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“In2scienceUK is an amazing, beneficial programme to help students navigate their way through the world of science.”
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Through our research modules, students like Rumesa have taken a deep dive into neurology research, finding out how Parkinson’s affects the brain, learning about ADHD in mice, and hearing from a group of researchers at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit. “The webinars have been amazing to watch and be involved in.”
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Beyond Labels—Working with Abuse Survivors with Mental Illness Symptoms or Substance Abuse Issues
Manual providing practical information, tools, and resources for domestic violence and rape crisis center staff working with survivors of trauma with symptoms of mental illness and/or substance abuse/addiction.
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Crime Victimization in Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Comparison with the National Crime Victimization Survey
Arch Gen Psychiatry (2005), August, 62(8): 911-921. Linda A. Teplin, PhD, Gary M. McClelland, PhD, Karen M. Abram, PhD, and Dana A. Weiner, PhD
Study seeking to determine the rates of crime victimization among persons with severe mental illness by sex, race/ethnicity, and age, to compare rates with general population data taken from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Criminal Victimization of Persons with Mental Illness
Mental Illness Policy Organization
Web page summarizing recent studies and articles regarding the victimization of persons with mental illness.
Domestic Violence Services for Victims with Mental Illness
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Coalition, in Washington State, which is engaging in a partnership to improve services for victims with mental illness and strengthen collaboration between domestic violence advocates and mental health service providers. Website provides information about their project, including their needs assessment and strategic plan, and links to online training. The Coalition has also posted its project report, “Change is Possible: Successes, Lessons Learned, and Plans.” | <urn:uuid:3c3d6a15-caca-491a-908a-9f36feacd8f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.victimsofcrime.org/library/resource-directory-victims-with-disabilities/mental-illness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00000-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90191 | 319 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Whenever the living creatures give glory . . . the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever.
Heaven’s throne room is filled with sounds of praise and worship. The four living creatures give round-the-clock adoration to the One on the throne. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,” they proclaim. This is a picture of all creation honoring God as the Creator and Lord over all things—the only one worthy of all praise.
Creation’s song of praise—led by the four living creatures— serves as a call to worship for the twenty-four elders. God’s people cannot help responding in worship when surrounded by the authentic, enthusiastic praises of all the rest of creation.
All God’s people in his worldwide church—young and elderly, seekers and established followers—help each other celebrate and confess with praise. Together, we join with the rest of creation, saying, “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they . . . have their being.”
This picture reminds us that just as creation constantly proclaims the glory of God (Psalm 19), so can all God’s people—in our work and play each day as well as when we gather for a worship service. All things give glory to God for bringing them into being, and he keeps all creation in his constant care. Our creating, life-sustaining God is worthy to receive our praise always.
Lord and Creator of all things, open our eyes and ears to the glory and praise of your whole creation. Teach us to respond with praise also in all we think, say, and do. Amen.
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UN Ideas That Changed the World
- Thomas G. Weiss (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- Wednesday 14 June 2017
2511 DP The Hague
The United Nations is seen by many as a rigid bureaucracy without sparkle, wit, or creativity. The general public—graciously stimulated by the mass media—sees a traveling circus, a talk shop, and paper-pushing. This is a very uneven view of the world organization. The story of the last seven decades is incomplete and misleading without a discussion of its goals and achievements, including its intellectual leadership. International organizations live or die by the quality and relevance of the policy ideas that they put forward and support. And it is of the essence to emphasize them—the good, the bad, the ugly. The lecture will spell out the findings of the decade-long UN Intellectual History Project.
This lecture is part of the conference ‘Calendar Propaganda’ of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances.
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Dudhwa National Park
- 19 Nov 2019
- 1 min read
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Recently, the elephant safari at Dudhwa National Park was banned, as most of the trained elephants have been deployed in patrolling duties.
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Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
- The Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is a protected area in Uttar Pradesh located on the India-Nepal border.
- It stretches mainly across the Lakhimpur Kheri and Bahraich districts.
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- Dudhwa National Park through which Suheli and Mohana streams flow,
- Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary through which Sharda River flows, and
- Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary through which Geruwa River flows.
- All of these rivers are tributaries of the Ghagra River.
- The Dudhwa National Park has a number of species of birds, reptiles, wild elephants, aquatic animals, one-horned rhinos, wild elephants besides its enriched flora and fauna. Its undisturbed natural forest cover, vast spans of grasslands and wetlands.
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Research has seen marriages 'typed' -- and discusses their success rates depending upon the nature of the relationship. Illustration: Dominic Xavier
A new book has once again enlivened the debate over marriage and marital life.
A 30-year study on divorce in the US by E Mavis Hetherington identifies five types of marriages, says the book entitled For Better (For Worse): The Science of a Good Marriage.
The cohesive marriage and the traditional marriage were most likely to be stable over time.
However, Hetherington identified three styles of marriage -- the pursuer-distancer, the disengaged marriage and the operatic marriage -- that put couples at high risk for divorce, writes author Tara Parker-Pope.
The cohesive/individuated marriage had the second lowest divorce rate.
According to Hetherington: "The marriage functions as a refuge the husband and wife return to at the end of the day for renewal, support, affection, and companionship."
Surprisingly, a traditional marriage, which recognises the male breadwinner/female homemaker roles, had the lowest divorce rate in the study, reports the Times.
The success of a traditional marriage means both partners are happy with their role, perform it well and feel respected by the other partner.
In pursuer/distancer marriages, Hetherington found that in 80 per cent of cases, the pursuer is a woman.
She is keen to confront and discuss problems. The man typically is the one to withdraw, avoid confrontation and assume the 'distancer' role.
In a common pursuer-distancer conflict, the wife will bring up a problem. The husband will try and avoid the discussion by reading the newspaper, turning on the television set, or just staring into space or at his food.
Eventually, the distancer gets tired of the 'nagging' and loses his cool. The pursuer also gets fed up and withdraws into herself.
Contrastingly, disengaged marriages unite two self-sufficient individuals, "who fear or don't need intimacy to achieve a sense of well-being".
Disengaged couples don't argue a lot; they usually don't need each other on a daily basis.
The problem lies in the fact that partners in these marriages would have pretty much led the same life even if they were single: they lack mutual affection and support.
By contrast, the operatic marriage is characterised by dramatic highs and lows.
Here the pair is emotionally volatile and quarrelling often ends in bed.
Hetherington says people in operatic marriages reported the highest level of sexual satisfaction among all of the marriage types analysed.
Often these relationships end when one partner, typically the husband, decides the passion isn't worth the constant conflict.
Another study analysed married couples over a three-year period.
At the beginning of the study, the couples who rarely argued had the highest levels of marital happiness. They equated a happy marriage with low levels of conflict.
But things changed after three years.
The couples who argued a lot at the beginning of the study reported big increases in marital satisfaction.
They had resolved many of their differences and were enjoying a contented, productive partnership.
But many of the initially peaceful couples were headed for divorce. By staying quiet and avoiding conflict when things bothered them, they had missed important opportunities to cultivate and grow their relationship.
A University of Texas at Austin study of 156 newly married couples revealed that disillusionment in the early part of the relationship was a powerful predictor for divorce.
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Easy, uncomplicated interaction with interactive art installations and an entertaining approach to attract visitors opens up room to learn the story behind the art. These are the main goals of my projects and a big part of the two introduced works User Generated Server Destruction1 and your unerasable text2. Both works invite visitors to destroy something. One time a text message is printed out and shredded, and the other time it is the destruction of a server by the force of hammers. The two installations are available for 24 hours each and can also be operated by users not in the venue, creating an independence of opening hours. While your unerasable text is displayed in a shop window (depending on the exhibition venue), User Generated Server Destruction can be followed via a webcam, which is part of the installation. The server is filmed and viewable via stream on a website specifically created for that purpose.
Both installations are easy to interact with. your unerasable text is operated by short messages and User Generated Server Destruction provides three buttons on the website to push. Behind this surface of fun and interactivity, the user is invited to question the background of these technologies. Why do the pieces work this way? What data is generated? Who has access to it? Where is the data?
Visitors of the website www.ugsd.net can trigger six hammers and drop them onto a server that is located in the exhibition. This server hosts the website, a single site that shows three buttons to release the hammers and a video stream to follow what’s happening with the piece. The installation ends, once the server is destroyed and can therefore no longer host the website.
If you are connected and looking at a website like this, it seems to appear out of nothing. But there is data -- zeros and ones compiling an image, text or a video. It is tempting to think there is no physical connection to any hardware. The physical, sculptural attendance of the work User Generated Server Destruction typifies the coincidence of the virtual, the intangible world of data, and the physical world, where we, the humans, exist. The installation visualizes very directly that behind the virtuality that we attribute to the data on the Internet, there actually is tangible reality and actual physical hardware.
The Internet is a continually growing network of servers spread all over the world. On the one side are the users and on the other side the suppliers of the network. Usually, it is only possible for computer viruses and very qualified users to attack and destroy highly protected servers that are locked in well secured places.
These places are data centers, where the big 'Data-Farmers' are saving all the information we are providing them with. Looking like factories, these centers have big tube systems to cool all the computers. They are strategically built near rivers, guaranteeing enough water for this process. You will always find a power plant close to it, feeding electricity to computers, which are not only hungry for data but also for electrical power. Highest standards of security protect the data from loss by any means. The risk of losing the data is not to be taken, no matter how important the data is. One never knows for what or whom it might be useful for some day.
As users we can control our computers and are able to easily destroy hard drives. But the data we feed to clouds and websites is impossible for us to control and erase. Spread over many hard drives and servers across the world, there is no access for us. User Generated Server Destruction poses a counterpart to this. It is something that works in the other direction and hands the power back to the users, who are all of a sudden in a position to decide freely what happens to the data. It becomes possible to erase one of the servers and thereby shrink the worldwide network for the blink of an eye. What is left is a sculpture created by destruction, typifying the physical presence of the Internet.
So far, 27 servers in several exhibitions all over the world have been destroyed. Although employing similar hardware every time, it took from 2 to 1002 hits for the hammers to finish the destruction. Some servers stopped working after a short period of operating and some worked for several days, although being hit permanently. For some curators this is hard to exhibit, since the installation can be destroyed at any time, leaving a non-functioning artwork behind. That creates a fear of disappointed visitors, not able to participate in the process of destruction. Given the common notion that an interactive artwork has to function non-stop, this is difficult.
The concept is to destroy the server and only leave a sculpture and a video documentation behind, archiving the process. The server is not supposed to be fake, and there is no intention to make it more robust than it initially is. This would make the artwork weaker. Each server receives an individual, ascending number, and the hits are displayed on the website for every server in one exhibition. Nevertheless, replacing the server after destruction makes the piece more interesting for galleries and museums. A solution for longer exhibitions, like the one in the Ars Electronica Center in 2013, which lasted around three months, is to only operate the server during a certain time of a day. The server will be active 24 hours, but the time of operation is limited.
At the Node festival in 2015, the curators agreed to just show one server and host a “launch event” following an artist talk. This provides the time to generate curiosity and create attention, as everyone wants to have the first, and maybe already final, hit on the server. A lot of people waited to finally hear the sound of the 800 grams heavy sledgehammers smashing the metal cover of the computer.
your unerasable text is an interactive installation dealing with the topics of data storage and elimination. The installation can be placed in an exhibition, but is ideally exhibited in a window in public space, where it can be used by people passing by 24h a day.
The participant is asked to send a text message to the number written on a sign next to the installation: “send your unerasable text message to +43 664 1788374”
The receiving mobile phone transfers the data to a computer, which layouts the message automatically. It is then printed on to a DIN A6 paper, falling directly into a paper shredder. There, the message remains readable for a few moments and is then destroyed. The shredded paper forms a visible heap of paper on the floor, growing with every message.
your unerasable text works via SMS, as it is the easiest and most comfortable way for the participant -- and almost everybody owns a mobile phone. The standard for the short message service was implemented in the early 1990s and is still used and integrated in every mobile phone, even in smart phones. Another advantage is that users don’t have to be close to the installation, messages can be sent from all over the world, and they don’t need any additional software or access to the Internet to participate.
When your unerasable text is used, the sent text message isn’t erased. The data is passing by the mobile carrier of the sender and receiver, the mobile that is integrated in the installation and the computer processing the text and sending it to the printer. At each of these points the data can be saved. The installation stores a file of each message consisting of the sent text, the phone number of the sender, and time and date when it was sent. The only thing that actually is erased, is the print, which is just a visualization having no effect on the data itself.
The storing of data is a rather current topic, given the discussions on bringing back the “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” (data preservation) in Germany, along with discussions in the Austrian parliament about passing the “Staatsschutzgesetz” (state protection law) including points to bring back the previously overturned “Vorratsdatenspeicherung”, under the guise of this new law.
Also very recently, the Safe Harbor law was declared illegal by the Court of Justice of the European Union, creating the need for re-negotiation between the EU and the US to change this law.
This also raises questions about the locations of the servers we are using and the law applied to the data stored on hard-drives all over the world. There has to be a definition of who legally has access to our data and is able to pass our information on to third parties. This is also a significant topic in the installation User Generated Server Destruction.
As far as exhibitions and other possibilities for exhibiting these works are concerned, maintenance is a crucial point. Both installations have a high frequency of usage, 27 servers have already been shown and destroyed in 10 exhibitions. By November 2015 more then 27.400 short messages were collected.
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By Dylan Love
Do you read ingredients? Do you read them closely enough to notice your favorite snack might actually be a real bummer?
It’s increasingly difficult to be health-conscious nowadays. There are major differences in how the American food industry operates versus other countries, differences of attitude in what is an acceptable ingredient and how much is too much. It’s well-illustrated by this 2013 list of eight ingredients that appear in our food on the regular that are banned overseas.
Read on — if you dare — to learn about what you probably didn’t know your food is doing to you.
Those carbs that are “good” for you are actually sporting an additive called potassium bromate. It strengthens the dough in such a way that it takes less time to bake, a nifty little food-hack that lowers the cost of producing and distributing your pita chips on a significant scale.
But potassium bromate has been connected to kidney and nervous system disorders and gastrointestinal discomfort. It has also been identified as a potential carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The additive hasn’t been banned in the U.S. yet, but the FDA has issued a curiously worded request of bakers to “voluntarily choose other additives.”
Meanwhile Canada, China, Brazil and all of Europe have officially banned use of the chemical in food products.
If you think fat-free potato chips are a better snack decision than original or flavored chips, consider this: “light” chips are made with a chemical called olestra — also called Olean — a fat substitute that “makes you real fat,” according to a study by Purdue University. It robs you of your fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids, eliminates some important micronutrients, and will actually land you on the toilet for hours. It can induce a lot of unpleasant side effects in humans, like oily anal leakage, stomach cramps, and dissolving compounds in your intestines.
Canada and the United Kingdom have banned this ingredient completely, but some Americans consume it daily, thinking they’re making a healthy decision.
In Singapore, you can pay a $500,000 fine and serve 15 years in prison if your food company uses azodicarbonamide, a chemical that bleaches the flour in frozen dinners, breads, pasta mixes, and other packaged baked goods. It’s also found in foamy plastic products like yoga mats and sneaker soles, and has been linked to asthma issues.
It remains a legal food ingredient in the United States, but has been officially banned in Australia, the U.K. and most European countries. Food companies in these places make do without azodicarbonamide by waiting for their flour to whiten naturally. Hmmm.
Despite the brilliant grassroots marketing that one of these a day keeps the doctor away, most American apples are treated with a registered pesticide called diphenylamine (DPA) to give them their sheer, glossy coat. DPA prevents them from going bad during long months in storage and is part of the chemistry that lets apples be sold in our grocery stores year-round. This chemical is entirely banned in Europe since 2012 because its makers couldn’t prove that it didn’t harm humans; eating an unwashed non-organic apple means you’re putting DPA in your body. So eat an apple a day, but make sure it’s organic!
Keep an eye out for these chemicals on your labels so you can keep on snacking happy!
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Often in dialogue with non-believers, they will appeal to some sort of one-liner or meme to render their unbelief a more plausible stance than the existence of an omnipotent God. However, just as often as they submit these memes, they turn out to be specious, which is to say that they appear to be true, but are actually false. So the same with what we call the omnipotent paradox, which essentially attempts to pit God against himself in asking, Can God create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it?
On the face of it, this question seems to strike many people as very challenging, because whether we answer yes, or no, it seems to lead the conclusion that God is not omnipotent. If he is powerful enough to create a rock too heavy for himself to lift, it would follow that there is possibly a rock that is too heavy for him to lift, and therefore he would not be omnipotent. But if we say that God is incapable of creating a rock that is too heavy to lift, it would follow that God cannot create something, and therefore is also not omnipotent.
While some may struggle with this question, I have never found it very problematic because it sounds more like word game than anything. It is like asking what would happen if God were in a fist fight with himself, who would win? What if God were trying to beat his own record? These are, at their core, stupid questions, and I feel almost as though I should not dignify them with a response. However there are a good number of perfectly intelligent people who are fooled by this sort of deceiving pseudo-logic, and therefore I think it is profitable to address this question.
In response to the question, Can God Create A Rock So Heavy That He Cannot Lift It? I will examine both possible answers, yes, and no.
Can God Create A Rock So Heavy That He Cannot Lift It? Yes
The entire question hinges upon our understanding of what omnipotence means. Most laymen understand omnipotence to mean that God can do literally anything, including that which is logically absurd. God could create a square circle, have a fist fight with himself, and indeed, even create a rock too heavy for himself to lift. So God creates a rock too heavy for himself to lift.
But if God can do anything, even that which is logically absurd, he would create the rock… and then, he would lift it. We have removed the constraints of logic by saying that God is not limited by them, so there is nothing to hold him back from lifting a rock that is too heavy for himself to lift.
In this case, this argument actually applies a bit of a double standard. When God is creating the rock, there are no logical limitations, but when he is lifting the rock, there is a logical limitation, and this is basically the fallacy in this argument, for it presupposes that in both cases there should be no logical limitations. Alas in removing the logical limitations from God, we remove also the grounds for saying that he could not lift a rock that is too heavy for himself to lift.
Can God Create A Rock So Heavy That He Cannot Lift It? No
Many philosophers, such as Aquinas and Maimonides, held the view that the above version of omnipotence is completely absurd, for it is not possible that an impossible state of affairs could occur. So the idea that God is omnipotent, to them, and many others, is to say that God can do anything that is logically possible. But God cannot create a square circle, have a fist fight with himself, or create a rock that is too heavy for himself to lift.
Indeed, there is no paradox here, because it does not presuppose that God can do literally anything, including that which is absurd. A paradox would be an inconsistency in that which follows necessarily from being omnipotent. But if being omnipotent is limited to doing that which is logically possible, it follows that God’s inability to bring about an impossible state of affairs is perfectly consistent with the idea of omnipotence.
This is not to say that logic is some sort of force that transcends God that he is a slave to. But rather it is to say that logical consistency is founded in the person of God himself.
What Does The Bible Say About Omnipotence?
God’s omnipotence is relayed quite often in the scriptures, however I would argue that the Bible adheres to the second definition of omnipotence, namely that God can do anything that is logically possible. So the Father cannot create a rock that is too heavy for himself to lift, nor would we expect him to be able to. This is perfectly consistent with God’s abilities so portrayed throughout the Bible.
While God is said to be Almighty, there are also certain events and actions which seem to suggest that he operates within the confines of his own logical nature. God does not violate the free will of men, despite that he wants all men to come into himself, he does not force them to, for it is logically impossible to bring men into a loving relationship with himself, freely, and by force.
But we could also say that the Bible is at least consistent with the first view of omnipotence as well, that God can do absolutely anything, including that which is logically impossible. For if God can do absolutely anything, then there is no logical absurdity in him allowing men to come into himself freely, even if he does not have to. Remember, in removing the laws of logic, we also remove our ability to hold God’s omnipotence against himself.
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Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without a piping hot cup of joe. Not only does coffee taste great, but it gives us a burst of much-needed energy first thing in the morning, and the heat from the coffee gives us comfort and warmth as well.
So, to all the coffee aficionados in the world, please feel free to raise your mugs and toast all of your coffee drinking friends after reading this article.
1. YOU WILL INCREASE YOUR METABOLISM.
This is good news for anyone thinking of starting a workout routine, or for others who have an exercise regimen in place already. The caffeine from the coffee will naturally boost your energy levels, revving up your metabolism so you can kickstart your day. While the effects are short-lived, you can still take advantage of the extra energy while it lasts.
Also, drinking coffee after a workout can even increase the metabolism. A study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that endurance athletes who had a cup of coffee after exercise had a 66 percent increase in muscle glycogen, which helped them to quickly replace energy stores used during exercise.
2. DRINKING COFFEE WILL MAKE YOUR BRAIN HEALTHIER.
Coffee offers a bevy of benefits for you brain – studies have found that drinking 3-5 cups of coffee per day can decrease the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia by as much as 65% in middle-aged men and women. Other studies have found that drinking coffee daily can lower the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, by as much as 32-60%.
Secondly, drinking coffee can block a particular nucleoside in the brain known as adenosine. Adenosine decreases the firing of neurons and the release of beneficial neurotransmitters within the brain. Because caffeine inhibits adenosine, it increases the production of beneficial chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
Additionally, other studies have found that coffee increases cognitive performance, mood, reaction time, memory, and alertness.
3. IT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPIER.
A groundbreaking study performed by researchers at the Harvard Public School of Health found that adult men and women who drank two to four cups of caffeinated coffee each day had a 50% lower risk of suicide compared to those who drank decaf coffee or no coffee at all.
In addition, coffee contains many antioxidants, even more so than fruits and vegetables combined. It also contains beneficial nutrients such as Vitamins B1, B2, B3, and B5, as well as potassium and manganese.
All of these factors contribute to the major happiness boost you will feel from indulging in a cup or three of warm coffee each day.
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Is there anything that can bring you right back to childhood like some of your favorite songs? We’ve already talked about the Summer Bops for The Whole Family which, I am happy to report my family and I have been bopping to all summer. But there’s something about revisiting the first songs you memorized every word to and sang in the car with your family, or played on your Fisher Price Record Player (yes, I was totally that kid). Here’s just a few that we grew up with and wanted to share.
Oof. I could not get enough of this live album. Specifically that wonderful tune Baby Baluga. Known usually just by his first name, Raffi was to children’s music what Mr. Rogers was to children’s television. Prolific and unfailingly kind, while still taking on big subjects in a way that kids could understand (did you know Baby Beluga is about environmentalism?). Using simple guitar and a classic folk music style, he also incorporated different types of world music into his albums making for more complex and diverse accompaniments.
The Laurie Berkner Band hit it big when they were all over Nickelodeon around the new Millenium. Her sweet, upbeat easy-to-sing songs were catchy and loved by kids everywhere. My favorite is “Under a Shady Tree” partly because my daughter and I would hide under shady trees in the summer to avoid sunburn. But there’s something that promises a carefree day on a hammock, an ant-free picnic or other soothing experiences that happen when you’re out in nature in a comfortable temperature.
Okay, so it’s not technically a children’s album but, oh man, “Iko Iko” by The Dixie Cups was one of my favorite songs, still is. The steady beat, and repetitive verses, it was the best song to dance around to, do the hand jive from Grease, or just throw on in the background to get everyone in the party mood. The song came out in the 1960s but had a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s after it was featured in two blockbuster movies “Rain Man” and “The Big Easy”, the latter featuring a number of famous New Orleans songs. Talk about hey now!
Around the new millennium, many Gen X parents found new ways to project their own nostalgia onto their newborns. There was a rash of albums from popular bands of the 80s and 90s but my favorite is the album “No!” by They Might Be Giants. Each song is an entity onto its own. From a title track sort of making fun of the parent who is always saying “no” to one called “Grocery Bag” with lyrics just calling out items on a grocery list. “I Am Not Your Broom,” is an acapella ditty about a broom’s uprising and there is an upbeat song called “Clap Your Hands” with a wild organ leading the excitement. Last, but not least, is a song called “Lazyhead and Lazybones” who always disagree but saying the same thing but using different words. A great lesson for adults who don’t see eye to eye.
One of the absolute best VHS tapes we owned was a musical collection from Sesame Street called “Sing Yourself Silly”. It featured so many of the stars who would guest on the PBS sensation, but no more than the song at the link above “Put Down The Duckie”. A jazz tune that follows Eernie’s inability to play the saxophone because he’s is always hanging onto his rubber duckie. Were you in the mood for a song that features Jeremy Irons, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Gladys Knight and The Pips? Does this sound like everything you never knew you always wanted? Because it is. | <urn:uuid:86208385-66d8-47cd-bbec-06bba9ad8f4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wubbanub.com/2019/08/09/wubbanub-looks-back-at-our-favorite-childrens-albums/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969671 | 830 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The Christian Meaning Of Justification
The root meaning of the word justice in the Old Testament is probably that of conformity with a rule. When referring to men in their relations with God, justice (in the Douai Bible; righteousness in the King James and Revised Standard version) meant obedience to God; by metonymy it was extended to include glory and prosperity (Deuteronomy 24:13; Proverbs 11:4 ff.). When referring to God, justice designated the divine chastisement of the guilty and the freeing of the innocent (Isaiah 5:16). A more developed notion of the term included the goodness and mercy of God, and concretely the word referred to the divine blessing given in view of the Covenant (Isaiah 45:22-26).
This Old Testament concept of justice expressed a visible manifestation of God in His relations with men. Divine justice was regarded as affective rather than intellectual—that is, efficacious, involving a decision and its realization. In the Septuagint, however, the Greek vocabulary tended to introduce into the contexts of the Old Testament the concept of impassive and intellectual justice, and the interpretations of rabbinic Judaism emphasized the legal aspects of justice: observance of the law established man in the state of justice before God.
When Judaizing Christians, leaning toward the rabbinic interpretation, spoke of the Christian life in terms of justice and fidelity to the law, St. Paul adopted their terminology in his rebuttal of their doctrine. Against the doctrine ot justification by the works of the law, he stressed the role of faith in justification and the link between justification and the redemption of Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:15-16). He explained the state of justice (righteousness) as a gift of the salvific mercy of God freely bestowed on man (Romans 4:3-8).
The interpretation of Pauline teaching on justification has been the issue of a continuing debate between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Both agree that the justification of man is initiated and completed by God, that the redemptive activity of Jesus Christ is the factor in view of which God forgives man's sins, and that man's faith is indispensable for justification. The basic and important differences between the two doctrines concern the value of man's activity before justification, the nature and function of justifying faith, and the nature of the state of justice or righteousness itself.
The Lutheran doctrine of justification was formulated in Article 4 of the Augsburg Confession: "Men cannot be justified before God by their own powers, merits, or works; but are justified freely for Christ's sake through faith, when they believe that they are received into favor and their sins forgiven for Christ's sake, who by His death hath satisfied for our sins." This doctrine excludes from justification all merit and activity by man without faith. Thus Article 4 of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession states: "Since a contempt for God and a doubting of the word of God, of His threats and promises inheres in human nature, men really sin even when they perform good acts without the Holy Spirit, since they do these things with an ungodly heart according to the statement: Whatever is not from faith is a sin." Within the Protestant doctrine man is justified when he apprehends the righteousness of Christ the Saviour through faith or confidence in the divine promise of the remission of sins. The Apology makes this clear: "Therefore it is by faith alone that we arrive at the remission of sins when we lift up our hearts with confidence in the mercy promised on account of Christ . . ." (Art. 4). The state of justice into which man passes is explained in the sense that God "graciously embraces us in 'Christ and holds us acceptable, by attributing to us his accepted righteousness as if it were our own, and by not imputing our sins to us" (John Calvin in Catechism of the Church of Geneva). This justification takes place outside man, and no change is made within him; it consists in a divine judgment by which man's sins are not imputed to him and the righteousness of Christ is imputed to him.
Roman Catholic Doctrine
The Catholic doctrine of justification was definitively formulated on January 13, 1547, at the 6th session of the Council of Trent. The council ascribed the initiation of the process of justification to "God's call, a call which they did not merit." This call is made through actual grace, with which man should cooperate. Thus aroused and aided by divine grace, man can prepare for justification by a series of acts. The first of these is faith, declared to be the beginning of salvation and necessary for justification; this faith is described as an assent to truths divinely revealed and promised. It is followed by other acts, such as hope and sorrow for sin, and the series is concluded by the resolution to receive baptism, begin a new life, and observe the commandments of God. The council stressed the positive aspect of the Catholic doctrine: "Justification ... is not only the remission of sin but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man through the voluntary reception of grace and the gifts."
This sanctification of man comes through the infusion of sanctifying grace or "the justice of God, not by which He Himself is just, but that by which He makes us just." The effect of this sanctifying grace is that "we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and we are not only considered to be just but we are truly called just and we are just, each one receiving his own justice. ..." This justification, then, takes place within man by the infusion of a positive and permanent principle of sanctification by God. The instrument used by God to effect the remission of sins and the sanctification of man is baptism; and if initial justice be lost through serious sin, men can be justified again "when, awakened by God, they make the effort to regain through the sacrament of Penance and by the merit of Christ the grace they have lost."
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- Author – Howard Nemerov
- Year – 1977
- Source – The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (The University of Chicago Press)
Learning the Trees
Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees. That’s done indoors,
Out of a book, which now you think of it
Is one of the transformations of a tree.
The words themselves are a delight to learn,
You might be in a foreign land of terms
Like samara, capsule, drupe, legume and pome,
Where bark is papery, plated, warty or smooth.
But best of all are the words that shape the leaves—
Orbicular, cordate, cleft and reniform—
And their venation—palmate and parallel—
And tips—acute, truncate, auriculate.
Sufficiently provided, you may now
Go forth to the forests and the shady streets
To see how the chaos of experience
Answers to catalogue and category.
Confusedly. The leaves of a single tree
May differ among themselves more than they do
From other species, so you have to find,
All blandly says the book, “an average leaf.”
Example, the catalpa in the book
Sprays out its leaves in whorls of three
Around the stem; the one in front of you
But rarely does, or somewhat, or almost;
Maybe it’s not catalpa? Dreadful doubt.
It may be weeks before you see an elm
Fanlike in form, a spruce that pyramids,
A sweetgum spiring up in steeple shape.
Still, pedetemtim as Lucretius says,
Little by little, you do start to learn;
And learn as well, maybe, what language does
And how it does it, cutting across the world
Not always at the joints, competing with
Experience while cooperating with
Experience, and keeping an obstinate
Intransigence, uncanny, of its own.
Think finally about the secret will
Pretending obedience to Nature, but
Invidiously distinguishing everywhere,
Dividing up the world to conquer it,
And think also how funny knowledge is:
You may succeed in learning many trees
And calling off their names as you go by,
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An Introduction to DataPower SOA Appliances
Let’s get one thing straight right from the top—these are not your mother’s appliances!
Let’s use that opening statement as a springboard for our discussion on exactly what SOA appliances are, how they are used, and how they are similar and dissimilar to traditional household appliances. The use of the term appliance to describe this new class of IT products is no accident. It is meant to convey certain parallels to the term that is familiar to us. Think about it—what are the characteristics of your typical household appliances? Visualize the appliances of yesteryear rather than the more complex ones we see on the market today. Certain attributes should come to mind:
- Purpose-built—Appliances at home are typically for specialized uses—one for washing clothes, one for keeping food cold, and so on.
- Simple—Most appliances have few knobs and controls. They have simple designs due to the dedicated purpose for which they are designed. They are also reliable, so they don’t need to be serviced or replaced often.
Get the picture? Now let’s move the discussion to a realm where we as IT professionals are more comfortable—for many, that is not the realm of domestic chores!
There is a current trend in IT shops to use specialized appliances wherever possible. This is due to several factors, the primary ones being total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI), performance, integration, ease of use, and security. To get started, we introduce you to IBM’s WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances, and then talk about how appliances can help in each of these areas. Of course, we go into much greater detail throughout this book.
Meet the Family!
The primary1 three products in the DataPower family are the DataPower XA35, XS40, and XI50, as shown in Figure 1-1. As you can see, the products are outwardly similar in appearance. Each is a hardened 1U rack-mount device in a tamper-proof case with four RJ-45 Ethernet ports, a DB-9 serial port, and a power switch. We are speaking about the base configuration—there are options available, such as adding a Hardware Security Module, which could alter the outward physical profile. There are also replaceable fan trays, batteries, power supplies, and compact flash cards or hard drives.
Figure 1-1 The DataPower product family.
In the following sections, we discuss the feature set for each model and then move on to scenarios in which appliances can be of great value before taking a closer look at what’s under the covers.
The DataPower XA35 (on the bottom in Figure 1-1) is the entry level product in the line and most representative of the beginnings of the product and DataPower company. The appliance is green, which represents its primary function: to make XML “go faster.” This is also the impetus behind the designation of the “A” in XA; it stands for acceleration. The XA35 is at its core a highly efficient XML processing engine. It makes use of DataPower’s purpose-built features, such as optimized caches and dedicated SSL hardware to process XML at near wire-speed.
The XA35 is a hardened appliance, but it has limited security processing functionality; for example, it does not have the full XML threat protection or encryption/digital signature capabilities as the other models that we discuss. For these reasons, it generally sits behind the DMZ,2 in the trusted zone to augment the processing of XML files. For example, it may be configured to do validation and transformation of XML before it reaches (or for traffic flowing between) the backend servers. It should be used in-line in the network topology, not as a co-processor hanging off a particular server (although this latter usage is how the appliances were first designed). A popular usage is to receive XML responses from backend servers and transform those into HTML before continuing the response to the client. It has full SSL and SNMP capabilities to fit into the network infrastructure.
The DataPower XS40 (in the middle in Figure 1-1) is called the security appliance, and justifiably it is yellow, which represents caution or yield. The “S” in XS stands for security. This model is often found in the DMZ, as its security capabilities are extensive.
The XS40 has all the capabilities of the XA35, plus the following:
- Encryption/decryption utilizing purpose-built hardware for RSA operations
- Digital signature creation/verification
- Fine grained Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing (AAA)
- Full XML threat protection
- Tivoli® Access Manager (TAM) integration option
- Hardware Storage Module (HSM) option
- Dynamic routing
- Message filtering
- Fetching content from remote servers
- MIME, DIME, and Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) attachment processing
- XML Generation 4 (XG4) accelerator module option
- Web services management
- Service level monitoring
The DataPower XI50 (at the top in Figure 1-1) is truly the star of the show. It is the integration appliance, as represented by the “I” in XI, and it is IBM blue (what else!) in color. Due to its integration capabilities, it is often found in the backend private network, functioning in an ESB capacity but is just as suitable for the DMZ. The majority of this book focuses on the XI50, as it is a superset of the other two models.
