aperture. Inspired by girl bands like The Runaways, Kurland brings us into an idyllic world where her “standing army” of teen girl runaways have decamped across the United States to create their own utopian community built on living in harmony with nature and one another. “If you simply refuse to grow up and toe the line – why would you want to, anyway? – you can create a world for yourself, one that’s bearable to live in,” Kurland said.
The multimedia artist Jacolby Satterwhite’s magnificent first show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in October was an engulfing sci-fi pastoral that included a large digital video projection densely populated with sexy androgynous avatars and other groups of creatures and humans performing Mr. Satterwhite’s angular choreography, smashing disco-ball meteorites or just standing around looking cool.
Since learning how to make films in a basement at Spelman College (where she was not enrolled), Tiona Nekkia McClodden has found her way from the editing room to the studio, making work that has garnered her both a Guggenheim grant and a place in the 2019 Whitney Biennial—for which she won the exhibition’s top honor, the Bucksbaum Award. As McClodden’s practice has expanded into sculpture, installation, and performance, her background in film and the medium’s attendant concerns with time and narrative have remained central to the work she makes, while allowing her to examine content as diverse as BDSM, Santeria, Autism, the erasure of Black queer artists from the canon of art history, and the multiple potentials of readymades.
EACH DECEMBER, Artforum invites a group of distinguished critics, curators, and artists from around the world to consider the year in art. Ten contributors count down their top ten highlights of 2020, while three others select the single exhibition or event that, for them, rose above the rest.
Cecily Brown’s new paintings, Sam Gilliam’s sculptures and monochromes, Gideon Appah’s otherworldly vistas, Tishan Hsu’s first museum survey and works from the Purvis Young trove.
Gerasimos Floratos lives and works near Times Square, in the diverse and vibrant neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen. His Greek-American parents run a Deli there; the artist has set up his studio downstairs, connected to the outside world only by basement windows through which he can just perceive the feet of passers-by and bustle of the city.
As both an internal production tool and observation point of the outside, the studio has become the matrix of his work, which oscillates between the private and the public, between isolation and togetherness.
Patricia was the first member of the Satterwhite family you met upon entering the Chelsea location of Mitchell-Innes & Nash. You heard her singing over the speakers and saw her handwriting transcripted into bright neon signs and handwritten notes hung with archival care. You interacted with Patricia’s ideas before you saw the work of her son Jacolby, whose innovative work in sculpture, video, and music transferred Patricia’s visions into the digital age in his recent exhibition We Are in Hell When We Hurt Each Other.
From Los Angeles to New York, thousands of Americans took to the streets to celebrate Joseph Biden’s victory in the US election on Saturday, as his slowly growing lead in Pennsylvania finally secured him the necessary Electoral College votes to win the presidency, and remove Donald Trump from office after a single term. There was a similar outpouring of positive reactions from the art world for the new President-Elect and his running mate, former California senator Kamala Harris—along with caveats that there are still pressing issues that need to be resolved across the country. “The frogs have managed to jump out of the boiling pot just in time,” the artist Martha Rosler told The Art Newspaper, sharing the photo collage she made, above.
“We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other,” Jacolby Satterwhite’s latest solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, marks a beginning, a continuation, and an ending for the 34-year-old Brooklyn-based artist. It is Satterwhite’s first show with the gallery. But this new body of work represents the third and final iteration of a sprawling, five-year project for him: a concept album that fuses visual and sonic elements through performance, video, virtual reality, drawing, and sculpture. Satterwhite’s genre-transcending work has always been ahead of its time. But now, released during this period of social isolation, civic unrest, and technological transformation, it has never felt more appropriately of the moment.
Artists Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and I work together at the University of Chicago where we have each spent many hours engaging with the artwork of our students. The following conversation grows from my great respect for their thinking as I have come to know them over the past nine years. Both allow themselves to be vulnerable as they orchestrate with affection and humility encounters with others in search of their subjects. I am moved by their bravery. In contrast to their training in theater, mine was focused on visual arts. This contrast, like dye added to cells in a petri dish, makes visible the ways in which our formative experiences influence the contours of our thinking.
My own work is heavily influenced by psychoanalytic theory and practice, in which I find openings to understand how meaning accumulates in flexible layers. I wondered if theater methodology provides a similar architecture for making sense of the complexity of human being. Perhaps all three of us are engaged in an effort to build a shared infrastructure that is in contrast to the rigidity of propaganda and our current polarized political situation.
Former Solange collaborator Jacolby Satterwhite shares a special edit of his new film, an homage to Breonna Taylor in which cyber matriarchs fight oppressive orbs. The artist talks to Playboy about surviving 2020 and concluding his queer utopian trilogy.
When Justine Kurland first started staging photographs of girls play-acting as runaways and castoffs in the late 1990s, setting them loose in woods and beaches and highways to do what teenagers do, she had Holden and Huckleberry on the mind. She was activating an alluring yet flawed mythology of exploration and self-sufficiency, recasting it with girls as the protagonists for once. Her subjects are puckish adolescents at a precipice in their lives. They come in twos or threes or tens; they wear tank tops and baggy jeans, hair loose, sometimes shoeless, their very own band of lost girls fleeing from adulthood itself.
As a retrospective opens at Tate Modern, we speak to Rashid Johnson, Jacolby Satterwhite and Adham Faramawy about the enduring appeal of the 78-year-old artist's work
At Mitchell-Innes & Nash, new media artist Jacolby Satterwhite offers a tribute to Taylor via an immersive video installation that posits a post-pandemic, post-revolution world in which fembots use ritual and movement as tools of resistance to oppression.
New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem has announced its 2020–21 artists-in-residence, the New York Times reports. The prestigious program, which was established in 1968 and typically fosters rising talent, will take place remotely this year, and will for the first time include a mid-career artist, in an attempt to provide mentorship and cultivate generational exchange.
The four participating artists are photographers Widline Cadet and Texas Isaiah, painter Genesis Jerez, and established artist Jacolby Satterwhite, whose work combines video, performance, and animation.
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s artist-in-residence program is renowned for identifying talented emerging artists and helping them achieve wider recognition. This year, the program, which will take place digitally, is expanding to include a mid-career mentoring resident in addition to the usual three residents.
Joining the program in 2020–21 are Texas Isaiah, Genesis Jerez, and Widline Cadet, as well as Jacolby Satterwhite in the mid-career role. Satterwhite, who enjoys a level of institutional support already, will work in a mentoring capacity to the other residents.
This year, as the coronavirus scrambles the landscape, the museum is leaning into change. Its 2020-21 residencies, announced Thursday, will take place remotely. Two of the selected artists, Widline Cadet and Texas Isaiah, are photographers; another, Genesis Jerez, works in painting and mixed media. And there will be a fourth, midcareer resident, Jacolby Satterwhite, adding a veteran component to a residency known for announcing — and anointing — new talent.
Pope.L has worked in painting, performance, installation. An incisive cultural observer and artist of intervention, he may best be known for his performance pieces with people crawling on sidewalks and streets. His recent solo exhibitions include “member: Pope.: 1978-2001” at the Museum of Modern Art (2019), “Conquest” with the Public Art Fund in New York (2019), and “Choir” at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2019-20).
There are few artists whose work is more in demand right now than Eddie Martinez. The Brooklyn-based painter’s large, thickly impastoed canvases—some figurative, some abstract, and most somewhere in between—have been winning over dealers, collectors, and curators for the better part of two decades. In the last three years, that deep-rooted support has metastasized into a rapidly accelerating and global market.
Pope.L’s I-Machine (2014–20) has a handmade, provisional appearance that conveys a sense of a thing in a state of ongoing and perhaps hopeless becoming. The artist describes the work as a “self-blinding contraption… self-blinding because its function is to encourage unknowledge or ignorance or, at best, reflection on ignorance and doubt. by encourage, i mean, when one is in the presence of this assembly, one should feel prodded toward opacity, uselessness, dumbness and incompleteness rather than transparency, smarty-pantsness and wholeness.”
In this new series, The Artists, an installment of which will publish every day this week and regularly thereafter, T will highlight a recent or little-shown work by a Black artist, along with a few words from that artist, putting the work into context. Today, we’re looking at a piece by Pope.L, who’s known for his paintings, performances and installations that often explore themes of endurance alongside the history of race in America.
To accompany the release of their latest album, ”Notes on a Conditional Form,” The 1975 and director Ben Ditto commissioned 15 artists to respond to 15 tracks. The animator Jacolby Satterwhite was one of those artists, tapped to create a video for the song “Having No Head.”
Welcome to Ways of Seeing, where two artists sit down to discuss the nuances of their work, trade industry secrets, and fill each other in on their latest projects. The only catch? One of them is on staff at W magazine. In this week’s edition, visuals editor Michael Beckert chats with Justine Kurland. Originally from Warsaw, Poland, the photographer now resides in New York City. Her book Girl Pictures, which hit shelves in May, depicts young women she shot while road tripping across the North American wilderness in the Nineties and early Aughts.
Just before New York issued its shelter-in-place order in March, I attended the closing of Pope.L’s exhibition “Choir” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Entertainment justice adopts a rhetoric of Black empowerment similar to that of the Black Arts Movement in the ’70s. But, as critic Aria Dean writes, Pope.L has reacted to that position over the course of his life as an artist, developing a “hole theory” that posits Blackness’s relationship to trauma as a powerful creative force.
This October, the traveling exhibition “Color Field” will unveil (and run through May 2021). The must-see, highly engaging show comes to the UH campus from its originating museum, the vaunted Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas, which this scribe likens to a Guggenheim of the South.
Between 1997 and 2002, Justine Kurland travelled across the North American wilderness, capturing teenage girls in a series of staged images that express freedom and a new kind of utopia. She looks back on the project’s significance here
Much of our current global situation feels unprecedented. However, COVID-19 is not the first disease to send shockwaves through our communities. The AIDS epidemic of the ‘80s and ‘90s, like COVID-19, hit indiscriminately but affected vulnerable members of society the hardest. At the time, amidst an inadequate public response largely rooted in homophobia, many artists felt compelled to create work aimed at raising critical awareness about the crisis. With AIDS (Installation), General Idea did this with a resounding impact, which continues to echo today.
As part of a three-venue tribute to Pope.L, the Public Art Fund produced Conquest, the latest installment of the artist’s long-running “Crawls” series, in which he dragged himself facedown through urban environments in a potent metaphor for struggle against a backdrop of homelessness. Pope.L made his first “Crawl” in 1978 and over the years did versions carrying a small potted flower or wearing a Superman costume.
Girl Pictures (1997-2002) -- in which young women confidently occupy the forests, open highways and roadsides of America that belong, by default, to men -- recently became a book, inviting fresh appreciation for the relevance of its themes 20 years after being made. The images published in this article, much like those in Girl Pictures, and ones that can be found in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and International Center of Photography, New York, revel in “the double-edged nature of the American dream”, an intoxicating mix of freedom and darkness. Here, Justine talks us through a few of the pictures.
Locking eyes with a cowboy through the cinema screen is perhaps our most familiar insight into the North American frontier. Gunshots, gloomy saloons and stony-faced outlaws form the bedrock of the ‘wild west’ in our imagination, thanks to its feature as a recurring backdrop to some of Hollywood’s classics. While the cowboy quest might continue to thrive on the cinema screen, photographer Justine Kurland turns her lens to this dramatic landscape for a wholly different purpose. There are no cowboys in her work. Instead, the South Western plains become the realm of another kind of adventurer – the runaway teenage girl.
I will likely have to teach online in the fall, so I have a keen interest in how they're doing. It's been interesting… I think that there [have been] some good things about it… One of my colleagues expressed yesterday that the students are able to make themselves more emotionally available online than they tend to in the classroom… I've been doing online studio visits with some of the MFA students; some of those conversations are really great. And I think that there's something about people being sort of slowed down and having to take stock and develop a new relationship to what they're doing that is productive.
What would a photographed utopia look like? While the origins of photography coincided with the birth of various nineteenth-century utopian schemes, human society has never seemed further from realizing them, in part due to developments in technology—including the production and distribution of images—that seek to solidify social surveillance and control.
Graduating college students at The New School's Parsons School of Design in New York are getting a matriculation gift from Solange Knowles. Through her creative agency, Saint Heron, the award-winning musician and performance artist has partnered with the school to launch Here and Now, a digital festival that will act as a virtual celebration of the Class of 2020, who have been placed in “an unique and unexpected position” due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, says Jason Kass, the school's interim dean of fashion.
In addition to showcasing the students’ end-of-the-year projects, Here and Now will also feature Metonymy, a 3D installation created in collaboration with Saint Heron’s creative team, artist Jacolby Satterwhite, and over 300 graduating students from the School of Fashion at Parsons.
In the late 1990s, photographer Justine Kurland imagined runaway girls roaming the American landscape -- gathering in the woods, along highways and in open fields. Instead of encountering danger, these wayward spirits would form a sylvan utopia where girls could make their own rules.
American painter Eddie Martinez has been busy in his Brooklyn studio working with both traditional and unconventional materials. “I have been working like a maniac, in fact, in my home studio, which I’m lucky enough to be able to do,” he says. Martinez has exhibited works from a series called White Outs over the past few years; in lockdown, he has continued to make drawings and paintings, fueled by emotion and anger.
"I've always believed that people become artists because of a compulsion to endure like a stone castle or temple," he explains. "There's this desire to tie down certain moments in history and make them last. That certitude is written on their faces."
When we think of wild America, it’s likely it conjures masculine, rather than feminine, visions – from John Wayne cowboy tropes roaming the desert to truckers pulling into dinners nestled on a long-stretch of road. It’s a cliche that photographer Justine Kurland was all too aware of when she began shooting her series Girl Pictures in 1997. For five years, until 2002, Kurland travelled the North American landscape, staging images of girls as “fearless and free, tender and fierce”.
We asked 24 of our favorite creative minds—including Thom Browne, Dua Lipa, Desus & Mero, Robert Pattinson, and Ottessa Moshfegh—to tell us what they’re discovering about art, and about themselves, in this age of isolation.
Kurland’s series of images of teenage American girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 are now featured in a 20th-anniversary book by published by Aperture. Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures – includes newly discovered and previously unpublished images. All photographs by Justine Kurland; story by Rebecca Bengal
Kurland started out on her quest in New Haven’s semi-industrial hinterland before travelling further afield over the next five years on a mazy road trip; if the girls were on the margins, then she would be too. She loosely choreographed the groups of teenagers that she found, but mostly invited the girls into a promising setting and let them do their thing. She took this photograph of four girls in an abandoned car in the millennium year, and called it Shipwrecked. The girls she chose invariably understood the idea of the pictures. “I can always spot people,” she has said. “It’s, like, really one of my superpowers. I can always tell which teenage girls would love living in the woods with their friends.”
Around the time she started working on a 2018 gallery show for Girl Pictures, a set of gorgeous portraits of teenage girls at play, shot between 1997 and 2002, the photographer Justine Kurland did something that proved just how much she had changed in the past 20 years. Long associated with road trips and an Edenic view of the American West, Kurland sold her van and called it quits on the quasi-nomadic life that had fueled her art for years.
“The mothers in my photographs live in a world without men, in maternal bliss, embracing the pleasures of an animal existence. But when I look at Oneonta Gorge, Log Jammed Crevice, I see Casper instead, balanced on my hip as I manoeuvre my camera on its tripod. He had made up a little chant, something like, ‘We photograph mama babies, we photograph mama babies, we photograph… .’ and sang to me as I made pictures. The original utopian impulse of the work now bends toward the memory of that sound.”
Justine Kurland admits to having “terrible timing” when it comes to publishing photography books. “The first book I made with Aperture, Highway Kind, was released the day Trump was elected, and now Girl Pictures comes out in the middle of Covid-19,” she writes to AnOther over email as her latest book is published. The photographs in Girl Pictures were taken 20 years ago, and depict unruly teenagers in the equally wild landscapes of America. Kurland staged her “standing army” of teenage runaways as independent, unapologetic and fearless. “My runaways built forts in idyllic forests and lived communally in a perpetual state of youthful bliss,” the New York-based photographer writes in Girl Pictures, this new Aperture edition of which includes previously unpublished images from the series. “I wanted to make the communion between girls visible, foregrounding their experiences as primary and irrefutable.” A short story by Rebecca Bengal entitled The Jeremys is published in Girl Pictures, and encapsulates this longing for rebellion.
The multidisciplinary artist’s practice has long been informed by his most personal experiences, including confronting his own mortality. In an exclusive interview with Art21 filmed in February, ahead of his solo show at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Satterwhite explained that video games like Final Fantasy were escapes for him while he underwent cancer treatments as a child.
I am self-sequestered at home, as ordered by the people with a clue. That’s a rowhouse in Greenpoint. My studio is most of the house, so I don’t have to leave to go to work. I try to maintain a fairly healthy diet, mindful of the fact that I am getting far less exercise. I also want to support one or two of my local restaurants, so I occasionally get take-out.
Soup, soup, and more soup. I find this to be the most comforting kind of food in any crisis. I make generic French vegetable soup often, just puréed mirepoix and good stock, or Italian spinach and Arborio rice with broth and sautéed onions.
This is good news for an artist like Jacolby Satterwhite—whose work is being shown through the gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash at Art Basel Hong Kong. “I wish I would have known about it earlier,” he laughed, speaking over the phone on a recent afternoon. “I mean, that’s a really weird thing to say, but if I’d known about it, I would have prepared all of my augmented-reality works.” The artist’s medium is almost exclusively digital, and at the moment, he’s focusing on virtual reality, render farms, and the use of a super computer for his new projects.
In the early 1940s, the artist Ben Shahn created a painting for the Office of War Information with images depicting suppression, starvation, slavery, torture and murder. He called it “We Fight for a Free World!” The painting was supposed to lead to a series of propaganda posters, but the government rejected the project. Still, the original painting survived and has a new life today as the heart of a show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan: “We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz.”
The exhibition, which is to run from March 20 through Aug. 2, examines the ways that artists have taken on issues like oppression, intolerance and authoritarianism, and raises questions about anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia. With about 80 works in a range of media, the Jewish Museum covers a great deal of ground in sometimes startling ways.
The day after his thirty-fourth birthday, I called up performer and artist Jacolby Satterwhite. He had just wrapped up a fantastic year of work and collaboration—co-directing with Solange, where he contributed a video for her visual album When I Get Home, and partnering with Nick Weiss of Teengirl Fantasy to produce an LP entitled Love Will Find A Way Home. The album release coincided with the opening of Satterwhite’s multifarious solo exhibition at Pioneer Works, entitled “You’re at Home.”
What do you discuss when talking to a painter’s painter, the artist everyone cites as their favorite or an influential force? Well, you obviously talk about painting and painters. And, in the instance of sitting down with Brooklyn-based painter, Eddie Martinez, you chat about tennis, strategy and the art of collecting. There is an energy that emanates from Martinez’s work, something hypnotic that whirs in constant motion. In a way, his idea about “exhausting compositions” does not feel like defeat but instead, a powerful indicator that a life in art isn’t just one work, but about decades of output and practice. Martinez is fascinated by speed, but also comfortable in volume, as he explained throughout an early morning winter conversation. We talked about his massive 65-foot painting recently shown in Shanghai, a newborn altering his schedule, and how his flower pot works will show up in an upcoming show with his wife, Sam Moyer, in San Francisco.
Jacolby Satterwhite uses digital sculpting and world-building techniques to create computer-animated characters and immersive environments. Across these virtual landscapes, Jacolby copy/pastes live-action footage of himself, creating an intimate visual universe that brings together art history, “expanded cinema,” and the pop-cultural worlds of music videos, social media, and video games.
The freedom she feels is palpable as you wander through “Digital Thoughts,” Jessica Stockholder’s laser-sharp exhibition at 1301PE gallery in L.A. Each of Stockholder’s 11 inventive assemblages is out of this world — if not from another planet then at least from far out in space. Some of Stockholder’s constellations of unrelated objects and materials are no bigger than notepads. Some are large, about the size of tents or picnic tables.
When Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union in 1948, it jettisoned Socialist Realism in favor of its ostensible antithesis, modernist abstraction. The de facto state style of the 1950s and ’60s was what the literary critic Sveta Lukić called “socialist aestheticism”: an art-for-art’s-sake modernism that stressed formal experimentation above all else, projecting an image of enlightened liberalism as a counterpoint to Soviet dogmatism. Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924–2004) responded to this affirmative milieu with black irony, riffing on geometric abstraction in “anti-paintings” characterized by a deliberately meaningless monotony. Knifer spent virtually his entire career painting a single motif: a meander pattern formed from interlocking right angles.
Twenty-four monumental drawings of exquisite detail will be divided into two exhibitions at Vielmetter Los Angeles, with the second chapter of Karl Haendel's presentation opening on 15 February 2020. Each drawing captures the intimate interlocking of hands, between Haendel and his ex-wife—an alternative to portraiture that he expresses as having a powerful, 'embodied sculptural presence', which he eventually expanded to include the hands of his friends.
The very ethics of entering a dynamic work come into question with Jacolby Satterwhite’s Vintage Paradise, a 360-degree video in which viewers are treated to a repository of the artist’s personal images and objects, decorated with numerous sketches of proposed inventions by the artist’s late mother that have been extruded into 3-D.
POPE.L WALKS INTO A ROOM. Hair looks good. Everybody knows Pope.L’s hair be looking dry and wild but maybe Pope.L’s supposed to be unkempt. Pope.L walks right up to me, has something to say important, not conversational, not in a conversational tone he starts talking in an urgent manner. I do take note of people’s appearances, most everybody’s in the way when they come up to me to say something, I don’t pretend not to look. Pope.L starts talking to me like we’re familiar so I figured I forgot and knew Pope.L from before but I never forget a face even though since I gave birth I can’t remember shit I can’t recall words like I used to.
AMONG THE VIDEOS ON DISPLAY in “member: Pope.L, 1978–2001,” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, many of which are grainy documents of Pope.L’s experimental theater works, is Egg Eating Contest (Basement version), 1990, a piece first performed in East Orange, New Jersey, in which the artist appears as a sort of emasculated black nationalist strutting around a cellar in a tattered black tunic.
Artists often adopt personas in their work — master painter, trickster, savant — and you can see this in the 13 performances of the maverick artist William Pope.L at the Museum of Modern Art. And he uses the characters in his show, “member: Pope.L, 1978-2001,” to critique race and class in the United States.
800 gallons of water is an abstract concept, until you see its volume cascade before your eyes into a cavernous holding tank. Then, that amount of water becomes visceral. It’s mesmerizing to sit before a specific amount of water, and contemplate the ways we use, exploit, and waste this most important of resources on a regular basis. This is the experience of witnessing Choir (2019), artist Pope.L’s gallery-filling installation currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Wadden trained as a painter, but he has been working exclusively as a weaver for almost a decade now, producing textiles by hand. Ten new examples were on view in his recent exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, “Second Life.” All but one were variations on a single theme, consisting of vertical compositions bisected by diagonals formed by transitions between different colors of yarn.
Rosler’s unmatched ability to wield consumer culture’s opulence against itself made for a visually festive retrospective. But sober critique unites the Semiotics of the Kitchen star’s half century of uninhibited Conceptualism; her early photomontage series “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home,” ca. 1967–72, with its plush interiors and window views of carnage, still stuns.
Lefcourt’s apparently ice-cold, algorithmically rendered paintings paradoxically unearth vital questions about formlessness and uncertainty. A plotter-guided line, dragged by machine across the surface of the canvas, extracted and extruded delicate tonal information about embedded mineral deposits—that is, paint stains. Like the vast landscapes of the Hudson River School, but with the human–God axis replaced by a material–digital one, these works probe the limit of any attempt to appropriate nature’s generative and entropic behavior.
By bringing together oil paint, acrylic, water-soluble pastel, and magic marker to make her images, Greenbaum collapses the distinctions between painting and drawing; "artisanal competence" and casual mark-making; and fine art materials and cheap hobbyist supplies.
A pirate wench with the head of Martin Luther King Jr hangs upside-down from the ceiling, her bosom partially exposed, on the stand of Mitchell-Innes & Nash at Art Basel in Miami Beach. The ghostly figure also leaks a chocolate substance mixed with the paint thinner Floetrol. Altogether, the statue A Vessel in a Vessel in a Vessel and So On (2007), by the artist Pope.L, is a comment on the toxicity of black stereotypes. The technician who installed the eye-popping creation says that the dangerous-if-consumed liquid seeps out for three seconds at a time. Best to seek refreshments elsewhere.
“I got my own cultural anorexia,” the performance and visual artist Pope.L (formerly known as William Pope.L) wrote in his 1997 manifesto, “Notes on Crawling Piece,” declaring what he deemed a binge-and-purge relationship to modern art (despite the clinically inaccurate metaphor). “It’s kinda racy, / I get down on my belly and crawl till I’m reality.”
This 1988 installation by the artist collective General Idea, founded in 1969 by A.A. Bronson (pictured), Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, serves up a critique of the rising influence of mass media on culture on a set of 144 porcelain sushi plates. The colour bars printed on the plates are based on the trademarked test pattern found on television screens.
I’m dramatic,” artist Jacolby Satterwhite tells me, tearing up, one Monday afternoon in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. Two weeks before the opening of his solo show, You’re at home, at Pioneer Works, we’re sitting behind a desktop computer in his temporary studio, a floor above where his digital performances and 3D-printed sculptures will be exhibited.
Pope.L has perfected crawling as his particular kind of disruption. He has traversed a substantial portion of New York City (and parts of Europe) on his hands, knees, stomach, and elbows, wearing everything from a Superman costume to a sports jersey and Nike sneakers. For his inaugural crawl, in 1978, the artist slowly made his way down Forty-second Street, passing Times Square, wearing a pin-striped suit with a yellow square stitched onto its back.
Imagine that all the works of Jacolby Satterwhite are the suspirations of a single, continuous world. A world in which everything flows and reality has assimilated the smooth transitions, bends, and breaks of dance music. A world where all things touch ends if you change their tempos enough and there are no hierarchies of scale or value.
In 1978, Pope.L got on his hands and knees in a suit and safety vest, and made his way through the bustling crowds of Midtown Manhattan. Titled Times Square Crawl a.k.a. Meditation Square Piece, his performance combined a disturbance in public space with abjection and perverse humor, setting the tone for his subsequent experiments with what it means to make art and move through the world as a black man.
Patricia Satterwhite, too, was an artist without a public, without a means of access to the infrastructure and institutions that would have made her the star Jacolby says she dreamed of becoming. Before she died in 2016, she had lived with schizophrenia. Throughout her life she incessantly wrote pop lyrics in big letters on unlined white pages and sang them into a cassette recorder; she drew pages and pages and pages worth of inventions that she wanted to fabricate and sell on a home-shopping TV network.
Joanne Greenbaum is a New York artist who has been painting abstract compositions for over 30 years. Her work, which ranges from playful to chaotic, cartoonish and sometimes architectural compositions, which are always a conundrum to decode. Recently, the artist has turned to making works on glass for her latest solo exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City, I'm Doing My Face In Magic Marker.
Pope.L deals in place, space, and traces. Since the 1970s, the artist has created provocative interventions in public spaces and work that experiments with language and material. With an affinity for the trope of the “trickster,” his work often provokes reconsiderations of societal conventions through an adjacency with the absurd.
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, artist Jacolby Satterwhite spent his formative years traversing the virtual reality of 90s pop culture. He owned numerous games consoles, among them a Game Gear, Sega Genesis, SNES, 32X, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, and was obsessed with the music videos of Janet Jackson. At 11, he got his first computer, and by 13, Satterwhite was building websites.
Pope.L's absurdist exploits are the focus of an important new retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue are worthy testaments to the artist's unique talent, while also inspiring the viewer to consider how Pope.L's provocative interrogations of economic inequality and racial prejudice can be models for political engagement more broadly.
Monica Bonvicini: I was a student at the Berlin University of the Arts in the West when the Berlin Wall fell. That night, I went with some fellow students to Brandenburger Tor, where I stayed all night long. At some point I went home but I could not sleep so I went back out on my bike. From the western districts of Wilmersdorf through Tiergarten, everything was crowded with people—it was maybe Berlin’s first Love Parade.
Before turning to weaving 15 years ago in Berlin, the Vancouver-based artist Brent Wadden trained as a painter at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Now his large-scale woven panels are the subject of his third exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. The works exude a painterly air, showcasing dimension and movement with linear lines and subtle variations in thread colors that imbue precision with personality.
‘I feel crazy,’ joked artist Jacolby Satterwhite after opening his first and second solo museum exhibitions, in two different cities, just two weeks apart. To realize his labour-intensive, hyper-baroque vision in ‘Room for Living’, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, and ‘You’re at Home’ at Pioneer Works in New York, Satterwhite had disappeared for several months from the New York queer scene in which he is a prominent fixture.
You are hit first by the contrast. The clinical white of the gallery walls behind the black leather and paint draw in and repel—equal and opposite forces. Within the freeing constraints of the gallery space, we are invited to explore an artistic vision of other types of freeing constraint: physical and psychological kinds, based off leather and trust and, most importantly, balance in pain and pleasure.
The relationship between architecture and patriarchal systems, and how the shaping of public space has been impacted as a consequence, has long been at the core of Monica Bonvicini’s work. Curated by Nicola Ricciardi and Samuele Piazza, ‘As Walls Keep Shifting’ comprises a plain wooden prefab structure simulating a typical Italian villetta (semi-detached house) furnished with works by the artist.
At the end of August, Gerasimos Floratos came out to stay with me on Fire Island, where I’d been spending the summer. We’d had similar vacation encounters before – at my home in the California redwoods, and on the Greek island of Kefalonia, where Floratos occasionally lives and works.
‘Black people are the window and the breaking of the window,’ reads Pope.L’s 2004 text drawing of the same title. ‘Purple people’, according to another work in his ‘Skin Set’ series (1997–2011), ‘are the end of orange people’, who elsewhere are defined as ‘god when She is shitting’. At Documenta 14 in Kassel, a selection of these works raised the dilemma (acute for the exhibition’s predominantly white European audience) of how to respond to the patent absurdity of such statements as White People Are the Cliffand What Comes After or Black People Are the Wet Grass at Morning (both 2001–02). The irresistible impulse to laugh is quickly overtaken by a commingled shame and anxiety. Isn’t it true, after a moment’s reflection, that historic injustices have been perpetrated in the name of racial definitions no less preposterous for having been supported by pseudosciences like phrenology or, let’s not forget, racist histories of art? And that equally imbecilic statements underpin the strain of identitarian politics that seems not only to persist in Europe and the United States but to be in the ascendant? And that people are dying as a consequence? So why was I laughing?
