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Remote villages are very much in need of health centres of dispensaries for their daily living due to their poor and unhygienic living conditions. Timely awareness and intervention of properly trained medical officers can save even the lives of many and reduce the death rate of children as well as adults. There are a great number of villages without these basic medical facilities. We request your whole-hearted support and collaboration in our venture to provide basicminimum medical services to these less fortunate ones of the society. The obstacles they face are: the difficulty of transportation to reach the nearby centres for medication, highly paid medical services, etc. |To Establish ClinicDispensary||US $||40,000.00| To Establish an Orphanage This is to help orphans, school dropouts, destitute children and child labourers, who are unable to continue their studies due to abject poverty, by providing board & lodge, healthcare and education. The cost of establishing an orphanage for 30 children with a study hall, dormitory, lavatories, refectory, kitchen etc |To Establish an Orphanage||US $||60,000.00| To Establish an Elementary School To establish an elementary school in rural and tribal areas in order to educate the poor children who are unable to go to school due to acute poverty and to give them a bright future. With $ 45,000 we could establish a village school. Education is their escape from the oppressive burden of poverty. Your support offers these children a ray of hope for a bright future. |Cost of Establishing an Elementary School||US $||45,000.00| Assist us in establishing a Minor Seminary The specific purpose of the Society is to promote vocations to the priesthood and to train and supply zealous, dedicated and hardworking missionaries where ever there is need in the Church. To meet this need of providing missionaries, the Province need to establish minor seminaries in the different regions of the Province. Fortunately we still have a good number of vocations to serve the Lord. |Cost of Establishing a Minor Seminary||US $||250,000.00|

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Salty white is a famous Han nationality in Sichuan. It is one of the most distinctive dishes in Sichuan cuisine. It is famous for its tender and tender taste, sweet and savory taste, and its taste is mellow. With the same burning, it adds a special flavor. With pork belly as the main ingredient, the salty and white cooking skills are steamed, and the taste is salty and sweet. The main ingredient in the dish, Shufu Sprout, is a specialty of Sichuan Yibin (formerly known as the Xufu). Chinese name salty white main ingredients with skin pig pork, sprouts classification Sichuan taste taste salty sweet Boil the meat with pork belly, add ginger slices in the cold water pot, scallions, cook until eight mature. In the sugar-colored cool pot, add rock sugar to the cold oil, stir fry until brown, add water to the rich, and fill into the bowl. Color the pork belly and remove it hot, evenly smeared the sugar on the skin, and soy sauce. The pork skin was fried in 200 degrees oil and foamed brownish red. After slicing the pork, it is cut into 8 cm, 4 cm wide and 3 mm thick. Flavored sugar, water, salt, cooking wine, pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, and seasoning juice. Put the bowl of meat into the sauce and color it again and put it in the bowl. Place the onion section, ginger slice, red pepper section and cardamom. Finally, wash the chopped sprouts. And pour the remaining juice on it. Steamed and placed in a boiling water cage for 20 minutes The plate is folded over the bowl with a slightly larger plate, and the bowl can be removed. An important raw material for salty white in Sichuan is sprouts, and it must be “Yibin Sprout” produced in Yibin, Sichuan. The meat should be fresh pork, first washed, scraped, cut into a square, and boiled to eight. Mature, after fishing out, put the side of the skin with honey, fry in the oil pan, and fry until deep golden yellow, remove and let cool, cut into pieces. Take a large bowl, put two spoonfuls of red soy sauce in the bowl, then put some sugar and salt, put the pieces of meat in a large bowl, and be sure to put the skin down. After placing the pieces of meat, you should also cut a few slices of ginger on the meat, and then chop the Yibin sprouts on the meat. Then you can steam in the steamer, usually steamed for 40 minutes. After taking it out of the pot, just use a plate to buckle on the bowl, then turn it over and bake it off. If everyone loves to eat spicy food, this salty white wine will be put on the bean paste and pepper. The salty white that is overturned first looks at people's appetite: the skin is red sauce, and it is three words in the mouth: soft, rotten, fresh, fat but not greasy. Because the oil is in the sprouts, the sprouts are also very fragrant. This salty white burned at the dinner table of our house, not only the meat was left, but the sprouts did not have to be left, because the sprouts made people eat their appetite.

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Organizations, Resources & Cool Places To Visit Browse through this smattering of popular places to visit in the United States and stops beyond. You'll be surprised at the variety of places already scoped out for disabled travelers. Here are accessibility websites covering great places, with travel tips, and an idea of what to expect. Many of the editors here are also disabled and write from that perspective. Take a look: Click here for information about the Department of Transportation's toll-free "hotline" for air travelers with disabilities. The toll-free number for aviation consumer disability hotline is: Click here for a May 2014 publication of Disability Connection from disability.gov: 10 Things You Need to Know about Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The Essential Guide to Travelling with a Medical Condition This easy-to-use resource includes things to consider when traveling with a medical condition or a disability. It explores packing, planning, transportation, emergency help, disclosing your medical condition, going through customs and more. Air Travel With a Disabiltiy This article provides information on how to travel by air with a person who has a disability. Barrier Free Travels Blog for slow walkers to wheelchair users. Author is Cindy Harrington. Mobility International USA This is a disability-led organization that promotes international exchanges for people with disabilities both abroad and for those who wish to come to the USA. The website includes a searchable library, training and tools for international development and exchange staff, disability advocacy, people-to-people exchanges, and employment and internships. Department of State's Human Rights Practices Search by country to learn about the country's human rights practices before you travel. Easy Access Australia This travel guide was created by Bruce Cameron, a man with a spinal injury. The website is intended to provide information about accessible travel in Australia but seems to only emphasize Sydney. Visit this website for touring information within the British Isles, including a thorough access guide and a rating system. Click here. Exceptional Vacations (EV) Offering all-inclusive, fun, rewarding travel destinations, Exceptional Vacations is dedicated to providing high quality vacation opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities and special needs. EV provides safe, chaperoned environments that promote integration, socialization, friendship and fun. The Swiss profess that despite its topographical ups and downs, Switzerland is friendly to disabled travelers, offering paved hiking trails in the mountains and a promenade near a lake, shopping and more. Learn a lot of basic travel information at this website, such as where accessible restaurants are located, suggested transportation and a special hotel guide. Accessible Journeys Group Tours offer tours all over the world, including Africa, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Israel, Nepal and the United States. Packages offer fun and companionship. They also offer ocean cruises. Check it out here. Access Travel Center Based in Atlanta, GA, but listing many types of travel and transportation companies in major cities throughout the U.S. Click here. Agency specializes in tours and accommodations for tourists using wheelchairs—destinations all over Portugal and Spain. Click here. Independent Living Institute Lists links to travel and leisure resources, worldwide. Special Needs Group Inc. Includes Special Needs at Sea, a company dedicated to the needs of travelers for mobility aides, oxygen or other equipment in 30 countries around the world. They will make arrangements for equipment to be delivered directly to the airport, hotel or cruise ship. Traveling with Autism: How to Handle Safety, Transitions and Time in Transit There are challenges when traveling with a child who has autism. But it does not mean families should skip traveling. Read about the benefits of family travel, planning early, creating a safety plan, packing, road, air and train travel suggestions, staying in a hotel, experiencing theme parks and general suggestions. Vacation planner and tour operator exclusively for wheelchair travelers, their families and friends. Provides accessible hotel reservations and services for people with disabilties in cities throughout the world. Wheelchair Accessible Travel Guide This guide is a compilation of general travel tips, tips for airline travel, ways to make travel easier and tips for attactions and accommodations. Travel Care Companions There are several companies that offer travel care companions. These individuals may be private duty nurses, former flight attendants, respiratory therapists or EMTs who travel and assist passengers with special needs. Here are a few organizations, but don't be limited by the list. Simply search for travel care companions. Medical Travel Help Ensemble of Care Preferred Travel Helpers Traveling with Your Eyes Shut Series 8 part series from Large Print Reviews that provides tips on traveling if you are visually impaired. Includes: Traveling with a Guide Dog Travel in Canada Resting Easy in the US: Unique Lodging Options for Wheelers and Slow Walkers includes access descriptions and photos of over 90 US properties from B&Bs, ranches, lakeside cottages to boutique hotels, rustic cabins and yurts.

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A blow to the head in lacrosse was once seen as a minor setback. Players who carried on in games were regarded as “tough.” However, a lot has changed during the last decade and concussions are now taken seriously by both coaches and players alike. Concussion injuries in games such as lacrosse account for the highest share in interscholastic sports. A study done by the National High School Sports showed that head/face concussion made up for 23.6 percent of total injuries. On the other hand, Andrew E. Lincoln, MS, ScD, Sports Medicine Research Director at MedStar Health Research Institute, states that in the case of boys lacrosse, most of the concussions are related to intentional helmet use during contact (player-to-player). The results of the study demonstrated that players are unprepared for the impact of the collisions that result in the injuries in most cases. Most of the unexpected injuries indicate that the concentration of the players is on gaining possession during play, which makes them vulnerable to sudden contact from opponent players. Just recently, there was the case of Sara Letmanski of Glenbard West (Ill.), who injured the back of her head. The concussion was so extreme that she has been having trouble adjusting to bright light. This incident could very well mark the end of her lacrosse career. Educating and teaching players on how to minimize concussion risks In most cases, players aren’t aware of what a concussion is and can easily fail to recognize one when they suffer from it. Helmets may not be the answer, because the report from The Guardian after speaking to Barry D. Jordan, M.D, M.P.H in While Plains, N.Y., at the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital implied that there wasn’t any helmet that was concussion proof. A lacrosse coach can educate players on how to spot concussions and suggest recovery measures to a player has been a victim of the injury. For example, Dane Almassy is a lacrosse coach in White Plains, N.Y., who works with teams part-time, one-time and full-time. The existence of such coaches indicate that players may be able to learn about lacrosse techniques and concussion avoidance in a single session, while some teams may take multiple sessions to learn. Lacrosse hiring bodies can also decide to work with coaches on an ongoing basis to eliminate chances of a head injury in every game. While coaching may not be able to prepare players to completely avoid concussions, it will significantly improve their understanding of the risk and change the way that they compete on the field. They’ll learn how to play the right way, keep their eyes open and protect each other against opponent teams. According to the National Governing Body of Lacrosse in U.S., a new legislation has been set up with the aim to report on safety standards equipment manufacturers will have to abide by. They say that the equipment also has a role to play to ensure player safety in the game. The NGBL also states the Federal Trade Commission should take strong action against manufactures who fail to comply with the standards. Hopefully in the future, there will be a reduction in lacrosse concussion cases. How do you feel about concussion in lacrosse? Feel free to leave comments. Posted In: Uncategorized

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I am grateful for each day of my life. I hope you feel the same way about every day of your life. I have found that if I adhere to a plan of recording blessings that occur during the day, I feel much rewarded by the end of the evening. It is actually quite simple. Start with two or three good things to be grateful about. Some people record all of the nice things! You can gradually see how you can not only become more grateful for the previous day’s events, but more and more optimistic about your future in general. Let me give you a personal example. At the beginning of this year I began my lessons at The Literacy Center in the computer lab. Soon I was writing brief summaries of books and articles. I even wrote my first blog for The Literacy Center in September. How very grateful I am to have had this opportunity. Just start thinking about your own personal goals or dreams. Write down what strides you are making and you will be grateful as your dreams come closer to actualization. An attitude of gratitude can come in smaller steps each day. Show your love for your spouse, child, or even a pet. By doing something special for him or her, I guarantee that he or she will be more likely to be grateful, and show that gratitude in return. Or, put a smile on your face: I assure you it can only help. People will smile back, for the most part, and you will feel better all day for this small effort. It may be a stretch, but I think thankfulness to God, or your Maker, or the Universal Spirit, makes us all feel grateful just to be alive. As a dialysis patient, I feel especially so. So, do one good deed each day, or even, one good deed each hour. The feelings of everyday hustle-and-bustle will likely be replaced with feelings of peace and gratitude. I have found this to be true in my life—and I wish this for each of you, each and every day. LINDA S. KRAMER

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Phil Porter, Director Mackinac State Historic Parks Mackinac State Historic Parks, Two National Treasures On a cold wintry day in February, Marcia and Kathy interviewed Phil Porter to learn what makes Mackinac State Historic Parks (MSHP) so special to Mackinac, to the State of Michigan and to the United States. Here are his answers to their questions. Kathy: Phil, you have been involved with MSHP for a number of years. Tell us your journey and how you found yourself being the Director of such a prominent State Park in the United States? Phil: Well, I was fortunate to become a summer tour guide at Fort Mackinac in 1970 and throughout my college years. In fact the job helped clarify to me what I wanted my major to be during my graduate studies at State University of New York which was History Museum Studies. In 1976 I joined the Staff of MSHP and have held many wonderful positions as curator of collections, curator of interpretation, chief curator and now as Director. My wife, Valerie, who I met during one of my summers on the Island, both fell in love with Mackinac and wanted to make it our home. We have been fortunate to have that dream become a reality for over 35 years. There are hundreds of State Parks in the U.S. What are some of the unique features of Mackinac Island that contributes to the prominent status of MSHP? Phil: Mackinac has a long and fascinating history and the Mackinac Island State Park is filled with the physical reminders of that history. The park has one of the largest collections of pre-1850 historic structures in the Midwest including the state's oldest public building (1780 Officers' Stone Quarters), the state's oldest residence (1780 McGulpin House), the state's oldest hospital building (1828 Post Hospital), the state's oldest church (1829-30 Mission Church), and many other buildings that are significant contributing structures to the island's prestigious National Historic Landmark status.) Kathy: Is there one significant event that has helped retain the history of this tiny Island? Phil: Amazingly, the event that has helped immensely to keep the Island's history real is the automobile ban. The auto ban, dating to 1898 in the City of Mackinac Island and 1901 in the state park occurred before automobiles had an opportunity to change the character of the island. As a result we have narrow, quaint streets, barns that still house horses, no stop lights, no stop signs, no gas stations...a unique and wonderful pre-automotive environment that cannot be found anywhere else in the United States. People are so amazed when they see old history come alive during their visit to and the other buildings in and around town. How do you get the ideas? Phil: MSHP brings history to life through a wide variety of live interpretation programs at all of its historic sites. This includes demonstrations, walking tours, music programs, dramatic reenactments, and hands-on activities that encourage visitor participation. The ideas come from a variety of sources, but usually from our very creative staff, including seasonal interpreters who bring fresh ideas into the mix. Kathy: What are your 3 favorite programs that have become bigger than you ever thought imaginable for MSHP? Phil: That's a tough question with so many terrific programs. My first choice is the Adventure Tour at Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park just outside of The tour includes the Forest Canopy Bridge, the Eagle's Flight Zip Line, and the Nature Trail Climbing Wall. All of them have become very popular with young and old and have increased our site attendance by 30%. The second one which is also my personal favorite is the Vintage Base Ball game held on Mackinac Island. It began as a one time event that was part of our special 2003 "Summer of Sports" program. The players, participating teams, and local community have become very enthusiastic and supportive and we will keep it going as long as this support continues.(Besides, I really like playing vintage base ball!) While it is not a specific program, the growth of from the time that it was developed under the leadership of Dr. Eugene Petersen in 1982 has been very rewarding. The support of this wonderful group, especially in recent years as our state budget appropriation has been slashed numerous times, has been above and beyond my hopes and expectations. Marcia: One last question: if someone only had one day to spend on the Island, where and what would Phil Porter suggest they visit? Phil: I would recommend that they explore both natural and historic wonders of the island. Make sure to visit Fort Mackinac, the Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum, and the other downtown historic buildings and then go out and experience the island by walking its trails, touring its wonderful rock formations and gazing over the crystal blue waters of the Straits of Mackinac. These are experiences that are available nowhere else. Marcia & Kathy: Thanks, Phil for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk to us about Mackinac State Historic Parks. We definitely realize our community is blessed to have this significant organization in our midst, as well as, having the guidance of Phil Porter to ensure that the land and its history is protected for future generations. Insider Tip: To read more about Phil Porter and the wonderful programs at Mackinac State Historic Parks click here. Visiting Mackinac Island and the surrounding country side is truly a way to experience a fantastic all-American vacation in paradise! Return to "Mackinac Island Mi" from "Phil Porter Interview"

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“The Good News for the soul may appear as so much Bad News for the intellect; free-thinking is the last thing to be expected in reading a religious document.” — Charles Grey Shaw I have always found those who espouse “free-thinking” as nothing other than intellectual smugness and prejudice against those of faith. Critical to that smugness has been an assumption that faith — implicating the faithful — is expressed and lived under a regime of compulsion. In as much as this animosity is directed towards religion in general — a child of the Enlightenment — it is assumed to apply doubly so towards Islam, the quintessential pre-Enlightenment religion. In the article, Lindsay Lohan May Have Made Her Worst Life Choice Yet, dated January 18th, 20171 and published on the website The Hill, Robert Spencer, noted Muslim bigot and pseudo-intellectual, has taken to trolling those who choose (or those who appear to choose) to become Muslim. Lohan, who has led a life full of tabloid sensationalism, publicly expressed empathy towards Muslims (though her conversion is as of yet, unconfirmed) which in turn irked Spencer. In the view of Islamophobes, why would a white western woman want to give up her freedom? Doesn’t a modern, secular, post-Christendom West have all Logan, and any white women for that matter, could need? It would seem these attributes, Lohan’s femininity and whiteness, were what exercised so much outrage in Spender and continues to enrage the Islamophobe cottage industry. And it is for these two qualities that Islamophobia reveals itself to be nothing other than a modern articulation of white supremacy. The intersection of whiteness and femininity are nothing new. In fact, it’s as old as America herself. Many Southern defenders of slavery were not only committed to theological interpretations of Christian scripture to justify slavery but many also fought against its abolition on the grounds of preserving white womanhood. White supremacists treated any attack on white womanhood to be an equally committed attack on the South as a whole (and vice versa). As W. J. Cash wrote in his The Mind of the South, “…the central status that Southern woman had long ago taken up in Southern emotion — her identification with the very notion of the South itself. For, with this in view, it is obvious that the assault on the South would be felt as, in some true sense, an assault on her also, and that the South would inevitably translate its whole battle into terms of her defense.”2 Indeed, if we fast forward nearly seventy-five years, we find this ideology just as enduring as it was nearly a century ago. Dylann Roof, the murderer of nine black Christian parishioners, justified his massacre in part (as related to the whole of America!) to the preservation of white women, saying, “I have to do it,” he reportedly said as he reloaded his gun five different times. “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go.”3 The so-called Islamophobe industry is inseparable from white supremacy as we see above and it will only be dealt with accordingly and efficiently when it is called as such. Additionally, Spencer’s words reveal that he is not only committed to white supremacist ideology, but also to Orientalist ideology. Spencer is only able to see Muslims, those who empathize with them as well as those who might aspire to be Muslim, as irrevocably Other than him, and the West. As Walter G. Andrews comments in his review of Thierry Hentsch’s Imagining the Middle East, “Westerners—have created our selves, our Western selves, by creating an Orient in relation to which we are the West.”4 Spencer has fallen into the all-too-familiar trap of the “clash of civilizations” trope. His objection to Lohan’s (speculated) embracing of Islam is not rooted in, for example, theological disagreements (these would be perfectly acceptable), but in a rejection that is committed to Islam being the total opposite of western civilization. In other words, if Lohan has become a Muslim, she has ceased to be a westerner. Spencer objects to her choice of finding other truths outside the truths as expressed in the so-called Judeo-Christian tradition (her words, as he quotes them, are, “to find another true meaning”). It would seem that Spencer is denying that Islam and, vis-a-vie Muslims, can neither hold nor express any truth-claims; that is the sole purview of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Would he also then deny truth-claims to the Chinese, the Japanese, or any other non-JC tradition? If his objection is rooted in so-called acts of violence perpetrated by Muslims, then not only would he be obliged to discount the Chinese and the Japanese in their truth-claims, but Spencer would also have to forfeit the Judeo-Christian tradition itself in its truth-claims as their have been uncountable acts of violence perpetrated against others (Native Americans, Asians, African-Americans, etc.). This brings us back full-circle to his support of white supremacy as a value system: whites/westerners, and only whites/westerners can commit acts of violence and still retain their humanity, worthiness and claims to truth and beauty. What is also worthy of note is the difference between how the Islamophobe community has treated Lohan’s (speculated) conversion with that of pop-star, Janet Jackson’s. Pamela Geller, a fellow peer of Spencer’s in anti-Muslim circles, berates the new Muslim as a “has-been rock star” who has been “bought” by the Islamic world5. Geller’s words are ripe with many white supremacist and racist overtones. While Spencer berates Lohan for being duped, Geller’s racist assumptions, rather, assert that Jackson, who is African-American, is owned, not simply by her husband, but by the entire Muslim world. Why is Jackson understood here to have been “bought” where Lohan is not? The allusion to blacks as slaves cannot be missed in Geller’s rant, whereas Lohan is simply described as having lost “her moral compass … long ago”. Jackson, according to Geller, is simply fulfilling her slave-heritage whereas Lohan is guilelessly misinformed. Spencer also commits one of the most common offenses of his ilk, which is that of intellectual sloppiness peddled as academic authority. Spencer has chosen to ignore the scholarship which challenges his claims on Qur’anic interpretation; Muslim as well as non-Muslim scholarship. Spencer reveals his ignorance of traditional Muslim scholarship as well as his arrogance in disregarding it when speaking to a number of verses in the Qur’an. One example, is his claim to the Qur’an sanctioning “wife-beating”6 as found in Chapter 4, verse 34. The command in question is, in the Arabic transliteration, “wa darabahunna”. Spencer chooses to ignore centuries of scholarship that adamantly declares that the verse is not a sanction for a man to beat his wife. And most strikingly of all, there cannot be found any evidence to support the Prophet beating any of his own wives, even though several were known to have spirited and defiant attitudes. Not only can such an account not be found in the defenders of the Prophet but also none can be found in the statements of his enemies, who spared no quarter or opportunity to badger or delegitimize the Prophet. What is more at work here again, is the same white supremacist and Orientalist ideologies at work which impugn non-whites and Muslims as inherently violent and sexually rapacious. That Lindsay Logan finds value where Spencer finds devaluation only speaks to the reality that Islam itself confirms: not everyone is going to find truth in the Qur’an. That some white western women may come to see value in Islam undoubtedly rings the bells of alarm in white supremacist and Islamophobic camps. Claiming that, “Lindsay Lohan likely doesn’t know that any of this is in Islamic teaching” is nothing other than prejudice and absurdity masquerading in academic robes. It will take more than cherry picking a few Prophetic narrations out of context — out of historical understandings, to pass muster as legitimate scholarship. But Spencer’s words should rally Muslims to the call of addressing yet another incident of “credibility gap”, as coined by Dr. Sherman Jackson. For in the absence of our community striving to push for academic standards (which is not the same as everyone liking Islam or agreeing with Muslim truth-claims) we will continue to be impotent in the struggle for making our voices, and most importantly our intentions, not only heard, but understood. - Spencer’s op-ed for The Hill, “Lindsay Lohan May Have Made Her Worst Life Choice Yet” has been taken down supposedly due to protests over its contents. You may look at the text of the original article here. - Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1941. - ‘You Rape Our Women and Are Taking Over Our Country.’ The Telegraph, June 18th, 2015. - Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 2 (December 1993), pp. 272-273. - Janet Jackson: From Bare Breasted to Burka. By Pamela Geller. October 24th, 2016 - Spencer. Original article here.

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The School of Magic and WizardryOctober 4th-6th, Glastonbury A weekend focused on Mentalism, Bizarre Magic, Story Telling, self development and mindful ritual’s YOU WILL LEARN - Some Mentalism and Mind reading effect - Develop Bizarre Magic routine or stunt - The power of story telling and magic - Tarot reading - Self development rituals. YOU WILL EXPERIENCE - A circle of good minded people - Empowering presentations. - Hands on workshops - Shows that have meaning OPTIONAL BONUS EXPERIENCES - Receive a reading or an alternative coaching focus - Partake in a sacred circle of mindful guided meditation, drumming and movement around fire. “Combine a motivational speaker with an inspirational magician and you have Mario Morris.” Mario your host, has entertained audiences for over two and half decades in 27 countries. He is the winner of numerous first place awards. He is an expert Magician and is the founder of the School of Busking in the UK and a teacher at the Magic and Mystery School in Las Vegas. He graduated from Oxford Brooke’s University with his own practice of alternative life and performances focused coaching. (PGC) Veronica Conway Morris Veronica your guide, is passionate in seeing people reaching their goal and stepping into the fullness of their dreams. Her vast experience in mentoring and training spans over two decades. She public speaker, inspirational storyteller, Tarot reader and performer and a Magicians assistant.

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Are you nervous, but curious about drawing? Would you like to expand your range of drawing media and techniques? Are you a seasoned artist who would like to start exploring nature as subject? In this hands-on class, you will learn how to expertly combine drawing materials, get comfortable with representational and abstract techniques, and learn how to draw a leaf! During the first half of class, we will master the fundamentals of drawing through a series of fun exercises. We will then apply our new skills by going outside, picking up a leaf, and drawing the very essence of it. This class delivers quick, satisfying results that will help you fall in love with drawing. We keep the class size small (max. 8) for individual focus and attention. Ages 16 and over. DATES: Sep 20, 4-8pm or Oct 4, 2-6pm. LOCATION: TwispWorks, Bldg 6, The Tree Cooler, 502 S. Glover Stree, Twisp, 98856. COST: $60. REGISTRATION/INFO: email Perri at email@example.com

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However, the 90% claim came into question after it was pointed out the vaccine’s overall efficacy was 62 to 70% in trials in Brazil and in the UK, while the 90% figure was reached only among fewer than 3,000 participants who were given a lower dose as a result of an error. Researchers can’t explain why the accidental lower dose proved more effective. So AstraZeneca plans to run another trial, testing just this lower-dose regimen. “Now that we’ve found what looks like a better efficacy we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional study,” Soriot told Bloomberg. He said that because the efficacy is high, a smaller number of patients would be needed. Age issues: There are also concerns that the low-dose group didn’t include anyone over the age of 55, so this second trial should give researchers the chance to confirm the vaccine’s efficacy in older populations. The US Food and Drug Administration may also demand more data from a wider range of ethnicities, ages, and genders before it grants approval. The full peer-reviewed data from the original trial is set to be published in The Lancet in the coming days.

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Sunday, 14 August 2011 Alone in Berlin ~ Hans Fallada It took me a little longer than usual to finish this book, because I longed to escape from it. Yet 'Alone in Berlin' had an invibible hold on me. I was trapped by it; the story was so gripping, I didn't dare to leave it hanging there haunting me; I had to end it. I owed it to the characters, to those who were suspended in time on page 241. And now that it is finished? Well, let's just say that I understand more about what it is to be human after visiting its pages, having journeyed into that place in history peopled by mad-men and tortured angels. The book tells the true story of Otto Quangel and his wife Anna, (not the original names of the people involved) who decide to hit out at the Nazi regime in wartime Germany, by writing postcards decrying the actions of the Fuhrer. They leave them at various locations in Berlin, for the public to find. It's a dangerous action to take, punishable by death, in a world where everyone is a spy; your child, your neighbour, your boss. So much for the plot. I cannot tell you any more about that or the book would be ruined for you. I will tell you that since reading this book, I have a deeper understanding of what took place in Germany during the Second World War. It's as if a veil has been lifted. I always wondered what the Germans were doing, letting so many people suffer in such brutality in the concentration camps; how Hitler and his henchmen were allowed to run riot for so long without decent people putting a stop to it. Now I know. The brilliance of this book - and I do class it as a masterpiece - is that it captures the essence of fear. Written in 1946, just a year after the war ended, it is soaked in the atmosphere of that time: the terror, the distrust and the claustrophobic atmosphere of life under Hitler. I never realised how the every day German people lived under the constant threat of concentration camps and how brutally they themselves were treated by their own police force and the Gestapo. The author, Hans Fallada, tragically died before his book was published, but letters tell us that he knew he had written a good book. He at varying times during the war he was imprisoned for his anti-nationalistic writing but was also pressurised to write material in support of the Nazi Party. As a consequence, he spent much of the war locked up in a psychiatric hospital. It seems Fallada knew only too well the price of having a conscience in Nazi Germany. Yet, at the heart of this book, there is a great love story. Against all odds, we see two people, Otto and Anna Quangel, risk everything for a cause they believe in, and in doing so, become deeper in love than they have ever been. They cling to each other, trust in each other. It's inspiring, moving. But the plot involves various other characters too, many of whom would be at home in the dark corners of a Dickens novel. There is Enno Klunge who would sell his mother for a piece of bread; Borkhausen, the blackmailer, who preys on the newly-bereaved in case they should rant against the Fuhrer in their anger; Obergruppenfuhrer Prall who is so drunk on French wine that his wild and vicious attacks leave even the SS fearing for their lives; and Baldur Persickle, Nazism personified, whose malevolence knows no bounds. Balanced against these despicable characters are the likes of Eva Klunge, the post-lady, who quietly delivers the death telegrams around the streets of Berlin and takes a stand against The Party; Trudel Baumann, who dreams of a private, safe existence for her husband and unborn child; and Judge Fromm, who, like a magical wizard from Tolkien, appears out of nowhere to achieve the impossible. I do not know if any or all of these characters have their basis in real life, but I do know that I will never forget any of then, so masterfully have they been created. Fallada is indeed a master. Consider the cleverness of the book's title - especially the use of the word 'Alone'. It and all its connotations mean so much in relation to the story as a whole. Each character at some point comes to realise that they are all alone in the world. Some are driven by self-preservation, knowing that each person is ultimately alone and must ensure their own survival. Similarly, a number of characters are faced with physical isolation; and the author considers the consequences of solitary confinement and how it effects people. Characters are also forced to face their conscience, realising, or not, that they alone are accountable for their actions. The idea of being 'alone' in the novel is also important in that, at times, it seems that the Quangels are alone in their defiance of Nazism - acting alone in Berlin- and while it appears that none of the German people really made any resistance to the Nazis, not like the organised resistance of the French for example, this book demonstrates that there was some defiance, but that it happened on a small, individual scale, as people acted alone. This book is not one to read on a summer's trip to the beach, but is is still well worth reading. If you are interested in the history of this period, or simply would like to read about the triumph of the human soul, then this wonderful, wonderful book is for you.

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It is impossible to wait until the end of this four-novel series to write a review of 'Parade's End', in its entirety, and so I will do a diary blog post as I finish each individual book, beginning with the first. I understand now why Madox Ford is described as a Modernist writer, his place well-secured in the company of Woolf, Joyce and Conrad. The narrative hops from one character's mind to another, but in such a deliciously revealing way, that the reader cares little for chronology. What does a time-line have to do with the true meaning of a story anyhow? By using this fragmented narrative style, we can see a scene from various people's point of view, until, ultimately, we get a sense of the truth of the matter, the truth of the story. Like the glimpses of Tietjens' reflection, broken into many tiny pieces as the light shines from the multi-panelled window frame, the narrative of 'Some Do Not', is broken into many pieces. Ultimately, we process the details and rebuild the story, into one, clear line, one clear truth. Think of it like a diamond, with many sides, casting many reflections, but all the more beautiful for that. In the character of Christopher Tietjens, we are given the embodiment of honesty, goodness and duty. It seems all the more unexpected then, that he turns out to be the most romantic figure, that I have encountered in years. By keeping his distance from Valentine Wannop, his academic equal and soul mate, he demonstrates the depth of his love. It is the innocence and purity of their mutual feelings that is so moving and touching. So much of the book takes place in the minds of the characters, in the silence of deep thought, that a verbal declaration of love is devastatingly profound. It is the pure hearted Valentine who speaks first: 'From the first moment I set eyes on you...' He interrupts, embolden by her honesty saying, ' And I ... from the first moment... I'll tell you ... if I looked out of a door ... it was all like sand ... But to the left a little bubbling up of water. That could be trusted. To keep on forever.' It is so typical that Christopher to declares his love through metaphor and simile and no one but Valentine can understand. This is further proof that they are destined to be together. How fitting that, in a Modernist text, where the whole reasoning behind the writing was to 'illumine the world within', that the secrets's of a heart should be communicated through imagery and visual means. For Christopher, Valentine is the oasis in the desert, the only source of life, fertility and renewal in his desiccated world. The poetry of his language is the perfect mode of expression: not trite, but truthful. The effect on the reader is all the more poignant as the words are uttered by a man in uniform, about to leave for the France, his beloved's talisman against harm tucked safely in his breast-pocket. Of course this whole scene is so effective coming as it does after a sequence of fast-paced meanderings through Valentine's mind, as she races across London on foot, erroneously convinced that Christopher is the father of Mrs Macmaster's child, and that the rumours about him are true. Her thoughts flood the page, as she hops from idea to idea. The language is ceaseless, the ellipses reflecting her thought processes, as Madox Ford brings to light her inner life and the reader recognises in her how we too can think ourselves into a state. By the time she meets Christopher face to face, she is only fit for crying, and we understand fully why this is so. By now, Valentine has become a fully-rounded, living thing, no longer a mere fabrication on a page. The book presents us with two specimens of womankind: Valentine, the virginal suffragette of high moral character, and Sylvia, the unfaithful wife, who disloyally, sends food parcels to her German friends despite, and because of, the war. Life, for Sylvia, is one long party and so, perhaps, she represents the good life, the old life, of decadence, that ended with the horror of the trenches. If she has her face turned to the past, Valentine's is facing the future. She sees that change is coming, and indeed hurries it along, with her demonstrations and embrace of the women's movement. It is uncanny that Christopher, who prefers the world of the eighteen century to the England of 1914, should find himself falling hopelessly in love with a thoroughly modern girl. Perhaps there is something deep in his unconscious mind that knows survival means embracing the future, and with it, hope. He says earlier in the book: 'If you wanted something killed you'd go to Sylvia Tietjens in the sure faith that she would kill it; emotion: hope: ideal: kill it quick and sure. If you wanted something kept alive you'd go to Valentine...'. It is clear that at the end of 'Some Do Not', Tietjens, despite being hurled back into the horror of the war, is opting for life. The 'Some Do Not' of the title is referred to at least four times, once by an administrator in the War Office, who offers Tietjens a comfortable position at home. He utters this phrase when Christopher declines: others may take the easy way out, but some do not. Another time, it is spoken by the fly-driver, who conveys Valentine home after her horse is hurt in the fog near home. He says: ' "But I wouldn't leave my little wooden 'ut, nor miss my breakfast, for no beast... Some do and some... do not".' Because the man has a taste for food in the morning, Valentine and Christopher's glorious time together on the hill is cut short. How little decisions can make such a difference in the lives of others. Then, being faced with the prospect of saying goodbye to Christopher, a tramp sees Valentine crossing the London streets, with tears streaming down her face and says to himself, ' "Some do!" ... then added: "Some do not!" '. It seems that people from every level of society, have some comment to make about Valentine and Christopher. Yet, the most informative reference to the title comes at the very end of the book, when fate once again prevents the couple from consummating their relationship. Valentine offers herself to him saying she will be ready for anything that he might ask of her, but Tietjens says, 'But obviously... Not under this roof...' And he had added: 'We're the sort that... do not!' Suddenly they are a 'we', a self-declared couple, united in their mutual, moral understanding and feeling for one another. The change is complete. Overall, the title seems to suggest, the importance of the decisions that we make in life and while some are beyond our control, others, the really crucial ones, are not. And now, I have torn myself away from the book too long and will begin 'No More Parades'.

