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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Upcoming Events and Classes
Combating Anxiety and Stress with Food
Monday, September 14thth, 12-12:30 at Northeast Community Center
Come learn about foods, supplements and easy stress reduction techniques in this free talk.
Dairy Free Milk Alternative Substitutes
Sunday, October 11th, 3-4:30 at the Mississippi Herb Shoppe
Many people struggle with a sensitivity to dairy. It can be very congesting and is considered a main suspect in maladies, such as acne, weight gain and allergies. Join Valerie Roth Schafer and Teri Sprouse, Holisitic Nutritionists, for this Dairy-Free Milk Substitutes Primer where you will learn how to create your very own dairy free milk alternatives. We will make three different kinds substitutes – one using grains, one with nuts and one with seeds. Tastes will be shared and suggestions for what to do with the leftover nut pulp will be explored. Join us in this dynamic class so you can decide on your milk of choice! Sign up here.
Eating for Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails.
Monday, October 12th, 12-12:30 at Northeast Community Center
The condition of our hair, skin and nails can often be a sign of our overall health. Join us in our discussion about how to support the growth of these three important parts of our bodies.
Food Survival Tips for the Holiday Season
Monday, November 9th, 12–12:30 at Northeast Community Center.
This month’s free topic will focus on tips to survive all the holiday festivities, including parties and the traditional family meal.
Let’s Make Fire Cider
Sunday, November 8th, 3-4:30 at the Mississippi Herb Shoppe
This age old remedy is becoming all the rage due to its stellar health benefits! Join Fire Brew maker, Valerie Roth Schafer, and Holistic Nutritionist Teri Sprouse as we chop, dice and shred a cornucopia of nutritious ingredients. You will walk away with a powerhouse tonic that will keep your immunity systems firing on all cylinders as the winter season approaches! Bring an apron, knife mason jar and cutting board to this one!. Cost is $40 and includes all supplies . Please bring a a knife, cutting board, apron and mason jar. Sign up here.
Gift Making Classes for Kids and Adults
Saturday, December 5th, Kids class from 1-2:15 and Adult class 2:30-4
Monday, December 14th at 12 in the lobby of the Northeast Community Center
Intuitive Eating is a philosophy that helps people explore their thoughts and feelings around food so they can enjoy a healthy relationship with food. Intuitive Eating helps you tune into your body’s cues about hunger and satiety so you can begin to trust your body’s inner wisdom about what it needs to thrive. This is a free talk and is open to members and non-members. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | AthleticsAttention parents and middle school student athletes who are interested in participating Middle School Athletics.
- Students must have a sports physiclal turned in on or before the start of the season.
- Parents must complete the application process on FamiliyID at Family ID Home Page . When registering your child you must check the 6th, 7th or 8th grade level box. This process must be completed before student can start participating in the sport.
- All student fees including outstanding fees (ie... transportation, book fines, class fees, ID's, etc) must be paid.
- If student fees are waived for any reason, you will still be responsible for paying a $25.00 fundraising fee which is district policy.
- If any of the above items are not completed, the student athlete will not be able to participate in the current athletic season.
- Practice is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 4:30 - 6:15 p.m., and will end no later than 6:30.
Dr. Courtney Landry |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Last month, I started this poll, which asked “Which IoC Container will you use for your next project?” in “C# Developers / Architects” LinkedIn group (I thought the group has 115K+ members so would get more responses) and got 19 responses and 3 comments only :(
I put it all into this chart:
I got two comments in favor of Ninject so treated as separate option.
Here are useful resources if you want to do comparison study of different IoC containers:
To avoid spamming, you need to login with any social media service (Facebook, Twitter or Google+). Don’t forget to vote and share your thoughts in the next poll.
Enjoy IT life !!
Note: If you missed the poll, don’t worry, you can share your thoughts in the comment box. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Are you ready to work with the Universe rather than feel that it’s against you?
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Warmest welcome, thank you for finding your way here. Whether you stumbled across this page or through a purposeful search. I believe you were meant to arrive here.
My sole purpose is to offer you Spiritual support and I do that in a few different ways.
Spiritual communication – I channel messages directly from Spirit for you.
Healer – I blend reiki with spiritual healing and guidance to offer you some relief, relaxation and re-direction.
Creator – I love to co-create with spirit, together we make some amazing products to help you bring love to your home
Have a browse there are lots to see if you have any questions contact me
Do you know who I am and what I do?
just looking for something? then these would be the best places to look
Helen has the most wonderful way of giving guidance. I am quite spiritual myself and work with my own spirit guides but it is always lovely to have a friend to help out often and share notes with. I won a mini session with her last week and her reading was very in depth and very thorough even though it was a mini session. I also love reading her weekly guidance that she puts up on her Social Media posts every Monday and I have to say they are spot on. I highly recommend Helen and her service to anyone looking for a person coming from a space of positive vibrations.
If you are looking for a guide to help you find the steps to move forward in your life or business I highly recommend Helen Owen. Her direct and honest approach is refreshing as she has a natural ability to talk directly to your soul and you know on the first instance what she is saying is true. You can’t ask for more than that. From my session with Helen I know which way I need to direct my focus and this has been the breakthrough I’ve been looking for. I recommend Helen without hesitation. Just book in and don’t look back.
Helen is fantastic. I would definitely recommend seeing her for spiritual guidance and healing. I felt so enlightened and positive after my appointment, it was really wonderful. Thank you Helen.
I’m subscribed to Helen’s monthly guidance and absolutely love receiving my message each month. I really look forward to seeing the email come into my inbox!!! It’s nice to have a little “helping hand” to keep you on the right track and remind you everything is going ok. Helen is always a pleasure to deal with – I look forward to trying out more of her services in the future!
In this blog I want to share with you tools to shift negative thinking. For when you get on the train of negative thinking and you can’t get off. When one crappy thought after another keeps coming and before you know it nothing is going your way. Well...
In this blog today I am asking why wait for a crisis in your life before you seek help? In my line of work, I often see people at the point of crisis. They have tried all avenues, life has given them a great big knock and they are struggling to get back...
Here are my holiday hindsights, three things I came to realise as a result of unplugging and enjoying a change of scenery. We took off for a few days over Easter and I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts that occurred as a result of our break... |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | 1. The Guild of Professional Estate Agents
An extremely powerful ally in our camp. There are over 700 of us across the country, exclusively chosen by the Guild which provides us with an incomparable network of "like minded" independent Estate Agents ready to help you from all corners of England & Wales. (Ian is proud to be a member of their National Advisory Council helping to shape the future of the industry).
2. Weekly Updates
Buying and selling property is cited as the third most stressful experience. We aim to make the journey as painless as possible. Provision of up to date info is an important part of this, enabling buyers and sellers to make informed decisions.
Through our "E" mailing list, we provide regular updates covering market comment & trends with the odd anecdote thrown in to keep you interested. Not many agents do this.
3. Local information
Strangers to the area are often worried about where they choose to live just as much as what sort of property is right for them. We provide information sheets and web links to videoettes and pdf's along with other links to help potential buyers gain a better understanding of this wonderful location and the advantages of living here.
4. Expert Agent
Revolutionary technology, the first to enable all our personell to work from anywhere they have access to a computer. This has proved invaluable as it has meant we have been able to keep in touch with all our clients and potential buyers with totally up-to-date information. So, whilst we can sometimes get "snowed under", we can never get "snowed in"!! Ian, who often works from home, has been known to be speaking to clients on occasions at 10.30pm at night!
5. Strong Support Services
Most Estate Agents will have their properties featured on the highest profile portals like Rightmove. Most Guild members have a wider spread than most. We are also supported by London & Country, the UK's largest Mortgage Broker who have been exemplary with their service. We also deal with Daren Austin who provides a first class mortgage service for those that like to "keep it local". We have a strong bank of local tradesmen etc many of whom have been engaged by members of staff to help them solve their "home issues".
6. Embracing Social Media
Like it or loathe it, it's with us to stay and we would be remiss to ignore it, so we have made sure we utilise the best tools available to enable us to "spread the word" about fresh properties coming to market. If you're on Facebook, make sure you "Like" your property on Rightmove and get your friends to do the same and watch it go viral! Our videoettes are on Youtube too. (We draw the line at Twitter though!!) |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Your safety is our priority, therefore we aim to help everyone survive this battle together with our support. We want to assure you that MobiKwik is making every effort in terms of convenience, efficiency, and security to be there for you in this time of crisis. We being a digital payments app can help you in various ways.
Available 24×7: Reach out to us anytime! Our team is always there to assist you & resolve your concerns. MobiKwik support team is actively working 24hrs to serve you at all and, at any point in time. Be it a payment, transfer, credit or any other issue we will promptly address all your queries and fix them for you in the shortest span.
Pay for essentials online: The need of the hour demands staying home in order to stay safe. But we understand your day to day basic requirements should be met in the safest possible ways. Thus, buy your grocery, medicines, food and other essentials online and make contactless payments via MobiKwik safely. With a broad merchant base with about 1 Lakh+ brand, we help you serve better for everything and anything in one app, from the comfort of your home.
Contactless transactions: Everyone needs to take precautionary measures since Covid-19 has dawned its havoc on the world. But, in case you need to step out and make an urgent payment, we become your shield to reduce the risk of virus transmission by quick cashless & contactless transactions. So just scan the QR code and get going, your safety is just a scan away!
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | New Leaders Are Rewriting Old Rules
We would like to share with you the three things that would be useful to know as a CEO before you step into that role.
A long time ago when the earth was flat people believed that to be a successful CEO one needed to be confident and charismatic, never express and definitely have all the answers. The new leader that has emerged is one that is adaptable to change, open to ideas and sharing and is dedicated to self-awareness and growth. This leader possesses a high level of curiosity known as CQ and the below are a list of character traits that these leaders have.
1. Open to Learning and Change
As the adage goes, “Just when I had all of the answers, someone changed all of the questions.” This definitely applies in today’s world of business leaders. If you bear in mind that becoming a successful CEO or a leader at any level is not the end of the journey, but the beginning of a challenge, that will require continuous adaption and change, you will definitely succeed. Zuckerberg is a great example of a leader who highlights each year what he will be learning that year, he is not afraid to say he has much to learn and he puts himself out there role-modelling the importance of personal growth. This inspires his followers to be the same and in doing so he ensures he leaves a legacy of leaders with similar traits.
2. Success is a Team Sport
“Show me a CEO who appears to walk on water, and I’ll show you a team of people underneath the surface carrying him or her on their shoulders.” Take a look at Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, he is the quintessential example of a generous leader who views one person’s success as being connected to the success of others. I would urge you to read his 2014 book, “The Alliance,” which systematically explains how leaders can attract and retain the best employees through forming mutually beneficial alliances where everyone wins. It is important to note that the new trait he role models for others is that the best path to success, on both a personal and organisational level, is a culture where everyone’s success is linked to the success of each other and the entire team.
3. Reputation Matters
With the global village and the advent of the Internet everyone is connected and there are no secrets. As a result how you treat others, both good and bad, create a personal brand that follows you wherever you go. Interviewers and potential employers look at your global and digital footprint before they even meet you. If we consider successful businesses, such as AirBNB and TaskRabbit, these businesses have built business models that showcase how others view you as the key to driving success. The currency that makes systems like Airbnb and TaskRabbit work is trust, influence and reputation capital.
No one will eventually hire a CEO or leader that is a bully or trashes competitors. People want choice and an opportunity to exercise their options, so employees and contractors are no different and even in tough economic areas where limited job opportunities may exist, there is the negative consequence of having an employee who is deeply de-motivated based on a poor work environment.
How you treat people matters. Today’s leaders need to build reputations based on trust and respect, to both inspire teams and to attract and retain top talent.
Today’s leaders are breaking the mould of the old CEO, these new age leaders are confident & charismatic people who are not afraid to express weaknesses and don’t always have to have all the answers. This style offers a leadership model that best fits the times in which we live. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | A combination of high power, high fidelity and sensitivity in a compact enclosure
The SH95-HO, a high output version of the popular and compact SH-95, is perfect for down fill, front fill or delay applications. Add subs and you have amazing high output, compact system with a highly requested 95° x 55° coverage pattern. The SH95 also features a pole cup that fits most tripods.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | First off, we’re really excited with the amount of response this site has been receiving so early on. Thanks for your participation.
Second, we’ve pretty much all agreed now on the set of beliefs we’re going to put up… which is something for a group of Christians of a variety of different stripes… When we put those up, then we will have a topic or “resolution” (for those of you who do formal debate like I do) to debate.
I’ll start off by answering Benjamin’s question in a few minutes: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
And for the clarified question about God and Evil, I’ll either have someone answer it tomorrow or do it myself… I’m tempted to go ahead and do it now… but I might regret not talking to Alex and Erica first… as Alex pointed out: Patience is a Virtue. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The Utah legislature's proposed tax reform will gut education and hurt seniors, writes a Park Record reader, who encourages Parkites to speak out against the bill.
Letters: Using gondolas in Park City to reduce traffic is example of fixing a problem with a problem
A Park Record reader suggests Park City should be an unwelcome space for conservatives.
Our view: Park City’s visioning process is a worthy exercise, but participation from all cross sections of the community is needed.
A reader from Oakley says Parkites need to understand that the worst of the potential environmental problems brought on by climate change will not be happening in Park City.
“That’s some first class turd polishing.”
Guest editorial: Park City mayor says participation, not personal attacks, is key to building community
Park City Mayor Andy Beerman writes in a guest editorial that the community faces a number of challenges and needs the help of residents to solve them.
My son has always been big — I’ve said this before — but just to revisit the facts — I gained a lot of weight when I was pregnant, and knew I would have a...
“What he had set out to prevent, of course, was indefinite suspension from school and time was running out.”
Our view: In a community with a rich sports scene that includes a history of molding Olympic athletes and hosting world-class winter sports events, it has been fun to watch the enthusiasm for a local prep team build.
Parkites can jump to conclusions a little faster than is healthy.
A reader says it’s time for a wildlife overpass on S.R. 224. She says the overpass would pay for itself with just one accident avoided.
A reader from Jeremy Ranch writes in a guest editorial that The Park Record’s coverage of the school district’s vandalism allegation ignored the real story in favor of the district’s narrative.
A pair of readers took issue with a recent opinion piece written by a member of the Park City Council.
“Good manners, informed by any kind of faith-based belief, and love of a democratic, well-reasoned position are the stuff of both a functioning democracy and a good neighborhood.”
A Park City High School student who is gay and a conservative says in a guest editorial that he has been subjected to intolerance because of his political views.
Our view: South Summit School District officials don’t have long to lick their wounds after Tuesday’s bond defeat.
“Now might be a good time to consider merging Summit County’s three school districts into one.”
“Did I mention that I arrived at my favorite hotel in Culiacan, Sinaloa with a red fraternity blazer, a windup motion picture camera, and a boatload of political angst?”
It is a day both Parkites and the nonprofits they support have had circled on their calendars for months. Eight years after the Park City Community Foundation created Live PC Give PC to benefit the...
Nonstop productivity is as much of an obstacle to acceptance as any other. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | First air-balloons races were held in Bashkortostan
UFA, 14 August 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Arthur Basyrov/.
Near Ufa at Pervushino airport the first air-balloons races were held in Bashkortostan. The competition was held among the three teams. Two of them were presented by the businessmen of the republican capital, and the third – by the journalists. According to the event director of the Sobaka magazine Larissa Pidchenko, it is planned making these races annual.
"We believe that at such not easy times people lack beauty and they want to see something really light and airy. It's kind of a test drive. Next year we want to make a holiday for all citizens of the republic. As for the competition part, the winner in these races is selected for speed, correct manoeuvring in the air and for altitude at which the team will be able to raise their air- balloon. Participants are led by experienced pilots who are responsible for the safety of flight", Larissa Pidchenko shared with Bashinform News Agency.
While the teams on air-balloons were hovering in the sky, the guests of the event were able to participate in sports, to learn different ways to brew coffee, to make bouquets and test premium cars. At the end of the race, all participants received prizes. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | What does VWM mean in Community?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand VWM in the field in general and in the Community terminology in particular.
Volunteer Water Monitoring
Find a translation for VWM in other languages:
Select another language:
Discuss this VWM abbreviation with the community:
Use the citation below to add this abbreviation to your bibliography:
VWM also stands for:
- Vaportight Wall Mount
- Vermont Web Marketing
- Vertical Web Marketing, Inc.
- Vineyard and Winery Management
- Virginia War Museum
... and 7 more » |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
We'll just be a couple blocks from the convention center at Pat O'Brians.
Appetizers on us!
Plus free drink ticket for the first 100 people to stop by!
(We'll also be passing drink tickets out at the conference Monday and Tuesday. Stop us if you see one of our smiling faces and logoed t-shirts.) |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | DescriptionThe central character in this game is Spot, the little red mascot from the 7-Up TV commercials. Spot has somehow become trapped in a movie projector. As he jumps from film to film, he encounters many classic film genres that make up all the different levels of the game. The main levels are a pirate movie, an adventure movie and a horror movie, but there are also many other bonus films to unlock.
The game is played from an isometric overview perspective. Spot has to collect five Hollywood stars per level to unlock hidden areas and ultimately complete the game 100%.
- "スポット ゴーズトゥーハリウッド" -- Japanese spelling
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|Sega-16.com||Nov 16, 2009||8 out of 10||80|
|Power Unlimited||Jan, 1996||7.4 out of 10||74|
|Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)||Feb, 1996||7.1 out of 10||71|
|Super Power (Sweden)||Feb, 1996||71 out of 100||71|
|GamePro (US)||Mar, 1996||3.5 out of 5||70|
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Towards a Bully-Free Culture
“Bullying exists when an environment supports it. A culture is a collective agreement about what behaviors are accepted, expected, or considered normal…School, community, and family cultures overlap.” (p. 102)
This chapter helps parents understand how bullying prevention works in schools, where their children spend their days. It identifies how different bullying programs operate within “the three tiers of prevention” and explores anti-bullying policies. Finally, it shows how building a culture of respect is the solution.
“There are three tiers to prevention that, when understood by families and society, can save a lot of ‘tears’ down the road.” (p. 102) The primary prevention examples given in this book are OBPP, Harlem Children’s Zone’s Baby College, Tribes, Safe & Caring Schools, Squash Circles, Roots of Empathy, Reading Buddies, school clubs and enrichment, and community programs like Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Secondary prevention examples are Bully Guards, Safe School Ambassadors, Trauma-Sensitive Schools, and the tertiary example is Restorative Justice. (See more resources on our School Programs page.)
Q: Do you now understand the difference between the three tiers? Have you seen any of these programs in action? Have you seen others? What about programs like Squash Circles that were made up by teachers? Give examples of the three tiers of prevention in your community or school culture. Perhaps attention to one or more tiers is missing. This identifies where anti-bullying work needs to be done. You can approach school staff using this language and ideas from these programs.
“Dan Olweus…his work has played a key role in the mindshift occurring in many countries—from seeing bullying as a natural part of school life to seeing it as a solvable social issue.” (p. 104)
Q: Have you seen this shift occurring as you have grown up? Where is your school, family, or community in this process? Is bullying still seen as ‘natural?’
“If your school does have an bullying policy, read it and…find out if it is effective.” “The ideal school is a place where all teachers see all students as ‘my students.'” (p. 114) and “Unbalanced power relationships are the cornerstone of bullying.” (115)
Q: How do teachers interact with students, and with each other, at your school? Do you know who the counselors are in your child’s school? Have you talked to teachers or the principal about your school’s anti-bullying strategies? Is the staff unified on procedures? Do adults use good manners with each other? Are there expectations of respect? Is there a culture of respect?
“Children who learn assertiveness skills in elementary school enter middle school less likely to be bullies, victims, or passive bystanders.”
Q: What did you think about the misconceptions of respect? Did they surprise/inspire you?
Q: What sentence, paragraph, or idea popped out at you, or stuck with you after reading?
Reply in the Comments, below!
Looking for resource links? Click here.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | De Koer i.s.m. Subbacultcha
If Sean Nicholas Savage is in your backlog of favourite artists, you’ll quickly add Better Person to the list, who shares an equally elegant and pained voice. Adam Byckowski, the man behind the project, creates romantic synth-pop ballads that tell stories about love, intimacy and vexation. Also on the roster are Gents, a duo hailing from the forever-amazing Danish scene. With their moody crooning pop, the boys are bringing new wave music back into the light.
This event is exclusive for Subbacultcha members and their +1! Become a member here: http://subbacultcha.be/ |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Anthony had a good night last night.The doctors are trying to give him Water bolus's until tomorrow to see if we can just give those to him instead of hooking him up to it through his central lines.We are hoping this will work so that he doesn't have to be hooked up to a IV fluids at night.
Anthony and his daddy got to go out on a pass today so they walked around the neighborhood and ended up at a park.It must of made him tired he came back and slept.
Anthony hasn't needed any extra pain medicine which is a good thing for him.
We are scheduled to go home sometime early next week.
I counted his medicines and I believe it is 14-16 medicines.
For Anthony's electrolytes to be OK on just the water bolus's
For Anthony to come home soon and not have to go back to the hospital.
For Anthony's cells to grow and en graft and for his GVHD to clear so he can get off all his immunosuppressent drugs
For Anthony to start eating more and more by mouth.He loves BBQ Chips and Rice Krispies treat |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Welcome to Marini Family Chiropractic
The Structural Chiropractors of King of Prussia and Norristown
“With so many Chiropractors in King of Prussia and Northeast Philadelphia, Marini Family Chiropractic specializes in one thing: Structural Corrective Chiropractic. With doctors who are highly experienced, highly educated, and certified in multiple techniques, Marini Family Chiropractic provides quality structural corrective care. Together with a courteous, engaging staff; a calm, soothing environment conducive to healing and education; and technology and techniques specific to structural corrective care, we can help you heal.
Dr. Steve Marini and Dr. Nick Marini are dedicated structural chiropractors that will take the time to explain everything, and work with you to help you achieve your health goals. Both our King of Prussia and Northeast Philadelphia offices offer a variety of appointment times, designed to help you fit Structural Corrective Chiropractic to your life.
We offer patient-specific Corrective and Protective care plans, and can work with most major insurance providers, including Workman’s Comp and Personal Injury cases.
Marini Family Chiropractic: Your source for Structural Corrective Chiropractic care.
Call Marini Family Chiropractic today to see if Structural Chiropractic Care is Right for you!” |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The Church of England’s longest serving priest has played an important role in his granddaughter’s wedding despite the coronavirus lockdown.
Reverend Jim Cocke, 94, was the priest for the same parish in Oxford for 63 years until he retired in January and moved to a residential care home in Dorset.
He had been due to give the address at the marriage ceremony of his granddaughter Lucy in April.
But like many other weddings across the country the happy occasion had to be postponed because of Covid-19.
