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Reliable, accurate and safe handling of information is essential for:
- Safe and effective treatment of patients
- Safeguarding personal identifying information of patients and staff
- Supporting clinical governance, research and development
- Service planning
- Performance management
- Liaison with other services involved in the care of individual patients
- Liaison with other services involved in strategy and planning of patient services and care
Information Governance is the framework for managing information in support of these operational requirements in line with our legal and regulatory requirements.
At DAATCL, this starts with our organisation wide Information Governance Strategy Framework. This sets out our commitments in relation to information governance, accountability, transparency and security.
The systems, procedures and processes we have in place to put these commitments into practice are then set out in detail through our Data Protection Policy, Information Governance Policy, Management of Clinical Records Policy and Patient Engagement Policy and Procedures. | <urn:uuid:47961222-5941-4a2a-8877-12fdc517a4f3> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://daatcl.co.uk/information-governance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.908786 | 188 | 1.851563 | 2 |
SPORTS, RECREATION & HEALTH
- Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Frank Shamrock vs. Cung Le: This one’s gonna be brutal, folks.
- Learning to Fly
Our intrepid reporter takes a crack at flying a plane and learns an unexpected lesson or two.
- Born That Way
Is there an “adrenaline gene” in big wave surfers?
- Climbing the Ladder
Local companies lead the way in the direct-to-consumer gene testing boom.
- Dyed Pretty
Deciphering America’s mehndi mania.
- Roll Models
Inside the adrenaline-soaked world of women’s roller derby.
- Extreme Foot Work
Ultramarathon runners straddle the line between heroism and self-punishment.
- Sea Quest
Go deep into the world of scuba diving with some of the South Bay’s leading divers.
- Learning the Ropes
Beginning boxing classes: Pummeling your way to better health and inner calm.
- The Science of Insomnia
Why you can’t sleep, and what you can do about it.
- Sneeze Guards
Which cold and flu preventatives are for real, and which are just plain buggy?
Cross-country skiing: the other way to carve up the snow.
- Here’s the Pitch
The venerable sport of cricket is surprisingly popular in the Bay Area
- Big Splash
Kicking up the spray at the Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival
Cardio tennis helps players stay in ace physical shape.
It’s never been easier, or cheaper, to go solar.
Open-water long distance swimmers: Insanely brave… or just plain insane?
- Chasing Waterfalls
A hike to a stunning waterfall is closer than you think.
- Growing Up Gretzky
Youth hockey leagues teach South Bay kids skills on and off the ice.
- Sea Change
Mechanized surfboard production is the wave of the future.
- Spokes Models
Ride hard, fast and light with these locally made mountain bikes.
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Geological and thermal control of the hydrothermal system in northern Yellowstone Lake: inferences from high-resolution magnetic surveys
Tivey, Maurice A.
Finn, Carol A.
Morgan, Lisa A.
Shanks, Wayne C. Pat, III
Sohn, Robert A.
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A multiscale magnetic survey of the northern basin of Yellowstone Lake was undertaken in 2016 as part of the Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake Project (HD‐YLAKE)—a broad research effort to characterize the cause‐and‐effect relationships between geologic and environmental processes and hydrothermal activity on the lake floor. The magnetic survey includes lake surface, regional aeromagnetic, and near‐bottom autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) data. The study reveals a strong contrast between the northeastern lake basin, characterized by a regional magnetic low punctuated by stronger local magnetic lows, many of which host hydrothermal vent activity, and the northwestern lake basin with higher‐amplitude magnetic anomalies and no obvious hydrothermal activity or punctuated magnetic lows. The boundary between these two regions is marked by a steep gradient in heat flow and magnetic values, likely reflecting a significant structure within the currently active ~20‐km‐long Eagle Bay‐Lake Hotel fault zone that may be related to the ~2.08‐Ma Huckleberry Ridge caldera rim. Modeling suggests that the broad northeastern magnetic low reflects both a shallower Curie isotherm and widespread hydrothermal activity that has demagnetized the rock. Along the western lake shoreline are sinuous‐shaped, high‐amplitude magnetic anomaly highs, interpreted as lava flow fronts of upper units of the West Thumb rhyolite. The AUV magnetic survey shows decreased magnetization at the periphery of the active Deep Hole hydrothermal vent. We postulate that lower magnetization in the outer zone results from enhanced hydrothermal alteration of rhyolite by hydrothermal condensates while the vapor‐dominated center of the vent is less altered.
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2020. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125(9), (2020): e2020JB019743, doi:10.1029/2020JB019743.
Suggested CitationBouligand, C., Tivey, M. A., Finn, C. A., Morgan, L. A., Shanks, W. C. P., & Sohn, R. A. (2020). Geological and thermal control of the hydrothermal system in northern Yellowstone Lake: inferences from high-resolution magnetic surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(9), e2020JB019743.
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Sohn, Robert A.; Luttrell, Karen M.; Shroyer, Emily L.; Stranne, Christian; Harris, Robert N.; Favorito, Julia E. (American Geophysical Union, 2019-05-09)Acoustic Doppler current profiler and conductivity‐temperature‐depth data acquired in Yellowstone Lake reveal the presence of a buoyant plume above the “Deep Hole” hydrothermal system, located southeast of Stevenson Island. ...
Favorito, Julia E.; Harris, Robert N.; Sohn, Robert A.; Hurwitz, Shaul; Luttrell, Karen M. (American Geophysical Union, 2021-05-14)We report results from 149 heat flux measurements made over an ∼2-year interval at sites in and around a vapor-dominated geothermal field located at water depths of ∼100–120 m in Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. Measurements of ...
A reduced crustal magnetization zone near the first observed active hydrothermal vent field on the Southwest Indian Ridge Zhu, Jian; Lin, Jian; Chen, Yongshun J.; Tao, Chunhui; German, Christopher R.; Yoerger, Dana R.; Tivey, Maurice A. (American Geophysical Union, 2010-09-21)Inversion of near-bottom magnetic data reveals a well-defined low crustal magnetization zone (LMZ) near a local topographic high (37°47′S, 49°39′E) on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). The magnetic ... | <urn:uuid:09a4620c-90cb-4162-b5c7-8ac6056aa6bb> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/26399 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.822204 | 929 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Genome-Wide Interaction Analyses between Genetic Variants and Alcohol Consumption and Smoking for Risk of Colorectal Cancer
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many genetic susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer (CRC). However, variants in these loci explain only a small proportion of familial aggregation, and there are ... | <urn:uuid:43069190-52a3-4c39-b115-a9d50d9b0d20> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4454688/discover?filtertype_10=keyword&filtertype_11=keyword&filtertype_12=author&filtertype_13=author&filter_relational_operator_12=authority&filtertype_14=author&filter_relational_operator_11=equals&filtertype_15=keyword&filter_relational_operator_10=equals&filtertype_16=keyword&filter_relational_operator_16=equals&filter_relational_operator_15=equals&filter_relational_operator_14=authority&filter_relational_operator_13=authority&filtertype_0=keyword&filtertype_1=dateIssued&filtertype_2=author&filtertype_3=author&filtertype_4=keyword&filter_2=bcb2cfdfc9e3dfcbefecfb4a0f508b08&filtertype_5=keyword&filter_1=2016&filtertype_6=author&filter_0=Behavior&filtertype_7=author&filtertype_8=author&filter_6=18d124c5509e67756d18665b0f7975ac&filtertype_9=keyword&filter_5=Diet&filter_4=Anatomy&filter_3=354772e0136f23406d87807acd819827&filter_11=Adenomas&filter_9=Biology+and+Life+Sciences&filter_10=Oncology&filter_8=6baf685910512b2d5533d76ee45b9566&filter_7=56d037f196c41c1064b6491145066749&filter_16=Medicine+and+Health+Sciences&filter_15=Cancers+and+Neoplasms&filter_14=e665a3777582dd66d960b542d1cb66e9&filter_13=fd8dcb59a5a5859f2a85fabae12a60cf&filter_12=802565a7411e4ef8fbd089a14d7a6d9c&filter_relational_operator_1=equals&filter_relational_operator_0=equals&filter_relational_operator_3=authority&filter_relational_operator_2=authority&filter_relational_operator_5=equals&filter_relational_operator_4=equals&filter_relational_operator_7=authority&filter_relational_operator_6=authority&filter_relational_operator_9=equals&filter_relational_operator_8=authority&filtertype=keyword&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Colorectal+Cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.891594 | 91 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Their souls slip away like mercury through our fingers. Day after day, worldwide, due to human negligence, ignorance and heartless cruelty. Their shadows walk slowly across our vision and into the great beyond, never to be loved, never to see seen again.
These wisps of memory are the cats of #RememberMeThursday 2017, the ones who didn’t make it. The abandoned and bewildered seniors, the imperfect, the ‘not wanted’s, and the family discards. The cats whose treatment makes a real pet lover’s blood boil in fury. So, let’s get something absolutely straight……..
This is Wrong.
We can ALL Act to Stop This
As we look at our own fur families around us, we can get a touch of the warm fuzzies. We value our pets and our gratitude knows few boundaries, but, there is something important we need to remember. Our adopted families are the lucky ones.
In America alone, 2.7 million shelter pets are not so fortunate. They die. Our maths isn’t so hot but that means about 308 every hour of the day and night each year.
Is Anyone Doing ANYthing for Shelter Pets?
People adopting cats from shelters, and foster networks, are playing a big part in removing the need for #RememberMeThursday. BUT we need to see more shelter pets adopted into homes every single day.
The Helen Woodward Animal Centre believes we should and can take action. Please remind your friends when they are next looking for a cat, kitten or puppy, that a shelter pet is the best option. We are proud to help Place for Cats a foster network in New York and we know that their space on USA adoption network PetFinder is a vital part of their introduction and adoption process, as well as their new web presence.
The Hidden Side of #RememberMeThursday 2017
Did you know there are also people for whom #RememberMeThursday is happening every single day? In places like New York’s infamous Animal Control, Miami-Dade’s death row, and in hundreds of ‘shelters’ across the world; dozens and dozens of cats and dogs are shared in an online space that might save their lives. The social media spotlight.
Countless volunteers work like demons to share a day’s intake on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. They fight to save pet lives by finding temporary fosters, pledges of funding, and rescues to pull pets to safety. So, the next time a cat appears in your timeline with ‘no time left’, or in ‘desperate need’. Don’t roll your eyes and say ‘poor thing’, SHARE a few! Your share can save a life. A share means hope, and a share gives hope.
- Volunteers are at the sharp and bloody end of the fight for shelter pet survival. Sharing ceaselessly, urging followers and friends to pledge so another cat escapes the needle or the gas chamber.
But….. Maybe You Would Love a Pedigree
If you have set your heart on a specific breed? There are pedigree rescues all over the world. Here are a few examples, love a Siamese? Try here: the USA, or UK; Adore a Maine Coon? Try here: USA, or UK. Contact a rescue, or do an online search.
Many rescues have either got a website or a presence on Twitter and Facebook. Go and find them. Most are happy to help, they will have requirements (home visit, costs inc. vetting and transport costs) they can send to keen rescue pet adopters. Check your local shelter or rescue they might have the cat of your dreams, all you need to do is get in touch.
OK, How Can We ALL Help?
There are plenty of ways for us all to pitch in and put things right. Little things, big things, LOTS of things. Here are a few:
- THINK ‘SHELTER PET’ FIRST. Adopt don’t shop. If you need proof, look at some happy endings!
- Educate your friends about neutering and spaying. Many organisations offer reduced or free spay/neuter facilities.
- A family may love its pet but find spay surgery very expensive. Sponsor a spay or neuter! WIN
- This means there will be fewer pressures on those focusing on Trap Neuter Return of community cats. WIN
- Remember that a pet is for life, not just until you need to move and it’s inconvenient. If that’s your idea of what a pet is – buy a stuffy. LOSER!
- Don’t say ‘what can the cat do for me?’. Ask ‘What can I do for the cat?’ Adopt a Cerebellar Hypoplasia aka ‘wobbly’ cat-like Sophie, a blind cat like the famous and fearless Homer, or a tripod kitty.
Here in New Zealand, we do not have kill shelters and for that we at the Dash Kitten Crew are thankful. Cats have their problems, and their enemies, but kill shelters are not on the agenda. So we join Brian and his family being part of Thankful Thursday. We would like to finish on a really positive note.
Our local rescue is Upper Hutt Animal Rescue Society and Mum shot this movie there in Summer 2016. It gives you an insight into a small rescue that loves its cats, and rabbits, and is learning about feral cats too. We are supporting our new cat adoption cafe with its funding Kickstarter – what will YOU be doing to help on #RememberMeThursday? | <urn:uuid:64c3b7bd-958c-4427-98ee-d4806497eb83> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dashkitten.com/remembermethursday-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.928488 | 1,188 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Veterinary Pest Genomics Center Overview
The Veterinary Pest Genomics Center (VPGC) is an initiative within the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The vision for this initiative is to leverage big data solutions to evaluate risk from, and develop mitigations for invasive and other economically important veterinary pests. The introduction of invasive veterinary pests is accelerated by global change, including anomalies related to climate variability. An important aspect of this effort is to foster an innovation ecosystem involving the network of laboratories directly linked to ARS National Program 104 (Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology), and related locations, in a way that allows ARS to leverage its scientific talent and other research assets.
VPGC's mission is to:
- Utilize key biological resources, next generation sequencing technology, and state-of-the-art bioinformatics approaches to sequence and annotate the genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes and metagenomes of important and emerging arthropod pests of veterinary importance
- Develop and use molecular tools for population genomics studies of veterinary pests in their indigenous and invasive ranges to understand the role of different evolutionary forces in shaping phenotypic variation of high-consequence to agriculture
- Apply biogeographic, spatial, and temporal analyses to quantify and predict economically important or potential veterinary pest distributional changes, and integrate these analyses with genetic studies of rapid evolution and adaptation of pests to new or changing environments
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Secure Communication Systems Datasheets for Flat Panel Displays
Flat panel displays (FPDs) are thin, flat, electronic devices used to display data. They are commonly used in notebook computers. Most styles include the housing and ports necessary to connect them to a computer.
Flat Panel Displays: Learn more
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In 1825, the first engineering college in the United States, Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, New York.
The school opened on Monday, January 3, 1825 at the Old Bank Place. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Learn more about Rensselaer at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute
In 1957, the first electric watch was introduced.
Hamilton started its quest to produce the first battery-powered watch in 1946. The research would take more than ten years to develop a working prototype.
Learn more about the electric watch at http://www.thewatchguy.com/pages/HAMILTONELECT.html
In 1977, Apple Computer incorporated.
We all know the rest of the story…
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If you work in education and haven’t been living under a rock for the past ten years, chances are you’re familiar with Dr Carol Dweck’s work on mindset. For decades, Dweck has been studying the effects that our beliefs about ability have on learning behaviours and our future success.
If you believe that ability is mostly the result of practice and hard work, you tend to work harder, practice more, accept more feedback and tackle more challenging problems. And guess what happens…you get better at whatever you are working on. Dweck calls this a growth mindset.
If you believe that ability is mostly the result of predetermined genetic factors or inherent ‘talent’, you don’t practice as diligently, are resistant to feedback and tackle less challenging problems. (After all, there’s no point practicing if ability is genetic.) And guess what happens…you don’t get better at whatever ability it is you think is ‘talent’ based. She calls this a fixed mindset.
Despite some vocal critics of Dweck’s work, there are significant benefits associated with nurturing a growth mindset in children. But like all psychological theories, we need to be careful not to skim the headlines of research and, consequently, develop blunt, broad-spectrum, low-resolution approaches.
Here are just a few of the situations in which Dweck herself, a staunch proponent of growth mindset, has explained that a fixed mindset is healthier and beneficial:
- When faced with certain acute mental or physical health conditions, those who believe they will be able to work their own way through it or ‘get over it’ may be less likely to seek professional or medical help and therefore increase the risk of harm.
- When faced with issues associated with sexual orientation, those who accept that this is who they are and this is who they’re meant to be seem to respond more effectively and adjust more healthily than people who think they should be resisting or trying to change something about themselves.
- When faced with the realisation of aging, graceful acceptance of the inevitability of physical change is often associated with more healthy adaptation of behaviour. In Dweck’s words, we are less likely to “run around nipping and tucking”.
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Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. What a lovely family trio this is. Mary was the sister who loved to listen to Jesus. Martha was the sister who loved to serve others. Lazarus was the brother who was ill. Well, no family is consistently perfect, are we?
Each of us, from the smallest household, to the largest church, has people who like to listen, people who like to serve, and people who are sick. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. They keep showing up in the New Testament, and they keep showing up in church.
3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."
This is the way most of us speak with Jesus. We tell him what he already knows. "Lord, the one whom you love is ill." The Lord knows who among us is sick. The Lord knows our illnesses in deeper ways than we know them. And the Lord loves us in the midst of those illnesses.
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
I believe all illness has that ultimate purpose: to be used for the glory of God. Some illnesses do lead to death. They are certainly sad. But all illnesses can also be vessels of the glory of God. Indeed, everything-even illness-can mediate grace.
5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6 after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
Delay. Delay. Delay. The story of our lives. Why doesn't Jesus drop everything he is doing and rush over to see Lazarus?
"Don't you realize how needy I am?" "If you love me, why don't you respond immediately?" Those are the questions we demand of each other, aren't they?
Ah, but it is not the people who respond most urgently and most anxiously who love us most. Often, the people who are willing to drop everything and help us are the ones least equipped to help.
The friends who help us most are those not driven by the tyranny of the urgent, those not in the biggest hurry, those who are not most anxious, those who do not panic. The ones who love us most sometimes take longer to arrive than others.
So it was with Jesus. He heard the news that Lazarus was ill, and he waited two days to respond. It was a long time. It was not because he did not love Lazarus. It was because his strength did not need to respond according to urgent schedules and anxiety. All strength, all health, is beyond our notions of time.
7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." 8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
Then, the time to move does arrive. Jesus does move. Once Jesus decides to return to Judea, his so-called disciples find plenty of reasons to stop him. Watch out for disciples and friends, family and co-workers, who are always finding reasons to stop.
There are always reasons against fulfilling the vision. Some on your team will say, "Don't go. Don't go there."
Are we always supposed to take the path of least resistance? No, Jesus will walk straight back through the area where they once tried to stone him. He will return.
9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10 But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them." 11 After saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him."
Here beginneth the joke. Here begins the play on words. Is Lazarus merely asleep, or is he dead? The word "sleep" can mean both things.
12 The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right." 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.
Lazarus is dead.
We hear these words all the time. They seem strict and hard to us. Some of us want to avoid the directness of those words. Some folks cannot hear the direct truth.
But, often, they are very pastoral words. "Lazarus is dead." We need to hear that directly sometimes. Your father is dead. Your mother has died. It's over. To hear the truth directly, even the most painful and devastating truth, is a first step in healing, and in salvation itself. Indeed, to hear the truth is the first step of resurrection. Lazarus is dead.
15 For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
Ultimately, I have no idea what Thomas means here! Well, don't misunderstand me; I have lots of small ideas. Thomas wanted to die to this world, and he wanted to do it immediately. But, ultimately, death is a mystery. The act of Thomas here is a typical, impulsive disciple move.
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Yes, we think this all the time. If only God were involved, if only I was closer to Jesus, then things would have gone my way. I wouldn't be in this hardship if Jesus had responded more quickly. "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."
Here, the story gains humorous altitude. Does sleep mean sleep, or does it mean death? Does resurrection mean something that happens now, or after we die? Well, it means both. Resurrection is about life now.
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world."
All these stories in the gospel of John, these long passages which are the gospels during Lent, are about proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah. Martha, like all of us, is meant to recognize Jesus, the Teacher, as the Messiah.
28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 29 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
Yes, she repeats the same words as her sister Martha did. For all their sharp differences, Mary and Martha are actually quite similar. They love Jesus, but they believe that Jesus really came to fulfill their own, personal, and immediate desires. "If only God had been here, I would not have gone through all this pain." That is what we all say, and we are all wrong.
Jesus did not come to take away our pain. Jesus came to go through pain himself. Jesus came so that all of us could live through pain to resurrection.
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34 He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Jesus wept. This verse, John 11.35, is the answer to many trivia contests. The contest question is this: "What is the shortest verse in the Bible?" This one is, John 11:35! "Jesus wept." It is the shortest verse in the Bible, and maybe one of the most powerful, too. Jesus, the Son of God, knows sorrow and weeping. Jesus can be moved and greatly disturbed. To love means to be able to be moved. Jesus loved Lazarus, his friend; and he loves Mary and Martha. Jesus is moved by their sorrow and pain.
38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days."
We move from the shortest verse in the Bible to one of the funniest. Roll away the stone? By this time-after four days-there will be an odor. Or, as the King James Version used to say: "Lord, he stinketh!" The Bible does not mince words when it comes to describing accurately!
But this verse is meaningful. Lord, he stinks. Sometimes, in order to have a resurrection, matters are foul and messy. Resurrections do not happen when all is sterile and clean and smelling like our favorite room deodorizer. Where things stink is exactly where resurrections can also occur!
40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42 I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me." 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
These are the great words of the gospel today. They are the words which could be on the lips of every one of us today. "Lazarus, come out!" Wherever we want Resurrection, we should be able to proclaim: "Lazarus, come out! Be resurrected. Rise again!"
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
"Unbind him, and let him go!" I like these words more than I like "Lazarus, come out." Indeed, these words may be more powerful than the words "Come out!"
Because now, the community needs to assist in the resurrection. "Unbind him, and let him go." There are some people yearning to live resurrection lives. There are some folks who have been born again; they have risen from the dead!
But they are still tangled up in burial clothes. They still have the sheets and coverings of death all over them. They are still bound up in something, bound up in old bondages, old arguments, old sin.
You know what that's like. You know you are living a new life, but you seem somehow to still be in bondage to the old life.
This is where we need community. We need others. Often, it is the task of Christian community to complete the action of Resurrection. Jesus has called forth new life: Lazarus, come out!" But Lazarus still has burial clothes on.
So Jesus says, "Unbind him, and let him go." Those should be the words which are our orders every day, every new day. Unbind somebody. Where you find someone in bondage: your friend, your wife, your husband, your companion, even the stranger. Where you find someone struggling to be free, unbind them and let them go. Do not keep them tangled up in the old affairs of sin and death. Those clothes constrict and make us ill.
When we refuse to let someone go, when we refuse to forgive, when we refuse to see new life, it is we who are keeping them dead. The community has that power.
Jesus, therefore, proclaims to us, to all of us, to the Christian Church: "Unbind him, and let him go." Those are really the powerful words of today's gospel. Don't hold on to the past. Don't hold on to sin. Don't hold on to death!
Let someone go today. Release someone!
45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
Yes, if we really want the world to believe, we must show forth the resurrection life of Jesus, the new life of Jesus. Can we come out of our tombs? Can we unbind someone and let them go? If so, the work of Jesus will indeed be revealed, and the world will believe that he is the Savior of the World. | <urn:uuid:0fabd850-85eb-48a1-b196-b9f320d45204> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002686/unbind_him_and_let_him_go | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.9845 | 2,949 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Sports and politics are two worlds that have always been intertwined. Moses Fleetwood Walker’s first game with the Toledo Blue Stockings pushed him to become the first Black player in Major League baseball — 63 years before Jackie Robinson — but that didn’t come without a hard-fought battle and push to get him on the field.
Sports figures have also used their platform to push off-the-field matters of politics. From Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, to the Detroit Tigers’ Willie Horton, to Muhummad Ali, to Colin Kaepernick, all of these athletes during their prime engaged in their respective protests to put pressure on their leagues — and on the public — to wake up and pay attention to vital causes.
Many athletes have also used their platform and celebrity to enter the political arena.
The latest example is former Auburn Head football coach Tommy Tuberville, who notched a victory this week against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Republican Alabama U.S. Senate primary.
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The Limits of an Open Reader Standard
There are two competing factions in the ebook reading industry. No, not authors v. readers or readers v. publishers (that story is for tomorrow ;) ), it’s IDPF v. OpenReader. The idea is to create an ebook standard that would enable customers to buy any book from any online source and view it on any electronic reader. This is something that could really revolutionize ebook reading. One of my biggest disappointments with Sony Reader is the inability to view my existing ebook purchases at all or in the manner formatted by the publisher. The reason I don’t buy PDF books these days is because of my negative experience of losing several hundred dollars worth of books bought in Adobe format but were unreadable after computer upgrades because of DRM issues.
With the “read any title on any device” promise, I could even support some type of DRM because it appears that my books wouldn’t be “lost” because of device going out of business or better technology appearing. My books purchased for the Sony Reader today could be read on a Apple device next year or a Toshiba device the year after that. As OpenReader announces at its home page, you can play a CD in any CD player and a VHS tape in any VCR and, I might add, any mp3 in almost any digital sound device including the IPOD.
At first blush, there appears to be a Beta v. VHS battle going on between the two groups pushing for an ebook standard. IDPF is the heavyweight with members from virtually every major publishing house in the US (noticeably absent were Penguin and St. Martin’s Press). Adobe is the major technological force behind IDPF. This past, summer, IDPF adopted standards for ebooks published. One would think that IDPF’s ability to bring a number of groups together and agree upon a standardized source for ebooks would be great for the reader.
The problem is that all is not as it seems. According to Dave Rothman, a former member of IDPF since 1999 and current member of OpenReader, the standards adopted doesn’t require existing books to be converted or even require the entirety of the book to be in the standardized format. Further, this standard container or standard source for ebooks does not mean that there is standard DRM. This is such an important point and one that Bill McCoy of Adobe, and leading cheerleader for IDPF, never seems to address. Even if the standards are the same (which Dave Rothman maintains is not required by IDPF), if there isn’t consistent DRM, the dream of “any title any device” is still quite elusive.
Currently nearly every major ereading software uses a different DRM scheme. Adobe, Sony, Microsoft, Mobipocket, and eReader all use proprietary formats that are NOT interoperable. Meaning a book bought today for Sony’s device is not readable tomorrow on Microsoft’s device. Given the high price of ebooks, the inability to resell, swap or share, DRM is crippling to a reader.
I am eternally grateful that online publishers such as Samhain, New Concepts Publishing, Ellora’s Cave and the like are not impairing my e library with DRM. I know that a book I purchase from Samhain today is going to be readable on nearly every device out there, regardless of manufacture, same with Ellora’s Cave. They both use different formatting for their books but that doesn’t really affect me in the end because the books bought from these publishers can go with me and be read on ANY device I currently own. That’s how ebooks should be. It’s short sighted to adopt standards that a) aren’t required and b) don’t address the DRM issue. As a reader, I guess I don’t care how many formats there are – we can deal with different formats. It’s the DRM that we need to universalize.
As romance readers, we could have a big voice. Romance is one of the most downloaded genre fiction these days. Nearly a third of the top 50 bestsellers at Ereader.com were romances (many of those being category romances). Nearly every romance published by Harper Collins and Harlequin are put in ebook format these days. I hope that e-aware publishers will recognize the need for a universal DRM, one that truly means “any title any device.” The current push for a standard format is really smoke and mirrors. In the end, I don’t see how it helps the reader. | <urn:uuid:f04c6ff4-ddc7-429c-add0-a80397f22641> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/the-limits-of-an-open-reader-standard/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.953572 | 960 | 1.632813 | 2 |
This video is called The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn (Part I).
And here is Part II.
Every year, in the Dutch city of Leiden, there is a celebration on 3 October, because on that day in 1574, the Spanish army discontinued the siege of the city.
Hundreds of thousands of people come for the various festive events.
One of those is a big parade.
This year, the theme of the parade was: Between art and kitsch.
So, many parade participants were dressed up as artists.
Or as figures from paintings.
Or from pieces of music.
So, parade participants depicted paintings by Rembrandt, like the Night Watch, and the Anatomical Lesson.
In the parade, after the paintings, came musical pieces by Mozart; then, sculpture.
The first part of the parade was not about art.
It probably aimed at putting Rembrandt in his seventeenth century society context, in itself not a bad idea.
However, how this idea was put into practice in the parade and the official program booklet, was questionable.
The first part of the parade was dedicated to the Dutch East Indies Company, founded at about the time of Rembrandt’s birth.
Neither the booklet nor the parade mentioned that that company, in its quest for profits, had killed many people in Asia (eg, on the spice islands of Banda in Indonesia, most people were massacred, the rest sold as slaves).
The booklet said the East Indies Company might be seen as a predecessor to today’s multinational corporations: shares of it were sold, etc.
The booklet did not have a single critical remark in this sense.
The part of the parade, immediately after the East Indies Company part, was about Dutch seventeenth century warriors of the seas, like Piet Hein and Michiel de Ruyter.
At least, here the booklet remarked that, while some people may consider those sailors heroes, others might consider them pirates.
Rembrandt painting authentication here.
- Art Lovers Rejoice! New Goya and Rembrandt Databases Now Online (openculture.com)
- Remodeled Hunterian Art Gallery In Glasgow Reopens With Rembrandt Exhibition (gadling.com)
- Vermeer: The first Photographer? (lucentdesign.wordpress.com)
- Rothko vandalism: why are the greatest works attacked? (guardian.co.uk)
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No one wants a leaky roof in their home. As such, you should know how to find and fix roof leaks as early as possible.
If left unchecked, roof leaks can cause mould and rot throughout your house. They can also be an invitation for pests such as termites or rats to enter your home.
Thus, our blog examines the causes and signs of roof leaking, as well as how you can fix them.
How to find roof leaks
1) Know the causes of roof leakage
By knowing what causes a roof to leak, you can be proactive in stopping them.
Roof leaks are generally caused by some form of defect or damage around your roof.
Storms and high winds can damage or dislodge the shingles on your roof, for example.
Furthermore, as your roof ages, the material it is made of will deteriorate. For example, flashing can rust or slip out of place.
Gutters are a major source of leaks if they become clogged. A clogged gutter causes water to pool up and eventually damage your roof.
Openings in the roof such as chimneys and skylights can be susceptible to leaks if they are damaged, old or improperly installed.
Water refracts light, so you should be able to see it easily enough if it is there.
2) Check the attic or roof void
Exactly how to find and fix roof leaks depends on where the leak is.
One of the easiest places to spot leaks is in the attic or roof void.
Take a ladder and torch (ensuring you have a spotter for the ladder) and conduct a visual inspection.
If you see stains, dark spots or dripping water you’ll know there’s a leak somewhere.
If insulation is wet as a result of a leak, you can easily follow the damaged area back to the entry point of the water.
3) Inspect the roof
If you do not have an attic or accessible roof void, your first step should be to look at the roof directly.
Alternately, you should follow up your inspection of the roof void or attic with an inspection of the roof itself.
Look at the roof from uphill or take a ladder and go up onto the roof to examine it.
Ensure you go up during the day when there’s plenty of light and you can easily see any issues.
4) Examine the underside of the roof
Make sure to look in harder to spot places such as the soffit. These can leak as well, causing moisture damage around your home.
You might also have vents near the ridges or gable ends of the roof.
Inspect these as well, as the seals around these vents deteriorate over time, allowing rainwater to spread.
5) Pour water on the roof in dry weather
If you are looking to expose leaks in your roof, you don’t need to wait for the rain.
Instead, get a bucket of water or hose and wet the roof section at a time. Make sure there has not been rain recently and the area is dry.
While you do this, have a friend below check the roof from underneath. They can then check for signs of leakage.
Obviously, the roles can be reversed, and you can do the examining while your friend wets the roof.
How to fix a roof leak
After you find the leak in your roof, you should consider fixing it before it causes too much damage.
Just how to fix it will vary based on what area is leaking.
Fixing damaged or loose shingles
If your leak comes as a result of a damaged or loose shingle, you have two options.
You can nail the shingle back in place and use adhesive to install the loose shingle back firmly in place.
Alternately, remove the nails holding in a damaged shingle in place. Loosen the adhesive and use a scraper, pry bar or claw of a hammer to lift and pull it away.
Following this, place the new shingle back using nails and adhesive.