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Google’s Pac-Man Street View feature is real Desktop users can now play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Many people thought that it was an April Fool’s day prank but Google was not playing. Users who use desktops can now click on an icon on Google Maps and they will start viewing into an arcade game. According to Christian Science Monitor, people can look into the arcade game as long as there are roads. For people who are using mobile devices, the options are limited but Google’s support page has some useful tips on how to use the feature on a mobile device. Now users are finding ideal spots for Pac-Man, the most famous places are now the Taj Mahal and the University of Illinois. According to CNN, the game will gone, its temporary and will around for a little while. According to Google, they have introduced the “smartbox” this is a new mail box that fuses everything together. It has features like smart folders and safety for junk mail. The new smarter mail box is something that many have been looking forward to and while Google is having some fun with the Pac-Man feature, they are also producing functional products for their users.

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This moment of time, when you realize that writing and especially in a foreign language is in fact extremely difficult, not to mention that you are about to do so, for someone so incredibly important, someone who have helped you shape your life for good… Dancing is a symbol of energetic life, invigorating passion, desire, deep feelings and sexuality. A dance symbolizes the stages and rhythms of life. Dancing is even more than we can possibly imagine… Dancing is life…. I will begin this dance story, by saying that I have met this person, about 9 years ago at the dance studio that I was working at that time – Arthur Murray. At that time, the studio in Glenview, had the so called “Dance Students Party”, where every existing student, had to invite friends, so they can be introduced to the dance community. I believe, that you can already guess, that my future friend and student, was one of the guests at that time. After seeing, that Arthur Murray had an ad for free / discounted dance lessons, she got invited by one of her best friends – Mrs. Doris W., who was already taking dance lessons for some time to join one of the dance parties. After enjoying her first time in a dance studio and having a great conversation with her daughter, about how she used to love dancing, my dear friend was about to start her dance journey. Her family, happened to be extremely loving and supportive, so they got her a few lessons to start with. Realizing that the age of 72 is just a number and having a wonderful first lesson, my friend started getting a bit more involved into dancing and committing to dance packages, that would be bringing her journey to a different level. At the beginning, her very first dance teacher – Kelly, managed to do a great job, by helping her build a great understanding of coordination and balance, combined with lots of fun and joy, which is an important part of everyone’s dance journey. Before I continue, telling you the dancing story of my friend, I would love to tell you couple words about her past: Extremely accomplished in the sphere of physiology, she was RHR management physiology with issues affecting leadership effectiveness as well as working for Bankers Life (Vise president of Human resources) For her, the consulting carrier and her family, where the most important thing. Interestingly enough, every time she has attended a major event with dancing, weddings or any other occasion that would include dancing, she would be the first one on the dance floor!!! After sharing parts of her past, let’s go back to her dance journey and the moment she left Murray dance studio… In the mid of 2013, I decided on leaving my workplace and creating a dance society in the North Shore area, which later was named “North Shore Dance Society”. My friend decided on following me and we started practicing in her… leaving room (and yes, stop making excuses with the amount of space you have, just do it…). Eventually, we started renting a floor space (paying floor fee) at a great place, located at the heart of Wilmette. Soon after, the very first dance event became a priority and everything after that is a wonderful history for both of us. If you happened to ask her about the art of dance in her life… Expect to hear this: “Other than family, nothing has had such an impact in my life. Quality in my life. Thinking of other ladies that say I wish that I can do it… Part of having the health is considering dancing as a gift of life. Source of joy, sense of fulfillment, frustration, cognitive as well as physical. Great sense when a dancer understands something and works well. Tremendous support of family and friends. Lots of things that I didn’t expect – great physical activity and amazed by the things that I learned how to do… Lost weight and I am probably in the best shape of my life. Had to give away my old clothes. Looked better every day and that made me very happy. Met some incredible people and made many wonderful friends through the dance community in Illinois. Very supportive community and a great friendship is what I have experienced. Although, I have done many dance events, never felt competitive… Balance, coordination & so much more to gain, thanks to dancing. Getting older is simply a reality for everyone.so I wanted to make sure that keep myself in shape. Opening the dance studio in Glencoe was a fantastic idea. Feeling, like this is my second home, I have met absolutely great and very supportive people. Dancing is Celebration of my life and the most fulfilling part of it. If I had to choose one activity – dancing without question. With tears in my eyes, hard to express how much I love dancing… Understanding that my goal is the best dancer that I can be. Pushing myself every single time I practice or perform. The physiologist in me, understands that I can do it. Coordination between arms and feet is soooo hard… Having the opportunity to learn from a female and a male instructor is a blessing. Working with Olga is just part of the magic in dancing and the benefits of learning from her are countless. Olga and Aleks, encouragement and a great constructive feedback is simply phenomenal. About dance events… Well, they have never been my main thing, but on the other hand, I love doing them and I can see plenty of benefits to participate them. I used to get very nervous before performing, but that’s no longer the case. With time, I have stopped being nervous, but always want to do well. I enjoy the fun of the events and the fact that we get to be together (being with our group) Currently, I am dancing over 20 different styles, but my favorite is the “American smooth” – Waltz, tango, Foxtrot & Viennese Waltz. My biggest fear in dancing – forgetting the routine while performing (never happened). My favorite dance routine was a Foxtrot on the song “You make me feel so young”! If you ask me about my favorite dance event, well… they are so many, but I will stick with Extravaganza Showcase and Harvest Moon Ball, since I feel like home there. Another incredible event, that I would strongly recommend, would be the Wisconsin State Championship. Why Aleks?! –well… fun has never been my main thing (you will understand once you work with him). I like the way he teaches. Consider him as an excellent teacher. Different way of teaching between levels and constructing everything like a Lego construction. Slowly build up and a clear focus before refining. Looking at what needs to be done. Favorite Coach – hmmm, that’s a tough one… For me is hard to feel the difference, because they all contribute to my dance development. Bill Sparks, Peter Minkov, Olga Boneva and just some of the names that I would like to thank for the dancer I am today. Little advice for all of my fellow dancers – Get more out of individual work. Make sure you practice every day.” Anna Marie Buchmann

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The earlier you get a good defense attorney, the sooner the attorney will be able to develop good knowledge of the law and the whole process will help you defend and protect your future. To do that, you need a good attorney to represent you. It is so intimidating and distressing to be accused of a crime. It is crucial to be represented by a criminal defense attorney if you are being investigated for a crime. Accusations may range from drug crimes, sex crimes, theft crime accusation, violent crimes, child abuse and domestic crimes among others. Duties of Criminal defense attorneys. Criminal defense attorneys in Tampa have a wide array of legal duties. They include: - They must make sure that the conversations between themselves and their clients are confidential. - The criminal defense attorney has the responsibility of challenging the evidence of the prosecution and coming up with adequate evidence to

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By Anna Von Reitz Remember that I started my life in love with mathematics? That's how my mind is wired. You are used to me talking about history and law and politics, but math and science are my True Loves, so please indulge me and I will try to make this painless and brief. To the best of the knowledge of the top mathematicians and physicists in the world, we live in an ever-expanding morphogenic information field. What appears to be solid and have substance, doesn't. In fact, all the actual substance in the Universe could be collapsed down into an object the size of a sugar cube. What this means is that everything we see and touch and assume to have substance --- is in fact empty space. And what is the "substance" we perceive? ---Ordered vibrational energy, like endless variations of tones and chords on a musical scale. So the ancient Hindu Vedas are right --- at a fundamental level, everything that we see and experience in this world is an illusion. And what does the Bible tell us about creation? That God spoke and by his voice created all this --- that is, by the power of sound this Universe was created and ordered, much like a symphony being played or a song being sung. This has been confirmed by modern mathematics and physics. Another analogy would be to think of our Universe as a giant computer program, but instead of using zero and one, this program uses 360 variants --- it is unimaginably more complex and variable than any computer or computer program we can currently conceive, and yet, it is still as simple at its core as "Yes" and "No", black and white, True and False, 1 and 0. The Earth's "computer program" as set up, creates and supports what we think of and experience as life, and it does so on an eternal basis....but, something happened. A Lie was introduced into the system, and like a computer virus, this single falsehood, this single "wrong note", began eroding the entire integrity of the program, causing "glitches" and altering results. Death and disease were caused by this First Lie, and it began proliferating itself like any computer virus, getting embedded in various subprograms and wrecking havoc. Every time you tell a lie or believe one, you compound this problem and add to the chaos and dissonance created by lies. This is why we must all strive to discern the truth and to tell the truth and to live the truth. People can be part of the solution by being scrupulously honest, and by examining their own thinking processes. There are a number of thinking processes that people commonly use in incorrect or imbalanced ways. Recognizing these and retraining ourselves will go a long way toward improving all our lives: Relativism: the toxic false idea that there are no real standards and that our choices and what we do, don't really matter because "its all relative". This leads to indulging in perverse or unrealistic excuses for action or inaction. The classic example is thinking that we all die at some point for some reason, so murder is okay. This logic fault denies the existence of absolutes, and seeks to avoid accountability. To the extent that we discern and align ourselves with truth, we thrive. To the extent that we believe in lies and act upon them, we destroy life--- our own and others. Either/Or Exclusionary Thinking is a useful tool we all use to sort things in our daily lives, but we become too dependent on it and abuse it when we apply it indiscriminately. Either/Or thinking naturally focuses on differences between objects or concepts, which leads us to miss similarities. For example, we notice the difference between red apples and yellow apples, and miss the fact that they are both apples. This can lead us to make errors of logic and judgment that function as falsehoods of the "yellow apples aren't apples" and "infidels aren't people" kind. Generalizing: this is our tendency to extrapolate from particular instances and experiences to form expectations, which may be true or false, but which are accepted as being true. The error results when we assume things about individuals that are generally true, without accounting for their individual nature and differences. Thus, we may say and assume that men are physically stronger than women, but if we are lazy and rely on such generalities, we fail to discern the truth that there are also very weak men and very strong women. To find the truth in any given situation we have to evaluate individuals, not rely on generalities. Group Think: this is our tendency to want to fit in and be part of a group and to adopt its values and standards without examining and testing these against our own logic and conscience. Group Think at its worst leads to surrender of individual conscience. The most common example is indoctrination into a military, and accepting the idea that it is "okay" to kill other people so long as you are wearing one uniform and they are wearing another. This is patently ridiculous and so is the idea of "killing for Jesus", but in both cases, Group Think results in the surrender of individual conscience---and logic. This same logic fault carried to extremes leads to wholesale slaughter of civilians, concentration camps, and organized butchery. Again, there is a direct tie between our ability to discern truth and our ability to choose life. It turns out that your Shinola Sensor and your Conscience are two exceptionally powerful tools that need to be honed razor sharp, and that the quality of your life and of life on this planet, depends on your ability to discern truth and reject lies. Lazy and relativistic thinking, acting on generalities, surrender of individual conscience, unbalanced exclusionary thinking --- these bad habits, many of them encouraged by indoctrination in public schools and by religions and clubs/gangs, won't preserve life on this planet and they won't provide abundant and joyous life to you. Only the truth will set us free and give us back the fullness of life our Creator intended, so we must make it our business to seek and discern truth every day and in every situation we encounter. We must "un-learn" defective thinking patterns and toss out false or limiting assumptions by the busloads. We must find the courage to step out of the crippling mental boxes and middleman control systems foisted off on us by governments and religions, and when we do, we will find our Creator again. We will know the truth again. We will discover abundant life again. See this article and over 2200 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com To support this work look for the PayPal buttons on this website. How do we use your donations? Find out here.

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By: Amrita Joshi Why Louisiana is the Hottest Destination for Technology Companies Today As part of RevAmerica 2015, I had the opportunity to learn about how Louisiana has become a popular destination for technology companies through conference panels, interactions with government representatives and agencies, and a site visit to companies and educational institutions in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette. I can’t tell you how impressed I was with how much Louisiana has done to grow its technology industry in in such a short period of time. Before I visited Louisiana, I had heard a lot about the aggressive economic incentives that the state has put into place to attract technology companies. However, I was not aware of the extensive work being done to increase and sustain the technology talent pool….and how fast they are doing it. As part of the main conference, we had a panel on “Building Scale: How Louisiana is Transforming its Talent Base” where we had three senior deans/program directors from major Louisiana Universities as well as two executives from companies that had recently established delivery centers in Louisiana, IBM and technology services startup, Enquero. The level of cooperation between the companies and educational institutions was the highest I have seen during my years of working in onshore services development. For example, IBM has been working hand in hand with Louisiana State University for the past two years (project managers, weekly meetings and everything!) on developing the workforce they need for their new 800 seat Baton Rouge center. Through their work they have had significant input on all aspects of workforce development, from recruiting students to the college to shaping the computer sciences curriculum. IBM’s GM of Services – Americas even came up with the concept for the university’s computer science recruitment campaign around “changing the world, building the future”. In addition, in just one year, IBM together with the university’s faculty have helped develop a new Computer Science curriculum. For those of you who have experience working with universities, this is no small feat. How did the Dean sell this internally? By convincing faculty that they were not doing this for IBM, they were doing it for the students. Enquero, a technology services start-up, received a significant amount of attention from state and local governments when it announced its first center would be in Louisiana. More importantly, they are playing a key role in the community to develop the talent pool in Lafayette. They have established a partnership with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to recruit students from the University’s School of Computing and Informatics as well as serve as advisors on such matters as curricula, tools and internships. In addition they are serving as an industry advisory board member on the NSF’s Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, to help advance next-generation Big Data and Decision Support technologies. Most incredible is the pace at which these companies and universities are expanding. Over the five year period, Louisiana State University, University of New Orleans and University of Louisiana at Lafayette have committed to at least tripling the number of Computer Science graduates. In actuality they are doing this much faster. This dedication to creating knowledge talent quickly is what is going to make Louisiana a great destination for technology services – long after the incentives have run out. Watch video from RevAmerica 2015 session “Building Scale: How Louisiana is Transforming its Talent Base”. For more information about Louisiana, please visit http://www.opportunitylouisiana.com/page/software-development or contact Josh Fleig at [email protected]

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How You Can Be Able to Treat Diseases Using Modern Methods With the increase in technology, there are modern ways that you can use in the treatment of diseases. There are of course new ideas that have come up with the new revolution of medication this time around, and this is essential for you. With these methods, the spread of various infections that may be chronic have significantly been curtailed, and this is out of the new developments in what you have been doing in the recent past. With new development people are now safer as the spread of complicated maladies for instance cancer is getting down. Discover some of the latest treatment procedures that can be of help in the recent past. The number one procedure that you can be thinking about is cell transportation. This involves the transportation of stem cells normally from the bone marrow, umbilical cord or from the peripheral blood. The procedure has been used from the earlier years, and it is essential in helping people suffering from leukemia. With lots of autoimmune infections that are making people have a question, you can be able to concur various ideas successfully. The procedure can be risky and has only now been reserved from those people who could be facing conditions that may be life-threatening. Nuclear medicine is another treatment method you need to be aware of. You are going to realize that the nuclear treatment has turned out to be commonly used than any other treatment used these days. It is with the help of this treatment that diagnosis and determination is carried out on the seriousness of illness using the material of radioactive but in little amounts. Some of these health problems which are involved here are as named; spinal injuries, heart disease, endocrine and many others. The radioactive substances known as medical isotopes are there to ensure that there is a record of everything that happens in the body. These isotopes are usually detected by the imaging software and cameras which help in pinpointing where the main issue is. Lastly, the other type of treatment is hormone therapy. Menopause is something that happens to women at the middle age, and that is why they have this hormone therapy method. Now that there is an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone during menopause, it is the hormone therapy treatment that needs to be built. It is this treatment technique which helps within to withstand the process of menopause which include; anxiety, sweating and also hot flashes. This has become one of the significant treatment used in the modern therapies.

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A strange question, to be sure, but one that may prove important to children in Africa suffering from noma, or cancrum oris. I quote, however, from the opening lines of Dalrymple’s piece at Pajamas Media: When doctors knew nothing and could do even less (if actively harming patients with their treatment counts as doing less than nothing), they hid their ignorance and therapeutic impotence by the use of impressive-sounding Latin terminology. Even when they spoke in the vernacular they did their best to be incomprehensible, and generally succeeded. Portentousness was then a substitute for prowess. Doctors are still inclined to use impressive-sounding words for the same purpose: or at any rate, so their critics say. Idiopathic is a learned way of saying that the cause of a disease is unknown; and when a disease is said to be multifactorial in causation, it is an implicit avowal of ignorance: for diseases should at least have necessary causes if doctors can claim to understand them.

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Bollywood Actress Juhi Chawla is outspoken and expresses her opinion on every issue. Along with this, she also keeps people aware of safety, cleanliness and other important things. 5G technology is going to be implemented in India soon. Which is going to have a bad effect on the environment as well as the health of the people. For this, Juhi Chawla had been trying to create awareness among the people against the harmful radiation emanating from 5G mobile towers for a long time. She has also filed a case against it, for which the first hearing was to be held today. But now the news is coming, the petition of the actress was transferred to another bench and now it will be heard on June 2. In this petition, Juhi Chawla has asked the Telecom Ministry of the Government of India to closely study the impact of the implementation of 5G technology on common people, all animals, flora and fauna and based on such reports Has appealed to take a decision on implementing and not doing in India. In this case, the actress said, ‘We are not against advanced technology. We enjoy using the latest products which give us the best technology. Also in the field of wireless. However, we are also in trouble that our own research and studies related to wirefree gadgets and network cell towers clearly show that such radiation is extremely harmful to people’s health and their safety. ‘ So at the same time, Juhi Chawla’s spokesperson said in this matter, ‘Before the implementation of 5G technology in India, RF radiation will affect humankind, women, men, adults, children, babies, animals, animals, flora and the environment. The effects should be studied thoroughly and all the reports made or done related to it should be made public. It is necessary to clarify from such a study whether 5G technology is safe or not for the present and future generation of India and only then it should be considered to implement it. ‘

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31 October 2014 by Diane Have you ever asked a question to your English class, only to be answered with complete silence and blank stares? At one point every English teacher has had the struggle of encouraging students to speak. Perhaps the student has a deep fear of making a mistake, or maybe the student is just shy, even in their native language. Whatever the reason, here is a list of a few fun English activities to get your students to speak English! 1. Who's telling the truth? Have each student write three facts about themselves that nobody in the class knows on a piece of paper. Make sure each student includes his/her name on the top of the paper. Collect the sheets of paper and bring three students to the front of the room. Read aloud one of the facts that is true for one of the students in the front of the room. The class then proceeds to question the students in an attempt to determine who is telling the truth, and who is lying. Each student is allowed to ask one question to one of the three students. After a round of questioning, the students predict who is telling the truth. 2. Taboo Variations Variation #1: Create a PowerPoint presentation with each slide containing a noun. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with his/her back to the PowerPoint. The students in the class should take turns describing the words for the student in the front of the room to guess. Variation #2: Separate the students into groups of 4/5. Place a pile of cards with random nouns in the center of the group. Have students take turns describing the nouns for their group members to guess. The group member who guesses correctly keeps the card in an attempt to have the most cards at the end of the game. Variation #3 (Advanced speakers): Separate the class into two teams.Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition to a list of words that they cannot use in their description. Each student should have 2-3 minutes to see how many words his/her teammates can guess. 3. Descriptive drawing activity Pair up the students and give them each a picture face down. They must describe the picture for their partner to draw. This can be used as a warm-up activity that leads into the topic of descriptive speeches. 4. Comic strip descriptions Give each student a portion of a comic strip. Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order. After about ten minutes, the students can predict the order, show one another their portion, and see if they were correct! 5. "Secret" word Students are given a random topic, and a random word completely unrelated to the topic. The student must hide the word in their speech, without the other students in the class guessing their "secret" word. The other students in the class must listen carefully to the speech, in an attempt to discover the secret word. Give each student a piece of paper with “agree” written on one side, and “disagree” on the other side. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student from each side to explain his/her position and participate in a short debate. 7. Impromptu Speaking Split the class into two teams, and use a list of impromptu speaking topics. Have each student choose a number, and respond to the statement without preparation. The student must continue speaking for 45 seconds when the teacher calls out "stop." As the student is speaking, the other team listens for any hesitation, grammatical mistakes or vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can correctly identify an error, they get a point. 8. Desert Island Activity Give each student a piece of paper and tell him or her to draw an item. Any item. Tell the students that they have been stranded on a desert island, and only half of the class can survive and continue to inhabit the desert island. Their goal is to convince the class that they should survive. The hard part is that the only thing they have is an item that was drawn a few minutes earlier by a classmate on the piece of paper. 9. Story telling activity Bring four students to the front of the classroom. Three students should sit down in a row, and one of the students should stand behind them acting as a controller. The controller should have a stack of cards in his hand containing nouns. The controller will hand a noun to one of the three students who will start to tell a story. The student will continue telling the story until the controller decides to hand another noun to another student who will then take over the story. 10. Two Truths, One Lie Each student should write three facts about themselves on a piece of paper. Two of the facts should be the truth, and one should be a lie. Students read aloud the facts, and give the other students a chance to question them and decide which statement is a lie. 11. True / False Story Telling Give each student a piece of paper with either the word “true” or “false.” Each student should tell the class a story, and the class must guess whether the story is the truth, or a lie. To add to the activity, you can allow the other students to question the student telling the story. 12. I Have Never… All students in the class should start holding five fingers in the air (this number can be adjusted depending on how many students are in the class). The student who begins the activity will tell the class one thing that he/she has never done. The students who have done that activity should put a finger down, and tell the class a story about this activity.

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Often when we look into becoming a better run we focus only on our running and prioritise training improvements. While these will have benefits taking a holistic approach to runner can have great benefits also. Thinking slightly outside the square here are three things to prioritise that will help you become a better runner in 2020. It is fair to say most everyday people with a career and family don’t move enough throughout their day. This is also accurate for runners. If we mostly live a sedentary lifestyle at home and work than an hour of running won’t be enough movement to power our lives. We will still be a sedentary being. The human being is designed to move throughout the day. It is important to ward off all types of ailments and keep our bodies and mind in shape. Moving from a sedentary life to an active life means complimenting your running with movement through the day and this mean walking. Keep moving throughout the day, even if you have a job where you are required to be at a desk. There is huge benefits to life and running for people who prioritise movement. Break up your work day with short walking breaks throughout the day, get yourself out of a chair more often and moving regularly. If you can’t introduce walk breaks as often as you’d like then prioritise getting from your chair and squatting as often as every 20 minutes. If your GPS running watch counts steps wear it throughout the day and increase your step goal. 10000 steps is not enough for an adult human to be moving each day. For runners look at setting a goal of 15000 -20000 each day regardless of your age or gender. The importance of sleep cannot be overstated. As runners we push our limits of time management in order to fit running into busy lives. Often at the expense of sleep. Sleep is important for athletic performance as well as weight control, stress relief, heart and overall health and wellbeing. Prioritising how much sleep you are able to get you will allow yourself to perform better every time you go running as well as every other aspect of life. How much sleep do you currently get on a regular basis? And how do you prioritise sleep so you can fit running, work, family and life into it? There are only 24 hours in the day and you need 7-8 hours for sleep on a regular basis before it starts to impact your life. The human body is a resilient animal and will find a way to cope on less sleep but you won’t gain the benefits that prioritising sleep will give. Do you often get sick and still try and force yourself to continue life at breakneck speed. It’s probably because you aren’t getting adequate sleep. Roger Federer routinely sleeps 10 hours per day. Clearly he doesn’t have a 9-5 job that he needs to be present at and therefore doesn’t need to be up at 5am to fit his morning run into his life schedule. However he clearly prioritises sleep in order for him to perform at his athletic best, and he’s been able to stay at the very top of his chosen sport for a long time. If you are prioritising sleep you have a plan when you go to bed and you adhere to it more often than not. Most smartphones will have a function to schedule your sleep patterns so you can plan your sleep patterns. It’s up to you though to not let modern distractions of technology interfere with getting your sleep habits on track. Netflix will wait till tomorrow, as will Facebook and Instagram. Prioritise sleep and you’ll power yourself for running and also every aspect of life. Prioritise sleep and you’ll be able to wake early ready to give your best to your running and become a better runner. Strong feet are your foundation to being a better runner. With a strong foundation your running is compromised. If you prioritise foot strength you will build a strong foundation that helps you consistently run injury free. If you are able to remain injury free you will put together weeks, months and ultimately years of injury free running. Running improvement is built over time and building mileage over time without injury will ultimately make you a better runner. In order to prioritise foot strength you should consider some of your running being done in minimal shoes. If you are not interested in transitioning to barefoot style footwear at least spending some of your time running in flatter, thinner and more flexible footwear will help build strength. Otherwise spend more time barefoot, both indoors and outside. If you are prioritising movement spend some of this time spent walking spent walking barefoot. Walking barefoot will be powerful in improving foot strength. Traditional footwear for both running and life does nothing to help foot strength and mostly hinders foot strength as it doesn’t allow the foot to move naturally. Footwear that includes a heel lift, narrow toe box and is inflexible and has excess cushioning is not helping your feet. As an alternative to running in barefoot style footwear perhaps consider using barefoot style footwear in other aspects of life. Whether that be work or social engagements. The less time you spend in footwear that is limiting your feet’s ability to move naturally is paramount to improving foot strength. There are many training specific ways you can focus on becoming a better runner. Looking outside general running related goals can be beneficial. These are just three ways you can look at becoming a better runner, mostly without running another step. By focusing on a holistic approach to fitting running into an overall healthy lifestyle you’ll gain benefits before you step outside to go for a run. Combine these with small changes in your training habits and you’ll be on a well-worn path to personal running improvement. In part 2 we will look at the small changes you can make to your training habits to become a better runner in 2020.

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Parshat Pekudei/Shabbat Shekalim Rosh Hodesh Adar II (2 Kings 12:1-17) March 8, 2008 This year Shabbat Shekalim coincides with Rosh Hodesh Adar 2. This means that we will read from three Sifrei Torah. From the first Torah scroll, we will read the entire weekly parasha in six aliyot. For the seventh aliyah, we will read from the second scroll the special Torah reading for Shabbat-Rosh Hodesh. After reciting hatzi kaddish, we will read the special Torah reading for Shabbat Shekalim. The haftarah for this special Shabbat is linked to the theme of Shekalim. According to Sefardic custom (minhag), at the end of this haftarah, the reader will add the first and last verses from the haftarah for Shabbat Rosh Hodesh. This is also practiced in some Ashkenazi synagogues but is frowned upon by Askenazic authorities. (See Shulhan Aruch Orah Hayim 144:2) The haftarah for Shabbat Shekalim recounts the story of the child king, Jehoash, who under the influence of his mentor, the high priest Jehoiada, restores fiscal accountability to the maintenance of the Temple in Jerusalem. He insures that the funds collected for the Temple are properly utilized and that the intended restoration of the Temple takes place. The story notes, in particular, the integrity and reliability of those who oversaw the work done in the Temple: \”No check was kept on the men to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers, for they dealt honestly (ke be\’emuna haem osim).\” (v. 16) This verse plays an interesting role in a halachic debate noted in the Talmud regarding the accountability of those who manage tzedakah funds: \”Our Rabbis taught: The collectors for charity are not required to give an account of the moneys entrusted to them for charity, nor the treasurers of the Sanctuary of the moneys given for holy purposes. There is no actual proof of this [in the Scriptures], but there is a hint of it in the words: \’No check was kept on the men to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers, for they dealt honestly.\’\” (Bava Batra 9a) The Tosafot, sages from 12th century France, chimed into this discussion to explain why they thought the verse from our haftarah could not be used as an actual proof for this Talmudic ruling. They concluded that the administrators in the Temple were exceptionally righteous and therefore did not represent all those who administer funds. In this way the Tosafot questioned the universal applicability of the Talmud\’s ruling. Echoes of this discussion resonate in later halachic debate. Rambam (Maimonides) records the Talmudic prescription as is. (Hilchot Matanot Aniyim 9:11) Rabbi Joseph Karo, in the Shulchan Aruch follows in his stead. (Yoreh Deah 257:2) The Askenazi authority, Rabbi Moshe Isserles, however, qualifies this teaching, adding perhaps the more realistic attitude already found in the Tosafot quoted above. He states: \”In any case, in order that these gabbaim should maintain their integrity before God and Israel, they should give a regular accounting. This refers to gabbaim who have a reputation for honesty. But those who are not considered honest and those who acquired their position through force must give a regular account as do those who have been appointed over the community. The community also can remove said person from this position and appoint another as it sees fit even if there is no fear of malfeasance. (Ibid.) Rabbi Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna (18th century Lithuania) cites a midrash found in the Tanhuma Pekudei 3: \”an honest man\” – this refers to Moses who was made treasurer over the Sanctuary. Despite having authority over the Sanctuary\’s funds, according to the Gaon, Moses called for oversight and transparency to insure that his actions were considered beyond reproach. Moses should serve as a model for all of us. This study piece is offered as a service of the United Synagogue Conservative Yeshiva. It is prepared by Rabbi Mordechai (Mitchell) Silverstein, senior lecturer in Talmud and Midrash at the Conservative Yeshiva. He is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The United Synagogue Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem offers students of all backgrounds the skills for studying Jewish texts. We are a vibrant, open-minded egalitarian community of committed Jews who learn, practise and grow together. Our goal is to provide students the ability and desire to continue Jewish learning and practice throughout their lives. Rashei Yeshiva: Rabbi Joel Levy & Dr. Joshua Kulp. Rabbi Joel Roth, Rosh Yeshiva Emeritus . Sponsors – The Conservative Yeshiva would like to thank the following for their generous support of the Haftarah Commentary:

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Originally posted on May 14, 2009. For about 40 years now, scientists have been working to recreate the primordial soup. What I mean by this is we’ve been trying to determine and recreate the original conditions that led to life on this planet. Powner et al. 2009 have managed to do just that. We believe that life originated as RNA, a chain of nucleotides consisting of a nitrogenous base, a ribose sugar and a phosphate. These nucleotides come in two types, pyrimidines (cytosine and uracil in RNA or thymine in DNA) and purines (adenine and guanine). Using compounds that were likely present in the early atmosphere and under similar conditions (for example, under high UV radiation), researchers have observed the creation of RNA’s pyrimidines. This is a major step toward understanding the origin of life on earth. As an aside, fairly specific conditions that were present millions of years today and are not present today were required for this experiment to work. For example, the level of UV radiation required to create the pyrimidines is probably much greater than the UV radiation on the planet today, suggesting that we may not be seeing spontaneous new life emerging anytime soon. A popular creationist argument is that scientists claim life arose spontaneously and therefore we should be seeing spontaneous life emerging all over the place. The “peanut butter argument” claims that the fact that life doesn’t spontaneously arise in the millions of jar of peanut butter that have been sold throughout the years disproves evolution. First of all, as I said a moment ago, the conditions necessary for creating life simply aren’t present in a peanut butter jar. Second, we tend to consider the origin of life as a thing somewhat separate from evolution. As soon as RNA molecules arose, there was certainly evolution occurring as the molecules competed for resources with varying success in the primordial soup. But how these molecules arose in the first place is a matter of chemistry, not evolution. Anyway, for the sake of a good laugh, here is the argument:

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A favorite photograph is what many people like to do to capture a special moment in their pet’s life. For example, you have a cat and a bird, and they surprisingly get along well. Why not capture those special moments when they rest with each other? After all, there are not many cats and birds that live together peacefully. A great example of photographing pets is that a person is planning an excursion with his pet and set up a camera to photograph them. Of course, you will have to prepare the logistics of this photo and set everything up before you take the picture. Practice running with your pet and then set the timer accordingly. People who invest in purebred animals like to take pictures of their animals There are many events and situations to take pictures with your pet, especially during practice, and then actual participation in exhibitions. Imagine all the photos you can get with other pet owners and people, you know! Perhaps the most common reason people are interested in photographing pets is to use them on holiday cards. While people can plan and run their pet photographs, many local pet stores offer this service to their customers. Look for special offers on essential holidays when special funds have been created. The best photos can often be obtained by focusing the pet’s attention on something specific, such as a toy. Favorite photo is one of the fun and relaxing hobbies You can not only take pictures with your ideal camera but also communicate with your pets at the same time. If you own a dog and photography is your hobby, consider opening a pet photography Australia. To attract most customers, you will most likely need to photograph dogs of all breeds and sizes. You can take free photos or official photos. Unofficial images probably suggest that the dog is pictured with their favorite toy or bone, while other, more formal images are what people like to choose, for example, unique backgrounds and furniture arrangements. You can imagine that taking pictures of dogs is not easy. While some breeds are lazy and tame, others are quite hyperactive and do not follow directions. To be a successful dog photographer, you must be able to put the dogs in the position that their owner wants for the photo. This is most often achieved with things like treats and dog toys, so make sure you have a lot at hand. Taking pictures of pets can be fun for you and your family to record memories. But, if your hobbies are photography and pets, consider taking a photo of your pet. You may also view sending pictures to the gallery for resale. Better yet, create your website and offer quality pet photography as a specialized niche for pet lovers and publishers.

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Some of my best recollections of Rock martins are of a couple of hours spent trying to photograph an adult bird feeding its youngster while the young bird was perched rather precariously on a ledge jutting out slightly from its neighbours in a rock wall. The adult bird moved really fast, swooping in and feeding the waiting youngster often without even perching, usually from a position that completely blocked the action from my waiting camera. Then the adult would disappear for ten minutes or more before swooping in for another split second of action that I usually missed. A few reasonable photos were the eventual reward. The Rock martin is a small bird, with a length of about 15 cm. The sexes are alike in both size and plumage colouration. They are brown overall, with the under parts being paler than the upper parts; they have pinkish-cinnamon throats and white windows are visible in the tail during flight. They have black bills; dark brown eyes and dusky brown legs and feet, Rock martins are widespread throughout most of the southern African region, being absent only from the dry areas of Botswana. Their preferred habitats are rocky hillsides and mountainous areas, but they are also to be found around buildings where they grow accustomed to the presence of humans. They are mainly aerial feeders, catching insects as they fly over open rocky terrain. They may also feed on insects attracted to lights at night. Rock martins are usually silent, but have a soft twittering call. They are monogamous and build a cup-shaped nest of mud pellets lined with feathers that is usually placed under a rocky overhang or under a bridge or the eaves of a convenient building. The females lay a clutch of two or three white eggs that are lightly speckled with black or grey spots. They hatch after an incubation period of about 20 days. The scientific binomial for the Rock martin is Hirundo fuligula; Hirundo from the Latin for a “swallow”, and fuligula from the Latin for “dull brown”. Thus the name describes a dull brown swallow, which I guess is accurate enough.

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Rock kestrel used to be considered a sub-species of the Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), but on the basis of recent genetic findings it is now considered to be a separate species. As the classification of birds goes, this isn’t an uncommon occurrence and is likely to become more so as further genetic studies are completed, and the genetic relationship between species that look similar is clarified. The Rock kestrel, the most common of the small falcons in southern Africa, is found throughout the region, although it is more common in the dry west and in the south. It seems able to adapt to a wide variety of vegetation types and habitats, but is most often seen in rocky areas. It is a conspicuous bird as it often perches on electricity poles along the roadside. Males and females differ slightly in plumage colouration, and the females are a little larger than the males. The males have heads and faces that are blue-grey, the back is rich russet barred with black; rump is grey; the throat is whitish and the rest of the underparts are russet streaked with black. Females are similar but are browner overall and have more barring on the rump and tail. They hunt mainly in open areas from elevated perches such as telephone poles, or may hover while in flight to inspect the ground below. Prey is caught on the ground and they feed mainly on small mammals, birds, insects and reptiles. The call is a metallic “kik’-kik’-kik’-kik” from one bird that provokes a “kree-kree” response from another. Rock kestrels are monogamous, building a nest by creating a simple scrape on a cliff ledge. They also sometimes use the nests of crows and may nest on the ledge of a building. The female lays a clutch of one to six reddish-cream eggs that hatch after an incubation period of approximately 30 days. The scientific binomial for the Rock kestrel is Falco rupicolis; Falco from the Greek for a “falcon” and rupicolis from the Latin for a “rock dweller”. Thus a falcon that dwells amongst the rocks. Can’t say fairer than that.