When the service eventually went ahead on July 18 under physical distancing restrictions, only 15 people were allowed in the church and Rev Cocke could not attend in person.
Instead, staff at Colten Care’s Castle View care home in Poundbury ensured he was able to prepare and send a personal address to be read out by Lucy’s father Andrew Boggis.
Rev Cocke’s words highlighted the importance of partnership in sustaining love and marriage, and when establishing a career – Lucy is a doctor and her husband Nick Dawnay is an army officer.
After the ceremony at St Giles’ Church near Beaminster, Castle View staff facilitated and hosted a Covid-safe visit which meant that Rev Cocke could see the newlyweds face-to-face in their wedding attire along with his daughter, Lucy’s mother, Fiona Boggis.
Rev Cocke, who began his ministry in 1952 and became vicar of All Saints’ in Headington in 1957, said: “I felt very much included in the special day. I thought Lucy looked so lovely.
“It was a great pity not a lot of people could go to the church because of the restrictions, but I am just so proud of her.”
The newly married Mrs Dawnay said: “It made my day even more special knowing my grandfather was included.”
Katja Williams, who works at Castle View, added: “We are very privileged to have Reverend Jim with us in the home.
“He kindly leads Sunday morning hymns and Bible reading, much to the appreciation of those attending.
“We were only too happy to do what we could to address the challenges of Covid restrictions and social distancing to ensure he could enjoy his family’s special day.
“We all extend our congratulations to the happy couple, wishing them a life of joy and blessings.” |
true | null | lmsys/lmsys-chat-1m | English | Can you help me plan a FATE role playing game........ | Sure! FATE is a great system for role-playing games, and I'd be happy to help you plan your game. What do you want to do with your FATE game? Do you have a specific theme or setting in mind, or are you open to suggestions?........ | <|system|>
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Sure! FATE is a great system for role-playing games, and I'd be happy to help you plan your game. What do you want to do with your FATE game? Do you have a specific theme or setting in mind, or are you open to suggestions?<|end|>
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Open to suggestions<|end|>
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Great! What type of setting would you like your game to take place in? Do you have any particular genre or style in mind, such as a fantasy game, a science fiction game, or a historical game?<|end|>
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High fantasy<|end|>
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High fantasy is a classic choice for a FATE game and can be a lot of fun. Here are a few things to keep in mind when planning your game:
1. Game Setting:
* In a high fantasy game, you'll likely want to have a clear and detailed setting that includes a history, geography, and cultural background.
* You'll need to decide on the specifics of the setting, such as the type of government, religion, and technology that exist.
<ol start="2"><li>Character Creation:</li></ol>
* In a high fantasy game, you'll likely want to have character creation rules that allow players to create characters that fit within the setting.
* This could include rules for creating character backgrounds, abilities, and equipment.
<ol start="3"><li>Combat and Skills:</li></ol>
* In a high fantasy game, combat and skills are often important. You'll need to decide on the types of skills that players can use, and how combat is handled.
* You may also want to include rules for non-combat skills, such as the use of magic or the use of ranged weapons.
<ol start="4"><li>Adventure:</li></ol>
* In a high fantasy game, players create characters and embark on adventures to explore the setting and overcome challenges.
* These adventures could include exploring dungeons, battling monsters, or solving puzzles.
I hope these suggestions help you get started on planning your FATE high fantasy game! Let me know if you have any other questions.<|end|> |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | What is the bystander effect?
The bystander effect is the idea that the more people are around during a violent outbursts, the least likely anyone will be to intervene. In a group people are reluctant to take the lead particularly when it comes to violence.
What did Pavlov's study prove?
Pavlov's study involved ringing a bell and then giving a dog a treat. This was repeatedly done. Eventually the scientist rang the bell and did not give the treat. It was observed that the dog would drool. This proved in some capacity that reactions to things are created. For example, if the bell rang, the dog didn't coincidentally want the treat. The dog began to associate the treat with the bell. Hence, our reactions to things are based on associations we have been taught both directly and indirectly.
What are a few components that need to be included in a Behavior Intervention Plan?
Behavior Intervention Plans are created in order to help a student succeed in the classroom. Behavior intervention plans are not; -Bribes -Just a token economy Behavior Intervention Plans are meant to help the child find a replacement behavior and work towards the desired behavior. For that reason they must have the following -Problem Behavior -Desired Behavior/Outcome -Replacement Behavior -Teaching the Behavior -Prevention -Consequences (Positive and Negative) |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Intel boss Brian Krzanich has vowed the company will issue security updates by the end of the month for all its products affected by the Meltdown and Spectre computer chip design flaw.
He called the collaboration between tech firms in the wake of the issue "truly remarkable".
"For our processors and products introduced in the past five years, Intel expects to issue updates for more than 90 per cent within a week, and the remaining by the end of January," he said.
"As of now, we have not received any information that these exploits have been used to obtain customer data.
"We're working tirelessly on these issues to ensure it stays that way."
Last week security researchers from Google published details of flaws in processor chips made by Intel and other manufacturers that could be exploited to access personal data on computers.
Many tech giants, including Apple and Microsoft, have since confirmed they have either already released or will shortly release updates that mitigate the issue.
Glasgow-based data storage and cloud computing group iomart also admitted the computer chips were in use across its hardware.
On a day of press conferences ahead of the opening of the CES trade show in Las Vegas, the common theme was autonomous smart homes and robots.
Both LG and Samsung spoke of plans to make their entire appliance product lines internet-enabled and therefore able to speak to each other and able to work together to complete tasks.
LG announced a new smart fridge that can help create recipes and then send cooking instructions to a connected oven, while Samsung demonstrated its own Family Hub smart fridge and its content being checked from a connected TV.
However, LG did also encounter issues when smart home robot CLOi became unresponsive during a live demo.
Industry analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight warned the incident could signal a sense of foreboding for exhibitors at the Las Vegas convention.
"Unfortunately for LG, its 2018 CES press conference will be remembered for the problems with its CLOi consumer robot," he said.
"This episode may well prove to be a metaphor for a lot of the technology on show at CES this year, particularly in the area of consumer robotics.
"Based on what we have seen so far it feels like many of the devices are not quite ready for prime time.
"Early adopters risk being alienated and true mass market commercialisation likely remains many years away."
Three other concept service robots from LG have been among those revealed so far, while Sony has also shown off the new version of robotic dog Aibo for the first time outside of Japan.
An estimated 170,000 people are expected to visit CES over the course of the four-day event. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | ENGLISH TEACHERS EXPERIENCE
My First Experience as an ESL Teacher
Roger Hall (Completed STP)
While browsing the internet one day, I came across a very attractive website which gave me the idea of an educational tourism package in Thailand involving a guaranteed teaching job. On the pre-text of making a teaching career, I set alone to kiss the grounds of Thailand for the first time, of course the main motive of travelling was the underlying fact of the whole idea. For an adventurous being like me, travelling takes a crucial place in my life and is my hobby, despite many odds that come my way. I love travelling not only to get away from my hectic daily life but simply because I want to learn about the variety of cultures, races and nationalities. Travelling to me is very educational.
Travelling to Thailand and knowing its treasured sights, vibrant culture, diverse terrains have been a lifetime achievement. With all this and more, travelling to Thailand has provides an extra punch, beyond my expectations. Thailand travelling is complete with mountain ranges and ocean from four sides, as if God is protecting this treasure land from all the odds of the world. On top of that I also realized there is something very fulfilling about arriving to a job that you like, using a mode of transportation that you enjoy, while living in a place of amazingly warm n courteous people, that you thoroughly take pleasure in. I've been lucky to have had the opportunity to live and work in Thailand for a year now, travelling, biking, and studying other languages among other things. My ESL career started in Thailand where I began teaching migrant workers conversational English. Living and working here has given me great insight into Thai country and culture, giving me a global view that cannot be learned by studying, but only by doing.
Visiting Thailand along with doing a Teachers' Training Certification Course coupled with the guaranteed opportunity of getting placed after obtaining the certificate sounded sensible and promising for the first time in the otherwise lazy aimless life of a wanderer like me. I've had some incredible experiences but with that in mind, my life here has been very much a roller coaster ride. Many great things have happened, but in all truth and honesty, some pretty horrible things have happened too. You eventually get to a point in your life when you want a bit more stability and when you want the troughs and peaks to even out. I am glad that at this juncture, my adventure in Thailand came as a stepping stone in my life and helped me get a decent career and better life in Thailand, helping me complete almost more than a year now. I am yearning to have my own home here as well sometime soon.
Dream to be an English Teacher
Jennifer Faith (Completed STP 2007 winter)
One of the most defining moments of my life was when my long cherished dream of becoming an English teacher turned into reality, by taking up the Special Thai Project offered by American TESOL Institute. It gave me a teaching position in one of the Thai local schools for four months. It has been a wonderful experience so far, taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of the entire 5-months' project, which included the TESOL course and the guaranteed teaching assignment tagged along with it.
For me, teaching English involved a lot of creativity and was challenging, especially for the fact that I come from a native English speaking country. I had to teach students ranging from tiny tots to adults with the skill level varying from very experienced or at the basic level. The experience has been phenomenal starting from sitting down to write up lesson plans to distributing hand-outs to the kids ensuring they have fun for my classes to do. Initially, it was a little baffling to cope with the new Thai culture, language and to new people of a non-native English speaking country. The extensive time commitment, the realization that things are probably not going as smoothly as I wanted and low morale contributed to a period of disenchantment. Although going through the intensive teachers' practice sessions during the TESOL course before the teaching assignment began, I got exposed to the fear of doing all the tasks all by myself after being placed in the Thai school. The situation grew tenser realizing the absence of my trainers to help me out like the way they assisted wherever I went wrong in the past. But soon this anxiousness gave way to a sigh of relief in a few days when I started getting accustomed to the classes and students started responding with smiling faces, helping a rise in my attitude toward teaching. It gradually allowed me to resume a more normal lifestyle, with plenty of rest, food, exercise, and time to make friends. Finding a mentor in one of my peer teachers and receiving assistance from him proved beneficial in my teaching chore and made my task easy.
However, I cannot finish off without mentioning about the fascinating country of Thailand with the most hospitable and warm people I have come across so far. The spicy delicious Thai food is a special reason for my additional love for this place. The amazing places of visit and the great shopping destinations are reasons enough for me to stay glued to the country for longer span of time.
Teaching English - A challenging task
Matthew Flawn (Completed STP 2007 winter)
Armed with a desire to teach in Asia, I enrolled in the Special Thai project offered by American TESOL Thailand. The 4 week course which is followed by 4 months of teaching stint in Thailand, earning 30,000 baht along with housing is by far one of the most profound and enjoyable experiences of my life. The Special Thai project offered me the winning combination of travelling around Thailand, while pursuing my interest in teaching English to non native speakers of the language.
Being part of a non native English learner's journey towards the acquisition of English is a meaningful one. The Thai students' enthusiasm to learn English is rewarding and never fails to motivate me as a teacher. Teaching non native learners of English is no doubt a challenging task. As much as the students are a fun bunch to teach, they can get bored easily. As such, I have to constantly make lessons snappy and moving so as to keep their interests alive. This has given me the opportunity to think out of the box and devise several teaching techniques.
As I approach the last few months of my teaching stint, the experience I have received reaffirms my decision to make a career out of teaching in Thailand. I am definitely considering staying on for a few years. As a teacher, I hope I can continue to have a permanent impact on my students, whilst helping to instil pride and joy in their learning experiences. I definitely recommend this Special Thai Project to anyone who wants to travel and experience the beauty of Thailand on a more intimate level than just visiting by teaching the local community.
Teaching English - "doing exactly what I have always wanted to"
Nichole Coyle (Completed STP 2007 winter)
In my bid to travel and teach at the same time, I took up the Special Thai Project program offered in Thailand. This project earned me a TEFL certificate along with a 4 month teaching stint, which I am currently enjoying. The experience of being able to live amongst the local Thai community is unmatched and I am enjoying the feeling of being more than just a tourist. I am thoroughly enjoying the hands on teaching experience offered by ATI and what I am doing now seems to be the most logical decision I have made.
Now into my second month of teaching, I realise that teaching English to non natives is not an easy task and requires me to constantly innovate in the classroom. This is an essential part of my responsibility as an English teacher as creativity and constant interaction keeps the classroom buzzing. Every day, I think of new activities to carry out in class to teach different concepts. While doing this, I have learnt along the way and also accept that I will be making countless mistakes. Nonetheless, seeing the gratitude on the faces of the students gives me a lot of motivation to carry on infusing the students' lives with English.
Despite the challenges I face on a daily basis in the classroom, I am convinced that I am doing exactly what I have always wanted to; teach English and be able to travel around Asia. I am thankful to the Special Thai Project which has enabled me to realise my dreams. With the fundamental teaching methods picked up during the stint, I am definitely considering staying on in Thailand to carve out a teaching career for myself.
Teaching English - "students have become part of my life"
Maria C. Cok. (Still completing her teaching contract with a Govt. school in Thailand)
I have always wanted to travel to Thailand after reading about its several tourist destinations and culture but was not able to afford a trip. As such, I had to continue teaching back home till I came across the opportunity to do a teaching course along with a short term job stint and long term option of expansion in Thailand. Thailand is a beautiful country with various types of landscapes and scenes, good food and lots of potentials for travel. Being a beach lover, I was thrilled at the prospects of being able to live in Phuket as well as travel around carrying money.
Teaching is difficult work as I continue my 2nd month of work as a teacher, teaching English to Thai students. With a large number of students to teach on a daily basis, admin work and other out of class activities add to the workload. I spend more than an hour travelling to and from my accommodation. My salary is also slightly below par. What keeps me going is the bunch of students who have become part of my life. The respect they have for elders, enthusiasm to learn and their friendliness make my job worthwhile. Any form of negativity disappears when I see my students make gradual improvements in their ability to speak and comprehend English as well as the warmth from the school community as a whole continually amazes me.
This envelopment in and discovery of a new culture, of course, is one of the primary reasons for seeking a career as an English teacher to begin with. I am also pretty convinced that I am able to overcome any hardship in my bid to be a good teacher who can make a difference in the lives of students. Thailand has reinforced that I have made the right decision to live and work in the land of smiles.
Teaching English - "An Eye opener"
Teaching in Thai schools has been a rewarding experience as it has opened my eyes to a perspective that is different from the one I am used to. Teaching in Thailand is just great it allows me the opportunity to soak in the rich culture the country has to offer. Thailand has a rich culture of music, dance, art and religion which never fail to enthral me. Being interested in Buddhism, this is the perfect place for me to be in to learn more about the religion while being able to pursue my interest in teaching English.
Teaching work is plentiful, with teachers being expected to do work outside of just classroom teaching. I currently teach in a government school where there are basic facilities like fans, desks, chairs and chalkboards. However, the classrooms tend to be stuffy and hot with few resources and sometimes no books or substandard books. The average class size is 50 students and this is not the easiest environment to teach in. Nonetheless, seeing the students contented with what they have got and the gratitude they have towards their teachers making teaching in Thailand a rewarding experience.
As I have never taught before, the short four month stint is not too long a commitment to carry out to assess my suitability as a teacher. The learning journey towards being certified and thereafter actually teaching is an enriching one. I am constantly learning from my students and their ability to grasp what I teach them never fails to put a smile on my day. Their progress means the world to me and I feel satisfied each day knowing I am part of their journey towards being proficient in the English Language. |
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Cardinal Cupich says report that he and Cardinal Wuerl collaborated on alternative to USCCB proposal for bishop accountability is not true
Cardinal Blase Cupich is firing back against claims that he sought to advance an alternative proposal for bishop accountability ahead of last week’s meeting in Baltimore, in place of the plan put forth by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
“The allegation is false,” the archbishop of Chicago told Crux on Sunday, in response to a Catholic News Agency (CNA) report Friday that he and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington collaborated on a separate proposal.
“At no time prior to the Baltimore meeting did the two of us collaborate in developing, nor even talk about, an alternative plan,” he said.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Denied for Social Security Disability benefits? Harrell and Harrell can help. When you suffer a disability that robs you of your ability to make a living and support your family, Social Security Insurance benefits can be a much needed financial safety net. But a newly released report shows that in 2011, more than 630,000 Americans’ medical claims for SSDI benefits were denied. Unfortunately, it’s not a surprising statistic, say social security disability lawyers with Jacksonville’s Harrell and Harrell.
The Social Security Administration has stringent requirements for granting disability benefits. To be eligible, you must be insured, be younger than full retirement age, have correctly filed an application for benefits and have a Social Security-defined disability. You must have worked long enough and recently enough to qualify and have what doctors and SSDI officials consider a total disability ? not a partial or short-term disability. The 2012 Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Program identifies the top three reasons for SSDI benefit claim denials:
- 32.4 percent were denied because the claimant was found able to perform a new type of work;
- 24.5 percent were denied because the claimant’s impairment was found not to be severe enough;
- 22.7 percent were denied because the claimant still was able to perform their past work duties.
As with most government-run programs, the SSDI application process can be notoriously complicated, requiring copious amounts of medical and work records and involving complex rules. Meanwhile, your creditors won’t wait and your family suffers. To help minimized the time that you go without financial compensation and benefits, contact an experienced Social Security Disability Attorney to help you better navigate the application process. Jacksonville’s Harrell and Harrell serves the region from Southeast Georgia to Central Florida and can be reached at 800-251-1111. |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | WASHINGTON (AP) - A poorly run Pentagon program for providing
workman's compensation for civilian employees in Iraq and Afghanistan
has allowed defense contractors and insurance companies to gouge
American taxpayers, a House committee said Thursday.
Insurance companies alone have collected nearly $600 million in
excessive profits over the past five years, says a Democratic staff
report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, but
the Defense Department refuses to adjust its approach for managing the
According to the committee, the Pentagon allows its contractors to
negotiate their own insurance contracts. By contrast, the State
Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and the Army
Corps of Engineers have all selected a single insurance carrier to
provide the insurance at fixed rates.
"What makes the situation even worse is the people this program
is supposed to benefit - the injured employees working for
contractors - have to fight the insurance companies to get their
benefits," committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said at a
hearing Thursday. "Delays and denials in paying claims are the
KBR Inc., one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq, paid the
insurance giant AIG $284 million for medical and disability coverage
under the Defense Base Act, a reference to the federal law mandating
the insurance. Due to the way KBR's contract is structured, this
premium, along with an $8 million markup for KBR, gets billed to the
"Out of this amount, just $73 million actually goes to injured
contractors, and AIG and KBR
pocket over $100 million as profit,"
In an e-mailed statement, AIG spokesman Chris Winans said the company
is reviewing the staff report. But AIG is confident its coverage is
accurately and fairly priced given the high risks to workers in war
zones and the potential for sizable claims, Winans said.
All contractors doing work overseas for U.S. government agencies are
required to insure their civilian employees, many of whom are handling
dangerous jobs in hostile areas. Contractors get the coverage from
private insurance companies, then they're reimbursed for what they
spend. The insurance costs are included in the contract's overall
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Army Criminal
Investigation Command has opened a probe into two companies working on
Iraq reconstruction that have been accused of padding their profits by
claiming reimbursements from the Corps of Engineers for insurance
coverage they never purchased.
The probe of two Iraqi companies located in Tikrit - Sakar al-Fahal
and al-Jubori - led the Corps of Engineers to scour its records for
evidence of fraud by other contractors hired with billions of U.S.
dollars to help rebuild Iraqi infrastructure devastated by the
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked what the Corps of Engineers is
doing to stop other companies from bilking the federal government for
unpaid insurance coverage.
James Dalton, chief of engineering and construction for the Corps of
Engineers, said contracting officers are trained to look for signs of
fraud. The case involving the Iraqi companies, Dalton said, "was
found through routine oversight of our contracts."
Waxman asked John Needham of the Government Accountability Office if
U.S. taxpayers were getting the most for their money.
"It's not apparent they are," answered Needham, who added
that the Defense Department has been unable to collect data on how
much is spent on insurance for defense contracts.
Richard Ginman, a senior Pentagon acquisition official, said the Army
Corps of Engineers' approach stems from a pilot program the Defense
Department began in 2003 after contractors doing business in Iraq
complained about the high cost of the mandatory coverage.
Rates for the Defense Base Act insurance had ballooned from $4 per
$100 of employee salary to a ratio of $20 per $100 of compensation. It
was especially tough for small companies to get the mandatory
insurance, Ginman said.
Through the pilot program, Chicago-based Continental Insurance Company
offered companies with Corps of Engineers contracts at lower fixed
rates. A company with a construction contract, for example, would pay
$7.25 for every $100 of payroll.
The Pentagon is still studying that program's results to determine if
it makes sense to require all military branches and agencies to use
it, Ginman said.
Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said the pilot effort has already saved $19
million and he criticized the Defense Department for moving too slowly
to make needed changes.
"The foot dragging seems to be contagious," Cooper said.
But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., the committee's top Republican, said using
a single insurance company may not be possible for the Defense
Department. The military's obligations under the Defense Base Act, he
said, dwarf those of other federal agencies.
"It's not clear
that any insurance provider would be willing to underwrite (Defense
Base Act) insurance for all DOD contractors, or that contractors would
be willing to participate on those terms," Davis
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Since when were the Jets cash strapped? They had a $53,139,265 payroll last year with $11,160,735 available and with 15,300 seats that were full every night at the MTS centre, they grossed near the top of the league in revenue not to mention other sales. They've been back here in Winnipeg for 1 season, sold the most merch by far in the NHL this season and that's a confirmed fact and are currently in the process of contract talks and re-signing of players just like every other team in the league.
The Jets are cash strapped, they are poorly managed. heck they only have 4 players signed through the 2013 season. How does any team only have 4 guys signed? TBH if we are going to try and deal with the jets, I would rather go after their Dman Bo-soemthing or another. Big young Rh D. Fills more of a need.
Kane, Fehr, Mahachek, and Pavelec are RFA this summer. Slater, Glass, Wellwood, Stapleton, Jones, Flood and Mason are UFA.
Currently, they have 14 players signed for $36,867,959 with $33,432,042 cap room with the cap set at $70,300,000.
They need to resign Kane, Machacek, Slater, Wellwood, Stapleton, Flood, Pavelec and Mason. Grab a couple UFA from free agency in place of the others that need not be re-signed and they're good to go.
Main points here:
1. Your posts have zero credibility cause you do no research and spew off the cuff bulls***.
2. The Jets are one of the best managed teams in the league with the entire city of Winnipeg behind them.
3. Players actually want to come to Winnipeg that aren't named Bryzgalov or Belanger cause of the excitement and the fanbase that makes the team feel at home.
Kane will be signed for probably 5 years at about 4.5 per year by the Jets. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | On Thursday Rafa Benitez was appointed as interim Chelsea boss until the end of the season.
The Spaniard replaces Roberto Di Matteo, who was sacked after the Blues 3-0 defeat in the Champions League at Juventus.
