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East Germany had a difficult relationship with musicals. As with western audiences, the East German public enjoyed musicals and paid to go see them. The box office was good for nearly all the musicals DEFA made but the art form is so inherently frivolous that it drove the more stodgy politicians crazy. Making fairytale films for children was one thing, but making happy fantasies for adults, that was bourgeois formalism!1
Nonetheless—and in spite of the East German government’s claims to the contrary—money could still dictate which films got made and musicals were a good investment. So it was that in 1965, director Joachim Hasler was hired to make Journey into the Nuptial Bed (Reise ins Ehebett), as formulaic a musical as East Germany would ever produce. The film is the story of a handsome young boatswain on a merchant marine ship (Claus Jurichs) who has a habit of bedding a different woman in every port, causing no end of troubles for the captain and affecting the morale of the rest of the crew. In classic movie musical fashion, the ship’s captain (Günther Simon) devises a plan to get the boatswain to fall in love, thus ending his romantic dalliances. To help him with this plan, he enlists Eva (Anna Prucnal) an attractive polish journalist who agrees to seduce the boatswain and then drop him. Secretly, the captain is hoping the two actually fall in love with each other, thus ending his problems. But fate has something else in store. When Mary Lou (Eva-Maria Hagen), a sexy redhead who sings at the Shark Bar, sneaks onto the ship in pursuit of the boatswain, things get complicated.
The film is directed by Joachim Hasler, who got his start as a cinematographer, working on such classic DEFA films as The Invincibles, The Sailors’ Song, and The Silent Star. Hasler got his first taste of directing when Arthur Pohl was severely injured while working on Spielbank-Affäre (Casino Affair) and couldn’t finish the movie. Hasler took over and found he had a knack for directing. He went on to direct several more films for DEFA, sometimes acting as both cinematographer and director. He scored his biggest hit in 1968 with Hot Summer. This led to a long career as a director of light comedy, but his 1964 film Story of a Murder proved that he was just as adept at drama. His career ended with the Fall of the Wall. He died in 1995.
Claus Jurichs as the handsome boatswain bears a strong resemblance to Jean-Claude Van Damme. Jurichs is unique among German actors at the time. He lived in West Berlin and continued to work on East German films after the Wall was built. He was better known in the GDR, where he appeared in lead roles in several TV-movies. In the FRG he mostly worked in TV and dubbing. He worked in various capacities on several German sexploitation films, including Females for Hire (voice only), Swingin’ Swappers, The Sinful Bed, Reflections from a Brass Bed, and Caged Women (voice only). He also worked extensively dubbing American TV shows into German. He was the voice of McGarrett on the original Hawaii Five-O series and the voice of Cliff Barnes on Dallas. Jurichs died in 2005.
Günther Simon, Anna Prucnal, and Eva-Maria Hagen—the other three members of the romantic quartet—have been discussed at length here in previous posts (Günther Simon in The Ernst Thälmann Films, Anna Prucnal in The Flying Dutchman, and Eva-Maria Hagen in Don’t Forget My Little Traudel). Playing the fifth wheel in this story of romantic coupling, is singer Frank Schöbel. Although Schöbel was already a well-known figure on East German television, his ability to act was untested. He pulled it off and Journey into the Nuptial Bed helped launch his career in movies. He appeared two years later in Wedding Night in the Rain (Hochzeitsnacht im Regen) and the year after that in the classic Hot Summer. Like many other East German stars, the Wende wasn’t kind to him but he eventually reconnected with his audience and now appears regularly on television, especially at Christmas time.
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Spoiler: It’s not good news.
The modern 8 High Days of the Pagan calendar (or wheel of the year) comes from early Wicca, which based much of its traditions from Celtic and occult sources. Over nearly a century, we’ve become better at understanding the practices and beliefs of our pagan fore-bearers, but we can’t simply drop an “ancient calendar” onto our modern one. It won’t work like that.
The summer solstice is a particularly difficult modern holiday to reconstruct. There is virtually no information about how ancient to medieval peoples celebrated this. In some cases, this is because there wasn’t a holiday at this time. Many agrarian societies were too busy with their farms (or with wars and other skirmishes) to celebrate anything. The fact that we have the time to plan a holiday in high summer shows our privilege as modern people.
What do we Know About Pre-Christian Summer Solstice Traditions?
We have precious little information about how ancient to medieval pagans celebrated their holidays and religious festivals. That is simply true across all Indo-European cultures. Often, what we do know stems from medieval Christian times, and then it’s hard to say which traditions had pagan roots. Furthermore, it’s always hard to find credible sources online (which anyone is able to access).
Now many Pagans – and much of the information online – talk of bonfires and maypoles and “pagan summer festivals.” But we must always remember that the potato is a New World crop, by which I mean: a tradition that seems to be very old probably is younger than you think. (The Irish did not always have potatoes, and the traditional ways of celebrating the summer solstice may only be as old as medieval times.)
The most common discussions about Celtic traditions around the summer solstice have to do with Newgrange, Stonehenge, and other similar stone structures. These align to the rising and setting of the sun on days like the summer solstice. However, these structures were built by pre-Celtic peoples. While the Celts may have used many of these structures, they did not necessarily use them in the same way as their Neolithic creators.
There is evidence of Celtics cultures celebrating festivals like Beltane and Lughnasadh in medieval times. These were closely linked to agrarian cycles because they were important for farmers and villages. (Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but it is hard to find evidence for the fire festivals in pre-Christian times. The Celts didn’t write anything down!)
Celebrating the solstices and equinoxes can firmly be placed in modern Neo-Paganism. Ronald Hutton argues in his 1991 book The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, that the solstices and equinoxes were not celebrated by ancient Celtic peoples. Gardner decided to incorporate these dates as holidays into Wicca, and they have stuck in Pagan communities ever since. Forty years later, and we still cannot fully accept this truth.
We know precious little about Scandinavian, or Norse, calendars and holidays either. Jackson Crawford does have a YouTube video about the Norse calendar and the information we do have regarding it. We know the Norse used a lunar calendar and the names of their months. We know a little bit about holidays like Yule. But that’s about it.
The month around the summer solstice was called “Sun Month,” which makes a lot of sense, but it’s not much to go off of. There was a time near the summer solstice called “Moving Days” which survives in folk superstition today. These days were supposed to be a good time to move. There isn’t any information about how this may relate to a summer holiday or anything religious. Essentially, the Norse were too busy to do much of anything but tend the farm. (When you think about it, this would also apply to Celtic peoples in the midst of their farming season.)
But what about all the Pagan bloggers who say that the Norse hopped over bonfires and such? Annika Hipple writes in “Midsummer in Sweden” about traditional Swedish festivals, which they call “pagan summer festivals.” But even in this article, the author admits that the Swedish maypole was brought to the country from Germany and France in the medieval period. It’s likely this happened in the late medieval period. The Viking Age was roughly 400 years before this maypole tradition. Again, it may seem old-school to us today, put that doesn’t mean it went back to pagan times. (Note that in the Wikipedia article I cited, the statement that the maypole extends to Germanic pagan times has no citation.)
As is often the case, I have little information regarding Slavic traditions or paganism. Most of this information comes from Wikipedia, with warnings of too few citations or issues with quality standards. It’s difficult for me to say anything with surety. There are two traditions of note, and while many say the are “ancient pagan rites” I have seen no proof of it. First is Green Week or Rusalka Week in June, which has a lot to do with the dead, birch trees, and perhaps fertility.
The second tradition is Kupala Night, which is held on the night of the summer solstice. One of the main activities of the festival is for young women and men to go searching for a blooming fern flower on that night. (These ferns apparently do not bloom, so you can imagine what this festival is really about.) It’s still commonly practiced. What’s important for us here is that Kupala was a celebration of the solstice and fertility and summertime in general. Supposedly the tradition is pagan in origin because the Christian Orthodox Church connected the holiday to St. John’s Day as a way to christianize the populace. While this was a common tactic of early Christians, I don’t have good resources regarding the early church in Slavic countries.
Now, for Hellenes and Roman polytheists, what I will say comes as no surprise: the calendars of the Greco-Roman world have plenty of holidays – many with information regarding rituals – but few really correlate to the 8 Neo-Pagan holidays. And the holidays around the summer solstice don’t really correlate to the solstice itself.
The Romans did have a festival to Vesta in June, the Vestalia. While the focus of the holiday had to do with baking and women were allowed into the inner chambers of Vesta’s sacred building, there isn’t much to do with the sun or summer. Vesta was also considered the guardian of the home and the Roman state, and the Vestalia was an observance of her guardianship, culminating with the cleaning of her temple. The author of Roman Pagan cites Ovid’s Fasti as our main source of knowledge about this festival. While she is the goddess of the hearth fire, that association is as close as we can get to a modern summer solstice holiday.
It seems that the ancient Greeks calculated the beginning of their year at the new moon after the summer solstice. This last month of the year was called Skiraphorion and the first month of the year was called Hekatombaiōn. This makes the festival of Skira, which landed close to the solstice, something of an end-of-year holiday to ensure a good harvest the following year.
The Skiraphoria honored Demeter and Kore, Athena, Poseidon, and Dionysus. So the festival honored the goddess of grain, the goddess of olives (and the city), the god of seafaring, and the god of wine – all of which were the lifeblood of the Athenians! Ensuring the well-being of these things would keep Athens prosperous. This is a festival for the agrarian cycle, and it has much to do with the fertility of the land in summer. It’s not exactly what modern Pagans would consider the summer solstice holiday to be about, but it is very close.
Interestingly, Plato connects Apollo as a sun god to a festival related to the summer solstice. By the reckoning of Tomislav Bilić in his academic article, this festival was supposed to be celebrated just before the month of Hekatombaiōn (aka the start of the New Year). Bilić makes a good argument for this, although there isn’t much concrete evidence to support it.
Was the Summer Solstice an Ancient Holiday?
The summer solstice was the middle of summer. It was hot. Things were growing. Farmers were busy. Ancient Rome and Greece had five other festivals that month anyway. These things should be no surprise to us. And yet, when you google anything about the Pagan summer solstice, there are pages and pages insisting this holiday has ancient roots.
It does not. That’s ok.
Should we even bother celebrating the summer solstice? I think so. For one, it’s keeps our holiday calendar to every six weeks, which I quite like. I also think it’s good to have a “pan-Pagan” calendar of sorts. So it has use to us modern people.
But there’s more to the solstice than that. Pagans are often nature-centered. The height of summer is when everything is alive and growing. And since we do not have to labor in fields to ensure our survival, we should give offerings and celebrate life. Midsummer is a modern extension of May Day (or the Beltane fires). The same “reasons for the season” apply.
How Should We Celebrate This Modern Holiday?
Many authors online say you can celebrate the sun, the earth, the Good Neighbors/Fairies and other spirits, etc. These are all fine ways to celebrate. You can honor fertility deities or sun deities. You can celebrate any ol’ way you like – this is a modern holiday. Give thanks for the warmth of the sun and the growing of food and plant life. Celebrate with fun outdoor activities.
Honor the land in one way or another. I can’t tell you how to do that – it depends on where you live. On the East Coast of the US it’s muggy and hot, but we can do something outside in good weather. In Arizona or Nevada, its wildfire season. Perhaps focusing on water and rains (and rain deities vs solar deities) at a solstice ritual would be important. You know your local land: honor it at the solstice accordingly.
- “The Summer Solstice Was Not A Celtic Irish Festival.” AN SIONNACH FIONN. https://ansionnachfionn.com/2020/06/23/the-summer-solstice-was-not-a-celtic-irish-festival/.
- Cusack, Carole. “Charmed Circle: Stonehenge, Contemporary Paganism, and Alternative Archaeology.” Numen (vol. 59), 2012, pp. 138–155. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23244956.
- Hutton, Ronald. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Blackwell. 1991. Page 143. Accessed on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780631172888/mode/2up.
- Jackson Crawford. “Norse Months and Holidays.” Jackson Crawford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0xAE6oPNg.
- Fontaine, Andie Sophia. “Icelandic Superstitions: Moving Day.” REYKJAVIK GRAPEVINE. https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2019/09/11/icelandic-superstitions-moving-day/.
- Hipple, Annika. “Midsummer in Sweden.” Real Scandinavia. http://realscandinavia.com/midsummer-in-sweden-origins-and-traditions/.
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- 1 What neutralizes the smell of urine?
- 2 How do you remove cat urine from metal?
- 3 Does vinegar remove urine odor?
- 4 How do you get rid of urine smell on hard surfaces?
- 5 What dilutes the smell of urine?
- 6 What home remedy gets rid of urine smell?
- 7 Does baking soda and vinegar remove cat urine?
- 8 What is the best cat urine odor remover?
- 9 Does cat pee smell come out in the wash?
- 10 Does pee smell go away on its own?
- 11 Does vinegar and baking soda remove dog urine from carpet?
- 12 What does dog pee smell like?
- 13 Does rubbing alcohol get rid of urine smell?
- 14 Will baking soda neutralize dog urine on grass?
- 15 What home remedy gets dog smell out of carpet?
What neutralizes the smell of urine?
Make a solution of baking soda, peroxide and any dish detergent. The combination of the three is often powerful enough to drive away even the strongest of urine smells. Mix together 8 fluid ounces of peroxide, 3 tablespoons baking soda and a few drops of dish detergent.
How do you remove cat urine from metal?
Vinegar may also assist with neutralizing cat pee smell on hard surfaces. Vinegar is an acid that neutralizes the alkaline salts that form in dried urine stains. Mix a solution of one part water and one part vinegar and apply it to walls and hard floors.
Does vinegar remove urine odor?
Distilled white vinegar is a mild acid that helps neutralize the components in urine. Pour some distilled white vinegar in a spray bottle and liberally spray the areas that have a pee smell. Allow the mattress to air-dry. The vinegar smell will be strong at first but will dissipate as it dries.
How do you get rid of urine smell on hard surfaces?
Pour the hydrogen peroxide over the stain and then cover it with a clean cloth soaked in hydrogen peroxide. Cover the cloth with plastic wrap, weighting it with a book if necessary. Allow this to sit overnight or for at least 8 hours. The hydrogen peroxide should remove any stains and eliminate the urine odor.
What dilutes the smell of urine?
Drink cranberry juice. Cranberry juice will increase the acidity of your urine, which naturally reduces its odor.
What home remedy gets rid of urine smell?
Ways to Reduce Urine Odor
- Drink Enough Fluids. Many people are worried about drinking fluids because they fear it will increase their chances of leakage.
- Get an Exam. Get an examination to check for infection in your bladder or urinary tract.
- Switch it Up.
- Drink Cranberry Juice.
- Take Deodorizing Tablets.
Does baking soda and vinegar remove cat urine?
Baking Soda and Vinegar Vinegar, while a bit smelly itself, works to remove the lasting odor of sprayed cat urine because vinegar is an acid that neutralizes the alkaline salts that form in dried urine stains. A solution of one part water and one part vinegar can be used to clean walls and floors.
What is the best cat urine odor remover?
Our best overall pick is the Angry Orange Pet Odor Eliminator, which earns high marks from our tester for its effectiveness on both old and new stains. Because it’s a concentrate, though, the formula does need to be mixed with water in a separate spray bottle.
Does cat pee smell come out in the wash?
Regular products can only go so far. Regular laundry detergent as well as other typical cleaning supplies, such as baking soda, vinegar, and hydrogen peroxide, can make the smell go away, but this temporary. Some people recommend adding baking soda or vinegar to the wash.
Does pee smell go away on its own?
A bad smell in the urine often goes away on its own, especially when dehydration or something in the diet causes it. A person does not need to see a doctor if they can identify a harmless cause of their smelly urine, such as asparagus. Other causes need medical treatment.
Does vinegar and baking soda remove dog urine from carpet?
To get dog urine smell out of carpet surfaces, apply a solution of one cup water, one cup white vinegar, and 2 teaspoons of baking soda. Let the solution soak into the spot for 5 minutes, then blot it dry.
What does dog pee smell like?
A good quality fresh dog urine should be pretty odourless and a strong ammonia smell suggests infection.
Does rubbing alcohol get rid of urine smell?
Baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, rubbing alcohol and even cat litter will help rid a home of many odors. The best way to keep a house smelling fresh, however, is to keep it clean.
Will baking soda neutralize dog urine on grass?
A natural way to repair yellow spots in the grass caused by the dog’s urine is to dissolve a cup of baking soda in a gallon of water and pour on the affected area. The baking soda neutralizes the high nitrogen concentration, and it will also deodorize the area so the dog won’t recognize the spot and go there again.
What home remedy gets dog smell out of carpet?
Getting Dog Smells Out of Carpet
- Close off the area you are cleaning from your pet.
- Liberally sprinkle baking soda over the soiled or smelly carpet.
- Let the baking soda sit overnight so it absorbs as much of the odor as possible.
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Swell Classification Guidelines
Significant: Winter - Swell 8 ft @ 14 secs or greater (11+ ft faces) for 8+ hours (greater than double overhead).
Summer - Head high or better.
Advanced: Winter - Swell and period combination capable of generating faces 1.5 times overhead to double overhead (7-10 ft)
Summer - Chest to head high.
Intermediate/Utility Class: Winter - Swell and period combination generating faces at head high to 1.5 times overhead (4-7 ft).
Summer - Waist to chest high.
Impulse/Windswell: Winter - Swell and period combination generating faces up to head high (1-4 ft) or anything with a period less than 11 secs.
Summer - up to waist high swell. Also called 'Background' swell.
Surf Heights for Hawaii should be consider 'Hawaiian Scale' if period exceeds 14 secs.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
- Buoy 106 (Waimea Bay): Seas were 7.7 ft @ 13.3 secs with swell 5.6 ft @ 13.4 secs from 324 degrees.
- Buoy 46025 (Catalina RDG): Seas were 3.9 ft @ 14.7 secs with swell 2.4 ft @ 13.6 secs from 182 degrees. Wind west 6-8 kts. Water temperature 62.1. At Santa Barbara swell was 1.8 ft @ 11.3 secs from 260 degrees. At Santa Monica swell was 2.2 ft @ 13.0 secs from 218 degrees. Southward from Orange County to San Diego swell was 2.3 ft @ 13.8 secs from 196 degrees.
- Buoy 46012 (Half Moon Bay)/029 (Pt Reyes): Seas were 5.5 ft @ 18.2 secs with swell 2.5 ft @ 18.4 secs from 300 degrees. Wind southeast 10-12 kts. Water temp 55.8 degs.
Buoy 46059, Hi-res Buoys
On Thursday (4/21) in North and Central CA surf was chest high on the sets and pretty weak with south texture on it ahead of a new front moving in. At Santa Cruz surf was waist high or so and clean but generally weak and unremarkable. In Southern California up north waves were waist high and clean but weak with some cross lump running through it and weak. Down south waves were waist to maybe chest high and weak with northwest semi chop running through it. Hawaii's North Shore was getting more of the new dateline swell with waves 2-3 ft overhead on the sets and generally clean. The South Shore was getting some background swell with set waves to waist high and clean. The East Shore was getting east windswell producing waves at chest high early and chopped with modest trades in effect.
See QuikCASTs for the 5 day surf overview or read below for the detailed view.
Swell from a gale that tracked through the far Northwest Pacific Fri-Sun (4/17) with seas to 31 ft then pushed over the dateline Mon (4/18) with seas 24 ft has already peaked in Hawaii and is on the way down. That gale then pushed east through the Gulf of Alaska Tues-Thurs (4/21) with seas redeveloping it the 23 ft range aimed east. Swell from the first push of this system is starting to hit California with more size to follow. another gale is forecast for the Northwest Gulf on Sun-Mon (4/25) with seas to 31 ft aimed east. Nothing else to follow. Down south the models are hinting at a gale forming in the Southeast Pacific on Sat-Sun (4/24) with up to 41 ft seas aimed north. This is becoming closer to a real possibility.
SHORT- TERM FORECAST
Current marine weather and wave analysis.cgius forecast conditions for the next 72 hours
On Thursday AM (4/19) the jet was pushing off Japan with winds to 150 kts falling into a weak trough just west of the dateline, then pushing east and falling into another weak trough off the North CA coast with winds at 130 kts before sweeping northeast over Oregon. There was some support for gale development in the two aforementioned troughs. A weak flow of up to 90 kt winds peeled off the main flow to the south just west of Hawaii tracking east on the 15N latitude line into Mexico. Over the next 72 hours the trough off California is to move onshore on Fri (4/22) and the dateline trough is to wash out. But a steady flat flow with pockets of wind to 130 kts is to be running from Japan into North CA on the 40N latitude line. No troughs suggested. The same basic pattern to continue through Sun (4/24) but with a trough building in the Northwest Gulf being fed by 140 kt winds offering some support for gale development and a weaker trough again setting up just off North CA moving onshore in the evening offering only the prospect light of weather. Beyond 72 hours the West Gulf trough is to track east into Tues (4/26) being fed by 140 kts winds offering some support for gale development while another broader trough builds on the dateline. The Gulf trough is to fade then redevelop just off California Wed-Thurs (4/28) pushing into Southern CA late thursday offering another shot at weather and rain. The dateline trough is to steepen and build with winds to 160 kts on Thurs (4/28) repositioned in the Western Gulf offering some support for gale development. In all, an improving pattern is suggested. Perhaps the Active Phase of the MJO is to have a little more interaction with El Nino than previously expected.
On Thursday (4/21) swell from the 4th NPac Gale was fading in Hawaii and starting to show in California.
Over the next 72 hours nothing of interest is forecast.
4th NPac Gale
A gale started building off Japan on Fri AM (4/15) producing 40 kt northwest winds getting traction on the oceans surface. Those winds pushed off Japan in the evening at 45 kts generating 28 ft seas at 41N 153E. Sat AM (4/16) a broad fetch of 40 kt northwest winds extended off the Kuril Islands with 31 ft seas at 42N 159E. 40 kt northwest winds continued east in the evening generating 31 ft seas at 44N 165E. On Sun AM (4/17) a broad fetch of 35-40 kt northwest winds continued pushing east resulting in 30 ft seas at 43N 171E. The fetch faded from 35 kts in the evening over the dateline with seas 27 ft at 44N 178E. On Monday AM (4/18) fetch faded from 30 kts on the dateline with seas fading from 24 ft 47N 177W. Additional 35 kt west fetch was moving into the area in the evening with seas fading from 20 ft at 43N 173W. Swell possible for Hawaii and the US West Coast.
Additional fetch was moving towards the Western Gulf from west of the dateline on Tues AM (4/19) at 35 kts from the west with seas 20 ft at 42N 174W. More of the same occurred in the evening with a broader area of 30-35 kt west winds taking hold just east of the dateline with seas 19 ft at 42N 175W. Fetch built to 35 kts in the Western Gulf on Wed AM (4/20) with 21 ft seas over a modest area at 43N 163W. 30-35 kt west winds eased east in the evening with 23 ft seas at 43N 155W. On Thurs AM (4/21) fetch was still 35 kts from the northwest in the Gulf with seas fading from 22 ft moving to 43N 149W. The gale to start falling southeast from there while moving towards North CA. Winds barely 35 kts in the evening with seas fading from 22 ft at 42N 142W. The gale to dissipate from there. More swell targeting only the US West coast to result.
Hawaii: Residuals still hanging on Fri AM (4/22) at 4.8 ft @ 12-13 secs (6 ft). Swell dropping Sat AM (4/23) from 3.9 ft @ 12-13 secs (5 ft). Swell Direction: 315-320 degrees
North CA: Swell arrival expected on Thurs (4/21) building to 3 ft @ 17-18 secs (5 ft). Swell continues on Fri AM (4/22) 4.5 ft @ 15-16 secs (7 ft). Swell Direction: 296-298 degrees. Swell from the second pulse of this system to arrive on Sat AM (4/23) peaking at 8 ft @ 13-14 secs (10 ft). Swell fading Sun (4/24) from 6.5 ft @ 12-13 secs (8 ft). Swell Direction: 290-295 degrees. Much windchop and bump intermixed for the weekend.
North Pacific Animations: Jetstream - Surface Pressure/Wind - Sea Height - Surf Height
No tropical systems of interest are being monitored.
California Nearshore Forecast
On Thursday AM (4/21) low pressure was 600 nmiles west of North CA tracking east with light south winds starting to reach the North Coast down into San Francisco. A front to be impacting the North Coast overnight with modest rain there. Friday the low is to push inland over Oregon with the front from it moving over Central CA early. South winds down to Pt Conception late AM then turning northwest 15+ kts for the entire state by sunset including Southern CA. Rain for San Francisco at sunrise pushing down to Pt Conception later in the afternoon and weaker. Sow for Tahoe starting 4 PM and continuing overnight. 8-9 inches of accumulation possible. High pressure and northwest winds take over Saturday AM building to 25 kts focused near Pt Conception but lighter up north from SF northward (15 kts). Clear skies. High pressure and north winds build Sunday at 20-25 kts everywhere including Southern CA later in the day. Monday high pressure rules with north winds 25-30 kts for all of California including SCal with water temps diving. North winds still 20 kts on Tuesday for North and Central CA but Southern CA to be near calm. Wednesday a new low develops over North and Central CA with light winds early and rain from Morro bay northward. Light snow for the Sierra late. Thursday the low hold over the coast with light winds and light rain fading.
On Tuesday AM (4/19) no swell producing fetch was occurring.
Over the next 72 hours no swell producing fetch is forecast.
South Pacific Animations: Jetstream - Surface Pressure/Wind - Sea Height - Surf Height
Marine weather and forecast conditions 3-10 days into the future
Beyond 72 hours a gale is forecast developing in the Western Gulf on Sun PM (4/24) producing a decent sized fetch of 30-35 kt west winds with seas building to 30 ft at 48N 167W. On Mon AM (4/25) with 40 kt northwest winds are to be building with seas 31 ft at 46N 163W falling southeast. By evening 40-45 kt west winds are forecast with seas 30 ft at 47N 160W. Fetch is to be fading Tues AM (4/26) from 25 kts with seas from previous fetch fading from 26 ft at 47N 153W lifting northeast and targeting the Pacific Northwest. The gale to fade from there. Maybe some swell to result for Central CA and points northward of there. Something to monitor.
Beyond 72 hours a small storm is forecast developing in the Southeast Pacific Sat AM (4/23) with southwest winds 55 kts over a tiny area and sea building from 33 ft at 50S 140W. The storm to track northeast in the evening with winds still 55 kts from the southwest with seas building to 42 ft at 48S 134W. 45 kt southwest winds to lift hard northeast Sun AM (4/24) with seas 41 ft at 42S 130W targeting California reasonably well but better at Mexico down into Peru. In the evening 40 kt southwest winds to continue lifting northeast with 36 ft seas at 38S 122W. The gale to fade from there with residual seas 30 ft at 37S 117W targeting Southern CA reasonably well and mainly focused on Mexico down into Chile. Something to monitor.
More details to follow...
La Nina Emerges
Weak Active MJO Trying to Get a Toe Hold
The Madden Julian Oscillation is a periodic weather cycle that tracks east along the equator circumnavigating the globe. It is characterized in it's Inactive Phase by enhanced trade winds and dry weather over the part of the equatorial Pacific it is in control of, and in it's Active Phase by slack if not an outright reversal of trade winds and enhanced precipitation. The oscillation occurs in roughly 20-30 day cycles (Inactive for 20-30 days, then Active for 20-30 days) over any single location on the.cgianet, though most noticeable in the Pacific. During the Active Phase in the Pacific the MJO tends to support the formation of stronger and longer lasting gales resulting in enhanced potential for the formation of swell producing storms. Prolonged and consecutive Active MJO Phases help support the formation of El Nino. During the Inactive Phase the jet stream tends to .cgiit resulting in high pressure and less potential for swell producing storm development. The paragraphs below analyze the state of the MJO in the Pacific and provide forecasts for MJO activity (which directly relate to the potential for swell production).
Overview: The 2014-2016 El Nino is fading out. La Nina is emerging.
KWGA/Equatorial Surface Wind Analysis & Short-term Forecast:
Analysis (TAO Buoys): As of Wed (4/20) 12 kts west winds were occurring in the Kelvin Wave Generation Area (KWGA) near the dateline and calm elsewhere south of the equator with anomalies from the west from the dateline to 165W from 5S and points southward. A very weak expression of El Nino was occurring.
1 Week Forecast (GFS Model): Modest west anomalies started 4/19 and are to hold through 4/23, then weakening but not out through 4/28. A weak El Nino pattern to hold perhaps aided by a weakly Active MJO Phase (or at least no Inactive MJO over the KWGA).
Kelvin Wave Generation Area wind monitoring model: West and East
Longer Range MJO/WWB Projections:
OLR Models: As of 4/20 a neutral MJO signal was over the dateline and the Maritime Continent. The Statistic model projects the exact same pattern holding for the next 2 weeks (a dead neutral MJO pattern). The dynamic model depicts the same thing but with a very weak Active Phase setting up over the dateline 8-15 days out. This suggests El Nino to continue to slightly enhance the jetstream and the MJO is to have little to no influence either enhancing or suppressing it.
Phase Diagrams 2 week forecast (ECMF and GEFS): (4/21) The ECMF model indicates the Active Phase of the MJO was over the Maritime Continent and as weak as it could be. It is to ease east some into the West Pacific and build strength, but still remaining in the weak category over the next 2 weeks. The GEFS depicts the exact same pattern.
40 Day Upper Level Model: (4/21) A modest Active Phase was over the dateline and is expected to move east and out of the picture through 5/1. An Inactive Phase is to develop in the West Pacific 4/26 tracking east through 5/11. A weak Active pulse to follow 5/7 tracking east through 5/24. But with the change of season in.cgiay, it is unlikely any Active Phase will have any real positive impact.
CFS Model beyond 1 week (850 mb wind): This model suggests a weak Inactive Phase of the MJO was moving east over the dateline. This is contrary to what the above models indicate. It also depicts west anomalies are over the dateline and are starting to provide fuel to support enhancing the jetstream and maybe storm production. The model depicts the weak Inactive Phase fading out 4/25 but light west anomalies are forecast holding through 5/10 with a new weak Active pulse of the MJO trying to get a toehold over the dateline. But the Inactive Phase is to return 5/11 with west anomalies fading out by 5/16.
CFSv2 3 month forecast for 850 mb winds, MJO, Rossby etc
Subsurface Waters Temps
TAO Array: (4/21) Actual temperatures continue to retreat daily. A pocket of 29 deg temps were retreating west fast from 179W. The 28 deg isotherm line was shallow stretching east to 126W and retreating west. Anomaly wise things are collapsing fast. +1 deg anomalies exist in one pocket from 170W eastward to 117W and no more than 35 meters deep. This is the last of the El Nino subsurface warm reservoir. Cool subsurface waters are at depth racing east reaching the Ecuador Coast with -2 deg anomalies reaching east to 116W and lesser cool waters nearly reaching the surface near Ecuador. Instead of warm Kelvin Waves pushing east at depth, we now have cold Kelvin Waves pushing east. Per the hi-res GODAS animation posted 4/13 the reservoir is fading at +1-2 degs above normal and very shallow contained in a pocket from 180W to 100W and 40 meters deep. Cool waters at 3-4 degs below normal were undercutting it and upwelling near Ecuador. The onset of La Nina has begun.
Sea Surface Height Anomalies (SSHA): (4/13) The image depicts negative anomalies over the entire equatorial region from the dateline to Ecuador at -5 cms. La Nina is quickly developing.
Upper Ocean Heat Content: (4/13 - but updated daily) Warm temps are gone. +0.0-0.5 deg anomalies are barely holding at 85W and points east. -1.0 deg anomalies are racing east reaching 112W. La Nina is on it's way.
Surface Water Temps: The more warm water in the equatorial East Pacific means more storm production in the North Pacific during winter months (roughly speaking). Cold water in that area has a dampening effect. Regardless of what the atmospheric models and surface winds suggest, actual water temperatures are a ground-truth indicator of what is occurring in the ocean. All data is from blended infrared and microwave sensors.