Using Polyethylene sheet to cover leak
You may also wish to put a polyethylene sheet under the new shingle before installing it to prevent further dripping.
Polyethylene is a type of plastic that is resistant to moisture.
To install a Polyethylene sheet over a vulnerable part of your roof, you should first remove the damaged shingle as normal.
After this, put a polyethylene sheet over where the leak is and then install the new shingle.
For smaller cracks, you can use roof sealant applied with a caulking gun.
Do not rely too much on roof sealant as it is not as effective for major issues like a damaged shingle.
Roof Rolling Damage
Roll roofing is a less expensive alternative to roof shingles.
It involves taking a mineral surfaced mat and cutting it into strips. These strips make up the various portions of a roof, which are placed in a horizontal position.
This product is lightweight and less durable than shingles.
Leaks in roll roofing
Roll roofing experiences leaking in different ways than shingles.
Blisters and bubbles can form as a result of water and air collecting in spots.
Alternately, the material itself can split open completely.
Fixing leaks in roll roofing
To get rid of blisters and bubbles, carefully cut it away, making sure to only remove the top layer of the roofing.
Soak up the water using a dry rag, sponge or mop.
Make sure the wet spot dries and then go about fixing the new hole.
Apply roofing cement under the edges of the new hole. Do the same if you’re repairing a tear or spit in the material.
Cut a patch of roll roofing that is 30cm wider than the mended section. Place it over the roof cement, pat it down gently and then secure it with galvanised roofing nails.
To complete this, add a layer of roofing cement over the top, covering the nail heads.
If your roll roofing is asphalt, spread asphalt gravel over the cement to further protect the material.
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Multitasking: Hidden Benefits
New studies which look at the long term effects of multitasking have shown that it enables creativity by tying together diverse actions, thoughts and ideas when the mind is free from rigid focus or diffused.
Juggling several thoughts at once can be confusing but can also increase the flexibility, originality and innovativeness of the thinking.
MORE IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE
Multitasking increases our heart rate as we act and engage in multiple tasks in creative ways, leading to more energy and alertness.
Several studies on participants doing multiple activities at the same time report increased energy and cognitive flexibility, leading to more creative output.
Many of us think that our creativity comes from our first ideas. We assume that finding creative solutions slow down over time.
This assumption is wrong, research suggests. The best ideas come to those who wait. Patience and perseverance will lead to more innovative solutions.
The standard advice provided by a lot of people is to "meditate" when experiencing intense feelings such as rage or sadness. It does work, however, a study suggests that too much meditation can do more harm than good, such as:
There is a threshold when it comes to meditating and we should not cross the boundary to avoid further injuries to ourselves.
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All through the spring and summer, black bears (Ursus americanus) have been eating everything they can find, up to 20,000 calories a day in the form of plants and grasses, berries, acorns, insects, honey, and even birdseed and garbage.
What do bears do when they come out of hibernation?
Bears normally hibernate to survive the winter, a time when food and water are scarcer in the wild. As soon as temperatures start warming in the spring, bears come out of their dens and start searching for food.
What is a black bear’s favorite food?
Especially grass, black bears love grass which comprises most of their diet. During summer black bears also forage for ants and beetle larvae in fallen logs. And it’s during summer black bears are fond of eating fungi. Indeed Fungi does often form part of a black bear’s diet, especially mushrooms.
How do I get out of hibernation?
Seven Healthy Lifestyle Ideas to Get Out of Hibernation Mode
- Partake in Interactive Group Activities. It’s easy to fall into the routine of going to work, coming home, resting, and repeat. …
- Embrace the Great Outdoors. …
- Spring Clean Your Home. …
- Change Your Work Scenery. …
- Eat a Vitamin-Rich Diet. …
- Stretch! …
- Practice Mindfulness.
Do bears give birth while hibernating?
Cubs are usually born within the first two months of hibernation. Cubs and their mothers stay in their dens for the rest of the winter while the mother bear rests and the cubs nurse and grow. Females and their cubs usually emerge from their winter dens in late March or early April.
Can humans hibernate?
And now it turns out that early human beings may also have been at it. They hibernated, according to fossil experts. … The scientists argue that lesions and other signs of damage in fossilised bones of early humans are the same as those left in the bones of other animals that hibernate.
Do hibernating bears poop?
Grizzly bears and black bears generally do not eat, drink, defecate, or urinate during hibernation. … Bears continue to produce some feces during hibernation yet they do not defecate (Rogers 1981).
Can bears die during hibernation?
To survive long winters without eating, drinking, exercising, or passing wastes, hibernating bears cut their metabolic rates in half. … Bears do not usually die of starvation in dens, most deaths from starvation are before or after hibernation and involve primarily cubs and yearlings. Disease is uncommon. | <urn:uuid:c8ec410c-c04a-4425-869d-84ac2aaf1dc6> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://demersus.net/recipes/what-do-black-bears-eat-when-they-come-out-of-hibernation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.933355 | 565 | 3.015625 | 3 |
ReutersPolar bears have been known to eat each other in the past, but now this once-rare phenomenon is rampant. With climate change melting Arctic ice and humans encroaching on their habitat, polar bears have increasingly resorted to killing and eating each other. … Melting ice is also a factor.
Do polar bears eat other bears?
It will eat plants, as well as insects and other animals. … Bears eating other bears isn’t entirely new—polar bears will eat each other, especially each others’ young. But for grizzlies it’s much more novel.
Why do polar bears kill each other?
Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and use sea ice for feeding, mating and giving birth. Polar bears kill each other for population regulation, dominance and reproductive advantage, the study said.
Will bears kill each other?
Myth #6: If a bear charges you, climb a tree.
Bears sometimes kill each other by throwing their opponents out of trees. … Grizzlies, too, can climb – perhaps not as quickly, but they have been known to attack people who climbed trees to escape.
Do male polar bears kill females?
Princess Snowball has had five cubs, the spokeswoman said. Edward Schmitt, assistant director of the zoo, said that the bears are aggressive by nature. … ″In the wild, males have been known to kill females and smaller bears, even for food,′ Schmitt said.
Why do male polar bears kill females during mating?
Polar bears mating is intense and it may appear to some people that they are fighting, Carter told 7 Action News. “It involves the male really being in physical control of the female, including trying to hold her by the skin on the back of her neck,” he said.
Do polar bears drink water?
So they eat the blubber, not the meat. To break down and digest large amounts of protein, you need to get rid of the excess nitrogen in the protein by peeing it out in your urine. However, to produce lots of urine, you have to drink lots of water. There is no drinking water on the polar ice cap!
How much do polar bears need to eat?
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northern red oak Fagaceae Quercus
Leaf: Alternate, simple, 5 to 8 inches long, oblong in shape with 7 to 11 bristle-tipped lobes, sinuses extend 1/3 to 1/2 of the way to midvein, generally very uniform in shape, dull green to blue-green above and paler below.
Flower: Species is monoecious; males in yellow-green slender, hanging catkins, 2 to 4 inches long; females are borne on short axiliary spikes, appearing with the leaves in spring.
Fruit: Acorns are 3/4 to 1 inch long and nearly round; cap is flat and thick, covering about 1/4 or less of the acorn, resembling a beret; matures in 2 growing seasons, in late summer and fall.
Twig: Quite stout, red-brown and glabrous; terminal buds multiple, quite large, conical, and covered with red-brown, mostly hairless scales but terminal scales may bear some frosty pubescence.
Bark: On young stems, smooth; older bark develops wide, flat-topped ridges and shallow furrows. The shallow furrows form a pattern resembling ski tracts.
Form: A medium sized to large tree that reaches up to 90 feet tall, develops a short trunk and round crown when open grown, straight with a clear, long bole when grown with competition.
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GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – The remnants of Hurricane Nora are still a few days away from impacting Colorado, but transportation officials are looking at how it could impact Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon.
“There are several other drainages within the canyon that have not run. So, it just depends on where the amount of rainfall that hits those thresholds and causes debris flows,” said Todd Blake, a Deputy Maintenance Superintendent at the Colorado Department of Transportation.
The rain isn’t expected to be a widespread, lengthy, soaking event. The moisture from the gulf will be enough to cause thunderstorms with the potential of flash flooding.
“It looks like Wednesday afternoon into evening hours we have a better chance of stronger thunderstorms which could produce up to over an inch of rain in a short period of time,” said Erin Walter, a Meteorologist for the National Weather Service. “The potential is there for over an inch of rain in certain locations, though pinpointing that is still difficult this far out.”
All summer long, CDOT officials have been working with forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Grand Junction. When a watch is issued CDOT sends teams to closure points to be prepared to close the canyon. When a Flash Flood Warning is issued the interstate is closed, until the rainfall stops, and crews wait to see if or how much debris has come down the numerous drainages in the canyon affected by last summer’s Grizzly Creek Fire.
“We’re keeping our fingers crossed it’s a short-term closure if we have any this week, so just all depends on the amount of rain and how fast it comes,” said Blake.
With travel in the area expected to increase toward the Labor Day weekend, rain showers could linger later in the week.
“There’s a possibility with moisture lingering for storms that storms with that strength could cause a closure,” Walter said. “We know it’s difficult and it can be an inconvenience, but we’re concerned about public safety, and we don’t want to keep it open if the threat is there.”
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No one buys credit cards with the intention of maximizing their credit limit. But the state-of-the-art gadgets around us make it difficult for us to restrain ourselves from using our credit cards for such mundane pleasures. However, non-payment of these bills at the end of the month will only add to the debt. Continue this for too long, and you’ll feel like you’ve hit your credit card maximum. Not only will this cost you thousands of rupees in interest on those high loans, but it will also reduce your purchasing power in the future. Therefore, it is imperative to understand the consequences of exceeding your credit limit and know the ways to prevent it. Here is a list of reasons why you shouldn’t make the most of your card:
It affects your credit score
Exceeding the credit limit on your card can have a negative impact on your credit score because the amount you use from available credit defines your credit utilization rate (CUR). The CUR is defined as the ratio of each card’s credit limit to your outstanding loans and an ideal CUR would be 30% of your available credit limit. Credit utilization and credit score are inversely proportional. That is, the higher the CUR, the lower the credit score. Having a good credit score is important because a low score can prove to be a red flag when credit issuers go through your credit report while issuing a new one.
Your risk of exceeding your credit limit increases
One may think that if he has maintained a credit balance just below the credit limit, he will not have to worry about the credit limit running out. However, there is a possibility that you may go over your limit after interest charges are levied on your credit balance. If you’re the kind of person who makes only the minimum payment each month, most payments are likely to be used on interest rather than on the actual loan.
Your credit card becomes spendable
A credit card is a convenience tool used during emergencies. If you’ve already maxed out your card, how can you use it to make purchases if you haven’t paid off your loans? Remember, credit card debt builds up over time as the credit balance increases with interest rates. Therefore, it is important that you make timely payments to reduce your balance so that you can use your card in case of an emergency.
Credit lenders may reject your application for a new loan/credit card
If you believe in being good credit score Your application alone can be approved, so you are wrong. In fact, credit issuers check your entire credit report and credit history to check for any irregularities in your payment patterns. Having a maximum out card increases the lending risk for the lender. This may result in your application being rejected. In some cases, issuers may lower your credit limit, taking into account the fact that you have maxed out or exceeded your credit limit.
This, in turn, will affect your credit score by increasing your credit balance-to-credit limit ratio. Hence, it is imperative to ensure that you never go over your credit limit. Paying your balance on time will have a positive effect on your credit history. It will not only improve your financial well-being, but will also improve your personal loan or auto loan eligibility.
Your minimum payment has been increased
The minimum payment on a credit card usually depends on the outstanding balance of the card. The minimum payment is usually 5% of the total outstanding bill. Your minimum payment increases proportionally with your credit balance. Therefore, exceeding or eliminating your credit limit will increase the amount you have to pay each month. Remember, making the minimum payment will not have much impact on your credit balance as a large part of the amount is covered only for the interest rate on higher balances.
Penalties may also be imposed on your interest rate
Credit card issuers can also increase interest rate on your card If you fail to pay your balance after going over your credit limit. If a higher interest rate is charged then your total outstanding balance can increase drastically. This can disrupt your repayment plan. In such situations, it is best to talk to your bank and ask them for a repayment strategy as you are unable to pay the bill. Most of the times they will be oblige with an EMI scheme which will help you to cover it in no time at a fixed rate of interest.
Always remember to have a low credit balance. It will not only improve your credit score and increase your Eligibility for a new credit card But also reduce the risk of lenders approving your loan. Make it a habit to use your card only for urgent needs or emergencies. Make sure that you can clear your loans at the earliest by creating a viable credit balance repayment plan.
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The Town of Bloomington launched the Bloomington Inexperienced Dwelling Advancement Method on Tuesday as part of Mayor Hamilton’s Get well Forward initiative, according to a push launch Monday.
The plan, a partnership involving the city’s Division of Financial and Sustainable Setting, Group Advancement Economical Establishments Friendly Bloomington and Thoroughly clean Electricity Credit rating Union, is intended to aid electrical power productive enhancements for citizens of Bloomington.
CDFI Welcoming Bloomington is a nonprofit neighborhood group supporting and assisting Local community Development Economic Establishments in the town, in accordance to its website. Clear Energy Credit Union is a low-cash flow designated, federally chartered credit history union that presents financial loans for clear electrical power jobs, according to its web-site
“We’re excited to husband or wife with the Town of Bloomington to encourage and aid additional residents’ installing renewable strength and electricity efficiency assignments,” Blake Jones, volunteer board chair for Thoroughly clean Electrical power Credit Union, reported in the release. “In addition to the environmental rewards, we’re thrilled that these projects will also aid Bloomington people to decreased their utility expenditures and save funds.”
Skilled home owners will be qualified to acquire $1,000 rebates and reduced-curiosity financial loans to use toward photo voltaic, geothermal and energy effective initiatives.
“This plan produces the possibility for minimal- and moderate-money householders to make environmentally-welcoming updates to their houses, which will have immediate gains for them and the community–and location–as a total,” Brian Payne, Govt Director of CDFI Welcoming Bloomington, said in the launch.
Energy efficient jobs incorporate photo voltaic electric method installations, geothermal warmth pump techniques, electricity economical HVAC and electrical automobile rates. A comprehensive list is readily available at the Cleanse Vitality Credit score Union’s web page.
“The Metropolis of Bloomington carries on to foster initiatives that assistance environmental and economic objectives, advancing Bloomington’s progress in direction of getting a more sustainable, resilient, and flourishing town,” Hamilton claimed. “Through this software, individuals can enjoy an significant function in climate motion and also love electrical power expense personal savings.”
All property owners inside Bloomington metropolis boundaries are considered suitable to utilize for the system and must comprehensive an consumption kind to confirm eligibility. Once the consumption type is accomplished, suitable residents will be directed to implement specifically for a financial loan from Clean Power Credit Union at an fascination rate diminished by .5%, according to the release.
Inhabitants with a residence income beneath $100,000 who confirm completion of a environmentally friendly strength challenge are then qualified for a $1,000 rebate from the city, according to the release.
A federal photo voltaic revenue tax credit of 26% is readily available for solar or geothermal projects done in 2021 or 2022, and getting a rebate from the metropolis will not disqualify inhabitants from declaring this credit rating, according to the release.
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The Best Pets for Living in Recovery
Sometimes the road to recovery from a substance abuse or alcohol addiction can be lonely and frustrating. Our family and friends may not always be available to be there for us. Without a strong support group, patients may feel less resilient, have poor self-esteem, or may feel disheartened. Having a pet may fill this void. With the best pets to accompany you through your journey, the road to recovery may feel a little easier and less lonesome.
The Benefits of Having Pets as Companions in Recovery
Humans have been domesticating a variety of animals throughout history. From ants, beetles, birds, mice, snakes, cats, dogs, and many more, humans have nurtured special bonds with their pets. They have become a prominent part of our everyday lives as well as part of our family. Many pets serve a variety of functions from protecting their owners, controlling pests, or being a service dog for those who are in need.
In Florence Nightingale’s book of Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, she stated that a small pet animal is a great companion for the sick. The Dog as a Co-Therapist by Boris Levinson also showcases the therapeutic value of animals. This book and article are some of the early published works that show the benefit of animals in recovery. Even in the past century, the relationships between the best pets and their human counterpart and the possible benefits of that relationship to the human’s physical and emotional well-being in recovery have been observed. The best pets can be a great source of support to an individual’s mental and physical health. They can have a great contribution to the therapeutic process of the patient.
There are numerous benefits of having a pet accompany you through your recovery:
They Provide Unconditional Love: Their love knows no bounds. If you show kindness to them, they will repay you with their acceptance and love. No matter what wrongdoings you may have done in your past, they won’t judge you or criticize you. Patients undergoing recovery from substance abuse or alcoholism may feel as if they are not worthy of another chance. Pets can provide social support and are there to make you feel wanted, loved, and needed again. They can provide a great source of happiness with their playful and affectionate nature. These can help trigger the release of oxytocin, which helps patients reduce symptoms related to anxiety by reducing the cortisol hormone associated with stress.
They can Keep you Active: Animals, especially dogs, require an active lifestyle. Exercising can help patients keep their focus away from the urge of their cravings or their withdrawal symptoms. Research also shows that exercising helps release endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and adrenaline which can improve your mood and balance your emotions. Exercising also helps your body feel more calm and relaxed.
They Promote Responsibility: Owning a pet is a great responsibility that an individual must seriously consider before getting one. You may see your pet as just part of your world, but they see you as their whole world. Their well-being will depend on you and your choices. Owning a pet can give patients a sense of responsibility and self-esteem and help encourage them to be sober and drug-free. They will see the importance and impact of supporting and caring for another living being while being sober and clean.
What are the Best Pets for Patients Who are Undergoing Recovery?
Different pets have different kinds of characteristics that make them useful in mental and physical treatments. Patients must keep in mind the choosing the best pets to help them must be taken seriously. Not all pets are the same. They have different needs that must still be provided for their well-being. It is a great responsibility that also rewards you with great benefits.
The most popular pets used for recovery are dogs and cats. Dogs are undoubtedly man’s best friend. They are the most popular among the best pets for recovery. They are loyal and compassionate. Their playful nature and the need for regular exercise promote an active lifestyle for the patients. Cats are the second most frequently used pet for animal treatments and best pets for recovery. Like dogs, they provide affection, although these pets do not require a much rigorous exercise as dogs, they need physical activity through playtime with you.
Here are those pets plus some of the other best pets that can help an individual on their journey to recovery:
Small pets such as insects, fishes, and reptiles provide fewer interactions because of their limited ability to respond to human stimuli. They still reduce stress levels and keeps patients focused, as they are fascinating to watch and observe.
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For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:
(1) “Child” means any child who comes within the purview of the Department of Human Services either because such child is neglected as defined in § 16-2301(9) or whose custody has been voluntarily surrendered by the parent or guardian to the Mayor.
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I thought I would post
on a topic that has reared its head again lately – the notorious “due on sale”
clause (key terrifying music). Every few
years this will get talked about and so I thought it would be a good idea for
us to cover this right here and now.
In this post we’ll cover what the “due on sale” clause is,
I’ll even show you the actual verbiage from the clause itself, and then how you
can avoid it. Let’s get started.
What is the “Due on Sale” Clause?
The “due on sale” clause, as its commonly referred to, is 2
paragraphs that are usually located in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “notes”
(which is the specific form/instrument that outlines the terms of your
mortgage). These paragraphs give the
lender specific rights to call the loan due in full if the title ever
changes. For example, if you ever sold
the property. While the two paragraphs
in question don’t actually use the terms “due” or “sale” it’s been given that
name through the years to provide an easy way to explain the verbiage.
Normally, if there is a loan attached to the property that
loan is paid off when you sell it. The
cause for concern though is what if I don’t WANT to pay off that mortgage (like
in an owner financed scenario) or if I just change the title to my LLC after
closing - would the lender call my note due?
And the short answer is no…AS LONG AS YOU ARE PAYING ON TIME. So let’s examine this a little bit more.
This is the first paragraph of the “due on sale”
clause. As mentioned above you will find
this verbiage in your “note” and it’s only 2 sentences:
If all or any part of the Property or any Interest in the Property is sold or transferred (or if Borrower is not a natural person and a beneficial interest in Borrower is sold or transferred) without Lender's prior written consent, Lender may require immediate payment in full of all sums secured by this Security Instrument. However, this option shall not be exercised by Lender if such exercise is prohibited by Applicable Law.
2 Really Important Legal Phrases
The first really important legal phrase to understand in
this clause is “may”. The lender MAY
require immediate payment. This is really
important to understand because the lender isn’t FORCED to require this from
us. It’s their choice. And if we leave
it up to them, they won’t…as long as we pay that mortgage. The lender MAY require immediate
payment. Let’s examine why a lender wouldn’t
do this a bit deeper:
And you might be able to think of some other reasons
too. But it’s just that simple. Keep your mortgage servicer happy (by paying
on time) and you can certainly transfer the deed to your LLC or Land Trust or
whatever other strategy you need to do.
Keep in mind that this post is NOT addressing other things you should
consider when wrapping a note or transferring title…but just the act of
transferring title itself.
But let’s examine one other scenario – WHAT IF MY LENDER
DOES LOSE ITS MIND AND CALLS THE NOTE DUE?
That’s what the 2nd paragraph is for:
If Lender exercises this option, Lender shall give Borrower notice of acceleration. The notice shall provide a period of not less than 30 days from the date the notice is given in accordance with Section 14 within which Borrower must pay all sums secured by this Security Instrument. If Borrower fails to pay these sums prior to the expiration of this period, Lender may invoke any remedies permitted by this Security Instrument without further notice or demand on Borrower.
The 2nd paragraph here highlights the OTHER
really important legal term – “not less than 30 days”. That means they must provide you, at minimum,
30 days to change the title back to the original name on the loan. So even if your lender does lose it’s mind –
they still have to give you time to find a solution. And in most states changing the title back is
1 piece of paper. It’s really easy. Now if you did wrap the loan, changing it
back would not be possible. So just know
that going into it a wrap if something beyond reasoning, that has never happened
in the history of happening, were to happen…you would need a solution to it if
you were wrapping Fannie/Freddie money.
And yes, there are lenders who WOULD refinance a note in this type of a
scenario where you didn’t own the property anymore. The terms wouldn’t be as good but it is
possible. Again, this is really unlikely
to ever occur but you can see that there is time to find a solution if it were
And that’s it. I hope
all of this makes sense. Thanks for reading!
Thanks, Andrew! Great information, especially coming from someone in the mortgage business.
Great job. I've been doing sub-to deals and wraps for 20 years and teaching them 10+ and I have never seen the "Due on Sale Clause" explain so well and in such detail. Thanks for this.
It has been my experience over the years that if you pay the payments on time AND keep the property insured correctly you won't have a problem with the lenders. Of course there are alot of details that go with this but that's the bottom line. They want to MONEY and not the real estate so they are not trying to take houses back.
Excellent job sir.
Great insights from the lender's perspective, Andrew! Very much in line with what Dick Kellett and I shared at today's meeting but with additional detail...Bravo!
You seem to be implying the bank will never call a loan due if it is current. That is not true. It does happen. It is not an easy problem to solve, especially if the underlying note is wrapped.
Neil Aggarwal Property Financing, LLC
Neil Aggarwal wrote:Andrew:You seem to be implying the bank will never call a loan due if it is current. That is not true. It does happen. It is not an easy problem to solve, especially if the underlying note is wrapped. Neil Aggarwal Property Financing, LLC
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In the Amazonian city of São Félix do Xingu, in Pará state, there are nearly 20 head of cattle for each inhabitant. With more than two million cows, São Félix is the Brazilian city with the largest herd.
It also is the city with this year’s third highest number of fires, which are destroying the Amazon and shocking the world.
The fires around São Félix demonstrate how farmers clear land for cattle. Almost 80% of destruction in the Amazon is associated with creating pasture, according to a 2016 report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
Brazil is the world’s number one beef exporter. China and Hong Kong are its main buyers. But the country is also the largest exporter of soy to China. As soy expands in other Brazilian regions, it sparks a chain of events that involves the displacement of other farmers and ranchers who, sometimes in cahoots with illegal loggers and miners, clear swathes of the Amazon.
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro insists that economic development in the Amazonian region, one of the country’s poorest, should prevail over forest preservation. In a meeting about the fires with Amazon region governors last week, Bolsonaro said that new reserves would “make Brazil unviable”.
However, research shows that the destruction of the Amazon could also destroy Brazilian agribusiness, a central pillar of the local economy.
of Brazilian agriculture is not irrigated and depends on rainfall
More than 90% of Brazilian agriculture is not irrigated and depends on the rain the Amazon creates. Amazon deforestation reduces the amount of water produced by evapotranspiration and increases temperatures, also generating higher CO2 emissions, according to André Guimarães, executive director of the Amazonia Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).
"China is among those most interested in safeguarding the water produced by the Amazon region because it makes commodity production cheaper," he said.
Agribusiness fights back
Some members of Brazil’s agribusiness lobby are attempting to distance themselves from reports linking them to Amazon deforestation. The culprits, they say, are land grabbers seeking to profit from real estate speculation, not profitable and legal businesses.
Luiz Cornacchioni, executive director of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association, says he’s in discussions with the government on how to take more effective action against illegal deforestation and one of its main causes – land fraud.
the average annual deforestation of the Amazon in square kilometres between 2007 and 2016
"Sustainability is the name of the game. The sector cannot be harmed by criminals,” he said. “Brazilian agribusiness has already shown that it is possible to produce as well as preserve. We have a Forest Code that must be complied with. The government needs to apply the law and the penalties it establishes.”
In 2017, the amount of soy planted in deforested areas grew by 27.5%, according to a report by the Soy Moratorium, an environmental accord between soy producers, the government, and civil society to refrain from purchasing or planting in deforested areas in Amazon states Mato Grosso, Maranhão, Tocantins, Pará, Rondônia, or Amapá.
Approximately 76% of crops planted in deforested areas are in Mato Grosso, the number one producing state nationwide. Nevertheless, there are signs that the accord works. The average rate of deforestation in the 89 municipalities of Mato Grosso is 6.5 times lower following the 2006 Soy Moratorium. Only 1% of soy in the Amazon region is planted in recently deforested areas.
The forces of the just and honest must all be aligned, including the buyers of Brazilian commodities
The notion that deforestation increases production is misleading, according to Ricardo Abramovay, an economist at the University of São Paulo. He argues that land investments should not concentrate on turning forest to pasture, but rather in technology to make it more productive.
Between 1991 and 2017, Brazilian soy production soared 312%, while the planted area expanded 61%, demonstrating an increase in productivity, according to the watchdog Climate Observatory.
Nor is deforesting in order to plant more yielding great results in Brazil. Between 2007 and 2016, the average yearly deforestation of 7,400 square kilometres translated into a 0.013% increase in Brazil’s GDP, according to the Zero Forestation Working Group.
"Destruction of the forest is not necessarily required to increase soy production", Abramovay wrote in his 2018 book The Amazon Needs a Natural Knowledge Economy.
IPAM’s Guimarães made a distinction between productive law-abiding agribusiness and environmental crimes committed in the Amazon.
"More than 90% of deforestation is illegal, the result of criminal acts by land grabbers, loggers, and gold miners," he said. "If it is crime, the forces of the just and honest must all be aligned, including the buyers of Brazilian commodities."
The most vulnerable regions of the Amazon produce much more meat and soy for the domestic market than for export, researchers say. However, foreign demand for products from parts of the country where agriculture has less impact on the forest pushes producers focused on the domestic market towards regions with high deforestation rates.
The complexity of the meat production chain and the lack of transparency in meatpacking operations also encourage bad practices, known as “cattle laundering”, by processing plants and their suppliers.
An investigation by Repórter Brasil found that large companies in the sector, such as JBS, Marfrig, and Frigol, buy cattle from ranchers who have received fines in regions notorious for deforestation and which are at the epicentre of fires currently raging in the Amazon.
of deforested area is used for low-quality pasture
Amazon cattle ranching is also relatively unproductive. The Amazonia Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) showed that 65% of deforested land is used for low-quality pasture. On average, each head of cattle in the region occupies an area equivalent to a football pitch.
In total, an area twice the size of Germany has been deforested in the Amazon, according to Abramovay. Almost one fifth of it has been destroyed. In 1960 it was 1%.
Brazil has shown that it can slow deforestation. Between 2003 and 2012, rates fell by 80%.
However, since 2012 the pace has picked up and Brazil has begun to backtrack on an international commitment to bring annual deforestation down to 3,800 square kilometres next year.
Some researchers predict that deforestation in the Amazon could surpass 10,000 square kilometres this year.
In contrast to French president Emmanuel Macron, who appears to have taken up protecting the Amazon as his newest political cause, the Chinese government has largely remained tight-lipped on the fires.
However, it has downplayed suggestions that the country bears some responsibility for driving deforestation in the Amazon.
“The correlation is new to me,” foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a an August 26 press conference, in response to a question about about global beef consumption and the fires, which noted China’s possible role as a major importer.
China was aware of the fires and supported the Brazilian government in its efforts to fight them, he added.
In a meeting with representatives from Brazilian agribusiness last month, Jingtao Chi, chairman of COFCO International, China’s largest trading company, which imports a quarter of Brazil’s soy, repeated “sustainability” several times, according to Ipam's Guimarães.
In January, Jun Lyu, another Cofco executive, caused a stir by publishing an article urging the international community to combine efforts in combatting deforestation.
Isabel Nepstad, a senior consultant for the Solidaridad Network, which monitors global supply chains, said that by joining the ranks of major international trading companies, Cofco is setting a good example for other Chinese companies.
"Its announcements caught the attention of other companies in China and abroad," she said. "But because other companies do not yet have sustainability departments and Cofco has the advantage of being a state-owned company with global operations, it will take time before we see more public commitments from Chinese players".
NGO Global Canopy, which maps production chains and their impact on tropical deforestation, has investigated supply chains in the beef and leather trade between Brazil and China, which are exposed to a “deforestation risk”.
The top 20 Chinese companies in these sectors do not have sustainability policies related to deforestation, despite their significant impact, Global Canopy found.
"It is in fact a consumer market that directly impacts the expansion of Brazilian agribusiness," said André Vasconcelos, a Latin America researcher at Global Canopy, who also works on Trase supply chain transparency tool.
In an interview with UOL, Chinese Minister-Counsellor Qu Yuhui said that the current crisis was "a bit fabricated" and that Brazil has one of the best standards for environmental conservation in the world.
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The employee’s state insurance Act, 1948 was enacted by the legislature as an integrated need based on the social insurance scheme. ESI stands for employee state Insurance Corporation is an autonomous body created by the ministry of labor and employment that governs and regulates the employee state insurance in India. ESI is managed and governed by the rules and provisions issued by the ESI ACT 1948.
ESI is like a social insurance scheme that would protect the interest of workers in possibilities such as sickness, maternity, temporary or permanent physical disablement and death due to employment injury resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity. The ACT also guarantees reasonably good medical care to workers and their immediate dependents.
This scheme is started for Indian workers. The workers are provided with a huge variety of medical, monetary and other benefits from the employer. Any company having more than 10 employees who have a maximum salary of RS. 15000/- has to mandatorily register itself with the ESI.
Documents required for ESI registration
- Registration certificate or license issued under shops and establishment acts or factories acts
- Address proof – Latest rent receipt of the premises you are occupying indicating the capacity in which the premises are occupied.
- Photocopy of latest building tax / property tax receipt
- Memorandum and articles of association /partnership Deed /trust Deed depending on the entity that is applying for registration.
- Photocopy of certificate of commencement No. of CST /ST
- Copy of PAN Card
- Evidence in support of the date of commencement of production /business/ first sale.
- Month wise employment position salary etc.
- Business activity of the firm/ company
- Details of bank account along with a cancelled cheque.
- Family photo of employee.