Since the late 1970s, Pope.L has worked in performance, video, drawing, installation, sculpture and teaching, troubling facile readings of the machinations that govern the relationships between race, labour, capitalism and materiality. His practice traverses genres in an attempt to reckon with everything from the tenuousness of Black masculinity in public space to the lingering economic effects of post-industrial America.
On Love Will Find a Way Home Jacolby Satterwhite spotlights his very first collaborator: his late mother Patricia. A former party girl and Mary Kay salesgirl, she became a shut-in as her schizophrenia developed, resulting in extended periods of creation. Jacolby remembers growing up in rural South Carolina as a three-year-old, assisting her in diagramming couture gowns and tampons embedded with artificial intelligence, which she drew while binge watching the Home Shopping Network.
Chicago-based Pope.L participated in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and won that year’s Bucksbaum Award. Following his project focused on the water crisis in Flint, Mich., he has created a new installation that further explores the use of water. “Choir” is “inspired by the fountain, the public arena, and John Cage’s conception of music and sound.”
Last Thursday, art enthusiasts gathered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for “An Evening with Great Women Artists,” a panel discussion moderated by Iria Candela, curator of Latin American Art, between Ghada Amer, Sharon Hayes, Deana Lawson, and Martha Rosler.
At first glance, the placid seascape might blend in with the paintings around it, were it not for the tarlike substance clinging to the panel. The neon sculpture could be mistaken for a similar piece just down the road at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
And it’s hard to look at General Idea’s “Great AIDS (Ultramarine Blue)” stretching 10 feet across a gallery wall without seeing the resemblance to Robert Indiana’s “Love” a block away (sans photo-snapping tourists).
The Chicago-based adept Pope.L is a triple threat in New York this fall, with concurrent shows at the Whitney and moma and a recent Public Art Fund performance for which some hundred and fifty participants put their bodies through punishing paces, re-creating one of his legendary mile-long crawls. Pope.L’s Manhattan gallery pays homage to his body-centric concerns in this dynamic exhibition, which combines text works from his series “Skin Sets” with paintings by a trio of young rising stars: Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Cheyenne Julien, and Tschabalala Self.
You may know Jacolby Satterwhite through his video animations that create immersive, queer, afro-furturistic worlds, or even from his collaboration with Solange earlier this year. However, his most recent exhibition “You’re at home,” a film installation revolving around the artist’s digitally animated series Birds in Paradise, gets more personal.
In the latest video opus of the artist Jacolby Satterwhite, titled Birds of Paradise, sequence after animated sequence delivers a tapestry of fantastical images that, like puzzle pieces, coalesce into a hypnotically intricate yet fully harmonious whole.
Be prepared for sensory overload when you step inside Jacolby Satterwhite’s new show at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works. Centering around his multi-part, digitally animated series Birds in Paradise, You’re at home is an immersive experience that includes video projections, virtual reality and sculpture. It even includes a retail store that sells records by PAT, his collaborative music project with Nick Weiss (of Teengirl Fantasy) which utilizes recordings by Satterwhite’s mother Patricia.
Jacolby Satterwhite has spent the past decade making highly wrought digitally animated science-fiction worlds and irreverent modern dance pieces that draw on vogueing and martial arts. But he considers his two current shows, in New York and Philadelphia, to be “the final draft, conceptually, of what I was trying to say for years.” While Satterwhite has long been known as an art-world generalist, his fall exhibitions show him at his most direct
33-year-old Jacolby Satterwhite, known for channeling biography, eroticism and queer-disco-party energy in his work, is fairly entrenched in New York’s art scene; his late-aughts arrival paralleled those of other DIY, digital-forward entities like early Tumblr, Fitch-Trecartin or DIS mag. But in light of an outpouring of new material, in which Satterwhite revisits and up-scales long-percolating themes, his years of creation seem to have been in service of a larger, now-unfolding artistic crescendo.
The sci-fi fantasias of Japanese video games, the pulsing bodies of E.D.M. raves, the mystical spaces of Nigerian shrines, and the bygone music chain Tower Records all figure into the wildly ingenious new work of the young American artist Jacolby Satterwhite (pictured). On Oct. 4, Pioneer Works, in Brooklyn, opens “You’re at Home,” an exhibition of digital projections, performances, sculptures, and music by the artist, who recently directed an animated music video for the singer Solange.
In artist Jacolby Satterwhite’s digital universe, the possibilities are immense. His decade-long practice has paid tribute to subjects as diverse as the Harlem ball scene, European art history, daytime tele-shopping, queer sexuality and African rituals, merging them into phantasmagorical fuchsia-colored dreamscapes where heaven and hell coexist. The Brooklyn artist’s intricately-crafted universe in 3-D animation, multimedia installation and digital print mixes his deeply personal ties to his mother and circle of friends with a large pool of references that are fascinating, seducing and triggering all at once.
Jacolby Satterwhite, the multimedia artist who recently collaborated with Solange, has long created intricate virtual worlds that burst with a vibrant vision of queerness. For a new exhibition, titled “You’re at home,” at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, on view until November 24, Satterwhite is debuting a new work, Birds in Paradise, that puts onlookers into a kind of uncanny valley between the recent past and near future, fabricating a music shop in the same vein as the now shuttered Tower Records but that pulsates with larger-than-life dancing Afro-futuristic figures.
Jacolby Satterwhite doesn’t abide by contemporary rules of space and time. In “Blessed Avenue” (all works 2019), he leaps from Philly to Louisiana, from live action to animation, from sex party to Shanghai noodle bar in a single jump cut. Since almost a decade ago Satterwhite taught himself Maya — a 3D animation program that allows him to import video of himself and others into any landscape, any room — he hasn’t stopped moving. Or maybe his pace began before that.
In New York, verticality is the definitive modus operandi. Both buildings and people perpetually strive skyward, driven by tenuous dreams of upward mobility. “But, let us imagine,” the American artist Pope.L proposed to fellow artist Martha Wilson in 1996, “a person who has a job, possesses the means to remain vertical, but chooses momentarily to give up that verticality?”
I lowered my blindfold and got on my hands and knees. Walkie talkies beeped and clipboards clacked. “We’ll be right here if you need anything,” a staffer assured me, stowing my belongings in a rolling cart. “We want to make sure you are safe and comfortable.” I did feel relatively comfortable, considering I was about to crawl along a New York City sidewalk—blindfolded, holding a flashlight, and wearing only one shoe.
Five men and women, each missing a shoe and encumbered with a flashlight in one hand, came belly down to the ground. They began to crawl along the gritty, unsavory New York City sidewalk, led by a marshal perfuming the air and sweeping the ground before them — and serenaded by a trumpeter playing melancholic riffs. The procession stopped traffic and drew people out of shops and restaurants, wondering what was going on.
The crawlers knew where to go by following the sound of a trumpet.
It was bright and early in New York at Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground when a group was congregating to kick off Conquest, artist Pope.L’s performance in which participants would drag themselves across a predetermined path. Organized by the Public Art Fund, this was a new work in a lineage of past “crawl” pieces by Pope.L, who was on hand on Saturday to tell the crowd that he hoped to cause a stir.
Conquest, Pope.L’s most recent performance project, engages his largest and most public cast to date. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund (PAF), the September 21st “crawl” is also more procedurally detailed, and more apparently and explicitly mocking, than previous crawls. When I spoke with Pope.L in late summer, he insisted he was not participating in the crawl, but just as soon acknowledged that he has never been able to keep himself from crawling, at least a little bit, alongside the participants.
Starting at 9:45am on Saturday, winding up in the gutter will take on literal meaning as 140 complete strangers get on their bellies to crawl in the street while fellow New Yorkers cheer them on. No, this isn’t some mas[s]ochistic exercise: It’s a performance piece orchestrated by the multi-media artist known as Pope.L. Conquest, as it’s called, is part of a series of crawls that Pope.L has undertaken over his 40-year career, though it represents something of a departure, since he previously conducted them on his own.
Jacolby Satterwhite has described his current exhibition at Fabric Workshop and Museum as “a dream come true.” You should know that Satterwhite has very strange dreams.
For the last decade, he has been conjuring up complex digital visions that seem at first to be silly and ebullient, like big old-fashioned movie musicals, though with aggressively homoerotic imagery. Naked men fly through the sky on winged horses above realms that change in a flash from fairy-tale candylands to urban hellscapes.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever crawled in New York, but being that low to the ground, you experience all kinds of things,” says Pope.L. And he would know — the 64-year-old performance artist has decades of experience crawling at this point. For his latest piece, “Conquest,” the Newark native recruited some 140 strangers from various boroughs, walks of life, ages, and abilities to crawl, in a relay format, the 25 city blocks from the Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground in the West Village to Union Square.
This Saturday, 140 New Yorkers will get down and seriously dirty in the filthy streets of Manhattan as they crawl on all fours for the sake of a bizarre performance piece about “physical privilege” by veteran “crawl artist” Pope.L. Participants will provide onlookers with an unsettling scene as they slither along a winding, 1 1/2-mile route that starts at Cpl. John A. Seravalli Playground in the West Village and ends on the south steps of Union Square Park, according to a press release.
The interdisciplinary artist Pope.L is the creator of several now-legendary performance-art works that explore the conditions of abjection, black masculinity, and racism with bracing irony. On September 21, 2019, he will orchestrate his latest iteration of these pieces in Lower Manhattan: Entitled Conquest, this performance will involve 140 participants.
As New York’s museums and galleries gear up for their fall and winter rosters, there’s a seasonal sense of anticipation that accompanies all these interlocking proceedings. You never know who or what will emerge from the flurry of offerings to produce something truly essential, and it’s clear that the Whitney Museum of American art, MoMA and the Public Art Fund are confident that “Instigation, Aspiration and Perspiration,” their collective exhibition with the interventionist performance artist Pope.L, will prove to be a deeply thoughtful project. Born in Newark, NJ, Pope.L has spent decades making art that interrogates what cities can produce and who metropolitan areas can disempower.
A new show at the Neubauer Collegium asks viewers to consider the work that goes into flowers from industrial to domestic contexts through the work of Martha Rosler, a conceptual artist and avid gardener who rose to world renown for her feminist art in the 1970s.
Since the 1970s, the artist known as Pope.L has made works that explore racism, poverty, class inequality and consumerism in ways that are sometimes satirical, often biting, but always strangely moving. He is best identified by his “crawls,” in which he drags himself, positioned on his stomach — occasionally dressed in a business suit or as Superman, either alone or with a large group of participants — along the path of a city street. His most ambitious performance of this nature will be on Saturday in New York City: More than 100 people will crawl a one-and-a-half-mile-long route from the West Village to Union Square, passing through the arch of Washington Square Park.
A performance piece in which 140 people will crawl through Greenwich Village is set for Saturday — recreating the artist Pope.L's iconic crawling pieces in New York City.
The performance piece, called "Conquest," forces hand-selected volunteers from a variety of professional backgrounds to crawl through Manhattan's sidewalks, "abandoning their physical privilege, embracing their vulnerability, and expressing the power of collective expression."
Pope.L: Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration, an ambitious triumvirate of exhibitions by the Public Art Fund, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, erupts Saturday with Conquest, his biggest group performance, involving some 140 to 160 people representing the city’s diversity in every manner from race and socioeconomics to range of mobility.
This sensuous group show brings together works by Pope.L, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Cheyenne Julien, and Tschabalala Self to explore the various ways the concept of “corporeality” can be captured in two-dimensional spaces. The options are plentiful: there are the highly personal physical experiences of the body (in play, at rest, at work) in the creations of Chase and Julien alongside Self’s powerful depictions of the black female form that challenge and engage society’s role in constructing identity with one’s own body, as well as those of others. This sense of physicality need not even be visually manifest—Pope.L’s absurdist text series “Skin Sets” employ nonsensical phrases to reference people of color (blue, green, brown, black, and gold), which play with mental associations regarding race and visibility.
Pope.L will give a Public Art Fund Talk on Fri., Sept. 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at The Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Union Square, at E. Sixth St. Visual artist and educator Pope.L’s lecture coincides with a major moment for him, when three New York City arts organizations — Public Art Fund, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art — will co-present “Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration,” the title of a singular concept linking a trio of complementary exhibitions: “Conquest,” “Choir” and “member,” which explore Pope.L’s boundary-pushing practice.
Strap on a headset and enter a VR realm of voguing ball dancers, figures in gimp masks, and leather daddies on spaceships. This is the world dreamt up by the artist Jacolby Satterwhite, who has been on a roll since emerging as one of the stars of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In 2018, he brought an extension of Blessed Avenue (2018)—an installation with a VR component first shown at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York—to Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, for a booth with Morán Morán.
On September 12, Mitchell-Innes & Nash unveiled “Embodiment,” a new group exhibition of work by mixed media painter Tschabalala Self, intervention artist Pope.L, and painters Cheyenne Julien and Jonathan Lyndon Chase. An investigation into the unbounded potential of corporeal representation, “Embodiment” explores these four talents’ approaches to portraying the human form.
“’Embodiment’ came together about a year ago, when I started thinking about the exaggerated body [in relation to] architecture and familiar public spaces in urban neighborhoods, like the bodega, for example, or the stoop,” Blair explains. “I’ve always been really interested in the expression of figuration, and I love language, having worked with it [as a writer].”
Jacolby Satterwhite: “You’re at Home” (Pioneer Works; 10/4–11/24) Promises a millennial-nostalgia house of horrors, or at least submerged longings. He’s building an immersive installation of video projections, virtual reality, and “a retail store styled to resemble a defunct Tower Records” to lose yourself in once you’ve made it all the way to Red Hook.
After winning the Whitney’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award in 2017, Pope.L hits the New York institutional trifecta with an extravaganza of three upcoming shows. The Museum of Modern Art will mount a retrospective of the activist-sculptor-painter-provocateur’s work from 1978 to 2001 — including videos of the epic crawls he did on his belly through the streets of New York City dressed as an African-American superhero. Also stay tuned for a mass performance of over 100 volunteers of all races crawling together through the Washington Square arch to Union Square.
We’ve already put together guides to knockout institutional shows to see across the US this fall and what you need to check out in Europe, so now it’s time to take a look at what’s going on this season in museums in New York, where you’re never far from a great exhibition.
This September, as galleries and museums hope to kick off the fall art season with a bang, African-American artists are leading the most highly anticipated openings. Betye Saar has a show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, followed by one next month at the Museum of Modern Art. Pope.L will be triply honored in New York, with exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and, in October, MoMA; he’ll also present one of his grueling performances, organized by the Public Art Fund.
Following a two-year artist residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Jacolby Satterwhite will present new digital animation works, a virtual reality experience, and multi-media installations that give physical form to objects that featured in his six-video piece Reifying Desire. Made using 3-D printers and CNC routers, Satterwhite’s sculptures will include larger-than-life figures inspired by The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio (1601–02) and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). The artist also has an upcoming show at New York’s Pioneer Works, “You’re at Home” (October 4–November 24, 2019).
ART IN THE 2010S… IS IT EVEN ART? WHAT WILL BE REMEMBERED? WHAT’S BEING REAPPRAISED? WHAT’S COMING NEXT? WHAT MUST WE SAY GOODBYE TO? FOR THE LAST TIME THIS DECADE, LET’S WELCOME A NEW SEASON OF SHOWS IN NEW YORK.
This group show of all-stars from the gallery roster explores the concept of the body, how it is envisioned, lived, and depicted through two-dimensional art. Each of these artists approach the body in a distinct way, underscoring the fundamental sameness of every body.
In 1991, the artist Pope.L dragged himself and a potted flower through Tompkins Square Park (Tompkins Square Crawl). The next year, while wearing a Santa hat, he spent three days trying to lift a bottle of laxatives with his mind (Levitating the Magnesia). In 2000, he gorged on copies of the Wall Street Journal and then puked them up (Eating the Wall Street Journal). In 2015, he raised a giant US flag in Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where it flew until it began to fray (Trinket).
The album has been a long time coming. Satterwhite has been trying to make it since 2008, but it was only upon meeting his collaborator, Nick Weiss, that he was able to realize his vision. Two years in the studio followed, including cameos from musicians and friends. The record will be released on streaming services and “critical pipelines of that genre,” including a forthcoming Pitchfork review of one of its singles.
Multi-disciplinary talent Jacolby Satterwhite and the enchanting Teengirl Fantasy's Nick Weiss have been working together on a project that they're finally ready to share with the world.
The duo, coming together as PAT — a name taken from Satterwhite's mother, Patricia — created an album and book, entitled Love Will Find a Way Home, dropping October 25. It's shaping up to be an intensely interconnected web of visceral vignettes, drawings, audio clips, and abstractions dedicated to, made by, and inspired by Patricia Satterwhite, who suffered from schizophrenia throughout her life before passing away in 2016.
Jacolby Satterwhite announced his latest project today, hot off the heels of working as a contributing director on Solange’s video album When I Get Home. The New York-based artist bridges the full range of his practice—video, animation, performance—with “We Are in Hell When We Hurt Each Other (ft. Patrick Belaga)”, the first single off of his full length double LP, due to drop in October 25.
New York’s Public Art Fund will present Pope.L’s most ambitious participatory project yet. Pope.L: Conquest will involve over one hundred volunteers, who will relay-crawl 1.5 miles from Manhattan’s West Village to Union Square. According to the Public Art Fund, participants will “give up their physical privilege” and “satirize their own social and political advantage, creating a comic scene of struggle and vulnerability to share with the entire community.”
This fall, Manhattan’s most prestigious contemporary art spaces unite to celebrate the career-to-date of the renowned (and underappreciated) artist known as Pope.L.
There’s an artistic renaissance afoot at the Vans US Open of Surfing this year, and the ever-colorful Chris Johanson is building something awesomely weird right there on the sand. If you’ve paid any attention to the worlds of skateboarding or art over the past few decades, chances are Johanson’s work has struck you with its colorful and humorous tongue-in-cheek impressionism, which has graced the bottom of skateboards and the walls of prestigious galleries alike.
In a little less than two months, you may see a squadron of New Yorkers slithering through the triumphal arch of Washington Square Park on their hands and knees.
Prepare yourself, because William Pope.L is coming to town.
Pope.L Wants You to Crawl With Him – The storied performance artist Pope.L is looking for 100 volunteers to crawl a 1.5 mile course with him across New York, from the West Village through the triumphal arch in Washington Square Park to Union Square, on September 21. The artist says the performance, titled Conquest and organized with the Public Art Fund, is “an absurd journey to an uncertain goal.” Pope.L has been doing his physically demanding crawls since the 1970s as a way to evoke the extreme exposure that homeless people experience on the streets of the city.
Leon Kossoff, whose expressionistic portraits and images of urban life made him one of the most important painters of postwar Britain, died on July 4 in London. He was 92.
The artist Pope.L, who has a trio of shows opening this autumn at three major New York Museums, will put out an open call this month for 100 volunteers to take part in a 1.5-mile performative crawl across the city, presented by the Public Art Fund on 21 September.
On a recent afternoon in June, T Magazine assembled two curators and three artists — David Breslin, the director of the collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the American conceptual artist Martha Rosler; Kelly Taxter, a curator of contemporary art at the Jewish Museum; the Thai conceptual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija; and the American artist Torey Thornton — at the New York Times building to discuss what they considered to be the 25 works of art made after 1970 that define the contemporary age, by anyone, anywhere. The assignment was intentionally wide in its range: What qualifies as “contemporary”? Was this an artwork that had a personal significance, or was its meaning widely understood? Was its influence broadly recognized by critics? Or museums? Or other artists? Originally, each of the participants was asked to nominate 10 artworks — the idea being that everyone would then rank each list to generate a master list that would be debated upon meeting.
A big question about art is the artist’s intent vs. what the consumer takes away from it. Much of your work is autobiographical. Given that personal quality, what side do you come down on? "I have this thing that’s like a temperature for how I think about my work: I know I’m finished when I’m in a place where I can sleep at night when it goes away. It has its own life. It’s like a child or a teenager — someone you raise, and then you get to see how well you did and how it’s going to be affected by the world."
In June, as part of Pride Month, ARTnews hosted a panel titled “Picturing Herstory: Queer Artists on Lesbian Visibility,” in partnership with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, at Spring Place in New York. For the panel, ARTnews convened artists Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden to discuss how they began making art, why it’s important to center people who have historically been excluded from the mainstream, and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
Born in Austria, Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997) moved to NYC in 1961, just as Pop Art was starting to take off. While her oeuvre is generally associated with that genre, it wasn’t about the cartoons, product brands, celebrities, advertising and other subjects associated with Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, etc. Rather, her paintings and sculpture bounced off of couture design for sly observations on gender and the constraints imposed on women by culture and commerce. Bodily silhouettes in punchy colors were a frequent motif, whether they were painted into overlapping compositions that combined figures and geometric patterns, or cut out of vinyl sheets before being draped on hangers or pipe racks like so many pieces of shmatte or flayed skin to suggest the ways that culture uses up and disposes of women’s bodies. During her lifetime, Kogelnik struggled to be recognized, but as this show proves, her work has begun to earn posthumous acclaim for its piquant feminist commentary.
This first presentation by Mitchell-Innes & Nash of Kiki Kogelnik’s work at their Chelsea space includes several of the artist’s colourful, large-scale paintings of women from the early 1960s and ’70s – many of which also feature the circuit boards and wires of the new technology that she found so fascinating. A later sculpture, Divided Souls (c.1986), extends the paintings into real life: female silhouettes cut from vinyl dangle from clothes hangers on a metal garment rack. Evoking the flayed skins of martyred saints, like Michelangelo’s depiction of St. Bartholomew in The Last Judgement (1536–41), they’re a reminder that, despite its Pop sensibilities, the late Austrian painter’s work was always marked by ambivalence.
To marvel at a work by Jessica Stockholder is not only to examine her unorthodox assembly of the world’s kit, but to wonder where on earth she shops—where she gets such good deals? Her unconventional art supplies seem to either descend from outer space, or crawl up out of dumpsters. It’s as if junk—be it new or used—has no other purpose than to animate her dystopian sculptural choreography.
One imagines Stockholder stocking up, as it were. Like a chef instinctively sniffing out the freshest ingredients (the tackiest kitschiest artifacts), she’s confident that in time the right idea for their incorporation will come.
Don’t miss Mitchell-Innes and Nash’s first solo show for artist Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997), whose feminist take on Pop art often reduces the human form into colorful silhouettes. Paintings and sculptures from the early 1960s to the late ’80s reflect the post-war era, with all its technological advancement and political instability, as experienced by an Austrian artist who spent most of her life in New York City.
This Austrian artist, who spent most of her life in New York—she died in 1997, at the age of sixty-two—brought the ebullience of Pop to her Cold War critique of advertising culture. The result is serrated gaiety. This delightful show gathers works from the early sixties to the late eighties, including a wealth of colorful canvases, a cartoony ceramic bust with enormous sunglasses, and a rolling clothes rack hung with silhouetted figures cut out of vinyl. The painting “City,” from 1979, retains the glamour of the fashion spreads from which it probably borrowed its chic women in green ensembles. Nothing seems amiss about the models, who are set against an expertly unfussy trompe-l’oeil marble backdrop—until, that is, you notice that they have glowing voids in lieu of eyes. The sculpture “Bombs in Love,” from 1962, is pointedly saccharine: two brightly painted missile casings adorned with plastic heart baubles snuggle up together, as if to say, Make love, not war.
Art Basel’s Unlimited section for large-scale works provides one such platform for major video installations, and several film works stand out this year. They include Birds in Paradise (2019), a new, two-channel animation and neon installation by breakout digital artist Jacolby Satterwhite, whose work is included in New York’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition New Order (until 15 June), presented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
On the mezzanine, Jessica Stockholder’s brilliant monumental sculpture “White Light Laid Frozen” is like a painting pushed into three dimensions. Acquired two years ago, it is having its MOCA debut.
A horizontal white pedestal 23 feet wide and topped with white carpet supports 40 portable heating units, lined up like white sentinels beneath the icy white of a double row of fluorescent lights. Hovering above all that hot-and-cold purity, two ordinary metal office shelving units are suspended in space, held within a taut network of deep green bungee cords. Painted screaming yellow, the workaday world is elevated.
For his two-channel video Birds in Paradise, Satterwhite imagines a future where BDSM soldiers and queer warriors are prepping to take over in a post-apocalyptic world.
The sound of Bonvicini’s Breathing is not the sound of breath, but it beckons viewers to the kinetic installation all the same. Above the din of Unlimited’s crowd, an overhead array of pistons whirr and snap like the jaws of some iron dragon. What they control is a hydra of black-leather, silver-buckled “men’s belts” (as they have been described in past installations) sent swinging, clinking, and slashing across the space in irregular patterns. Simultaneously playful and threatening, the work converts what could be read as a symbol of toxic masculinity—husbands and fathers have too often used belts as makeshift bullwhips for domestic abuse—into a tongue-in-cheek totem of feminist power: the witch’s broom.
What differentiates the work in “New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century” from much of the art elsewhere at the Museum of Modern Art is that the objects here are made with technologies most of us already know and love (or hate). Flat screens, computer interfaces, video games, digital animation, 3D-printing and photography are transformed here into sprawling installations, canny video art or interactive sculptures.
Kiki Kogelnik, who was born in Austria and who, before her death in 1997, was active in New York, liked to put the human body in silhouette. In her painting “Friends,” a handful of bright figures, some missing a head or limb or with large circles cut right through their torsos, are thrown across a jazzy background. In “Hands,” she painted a group of dismembered arms and legs spread out like letters in a printer’s tray, and for “Divided Souls,” she cut figures out of black and white vinyl and hung them on a garment rack. The woman striking a pose in “Dynamite Darling,” the highlight of Kogelnik’s first show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, isn’t technically a silhouette because she isn’t a monochrome, but she’s definitely flat.
Chic, colorful, and undeniably contemporary, the paintings and sculpture of this Austrian artist could easily find a broad audience beyond the insular art world. Crackling with feminist wit and energy, the works are enigmatic yet accessible. Josephine Nash, of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, has been heartened by reactions to Kogelnik’s works at fairs like Frieze New York; she’s gearing up for the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the artist, opening May 23.
Teaming up with the gallery What Pipeline in Detroit, Chicago-based conceptual artist Pope.L created an installation, performance and artistic intervention that called attention to the Flint Water crisis using funds from his Kickstarter campaign. Water, contaminated with lead, E.coli and listeria, was purchased from the homes of Flint residents to be bottled and sold at the gallery as part of a performance installation educating audiences about the ongoing crisis.
This widely beloved L.A. sculptor and performance artist, who stands six and a half feet tall and weighs north of three hundred pounds, uses his body to bemuse and delight—one previous memorable piece tested how far he could throw people—and employs delicate craft to disarm. The intricate wall reliefs here, which incorporate jigsaw-cut record-album sleeves, traffic in nostalgia for musical tastes, both good and bad, of the past seventy years.
Martin Kersels characteristically splits the difference between performance and objects in his exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Cut-up and collaged record album covers are hung as relief wall sculptures... Part comedy, part homage, Mr. Kersels’s work is a reminder that, despite the emphasis on art as business, there is still room in Chelsea for the absurd.
The Chicago-based artist Pope.L has been known to stage wild, eye-opening stunts in the streets. “By bringing his performances to the streets,” wrote Nick Stillman in the Brooklyn Rail, “minus the hanging-on and hullabaloo of the art world, Pope.L promises the potential to connect directly with pedestrians.” In 1991, he had a cameraman film him crawling through the gutters of Tompkins Square Park, and for his piece The Great White Way (2001–09), he crawled down all 22 miles of Broadway.
Hypnotically repellent, the picture prompts speculation as to the effect it might have had if enlarged to poster size and displayed at antiwar protests. Some of the show’s most memorable work was designed for exactly that purpose. Martha Rosler intended the color photomontages in her now-classic “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” series to be photocopied in black-and-white and passed out at demonstrations.
In New York, these bodies of work are now on view in “Nancy Graves: Mapping” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and “Shape Shifter,” a solo exhibition of work by Mary Beth Edelson at David Lewis Gallery. With Graves taking a scientific approach while Edelson a more spiritual path, the exhibitions show two women grappling with these ponderous questions at a critical historical moment.
In a new show titled Is This Tomorrow? the London institution has paired together 10 international artists and architects to explore some of the 21st century’s most urgent issues. Two of these collaborators are Andrés Jaque and Jacolby Satterwhite. Jaque is an architect. In 2003 he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a transdisciplinary agency focused on architectural projects which bring “inclusivity into daily life”. Satterwhite’s artistic practice combines video, performance, 3D animations, and archival material to create multi-layered afro-futuristic environments. Most recently, he was a contributing director for Solange’s When I Get Home.
It’s not often an artist sees the launch of three major exhibitions in the same city at the same time. This fall, though, Pope.L, a performance and installation artist known for his scathing and unsettling critiques of race and power, will see it happen.
His long-overdue major MoMA retrospective opens this October and will focus on 13 performance pieces made between 1978 and 2001. Pope.L will simultaneously present a newly-commissioned installation for the Whitney Museum of American Art this fall and execute his largest and most ambitious crawl performance yet for Public Art Fund. Pope.L says he also plans to produce a special version of the play Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimke.
stablished in 1999 by artists Sarah Braman, Suzanne Butler, Phil Grauer and Wallace Whitney, Canada Gallery was, as they told Observer, “born out of a kind of necessity.”
“This was the late 1990s,” they said in an email. “So we just banded together to do it ourselves.”
Twenty years later, that has proven a successful business model. Their roster has grown to encompass close to 30 artists, including Katherine Bradford, Katherine Bernhardt and Marc Hundley. The four put their good fortune and ability to stay in business in a sometimes-volatile arts market down to collaboration (“As it turns out, sharing responsibilities and making decisions by committee has helped broaden our influences”) and a certain flexibility.
n 1959, British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow, struck by the inability of intellectuals and scientists to communicate and thereby to make sense of and tame nuclear weapons, delivered a lecture at Cambridge arguing that the divide between the sciences and the humanities was intensifying world’s problems. Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the book encapsulating his ideas, became one of strongest post-World War II influences on Western public discourse. Nancy Graves (1939–95), whose paintings and works on paper are now on display at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, took Snow’s ideas to heart by creating art that was at once aesthetically challenging and intellectually probing – the humanities and the sciences all rolled into one. The root of her inspiration, however, was endearingly humble: “I was born and raised in Pittsfield, Mass., where my father worked as a guard in the Berkshire Museum of Art and Natural History,” Graves told the New York Times in January 1979. “In that way I came to think of art and natural history as one.”