Hi-res Nino1.2 & 3.4 : (4/20) The latest images (1.2 3.4) indicates temps in total collapse. Negative anomalies are on the equator extending west from Ecuador over the Galapagos to 120W peaking at -2.25 degs. Negative anomalies are also along the immediate coast of Peru and Chile streaming northwest feeding the Galapagos cool pool. La Nina is developing.
Hi-res 7 day Trend (4/20): Massive cooling continues from Columbia and Ecuador over the Galapagos out to 140W. It looks like strong east trades are in effect in this area or cool subsurface water is upwelling to the surface.
Hi-res Overview: (4/20) The El Nino signal is quickly collapsing. A generalized pattern of +1-2 deg above normal temps remain from 130W out to the dateline. But a thin stream of cooler than normal waters are from Ecuador west over the Galapagos out to 125W and growing. Warmer water present south and north of the equator, but quickly becoming less relevant with negative temps building in the Nino1.2 region.
TAO Data: (4/20) +1.0-1.5 anomalies were over the equatorial Pacific advecting west from 130W to the dateline. Negative anomalies up to -1.0 were from Ecuador to 120W. The warm water signature was in steep decline.
Nino1.2 Daily CDAS Index Temps: (4/21) Today temps were stabilizing after being in a freefall, fading from +0.896 degs on 4/12 to -0.538 today.
Nino 3.4 Daily CDAS Index Temps: Today (4/21) temps were stead today at +1.113, continuing a steady decline that set in starting early February.
Centered Nino3.4 Monthly Temps The centered Nino3.4 temps for the month of March were +1.63 degs (beating '98 at +1.32 degs and '83 at +1.44 degs). For more history see updated graphs below. This make this year El Nino the strongest ever. That is not reasonable looking at other evidence.
Comparing Stongest El Ninos in the last 50 year - ERSSTv4 'centered' data
Pacific Counter Current: As of 4/16 the current was strong from the east on the equator from 90W to 140E. Anomaly wise - they were strong from the east over the same area. There were no pockets of west anomalies indicated. La Nina is getting firmly entrenched based on this data, which is normal for this point in the El Nino lifecycle.
SST Anomaly Projections
CFSv2 Uncorrected Data depicts peak temps reached +2.95 degs on Nov 5, then faded slightly in early December to +2.8 holding to Feb 1. Then a sharp decline started with temps down to +2.5 degs mid-Feb and falling from +2.0 degs in early March and +1.5 degs April 1. The forecast indicates temps fading from here forward reaching normal (0.0) late May falling into Oct at -1.5 degs and down to -1.85 degs Dec. This would be in strong La Nina territory.
IRI Consensus Plume: The mid-March Plume depicts temps falling steadily from here forward, down to -0.5 by December. See chart here - link.
Atmospheric Co.cgiing Index's (lagging indicators rather than driving oceanic change):
Southern Oscillation Index (4/21): The daily index was down solidly at -45.30 on 4/20 rivaling peak depths from Feb. Today's value rose slightly at -36.20 today. The 30 day average was falling from -17.26. The 90 day average was falling from -13.57. El Nino was still quite evident in this index and the daily and 30 day averages suggested some form of Active MJO was in.cgiay and building.
SOI trend - Tahiti (looking for low pressure here): On 4/21 weak low pressure was over Tahiti and is forecast holding into Sun (4/24) then slowly fading into Thurs (4/28) while the low pressure falls southeast. The SOI is expected to hold if not fade some more based on the Tahiti contribution perhaps providing some support to enhance El Nino and fuel the jetstream.
ESPI (like SOI but based on satellite confirmed precipitation): (4/21) Today's value was building some +1.05. It peaked recently on 3/12 at +1.57 but has generally fallen ever since until 4/14, when it started rising again.
Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) (March) These numbers were released April 6th and indicate the index decreased slightly to +1.96. The Feb reading was +2.12. In Jan the reading increased slightly by 0.08 to +2.20, holding it in the third highest since 1950 behind the '82/83 and '97/98 El Ninos. Since it has not reached the +3.0 standard deviation level, it is NOT considered a Super El Nino, nor is it expected to reach that status. The Dec reading was +2.12. The Nov ranking was +2.31, up barely from +2.23 (Oct), down from it's peak of +2.53 in Sept, and from +2.37 in Aug. The top 6 events since 1950 in order are: '97, '82, '15, '91, '86, and '72 with '97 and '82 classified as 'Super El Nino's' because they reached 3 standard deviations (SD) above normal. '91 and '86 were at about 2.2 and 2.1 respectively with '72 peaking at 1.8 SD's above the norm. This years El Nino was the third strongest since 1950 per this index.
Pacific Decadal Oscillation: The PDO turned from a 6 year negative run (2008-2013) in early 2014 and has been mostly above +1.5 all of 2015. In Jan 2016 it was +1.53 and up to +1.75 in Feb. Then in March it spiked to +2.40. Impressive. Looking at the long term record, it is premature to conclude that we have in-fact turned from the negative phase (La Nina 'like') to the positive phase (El Nino 'like'), but the data suggests that could be a real possibility. We've been in the negative phase since 1998 through at least 2013 (15 years). By the time it is confirmed (4-5 years out), we will be well into it.
Conclusion: This El Nino is the 3rd strongest El Nino since 1950 based primarily on the MEI. Centered Monthly Nino3.4 data suggests it is the strongest. Based on California precipitation, this one does not compared to any major El Nino in recent memory. Based on surf, El Nino has had the expected effect producing 13 significant class swells in the North Pacific (16 expected). From a pure El Nino perspective, this event is over and transitioning towards La Nina. But from a teleconnection standpoint, the warm pool in Nino3.4 is still imparting solid energy to the atmosphere and momentum will affect the upper atmosphere into the late Fall of 2016.
The MJO appears to be trying to be constructively interacting with the jet stream and therefore helping to enhance storm production. With the season moving towards Spring, and SST anomalies fading in the Ninos zones, the MJOs influence will only do a little to enhance storm production.
The focus now turns to how quick and how much will the jet be affected for the Fall and Winter of 2016-2017. It's too early to know anything definitive yet, but with the PDO still positive, it is possible the transition to La Nina may not be a strong as in past events.
See imagery in the ENSO Powertool
External Reference Material: El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), Kelvin Wave
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It’s funny how when you travel and visit a place or sometimes even live in a place you walk down the streets not realising the history which surrounds you. Today was one of those days where we stepped back in time and trod in the footsteps of British Rock and Roll legends. We legged it to Tottenham Court Station from nearby Oxford Street where we met Malcolm, from Rock and Trips, heading off for a 2 1/2 hour walk around some of the most historic places of Soho.
From the 50’s until it became an upmarket suburb, Soho was renowned as a sleazy area full of bars, brothels and run down buildings. Doesn’t sound very glamorous but it was here that British Rock Music was born.
Around Soho there were heaps of venues some like the Odeon, Ronnie Scott’s, Marquee, the Palladium, Whisky A Gogo and a lot of venues both big and small, many of which have since vanished.
London Rock and Roll Tour
It was so cool hearing stories of legends like The Who, Marc Bolan, Bob Marley, The Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Georgie Fame, the Faces, Rod Stewart, Cream, The Clash, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Cliff Richard, Manfred Mann, Oasis, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Small Faces, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Yes, the Beatles, Siouxie Sue from the Banshees, The Kinks and Billy Idol.
It was funny hearing how 100 Club was where gobbling by punks first started with a band called Rat Scabies and Sid Vicious invented the pogo jumping up and down trying to see his favourite band. We even stood on the stage where the Sex Pistols performed their first gig (its inside a book store in the children’s section these days, which is quite funny in itself).
We learnt the meaning of the Old Grey Whistle test (also the name of a music program which ran from 71-88) and Tin Pan Alley….
Tin Pin Alley
There’s still a few music shops in Tin Pan Alley but in the 60’s we heard how one had recording studio in the back where some of the famous songs were recorded in Mono. This street was also the site of the birthplace of the Wah Wah pedal,d and future rock and roll legends had their first jobs in local cafe’s, record shops and music stores. The first rock and roll magazines were launched in the street and teens at the time checked out their favourite bands, and checked the pop charts.
we also visited where a young guy named Harry Webb was told to get a rock and roll name and he left as Cliff Richard
Trident Studios still have a sign out front proudly announcing to the world the songs they recorded and the stars who sang them.
Our Last Tour
We walked down Carnaby Street, stood on the street where the album cover for Oasis’ album “What’s the Story (Morning Glory)”was taken, and under the street light where Ziggy Stardust came to earth. These days between two trendy outdoor restaurants.
We ended our tour where on the 30th of January 69 the neighbours reported a disturbance on the roof. The police arrived to find the Beatles performing their last ever public gig. When we watch the film clip of “Get Back” we’ll think of this place.
It was so much fun legging it around the streets and alleys of Soho with Malcolm at Rock and Trips. The sights and stories with so much information and facts of which I’ve shared only a few which I hope I’ve remembered correctly.
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How to stay healthy during the covid19 pandemic, a video from Dr. Charschan
We are as they say all in this together although our experiences may differ widely depending on where we live, how we live, our health and our employment situation.
Turning on CNN is scary but thank the lord we have Governor Cuomo who offers some straight talk as well as our Nj’s governor Murphy who has shown some leadership skills just after having cancer surgery.
We have been told to stay home, and many of us have been furloughed and can’t wait for things to just be normal again. True, the government is helping us out but as Americans, we can’t wait to not feel helpless again at the hand of an invisible enemy.
I feel as you do and as your humble public servant, I am here to help and offer some advice that can help both you and your family. Rather than writing a long post, I thought it would be best said in a video. Check out my tips on how to stay healthy during the covid19 pandemic. Feel free to share the video with a friend or family member as well.
Hey, its Dr. Charschan,
We’re in extraordinary times right now. Its the first time I’ve ever lived through a pandemic and its very likely that you have never lived through one either since the last one on record was in 1918.
But, the thing is, is that right now they are telling us to social distance, stay home, don’t go out.
The reality is that if you stay away from others, you are less likely to communicate this virus to other people. That’s why they want you to stay away from other people and its important to do so and follow the recommendations.
But, you also have to understand, that we are kind of gonna be cooped up in our homes, and quite honestly, that is not good for our mental health. We still need to exercise. We still need to eat right. We still need to do the things we need to do for ourselves.
And, even though things have changed and it is a very stressful time for many of us, we really need to do what is right for ourselves, and part of that is immunity.
Other than social distancing, what can you do?
Well, if you’ve been on our website, there is a special blog that I put together on Covid19. It’s updated like every other day. When I find new great information to share, I put another link on the site. It’s like a one-stop shop that you can take a look at. If you go to backfixer1.com, and click on our blog section on top, you will need to scroll down until you find the covid19 blog(shortcut, you can also use this link). And that particular blog will give you a lot of very useful information on nutrition and things you can do for yourself. So it’s kind of a one-stop-shop for information on how you can take care of you and your family.
The thing is that you can take things like selenium, vitamin c; actually, the Chinese were using it and the NY Post reported that one of the hospital systems, Northwell Health was using it as well since it has antiviral activities. I have been recommending vitamin c for years, and it does shorten the course of a cold. Even though we do not have absolute science on this, I can tell you anecdotally, there is no harm in taking it and there are other things you can do as well.
So if you go on there, there is a whole list of things that you can do to improve your health.
One of the recent things I just came across and I just added a blog post about it was the NY Times just added an article about exercise, but not every exercise and how it can improve your immune response. So anything that improved your immune response reduces the likelihood that even if you do get the covid19 virus, we do not have any real statistics on how many people have been infected, and how many people have gotten rid of it, and until we have an antibody test, we’re not going really know that and we are probably not going to screen 300 and something million people to find this out.
So, the data that you have been hearing are just those who have been tested because they were having active symptoms. Many people haven’t and have been told to stay at home and they self quarantined. So, just realize the numbers you are hearing out there are just a sampling. But the problem is that many of us have probably been exposed and may have developed an immunity. And, now with the current antibody tests that are coming out, they might give us more clarity on that.
So, we are here to help. This is why I do these things for patients. We do have office hours in our Scotch Plains and North Brunswick offices and we are making special accommodations to people because, we know that there are still people who are in pain that if they are not sleeping, that will affect your immunity too. But we are here to help. Please use us. We’re not seeing a lot of people but we are here to help.
What else can you do for yourself now that you have extra free time?
Why not cook? We’ve seen the pictures of all the empty shelves at different stores. All the frozen stuff is gone. I’ll be honest with you; if you are c=going ahead and cooking, you know exactly what is in your food, and you g=cn go to the vegetable markets; they’re usually not that crowded. To be honest with you, fresh vegetables are full of nutrition and again that feeds the immune system, so cooking is a great idea. Now that you have all this time, you can go on the internet; that’s still working so we can go ahead and get all these free recipes.
Hobbies. Listen, I’ve taken up piano. When my wife wanted to sell our Clavinova because she redid our home office, I wouldn’t let her sell it. I said to her, I am going to take piano lessons. Guess what, now I am doing it. I found a great app for doing it. I actually put another blog on there that gives you great ideas on what you can do with your downtime.
Ultimately, if there is nothing to do, it’s not really good for your mental health and we are social beings as well, so we need to be around others but we are being told we can’t. So the other day we went for a social distance walk. We went with a couple of friends. Me and my wife and our friends were staying apart about 6-10 feet. Then later, we were sitting in our back yard about 12 feet from each other. I gave my friends a wiped down beer. We ‘re doing things in a very safe way.
That’s not to say that you should have a party, but it’s good for our mental health and when this is all said and done, and that is a problem for you, then you have another problem.
So it’s ok, but maintain what they are telling you to do. If you want to be a little extra safe, now they are telling u to use masks. Is it going to make a big difference for us if you use a mask? I don’t know, they don’t know but they do know that in Korea and some of these places that have already been through this, they saw lower rates of infection so was the mask really the reason? We don’t know but you know what, it can’t hurt.
So biking. Get out there and bike. If you are with somebody else, you are not on top of them and if they are 10 feet away, it’s fine. Get some exercise and besides that, your body produces vitamin D.
So, kind of keep your wits about you during this. You know, it’s a stressful time for you, its a stressful time for me. Bottom line is, if you do the things that keep you healthy, you’re going to be in pretty good shape when this thing is finally done.
True, you may have found yourself being furloughed from your job, but you know what, the government is backstopping all of this, so think of this as the retirement that you never really had and if you are older like me, it is kind of a dry run. Personally, I’m not ready for retirement. I’m going to be available to serve people just like you.
Don’t be afraid to visit us if you’re in pain. But we will maintain the social distancing guidelines that everyone is following now, we’re extra clean; we have to be. Right now, we don’t want to be a problem for people and you don’t want to be a problem for people so as long as we take some extra measures we will all be fine when this is over.
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National view on Demographic Change
Demographic change is mentioned as a grand challenge in the Research Organisation Act on federally subsidised research, technology and innovation in Austria (RTI Strategy).
Belgium is a federal state in which the Communities (Flemisch and French-speaking) have competencies over science. The federal level is competent for science within and in support of its own competencies. In this respect, the JPI MYBL is touching upon a large number of federal competences: health, social security, pensions, labour market etc. Therefore, in the Interfederal coordination groups on science, it is the federal who is keen on following the JPI MYBL very closely and participate in the GA as a member on behalf of Belgium.
The government of Canada is committed to supporting seniors in living healthy, active and independent lives. In 2035, Canada will join the ranks of the super-aged countries, i.e. more than 30% of the population over the age of 60. In recent years, the number of Canadians aged 60 and over surpassed the number of those aged 15 and under. In addition, the number of the “oldest old” (those aged 85 and over), particularly the centenarians, is booming as never before. The overall life expectancy has now reached 83 years for women and 79 years for men, and the healthy life expectancy in Canada has increased as well, but not at the same pace. More than 30% of Canadians aged 85 and over have three or more chronic diseases, which places an immense pressure on Canada’s health care systems, particularly in a context where Canadians are working later in life and wish to age at home. By far, the most feared health condition in aging is dementia, and the rapidly increasing number of cases of dementia in Canada results in significant financial costs and puts a growing burden on carers and families. Canada as a nation is comprised of several levels of government including federal, provincial/territories, and municipal, each of which has its specific role to play in contributing to programs, research and policies related to the health of seniors. | <urn:uuid:e4f28774-53bb-4b89-936f-fc283d6d352b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jp-demographic.eu/alignment/national-view-on-demographic-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.958959 | 444 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Paralleling the Architecture Biennale, nine columns—more than seven metres high and covered with a golden mosaic—stand in front of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, bearing the sky above them. Curated by art historian Robert Fleck, the installation The Sky Over Nine Columns offers a broad scope for association. As a manifestation of the human being standing upright, the column is the earliest element in the history of architecture and forms a direct relation between earth and sky. The golden mosaic consisting of over 800,000 tesserae is an example of the long tradition of local craftsmanship, representing Venice’s early cultural relations between Orient and Occident. The sculptural ensemble serves as an instrument of light performance, adding a widely visible source of fascination to the rich cityscape of Venice.
For more than 60 years, Heinz Mack has worked as a painter and sculptor. In 1958, he co-founded the group ZERO, an international movement with many artist friends such as Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. In 1970, Mack represented Germany at the 35th Biennale di Venezia with three other German artists. He has developed a genuine language of light and colour art since the 1950s and is a key protagonist of kinetic art. His works in public space – be it urban or in nature – are conceived as objects for the light. If the ideal space and the ideal light meet the interested viewer, a fascinating symbiosis may occur.
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Root canal treatment (also known as endodontics) is a dental procedure used to treat infection at the centre of a tooth, where the nerves and blood vessels of a tooth lie.
The infection is caused by bacteria in the mouth getting into this root canal system.
This can happen after:
- Deep tooth decay
- Failing fillings that are leaking
- Trauma to teeth causing cracks into the nerve
- Swelling to the face or tissues in the mouth
- Pain on biting
- Pain: from dull aches to consistent shooting pains
Aim: Remove the infected root canal
Options: Perform Root Canal Treatment or remove the infected tooth completely.
Root canal treatment can leave the tooth brittle. It is very important to look after your teeth after root canal treatment. Studies show placing a crown on top of a tooth that has had root canal treatment will protect the tooth from future fracture and increase the success rate of root canal treatment.
Avoid biting on hard foods until all your treatment is complete.
In most cases, it’s possible to prevent the need for further root canal treatment by:
- Brushing and flossing
- Ensure you see the hygienist at least every 6 months
- Diet low in sugar and acids
The success rate of well placed root canal treatment is 95%.
Will it Hurt?
With advances in modern technology, root canal treatments are much easier to have done than they used to be. Most people report that it is similar to having a filling placed. Ask our dentists all your questions about the procedure to put your mind at ease. | <urn:uuid:f9048c41-803a-4876-a48d-0dfd9795b3be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecourtyardclinic.co.uk/general_dentistry/root-canal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93299 | 342 | 3.09375 | 3 |
sample questions for assessing peer support meetings
Feedback from peer support participants and facilitators is critical to ensuring an effective and meaningful process for all and it meets the stated and agreed upon goals. Soliciting feedback from participants’ supervisors to help assess whether peer support contributes to improved practice may want to also be considered.
Throughout the process, input and feedback can be solicited informally before, during and after peer support sessions. In addition, CACs are encouraged to consider soliciting feedback in a more formal manner via confidential surveys that can be implemented electronically (e.g., SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics). The following sample questions may guide survey development and ultimately help inform the ongoing development of peer support forums. Survey responses can be in the form of Yes/No, a Likert scale, comment boxes or a combination.
- How did day, time, location, frequency, in-person vs. virtual work for you?
- Was it difficult to set aside the time for these sessions given all the demands of your job?
- What would help make peer support sessions more accessible?
As with all meetings, live or virtual, some people are more talkative than others for a variety of understandable reasons.
- How comfortable did you feel sharing your questions and experiences? (On a scale of 1 to 5 – least comfortable to most comfortable)
- In your view, would it have been better if the facilitator called on each person to speak? Yes / No
- What made it comfortable? (comment box)
- What made it challenging? (comment box)
- Is following a standard format helpful? Why or why not?
- Is the format effective? Always / Usually / Sometimes / Never – Please explain (comment box)
- Is an agenda and guiding questions in advance helpful to prepare for the discussion? Yes / No Please explain (comment box)
- Are Victim Advocate Peer Support sessions valuable to your professional development? Yes / No / Maybe – Please explain (comment box)
- How have they helped you strengthen your professional practice with clients? With the MDT? With your victim advocacy colleagues?
- Would you like them to continue? Yes / No / Maybe – Please explain (comment box)
- If they are to continue, what are your recommendations for future format and content?
- What are your recommendations about day/time/frequency/in-person vs. virtual?
- Would you prefer an outside facilitator or rotate that role among yourselves?
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Just because the front tire is so effective, this is not a reason to ignore your rear brake. If your back tire is on the ground, then use that brake too. So, in an emergency situation why only use 70%, or even 95%, of your front braking power? If both tires are on the pavement then they both have some traction. Of course, to be safe you need the right OEM brakes. You can get these online via professional motorcycle importers.
So in an emergency, use all you can to avoid a crash. Should you use both brakes in a routine stop? This habit will save your life when you must make an emergency stop. If you routinely use just one brake, then when the idiot car pulls out in front of you, what are you going to do?
So always make flawless stops by using both brakes. Use your right foot and make sure it stays on the brake all the way to a stop, and with no padding at the end. Also, be in first gear by the time you stop. If you do it right every time you’ll do it right when it really counts. What about downshifting and using your engine in an emergency stop?
Consider that engine braking works on the rear tire rear wheel, which will have less weight on it than your front tire. Therefore it’s not as effective, but still has some value. Your rubber tires have much better traction on the road than the plastic, chrome and steel. So keep your motorcycle upright, use the brakes and tires, or swerve around the problem.
This also puts you in a very vulnerable position,that being your body laying on the road so it can be hit or run over by a car or truck. How do you stop in the shortest possible distance? You progressively increase the pressure on the front brake. This causes the weight to shift forward and gives you more traction on your front wheel so you can brake harder.
You use light pressure on the rear brake because there isn’t much traction back there due to the weight shifting forward. You squeeze the clutch and you tap on the shifter, until your left foot has, it goes down to the road just before you stop.
So what is the difference from an emergency stop and a routine stop? Only in the amount of pressure used on the brakes. Everything else is the same, it must be the same, because you want it to be automatic in an emergency. The only way to make it happen automatically is to do it the same way every time. | <urn:uuid:6388b5ff-f397-45fa-92f4-c9bbbbbdf318> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rickbarberforcongress.com/how-to-do-emergency-braking-with-your-motorcycle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93339 | 517 | 2.265625 | 2 |
|Bank||U.S. Bank National Association|
|Address||607 Cleveland Boulevard,|
Caldwell, Idaho 83605
|Contact Number||(208) 454-8651|
|Service Type||Full Service, brick and mortar office|
|Date of Establishment||03/10/1867|
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|Bank Holding Company||U.S. BANCORP|
|HeadQuarters Address||425 Walnut Street,|
Cincinnati, OH 45202
|Bank Type||3 - NATIONAL MEMBER BANK|
|FDIC CERT #||06548|
|Total Bank Assets||$473,138,169,000|
|RSSD (Federal Reserve ID Number)||504713|
|RSSD (Federal Reserve ID Number) for Holding Company||1119794|
Routing Number for U.S. Bank National Association in Idaho
A routing number is a 9 digit code for identifying a financial institute for the purpose of routing of checks (cheques), fund transfers, direct deposits, e-payments, online payments, etc. to the correct bank branch.
Routing numbers are also known as banking routing numbers, routing transit numbers, RTNs, ABA numbers, and sometimes SWIFT codes (although these are quite different from routing numbers as SWIFT codes are solely used for international wire transfers while routing numbers are used for domestic transfers).
Routing numbers differ for checking and savings accounts, prepaid cards, IRAs, lines of credit, and wire transfers.
Usually all banks have different routing numbers for each state in the US. You can find the routing number for U.S. Bank National Association in Idaho here.
The sum of all assets owned by the institution including cash, loans, securities, bank premises and other assets. This total does not include off-balance-sheet accounts.
The unique number assigned by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) to the top regulatory bank holding company. This unique identifier for U.S. Bank National Association is 504713.
FDIC CERT #:
The certificate number assigned to an institution for deposit insurance. The FDIC Certificate Number for Caldwell Branch office of U.S. Bank National Association in Caldwell, ID is 06548. This unique NUMBER is assigned by the FDIC and is used to identify institutions and for the issuance of insurance certificates by FDIC. | <urn:uuid:a647824b-cc9a-495b-81c3-509f793f1737> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://banks-america.com/branch/194748-u.s.-bank-na-caldwell-branch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.844506 | 575 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Nestled in the mountains of southwestern Andalucia, Granada's magnificent Alhambra palace represents the last hurrah of Moorish architecture in Spain, but what a last hurrah! Delicate and intricate, the Alhambra feels like something from a dream.
This episode, I talk about Muhammad V, who survived a coup, exile, murderous intrigue and cruel allies to inspire and create the most splendid part of the Alhambra. Fun with assassinations!
And I'll talk about my favorite food on earth: jamón ibérico. And tortilla española for the vegetarians. The Alhambra is my favorite place on the list, and I hope my enthusiasm comes through.
Fernández-Puertas, Antonio. “The Three Great Sultans of Al-Dawla Al-Ismā'īliyya Al-Naṣriyya Who Built the Fourteenth-Century Alhambra: Ismā'īl I, Yūsuf I, Muḥammad V (713-793/1314-1391).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1–25.
Irving, Washington. The Alhambra
Lowney, Chris. A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created A Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Noble, Isabella. Lonely Planet Andalucía
Photograph by Oscarmu90
It was the world's tallest building, 632 years after work started: an exercise in persistence. Cologne Cathedral is a Gothic masterpiece.
Cologne itself is a good place to tell the story of the 13th century's great disaster: the Black Death, and the social upheaval it brought, including the pogroms that swept through the Rhineland.
Willem Fromm of the History of Cologne podcast brings a local perspective to his home city, its magnificent cathedral and its 2000 years of history. And beer! And potato soup!
Di Duca, Marc. Lonely Planet Germany
Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Orent, Wendy. Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
Ozment, Steven E. A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
Rick Steves Germany
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Construction workers have important—but dangerous—jobs to do. In 2015, approximately one of every five worker deaths in this country occurred in the construction industry and more than 58,000 construction workers were hurt. Thousands of those injuries occurred in California.
While construction work is inherently risky, construction workers do not need to pay for their own injuries and their families do not have to pay for their loved one’s death. Instead, construction workers and their families have legal rights that deserve protection. Our experienced attorneys want to hear what happened to you. We want to know your story and we want to get you the legal recovery that you deserve if you’ve been hurt or if you’ve lost a loved one in a construction accident.
Types of Construction Accidents
There are many different hazards and potential risks on a construction site. Falls are a common type of construction accident and the most frequent cause of construction worker fatalities. The most significant risks on your construction site depend on the type of work that is being done, but may include:
- Being hit by a vehicle. Being struck by a vehicle or a heavy piece of equipment was the second leading cause of construction worker deaths in 2015. Any vehicle, such as a truck, a crane, or another piece of equipment could cause a catastrophic injury if it strikes a person.
- Electrocutions. Electrical work is dangerous and is often in various stages of completion during a construction job. In 2015, electrocutions were the third leading cause of construction worker deaths.
- Getting caught between objects or materials. This occurs when a person is caught in or crushed by equipment or a collapsing structure. It was the fourth leading cause of construction worker deaths in 2015.
- Trench collapses. Excavation and trench work can be among the most dangerous work that is done on construction sites. When a trench collapses, a worker may be hurt by the weight of the trench walls, and he may be deprived of oxygen and a way to escape.
- Falls from heights. A lot of construction work happens above ground level. Falls from higher floors or from ladders, for example, can result in serious injuries.
- Falls from scaffolding. Scaffolding is commonly used in construction projects. However, lack of training, lack of safety equipment, and defective equipment can result in a dangerous fall.
- Slip and falls. A fall doesn't’t have to occur from a height in order to result in injury. A slip and fall due to cluttered construction sites, uneven flooring, spilled slippery materials, or other problems can also result in serious injuries.
- Falling debris, materials, or objects. Falls are not the only risks caused by heights. If debris, construction materials, or other objects fall from a ladder, crane, scaffold, or other location, they can seriously injure the people below.
- Fires and explosions. There are many combustible materials used on construction sites that can lead to catastrophic fires and explosions.
- Machinery accidents. Malfunctioning machinery—or machinery that is defective—can be dangerous for construction workers. Crane collapses, for example, can put construction workers at serious risk.
While these construction accidents are different, they often occur for common reasons and result in the same types of injuries.
How Construction Accidents Happen
Construction accidents are, by definition, unpredictable. You can’t know when an accident will occur. However, you should be concerned about a potential accident if there is (or has been):
- Insufficient training. Everyone on a construction site should have sufficient training to do his or her job safely.
- Noncompliance with safety regulations. The federal government and the state of California have safety regulations to help protect people from being hurt in construction accidents. The failure to comply with these safety regulations can result in significant accidents.
- Improper use of equipment. A lot of heavy equipment is used on construction sites. If the equipment is not used properly, then it can be dangerous.
- Defective equipment. Equipment that malfunctions because of a defect can cause an injury to the operator or to someone else on the construction site.
- Negligence. Any time a construction worker or other person on the construction site is negligent, the risk of an accident and injury is present.
Many times you won’t know what caused your specific construction accident until you have already been hurt and a full investigation has been completed.
Common Construction Site Injuries
A construction accident can result in a catastrophic accident that causes you intense pain and changes your life. Such injuries may include:
- Broken bones.
- Eye injuries.
- Illnesses because of exposure to toxic materials.
- Muscle or joint injuries, such as injuries to the knees, ankles, neck, shoulders, or back.
- Spinal cord injuries.
- Traumatic brain injuries.
Additionally, some construction accidents result in tragic deaths.
Recovering Damages for a Construction Site Injury
A construction accident injury can be serious or fatal. You may have the right to recover damages in a:
- Personal injury lawsuit, if you can prove that a third party’s negligence caused your injury.
- Product liability lawsuit, if you can prove that a defective piece of equipment or a defective product caused your injury.
- Wrongful death lawsuit, if your loved one died in a construction accident.
The damages that you may be able to recover could include compensation for your past, current, and future medical expenses, lost income, out-of-pocket costs, and pain and suffering. However, none of these damages will be automatic. Instead, you need to prove liability pursuant to California law and you need to prove the value of your unique injuries. An experienced lawyer can help you do just that.
Our attorneys want to hear what happened to you. We want to help you get the full and fair compensation that you deserve during the settlement process or at trial. When you work with Case Barnett Law, you can expect support from a full team of legal professionals from the moment that you first contact us until your construction injury case is resolved.
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After nearly a year of stonewalling, the Alameda County Department of Public Health (ACDPH) in the California Bay Area released data showing electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla reported approximately 440 workers were infected with COVID-19 at their Fremont plant between May and December 2020. The data confirm what many workers knew from the outset: that reopening the factory was not safe and needlessly risked their health and lives.
Last May, multibillionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk illegally restarted production at the Fremont factory, defying an Alameda County public health order. Musk had continuously sought to downplay the danger posed by the pandemic, tweeting that “coronavirus panic is dumb,” railing against what he called “fascist” public health measures and threatening to shut down the Fremont plant entirely and relocate it to another state.
Alameda County caved within short order to Musk’s ultimatum, allowing the plant to proceed with reopening on the condition that it implement unspecified “safety recommendations.”