Entities covered under ESI
As per the government notification dated sec1 (5) of the ESI act the following entities are covered –
- Restaurant or hotels only engaged in sales
- Road motor transport establishment
- Newspaper establishment (which is not covered under the factory act)
- Private educational institutions
Procedure for ESI registration
Factories must register within 15 days of the ESI applicability
A 17 digit code number is provided which is used in all correspondence.
At the time of joining, employee s fill a declaration form and submit two copies of a family photo to the employer, which is submitted to the ESI.
The employee will be allotted an insurance number for the purpose of his identification under the scheme.
Temporary number card
The employees are issued a temporary identity card for availing medical benefit for three months. Permanent photo identity card. There is no requirement of re-registration during change of employment and same registration can be transferred from one employment to another.
Benefits of ESI registration
The insured person and his family members are provided with full medical facility from the day he enters insurance service. Medical care is also provided to retired persons and permanently disabled insured persons and their spouses on payment of a token annual premium of Rs.120.
About Sickness Benefits
Sickness benefits are provided to the employees at the rate of 70% of his salary. In case such sickness continued for exceeding 91 days in a year and the same is also certified.
Maternity benefit for pregnancy is payable for twenty six weeks, which is extendable by further one month on medical advice at the rate of full wage subject to contribution for 70 days in the preceding two contribution periods.
Temporary disablement benefit
From day one of entering insurable employment and irrespective of having paid any contribution in case of employment injury. Temporary disablement benefit at the rate of 90% of wage is payable so long as disability continues.
Permanent disablement benefit
The benefit is paid at the rate of 90% of the wage in the form of monthly payment depending upon the extent of loss of earning capacity as certified by a medical board.
ESIC provides monthly cash allowance for a duration of maximum 24 months in case of involuntary loss of employment or permanent invalidity due to non-employment injury.
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La cuarta pared (The Fourth Wall)
La cuarta pared (The Fourth Wall) obeys a desire to explore the physical dimension of the photographic object and unravel the sociological framework shaped by family snapshots. How do these photographs mediate in our relationships? What part do they play in our bonds, in our understanding of family ties? In La cuarta pared I use photography as a tool that allows me the possibility of connecting with my family past. It's a work that deals with our belonging and affections. As well as the mechanisms characterising the subjectivity inherent in our perception of images, inviting the viewer on a journey the center of photography.
Considering the mediation of the camera, the process consists in plunging into the photographic print bearing in mind the blind spots of the frame, and from there, in exploring the opening to spaces of reflection that concern both the family sphere – in a gestaltic and relational sense – and the multiple temporalities of the image. As a result, the reflection posed by La cuarta pared moves beyond the family setting and hints at another way of understanding the photographic event that transcends the moment the photographer takes the picture.
Placing the camera 'inside' images when taking photographs enables us to alter the established hierarchy of the aspects that presumably confer meaning, suggesting the possibility of focusing on the interstices of the visible that usually escape our attention. From this new perspective, bodies and objects acquire their own autonomy, as a consequence, the space of the image opens up and becomes a new scenario. Refining our gaze in order to capture the seemingly secondary information reproduced in a photograph. i.e., that which exists on the margins of the referent, dissolves the barrier that perpetuates us in the role of external spectators and absorbs us in its inner being.
If capturing has long been considered the essence of photography, the attention to archive has contributed to a new ontology of the medium as a relational platform that doesn’t express the intentions of a unique participant. From this perspective, the reflection proposed by this project moves beyond the family context and aims at attaining a new understanding of the photographic event, which surpasses the mere capturing. It is in this sense that La cuarta pared sets out to transcend the understanding of the photographic act as a fait accompli, where the margins of the photographic are expanded to a collective meeting with an open ending and not as a ‘done deal’, as a past and closed place.
In parallel, the anachronism that articulates the project is a way of visualizing the multiple temporalities that each image carries, and the potential to upgrade the past, to invoke it and at the same time, reshape it in the present of the observer of the image. Hence, the process in which I have engaged, reframing certain details of the image, has turned out to be a way of getting involved, of feeling I was a part of my family history and re-establishing bonds.
La cuarta pared incites us to relate to the image in its full phenomenological dimension. This work encourages us to expand the way we relate to the family album. From this new space on the boundaries of photography, La cuarta pared invites us to revisit our images, and, by extension, any image with which we are connected from a different perspective, with another proximity, adopting a more participatory and active role. | <urn:uuid:b19efae3-24a4-47bf-a906-92616e92c313> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://diegoballestrasse.com/La-cuarta-pared-EN | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.92424 | 704 | 1.59375 | 2 |
This article will walk you through some tips for how to set up a basic portrait post-processing workflow that can help you save time and stay organized.
When you’re new to photography, everything is exciting. Every time you come home with a full memory card, it’s a mad rush to the computer to see what you have captured. You’re eager to see every image and each one is treated as a separate entity with every technique you’ve come across. This is great. That excitement is what will keep you moving forward with photography and it is how you rapidly learn and grow as a photographer. That’s how it was with me, at any rate.
What happens, however, as you start taking more and more images? For example, regular portrait sessions a couple times a week can lead to an overwhelming amount of photographs. Approaching every frame as an individual becomes time-consuming and inefficient. If you’re not careful, you’ll have a backlog of images going back months and months. Often, many of your photos will be forgotten at the wayside.
The solution to this problem is to develop a portrait post-processing workflow.
In the simplest terms possible, a workflow is a checklist of repeatable actions that you work through as you go through a task. If it helps, in business the equivalent be would systems and in manufacturing, it could be compared to an assembly line.
You can have a workflow for any part of the photographic process, from planning and coordinating sessions to setting up and tearing down equipment and finally the post-processing stage.
This article will outline the steps of the post-processing workflow that I’ve been using on my portraits for a few years.
Because every photographer has their own way of importing, organizing and editing their images in Lightroom (and other software), this article starts at the beginning of the post-processing stage for individual images. It assumes you will have already imported your photos into Lightroom and you have already edited (culled) down to the keepers.
This workflow uses both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Each program offers its own strengths. To take advantage of them, consider using both with the Adobe Photographer membership.
The first step is to conduct any color corrections to your image. I do this in one of two ways. The first involves a ColorChecker Passport. If you don’t have one, just skip past it (or purchase one here on Amazon.com and follow along).
Xrite ColorChecker Passport
In your Lightroom catalog, find the photo you took with the ColorChecker Passport in it. Go to File>Export and export the image as a DNG to a folder where you can find it.
Now open the software that came with your Xrite ColorChecker Passport, and import the DNG you just exported into it.
The software does a pretty good job of aligning the photo to the ColorChecker, but if it fails, just follow the instructions on the screen.
Press the Create Profile button and give it a name that has something to do with the images you are going to be working on. For example, if you’re working on portraits of Jane Doe in a wedding dress which you took on April 15th of 2017, you could name the profile: JaneDoeWeddingDress041517. That’s optional, of course, but it will help you should you decide to revisit these photos in six months time.
Now, reopen Lightroom, find the image of the ColorChecker Passport, and open it in the Develop Module. Scroll down the panels on the right until you find the Calibration tab.
At the top, there will be the word Profile followed by Adobe Standard. Click there and choose the profile name that you just made in the external software (in the example below I called it “PortraitWorkflow”.
This process has built a custom color profile, individual to the lighting present in the scene. This is a vital step if you want to get the most accurate colors in your photographs.
White balance with the ColorChecker Passport
In the right-hand panel, scroll back up to the top basic panel. Select the eyedropper. To correct the white balance in your image, click in any of the white or gray boxes on the ColorChecker in your image. That will correct your white balance automatically. Each box will have a different effect on your images, so feel free to go through them all to see which works best, or which you prefer.
Press CTRL/CMD+Shift+C and in the dialog box click the Check None box. Tick off only the boxes for Calibration and White Balance, and then click Copy.
With your settings copied, you can go back to the Library Module and select all of the photos that you want these settings applied to. Select them and press CTRL/CMD+Shift+V to do this.
Make sure you deselect the group of images afterwards by pressing CTRL/CMD+D.
White balance in Lightroom
If you don’t have a ColorChecker Passport, you can set your white balance manually by using the eyedropper (click on something neutral in the image) and sliders at the top of the Basic tab. Once you’re done, you can copy and paste the settings to the other images in your set as described above.
The next step is to find the Lens Corrections tab and click both the Enable Profile Corrections box and the Remove Chromatic Aberration box.
Doing this will correct any distortion caused by your lenses and it will usually deal with any chromatic aberrations. It’s a simple step, but it can make a world of difference to your final images.
Before you move on, however, always zoom in and move around your image looking for any chromatic aberrations (look at the edges of the image) the software failed to correct. It’s usually very good, but sometimes it will fail in tricky lighting situations where there’s a lot of backlighting. For portraits, pay close attention to catch lights in the eyes. If you find any chromatic aberrations there, simply go to the Manual section of the Lens Correction tab, choose the eyedropper and click into any color halos that you find.
For portraits, I try to keep my basic adjustments at this stage to a minimum. I will use the exposure slider as needed, the White and Black sliders minimally, keep the Clarity slider between +15 and -15, and often reduce the Vibrance to -10.
The reason for keeping these adjustments minimal is that they are global adjustments (apply to the entire image). I prefer to work with local adjustments in Photoshop, which give you much more control over the image. But, it is also possible to do local adjustments in Lightroom using the Adjustment Brush, Radial Filter and Graduated Filter if you would prefer.
NOTE: When working on proofs to send to clients so they can make their final image selections, this is where I usually stop. There is little need to spend up to an hour retouching a photo that will never see the light of day. Colour corrections and maybe a few small contrast adjustments are almost always enough at this point.
Black and White (optional)
If you intend to work in black and white and you like doing your conversions in Lightroom, this is the stage where I do the conversion process using the black and white sliders.
If you intend or prefer to do your conversion in Photoshop, then skip this part and make it the first step once your image is opened inside Photoshop.
With the Raw processing complete, it’s time to export (or open) your image into Photoshop. Press CTRL/CMC+Shift+E to bring up the Export dialogue box. Choose a location and name appropriate to your own organizational system and export the image as a TIF or PSD (either of those formats will retain all your layers when you save your work). Close Lightroom and open your image in Photoshop.
NOTE: Alternatively you can open your RAW file directly from Lightroom into Photoshop by right-clicking the image and selecting: Edit In > Edit in Adobe Photoshop – OR – Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop.
The first step of this workflow in Photoshop is to remove temporary blemishes from your subject’s skin. Create a new empty layer by pressing CTRL/CMD+Shift+N and pressing OK.
You can use either the Spot Healing Brush Tool or the Healing Brush Tool, or a combination of both. Once you’ve selected your tool, ensure that the All Layers option is selected in the drop-down menu labeled Sample. Also, ensure that you are working on the new empty layer (you just created above) in order to keep things non-destructive.
While using the healing brushes, zoom in to at least 200% on your image and use a brush that is only slightly larger than the blemish you are trying to remove. If you are using the Healing Brush tool, take a new sample after every click by pressing Alt/Option+Click to ensure the best results.
How far you go is going to be a matter of personal preference. I like to limit this step to only temporary blemishes and leave scars and beauty marks unless I’m asked to remove them by the subject.
Note: It is possible to remove blemishes in Lightroom, but it is a time consuming and awkward process compared to Photoshop in my opinion. If Lightroom works better for you, go ahead and use it.
Although we already covered color corrections in the first step, I like to revisit it at this stage. For example, in this image, the background is still too warm for my taste. Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
In the Properties tab, find the icon that looks like a pointing hand. Click it and then find a place in the image you want to adjust the colors. In this image, it’s in the background.
Now adjust the sliders in the Hue/Saturation Layer until it has the desired effect on the color you are trying to change.
In this image, the background and the subject shared a lot of the same warmth. To keep them separate, use a layer mask. Click into the layer mask on your Hue/Saturation layer and press CTRL/CMD+I to invert it (hide all).
Now select the Brush tool (B) and set your foreground color to white and your opacity and flow to 100%. Paint into the areas (on the mask not the layer) you want to be affected by your Hue/Saturation layer. If you mess up, just switch your foreground color to black and paint over the mistake.
Dodging and burning
The next step is to deal with contrast. Instead of using the contrast sliders at the raw processing stage, it is best to use a technique like dodging and burning for small, local adjustments to get the most control over your images. There are a lot of different methods for dodging and burning, but I prefer the gray layer method.
By using multiple layers, you can obtain really fine control over the contrast and the tones in specific parts of your image with little effort. For example, you can have a set of layers for skin tones, another set for the clothes, a set for hair, and another set for eyes all independently adjusted. You can learn how to dodge and burn here.
High Pass Filter
The last step of my workflow before saving is to use a High Pass filter to sharpen things up a bit. To use the High Pass filter, merge all of your existing layers into a new one by pressing CTRL/CMD+alt+Shift+E. Zoom into 100%, select the layer that was just created, and go to Filter>Other> High Pass.
As long as you are working with a high-resolution file, set the radius between two and five. If you’re working with a smaller file, move the slider to the left until the preview image looks like a faint outline of your original image (as seen below). Press OK.
On the Layer Palette, change the blending mode to Soft Light or Overlay. This is more personal preference than anything, but Overlay will give a far more pronounced effect than Soft Light. I prefer Soft Light for portraits and Overlay for other subjects. The last step is to reduce the opacity of the High Pass layer. Zoom into 100% and move the opacity slider to the left until you can barely see the effect.
Saving your image
When the image is finished it’s time to save it. This will different for everyone depending on your own organizational system, but I prefer to save files as 16-bit TIFFs with layers intact. Doing this means that you can go back and adjust any part post-processing at any time. It also means you can go back to your full resolution file at any time to create smaller images for web use and the like without potentially losing them. The downside to this is that 16-bit TIFF files can get very large and they do take up a fair amount of hard drive space, but to me, the peace of mind is worth it.
In the end
The amount of time it takes to get through this workflow varies from image to image. Some photos take five minutes, others take closer to an hour. Overall, having a workflow like this will save you countless hours of work. Knowing exactly what steps you’re going to take before you sit down removes a lot of guesswork and saves time. This is invaluable when you start doing sessions a couple times a week.
Obviously, this exact workflow may not be for you. However, I encourage giving it a try and then developing your own workflow that fits in with your style and existing skills.
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All corn hybrids and inbreds are susceptible to gray leaf spot in varying degrees. This NebGuide discusses the symptoms, impacts and management of this disease.
Corn is grown throughout Nebraska on over 8 million acres of land; approximately 5 million acres are irrigated. The market is segmented into seed corn, field corn and specialty corns (e.g., high oil, high amylose and white corn). Field corn represents the largest portion of the acreage grown. To varying degrees, all corn hybrids and inbreds are susceptible to gray leaf spot disease.
Gray leaf spot is a significant disease worldwide. It has been present in the United States since 1925 and has been considered a problem in the mid-atlantic states and the eastern midwest region of the Corn Belt for decades. Gray leaf spot has been present in Nebraska since at least 1986. However, significant yield losses have occurred over a wide area only since 1994. Unique weather patterns since 1992 (cooler temperatures and prolonged periods of overcast days); changing crop residue management practices (increased acreage of reduced tillage management); and the cultivation of new high-yielding hybrids all may have contributed to the increased prevalence and severity of gray leaf spot in Nebraska. | <urn:uuid:36fdb0d1-8703-41b2-98a1-6706d1bc4932> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/extensionhist/1253/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.951605 | 253 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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This NebGuide provides an overview of factors to consider when setting rent levels or placing appropriate market value on swine facilities when a purchase is being considered or negotiated.
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Can co-designing artificial intelligence tools with general practitioners deliver better patient outcomes and what impact will it have on Doctors?
And what about the healthcare system? We took it to the test in a study with general practitioners simulating an AI documentation assistant for use in patient consultations.
While artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly across many industries, the healthcare system has been somewhat slower to adopt them. And what about patient safety, ethics, data security, and legal implications of using AI? And will AI replace doctors?
A study conducted by researchers from the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University, led by Professor Enrico Coiera, Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health investigated this topic.
The study which was conducted with 16 GP’s and used three co-design workshops identified three themes for further exploration:
- Professional autonomy
- Human-AI collaboration
- New models of care.
And while there is more work to be done in designing appropriate tools and training the healthcare workforce, evidence suggests that AI documentation assistants are likely to become part of routine future primary care.
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Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi, founder, Yenepoya University believes professional education opens up greater opportunities for minorities and to join the mainstream. An ENN Report
Karnataka’s population has risen steeply in the last decade. The state ranks fifth in literacy with a sharp increase in the number of schools, colleges and IT companies. Literates out of the total population aged seven years and above stand at 75.36 per cent, up from 66.64 per cent in the last 10 years. Though educationally progressive, there were gaps in higher education (medical education in particular) for minority students in the district of Dakshina Kannada and neighbouring areas of Karnataka.
Things took a turn when Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi, Chairman of the religious minority trust Islamic Academy of Education (IAE) established in 1991, and Director at the Yenepoya Group of Companies, and a few like-minded intellectuals recognised this gap. This led to the establishment of Yenepoya University, an initiative of IAE, a trust dedicated to the memory of legendary entrepreneur late Yenepoya Moideen Kunhi, who laid the basis of industrialisation in the region.
The Islamic Academy of Education (IAE) is today working the upliftment of the social, economical and educational status of the minority communities in the region. The IAE trust was created with the objective to establish and administer educational institutions, such as schools, colleges and institutes of general education, medical and dental education, engineering and commercial education. This dream was fulfilled with the help of Yenepoya University.
A minority institution, the Yenepoya University is the first private deemed university in Dakshin Kannada district and has a total intake of over 400 students with the Muslim community constituting 70 per cent of students at the medical college. Till date, 1,700 students from minority communities have been awarded degrees by this university and other institutions under the ambit of the IAE. These institutions have also generated employment for over 3000 people from minority communities alone. The founder Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi firmly believes that professional education can provide greater opportunities for the Muslim community to join mainstream professional careers by utilising their knowledge and skills for the betterment of society.
Prior to the establishment of Yenepoya institutions, the number of minority students, especially Muslims, opting for professional courses such as medicine was limited as education in this particuar discipline was quite expensive. The opportunities were also limited in other institutions due to fierce competition from others. For minority students in this region, the establishment of Yenepoya institutions was a dream comestrue as it provided an opportunity to study medicine and health science subjects in affordable way. Till date, several thousands of students from minority communities, especially women, have graduated from Yenepoya institutions and are contributing to the society in a big way.
Running several specialised courses in medicine, admission to the university is through an all-India entrance test which is held in multiple centres throughout India. The selection is based on merit, which ensures selection of right students who can match industry standards. The placements records are proof of the quality education provided at the university.
Keeping in tune with times, Yenepoya University has also undertaken instructions through digital learning and etablished an e-learning centre in 2011. ‘Yengage’, the e-learning portal for Yenepoya University was setup by the Information Technology section to support ICT-based learning for its students. This is an online service which facilitates the students, staff, tutors and management with a friendly and interactive environ- ment, which will enable better learning by providing study information and learning content anytime anywhere.
“‘Yengage’, the e-learning portal for Yenepoya University was setup by the Information Technology section to support ICT-based learning for its students”
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Training
The E-learning centre undertakes onjob training on usage of electronic medical record-keeping, which is an essential part of any medical hospital abroad. The EMR modules are becoming an important feature of the Indian hospital environment. The e-learning centre at Yenepoya University started training on EMR modules for medical interns and the post-graduates as an add-on course. The university also received a National Award ‘Certificate of Excellence’ by e- INDIA for the innovative training programme on Health Information Management System (HIMS).
The Yenepoya Foundation, a unit of Yenepoya Moideen Kunhi Memorial Educational & Charitable Trust and the Yenepoya University jointly distribute academic excellence awards to students excelling in SSLC, PUC and under-grad- uate degree examinations and encour- age them through scholarships every year. These awards are given to students of Dakshin Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala purely on the basis of merit. Recipients of these awards are around 300 every year and the total budget allocated for this purpose is Rs 10 lakh. The award is given to individuals who score the highest percentage in their respec tive examinations and also to a few minority institutions which have secured 100 per cent results. The award consists of certificates and cash awards ranging from `3,000 to `10,000.
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QUESTION: I do not wear latex gloves but still have contact dermatitis. What should I do to relieve itchy/pain and how do I prevent it?
ANSWER: Contact dermatitis can be caused by irritants such as soaps, cosmetics, or chemicals in gloves, which trigger allergic reactions. Oral health professionals are exposed to many irritants during their work day such as frequent hand washing, chemicals, and glove usage. In the past, natural rubber latex (NRL) gloves were used frequently and they often caused allergic reactions. Nonlatex gloves, such as nitrile, are an acceptable substitute.1–4 However, reactions to nitrile are also common.5 Some of the materials used in the manufacturing process can create delayed reactions (type IV), such as irritant contact dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis. Thiurams, carbamates, and thiazoles used in the vulcanization process for strength and elasticity are the most common chemicals that cause type IV reactions. Geier et al5 reported that allergies to thiurams and other chemicals are common and their prevalence has changed very little during the past 17 years based on a retrospective analysis of 93,615 patients who were patch tested in a dermatology network from 2002 to 2010. Of those patients, 3,448 (0.036%) had occupationally-related contact dermatitis, with health care workers (n=1,058) being one of the most common occupational groups with sensitivity to thiurams (13%), carbamates (3.5%), and thiazoles (3.0%).
Oral health professionals must proceed with caution even with nitrile, as brands and glove lots can vary. An in vitro study of 29 different gloves by Cripa et al6 showed that nitrile glove manufacturing varied widely. They found that powdered latex gloves had the highest protein content at 917.38 µg/g (82.5%), while the protein content in nitrile gloves ranged from 5.17 µg/g (0%) to 22.62 µg/g (20%). A case report by Gonzalo et al7 found that five hospital health care workers with known latex allergy had immediate (type I) reactions to nitrile gloves (rhinitis and contact urticaria) even though they had previously tolerated other nitrile gloves. The presence of NRL proteins caused the immediate reactions in these five workers. Mistakes in the manufacturing process can happen, so the need exists for reduction of allergens, standardized testing for accelerators, reduction of chemical additives such as thiurams and carbamates, mandatory labeling of glove products to include total protein content and allergenic protein levels, and the development of guidelines or standards so consumers can make informed choices about gloves.
Although type IV skin reactions to some of the chemical additives in nitrile gloves are common, they are far less threatening than type I reactions more frequently associated with NRL, so they are a good choice for most clinicians.8 A study by Boyle et al8 compared the hands of 50 oral health professionals (n=26 wore latex gloves, n=24 wore nitrile gloves) working 8 hours per day four times per week over 3-months and found no differences in cutaneous skin health among the two groups.
Oral health professionals should be aware of potential irritants and avoid them as much as possible. Methods to decrease contact dermatitis include washing hands with cool water and fragrance-free soap, gently drying hands, using moisturizers, and wearing nitrile gloves without thiurams or carbamates. It might take some trial and error to find the brand of gloves that is the least irritating. Gloves manufactured in the United States may be a wise choice due to superior manufacturing processes. Allergy testing for chemicals may also be an option if the dermatitis does not clear up. Many types of gloves are available in the marketplace today, so investigating the ingredients or manufacturing process is a good place to start. A strong working knowledge of all options is key to making an informed choice.
- Connor T. Permeability of nitrile rubber, latex, polyurethane, and neoprene gloves to 18 antineoplastic drugs. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 1999;56:2450–2453.
- Korniewicz DM, ElMasri M, Broyles JM, Martin CD, O’Connell KP. Performance of latex and non-latex medical examination gloves during simulated use. Am J Infect Control. 2002;30:133–138.
- Patel HB, Fleming GJ, Burke FJ. Puncture resistance and stiffness of nitrile and latex dental examination gloves. Br Dent J. 2004;196:695–700.
- Murray CA, Burke FJ, McHugh S. An assessment of the incidence of punctures in latex and non-latex dental examination gloves in routine clinical practice. Br Dent J. 2001;190:377–380.
- Geier J, Lessmann H, Mahler V, Pohrt U, Uter W, Schnuch A. Occupational contact allergy caused by rubber gloves-nothing has changed. Contact Dermatitis. 2012;67:149–156.
- Crippa M, Belleri L, Mistrello G, Carsana T, Neri G, Alessio L. Prevention of latex allergy among health care workers: evaluation of the extractable latex protein content in different types of medical gloves. Am J Ind Med. 2003;44:24–31.
- Gonzalo MA, Caballero ML, Gil-Marchet MS, Meneo I, Perez-Calderon R, Garcia-Borruel L. Hypersensistivity reactions to due to nitrile gloves. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012;129:562–564.
- Boyle DK, Forsyth A, Bagg J, Stroubou K, Griffiths CM, Burke FJ. An investigation of the effect of prolonged glove wearing on the hand skin health of dental healthcare workers. J Dent. 2002;30:233–241.
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While the bishops were in election sequestration on Saturday, the House of Deputies celebrated its 230th birthday. House of Deputies president Gay Clark Jennings presented medals to several former house leaders, including Charles Willie, former house vice president.
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ENT is a health condition that is generally reefed to as ear nose and throat. It is also medically referred to as otolaryngology. Ear, nose, and throat consist of the following health conditions that they deal with such as balancing and hearing, allergies and sinuses, skin disorder and so much more. It is a very helpful service since it entails a minor surgery that with no time will help you go back to your normal duties. below are some of the tips you should consider while searching for the best ear, nose, and throat services.
The first thing that you should consider while searching for an ear, nose, and throat doctor is the experience of the doctor. One should make sure that the check if the doctor they are willing to work with is well qualified and that their services are to be trusted. Working with a well-trained doctor gives you confidence since you are sure that you will get nothing but the best services that you required. A well-experienced doctor will also take his or her time before breaking the news on what they should be expecting. Experience comes in handy with the protocol of your working area in that you need to take a step at a time to explain to your patient about everything they are required to know about their condition.
Secondly one should consider the reputation of the doctor they are willing to work with. Reputation will easily be traced by consulting other people he or she has treated earlier. if the doctor has been offering his or her best services he will have a quite large follow-up of his patient since they have tested his loyalty in his business. one should also ensure that they consult several people to affirm the doctor is trustworthy in whatever he is doing. Their reviews will give confidence and ensure that you settle your mind as you wait for the recovery process.
You should also make sure that your ear nose and throat doctor is always available. Availability means that anytime you require his services he is always available. He should always be ready to answer all his patient calls in case of any emergency so that he can have a follow up on where he left the process of your healing and also in case you need to change on your medication he would be the right person since he has been with you all through the process of treatment.
Lastly one should ensure that the doctor charges are favorable so ensure that you will be able to cater for all your doctor’s appointments and also the medication fee. The charges should be favorable to make sure that no one will be left to suffer in that, you will access all health facilities and also that the doctor will be safe and sure to run his businesses even for a longer period without any shortcomings. Doctors and patient relationships should be a long-rusting one since every person requires the services of the other person hence they should make sure that they serve each other with diligence. | <urn:uuid:48b72f9e-cf0b-4385-9a1d-6970844fe5a8> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dissertationwritinghelp.co.uk/2021/06/16/questions-about-you-must-know-the-answers-to-9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.985509 | 573 | 1.570313 | 2 |
debops.ansible role can be used to install Ansible on a Debian or
Ubuntu host. Ansible will be installed either from the OS repositories, from
Ansible upstream APT repository, or using a locally built
debops.ansible - Install Ansible on a Debian/Ubuntu host using Ansible Copyright (C) 2018 Maciej Delmanowski <email@example.com> Copyright (C) 2018 DebOps <https://debops.org/> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only This Ansible role is part of DebOps. DebOps is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation. DebOps is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with DebOps. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/. | <urn:uuid:1906801f-917c-4460-a7b5-7c24ee2759c3> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://docs.debops.org/en/stable-2.3/ansible/roles/ansible/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.780914 | 247 | 1.726563 | 2 |
If a service is roofed, it means your well being plan can pay for some or the entire cost. In most instances, your doctor additionally needs to be on the listing of medical doctors that take your insurance, known as a network. How much your well being plan pays for is determined by what type of care you utilize and the place you get it. It also can cut back the variety of life experiences you and your associate share. And don’t let your companion’s nervousness run your loved ones’s life. For example, someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is closely linked to anxiousness problems, might want family members to keep every thing very clean or organized in arbitrary methods. Newman says it is essential to restrict how much you’ll manage your household around your companion’s anxiety — and to not indulge every request or mandate.
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Nowadays, folks tend to fill their idle time with social media. Instead, peel your eyes away out of your cellphone and lookup into what’s occurring around you. This method is how you meet extra individuals generally, however it’s also the way you’re going to meet somebody that might turn into a future romantic associate. I met my final two on Tinder and they have been horrible relationships.
- The panorama of relationship is just one facet of our lives that’s being affected by technology.
- Nowadays there are only three ways you’ll be able to reliably expect to meet your companion – by way of pals , at a bar/restaurant (once more, at all times relevant – booze being a successful social lubricant).
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For it’s over that point interval that the patterns of your interaction could have started to establish themselves, and you can see – in headline – what is happening between you. If after ninety days the reply to that query is ‘no’ then the connection is unlikely to ever come good. If after ninety days issues are more and more constructive then carry on – not necessarily eternally however to see whether or not you proceed to thrive. three) Beware chemistry“In love” is wonderful, and I totally advocate it. But that kind of overwhelming feeling of chemistry is, physiologically in addition to emotionally, an altered state. And it’s likely that some of the errors you remorse from earlier relationships had been down to the affect of what Plato calls ‘divine insanity’.
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Grand Rapids, Mich., small fruit regional report – September 26, 2012
Small fruit production end of season housekeeping – late season crop management issues.
We are at the end of the 2012 harvest season, but there are still some issues related to pest management that we need to take care of. First of all, fall raspberries and some day-natural strawberries continue with harvest and there‘s still a need for monitoring and controlling the presence of spotted wing Drosophila (SWD). During the past two weeks, we have seen a large number of farms experiencing SWD infestations. The damage caused by this pest is reaching up to 10 percent in some day-neutral strawberry fields, but in raspberries the observed damage reaches up to 50 percent, and in some cases, 100 percent in organic-grown berries. SWD infestations in summer strawberries were uncommon, but since the middle of August the reports of fruit infested with SWD larvae increased.
During the past two weeks, we had good results in controlling 99 percent of SWD larval infestations in four raspberry fields located in Hudsonville, Casnovia and Rockford, Mich. After suffering high crop losses and with SWD adult populations of more than 50 flies per trap, growers implemented a control program that included adult monitoring twice a week and fruit inspection for SWD larvae, insecticide applications at first detection of flies or infested fruit, and subsequent monitoring of adults and fruit infestations to verify the effectiveness of the pest control measures. If larvae were found after the insecticide application, the treatment was repeated. The insecticide that provided the best protection against larval infestation was Malathion Aqua using the label maximum recommended rate.
For blueberries, there are issues other than SWD that need grower’s attention. At this time of the year, it is important for growers that used pyrethroids for the control of SWD during the season to inspect their fields for bud mites. Multiple applications of pyrethroids may flair up mite populations. Since 1988, Penman and Chapman documented the effect of multiple applications of pyrethroids on mite outbreaks in Pesticide-Induced Mite Outbreaks: Pyrethroids and Spider Mites. Also, in 2001 Bowie et.al. reported in Sublethal effects of esfenvalerate residues on pyrethroid resistant Typhlodromus pryi (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and its prey Panonychus ulmi and Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) that some pyrethroids reduce the reproduction of predatory mites. Thus, it is important to maintain a continuous surveillance on that status of the mite populations, especially in those fields with history of bud mite problems.
Every year, we invite growers that need support with bud mite identification and control to bring in fresh blueberry shoot samples to the Trevor Nichols Research Center (TNRC) in Fennville, Mich., or at the Ottawa County MSU Extension office in West Olive, Mich. We are providing mite identification free of charge to any growers that require assistance with this problem. In order to provide this service, we need growers to follow these recommendations:
- Bring freshly cut shoot samples in a zip-lock plastic bag with a moist paper towel inside to maintain plant tissue freshness. Do not bring or send in wilted or dried-out samples.