The sculptor and painter Sarah Braman creates abstract artworks from Minimalist, no-frills materials like bits of furniture and plywood. She is perhaps best known for her sculptures that, like those of John Chamberlain, fuse scrapyard metal from cars; but she also spray paints many of her objects and sculptures, creating a Rothko-esque feeling of color-field painting upon her sculptural medium.
On view through April 6 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, her current exhibition, “Growth,” includes many of these kinds of works; but, more widely, her artistic practice is philosophical, evocative of quotidian pleasures. Her car sculptures are redolent of road trips; her works with furniture bring to mind being cozied in a living room. Braman’s most pressing interest, as she told Modern Painters, however, is light, the concept of which informs everything she creates. “It’s hard for me to talk about color without also talking about light,” she said, adding that many of the artists to whom she most looks up, “felt that painting the way that light fell onto the earth was a way to describe the spiritual.”
Nancy Graves’ art explores the connections between art, science, technology, and geography. Her early 1970s conceptual paintings and drawings inspired by technological progressions in cartography, such as satellite imagery of the Earth, Moon, and Mars, are currently on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash‘s Chelsea location in New York City through April 6, 2019.
The Camp Fire began on the clear morning of November 8, 2018, which made it eerier still, a radiant sky that turned black. Through the pines and cedars came the persistent sound of crackling foil. Propane tanks exploded like bombs. Most people in Butte County had lived through multiple fires before—this is northern California, this is wildfire country—but no one had seen one like this, so fast and enveloping. No one had experienced the unique horror of watching the hospital burn, or the Safeway, as flames lapped at the sides of their own cars on the one main road out. No one had witnessed a whole town go.
The majority of the visual is centered around footage shot in Texas, but animation takes over the screen at the 28-minute mark, as album standout "Sound of Rain" plays in the background. Arriving at a pivotal moment near the end of the film, the surreal segment features flying horses, dancing figures, a cameo from Trina, and layers upon layers of symbolism. The scene is the work of New York City-based artist Jacolby Satterwhite, who animated, directed, and produced it under the guidance of Solange.
The dramatically shot piece opens and—spoiler alert—closes inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, and, in between, includes majestic animated portraits by Robert Pruitt (who was born in Houston, like Solange) and delirious computer-generated dance scenes by Jacolby Satterwhite, who’s a contributing director on the project.
In 1926, the historian Carter G. Woodson instituted Negro History Week. The second-ever African-American recipient of a Ph.D. from Harvard (after W.E.B. DuBois), Woodson wanted to acknowledge the vibrant cultural achievements of African-American individuals that were rippling through the country. At the time, Harlem was brimming with poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, while Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller were developing Chicago’s jazz scene. In 1976, President Gerald Ford officially transformed Woodson’s initiative into the month-long celebration we honor to this day: Black History Month.
Nothing pulls you into a gallery like a six-foot chicken giving you the side eye, nor keeps you in front of a work longer than giving you something to do, even if it’s just reading text. With these two strategies Karl Haendel introduces Masses and Mainstream, not with a curatorial hang that pulls you into the center of a space and lets you wander, but by arresting the viewer at the entrance. There is a compulsion to use the works there as a lens through which to see and interpret the rest of the exhibition. How Do I Sell More Art pairs with Chicken within direct line of sight from the door and the two are impossible to ignore, melding into a single piece: A framed text piece operates like a word-bubble in such close proximity to the terrifying and terrified giant chicken, in graphite on cut paper stuck to the wall from the floor up.
In the fall of 2015, myself and my then-partner were bobbing through Chelsea for the perfunctory NYC gallery hop. Driven by that pretentious, guileless swagger of recent art school graduates, we were anxious to consume. Consume what? It’s difficult to explain that insatiable hunger. A hunger for that glimmer of a swoon, that seraphic electricity that certain artworks can inspire—in other words, that bombastic and elusive sense of meaning. My partner, an abstract painter herself and a devout planner, had prepared a hefty itinerary beginning with Ferris’ show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to be an artist, to labor over something in the privacy of your own studio and then unveil it to the world, expecting total strangers to pay attention—and maybe even love, purchase, and live with what you’ve created. While artists may talk fondly of the glories of failure—its unexpected silver linings, its teachable moments—they’re not too good at publicly expressing vulnerability and doubt. After all, success in the art world can often come down to how convincing and memorable one’s personal brand is; I’m Not Sure If This Is Actually Any Good™ doesn’t make for the most rousing slogan.
A second show, a career survey of the African-American artist who now goes by one name, Pope.L, has the potential to put a welcome crack in MoMA’s high-polish veneer. In the past, this artist has belly-crawled the length of Manhattan, ingested entire issues of The Wall Street Journal, and created odoriferous installations from baloney and Pop-Tarts. Abject matter — stuff that rots, stinks and oozes — has historically been MoMA’s least favorite medium. I look forward to seeing how Pope.L, who once billed himself as “The Friendliest Black Artist in America,” will fare here.
Pope.L and Adam Pendleton are two artists creating powerful, political works in very different media, but with shared goals and approaches. As a new show opens of their work, they tell us more about working together and why language is “both a mechanism of escape but also a trap”.
Since the 1970s, Pope.L (b. 1955 in Newark, New Jersey) has created a multidisciplinary oeuvre, including performance, installation, painting, drawing, sculpture, objects, and writing. Pope.L creates scenarios and poetics in order to address issues of category and identicalness usually parlayed via his interest in language, nation, gender, race, and class. In his “crawls,” one of his best-known performance sets, Pope.L literally crawls – alone or with other participants – through the hallways of buildings and city streets. In doing so, he draws attention to marginalized positions in society, and to the contradictions and double-binds through which we perceive ourselves and others. His performances often involve local citizens and thus build temporary communities who share the experience and struggle.
For almost four decades, Pope.L has challenged us to confront some of the most pressing questions about American society as well as about the very nature of art. Best known for enacting arduous and provocative interventions in public spaces, Pope.L addresses issues and themes ranging from language to gender, race, social struggle, and community. Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, which moves fluidly. His work centers on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the re-contextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present.
Although "Irrespective" is a remarkably fresh, thoughtfully curated overview of Martha Rosler’s art from the past fifty years, it does not aspire to be exhaustive. The exhibition features around seventy works, with not a single extraneous piece. Still, there is a wide selection, spanning from collages Rosler created in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when she was in graduate school at the University of California, San Diego, to a recent film about the Trump administration. Her long, productive career makes it difficult to categorize her practice. Conceptualism, feminism, appropriation, and relational aesthetics convey aspects of what she does, but none of these terms seems fully apposite. They leave something out, pigeonholing her into rubrics that simplify her concerns. As a kind of recourse, some commentators use the generalized label of “political” to describe Rosler’s approach. Politics is a thread that runs through everything the artist does; it is the baseline from which any activity commences. The diverse range of work in “Irrespective,” which viewers encounter in galleries filled with the background audio-wash of her videos, makes it clear that what really underlies her art is actually a kind of moral erudition.
A good conceptual art piece is not very different from a joke, and Karl Haendel’s got a million of ’em. His show “Masses & Mainstream,” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, is a torrent of pencil drawings large and small, and all of them revolve, in one way or another, around the artist’s ability to make anything in the world into a kind of punch line merely by pointing it out.
Painting might be summed up as a process of accretion: You start with a blank canvas and end with a covered one — unless you are Eddie Martinez, for whom the act of adding and subtracting remains in play throughout the making. Mr. Martinez’s assertive-but-sly approach is on view in “White Outs” at the Bronx Museum, a selection of recent, ostensibly white paintings.
Martha Rosler knows that a well-formulated suggestion is far more likely to change the world — or at least someone’s mind — than any command or decree. “Every single thing I have offered to the public has been offered as a suggestion of work,” says the 75-year-old Brooklyn-born artist. Whether it’s her photomontages or videos, her sculptures or her installations, each offering retains a lively air of possibility and buzzes with the connective creative energy of a sketch — a feat made all the more impressive by her choice of subject matter: consumerism, feminism, gentrification, poverty, and war. Floating free of cynicism and buoyed by compassion, Rosler’s work can be devastatingly funny or amusingly devastating, and often both.
Damals Nixon und heute Trump, früher die Frauenbewegung und heute #metoo: Die Retrospektive von Martha Rosler im New Yorker Jewish Museum beweist, dass Kunst die Welt nicht retten kann.
Martha Rosler hated the protest literature of the 1960s and 1970s. As she explained to Jewish Museum curator Darsie Alexander in a November talk, the messiness of the design was rivaled only by that of the messaging: no images, but jargon-heavy text more likely to be thrown out than to inspire action. Rosler thought, “Can I do better?” Could she show the horrors of war, of sexism, of the hidden and obvious ways women are looked down on?
In a working life spanning more than fifty years, Martha Rosler has made art that eschews medium-specificity, asks questions, offers propositions, and invites responses. While idea often appears to drive material expression for Rosler, she also considers, beyond a politics of representation, questions of visuality and aesthetics—a likely influence of her early training as a painter.
Mary Mary is pleased to present HURTS WORST, Amanda Ross-Ho’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will feature a suite of new large scale textile assemblages, and a group of small text-based paintings.
Equally inspired by the New York School and street culture, Eddie Martinez has added a new element to his large-scale paintings by intentionally erasing parts of his compositions. This “white out” technique is informed by art history, as X-ray analysis of the work of the Old Masters often shows erased images hidden beneath the surface of the painting.
Martha Rosler: Irrespective, an exhibition of works spanning the astonishing breadth of the artist’s fifty-plus-year career, is a tightly curated, highly focused exhibition—a survey organized around a discrete set of themes Rosler engages (war, consumerism, domesticity, politics, and mass media, to name a few) rather than a full retrospective.
Though Martha Rosler has been working since the 1960s, her retrospective, Irrespective (until 3 March 2019) at the Jewish Museum shows how timely and timeless her new and old protest art is: she addresses gender roles, gentrification, US foreign war, police violence against people of colour, authoritarianism…subjects that might be familiar to any follower of the news today. | <urn:uuid:768a6654-bf2c-4572-b91b-2756037153e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miandn.com/press | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955208 | 35,716 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Speak Out Loud’s first panel focused on one topic: sex.
The student-led, open-discussion organization covered a variety of material and raised many questions in Kilcawley Center on Wednesday. Participating students signed a confidentiality agreement to protect their opinions.
Devon Marbuary, the founder of Speak Out Loud, said she was happy with the discussion.
“One of the things we talked about was what was too freaky in a relationship,” Marbuary said. “What would your significant other ask you that was pushing it too far?”
The Speak Out Loud group plans to have about five more panel discussions this semester, with topics including religion, fashion, politics and fitness. Ideally, the discussions would have a panel of approximately six diverse students to lead the conversation and offer insight.
“We only had a few people show up, but it was still fun, and we learned a lot from one another,” Marbuary said.
One subtopic during the sex panel was the difference between an open relationship agreement and a threesome. Participants also discussed the various types of condoms and how they differed.
Speak Out Loud members will be holding their discussion panels in the Pollock Room in Kilcawley Center from 7 to 9 p.m. every other Wednesday.
The panels are open for everyone to attend. The only requirements are respect and civility.
“We want everyone to be able to speak freely without being judged,” Marbuary said.
Marbuary is looking for more people to participate in panels and group discussions, and encourages new students to participate.
“I’d sit in and listen and, if the topic interested me, then I would participate,” freshman Tim Norris said.
“It’s something different,” freshman Mallory Kohut said. “You don’t really hear about panel discussions. It would be a good experience to hear about what people’s opinions are.”
The next open discussion, planned for Feb. 29, will cover ethnic stereotypes.
“One of the questions we might ask is ‘Why do ___ people do this?’ and fill it in with different ethnic groups,” Marbuary said. She is looking for a diverse crowd and multiple races to either defend certain traditions or break the common stereotypes.
When the group isn’t stoking debate, it raises money for philanthropic groups. Last year, the group held a fashion show to raise awareness about the dangers of drunk driving. Funds were donated to Students Against Drunk Driving.
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Publications of 2022
Antibiotics and High-Fat-Diet Induced Gut Inflammation and Impaired Gut Permeability are Improved by Dietary Blueberries Possibly Through NFκB Signaling
Ceres Mattos Della Lucia, Chrissa Petersen, Satheesh Babu Adhini Kuppuswamy, Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham
The FASEB Journal, v. 36.
Impcat factor: 5.191.
abstract: Background: Evidence indicates that a high fat diet can promote gut inflammation and increase gut permeability. The use of antibiotics further exacerbates these complications and can lead to the development of inflammatory bowel disease. Blueberries are rich in bioactive components such as anthocyanins. We recently reported the vascular and prebiotic effects of dietary blueberries. However, the effects of blueberries on gut inflammation and permeability are unknown. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that blueberries improve antibiotics and high-fat-diet (HFD) induced gut inflammation and impaired gut barrier function in C57BL/6J mice. Methods: 7-week-old male mice (Jackson Lab) consumed standard diet (10% kcal fat) (CON) or HFD (60% kcal fat) with antibiotic cocktail (ampicillin, vancomycin, neomycin sulfate and metronidazole) in drinking water (HFA) or 3.7% freeze-dried blueberry powder supplemented HFD with antibiotic cocktail in drinking water (HFA+BB) for 12 weeks. Body weight and body composition were assessed at the end of the experiment. Inflammation and permeability of the colon were assessed by the mRNA expression of inflammatory markers (IL-1β, IL-6, iNOS, MCP-1); gut barrier markers (MUC-2, cldn-1 and TJP-10); and markers of NFκB signaling (p65, IKK- β and IκBα) by qPCR using specific primers and SYBR green. Results: HFA mice had an increased body weight, reduced lean body mass, and increased body fat compared to CON mice. Blueberry supplementation did not alter these metabolic parameters in HFA+BB vs HFA mice. mRNA expression of inflammatory markers (IL-1β, iNOS, MCP-1); gut barrier marker MUC-2; and markers of NFκB signaling (p65 and IκBα) were increased in HFA vs CON mice. However, blueberry supplementation improved inflammation and permeability of the colon as shown by a reduced colonic expression of IL-1β, iNOS, MCP-1 and MUC-2 in HFA+BB vs HFA mice. Further, a reduced mRNA expression of p65 and IκBα in HFA+BB vs HFA mice indicates that the protective effect of blueberry on the colon could be mediated through NFκB signaling. Conclusion: Blueberry supplementation suppresses colon inflammation and ameliorates colon permeability possibly through NFκB Signaling. Consumption of blueberry is a potential dietary approach to improve gut health.
Taiane Gonçalves Novaes, Larissa Loures Mendes, Luciene Fátima Fernandes Almeida, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro, Bruna Vieira de Lima Costa, Rafael Moreira Claro, Milene Cristine Pessoa
Ciência e Saúde Coletiva, v. 27, p.2373-2383
Impact factor: 1.336
Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyze the availability of food stores in the territory of schools. Ecological study conducted in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with all schools (N=42) and food stores (N=656). Data were collected through the objective evaluation of the environment, and the stores were categorized into healthy, unhealthy, mixed and supermarkets. Bivariate Ripley´s K function assessed the existence of clustering of categories of stores in the territory of schools. All the schools had at least one food store in their territory. Unhealthy stores were the most common and closest to the schools. There were more stores around private schools, offering high school education, located in the central region and in the highest per capita income tercile. The bivariate Ripley´s K function showed evidence of clustering of stores at all analyzed distances (400 to 1.5 km) with up to 3 times more establishments than would be expected if they were randomly distributed. Therefore, schoolchildren were likely exposed to unhealthy food environments, regardless of neighborhood income and location, which may contribute to inadequate food choices
Thaisa Agrizzi Verediano, Cintia Tomaz Sant’ Ana, Mariana Grancieri, Vinícius Parzanini Brilhante de São José, Renata Celi Lopes Toledo, Maria Cristina Dias Paes, Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino
Food & Function, v. 13, p. 5590-5601
Impact factor: 5.396
Abstract: Black corn (Zea mays L.) is a source of anthocyanins, which have shown the ability to reduce metabolic disorders. This study investigated the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-adipogenic preventive effects of black corn. C57BL/6 mice were divided into 3 groups (n = 10): normal control (NC): AIN-93 M; high-fat diet (HF); HF + corn (20%) (HFC). Black corn improved the antioxidant status, through the superoxide dismutase hepatic levels and serum total antioxidant capacity. Animals fed an HFC diet showed decreased gene expression of sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) and increased gene expression of adiponectin and lipoprotein lipase in the adipose tissue, which led to a less inflammatory infiltrate and decreased the adipocyte number and length. In the liver, black corn reduced the gene expression of SREBP-1c and acetyl CoA carboxilase 1. Therefore, black corn whole flour improved the antioxidant capacity, contributed to hepatic β-oxidation, and decreased adipogenesis in animals.
Thaisa Agrizzi Verediano, Hércia Stampini Duarte, Nikolai Kolba, Yimin Fu, Maria Cristina Dias Paes, Elad Tako
Food Research International, v.157, p. 1-12
Impact factor: 6.475
Abstract: Black corn (Zea mays L.) is a pigmented type of this cereal whose color of the kernels is attributed to the presence of the anthocyanins. In this study, we assessed the black corn soluble extract (BCSE) effects on the intestinal functionality, morphology, and microbiota composition using an in vivo model (Gallus gallus) by an intraamniotic
administration. The eggs were divided into four groups (n = 6–10): (1) No Injection; (2) 18 MΩ H2O/cm; (3) 5% (5 mg/mL) BCSE; (4) 15% (15 mg/mL) BCSE. The BCSE showed anti-inflammatory effects bydown regulating the gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL6), and the transcriptional nuclear factor kappa beta (NF-κB). Further, the BCSE increased the relative abundance of E. coli and Clostridium. 5% and 15% BCSE increased the hepatic glycogen and upregulated the gene expression of sodiumglucose transport protein (SGLT1). In the morphology, 5% and 15% BCSE increased the goblet cell (GC) number on the crypt, the GC size on the villi, Paneth cell number on the crypt, and the acid GC. Further, the BCSE strengthened the epithelial physical barrier through upregulating the intestinal biomarkers AMP- activated protein kinase (AMPK) and caudal-related homeobox transcriptional factor 2 (CDX2). The overall result suggests that the BCSE promotes intestinal anti-inflammatory effects as well as enhances the intestinal barrier function.
Ana Paula Silva Caldas, Daniela Mayumi Usuda Prado, Ana Paula Dionísio, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Josefina Bressan
British Journal of Nutrition, v. 2022, p.1-11
Impact factor: 3.718
Abstract: Several mechanisms have been proposed for the beneficial effect of nuts on health. However, Brazil and cashew nuts remain the least studied. We aim to evaluate the effect of these nuts within an energy-restricted diet on body weight, body composition, cardiometabolic markers, and endothelial function in cardiometabolic risk women. Brazilian nuts study is a randomized controlled parallel 8-week dietary intervention trial. Forty women were randomly allocated to 1) Control group: Energy-restricted diet without nuts, n= 19 or, 2) Brazil and cashew nuts group (BN-Group): Energy-restricted diet containing daily 45 g of nuts (15 g of Brazil nuts + 30g of cashew nuts), n= 21. At the beginning and final intervention, anthropometry, body composition, and blood pressure were measured. Fasting blood sampling was obtained to evaluate lipid profile, glucose homeostasis, and endothelial function markers. After 8-week, plasma selenium concentration increased in BN-group (∆ = + 31.5 ± 7.8 μg/L; p= 0.001). Brazil and cashew nuts intake reduced total body fat (-1.3 ± 0.4 %) parallel to improvement of lean mass percentage in BN-group compared to the control. Besides, the soluble adhesion molecule VCAM-1 decreased (24.03 ± 15.7 pg/mL vs. -22.2 ± 10.3 pg/mL; p= 0.019) after Brazil and cashew nuts intake compared to the control. However, lipid and glucose profile markers, apolipoproteins, and blood pressure remained unchanged after the intervention. Thus, the addition of Brazil and cashew nuts to an energy-restricted diet can be a healthy strategy to improve body composition, selenium status, and endothelial inflammation in cardiometabolic risk women.
Aline Rosignoli Conceição, Gabriela Macedo Fraiz, Daniela Mayumi Usuda Prado Rocha, Josefina Bressan
Nutrition Research, v.102, p.45-58
Fator de impacto: 3.315
Resumo: The effect of avocado (Persea Americana) on weight loss in people with excess body weight remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to test our hypothesis that the intake of avocado pulp may be a good strategy for improving anthropometric parameters and, consequently, metabolic health. For this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) for studies published between database inception and July 2021. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) assessing avocado intake on anthropometric parameters (primary outcome) and metabolic parameters (secondary outcomes) were included. Evidence from RCTs were synthesized as differences between standardized mean differences (SMDs) for change in body weight and body composition, comparing the experimental avocado group with control via random-effects meta-analyses. The risk of bias followed the Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer’s Manual. From 781 records identified, 8 studies with 657 individuals were included. No significant changes in body weight, body mass index, percent of body fat, or visceral adipose tissue in response to intervention was seen in the avocado group compared with the control group. Also, the pooled results showed no reduction in body weight and composition (SMD = 0.09; 95% confidence interval, 0.06-0.25; P= .25; I2 = 0%) of avocado in comparison to control. Secondary outcomes showed some potential benefits in metabolic parameters, mainly related to lipid profile. Regardless, consumption of avocado did not promote weight gain, and further studies are needed to elucidate this effect.
Luiza de Paula Dias Moreira, Bárbara Nery Enes, Vinícius Parzanini Brilhante de São José, Renata Celi Lopes Toledo, Luiz Carlos Maia Ladeira, Rodrigo Rezende Cardoso, Vinícius da Silva Duarte, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Frederico Augusto Ribeiro de Barros, Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino
Foods, v.11, p.1-18
Impact factor: 4.350
Abstract: We hypothesized that the consumption of chia (Salvia hispanica L.) flour (CF) and chia oil (CO) improves metabolic disorders in the liver of Wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus domestica) fed a high-fat and high-fructose (HFHF) diet. The animals were fed a HFHF diet (n = 30) or AIN93-M standard diet (n = 10) for eight weeks. After this period, the animals fed HFHF were divided into three groups (n = 10): HFHF diet, HFHF plus 14.7% of CF, and HFHF plus 4% of CO. Histological and biochemical analyses, gene expression, protein levels related to inflammation, and oxidative stress were evaluated in the liver. The HFHF diet caused lipogenesis, liver steatosis, oxidative stress, and inflammation in the animals. The CF and CO intake increased the liver total antioxidant capacity and superoxide dismutase, decreased nitric oxide levels and liver steatosis. Furthermore, the CF and CO led to the upregulation of Cpt1a and Adipor2, respectively, whereas CF downregulated Srebf1. CO intake decreased blood glucose, triglycerides, and the animals’ body weight. Chia did not show effects on mitigating liver pro-inflammatory status, which it may indicate occurs later. The addition of chia into an unbalanced diet is a good and relevant strategy to reduce liver metabolic disorders caused by the high consumption of fructose and saturated fat.
Mariana Juste Contin Gomes, Juliana Soares da Silva, Natalia Elizabeth Galdino Alves, Andressa de Assis, Elvira Gonzalez de Mejía, Hilário Cuquetto Mantovani, Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, v.106, p.1-13
Impact factor: 6.048
Abstract: Common bean has the potential to improve gut microbiota function due to its chemical composition and content of dietary fiber. This study evaluated the effect of cooked common bean (CCB) flour and its protein hydrolysate as part of a high-fat diet (HFD) added with 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (10 mg/kg/d), an inhibitor of thyroid hormone synthesis, on gut health of BALB/c mice. Forty-eight adult mice were divided into four groups: normal control; HFD; HFD plus CCB flour (346.6 g/kg of diet) (HFBF group) and HFD plus CCB protein hydrolysate (700 mg/Kg/d) (HFPH group). HFBF, but not HFPH, increased cecum weight, and the moisture, and lipids in the excreted feces, compared to control groups. Sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene of the cecal microbiota indicated changes in the beta-diversity between the HFBF and HFPH groups, compared to the normal control. The abundance of Bacteroidetes increased and the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio decreased in the HFBF compared to control groups. However, HFPH was not able to prevent the damage caused by a HFD to the gut bacterial communities. The OTUs enriched by HFBF were mainly assigned to members of the Muribaculaceae family, which shows potential to improve gut health. The intake of CCB flour improved intestinal health and modulated the composition and function of the cecal microbiota, attenuating the effects of the HFD, added wit 6-propyl-2-thiouracil, when fed to BALB/c mice.
Francilene Maria Azevedo, Almeida Abudo Leite Machamba, Aline Carare Candido, Carina Aparecida Pinto, Sílvia Oliveira Lopes, Mariana de Souza Macedo, Sarah Aparecida Vieira Ribeiro, Silvia Eloiza Priore, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini
Biological Trace Element Research, v. 2022, p. 1-10
Impact factor: 3.738
Abstract: Iodine is a micronutrient essential for maintaining normal body functioning, and the consumption depends on the distribution in the environment, and insufficient or excessive intake results in thyroid dysfunction. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the correlation between iodine concentration in drinking water and the iodine status of the population. The systematic review was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines and was registered at the International Prospective Register of Ongoing Systematic Reviews (CRD42019128308). A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE/PUBMED (National Library of Medicine), LILACS (Latin-American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), and Cochrane Library, June 2021. The quality of the studies was assessed by a checklist for cross-sectional studies developed by Joanna Briggs Institute. The initial search identified 121 articles, out of which ten were included in this systematic review, and five were included in the meta-analysis. Among the articles listed, six adopted cutoff points to classify the iodine content in the drinking water. The study identified median iodine concentration in drinking water from 2.2 to 617.8 μg/L and the correlation between iodine concentration in drinking water and urinary iodine concentration was 0.92, according to meta-analysis. Furthermore, the iodine status was correlated to the iodine content in water. The determination of a cutoff point can contribute to the implementation of iodine consumption control measures.
Mariana Grancieri, Thaisa Agrizzi Verediano, Cintia Tomaz Sant’Ana, Andressa de Assis, Renata Lopes Toledo, Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, Hercia Stampini Duarte Martino
PharmaNutrition,v. 21, p.1-11
Abstract: Background and aim: Overweight and obesity are associated with the development of several health complications, such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Chia seed is a rich source of proteins and peptides with potential anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of digested proteins (DP) from chia seed to prevent adipogenesis and adipose tissue inflammation in mice fed a high-fat diet. Methods and results: C57Bl/6 black mice were fed a high-fat diet plus DP (400 mg/kg of body/day) for 9 weeks. DP from chia seed reduced levels of plasma total cholesterol (−17.5%), LDL (−42.8%), triacylglycerides (−12.3%), % body fat (−26.98%), and waist circumference (−5.5%) in obese mice (p < 0.05). Furthermore, treatment with DP reduced (p < 0.05) adipocytes area, foci of inflammation, levels of p-NF-κB p65, PPARγ, mRNA SREBP1 (sterol regulatory element-binding transcription), and TNF-α. DP also increased mRNA adiponectin on adipose tissue in animals DP-treated, compared with no-DP-treated animals. However, mRNA LPL and HDL levels were not changed (p > 0.05). The peptides from DP had in silico high interaction with metalloproteinase-2. Conclusions: When using this experimental model, DP from chia seed had an anti-inflammatory and anti-adipogenic effect. These results suggest the effectiveness of digested proteins from chia seed against central obesity and its associated inflammation.
Alessandra da Silva, Brenda Kelly Souza Silveira, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Walmir da Silva, Josefina Bressan
Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, v. 181, p. 1-8
Impact factor: 4.006
Abstract: Evidence suggests antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA). However, the effect of supplementation of this fatty acid profile on the telomere length and the telomerase enzyme activity was not revised yet. The PubMed and Embase® databases were used to search for clinical trials. A total of six clinical trials were revised. Omega-3 PUFA supplementation did not statistically affect telomere length in three out of three studies but affected telomerase activity in two out of four studies. The supplementation increased telomerase enzyme activity in subjects with first-episode schizophrenia. Besides, it decreased telomerase enzyme activity without modulating the effects of Pro12Ala polymorphism on the PPARγ gene in type 2 diabetes subjects. The methodological differences between the studies and the limited number of studies on the theme suggest that further studies are needed to elucidate the effects of n-3 PUFA supplementation on telomere length and telomerase enzyme activity in humans
Thaisa Agrizzi Verediano, Nikita Agarwal, Mariana Juste Contin Gomes, Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino, Elad Tako
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, v. 2020. P. 1-16
Impact factor: 11.176
Abstract: The benefits of dietary fiber on intestinal health have been well established. However, there is no consensus on the dietary fiber effects on mineral absorption. The objective of this systematic review is to discuss the evidence on the dietary fiber effects on iron absorption and iron status-related biomarkers. A comprehensive search of 3 databases: PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science was carried out. We followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, and a total of 32 studies were included with 9 of them clinical studies and 23 in vivo. The studies included assessment of dietary fiber in the form of fructo-oligosaccharides, galacto-oligosaccharides, inulin, pectin, guar gum, oligofructose, xylo-oligosaccharides, and mannan-oligosaccharide. Hemoglobin (n = 21) and fractional iron absorption (n = 6) were the most frequently reported outcomes. The results showed no significant correlations between consumption of dietary fiber to iron absorption/status-related biomarkers. However, the current evidence may not be substantial to invalidate the recommendation of dietary fiber as an agent to improve dietary iron bioavailability, and absorption. In conclusion, there is a need to conduct further clinical trials with long dietary fiber intervention focusing on population at high risk for iron deficiency.
Emily Ferreira, Kíllya Paiva Santos, Glauce Dias da Costa, Tiago Ricardo Moreira, Luíza Delazari Borges, Heloísa Helena Dias, Daniel Souza Santos, Ítalo Augusto Cunha Rodrigues, Mariângela Orlandi Barbiero, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta
Social innovations Journal, v. 12. P. 1-12
Abstract: Background: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to estimate the evidence of the effectiveness of the active teaching and learning methods in health majors. Methods: We systematically searched four major databases (i.e., PubMed/MEDLINE, LILACS, Scielo and ERIC). This review was according to the PRISMA method and registration in PROSPERO (CRD42018094054). This review included studies to compare active teaching and learning methods to the traditional methods in the different health majors. We consider all original articles published in the databases until April 29th, 2020. Data were analyzed using R software. The pooled estimates with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were presented using a forest plot. Higgins and Egger’s tests were used to assess heterogeneity and publication bias, respectively. Primary estimates were pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis model. Results: Of the total of 27 identified articles 16 studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in this meta-analysis. The included studies sample size ranged from 18 to 379. The total sample was 4031 undergraduates from four health courses. The combined meta-analysis was 67% (95% CI: 0.13-0.54). Conclusions: Our finding suggested that evidence exists of the effectiveness of the active teaching and learning methods when compared to the traditional methods in the health courses.