Tesla’s reckless efforts to restart operations met with the full-throated support of then-President Trump, who tweeted at the time, “California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast & Safely!”
The move also garnered the active or tacit backing of the Democratic Party, with California Governor Gavin Newsom seeking to present the dispute as a local matter, while professing his “great reverence” for Tesla.
Shortly after the reopening in May, Tesla workers protested against this unsafe measure, demanding transparent information about the spread of COVID-19 in the facility. Although workers were initially told that they could remain on unpaid leave if they did not feel safe, several workers, including protest organizer Carlos Gabriel, reported being fired after failing to return to work.
The Fremont plant’s reopening—along with the feverish stock market speculation and run-up in Tesla’s share price—has allowed Musk to enrich himself on a grotesque and an almost historically unprecedented scale. He briefly became the world’s richest person, seeing his fortune balloon from $40 billion last May to over $200 billion in January, before subsiding to “only” $175 billion more recently.
A former worker at the Fremont plant told the World Socialist Web Site that he was not surprised that COVID-19 had been allowed to spread widely at the plant, and that cases had been concealed. “From the day I started they’d lie about numbers. Fraud is the name of the game there. It does not matter as long as they get the funding and the numbers look good.”
The infection data were only released due to an extensive public records request campaign by the non-profit organization PlainSite, which focuses on legal data transparency. PlainSite published the information on its Twitter feed on March 12. For months, ACDPH refused to release any data related to Tesla’s reports of workplace COVID-19 spread, absurdly citing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) medical privacy laws.
An Alameda County judge, in a separate lawsuit brought by the California Newspapers Partnership, confirmed the obvious: Disclosing anonymized information on COVID-19 spread does not violate employee medical privacy. Subsequently, ACDPH released the monthly infection counts, submitted by Tesla to the county as part of its reopening agreement, only after additional threats of litigation by PlainSite.
The data show approximately 10 cases (“less than 11”) reported in May, which, as the Washington Post has noted, contradicts prior statements by ACDPH claiming that no county residents were affected by workplace infections last May at Tesla. Even if this claim is technically true, and all infections reported in May were among the many residents of other counties who work in the factory, it was clearly designed to give the false impression that there were no cases in the factory.
A total of at least 440 infections (after May, all totals are given exactly) represents an infection rate of nearly 5 percent out of Tesla’s roughly 10,000-strong Fremont workforce, which nevertheless could still be a significant undercount. PlainSite also noted that an internal Tesla document detailed a significant level of known COVID-19 exposures among workers at the plant during the months of May and June in 2020, far below the number of cases reported to the county for that time.
No other information was provided by ACDPH, and the number of hospitalizations, deaths, transmission sources, or other indications of the severity of disease or manner of spread remain unknown.
The failure of ACDPH to report data after December 2020 is noteworthy, as the recently enacted state law AB 685 requires employers to report all COVID-19 outbreaks to local health agencies beginning in January 2021. To date, the California Department of Public Health has posted no data from these reports. A message on the department’s website dated December 31, 2020, states, “The California Department of Public Health will begin posting data pursuant to AB 685 on its website in the coming weeks as related outbreak reports are received.”
The outbreaks at the Fremont plant highlights the role of the Democratic Party as an accomplice of Tesla and other major corporations, conspiring to wring profits out of workers under unsafe conditions.
Governor Newsom and other Democrats initially enacted half-measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, such as limited lockdowns with little to no financial support for affected workers. These measures in themselves were only implemented after autoworkers launched a series of wildcat strikes in March, defying efforts by the companies and the United Auto Workers union to the keep the plants open.
Now, Newsom and the California Democrats are hurrying to throw open schools, following the lying claim of the Biden administration that children will not contract and transmit the virus to their families. The common thread between the reopening of Tesla and the reopening of schools is clear, that children must be herded back to school so their parents can return to work producing surplus value for the billionaires.
It is noteworthy that union auto plants have not fared substantially better than the nonunion Tesla facility. The Detroit Three auto plants were prematurely reopened in mid-May 2020, around the same time or not long after Tesla, with the full backing of the UAW. The minimal safety procedures used by the union to justify reopening have long since been largely cast aside, while cases have been covered up and workers who speak out victimized by both management and the UAW.
In response, workers at a number of plants have formed rank-and-file safety committees, independent of the UAW, calling for a shutdown of nonessential production until the pandemic is contained, with full compensation for workers in the meantime.
The WSWS urges workers at Tesla to follow their brothers and sisters in the auto industry and contact us to discuss initiating rank-and-file safety committees, linking up in a network internationally to coordinate the fight for workers’ health, safety and other rights. These committees must be completely independent of and hostile to the Democrats, Republicans and trade unions such as the UAW, who function as bought-and-paid-for arms of corporate management.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting financial fallout have actually taken a toll on the psychological health of numerous Americans…Betterhelp Therapy App… according to a March 2021 Seat Research Center report Around one-fifth of U.S. adults state they’re experiencing “high levels of psychological distress,” and 28% of them say the pandemic changed their lives in a significant way.
Another report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) discovered the pandemic likewise produced brand-new barriers to help for people who currently faced substance abuse or other mental health concerns At the same time, resources for in person psychological health services weren’t readily available due to public health issues. As a result, many individuals experiencing psychological health problems relied on online treatment platforms
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sign-up procedure is clear, fast and straightforward. You respond to several questions about the factors you’re looking for treatment, what you hope to achieve with therapy and any extra info you want to supply. The platform keeps you informed of the procedure with e-mails, usually designating a therapist to you within anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days.
If you choose to pick your own therapist, you can do so by browsing to the bottom of the homepage and clicking “Discover a therapist.” However, this choice isn’t explained in Frequently asked questions page.
I got counseling through for 4 weeks, seeking short-term counseling for stress and anxiety over caregiving and issues about my mother, who has health issues and lives in another state. I likewise wanted to find out ways to better interact with my brother or sisters, with whom I periodically clash over caregiving matters.
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I found my online video sessions with my therapist to be as helpful as my previous experiences with in-person treatment. My therapist made suggestions without pressing me to follow them and offered ways I might handle anxiety, such as breathing workouts and journaling techniques for perceiving worries or concerns in a more realistic and logical way.
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The platform was simple to navigate, and I enjoyed my therapy experience. Throughout my therapy sessions, we explored cognitive-based treatment tools for being more favorable, communicating better and alleviating stress and anxiety. I didn’t use messaging, live chat or phone sessions for therapy, but my therapist advised me during each session that those options were available and encouraged me to utilize them. I felt my therapist was an outstanding counselor and an excellent match for the problems that brought me to treatment.
Although I was initially hesitant to accept online treatment as opposed to an in-person experience, I soon became comfy sharing my thoughts and sensations in video therapy sessions. While I didn’t utilize live chat, phone or text messaging options, those services are quickly available, secure and could be equally helpful for the right person.
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Around one-fifth of U.S. grownups say they’re experiencing “high levels of mental distress,” and 28% of them say the pandemic altered their lives in a major method.
At the very same time, resources for in person mental health services weren’t easily offered due to public health concerns. As an outcome, numerous people experiencing psychological health issues turned to online therapy platforms
The platform was simple to browse, and I enjoyed my therapy experience. If you’re experiencing deep anxiety, self-destructive thoughts or signs of a serious mental illness, it’s important to seek in-person therapy with a certified mental health professional.
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22 Jul Here’s what we learnt last time students had remote learning and how we can make it better
Schools student may have to learn how to change from school learning to remote learning and back to school again for quite some time yet as long as the COVID-19 virus remains rampant.
Students in Melbourne are to go back to remote schooling, report Wee Tiong Seah, Cath Pearn and Daniela Acquaro. Here’s what we learnt last time and how to make it better
Recently, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced government school students in Prep to Year 10 in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire will learn from home for term three. The remote learning period will run from July 20 until at least August 19.
Students in Years 11 and 12, as well as those in Year 10 attending schools for VCE or VCAL classes, and students with special needs, will resume face-to-face learning.
Many independent schools had already decided, before the premier’s announcement, they will resume remote learning this term.
We conducted a national survey from April 27 until May 25 of more than 1,200 teachers’ experiences during Australia’s first wave of remote learning. Based on teachers’ responses, we know a sustainable return to remote learning must ensure schools and the government address the concerns around the social and emotional impacts on students, accessibility, and increasing workloads for teachers.
Social development and emotional well-being
Around the same number of teachers said the remote learning period had a positive (33%), negative (36%) or neither positive nor negative (31%), impact on students’ educational progress. But most of them expressed concerns about the impact on students’ social development and emotional well-being.
More than half (58%) of all teachers were concerned about students’ social development. Meanwhile, 68% of primary school and 79% of secondary school teachers felt remote learning was having a negative impact on students’ emotional well-being.
These results were fairly consistent across state capitals, regional and rural areas, as well as across government (73.6%), Catholic (76.5%) and independent (78.2%) schools.
One teacher said “it is the social-emotional well-being of our young people, particularly those at risk in their homes, that is my biggest concern.”
Schools play a critical role in supporting student well-being. Feelings of isolation can have serious negative impacts such as increased stress, anxiety and disengagement. It is important there are strategies for maintaining a strong teacher presence online.
Teachers said the level of support students received for remote learning varied depending on the students’ home environment. Some vulnerable students can completely disengage from the school system and we have seen this increased vulnerability during remote learning.
Some students didn’t attend live lessons, disguised attendance by only logging in but without video or audio, or did not submit work. Use of learning analytics to assist in tracking student access would be beneficial during remote learning.
In some cases, remote learning issues disrupted the capacity for teachers to provide additional support, despite repeated attempts to communicate with students and their families.
Schools play a critical role in supporting engagement and maintaining essential connections, routines and supports during a pandemic, and during recovery.
During the lockdown, schools and the government must take urgent measures to address student well-being. Teachers need support to identify and help students with high needs. They need professional learning programs to help them navigate this territory.
Not everyone is equal
In 2019, 87% of Australians could access the internet at home. But only 68% of Australian children aged 5 to 14 living in disadvantaged communities had internet access at home, compared to 91% of students living in advantaged communities.
In our survey, 49.45% of teachers reported all of their students had access to devices, while 43.28% indicated most of their students had access.
Fewer primary teachers (37.46%) than secondary teachers (56.25%) indicated all their students had access to devices.
Some students had to share devices with other family members, a few used their phones and some didn’t have any access to technology at all. For those who had access to devices, there were other challenges, such as the availability and reliability of apps and programs, with parents and teachers trying to troubleshoot IT problems.
A teacher said one of the challenges was “the large number of disadvantaged families that [the] school serves [where] most don’t have access to three meals a day”.
Increasing the number of loan devices to students is essential during the upcoming remote learning period, as are engaging and interactive lessons. But it’s also important to plan for accessible tasks that aren’t internet-dependent, for those who don’t have ready access – such as school packs or the possibility of attending school.
During the first wave of remote learning, some telecommunications companies provided relief by waiving internet charges or extending data access limits. The government can play a more active role by working with internet providers to ensure further access to this kind of support is available.
Reasonable work expectations
In our survey, 68% of primary teachers and 75% of secondary teachers reported working more hours than usual during the lockdown period. Nearly 50% worked more than six hours extra a week and 19% worked between 11-15 hours extra per week.
Teachers reported increased stress levels, isolation, excessive screen time and exhaustion.
One teacher said there were “unrealistic expectations of teachers — using multiple platforms concurrently with very little training. The time to prepare per class is limited yet we are supposed to provide technologically advanced methods of delivery.”
As a priority, setting realistic expectations for teachers, students and parents will ensure the workload is reasonable and manageable.
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HOSE poker is not a single variant of the game. It is a term that brings together multiple types of poker under one roof. Players typically express interest in this format once they know how to play several poker variants already.
If you want to be one of those having fun with HOSE poker, this is what you need to know and apply.
Familiarize Yourself with the Rules and Basics
Much like HORSE, HOSE is a mixed game of poker, combining several versions into a unified format. HOSE is also known as SHOE and it relies on rotations. There are four different game types making up this format. They are all played in a specific order and they rotate. The 4 games in HOSE poker are:
- Texas Hold’em
- Omaha Eights or Better
- 7-Card Stud
- 7-Card Stud Eights or Better
This is the normal order of the games played throughout one session, which rotates. In a game of SHOE, the order is different, but the games remain the same.
The rules for each of these games do not mix or change. Each game is played separately and they simply alternate one after the other. If you want to become good at HOSE, you have to master the rules and strategies of individual poker games.
Understand the Mechanics of the Rotation
The rotation is the main engine of HOSE. It takes place in the order of the acronym. Hold’em is first, followed by Omaha, then Seven Card Stud and finally Seven Card Stud Eight or Better.
The way the games rotate is decided in various ways. For example, games may switch when a certain timeframe expires. Likewise, players can play a certain number of hands and then transition to the next game type. The games are typically played in a fixed-limit mode.
The session starts with the most popular of poker games. Each player receives 2 cards facing down going clockwise from the dealer.
A total of 5 community cards come into play in three stages. By the end of it, the players must construct the best possible 5-card hand to win out of available cards.
Omaha Hi/Lo Eights or Better
Omaha poker is also a community card game. It requires players to make their best poker hand using exactly 2 out of the 4 dealt cards and 3 out of the 5 community cards.
If the round reaches showdown, the pot gets split between the highest and the lowest hands.
At this stage, you will participate in a game with the Ante bet. Each player must wager the Ante and receive 2 cards face-down and 1 face-up card.
Players act on their hands and then receive another card facing up. By the end, each player has 7 cards and has to try to make the highest 5-card poker hand.
7-Card Stud Eights or Better
The gameplay transitions to the Hi/Lo version of Seven Card Stud Poker. The rules to this are very similar to the rules for regular 7-Card Stud.
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GPs could be treating hundreds of thousands of patients with chronic kidney disease unnecessarily because of flaws in the formula used to calculate eGFR, a new UK study concludes.
Researchers calculated that switching from the MDRD4 calculation currently used by most laboratories could reduce the number of patients diagnosed with stages 3 to 5 CKD by as much as 12%.
Analysis of results of more than 200,000 patients whose serum creatinine levels were examined at a large Scottish laboratory found use of CKD-EPI formula rather than MDRD4 cut prevalence of stages 3 to 5 CKD from 5.63% to 4.94%.
Switching formula would reduce the expected number of patients across the UK with moderate or severe CKD by around 400,000, the study found, with the researchers saying it could ease GP workload or allow them to focus on more severe cases.
Overall, the study found that 17,014 of patients tested were reclassified to a milder stage of CKD – 5.8% of the entire adult population. And 67% of those reclassified to milder stages were women, with a mean age of 50 years.
The researchers, whose study was published in QJM this week, admitted further assessment of the CKD-EPI formula was needed particularly in older women, a small number of whom were reclassified to more severe stages of the disease.
Study leader Dr Mark MacGregor, consultant nephrologist at Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, said: ‘[Switching formula] would reduce GP workload, or perhaps more accurately allow workload to be targeted at patients who need it most.'
‘The reduction in CKD prevalence is mostly because of reclassification of stage 3A to stage 2, which is not monitored in the QOF. Other studies have shown reclassified patients have a low risk of cardiovascular events – so reclassification is appropriate.'
Dr Donal O'Donoghue, the Department of Health's kidney tsar, said there were discussions about switching to the CKD-EPI formula but any change would have to minimise disruption to GPs.
He said: ‘There are international guidelines due in January and we have advised NICE that its CKD guidance needs revisiting. The time to consider this is after it has been debated by NICE.'
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The Spiritual Class-Action Lawsuit
“The Court was seated, and the Books were Opened.”
– Dan 7:10, Rev 20:11-14
The Christian Church has lost its spiritual authority and cultural influence over the earth because we have lost sight of the purpose and function of prayer. In the New Testament, the word ‘prayer’ literally means “a petition.” According to the legal dictionary, a petition is: “A written application from a person or persons to some governing body or public official asking that some authority be exercised to grant relief, favors, or privileges. A formal application made to a court in writing that requests action on a certain matter.”
When instructing His followers on the purpose and function of prayer in “The Parable of the Persistent Widow” found in Luke 18:1-8, Christ never placed prayer on a battlefield, but rather in a court of law. Jesus never intended prayers to be some “religious exercise” where we come pleading for scraps at the Master’s table. Prayer was intended to be a legal action (or lawsuit) where citizens of the Kingdom of God come before the Highest Court in the universe, petitioning for our legal rights as citizens of the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, the Appeal to Heaven movement is essentially a “class-action spiritual lawsuit” in which believers in Christ come together in unison as citizens of the Kingdom of God in order to approach the Highest Court in the universe and demand justice from the wicked and unjust men and women who are destroying America.
With this concept in mind, individuals, groups and nations can file a “spiritual lawsuit” before the “Supreme Court of Heaven” against any number of issues. For example, the children of Israel filed a class-action lawsuit before the “High Court” in order to end their unlawful captivity. (Exodus 3:9). America’s Founding Fathers filed a class-action lawsuit before the “High Court” in order to end English Tyranny. The Declaration of Independence reads: “We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude [Moral Righteousness] of our intentions…”
Once we restore the understanding of the historical use of this concept, individuals and groups can begin to use this concept to their particular area of concern. For example, when I talk to pro-life people, I ask them: “Why is abortion legal in America?” They reply “Roe v. Wade.” I ask “Why have we not appealed that decision?” Their immediate reaction is one of confusion. “What higher court is there?” “To whom can we appeal?” We can Appeal to the Supreme Courts of Heaven. Abortion in America will never end until we first obtain a legal “cease and desist” order from heaven. This is just one of the rights that we have as citizens of the Kingdom of God in order to overcome the evils and injustice of our day.
We are Appealing the LORD of Heaven for:
- A judgment against the Supreme Court with regard to the forced secularization of America.
- A judgment against those who are trying to turn America in a socialist nation.
- A judgment against Supreme Court for allowing the genocide of the unborn.
- A judgment against the lies of the corporate media.
- A judgment against those in local and Federal Government who seek to suppress our God-given rights.
- A judgment against those in America who seek to use the legal system to persecute Christians.
- A judgment against the evils of Hollywood.
- A judgment against the pornography industry.
- A judgment against the Godless education system.
- A judgment against those guilty of human/sex trafficking.
- A judgment against government corruption
- The restoration of Traditional Marriage.
- The complete restoration of our Constitutional Republic.
In the election of 2016 Donald Trump rode to the election on the theme Make America Great Again.. Although this phrase was noble and eye-catching the truth is that neither Donald Trump nor any political party is the solution to America’s problem.
John Diamond has been a consistent voice for the need of America returning to her biblical roots as the solution. America is in a Spiritual crisis and there is no political solution to a Spiritual problem. In his book, An Appeal to Heaven, my friend John shows that the only way to Make America Great Again is by returning to our Spiritual roots and rebuilding the Spiritual foundation of this once great Christian nation. “If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?” (Ps. 11:3)- Coach Dave Daubenmire
Dr. John Diamond, in his new book Appealing to Heaven, accessibly explains what every American churchgoer needs to hear: We are locked in a spiritual lawsuit. We must stop appealing to man. It’s time for the church to petition the sovereign judge of the universe. He will hear our cry. Appealing to Heaven is an excellent biblical solution for the restoration of biblical government.- Dran Reese
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
“Vindicate us Lord, and plead our cause against an ungodly nation. Get justice for us from our adversaries. Deliver us from deceitful and unjust men. Cause them to fall into the pit that they have dug for the righteous. Grant to Your servants that we may speak Your word with all boldness. Give us the nations for our inheritance, and the ends of the earth for our possession.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has obstructed the constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion of American Christians for nearly a century. One of the ACLU’s first major cases was the infamous Snopes monkey trial, and the organization’s beginning in...read more
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"An Appeal to Heaven" - Origins of U.S. Navy & Coast Guard "It's our prayer to serve America in peace. It's our commitment to defend her in war." - Reagan, May 18, 1988 In June of 1775, citizens acting as merchant mariners captured the British schooner HMS...read more
Dear Brother Kaepernick, As I have sat and observed the firestorm that has raged over your refusal to stand during the playing of the National Anthem at the start of NFL games, I have recognized how your stand for social injustice has polarized the American people....read more
I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying that, "The Courts of Heaven are waiting for your petitions. It is time to bring your case before the Lord. Do not ask according to your needs. Ask according to My purposes. For I am looking for those who desire My will and My...read more
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We started going out and learning to recognise wildflowers in bloom in 2021. We recorded over 50 species of local wildflowers from mid-May to mid-July via irecord a widely used nationwide recording system where you can record any sighting of flora or fauna via their App or website.
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On the occasion of Canada Day, it is not superfluous to ask ourselves somewhat about the deep and true meaning of federalism and, above all, that we distinguish it from unitary.
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Thus, a unitary state is characterized by the fact that state sovereignty is exercised by a single system of government, and more specifically, by a single parliament. This does not prevent that there should be decentralization, but this permission is only administrative and not legislative. It is based primarily on delegated powers and not on sovereign powers as such.
In federalism, legislative powers and state sovereignty are shared between at least two systems of government. Everyone has sovereignty in the exercise of his constitutional powers.
There are also so-called semi-federal or regional states. In these states, there is a kind of decentralization of legislative powers, but this does not have as strong constitutional protection as in a true union. Perhaps this is the case for Catalonia or Scotland, these two political entities enjoy widespread, but nonetheless relatively unstable, devolution of powers within their respective states.
In the world there are also a number of countries that we will call hybrids. These are countries of an ambiguous nature and do not clearly fall into any category. Most of the time, states are unitary with many federal characteristics without being “quasi-federal,” as this latter concept was described earlier.
A confederation, in its classical concept, constitutes a federation of states rather than a state per se. These states delegate powers to joint bodies. Each country has a veto over the most important decisions and can withdraw from the confederation as it sees fit. The Confederate association in question is itself sealed by one or more international agreements. The European Union, with its basic confederal structure, but also its many federal features, constitutes a model Faridasome might say, a redesign or a new type of confederation.
Canada is clearly a federation. Although not perfect. But there was no confederation. Neither before nor after 1867.
Many Canadians have a more unitary than federal vision and understanding of the country. They promote the centralization of powers in the hands of the federal authorities and see Canada as a mononational or non-national entity. For them, there is only one nation in Canada: the Canadian nation.
However, Canada is actually made up of many countries. There is the Quebec nation, the indigenous peoples, the Acadian people, etc. In fact, Canada is multinational and the historic choice of federalism for this country was specifically intended to allow this intrinsic diversity to flourish, within territorial autonomy. In this context, the centralization of powers within the Canadian system should not be sought as far as the balance of power is concerned, as well as respect for the provinces and their authority in certain matters determined by the Constitution. We must also appreciate the recognition and respect of indigenous rights.
The ideology is widespread in Canada that Canada should consist of a very strong central government, 10 theoretically equal provinces and individuals with constitutional rights and freedoms. It is largely inspired by the works of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. But wouldn’t it be in our interest, as a society, to choose an unequal federation, that is, in particular, a federation that promotes the assertion and recognition of Quebec’s special identity?
Unequal federation is nothing but a flexible federation capable of adapting to the needs and interests of the various components of the federal state. This type of federalism, the virtues of which have been recognized in Ottawa, by both Paul Martin’s government in 2004 (a convention on health entitled “Unequal Federalism Respecting Quebec’s Jurisdictions”) and by Stephen Harper (the Canada-Quebec Agreement dated UNESCO), In our opinion, the way of the future for Canada. This would allow Quebec to strengthen its own identity, while giving other provinces the opportunity to make choices different from those of Quebec society, or even accept, if they wish, federal interventions in areas of regional jurisdiction.
However, this unequal federalism that we are talking about cannot be comprehensive or unlimited. Indeed, it seems necessary to us that all Canadians share a certain number of values, resources, and ideals, in short, share a purely Canadian community experience.
Whatever the case, Canadian federalism is already unequal in many respects, particularly in terms of language. Thus, asymmetry is not inconsistent with respect for the federal principle, so far as it is clear and likely.
Between the unitary state many see in Canada as a whole and true federalism, we choose the second firmly. But this federation, to be precisely right, must celebrate its intrinsic diversity, including the particularity of Quebec. The best way to achieve this is to fully respect the jurisdiction of the provinces, to strengthen their voice in the Canadian space and to reject this unity that does not fit a federal country like Canada.
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Are circles special types of ellipses/ovals?
Are cones special types of pyramids? I guess the answer is no because of the 2D basis: circles are not special types of however you categorise the bases of pyramids. However, cubes are cuboids/(right?) rectangular prisms because
Why/why not to all of the above? How do we know if a certain thing is a special type of another thing?
Who decides? Or is there a way to determine logically? If someone decides, should this be on some official list on the state where this someone has authority?
Maths is supposed to be about logic. If someone decides that squares are rectangles (that is defines the words to be that way) rather than that there is some logical way to deduce such, then these all seem so arbitrary. I think it's similar to how English says 'The plants are tall' not 'The plants is tall' whereas in French or Spanish, I think, the linking verb may contain an 's' if the noun would contain an 's'.
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The perfect tool to teach children how to respond to insecurities surrounding being left-handed. I Am Left-Handed provides parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers the opportunity to speak with children about this important topic.
How do you actually know whether you are left- or right-handed? Everyone has a "strong" side, after all. But what exactly does that mean, and how do you know which one works better for you? Why is it that so many misjudge themselves, or deny their true default?
This book explores left-handedness, a subject that is surprisingly sensitive to many—especially children who are surrounded by right-handed friends and classmates and who struggle with the need to use "special" scissors, worry about smudging their schoolwork, and grow frustrated with bumping elbows at the dinner table.
I Am Left-Handed answers common questions like:
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It's important to accept that you're a lefty and to love the fact that you're unique and special—only 10 percent of the world is like you!
In I Am Left-Handed!, award-winning author Stephanie Gerharz and author and illustrator Dagmar Geisler draws attention to what could be a sensitive subject to some and provides advice for not only the children who are left-handed but also those who live and work with them daily, like parents, grandparents, teachers, siblings, and caregivers. | <urn:uuid:00e3ec8e-2ce7-4bb9-b0cd-3a7e2bcaffe4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.apple.com/ie/book/i-am-left-handed/id6442981096 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.94766 | 372 | 2.078125 | 2 |
As regular readers will know, in my blog’s statistics is a section listing a selection of search engine terms that have brought people to my blog. Sometimes, what the person is looking for isn’t there, so that provides me with subjects for posts. All too often, though, I see a search term that is so rubbish, I don’t know how anyone could hope to extract anything useful from Google, or any other search engine.
This is one such, “camers for hanicap” – what the hell does that mean? OK, the last word is probably handicap (or handicapped – who can tell?), but “camers” – I haven’t the remotest idea. It could be “carers”, but r and m are so far apart on the keyboard that I can’t see it as a typo, and I’m baffled.
Look, it’s quite simple, if you want to get the best from Google (other search engines are available), then you have to phrase – and spell – your questions properly. And to maximise your results, you have to be prepared to change the form of words once or twice, as it’s impossible to predict which form of words will get the best response from Google. For maximum precision, though, you should consider using the Advanced Search function, which adds the ability, among other things, to use a selection of specific keywords.
The important thing to remember, though, is that if you type garbage in, you’ll get garbage out – GIGO is probably the computer industry’s oldest acronym, and it’s as true today was it ever was because – and hold onto this thought – computers can’t think. They believe what you tell them, and if you can’t be arsed to check your spelling, or phrase a question correctly, then you’re screwed. OK, I accept that some people couldn’t spell properly if you put a gun to their heads, so here’s a tip – type your question in Word, or whatever word processor you use, and hit the spell-check button. Then, when everything is as it should be, copy and paste it into Google. That will give you far better odds of getting something useful back that just throwing “camers for hanicap” at it!
True, Google will try to correct your spelling – it’ll even try when your spelling is perfect, because it’s just matching keywords, and will come up with the closest match – or, occasionally, something so utterly left-field it’s baffling, so make sure your spelling is correct, and don’t be sidetracked if Google offers an alternate spelling, because there’s a very good chance it will be irrelevant.
Finally, an anecdote. I had a friend who thought I was wonderful because I could extract useful information on almost any subject from Google, when she couldn’t. That, though, was purely because I took care with what I was asking, and she – although she could type and spell perfectly well – just couldn’t be bothered at all, so what she mostly got out of Google, in response to her ill-written and badly spelled searches, was garbage. Think on, as we say up North…
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With the peaks of PPG Place in the background, Seward Johnson’s statue “A Turn of the Century,” in PPG Plaza, a 20-foot-tall, 14,440-pound monumental bronze sculpture based on an 1883 life-sized painting by impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Dance at Bougival.” I took the photo at twilight but the sky still has quite a bit of light. The modern glass towers of PPG Place tinted blue by the sky are a wonderful foil the the 19th-century Parisian dancers with even a locust tree lit by a colored light as if they are in an outdoor gathering place at night.
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3D Systems has a long history in the 3D printing/additive manufacturing (3DP/AM), beginning when Chuck Hull developed stereolithography technology. Throughout the years, the company has expanded and adjusted its mission as the 3DP/AM industry has evolved. With the recent appointment in May of Dr. Jeffrey Graves as the new president and CEO, the company will be positioned for its next phase of growth.
Prior to joining 3D Systems. He served as CEO, president, and director of MTS Systems Corporation, a global supplier of test simulation and measurement systems. Prior to that, he served as president and CEO of C&D Technologies, Inc. He has also held leadership roles with KEMET corporation as chief operating officer and CEO, and a number of leadership and technical roles with GE, Rockwell Automation and Howmet Corporation. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of FARO Technologies and Hexcel Corporation.
Dr. Graves holds a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University. He also holds a master’s degree and PhD in metallurgical engineering from the University in Wisconsin.
We recently interviewed Jeff on his plans for the company.
Q: Now that you have joined 3D Systems, tell me a little bit about what your vision is for the company, and given your materials background, does this vision involve anything along the lines of materials developments?
Graves: Thanks, Leslie. Great question. You know, I had extensive discussions with the board of directors before being asked to join the company as CEO, and it evolved to very similar questions about where do you think the company can go given the history of the company and the industry in general and where it’s at right now. My feedback to them before joining, and then since joining, has been reinforced, that I believe both the industry and the company are extremely well-positioned for the future. From an industry standpoint, the emergence of additive manufacturing has gone through a real evolution, from prototyping to extensions of the prototyping, but now into real applications, ranging from healthcare to a variety of industrial applications. So, it’s really been widely adopted, but at a fairly small level, given its potential.
I think you’ve seen the explosion in interest and then the decline as people realize the time it would take. And now we’re on what I believe is a smooth and increasing growth path for the future as an industry. When you look at 3D Systems, your question about the vision for the company. I love the heritage of this company. Our founder, Chuck Hall, was the inventor of 3D manufacturing, and his approach (and he’s still our chief technology officer today and more active than ever), was to have a very sharp application focus and use that focus to drive the development of hardware, software, and materials, all brought together for additive manufacturing to turn computer-generated objects into solid objects for a variety of applications.
That was the heritage of the company, it’s what Chuck invented and where it was founded on, and what I told our board and what I continue to talk to our employees about which resonates well is that is our future. That’s what we need for the future. It’s an industry that requires bringing together those three elements:
–Hardware, which involves a variety of engineering disciplines to do it well.
–Software, designed to make the equipment run well, and the interface and the manufacturing process.
–And materials science, because the materials you use are vital to the end application and have to be uniquely tailored oftentimes for additive manufacturing.
It’s the combination of those sciences and engineering functions that allow you to really recreate the manufacturing workflow, yielding a tremendously expanded range of component designs and flexibility in the supply chain.
So our focus going forward, my vision for the company, and it’s one that resonates back to the roots of this organization, is we’re going to be leaders in enabling additive manufacturing, to bring companies along, our customers along in adopting additive, and embracing it for adding value to their customers through their products.