- Bring at least 10 shoot samples per field or variety.
- Write you complete information on the plastic bag.
- Place the plastic bag with the sample in the TNRC kitchen refrigerator with a note indicating that the sample is for Carlos Garcia. If you bring multiple samples, put them all together in a large, plastic bag. If you bring the sample(s) to the Ottawa County MSU Extension office, drop them off at the front desk with any of the secretarial staff. We are open from 8 a.m. to 5 .p.m., closed for the lunch hour from 12 to 1 p.m.
- Contact Judy Hanson at the Ottawa County MSU Extension office at 616-994-4548 to let her know that you dropped a plant sample at the TNRC for bud mite identification.
If you cannot bring the sample to those places, you may send them overnight to:
Carlos Garcia/Judy Hanson
12220 Fillmore Street, Suite 122
West Olive, MI 49460
Do not mail samples to the TNRC in Fennville, Mich., because nobody will be available to receive it. Also, do not send overnight samples on Fridays to the Ottawa County MSU Extension office.
Finally, we are inviting all Michigan berry growers that experienced problems with SWD in their crops to attend the growers meeting on Wednesday, September 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Trevor Nichols Research Center, 6237 124th Avenue, Fennville, Mich. (view map). This will be an informal discussion with growers, processors and MSU Extension staff Rufus Isaacs, Carlos Garcia and Mark Longstroth about the pest management challenges of 2012. This meeting will include a discussion of the tactics that were tried, the approaches that were effective and how to prepare for 2013. We will also generate a grower-developed priority list to help guide the pest management regulatory issues related to spotted wing Drosophila management, extension programs and short- and long-term research. | <urn:uuid:c076bbd5-e9bc-4bd5-90a5-48da6ef7bd92> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dotcms1.dev.anr.msu.edu/news/grand_rapids_mich_small_fruit_regional_report_september_26_2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.931689 | 1,132 | 2.3125 | 2 |
To obtain JPEG images from documents that you don’t already have on your hard disk, you would have to save each of the pictures in them separately. Although you could also add deJpeg 2.0 to Windows. That’s a freeware program which extracts JPEG images from MS Word document formats.
Click Download deJpeg from roman-orlov.ru on this page to save the Zip to Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Next, right-click the Zip, select Extract All and choose a path to extract the software to. Then you can open the program’s window in the shot below from the extracted window.
Now you can open a document to extract JPEGs from by pressing the Analyse file button. Note that it mainly supports Doc, Docx and Exe file formats. As such, it probably won’t extract the JPEGs from other file formats.
When you’ve selected a document, the software will then search for JPEGs to extract from it. A black status bar highlights when it has finished scanning the document. It will tell you how many JPEGs it extracted from the document in the Results text box.
Those extracted JPEGs are then saved in the same folder as the document, and the software doesn’t include options to select alternative output paths. As such, open the document’s folder to find the newly extracted JPEGs.
DeJpeg 2.0 has minimal options, and could do with a few extra settings to select from. However, it’s still a handy program that you can quickly save a batch of JPEG images in a document with. | <urn:uuid:a0f22572-3678-49ce-b262-3cf51fb74c97> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://dottech.org/172121/how-to-extract-embedded-images-from-documents-in-windows-tip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.898396 | 340 | 1.570313 | 2 |
In this how-to video, you will learn how to draw Dead Bones Brook from One Piece. First, draw the skull that is the face of the character. This will include the eyes and nose socket. You can move onto the suit and instrument of the character. Next, draw the hair of the character. You should remember that he is wearing a hat on top of his hair. Once this is done, you can fill in the shadings of the character to complete the entire look. This video shows how easy it is to draw Dead Bones Brook from One Piece.
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The Pup Social
Besides being incredibly entertaining, puppy play provides young dogs with many invaluable learning experiences.
Besides being incredibly entertaining, puppy play provides young dogs with many invaluable learning experiences. The socialization stage of puppy development begins at 3 weeks and ends around 14 weeks. During this time, puppies are highly receptive to learning and what they experience positively can shape what they feel confident and comfortable with as an adult.
Creating positive learning opportunities for puppies involves careful placement of puppies, a sensitivity to their individual emotional states and lots of active supervision. Puppies bring differing levels of confidence, experience, interest, energy and comfort to their encounters with other dogs and need to be matched with appropriate social partners.
Raising a socially successful puppy also involves more than just having a dog that wants to greet and play with everyone. Puppies need to practice a variety of skills including the ability to ignore dogs, disengage from play, manage their arousal, play appropriately, and ideally, grow up finding their humans way more fun to play with than dogs!
Dreamland Pet’s Pup Social is a special 45 minute social skills class designed just for dogs 10 weeks – 6 months of age. A maximum of 2-5 pups attend each class. Our flexible program offers open enrollment, meaning you can decide weekly whether to attend and only pay for the classes in which you participate.
Puppies can attend the program as long as we have a suitable group, or until they either age out of the program or we determine the setting is no longer supporting the behaviours we want to develop.
$23.00 per class
Classes are 45 minutes
Following your application, a staff member will contact you when we have a suitable group available for your dog.
Wednesdays 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 6:00pm and 7:00pm
Questions before registering?
Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org for more information.
Your pup will practice:
- Meeting new dogs
- Playing with other puppies
- Engaging and responding to you, even with other puppies around
- Disengaging from play, which we will cultivate into a recall from play
- Learning to settle and relax around other dogs (this takes numerous sessions to teach and won’t happen in just one class)
Content varies each class, but you will learn:
- How to create a positively reinforced interrupter you can use to help your pup disengage from play
- Techniques for managing canine interactions that do not involve punishment
- How to understand canine body language
- When to allow, interrupt or end a play session
- How to determine which social settings are supportive fits for your dog
- How a dog’s relational preferences change with age
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I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.
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“Dr. Lami this has gotten way out of hand!” said Joel, the 3rd brother amongst the four brothers sitting in my office. “I cannot say anything to Max without him bringing up the past into our conversations and shoving it in my face. I am the CEO now and he keeps reminding me of things that I said or did to him when he was the CEO. How can we run our family business this way? We keep arguing with each other. This has got to stop!”.
I looked at Max and was waiting for his response. Max did not want to speak at first. I encouraged Max to respond and reassured him that this was a safe space to express his true feelings. It took Max a while to open and speak, and when he finally did, he expressed how all his life he felt his brother Joel, as well as Dan and Jack, did not understand him. He also spoke about how his brothers, especially Joel, had been putting him down for years since childhood. How they have not appreciated all that he has done for the family and the family business, in that, while he was CEO the family business grew from being worth $50,000,000 to the current value of $500 million.
The arguments that took place in my office were loud, emotional, and hard to manage. It took some time, but eventually we managed to get to a place that all 4 brothers were able to respectfully communicate with one another and express themselves freely and safely.
Communication issues are a common problem in many life scenarios. Ineffective and hurtful communication is at the heart of many family conflicts. The fact that the two brothers are not able to hear each other and hold in resentments, hurt and frustrations, to the point that it affects the day to day management of the business, indicate that there is a need to address some deep rooted ‘issues’. Usually people arrive at this point because along the way they have held back from truly ‘communicating’ with each other. The hurt, pain, or the feeling of being undervalued, if not properly talked through, usually transforms into issues of control, power struggle and the ego’s desire to be right!
In situations such as the one described in this article; it is important to follow a few communication principles:
- Acceptance (not necessarily agreement) of other family members’ personal views
- Making sure not to get caught up in power struggles and ego traps
- Understand that what we say and what we do not say is equally important
Communication is a vocabulary of words and sentences so it is important how we deliver it and it is equally important to be aware how one may hear it and understand it (i.e. perceived interpretation). Going forwards, when speaking pay attention to how you articulate what you are saying and how it can be perceived by the person(s) you are speaking to.
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Mark Slavkin is Director of Education for The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The Wallis is dedicated to engaging arts learners of all ages, from K-12 school partnerships, to courses for young artists and to a range of activities to engage adults as audience members and as art makers. Mark served as Vice President for Education at the Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County from 2001–14, directing a wide range of programs and services that helped advance arts education in schools and communities. He played a key role in the development of Arts for All: The Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education and continues to cochair the Executive Committee for this initiative. Before joining the Music Center, Mark served on the staff of the Los Angeles component of the national Annenberg Challenge, a half-billion-dollar private effort to improve public schools in the United States. From 1997–1999 Mark was Los Angeles Program Officer for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. At the Getty, Mark utilized his advocacy and communications skills to help launch a renaissance for arts education in Los Angeles area schools. He served from 1989-1997 as an elected member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, including two years as president. Currently, Mark serves on the Board of Directors for the California Alliance for Arts Education, the statewide policy and advocacy organization.
This Week's Topic
Too often educators and policymakers see arts education and dropout prevention as two separate issues. This webinar explores the causes of the disconnect between arts education and dropout prevention and offers strategies for a more integrated approach or alignment of these efforts. The webcast is a conversation with guest Mark Slavkin, a national leader in the field of arts education, who is currently Director of Education for The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, a community arts center in Beverly Hills, CA, colloquially known as “The Wallis.”
The webcast presents lessons learned and best practices for integrating arts learning as a dropout prevention strategy by
- connecting audiences with the performing arts,
- using the power of the arts to build community and address pressing social issues, and
- responding to critical community needs through arts leadership, collaboration, and partnership.
Participants will learn about the qualities of effective arts programs, the ways in which students are engaged and given a voice, and some examples of schools that are making this happen. These schools offer models for utilizing arts education as a dropout prevention strategy.
Mark Slavkin’s speech to the National Dropout Prevention Center conference in Palm Springs October, 2017
Arts Integration Resources from Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/arts-integration-resources
Using the Arts to Achieve Title 1 Goals www.title1arts.org
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What is Anger?
Anger is an emotional reaction to a real or perceived threat. Anger signals to us that something is wrong. Anger is a normal feeling we may experience when our personal DANGER alarms are turned on. Anger helps to prepare the body to “fight” when the “fight, flight or freeze” response of the autonomic nervous system has been triggered. That is, anger gives us the energy we need to right wrongs or combat threats. The problem with anger is that it can get too big and out of control very quickly. This is what happens when the little spark becomes a flame and then a raging fire. And, in general, it does not feel good in your body to be mad or to have someone be mad at you.
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Josias Drake Ancestors & Descendants
(Start at generation 1, below.)
Note: Though the focus in this web domain is primarily on the ancestors and descendants of George Edgar Drake, who resided near LeRaysville, LeRay Township, Jefferson County, New York, there are other (not closely related) Drake families in that general area of northern New York State, and this annex documents one of them. Others include families headed by: Caleb Drake of Gouverneur; Daniel David Drake of Moira; David Belding Drake of Stockholm; Francis Wilson Drake of Orwell; Henry F. Drake of Black River; Joseph Drake of Stockholm; Henry Drake of LeRay; Loren H. Drake of Adams Center; and Thomas Drake of LaFargeville. Also note: Andrew J. Drake of Sackets Harbor, New York was the great-great grandson Josiah Drake (5) (see paragraph 5.c.(2.(c.(2)); and John Drake of New Haven, New York was the great-great grandson of Nathaniel Drake (4) (see paragraph 6.a.(4.(h.(12)).
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Origin of the surname “Drake:”
1 Josias Drake
1. Biographical notes:
Born about 1644 in Amsterdam, Holland. Died about 1701 in New York State.
2. Wife: Aeltje/Alice A. Brouwer
Born about 1648 in New York State; daughter of Adam (Berkhoven) Brouwer and Magdalena Jacobs Verson. Died about 1707.
a. Casparus Drake.
b. Catharyn Drake.
c. Cornelius Drake.
d. Elizabeth Drake.
e. Josias J. Drake.
f. Sara Drake.
g. John Drake: Married Martha Overfield. Also seen: married Magdalena Brower (b. 8 Mar 1703/4 in Brooklyn Twp, Kings Co., NY), daughter of Jacobus James Adams (Brower) Brouer (b. 1656, d. 1707) and Annettia Anna (Annetze) Bogardus (b. 1663), and had the following children:
(1. Zephaniah Drake.
(2. William Drake: Born before 1730. Married Elizabeth Taylor and had the following children:
(a. Harriet Drake.
(b. John Drake: Born Dutch Church, Fishkill Township, Orange County, New York. Married Catharine Procktor and had the following children:
(1) John Drake: Married Catherine (?) and had the following children:
(a) Hannah Drake.
(b) Meriba Drake.
(c) Sarah Drake.
(d) William Drake.
(2) Elizabeth Drake: Born 30 March 1759. Died before 23 November 1808. Married James Brown and had the following children:
(a) James Brown, Jr.
(b) Jedediah Brown.
(c) Nathaniel Brown: Born 1786. Died 1874.
(d) John Eugene Brown: Born 1790. Died 1845.
(3) Josias Drake: Born 28 May 1770 in New York State. Died 3 March 1859, probably in Saratoga County, New York. Married Mary “Polly” Woolsey (b. 5 Aug 1769 at Ulster Co., NY, d. 24 Jul 1827 in Saratoga Co., NY), daughter of William (b. 1742, d. 1800) and Abigail (Northrup) Woolsey (b. 1742), and had the following children:
(a) Betsey Drake.
(b) Sarah Drake.
(c) Abigail Drake: Born 1792. Died 1867.
(d) Catharine P. Drake: Born 1794. Died 1873.
(e) Melinda “Molena” Drake: Born 1796. Died 1847.
(f) Richard W. Drake: Born 1799. Died 1879.
(g) Hannah Drake: Born 1802. Died 1879.
(h) Jane Ann Drake: Born 1805. Died 1846.
(i) Phebe Drake: Born 1807. Died 1811.
(j) Polly Drake: Born 1810. Died 1888. Married Jonathan H. Calkins and had the following children:
[1. Richard Calkins.
[2. Mary E. Calkins.
[3. Richard D. Calkins: Married Esther Mary (?) and had the following daughter:
[a. Zilpha Calkins: Born May 1869 in New York State. Died about 1948. Married Ransom Kincaid Dwyer (b. Jan 1853 in VT, d. about 1930), paragraph 2.b.(1.(b.(2) of generation 1 of the Henry Drake Annex.
[4. Charles Woolsey Calkins.
[5. Dauphin B. Calkins.
[6. Egbert Calkins.
[7. Eugene Calkins.
[8. Jane Eliza Calkins.
[9. Hannah F. Calkins.
(k) Sally Drake: Born 1811. Died 1811.
(l) Nancy Drake: Born 1815. Died 1832.
(c. Hannah Drake: Born before 27 May 1739 in Dutch Church, Fishkill Township, Orange (Dutchess) County, New York. Married Jonathan Washburn.
(d. Polly Drake: Born about 1740. Married Henry Hagerman.
(e. Josiah Drake: Born about 1740.
(f. Cornelius Drake: Born 9 August 1741 at Dutch Church, Fishkill Township, Orange County, New York. Died about 1815 at Dorchester, New York (or Christian Co., KY). Married Sarah Worthington and had the following children:
(1) Francis Drake.
(2) Tabitha Drake.
(3) Rachel Drake: Born about 1765. Died about 1839.
(4) Sally Drake: Born about 1773.
(5) Priscilla Drake: Born about 1774 at Stillwater Township, Albany County, New York. Died about 1850 at Warrick County, Indiana. Married Job Matthews and had the following children:
(a) Nathaniel Matthews.
(b) Priscilla Matthews.
(6) Samuel W. Drake: Born about 1777 at Stillwater Township, Albany County, New York. Died About 1863 at Mulhenburg County, New York. Married Jane Waters and had many children.
(7) Phibe Drake: Born about 1781.
(8) Daniel Drake: Born about 1785. Married Elizabeth Waters.
(3. Josiah Drake: Born about 1732.
(4. Jacob Drake: Born about 1736. Married Helen (?).
(5. John Drake: Born about 1738 in Mendham. Died 28 August 1784; interred Succasunna, Morris County, New Jersey. Married Sarah Perry (b. abt 1735).
(6. Martha Drake: Born about 1739.
(7. Samuel Drake: Born about 1740.
(8. Phebe Drake: Born about 1744.
(9. Benjamin Drake: Born about 1746.
(10. Esther Drake: Born about 1748.
(11. Mary Drake: Born about 1750.
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Before you start attacking me, just hear me out.
Due to human activity, we are accelerating climate change, I believe this to be true. Global warming has occurred in Earth’s history, the difference is that we, humans, are accelerating it. But I began looking at it differently since I started studying for an BSc in Environmental Science.
We aren’t killing the planet; we are killing life on the planet. Two very different things but just as serious.
The earth is 4.6 billion years old and has survived five mass extinctions:
- Ordovician–Silurian extinction – 439 million years ago
- Late Devonian extinction – 364 million years ago
- Permian–Triassic extinction – 251 million years ago
- Triassic–Jurassic extinction – 199 million to 214 million years ago
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction – 65 million years ago (Asteroid)
From my studies, the third mass extinction, Permian–Triassic extinction, which was the deadliest, wiped out about 75% of life on land and 95% of life in the ocean. 95%, that’s huge! Especially since life actually began in the oceans and made its way onto land. Despite this devastation, some form of life was still able to continue and evolved. The fifth mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn’t as devastating as the third one and that was due to an asteroid colliding with earth.
Whenever the planet has experienced an extinction, Earth has always been able to regenerate itself and there is no reason to believe it can’t do that again. However, I do wonder whether humans will be part of the future. Although we are an arrogant species wielding the superiority sword, we are also incredibly fragile. A little fact I learned during my studies; 95% of ALL life that has EVER lived on earth is extinct.
It is believed by some that we are in the sixth extinction event, Holocene extinction. As our CO2 parts per million is at the highest level than at any recorded time in the past, something has to give. We are on a path of destruction and the crazy thing is that not everyone is on board with this.
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I believe in science, and no one knows how this is going to play out. Scientists are providing us with their best predictions based on various models but these are being readjusted because certain factors are accelerating the problem. There will always be variable factors; number of people living on the planet, the next pandemic and the resulting loss of life.
I’m still at the early stages in my educational journey, maybe my views may change along the way. That’s what I want out of my education; learning, listening to different opinions and forming my own conclusions based on the facts in front of me.
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Today’s guest post is excerpted from Writing to Be Understood by Anne Janzer (@AnneJanzer) a professional writer who has worked with more than one hundred technology companies, writing in the voice of countless brands and corporate executives.
Few of your readers care about what you know, no matter how many years you have spent accumulating that wisdom. They care about what they need or want to understand.
You share much in common with your readers: you both live a world with numerous, competing demands on your attention, limited time for “deep reading,” and perhaps a longing for simplicity and clarity.
How do you provide the right amount of information without either oversimplifying the subject or overloading the reader? You’ll have to decide what to include and what to leave out. The more you love your subject, the harder this decision can be.
Beware the curse of knowledge
Think of a well-known, familiar song, like “Happy Birthday” or “Jingle Bells.” Sing it to yourself in your head. Then, find a friend and ask them to guess the song as you tap out its rhythm.
You won’t expect them to get it right away, but you might be surprised and frustrated by how long it takes them to correctly guess the tune rattling around in your head. At least, that’s what psychologist Elizabeth Newton found when she tested this very thing.
In 1990, Newton was a graduate student in psychology at Stanford University. She conducted an experiment in which half of the participants (the tappers) were asked to tap out the rhythms of common songs, while the other half (the listeners) guessed the songs. The tappers estimated how long it would take the listeners to name the right tune.
The people tapping were inevitably surprised by the listeners’ inability to hear the tune that matched the rhythm. It seemed obvious to the tappers. This study illustrates a phenomenon known as the curse of knowledge, or the challenge of getting out of our own heads.
Once we know something, it’s difficult to remember not knowing it. We take our knowledge for granted.
We can spot other people suffering from the curse of knowledge pretty easily. We’ve all seen it:
- The physician who speaks in medical terms you don’t know
- The academic author who writes a paper, intended for a general audience, filled with terms that only a graduate student would understand
These people aren’t trying to hoodwink or confuse you. They simply forget that you don’t know what they know. It’s much harder to detect symptoms of this tendency in our own behavior. When smart, caring people write incomprehensible stuff, the curse of knowledge is usually to blame. It plagues experts who write for the layperson, or the industry insider addressing an outsider. Of course, a few knowledgeable and expert communicators avoid the curse of knowledge with apparent ease, but let’s consider them outliers and confess that the rest of us struggle with it. The greater your knowledge, the stronger the curse.
Nonfiction writers confront this problem in many phases of the work. For example, we cannot proofread our own work effectively because we already “know” what’s on the page. We use terminology that readers don’t know because it is habitual to us. You can defeat the curse of knowledge during later phases of the work by enlisting others for editing and proofreading. But you must avoid the curse earlier still, when deciding what to cover and how to approach it. Get outside your own head.
Go wide or go deep
Before you write a single word, you face a fundamental decision about exactly what you want and need to cover. Answer these three questions.
- Breadth: Will you cover a single issue or a wide range of topics?
- Depth: Should you dive into details? How many are necessary?
- Background: How much does the reader already know, and how much will you need to backfill?
These decisions depend almost entirely on your readers. For a distinct, well-defined audience, you may be able to cover a wider range of concepts related to your topic. When addressing a general audience, you may choose to focus on the most important things, and avoid excessive detail.
The final form also matters. A book gives you more room to roam; readers expect a greater breadth or depth of coverage.
If you are expert in a topic, you may choose to cover it in great detail. For example, masterful biographers like Doris Kearns Goodwin and Walter Isaacson do deep dives into their subjects’ lives, creating works that span several hundred pages. If that’s your approach, you will need to dedicate time and effort to maintaining the reader’s interest. The depth of a treatment can narrow the potential audience of readers.
For some books, breadth is part of the essential value, as in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. As the title promises, it describes a massive topic in a slim volume. Tyson went wide, not deep. Writing about complex topics effectively at this level is a rare skill. Tyson deploys analogies with care, frames the content in a human context, and shares his personal enthusiasm and sense of wonder to guide the reader through the universe. The book is a masterful example of writing about a complex and abstract topic.
There’s no easy answer to the question of how broad or deep your treatment should be. It depends on your purposes and the needs of your audience.
Self-indulgent writers include everything they feel like covering. Thoughtful writers who seek to be understood focus on fit and purpose. Sometimes you have to let things go or put them aside for another project. Focus on serving your reader.
Simplicity vs. oversimplification
Designers, businesspeople, and others often refer to of the KISS principle, which is an acronym for Keep It Simple, Stupid.
As a design philosophy, Keep It Simple, Stupid makes sense. Don’t create systems that are more complex than necessary. However, people mistakenly apply the KISS mantra as a filter in other fields, including political messaging, sales materials, and descriptions of technology.
Simplicity isn’t always the answer. The KISS mantra can become a convenient excuse for hiding complexity that you would rather people not see, such as:
- Removing transparency from investments, because investors don’t need to know the possible risks
- Not disclosing details of policies because voters won’t bother with the fine print
- Not communicating to patients the complete range of treatment options available or the potential risks of a recommended course of action, for fear of delaying the preferred course of treatment.
Taken to the extreme, the KISS mantra shields us from the complexity that we should understand. Certain readers crave simplistic explanations or easy answers that spare them the cognitive work of understanding things that don’t hold their interest. Others, however, may suspect that you’re hiding important details or talking down to them.
When explaining complicated topics, beware of the boundary between simplicity and oversimplification. We want to believe that the world is simple enough for us to understand. We like to think that we don’t need layers of experts arbitrating between reality and ourselves, but when we ignore the true complexity of situations, we can inadvertently mislead readers.
Sabine Hossenfelder has heard some pretty wild theories about physics—hypotheses that she believes arise from the oversimplification of scientific topics for the general public. Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, and writes about physics for publications like Forbes and Scientific American. She is also author of the book Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.
Her insight into the dangers of oversimplification, however, arises from years spent running a “Talk to a Scientist” consulting service, which she started as a graduate student and still maintains today on her blog, BackReaction. For a small fee, members of the public can pose questions about physics, neuroscience, geology, and other topics, or submit their own ideas about physics. Those theories are creative, interesting, and often not grounded in scientific reality.
She blames this, in part, on the tendency of journalists covering the field to simplify the message so much that they mislead readers.
In describing the experience of running the physics help line, she reports, “The most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?”
Deciding what to include
Deciding what to cover and what to leave out challenges everyone. Writers, speaking coaches, and others share their advice about striking the right balance.
When you’re an insider in an industry, seek advice from those who are outsiders. Just make sure you find the right people to ask.
Linda Popky could be considered a Silicon Valley insider. She was named a Top 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, and works with tech companies as the founder and president of Leverage2Market Associates. She’s also the author of the book Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing That Matters.
When writing about topics in which she has expertise, Popky takes care to counteract her insider status. “There are two dangers to knowing your subject matter well. First, you think everyone else knows it already, and as a result, no one understands what you write. Or, you think that nobody knows this stuff, and you go into excruciating detail.”
She handles the situation by finding other people to give her an outsider’s perspective. The key, says Popky, is getting feedback from the right individuals. “You need people who understand the audience and provide the right level of feedback at the right time. Find individuals who can express themselves and identify when something doesn’t work for them. They need the honesty to say if something is confusing.”
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- Do trees communicate documentary?
- Do trees feel pain when they are cut down?
- Can trees warn each other of danger?
- Do trees have a lifespan?
- Can trees see us?
- Can trees cry?
- Can trees sense humans?
- Do trees scream when you cut them?
- Do trees have genders?
- Do trees have souls?
- Do trees have DNA?
- How do trees secretly talk to each other?
- Can trees communicate with one another?
- Do trees have feelings?
- How trees talk to each other TED talk?
Do trees communicate documentary?
Light Filtering Through Forest A new documentary, Intelligent Trees, shows a side of trees that most of us have never seen before.
This network, they say, allows trees to communicate and bond with one another in groups of family and friends..
Do trees feel pain when they are cut down?
Plants feel pain too! Researchers find an ultrasonic ‘scream’ is emitted when stems are cut or if species are not watered enough. A team of scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some plants emit a high frequency distress sound when they undergo environmental stress.
Can trees warn each other of danger?
Perhaps the most interesting thing is that this stress pheromone, methyl jasmonate, lets plants warn each other of danger. The pheromone travels through the air from damaged leaves, and is received by nearby plants through tiny pores in their leaves.
Do trees have a lifespan?
Much like animals, the average age of trees depends on its species. If a tree has enough water, food and sunshine throughout its life, then it can live to the end of its natural lifespan. … The persimmon has an average lifespan of 60 years, and the black willow will probably survive for around 75 years.
Can trees see us?
Trees and plants can talk to each other, see, share food and even go to war. We know that plants can ‘see’ because they grow towards the light, but their abilities are so much more complex than that. Plants actually have rudimentary ‘eyes’ called ocilli.
Can trees cry?
Do trees cry? Yes, when trees are starved of water, they certainly suffer and make a noise. Unfortunately because it is an ultrasonic sound, too high for us to hear, it goes unheard. … Inside tree trunks are bundles of specialized tubes called xylem, which lift liquid to the highest leaves and branches.
Can trees sense humans?
It’s something that plant lovers have long suspected, but now Australian scientists have found evidence that plants really can feel when we’re touching them. … We also don’t have evidence to suggest that they actually ‘feel’ in any way resembling our perception of the sense.
Do trees scream when you cut them?
A new report suggests they could ‘scream’ when being cut. Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have suggested plants stressed by drought or physical damage may emit high-frequency distress noises.
Do trees have genders?
Lots of trees are hermaphroditic — that is, their flowers contain both male and female reproductive parts. Other species have male trees and female trees, which you can tell apart by looking at their flowers: The male reproductive parts are the pollen-laden stamen; the female parts their egg-holding pistils.
Do trees have souls?
Even an atom has a small soul with a very small awareness … … Just that plants souls, like trees are, don’t have as much as an individual soul like humans, part of their soul is individual but most of it is represented by the group-soul of the species, of that particular species of trees.
Do trees have DNA?
All conifers have twelve chromosomes, but they are extremely large: a cell from a spruce or pine has seven times as much DNA as a human cell does. … This is not known, but their enormous amount of DNA has entailed that scientists have not dared to tackle a mapping of the complete genome of coniferous trees.
How do trees secretly talk to each other?
Trees secretly talk to each other underground. They’re passing information and resources to and from each other through a network of mycorrhizal fungi—mykós means fungus and riza means root in Greek—a mat of long, thin filaments that connect an estimated 90% of land plants.
Can trees communicate with one another?
Trees also communicate through the air, using pheromones and other scent signals. … Giraffes, you might say, know that the trees are talking to one another. Trees can detect scents through their leaves, which, for Wohlleben, qualifies as a sense of smell. They also have a sense of taste.
Do trees have feelings?
According to scientific evidence, trees are way more intelligent than we have ever imagined. … Trees can feel pain, and they have emotions, such as fear. They like to stand close to each other and cuddle. Trees adore company and like to take things slow.
How trees talk to each other TED talk?
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I-CARE is an acronym for The International Counseling, Advocacy Research & Education Project at Indiana University.
How did I-CARE begin?
Rex Stockton, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Indiana University, responded to a request from the President of the African Association for Counseling and Guidance (a faculty member at University of Botswana) for assistance in counselor training for those doing frontline HIV-Aids work in prevention, treatment, or after care (survivor’s families, orphans etc). With his wife, Dr. Nancy Stockton, he conducted a one week workshop in Botswana. The training was judged to be very helpful by the participants and was followed up with a teleconference training some months later. What Stockton assumed would be a one time workshop is now a 15 year effort which continues.
In 2003 while medicine had just been discovered to treat AIDS it was not available in Africa. Thus having the disease was in effect a death sentence. Botswana located just north of South Africa had the highest AIDS rate in the world at that time. The need for counselors was great, however because of the enormity of the AIDS problem people were being recruited with minimal training. So we helped develop a recommended curriculum and over a period of time trained a cadre of individuals who could train others as well. When it became clear that appropriate training could be conducted by Botswana colleagues I-CARE began to focus on research in order to be useful in the fight against AIDS. The first study “Counselors’ Perceptions of HIV/AIDS Counseling in Botswana: Professional Identity, Practice, and Training Issues was published in the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling” (2015) 37:143-154. Botswana Policy makers paid close attention to the findings and adopted many recommendations for improvement. Subsequently other studies have taken place as well, the most recent published one is “Survey of HIV mothers in Botswana: Feeding methods, support, status disclosure, and infant testing” in the Journal of Pregnancy and Reproduction volume 2(3) 1-8. Currently the project is focusing on adolescents and young adults with AIDS. This population is the only one to continue to grow and needs attention now.
Who is involved?
After the initial workshop Rex Stockton later teamed up with professors Michael Reece from IU Public Health, Keith Morran from the IUPUI campus and Amy Nitza from the IU Ft Wayne campus. Later Timothy Smith from Kelley International Business joined in. Originally I-CARE Botswana staff included University of Botswana faculty members Dan-Bush Bhusamane and Mercy Montsi (now deceased). As the project evolved it became important to join forces with faculty at the Institute for Development Management (IDM) (headquartered in Gaborone) who operate throughout Botswana. It is roughly equivalent to our Ivy Tech Community College. It served a useful purpose for a country that had nothing more than desert land with cattle and little else to begin with. Fortunately the largest diamond mine in the world was discovered in Botswana after it gained independence and the country has subsequently prospered economically since then. IDM provides skill training for various occupations (including AIDS counselors) as well as a two year college degrees and has developed into baccalaureate programs.
The I-CARE project focuses on the social psychological components of having a chronic disease in this case HIV/AIDS this is done in a variety of ways. Beginning with counselor training of human service personnel; providing the necessary skills and tools to conduct individual and/or group counseling to those dealing with HIV/AIDS. After several year period this has been accomplished. There is now a cadre of individuals in Botswana who have received sufficient training to be able to train others in counseling techniques.