The XI50 has all the features of the XS40 (and hence the XA35) plus the following:
- WebSphere MQ client option
- WebSphere Java Message Service (JMS) Jetstream protocol connectivity
- TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) connectivity
- IBM IMS Connect client
- Database option (DB2, Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server)
- Optimized run-time engine for non-XML transformations
This might seem like a short list compared to all the capabilities that the XS40 heaps on what the XA35 had, but these are some big-ticket items! Throughout this book, you will see just how important these features are and how to leverage them.
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As of Jan. 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid to provide free or very low-cost health insurance to low-income adults under the age of 65. People who earn no more than 133 percent of the federal poverty level are eligible for the expanded coverage, regardless of whether they have children, explains the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. However, 19 states have not implemented the expansion as of September 2015, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.Continue Reading
Although the federal government mandates certain portions of Medicaid coverage, individual states determine the extent of benefits patients receive, explains the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Federally mandated benefits include inpatient and outpatient hospital care, physician visits, laboratory and X-ray services, family planning and transportation to medical care. Some aspects of women's health care, such as tobacco cessation for pregnant women, nurse-midwife services and freestanding birthing centers, are also mandatory under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid's Children's Health Insurance Program provides similar benefits, including mandatory preventive health care screenings, to children under the age of 21.
In addition to providing free or nearly free health insurance for low-income Americans, the Affordable Care Act provides tax subsidies that are often sufficient to cover the cost of the least-expensive insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act, according to a 2013 CBS News report. For example, an individual who earns no more than $28,725 per year is eligible for a subsidy that covers the entire cost of a bronze plan, so his coverage is essentially free. Bronze plans, however, do not cover vision or dental care and typically carry higher deductibles,co-pays and out-of-pocket amounts, so the overall cost is sometimes higher than it appears.Learn more about Health Insurance | <urn:uuid:16edb47a-d506-4f10-8107-ce557282f1c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/business-finance/should-health-care-through-obamacare-4f5260fccae976b8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942902 | 361 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Sometimes your closest and most important relationships are also the most difficult. Why?
All your relationships are both cooperative and competitive.
We work together with the ones we love but we also have a bit of rivalry going on at times. It’s natural, but difficult.
That competitiveness can be why friends and loved ones can have such a positive and motivating influence on us. But it can also lead to envy and schadenfreude (taking pleasure in their misfortune.)
Sadly, neuroscience research shows the more similar we are to someone, the more likely we are to feel schadenfreude.
Neuroscience research led by Hidehiko Takahashi of Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences finds evidence that the experience of schadenfreude is more pronounced the more similar the person experiencing the misfortune is to us.
And as you may be aware, sibling rivalry can extend into adulthood.
One study looked at pairs of sisters, both married. One works, the other doesn’t. What was the best predictor of whether the non-working one would get a job?
If her husband made less than her sister’s, she was likely to start going on interviews.
The power of social comparisons even extends to adult siblings. Consider two sisters. One sister works outside the home and the other does not. What influences their decision whether or not to enter the workforce? Surprisingly, the total amount of household income does not matter much. What really matters is whether their household income is more or less than their sister’s household income. David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, found that a wife whose husband earned less than her sister’s husband is far more likely to feel compelled to work. Why? Because without her participation in the job market, her household income would be less than her sister’s household income!
This type of competition is inevitable but can hurt the relationships that matter to you most.
So how can we get closer to the people we love and make sure they feel like we’re on their side, and not a rival to be outdone?
Here’s what the research had to say…
People rarely show their blunders on Facebook but they certainly post pictures of beautiful vacations and updates about big promotions. And that can lead to social comparisons and envy.
Doing everything to make your life seem perfect may make you look good but it can also be a prescription for resentment.
What makes us trust people? Warmth and competence.
Research shows that people who inspire the most trust are those who exhibit two distinct traits: warmth and competence.
When all your ducks are in a row and you’re living high, you look pretty competent. But the warmth part can be lacking. What’s a good way to make sure you don’t inspire envy?
Screw up a little.
In a classic study, researchers had people evaluate three candidates. One had lousy scores, the other was nearly perfect, and the third had the same rankings as the perfect one but during the interview he spilled coffee all over his suit.
Guess who they thought most highly of? The fumbler.
Strangely enough, it turns out that they thought more highly of the high-performing person who spilled coffee than of the high performer who had been less clumsy.
Why? They seemed more approachable. They weren’t so perfect as to make people jealous.
And this is why karaoke is a great thing to do with co-workers. Embarrassing yourself makes you a lot more human.
Why does singing off-key, revealing a secret, or making a mistake build trust? As most of us have learned the hard way, karaoke can be embarrassing. But it is precisely for this reason that it can help build trust. When you sing karaoke with your friends, sometimes the louder and worse you perform, the more you bond.
(To learn how to get people to like you — from an FBI behavior expert, click here.)
So if you want to show off your new car on Facebook, don’t forget to drive your friends to karaoke that weekend. But what’s a way we can dodge envy without looking like an idiot?
Alison Brooks of Harvard had an assistant approach people at a train station on a rainy day. Half the time she asked people, “Can I borrow your phone? I need to make an important call.”
Only 9 percent of those people agreed to help.
But with the other people the assistant said, “I’m sorry about the rain! Can I borrow your phone? I need to make an important call.”
Yes, she apologized for the rain. Something she did not cause and had zero control over. The result?
47 percent of people helped her out. That’s a 400% increase. Similar results were achieved in many different situations.
Regardless of how superfluous the apology was, as long as it conveyed care and concern, it boosted perceptions of warmth and increased trust.
Research shows that just asking people, “Is this a good time to talk?” increased compliance with requests.
Little things that show you care matter — even if they’re utterly ridiculous.
(To learn the lazy way to an awesome life, click here.)
Okay, so you’re not forgetting to show concern. But what’s something simple you can do to really improve a romantic relationship? Repeat after me… actually, scratch that: repeat after them.
When negotiators use “perspective-taking” and think about the other side’s needs, they are more likely to close deals that make everyone happy.
Simply urging negotiators to think about the other side’s interests prompted them to ask more critical “why” and “what” questions, which led to innovative solutions that met both parties needs.
Okay, but that’s business and money. We’re talking about love. But here’s what’s interesting: you know what helps you increase perspective-taking?
Mimicry. Sitting like they do, folding your hands like they do, etc.
…mimicry facilitates perspective-taking: It helps us truly understand what another person is experiencing.
Plenty of research backs this up. So can this improve a romantic relationship? Absolutely.
Ever notice that in older happy married couples the husband and wife tend to look alike? It’s true. In fact, couples tend to look more alike over time.
…research has shown that couples do look more alike than two randomly chosen people… Robert Zajonc of Stanford University took photographs of couples when they were first married and again after they had been married for 25 years. After showing the two sets of photos to objective third-party observers, he found that the couples were judged to look more similar 25 years after being married than when they were first married.
And this is due to perspective-taking and mimicry. Smile the same way for decades and the lines in your face will look alike. And this actually leads to happier marriages.
…married couples with a greater capacity to mimic each other’s facial expressions form stronger bonds. It is why couples that become physically similar over time report more joy in their marriage.
So try a little bit of mimicry — just don’t make it obvious.
(To learn the 4 rituals new neuroscience says will make you happy, click here.)
So you saw that perspective-taking can help you understand others. But how can it help others understand you?
When you use perspective-taking it can really help. But how do you get others to see your perspective?
Ask them for advice.
Asking for advice is a particularly effective mechanism to get other people to take your perspective as well. As our research with Katie Liljenquist of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School has shown, when we ask others for advice, they put themselves in our shoes and look at the world from our vantage point.
But if you ask the boss or co-worker for advice, won’t you seem less competent?
Nope. Total opposite.
In a project led by Alison Brooks at Harvard, we found that people fear that by asking advice, they will appear less competent. But this is a perspective-taking failure: When we ask for advice, as long as the request is not completely obvious, we appear to be more competent. After all, we have just flattered someone by seeking their advice.
And what’s great about seeking advice is it works with almost anyone. If they’re senior to you, it shows deference. If they’re junior to you, it pays them a big compliment.
Because asking for advice signals respect, it is a strategy that works equally well up and down the hierarchy. It clearly works up the hierarchy because it shows deference and respect. But asking advice of someone below you on the hierarchical ladder — like when the boss asks a subordinate for their opinion — can have a powerful effect as well. The person below you in the hierarchy will be delighted to be acknowledged for their opinions and thrilled to have their expertise acknowledged.
(To learn what Harvard research says is the secret to being happier and more successful, click here.)
Okay, so what about when things go really wrong — as in, you did something you shouldn’t to a friend, partner or co-worker? What do you do then to stop difficult relationships from getting even worse?
There are a number of factors that improve an apology but one seems to stand way above the rest:
Promise to change.
In our own research, we have found that a promise to change is one of the most important components of an apology… Though the simple apology helped, it was the promise to change that had the most impact on how much trust their partner placed in them in subsequent rounds of the experiment.
Why are some people so reluctant to apologize? It makes them feel less powerful and causes them to lose status.
…as Tyler Okimoto of the University of Queensland has found, people who refuse to apologize feel a greater sense of power than those who apologize.
But what good is that power if it destroys an important relationship? Whenever you’re reluctant to apologize, a good tip is to try focusing on what results it might achieve as opposed to who is right or wrong.
As soon as you start to feel defensive or begin to rationalize some action that might have caused harm, take a moment of reflection. Take a step back and consider what an apology might accomplish. Even when we are justified in our actions and even when we acted with the best of intentions, there are times when an apology is the right course of action.
Have I made any typos yet? If so, I apologize and promise to change.
(To learn how to stop being lazy and get more done, click here.)
We’ve covered a lot. Let’s round it up and find out what these tips are really worth to you…
Here’s what you’ve learned about improving difficult relationships:
So what’s this advice really worth?
About $236,232 a year.
That’s what economists say a good social life and a happy marriage are worth in dollars.
So give these tips a shot. Being rich in relationships makes you pretty darn rich.
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These beautiful words.
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They are like the ten commandments to follow in life all the time.
1] Prayer is not a “spare wheel” that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a “steering wheel” that directs the right path throughout.
2] So a Car’s WINDSHIELD is so large & the Rear view Mirror is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as our FUTURE. So, Look Ahead and Move on.
3] Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.
4] Allthings in life are temporary. If going well enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong don’t worry, they can’t last long either.
5] Old Friends are Gold! New Friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond, don’t forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold!
6] Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, “Relax, sweetheart, it’s just a bend, not the end!
7] When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesn’t solve your problems HE has faith in your abilities.
8]A blindperson asked St. Anthony: “Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?” He replied: “Yes, losing your vision!”
9] When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.
10] WORRYING does not take away tomorrow’s TROUBLES; it takes away today’s PEACE.
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In 1807, King Maximilian I decreed that Munich’s food markets needed to be moved from the Marienplatz to a larger area, which is now known as the Viktualienmarkt. Viktualien is an old German word meaning “victuals” or “provisions.” Today, this market is still the place to stock up, although there is now a much wider range of provisions to choose from.
The Viktualienmarkt is still primarily a food market. Its vendors sell fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products, honey, spices, seafood and more. The market also places an emphasis on stocking ingredients that are difficult to find. Browse around the 140 stalls and stores, trying out the local food. Make sure you sample a Bavarian delicacy called the Leberkäse, a type of meatloaf that is usually served on a bun.
A traditional element of the market is the large maypole in the center, which is painted in the Bavarian colors of blue and white. Maypoles were used in previous times to signify which crafts and industries are important to the local area. These emblems are still visible today on the Viktualienmarkt’s maypole. Visit on May 1 for traditional May Day celebrations. The market also plays host to traditional events. Visit the market on Shrove Tuesday to see “the dance of the market women.”
The Viktualienmarkt beer garden seats many hundreds of people and is regarded as one of Munich’s most central beer gardens. In Bavaria it is common for guests to bring their own snacks to enjoy with purchased beverages. Pick up some local cheese and sausages from the market and take a seat in the beer garden.
The Viktualienmarkt is open every day except Sunday. While in the area, foodies should also head to the Schrannenhalle, a former granary just next door that has been converted into a bright hall filled with coffee stands and delicatessens. Both destinations are just a short walk away from the Marienplatz. | <urn:uuid:9f48a137-b5e9-437f-869c-4bc965f23d5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.expedia.com/Viktualienmarkt-Munich.d6071811.Vacation-Attraction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.9593 | 446 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Handedness/footedness and side biases are a well-known phenomenon in many animals, including humans. However, these so-called biases have mostly been studied at the population level - individual biases have received less attention, especially with regard to consistency over different tasks. Here we investigate behavioral lateralization in 12 male Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, a social parrot inhabiting the Australian bushlands. We performed 5 types of experiments to investigate lateralization, in tasks that involved climbing onto a perch, or landing on perches arranged in various configurations. The birds displayed highly significant, individually varying biases. The bias displayed by any particular individual varied with the task, in strength as well as polarity. Analysis of the data revealed that the preferred foot used for climbing did not coincide with the foot that was used while landing. Thus, landing choices are probably not determined by foot bias. Furthermore, these individual preferences were overridden completely when a bird had to perform a task simultaneously with another bird.
Citation: Schiffner I, Srinivasan MV (2013) Behavioural Lateralization in Budgerigars Varies with the Task and the Individual. PLoS ONE 8(12): e82670. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082670
Editor: Johan J Bolhuis, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Received: June 11, 2013; Accepted: October 26, 2013; Published: December 6, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Schiffner, Srinivasan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This research was supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant (DP 110103277), an ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science grant (CE0561903), and by a Queensland Smart State Premier’s Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Most work to date on “handedness” and behavioural and brain lateralization has shown that animals display consistent side biases. For example, chicks are known to use the right eye preferentially for detecting and inspecting food, and the left eye for detecting predators . Other studies that have found behavioural lateralization at the population level involve detection of either food or prey (cane toads: , domestic chick: ), or predators (domestic chicks: , fish: ) or social interactions with conspecifics (domestic chicks: , quails: ).
One of the patterns emerging from these studies is that population biases seem to be present primarily in social animals. Examples include several species of Australian parrot [7-9], three species of toad and several species of fish and honeybees [11,12]. The underlying rationale is that unilateral handedness or footedness would direct a group of individuals of the same population to move or respond in the same direction, ensuring that all individuals stay with the group and do not become isolated and vulnerable, for example when being chased by a predator . To test this notion, it is important to examine whether the biases that are displayed by individuals when they are tested singly, continue to persist when they are tested in the company of other individuals. This is one of the aims of our study.
While most studies of behavioural lateralization have reported population biases (as described above), relatively little effort has been devoted to investigating the variation of lateralization from one task to another, or to the variation of lateralization from one individual to another even with respect to a single, specific task - although these questions have persisted for more than 30 years (See open peer comments in (See open peer comments in [14 ,15,16]). Recent studies, at least in fish [17,18], aim to shed some light on this problem, but relatively little is known about individuality in birds. Thus, another aim of our study is to examine whether lateralization varies from individual to individual, and whether a given individual displays consistent lateralization across tasks that are closely related.
Here we find that, even within a single species (the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus), different individuals can display different biases with respect to a given task. Furthermore, the bias that is displayed by a given individual can vary dramatically from one task to another, and it can also depend upon whether the bird is tested alone or in the company of another bird that is performing the same task concurrently. This is true even when the tasks are closely related, suggesting that behavioural lateralization is more complex, intricate and variable than previously imagined.
All experiments were carried out in accordance with the Australian Law on the protection and welfare of laboratory animals and with the approval of the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committees of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Permit QBI/646/07/ARC).
The subjects were 12 adult male Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) between one and five years old. They were acquired in their first year of life and were housed in an outdoor aviary. The experiments were conducted at the University of Queensland’s Pinjarra Hills Field Station.
Apparatus and Implementation
The experiments took place indoors in a tunnel that was 7.28 m long, 1.36 m wide and 2.44 m high. The walls and the ceiling of the tunnel had been painted white and the floor was made of grey concrete. The end walls were covered with black cloth, to standardise visual cues. Five different types of experiments were conducted to investigate whether the birds displayed side biases and footedness whilst landing on or climbing onto perches that were presented in various configurations.
The Budgerigars were trained to take off from a hand-held wooden perch (60 cm long) and to land on one or two perches placed at various positions in the tunnel, depending upon the particular experiment (see Figure 1). The experimenter initiated the take off by rotating the perch gently about its longitudinal axis, or lowering it abruptly by a few centimetres. In general, the birds required little or no training. When necessary, training was commenced with the take-off occurring close to the test perches (about 20 cm away). This distance was then increased gradually until the birds eventually flew toward and landed on the test perch. Neither during training, nor during the experiments were the birds rewarded in any way.
Shown are the positions of the perches in relation to the scale of the tunnel (not shown in full length) for Experiment 1 (A), Experiments 2, 3 and 5 (B), and Experiment 4 (C).
The starting positions of the bird, (or birds), and the position of the camera are indicated by the respective symbols. In (B) the 12 subdivisions of the long perch are shown as alternately black and white only for a clearer visualization of their geometry.
Experiment 1 (choice between two perches)
In the first experiment the birds were offered two perches on which they could land, one to the left and the other to the right of their flight path, and their landing choices were recorded (see Figure 1 A). The twin perches were created by positioning a 120 cm long wooden rod in the middle of the tunnel, oriented perpendicularly to the side walls, at a distance of 75 cm from the back wall. The rod was supported by a box (54 cm wide and 100 cm high). A black cloth was used to cover the centre of the perch, creating the appearance of two transversely oriented, oppositely directed perches, each 33 cm long.
Experiment 2 (free landing on a single, long perch)
In the second experiment the birds were presented with a single, transversely oriented perch 120 cm long (see Figure 1 B). The perch was suspended from the ceiling by ropes at a height of 120 cm, and the birds were free to land anywhere along its length.
Experiment 3 (free landing on a single, long perch, two birds)
The third experimental configuration was identical to that in Experiment 2, except that two birds were released simultaneously (see Figure 1 B). The landing positions of both birds were recorded. We tested two different configurations, in a symmetrical design. In the first configuration, termed the “Ipsilateral" configuration, birds were released from the perch such that their relative positions at take off corresponded to their relative positions at landing, as derived from each bird’s mean landing position in Experiment 2, where the birds were tested individually. In the second configuration, termed the “Contralateral" configuration, the birds were released in a configuration that was the opposite of their relative positions at landing as recorded in Experiment 2. For instance, if bird A had landed at a position that was to the left of bird B, as determined by the mean landing positions of the two birds in Experiment 2, then bird A was positioned to the left of bird B in the “Ipsilateral configuration”, and to the right of bird B in the “Contralateral configuration”. For each pair of birds, we conducted 5 trials in each configuration.
Experiment 4 (landing on a single, axially oriented perch)
In this setup the birds were presented with a single perch placed at the far end of the tunnel, oriented perpendicular to the back wall. (see Figure 1 C). The perch was supported at a height of 105 cm by a box, which was covered with a black cloth.
Experiment 5 (foot choice when climbing onto a perch)
In this experiment the bird sat on the suspended perch - the same perch as in Experiments 2 and 3 (see Figure 1 B). The experimenter, standing directly in front of the bird, induced the bird to climb on to a smaller perch, 60 cm long, by pressing it gently against the bird’s chest. This is a naturally elicited response, which requires no previous training.
In order to prevent external factors from influencing the birds in their choices, we took care to ensure that all of the experimental configurations were perfectly symmetrical. The birds were always released at the far end of the tunnel, close to the midline. The experimenter stood behind the take-off perch (whenever possible, behind a black cloth) and held the perch horizontally with both hands at approximately the same height as the landing perch. In those cases where the perch had to be held with one hand, the right or the left hand was used alternately. In addition to these precautions, Experiments 1 and 4 were repeated with the entire setup rotated by 180 degrees (i.e. with the birds flying in the opposite direction in the tunnel), to exclude potential influences from extraneous cues, such as non-uniform illumination, acoustic noise or the geomagnetic field.
A total of 12 male Budgerigars were used in the study. We conducted twenty trials for each bird in Experiments 1, 2, 4 and 5. In Experiment 3 we released two birds simultaneously, by combining each bird with one of two or three other birds, in a total of 13 different combinations. The birds were released close to each other, with a separation not exceeding 20 cm, and with one bird positioned on the left side of the perch and the other on the right side. Each bird took off five times from the left side and five times from the right side. We only used data from flights in which the birds took off within 1 second of each other; on average, the birds took off within 15 ms and landed within 30 ms of each other.
Analysis of Video Data
The flights of the birds were recorded at 100 frames per second using a Lightning RDT high-speed digital camera (DRS data & imaging systems, Inc., Oakland, NJ). Camera operation and video acquisition were controlled by special-purpose software (MiDAS 2.0 (Xcitex, Inc., Cambridge, MA)).
The camera was positioned at one end of the tunnel, behind the landing perch (or perches) and roughly at the same height. The camera was carried by a tripod with a rotatable 3-axis head (Manfrotto), equipped with a spirit level to aid levelling.
For each experiment, the data was recorded in each trial as follows:
In Experiment 1 we recorded whether the bird landed on the left-hand perch or the right-hand perch, and which foot was used to make first contact. In Experiments 2 and 3 the landing perch -120 cm long - was subdivided into 12 equal segments, with Segment 1 being the leftmost segment, and Segment 12 the segment furthest to the right (see also Figure 1 B). In Experiment 2 we recorded the segment at which the bird landed. In Experiment 3, which involved releasing two birds simultaneously, we also recorded the starting position of each bird (left or right). If the bird started or landed on the boundary between two segments, the position was reckoned to be the mean of the values for the two segments. In Experiment 4 we recorded whether the bird approached the axially-oriented perch from the left or from the right to land on it, and which foot was used to make first contact. And in Experiment 5 we recorded which foot the bird used first to step on to the perch that was held against its chest.
We used the Sign test In order to check for significant preferences on the individual level (N=20 trials per bird) and for biases at the level of the entire population (n=12 birds). Second order correlations between the individual measures of preference were performed using the Spearman rank correlation . To test for the existence of correlations between multiple measurements of preference we used canonical correlation analysis
Experiment 1 (choice between two perches)
The birds showed a strong, individual-dependent preference for landing on one particular perch. As shown in Figure 2, each bird chose the perch on its “preferred” side with a frequency between 80 % and 100 %. This preference was statistically significant for each bird (Sign test p < 0.05). Nine birds preferred the left-hand perch, and three birds the perch on the right, indicating a tendency for an overall population bias towards the left (Sign test p < 0.10).
Experiment 2 (free landing on a single, long perch)
Experiment 2 revealed that the distribution of the landing positions differed substantially from bird to bird. (Histograms of the landing positions for each bird are shown in Figure S1 and the mean landing positions and the standard deviations are given in Table S1). Only two birds showed a preference for one specific location on the perch. The others showed an almost uniform distribution of landing positions, spread over a much larger portion of the perch. When considering only whether the birds landed on the right or left side of the perch, and excluding landings in the central segment, we found that only half of the birds exhibited a significant preference for one side (Sign test p < 0.05; See Figure 3). Even more intriguingly, four birds displayed a side bias that was exactly the opposite of what they displayed in Experiment 1. Overall the number of left and right biased birds was equal, thus no population bias was observed in this task (Sign test p > 0.10).
Frequencies of landings on the left or right side of the perch. Significance levels for the individual preferences are indicated by the following symbols (**: p < 0.01; *: p < 0.05; +: p < 0.10).
As an aside, it is worth noting that if we divide the landing perch into a broad central region comprising segments 5-8, and two outer regions comprising segments 1-4 and 9-12, there was an overall significant preference for landing in the central region (Sign test p < 0.05).
Experiment 3 (free landing on a single, long perch, two birds)
In this experiment two birds were released simultaneously, and their landing positions were recorded in the same way as in Experiment 2. From this data we determined whether the landing birds had retained their take-off configuration, or had swapped positions (i.e. crossed over). Table 1 shows the number of times that crossovers occurred between take-off and landing, for the Ipsilateral configuration and the Contraleral configuration. Note that, for each pair of birds, the number of crossovers can range between a maximum of five and a minimum of zero. If crossovers occurred randomly, we would expect the mean crossover frequency to be 50%. We observe from Table 1, however, that the mean crossover frequency was significantly lower than this value, being 15% for the Ipsilateral configuration (Sign test p < 0.05) and 11% for the Contralateral configuration (Sign test p < 0.01). This means that, in each condition, the birds were more likely to retain their initial configuration during the entire flight, and less likely to cross over. There were no indications that any bird, when released on its preferred side (Ipsilateral configuration) showed an increased tendency to land closer to its preferred landing location (Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test; T=22; p > 0.10; see also Table S2 Supplemental Material). This is true even for the bird that landed first on the perch (Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test; T=31; p > 0.10). Similarly, the temporal sequence in which the birds took off was maintained during landing. In other words, in most of the trials, the bird that took off first was also the first bird to land. The frequency of overtaking manoeuvres was 30% or lower for all thirteen pairs of birds that were tested, and this frequency was significantly lower than that expected by chance (50%; Sign test p < 0.01; see Table 1).
|Frequency of crossovers/overtaking manoeuvres for all pairs of birds|
Experiment 4 (landing on a single, axially oriented single perch)
In this experiment we investigated the behaviour of birds when they approached a perch that was oriented parallel to their flight path, requiring them to land on it by either approaching it from the left and turning right, or vice versa. The results of this experiment again differ from those of Experiment 1 (see Figure 4). All except three birds showed strong, individual biases, with frequencies of approach from a particular side ranging between 80% and 100 % (Sign test, p < 0.05). Here too the number of right and left biased birds is almost the same (left: 5; right: 6; undetermined: 1), thus not indicating the presence of an overall population bias (Sign test p > 0.10).
Experiment 5 (foot choice when climbing onto a perch)
Six of the birds showed a significant preference for initiating the climb with a specific foot (Figure 5; Sign test p < 0.05). Five of them preferred the right foot and only one preferred the left foot. Two additional birds showed a non-significant tendency to prefer a specific foot (Sign test p < 0.10). Eight birds preferred to use the right foot, and four birds preferred to use the left foot. No overall population bias was observed in this task, either (Sign test p < 0.10).
Foot Preference during Landing
In Experiments 1 and 4 we also looked at which foot the birds used to make first contact with the perch while landing. In Experiment 1 the birds showed a clear preference to touch down with the foot opposite to the direction of approach (i.e. foot facing away from the wall), namely, the left foot when landing on the right-hand perch and the right foot when landing on the left-hand perch (all birds 84-100%; all Sign test p < 0.01, except for one bird with too few observations; see Table S3 in the Material for details). In Experiment 4 we also observed that birds used the foot opposite to the direction of approach (all birds 85 - 100%; all Sign test p < 0.05; see Table S4 in the Material for details), which also happens to be the foot that is facing away from the wall. This means that while the choice of landing site may change depending on the particular configuration of the landing task, there is a clear relationship between the direction of approach and the foot that is used to make first contact. Landing on this foot would presumably be safer as it would make the bird tip toward the wall, rather than away from it. However, this tendency may also be a consequence of the preference of the birds to approach the perch from an oblique direction, which minimizes the likelihood of the wing making contact with the wall.
One possible interpretation of the results of Experiments 1 and 4 might therefore be that foot preference drives the observed side bias. However, for any given individual, the choice of the direction of approach (and therefore the choice of foot for landing) seems to differ between the two tasks, and also differs from the foot preference determined in Experiment 5. This makes it unlikely that foot preference is the sole determinant of the biases that are exhibited by individual birds.
Correlation between Experimental Results
In order to further investigate the relationship between the outcomes of Experiments 1,2, 4 and 5 we performed a correlational analysis of the results. The biases displayed by the birds across Experiments 1, 2, 4 and 5 are summarised in Table 2 (for details see Table S5 in the Material). These biases were compared statistically using the Spearman Rank correlation test, the results of which are shown in Table 3 in the form of a correlation matrix. The correlation matrix data indicates no parallels between the individual experiments, suggesting that foot preference alone cannot explain the side biases observed in the individual tasks.
|Exp. 2||Exp. 4||Exp. 5|
Another possibility would be that biases are determined by a combination of foot preference and other factors. In order to investigate this we additionally performed a canonical correlation analysis (Table 4), investigating the relationship across multiple tasks, i.e. looking at the outcome of two or more experiments and testing whether they can be used to predict the results of any of the experiments. Again, as shown in Table 4, none of the canonical correlates reaches significance, indicating that the tasks are independent of each other, and therefore suggesting that the biases observed in each of these tasks are not related to each other.
|Exp. 1||Exp. 5||0.608||4.23||4||n.s.|
|Exp. 2||Exp. 5||0.717||2.83||4||n.s.|
|Exp. 4||Exp. 5||0.616||4.11||4||n.s.|
|Exp. 1||Exp. 2||Exp. 5||0.738||2.58||3||n.s.|
|Exp. 1||Exp. 4||Exp. 5||0.760||2.33||3||n.s.|
|Exp. 1||Exp. 2||Exp. 4||0.686||3.20||3||n.s.|
|Exp. 2||Exp. 4||Exp. 5||0.706||2.96||3||n.s.|
Recent studies have shown that population biases for specific tasks, when they exist, are not consistent across all bird species. For example, even within the class of Australian parrots, there are large species-dependent variations with respect to the eye that is used to view food, as well as the foot that is used to pick it up [7-9].
Our study takes this one step further to reveal that even within a given species, birds can display lateralization that varies from task to task, as well as across individuals with respect to a given task. We find that Budgerigars display strong, individually varying lateralization with respect to their choice of perch, landing location, or direction of approach whilst landing, even in very similar tasks.
As mentioned in the Introduction, most previous studies report the existence of lateralization at the population level. However, there are a few documented instances of lateralization at the individual level. For example, Pigeons display individually varying, and time-varying preferences for the foot that makes first contact when landing on a platform ; great tits exhibit individually varying foot preferences while holding or manipulating food ; and Japanese jungle crows show individually varying foot preferences while scratching their beak or handling food . Our findings add to this compendium of knowledge by documenting that Budgerigars show individually varying side biases for the choice of landing sites. In particular, Experiment 2, which investigated landings of Budgerigars on a long perch, has interesting parallels with studies of line bisection tasks with humans, which also show variations of bias polarity across individuals e.g. .
Population Bias or Individual Bias?
The results of Experiment 1 (choice between two perches) reveal a strong and statistically significant left-bias in all except three birds, which show a right-bias. This particular experiment may be suggestive of a bias at the population level. However, the results of Experiments 2, 4 and 5 indicate biases that vary with the individual, as well as with the task at hand. This wide variation suggests that, at least with respect to the tasks we have studied, the biases occur at the level of the individual, and not at the population level. Our findings are partly in accordance with a previous study of tree swallows, where no bias was found at the population level in a task in which the birds had to choose to fly through one of two apertures of different sizes . It is noteworthy, however, that their study reported an absence of lateralization at the individual level, although data for individuals was not provided. Brown and Magat compared, across individuals, biases in the eye that is used to view food and the foot that is used to pick it up, in a number of different species. They found striking correlations on an individual basis: an individual that viewed food predominantly with its right eye was more likely to pick it up with its right foot, and vice versa. While our investigation explored a rather different set of tasks, we do not find such correlations in the behaviours that we have studied.
Task-dependent Changes of Bias Polarity in Individual Birds
Our study also reveals that slight alterations in the task can cause the bias of a particular individual to reverse, i.e. change its polarity. Other studies on birds, so far, indicate that laterality at the individual level, especially in footedness, remains consistent over different tasks. In a study on the great tit, Parus major, Vince reports consistent foot preference in two tasks, food holding and string pulling, and in a study on the Japanese jungle crow, Corvus macrorhynchos, by Izawa and colleagues similar results were obtained when comparing two tasks, namely food-holding and beak scratching. Previous studies in Budgerigars have so far focused solely on food detection, food handling or manipulation [For example see 7-9,27] - a rather arbitrary choice considering that Budgerigars rarely use their feet for feeding or manipulating objects. All of these studies indicate that Budgerigars display strong lateralization on the individual level, and are suggestive of the absence of population biases.
To our knowledge, there are only two other studies so far that have reported direct evidence for a task-dependent reversal of bias. Waters and Denenberg found that mice exhibited a change in bias at the population level, when a simple reaching task was modified slightly. Hook and Rogers investigated stability of biases in marmosets over a variety of reaching tasks. They found that the biases displayed by each individual remained the same for all but one task.
Even though there is no direct correlation between the individual biases displayed in Experiment 1 and Experiment 4, it is intriguing that the birds, regardless of which side they choose, consistently use the outermost foot to make first contact with the perch. Doing so may allow the birds to achieve greater stability – in each case allowing the bird to tip toward the wall, rather than away from it in case of an emergency.
Are Individual Biases Preserved when Animals Interact in Larger Groups?
Studies of biases in larger groups, so far, are limited to the reactions of chicks and quails towards mates and strangers, indicating, at least indirectly, that animals do not display individually differing biases when their behaviour is observed in large groups. While only indirectly related to our observations, this is in accordance with our finding that the preference that is displayed by a Budgerigar when it is tested on its own is no longer observed when the bird is paired up with another individual. This is intriguing, as it is in stark contrast with the central hypothesis explaining the evolutionary origins of population biases in social animals, i.e. that individual biases could direct a group of animals to move in specific directions . While our study may not be sufficient to reject this hypothesis, it underscores the need to further explore the relationship between the behaviour of individuals and that of a population.
Our study suggests that Budgerigars display indications of a population bias with respect to one particular task, namely choosing between a left-hand perch and a right-hand perch. However, in other tasks, some of which are variants or more complex versions of the same task, the birds display biases that are strongly dependent upon the individual, and upon the task at hand. Furthermore, the individual biases vanish completely when one bird is paired up with another. Thus, lateralization of behaviour in Budgerigars (and perhaps other animals) is likely to be more complex and subtle than hitherto supposed.
Number of landings in each of the segments for Experiment 2.
Average landing position and standard deviation for Experiment 2.
Average landing position of individual birds in Experiment 3.
Foot used when landing on the perches in Experiment 1.
Foot used when landing on the perch in Experiment 4.
We thank Lena Heeman and Nathan Huang for their help in conducting the experiments, and Hong Diem Vo and Amanda Robinson for useful comments on the manuscript.