The former-Liverpool has only been given a short-term contract at Stamford Bridge. This means he will have to do extremely well to keep the position.
Roberto Di Matteo performed the near impossible in his short spell last season, by winning the Champions League trophy.
With the European champions on the verge of going out the competition that feat will be hard to achieve. However, I believe that Benitez would probably have to win the Premier League to keep the job on permanent basis.
Rafa Benitez being given the Chelsea job is probably one of the strangest appointments in recent years. It’s clear from having a look around forums and fans websites that Benitez isn’t a popular figure at Chelsea.
In fact, while at Liverpool he had a running feud with the Blues. The Spaniard criticised the clubs fans passion, amongst other things. His appointment has just added to the Chelsea fans apparent annoyance at Di Matteo’s sacking.
The decision to sack the Italian doesn’t seem to have gone down very well with the Chelsea faithful. Di Matteo was at the helm when the club unexpectedly clinched the Champion’s League trophy for the first time last May.
This season started really well under the former-West Brom boss. However in the last month or so the Blues have struggled to pick-up victories. Di Matteo was always living on borrowed time in the Chelsea hot seat and he was never going to be given time to turn it around.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich isn’t the most patient man in the world, I bet he isn’t even the most patient one in his household. He is very trigger-happy when it comes to managers. They don’t tend to have the longest shelf life at the Bridge.
The man that Abramovich chose to replace Di Matteo is former-Valencia boss Rafa Benitez. The 52 year-old enjoyed mixed fortunes in his first spell in English football, but he never lost his affection for the country or the Premier League.
In his spell at Liverpool he picked up numerous trophies, including the Champions League trophy in 2005, when the Reds famously came back from three goals down at half-time to defeat AC Milan.
If reports are to be believed the Reds won that game because of the presence of the likes of Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher in the dressing room at the interval and not Benitez’s tactical genius.
Liverpool fans had big expectations while Rafa Benitez was in charge. However, despite the team having a lot of talented players he could never achieve the ultimate objective of the Reds fans, win the league title.
The Spaniard did win two La Liga titles while with Valencia and to be fair no other manager in the last two decades has managed to win the league title at Anfield either.
Rafa Benitez has a reputation for being a rather defensive boss. His teams are always regarded as hard to beat. His Liverpool team did struggle on set-pieces though, because his players struggled to get their heads around the zonal marking system.
Roman Abramovich’s dream is to get Chelsea playing winning, attacking football. Benitez may bring stability to the Chelsea team, but he won’t bring the style of football that Abramovich craves.
I’m pretty sure attacking midfielders Juan Mata, Eden Hazard and Oscar won’t be playing together very often under the Spaniard. He will go for a more solid look to the team and at least one of the trio is likely to miss out in future games.
One player that is likely to feature heavily in the near future is record signing Fernando Torres. He has struggled to find his best form at Stamford Bridge. However, Benitez brought the striker to Liverpool from Atletico Madrid.
Benitez seemed to get the best out of the Spanish international at Anfield. Maybe Abramovich was considering this factor when he appointed the Spaniard.
Rafa Benitez faces a big challenge in his first game in charge of the Blues. Chelsea faces champions and league leaders Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon. Benitez won’t have much time to prepare his team ahead of the clash, but they will definitely be better prepared at the back for the encounter.
I can’t really see Rafa Benitez as anything other than a stop-gap. Abramovich has been an admirer of former-Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola for a good few years. I have a suspicion next summer the Russian’s courting of Benitez’s compatriot will pay off.
Is Rafa Benitez the right man for Chelsea? |
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St Margaret's is constructed in brick, with dressings in red brick and stone, and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave and chancel, the nave being flanked by aisles. On the roof, at the division of the nave and chancel, is a timber bellcote. In the central part of the west end of the church are two three-light windows, with a buttress between them and on each side. Above the central buttress is a canopied niche containing a statue of St Margaret of Antioch. Over this is a rose window. To the sides of the central part are the aisles under lean-to roofs; each has a doorway with a rose window above. A passage leads from the north side of the church to the vicarage.
Inside the church are six-bay arcades carried on marble piers with bands of alternating colours. The chancel is at a higher level, and is separated from the nave by a low marble wall with central iron gates. In the chancel are a piscina and a sedilia. On the north side of the chancel is a two-bay arcade leading to the Jesus Chapel. The font is circular, carried on six columns, and stands on a hexagonal base. The pulpit is in gilded wood, and is decorated with busts of five saints, including St Margaret and Saint Jermome.
In the chancel floor is a brass memorial to Robert Horsfall. There is much painted decoration on the walls, most of it by Maddox and Pearce. Much of the stained glass is by Clayton and Bell. The glass in the west window of the south aisle is by Percy Bacon Brothers. At the east end of the church are two windows, replaced after the Second World War, which were designed by Gerald E. R. Smith and H. L. Pawle, and made in the A. K. Nicholson Studio. In the Jesus chapel is an ornate polychrome reredos.
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Ballet Vero Beach was founded January 1, 2013. They are the only professional ballet company in our region, and represent the first professional ballet company located in Vero Beach. Throughout their short history, they have gained a reputation for innovative and dynamic programming. They regularly collaborate with the area’s major cultural institutions: the Vero Beach Museum of Art and Riverside Theatre, and have been recognized for the quality of our productions by The George Balanchine Trust, master choreographer Peter Anastos, and The Estate of Samuel Kurkjian.
The founding artistic director and CEO, Adam Schnell, endeavors to create dynamic programming that reaches both balletomanes and those new to the art form. Ballet Vero Beach is especially proud of their Ticket Donation Program, which currently provides absolutely free performance tickets and educational outreach opportunities to the constituents of 12 social service non-profits in the area. Their main stage season includes two repertory programs performed by Vero's resident company, an Interpretive Dance Series produced with the Vero Beach Museum of Art, and the presentation of a visiting organization in partnership with Riverside Theatre. Additionally, thanks to a generous grant from Quail Valley Charities, they provide absolutely free student matinees to third and fourth graders in our area. |
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Ready to hear about my new MP3 Player? No? Too bad.
Brand name: HonTaseng
Feature of the MPS Player: Video, Radio, Picture, Record, E-Book, Steps, Bluetooth, and Folder.
Seems like this gem has it all! It also comes with a arm band, ear buds, and a USB cord.
One of my favorite features is that, while playing music, it displays the lyrics on the screen. I also love the Bluetooth feature, as I just recently purchased a pair of wireless headphones.
I was wanting to test out this MP3 player because it’s been I long time sinc I’ve had one. The last MP3 player I owned was an iPod Mini.. a pink one. Yeah, it’s been a while.
The player ended up being a lot smaller than what I anticipated, but it’s a bad thing. It would easily fit in any pocket.
These are running for $30.98 – Here’s the link for where you can find them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CMZSSTR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Whether for a vacation, health and beauty treatment, an original Schrothkur diet course, golf or winter sports, here on the south slope of Oberstaufen with a fantastic view over the mountain world of the Allgaeu you will feel really great. Regular guests rave about the sea-water swimming pool with salts from the Dead Sea and the massif of the Alps. The TOP CountryLine Kur- und Sporthotel Koenigshof is a romantic private managed 4**** star superior spa hotel at a premier location near the alps. This is the ideal place for wellness and relaxation. Our 101 rooms and suites are comfortably furnished to make your stay as convenient as possible. A combination of quality materials and exceptional interior design offers you the best requirements for leisure and business. Our two heated indoor-pools, sauna, steaming room and wellness programs invite you to relax after a wonderful day in the bavarian mountains. This hotel is one of the best adresses in Bavaria. Two heated indoor-pools, sauna, steaming room, whirlpool, tanning room, hydro-jet and a wide range of wellness and beauty programs available. |
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........ | ¡Hola! Berto y Buenafuente son dos populares youtubers de España, conocidos por sus videobytes cómicos y pulmentones. ¡Ellos son una gran pareja de amigos que nos hacen reír con sus sketches y bromas!
Berto (José Alberto García) nació en Madrid en 1979 y Buenafuente (David Fernández) nació en Barcelona en 1981. Ambos se conocieron en el programa de radio el "Laтелиazzul" en 2006 y decidieron unirse para crear contenido en línea.
Su canal de YouTube, "bertoybuenafuente", se lanzó en 2012 y desde entonces han acumulado más de 4 millones de suscriptores y más de 1.100 millones de visualizaciones en sus videos. Sus sketches suelen ser divertidos y satíricos, y a menudo parodian la cultura pop y la política en España.
Además de su trabajo en YouTube, Berto y Buenafuente han intervenir en programas de televisión y radio en España, y han actuado en vivo en numerosos conciertos y eventos......... | <|system|>
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Berto (José Alberto García) nació en Madrid en 1979 y Buenafuente (David Fernández) nació en Barcelona en 1981. Ambos se conocieron en el programa de radio el "Laтелиazzul" en 2006 y decidieron unirse para crear contenido en línea.
Su canal de YouTube, "bertoybuenafuente", se lanzó en 2012 y desde entonces han acumulado más de 4 millones de suscriptores y más de 1.100 millones de visualizaciones en sus videos. Sus sketches suelen ser divertidos y satíricos, y a menudo parodian la cultura pop y la política en España.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Host UX Director Lola Oyelayo-Pearson speaks with UX Director Sadia Latifi, UX Director Monika Piotrowicz, and Senior UX Ops Manager Jen Rogers about leading UX at scale at Shopify.
Full transcript: https://ux.shopify.com/inside-shopify-ux-s2-e06-leading-ux-at-shopify-903a4b6b928e
00:00 — Intro
00:43 — UX Ops is our secret sauce
05:53 — A jungle gym leadership career path
12:05 — Leadership as a profession
13:38 — The progression of UX as an industry
16:18 — Being a business partner
19:02 — Thinking of quality, taste, and judgement
24:28 — Operationalizing quality
26:44 — Craft leadership and role modelling
32:32 — Fortune teller questions
Shopify is building the future of commerce, but who are the people building it? The Inside Shopify UX podcast introduces some of the leaders and crafters on our UX team and asks them to explain the big commerce problem their team is trying to solve, and gives the real talk on some of the industry’s challenges and questions.
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Produced by Jen Shaw, UX Communications and Marketing
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Artwork by Senior Illustrator Alisha Giroux, Senior Culture Designer Dani Chavez Ackermann, and Broadcast Motion Graphics Artist Trevor Silvani
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PRICE REDUCTION $15,000.00-APRIL 2ND GREAT OPPORTUNITY!! Immaculate Cedar Glen , Original Owner 2 Storey over 1,800 sq.ft. w/large upper sunny bonus room, Open main floor with Maple hardwood, Gourmet kitchen upgraded black appliances, ice & water fridge, Eat up bar and good size Dining nook open to Great room w/ fireplace. 3 Good size bedrooms, Master w/ 4pc ensuite corner soaker tub and separate shower, good size walk in closet. Additional 4pc bath & 2pc on main . Spacious deck, fenced and landscaped yard. Air conditioning. Drywalled and insulated Garage. Lower level partially finished, subfloor and framing.(Awaiting your design) This home shows great! Priced to Sell Great Value. Quiet cul-de-sac location.
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According to the BCREA (British Columbia Real Estate Association):
Housing demand in the province “continued to trend lower in September” according to BCREA Chief Economist Cameron Muir. The number of residential unit sales recorded by the Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) in September is 7,591; down 11.2 percent from the same month last year. Total sales dollar volume was $4.45 billion in September, down 14.1 per cent compared to the previous year. The average MLS® residential price in the province was $585,844, a decline of 3.2 per cent compared to the same month last year.
“While Vancouver, Fraser Valley and the North experienced year-over-year declines last month, the rest of the province posted an increase in the number of residential transactions,” added Muir.
“The average residential price in the province continued to reflect a change in the composition and location of homes sold. However, the effect was less pronounced in September than in August, when detached home sales fell to just 28 per cent of total demand in Vancouver.”
Some new developments in regulation:
We have entered a new phase of real estate regulation in the province. On September 30th, 2016 the Superintendent of Real Estate was given the authority to exercise greater oversight over the Real Estate Council of BC, and is now able to make rules governing licensees.
On October 12th, nine new members were appointed to the BC Real Estate Council.
On October 19th, Michael Noseworthy will become the next Superintendent of Real Estate. He has recently served as government regulator in Yukon.
Update on FBT (BC Foreign Buyer’s Tax):
In August, the BC government imposed a 15% Property Transfer Tax (PTT) on foreign buyers and companies buying homes in Greater Vancouver. The government can also expand FBT to other geographical areas and the tax amount can range from 10 – 20%.
This tax directly affected a number of home sales that were already underway and negatively impacted some British Columbians
As a result, the BCREA, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board submitted recommendations that future changes to PTT will not exempt transactions that are already underway. The BCREA has also requested an increase to the threshold of 2% PTT to $525,000 from $200,000 to support British Columbians. Their submission can be found here.
News on housing affordability:
The Federal government is expected to announce a new National Housing Strategy in November, as a result of over a year of intense public discussions about housing affordability and months of consultations across Canada.
In September, the BC Provincial government announced $500 million to be invested in affordable renting housing in the province, to create nearly 3,000 new affordable renting units. This money is available through the Housing Priority Initiatives program, funded largely by FBT (Foreign Buyer’s Tax). These projects are to be approved by March, 2017.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Faith. This is something with which I greatly struggle. I am not proud to say, but I indeed have a very difficult time trusting and believing. Even when I've seen all I need to see to know that my fears are lies, I still fall into the pit of disbelief and discouragement. I'll call out to the Lord for help with all my fear, and it seems to be better, but how long will the peace stay? How long will my wandering mind be content? The never-ending question, "What if?" haunts my thoughts. I become enveloped in filthy worries. Where's the freedom now? Where is all this freedom I write about? In the middle of the storm it's hardest to see all I've written to be true. When I least expect it the enemy thrusts his dirty tricks towards me. I'm fed up with him thinking he has dominion over me! It is written that in the name of Jesus every knee must bow, even the demons cannot stand!
So next time I'm faced with fear (because we all know there's going to be a next time), I must remember what Jesus did for us all. He took away the enemy's dominion! When that voice tells you it has power over you, laugh at it. Tell that voice to leave you alone in Jesus's name, because you know what's true. Fear is a lie, and death has been defeated. In the midst of these battles, we are not fighting for victory, because we have already won! Jesus made us victorious, so we are free! John 8:36 says, "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed."
I will no longer listen to what the enemy tells me, because I am certain that everything he says is a lie. He is not on my side in any way! It is written.
One of the most powerful and eye-opening verses ,in my opinion, is John 10:10. It starts like this, "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy." Sounds like what you've been hearing? Me too. But! That is not the end of the story! The verse continues on to say, "I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly." Now that sounds much, much better, agree?
You see, Jesus is on our side! Jesus came to set captives free! Jesus came to be our Friend, Healer, and our Lord. Remember that He will never leave us nor forsake us. "Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." (Deuteronomy 31:6) Go in peace, the Lord is with you.
-The Introverted Evangelist |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | 016404 Ahmad R;Sharma N;Pacchnanda U;Suhail I;Deb K;Bhatnagar Y V;Kaul R (NO, , Wildlife Trust of India, F-13, Sector 8, Noida-201 301, Email: [email protected]) : Distribution and conservation status of the western tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Curr Sci 2017, 112(9), 1948-53.
In India, western tragopan is reported from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Himachal Pradesh and Uttara-khand. We documented the current status and distri-bution of western tragopan in J&K. We also predicted its potential distribution in the state. We used litera-ture, field surveys and semi-structured questionnaire surveys to ascertain the distribution and conservation status of the pheasant species in J&K. Between 2007 and 2011, we conducted counts of western tragopan in five areas: Tattakuti Wildlife Sanctuary, Khara Galli Conservation Reserve (CR), Limber Wildlife Sanctu-ary (WLS), Lacchipora WLS and Kazinag National Park (NP) to assess its current status. We estimated 113 callers of western tragopan from Kazinag NP, Limber WLS, Lacchipora WLS, Tattakuti WLS and Khara Galli CR. We also discovered four new sites-Tattakuti WLS and Khara Galli CR (through direct surveys), Noorpur Galli and Narian-Ratannard (through secondary surveys)-of this species. We have confirmed the presence of western tragopan in Lac-chipora WLS and re-confirmed its presence in Padder, Bhadarwa and Sudh Mahadev. Our habitat model predicted potential distribution of western tragopan, adding few additional potential sites. There is an urgent need to plan long-term monitoring and initiate appropriate measures to conserve the species.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
This collection comprises the following classic epic works:
- The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid of Virgil (I-VI) by Virgil
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Paradise Regained by John Milton |
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AUTUMN HALF TERM - School will close at 2:45pm on Friday 25th October for one week and will re-open to pupils on Monday 4th November at 8:45am.
Teacher Training Day: Friday 8th November. School will be closed to pupils. School will re-open on Monday 11th November.
Autumn Term School News
Northern House School-Racing Team
See the video of the Finals day at Silverstone, click here
July 2019 - School News
18th July 2019
The Newts are Buzzing!
In their final project of the year the Yr7 Newts were tasked with designing and making a buzz wire game in Design & Technology.
18th July 2019
Over the Summer term, Woodpeckers have been looking at the Egyptians. So to finish off the term we decided to mummify each other! The children really enjoyed this activity and there was some great teamwork going on! Although... after we had finished there was quite a lot of tidying to do!
11th July 2019
Entry Level Stars
A selection for Yr9 and 10 students achieved Entry Level certificates in Design & Technology this year.
The students had to answer a wide ranging brief, generate ideas and then make them using workshop tools and machinery. They then had to produce a comprehensive presentation to go alongside their work.
4th July 2019
Music Workshop with Andy Bennett
On Wednesday secondary pupils took part in a Music Workshop delivered by professional musician Andy Bennett (formerly of Ocean Colour Scene).
Andy showed pupils how to play a variety of instruments including percussion, guitar and keyboard.
1st July 2019
Fruit Picking with the Kingfishers
Kingfishers class visited Manor Fruit Farm in Tamworth last week.
June 2019 - School News
27th June 2019
Northern House Sharks Race to Victory!
A selection of Yr9 students took part in the fourth annual Soapbox Derby at Shenstone Lodge school last week. They were successful in winning the overall fastest soapbox with their shark entry.
25th June 2019
Woodpeckers Egyptian Masks
For our topic we have been looking at Pharaohs, we have been looking at Tutankhamun's mask and we have discussed how we can make our own masks and which materials we can use to make it. The children have worked really hard making their own masks over the past few weeks.
News and features from BBC News - Education and Family
- 'Half of women will be carers by the age of 46'
Women can expect to take on caring responsibilities more than a decade earlier than men, says study.
- General election 2019: Lib Dems promise 20,000 more teachers
The party is promising billions more for schools in England, taken from a £50bn so-called "Remain bo…
- Oxford Union debate: President resigns over blind student row
Brendan McGrath apologises for his "mistakes" after Ebenezer Azamati was "accosted" during a debate. |
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George Smaragdis (202) 728-8988
WASHINGTON — FINRA announced today that it has filed a notice seeking a Temporary Cease and Desist Order (TCDO) against San Antonio-based brokerage Pinnacle Partners Financial Corporation and its President, Brian K. Alfaro. The TCDO would halt allegedly fraudulent and illegal sales activities at the firm relating to eight unregistered private placement offerings selling interests in oil and gas joint ventures. FINRA is seeking the order based on belief that customer harm and depletion of customer assets will likely continue before a formal disciplinary proceeding against Pinnacle and Alfaro can be completed.
In its related underlying complaint against Pinnacle Partners and Alfaro, FINRA alleges that from August 2008 to the present Alfaro and Pinnacle have operated a "boiler room" in which numerous brokers place thousands of cold calls every week to solicit investments in Alfaro's oil and gas drilling joint ventures. The operators of the ventures are entities owned or controlled by Alfaro. Through the boiler room Alfaro and Pinnacle have raised more than $10 million from over 100 investors for offerings that are alleged to materially misrepresent or omit material facts. In addition, FINRA charges Alfaro with misusing customer funds by collecting funds from investors for drilling and testing of wells, and then spending those funds for unrelated business and personal expenses.
FINRA also charges that Pinnacle and Alfaro provided investors with investment summaries for eight separate oil and gas offerings that included numerous misrepresentations and omissions including grossly inflated natural gas prices, projected natural gas reserves, estimated gross returns and estimated monthly cash flows.
FINRA has also charged Pinnacle and Alfaro with the sale of unregistered securities; the destruction of documents and the maintenance of inaccurate books and records; and the failure to report numerous customer complaints.
Under FINRA rules, a hearing shall be conducted not later than 15 days after service of the notice and filing that initiates the temporary cease and desist proceeding, unless extended, and the Hearing Panel shall issue a decision not later than 10 days after receipt of the hearing transcript. If the temporary cease and desist order is granted, it will generally remain in effect until the underlying disciplinary action against the firm for this misconduct has been resolved. FINRA may seek to suspend or expel a firm for violating a TCDO.
As to the related underlying complaint, under FINRA rules, the individuals and firms named in a complaint can file a response and request a hearing before a FINRA disciplinary panel. Possible sanctions include a fine, an order to pay restitution, censure, suspension, or bar from the securities industry.
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Low Carbon Hub's Community Energy Fund re-opened for new investment on 10 March 2020. They are inviting local people to join over 1,000 existing investors in the Low Carbon Hub by investing. They’ll put their money to work tackling climate change – helping us to make an energy system that works for all of us, and for the planet, a reality.
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Low Carbon Hub opened the Community Energy Fund to pledges on 14 February, asking people to make a pledge to invest when they re-opened the Fund. We were blown away with the response to this, and they are thrilled to have ~£250,000 already pledged.
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What can I do about the climate crisis? It’s the question we’re all asking ourselves.
We each try to do our bit, with our time, our choices and our money. These small steps all help, but we also need large-scale change – ambitious new ideas and approaches. Here at the Low Carbon Hub we’re already at the heart of a growing partnership of people and organisations across Oxfordshire, working together, for a low carbon future. And this success means we can do even more. We’re pioneering a bold new way to tackle one of the biggest challenges of all – how to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon energy system and stop our reliance on burning fossil fuels for energy.
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The money invested in the fund is used to grow our portfolio of community renewable energy projects in Oxfordshire, allowing us to generate more green energy and to deliver ground-breaking collaborative partnerships which are accelerating the transition to a zero carbon energy system. More information on how we will use the money invested can be found in our Share Offer Document, available online.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | I got scheduled a court date for 39:3-40 back in March for my insurance I believe. Pandemic came and they scheduled it again for June but courts weren’t open. Just paid that ticket from the courts and it was $153 plus $33 court fees. Before me paying that ticket, I got pulled over again for my... Read more »
That sounds frustrating. I doubt you will lose your license. In all likelihood, you will show up at the mandated hearing, explain what happened to the prosecutor and if you can show proof that everything is in good order (ie. license is back in good standing, registration is good,...Read more »
When a city's agencies and officers repeatedly do things that not only contradicts the city's own codes but harm it's residents and citizens,can its citizens sue the city leadership on the grounds of being PUBLIC NUISANCE?