We will focus on applications, specifically in high growth, high-value markets, that will combine those three technology elements to provide solutions. I think we can be leaders in the industry at that, and broadly, I think this industry will be very successful doing much the same. So that’s the vision for the company. We are, as rapidly as we can, organizing ourselves around that. We’ve gone through a reorganization around healthcare and industrial market verticals, and we are divesting non-core assets, things that are not related to that mission and purpose, and we’re really doubling down on the core business. We’re very excited about the point we are in time.
With the tragedy of the COVID virus around the world, one of the things it’s caused our customers to do is reconsider their supply chain strategy. So not only do you have the emergence of the technology, but in terms of timing in the world today, you have our customers around the world re-looking at their supply chains and where in the past they may have been driven predominantly by cost and by labor cost, increasingly they’re driven around flexibility, availability of supply. I think you’ll see a nice tailwind in the industry broadly, and hopefully our company will be leading that as our customers reconsider their supply chain needs and embrace the design attributes of 3D manufacturing.
Q: Given the pandemic and how it’s thrust a spotlight onto additive manufacturing and brought new attention to it, there’s still the issue of relatively slow adoption, at least that’s what a number of people claim. Do you see that as an issue, the slow adoption, and if so, are there specific areas that the industry needs to focus on in order to improve that position?
Graves: Well, yes. I would say in general COVID has made all logistics difficult in terms of going out and meeting customers and having meetings and discussions around anything and everything. It’s slowed the discussions. But in terms of the overall long-term effect of COVID, we’ve got the underlying growth in new designers coming out of school and working their way up through the design community and our customer base that understand the benefits of additive manufacturing and are slowly changing the culture of the design groups in which they live and work every day. That is a relatively slow process in most businesses. Designers coming out of school, as those new designers get trained and grow up in the organization, they drive changes in the design processes. Those younger folks are familiar with how you adopt additive manufacturing and the benefits it brings. So, I think you’ll see an increasing momentum as those folks rise up through their careers in the years going forward.
COVID, on top of that, while it’s hampered short term conversations, has really caused our customers to reconsider their supply chain logistics. I know it was true for my last company. I think it’s true for all of our customers today. Where in the past you might move the supply of a raw material or a product to a low-cost country for labor considerations, those supply chains get very long and complicated, and with the impact of COVID, it started in China and it was gradually spread around the world, you see the shutdown of supplies of materials and products, the waves across the world, and it hampers it, then it gets a little better, then it gets a little worse. It’s caused everyone to think about assurance of supply, and it’s moved tremendously far up the list of needs. And I think that was highlighted in the media with hospital systems as they ran short of PPE, and if you remember, a lot of the emergency equipment around breathing that they just couldn’t get.
Additive was brought in to fill some of those gaps. And while in the short term, there may have been a cost impact, in the longer term, you weigh the cost benefits, I think you’ll see a lot of that flexibility being embraced to fulfill short term emergency needs in places like hospitals and others. I know we’re having those discussions, and I’m assuming that most in the industry are, in longer-term for critical components supply, I think you’ll see a lot of companies doing that. You’ve got the rising tide of designers embracing additive manufacturing broadly, and you’ve got the short-term effects of COVID, which is going to drive more flexibility in the supply chain, the need for that. I think you’re going to see an acceleration in additive manufacturing moving forward, and the rate of which you could debate about, but I think it’s certainly moving upward and my guess is it’s going to move upward relatively quickly.
Q: Now digital manufacturing is a term that is often used, especially in connection with additive, along with the term of connectivity. So how do you see additive manufacturing’s role within this context?
Graves: Well, in my philosophy, you have to be very focused as a company and understand where your business starts and stops. There’s no doubt that all modern manufacturing is turning to digital means. Whether it’s measuring an image, converting it into an object through any form, and then measuring the quality of the object and then using it, all of those are being changed with digital technology. The important thing with additive manufacturing is to understand where your business starts and stops. One of the very first things we did is we set out to say, “What are we focused on and what are we not?” The upstream of us, which is not our expertise, is in measuring an image or creating it on a computer. There are companies and software companies, hardware companies that are really, really good at that. So that provides the input signal to our business and our industry.
We’re going to be good at starting at that point, turning those computer-generated images or digitally created images into objects. Objects that create value for our customers, whether it’s in healthcare or selective parts of the industrial space, and when those objects are finished, they’ll be incorporated often into a larger system configuration, and that moves beyond our business. Our business will be very specific to turning a digital object into a solid object, and defining the workflow of that, and then transitioning that knowledge to our customer base. And I really think that’s the role additive will have. The larger ecosystem will be embraced by many companies that are good at that, and individually, there are companies good at different pieces of the technology that we will partner with in getting there.
Q: You mentioned your focus is going to be primarily on medical and industrial automation. What segments of the vast 3D Systems business are you going to be moving away from?
Graves: Well, we have invested years ago in some software companies that were really highly focused on subtractive technology, if you will, machining operations, things like this. We’ve been invested in companies and businesses and product lines that tried to just turn images into products very quickly, overnight. Those really aren’t our businesses. That’s really not what we’re good at. What we’re distinctively good at, and I believe you have to be focused, what we are distinctively good at is taking an application where a customer comes in with an idea, a product design that they believe can be distinctively made with additive manufacturing. We make that a reality. We combine hardware, software, and materials to take that application and make it a reality. And then if the customer likes that outcome, we define the workflow to manufacture it. And we can scale that to some extent and make hundreds or even thousands of parts for them for a period of time. And then we transition that knowledge to the customer base.
And in doing so, they hopefully buy our hardware, software, materials to scale the process further in their own organization, in their own ecosystem. So those are the areas we focus on. Things that are outside the scope, for example subtractive technologies, machining, metal bending, things like this, we are no longer interested in and where we own some of those assets, we are divesting them. Software that does not apply to additive manufacturing, which may be a lovely business in and of itself, is not going to be our business. We will divest that if we own it today, and we will reallocate those resources into our core additive business, be it plastics related or metal related with a sharp application focus. So that’s where we’re headed.
Q: What kind of challenges are you hearing from customers as they use additive manufacturing under these present conditions.
Graves: Well, and your last words are interesting under the present conditions. I would say more generically that if you look at subtractive technologies that involve machining or even casting technology, things like that, those technologies have been around for hundreds of years. And industry around the world has gotten very good at them. They’ve become an ingrained paradigm. It’s easy to design parts that can be manufactured through casting or machining and forging operations, things of that nature. Additive is much newer. Additive has been on the scene since the late 80s, and while that feels like a long time in today’s world, in the industrial world and the evolution of design practices, it’s relatively short. It’s only now really being adopted in the design community, and with that, our customers struggle often to understand, “Can a part be made this way? What are the advantages of it? What freedoms does it bring in terms of design flexibility for the component?”
When you use additive, no longer do you have a strong link between complexity of part and cost of part. That becomes divorced. But that is deeply ingrained in the history of design practices. So, we have to retrain customers and design teams to think more creatively about product design because we can create it for them. And then the whole mechanics of transition from a laboratory or small scale setting, if you would, into their larger scale manufacturing environments, we’ve been working at that for a long time and we’re quite good at it, I would say, about that transition of knowledge to our customers or to third parties that they choose in order to scale the manufacturing process to larger volumes. So we enjoy that, that’s what we do well, and that’s where we’re going to focus on.
Q: Many manufacturers or companies are having their employees work remotely. Are you finding this affecting the efforts of solving customer challenges in helping them work with additive technology and even in developing new solutions to these additive challenges?
Graves: Yes, no doubt. It’s created a lot of complexity in just communication. So before COVID we may have the occasional video meeting, but especially early on, we would have meetings with customers face to face where you jointly look at a design on a computer and you may have done some work on a preliminary basis with some illustrative shapes and designs out of additive, and people can touch and feel things. That has really been encumbered with COVID. What COVID has done obviously is really accelerate the use of video tools. We’re using those daily now, and I believe that’ll have an impact on cost savings and the flexibility people have and talking remotely, like we are today, forever going forward. I think that’s a good thing.
But no doubt COVID has had an impact in how frequently you can really interact with customers. That is lifting, it is getting better. It’s frustrating, but we do see now month by month improvements in our ability to at least travel on a limited basis, meet with customers. So that combined with the better tools for doing virtual meetings has really helped a lot, and I think from here forward you’ll see things improving. But no doubt, it’s been a bit of a headwind over the last six months for us and others.
I am amazed at the progress in using Microsoft Teams or Zoom or whatever tool folks have embraced, the ease of which people are doing now, and the vast acceptance of it is amazing to me. And in the long run that will make the world a smaller place. But there’s nothing like getting together face to face with folks, especially engineer to engineer, to brainstorm and to think freely about how to create more effective parts for providing solutions. It’s a fun discussion and I think of the examples in healthcare where you you’re making a tremendous impact on patient’s lives, whether they’re suffering from cancer or they need other medical implants or assistance, where additive can really step in and help, it brings a clear, immediate benefit to an individual and the environmental benefit of additive manufacturing in terms of net shape production and less energy consumption, less wastage. All of that makes you feel good about what you do every day.
Q: Are there any final thoughts that you would like to mention that I haven’t asked you about?
Graves: I think you’ve given an opportunity to talk very broadly about the company. I’m tremendously excited about being here. I’ve got what I view as a nice body of experience. I am passionate around material science, it’s an integral part of this industry. I love 3D Systems’ background, and we’ve got some very high-quality companies in the space that are, I think, making great progress in educating people on the benefits of additive and getting it more widely accepted every day. I’m excited about the future, I appreciate your interest in talking today. I just look forward and I’m very impatient to see us live into what we can be. And I really look forward to the future. I think it’s going to be an exciting one.
Q: It’ll be interesting to see what comes out as far as materials and software. I know you guys have the hardware part pretty well established, and the software and the materials, I think those are areas that are ripe for exploration for you.
Graves: Oh if we had more time, I’d tell you our software packages that we’ve developed are absolutely fantastic, that allow designers to really envision not only the product, but how it can be made with additive and how you can make it even more efficiently with additive. And then the material science that we’re investing in, Leslie, is truly, in some cases, mind-boggling. Ranging from industrial applications to healthcare and increasingly in the bioprinting area. Absolutely fantastic and I look forward to sharing that with the world increasingly as we go forward.
Q: Thank you for joining with me today, Jeff. I appreciate it very much.
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China has announced its net-zero target for carbon emissions by 2060. To meet this goal, China has been proactive during the 13th Five-Year plan pushing innovative policies that will influence the future of the country’s sustainability strategies. This effort has led to the successful development of the circular economy in China, and copper recycling has played a key role.
China’s copper recycling initiatives are essential to its ongoing sustainability approaches. By considering recent developments in circular economy policies and current trends in the copper recycling industry, China will be able to develop intentional strategies to meet its ambitious climate goals.
THE CURRENT STATE OF CHINA’S CIRCULAR ECONOMY POLICIES
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016–2020), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Initiative to Guide the Shift Toward Circular Development. The initiative expanded the circular economy concept from the industry level to include entire sectors and broader enterprises.
During this time, China also sought international collaboration in its circular economy goals. In 2018, Director He Lifeng of the NDRC and Vice President of the European Commission, Jyrki Katainen, jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Circular Economy under the witness of Premier Li Keqiang; President of the European Council, Donald Tusk; and President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. Cooperation between China and the EU has enhanced bilateral exchanges regarding the circular economy and will continue to contribute to the implementation of the China-EU 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Joint action will improve global resource efficiency and help all parties to achieve their sustainable-development goals.
The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021 – 2025) proposes comprehensively promoting the circular economy and building a multi-level, resource-efficient recycling system. In 2021, the State Council released the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment and Improvement of a Green and Low-Carbon Circular Development Economic System, which states that progressing toward the development of a low-carbon circular economic system and a green transformation of economic and social development is an essential strategy for solving China’s resource, environmental and ecological challenges.
FOUR KEY TRENDS IN CHINA’S COPPER RECYCLING INDUSTRY
1. Strategic Patterns Taking Shape
After nearly 70 years of development, China’s copper recycling industry has grown in size and strength, transforming from labor-intensive processes to an innovative model of technologically driven practices. The formation of complete industrial clusters coupled upstream and downstream sectors in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the Bohai Rim and the Jiangxi regions. The coordination of the industrial chain enhanced the concentration of industrial initiatives and nurtured higher-quality enterprises. Specifically, enterprises above a designated scale account for more than 60 percent. The recycling industry developed into a strategic landscape in which large-scale enterprises take the lead and small and medium-sized enterprises contribute to the core of the industry.
2. Innovative Applications with Remarkable Results
Critical recycling processes, such as pretreatment, smelting and environmental protection technology, have made significant breakthroughs. China’s copper industry has implemented the latest scientific and technological innovations in copper recycling. Many enterprises have also used Kaldo furnaces and NGL furnaces for processing scrap copper, as well as production lines converting copper scrap to high-grade copper rods. Through these advanced applications, the smelting process of copper recycling and the resource conservation from electronic waste are becoming harmonized.
3. Improvement to Industrial Policies
China has continued to introduce new environmental protection policies and standards to promote copper recycling. China is committed to a comprehensive system of industrial policies. Efficient resource use, as well as upgrading and recycling automobiles, home appliances and consumer electronic products are top policy priorities. To accomplish these goals, China continues to promote the recycling of old products, extend the responsibility of manufacturers and roll out new policies, including the new Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law and the National Hazardous Waste List (2021 Edition). These policies also include the “waste-free cities” pilot program, industrial pollutant discharge standards and pollution permits, as well as commissioned nationwide research and development projects on solid waste. These efforts are of great significance for standardizing the development of copper resource recycling and pollution prevention in the recycling process.
4. Resource Conservation is a Shared Value
Given China’s scarce copper reserves, importing high-grade copper scrap is an indispensable part of China’s copper raw material supply system. China has established new standards for raw materials, including recycled brass and copper. With these new standards, China can import pre-processed, recycled raw materials arriving from overseas that meet these standards, helping China supplement demand.
China has prioritized the development of its circular economy and recycling management systems, making significant headway that will contribute to China’s ongoing and future sustainability strategies. The copper industry plays an essential role in the development of China’s circular economy. Through continued innovation in both policy and technology, China’s copper industry will be a central contributor to China’s recycling advancement and resource conservation.
Zhao Kai, MBA, Beijing University. Executive Vice President and Secretary General, China Association of Circular Economy. Zhao Kai provides expertise in leading and guiding government agencies on major circular economy and energy policymaking. He has studied and promoted energy-savings initiatives in China’s industrial and transportation fields for more than 15 years, particularly in the application of the high-efficiency motors, transformers, power cables and other electrical equipment. He is a member of several national policy and standard making committees and has received several prizes in these roles.
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- Disaster and disaster management.
Face of Disasters 2019
What to study?
For prelims and mains: key observations, concerns and need of the hour.
Context: The Face of Disasters 2019 report was recently published by Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS). The report released by SEEDS as part of its 25th anniversary, analyses past trends, looking at disasters from a broader perspective to capture their varied facets.
Eight key areas have emerged that will be critical to consider as we look ahead, as per the report:
- Water and the changing nature of disaster risk: A ‘new normal’ of rainfall variability is bringing challenges of too much and too little water, often in parallel.
- No disaster is ‘natural’: Risks lurking under the radar slip through the cracks because they don’t meet the idea of a ‘natural disaster’.
- The silent events: The disasters that go unseen leave those affected at even greater risk.
- Land becomes water (and water becomes land): Changes to the coastline are already affecting livelihood sources and will be hotspots for vulnerability in the future.
- The complexity of disaster impact: Beyond official ‘damages’, the long-term and uncaptured disaster impacts have life-changing consequences for affected communities.
- The urban imperative: Risk is rapidly urbanising and will affect everyone.
- Transformations in the third pole: Himalayan glaciers are melting, with serious implications for the whole region.
- Planning for what you can’t see: Earthquake risk is looming large under the radar, but are we prepared?
2019 will see unusual flooding, as well as heatwaves and drought that are already ongoing. A single mega-disaster can wipe out hard-won development gains and recurrent small-scale stresses keep vulnerable families in a cycle of poverty. While this multiple event pattern is repeated every year, only a few really capture the public attention. Other risks continue to intensify under the radar.
Need of the hour:
The complexity of disasters today requires a proactive and multi-pronged approach. Current trends are reinforcing that disasters have multiple facets and complexities. There is a clear need for comprehensive understanding of risks, and hyper-localised plans and allocation of resources to reduce them.
- SEEDS, a non profit voluntary organization, is a collective endeavor of young professionals drawn from development related fields. It originated as an informal group of likeminded persons, getting together for the purpose of creative research projects of academic interest.
- Functions: It is involved in research activities in Community Development, Disaster Management, Environmental Planning, Transport Planning, and Urban and Regional Planning. Activities are carried out on behalf of government, semi – government and international development agencies.
Sources: the Hindu.
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March 7, 2019 § Leave a comment
Canada’s media is beside itself right now over a case of politics within the cabinet of the Trudeau government. The problem begins with SNC Lavalin, ostensibly an engineering firm headquartered in Montréal. About a decade ago, it did some skeezy things in Libya. SNC Lavalin, however, is no stranger to skeeziness. The issue arises from something called a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), which, under Canadian law, allows the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PSSC) to essentially allow corporations to plea bargain their way out of a spot of bother. It would appear the the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) wished this current mess for SNC Lavalin to go away via a DPA, though the then-Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould refused to do. She has complained that she felt pressured to alter her decision, which she refused to do. This has been denied by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former Principal Secretary, Gerald Butts. And through it all, Trudeau has managed to keep his trademark calm, upsetting Canadians who want him to at least acknowledge some wrong-doing.
But, despite both the Canadian and the foreign media’s best attempts to make this look like something, the fact of the matter is, we have two versions of a process, and at worst, Trudeau looks like a jerk. Nothing illegal happened here. This is not corruption. What Wilson-Raybould described reads to me as little more than business-as-usual Canadian cabinet-level politicking.
But all of this obscures two, if not three, larger issues at hand here. The first is the dual portfolio of Minister of Justice and Attorney General in Canada. The two roles appear to be contradictory, as this person is both responsible for the Department of Justice as well as being the Chief Federal Legal Advisor. As well, this portfolio is ultimately responsible for legal enforcement at the federal level in Canada. In other Parliamentary democracies, such as the UK and Australia, these two roles are separate, and in the UK, the Attorney General is not technically part of the cabinet. While politicking of the sort Wilson-Raybould has, as far as I can tell from my own research, is part and parcel of Canadian government, the time has come to split the two roles.
Second, and perhaps the greatest problem is the influence of corporatism in our politics in Canada. The idea of a DPA, or an equivalent, has been part of American law enforcement since the 1980s. In the UK, DFAs have legally been in place since 2015; in France, since 2016, and Australia in 2017. In Canada, Bill C-74 became law in 2018. But, what this did was formalize an already extant option used by the PSSC. Legal scholars tend to prefer the idea of a DPA, especially in the case of multinational corporations and the difficulties of carrying out corruption inquiries on this level, to say nothing of the massive amount of money and resources such an investigation requires.
Taken on that level, of course, a DPA makes perfect sense. But, what this kerfuffle over SNC Lavalin currently shows us is how much influence our major corporations have in our politics and legal enforcement. It would appear that our Prime Minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Papineau, a Montréal riding. And where is SNC Lavalin based? Montréal. So, the optics aren’t good. The PMO was lobbying for a DFA to protect SNC Lavalin from the cost of a conviction, which is a 10-year ban on federal contracts. And while it is not surprising that a powerful MP from Montréal would wish to intervene and save SNC Lavalin from prosecution. But, once again, the optics are not good when that MP is also the Prime Minister.
But there is this corporate influence. And it’s not like the main opposition party is any better. During the long nine-year reign of error of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, there were countless instances of corporatism, from selling out Canadian Crown Corporations to foreign corporations, to striking down oversight of corporate behaviour. And whilst our third party, the New Democrats (NDP) have never come close to forming a federal government, the party has been the government in several provinces, multiple times (in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario). Despite the NDP’s leftist claims, its behaviour in power shows it’s no different than the Liberals or Conservatives.
In other words, corporate influence in Canadian politics is real, powerful, and dangerous for our democracy.
And this leads me to our third problem: our media. Canada’s media is highly centralized, consolidated, and corporate. The daily broadsheet newspapers in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Montréal (in English, anyway), and Ottawa are owned by Postmedia. Postmedia also owns the tabloid newspapers in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Ottawa. In other words, the newspaper market in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa is monopolized by Postmedia. Postmedia also owns nearly every small-town newspaper in the country. And finally, the company also owns The National Post, Canada’s second and largely ignored national newspaper.
Toronto’s major daily broadsheet, the Toronto Star is owned by Torstar, a major media company. Toronto is also home to the Globe & Mail, which bills itself as Canada’s national newspaper. The Globe is owned by the Woodbridge Company, which until 2015 owned the Canadian Television network, or CTV. Woodbridge is the primary investment firm of the Thomson family, one of Canada’s wealthiest families. The Globe is also the Canadian newspaper most closely aligned with Bay Street, Canada’s financial district in Toronto. The National Post,
The only major Canadian city that is served by a largely independent press is Montréal, where the two major French-language dailies, La Presse and Le Devoir fall outside of these larger Canadian firms. Presse is owned by a social trust. La Presse also no longer publishes a physical paper, it has been entirely online since 2017. Le Devoir is owned and published by Le Devoir Inc. But Montréal’s other French language paper, the tabloid Journal de Montréal, is owned by Québecor, one of the largest media corporations in Canada.
Québecor also owns most of Québec’s media, including the TV broadcast network, TVA. It owns Vidéotron, the primary cable, internet, and cellular service firm in Québec. TVA Publishing is the largest magazine publishing firm in Québec. It also publishes books under Québecor Media Book Group. And finally, it owns Canada.com/Canada.ca, a major on-line news site that covers the entire country of Canada.
Meanwhile, BCE Inc. owns CTV, as well as Bell, which is one of the largest cable/satellite TV providers in the country, to say nothing of cell services. It also, interestingly, owns parts of both the Canadiens de Montréal and the Toronto Maple Leafs, the two biggest hockey teams in the world. Rogers, the other major cable provider in Canada, also owns a cell service, one of the largest magazine publishing firms in Canada, a large chunk of Canadian radio stations.
In short, our media is corporate, deeply and widely, except for the newspapers in Montréal. We also have the state-owned broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, so it is technically independent, as it is arms’ length from the government. But the CBC’s problem is it tries to be too many things to too many different people. The Société Radio-Canada, the CBC’s French language service, suffers from many of the same problems.
And our independent news sites, outside of La Presse and Le Devoir, are essentially partisan outlets, preaching to the converted.
So, with our government beholden to corporate interests, many of which are the same interests which own our media, we have a very deep and serious problem. And, of course, this is not what our political parties are talking about. The Liberals, obviously this isn’t something they’ll touch right now. The Conservatives will, of course, score as many political points as they can off SNC Lavalin, but they’ve down the same thin in power and will do again. And, then there’s the NDP. This should be the chance for embattled leader, Jagmeet Singh, to take a stand and talk about the influence of corporations in our media and politics. But, nope. He and his party are too interested in scoring cheap political points from SNC Lavalin, which, of course, suggests the NDP would be no different in office.
Meanwhile, Canadian democracy suffers.
August 26, 2016 § 5 Comments
Earlier this week, I wrote of some vile tweets about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the wake of the Tragically Hip’s final show in Kingston lat Saturday night. It turns out this was hardly the worst.
I read this article on The Walrus’ site last night. This is disgusting. There are people on Facebook blatantly calling for Trudeau’s assassination. Others, riffing on the Conservative Party of Canada’s pathetic milk carton ad, have descended to hoping the Prime Minister dies in an avalanche like his younger brother, Michel did in British Columbia in 1998.
I got into a discussion with an old friend on Facebook in the wake of Monday’s post. He was of the opinion that this animus against Trudeau was really nothing new, recalling the Mulroney era. I argued otherwise. That this IS new, it is the Americanisation of our political discourse.
I also wonder where the hell the RCMP is in all of this? Should it not be investigating calls to assassinate the Prime Minister?
August 22, 2016 § 4 Comments
UPDATE: I thought this rhetoric about the Prime Minister couldn’t get worse. Turns out I was wrong; it can. And it has been for some time.
As every Canadian knows, the Tragically Hip held their last ever concert in their hometown of Kingston, ON, on Saturday night. Something like 11 million TV sets in Canada were tuned to the gig, broadcast coast-to-coast-to-coast on the CBC. For those of you who don’t know, that’s about 1/3 of the population of the entire country. I haven’t seen numbers for how many of us watched on YouTube, as the CBC streamed the show worldwide. Social media was full of pics, remembrances, stories about The Hip, a quintessentially Canadian band. If you’re not Canadian, I simply cannot explain the importance of this band to most Canadians. It’s something non-quantifiable.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was there in Kingston, one of the lucky 7,000 people inside the unfortunately named K-Rock Centre. Gord Downie, the frontman who is dying of cancer, gave the PM a couple of shoutouts, particularly insofar as Canada’s abysmal record vis-à-vis our First Nations. In the aftermath, a picture of Downie and Trudeau sharing a hug made the rounds on social media. It’s a particularly touching image, and it shows Downie’s frailty.
But then Twitter happened. A series of tweets from bitter, and mostly anonymous, Canadian conservatives attacked Trudeau for a variety of reasons, most of them just a sad bit of bitterness. For example:
These were relatively mild, however. Others wished personal ill on the Prime Minister. But the worst tweet I saw was this one:
What kind of person says something like this? What has happened to the Canadian conservative movement that this can even happen? FACLC’s tweet is simply the most egregious example that came through my timeline in the past few days.
While I can certainly understand a deep-seated dislike, even hatred, for a Prime Minister (i.e.: Stephen Harper), I do not know anyone who tweeted vileness like this, who wished personal ill on the Prime Minister of Canada FACLC and anyone who supports such viciousness should be deeply ashamed of themselves. So should anyone who posted such vileness in the first place. This is not Canada, this is not who we are. | <urn:uuid:ab7fc216-7389-4ce3-b937-9cda61167788> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://matthewbarlow.net/tag/justin-trudeau/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960539 | 2,626 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Time Magazine recently ran a story illustrating the problem with electing stupid, uninformed people.
Numerous media outlets have explained–patiently, and in detail– why Trump’s evident belief that China is paying his tariffs is wrong; they’ve laid out–in painful detail–the way tariffs really work, and why those tariffs are more properly labeled tax increases on the American public.
The Time article addresses a subsequent demonstration of Trump’s utter economic cluelessness.
Tariffs on foreign goods are supposed to help companies that make things in the United States by increasing the costs of products sold by foreign competitors. Indeed, when rationalizing his administration’s increased tariffs on Chinese goods, President Donald Trump on Monday encouraged consumers and businesses to buy goods from countries other than China, or, in what he called the “best idea,” to buy American-made goods.
That would have been good advice, back when American companies were busy manufacturing horse whips and corsets. These days, however, advice to “buy American” simply displays an embarrassing ignorance about the current realities of the world of business.
But that advice is almost impossible to follow, as products made in America can contain parts sourced from all over the world. Even the most quintessentially American of goods has parts from somewhere else, whether that be a Ford F-150 pickup, a can of Budweiser, or tire chains from Worcester, Mass. “In the last 20 years, businesses have become much more strategic,” says Kara Reynolds, an economics professor at American University. “More and more often, they are looking at where they can find highest quality and lowest-cost parts so that they can be competitive.” More often than not, that’s China — and that means many U.S. businesses are feeling the pain thanks to Trump’s tariffs.
Trump, as usual, has ignored the warnings of more knowledgable people (a category that includes most sentient humans), and has doubled down on his tariff policy. Farmers have been the most notably hurt, but manufacturers and retailers aren’t far behind. Automobile companies are already feeling the pinch.
The most recent round of tariffs is expected to affect a broad swathe of industries that make products in the United States. “This is playing havoc with the supply chains of Americans producers — increasing their cost and reducing their worldwide competitiveness,” says Robert T. Kudrle, an economics professor at the University of Minnesota. St. Pierre, for example, makes chains and wire rope in its Worcester facility, as it began doing in 1920 when Henry St. Pierre started the company. But as it started facing foreign competition, St. Pierre began buying chain slings and other parts from producers overseas, then cutting them and adding hooks and fittings in the United States.
The cost of those imported chain slings have gone up as tariffs have risen. Even St. Pierre’s horseshoes, which are made completely from U.S. steel, have been affected by the tariffs on foreign goods. As the cost of foreign steel went up, the cost of U.S.-made steel rose too, says Peter St. Pierre, vice president of finance at St. Pierre Manufacturing — and Henry St. Pierre’s grandson. “Everything we do here is steel-related, and over the last year or so, the price of steel has been going up and up,” he said. Increased demand for domestic steel has allowed U.S. producers to raise their prices; one estimatefound that U.S. steel prices have more than doubled since 2015.
Companies affected by the tariffs include a number that make goods in the U.S., thanks to rising duties on imported parts.
A South Carolina plant that assembled televisions using Chinese parts said last yearit was shutting down because of the tariffs. The Beer Institute, which represents 6,000 brewers and 2.2 million American jobs, said thatabout six percent of the cost of beer is the aluminum used in cans, and predicted that higher aluminum tariffs could cost 20,000 American jobs.
Are we tired yet of all that “winning”?
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According to analyst firm Avascent Analytics, Asia in the Pacific region, and countries with access to the Indian ocean in the next ten years will be willing to spend on subs about forty billion dollars.
The invisibility of submarines, the complexity of their sinking and the devastating impacts that they can suddenly cause, this is the main advantage. The probable enemy can never be sure that somewhere near its coast or fleet is not a foreign submarine. Submarines are, on the one hand, a weapon of deterrence. The other reason for a new arms race in the already volatile region.
To date, coastal countries, only Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Brunei do not consider the purchase of submarines. Philippines and even Myanmar, thinking about buying submarines. In April of this year it became known that the Philippines will purchase submarines in the next 11 years, and in may, Myanmar declared interest in buying two submarines.
In March this year, Bangladesh for the first time in its history has commissioned two submarines bought from China. Pakistan plans to buy China’s eight submarines and is looking for China loans under this contract, India — buy 6 submarines from France and plans to bring its active submarine fleet to 24 units, Singapore — 4 from Germany, Indonesia and 3 from South Korea and 4 from France.
South Korea in 2030 wants to increase its submarine fleet to 27 units and reach a stable export their submarines. Vietnam this year has received a sixth submarine of the project “warszawianka” of the Russian contract in 2009, spending on the purchase of almost annual defence budget of the country.
Taiwan, which is difficult to purchase weapons because of pressure from China on potential suppliers, the ambitious sought to create their own 8 submarines. The first boat of Taiwan must stand in line in 2027.
Australia plans to buy 12 submarines from France. Japan is thinking to increase its submarine fleet to 22 units and is actively building their own boats.
The countries of the region in General want to buy similar types of boats with a displacement of 1500 to 3000 tons. The prices of new boats ranging from 200 to 550 million dollars. What today want in theory — that their submarines could launch cruise missiles, such as new boats KSS-III from South Korea.
It is believed that the reason for this passion for submarines is the territorial claims of China and disputes over the Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands, as well as the possible realization of the plans of China for the control of navigation in the South China sea. According to the updated version of the law of China on navigation, which was announced earlier this year that the Maritime administration of China will be able to identify specific areas where you will not be allowed a foreign court for reasons of safety of navigation or for environmental reasons. To control the submarines of other countries to China is much harder than the ships and vessels. That is why Vietnam was ready to pay the entire annual defence budget for Russian submarines and to dramatically improve its position in the region.
But there are a number of other reasons.