Conceived and designed the experiments: IS MVS. Performed the experiments: IS. Analyzed the data: IS MVS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS MVS. Wrote the manuscript: IS MVS.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center presents photographs by John Willis
BRATTLEBORO >> The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents an exhibit of photographs by John Willis entitled "House/Home, A Work in Progress." An opening reception is scheduled for Friday at 5:30 p.m. during Brattleboro's monthly Gallery Walk. The exhibit will remain on view through Oct. 23. Willis will give a free gallery talk on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m.
For nearly 25 years, John Willis has visited and worked on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. Recently he has also spent time on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. The non-traditional, sub-standard housing he has encountered on these Native American reservations comprises the subject matter for many of the photographs in the BMAC exhibit.
"A few years ago, the federal government reclaimed the trailers made to assist Katrina victims, deeming them too poisonous for habitation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency then decided to 'generously' donate them to Native American communities for the cost of transportation. Upon learning that my friends were thrilled to be purchasing new homes for $3,000, structures that had been deemed uninhabitable, I was embarrassed by my government's disregard for its people," Willis said.
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John Willis received his M.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. He has taught photography at Marlboro College since 1991. He is a co-founder of Brattleboro's In-Sight Photography Project and Exposures, a cross-cultural exchange program that establishes the arts as a common language among youth from diverse communities. In 2011 Willis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for having demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center presents rotating exhibits of contemporary art, complemented by lectures, artist talks, film screenings, and other public programs. The museum's exhibits and gift shop are open every day except Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regular admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $4 for students. Members and children 18 and under are admitted free of charge. Admission is free to all on Thursdays after 2 p.m. Located in the Union Station, downtown Brattleboro, at the intersection of Main Street and Routes 119 and 142, the museum is wheelchair accessible. For more information, call 802-257-0124 or visit brattleboromuseum.org.
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22 September 2011
The “friends of Hrant Dink” sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The text, as quoted in the Hürriyet Daily News on September 16, 2011, alleges:
“Our search for justice has been left null and void as [our efforts] approach their fifth year. The state in its entirety that we have petitioned saw itself as being close to the murderer.”
The fact that the assassin, Ogün Samast, was quickly arrested and sentenced to more than 20 years in jail seems irrelevant to the authors of this letter. The still unresolved cases of political assassinations in Turkey and in other countries, including old democracies like France, apparently are not very interesting to them, even as contexts leading to prudence in their wording and level of allegations.
Such an excessive statement could be attributed, by an uninformed observer, to the misleading pain of people who have lost a friend because of a terrorist attack. Unfortunately, in looking more closely, quite a different picture emerges . .
Hrant Dink was assassinated in İstanbul on January 19, 2007. Despite having been merely the editor-in-chief of a small weekly paper, Agos, representing only a part of Turkey’s Armenian community (the daily Jamanak, for instance, has a different stance), Hrant Dink’s assassination provoked huge reactions and demonstrations in Turkey. The rejection of the murder was unanimous among Turkey’s main political parties and other organizations.
Now, let’s look at what happened in Los Angeles on January 28, 1982. Kemal Arıkan, Consul General of Turkey, was assassinated by Hampig Sassounian and another, unidentified man. The two perpetrators were terrorists of the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide (JCAG), i.e. the terrorist arm of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnak), the main political party of the Armenian Diaspora which controls numerous cultural and charitable associations all over the world, especially in North America, France, Australia, and the Middle East.
Instead of condemning the assassination, the Armenian community of California expressed unanimous and unconditional support for HampigSassounian. It does not mean, of course, that all the Armenians of California agreed with the murder; but any Armenian who would have publicly reproved this act would had been purely and simply expelled from Armenian American cultural and religious life. As the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) documented for the parole hearing of Mr. Sassounian in 2010, and as I summarized in my previous column for the JTW, the ARF provides constant and full help to its terrorist, presenting him as a “martyr,” “hero,” and “example.”
The comparison between the Dink and Arıkan cases can be continued. Kemal Arıkan’s assassination never provoked the same reactions as the murder of Hrant Dink in the Western opinion. Despite Kemal Arıkan having been a diplomat representing an important country, a member of NATO, there is simply no street, plaque, or any memorial in any Western country, including the U.S., commemorating his death. There are several streets named after Hrant-Dink in the West, for instance in Lyon, France. In this city, the Turkish Consulate was attacked by the Armenian Secret Army for Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), which killed two people, on August 5, 1980. No policeman protected the Consulate at that time. Nothing was inaugurated in Lyon to commemorate the attack.
Prof. Michael M. Gunter, specialist, among other subjects, of Armenian terrorism, explains even, speaking about himself “this author often finds sheer of disbelief on the part of the general non-Armenian public that the phenomenon [Armenian terrorism] even existed” (Armenian History and the Question of Genocide, New York-London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, p. 72).Despite the JCAG having been directly subordinate to the ARF’s World Bureau, despite all the legal branches of the ARF having given unconditional support to the JCAG, the ARF was never banned by any democratic country. Even the other perpetrator of Kemal Arıkan’s assassination was not found. The lack of protection provided by American police to Kemal Arıkan, or later to the honorary Consul General in Boston Orhan Gündüz who received death threats before his death, did not incite the police forces to any investigation for incompetence, still less for complicity. Similarly, the inability of the police of France, Austria, Belgium, Italy, or Greece to protect Turkish diplomats and other citizens against Armenian terrorists was never the target of any internal investigations. There are such investigations for the Dink case.
The Hrant Dink family, the Hrant Dink Foundation, and other “friends” were never interested by these cases of Armenian terrorism. Armenia’s aggression toward Azerbaijan and the Armenian terrorism against this country are not among the concerns of Hrant Dink’s “heirs.” They are not even interested by the hundreds of Armenians killed or threatened to death by Armenian terrorists, since the end of 19th Century.
The active cooperation of Hrant Dink’s “heirs” with Armenian nationalists
This selective indignation is unfortunately the less serious problem of internal incoherence raised by the statements and activities of Hrant Dink’s “heirs.”
On January 17, 2008, for the first anniversary of Hrant Dink’s assassination, Ochin Tchilinguir, an Agos journalist and “one of the lawyers of Dink family,” attended an event organized by the Unitary Committee of Alfortville’s Armenian Associations (CUAA). Alfortville is a kind of French Glendale or Watertown, for the numeric importance of its Armenian community. The CUAA is dominated by the ARF, and is even located in the House of Armenian Culture (MCA), a branch of the Dashnak Party. Another important component of the CUAA is the Hunchak, another nationalist party which practiced terrorism—including against Armenians—during the Ottoman period and supported ASALA during the 1980s. The event was also attended by Ara Krikorian, ex-leader of the ARF in France and editor in 1981 of a book glorifying the Dashnak terrorist S. Tehlirian.
It is difficult, for somebody who received a French education, to refrain from thinking of François de La Rochefoucauld’s saying: “Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
Another event took place in Arnouville, also a Parisian suburb with an important Armenian community. The conference was hosted by the Hrant-Dink school, whose founder denied any connections with the ultra-nationalist organizations. However, one of the participants was Alexandre Couyoumjian, member of the bureau of the strongly nationalist—and above all, anti-Turkish— Coordination Council of France’s Armenian Associations (CCAF). A lawyer by profession, Mr. Couyoumjian was one of the supporters of the defunct bill presented to the French Parliament, which was designed to forbid the “denial” of the “existence of the Armenian genocide.” Ochin Tchilinguir also participated. Mr. Tchilinguir saw no contradiction between the proclaimed goal of Hrant Dink’s “heirs” to fight for the freedom of expression and cooperating with an activist who fights this very same freedom. At the time, when the censorship bill was discussed, Hrant Dink stated that he was ready to go to France and say: “There was no Armenian genocide.
These examples are by no means isolated or limited to France. Talin Sucyan, who wrote in Agos from 2007 to 2010 is now a contributor of the Dashnak Armenian Weekly. During the 1970s and the 1980s, this newspaper published both the communiqués of the JCAG and inflammatory articles of its staff, supporting Armenian terrorism. In the 1930s, The Armenian Weekly (at that time named Hairenik Weekly) unconditionally supported Nazism and was proud to mention the assassination of numerous Armenians by the ARF, because they did not want to give money to this party. The Armenian Weekly also published numerous defamatory attacks against Archbishop Leon Tourian, who was eventually assassinated by the ARF in New York on December 24, 1933.
Ms. Sucyan published an article in The Armenian Weekly viciously attacking Turkey without any evidence. She mentioned a conference of the Armenian General Benevolence Union (AGBU), which failed to take place in Jordan. Ms. Sucyan wanted to present a speech on “The Legacy of Hrant Dink.” The AGBU is a branch of the Ramkavar Party. The Ramkavar allowed its members to support Armenian terrorists in the 1980s, and as late as 2000, Moorad Mooradian, an important figure of the Ramkavar, justified the assassination of Turkish diplomats by Armenian terrorists, and failed to write a single word of criticism about the other kind of attacks, like the bombing of Orly airport (The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, March 25, 2000). The Ramkavar-dominated Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) supported countless anti-Turkish initiatives since its creation in 1972. The French branches of AGBU and Ramkavar supported the censorship bill.
Even more strikingly, the widow of Hrant Dink received an award from Robert Kocharian, at that time President of Armenia. Mr. Kocharian played a central role in the aggression toward Azerbaijan as well as in the ethnic cleansing of Azeris. He supported most of the claims of the Diaspora’s extreme nationalists and attacked even (verbally) the Jews.
These acts of cooperation make even more sense considering that the Hrant Dink Foundation established in 2010 a “Support Fund for History Studies” focusing on the “1915 events.” The jury includes the German sociologist of Kurdish heritage Taner Akçam, whose methods are proven to be less than scientific (mistranslations, misquotations, use of fakes, allegations without proof) and who even dared calling the well documented slaughters of Muslim civilians by Armenian volunteers of the Russian army “a legend” on PBS, in April 2006. The jury also includes Raymond Kévorkian and Hans-Lukas Kieser, two authors with a strongly anti-Turkish bias. There is not any specialist of Ottoman and Turkish history, not even Hilmar Kaiser, a supporter of the “genocide” allegation who accepts the debate and recognizes the high scholarship of Yusuf Halaçoğlu; Donald Bloxham, who at least admits that there were actually Armenian insurrectional activities at the beginning of WWI and that “During the Russian advance into eastern Anatolia at the beginning of 1916, vengeful Armenian forces […] murdered many Muslims, as testified to in the British sources;” or Ara Sarafian.
The Silence vis-à-vis Other Attempts of Misuse
In addition to the active and direct participation of the Hrant Dink Foundation, the Dink family or their friends to the propaganda allowed, at least by their silence, a recurrent misuse of Hrant Dink’s assassination by the most radical, anti-Turkish, Armenian nationalists. In one of its inflammatory articles against Turkey—and actually, against most of the Turkish people themselves—The Armenian Weekly (January 27, 2010) concluded “in the memory of Hrant Dink.” The text is full of praise for the PKK, an old comrade in arms of the ARF, and the owner of The Armenian Weekly. In reading such absurd allegations like “In a place like Turkey where the call to speak is an invitation to prosecution, to harassment, in a place where historical truths do not exist, where contemporary human rights are trampled, minority rights are unfathomable, and women’s rights unimaginable,” it is hard to forget what the very same newspaper wrote during the years of Armenian terrorism:
“Out of the East came a foe unequalled in his barbarity—the slit-eyed, bow-legged Turkic nomads. […] The Seljuks and Ottomans with their ferocious customs were determined to annihilate the whole Armenian race.”(The Armenian Weekly, June 1st, 1983, p. 42).
This tone is still common among the readers’ comments on the Web site of The Armenian Weekly and its counterpart of California Asbarez. In the newspapers, the same racist ideas continue, this time using the screen of “human rights” even more than before. In such a context, the silence of Hrant Dink’s “heirs” is an act of complicity. The title of an article from 2010, “Commonalty in Struggle” makes special sense considering the kind of “struggle” which The Armenian Weekly advocated for years—and continues to justify, not to say glorify, today.
Similarly, Peter Balakian, considered “the number 1 enemy of the Turks” in the U.S. delivered a speech during a panel discussion on the legacy of Hrant Dink on February 1, 2009. The text of the speech was published—not surprisingly—in The Armenian Weekly.
Ara Sarafian pointed out in The Armenian Reporter of December 18, 2008:
“Our understanding of the Armenian Genocide has been influenced by partisan scholarship because a number of academic institutions and political parties in Armenian communities, such as in the United States or Great Britain, have nurtured a prosecutorial approach to the subject. Consequently, some important elements of the events of 1915 have been distorted. The main thrust of the prosecutorial approach has been the assertion that the genocide of Armenians was executed with the thoroughness of the Nazi Holocaust, and that all Turks and Kurds were involved in the genocidal process. This approach is best exemplified by Vahakn Dadrian’s The History of the Armenian Genocide.”
To speak even more clearly, the “prosecutorial approach” criticized rightfully by Mr. Sarafian is a racist approach. Peter Balakian’s bestseller, The Burning Tigris, is barely more than a degraded version of Vahakn N. Dadrian’s publications. Most of the main arguments of The Burning Tigris are copied without particular originality from Mr. Dadrian’s book and articles. It can be noticed in the endnotes.
In The Burning Tigris, Mr. Balakian praises the Armenian terrorism of the 1920s—using even the fake documents of Aram Andonian—and attenuates the circumstances of the terrorist attacks of the 1970s and the 1980s. Mr. Balakian largely deserved the numerous congratulations and honors which he received from the ARF. But his misuse of Hrant Dink’s cadaver for his anti-Turkish crusade should have been denounced by the Dink family and the Hrant Dink Foundation. It was not.
However, the manifesto of Anders Breivik demonstrated how much this far right terrorist was obsessed by Turkey. The unsubstantiated claims of “Armenian genocide” or “Greek genocide” and even more the racist conceptions diffused by the most radical versions of these allegations played a central role in Mr. Breivik’s Weltanschauung (world view)—and eventually in his decision to commit terrorist acts. The main reactions in the West demonstrated one more time that in the matter of terrorism, the kind of reactions depend largely on the religion of the perpetrator.
Conclusion: practicing double standards, supporting prejudices
This active and passive cooperation with groups and individual notorious for their praising—or, in the case of the ARF, their practicing—of terrorism is by no means coherent with the self-description of Hrant Dink’s “heirs” as people fighting for justice, against hatred and restriction of freedom. Elementary logic should lead them to stop such cooperation. Until then, the single cohesive factor in such an attitude is a permanent defamation against Turkey—not to say against the Turkish people themselves. In the world as described by the Hrant Dink Foundation, the perpetrators of crimes are ethnic Turks and the victims are ethnic Armenians—never the reverse.
The concrete effect of the Hrant Dink Foundation was to give respectability to anti-Turkish speech and a window on Turkey to some of the most extremist nationalists of the Armenian Diaspora. This is in complete contradiction to Dink’s thoughts, and even more so to the great tradition of Turkish Armenians, illustrated by Bedros Kapamaciyan, Berç Kerestecıyan Türker, and many others.
Erman Şahin, “Review Essay: A Scrutiny of Akçam’s Version of History and the Armenian Genocide,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, XXVIII-2, Summer 2008, pp. 303-319, http://www.tc-america.org/files/news/pdf/Erman-Sahin-Review-Article.pdf id. “Armenian Question: Scholarly Ethics and Methodology,” Review of Armenian Studies, n° 19-20, 2009, pp. 141-152;id. “Review Essay: the Armenian Question,” Middle East Policy, XVII-1, Spring 2010, pp. 144-157, http://www.mepc.org/create-content/book-review
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Süleyman Özeren, “Terrorist or Crazy: Irresistible Denial of Naked Truth,” The Journal of Turkish Weekly, July 28, 2011; Lenka Kantnerova, “Reactions to Norwegian Massacre: A Double Standard?”, id., August 17, 2011, http://www.turkishweekly.net/op-ed/2860/reactions-to-norwegian-massacre-a-double-standard.html
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Balakian: Remembering Hrant Dink
The article below is based on a speech delivered by Prof. Peter Balakian during a panel discussion on the legacy of Hrant Dink held at MIT on Feb. 1, 2009.
George Santayana, the philosopher who taught at Harvard for decades, wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It seems like an axiomatic enough assertion, yet what happens to those who don’t know history, who have been locked out of history, for whom the past is a manipulated narrative constructed by the state? The idea of repeating a past you don’t know is fraught with another kind of tragedy. It’s a kind of blind legacy that one might see in various cultures, but one that we see in Turkish society that hasn’t been allowed to know its history, in particular its dark histories of which the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is one. Blind history will beget a blind and violent present.
Hrant Dink’s assassination in broad daylight, carried out by Turkish nationalists, is one manifestation of blind history. Dink was a man of unusual courage, and dedication to the complex process of creating a ground upon which Turks could come together with Armenians in order to know the true history of 1915. Hrant forged complicated roads and narrow alleyways to make this journey; he spoke openly in a country where to speak openly is done at great risk and to speak openly as any minority, an Armenian, a Kurd, is done at even greater risk.
Hrant was an Armenian citizen of Istanbul who was writing and speaking about the Armenian Genocide openly in Turkey. He was inhabiting a delicate civic space in Turkey’s complex society. In one of his final essays, he told us he felt like a pigeon—at once vulnerable, yet free, he so hoped. But he was gunned down, apparently by the Deep State, by forces of repression and violence against free expression and thought, having been demonized and made a pariah by Article 301 of Turkey’s penal code.
Stephan Deadalus, in Joyce’s “Ulysseus,” says: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” It’s a phrase that hits any Armenian in vulnerable places. It’s a notion that is embedded in the traumatic life of the legacy of genocide. For Armenians, whether of the diaspora or the Republic, that legacy remains poisoned by ongoing Turkish state denial. The assassination of Hrant Dink is in some way emblematic of that nightmare.
Hrant’s murder resonated with Armenians for many reasons, but not least because it evoked the murder of thousands of intellectuals and cultural leaders in 1915. There was a genocidal taint to his assassination in broad daylight in downtown Istanbul. It reenacted our history.
The killing of Armenian intellectuals and cultural leaders goes back well into the 19th century and before, but it was this killing of intellectuals on April 24 that marked the beginning of the genocidal process in 1915.
In the end, thousands of Armenian cultural leaders and intellectuals were killed by Turkey’s Ittihad government. In the end, more than 5,000 churches, monasteries, and schools were destroyed. In the end, a civilization, not only its people but its many layers of history and culture, which had evolved for 3,000 years, was gone. In the wake of this, it is not surprising that Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish legal scholar who invented the concept of genocide as a crime in international law, relied quite heavily on the Armenian case in developing the concept of genocide. It was Lemkin who first used the term “genocide” in relation to the Armenians on U.S. national TV, on Feb. 13, 1949.
So affected by the Armenian Genocide was Lemkin, that he noted as the UN Genocide Convention was being ratified: “…A bold plan was formulated in my mind. This consisted [of] obtaining the ratification by Turkey [of the proposed UN Convention on Genocide] among the first twenty founding nations. This would be an atonement for genocide of the Armenians.”
Hrant Dink’s death opened up positive forces in the democracy movement in Turkey; in this sense he was a martyr for democracy. His death forced an inquiry into intellectual freedom in Turkey and into the Armenian past.
For me, Hrant’s legacy is emblematic of a new climate of Armenian-Turkish intellectual dialogue and colleagueship and friendship. Where once there was a black hole of abstraction about Turkey for many of us, now there is a more visible and complex world. In the past decade, Turkish intellectuals and others have made great inroads that are now visible to us and have given us a deeper understanding of Turkey as a place of many layers and nuances, a place not simply defined by ultra-nationalism and Deep State forces. Armenians need to embrace the new sense of complexity they have given us—of our shared history, of our shared humanity, of the understanding that there is no future in denying the past. Our Turkish friends are vital to our sense of a future.
I feel it is also important for Turks and Armenians to de-ethnicize the Armenian past. The idea that this is a debate between two cultures is wrong and ahistorical. It is not “Armenians say” and then “Turks say.” The genocide is a fact of modern history, and here, there is an important place for the international scholarly community. Rather than defending or rejecting a particular national narrative, scholars are able to see the anatomy of such events in a comparative context across a global expanse. They are able to show us that the Armenian Genocide is part of a human history that involves many perpetrators and many victims. Turkey is not alone in its crimes against humanity; most countries have built themselves from violence done to other ethnic groups and peoples.
It seems as if there has never been a more open moment for bonds to be forged between Turks and Armenians on the issue that haunts both their cultures. Hrant Dink was concerned that pressure on Turkey from the outside world would backfire or endanger the lives of people inside Turkey, and his perspective I respect deeply; he paid the highest price for it. And yet, I think he was wrong here. While his fears were a genuine response to the mechanisms of terror and repression inside Turkey, the fact remains that the process of education about the history of the Armenian Genocide is an inexorable force, and a litmus test of intellectual freedom and democracy for Turkey. The process of education can’t be stopped, or controlled, by any entity. It is part of world knowledge. We cannot allow the accepted history of the Armenian Genocide to be falsified by the blackmail and threats of the Turkish state. And the Turkish state will have to come to accept that the moral reality of the Armenian Genocide is not controversia
l anywhere else in the world but in Turkey. And, even there, the taboo is crumbling.
In this new era, Armenians I hope will find ways of joining hands with their new Turkish colleagues and friends to work for change—in whatever ways—in creative ways and pragmatic ways. Not rigid, ideological, or romantic. There are new openings in this landscape and there are new pitfalls and fears. There is anger, frustration, and paranoia among Armenians after decades of Turkish state violence, denial, and continued racism. There are threats of violence against progressive Turks from the new wave of Turkish ultra-nationalists; and there are many people inside Turkey asking for broad, democratic change, so that religious and ethnic minorities can achieve equality, and intellectual freedom and free speech can be realized. Two years ago, more than a hundred students at Bogazici University in Istanbul staged a protest with the slogan “against the darkness,” and they chanted Hrant Dink’s name and their solidarity with Armenians. These are the forces that Armenians want to join with and work with in pursuit of an open and free society in Turkey.
Peter Balakian is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University and the author of many books including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize.
November 6, 2003
Balakian Talks about Genocide as "Landmark Event in American History"
San Mateo, CA, November 4 – Bestselling author Peter Balakian told Bay Area Armenian-Americans and Jewish-Americans Tuesday that the Armenian Genocide was not only a landmark event in 20th century history, but also in American history, as it prompted the first large-scale international human rights movement in the United States.
Speaking at a luncheon hosted by Facing History and Ourselves, the Bay Area Armenian National Committee, and local supporters Joe and Araxi Bezdjian, Balakian discussed the themes of his new book "Burning Tigris: the Armenian Genocide and America’s Response," which debuted at #4 on the New York Times Best Sellers List several weeks ago. The luncheon took place at the Bezdjian’s Simonian Oriental Rugs showroom.
ANC-SF Representative Roxanne Makasdjian, Peter Balakian, and Jack Weinstein, Director, San Francisco Bay Area Facing History and Ourselves
Bay Area ANC representative Roxanne Makasdjian greeted the attendees, saying that "Burning Tigris" is an important new tool in the fight for recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Jack Weinstein, Director of Facing History’s Bay Area office, introduced Balakian, saying "I want to thank Peter Balakian for bringing us this history, which has been too long out of the public eye." Weinstein said that Balakian’s book, combined with the work of Facing History and local communities, would expose children to this history, "putting an end to the negative tradition of denial." Facing History and Ourselves is a nation-wide organization, which engages teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. Facing History will soon publish its new resource book, "Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians."
Rightful Place in History
Balakian said that Armenian-Americans from around the country embraced the book and helped publicize it. "Armenian-Americans are passionate to see this history take its rightful place," said Balakian, "These are hopeful times."
"No history of the 20th century can be understood without an understanding of the Armenian Genocide. No American history can be properly fathomed without an understanding of the Armenian Genocide," said Balakian. He noted that it was in reference to the Armenian Genocide that the term "Crimes Against Humanity," was first used. It was contained in a message from the Allied Powers in May of 1915 to the Ottoman government, saying Turkey would be held accountable for its crimes against humanity."
A "cast of extraordinary American voices weighed in on the Armenian Genocide," said Balakian, telling the story of the American intellectual and Christian community which rose to the aid of Armenians first during the Hamidian massacres of the late 1800’s during which 200,000 Armenians were slain. Bringing aid to Armenian killing fields was the first international venture to be undertaken by Clara Barton, who headed the Red Cross.
"In an age when a loaf of bread cost five cents, the Near East Relief Fund in the U.S. raised $110,000,000 for Armenian relief," said Balakian. He noted the "density of the movement," in which all kinds of small and large organizations raised money to help the "starving Armenians," and the New York Times wrote an average of 2.2 articles about the Armenian Genocide in 1915 alone.
Countering denialists statements that the Armenian Genocide was not organized or the massacres were a result of deportations that "got out of control," Balakian said that after four years of research, he came away with an "overwhelming sense of how well orchestrated and fine-tuned" the genocide was.
That orchestration had several components, making use of the military, legislative and technological means for carrying out the Genocide. Reminiscent of the "SS" organization under Adolph Hitler, which carried out the brutal crimes of the Holocaust, Balakian told about the Ottoman government’s creation of the "SO" or Special Organization, killing squads made up of the 30,000 prison convicts who were released and given orders to eliminate the Armenians.
Two laws passed by the Ottoman parliament were used to legalize the Genocide, said Balakian: a temporary law of deportation, and a temporary law allowing for expropriation and confiscation of property. And the technological advances of the railway and the telegraph were used quite effectively to carry out the planned Genocide. Cattle cars meant to carry no more than 30 were packed with close to 100 people being transported from the West to the far eastern reaches of the Ottoman Empire. Talaat Pasha, the mastermind of the crime, used the telegraph profusely to communicate orders for arrest and deportation.
Balakian said that Armenians resisted bravely when they could, as in Van in the spring of 1915 and in Musa Dagh, but most often it was impossible since the able-bodied men were eliminated early on.
"In the end, 1.2 million to 1.3 million Armenians were murdered, and if you tabulate all of the post-war deaths in Marash, Smyra, and the forced slavery and Islamification, the number reaches 1.5 million," said Balakian, referring to the study of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Returning to the theme of the U.S. involvement, Balakian spoke about the important role of the U.S. Consuls across the Ottoman Empire, "who risked their lives to rescue, hide, save, and also help hide Armenians’ wealth." He said the diplomats "wrote some of the most vivid, clear, clean, detached, clinical reports and dispatches back to their Ambassador." Of the 38,000 documents in the US National Archives relating to the Armenian Genocide, Balakian said he read hundreds of the "landmark body of American witness texts to genocide." Balakian said he was also able to read translated transcripts (thanks to Armenian Genocide historian Vahakn Dadrian) of the failed war crimes trials in Turkey, which included hundreds of pages of high ranking Turkish officials’ confessions about how the Armenian Genocide was systematically carried out.
Just a Poker Chip
Balakian said one of the fundamental reasons for America’s change of mood on the Armenian Cause was that a hostile Republican Senate leadership, which unanimously rejected President Wilson’s call for the US to become a protectorate state for Armenia, was eager to court the new Turkish leadership, which was in control of the Mosul oil fields. Noting the similarities with US foreign policy of today, Balakian said, "Armenia is just a poker chip cashed in for lobbyists for oil."
Reading four vignettes from his book, Balakian illustrated the political dialogue taking place within the US and between Turkey and the US during this time, calling US Ambassador Henry Morganthau "a man of great conscious and courage."
Reconciliation Preceded by Truth
Balakian spoke too about the need for critical self-analysis within Turkey. He said Turkey’s human rights record is deplorable, and that it is a culture "locked up in a virulent, xenophobic nationalism," which has kept it from acknowledging the Armenian Genocide. He said minority rights are essential to building a democratic society.
Answering a question later about the possibility for Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, Balakian said, "Of course there can be reconciliation, but it has to be preceded by truth."
"My hope is that Burning Tigris can help make it impossible for the United States to deny its first international human rights movement," said Balakian.
Commonality in Struggle
By Vaché Thomassian
Below is the text of a speech given by Vaché Thomassian, a member of the Hollywood “Musa Dagh” AYF Chapter and of the United Human Rights Council (UHRC). It was given at the UHRC’s second annual “Opposite of Silence” event in Glendale, Calif. The event aimed to bring together Armenians and Kurds, and to pay tribute to those activists in Turkey who have been targeted, harassed, or murdered for their efforts to advance human rights, Armenian Genocide recognition, freedom of speech, equality, and democracy. The keynote speaker of the event was Kani Xulam, the executive director of the American Kurdish Information Network.
A lot of things are taken for granted. In our daily lives we wake up, go to class, go to work, check our emails, check our Facebook, go out, and live our lives, often times taking the smallest things—usually the most important things—for granted. Things like our ability to freely express ourselves, the ability to have opinions, to make them, argue about them. The ability to stand up and speak. The ability to hear and be heard.
Here in the United States, the free speech movement in the 1960?s was a pivotal time in developing and shaping our country’s activist spirit. It was a time when students stood up to authority to demand the right to express themselves. This spirit was captured by the immortal words of Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall in Berkeley when he said:
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus—and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
This was the movement that secured free speech and academic freedom here in America.
In a place like Turkey where the call to speak is an invitation to prosecution, to harassment, in a place where historical truths do not exist, where contemporary human rights are trampled, minority rights are unfathomable, and women’s rights unimaginable, it takes courage and it takes conscience to speak. That is the common quality spotlighted by individuals like Layla Zana, Akin Birdal, and Erin Keskin, that is, the courage to see a wrong and speak out about it, ignoring the personal consequences.
There is no better example of the consequences of allowing Turkey to get away with genocide then what is happening to the Kurds today. The news headlines about the “Kurdish Question” hits especially close to home for Armenians: “Community leaders arrested,” “Violence in the streets,” “Demonstrators beaten or killed,” “Political parties banned.” All in the name of preserving the Turkish nation, of protecting “Turkishness.” Sounds all too familiar.
When we talk about the Armenian Cause, we have to talk of it as an issue of justice for humanity and we shouldn’t limit our vision to securing the rights of just Armenians, but instead affirm the idea that Turkey as a nation must free its people, end its occupations, and be saved from itself. Until those who live in exile, those who live in fear, those who live in silence, Kurds, and Armenians can lose the shackles that they still wear.
Recently, Turkey tried to diplomatically strong-arm the weak and inept government of Armenia with protocols that would undermine Armenian Genocide recognition efforts. Also recently, deceitful claims by Turkey of making peace with the Kurdish Worker’s Party again resulted in violence, arrests, and killings. The “Armenian Issue” and the “Kurdish issue” remain high on the list of taboos in Turkish society. Taboos that are punished by Article 301 of the Turkish penal code.
Only by confronting these taboos through open, honest, and meaningful dialogue, without prosecution or arrest, can there be a revolution of values in Turkey. Only when the historic rights of Armenians who were slaughtered in the genocide and removed through deportation are respected, and when the natural rights of the world’s largest landless minority—the Kurds—are respected.
Only then, and not through any other hollow means, can there be a shift from Turkish ultranationalist arrogance towards real peace.
In this world, the ideas of power and powerlessness chase each other around in a perpetual circle of conflict. One struggles to attain and maintain its vise-grip, while the other struggles to find a voice and fight for his or her liberty.
Those of us who have only ever lived in a democracy, however flawed, would find it hard to imagine living in a state of powerlessness: the fear of reprisal for expressing your thoughts, the hesitation felt before opening your mouth, living your life constantly looking over your shoulder. Like Hrant Dink said in his last article before he was murdered, “I am just like a dove, equally obsessed by what goes on my left, and right, front and back.”
But Dink wanted to turn the boiling hell that he lived in, into a heaven. And he saw that the only way to do that was through democracy, through free speech, and through respect for all humans.
Our job as activists is to look at the world in its proper perspective. In today’s interconnected world, we can no longer isolate ourselves, separate our struggle from the struggles of groups in similar circumstances. We can’t just preach to ourselves and hope for the best. The struggles of oppressed peoples are like the fingers on your hand. Although each one is independent, each one moves fluidly in its own way, they are all connected by the hand that holds them together. Their commonalities far outweigh their differences. And only when the fingers come together, only when they cooperate and work in concert, can they form a fist that protects their rights and ensures their vitality.
Our job as activists is to open our eyes to the world, to the voiceless, to stand when they cannot stand, and to speak when they are silenced.
In the memory of Hrant Dink, in solidarity with the likes of Ayse Gunaysu, Elif Shafak, Layla Zana, and individuals like Kani Xulam. In solidarity with their struggle and making that struggle our own.
Kocharian honors slain Turkish Armenian Editor
By Gayane Danielian
President Robert Kocharian publicly honored on Monday the assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink with a posthumous state award granted each year to prominent individuals in recognition of their contribution to Armenian culture and science.
Dink was among 18 writers, artists, and scientists awarded this year from a special presidential endowment set up with the help of French-Armenian philanthropist Robert Bogossian in 2001.
Kocharian singled out the late editor of the Istanbul-based Armenian weekly “Agos” for special praise as he addressed a solemn award-giving ceremony in his office attended by Dink’s wife, daughter and brother. He cited Dink’s contribution to “restoration of historical justice, mutual understanding between peoples, freedom of speech, and protection of human rights.”
“It was a big loss for our people,” Kocharian said of the editor’s shock assassination. “I want to assure members of his family that we will always remember Hrant Dink, that Armenia is also a home for his family, that we are always happy to see them in Armenia,” he added.
Dink’s widow Rakel was given a standing ovation as she received the $5,000 prize from Kocharian. “We will find the power to endure our pain,” she said in a brief speech.
Dink was shot dead outside the “Agos” offices in Istanbul last January by a young ultranationalist Turk furious with his public references to the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The murder was universally condemned in and outside Turkey and led to an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy for Dink, his family and Armenians in general by tens of thousands of ordinary Turks. But it also provoked a nationalist backlash, raising questions about the security of the country’s small Armenian community.
Speaking to RFE/RL, Rakel Dink said she and other members of her family are not yet considering leaving Turkey despite mounting security concerns within the embattled community. Asked whether they might eventually emigrate to Armenia, she said: “It could happen, but there is no such urgency now.”
Last Thursday Turkish prosecutors called for a prison sentence of up to three years for Dink’s son Arat, who now edits “Agos,” and his colleague Serikis Seropyan for republishing a 2006 interview in which his father made a case for genocide recognition. They accused the two men of “denigrating Turkishness.” Hrant Dink was given a six-month suspended sentence on the same charge several months before his assassination.