I-CARE focus in the last few years has been on research and assessment projects aimed at studies that investigate important topics, and provide insights into best practices for workers in this field. A Bloomington based research team of students and faculty works on literature reviews, research design, data analysis, write ups in conjunction with Botswana based colleagues.
When I-CARE began in 2003; in Africa to be told that one is HIV positive was the equivalent of a death sentence. When medication became available a dramatic change in lifestyle occurred in that it became possible to continue living as long as one had access to the medicine. Although having one’s life extended is extremely important, some negative issues still remain. For example many AIDS victims are apt to be rejected by their society, and in some cases by their family or tribe. Thus the importance in counseling shifted from emphasis on victim’s inevitable short term life expectancy and how to have a meaningful end of life; to how to live with the stigma of having a chronic disease that requires daily medication. We maintain close contact with the Ministries of Health and Education in Botswana in order to be maximally effective.
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Why Is Prince Prospero Considered the Protagonist in "The Masque of the Red Death"?
A crazed murderer. A tortured prisoner. A Parisian detective. Edgar Allen Poe created many captivating main characters in his short stories. The literary term “protagonist” refers to the central figure in a story, even if that character is less than heroic. In the chilling tale, “The Masque of the Red Death,” Poe presents a protagonist, Prince Prospero, who is both caring and dismissive toward others.
A Lesser Leader
Prince Prospero can be seen as the protagonist in “The Masque of the Red Death” for several reasons. As the ruler of a land plagued by a devastating disease, his actions set the stage for the tragedy. Abandoning the commoners, the prince gathers a thousand of his courtiers behind the walls of his castle in hopes of protecting them from illness. Poe details the preparations Propsero has made to ensure a memorable party, including decor and costumes. No one else is identified by name. The only other character individually mentioned is the ghastly figure dressed as the Red Death. Because the story focuses on Prince Prospero, he is the protagonist.
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“In truth, no Nigerian civil war general deserves to be a hero. They created the problems and demons the nation is presently confronted with… Their irresponsibility, tribal bigotry, opportunism and general indiscipline pushed the nation into crisis.”
The question is often asked; why is Nigeria so defined by injustice/impunity and why has she failed in spite of human and natural resources that would make other nations first world countries? The answer lies in the prevalent ethos and values in the society.
If we truly desire change, then we need to be careful those we lionise and make heroes, because what ultimately happens in a nation, whether in leadership or in everyday life is to a large extent reflective of the agglomerated accepted practices, cultural norms and consequent values inherent in it. If for example, a nation consistently makes heroes out of criminals, human rights abusers, bigots and other such dishonourable characters, the inherent values and cultural disposition of the masses will tilt towards that direction and there will consequently be no shortage of leaders and individuals who will be disposed to visit those vices on society.
Since independence Nigeria has had parliamentary democracy, military rule, a short lived presidential democracy, military rule and then a return to democracy. But across all systems of government only bad leadership that has progressively become worse has been the outcome. Democracy is arguably the best form of government, because the people get to choose their leaders directly, but democracy in Nigeria has turned out to be just as bad as military rule.
Whereas the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Saudi Arabia et al which are monarchies provide their citizens with some of the best standards of governance and whereas China —also not a democracy is today the 2nd largest economy in the world with citizens that enjoy some of the best living standards—what you find in democratic Nigeria is mass poverty, social injustice, human rights violations, impunity, looting, ethno-religious conflicts and abuse of power across all levels of government. Why then is it that nation’s that lack democracy have leaders who provide good leadership for their citizens while in Nigeria it’s the reverse?
The answer is simple. Those nations have a basic standard of justice and fairness inherent in their societies. They don’t make villains their heroes. Evil and or injustice especially against their citizens is condemned and rejected by all and their national heroes are those who all their lives made sacrifices to better the lot of their citizens. The prevalent ethos in their society is essentially predicated on justice and fairness. Their people are fundamentally predisposed to those virtues and consequently their leaders arising from a subculture of basic fairness and justice are naturally disposed to govern with those values. This is why in spite of not being a democracy they still have good leaders.
In contrast; the heroes and role models we have in Nigeria across all regions, have overwhelmingly been people who thrived on injustice, impunity and all kinds of excesses. Overtime, with the modelling of such despicable characters as our role models, the vices in which those leaders thrived became an accepted cultural norm/status quo and the values inherent in the society. Having been so drenched in warped values, it should not be a surprise that every leader that emerges at whatever level and through whatever mechanism is only disposed to do injustice and violate human rights because those are the predominant values shaped by those who have been our role models in the society.
One such recent event was the glorification of Murtala Muhammed who in normal climes would be in the dustbin of history. As the 40th anniversary of his assassination hit the media, there was no shortage of praise singers and those who saw in him a patriot and a nationalist; yet this was a man that embodied every ill that ruined and still haunts the nation. He was not only a tribalist to the core; he was also a secessionist, a coupist, an opportunist and a serial human rights abuser who was implicated not only in the pogrom before the war but in some of the worst atrocities of the civil war.
It was bad enough that Nigeria had the unfortunate January 1966 coup that was in the main occasioned by the post-election violence in the Western region (wetie) that had consumed thousands of lives owing to massive election rigging, corruption and other excesses of the then leaders but a second coup that further complicated the situation was hardly necessary. It should be noted that Muhammed’s counter-coup was triggered by nothing other than tribalism and a desire to secede from Nigeria.
One of the immediate victims of the counter-coup was General Aguiyi Ironsi who had crushed the January 1966 coup and was frantically making patriotic efforts to salvage a nation in crisis. To achieve their aim, Muhammed and his cohorts claimed he introduced the unitary system and that he refused to put the January plotters to trial. Yet Ironsi was barely 6 months in power—grappling with a national trauma while the January coupists were in jail preparatory to their trial. Aguiyi’s so called unitary system which was the product of a school of thought that then suggested —that was the only way to hold the fissiparous country together was more of a patriotic effort to hold the fractious country together.
Besides, it was largely in name only as the regional structure remained intact, the control of resources by respective regions also remained intact. The only thing that was centralised was the federal civil service. A concomitant pogrom organised by Murtala and other officers and men of the army who were supposed to protect life and property in collaboration with the civil authorities now ensued that claimed the lives of thousands of Easterners in what was Africa’s first genocide preceding what later happened in Rwanda, while Muhammed with the slogan “araba” prepared the north for secession from Nigeria.
It took the intervention of British diplomats for them to move away from secession. Ironically, the unitary system for which general Ironsi was murdered was now consolidated by the same opportunist counter-coupists who rejected Aburi accord that would have increased regional autonomy. They went further to dismantle the regions, create states, abolish resource control by the respective regions and totally centralised the levers of governance. Any attempt to return to true federalism since then has been blocked by the same Northern leaders that killed Ironsi on the grounds that he introduced the unitary system —paradoxically citing the same reasons of a “need to hold the country together” that had necessitated it by Ironsi in the turbulent period of the 60’s.
With the commencement of the civil war, Muhammed once again proved himself a villain. Not only did his forces loot the central bank in Benin, his notoriety was finally confirmed in Asaba. There thousands of young men, all civilians were lined up and murdered, while women were defiled. Not stopping there; in Onitsha more than 300 civilians who stayed behind in the Apostolic church holding prayers as the city fell were murdered by Muhammed’s forces in cold blood. He went on to commit a litany of war crimes before he was relieved of his command.
As head of state for a brief period of 6 months, he awarded the infamous corruption ridden “ITT” contract scam with which Fela Anikulapo Kuti made a popular song to his corrupt cronies who embezzled the funds thus depriving Nigeria of a modern telecoms infrastructure. That phony contract enriched a few and made sure that Nigeria never had a functional telephone system until the mobile GSM came. How can such a man guilty of tribalism, genocide, corruption, secession and other such excesses be canonized and made a role model in any normal clime?
How then can we get good leaders if our heroes and role models are those who made a career out of unspeakable atrocities and other such acts of injustice and impunity against fellow citizens? At this rate, one is persuaded to believe Adolf Hitler would have been a hero were he to be a Nigerian, what a shame!
In truth; no Nigerian civil war general deserves to be a hero. They created the problems and demons the nation is presently confronted with. Had the military as an institution managed the crisis in the 60’s better, there would have been no pogrom, no war and the nation would have been better for it. Their irresponsibility, tribal bigotry, opportunism and general indiscipline pushed the nation into a crisis that has since remained the nation’s Achilles heels.
First, they led us into a needless counter-coup/pogrom and war that consumed millions of lives only on tribal bigotry and opportunism, then they made sure there was never any post-war reconciliation, ostensibly because they never believed in Nigerian unity in the first place beyond the possibility to control the resources as was sold to them by the British diplomats who persuaded them to drop the idea of secession, and then they went on to make injustice, marginalisation, human rights violations and looting the order of the day.
That Nigeria is today a dysfunctional failed state racked by ethno-religious conflicts, collapsing infrastructure and massive corruption is all thanks to the same war generals who did nothing other than ruin the nation in the 4 decades and counting that they held power. General Abacha alone is reputed to have stolen more than $10 billion. 18 years after his death, his monumental loot is still being returned. These are the kind of thieving war generals Nigeria has had as leaders.
They were never patriots nor did they ever believe in Nigeria. They were in the main bigots, criminals, mass murderers, rapists, vandals, opportunists, liars, cowards and villains who true to type proved their mettle by destroying the nation beyond recognition. By making such men heroes, our society has been defined by their actions and values. This is why every Nigerian leader arising from the contamination of such values has been bad. Until we stop making models out of those who debased our humanity and fostered injustice and impunity as the prevalent status quo we will continue to get bad leadership in Nigeria.
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal program that helps people with disabilities and very low incomes pay for food, clothing and shelter. SSI is often confused with Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). One of the main differences between the two programs is that SSDI is available to people with disabilities no matter how much money they earn or have, while SSI places very strict limits on a recipient’s income and assets. However, in most states, an SSI beneficiary who receives even $1 from the program also qualifies for Medicaid health coverage, which can be far more valuable than SSI’s benefit itself.
Because SSI’s income and resource limits are so restrictive, it pays to know the basics about the program before deciding whether it is right for your family member or you.
IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR SSI, YOU MUST BE AGED, BLIND OR “DISABLED”
This first requirement is often the hardest for SSI applicants to meet, in large part because the federal government’s definition of “disabled” is so narrow. In essence, adult SSI applicants who are seeking benefits based on a disability must show that they are almost completely unable to work at any job whatsoever. The applicant must have a physical or mental impairment that makes it impossible for him to engage in any “substantial gainful activity,” and this impairment must be expected to last for longer than one year or to result in death. If an applicant is able to engage in substantial gainful activity, then he will typically not be eligible for SSI. A child applicant must have a physical or mental impairment that results in marked and severe functional limitations and can be expected to last for longer than one year or result in death.
AN SSI BENEFICIARY MUST HAVE VERY LIMITED RESOURCES
Once an SSI applicant has shown that she is disabled, she must also prove that she has less than $2,000 to her name. If the applicant can use or liquidate an asset to pay for food or shelter, the asset will probably count as a “resource” against this limit. A resource would include any funds held in the applicant’s bank accounts, retirement accounts, or in cash. If the applicant has set up a trust that does not meet specific requirements, the trust funds are also counted against the $2,000 limit. The applicant’s own home will not be considered an available resource, and her car is also exempt. The $2,000 resource limit does not disappear once a person qualifies for SSI. If an SSI beneficiary ends a month with more than $2,000 in her name, she will lose her benefits in the following month.
SSI recipients get only a modest monthly benefit, and this sum is reduced by any income they may have. In 2021, the maximum federal SSI benefit is $794 a month for an individual, although many states add a small supplement to this. In addition, SSI benefits are reduced by $1 for each dollar of unearned income a beneficiary receives (such as interest or dividends), and by $0.50 for each dollar of earned income (such as wages). SSI benefits are also reduced if an adult beneficiary lives in someone else’s home without paying rent, or if he receives free meals. Finally, the income of the people living with the beneficiary can count against the beneficiary. If the beneficiary’s combined income reduces his SSI benefit to zero, he loses SSI, along with any Medicaid benefits that may come with it.
SUPPLEMENTAL NEEDS TRUSTS CAN HELP
Although SSI’s income and asset rules are highly restrictive, several types of trusts, called “Special Needs” or “Supplemental Needs” trusts, can protect an SSI beneficiary’s assets while allowing her to maintain SSI eligibility. Relatives and friends of the SSI recipient can also set up a trust for the recipient and fund it with their own money. If properly structured, these trusts also will allow an SSI recipient to continue receiving benefits. Unfortunately, a poorly drafted special needs trust can destroy any hopes an applicant has of ever qualifying for SSI.
Contact the special needs planning attorneys at Elville and Associates to discuss the SSI application process and other special needs planning tools that may benefit your family and special needs loved one. | <urn:uuid:468de71e-bb9b-48f7-a6b6-a45fd2c63b6d> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://elvilleassociates.com/what-is-supplemental-security-income-ssi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.964318 | 911 | 2.390625 | 2 |
By Mike Goldman
A select team of videographers and producers from the Emergent Media Center had the opportunity to go to the Vermont Climate Economy Summit at Vermont Technical College last week. The objective of the day was film and edit a comprehensive video of the day’s events that would be shown to all the attendees at the end. The Summit involved several speakers like Congressmen Peter Welch and Speaker of the House Shap Smith who come from across different business sectors and came together to discuss the future of Vermont’s climate economy and steps that can be made to address climate issues as we move forward.
Five Champlain students, myself included, spent the day recording these various speakers and interviewing people about pertinent issues regarding climate change. The day started at seven in the morning and it was not until around four, with one of us holed up in the editing room for most of the day, that we finally had a semi-finished product that we could present to the group. We combined the different videos taken by each member of our team and managed to pull off a presentation that captured the essence of the day’s events in a way that really inspired everyone who was watching.
The day turned out even better than expected, we were approached by many people afterwards who told us that we did a great job, and we managed to interview Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy at one point during the day. The entire process was exhausting, because it required all of us to be on our A-game all the time so we could capture the best footage and moments of the Summit. Two of us created a professional looking interview room out of a basic classroom to interview speakers, several of us captured key soundbites to be used in the video, all of us went around the school to record highlights of each presentation, and one of us spent most of the day bringing it all together into a functional video. We all worked really hard to get it done and we managed to finish with time to spare.
Now that the initial video is completed, Jeremy Partyka, the main individual responsible for editing the video, will now focus on crafting a more polished and completed product that we will send to the members of the Summit. Check out the finished video below! | <urn:uuid:f54f03d7-cb13-48fe-89aa-201209bf9379> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://emergentmedia.champlain.edu/2016/03/04/climate-summit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.974877 | 451 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The role of speech pathology in child mental health
How do speech pathologists support children who have experienced trauma? In this episode we’re joined by two speech pathologists based in Victoria, Kerry Holland and Chantele Edlington. Both have worked extensively in the public mental health system and share a passion for addressing the speech, language, and communication needs of children who’ve experienced trauma. Kerry currently works in private practice, while Chantele is a Senior Speech Pathologist in the Early in Life Mental Health Program at Monash Health.
Tune in to learn about the interconnection between speech and language development and children’s mental health; how speech and language development is impacted by trauma; and ways to better support children’s speech, language, and communication needs.
In this episode you will learn:
- What is the relationship between attachment and a child’s speech, language, and communication development? [07:55]
- How does the experience of trauma affect speech and language development? [12:07]
- What happens when adults misinterpret speech, language, and communication difficulties? [20:52]
- Key messages for practitioners about children’s speech, language, and communication needs. [25:49]
- Interconnectedness of speech, language, and communication development and wellbeing. [28:22]
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As we all know, young children are impressionable. As they grow up, they’ll look to us as parents on how to act and view the world.
How we speak to our children also plays a big role in a child’s development and how they end up interacting with the world. Saying the wrong thing, even innocent phrases that seem harmless might have a negative effect.
Studies done by child psychologists (like the professionals at New Vision Psychology) have discovered the phrases that are doing the most harm. Below, we’ve rounded up 3 common things we say to our kids that we should stop doing. Keep reading to find out what they are.Continue reading “3 Things You Should Stop Saying to Your Child” | <urn:uuid:8e125ff6-1437-4d88-8378-925a596eb747> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://emmareed.net/tag/communication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.952084 | 152 | 1.976563 | 2 |
In a world in which immediate access to words and information is taken for granted, it is hard to imagine a time when writing began. Archaeological discoveries in ancient Mesopotamia (now mostly modern Iraq) show the initial power and purpose of writing, from administrative and legal functions to poetry and literature.
Mesopotamia was a region comprising many cultures over time speaking different languages. The earliest known writing was invented there around 3400 B.C. in an area called Sumer near the Persian Gulf. The development of a Sumerian script was influenced by local materials: clay for tablets and reeds for styluses (writing tools). At about the same time, or a little later, the Egyptians were inventing their own form of hieroglyphic writing.
Even after Sumerian died out as a spoken language around 2000 B.C., it survived as a scholarly language and script. Other peoples within and near Mesopotamia, from Turkey, Syria, and Egypt to Iran, adopted the later version of this script developed by the Akkadians (the first recognizable Semitic people), who succeeded the Sumerians as rulers of Mesopotamia. In Babylonia itself, the script survived for two more millennia until its demise around 70 C.E.
Writing began with pictographs (picture words) drawn into clay with a pointed tool. This early administrative tablet was used to record food rations for people, shown by a person’s head and bowl visible on the lower left side. Pictographs and numbers show amounts of grain allotted to cities and types of workers, including pig herders and groups associated with a religious festival.
Tablets like these helped local leaders organize, manage, and archive information. This tablet reflects bureaucratic accounting, but similar lists were used in the following centuries by individuals to keep track of personal property and business agreements.
From Pictures to Writing in Everyday Life
Writing evolved when someone decided to replace the pointed drawing tool with a triangular reed stylus. The reed could be pressed easily and quickly into clay to make wedges. At first, the wedges were grouped to make pictures, but slowly the groups evolved into more abstract signs and became the sophisticated script we call cuneiform (“wedge-shaped” in Latin). About one thousand signs represented the names of objects and also stood for words, syllables, and sounds (or parts of them).
Cuneiform records provide information about bureaucracy and authority, but they also document many fascinating aspects of daily life. Written texts reveal how individuals and families expressed their wishes, married and had children, did business, and worshipped. People wrote mainly on clay, but also on more expensive materials such as the golden plaque shown above.
In this clay marriage contract, which includes an oath to the chief god of Kish where the marriage would have taken place, a father gives his daughter to her new husband. In turn the husband pays a bride-price of silver to three men, perhaps her brothers. The document is enclosed in a clay envelope. Witnesses each rolled personal seals, inscribed cylinders like small rolling pins, across the left side of the envelope to impress a form of signature in relief.
Cylinder Seals as Signatures on Clay
To sign a clay document and sometimes to guarantee that it was officially closed, Mesopotamians used seals, mostly of durable and sometimes expensive materials. Many could be worn or pinned on like jewelry.
The cylinder seal above is inscribed with the name of a palace baker. He shows himself standing before an important seated divinity, being introduced by a lesser goddess. In the impression made by rolling the seal, you can see the text and first standing figure start to repeat on the right side.
Seals required special care. Image and text were reversed when pressed into clay, so on the seal a scribe and artist had to create mirror images and inscriptions. In addition, writing on hard materials required totally different techniques from writing directly on clay.
Who Wrote Cuneiform?
Professional writers of cuneiform were called “tablet writers”—scribes. In slow stages of schooling, they learned hundreds of cuneiform signs and memorized texts and templates in different languages. Most were men, but some women could become scribes.
Students’ interests and skills varied, and a proverb noted: “A disgraced scribe becomes a man of magical spells.” This was a pointed reminder that less-committed students might end up making an uncertain living writing common incantations. Working harder could lead to a prosperous life composing legal documents—or even writing correspondence for a royal court. Those who persevered could become scholars with knowledge of mathematics, medicine, religious ritual, divination, laws, and mythology, or even authors of literature.
This tablet is one of more than twenty similar tablets (nicknamed “Schooldays”) that present the life of a young student in a scribal school. The days were long, filled with copying and memorizing. Older scribes oversaw these efforts, while the school was led by a headmaster. The document records a usual day:
“I read my tablet, ate my lunch,
prepared my [new] tablet, wrote it, finished it; then
my model tablets were brought to me;
and in the afternoon, my exercise tablets were brought to me.”
(Translation by S. N. Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character, 1963)
On this day the boy feels successful, but on the next, his teachers repeatedly beat him for infractions such as tardiness, talking, and poor handwriting. In the end, the boy’s father invites the headmaster to dinner and gives him gifts and money. Appeased (and bought off, although such payments may have been expected), the headmaster declares to the boy: “You have carried out well the school’s activities. You are a man of learning!”
Many people may have learned the basics of reading and writing, including royals. The first known author was Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon, king of Akkad, the first king to conquer all of Mesopotamia. She was a priestess who composed religious poetry. Later, the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal praised his own literacy and scholarship. He is sometimes shown in royal art with a writing stylus stuck in his belt.
Although cuneiform endured for over three thousand years, as simpler alphabets became common the script was eventually used only for scholarly documents, and it faded away completely in the late-first century A.D. Within a few centuries, all understanding of the once-dominant writing was lost for about 1,800 years.
How Cuneiform Was Deciphered
In the 1700s, scholars began to take note of cuneiform on surviving clay fragments and stone monuments, but they did not understand what was written. In 1786, when a French traveler brought this dramatic black kudurru, a small stone monument, to Paris, inventive translations of the text were proposed, such as “The army of heaven gives us vinegar to drink solely to provide us remedies able to bring us healing.”
When its true meaning was eventually deciphered, the stone was found to record a gift of land from a father to his daughter upon her marriage. The careful father stipulates that her new father-in-law will not claim the land as his. The horned, scaly being at the top of the stone is Nabu, a divine patron of scribes who oversees the proper execution of the contract.
The text was written in Akkadian cuneiform, the written language of the conquerors of the Sumerians, which was undeciphered until the mid-1800s.
By then, some scholars were convinced that they could read Akkadian texts. Others thought they were just guessing. Finally, in 1857 the Royal Asiatic Society issued a challenge to four experts: Provide independent translations of a newly found, unpublished Akkadian inscription for judgment by a jury. Each academic received a copy of the inscription and returned a translation within a set time.
The text was an account of a king’s military successes. One dramatic excerpt declared: “Their carcasses covered the valleys and the tops of the mountains. I cut off their heads. The battlements of their cities I made heaps of, like mounds of earth!” The scholars were vindicated when a jury found their translations similar and declared Akkadian cuneiform deciphered! Read the account here.
In the 1800s and 1900s, archaeological excavations revealed thousands of cuneiform documents, and the variations of the script across languages and time were slowly deciphered.
While we can read cuneiform documents today, the majority—many hundreds of thousands—still survive unread, and the few hundred cuneiform experts worldwide face an impossible task. Fortunately, machine learning offers potential assistance. Scholars at many institutions are compiling databases and training machines to read and fill in gaps in these ancient texts. | <urn:uuid:3009615f-fb54-46d2-89e5-c16228ed8548> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://empirics.asia/where-did-writing-come-from/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.972465 | 1,896 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Search engine (computing)
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A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to other techniques for managing information overload.
How search engines workEdit
Search engines provide an interface to a group of items that enables users to specify criteria about an item of interest and have the engine find the matching items. The criteria are referred to as a search query. In the case of text search engines, the search query is typically expressed as a set of words that identify the desired concept that one or more documents may contain. There are several styles of search query syntax that vary in strictness. It can also switch names within the search engines from previous sites. Whereas some text search engines require users to enter two or three words separated by white space, other search engines may enable users to specify entire documents, pictures, sounds, and various forms of natural language. Some search engines apply improvements to search queries to increase the likelihood of providing a quality set of items through a process known as query expansion. Query understanding methods can be used as standardize query language.
The list of items that meet the criteria specified by the query is typically sorted, or ranked. Ranking items by relevance (from highest to lowest) reduces the time required to find the desired information. Probabilistic search engines rank items based on measures of similarity (between each item and the query, typically on a scale of 1 to 0, 1 being most similar) and sometimes popularity or authority (see Bibliometrics) or use relevance feedback. Boolean search engines typically only return items which match exactly without regard to order, although the term boolean search engine may simply refer to the use of boolean-style syntax (the use of operators AND, OR, NOT, and XOR) in a probabilistic context.
To provide a set of matching items that are sorted according to some criteria quickly, a search engine will typically collect metadata about the group of items under consideration beforehand through a process referred to as indexing. The index typically requires a smaller amount of computer storage, which is why some search engines only store the indexed information and not the full content of each item, and instead provide a method of navigating to the items in the search engine result page. Alternatively, the search engine may store a copy of each item in a cache so that users can see the state of the item at the time it was indexed or for archive purposes or to make repetitive processes work more efficiently and quickly.
Other types of search engines do not store an index. Crawler, or spider type search engines (a.k.a. real-time search engines) may collect and assess items at the time of the search query, dynamically considering additional items based on the contents of a starting item (known as a seed, or seed URL in the case of an Internet crawler). Meta search engines store neither an index nor a cache and instead simply reuse the index or results of one or more other search engine to provide an aggregated, final set of results.
Types of search enginesEdit
- By source
- Desktop search
- Federated search
- Human search engine
- Metasearch engine
- Search aggregator
- Web search engine
- By content type
- By interface
- By topic
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Venezuela says it will cut the working day for public sector workers to five-and-a-half hours to conserve energy, down from eight to nine hours. The initiative is part of a nationwide electricity rationing plan.
Vice-President Jorge Arreaza said there had been a surge in energy demand due to extremely hot weather. He said state employees would now work from 07:30-13:00 to save on air conditioning.
On Monday, local media reported blackouts across the country.
Arreaza said private companies would be asked to use their own generators to reduce pressure on the national grid. But he said it was private homeowners who consumed the most energy, and he called for everyone to turn the dial down on their air conditioners.
We are appealing to everyone's conscience, to use energy efficiently.
Last week the government claimed that energy problems were due to maintenance issues, but the opposition criticized the government for not investing enough in the energy sector.
Power outages are common in Venezuela, which is a big oil producer but depends heavily on hydro-electric power.
Venezuela is also struggling with an economy in recession that has been hard hit by the fall in the price of oil. Some 96% of its export revenues are reported to come from oil. Inflation is also high, and stood at more than 60% in 2014. | <urn:uuid:cd2bde38-0517-4498-84a8-acdf3e38396b> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://en.mercopress.com/2015/04/29/oil-rich-but-power-short-venezuela-cuts-working-day-to-save-electricity?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.981098 | 279 | 1.570313 | 2 |
prefrontal squall line
prefrontal squall line[prē′frənt·əl ′skwȯl ‚līn]
A squall line or instability line located in the warm sector of a wave cyclone, about 50 to 300 miles (80 to 480 kilometers) in advance of the cold front, usually oriented roughly parallel to the cold front, and moving in about the same manner as the cold front. Also called nonfrontal squall line; pre-cold-frontal squall line.
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The United Nations said its humanitarian funds have allocated Lebanon $10 million to help the cash-strapped nation buy vital fuel to power hospitals and water stations.
“Lebanon faces profound uncertainty. The humanitarian community, though, is resolved to assist all vulnerable populations, whether Lebanese, refugees or migrants,” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths tweeted Wednesday during a visit to Beirut.
I am pleased to support the ongoing humanitarian efforts with the release of $4 million from @UNCERF to help @WFPLebanon establish a fuel supply line to sustain essential health and water and sanitation activities. (3/3)https://t.co/aSUrgWmkxh— Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) August 31, 2021
The UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said Tuesday a $6 million allocation from the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund was planned to help 65 hospitals, primary healthcare centers, dispensaries and medical cold storage facilities.
Another $4 million would be set aside for health centers as well as water stations and four water facilities that serve more than two thirds of Lebanon’s population, it said in a statement.
“The allocation will help 2.3 million people across Lebanon by making sure there is enough fuel to keep water stations functioning,” said OCHA.
“The fuel shortage, a result of the ongoing socioeconomic and political crises, is jeopardizing the availability of health care and drinking water for nearly everyone in Lebanon,” it added.
Lebanon’s economic collapse has stripped the national currency of most of its value and left four out of five inhabitants below the poverty line.
The crisis deepened when central bank started removing subsidies in order to shore up its dwindling foreign currency reserves, making the cost of fuel imports more expensive.
That has led to shortages of almost everything, with power cuts lasting up to 22 hours a day and fuel for private generators increasingly scarce.
Many hospitals have been forced to scale back operations because of the shortages.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF has repeatedly warned that a near total shutdown of the water supply in Lebanon could threaten more than four million people.
- UNICEF warns millions of people in Lebanon face water shortages
- Lebanon’s Berri calls for new govt by end of week, claims country is being ‘hijacked’
- People turn to solar power supplies as Lebanon’s fuel crisis, power outages worsen
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Night shift workers are at higher risk of developing irregular, and often abnormally fast heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF), according to research published in the European Heart Journal.
The study is the first to investigate links between night shift work and AF.
Using information from 283,657 people in the UK Biobank database, researchers found that the longer and more frequently that people worked night shifts over their lifetimes, the greater their risk of AF. Night shift work was also linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but not to stroke or heart failure.
In addition, the researchers, led by Professor Yingli Lu, of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital and Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, and Professor Lu Qi, of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, USA, investigated whether genetic predisposition to AF could play a role in the increased risk.
They evaluated the overall genetic risk but found that these levels did not affect the link between working night shifts and AF risk.
Professor Lu said: “Although a study like this cannot show a causal link between night shifts and atrial fibrillation and heart disease, our results suggest that current and lifetime night shift work may increase the risk of these conditions.
The study included 286,353 people who were in paid employment or self-employed. A total of 283,657 of these participants did not have AF when they enrolled in UK Biobank, and 276,009 did not have heart failure or stroke.
Information on genetic variants was available for 193,819 participants without AF, and 75,391 of them answered in-depth questions about their lifetime employment in a questionnaire sent out in 2015.
Among the participants free of heart disease and stroke when they joined the study, 73,986 provided information on their employment history. During an average follow-up time of over ten years, there were 5,777 AF cases.
They found that people who currently worked night shifts on a usual or permanent basis had a 12 percent increased risk of AF compared to people who only worked during the day. The risk increased to 18 percent after ten or more years for those who had a lifetime duration of night shifts. Among people who worked an average of three to eight night shifts a month for ten years or more, the risk of AF increased to 22 percent compared to daytime workers.
Among participants currently working night shifts, or working night shifts for ten or more years, or working a lifetime of three to eight night shifts a month, the risk of coronary heart disease increased by 22 percent, 37 percent and 35 percent respectively compared to daytime workers.
It is the first study to link these data with genetic information in a population that also has detailed histories available on current shift work and lifetime employment.
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by Gabriel Martinez, Editor's Blog for Solidarity with Korean People
The death of the North Korean leader has raised a series of discussions regarding the character of the existing political system in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. For some bourgeois analysts, since the transition of the leadership took place after the death of Kim Jong Il, they would think it be proof positive that the country's political regime is a brutal dictatorship with dynastic traces.
Soon after the death of the "Leader Kim Jong Il" (one of several ways that North Koreans refer to the deceased leader) the agency KCNA issued a statement urging the North Korean people to support the new leadership headed by Kim Jong-Un, son of Kim Jong Il, who previously was vice president of the National Defense Commission.
It is important to emphasize that during the 90s, a time when the DPRK went through a period known as the "Strenuous March," the National Defense Commission became the most important political organism of the North Korean state, after the position of President.
Kim Jong-Il became the main leader of the country, occupying a position distinct from that occupied by his father, Kim Il Sung. Now, after the death of Kim Jong Il, it is finally confirmed that Kim Jong-Un will become the new leader of the country.
The apparently inherited transition of the leadership in popular Korea got the most hateful, heinous attacks of the worldwide bourgeois press, which speaks of a "monarchical Communist dictatorship" in North Korea. We could agree with this line of argument if we adopted a shallow and superficial method of analysis, like most journalists, propagandists and "analysts" of the capitalist order.