Sílvia Oliveira Lopes, Sarah Aparecida Vieira Ribeiro, Dayane de Castro Morais, Elizangela da Silva Miguel, Laís Silveira Gusmão, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini, Silvia Eloiza Priore
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, v. 19, p.1-10
Impact factor: 3.390
Abstract: The majority of studies on anemia are focused on children and women of reproductive age. Although the disease is a widespread public health problem, studies that include the rural population are scarce. This study determined the prevalence of anemia and associated factors in adults and the elderly living in the rural area of a municipality in Minas Gerais. Twelve rural communities were included. During home visits, hemoglobin levels were measured using a hemoglobinometer to check for the presence or absence of anemia. Additionally, anthropometric data and food insecurity data based on the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA) were collected. A questionnaire about socioeconomic, demographic, and housing conditions was applied. Analyses were performed using the Stata software version 13.0. Spearman correlation and regression analysis logistics were performed (p < 0.05) on 124 families (n = 297 farmers). The prevalence of anemia was 41.1%, being higher among women (55.7%). Additionally, 40.1% of the farmers were food insecure; 52.7% and 80.5% presented excess weight and cardiovascular risk, respectively. Poverty was a reality for 39.7% of individuals. A positive correlation between hemoglobin levels and per capita income was found as well as a negative correlation with EBIA scores and cardiovascular risk. Multivariate analysis showed that individuals experiencing food insecurity, the elderly, and those who do not own a property, were more likely to be anemic. Farmers with per capita income above 1/2 minimum wage were less likely to have anemia. The prevalence of anemia in the group studied was higher than previous studies. The disease is associated with factors that also predispose to food insecurity. The improvement of the determinants of insecurity can contribute to the fight against anemia
Bruna Clemente Cota, Felício Roberto Costa, Leidjaira Lopes Juvanhol, Sarah Aparecida Vieira Ribeiro, Silvia Eloiza Priore, Eliane Rodrigues de Faria, Franciane Rocha de Faria, Patrícia Feliciano Pereira
British Journal of Nutrition, v. 2022
Impact factor: 3.718
Abstrct: A new phenotype of obesity has been studied: normal-weight obesity (NWO), which describes individuals with normal-weight by body mass index (BMI) and excess body fat. Despite normal-weight, individuals with NWO have a higher cardiometabolic risk. There is still a gap in the literature on the subject, especially in adolescents, as studies with this population are scarce. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the sociodemographic factors, family history of chronic non-communicable diseases, body perception, lifestyle and food consumption associated with NWO in adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study, conducted with 506 normal-weight adolescents aged 10 to 19 years, of both sexes. Weight and height were obtained and BMI/age was calculated. Body fat analysis was performed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Sociodemographic data, level of physical activity, food consumption, body self-perception and lifestyle habits were also obtained. Logistic regression with hierarchical approach was used to analyze the associations. The odds of NWO are greater with age (OR=1.14; 95% CI=1.04-1.26), lower in male adolescents (OR=0.21; 95% CI=0.11-0.41) and higher in those with a history of familial dyslipidemia (OR=1.81; 95% CI=1.01-3.28). Adolescents satisfied with their body (OR=0.30; 95%CI 0.16-0.56) and physically active (OR=0.44; 95% CI=0.24-0.81) have a lower odds of NWO, compared to the others. In addition, it was observed that the odds of NWO is greater among adolescents who use sweeteners (sugar substitutes) (OR=3.84; 95% CI=1.70-8.65). The factors associated with NWO were female sex, older age, positive family
Jerusa da Mota Santana, Marcos Pereira, Gisele Queiroz Carvalho, Maria do Carmo Gouveia Peluzio, Iúri Drumond Louro, Djanilson Barbosa Dos Santos, Ana Marlucia Oliveira
Nutrients, v.14, p. 1 -13
Impact factor: 5.717
Abstract: The polymorphisms of fatty acid desaturase genes FADS1 and FADS2 have been associated with an increase in weight gain. We investigated FADS1 and FADS2 gene polymorphisms and the relation between ω-3 and ω-6 fatty acid plasma concentrations and gestational weight gain. A prospective cohort study of 199 pregnant women was followed in Santo Antônio de Jesus, Brazil. Plasma levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) were measured at baseline and gestational weight gain during the first, second, and third trimesters. Fatty acid recognition was carried out with the aid of gas chromatography. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped using real-time PCR. Statistical analyses included Structural Equation Modelling. A direct effect of FADS1 and FADS2 gene polymorphisms on gestational weight was observed; however, only the SNP rs174575 (FADS2) showed a significant positive direct effect on weight over the course of the pregnancy (0.106; p = 0.016). In terms of the influence of SNPs on plasma levels of PUFAs, it was found that SNP rs174561 (FADS1) and SNP rs174575 (FADS2) showed direct adverse effects on plasma concentrations of ω-3 (eicosapentaenoic acid and alpha-linoleic acid), and only SNP rs174575 had positive direct effects on plasma levels of ARA and the ARA/LA (arachidonic acid/linoleic acid) ratio, ω-6 products, while the SNP rs3834458 (FADS2) had an adverse effect on plasma concentrations of EPA, leading to its increase. Pregnant women who were heterozygous and homozygous for the minor allele of the SNP rs3834458 (FADS2), on the other hand, showed larger concentrations of series ω-3 substrates, which indicates a protective factor for women’s health.
Lívya Alves Oliveira, Ceres Mattos Della Lucia, Fabiane Aparecida Canaan Rezende, Lívia Garcia Ferreira, Lucilene Rezende Anastácio, Tamires Cássia de Melo Souza, Marina Martins Daniel, Juliana Costa Liboredo
American Journal of Health Education, v. 53, p. 207-218
Abstract: Background: Social distancing used as a measure to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2, led to a series of changes in eating behavior, including food craving. Purpose: We aimed to evaluate food craving and its associated factors among women and men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An online questionnaire was conducted, containing data about food craving and possible associated factors. Results: 1363 individuals were included in the survey. Food craving was shown in 46.0% of the respondents. Among women, increased or reduced weight, working/studying during the pandemic without changes, increased snacking, worsened sleep quality, uncontrolled eating were some factors associated with food craving. For men, some factors associated were having a morning snack, living with parents, reduced sleep hours, and emotional eating. Discussion: Factors associated with food craving varied between men and women, being more present among women. These differences can be related to hormonal differences, way of working, daily tasks, and food preferences. Translation to Health Education Practice: Our findings may be used to develop guidelines for maintaining healthy eating habits in pandemic situations. In addition, the study showcases the need for health educators to consider the qualitative and quantitative aspects of nutrition, which can interfere with increased food cravings.
Andressa Ladeira Bernardes, Luís Fernando de Sousa Moraes, Bruna Cristina dos Santos Cruz, Lisiane Lopes da Conceição, Leandro Licursi de Oliveira, Mariaurea Matias Sarandy, Reggiani Vilela Gonçalves, Maria do Carmo Gouveia Peluzio
British Journal of Nutrition, v. 2022, p.1-12
Impact factor: 3.718
Abstract: The development of colorectal cancer involves some morphological changes, and in the initial stage, pre-neoplastic lesions called aberrant crypt foci (ACF) appear. Thus, an intervention with sources of bioactive compounds such as Hibiscus sabdariffa L., rich in phenolic compounds and anthocyanins, could attenuate the risk of developing these lesions due to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative properties. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of 5 % and 10 % supplementation of dehydrated H. sabdariffa calyces (DHSC) during the development of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine-induced pre-neoplastic lesions in male BALB/c mice. The characterisation of DHSC was carried out. The in vivo experiment lasted 12 weeks, and the animals were randomly divided into three experimental groups: the control group (CON) and the supplemented groups with 5 % DHSC and 10 % DHSC. The activities of liver enzymes catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase were determined. In addition, ACF, SCFA, presence of inflammatory infiltrates, goblet cells and leucocytes in the colonic mucosa were quantified. There was a significant reduction in ACF and the presence of inflammatory infiltrates in the colon of animals in groups 5DHSC and 10DHSC. In addition, the 10DHSC group showed an increase in the activity of the CAT enzyme, in the production of butyrate and in the presence of natural killer cells in the colon, in addition to more hypertrophied goblet cells. Based on these findings, it is suggested that DHSC supplementation may be recommended to attenuate cellular responses in the early stage of pre-neoplastic lesions.
Marina Martins Daniel, Juliana Costa Liboredo, Lucilene Rezende Anastácio, Tamires Cássia de Melo Souza, Lívya Alves Oliveira, Ceres Mattos Della Lucia, Lívia Garcia Ferreira
Frontiers in Nutrition, v.2022, p.1-11
Impact factor: 6.576
Abstract: Introduction and aims: The behavioral changes that arose from quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted the weight of people. This study aims to investigate the incidence and predictors of weight gain during the quarantine period. Methods: An online survey was performed five months after the social distance measures implementation. Participants recorded their current and usual weight before lockdown. A multivariate logistic regression model was performed. Results: Data on 1334 participants were evaluated (33.6y, 79.8% females), and 58.8% have gained weight (3.0 kg; 0.1 to 30.0 kg). Predictors of weight gain were increased food intake (OR = 5.40); snacking (OR = 2.86); fast food (OR = 1.11); canned products (OR = 1.08); and in physical activity (OR = 0.99) concerning the period before the pandemic; also time spent at work, including household chores (OR = 1.58); evening snack (OR = 1.54); higher frequency of alcoholic beverage intake (OR = 1.59) and dose of alcoholic beverage (OR = 1.11); uncontrolled eating (OR = 1.01), and vegetable intake (OR = 0.92) during the quarantine and physical activity before pandemic period (OR = 0.99). Conclusion: Most participants have gained weight during the pandemic because of working changes, lifestyle, eating habits changes, and uncontrolled eating behavior. These results can be useful to encourage changes during future quarantine periods to prevent weight gain.
Lara Gomes Suhett, Leidjaira Juvanhol Lopes, Mariane Alves Silva, Sarah Aparecida Vieira Ribeiro, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Nitin Shivappa, James R Hébert, Juliana Farias de Novaes
Nutrition, v. 2022, p. 1-20
Impact factor: 4.008
Abstract: Objectives: Missed nutrients from skipped meals affect diet quality. However, the extent to which breakfast skipping affects the inflammatory potential of a diet, as indicated by Children’s Dietary Inflammatory Index (C-DII) score, remains unknown. We aimed to evaluate the association between breakfast skipping and C-DII score, and investigate the presence of interaction with sociodemographic factors and sedentary behavior. Methods: This representative cross-sectional study enrolled 378 children ages 8 and 9 y from Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil in 2015. We collected sociodemographic data (sex, age, race, and household per-capita income) and screen time using a semistructured questionnaire. Dietary intake and breakfast skipping were evaluated by three 24-h dietary recalls from which energy-adjusted C-DII scores were calculated. We performed linear regression models to test the associations and possible interactions. Results: The prevalence of breakfast skipping and sedentary behavior were 20.1% and 47.6%, respectively. The mean ± standard deviation of the C-DII scores was 0.60 ± 0.94, and ranged from -2.16 (most anti-inflammatory diet) to 2.75 (most proinflammatory diet). Breakfast skipping was associated with a higher intake of lipids, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat, as well as lower carbohydrate, calcium, and magnesium intake (P < 0.05). After adjustment, breakfast skippers had higher C-DII scores (β = 0.33; 95% confidence interval, 0.12-0.54). This association was more pronounced in children with sedentary behavior (β = 0.53; 95% confidence interval, 0.24-0.82). Conclusions: Breakfast skipping was associated with a more proinflammatory diet in school-age children, and there was significant interaction with sedentary behavior. Early childhood interventions encouraging the habit of eating a breakfast and engaging in physical activity may help reduce the dietary inflammatory potential and prevent related cardiometabolic disorders.
Elizangela da Silva Miguel, Davi Lopes do Carmo, Sílvia Oliveira Lopes, Ricardo Henrique Silva Santos, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini, Luiza Carla Vidigal Castro, Glauce Dias da Costa, Silvia Eloíza Priore
Research, Society and Development, v. 11, p.1-12
Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the association between the use of pesticides, symptoms of intoxication and health conditions of family farmers in the Mata Mineira area, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study with 48 family farmers from a municipality in the Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais. A semi-structured questionnaire was applied to obtain demographic, socioeconomic information and characterization of the use of pesticides. Blood samples were collected from farmers for biochemical tests and evaluation of markers of exposure to pesticides. It was found that 75% of farmers used pesticides in food production, most of these products being extremely toxic. These farmers showed changes in plasma cholinesterase, erythrocyte cholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase, markers of exposure to pesticides. There was an association between spraying for more than 4 hours/day and reporting of acute symptoms of intoxication, as well as between the use of pesticides and the presence of chronic non-communicable diseases. Multivariate analysis indicated that non-compliance with the period of re-entry into crops after the use of pesticides remained as an explanatory variable for lung disease. We infer that acute symptoms, as well as chronic non-communicable diseases reported by family farmers, may be associated with the use of pesticides.
Leidjaira Lopes Juvanhol, Aline Silva‑Costa, Lucia Rotenberg, Arlinda B. Moreno, Enirtes Caetano Prates Melo, Itamar S. Santos, Maria Angélica Antunes Nunes, Susanna Toivanen, Dóra Chor, Rosane Härter Griep
Journal of Eating Disordes, v. 2022, p. 1.9
Impact factor: 4.049
Abstract: Background: Job strain has been reported as a trigger for binge eating, yet the underlying mechanisms have been unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether work-family conflict is a pathway in the association between job strain and binge eating, considering the possible effect-modifying influence of body mass index (BMI). Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 12,084 active civil servants from the multicenter Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Job strain was assessed using the Demand-Control-Support Questionnaire. Work-family conflict was considered as a latent variable comprising three items. Binge eating was defined as eating a large amount of food in less than 2 h at least twice a week in the last six months with a sense of lack of control over what and how much was eaten. Structural equation modelling was used to test the role of work-family conflict in the association between job strain and binge eating, stratifying for BMI. Results: For individuals of normal weight, positive associations were found between skill discretion and binge eating (standardized coefficient [SC] = 0.209, 95%CI = 0.022-0.396), and between psychological job demands and work-family conflict (SC = 0.571, 95%CI = 0.520-0.622), but no statistically significant indirect effect was found. In overweight individuals, psychological job demands, skill discretion, and work-family conflict were positively associated with binge eating (SC = 0.099, 95%CI = 0.005-0.193; SC = 0.175, 95%CI = 0.062-0.288; and SC = 0.141, 95%CI = 0.077-0.206, respectively). Also, work-family conflict was observed to be a pathway on the associations of psychological job demands and decision authority with binge eating (SC = 0.084, 95%CI = 0.045-0.122; and SC = – 0.008, 95%CI = – 0.015- – 0.001, respectively). Conclusions: Work-family conflict partly explains effects of high levels of psychological job demands and low levels of decision authority on binge eating among overweight individuals. Moreover, skill discretion is positively associated with binge eating, regardless of BMI category.
Amanda Popolino Diniz, Josefina Bressan, Raquel de Deus Mendonça, Hillary Nascimento Coletro, Júlia Cristina Cardoso Carraro, Adriano Marçal Pimenta, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Adriana Lúcia Meireles
International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research, v. 2022
Impact factor: 1.784
Abstract: In the absence of a recommendation for daily intake of phenolic compounds, to compare the intake of the main dietary polyphenols between populations is a really challenge. This study aimed to estimate the total dietary intake of polyphenols, classes and their food sources among Brazilian graduates and postgraduates. This was a cross-sectional study using baseline data from the Cohort of Universities of Minas Gerais (CUME project). Food consumption was assessed using a quantitative food frequency questionnaire with 144 food items. Polyphenol intake was estimated from the Phenol-Explorer and US Department of Agriculture database, and previous studies that evaluated the phenolic content of specific foods. A total of 4130 individuals of both sexes with a median age of 34 (18–86) years old were finally included. The median intake of total polyphenols adjusted for energy was 753.41 mg/day (interquartile range – IQR=461.80; p<0.001), and the most consumed classes were phenolic acids and flavonoids, with median intakes of 552.30 mg/d (IQR=429.78; p<0.001) and 154.70 mg/day (IQR=108.70; p<0.001), respectively. The main food sources of polyphenols were coffee, peanuts, beans, and fruits. A lower intake of total polyphenols and their classes was observed in a population with similar characteristics to those from developed countries. The results demonstrate the importance of disseminating nutritional information about foods, so that the consumption of natural foods is prioritized. New studies that evaluate the consumption of polyphenols and their impact on human health are recommended to establish a daily recommendation for the consumption of such compounds.
Reggiani Vilela Gonçalves, Mariáurea Matias Sarandy, Débora Esposito, Maria do Carmo Gouveia Peluzio
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, v. 2022, p.1-2
Impact factor: 6.543
Fernanda Martins de Albuquerque, Milene Cristine Pessoa, Mariana De Santis Filgueiras, Danielle Soares Gardone, Juliana Farias de Novaes
Nutrition Reviews, v.2022
Impact factor: 7.11
Abstract: Context: The community food environment covers the type, quantity, density, location, and access to retail food outlets, and its influence on eating behavior, obesity, and metabolic syndrome has been investigated. Objective: To evaluate the evidence on longitudinal associations between objectively measured retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome components in children, adolescents, and adults. Data extraction: This systematic review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Study quality and risk of bias were assessed with the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Data sources: The Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Scielo, PubMed, MEDLINE, and Lilacs databases were searched without any restriction on publication dates. Data analysis: Of the 18 longitudinal studies included, significant associations were reported in 9 between retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome components in adults (6 positive associations, 2 negative, and 1 both positive and negative), and in 3 studies of children and adolescents (2 negative associations and 1 both positive and negative). Six studies with adults found no association. Conclusion: Limited evidence was found for longitudinal associations between retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome components. In future studies, researchers should consider the use of standardized retail food outlet measurements and accurate analysis to better understand the influence of the community food environment on metabolic syndrome.
Daniel Barbosa Alcântara, Ana Paula Dionísio, Adriana G. Artur, Brenda Kelly Souza Silveira, Amanda F. Lopes, Jhonyson A. C. Guedes, Lícia R. Luz, Ronaldo F. Nascimento, Gisele S. Lopes, Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Guilherme J. Zocolo
Food Chemistry, v. 137, p.1-17
Impact factor: 7.514
Abstract: Se is an essential element in mammals. We review how its bioavailability in soil and the ability of plants to accumulate Se in foods depends on the soil Se profile (including levels and formats), besides to describe how the various selenoproteins have important biochemical functions in the body and directly impact human health. Owing to its favorable characteristics, the scientific community has investigated selenomethionine in most nut matrices. Among nuts, Brazil nuts have been highlighted as one of the richest sources of bioavailable Se. We summarize the most commonly used analytical methods for Se species and total Se determination in nuts. We also discuss the chemical forms of Se metabolized by mammals, human biochemistry and health outcomes from daily dietary intake of Se from Brazil nuts. These findings may facilitate the understanding of the importance of adequate dietary Se intake and enable researchers to define methods to determine Se species.
Bruna Cristina dos Santos Cruz, Vinícius da Silva Duarte, Roberto Sousa Dias, Andressa Ladeira Bernardes, Sérgio Oliveira de Paula, Célia Lúcia de Luces Fortes Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Gouveia Peluzio
Food Research International, v. 158, p.1-12
Impact factor: 6.475
Abstract: The use of probiotic and synbiotic is a promising strategy to modulate the intestinal microbiota, and thereby modify the risk of diseases. In this study, the effect of probiotic VSL#3, isolated or associated with a yacon-based product (PBY), on the functional metabolic pathways of the microbiota, in a colorectal carcinogenesis model, was evaluated. For this, mice induced to carcinogenesis were fed with standard diet AIN-93 M (CON), diet AIN-93 M and VSL#3 (PRO) or diet AIN-93 M with yacon and VSL#3 (SYN). The SYN group showed a highly differentiated intestinal community based on the MetaCyc pathways. Of the 351 predicted functional pathways, 222 differed between groups. Most of them were enriched in the SYN group, namely: amino acid biosynthesis pathways, small molecule biosynthesis pathways (cofactors, prosthetic groups, electron carriers and vitamins) carbohydrate degradation pathways and fermentation pathways. In addition, the synbiotic was able to stimulate the anti-inflammatory immune response and reduce the gene expression of PCNA and c-myc. Thus, we conclude that the synbiotic impacted more significantly the metabolic functions of the microbiota compared to the isolated use of probiotic. We believe that the enrichment of these pathways can exert antiproliferative action, reducing colorectal carcinogenesis. The prediction of the functional activity of the microbiota is a promising tool for understanding the influence of the microbiome on tumor development.
Daniel Souza Santos, Clara Regina Santos Batistelli, Marina Marilac dos Santos Lara, Emily de Souza Ferreira, Tiago Ricardo Moreira, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, v. 2022, p. 1-9
Impact factor: 3.320
Abstract: Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension are some of the main Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases, representing a big challenge for global health. In this context, Telehealth programs are presented as a tool with exciting potential to complement and support health care. This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the use of Telehealth programs in the care of individuals with Hypertension and/or Diabetes Mellitus. Methods: A systematic review with meta-analysis was carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol methodology. The following databases were used: PubMed, EMBASE, SciELO, ScienceDirect and Cochrane Library. Papers were included if they addressed the use of technologies that allow two-way communication at a distance between health professionals and patients affected by Hypertension and/or Diabetes Mellitus, type 1 or type 2. Experimental, cross-sectional, case–control, cohort, and clinical trials were included in the review. Results: We included 164 papers in the review and 45 in the meta-analysis final synthesis. The systematic review results showed a prevalence of telemonitoring as the main form of Telehealth. The study showed a reduction in expenses with the use of Telehealth, both for the users and for the health systems providers, followed by greater satisfaction. Our meta-analysis showed that Telehealth is an effective tool in the care of diabetic patients, providing a 0.353% reduction in HbA1c compared to traditional care. No studies on Hypertension that met our eligibility criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis were found. Conclusions: Telehealth is an effective tool for the care of people with Diabetes Mellitus and/or Hypertension
Flavia Glavão Cândido, Raquel Duarte Moreira Alves, Dayse Mara de Oliveira Freitas, Jersica Martins Bittencourt, Daniela Mayumi Usuda Prado Rocha, Rita de Cassia Gonçalves Alfenas
Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, v. 2022, p.1-6
Impact factor: 7.324
Abstract: Objective. To investigate if the gout-protective effect of low-fat dairy products could be attributed to the urate-lowering effect of calcium. Methods. This is a placebo-controlled trial in which thirty-five adult (aged 18–42 years) female low-calcium consumers (<800 mg/d) were randomized to one of three treatment groups: low calcium breakfast (control, ∼70 mg of calcium/d) –C or high-calcium breakfast (∼770 mg/d) from calcium citrate – CIT or from skim milk – SM, during 45 consecutive days. Breakfasts were matched for potential confounders and were provided as part of an energy-restricted normoprotein diet containing an additional 800 mg of calcium/d. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurements (body fat assessment) and fasting blood samples (urate, ionic calcium, PTH, and 1,25-(OH)2-D3) were taken at baseline and the end of the experiment. Clinical trial registration: http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/ (RBR-7Q2N33). Results. Despite no significant changes in total body weight/fat, CIT and SM led to a significant reduction in serum urate and ionic calcium, but did not affect PTH and vitamin D concentrations compared to C. CIT and SM reduced baseline serum urate by ∼14% and ∼17%, respectively. There was a trend to a positive correlation between changes in serum urate and changes in ionic calcium on day 45 (r = 0.327, P = 0.055). Conclusions. Calcium supplementation (770 mg/d from dairy or calcium citrate) reduced serum urate concentrations, suggesting that the gout-protective effect of low-fat dairy consumption is at least partly due to a urate-lowering effect of calcium.
Mariana Juste Contin Gomes, Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino, Nikolai Kolba, Jacquelyn Cheng, Nikita Agarwal, Maurisrael de Moura Rocha, Elad Tako
Frontiers in Bioscience Landmark, v.27, p.1-13
Impact factor: 4.009
Abstract: Background: Biofortification is a method that improves the nutritional value of food crops through conventional plant breeding. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of intra-amniotic administration of soluble extracts from zinc (Zn) biofortified and Zn standard cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) flour on intestinal functionality and morphology, inflammation, and gut microbiota, in vivo. Methods: Seven treatment groups were utilized: (1) No Injection; (2) 18 MΩ H2O; (3) 50 mg/mL Inulin; (4) 50 mg/mL BRS Pajeú soluble extract (Zn standard); (5) 50 mg/mL BRS Aracê soluble extract (Zn biofortified); (6) 50 mg/mL BRS Imponente soluble extract (Zn biofortified); (7) 50 mg/mL BRS Xiquexique soluble extract (Zn biofortified). Results: Treatment groups with BRS Imponente and BRS Xiquexique reduced the abundance of Clostridium and E. coli when compared with all other experimental groups. All cowpea soluble extracts increased villi goblet cell number (total), specifically acidic goblet cell type number per villi relative to inulin and 18MΩ H2O groups. Moreover, BRS Xiquexique increased the crypt goblet diameter and the crypt depth compared to all treatments and controls. The Zn content in the Zn biofortified cowpea flours was higher when compared to the Zn standard flour (BRS Pajeú), and the phytate: Zn molar ratio was lower in the Zn biofortified flours compared to the Zn standard flour. In general, all cowpea soluble extracts maintained the gene expression of proteins involved with Zn and iron absorption, brush border membrane (BBM) functionality and inflammation compared to inulin and 18MΩ H2O. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the potential nutritional benefit of standard and biofortified
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Some scholars believe that the Pamunkey have occupied their tribal area for 10,000 to 12,000 years. By 1607, when thefounded , the Pamunkey lived in along the Pamunkey River. They spoke a and were one of the six core tribes of , a political alliance of Algonquian-speaking tribes that in 1607 was ruled by . Powhatan likely appointed his younger brother or cousin as the weroance, or chief, of the Pamunkey.
As part of Tsenacomoco, the Pamunkey were involved in the periods of hostility between the English and Indian communities that are now known as the(1609–1614), (1622–1632), and Third (1644–1646) Anglo-Powhatan Wars. Opechancanough, who by 1630 had become the paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, launched the attacks that initiated the second and third conflicts. The 1646 that ended the Third Anglo-Powhatan War set aside land for Virginia Indians, including the Pamunkey, in the Pamunkey Neck area of present-day King William County. This is the same land on which the Pamunkey reside today. The treaty also established a tradition of paying yearly tribute to the Virginia governor—a tradition that continued into the early twenty-first century. (The fourth Wednesday of November is set aside for presentations of fish and game at the Virginia State Capitol or Executive Mansion in Richmond.)
In the 1670s, the Pamunkey weroansqua, or female chief,worked with the colonial government to secure rights for her people. In 1676, and his attacked the Pamunkey, captured some tribal members, and killed others. That summer, Cockacoeske met with a committee of and members of the in Jamestown to offer additional men to defend the against frontier tribes and to remind the politicians of the Pamunkey warriors who had been killed fighting alongside the colonists. In February 1677 she asked the General Assembly to release those who had been taken captive and to restore Pamunkey property. On May 29, 1677, Cockacoeske signed a treaty, published in London as the , in which she, on behalf of several tribes united under her authority, swore allegiance to the Crown, including an annual tribute of game, in exchange for hunting rights, access to civil courts, and ownership of land within a three-mile radius of any Indian town. Cockacoeske’s successor, , also fought for her people’s rights. As the European population expanded into their tribal lands, she and the “Great Men of the Pamunkey” submitted petitions to the colonial government asking the English to confirm Pamunkey ownership of tribal lands, remove squatters, and reduce the annual tribute to the Crown.
Pamunkey Portraits by De Lancey W. Gill
Like other Virginia Indians, the Pamunkey struggled to preserve their identity and culture early in the twentieth century. Thebanned interracial marriage in Virginia and asked for voluntary racial identifications on birth and marriage certificates. “White” was defined as having no trace of African ancestry, while all other people, including Indians, were defined as “colored.” To accommodate elite Virginians who claimed and as ancestors, the law allowed for those who had “one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-Caucasic blood [to] be deemed to be white persons.” The laws essentially erased Virginia Indians as a category of people under the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the Racial Integrity Act unconstitutional in (1967).
By late in the century, the tribes had reasserted their identities. In 1979, with help from a federal grant, the Pamunkey tribe opened the Pamunkey Indian Museum. The museum is located on the reservation; its collection includes stone tools, arrowheads, and pottery, a craft practiced consistently by the Pamunkey since before the colonial era. On March 25, 1983, Virginia Joint Resolution 54 formally recognized the Pamunkey tribe, along with the, , Mattaponi, , and tribes. (The and tribes were recognized in 1985 and 1989, respectively.)
In 2009, the U.S. government opened the petition process from the Pamunkey tribe for federal recognition. After an investigation into tribal laws and practices—including a law the tribe removed in 2012 that banned interracial marriage—the U.S. Department of Interior granted the Pamunkey Indian tribe federal recognition on July 2, 2015, stating, “The Pamunkey Indian Tribe has occupied a land base in southeastern King William County, Virginia—shown on a 1770 map as ‘Indian Town’—since the Colonial Era in the 1600s.” Federally recognized Indian tribes receive access to services from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, including medical, housing, and educational benefits.
The Pamunkey tribe maintains its own laws and its own governing body, which consists of a chief and seven council members. The positions are elected, but voluntary; councilors are not paid. Elections for the chief and council are held every four years. Votes are cast in the traditional manner, using a basket, peas, and corn kernels. On election night, the basket is passed for each candidate; every voter places in it either a pea, indicating a vote against the candidate, or a corn kernel, indicating a vote in favor. The peas and corn kernels are tallied for each candidate; the person with the most corn is elected. The chief is elected first, followed by the seven councilors. | <urn:uuid:1b027744-146e-45c3-83d3-ae598f41eb6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/pamunkey-tribe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.968127 | 1,172 | 4.375 | 4 |
I needed to re-read Roland Barthes‘ Camera Lucida from 1980. I use an English translation in a print from 2000. The numbers you find in brackets refer to pages in that version of the book.
There were certain things that I needed to check up on. What does that book actually say about studium and punctum in photography? What was Barthes’ original ideas?
In handling these issues this is the first regular post on phenomenology and photography, this blog. There will be more of such notes. I label (and tag) these posts “working notes” since that is exactly what they are. They are private notes, that I have chosen to make public so they might be of use to others as well. Very slightly adapted.
The notes will all be new, and presented here as I make them.