Despite the high cost of acquisition and cost of training team and maintenance of boats, even small countries find it more beneficial than the inclusion of vulnerable surface fleet, which does not pose a serious threat to its neighbors in the modern development of the naval armaments. The Navy did not prevent the aggression of a neighbor, but the submarine will force him to think a hundred times. This is especially true of tensions between India and Pakistan, South and North Korea.
Another reason is national pride and exaltation of their status in the region. Thailand is not really needed submarines in it is not the deepest territorial waters, but nevertheless the country over $ 390 million is going to buy submarines from China and, perhaps, then two more.
More technologically developed countries, such as Japan, South Korea and Australia, the availability of the submarine fleet also allows you to maintain and upload their industries, and rely on exports of military products and submarines.
Curiously, the desire of Asian countries to equip their naval forces submarines awakened and the other trend is the purchase of anti-submarine tools: sonar, anti-submarine ships and planes, underwater and surface drones. This market also felt the excitement and will be ready to collect. Australia got the plane P-8A Poseidon and New Zealand thinking about the purchase of the same. Indonesia is awaiting delivery of two anti-submarine helicopters Panther AS565MBe this year, Taiwan — a couple of old American anti-submarine ships.
In late may, the Chinese media also reported that China plans to spend $ 290 million over five years to create a tracking system for the underwater environment. In the foreign media a system of sensors in the East China and South China sea called “underwater great wall” and immediately assumed that the sensors will collect information not in the scientific or environmental purposes, and for tracking submarines. | <urn:uuid:cf9fa1d5-fe07-40b5-b438-26747dc145ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intmassmedia.com/2017/06/08/military-news-asia-is-arming-for-the-war-submarine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956385 | 994 | 1.890625 | 2 |
At Invested Interests, we happen to know a thing or two about impact investing. We like to help people use their investments to positively impact the greater good. Of which, includes the environment. However, trying to navigate how to use your wallet for the environment can be tricky. Here is how to invest in the environment with your wallet.
What is Impact Investing?
First and foremost, to begin impact investing it is important to understand what impact investing is. Impact investing refers to investing in funds, companies, or organizations in order to make a social impact as well as a financial one. There are many types of social impacts and social divestments (choosing to not invest in a cause) that investors can choose from including investing in the environment, human rights and diversity, and peace.
The term impact investing is often used as a blanket to describe all of the various types of impactful and ethical investing. Socially responsible investing, responsible investing, and environmental social governance are all various types of impact investing. To learn more about the terminology and how to get started with impact investing, check out our resource guide: Impact Investing 101: The Ultimate Guide to Impact Investing.
What Does “Vote With Your Wallet” mean?
There is a significant amount of people who do not realize how it is possible to vote with your wallet. Meaning, you do not have to wait until national and local elections roll around for you to step up and make a difference.
Simply put, voting with your wallet is when people make socially conscious decisions about purchasing products and services from companies that align with their values. This goes a long way. Companies are motivated by profit. If consumers stop buying products and services from companies, then they are not going to succeed. In turn, if consumers boycott companies that partake in unethical practices, those companies are likely to take a stand against those unethical practices and make things right.
How Do You Invest In the Environment with Your Wallet?
Many people blindly purchase products from companies that partake in unethical practices. This can be for a number of reasons, such as accessibility and price. However, if you all take the time to discover companies that align with your values, swapping even a couple of your products and services can make a big impact.
There are many resources out there to find companies that support your values. Researching various directories and lists for companies that support the environment, for example, can put you in the right direction to find companies of all shapes and sizes that align with your beliefs and values. One example of a directory is from the B Corporation website, a certification for companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Overall, by doing your research you can find many incredible companies that support the environment. That way, you can feel good about your purchases.
Remember talking about impact investing? Another way to vote with your wallet is by investing in impactful companies that support the environment. By looking at the MSCI KLD 400, which is the socially responsible version of the S&P 500, you can see how socially responsible investments weigh against those that are not. Also, you can lean on us for help with impact investing.
How To Invest In the Environment
Here at Invested Interests, we partner with the best socially responsible mutual funds available that invest in companies solving the world’s biggest problems. These funds will only invest in companies that meet certain criteria. For example, having high sustainability and/or ESG performance. Whether you are a seasoned investor or one looking to just dip your feet in, we have something for you.
We also offer a comprehensive Environment portfolio, which invests in green companies, alternative and renewable energy companies, and companies promoting sustainability. It avoids oil and fossil fuel companies, companies that are not eco-friendly, and nuclear power companies. At Invested Interests, green investments and high returns are not exclusive of one another. A win-win!
How To Get Started
With impact investing continuing to show promising results, now is the time to hop on the bandwagon. As previously mentioned, Invested Interests is here to help you take your next steps on your impact investing journey. Managing your own investments may not be right for you, and perhaps you do not want to work with a big company either. Companies, like Invested Interests, are making it easier for people to invest with their values and not only that, but our only focus is impact investing, which gives us the opportunity to give our clients all the attention they deserve.
In this case, we talked about how to invest in the environment and now we want to help you even more. Anyone can make a difference with their investment decisions. Whether you are a pro-investor or someone new to the game, we would love to help you! Reach out to our team and invest in what matters. | <urn:uuid:20de1f40-6a04-4ad7-afd7-faa35d01c49a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.investedinterests.com/2022/01/08/how-to-invest-in-the-environment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959638 | 993 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Well, to borrow a phrase from Click and Clack, I've come around for the "third half of the show" - figuring out how to bridge the gap between the growing public desire for accessible, informative, entertaining science content and chemistry's approach to that communication. A lot of terms have swirled around this issue: "punching down," #BogusChem, "Inside Baseball," 'in-reach' not outreach, #chemophobia, and "dumbing down," to name just a few.
|Thanks for the tip about the magnets, Andre!|
(P.S. Yes, I know "D" isn't an element)
Readers: Have a favorite post I haven't included? Send it along in the comments.
Janet Stemwedel, Doing Good Science: "When we target chemophobia, are we punching down?"
Chad Jones, The Collapsed Wavefunction: "Punching down? I don't remember swinging at all."
Ash Jogalekar, The Curious Wavefunction: "Where's the chemistry lobby? On why we need a National Center for Chemical Education."
See Arr Oh, Just Like Cooking: "The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum"
Michelle Francl, Slate: "Don't Take Medical Advice from the NY Times Magazine"; Nature Chemistry: "How to counteract chemophobia";
Paul Bracher, ChemBark: "Combatting Chemophobia"
Rebecca Guenard, Atomic-O-Licious: "Chemistry Isn't Just About Chemicals"
Science 2.0: "Chemophobia - The Unnatural Fixation of Activists"
Chemjobber, Dr. Rubidium, See Arr Oh, Chemjobber: "Chemistry Avengers" (podcast)
Marc Leger, Atoms and Numbers: "Consider the audience when addressing chemophobia"
Chris Clarke, Pharyngula: "Did you know douchebags are full of dihydrogen monoxide?"
Andrew Bissette, Behind NMR Lines: "In defense of #chemophobia"
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Draft Disability Inclusion Action Plan goes on public exhibition
The draft Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) 2022-2026 is now on public exhibition and available for the community to provide feedback on.
The DIAP is a report on our goals to improve disability inclusion throughout the local Blue Mountains Community.
Blue Mountains Mayor, Councillor Mark Greenhill said: “Inclusion is everyone’s business, and providing access and equity for all, regardless of their abilities, is critical.
“The Disability Inclusion Action Plan outlines how Council will meet our responsibilities and enable people with disability to access our services and facilities, in real and meaningful ways.
“This is our second Disability Inclusion Action Plan, the first was released in 2017, and expired last year. The new plan covers the next four years, and it builds on the principles included in the first, and explores further issues identified by people with disability in our community.
“I urge anyone in the Blue Mountains living with disability, or caring for someone with disability, to give their feedback and help shape this important document.”
The Disability Services Inclusion Act 2014 identifies the need for all Council’s to develop
every four years a new Disability Inclusion Action Plan, illustrating how we will enable people with a disability to access our services and facilities.
“Developing this action plan means we have not only met our legislative requirements, but have also provided clear actions that Council can undertake to assist people with a disability to participate more fully in community life.
“This is particularly pertinent as the 2016 Census shows that 5.5 per cent of people living in the Blue Mountains need assistance with core activities. That’s more than 4000 people, and a full 1 per cent increase from the previous census.”
To ensure the new DIAP reflects the needs of people living with disability, Council engaged Insight Consultancy Australia to assist with conducting focus groups and interviews, to develop the draft document.
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Just like our houses, greenhouses need regular maintenance to keep them in good condition and to maintain the necessary levels of cleanliness and hygiene. This really boils down to looking after the structure of the greenhouse – inside and out – its heating, ventilation and watering systems and perhaps most importantly, the growing environment itself.
The greenhouse should be regularly checked for any broken or cracked glass – especially after any high winds – and the panes replaced as necessary. The frame too needs to be routinely inspected to make sure it is in good order. While aluminium greenhouses are generally fairly low-maintenance, wooden framed ones will periodically need to be painted or treated with a suitable preservative – making sure that none touches the plants, of course – and any rotten areas repaired.
A regular clean helps preserve the structure of the greenhouse and dirty windows will reduce the light levels – which can lead to propagation problems, such as straggly seedlings. The best times to have a big clean-up are in the spring – just before you begin sowing – or in early autumn before half-hardy plants are brought in for the winter.
Cleaning the outside of the greenhouse is best done on a fairly breezy day, using warm water and a sponge, letting the wind dry the glass off and avoid leaving too much in the way of streaks. Aluminium framed greenhouses can be particularly prone to collecting grime underneath the joints between panes – a jet-wash attachment for the hose or gentle scraping with an old plant label will often shift the dirt very successfully.
Regular, thorough cleaning of the interior of the greenhouse is absolutely essential, not only to create pleasant surroundings in which to work, but also as a major part of controlling pests and disease. It has often been said that it would be difficult to over-emphasise the importance of cleanliness to greenhouse management – so doing a thorough job here can save untold hours of trouble!
When starting out, make sure that the electricity is turned off, the heaters and other electrical equipment unplugged and the sockets covered. Unless the temperature outside is too cold, remove all the plants, containers, pots and staging – protecting any tender or half-hardy plants with horticultural fleece or putting them inside a shed or garage while you work. This is an ideal time to inspect each plant carefully, picking off any infected or damaged leaves and discarding anything which is clearly dead or dying.
All the spent compost or grow bags should be discarded and the floor swept to remove fallen leaves and general rubbish and then any beds weeded. With the greenhouse emptied, the glass, paths and any brickwork should now be thoroughly cleaned with warm water and a suitable disinfectant, allowing them to dry thoroughly before returning the evicted plants to their rightful places.
Check the Equipment
Heating, ventilation and irrigation systems are vital to the greenhouse – so they should not be forgotten or neglected. Regular checks – and servicing as appropriate – of these key items are essential, whether you do it yourself or call in outside help. At the same time, pots, containers, staging, propagation benches, capillary matting and the like should also be regularly sterilised to reduce the risk of pests and disease and any lighting systems inspected.
Maintaining the Growing Environment
The warm, humid environment of the greenhouse is ideal for many pests and diseases, which can spread depressingly rapidly if given the opportunity, but keeping the greenhouse clean and tidy can significantly reduce the likelihood that they do become a problem. Supporting those plants which need it – and tying in their emerging shoots – coupled with a regime of pruning, pricking out, potting on and pinching out plants as necessary and a thorough weeding around the beds should help.
Providing some form of shade as appropriate can also be of great benefit – avoiding leaves getting scorched and the almost inevitable subsequent disease attacks that the weakened and damaged plant will suffer. It is important to be mindful that the ideal growing conditions for plants which the greenhouse offers are just as tailor-made for any number of bacteria, fungi and other unwelcome guests. Part of routine greenhouse maintenance also involves being constantly on the look-out for pests and diseases – such as aphids, red spider mite, mealy bug, mildew and botrytis – and being ready to treat them promptly.
Spring cleaning is, clearly, every bit as important to our greenhouses as our homes, but in addition to a one-off annual tidy-up, routine maintenance is essential to keep everything running smoothly. However, with a little attention to one or two key essentials, keeping our greenhouses in peak condition need not present too much of a problem nor take up too much of our time. | <urn:uuid:4da46630-562c-4fd5-ad56-4c15978eb4ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greenhousegrowing.co.uk/greenhouse-care/greenhousemaintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954089 | 966 | 3.015625 | 3 |
By Micha Shalev
Adult children and caregivers play an important role in helping older people avoid scams. Unfortunately, scammers often prey on lonely seniors looking for someone to talk to.
Sit down and talk to your elderly parents. Remind them not to give out personal or financial information to a stranger — no matter how friendly or persistent the caller or visitor is. Even if someone claims to represent a well-known charity, your loved one should hang up the phone.
Here are some of the con artists’ favorite senior-directed scams:
•Telemarketing fraud and fabulous offers — A scammer will call or send a letter or e-mail alerting you that you’ve won a big prize or that you can buy a product, perhaps prescription drugs, at a great price. Hang up the phone.
•Health insurance frauds and fraudulent anti-aging products — Never sign blank insurance claim forms. Never give blanket authorization to a medical provider to bill for services rendered. Ask your medical providers what they will charge and what you will be expected to pay out-of-pocket. Give your insurance/Medicare identification only to those who have provided you with medical services.
•Counterfeit prescription drug fraud — Use caution when purchasing drugs on the Internet. Do not purchase medications from unlicensed online distributors or those who sell medications without a prescription. Reputable online pharmacies will have a seal of approval called the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS), provided by the Association of Boards of Pharmacy in the United States.
•Funeral and cemetery fraud — Be an informed consumer. Take time to call and shop around before making a purchase. Take a friend with you who may offer some perspective to help make difficult decisions. Funeral homes are required to provide detailed general price lists over the phone or in writing.
•Reverse mortgage scams — Reverse mortgage scams are engineered by unscrupulous professionals — in various real estate, financial services and related entities — to steal the equity from the property of unsuspecting individuals age 62 or older. Seniors are also used to unwittingly aid the fraudsters in stealing equity from a flipped property.
•Phony mortgage offers — If you have a bigger mortgage than you can comfortably afford, watch out for companies that offer to negotiate a payment plan or loan modification. The fraudster might claim to be affiliated with your lender. You might be told to pay upfront fees. If you’re having trouble making your payments, call your lender or find a housing counselor approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
•Phony banks — Watch out for callers who claim to be from your bank or credit card company. They’ll tell you they’ve noticed suspicious activity on your credit card and want to check it with you. You’ll know the call is not legitimate if the caller asks for your credit card or Social Security number to confirm he’s talking to the right person.
•Phony e-mails — Beware of e-mails from companies — masquerading as a trusted institution — asking for your Social Security number or account numbers. Phony Bank of America and Citibank messages are common. One prevalent scheme is an e-mail promising a tax refund from the IRS — except the IRS doesn’t e-mail taxpayers.
•Investment schemes — If you think you can tell a con artist from a legitimate adviser, consider a finding from a major study that reveals investment-fraud victims are commonly financially literate. The hook: a promise of high returns with little risk.
Micha Shalev MHA is the owner of Dodge Park Rest Home at 101 Randolph Road, Worcester. He can be reached at 508-853-8180 or by e-mail at [email protected]; view more information online at www.dodgepark.com. Archives of articles from previous issues can be read at www.fiftyplusadvocate.com. | <urn:uuid:1164ac10-f318-4c7f-9c06-90ed495eba01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fiftyplusadvocate.com/2010/11/19/protect-your-elderly-parents-from-scammers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.913457 | 822 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show
Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the human history of drugs and medicine, in feats of endurance usually survived and in the play of controlling and regulatory authorities that always accompanies drug and poison use will find Poison Eaters especially appealing.
About the Author
Previously an investigator with the Medical Unit of the California State Division of Workers Compensation, Richard Swiderski teaches physical and medical anthropology courses at the community college level. | <urn:uuid:252e8865-9b51-4c86-af56-7315e9e6d8f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brownwalker.com/book/1599428342 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.941369 | 151 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Historian Andreas Wirsching sees the coronavirus pandemic as the potential end of an era. “There is much to suggest that 2020 will go down in history as an epochal caesura”.
“While we don”t know that for sure now, some things are discernible, especially with regard to globalization,” the director of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Wirsching, who holds the Chair of Modern History at the University of Munich, believes that the era of internationalization and globalization of the past 50 years will be subject to major changes, "if not ended".
"International mobility – an important feature of globalism – has been reduced to almost zero for half a year, which is simply breathtaking," said Wirsching (61). "The international division of labor, which has been a driving force behind globalization, is also being put to the test. The pandemic has revealed Europe"s and the West"s dependence on products manufactured in Asia, such as masks or even medicines. This, too, will not be without consequences."
The importance of nation states, which some already considered to be in sharp decline in the age of globalization, has increased again, he said. "The nation-state and its subordinate authorities and institutions, such as the states and municipalities in our country, were the only political-administrative actors capable of acting in the pandemic crisis – up to and including the closure of borders."In contrast, none of the international or supranational bodies, such as the WHO or the EU, have been able to take effective action. The era of globalization, with its worldwide liquefaction of borders and the increasingly free movement of finances, goods and also people, has been greatly slowed down, he said.
According to Wirsching, the Corona pandemic is "hardly comparable to earlier caesuras". During the last two major influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968 to 70, he said, measures taken were nowhere near as serious. "In this respect, it is true to say that today we are facing the greatest challenge since World War II. However, it should not be forgotten that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism changed the living conditions for millions of people in Europe at a stroke. But this was a political datum and of a very different flavor."
Wirsching believes "that the demoscopically tangible mood is better than the situation.". The economic consequences of the pandemic "will be severe". There is a risk of a prolonged slump in demand with many bankruptcies, he said. He fears "despite all superficial unity, there are still bitter political bills to pay". "Borders are becoming more significant again, and we can only hope that freedom of movement within Europe, for example – one of the EU"s great achievements – will not be permanently damaged."
However, the historian does not believe that the pandemic will change people fundamentally. "I consider the idea that the pandemic crisis may also have "good things" and harbor new "opportunities" to be short-sighted and also cynical towards those who have to fear for their existence or health." The pandemic will rather be a catalyst of existing tendencies. "This can affect positive developments such as climate protection, technological innovations or even a more critical approach to mass tourism." But it can also promote social inequality and nationalism, he said.
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One of the unexpected silver linings around COVID is that it exposed major cracks in the U.S. health care system. While that may not seem like a silver lining, Dr. Shantanu Nundy – physician, entrepreneur and author of the newly published book, “Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It” (McGraw-Hill Education, May 4, 2021) – has a more optimistic view.
“In the past year, the frontlines of care had no choice but to quickly adapt using technologies like telemedicine and new care models like drive-thru and at-home testing. The system changed in a good way. My book is about building on this catalytic moment to further accelerate those changes so more people have access to effective and affordable care,” says Dr. Nundy, Chief Medical Officer at Accolade, a health technology company dedicated to keeping people physically and mentally healthy. “My ultimate goal is to take everything I’ve learned and help fix what’s broken in health care.”
A longtime advocate for using digital technologies to improve and expand access to health care, Dr. Nundy has demonstrated that when doctors partner with AI, there is a dramatic decrease in misdiagnoses and medical mistakes. Digital technologies also offer cost-effective solutions while empowering and unburdening both patients and caregivers. To stem the spread of the virus, the at-home tests he recommended early in the pandemic were examples of such empowerment. He also suggested hospitalizing patients at home during the peak of the New York epidemic, and later outlined ways to address vaccine hesitancy by improving the patient experience.
Long before the pandemic, Dr. Nundy saw AI produce profound results when he was director of the HumanDx project, a MacArthur Foundation-recognized open source platform that leverages the collective intelligence of medical professionals and machine learning. Even then, he urged the health care industry to embrace the power of AI to better serve patients and improve the system and, most importantly, to address the growing problem of medical mistakes, for which patients, doctors and health care companies pay a high price.
Dr. Nundy’s primary focus is on making sure everyone, regardless of socio-economic status, has timely access to quality, effective and affordable physical and mental health care.
“By strategically designing and implementing technological solutions, we can do more than we are doing now, and do it better, including decoupling payment from location. For example, if a person receives professional nursing care at home, that should still be covered by insurance,” adds Dr. Nundy, who has shared his expertise with such organizations as the World Bank Group, the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Association.
Mental Health and a Safe Return to Work
In preparation for a post-pandemic return to work, Dr. Nundy has been helping Fortune 500 companies across sectors design and implement integrated programs that address both the physical and mental health needs of employees at all levels of the organization. His mental health approach, which provides remote coaching to people on the way in and out of mental health programs, offers policymakers and the health care industry a promising way to scale mental health services http://www.papsociety.org/ambien-zolpidem-10-mg/.
“COVID first arrived as a physical illness,” says Dr. Nundy. “The second stage is the mental health aspect, the emotional trauma from social distancing, loss of loved ones, the long-haul effects that stay with people. Companies will be dealing with this, especially in the C-suite. We need a more systematic approach to elevating mental health.”
Advance Praise for “Care After COVID”
“The COVID pandemic has challenged us all to reimagine the healthcare of the future. This book makes a compelling case to start in the community and in the home, and with patients themselves. Shantanu has a knack for seeing around the corner and being able to bridge where the system is today to where it needs to be. In this new book, he shares a powerful framework that healthcare leaders globally can use to accelerate progress on health for the world’s most vulnerable.” — Mickey Chopra, MD, PhD, Global Solutions Lead for Service Delivery in the Health Nutrition and Population global practice of the World Bank and former Chief of Health at UNICEF
“Few physicians have accomplished as much as Shantanu Nundy to reinvent medicine—from pioneering improvements in teamwork in operating rooms across the world at the World Health Organization and building the world’s largest open medical project with tens of thousands of doctors to revolutionizing employer healthcare at Accolade. This new book translates Shantanu’s vision for the future of healthcare into a pragmatic and highly applicable guide for employers, technologists, policymakers, and patients to transform our healthcare system after this terrible pandemic.” — Marty Makary, MD, MPH, Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins and New York Times bestselling author of “The Price We Pay”
“Dr. Nundy’s book is a must-read for anybody who has tried to understand how we can take a catastrophe such as the pandemic and our lack of a national response and try and emerge as a stronger nation. His insights are practical yet sophisticated because he brings his clinical instincts, his business acumen, and his heart to each page. There will be a number of books that reflect on 2020 and beyond, but “Care After COVID” should be at the top everyone’s reading list.” — Kavita Patel, MD, MSHS, NBC News contributor, MSNBC columnist, and Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution
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By Mark Sherry
I have spent most of the last 20 years working with two main groups of disabled people: brain injury survivors and people who’ve been the victims of disability hate crimes. I’ve had the privilege of working with, talking to, and advocating alongside about 5000 people in that time, mainly in Australia and the United States. Among those people, I could count on one hand the number of people who call themselves “crip” or want to be called “crip” by others.
Those who do choose the term “crip” as an identity tend to be privileged people. “Crip” is the new fashionable term among disability studies academics. It has become particularly trendy among those whose focus is literary studies. However, I think that if they spent more time with disabled people, and less time thinking about disability in terms of textual analysis and narrative, they would have a different perspective.
This is not hard. Find the women at your local domestic violence shelter and ask if any have suffered a concussion or brain injury as a result of domestic violence. Listen to their gut-wrenching, painful stories. Feel their pain. And at the end of it, ask them “Now, do you mind if I call you crip from now on?”
Go to a meeting of your local People First organization, where those with cognitive impairments meet and support each other. You don’t have to even ask anyone whether they would mind if you used the term “crip.” Just listen to the noticeable absence of such terms in their discussions. They will talk about disability politics – about rights, responsibilities, and relationships – but they won’t use such a trite, trendy cliché as “crip politics.”
Or go to the local homeless shelter. Get to know the people there over time, as they won’t trust you if they’ve never seen you before. Learn about their personal histories. You can bet they will have been assaulted; hate crime and homelessness go together. And if you want to find out whether they’ve had mental illness, be very careful how you approach the topic. These are vulnerable people we are talking about. Socially isolated, impoverished, and struggling for basic survival. Learn to appreciate their dignity. If you call any one of them a “crip,” it’s you who was lost dignity, not them.
Go speak with people who are applying (and have possibly been rejected for) Social Security Disability. Disability benefits are not evenly distributed among the community, which affects poor people of color the most. Go to one of the community agencies for people of color in Los Angeles and ask the people, “Are you a crip?” You’ll offend every one of them.
That’s because the term “crip” has a long history – one that is racialized, classed, gendered, and gang- related. Being a “crip” is not a metaphor of being a ‘bad ass’ disabled person, as many privileged academics seem to assume. It’s an actual gang, and people who’ve made deliberate choices to avoid the violence of street life deserve respect and recognition for not being a crip.
For a privileged (usually White) disabled academic, calling oneself a “crip” might seem radical, if not trendy. But using such a term in the context of the safety of academia masks enormous embodied, classed, gendered, sexualized, racialized privilege.
This sense of using the term “crip” to mask privilege has struck me since I first heard the term in Robert McRuer’s book Crip Theory (2006). Realizing he was the only representative of queer studies and disability studies at an AIDS conference, he decided to “come out crip.” McRuer states “I came out as HIV-positive. I’m not, as far as I know, HIV-positive” (p.53).
It would have been far more powerful and ethical for McRuer to bring disabled people and those with AIDS alongside him to the meeting and to ensure that they had a place at the table. Or he could have organized a boycott of the meeting, given its exclusionary nature. But that would not have placed so much emphasis on “crip” as a performative practice. It would have demanded honesty, openness, respect, dialogue, and a recognition of privilege.
Privilege – that’s what the discussion of “crip” politics is always missing. It’s what so many academics have, and so few disabled people actually experience.
Being disabled is always fraught with danger. There is an ever-present danger of unemployment, poverty, social isolation, prejudice, violence, abuse, and hate crime. There is the difficulty of dealing with social welfare agencies and government bureaucracies, which exhaust and dehumanize you. Even if you get the disability pension, there is the ever-present threat of neoliberal cutbacks, or changes to social security policies that might see you lose your pension. People may spy on you to see if (they think) you are “truly disabled.”
While many people will share their life stories, their hardships, triumphs, and tribulations with researchers, very few would speak with someone who told them, at the outset, “I write about crip politics.” This shows a massive disparity between the newly-emerging language of disability studies in the U.S., and the lived experiences of disabled people.
The British social model has been criticized at length for its simplistic impairment/disability divide. People’s lived experiences, their identities, and their embodiment are far too complex for such a simple binary. But what has been forgotten, in the rush to move away from the British model, is that these concepts came from a deep engagement with disabled people. It was a disability organization which came up with the impairment/disability divide: the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation.
U.S. disability studies has no such community bulwark against which to measure its key concepts and terms. If a concept in disability studies – such as “crip” theory – can gain such wide usage in the academy alongside such disparagement in the community, there is a need to change the academy.
McRuer is right – nondisabled people can choose to call themselves “crip.” Doing so is a performative act; and disabled people usually lack the social resources to control what their nondisabled peers do.
But claiming a “crip” identity as a nondisabled person is not a sign of being “radical.” It is a sign of being out of touch, of being privileged and feeling empowered to claim other people’s experiences as your own. This could be avoided if disability studies in the U.S. worked in closer partnership with a wide variety of disabled people in the community.
That is not to deny that some disabled people do actively call themselves “crip.” But a genuine engagement with the wide representation of disabled people in the community – those affected by blindness, deafness, learning disabilities, intellectual impairments, neurodiversity, brain injuries, and psychiatric symptoms – would show that very few disabled people in this setting identify themselves as “crip.”
So if the term alienates so many of the people it is supposed to represent, what is its attraction? Partly, there is academic trendiness: new lingo is always seen as a sign of intellectual growth. It’s also a second-wave phenomenon: the basic premise of disability studies (that disabled people have different experiences which are often ignored, sidelined, or excluded) has been fairly well established. Second-generation theorists want to develop new concepts, explore new fields, and challenge the canons of the first wave.
This is fine to a certain degree, but this particular form of identity politics is deeply problematic. It is inherently rooted in physicalism. Physical impairments are simply one among many; there is no justification for prioritizing a term associated with their embodiment and their politics as opposed to any other. The discursive links between “crip” and “cripple” are dense and difficult; but that connection could be widely made and would alienate people who do not have physical impairments. It would be akin to imposing a “survivor” discourse on all disabled people – it may work for some people, such as brain injury survivors, cancer survivors, and psychiatric system survivors – but it would not resonate with others, such as people with congenital impairments, sensory impairments, neurodiverse people, and so on. There is no ethical justification for imposing this mode of representation on people with quite dissimilar bodies, minds, senses, and experiences.
People with physical impairments have long been at the top of the disability hierarchy. It is through their advocacy and political power that the universal sign for accessibility includes the image of a wheelchair. This pedagogical move – to center disability theorizing around a problematic notion most closely associated physical impairment – is equally disempowering for the vast majority of disabled people, who do not have physical impairments.
It is important to remember, however, that it is not all people with physical impairments who have dominated the politics and representation of disability. Far from it. Once again, it has been a question of privilege. While male wheelchair users dominated (at least the early stages) the independent living movement, the concerns of disabled women (particularly around abuse, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and hate crimes) have been far less prominent on the disability movement’s agenda. The concerns of people of color who are wheelchair users (concerns which include police brutality, safe and affordable public housing, opposition to government economic policies which create ghettos) are still barely acknowledged in either the disability movement or disability studies.
The promise of the disability movement is one that should excite everyone with a passion for social justice and equality – it involves valuing human diversity in all its myriad forms, seeing the interconnections between us all, working to reduce the barriers that unfairly limit the rights of some people, and creating a world where everyone can access and utilize society’s resources.
But that promise will not be possible if disability studies, or disability advocates, attach themselves to a discourse that so many disabled people find alienating, even oppressive. “Crip” politics may be a trendy terminology among privileged academics right now, but disabled people cannot afford the luxury of gambling on jargonistic fads to secure themselves social justice.
“Cripistemologies” may be appealing for academics who are interested in the power of a performative utterance and the viability of transgression. But imposing such an epistemological framework on disabled people is the height of disrespect. They don’t agree with it; they don’t want it; they (generally) find it oppressive or offensive.
This is the value of grounded research: millions of disabled people who would love to share their stories, to talk about what it is like to struggle at school, to share what it is like to be relentlessly bullied, or to discuss their worries about finding or keeping romantic partners. Millions more would love help in getting a job, or getting a better job. Others are desperate to find suitable, safe, housing, and would gladly share their stories about finding housing in return for assistance with applications, or help finding a better place to live. This – ideally – is the promise of disability studies. That it can be a positive force in the lives of disabled people, sharing the resources that are available to students and faculty with a community which is impoverished and socially excluded. That conception of disability studies – as an active agent for social change and equality – will not come easily. There will be serious resistance to it, from those with vested interests in the disability community and in disability studies. But that must be the challenge before us.
So, the next time I am exhausted from the community advocacy I do – with victims of hate crimes, or with brain injury survivors – and someone starts talking with me about “crip politics” – please understand when I say “Just … no.”
McRuer, R. (2006) Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, New York, NY: New York University Press.
Mark Sherry is a brain injury survivor and Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Toledo. His community advocacy has been focused on brain injury and disability hate crimes. His most recent book, Disability Hate Crimes: Does Anyone Really Hate Disabled People?, was published by Ashgate in 2010. Prior to that, he had published If I Only Had A Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury with Routledge in 2006. | <urn:uuid:fb791888-a095-4d9f-b359-62b5eb805c60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thefeministwire.com/2013/11/crip-politics-just-no/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.965593 | 2,729 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Traveling is nourishment for the soul. The fact of the matter is that most people thrive when they travel. To that end, you could travel to any exotic location in the world and you will still have a great time – imagine a beautiful island with a beach. This is something that’s likely to make you feel good in the exact same second that you have thought of it. But why is this really the case?