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This directive is written for a term of THREE YEARS. The premium is due and payable at the beginning of each insurance year. The insured may choose not to pay the premium for a subsequent year by declaring the business at any time before the policy`s birthday. The premium for each year is 15% less than the premium to be paid at the company`s current rates for that year. In the event that the insured exercises the option of not paying the premium for a subsequent year, the policy expires at the end of the year for which the premium was paid. In this case, the company charges the insured the 15% discount allowed in previous years, and this invoice is a legally enforceable debt. By accepting the policy that is attached to that consent, the insured accepts the above conditions. For many commercial transactions, it is useful for UNHCR to sign a long-term agreement with a supplier, whether it is goods or services. These are known as “framework agreements” and we have signed them with a large number of companies for items used daily by UNHCR staff, including vehicles, radios, telecommunications equipment, generators and office equipment, as well as for assistance, including tents, blankets, bed mats and kitchen kits. Generic clauses that constitute a long-term agreement for services. The purpose of the framework agreements between UNHCR and its suppliers is to define the terms of the terms of the terms and conditions of the terms of the terms of the contracts to be signed over a specified period of time, including with regard to items, price, quality, quantity and delivery. These temporary agreements (usually 3-5 years) are usually falsified as a result of an open international tender. They ensure that UNHCR can quickly place fixed-price orders for its needs, but do not guarantee that the Agency will purchase a minimum or maximum quantity of goods for the duration of the agreement. UNHCR`s framework agreements are not exclusive. MR 313 – cover for internal fire, internal chemical explosion and direct lightning ..

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When Paul showed up at work with that coffee can full of mice babies, I knew I was perched on the zenith of the best day of my life. Okay, sure, it’s pretty sad that he’d accidentally killed their mother and found the orphaned pups living in his air conditioning unit a day or so later. But we’re talking mouse babies here. White-footed mouse babies at that! In a coffee can nest. I took one look at the heartbreakingly tiny, hungry, pink, blind, creatures with those impossibly teensy handfeet and confiscated the coffee can for my keeping. I rehydrated them and fed them mouse formula. I groomed them and stimulated their tiny bottoms to use the bathroom. I clicked and cooed at them. I named them Paul and Julie Junior. I marveled at how they grew, from a light dusting of hairs and scrambling claws to coordinated movements and a rich, thick fur. And they were so . . . quiet. Like, too quiet. When they ate they seemed enthusiastic, but never made a noise. I discussed this with my colleague and white-footed mouse expert, Warren Booth, and that’s how I learned there’s much more to mice than meets the ear. Mice are rarely quiet. In fact, mice are loud. And they have lots to say. We just can’t hear them. Male mice sing bird-like mating songs to their female paramours. Female mice roar in response. Adult mice have excited dialogues when other adults return home with food. Babies complain about their living conditions and happily greet their mothers. But all this discourse takes place in ultrasound, the same ultrasound used by bats to locate prey and navigate darkened skies, the same ultrasound used by dolphins and whales to find each other and a good meal. Picture sound frequency (the property of sound that most determines “pitch” and measured in Hertz (Hz)) as linear, with low frequencies on one side of the line and high frequencies on the other. We can’t hear the low end of that line, 20Hz and below, and call that sound infrasound. Elephants use those low frequencies to talk over long distances. We can hear above 20Hz all the way up to about 20kHz, and call that range acoustic, or audible sound. But a whole world of noise takes place just outside our hearing abilities, above 20kHz, in the range we call ultrasound. When I put an ultrasonic transducer (a nifty tool that turns sounds humans can’t hear into sounds we can hear) into the mouse nest, I could hear all-day chatter. My babies greeted me with warbles and shrieks when I came to feed them and fussed over each other with pleasant burbles while they groomed one another. If strangers came near their nest, they grew stone cold quiet. All these ultrasound shouts and murmurs can save mouse lives. You know how some animals are more active at night while other animals are more active during the daytime? And how those daytime animals can avoid nighttime animals just by scooting around during daylight hours and hiding at night? Or some animals live underground while others mill about on the surface? And those underground animals can avoid the trials and tribulations of above ground life? Well, the same thing happens with auditory communication. Just think of the hard knocks my garrulous mice would face if people and predators could hear them chatting up a storm. They’d be found out and dead meat in no time flat. Many mouse predators can’t hear their conversations, though, so mice can gossip and squeal away to their hearts’ content, while keeping it all on the down low. Paul and Julie cleaning themselves in their coffee can nest. But don’t be fooled, these quiet cuties are actually making a racket. In case you were wondering, Paul and Julie Junior grew up to be happy, healthy, adorable white footed mice. Julie Junior caused a stir when she broke free one night and spent a few wild days stealing candy from people’s desks and building nests inside their computers. We lured her back home with a tiny Hershey almond bar, which she unwrapped and ate on top of a bookshelf, looking the whole time like a hopeful librarian. Eventually, Warren let them go outside in a grassy white-footed mouse heaven. I imagined they squeaked their tearful goodbyes to us, but I just couldn’t hear them.

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Spanish explorers arrived in Oakland on March 27, 1772. They reported the natural geography as possibly the most perfect on earth. Near the shore stood magnificent oaks; on the hills stood acres of giant redwoods. In the spring, wildflowers filled the valley with golden poppies and purple iris. Deer, rabbit, bear and wildcat roamed the woods. The Creeks tumbled were filled with salmon, crab, sturgeon, smelt, lobsters, clams and mussels. The marsh that would become Lake Merritt was alive with wild fowl.

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10th – Kim Yong Joo, 214cm (6ft 6in) Kim Yong Joo was a wrestler from Ulsan. 9th – Kim Young Hyun, 217cm (7ft 1in) Kim Young Hyun was also a wrestler, and one of the best in Korean history! 8th – Choi Hong Man, 218cm (7ft 2in) Choi Hong Man is a kickboxer, as well as a world-famous entertainer! 7th – Kim Boo Gui, 219.7cm (7ft 2.5in) Kim Boo Gui was the tallest person in Korea during the 1930’s. 6th – Kim Byung Oh, 220.8cm (7ft 3in) Kim Byung Oh is a professional basketball player from Daejeon. 5th – Ha Seung Jin, 221.6cm (7ft 3.25in) Han Seung Jin is the tallest basketball player to date. He also played in the NBA! 4th – Yoo Ki Sung, 225cm (7ft 4.5in) Yoo Ki Sung was one of the tallest Korean during the 50~60’s. He was chosen to endorse brands just because of his tall height! 3rd – Lee Myung Woon, 225cm (7ft 4.5in) Lee Myung Woon was a part of the Korean Giant Club, who was born in Busan. 2nd – Lee Kyung Ho, 227cm (7ft 5in) Lee Kyung Ho was friends with Yoo Ki Sung but was 2cm taller than him. 1st – Nam Bok Woo, 242cm (7ft 11in) Nam Bok Woo was the tallest Korean to ever exist in history! He made the front page of many newspapers at the time. If you want to see the tallest female of idols of K-Pop… check out this other list!

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We all know about the basics of dental care: brushing and flossing, exams and cleanings, even dental fillings and teeth whitening. But what about laser dentistry and gum contouring? These dental care services aren’t things from a futuristic sci-fi movie, they’re beneficial health care procedures that can transform the health and appearance of your smile. Today, Lafayette dentist Dr. Michael Young wants to discuss gum contouring and laser dentistry. What is gum contouring? The art of gum contouring is just how it sounds: altering the shape of the gum tissue. Gum contouring is performed for several reasons, including: - to lengthen the surface area of a tooth prior to placing a dental crown or other restoration (crown lengthening) - to correct uneven gum tissue across several teeth to give the teeth and gums a more uniform appearance - to reduce gum tissue to make teeth appear larger - to correct areas of gum tissue following treatment for periodontal disease How is gum contouring done? Gum contouring is performed with a soft tissue laser. Dr. Young expertly uses this safe, comfortable technology to sculpt your gum tissue into the perfect position for your dental needs, your teeth, and your overall appearance. The laser is a strong, focused light that can trim away gum tissue without the need for a scalpel or stitches. Patients often report minimal or no bleeding, minimal or no swelling, and a prompt recovery following treatment. The best way to find out if you’re a candidate for gum contouring is to schedule a consultation appointment at our Lafayette dentist office. Dr. Young and our team will meet with you to discuss your dental goals and concerns. We’ll prescribe an efficient and custom treatment plan to help turn your health and appearance goals into realities. About Michael J. Young, DDS: Dr. Young and his staff look forward to helping families in Lafayette, LA and surrounding communities enjoy optimal oral health. Schedule your next appointment by calling (337) 237-6453.

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If your child is struggling with issues such as anxiety, temper, irritability, school stress, making friends, family disruptions, etc, it is important to get them professional help. Hiring a child psychiatrist, for instance, would ensure that your youngster gets the right type of help before it is too late. Understand that while such types of practitioners are available in plenty, not all of them would be suitable to handle your child. This means that hiring just any practitioner and hoping for the best would be a bad idea. To be on the safe side, it is integral to familiarize yourself with the traits of a dependable expert before hiring one. Consider training and experience before choosing any therapist. While being ‘good with children’ is very important, it is not enough. You ought to focus on practitioners with enough training in this field. Most importantly, they should have been actively offering therapy for the past couple of years. To avoid falling prey to dishonest practitioners, it is important to narrow down your search to professionals that are willing to show you a proof of experience. It pays to check the type of testimonials they have from some of their past clients. You should know the type of approach the practitioner would employ. While they are the expert, you know your child better. Ensuring that they would employ an approach suitable for your child would guarantee faster results. Some of the commonest types of therapy include group therapy, play therapy, family therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and individual therapy. If your child has problems unique to them, individual therapy would be the most suitable type of therapy for them. Your potential professional should be willing to see your child first before starting any type of therapy. In case your child is struggling with family disruptions, choose a practitioner that works with parents and other family members as well. Inquire about availability when comparing the available service providers. Assuming that you can take your child for sessions at any time of the day would be a bad decision. Your potential practitioner has a schedule they prefer to stick to. Chances are that you are too busy to work with their schedule as well. It is advisable to focus on practitioners with a flexible schedule. It is important to know how long each session would last. An extra-long session is likely to tire your youngster. An extremely short one is highly likely to be ineffective. It pays to choose a strategically located practitioner to avoid wasting time driving or commuting to and from their office. You should ensure that their fees are manageable. While you would not quality services from a cheap service provider, assuming that the most expensive providers offer the best services would be a bad decision. It is advisable to choose a practitioner that guarantees outstanding counseling services at an affordable fee. If family therapy would be necessary, get to know if you would be paying extra for the same. You should also evaluate their fees to know what to expect.

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I have no idea what ‘Lobakan’ means. I’ve checked both Google and Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Dictionary) and found nothing about the word, but the words after the colon mean: “A compilation of short stories (The silenced thunderstorm of Bali in ’65).” The number 65 at the end of the title there refers to the year of 1965. That is the title of the book that I just read. *edited March 20, 2012 – Just found out from my grandpa that Lobakan is actually a Balinese term for lamp–the old, ancient, petromax lantern. (Doh, I’m such a fake Balinese!) So, back in December, my grandpa gave me this book Lobakan after I shared with him my interest and findings on one of the darkest history of Indonesia about the PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia/The Communist Party of Indonesia). After getting enough courage to finally asked him about the incident, my grandpa decided to give me this book ‘if I’m interested.’ (He’s gotta be joking. Of course I’m interested!) Just in case you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a bit of background information based on my findings: Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia, once proposed a political concept called as ‘Nasakom,’ which literally is an abbreviation of three words: ‘Nasionalisme’ (nationalism), ‘Agama’ (religion), and ‘Komunisme’ (Communism). This is the notion invented by Soekarno as a part of his vision to unite three big political parties existed in Indonesia at that time–PNI (Partai Nasional Indonesia/Indonesian National Party), Islamic parties which were divided into two parties at that time: Masyumi (Partai Majelis Syuro Muslimin Indonesia/Council of Indonesian Muslim Associations) and NU (Nahdlatul Ulama–a traditionalist Sunni Islam group), and PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia/The Communist Party of Indonesia)–in order to create harmonies between the three, and hence: peace amongst society. By 1965, the member of the communist party had rapidly increased to 3 million people, and this worried the other 2 parties. Negative sentiments against Soekarno also grew as he supported and protected PKI, along with his ideology as it’s similar with his own. Long story made short, the tension finally broke by September 30, 1965 as a movement called the 30 September Movement kidnapped several Indonesian war heroes in the army and killed them. Hence, General Soeharto (later the 2nd president of Indonesia) took control and provoked massacre of those known or suspected as “communist allies.” As the army publicly announced that the communists had killed Indonesian respected war heroes to encourage and approve the killings (of the PKI partisans), the Islamic forces did the same thing as they labeled those “communists” as atheists–a word that does not make any sense to most Indonesians, even until now, as Indonesia is not an “atheist country.” Today it is speculated that the movement was actually a coup d’etat provoked by Soeharto and his army friends, backed by the CIA as they were afraid that Indonesia would become a strong ally to the communist (remember the Cold War?) and the PKI and its “allies” were merely victims of false accusations. Of course, I might get this wrong, so feel free to correct me. Here are the links to the sources (most of them, of course, will be Wikipedia): Okay, enough about history. As my old man put it, “History is about perspective. The more you read, the more you find out.” Well said, grandpa! Now, aside from the fact of who actually did what, or who was the bad guy, or even who was right or wrong, the thing is that the massacre killed a lot of innocent people. The army encouraged citizens to kill their neighbors, friends, and even family members without trial. And those were the people who might not even know what on earth PKI actually was. Most of them were actually those who merely hired to entertain the actual PKI members in one of their events/propagandas, or hired as a guard during a PKI meeting, and these people are poor peasants who, even if they actually owned the land or the field they were working on, they were really poor that eating rice was considered a luxury for them. Worse, they could even be poor farmers who didn’t even own a land, and merely working on a landowner’s land and gained almost nothing as a result of their hard work. Uneducated people, already suffered, and then suddenly stabbed or even tortured for reasons unknown to them. Meanwhile, the religious parties (those who does not want to be associated with atheists) also made propaganda as they identify all communist partisans as atheists. They used folklore, myth, legend, belief, and they toyed with people’s faith to encourage the killings. They believed (and I am not referring to a specific kind of religion here because this includes all kinds of religion existed in Indonesia at that time) that killing communists was a religious duty. I am not a big fan of religion so of course I mock this idea. Were I lived during that time, I would definitely be assassinated. Many believe that at least half a million people died during that time. In one article I read, people were getting used to seeing tons of dead bodies in the river, floating from one village to another village, spreading awful smells of rotten corpses. “No one wanted to risk coming out of the house,” said my grandpa. If I had not mistaken, the biggest killing happened in either East Java and Central Java or Bali, where they said that it was one step closer to become an anarchy. These are the stories I read in Lobakan. All of them are, of course, fictionalized, because, as I read in the foreword, most of the victims interviewed (or talked to) tried so hard to erase those tragic events from their memories that most of them tried to deflect or even talked about something irrelevant instead of retelling the truth. In the end, no one actually ever find out what actually happened, and I doubt anyone will ever do. One of my favorite stories is titled Monolog (Monologue), by Putu Fajar Arcana. It contains a speech of one of the victim of the massacre, who told his story of how he got involved with the PKI (although it is not explicitly stated whether he realized and fully acknowledged PKI at all) and later caught and killed. He said he came from a very poor family, whose field were taken by landowners and later were forced into a huge amount of debt by those landowners where in the end they had to work on the land they were supposed to own. The PKI held meetings talking about possibilities to get their land back, and as a poor peasant, how could they say no? The idea alone already seemed like ‘water from the moon’ (meaning impossible) to them. Later, of course, it costed him his life. Another favorites are Warisan (Legacy) by Putu Satria Kusuma and Menanti Tantri (Waiting for Tantri) by Soeprijadi Tomodiharjo. The first one tells a story about Wayan Guru who was suspected as a PKI partisan and were hiding at his parents’ house while many people were waiting in front of the house, ready to ambush and slay him. His parents told the masses that Wayan Guru was away in Java, yet they waited. At the same time, Wayan Guru begged to see his son, Kadek, who stayed with his wife in his house near his parents’. He was determined to see Kadek, even if it would cost him his life, but his parents asked him to think it through, because death means missing his son’s 3 months ceremony, as well as watching him growing up. The latter, Menanti Tantri tells a story about Made Arka Wiratma, an activist in fighting against illiteracy, who got a visit from a respectable figure: The governor of Bali, when he was lying sick on a hospital bed, suffering from malaria. His wife who accompanied him at that time was pregnant with his son. The governor suggested to name the unborn child Rai, taken from Balinese war hero: I Gusti Ngurah Rai. To them the visit was such a great honor. Little did they know that the governor was a leftist, and hence, a PKI partisan, as well as what the visit would cost them later. What’s ironic is how I Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih put it in the foreword about how the government seemed so easily dismissed the tragedy and instead polished the so-called “The island of the gods” with monuments, malls, hotels and clubs to attract investors and tourists from around the world by making the native of this “island of gods” to work (I actually intent to use the work “slavery”) for these visitors who’d see Bali as, indeed, their “heaven on earth.” Try ask the people whether they think it’s a heaven on earth to them. What? You didn’t expect me to write the complete stories as well as all of the short stories included, right? That wouldn’t be fair to the writers (says the person whose life is devoted to download free stuffs). >:D I owe my grandpa for willing to give and share this with me, and I love the inscription he wrote on the first page of the book (I always love inscriptions on the first page of my book!) for me:

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Why do you need online first aid course? Getting yourself enrolled in an online first aid course is one of the best decisions one can make. It is very helpful in saving lives. Whether you are working in a health care department or you are employed in a firm, whether you are a parent who is concerned about their children or you are an individual who is looking for an opportunity of getting a better job, taking first aid certificate will always stand in your benefit. There are many available courses online that will help you working at heights. Getting the first aid training online course, one will equip himself with the necessary knowledge of techniques to administer the first and right thing that must be done in case of any emergency. If your will compete the course online, it will be good for your own safety and it will let you secure you and your loved ones, in case you are stuck in any unwanted circumstances. This courseonline will enhance your skills to take better decisions at the time of emergency or accident, and you will take right decision confidently. What you will learn in the first aid-course? Online first aid course covers all necessary and immediate measures that must be taken in case of any emergency or accidental situation. It helps you make your mind clear in taking the right decision at the right time. In emergency situations, taking the right decision at the right time is the most important thing that can save a lot of lives. Online first aid course empowers you by providing a first aid certificate that will help in acceptance of your decisions at the time of emergency. The first thing that is taught in courseonline is the sense of making right decision. Secondly, you will be trained to treat small cuts and wounds. Next, in first aid treatment this is make sure that no wound get infected till it gets proper treatment. For this, you will be trained to take infection control measures. Another important thing taught in online first aid course is to help a victim if he or she is suffering from shock. In online first aid course there is a training to treat a victim with external blood loss till the proper treatment. Other important trainings that are given in online first aid course are, head injury first aid treatment, first aid treatment for drowning person, treatment of a patient suffering from heat stroke, provision of first aid to the fractures and spinal injuries and also the basic procedure of CPR. Getting online first aid course is recommended because it is easy for everyone to take the basic training even at their homes. Secondly it helps you understand the basic approach to be chosen in any emergency or accidental situation.

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The conventional wisdom says homeownership is a growth spur. This was especially the case in the fordist mass production economy, where long-term employment was the rule for many and home-buying prompted purchases of automobiles, appliances and consumer durables. Now, maybe not so much. That is, according to new analysis by Joe Cortright which suggests that homeownership may actually dampen economic performance in this highly mobile creative age. Initial commentary from here (Creative Class Group). People tout homeownership as a marker of economic success. But high levels of home ownership seem to be strikingly correlated with deeply troubled metro areas. Whereas really vibrant, flourishing cities have lower levels – New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco are at the bottom in terms of home ownership. There’s probably many things are at work here: - New rental housing isn’t getting built in slow growth or declining metros. - Prices are lower in declining metros, so more people can afford to buy. - Slow growth cities have older average populations (Tampa and Pittsburgh are the two “oldest” cities in the US group sampled. Since older people are more likely to own their own homes, this probably accounts for a significant part of the difference in home ownership rates.) - High growth cities are attracting new residents (and immigrants) who disproportionately rent their dwellings. They noted that homeownership is what keeps stagnant or declining cities from losing people even faster: they are “sticky”, keeping people in declining cities longer than they should rationally stay given the opportunities elsewhere, because too much of their wealth is tied up in their house, with few potential buyers. People loathe to abandon functional capital stock like housing (although it is happening in places like Detroit). Non-homeowners are quicker to move to cities with more opportunity, leaving behind a population with a higher percentage of homeownership. This was lifted from here (via CEOs for Cities). Many of our parents’ generation worked toward the great Australian Dream and owning your own home in Australia is still thought to be the clearest and most quantifiable ticket to security & success :: there’s a certain amount of status attached to finally making the move to the mortgage side of the fence. If you wanted more info on Australian stats – home ownership, affordability yad yada then check out the Australian Urban Housing Institute here.

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2021 Opportunities Investing During Coronavirus In the last year, the explosive mix of the pandemic, lockdowns, government stimulus and vaccine rollouts has had a unique and surprising impact on the world’s financial markets. With high expectations of a global recovery in 2021, investing during coronavirus and the recovery is presenting some very interesting opportunities. In fact, many analysts are forecasting the strongest global recovery in a decade to play out this year, with some markets entering a once in a lifetime supercycle as we enter the post-recession recovery phase. Keep on reading to learn about the opportunities when investing during COVID 19, the coronavirus investments to focus on and the individual markets which are high on investors’ watchlists! ▼▼▼ Investing During Coronavirus: The Story So Far When coronavirus cases started to pick up around the world last year, the S&P 500 stock market index crashed more than 30% from its high in February 2020 to its low in March 2020. The volatility levels of all global markets surged to historic levels, even though the full extent and impact of the coronavirus were not fully known. Common headlines in financial media at the time included words such as the Great Depression, which instilled fear in many investors at the time. But, investing during coronavirus led to some markets reaching historical highs, such as gold and historical lows such as oil. When deciding what stocks to invest in during coronavirus, the most interesting outcome was the creation of a series of new sub-sectors. These sectors included the likes of ‘stay at home stocks,’ ‘work from home stocks,’ and ‘vaccine stocks.’ This created an uneven distribution of flows into the stock market not seen for decades. While some stocks performed well, others were decimated such as those from the travel, leisure and energy sectors. Investors mainly opted for growth stocks in the technology sector and indices such as the Nasdaq 100 shown below, rather than value stocks based on traditional valuation metrics. ▶️ Learn more in the 'Growth Investing - How to Become a Growth Investor' article. ▶️ Learn more in the 'What is Value Investing? - Definition, Strategies & Examples!' article. Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5, NQ100, Monthly - Data range: from 1 Feb 2006 to 17 Feb 2021, accessed on 17 Feb 2021 at 11:30 am GMT. Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. To start investing during coronavirus successfully, having access to global markets is essential. This will become evident further in this article as we discuss some of the coronavirus investments to watch in global stock markets, as well as the new commodity supercycle taking place. By downloading the MetaTrader 5 trading platform provided by Admiral Markets, you can access more than 3,000+ financial CFD (Contracts for Difference) instruments covering global stocks, indices, commodities, currencies and more! Start your FREE download today by clicking on the banner below: ▼▼▼ Investing During Coronavirus: Where are we now? Fast forward to 2021 and many analysts, investors and financial pundits are now calling for one of the biggest economic recoveries for decades. During the pandemic, while countries were in enforced government lockdowns, struggling with a second wave of the coronavirus and new variants of COVID 19, those investing during COVID 19 experienced a huge surprise when global equities rebounded higher. This caused US stock market indices and Asia stock market indices to surge to record highs. Now, investment banks all over the world such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and many others are calling for a very sharp recovery in 2021 which has helped to fuel an online trading boom and a new commodity supercycle. This is largely down to two factors. 1. Government and central bank stimulus. One of the first major responses from governments during the pandemic were monetary stimulus measures. In the first two months of the pandemic, governments around the world allocated more than $10 trillion dollars to try and stop mass unemployment and keep the economy moving. In some countries, the size of the stimulus was nearly ten times larger than the response during the financial credit crisis of 2008. Research from management consulting firm McKinsey & Company shown below, highlights just how large the economic stimulus measures have been during the coronavirus pandemic for different countries relative to the measures in the 2008 financial crisis. Source: McKinsey & Company, 17 February 2021 Government and central bank stimulus measures often provides the fuel for a sharp stock market rally. After all, the very purpose of stimulus measures are to help the economy grow which in turns helps businesses to grow. This causes investor optimism which helps lift stock prices. Stimulus measures, such as cutting interest rates, also helps large institutions borrow more very cheaply. Much of this then finds its way into yield-producing asset classes, such as the stock market. It’s just one reason why many global stock market indices are already trading at record highs. 2. Coronavirus vaccine rollout. Financial markets around the world have also received a boost from the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. This is because it has been helping to lift lockdown restrictions and begin to up economies. You can learn more in the 'Top Coronavirus Vaccine Stocks to Watch' article. While stock market investors have looked towards life after the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it has been the currency market which has received the most amount of flows. For example, in early 2021, the UK government was leading the race in how many citizens had successfully received the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. This caused the British pound to be one of the top-performing currencies, as traders speculated on the economy reopening quicker than other regions. During this time, the European Commissions announced that AstraZeneca informed them that they could only deliver a quarter of the vaccines they agreed upon. This delay and slow rollout in the Europen Union caused a huge sell-off in the euro. The EURGBP exchange rate crashed to eight-month lows as traders speculated on a slower economic recovery for the European Union and a faster one for the UK. Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5, EURGBP, Daily - Data range: from 9 Jun 2020 to 18 Feb 2021, accessed on 18 Feb 2021 at 11:30 am GMT. Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Last five-year performance: 2020 = +5.61%, 2019 = -5.72%, 2018 = +1.17%, 2017 = +4.12%, 2016 = +15.69%, 2015 = -6.58%. In the daily chart above of EURGBP, it is clear to see the sustained break from the horizontal support line (black) at 0.8861. This fundamentally-led move lower was largely due to the divergences in the two countries’ coronavirus vaccine rollout programme, highlighting how important the vaccine rollout is to larger speculators in the market. You can stay up-to-date with the latest market movements across a variety of asset classes by tuning in to the Admiral Markets Spotlight webinar series. In this live session, taken three times a week by three different traders, you can get the latest on what is impacting global financial markets and where the opportunities are. Be sure to register for your FREE spot today, by clicking on the banner below: ▼▼▼ Coronavirus Investments: Markets & Opportunities Due to the significant stock market crash last year, most economies went into a technical recession. While the recession was short-lived due to government stimulus measures and the potential for the coronavirus vaccine rollout, many analysts now believe that 2021 will exhibit signs of being in the early recovery phase of the economic cycle. When investing during coronavirus and the recovery, some of the best coronavirus investments may be found by following the economic cycle. This is because the stock market and commodity market returns are heavily dependent on the phases of the economic or business cycle. In the image below, Fidelity Investments have highlighted which stock market sectors generally perform the best and worst in each stage of the economic cycle. You can learn more about stock sectors in the ‘11 Sectors of the Stock Market You Need to Know’ article. Source: Fidelity, 18 February 2021 In the early cycle of post-recession recovery, the best performing sectors tend to be in real estate, consumer discretionary and industrials. This is confirmed by the fact the Chief US Equity Strategist for JP Morgan, Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, has stated that in 2021 “the largest beneficiaries will be stocks at the epicenter of the pandemic such as Consumer Discretionary and Financials.” In the next section, we discuss some of the possible coronavirus investments that investors are watching for 2021. This includes the potential opportunities when investing during COVID 19 in the currency market, stock market and commodity market which some say are starting a commodity supercycle. Before we dive in, did you know that with the Admiral Markets Invest.MT5 account you can invest in stocks and ETFs from 15 of the largest stock exchanges in the world with low commissions starting from just $0.01 per share for US stocks and a low minimum commission of just $1? To get started, click on the banner below: ▼▼▼ Coronavirus Investments: Stocks & Indices Most analysts are forecasting higher returns for US stock markets, even though valuations remain quite high. However, as most fund managers say ‘where else do you put your money?’ with such low returns from cash amid a backdrop of low-interest rates around the world. This presents some interesting opportunities in both individual stocks and stock market indices. ✴️ S&P 500 Index - $4,400 Target? Investment bank JP Morgan has a year-end target for the S&P 500 stock market index of $4,400. They highlight that while the equity price to earnings ratio is expensive traditionally, they’re not that expensive when considering low interest rates around the world and the upcoming growth prospects. Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5, SP500, Monthly - Data range: from 1 Feb 2006 to 18 Feb 2021, accessed on 18 Feb 2021 at 12:30 am GMT. Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. In the long-term, monthly price chart above of the S&P 500 stock market index it is clear to see there is still further upside yet to develop towards the $4,400 price level. However, the index comprises the largest 500 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and includes stocks from a variety of sectors. This means the index is affected by the best performing and worst-performing sectors. Investors may consider focusing on individual stock sector ETFs (exchange traded funds) for exposure to specific sectors. Alternatively, investors could focus on individual stocks within the sectors that are likely to perform well in the early recovery phase of the post-recession cycle. You can learn more in the 'How to Trade ETFs with €1,000' article. Coronavirus Investments: Foreign Exchange While many investors look towards the stock market for investing during coronavirus and the recovery, the Foreign exchange market is also presenting some interesting opportunities for larger institutional investors. In fact, for much of the pandemic institutional capital followed the narrative of coronavirus cases with flows going into countries that were handling the situation better. This helped to lift the likes of the Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar while hurting the British pound. The coronavirus vaccine changed the fortunes for the pound which became a leader early this year due to a successful coronavirus vaccine rollout. However, it is the US dollar that is the wild card for 2021 but interesting from a technical standpoint, as highlighted below. ✴️ US Dollar Index - A reversal of fortune mid-year? Weakness in the US dollar was one of the better performing trades during the pandemic. The US dollar index - which shows the value of the US dollar against a basket of other currencies - crashed more than 13% from March 2020 to early 2021. Much of this was due to the government’s poor handling of the coronavirus as well as the stimulus measures announced by the Fed. You can learn more about the US dollar index in the ‘How to Trade the US Dollar Index’ article. Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5, USDX, Monthly - Data range: from 1 Jan 2006 to 18 Feb 2021, accessed on 18 Feb 2021 at 13:30 pm GMT. Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. In the long-term monthly price chart of the US dollar index above, it’s clear to see the rejection of the $102.94 price level in March 2020 before the more than 13% drop. Interestingly, the chart shows that the index is trading in a long-term consolidation pattern with price approaching the lower horizontal support line at $88.26. While many analysts are forecasting a weaker US dollar in early 2021 due to additional stimulus measures from US President Joe Biden’s administration, many are also forecasting a reversal of fortunes later in the year. This is largely due to the fact the interest rate trade which caused dollar weakness has largely played out. In the meantime, traders will be focused on the technical levels to lean against, as the narrative for the US economy unfolds. Did you know that you can trade the Forex market, stock market and commodity market using Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and speculate on the market going up AND down? Furthermore, you can utilise leverage and control a larger position with a smaller deposit. Learn more and open an account by clicking on the banner below: ▼▼▼ Coronavirus Investment: Commodities The commodity market has received a huge boost from loose monetary policy around the world and the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. Investment banks from Goldman Sachs to Bank of America are now calling for a bull market run in the commodity sector. JP Morgan believes we have just entered a new commodity supercycle. In the past 100 years, the commodity market has seen four supercycles. The last commodity supercycle peaked in 2008 and was fueled by Chinese growth. The current commodity supercycle is now being driven by a shift to more renewable energy sources, loose monetary policy and the potential for stronger inflation. The whole commodity sector has been affected as well, with rising prices in agriculture, grains, energies and metals. ✴️ Crude Oil - A new supercycle? The oil market had a roller coaster ride in 2020. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil crashed more than 80% from January 2020 to April 2020, before staging a near 450% rally back up from the April 2020 lows to the highs of early February 2021. However, many analysts believe the upside is not yet over with OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) committed to higher prices and lower output as companies focus on renewable energy sources instead. Demand is also likely to pick up even more when individuals can start to travel more freely. Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5, CRUDOIL, Monthly - Data range: from 1 Jan 2007 to 18 Feb 2021, accessed on 18 Feb 2021 at 14:30 pm GMT. Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. In the long-term chart of WTI oil above, it shows a clear horizontal support level at $34.42. During the pandemic, the price broke through this level before recovering and moving back up. The price then retested this level at the end of 2020. Since then, the price has surged higher to the top of the long-term descending trend line from the 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2018 swing highs. If the price can break through these levels then a technical break, combined with a positive fundamental backdrop and the start of a commodity supercycle, could see oil trading higher in the long-term. This may also have a positive effect on energy companies which were battered during the pandemic period. Investing During Coronavirus Risks While many analysts and fund managers are positive about the growth prospects for 2021 there are still some risks that remain. Some of these include: ▶️ A delay in the coronavirus vaccine rollout. Some countries have experienced delays in the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. Anything that affects distribution could have an impact on positive growth helping investor sentiment to sour. ▶️ The mutation of COVID 19 into new strains also poses a risk. However, many scientists have said that the vaccine does work on most of the new variants of the coronavirus. This could be a concern if the vaccine does not work on any of the new variants of the virus. ▶️ Much of Europe has been in lockdown for the past several months. There is a growing concern of a spike in infection rates and mutations once lockdown measures are eased. However, governments will likely want to vaccinate most of the vulnerable and key workers first before easing restrictions. According to Russell Investments, another risk is too much optimism from investors. If everyone remains optimistic these leads to higher prices in stock markets which means any slight negative news announcement could lead to an exodus of trigger happy investors exiting investments early. The company’s own composite contrarian indicator is not yet at overbought levels but is getting close, as shown below: Source: Russell Investments, 18 February 2021 How to Start Investing During Covid 19 With Admiral Markets Trade.MT5 account you can speculate on the price direction of global markets using Contracts for Difference (CFDs) to trade long and short on Forex, stocks, indices, commodities and more! Alternatively, through the Invest.MT5 account you can invest in real stocks and ETFs from 15 of the largest stocks exchanges in the world. In either scenario, you can start investing in the markets of your choice using the five steps highlighted below. - Open your MetaTrader 5 trading platform provided by Admiral Markets or start your free download here. - Once you are on the platform, select View from the top menu to open the Market Watch window on the left side of the platform. - In this Market Watch window, right-click and select Symbols. Here you can search from the +3,000 instruments available to trade on via Admiral Markets. Start typing the name of the instrument and a selection of instruments will appear. - Press OK to add the symbol to your Market Watch list. To view a live chart of the symbol’s price, drag the text of the symbol from the Market Watch window onto the chart. - To open a trading ticket, right-click on the chart and select Trading and then New Order. A trading ticket will open up for you to input your own entry, stop loss and take profit levels as well as your position size. 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A screenshot showing an example of searching for ‘Crude Oil WTI’ in the Technical Insight Lookup indicator from the MetaTrader 5 Supreme Edition platform provided by Admiral Markets. 18 February 2021. 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With this type of account, you can buy and sell in a virtual environment until you are ready to go live! Click on the banner below to open your FREE demo trading account today! ▼▼▼ About Admiral Markets Admiral Markets is a multi-award winning, globally regulated Forex and CFD broker, offering trading on over 8,000 financial instruments via the world's most popular trading platforms: MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. Start trading today! This material does not contain and should not be construed as containing investment advice, investment recommendations, an offer of or recommendation for any transactions in financial instruments. Please note that such trading analysis is not a reliable indicator for any current or future performance, as circumstances may change over time. Before making any investment decisions, you should seek advice from independent financial advisors to ensure you understand the risks.