The specific issues I wanted to investigate were if studiums and punctums (as Barthes use these words) are general qualities that you will find in/with every photographs? Or are they, on the contrary, qualities that goes only with certain photographs.
Or maybe the terms should be understood in different ways all together?
Roland Barthes: “I see photographs everywhere, like everyone else, nowadays; they come from the world to me, without my asking; that are only “images,” their mode of appearance is heterogeneous.” (16)
And then Barthes continues:”Yet, among those which has seen selected, evaluated, approved, collected in albums or magazines and which had thereby passed through the filter of culture, I realized that some provoked tiny jubilations … and that others, on the contrary, were so indifferent to me that by dint of seeing them multiply, like some weed, I felt a kind of aversion towards them, even of irritation.” (16)
There is, it seems, a distinction between photographs that invoke tiny jubilations and those that are indifferent to Barthes or even invoke irritation.
Barthes says: “I decided then to take as a guide for my new analysis the attraction I felt for certain photographs.” (18)
In this task Barthes borrows “something from phenomenology’s project and something from it language.” (20). I will, however, leave that discussion to another time.
Related to the photograph above, at this level of discussion, it will be a question if it evokes a tiny jubilation, or simply is an indifferent image. That is for you, the observer, to decide.
Barthes then enters into an analysis of couple of photographs from the Dutch photographer Koen Wessing:
“What I feel about these photographs derives from an average affect, almost from a certain training. I did not know a French word which might account for this kind of human interest, but I believe this word exists in Latin: it is studium, which does not mean, at least not immediately, “study”, but application to a thing, taste for someone, a kind of general, enthusiastic commitment, of course, but without special acuity. (26)
And: “It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the setting, the actions.” (26)
Related to the photograph above studium would be issues to the where, the when and the what of the photograph. Among many other things that culturally do, and could, relate to it.
That much for studium. Now, what does Barthes has to say about punctum? Its comes here:
“The second element will break (or punctuate) the studium. This time is it not I who seek it out (as I invest the field of the studium with my sovereign consciousness), it is this element which rises from the scene, shoots out f it like an arrow, and pierces me. A Latin word exist to designate this wound, this prick, this mark made by a pointed instrument: the word suits me all the better in that is also refers to the notion of punctuation, and because the photographs I am speaking of are in effect punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these sensitive points; precisely these marks are so many points.” (26-27)
Further: “This second element which will disturb the studium I shall therefore call punctum; for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole – and also the cast of the dice. A photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me). (26-27)
And he continues: “Many photographs are, alas, inert under my gaze. But even among those which have some existence in my eyes, most provoke only a general and, so to speak,polite interest: they have no punctum in them: they please or displease me without pricking me: they are invested with no more than studium.The studium is that very wide field of unconcerned desire, of various interest, of inconsequential taste: I like / I don’t like”. (27)
Related to the photograph above punctum could be almost anything. Punctum is a capacity that hits you, and not anything that could be read out of the image as part of the studium. Normally it would be a detail that speaks to you. And it would be very individual what/who is speaking and what is said.
I am not going to take this note any further.
I was interested in seeing if studium and punctum, by Barthes, were initiated as concepts of general qualities inherent in all photographs. It seems that they were not. They arespecial qualities that come with certain pictures and certain attitudes.
And what is more: Images that qualify as objects worthy of studium, will not necessarily “contain” punctums. Barthes is very clear about that.
There also seems to be images that fall completely outside the studium area: those “merely images” that the author simply is indifferent to. However, this does not mean that these images are without interest for everybody. Barthes may be indifferent to images that might have quite a different status for others. Even if Barthes would not have invested in those images, others might. This is a very important point.
We have, however, to be a bit cautious when reading Camera Lucida. Questions have to be asked. Is Barthes, for instance, talking about qualities in a) the object, in the b) subject or in c) the subjects reading of photographs? He is, in my opinion, talking about c) the reading of the photographs. This is quite consistent with phenomenology, or should I say intentionality. That discussion will, however, be left to another time.
Barthes’ stand on these issues could be phrased like this: Studiums are investments, punctums are gifts. Investments do not grant gifts. But they don’t exclude them either.
Some people don’t invest and they don’t get gifts. Others do/get both.
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Jackhammer Operator Run Over by a Truck in a Highway Work Zone
New Jersey FACE 01-NJ-098
On September 8, 2001, a 37-year-old construction worker was killed when he was run over by a fuel truck in a highway work zone. The victim was employed by a construction company that was doing deck repair on an elevated highway leading into a major urban area. Construction was done only on the weekends to minimize traffic disruption in the area. Sometime after 10:00 a.m., the driver of a fuel truck arrived at the site to refuel two diesel compressors supplying compressed air for the jackhammers and other pneumatic tools. He drove into the work zone, which was marked with traffic cones, and parked between the two compressors. Quickly filling both compressors with fuel, he retracted his fuel line and got into his truck to leave. The driver then started to leave the work zone as another worker behind him stopped traffic. He did not see the victim, who was standing or working near the front of his truck. The truck had only moved a short distance when some other workers from the site yelled for him to stop, and the driver looked at his mirrors and saw the victim on the ground behind him. NJ FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed:
- Employers should institute an internal traffic control plan as outlined in the NIOSH publication Building Safer Highway Work Zones: Measures to Prevent Worker Injuries from Vehicles and Equipment.
- Truck owners should examine their vehicles for blind spots and install mirrors to increase visability.
- Employers should consider the use of electronic signaling devices or sensors to warn equipment operators of the presence of pedestrians in the blind spots of mobile equipment.
On September 11, 2001, a county Medical Examiner notified FACE staff of a construction worker who was killed in a highway work zone. A FACE investigator conferred with the Federal OSHA Compliance Officer who deferred the investigation due to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. OSHA kept in contact with FACE until a concurrent investigation could be conducted on January 3, 2002. During the visit, the FACE investigator observed the OSHA witness interview and privately interviewed a company representative. The fuel truck and incident site were also photographed. Additional information was obtained from the police report, the medical examiner’s report, and the OSHA investigation file.
The victim’s employer was a joint venture of two construction companies who had contracted to do roadwork projects together as one entity. The venture had been formed almost six years ago and employed over 167 workers at the time of the incident. A safety director managed safety issues and enforced a comprehensive written safety program. The victim was a 37-year-old male construction worker who had worked for the venture for six months as a jackhammer operator. His previous employment was not known. He was survived by his wife and two children.
The incident occurred at the site of a highway repair project being done on a major highway leading into a large urban area. The victim’s employer was awarded a NJ Department of Transportation contract in April 2001 to complete bridge deck repairs, highway resurfacing, and parapet replacement. The highway had been originally built in 1953 and required major work to repair and rebuild deteriorating sections of the roadway. The project started immediately after the contract was awarded and was scheduled for completion in June 2002. The repair work was done on weekends to lessen the disruption to traffic on the highway. Work started Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. and continued until Monday morning at 5:00 a.m. With the help of a Construction Trooper (A New Jersey State Police Trooper trained in construction standards who provide patrol cars and impromptu safety inspections at the work zones), the crew closed off about two miles of traffic lanes with signs and traffic cones. Concrete barriers were used, but only in areas where the bridge decking was compromised by the complete removal of the concrete surface. Up to 110 construction workers were transported by bus to the site, which was in operation 24 hours a day during the weekend work cycle. The usual construction method was to remove the old asphalt with a milling machine and inspect the exposed roadway and bridge decking for wear. Deteriorated concrete was removed with jackhammers until the rebar was exposed, and high-tensile strength concrete used to patch the hole. If the damage was extensive, all the concrete and rebar would be removed and the section of bridge deck rebuilt. New asphalt was applied to finish the job.
The weather on the morning of the incident, a Saturday, was clear and dry. The victim arrived and donned an orange safety vest for working at the site. At the time of the incident, the worksite consisted of 39 workers spread among three different work zone within the construction site. Both highway lanes were closed, and traffic was being diverted to a single-lane shoulder adjoining the right hand (slow) traffic lane. Traffic cones were used to mark off most of the area, with some sections of concrete “jersey” traffic barriers set up where needed. The victim was working at the largest work zone. Here, the roadway was an elevated highway spanning the local secondary roads. This area was slightly inclined but straight with good line of sight. All the asphalt from the right lane had been removed and the concrete surface had numerous holes jackhammered into it, exposing the rebar. The victim was working in the right lane on the edge of a large hole that measured approximately 11 feet long by 2 feet wide. Shortly after 10:00 a.m., a fuel truck owned by the joint venture arrived on site to refuel the air compressors that powered the jackhammers. The truck was a 1999 tanker truck with a gross vehicle weight of 41,000 pounds. With a capacity of 800 gallons of diesel and 800 gallons of gasoline, the truck was nearly full when it arrived. A laborer saw the truck arrive and moved a cone to allow it to move from the highway shoulder into the work zone, where the driver positioned it between the two compressors that needed refueling. At that time, all work in that part of the work zone ceased. The driver had 10 years of experience and quickly filled the compressors with diesel fuel, filling the compressor behind his truck first. After filling the second compressor, he moved towards the rear of the truck to reel in the fuel hose. He then climbed into the cab of his truck and waited a few moments for a laborer behind him to stop traffic and wave him on to leave. The driver moved his truck forward at a 45-degree angle towards the victim at a speed of less than five miles per hour. As he did this, two workers ran towards him yelling for him to stop. He realized that he had struck someone when he looked in his mirrors and saw the victim lying on the ground behind him.
Photo 1. Fuel Truck.
Diagram 1. Overview of Incident Scene.
The driver then pulled back into the work zone as a site foreman called 911. At that time, the victim was still breathing and had a pulse. The State Police troopers helping with the construction site arrived quickly, followed by local EMS paramedics who transported the victim to the local hospital. He arrived with CPR in progress but efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. The victim was pronounced dead at the emergency room at 11:22 a.m.
No one directly witnessed the incident. Apparently, the victim was standing near the front of the truck when the driver moved away. The driver stated that he did not see or hear anything and that his line of sight was clear. It was noted during the investigations that the height of the front of the truck was over five feet high and could block the driver’s view of anyone standing directly in front of it (see photo). The State Police report also noted some items hanging from the rearview mirror and a translucent “bug shield” mounted on the front of the truck that could block the driver’s view.
Photo 2. Driver’s field of view inside of tanker truck.
Note pedestrians in front of and directly to the right of bug shield.
Recommendation #1: Employers should institute an internal traffic control plan as outlined in the NIOSH publication Building Safer Highway Work Zones: Measures to Prevent Worker Injuries from Vehicles and Equipment.
Discussion: NIOSH has recently published a booklet describing a number of highway work zone fatalities and recommendations for reducing injuries in work zones. Designed to be used with the latest edition of the US Department of Transportation Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the booklet outlines a number of additional methods to prevent injuries. One measure is an internal traffic control plan to coordinate the flow of construction vehicles within the work zone. Specifics on the plan can be found in the attached NIOSH publication, Building Safer Highway Work Zones: Measures to Prevent Worker Injuries from Vehicles and Equipment, pages 16 to19.
Recommendation #2: Truck owners should examine their vehicles for blind spots and install mirrors to increase visibility.
Discussion: The tanker truck driver stated that he did not see the victim as he started to drive out of the work zone. After the incident, the OSHA compliance officer and FACE investigator noted the driver’s visibility from the truck’s cab. Two people of varying height were photographed from the drivers seat of the truck. Only the very top of one pedestrian’s head was visible over the right front corner of the truck’s hood, while the second pedestrian was partly obscured by the bug shield (see Photo 2). To prevent this, NJ FACE recommends that all truck owners should examine their trucks for blind spots and install mirrors to cover the blind spots. It was noted that the construction company immediately examined their truck and installed convex mirrors to cover the blind spots.
Recommendation #3: Employers should consider the use of electronic signaling devices or sensors to warn equipment operators of the presence of pedestrians in the blind spots of mobile equipment.
Discussion: Employers should be aware that devices are available which can detect the presence of persons in the blind spots of vehicles and provide a warning to the driver. Devices using electromagnetic sensors are available which can detect persons in the front blind spot of vehicles. One device is intended to be mounted on the front of school buses to warn drivers when children cross into the bus’s front blind spot. Similar devices designed for the rear of vehicles may also be applicable to the front. Employers and truck owners may wish to explore these options.
- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Part IV: Standards and Guides for Traffic Controls for Street and Highway Construction, Maintenance, Utility, and Incident Management Operations. US Department of Transportation, 1998. American Traffic Safety Services Association, Fredericksburg, VA (540) 898-5400.
- Building Safer Highway Work Zones: Measures to Prevent Worker Injuries From Vehicles and Equipment. DHHS (NIOSH) publication 2001-128, NIOSH Publications Dissemination, Cincinnati, OH (800) 356-4674. www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-128/
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Project
Investigation # 01-NJ-098-01
Staff members of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Occupational Health Service, perform FACE investigations when there is a report of a targeted work-related fatal injury. The goal of the FACE Program is to prevent future injuries by studying and identifying the risk factors that contribute to workplace fatalities, by recommending intervention strategies, and by disseminating information to employers and employees. NJ FACE data is reported to NIOSH for trend analysis. All identifiers are removed from the FACE reports and other data to protect the confidentiality of those who participate in the program.
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20 Easy Ideas For Setting Up A Nursery In Your Small Space
Your new little one will take up a lot of room in your heart, but they don’t necessarily have to take up a lot of room in your home!
Having a small living space doesn’t mean you can’t have an adorable nursery. What it does mean is that you need plenty of small nursery ideas! It’s time to get creative and make the most of every square inch.
At Newton Baby, we get excited about safe, cozy spaces for babies to grow and thrive in. We’ve put together this list of 20 small nursery ideas so you can create the perfect room for your precious baby no matter how much (or little) space you have!
But before we let you in on these ideas, let’s talk about safety. Regardless of how big or small your nursery is, safety is one thing that should never be compromised.
Small Nursery Safety
You don’t have to compromise on safety just because you have a tiny space! Here are a few safety tips to keep in mind as you design and decorate your small nursery.
Outfit Your Nursery For Safe Sleep
Your little one will spend lots of time napping and snoozing in their crib. In just a few simple steps, you’ll make their bed a safe place for them to sleep and give yourself peace of mind knowing that they’re protected.
First, set your baby up in their own bed. No matter how tiny your home is, don’t put your infant in bed with you to sleep. If you’re extra tight on space, put them in a bassinet or a mini-crib.
Second, outfit your little one’s crib with a safe, firm mattress that fits properly. A good fit leaves no gaps between the edge of the mattress and the inside of the crib. You should not be able to fit more than two fingers between them.
Our crib mattresses are firm yet comfortable and 100% breathable. This not only helps to reduce the risk of suffocation but also helps regulate your baby’s body temperature (no more sweaty backs!) and reduce dust mites and allergens.
Lastly, once your little one is in your arms, ask your pediatrician about safe sleep guidelines, like putting your baby to sleep on their back and offering them a pacifier.
Choose Safe Crib Decorations
Even in a small room, it’s tempting to go all out with decorations like cute throw pillows and blankets. But in the name of safe sleep, skip the extra bells and whistles on the crib.
To provide your little one with the safest possible rest, keep all toys, books, pillows, blankets, and crib bumpers out of the crib. You’ll also want to make sure the bedding is not too loose.
If you’d like to simplify your life while continuing to keep your baby safe, choose a Newton Baby Crib Mattress. Our mattress cover is not only breathable but also completely removable and washable, which makes cleanup a breeze for you!
Don’t Leave Your Baby At The Changing Table
With a small nursery, you might toss out the idea of a changing table altogether and look for alternative places to change your baby’s diaper. But if your changing surface is high, remember to never leave your baby alone.
Your little one might learn how to roll over (and off the changing table!) when you least expect it. Keep a hand on your little one at all times, and arrange your nursery so everything you need during a diaper change is within easy reach.
Babyproof The Space
Small nurseries don’t automatically have fewer dangers for your baby. You’ll still need to babyproof the space.
Install outlet covers. Make sure you have a working smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector. And, if you have blinds, secure the cords or swap them out for a cordless variety.
These tasks won’t take long, but they’ll help keep your baby safe while they’re in the nursery.
20 Small Nursery Ideas
With those safety guidelines in mind, let your imagination run wild with ideas for turning your small space into a baby haven!
To get your creative juices flowing, here are Newton Baby’s 20 best small nursery ideas.
1) Make A Plan
A little bit of time spent planning can save you a lot of time and money down the road. Before you start decorating your baby’s room, read through these small nursery ideas.
Write down the ones that make the most sense for your home and focus on those first. Then, take some time to visualize the finished space and consider these questions:
- What do you want it to look like?
- What colors do you imagine?
- Do you have a nursery theme in mind?
The answers to these questions will help you create the perfect space for your precious baby.
Once you have a rough plan in mind, sketch the room out. That way you can see where everything fits best.
2) Measure The Space
After you’ve made your plan, take some measurements of the room. By doing so, you’ll know exactly how much space you have to work with. Keep these numbers in mind as you go shopping.
And, as you consider each piece of furniture you want to include, check the dimensions carefully. You don’t want to buy anything that won’t fit or will overcrowd the nursery.
3) Prioritize What Goes In The Nursery
Now that you know how much space you have, prioritize what items have to go in the nursery and what can go in another room in the house.
The crib and a few other necessities will need to go in your little one’s room but think outside the box for the rest. Consider putting toys in the living room, for example, or keeping all of your baby’s towels, washcloths, and shampoo in the bathroom.
Think about where you’ll use each item. You want to store your little one’s things in a spot that makes sense. That way, when you’re exhausted and dealing with brain fog, you’ll easily be able to find what you’re looking for.
4) Downsize The Crib
When that happens (or from the very beginning), opt for a mini crib. At 24 inches wide and 38 inches long, the mini crib is smaller than a standard-sized crib and is more space-economical.
5) Tuck The Crib In A Corner
You might be scratching your head wondering where in the world you’re going to fit a crib.
If you have a closet in your nursery, make a special corner for the crib by removing the closet doors and tucking the crib into the nook you created. Hello, floor space!
No matter where you put the crib, keep safety in mind. Your little baby will soon be a toddler who can pull to stand and climb out of the crib. You don’t want them to be near a window or anything else dangerous when that happens.
6) Add Storage Under The Crib
Underneath your baby’s crib is an underutilized space, but this area can give you more storage for your baby’s clothing and supplies.
Measure how much clearance you have under the bottom of the crib. Then, look for baskets, totes, or boxes that easily slide into this space. They’ll help keep things organized, and containers also make it easier to grab what you need.
After all, when you’re holding a baby, you need your storage areas to be easily accessible.
7) Install Curtains Instead Of Doors
Another way to free up space is to keep your closet as a storage area but do away with the doors. Doors that swing in or out just take up valuable floor space.
To create a little extra space, remove swinging closet doors and install a curtain instead. This is also a great way to add a pop of color or a fun pattern to your nursery decor.
Just make sure you install the curtain rod securely. You don’t want it to fall on your baby when they’re older and tugging on it.
8) Choose Your Colors Carefully
Dark colors absorb light, which can make a small nursery feel even more crowded. To avoid this, stick with lighter colors on the walls and ceiling.
Neutral colors are also a good choice that’ll continue to work as your child grows into toddlerhood and beyond. These colors — such as white, gray, and beige — are growing in popularity, and you’re sure to get tons of compliments when you use them!
9) Add Wall Art
Bold wall art really stands out against neutral walls. You can use framed pictures, abstract art, or painted letters to customize your baby’s nursery.
Whatever you decide to include, look for art that goes with the theme you pick and that makes you smile when you see it.
10) Reimagine The Changing Table
To save space and maximize storage, reimagine your changing area. Sure, it needs to have diapers, wipes, and baby rash cream. But it doesn’t need to take up a lot of space or have a singular purpose.
Instead, turn the bottom of the changing table into storage. Or forego the changing table altogether and turn your baby’s dresser into a changing area (or your dresser if your room is functioning as the nursery!).
You can even purchase a crib-top changing table, which is a little changing area that rests securely on top of the crib. When you’re not using it, store it under the crib or slide it into the closet so it’s not in the way.
11) Use Your Door Space
Use an over-the-door organizer to add storage to your small nursery. These come in many different configurations, so think about what you’d like to store, and find an organizer that meets your needs.
Tip: If you decide on an organizer with pockets, pick a style that you can see through. That way you can easily find what you’re looking for.
12) Make Use Of The Walls
In a small nursery, the walls are your friends!
Mount a stylish rod on the wall to hang clothes, or install a hook to hang a laundry bag or canvas bag full of toys.
A pegboard is another great way to organize all sorts of baby necessities.
You can get little shelves that hang from it, giving you more space for small knick-knacks. And there are even baskets that you can pop into the holes, which work perfectly for baby washcloths, diapers, or other essentials.
You can also use the walls to store all those stuffed animals your little one will inevitably collect. Buy a net (or two!) to hang in the corner to keep your baby’s teddies and dolls cozy, contained, and out of the crib.
13) Light The Room With A Wall Lamp
Instead of adding a floor lamp, stick to the ceiling light and an extra wall lamp.
Having a small wall lamp will allow you to make the room dimmer when you don’t want the overhead light on. And there are lots of wall lamps that are stylish and will fit with just about any decor!
You may also want to consider installing blackout curtains. They won’t take up any extra room and can make a big difference when you’re putting your baby to bed before the sun has gone down!
14) Use Floating Shelves
While we’re on the topic of using wall space, let’s not forget about floating shelves! A few floating shelves will free up floor space and keep things out of a toddler’s curious reach.
You can find floating shelves in a variety of colors and sizes, so it’s easy to choose some that will complement the colors in your nursery.
If you have the space, hang up a couple of shelves instead of just one. That way you have plenty of shelf space for displaying baby books, special toys, and other baby memorabilia.
15) Choose A Small Chair Instead Of A Rocker
A rocker or glider is nice, but if you’re working with a small nursery, it might have to go.
Instead of a big rocker that takes up lots of space, choose a small chair. It might not be as comfortable, but you’ll still have a spot to sit with your little one for bedtime snuggles and stories.
If space is really tight, leave the chair out of the nursery altogether. You can use a comfy chair in the living room for cuddles instead. Your baby won’t remember where you snuggled, they’ll just remember feeling loved.
16) Cut Out Unnecessary Items
When you create a baby registry, you’ll realize that babies require a lot of stuff! But your babe might not need as much as you think.
Think carefully about the baby essentials you need to keep your little one clean, safe, and happy — then don’t be afraid to cut out the unnecessary items so that you can more easily work with small nursery ideas.
For example, a breastfeeding pillow could come in handy, but maybe you can make do with a couple of pillows from your bedroom instead. And while a wipe warmer might sound like a good idea, it isn’t always practical.
For now, stick to the basics. If you decide that you do need something else, you can buy it later on.
17) Keep It Clean
When you keep your baby’s room neat and tidy, it’s much more enjoyable to spend time there. Unfortunately, if you aren’t careful, your small nursery can quickly become packed full of stuff.
To avoid this, take time to declutter this space regularly. Just a few minutes spent putting things back where they belong can make a huge difference.
To make this task simple, keep a basket on the dresser or somewhere nearby. Toss anything that shouldn’t be in the nursery into the basket. Then, when you get a chance, grab the basket and put everything away.
Just remember to put the basket back when you’re done so it’s ready for the next time.
18) Use A Rolling Cart
Though you might not associate a rolling cart with a nursery, it’s a great way to add storage without taking up a lot of floor space. You can organize your baby’s things in each drawer, with one for diapers and wipes, one for clothes, and one for burp cloths.
As a bonus, you can roll the cart around the house. No matter where you are, you have your baby’s essentials on hand!
Tip: If you plan on moving the cart frequently, be sure to invest in a cart with a good set of casters so that it’s more sturdy.
19) Add A Cozy Rug
A cozy rug can transform your small nursery by making the space seem larger.
As a rule of thumb for small spaces, pick a rug with an all-over pattern or a solid color that coordinates with the wall and ceiling.
Keep in mind that you don’t want to pick a rug with too much texture. Thick shag or tufted rugs work better in a larger room.
Also, make sure your rug isn’t going to slip and slide all over the place. If your rug moves, you risk falling when you’re carrying your baby. To stay safe, choose a rug with a non-skid back or put down a rug gripper first.
20) Incorporate Dual-Purpose Furniture
Since you won’t have a lot of space for furniture in your small nursery, each piece needs to be as functional as possible. Look for furniture that can do double duty to maximize the space without cluttering it up.
For example, consider investing in a storage ottoman. An ottoman allows you to put your feet up or have a place to sit, but you can also take off the lid and fill it with baby stuff so it’s out of the way.
Other dual-purpose furniture items include a crib with storage drawers underneath or on the side, a convertible crib, and a changing table dresser.
What To Do It There’s No Room For A Nursery
Now you know how to make the most of a small nursery. But what should you do if you don’t have a separate room to set up for your baby?
Get creative! Look around your home for a small nook that you can transform into your baby’s space.
Here are a few of our favorite ideas:
- Try using a walk-in closet. Simply remove some of the clothes and convert it into the perfect place for your little one.
- Dedicate a portion of a hallway to your baby. This is a great spot to set up their crib and a dresser.
- Carve out a part of your room for your new little one. This option has the added bonus of making it easier to check on your baby while they’re sleeping.
Most of all, remember that your baby doesn’t need a lot of space. Don’t fret if you don’t have a dedicated room yet. There will be time for a larger room of their own when they’re older.
Create A Cozy Space With Any Small Nursery Idea
Bigger isn’t always better. Even with a small nursery, you’ll be able to create a comfortable, stylish environment where your little one can grow, play, and slumber the nights away.
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Health and Safety Practice Plan
Write a paper that serves as the introduction to your Health and Safety Practices Plan.
Identify an organization by choosing your organization or one you know, but the company you choose must produce a product. (Coca Cola)
Identify the industry of your business.
Correlate the applicable regulations to the types of risks that may be found in your organization. Base this correlation from your research of the industry you have chosen. | <urn:uuid:9e5ea9cd-105e-457c-9fe5-cf5a10d7ad3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaydevelopers.com/human-resource-health-and-safety-practice-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.944667 | 94 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Last month we shared the 15th Shabaan fundraising bazaar which had loads of ideas of things you could do to raise money, even including beauty treatments with 100% of the profit going to a charity.
Check out this one – with a ball pool for little ones, loom bands sale, goal game, etc.
It doesn’t even have to be difficult to organise! The Children’s Islamic Library held a similar fundraiser two years ago and asked parents and children to choose a stall they wanted to run together! They then organised everything to do with the stall and just showed up on the day to get things going. Check out pics from the event here to get ideas for what to do!
The kids absolutely thrived on having their own stall to run and it taught them a lot of skills too – handling money, encouraging customers, being responsible for set up and clear up – in short, would highly encourage it | <urn:uuid:300e3d59-4c9c-4154-9975-c7fd0626e51f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buzzideazz.com/tag/bazaar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.971896 | 190 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Where is chembarambakkam located?
Chembarambakkam. Chembarambakkam is a very great location. It is a lake located in Chennai, Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, India, about 40 km from Chennai.
How can I go to chembarambakkam Lake?
You can see Exitway from ORR(Tambaram to Ponamallee Route) after 10kms from T’m. Board will show Chembarambakkam Lake pointing to left. After taking left exit way you have to take next left turn which is a narrow pothole road. This road will lead to Chembarambakkam Lake.
Who built Puzhal Lake?
The Puzhal reservoir was built in 1876 during the British rule in Puzhal Town, The reservoir was originally a small tank with a capacity of 500 million cubic feet (mcft) and two masonry weirs, built using locally available laterite stones, then functioned as surplus weirs to release excess water from the water body.
Which of the following is the largest man made lake of India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake is also known as Rihand Dam, is the largest dam of India by volume. It is India’s largest artificial lake….Dhebar lake is the second-largest man-made lake.
|Name of lake||State|
|Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake||Uttar Pradesh|
|Maharana Pratap Sagar Lake||Himachal Pradesh|
Which lake is situated in Tamil Nadu?
It is located 1 km (0.62 mi) from Lalpet and 235 km (146 mi) from Chennai, India. It is one of the water reservoirs from where water is supplied to Chennai city….
|Lake type||reservoir, intermittent|
|Native name||வீராணம் ஏரி (Tamil)|
|Catchment area||25 km2 (9.7 sq mi)|
How much water is released from chembarambakkam?
At present 1,500 cubic feet of water per second (cusecs) is being released from each of these reservoirs.
What happens when dam gates are opened?
If the gates are opened initially the water will start to flow and if the rains are inconsistent, there will be uncertainty about the capacity of the dam to retain maximum amount of water. | <urn:uuid:ce17bea0-e148-4931-a0d7-a7d3b06000c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stylesubstancesoul.com/helpful-tips-for-students/where-is-chembarambakkam-located/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.939506 | 581 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Today’s enterprises are focused on keeping employee skills current and relevant.With rapid changes in technologies it difficult for L&D organizations to follow traditional methods to drive skill development.
Learning and Knowledge management systems are required to:
- Provide role-specific knowledge enhancements.
- Facilitate opportunities for self development.
- Integrate internal knowledge resources with traditional courses
- Accessible at the point-of-need.
- Help employees to create personalized learning path
KEY CHALLENGES in employee enablement:
- How to align learning objectives with Strategic goals of enterprise ?
- How to drive focused role-specific learning and personalize the delivery?
- How to track progress of employee learning vs targeted learning objectives?
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The Public Health Rules, 2021 on notification and treatment of COVID19 are a component enshrined under sections 11, 27, and 29 of the Public Health Act, Cap. 281. These will be enforced by the responsible stakeholders like the security and Ministry of Health, leaders, medical practitioners, and officers.
On 2nd July 2021, During the public update on the status (report) of covid19 by the Ministry of Health. The officers noted the emergencies like the mutation of the virus into five variants including those from India, South Africa, the United Kingdom e.t.c.
The Ministry has noted increasing transmissions in the community which has been driven by the most resistant delta variant which was confirmed in Uganda in April 2021.
Minister Aceng says the reluctance of the public by opening bars illegally, attending gatherings including weddings and burials, and opening of schools increased the rate of spread which has led Uganda into the second wave of covid19. She also warned Ugandans on self-medication where individuals have started taking various medicine thinking they are treating covid19.
The minister also advised the public to stop buying the drugs without doctor prescriptions and guidance as they may suffer from the side effects. Therefore…
Responsibility for notification of COVID19;
It is everyone’s obligation to notify a local leader or a medical practitioner of any community member who is suffering or suspected of a COVID19 infection for evacuation.