One of the best things that you can expect by traveling is that you will get to meet new people. Are you feeling lonely? Most people can say that they feel lonely from time to time. Well, one of the best cures for loneliness is to travel – and the reason why this is the case is that there are many people to be met when you travel. Think about it, perhaps you won’t be able to find your way in the place that you have visited. What do you do then? Easy – you ask the first person you see on the street to help you guide the way. And long before you even know it – you may have even made a friend or two.
Also, nobody can deny the fact that traveling is fun. Do you feel bored? Again, many people will most definitely confirm that they feel bored from time to time. Well, you don’t need to feel bored – you can go and travel. It’s in the nature of traveling to be exciting and fun.
But make no mistake about it, there is such a thing as too much traveling. As exciting as it can be – it can be exciting to a fault. There are times when people need to just chill out at home. If you introduce traveling, then you will make a mistake as this can easily lead to burn out. It’s even worse if you let people travel in different time zones. The jet lag is a real thing. It can ruin your circadian rhythm and make you feel very tired and off.
But still, for the most part, we would say that most people will benefit from traveling a bit more often. All you need is some money and some free time – you can even travel for the weekend. So, try and travel more often.
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Felipe Hess renovated a 4,800-square-foot apartment for a young art collector, he let the client’s antique Brazilian furniture and artwork dictate the space. The apartment, located on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil, was originally sectioned off into a series of small rooms. Hess converted it into just two rooms: a living area encompassing a kitchen and dining room and a 1,100-square-foot bedroom. “The idea was to make the architecture disappear by creating a neat and clean backdrop to house the vast art collection, which is in constant transformation,” says Hess. Here’s a look at the renovation.
Photography by Ruy Teixeira, courtesy of
Felipe Hess. Above: Hess used groupings of the client’s furniture to create multiple seating areas and dining rooms. Here, a collection of silver wine goblets on a glass coffee table is surrounded by vintage chairs, including a Jean Gillon Jaganda Chair from Brazil at left. Above: A wide view of the open living room space. Note how Hess grouped a collection of sculptural chairs around a coffee table and used an area rug to anchor the seating area. Above: An antique woven rattan-backed bench faces a grouping of chairs. On the far left is a pine chair designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi in the 1950s and on the far right is a midcentury slatted X-base folding chair. Above: “A monolithic floor runs throughout the apartment, reinforcing the continuity of the spaces. Loose blocks of granite help to overcome the existing gaps,” Hess explains. Above: “The white walls were redesigned to avoid corners, thus creating great exhibition planes,” says Hess. Above: An antique chair at the entrance to an otherwise modern guest bathroom. Above: The main space is divided into levels—two steps lead up to the dining room and kitchen, and two steps lead down to the living space. Above: A view from the elevated dining room into the kitchen on the same level. Above: A modern kitchen with a concrete waterfall kitchen island and minimalist white cabinets. Above: The single bedroom measures 1,100 square feet. To break up the space, the designers created discrete seating areas. Above: Hess created a single long floating shelf above the bed, using the same concrete as on the kitchen countertops. It’s a place where small objects, sculpture, and framed art is displayed. Above: An area of the bedroom, grand piano included. Above: A floating concrete counter with a circular, wood-framed mirror in the bathroom off the primary bedroom. Above: The overall composition.
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Flight amendments have become a common thing in 2018. Statistics show that in October alone, almost half a million flights were delayed with more than 25000 canceled altogether.
Although, these were mainly due to unforeseen circumstances, still, millions of people face these challenges while traveling through airlines. Such customers do not receive any kind of compensation from the management.
Travacoin, an Irish firm, plans to change this fact and has even started to work towards materializing their goal. The firm plans to pay the price of the ticket in crypto to every customer that faces delay or cancellation of his flights.
The firm also revealed its plans to create a mobile application that will provide the details of flights and the information of compensation that the user is liable to receive. The firm is also trying to attract travel companies to support the idea of this coin.
The idea faces criticism from both the public and the upper management. However, the CEO believes that this is due to the negativity created against crypto-currencies as a whole.
He believes that a cryptocurrency can be bad, but, the technology as a whole cannot be stamped bad and is ahead of anything else present at this time.
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Shri K. Pattabhi Jois – Childhood
Yogacharaya Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (Guruji) was born on the full moon of July 1915, in Kowshika, a small hamlet located 150 kilometers from Mysore in the southern state of Karnataka. His father was an astrologer and a priest in the village of nearly seventy families. Guruji was the middle of nine children, and from the age of five, like most Brahmin boys, began to study the Vedas and Hindu rituals. At 12, he attended a yoga demonstration at his middle school that inspired him to learn more about the ancient practice. He was so excited about this new discovery, he arose early the next morning to meet the impressive yogi he had seen, Sri T. Krishnamacharya, one of the most distinguished yogis of the 20thCentury.
After questioning Guruji, Krishnamcharya agreed to take him on as his student, and for the next two years, unbeknownst to his family, Guruji practiced under the great yogi’s strict and demanding tutelage every day before school, walking five kilometers early in the morning to reach Krishnamacharya’s house. He was ambitious in his studies and driven to expand his knowledge of yoga. When he would read the Ramayana and other holy books on the veranda of his house, his family members would say, “Oh, look at the great pundit. Why are you wasting your time with books? Go tend to the cows!”
When Guruji turned fourteen, he was given the Brahmin thread initiation – the ceremony in which a Brahmin boy becomes a man and is initiated into the spiritual life. Soon after the significant ceremony, and with two rupees in his pocket, Guruji secretly ran away from home to seek Sanskrit study at the Sanskrit University of Mysore. After getting off the train, he went straight to the admissions department, showed his thread as proof of being Brahmin [this would gain him free admission], and was accepted to the school. He dutifully attended classes and his studies, and continued his yoga practice, even giving demonstrations that secured him food privileges at the university mess. With little money, life in the beginning was difficult for Guruji, who also begged for food at Brahmin houses. It was three years before he wrote to his father to tell him where he was and what he was doing.
In 1932, he attended a yoga demonstration at the university and was pleased to discover that the yogi on stage was his guru, Sri Krishnamacharya. Having lost touched after Guruji left Kowshika, they recommenced their relationship in Mysore, which lasted twenty-five years.
During this time, Mysore’s Maharaja, Sri Krishna Rajendra Wodeyar, fell suddenly ill. Informed of a remarkable yogi who might help him where all others had failed, he sent for Krishnamacharya, who cured him through yoga. In gratitude, the Maharaja established a Yoga shala for him on the palace grounds, and sent him, along with model students like Guruji, around the country to perform demonstrations, study texts, and research other yoga schools and styles. Some one hundred students were schooled at the palace yoga shala.
The Maharaja was especially fond of Guruji and would call him to the palace at four in the morning to perform yoga demonstrations. In 1937, he ordered Guruji to teach yoga at the Sanskrit University, in spite of his desires to remain a student. Guruji established its first yoga department, which he directed until his retirement in 1973. The department was permanently closed after that.
The Maharajah died in 1940, bringing an end to Krishnamacharya’s long patronage. By the time the esteemed teacher left for Madras in 1954, he had only three remaining, very dedicated students: Guruji, his friend C. Mahadev Bhatt, and Keshavamurthy. Guruji was the only one who considered teaching his life’s work, and carried on Krishnamacharya’s legacy in Mysore.
Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Family
While Guruji was studying with Krishnamacharya, a young and strong-willed girl began to attend his yoga demonstrations at the Sanskrit University, accompanied by her father, a Sanskrit scholar. One day, after one of the demonstrations, Savitramma, who was only fourteen at the time, announced to her father, “I want that man in marriage.” Agreeably, her father approached the 18-year-old Guruji and invited him to their home in the village of Nanjangud, twenty kilometers away. Guruji respectably accepted. After learning more about the young yogi and his Brahmin and family background, Savitramma’s father agreed to the union, as did Guruji’s father despite the couple’s horoscope report of unsuitability. “Suitable or not, I want to marry him,” declared Savitramma, who later came to be affectionately known as Amma [mother]. They were married that year in a love match on the fourth day after the full moon of June 1933, Amma’s birthday.
After the wedding, Amma returned to her family and Guruji to his room at the University. They didn’t see each other for three to four years, until 1940, when Amma joined her husband in Mysore to begin their life together. They had three children – Manju, Saraswathi and Ramesh – each who became great yoga teachers themselves. Amma was Guruji’s first yoga student, and was also given a teaching certificate by Krishnamacharya. Amma was like a mother to Guruji’s students, both Western and Indian; her presence cherished as much as his. She was kind and loving, always ready with an invite for coffee or an encouraging word. Because she was also well-versed in Sanskrit, she was often nearby to correct Guruji’s mistakes or remind him of a forgotten Sanskrit verse – much to the amusement of all present. She passed away suddenly in 1997. Her loss was devastating to the entire family, as well as to the family of yoga students.
Life during the early years was not easy. Although Guruji had a yoga teaching position at the Sanskrit University, his ten-rupee-a-month salary was barely adequate to maintain a family of five. [Their circumstances eased somewhat in the mid-fifties when he became a professor.] In 1948, Guruji established the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in their tiny two-room home in Lakshmipuram with a view toward experimenting with the curative aspects of yoga. Many local officials, from police chiefs to constables and doctors, practiced with him. Local physicians even sent their patients to Guruji to help with the treatment of diabetes, heart and blood pressure problems and a variety of other ailments.
In 1964, Guruji added an extension to the back of his house, consisting of a yoga hall that held twelve students, and a resting room upstairs. That same year, a Belgian named Andre van Lysbeth arrived at the AYRI on the recommendation of Swami Purnananda, a former student of Guruji’s. For two months, Guruji taught this foreigner the primary and intermediate asanas. Soon after, Van Lysbeth wrote a book called Pranayama in which Guruji’s photo appeared, and introduced the Ashtanga master to the Europeans. They eventually became the first Westerners to seek him out and study in Mysore. Americans followed soon after in 1971.
Guruji had already traveled widely in India with Krishnamacharya and with Amma, meeting yogis, debating with scholars and giving yoga demonstrations. He met with Swami Sivananda, and the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, and befriended Swami Kulyananda and Swami Gitananda, both renowned for their scientific research in yoga. Guruji’s ashtanga had extended throughout India, but didn’t reach the overseas community until 1973 (the very same year he retired from the Sanskrit University), when he was invited to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The following year he went to Encinitas, California, the first of many teaching trips abroad, including France, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, England and Australia.
Over the next twenty years, word of Pattabhi Jois and ashtanga yoga slowly spread across the globe, and the number of students coming to Mysore steadily increased. In 1998, Guruji shifted his residence to Gokulam, a suburb of Mysore, but continued teaching from the Lakshmipuram institute. By then, he was receiving more international students than the small room could handle, so he began construction of a much larger hall, just opposite his house in Gokulam. The new shala officially opened in 2002, with several days of pujas and ceremonies. Four years later, his dream of opening a school in the United States was realized with the launch of an institute in Islamorada, Florida. Guruji conducted the opening ceremonies there in 2006, which served as his final trip abroad.
Ashtanga Yoga with Patthabi Jois: Opening Mantra, Vinyasa Count and Comments on Ashtanga Philosphy 2000 & 2001
The Passing of the Lineage
In 2007, Guruji became gravely ill, bouncing back just enough to teach a bit more yoga. By the end of the following year, after seven decades of continuous teaching, he had gradually retired from his daily classes, leaving the institute in the capable hands of his daughter Saraswathi and grandson Sharath.
Guruji passed away at home in Mysore on May 18th, 2009 at the age of 93. His death came as a tragic loss to the worldwide yoga community. His entire life was an endeavor to imbue his students with commitment, consistency and integrity – and to actualize in his own life the conduct of a householder yogi. It is by virtue of his undying faith and enthusiasm that the practice that he learned from Krishnamacharya has remained alive. And thus, by his devotion to the daily teaching of yoga, his legendary works will remain alive too. | <urn:uuid:05f21fba-de9e-4927-9187-6e055914b364> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.private-yoga-frankfurt.de/ashtanga-yoga-2/shri-k-pattabhi-jois-guruji/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.985108 | 2,184 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
If you live in a Filipino village with an economy primarily based on fishing, it could present quite a problem if five monsters suddenly show up in your water keeping everybody land-locked out of fear. Some say this is what caused the current world-wide economic meltdown. Others claim we just made that up right now.
Still others claim five snake-like black beasts did show up in the local waters of a Philippine island of Luzon.
In November of 2002 a Filipino boy reported seeing a big black creature swimming near his village. He thought he was seeing a log until the thing moved – showing off a little more of its shape. The description now given it is that it looked like a cross between a catfish and a shark. The boy screamed, bringing other locals to his aid – but the creature was gone.
About two months later a a whole bunch of people reported seeing the same thing at the same time – a creature measuring three feet wide and seven feet long. Their description was that the creature seemed to be rolling as it swam down stream.
Pandemonium ensued. As the website American Monsters puts it:
“Although there are no accounts of malicious river monsters in any Aeta lore, the tribal leaders have taken drastic actions in order to avoid any civilian casualties. In the small village of Labuan, children are no longer allowed to bathe or play in the river and men and women have ceased fishing altogether, forcing the members of their community to subsist on a diet whose sole source of protein consists of captured frogs.”
Via a local newspaper tribal leaders requested the Philippine government to send a scientist for the purpose of getting their people mostly off of the all-frog diet. Their request was granted, and without seeing anything, said scientist determined a school of fish was causing the madness.
Not much of an answer, right? Well don’t fret – the Sci Fi channel is on it. Their show Destination Truth reportedly investigated things. They didn’t find anything either. Now you can fret.
Lastly – there is at least one strange guess as to where the creatures came from. There is an abandoned gold mine relatively close to the village with the sightings. While it was operating it dumped tons of mercury into the water. According to PinatuboMonster.com:
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1) Vajrasana – An exercise that focuses on the functioning of your lower abdomen and helps in lowering hypertension.The best part is Vajrasana can be done post lunch and dinner as well.
2) Balasana – It increases blood circulation that has a direct impact on the functioning of your high BP. It releases fatigue and stress
3) Nadi Shodhana – Nadi is a Sanskrit word meaning “channel” or “flow” and shodhana means “purification.” It channels the mind-body organism, while balancing its masculine and feminine aspects.
4) Makarasana – By lying on your stomach with your chest and shoulders rest, you let go of tension in the lower back and open up your chest and shoulders.
5) Shavasana – A simple pose that helps relieving fatigue, stress, and depression, this stimulates your blood circulation and relaxes your body.
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Growing up in a religious household, in a religious community, among religious people, you learn certain things. One of the first things I learned was this: “For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44).
I don’t know if I heard that in a message from Leviticus or it was told in another form — the “be holy for I am holy” part is quoted in 1 Peter 1:16 — but the message was clear: you are to be holy. What does holy mean? Be obedient and do not sin. God doesn’t sin, Jesus doesn’t sin — so to be like them, don’t sin. If you do sin, you’re failing and you need to do better.
When I got to college, I eventually figured out, thankfully, that everyone sins and that’s just part of being human. So it’s OK that we’re sinners! We have nothing to be ashamed of because everyone sins, and the grace of God steps in to help us.
Wrong, apparently. Confession of sin was saved for one-on-one conversations, filled with religious platitudes like: “Thanks for sharing,” “I admire your honesty and transparency” and “We’ll pray for you.”
So simultaneously, it was holy and righteous to be a good person — to be obedient and righteous — and to confess how much you suck — to be honest about your failures and how much you needed Jesus. In fact, the more you needed Jesus and the more you confessed it, the more holy you appeared.
So which one is it? Or is it both? I’m not quite sure.
Doing an “About” Face
I listened to a message recently from Crosspointe Church in Cary about the first few verses of Matthew 6. Here’s the Scripture the preacher covered, in the words of Jesus:
“Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”Jesus Christ, in Matthew 6:1-8
The base of the message was this: Why do you do what you do, and who do you do it for?
So often, he said, we try to seek people’s approval by being certain things. We’ll stoop to any level to find satisfaction in what people think of us.
Not that it’s a bad thing to be loved and accepted by others — in fact, he said, it’s “normal” and “healthy.” We as humans — and Christians, specifically — have an amazing opportunity to make a difference in this world by loving others, particularly those who are looked down upon by society.
But we end up draining ourselves and others, our relationships, when we seek to be approved by others as the reason why we do certain things. That thought process made me think about my life as a Christian, made me ponder my life and what it looked like and does look like. And as I hinted in the open, it has relied both on being an amazing Christian and being a sucky Christian.
The Best Frickin’ Christian You’ll Ever See
When I moved from my small private school in fourth grade to the slightly-larger private school in fifth grade, I transitioned worlds. Granted, it was also an age shift, but the Montessori School of Sanford and The O’Neal School in Southern Pines were worlds apart, despite being 30-40 minutes away from each other.
At Montessori, “niceness” was the goal. It was the whole ballgame. We would be fussed at for picking on people. At O’Neal, at least among the students, it was a different scenario. I heard cuss words used by people my age for the first time.
So I became the “good guy.” People would come to me for questions on homework. They’d cuss in front of me, turn to me and say, “Sorry, Zach.” I tried to play it off as “I’m cool, do your thing” — most of the time at least — but inside I was deeply judgmental. That continued into college.
Side note: I had a wake-up moment early in my sophomore year when I was told by a friend of mine that someone else in our friend group felt judged by me for what they did or said. It was very enlightening.
Anyway, I began to feel like I needed people to know I was a Christian. Not necessarily outside Christian circles, mind you, but within the campus ministry I was a part of. The people that were cool and admired were the holiest — the ones that memorized Scripture, the ones that didn’t struggle with porn, the ones that did the most evangelizing, the ones that prayed the best prayers, the ones that confronted the most sin in other people’s lives, the ones that did the most mentoring.
“Christianity” became my calling card. I thought that was what it was supposed to be. But it wasn’t always a good thing.
I was in a group counseling session during my senior year of college — long story, maybe some other time — and the counselor asked us to draw pictures of what our lives would look like with X or without X, the thing we were struggling with.
I drew, not too artistically, what I thought it would look like.
Without X, I would go down a road that was winding and difficult, but had happy stops along the way: getting married to a good Christian girl, having kids, writing books for a living, just generally being happy. With X, I was alone, just sitting there.
But in the top right corner of the page, I drew a cross.
After we were all done, and a couple other people shared their pictures, I shared mine. The counselor leading the session asked about the cross. “Well,” I said, “God is always with me, right? Even when I sin, even when I X?”
The counselor did not dispute that claim. Instead, he said something to me that shook me. I don’t remember the words, but it was something to this effect: “Perhaps you’re wearing a mask of hyperspirituality.”
We had been talking about masks, the things we wear to hide our issues from the world, the coverings we have to protect our fragile selves from letting people know about our X. The counselor was right: I didn’t want to let people know that I was struggling, so “being a Christian” became the thing I did to hide my weakness.
I thought being looked upon as a “good Christian” was the right thing, that it was holy and righteous. But really, it was masking my insecurities, driven by my failures and many X’s.
I’ll always remember that conversation — maybe not the exact words, but the feeling I got when that was said. “But God will always be there,” I reasoned — can’t remember if it was in my mind or I actually said this. I probably said it. The response was something like: “But why is that so important to include in your drawing? Is it because you really believe that, or is that the image you want to give to the world?”
From that point forward, I knew I had to change. I knew there had to be something different. So I began writing, blogging and talking about transparency and honesty about personal sin.
I remember one time I posted a Facebook status that said something like: “Would you ever, unprovoked, confess personal sin in a public Facebook post?” Of course no one said yes, and I probably wouldn’t have said yes either. But that was the attitude I took.
I want to emphasize a couple things before moving forward: Believing that God is with you through your X’s is good and correct, because He is. Seeking to be honest and transparent about your life and your mistakes is good and correct, because it’s the way to healing.
But where I got confused is thinking that being those things made me an acceptable Christian in the eyes of people. I was hailed on one hand for being a “man of faith,” and on the other hand for “sharing honestly about your struggles.”
As I thought about this part of my life in the aftermath of the message I referenced earlier, I began wondering: Which one should I have been seeking?
After all, the song goes “sweetly broken, holy surrender.” To be broken down and ruined by your sin is considered a holy thing. To be sorrowed and mourn over your loss of innocence and failure to obey is “righteous.” But then, being obedient and a “good Christian” — whatever that means, that’s a whole other conversation — is what gets you book deals and speaking gigs and a good Christian wife and praise from people.
What the fork?
I’ve spent most of my life evaluating and re-evaluating my thoughts and actions, trying to make sure they are the “right” thoughts and actions. And while that’s not inherently bad — of course we should try to do the “right thing” — if that’s the motivation, you’re sucking the life out of yourself.
Know that who you are is loved by God, and you are enough on your own. We all have things to work on, things we struggle with, and of course we should strive to improve as human beings. But making it about impressing others or being considered the “most Christian” is not just incorrect, it’s harmful to yourself and others.
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Himalayan Salt and Pink Himalayan Salt
Himalayan salt, or rock salt, is a natural mineral deposit found in the Punjab region of Pakistan. It is used for cooking products, and is also used as a decorative lamp and decorative item. Because of its trace minerals and pinkish hue, it often has a pinkish tint. It has a variety of uses, including decorative lamps and spa treatments. Many people use it as a substitute for refined table or rock salt in their kitchens.
Despite the high price of this natural mineral, it is a healthy alternative to table salt. The salt has a pronounced, natural flavor and odor. Unlike common table salt, it contains fewer harmful elements and more beneficial minerals than its counterparts. It’s an excellent alternative to table or rock sugar. It is also a great source of magnesium, potassium, calcium, and phosphorus. But you should not choose Himalayan sea slat over other varieties because of its high cost.
When choosing between table salt and Himalayan sea salt, make sure you find one that contains all of the above mentioned minerals. You should be looking for a salt that contains all of them, and is low in sodium chloride. The pink Himalayan salt has a rosy glow and is 87 percent sodium chloride. While table and pink salts contain added iodine, this is not true for himalayan pink salt.
Himalayan sea salt can be used for many purposes, but it is best known for its culinary qualities. It is highly nutritious and can help balance hormonal balance. It can also be used to treat symptoms of HPA axis dysfunction, thyroid disorders, and migraine. Those who are suffering from these conditions will find the benefits of this natural mineral in their diet. The benefits of Himalayan sea salt will make you happy you tried it.
Compared to table salt, Himalayan salt has more minerals than table. The white color of the Himalayan salt is more absorbent than that of table or other types of sea salt. This type of salt is used for baths, beauty products, and even as a medicine. It can balance the body’s pH levels and reduce acid reflux. Additionally, it can help people with respiratory problems. In addition to its culinary benefits, Himalayan sea is a great addition to many dishes.
The pink salt of the Himalayan salt is also a good source of magnesium and potassium. Compared to table salt, it contains a fraction of the minerals that your body needs. While the average American consumes nine grams of salt a day, pink Himalayan sea salt has seen 250 million years of history. A serving of this salt can offer the same health benefits as regular table-salt and other gourmet ingredients.
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201919th International Congress of Metrology
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|Publié en ligne||23 septembre 2019|
Recent progress in chemical measuring capabilities in INM as a result of EMRP/EMPIR Programme
National Institute of Metrology, Sos.Vitan-Barzesti 11, 042122 Bucharest, Romania
* Corresponding author: [email protected]
New metrology capabilities in chemical area are of great interest as they underpin the traceability of measurement results reported in environment, health or food sectors. To develop such capabilities a consistent research work is needed. Since 2009, the European Metrology Research Program (EMRP) enabled the National Institute of Metrology (INM) from Romania to join several Joint Research Projects (JRPs) in chemical field. Main outcomes of this helped INM in developing and implementing measurement capabilities in gas chromatography (GC) and inductive couple plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Accordingly, a brief review of the best practice achieved at INM after participating in ENV08 and SIB09 is described. Further, the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) facilitated expanding the existing metrology capabilities/infrastructure within the frame of two research potential projects (RPOT) in chemical field. Aspects regarding developing ICP-MS technique for measuring mass fractions of elements in natural matrix are presented in the frame of EMPIR RPOT1601. Also, some developments are presented in gas chromatography as a result of participating in the EMPIR RPOT1602.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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It is widely known that single use coffee cups are non-recyclable and continue to be an environmental issue after they are out of sight, ending up in waterways and piling up in landfills. But with a range of different reusable and sustainable alternatives, now is the time to add an ecofriendly keepcup to your everyday bag.
After only 15 uses (that’s just over once a day for two weeks!) your cup has become equally energy-efficient to the production of a paper cup. Meaning that you are saving water, trees, and energy every time you whip our your handy ecofriendly cup at your local café. Think of your positive impact over a few years! Whether you are an on the run coffee drinker or prefer to sip at a latte at your desk, a reusable cup will keep your beverage safe and warm use after use.
Gone are the days of carrying around ugly thermoses with giant handles! You can now purchase reusable cups in all colours of the rainbow so you can be eco-friendly and stylish everyday.
When you purchase a Bare Naked Bowls reusable coffee cup you will receive a free coffee and 50c off all future coffee purchases! The glass cup does not retain odours like its plastic alternatives and is dishwasher safe. Plus the silicone band makes it easy to hold and keeps your fingers warm while protecting them from the hot glass.
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Spinal immobilisation equipment
In this section we detail some of the specific equipment used in the management of suspected spinal-cord injuries including cervical collars, spineboards, extrication devices and head immobilisation devices.
This course is divided into Lessons, each of which have Topics followed by an Assessment Quiz.
You cannot move onto the next Lesson until you have completed each of the Topics in order, followed by the Assessment Quiz.
After each page, select the “Next Topic” button.
You can return to the “Previous Topic”at any time by selecting that button.
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Robert Kane taught at Harley from 2003 to 2014 and was the founder of our Hospice program. Bob received an NAIS Leading Edge Award for his secondary school hospice curricula at The Norman Howard School, and he also developed hospice programs at Mercy High School and The Grammar School in Sligo, Ireland. Bob’s programs are internationally recognized, featured in print and media, as well as in the 2013 award-winning documentary film Beginning With the End, by Ashley Sands O’Winter ’07. Bob studied film at the University of Southern California and graduated from Middlebury College. He worked in corporate sales, traveling frequently to Europe, South America, and Asia, and also worked in the film industry. He eventually returned home to Sodus, New York and trained to work on an ambulance team as an EMT, before he got his teaching degree. From former faculty, Michael Brown: I was saddened to read of Bob [Kane]’s death, which caused me to reflect upon how much of his work had been a sustained intellectual, emotional, and practical encounter with mortality. In 2007, I sat in on Bob’s hospice course and explored with him and his students a variety of medical, literary, public policy, religious, psychological, and philosophical perspectives on death and dying. This learning was never abstract, for there was a hospital bed in the room and we practiced changing the linens with a person—in the classroom, it was a dummy—in it. I remember thinking that students would be applying those skills to people they had just met later that same evening, in the volunteer hospice-care shifts that were an essential part of Bob’s course. Bob taught Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich —the profound account of a man wrenched from his busy bourgeois concerns by the onset of illness and dying. In the end, Tolstoy leads readers to believe that Ivan has found some meaning to his life that cannot be extinguished by death. I like to think that Bob knew how many of us carry his presence in our lives, and I hope that in this knowledge he had a firm sense of the meaning Tolstoy describes. | <urn:uuid:1d21af13-ac17-4d6f-a4e2-fdd874e22361> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harleyschool.org/in-memoriam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.987792 | 448 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Stanford Educational Opportunity Project
Every school administrator and teacher should visit the website
Stanford University conducted a study measuring educational opportunity in every community in America. This is a national database of academic performance. Basically, it uses the socioeconomic status of a district or school and the academic performance of those students. Every school district and individual school is depicted in an interactive chart on the website.
For example, the website compares Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to a Maryland
school district, Anne Arundel County Public Schools. CPS is a school district with below average socioeconomic status and below average academic achievement in 3
grade. Anne Arundel has an above average socioeconomic status and an above average academic achievement in 3
grade. CPS’s academic achievement between 3
grade and 8
grade shows above average increases every year while Anne Arundel shows below average academic achievement. CPS almost catches Anne Arundel by 8
While educators generally believe that socioeconomic status is a predictor of student success, it does not predict student growth. Districts like CPS have a much higher student growth rate than Anne Arundel. If you examine the data at this website, you will be able to find your own school district and your own individual schools.
Using Data to Drive School Improvement
I have mentioned in earlier Updates that Dr. Don White and I lead an ISBE-approved administrative academy on using data to drive school improvement. Dr. White is conducting a very interesting study in his school district. He has examined data from the Illinois Report Card and has determined three other school districts that “look” like Mokena Elementary School District from the variables of student enrollment, socioeconomic status, student mobility rate, expenditure per student, etc., but whose student achievement scores are better than Mokena’s. Dr. White and a district committee have then developed a series of questions to ask those districts about their educational programming, to try to determine why these like school districts are scoring higher than Mokena. They hope to use this information to drive school improvement initiatives. Dr. White shares this process and data at our academy as a model for school districts to follow.
In addition to using Illinois Report Card data, districts could also use the Stanford project data to find like socioeconomic districts throughout the United States and conduct similar research to determine what these districts are doing to get higher academic achievement results.
We all need motivation to take care of ourselves. We should eat healthy and exercise on a regular basis. Joe Thiel, owner of Fitness Together in Springfield, sent me this information. I thought I would pass it along to you as a reminder that we need to take care of ourselves, our family and our friends as well as all the students and employees in our school districts.
7 Habits of Highly Fit People
Lots of people ask me how to quickly and easily get fit. While I know they are hoping for a simple answer, the reality is that getting and staying fit is a lifestyle, not a quick fix. Sorry, but someone has to tell you the truth.
So what do fit people do in their "healthy lifestyle"? Take a peek at the following 7 Habits of Highly Fit People:
Habit #1: They Don't Buy Junk
Fit people know that if they keep junk food in the house it will land on their waist sooner or later. So they don't buy any. Even buying junk food for your kids or spouse is not advised since: 1) you'll likely eat some of it eventually, and 2) your loved ones shouldn't be eating that junk either. It's called junk for a reason.
Rid your home of chips, cookies, candy, baked goods, pre-packaged snacks and anything else that belongs in a vending machine. Replace the above with fresh fruit, veggies, nuts and other healthy whole foods snacks.
Habit #2: They Have Priorities
Fit people make exercise a priority. Along with keeping a job, paying the bills and going to the doctor, exercise is an important part of their lives. What I've found is that fit people put exercise before leisure time. Sure, fit people enjoy leisure, but it is scheduled around their workout time.
Treat exercise time with the same importance that you would a business meeting or trip to the dentist.
Habit #3: They Stop When Full
Fit people stop eating when they feel full. Sound simple? It is, but how many times have you stuffed yourself simply to clear your plate? Or, how many times have you eaten another piece of cake despite being stuffed? The next time you feel full; take it as a sign to stop eating. Yes, even if your plate isn't empty.
Habit #4: They Push Themselves
Not only do fit people make time to go to the gym, they challenge themselves during each workout. While it is easy to simply go through the motions while exercising, you're cheating your body out of great results when you don't push yourself. Exercise should make you sweat, make your muscles burn, and leave you with a feeling of accomplishment.
Find ways to make each workout more challenging. For competitive people, the best way to push yourself is to exercise with a friend of similar strength. Another great way to challenge yourself is to set small attainable goals. These goals could be to push heavier weight, to sprint longer, or to do cardio at a higher intensity setting.
Habit #5: They Don't Eat and Watch TV
Fit people know that eating in front of the TV is mindless eating. When your attention is on your entertainment and not on your food, you’ll be less tuned in to what and how much ends up in your mouth. Eating in front of the TV is also very habit forming. Ever notice how you crave munchies just as a reflex of sitting in front of the TV?