At a court hearing in Istanbul, Arat Dink accused judges of contributing to his father's death by making him a target thanks to their high-profile judicial proceedings. "I think it is primitive, absurd and dangerous to consider as an insult to Turkish identity the recognition of a historic event as a genocide," he said, quoted by the Anatolia news agency.
Source: RFE/RL, 18 June 2007
Suciyan: ‘Zero Problems’ with Whom? Jordan Cancels Armenian Youth Conference
By: Talin Suciyan
The AGBU’s Middle East Young Professionals Forum was supposed to take place in Amman, Jordan from June 3-6. However, the meeting was quietly canceled by the Jordanian authorities just the night before.
Agos was invited to the forum, and I was to attend on behalf of the newspaper. My topic was the “Legacy of Hrant Dink” and the Armenian community in Turkey. Vahakn Keshishyan, another colleague and friend from Beirut, was going to share his impressions from his visits to Anatolia. Other sessions were titled “Psychology of Success,” “Becoming the Next Armenian Leaders,” “Regional Economy,” “State of Armenian Communities: How Do We Embrace Change, How Can We Benefit from Assimilation?” etc. The participants—150 in all—were to come from various countries—from Argentina to Armenia.
But some problems started to occur just 10 days before. The organizers said there were reservations about the forum. At the beginning, it was difficult to understand why a meeting entitled “Young Professionals” would be bothersome. Yet, the real cause of disturbance slowly became apparent: The reason was Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy.
Jordan, clearly, was preparing to sign some kind of agreement with Turkey (Editor’s note: there was, in fact, an agreement that was going to be signed. Read more here.), and that is why they were concerned with hosting 150 “Young Professional Armenians” in Amman. Among all the sessions, ours was regarded as being most problematic; talking about the legacy of Hrant Dink in the Middle East was especially troublesome since literally everything about Armenians is regarded as potentially harming relations with Turkey. (I say everything, because last month in Lebanon, the broadcast of a video clip by an Armenian pop singer was banned from TV for fear that it might “offend Turkey.” Read about it here.) I should add that the organizers resisted against all pressures until the very last moment.
Debate with the Jordanian officials on the program of the forum lasted several days, and at the end, we received an email saying that “everything was fine.” Nonetheless, there was palpable pressure in the air and we had to be especially careful with our presentations. Yet the “tolerance limit” of the Jordanian authorities wasn’t clear to me.
Bad news, however, followed the good news later that day. When our organizers attempted to check into the Amman Marriott Hotel, on Wednesday evening, the staff told them that “because of reasons beyond our control, we cannot host the event and the visitors.” And when I asked whether the event could take place in another venue, the answer was clear: “The order was given from above.” To make a long story short, as of that evening the message was a definitive: “The meeting has been cancelled.”
As a result of this incident, one of the most important reasons behind Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy has become equally clear. It was the ‘disturbance’ created by the Armenians living in the neighboring countries which had to be zeroed.
During those same days in Turkey, the brutal killing of nine people in the Freedom Flotilla created an atmosphere of fierce reaction. The subject matter was not violence employed by the state, but rather Israel and even Jews as a whole. There was no attention paid to the language and symbols used. And, as we’ve read on these pages, there was a general amnesia in Turkey regarding its own historical background and current problems.
Would it be possible for Jordan to remain neutral in such a situation? One party to the conflict was its neighbor Israel; the other was Turkey. Was it not the same Jordan that made a deal with Ben Gurion in 1948, sharing the territories and leaving no place to Palestinians to live*? In this very “fragile” situation, the last thing Jordan needed was a gathering of Armenian Young Professionals! Of course, the forum was cancelled immediately.
Why doesn’t Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy apply to Armenia? On the one hand, Armenia continues to be isolated. The “Get out of Karabagh and then we can talk” argument remains in place, and the message of “Stop the genocide recognition campaigns” persists. On the other hand, the voice of Armenian survivors who fled to Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan after 1915 is silenced. And all this happen by saying “zero problems with neighbors.”
Communicating and meeting with Armenian organizations in the U.S. is an easier task for Turkey, since that community has gone through an assimilation process for generations. The communities in the Middle East are different; they’re closely knit, very little interference is possible, and there is no ground for Turkey to communicate with them. These communities have built structures consciously and therefore after 95 years, it is still the Middle East, providing the human resources for Armenians all over the world. Looking at the active Armenians in Europe and in the U.S. would prove this argument. This means that the communities in the Middle East are still living communities. Now the aim is to silence these communities. And if the simplest meeting of “Young Professionals” was not allowed to take place in Amman, doesn’t this mean that the Armenians in the Middle East have become a “zero problem”?
* Akiva Orr, www.bianet.org/bianet/insan-haklari/82474-israil-pazarlik-istemiyor
A common crimes: denial
"It is not for Parliament to write history."
Genocide is not a single historical fact. It is also and foremost, a political crime. Its negation, therefore, also called a policy response. And legal.
In this formula for convincing a priori, some historians call for the repeal of the Act itself Gayssot, criminalize protest the Holocaust and opposing the vote by the National Assembly a bill penalizing the negation of Armenian genocide.
The debate is legitimate and challenges us all he opposes legal concepts that are also crimes against humanity and freedom of expression, particularly that of the historian.
But the formula, as seductive as it is, is limited in that it obscures the high specificity of the phenomenon of genocide.
Genocide is not a single historical fact. It is also and foremost, a political crime resulting in the extermination of a people and its identity. Its negation, therefore, also called a policy response. And legal.
To want to relegate to the rank of a simple historical opinion, we forget that the denial was designed, developed and implemented upon execution of the genocide.
This is only a perverse rhetoric, during and associated with the crime of genocide, was born with it, the better to erase the track and that we will not hesitate to call infringement twin.
Yet historians are well placed to know the composition of misleading arguments for hiding the crime, and sometimes to justify the premise, is an element of the crime of genocide.
Each one bears in mind the inscription on the pediment of Auschwitz "Arbeit macht frei ', to believe that the death camps were a center where the deportees by emancipating work.
The official order of "deportation outside the war zones" of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire for his concealed a policy of extermination by the killing of Armenians immediately valid and the forced march of women to their death, children and the elderly in the deserts of Syria.
This concealment of the crime or its refutation by anticipation actively involved in its execution.
Lawyers, we see an element of denial of the will of genocide. It is both one of the materials involved in crime since his production but also further evidence of his premeditation and intent.
Our criminal justice system can both punish crimes against humanity, including genocide is considered the most serious and make the choice not to criminalize the offense with which he is connected and which seeks to disqualify him.
Such a connection of offenses is not foreign to our positive law and a useful reminder that the barriers to allow a criminal to escape responsibility or made to hinder the manifestation of the truth are misdemeanors.
The severity of Holocaust denial is revealed so much about in itself - particularly offensive to the victims and their descendants, in its finality and criminal damage to humanity that place, not in special press law but in that of criminal law, not in the area of "expression of ideas" or of "writing" of history ... but in the material acts intended to obstruct the Justice.
Defend as an absolute "freedom to History" by authorizing the denial would lead us to tolerate a real offense, a source of profound disturbance of public order and whose scope goes beyond the sole interests of the communities involved in the first leader.
We, lawyers, wish that during the consideration of a bill on the denial of the Armenian Genocide, the National Assembly extended the debate and legal analysis on the denial by recognizing it for what it really is: an offense related to the genocide, an obstruction of justice.
For if not for the Parliament to write history, it is up to legally qualify an offense that is rooted in the genocidal act to better ensure effective policy.
This is a question of courage and a need for justice.
Have already signed: President Mario Stasi, Charles Korman, Lef Forster, Alain Jakubowicz, Christian Charriere-Bournazel, Louis Jean Lagarde, Peter Mairat, Gerard Tcholakian, Didier Bruere Dawson, Alexander Couyoumdjian, Bernard Jouanneau
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Hrant Dink commemorated his assassination in Paris
Info Collectif VAN - www.collectifvan.org - Le Collectif VAN tells you: Hrant Dink was murdered January 19, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. To mark the first anniversary of his death, several memorials were held in Paris.
Commemoration ceremony of the CFC
A year after his assassination, the CFC pays tribute to the memory of Mr. Hrant Dink, Armenian journalist in Turkey, Director of AGOS newspaper and organized a panel discussion, a Requiem Mass and a ceremony of meditation and wreath laying
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 20:30
Conference-debate at the School Hrant Dink
(40-42 rue Saint Just 95400 Arnouville les Gonesse):
In partnership with the Association Sourp Khatch Tebrevank and Bilingual School Association of Holy Cross Varak, a panel discussion is organized with the participation of two personalities of Turkey: Master Ümre Deniztuna, Ochin Tchilingir lawyer and writer and Master Couyoumdjian Alexander, member of CCAF's Office. Other personalities will also speak. Political authorities, religious leaders and the Armenian organizations of France will be present. Organizations Arnouville and surrounding will be associated with this event.
This panel discussion, in the multipurpose room of a school that now bears his name, is intended to honor the memory of Hrant Dink and to the point, a year after his assassination on developments Turkey.
On Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 10:00 am
Wreath laying by the CFC on the grave of Hrant Dink in Istanbul
On Sunday, January 20, 2008
11:00 Requiem Mass in the Armenian Cathedral of Paris celebrated by His Eminence, Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian France
(15 rue Jean Goujon 75008 Paris)
Parade 1:00 p.m. and depart to the Statue of Komitas for memorial
Meditation, prayer, wreath laying
(Place du Canada, Cours Albert 1er 75008 Paris)
The CFC-called Armenian community and more generally all those Democrats, Republicans who love justice and truth, to take action to be present at the panel discussion at the Requiem Mass and ceremony will follow.
Note also another event which will precede all these celebrations:
- Thursday 17 to Alford, 2030: The Joint Committee of Armenian Associations of Alfortville organizes an evening in tribute to Hrant Dink, chaired by René Rouquet, Deputy Mayor of Alford. With Ochin Tchilinguir, Journal Agos journalist, one of the lawyers for the family
Dink, a representative of Reporters Without Borders, Ara Krikorian, Serge Avedikian, Isabelle Kortian. In the room feel of the cultural center, crossing rue Joseph Franceschi and Marcel Bourdarias. (Close Clinique de la Concorde).
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Reactions to Norwegian Massacre: A Double Standard?
17 August 2011
"If the person who killed 70+ people in Norway were Muslim, the press would have declared him a terrorist. For now though, he is just an 'assailant', 'attacker' (Reuters), or 'gunman' (international TV channels). Looks like 'terrorist' is a name reserved for Muslims. The US Department of State calls it an 'act of violence,' not an 'act of terrorism.'" This anonymous quotation related to events in Norway has been spreading through Facebook, the biggest online social network. Is this message simply an overstatement or are we really confronting the presence of a double standard?
The absence of a universally accepted definition of terrorism forces states, international organizations, and other actors to frame their own interpretations of this phenomenon. However, it seems to be almost internationally accepted, at least predominately in the US and Europe, that the word terrorism is naturally connected to the religion of Islam. The terrorist attacks in Norway serve as a great illustration of this sad reality.
Immediately after the broadcasting of information about an explosion in Oslo, some media outlets started to specify the responsibility of Islamic extremists for this attack. Moreover, an absence of verified information did not dissuade them from analyzing the event. Among them was also SME, one of the most circulated Slovak newspapers, which prepared a short analysis based on its own interpretation, “Why Did Terrorists Choose Norway?” In this analysis, several reasons were listed:
1. Norway`s active role in NATO and its support of the invasion of Afghanistan
2. The publication of cartoons of Muhammad in Norwegian newspapers
3. The Muslim minority living in Norway
4. Mullah Krekar – the leader of Islamic militant group Ansar al-Islam who was living in Norway as a refugee
5. The understanding that Norway is a simple and easy target for terrorists
Unfortunately, not only Slovak newspapers did the same. On the other hand, once a name and origin of the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, had been published, the media started to approach the issue by circumventing the use the word terrorism. Does it therefore mean that Breivik’s condemnable attacks were not terrorist ones?
Breivik and media
Aiming to see how many times the news has connected Breivik to the term terrorist, the data below has been obtained by briefly checking the results returned by the Google search engine. Conditions for the Google advanced search have been set to find exact phrases in headlines of various news outlets for the period from 07/22/2011 to 08/09/2011. The results from the search illustrate the media’s preferred phrasing during this episode: “Gunman Breivik” 2 results, “Terrorist Breivik” 16 results, “Killer Breivik” 21 results, “Norwegian gunman” 31 results, “Norwegian terrorist” 31 results, “Norwegian Killer” 128 results.
With reference to the Google search engine, the most frequent expression used for Breivik, “Norwegian killer”, has been used 128 times. On the other hand, “Norwegian terrorist” has only been used 31 times. Moreover, another important observation was made while conducting this research. Among news sources preferring to use “Norwegian killer” in their titles are the popular Washington Post, Reuters, Hindustan Times, Atlantic, International Business Times, Huffington Post, Hürriyet Daily News, etc. Furthermore, if titles which do not contain the word terrorist are summed up, the difference in numbers is even more significant. Additionally, it should be emphasized that if other words synonymous with the adjectives news companies have preferred to use (for example evil, psychopath, maniac, extremist, and crusader) are contained in the table, the number of titles using the word terrorist becomes insignificant.
In addition, the most widely used words in headlines linked to Breivik in a number of news sources have been gathered together (BBC, CNN, NY Times, Reuters). BBC, NY Times and Reuters have called Breivik as a gunman, insane, evil, killer, psychopath, maniac, extremist and slaughter. On the other hand, only CNN have not avoided including the expression terrorist and terror in its headlines.
Who is then Anders Behring Breivik?
Breivik is a gunman, attacker, assailant, evil, a killer, even a maniac, but without a doubt, Anders Behring Breivik is first and foremost a terrorist. Accordingly, he has been labeled as such by the court which has charged him with acts of terrorism. To be more specific, it can be said that Breivik is a right-wing terrorist. It should be noted here that this is not a new concept created only as a response to Breivik`s case. Ideologically, the evidence of this form of terrorism in Europe dates back to the era of Fascism and National Socialism.
The tradition of connecting terrorist attacks to Islam and Muslims became popular mainly after the events of September 11, 2001. Furthermore, the news being saturated with reports of terrorist attacks committed by al-Qaeda and the Taliban did not contribute to decreasing of the abovementioned stereotypes. Now, one can ask: “Should the media then decline publishing news about terrorist attacks conducted by Islamic extremists with the aim of decreasing people`s fear of Islam?” Of course not, but what the media should do, is call every type of attack by the same name, even if the perpetrator is not an Islamic extremist.
One can still argue that according to the statistics published by the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System for 2010, Islamic extremist groups are responsible for 6591 terrorist attacks in the world. However, the statistics published by EUROPOL for 2010 shows that 249 terrorist attacks has been carried out in 9 EU Member States. Moreover, it should be underlined that not Islamist terrorist were responsible for the biggest amount of them. On the other hand, Islamist groups were responsible for 3 of them, while another 246 attacks were carried out by other groups, and the biggest amount, 160, belongs to Ethno-nationalist and separatist groups.
It is an irony that the rise of Islamophobia occurs mainly in Europe, in countries where the amount of terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic extremist groups is minimal in comparison to other perpetrators.
Despite the absence of a universal definition of terrorism, a linkage between Islam and the phenomenon of terrorism cannot be found in any internationally respected definitions. To summarize some relevant definitions, terrorism can be defined as a calculated strategy conducted by an individual, group, or a state that involves the use of violence with the aim of creating public fear to accomplish predominantly political, social, religious, or ideological objectives. As a result, to link terrorism to any kind of religion, nation, etc. is pure generalization and manipulation of public opinion.
In defiance of the fact that Breivik was in the end charged with acts of terrorism and some news sources described him with the right word, terrorist, we cannot ignore the reality that a significant number of news sources still use different terms, which even cannot be considered synonymous to the word terrorist, and absolutely do not reflect reality. This event should be to serve as a wakeup call. Terrorism cannot be perceived from only one point of view. The aim of this contribution was to draw attention to the problem of the inconsistent use of the term terrorism in mass media. This double standard contributes to the rise of Islamophobia, prejudice, and fear of otherness, in addition to leading to disasters similar to Norway’s.
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Shows how Mac users can create coherent and engaging screencasts.
“I almost feel as if I am in a classroom but with the benefit of sitting at my home computer.” —Christine B.
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Let's set the record straight
- A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
- often Fundamentalism An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.
- Adherence to the theology of this movement.
There is no more critical issue facing America today than the unconscionable effort in Congress to block the appointment of judges solely because they are insufficiently liberal.Mr. Patterson: The issue isn't that they aren't liberal, it's that they are too conservative. The reason you and Richard Land, Al Mohler, James Dobson, and all the others who signed a letter to Republican Senators in support of ending the filibuster is because the judges are just like you: fundamentalists. Judges must be open, must consider both sides of the argument and compare them to the Constitution. Period. They cannot do that when they subscribe to a theology based on the above definition.
However, introducing uncompromising and fundamentalist beliefs into the judiciary does not fit within Constitutional guidelines for judges. That, my friends, is why there is resistance. That is why 95% of President Bush's other nominees have been approved, a very high number, especially since Republicans blocked 62 nominees of President Clinton.
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Explore the life of Namron OBE in his own words.
Laying The Ground is an interactive documentary that explores the illustrious career of Namron OBE, the trailblazing black performer who became the first black professional to be employed by a British dance company. While revered by a small segment of the dance community, multiple generations of young black dancers do not know his story or his place in the canon of British dance.
Namron is front and centre in this project and acts as both subject and guide for the experience. Breaking the fourth wall Namron narrates his experience while audiences traverse a sequence of longer or shorter segments called 'stories' and 'highlights'. This interactive documentary explores his early life, dancing career, and his role as a mentor and a teacher. In addition to exploring Namron as both a performer and as a man, the project also touches on societal issues including race, ethnicity and citizenship with dance.
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As much as Laying the Ground is a celebration of Namron and his achievements, it is also a reaction to the unfortunate but reoccurring pattern of omission, partial visibility and representation of Black British performers; who are often overlooked and excluded from the cultural canon of the UK. This omission is exemplified by the challenges the production team faced when trying to secure archival footage or artefacts from Namron's time performing. Many of his performances were never recorded and those that were remain locked within larger institutions where access is limited. It is because of this that performers like Namron OBE never become household names. They are forgotten from the common consciousness - only to be rediscovered long after they are gone.
Laying The Ground has been designed from the outset to be a flexible media experience, and this interactive documentary makes use of some of the principle advantages that this approach has over conventional linear production, namely that it has been designed to accommodate a variety of viewing styles.
When watching Laying the Ground audiences are presented with two narrative paths. 'Stories' are longer more in-depth sequences for individuals unfamiliar with Narmon's story or that have more time and 'Highlights' that are shorter snappier sequences for individuals already familiar with his story or that have less time to spare. Not only do both experiences live within the same project but, through user choices, the viewers can move between the two paths. This flexible production approach enables the creation of a personalised version of Laying The Ground for each viewer, one that reflects personal tastes, degree of knowledge, available time or level of interest. | <urn:uuid:2a7cc353-e6fa-4397-bb3f-370472674945> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wordweavingpoetryjournal.com/news/taster/pilots/laying-the-ground | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.971025 | 527 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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A meaty, bull horn type pepper that is used wildely all over Italy. It is a good all rounder and is also known as Corno di Toro. It produces fruits with a sweet taste and thin and they can be used when they are green or red.
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Sow inside - February to April
Sow outside - March to May
(when the air temperature is above 5°C) sow 1.5cm deep
Harvest: June to December
Sow indoors - February to May. Sow 1cm deep in trays or alternatively two seeds per pot selecting the strongest seedling. Use multi purpose compost, to cover seeds. Plant out in a greenhouse in April to June
When plants reach 20cm high, pinch out the tips to encourage more side shoots and therefore more peppers to form. Feed regularly with a high-potash tomato feed once the fruits begin to form, and as the plants grow larger they may benefit from some support.
Harvest: July to October
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Little attention is paid by many scholars of classical and hellenistic Greek culture, language and literature to the technical and scientific genres, beyond perhaps the obvious authors like Euclid. The fascination of the amateur in antiquity with what now seems to be very elementary material is often overlooked, despite the fact that much of this kind of work was at the cutting edge in the period. Most important in our understanding of this is the selection of surviving non-literary written evidence including everyday calculations, school texts and the like. These have received far less consideration than they deserve and while I make no claim to be exhaustive, the study presented is one which attempts to address some of the key aspects of one part of the evidence, namely mathematical and specifically geometric texts surviving on papyrus.
Written as an undergraduate thesis, the aim is to provide a survey of the relevant evidence together with a catalogue of that evidence. A portion of the thesis relating to an as yet unpublished text cannot yet be made available online, but scholars interested in the area are invited to contact the author who may be able to supply a copy of the newly edited texts. They will, however, appear in a subsequent volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. In consequence, the page numbering reflects the omissions.
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Basil Duke was among the most prolific ex-Confederates writing during the decades after the Civil War. He is most known for his work regarding General John Hunt Morgan’s operations. I call attention to a passage from Morgan’s Cavalry today, detailing an incident from the battle of Shiloh involving the Kentucky troopers in Morgan’s command. From Duke’s recollections:
The Federal troops at this point were posted on an eminence, covered with underbrush, and in front of which was a ravine. Eighteen or twenty pieces of artillery, strongly supported, were planted on this hill, and were playing furiously. For perhaps an hour Hardee’s efforts to advance were foiled….
We had never seen anything like that before. We had occasionally been fired upon by a single piece of artillery, when we had closely approached the enemy’s encampments on Green river; and we used to think that hardly fair. Now the blaze and “volleyed thunder” of the guns on that hill seemed to our excited imaginations like the output of a volcano in active operation. An hour or two previously, a young fellow, belonging to some Confederate battery which had been disabled, had asked permission to serve with us for the rest of the day. He was riding an artillery horse and had picked up a rifle and a cartridge box on the field, so I put him in the ranks. While we were expecting the order to charge, my eye happened to fall on this youngster, and it occurred to me that I might get from him valuable information germane to the business on hand. I therefore took him aside, and remarked: “You say you have served in the artillery for a year and you ought to know a good deal about it. Now, General Hardee is going to order us to charge that Yankee battery yonder, and I want you to post me about the way to charge a battery.”
“Why, good Lord, Lieutenant!” he exclaimed with much emphasis. “I wouldn’t do it, if I was you. Why your blamed little cavalry won’t be a duce high agin’ them guns.”
I became angry, because I was not feeling hopeful or comfortable, and his prediction “mingled strangely with my fears.”
“Haven’t I told you,” I said, “that General Hardee will order us to take those guns? Now, don’t express any opinion, but answer my question, ‘What’s the best way to charge a battery?'”
He looked me squarely in the eye for a few seconds, and then said very earnestly: “Lieutenant, to tell you the God’s truth, thar’ ain’t no good way to charge a battery.”
The order to charge was not given: I will confess, greatly to our relief….
While the drafted artilleryman felt otherwise, cavalry was capable of charging a battery. And we have many episodes of such from the Civil War. If a commander was deliberate about the matter, there was indeed a “good way” for cavalry to charge a battery. The commander had to take stock of several factors – time and distance being foremost. And, as always, tactical formation came into play.
Time and distance? An example from fifty years after the Civil War comes to mind:
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The FIRST Vulnerability Coordination Special Interest Group (SIG) made available for public comment through January 31, 2017 the draft Guidelines and Practices for Multi-party Vulnerability Coordination.
Stakeholder roles and communication paths
While ISO standards provide basic guidance on the handling of potential vulnerabilities in products, the guidelines document is geared to consider more complex and typical real-life scenarios.
Case studies start with products in the design stage with no affected users and scale to vulnerability disclosure recommendations for scenarios that require notification to multiple vendors and stakeholders at the same time.
The document is targeted at Internet vulnerabilities that have the potential to affect a wide range of vendors and technologies at the same time. The paper was produced in collaboration with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which also endorsed the effort.
“The Vulnerability Coordination SIG was created through a co-sponsorship between ICASI and FIRST because we felt it gave us the ability to bring together the most diverse group of stakeholders to help address the challenges of vulnerability coordination, which is a critical component of incident response,” said Peter Allor, senior cyber security strategist, IBM and ICASI’s President. “As we’ve seen, the SIG drew expertise and experience from government, business, academia and others to draft the Guidelines and Practices for Multi-party Vulnerability Coordination, which we believe when final will have a truly beneficial impact on protecting critical assets.″ | <urn:uuid:a320c352-71ff-4c99-a9fc-30558415d9b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/01/11/vulnerability-coordination/?responsive=off | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00011-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927836 | 296 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Mendonça Vieira, Ricardo Augusto and Tedeschi, Luis Orlindo and Cannas, Antonello (2008) A Generalized compartmental model to estimate the fibre mass in the ruminoreticulum: 2. Integrating digestion and passage. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 255 (4), p. 357-368. ISSN 0022-5193. Article.
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Models used to predict digestibility and fill of the dietary insoluble fibre (NDF) treat the ruminoreticular particulate mass as a single pool. The underlying assumption is that escape of particles follows first-order kinetics. In this paper, we proposed and evaluated a model of two ruminoreticular sequential NDF pools. The first pool is formed by buoyant particles (raft pool) and the second one by fluid dispersed particles (escapable pool) ventrally to the raft. The transference of particles between these two pools results from several processes that reduce particles buoyancy, assuming the gamma distribution. The exit of escapable pool particles from the ruminoreticulum is exponentially distributed. These concepts were evaluated by comparing ruminoreticular NDF masses as 43 and 27 means from cattle and sheep, respectively, to the same predicted variable using single- and two-pools models. Predictions of the single-pool model were based on lignin turnover and the turnover associated to the descending phase of the elimination of Yb-labelled forage particles in the faeces of sheep. Predictions of the two-pool model were obtained by estimating fractional passage rates associated to the ascending and descending phases of the same Yb excretion profiles in sheep faeces. All turnovers were scaled to the power 0.25 of body mass for interspecies comparisons. Predictions based on lignin turnover (single pool) and the two-pool model presented similar trends, accuracies and precisions. The single-pool approach based solely on the descending phase of the marker yielded biased estimates of the ruminoreticular NDF mass.
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Imagine if, suddenly, present-day explorers discovered an island previously unbeknownst to mankind. If that sounds like something that last happened during the Elizabethan era, you’re off by a few centuries. NASA discovered a “new” island a mere thirty-seven years ago.
In the early 1970s, NASA deployed the Landsat satellite, the first in a series of satellites designed to develop an on-going, updating record of the changes in the Earth’s landscape. What they discovered early on, however, was not a change, but rather, an oversight. Twenty kilometers off the northeastern shore of Labrador (Canada) lay a small, previously undiscovered island. This tiny speck of land — 25 meters by 45 meters, roughly a quarter of an acre — extended the borders of Canada by about 25 square miles.
To confirm the existence of the island — and to check for inhabitants — a scientist, Dr. Frank Hall, was charged with exploring the land mass. The official NASA page about the discovery sums it up, via a quote from deliberations in Canadian Parliament:
[Dr. Hall] was strapped into a harness and lowered from a helicopter down to the island. This was quite a frozen island and it was completely covered with ice. As he was lowered out of the helicopter a polar bear took a swat at him. The bear was on the highest point on the island and it was hard for him to see because it was white. Hall yanked at the cable and got himself hauled up. He said he very nearly became the first person to end his life on Landsat Island.
Some wanted to name the island “Polar Island,” after the lone known inhabitant (at least that day). But in the end, the island was named Landsat Island — after its discoverer.
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Malachi 4 King James Version (KJV) 4 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But 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. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
ESV - 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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Just as 2 Peter 3:10, Malachi 4 paints a very vivid picture of the Day of the Lord and the destruction that awaits the wicked: they will burn and turn into stubble, turn into ashes, and nothing will be left of them, neither root nor branch – the root symbolizes Satan while the branches represents the fallen angels and the lost. The Sun of righteousness is Jesus (Ps 84:11; Isaiah 60:19,20) who will bring healing in his wings - meaning that the Garden of Eden will be restored, and all will be made once again very good (Gen 1:31; Rev 22:2). In the New Jerusalem will be no more death, pain, tears, sorrow, sickness, tragedy, disappointment, hunger, or thirst (Rev 21:4; Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 65:23; Rev 7:16).
According to Malachi, Malachi 4:2, three symbols are mentioned. ESV-- "But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings.. The 3 words emphasized are Sun, a symbol of God (Ps. 84:11; Mal. 4:2) Healing-- Christ came as a physician, to heal the diseases of men; he healed the bodily diseases of the Jews, and he heals the soul diseases of his people, their sins; which healing he has procured by his blood and stripes: pardon of sin by the blood of Christ is meant by healing, which is universal, infallible, and free, (Psalms 103:3) (Isaiah 33:24) (Isaiah 53:5) (Hosea 14:4) -- John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Wings, a symbol of Dawn (Ps. 139:9; Mal. 4:2) --Warren W. Wiersbe, Index of Biblical Images
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2300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Katia Hazen, Principal
Desaree Green, School Admin Assistant II
Because of strong academic growth for all racial and cultural student groups, Washington was honored as a Blue Ribbon Award School in 2010, one of 230 among 6,000 Title 1 California schools. Washington Elementary School is a vital and diverse student community, comprised of many cultures and 21 different languages. Washington is located in the heart of Berkeley, blocks from downtown Berkeley and across the street from Berkeley High School. This location affords the school many benefits, like being able to walk to Cal Performance events on the UC Berkeley campus, collaborations with Berkeley High and Cal students, buddy reading with seniors at the Senior Center, swim lessons for all kindergarten through third grade students at the YMCA and the help provided by many volunteers. Washington, currently a comfortable size of about 360 students, is able to house most classrooms within the main building, allowing separate classrooms in the portables for cooking, music and science.
Washington’s Enrichment Programs
While many schools in other districts have had to cut enrichment programs, Berkeley has been able to maintain these programs partially through BSEP (Berkeley Schools Excellence Project) measure money, PTA fundraising, and special grants. Class sizes are kept to twenty in grades kindergarten through third grade. Three years ago, as part of the California Nutrition Network grant, Washington created a school garden and nutrition/ecology program for all children kindergarten through fifth grade. We have full-time garden and cooking instructors who provide instruction to all students every other week. Washington also has a special artist to work with students in the classroom. All students in third grade learn about music and how to play the song flute. Fourth and Fifth graders learn a band or orchestral instrument. Kindergarten, First and Second graders have an Orff music class once a week provided by a grant with Crowden Music School. First, second, fourth and fifth grades attend special science classes each week. Kindergarten, first, second and third grade students walk to the YMCA for swim lessons. All students participate in a school sports program twice a week and during recesses.
Before and After School Programs
An excellent before and after school childcare program with collaborative staff from KidzClub (Berkeley Learns) and BEARS, serves at least1/3 of our school population. Before-school care is provided. Enrichment in the arts, cooking, and sports, as well as tutoring and homework support are provided.
Parents, Guardians, and Community PTA, African American Unity and the English Learner group, lead many projects, enrich cultural events, and strongly contribute to the equality and academic focus of the school. One of the most visible is the Whole School Outdoor Learning Project. In conjunction with architects, Berkeley Kiwanis Club, and UC Berkeley students, parents have surveyed our whole community to create an outdoor plan, and post completed projects on its first floor bulletin board. Pictures of our partners abound on bulletin boards throughout the school. As an example, look on our playground to see the new PTA, Lowe’s grant funded, Kiwanis-built Outdoor Classroom.
If you are lucky enough to visit Washington twice a month at 8:20 am, you may witness something Washington is known for; its spirit. Each Monday, the students gather for an assembly to share and learn. Common themes include cooperation, pride in accomplishment, respect and safety. Students gain confidence by presenting songs, dances, poems and other written works in front of the school. Often the students break out into a rousing round of the school theme song, “We are Washington, mighty, mighty Washington…” The smallest kindergartener to the largest fifth grader join in the song and the school clap. No matter what culture they’ve come from, or background, when these students walk in the door each morning they are proud to be at a school where the principal, teachers and staff care so much about their success.
“We’ve been at Washington for two years, and I can report that our first grader loves school, is eager to get up and go every day, and is learning at a ferocious rate. He has a wonderfully diverse set of friends, has learned reading skills we couldn’t imagine for him two years ago, and comes home with the most fantastic knowledge learned in his gardening, art, music, and many other enrichment classes. We love Washington!”
– Washington Parent
“I love Washington School so much because of it’s diversity and caring children, parents, and caring & dedicated staff, and principal.”
– Washington Parent
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California Healthy Kids Survey 2012
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School Accountability Report Card 2014-15
School Accountability Report Card 2013-14
Washington Library Website
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Family Guides To Report Cards
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Rowing is about moving a boat on water using human muscle power. It can be a sport. The goal in rowing is to move as fast as possible on top of the water. The athletes use a boat. They move the boat forward by using two sculls or one oar. There are different types of rowing. The types depend on how many people are in the boat and if they have a coxswain or not. Rowing is a very popular sport in England, the Commonwealth, and the Northeastern United States. The old universities of the United States and England have yearly rowing matches.
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You’re grooming your dog, and suddenly you see them – small black flecks that, while they look like soil, are clearly not soil. These tiny bits of nastiness even have a name – flea dirt. But what causes these icky bits from forming? Better yet, what can be done about them?
A Look at Flea Dirt
Essentially, flea dirt the calling card that a flea infestation leaves behind once they have bitten and sucked blood from your dog. It’s more or less flea poop primarily consisting of dried blood. The dried blood is the element that gives the dirt its black color.
Obviously, flea dirt is easier to spot on a dog that has a white coat because of the contrasting colors, but flea dirt will be present on any pooch that has a flea issue. There is no one uniform shape to flea dirt, but they usually look like black pepper or minuscule black dots. And they are indeed tiny – they are typically about a half-millimeter in length.
Where Would I Look for Flea Dirt?
If you've noticed your dog is itching more than normal and you suspect the presence of fleas, checking for flea dirt is arguably your best way to determine what exactly what's happening. In order to do so, your best bet is to take a gander at the areas where fleas are most likely to manifest on your pooch.
How Can I Make Sure I’m Dealing with Flea Dirt?
Before you start wondering where the fleas on your dog are once you think you’ve seen flea dirt, it’s important that you make sure what you’re dealing with is flea dirt and not actual dirt. Fortunately, there is an easy way to do so that isn’t too gross.