Medical officer of health and medical practitioner to notify;
After ascertaining a covid19 case they shall refer the patient to the nearest hospital and for post-mortem examination or otherwise, precautions shall immediately be given to the contacts to prevent transmission to other persons.
Power of search;
A person acting on written instructions of a medical officer may enter any premises in order to search for any case of COVID19, or to inquire there is or has been a covid19 patient.
Power of medical officer of health to disinfect premises;
With information on contamination of a building the officer may decontaminate or cause decontamination to disinfect a premise that has clinical signs of contamination with COVID19.
Escape from isolation or quarantine;
Police shall be notified of any person who escapes from the covid19 isolation center and; requested to apprehend and return them to the designated place.
Any person who— aids a person confined in an isolation center for COVID19, to attempt or to escape commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for two months.
Carriers of disease;
Any person who is believed or suspected, on reasonable grounds, to be a carrier of the covid19 disease; on request shall provide, specimens of discharges or other material required for examination and investigations at a suitable place and for a reasonable period of time as may be required for that purpose to prevent the spread of the infection.
In case of change of place of residence the carrier shall inform the local authority and the medical officer.
Disposal of bodies;
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The History of Aluminum Sand Casting in Dongrun
Aluminum Sand casting is traditional casting process in China, it is major inventions of ancient China, it is important as China's four great inventions. The sand cast process originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, about 1600 years ago.
Our aluminum foundry is set up in 1995 year. First, we only have green sand casting process, then We built resin sand casting line in 2000 year. Now we have five production lines for large aluminum green sand casting jobs up to 500kg/piece and 30 platforms for smaller aluminum alloy castings. Meanwhile, we have one production line for resin sand casting . We are leading in China foundries in Zhejiang province. There is green sand casting process for sand casting manufacturer, but we have two process.
We make molds in our foundry and we have a good ability in sand casting mold design, It is difficult for many China sand casting factories. So if you have decision to cooperate with us, we must be a good sand casting supplier for you and your company.
Our cast aluminum products are exported America, Europe and Asia market, including auto components, furniture components, lighting components, pump valve components, architectural components and so on. | <urn:uuid:35dc7438-6697-4966-8e41-119b327bb266> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sexydancetube.com/Capabilities/Aluminum-Sand-Casting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.935764 | 251 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Nos. 30-31 Lower O’Connell Street are part of a group of four buildings reconstructed in 1919 after the 1916 Easter Rising. Although the buildings were all developed separately by different architects and for different clients, their uniformity is a result of an expert committee established after the rising who produced a masterplan and guidelines for the reconstruction work to O’Connell Street.
The buildings resemble each other: all being four-storey over (concealed) basement with similar pilasters and continuous horizontal cornice and frieze. They only distinction between the buildings is the fenestration patterns between the pilasters. No. 30 features a fully intact set of Edwardian steel windows.
We were commissioned in 2018 by Malcolm Hollis Building Consultants to provide conservation consultancy for facade repairs and upgrading works to the buildings. We subsequently provided advice to JLL Ireland and the incoming retail tenant, Mountain Warehouse. | <urn:uuid:fdaeddb6-5b5f-4ea0-9d7a-998fbef62752> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fmgarchitects.ie/conservation/conservation-projects/30-31-oconnell-street-dublin-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956232 | 186 | 1.78125 | 2 |
creep up pale cheek,
whisper about me
behind the teeth.
tendrils burying into scalp,
snapping the neck back
some say these soft,
phantom weeds, born
of the mind can be easily
exterminated through a wish
to be free, clearly they have
forgotten, we are no more than
lost children of Eden,
searching for meaning.
carried by the wind,
germinates into a dull ache,
sprouting dissociation as fresh roots
wrap around the ribcage, bitter,
beating heart numb to the bites of
venomous, verminous thoughts,
they have a stronger desire for life
than I can muster, no more than
a careless cadaver,
caught in the headlights.
A poor little flower-bed,
drowned in homemade herbicide.
definition: a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre (a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung)
Mayflies spend a year awaiting their birth, and then most die after living just one day. Their sole purpose is to pass on their genes.
we all are born bright eyed like mayflies on a linear path to our own demise no purpose but to
but that doesn’t mean we won’t try find meaning to a short lived life no time to cry fly towards the light quickly, before – good night.
if my hope for humanity had to be stored somewhere I would place it in a seed planted into the palms of lovers entwined love grows a giant oak tree
yet I see some leaves are caressed by the sun while others f
l silently littering roadsides, trampled over, so carelessly even though the shared roots suggest we are all children from the same family tree | <urn:uuid:3977622e-1fd8-40c1-a8c0-48197a724fbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maggyliu.com/tag/adam-and-eve/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.921763 | 427 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough
In the history of our national evolution Yorkshire occupies a most important position, and the sanguinary record of Yorkshire Battles possesses something more than material for the poet and the artist. Valour, loyalty, patriotism, honour and self-sacrifice are virtues not uncommon to the warrior, and the blood of true and brave men has liberally bedewed our fields.
It was on Yorkshire soil that the tides of foreign invasion were rolled back in blood at Stamford Bridge and Northallerton; the misfortunes attendant upon the reign of weak and incapable princes are illustrated by the fields of Boroughbridge, Byland Abbey, and Myton-upon-Swale, and, in the first days of our greatest national struggle, the true men of Yorkshire freely shed their blood at Tadcaster, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Adwalton Moor and Hull, keeping open the pathway by which Fairfax passed from Selby to Marston Moor.
Let pedants prate of wars of kites and crows; we take national life as a unity, and dare to face its evolution through all the throes of birth, owning ourselves debtors to the old times before us, without being either so unwise or ungenerous as to contemn the bonds of association, and affect a false and impossible isolation.
To the educated and intelligent our Yorkshire Battles present interesting and important studies of those subtle and natural processes by which nations achieve liberty, prosperity, and greatness. | <urn:uuid:463d0d6d-ae36-461e-a105-4f3fba6b42b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://folkcustoms.co.uk/book/yorkshire-battles-by-edward-lamplough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.932868 | 304 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The death of Michael Brown has provoked a lot of thoughts, discussions, and criticism from people from all sides of the moral fence. Most recently, former NBA player Gilbert Arenas used a racial slur on Rev. Al Sharpton over his reaction to Darren Wilson’s shooting of the 18-year-old high school graduate.
The retired Washington Wizard took to his Instagram last week, writing, “The states also show Al ‘Coon’ Sharpton has not helped one situation he has protested at. He actually made it worst [sic] and because of him the jury goes the other way.” Arenas may be taking his cues from a recent Smoking Gun report that pegged the MSNBC contributor as a paid informant for the FBI.
Arenas’ post included a plea to Michael Brown’s family to leave Sharpton out of any planned protests. He said, “Families of the victims please stop asking Al Sharpton to speak on your behalf. You have a better chance having Caesar the Monkey from Planet of the Apes to get justice for you.” As if the racial slur wasn’t enough, the maligned ballplayer added, “Al you’re like a thot in the club looking for attention what you said at Trayvon’s rally. #EnoughIsEnough. You’re right we’re tired of you pretending.”
Sharpton was contacted by TMZ Sports who recently informed him of Arenas’ comments. After being told who the former NBA guard was, Sharpton responded by saying that Arenas’ use of the racial slur says more about him than it does about Al. In addition to that, he also challenged Arenas to compare his basketball accolades to Sharpton’s civil rights work.
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Richmond, Va. –
While the pandemic eliminated virtually all in-person interactions, it did not eliminate the need for partially deaf and deaf individuals to understand — and be understood by — their hearing counterparts.
This need prompted Charlotte Bell, an American Sign Language interpreter in the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Office to develop an ASL Beginners’ Course, teaching her lessons online using the Zoom for Government web platform.
“I love the challenge of teaching online, and the need is there for both the deaf and hearing,” Bell said of her innovative approach. “I wanted to find a way to continue teaching the DLA workforce. The pandemic created a new kind of format for instruction, and I wasn’t going to let COVID be a barrier.”
Bell has been teaching in-person ASL and cultural sensitivity classes on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia twice a year since 2005. Her students are DLA enterprise-wide and have included first responders and installation commanders, as well as civilian employees.
Bell said though technology is not her forte, learning to pivot and taking on the challenge “was so worth every moment learning how to teach in a new program.”
The virtual opportunity was equally worth it for Natisha Lawrence, a procurement analyst within DLA Aviation Procurement Process Support Directorate’s Acquisition Support Division, who has taken Bell’s course several times and was inspired to continue her ASL education.
"Sign language was something that I was always interested in, and I thoroughly enjoyed the classes,” Lawrence said.
In a recent note to Bell, Lawrence wrote, “In August of 2021, I finally took the leap and enrolled in an ASL certificate program.”
Bell said the six-week course, which wrapped up last month, also addresses the cultural differences between the deaf and hearing communities.
“It helps to broaden understanding and acceptance, making the environment truly inclusive for all,” Bell said.
“What I’m trying to do with the class is give hearing employees a new way of understanding the deaf and hard-of-hearing employees they work with or supervise. After getting out of their comfort zone and looking at life from another person’s perspective, it truly opens up the beauty of diversity and, most of all, inclusion.” | <urn:uuid:b831dfcc-f170-4f54-9257-b7730761d3f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dla.mil/AboutDLA/News/NewsArticleView/Article/3051801/dla-aviation-employees-virtual-asl-classes-teach-inclusion-diversity-one-sign-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954429 | 496 | 2.171875 | 2 |
It’s very useful to make explicit what we think makes a good team, and decide what kind of a team we want to be ourselves.
Here’s an exercise I have been running on most of my Leading Teams (link in Finnish) courses. I have used this to open the course.
Here are the questions:
“Think about a good team you have been part of. What was it like?” or “Think about when you experienced good leadership. What was it like?”
I let each participant choose one of the questions, and ask them to interview two-three other people about the question. I usually instruct them to change pairs, as the discussions are so interesting that they get carried away a bit.
After discussing in pairs, I ask the whole group to start shout out features that were present when they were in a good team. After that they get to shout out the features of good leadership. I collect the results in a flip chart like this.
After collecting the word clouds you can decide as a team which features of a good team are the most important to you. After that you can set some concrete actions towards those goals.
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Diet & Prey
Discover why blubber-rich seals are the favorite prey of polar bears like Anuri.
What do polar bears eat?
Polar bears have evolved to prey on ringed and bearded seals, which they catch from a platform of sea ice.
Polar bears depend on the high-fat content that seals provide, but will take other prey when available.
How the bears hunt seals.
In fall, a seal cuts 10 to 15 breathing holes (known as aglus by Canadian Inuit) in the ice, using the sharp claws on its fore flippers.
Seals keep their breathing holes open all winter long, even in ice up to 2 m (6 ft) thick. They surface about every 5 to 15 minutes at one of the holes or use air pockets trapped under the ice when available.
Polar bears attack by waiting for seals to breathe at the openings. They locate them with their powerful sense of smell and wait for the seals to emerge. Polar bears have to be smart and patient because the wait can be long—sometimes hours, or even days.
Bears also stalk ringed seals that are basking on ice by taking advantage of their sleep-wake rhythms.
The bear crawls slowly forward and freezes in place when the animal raises its head. At about 6 m (20 ft) from the seal, the bear uses its explosive speed to pounce, killing the seal before it can escape back into the sea.
Photo: Daniel J. Cox
For a polar bear, fat is fit.
A thick layer of fat helps keep the bears warm. It also helps them survive when food is scarce. That’s why seal blubber is the perfect food for polar bears.
A polar bear can eat 45 kg (100 lbs) of seal blubber in a single sitting!
When hunting is good and polar bears are in good condition, they may eat only the seal's blubber and skin. They leave the rest for scavengers like Arctic foxes, ravens, and other bears.
Photo: Kt Miller
Spring Feasting Season
Spring time is the feasting season for polar bears, the time of year when seal pups are born on the sea ice, making easy prey.
During this period, polar bears pack on the calories, building up their fat reserves for leaner times ahead.
Photo: Daniel J. Cox
They need a platform of ice.
A polar bear’s hunting and eating patterns depend completely on sea ice.
Why? Because polar bears rely on the ice to reach their seal prey.
But as the Arctic continues to warm and the sea ice retreats, polar bears are facing longer ice-free periods and longer fasts, straining the limits of their fat reserves.
Could polar bears switch to eating other foods?
Polar bears have evolved to prey on seals. But they are curious and will eat other foods when available — including geese, bird eggs, whales that wash up on the beach, and even the occasional small mammal.
All of these foods are less predictable, however. And most of them, except whales or walruses, don’t provide enough calories to sustain the polar bear’s massive body size or build up the bear’s fat reserves.
While individual bears may benefit from eating these foods, they would not provide enough calories, in the right form, to sustain polar bears at the population level.
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Sometimes I forget to breathe. It’s an embarrassing confession, but I know I’m not alone. A friend once even took me to a breathing class — and I failed! There we were spread across the room following the instructions of the teacher, but even when breathing was the only thing I needed to focus on, I forgot to do that. The teacher was impatient, planting himself in front of me to announce, as often as needed, “You aren’t breathing.”
Breath work is a foundation of yoga, and for people like me who know the benefits but still can’t find the time and focus to do it, the good news is: There’s an app for that. In fact, there are a lot of apps for that. But if you’re stressed out about your life and goals already, how can you trust your mental state to an algorithm-driven phone app? I was surprised to find how effective (and accessible) these apps can be.
The MyLife meditation app(opens in a new tab), which is available for iPhone(opens in a new tab) and Android(opens in a new tab), is a remarkably effective personal guide. I’m a skeptic, because in my experience with wellness and fitness programs, I do best when there is someone standing over me. This app has won me over. It’s easy to set up with your profile, which includes basic information that is used to begin prescribing various guided meditations. You can also program it to remind you each day to check in — although this proved tricky for me, because no matter what time I set up, when the check-in occurred, my first response was always, “Now???” But I needed that tap on the shoulder.
Last spring, at the start of the pandemic, I had taken a workshop on dealing with stress and mindfulness was at the center of the skills that were introduced. Mindfulness is achieved by focusing on the present moment, on your current surroundings, emotions, and physical presence non-judgmentally. The benefits, according to evidence-based research, include improved mental focus and strengthening your ability to handle stress. The MyLife app really did help me keep myself in check, and with each day that I did use it, my general mindfulness habits improved.
Each meditation session with MyLife begins with a prompt to just breathe for 10 seconds. Then you are asked how you are feeling, physically and emotionally. Then you tap various buttons that represent each emotion you are feeling and the MyLife app goes to work, offering a menu of personalized meditations for the day. Some are as short as three minutes, others are much longer. Most come with a choice of duration and are available in both English and Spanish.
My first day began something like this:
After a few days, I decided to mix things up a bit. Instead of picking emotions that ran the gamut from apprehension to distraction, I picked slightly more positive emotions. The MyLife app and its guidance became even better (which made me wonder if my own conscious brain defaults to stress emotions even when my core is doing much better).
One of the striking changes in this new group of meditations was the direction to explore empathy toward others. Instead of prompting me to find release by focusing entirely through self-reflection, the instructors suggested thinking of someone else, maybe even someone with whom I had a disagreement. It was an epiphany for me (a novice) to realize that meditation can include thinking of others, even those who might appear to be in opposition to me. I hate to sound woo-woo, but these meditations left me feeling particularly energized and at peace.
What if I already felt great, or wanted to pretend I did? There were tailored meditations for that too.
Selecting the meditation on joy, the initial prompt was so direct it took me aback: “Take a moment to think about joy.” In the midst of this pandemic, these directions undid me. When was the last time I had thought about joy, of all things? Now, more than ever, it’s easy to get caught in feelings of despair or inertia without even realizing it. Simply being told to think differently can actually help in the climb out of the hole.
By now I was so in tune with the app, or vice versa, that I almost didn't explore everything else it has to offer. But there is more. In Journeys, you can check out a themed sequence of meditations and instructive talks to guide you through issues with achieving better sleep, a Trauma Response Toolkit, being mindful parents, and other lifestyle goals. It’s a bit like attending a series of workshops but from the safety of your own home, on your own schedule, and each track here includes conversations with credentialed experts, like the Surgeon General of California on how to find your “Safe Zone.” (Caution: Mindfulness may not work for everyone, especially those who’ve experienced trauma. Those who have may want to make adjustments, such as taking breaks, finding practices that incorporate movement, or focusing on something other than their breath like nearby sounds.)
Under the Explore tab, you can also find collections of specific tracks dealing with themes as specific as Calm Covid-19 Anxiety, For Youth of Color, For Latinx Youth, and just simply Getting Started
But I’m still just blown away by MyLife's seemingly intuitive algorithm, which today suggested doing a meditation alongside pets and animals. As I sat among my houseful of former street dogs, I wondered, had I told the app I was a dog guy? I don’t think so. Now I’m relaxed enough to avoid freaking out about the app’s mind-reading skills. I dove right into the meditation, with my dogs at my side, and allowed myself to just be present with them, to wish them happiness, and to think about other animals we may or may not ever personally know.
Gasp! What’s become of me!? It still feels a bit hokey, but I may be hooked.
MyLife is available on iPhone(opens in a new tab) and Android(opens in a new tab) for $9.99 per month.
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Iran delivered a large food shipment to its crisis-stricken ally Venezuela on Sunday to set up the country’s first Persian supermarket, the Iranian Embassy in Venezuela claimed this weekend.
The Iranian cargo ship, known as the Golsan, departed Bandar Abbas on May 15th and arrived at its destination on Saturday.
“The Golsan will arrive carrying food to open the first Iranian supermarket in Venezuela,” the Caracas-based embassy tweeted on Saturday. “Another success in friendly and fraternal relations between two countries #IranandVenezuela”:
El día de mañana (domingo 21 de Junio) va a llegar el buque Golsan que trae alimentos para inaugurar el primer supermercado iraní en Venezuela. Otro éxito en las relaciones amistosas y fraternales entre dos paises.#IranyVenezuela pic.twitter.com/HVcwxqE9Hb
— Embajada de la R.I. de Irán en Venezuela (@Eiranencaracas) June 20, 2020
As well as food supplies, Tehran also sent a shipment of humanitarian aid, including vital medical supplies and coronavirus testing kits, to help Venezuela battle the ongoing pandemic. Iran did not specify if the test kits sent to Venezuela are legitimate testing kits or the bizarre “magnetic” devices that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, has peddled as coronavirus detectors.
Despite a significant increase in recent weeks, Venezuelan health officials continue to claim the country’s infection rate is well below the global average, reporting nearly 4,000 cases and just 33 deaths from the virus. Analysts have questioned these figures, especially given how the Maduro regime has openly threatened to “investigate” scientists disputing the official figures.
Bilateral relations between Venezuela and Iran – both of whose regimes share the same authoritarian, “anti-imperialist” world view – have become increasingly important to both sides as a result of economic sanctions placed upon them by the United States, the majority of which target their vital oil industries. The have shared warm diplomatic ties long before that however, back to 1998 when socialist dictator Hugo Chávez seized power in Venezuela.
Last month, Iran also sent five tankers loaded with around $45.5 million worth of gasoline and other essentials to Venezuela. Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, the South American country is experiencing chronic shortages of gasoline and other energy sources, leading to enormous queues at gas stations and regular power cuts.
Shortages in Venezuela do not just apply to energy, but practically every kind of living essential as the socialist country continues to crumble under the pressure of the worst economic crisis in its history, leading to a humanitarian exodus over greater proportions than Syria. Iran is desperate to sell its oil to keep its self afloat, with its economy also continuing to suffer under the pressure of American sanctions.
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Where did the nut keep his money? In his cash shoe.
How to Meet the Pope
A catholic man's lifelong dream was to meet the pope.
For years and years, he scrimped, scrounged, and planned his lavish trip to Italy.
Wanting to look his best for the pontiff, he had a custom-fitted suit tailored to his exact measurements and bought the finest Italian leather boots money could buy.
The next morning he awoke before the dawn to make his way to Vatican City to meet the pope on his morning walk through his crowd of devout followers. He pushed his way to the front of the crowd, wanting to get as close to the Holy Father as possible.
The grand doors opened and the pope emerged, greeting his followers, shaking hands, and offering blessings. The man caught the pope's eye, and the pope smiled and started walking towards him. This was it! He was finally going to get to share words with God's representative on Earth!
Just as he was approaching the man, the pope noticed a downtrodden beggar lying in the ditch opposite the man. The pope changed course, made way for the beggar, bent down, and whispered something in the poor man's ear. The beggar nodded, got up, and walked off. The pope, now on the other side of the crowd, continued on away from the man.
The man was devastated. He had missed his only chance to fulfill his ultimate dream. As the crowd dispersed, he noticed the beggar in the distance. A plan emerged in his mind.
He made his way up to the beggar and said, "Sir, I would like to offer you a trade. I will give you my suit, my boots, and all of the cash in my wallet in exchange for your rags and tattered shoes. I believe this act of humility is my best chance to finally meet the pope." The poor man quickly agreed, of course, and the two men traded clothes.
The next morning, the man made his way back to the Vatican and proceeded to lie down in the exact spot the beggar was the day before. The grand doors opened once again, and the pontiff emerged to meet his people. As the pope was walking through the crowd, the man saw that the pope was heading his way! His plan was going to work!
Sure enough, the pope came over to him, knelt down and whispered,
"I thought I told you yesterday to get the heck out of here!"
“A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be” — unknown
His One Request
A general visits an army hospital to check on the conditions and inspire the troops. Its WWI, trench warfare is living hell, and the men could really use some inspiration. The general starts talking to the wounded soldiers.
He goes up to the first man and says: "What brings you in here son?" The soldier replies: "sir, I got dysentery in the trenches, something awful." The general asks him: "How are they caring for you in here?" and the soldier replies: "Well sir, every day the nurses put a cool cloth on my head and they clean my behind with a soft brush." The general asks: "Is there anything else we can do for you?" and the soldier says: "No sir, the nurses are doing the best they can."
The general seems satisfied, thanks him for his service and moves on to the next man.
The general approaches the second man's bed and asks: "What brings you in here son?" The soldier replies somewhat embarrassed: "Sir, I got gonorrhoea from a woman while I was on leave." The general laughs and says: "It happens to the best of us son, how are they caring for you in here?" and the soldier replies: "Well sir, every day the nurses put a cool cloth on my head and they clean my privates with a soft brush." The general asks: "Is there anything else we can do for you?" and the soldier says: "No sir, the nurses are doing the best they can." The general once again seems satisfied, thanks him for his service and moves on to the next man.
The general approaches the third man's bed and asks: "What brings you in here son?" The soldier tells him: "sir, I got strep throat in the trenches." The general asks: "How are they caring for you in here?" and the soldier replies: "Well sir, every day the nurses put a cool cloth on my head and they clean my throat with a soft brush." The general asks: "Is there anything else we can do for you?"
"Actually sir, there is one thing..." Said the soldier.
"I'd like to be the first one to use the brush."
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the mischievous behavior that was going on, so he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.
When he returned, he told God, 'Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not.
God thought for a moment and said, 'Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.'
So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for some time.
When the angel returned he went to God and said, 'Yes, it's true.The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good.'
God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because he wanted to encourage them, and give them a little something to help them keep going.
Do you know what the e-mail said? No?
Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get one either!
What did the mouse say when his friend broke his front teeth? Hard cheese!
What did the mouse say when his friend broke his front teeth? Hard cheese!
Bubba and His Wife Go Fishing
Year after year Bubba's wife pleaded with him to take her fishing but he kept telling her she would not enjoy it. She, finally, wore him down, he consented, and early one morning they took off to the lake.
They had not been there very long when the fish began biting. Almost as fast as they cast, a fish would bite, and they reeled it in. After catching their limit, Bubba said, "Verna Lou, sweet thang, I'm sorry. You've been good luck and I'm gonna bring you with me the next time. If you'll mark the spot where we caught all these fish, we'll go home."
On the way home, Bubba turned to Verna Lou and said, "Sweet thang, how did you mark the spot were all the fish are so next time I'll know?"
"Bubba, darlin', I put a big 'X' on the side of the boat right down closest to the water."
"Sweet thang, that's about the dumbest thing I ever seen you do. Don't you know that won't work? We may not get the same boat the next time!"
What did the daddy potato say to his son before his soccer game? I’m rooting for you!
The Big Lie
John, a wealthy 60 year old man, shows up at the country club one day with his new wife, a smoking hot 28 year old.
His buddies are amazed. "There is no way someone that young and attractive would agree to marry an old geezer like you. How did you pull it off?"
"It's simple," John says, "I lied to her about my age."
"Did you tell her you were 50?" his friends ask.
John shakes his head no.
"There is no way she could believe you were 40!". They exclaim.
John shakes his head again.
"So how old did you tell her you were exactly??"
John smiles and whispers "85".
There once were two very successful thieves. They had a knack for finding unguarded entries to rich houses and robbing them of their gold.They were both, however, devout Catholics, and they knew the 10 commandments. So after deliberating the issue, they decided to go to the church with their loot to confess their sins to the Lord. After staring at the grim, seemingly judging faces of the saints surrounding them in the church, they further decided to offer some part of the gold they robbed to the church to wash away their wrongdoings.
The only problem was they couldn't decide how much to offer.
The first one thinks for a minute, then draws a foot long circle on the floor.
He lifts his face up and says, "Oh lord, I'll throw all my loot into the air, whatever lands inside the circle is yours and what little is left outside I'll keep for myself."
Saying this he threw all his loot up in the air. As it came down almost all of the gold fell outside the circle except for few coins. He praises the Lord for his generosity and collects his share smiling.
The second one steps back and thinks hard.
He lets out a deep sigh and says, "Oh lord! Forgive me for my sins. I won't make you pick up your share from the floor like my friend. I'll throw up all my loot towards you in the heavens. Please keep whatever you want and just throw back on to this earth whatever you think I deserve."
Did you hear about the aquarium owner? His shark was worse than his pike.
The Pickle Factory Worker and His Urge
Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion.
He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed.
He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong.
"What's wrong, Bill?" she asked.
"Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my… umm… member into the pickle slicer?"
"Oh, Bill, you didn't."
"Yes, I did."
"My God, Bill, what happened?"
"I got fired."
"No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?"
"Oh - she got fired too."
Where does Thor grow his vegetables? In his Asgarden.
Preacher Finds Jackass in His Church Yard
A preacher went to his church office on Monday morning and discovered a dead mule (jackass to the knowing) in the churchyard. He called the police. Since there did not appear to be any foul play, the police referred the preacher to the health department.
They said since there was no health threat that he should call the sanitation department.
The sanitation manager said he could not pick up the mule without authorization from the mayor.
Now, the preacher knew the mayor, and was not to eager to call him. The mayor had a bad temper and was generally hard to deal with, but the preacher called him anyway.
The mayor did not disappoint. He immediately began to rant and rave at the pastor and finally said, "Why did you call me anyway? Isn't it your job to bury the dead?"
The preacher asked the Lord to direct his response. He said: "Yes, Mayor, it is my job to bury the dead, but I always like to notify the next of kin first!"
A man lies on his deathbed, surrounded by his family: a weeping wife and four children.
Three of the children are tall, good-looking and athletic, but the fourth and youngest is an ugly runt.
"Darling wife," the husband whispers, "assure me that the youngest child really is mine. I want to know the truth before I die, I will forgive you if-"
The wife gently interrupts him. "Yes, my dearest, absolutely, no question, I swear on my mother's grave that you are his father."
The man then dies, happy.
"Thank God he didn't ask about the other three." Muttered the wife.
When dad died he left me his Subaru. It was his final Legacy.
The Almost-Perfect Suit
A young banker decided to get his first tailor-made suit. So he went to the finest tailor in town and got measured for a suit.
A week later he went in for his first fitting.
He put on the suit and he looked fabulous, he felt that in this suit he can do business.
As he was preening himself in front of the mirror, he reached down to put his hands in the pockets and to his surprise, he noticed that there were no pockets.
He mentioned this to the tailor who asked him, "Didn't you tell me you were a banker?"
The young man answered, "Yes, I did."
"Weird," the tailor said, "who ever heard of a banker with his hands in his own pockets?"
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Friendly Suggestion
A man bumps into an old high school friend he hadn't seen for a number of years. His old friend was notorious for bragging back in high school - about his possessions, achievements and relationships, so he wondered if much had changed in the time since he last saw him.
It wasn't long before the man realized his old friend hadn't changed much at all - on and on he rambled, talking about his amazing job, his huge mansion and the new Porsche he'd just bought himself.
At one point, the old friend pulls out a photograph of his wife and shows it to the man. "She's beautiful, isn't she?" the old friend asks.
"If you think she's gorgeous, you should see my girlfriend," replies his exhausted friend.
"Why? Is she a stunner too?"
"No, she's an optometrist."
An old man was critically ill. Feeling that death was near, he called his lawyer. "I want to become a lawyer. How much is it or the express degree you told me about?"
"It's $50,000," the lawyer said. "But why? You'll be dead soon, why do you want to become a lawyer?"
"That's my business! Get me the course!"
Four days later, the old man got his law degree. His lawyer was at his bedside, making sure his bill would be paid.
Suddenly the old man was racked with fits of coughing and it was clear that this would be the end.
Still curious, the lawyer leaned over and said, "please, before it's too late, tell me why you wanted to to get a law degree so badly before you died?"
In a faint whisper, as he breathed his last, the old man said,
"One less lawyer..."
It was a man's 80th birthday and his friends wanted to get him a special gift.
Since he was a widower of many years, and after some discussion, they decide to have a hooker come to his house that night and give him the time of his life.
Later that evening as the old man was getting ready for bed he hears the doorbell ring.
He opens the door and sees a hooker standing there in a sexy outfit. She says to the senior: "Hi there, I'm here to give you super sex!"
The old man thinks for a moment... then says: "I'll take the soup".
Did you hear about the viking who hit his thumb with a hammer and bit his tongue? It was Thor.
Johnny and His Little Secret
One day, mother walked in on teen Johnny making out with his girlfriend.
Johnny felt this was awkward, and he didn't want to the family to know he has his first girlfriend and tease him.
But his mother smiled and said: "Don't worry Johnny, I won't tell your father, this will be our little secret."
The next day Johnny sat to breakfast with all his family, when his father noticed a hickey on his neck. "Son," He said, "where did that hickey on your neck come from?".
Johnny replied: "That is me and mother's little secret."
The rest of the breakfast was very quiet.
If a mute kid swears does his mother wash his hands with soap?
Who is the perfect husband? One who keeps his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
The Cruel King and His Dogs
There once was a cruel king who enjoyed executing whoever he pleased. A minister once gave him wrong advice the king decided to have him killed. He ordered that the minister to be thrown to the ravenous and vicious guard dogs.
The minister said, "I have served you loyally for 10 years and you do THIS?"