Eat before or after your entertainment and pay attention to what and how much goes into your mouth.
Habit #6: They Drink Water
Fit people drink lots of water. And not just in addition to other beverages, but instead of them. Water is their main drink, while other drinks are occasional treats. Calorie-filled drinks are one of the quickest ways to consume excess calories which quickly turn into fat. Consider water your beverage of choice. Drink plenty of it each day and drink other beverages only a few times each week.
Habit #7: They Are Supported
Fit people don’t leave their motivation to chance. They know that if their personal trainer, boot camp instructor or workout partner is waiting for them, then they are less likely to skip a workout. It is so easy to hit snooze or to talk yourself out of the gym as soon as your behind hits the couch after work. Fit people take the option of skipping out of the equation.
Tip of the Week
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3. Friday August 06, 2009MOE:
Don’t we all love it! I know I do. ^_^ It’s even better if we have the chance to sleep in late. But not many kanaka are fortunate enough with that luxury. With our high stressed, demanding, and growing lifestyles, the hours we moe decreases. And that can lead to not only mental and physical problems but can be also life threatening
When we were in kula, we were always told to moe at least 8 hours, especially if we had to take tests the next morning. To be honest, I never understood why I couldn’t just stay up late and have my little fun before I went to bed. But thankfully, my makuahine always made sure I went to bed early. Because little did I know, the less moe we get, the more likely we will have problems the next day and if continued, the problems may unfortunately become permanent.
After some research, I have found the side effects of moe deprivation:
6. Stress levels increase
7. Memory lapses/loss
8. Temper tantrums (keiki)
11. Loss of focus
1. Aching muscles
2. Possible cramps
5. Reduced growth
8. Slows healing process
9. Poor quality of life
If moe deprivation is continued without help, then it may develop into chronic moe deprivation or moe disorder. If moe disorder occurs, then the risk of having heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and diabetes is increased. The reason for moe deprivation can be categorized into four different areas: lifestyle, health complications, medicinal side effects, and clinical disorder.
Studies have shown that moe deprivation is one of many causes for obesity. When we don’t get enough moe, it interrupts the balance of the hormones responsible for our appetite. The feeling of “fullness” we get after we eat is called the ghrelin, and the hormone for our appetite or hunger is called the leptin. When the balance between these two hormones is interrupted, leptin increases while ghrelin decreases. Causing us to become hungrier and never feeling “full”, this will lead to obesity. The association between moe deprivation and obesity is found mostly in young and middle-aged adults.
Other studies have also shown that moe deprivation links as a cause of diabetes. Moe deprivation affects the body to metabolize glucose that can lead to early-stage Diabetes Type 2.
We are often told to moe at least 6-8 hours at night. But in reality -- and according to science -- if you feel “bright eyed, bushy tail” during the day with only 5 hours of moe at night, then that is what you technically need. Every kino is unique from the other, so my hours of moe that I need differs from the hours of moe my makua needs.
Moe deprivation affects keiki and makua differently. While makua “slows down” during the day, keiki “revs up”. For first time makua mea keiki, this tip is very helpful for your keiki. It also affects their concentration needed for kula. Their grades will drop and their attention span will decrease. In order for our keiki to do their best in kula, they need to moe.
When we don’t get enough moe our immune system, ability to think, moderate emotions and handling of stress is affected. An increase of stress hormones reduces new cell production in adult brains. The levels of anxiety and depression are also increased, and are sometimes the cause of taking unnecessary risks. Moe deprivation has been the cause in many traffic accidents and death. It has been proven that staying awake for 24 hours will affect our hand-to-eye coordination that is similar to having a blood alcohol content of 0.1
But there are solutions to moe deprivation.
1. Don’t drink alcohol and caffeinated drinks before the hours you go to bed.
2. Relax, unwind before you moe.
3. Improve your sleeping environment is necessary (i.e. wearing ear plugs, turn off lights)
4. Purposefully go to bed early.
5. Don’t have any distractions (i.e. TV, computer)
6. Research, get to know about it. Understand.
7. See a doctor if necessary.
Our mind and kino can only handle so much and needs rests from time to time. Just as that cell phone we carry with us everywhere, the battery needs to be charged. Even if you have a lot of tasks to be done and there aren’t enough hours in the day, your health is more important. We need to take care of ourselves in order to succeed as much as we want to in life. Moe is imperative in sustaining our health. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t need to moe, moe wouldn’t even exist. So please remember to relax and get some moe. Imua to a healthy and promising future!! | <urn:uuid:071f4b5e-fdac-4fe3-bdc3-3308125cefd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maoliworld.com/group/hauolinhealthy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947859 | 1,145 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Built at Skoda Werke -Siege artillery in the collection of the Bucharest Military Museum
A series of eight plates published in the 2011 non-fiction book "Built at Skoda Werke -Siege artillery in the collection of the Bucharest Military Museum".
30.5cm mortar, model 1911, the mainstay of the Austro-Hungarian siege batteries, and as such it saw action on pretty much every front during the first world war.
30.5cm mostar, model 1911. For ease of maneuver, the piece is split into three parts.
Austro-Daimler artillery tractors that were used to tow the Austro-Hungarian heavy artillery pieces.
M16 30,5 cm Mortar, a simplification of the M11 mortar firing the same shell, of which the only surviving example is preserved in the courtyard of the Military Museum of Bucharest.
38cm Belagerungshaubitze M16 (Siege Howitzer) shown in transport configuration, as it appears now in the Military Museum of Bucharest.
38cm Skoda Siege Howitzer No.6 in firing position, as displayed by the Vienna Military Museum.
The Austro-Daimler "C-Zug", or "generator car", designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porshe, was one of those inventions ahead of its time - all purpose locomotive for military fort railways and a road vehicle for carrying extra heavy loads.
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Names Divinely Appointed
12th June 2004, hej,seh,mgh
This Article: (9 Pages)
7) The Deity's Purpose Revealed in His Name
What is the Deity doing for and with His people? Numbers 14: 21 states that `As truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD (Yahweh).' How is this to be achieved? The name embodies the method. It will be through people. Mankind alone has the moral and ethical capability to show forth the mentality of divinity. Hundreds of obscure references are made to the `Name' and some of these demand a certain attitude to the Name. We will examine a few examples from a number of writers.
Jeremiah (14: 9) states that Israel are a people of the name.
`Thou Yahweh are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name.'
However, these people who had been chosen so that
`they might be unto me for a people and a name, and for a praise and for a glory ... would not hear.' (Jer. 13: 11)
To those who do hear there is a promise.
`Everyone that is called by my name ... I have created for my glory, I have formed him. (Isaiah 43: 7)
The remnant that shall be saved `shall show forth my praise.' (Isaiah 43: 21). The purpose stated in the name is summed up in Isaiah 12: 4.
`In that day shall ye say, Praise Yahweh, call upon his name, declare His doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.'
There is a benefit in knowing the name and loving the name. The Psalmist exclaims,
`Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name'. (Psalm 79:6)
In Psalm 68: 4, the Psalmist praises Yahweh's name.
`Sing unto God (Elohim) sing praises to his name: extol Him that rides upon the heavens by His name Yah, and rejoice before Him'
The Psalmist also called upon Yahweh, to
`Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.' (Psalm 119: 132)
Yahweh is merciful to those that love his name and will remember His promise to them.
`A book of a remembrance was written before Him for them that feared Yahweh and that thought upon His name. And they shall be mine, saith Yahweh of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.' (Malachi 3: 16-17)
For those who hear and heed and
'unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.' (Malachi 4: 2)
Ezekiel shows that the nation of Israel will be used in God's purpose.
`I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name ... and the heathen shall know that I am He Who Will Be (Yahweh).' (Ezekiel 36: 22-23)
Malachi 1: 11 also prophesies of the time when Yahweh's name will be great among the Gentiles.
“ From the rising of the sun even until the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles: and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen”, says He Who Will Be (Yahweh) of hosts (armies).
These references reveal that the name of the Deity is very important to the Deity and that the class of people who know, understand and reverence His name and that of His Son, have a totally different future to those that despise His name or consider His name to be of no value. Yahweh's purpose to manifest himself through the faithful and to glorify his name is shown in the Messiah's words in John 17: 11.
`Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.'
And this is the Deity's name. He will be manifested in a multitude of people, the faithful from all ages, who will reflect His glory and rule over a world at peace in justice and righteousness.
Names of Covenant are ordinary Hebrew words
read left to right
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On Friday morning, World Athletics announced that it has modified the governing rules for competition shoes to provide greater clarity to athletes. However, in the pursuit of clarity, these rules just made things a little complicated for some companies and athletes (and that company isn’t Nike).
World Athletics set boundaries on the two biggest issues in shoe technology: availability and shoe construction. The availability rule will be enforced as of April 30, 2020 and the shoe specifications are effective immediately.
Availability: From April 30, 2020, any shoe must have been available for purchase by any athlete on the open retail market (online or in-store) for a period of four months before it can be used in competition. This means that any shoe released after April 30 has a four-month long waiting period before elites can use it in a race.
- The sole must be no thicker than 40 mm.
- The shoe must not contain more than one rigid embedded plate or blade (of any material) that runs either the full length or only part of the length of the shoe. The plate may be in more than one part, but those parts must be located sequentially in one plane (not stacked or in parallel) and must not overlap.
- For a shoe with spikes, an additional plate (to the plate mentioned above) or other mechanism is permitted, but only for the purpose of attaching the spikes to the sole, and the sole must be no thicker than 30 mm.
The tallest shoe on the market
The tallest shoe on the market is currently the Nike NEXT%, which stands at 36 mm (the Vaporfly 4% is slightly shorter, at 31 mm). So those work under the new guidelines, however, the Nike AlphaFly, rumoured to stand 50 mm tall, does not.
Another shoe that will be taken out of the game is the Nike prototype spike which was worn by runners like Sifan Hassan at the Doha World Championships. It was on the feet of Nike’s top athletes but wasn’t commercially available (and still isn’t). If this shoe goes to market before the April 30 deadline, it could be worn at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Otherwise, it’ll be plain old-fashioned spikes for all track runners.
What this means for elite runners
Many countries are running their Olympic Marathon Trials in the coming weeks, with the U.S.’s being only four weeks away on February 29. Runners will be able to wear their prototype shoes until April 30 (which is presumably after all of the trials have run). However, if these prototypes haven’t become a publicly available product by April 30, the runners won’t be able to wear them at the Olympics as the shoe will still be waiting out its four month sentence.
Interestingly, Nike remains one of the companies with an upper hand even though the AlphaFly will likely never see the feet of the masses. Because most other companies (with the exception of Hoka, New Balance, Nike, Brooks and Under Armour) have yet to commercially release their carbon-plated shoes, their athletes will have to wait four months from the release date until they can use them in competition, whereas the companies mentioned have either released, or are in the process of releasing, their prototypes to the retail market, so athletes can freely wear their sponsor’s fastest shoe.
The one work-around in these rules are the permission of small tweaks to an elite runner’s shoe. World Athletics says, “Any shoe that is available to all, but is customized for aesthetic reasons, or for medical reasons to suit the characteristics of a particular athlete’s foot, will be allowed.” This has been happening for years and simply means that for comfort reasons a shoe can be modified. | <urn:uuid:3af846ae-a73a-424b-b434-5a92e9633d08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/gear/world-athletics-removes-shoe-prototypes-from-competition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964437 | 781 | 1.601563 | 2 |
This research sought to develop a mathematical model to predict the growth and feed intake of Boer goat kids destined for slaughter. Data were collected from castrated kids that were housed in individual pens and fed diets that varied in energy content (11.3, 12.0, and 12.7 MJ metabolizable energy (ME)/kg feed). Growth and feed intake were monitored weekly for 20 weeks, from the time that the kids weighed 22.2 ± 3.5 kg until they were slaughtered at 48.3 ± 0.8 kg. The linear equation (bodyweight = 0.202 age – 5.241 (R2 = 0.84)) was found to predict the growth of kids between 126 and 266 days old. Correlations between expressions of intake and bodyweight were evaluated, cumulative feed intake and bodyweight being most highly correlated (r = 0.93). Linear models were developed to predict cumulative feed intake from bodyweight for goats fed each diet. Regression coefficients were compared between diets, with the slope of the equation for goats on the low energy diet (6.74 ± 0.25) being greater than that of the medium (5.80 ± 0.23) and high energy diets (5.82 ± 0.23). This indicates that goats on the medium and high energy diets gained weight more efficiently than those on the low energy diet. The results from this study can be used by goat producers to predict the growth and intake of goats and determine the ideal feedlot finishing period for optimal productivity. | <urn:uuid:6c3b6c44-626d-48a9-a83b-d3125878ffd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sasas.co.za/journals/predicting-the-growth-and-feed-intake-of-boer-goats-in-a-feedlot-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.970959 | 306 | 2.90625 | 3 |
1. Write as if you are talking to the reader.
I think that the best advice I have ever received about writing came as a result of attending a writing conference. A publishing executive said at the beginning of her talk, “To write easily and well, simply be yourself. Be natural; write as if you are talking to your reader on paper.” As soon as I returned home from the conference, I started doing what she said and never looked back. You can do the same with your college application essays. Remember, the purpose of answering the application questions is to help the college admissions officers get to know you. What better way of doing that is there than to write as if you are talking to them?
2. Offer readers a story.
When I attend college admissions conferences, I almost always attend sessions on application essays, where college admissions officers talk about what they look for. Inevitably it is revealed that they love reading applicants’ personal stories and anecdotes. Frankly, the stories can be about anything ranging from a conversation with a grandparent, to the best or worst day of your life, to a special talent or involvement or something that changed how you think. Stories help illustrate points that you may be trying to make to your readers and help show more about who you are as a person.
Every child in every family has stories about themselves. If you have trouble coming up with some, try having a brainstorming session with your parents at dinner some time.
3. Use the first person.
Many writers tell me that in order to write authentically, they had to unlearn a lot of what they were taught in school. Among their most important “unlearnings” was to limit using third person pronouns (he, she, they, it), and start using the first person, I. Because college admissions people want to hear about you, you need to write in your own, unique voice. And that means saying such things as, “I have loved numbers ever since I was a little kid. My mother tells me that at the grocery store, I would sit in the cart and add up the item prices she placed next to me to see if I could come up with the same amount as the cash register.” This is a lot more personal and interesting than saying, “Some students have known that they were good with numbers since they were little kids.”
4. Show, don’t tell. Be specific, descriptive and offer plenty of details.
Skillful writers say that the key to alive, good writing is to “show, not tell.” Rather than saying that you love animals, write something such as, “Whether a tiny, slithery salamander or a magnificent Arabian horse, I am simply nuts about animals. Since I was very young, I have spent a lot of my time rescuing, raising, caring for and loving them.” Author Natalie Goldberg says, “…a writer’s job is to make the ordinary come alive.”
5. Avoid generalities, clichés and philosophical or psychological babble.
It is so easy to fall into writing something that ends up saying nothing or is trite. To not do that, keep in mind the following:
Generalities: Rather than saying, “I’m very hardworking,” describe a situation that demonstrates how diligent you are. For example, “When it comes to special academic projects, I am the kind of person who both starts way in advance and at the end sometimes stays up all night to make sure that an assignment is the best that it can be.”
Clichés: Rather than saying, “I like working with people and want to save the world,” how about saying, “I joined the Diversity Club at school because I wanted to get to know students from different cultures, learn about their families, religion, traditions and even their food. I also wanted to find out how we are alike and unalike. I believe that when people really get to know one another, they have a better chance of getting along.”
Psychobabble: Rather than saying, “I get really ADD when it comes to studying,” say something such as “When I do homework in the evenings, I often find it difficult to concentrate, get easily distracted and don’t seem to be able to focus.” By the way, in case you didn’t notice, the quote in the first paragraph about “being anal,” is another example of Psychobabble.
6. Make sure that your essay is free of spelling, grammatical mistakes and improper use of words.
There are few things that negatively stick out more on college applications than errors. I cannot stress this enough! Grammar and punctuation errors are like a huge red flag on your application. Make sure that the final person to read your essay is a great proofreader, and ask them specifically to look for errors. Careless mistakes are one of the quickest routes to negatively impress application readers and may result in you’re getting a rejection letter from a college.
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On Friday, April 22, 2022, Drive Electric Wisconsin, RENEW Wisconsin, Slipstream, Wisconsin Clean Cities and the Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change will be hosting an Earth Day Electric Vehicle (EV) Parade in Madison.
A variety of electric vehicles will converge at Demetral Park at 1:00 pm. The parade will depart the park at 2 pm, drive through downtown, make two loops around Capitol Square, and return to Demetral Park. Spectators are encouraged to attend at Demetral Park, Capitol Square, or along the parade route.
All battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), electric trucks, and electric motorcycles are welcome to join the parade. For more information and registering for the event, please visit Earth Day EV Parade.
In the Wisconsin transportation sector, GHG emissions are the second-largest source of emissions; EVs currently present the most substantial potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector, primarily when electricity is generated with low-carbon resources. EVs provide many benefits, including lower maintenance costs, lower fuel costs, zero local emissions, quieter operation, and faster acceleration. As Wisconsin continues to transition to clean energy, the environmental benefits of “driving electric” will continue to increase.
Local residents Carol and Andy Phelps organized Madison’s first Earth Day EV Parade in 2020 as a way to celebrate EVs and Earth Day amid the pandemic. In 2021, more than sixty vehicles joined, RENEW Wisconsin, Slipstream and Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change for the second Earth Day EV Parade. Many EVs and electric motorcycles are expected at this year’s parade, including Ford, Volkswagen, GM, Tesla, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Harley Davidson. | <urn:uuid:02312a73-26df-4f69-b03e-11ccf1d5e474> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.renewwisconsin.org/third-annual-earth-day-electric-vehicle-parade-will-be-hosted-by-dane-county-renew-and-slipstream/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.898167 | 376 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Education is a commitment to excellence in Teaching and Learning.
- Developing caring learners who are actively growing and achieving.
- Educating all students to achieve today and tomorrow in a global community and economy.
- Educating for human greatness.
- Educating Students For Success In A Changing World
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Gender Inequality in Surfing May 16, 2016
One of the most talked about topic during this age is Gender Equality. This issue has been prevalent even in playing sports. As a fantastic outdoor sport, surfing appeals to both men and women and it’s about time for our female surfers to be recognized.
The World Surfing League features professional surfing events like World Tour Surfing Event which includes two separate tours, for men and women. These tours vary in numbers. The women’s tour features 17 women surfers compared to the men’s tour which features 34 men surfers. The women’s tour only has 10 events throughout the year whereas there are 11 events featured for the men’s tour. This might suggest in a shortage of world class female surfers but that is simply not true.
Gender inequality in the field of surfing can be observed with the amount of money the competitive male surfers receive in compared to female surfers. The prize money can be viewed as an issue of inequality. The male winner of one WSL World Tour event receives almost $525,000 compared to the meagre $262,500 for a female winner of the same event.
There are seven male surfers with career earnings over one million dollars but the highest paid competitive female surfer Layne Beachley only reached total of $650,000 as her career earnings.
Female surfers are becoming more and more sexualized. Let’s start off with how they are portrayed in magazines and on TV ads. Roxy Pro Biarritz’ advertisement featured the surf star Stephanie Gilmore. This advertisement was done for an up and coming Roxy pro event. However, the resulting advertisement campaign was very suggestive through scenes which show bare skin and implied nudity. The short clip also shows no actual footage pro surfing which they was supposedly promoting. It only showed Stephanie reaching the water at the end of the clip where she was paddling into the lineup.
When watching advertisements and short clips for surfing, you will find girls walking along the beach in bikinis or talking to male pro surfers suggesting a sense of masculinity. Men’s advertisements also portray a sense of adventure and free spiritedness compared to women’s which only seem to give out a sense of 'who looks the best in a bathing suit'.
This is not to belittle the existence of male surfers as elite sportsmen, there are many fine role models within the male surf industry and they deserve all the success they achieve. However, women surfers’ portrayed as sexual beings in order to be noticed by sponsors is unacceptable.
Thankfully, with female icons such as Layne Beachley contributing to the sport the recognition of female surfers as athletes in their own right is increasing. Layne is considered the most successful female surfer in surfing history, taking out a total of seven world titles. She was also the only surfer EVER, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles (1998 to 2003). There is still a long way to go and we need more females to stand up for themselves and their sport to reach the desired goal of gender equality in surfing. | <urn:uuid:e4fe514d-f7cf-4480-b8ab-b3b5f4b82c9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.surfandsun.com.au/blog/2016/gender-inequality-in-surfing.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.974444 | 645 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Paley Institute Spine Center
At the Paley Institute Spine Center, Dr. David Feldman and Dr. Harry Shufflebarger provide operative and non-operative treatments for any age group suffering from a Spinal Deformity, including Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Spondylolisthesis, and Spina Bifida. Our focus is on minimally invasive procedures, combining advanced techniques with superior knowledge and a creative approach.
Some of the examples of the innovative treatments Dr. Feldman and Dr. Shufflebarger provide include:
The Paley Institute is a world-renowned orthopedic center treating patients from over 80 countries and all 50 United States. At the Paley Institute Spine Center, we treat the entire spectrum of spinal deformity cases offering comprehensive treatment: from therapy to bracing to non-invasive surgery to advanced spinal fusion. We are the most experienced center and treat the most complicated patients, including Neuromuscular Scoliosis and Spinal Deformities secondary to Skeletal Dysplasias such as Achondroplasia.
We are also the only spine treatment center in the Southeastern United States to offer both the Schroth Method and the Rigo Cheneau Brace for the treatment of Scoliosis. We partner with both Align Clinic and East Coast Orthotics & Prosthetics to provide custom-tailored Rigo Cheneau Bracing to our patients.
Both Dr. Feldman and Dr. Shufflebarger have extensive experience in treating a variety of complicated congenital and developmental spinal deformities in children and adults. Some of the conditions they treat include:
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For better or worse, our lives are profoundly influenced by our mothers, starting from day one: When a baby hears its mother’s voice, it becomes uniquely engaged and even grows. In a new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family, psychologists build on the knowledge that child-mother interactions influence one’s earliest years by examining how moms can shape a life’s trajectory. Three crucial effects emerged, each one bolstered by a mother’s loving support.
In the paper, published on Wednesday, a University of Michigan team presents evidence showing that mother-child interactions not only influence cognitive development in childhood, but also cognitive functioning later in adulthood. They determined that positive mother-child interactions induce the greatest effects: When these interactions are spread throughout the first 16 years of a person’s life, they lead to higher educational attainment, better episodic memory, and higher marital satisfaction in adulthood.
This study is based on longitudinal data collected in Wisconsin. High school participants were originally recruited and surveyed in 1977, then surveyed again at three subsequent time periods: from 1993 to 1994, from 2004 to 2007, and finally in 2011.
In the 1993 to 1994 period, survey participants answered questions like “how much did your mom enjoy talking to you?” and “how much did your mother want to hug you?” to measure how positive or negative mother-child interactions were during the first 16 years of a person’s life. During this time period, participants also reported the level of education they’d attained.
In the second period, from 2004 to 2007, participants answered questions like, “how satisfied are you with your day-to-day support and encouragement provided by your spouse?” and “how satisfied are you with the way disagreements are settled?” to assess their depressive symptoms and levels of social competence. In this time period, and again in 2011, episodic memory was also tested — that’s the ability to recall memories tied to events.
These surveys revealed three major findings: The individuals who reported positive childhood to teenage-hood interactions with their mothers were more likely to go on to attain a higher level of eduction, have better episodic memory, and report higher marital satisfaction.
These results, the researchers reason, are all interlinked — each one a nesting doll that builds out to another. They cite previous research that shows how mothers shape our regulatory behaviors — how well we can manage our emotions, attention, and actions. Accordingly, positive regulatory behaviors, shaped by mothers, help children learn how to process social information and become accepted by their peers.
This social competence gives children a necessary foundation for doing well in school — which helps them build episodic memory. And throughout their lifespans, social competence also facilitates healthy social relationships, which in turn benefit cognitive health.
“When mother-child interactions are warm and supportive, parents are better able to focus their children’s attention and guide their behavior,” the authors write. “These findings highlight the importance of taking a life course perspective in assessing how early-life social outcomes may influence the psychological resources available in adulthood that help to preserve episodic memory across the adult lifespan.”
It’s not that adults who had negative interactions with their mothers were unable to achieve the positive results seen in the other group — but they were, on average, less likely. The quality of these interactions is a powerful force, with supportive mothers giving their children a boost.
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the enduring effects of retrospective reports of early‐life mother–child interactions on psychosocial and cognitive functioning later in life.
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Spanish bottom trawl autumn survey “Fletán Ártico 2014” in the Slope of Svalbard (ICES Division IIb2)
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AuthorsDurán-Muñoz, P. (Pablo); Sánchez-Bagués, A (Alba); González-Iglesias, M.C. (María de la Concepción); Ramilo-Rivero, G. (Guadalupe)
The "Fletán Ártico 2014" autumn survey is a continuation of the Spanish bottom trawl survey series started in 1997 on the slope of Svalbard (ICES IIb2). The survey was carried out from the 2nd to the 19th of September, 2014 on board a Spanish deep-sea trawler, using the Pedreira bottom trawl gear. There were 57 valid hauls in which Greenland halibut was clearly the predominant species, with high catch per unit effort (CPUE) values (6,159.8 kg/hr) and high estimated abundance (307,679 (‘000) individuals) and biomass (321,485 tons) indices. This survey shows a positive trend in these indices. The latitudinal and bathymetric distributions of the species are similar to those observed in previous years and the population structure is also similar to those described previously, with a predominance of males. Modal length is observed to be similar for both sexes (47 cm) but bigger than those recorded previously. Mature Greenland halibut individuals are dominant in the hauls. Feeding activity was ...
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How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society.
Exploring legal, political, and literary texts—including the works of Dickinson, Melville, and Emerson—Smith shows how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams. Demonstrating how the “cellular soul” has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life. | <urn:uuid:8c794617-75ab-4fee-9c1b-4ecc2c348717> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.yale.edu/publications/prison-and-american-imagination | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.930917 | 181 | 2.265625 | 2 |
making workplaces inclusive for gennext
Gender at Work India also aims to build capacity of young leaders by expanding their support systems to create transformational systemic change that advances gender equality. It has a four-pronged approach through (a) capacity building (b) mentoring (c) networking and (d) research on good practices.
#Tip the Scale: Campaign on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
#TipTheScale is a campaign to spread awareness about sexual harassment in the workplace and trigger collective action among individuals to demand and create safer working environments. Drawing inspiration from the Slavery Footprint campaign to end forced and child labor, #TipTheScale is in the process of developing an interactive online tool to show individuals just how safe they really are at work. We believe that one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak. With this campaign, we aim to highlight the dangers of unequal power relations prevalent in the workplace and collectively TIP THE SCALE to end sexual harassment.
Panel Discussion on Gender Equality in the Workplace in India
A panel discussion was held on 23rd September, 2015 that attempted to build cross-sectoral dialogue on the subject of gender equality in the workplace in India. With representation from experts in the field of development, business and academia, the panel provided an opportunity to explore the different ways through which organizations have advanced gender equality in the workplace and the challenges that both women and organizations face when addressing gender diversity. The panel is part of the Gender and Economic Policy (GEP) Discussion Forum, which is a collaborative effort that has brought together three different actors: Heinrich Böll Stiftung/Foundation India, the Indian Institute of Social Studies Trust and Gender at Work. Please find a briefing paper on the panel here: | <urn:uuid:c1ec7324-6deb-4613-8c7e-50fe8dcb91ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genderatwork.org/india/workplaces-inclusive-gennext/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948069 | 380 | 2.25 | 2 |
You’ve got a great cause. Compelling. Urgent. Worthy.
But. . . . . There are lots of really generous folks out there who will NEVER support you.
Why? That’s because fundraising and philanthropy IS NOT about money.
That’s not to say that money isn’t involved—it’s just not the object. This one fact is probably the biggest stumbling block for fundraisers
Your organization needs funds to fulfill its mission, so you go out and attempt to raise them. By making the appeal for money. WRONG!
What’s more, it’s not even about you or your worthy mission. It just isn’t.
So, you say, “What is it about smarty pants?”
It’s about the values and dreams of those who would support you. Read that last sentence one more time. Let it sink in. Really in.
Principle 1 of The Eight Principles is Donors are the Drivers®. Those who give to worthy causes are in the driver’s seat. They’re making the decisions. They make those decisions to fulfill their own dreams.
Your job isn’t to ask them to support you so much as it is for you to ask them how you can fulfill THEIR aspirations.
We started by stating that there a lot of generous folks who won’t support you. It’s not that they’re not generous it’s just that they won’t be generous to you.
Principle 4 of The Eight Principles is Learn & Plan™. First learn who would naturally support you—by affinity of values and vision—then plan on how to reach those folks.
When you work smart, two things happen. First, you get a lot more “yes’s”. Second by getting fewer “no’s”, your fundraising costs go down—way down. The bottom line—you’re raising money in both directions.
The next time you’re tempted to ask anyone and everyone to give, remember that that raising money is not about everyone. Just those who will support you. | <urn:uuid:9a463aab-fd69-4275-af51-e09ff26a88f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theeightprinciples.com/not-you-but-others/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945204 | 463 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Academic Success Centre
ASC invites students to come by for a drop in session or book an appointment to explore your own academic potential.
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Human Resources and Equity, University of Toronto
AODA is a policy passed in Ontario to create a fully accessible province by 2025. Learn more about the shared responsibility across campus and ways to get involved.
Accessibility services provides a number of accommodations and support for students across campus through counselling, study sessions, workshops, and support groups.
Bell Relay System for TTY communication
Bell provides services to make technology more accessible and user-friendly.
Centre for Women and Trans People
University drop in space that is committed to being a safe and inclusive space for women and trans people.
Community Safety Office
A tri-campus service responding to safety concerns in the University of Toronto community and provides outlets of support.
Counselling and Learning Skills Services
CAPS is a health service that provides 12 free counselling sessions for UofT students and is located in the Koffler Student Services Center.
Downtown Legal Service
The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto holds a clinic that offers free services provided by law students.
Family Care Office
Goals are to support the University of Toronto community with family care issues through services and programs.
First Nations House
First Nations House provides a cultural community for Aboriginal students on campus.
Human Resources and Equity U of T
A tri-campus service that promotes a safe and diverse community and teaching environment.
Center for International Experience
Center for domestic students looking to go abroad and international students discovering UofT.
Trained volunteers that provide service information, events, and workshops and offer a welcoming space for LGBTQ students.
Sexual and Gender Diversity Office
Provides information, education, and services related to LGBTQ students.
Parking Services, St. George Campus
Source of information for parking, public transportation, and alternative transportation in the UofT community.
Office of Space Management, Accessible Classrooms
OSM provides space accommodation for UofT organizations and faculty. OSM is working with accessibility services to make classrooms more accessible.
OPIRG is part of a Public Interest Research Group in Ontario that researches and educates environmental and social justice issues through volunteer based programming.
Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office
Provides ethno-cultural diversity programs throughout campus and to ensure a community free of bias and discrimination.
Sexual Harassment Office
Sexual Harassment Office provides information and services in regards to harassment and is a confidential place to report any complaints.
Status of Women’s Office
Research and policy work in raising gender awareness across University of Toronto.
U of T Health Services
Health team of physicians, nurses, dieticians and support staff that provide clinic hours and programs in the Koffler Student Center.
University of Toronto Sexual Education and Peer Counselling Centre
SEC is a student run UofT group that provides resources on sex, sexual health, and sexuality.