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | By Tim Printy
“Unless we develop drastically new ideas and methodologies for the study of the baffling UFO cases and the human context in which they occur, we will watch the next thirty years of UFO report gathering simply mirror the futility and frustration of the last thirty years.” (Allan Hendry, UFO Investigator’s handbook, p. 285)
It is interesting that we are now just past that thirty year mark Allan Hendry had commented about in his book. As he predicted, UFOlogy’s process is the same and no advancements have been made. UFOlogists collect UFO reports and conclude that UFOs must be some form of craft under “intelligent control”.
Although they never state “who” is controlling these “craft”, there is always the implication that they are alien spaceships. What has UFOlogy done to demonstrate this is true? Peter Sturrock thought the evidence had improved because he invited some scientists to examine the best evidence gathered in the first fifty years of UFOlogy. To his dismay, Sturrock discovered that the scientists were not overly impressed by the presentations or the data. The panel actually wrote that there still was no evidence of anything extraordinary in these reports and suggested other possibilities. Among their critique were comments about current investigations suffering from low standards of research. They also noted that investigators needed to be more willing to evaluate rival hypothesis objectively. While Sturrock trumpeted the fact that the panel felt that Condon may have been hasty when he stated that science will learn nothing from the study of UFOs. It was a hollow victory at best. The panel agreed with Condon that nothing has been learned from studying UFOs, which is the biggest issue here.
The past thirty years of UFOlogy has been wasted chasing grand conspiracies. These are essentially the same conspiracies that were being chased in the first thirty years by UFO groups! Has new and reliable evidence surfaced that clearly demonstrates that a conspiracy exists? So far, the answer is no. I am sure UFOlogists might disagree with me here and point to some vague statement, produce blacked out documents, or even mention MJ-12. None of these prove anything other than the government is concerned about secrets that may or may not have anything to do with covering up the truth about
UFOlogy has also spent time chasing various crashes of alien spaceships. Despite many stories from various locations, not once has a scrap of any of these craft survived to be examined. That is unless you believe the government conspiracy angle. In that case, anything is possible. You can create something out of nothing. All it takes is for a bright meteor to appear in the sky and have a few people state it was a spaceship that was immediately whisked away by the US military. It is interesting that this is the only endeavor that the US government seems to be good at performing. They hide everything and not one government document that has surfaced to date demonstrates that anything exotic has ever been recovered. Still, the stories keep coming in and are readily accepted by UFOlogists. Even if no scraps of material have ever been recovered, UFOlogists trumpet they have thousands of cases of “trace evidence” from UFO landings. Too bad most of these “traces” are analyzed by amateurs and not by any scientific organizations setup for the study of such samples. The lack of any scientific results says a lot about the “trace” evidence. There may be some anomalies in the soil but they, like most UFO reports, are not completely inexplicable.
Then there are the abduction stories, which can be explained as sleep disorders. When the PBS program NOVA asked for any abduction evidence back in 1990s, UFOlogists took a pass. They could have presented implants or other items they claim proves their case. Instead, they appeared to fear having their evidence tested.
This brings us to the various UFO “coin collectors”, who collect UFO reports as if they were precious artifacts. The major problem with all these cases is they really do not mean much. Sure, some are really interesting and may not be satisfactorily explainable. However, that does not mean the reports are accurate or, in some cases, even happened. There is always room to question each case.
What does UFOlogy expect to do in the future? I have read MUFON has gotten a lot of money to create special teams to go to a UFO event and gather evidence. I am not certain what this will accomplish since there are no cases to date that seem to have produced such evidence. I personally think the money will be wasted and nothing will be accomplished. It was also my impression that MUFON already had specially trained groups in each state and they certainly can reach an area within hours of news of a UFO crash or landing. Why would another team of “experts” be necessary? Does this mean the present organization and investigator “training” is completely worthless? What they should do with the money is establish all sky video coverage the same way amateur astronomers are doing with meteors. Remember, UFOs are stated to be solid craft which are, in some cases, immense in size. To increase resolution, multiple cameras (vice one with wide angle lens) can be used with lenses that only cover a selected section of the sky. If done properly, the whole sky will still be covered. Video recordings with low light cameras from several locations could produce actual data that can be analyzed by everyone! The cost would not be too significant and three stations a few miles apart per major city would be a start. Additionally, they can be made mobile so focus can be put on areas of increased UFO activity. Even if no UFOs are recorded, one can use the videos to determine the source of UFO reports from that area. Of course, that means they would be used to debunk UFO sightings. I don’t think UFOlogists would be interested in that kind of research.
As Hendry noted, UFOlogy needs to fix itself. Attacking the problem the same old way, will get you the same old results. This is exactly what UFOlogists continue to do in their quest for evidence. Does UFOlogy really have the wisdom to produce real data for scientists or are they just interested in perpetuating a mystery? Is it easier to sell books, fill convention halls, and appear on Larry King than it is to gather data that can be quantified and measured? The world wonders….. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The Neurosciences and the Arts
by Norman N. Holland
January 1, 2001
The neurosciences and the human sciences seek mind in two different ways. One studies special populations under experimental conditions. The other proceeds from the assumption set out by Chomsky and Freud, that whatever all humans do must be innate in the brain. Combining these two approaches is leading to insights into the arts. Understanding the brain processes that use universal grammar suggests the special "exercise" function of poetic language. Metaphor as embodied thought is probably hard wired in the brain also. The sociality inherent in our brains explains audience and reader response. Systems in the brain for a persistent identity explain also the persistence of artists' styles. Infants' experience with animate and inanimate objects may explain our dual experience of literature and the arts: emotional and analytical.
I and my fellow PSYART editors read and publish articles about the application of psychology to the arts. As editors, we may occasionally take the liberty of airing our own opinions in these even airier electronic pages. It is in that spirit that I offer this rather speculative piece.
--Norman N. Holland
For a couple of decades now, I have been exploring certain new developments in the field of literature-and-psychology or, in general, the psychology of the arts. I believe something very profound is happening to the theory involved, les sciences de l'homme, as the French say, these "human sciences." I think we who study literature or art or philosophy or history are no longer studying just the various texts or techniques in our disciplines. I think we are now, as Mark Turner (1991) wisely insists, studying how the human mind works when we are doing literature or art or philosophy or history. What is art? also asks, What is mind?
When we raise these questions, we humanists are in much the same position as the neuroscientists. For them, too, the ultimate goal is the discovery of mind--What is it? How does it work? How did we get it? I think of neuroscience and the human sciences as like two very small human beings energetically tunneling in from opposite sides of a very large Alp.
The Alp is big, and the two sides are far from a useful connection. Nevertheless, we can begin to sense, at a distance, what those connections might turn out to be like.
I imagine the neuroscientists tunneling in from the west, and the humanists from the east. I am afraid the neuroscientists on the west side of the Alp do not listen much to sounds of digging from the humanists on the east side. Humanists, however, listen very closely to what the neuroscientists are doing; they read popular writers like Damasio (1999), Pinker (1999b), Edelman (1992), Ratey (2001), Gazzaniga (1992), and many others. Often the humanists in their eagerness jump the gun, as I am perhaps doing. We demand from popularizations of neuroscience firm knowledge despite the neuroscientists' careful labeling of their "big" ideas as speculation.
At any rate, the neuroscientists and we of the human sciences, even if we are divided into two groups, share the same hope. Although dwarfed by the mountain, we hope our diggings will meet in the middle of that huge Alp and there discover this mysterious, magical treasure, Mind. We hope.
From the human science side, Noam Chomsky and his group in the 1970s set out the basic reasoning when they began talking about Universal Grammar or UG (Chomsky, 1975). If all human languages share certain common grammatical practices, then that common grammar must somehow be built into our brains. If making sentences using subjects and verbs is something everybody does, then you must be able to infer something about the brain from that fact. In general, then, we in the human sciences, such as linguistics, can infer things about brain and mind from things that all human beings do. Grammar, for example, must be innate just as much as a four-chambered heart or a five-fingered hand.
From the neuroscience side, the tunnelers are digging more directly. Instead of inferring from all humans, they work from specialized populations, Vietnam veterans or left-handed people or victims of autism. The neuroscientists' strongest evidence comes from people with brain damage (from accidents, strokes, or tumors, for example). By comparing the sites which are damaged to the mental abilities that are impaired, the neuroscientist hopes to isolate the brain function corresponding to a given behavior.
In effect, the lesioned patient (or animal) provides the special case. To explore the consequences of that specialness, the neuroscientists create special experimental situations that do not correspond to ordinary life--"non-ecological" situations as the psychologists say. That is, after all, how you do experiments: with controlled conditions. Having found a certain mental process, they then try to model it and look for sites or systems in the brain that would correspond to the different elements in the process. My brief account, of course, grossly simplifies what neuroscientists do on their side of the Alp, but perhaps it will serve for our purposes.
Within that general framework of special populations and experimental conditions, explanations get very complicated indeed. Some rely simply on neuroanatomy, parts of the brain, as when the neurologists say that the right side of the brain tends to be the side that reasons holistically, while the left side deals with sequential processes. Neurophysiologists would go further, combining anatomical features into systems that connect typically, higher brain functions in the neocortex or outer limbic system to regions in the midbrain or pons. Neuropsychologists try to correlate behaviors, particularly in carefully orchestrated experimental situations, with regions or systems in the brain. Often their work takes the form of modeling a behavioral process, like speech, and using the behavior of people with lesions in certain areas to try to localize some part of that process.
Those systems and indeed 99% of neurons communicate with one another by means of neurotransmitters, and these are what neurochemists and neuropharmacologists study. Neurotransmitters are exceedingly complex. Estimates are that there are as many as 200 different neurotransmitters, only fifty of which have been investigated deeply. Also, a given neurotransmitter may act differently in different parts of the brain. And further, the brain talks to the body by means of hormones, and the body talks back to the brain using both hormones and neurotransmitters.
Finally there are explanations of developments or behaviors as expressions of genes (or, more properly, clusters of genes). We have genes that program us for this or that. It is important, however, to remember that any genetic explanation has to have two parts, because a gene only expresses in a certain environment. To explain a genetic phenomenon, one must point to the genes plus the environment that triggers the gene to express. Hence the claim that there is a "gene for violence" has to be unpacked. The claim means that there is a gene such that, one, if the individual has that gene and, two, if the individual grows up in a violent environment, the gene will adapt the invidividual to that environment. It will lower serotonin levels and lead to more violent responses to stimuli.
I see one curious difference in approach between the human sciences on the east side of the Alp and the neurosciences on the west. So far as the west side is concerned, in the course of two years of attending lectures and papers by neurologists, I can remember only two that dealt with children and both were about dyslexics, a special population. Often, in textbooks of brain science, no mention is made of children at all. Foetal development of brain, yes--there is a lot of discussion of foetal brains--but not childrens' brains. The humanist side of the Alp, however, shows considerable interest in children's patterns of development. The linguists and anthropologists on the east side of the Alp focus strongly on children's acquisition of language or metaphor or pretense and children's psychological development within a culture. Both are assumed, in this tradition, to have foundations in the brain.
As you can see, all this is very complicated. In the U.S.A., it takes four years of further study after the four years of medical school to qualify as a neurologist, and, even after that, there are usually a series of fellowships with senior researchers before the tyro is ready to undertake independent research. As so often in psychological work, it is hard to draw general conclusions from highly specific procedures. As a result, the neuroscientific literature consists of very precise experiments and techniques with very tentative suggestions of their larger implications. Life is easier, if less reliable, on the humanists' side of the Alp, where we find linguists and anthropologists and theorists of literature. We are all too ready to jump to sweeping generalizations, expanding the neuroscientists' carefully circumscribed work to span the universals in human behavior.
In a way, Freud anticipated Chomsky's reasoning when he wrote the Project for a Scientific Psychology in 1895. Like Chomsky, he was trying to reason backward from universal human behaviors like dreams and symptoms and desire and satisfaction and inhibition to structures in the brain. Unfortunately, working in the 1890s, he did not have concepts with which to model these behaviors neurologically. At the time of the Project, the neuron was still a hypothesis, one that Freud accepted, to be sure, but one that many of his colleagues still did not. Further, it was not until the 1920s that Loewi and Dale established that it was by means of neurotransmitter molecules that neurons communicated with one another. Necessarily frustrated in his attempt, Freud never published the Project and turned to psychology. In his later writings, lacking electronic models which would have served nicely, he had to resort to hydraulics, which proved at best a very clumsy analogy. He never gave up hoping, however, that someday biology and neurology would confirm his ideas.
There is another way to reason backward from human universals. This is evolutionary psychology, a development over the past few decades (Cosmides & Tooby, 1997). Some neuroscientists work in evolutionary psychology and many more agree with its general principles. The argument is that anything all humans do must have been selected for in an evolutionary process.
We hominids--our branch of the primate order, pongid family--have been around for some five million years. But our particular species, homo sapiens sapiens, has only been around for about a hundred thousand years. So far as we know, there have been no evolutionary changes in our make-up in that time. For example, gossip. All humans talk about other humans; we gossip. It has been suggested that gossip serves for us the same purpose that grooming serves for other pongids. It helps us maintain a mental index of individuals that tells us who outranks whom, who is good for a favor, who is likely to be hostile, who would be useful at a hunt or a childbirth, and so on, knowledge that enables us to survive in a social environment. Gossip obviously conferred a tremendous evolutionary advantage on those primates that developed it, and so with language. (But, one can ask, what advantage does poetry or fiction confer? Evidently some advantage, the evolutionary psychologists would say, since all human cultures do these things.)
There is a particularly interesting branch of evolutionary theory called Baldwinian evolution, after the American psychologist James Mark Baldwin. Baldwin argued that social changes in, for example, technology could create changes in the genome. For example, as long as humans were in Africa as hunter-gatherers, if adults could not digest milk, that was a valuable trait. It may have protected against illness or death from stale or diseased milk. It certainly left more milk for the infants who needed it. As a result, people who had lactose intolerance would have more surviving offspring than people who didn't. Their genes would predominate. But, when people moved into Europe and began to cultivate herds of cattle, lactose intolerance would be a negative trait. People who could survive a famine on milk would have more offspring than people who could not tolerate lactose. Over time, people with lactose intolerance would be represented less and less in the gene population and ultimately they would be almost gone from the genome itself. And it happened. European populations generally tolerate lactose and African populations generally do not. In effect, a cultural change led to a genetic change, over a relatively fewer number of generations than biological evolution requires. A cultural change had effect of a Lamarckian evolution without the false genetic mechanisms Lamarck posited. Indeed, Baldwinian evolution proceeds without any genetic mechanisms, only a cultural differentiation in number of surviving carriers of one's genes.
Baldwinian evolution may have something to say about literature. Is it possible that people who are skilled at certain cultural activities like dance or story-telling gain a favored position in the gene pool? Is it possible that we have poetry and drama because the genes that give rise to poets and actors and, indeed, appreciative audiences are specially selected for in the world of homo sapiens sapiens? Ellen Dissanayake suggests that the arts develop our ability to make something special, to single one thing out from the stream of experience, and that this ability gives the arts evolutionary value.
On the humanists' side of the Alp, one powerful idea has been the development of X-Bar theory, with its suggestion of a universal grammar at least for phrase structures. Steven Pinker has a superb exposition of the theory in The Language Instinct, and that is what I am adapting here (Pinker, S., The language instinct, 1994, pp. 74-152).
Consider a noun phrase about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the senator from New York from Arkansas The grammatical structure of the phrase consists of a header, "senator," which provides the organization for the rest of the phrase. The header "senator" takes an argument, a property that goes with it: being a senator includes being a senator representing some particular state, hence the senator from New York, header plus argument. From New York is essential, but one can also say inessential things about that senator, namely, that she really hails from Arkansas. This inessential fact is an "adjunct." Note how the meaning of the sentence changes if we say the senator from Arkansas from New York Adjuncts cannot come between the header and its arguments. The form of the sentence determines its meaning.
Now consider a verb phrase: I gave money to the senator in February Now it is the verb "gave" that is the header, and its arguments are what one gives and whom one gives it to, essential grammatical participants for the verb give. (The "I" is called a specifier and need not concern us here.) One argument is "money," and we would not put the adjunct "in February" between "gave" and "money." We would not say, I gave in February money to the senator We might say I gave money in February to the senator, since the adjunct "in February" does not disrupt the header-argument connection.
The same rule applies to a prepositional phrase. In the phrase, "in February," the preposition "in" is the header and it requires an object, the argument, "money." We would not interrupt their connection by saying, in I gave February.
The rule applies even to word formation. In English, the rightmost affix is the header to a word like psychoanalytic from which I can coin an ideological term, psychoanalyticism. Rules similar to X-Bar rules prevent my saying psychoanalytismic.
In short, there is a single X-Bar rule in English that applies to verb, noun, and preposition phrases and to word formation, one rule. As it turns out, there are similar X-Bar rules for many other languages. English is an SVO language. That is, we normally arrange a sentence in the order, subject-verb-object, I gave money. Some other languages, like Turkic or Japanese, are SOV languages. The object comes before the verb, the header. It turns out that those languages do not have as we do, prepositions which precede their objects (header followed by argument). They have postpositions, which follow their objects (argument followed by header) But with that reversal the same X-Bar rules apply to prepositional phrases in those languages and also to noun and verb phrases.
Hence we get the claim of universal grammar. We can have the same rule with a switch from header first to header last to change the rule for English to the rule for Japanese. This is the basis for Chomsky's claim that we have something like eighty switches in our brains for language, which are set this way or that by the language environment in which we grow up. We inherit a set of linguistic tendencies or "principles" and a specific language experience sets the "parameters."
In a later book, Words and Rules, Pinker (1999a) explores the way we know how to inflect regular and irregular verbs and nouns. In Engish, we normally form the past tense by adding -ed: help-helped, walk-walked, and so on. How do we know that the past tense of go or lead or drink isn't formed that way? How do we know that we should use drank instead of drinked? In English, we normally form the plural of a noun by adding -s How do we know that the plural of man is men, of sheep is sheep, of mouse is mice? How do we know that we should say cans and not cen or houses and not hice? Pinker suggests that we process regular and irregular forms in different brain systems. He further posits a system that looks at a word, house, say, then scans a list of irregulars in memory, does not find it, and then applies the regular rule. In a very tentative way, he suggests that the scanning of the list of irregulars takes place in the left temporal-parietal regions and the application of the rule for regular forms occurs in the left frontal lobe (Pinker, 1999a, pp. 267-68).
What, if anything, does all this have to do with literature? It suggests that the kind of play with language that we experience in poetry or "musical" prose involves the brain in a different kind of processing from the logical, step-by-step sequential processing of language that neurology traditionally associates with the language centers like Broca's area, Wernicke's area, and the arcuate fasciculus. This special, "poetic" language must jump around in our brains in unusual ways, like a kind of exercise. Thus, there is evidence that we process initial consonants differently from final consonants and fricatives (¦f¦, ¦s¦, or ¦z¦) and affricates (as in eigh¦th¦) in a special place. If so, then, rhyme and alliteration would exercise those areas in unusual ways. English-speaking Broca's aphasics tend to omit grammatical morphemes, while German and Italian aphasics tend to substitute one grammatical morpheme for another (Taylor & Taylor, 1990, pp. 384-86). In general, it appears that we process the details of language (those that we play with in the sound effects of poetry) by many different systems in the brain. Poetic language makes us exercise those different centers in unexpected or challenging ways. In that sense, the ability to create or participate in poetry or chant may confer an evolutionary advantage in the form of better linguistic skills for communication, persuasion, cheating, and so on.
In general, however, I am skeptical about explanations from evolutionary psychology. They quickly degenerate into speculation about life 100,000 years ago or evolutionary advantages that we can ony guess at. Nevertheless, many people on both sides of the Alp value this approach highly.
Another group of linguists has developed yet another claim to linguistic universal: metaphor. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) have described metaphor as a process by which we use ideas about a source, something that we understand pretty well, to understand a target, something that we understand less well. The example they give (and the one everyone uses who expounds this theory) is the metaphorical mapping, LOVE IS A JOURNEY. From this mapping, we can generate metaphorical sentences like: We're not getting anywhere in this relationship. This relationship is on the rocks We've lost our way We've come to a dead end We're spinning our wheels We're getting on swimmingly We're headed for the altar. Or that country-and-western song, "We're driving in the fast lane on the freeway of love." All of these enable us to talk about something complicated, love, in terms of something physical and visible and well understood, getting from here to there.
These "cognitive linguists" estimate that we do about 90% of our talking and thinking in this kind of metaphor. (Only those statements are non-metaphorical that do not go from one domain to another, from source to target, like, This car has three wheels.) Further, all known cultures make source-to-target metaphors this way.
Within this general framework of source-to-target mapping, one can distinguish "primary" and "secondary" metaphors. Secondary metaphors use sources from a particular culture like our fast lanes and freeways. Primary metaphors stem from universal human experiences, usually physical experiences, like up-down, fast-slow, hot-cold, near-far, balance-imbalance, and so on. Primary metaphors can and do occur in, apparently, all cultures.
If all cultures use this mapping, then this kind of metaphorical reasoning from source to target must be wired into our brains. Neurologist Antonio Damasio (1999, p. 347n4) has suggested that this concept of metaphor matches his insistence on an "embodied mind." That is, he argues, our core sense of self and, indeed, all our higher mental activities are based on the representation of the body in the brain. Hence, at a deep, physiological level, our most abstract thinking is grounded in bodily experience. In effect, our bodies are source domains for the various target domains of our cognitive processes. And Damasio can point to pathways in the brain that could be the basis for this kind of hard-wired metaphorical thinking. Very tentatively, Lakoff and his group have developed neural network simulations that mimic the metaphorical system of traveling from here to there along a path.
Whatever the brain processes for metaphor are, understanding metaphor as this kind of mapping from source to target opens up the possibility of the analysis of poems and stories. In More than Cool Reason, Lakoff and Mark Turner (1989) do superb analyses of a William Carlos Williams poem and a multitude of proverbs. In effect, the analysis of metaphors that link our bodies to abstractions point us to connections between the various sensory and motor cortices and the cognitive centers of the prefrontal lobes.