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My most recent learning experience has been learning better programming practices with flask through the use of flask blueprints, singleton pattern and factory method pattern when creating global application contexts. I learned each of these I also had to learn how to incorporate TDD with these new techniques. Thanks to today’s challenge I have learned these new things and I am 100% confident that I can write very clean code being that I am equipped with these amazing techniques also known as design patterns. I was very confused at first on how to use factory method with flask and how to access global data using the singleton pattern for nonpersistent data sources such as dictionaries and lists, but I finally managed to get the hang of it. I was able to learn these techniques by consulting my fellow boot campers and teammates which made me realize the importance of asking whenever you are stuck. Aside from that, I was also able to learn these powerful techniques by reading through ebooks and articles online especially those by Miguel Grinberg- a very resourceful developer by the way.“Thank you, Miguel”. I must conclude by saying that today has been quite a challenging one but at the same time has influenced my learning of new things. I have gained a great deal of confidence and knowledge on writing clean code using some of the famous Gang of Four design patterns (GoF). With these as part of my programming arsenal, I am very sure that I have started realizing my dream of becoming a world-class software developer with Andela. Thank you for taking your time to read my blog please follow me on medium.

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Parks Associates research finds that smart speakers are serving as a gateway to smart home adoption, as 16 per cent of US broadband households purchased a smart speaker prior to purchasing a smart home device. Of the 29 per cent of US broadband households that own both a speaker and a smart home device, nearly three-fourths said ownership of the speaker motivated them to purchase a smart home device. “Smart speakers can present strong use cases for smart home devices to the consumer,” said Brad Russell, Research Director, Connected Home, Parks Associates. “By bundling smart speakers with smart plugs, smart light bulbs, or smart thermostats, companies can deliver a guided introduction to the smart home experience. This combo also helps facilitate support for self-installation, which is becoming significantly more important following the Covid-19 outbreak.” Parks Associates notes that between 69 per cent and 78 per cent of all smart security and safety devices bought in 2019 were self-installed, representing a significant increase from 2018. For example, 77 per cent of networked camera owners self-installed this product in 2019, compared to 68 per cent in 2018. “The self-installation trend enables direct-to-consumer online sales for retailers and service providers alike without the cost or challenges of a Covid-19 service call,” Russell said. “Prior to the outbreak, the main trigger for a smart home purchase was the consumer experience of seeing the product in a store or online. With so much shopping now shifting online, having these self-install options is even more important to trigger sales, and with a smart speaker, companies can deliver support through do-it-with-me or do-it-together services that utilize real-time chat.”

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Salivary stones form in the ducts of the salivary glands located in the cheeks (parotid glands) or beneath the jaw (submandibular glands). By themselves, they are not painful and at times are asymptomatic. Most stones are very small, on the order of a few millimeters in size. Stones are sometimes diagnosed clinically, and on CT scan, and they show up as white spots that look like bone. This image shows a 3 mm stone in the right submandibular duct. Here is the stone after it was removed through salivary endoscopy, beneath a ruler which is 1 cm in length. When salivary stones obstruct the flow of saliva, the pressure backs up into the salivary gland and causes inflammation of the gland, pain, and even infections. Many times, symptoms can be improved with use of warm compresses, gentle massage, and use of sour candies which encourages the salivary glands to produce more saliva. Symptoms may improve over time, but the definitive management of salivary stones is removal. Removing a stone can sometimes be performed in the office under local anesthesia, or through salivary endoscopy where small telescopes are used to navigate the ducts and remove the stones. Occasionally, the entire gland must be removed through surgery.

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A walk on a summer’s evening. Honey bee on hogweed. They appear to get very little pollen from these flowers, but instead swish their proboscis enthusiastically about in the nectar like a watercolour artist swirling their brush. I recommend Theresa Green’s post Hogweed days to find out more about this plant, including why its flowers mimic the smell of pigs! And this beetle likes them too. I was surprised when the beetle suddenly took off and flew away, I got the photo just in time. Doesn’t its bum look like it could be its face? A pretty pink version. An important flower has come out. When you’re walking around on shortish grass, tread carefully. For there might be a delicate bee hidden in a clover flower. Can you see her beady eyes below? Clover honey is one of my all-time favourite honeys. Elizabeth Gowing describes it in her Little Book of Honey as “sweet and light, with a citrus tang which changes to a sourish aftertaste that stops it being sickly to eat”. Red clover is very popular with bumble bees but not honey bees, as their tongues are too short. Both bumbles and honey bees love white clover. One of the beekeepers at the apiary today told me that the local bees were going absolutely crazy about the blackberry bramble bush at his allotment, so much so that passers by were getting afraid. It has been around 26C today – a real treat and about as hot as it ever gets here – and sun-loving plants will be excreting more nectar than usual. A nectar flow is on! These photos were taken last Sunday, on a nice but less intensely hot day. The thistles are favourites too. In The Little Book of Honey Elizabeth Gowing also tries thistle honey, which she says is “fragrant, spicy, reminiscent of… wait a minute – this honey really does taste like geraniums. My mind boggles; so what would geranium honey taste of?” EDIT: identified by standingoutinmyfield in her comment below as a Canada thistle. These flowers were much taller than me. They reminded me of fireworks going off against the sky. EDIT: identified by standingoutinmyfield in her comment below as likely to be hemlock. Being out in the sunshine makes me happy. And the bees too. The next flowers to come along in the park during August will be rosebay willow-herb and ragwort. I’m gradually getting to know my local wild flowers, which I never knew much about before the bees came into my life. Hope the weather’s good where you are, not too cold and not too hot, not too rainy but not too dry… if that’s possible.

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What is a Coggins test? A Coggins test – more accurately referred to as an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) – is a blood test that screens for a potentially fatal disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA). This disease, which sometimes goes by the handle “swamp fever,” is caused by a virus that affects the immune system of horses, donkeys, mules and other members of the Equidae family. There is no vaccine or cure for EIA. In its acute form, EIA is characterized by a sudden onset of symptoms that include high fever, anemia (due to the breakdown of red blood cells), weakness, swelling of the lower abdomen and legs and irregular heartbeat. In some cases, sudden death occurs. EIA may also cause abortion in pregnant mares. How does EIA spread? EIA is spread by biting flies (such as horse flies, deer flies and even stable flies) and mosquitoes that first bite an infected horse and then bite another horse that’s nearby. This disease is extremely serious and outbreaks can have catastrophic consequences. That’s why it’s crucial to detect potentially infected travelling and showing horses through regular testing. Most horses infected with EIA do not demonstrate any symptoms whatsoever. Unfortunately, once infected, the animal becomes a carrier of the virus for life. A horse that tests positive for EIA must either be euthanized or quarantined behind screen mesh for the rest of its life. Import and export restrictions In both Canada and the United States, a “negative Coggins” is required for import or export of horses across their international borders. As well, many U.S. states require a negative Coggins test for interstate travel. Further, a negative Coggins is necessary in both countries for your horse to gain entry to racetracks and the majority of competitive events. An up-to-date Coggins test is recommended any time horses are gathered together, whether in a boarding stable or for competition or recreation. How is a Coggins test performed? To begin, we assess the horse to ensure it is not exhibiting symptoms of EIA. As part of the physical exam, we fill out an EIA test form, which requires information such as the horse’s age, breed and descriptions of colour markings and scars. Most horses that test positive for EIA antibodies do not show any outward sign of sickness or disease. For this reason, the Coggins test includes the requirement for a blood sample to be taken and submitted to an accredited lab for analysis. The blood sample must be drawn by a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)-accredited veterinarian. Dr. Allossery has this accreditation. How long is a negative Coggins test good for? For export purposes, the test is good for just 180 days (approximately 6 months). You can find more information regarding EIA and import/export restrictions at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website.

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On November 25, 2020, Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MoSJE) has e-launched a “National Portal for Transgender Persons” and e-inaugurated a “Garima Greh: A Shelter Home for Transgender Persons” in Vadodara, Gujarat. About National Portal for Transgender Persons: The National Portal for Transgender Persons has been launched on the lines of Notification of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020 released on September, 29 2020 to provide pan India online applying facility of a Certificate and Identity card (I-Card) to transgender persons without visiting office or any physical interface. - They will get their I-cards without any necessary delays and can also monitor the application process through this portal. - Notably, I-Card as per their self-perceived identity is an important provision of The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. About Garima Greh: A Shelter Home for Transgender Persons Garima Greh is launched by MoSJE and will be run in association with Lakshya Trust, a Community based organisation entirely run by the Transgenders to provide shelter to Transgender persons, with basic amenities like shelter, food, medical care and recreational facilities. - It will also provide support for their skill development. Point to be noted: MoSJE is a nodal ministry for improving the conditions of Transgender persons and has identified 10 cities to set up the 13 Shelter Homes on pilot basis, in association with selected 13 Community based organizations (CBO’s on pilot basis. The cities include Vadodara, New Delhi, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Kolkata, Manipur, Chennai, Raipur, Mumbai, etc. - Under this there will be rehabilitation of minimum of 25 transgender persons in each homes identified by the Ministry. About Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019: It came into effect on January 10, 2020 to ensure welfare of Transgender persons and to make them a part of mainstream of the Society. In this regard, MoSJE issued the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020 for the implementation of the provisions of act. Other Participants: Ministers of State (MoS) for MoSJE Krishan Pal Gurjar, Ramdas Athawale, Rattan Lal Kataria; Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Member, National Council for Transgenders and R. Subrahmanyam, Secretary, MoSJE. Recent Related News: i.On August 21, 2020, Central Government constituted the India’s first 30-member National Council for Transgender Persons to advice, monitor and evaluate measures for the protection of the rights of Transgender community. ii.On September 7, 2020 Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment launched the 24×7 Toll-Free Mental Health Rehabilitation Helpline “KIRAN” (1800-500-0019). The Helpline has been developed by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), MoSJE.

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A. Deadheading - what an ominous sounding word. It makes one think that something is being killed, when actually a very important task in the garden is being taken care of. Not only will deadheading improve the appearance, deadheading also helps the vigor of the plant and increases blooming time. Deadheading simply means removing the faded or dead flower heads from a plant. Like all gardening chores, deadheading is both beneficial and necessary. It lengthens the blooming time of some plants, increases the amount of blooms for others and keeps the garden looking neat and properly cared for. In some cases, deadheading is helpful in reducing the amount of new plants produced from the numerous seeds that are dispersed naturally. Perennials as well as annuals benefit from deadheading. It is the nature of perennials to bloom and then focus their energy on producing seed. Most perennials have a certain amount of time, whether it be weeks or months, to bloom each year. By deadheading, the usual amount of bloom time can be increased, sometimes very dramatically. Coreopsis is a perfect example. By de-budding the dead flowers every day or so, the coreopsis in my garden bloom from March to November. This de-budding can be very time consuming but well worth the beautiful display of flowers for such a long period of time. Daylilies also respond well to deadheading by continuing to produce blooms after dead flowers are removed. Annuals are genetically designed to produce flowers, set seed and die all in one season. However, by using a diligent and regular program of deadheading, their blooming season can usually be lengthened. When the spent blooms are removed, the plan delays seed production and its energy is used to produce more flowers. Marigolds and zinnias respond exceedingly well to deadheading - prompting them to be much more prolific bloomers. Petunias and pansies become very sparse when not deadheaded. Leggy stems can be cut back to the ground, which induces the plant to put on new growth and sometimes another round of blooms. Deadheading is usually done by snipping off the flower head with the thumb and forefinger. This technique is fine for small-stemmed plants such as salvia, euryops and copper canyon daisy. When plants have thicker stems, such as rudbeckia, purple coneflower and daylilies, however, unnecessary tugging on the stem may cause damage to the plant. In this case, sharp scissors or pruners should be used. Both instances require a clean cut. Some plants have a fine-textured foliage and produce a countless number of flowers, such as dianthus, David Verity cuphea and cosmos. Deadheading individual blooms would be very time consuming. Using a shearing tool or hedge clippers not only gets rid of the dead flowers, but also keeps the plant compact and shapely. The growth habit of a plant determines where the cut should be made. When a plant has numerous stems, such as salvia, coreopsis or chrysanthemum, the stem should be cut back to the first leaf or group of leaves. With plants that produce stems with multiple flowers that open at different times, such as daylilies and amaryllis, each bloom can be snipped off when it dies. Then when all the blooms on the stem are gone, the entire stem should be clipped back to the ground. Plants such as agapanthus and hosta that produce individual stems of flowers above a clump of leaves, should be deadheaded at the lowest part of the stem. Sometimes seeds are desired for either ornamental purposes or future propagation of plants. In this case, snip off a quarter to a third of the flowers on a plant and leave some of the seeds for the birds or for you to collect at a later time for planting. In addition to deadheading, blooms can be collected at their prime and used for fresh flowers in your home or for drying purposes. Deadheading may be considered extra work by some, but most gardeners will enjoy the time spent in the garden, not to mention the favorable results obtained. All digital photographs are the property of the Galveston County Master Gardener Association, Inc. (GCMGA) © 2002-2013 GCMGA - All Rights Reserved.

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When browsing though old books and magazines, I always keep a lookout for easy-to-make, hundred-year-old breakfast recipes. So when I saw a recipe for Sour Milk Griddlecakes in a 1915 home economics textbook, I just had to give it a try. Of course, griddlecakes are just another name for pancakes, but somehow even the name evokes old-fashioned goodness. The Sour Milk Griddlecakes did not disappoint. Unlike most modern recipes, this recipe doesn’t call for any sugar, so the griddlecakes have a very delicate, slightly tangy, neutral flavor that is ready to soak up the goodness of syrups, jams, or other sweet toppings. Here’s the recipe updated for modern cooks: Sour Milk Griddlecakes (Pancakes) 2 1/2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups milk 1 tablespoons vinegar Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl, beat until smooth. Heat a lightly greased griddle or skillet to a medium temperature, then pour or scoop batter onto the hot surface to make individual pancakes. Cook until the top surface is hot and bubbly, and then flip and cook other side. Here’s the original recipe: This recipe is from an era when pasteurized milk was not the norm since it calls for sour milk. In the old days raw milk would sour—but still be good for cooking. Vinegar can be used to “sour” pasteurized milk, so I made that adaptation when modernizing the recipe.

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In view of the high concentration of resveratrol found in a new autochthonous wine (Uvalino) and the notable antioxidant activity of this substance, we decided to assess whether this wine could inhibit the production of free radicals. Nowadays, free radicals are considered to be the most noxious factors for tissues, triggering the development of many diseases. The assessments were carried out using a direct and more precise technique, electronic paramagnetic resonance (EPR), which is able to detect the ability of an antioxidant agent to inhibit the formation of hydroxyl radicals ( .OH), which are among the most noxious reactive oxygen species (ROS). The results show that Uvalino wine is able to eliminate ROS production almost completely. Consequently, it has beneficial effects on health in all the diseases in which ROS plays an important pathogenetic role. Effects of Uvalino, a new autochthonous wine, on the inhibition of the production of hydroxyl radicals / A. Bertelli, R. Morelli, M. Falchi. - In: DRUGS UNDER EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 0378-6501. - 30:4(2004), pp. 177-181. |Titolo:||Effects of Uvalino, a new autochthonous wine, on the inhibition of the production of hydroxyl radicals| FALCHI, MARIO (Ultimo) |Settore Scientifico Disciplinare:||Settore BIO/14 - Farmacologia| |Data di pubblicazione:||2004| |Appare nelle tipologie:||01 - Articolo su periodico|

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99.5% clean air while sleeping enables your patient’s airways to rest and recuperate. Airsonett’s TLA technology (Temperature-controlled Laminar Airflow) has undergone rigorous clinical trials for several years. The results show that Airsonett Air4 reduces exacerbations1, improves asthma and eczema control1, 2, 3, 4, improves quality of life2, 3 and is free from medical side effects2. You can read more about the research carried out on TLA. See clinical documentation below. Airsonett’s technology TLA is an interaction-free and non-invasive treatment with 99.5% clean air. TLA has no known pharmacological side effects. Since Airsonett® Air4 is used in the home, the need for medical appointments or planned hospital visits is less than for many other treatments. There are a number of calculations on healthcare costs with TLA as a starting point. You can find the latest study here. Airsonett Air4 uses the patented TLA technology (temperature-controlled laminar airflow) to direct a soft flow of filtered, clean, lightly cooled air toward the breathing zone. The filtered, clean air is slightly cooled before it is released from the unit, so that it sinks gently due to gravity and pushes away the particle- and allergen-rich air from the breathing zone. This is how Airsonett Air4 works TLA – Temperature-controlled Laminar Airflow Airsonett Air4 is based on the technology TLA (temperature-controlled laminar airflow). The air from the room is sucked into the machine and passes through a filter that traps allergens and other particles. The clean, filtered air is cooled to slightly below room temperature and flows laminary, at low speed, from the air shower. The slightly cooled air creates a breathing zone that is 99.5% free of allergens and particles larger than 0.5 μm. What is the difference between an Airsonett Air4 and an air purifier? Airsonett’s patented TLA technology has a clinically proven effect on asthmatics and patients with other allergy-related diseases, thanks to the drastic reduction of allergenic particles in the breathing zone. Air purifiers try to clean the whole room, and have therefore not been able to show clinical effect. In clinical trials, Airsonett has been shown to clean the air in the breathing zone up to 100 times better than air purifiers*. * Referens: Spilak M, et al. A comparison between temperature controlled laminar airflow device and a room-air cleaner in reducing exposure to particles while asleep. PLoS ONE 2016;11(11): e0166882. Effective against uncontrolled allergic asthma Airsonett Air4 is intended for patients with uncontrolled allergic asthma, who, despite using asthma medication, have problems. Treatment with TLA has been shown to provide the best results for patients with the following clinical profile: Severe (ACT ≤18) atopic asthma despite high treatment intensity (GINA 4). Sensitivity to ≥ 1 persistent indoor airborne allergen (eg dust mites, pets or fungal spores) to which they are likely to be exposed, demonstrated by a positive spot test (diameter ≥ 3 mm) or blood analysis consistent with anamnesis. How can Airsonett Air4 be effective even against eczema when the clean air only reaches the breathing zone / face? Allergy-related diseases, not least atopic eczema, can also be triggered by airborne allergens and irritating particles. By minimizing the exposure to these triggers, the patient can recover, which together with other treatment enables more effective healing. Other allergy-related diseases, such as hay fever and eczema, can also be triggered by airborne allergens and other irritating particles. Minimizing airborne irritations in the respiratory zone can therefore alleviate the symptoms of these diseases as well. What does the medical profession say? ”…we have demonstrated that nocturnal control of aeroallergen exposure…can improve quality of life and reduce airway inflammation in adults and children with atopic asthma, without significant adverse effects.”Clinical Evidence

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It Turns Out I Was Right #1: Seasonal Adjustements Will Likely Exaggerate Job Growth In an earlier blog post of mine, I predicted that the May and June jobs report would overstate job performance. My argument, in short, was that normally when summer starts, levels of employment normally fall for two reasons: 1) people in education lose jobs, 2) a lot of people (especially women) have to stay home and look after kids so they can’t work. Seasonal adjustments normally account for that so this disruption does not factor into seasonally adjusted data normally. I argued that because Covid has depressed seasonal employment in education and forces people to stay home from work anyway. Hence, the effect of summer starting won’t be as bad for employment as usual. Therefore, seasonal adjustments will over-account for the start of summer this year causing the employment reports to overstate job gains. The May jobs report has just come out today and it shows I was right. First, in seasonally adjusted terms we had very strong employment growth in education. The chart below shows how seasonally adjusted education employment dipped from August to September when seasonal adjustments overstated the effect of school opening up and how now from April to May education employment is dipping up. A similar trend can be observed in the chart below which plots the level of female employment in seasonally adjusted terms divided by overall employment in seasonally adjusted terms. The fact that it is increasing this month is a sign that the end of summer has not depressed relative female employment as much as normal and the seasonal adjustments have over accounted for the end of summer. Another piece of evidence that the job growth figures were overstated this month is to look through May’s report and compare two figures. One figure is the % growth of the seasonally adjusted overall employment level. The other figure is the % growth of the seasonally adjusted employment level for men in all industries except one designated “Education and Health Services” (the BLS does not publish the population of workers in education alone by gender, so I am selecting out the larger category). One finds that the overall employment growth was 0.29% from April to May according to seasonally adjusted figures. If you drop out categories which would be especially impacted by seasonal adjustments, though, one finds an employment growth of only 0.04% from April to May. This reduced figure does not tell us the “true” job growth rate as the employment levels in other industries may be impacted by seasonal adjustments (imagine employment levels in other industries go up more when summer starts because people leave education to find temporary work in other fields). Additionally, the male level of employment could still be impacted by school closing for summer because 1) they have less female job-market competitors (which could increase male employment during the summer) or, alternatively 2) men as well might drop out of the labor force to look after children. Hence, every category of the labor market is at least slightly impacted by the current error in seasonal adjustment. However, the 0.04% monthly growth rate is probably more accurate than the 0.29% rate. Overall, May’s jobs report was considered to show disappointingly weak job growth. The true job growth is probably even weaker.

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Borgop refugee camp, Adamaoua, Cameroon, June 2019Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: 17-year-old CAR refugee Nazira is a trainee at a shop in the Borgop refugee camp, as part of a vocational training effort by the Lutheran World Federation's World Service programme, intended to help particularly young refugees make an income. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic. - Albin Hillert - Image Size - 6016x4016 / 8.2MB - Contained in galleries - Cameroon - Skills training, CAR refugees, CAR refugees - Cameroon, June 2019

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I Samuel 22:6-23:29; Psalms 52, 109 Do you remember when, earlier in Saul’s reign as King of Israel, he couldn’t bring himself to kill all the Amalekites, even though God told him to? We read about that in I Samuel 15. God had told Saul to destroy the Amalekites, let no one live including women and children. Saul killed many, but not all. And remember, the Amalekites were the enemy of Israel and of God. Who knows how many guilty people were allowed to live on? Now we see Saul mad at a priest for helping David, who Saul considered his enemy. So Saul condemns the priest to death. Then, inconceivably, Saul ordered that all the priests be killed. Eighty-five men were to die that day – and they were no one’s enemy! In fact, these were men who served God. It doesn’t stop there. Saul then ordered that the wives and children of these priests be killed. He gave the same order to his men that God had given him earlier. “Let no one live.” The King’s officials couldn’t bring themselves to do it. But they didn’t stop it when someone else stepped up and began to murder all those people, either. A whole city of innocents was put to the sword that day, by the order of Saul. How could he let the ungodly Amalekites live, and then wipe out the people of God? I wonder. If the Amalekites represent sin, and the priests represent holiness, can’t we ask the same thing of ourselves? Maybe we aren’t the ones who are preaching and teaching partial truths. Maybe we don’t agree with the contemporary definition of sin, the tolerance of sin in our churches, the blatant disregard for God’s law. But are we, like the king’s officials, watching while holiness is being destroyed right in front of us? Do we shake our heads, maybe shed a tear, yet continue to stand there and do nothing to stop it? What can one person do, you might ask? I’m sure most of us reading this post today don’t want to see evil continue to wield its sword. But most of us feel helpless to stop this avalanche. And I don’t think God expects us to single-handedly. But I also don’t think he expects us to do nothing. Are you praying? Are you getting involved in civic affairs, volunteering in God-honoring work in your neighborhoods? Are you voting? Are you going to church, talking to people about Jesus, living your life in such a way that you stand out from the crowd? Are you holding your pastors and teachers accountable to speak only the Truth of Scripture? I don’t know what God has laid on your heart about fighting His enemy. But I know for sure if you are His child through the blood of His Son Jesus, He is prompting you to do something. You can either stand there and watch as God is being attacked, or you can get involved in the battle. You are going to make that choice today. Just know that just standing there and watching is making a choice against God. Don’t just stand there.

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We’ve all seen the headlines about smart devices and app-enabled toys that can be hacked, allowing ner-do-wells to spy on your family. We’ve been creating AR since 2014 and this worry came up regularly in our focus groups when we were developing Mardles. Putting aside our frustration at some of the fear mongering from National papers, we knew that we needed to address parents’ concerns – and we did – so here’s answers to those common questions: Will I get spammed? – we don’t collect any data and there’s no need to register. If something is ‘Powered by Mardles’ you only need the Augmented Reality app to bring it to life – we didn’t create it so we can spam you with marketing. There’s also NO ADVERTISING. Can I be tracked? – Again – no – the only data we get is how many times our app is downloaded, so if you want to bring an octopus to life on the toilet we won’t know about it. (Unless you post a selfie on Twitter and tag us in it. Please don’t) Are there in-app purchases? – No. Our whole premise has always been that the app was 100% parent friendly so you don’t get any nasty surprises. It is literally impossible for kids or parents to buy anything via our app. Will it use my data allowance? – Again – no – once the app is downloaded you don’t need data or Wi-Fi to bring our characters to life – The whole point of Mardles is ‘We bring Everything to Life’ not just things that are in range of your Wi-Fi. ‘Free? What’s the catch?’ Some apps make their money from advertising, some make their money by collecting data, others have things that you can purchase whilst you are using it. Our app is 100% FREE because you’ve ALREADY paid for the product – be it a physical product from our store or entrance to an event. And if the event is free, THEY’VE paid for the product.

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At their annual meeting last month, mayors from across the country agreed to become more active in influencing “the preparation, recruitment, induction and retention of teachers” in urban school systems. In addition, they unanimously adopted a series of education resolutions in support of reforming high schools, afterschool programs, equity and adequacy in education funding, quality pre-kindergarten education for all children, school construction, schools as centers of community, and urban summer education programs. The resolution concerning teacher preparation and induction was in alignment with many of the findings and recommendations found in the Alliance for Excellent Education’s recent report Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High-Quality New Teachers. Like the Alliance, the U.S. Conference of Mayors believes that urban school systems should use teacher preparation funds from the No Child Left Behind Act to provide comprehensive induction programs to all beginning teachers. The mayors also asked Congress to include a comprehensive induction requirement for all grant recipients under Title II in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Finally, the mayors asked Congress to provide new funding to “ensure that every new teacher in our nation’s highest need schools receives the support and training, and has quality work conditions necessary to continue to teach in urban schools.” In the resolution on reforming high schools, the mayors chose to focus on ensuring that every student is adequately prepared for college or the workforce. They noted that “no state can currently claim that every student who earns a high school diploma is academically prepared for postsecondary education and the world of work.” In California, for example, 58 percent of the 38,086 freshmen who enrolled in the state university system in the fall of 2003 did not have basic English and math skills. The resolution called for the federal government to take several steps to change this situation: to influence states to ensure that their standards are aligned with the knowledge and skills expected by colleges and employers; to require, through the Higher Education Act, reauthorization data on the numbers of students who take remedial courses in college; and to take steps to “provide influence and support such as providing student financial aid incentives for high school students who take a college or workplace readiness curriculum.” In their respective presidential campaigns, both President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry have focused on the need for a rigorous high school curriculum. These new resolutions come on the heels of another, passed at last year’s annual conference, that called on Congress to pass and fund legislation that establishes an adolescent reading program. According to the resolution, the program would be “similar to Reading First, but focused on middle and high school students to ensure that they have the skills to complete high school, attend college, and be a part of America’s 21st century workforce.” The resolution further encouraged federal, state, and local governments to “address the academic and social needs of the six million children at risk of dropping out of high school.” The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of the nation’s 1,183 U.S. cities with populations of 30,000 or more. Learn more about the U.S. Conference of Mayors and its annual conference at http://www.usmayors.org/. The Alliance’s Tapping the Potential report is available here.

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William Edward Deeds, 1941 B.A., Denison University Ph.D., The Ohio State University Physics Professor (retired) Citation awarded June, 2001 Ed Deeds is retired from a distinguished forty-four-year career as a physics professor. Despite retirement from teaching, he continues his work as an active scientist and scholar. A member of one of Denison’s most prominent families, Ed grew up in Granville. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Denison in 1941 with majors in Mathematics and Physics. After his undergraduate years, Ed earned the M.S. in Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he also served as a Graduate Assistant and Teaching Fellow. During World War II, he served as a Junior Physicist with the National Defense Research Council. Following the war, Ed served as Assistant Professor of Physics for two years at Denison, and earned the Ph.D. in Physics from the Ohio State University. In 1952 he accepted a position at the University of Tennessee, where he became full Professor of Physics by 1959. During his career at Tennessee, he directed 24 Ph.D. dissertations and 36 M.S. theses, in fields as diverse as cosmic rays, rocket ballistics, molecular spectroscopy, general relativity, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. For twenty-seven years, Ed served as a consultant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; he also consulted with other governmental agencies and corporations. He has to his credit seven patents and two IR100 Awards, a recognition given annually by Industrial Research Magazine for the 100 best research developments of the year. Perhaps he is best known for his work on eddy current theory, on which he has taught and published extensively. During the 1970s and 1980s, both the German and Japanese governments sent scientists to study with him in the areas of eddy currents and nondestructive testing. Currently, he is doing research for a project funded by NASA to measure Newton’s gravitational constant 100 times more accurately than it is now known. Ed and his late wife Alice had four children, two of whom have become physicists, one an archaeologist, and one a journalist. In June of 2000, he was inducted into the Granville High School Ace Hall of Achievement. Ed lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he makes time to work on building a 39-foot sloop for long-distance cruising.

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By Mick Krever, CNN Without “strong leadership,” Rwanda would have been unable to modernize and change at the pace it has in the 20 years since its horrific genocide, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Monday. The country on Monday marked 20 years since nearly 800,000 people were murdered in about 100 days. “I think it is an almost unique set of circumstances,” Blair said. “Frankly, without strong leadership, the country couldn’t have come the distance it has in the last twenty years.” Rwanda has seen incredible modernization in the past two decades, Blair said, lifting “a million people” out of poverty, and getting huge reductions in malaria and maternal and child mortality, among other achievements. While many credit President Paul Kagame with those successes, some also accuse the leader of stifling Rwanda’s opposition and having authoritarian tendencies. In an interview with Amanpour last year, Kagame said she should not “worry” about whether he will step down at the end of his constitutionally limited term of office in 2017. Pleitgen questioned Blair – who as founder of the Africa Governance Initiative serves as an informal adviser to Kagame – about the president’s record. “You know the threat when people are in power too long, especially in Africa,” Pleitgen said. “You know that they can become authoritarian, that there is that danger and that that can lead to instability.” “Yes; that's absolutely true,” Blair said. “He is someone I know well. I don't think he's that type of person or leader.” “And by the way, I discuss [these issues] very openly with President Kagame and…there's not a problem having that discussion with him.” Blair was not yet prime minister during the genocide, but said that it nonetheless affected him. “The trouble is we always say never again and then we have to repeat the phrase,” he said. “I think Rwanda did have a huge collective impact on the West.” “It certainly did for me as a leader when I sent British troops into Sierra Leone.” “What France is trying to do in Mali – and I actually think what the U.N. is trying to do in the Central African Republic – is also in part borne out of our experience of history.” The basic lesson of Rwanda, he said, is that if you “see a catastrophe coming and you can prevent it, it should be an obligation” of the international community to intervene. Pleitgen questioned Blair on whether the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq – which Blair enthusiastically supported – have not turned many in the West off to intervention. Despite the limited Western interventions on Mali and Central African Republic, there has been little appetite to stop the bloodshed in Syria. “Supposing in Afghanistan we hadn't got rid of the Taliban,” Blair said. “Would we really be in a better position in Afghanistan today?” “Likewise in Iraq. If we really left Saddam [Hussein] there, would we be in a better position, when we see what’s happening in Syria? I think it's certainly arguable the Arab Spring would have come to Iraq as well…and we would be having, in my view, an absolutely catastrophic situation in the Middle East today.” “Where you've got people who are prepared by acts of terrorism, supported by strong outside forces to kill without mercy and die themselves without regret, you're going to have a big problem.” “They create misery and in the end you know, at some point at the latest time, we have to go in and try and clean the situation up.” “Inaction,” he said,” is as big a decision as action.”

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Painting Pictures with Words Posted on May 30, 2019 Leave a Comment When we make the little acts of kindness a regular habit, we create a change in the world around us, making it a better place for us all. Category: influence, life lessons, readingTags: #inspired, #MakeADifference, #Pay-It-Forward, #RandomActsOfKindness, #veterans, @mikeroweworks, returning the favor, Wounded Warrior Project “Live a life worth living, a life of integrity. Be real, kind, helpful and wise, always with an attitude of gratitude. And whatever it is you do, give 110% effort to it, even in the little things”. – Amber Copyright © 2019 Amber Leggette-Aldrich.

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November 24th, 1964 – DALLAS. On live television, night club owner Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man in Dallas Police Custody for the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On March 4th, 1964, Ruby was put on trial for the murder in Downtown Dallas. Armed with original trial transcripts, rare audio, news accounts, and interviews from those personally involved in the case, we bring to you a daily recap of the State of Texas v. Jack Ruby – The Original Trial of The Century. Join us each day beginning March 3. Eric Bushman is Assistant News Director for WBAP and KLIF. Brandon Birmingham is a State District Judge in Dallas. Find the Trial Visualization Report after the episodes. Audio Credit: Interviews with Melvin Belli and Joe Tonahill provided by KRLD-TV, KDFW-TV Collection/the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and WFAA-TV Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Audio of the shooting was recorded by Tom Pettit for NBC TV as broadcast by WBAP in Dallas/Fort Worth.