What happens in Korea cannot be understood without, first of all, taking into account its historical context. The Korean revolution and socialist construction in the northern peninsula have always had to cope with all kinds of imperialist machinations.
The Korean War, which started already after the founding of the Democratic People's Republic, was a clear demonstration that the Koreans could never trust the good intentions of U.S. imperialism and its allies. Kim Il Sung was the main leader of the North Korean people in this period, being converted into a gigantic figure loved by most of the Korean people.
During the Korean War, Kim Jong Il was very young, but there are reports that affirm that his interest in political issues was already showing at the time. After liberation, he got involved in building the socialist construction of the country and, as an active militant of the Workers Party of Korea, participated in volunteer work in the fields and in construction. He also participated in intense academic debates in the Kim Il Sung University.
These meant that Kim Jong Il became an increasingly popular leader in Socialist Korea. The Selected Works of Kim Jong Il dealing with such periods, are composed of multiple volumes and cover a wide range of subjects: philosophy, politics, economy and national defense.
Many pictures of the Workers Party of Korea began to support the idea that Kim Jong Il should become a leader successor in the DPRK after President Kim Il Sung died. The issue of transition of leadership is viewed with great concern for the Workers Party of Korea.
For them, it is still a question of continuing revolutionary construction, taking into consideration what has been done by the previous generation, without coups d'etat and defamation of the predecessor leadership, a path that could give rise to a "Korean Khrushchev."
When Kim Il Sung died, one of the promises made by Kim Jong Il would be to "not change one millimeter" of what was done by Kim Il Sung, or in other words, persist in taking the socialist road in an unfavorable situation created by the dissolution of the USSR. He carried out what was promised and beyond, managing to stabilize the country economically, surpassing the serious economic crisis that struck the country in the 90s.
Any news that speaks of an "economic crisis" and "hunger" in popular Korea today is mere capitalist propaganda, and does not even deserve to be taken into consideration. Obviously, this is not the question here to point out that everything goes well in the country, because we know that the country faces many problems such as difficulty in obtaining foreign currency, due in large part by the economic blockade of the United States and its allies, which has proportions more devastating than the blockade of Cuba, for example.
Faced with such an adverse situation created by the imperialist siege and encirclement, which country every day threatens the the way founded by the Workers Party of Korea, that ensures the support and unity of the people around its proposals?
To strengthen the role of the leadership, the new leader Kim Jong-Un is almost a "scientific creation" of a political leader, even if he does not have the same ideological and practical accumulation of his predecessors. He will dispose of the help of numerous pictures of the Workers Party of Korea to successfully exercise his functions.
However, the principles are not left out, and therein lies the fundamental difference between DPR Korea and the bourgeois countries that slander it: The people in Korea are the popular masses and the "center of everything" (as they like to say).
What does this mean? It means that the position occupied by the masses as a whole (working class, peasants, intellectuals) is radically different from the position occupied by the masses in capitalist countries. This is not mere propaganda. In DPR Korea, the people are involved and build their political life on a daily basis, in schools, factories, collective farms and universities. For everything there are debates and discussions.
For the ideologues of the capitalist order, democracy is synonymous with subservience to capital and the facade of elections, where the established order is never questioned. How many dollars does a U.S. citizen needs to be elected President? How many real does a Brazilian politician need to raise to become a Federal Deputy? What is politics for most people living in capitalist countries?
These are questions that serve to reflect the true character of the society in which we live. Some may ask: "But here I can say whatever I want, I will not be arrested." Yes, perhaps you may not actually be arrested, but also your ideas are never put into practice, and if you're not imprisoned, it's just because a situation was created where your ideas can hardly be put into practice, only with the greatest difficulty.
If things were reversed, I have no doubt that the ruling classes will resort to violence and the justice system to preserve their fundamental interests. Fortunately, the North Koreans do not need and do not want this type of democracy.
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CAPITALISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN IN THE 20Th CENTURY
By Michael Skywood Clifford
A reporter once asked Mahatma Ghandi what he thought of civilisation in the west. "I think it would be a good idea," he said. The same answer might apply to the question, "What do you think of Christianity in the West?"
Most of the Western Christian 'democracies' have lost much of their Christian culture. Even though many of the words and images still remain, secularism and materialism dominate - especially in Britain today, and its people tend to bow more to the god of greed than the God of the gospels. Napoleon once accused the British of being a nation of shopkeepers, would he call us a nation of supermarket goers now?
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's original spiritual advisor explains how frustrated he is about how society has changed in the USA.
"If you notice, Jesus taught us to pray, and I speak as a Christian minister - I realize that the country is not all Christian - but just in terms of the principles that I believe cut across interfaith lines and boundaries is in the prayer. The model prayer the Lord taught us as the Lord's disciples has no first person singular pronoun. It's 'our,' 'we,' 'us.' That got lost.
"We became a 'me'- focused, kind of dog-eat-dog, Ayn Rand, social Darwinist, survival of the fittest, be strong, and with no care, no concern, no compassion for those that are not born above the scratch line," Wright said. "And no concern to make the communities in which they live and the world in which we live a community which really cares about all of God's children, regardless of their colours and regardless of their faith."
Prior to the first World War, Christianity had been the bedrock, the mantle and soil of Britain. From Christianity we fuelled our wisdom, our rituals, our traditions, our melodies, our manners, our fairness, our sense of duty, our honesty and our sense of family and community.
Indeed, the beginning of the Working Class movement and the Labour Party were crafted out of a combination of chapel and communism, from mysticism and Marxism. The combined agenda was unashamedly to create a fairer society, to look after the poor, the vulnerable, the sick, the aged and to care for each other. The working classes rebelled against being in service to the rich, or being exploited in filthy work, they looked around at the class system and saw the low social mobility and the terrible inequality of wealth in Great Britain.
The influence of Christian education
These days a lot of people hate Christianity - to wit, the propaganda against it has been ferocious and effective! - but my premise is that only two things fight unfettered capitalism: 1. Christianity (and perhaps other major world religions of an ethical tradition) and: 2. Socialism. Eradicate these and unbridled barbarism and Fascism result. This is because ordinary people lose an important part of their political and ethical education and also because the rulers - instead of providing for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable - see only mammon and status for themselves and regard all below them as Darwinian failures. Such is the terror of Social Darwinism which is replacing Christianity.
Christians believed that every young child must be taught about both the evil in the world and the potential evil they carry within themselves. This has been criticised as a bizarre and a cruel practice, a practice that will frighten children and give them nightmares. Yet - even though the child may pass through a phase of this - the basic theory is that when a child is aware of evil, the child seeks to do good. She becomes aware of her own short comings, and he takes his sinful self and tries to improve it, to heal it. Christian educators believe it is important to catch a child's sense of ethics when they are young, because by the time teenage-hood has arrived it is too late to lay a good bedrock for learning if it is not already there.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. Proverbs 22:15
Very few schools in the UK now teach the seven virtues: Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility, nor the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord, nor the twelve fruits of the spirit: Charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity - and if they do they are full!
If the seven deadly sins were better known would we be astonished by Britain in the 21st Century?
1)Wrath - Britain is involved in three appalling wars.
2) Avarice - Britain's culture of decency and neighbourliness is dissolving into a culture of turbo materialism.
3) Sloth - unemployment is rife and there are few jobs for young people and multitudes of TV channels (pushing out rubbish) are on all day for people to slump in front of.
4) Pride - the hero in today's society is the celebrity, the supermodel, the sports star, the pop star. All of who actually produce very little of sustainable value but who get enormous pay outs because they represent certain products and 'the aspiration to be rich'. Whatever happened to real heroes with genuine virtues?
5) Lust - pornography abounds in advertisements, television programmes, publications, the internet, etc. Sexual exploitation. Sex has become a commodity to be traded not simply an expression of love.
6) Envy - is used continually to convince people to buy products to 'keep up with the Jones', or maybe just to Lord it over them (encouraged by the gutter press).
7) Gluttony - obesity is becoming an epidemic. The Office for National Statistics claims that high incidences of obesity were found in urban areas including Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and Newcastle-Upon Tyne, Sunderland, Leeds, Huddersfield, Coventry, Nottingham, Derby, Middlesborough, Reading, Portsmouth and areas of inner London (2010).
Wisdom says that children should learn by example of their elders. Some fine examples we have in the UK for our minors to follow - the bankers gambling away their customers money and justice not being done or being seen to be done; the press bugging telephones; MPs fiddling their expenses and a PM and a chancellor who used to smash up hotels!
Indeed Pope Benedict's state visit to Britain caused controversy in 2010 after a senior aide called Britain a "Third World country". Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, was pulled out of the historic trip after making a series of embarrassing remarks. He was quoted in a magazine saying Britain was marked by "a new and aggressive atheism". The cardinal also said: "When you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country."
Some attempt to rekindle Christianity's fire after a slow wane since the Reformation came in the early 1800s with the Oxford Movement. However Christian attendance began to seriously decline at the beginning of the 20th Century.
The new age was highly charged, modernism, industrialism and Marxism were breaking out everywhere.
Financial panics were common. Black Friday 1869, the Panic of 1873, the Paris Bourse crash of 1882, the Panic of 1884, the Panic of 1893, the Panic of 1896, the Panic of 1901 and the Panic of October 1907.
In the UK, serious riots broke out towards the end of the first decade (1910 - 1920 is historically known as 'the Great Unrest') where the clashes between police and the rioters ended in many deaths.
Militancy across the UK had increased from 1907. Riots occurred in Belfast as carters, coal porters and dockers went on strike over low wages. The Scottish miners' dispute of 1909 and the cotton, boilermakers and miners strikes of 1910 preceded further serious unrest, commencing in 1910 with the miners' strike in Tonypandy, South Wales when 12,000 miners struck for better pay and conditions against the Cambrian Coal Combine. Then 15,000 workers went on strike in the wool trade industry in Yorkshire, and further riots had occurred as a result of a strike by steel workers at Shotton on Deeside.
In August 1911 a transport worker's strike began in Southampton for improved working conditions. The union's demands were met in a few days and members returned to work, but in Liverpool the strike continued.
On 13 August, about 80,000 men and women marched to St George's Hall. Scuffles broke out between protesters and police. At that time, 186 people were hospitalised, and 96 people arrested. Two days and nights of rioting followed with troops on the streets, there were 3,500 troops stationed in Liverpool and a gunboat on the river. On 15 August, prison vans, containing 90 of those convicted for involvement in the riots and escorted by Hussars, were attacked as they made their way down Vauxhall Road to Walton Jail. The regiment shot two men dead and wounded three others.
However, largely due to the Llanelli train strike, the government was unable to move their troops around Britain so a settlement was reached.
Over the summer of 1911 various groups had gone out on strike. Then came the first world war, and generations of young men were massacred. The establishment had thwarted the potential revolution by killing most of the young men of Britain
More financial mayhem followed in 1914. At the beginning of World War I, the US Treasury secretary William Gibbs closed the New York Stock Exchange to stop the sale of dollar-denominated securities. Then the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board embraced the "Too Big to Fail" doctrine orchestrating a bailout of New York banks by flooding the nation with paper currency.
The Great War and its impact
Nietzsche had written in the 19th century that 'God is dead'. After the Great War many survivors of WWI felt that 'a loving God' had died in the trenches.
Christianity may have declined because people had simply lost faith; they no longer believed any more. My contention is that this tendency to reject Christianity has since been accelerated by the state and the power elite. There has been a increasing policy thoughout this century to denigrate Christianity through the media and various agencies and to seriously weaken its influence especially within the British working classes.
In the 19th Century, capitalist mass industrialists had found Christianity especially useful in forming passive employees - happy to accept their lowly station in this world and to strive for perfection in the next - who were too meek to complain about workers' rights.
But at the turn of the 20th Century, capitalists began to see that Christianity was also a force that was beginning to work against them.
They realised it also formed people with a sense of ethics, duty and purpose. The religion emphasising both individual and collective conscience, self improvement and the repression of the selfish ego. It was communal: 'Love thy neighbour as thyself'.
Christianity was suspected because it gathered people together in church on Sundays (collective action?) because it gave the workers a philosophy (questioning mind?) because it gave the workers a sense of community (not selfish individualism), it gave the Christian a sense of control and self denial (not good for bingeing on consumerism), and it questioned values (what is good? what is bad?)
They didn't want people meditating on proverbs in the Bible like:
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. Prov: 28:15
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase. Prov: 28:28
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Prov 29:2
It was time to restrict Christianity and dumb everyone down.
The rise of the working class in Britain
These positive ethical/ political qualities of the church, together with the rise of trade unions, church groups and the Fabian Party went on to create a Socialist movement for working people. In 1926, the British government came under serious pressure from the Christian Socialist Working Class movement with a general strike. However the Trade Union Congress backed down, giving in to the government after nine days, thereby thwarting a Socialist Revolution, similar to a white Russian Revolution in 1917, which was within sight.
However, over the next 30 years, from the early 30s through to the 60s, the combination of hard-line Communists, Trade Unions, Educationalists and the Christian Socialists went on to have a series of successes: Nationalisation of transport and power (much of it created for efficiency in the war) and the creation of National Health Service. Also Slum clearance, the curbing of Rachmanism, the building of council houses for the homeless. In the sixties the explosion of polytechnics, educational institutions and the Open University.
Christianity not good for consumerism
However the attack on Christianity intensified after World War II. Church attendance in the UK continued downwards and the media, books and films were abundant with the secular gods of the ECONOMY, of Freud and psychoanalysis.
The Sixties arrived and the wisdom of the Bible was overturned. Thou shalt not kill; abortion was legalised. A man should not lie with another man; homosexuality was legalised.
Suddenly sin was a figment of the imagination the devil was silly (no longer a useful imaginary tool to keep you in check). Freud and this post war secular age was about letting it all hang out. Indulging yourself was no longer a sin. And what happened to financial prudence? Buy now pay later, credit cards, hire purchase, etcetera.
The modern monastery crushers
Worse was to come. Along came Reagan and Thatcher, the Chicago School of Economics, Milton Friedman, Rupert Murdoch and Ayn Rand. Christianity was going to get a kicking!
Later Thatcherism was perpetrated by Blair, Brown and Cameron. Each of these leaders always keen to be seen attending Christian services. The massive Christian vote was essential to them. (But by their fruit shall ye know them!)
Thatcher immediately went about reversing all the social policy improvements that has been implemented since the 1930s. She privatised services that were meant for everyone and sold them to a few fat cats in the city. All the advances of Socialist democracy in the UK since the Great War were going to be dismantled. And how did the right wing persuade the people to agree to do that? By buying up the world's media and then brainwashing us with 24 hour rolling news.
As Murdoch printed Thatcher's propaganda in the Sun two things were notable:
1) All socialist advocacy was removed and all public workers and apparent lefties were humiliated and vilified.
2) His market was no longer the middle class readers; the poorly educated could now be controlled by a daily diet of tabloid trivia. It was a massive dumbing down process.
In the US, in the 80s, Neo-con, Lewis Powell and the Heritage Foundation singled out that commercial TV and the judiciary should in future be influenced by Neo-com attitudes, especially TV 'because it shaped people's minds'. Millions of dollars were put into it. Later, in the Reagan era, the 'Fairness Doctrine' was thrown out, no longer was it required that TV or radio need represent two opposing viewpoints. In the Clinton era, the right wing Clear Channel radio station went from owning a few local stations to over 1100, thereby emasculating real localism and replacing it with Neo-con output.
Of course American right wing radio is big on fundamentalist Christianity. Pray to God and get a new car! It's crass and about spend-spend-spend capitalism.
And in the late 90s, Christianity became associated publicly with a couple of devils. George Bush and Tony Blair- the biggest hypocrites and war criminals of a religion to date. This association has heavily damaged Christianity in the eyes of many.
How Christian is being undermined by the media
In the UK, over the decades, many things had been changing.
A Christian service was no longer required in school assemblies.
Many employees have been banned for wearing Christian imagery, such as a crucifix.
A nurse who prayed for a patient was disciplined.
Even this week the Daily Telegraph published a story with a reference: Doctors fear their private lives and personal beliefs will soon come under increasing scrutiny from regulators, as a Christian GP (Dr. Scott) who prayed with a patient faces a formal hearing.
The fight for the legalisation of euthanasia has a very high media count. Christians believe we are all sacred, and should not end our own life. The ruling elite would love to have suicide farms because it would save millions, and they seek to persuade the aged and sick to die with dignity. Euthanasia was legal in Nazi Germany.
At the beginning of the 20th century, most British girls looked up to the Virgin Mary for inspiration. These girls would go on to become mothers, home makers, nurses, teachers, etc. Women's roles and aspirations have changed for the better in many ways, but the practical result now is that Britain has to import most of our nurses from Christian countries thereby depriving those countries of their own nurses and doctors. Also it is easy to see that people are forgetting how to care. Last year in the UK only 60 babies were adopted.
The BBC, once prided globally for its impartial treatment of subjects - started to move to the right. Towards the end of the 20th Century it was slipping into becoming state TV promoting corporate and government propaganda.
Atheist Richard Dawkins became the darling of the BBC and he was given enormous air time, massive advertisements for his books, such 'The God Delusion', to explain his atheistic theories. No TV time was offered to people who disagreed with him.
There has been endless repeats of documentaries demeaning Christians as GAY hating bigots. Christians dislike homosexuality as a sin but they don't dislike the person. Homophobic is a very PC word these days, what about Christophobic?
The BBC doesn't just attack Christianity through 'fact' but through drama and fiction. It was the BBC who put on the Jerry Springer Opera, a so-called musical, and a blatant satire on Christ, that has Jesus dressed in nappies. The BBC would not have dared to televise such a musical if it had been lampooning Allah.
And then there is the 'paedophilia in the Catholic Church' story, which keeps being dug up for reheating every Easter by the news agencies. Judging by the coverage one would consider the number of priests involved to be massive, yet the figures are that 0.4% of priests have been accused (accused not found guilty) of Paedophilia. Paedophilia is a dreadful social problem that affects almost every institution in the world to some degree. Not that that excuses any priest - or anyone else - who is guilty of course.
A few months ago the BBC ran a three part documentary on Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Towards the end of his life he was a totally committed Christian. However the documentary went on to describe his twisted personality and how Christianity completely fouled up his sex life. By the end of the documentary you saw Tolstoy as somewhat deranged. Propaganda is sometimes very subtle.
Recently the BBC devoted all their Radio 4 drama time to the novel LIFE AND FATE by Russian Jew: Vassily Grossman. They have described it as the 'War and Peace' of the 20th Century. It is centred around Stalingrad, and the book effectively dismisses Socialism, Christianity and depicts the horrors of the Holocaust.
And why are these days all Christians portrayed as right wing evangelicals? If you are a Christian you must follow the American tea party! Or the far right National Front in the UK.
Christian Socialism is what they seek to destroy.
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This doesn’t look good. I have posted these images before, but there is more context here.
People are becoming magnetic?
From the Spanish team:
The masks being used and currently marketed contain graphene oxide. Not only the ones that were withdrawn at the time, as indicated by the media, the swabs used in both PCR and antigen tests also contain graphene oxide nanoparticles.
Johnson & Johnson, etc., also contain a considerable dose of graphene oxide nanoparticles. This has been the result of their analysis by electron microscopy and spectroscopy, among other techniques used by various public universities in our country.
Flu vaccines and the new and supposedly intranasal anti-COVID vaccines they are preparing also contain enormous doses of graphene oxide nanoparticles. Graphene oxide is a toxic that generates thrombi in the organism, graphene oxide is a toxic that generates blood coagulation. Graphene oxide causes alteration of the immune system. By decompensating the oxidative balance in relation to the gulation reserves. If the dose of graphene oxide is increased by any route of administration, it causes the collapse of the immune system and subsequent cytokine storm.
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Did you know?
- Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout our body, working relentlessly throughout their life cycle (about 120 days), after which they are replaced with new cells.
- White blood cells protect our body against diseases and foreign invaders. There are several subtypes, including macrophages, which destroy bacteria, as well as T-cells that destroy infected cells.
- I learned all this from an anime.
Okay, so that’s not 100% true. I learned it in biology class. But that was 15 years ago, and I’ve long since forgotten everything but the most basic facts about the human body. So watching Cells at Work: Code Black was a fun (albeit dark) refresher.
Seriously, if we had shows like this back in the day instead of boring ol’ textbooks, everyone would have aced their biology exams. It has everything that a good anime should have: beautiful art, interesting characters, a great plot, awesome action. But most of all, it’s educational, and it carries an important message beyond just entertainment: Take. Better. Care. Of. Our. Bodies.
Based on a popular manga series, the first anime season of Cells at Work! details how a body functions through the eyes of anthropomorphised cells, ie a red blood cell and a white blood cell. I haven’t watched the original, but I’ve heard it’s light and fun, with a focus on comedy. Code Black, however, is much darker – and shines the spotlight on what happens to an unhealthy body caused by bad lifestyle habits and stress.
The series opens with our ‘hero’ AA2153, a rookie red blood cell. Somewhat naive in character, he starts off enthusiastic and pumped (ha!) for work, but soon discovers that there are plenty of problems with his work environment, from angry, overworked cells to pathways clogged with cholesterol and plaque, hindering oxygen deliveries — a reflection of the body’s unhealthy state. The environment is also hostile: AA2153 often gets verbally abused by other cells, as they are all stretched to their limit and often have to prioritise certain functions over others.
During a delivery run, our protagonist is saved by white blood cell U1196 from an invading Pneumonia Coccus, and a friendship blossoms despite their different roles. The two characters will continue running into each other throughout the course of the series, as they both try to fulfil their duties to keep the body running.
AA2153 does his best under terrible working conditions and tries to keep his optimism up. In the first episode, he witnesses a terrible scene: his co-workers turning into zombies (carboxyhemoglobin) after coming into contact with carbon monoxide (from smoking). Although initially terrified, he hardens his resolve to deliver oxygen after his senpai sacrifices himself by running through the gas, so that AA2153 could deliver oxygen through a safer route. However, this is just the beginning of the body’s troubles.
Throughout the course of the anime, our characters will have to overcome various situations, some of which are self-inflicted by the body, from heavy drinking and a bad diet to consumption of caffeine and energy drinks, which in turn cause the body to weaken further, making it prone to disease. After battling conditions such as hair loss, kidney stones, gout, erectile dysfunction, gonococci and pulmonary embolism, AA2153 starts to lose hope that the hellish environment will change…
I absolutely love this anime. Pretty art style aside, I think it’s brilliant how the writers have managed to turn somewhat complicated concepts into easy-to-digest (pun intended) stories— and they’ve also done an excellent job depicting the anthropomorphised cells and the various organs creatively.
The kidney, for example, is shown as a traditional bathhouse, and the glomeruli (the filtering unit) as bath girls who help clean up the red blood cells. When bacteria invades one kidney, threatening to destroy it, AA2153 urges the girls to evacuate – but they are prevented from doing so by the matriarch Glomeruli, who tells them that the kidney is a ‘silent organ’ — always working, never complaining. This hit me hard because I know that kidney failure is often called a silent killer, and it isn’t until they are failing that we realise something is very wrong. The kidney is eventually saved after the body ingests antibiotics, which help the white blood cells defeat the invading bacteria.
Another good example of the anime’s creativity is the liver, represented as a red light district with hostess clubs, where the red blood cells go to ‘unwind’ and detoxify, especially after alcohol consumption. But as the body continues drinking excessively, the once bright and colourful district becomes a dark and gloomy place, with exhausted and sickly hostesses (hepatocytes). I think it’s just great how they used real-life scenarios and applied them to the anime in such a way that is easy to understand.
But more than just spitting facts, the anime manages to depict the emotions of the anthropomorphised cells and the seemingly hopeless state they are living in. The characters aren’t just there to tell you about how the body works: they have their own hopes and dreams and feelings. The main character is your typical anime hero: bright, cheerful and enthusiastic, always trying to inspire others — and while it’s nothing original as far as animes go (think Naruto, or Luffy), AA2153 is endearing in his own way.
The side characters are equally well developed. In episode 7, our hero’s best friend, a fellow red blood cell designated as AC1677, becomes jealous of AA2153’s achievements, having always been overshadowed by the former’s achievements. He also feels somewhat guilty at AA2153’s persistence and dedication, as he doesn’t have the same zeal. AC1677 turns to the high that caffeine produces in order to try and outshine his friend. The body suffers a nosebleed, and AA2153 almost loses his best friend as red blood cells are sucked out and AC1677 loses his strength after crashing from a caffeine high — but he manages to save him, and eventually returns to his former self and works harder. (AC1677 is my favourite character by the way!)
It’s episodes like these that make me feel a twinge of guilt — of course, I too have made my own body suffer from bad decisions (lack of sleep, for example, eating unhealthy food, and stressing myself out lol) and watching Code Black somehow drives the point home that I’m letting it down. I’m killing these cells in my body even though they’re working so hard for me — always working, never resting — so that I can enjoy a good quality life for as long as possible without suffering and pain.
Since the pandemic began, I’ve made some changes to my lifestyle, including more exercise and a better diet (because I haven’t been able to eat out lol). I’ve lost about 12 kg, and I’m feeling much better compared to the days I used to gorge on fried foods coz of work stress. I couldn’t even climb stairs without feeling winded. My body must have been screaming.
I’d like to think I’m providing a better ‘working’ environment for the cells living in me these days. So that’s a good thing.
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Workshops on the Physical-Touch Technique Point & Positions
In these experiential workshops will be taught some of the basic techniques of the Points & positions approach.
This particular touch-technique is constituted of a series of gentle pressures on specific points located throughout the body and of compression in precise positions of parts of the body.
The touch of deep tissues, fascias and ligaments induces a state of concentration, gathering and deep relaxation, which allows the organism to release stressful conditions and to reorganise its internal resources.
Touching a body is touching the primordial essence of a person and it cannot have any sort of sexual intent or innuendo.
At the end of the 2 days workshop ,the participants will have gained a knowledge of the foundations of the method,of how to touch,where to touch and when not to touch.
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The Promise of Microbotanical Research in California: A Case Study from CA-SBA-53, a Middle Holocene Archaeological Site along Goleta Slough
- Author(s): Santy, Jenna
- et al.
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Mushroom Tunnels, typically the Genuine Mushroom Habitat
From time immemorial, burgeons will always be within underground tunnels. This natural phenomenon makes mushroom tunnels the absolute most conducive environments to develop mushrooms with an all-natural taste. These tunnels could be manufactured in different materials but most growers of burgeons choose the tunnels, which resemble railway tunnels. Consequently, they have adapted neglected structures that resemble these tunnels as their growing grounds for quality mushrooms. The mushroom tunnels can accommodate a sizable method of getting burgeons hence is perfect for commercial production.
Since mushrooms will do well in cool damp and deem environments, tunnels are ideal. This is obviously seen with exotic burgeons from all around the world including China, UK and Korea. Mushroom tunnels today may be fitted with advanced equipment to greatly help control the temperature for a continuing method of getting delicious burgeons all the season round. Buy k2 spray Online Their automated environment considers the temperature, lighting and humidity. Incubating burgeons and culturing them is made easy in such surfaces as you can still use bags and containers to develop them. Mushroom tunnels work very well with many different mushrooms within their various species. These can be utilized with today’s technology to find the best results.
Large and small mushroom tunnels can be utilized within their growing. Commercial production will take advantage of bigger tunnels, that ought to resemble the normal railway tunnels with open-ended lighting at the ends. Smaller versions will apply to mushroom production on a tiny scale. You can use old neglected tunnel structures and you may construct new ones. The theory behind burgeon tunnel sis to supply an all-natural atmosphere under which mushrooms can grow with their best levels. The tunnels have the best temperature, humidity and lighting. They’re also simple to use for maintaining the mushrooms and in harvesting because they offer for quick movement, storage and conditioning.
The sort of burgeon flavor and taste you would like is likely to be afflicted with the environmental surroundings you choose to possess them grow. For the best natural flavored and tasty mushrooms, you need to try the mushroom tunnels. They’re perfect to provide you with great white and brown burgeons grown and produced under the easiest environments similar to the forest and mountain mushrooms of UK and Asia. They are clean environments free of bacteria and yeast infections and they provides you with more mushrooms for greater profits.Mushroom tunnels are the very best options to natural forests and mountains for your great burgeons with exotic flavors. | <urn:uuid:146d3c58-12e1-42f2-b7bd-d78845a022d8> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://espacejeunesmarly.net/mushroom-tunnels-typically-the-genuine-mushroom-habitat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.950598 | 501 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Stopping Warmth Getting away — Insulation Floorboards
Being green and saving cash are one and the same thing in regards to heating. A poorly insulated home will not only cost more to heat, but may also require more energy and therefore, more emissions will soon be pumped in to the atmosphere.
When most people think of insulation their minds commonly turn to the loft. And while loft insulation is essential as heat rises and a poorly insulated loft will result in the heat from your property disappearing in to the ether, and costing you more as you are forced to truly have the radiators on for longer, you will find other places of the home where heat can escape and cold air can seep in.
Many homes have floors manufactured from floorboards. And whilst in new homes, floorboards are snugly laid, leaving little room for draughts to seep through echtholzparkett, as homes grow older and the wood becomes older it fits less well – the end result being gaps in the floorboards where cold air can waft through, forcing the heat from the room, creating draughts and making the area colder.
As yet, little could be achieved other than expensive replacement of all of the floorboards. Not merely is this costly but it will take days of upheaval whilst the old flooring is removed and new floorboards are slotted into place, but there’s a simpler and far cheaper alternative – Floorboard draught excluders.
Floorboard draught excluders are now available in many guises but all of them work in an identical fashion. By slotting involving the gaps of the floorboard the draught excluders and floorboard sealants are nearly invisible and yet provide an entire seal, preventing draughts from stepping into the room.
Easy to match by even the most hapless DIYer, floorboard draught excluding takes just minutes to insert in to the gaps of the flooring – there’s no need to call a creator, or have your property disrupted because it is installed.
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Laws of the Wedding (8) Customs and Laws of the Wedding
Last week, we discussed the role of eidim (witnesses) in the marriage ceremony. We noted that according to the Talmud (Kiddushin 65a; see also Shulcḥan Arukh, EA 42:2), kiddushin that is performed in front of only one witness is not valid. This led some Acharonim to explain that unlike dinei mamonot (cases of financial matters), the eidim not only testify as to what they saw, but their mere presence enables the change of legal status. This is known as “edut le-kiyum ha-davar.”
We discussed the qualifications of the witnesses and how witnesses may be disqualified due to their identity, physical or developmental state, their behavior, or their relationship to the chatan, kalla, or each other.
Finally, we mentioned that it is customary to designate witnesses under the chuppa. This practice is most likely based on an opinion cited by the Ritva (Kiddushin 43a, s.v. itmar). According to this view, the principle of “if one of them is found to be a relative or is otherwise disqualified, their entire testimony is voided” applies to the kiddushin performed at the wedding ceremony. In other words, if there are relatives present at the giving of the kiddushin, all eidim who witnessed the ceremony are disqualified. Therefore, “whenever there are valid and invalid witnesses at the (kiddushin) ceremony, it is necessary to designate the eidei kiddushin, because if not, since there is an invalid witness among them, the testimony of all of them is disqualified.” By designating witnesses to the exclusion of others, the “kat” of eidim, which does not include disqualified witnesses, is defined.
In truth, the halakha is in accordance with the view of Tosafot (cited in Rema 42:4), and we are therefore not concerned that “if one of them is found to be a relative or is otherwise disqualified, their entire testimony is voided.” There is thus no need to designate eidim. Nevertheless, a number of Acharonim (see, for example, Radvaz 2, ch. 707; Shakh, CM 36:8; Beit Meir 42:2; Ketzot Ha-Choshen 36:1) record that it is customary to designate the edei kiddushin. The Arukh Ha-Shulchan (EH 42:31) explains that “[since] those who are at the wedding ceremony are often distracted by the wedding music, and they do not witness the actual kiddushin, [witnesses are designated] in order that two witnesses should see the kiddushin… and since those standing under the chuppa who see the kiddushin are generally related to each other, and those who are valid eidim generally stand far from the chuppa and do not at all see the kiddushin… it is proper for the chatan to designate the witnesses however in order to spare him this embarrassment and responsibility it is proper for the officiating rabbi to designate the eidim.” If the eidim were not designated, and other people witnessed the kiddushin ceremony, the wedding is still valid (see Otzar Ha-Poskim 22:25:6).