Neuroscience extends toward literary interests yet another way: toward our emotional responses to texts both as individuals and, collectively, as an audience. In Poems in Persons (Holland, 1973; Holland, 2000), I wrote about collective responses in a psychoanalytic, non-neuroscientific way. Looking at the commonality of audience reactions--everybody laughs, everybody boos--I suggested a mechanism. In a theater, to the physical play or film in front of any one member of the audience, are added the reactions of those around that individual, at least to the extent that those reactions are visible: "They are laughing." "They are moved." "They are restless." "They think this is awful." These responses by the others around me license my own. They are saying, it's all right to laugh, it's all right to cry, it's all right to think this is a piece of trash. In psychoanalytic terms, I have my own defense mechanisms by which I relate to the work. But, in an audience, I fuse my defense mechanisms with the behavior of those around me. I borrow from them a license to do what they are doing, to laugh, to boo, to applaud, to cry. In psychoanalytic jargon, I introject their response and merge it with my own.
Mel Brooks' outrageous movie, The Producers (1968), illustrates the principle at work. The producers, hoping for a huge (and profitable) tax loss, have put on a musical comedy glorifying the Third Reich with songs like "Springtime for Hitler." At first the audience sits there in shocked, stunned, and stony silence. A few people indignantly walk out. Then someone laughs, then someone else, and finally the whole theater explodes in laughter. The audience has been provided a defense--treat this monstrosity as a joke--and, to their horror, the producers have a hit on their hands.
Peer opinions exercise a surprisingly powerful influence. Many psychological experiments have shown that a group opinion will make an individual change even such black-and-white factual statements as the relative length of two lines. In the theater, producers and directors have sensed this for centuries and hired claques and catcallers and "canned" laughter accordingly.
From a neurological point of view, our brains are specialized for social behavior. We have "mirror neurons" that react the same way when we watch someone perform an action as when we perform it ourselves. In our brains, we are social animals, and, in a way, our minds are porous. The opinions--the psychic strategies, really--of others seep in and mingle with our own, changing and adapting our brain processes to theirs. We are built for intersubjectivity, for shared knowledge and shared feelings. Specifically,in the brain, the amygdala plus the orbital frontal cortex provide the components for a social brain system that means we will probably respond to an action on stage or screen as our fellow-humans do. The neuroscience corroborates the psychological and psychoanalytic theories of audience reaction.
We do not limit our sociality to being in an audience, though. An individual reading at home alone feels emotional responses to a literary text. Why? We will all respond to certain situations in the real world with anger or sexual jealousy or desire or fear. Social situations evoke standard responses, with, of course, a lot of individual variation. Writers of fiction and poetry describe social situations in order to evoke emotions. A mirroring process in our brains guarantees that we will probably respond the same way to imaginings of those situations, to their fictional representation in words, as to the situations themselves. To an extent, we lend our minds to the novel we are reading or, perhaps more accurately, we introject its events and persons, feeling them as if they were our own experience.
At least we do that when we are "absorbed" or "engrossed" or "rapt." Coleridge's phrasing is classic: the "willing suspension of disbelief." Neuroscientist Leslie Brothers (1997), like such psychoanalysts as D. W. Winnicott or Donald Stern, suggests there is an archaic state in which we do not distinguish self from other. For the psychoanalysts, one reaches that infantile state in adult life by regressions. For Brothers, the social brain is always responding to other faces. She concludes that the amygdala's projections to orbital frontal cortex, anterior cingulate guyrus and temporal pole cortex (and other structures) provide the basis for the social brain and this self-other merging Brothers (1997, 56). The psychoanalysts trace it to early infancy when mother and infant are only half-separate emotionally. The baby-watcher Colwyn Trevarthen (Trevarthen, 1979) has demonstrated how a mother's baby-talk, as she leans over her infant, evokes the infant's responsive movements of arms and limbs in time to her phrasings. It is a "dance" in which the two partners are perfectly attuned to one another. According to a psychoanalytic critic like me, we sometimes recapture that "dance" when we become "absorbed" in works of art. According to a neuroscientist like Brothers, we do so through our social brain. The two explanations converge.
Metaphor and emotional response are two literary concepts for which we may be able, even now, to state a neurological basis. Style is another. As a literary critic, I'm acutely conscious of styles. With some writers, Hemingway, say, or Faulkner, you only have to read a few sentences to be able to say, That's Hemingway, that's Faulkner. We use this sense of recognition when we parody a writer, as in the well-known Ernest Hemingway contest held every year in Key West: who can write the best bad Hemingway sentence? We recognize styles in other arts as well, for example, music. Mozart or Beethoven or the Beatles--a few bars and you know which composer you're listening to even if you don't know the particular piece of music.
We also read people in everyday life in terms of styles. We say things like, "Oh, that's just like Ken." Or, "Steve isn't himself today." In other words, we can see a recurring pattern in the way someone writes or talks or walks, and we see new behaviors against that previous pattern that we have recognized.
These styles are extremely persistent. Bernard Malamud once said to me, "Every novelist only writes one novel." Commenting on an exhibit of Willem de Kooning's late works, done when de Kooning's mind was deteriorating, neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote (1990): "Style is the deepest part of one's being, and may be preserved, almost to the last, in a dementia." "Style, in short, is the deepest thing in one's being" (Sacks, 1974, p. 239n).
It is "style" in that sense that I wish to explore here. From the point of view of the human sciences, Heinz Lichtenstein (1961; 1977) has, I believe, provided the strongest way of approaching these patterns. Lichtenstein proposed thinking about a person's "style" as a pattern and variations on that pattern, like a theme and variations in music. You can--and we do--understand a person by formulating such a theme or themes, although rarely do we do it explicitly. We sense a pattern in a person's choices and then look at variations on the theme. As in music, one theme can have an infinite mumber of variations, but one will always be able to discern the theme underneath the variations.
In music, a theme is an idea in musical notes. To understand human identities, however, one has to use words to formulate a theme. Lichtenstein argued that each of us has such an "identity theme," acquired in the early relationship between infant and mother (or "primary caregiver"). He clained that this theme was instilled in the person by the early relation of primary caregiver and infant.
HLichtenstein gave a number of instances, and, in my own work, I have done the same (Holland 1975, pp. 67-112; 1982, pp. 143-171; 1989). The example of "Dr. Vincent" suggests the robust persistence of identity. Dr. Vincent (Holland, 1985, pp. 67-73) was a victim of Chinese brainwashing (reported by Robert Jay Lifton [1961, pp. 33-59]). From his earliest years, Dr. Vincent had cut himself off from other people. My father, he said to Lifton, "didn't succeed to have my inside" After medical training, he had emigrated from France, choosing an isolated life, practicing in rural China and hunting in the wild, where he did not have to confide in anyone. Liften speaks of his "basic core of character" as "the experience must be his, or it is no expeerience at all." I read his identity theme as: To need is to give up one's insides, a prospect he abhorred.
Arrested and brainwashed into confession, he flipped inside out. He became a compulsive confessor, eagerly complying with the brainwashers. Even after his release, he would pour out his feelings to anyone who would listen. It was as though a glove had been turned inside out: it went from left to right but remained a glove. That is, Vincent's centering theme, giving up his insides, remained central, but he flipped from not giving out to the opposite. Then, once he was released, he gradually returned to his old, isolated self, refusing, for example to give further interviews to Lifton.
Lichtenstein's leading case was a woman who completely changed her life as a result of psychoanalysis, yet retained the same core issues and patterns. He concluded that so persistent an identity theme was somehow instilled in the brain through the unique intersubjectivity of this child and this mother. This cild learns to be the child for this particular mother. Writing in the 1960s and '70s, however, Lichtenstein lacked either neurological or psychological backing for his thesis.
Recently, Allan Schore, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has scoured the neurological literature, has provided support for Lichtenstein's ideas. Schore himself doesn't do brain research, but he has read and put together an astonishingly large body of neurological work. His book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (1994), contains some 2300 references (Schore, 1994).
From the outset, Schore says, maternal interactions regulate emotions. He draws on the baby-watchers, such as Colwyn Trevarthen (1979). Specifically, the mother serves as an external regulator of the neurochemicals in the infant's developing brain. Schore finds two critical developmental stages.
He situates the first critical period at the end of the first year of life, as the child becomes more mobile. Maternal stimulations, particularly through gaze and experiences of joy and reunion as the child walks away and comes back--these experiences activate the sympathetic nervous system. They produce neuroendocrine changes, in Schore's technical language, innervation of orbitofrontal areas, particularly in the early maturing visuospatial right hemisphere. Specifically, these positive experiences create dopamine releasing axons in the orbitofrontal cortex and they encourage maturation of the ventral tegmental forebrain-midbrain circuit. Ascending subcortical axons form a neurochemical circuit of the limbic system, particularly the sympathetic ventral tegmental limbic circuit. The child acquires the capacity to form an interactive representational model that underlies an early functional system of affect regulation. In ordinary language, the child regulates its own positive emotions through recognition of the maternal face and the positive emotions in that face.
Schore theorizes a second critical period associated in the second year, say 14-16 months, with the onset of socialization procedures. At this time, the child experiences shame: Get your fingers out of the light socket! These experiences of shame, of feeling that you've done something wrong, lead to a different pattern of psychoneuroendocrine alterations. Schore sees an expansion of another limbic circuit; he names the parasympathetic lateral tegmental limbic circuit. This then gets wired into the orbitofrontal cortex, creating an inhibitory system. To me, it is no surprise that Schore's two stages correspond roughly to the traditional psychoanalytic concepts of an oral and an anal stage, a stage of fusion and a stage of inhibition and separateness.
These mother-child interactions will be unique for each mother-child pair. What Schore says these developments have created, then, is a unique pattern of affect regulation. It seems to me that, in this unique pattern of choices, Schore has proposed a neurological basis for what I, following Lichtenstein, have been calling a style or identity. Affect regulation, it seems to me, is what regulates virtually all other brain processes. That is, the feeling you get after you look at something or hear something or eat something determines what you will do next. Affect regulation determines what will "feel right" to you as you make choices fromt he repertoire the world offers you. A brain-based pattern of affect regulation will be the neurological basis for the identity theme we infer as we observe an individual's choices. Schore's stages leading to lifelong patterns of affect regulation correspond in neurological terms to Lichtenstein's identity theme arising from early mother-child interactions and my literary concept of a style that derives from early childhood experiences.
In my own mind, I combine that sense of a persistent identity theme with another strain of neuroscientific thought, the social brain that reacts in common with all other humans. In effect, then, the neuroscientists are providing the humanists with the neurology for explaining one of the most puzzling aspects of the literary process. We respond to an artistic or literary work to some extent as others do but to a considerable extent in an individual way. The neuroscientists offer, I hesitantly suggest, differing, but not contradictory, mechanisms for these two kinds of response. One would be the circuits Brothers associates with the social brain. The other would be the circuits Schore associates with the individual's pattern of affect regulation.
There is one last, large literary issue about which, it seems to me, neuroscience has something to offer, the nature of our literary responses. As critics from time immemorial have pointed out, we humans have two kinds of response to a text we are looking at literarily. In one, we are, perhaps, absorbed or rapt. We respond to situations or words or characters emotionally without much thinking about ourselves reacting (Schafer, 1968, pp. 101, 109-110). As described above, in section 6, we respond emotionally to social stimuli as other humans, indeed, as other primates might. In another mode, we analyze, we interpret, we theorize the literary work. We respond intellectually, suppressing the emotional response. We are distinctively human, homo sapiens sapiens sapienting away.
I think these two different responses may come from a distinction we learned to draw very early in life. Among these baby-watching psychologists studying early infancy, there is some agreement that, very early on, at the age of 27 weeks (perhaps innately therefore), infants show that they can tell animate from inanimate objects (Premack & Premack, 1995; Leslie & Keeble, 1987). They distinguish animate from inanimate by whether moving objects' movements are caused internally or externally. Understanding internally caused movements leads via a "naïve psychology" to the social intelligence about such things as motives that we share with our primate kin. Understanding externally caused movements leads to a "naïve physics," including an idea of cause-and-effect. We may be born with these understandings in place, but they surely come into being at least within the first two years of life. They are, as you would therefore expect, hard to overturn.
In responding to literature, when we respond emotionally, we invoke our special perception of animate objects. We bring into play the emotional responses of fear or desire or anger that other primates would feel under similar circumstances. The line between self and other can blur (as I suggested in Holland, 1968, pp. 63-103), or we introject the behavior of the people around us in an audience, merging their defense mechanisms into our own (as I suggested in (Holland, 1973, 2000, ch. 3).
Imagine the situation in a play or a movie, where you are part of an audience. You can be sitting back (as in Brecht's alienation-effect, smoking and watching, thinking judgmentally about what you are seeing). Or you can be identified with a character and you can be taking in defense mechanisms from others in the audience. What happens when you are reading a book? You can be absorbed into the book, or you can be theorizing it, planning a critical article, say.
In other words, our dual relation to a literary work combines two things that the neuropsychologists distinguish: our different relations to animate and inanimate objects. Experiencing literature, I treat it as if it were (or embodied) an animate being like myself with feelings and motives. IExperiencing literature that way involves constructing those human attributes inside oneself. Using the porous social brain, one feels art and literature "in here." One responds with emotions to the situations described.
By contrast, when I am being a dispassionate, analytical critic, I take an intellectual, unfeeling stance toward an object evidently "out there," external to myself. Analysis and theory, intellection, judging take the place of emotional experience.
Very, very loosely, the distinction corresponds to a right-brain reaction as contrasted to a left-brain reaction. Naturally, in different situations, we do one or the other or both, as need be. I can be more precise and less split-brain. in one relationship I am thinking sequentially and logically, following the prototype of the "naive physics" of infancy. In the other relationship, I am responding in terms of infancy's "naive psychology." Each has its different brain physiology.
Clearly, in that paragraph and indeed in all the above, I have been pushing the neuroscientists' careful step-by-step science as far as I can and probably farther than they would care to go. While the psychologists who watch babies see them distinguishing animate from inanimate objects, they have not, so far as I know, found a basis in the brain for this. Similarly, while X-Bar structure or metaphor may be universal, no one has isolated the brain mechanisms for them. So too, "mirror neurons" may not be enough to generalize to a social brain. No one has confirmed the idea that basic circuits for affect regulation establish an identity in the first two years of life.
Nevertheless, looking from an investigator's overall perspective on the human sciences, I think the tunnelers at opposite sides of that huge Alp of mind are beginning to hear the otehr party. Both sides are beginning to make connections that tell us about the arts. Deep down, I see a profound connection between my concerns, particularly literary criticism and theory, and the new knowledge being developed about the brain. What can I say, then, to my fellow literary theorists? Hey, come on and help us dig!
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以衣阿华级战列舰为基础，按比例放大后，搭载三座三联装508mm舰炮的战列舰预计需要约120,000到140,000吨的排水量。这是一种估算，实际的排水量可能会受到船体结构、装备配置和任务需求等因素的影响而有所不同。<|end|> |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | So many wonderful postdocs and students have moved forward with their careers! We wish them all the best!
Sukeun Jeong has joined Jason Fischer's lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Mike Arcaro is working with Marge Livingstone at Harvard University.
Jiye Kim joined another "K-Lab": The Kreiman Lab at Harvard.
Tanja Kassuba is now a Clinical Trial Educator at Quintiles in Germany.
Kathi Seidl-Rathkopf is a Data Scientist at Flatiron Health in NYC. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | PGA Tour 2K21 has had an interesting journey. Starting life as The Golf Club back in 2014, the series was initially a self-published effort by developer HB Studios, before eventually attracting the attention of 2K Games - and snagging the PGA license in the process.
There are many factors to its continual growth - it's a quality golf simulator with a dedicated fanbase of players and creators, after all. But there's another feature that sets it apart from the rest of the pack - the commentary.
While sports games traditionally feature established commentators from the fields they're representing, HB Studios opted to use senior audio designer John McCarthy's voice to follow you round on the course, offering up advice, information, and cries of dismay should you mess up any of your shots.
We caught up with McCarthy ahead of PGA Tour 2K21's release in August 2020 to find out more about the process behind the music and commentary in the series, and why players will be hearing less of him in the new entry.
PocketGamer.biz: How did you first start working at HB Studios?
John McCarthy: In 2007, I was working in Toronto and was a few months away from the end of my work term at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
My old friend from university was a programmer at HB and informed me that they were expanding their audio department from one to two people. Luckily, I got the job as Assistant Sound Artist, and have been at HB ever since.
When did you become involved with The Golf Club?
I began work on The Golf Club as soon as the idea was conceived and a team was put in place in 2013.
What were your inspirations behind the music for the game?
The first music I wrote for The Golf Club was our menu music. I had watched a performance of 'Oblivion' by Susanne Sundfør and M83 on YouTube and was quickly obsessed with it, so I thought it would be fun to go with a sort of cinematic-synth vibe for the game. That vibe has carried through all iterations of our menu music.
Our 'tournament' music has a different vibe and is very much inspired by the golf broadcasts we see on TV these days. I have a serious composer crush on Brian Tyler, and when he unveiled his new theme for the US Open in 2015, I knew that was the direction I wanted to take.
When we added Societies to The Golf Club 2 (user customizable public golf clubs), we wanted to give them a more 'broadcast' feel, so this orchestral-style music was used for that purpose.
For The Golf Club 2019 featuring PGA Tour, I sort of combined the two styles from our previous games. I really love the game Journey, and Austin Wintory's soundtrack featuring Tina Guo on cello is absolutely stunning. I was so into it that I bought a Tina Guo cello sample library to add to my composer 'toolbox'.
PGA Tour 2K21 is the first time we have hired a composer, and I am very pleased with how things turned out. This year, we hired the wonderful Christopher Tin to compose our music for the main menus of the game. He is an absolutely brilliant composer and we are so thrilled to have been able to work with him on this year's game.
PGA Tour 2K21 is the first time we have hired a composer, and I am very pleased with how things turned outJohn McCarthy
We gave him a couple paragraphs describing the vibe we were going for, and he delivered us something beautiful. I'm still not tired of hearing his music even after hundreds of hours in the game.
How did you come to be the commentator for the game?
It all started as placeholder commentary. A lot of the time we use a computer-generated robo-voice (think Siri, but way worse) to act as placeholder, but I wanted to also try to figure out the tone we wanted to strike for the game. Robo-voice just wasn't going to give us that tone.
In the first version of The Golf Club, we knew we didn't want to be like other golf games, and were very much looking to create something more akin to a weekend round with friends. I went very casual with the tone. I dropped some placeholder lines in an early build of the game, and people really seemed to enjoy it.
The added bonus at that stage was having our very own in-house commentator. We didn't have to bother with casting, hiring someone outside of the studio, etc. This saved a ton of time and money; both of which were critical to making an independent sports game work within the budget.
How much creative control have you had over the commentary?
I have a lot of creative freedom with our commentary, but I also work within the overall design of the game. I take the lead from our designers for the big-picture stuff, like new features and game modes, and then I make the commentary work within that.
Casual Mode definitely has more opportunities for creativity on my part. In PGA Tour 2K21, I have tried to pass the creativity to our new commentators Luke Elvy and Rich Beem. We present them with a series of situations, which include a maximum of one example lines, and sort of let them loose. Then we capture as many variations as we require.
It's amazing what they can come up with on the spot. Some of the best parts of this last development cycle have been in the studio with Luke and Rich. Using the creativity of our voice talent has produced dialogue that I could never come up with, and I'm extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to work with them.
Your commentary is quite unique in sports games - how much of an impact do you think this has had on the success of the series?
I would love to tell you the success of the game hinges on my commentary, but that's obviously not the case.
I would love to tell you the success of the game hinges on my commentary, but that's obviously not the caseJohn McCarthy
The style of commentary was meant to be unique when we first started. I do know that people tended to react strongly to the commentary. I think that presenting it in a second-person POV is the part that catches people by surprise. The commentator talks to you and not about you like the other sports games always have.
People seem to either love or hate the commentary and I consider that a small success in itself, but the greater success of the series comes from the passionate community we've seen sprout up around the game.
There are people spending crazy amounts of time designing courses in our Course Creator, and the rest of the community benefits from their hard work. There are also a lot of people that simply use the game to keep in touch with friends and family by playing a round of golf and chatting via the in-game voice chat.
How does it feel to be reducing your involvement with the commentary?
Well, my involvement is still 100% thankfully, but people are going to be hearing less of me PGA Tour 2K21's Career Mode. That's because we're now in a place that can afford us the likes of Luke Elvy and Rich Beem. For this, I am thrilled.
I'm still the lone commentator in Casual Mode and will be trying to keep expanding the commentary in that mode to keep things fresh. I'm happy to have the luxury of juggling two unique sets of commentary for a single game. I hope it will keep me involved for years to come. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Six students enrolled in “Advanced Criminal Investigation” (ADJ 237) at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College this spring completed training and assessment requirements and received certification in the use of SIRCHIE comPHOTOfit COMPOSITE SOFTWARE. Front Row: Kellsie Perkins (left), Associate Professor Gary L. Boyer, Sr., MS, CLET, PI, course Instructor and Dora Perez. Second Row: Seattle Weiler (left), Brandon Siron, Brian Watts III and Shain Hartbarger III. (Not pictured: Beth Anne Lewis, ADJ work study and SIRCHIE comPHOTOfit Instructor.) For more information about the Administration of Justice program at DSLCC, contact Boyer at 540-863-2885 or [email protected]. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Congressman Steve Cohen proposed a bill last week intended to better track police officers’ use of deadly force throughout the country.
According to a statement released by Cohen, the National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2017 would “close a loophole in federal law that prevents adequate collection of comprehensive national data regarding justified and unjustified use of deadly force with police.”
The legislation would require the Attorney General to issue regulations regarding the data collection and compilation. Cohen notes in his statement that the collected data would specifically pertain to the following:
- The date of each instance when deadly force was used;
- The identifying characteristics of the victim and officer involved, including the race, gender, ethnicity, religion and approximate age of the victim;
- Any alleged criminal behavior by the victim;
- An explanation, if any, by the relevant law enforcement agency of why deadly force was used;
- A copy of any use of deadly force guidelines in effect at the time at the law enforcement agency;
- The nature of the deadly force used, including whether it involved a firearm; and
- A description of any non-lethal efforts that were taken before deadly force was used.
While the data would not include any personal identification information, it would be made public.
Defending the bill, Cohen referenced remarks made by FBI Director James Comey, in which the director said it was “ridiculous that I can’t tell you how many people were shot by the police last week, last month, last year. . .Without complete and accurate data, we are left with ideological thunderbolts.”
Cohen also expressed concern that civil rights priorities in the Department of Justice will greatly change if and when Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions gets confirmed, saying that “it is more important now than ever to collect accurate data on police use of excessive force, so we can begin rebuilding trust between the police and the communities they serve.”
During his lengthy confirmation hearing, Sessions promised to do more to support and protect police officers throughout the country and also said he would try to bridge the gap between law enforcement departments and their respective communities.