To see what your dog is dealing with plucking the offending specks from your dog’s fur and place them on a damp piece of white tissue. If it is indeed flea dirt, a small red halo will manifest itself around the clump. The reason for this is because the blood within the flea dirt will re-hydrate and run out along the tissue.
Okay – So I See Flea Dirt. Why Don’t I See Any Fleas?
Just because you see oodles of flea dirt on your pooch, there is no guarantee that you will see fleas running rampant amongst his coat. Some of this are due to the insect's size – they are indeed very tiny critters. However, some of this are due to their physical abilities.
Unlike most insects that can be considered pests like mosquitos, fleas do not have wings. They make up for this trait by having very powerful legs that allow them to effortlessly jump off of their host and onto the environment surrounding its host. If your dog returns to the environment where fleas hang out, they will jump right back on.
Why Are Fleas on My Dog in the First Place?
In short, fleas need a host in order to help perpetuate the species. The blood of a dog (or a cat or even a human) will help nourish the female of the species as she lays eggs. Plus, the dog’s coat provides a warm and relatively safe environment for the eggs to be laid.
Typically, when a female flea takes up residence on your dog, she will suck his blood two to three times per day. She'll also lay about twenty to thirty eggs on a daily basis. She can lay hundreds of eggs on your pooch over the course of a lifetime.
These eggs won’t necessarily stay on your dog; they will roll off and land in a nourishing environment, where they will undergo a metamorphosis not unlike what a caterpillar goes through en route to becoming a butterfly. Once they become adults, they will immediately seek out a space where they detect heat, vibrations, and carbon dioxide (in other words, your pooch).
How Do I Remove Flea Dirt?
In terms of a short-term solution, the best way to get rid of flea dirt is to gently wash and shampoo your dog. You'll especially want to concentrate your scrubbing on places where the critters are known to manifest.
However, it must be emphasized that this is only a temporary fix. If your dog has flea dirt, it also means he has fleas. As such, you’ll need to hatch a long-term solution involving the eradication of fleas in order to rid your dog of the flea dirt problem for good.
And it is pretty important to take care of your dog’s flea problem as efficiently as possible, just for the sake of your pooch’s well-being. In some dogs, all it takes is one flea bite to make his life completely miserable. This misery can manifest itself in forms such as perpetually scratching, but it can also lead to other issues such as hair loss and skin issues.
There are plenty of treatments available on the market that can help your pooch overcome his flea problem. Some of these manifest itself in the form of topical ointments or sprays that you can directly apply to your pooch’s fur. Others are medications that your dog can take orally.
If your dog has severe issues that have been brought about by fleas, you may want to consult with your veterinarian prior to creating a regiment for your pooch. Your vet will be able to examine your dog to determine what type of solution would work best to combat the specific range of problems your pooch may be experiencing.
He’s Your Dog – It’s the Least You Can Do!
The moment you see flea dirt on your pooch, you should be compelled to do something about making it go away. After all, flea dirt in its base form is a sign that your four-legged friend is experiencing some miserable times thanks to fleas. As a loving pet owner, knowing this should be all the motivation you need in order to find a solution to make him feel better. | <urn:uuid:2d06c9cc-89e1-474d-a165-190d33b70b20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://herepup.com/what-is-flea-dirt/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.958861 | 1,273 | 2.25 | 2 |
Good fences are said to make good neighbors; unfortunately, some neighbors do not always respect the boundaries of a fence. Children and teenagers may be tempted to climb over fences, and homeowners may respond by making the fence less welcoming. Vining plants grab onto a fence, trellis or any vertical structure and grow up the structure, eventually covering it. Vining plants with sharp, painful thorns make the best deterrents for young neighbors who want to climb.
California Blackberry — Pros
Some species of blackberry are vining, and others are not. The California blackberry (Rubus ursinus [formerly known as Rubus vitifolius]) is a vining type of blackberry bramble. It is prolific and will survive in different conditions, making it easy to cultivate. It is one of the thornier plants; for example, roses have fewer thorns than the California blackberry. The California blackberry's thorns are small and especially sharp. These thorns will give a rude shock to any unsuspecting person who grabs them, and are difficult to avoid because they are numerous and crowded. If torn down, the California blackberry will grow back, making it an efficient deterrent for teenagers climbing the fence.
California Blackberry — Cons
The California blackberry is considered a weed. If not pruned every growing season, it will send up shoots in other areas of the yard. Pruning is usually done in the early spring, and gardeners must wear gloves and long-sleeved shirts to protect themselves from the thorns. While the thorns of the California blackberry are a great deterrent to teenagers who wish to climb the fence, the sweet berries may actually attract unwanted guests and neighbors to the fence. If you would prefer not to encourage fruiting, prune California blackberry branches through the growing season. This will discourage — but not completely prevent — fruiting.
Smilax — Pros
Smilax (Smilax rotundifolia) is also known as greenbriar, catbriar or just plain briar. These names all refer to a group of closely related, extremely thorny vining plants. Smilax utilizes two methods of climbing instead of one; it shoots out sticky tendrils, and the vines themselves cling to a fence or trellis. This make the prolific plant a quick and efficient climber, so it will cover a fence in less time than many other vining plants. All varieties of smilax have very sharp thorns and, therefore, smilax is an excellent deterrent to teenagers who wish to climb a fence. Smilax also thrives in different conditions, making it easy to maintain. Another benefit is the flowers, which are pretty to look at.
Smilax — Cons
Smilax grows quickly and may invade an area. To keep smilax on the fence and not everywhere else, the vines must be pulled back at least once per year in the early fall, and possibly more often as needed. Gardeners must wear gloves and long sleeves while pulling back any vines that are crawling along the ground or up the side of the home. Smilax grows wild in the east and as far west as Texas and Illinois. However, it is easy to cultivate and may be planted in the west.
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- University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources: Wild Blackberries
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Source: (1992) Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee Office of Criminal Justice, May, 46p.This is a theological essay regarding criminal conflict in the Bible. Northey presents several aspects of biblical justice and biblical peace including atonement, reconciliation, and justification. He concludes that state punishment rarely is redemptive, in experience or by design, and is, therefore, opposite to the mercy of God. The overarching goal of a Biblical theology of peacemaking and its application to criminal conflict is to seek the re-establishment of right relationships wherever relationships have been broken by the criminal act. Northey calls for the church to be agents of change to prevent cooptation of peacemaking reform programs, such as church-based Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs. | <urn:uuid:e78ed7d7-5d83-4441-a23c-666a20e80c73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://restorativejustice.org/rj-library/justice-is-peacemaking-a-biblical-theology-of-peacemaking-in-response-to-criminal-conflict-new-perspectives-on-crime-and-justice-issue-12/840/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00112-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947423 | 158 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Mystery is a gentle sweet girl. Her coat is a pretty rusty brown She has big beautiful eyes and loves to hug. Mystery weighs about 40 pounds and is probably about 3 years old. Mystery isn't great with other dogs - so she needs to be the only one.
This is Mystery's background -- on the evening of December 7, in partnership with Broward County officials Animal Aid, Inc. was able to rescue 44 dogs from a horrific hoarding situation. All of the dogs were living with a family in a two-bedroom apartment. The conditions were unimaginable. Among the dogs was a litter of eight two-month old puppies.
In spite of terrible environment, these dogs are amazing. With the exception of the puppies, most of them came in undernourished. In spite of their awful environment these dogs are amazing. They are so warm, friendly and well behaved, even while getting bathed. Not a single one has snapped at us or misbehaved in the slightest way. We are giving them loads of attention and love, and they’re already responding great.
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Our Adoption Center & Spay Clinic is open 6 days a week 12-5 (closed Sunday) or email us at [email protected] for more information. We are located at 571 NE 44th Street, the NW corner of Prospect (44th) and 6th in Oakland Park, FL. Our application is available online: www.animal-aid.com where you can also view all of our adoptable dogs and cats. The $100 donation we are requesting will help the next dog or cat in need and includes our medical program; 5-way vaccines, rabies vaccine, de-worming, blood test for heartworm and tick diseases, spay or neuter and microchip ID.
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Speaking at the Center for American Progress this morning, National Security Adviser Susan Rice encapsulated the Obama administration's transitive theory of Syria strikes in a single sentence:
In other words: No matter what the consequences of our actions, the U.S. must act, in order that those who are not acting because they fear U.S. action will come to believe that the threat to punish proliferation with military action is empty.
It's hard to look at the recent history of U.S. military interventions and come to that conclusion, actually.
The U.S. seems to earmark explosive ordinance for every loud-mouth jihadist with a cell phone. Responses to provocation from North Korea were met by the threat of dropping nuclear bombs. And Libya, and Afghanistan, and drones in Pakistan, and Yemen, and Somalia, and Iraq, and all that.
The only way that Iran and North Korea come to believe that the failure to punish Syria for its use of chemical weapons is a license for those countries to pursue belligerent foreign policies is if the U.S. government suddenly concedes that the two sets of foreign policy crises are equivalent. They aren't. The threats posed by North Korea and Iran are existential, definable, and contained. If a Syrian general decides to use a particularly deadly weapon in the suburbs of his country's capital city, a distant country's hesitancy to respond military may embolden him.
Far too often, the Obama administration likes to announce that its intended actions amount to a shot across a bow somewhere, which is rather like a pitcher telling a batter that he's about to bean him. This denudes the power behind the action, turning it into a rhetorical game.
Recognizing the perceived and actual limits of U.S. power, hard and soft, Obama has always wanted regional powers to take more responsibility for moral calamities in their area of influence. With Syria, I think he made a mistake. It is in many ways the perfect test case for this new form of interest-balancing. Instead, Obama fell back upon old arguments. I don't think he ever believed that Syria would use chemical weapons, so I don't think he contemplated a world wherein they could do so and not immediately be punished military. Though the administration is now taking credit for floating the idea of a Russian chemical weapons seizure at the G-20 summit, I'm not sure why they didn't insist that Russia propose this from the start. YOU deal with it, Putin, or we will. Not — let's all agree on something that none of us are going to agree on. Forcing Russia to take responsibility for Assad's actions is exactly the right way to force Putin to feel and share the burden of power. Right now, it seems that Putin is picking up a ball dropped by the U.S., and saying, in effect, "All right, well, here's how adults handle this."
It's kind of embarrassing, and politically, probably terribly damaging, for the Obama administration to have fallen back and blundered into the solution its actual foreign policy would have recommended, but it may hasten the discussions that lead to the beginning of the end of the Syrian crisis. The U.S. will have to lead not from behind, but from somewhere way outside of the negotiating room. | <urn:uuid:8e1c6bfe-6bf9-4537-ba06-83e1b1e920b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://theweek.com/articles/460226/tripping-over-syria-solution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964267 | 674 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 3, 2006
President's Remarks During School Visit in California
George W. Bush Elementary School
10:28 A.M. PDT
THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank Sylvia Ulmer, the principal of George W. Bush Elementary School, for welcoming me. It's such an honor, Sylvia -- and Jack, thank you, sir -- it's such an honor to have a school named after me. When I pulled in the parking lot and I saw George W. Bush Elementary, I couldn't think of a higher tribute to a person and I thank you all and the citizens of this community for this honor and tribute. Frankly, I was a little emotional when I pulled in --
THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the teachers and the faculty here. I can't wait to tell Laura that I went into the Laura Bush Library and saw teachers working hard to teach kids how to read. It's just a blessing to be there.
You know, being at this school reminds us we have a special responsibility to protect our children. The most important jobs of those involved with schools and government is to make sure that children are safe. And Laura and I were saddened and deeply concerned, like a lot of other citizens around the country, about the school shootings that took place in Pennsylvania and Colorado and Wisconsin. We grieve with the parents and we share the concerns of those who worry about safety in schools.
Yesterday, I instructed Attorney General Gonzales and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to convene a meeting next Tuesday, a meeting of leading experts and stakeholders to determine how best the federal government can help states and local governments improve school safety. Our schoolchildren should never fear their safety when then enter to a classroom. And, of course, the superintendent and principal know that.
We also had a reminder of the need for people in positions of responsibility to uphold that responsibility when it comes to children, in the case of Congressman Mark Foley. I was dismayed and shocked to learn about Congressman Foley's unacceptable behavior. I was disgusted by the revelations and disappointed that he would violate the trust of the citizens who placed him in office.
Families have every right to expect that when they send their children to be a congressional page in Washington, that those children will be safe. We have every right as citizens to expect people who hold high office behave responsibly in that office. I fully support Speaker Hastert's call for an investigation by law enforcement into this matter. This investigation should be thorough and any violations of law should be prosecuted.
Now, I know Denny Hastert, I meet with him a lot. He is a father, teacher, coach, who cares about the children of this country. I know that he wants all the facts to come out and he wants to ensure that these children up there on Capitol Hill are protected. I'm confident he will provide whatever leadership he can to law enforcement in this investigation.
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| Beginning June 27, New LEED Registered Projects Will Use LEED v3 |
|June 26 is the last day projects will be able to register for the current version of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Starting on June 27, all projects must use LEED v3, which includes LEED-Online and LEED 2009, the latest version of the rating system...MORE |
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|The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is funding research in thermal comfort in commercial kitchens. A 2005 report by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York and the New York City Restaurant Industry Coalition found that, "Nearly half of the 530 workers surveyed reported that it gets unsafely hot in the kitchen where they work." The research will include walk-in surveys and on-site data collection in operational commercial kitchens in selected cities across the United States...MORE |
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| Wind Turbines Could More Than Meet U.S. Electricity Needs |
|A report by the Minerals Management Service unveils that wind turbines off the U.S. coast could produce at least 20 percent of the power demand for most coastal states. The report also states that the biggest wind potential lies off the nation's Atlantic coast, which could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity--enough to meet a quarter of the national demand....MORE |
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Famous solo artists are twice as likely to die prematurely as stars in bands, researchers said.
Rock and pop fame has already been associated with risk-taking, substance use and premature mortality. Researchers looked at whether the effect was more profound in solo singers or band members.
In recent years, a number of high-profile solo artists have suffered premature death, including Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson.
The researchers, from Liverpool, found that solo rock and pop artists from North America have a 22.8 per cent increased risk of dying early, compared with a 10.2 per cent increased risk for band members.
They said European solo performers had a 9.8 per cent increased risk compared with 5.4 per cent for band members.
The researchers raised the question of whether the support of bandmates may be protective.
“Rock and pop star survival also seems to relate to whether they have pursued successful solo careers,” they wrote.
“While this may simply be a proxy for level of fame, with solo performers often attracting more attention than, for instance, a drummer in a band, it also raises the issue of peer support as a protective factor.
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Will O'Ree, born in Canada in 1935, is a former professional ice hockey player. He was the first black player in the NHL and entered the league at age 23. He retired in 1979 after almost 30 years on the ice.Continue Reading
After a brief stint in the NHL as a right winger with the Boston Bruins, which ended due to overbearing racism among the fans and other players, O'Ree took to mostly playing in the minor leagues. He played with minor teams such as the Ottawa-Hull Canadians, Los Angeles Blades and the San Diego Gulls. His final team was the San Diego Hawks in the 1978-1979 season. O'Ree won many awards for his professional hockey career, including the Lester Patrick Award in 2000 and the Order of the New Brunswick in 2005.
O'Ree was born in New Brunswick on Oct. 15, 1935, and was known for his speed and checking abilities, according to the Hockey Hall of Fame. O'Ree took to skating when he was three years old and began playing organized hockey when he was five. O'Ree is often referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of ice hockey," due to his breaking of the color barrier in ice hockey. He scored four goals in his NHL career.Learn more about Athletes | <urn:uuid:0a8ef89b-6492-4750-b33f-c0e7175edc84> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/sports-active-lifestyle/willie-o-ree-6ae54cf6b3cd9da1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992998 | 267 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Great Mesh Debate: Unraveling the Basics
by Peahen Gandhi, MD, FACOG, FPMRS
Since the 2008 FDA Public Health Notification regarding use of transvaginal mesh for use in pelvic organ prolapse repair, there has been much controversy. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a gynecologic condition that affects nearly a third of middle-aged women. POP is essentially weakness of the muscles that hold the pelvic organs in place, causing a bulge to be felt by the patient. I often describe it to patients as a sort of “vaginal hernia.” Symptoms include pelvic pressure, incontinence, and may affect sexual activity. The reason why the use of synthetic mesh or biologic grafts came about is that in some women, their own tissue was not strong enough to uphold the repair.
Pelvic Floor Surgeons are Specially Trained to Treat and Diagnose Pelvic Organ Prolapse
I discuss with my patients both non-surgical and surgical options. When discussing the surgical options, I often hear patients say, “you are not going to use that ‘mesh’ in me, are you? I see it all over the TV, these lawyers say it’s dangerous.”
As a surgeon specializing in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (FPMRS), it is paramount that my communication includes a discussion of the indications, risks and potential benefits of any POP procedure. As FPMRS board-certified physicians, Drs. Litrel, Haley and I have specialized training and education regarding POP repair with use of mesh. Pelvic floor surgeons trained in the use of these devices and that have properly counseled their patient on potential risks, have low complication rates. Patients need to know this important fact.
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Individualized patient-centered treatment plans are the key to limiting potential complications.
When patients come for a consultation, there are three key elements to the visit:
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Detailing the symptoms most distressing to the patient is important in tailoring a plan of care to meet her expectations. A complete physical exam helps to delineate the source of the pelvic floor weaknesses. Lastly, the treatment plan should include not only the correct surgical procedure for the patient, but also an outline of how to avoid future recurrence of the prolapse. This includes discussing pursuing an overall healthy lifestyle (i.e. healthy diet, smoking cessation, routine exercise).
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I want patients to know that their specific prolapse needs can be met by a variety of surgical techniques, including mesh as one of them. When properly placed by a board-certified urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon, the complication rates are low. Empowering my patients with knowledge assures their eventual satisfaction with their final decision. | <urn:uuid:efa4ee2b-8f2c-4a3e-b9b6-94f6971cd3a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cherokeewomenshealth.com/2015/11/the-great-mesh-debate-unraveling-the-basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.942477 | 607 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Every hog in your care produces a product that ends up on someone’s table. That makes you a food producer and a steward of product quality. Many things during the hog rearing and pork production process can influence product’s ultimate quality.
In recent years, the increased use of distillers’ dried grains with solubles and other byproducts in swine diets has dramatically increased, which has impacted and, consequently, heightened the focus on pork product quality.
The March Hub AudioFeed featuring Ken Prusa, from the department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University, will discuss what effect these ingredients have on both carcass fat quality and pork shelf life. He will discuss iodine values and the factors that affect it. Further, Prusa will talk about how Iowa State research is looking at the correlation between the iodine value of feed and the iodine value of the carcass fat. | <urn:uuid:356cd38a-a9b0-4da0-a7b0-2c948bb7d165> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.porknetwork.com/pork-news/latest/Podcast-Swine-Diet-Ingredients-and-Pork-Quality---117516133.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951214 | 186 | 2.125 | 2 |
The speed limit on a number of motorways has been reduced because of a court ruling about nitrogen pollution, infrastructure minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen said on Monday.
The speed limit on several stretches of the A1, A2, A28 and A50 motorways near the Veluwe heathlands has been cut from 130 kph to 120 kph from October 1 because of the ruling.
Plans to increase the maximum speed limit on other parts of the A2 to 130kph during the day have also been scrapped, the minister said.
The Council of State said in May that government efforts to reduce the amount of nitrogen pollution in the Netherlands were not effective enough and that methods used to calculate current and potential emissions were not accurate.
The plan, Programma Aanpak Stikstof, was launched in 2015 with the aim of reducing nitrogen emissions in environmentally-sensitive areas such as the Veluwe.
Several construction projects have since been scrapped because of the ruling. They include plans to expand parts of the A27 and A12 motorways near Utrecht, the redevelopment of the former Twente airbase and an expansion of the Oosterhorn industrial area near Delfzijl.
Civil servants are now assessing the likely impact of the ruling across a wide range of infrastructure plans and will report back in November, Van Nieuwenhuizen told MPs.
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First we got automatic braking systems, which did the brake pumping for the driver in a sudden stop. Then we got airbags, which protected our noggins and knees from whacking into the windshield and dashboard in a crash. Safety systems eventually got even crazier, with sensors and alerts and cameras and beeps and blinks. Modern cars have more warning lights than an Apollo space capsule.
You're already using your eyes to scan the street for traffic and your ears to listen for other cars, fire trucks and city buses. Your hands are busy steering the car and your feet are making it stop and go. What body part aren't you using? What part of you could still possibly take in new information? What part of you could somehow warn you of impending danger?
How about your rear end? That's right, we're talking about your butt.
The following three 2013 Cadillac models will have a new safety feature called the Safety Alert Seat for the driver: the XTS sedan, ATS sedan and the SRX crossover. While your eyes and ears and hands and feet are piloting the car, your lazy butt, which until now had bupkes to do in the car, is going to tell you when you're about to do something stupid. Stay with us here ... this makes way more sense than you probably think. | <urn:uuid:9ae95ae2-9fee-4e75-ac94-b84d9bb4b144> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regulatory-devices/cadillac-safety-alert-seat.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965067 | 271 | 1.773438 | 2 |
We conducted a study to better understand how consumers in Denmark research and purchase travel online. We found that the internet is by far the most important booking channel, regardless of whether a traveller's getting away for a night or an entire week. Search engines are commonly used to assist in the travel booking process, and bookings in the travel vertical are also accompanied by in-depth research process that occurs primarily online.
This study will help you understand more about how consumers in Denmark research and purchase travel online.
- The internet is by far the most important booking channel in the travel vertical regardless of travel product and trip length
- Online research in the travel vertical has to meet highly differentiated information needs: on average 9 topics are expected to be found on the internet
- Search engines are the top online information source and widely used in every research stage, as they serve as an important navigator to relevant sources
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Monday, November 19, 2012 6:51 PM
Pitzer College Announces First Ever Conservancy Devoted Entirely to Southern California Environmental Sustainability Issues New Conservancy Named in Honor of Southern California Native Robert Redford to Focus on National and Global Applications
Published: Monday, 19 Nov 2012 |
CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) undefined Environmental issues unique to the Southern California region will get a lot more attention going forward as Pitzer College announces the launch of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. The announcement was made at a press conference with Southern California native and renowned environmental activist, actor and director Robert Redford and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley at the Los Angeles Press Club in Los Angeles, CA.
The Redford Conservancy at Pitzer College will occupy the historic Marston and Maybury-designed former infirmary located on 11.88 acres of Pitzer’s North Campus in Claremont, CA. Beginning in spring 2013, the building will be repurposed and renovated using innovative design and sustainable construction methods. The Conservancy’s headquarters will host its first academic programming in fall 2014.
This project is made possible by a gift from Susan and Nicholas Pritzker undefined the largest single donation in the College’s history. One of the first liberal arts colleges in the nation to recognize the importance of environmental studies, Pitzer College has been a leader in sustainability and environmental education for nearly five decades. Legendary artist and activist Robert Redford, who serves as a special adviser to Pitzer President Laura Skandera Trombley on environmental matters, has also spent much of the last fifty years championing the preservation of the natural world. The Conservancy will bear his name to honor his work and emulate his example.
“Robert Redford is a trailblazing environmental advocate,” Trombley said. “His tireless campaigning to protect the planet proves what individuals can do when they bring the full force of their passion and imagination to a cause. At Pitzer, our students learn to forge new ideas and innovations needed to create a better world.” The Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College will educate the next generation of environmental change-makers. The confluence of art, media, environmental sciences and creativity will be central at the Redford Conservancy to reflect the way actual progress is made in the 21st century. Combining research with hands-on learning and applying a liberal arts perspective, the Redford Conservancy will prepare students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems facing the planet today. Research and studies from the Conservancy will influence regional, national and global policymaking.
“I am both humbled and honored by this acknowledgement and to be part of such a dynamic partnership with Pitzer College, an educational institution firmly planted in the 21st century,” said Redford. “We hope that this Conservancy will become a place of collaboration with the best thinkers and best dreamers to take on the sustainability opportunities and challenges embodied in the Southern California region, and apply them here and beyond,” continued Redford. “I’m most excited about how inspired this place will be by the ‘nothing’s impossible’ drive of the Pitzer students who will study and discover here,” he added.
Pitzer College is the ideal home for a conservancy dedicated not only to preserving the natural world but to rethinking ways of shaping the built environment. Located on the eastern edge of Los Angeles, the country’s most populous county, at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, Pitzer is perfectly positioned to investigate complex issues facing communities where urban, suburban, agricultural and wilderness areas overlap. At the Redford Conservancy, faculty, environmental experts and community stakeholders will work with students to develop problem-solving approaches to shape policies regarding ethical water and energy use, human and ecosystem health, air and food quality and transportation alternatives in the region.
The Pritzkers are dedicated to promoting human rights, environmental sustainability, social justice and drug policy reform. They support numerous philanthropic organizations including the Clean Energy Trust and Conservation International.
Susan Pritzker has been a member of the Pitzer College Board of Trustees since 1990 and was board chair from 1998-2005. Related academic program support for the Redford Conservancy has been provided by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dean Witter Foundation and the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation. | <urn:uuid:2c623cef-ab08-46f5-8953-06da909b0fc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lapressclub.org/robert-redford-pitzer-college-announce-conservancy-at-la-press-club-news-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.927935 | 950 | 1.664063 | 2 |
“To the lovers of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world” ~ John Muir. This inspiring video is an ode to Nature and Wilderness.
The “Edge of the Earth” is the story of Eric Dennis and his brother, Justin, backpacking and kayaking along the Alatna River, North Alaska, in the Arctic National Park. There is nothing but Nature. Backpacking wilderness makes us remember how small we are… Eric did an awesome job, truly capturing the immensity of the park. He also made some beautiful timelapse landscapes.
“For the next two weeks you must survive using the knowledge, skills and gear you bring with you. You will walk or float through intact ecosystems where people have lived with the land for thousands of years. You will experience solitude, self reliance and nature on its own terms. Are you prepared?”
The Edge of the Earth – DOCUMENTARY / From Eric Dennis – Camera 5D mark II
Tell us how much you would like to make this backpacking wilderness epic journey? Did you already do it somewhere around the earth…? Please, vote on top and share it if you liked. | <urn:uuid:8190900c-28f9-43dd-867b-ce14f908fcee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rootstraveler.com/2013/07/backpacking-wilderness/1674.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927725 | 247 | 1.867188 | 2 |
We experimentally and by means of Monte Carlo simulations investigated the origin of the visible signal responsible for proton therapy dose measurement using bare plastic optical fibers. Experimentally, the fiber optic probe, embedded in tissue-mimicking plastics, was irradiated with a proton beam produced by a proton therapy cyclotron and the luminescence spectroscopy was performed by a CCD-coupled spectrograph to analyze the emission spectrum of the fiber tip. Monte Carlo simulations were performed using FLUKA Monte Carlo code to stochastically simulate radiation transport, ionizing radiation dose deposition, and optical emission of Čerenkov radiation. The spectroscopic study of proton-irradiated plastic fibers showed a continuous spectrum with shape different from that of Čerenkov radiation. The Monte Carlo simulations confirmed that the amount of the generated Čerenkov light does not follow the radiation absorbed dose in a medium. Our results show that the origin of the optical signal responsible for the proton dose measurement using bare optical fibers is not Čerenkov radiation. Our results point toward a connection between the scintillation of the plastic material of the fiber and the origin of the signal responsible for dose measurement. | <urn:uuid:1e4ce325-d128-4a8d-9239-01db8c88b60a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://profiles.wustl.edu/en/publications/on-the-origin-of-the-visible-light-responsible-for-proton-dose-me | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.916207 | 246 | 2.109375 | 2 |
by Heather Robertson
Here is week five of our Wednesday Workout series. I’m giving you two different days worth of workouts. These are workouts you can do in about 30 minutes or less.
And don’t worry if you don’t have equipment like kettle bells or weights. I’ve provided “optional” exercises you can use.
There are also example videos linked to each exercise to help you see how they are performed correctly. If these exercises are new to you, or it’s been awhile since you’ve tried them, please watch the videos and practice before doing the workout.
You don’t need a lot of time to get a great work out. Remember to take your time, stay safe, and keep your body moving!
Disclaimer: Please talk to your doctor, personal trainer, or other fitness or health professional before starting any exercise program. These are all examples of exercises I have used. However, everyone’s different, so what works for me may, or may not, work for you. Please always be careful when doing these or any exercises and listen to your body. In other words, stop or take a break whenever you need to.
Before trying the exercises below, please check out the video examples. Just click the exercise title/link to view the videos. It’s important to use good form and technique so you don’t hurt yourself while working out. Remember to practice the moves. The goal is to stay healthy and fit, not to get hurt! 🙂
25 butt kickers
400 meter run or around the block
Do all the exercises listed as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes. You want to move as quickly from exercise to exercise while being safe to have the best time possible. You can do this work out again in a few weeks and see what the difference is in your time.
|5 T push ups||10 T pushups||20 T- pushups|
|5 V-ups||10 V-ups||20 V-ups|
|5 Broad Jump||10 Broad Jump||20 Broad Jump|
|5 Ice skaters||10 ice skater||20 Ice skaters|
hand weights or bag with cans or gallon of water for rows
15 inch worms
25 jumping jacks
25 sit ups
Do three rounds of these exercises and time yourself. Keep track of how well you do. That way, you can repeat this work out in a few weeks and compare your progress.
|6 side burpees alternating sides||12 side burpees alternating sides||20 side burpees alternating sides|
|5 single leg dip||10 single leg dip||15 single leg dip|
|5 Kettle bell/ hand weight row each arm||10 kettle bell/ hand weight row each arm||15 kettle bell row/ hand weight each arm|
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- : Cutting too many calories can cause problems including infertility, muscle loss, and depression.
- Step 1: Count calories Keep track of your calorie intake. According to the calorie restriction diet, you take in 25 percent fewer calories than are necessary to maintain a healthy weight. Start by following a balanced diet, and then gradually cut calories. Your weight loss will proceed slowly.
- Step 2: Avoid simple sugars Avoid eating simple sugars and flours. These are typically high in calories while providing little nutritional value. Make sure that every calorie has nutritional value.
- Step 3: Eat vegetables Eat vegetables. Vegetables -- both leafy and not -- have a high nutrient-to-calorie ratio.
- Step 4: Limit saturated fats Limit the amount of saturated fats you eat to less than seven percent of total daily calories, according to American Heart Association recommendations. Cut down on animal proteins to reduce your saturated fat intake.
- Step 5: Select monounsaturated fats Eat food containing monounsaturated fats, such as avocados, nuts, and seeds, and Omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon and mackerel.
- TIP: Fats in the food you eat should not total more than 25-35 percent of your total daily calories. While all fats contain nine calories per gram, monounsaturated fats provide nutrients that help develop and maintain your body’s cells.
- Step 6: See your doctor Visit your doctor for regular checkups and blood tests to make sure you're avoiding nutrient deficiencies.
- FACT: A can of regular beer averages 156 calories.
You Will Need
- Reduced calorie intake
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What is Zero Depreciation Policy in Car Insurance? Do we call it Zero Dep Policy or Zero Debt Policy in India? How is it different from Standard Comprehensive Cover?
My friend Manish, who is working in a Mumbai-based firm met with an accident recently. The car damages were in the range of Rs. 1.5 lacs to 2 lacs. When he filed a claim, the Insurance company was ready to pay the damages up to Rs. 1.25 lacs, and Manish was asked to pay off the remaining amount from his own pocket. He was very frustrated since his car was covered under a Comprehensive Cover and enquired about his coverage policy with his financial advisor. The response that he received was that Rs. 50,000 has been deducted by the Insurance company towards depreciation.
Could Manish have saved this Rs. 50,000 by buying Zero Depreciation Policy?
As on date, how many of us are aware of the Zero Dep Policy, which covers your entire claim and gives you complete peace of mind?
Standard Comprehensive Cover in Car Insurance?
In a Standard Comprehensive Cover, Insurance companies pay the claim amount after evaluating the current value of your vehicle. Depreciation plays a major role here. The depreciation percentage varies for different parts of the vehicle like 50% depreciation for tyres & tubes, 30% for fibre glass etc. The claim amount is calculated after doing some complex calculations for depreciation.
You do not get the full amount of claim in this type of cover. Chances are that 75% of your claim will be paid by the Insurance company and you need to pay the remaining 25% of the claim on your own.
What is Zero Depreciation Policy in Car Insurance?
In Zero Depreciation Policy, the full amount of damage is covered. There is no depreciation on the value of parts of the vehicle i.e. depreciation is not factored in Zero Depreciation Policy. The full claim amount is settled.
ZERO DEPRECIATION CLAIM-HDFC ERGO
The Policy pays the full claim without any deduction for depreciation (excludes tyres and batteries) applicable on the own damage section. However, depreciation for parts excluded under India Motor Tariff is payable.
- Minimum out of pocket expenses
- No concern about categorisation of parts
The premium amount on Zero Dep Policy is higher than normal Standard Cover. Premium can be higher in the range of 20-25% than the Standard Cover.
Suppose a mid-segment car is insured for Rs. 35,000 under Standard Cover. For a Zero Dep Policy, you will need to shell out additional Rs. 7000-8000 from your pocket.
Restriction on Number of Claims and Age of Car
There is a limitation on the number of claims you can file in a year for Zero Dep Policy. Most of the insurance companies restrict it to 2-4 claims per year. The primary reason for the restriction on number of claims a customer may file per year is that a customer may file claims for even small scratches or dents in the vehicle and there can be unlimited number of claims.
Similarly, you cannot buy a Zero Dep Policy for your 10-year-old car. It is not advisable to pay a higher premium for an old car.
Insurance companies generally tend to restrict the Zero Dep Policy to new cars or cars that are less than 4 years old.
Will you buy Nil Depreciation Policy?
- Zero Depreciation Policy can be good for high-end and mid-segment car owners as the claim amount can be substantial in case of damage.
- Zero Depreciation Policy can be good for even small segment car owners as the cost of insurance will be higher only in the range of Rs. 2000-2500.
- Zero Depreciation Policy can be good for new drivers (who have bought a new car), since the chances of damages are high.
- Most importantly, Zero Depreciation Policy gives you complete peace of mind.
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Forced to absorb a 33 percent drop—a cool $1 million—in their materials budget, Gwinnett County Public Library (GCPL), officials are already strategizing for FY 2014, figuring out ways to ration resources for a 15-branch network that continues to grow in usage.
On January 3, the Gwinnett County, GA, Board of Commissioners adopted a $1.46 billion budget for 2013, 7.1 percent lower than the previous year, citing shrinking property tax revenues. GCPL took a substantial hit; the final budget allocates $2 million for library materials, down from $3 million a year ago.