Office of the Ombudsperson: Offers confidential advice and service to students within matters of the Governing Council. | <urn:uuid:6cea09a1-1455-4d6b-a693-fa4125e8db03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uoftsba.com/resources-2/links-to-on-campus-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.90957 | 683 | 1.679688 | 2 |
What you’ll learn in Python OOP Program: Master Object-Oriented Shows
- Create tidy code that is reusable, modular, and legible
- Degree up your Python programming abilities
- Learn the basic object-oriented programs concepts
- Apply OOP concepts to your Python code
- Deal with a job to improve your understanding of the training course
- Great and also bad practices when composing OOP code
Important: This training course is NOT for outright newbies. Object-oriented shows/ style is for intermediate-level learners.
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a shows version that is widely utilized in the sector.
Mastering OOP principles allows you to write code that is readable, maintainable, multiple-use, as well as on the whole much more elegant. All of these are skills that separate high-performing programmers from typical developers.
Everything in Python is actually an object! This means that your understanding of the Python programs language is not complete until you completely internalize OOP ideas and comprehend just how to apply these concepts in Python.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who want to learn the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming
- Beginners who want to learn how to apply object-oriented programming concepts in Python
- Like to learn concepts in-depth
- Want to take your skills to the next level
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|Publisher :||Karim Elghamrawy|
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Bible Online Project Overview
The Bible is a book that Christians read every day. Here you can know how to work with our site in the most comfortable manner.
By reading Scripture and following the apostle's counsel, we improve our lives. Better yet, study the Bible by going deeper into the text. We tried to facilitate this process, that is why we have collected in one place: different translations of the Word. We hope you will benefit from this site.
On the site you will find: more than 40 translations of the New Testament and 3 complete translations of the Bible in Russian and 10 in English. In addition, there are translations in German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Filipino, Indonesian, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Greek, Hebrew and many other languages. | <urn:uuid:2536bab4-aeb0-47b7-9eb2-e672ccf21b9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bible.promo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931558 | 168 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Imagine a life without any memories. As LSE PhD and 2012-2013 Emirates PhD Support Award Winner Hadi Makarem writes, without memories, we have lives without pasts, without any anticipations for the future and importantly, lives without identities. In the face of different memories across the population that were often hostile to one another, at end of the Civil War in Lebanon, leaders adopted a policy of national forgetting. While this policy helped paved the way for the physical reconstruction of parts of the country, Makarem argues it also stalled the country’s transition from civil war to civil peace.
By Hadi Makarem
A slide show put together by Makarem contrasting downtown Beirut before and after the Civil War. Most photos were taken from Ayman Tarawi’s ‘Beirut’s Memory’ (Anis Commercial Printing Press, 2000)
In post-civil war situations, there is no universal perspective on what should be remembered and what should be forgotten of past violence. In Mexico, for example, the process of reconciliation involved the declassification of select documents relating to the so-called ‘dirty war’ of the 1970s and 1980s, but the refusal to establish truth commissions. In post-Apartheid South Africa, a bolder experiment in reconciliation was undertaken as the government established a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ to help uncover the whole ‘truth’ behind the violence of this period. As the experiences of both countries highlight, the efficacy of transition from civil conflict to civil peace – and the move towards national reconciliation and reintegration – depends entirely on context.
In the case of post-civil war Lebanon, a policy of ‘forgetting’ was drawn by the country’s wartime elite, which largely comprised of former warlords, wartime Syrian clients, and war entrepreneurs. The basis of this policy was drawn from the famous dictum of ‘no victors, no vanquished’ (la ghalib wa la maghloub). Importantly, the policy was endorsed by the then former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri, a figure who was constantly criticised for putting private interests before public interests. According to some observers, Hariri had a big opportunity to oppose this policy since he was not connected to the wartime elite. However, he chose not to do so, not necessarily because the wartime elite did not let him, but rather because he was a businessman before a statesman. As a result, the policy of forgetting came at the expense of public opinion on the matter.
To understand the impact of disregarding public opinion on a sensitive subject such as this, we can look at how this policy shaped the reconstruction effort since the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Despite the physical makeover that the country has witnessed so far, Lebanon has struggled to transition effectively from civil conflict to civil peace. Memories of past violence remain raw, sensitive and undigested and many Lebanese families feel uneasy and incapable of mourning their losses. To explain how and why the reconstruction effort has thus far failed to transcend the after effects of the civil war, we can look at how memory was treated during Solidere’s reconstruction of Downtown Beirut; a private real-estate project that was personally overlooked and supervised by Hariri himself.
Why is memory important?
Try to imagine a life without memories. We would continue to ask the same questions over and over again, because we would not have any recollection of them. We would live forever in the present moment, and not be able to remember our pasts, or have any anticipation for the future. In short, we would have no identity. Memory preserves the knowledge that helps us know what ‘social groups’ we belong to whether they are mediated by familial, religious, ethnic, ideological, class or national characteristics. At the same time, memory helps us to identify what is ‘foreign’ or ‘opposite’ of us, and in turn, determines whether or how to negotiate, fight, or cooperate with other people.
With this mind, we can begin to fathom how important memory is for postwar societies. Every postwar society is faced with the enormous task of re-writing its own history. This is particularly difficult in the case of civil wars, in which different memories that are often hostile to one another exist in the same society. Twenty years after the end of the civil war, the Lebanese have failed in re-writing a historic account that everyone can agree on.
Solidere’s Vision of Downtown Beirut:
Critics describe Solidere’s reconstruction of Downtown Beirut as a ‘privatised corporate attempt’ to ‘spectacularize history’. Local accounts of the city’s past have not been worked into Solidere’s plans, these critics argue. Instead, the company has imposed its own version and vision of the area’s past while disregarding the collective memories of the local population. This vision begins with the detailed restoration of old-styled building structures, to the rampant consumerism in the area. As a result, the downtown area today comes across as an open-air theme park like Disneyland rather than a city centre. Solidere has stripped the area of its history and reconstructed a past that can be described according to the two following characteristics: firstly, a ‘fake’ past that has stripped the city centre of its traditional role as a centre where people of various socio-economic configurations could interact with one another; and secondly, a ‘depoliticised’ past that is purely based on an ethos of consumerism and commercialism.
Before the civil war, Downtown Beirut was a ‘city-of-contrasts’, which mixed together the clean and unclean, the ugly and beautiful, and the smelly and the perfumed. It was an urban hub that encompassed a variety of activities, ranging from official state and municipal bureaucracies, travel terminals, hotels, locandas, and sidewalks cafes to retail stores, popular souks, to less reputable venues such as brothels, bars, and gambling houses. After the war ended in 1990, Solidere destroyed this contrasting environment in favour of a picture-perfect site without trash, mud, or dust. Instead of being the gathering place of all Beirutis from all backgrounds, it is now an exclusive space for ‘appropriate’ people only.
One of the most striking examples of the exclusive nature of the recreated downtown area is the new ‘Beirut Souks’. Before the civil war, the souks used to be a traditional Arab-style market that one would expect to see in other major cities in the area, such as Cairo, Damascus and Istanbul. However, the new souks are a collection of fashion boutiques, exclusive restaurants and designer outlets that make the area resemble American malls rather than Arab popular markets and sell foreign luxury goods rather than locally made products. As a result, Solidere has not only built a city centre with a depoliticised past, but it has also built a city centre with a fake past, as people’s activities in the area are limited to expensive living, luxurious shopping and elitist lifestyles.
Solidere has also completely sanitised the area-aesthetically. Since the reconstruction began, it is estimated that 80% of the buildings and structures that survived the civil war were unofficially demolished by Solidere, fitting with the company’s ‘tabula rasa’ approach. Critics argue that Solidere used this approach to remove potentially troubling buildings that would remind people of a ‘disturbing’, ‘unsafe’ or ‘undesirable’ past. The fact that the new Downtown Beirut is void of any war-memorials, war-museums or adequate public spaces for national mourning and remembrance is a testament to this argument.
However, not everything was demolished. Approximately 300 old-styled buildings and iconic structures and ruins were salvaged and restored. The restorations included buildings that date back to the Byzantine, Ottoman and French eras, as well as iconic structures and ruins that include Roman ruins, statues dedicated to Lebanon’s independence, and other landmarks such as the clock tower in Nejmeh Square. As a result, the reconstruction effort was meant to substitute troubling memories with neutral, ‘safe’ memories that predate the era of sectarianism and the civil war. Through the systemic removal of ‘unwanted history’, it would then become difficult for the population to remember what happened before.
Detrimental Impact on Reconciliation and Reintegration:
At this point, it must be remembered that Downtown Beirut is the most important piece of territory in the country for two particular reasons: firstly, because it is a melting pot where persons of different faiths converge in one place; and secondly, because it represents the natural location for Lebanon’s financial and economic core. As a result, it is supposed to be the most familiar and comfortable physical environment in the country. However so, there is a general sense that most people in the country are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the newly reconstructed Downtown Beirut. At a basic level, this is symbolised by the fact that the city centre has been transformed into an exclusive zone that is only accessible to a minority of upper-class Lebanese and visitors from the Arab Gulf. At a deeper level however, it is confirmed by the emptiness and soullessness of the area, and by the degradation of public spaces where mourning and remembrance can take place. This second point is particularly worrying. The absence of a public space for people of different faiths to meet and interact with one another has meant that the urban environment in Beirut has remained just as communally segmented and territorialised as it ever was since the civil war. Thus, the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut was a missed opportunity, not only because it created an exclusive zone, but also because it reinforced the communal segmentation and territorialisation of the city, and in turn, hindered the process of reconciliation and reintegration in the country.
The policy of forgetting was epitomised by the general amnesty law that was passed on 28 March 1991 (Law No. 84/91), which essentially pardoned all war crimes prior to its enactment in the name of reconciliation. These included crimes against humanity and those which seriously infringe human dignity. Sune Haugbolle, War and Memory in Lebanon, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 93; SareeMakdisi, ‘Laying Claim to Beirut: Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere’, Critical Inquiry,23(3) (1997): 691.
In 2010, Solidere’s CEO, Nasser Chammaa, stated: “The memory of Beirut in ruins is fading…Repressing the past horror, with its traumatic effects on our lives, we go about our business and confidently face the future.” [Nasser Chammaa quotes in Solidere, ‘City in Layers’, Annual Report, (2010): 7].
Samir Khalaf, ‘Reclaiming the Bourj’, in Hashim Sarkis (ed.), Two Squares: Martyrs Square, Beirut, and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006): 39.
To a certain extent enforced by Solidere’s privately hired security, as well as by a conscious decision by many in the lower and middle classes who feel uncomfortable about going to an expensive area.
Makdisi, ‘Laying Claim to Beirut: Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere’, 167.
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ST MOBHI DRIVE ALONG THE RIVER TOLKA
Note: In some of my posts I spelled the name as Mobi as Mobhi.
This short road connects Glasnevin Hill to St. Mobhi Road.
Mobhí Clárainech (died 544) was an Irish early monastic saint, counted as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He was the abbot of a monastery in Glasnevin, where he was a teacher of Columba, Canice, Comgall, and Ciarán. | <urn:uuid:99d42d42-93f8-44a7-99cd-6f0fd7aba7fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://urbanculture.fotonique.com/st-mobhi-drive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95908 | 114 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Striving for perfection (and settling for nothing less) may, at first, seem a laudable attitude and recipe for success.
But there is a serious side to unfettered perfectionism that can prove to be an incapacitating burden for those it affects. Indeed, such individuals can be so prone to procrastination and distressed by debilitating thoughts of the need to ‘get it right’ that they delay or even fail to get started undertaking tasks – behaviours that can have a knock-on effect on employees who try to deal with their indecision or cover for them.
Unchecked perfectionism can pose a significant threat to the performance and productivity of any organisation so it goes without saying that business leaders would be wise to ensure that those responsible for people management in their company are equipped both to identify and to offer suitable advice and support to employees affected by it.
What is perfectionism?
Psychologists categorise perfectionism into two types – adaptive and maladaptive.
Adaptive perfectionism is characterised by an ability to be flexible and is associated with qualities such as tolerance, helpfulness and usefulness. In a workplace context, employees will evidence this by taking care and paying attention to detail to be precise in their work. Most importantly, they’ll know when it’s the time is right to finish a task and move on, thereby avoiding excessive, unproductive effort.
Maladaptive perfectionism on the other hand is characterised by more rigid behaviour that can hinder or stop an individual from accepting that less than 100% can be good enough. Behaviours can include individuals pushing themselves to the limit, failing to delegate (a significant impediment to effective line management) and missing deadlines, as a compulsion to persist with tasks until they can’t be bettered prevails.
Maladaptive perfectionists commonly experience feelings of distress and hopelessness. They tend to catastrophise situations and often believe that failing at one part of a task equates to total failure.
While this can be both upsetting and demoralising for any employee, if the trait is manifested in a member of your business’ leadership team or senior management, it can set an unwelcome precedent for the organisation.
Signs of maladaptive perfectionism
- Nothing short of excellence – maladaptive perfectionists are rarely satisfied with anything but what they think is the best. This can apply both to their own work and to that of others.
- Error terror – no-one likes to fail but for perfectionists such as these fear of getting it wrong can grow to such an extent it leads to high levels of anxiety, discomfort and distress.
- Avoidance and procrastination – perfectionists persistently baulk at beginning tasks, typically becoming bogged down in over-thinking what’s going to be needed for the perfect outcome. To avoid the prospect of failure, they may even give up on getting started altogether.
- Over reaction – perfectionists tend to react negatively to any setback – no matter how small – and think of it as a failure.
- Fearful feedback – perfectionists often respond poorly to feedback, seemingly unable to take on board the positive aspects of constructive criticism and dwelling painfully instead on their shortcomings.
- Control – ‘If you want it done right, do it yourself’ is typically the perfectionist’s call. They can, for example, struggle to delegate even the smallest of tasks and, consequently, fall in to the frustrating and ultimately futile trap of micromanagement.
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- Redefine success – maladaptive perfectionists can find it hard to finish a task when they think it’s not perfect. Help them to overcome this conviction by reassuring them that, by and large, good work is good enough for a success in your organisation.
- Perspective is key – not all tasks are of equal importance. Nor do they require the same degree or intensity of effort. So help employees affected by perfectionism to prioritise their workload and then focus their energies on investing an appropriate amount of time to dealing with each of them in turn.
- One step at a time – to overcome procrastination, help them to break down tasks into discrete, more manageable parts, which, when accomplished, should boost their sense of achievement and morale and give them confidence to move on to the next.
- Share the load – reassure them that no-one can be expected to do everything. That’s why teamwork is so critical to any organisation’s success. For managers with a perfectionist trait, take time to discuss with them how to get the best from their team by identifying and making the most of its members’ strengths and abilities, and then pulling together to share the load – and the success.
- Feed back with care – reassure them you’re there both to help them to build on their strengths as well as to cope with their weaknesses so they can grow, develop and be more effective in their work. Positive, constructive dialogue is key so encourage them to engage with you and to ask questions to make the most of this opportunity. | <urn:uuid:7579db03-061f-4d4e-97f9-041fcb390847> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.changeboard.com/article-details/14077/perfectionism-is-it-a-blessing-or-a-curse-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956124 | 1,052 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday’s airstrikes as a “spit in the face” to Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements.
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Command spokeswoman Nataliya Humenyuk said no grain storage facilities were hit in Odesa. Turkey’s defense minister, however, said he had spoken with Ukrainian authorities and one missile struck a grain silo and another landed nearby but neither affected loading at Odesa’s docks.
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Onychogomphus undecim Dijkstra, 2015
Type locality: Upemba NP, Lusinga, DRC
Male is typical of the supinus-group of the genus by (a) the rather straight cerci in lateral view with a strong inward-directed apical and subapical tooth visible in dorsal view; and (b) the elongate dorsal process at midlength of each branch of the epiproct. Nearest to the potentially sympatric O. supinus and O. kitchingmani by (c) the entirely pale face; (d) the black humeral stripe being narrower than the pale stripes bordering it; and (e) the tibiae with pale streaks. However, has (1) greater size, Hw 27.0-30.0 mm (n = 5) rather than 24.0-27.0 mm (n = 4); (2) an entirely pale costa contrasting with the black Pt, rather than a black costa anterior to a pale Pt; and (3) the foliations on S8 about one-sixth as deep as the segment is high, and deeper than those on S9, the latter with a concave border. The character of the costa and Pt is unique in the group, but recalls the genera Ceratogomphus and Crenigomphus. [Adapted from Dijkstra, Kipping & Mézière 2015]
Streams in open landscapes or shaded by gallery forest. Probably often with blackwater and a sandy bottom. From 1500 to 1900 m above sea level.
Map citation: Clausnitzer, V., K.-D.B. Dijkstra, R. Koch, J.-P. Boudot, W.R.T. Darwall, J. Kipping, B. Samraoui, M.J. Samways, J.P. Simaika & F. Suhling, 2012. Focus on African Freshwaters: hotspots of dragonfly diversity and conservation concern. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 129-134.
- Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Mézière, N., and Kipping, J. (2015). Sixty new dragonfly and damselfly species from Africa (Odonata). Odonatologica, 44, 447-678.
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Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned consumers about the rising threat of cryptocurrency scams. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is joining that chorus with a warning of its own.
The agency is informing banks and investors alike that it uncovered an eight-month-long spate of cybercriminals using fake cryptocurrency apps that defrauded 244 investors out of more than $42 million.
Officials say they observed scammers contacting investors with offers related to legitimate cryptocurrency investment services. Then, once the defrauders had the investors’ confidence, they would ask them to download fraudulent mobile apps.
To sophisticated investors, apps are something that more innovative financial institutions offer to enhance user experience and increase investment. Armed with that perception, the scammers would build out their fake apps by using names and logos from legitimate financial institutions. Once the victim appeared convinced, the criminals would then have them deposit cryptocurrency into the wallets associated with the victims’ accounts on the apps.
Three scam outcomes
In one such instance, the FBI said many victims attempted to withdraw funds from an app and received an email stating that they had to pay taxes on their investments before making withdrawals. They remained unable to withdraw funds after paying the supposed tax, and the crooks got away with even more ill-gotten gains.
In another situation, cybercriminals operating under the company name YiBit1 defrauded at least four victims out of approximately $5.5 million by using a very similar scheme. According to CryptoNews, “YiBit” is a legitimate cryptocurrency exchange. However, ConsumerAffairs found no connection between it and “YiBit1.”
A third ruse that took place in November 2021, came at the hands of crooks who masqueraded as a company called Supayos, also known as Supay. This time, the thieves were only able to convince two people to buy into their ruse. One of the victims was told that they were enrolled in a program without their consent that required a minimum balance of $900,000. After trying to cancel the subscription, the victim was instructed to deposit the requested funds or have all of their assets frozen.
FBI issues a warning and tips
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Researcher Bob Recker acknowledges that wide-row corn isn’t going to be a commercial success anytime soon. But there’s plenty of potential in the unique cropping system as a pathway to increasing strip-tilled soil health.
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A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus, in a Series of Letters: To Which Are Added, Extracts from the Essay; With Notes (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus, in a Series of Letters: To Which Are Added, Extracts From the Essay; With Notes
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Launched in 2017, Polkadot (DOT) is a blockchain protocol created by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. It’s one of the most widely held digital assets associated with the burgeoning decentralized finance, or "DeFi," sector. DeFi, a bustling space within crypto at large, is aiming to, along with fintech startups, disrupt traditional banking, insurance, asset management and trading.
Polkadot is described as a scalable heterogeneous multi-chain technology.
What this means, essentially, is that the network will act as a relay chain through which a number of user-developed parallel chains (parachains) are hosted.
Parachains form the backbone of Polkadots’s appeal. Users are able to develop customized decentralized applications that run on an independent, private blockchain, while maintaining the computational resources (used to authenticate transactions) and security benefits of the larger Polkadot network.
Also central to the protocol’s appeal: interoperability. That's the ability for private and public blockchains to share information and transact seamlessly.
Using Polkadot, developers are able to create decentralized applications, or "dapps," on private parachains but able to connect with large public blockchains i.e. Ethereum.
For many tech community members envisioning a "web 3.0" (in which personal data is better cordoned off) Polkadot would seem poised to help underpin it, acting as an intermediary that fosters the ability for legacy chains, as well as private parachains, to communicate an interact.
What is the price of DOT?
Three years in the making, DOT debuted in public markets in August of 2020. Since then, DOT has (as of late August 2021) has seen its price increase by nearly 760%.
The coin experienced a positive rally along with the broader crypto market during the first half of 2021. In mid-May DOT peaked at $47.33, its all-time high, before declining nearly 50% to its current price level around $25.
DOT is heavily traded across most global exchanges, recording strong 24-hour volume levels. Some $2 billion worth of DOT change hands in any given day around the world.
DOT is currently the world’s 10th-largest digital asset by market cap.
Circulating supply: 1.02 billion DOT
What the bulls are saying
*A Bet On Multi-Chain: The bulls like to call DOT “Ethereum killer” because it would seem to be well-positioned to benefit from a scenario in which many blockchains flourish. A bet of DOT is a bet on a multi-chain future, bulls say.
Many are intrigued by Polkadot’s “wild cousin” Kusama. It’s a “testbed,” designed to host applications preparing for full-scale rollouts on the DOT network. Kusama also plans on facilitating its own suite of Dapps.
At full operational capacity (yet to come), the network will theoretically be able to process upwards of 1,000,000 transactions per second. (Yahoo Finance)
*Distinction with a difference: DOT’s focus on interoperability sets it apart from siloed ecosystems like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
What the bears are saying
*Crowded space: DOT isn’t alone in the “Ethereum killer” realm. Among those charging into the ETH-challenger fray include Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and Cosmos (ATOM).
*Security concerns: DOT has experienced security concerns. Back in 2017, funds relating to DOT’s ICO, at that time one the largest in history, were compromised in a hack targeting Parity Technologies, a development team involved in the initial build. The malicious action resulted in a net loss of $150 million, two-thirds of which were connected with DOT’s ICO.
*The knock-on slots: Parachain “slots” on the DOT network are limited, and thus costly. Space on the protocol can only be secured through “parachain slot auctions,” a process through which independent projects bid on development space. Some believe this will limit the DOT’s growth by pricing out promising blockchain-based applications.
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The Government of Laos has pledged to stave off debt default by managing exchange rates and reigning in state enterprises.
The commitment to stabilizing the economy was one of 13 issues the cabinet identified as requiring immediate attention during a two-day open government meeting that ended on Friday.
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The government will also do its best to reduce the creation of any unnecessary debt.
Meanwhile, Laos is to tackle inflation, as well as control the currency exchange rate and commodity prices. At the same time, it will place an extra focus on solving the problem of fuel supply through a number of economic measures, according to Ms. Thippakone.
The government will also continue reforming state enterprises and will keep an eye on ineffective projects, as well as focus on investment projects that assist in poverty reduction.
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A group of US vets have warned pet owners after an increase in "drug-intoxicated dogs” has been seen in emergency rooms across the country.
The recreational use of cannabis is currently legal in 18 American states.
It was made legal in California in November 2016 and a new report has shown a 276% rise in calls relating to dogs ingesting the drug from the day of legalisation.
According to The Times, local resident Dana Long, who is the owner of 12lbs Chihuahua-terrier mix Bentley, said that the problem is a serious one – and has first hand experience of it.
She said: “Bentley would never refuse hot, fresh French fries from a drive-through fast food joint. But on a recent warm afternoon, he turned his head away at when I offered. He wouldn’t take them, so I knew something was wrong. He was just out of it.”
She took her dog to a local vets, who told her that he was “stoned”.
It is thought that he had ingested a cannabis-laced chocolate treat found at a nearby park – chocolate on its own is already harmful to dogs.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that, between 2017 and 2020, national call volume for cannabis ingestion rose from 1,436 to 3,923 cases.
But in a worrying turn, those numbers are likely just a fraction of the true incidence of marijuana poisonings, as the calls are made voluntarily.
While the drug is known to have an over-relaxing effect on humans, for dogs who accidentally ingest potent edibles, the narcotic effect can be serious.
Harry and Meghan neighbours complain over smell of huge weed factory close to US home
Another local resident, who remained nameless, said that “dogs like the taste and smell of pot”
In 2019, In Aspen, Colorado, a high rise in case numbers was thought that have been caused by dogs eating human faeces laced with the drug.
According to dogtime.com, signs of marijuana toxicity in dogs include: unsteadiness on their feet, depression, dilated eyes, dribbling urine, sensitivity to touch and sound, slow heart rate and even low body temperature – all of which take just 20 minutes to kick in.
Dr Stacy Meola, from Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Colorado, told the American Kennel Club last year that “the drug would not be as popular if 50 per cent of people dribbled urine when they used marijuana”.
The treatment for a drugged-up dog is an IV drip of a fat used for nutritional support, which binds to the drug, allowing it to leave the body fast than if it were left on its own.
Dogs will make a full recovery within one to two days, according to Dr Meola.
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Knowing the Holocaust in all its details is one thing. But hearing and feeling it from the souls of those who were in the midst of it becomes a singular revelation in the monumental new book. Our will to live by Philadelphia-born violist Mark Ludwig. In addition to playing in the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 36 years, he has spent the past three decades researching, promoting and performing music written by the Jewish composers incarcerated at the Terezín concentration camp during World War II, from 1941 to around 1944.
Even for those who find Holocaust literature too painful to bear, this collection of artifacts from Jewish artists and musicians – subtitled Viktor Ullmann’s music reviews of Terezín, illustrations by Terezín artists – is uplifting in a way that affirms humanity. The 328-page hardcover book published by Steidl ($45) is superbly organized with sketches of the inner recesses of the camp, musical programs and a meticulously curated playlist that includes historical recordings made in the camp as well as recordings Modern Yo-Yo Ma. It’s not just a book. It’s a world, and one that elicits almost every possible emotion.
Many artifacts here have been known for decades. But maybe the world didn’t have the kind of historical perspective to really understand them and get into them. Composers Ullmann, Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas, Erwin Schulhoff and Gideon Klein have garnered international attention in recent decades, thanks to Ludwig (also a member of the Hawthorne String Quartet), conductor John Mauceri and producer Michael Haas, who orchestrated the London/Decca label’s series of recordings entitled “Entartete Musik” (Music Prohibited in the Third Reich).
We already know that the composers of Terezín are part of a lost generation that felt the opposing attractions of the rustic Leos Janacek and the cerebral Arnold Schoenberg. Meanwhile, the discovery of tracks banned by the Nazis that were left behind when Jewish composers who managed to flee the Third Reich broadened the notoriety of European music between the two wars.
And never more than recently in a case of the opposite circumstances: the Berlin composer Eugen Engel obtained his opera manuscript Grete Minde from Germany, although he was left behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Recently discovered in a basement in San Francisco, the opera premiered in Magdeburg on February 13, with broadcasts radio revealing the opera as a lush cross-section of 1930s Korngold/Strauss Sensibility.
The book, however, focuses on Terezín, which was not a death camp like Auschwitz, although there were many deaths among the 142,000 Jews who passed through this Bohemian walled city (aka Theresienstadt), in road to Auschwitz. That 23,000 survived – some living long enough to be interviewed by Ludwig – is partly due to the camp being used for Nazi propaganda purposes. Inspections by the International Red Cross were periodic. Documentary film that tried to tell the world that Jews weren’t being exterminated and maybe getting proper treatment included preview of children’s opera Brundibar, played in camp (and heard in the book’s playlist). But the photos of these kids don’t lie: no matter how fiery their performance, sadness is etched on their faces.
“They [the Red Cross] seemed completely fooled by the false front set up for their benefit,” Rabbi Leo Baeck wrote to Terezín. “The effect on our morale has been devastating. We felt forgotten and abandoned.
Most of the time, Terezín was brutally overcrowded. Suicide was rampant. Just like malnutrition and death. “The soups were made of powder. Nobody knows what was in the powder,” according to Edgar Krasa, who supervised the kitchens. “Now it has grown and it’s not pretty but true – it wasn’t who you knew, it was who you knew in Terezín. If you know the guy in the kitchen who was pouring the soup, he went a step further and brought you potatoes in your soup.
The lethargy of this existence is unimaginable until you hear Ullmann’s satirical opera, written in Terezín, The Emperor of Atlantis (which was carried out by the Curtis Institute). At the start, a character sings, “Each day spills over into the next. … One day, two days, who will buy new days? Beautiful cool days, undiscovered. …”
Then the main character of the opera (Hitler, of course) is abandoned by his best friend, Death. “Who after that will still obey me? cried the Emperor. “Does death refuse its duty?
Jews were no longer allowed to own musical instruments, but all manner of them found their way into the camp and into the hands of musicians who had been forcibly removed from Prague’s strong artistic community. The fact that all creativity happened is more than remarkable.
The composer Haas – the star pupil of the great Janacek – arrived in Terezín in 1941, having divorced his non-Jewish wife to prevent him and their daughter from following him to Terezín. He was in no mood to join the other incarcerated composers. Ludwig recounts in one of his many illuminating footnotes: “In an attempt to engage and encourage Haas, young Gideon Klein shared sheets of paper on which he had drawn musical staves.
What drove this activity in Terezín under almost impossible conditions is summed up by Ullmann: “Our desire for culture was equal to our will to live.
Initially, the music was made in secret, in the attics of the barracks. In the end, the culture was sanctioned. Mozart’s operas were performed with the approximate resources available. Verdi’s Mighty Requiem was performed by a choir of prisoners with simple piano accompaniment, allowing the captive to stare the captors in the face while singing “Dies Irae”. According to Edgar Krasa, “Even SS officers came from Berlin and Prague. Schacher [the conductor] wanted to make a musical protest to the Nazis sitting in the audience when we sang…”day of wrath and judgment”…but the Germans felt like we were all singing our Requiem.”
Although no one inside Terezín knew what they faced when they were sent to Auschwitz, the Nazis knew it. “From time to time a thousand unhappy souls came here and a thousand other unhappy souls left,” writes 15-year-old Petr Fischl in his diary.
Many Terezín musicians had the foresight never to be seen again, and they left their manuscripts and papers behind, whether hidden in the floor of their barracks or in the trusted hands of fellow inmates. Some 500 documents were kept by Karel Herman, who enjoyed a somewhat privileged position in the camp before being shipped “east” (Auschwitz) in 1944.
The various artifacts take consciousness to a whole new level. The sketches give a detailed look at what the stages looked like. The handcrafted programs for the concerts capture the script and overall style of the pre-war 1940s, with a dash of gallows humor for the 1944 “Ghetto Swingers” jazz concert.
But death hovers in the book. After listening to Erwin Schulhoff’s outgoing, upbeat music, I was stunned to turn a page of Ludwig’s book to see a sketch of the composer on his deathbed – eyes closed, jaw dropped. Another, Sigmund Schul, died aged 28 after a long illness. “We have lost a truly inspiring artistic personality,” Ullmann wrote. “It’s not a cliché of praise if I say that he was absolutely right to say, shortly before his death, ‘What a pity this is happening to me.’ It was the truth.Most of the other composers were murdered in Auschwitz.
The heart of the book is Ullmann’s music criticism. It’s top notch writing – with pointed observations that go a long way to evoking what he heard and felt. Example: The Waltzes of the Women of Wine and Songs by Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus fell flat for him. “Dancing on the graves of the future and at our expense”, is how he described the experience. “We take a sip of his champagne,” he wrote, “but we stay sober.”
The music written in Terezín was not likely to be easygoing, and it is not: they were major compositional figures in a conflicted era where music was being reinvented in all sorts of ways. – with JS Bach hovering in the background. Ullmann’s String Quartet No. 3 is a particularly rigorous, compact and durable structure. The brightest light was the versatile Klein. Comparisons with Leonard Bernstein are not easy: the two were around the same age and even looked like a family. But as Bernstein in the 1940s raged at the world to stop destroying himself in his Symphony No. 1Klein was deep within the walls of Terezín, searching for a solution.
At one point Ullmann wrote: “If genius means fighting the battle of existence against oneself rather than against others – the battle of genius against the demon – then to be a mystic is to have fought this battle and have won it.”
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