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This is my first time blogging about a historical project in a while! I’ve missed it. Historical projects are definitely my favorite and i’m happy to be back to focusing on them. This is a dress inspired by (and based off the shape) one Eleanor of Portugal, the Holy Roman Empress wore in this painting, which is by Hans Burgkamair the Elder. I love how unusual the style of this dress is. The simplistic design was very common in the Middle Ages, but the fuller sleeves and skirt hint at the Renaissance fashions which were just starting to become popular. I like a lot of the more traditional medieval styles (close fitting and a lot of layers) and plan to make things similar to them in the near future, but the uniqueness of this design made me want to recreate it. I’ve decided to drop the laced collar, but the shape and neckline will be similar. I found a drawing (which is probably not very historically accurate) with similar sleeves which i’ve also used for inspiration. I would also like to pair it with a headpiece of some sort. Not sure what exactly, but it’ll be elaborate. My materials consist of four yards of a gold and orange damask print. I bought this in NYC but found this website which sells it for almost the same price. I also have some fake fur trim to edge the neckline and sleeves. I’m going to alter pieces of a failed red medieval ensemble and use them for the chemise/underdress. That is what the red fabric represents. I have some matching red beads, rhinestones, and gold beads which will probably end up in the headpiece. I read that mesh overlays were very common on hennin so I bought some on my last trip to joanns. I also picked up four yards of quilting cotton, which will be the lining. I think that’s everything – lets move onto making it! The bodice i’m basing this off of does not have seams or darts in the front. Which means mine won’t either. That design element paired with the high neck meant I couldn’t drape this pattern on my dress form (its bust is bigger and doesn’t squish into flat front bodices). I ended up using the “pillowcase and pin” method which I show in this blog post. When that was done It looked like this. I did my best to make sense of the markings and create something a bit easier to transfer onto paper. I ended up with this! But I made some alterations to this after creating a mock up. One of those changes was separating the pieces, since I wanted the centerfront and centerback to be cut straight with the damask print. I couldn’t get the front and back to line up while still cutting the bodice as one piece. I also lowered the neckline, waistline, and took in the shoulder seam. I drew a chalk line down the backside of the fabric. I made sure the line went right down the center of the damask print and laid the pattern piece against the chalkline. I traced around the edges with sharpie and repeated the process with the other side. Then I cut the pieces out and labeled them because the front and back look really similar. I didn’t want a back closure so I decided to have eyelets going up one side. I added two and a bit inches on the sides with the eyelets. The other side has a three quarter inch seam allowance. Somewhere along the way I decided to bind the seams instead of sewing them the normal way. To make that a little bit easier I added a medium weight interfacing where the binding would be. On the side with the eyelets I used a lighter weight interfacing, this was to prevent fraying more than anything else. This fabric is REALLY prone to fraying, so I left the bottom edge (the waistline) uncut while I worked on the neckline and side seams. To get super smooth finishes on the edges (and so I wouldn’t have to worry about fraying) I made facings for the neckline and armholes. I traced the edges of the bodice onto my lining fabric, then measured one and a half inches away from the traced edge. These got pinned on with the right sides facing each other. I sewed a half inch away from the edge at the armholes, and three quarter inches away from the neckline since I made it the tiniest bit too high. The facings got turned over and pinned down… Then sewn down by hand to prevent any topstitching from being visible on the front of the fabric. With those edges finished, I moved onto the side seams. I started with the side that has eyelets. I turned the fabric inward by three quarters of an inch and sewed half an inch away from the edge. Then folded the fabric inward by one and a quarter inch and sewed half an inch away from the edge. I topstitched a sixteenth of an inch away from the edges to secure it in place. This created two boning channels about three quarters of an inch apart. The math there doesn’t really make sense when I think about it, but I swear that is what I did! It looked like this. I added the boning and prepared to sew sixteen eyelets. At this point it still kind of fit on my dress form. Okay not really. But you can get some idea of what it’ll resemble. Now I did the eyelets. They took maybe five episodes of Treasure Quest: Snake Island to finish. That is how I measure time when hand sewing in front of the TV and it is totally valid. I ironed the other side edges into a fold, then bound them together from the back. A fitting made me realize having boning on one side and not the other was a bad idea. The side without boning collapsed and puckered. If I’d realized this before binding the seam I could have hidden boning in the seam allowance, but it was too late for that. So I sewed an ugly boning channel instead. It’s so ugly. But it works. I made up some double fold bias tape out of scraps. The lower edge finally got cut to the right length, then bias tape was sewn overtop to hide the fraying. I cut out my lining (all as one piece) and pinned it in place. I sewed it down at the waistline, sides, and the lower half of the armholes. It’s much easier to sew lining in when the garment is flat, so I didn’t sew up the shoulder seam until most of the lining was in. When everything but the lining around the neckline and shoulders were done, I did up the shoulder seam. But I still didn’t finish sewing the lining in. I had to attach the fur first! I did that with a whip stitch, then finished sewing in the lining. And that’s it for the bodice! It needs sleeves and a skirt but that will come later. Here it is worn over my rose chemise I made a few months ago. I should have tied the cuffs but I forgot. The fit could probably be a little bit better, but i’m pretty pleased with it considering how hard it is to make fitted bodices without darts or seams. It also doesn’t have any boning or interfacing (aside from the sides) in it and is worn without a foundation garment. The skirt will weight the bodice a bit and make it lay a little smoother, which will help. I think I might add some red pearls around the neckline, just below the fur. But I also like how simple it is, so i’m conflicted. Opinions on that are welcome! Oh, and I filmed the process of making this. If you want to watch that, it can be seen here! Thanks for reading!

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It’s the “healthy” things like salad dressings, meat marinades, and just about anything pre-made that you can buy at a grocery store or restaurant. They have liquid fat added in the form of soybean, canola, and other cheap long chain forms. A Florida teacher who couldn’t get vaccinated because of her cancer treatment died of COVID-19. Her union says she caught it from her classroom, which had no mask mandate. DOST studies on the efficacy of VCO with test results confirming meals with VCO reduce COVID-19 symptoms. Why Virgin Coconut Oil Is Better Than The Regular Or Refined One? It is more soluble in hard water and salt water than other soaps allowing it to lather more easily. The Philippines, Vanuatu, Samoa, and several other tropical island countries use coconut oil as an alternative fuel source to run automobiles, trucks, and buses, and to power generators. Biodiesel fuel derived from coconut oil is currently used as a fuel for transport in the Philippines. Coconut oil contains only trace amounts of fatty acids (about 0.03 % by mass). Two particular of the islands that have very high coconut fat intakes are Tokelau and Kitava. Tokelau residents obtained an astronomical 63% of their calories from coconut, while none showed signs of previous heart attacks by ECG detection. If this happens to you, start with a teaspoon per day and increase your intake slowly. Every cell in your body is affected by free radical, or oxidative, damage, but brain cells are particularlyvulnerable since they use a disproportionate amount of oxygen. They’re broken down into ketones by the liver, and readily cross the blood-brain barrier to provide instant brain energy. At the same time, don’t forget that you need some chemical changes to occur to get the brown colour and the particular fry taste/flavour in the food as well as allow the transfer/absorbance of the oil good properties into the food. We are currently working with food, as in this study, the absence of food may have allowed for a greater impact of oil oxidation when compared with other deterioration reactions. That’s to say the time and temperatures reached are not probably enough to cause high accumulation of degradation products in the oil and their eventual absorption in foods. The smoke point is determined in an enclosed environment, using only a very small volume of oil in a small brass capsule. It has been documented that the smoke point significantly increases where there is a larger recipient, larger volume of oil heated, and in the presence of air. Even if coconut oil supplementation has great health benefits, it would be naive to substitute it in any large quantity in place of the above oils. It is preferable to have a small amount of different oils rather than relying primarily on one type as some coconut oil promoters may have you believe. March 25, 2019 Hans Reply You’re living in the broscience keto echo chamber. Guess why ‘intermittent fasting’ is so popular among keto adherents…? The keto diet is ridiculous and there are no miracle benefits to it. In the intervention and control groups, 40% and 20% of subjects, respectively, had a family history of cancer. Statistically, there were no significant differences between the intervention and control groups in terms of their demographic data . For those looking to use coconut oil topically on the penis, virgin coconut oil has been shown in various studies to be good for the skin. It is wrong to claim that drinking coconut oil will have the same effect on colon cancer cells as the lauric acid used in the research, which was dispensed in calculated doses. I am not aware of any long term studies with coconut and coconut oil in terms of safety and cholesterol effect in humans to determine the ideal intake and the influence on blood lipids. The use of coconut water in reasonable amounts may have a beneficial affect on blood pressure. My own experience with coconut oil pulling for seborrheic dermatitis was very similar to simply consuming the oil. The funny thing – and a reason we often scoff at some aspects of the Paleo diet – is that the archeological evidence suggests humans were grinding grains long before they were refining or pressing oils. About the closest natural foods to them are something like an avocado and the oil in fish (but that’s only in minuscule quantities kratom legal in nc relative to the rest of its meat). The days of low fat diets have taken a backseat to healthy – or at least healthier – fats. Many store-bought massage oils have either coconut or jojoba oil as their base. In addition, this superfood is so easy to digest that it has also been known to improve the symptoms of gallbladder disease. Potential Risks Of Coconut Oil For Sex Carefully remove shower cap and seal it in zip lock bag for disposal. Coconut oil improves hair breaking by penetrating the hair shaft. It also surrounds the hair and makes it easier to remove knots after washing, or in the evenings. Should You Consume Coconut Oil If You Have High Cholesterol? Four clinical trials have been conducted to analyze the effect of oil pulling on the plaque known to cause gingivitis. All four found statistically significant improvements in plaque after oil pulling (typically for 2-4 weeks, depending on the study). Coconut oil is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory powerhouse. It also contains lauric acid, a medium-chain triglyceride that is incredibly effective at killing the bad bacteria that can lead to tooth decay. These same compounds may also decrease the amount of plaque that builds up on your teeth, in turn reducing your chance for gum disease. Coconuts in its various forms are a healthy addition to one’s diet. The problems arise when marketers and promoters make it seem that these are miracle foods and consumers think the more they consume of the these foods, the healthier they which cbd oil is best for parkinson’s disease will be. Thus, their diet goes off balance and they fail to incorporate other healthy food choices. Those who never or rarely consume coconut or such products would likely derive some health benefit by incorporating them in their diet. Soothing Seborrheic Dermatitis By Moisturizing With Coconut Oil However, I don’t agree that large amounts of any oil are healthy as some websites promote. If you do use them for cooking, keep the cooking temperature as low as possible. Do not use hydrogenated forms of oils but rather use virgin oils. Consume this fruit in reasonable amounts in a variety of forms including water, flour, flakes, butter, milk, etc. 38 used a randomized crossover study to compare the effects of virgin olive oil, palm olein, and coconut oil on cell adhesion molecules and thrombogenicity indices in 45 healthy adults in Malaysia. The idea is that by boosting ketones, found in coconut oil, we can improve cognitive function. Coconut oil can help balance the hormones naturally because it is a great source of saturated fat, including lauric acid. Studies have found that coconut oil can be an excellent fat to consume during menopause and can also have positive effects on estrogen levels. Consumption in the European Union was reported as 0.6 million metric tons, with a similar average consumption of 1.3 kg per capita per annum. Coconut oil has been an important edible oil for the food industry for many years and is normally termed or classified as a lauric oil, a tropical oil, or a confectionery fat. The overall message here is that the impact of a fat on one or more indirect parameters doesn’t always relay the end effect of the oil. We’re unlikely to have any more long-term trials feeding large doses of certain fats, so we have to rely on what past researchers have shown. Alzheimer’s patients have brains that don’t take up glucose that well, and the only alternate fuel the brain can use is ketone bodies. If you have IBS, you may be wary of foods that are a little more exotic than the foods you grew up with. Take a look at which coconut products might be beneficial to add to your IBS diet, and which products you should probably avoid. He said there are many scientific studies that have shown the efficacy of coconut oil and its derivatives in killing various types of viruses. Randomised trial of coconut oil, olive oil or butter on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors in healthy men and women, BMJ Open, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. VCO may help in promoting the functional and global QOL of breast cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. These results also suggest that VCO consumption could reduce the women’s symptoms and improve several items of functional status such as body image, future perspective and sexual function. Based on the results, there are certainly good prospect of utilizing VCO as supplementation among breast cancer patients towards achieving a positive QOL. Using coconut oil for hair regularly will improve the overall health of the hair and help to prevent tangles. You can even use coconut oil for hair overnight to improve its texture and keep it conditioned. If tangled hair is a continuing problem, trimming the damage ends will help. Essential oilsincluding lavender, wintergreen, thyme and tea tree, all help to fight fungus and yeast. You’ll fend off cracked skin, hydrate brittle nails, and prevent hang nails. It’s wonderfully moisturizing, great for the skin, inexpensive, and blissfully absent of chemicals you can’t pronounce,” says Dr. Low Dog. To make your own, she suggests melting ½ cup of coconut oil at a very low heat. LIVESTRONG is a registered trademark of the LIVESTRONG Foundation. The LIVESTRONG Foundation and LIVESTRONG.COM do not endorse any of the products or services that are advertised on the web site. Moreover, we do not select every advertiser or advertisement that appears on the web site-many of the advertisements are served by third party advertising companies. Instead of consuming large amounts of one type of oil or food, try small amounts of a variety. This way you’ll get the benefit of a number of different fatty acids rather than just one. In my opinion, fish oils and flaxseed oil are your healthiest options, but virgin olive oil, coconut and other oils can certainly be incorporated in your diet. It kills bad bacteria and still allows you to maintain a healthy oral microbiome. It may even lower inflammation and oxidative stress that may be impacting the teeth, gums, and mouth. If you choke on oil during oil pulling, the fat can make its way into your lungs and, in rare cases, cause lipid pneumonia. This is rare but is the major reason small children should not oil pull. It’s important to note that these are only clinical trials of a product containing caprylic acid. Manufacturers of such products are the only ones to be making any claims that they might help people with Alzheimer’s. There are no published results from clinical trials testing coconut oil, although one study in the USA is currently recruiting . Until we have the results from a large-scale clinical trial, we must conclude that at the moment there’s no scientific evidence that coconut oil can help people with dementia. Most of us consume oil in our diets, be it vegetable, sunflower or olive oil. Oils are fats, rich in energy that our bodies usually turn into glucose to use. In Europe the oil was used for food, fuel, and for making soap. Coconut oil provided a less expensive and cleaner alternative to animal fats. The oil made a good fuel for lamps and was especially valued in soap making because it produces a rich bubbly lather in hard water and even in seawater, unlike other how to make high quality cbd oil soaps. Coconut oil is a great base for natural hair colors as it penetrates the hair shaft. For darker hair, mix 2 tablespoons of coconut oil with 1 cup of strong coffee, with 1 tablespoon of spent grounds, and apply to hair. Allow to sit for 45–60 minutes, the longer you leave it, the darker the results. By the late l940s, it was found that the same antithyroid effect, causing animals to get fat without eating much food, could be achieved by using soy beans and corn as feed. Lauric acid does not readily “poison” cancer cells in any condition. As shown in the University of Adelaide study, lauric acid needs to be applied in certain doses to be able to at least encourage cell death of — and not immediately and easily kill — colon cancer cells. However, the study found that higher doses of lauric acid were able to induce apoptosis in the IEC-6 cells — or the small intestinal rat cells — even without significant reduction in glutathione level. This suggests that lauric acid could still possibly bring about apoptosis “independent” of glutathione availability in the cancer cells. The regular consumption of two tropical food drinks, coconut water and mauby , was tested on the control of hypertension. Up Pgh, Dost Study Virgin Coconut Oil As Adjunctive Therapy For Covid This can be achieved by replacing most of the fats in the diet with a source of fat consisting of medium chain triglycerides . When MCTs are consumed they are automatically converted into ketones by the liver. Therefore, therapeutic levels of ketones can be obtained simply by adding an adequate source of MCTs into an otherwise ordinary diet. Soften and deodorize cracked, rough feet overnight by first exfoliating them and then applying a generous layer of coconut oil. While you sleep, the coconut oil, with its natural antibacterial ingredients, moisturizes and deodorizes your feet. To prevent water stains on sinks, rub a small amount of coconut oil along the inside of a clean, dry sink. Season cast-iron cookware by rubbing coconut oil onto the cooking surface then placing the pan in a 250-degree oven for two hours. Repeat the seasoning process after the next three or four uses or until the pan has a non-stick surface. Eating so much fat – especially saturated fat – can have health consequences. This past Christmas, my aunt gifted each of her sisters a jumbo jar of coconut oil because she loves it so much. She keeps a jar in the kitchen (it’s her favorite way to make light and airy stovetop popcorn) and a jar in the bathroom, where she slathers the coconut oil on her skin instead of regular lotion. The authors would like to acknowledge the manufacturer of Tendders Wonders Gandoosha Thaila by Tendders Wonders LLP, Chennai, for supplying the coconut oil used for this study. The authors also thanked all the study participants without whom this study will not be conducted. If you’re ready to try coconut oil for your health, one of the best ones you can buy is Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil. MCT oil can also come from palm oil … you’ll want to avoid that since it’s not kind to the planet. And if you heed the advice of researchers, you’ll want to avoid MCT oil that contains lauric acid. Okay now for the mechanism of HOW coconut oil protects the hair. She also breeds award winning Labrador Retrievers under the Fallriver prefix. Dana has been a raw feeding, natural rearing breeder since the 90’s and is a sought after speaker and outspoken advocate for natural health care for dogs and people. Dana works tirelessly to educate pet owners so they can influence veterinary medicine and change current vaccine, food and preventive health practices. And research microbiologist Kiran Kirshnan from Microbiome Labs will soon be publishing research that shows that the LCTs in coconut oil cause more LPS to be released … and cause more LPS to pass through the gut lining. More and more holistic vets are saying no to coconut oil for dogs. But sometimes the spaces between these cells can widen … this is called leaky gut. Other known risk factors of colorectal cancer are age, personal history, inherited risk, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, race, and obesity, according to the United States’ National Cancer Institute. While it is true that risk factors of colorectal cancer include family history, one’s diet remains a possible but not a certain contributing element to a person’s development of colon cancer. Colorectal cancer or cancer in either the colon or rectum is the third most common type of cancer globally, next to lung and breast cancer. What underlies this oil’s recent adoption by the masses is the sheer benefits of coconut oil for the mind, body, and soul that it promises. Another thing to take note of coconut oil is that its saturated fats have antimicrobial properties. This factor helps you eliminate potential bacteria, parasites, and fungi that can cause indigestion and other disorders. To maximize your effort of harnessing the goodness of coconut oil for any health reason, make sure that you get your coconut oil from a diet shop or natural foods store where you can be absolute that it was organically produced. As it has been widely known that coconut out doesn’t pose a threat to the heart health, you may continue using this oil as long as you consume it in moderation. The caprylic acid in coconut oil is cited as the factor responsible for this benefit. Highly unsaturated fats like corn oil have some glowing recent research, which masks their dark underside and valuable older research. It took the Dietary Guidelines committee decades to change their outdated advice on dietary cholesterol. As late as 2010, the Guidelines still included recommendations to limit cholesterol intake, but finally in 2015 those recommendations disappeared. There is no industry standard for the terms “virgin” or “extra virgin.” Both are usually expeller-pressed from dried coconut. After filtering the coconut puree, wrap the cheesecloth with the clumps and squeeze it hard to extract more coconut milk. Fatty acid and triacylglycerol composition of coconut and palmkernel oils. Many coconut oils include additional ingredients or additives essentially diluting their effectiveness. The major concern with coconut oil is its high saturated fat content. Though research is mixed, we suggest you may reduce the intake of coconut oil. The medium-chain fatty acids in coconut oil are transported to the liver, where they are converted into energy. Some experts theorize that the speed at which these MCFAs are brought to the liver can cause a problem. This may put stress on the liver and even harm the organ over time. Decreased blood sugar is a basic signal for the release of adrenal hormones. Unsaturated oil tends to lower the blood sugar in at least three basic ways. It damages mitochondria, causing respiration to be uncoupled from energy production, meaning that fuel is burned without useful effect. It’s simply common sense for people with the early signs of dementia or indeed diabetes in any disease where impaired glucose metabolism is a factor, to want to benefit from the potential neuroprotective potential of a ketogenic diet. Human milk is rich in medium chain triglyceriedes, so as we know developing brains naturally thrive on MCT rich foods. It’s an established fact Ketogenic diets are safely used by children with epilepsy. It’s therefore reasonable to suppose brains with damaged glucose regulation/metabolism may also improve when provided with fuel source they can use. We know that normally when we lack glucose, for example from prolonged fasting, our brains start to switch to using ketone bodies for energy.

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Coaching for Working Parents This structured individual coaching programme explores causes of children’s behaviour problems, techniques for encouraging children’s development and wellbeing, strategies for tackling misbehaviour and managing difficult co-parenting relationships. Active skills training methods include modelling, rehearsal, self-evaluation and practical home-based tasks. Sessions last about 60 minutes each. Intensive individual coaching is suitable for working parents who need confidential coaching to tackle a parenting or family-based concerns that are interfering with work performance.

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My great great grandfather 54 Wentworth Cavenagh, son of James Gordon Cavenagh and Anne Coates was born on 13 November 1822 in Hythe, Kent, England. He died on 5 January 1895 in Southsea, Hampshire, England. He married Ellen Jane Mainwaring (1845-1920) on 16 February 1865 in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1892 the family surname was changed to assume the name and arms of Mainwaring in addition to Cavenagh in acknowledgement of the inheritance by Ellen Jane Mainwaring of the family estate at Whitmore. Wentworth and Ellen Cavenagh-Mainwaring had ten children: - James Gordon (1865 – 1938) - Eva Mainwaring (1867 – 1941) - Mabel Alice (1868 – 1944) known as May - Wentworth Rowland (1869 – 1933) - Orfeur Charles (1872 – 1890) - Kathleen Mary (1874 – 1951) known as Kate (my great grandmother – see Cudmore family index) - Hugh (1875 – 1953) - Helen Maud (1877 – 1918) known as Nellie - Alice Mainwaring (1879 – 1952) known as Queenie Q is for Queenie - Gertrude Lucy (1882 – 1968) known as Kiddie Blog posts overing several of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring children: for more information on the family of Ellen Mainwaring see the Mainwaring family index My 3rd great grandparents 108 James Gordon Cavenagh, son of Matthew Cavenagh and Catherine Hyde Orfeur was born in 1766 in Innisshannon, Co Cork, Ireland. He died on 11 September 1844 in Castle House, Wexford, Ireland. He married Anne Coates on 23 March 1815 in Hythe, Kent, England. 109 Anne Coates, daughter of Odiarne Coates was born about 1770 in Romney, Kent, England. She died on 18 December 1846 in Castle House, Wexford, Ireland. They had seven children. My great great grandfather was their fifth child. The fourth child was Orfeur Cavenagh (1820-1891). Wentworth Odiarne Cavenagh, Orferur Cavenagh’s son and grandson of James Gordon Cavenagh did a lot of research into the family history: THE CAVENAGHS OF KILDARE by Wentworth Odiarne Cavenagh My 4th great grandparents 216 Matthew Cavenagh, son of James Cavenagh and Anne Lane was born in 1740 in Wexford, Ireland. He died on 22 Jul 1819 in Wexford, Ireland. He married Catherine Hyde Orfeur. 217 Catherine Hyde Orfeur, daughter of John Orfeur and Julianna Hyde was born about 1738 in Cumberland, England. She died on 27 May 1814 in Wexford, Ireland. 218 Odiarne Coates, son of Odiarne Coates and Ann was born 13 May 1742 New Romney, Kent. He first married Sarah (1740-1783) in about 1763 and they had three children. He secondly married Mary in about 1784 and they had two daughters. Odiarne died on 5 February 1798 at New Romney, Kent. My 5th great grandparents 432 James Cavenagh, son of Wentworth Cavenagh was born about 1704. He died in 1769. He married Anne Lane in 1734. 433 Anne Lane. She was the daughter of Ambrose Lane and Anne. She died in 1742. 434 John Orfeur. He married Julianna Hyde. 435 Julianna Hyde. 436 Odiarne Coates. He married Ann.

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When it comes to Service Dogs or Service Dogs in Training with public access, there are definite things Service Dogs in public should and should not do. Learn more about how well-trained Service Dogs should appear and what U.S. Service Dog law says about dogs who don’t quite possess the skills necessary to safely work in public. You’re sitting in a cafe, enjoying a nice cup of coffee with your well-trained, well-mannered canine partner when someone waltzes in with a dog in tow. The dog is lunging at everyone who walks past, jumps up on the counter, gulps down a bagel and then whirls around to start barking at people when they walk in. The manager rushes forward and politely states, “We’re sorry, ma’am, but we’re going to have to ask you to take your dog outside. We don’t allow pets.” Breezily, the woman waves him off and announces, “He’s my Service Dog. He gets to go with me anywhere I go.” The manager casts an appraising eye over the natural disaster of the dog who is now walking around and around his legs, tangling him in its leash, before hesitantly inquiring, “Do you have any papers?” He knows the law doesn’t require ID for Service Dogs, but surely, for THIS dog, she’s required to carry SOMETHING, right? The woman scoffs at the idea while reaching down to rub her dog’s head. “I don’t need any papers. Federal law doesn’t require me to carry any. He’s a Service Dog; that’s all you need to know.” The manager mumbles an apology and walks away. From the safety of the counter, he eyeballs the dog and owner as the woman allows him to run up to anyone, jump on their lap and even kiss them or sniff their food. Just before leaving, the dog squats on the floor and urinates. The dog’s handler walks away from the mess and he sends a staff member to quickly clean it up. He considers calling the police, but is afraid of getting in trouble for breaking ADA regulations and federal law. Finally, though, the woman leaves with her unruly dog in tow and he breathes a sigh of relief. What other options did this poor, frazzled manager possess? Since the woman has produced the magic “Service Dog” words, it may have seemed he has no recourse but to back off and leave this self-professed “Service Dog” team be. Fortunately for him, though, (and the other patrons of the shop!) that’s not the case. While federal Service Dog law is written to protect individuals with disabilities and their complete, unfettered public access with their (well-trained) canine partners, it also has provisions to protect businesses and other members of the public from “Service Dogs” in public who shouldn’t be there. Individuals with a disability have the right to have their Service Dog accompany them anywhere members of the public are allowed to be, but business owners and patrons have rights, too. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations § 36.202(c)(2): (2) Exceptions. A public accommodation may ask an individual with a disability to remove a service animal from the premises if: (i) The animal is out of control and the animal’s handler does not take effective action to control it; or (ii) The animal is not housebroken. (3) If an animal is properly excluded. If a public accommodation properly excludes a service animal under § 36.302(c)(2), it shall give the individual with a disability the opportunity to obtain goods, services, and accommodations without having the service animal on the premises. As excerpted from U.S. Code of Federal Regulations § 36.202, there are two instances cited in federal law where a business may exclude a Service Dog: - The Service Dog is out of control and the handler isn’t doing anything about it - The Service Dog isn’t housebroken and urinates or defecates inappropriately If a Service Dog team is asked to leave due to the dog’s behavior, the business must provide the unaccompanied handler the opportunity to obtain goods or services. Only the dog can be excluded from the premises. If a dog’s behavior infringes on the ability of other patrons to enjoy a safe, routine experience similar to one they would experience without a Service Dog on-site, then a business may be perfectly within their right legally to ask the team to leave. Before making that determination, though, check out the lists below detailing what Service Dogs in public should do and what Service Dogs in public shouldn’t do. Service Dogs in Public Should: - Focus on their handler at all times unless doing trained task work. - Possess a stable, even temperament without anxiety, reactivity or aggression of any kind. - Walk nicely on a leash without pulling, straining, lunging, lagging, circling or forging, unless the dog’s task work requires tension on the leash, and the pulling is a trained behavior with a purpose. - Remain quietly by their handler’s side when their handler stops without wandering or losing focus. - Lay quietly under the table or beside their handler’s chair without getting up or moving around excessively. Changing positions is fine; outright breaking stays to respond or engage with distractions or to wander off is not. - Ignore distractions. - Be quiet at all times unless performing specific, trained task work. Outside of trained and necessary task work, there should be NO other vocalization, including, but not limited to, whining, grumbling, wooing, barking, growling, whimpering or other noise. Unless working, Service Dogs should be seen by the public and not heard. - Appear professional, well-groomed and well-taken care of. Your Service Dog is a representative of both you and the Service Dog community. She should always leave everyone she comes in contact with with excellent impressions. - Keep his or her nose to his or her self at all times, even if there are food, products or other interesting things readily accessible. Sniffing people, objects or food is not only rude, it’s a possible health hazard. Exceptions to this rule include Allergen Alert Dogs or other Service Dogs who rely on their nose to perform their work. However, the Service Dog’s sniffing should be directly related to task work and not random or merely “exploring.” - Respond quickly and readily to the handler’s commands, cues or directions. Service Dogs should give off the appearance to anyone watching that they are highly trained and that they completely understand what’s being asked of them. Service Dogs should possess outstanding obedience skills and above-average manners and both should be readily apparent. A Service Dog’s demeanor, training and behavior should, without question, differentiate them from all but the best-trained pet dogs. - Be able to do pertinent task work to mitigate their handler’s disability. In order to be considered a “Service Dog” under U.S. federal law, a dog must be partnered with an individual with a disability AND perform specific, trained task work to mitigate that disability. Task work is not optional. If a dog doesn’t perform task work, she’s not a Service Dog – she’s an Emotional Support Animal and she doesn’t belong in public. Service Dogs in Public Should NOT: - Urinate or defecate inappropriately. If a dog isn’t house trained, she doesn’t belong in public, Service Dog or not. For younger Service Dogs in Training, outings should be short enough to provide plenty of opportunities to make trips outside. “Accidents” are one of the few reasons a business can exclude a Service Dog team and there are no excuses for having a Service Dog who isn’t house trained. On very, very, very, very rare occasions, a Service Dog may truly be sick or have an upset belly and an accident is unavoidable, but those occurrences are definitely an exception and not to be expected from Service Dogs. - Whine, bark, grumble, growl or make other noises. An exception may be if the whining is an alert, such as to notify a handler who is experiencing a panic attack or a drop in blood sugar. - Pick food or objects up off the floor or steal (or even show much interest in) food or items that are sitting out. Exceptions to the “picking objects up off the floor” rule include dogs who retrieve dropped items for their handlers or who are otherwise doing trained task work. In general, though, Service Dogs should not interact with distractions or any kind unless cued to or otherwise working. - Sniff staff members, patrons, floors, tables, counters, surfaces, products, shelving or anything else unless the Service Dog is performing specific, trained task work, such as detecting allergens or other substances dangerous to their handler. - Drag or pull their handler for any reason, unless the dog is performing specific mobility-related task work for their handler as evidenced by the presence of a brace mobility support harness, other task-related gear or wheelchair assistance harness. A Service Dog’s behavior should never appear “out of control,” and there’s a huge difference between a Service Dog providing counter-balance for their handler by leaning into a harness and a dog who is simply dashing here and there and yanking their handler towards distractions. - Wander or move widely out of heel position unless cued to by their handler. While Service Dogs aren’t robots and can’t be expected to maintain exact heel position at all times, neither should they range widely enough to infringe on the space, movement or rights of other patrons or teams. Service Dogs should be responsive to their handler’s movements and focused enough to readily move with him/her without significant lags or delay. Service Dogs should not be so engaged or engrossed with the surrounding environment or distractions that they give the appearance of wandering, daydreaming, ignoring or of just being generally untrained. - Break “stays,” “unders,” or other fixed-position behaviors to investigate distractions, explore or other move around. Exceptions include Service Dogs who must perform task work that requires them to take the initiative to respond to their handler’s disability regardless of location or position or to retrieve assistance/medication/help. The Service Dog’s decision to break position or disobey a “stay” should be a DIRECT result of specific, trained task work. Again, there’s a huge difference between a dog who gets up because they’re bored or distracted and a Service Dog who’s obviously responding to their handler’s disability. - Be anxious, antsy, agitated or aggressive in any way, shape, form or fashion. A Service Dog should never make anyone interacting with her nervous or afraid because of her direct behavior. Some people are afraid of dogs or intimidated by large, dark or certain breeds of dogs, but a Service Dog’s actions should NEVER contribute to that fear. Dogs who are anxious, on edge, reactive, fearful or aggressive in ANY way do not belong in public and especially not as a Service Dog representative. - Stink, smell or appear unkempt/ungroomed in any way. - Engage with other dogs, people, children or distractions unless allowed to do so by their human partner. The key here is “allowed to do so by their human.” There’s nothing wrong with allowing a Service Dog to greet a friendly child or dog if the handler is comfortable with it, but it should be the handler’s decision and choice, not the Service Dog’s. A Service Dog should not appear overly excited, unfocused, distracted, overstimulated or otherwise out of control. There’s no defined line in the sand on this one, but it’s easy to know once you see it. - Jump, scratch, mouth or exhibit other “out of control” behavior. A Service Dog should NEVER exhibit rude, ill-mannered, untrained, or behaviors that are considered inappropriate or nuisances. They should NEVER infringe on other patron’s personal space in a way that appears untrained or impolite. This includes laying their head on stranger’s knees, licking hands while passing by, or leaning against the legs of the person standing next in line. It’s not “cute,” regardless of whether or not the other person provides assurances they’re “ok with it.” A Service Dog should NEVER engage in any behavior or activity that could potentially be hurtful, harmful, leave a bad taste in someone’s mouth or cause the handler to have to apologize to the recipient. If you’re out in public and you see a “Service Dog” engaging in “should not” behaviors and it’s readily obvious the dog in question is just generally ill-mannered or not well-trained, ask to quietly speak to a manager. Let the manager know that while federal law does require them to permit access for all Service Dog teams, they’re not required to deal with dogs who aren’t ready for public access yet, and that federal law allows them to quietly ask the handler to remove the dog from the premise. Don’t challenge the team directly, but by letting the manager know federal law protects their business’ and patron’s rights to not be molested or subjected to poorly behaved Service Dogs, you’ll be paving the way towards better access rights for well-trained Service Dog teams. When business owners know they have a recourse for dealing with Service Dogs who, due to their temperament, manners or lack of training, obviously shouldn’t be working in public, there’s less backlash from negative encounters with dogs showcasing unacceptable behavior. Many business owners fear excluding a poorly-behaved team due to the “must provide access, period, or you’re breaking the law” statements touted by those who drag their substandard dogs around with them in public, and with every instance their business, clients or sense of control suffers due to a bad experience, the more all teams, even well-trained and professional ones, will encounter access challenges and issues. By providing the manager with the real facts concerning Service Dog access rights, you’re empowering him or her to respond appropriately to those individuals and dogs who negatively impact or affect the Service Dog community as a whole and who cause major problems and issues for any and all real teams to follow in their wake. Help educate business and protect Service Dog access rights by sharing this post. By giving businesses the tools to recognize what Service Dogs in public should and should not be doing, you’ll be helping to lessen access challenges overall for teams who have well-trained, well-mannered canine halves and educated, informed human halves. Got something to add, an experience to share or something you feel we should have considered? Tell us with a comment!

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A RAMANAYAKE 1, H MCCARTHY 1,2,3, A DURKAN A2,3 1School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of NSW, Randwick, Australia , 2Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia Aim: An audit of the management of children with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) at the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network against recently published international consensus guidelines. Background: The management of ADPKD in children to date has been physician dependent. The new guidelines provide a framework for surveillance however, it is unclear how closely they are adhered to within NSW. Methods: A retrospective case notes review of all children with definite or probable ADPKD was performed to extract data on the recommendations from the international consensus guidelines, with information supplemented by an ongoing questionnaire of the parents of children with ADPKD. Results: Of 49 patients, (mean age 10.5 years), identified across 2 major paediatric hospitals, 42.9% were female and 75.5% had a confirmed family history of ADPKD. Annual office blood pressure measurements were recorded in 69.4% (n=34), whilst only 6.5% (n=2 of 31 patients aged over 5 years) had had an ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM). Annual monitoring for albuminuria occurred in 81.6% (n=40). Compared to the recommendation for ultrasound only every 3 years in asymptomatic children, the majority (93.5%; n=29) had serial scans between every 6 months and 2 years. Some form of genetic counselling had been offered to 51% (n=25) of families. Data regarding lifestyle interventions and psychosocial aspects was generally not available through record review. Conclusion: This audit highlights practices that follow the international consensus recommendations, and others that could be improved. Serial ultrasounds can be less frequent in asymptomatic patients while ABPM should be more readily offered. Genetic counselling resources could be developed for this large cohort. This information has been disseminated to the clinical teams to enable change in practice. I am a fourth year medical student at the University of New South Wales. I am currently completing my Honours research year at the St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst.