The Gwinnett County budget was unveiled in late November 2012. Public comments on the county’s proposed budget were heard on December 10, at which time Phillip Saxton, chairman of the library board of trustees at the time, submitted a letter asking commissioners to reconsider the reduction.
“The last time the library a had $2 million materials budget to serve Gwinnett citizens was in 2001, when it served a population of 564,398 and staffed ten branches,” wrote Saxton. “Population has increased 42 percent since that time, and there are 50 percent more branches.” Saxton’s letter also said Gwinnett County Public Library boasts the highest usage rate in the state.
Located about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, Gwinnett County more than doubled in population between 1990 and 2010, when some 805,000 residents were counted in the latest census. In that span, the library system (named LJ’s Library of the Year in 2000) added branches and users, and now boasts about 310,000 cardholders, according to data from FY 2012, when patrons logged about three million visits spread across its 15 branches.
Out of the Blue
“We were not expecting it,” Nancy Stanbery-Kellam, the library’s executive director, told LJ. “We went through the budget process as established by the county. While the meetings were an excellent opportunity to have a direct dialogue, this cut was not discussed. The library also participated in quarterly efficiency reviews conducted by the county. We received very positive reviews, which compounded the surprise.”
Stanbery-Kellam described her budget cut as “devastating,” adding, “The specifics are under discussion.” She listed a series of possible effects on services, including:
- Increased wait time by library patrons for materials.
- Reduced circulation times for books, CDs, etc.
- Slower growth for digital media collections, such as ebooks, streaming videos, and e-audio formats.
- Loss of volume discounts with vendors, due to likely changes in “vendor relationships.”
While this one may have come as a shock, budget cuts are nothing new for GCPL. According to its data, overall county funding has decreased every year since 2009 from a high of $18.9 million in 2010 to about $14.1 million for FV14.
The County in a Crunch
Charlotte Nash, chairman of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, said other departments (parks and recreation, for one, along with a hiring freeze for the police and fire departments) absorbed budget cuts without nearly as much publicity as the library’s plight received.
“I love the library,” Nash told LJ in a phone interview on Tuesday. “This is not an easy decision for me.”
Under state law, Gwinnett County is required to pass a balanced budget, which Nash said was one reason why increased usage was not enough to spare GCPL from cuts. “Service demands for many parts of the local government go up in a down economy,” she added. “We are in that vice. We had to look at ways we could balance out what we were doing. It’s a hard, hard situation to be in.”
Nash also said limiting the $1 million reduction to materials would allow GCPL to maintain current staffing levels and hours, the latter of which has seen cuts in recent years. “That’s our recommendation,” Nash said. “We requested that they take it from materials. I believe that will create the least disruption of services for them.”
Nash said the latest $1 million cut was unfortunate but necessary, and denies it signals the county’s lack of commitment to the libraries. “It’s a fantastic system,” she told LJ. “It’s amazing to see what happened from the mid-’80s to this point.”
GCPL’s board of trustees, through a spokesperson, declined LJ’s request for comment on the budget cut, instead emailing a copy of the December 10 letter.
After the county budget was passed, library board member Dick Goodman was quoted in an Atlanta newspaper as saying the cut was unfortunate, but “I’m confident the library administration will demonstrate that it has the will and the creative resources to deliver to the citizens of Gwinnett the level of library service they expect and deserve.”
Stanbery-Kellam, however, does not seem sure that will and creativity will be enough. She said, “My concern about libraries in general is that things are happening so swiftly, communities may not realize what is happening until it is too late,” she told LJ. “It may take years to rebuild in any kind of ‘business model’ that is responsive and relevant to the community. Change is always difficult and the future is always uncertain.” | <urn:uuid:516c3585-339f-481f-bab9-a7923224c573> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/funding/gwinnett-ga-faces-million-dollar-budget-cut/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97424 | 1,188 | 1.59375 | 2 |
What Lies Beneath
A Poetic Journey Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
by Eileen Valentino Flaxman
WHAT LIES BENEATH offers a refreshing look into a literary masterpiece that has survived nearly two hundred years and possesses lessons and truths that resonate even today. Ms. Flaxman has written a poem for each of Moby-Dick’s chapters, but does not present them in chronological order. Rather, she focuses on individual characters – Ishmael, Queequeg, Ahab, the ship‘s crew, the open sea, the chase … even the whale itself. While doing so, she gives her own take on Melville’s tale but also on the myriad musings and philosophies that make Moby-Dick so much more than a story about a man and a whale.
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This week, I've been reading about the act of apologizing. Blogs, Buddhist quotes, TED Talks — all of it centered on the benefits of taking ownership and expressing regret to the injured party. It's a philosophical vacation and this week I'm traveling through Mea Culpa.
(Of course, there's always the possibility my lizard brain knows I'm gonna do something terrible soon and feels the need to brush up.)
Meditating on the nature of the apology dredged up memories of kindergarten and the night I was sent from the dinner table to get my hair out of my face. I didn't know how to work a barrette, so I grabbed a pair of scissors, lopped the offending piece off right at the scalp, and returned to pancakes and praise.
A week later, the small tufts of hair sticking out like tiny yellow soldiers drew my mother's ire. So I blamed it on my little brother and stood by, hands folded together in solemnity as he was spanked for being too enthusiastic during craft hour.
The most interesting bits of my Sorry Research this week focused on the sociological cues an earnest apology gives the recipient, ideas which I found concisely laid out in an article entitled "The Importance of Apologizing" by Elizabeth Scott.
I'd like to share a few of her ideas with you now:
• Apologizing indicates you know what the rules are and won't break them again. (Solid advice but when I attempt to apply it to the Kindergarten Haircut Incident, I'm at a loss... What is the broken rule here? Bangs should hang down, not stick straight up? Leave the room before kid brother is punished because his tears disturb your Zen? No idea.)
• Apologizing gives the injured party her/his dignity back by placing the blame on your own shoulders. (Lesson: My mother should apologize for caring my hair was getting dipped into maple syrup. Bathtime was like 20 minutes after dinner!)
• Apologizing repairs communication ruined by the incident (I'm happy to chat about it, but I'm still unsure who receives the apology. MY pancakes got cold, MY hair looked stupid for months, and MY brother got spanked.)
• A sincere apology demonstrates that not injuring others is a priority. (I don't want anyone to get hurt and it's definitely a priority. But let's not go overboard; my hair's been fixed for years, and I can get pancakes any time I want now.)
Outside of the research, I learned something I didn't come across in the blogs or the quote books or the TED Talks, and that's that apologizing relieves a lot of guilt. So anytime my brother or mother would like to apologize, I'll be waiting right here, filled with forgiveness and sticky with syrup. (Old habits die hard.)
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to consider this condition and to develop an alternative index, a directional distance function and the concept of the successive sequential production possibility set are combined. With this combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed components of OECD countries for the period 1970-2003. We distinguish two main empirical findings. First, even though the components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of productivity are similar. Second, unlike in previous studies, the efficiency change is the main contributor to the earlier study period, whereas the effect of technical change has prevailed over time.
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Dan Huh, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, has been steadily growing a collection of organs-on-chips. These devices incorporate human cells into precisely engineered microfluidic channels that mimic an organ’s natural environment, providing a way to conduct experiments that would not otherwise be feasible.
Huh’s previous research has involved using a placenta-on-a-chip to study which drugs are able to reach a developing fetus; investigating microgravity’s effect on the immune system by sending one of his chips to the International Space Station; and testing treatments for dry eye disease using an eye-on-a-chip, complete with a mechanical blinking eyelid.
Now, he and his colleagues are taking this technology out of their lab and into industry with their company, Vivodyne.
Andrei Georgescu, Huh’s lab-member and co-founder of Vivodyne, recently spoke with Technical.ly Philly’s Paige Gross about the growth of their company.
Research into potential drugs is usually performed first on mice, and success is only found in a fraction of humans once implemented in clinical trials, Andrei Georgescu, cofounder and CEO of Vivodyne, told Technical.ly. The genetic makeup just isn’t similar enough. But technology that allows scientists to test therapies on lab-grown human organs called “organs on chip” is allowing for testing without human subjects.
The organs on chip allow for a drug to react to tissue in a more similar way to the body than it would in a petri dish, Georgescu said. Cells sense their environment very well, he added.
“We’re making the environment more complicated, making its spacial features complicated enough to match the native complexity of the organs,” he said. “When [cells] sense a softer environment, they start to behave more realistically. Their response to the drug is more realistic.”
Continue reading “This Penn-founded biotech company specializing in human ‘organs on chip’ raised $4M” at Technical.ly Philly.
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Pink wish lives long for Jordy
Eleven years after she had a liver transplant, teenager Jordy wants to be there to help kids going through their own cancer journeys.
There are little reminders etched in ink over 19-year-old Jordy’s body. Reminders of a time long ago, as a 7-year-old, when she was diagnosed with cancer. The medical journey which followed ultimately led to Jordy needing a liver transplant.
The tattoos include a cancer ribbon behind her ear and three birds on her collarbone. Her mum Jaye used to be filled with hope whenever she saw a flock of birds during Jordy’s treatment.
On Jordy’s arm is a tattoo of a robin. Robyn was Jordy’s nurse in Melbourne during her liver transplant.
Robyn would sit down and talk to Jordy, helping to make her feel more at ease and less consumed with her transplant.
Diagnosis shakes family's world
Jordy remembers doing calisthenics as a young girl and feeling a lot of pain. Her GP sent her to the hospital, where tests revealed a stage 4 cancerous tumour in her liver had spread to her lungs.
“For me, because I was so young, I didn’t get it,” Jordy said. “It must have been so scary for my parents to watch their 7-year-old child be so sick.”
Mum Jaye was by herself when doctors told her the bad news.
“I remember the day; I’ll never forget it,” she said. “I still wake up at night in sweats sometimes about that day.
“The doctor told me it was a tumour, and it’s stage 4, and I thought ‘okay four, so it must be out of 10, so that’s not too bad’. I had no idea at that point that four was the worst stage.”
When intensive chemotherapy was unsuccessful, Jordy flew from her Adelaide home to Melbourne to get a new liver. Her eighth birthday was only a few days before her transplant.
“I remember the trip to Melbourne was pretty scary,” Jordy said.
“I was very sick at that point. Even just to fly was scary as my body wasn’t functioning the way it should have been.”
Needing 48 meds every two hours
Jordy returned to Adelaide with the hope life would become more normal. With her were 48 medications to be taken every two hours. She didn’t leave the house for three months as she adjusted to her new liver.
Her confidence was also affected, worried as she grew older about crowded places and getting sick again.
“As I have got older, it has taken a much bigger toll on my life,” Jordy said.
“Having cancer and being in the hospital, you never know if it will come back, so you don’t want to do anything to increase the chances of it returning.
“Having a liver transplant, I can’t have as much fun as everybody else my age; that’s one of the biggest challenges.”
The day everything turned pink
Helping Jordy stay positive through her medical journey was Make-A-Wish Australia.
Jordy wished for a bright pink laptop and a party with friends at a cupcake shop.
“I’m a big pink person,” Jordy said.
“As well as the pink laptop, the shop was full of pink tablecloths and everything else pink. I had seven friends come, and it was the best.
“I still have the laptop. I don’t use it because it’s 11 years old, but I think I will have it forever. It’s like a light from that whole journey, and when I look at it, I think ‘that was a really good day’.”
Jordy wants to give back
The power of her wish has only grown stronger in Jordy’s mind over the years.
“I want to help someone just as Make-A-Wish helped me,” she said.
“If I can do that, I feel like I have done my part in life.”
Jordy has dabbled in raising money for various charities, but her passion is with Make-A-Wish, where she hopes to start volunteering.
“I would love to talk to kids in the hospital and make them feel like they have a friend and tell them not to give up,” Jordy said.
“It’s such a dark time, and I get it how horrible it is, but you look for a light, some positivity.
“There’s hopefully always a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Mum Jaye said it was no surprise Jordy felt strongly about ‘giving back’.
“I think her ideal job would be to work with kids who are going through the same journey she did,” Jaye said.
“Her resilience, going through what she did, was just incredible.
“She always does come out on top; bless her.”
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The focus must shift to the real Pravasi Bharatiya
S M Krishna is an unlikely person to lend his name to a foreign policy doctrine. He has, however, latched onto something that Indian foreign policy tends to ignore—that protecting the lives and well-being of Indian citizens abroad ought to be an important objective of the Indian state. In a 2006 list of top ten foreign policy objectives, I argue India must “protect—and credibly demonstrate the intention to protect at all costs—the lives and well-being of Indian citizens living abroad, (and) never forgive governments, organisations or individuals who harm Indians.”
It is easy to derogate this objective as a ‘consular’ function or set it aside as an emergency function that the Indian government engages in during times of political unrest or natural disaster. There is no doubt that Indian missions must provide consular services or help evacuate Indians during times of need. The record is patchy on the former—there are wide differences in the quality of service provided by Indian missions abroad—and fairly exemplary on the latter. Whether during the first Gulf War, during the Lebanon crisis or more recently in Libya, India has done fairly well in getting its citizens out of danger.
However, India’s foreign policy discourse is yet to grasp that how the Indian government treats its citizens abroad—and how the world sees it treat its citizens abroad—has strategic implications. As long as Indians are engaged in activities like low-skilled labour and providing low-paying services, in the popular mind of the host countries, their low social status gets associated with the image of India.
No matter how much they appreciate your cuisine, how much they adore your celebrities, how rich they grow on trade with you, their perception of India is unduly influenced by the Indians they encounter on a daily basis. What works to India’s advantage in places like the United States and Britain, works to its detriment in the Middle East and parts of South East Asia.
It is true that employers and ordinary people in some countries ill-treat immigrant workers. It’s tremendously difficult for India to get them to change. What New Delhi can do is to start treating its citizens abroad with much greater respect that it does currently. Not just the well-to-do Non-Resident Indian professionals on the top of the social pyramid, but also the large numbers of Non-Resident Indian workers at the bottom. When was the last time a visiting Prime Minister or Foreign Minister addressed a gathering of carpenters, brick layers, electricians, janitors, garbage collectors and so on? When host nations observe how seriously Indian expatriate communities and the Indian government treats people which they regard as an underclass, their own attitudes will have to change. This will change the way they and their governments perceive India. If there is such a thing as soft power, this is where it matters.
Instead of focussing on this segment, we have seen the Indian government organise gala schmoozefests for the rich and the famous among the Indian diaspora. The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas are not only a waste of public funds, but a sign of misguided priorities. Public funds are better spent strengthening the size of Indian missions abroad and improving the resources ambassadors have to better serve the needs of Indian communities. What strategic objective is served by conferring awards on already rich, already famous and already respected individuals of Indian genetic stock? The government of India should leave glitzy awards ceremonies to the entertainment industry.
The focus and the resources must shift towards the ordinary Indian who carries his blue passport and disproportionately contributes towards inward remittances. If Mr Krishna’s new directives move Indian foreign policy this way, it might achieve more than merely address “the needs of Indian nationals abroad—especially those in distress.” If they are pushed far enough, they will affect the way the world perceives India. | <urn:uuid:ab6ff656-b5a7-45fa-940d-250eb05223f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/tag/migration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954631 | 817 | 2.21875 | 2 |
At a university with many faculty stars, one course stands out for boasting not one but two campus luminaries.
This quarter, Chancellor Michael Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known constitutional lawyer and founding dean of UC Irvine’s new School of Law, are combining their teaching skills in a freshman seminar on the Supreme Court and the civil rights movement of the ’60s. It examines different modes of protest, political tactics used by activists of the era and the effectiveness of those tactics in transforming society.
The class is held weekly in Aldrich Hall. For a recent session, Drake arrived with CDs of music from the civil rights movement, a genre in which he takes a special interest. “I come bearing gifts,” he exclaimed. As the 13 students cheered, he added: “Gifts for me, work for you.”
Throughout the hourlong seminar, Drake and Chemerinsky moved seamlessly among discussion topics, integrating their own comments and questions while evoking thoughtful observations – and sometimes heated exchanges – from the students.
Both relate well to the freshmen. During a discussion of civil rights-era music, Chemerinsky asked whether any students had heard of Sam Cooke; only one said yes. “Think of him as a modern-day Usher,” Drake explained, referring to the contemporary singer/songwriter. The comment, followed by quiet laughter, established a clear connection with the students.
Chemerinsky is one of the nation’s pre-eminent high court scholars. An alumnus of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, his primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He has taught at DePaul University College of Law, University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law and, most recently, Duke Law School.
Drake received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a medical degree from UC San Francisco. He was a professor of ophthalmology and senior associate dean at the UCSF School of Medicine before becoming UC vice president for health affairs, overseeing education policy and research activities at 15 health sciences schools. He became UCI chancellor in 2005.
It’s clear both teachers and students are finding the class stimulating.
“Teaching the seminar with Chancellor Drake has been a wonderful experience,” said Chemerinsky. “He brings such tremendous knowledge and enthusiasm. The students are incredibly fortunate to have him as a teacher.”
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Gusts of up to 80mph are expected to batter coastal regions today and tomorrow while almost a month’s rain could fall in a matter of hours.
The mercury is set to plummet as low as -4C (25F) early next week in remote parts of the North with up to four inches of snow expected on higher ground in Scotland.
Elsewhere, daytime highs will struggle to climb out of single figures with strong winds making it feel bitterly cold across the country and overnight frosts will arrive. It will definitely be time to get out the coats, scarves and gloves following the recent mild conditions.
That is a stark difference to last week when temperatures peaked at 64F (18C) due to a blast of mild air from the Atlantic.
The system was also partly responsible for the St Jude storm which caused havoc around the UK and killed six people.
Monday is going to be chilly. There could be some frosts and rain turning to sleet over high ground
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain across the South tomorrow and Monday and predicted that flash floods are likely.
Forecaster Dan Williams warned of an unsettled weekend with temperatures over northerly high ground dipping to -4C overnight.
He said: “Monday is going to be chilly with temperatures in the North below average for the time of year and a touch cooler than normal in the South.
“There could be some frosts and rain turning to sleet over high ground. It will feel cold because we have had unusually mild air for quite a while. We now have a northerly flow affecting temperatures.
“We are expecting gales through Sunday night and into Monday, with heavy rain along the south coast thanks to another area of low pressure.”
The Environment Agency has flood alerts in place for central and northern regions where ground is already saturated and river levels continue to rise.
Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said up to three inches of rain could fall tomorrow with coastal gusts hitting 80mph.
He said temperatures will plunge towards the end of the weekend with snow possible in the North and overnight frosts around the country.
He said: “There is a succession of Atlantic fronts about to roll in and cause more severe storm conditions which could hold out until Tuesday. There is going to be the risk of trees toppling and structural damage with very heavy rain triggering flash floods. Three inches – around a month’s worth – is expected.
“It is also going to turn noticeably cooler as temperatures around the UK drop, hitting freezing or below.
“The early part of November is going to be the warning for what we are likely to expect later on, the first real taster of winter.”
Leon Brown, forecaster for The Weather Channel, said: “The general weather pattern is remaining very unsettled across the UK until mid November.
“This weekend one low pressure centre will track across the middle of the country on Saturday with a wet day for northern England and southern Scotland.
“Precipitation may turn to sleet and hill snow over southern Scotland in the afternoon and evening.
“There could be four inches of snow above 400 metres over the Southern Uplands. Temperatures could fall as low as -4C in Scotland, -3C in northern England and -1C in the north Midlands.”
Netweather said much of the South is in the firing line for heavy and persistent rain to sweep in tomorrow night. Forecaster Nick Finnis said: “The weather will be dominated by Atlantic low- pressure systems moving east across the UK over the weekend and into Monday.
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In case you didn’t see it, the U.S. has unleashed the drones on yet another country, Somalia. Two leaders of the al Shabab terrorist group were wounded in a drone strike there last week, according to the Washington Post. They plane, or planes, involved apparently belonged to U.S. Special Operations Command.
As the Post notes, this is the sixth country where U.S. drones are dropping ordnance. The other countries, that we know about, are; Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. The aircraft hitting targets in Somalia may be operating out of the ever-growing U.S.-French base in nearby Djibouti known as Camp Lemonnier but we’ll likely never know for sure.
Still, we’ve been rustling around in Somalia on and off for decades now. Things heated up a couple of years ago when Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130 gunships pounded terrorists from above with their cannons and the U.S. and a ton of other countries have been conducting all sorts of anti-piracy ops in the waters off Somalia and in some cases venturing ashore to nab pirate or terrorist targets. And keep in mind that drones have definitley been used in those offshore ops.
Apparently, the Pentagon brought the drones into Somalia itself because of “growing concern within the U.S. government that some leaders of the Islamist group [al-Shabab] are collaborating more closely with al-Qaeda to strike targets beyond Somalia, the military official said.”
As we all know, UAVs can loiter for a long time looking for and tracking targets, are almost invincible to Somalia’s non-existant air defenses (although, Stinger-style MANPADS are all over Africa), and if they do go down it’s no huge loss.
More details of the attack per the Post:
In last week’s attack, local officials told the Associated Press that military aircraft struck a convoy carrying the militants as they drove along the coastline of the southern port city of Kismaayo late Thursday. Other local residents told journalists that an air attack had taken place on a militant camp near Kismaayo, an insurgent stronghold. Several residents were quoted as saying that more than one explosion had occurred over a period of several hours and that they thought that at least helicopters had taken part in the attack.
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Warning: the following statement contains references to recent disturbing news and the ongoing legacy of residential schools.
Today, we learned of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. While we await further information, it is expected that the discovery may be over three times higher than the 215 bodies of children recently found in Kamloops.
We honour the children who never came home and our hearts go out to their families, all Survivors of the residential school systems and Indigenous communities everywhere.
This painful discovery comes at a time when we are having vital and difficult conversations across the country and within our communities here at Queen’s. As a centre for learning, we must hold space for the Indigenous community at Queen’s at the same time as ensuring that we engage in serious self-reflection on the ongoing impacts of Canada’s colonial history.
In keeping with our commitment to reconciliation flowing from the recommendations of Queen’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission task force and our Friendship Wampum covenant with local Indigenous communities, we send our condolences to the Cowessess First Nations and all those affected.
Flags on campus have been lowered to acknowledge the loss of these hundreds of children and the devastating impact on their families and communities.
We recognize that this news may trigger trauma for many Indigenous members of our community, especially those with close personal or family ties to experiences in the residential schools. Those seeking support may wish to contact the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation or Four Directions, both on campus. For immediate assistance, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419.
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The Beverly Hills Parent Teacher Association posted a YouTube video outlining their concerns about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority project.
The concern surrounds plans to run the subway underneath Beverly Hills High School. The school is built on an oil field and the PTA is concerned that digging those subway tunnels could ignite a methane-gas explosion.
On the other hand, the MTA says their project is perfectly safe, and no such explosion will occur. The first phase of the $5.6 billion project was approved by the MTA's Board of Directors in April.
The extension of the Purple Line subway would run from Koreatown to Westwood. The nearly nine-mile extension of the subway from Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue would include seven new subway stops, mostly along Wilshire Boulevard.
The PTA isn't the only group posting their views on YouTube. A group called LAontheMove posted a video, which pokes fun at Beverly Hills residents and says they do not want outsiders in their neighborhood and want to keep themselves isolated.
The MTA held a special meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday to hear both sides' concerns. While the meeting produced no decisions, it did see many residents and city officials voicing their thoughts on the project.
Some feel there are other safer ways to reach Constellation Boulevard that don't involve building underneath the high school. But others feel there is just too much contradictory information to know what the best plan really is.
"The original route on Santa Monica Boulevard would be a whole lot safer, we just don't want tunneling under our high school where there are children sitting in a classroom," said Jennifer Torrell-Schwartz, co-president of the Beverly Hills PTA.
If the MTA moves to go ahead with the subway under the high school, the opponents already know their next move.
"If we can't get a fair hearing on the science we're gonna have to take this to the courts and hopefully get a fair hearing before a judge," said Beverly Hills school board president Brian Goldberg.
The MTA will continue more of the hearings next week.
Metro hopes to break ground on the extension by the fall of 2013. Once the extension is complete, riders would be able to travel from downtown to Westwood in 25 minutes, according to Metro officials, who predict an average 49,300 weekday boardings.
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In collaboration with the graduate and undergraduate programs in the School of Architecture, the Community for Urban and Rural Enhancement Services (CURES) and the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture (TIPHC) provide graduate and undergraduate students with research opportunities to enhance
their learning experiences. Both centers serve as a service-learning forum for graduate students enrolled in the Architecture and Community Development programs (internship, studio and practicum classes).
The mission of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture is to collect, preserve, study and make available for research, records, documents, artifacts and other items relating to the history and culture of Texas with emphasis on the contributions of African Americans throughout the state. The Institute also encourages the collection and preservation of disappearing materials such as historic buildings, written documents, vernacular architecture, burial sites and oral histories.
The mission of the CURES center is to serve as an agent for positive enhancement of communities with concentration on pursuing sustainable solutions for the built environment. CURES is designed to meet the needs of individuals, organizations and units of government involved with resolving community issues with an emphasis on the built environment. Faculty and students help develop vision and plans to solve these community issues.
- Community for Urban and Rural
Enhancement Services (CURES) – www.pvamu.edu/CURES
- Texas Institute for the
Preservation of History and Culture (TIPHC) – www.pvamu.edu/TIPHC
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Transcript for A Special Visit With Wounded Warrior Dogs
Oh, yes, I'm thrilled to share this with all of you. This is a story of healing from wounds of war especially the psychological wounds, a terrific organization called the warrior canine connection helps do this by bringing together wounded soldiers and man's best friend and I recently sat down with two soldiers whose lives were changed by one very special dog. Justin Lansford and his girlfriend love doting on their golden retriever but there's much more to this four-legged friend. What does he mean to you. The less I use my chair, my wheelchair, the more I need his help in small tasks and the more he's there, it's been very comforting to know that. Reporter: Can you tell me about your injury? How it happened? I was a paratrooper in the 82nd airborne and we were in eastern Afghanistan and 2012 we struck an ied and it ripped my truck completely. I had to have my right leg amputated. Reporter: He was introduced to the warrior canine connection. What are some things you couldn't do before Gabe. There were things more significantly different. I have a prosthetic lubricant. He'll run and grab my spray so I can put my leg on. What a good boy. From there it just kind of snowballed helping me with one thing to the next. He can help me to and from the ground. I can use him as kind of a brace and I can lean on him to get on to and off of the ground. Reporter: Gabe is always at the ready and it begins from the minute Justin comes home. How does he help you get in and out? Well, he can open the door. Come here, Gabe. Here. Get the door. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy, Gabe. Every day. Good boy. Anything you need. Everything I need. Reporter: At 2 years old he's been working with him as a service dog for five months. He isn't the first life he has touched. Dismount patrol in afghanistan/pakistan border I see a kid, 15 years old. Suicide bomber. Knew what it was. Reporter: What do you remember from that moment? I just remember a big, you know, loud noise, you know, big flash and I remember landing. To help with his posttraumatic disorder his doctors suggest he work with a puppy named Gabe a candidate for the warrior canine connection. It was hard to go back into public without being on edge that it made others uncomfortable. In training Gabe, it really helped heal you. I ended up going with Gabe on the metro. Could you have done that without Gabe? Not a chance. And, you know, it's funny so we went on the metro, we went to a grocery store, by the time I got done with the grocery store I remember sitting there and talking to a couple people that I was with and myself more or less myself like I just did that. We're involving the service members in the process of training the dogs and through that process, they're teaching the dog that the world is a safe place to incorporate that same notion that the world truly is a safe place in the civilian world. Reporter: Spencer hasn't seen Gabe since he finished training and become Gabe's service dog but this day he traveled from Maryland to Colorado. The two met who had never met sharing such a special bond. Look at you. Look at you. So handsome. Reporter: It's pretty remarkable to think that one dog could have such an impact on two lives. I owe everything to Gabe. I mean, I would jump in front of a bus for Gabe in a heartbeat, you know, and I know he would do the same for me. I know he would do the same for Justin so that's the kind of connection you have. I never had a chance to say thank you to Spencer for working with Gabe and getting Gabe to a point where he could work and help me and being able to see Spencer face to face has been awesome. I want to say thank you to both of those men for letting us into their lives and Spencer was really sad to leave Gabe but he knows they're a family now and they will forever be bonded by Gabe and what he's done for both of their lives. This program is unbelievable. They have a new litter of puppies coming out. You can go to their website and look at the puppies and support them in any way you can. That's good. Thanks for bringing us that story. Just incredible. That's all on goodmorningamerica.com on Yahoo! I hope my dogs were watching.
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The Radiography Program at Indiana University South Bend reports the credentialing examination pass rate, job placement rate, and program completion rate annually to the JRCERT. Data for all JRCERT accredited Radiography Programs can be found at www.jrcert.org/resources/program-effectiveness-data.
2021-2017 Radiography Program Effectiveness Data
- The student will graduate clinically competent.
- The student will be able to effectively communicate.
- The student will develop and apply effective critical thinking skills.
- The student will develop lifelong learning
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student Learning Outcome 1
The student will obtain and assess radiographs of acceptable diagnostic quality.
The student will apply the principles of radiation safety.
The student will deliver effective patient care to a diverse population.
Student Learning Outcome 2
The student will communicate effectively as a part of the healthcare team.
The student will communicate effectively in writing.
Student Learning Outcome 3
The student will be able to adapt radiographic procedures for non-routine situations.
The student will critique images for diagnostic quality and devise necessary factors for quality improvement.
Student Learning Outcome 4
Students will determine the importance of continued professional development.
Students will attend a radiology conference.
Programmatic Goal Radiography Program 2021
All graduates of the radiography program are eligible to take the national credentialing examination administered by The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) immediately after graduation.
ESSENTIAL ABILITIES FOR ADMISSION AND RETENTION OF STUDENTS IN THE PATIENT CARE PROGRAMS
The Radiologic Sciences faculty has specified the following nonacademic criteria (essential abilities) which all applicants and enrolled students are expected to meet in order to participate in the Radiologic Sciences programs and professional practice.
Observation: The applicant/student must be able to participate actively in all demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and clinical experiences in the professional program component of the degree and to assess and comprehend the condition of all patients assigned to him/her for examination, diagnosis and treatment. Such observation and information usually requires the functional use of visual, auditory, and somatic sensations.
Communications: The applicant/student must be able to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients in order to elicit information, describe changes in mood, activity and posture; assess non-verbal communications, and be able to effectively and efficiently transmit information to patients, fellow students, faculty and staff, and all members of the health care team. Communication skills include speaking, reading and writing, as well as the observations skills described above.
Motor: The applicant/student must have sufficient motor function to elicit information from patients by appropriate diagnostic or therapeutic maneuvers; be able to perform basic tests; possess all skills necessary to carry out diagnostic or therapeutic procedures; be able to interpret appropriate examinations and procedures, and be able to execute motor movements reasonably required to provide general care and emergency treatment to patients.
Intellectual/Conceptual Integrative and Quantitative Abilities: The applicant/student must be able to measure, calculate, reason, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize. Problem solving, the critical skill demanded of radiologic sciences practitioners, requires all of these intellectual abilities. In addition, the applicant/student must have the capacity to perform these problem solving skills in a timely fashion.
Behavioral and Social Attributes The applicant/student must possess the emotional health required for full utilization of his or her intellectual abilities; the exercise of good judgment; the prompt completion of all responsibilities attendant to care of patients; and the development of mature, sensitive and effective relationships with patients and others. Applicants must also be able to tolerate taxing workloads, function effectively under stress, adapt to changing environment, display flexibility, and learn to function in the face of uncertainties inherent in clinical problems of many patients. Compassion, integrity, concern for others, commitment and motivation are personal qualities which each applicant/student should possess.
Please refer to Radiography Essential Abilities
Admissions into the Radiography Program
Apply and be admitted to Indiana University South Bend.
After being admitted to the University, apply to the Radiography Program by completing an application. The application opens February 1st of each year and closes on April 1st.
Admission Rating System
At the conclusion of the spring semester of program application, students in the applicant pool are scored to determine their rank order. The criteria for admission consideration is based on a 4.0 scale as follows:
- Application GPA (the weighted GPA of all program prerequisite courses): 45%
- Essay (the average of reviewers’ scores): 15%
- Radiography Module (an assessment in Canvas about profession and program): 10%
The top ranked applicants (max. of 35) will be selected for an individual interview (30%). The individual interviews will score applicants on:
- Knowledge of the Profession
Students admitted to the Radiography program will be determined by the combination of their pre-interview score (70%) and their interview rank (30%).
Admission Policies and Procedures
The following academic policies and procedures for the Radiography Program have been developed to ensure that program graduates demonstrate competencies in the cognitive, psychomotor and effective skills necessary of individuals who perform quality diagnostic radiographic procedures.
Admission to the Clinical/Professional Program is based upon each applicant’s admission grade point average (AGPA) of the completed preradiography general-education core courses, repeat factor, a personal statement (essay), and an interview. A maximum of 19 students are admitted each fall semester.
STANDARD I: Prerequisite Coursework
Applicants for the Radiography Program must be high school graduates or the equivalent. They must apply and be admitted to Indiana University South Bend prior to or concurrent with the application for the Radiography Program. Applicants must meet the academic standards for the College of Health Sciences and must apply to the Program between February 1st and April 1st.
Applicants must complete the program's prerequisite courses before admission to the Radiography Program. Students may apply for the program and still be completing courses in the spring semester the year of anticipated entry. All prerequisite courses must be completed by the end of the spring semester. Prerequisite general education courses can be taken on a part-time basis and do not have to be completed at IU South Bend.
Applicants must pass the required prerequisite coursework by the second completed attempt.
Prerequisite courses for the Radiography Program (19 cr):
ENG-W131: Reading, Writing & Inquiry I (3 cr.)
SPCH-S121: Introduction to Public Speaking (3 cr.)
MATH-M111: Mathematics in the World (3 cr.) or approved substitution
ANAT-A210: Human Anatomy (3 cr.)
ANAT-A211: Human Anatomy Lab (2 cr.)
PHSL-P 130 Human Biology (3 cr)
AHLT-R185: Medical Terminology (2 cr.)
Specific grades in these courses are used as a part of the student’s admission profile number.