The king was without mercy.
The Minister fell on his knees pleaded, "Please give me 10 days before you throw me to the dogs."
The king thought about it, weighed his curiosity vs. his blood lust, and finally agreed.
In those 10 days the minister went to the keeper of the dogs and told him he wanted to feed the dogs for the next 10 days. The guard was baffled, but he agreed. So the minister started feeding the dogs, caring for them, washing them, providing all sorts of comforts for them.
When the 10 days were up. The king ordered that the minister be thrown to the dogs as sentenced. When he was thrown in, everyone was amazed at what they saw. The ferocious dogs were wagging their tails, playing with the condemned minister and even licking his feet.
The king was baffled at what he saw. "What happened to the my vicious dogs?!" He growled.
The minister then said, "I served the dogs for only 10 days and they didn't forget my service. I served you for 10 years and you forgot all of it at my first mistake!"
The King then realized his own great mistake.
The next day, he replaced the dogs with crocodiles.
The hipster burnt his tongue. He sipped his coffee before it was cool.
How did the hipster burn his tongue? He drank his coffee before it was cool.
Don't talk to him before he's had his espresso or he'll lose his tamper.
Little Johnny and His Little Scheme
At school, Little Johnny was told by a classmate that most adults hide at least one dark secret - and this makes it very easy to blackmail them, merely by saying: "I know the whole truth."
So Little Johnny decides to try it out. When he arrives home from school that day, he says to his mother, "I know the whole truth." His mother looks shocked, quickly finds $20, and gives it to him, saying, "Just don't tell your father."
Quite pleased, Little Johnny waits for his father to get home from work, and greets him with, "I know the whole truth." His father looks shocked, quickly finds $40, and gives it to him, saying, "Just don't tell your mother."
The next morning, Little Johnny is on his way to school when he sees the mailman at his front door. The boy decides to try again "I know the whole truth," he asserts boldly.
The mailman stops in his tracks, then, tears in his eyes, drops his mailbag, throws opens his arms and says: "Then come give your daddy a great big hug!!!"
What did the cannibal do after he dumped his girlfriend? Wiped his as*.
His Life's Regret
A famous professor of surgery died and went to heaven.
At the pearly gates he was asked by the gatekeeper: "Have you ever committed a sin you truly regret?"
"Yes," the professor answered sadly. "When I was a young candidate at the Hospital of Saint Lucas, we played soccer against a team from the Community Hospital, and I scored a goal, which was off-side. But the referee did not see it, and the goal won us the match and the tournament. I regret that now."
"Well," said the gatekeeper. "That is a very minor sin. You may enter."
"Thank you very much, Saint Peter," the professor answered.
"You're welcome, but I am not Saint Peter," said the gatekeeper. "He is having his lunch break. I am Saint Lucas."
A hippie when his opponent disputes his calls: That’s pretty far-out, man!
His First Confession
An old man goes to confession. He tells the priest that on Friday night, he’d been in the bar when he met a young woman.
“Maybe 22,” he says. “A gorgeous blonde. I started lusting, Father.”
“Yes,” says the priest, “Lust is a dangerous sin, my son.”
“There’s more,” says the man. “We went back to her place and made passionate love for hours.”
The priest pauses. “And how long has it been since your last confession?”
“I’ve never come. This is my first.”
“How come this your first confession?”
“I’m a Buddhist.”
The priest frowned. “Then… why are you telling me all this?”
“Telling YOU? I’m telling everyone!”
Why doesn't a chicken wear pants? Because his pecker is on his head.
The Magician and the Parrot
There was once a magician on a cruise ship who performed mainly slight-of-hand tricks. He had a regular spot on the ship's evening entertainment. He was actually quite a good magician, but his routines were regularly ruined by the on-board parrot who would fly around squawking out and giving away his secrets like:
"IT'S UP HIS SLEEVE, IT'S UP HIS SLEEVE!",
or "IT'S IN HIS POCKET, IT'S IN HIS POCKET!",
or "IT'S IN HIS MOUTH, IT'S IN HIS MOUTH!"
The magician was getting pretty sick of this and threatened to kill the parrot if it ruined his act one more time. That evening right at the climax of his act, just as he was about to disappear in a puff of smoke, the ship hit an iceberg and sank in seconds.
Amazingly, the magician and the parrot were the only two survivors. The magician was lying on a piece of driftwood in a daze. As he opened his eyes he could see the parrot staring at him out of its beady little eye.
The parrot sat there for hours just staring at him and eventually said, "OK, I give up, what did you do with the ship?"
Two senior gentlemen are working at a sewage treatment plant.
One guy goes off to lunch and comes back to find his buddy standing above a vat of sewage with a long rake.
"What are you doing?!" he yells
"My coat fell in!" his buddy yells back
"You're not really gonna wear that again are you?!" his friend said worriedly.
"No, no. Gosh no!" Says the old man to the relief of his friend.
"I have to get it back though. My teeth are in the pocket!"
Where did the bull carry his stock-market report? In his beef case
The Trucker and His Emu
An Aussie trucker walks into an outback cafe with a full-grown emu behind him.
The waitress asks them for their orders.
The trucker says, 'A hamburger, chips and a coke,' and turns to the emu, 'What's yours?'
'Sounds great, I'll have the same,' says the emu.
A short time later the waitress returns with the order 'That will be $9.40 please,' and he reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact change and pays.
The next day, the man and the emu come again and he says, 'A hamburger, chips and a coke.'
The emu says, ' Sounds great, I'll have the same.'
Again the trucker reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change.
This becomes routine until the two enter again. 'The usual?' asks the waitress.
'No, it's Friday night, so I'll have a steak, baked potato and a salad,' says the man..
'Same for me,' says the emu.
Shortly the waitress brings the order and says, 'That will be $32.62.'
Once again the man pulls the exact change out of his pocket and places it on the table.
The waitress cannot hold back her curiosity any longer. 'Excuse me mate, how do you manage to always pull the exact change from your pocket every time?'
'Well, love' says the trucker, 'a few years ago, I was cleaning out the back shed, and found an old lamp. When I cleaned it, a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes.
My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money would always be there.'
'That's brilliant!' says the waitress. 'Most people would ask for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want, for as long as you live!'
That's right. Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there.' says the man.
Still curious the waitress asks, 'Then what's with the emu?!?'
The trucker pauses, sighs, and answers, 'My second wish was for a tall chick with a big rump and long legs who agrees with everything I say."
A man with spine cancer walks up to his friend His friend notices that the man is holding his back while walking up to him His friend asks "What's wrong?". The man says "My back is killing me".
Forgot His Prayers
A husband and wife were dining at a 5-star restaurant.
When their food arrived, the husband said: “Our food has arrived! Let’s eat!”
His wife reminded him: “Honey, you always say your prayers at home before your dinner!”
Her husband replied: “That’s at home, my dear. Here the chef knows how to cook!”
Everyone knows Albert Einstein because of his research in physics. But most people don’t know about his brother who did research in monster making... His name was Frank.
Hi, I'm Mr. Right.
His Excellent Memory
Three old men are discussing their failing memories.
The first old man says, "Today I was at the top of the stairs, and I couldn't remember if I had just gone up or was about to go down."
The second old man says, "I was sitting at the edge of my bed and I couldn't remember if I was about to sleep or just woke up."
The third man scoffs and says, "My memory is as good as ever, knock on wood." With this he hits the table twice with his knuckle, looks up in surprise and yells "Who's there?"
The cookie monster couldn’t make his bed, why? Because he couldn’t find his cookie sheets.
A Circus Visit
Little Timmy and his parents went to the circus.
When the elephants came out into the ring, Timmy turned to his mom and asked, "What's that hanging down from that elephant?
"His mom said, "That's the elephant's trunk."
Timmy said, "No, not that. Back underneath the elephant."
His mom, embarrassed, said. "That's nothing."
Timmy isn't satisfied with her response, and turns to his father, "Dad, what's that hanging down underneath that elephant?"
Dad says, "That's the elephant's penis."
"But mom said it was nothing."
"I know, son. I've really spoiled that woman."
A blond guy always wanted to skydive. He waited for years before he had the nerve and enrolled in a skydiving class.
They were taught how to jump and when to pull the cord. The instructor told them: "First you pull the cord after 10 seconds, if that doesn't work for any reason, pull the second cord for the auxiliary parachute. At the bottom there will be a bus waiting to take pick you up."
So the blond guy takes his parachute and sits nervously with everyone as they are preparing to jump. The light comes on and they start heading out the plane one by one.
When it comes to his turn, the blond guy screams and jumps. For 10 beautiful seconds, he gets to fly and hover. Then he remembers to pull the cord.
Panicked, he pulls the other cord. Again, nothing happens.
"Oh man," said the blond guy to himself, "that bus better be down there or I'm screwed!"
The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
A 6th-grade teacher posed the following problem to one of her arithmetic classes:
"A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars.
One-fifth is to go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to his butler, and the rest to charity.
Now, what does each get?"
After a very long silence in the classroom, one little boy raised his hand.
With complete sincerity in his voice, answered, "A lawyer!"
An eleven-year-old Jewish boy was failing math. His parents tried everything from tutors to hypnosis; but to no avail.
Finally, at the insistence of a family friend, they decided to enroll their son in a private Catholic school. After the first day, the boy's parents were surprised when he walked in after school with a stern, focused and very determined expression on his face. He went straight past them, right to his room and quietly closed the door.
For nearly two hours he toiled away in his room - with math books strewn about his desk and the surrounding floor. He emerged long enough to eat, and after quickly cleaning his plate, went straight back to his room, closed the door and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime. This pattern of behavior continued until it was time for the first quarter's report card.
The boy walked in with it unopened - laid it on the dinner table and went straight to his room. Cautiously, his mother opened it and, to her amazement, she saw a large black 'A' under the subject of Math.
Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room, thrilled at his remarkable progress. "Was it the nuns that did it?" the father asked. The boy shook his head and said "No."
"Was it the one-to-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?" "No."
"The textbooks? The teachers? The curriculum?" "No", said the son.
"Then what was it??"
"Well, on that first day, when I walked in the front door and saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I KNEW they meant business!"
Joe grew up in Jamaica, then moved away to attend college and law school.
He decided to come back to Jamaica because he felt he could be a Big Shot at home. He really wanted to impress everyone. So he returned and opened his new law office in New Kingston.
The first day, he saw a man coming up the passageway. He decided to make a big impression on this potential client when he arrived.
As the man came to the door Joe picked up the phone. He motioned the man in, all the while talking.
"No. Absolutely not. You tell those clowns in New York that I won't settle this case for less than one million. Yes, the Appeals Court has agreed to hear that case next week. I'll be handling the primary argument and the other members of my team will provide support. Okay, tell the DA that I'll meet with him next week to discuss the details."
The "conversation" went on for almost five minutes. All the while the man sat patiently as Joe rattled off instructions.
Finally, Joe put down the phone and turned to the man, "I'm sorry for the delay but as you can see, I'm very busy. What can I do for you?"
The man replied, "I'm from Cable & Wireless, the telephone company, I come to hook up your phone."
There once was a man who owned a sausage factory, and he was showing his arrogant preppy son around his factory.
Try as he might to impress his snobbish son, his son would just sneer.
They approached the heart of the factory, where the father thought, "this should impress him!"
He showed his son a machine and said: "Son, this is the heart of the factory. With this machine here we can put in a pig, and out come sausages."
The son, openly sneering, said: "Yes, but do you have a machine where you can put in a sausage and out comes a pig?"
The furious father thought and said: "Yes son, we call it your mother."
Why did the boy eat his homework? Because his teacher said it was a piece of cake!
Little Johnny Describes His Future
A teacher asks her class, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Little Johnny says "I wanna be a billionaire, going to the most expensive clubs, take the best girl with me, give her a Ferrari worth over a million bucks, an apartment in Hawaii, a mansion in Paris, a jet to travel through Europe, an Infinite Visa Card and to make love to her 3 times a day."
The teacher, shocked and not knowing what to do with the bad behavior of this child, decides not to linger on what he said and so continues the lesson.
"And you, Susie? What do you want to be?" she asks.
"I wanna be Johnny's wife!" Says Susie.
A guy walks into a bar with a pet alligator by his side. He puts the alligator up on the bar. He turns to the astonished patrons.
"I'll make you a deal. I will open this alligator's mouth and place my genitals inside. Then the gator will close his mouth for one minute. He will then open his mouth and I will remove my unit unscathed. In return for witnessing this spectacle, each of you will buy me a drink.".
The crowd murmured their approval.
The man stood up on the bar, dropped his trousers, and placed his privates in the alligator's open mouth.
The gator closed his mouth as the crowd gasped.
After a minute, the man grabbed a beer bottle and rapped the alligator hard on the top of its head.
The gator opened his mouth and the man removed his genitals unscathed as promised.
The crowd cheered and the first of his free drinks was delivered.
The man stood up again and made another offer. "I'll pay anyone $100 who's willing to give it a try".
A hush fell over the crowd. After a while, a hand went up in the back of the bar.
A woman timidly spoke up. "I'll try, but you have to promise not to hit me on the head with the beer bottle."
One night, a man on his way home happened upon a drunk, down on his hands and knees searching for something under a streetlight.
The man asked the drunk what he was looking for so diligently and the drunk said he had tripped and his Rolex wristwatch had broken loose from his wrist.
The man, being a kindhearted soul, got down on his hands and knees and began assisting the drunk looking for his watch.
After about ten minutes without any success, the man asked the drunk exactly where he tripped.
"About a half a block up the street," the drunk said.
"Why, pray tell," the man asked the drunk, "are you looking for your watch here if you lost it a half a block up the street?"
The drunk replied, "The light is a lot better here."
Two women were playing golf. One teed off and watched with horror as her ball headed directly towards a foursome of men playing the next hole. The ball hit one of them and he immediately fell to the ground clutching his hands together to his groin, rolling around in obvious agony.
The woman rushed over and immediately began to apologize. "Please allow me to help, I'm a physiotherapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you'll allow me" she told him.
"Oh no I'll be all right, I'll be fine in a few minutes" the man grunted, still lying in a fetal position, still clasping his hands at his groin.
"Don't be silly, Let me help!" she told him and, following her persistence, he finally allowed her to help. She gently took his hands away and laid them at his sides, she loosened his trousers and put her hand inside.
She administered tender and skillful massage for several long moments and then asked "How does that feel?"
He replied, "It feels terrific, but my thumb still hurts like hell."
A man was out to lunch with his friend one day. The man was explaining to his friend how he had been exploring and studying different methods of healthy eating and its effects on your body.
"After all," he said, "you are what you eat."
The man sat down at a table with a salad, a lite vinaigrette dressing, and a small unsweetened green tea, while his friend had a fried chicken sandwich, a large Coke, and fries with some extra salt on the side. As they were about to dig in to their meal, the man realized he didn't grab a fork for his salad. As he was off getting his fork, his friend, playing a prank, dumped some of his extra salt into the man's tea.
The man returned, sat, and took a sip of his tea and gagged instantly, spitting the tea all over the table. Immediately furious, the man snapped "what the hell did you do to my tea?"
The friend answered the question with a question:
"Didn't you say that you are what you eat?"
The man's expression shifted from anger to disappointment.
"If so, then this prank must've made you a little salt-tea."
There once was a farmer whose wife had died and left him with three beautiful teenage daughters. Every weekend, when they went out on dates, the farmer would stand at the door with his shotgun, making it clear to their dates he wanted no trouble from them.
Another Saturday night came around. At about 7 pm., there was a knock on the door. He answered and the young man said,
"Hi, my name's Joe. I'm here for Flo. I'm taking her to the show. Is she ready to go?"
The farmer thought he was a clever boy and wished them a good time.
A few minutes later, another knock was heard. A second boy appeared and said,
"Hi, I'm Eddie. I'm here for Betty. I'm taking her for spaghetti. I hope she's ready."
He thought that he must know Joe, but bade them off as well with his best wishes.
A few minutes after that, a third knock was heard.
"Hi, I'm Chuck..."
That was when the farmer shot him.
Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.
Chuck Norris doesn’t mow his lawn He sits on his porch and dares it to grow.
An Experiment Turned Race
There was a young fellow who was quite inventive and was always trying out new things.
One day he thought he'd see just how fast a bicycle could go before it became uncontrollable.
He asked his friend, who owned an old Chevelle if he could tie his bike to the bumper of his car to test his theory. His friend said, "Sure."
So the young man tied his bike to the back of the car and said to his friend:
"I'll ring my bike bell once if I want you to go faster, twice if I want you to maintain speed, and repeatedly if I want you to slow down."
With that, off they went. Things were going pretty well, with the car driver slowly speeding up to well over 60 mph.
The young fellow on the bike was handling the speed just fine.
But, all of sudden, an orange Camaro came up beside them and before you knew it, the fellow driving the Chevelle forgot all about the fellow on the bike and took to drag racing the Chevelle.
A little further down the road sat Officer John in his police cruiser, radar gun at the ready.
He heard the two cars before his radar flashed 105 mph
He called into headquarters on his radio: "Hey, you guys aren't going to believe this, but there's a Camaro and a Chevelle racing out here on Highway 3, and there's a guy on a bike ringing his bell and waving his arms trying to pass them!"
A young lad went to a tailor shop in Scotland.
He told the tailor, "I'd like ye to make me a kilt with this material here, and if ye don't mind, I'd like ye to make me a pair of matching underwear for it. I hear it gets a might drafty up dem tings."
A few days later, the tailor called the lad back to the shop. "Here's ye kilt, and here's ye matching underwear, and here's five yards of material left over. Take it home and keep it in case you want anything else made of it."
The lad rushed home and donned his kilt. He decided to run to his girlfriend's house to show off his new purchase. Unfortunately, in his excitement, he forgot to wear his underwear.
When his girlfriend answered the door, he pointed to his kilt and said, "Well, what'd ye think?"
"Ah, but dat's a fine looking kilt," she exclaimed.
"Aye, and if ye like it, y'ell really like what's underneath," he bragged as he lifted his kilt.
"Oh, but dat's a dandy," his girlfriend shouted admiringly.
Still not realizing that he didn't have his underwear on, he exclaimed quite proudly, "Aye, and if ye like it, I've got five more yards of it at home!"
Tommy was sitting in math class when suddenly his teacher asked him “Tommy, How much is 2 + 2?”
Tommy, caught off guard, begins counting his fingers under the table mumbling to himself: “1…2…3…4,” before happily exclaiming “The answer is four!”
“That’s correct,” answered his teacher, “but I saw you counting your fingers instead of doing the math in your head. So I want you to put your hands behind your back and tell me what do you get if you add 3 + 3?”
Tommy put his hands behind his back, but his teacher saw that he was still moving uncomfortably as if he were trying to count fingers. After a few moments he said uncertainly, "is the answer six?"
"You are correct," she replied, "but I see you're still counting fingers despite me asking you not to! Put your hands in your pant pockets and tell me what you get if you add 5 + 5."
Tommy put his hands in his pants and his teacher saw him looking at his pants and moving his lips without uttering a word.
Finally the teacher became impatient and said: "I see what you're doing there and I can tell you right now that the answer is not eleven!"
Rabbi Bernstein was in a terrible accident, and his "manhood" was mangled and torn from his body.
His doctor assured him that modern medicine could give him back his manhood, but that his insurance wouldn't cover the procedure, since it was considered cosmetic surgery.
The doctor said that the cost would be $3,500 for a "small," $6,500 for a "medium," and $14,000 for a "large."
Rabbi Bernstein was sure that his wife and he would want at the least a medium... and perhaps even a large. But the doctor urged him to talk it over with his wife before he made any decision.
The rabbi called his wife on the phone and explained their options. The doctor came back into the room, and found the rabbi slouched over in the chair looking quite dejected.
"Well, what have the two of you decided?" asked the doctor.
"She'd rather remodel the kitchen."
A dear old man has been having trouble making love to his wife due to impotency.
He has tried pills, oils, anything he can get his hands on, but nothing works. He researched online, asked every online expert he could think of - to no avail.
He tells his buddy about this, and his buddy says "I know a witch doctor who has a remedy for this. Go see her, she will help you out.
The old man goes to the witch doctor and explains his problems.
"I know just the thing," she says, and hands him a potion. "Drink this. When you are ready, just say 'one, two, three.' Your problems will be solved. When you are finished, your partner must say, 'one, two, three, four,' and that will be that. You can only use this potion once every full moon."
Excited to try this new remedy, he makes his way home in a haste.
That night, things are starting to get hot and heavy. He turns around and says "one, two three." Just like that, he is hard as a rock, like he was 18 again. He faces his wife, ready to go.
Impressed, his wife stared at him and said, "Wow, that looks great. But what did you say 'one, two, three,' for?"
These two guys are sat in their hospital beds having a little chat.
The first guy asks the second, "What are you in for?"
"Camera down the throat." the second guy replies.
"Oh, endoscopy?" the first guy asks.
The second guy says, "Yeah. Checking for stomach cancer. How about you?"
"Camera up the butt" the first guy says.
"Oh colonoscopy, checking for bowel cancer?" asks the second guy.
The first guy says, "No, my neighbor was sunbathing and my wife caught me taking a photo."
An elderly man in Miami calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing.
Forty-five years of misery is enough."
"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.
"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says.
"We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her," and he hangs up.
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone, "Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this."
She calls her father immediately and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced! Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay," he says, "They're coming for Passover and paying their own airfares."
A friend failed his medical exam when he X-rayed his lower torso. He didn’t put his heart into it.
Why didn’t the skeleton feel like patching up his broken ribcage? His heart wasn’t in it.
A Dad's Faux-Pas With His Daughter's Date
It's the spring of 1957 and Bobby goes to pick up his date. He's a pretty hip guy with his own car. When he goes to the front door, the girl's father answers and invites him in.
"Carrie's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?" he says.
"That's cool," says Bobby.
Carrie's father asks Bobby what they're planning to do. Bobby replies politely that they will probably just go to the soda shop or a movie.
Carrie's father responds, "Why don't you two go out and screw? I hear all the kids are doing it."
Naturally, this comes as quite a surprise to Bobby, so he asks Carrie's dad to repeat it.
"Yeah," says Carrie's father, "Carrie really likes to screw; she'd screw all night if we let her!"
Well, this just made Bobby's eyes light up, and his plan for the evening was beginning to look pretty good.
A few minutes later, Carrie comes downstairs in her little poodle skirt and announces that she's ready to go. Almost breathless with anticipation, Bobby escorts his date out the front door.
About 20 minutes later, Carrie rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her, and screams at her father: "DARN IT, DADDY! IT'S CALLED THE TWIST!"
When his wife was preparing his favorite chocolate cake, the baseball player said "Batter Up.
His Special Birthday Request
There was a man who was very happily married, but, every birthday he would have the same fantasy request for his wife: He wanted a threesome, and every year the wife says no.
This continues on for several years, until finally the wife has enough and finally agrees.
“Fine Sam, yes you can have your darn threesome. Who do you want it to be with?”
George quickly responds with... “Well, do you remember Sarah who works in accounting at my office?”
“Yes, of course.” the wife responds.
“Well, with her." Said Sam, "and one of her friends.”
The man looked a little worried when the doctor came in to administer his annual physical, so the first thing the doctor did was to ask whether anything was troubling him.
"Well, to tell you the truth, Doc, yes," answered the patient.
"You see, I seem to be getting forgetful. I'm never sure I can remember where I put the car, or whether I answered a letter, or where I'm going, or what it is I'm going to do once I get there -- if I get there. So, I really need your help. What can I do?"
The doctor mused for a moment, then answered in his kindest tone, "Pay me in advance."
On Father's Day, I thanked my dad for his contribution to my birth. He said it was his pleasure.
A Doctor and His Wife "Go At It"
A doctor and his wife were having a big argument at breakfast.
Things in the bedroom hadn’t been good for a while, so they were going at it over that.
"You aren't so good in bed either!" he shouted and stormed off to work.
He began his working day, and didn’t hear a peep from his wife.
By mid-morning, he decided to make amends and phoned home. After many rings, his wife picked up the phone.
"What took you so long to answer?"
"I was in bed."
"What were you doing in bed this late?"
"I was getting a second opinion."
John went to visit his 90-year-old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of Saskatchewan.
After spending a great evening chatting the night away, the next morning John's grandfather prepared a breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast.
However, John noticed a film-like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking,
'Are these plates clean?'
His grandfather replied: 'They're as clean as cold water can get ‘em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!'
For lunch, the old man made hamburgers.
Again, John was concerned about the plates, as his appeared to have tiny specks around the edge that looked like dried egg and asked: 'Are you sure these plates are clean?'
Without looking up the old man said: 'I told you before, Sonny, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them. Now don't you fret, I don't want to hear another word about it!'
Later that afternoon, John was on his way to a nearby town and as he was leaving, his grandfather's dog started to growl, and wouldn't let him pass.
John yelled: 'Grandfather, your dog won't let me get to my car'.
Without diverting his attention from the football game he was watching on TV, the old man shouted:
'Coldwater, go lay down now, ya hear me!?!'
Over the years, my neighbour has buried his deceased pets in his backyard, and to his surprise, a plant has sprung up. It's a Cemer Tree.
Sometimes Things Aren't As They Seem
While a man was dying, his wife was maintaining a candlelight vigil by his side.
She held his fragile hand, tears running down her face.
Her praying woke him from his slumber.
He looked up, and his pale lips began to move slightly.
"My darling," he whispered."Hush, my love," she said.
"Rest, don't talk."
He was insistent.
"I have something that I must confess," he said in a tired voice.
"There isn't anything to confess," replied his weeping wife. "Everything's ok. Go to sleep."
The man blurted out: "No, no, I must die in peace. I...I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!"
"I know," whispered his wife, "that's why I poisoned you."
A man walked into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him.
As he sat down, the waitress came over and asked for their orders.
The man said, "I'll have a hamburger, fries and a coke." Then he turned to the ostrich and asked, "What's yours?"
"I'll have the same," said the ostrich.
A short time later the waitress returned with the order saying, "That will be $6.40 please." So the man reached into his pocket and pulled out the exact change for payment.
The next day, the man and the ostrich came again and the man said, "I'll have a hamburger, fries and a coke." Then the ostrich said, "I'll have the same."
Once again the man reached into his pocket and paid with exact change.
This became a routine until late one evening, the two entered again.
"The usual?" asked the waitress. "No, it is Friday night, so I will have a steak, baked potato, and salad," said the man. "Same for me," said the ostrich.
A short time later the waitress came with the order and said, "That will be $12.62." Once again the man pulled the exact change out of his pocket and placed it on the table.
The waitress couldn't hold back her curiosity any longer.
"Excuse me, sir. How do you manage to always come up with the exact change out of your pocket every time?"
"Well," said the man, "several years ago I was cleaning the attic and I found an old lamp. When I rubbed it a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money would always be there."
"That's brilliant!" said the waitress. "Most people would wish for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want for as long as you live!"
"That's right. Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there," said the man.
The waitress asked, "One other thing, sir, what's with the ostrich?"
The man sighed, paused, and answered, "My second wish was for a tall chick with long legs who agrees with everything I say."
What did the pirate call his vegetable patch? His garrrrgh-den.
The Irish Father and His Son
An Irishman took his son to the bar on his birthday to buy him his first drink.
The father bought his son a stout, but he didn't like it and didn't want to drink it.
The father decided to drink it for him and ordered an ale instead.
He didn't like it either. So, the father drank it and ordered him a cider.
Lager, cider, cream ale... he didn't like any of them, so the father drank them and ordered whisky instead.
He didn't like any of the Irish whiskeys the father ordered, so the old man drank them and decided to give up.
By the time they left the bar. The father was so drunk he could barely push his son's stroller home.
A 60-year-old millionaire was getting married and threw a big wedding reception.
The big day arrived, and he got married to his stunning 23-year-old bride in the vast garden of his 50,000-square-foot mansion.
Champagne was flowing and an enormous team of waiters was flitting about serving the finest hors-d'oeuvres in the land.
Naturally, the millionaire’s less wealthy friends couldn’t help but feel jealous.
In a quiet moment, one of them asked him how he landed such a young beauty.
“Simple,” grinned the millionaire, “I faked my age.'
His friends were really amazed and asked him how old he said he was.
“87!” he replied.
Why did the hipster burn his lips? He ate his pizza before it was cool.
Little Johnny Buys a Horse
Little Johnny attended a horse auction with his father.
He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horse's legs and rump, and chest.
After a few minutes, Johnny asked, "Dad, why are you doing that?"
His father replied, "Because when I'm buying horses, I have to make sure that they are healthy and in good shape before I buy.
Johnny, looking worried, said, "Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom."
Did you hear about the vampire who tortured his victims with music? His Bach was worse than his bite.
How did the skeleton bring his groceries home from the market? He used his Cart-ilage.
The Sad Occasion
One day, a senior man awoke and made his way to the community breakfast room of his nursing home.
He looked awful, quite forlorn.
Ms. Rudder, a nurse, met him in the hallway. She greeted him smilingly and asked how he was this day. Mr. Ferguson allowed that not all was well; in fact, his penis had died during the night.
Ms. Rudder knew that Mr. Ferguson was occasionally a little off mentally, so she merely replied that she was sorry to hear the bad news and went on her way.
The next morning Mr. Ferguson was on his way to breakfast again but on this day he was dressed in a coat and tie, and his penis was hanging out of his pants.
Sure enough, he met Ms. Rudder whereupon, although somewhat startled, she calmly reminded him that the day before he had told her his penis had died and asked why it was hanging out of his pants.
"Today is the viewing."
After many years of hard work, Joe rewarded himself with a long, luxurious stay at an exclusive Caribbean resort.
While relaxing on the beach, he was surprised to see a former high school classmate who he hadn't seen since they graduated. His old friend had been something of a "burnout" in high school, and this was the last place Joe expected to see him.
Joe approached the man, and seized his hand. "Pete, it's Joe. From high school. It's sure been a long time. You look great! You must really be doing okay for yourself."
"I am," whispered Pete. "I am a partner with a very successful law firm. But don't tell mother. She got the idea that I was a drug dealer back when I was in high school, and she would be terribly disappointed if she figured out how I REALLY make my money."
A proctologist is about to write a something on his patient's notes but when he goes to take his pen out of his pocket he realizes it's actually his thermometer that's there.
He says, "Darn, some a**hole has my pen."
The Supportive Wife
A retired gentleman went into the social security office to apply for social security. After waiting in line for a long time, he got to the counter. The woman behind the counter asked him for his driver's license to verify his age.
He looked in his pockets and realized he had left his wallet at home. He told the woman that he was very sorry but he seemed to have left his wallet at home.
“Will I have to go home and come back now?” he asked.