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Decipher is a brain teasing puzzle game where you need to align the space rings to solve the enigma! Looks easy, but different rings produce different effects. Every action produces a reaction. The Butterfly Effect can be your best friend or your worst enemy when it comes to unlock physics-based puzzles. You have to Decipher it! A minimalist spacecraft is waiting for you to launch towards a peaceful and original space environment. For a while, you can escape reality and dive into a calm, relaxing and metaphysic mood, just like universe claims to be. Reminiscent of abstract classic movies and exhaling an endless sci-fi vibe, this is a game where logic and creativity unite against confusion. The landscape looks plenty of harmony, but do not let that distract you from the enigmas you need to solve to conquer each world. Come aboard to decipher the mysteries of the universe! • Physics-based gameplay, developed in partnership with Sir Isaac Newton. • Easy to learn but difficult to master, Decipher: The Brain Game rules are constantly evolving. • Relaxing environment and no pressure to finish it. Like space, time is also infinite in Decipher: The Brain Game. • New rings will bring new problems and unique combinations. Each level is a new puzzle! • Soothing music, evocative visual design and immersive sci-fi atmosphere. Headphones recommended for high quality experience! • Color blind compatibility and haptic feedback. Do you like our work? Connect below: • Listen to our stories: https://www.instagram.com/8infinitygames/ • Learn more about us: https://www.infinitygames.io/ • Show us your love: https://www.facebook.com/infinitygamespage

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AP Exclusive: US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person’s DNA to cure a disease. The experiment was done Monday in California on 44-year-old Brian Madeux. Through an IV, he received billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a precise spot. “It’s kind of humbling” to be the first to test this, said Madeux, who has a metabolic disease called Hunter syndrome. “I’m willing to take that risk. Hopefully it will help me and other people.” Signs of whether it’s working may come in a month; tests will show for sure in three months. If it’s successful, it could give a major boost to the fledgling field of gene therapy . Scientists have edited people’s genes before, altering cells in the lab that are then returned to patients. There also are gene therapies that don’t involve editing DNA. But these methods can only be used for a few types of diseases. Some give results that may not last. Some others supply a new gene like a spare part, but can’t control where it inserts in the DNA, possibly causing a new problem like cancer. This time, the gene tinkering is happening in a precise way inside the body. It’s like sending a mini surgeon along to place the new gene in exactly the right location. “We cut your DNA, open it up, insert a gene, stitch it back up. Invisible mending,” said Dr. Sandy Macrae, president of Sangamo Therapeutics, the California company testing this for two metabolic diseases and hemophilia. “It becomes part of your DNA and is there for the rest of your life.” That also means there’s no going back, no way to erase any mistakes the editing might cause. “You’re really toying with Mother Nature” and the risks can’t be fully known, but the studies should move forward because these are incurable diseases, said one independent expert, Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego. Protections are in place to help ensure safety, and animal tests were very encouraging, said Dr. Howard Kaufman, a Boston scientist on the National Institutes of Health panel that approved the studies. He said gene editing’s promise is too great to ignore. “So far there’s been no evidence that this is going to be dangerous,” he said. “Now is not the time to get scared.” WOE FROM HEAD TO TOE Fewer than 10,000 people worldwide have these metabolic diseases, partly because many die very young. Those with Madeux’s condition, Hunter syndrome , lack a gene that makes an enzyme that breaks down certain carbohydrates. These build up in cells and cause havoc throughout the body. Patients may have frequent colds and ear infections, distorted facial features, hearing loss, heart problems, breathing trouble, skin and eye problems, bone and joint flaws, bowel issues and brain and thinking problems. “Many are in wheelchairs ... dependent on their parents until they die,” said Dr. Chester Whitley, a University of Minnesota genetics expert who plans to enroll patients in the studies. Weekly IV doses of the missing enzyme can ease some symptoms, but cost $100,000 to $400,000 a year and don’t prevent brain damage. Madeux, who now lives near Phoenix, is engaged to a nurse, Marcie Humphrey. He met her 15 years ago in a study that tested this enzyme therapy at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, where the gene editing experiment took place. He has had 26 operations for hernias, bunions, bones pinching his spinal column, and ear, eye and gall bladder problems. “It seems like I had a surgery every other year of my life” and many procedures in between, he said. Last year he nearly died from a bronchitis and pneumonia attack. The disease had warped his airway, and “I was drowning in my secretions, I couldn’t cough it out.” Madeux has a chef’s degree and was part owner of two restaurants in Utah, cooking for U.S. ski teams and celebrities, but now can’t work in a kitchen or ride horses as he used to. Gene editing won’t fix damage he’s already suffered, but he hopes it will stop the need for weekly enzyme treatments. Initial studies will involve up to 30 adults to test safety, but the ultimate goal is to treat children very young, before much damage occurs. HOW IT WORKS A gene-editing tool called CRISPR has gotten a lot of recent attention, but this study used a different one called zinc finger nucleases. They’re like molecular scissors that seek and cut a specific piece of DNA. The therapy has three parts: The new gene and two zinc finger proteins. DNA instructions for each part are placed in a virus that’s been altered to not cause infection but to ferry them into cells. Billions of copies of these are given through a vein. They travel to the liver, where cells use the instructions to make the zinc fingers and prepare the corrective gene. The fingers cut the DNA, allowing the new gene to slip in. The new gene then directs the cell to make the enzyme the patient lacked. Only 1 percent of liver cells would have to be corrected to successfully treat the disease, said Madeux’s physician and study leader, Dr. Paul Harmatz at the Oakland hospital. “How bulletproof is the technology? We’re just learning,” but safety tests have been very good, said Dr. Carl June, a University of Pennsylvania scientist who has done other gene therapy work but was not involved in this study. WHAT COULD GO WRONG Safety issues plagued some earlier gene therapies. One worry is that the virus might provoke an immune system attack. In 1999, 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in a gene therapy study from that problem, but the new studies use a different virus that’s proved much safer in other experiments. Another worry is that inserting a new gene might have unforeseen effects on other genes. That happened years ago, when researchers used gene therapy to cure some cases of the immune system disorder called “bubble boy” disease. Several patients later developed leukemia because the new gene inserted into a place in the native DNA where it unintentionally activated a cancer gene. “When you stick a chunk of DNA in randomly, sometimes it works well, sometimes it does nothing and sometimes it causes harm,” said Hank Greely, a Stanford University bioethicist. “The advantage with gene editing is you can put the gene in where you want it.” Finally, some fear that the virus could get into other places like the heart, or eggs and sperm where it could affect future generations. Doctors say built-in genetic safeguards prevent the therapy from working anywhere but the liver, like a seed that only germinates in certain conditions. This experiment is not connected to other, more controversial work being debated to try to edit genes in human embryos to prevent diseases before birth — changes that would be passed down from generation to generation. Madeux’s treatment was to have happened a week earlier, but a small glitch prevented it. He and his fiancee returned to Arizona, but nearly didn’t make it back to Oakland in time for the second attempt because their Sunday flight was canceled and no others were available until Monday, after the treatment was to take place. Scrambling, they finally got a flight to Monterey, California, and a car service took them just over 100 miles north to Oakland. On Monday he had the three-hour infusion, surrounded by half a dozen doctors, nurses and others wearing head-to-toe protective garb to lower the risk of giving him any germs. His doctor, Harmatz, spent the night at the hospital to help ensure his patient stayed well. “I’m nervous and excited,” Madeux said as he prepared to leave the hospital. “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, something that can potentially cure me.” Marilynn Marchione can be followed on Twitter: @MMarchioneAP

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Introduction To GIT Version Control System A Version Control System (VCS) lets you keep a track of your work and save your work across pages. The best case of a VCS is working on a software project. To produce a result, you may have to work with various files. You can save the files in a single commit. Whenever someone else in the team wants to view the changes made, they can view the commit. If you want to revert the changes made, you can roll back the commit. The VCS helps you to develop various versions of code at the same time, with merging possible later on. Git is a popular VCS that keeps a track of all the modifications you have made to your code. If an issue arises with a new feature, you can trace where it went wrong or rollback to the previous changes with ease. Git is not an ordinary Version Control System. It’s a distributed VCS, which means that every collaborator of the project can have a history of the changes made in their local system and others can work on different features of the project without the hassle of communicating with the remote version of the project. This makes managing the project super-efficient and the changes can be merged with the local copy. Git provides buffers before saving the project. The speed and integrity of Git are well maintained since its launch. The best examples of Git platforms are GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket etc. Repository, or Repo, is a folder containing all the files related to the project and the history of the revisions made. There are two repositories that you will have during the lifetime of a project. Remote and Local repositories. The remote repo grants access to the other developers, either public or a private team, who will be able to see and use work with the project. The repository resides in the server of the Git platform. Local repo is a copy of the remote repo residing on your machine. the changes made will reside in the local repo and others will not be able to see it unless you push it to the remote repo. Cloning means creating a copy of the remote repo to your local machine to work on. When you are working on a project and you need a copy of the current code, you clone the repo to your local machine. Now, you will be able to work on the project from your local machine. The code to clone a repo is: Committing in Git means saving the changes made to the repo. When working on a project, to make the changes in the local repo, commit the changes made. Then, push it to make the changes in the remote repo. To commit the changes, follow the code: git commit -m ” “ Once your local changes are committed, you have to push the changes to the remote repository. Push command transfers the changes made in your local repo to the remote repo. Now, all the fellow developers will have access to the change and can edit it. To push the changes, follow the command: git push origin Pull command is the straight opposite of the push command. It lets you copy the code from the remote repo to the local repo. If a fellow developer makes changes to the code and they push it to the remote repository, you need to pull the changes to your local repository to start working on them. To pull the code, follow the command: Branches in Git are a pointer to a snapshot of your change. The git branch command lets you do various operations on branches like create, list, rename, and deletion. To list all the branches in your directory, run the following command: To create a branch: To delete a branch: git branch -d Merging in Git means to unite the forked history back together. Merging lets you take the changes committed in a branch and lets you integrate them with another branch, resulting in a single branch. The entire topic of Git is a vast and broad one. However, this is the basic introduction to Git for you to start working. When it comes to software development, Git is a very vital tool one should know. Every software development company uses any platforms of Git like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket when they are collaborating as a project for improved teamwork. Git is a must-know for any software developer.

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Run a checkpoint on an image that you provide as a parameter. value = eyes.check_image(image, tag, ignore_mismatch) value = eyes.check_image(image, tag) value = eyes.check_image(image) - An image stored in a buffer in PNG format. - Type:Text [Optional : default = None ] The tag defines a name for the checkpoint in the Eyes Test Manager. The name may be any string and serves to identify the step to the user in the Test manager. You may change the tag value without impacting testing in any way since Eyes does not use the tag to identify the baseline step that corresponds to the checkpoint - Eyes matches steps based on their content and position in the sequences of images of the test. See How Eyes compares checkpoints and baseline images for details. - Type:bool [Optional : default = False ] - This parameter is used to implement retry of a checkpoint. If you are not implementing retry, then don't pass this parameter or pass a value of False. To implement retry, on all retry attempts apart from the last, pass this parameter a value of True. When the method returns, check the return value. A returned value of True means that the checkpoint passed, and you can continue with the next checkpoint. A returned value of False means that that the checkpoint did not match. Since this parameter was passed as True, Eyes will not store the outcome of this checkpoint and will expect that the next image sent is for the current step (i.e. is being retried). On the last retry attempt, pass a value of False. This way, Eyes knows that there will be no more retries, and it will store the results of the last check as the result of the current step. The next checkpoint sent will be treated as the next step. Note that since Eyes allows for new or deleted steps, once there is a mismatch for one step, all subsequent steps will also return a mismatch, and Eyes determines the actual match/mismatch/new/missing status of all the steps when the test is closed. - Type: bool - A return value of True indicates that the checkpoint matched, or is a new checkpoint. The meaning of a return value of False depends on whether this is the first checkpoint to return this value or not. For the first checkpoint that returns a value of False, the implication is that there was a mismatch. The test may choose to recapture the image and resend it (when using a check that supports this feature). Once one checkpoint has returned False, all the following checkpoints will also return False. This does not mean that the checkpoint mismatched; it means that Eyes will only know the final status of the checkpoint at the end of the test. If required, the actual result of the checkpoint should be obtained from the StepInfo object in the TestResults returned by the close method.

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We’d like to show the side of the world you don’t normally see on television. My evolving journey has been to let go of mainstream indoctrination and conditioning and move inward to understand, acknowledge and know my ‘energetic’ presence. It has been a challenging journey, having to be ‘so far out on a ledge’, for most people’s comfort. Having no point of reference to turn to, I had to totally surrender to my intuition and trust it’s guidance, which brought to me the scientific verification to everything I knew as energetic. The most exciting development has been through the expansion of study in epigenetics, here we are truly seeing the lines between science and spirituality blur and dissolve…just as they should be. I do not profess to be a biologist, chemist or physicist in the conventional field. From my own journey of learning, growing and evolving, this article gives my perception of what epigenetics represents and how we can be in absolute control of our conscious creation with this knowledge. What is epigenetics? “The study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence.” So to put that in layman’s terms your, skin and eyes and teeth and hair and organs all have exactly the same DNA. You cannot genetically tell your skin from your eyes or teeth. These however, are very different in cell structure which behave differently. This difference, not being a genetic factor has been given the term epigenetic. This means it is a difference not strictly due to genetic changes, more down to the way we utilize these genes. What creates epigenetic instructions? It turns out that there are two kinds of modifications that can affect DNA. To briefly explain: One is a biochemical modification that attaches straight to DNA itself, the most understood of which right now isDNA methylation. The other factor taken into consideration is that DNA is wrapped around a series of proteins called histones. Now if these proteins ‘hug’ the DNA very tightly, then it is hidden from view for the cell and a gene that is hidden cannot be utilized. It is the same as having a dead gene or a mutated gene. So, what we know is that all the genes are present in ALL the cells. This means that the skin and the liver and the eye are genetically identical and contain the entire makeup of the human genome. However, it has been discovered that a tissue might utilize only 10 percent or sometimes 20 percent of its gene complement. That means then, genes that a tissue does not need, or should not ‘express’, are specifically turned off by these epigenetic mechanisms, while the other genes that the tissue needs to continue to express are protected from this ‘switch off’. I don’t know about you but I find this such an exciting field of research! When I guide clients through releasing the negative charge in their cellular memories, that I instinctivelyknew was brought through generations, from mother to child; epigenetics is now providing the verification and is revolutionising our understanding of gene regulation, stem cells, and disease. It is impacting our awareness on how our lifestyle may affect the lives of our descendants – as well as how our ancestors’ behaviour and environment has determined who we are and how our lives play out if we stay living in reaction. Conventional medicine is operating from an archaic view that we’re controlled by genes, which epigentics has blown wide open. The eminent cellular biologist Dr Bruce Lipton has led the way in this field of research. He walked away from the standard medical practice many years ago, saying “Medical institutions are operating on fear. The funding and regulatory elements know that within each of us is the power to heal. For example, it is a proven fact that one-third of all healings are due to the placebo effect, which is controlled by the mind, but medical-related corporations based on making a profit don’t want us to know this. It’s interesting that more than 85 percent of doctors don’t even belong to the policy-making professional union called the American Medical Association. That means that the decisions made by 10 percent of the US medical community control the outcome of the entire medical profession. They determine standard practices, but they’re controlled by investors. And the FDA is heavily invested in the pharmaceutical business.” Bruce Lipton conducted his own research and clinical trials that proved beyond doubt, the presence and evolutionary affects of epigenetics. It started with placing one stem cell into a culture dish, and letting it divided every ten hours. After two weeks, there were thousands of cells in the dish, and they were all genetically identical, having been derived from the same parent cell. Then the cell population was divided and inoculated in three different culture dishes. Each culture medium was manipulated — so they became the cell’s equivalent of the environment—in each dish. In one dish, the cells became bone, in another, muscle, and in the last dish, fat. What this demonstrated to Dr Lipton, was that the genes didn’t determine the fate of the cells because they all had the exact same genes. It was in fact the environment that determined the fate of the cells, not the genetic pattern. This meant that if cells are in a healthy environment, they are healthy. If they’re in an unhealthy environment, they get sick. You still with me on this? Good! OK, so, there are fifty trillion cells in your body and the human body’s ‘culture medium’ (like the culture dishes in Dr Lipton’s research) is the blood. When you move your body from one environment to another it alters the composition of the blood chemistry and the chemistry of the body’s culture medium determines the nature of the cell’s environment within you. Now, this is where it begins to get exciting! The blood’s chemistry is largely impacted by the chemicals emitted from your brain and your brain chemistry adjusts the composition of the blood based upon yourperceptions of life. This means that your perception of any given thing, at any given moment, can influence the brain chemistry, which, in turn, affects the environment where your cells reside and controls their fate. We now know that the signals sent to the brain through the cells originate from your beliefs. In other words, your belief, the ‘by-product’ of thought and subsequent perceptions have a direct and overwhelmingly significant effect on your cells. What this reveals is that your mind will adjust the body’s biology and behaviour to fit with your beliefs. Science even has a term for ‘negative thought, it is called the nocebo effect, so for instance, if someone became paralysed and was told they would never walk again, they would believe it. The opposite of this is the placebo effect, which has been shown that positive thoughts and more importantly beliefs mediate healing. Many might read this and wonder why they have not heard about these biological and energetic processes within the body. Well the positive and negative beliefs run in your sub conscious programmeand since the subconscious programs operate outside the range of physical consciousness, you don’t experience yourself ‘playing out’ these behaviours. What this means is that more often than not, you don’t even see yourself sabotaging your own life and so never take responsibility for the life you create. This is where the victim mentality sets in, where you see yourself as the victim of forces outside of your control. Yet you can’t be too hard on yourself, as the major problem is that most people are aware of their conscious beliefs and behaviours, but not of subconscious beliefs,behaviours and programming. In fact, through extensive research it has been recognised that most people don’t even recognise or acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at play, yet the subconscious mind is vastly more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99 percent of our lives from subconscious programs. So how do you put this knowledge to good use? I am devoted to guiding people in the processes of taking back self power, which has to become a way of life. It starts with little steps, though the quicker you can reprogramme your subconscious, the quicker your external experiences begin to change. Here are a few tips worth contemplating and actioning: Fully understanding your internal environment is essential in order to break the cycle of living through the sub conscious fear based conditioning that has allowed to run most of your life. It requires strength, courage, dedication and focus, as there is a good deal of debris to clear out! Those who have reached an existence that becomes so uncomfortable, so painful to live; are usually the ones to be driven enough to make the changes. My mission is to bring full awareness to as many people as possible, before their lives become just existing. It is not introducing radical change, it is allowing every and every person to wake up and remember that within them is the full creative force waiting to be unleashed. Magnificence is the truth of who you are…own it!

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[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com Wed Jan 12 22:41:42 CET 2011 On mercredi 12 janvier 2011 at 17:45, Frank Griffin wrote : > In theory, the packager of such an application could create > supplementary packages for the specific versions of included JARs and > build them first from source. But for something like NetBeans or > Eclipse, that's going to be a lot of work.... I don't know for netbeans (maybe it is the same as eclipse), but eclipse needs anyway all of its dependencies inside his own plugins directory, so it would anyway be hard to use other system installed jars. But the source of the required version could probably be included in the src.rpm of the requiring plugins and built/installed before them (but I actually have no idea how eclipse plugins are built from source). The problem is, many eclipse plugins (or plugins collections actually) have dependencies on the same libs (for example xalan and xerces) which they all provide in their zip archive. We cannot have them in each package that need them as it would create file conflicts between those packages. So we would need to create separate packages for those "external dependencies plugins". They could be built from their own source (from the official project) and then the real plugins would depend on them. That would probably require a special naming convention for dependencies between plugins (as the package doesn't provide "xalan" but "xalan as an Or maybe, if the jar in the external dependency plugin is actually the same (or compatible) version as the on from the normal package maybe we could make a plugin package only containing the eclipse related files (plugin.properties) and creating a symlink to the system wide jar. But that mean that eclipse plugins, which are now frequently provided as single jar files, would need to be packaged as files and directories like in older What do you think? More information about the Mageia-dev

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Using a 'random' function in sketch gives same pattern of numbers every-time. But, I need to generate different numbers such that any number to repeat itself should have a very less probability. The standard (but not very good) solution is to seed the random number generator from an analogRead() on an unconnected pin. For better options, see this answer to a related question. Allocate 4 bytes in EEPROM to save a seed value. Use the EEPROM library (#include ). Use EEPROM.put() and EEPROM.get() functions to write and read the seed value to EEPROM. In setup(): Read the seed_value from EEPROM, increment it and write it back to EEPROM. Then call randomSeed(seed_value). Now, after every run of setup(), random() will create a whole new random sequence. If you need a new sequence within your sketch, you can repeat the process, and don't forget to write the new seed to EEPROM for next time. Note that I didn't bother with initialising the EEPROM value the first time we run. It'll probably be zero when you start a new Arduino board, but the only thing that matters is that you increment it each run. Incrementing by 1 will do the trick, but any increment value will probably do.

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(Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5 variant, p. 108) This NPC class possesses a combination of arcane and divine skills. 2d4 x 10 gp 2 + Int All of the following are class features of the adept NPC class. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Adepts are skilled with all simple weapons. Adepts are not proficient with any type of armor nor with shields. Spells: An adept casts divine spells (the same type of spells available to the cleric, druid, paladin, and ranger), which are drawn from the adept spell list (see below). Like a cleric, an adept must choose and prepare her spells in advance. Unlike a cleric, an adept cannot spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells. To prepare or cast a spell, an adept must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level (Wis 10 for 0-level spells, Wis 11 for 1st-level spells, and so forth). The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against an adept's spell is 10 + the spell level + the adept's Wisdom modifier. Adepts, unlike wizards, do not acquire their spells from books or scrolls, nor do they prepare them through study. Instead, they meditate or pray for their spells, receiving them as divine inspiration or through their own strength of faith. Each adept must choose a time each day at which she must spend an hour in quiet contemplation or supplication to regain her daily allotment of spells. Time spent resting has no effect on whether an adept can prepare spells. Like other spellcasters, an adept can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table 4—2: The Adept. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Wisdom score (see Table 1—1: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells, page 8 of the Player's Handbook). When Table 4—2 indicates that the adept gets 0 spells per day of a given spell level (for instance, 0 2nd-level spells for a 4th-level adept), she gains only the bonus spells she would be entitled to based on her Wisdom score for that spell level. Each adept has a particular holy symbol (as a divine focus) depending on the adept's magical tradition. |Skill name||Key ability||Trained only||Armor check penalty| |Knowledge (architecture and engineering)||INT| |Knowledge (nobility and royalty)||INT| |Knowledge (the planes)||INT|

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Discussing your pet’s end of life We understand what a joy it is when you bring a new pet into your home. Regardless of the species – dog, cat, rabbit, hamster or even iguana – a pet becomes part of our lives and we are honoured you chose us to take care of his or her health needs. We also know that quite often there may be a nagging thought in the back of your mind about what will happen when the time comes to say goodbye. Research among pet owners carried out by Compassion Understood found that 21% of owners would like to know more about end-of-life care and euthanasia options at a time when their pet is fit and healthy, leaving 79% who prefer to leave thinking about it until later in their pet’s life. Every pet owner and their situation is unique and we like to be as open as possible about the subject of euthanasia and offer advice and support. Ark Veterinary Clinics Ltd. is a Compassion Understood Platinum Accredited practice, which means that all of our team have taken specialist training to ensure that we can help you prepare for your pets end-of-life and offer support to you and your family whatever choices you make about your pet’s euthanasia. You may find it helpful to visit the Compassion Understood website www.compassionunderstood.com and if you have any specific questions or you would like further information about a topic, do give us a call and ask to speak to Madonna Livingstone who will be able to help you. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO DROP IN CLINICS. IF YOUR PET NEEDS TO SEE A VET WE ARE OPERATING A STRICTLY APPOINTMENT ONLY POLICY. Monday – Friday 9am - 6pm strictly by prior appointment. Strictly By Appointment 9 am - 11am On any bank holidays we will operate an appointment only clinic at coatbridge 9-11am. This is designed for urgent cases and there will only be one vet on duty.

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There are devices that can be turned off by interfering radio waves, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. When using mobile phones, we cannot eliminate the trouble of etiquette. Portable jammers are working in these places. Each number is equipped with a band-cutting antenna. I cannot turn on the power and use the smartphone. In some cases, such as using GPS recorders for tracking and monitoring. The jammer also supports GPS jamming. This is a product with a wide range of applications. Today’s online shopping makes it easy to buy large radio jammers. There is no service on the phone screen, so the phone cannot work properly. You can select each frequency band. This feature allows a single device to be used for different frequency bands. Some devices are equipped with large antennas. The working range under the selected frequency can be expanded. There are electronic devices for the frequencies used by Wi-Fi. There are many ways to interfere with radio waves and cell phone signals. We created a product that can block Wi-Fi signals. The cell phone jammer can block electromagnetic waves of the frequency used by Wi-Fi, and interfere with other radio waves and cell phone signals. Mass communication has become an essential social issue in people’s lives. In recent years, new communication technologies such as mobile phones are rapidly developing. Although the convenience of daily life has been improved, the problem of improper use causing trouble to others has also become more serious. Call for immediate action. Radio control equipment is used to improve the environment where the phone can be used. Some devices use specific frequencies for information transmission. There may be information loss or eavesdropping. There are many reasons for radio signal interference. Radio wave jammers are very likely to interfere with the radio waves of high-speed data communications. In cafes, movie theaters, etc., smart phone ringtones usually annoy other people. If you take a taxi, the driver may answer the phone while driving. This is dangerous. Many people are not satisfied with this. Mobile phone signal jammers can solve these problems. It has a wide range of uses. The portable design allows you to take it with you wherever you are. Can prevent information transmission. The multifunctional mobile phone jammer is active. Most people buy this mobile jammer for personal purposes. It can be used in places that are not allowed, such as theaters, hospitals, mobile phones, etc. It should work within the effective range. It may interfere with hidden tracking devices. You can use cell phone jammers to prevent others’ privacy from being violated. This is to disable the phone. There are more and more complaints about calling in public places. Many people use popular deterrents. All signals within the interference frequency can be blocked. You can meet all requirements according to the actual situation and the purpose of using the WiFi shield.

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The New York City Street Tree Map brings New York City’s urban forest to your fingertips. For the first time, you have access to information about every street tree in New York City. Learn about the trees that make up our city’s urban forest, mark trees as favorites and share them with your friends, and record and share all of your caretaking and tree stewardship activities. About The Street Tree Map Most Common Species trees, % of trees on the map Recent Tree Care Activities Visit the tree care Library for tree care tips, stewardship groups in your area, a printable watering calendar, and more. Join others in caring for NYC’s urban forest by attending a tree planting or care events. Stormwater intercepted each year Energy conserved each year Air pollutants removed each year Carbon dioxide reduced each year Total Value of Annual Benefits Benefits are calculated using formulas from the U.S. Forest Service.

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Strong personalities are essential for leadership, but one study suggests that extroversion can be too much of a good thing. Hard-charging execs can learn something from introverts. A good leader needs some kind of presence around the office—how else do you communicate that there’s an authority around? But it seems that while a little attitude can go a long way, too much of it can be counterproductive. That’s the finding of a recent study from the Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business. Jia (Jasmine) Hu, an associate professor at the school, led research that involved two surveys. One was based on a group of undergraduate business students, the other on employees in a large retail firm in China. In both cases, the groups were broken up into small teams that managed themselves on a variety of tasks. If you’re too assertive as a team member, people think you’re pushy and they don’t like that. At the start, participants were asked to rate their own leadership abilities in terms of two traits that are associated with extroverts: “assertiveness” and “warmth” (friendliness, outgoingness, etc.) At the end of the study a few months later, all participants were asked to rate their fellow team members. The researchers then determined who was best appreciated as a leader. Hu’s research suggests that if you’re either too assertive or too familiar with your colleagues, people around you tend to be turned off. “If you’re too assertive as a team member, people think you’re pushy and they don’t like that,” said Hu in a release about the research. “And if you’re too warm and friendly, that can be overwhelming for others who feel pressured to respond in the same enthusiastic way.” There’s a twist, though: Team members were more accepting of a high-octane extrovert if they were confident that the person was behaving altruistically. “They know you’re not doing it just to promote yourself, but have a genuine interest in the whole team,” Hu said. “That means a lot.” Reports on Hu’s study have focused on what it means for extroverted leaders, but I think there are a few lessons here for introverts as well. The study is a reminder that leadership isn’t solely a function of swagger, attitude, or even the ability to command a room; the capacity to directly and sincerely communicate with others is also critical. In 2017, I wrote about a study that revealed how introverted people can often thrive as leaders in organizations. Among the skill sets that study praised were ones that match Hu’s findings about connection, selflessness, and mission focus: “reaching out to stakeholders; being highly adaptable to change; being reliable and predictable rather than showing exceptional, and perhaps not repeatable performance.” None of that should be interpreted to mean that introverts or extroverts are any better at leading an organization. (And of course, as all those Myers-Briggs assessments explain, these temperaments reside on a spectrum.) Nor does it mean that there’s any such thing as a “Goldilocks leader” who encompasses every admirable quality. “A moderate amount of assertiveness and warmth may be optimal,” Hu says, which sounds a little comically prescriptive. I fear we’ll soon have an app that’s capable of helping me moderate my warmth. But if the study doesn’t mean we ought to overhaul our own behaviors, it might help guide our thinking about the teams we build and who we want to manage them. In organizations, a leader’s instinct is often to stack new staff and volunteer teams with hard-charging get-things-done types, for fear that the project won’t take flight without a leader with that attitude. But it’s worth considering, in light of Hu’s research, that not all leaders need to be hard-charging, and that indeed it can be a turn-off for the rest of that team. In 2013, Susan Cain, author of Quiet and a scholar of introverts, spoke at ASAE’s Annual Meeting & Exposition, delivering a reminder that the introverts in the office can be a powerful resource but that they’re too often overlooked. “There’s more than one way to do the tasks of modern-day leadership and modern-day work,” she told the audience then. It’s a truth worth remembering as we try to sort out who’s best at getting things done. What traits do you look for in the teams you build, and have you found excessive extroversion a challenge in your organization? Share your experiences in the comments.

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- 1 What is the religion of astrology? - 2 Is astrology related to religion? - 3 Is astrology a part of Hinduism? - 4 Is astrology forbidden in Christianity? - 5 What Zodiac is Jesus? - 6 Is Zodiac sign a sin? - 7 Is astrology older than religion? - 8 What religion mean? - 9 What does the Bible say about horoscopes? - 10 Can Kundli predict future? - 11 Do astrology really works? - 12 Who created Astrology? - 13 Is it a sin to drink alcohol? - 14 What does the Bible say about cremation? - 15 Is being lazy a sin? What is the religion of astrology? Astrology has always been a part of the Christian faith in many different ways. Is astrology a religion? While many people follow and work with astrology religiously, that doesn’t make astrology a religion. Astrology lacks the characteristics that define a religion, so it isn’t religious in nature. Is astrology a part of Hinduism? Astrology is very much part of Hinduism and It is part of Vedanga. In Hinduism, Astrology system is part of most ancient Vedic period knowledge and it is total science. Astrology is the science of fathoming the influence of the sun, moon, planets and stars upon living creatures. Is astrology forbidden in Christianity? Banned by Christianity, it may underlie all scripture. “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars,” Jesus says in Luke 21:25. The Bible seems never other than to be deeply astrological, and highly in favor of its practice. What Zodiac is Jesus? With the story of the birth of Christ coinciding with this date, many Christian symbols for Christ use the astrological symbol for Pisces, the fishes. The figure Christ himself bears many of the temperaments and personality traits of a Pisces, and is thus considered an archetype of the Piscean. Is Zodiac sign a sin? Yes, Zodiac signs are sinful. Is astrology older than religion? Astrology is thousands of years old and most religions come from the same roots. So we find that these astrological themes are repeated over many religions. What religion mean? Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a church or temple. A religion is a particular system of belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this system. What does the Bible say about horoscopes? Remember Daniel? His wisdom from God brought the royal astrologers to shame. God lists astrologers as those who will share a part in being burned to stubble in Isaiah 47, God forbade the Israelites to worship the “host of heaven” in Deuteronomy 4 and astrology is forbidden by God in Deuteronomy 18. Can Kundli predict future? Many times we keep reading our horoscope based on our zodiac signs however predictions are not made based on zodiacs rather a good and fruitful predictions can only be made when one studies the positions of other planets from your kundali or birth chart. Some Astrologers do publish horoscopes based on your rising sign. Do astrology really works? Astrology purports that astronomical bodies have influence on people’s lives beyond basic weather patterns, depending on their birth date. This claim is scientifically false. Numerous scientific studies have disproven that astronomical bodies affect people’s lives according to their birth date. Who created Astrology? Astrology originated in Babylon far back in antiquity, with the Babylonians developing their own form of horoscopes around 2,400 years ago. Then around 2,100 years ago, astrology spread to the eastern Mediterranean, becoming popular in Egypt, which at the time was under the control of a dynasty of Greek kings. Is it a sin to drink alcohol? The Bible does not forbid drinking alcohol, but it does warn against dangers of drinking too much, engaging in immoral behavior, and other consequences of alcohol abuse. What does the Bible say about cremation? The Bible neither favors nor forbids the process of cremation. Nevertheless, many Christians believe that their bodies would be ineligible for resurrection if they are cremated. This argument, though, is refuted by others on the basis of the fact that the body still decomposes over time after burial. Is being lazy a sin? Unlike the other capital sins, in which the sinner commits immoral acts, sloth is a sin of omission of desire and/or performance. It may arise from any of the other capital vices; for example, a son may omit his duty to his father through anger.