Interestingly, the Acharonim disagree as to whether designating the witnesses excludes specifically disqualified people from the appointed group of eidim, or whether it also disqualifies and excludes all other people witnessing the wedding ceremony. This question arises when one of the two appointed witnesses turns out to be disqualified. Can other guests then be counted as eidim? While some Acharonim maintain that under these circumstances, the wedding is invalid and the kiddushin must be performed again (see Mahari Weil; see also Minchat Asher 2:82), others maintain that the other guests may serve at witnesses and the wedding is valid (see Mahari ben Lev 1:17:101; Iggerot Moshe EA 4:46).
The Wedding Ring
It is customary to perform the kiddushin through kiddushei kesef (Rambam, Hilkhot Ishut 3:21). A man betroths a woman by giving her money, or something of financial value, worth at least a “peruta.”
The custom to perform kiddushei kesef with a ring dates back to at least the Geonic era (Teshuvot Geonim, Harkabi 65). The Sefer Ha-Chinukh (mitzva 592) cites this custom as well:
And given that which what I mentioned is the foundation of the commandment, Israel is accustomed to perform the betrothal with a ring, so that it be a constant commemoration on her hand, even though it is possible to betroth her with the value of a small coin (peruta) alone.
Rema (EA 27:1) cites this practice in the name of the Tikunei Zohar.
The Mordekhai (1240-1298), in his commentary to Kiddushin (488), mentions that it is customary to use a gold ring for kiddushin. The Rishonim discuss whether the kiddushin is valid if the kalla believed that the ring she receives is made from gold, when it is really made of silver or copper (see Otzar Ha-Poskim 31:15). Therefore, one should not use a gold plated silver ring for the kiddushin. Similarly, one should not use a ring with an inscription, nor should one use a ring with a stone, as the ring’s value is not clearly apparent, and the kalla may not wish to be betrothed with a ring of a lesser value than she thought (see Shulchan Arukh, EA 31:2 ).
The ring must belong to the chatan. Thus, the groom must pay for the ring, and he cannot use a ring which was stolen or borrowed (Rosh 35:2; Shulcḥan Arukh 28:19), or which was given to the chatan as a conditional gift (matana al menat le-hachzir, see Shulchan Arukh ibid. 20).
Sometimes, a chatan is given a ring by his parents, or others. He may use this ring for kiddushin if it is given to him as a gift and he performs a proper kinyan by raising the ring three tefachim (see Arukh Ha-Shulchan 28:84), or if it fits completely into his hand (see Netivot Ha-Mishpat, CM 198:3).
What if the chatan borrowed a ring in order to use it for the kiddushin? The Rosh (Kiddushin 1:20; see also Mordekhai, Kiddushin 545) asserts that since the ring was lent to the chatan with the awareness that it was to be used for the kiddushin, “we attest to the fact that [the lender] had full intention to give it to him in manner acceptable for kiddushin, so that the woman would be betrothed with it.” This ruling is partially based on another passage in the Talmud (Moed Katan 26b), which teaches that if Reuven lends Shimon a shirt so that Shimon can visit his sick father, and when Shimon arrives at his father’s house he finds that his father has passed away, he may perform keri’a and tear the shirt (and then pay Reuven for the damage caused). This implies that Reuven lent the shirt with the intention that if Shimon were to become a mourner, the shirt would be considered his and he may perform the mitzvah of keri’a.
The Rashba (3:273) disagrees and explains that while one who lends his shirt to his friend gives him implicit permission to tear the shirt, it is not viewed as a gift. Therefore, regarding the case of kiddushin, the ring did not belong to the chatan, and the kiddushin are thus not valid.
Although the Shulchan Arukh (EA 28:19) rules in accordance with the Rosh, many Acharonim write that one should take the position of the Rashba into account (see Avnei Nezer, EA 136; Yabi’a Omer, EA 6:6).
If the ring belonged to the kalla, before the ceremony, it must be given to the chatan with the intention that it belongs to him. However, if the kalla did not properly “give” the ring to the chatan, even the Rashba rules that “when they have been designated for marriage, and she accepted it with the intention to be betrothed, we can testify to the fact that it is fine with her and that she has resolved in her heart that the ring should be his” (based on a different passage in Kiddushin 13a). Some Acharonim (see Chatam Sofer, Gittin 20b; Beit Shmuel, EA 124) disagree and cite a different passage that appears to contradict this ruling (see Gittin 20b).
If the kiddushin was performed with a borrowed ring, even if the kalla lent her ring to the chatan for the kiddushin, some Poskim rule that the kiddushin should be performed again with a ring fully owned by the chatan. (See R. David Stav and R. Avraham Stav, Sefer Avo Beitekha, ch. 18.)
The mesader kiddushin asks the witnesses under chuppa if the ring is worth a peruta (Rema 31:2), and he should ensure that the chatan fully acquires the ring (see Beit Shmuel 28:49).
It is customary to say the following formula before giving the ring to the kalla: “Harei at mekudeshet li be-taba’at zo ke-dat Moshe ve-Yisrael,” “Behold you are consecrated unto me with this ring in accordance with the law of Moshe and [the People of] Israel.” This text is cited by numerous Rishonim (see Sefer Ha-Manhig, Hilkhot Eirusin; Maharam Mintz 109; Shulchan Arukh and Rema 27:1). The chatan and kalla must know the meaning and intention of this sentence. Some mesadrei kiddushin say the above formula and the chatan repeats after him.
Although the kalla must willingly accept the ring and wish to be married, she does not generally respond to the chatan’s statement (see Kiddushin 13a and Maharam Mintz 109). While she may answer “yes” or “I wish to be betrothed to you,” if she says “Behold you are consecrated unto me” to the chatan, some question the validity of the kiddushin (see Otzar Ha-Poskim 27:40:3).
It is customary for the chatan to take the ring in his right hand; if he is left-handed, he takes the ring in his left hand (see Be’er Heitev 27:1). The kalla extends the index finger of her right hand (see Rokeach 351), even if she is left-handed, as the right hand symbolizes love (Tikunei Zohar 21). Although it is customary to perform the kiddushin in this manner, if the ring is given or received in a different manner, it is certainly valid (see Arukh Ha-Shulchan 27:4).
A Chatan’s Ring and a Double Ring Ceremony
In recent years, it has become quite common for married men to wear wedding rings, and some couples even insist that the kalla present the ring to the chatan as part of the wedding ceremony. Are these practices halakhically valid and/or permissible?
Some suggest that a man wearing a ring may be a violation of the biblical verse, “Like the practice of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelled, you shall not do, and like the practice of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you, you shall not do, and you shall not follow their statutes” (Vayikra 18:3). The Rambam (Hilkhot Avoda Zara 11:1) describes how one should not imitate the non-Jews, “not their manner of dress, nor their haircuts.” It appears, however, that one only violates this prohibition by adopting a practice of behavior that has no apparent reason, simply in order to be similar to the non-Jews (Maharik 88; see Rema, YD 178:1). R. Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe, EA 4:32:2) rules that wearing a wedding ring is not a violation of this prohibition.
Others suggest that wearing a wedding ring may violate the biblical prohibition of “nor may a man wear a woman's garment, because whoever does these [things] is an abomination to the Lord, your God” (Devarim 22:5). However, due to the fact that men’s rings are different than women’s rings (see Yabi’a Omer, YD 6:14), as well as the fact that rings are no longer perceived as “women’s clothing,” there appears to be no halakhic objection to a man wearing a wedding ring.
May the kalla give the chatan a ring during the wedding ceremony? In a number of response, R. Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe, EA 3:25; 4:13) dealing with weddings performs by Reform and Conservative rabbis, notes that among the many reasons to invalidate these weddings, “the fact that she is giving [the ring] demonstrates that his giving the ring was only a gift, and not in order that they should be become man and wife.” Elsewhere, however, he upholds weddings performed in this manner, and he rules that if an Orthodox rabbi is coerced into permitting this ceremony, the wedding is valid.
R. Feinstein (ibid. 3:18) objected to the “double ring ceremony” for numerous reasons. First, he feared that it may violate “chukat ha-akum (see above). Second, he was concerned that people might think that a woman giving the chatan a ring is an integral part of the ceremony. Finally, people may forget that a halakhic kiddushin is only one-sided, i.e. the man offers kesef kiddushin to the kalla. R. Soloveitchik (see Mi-Peninei Ha-Rav 272) and other poskim similarly object to a two ring ceremony.
Nevertheless, R. Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe, EA 4:13) writes that when the mesader kiddushin feels that there is no other choice, the kalla may give the chatan a ring and the rabbi explains that the official ceremony is completed. Similarly, R. Yaakov Ariel advised Tzohar rabbis, who perform weddings primarily for non-religious Jews, that they may permit the kalla to present the chatan with a ring before the breaking of the cup, at the end of the ceremony. Indeed, this is the practice at many “chiloni” weddings. However, it appears that the preferred practice is not to incorporate an additional giving of a ring into the kiddushin.
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What Is Medical Futility?
General Reference (not clearly pro or con)
The Christian Medical and Dental Associations, in an Oct. 16, 2017 publication, “Standards 4 Life: Physician-Assisted Suicide,” available at cmda.org, defined “medical futility” as:
“When treatment will have no benefit or is outside accepted medical practice, the clinician may be justified in withholding or withdrawing treatment.”Oct. 16, 2017 - Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA)
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., PhD, MD, Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, wrote in his Oct. 23, 1996 article, “Rethinking Concepts of Futility in Critical Care,” that was written for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine:
“Futility has been invoked as a concept to guide physicians in avoiding the provision of inappropriate care. The concept is complex and value-laden. It addresses a number of distinct concerns that are often confused, making the use of the term ambiguous, if not misleading.
Invocations of futility have often been used to avoid directly facing how one ought to incorporate considerations of chance of success, cost, life expectancy, and quality of life into decisions regarding what therapeutic options should be offered to patients and their families, how triage policies should be developed, how and when do-not-resuscitate orders may be written, and how access to high-cost, low-yield treatment may be limited.”Oct. 23, 1996 - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., PhD, MD
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wrote in “Medical Futility,” a chapter in its 2004 publication Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology:
“The construct of medical futility has been used to justify a physician’s unilateral refusal to provide treatment requested or demanded by a patient or the family of a patient. Such decisions may be based on the physician’s perception of the inability of treatment to achieve a physiologic goal, to attain other goals of the patient or family, or to achieve a reasonable quality of life.
Although there is general agreement with the notion that physicians are not obligated to provide futile care, there is vigorous debate and little agreement on the definition of futile care, the appropriate determinants of each component of the definition, or who should be the agents whose values determine the definition of futility. Proposed definitions of medical futility require 1 or more of the following elements:
2004 - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- The patient has a lethal diagnosis or prognosis of imminent death
- Evidence exists that the suggested therapy cannot achieve its physiologic goal.
- Evidence exists that the suggested therapy will not or cannot achieve the patient’s or family’s stated goals.
- Evidence exists that the suggested therapy will not or cannot extend the patient’s life span.
- Evidence exists that the suggested therapy will not or cannot enhance the patient’s quality of life.”
The American Medical Association wrote in its policy E-2.037, entitled “Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care,” (accessed on Aug. 18, 2006):
“When further intervention to prolong the life of a patient becomes futile, physicians have an obligation to shift the intent of care toward comfort and closure. However, there are necessary value judgments involved in coming to the assessment of futility. These judgments must give consideration to patient or proxy assessments of worthwhile outcome. They should also take into account the physician or other provider’s perception of intent in treatment, which should not be to prolong the dying process without benefit to the patient or to others with legitimate interests. They may also take into account community and institutional standards, which in turn may have used physiological or functional outcome measures.
Nevertheless, conflicts between the parties may persist in determining what is futility in the particular instance. This may interrupt satisfactory decision-making and adversely affect patient care, family satisfaction, and physician-clinical team functioning. To assist in fair and satisfactory decision-making about what constitutes futile intervention:
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The Marrying Kind
When all is said and done, Andrew Sullivan’s book Virtually Normal shows that gay activists are not just interested in admitting a new group of people to marriage (although that would be revolutionary enough). Sullivan’s willingness to jettison the monogamous aspect of marriage (and what more important aspect is there?), and his suggestion that heterosexuals should rethink their own “moralistic” and “stifling” notions of marriage: these are the “social signals” that worry conservatives.
Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality.
By Andrew Sullivan. Knopf. 209 pp. $22.
What would life be like if we were not allowed to marry? That is the question at the heart of Andrew Sullivan’s first book, Virtually Normal. In a sharp departure from the brash tone of the New Republic, the political weekly he edits, Sullivan here takes a sober look at the public debate over homosexuality and offers a moving, often lyrical, plea for the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Virtually Normal should be of special interest to conservatives. For one thing, Sullivan has occasionally described himself as such. Second, he is a Roman Catholic who has always taken matters of faith and the teachings of his Church seriously. Finally, Sullivan’s thesis hinges on the claim that legalizing homosexual marriage would have a conservatizing influence on society as a whole.
Sullivan begins his book with a poignant memoir of growing up gay. He describes the pain and embarrassment he experienced in his struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality; his determination, once his desires became undeniable, to remain celibate in accordance with his faith; the explosive mix of joy and confusion he experienced when he had his first homosexual experience at age twenty-three.
From this autobiographical opening, Sullivan turns to what he considers the four prevailing attitudes toward homosexuality. These range from the authoritarian “prohibitionists,” who consider homosexuality an abomination warranting legal punishment, to the anarchistic “liberationists,” who reject the very distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality as merely semantics. In between lie the “conservatives,” who combine private tolerance of homosexuals with public disapproval of homosexuality; and the “liberals,” who speak a language of victimhood and look to the state to enforce private tolerance.
Sullivan analyzes each of these attitudes and concludes that they have all proven ineffective in developing a workable public position on homosexuality. Instead, he offers a political remedy that he claims will transcend the divisiveness. His solution is unique, Sullivan explains, in focusing exclusively on the actions of the “public neutral state.” The state — but only the state — would have to treat homosexuals and heterosexuals with perfect equality. This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex — education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.
Sullivan claims that, since he does not seek to bar discrimination against homosexuals in the private sector, there would be “no cures or reeducation, no wrenching private litigation, no political imposition of tolerance; merely a political attempt to enshrine formal public equality, whatever happens in the culture and society at large.” This solution, he adds, has the virtue of respecting religion; as part of the “private sector,” churches can take whatever positions they like on homosexuality.
Is there such a thing as a purely “public” solution to the question of homosexuality that leaves the “private” realm untouched? We know Sullivan does not really believe this, because his entire argument in favor of legalized homosexual marriage hinges on the recognition that public law is the most powerful tool for shaping individual attitudes. The core assumption of Virtually Normal — and a compelling one, too — is that the absence of public laws granting homosexuals full equality has helped create a culture in which homosexuality is considered dirty or sinful, and in which homosexuals are deemed incapable of loving each other with dignity and commitment. As Sullivan rightly observes, the surest way to reverse the trickle-down effect of this message would be to stand the current law on its head. Far from being a simple matter of what the “neutral liberal state should do in public matters,” then, public law is for Sullivan the crucial tool of social transformation.
Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of gay marriage would be an “unqualified social good” for homosexuals in providing role models for children coming to terms with their sexuality. As gay marriage “sank into the subtle background consciousness of a culture, its influence would be felt quietly but deeply among gay children. For them, at last, there would be some kind of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding lives, some language in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric by which it could be explained — not in terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but in terms of their future life stories, their potential loves, their eventual chance at some kind of constructive happiness.”
The influence of gay marriage, Sullivan believes, would not only make it easier to grow up gay, but would actually change how adult homosexuals conduct their lives. He acknowledges that many homosexual men are self-centered and promiscuous. According to Sullivan, though, “there is nothing inevitable at all about a homosexual leading a depraved life.” Homosexuals simply lack the proper “social incentives” not to be depraved. Once same-sex marriage is the law, Sullivan predicts, most homosexuals would enter into marriage “with as much (if not more) commitment as heterosexuals.”
But is that really true? Sullivan does not address the fact that most lesbians, who grow up facing the same stigmas and the same lack of role models as male homosexuals, live conventional lives and form long-term monogamous relationships. Why, with gay men, are quasi-marriages the exception to the rule? On this key point, Sullivan sends us a mixed message.
On the one hand, Virtually Normal presents a very sanitized picture of male homosexual life; there are no details of the gay subculture to repel heterosexual readers and make them less amenable to Sullivan’s political proposals. Even Sullivan’s chapter on “The Liberationists” does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay-rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy. Sullivan makes every effort to portray homosexuals as sharing the same emotions, longings, and dreams as heterosexuals.
Yet in the closing pages of his book, Sullivan undermines his own argument. In the final chapter he returns to the opening chapter’s personal tone and reflects on some of the strengths he sees in the contemporary homosexual community. He asserts that “homosexual relationships, even in their current, somewhat eclectic form, may contain features that could nourish the broader society as well.” The “solidity and space” of gay relationships “are qualities sometimes lacking in more rote, heterosexual couplings.” Moreover, the “openness of the contract makes it more likely to survive than many heterosexual bonds.” As Sullivan puts it, there is “more likely to be a greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom.”
Sullivan suggests that gay marriage would do well to retain some of this “openness” :
I believe strongly that marriage should be made available to everyone, in a politics of strict public neutrality. But within this model, there is plenty of scope for cultural difference. There is something baleful about the attempt of some gay conservatives to educate homosexuals and lesbians into an uncritical acceptance of a stifling model of heterosexual normality. The truth is, homosexuals are not entirely normal; and to flatten their varied and complicated lives into a single, moralistic model is to miss what is essential and exhilarating about their otherness.
Rote? Stifling? Moralistic? These are strange epithets to come upon in the final pages of a book whose goal is to convince readers that homosexuals want to marry and deserve to marry; that homosexual love is as dignified as heterosexual love; that it is inhumane not to allow the dignity of this love to find fruition in marriage; that marriage is so venerable an institution that it is single-handedly capable of leading men out of lives of empty promiscuity into unions of commitment and fidelity. Suddenly we learn, almost as an afterthought, that the institution of marriage may have to change to accommodate the special needs of homosexuals.
At first glance, it seems odd that Sullivan would be so eager to support an institution for which he seems to have serious reservations. But Sullivan is more interested in marriage as a symbol than as an institution. On its most fundamental level, Virtually Normal is not about politics or ideas, but about emotions: Sullivan’s overwhelming priority is to spare future generations the suffering he experienced. His argument for gay marriage is memorable, not as a cry for equal access to the covenant of marriage, but as a fervent hope that some day the stigma may be removed from homosexuality.
Sullivan is probably right that his proposals would make it easier for young homosexuals to accept themselves. But it could make adolescence a rougher time for everyone: children confronted with two equally legitimate images of adult sexual roles would be rudderless for many years, and no one knows what personal or social toll would result from this prolonged period of sexual confusion.
Nor does Sullivan take seriously the question of how children would be raised by same-sex parents, and what long-term effects this upbringing might have on their emotional and sexual development. Sullivan addresses only one sentence to this complicated subject: “There is no evidence that shows any deleterious impact on a child brought up by two homosexual parents.” He does not discuss the practical implications of his reform for foster care, adoption, child-custody suits, and the like.
And while Sullivan would presumably not consider this a social “cost,” policymakers would have to grapple with the fact that legalizing gay marriage would probably increase the number of homosexuals overall. Any societal influence that is strong enough to be “felt deeply” by children who are destined to become homosexual is also going to be felt by children whose sexual orientation is less certain. Even if Sullivan is correct in guessing that an individual’s sexual orientation is firmly established by the age of five or six (a debatable point), this would hardly mean that sexual orientation is immune from social influence.
Finally, as many of Sullivan’s “conservative” thinkers point out, placing gay marriage on an equal footing with heterosexual marriage might end up weakening marriage as an institution. Sullivan offers a particularly unsatisfying response to this concern. Because homosexuals “have no choice but to be homosexual,” he declares, “they are not choosing that option over heterosexual marriage; and so they are not sending any social signals that heterosexual family life should be denigrated.”
This answer misses the point of the pro-family argument. Conservatives do not fear that legalizing gay marriage would send heterosexuals the message that they are settling for second best. Conservatives are concerned that the more society broadens the definition of “marriage” — and some would argue that the definition has already been stretched to the breaking point — the less seriously it will be taken by everyone.
If Virtually Normal is any indication, this fear is warranted. When all is said and done, Sullivan is not just interested in admitting a new group of people to marriage (although that would be revolutionary enough). He wants to redefine marriage to accommodate a particular lifestyle. Sullivan’s willingness to jettison the monogamous aspect of marriage (and what more important aspect is there?), and his suggestion that heterosexuals should rethink their own “moralistic” and “stifling” notions of marriage: these are the “social signals” that worry conservatives. In short, Sullivan’s book beautifully engages our sympathy for the difficulties homosexuals encounter in our society, but it is unpersuasive in its argument that gay marriage would be a conservatizing force.
Kristol, Elizabeth. “The Marrying Kind.” First Things 59 (January 1996): 45-47.
Reprinted with permission of First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 400, New York, NY 10010. To subscribe to First Things call 1-800-783-4903.
Elizabeth Kristol, a writer living in Cincinnati, has published articles and reviews in Commentary, the Washington Post, and other publications.
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Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru
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Saturday, April 12
Talk with exhibiting artist Ali Kazimi: 6:30-7:30pm
Opening Reception: 7:30-9:30pm (Formal Remarks: 7:45pm)
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ABOUT RUPTURES IN ARRIVAL: ART IN THE WAKE OF THE KOMAGATA MARU
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Komagata Maru episode, Surrey Art Gallery’s group exhibition Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru brings together for the first time a cross-section of visual art related to this history, and presents these works alongside art that addresses more recent histories of mass migration from Asia to Canada’s West Coast. Ten artists from Canada and India contribute works – in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, 3D film, and installation art – that explore history’s relationship to memory, mass media’s affects on personal experience, the creative use of fact and fiction, and the visual narratives of transpacific mass migration. Over the course of the exhibition, events such as artist’s talks, film screenings, tours, Family Day, and a symposium make for a deeper connection to the artworks and the ideas behind them. This exhibition continues until June 15.
The Komagata Maru was a Japanese steamship that sailed to Vancouver in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India. Only 23 passengers were allowed to land, and following 2 months of detention in Vancouver’s harbour the ship was forced to return to India. The Komagata Maru episode has come to reflect a troubling moment in Canadian history when the federal government’s discriminatory immigration policies coincided with widespread racism among mainstream Canadian society. The episode had tragic consequences for many individuals. It has become an important locus for conversations on Canadian history, identity, and citizenship. The Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru exhibition reveals the frequently overlooked contribution to these conversations from contemporary Canadian and international visual artists.
Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru features a diverse set of imagery in a variety of media by artists Roy Arden, Avantika Bawa, Ali Kazimi, Evan Lee, Ken Lum, Mass Arrival (Farrah Miranda, Graciela Flores, Tings Chak, Vino Shanmuganathan, Nadia Saad), Raghavendra Rao, Haris Sheikh, Jarnail Singh, and Paul Wong.
Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa uses large-scale drawing and sculptural installation to reinterpret the original route of the Komagata Maru and its passengers’ journey from Asia to Canada and back again. Toronto filmmaker and new media artist Ali Kazimi has created a new immersive 3D film installation that presents a series of vignettes about everyday life for South Asian Canadians on shore during the time of the Komagata Maru’s detention in Vancouver’s harbour. Surrey-based artist Jarnail Singh will present the newest and largest in a series of paintings he has been working on about the Komagata Maru episode. Evan Lee, a Vancouver-based artist, has created a new set of inkjet prints using 3D digital modelling based on press photography from the arrival of two boats to Canada’s West Coast: the MV Ocean Lady from Sri Lanka in 2009, and the MV Sun Sea from China’s Fujian province in 1999.
Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of City of Surrey, BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Vancouver Foundation.
About Komagata Maru 1914 – 2014: Generations, Geographies & Echoes
Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru is presented in partnership with Komagata Maru 1914 – 2014: Generations, Geographies & Echoes, a collaboration between eight organizations across Metro Vancouver that are presenting events and exhibitions related to the living legacies of the Komagata Maru episode. www.komagatamaru100.com
Also on Exhibit
Also on exhibit is BogScape, a sound art installation inspired by Burns Bog by Surrey-based media artist Matt Smith. BogScape is part of Open Sound 2014: Sonorous Kingdom, an exhibition about sound and vegetation.
Image: Raghavendra Rao, Visions of the living past 10, 2013, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.
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E*qua"tion (?), n. [L. aequatio an equalizing: cf. F. 'equation equation. See Equate.]
A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.
Again the golden day resumed its right,
And ruled in just equation with the night.
An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.
A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion.
Absolute equation. See under Absolute. -- Equation box, ∨ Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center Astron., the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition Math., equations formed for deducing the true values of certain quantities from others on which they depend, when different sets of the latter, as given by observation, would yield different values of the quantities sought, and the number of equations that may be found is greater than the number of unknown quantities. -- Equation of a curve Math., an equation which expresses the relation between the coordinates of every point in the curve. -- Equation of equinoxes Astron., the difference between the mean and apparent places of the equinox. -- Equation of payments Arith., the process of finding the mean time of payment of several sums due at different times. -- Equation of time Astron., the difference between mean and apparent time, or between the time of day indicated by the sun, and that by a perfect clock going uniformly all the year round. -- Equation clock ∨ watch, a timepiece made to exhibit the differences between mean solar and apparent solar time. Knight. -- Normal equation. See under Normal. -- Personal equation Astron., the difference between an observed result and the true qualities or peculiarities in the observer; particularly the difference, in an average of a large number of observation, between the instant when an observer notes a phenomenon, as the transit of a star, and the assumed instant of its actual occurrence; or, relatively, the difference between these instants as noted by two observers. It is usually only a fraction of a second; -- sometimes applied loosely to differences of judgment or method occasioned by temperamental qualities of individuals. -- Theory of equations Math., the branch of algebra that treats of the properties of a single algebraic equation of any degree containing one unknown quantity.
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Handwritten letter on lined yellow paper, stapled: "My name is Jesus Reyes and I've just been arrested by the INS. Now they want to deport me because I have AIDS. I came to this rally today because as a gay man and as a person with AIDS I wanted to support this struggle against death, this struggle for life. I didn't expect to find the immigration police here, but here they were. Now they're certain to send me back to Mexico where all that waits for me is an early death. Since I've come to this country in 1981 I worked very hard. For the first couple of years I worked two jobs where I still live, in the Mission. I've always tryed to send back as much money as I could to my family in Mexico, things are so bad there they're almost [...]"
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“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
What if we could wrestle down life’s big questions using the scientific method? What if we could systematically improve human thoughts, actions, and environments in a way that shapes personal meaning and significance? Existential ergonomics is my attempt to explore just that.
The word “existential” is loaded, and “ergonomics” is not well understood, so I’ll offer some perspective.
Existential is defined as “relating to human existence” or, more broadly, “the analysis of existence and the ways humans find themselves existing in the world.” The philosophy of existentialism is concerned with finding one’s self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility.
Ergonomics, on the other hand, is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Think: the intuitive Apple operating systems, health-promoting standing desks, and prosthetic limbs. The ultimate goal of ergonomics is to reduce human error, increase productivity, enhance safety, and boost comfort with a specific focus on the interaction between the human and product or system.
Humans, by nature, are continually searching to find out who and what they are. This process unfolds across one’s lifetime, as choices are made based on experiences, beliefs, and outlooks. This raises the question: What might happen if we applied the principles of ergonomics to the pursuit of significance and self? What if we, as humans being, could study and design “right-fit” processes to optimize well-being and performance? What if the abstract and esoteric—such as consciousness, dreams, and aspirations—could be improved upon through the blending of psychology, sociology, engineering, and design? | <urn:uuid:4ba9e54f-9cc0-457f-90d4-fe45757011d9> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://existentialergonomics.com/2018/04/01/what-is-existential-ergonomics/?like_comment=695&_wpnonce=8e5428c7ae&replytocom=294 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.938175 | 415 | 2.640625 | 3 |
This paper presents a model of international trade agreements in which the executive branches of each government negotiate agreements while the legislative branches, subject to political pressure from firms, can disrupt them. Lobbying is in the style of Grossman and Helpman's 'Protection for Sale' model with a new feature: all actors face uncertainty arising from the complexity of the legislative process. I demonstrate that the higher the executives set tariffs in a trade agreement, the less effort lobbies put forth to prevent its ratification. Thus trade agreements act as a domestic political commitment device: executives set relatively high tariffs to discourage lobbying and increase the chance that the agreement will be ratified. The model sheds light on the empirical puzzle surrounding governments' welfare weights in the Grossman and Helpman model and provides a new explanation for failures to ratify trade agreements.
- trade agreements
- political economy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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Lower lip incompetence, often associated with soft tissue chin pad ptosis (sagging), is a difficult problem to satisfactorily correct. It is often associated with loss of chin pad support from implant removal or intraoral chin bone reduction from shaving or a setback sliding genioplasty. As the chin pad loses its attachment to the bone a sag develops which drags the lower lip down with it. At rest the lower lip sag is most evident centrally and the lower lip may even roll out exposed more of the wet mucosa. Forced lip competence can usually be done and this is how the patient often masks the problem in public.
Getting the chin pad back up and achieving lip competence is a difficult challenge and numerous strategies have been advocated to do so…with varying degrees of sustained success. I have come to learn that a five level approach to chin pad repositioning, incorporating many of the known methods, needs to be considered in each patient. Not every patient will need all five levels of support and resttachment but some will.
The first level is that of the bone at the bottom of the chin pad. Adding a supporting ledge whether it be an implant or a sliding genioplasty may need to be done particularly if it does not produce an unaesthetic appearance. (too much chin projection) One can debate which method is better and there are arguments to be made for either an autogenous or alloplastic supporting ledge. This is more patient preference and surgeon comfort with either augmentative procedure.
The next level is bringing up the lowest of the soft tissue chin with suture fixation to a mid-bone level. This is most easily done with a sliding genioplasty as that is a convenient point for suture attachment to the fixation plate. If no method of chin augmentation is being done then this would be the first level of suture anchor fixation to the bone.
The third level is mentalis muscle fixation to the highest bone point which would be at the interdental level. This requires a small suture anchor placed between the roots of the central incisors.
The fourth level is whatever soft tissue cuff exists underneath the vestibular mucosa and the higher up muscle fibers of the mentalis muscle. This superior cuff of tissue may not be present in some patients.
The fifth and last level, and the one most frequently overlooked is shortening the depth of the vestibule. If the chin pad has been sufficiently raised by the prior three or four levels of soft tissue fixation there will be a visible discrepancy between the two sides of the intraoral incision. The outer labial incision level will be much higher than the ‘dental’ side of the incision. Rather than just pulling those two mucosal incisional sides together, the vestibular mucosa below the mucogingival junction should be excised so that the two sides of the incision are level. When this is closed the depth of the vestibule is shortened and the fifth layer of support is completed.
A comprehensive approach to chin pad ptosis and lower lip incompetence requires consideration of different levels of support and suspension. Rarely does ever one level of support work to raise the lower lip and almost always three or more levels are needed for a satisfactory level of improvement.