Sessions was recently approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and now makes his way to the full Senate for a vote, while Cohen’s bill awaits a vote in the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Yesterday we learned that the SEIU, a union with heavy ties to President Obama, is paying $4,000 per month for office space in downtown Washington D.C. What is the office space for? Occupiers to organize and meet. President Obama supports Occupy Wall Street. So yesterday, I decided to take a trip down to the Occupy offices and check it out for myself. The office is located on 16th and L and is on the 6th floor.
(Don't you just love the open hands on the right?)
I walked up to the door, took a picture of it and asked if there was someone in there I could talk to. I was then brought into the front room of the office where I was greeted with a "Jesus Christ!" when I told them I was a reporter. I received the same reaction when they found out I was a conservative. Regardless, they seemed willing to talk. I was taken into another smaller room, where the conversation began. I noticed an Apple corporation computer on the desk to the left and a Dell corporation computer to my right. "Ironic" I thought, considering Occupy claims to hate corporations, but whatever. In case you're wondering, people in the office looked clean, a step up from their hygiene level back at the park.
The Occupiers were upset and felt "betrayed" by a Washington Examiner article about their new space, calling it unprofessional and inaccurate. They said SEIU is paying for their office space, but that they are in no way working for President Obama or the unions and that they absolutely refuse to be co-opted. Karina Stenquist, editor of the newspaper D.C. Mic Check, said it was unethical for Examiner reporter Aubrey Whelan to bring the SEIU's connection to President Obama into a story about their new office space, making the argument that the SEIU's connection to Obama in an election year is irrelevant. Occupiers also argued that the space lease ending on just after election day 2012 is irrelevant when I asked if they felt they would be used as political pawns.
Anyway, moving on. I talked the most with Johnny Mandracchia, who describes himself as an anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist (don't ask me what that means, just Google it.) He agreed to say on an audio recording, that violence is not smashing Starbucks' windows, "because Starbucks isn't a private business it's a corporation" or burning cop cars, but is instead simply vandalism.
Dictionary definition of violence:
vi·o·lence [vahy-uh-luhns] noun
1. swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
2. rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment: to die by violence.
3. an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws: to take over a government by violence.
4. a violent act or proceeding.
5. rough or immoderate vehemence, as of feeling or language: the violence of his hatred.
Mandracchia admitted off the recording during our conversation that as long as their isn't a cop in the car, burning cop cars is okay. Regardless, Occupiers from Occupy D.C. (and around the country for that matter) haven't had any problem assaulting police officers in the past. A few months ago a police officer was smashed in the face by an occupier with a brick. Mandracchia did say he had no plans to smash windows, but also had no issue with others doing so, "That's their decision." Another woman in the room, who described her name as "someone who occupies" after admitting she has "at least six names" she uses, agreed with the violence argument.
Mandracchia also told me that he has no plans to vote because voting "doesn't matter." When I asked him what he and other occupiers were going to do instead to get their needs met he responded with, "whatever we want." Keep in mind, voting is a substitute for violence. I also asked Mandracchia if he would denounce Occupy rapes across the country, specifically close to D.C. in Baltimore and he said, "I'm not aware of any rapes in Baltimore." |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Report: Hurricane Planning Needs to Change
August 21, 2008
Miami, FL – Climate change has changed the way hurricanes do their damage, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. The study links climate change to rising wind speeds and increased flooding, and makes recommendations for planning to protect people and property, as well as reducing pollution associated with climate change.
Climate scientist Dr. Amanda Staudt wrote the report, and says Hurricane Fay fits right in with new hurricane rain predictions.
"The models are showing a 10 to 31 percent increase over this century because warmer air holds more moisture. In addition, we have rising sea levels."
Dr. Staudt says knowing that hurricanes are becoming more powerful and wet can help in setting up a line of defense.
"Restoring and increasing the protection for coastal wetlands, lowlands and barrier islands that provide the first line of defense against hurricanes. We need to take global warming into account when we choose where and how we build."
Dr. Staudt says that as many Floridians still grapple with remnants of Hurricane Fay, the report can be used as a blueprint to help people and communities prepare for storms, and as a guide for reducing pollution associated with climate change.
Not all scientists associate hurricanes with climate change; some say the weather patterns follow bigger historic trends not related to global warming.
To view the full report online, visit www.nwf.org. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | 5 Tips to Meet (and Exceed!) Your Fitness Goals in 2020
Make This Your Year
OK, let’s be real. If sticking to regular exercise was easy, everybody would do it. But it is an attainable goal—if you overcome the stumbling blocks and keep your eyes on the prize long enough to start seeing results.
Here’s how to take charge of your fitness destiny!
1. Make Your Routine Your Own.
We all have different goals and motivators so choose a routine that gets you pumped up. Do you get a rush from working out with others? Try a group class that works well with your fitness level. More of a one-on-one type? A personal trainer or an at home virtual workout might be more your speed. No matter what you choose, make your routine something you can get excited about. Remember: if it’s fun, it’s something you’ll stick to.
People do better with people. You're a lot less likely to skip a workout if you know someone is there waiting for you.
– Dr. Kristen Carlin, physical therapist and CrossFit instructor
2. Choose an Accountability Partner.
Once you’ve got your routine locked down, find an accountability buddy—even if your buddy is just a friend who texts you 10 minutes before you’re scheduled to work out. Not only will they be there to give you a kick in the pants when you need it, you’ll also have a friend to share your growing successes with.
3. Map Your Progress.
Keep tabs on what you've accomplished with a fitness tracker or journal—and share it with your accountability partner! When we’re in midst of our fitness journey, it can be hard to see how far we’ve come. Remember that progress can sometimes seem slow, but ultimately adds up. Make a point to take a look through your progress tracker once a week, or once every two weeks. You’ll be proud at how much you’ve grown and improved, even in small ways.
4. Look Forward, Not Back.
Okay, so you had a bad day (or week!). You missed a workout, or you just didn’t feel up to the challenge this time. Don’t sweat it, you’re not alone. It’s okay to give yourself a little time to feel disappointed, but then get back up on your feet and start fresh. The “you” of yesterday is gone—today is a brand new day and a brand new opportunity to get it right!
5. Pat Yourself on the Back.
This step is easy to forget, but it’s also one of the most important. When the next-size-down jeans fit you, buy them! You deserve it, and it’s a little extra motivation to stick with your plan. If you can, treat yourself to workout clothes you feel good in. There’s nothing like a confidence boost to keep your performance going strong. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | New coach rebuilds volleyball program
Julie Torbett isn’t the tallest person on the volleyball court during a practice in Williams Arena, but there’s no doubt that the first year-coach, who stands 5’4,” is in charge.
“We’re so excited about Coach T.,” said co-captain Nicole Willis, a senior from Raleigh, who transferred from Louisiana State University last year. “She is phenomenal and has already made huge changes to our program and just the overall morale of our team.”
Willis, a child development major, added, “The biggest difference is the morale and attitude for our program in general because ECU volleyball has not had the best reputation for the past couple of years. She’s a world-class coach, and she likes for her athletes to be world-class athletes, so she holds us to a really high standard.”
The daughter of a high school volleyball coach, Torbett remembers riding the bus to matches with her dad when she was 10. She started playing volleyball in 9th grade.
Torbett played all four years at Penn State under legendary coach Russ Rose. He recruited her to be a defensive specialist, which is now a recognized position. “Back then he was just smart enough to see that these big, tall girls can’t play defensive as well as the small, short girls,” she said.
She earned an exercise and sports science degree from Penn State in 1990 and started working in corporate wellness, but she missed competing. She decided to get into coaching; that was more than 20 years ago.
Torbett took over an East Carolina program in February that for the previous three years posted just two wins for each season.
“I’m not a very patient person and I’d like to see a very fast track turn around, but realistically we’re going for double digit wins,” she said. “Whether the final number is 10 or 20 at the end of the season, it will be part of the process.
“Whatever the team is capable of, we’re going to make those steps forward to be on a realistic track to turn this program around within the next four years,” she said.
Torbett said the key to rebuilding a program is to have players buy into her system of coaching and recruiting the right type of players. “You don’t have to have the best players; you have to have players that fit together the best,” she said.
“I’ve been able to be successful with the teams that I’ve coached sticking to three components: Enhancing the competitive drive; enhancing their work ethic; and bringing out their loyalty.”
The latter will involve improving the play on the court.
ECU has some built-in loyalty. Even though their win-loss record for last season was 2-25, their NCAA academic progress rate score for 2012 was a perfect 100. “That means no players were leaving to transfer to play somewhere else. That told me that there’s something special here,” Torbett said.
“The current team didn’t have a lot of success on the volleyball court (last season), but they had that loyalty to East Carolina,” the coach added. “Now we’re going to make them better on the volleyball court and capitalize on that loyalty that they have.”
Torbett came to ECU after a two-year stint at Winthrop University, where she guided the Eagles to a 20-8 Big South Conference record and a 34- 24 overall mark. Previously she was at UNC-Asheville, also a member of the Big South.
In her more than 20-year coaching career, Torbett has 338 career wins, making her the winningest coach in Big South volleyball history.
She plans to apply her talent for bringing out the best in her players—on and off the court— to ECU.
“I enjoy getting to know a young lady at 17 and getting to watch her walk across the stage at 21,” Torbett said. “The growth that happens in that time frame is incredible, and volleyball is the way that I get to influence them. But we’re learning life lessons every single day.”
The new coach also has an assignment for Pirate fans.
“I would like for Pirate Nation, the students and Greenville to support us as we go through our struggles and we transition. The girls need to feel that support and want to have people at their matches cheering as they showcase the changes. People will see a definite difference,” she said.
Co-captain Willis said the fans can be an asset for the team as they rebuild.
“The fans provide that extra boost we need,” she said, adding the team has noticed the fan base grow through camps and word of mouth.
“We obviously want to do better than we did last year, but three is better than we did last year. And that’s not our goal. As a team, we decided we’d like to see at least 10 (wins). That would be tremendous for us.
“Just bringing a different attitude and different work ethic would be a win in our books,” Willis said.
Torre Blake, a sophomore from Austin, Texas, who is the daughter of former ECU quarterback Jeff Blake ’94, echoed her teammate’s excitement about the new coach and the season.
“We’re not focusing on the past,” said Blake. “We’re so excited. We just want to win and go out there and have fun. We want to make a name for the volleyball team on this campus and in the community.”
Torbett has had the players go out into the community to talk about the importance of exercise and academics.
“Coach Torbett’s really hands-on. And we work hard all the time,” Blake said. “She brings the heat, which is only going to prepare us for the season and make us better.”
As of Oct. 13, the ECU volleyball team has a record of 10-12. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The brutal murder of nine African Americans at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in June last year by a racist who brandished Confederate symbols sparked a nationwide movement to have Confederate flags and statues removed and to remove the names of slave owners from buildings and elsewhere.
One such rich slaveholder was John C. Calhoun, an 1804 Yale graduate, after whom Yale University’s Calhoun College is named. In the wake of the Charleston shooting, Yale students began a petition to remove Calhoun’s name and got more than 1,500 signatures. The petition reads, “Like the official display of the Confederate flag in South Carolina, Calhoun College represents an indifference to centuries of pain and suffering among the Black population.”
For anyone who doesn’t know how rotten Calhoun was, in the early 1800s, he was the most vicious national voice promoting the slavocracy, even calling slavery a “positive good.” And he was powerful as well as rich, a representative and senator from South Carolina, a secretary of state and a vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. One of his major “contributions” was to author the doctrine allowing slaveholding states to disregard any federal law inhibiting slavery.
In the face of the Underground Railroad, led by heroes like Harriet Tubman, Calhoun authored the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This law enabled slave owners to track down and re-enslave fugitives in the North.
Defying his students, Yale President Peter Salovey announced on April 27 that the school refuses to remove the white supremacist’s name from the residential college.
At a time when even the South Carolina Legislature would agree to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse, why would a New England Ivy League university refuse to erase the name of this racist monster? The only logical reason is that conceding this part of Yale’s past opens the door to re-examining the whole of Yale’s historic entanglement in and enrichment from slavery.
Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, an official of the East India Company in the late 1600s, who made a fortune from the Indian Ocean slave trade. Yale College Dean Holloway pointed out last year, “At its founding and for its first 150 plus years, yes, Yale, like so many other institutions of the era, were complicit in plunder because their finances were interwoven with the global slave economy.” (yaledailynews.com, March 30, 2015)
The unpaid labor of millions of African slaves over centuries was central to the accumulation of capital of many of today’s banks, insurance companies, corporations and elite institutions like Yale University. This accumulation, worth trillions in today’s dollars, was particularly intensified after the invention of the cotton gin by another Yale graduate, Eli Whitney. It continued through the period of sharecropping, the economic engine of Jim Crow, enforced by the brutal terror regime of the Klan.
This racist legacy continues in a thousand ways to this very day, with housing, education, prisons, and even clean water policies from governments and corporations alike all designed to plunder the wealth produced by the African-American community.
For years there has been a growing reparations movement demanding a return of this wealth back to the African-American communities from which it was and is so cruelly extracted. Yale’s administration and all of its Wall Street sponsors want to avoid anything that might open the door to that just reparation of wealth.
Workers World supports the just demand of the Yale students to rename their college. But that’s just a start. The first plank of the Workers World Party 2016 election campaign includes the demand for reparations now! That debt must be paid by wealthy institutions like Yale University and all of its Wall Street backers. |
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true | null | lmsys/lmsys-chat-1m | English | Which is heavier : a proton or an apple ?........ | An apple and a proton have the same mass, which is approximately 1.007 x 10⁴ kilograms. This means that both objects have an identical amount of mass, which means they are equally heavy......... | <|system|>
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | [PyQt] Crash when adding a QRegion to a QPainterPath
phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue Jun 8 18:28:19 BST 2010
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:45:59 +0100, Jeremy Sanders
<jeremy at jeremysanders.net> wrote:
> Hi - I have an example program here which used to work in earlier
> releases. Now it causes a core dump:
> #0 QRegion::QRegion (this=0x8f72c0, r=...) at painting/qregion.cpp:3895
> #1 0x0000003ea5ce12ad in QPaintEngineState::clipRegion (this=<value
> optimized out>)
> at painting/qpainter.cpp:8470
> #2 0x00007ffff1040157 in meth_QPaintEngineState_clipRegion
> (sipSelf=0x8c36d0, sipArgs=<value optimized out>)
> at sipQtGuiQPaintEngineState.cpp:385
> #3 0x0000003eb78dcaba in call_function (f=<value optimized out>,
> throwflag=<value optimized out>)
> at Python/ceval.c:3706
> This fails under Fedora 12 x86-64 and on a own-built SIP/PyQt4 under
> i386. I'm using Qt-4.6.2.
> Please download the example program:
> If you uncomment the print statements on lines 175 and 177 the program no
> longer crashes, but state.clipOperation() looks like garbage.
Fixed in tonight's PyQt snapshot.
SIP v4.10.1 included an "improvement" where a copy of a const& argument to
a reimplementation of a virtual is made before wrapping it. This means that
Python code doesn't have to explicitly make a copy if it wants to keep a
reference and avoid potential crashes if the copy isn't made. It seems that
in some cases this is the wrong thing to do - particularly if the argument
is actually an internal sub-class of the advertised type.
More information about the PyQt |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The Link Between MTHFR Gene Mutations and Disease, Including Thyroid Health
Artikel fra Dr. Ben Lynch, Expert på MTHFR genet
MTHFR genet er en del af testen DNA Health som vi bruger på uddannelsen.
The issue of a gene called MTHFR and its link to disease – including thyroid disease – is becoming an increasingly hot and controversial topic. To learn more about the theories and developments related to MTHFR – which is the abbreviation for the gene called methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, I turned to Dr. Ben Lynch, a naturopathic physician who has focused attention on MTHFR polymorphisms and genetic changes, and the linkage to diseases and conditions. Dr. Lynch runs a site, Mthfr.net, that is dedicated to research and awareness of MTHFR, and his book on the subject will be published in 2014.
Question: Can you please explain, for those who don't know or haven't heard, exactly what an MTHFR polymorphism is?
Dr. Ben Lynch: The MTHFR gene produces an enzyme called methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. The job for the MTHFR enzyme is to convert one form of folate into the most active and usable form of folate in the human body – in every single cell. MTHFR takes folic acid and changes it so the body can use it. Folic acid by itself is worthless – it does absolutely nothing – until it is run through various enzymes in the body and transformed into these forms of folate the body can use – such as methyltetrahydrofolate, or commonly shortened as methylfolate.
Methylfolate is a key compound that performs two critical tasks.
First, methylfolate helps make neurotransmitters in your brain. Neurotransmitters are what allow us to think, sleep, run away, express emotions and learn. When methylfolate levels are low, so are your neurotransmitters. Low production of neurotransmitters may cause conditions of addictive behavior, depression, anxiety, ADHD, mania, irritability, insomnia, learning disorders and others.
Two, methylfolate also allows us to make a critical compound called s-adenosylmethionine -- also known as SAMe. SAMe is critical as it helps regulate more than 200 enzymes in the human body – this is second only to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the body’s cellular power unit. Without ATP, life ceases. Without SAMe, life ceases.
With decreased levels of SAMe, you, or your loved ones, are at higher risk of conditions such as cancer, infertility, miscarriage, autism, Down syndrome, thrombosis, high blood pressure, speaking problems and other health issues.
It is very common for the MTHFR gene to not work as well as it should. Why? Because one in two people have an area in the MTHFR gene that has an incorrect DNA base. This DNA base change is called a polymorphism. Poly meaning ‘many’ and morphic meaning ‘shape’. When the MTHFR gene has a polymorphism, the enzyme it produces has an altered shape. The altered shape reduces the functional ability of the MTHFR enzyme. The altered function causes decreased neurotransmitterfunction and decreases SAMe production.
Question: What are the methylation pathways and what do they do?
Dr. Ben Lynch: Let’s first define methylation. Methylation is the act of taking a single carbon and three hydrogens, namely a methyl group, and having it attach itself to an enzyme in your body. When this methyl group attaches to an enzyme, the enzyme performs an action. A common action performed by methylation that you appreciate daily is the breakdown of histamine. A methyl group is made by the methylation pathway and it floats around until it finds a specific enzyme to bind to. In this case, the methyl group binds to histamine. When a methyl group binds to histamine, histamine breaks apart and goes away.
You can now figure out what happens if your methylation pathway is not producing enough methyl groups in this case. Your histamine does not break apart and thus your histamine levels increase, causing your nose to run and eyes to itch.
What is the function of SAMe? The function of SAMe is to simply take what is called a ‘methyl group’ and give it away to over 200 enzymes in the body in order to perform various critical functions. Some key functions of this freely donated methyl group are to:
- Protect your DNA. This is very important. For example, if your DNA is not protected, then it is susceptible to damage by viruses, bacteria, heavy metals, solvents and others. Over time, this damage becomes significant and may result in cancerous cell proliferation. -
- Reduces histamine levels! Repeating this so it sinks in. A methyl group given away by SAMe helps eliminate histamine from the body. Those with allergies or rashes may have higher levels of histamine and decreased methyl groups. -
- Produce a key component for your cell membranes called phosphatidylcholine. The methyl group donated by SAMe helps build phosphatidylcholine which then gets incorporated into the walls of all your cells, known as cell membranes. If these cell membranes become damaged and weak, the cells become fragile, allow toxins and harmful things into the cell, do not carry in useful nutrients and then they die. Excessive cell membrane damage can lead to serious medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis and cancer to name a few.
Question: How did you become aware of MTHFR, and what motivated you to make it your professional crusade?
Dr. Ben Lynch: One afternoon, a lady asked me about natural treatment options for bipolar disorder. I began rattling off all the usual natural approaches to stabilizing those with bipolar disorder. For some reason, I felt my answer incomplete, likely because I had been out of medical school for a few years and I wanted to see if research brought forth anything new.
So I hit the research and discovered that researchers were investigating bipolar and genetics, specifically MTHFR. I had no idea what MTHFR was so I entered ‘MTHFR’ into the medical research database, PubMed, which is the US National Library of Medicine’s research database. I was astounded what came back to me. Over 3,000 papers at the time. Now it is over 5,200 papers just on MTHFR alone – and increasing.
As I scanned the research paper titles with MTHFR in it, I was amazed by how many conditions appeared. Cleft palate, hypertension, thrombosis, schizophrenia, myocardial infarction (heart attack), acute lymphoblastic leukemia, recurrent pregnancy loss – and this was just on page 1!! (You can see for yourself!)
I was so stunned that I never heard about this that I actually ‘tweeted’ about MTHFR – and I hardly ever ‘tweet’. The next day, I was bombarded by people who were looking for a physician knowledgeable about MTHFR. Needless to say, my knowledge was nil but I promised them that I would learn. To this day, I continue to learn the complexities of MTHFR and pass my knowledge onto physicians.
MTHFR polymorphisms are SO prevalent and so damaging to millions and millions of people. Yet, with awareness, those with MTHFR polymorphisms can increase their odds of a totally healthy life if they just knew that their lifestyle, dietary and environmental exposures really speed up their risk for disease.
Question: Whose health can benefit most from an awareness of MTHFR ?
Dr. Ben Lynch: Simply – those who have the genetic polymorphism in their MTHFR gene – which remember, is one in two of us. Even those who do not have MTHFR polymorphisms benefit knowing about it as their loved ones or friends may have it and if they are made aware of it, they may impact their lives significantly.
It should be mentioned that doctors need to be made aware of how significant MTHFR is because they are the ones managing the health of the patient. Thus, it is up to the doctor to inform the patient and screen them for MTHFR polymorphisms.
Question: Who should get tested for MTHFR and where/how does one get tested?
Dr. Ben Lynch: Everyone should get tested. Why? Because 1 in 2 people are affected and if one knows they have a MTHFR polymorphism, they know they have to be very proactive in taking care of themselves.
Testing for MTHFR needs to be seen as a screening test. If one wants to get pregnant, they test for MTHFR. If one wants to reduce disease risk factors in general and optimize their health, they test for MTHFR. If one wants to identify why their family seems to have more risk of neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression or autism to name a few, they test for MTHFR.
If you approach your physician asking to screen you for MTHFR, two things will happen. One, they do not know what it is and two, they will state MTHFR is not a big deal and there is nothing to worry about – it is all a fad.
On the off chance you have a progressive, current physician, they will test you for MTHFR polymorphisms. A word of caution here.
Many insurance companies do not cover MTHFR testing and if they say they do, they still may come back and charge you an exorbitant fee.
That said, there are some reliable testing companies out there that do MTHFR testing reliably and affordably and may even be covered by insurance.
If you do not have insurance, out of pocket expense is not that bad, especially given the potential life-changing results you may obtain.
For information about MTHFR testing options – along with the ethical considerations – learn more at the MTHFR site.
Question: What are your top recommendations for people with MTHFR polymorphisms?