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How to become a good team leader? We all hope to get better at our jobs as time goes by and that also includes climbing the career ladder and being promoted to a higher position within the company. However, regardless of how much we want to advance and how much we prepare for it, we can still encounter some unexpected situations and require certain skills that we haven’t yet developed. With that in mind, it’s important to understand that constantly working on yourself is necessary to achieve your goals. Now, in case you’ve recently become a team leader, you might find yourself in unfamiliar territory. This is especially true if you’re creating a new team that is yet to be fully developed. It doesn’t matter how many people you will be in charge of, this can still be a very daunting experience. To help you out, we’ve collected some tips that could be great for establishing a productive team and expanding your expertise. Take a look. Learn more about your team. If you’re about to hire new team members, keep in mind that recruiting the right talent is vital. You should ensure that their skills, interests, and temperaments match that of the company and the assignments they will be expected to complete. Check their references and don’t overlook any red flags during the interviewing process. Once you are sure you have the right people on your team, you should do your best to get to know them. First of all, this will help develop their trust in you. Second, knowing more about them will help you come up with the right strategy when it comes to motivating them. Set some time aside to carefully listen to their ideas and aspirations and determine any special strengths and weaknesses. Being aware of what everyone brings to the team will make the whole operation much smoother. Set a good example. To be a good leader and earn your team members’ respect, you have to set a good example. For instance, don’t ask them to do something you wouldn’t do yourself, don’t slack off or gossip about other people. All of these habits can have big consequences as your colleagues will not be willing to work hard if they see you not taking your job seriously. Leading by example also includes encouraging them to keep developing their skills. You can explain to them how hard you’ve worked to develop your skills and knowledge and how you’re constantly working on yourself by attending various courses and learning new things. This might motivate them to expand their knowledge and improve certain aspects of their professional lives. Maybe they will start taking some classes or be inspired to grow their careers in a similar way. Stress the importance of communication. Being a good leader also means teaching them the importance of communicating properly and in a timely manner. Bad communication can lead to all sorts of problems, from ruining professional relationships to affecting the quality of work. Miscommunication is not an uncommon occurrence and unfortunately, it can have a huge impact on the company as a whole. That is why instilling a sense of responsibility when it comes to informing other team members of what is needed and how it can be done is essential. Know how to delegate. While some aspects of being a good leader depend on your ability to manage other people, there are also those where you have to work on yourself. For example, knowing how to delegate is important in order for everything to be done on time. If you’ve built a good team, you should be able to trust them to do their job properly without you micromanaging their every step and checking everything they’ve done. Even if they encounter an issue, encourage them to solve it on their own and only if they can’t find a solution should you step in. Stand by your team members. If you want the team to trust and respect you, you need to show them the same in return. You should celebrate the successes together but also stay a team during the failures. Throwing a team member under the bus in case they make a mistake is never okay. Mistakes happen but instead of blaming people, you should do your best to see how they can be fixed and avoided in the future. Work out a recognition system. Another job that the team leader has is recognizing the good work that the team members are doing. Being specific with praise is a great approach as that tells employees what they are excelling at and it helps them understand where they can still improve. You can see whether your manager has any ideas on developing a recognition system that will aid in promoting a healthy team culture and reinforce productive behavior. As the team leader, you will be forced to make some tough decisions. You will be creating schedules, assigning tasks, and dealing with potential complaints. What is important to keep in mind is that, even though you might have favorites or some colleagues you like more, you need to treat everyone fairly and not show any preferences. You should let the team members have a say in these matters and if everyone can agree – great! If not, you might have to ask your manager to deal with some aspects or start assigning jobs without using names. In addition to these seven tips, you should know that great leaders are not born, they work on themselves every day and do their best to improve. Start incorporating these practices and you will surely build a great foundation for the future as a good team leader.

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Among 118 patients with DSM-III-R diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who received treatment with clozapine, 29 patients had an antecedent or current history of substance abuse. Substance abusers and nonabusers showed similar improvements on measures of psychopathology and psychosocial functioning after 6 months of clozapine therapy. The implications of this finding are discussed. |Original language||English (US)| |Number of pages||3| |Journal||Journal of Clinical Psychiatry| |Issue number||9 SUPPL. B| |State||Published - 1994| ASJC Scopus subject areas - Psychiatry and Mental health

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Central to what underpins the close ties between the globalist likes of President Obama, Chancellor Merkel and EU bureaucrats, is a fundamental distrust of the nation state. These globalists believe that the establishment of nation states as a means of governing people, is an inherently flawed concept. Instead, they favour greater involvement at transnational bodies such as the UN and EU, as a means of diminishing state sovereignty and norms of non- interference. These internationalist ideals were alluded to in President Obama’s final speech to the UN. “Sometimes I am criticized in my own country for professing a belief in international norms and multilateral institutions,” President Obama told the General Assembly. “But I am convinced in the long run, giving up some freedom of action, not giving up our ability to protect ourselves or pursue our core interests, but binding ourselves to the international rules over the long-term enhances our security.” While not implicitly stated in this speech, President Obama and his European allies, appear to believe that international interests, should be placed above their own national interests. For if Chancellor Merkel had the genuine interests of the German people at heart, how could you explain the hordes of Middle Eastern migrants she unleashed upon her country, who have since wreaked devastation? And how could one explain President Obama’s absurd climate change deal with China, which fast-tracked the Chinese succession to world superpower? To repent this scourge of internationalism which neglects the concerns of native inhabitants, the legitimacy of the nation state must be justified more than ever. Patriots should feel confident in advocating for the nation state, as despite its imperfections, this institution has been the central political structure amidst the great human progress of the past 400 years. It is under the guise of the nation state, that we have witnessed extraordinary technological, economic as well as cultural progress, and have made our finest achievements as humans. The onus is therefore on the internationalists to present their case for different systems of governance, and prove its worth ahead of the status quo which still favours the nation state. As while citizens are left to pursue their own individuality, the shared bond of nationalism among citizens of a nation state, is the basic glue that keeps people together. To attempt to deny or undermine this bond, can be a dangerous thing. History proved this in the inter- wars, after allied attempts to diminish German nationalism, gave rise to the monster of Adolf Hitler. And it modern times, attempts to reduce feelings of nationalism are appearing to fail, as seen in the populist waves sweeping across EU states. Fundamentally, what globalists cannot comprehend in the conversation over the nation state, is the true extent of human nature. . Because no matter how people are shamed, abused or warned about the dangers of nationalism, the human drive to be connected with those who bear similarities to themselves, is irreplaceable. Like animals in the wild, or small toddlers unconscious of social or cultural norms, humans naturally seek the company of those they share emotional and personal similarities with. This is why nation states which govern people with enhanced ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious similarities, tend to be more harmonious. Any action that would grant the UN or the EU further powers, or any movement towards establishing a world government, would be flawed from the outset, as it would unnaturally force the contradicting values of different people across the world into a single union. And while we should all seek to reconcile our differences and engage in constructive dialogue with countries different to our own, this is not the same as sharing the same leaders, laws and anthems with markedly different people and cultures. Clearly, the best way of appetizing our human nature and achieving enhanced global harmony, is through continuing to promote and support the existence of the sovereign nation state.

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Moms and dads play different roles in the development of a child.The differences can be roughly summed up in the following way: Moms are protectors and educators; dads are life coaches and counselors. Topic: losing parents’ trust Objectives: To persuade readers Specific Objectives: I want my audience to give importance to their relationship with their parents and to be responsible for their behaviour. Moms and dads play different roles in the development of a child.The differences can be roughly summed up in the following way: Moms are protectors and educators; dads are life coaches and counselors. Topic: losing parents’ trust Objectives: To persuade readers Specific Objectives: I want my audience to give importance to their relationship with their parents and to be responsible for their behaviour.Tags: Research Paper Business EthicsIt Services Business PlanHairdressing Business PlanConclusion Of Business PlanThesis On Leadership To Be OutsourcedReally Good College Admission EssaysWhat Kinds Of Essays Are ThereAmerican American Essay Film Horror Horror ModernInformational Research Paper Topics In other words, they become stranger to each other. And the worst thing is the loss of communications between parents and children. As they do not talk to their children anymore, they also do not listen to them. They just ignore the child that they do not trust any more. It is a kind of asignpost – something that tells you where to go- or a map that shows the reader what direction your essay will take. In an essay with the thesis statement above, there will clearly be three parts – one on the effects of drugs on the individual, one part with the effects on the family, and another with the effects on society. Your thesis statement is so strong that it is clear what your opinion is. How To Write A College Essay About Yourself - Parent Child Relationship Thesis Statement In an essay with the thesis statement above, there will clearly be three parts – one on the effects of corporal punishment on parents, one part with the effects relationship, and another which claims that beating is not needed. In some countries, secondary education focuses in depth on two or three subjects, while in others students take a large number of subjects. Psychologists call the relationship between child and parent “attachment.” Attachment theory, or the study of these relationships, has shed light on the importance of the relationships between parent and child as well as pointed out some of the key steps parents can take to raise their children well.In addition, mothers and fathers take on different roles in bringing up a well-developed child.These behaviors show the child that others are sensitive of their needs and that parents can be relied on for emotional responsiveness.As a child grows older, he finds warmth in the parent-child relationship in other ways, specifically in receiving the fulfillment of his emotional needs, whether they be play or intimate conversation.Losing the trust of your parents will give their children limited opportunities to reach their desires A. Parents, on the other hand, demand more from their children.Parents won’t allow their children to go out with their friends. They will prevent their children from using their gadgets involving communication with others. They become unsatisfied with mediocre performance and expect their children to be perfect or at least near perfect for them to become believable.Having obtained a Master of Science in psychology in East Asia, Damon Verial has been applying his knowledge to related topics since 2010.Having written professionally since 2001, he has been featured in financial publications such as Safe Haven and the Mc Millian Portfolio.For example, reading books to your child will strengthen her linguistic development, playing active games with your child will improve her motor skill development and finishing puzzles with your child will enhance her cognitive development.Young children -- and even parents -- might mistakenly believe they are just spending quality time with family when they are actually developing useful life skills.

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Stargazers will have a rare chance to see a green streak crossing the sky Tuesday night, Newsweek reports. First discovered in late 2017, the speedy chunk of ice and rock known formally as PanSTARRS C/2017 S3 is making its rounds again, but in a slightly different way this time. Back in July, observers were able to see the bright green color of the comet thanks to a cloud of cyanide and carbon molecules surrounding it â hence its nickname, the "Incredible Hulk." As it got closer to the sun, the comet broke up from the intense heat, which means it's fading from view, Weather reported. But if we're lucky, another explosion of the comet's pieces, which are still traveling together, may make it brighter as it crosses the night sky. At its closest, the "Incredible Hulk" will be about 70 million miles from the Earth, before passing us to head closer to the sun, Live Science reported. By August 15, it will reach its closest point to the sun â just 18.5 million miles away, which is even closer than Mercury is â before turning around and heading back into space. Fans of this comet, or its superhero namesake, might want to take their opportunity to glimpse it tonight, because if it continues to fade, this may very well be our last chance to see it. Read more about the "Incredible Hulk" at Weather. Shivani Ishwar

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Rudder and ailerons have different purposes and control rotation about two different axis. However a rotation about one axis induces a usually unwanted rotation on the other one. In order to rotate exclusively about the desired axis, the other control must be used to cancel the secondary rotation. This is called coordination of controls. Rudder and ailerons are not the only controls requiring coordination, elevators and throttle actions must be coordinated too, to prevent a change in altitude to result in a change in speed and vice-versa. The rudder is mostly used to: - Limit yaw movements for safety (Dutch roll) and comfort. - To force the aircraft in a crab (heading not aligned with course), while the weather vaning effect tends to orient the aircraft with the airflow (e.g. for a cross-wind landing). - To force the aircraft to face the airflow when performing a turn. We'll talk about this below. See Understanding the use of rudder for a more comprehensive explanation. Ailerons are used to turn, but for a non-small turn an unwanted adverse yaw, opposite to the turn, develops and moves the aircraft away from the airflow (crab), the rudder is used to cancel this crab angle and make the aileron-initiated turn effective. The availability of a yaw damper relieves the pilot from the duty of coordinating rudder with ailerons in a turn. The yaw damper controls the rudder for stability purposes, and at the same time it maintains the aircraft longitudinal axis into the relative wind without pilot action. While it is intuitive to think a turn is triggered by yawing the aircraft and keeping the wing horizontal (like a car), this method is actually ineffective with a rudder of the normal size. The rudder forces the aircraft to change its heading (yaw) but the flight continues more or less in the same direction, the aircraft now moving crabbed. This is specially true as speed and altitude increase and rudder aerodynamic force becomes smaller compared to other factors like inertia. Banking turns the aircraft An aircraft is turned by rolling (banking) the wing. When the aircraft spins about the roll axis, the direction of the lift is changed (A/B below). Like any force, the lift vector can be broken down into components (B): The horizontal component of the lift moves the aircraft away from its original path and the aircraft turns around some point. (Note the vertical component, which still opposes the weight, is now smaller, and a non-small turn also requires adding engine power to maintain altitude.) However something quite undesirable happens (C): To roll the wing, the upper aileron has to create more lift than the lower one. Lift is created by deflecting the airflow, and this action has a cost: The disturbed airflow creates 'induced' drag. This drag is different from the other drags, it's not due to the friction or the shape of the aileron, but to the deflection of the airflow by the aileron, and increases with the amount of lift created. Like aileron lift, aileron induced drag is larger on the upper wing, that is on the outer side of the turn. As there is a drag differential, the wing is no more balanced and wants to yaw on the right, opposite to what we want. This force is known as the "adverse yaw". A part of the adverse yaw is balanced by the weather vaning tendency of the aircraft, due to the action of the fuselage and the rudder. However this only compensates partially for the yaw. All these forces makes the aircraft turn a bit, but crabbed, as seen in picture D. This situation where the aircraft is not aligned with the airflow is an "uncoordinated turn", it is very inefficient, slows the aircraft and stresses the airframe. This is were some action on the rudder is required: The pilot adds some left rudder to completely cancel the adverse yaw created by the ailerons and align the fuselage with the airflow (E). Doing this any slip and skid motion is also minimized. This is known as performing a coordinated turn. As visible on the figure E, the horizontal component of the lift, the one pulling the aircraft towards the center of the turn, is constantly reoriented in the direction of the center, contrary to the case of the uncoordinated turn (D). Rolling the wing is a very effective way of turning the aircraft, but needs some rudder correction to account for the induced drag moving the aircraft longitudinal axis away from the airflow direction. Ailerons deflection reduced in the turn Note that when the desired bank angle is reached, the pilot reduces the ailerons deflection. The excess of lift and drag on the upper wing decreases too, as does the adverse yaw. The rudder deflection can be reduced too. Normally the aircraft should maintain its bank and continue to turn with ailerons in neutral position, due to the upper wing flying faster and generating more lift. However the aircraft in a rolled attitude actually slips into the turn and the dihedral effect tends to decrease the roll angle of the slipping aircraft (roll stability). So some degree of aileron deflection will be maintained. The ailerons (and the rudder) are used to return the wings to their horizontal position and stop the turn more accurately. Coordinating turns is part of the basic training for a student pilot as uncoordinated turns are not only ineffective, they are also unsafe: - Some part of the wing or the controls can be in the shadow of the airflow, meaning they have no useful effect to control the aircraft. - Lateral accelerations develop, the aircraft either slips or skids. The amount of rudder to apply can be determined using (human senses and) different instruments, including the turn coordinator, aka needle and ball Indicator, which is a sort of level (the ball) usually associated with a bank or rate of turn indicator (the needle). The respective position of the ball and the needle according to different uncoordinated/coordinated situations are like this: When executing a coordinated level turn without wind, at sea level, etc, the radius of the turn and the turn rate depend only on the airspeed and the bank angle: - TAS 150kt, bank 20°: Radius 1,676m, 360° in 2:16. - TAS 300kt, bank 30°: Radius 4,227m, 360° in 3:51. See this question for additional information. In commercial airliners, the yaw control is assisted by one or two yaw damper(s) which function is to increase the yaw stability and prevent the development of the dangerous Dutch roll. Thanks to the yaw dampers, the pilot does not need to use the rudder pedals for coordinated turns. Other means of controlling roll/lift A mean of banking wings directly is required, including when Dutch roll and spin start developing and when flying or rolling with crosswind. But bank control can be obtained by other means than ailerons. While ailerons add lift by changing the camber of the wing, spoilerons combine spoilers and ailerons, and break lift by disturbing the laminar airflow (B-52), rudderons combine rudder and ailerons on flying wings (B-2A), and now bleed air and Coandă effect can bank the aircraft without moving surface (Flaviir project).

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What do Egress and Ingress Mean in the Cloud? Learning Center | Cloud Security | What do Egress and Ingress Mean in the Cloud? - Egress means exiting the cloud - Ingress means entering the cloud MORE CLOUD SECURITY & OPERATIONS ARTICLES What is Site to Cloud VPN? What Do Egress and Ingress Mean in the Cloud? What is the AWS Console? Why Use Egress Filtering? What does AWS Networking Services Offer? What are Security Groups in AWS? Network Security in Azure What is Azure Firewall? How do I create Network Security Groups in Azure? What is Azure Network Security Group? What is Azure Express Route? What is Azure Network Virtual Appliance (NVA)? What do Egress and Ingress mean in the cloud? Egress in the world of networking implies traffic that exits an entity or a network boundary, while Ingress is traffic that enters the boundary of a network. While in service provider types of the network this is pretty clear, in the case of datacenter or cloud it is slightly different. In the cloud, Egress still means traffic that’s leaving from inside the private network out to the public internet, but Ingress means something slightly different. To be clear private networks here refers to resources inside the network boundary of a data center or cloud environment and its IP space is completely under the control of an entity who operates it. Since traffic often is translated using NAT in and out of a private network like the cloud, a response back from a public endpoint to a request that was initiated inside the private network is not considered Ingress. If a request is made from the private network out to a public IP, the public server/endpoint responds back to that request using a port number that was defined in the request, and firewall allows that connection since its aware of an initiated session based on that port number. See picture below for reference. With Egress out of the way, let’s define Ingress. As you might be guessing by now, Ingress refers to unsolicited traffic sent from an address in public internet to the private network – it is not a response to a request initiated by an inside system. In this case, firewalls are designed to decline this request unless there are specific policy and configuration that allows ingress connections. See picture below for reference. - Check Out This Tutorial - Get Help from an Expert

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Horsemeat Poses Serious Risks to Human Health The SAFE Act would prohibit the slaughter of horses in the United States for human consumption, as well as the export of live horses for the same purpose. Please visit AWI’s Compassion Index to urge legislators to cosponsor this legislation. “The permissive allowance of such horsemeat used for human consumption poses a serious public health risk.”1 The US Food and Drug Administration bans the presence of 379 common equine drugs in animals slaughtered for human consumption. However, there is no procedure in place to ensure that American horses, sold to slaughterhouses and killed for human consumption, are free of these FDA-banned substances. When horses are sold, especially through an auction, there is no required transfer of information regarding the substances they received during their lifetime. Therefore, there is no mechanism in place to ensure horses frequently bought at auction by kill buyers—those who purchase them for slaughter in Mexico and Canada—have not been given dangerous substances before they become part of the food chain. Horses are routinely given substances that are dangerous to humans. Most American horse owners do not imagine that their horses may someday be slaughtered for human consumption. Almost universally, they give their horses medications, antibiotics, ointments, wormers, and other substances that are labeled “not for animals intended for human consumption”—some of which linger in the body for long periods. A study published in May 2010 in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology found that substances routinely given to American horses cause dangerous adverse effects in humans. One commonly used anti-inflammatory drug, phenylbutazone (bute), can be lethal if ingested by people. The most serious effect of bute on humans is bone-marrow toxicity, leading to agranulocytosis (failure to produce white blood cells, causing chronic infections) and aplastic anemia (insufficient production of red and white blood cells and platelets). Similar blood conditions such as leucopenia, hemolytic anemia, pancytopenia, and thrombocytopenia may also occur in people who consume bute. The National Toxicology Program has determined that bute is a carcinogen. For these reasons, the FDA bans this substance for human consumption. Nearly all racehorses in America are treated with bute. Racehorses are frequently shipped to Mexico and Canada to be slaughtered for human consumption when their performance flags, often within days or weeks of receiving their last dose of bute. Horsemeat may be ground together with beef and sold without proper identification, so consumers could be unwittingly ingesting banned substances, with serious health implications. The European Union has a policy prohibiting importation of the meat of any horse who has ever received bute. Nitrofurazone, the most common wound ointment given to American horses, is also prohibited for use on any horse whose meat is shipped to EU countries. The United States needs to shut down the horse slaughter channels that currently put consumers at risk, and ensure that meat from American horses is not jeopardizing the health and lives of consumers. To learn more about horse slaughter, click here. Poison: It's what's for dinner when horsemeat is on the menu Those promoting horsemeat consumption claim horsemeat is leaner (and therefore, supposedly, healthier) than beef. What they fail to point out is that, unlike cattle, horses are not raised for meat, and are given hundreds of legal and illegal drugs rendering their meat unsafe for human consumption in the United States and abroad. However, because of confusing and conflicting US and foreign laws, horse meat slips through the regulatory cracks and is consumed overseas by unsuspecting diners. The diagram shows just a few of the banned and dangerous drugs that consistently end up in horse meat and on people's plates. 1. Dodman, N., et al. 2010. Association of phenylbutazone usage with horses bought for slaughter: A public health risk. Food Chem Toxicol. 48(5):1270-4. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.02.021

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Watch The Great Seljuks | Guardians of Justice (2020) | Büyük-Selçuklu | Nizam-e-Alam Season-1 Episode 30 in Urdu Subtitles. Watch and Download Free all episodes of The Great Seljuks | Guardians of Justice (2021) | Büyük-Selçuklu | Nizam-e-Alam Season-1 in Urdu Subtitles. The Great Seljuk Empire (Turkmen: Beýik Seljuklaryň dwleti; Persian : آل سلجوق ) is a Muslim empire based on the Turko -Iranian culture founded by the Kinik tribe of the Oghuz Turks in the Middle Ages . The Seljuks controlled a wide area from the Hindu Kush Mountains to Western Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. The Seljuks, who first captured Khorasan after gaining power near the Aral Lake, Iran is then advanced into the interior of Anatolia ‘in cities under control. The Great Seljuk Empire was founded by Tuğrul Bey (1016-63) in 1037. Selçuk Bey, whose grandfather raised Tuğrul and held high office in the state of Oğuz Yabgu, gave his name to both the dynasty that ruled the country and the empire. Shortly after the state was established, it consolidated the fragmented political map of the Islamic world lacking central authority and later played a key role in the first and second Crusades. Language and culture with an intensive İranlılaş the Seljuks, The Turkish-Iranian tradition of providing a great improvement and brought Iranian culture to Anatolia. With the settlement of Turkish tribes in the northwest of the country by the state administrators for political purposes such as increasing the state authority in the seized areas, the Turkification process started in these regions. Nizam-e-Alam Episode 30 Urdu Subtitles Part-1 Nizam-e-Alam Episode 30 Urdu Subtitles Part-2 Nizam-e-Alam Episode 30 Urdu Subtitles Full

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Pay someone to write your paper and get a speedy homework service. Research paper writing. Term paper writing. Do my homework. Help my essay. Write my research paper service.Order my paper Soul, mind and body are three important and core subjects under study when discussing the philosophy of human beings. The understanding of the relationship between soul and body has always been a source of concern among philosophers. The existence of soul and justifying mind as a separate entity from brain is never completely understood. The relationship of mind with the body i.e. how the mind controls the body and how changes in the body affect the mind is always been a main issue in studying philosophy of mind. Mind philosophy is a complex subject. Some of the functions of the mind work independently from body. But others do work in collaboration with the body. Philosophers have accomplished variety of studies to understand the actual role and existence of mind that includes if mind is a physical or non-physical matter, if it’s the part of the body or the soul? And other issues like that. Dualism gives a good explanation of all these problems. Though there are objections to it. But it does address all issues of independent working of mind and body. Human nature is in turn a complex subject and it is difficult to grasp full knowledge of philosophical explanations of human beings… Descartes used to believe that mind interacts with the brain. Though he used to consider mind as spiritual and immaterial and brain as spatial. This paper discusses why human nature and human being have problematic philosophical explanations and how mind-body relationship makes it complex and difficult to understand. The philosophy of mind gives a contemporary view of the entity mind or soul. The contemporary views do accept soul as an independent existent. The main concern of the contemporary approach is also to understand the relationship between the physical working of brain and states of mind. My theoretical outlook for the problem stated would be dualism. According to which mind is a non-physical entity and it can exist separately from the body. In this essay firstly I will explain the phenomenal features of human experience which differentiate them with other living things. The power of intelligence and consciousness produces such features. Then in the light of theories and philosophies presented by renowned philosophers such as Aristotle and Descartes, I will analyze these phenomenal features in the context of soul-body relationship. After this, a brief explanation of the concept of dualism will be presented which will serve as a theoretical outlook for this paper in discussion ahead. With the help of dualism I will explain these features. Then, there will be a brief explanation of a major objection to the concept of dualism and that is how mind and body communicate with each other? I will try to justify my response over this objection in the next part. Then I will conclude the paper having all important points. There are some features of human beings which differentiate them from other living things. With the thinking power, use of intelligence and intellect and consciousness has give human beings the power to rule the world. These phenomenal features are the most important characteristics of human mind. It’s charismatic that how human mind is capable of producing all these emotions with exceptional brilliance. I will explain some of these phenomenal features. Reason is one of the phenomenal features of human being through which. With the help of this a person can draw results from the given data or observations and can make hypothesis and assumptions. Moreover, one can support its argument through reasoning. Reflection is a process depending upon thinking; augmenting and analyzing one own self. It’s more of spiritual phenomena where one examines one’s own conduct, feelings and actions. Emotion means the mood, feel, temperament, attitude, state of mind and heart over certain action or happening. It mostly is a part of one’s personality. Motivation is a very important part of emotion. Abstraction (as discussed in the course) is a thought process which includes ideas on a general level. More general and common features or details are put together and specific details and features are left out. It involves a process of classification. Faith is one of the very strong phenomenal feature of human being. It requires a process of events and mental activity and thought process to finally able to develop faith over a certain phenomena or understanding. Socrates believed in transcendentalism and he believed that each human being is like a spark of the over soul. He also thinks that soul will be separated by the body just in case of death and it is kind of a form. ‘Faith’ was the head start of the discussion of our course. Understanding and wondering which reasons and miracles had made us believe in God? The example of two places which had a bridge in between them is great in emphasizing faith. A person will cross even an unbalanced bridge if he has faith in his constructor, but he will never cross the bridge if it’s perfectly fine and has no belied a faith in its constructor. So we see that courage is the outcome of faith. And faith is achieved by different reasons. In fact every human being has his own reasons for faith. The idea of Skinner on PFHE is hopeless; it is not deliberately true that we do everything by aiming at some benefit. It’s not verified in every case. We see that naturalism has been derived from metaphysical realism. Moral valuation is a study of approach, direction and way in which or through which human beings believe and develop some kind of values or beliefs. Human beings does compare things and make a choice, this behavior is valuation. The techniques to inquire investigate and acquire new aspects, information and knowledge by gathering observations, collecting evidences, making hypothesis and then proving certain hypothesis is called scientific inquiry. The emotion, urge of human being to explore, investigate, inquire and learn more about a certain thing is called curiosity. It’s the driving force of advancement in science and technology. Many philosophers explained unique features of human beings through different concepts and tried to develop a connection between these features and working of the body. Aquinas used the natural theology; I still recall the long debate on natural and revealed theology. But I think Aquinas was true to some extent on proving the existence of God by the means of the natural processes and nature itself. The “First Mover” theory can be taken into account too. While if we see St. Thomas we will come to know that being a Christian he declined Aristotle points of views. He thought that God is actually a cause for all the natural things that had happened. Aristotle gave the philosophy of Hylomorphism, according to which soul is something which makes a body alive. Soul is a set of properties; a form….such as glass is the form of water in it. According to Aristotle soul is related to body as a form of matter. So whatever phenomenal features of human being are that are the characteristic of body because soul is the part of the body which is accomplishing all these phenomenal features. Aristotle explained the unity of soul and body, both needs each other to work. Descartes gave the philosophy of dualism, according to which mind is a separate existence from brain and is a non-physical entity. All these phenomenal features are part of mind. He was first to identify mind with consciousness, awareness and intelligence. According to him brain is a material substance which is a part of body but mind exists separately from the body. The mind according to Descartes was a non-material entity. And he considered body as an extended and non-thinking thing. He argued that mind can exist apart from its extended body. And therefore mind is not a part of the body, it’s a different substance. Because the essence of mind is in the power of thinking. the actual idea behind his philosophy is that mind and body can interact. He argued that only humans have minds. Animals do not have minds. They lack the feature of self-consciousness. Living things can have three grades of sensation: physical, conscious, self-conscious. According to Descartes animals and human have only first sensation in common and that is physical. For example if an animal has felt a sensation e.g., the only possible reactions would be physical like dancing, screaming etc. But they will not consciously feel anything because they lack understanding of mind. Jean- Paul Sartre presented the philosophy of Existentialism. According to this philosophy an individual is responsible for its existence and for the standard/quality of life he is living. Sartre did justice with his opinion about the individuality of human beings. Sartre’s example of animal and plant was the most amazing of all. He distinguishes animals and plants from human beings by saying them unconscious and more mechanically operated things. It supports the phenomena of Atheism. This philosophy justifies that human being is responsible for its own actions despite of the obstacles in life. Now, I will explain the phenomenal features of human beings in the light of dualism. Dualism is an approach which basic idea resides upon the fact that mind is a non-physical matter i.e. it is not a part of the brain. It is non-physical. Many philosophers worked on dualism but a more famous version of dualism was given by Rene Descartes who maintained that mind is a non-physical thing. According to this mind is not a part of brain. According to Descartes mind is a thinking thing. We can take the example of container to elaborate it. Consider human being as a container which has body and brain in it along with a SEPARATE non-physical mind. Mind thinks, hopes, believes and have the consciousness and intelligence to deal with situations. Moreover Descartes argued that mind is a separate non-physical entity which can exist without the body. Phenomenal features of human beings can be well explained through Dualism. All the phenomenal features explained above are states of mind which are attributes of a non-physical matter. A physical matter cannot think, reason, and argue. These feelings of curiosity, believes, enquiring, emotion and reflection are the products of mind. Mind is the force which pushes the body to work to learn more about a certain thing. For example a person read something, it always has some effects on his/her mind. Mind will ponder about that subject and ideas are built through it, which as a result produces curiosity to learn more. And scientific inquiry takes place to reach to a certain solution. And the mind develops values and believes on the basis of the observations and results around it. And all these features of human being which are related to awareness, consciousness and intelligence are the products of mind. Mind is the one producing and operating them. If dualism is not true then mind is only the physical brain. Then in this situation we cannot think of a material substance to possess the qualities of consciousness which is the central ingredient for possessing phenomenal features. We cannot then expect features like consciousness, emotions, curiosity, sensations, desires, beliefs etc. So there has to be something which is responsible for these behaviors, and that is mind which is not material and which is a non-physical substance. Interactionism is a view of dualists, which can explain well these phenomenal features which occur as an interaction of mind and body. Thomas is said to be the symbolic founder of interactionism. Thomas thought that people were not exclusively controlled by the socialism and social pressures. Mental states always have this link with physical states. When we see something, we use our eyes and eyes send message to mind which invokes some kind of emotion, action or feeling. If a person has got an injury, he will feel pain and he will cry for help. And if somebody hears him, he will experience an emotion to reach for help. So the process continues with the series of interactions. And we can see the example of a sailor and a ship. The sailor can feel the bruise he has on his hands but he can’t actually feel the pain when the ship is damaged or broken. There is also some objection for this school of philosophy. One of the major objections is casual interaction. A major objection to this view is that how mind interacts with the body i.e. how physical states interact or send a message to mental states and vice versa. If mind is a non-physical matter then how it is interacting with a physical matter. There is no explanation to this. When a person is injured, how the message is transferred toward mind which as a results cause the state of pain. When mind is not a part of body then how this communication is working? Obviously, we assume there will be a series of events which will finally let this pain feeling happen. There will be nerves playing around sending the message finally to the brain. But then how brain (a physical matter) will send or transfer this message to mind (a non-physical matter). That is a very big question mark? Descartes himself did not have a proper answer to this problem. His meditations which we have elaborately studied in this course have revealed to us many of his point of views. He says that we can doubt all the things and he considers mind as indivisible and body as divisible. He was of the view that this interaction of soul and body or mind and body is through PINEAL GLAND, which is a gland in human brain. He says how the idea of a ruling absolute power exists in our minds? Thus he says that we distinctly perceive. All he was trying to do was to prove the immortality of the soul. He maintained that casual interaction is taking place through pineal gland. But this is not a very good explanation. Again the problem is same, how a non-material mind is interacting with pineal gland (which obviously is a physical matter). Some of Descartes’ students, ef Arnold Geulincx adopted a different frame of mind for this problem. And I find that solution very satisfactory. According to Arnold that all these mind-body interactions are a result of direct intervention of God. So, when God wants, these interactions happen otherwise not. These interactions are not because of a certain mechanism or through some medium; they happen and occur when there is God’s will. Only God knows how it works, he is responsible for this stimulation. Human body and human nature is a very complex subject. The human nature cannot be understood easily. There are phenomenal features of human beings which differs them from other living things and those phenomenal features have convinced us that there is something non-physical in human body which is responsible for these phenomenal features. Dualism answers some of such questions and consider mind a non-physical entity responsible for such features and it is a separate entity from brain. But a major objection to dualism is that how mind interacts with the body? What is the medium of communication between a physical and non-physical matter? And a satisfactory answer would be that God is above all. The interaction between mind and body is dependent on God. And may be only he knows and he is responsible for such bizarre communication. You have to be 100% sure of the quality of your product to give a money-back guarantee. This describes us perfectly. Make sure that this guarantee is totally transparent.Read more Each paper is composed from scratch, according to your instructions. It is then checked by our plagiarism-detection software. There is no gap where plagiarism could squeeze in.Read more Thanks to our free revisions, there is no way for you to be unsatisfied. We will work on your paper until you are completely happy with the result.Read more Your email is safe, as we store it according to international data protection rules. 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“Changes to Azure services and the Azure platform itself are both inevitable and beneficial, to ensure continuous delivery of updates, new features, and security enhancements. However, change is also a primary cause of service regressions that can contribute towards reliability issues—for hyperscale cloud providers, indeed for any IT service provider. As such, it is critical to catch any such problems as early as possible during the development and deployment rollout, to minimize any impact on the customer experience. As part of our ongoing Advancing Reliability blog series, today I’ve asked Principal Program Manager Jian Zhang from our AIOps team to introduce how we’re increasingly leveraging machine learning to de-risk these changes, ultimately to improve the reliability of Azure.”—Mark Russinovich, CTO, Azure This post includes contributions from Principal Data Scientists Ken Hsieh and Ze Li, Principal Data Scientist Manager Yingnong Dang, and Partner Group Software Engineering Manager Murali Chintalapati. In our earlier blog post “Advancing safe deployment practices” Cristina del Amo Casado described how we release changes to production, for both code and configuration changes, across the Azure platform. The processes consist of delivering changes progressively, with phases that incorporate enough bake time to allow detection at a small scale for most regressions missed during testing. The continuous monitoring of health metrics is a fundamental part of this process, and this is where AIOps plays a critical role—it allows the detection of anomalies to trigger alerts and the automation of correcting actions such as stopping the deployment or initiating rollbacks. In the post that follows, we introduce how AI and machine learning are used to empower DevOps engineers, monitor the Azure deployment process at scale, detect issues early, and make rollout or rollback decisions based on impact scope and severity. Why AIOps for safe deployment As defined by Gartner, AIOps enhances IT operations through insights that combine big data, machine learning, and visualization to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection, and causality determination. In our earlier post, "Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps," we shared our vision and some of the ways in which we are already using AIOps in practice, including around safe deployment. AIOps is well suited to catching failures during deployment rollout, particularly because of the complexities of cross-service dependencies, the scale of hyperscale cloud services, and the variety of different customer scenarios supported. Phased rollouts and enriched health signals are used to facilitate monitoring and decision making in the deployment process, but the volume of signals and level of complexity involved in deployment decision making exceeds what any human could reasonably reason over, across thousands of ever-evolving service components, spanning more than 200 datacenters in more than 60 regions. Some latent issues won’t manifest for several days after their deployment, and global issues that span different clusters but manifest only minutely in any individual cluster are hard to detect with just a local watchdog. While loose coupling allows most service components to be deployed independently, their deployments could have intricate impacts on each other. For example, a simple change in an upstream service could potentially impact a downstream service if it breaks the contract of API calls between the two services. These challenges call for automated monitoring, anomaly detection, and rollout impact assessment solutions to facilitate deployment decisions at velocity. Figure 1: Gandalf safe deployment Gandalf safe deployment service: An AIOps solution Rising to the challenge described above, the Azure Compute Insights team developed the “Gandalf” safe deployment service—an end-to-end, continuous monitoring system for safe deployment. We consider this part of the Gandalf AIOps solution suite, which includes a few other intelligent monitoring services. The code name Gandalf was inspired by the protagonist from The Lord of the Rings, as shown in Figure 1, it serves as a global watchdog, which makes intelligent deployment decisions based on signals collected. It works in tandem with local watchdogs, safe deployment policies, and pre-qualification tests, all to ensure deployment safety and velocity. As illustrated in Figure 2, the Gandalf system monitors rich and representative signals from Azure, performs anomaly detection and correlation, then derives insights to support deployment decision making and actions. Figure 2: Gandalf system overview Gandalf monitors signals across performance, failures, and events as described below. It pre-processes the data to structure them around a unified data schema to support downstream data analytics. It also leverages a few other analytics services within Azure for health signals, including our Virtual Machine failure categorization service and near real-time failure attribution processing service. Signal registration with Gandalf is required when any new service components are onboarded, to ensure complete coverage. - Performance data: Gandalf monitors performance counters, CPU usage, memory usage, and more – all for a high-level view of performance and resource consumption patterns of hosted services. - Failure signals: Gandalf monitors both the hosting environment of customer’s virtual machines (data plane) and tenant-level services (control plane). For the data plane, it monitors failure signals such as OS crashes, node faults, and reboots to evaluate the health of the VM’s hosting environment. At the same time, it monitors failure signals of the control plane like API call failures, to evaluate the health of tenant-level services. - Update events: In addition to telemetry data collected, Gandalf also keeps its finger on the pulse of deployment events, which report deployment progress and issues. Detection, correlation, and decision Gandalf evaluates the impact scope of the deployment—for example, the number of impacted nodes, clusters, and customers—to make a go/no-go decision using decision criteria that are trained dynamically. To balance speed and coverage, Gandalf utilizes an architecture with both streaming and batch analysis engines. Figure 3: Gandalf Anomaly Detection and Correlation Mode Figure 3 shows an overview of the Gandalf Machine Learning (ML) model. It consists of two parts—anomaly detection and correlation process (to identify suspicious deployments) and a decision process (to evaluate customer impact). Anomaly detection and correlation process To ensure precise detection, Gandalf derives fault signatures from input signals, which can be used to uniquely identify the failure. Then, it detects based on the occurrence of the fault signature. In large-scale cloud systems like Azure, simple threshold-based detection is not practical both because of the dynamic nature of the systems and workloads hosted and because of the sheer volume of fault signatures. Gandalf applies machine learning techniques to estimate baseline settings based on historical data automatically and can adapt the setting through training as needed. When Gandalf detects an anomaly, it correlates the observed failure with deployment events and evaluates its impact scope. This helps to filter out failures caused by non-deployment reasons such as random firmware issues. Since multiple system components are often deployed concurrently, a vote-veto mechanism is used to establish the relationship between the faults and the rollout components. In addition, temporal and spatial correlations are used to identify the components at fault. Fault age, which measures the time between rollout and detection of fault signature, is considered to allow more focus on new rollouts than old ones since newly observed faults are less likely to be triggered by the old rollout. In this way, Gandalf can detect an anomaly that would lead to potential regressions in the customer experience early in the process—before it generates widespread customer impact. For more detail, refer to our published paper “Gandalf: An Intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in large-scale cloud infrastructure.” Finally, Gandalf evaluates the impact scope of the deployment such as the number of impacted clusters/nodes/customers, and ultimately makes a "go/no-go" decision. It’s worth mentioning that Gandalf is designed to allow developers to customize signals’ weight assignment based on their experience. In this way, it can incorporate domain knowledge from human experts to complement its machine learning solutions. To balance speed and coverage, Gandalf utilizes both streaming and batch processing of incoming signals. Streaming processing consumes data from Azure Data Explorer, a cloud storage solution supporting analytics with fast speed. Streaming processing is used to process fault signals that happen 1 hour before and after each deployment in each node and runs lightweight analysis algorithms for rapid response. Batch processing consumes data from Cosmos, a Hadoop-like file system that supports extremely large volumes of data. It’s used to analyze faults over a larger time window (generally a 30-day period) with advanced algorithms. Both stream and batch processing are performed incrementally with five-minute intervals. In general, the incoming telemetry signals of Gandalf are both streamed into Kusto and stored into Cosmos hourly/daily. With the same data source, occasionally there could be inconsistent results from the processing pipeline. This is by design since batch processing makes more informed decisions and covers latent issues that the fast/streaming process cannot detect. Deployment experience transformation The Gandalf system is now well integrated into our DevOps workflow within Azure and has been widely adopted for deployment health monitoring across the entire fleet. It not only helps to prevent bad rollouts as quickly as possible but has also transformed the engineers’ and release managers’ experience in deploying software changes—from looking for scattered evidence to using a single source of truth, from ad-hoc diagnoses to using interactive troubleshooting—and in so doing, many of the engineers who interact with Gandalf have had their opinions on it transformed as well, evolving from skeptics to advocates. In many Azure services, Gandalf has become a default baseline for all release validations, and it’s exciting to hear how much our on-call engineers trust Gandalf. In this post, we have introduced the Gandalf safe deployment service, an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for the safe deployment of Azure services. Through state-of-the-art anomaly detection, special and temporal correlation, and result orchestration, the Gandalf safe deployment service enables DevOps engineers to make go/no-go decisions accurately, and with the velocity needed by hyper-scale cloud platforms like Azure. We will continue to invest in applying AI- and machine learning-based technologies to improve cloud service management, ultimately to continue improving the customer experience. Look for us to share more about our AIOps solutions, including pre-production analytics to further help us push quality to the left.