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PURPOSE: Retinoschisis (RS), rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and combined RS retinal detachment (RSRD) may resemble clinically and pose a diagnostic challenge. This study investigates the role of the fundus autofluorescence (AF) in differentiating RS, RRD and RSRD. METHODS: Fundus AF changes of 34 eyes diagnosed with RRD, 30 eyes with RS and 12 eyes with RSRD were retrospectively analysed. Ultra-widefield AF (UW-AF) image intensities obtained with the Optomap 200Tx were interpreted as hypo-, hyper- and isoautofluorescent or a mixed pattern with hypo- and hyperautofluorescence over and at the posterior margin (PM) of RRD, RS and RSRD. RESULTS: All RS eyes revealed isoautofluorescence over the area of RS, and nine eyes (30%) showed hypoautofluorescent PM. Among RRD, acute (≤2 weeks) and chronic (>2 weeks) RRD demonstrated distinct AF characteristics. Sixty-two per cent of RRD eyes had acute RRD. From those, 16 eyes (76%) demonstrated hypoautofluorescence over the detached area and 19 (90%) eyes with hyperautofluorescent PM. Sixty-two per cent of chronic RRD eyes demonstrated isoautofluorecence over the detached area. Eight RSRD eyes (67%) revealed hyperautofluorescence in the detached area. The positive predictive value (PPV) for hypoautofluorescence over the area of subretinal fluid (SRF) in RRD was 95%. The PPV for hyperautofluorescence over the area of SRF in RSRD was 100% and for isoautofluorescence for schitic area in RSRD and RS was 76%. CONCLUSION: The UW-AF can be a useful non-invasive adjuvant tool to distinguish between RRD, RS and RSRD. Hypo- or hyperautofluorescence over the area of interest and hyperautofluorescent PM indicates the presence of SRF. | <urn:uuid:78457eca-0218-400f-bbab-f779ec1bb427> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://eye.hms.harvard.edu/publications/ultra-widefield-autofluorescence-imaging-findings-retinoschisis-rhegmatogenous-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.867807 | 454 | 1.578125 | 2 |
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; Esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked for the recompense of the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king:
for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest He that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
By faith they passed through the Red sea as on dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.”
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Rural America Continues to Hollow Out
The new census data are out, and they clearly show the continuation, if not the acceleration, of a trend that has been apparent for a few decades now: Rural America is slowly hollowing out. Although the vast majority of states saw population increases, in many cases these were quite modest. The population of my home state of Louisiana, for example, increased only 2.7% in 10 years. 22 states saw increases of less than 5%, and 3 states saw declines.
What is more significant is that the vast majority of the increases were concentrated in urban and suburban areas, with particular locations being focal points. Huge swaths of middle America are slowly losing population. 76% of the 105 counties in Kansas lost population, and almost half saw declines of more than 5%. In my home state of Louisiana, 72% of parishes lost population, and 42% lost more than 5%. Even in the Northeast, rural areas generally lost population.
Meanwhile, many cities saw increases, some quite dramatic. Florida and Texas were particularly noteworthy. Austin, Houston, the Orlando metro area, and the coastal cities of the Florida peninsula saw dramatic increases. Osceola County, just south of Orlando, increased 45%. Hays County, just south of Austin, increased 53%. Strikingly, Los Angeles County in California increased only 2%. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, containing the city of Cleveland, actually declined 2%.
A prevalent media narrative has it that Californians are abandoning the state in large numbers, while Texas is growing rapidly. But a closer look reveals that most of Texas is slowly depopulating. While the big cities in Texas grow rapidly, white rural Texas is losing population. Most rural Texas counties have seen population declines exceeding 5%. Many have declined more than 15% in just 10 years. Meanwhile, in California only 11 counties have seen population declines, and only 4 of these have exceeded 5%. These are concentrated in the northern, rural part of the state, which is overwhelmingly white.
In another 10 years, many baby boomers will be gone. The white population of America is already declining and this will accelerate. The rural/urban divide has largely become a partisan divide in America, and the increasing urbanization of the country means big trouble for Republicans. Texas is already majority non-white, and non-whites in Texas are overwhelmingly Democratic. Texas will soon gain 2 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and there will be a huge battle over redistricting in that state. Texas will likely be the focal point of a national shift in politics over the next 20 years. It is virtually inevitable that at some point Texas will turn blue, probably by 2030. When Texas turns blue, it will be over for the Republican party nationally. | <urn:uuid:33dfeb67-fe37-4ebd-a053-f8cee20a80f4> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://fangsheath.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/rural-america-continues-to-hollow-out/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.957792 | 566 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Encryption & authentication methods¶
fastd supports various combinations of ciphers and authentication schemes using different method providers. All ciphers, message authentication codes (MACs) and method providers can be disabled during compilation to reduce the binary size.
See Benchmarks for an overview of the performance of the different methods.
The method salsa2012+umac is recommended for authenticated encyption. null+salsa2012+umac is the recommended method for authenticated-only operation.
Salsa20/12 is a stream cipher with very high speed and a very comfortable security margin. It has been chosed for the software profile in the eSTREAM project in 2008.
UMAC is an extremely fast message authentication code which is provably secure and optimized for software implementations.
Too keep the binary as small as possible, only the following methods are enabled on OpenWrt by default:
Of these, the GMAC-based methods may be dropped in the future to further reduce the binary size, as UMAC is the superior authentication scheme (it is faster than GMAC, provably secure and its software implementation isn’t suspect to timing side channels).
List of methods¶
|aes128-ctr+poly1305||generic-poly1305||aes128-ctr||none ||, |
This list is not exhaustive. It is possible to combine different ciphers for data and authentication tag encryption using the composed-gmac and composed-umac method providers; these methods aren’t listed here as this is not very useful.
Since fastd v11 salsa20+poly1305 should be used instead (or even better a more performant method like salsa2012+gmac); xsalsa20-poly1305 will be removed eventually.
|||(1, 2, 3) The MAC is integrated in the method provider.|
|||(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) AES is very slow without OpenSSL support. OpenSSL’s AES implementation may be suspect to cache timing side channels when no hardware support like AES-NI is available.|
|||(1, 2, 3) Poly1305 is very slow on embedded systems.|
|||(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) The cipher is used to encrypt the authentication tag only, the actual data is transmitted unencrypted.|
|||Only authentication of peers’ IP addresses, but no encryption or authentication of any data is provided.|
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In 500-750 words (not including the title page and reference page), apply a change model to the implementation plan. Include the following:
Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory is a particularly good theoretical framework to apply to an EBP project. However, students may also choose to use change models, such as Duck’s change curve model or the transtheoretical model of behavioral change. Other conceptual models presented such as a utilization model (Stetler’s model) and EBP models (the Iowa model and ARCC model) can also be used as a framework for applying your evidence-based intervention in clinical practice.
Apply one of the above models and carry your implementation through each of the stages, phases, or steps identified in the chosen model.
In addition, create a conceptual model of the project. Although you will not be submitting the conceptual model you design in Topic 5 with the narrative, the conceptual model should be placed in the appendices for the final paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Upon receiving feedback from the instructor, refine “Section E: Change Model” for your final submission. This will be a continuous process throughout the course for each section.
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A word from Deacon Ed
“My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” We are promised this by Jesus. And in today’s Gospel, a Pharisaic lawyer tries to trap Jesus by asking Him which of the Commandments is most important. Jesus says, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” How can we love someone we have never met, so completely? Especially if we have never experienced true parental love, or have been deeply hurt by a mother or father. The great news is that we have both written and oral tradition telling of the love of God and His son, Jesus. It is through these sources that we beget hope.
The hope of a love that is far greater than any love we will ever experience on this earth. St. Paul in Corinthians refers to Faith, Hope and Love as the three theological virtues. He says the greatest of these is love.
There was a recent video broadcast on many channels of a young girl who was in the process of being adopted. She had stayed with foster parents for a while and came to really like them, and now they were attempting to adopt her. The video showed the moment she received the good news. Her excitement and joy were overwhelming. She threw the herself completely around her new parents in what is best described as a bear hug. The love expressed by both the new parents and the child was the epitome of what love should be and yet, but a fraction of the love that God has for us. That same love overwhelms us when we open our hearts to God and allow Him to enter in. That same love can also be very evident when we freely give that love to others. There is a great joy that enters our heart when we love others with no expectation of having it returned. When we act out of love both for God and neighbor, the following eight commandments are easy to follow when our life is based on love. The breaking of those commandments comes from indifference and hate. Love is the easy part. It comes naturally. | <urn:uuid:3131d45f-05fb-4b6f-8b60-e922d4585452> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://fatherbobsoutreach.com/you-shall-love-the-lord-your-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.980578 | 470 | 1.828125 | 2 |
(RxWiki News) Head injuries that do not result in a serious concussion are often ignored and young students continue to play sports that cause these head injuries. However, even minor head injuries can have a major impact.
Thomas W. McAllister, MD., of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, authored a study that looked into the learning of student athletes in contact sports.
"Tell your coach immediately if you don't feel well after head contact. "
Researchers took 214 NCAA Division I athletes from the contact sports football and ice hockey and compared them to 45 athletes that played non-contact sports. The football and ice hockey athletes wore special helmets that were fitted with instruments to record the “acceleration-time history of the head following impact”.
The total group of athletes was assessed at the beginning and end of the season with a cognitive screening battery test (ImPACT). Within the group of athletes a subgroup of 45 contact sport and 55 non-contact sport athletes were also assessed with 7 measures from a neuropsychological test battery.
The contact sports group received around 469 head impacts in the season, but if they resulted in a concussion that athlete was disqualified from the study.
The cognitive differences between the contact and the non-contact groups from the beginning to the end of the season were not significant.
When the California Verbal Learning Test was used to gauge the athletes, 24 percent of the contact athletes performed worse on the test compared to 3.6 percent of the non-contact athletes.
Dr. McAllister stated, “The good news is that overall there were few differences in the test results between the athletes in contact sports and the athletes in non-contact sports, but we did find that a higher percentage of the contact sport athletes had lower scores than would have been predicted after the season on a measure of new learning than the non-contact sport athletes.”
There were no longitudinal measures in the test to determine whether the lower test results are permanent or short term.
According the Dr. McAllister, “The findings do suggest that repetitive head impacts may have a negative effect on some athletes.”
This study will be published in the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, May 2012. Funding for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. No conflicts of interest were found. Richard M. Greenwald and Joseph J. Crisco have financial interest in the instruments used in the study. | <urn:uuid:7f868619-41cc-42d0-99b5-b26d2d757629> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://feeds.rxwiki.com/news-article/contact-sports-may-cause-academic-problems-student-athletes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.972695 | 515 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Killing the Wine & Arsenic Story — Before It’s Too Late
“Great, now there’s another way I can die…Just drink wine”
These are two comments that were directed at me this weekend. Both were unsolicited and both in response to me being asked what I do for a living and responding that I work in the wine business.
IF YOU DON’T THINK THE ARSENIC STORY IS A BIG DEAL, YOU BETTER THINK AGAIN.
Here’s what I can guarantee: sales of wine will decline over at least the next two months, if not further, due to the report that some wines have elevated levels of arsenic in them.
It does not matter that the report is bogus.
It does not matter that those reporting it are extortionists.
It does not matter that you’d have to drink yourself dead to be harmed by the arsenic in wine.
What matters is the perception and the impression.
If you’ve ever wondered why you pay dues to your state winery association or to your regional/appellation association, the reason is for moments like this. If you state or regional trade association is not on the phone with reporters of a national or local perspective, then you better get on the phone with them and absolutely demand they start making calls, setting reporters straight, telling he real story and doing everything they can to discredit the people who are spreading the story that wine is dangerous.
So, as a winery, retailer or member of any other sector of the wine industry, what should you do?
1. Contact your regional and state-based trade association just to remind them that you hope they are addressing the arsenic controversy
2. Put a statement on your website discrediting the controversy and explaining why there is no danger of arsenic poisoning from drinking your wine
3. Create a short and sweet fact sheet about the controversy that you can send to customers or trade that ask about the issue.
4. Use social media to direct your followers and friends to the best discrediting of the report that you’ve seen. (here is a good one from the CA Wine Institute)
You’ve got to kill these kind of damaging disreputable claims in their crib and you’ve got to do it with hurricane force because if bogus claims like this are left to metastasis it can grow into a cancer on the industry that will be hard to overcome. | <urn:uuid:c594c524-20e1-4b62-be30-0f5dd6e0ac95> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://fermentationwineblog.com/2015/03/killing-the-wine-arsenic-story-before-its-too-late/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.953411 | 511 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Drawn from the Figge collection, National Academicians: Works on Paper features the work of current and past members of the National Academy of Design. The exhibition includes groundbreaking artists Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Mauricio Lasansky, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, and explores creative connections in American art. The exhibition highlights artist-led initiatives, artistic influences, as well as educational and working relationships that impacted the trajectory of art in America. Featured artworks span nearly a century and represent a variety of styles, subjects, and techniques. National Academicians: Works on Paper coincides with the major exhibition For America: 200 Years of Paintings from the National Academy of Design, and will offer visitors further insight into American art and the Figge collection. | <urn:uuid:7861f1c5-a9f7-4d7f-9088-47d8739f61d7> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://figgeartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/view/haitian-masterworks/202/view/restoring-the-spirit-celebrating-haitian-art/142/view/colony-figge/109/view/vanessa-german-miracles-and-glory-abound/171/view/war-and-remembrance-erwing-eischs-night-of-the-crystal-death-portfolio/135/view/the-wonderful-world-of-oz-selections-from-the-willard-carrolltom-wilhite-collection/59/view/robert-lipnick-mountains-faces-stories-and-stacks/198/view/national-academicians-works-on-paper/211 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053493.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916094919-20210916124919-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.932567 | 156 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Lawnmowers have gradually gained in popularity as a result of the advancement and superiority of technical science in general, and machine science in particular, and have gradually taken over jobs in the home garden that are both aesthetically pleasing and time-saving for the landlord, such as mowing the lawn. There are many different sorts of lawnmowers available today, depending on the terrain and the kind of job that the person who intends to utilize them will be doing. Examples include hand-held lawnmowers, electric lawnmowers, and brush hogs. But do you really know how to adjust brush hog height? Let’s dig deeper!
Lawnmowers are a sort of machine that is widely utilized nowadays, especially in residential areas. Because of its adaptability, its utility is employed by users for a variety of purposes, including creating green lawns, mowing golf courses, clearing weeds, cleaning orchards, industries, and other applications such as Lawnmowers are used to cut rice in high mountainous areas, as well as to cover hills and forest areas…
There are many different types of lawn mower products available on the market today, each of which is designed to perform a certain task for its consumers. Everyone is unfamiliar with the process of selecting a machine that is ideal for the primary needs of the user, which causes buyers to be perplexed as to how to go.
Because it is often required to clear the site fast, it is vital to mobilize workers and contemporary equipment in order to expedite the construction process and speed up the construction progress. Investors or contractors must discover self-propelled equipment that can chop bushes fast while also being safe to operate, possessing good climbing ability, and being able to move flexibly in different terrains.
The machine is specially designed to suit the terrain of steep hills, swamps, etc., especially the ability to destroy large trees, crushing them into 100 percent debris, so users do not have to clean up branches. Forest fires are a serious threat if they are allowed to grow in excess or are burned.
The tree crusher’s structure consists of a tooth system with high hardness and long life that is spirally attached to the rotating shaft, with the shaft rotating motor connected to the machine’s main pump.
When the machine is running, it can make noise to assist in digging up the ground, and at the same time, it can produce conditions for the plant humus, which has been crushed, to combine with the soil and eventually become a very good organic fertilizer for young plants.
Here we‘ll offer you perfect suggestion for how to adjust brush hog height easily:
- History of the brush hog
- The deep story about Brush Hog
- Step by step, how to adjust brush hog height
- Closing Thought
History Of Brush Hog
Performance over 65 years
Bush Hog seems to be the largest manufacturer in North America of rotational cutting machines, finishing molders, landscaping machines and agricultural tractor equipment. The Bush Hog goods, which have been located inside Selma, Alabama for sixty-five years, are coveted for their robust, durable working environment.
The brand “Bush Hog,” which created a brush mower over half a century ago, is commonly used as a general word for describing a rotary cutter and the cutting of a chain, is linked with rotating cutter and cutting. The rotary cutters as well as other product lines of Bush Hog are constructed using robotic as well as well-trained hand soldiers before being coated on the latest powder coat coating system within a company production plant with a capacity of 500,000 square feet. The Company has invested in major initiatives with a view to the future, which will further increase its operations’ efficiency. Bush Hog goods are distributed via North America’s network of about 1,800 active dealers supported by a staff of around 50 retailers.
How it works in the past
In 1951, a group of farmers in Selma, Alabama, had been shown novel equipment meant to remove pasture and crop residues. An old gentleman wearing old overalls went on to witness the ease with which the tractor-pulled devouring thick brush. In North America, the term was born which became associated with rotary cutters.
Bush Hog’s first was a 5-foot rotating cutter, Model 12, which became the Bush Hog company’s “bread and butter.” This was the first sophisticated device, having a three-point elevator and a jumper, combining swinging blades to fold back when they struck boulders or other heavy things. The Model 12 had first been manufactured by hand at a dirt floor facility in Selma at a rate of 1 week. It was made of strong steel, cost 320 dollars, and changed the way farmers maintained their crops.
How was life in front of Bush Hog? Well, if you still recall you would tell you that you utilized hay cuts, drove your tractor from around a large bush, and then went back equipped with axes and horses. If you want to clear the pasture area. A fresh technique was needed to clear a crop. In those days, the majority of farmers recruited 30 or 40 days workers, supplied workers with hoes and toiled from dawn to sunset, which, depending on field size, might take weeks or even months.
Bush Hog recognized in the early seasons that the model 12 was an award-winning product. However, how can you market it with minimal resources? Simple. You explain to farmers what they’re going to do! Earl Goodwin, Bush Hog’s first trader, would hit a trailer with a Model 12 and twist it behind his automobile to show it throughout the country. People loved what they saw, there were orders, and there were words. When Bush Hog showed in events that included the products of competitors, they arranged the end. This allows visitors to observe first-hand how Bush Hog can embrace what others can’t manage. The Bush Hog devices are now sold across North America by 1,800 agricultural equipment distributors.
Bush Hog began his work in Selma, Alabama, in a tiny dirt-floor mill. A concrete pad with a hoist & a hook was the first paint booth. They would have set the cutter on a hook and hand-painted it. An angled hole was created from the ground for vehicles to get it down again. They produced one product, the rotary cutter Model 12, and tractor-moving equipment. Today, Bush Hog continues to operate a modern automated manufacturing facility with 17 different product categories. Robot welders. Bush Hog runs 42 semi-trucks as well as maintains 5 distribution hubs in North America. More than 30.000.000 acres a year are mowed by Bush Hog products!
The Bush Hog competition was held in 1976. The winners were indeed a couple who had a first model 12 cutter purchased in1951 and were produced in the first year of model 12. The winners were Bastrop, Louisiana. 25 years of loyal, reliable service had been given by the machine. Bush Hog has acquired model 12 from them and put it on a pedestal with the plaque: “25 years of continuous service” at the Bush Hog Department of Research and Development. It serves as a monument to the sturdiness that is developed and integrated into each and every Bush Hog device.
Bush Hog goods are ultimately created and tested in the field — literally! The research and development team of Bush Hog consisted of an employee who took equipment and tried to tear it up in the early years. This technique was utilized to discover weak areas that needed to be improved or strengthened. He would bring the machinery back to the store, he’d fix it, and the engineers would take it back to your farm and try to build it. It was perfect for manufacturing if Bush Hog should not buff it! It is this type of legacy which has contributed to the reputation of Bush Hog for its reliability and performance. Many of the Bush Hog products now in use are almost 30 years old!
Deep Story About Brush Hog
Brush pigs can timely break down plants and weeds and have many beneficial functions.
Small farmers need to build up some machinery to operate their farms as well as landscapes. One of the really valuable tools is the so-called “brush hog.” Brush pigs are usually referred to as ‘bush hogs,’ although that’s a brand name. “rotary cutter” is another frequent word for describing the same tool. What’s a brush hog, therefore? And why we need to know how to adjust brush hog height?
What’s a hog brush?
A brush hog or “brush hog,” generally anchored to the rear of a farm tractor, is a kind of rotating mower. The blades, like a lawnmower blade, are not permanently connected but hinged. The rotating blades are not honed and are generally rather stubborn so that they whisper in dense plant growth.
The three-point hits of the tractors are fitted with smaller brush hogs. Larger ones are connected to a tractor drawbar and the tractor hydraulic system increases and decrease the head. Yet the bigger ones, known as ‘batwing’ mowers, seem to be similar to the mower tow, but besides the center, they have two sides; the latter is hydraulically lifted and lowered. Typically, these mowers may be up to 15 feet in diameter and require relatively high dynamometers.
The most frequent form would be the 3-point kind of trolley, which usually covers a pass of 5 or 6 ft with significantly smaller Tractors on a normal small farm. Smaller, there are also accessible behind vehicles with their very own motors, which would be practical for smaller regions.
For what else are brush hogs in the farm?
So why is it so beneficial on this little farm? So what might you do with a brush hog? Note that the “rough” machines are certainly brushed dogs. It doesn’t appear like your well-managed grass when you finish brushing a patch of ground. The goal is to get the plants and weeds down quickly.
Brush pigs are highly beneficial for numerous purposes:
You may cut off weeds that are too much to the usual riding pitcher around your structures and land. The terrible burdocks that have adhered to your animals, as well as clothes for most of the year, have been swept away by twisted satisfaction!
Brash dogs, typically at least once a year, are employed extensively by grasshoppers to mow paddocks.
They can be used also to tear down excessively mature hayfields that are not mowed at the right time. This gives the soil important organic stuff back. Why should a brush hog be used to perform that chore when you could utilize your ordinary hay faucets? Milling equipment costs considerably more than the usual brush hog; the less costly brush hog may also cost just a few thousand dollars instead of the foin-mowing machine which may cost approximately $30,000 if you want to decompose the machine.
Brush pigs are able to retain tiny meadows on forested land, keeping a precious early succession habitat in the North-East that is critically inadequate. They are the key instrument for the recovery of historic areas and the retention of a number of open forms of habitat on a country estate. A number of environments are favorable to the presence of a number of animals. In general, to minimize harm to the ground-nesting birds it is recommended to wait at least mid-July until molting forest openings and the wilderness.
Brush hogs are virtually a must for mowing pathways, which enable temporary electric grid fences. Before you can establish this sort of fence, all of the vegetation would have to be clear.
Why do you need to hog Bush?
Whether you intend on your own bush hog or outsourcing work into a private individual or trustworthy landscaping firm, it is the first thing you want to do to decide which bush hogging works well for.
Most persons who seek brush hog services do this after a long time has elapsed in the territory. This may be because of the heritage of unsustainable properties, the want to use the land for a different or new purpose (for example, chasing or hunting), or because of the simple way in which seasons change routines.
Faded or overgrown land benefits the owner of the land little and may even avoid the prosperity of the adjacent farms, parks as well as other locations. The soil, rich in nutrients, may be utilized to nurture other important plant lives by removing weeds and grass, which in turn permits animals and insects to return toward the earth and to interact favorably with flowering.
Bush Hogging Benefits
Either you want your hoggy land to use for farming, personal pleasure, or aesthetic fun – it is not only you and your property that will have numerous far-reaching environmental advantages.
A quick list of examples of methods to use and benefit from bush hugging is provided below:
Removal of high grass
1″ or less diameter of saplings
Keeping overgrown 40 pasture areas
Preparation of land for buildings
Cleaning up of vines, weeds, brush and other crops
Promoting biodiversity in and around the property
The brush clearance legislation offers farmers with a passion in beekeeping with a space for hives through the interaction of bees with flora. With the eradication of weeds and other crops that utilize vital soil nutrients and the blooming of various wildflowers, bee land will develop and prosper.
Open clearings and pastures attract wildlife, such as hunters and wildlife enthusiasts, more readily as the possibility seems to be more likely to walk on a region that is not full of weeds or weeds.
Bush Hog, Brush Hog – What is the distinction?
Okay, what’s the difference now, Brush Hog And Bush Hog?
With the brush-hogging, the gadget turns horizontally and slashes the sides of trees and brooks, making the biggest difference between them. Trim low parts of plants that grow on the roadways, for example. For example, It’s done with such a brush hog.
The soil is clean of brush with bush hogging, tiny shrubs, large grass and other crowded plants. In situations too dense for a lawnmower to handle, you would employ a bush hog.
Without you being a landscaped, building, agricultural or other hard-worker you probably won’t be able to employ a firm like United Family Landscaping. You will probably not have the access to a brush hog or a cow hog.
How much does Bush Hog have to pay?
If you will recruit a firm, or if you ask what the price will be. The thing’s, because it’s unique that makes every work different there’s no actual way to know.
It can be frightening, but it makes this procedure much more convenient to discover a firm that is pleasant and takes care of your needs. It is a smart idea to even let them know, at an early stage, what your budget is so that all of you can make a plan for everyone.
We work with your budget, for instance, but also have customers that underestimate or overestimate expenditures. In these instances, we can assist you to see what will price hills, tree roots as well as flat land more or less, and all of these will impact the price.
Other aspects to be considered are the number of such areas to be cleared, available time to finish the task, and the amount of personnel needed to accomplish the task in the right time. Naturally, you still can’t come up with an exact amount, but you can at least begin to figure out how much it may cost you.
How do you work with Brush Hogging?
A well-known kind of rotating mower, brush hoggers are indeed powerful tractor equipment, which generally connects with a three-point shock on the rear of a tractor or mower. The connected pin hog uses horsepower from the tractor motor and excessive growth, saplings, and high grass as it passes through the ground. The hog is driven by a power start (PTO).
Unlike a typical lawnmower operating on a fixed blade, the brush hog blades are intended for shifting onto a set of things, enabling the revolving blades, when in contact with heavy, immovable things such as boulders and big plumes, will bounce backward and inward. These spinning centrifugal force distributions make it possible for the bush hogger to ‘shoot back’ on impact, and continue to move over heavy vegetation zones, without sticking or damaging the structure.
Step By Step, How To Adjust Brush Hog Height
Measure of safety
Wear protective gloves to avoid your hands from being injured (The blades will have extremely sharp edges).
Use check chains control brush hog
In instance, depending on your version, if the hydraulic three – point lift has trouble keeping the set height, you could think of adding control chains.
If a consistent pre-adjusted slicing height is necessary, you may also add chains.
They usually join each side of the hog mower deck of a brush and the top link of the tractor.
It is vital to choose a chain that really is robust enough to bear the weight of the mower without problems if you choose this approach.
How to adjust brush hog height with check chains
First, use the included accessories (bolts, lock washer, and nuts) to connect your lower end of the check chain to the internal hitch ear.
Set the couplers on each side of the top link mount of the tractor by using the components support.
By simply elevating your brush hog a bit high, by altering the chain’s length (use rapid links), you apply the height modifications you specified and then drop the elevator.
Re-adjust as indicated until the height is satisfied.
Don’t forget to find a route out of the excess chain.
- What safeguards and servicing are necessary for the usage of brush hogs?
The blades may reach peak speeds of nearly 150 miles per hour on a rotary cutter. The cinematic energy allows the blades to a diameter up to several centimeters, through saplings & small trees. These mowers may thus be highly hazardous and connection with the blades can cause serious bodily harm or death.
These cutters can pose a risk to the object being hurled. Out of 300-meter objects can be hurled, such as boulders, stones, and roadside rubbish. When operating a brush hog, do not allow youngsters in the neighborhood or a tractor!
Normally, brush hogs don’t require much upkeep. A brief list of what to do to ensure that your computer works well:
Grease all bearings particularly when the drive shaft is taken off.
Keep all security shields, and Also Don’t allow anybody to operate near them!
Keep inside the gearbox the correct weight oil.
Sharpen the blades with a handhold disk grinder as long as they grow dull.
Replace the blades if they are damaged or dull.
Keep your blades off the ground high enough to prevent them from digging into the earth while working.
Test your machine periodically to tighten all bolts and fixings securely.
In the springtime of the year, go out, scout, and remove all the debris that may damage your machine before it becomes too dense, or you if the machine is thrown away by the mowing machine. A plastic flagging stick can be put in the ground to identify any rock or other unsightly anomaly that you can’t remove and that will be vegetated later during the year.
- What advice does a Bush Hog provide to boost productivity?
In spring and in summer, grass grows rapidly, so you need to remove more than a mower in an overgrown area. Put a bush hog in the bottom of your tractor to clear enormous amounts of grassland from the vast terrain. The strong rotating cutters are quick to chop through the thick foliage. Follow these helpful ideas to make the procedure even more efficient.
First, inspect the area
Overgrown vegetation on land is best removed from a bush hog. The lawn equipment might be damaged by going over holes & higher places. Go around the ground and find these places before you begin to chop and set flags to identify the locations. The high-speed cutting tool can whip waste into the air and thereby remove pebbles and other items. Install other flags in proximity to rocks, stumps, and other immovable objects.
Cutting height adjustment
In an attempt to complete the work fast, your bush hog height could be lower and chop closer to the earth. However, you must approach your property cautiously. Use a greater cutting height when you attach your mowing decks to the tractor. Choose a medium setting for the following journey, etc. You will not overlook places in this method, and the results will be cleaner.
You don’t leave big parts of the grass and take time to do it. Tap upon this gas pedal on the tractor, and the bush hog will shred every blade for extra time. You’ll also be safe at lesser speeds. If any waste is overlooked during the examination, sluggish progress lowers the risk of flying items and injury.
- Is grass muzzling the blade?
Brush covering over wet grass often does not make the blades of the raw cut mower smoother than when they cut on dry land.
Safety Tips for Brush Hog
If you want to know how to adjust brush hog height. Firstly discover more about the blades. Drive the brush hog gently till you’re done using a harsh mower when driving the tractor. It is the safest way to operate the machinery in a low-level tractor when you first learn what to do to brush hog or even when you cut through inaccessible or robust terrain.
Remove the bucket before the bush hogs on your tractor. With this home statement chord, it is useless to you and when you have to make tight changes when cutting, you may easily strike fence posts and trees.
Be careful how the roller bar moves when hogging the brush. When operating a large agricultural tractor, low-lying tree limbs and utility wires can get enmeshed into the roll bar.
Do not use the PTO till you really have to hog the bush — not when the tractor is driving to the intended location. This reduces wear and tear also on the mechanism and makes it considerably simpler for you to drive to the rough-facing region on the lower back, even if the tractor is very comfy.
While hogging, always monitor the temperature gauge on the tractor. Weeds and even fragments of branches can be sucked into the ventilator to overheat the radiator. When the tractor gets too warm, stop hogging the brush and enable it to refresh sufficiently to remove the obstructive waste.
On this farm task, don’t allow your dogs to tag around. The robust blades can discharge waste at tremendous speed and distance from the brush hog. Even a little pebble flung out of a blade could harm a dog, cattle, children, or agricultural helper standing in the neighborhood of the rotating cutters, causing significant injuries or deaths.
The back of that same brush hog should swing out much faster than you would expect. Pay particular attention when walking around corners or around trees, to minimize damage to or wrapping of the cutting deck in a corner post.
- What is the length of Bush’s hogging?
There are numerous criteria to address this issue. The surrounding brush density will influence how fast the driver is to be driven, while a more dry and clearer growth may push them to 6 MPH, with a rough or uneven ground slowing your driver down to 2 MPH.
How broad is the cutting blade? In the amount of territory that may traverse in an hour, the width of the instruments makes a big difference (no pun intended). If you drive a tractor with such a hogger fastener, anticipate covering up to one acre each hour. Hand-pushed machines like lowbush rentals might take three and a half hours at home improvements – but then, were you not going to mop 10 acres of bowling with such a push mower, would you?
If optimum conditions – few or no saplings, dry plants, usually flat terrain – drivers may anticipate to traverse an hour of 1.5-3 acres.
Whether you are an expert landscaping contractor or anybody who is interested in starting the build-up of machinery and carrying out the work of hogging bush is an ideal method to make sure that land is maintained and managed to benefit the landlord and nearby landowners. I’d love to have heard your remarks and suggestions for it. If you have different opinions or wishes about brush hog, please share your stories below and share them with us.
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