The woman said, “Unbutton your shirt.”
So he opened his shirt, revealing lots of silver, curly hair.
She said, “That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me.” And she processed his social security application.
When he got home, the man excitedly told his wife about his experience at the social security office.
She sniffed at him, “You should have dropped your pants, you might have qualified for disability, too.”
A mother and a baby camel were talking one day when the baby camel asked, "Mom, why do we have these huge three-toed feet?"
The mother replied, "Well son when we trek across the desert, our toes will help us stay on top of the soft sand."
Two minutes later the young camel asked, "Mom, why do we have these long eyelashes?"
They are there to keep the sand out of our eyes on the trips through the desert," the mother said.
"Mom, why have we got these great big humps on our back?"
"They are there to help us store water for our long treks across the desert, so we can go without drinking for long periods of time."
"So we have huge feet to stop us from sinking, long eyelashes to keep the sand out of our eyes, and these humps to store water."
"Yes dear," said the mother.
"So why are we in the San Diego Zoo?"
What did the cell say when his sister stepped on his toe? Mitosis!
The Perfect Car for His Wife
A man walks into a car dealership. A salesman greets him at the door and after some chatting they end up taking a car for a test drive.
“This car is so quiet sir” exclaims the salesman “the ride is calm and relaxing”.
The man shakes his head “No, I’m buying this car for my wife and I certainly wouldn’t describe her as the ‘quiet and calm’ type”.
The salesman quickly transfers his potential buyer to another car. “Then perhaps this would be more her style! This car is quick, sleek and agile”.
The man sighs “no, my wife is certainly not the ‘sleek’ type by any means.”
Frustrated, the salesman transfers the man to a third car, a sure winner. “Now sir, I happen to know this car is very popular. Nearly every man who has been here has taken it for a test drive-“
Why was the Egyptian kid confused? His daddy was his mummy!
A soldier in ancient Egypt is eating his ice cream and quitting on the army A deserter having his dessert in the desert about to desert his post.
Losing His Last Name
A cop stops a car for traveling faster than the posted speed limit. Since he's in a good mood that day he decides he might give the fellow a break and write him out a warning instead of a ticket.
So, he asks the man his name.
"Fred," the driver replies.
"Fred what?" the officer asks.
"Just Fred," the man responds.
When the officer presses him for a last name, the man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it.
The officer thinks he has a mental case on his hands but he has a long shift ahead and he's bored, so he goes along with it.
"Tell me Fred, how did you lose your last name?"
The man replies, "It's a long story so stay with me. I was born Fred Dingaling. I know, funny last name. The kids used to tease me all the time. So I stayed to myself. I studied hard and got good grades."
"When I got older I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college medical school, internship, residency, finally got my degree so I was Fred Dingaling, MD."
"After a while I got bored being a doctor so I decided to go back to school. Dentistry was my dream. Got all the way through school, got my degree so I was now Fred Dingaling, MD, DDS. Got bored doing dentistry so I started fooling around with my assistant. She gave me VD. So, I was Fred Dingaling, MD, DDS with VD."
"Well, the ADA found out about the VD so they took away my DDS so I was Fred Dingaling MD with VD."
"Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Dingaling with VD."
Then the VD took away my dingaling . So now... I'm just Fred."
The officer walked away in tears, laughing.
A polar bear carries a large freezer into an ice factory.
On his way inside, he's stopped by a penguin wearing a tie and a name tag and carrying a clipboard.
"Why are you bringing a freezer into an ice factory??" The penguin asked.
"I'm a new hire," the polar bear replied, "I brought it with me because back home it freezes EVERYTHING. I thought it'd help me do my new job better."
"Oh....Oh!" The penguin says, "I get it. I think there must be a misunderstanding. You brought it to 'make' the ice but it's your job to 'BREAK' the ice."
"Oh." Said the Polar Bear. Then after a small pause he says, "So, why did the polar bear carry a freezer into the ice factory?"
A young couple met with their pastor to set a date for their wedding.
When he asked whether they preferred a contemporary or a traditional service, both the bride and groom were curious as to what a contemporary service entailed.
They weren’t sure, so they promptly asked the pastor.
“Oh there aren’t many differences at all – just a few minor details,” replied the pastor.
The couple preferred the sound of a contemporary wedding over a traditional one, so they decided to go ahead with it.
On the big day, a major storm forced the groom to take an alternate route to the church.
The streets were flooded, so he rolled up his pants legs to keep his trousers dry.
When he finally reached the church, his best man rushed him into the sanctuary and up to the altar, just as the ceremony was starting.
Upon seeing the groom, the pastor promptly told him: "Pull down your pants,"
"Uh, Reverend, I've changed my mind," the groom responded.
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How can we cope with enduring sadness?
Transcription (edited) by- Keshavgopal Das
Question- How can we cope with enduring/recurring sadness?
Answer (short) –
- In sadness, hold on to Krishna more strongly. When a boat is attached to a heavy anchor, the anchor minimizes the shaking of the boat in the midst of strong waves.
- Engage yourself in an activity which is positive, purposeful, and constructive. This will take away your mind from the source of sadness.
- At a practical level, do the needful to deal with the problems which are causing distress or sadness.
Answer (long)- When we are in a boat and constant waves are coming, we cannot avoid the restlessness that is going to come due to the waves, but if the boat is anchored to some heavier object then the boat will shake less.
In life we will go through waves of dualities, sometimes happiness and sometimes distress. There may be phases when distress will come more and more. Based on our karmic situation in life we may go through phases where difficulties may be more and at that time sadness may seem to recur more and more. At such time we need to hold Krishna stronger because Krishna is our anchor. Everything else in this world is temporary- tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata (BG 2.14) – Arjuna, you should tolerate this because āgamāpāyino ’nityās, (BG 2.14) everything in this world is temporary. To the extent we recognize that the world is temporary, to the extent we will not get overwhelmed by it. Whatever distress we have right now, we should know that it is not going to last forever.
Suppose we are going in a train and we come to a particular station where people are nasty, there is foul smell, everything is dirty etc. But the train will eventually move out of that station. If we continue to stay mentally in that station thinking “why was it so bad” etc. then we will be causing ourselves distress. If we also move ahead with the train, don’t allow our mind dwell on that station then we will not be so troubled by it.
Similarly in our case when we face distress, what we can do is that rather than our mind stay with the source of that distress, we need to do something positive, constructive, and purposeful. Especially find out some activity in which we can absorb ourselves then mind will not be able dwell on the sources of sadness. That way we can minimize the sadness.
To summarize, first we focus on Krishna, second we focus on striving to find some constructive activity in which we can keep ourselves engaged. And at the practical level we need to the needful to deal with the problems that are source of sadness. | <urn:uuid:78f0249d-ba34-446e-a668-843b241398f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2016/12/can-cope-enduring-sadness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95 | 594 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Willow Trees Don’t Weep
Najwa’s has nothing but hate for her father, who abandoned her when she was three years old. Now, upon her mother’s death, she cannot live on her own in a conservative society. She must find her father. Her epic journey takes her through new dangers as she is swept by a mysterious organisation to a hideout in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Her father, a medic, sets out on his travels to support a friend, but what he encounters transforms his life forever. His journal, which punctuates the novel, describes his harrowing and sometimes graceful odyssey.
Najwa has no choice, but to trace his footsteps, a search that takes her to four countries and two continents all the way to the west. She oscillates between her mother’s secularism and her father’s certainty. Changed by her quest and the heartbreaking secrets it reveals, she contemplates giving up looking for him, but her anger and resentment propel her forward. Piecing up the events that led to his departure, she begins to doubt everything. Should she seek revenge or forgive her father?
Fadia Faqir is a writer of immense strength and ambition. In her fourth novel she casts her imagination far and wide through time and across continents to help us understand global tensions and explore the horrors and solace of our times. She explores the ways the world’s tragedies shape one another, how people try to avoid being crushed by conflicts, whether public or personal, find beauty among the rubble and assert their humanity.
Reviews and Endorsements
“A compelling narrative ... negotiates the minefield of family, politics and religion fearlessly but with a delicate touch.” (Janet Davey, on Willow Trees Don’t Weep)
“This is a beautifully touching novel that takes us beyond the news bulletins and knee jerk reactions, creating an excellent read while revealing special rewards for the open-minded ... Fadia Faqir gifts us with an entrancing novel that not only crosses continents but also cultures and ideas.” (Bookbag, on Willow Trees Don’t Weep)
“Willow Trees Don’t Weep conveys a longing for order in the world, yet offers an acceptance of its fragmentation. It is insightful, compelling, and moving fifth novel from this immensely skilful writer.” (WeLoveThisBook.com, on Willow Trees Don’t Weep) | <urn:uuid:ff06223c-1aed-4124-8ad4-bdb50d39add6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fadiafaqir.com/willow-trees-dont-weep | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.957925 | 523 | 2 | 2 |
The world is home to 9,993 bird species of endangered,unique and rare birds live worldwide. Rare and unique birds in the World also includes Flightless birds,colorful Toucan,Mandarin duck,Long Tailed Widowbird,Indian Peacock, barn owl, Macaws, Grey Crowned Crane,Secretary bird and the most beautiful Birds of Paradise.
Shoebill is a unusual looking very large stork like bird, lives in large swamps from South Sudan to Zambia. The Shoebill bird identified by its unique features and also noted for its slow movements.
Puffins are small species of birds and one of the world’s favourite bird, live in most of the Atlantic region. The most popular Puffin Island in the world is in Westmann Isles and has the largest single puffin colony in the world.
Lyrebird is one of Australia’s best known bird and two known species of ground dwelling bird. The lyrebirds are known for superb ability to mimic artificial,human and natural sounds along with their striking beauty.
Hoatzin is a colourful bird found in swamps and mangroves forest of the Amazon and Orinoco river basin in South America. The hoatzin has to be one of the strangest, bizarre and unique bird found in the Amazon.
Scarlet Ibis is a unique species of ibis in the bird family, found in the Llanos region,areas of South America and the Caribbean islands. The scarlet ibis has distinctive red plumage and has protected status throughout the world.
Frigatebirds are seabirds family bird,found across all tropical oceans in the world. The Frigatebirds has black plumage but male has a distinctive and striking red gular sac.
Hummingbirds are the smallest species of bird, mostly feed on insects,spiders and insect eggs. The birds are are known as hummingbirds because the sound of the humming by their beating wings.
Black Egret also known as black heron is very famous for its unusual and unique hunting method, found in the shallow and freshwater in Sahara Desert. The black heron uses its wings like an umbrella to attract fish and this hunting method is called canopy feeding.
Tragopan is a pheasant species found along the Himalayas and one of the highly endangered and globally threatened bird. Male Temminck’s tragopan has very attractive crest, neck and breast with bright orange collar.
King Vulture is a new world vulture found in Central and South America. This large bird of prey has bald head and gray to black ruff and is the largest of the new world vultures. | <urn:uuid:b1aee89c-b6de-4c85-a81a-83a409221a09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.walkthroughindia.com/wild-world/10-unusual-unique-birds-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.951716 | 556 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Now the California Theatre, 1122 Fourth at C Street, San Diego
- California Theatre exterior
- California Theatre exterior, 1940s
- California Theatre 4th and C St
- California Theatre birthday cake
- California Theatre entrance 1929
- California Theatre Beatles in “A Hard Days Night” and Elvis Presley in “Fun in Acapulco”
The New California Theatre was one of the last two old movie palaces (Balboa being the other) . When opened in 1927, it was heralded as “the cathedral of the motion picture” and “an enduring contribution to the artistic beauty of the entire Southland”. Ceilings were gold leaf, murals were scattered throughout the theatre. A huge Wurlitzer organ was installed. The theatre had a seating capacity of 2200. The Aztec Theatre on Fifth was built in 1905 as a meat market and entered the show business in 1919 as the California Theatre — it became the Aztec in 1930, allowing the New California Theatre to drop the “New.”
The New California Theatre was owned by the West Coast Theatres and backed by San Diegan C. S. Judson. At its grand opening on April 22, 1927, the theatre presented Constance Talmadge and Antonio Moreno in “The Venus of Venice”, Fanchon and Marco’s “Book ideas”, and Al Lyons and his band. Bernard’s Inc., an apparel store for women, occupied the entire second floor in 1927. Movies were discontinued in 1976, but the theatre was available for special performances.
The architecture is Spanish Colonial Revival and combines theatre, shops, and office in a three-level, reinforced concrete structure. The nine-story portion faces Fourth Avenue and incorporates theatre entrance and offices. The proscenium area is six stories and the auditorium almost five stories. The parapets of the flat roofs have red tile trim, decorated cornices and dentils or arched corbeling. Bands of cast ornamentation continue around the building at various levels and are trimmed with urns. Some windows have arches and baroque surrounds.
The side walls of the auditorium imitate a Spanish church. The “C” Street wall of the rear has a sign painted on it. On the office section, the windows are recessed and plain in style from the fifth floor upwards. A small penthouse is on the north side of the roof. The marquee faces Fourth Avenue. Cement quoins marking the corners of the first three floors include niches for statuary.
The Old Globe Theatre used the California Theatre downtown while its Balboa Park home was rebuilt after the 1978 arson fire.
A 1988 renovation of the building restored much of the appearance of the 1920s. The marquee “circus” box office was removed, new carpeting was installed, and the ornate sculptural decorations were restored. There were some changes made in the marquee. The building appears much as it did when built.
The building was scheduled for demolition in the summer of 1990 but is still standing in 2000. The Wurlitzer organ was moved to Trinity Presbyterian Church in Spring Valley, but in March of 1996, an arson fire destroyed the organ console and most of the pipework.
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Curricular Directives aim to organize courses and careers towards establishing professional identities. In this sense, the National Curricular Directives for Undergraduate Nursing Education define the foundations for the education of nurses in Brazil, pointing out the knowledge considered important for the profession. We base ourselves on the presuppositions found in Michel Foucault's work to carry out a textual analysis of the discourses conveyed by the Curricular Directives for Nursing, questioning them as a strategy to govern and subjectivize that acts upon the bodies of future nurses. The reflections herein point towards a document that can be seen as an instrument that intends to normalize students and constitute them to become nurses. Thus, the profile of a "good" and a "bad" professional is defined, normalizing bodies and attitudes, not allowing them to think and create another way and instituting a "regime of truth" that produces a certain type of nurse.
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Textile Manufacturing Capabilities
In the world of textile manufacturing, some fabrics are created specifically for certain applications while other fabrics can be used to create a diverse range of textile end products with an equally diverse range of attributes and characteristics. At Australian Textile Mills, we do this in order to produce the best textile products Australia wide. We can weave, dye, print, laminate, finish and coat an incredibly wide range of fabrics for a variety of end users. These also include specialised fabrics using high performance fibres such as Nomex, Twaron, Lenzing FR Viscose, Merino wool, polyester, cotton and nylon.
When Customer Satisfaction Matters
At ATM, we pride ourselves on delivering optimal satisfaction on all customer requests for textile products Australia wide. We achieve this through our loom configurations, comprising of dobby Rapier and Jacquard Rapier looms. Our capable Converting Department has a fully equipped dye house, with finishing, coating and printing capability of jets, jigs, padders and washer range, four finishing stenters, two paste coating stenter lines, and a rotary print range.
Our fabric inspection process includes Testa Automation Pre-Inspection machines that include computerised fault mapping equipment as well as a robotic cutting and wrapping system.
Quality Tested Textile Products for the Australian Market
ATM is a robust quality supplier and textile manufacturing service provider, capable of a high degree of flexibility and willingness to meet customer requirements.
Our testing laboratory is NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia) accredited, ensuring all textile products comply with our stringent internal quality specifications as well as Australian and International standards. | <urn:uuid:35dd9a6a-af8f-4d61-aad9-9cd7f635c0d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.australiantextilemills.com.au/capabilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.901577 | 341 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Here’s an interesting “thought experiment”: suppose those historic CBD buildings demolished in the 1960s and 70s had instead been preserved and sensitively adapted to other uses. How would our cities be different today?
To keep it simple, assume all the buildings on the main thoroughfares in the CBD remain as they were in 1940 (there wasn’t much change until the mid-1950s anyway because of WW2).
Further, assume that’s the only difference; everything else, like the string of conservative governments that dominated politics across Australia in the 1960s and most of the 70s, remains the same. (1)
I’m going to talk about Melbourne because I know it best but the lessons apply to all Australian cities. Brisbanites can imagine the Bellevue Hotel (demolished in 1979) is still there in George St and Sydneysiders can think about whether they’d prefer Bennelong Point with Fort Macquarie Tram Depot (demolished 1958) or with an Opera House.
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In one respect, Melbourne’s real history is a little like my hypothetical scenario; despite the mood of “progress”, Melbourne managed to keep its trams when all around were losing theirs. (2)
The thing I’m interested in is what we might have gained, or lost, if we’d been able to freeze-frame development in these specific locations. There are doubtless multiple scenarios so I’m going to propose just one possibility.
The benefits seem reasonably straightforward. If Melbourne’s CBD had largely avoided the dead hand of post-war architectural internationalism, it would now be a more interesting and distinctive place in terms of contemporary tastes.
There would be many historically valuable buildings with profitable hospitality, retail and office uses. (3) For example, the glorious Federal Coffee Palace would’ve escaped demolition in 1973, as would the Melbourne Fish Markets (1956), The Menzies Hotel (1969), the Wool Broking Premises (1969), the Australia Building (1980), and many more.
Conversely, a modernist monstrosity like the Gas and Fuel Corporation Towers (1967) wouldn’t have been erected on a premium location like the corner of Flinders and Swanston; to do so would’ve required demolition of the remains of the historic Princes Bridge railway station.
Melbourne’s fabled Parisian ambience would’ve been preserved and would be a valuable vehicle for city branding and tourism promotion. In more recent years it might’ve been a way of helping to attract knowledge industries.
There’d be practical benefits too. The absence of office towers would mean fewer shadows and more sunlight reaches the main streets and footpaths.
There’d be other changes though with less certain benefits. There would’ve been a period of 30 years or so when Melbourne probably would’ve been regarded as backward because it rejected “progress”. It’s conceivable this could’ve hampered its ability to attract investment.
There’d be few if any high rise towers on the main streets. Corporates wouldn’t generally find historic buildings attractive because they’d be too small and inflexible. They’d mostly be occupied today by the sort of premium hospitality and retail uses that benefit most from their ambience and location.
Businesses would’ve had to look elsewhere for accommodation. Some might’ve chosen to operate out of suburban centres. Consequently, more of their employees would drive to work today.
Many more would’ve located in large near-CBD centres similar in character to North Sydney. There would’ve been greater pressure to redevelop old commercial, industrial and residential buildings in places like Fitzroy and Carlton. Warehousing and manufacturing would’ve consequently departed the inner city sooner than it did. It’s possible areas like Docklands might’ve come under earlier pressure to convert to high-rise office uses.
But many businesses, perhaps most, would’ve found accommodation in new high-rise blocks behind the main thoroughfares (where the assumed protection didn’t apply). These would’ve replaced some of the laneways, including the older buildings associated with them, that’re so celebrated today.
All those irregular, low rent commercial spaces that underpin today’s vibrant Melbourne either wouldn’t exist or, more likely, they’d be too expensive for current uses.
Given the magnificent buildings in the centre, it might’ve seemed less important to protect inner city terrace houses and warehouses. After all, the spirit of the times was for progress, not preservation.
Modernist buildings would still have been built away from the main streets. However some of the 1960s and 70s buildings that exercise the attention of preservationists today might not have been built at all.
There are other possibilities that’re even more speculative. For example, would the development capacity of the CBD have been restricted to such an extent that the city rail loop never got built? Would the decentralisation of firms have led to significantly lower public transport patronage (use of trains by commuters drops appreciably even within a few hundred metres of the loop)?
Would street life in major thoroughfares like Collins, Bourke and Swanston streets be more vibrant than it is today? Or would the loss of workers and constraints on reconfiguring heritage buildings to activate the street mean it was less alive? Would the CBD be a bit like Disneyland?
And with a strong legacy of pre-war buildings, perhaps no one would care much about protecting buildings dating from the 60s or 70s. Or perhaps it would work the other way; a city proud of its outstanding stock of heritage buildings might be more attuned to the historic value of all buildings.
My scenario is only one possibility; no doubt there’re other views of how, given the starting premise, the succeeding years might have played out. It’s also possible the same initial assumption might’ve lead to quite different results in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney.
I’m certainly not arguing in favour of the heritage losses suffered in the post-war period. Apart from being an interesting speculation, the value of this sort of exercise is understanding that you can’t change one parameter without realising it’ll generate knock-on changes elsewhere, not all of them what you want.
- Of course this is an unrealistic premise. If buildings really had been preserved it’s almost certain it would’ve been because of some far-reaching difference in values compared to what actually happened; those values would inevitably have changed many other things too. But I think that sort of “thought experiment” is less informative for current practice.
- Keeping the trams was an amazing achievement given the mood of the times (surely there’s a definitive history of why and how it happened?), but I think preserving old buildings and streetscapes would’ve been an order of magnitude harder, if only because of the huge number of private owners involved.
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Considering all the desperate calls for the U.S. to weaken environmental standards and to make other moves to encourage oil exploration, it comes as a surprise to many — including me — that the U.S. is now exporting more fuel than it is importing.
From the WSJ’s U.S. Nears Milestone: Net Fuel Exporter, published on 11/30:
U.S. exports of gasoline, diesel and other oil-based fuels are soaring, putting the nation on track to be a net exporter of petroleum products in 2011 for the first time in 62 years.
A combination of booming demand from emerging markets and faltering domestic activity means the U.S. is exporting more fuel than it imports, upending the historical norm.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels.
Still, the U.S. remains the world’s single largest importer of crude oil. From the WSJ:
So long as the U.S. remains the world’s biggest net importer of crude oil, currently taking in nine million barrels per day, it isn’t likely to become energy independent anytime soon. Yet its growing presence as an overall exporter of fuels made from crude gives it greater influence in the global energy market.
The San Francisco Chronicle on the differences in trade of crude vs. refined oil:
The United States, long the world’s most voracious consumer of fuel, still imports almost half of its crude oil, the raw material for gasoline and diesel. But starting in 2008, the country began exporting more refined petroleum products than it imported. And the gap keeps growing.
In the first nine months of this year, the United States exported 655 million barrels of finished petroleum products, including 121 million barrels of gasoline. At the same time, the country imported 264 million barrels of finished petroleum products, including 32 million barrels of gasoline, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In terms of U.S. demand, I’ll repost a graph from Calculated Risk that clearly shows the decline in total miles driven over the last few years:
CNN has a piece here: Gasoline: The new big U.S. export
So why not limit exports of gasoline to drive prices down?
As long as we still are a net importer of crude and as long as we see ourselves as a proponent of global capitalism and trade, the U.S. can’t really step in and limit trade or impose tariffs.
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How to Find the Right LPN Training near Cook Minnesota
There are basically two academic credentials offered that provide education to become an LPN near Cook MN. The one that may be concluded in the shortest time frame, typically about 1 year, is the certificate or diploma program. The 2nd option is to earn a Practical Nursing Associate Degree. These LPN programs are more comprehensive in nature than the diploma alternative and usually require 2 years to finish. The advantage of Associate Degrees, in addition to supplying a higher credential and more in-depth training, are that they furnish more transferable credit toward a Bachelor’s Degree in nursing. Regardless of the kind of credential you seek, it needs to be state approved and accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) or some other national accrediting organization. The NLNAC attests that the syllabus properly prepares students to become Practical Nurses, and that most graduates pass the 50 state required NCLEX-PN licensing exam.
What is an LPN?
Licensed Practical Nurses have a number of tasks that they perform in the Cook MN medical facilities where they practice. As their titles indicate, they are mandated to be licensed in all states, including Minnesota. Even though they may be responsible for managing Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), they themselves typically work under the guidance of either an RN or a doctor. The healthcare facilities where they work are numerous and varied, for example hospitals, medical clinics, schools, and long-term care facilities. Virtually any place that you can encounter patients in need of medical attention is their domain. Each state not only controls their licensing, but also what work activities an LPN can and can’t perform. So based on the state, their routine job activities might include:
- Checking vital signs
- Giving medicines
- Initiating IV drips
- Observing patients
- Collecting blood or urine samples
- Maintaining patient records
- Supporting doctors or Registered nurses with procedures
In addition to their job functions being controlled by each state, the healthcare facilities or other Cook MN healthcare providers where LPNs work can further limit their job roles within those parameters. In addition, they can work in various specialties of nursing, such as long-term care, critical care, oncology and cardiology.
Online LPN Programs
Attending LPN programs online is becoming a more preferred way to obtain training and acquire a nursing certificate or degree in Cook MN. Many schools will require attending on campus for a component of the training, and nearly all programs call for a specified number of clinical rotation hours performed in a local healthcare center. But since the balance of the training can be accessed online, this alternative may be a more accommodating answer to finding the time to attend school for some students. Pertaining to tuition, a number of online degree programs are less costly than other on campus choices. Even other expenses such as for commuting and study materials can be reduced, helping to make education more affordable. And many online programs are accredited by U.S. Department of Education recognized organizations. So if your work and family responsibilities have left you with little time to pursue your academic goals, perhaps an online LPN program will make it easier to fit a degree into your hectic schedule.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) was $45,030 in May 2017. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $32,970, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $61,030. Most licensed practical nurses near Cook MN work full time, although about 1 in 5 worked part time in 2016. Many work nights, weekends, and holidays, because medical care takes place at all hours. They may be required to work shifts of longer than 8 hours. Employment of LPNs is projected to grow 12 percent from 2016 to 2026. Job prospects should be favorable for LPNs who are willing to work in rural and medically under served areas.
What to Ask LPN Schools
Once you have decided on obtaining your LPN certificate, and if you will attend classes on campus or on the web, you can utilize the following pointers to start narrowing down your options. As you no doubt realize, there are many nursing schools and colleges near Cook MN as well as within Minnesota and throughout the United States. So it is important to decrease the number of schools to select from to ensure that you will have a workable list. As we previously mentioned, the location of the school as well as the price of tuition are most likely going to be the first two things that you will consider. But as we also emphasized, they should not be your sole qualifiers. So prior to making your final decision, use the following questions to see how your pick measures up to the other programs.
- Accreditation. It’s a good idea to make sure that the certificate program along with the school are accredited by a U.S. Department of Education acknowledged accrediting organization. In addition to helping verify that you get a quality education, it may assist in securing financial aid or student loans, which are frequently not available for non-accredited schools near Cook MN.
- Licensing Preparation. Licensing requirements for LPNs are different from state to state. In all states, a passing score is needed on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN) in addition to graduation from an accredited school. Many states require a specified number of clinical hours be performed, as well as the passing of additional tests. It’s important that the school you are enrolled in not only delivers an exceptional education, but also readies you to comply with the minimum licensing standards for Minnesota or the state where you will be working.
- Reputation. Look at internet rating companies to see what the evaluations are for all of the LPN schools you are considering. Ask the accrediting organizations for their reviews as well. Additionally, check with the Minnesota school licensing authority to determine if there are any complaints or compliance issues. Finally, you can contact some local Cook MN healthcare organizations you’re interested in working for after graduation and ask what their assessments are of the schools as well.
- Graduation and Job Placement Rates. Find out from the LPN schools you are looking at what their graduation rates are as well as how long on average it takes students to complete their programs. A low graduation rate may be an indication that students were dissatisfied with the program and dropped out. It’s also essential that the schools have high job placement rates. A high rate will not only confirm that the school has a favorable reputation within the Cook MN healthcare community, but that it also has the network of relationships to help students attain employment.
- Internship Programs. The best way to get experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse is to work in a clinical setting. Almost all nursing degree programs require a certain number of clinical hours be completed. Various states have minimum clinical hour requirements for licensing also. Check if the schools have a working relationship with local Cook MN community hospitals, clinics or labs and help with the placing of students in internships.
Enrolling in an LPN Program near Cook MN?
If you are considering enrolling in and attending an LPN school near Cook MN, you may find the following information both interesting and useful when making your final decision.
The city of Cook was known initially as Little Fork, because of the river of the same name that runs through the city, later being known as Ashawa, which stands for "by the river or across the river"; however its name was changed to its current name on August 1, 1908; at the request of the U.S. Postal Service "because confusion with a village in southern Minnesota named Oshawa". The town was named in honor of Wirth Cook, an owner of the railroad that was constructed through Cook in 1903 and 1904. Cook was incorporated on May 13, 1926.
As of the census of 2010, there were 574 people, 268 households, and 134 families residing in the city. The population density was 226.9 inhabitants per square mile (87.6/km2). There were 306 housing units at an average density of 120.9 per square mile (46.7/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 92.0% White, 0.2% African American, 4.9% Native American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.9% of the population.
There were 268 households of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.1% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 1.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 50.0% were non-families. 43.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.04 and the average family size was 2.84.
Enroll in the Right LPN School near Cook MN
Enrolling in the right Licensed Practical Nurse program is arguably the most crucial first step to starting a new career in the health care field. There are a number of aspects that you should think about when selecting a nursing school. These aspects will be prioritized differently contingent on your existing career objectives, obligations, and financial status. As we have pointed out within this article, it is critical that you choose an LPN college and a certificate or degree program that are each accredited and have exceptional reputations within the medical community. You originally decided to visit this website because of an interest in Cost of LPN Program. However, by utilizing our checklist of qualifying questions, you will be able to create a short list of schools to choose from so that you can make your ultimate selection. And with the appropriate degree and training, combined with your hard work and desire to succeed, you can become a Licensed Practical Nurse in Cook MN.
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ICT is sometimes used synonymously with IT (for information technology); however, ICT is generally used to represent a broader, more comprehensive list of all components related to computer and digital technologies than IT.
The list of ICT components is exhaustive, and it continues to grow. Some components, such as computers and telephones, have existed for decades. Others, such as smartphones, digital TVs and robots, are more recent entries.
ICT commonly means more than its list of components, though. It also encompasses the application of all those various components. It’s here that the real potential, power and danger of ICT can be found.
ICT is leveraged for economic, societal and interpersonal transactions and interactions. ICT has drastically changed how people work, communicate, learn and live. Moreover, ICT continues to revolutionize all parts of the human experience as first computers and now robots do many of the tasks once handled by humans. For example, computers once answered phones and directed calls to the appropriate individuals to respond; now robots not only can answer the calls, but they can often more quickly and efficiently handle callers’ requests for services.
ICT’s importance to economic development and business growth has been so monumental, in fact, that it’s credited with ushering in what many have labeled the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
ICT also underpins broad shifts in society, as individuals en masse are moving from personal, face-to-face interactions to ones in the digital space. This new era is frequently termed the Digital Age.
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