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This 0.5 credit hour course provides an introduction to criminal justice with an emphasis on the courts. Using OER (open educational resource) materials, students will be introduced to the federal and state court systems in the United States; including the history, functions, structures, actors, and trial processes. Students will also learn about challenges facing the courts and how they impact criminal justice and the United States. Upon completion of this badge, students will be able to: - Identify, define, and properly utilize terminology and concepts associated with criminal justice and courts. - Summarize the history and functions of federal and state courts in the United States. - Outline the structure and trial processes of courts in the United States. - Identify courtroom actors and define their roles. - Examine court methods and contemporary challenges. Successful completion of this badge is awarded 0.5 online hours of credit. Workload for completion is based on the expectation that students will spend a minimum of 7.5 hours in instruction over the length of the badge and an additional 15 hours on preparation, readings, studying, writing, research and other assignments as determined by the badge instructor. Activities will involve working online, participating in asynchronous activities, and other offline work. Grading Scale: Badge/No Badge Evaluation: 100% completion of badge criteria Taylor joined the MRC as an Instructional Designer in June 2015 after completing her BS and MA in Criminal Justice from Wichita State University. Before joining the IDT team, she worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the School of Community Affairs at WSU. There she assisted in the development and implementation of online course documents and assessments for many online Criminal Justice Courses.

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- Temporarily of the Market (TOM) – a listing may be taken temporarily off market for a variety of reasons. For instance, the seller may be taking a vacation and unable to consider new offers while away. Or the seller may be renovating or making repairs to the property. - Title – legal ownership and the legal right to use a piece of property - Title Insurance – is a form of indemnity insurance that protects the holder from financial loss sustained from defects in a title to a property. — Owner’s Policy – homeowner’s Title Policy, which the Seller typically pays at closing and is usually issued for the amount of the purchase price. It protects the Buyer and it’s heirs as long as they own the property. — Lender’s Policy – most Lenders require title insurance as security for their investment in the property. The Buyer typically pays for the Lender’s policy, which is issued for the loan amount. - Title Search – is an examination of public records to determine and confirm a property’s legal ownership, and find out what claims or liens are on the property. A Clean Title is required for any real estate transaction to go through properly. - TOM – see Temporarily of Market (TOM)

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BASC has pledged to work constructively with the newly elected Scottish Government on all matters pertaining to the environment and rural affairs. The announcement comes following the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament elections. The SNP won 64 of the 129 seats at Holyrood – just one short of an outright majority – meaning they will be reliant on support from other parties to pass legislation. The other pro-independence party, the Scottish Greens, returned eight MSPs and will likely partner with the SNP in some sort of minority administration. The 2021-2026 session of the Scottish Parliament is likely to have a significant bearing on shooting, after the SNP committed to licensing driven grouse shooting and modernising deer management legislation in their manifesto. We will approach these intentions in good faith, and will work hard to ensure ideas and concerns from BASC members are communicated clearly and robustly. Key environmental and rural issues that we will look to work with the Scottish Government on over the next five years are: Read our Scottish Manifesto for Sustainable Shooting in full here.

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BASC’s chief executive Richard Ali has addressed the national conference on uplands management, emphasising the UK’s unique uplands and the important role wildlife management and shooting will continue to play in their future. He said not only was shooting a part of the heritage of the uplands; it is part of its innovative future. He told the conference: “The uplands need management. Land which is unmanaged soon becomes a degraded asset. Biodiversity is harmed. Tourism is harmed. People leave.” “Shooting and conservation are inseparable. After all, much of the land in the UK is shot over. We believe in the importance of conservation and in both helping to uncover the evidence, and in using that evidence to develop policies that make a balanced and sustainable future more, not less, likely.” He added: “If we are serious about creating that sustainable, balanced future for our uplands then shooting and conservation must be included as a positive part of that equation. It is a real part of the solution and can help rural enterprises and rural communities diversify.” Mr Ali told delegates at the conference about BASC’s Green Shoots online mapping tool and explained how BASC members can use the system to provide records of wildlife and habitats and create custom maps of their shoots as part of their shoot management. He spoke out against illegal raptor persecution, saying: “No ifs, no buts; we condemn it unreservedly,” also calling for “all those with an interest in the uplands to come together, agree common ground, and develop workable and pragmatic solutions that will deliver a balanced future where sustainable co-existence is the norm not the exception.” “No-one should put short-term campaigning above long-term success. “ For the full text of the speech please click here.

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Generally speaking, people’s most significant purchases in their lifetime will be in their homes. Making decisions about basement renovations and remodeling should include careful consideration of goals, implementation, and expected costs. Unfinished basements are usually the large usable area of a house and tend to be the most complicated to renovate on a practical level. Only full additions to homes generally require structure, heating, air conditioning, insulation, plumbing, flowing, etc. As a result, their cost and potential to provide more usable space to contribute to the overall home value are significant. This article will address questions of why to remodel a basement, how to renovate for individual goals, and how much homeowners should consider for a basement remodeling services. Home Value – A very basic one thousand and five hundred square foot home with the main floor for living, and the second floor for sleeping, often has a basement of seven hundred and fifty square feet. Basements are generally cold and wet spaces that are merely used for storage and to allow access to essential home utilities like central heat, water heaters, sump pumps, etc. Making that space “livable” through a competent basement renovation and remodeling can increase the usable area by 50%, and dramatically improve the value of the home. It is unlikely to improve the home’s value by 50% no matter how it elaborates the remodeling. However, finished, renovated basements commonly improve home values by 10% to 25%, and people are looking to sell their home find that a remodeled basement sets them apart from other sellers with similar homes for sale in the area. Need More Space – Families grow as children get to include, and they get bigger as they age and demand more space. For example, bunk beds rarely work when you have two kids in their teens. Families and households also can grow in other ways; parents age and need help, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and any number of family members may run into challenges. A basement remodels, basement renovation is often a great option. It is a separate space, within the household, that family can use to recover, rebuild, or retire. Basements offer people the opportunity to either stay out of the way or contribute without interfering with the established practices of the house. Dad Needs a Project – Whether a handyman or a handywoman, basements are often renovated by people who believe that they can make something to be proud of in their spare time. It is viewed as out of sight, and a place to create a fun space or a refuge from their regular job. Basement renovations are very challenging, and homeowners need to be aware that there are much less expensive hobbies if that is a goal. When people start hammering nails, laying flooring, running pipe, and considering heating and insulation, a hobby may require some professional assistance. Look at the Existing Basement – There are many types of basements. The most common have an uneven concrete floor angled to the sump pump, have an exposed ceiling, and house the equipment that serves as the foundation for the home. Here are some fundamental questions to consider: Consider the Purpose – The goal of the basement renovation should always be paramount. Will someone lives there full time or is it just a space for fun? Is there a potential for income from the basement remodeling services? The goal of the work should guide homeowners in their decisions about how much time and money they spent to renovate the basement space. If the basement remodeling services are intended merely to house a pool table for adult fun, or a kid’s space for big toys, that is one thing. If a person or people will be living their full time, a bathroom, temperature controls, and a variety of other factors become significantly more important. The more demands a homeowner has for their basement remodeling services, the more careful they must be. Creating a living space for an aging parent is a dramatic endeavor that making a cool place to host poker games or creating a kid-friendly place to play out of the rain or snow. Get All Residents of the Home Involved – People often miss this crucial step. Basements house the heater, the circulation for air conditioning, the plumbing, and once the work is complete remodeling a basement affects all the people living in a home. If the person who will use the basement remodeling services lives in the house, figure out how they can contribute. Even people with no construction skills can help paint, clean, and decrease costs paid to basement renovation professionals. If it is a space for a family member or family fun, everyone should be prepared to help. Perhaps there will be a morning when one needs to move a water heater, and they may have to take a shower the night before. Depending on the amount of remodeling, there could also be more dusting and cleaning in the main home. If it’s just a play area for all, then all can contribute to keeping basement renovation service costs down. This one is a bit like asking, “what does a car cost”? If you can weld, rebuilt engines, do bodywork, and find and install the replacement part. It gets a lot cheaper. For basement remodeling services, there is a similarly diverse set of skills. Here are the basics: There are many details involved within each of these steps, and homeowners who are just trying to do a simple basement remodel to create a fun place in the house may not need to do all of them. It is the most straightforward overview. Basement floor Planning – Lay it out on a piece of graph paper. Pool tables are common basement additions, but even a small table requires some thought. An eight-foot table, for example, needs about 200 square feet of unobstructed space. A bedroom with even a full bed requires a twelve by twelve room. Consider the layout before you spend a penny on materials. Basement plumbing – Most plumbing runs at the ceiling level in a basement. A good general contractor can run water through the walls, but the challenge is usually adding a toilet. That often requires a jackhammer and an injection pump. That gets complicated and expensive. Basement ductwork and airflow – Basement remodeling is challenged by temperature. Basements are generally below ground, stay cool in summer, and are too cold in the winter. Adequate heating ducts are vital if people are going to live there. Heat rises, and it’s usually best to overheat when people are living daily in a remodeled basement. Having a basement remodeling, renovation professional does it right will save money on energy costs. Basement electrical – Basement renovations rarely have all the power outlets required. Don’t forget; they have very limited or virtually no windows, so the electricity supply is essential. There should be an outlet every several feet to support. There should also be the electrical capacity from above to illuminate basements that are almost always relatively dark places. Basement flooring – Most basements have concrete floors, and they tend to crack as the house settles. They are also poured at an angle to make water management simpler. There are a few simple choices; lay a subfloor above the existing concrete or lay some cheap carpet or linoleum. Tile isn’t worth it. Usually, the basement floor will shift and crack the joints. Basement ceilings – Most basement renovations use a “drop ceiling.” It is hung from the floor joists that support the main floor of the house. They create a vapor and sound barrier to the rest of the house and allow easy access to the infrastructure of a home. People can do a more traditional plaster ceiling, but costs will increase, and access for long-term maintenance will be limited. Wall Structure – This is the type of job that usually requires someone with professional experience. Basement renovation and basement remodeling services must first deal with short walls, and great care paid to insulation. Most basements are two-piece constructions. One covers the concrete that was originally poured, and the tip level is boxed out with insulation. There are many choices to do this, but haphazard isn’t one. Whether you call it finishing, refurbishing, remodeling, or remodeling a basement, it’s essential to have a goal, a budget, and get the family involved. The job can be as simple or complicated as you like. However, making a usable space that works to its purpose takes some time and consideration. Doing it without professional basement renovation and basement remodeling services assistance may seem the cheapest option, but it rarely is. A thought-out plan, getting the family involved, and talking to a basement remodeling professional is usually the most cost-effective path in the long run. When it comes to maintaining and building a home, people often leave open basements as the final stage of completion. Turn a cold, concrete space below the main level of a house into a usable area with basement insulation installation services. These will not only add value to the property but can also help to save money in the household budget by reducing energy costs, especially if the property owner has chosen to insulate the basement space properly with one of many basement insulation companies available. By choosing to employ professional basement insulation installation services, homeowners can rest assured that their home is protected, warm, and controlled. Basement insulation companies are one of the best places to start when it comes to finishing a house in a professional and timely manner. There are many reasons why a homeowner may choose to work with one of many basement insulation companies. The first and most important reason may be that the homeowner seeks to fulfill legal requirements for their residential area. In specific climate zones, it may require insulation for basements in residential spaces with a grade of insulation. Basement insulation installation services and providers will be well acquainted with these building codes and will be able to assist homeowners in understanding what requirements they need for their area. Basement insulation companies may also be able to save a homeowner considerable costs in managing their home’s temperature and energy use. Regardless of the size or type of insulation used, most households will save money in these areas when proper insulation installation techniques used. Hiring professional basement insulation installation services will help to ensure that the basement has been adequately insulated, resulting in higher energy savings. Though residential codes and significant savings in a home’s energy costs over time are both important reasons for hiring basement insulation companies, there is also the fact that a properly insulated basement area will be a more comfortable space for the home. When left unfinished, a concrete basement area rarely has a use to the homeowners and often becomes a storage area for unused items. Using basement insulation installation services will enable homeowners to create a usable and enjoyable space that can increase the value of the home in the long-term. When it comes to hiring basement insulation companies, find a trustworthy and professional team is an essential task. Hiring professional basement insulation installation services can make all the difference when it comes to a finished product that homeowners can rely on to hold up over time. While searching for the best fit for a basement insulation project, it’s important to consider things like experience and industry knowledge. The actual task of insulating a basement doesn’t require a degree or professional certifications but finding basement insulation companies that have experience working with multiple spaces and environments will serve to benefit homeowners in the long run. From knowing the types of insulation that will work best for the situation of the home to completing the insulation project quickly, the experienced team should always be the first company that homeowners call. When it comes to basement insulation installation services, there are many resources available for completing a basement project without the help of the basement insulation companies. However, it is essential to consider the fact that industry knowledge is key to achieving a project of this scale and importance. Anytime a homeowner looks to work within the structure of their home; it is vital to make sure that the team working in their property has experience. From having the right tools available to expert recommendations for the longevity of the basement insulation, hiring professional basement insulation companies will save both time and money. Experienced basement insulation installation services can provide homeowners with peace of mind and knowledge that their home is in good hands. When starting the insulation project preparation is essential. There are pros to both interior and exterior insulation that one should consider in the context of the home’s environment and needs. If insulating an existing home, homeowners should also identify any drains or potential leakage issues in the walls. This preparation will always be made by hiring professional basement insulation companies, as experts will be able to consult homeowners on the potential difficulties and provide expert advice on navigating those roadblocks. Basement insulation companies will usually begin the process of insulating a basement by meeting with the homeowner to determine the extent of the basement insulation job. In some instances, this meeting is set up as a free consultation over the phone during which a customer care representative will assess the needs of the client. At this stage, the provider of the basement insulation installation services will be made aware of whether the homeowner requires interior or exterior insulation, whether the walls have been appropriately prepared with damp proofing and waterproofing layers, and will also identify any potential roadblocks that may hinder the basement insulation process. They will also make recommendations to the homeowner for the type of insulation required and the way the homeowner may plan on protecting and maintaining their insulation. After understanding the nature of the services required, basement insulation companies will then visit the site to make final checks, measurements, and gather any other information that may be necessary to establish a comprehensive quote for the basement insulation installation services. Many basement insulation companies provide this service as a part of an entire basement build and will, at this point in the process, also provide the homeowner with a full-scale CAD rendering of their basement, outlining what they will be creating with their team. After the team providing the basement insulation installation services has met with the homeowner, established what work they needed to do, and measured the space, they will provide the homeowner with a quote for their services. After the homeowner and the building team have agreed on a set amount, the basement insulation team will get to work on the project. The time to complete basement insulation installation services depends upon the size of the project and the location of the insulation. If the insulation added to an existing building, it might take less time than if the homeowner has elected to do exterior insulation which usually gets complete in the early stages of the home building process. If the existing home has roadblocks like a drain or leakage, then the basement insulation company may need to workaround. When it comes to insulating a basement, many insulation materials may be used. It is important to note that the type of material selected for the project should depend upon the location of the insulation, the needs of the space, and any desired sustainability or environmental goals that the homeowner may have. 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The water is allowed into the property but then poured away. This type of basement waterproofing service technic is particularly useful if the area around the basement is prone to flooding. It works on the premise that some water may be expected to enter the basement at some point, so it’s better to deal with it and drain it away rather than assume basement waterproofing services are applied to the whole basement. Additionally, this is regarded as a safe basement waterproofing service, mainly if a backup pump is installed in case of failure, and a warning system put in place in case of any damage or outage on the system. Cement covers the pump mechanism for added security against further water entry. A waterproof liquid coating (sometimes called a tanking slurry) is all that’s entailed in this brand of basement waterproofing services. It is applied to the wall. 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Therefore, it’s important to look for defects in the waterproofing and act as soon as possible. With cement tanking and cavity wall waterproofing look out for: With a cavity basement drainage system, problems that can arise are: If a problem occurs, it’s best to go back to the company that installed the waterproofing in the basement and if that’s not possible try to find another one.

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I was intrigued to read about a new Chinese anti-tank missile. It reminded me of South Africa's entry into that field in the 1980's. China recently revealed a new ATGM (anti-tank guided missile) which appears larger than earlier ones and uses top-attack warhead technology. It was later reported that [an earlier] version of this new missile had been revealed, called the ATF-11, and better photos were provided. It appears that the larger vehicle mounted missile and the new portable version are the same and are in fact a laser guided version of the American TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided). The ATF-11 was is not the first Chinese missile to use top-attack tech. That showed up in the 1980s when they introduced the HJ-8, which is nearly identical to the American TOW 2 in size, weight, range and, according to the users, performance. The ATF-11 appears to be a laser guided version of the HJ-8. There were American and Israeli laser-guided (wireless) TOW missiles but they never seemed to be worth putting into service. . . . The new Chinese missile was not named, but was shown mounted in a multiple cell launcher on an armored vehicle. No performance details were given but it is similar in size to TOW, and presumably capable and probably using “fire and forget” tech as well as an advanced target seekers. China has been producing copies of Western designs for decades. There's more at the link. South Africa was also involved in modifying the US TOW design to produce its own anti-tank missile. It was a long and complicated story, but briefly, its arms industry bought missile technology from Israel, including that country's not-very-successful laser-guided adaptation of the US missile, and proceeded to make it work. The result was the ZT3 Ingwe missile, the world's first production laser-guided anti-tank missile. It was used in combat in 1987 against Soviet-built tanks in Angola, with considerable success. South Africa built on that foundation for its subsequent Mokopa missile (a clone of the US Hellfire weapon). China has done the same thing, first with its HJ-8, then with the ATF-11, and now with its new missile. Similar copycat technology is visible in missile systems of many other nations. Once the "technology cat" is out of the bag, it's very hard to prevent other countries from getting examples of a new weapon, by hook or by crook (usually a lot of crookery), and reverse-engineering them. That's how Russia got its Vympel K-13 short-range air-to-air missile in the 1960's, reverse-engineering the US AIM-9B Sidewinder, which was obtained when at least one Sidewinder fired by Taiwanese fighters stuck in the fuselage of a Chinese MiG fighter without exploding, and was recovered intact. The K-13 was so exact a copy that Russian and US missiles could be loaded and fired from the same rails on Western fighter aircraft, using the same avionics and software. Later versions were upgraded using information obtained via espionage. Here's an interesting short documentary on the Soviet achievement. South Africa bought a hundred AIM-9B's in the 1960's to equip its Canadair Sabre Mk. 6 fighters. It also reverse-engineered the AIM-9B, producing the "Voorslag" demonstrator missile, which went on to blend local ingenuity and French technology to evolve into the V3A and V3B Kukri missiles, and later the V3C Darter.

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Hello, my name is Helena! I am a Brazilian English teacher, based in Rio de Janeiro. I am also the mother of the coolest 8-year-old kid! I love to teach and consider myself quite lucky to make a living out of my passion! Experiencing wonderful intercultural exchange among students from other parts of Brazil and from other countries has caused me to dive deeper into the cultural aspects of my country. I hope to bring more awareness of Brazil and its people into classes. I first started crafting nine years ago when I was 26. DIY home decoration caught my eye. I had recently moved and I utilized all my free time to make crafts for my new home. I loved to do paintings, key holders, and other functional pieces to bring a bit of sensory stimulation to the rooms. Not all of them were very successful but it was a great pastime! Looking up Brazilian designs, I realized the significant indigenous influence on patterns and material choices, and decorated my nest with these, along with Star Wars action figures and mini movie posters of Quentin Tarantino films. It was quite an interesting layout! Four years later, I was interning in a class about indigenous tribes and made my first authentic indigenous craft with students. We'd made a spear and a necklace. Indigenous adornments are widely made — in an adapted way — for Carnival celebrations that happen in February. We don't use authentic materials for that purpose as it is aimed at crafting indigenous costumes for fun and for heritage memory. Only indigenous people and their descendants make their crafts according to their own rituals, beliefs and cycles, and each tribe has their own. I find it important to enhance awareness of the Brazilian indigenous tribes, because not only are many of them being erased but also their knowledge and outlook on life is too amazing to be left behind or forgotten. They make their crafts in a constant negotiation with nature, aiming to use what they find around them — may it be seeds, fibers, feathers, coconut pieces, or mud — as a means to live with gratitude and to honor the environment they've grown up in. I'm very fond of working with natural feathers and seeds, as they are easy to manipulate and always form beautiful and cheerful compositions and pieces. In times of crude destruction of natural resources around the world, bringing this philosophy and wisdom to the eyes of modern societies seems to be a way of rescuing the joy of living on this planet. Due to the intense cultural mix, Brazil is a place where we have learned to respect and live with each other without much resistance to what is different and to incorporate varied forms of knowledge, perspectives, and customs into our lives. We are happy people besides all the social and economical hurdles we face, and this strength to smile and keep working to make it through is what makes me proud and blissful to live in Brazil.

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Rabin dr Walter Rothschild The sidra ‘Pinchas’ starts in the middle of an horrific episode and it starts in a way that is not only surprising, but shocking – God APPROVES of the impetuous violent actions of Pinchas the son of Elazar, a grandson of Aharon, a Cohen, who has just murdered two people ‘in flagrante‘ because they were not only of two different genders but also of two different religions. (It would be an interesting topic for discussion, just how seriously either of them has been taking their religion; the Torah also tells us their names and their social status but little about how they met, whether they were in love, whether it was their first time…..) This incident is a major challenge to everyone who has read the story since. Can we understand what is happening? Can we support the actions taken? Do we distance ourselves from it, and if so, how? To be fair, the incident as described in Numbers 25:6-9 – the verses just before this week’s sidra starts – does not seem to have much to do with romance or eroticism; instead it seems to be a deliberate act of rebellion, a flaunting of their utter disregard of God and of Moses. With Korach there had been a political crisis; now there is a religious crisis. The Moabite and Midianite religion is clearly very attractive to the Israelites who have, let’s face it, spent their lives until now in the desert, in tents, eating manna. Suddenly there are sacrifices – Meat! – and probably alcohol, there is presumably music and dancing and attractive young ladies wearing very little (and wearing even less under the very little they are wearing) and so the Israelites seem to have no difficulty in turning away from an austere, abstract, strict religion which has mainly consisted until now of prohibitions and punishments and future promises. They decide to try out the local gods; Who seem to offer Fun. Monotheism is NOT easy. The idea that there is only ONE deity who is responsible for EVERYTHING, both the good and the bad in life, in the universe, is often hard to accept. Let us be honest about this. A large proportion of the world is still committed to polytheism or animism, a belief in natural powers in each tree or mountain or up in the sky, a different deity responsible for each aspect of human life. After all, in normal life you would go to a different specialist to have a car repaired or to get your hair cut or your appendix taken out, you would not expect one person to be a skilled specialist in absolutely everything. So it makes sense to assume that there is one god for winning wars and another for making the crops grow or your cows calve and a different one for making sure your wife gets pregnant or protecting your children from illness. You would want to make sure you were in the good favour of each of these, so you would go to their shrine or temple, make a donation or a small gift, either to the priests or to the god him- or herself, make a few gestures, bow down, whatever. We know that in some shrines there was alcohol to drink or herbs to smoke, and in some there was even ‘holy sex’, a way of reminding the god not to forget what he had to do. What with one thing and another there was probably little difficulty in getting a minyan each day. One positive aspect of Polytheism – which is often overlooked – is that it is usually very tolerant of other gods. Somebody who worships five or six gods at the same time has little problem in getting on (religiously) with another person who has another four or five gods. Possibly they can swap anecdotes and recipes and good ideas for sacrifices. The person who already has many gods will not feel so threatened by there being others. Whereas the person who believes there is only ONE God will see in this variety an abomination, a denial of this basic truth. (Incidentally, this is one of the major theological issues between Judaism and certain forms of Christianity, where – as well as the problem of the Trinity – there seems to be a whole army of different saints and holy people of undefined or mythic status, to whom one can pray for specific issues and problems, rather than to God alone.) And so it is with Pinchas. But also with the writer of this narrative. He uses very strong language – the Israelites ”commit harlotry / prostitution” with the local girls; they eat of the pagan sacrifices, they bow down to the pagan statues and symbols. The god of the Midianites is described in verse 3 as ‘Ba’al Pe’or’ – the verbal root ‘Peh/Ayin/Resh usually means either to be very greedy, or to excrete. So this Ba’al is the Ba’al, the Master of Shit. Thus we see sexual and lavatorial terminology (which has nothing to do with the fact that in verse 1 they are in Shittim!) This is described not just as irreligious behaviour, this is disgusting behaviour. So it is no surprise that God notices and gets (once again) very angry. Here we see (again) a very important, basic principle of Judaism from the earliest times. The intention is NOT to make the Midianites believe in God; it is to stop the Israelites NOT believing in God. The Israelites are – through their birth – members of a covenant, a Brit; If they lapse, they are breaking a contract with God. It is a lifetime contract and they are not offered any easy way out. In this case the Midianites and Moabites and all the others, with their festivities and rituals, are not condemned because they are pagans – No – they are welcome to continue on their own paths, but they are condemned because they are seducing the Israelites away from THEIR true path, the belief in and service of the One God. (Who, let us not forget, warned us in Exodus chapter 20 that He could get very jealous if people turned away to serve any other gods.) God does not want the Israelites to missionise amongst the heathen; God wants the Israelites to stay away from the heathen, not to mix with them, not to mingle with them, not to absorb their customs. God does not want the Israelites to teach the Canaanites how to be good Israelites – God wants the Israelites to stay distinct from the Canaanites and not absorb their customs, their religion and their form of morality. Not to assimilate. For almost the entire rest of Jewish history – which at this point has hardly started – the Jews will be a small minority in the world. Although some Jews will glorify a minor regional tribal leader like David, they will never have extensive empires like those of the Babylonians or the Assyrians, or the Hellenists, or like Alexander the Great, or like the Ottomans or the Mongols or the Moguls or the Byzantines or the Austro-Hungarians or the Tsars or – heaven help us – the Nazis. They will never spread across entire continents like Christians and Moslems or Communists or Maoists. No, they will remain always a small minority in the world, constantly exposed to the threat of being further diluted and absorbed and swallowed by other, surrounding cultures. In many cases they will huddle together for security, in other cases they will be forced to huddle together by external pressure. There will be ”Jewish areas” or ”Jewish suburbs” or ”ghettoes” and – from time to time – a single small state run by and for Jews. Since we know this is the case, it seems obvious. But is it obvious, really? This exclusivity? Of course there were periods when Judaism felt more capable of opening up to new members – indeed in the ‘New Testament’, in Matthew 23 verse 15 Jesus criticises the Pharisees for being prepared to go to great lengths to convert people. This is ironic, because if it means that Jesus himself, as a good Jew, was opposed to missionising – then why do Christians still missionise in his name? But – well, that is not OUR problem. Our problem lies in finding a way through this complex issue of a monotheism which is at the same time Inclusive – for we acknowledge that the One God created Everybody, including the non-Jews – and Exclusive – for we have a specific relationship and a specific task to perform, as a People and as individual Jews. Pinchas resolves the issue very brutally – he does not reason with the Midianite, nor with the Israelite, he murders them both very publicly, to make sure that everyone else gets the message. What were these two doing? Not just having sex – this is natural and normal – but using sex as a form of quasi-religious fervour, in public, deliberately at the very door of the Ohel M’ed, the tent where God is to be encountered. Maybe a modern equivalent would be spraying graffiti on a religious building, trying to desecrate it. In the meantime God has commanded Moses to arrange the public execution of the leaders of the Israelites for weakly allowing this to happen! And Moses has urged the judges (whoever they are) to massacre anyone who has already lapsed and worshipped Ba’al Pe’or. In a way, it is a repetition of the violent events following the worship of the Golden Calf in Exodus 32:26-28. So this is a major, major crisis. And yet the only killing we read of is the one performed, not by a judge, not by a soldier, but by a priest, incensed and driven to violence by his fervour and his rage. NOT the sort of person one would normally like to meet. We do not get told this time how many direct casualties there are but the text refers to a ‘plague’, a ‘Magefa‘ which kills 24,000 before it stops, and maybe this is the term for the catastrophe as a whole. Intriguingly, the Sidra starts in the middle of the narrative, even in the middle of a chapter. It is as though whoever decided upon these things wanted to make sure that we separate the deed from the reaction, to keep them a week apart. Then in chapter 26 it will be necessary to count all the twelve tribes again, for each has lost an average of 2,000 men, plus the Levites. In chapter 27 five sisters appear to register a complaint that, just because their father had no sons before he died, his name is in danger of being forgotten – and a solution has to be quickly found. It is. Following this, Moses is permitted to see the land which he may not enter and he appoints Joshua formally as his successor – consecrated by the priest Elazar, but not himself a priest. God describes Pinchas as having been ”kineh” for God – ”zealous” or even fanatical – and also ”kiper al-B’nei-Yisrael” – he has ”atoned” for them. He promises him and his descendants an ”eternal priesthood”. He then appoints Pinchas to be in a sense the first military chaplain, to accompany the army (31:6) in the next campaign against the Midianites, but this time armed only with trumpets and ritual objects. Nothing with which to kill on the battlefield. So there are many issues which are raised in this story and many of them are very, very uncomfortable. A lay leader is not to act as a priest and a priest is not really to act as a lay leader. It is only in very exceptional circumstances that a priest is praised for defending the religion. And even then we have the question: Why did God not kill Zimri and Cozbi, rather than relying on Pinchas to do it in His name? Then. when we see how many nations have been ruled or are ruled by clergy of one type or another, how the distinction between lay and spiritual leaders is blurred, we see the many dangers which follow such a mixing. One group should deal with the problems of this world, here and now, and the other group should be more concerned with eternity and eternal values. But the boundaries are not always clear and often lay leaders tell the religious leaders to ”keep out of politics” when they are doing something shameful, but then demand ”a blessing” from those same religious functionaries when it suits them. Each side can use the other for its own purposes. We see this often enough. Alas. Would it have been a different story if God had said, instead, ”I do NOT approve of what Pinchas has just done”? Would we feel better about it? How do WE view this exclusivity? How far would we justify defending our own boundaries in such a manner? There are many, many difficult questions for us to face, when we read these chapters.

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