STANDARD II: Grade Requirements
To be considered for admission to the Radiography Program, all applicants must:
Have a cumulative high school G.P.A. (excluding non-academic coursework) of 2.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
STANDARD III: GPA Altering Policies
The student’s cumulative GPA for purposes of admission to the program will be based on all past academic courses taken at accredited colleges or universities. This admission GPA will exclude developmental coursework. The admission GPA will only come from the required prerequisite coursework.
STANDARD IV: Credit by Examination
Applicants to the Radiography Program who have received “credit by examination” in a course that meets a program prerequisite will be viewed as meeting this specified requirement. Any “credit by examination” hours received by the student must be transferred onto the student’s university transcript before it can be considered as meeting the Program’s admissions prerequisite. Credit can be earned from a variety of sources.
STANDARD V: Testing
No special testing procedures are utilized in the admission process.
STANDARD VI: Essential Abilities for Admission & Retention
Essential abilities for admission and retention have been developed and are utilized by the Radiography Program. These are sent to all applicants upon receipt of an application. Once admitted, students are expected to meet these program standards.
Please refer to Radiography Essential Abilities Policy
STANDARD VII: Additional Requirements
Health and Age Requirements Students are required to show proof that they have met the immunization, physical examination and laboratory examination requirements for the Program as well as CPR certification. Additionally, all students must be 18 years or older. Specific information is provided to all accepted students prior to enrolling in clinical coursework.
Criminal History Check – A criminal history check is required prior to beginning clinical experience. A positive background check may make a student ineligible for clinical coursework.
Drug Screening Policy-Students may be required to have a drug screen prior to attending clinical experience or it may be required on demand under certain situations in the clinical site. A positive drug screen will result in removal from the clinical site and possible dismissal from the Program.
Health Insurance Requirement-Students are required to show proof that they have health insurance.
STANDARD VIII: Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy
Indiana University prohibits discrimination based on arbitrary consideration of such characteristics as age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Admission Profile Number
Candidates are ranked according to a calculated Admission Profile Number developed by the Program Admission Committee. The academic and interview profile numbers are combined to provide a TOTAL ADMISSION PROFILE NUMBER for each candidate.
The total admission profile number is calculated through the admission rating system.
STANDARD IX: Admission to Program
Students offered a clinical position within the associate degree program must formally accept or decline admission, in writing, to the program prior to the beginning of the semester to which they are admitted. Students offered a position in the Clinical/Professional Program but decline acceptance or become academically ineligible can reapply to the program the following year. They must compete with the applicant pool for the semester in which they request entrance with no preference or wait listing given. Students have only three opportunities to decline admission in writing prior to losing their eligibility to apply.
For a more detailed description please see the IU South Bend Campus Bulletin. All courses certified as meeting the Campuswide General Education requirements are designated in the Schedule of Classes.
A list of anticipated expenses outside of tuition, textbooks, and dorm or rent fees has been compiled for students to assist with financial planning. This list should not be viewed as all-inclusive, rather a guide to help in planning student-related expenses associated with the clinical professional program.
AS IN RADIOGRAPHY ESTIMATED PROGRAM COSTS
Laptop or Tablet Computer (required curriculum supplies)
IT requirements: https://uits.iusb.edu/
Health Physical with Immunizations
Drug Screen (annual)
ASRT and ISRT Student Membership (required for curriculum)
CPR – BLS (Certification)
Criminal Background Check
Two Lead Initial Markers (required curriculum supplies)
Uniforms (2 sets of scrubs, lab jacket, 1 pair of clinic shoes, name tag)
Textbook Fees (includes online requirement of Rad Tech Boot Camp subscription)
Total Cost First Year
Uniforms (2 sets of scrubs and 1 pair of clinical shoes)
ASRT (required for curriculum)
Immunization Boosters and Drug Screen (includes TB)
ARRT Application Fee (certification test)
Textbook Fees (includes online requirement of Corectec software and Kettering Seminar)
$25 to $200
|$25 to $200|
Total Cost Second Year
This list does not include tuition. Information about tuition is listed on the Office of the Bursar website at: https://www.iusb.edu/bursar/tuition_and_fee_rates/index.php
*Tuition and fees are assessed on credit hours enrolled per semester and may include parking, activity, and computer/laboratory fees.
*This list does not include travel expenses or fuel costs associated with traveling to/from campus to affiliated clinical agencies.
*Each clinical practicum will have a $250 fee associated with the course.
**The total cost is an estimate and could be subject to change without notice.
LENGTH OF PROGRAM
The length of the Radiography Program is 22 months beginning at the end of August. Radiography students graduate in May of their senior year.
The total time to earn an Associate of Science in Radiography is 3 years; an estimated 1 year of general education courses and 2 years in the professional program.
STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM
The Radiography Program is a full-time clinical/professional program that provides the academic and clinical education required for a career as a diagnostic radiographer. The program consists of highly focused college coursework designed to complement clinical experience course work. Clinical experience courses are completed at various off campus locations within the regional community. Students attend class on-campus and clinical practicum courses at affiliated clinical agencies throughout the region. | <urn:uuid:0668b3d5-b0fa-4f1d-b9f0-313faf97fddc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthscience.iusb.edu/radiography/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.914485 | 2,917 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Consider a situation where we have a set of intervals and we need following operations to be implemented efficiently.
1) Add an interval
2) Remove an interval
3) Given an interval x, find if x overlaps with any of the existing intervals.
Interval Tree: The idea is to augment a self-balancing Binary Search Tree (BST) like Red Black Tree, AVL Tree, etc to maintain set of intervals so that all operations can be done in O(Logn) time.
Every node of Interval Tree stores following information.
a) i: An interval which is represented as a pair [low, high]
b) max: Maximum high value in subtree rooted with this node.
The low value of an interval is used as key to maintain order in BST. The insert and delete operations are same as insert and delete in self-balancing BST used.
The main operation is to search for an overlapping interval. Following is algorithm for searching an overlapping interval x in an Interval tree rooted with root.
Interval overlappingIntervalSearch(root, x) 1) If x overlaps with root's interval, return the root's interval. 2) If left child of root is not empty and the max in left child is greater than x's low value, recur for left child 3) Else recur for right child.
How does the above algorithm work?
Let the interval to be searched be x. We need to prove this in for following two cases.
Case 1: When we go to right subtree, one of the following must be true.
a) There is an overlap in right subtree: This is fine as we need to return one overlapping interval.
b) There is no overlap in either subtree: We go to right subtree only when either left is NULL or maximum value in left is smaller than x.low. So the interval cannot be present in left subtree.
Case 2: When we go to left subtree, one of the following must be true.
a) There is an overlap in left subtree: This is fine as we need to return one overlapping interval.
b) There is no overlap in either subtree: This is the most important part. We need to consider following facts.
… We went to left subtree because x.low <= max in left subtree
…. max in left subtree is a high of one of the intervals let us say [a, max] in left subtree.
…. Since x doesn’t overlap with any node in left subtree x.high must be smaller than ‘a‘.
…. All nodes in BST are ordered by low value, so all nodes in right subtree must have low value greater than ‘a‘.
…. From above two facts, we can say all intervals in right subtree have low value greater than x.high. So x cannot overlap with any interval in right subtree.
Implementation of Interval Tree:
Following is C++ implementation of Interval Tree. The implementation uses basic insert operation of BST to keep things simple. Ideally it should be insertion of AVL Tree or insertion of Red-Black Tree. Deletion from BST is left as an exercise.
Inorder traversal of constructed Interval Tree is [5, 20] max = 20 [10, 30] max = 30 [12, 15] max = 15 [15, 20] max = 40 [17, 19] max = 40 [30, 40] max = 40 Searching for interval [6,7] Overlaps with [5, 20]
Time complexity of above code: O(n*h) i.e. O(n^2) in worst case as tree can be skewed.
If Interval Tree is made self-balancing like AVL Tree, then time complexity reduces to O(nlogn).
Applications of Interval Tree:
Interval tree is mainly a geometric data structure and often used for windowing queries, for instance, to find all roads on a computerized map inside a rectangular viewport, or to find all visible elements inside a three-dimensional scene (Source Wiki).
Interval Tree vs Segment Tree
Both segment and interval trees store intervals. Segment tree is mainly optimized for queries for a given point, and interval trees are mainly optimized for overlapping queries for a given interval.
1) Implement delete operation for interval tree.
2) Extend the intervalSearch() to print all overlapping intervals instead of just one.
Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition by Clifford Stein, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest
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It’s a simple question that has inspired people for many years. It normally presents a multitude of answers from all kinds of people with different ideas and philosophies. If you are one of those people who believe that art takes inspiration from real life, presents ideas in original, creative and beautiful ways, as well as something that takes skill, precision and passion to create, then laser-cutting certainly is an art form.
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Sinus Quiz: If your nose is stuffy, your head is aching, and you can’t stop coughing, you could have a bad cold, or it could be a serious sinus infection. The symptoms of a sinus infections, a common cold, the flu, or allergies can all be similar. Treatment however, for each is very different. Only a doctor can properly diagnose a patient, but this quiz is a quick and easy way to provide some insight on symptoms you may be experiencing as well as evaluate current or potential sinus issues.
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How to teach a child to roll over from back to stomach
Child Development / / April 08, 2016
How to teach a child to roll
How to teach a child to turn his back on his stomach, trying to learn a lot of parents.We always want to hasten the time, to be one step ahead.By learning to roll over, the baby is at risk of falling out of bed, so Mom and Dad should always hedging crumbs.Determined to teach the child to roll over, you need to know the steps that he takes.
ability to turn tot possessed approximately 3-4 months.At first he turned his back on his side in the 3-5 months - from the back to the belly, in 4-6 months child turns from stomach to back.That is to say, the final stage.But this average norm.Some tremors start spinning already with two months, others only half a year to learn this skill - all individually.
But mostly mom and dad want to help my sun, send it "on the right path."The child begins to roll when the parents create the necessary conditions.
What is needed crumbs?
- gymnastics.They strengthen the muscles, learn to control the body.
- Massage.It has an overall health effects.
- Swimming.It teaches control your body, it helps to relax the clenched muscles.
- hardening.It tones and improves the body's resistance.
- solid surface.It is the necessary support for the development of skills.
- bright stimuli (toys, sound modules).Motivate the child, encouraging turn.
to teach a child to roll over from stomach to back, not invented by a single set of exercises.Every child is unique.One carefully calculates all the movement and trying to help themselves handle, and the second leg dashingly throws.In order to provide quality care, you must first observe how the child tries to turn over.
If the child can not decide what to do with the handles in the coup, help him gently, release one handle from under the tummy.I do not know what to do with legs?Then show how you can turn around and throw a leg.A few impressions - and the child will be able to roll your own.Frequent spitting on the stomach also promotes more rapid development of skill.Try when the crumb lying on his back, begin to stimulate its bright and ringing toy, slowly sliding it to one side.A child interested in the toy begins to follow her gaze and unwittingly begins to try to roll over.An important point: the need to teach the baby to roll over both left and right.Sometimes the baby develops revolutions in two directions at once. | <urn:uuid:31ca3a2b-0f21-40d3-a00d-cf8e08c6df20> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wmfits.com/en/pages/1237368 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00158-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941159 | 559 | 2.9375 | 3 |
As the sweet stench of legal cannabis continues to seep into the mainstream, institutions of higher education have started constructing robust courses around the plant. Aside from fully canna-centric establishments like Oaksterdam University, a number of prestigious colleges and universities, from Harvard University to Ohio State, also offer full-fledged classes on cannabis policy and law.
But few have gone as far as Northern Michigan University, a Marquette-based school that has recently unveiled a four-year medicinal plant chemistry degree focused exclusively on marijuana. The program will cover all the bases of the cannabis industry, including chemistry, biology, botany, horticulture, marketing, and finance. Students will be given a comprehensive crash course on medical pot, learning how to measure and extract the compounds that help treat chronic pain, nausea, seizures, glaucoma, and other illnesses.
According to Mark Paulsen, director of the university’s chemistry department, the first class hosted a dozen students, but he expects that number to blossom over time. The idea for this specialized degree came to associate chemistry professor Brandon Canfield while he was attending an American Chemical Society meeting last year. After 18 months of development, the program is now open to students interested in partaking in this lucrative industry. Still, the average stoner shouldn’t expect these classes to be a walk through the park just because of the subject matter.
“Obviously, the program is new and different and it might speak to a certain crowd. But for a student to succeed, they’re going to have to be very dedicated and motivated. This is not an easy program. It’s a really intense, biology chemistry program,” Canfield said.
For the moment, the Northern Michigan University students will be unable to grow marijuana plants in the program, but will utilize other medicinal plants to obtain adequate knowledge. The state is currently implementing regulations for its medical system, while advocates are now vying to get recreational legalization on the 2018 ballot. In the meantime, the school plans to work closely with cultivators, dispensaries, and other businesses that could offer internships and hands-on experience. | <urn:uuid:c1bc9637-324f-4ce3-898c-5e945cc4fcc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://merryjane.com/news/northern-michigan-university-medical-cannabis-degree | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.950144 | 436 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Southwire plugs and receptacles or outlets are designed for providing the right amount of visibility and power to your equipment. There are extension cords, trouble lights, GFCI receptacles, and a welder adapters. A majority of these electrical tools come with a lighted end to make the user aware of when there is electricity running through the cable.
Some of Southwire equipment is used to provide a safer working environment. A GFCI outlet, for example, will provide greater protection for you and your appliances by preventing ground faults. A trouble light is another tool that creates a safer work place and used so that you can keep your visibility in the darkest of places and is commonly used in construction or mining. | <urn:uuid:5fd51844-1741-4913-848a-752e3610ffcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.homelectrical.com/southwire.22582.4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.931981 | 143 | 1.742188 | 2 |
What the job looks like
starts at $34,613 up to $153,291+
- Being paid to do a hobby
- Going to sporting events and matches
- Meeting sports stars
- Seeing your pictures published
- Being creative
The not so good
- Unusual hours
- Working weekends
It is exciting and challenging to capture sporting action and it can come down to just a split second between capturing or missing a shot. Photography involves getting many different aspects right to take the perfect shot.
You have to consider how the lighting, weather, speed and the subject of your photo will all impact on the shot.
Getting the lighting and shutter speed right are two of the biggest factors which is a mathematical exercise. Once you know how the manual settings work, you can distort lighting to create unique and striking pictures.
Learning about photography is almost a different language so a good handle on English will make it a bit easier. You will also be editing images and emailing the best shots through to media so good communication skills will come in handy to make sure no mistakes are published. You might also move into blogging or developing your own website to promote your images so you will need to make sure your writing skills are up to scratch to appear professional.
If you are passionate about sport and enjoy being creative, then a career as a sport photographer could be for you.
It’s about learning the craft of your camera and it is glamorous, it’s my dream job.
Pathways to this career
Subject suggestions for the HSC
Choosing your HSC subjects from this list could really help with your career. Think carefully about what you want to study after school as you might need to choose specific HSC subjects for that course and to count towards your ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank). An ATAR is your academic rank in relation to other HSC students and helps with University admission.
Some subjects will count towards your ATAR, others will not. Check with your career advisor before making subject selections.
- English (Standard or higher)
- Mathematics (General 2 or higher)
- Visual Arts
- Information Processes and Technology
What can I do after I have finished school?
Studying one of these degrees can help with your career.
- Bachelor of Visual Communication Design
- Bachelor of Communication
- Bachelor of Fine Art
- Bachelor of Arts
Courses and qualifications
Courses and qualifications can give you a great start.
- Certificate IV or Diploma of Photo Imaging
- Go to galleries for inspiration
- Enroll in a photography course
- Read photography books and magazines to broaden your knowledge
- Do work experience at your local newspaper
- Start following photographers and companies like GoPro on Instagram for creative ideas
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Much of my private practice is devoted to helping couples in conflict resolve their differences. I have discovered over the years that personality compatibility is an essential component of a happy marriage. Many of the couples I see in therapy struggle with reconciling radically different modes of communicating and coping with life’s issues. As a result, it is often the case that arguments ensue, empathy is strained and estrangement sets in. With that as a backdrop, here are several fictitious vignettes of couples that are personality incompatible.
Devorah prides herself on being punctual. She views it as a mark of responsibility and respect for others to be on time. As a matter of fact, she almost always gets to meetings early. Her husband Yaakov usually arrives for appointments 5-10 minutes late. He always has what he thinks is a valid reason: something came up that he had to attend to. He prides himself on his flexibility and multitasking. Devorah is frustrated because she thinks Yaakov could be more organized and prioritize his life better. The two frequently argue about this issue and it negatively affects their relationships.
Malkie is sensitive to people’s feelings and will go to almost any length to avoid a dispute. Her husband Baruch is strong willed and factual and will press his case even if it involves some degree of dissension. Malkie feels that Baruch is insensitive and bullying. Baruch believes that Malkie is too much of a pushover and that she should stand up for what she feels is right – even if it involves a disagreement. He contends that disagreements are necessary because they lead to a clarification of the truth. This difference in approach leads to frustration for both of them.
Moshe believes that the best way to raise his and his wife’s children is to set firm rules and impose natural consequences for breaching those rules. He doesn’t believe in making exceptions, as it will teach their children to shirk their responsibilities. “The law is the law” by him. His wife Ruchie is very attuned to her children and is more inclined to view non-compliance as stemming from an emotional issue. She gives the benefit of the doubt to her children in many situations. As a consequence of their differing personalities, Moshe and Ruchie frequently argue over their different child-rearing styles.
As you can see, these couples are incompatible in certain defined aspects of their relationship. Neither spouse is right or wrong; they simply have very different personalities. These differences can be difficult to detect during the dating process, when singles are in situations that do not normally pose conflict. However, after the couple is married, these incompatibilities soon assume center stage. If differences are relatively few in number and the spouses possess significant skills in empathy and acceptance of difference, things are manageable. However, the cumulative effect of profound incompatibility is that feelings of trust and intimacy are compromised.
Of course, when couples differ in some ways, they can help each other grow. However, when couples’ personalities are significantly different or incompatible, it can become more of a problem in their marriage. Personality traits that at first seemed appealing because they were different than one’s own eventually become a source of frustration and are seen as a flaw in need of rectification. Individuals who seek to change their spouses’ traits will surely encounter failure. People cannot be coerced into changing their essential nature.
What emerges is that compatibility makes it much easier to establish a happy and successful marriage. Research studies in the field of psychology have demonstrated that compatible couples are more satisfied in their marriages. Moreover, Torah hashkafa emphasizes the importance of being diligent in identifying compatibility in prospective spouses. We need to communicate this knowledge to young adults and their parents who are now actively engaged in shidduchim. We must give them the necessary tools to be able to identify personality-compatible marriage prospects.
To that end I strongly endorse an exciting resource that has just burst onto the frum dating scene, one that will hopefully result in hundreds, if not thousands, of marriages. The website ZivugZone.com uses a sophisticated, state-of-the-art software program to match singles according to their personality compatibility, hashkafa, age and other key personal preferences. My friend and colleague Moshe Coan, with whom I’ve worked closely with in the past, is the website’s founder. ZivugZone.com is free and has become hugely popular since it launched in July. The first two months saw over 1,300 singles register.Dr. Yael Respler | <urn:uuid:17c17915-a0d2-4cbf-bfad-643f53199a8d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jewishpress.com/tag/website/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974334 | 939 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Con At The Controls!
When the occupants of Sen. Paul Wellstone's charter aircraft were bouncing through the muck of a late fall storm last week, it's hard to imagine a 12-year-old fraud conviction against their pilot would have made much difference to them or in any way impaired that pilot's abilities. But in the absence of anything new in the investigation of the crash, the focus has shifted to the relatively ancient history of pilot Richard Conry's apparently shady dealings in the house-construction business. The Minneapolis / St. Paul Star Tribune last week got its collective hands on Conry's criminal record and discovered he went to a "federal prison camp" for more than a year beginning in 1990 for 14 counts of mail fraud. The scheme resulted in some subcontractors not getting paid for their work on houses Conry built. Conry did his time and was repaying the people he had defrauded. In April of 2001, at Executive Aviation -- where he was presumably hired based on his ability to fly an airplane -- he truthfully answered the question on their application inquiring whether he had had a criminal conviction in the previous five years. However, Rep. James Oberstar, outspoken on aviation safety issues, questioned that ability, based on Conry's history. "It goes to the question of his fitness to fly." And even though Conry filled out the employment application truthfully, Oberstar suggested he should have volunteered the information about the conviction. "It's more than an act of omission, it's a deliberate act of deception," he said. The whole affair may remind some of the Canadian pilot who deadsticked an A330 to a landing in the Azores last year. In that instance, the skill Captain Piche employed to guide the silent jet for roughly 15 minutes over the open ocean and to a safe landing, saving the lives of all on board, was apparently not impaired by his own previous drug bust. Still, the story quickly shifted to Piche's previous drug-related conviction. In the public's perception, and Oberstar's, it would appear that only angels should have wings -- even though as elected officials have perhaps demonstrated, angelic character is a rare quality. | <urn:uuid:d9c4d46c-ff20-42f9-bc51-2c631c893391> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/briefs/181653-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00426-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984672 | 448 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This lighthouse in Laguindingan town is an important geographical reference point and landmark to aid navigators and seafarers.
Commonly called “Punta Sulawan” or Sulawan Point, it is specifically located in Barangay Moog which is also the site of Laguindingan Airport. With the airport’s operation, this lighthouse has become easily accessible. Accordingly, this structure is located at a strategic point facing Macajalar Bay and overlooks a good portion of Mindanao Sea.
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She was inside the womb, when Baby Lake’s mom was told that the baby may not survive if she was born. There was a cyst inside her lung which even if not cancerous could not support the baby after birth. To save the child, doctors made the decision to perform an in utero surgery.
Savannah Perry was 20 weeks pregnant when she went for her regular ultrasound check up. The news was not good though.
“We were 20 weeks pregnant and we had just our regular check-up ultrasound. We didn’t even know if she was going to survive. They did another ultrasound about a week later and at that time they said it looked like there was a cyst inside of her lung,” Savannah said.
The cyst was a benign non-cancerous one, but it was inside the baby’s left lung. If left untreated the unborn baby girl could possibly die soon after birth.
Dr. Timothy Crombleholme, Fetal Surgeon, Children’s Hospital Colorado, said,
“I think there was a significant risk once she was delivered. She was fine in utero, but once she was delivered, we were asking the lungs to support her. It just wouldn’t have worked. So, we knew we had to come up with a separate strategy.”
At 36 weeks the team decided to perform a critical surgery. The baby was half delivered, still attached to the placenta when the doctors performed the surgery and removed the cyst.
“By the time Lake was delivered, her left lung was touching her right chest wall. It had phenomenally increased in size and had compressed the right lung,” Dr. Croblemholme said.
Baby Lake is 11 months old now and thankfully her left lung has begun to decrease in size.
“She is doing amazing. She is learning to walk. She walks around furniture now. She loves anywhere she is not supposed to be,” Savannah said.
Doctors are sure she will make full recovery and grow up like any other healthy child. | <urn:uuid:4d0e9589-0303-40fb-acc0-c8501885692a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.growingyourbaby.com/2013/11/19/doctors-save-unborn-baby-through-surgery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991805 | 434 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Ninety-five of those are considered "near Earth," but in the language of astronomy that means within 30 million miles. Luckily for us, none poses any threat to Earth anytime soon.
Called WISE for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the telescope completes its first full scan of the sky on Saturday and then begins another round of imaging.
What's special about WISE is its ability to see through impenetrable veils of dust, picking up the heat glow of objects that are invisible to regular telescopes.
"Most telescopes focus on the hottest and brightest objects in the universe," said Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "WISE is especially sensitive to seeing what's cool and dark, what you could call the stealth objects of the universe."
Mission team members are elated with the discoveries of the $320 million project, which launched in December. By the end of the year, researchers expect to have a cosmic census of millions of newfound objects that should help answer questions about how planets, stars and galaxies form.
Besides all those asteroids, WISE has also sighted 15 new comets. It has spied hundreds of potential brown dwarfs — stellar objects that are bigger than a planet but much smaller than a star — and confirmed the existence of 20 of them, including some of the coldest ever known.
The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.
WISE's 16-inch telescope was built by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. It circles the Earth 300 miles high and takes snapshots every 11 seconds over the whole sky. | <urn:uuid:4f798d3b-50ee-48e4-a53a-ead19f5b3a5b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cosmostv.org/2010/07/space-telescope-spots-25000-new.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954124 | 344 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Water and food for migrants from Mexico that were left along a desert trail by volunteers with No More Deaths are seen in late January in Arivaca Junction, Ariz. When the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of Arizona's 2010 immigration l aw April 25, the eventual ruling will have an effect on far more than one border state's relationship to its own residents.
Catholic News Service
When the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of Arizona’s 2010 immigration law, the weight of an eventual ruling will come to bear on far more than one border state’s relationship to its own residents.
The half-dozen states that have passed laws modeled on Arizona’s, the 20 that have considered doing so could be affected by the outcome of Arizona v. United States. So could the practices of churches, employers and social service providers. Foreign relations and business ventures also may be affected.
And there’s a chance the court won’t be able to come to a clear decision because Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself from participating, leaving the possibility of a 4-4 vote. Unless that happens, the court is likely to issue a decision just before it recesses at the end of June.
“Copycat” legislation, much of it drafted by the same Kansas attorney who helped write Arizona’s law, roiled other states, particularly Alabama. As that state’s law made it illegal to rent or provide utility service without proof of the customer’s immigration status, thousands of immigrants moved away, leaving Alabama’s agriculture industry reeling from lost workers while crops rotted in the fields. | <urn:uuid:bc5865a0-ad84-4c33-b8bd-298cbf86e9bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.catholicsentinel.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=34&ArticleID=18021&TM=44291.81 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00558-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956635 | 339 | 2.125 | 2 |
Clean Air Workshop - March 2020
Some of the Eco Committee attended a workshop run by Global Action Plan about how to purify air and make it cleaner. They discussed the school's environment and ways it could be improved. This is what a Year 5 student had to say about the workshop:
"In the workshop we first talked about the main good gases in our air; we learnt that there is nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide combined. Then we discussed the fact that there are bad gases in our air like methane, fine particulate matter, ultrafine particulate matter and carbon monoxide.
We learnt that ultrafine particulate matter is 40 times smaller than a grain of sand! This means it enters our blood through our lungs and is almost impossible to send out of our bodies.
Another worry that we discussed in the workshop is pollution. Aeroplanes, engines, cleaning products and fires cause pollution so we need to replace them with effective, beneficial and eco-friendly items or solutions instead.
This is why the charity Global Action Plan is going to include our school in a new project. As part of the workshop they introduced us to two machines. One which cleans our air and another which tells us which bad gases are present in the air we breathe at school. They said these would help us improve our health and awareness of air quality and that they will be interested to see the results."
As a school we are working hard to think of ways to improve the environment around the site, including the quality of air. | <urn:uuid:317cb2ed-71a6-4db7-bd18-83eb2b2316ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://secondary.gurunanaksikhacademy.co.uk/page/?title=Clean+Air+Workshop+-+March+2020&pid=302 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.959215 | 310 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Commemorations: St. Cajetan, Confessor; St. Donatus, Bishop & Martyr
After Terce, no added Orations after the two commemorations.
Doxology: Per Annum
Hymn Tone: Ordinary
Lauds: Commemorations of St. Cajetan and of St. Donatus, no Suffrage
Prime: Athanasian Creed and Preces are omitted due to the commemoration of a Double feast
Vespers: Second Vespers of the Sunday, Commemorations of the following day and of St. Cajetan, no Suffrage
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One of the greatest human accomplishments has been the spectacular improvement in health since 1950. In developing countries, life expectancy has risen from 40 to 65 years, and the chances that a child will survive to the age of five has doubled. In addition to directly improving people's lives, this progress contributes to economic growth. While some of the improvements in health is the result of overall social and economic gains, about half of it is due to specific efforts to address major causes of disease and disability -- such as providing better and more accessible health services, introducing new medicines and other health technologies, and fostering healthier behaviors.
Millions Saved: Proven Success in Global Health is about part of that success story: remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities.
From the eradication of polio in Latin America, to the elimination of measles in southern Africa, to HIV prevention in Thailand, the 20 cases in this study provide clear evidence that large-scale success in health is possible. The book provides policy-relevant information about how major successes can be achieved in the future, and clear evidence that global health challenges, which are often perceived as daunting, are indeed solvable.
Additionally, on this website, you can: | <urn:uuid:a3d035fd-0780-4acd-97cb-dd49d3ef1d67> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cgdev.org/initiative/archived/millions-saved | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951743 | 266 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Robert Vogel Glass Plate Negatives Collection - PP112
Collection finding aids of Photograph Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library
ROBERT VOGEL GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES COLLECTION
Not dated and 1895
Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, May 2000
Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1985 (001229).
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 12 glass plate negatives which are undated or made in 1895, and only generally identified. Several views are in Baltimore, including the Druid Hill Park boat house and a crowd at Mt. Vernon Place. There is one image of an elderly African-American woman on the Patuxent River in St. Marys County, Md. Others depict maritime scenes which may be in Maryland.
Note: Collection not found 5/2000.
Arrangement unknown. Inventory from accession document.
Inventory from accession document
5 x 7 inch negatives
Maryland (?), street scene, n.d.
Baltimore (?), view of building, n.d.
Fishermen, Chesapeake Bay (?), n.d.
Maryland (?), view of house and road, n.d.
Druid Hill Park boat house, n.d.
Small boat yard, at shore, n.d.
Small boat yard, near marsh, n.d.
Baltimore crowd scene, at Mt. Vernon Place, n.d.
Maryland (?), view of house with man on horseback, n.d.
Baltimore (?), group portrait, n.d.
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch negative
Elderly African-American woman, Patuxent River, St. Marys Co., Sept. 1, 1895. © 2001 Maryland Historical Society - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Three bills in the U.S. Senate would give Americans more control over their health care spending by removing rules that limit the use of health savings accounts (HSAs).
HSAs allow consumers to put pre-tax money into a tax-free account to spend on qualified health care expenses. Participants must be enrolled in a high-deductible health plan and are limited to how much they can put into an HSA each year, but the accounts can grow over time, and interest and earnings are tax-free. Consumers can use an HSA to pay for co-insurance, co-pays, deductibles, and out-of-network expenses, but are prohibited from using the accounts to pay for insurance premiums or a monthly flat fee to a physician offering direct primary care (DPC).
Eligibility, Contributions, Expenses
The bills address eligibility, contribution, and expense limitations.
The Enhanced Primary Care Act, S. 2990, sponsored by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), would allow HSAs to be used for DPC if the consumer is enrolled in a high-deductible insurance plan. The bill would also allow Medicare to offer a DPC option and includes physicians who do not participate in Medicare.
The Pandemic Health Care Access Act, S. 3546, sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), would decouple HSAs from high-deductible plans for the duration of the pandemic emergency. It would expand HSAs to enrollees in Medicare, other government plans, or employer plans, and would allow HSAs to pay for DPC and telemedicine visits in those circumstances.
The Health Savings Act of 2019, S. 12, sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), would allow spouses older than age 55 to make catch-up contributions on the same HSA account, expand eligibility to those in Medicare Part A as well as other government health programs and health share ministries, and allow HSAs to pay for over-the-counter drugs, DPC, and health insurance premiums.
DPC is a health care arrangement that is growing in popularity, but Congress and the Internal Revenue Service have struggled to define it. At issue is whether DPC is a type of health insurance or health service (similar to a physician visit).
DPC members pay a flat fee, usually under $100 a month, for what is often 24/7 access to a physician, by phone or email, and on the weekends for example, and to receive discounts on prescription drugs, imaging, and lab services. Many practices do not accept insurance, which allows them to eliminate claim costs.
HSAs’ Current Limitations
The HSA bills are a step in the right direction, but some don’t go far enough, says John Goodman, president of The Goodman Institute and co-publisher of Health Care News.
“We need to divorce HSAs from high-deductible insurance plans, permanently and completely,” Goodman said.
Goodman gives the example of a consumer with a chronic condition such as diabetes.
“If a patient is diabetic, then the employer wants the patient to comply with drug treatment,” Goodman said. “The employer may even lower the costs of the drugs to zero. But under current law, that cannot be done, because of an across-the-board deductible requirement that compels the employee to bear all costs up to the deductible. These accounts are not designed for people with chronic illness.”
Only Congress can make HSAs more flexible, Goodman says.
“President Trump has made major headway with a rule that allows employers and insurers to pay for prescription drugs for 13 chronic conditions without jeopardizing the employee’s right to have an HSA, but we need to go further by removing the deductible requirement altogether,” Goodman said.
HSA Power Proven in Medicaid
Something like a flexible HSA has already been tested in the marketplace, says Goodman, with the Medicaid Cash and Counseling Program (MCCP). MCCP provides disabled people with a cash account they use to manage their own expenses. The program has been in existence for decades and is available in every state.
“They can hire and fire people and if they save on expenses, they can use the funds to meet other needs,” Goodman said. “It is a model for people managing their own health care dollars. The program’s satisfaction rates are in the high 90 percentiles and you don’t see numbers like that in any other program, anywhere in the world.”
The HSA concept scores highly in many polls, Goodman says.
“People like the idea of managing their own health care spending dollars,” Goodman said.
Unleashing HSA Potential
HSAs have been available for nearly two decades, but are not as widely used as they should be because of unnecessary legal restrictions, says Devon Herrick, PhD., a health care economist and policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, which co-publishes Health Care News.
“Since becoming available in 2004, it is estimated that HSAs have grown to more than 25 million accounts covering individuals and families,” Herrick said. “Some of these are underfunded but have the potential to accumulate balances. Enrollment in health plans that are HSA eligible far exceeds the number of HSA accounts.”
The bills could make HSAs more popular by expanding eligibility and the list of qualified expenses. Of the three proposals, Herrick says he believes Rubio’s bill is the most comprehensive.
“Sen. Rubio wants to expand HSA eligibility to many other types of [health care] arrangements, including sharing ministries and Medicare,” Herrick said. “[The bill] also expands the types of expenses that are HSA eligible to include OTC drugs and certain exercise equipment and DPC. [The bill] also treats HSAs like retirement accounts, sheltering them from bankruptcy. This is an especially great idea.”
As insurance premiums grow, high deductible plans are becoming more popular along with alternative health care payment arrangements, Herrick says.
“Many on the left clamor for a ‘Medicare for All’ program,” Herrick said. “Perhaps the better plan is the one used in Singapore, where individuals are required to fund an HSA-like arrangement, called a ‘Medisave’ account. Every American should have an HSA and everyone should set aside some funds for their day-to-day medical needs.”