Dr. Ben Lynch: MTHFR polymorphisms have been around for generations and generations – and they are being passed on at an even faster rate due to folic acid supplementation. )
I believe the poor choices in food, unhealthy environment, fast-paced lifestyle, corporate lobbyists and symptom-based medicine are contributing the expression of MTHFR polymorphisms.
That said, it is critical people snap out of it and stop listening to the drug ads on TV imploring ‘Ask your doctor if this drug is right for you.’ I can tell you right now, it is not.
The top recommendations in bullet form -- and to let you know I practice what I preach -- are the following:
- Eat whole, organic, non-GMO, free range, wild foods.
- Stop ingesting synthetic folic acid supplements and folic acid enriched foods. Use only natural folates such as folinic acid and/or methylfolate.
- Eat foods containing natural folates such as uncooked leafy greens. (Yes -- you have to eat salads. Daily.)
- Drink filtered tap water – avoid bottled water in plastic that contains bisphenol A (BPA).
- Avoid gluten and dairy products.
- Limit exposure to chemicals in the environment (i.e. formaldehyde in new clothing, carpets, furniture and new home construction, and fire retardants in clothing, bedding, couches, carpets).
- Belly breathing.
- Positive thinking.
- Get out in nature. We are, after all, mammals. Don’t forget that. We need natural settings.
- Love your occupation – if you don’t love it, switch.
- Relationship - a happy marriage or positive relationship,
- Family – participate with your loved ones and enjoy them.
- Friends – share and participate in activities.
- Take vacations.
- Exercise – enjoyable – not excessively. Participate in team sports, clubs.
- Build a medical team with progressive, forward thinking MDs, NDs, DOs and other health professionals.
Question: Is there a connection between thyroid health and MTHFR?
Dr. Ben Lynch: Yes there is. We all know how prevalent hypothyroidism is. If one is hypothyroid, meaning their thyroid gland is functioning slowly, then the individual will have a sluggish MTHFR enzyme as well – even if this person does not have the MTHFR polymorphism.
Because the thyroid produces what is called T4, also known as thyroxine. Thyroxine helps produce the body’s most active form of vitamin B2, flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). Vitamin B2 must be converted into active FAD by thyroxine in order for the body to effectively use vitamin B2.
The connection between FAD and MTHFR is that the MTHFR enzyme must have an ample supply of FAD in order to function. If FAD levels are low due to low levels of thyroxine, then the MTHFR enzyme slows down, causing low methylfolate levels. We now know from above that low methylfolate leads to low neurotransmitters and low SAMe.
Question: What can hypothyroid patients do, i.e. nutrition and lifestyle changes, to cope with MTHFR inhibition?
Dr. Ben Lynch: Hypothyroid patients must have their doctor monitor their TSH, T4, T3, and thyroid antibodiesoften in order to optimize thyroid function. If any of these values are off, then the thyroid function will be compromised and thus the MTHFR enzyme will be as well.
It is critical that doctors monitor all these markers andnot just TSH. TSH measurement by itself is worthless. It is similar to someone asking you where the car keys are and you reply back, “Over there.” ‘Where?’ you ask again. They reply back, “Over there.” Not very helpful unless the person actually points where ‘there’ is or defines it better for you.
Key nutrients for thyroid function are magnesium, iodine, selenium, zinc and tyrosine - which comes from eating – and absorbing - enough protein. Methylfolate, produced by the MTHFR enzyme, is also needed to help convert tyrosine into active thyroid hormone.
A lifestyle change for optimizing your thyroid would be to limit exposure to chlorine, bromine (bromide), and fluoride- basically the other halogens. Why? Because these other halogens mimic the charge of the halogen iodine, and that prevents iodine from binding to the receptor on your thyroid gland.
If you have other halogens on your thyroid receptor, how is iodine supposed to be bound to it? Difficult – especially if one is iodine deficient and some American women are deficient in iodine. Talk with your doctor about how to monitor iodine levels and properly supplement when necessary.
I recommend installing chlorine shower filters for your shower, filtering your drinking water, limiting exposure to fluoride, and limiting or avoiding drinking soda, as many citrus sodas contain brominated vegetable oil.
Environmental changes to protect your thyroid would be avoiding heavy metals such as mercury. Mercury and other heavy metals are very toxic to the thyroid. Mercury amalgams are researched to be an aggravating factor in causing Hashimoto’s disease.
A pervasive food that negatively affects your thyroid is gluten. Removing gluten entirely from your diet may significantly improve your thyroid. This means 100% avoidance – not ingestion once a week or once a month – complete avoidance. This is especially important if you have celiac disease.
Question: Can you tell us about your MTHFR.net website?
Dr. Ben Lynch: I do my homework. If I state something, I cite research or I clearly state it is a working theory. I don’t pretend I know something I don’t. If I don’t know something, I simply don’t write it or make up some answer, I simply say three words – “I don’t know.”
If people would stand up and understand that saying “I don’t know” is okay and useful, then medicine and other areas of life would be so much better.
I constantly read – and critically analyze - cutting edge research papers on MTHFR, methylation, nutrigenomics, one carbon metabolism, mitochondrial function and epigenetics. I love what I do and am totally engrossed and passionate about it as well. Why? Because I know it is going to change how medicine is practiced.
The medical model today is one that needs to be chucked out the window. The symptom-disease based model is highly ineffective and doctors know this. They are turning to naturopathic and functional medicine. The problem is these doctors continue to practice the same symptom-disease based model using supplements, herbs and other concoctions instead of drugs and surgery. Yes, this is an improvement most of the time but it still is not addressing the absolute underlying cause of why their patient is ill.
I am educating other physicians about the new model that is emerging from all this and that is biochemical nutrigenomics. When a physician focuses on the patient’s lifestyle, diet, surrounding environments, hobbies, emotional status, biochemistry, genetics and genetic expression, then amazing things happen. Just ask the doctors who have attended some of my conferences. The learning curve is steep and frankly a pain, but very worthwhile because once you learn it, you continue to perfect it and your patients get better faster – and faster.
There is nothing better to a physician then having to put a sign out on the front door –“Patients needed. All my other ones are healthy.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Dr. Ben Lynch is a naturopathic physician who has focused his research and teaching on MTHFR polymorphisms and genetic changes, and the connection to disease. Dr. Lynch's site http://mthfr.net features research, articles, links and information related to MTHFR genetic mutations and polymorphisms. His book on this topic will be available during the spring of 2014 at this site, and online bookstores. You can also find Dr. Lynch on Facebook.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | At wetransform, we fully support INSPIRE implementers since we think that key problems can be better solved through cross-border, accessible and useable, harmonised data. In February, we have started a new project that heavily builds on harmonised INSPIRE data to solve a critical issue: The massive ecological and economic impact of climate change on our forests.
Forests are subject to numerous stressors: extreme weather events such as heat, drought and heavy rainfall, pests such as bark beetles and air pollutants. Even tree species that were considered to be stable have suffered from these stressors in the last years. As a result, forest experts face new challenges. They have to identify stands that are at a high risk of being endangered. For each location, they need to find optimal forest development types, tree species and intraspecific varieties. Their measures must ensure that the biodiversity of forests and economic yields are maintained despite climate change.
The factors that influence the general vitality and productivity of forests (climate, weather, soil, geology, morphology, biodiversity, age mixing, etc.) are complex and interconnected. Forest experts consider these in the planning process. However, an in-depth analysis of these variables and their interconnectedness is still a big challenge.
A keystone of new approaches is, like in many other industries, a shift to data-driven decision support. Data on the aforementioned factors can form a basis for more effective and faster decision-making, but gathering useful data is not an easy task. The sheer size and complexity of environmental data related to forests ensures that. To compound matters, this data is held by different organizations, which usually have diverse use cases and use different schemas, formats and semantics. For example, one organization may represent the topographic data of a forest region in a shapefile, and another organization may represent the topographic data of a neighbouring region in the same forest as a GML file.
Forest experts thus depend on a wide range of data sets that are acquired from different sources. This interdisciplinary knowledge transfer is a challenge, but is also mission critical. High quality data acquisition and data integration are a precursor to the forest experts’ data driven decision-making and ultimately to the survival of our forests.
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In order to provide this decision support, we currently evaluate deep-learning methods and “Explainable AI” approaches such as Semantic Reasoning and Bayesian Belief Networks together with our partners, Minerva Intelligence GmbH and the Forstliche Versuchsanstalt Baden-Württemberg.
With the “Explainable AI” approach, the system can generate comprehensible results with accessible recommendations for action. Explainable AI methods enable users to see which variables of the input data lead to which outcome. These can be adjusted by experts and laypersons in any depth and checked for plausibility. On this basis, experts and laymen can then decide which forest development types and tree species can be established as “future forests” - forest ecosystems that can withstand climate change.
In a further step, different climate forecasts can then be taken into account and forest conversion scenarios can be simulated. In addition, a solution forum will be offered where users and partners can exchange information on their approach.
The data that is core to the approach is harmonised and published with wetransform’s tools, hale connect and hale studio. These tools have already been used by hundreds of organizations to consolidate heterogenous stacks into harmonized data that can be easily analysed. Afterwards, components of Minerva’s AI suite are used for the analysis and development of explainable recommendations based on the harmonized data.
When this project is finished, we aim to provide a FutureForst solution that offers:
These workshops provide opportunities to learn about what the concrete outcomes of the project are, and to contribute experiences and requirements. The workshops are themed as follows:
Reach out to us to stay updated on the project’s progress and let us know how your country is dealing with this challenge: |
true | null | lmsys/lmsys-chat-1m | Portuguese | qual a causa do bebê demorar a falar?........ | Existem várias possíveis causas para um bebê demorar a falar, incluindo:
1. Desenvolvimento normal: alguns bebês podem demorar a falar devido ao desenvolvimento normal do linguagem. É comum que os bebês começem a falar entre 12 e 18 meses, mas isso pode variar de pessoa para pessoa.
2. Problemas de saúde: alguns problemas de saúde, como problemas no ouvido ou na garganta, podem impedir que um bebê fale.
3. Problemas de aprendizagem: alguns bebês podem ter dificuldades para aprender a falar devido a problemas de aprendizagem, como uma dislexia ou uma disfonia.
4. Problemas relacionados ao meio ambiente: bebês que vivem em ambientes com muito ruído ou que não têm a oportunidade de praticar a linguagem podem ter dificuldades para falar.
5. Problemas psicológicos: problemas psicológicos, como ansiedade ou depressão, podem impedir que um bebê fale.
Se você tem preocupações sobre o desenvolvimento da linguagem do seu bebê, é importante procurar ajuda de um profissional de saúde de voz, como um fonoaudiólogo. Eles podem avaliar a linguagem do seu bebê e recomendar o tratamento adequado, se necessário......... | <|system|>
You are a helpful assistant.<|end|>
<|user|>
qual a causa do bebê demorar a falar?<|end|>
<|assistant|>
Existem várias possíveis causas para um bebê demorar a falar, incluindo:
1. Desenvolvimento normal: alguns bebês podem demorar a falar devido ao desenvolvimento normal do linguagem. É comum que os bebês começem a falar entre 12 e 18 meses, mas isso pode variar de pessoa para pessoa.
2. Problemas de saúde: alguns problemas de saúde, como problemas no ouvido ou na garganta, podem impedir que um bebê fale.
3. Problemas de aprendizagem: alguns bebês podem ter dificuldades para aprender a falar devido a problemas de aprendizagem, como uma dislexia ou uma disfonia.
4. Problemas relacionados ao meio ambiente: bebês que vivem em ambientes com muito ruído ou que não têm a oportunidade de praticar a linguagem podem ter dificuldades para falar.
5. Problemas psicológicos: problemas psicológicos, como ansiedade ou depressão, podem impedir que um bebê fale.
Se você tem preocupações sobre o desenvolvimento da linguagem do seu bebê, é importante procurar ajuda de um profissional de saúde de voz, como um fonoaudiólogo. Eles podem avaliar a linguagem do seu bebê e recomendar o tratamento adequado, se necessário.<|end|>
<|user|>
o que pode ser feito para estimular o bebê a falar?<|end|>
<|assistant|>
Existem várias coisas que você pode fazer para estimular o bebê a falar, incluindo:
1. Falar com o bebê: fale com o bebê em uma linguagem clara e objetiva, usando palavras simples e repetindo o que o bebê diz.
2. Interagir com o bebê: interaja com o bebê usando expressões faciais, mimos e gestos. Isso pode ajudar o bebê a entender o significado das palavras.
3. Providenciar um ambiente de aprendizagem: criar um ambiente de aprendizagem stimulante para o bebê, com brinquedos e jogos que promovam o desenvolvimento da linguagem.
4. Fazer perguntas: fazer perguntas ao bebê pode ajudá-lo a praticar a linguagem e developing sua capacidade de responder.
5. Ler para o bebê: ler para o bebê pode ajudá-lo a desenvolver seu vocabulário e a praticar a linguagem.
6. Propor a interação social: propor a interação social com outras crianças e adultos pode ajudar o bebê a desenvolver sua capacidade de comunicação.
Se você tem preocupações sobre o desenvolvimento da linguagem do seu bebê, é importante procurar ajuda de um profissional de saúde de voz, como um fonoaudiólogo. Eles podem avaliar a linguagem do seu bebê e recomendar o tratamento adequado, se necessário.<|end|>
<|user|>
cite algumas ações que os pais podem fazer em casa para ajudar no desenvolvimento da fala do bebê<|end|>
<|assistant|>
Existem várias ações que os pais podem fazer em casa para ajudar no desenvolvimento da fala do bebê, incluindo:
1. Falar com o bebê: fale com o bebê em uma linguagem clara e objetiva, usando palavras simples e repetindo o que o bebê diz.
2. Interagir com o bebê: interaja com o bebê usando expressões faciais, mimos e gestos. Isso pode ajudar o bebê a entender o significado das palavras.
3. Providenciar um ambiente de aprendizagem: criar um ambiente de aprendizagem stimulante para o bebê, com brinquedos e jogos que promovam o desenvolvimento da linguagem.
4. Fazer perguntas: fazer perguntas ao bebê pode ajudá-lo a praticar a linguagem e developing sua capacidade de responder.
5. Ler para o bebê: ler para o bebê pode ajudá-lo a desenvolver seu vocabulário e a praticar a linguagem.
6. Propor a interação social: propor a interação social com outras crianças e adultos pode ajudar o bebê a desenvolver sua capacidade de comunicação.
7. Incentivar o bebê a praticar a fala: incentive o bebê a praticar a fala, usando palavras e frases comuns na vida cotidiana.
8. Fomentar a criatividade: fomente a criatividade, permitindo que o bebê explore e experimente com a linguagem.
Lembre-se de que cada bebê é único e pode ter seu próprio ritmo de desenvolvimento. Se você tiver preocupações sobre o desenvolvimento da linguagem do seu bebê, é importante procurar ajuda de um profissional de saúde de voz, como um fonoaudiólogo. Eles podem avaliar a linguagem do seu bebê e recomendar o tratamento adequado, se necessário<|end|> |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The AIDS Committee of Windsor's free testing week wrapped up Wednesday, but organizers say the opportunity for testing doesn't end there
Making the decision to get tested for HIV can be scary, but the AIDS Committee of Windsor says that deciding to get tested is often the biggest hurdle.
“Once you’ve gone past that part and you’re ready for the test, you’ve already surpassed the biggest challenge,” said AIDS Committee of Windsor’s executive director Michael Brennan.
The committee encouraged people to surpass that hurdle and get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections during its testing week campaign June 23-28. Brennan said each of the four testing locations hosted about 40 people on their respective testing day.
Testing is completely free and can be done anonymously, with no health card required. That’s to ensure cost or identification isn’t a barrier to people deciding to get tested, Brennan said.
“HIV is still stigmatized, so some people are really leery about going to their primary care physicians and talking about sex or what their sexual behaviours are,” he said. “So this allows an opportunity for individuals to still be tested, with some anonymity around it.”
Brennan said the sooner you get tested and the earlier you get a diagnosis, the better the chances are of living a full and rich life.
Last year’s campaign saw 120 people tested. None received HIV-positive results, and eight saw STD positive results. Those with positive test results were immediately linked to followup care.
The panel includes HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.
The testing campaign is “piggybacking” off the American National Testing Day which was Tuesday, Brennan said. Canada doesn’t have a national strategy on HIV, unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, although the committee would like to see a national strategy in the future.
Nineteen per cent of people living with HIV in Canada don’t know they’re infected with the virus, Brennan said.
“We want to make sure that those individuals those individuals are testing so we can get them linked to care,” he continued.
“Because once an individual is linked to care, we can get them on antiretroviral treatment. And once they’re on antiretroviral treatment, their viral load goes down. And then that gets them to a place of optimal health.”
Stigma is often a barrier toward testing.
“People in the community who really don’t have knowledge around the virus and what it is may cast moral judgment on individuals who have HIV,” Brennan said.
“So when other people see groups of people judging or criticizing or condemning individuals who have HIV, they’re stigmatizing them … So what underpins a lot of our work is trying to make people understand that it’s a virus. It’s not a moral judgment on an individual.”
Brennan added that once an HIV-positive individual gets treatment and their viral load becomes undetectable, the chance of transmission is practically zero.
“I don’t want to mislead people by having them think that HIV is not a serious piece, but I also want them to know, there is treatment that is available,” Brennan said.
“And that you still can live a very normal and productive life, at the end of the day.”
HIV testing is available at multiple locations in Windsor-Essex. You can find the location closest to you at the AIDS Committee of Windsor website. |
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | To call Rampone and Cazzani Saxophones "up and coming" needs a little explanation. Rampone and Cazzani or R & C Saxophones are not new comers to the Saxophone world but they are relatively 'unknown' by most Sax Players and that is changing.
Rampone and Cazzani Saxophones
I don't know where these Sax's have been since first starting production over a hundred years ago. I have read articles that claimed older Rampone Cazzani's played pretty lame and the name was new to me. All I know is I started hearing good things about an Italian Sax 2-3 years ago and I got to play them in January, '05.
These new Rampone and Cazzani Sax's are amazing. R & C has a full line of Saxophones from Sopranino to Baritone Sax. Although the product line is full, there specialty seems to be the little ones with more offerings in the Soprano and Sopranino lines than everybody else with the possible exception of maybe Yanagisawa.
Rampone and Cazzani is the only new Saxophone Manufacturer that has taken the old Saxello Soprano design seriously.
Rampone and Cazzani SaxelloWhat is a Saxello? A Soprano Sax that has a bent neck and the bell bends slightly forward instead of pointing straight down as is common on the Straight Soprano Sax. A Saxellolooks like a straight Soprano with a bend at the top and bottom. I'll get some pics up to see soon but, to be honest, I had so much fun playing these Soprano's that I totally forgot to take pictures and regret not playing the other Sax's they had available.
I don't think anybody is even making a modern Saxello with the exception of Rampone Cazzani. This little Soprano Sax, known as a Saxello, plays like a dream. The tone is beautiful, the pitch is as near perfect as anyone could hope for and the experience is sheer pleasure.
After nearly an hour, I was in love with the Rampone and Cazzani Saxello R1 in thick Gold Plate. No new Soprano on the market can touch this Sax with the exception of R & C's other Soprano offerings.
I have not played any new Soprano that played as well for me as my Yamaha YSS-62R. (The Yamaha is a 1 piece Soprano with a bend where they give you the neck options now - bent at the mouthpiece toward the player.)
Rampone Cazzani is the only new, one piece, Professional Soprano Saxophone available. I love the fact that all the R & C Soprano's are a one piece design with NO Necks. The Soprano neck is an oxymoron, designed for marketing purpose and not musical benefits at all. The neck options allow a manufacturer to save money on multiple versions of a similar Sax design that could be lots of Sax's in a Soprano Sax line if that company also offered choices in plating and different base metal options. Rampone Cazzani took to the task and has tons of variations on a theme, available for purchase.
The fact that some people love a straight neck and some like the curved design is true, but no one switches back and forth between the 2. Designing a Soprano Sax with necks allows the Sax Player to choose which design feels more comfortable to hold and experiment with the tonal variations available between the 2 designs. Since the Sax Player can make this choice at purchase, and few ever use both necks once a choice has been made between the 2; the 2 neck design is useless once that decision is made. All it does is allow the manufacturer to appear to give you more Saxophone for the money and adds flexibility to the instrument that might make resale easier at a later date.
In actuality, the neck on Soprano creates unnecessary issues with octave key design and adjustment, leak possibilities at the neck and an unneeded pile of extra metal right at the top of the Saxophone. Even if a 2 neck design was very helpful to Sax Players, it makes no sense to me when looking at curved Soprano Sax's but that's just me.
The difference between straight and curved necks does affect the sound just like straight and fully curved Soprano's will sound different. The curved neck seems to take a little bit of the buz out of the sound and sweetens the tone. The Yamaha 62, straight, was more nasal sounding than the 62R. When Yamaha released the Rousseau design (62R) in a 1 piece, with that curve at the top of the Sax, the sound seemed fuller, sweeter and less harsh. When Yamaha later released the new Custom 875 Soprano with interchangeable necks, the sound was not nearly as extreme from bent and straight models. The curved neck model felt more comfortable to me, but the sound had more resistance and less of that 'sweet thing' that sold me on the Yamaha Soprano in the first place. The Rampone and Cazzani Soprano's have that 1 piece design and all the sweetness and complexity one could ever want.
With Yamaha discontinuing production of the YSS-62R and no longer making a 1 piece bent Soprano, or any other new Soprano with that kind of resistance and tone; the problem of ever finding a good replacement Soprano began to haunt me. 21 Years later I have an answer. Sure, there are a few great playing Soprano's on the market, but the Rampone Cazzani has won my vote.
I listened to a number of people play the Saxello and Soprano's and really liked everyone that played them. I also had a student that I have heard play for a few years now and she sounded great on them too. Full, clear, dynamic, in tune and beautiful; What are the trying to do? Mess us all up with this stuff?
RC Saxello and RC Soprano's
No other Sax Maker has this many options! No other Manufacturer has this many great sounding Soprano's.
The straight models with the bent or straight top sounds great too. They did not have the magic for me that the Saxello did, but they are great Sax's in Gold or Silver Plates.
The Curved Soprano's really killed me. Since I own one of the best Soprano's ever made, I was not looking to replace my beloved Yamaha 62R yet, but did find a strong case for adding to my Saxophone arsenal with, what a Curved Soprano had to add to the mix.
When I played the Straight and Saxello models, I preferred the Gold Plate to the Silver. When I got the Curved Soprano's in my hands, it was a Silver love. Both platings sounded great, but I did have favorites.