Kenneth Artz ([email protected]) writes from Dallas, Texas.
The Enhanced Primary Care Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2999/all-info
The Pandemic Health Care Access Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3546/text
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Walmart Customer Service Manager Job Description, Key Duties and Responsibilities
This post provides exhaustive information on the Walmart customer service manager job description to help increase your knowledge of what they do.
It highlights the key tasks, duties, and responsibilities that commonly make up the Walmart customer service manager work description.
It also highlights the major requirements, including skills and experience that you will be expected to meet to be hired for the customer service manager position by Walmart or other companies.
Please, continue reading to learn more about the Walmart customer service manager career:
What Does a Walmart Customer Service Manager Do?
A Walmart customer service manager is responsible for acting as a liaison between Walmart and its customers and providing the customers with efficient, reliable, and flawless service.
He/she is also saddled with the responsibility of making sure that Walmart customers are satisfied; ensuring that orders and/or transactions are correctly and accurately processed, as well as answering questions or resolving complaints that customers may have.
In other words, a Walmart customer service manager refers to one whose duty is to ensure that the satisfaction and retention levels of customers are optimized, and also to oversee the process of motivating and training staff when required.
The Walmart customer service manager job description entails making sure that the needs of customers are satisfied by providing and promoting excellent customer service and ensuring that the Walmart service standards are met.
Some of the duties that may be executed by a Walmart customer service manager include enhancing customer service experience, overseeing and handling customer issues, and setting a clear goal, as well as deploying strategies that are geared towards achieving the goal.
One of the crucial tasks that are carried out by a Walmart customer service manager is to provide excellent customer service and ensure that other staff members do the same.
This involves creating policies and procedures to be adhered to while attending to customers, ensuring that other employees are trained appropriately, and providing technical support for customers when required.
He/she is also saddled with the responsibility of hiring, training, and managing staff by supervising other Walmart employees and ensuring that they work efficiently to meet the Company’s expectations.
He/she is also responsible for carrying out performance evaluations and handling disciplinary actions when required.
Walmart customer service managers also have to promote the process of marketing and selling of goods and services, which involves enhancing sales and assisting with the implementation of marketing strategies, as well as developing and maintaining strong relationships with customers.
They must also stay informed and up-to-date on the latest industry techniques, trends, and methods.
To efficiently and effectively carry out his/her task as a customer service manager with Walmart or other companies, the ideal candidate for this role must have certain skills and qualities.
These include excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and good teamwork skills; ability to pay particular attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills.
Others skills and qualities needed to succeed as a customer service manager at Walmart or other retailers include good customer service skills, good leadership skills, and good organizational skills.
In terms of educational background, individuals who want to work in the customer service manager role at Walmart or other Companies are expected to possess at least a High School diploma, or a Bachelor’s degree in some cases.
Walmart Customer Service Manager Salary: The average salary for a Walmart customer service manager, according to Payscale, is $58,195 annually.
Walmart Customer Service Manager Job Description Example/Sample/Template
The Walmart customer service manager job description entails the duties, tasks, and responsibilities:
- Handling and responding to customer service issues in a timely manner
- Developing customer satisfaction goals and coordinating a team to meet them steadily
- Developing and implementing processes and procedures to improve operational efficiency
- Strictly adhering to and managing the approved budget
- Liaising with managers and/or other department heads to discuss and determine possible improvements to customer service
- Managing cross-functional work areas aimed at resolving issues raised by customers
- Staying informed and up-to-date on the latest industry techniques, trends, and methods
- Maintaining up-to-date and accurate records, and documenting all customer service activities and discussions.
Walmart Customer Service Manager Job Description for Resume
If you are writing a new resume or CV and have worked previously in the Walmart customer service manager role or are presently working in that position, citing that work experience can significantly boost your resume.
You should therefore add the professional or work experience section to your resume/CV to show to the recruiter/employer that you have been successful performing the duties and responsibilities of a Walmart customer service manager.
This piece of information in your resume/CV can greatly influence the recruiter/employer to grant you an interview, especially if the new position requires someone with some experience working as a customer service manager with Walmart or other retailers.
You can go ahead to create a compelling professional experience section for your resume or CV by applying the above Walmart customer service manager job description example.
Walmart Customer Service Manager Requirements – Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities for Career Success
If you are seeking to work as a customer service manager with Walmart or other similar companies, here are major requirements you may be expected to meet to be hired:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, since a customer service manager is expected and required to ensure and enhance excellent customer service by interacting with customers as well as other staff and managers
- Good teamwork skills, as he/she must work hand-in-hand with other staff to meet company’s expectations and also optimize customer satisfaction
- Excellent problem-solving skills, since he/she must be able to handle and fix customer issues and complaints
- Good customer service skills are essential since the job role of a customer service manager revolves around helping to build good customer relations
- Good leadership skills, since a customer service manager may be required to hire other employees as well as motivate and train them
- A minimum High School diploma educational level, though some employers may require candidates to have a Bachelor’s degree.
This post is helpful to individuals who are interested in the customer service manager role at Walmart or with other related companies.
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Children And Cultivating Hobbies
( Originally Published 1916 )
WHEN a person has completed his share of the world's work, it is considered proper for him to " retire." And in accordance with this tradition, old Mr. Stewart withdrew from active participation in his business, when he knew that he had enough money and when his family thought that he " needed a rest." After a few weeks of " resting," the old gentleman became very uneasy and unhappy. He wanted to visit the office, but this was strictly forbidden, and as he could not think of anything else to do, he moped around, ex-tending his own misery to those about him. Cases of this kind are common enough, and in a large proportion of them, the man does return to his old affairs, there to remain to the end. But in other cases, there is too much opposition from those who look upon work as a hardship, and the old man withers away.
Many a business man, before reaching this stage, is merely tired. But why should the business man be more tired than other people? He does not work any harder than the professional man or the artisan. And the others are probably doing their share of worrying. It is very likely that the person who is always represented to us in the comic papers and in the theater as being in need of entertainment that calls for no exertion whatever on his part, is tired because he does not do enough. That is to say, he does not do enough different kinds of things. The tired business man suffers from all the evil consequences of early specialization. We may be sorry for him; but it is difficult to remedy his condition. What we can do is to prevent our children acquiring this same malady.
We may find the preventive in the lives of men and women who never grow old. The essential difference between one of these people, or a healthy child, and a " tired business man " lies in the wide range of problems and activities that can interest the former, as against the narrow interests and sympathies of the latter. It should be part of our aim in the training of children, to keep open for them all the lines of communication with ideas and feelings that may come to them.
But this is not a passive affair. Ideas and feelings do not come to us because we sit still. The child must learn to go forth and meet the new experience a little more than half way. We must cultivate the attitude which seeks satisfaction in doing, in overcoming difficulties in solving problems. We must discourage contentment with passive comfort, always receiving and never giving, with " letting well enough alone." This will mean retaining the versatility and the aggressiveness of youth as long as possible.
In practice we shall frequently be annoyed by the intensity with which the girl or boy will pursue a hobby. We realize only too well the folly of setting the heart too firmly upon this or that. But the child is, in these things, often wiser than his elders. For whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with all the energy and enthusiasm that can be mustered. Nor must we determine for the child what is worth doing. We have learned the folly of air-rifles or of reading all the writings of a favorite author, not by suffering any injury from these interests, but by finding things that were better worth while. And the children need not take our preference for etchings or first editions as indicating absolute values. At every stage the child should be encouraged to pursue his hobby as intensively as time and chance permit. Some hobbies will last, but a short time ; others may last into the riper years. But in any case these represent interests that carry with them motives for application and effort and sacrifice, and they carry with them stimulation and recreation that are nowhere else to be found.
The selection of a hobby, like the selection of an occupation or a spouse, must always be left to the person most concerned. You may give your children a certain bias, however, that will have a value proportioned to your judgment and insight. As it is legitimate to have a prejudice against your son's becoming a bartender, or your daughter's marrying a gambler, so you may tolerate certain types of hobbies and discourage others. But these influences should not rest on our own tastes ; there are more fundamental considerations. Thus, you and I are fond of going to the theater, but it is better for Louise to cultivate amateur theatricals than a fascination for a popular actress. It is better for Harold to play baseball until sunset than to become a baseball " fan." Again, it is for the child to determine whether he will make a study of medieval armor, or of orchids, whether she will conduct a propaganda for the protection of the native birds, or for clean streets.
Parents should realize the advantage of a hobby that calls for some kind of activity, over one that involves being entertained or amused. In the same way, a hobby that means doing something is more valuable than a collecting hobby, which means having some-thing, although this is better than no hobby at all.
On the physiological side, entertaining a wide range of interests means keeping a large part of the brain surface in action. Specialization of interests, in the narrowing sense, means allowing a large part of the brain to remain unused, and thus to be a possible source of ill health.
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COVID-19 aka “The Corona Virus” has everyone on edge. The world faces a tipping point in the battle to contain the outbreak. By now, it has spread to almost 40 countries, with over 83,000 people affected and over 2,800 deaths. Its spreading fast outside of China- now in Iran, Italy, South Korea, and Japan, and has caused concern of a worldwide epidemic.
How do we protect ourselves and our families from the rising spread of the virus? According to WHO, it is advised that people not travel to Asian countries experiencing the outbreak, not attend crowded indoor events, and to wash your hands frequently and keep them dry.
Coronavirus (COVID-19), like the influenza virus, spreads through direct contact or airborne transmission. It could also form bio-aerosols, which live up to 24 hours in the air, so it is beneficial to turn on your indoor air purifiers and reduce pollutants and any contamination.
Airdog air purifiers have proven to be a strong fighter against the coronavirus (COVID-19) and any airborne bio-aerosols. Third party lab tests have shown that Airdog X5 kills 99.9% of H3N2 viruses in a 30 cubic meter sealed testing room over the course of an hour. The H3N2 virus has a similar shape and bio-characteristics as the COVID-19. The high voltage inside the Airdog X5, much like bug zappers, kills and destroys viruses and bacteria.
In addition, Airdog X5 filters particles down to 14.6nm while the majority of HEPA-based air purifiers can only filter particles larger than 300 nanometers. According to researchers in a recent New England Journal of Medicine report, the coronavirus is about 60 to 140 nanometers in diameter. This is why Airdog air purifiers work far better to kill and filter out the tiny viruses and particles that are detrimental to your health.
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Bon Secours Patients Can Access Health Records on iPhone
Marriottsville, Md. (Jan. 7, 2019) – Bon Secours now supports Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for individuals to see their available health data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Health Records is available for iPhone users running iOS 11.3 or higher.
Previously, an individual’s health information was held in multiple locations, requiring patients to log in to each care provider’s website and piece together the information manually. Apple worked with the health care community to take a consumer-friendly approach and created Health Records based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a standard for transferring electronic medical records.
“We are excited to offer our patients another convenient way to access their medical information,” said Laishy Williams-Carlson, chief information officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health. “This innovative technology will empower patients to make better, informed decisions about their health and enhance engagement between patients and their care providers.”
Now, individuals will have medical information from participating institutions organized into one view, covering allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures and vitals, and will receive notifications when their data is updated. Health Records data is encrypted and protected with the user’s iPhone passcode, Touch ID or Face ID.
To set up Health Records, go to the Health Records section of the Apple Health app, search for Bon Secours Health System, and then log in with your MyChart account username and password. After you log in once, your health records will start to appear in the Apple Health app, and you will be notified when new records are available. If you do not have a free MyChart account, visit BonSecours.com/mychart to enroll.
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COTO DE CAZA – Santa Margarita Water District hopes to solve a series of problems with one $20.9 million water basin, under construction now just south of Coto de Caza.
As Coto was built out over the last 50 years, SMWD Engineer Don Bunts said regulations weren't yet in place to deal with runoff.
Rain water and irrigation runoff now collects debris as it flows through the developed community, dumping contamination into the San Juan Creek basin. And that increased runoff has caused erosion that's compromised SMWD pipelines, Bunts said.
Coto also wasn't given access to recycled water for irrigation. Instead, Bunts said the community uses an average of 1,250 acre-feet of imported drinking water annually to maintain its two massive golf courses and acres of landscaped common areas.
The new Gobernadora Multipurpose Basin will capture and naturally treat runoff coming from Coto, Bunts said, reclaiming enough water to supply up to half of the community's irrigation needs.
The project will also provide some infrastructure for Rancho Mission Viejo's coming development, with the company covering nearly half of the needed funds. Plus Orange County Parks will pay to build a pedestrian walkway above the basin that will connect public trails on either side.
The district still needs a permit from the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board. In the meantime, with a December deadline to use $7.5 million in state grants, crews have started work on portions of the project that don't impact wetlands or waterways.
Contact the writer: 949-454-7343 or [email protected]
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If you were one of the millions of football fans around the world who tuned in for the FIFA World Cup games, you most likely enjoyed the game’s sports mascot. Each FIFA World Cup since England’s World Cup victory in 1966, has had its own mascot which represents the competition and its home country.
World Cup Willie (England’s 1966 mascot) was one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition, but sports mascots now play a significant role in representing a particular event or a specific sports team.
This year it’s Zabivaka, the official mascot for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018. The wolf mascot, which was selected by an internet voting system back in 2016, played a prominent part in the tournament’s opening ceremony and was designed with a “charming, confident and social” personality.
A statement on the importance of the mascot, from the tournament’s governing body FIFA, reads: “The Official Mascot will play a very important role in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The wolf will not only promote the event and entertain crowds at the stadiums, but also become an ambassador for Russia and a worldwide celebrity.”
A custom sports mascot can play a significant part in symbolizing the values and ideas of a particular team or tournament, and with that comes a number of benefits.
Although BAM Mascots didn’t create the FIFA World Cup Mascot, we have created sports mascots for amateur teams, professional teams and large scale sporting events. BAM Mascots was delighted to create a custom mascot for the 2017 Canada Games. The Summer Games are Canada's largest multi-sport event for young athletes.
Thinking about creating a sports mascot for your team or organization? Here are three reasons a mascot can help promote your sports team:
1 - Increase audience and fan engagement
Team spirit and determination can be significantly improved by cheering fans, and there’s no better way to pump up your fans than by the use of a sports mascot. A high-quality team mascot can help rile up your fans and have them cheering throughout a game.
With a well thought-out personality, your team mascot will be able to keep crowds engaged and entertained and, in turn, this will provide a boost to your players.
2 - Additional revenue streams
Having a sports mascot will give your sports team the opportunity to sell merchandise related to your mascot, as well as send your mascot out on community events in a bid to drive sales and marketing for your sports team.
A custom and well-thought-out mascot will allow your team to take advantage of licensing and merchandise creation, and give your team a unique opportunity to drive additional revenue into your sports club.
3 - Promote your team’s message
Whether you are a professional outfit looking to reach the top, or a social sports team looking to teach both adults and children good values with a view of simply having fun, a custom mascot will be able to promote the overall message of your team.
A tough animal such as a lion, shark or warrior could serve to scare your opponents and promote your team as a serious challenger, while a silly monster or caricature could help you engage with the crowd through silly antics and a playful persona. Whatever mascot you decide to design, your mascot will say a lot about your team and what it stands for.
Other benefits of a sports mascot include:
- Increase awareness recognition and loyalty.
- Increase media exposure.
- Helps encourage a family-friendly environment.
- Boosts entertainment levels.
- Mascots are eye-catching and hard to ignore.
A sports mascot will provide a laid-back and fun aspect to your sports club, while also helping to promote additional revenue, improved fan engagement and more media exposure. What’s to lose?
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The TUC has given a heavily qualified welcome to the new and long delayed European Union health and safety blueprint. The communication released by the European Commission on 10 January prioritises action on cancer-causing substances, stress and musculoskeletal disorders, but steers clear of legislative action. In a detailed briefing on the strategy, the TUC says it makes no mention of unions or safety reps, which the union body believes should have been central to efforts to improve safety standards at work, but neither does the ‘modernisation’ document erode existing workers’ rights. “After over a year of waiting we now have the response from the European Commission to their review of all EU health and safety regulations the final response is both a relief and a disappointment,” said TUC head of safety Hugh Robertson. “It is a relief because there do not appear to be any significant attacks on workers’ rights, but it is a disappointment because there is little practical being proposed, especially on the big issues such as cancers, stress and musculoskeletal disorders.” On cancer-causing substances, the union safety expert added: “The proposals for five new binding limit values are too little, too late and in some cases, far less than we would have wanted. We had been promised 12 new binding limit values, instead we got five. We need more action on the biggest killers such as asbestos, diesel exhaust and silica and there is no sign of that from the Commission.” CIEH, the organisation representing local authority safety regulators, said the document raised questions about UK workplace health and safety in “a post-Brexit world”. CIEH head of policy Tony Lewis said: “We certainly wouldn’t want to see current health and safety regulations diminished as a result of the UK leaving the EU and urge the government to start thinking about new policies as soon as possible. Robust and effective health and safety policies are not a burden but enable workers to conduct their duties effectively and efficiently, which ultimately leads to healthy workplaces and therefore successful businesses.”
Ÿ TUC Stronger Unions blog and briefing. European Commission news release and Communication - Safer and Healthier Work for All - Modernisation of the EU Occupational Safety and Health Legislation Policy. CIEH news release.
Naming and shaming rogue companies is not enough and bad bosses must be prosecuted, the GMB has said. The union was commenting after Sir David Metcalf was named by the government as the first director of labour market enforcement. He will oversee the work of three regulators: The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA); the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS); and the HMRC National Minimum Wage (HMRC-NMW) enforcement team. The government says the appointment “comes weeks after powers came into force which mean rogue employers now face up to two years in prison for serious or repeat labour market offences.” However, these measures were introduced under the Immigration Act, and deal only with employment of workers who don’t have the legal right to work in the UK. The GMB said employers guilty of exploitative practices should face the courts. Tim Roache, the union’s general secretary, said: “Sir David’s appointment must herald a long overdue move to step up the fight against worker exploitation in the UK in 2017. Not a week goes by without new stories of workers in UK industries being exposed to shameful working conditions. GMB members from all backgrounds need to know they will be protected from unscrupulous employers and working practices that are quite simply unacceptable in this day and age.” He added: “Naming and shaming is not enough - we need see a crackdown on those employers who are breaking the law. We need rights at work fit for the Twenty First Century - and to see them properly enforced - which is why trade union workplace reps are so valuable.” The appointment received a warmer welcome from the Institute of Directors. The organisation’s head of employment and skills policy, Seamus Nevin, said: “The government is right to address public concerns over exploitation and black market employment. The IoD will never support the small number of rogue companies who employ illegal workers, or exploit people by paying less than the minimum wage. This is criminal behaviour which is shunned by all honest businesses.” He added: “Businesses are a part of society, they do not sit apart from it, so practical measure like this to reduce exploitation and improve integration will be welcomed by all responsible UK employers.”
Pilots have cautioned that 2017 could see even more close calls involving drones and aircraft – perhaps even a collision – as figures show reports have more than doubled in a year. With drones one of the most sought-after Christmas gifts once again in 2016, the pilots’ union BALPA expressed concern this could lead to a serious incident if users don’t follow the rules. It says in 2016 there were 69 reported incidents of drone near-misses with aircraft, up from 29 in 2015. In 2013 there were zero. BALPA says while we should welcome and embrace drone technology, users, particularly hobbyists, need to ensure they are educated in the rules of where and how to fly their drones and take full responsibility for doing so. Steve Landells, BALPA flight safety specialist, said: “Measures should be put in place that will allow the police to identify and locate anyone who flies a drone in an irresponsible way.” He added: “Owing to the huge numbers of drones being sold, more technological solutions will undoubtedly be required to address this problem and should be mandated. These should include, amongst other things, geofencing as standard and a system whereby the drone transmits enough data for the police to locate the operator when it is flown in a dangerous manner.” He said: “If the user has endangered an aircraft, we would like to see the culprit prosecuted; endangering an aircraft has a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”
Unions have welcomed the recall of type of Sikorsky helicopter for safety checks after an incident on 28 December. A S-92 gouged a slit in the helideck, damaged its wheels and spun on the deck of Total’s West Franklin platform when it was forced to land. The CHC-operated helicopter had experiencing technical difficulties mid-air. There were nine passengers and two crew on board when the incident happened, however there were no reported injuries. After the incident, a mandatory bulletin was issued which means checks must be carried out before the helicopters of this model can return to service. Mick Cash, general secretary of the offshore union RMT, said: “We welcome this move as it is a precautionary measure to assure workers and industry that a generic problem doesn't exist with this model of aircraft.” Brian Strutton, general secretary of the pilots’ union BALPA said: “We believe the decision to ground the S-92 model for checks is sensible and we support it. Clearly the most important thing is ensuring passengers and crew are safe. But, we do want to see these checks carried out as quickly and efficiently as possible so that North Sea and Search and Rescue operations can return to normal.” A bulletin from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) released this week said damage to the tail rotor caused the problem. It said a bearing was in a “severely distressed condition”, and initial findings indicated the failure had been “rapid.” Further disassembly found “signs of severe overheating with extreme wear.” The AAIB bulletin said there was a “consequential total loss of control of the tail rotor.”
‘Solid’ strike action this week was in defence of safety standards on London Underground, unions have said. They warn cuts have left Tube safety procedures ‘decimated’, with the system now ‘an under-staffed death trap.’ TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: “Put quite simply these levels of cuts are not compatible with a safely run, properly staffed Tube and my members are now highly anxious about the impact this is having and will continue to have on their ability to keep you safe.” He added: “Too many stations are being been left open without staff, CCTV monitoring which protects against congestion has all but vanished, evacuation procedures are now insecure and the abolition of ticket offices have exposed our members to a sharp spike in levels of personal and physical abuse at work from increasingly frustrated passengers. No wonder they are fearful at work - there is much for them to be worried about.” RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “This action has been forced on us by savage cuts to jobs that have reduced London Underground to an under-staffed death trap at a time of heightened security and safety alert. RMT members will not stand idly by while they see day in and day out the safety regime on the Tube being slashed to ribbons.” He said the London mayor and his officials “need to come up with serious and urgent plans designed to address the core issues at the heart of this dispute and a schedule for staffing back up on the stations to a level our reps believe is safe and sustainable.”
A transport safety regulator is being used by Southern Rail to downplay the safety implications of driver-only operated (DOO) trains, unions have warned. An Office of Rail and Road (ORR) report released last week claimed that giving drivers the task of closing train doors would be safe with suitable equipment, training and “competent staff.” However, Mick Cash, general secretary of the rail union RMT, said the report, issued ahead of strike action on the Southern Rail network, “is a complete whitewash that proves conclusively that the Office of Road and Rail is no longer fit for purpose and is nothing more than an arm of government, wholly committed to propping up the train companies and the Department for Transport.” He added: “The authors of this report have taken no evidence from the trade unions, have swallowed whole the distorted pictures painted by Southern Rail and have limited their work to the issue of door control when there is a whole raft of safety issues that are allied to the question of driver-only operation. That is scandalous.” Mick Whelan, general secretary of the train drivers’ union ASLEF, said: “Despite what Southern Railways is disingenuously claiming, the report from the Office of Rail and Road does not give driver-only operation a clean bill of health. It doesn’t say it is safe, merely that it can be safe.” He added: “The company seems to expect drivers to operate trains which it knows are unsafe – because it concedes the work the ORR wants done has not yet been completed – which proves, yet again, that this is all about putting profit before passenger safety. The truth is that passengers, every time they are asked, want a second safety-critical person on their trains. On board to help the elderly, the young, and the disabled. The company, which doesn’t seem to care what passengers to think, want to take us one step closer to losing that second role.”
Workplace campaigners have said a speech by Theresa May outlining her action plan for mental health fails to address root causes and the government-imposed funding crisis blighting mental health services. In a speech at the Charity Commission this week, the prime minster announced a ‘comprehensive’ package of measures on mental health support in schools, workplaces and communities. She said: “I want us to employ the power of government as a force for good to transform the way we deal with mental health problems right across society.” The plan includes “a new partnership with employers to improve mental health support in the workplace.” There will also be a review headed by Lord Dennis Stevenson and Mind chief executive Paul Farmer “on how best to ensure employees with mental health problems are enabled to thrive in the workplace and perform at their best.” However, the union GMB said the prime minister was “in a dangerous state of denial” about the economic drivers of mental ill-health and the impact of government cuts on mental health services. National secretary Rehana Azam said: “The bottom line is more than 12 per cent of mental health staff have left and almost 5,000 mental health beds have been cut since 2010.” She added: “The prime minister must also address some of the economic causes of increased mental ill-health including the increasingly stressful and insecure nature of work which adds to the pressure on individuals and their families. Happy sound bites and small measures are all well and good - but what we desperately need is a cash injection for our chronically underfunded mental health services.” Hilda Palmer of the national Hazards Campaign, said the Theresa May’s speech was “woefully inadequate”, adding spiralling workloads, increasing job insecurity and long hours were among the factors driving the increase in mental health problems. She said: “We do not need another report, what we need is urgent action. Action which forces employers to ensure that their employees’ mental health is not made worse by their workplaces.”
Burnout and suicides have reached ‘crisis’ proportions in healthcare workers, an editorial in the Lancet has warned. The 7 January commentary notes: “The rate of depressive disorders among healthcare workers compared with the general population is alarming and is an issue that spans the medical profession.” Adding “this crisis is not confined to the UK,” the editorial recommends a US initiative to address the problem should be followed globally. A suicide rate of 400 physicians per year in the USA - more than double that of the general population –prompted the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) “to collaborate with more than 20 professional and educational organisations, including clinician and consumer groups, healthcare organisations, and policy-making bodies, to promote clinician wellbeing and resilience.” It concludes: “Collaboration will be essential to further understand and tackle the deep-rooted underlying issues associated with mental ill health in the medical profession, not just in the USA but globally. Now is not the time to become complacent or to let the health of medical workers slip down the political agenda, but to start 2017 by following a lead taken by the National Academy of Medicine: to ensure that the health and resilience of our medical workforce are the highest priorities in every country.”
Incentive-related pay schemes can stress rather than motivate employees, according to new research. The study by academics from the universities of East Anglia and Sheffield explored the relationship between three types of ‘contingent pay’ – performance-related, profit-related, and employee share-ownership – and positive employee attitudes such as job satisfaction, employee commitment and trust in management. Researchers found that only performance-related pay had a positive impact on all three employee attitudes. However the results, published in Human Resource Management Journal, confirmed that performance-related pay is also associated with more intense working. The authors said this could mean employees are encouraged to work too hard and too much, leading to work-related stress or poor well-being, and offsetting some of its positive impact on staff. The study involved 1,293 managers and 13,657 employees at 1,293 workplaces in the UK. Lead researcher Dr Chidiebere Ogbonnaya said: “Our study is the first to show empirical support for claims that the productivity gains of these pay schemes might be associated with employees’ experience of more intense working. Performance-related pay in particular is associated with the feeling that work might be too demanding or that there is insufficient time to get work done.” He added: “Even though employees may value these earnings as a ‘good thing’, the ultimate beneficiary of their extra effort is the organisation. As a consequence, performance-related pay may be considered exploitative, or a management strategy that increases both earnings and work intensification.”
A plant hire boss has been jailed for two years after a worker was killed when a mobile platform collapsed. Safety net rigger Gary Currie and his colleague Alexander Nisbet were in the basket of the platform removing netting from the facade of an office block in Glasgow when the third main boom section buckled causing the platform’s basket to fall 28 metres. Nisbet was seriously injured and Currie suffered fatal injuries. After a 16-day trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court, Craig Services manager Donald Craig, 57, was convicted of a criminal breach of health and safety legislation and sentenced to the maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment. Hamilton based Craig Services & Access Limited was also found guilty of three charges relating to the collapse of a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) and failures in relation to it maintenance and use and was fined a total of £61,000. Another company, J M Access Solutions Ltd, was fined £30,000 for its failure to carry out a systematic and thorough examination of the platform and its safety-critical parts. This came after an earlier incident, in May 2011, involving the platform after which Craig Services & Access Limited had instructed to repair a damaged section of the main boom. The repair had been incorrectly carried out and J M Access Solutions Ltd subsequently failed in their duty to carry out an adequate, thorough examination of the platform. Gary Aitken, head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s health and safety division, said: “This incident, which resulted in the death of Gary Currie and caused serious injury to Alexander Nisbet, could have been avoided had Donald Craig and Craig Services & Access Limited heeded advice and taken measures to maintain the platform in a safe condition.” He added: “At the centre of this all was the decision to instruct this repair. It was a decision that left Gary Currie and Alexander Nisbet exposed to an unacceptable risk and was essentially an accident waiting to happen.”
National chain store Wilko has been fined £2.2m after a worker was crushed and left paralysed. Corisande Collins, who was 20 at the time of the incident, was pinned beneath a metal cage full of paint while she was working at a store in Leicester in 2013. Ms Collins, who was working part-time while studying for a degree, now uses a wheelchair. Leicester Crown Court heard the company admitted failing to ensure the health and safety of its employees. Ms Collins, now 23, had just completed the first year of a degree at Northampton University and had taken work at the Beaumont Shopping Centre branch. She was pulling a roll cage overloaded with 230kg (507lb) of paint out of a lift when it toppled on her, the court heard. The prosecution described it as a “high culpability case” as there was no risk assessment for the lift or the use of the roll cages, as well as “inadequate training and supervision.” Health and safety inspectors from Leicester City Council said they were “shocked” by practices at the store, adding “the systems were unsafe.” Govind Mandora, public safety team manager at Leicester City Council, which brought the prosecution, said: “The injuries suffered by Corisande have been devastating and life-changing and the fine that has been placed on Wilko today reflects that.”
Network Rail has been fined £800,000 in a prosecution brought by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), for a serious criminal safety breach which left a worker with life-threatening injuries. Track worker Alan Evans sustained multiple serious injuries when he was struck on the right shoulder by a train in June 2014, while performing rail maintenance work near Redhill in Surrey. He required 20 operations as a result of these injuries. An extensive ORR investigation concluded the work on the main line between Brighton and London was inadequately planned and managed, placing track maintenance workers in unnecessary danger. Guildford Crown Court heard that works were scheduled whilst fast, frequent trains continued to run, in an area with a narrow and steep embankment where the ability of track workers to retreat to a ‘position of safety’ when trains approached was materially compromised. The court also heard that the works could have been carried out at night, when other scheduled works would have ensured that no trains were running. ORR principal inspector Tom Wake commented: “In 2014, Network Rail's planning of track maintenance work near Redhill fell below legal standards, placing workers in unnecessary danger and causing an employee to suffer life changing injuries.” He added: “After the incident, Network Rail undertook a review of worker safety on the London to Brighton line, reducing track maintenance with trains running, introducing better warning systems and providing additional training for staff.”
An inspection programme by health and safety regulators across the European Union is to determine how legally required safety information on hazardous chemicals is communicated in company supply chains and followed in workplaces. The key element of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) project will be to investigate the quality of the safety data sheets that contain guidelines on the safe use of hazardous substances. Inspectors will check if the extended safety data sheets used in the workplace are consistent with chemical safety reports (CSRs) prepared by the chemical firms manufacturing the substances. They will also go through the exposure scenarios attached to the safety data sheets. An exposure scenario describes the amount and character of exposures when a substance is manufactured or used. It also advises how human and environmental exposures can be controlled. ECHA says one objective of this enforcement project is to ensure that workers handling hazardous chemicals, especially substances of very high concern, receive sufficient and correct safety information. The project will also map how effectively extended safety data sheets are passed on and communicated all the way through the supply chain, from manufacturers of chemicals to end users. ECHA say the project will be the first joint EU enforcement project that aims to improve communication, through safety data sheets, throughout the supply chain.
A new rule issued by the US safety regulator OSHA dramatically lowers workplace exposure limit for beryllium. OSHA says beryllium is a ‘strategically important’ material that can cause the devastating lung condition chronic beryllium disease (CBD), or beryllosis. The new beryllium standards for general industry, construction and shipyards – introduced as one of the final acts of the Obama administration - will require employers to take additional, practical measures to protect an estimated 62,000 workers from these serious risks. Beryllium is a strong, lightweight metal used in the aerospace, electronics, energy, telecommunication, medical and defence industries. However, it is highly toxic when beryllium-containing materials are processed in a way that releases airborne beryllium dust, fume, or mist into the workplace air that can be then inhaled by workers. OSHA says that studies have established that low-level exposures to beryllium can cause serious lung disease. “Outdated exposure limits do not adequately protect workers from beryllium exposure,” said outgoing OSHA head David Michaels. “OSHA’s new standard is based on a strong foundation of science and consensus on the need for action, including peer-reviewed scientific evidence, a model standard developed by industry and labour, current consensus standards and extensive public outreach. The new limits will reduce exposures and protect the lives and lungs of thousands of beryllium-exposed workers.” The final rule will reduce the eight-hour permissible exposure limit from the previous level of 2.0 micrograms per cubic metre to 0.2 micrograms per cubic metre. OSHA estimates that – once in full effect – the rule will save the lives of 94 workers each year from beryllium-related diseases and prevent 46 new cases of beryllium-related disease. The UK limit remains at a level 10 times higher than the new US limit.
Some workers who make or work with the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) have levels in their bodies 1,000 times higher than the general public, a study by a US government agency has found. The research led by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found, on average, these workers had 70 times more of the chemical in their bodies than the general public, levels well above what has been shown to affect reproduction. BPA is also linked an increased risk of breast cancer and other health effects. A total of 77 workers at six US companies that make BPA, BPA-resins or BPA-filled wax provided urine samples after two consecutive days at work. The average total BPA in their urine was 70 times higher than a study of US adults, according to findings published in the Annals of Work Exposures and Health. One worker’s levels spiked up to 18,900 micrograms per gram of BPA at the end of the shift on the second day of work. The median level of BPA in the general public is a little less than 2 micrograms per gram. NIOSH's Cynthia Hines, lead author of the study, said there are no workplace exposure limits for BPA in the US. “If we clearly had an exposure level - for example something like lead - we'd go the extra measure to make them aware of their risk with those levels,” Hines said. “With BPA, we don’t have standards.” She said the researchers did send general advice to the companies and workers on how to reduce exposure. Industry has argued that the body passes all accumulated BPA within a day, and so current exposures cause no harm. The federal study, which consistently showed higher levels after the second day of work, undercuts that argument.
Ÿ NIOSH blog. Environmental Health News. Cynthia J Hines and others. Urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations among workers in industries that manufacture and use BPA in the USA, Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 1 January 2017.
Ÿ Course dates now appearing at www.tuceducation.org.uk/findacourse/
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