You cant go wrong here. Check out the RC Soprano before making any other purchase.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Irish artists had a strong presence at the Art and Geography Conference I attended last week in Lyon. Ríonach Ní Néill and Joe Lee, Christine Mackey, Michelle Browne, Olwen Fouéré and Andrew Duggan all made strong presentations of work and reflections on practice in a way that has encouraged me as I embark on bringing my own work into this academic arena. The conference was an opportunity for me to recognise connections between many strands of my own practice and that of my peers in artistic and academic disciplines. Ríonach presented a new film, Area, that she’s made with Joe Lee. It’s a beautiful film filled with stories, arresting images, eloquent dancing from many different kinds of bodies and no small amount of love. I recognised in it many of the Macushla dancers with whom, through Ríonach, I have had an opportunity of working but I also recognised the Docklands’ streets where much of the film is set and where my own bodies and buildings research started when I was Artist in Residence for Dublin City Council. I saw kinship between Robert Jackson’s clambering across the top of a wall and Matthew’s delicate burbling dance on the top of a wall in Three+1 for now. In Ríonach’s work, however, there is an extended history in her engagement with the city and with the dancers in her film whose ages range from under 10 to over 60. Nonetheless I was particularly struck by the moments of solo poetry that punctuate the social group scenes: a simple shot of Ríonach balancing on some chairs or Robert Jackson performing a dynamic unfolding solo that travels through the city. These moments are particularly effective because of the context of unlikely celebratory community in which they are places.
Ríonach and Joe’s film resonated with me as I was presenting for the conference the Bodies and Buildings films I’ve assembled from the research since 2007. I offered the loop of films to the conference and also agreed to speak about them among the other artistic and academic presentations in the programme. The films were supposed to be played between sessions, inserted appropriately in the niches of the schedule but technical challenges prevented that happening, which reminds me that existing in the niche is a precarious position from which it is easy to be displaced. The films did have a home in the Musée des Moulages where I found myself dancing on the Bird’s Nest building site in Beijing on a tv screen surrounded by plaster models of classical statues.
The odd backdrop reminded me that the material I was dancing in the film had come from the Cosán Dearg solo and that I had noted the classical sculptures in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum when I was making the piece. The connection with outmoded warriors relates also to the inspiration of Iarla’s music for version of the material I did in Idir: “Oisín! Is fada do shuan” “Oisín, you’ve slept a long time”. Iarla was inspired by the notion of the Celtic hero Oisín waking from his long slumber to find the era of heroes had passed. He woke to loss. He had survived but belonged to another age. It was curious to be reminded of all these resonances in the work, as I watched it in this new setting in Lyon.
The experience of the conference wasn’t just about memories of old work. It also helped me engage with current projects, in particular the E-motional Bodies and Cities experience. The cartographic concerns of geographers and artists connected strongly with the e-motional mapping of space, place and relationships. A Swedish academic and landscape architect, Carola Wingren, made a presentation about how she was trying to communicate the threat of rising sea levels in Sweden in a way that would be easier for people to engage with. She spoke of the shortcoming of maps that suggested the line between land and sea was fixed and had experimented with different kinds of map-making that would better represent the dynamic nature of the shifting shoreline. Her drawings recalled Nicolas Santos’ drawings of our E-motional mapping in Limassol.
I was frustrated at one presentation where a geographer suggested that artists had not contributed anything new to cartography. Of course if one already defines what map-making looks like (pictorial representation often linear on paper/screen, terrain viewed from above) and only recognises artistic engagements that follow that mode then one sees nothing new. But if one were prepared to recognise that maps are affective and not just technical, that (as Karen Till pointed out in her presentation) spaces are filled with memory, actuality and fantasised futures (and multiple versions within each of those categories), then it becomes necessary to recognise that maps might exist in and between bodies in the way that we have begun to articulate in the E-motional Bodies and Cities work. Of course this kind of multivalent map is not neat. It is exists synchronically and diachronically. It is contested. But that is why the mobile response of e-motional mapping is makes sense. Such mapping also acknowledges the impact of the mapper on the mapping, since our E-motional journeys not only record the environment but intervene in it.
In contrast to this academically limited view of artists, Karen Till’s presentation of her engagement with the work of Colombian theatre group Mapa Teatro was inspiring and reassuring to me as an artist who is going to be entering this academic terrain. It’s largely thanks to Karen and the Mapping Spectral Traces research group she co-convenes that Ireland has such a strong artistic presence at the conference. She spoke of the benefit for academics in paying sensitive attention to the work of artists in the field, not looking for examples to prove pre-existing theory but allowing theory to grow out of that sensitive attention. For Karen, the academic becomes an important conduit for knowledge developed from experience and embodiment to influence the policy makers who pay attention to the academic’s insights.
From my point of view, it is precisely this potential to influence that makes it attractive for me as an artist to engage with academia. I am soon to start a PhD and have been anxious about what impact that would have on my work as a choreographer. However the conference has also provided me with opportunities to talk about trusting my practice as a research method and so I can look forward to the academic adventure ahead as a way of deepening the practice and communicating its value.
“After all one’s art is not the chief end of life but an accident in one’s search for reality or rather perhaps one’s method of search” W.B. Yeats |
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Showing course contents for the educational year starting in 2014 .
Course responsible: Linda Jean Gordon Hjeljord
Teachers: Arne Tronsmo
ECTS credits: 10
Faculty: Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
Teaching language: EN, NO
Limits of class size:
Minimum 6, maximum 30 participants.
Teaching exam periods:
Course frequency: Uneven years, last time in 2015.
First time: 2013H
Last time: 2016V
The course covers fungal systematics as well as fungal cell biology, genetics, and sexual and asexual reproduction. Other subjects in the course include a thorough introduction to fungal ecology and interactions between fungi and other organisms, including use of beneficial fungi in biological control of pathogenic fungi. Use of fungi in biotechnology and the food industry are key topics.
Students will acquire insight into systematics, genetics, physiology and ecology of fungi. Students will obtain knowledge on use of fungi in industry and in biological control. Students will be able to evaluate positive and negative effects of fungi and suggest measures to control undesirable fungal activity. The course includes laboratory exercises as well as presentation of a term paper on a topic chosen by the student.
Lectures, laboratory exercises and presentations of term papers; all require student participation and independent study.
The instructors can be contacted via email for information on course activities: mailto:[email protected]@nmbu.no and mailto:[email protected]@nmbu.no
21st Century Guidebook to Fungi. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
General microbiology equivalent to BIO130. General genetics equivalent to BIO120. Microbial physiology equivalent to BIO230. Molecular biology equivalent to BIO210.
Plant pathology equivalent to PLV200.
Active participation in at least 80% of the term paper presentations and all the laboratory exercises.
The written term paper, term paper presentation, participation in other student presentations, and lab report together make up 40 % of the final grade.
The final oral exam makes up 60 % of the grade.
Lectures: 36 h. Lab exercises and preparations, term papers and presentations: 100 h. Individual study: 164 h.
Special requirements in science.
Type of course:
Lectures 4 h weekly; lab exercises or term paper presentations: 4 h weekly.
This course will be held for the final time in 2015, if economically feasible.
External examiner for the oral examination; internal examiners for the term paper, term paper presentation, and lab report.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | This 2 Days Murchison falls safari trip Uganda tranfers you to Uganda's biggest national park which is the Murchison Falls national park. With this 2 day safari tour you will be entitled to a memorable game drive to that sights you to the Jackson's heart beasts, oribis, Rothschild giraffes, lions, buffaloes, kobs, warthogs, elephants, leopards, hyenas, hippos, patas monkeys, baboons, waterbucks and many more wildlife.
2 Days Murchison Falls
Hotel pickup - Your also returned back to your hotel.
|Number of people against price per person||2 - $385 pp||3 - $326 pp||4 - $284 pp||5 - $265 pp||6 - $248 pp||7 - $238 pp||8 - $230 pp||9 - $230 pp|
You will also be entitled to a boat ride on River Nile to see animals like buffaloes, elephants on the water banks and crocodiles. Separated into by the world's longest river (the Nile), and named after the iconic Murchison Falls. Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda's largest game park. This park spans vast sprawling savanna grasslands concentrated with a diversity of both animals and bird species.
With the 2 days Murchison falls trip, you will hike to the top of the breath-taking Murchison Falls and then do an afternoon launch cruise on the Nile River. The Nile River is a home to several water animals and pulls lots of animals to drink refresh and cool off the scorching heat. You start the safari with an early morning game drive for a great chance of beautiful wildlife spotting.
Our driver guide picks you up from your hotel / residence or any place of convenience at 7:00am. The driver / guide shall brief you on the 2 days Murchison falls safari program shortly before the start of a 6 hours’ drive to Murchison Falls National Park.
In Luwero District, your guide shall point out the historical implication this place has on Uganda. We could make a stopover to pick some fruits like the pineapples, jackfruits, passion fruits to mention but a few, then continue with our journey to Masindi town for early lunch at Masindi Hotel / Court View Hotel.
After lunch, we embark on our journey and drive out of town to a dirt road for 25 minutes and get to the Murchison Falls National Park. After the clearing at the park gate, you are ushered into the Murchison by a congress of playful anticipating baboons in the road.
They grapple about in anticipation as some shy away into the thick Budongo Forest. This is the start of some great picture moments, then continue the drive as you savour the beautiful grassy landscape to the start of the hike to the top of the Murchison Falls.
At the top you are treated to the breath taking sight of the falls. About 300 - 400 cubic meters per second of Nile waters force through a tiny gorge of about 7 meters to plunge into a violent tempest about 42 meters below. It is such a beautiful sight and incredible picture moments are enjoyed here.
Afterwards we proceed to catch the 2:30pm Launch Cruise on the Nile River (Victoria Nile). This relaxing ride of about 3 hours, treats you to such beautiful and a variety of wildlife sightings. There are also lots of water animals like the hippos and Nile crocodiles, lots of other animals come to the river to drink water, cool off the scorching heat and for others to feed on the fresh grass along the river banks.
Expect spotting of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes and a cocktail of bird species including among others kingfisher, herons, and fish eagles. The ride also takes you to the base of the Murchison Falls National Park for yet another angle to savour these beautiful falls. Later at about 5:30pm, drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Full Board (lunch and dinner)
Travel time: 6 hours’ drive (Kampala to Murchison)
After your early morning breakfast at about 6:00am, our driver picks you up and along with a game ranger ready for a game drive by 7:00am. Early morning is a great time to catch the early risers, nocturnal and the hunters before returning to their hideouts.
The Nile River bisects the park into the northern and southern sections. The northern side has a higher concentration of game than the southern side. If your accommodation is on the southern side you will drive to the ferry crossing to get to the northern side. You explore the major game trails especially around Paraa and expect great and beautiful wildlife spotting including giraffes, lions, elephants, spotted hyenas, warthogs, Uganda kobs, Jackson's Hartebeests, waterbucks, leopards and among others.
At about 11:00am you return to the hotel and check out, then drive to Masindi town for lunch at Masindi Hotel/Court View Hotel and later proceed to Kampala or your preferred drop-off place or destination.
Meal Plan: Full Board (breakfast and lunch)
Travel time: 6 hours’ drive (Murchison to Kampala)
NOTE: Avoid dressing in blue, white and black clothes as they may attract tsetse flies.
With this 2 days Murchison falls safari tour package, you will be entitled to a game drive that sights you to the Jackson heart beasts, oribis, giraffes, lions, buffalos, kobs, warthogs, elephants, leopards, waterbucks. Boat ride on the Nile River to see, animals like buffalos, elephants on the water banks and crocodiles.
— Ssenyonga Moses
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Here is a list of websites to assist you in tracing a veteran's war service and ultimate fate as well as information about various war campaigns.
Caring for Our War Memorials
See our own 'Caring for Our War Memorials' page for information on local War Memorial preservation and maintenance.
This information pack has been compiled by NSW Public Works to provide guidance to tradespeople and those looking after War Memorials in understanding how to act appropriately to safeguard their significance.
- Roll of Honour - Details of over 102,849 of Australia's war dead.
- Commemorative Roll -Details of some 3,051 commemorated Australians.
- First World War Nominal Roll - Details of approximately 324,000 members of the 1st AIF
- Boer War Nominal Roll - Details of over 17,000 service people in the Boer War
- Honours and Awards (Gazetted) - Approx. 47,000 military honours and awards made to Australians
- Photographic Database - (200,000 photographs)
Highly recommended for World War I, World War II and other service personnel
For World War I, the National Archives has service records for the:
- First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF)
- Australian Flying Corps
- Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
- Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train
- Australian Army Nursing Service
- Depot or home records
An excellent source for information on commemorative traditions, relevant news items, and links to other important database sites.
Provides detailed information on the new Anzac commemorative location recently constructed at Gallipoli in conjunction with the New Zealand government, and with the approval of the Turkish government.
Records for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the World Wars.
Responsible for the administration and maintenance of the graves throughout the world for those Australians who have died during war.
This site contains information from the service records of some one million individuals who served during World War Two. You may search for service record details by specifying name, service number, honours, place (of birth, of enlistment, or residential locality at enlistment). Once you find an individual service record you can, if you wish, print a certificate of service.
This site contains information about the Australian men and women who served in the armed forces in Korea, or in the waters adjacent to Korea, during the conflict and after the ceasefire between 27 June 1950 and 19 April 1956.
This site contains information about the Australian men and women who served in the armed forces in Vietnam during the conflict between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975. This site also lists the more than 1600 Australian civilians who were awarded or were eligible to receive the Vietnam Logistics and Support Medal.
This site lists all Australian Defence Force personnel involved in the hostilities and associated operations in the Persian Gulf from August 1990 to September 1991.
A web site dedicated to 2/30 Battalion AIF, maintained by Graham Wilson.
This site was created by Michael Southwell-Keely who died in 2006. The site continues as a memorial to him and in thanks to all those who contributed information, photos and provided encouragement and support for the site.
It contains locations, descriptions and images of war memorials in the states and territories of Australia.
Memorials include monuments, honour rolls, buildings and a variety of utilitarian facilities all erected in honour and remembrance of those who served their country in war.
The RAHS is an important source for researching and recording Australian history.
The Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway is a unique tribute to the bravery of Australian troops who fought through atrocious conditions and against vastly superior enemy numbers in the Papua-New Guinea campaign of July 1942-January 1943.
A historical and educational research site which contains information on the public monuments and memorials in all Australian States and Territories. The objective of this website is to document the monuments and memorials within Australia which have been erected by public desire to commemorate people or events.
A website which allows you to locate an ANZAC service person, add to the 'scrapbook', and build a tribute.
A reminder of the sacrifice and commitment of Australian men, who served their country.
The Harrower Collection, by David Harrower, consists of Medals, Memorial Plaques, Awards, Badges and Australian Military and Family Historical information to the men of the 33rd 34th 35th and the 36th Battalion's during World War 1 (9th Infantry Brigade)
A Family and Military research site, this database has been on line for nearly 5 years and has generated over 100k hits. David assists any family member research their First World War ancestors and hopes to continue for many years to come.
This site displays World War One / WW1 / First World War honour rolls for local towns and cities of Australia, and other relevant events or persons, compiled by Charles Davis.
New South Wales
The ANZAC Memorial Building in Hyde Park South is the principal State War Memorial in New South Wales to all Australians who served their country in war.
The building completed in 1934, is a concrete structure, clad in stone, designed by Charles Bruce Dellit, with sculptures by Rayner Hoff. The Memorial is administered by a board of Trustees appointed under the Anzac Memorial (Building) Act, 1923, as amended.
A wealth of information with professional librarians to assist in researching the memorials and recorded veteran names.
Find your NSW public library
Access this site to identify key naming information and family relationships.
Photographs of Public Buildings and War Memorials in New South Wales. CGS 4346
Includes photographs of sketch plans of war memorials and associated structures in New South Wales, c. 1920-24.
Photographs of Veterans.
Online versions of information leaflets, subject guides and other useful finding aids to help you research the State archives
The Office is involved in the management of heritage across the State, and is developing a number of important registers to record heritage items.
An ongoing project to transcribe, photograph and map the memorials and monuments within the Hawkesbury Region of New South Wales.
Includes a section on the war memorials of the Mosman area, as well as veteran information and stories.
Visit this site for information on a similar War Memorials records project that aims to include some 54,000 memorials located in various localities throughout the United Kingdom.
The Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project is dedicated to the recording of memorials to the Anglo-Boer War across the world.
This site centralizes digitized information relevant to First World War Australian A.I.F. personnel who served in Russia 1919.
Johnnies and Mehmets is an online memorial, a decorated honour roll commemorating the service and sacrifice of fourteen soldiers, Anzacs and Turks, who fought in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
The Johnnies and Mehmets website was created through a curatorial led research project which took focus and story from both the Sydney based Turkish descendents of soldiers who fought in the Dardenelles and the Anglo Celtic descendants of Granville soldiers.
The website includes an animated honour roll decorated by Sydney based Turkish artist Gulay Pelin; stories and photos contributed by the descendants of the soldiers and a special contribution by Australia’s foremost Gallipoli scholar Harvey Broadbent, former Director of The Gallipoli Centenary Research Project, a partnership between Australia’s Macquarie University, Australian War Memorial, Australian Research Council, Turkey’s Middle East Technical University and Turkish Military Archives.
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | The Judah Youth Department is a group of vibrant young people who have decided that will we experience the miraculous power of God in our ministry and our lives. Our motto, “Pleasing God and not men for me to live as Christ,” is a declaration that shows our dedication to living for Christ.
We have come this far by faith, leaning on the Lord. The Men’s Department has come from a mighty long way and has accomplished many achievements for work of the kingdom of God.
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Pastor Rupert Johnson was born on the island of Jamaica in 1968 and migrated to the United States in 1970 with his family. Pastor Johnson is a 3rd generation pastor. His grandmother was his father’s pastor, and his father was his. Now he has been blessed and given the assignment to continue the legacy in which his father and mother, a powerful woman of God, created.
We believe the bible is the inspired, infallible and authoritative word of God.
We believe in the Godhead and in the Oneness of the Godhead. We believe that there is only one God manifested as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and that Jesus who represents the fullness of the Godhead bodily, was the Eternal Father made visible.
"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." - 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
If you have never had the opportunity to be in a Spirit-filled service before, you will discover that the oldest worship on earth is a brand new experience for you. When you come to Rehoboth, make yourself at home and join us as we glorify God together.
Sunday School - 9:30 am Divine Worship - 11:30 am Evening Worship - 6:30 pm
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | I am 6 mos pregnant with my second dc. DD is 10 months old and due to severe reflux which made her develop a severe breast aversion, weight loss, and supply issues was weaned from the breast at 3 mos. I am not sure I ever got over it, I really wanted to bf as long as possible. The past few weeks she is acting like she wants to nurse and I'm not sure why. A few times in the tub she has just latched on and started sucking like she never stopped, and it has been 7 mos since she had the breast....(AND our bf relationship ended with her SCREAMING if I even came near her with my shirt off.) Also during the night she has been pulling up my shirt and latching on. What would make her all of a sudden start to want to nurse again? Should I let her? I am producing a LOT of colostrum already in this pregnancy so I'm not sure what exactly she is getting...I'm really thrown off by this and not sure what to do. |
true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | “During the French revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those had just been guillotined. She married a French Man named Tussard and came to London and she founded Madam Tussard’s Wax Works. There it is still in Marleborne near Baker Street station, not the original building, that was destroyed by fire but it remained untouched. On a darker shadow, the revolution came to England, they blasted high explosives on that street all along the road and hit the cinema next door. We are going to London under the bomber. Late one night in March of 1941 a young man hurried up to the great vast doors of Madam Tussard’s…”
Suspense – “Menace in Wax” by John Dickson Carr. November 17, 1942
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true | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | English | null | null | Everything external is shaking and changing and moving to an uncertain, but certain, future. Ending. Beginning. I’m not sure which. My kids are growing, my husband and I are aging, the times they are a changin’, but all of that is external.
Inside, things basically stay the same, right? We basically feel the same and think the same and look at things the same as we did yesterday. Maybe change inside is imperceptible. Maybe our days are long strings built thick, fiber by fiber, stronger each week, and it will take a year of hindsight to really see we are changing, inside, too. We are thickening.
I’ve been working on some plans for the future which required a looking back, just back to the last year but back…and I thought I was good at this. I thought I specialized in reminiscing and reflecting. Turns out, my introspection is more about what’s up, inside, right now.
I’m not good at looking around.
I work on this by looking at people and wondering what they are introspecting. With my kids, I ask too many nosy questions and if I’m suspicious I’ll just come right out and ask the most embarrassing things. They are shocked. I tell them this is my job. Then I’m embarrassed. Then I brush over all the questions that naturally ensue and am back to introspecting my own self. Looking in on me. Looking at everything spoken into existence (Genesis 1) as it relates to me—the trees the grass the birds the flowers—all for me.
Looking back at what happened in the last year was not easy. Not very many things came to mind. I had to consult Google for my calendar, and two bullet journals for the details of the year. I looked through my Bible journal. I scrolled my Instagram feed. Turns out lots of things happened in the last year, things worth remembering and things better forgotten or learned from, but I had to consult external sources to bring them to mind. I am not google. I do not store the shifting, changing, moving of a year. Do I?
Things are changing outside and my insides stay wrapped up in immediate needs and those daydreams, the conversations, the letters, the things. Thank God for calendars and pictures and paper-recordings of life. Thank God for time keeping. Thank God for God.
God is all-consuming. My mind is slow but steady and I feed it a diet but is it good? Is it nourishing? It is full, I know that. With everything stretching away from me and daydreams to keep up with and conversations to have, to really have in really-real life, my mind is full and I never think it can take on more. It can’t take on more. My mind is full. Consumed.
God is all-consuming and my thoughts are too thoroughly digested. I have them all, I look at them frequently and evaluate them but I seldom chuck the useless ones quickly enough. I hold on to them a second too long and they latch, like donuts to the waist. The pants are tight these days, the thoughts have lingered.
God is all-consuming and I haven’t made sufficient room. No. That’s not right. God doesn’t need room in my thoughts—He is room. Space and time and forever that is unshaken, unchanging, unmoving. God is external and internal, if I let Him be. If I welcome Him to be. I can frame all the thoughts in light of His presence and see them illuminate or darken. Consumed in Him.
|Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. \\Hebrews 12:28-29 NKJV\\|
I actually have held on to the shifts and changes and all that has moved through. I have the events in my fibers, thick ropes stretching long into almost 41 years now. Young. Old. I’m not sure which but I’m sure it doesn’t matter. God is all-consuming and I am feeble in the fire, burned in a gaze and thankful.
All those thoughts in captivity are subject to becoming ashes; all my thoughts before Him are consumed one way or another, eternal and beginning. God is all-consuming and the best parts of me are soaked in His word and presence and grace; fireproof, everlasting. The best parts of me are not worried about change or devoured by my own thoughts. I am all-consumed. |
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Everyone knows that the thought of selling, getting and accumulating golden is incredibly well-known right now as a way of making monetary stableness. Perhaps you have bee among individuals wanting to learn more. Follow the tips and concepts offered in this article to produce a great rare metal expense method. |
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