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Check dam across saurashtra are latest hope for Jamnagar and nearby areas.
Take a worst-case scenario. Dhrol in Jamnagar district faces water shortage throughout the year. With five check dams on the Und river, this year, it is expecting regular drinking water supply throughout.
Minister of State for Water Supply says good rainfall combined with the enhanced storage capacity of the check dams has eased the drinking water situation. he added that where check dams were not possible, bori bunds (sandbag) have been put up to temporarily halt water flow to allow percolation. It is making a lot of impact on the water tables.
With water for at least another year secure in check dams, that's a new prayer too for Saurashtra.
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Residents of Highlands, environmentalists and conservationists have successfully appealed to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to stop a private developer from proceeding with construction. The development would have included offices, medical facilities and housing on the vlei bordered by Orange Grove Drive, Borrowdale Race Course, Gun Hill and the Newlands by-pass.
West Property Development, a company closely linked to Augur Investments, which hopes to build the Mall of Zimbabwe on the Borrowdale Wetland, claimed that they had received Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval to undertake this Highlands Vlei development.
However, the Ministry of Environment confirmed that permission had not been given by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) for the project and instructed that developments on the vlei be stopped.
Road building and other service infrastructure had been taking place for several months before it was halted. The developer is now liable under Section 114 of the Environment Management Act to restore the land to its original condition.
Residents who live adjacent to the wetland expressed discontent over their exclusion from the EIA consultation process, which offers an opportunity to object. Indeed, they were never notified of any plans to develop on the wetland.
Environmental scientists, who recently undertook a study of the Highlands Wetland, confirmed that it is, without doubt, a wetland and must be conserved as such.
According to David Westerhout, Chairman of the Highlands Residents and Ratepayers Association, the decision of the Ministry was welcomed and it underlines the need to preserve Harare’s wetlands.
“We had heard and read numerous claims that the development was legitimate, but investigation proved that the development had not been approved. Concerned citizens and residents of Harare should be encouraged to investigate claims that inappropriate developments have been approved. The EMA should be approached and the Wetlands Survival Forum can also offer advice,” explained Westerhout.
Dorothy Wakeling, a founder member of the Wetlands Survival Forum, agreed. “The decision on Highlands Vlei is good news for wetlands survival in general,” she said. “What we are saying is that such developments can take place on high ground well away from wetland ecosystems which are extensive.”
There have been challenges on other wetlands in Harare. One of the most controversial is the Chinese constructed National Sports Stadium Mall located in the Marimba River wetland in Belvedere, Harare West. The supposed allocation of the wetland on Borrowdale Vlei, which lies behind Dandaro Village, for the site of a massive retail shopping complex, hospitals, hotels and high density cluster housing, has also excited considerable alarm and opposition.
Wakeling said that although Harare’s seasonally inundated wetlands may appear to be dry during the winter months they are in fact perennial underground water reservoirs. These are replenished in the rainy season. “Developing these areas will further reduce stream and river flow into the lake downstream of the City,” she explained.
Half of Harare’s residents have no water supply already. New pipes and more chemicals will only go part of the way in solving the problem of supply. Boreholes are drying up all over the city and Harare’s only source of water is through the wetlands.
In this issue of Harare News, we focus on wetlands in our pullout infographic section on page 5. See also page 9 where we report on the resumption of hearings by the EMA. More good news for Harare residents.
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When I was young, I lived in the land of the ravens. The Common Raven, (corvis corax) while an extraordinary bird, was indeed common in Los Alamos. The ravens of my youth were gigantic. And a glossy black. And extraordinarily intelligent.
Ravens are also tricksters, a fact I learned when I was a sophomore in high school. That was the year I enrolled in “Dawn Patrol” English which meant I trudged past three or four ravens at 7:55 am every school day. I always said “good morning” to those birds. One day one of them returned my greeting – word for work. He (or she) said “good morning” back to me.
I spent the next few days doubting my sanity.
Finally, after asking a few carefully chosen friends a few carefully chosen questions, I learned that one of the local families had adopted a baby raven. Once the bird became an adult he (or she) flew with the local flock, but returned each night to his (or her) human family. This, I was told, was a trickster bird who spoke English as well as Raven. Ever since that day, I have held ravens close to my heart.
Ravens are scavengers and the Los Alamos flock thrived on the local landfill, which closed a few years ago. Once they lost their primary source of food, the number of ravens in town declined.
And the crows arrived to take their place.
I have nothing against crows, but I have always wanted a picture of a Los Alamos Raven.
When I discovered that the crows had filled my old stomping grounds, I decided I could make do with a picture of a crow. Even that is not as simple as it seems.
Taking a picture of a raven is not as simple as it might seem. Crows do wander around on lawns and meadows in great noisy crowds but the presence – or even the idea – of a camera leads to their rapid and raucous departure.
At the end of one of my visits home, stopped on my way out of town for a final hike along my favorite trail along the edge of the canyon. I was carrying my camera but had completely given up on both the ravens and the crows. As I walked east, into the morning light I heard the single sonorous “grk” of a raven. I froze and peered up into the trees. There she was, between me and the glare of the sun, right at the top of a dead pine tree. Ever so slowly I raised my camera, only to discover that – for some reason – the viewfinder screen had gone utterly dark.
How could this have happened?
I tiptoed under the tree, turned back, and realized that I had pushed the wrong camera button. The raven had not moved. I turned the view screen on and lifted the camera.
She was gone. In those few seconds, she had lifted herself on silent wings and left the tree. I heard her call once more from somewhere down the canyon.
And I laughed. Because, while crows are brats, ravens are true tricksters.
Harriet has told stories at the Phoenix Fringe and at the Gila Bend Shrimp Festivals. She’s taken part in the AZStorytellers Project and in StoryRise events. As an instructor at the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute, she has performed in many events including the La Lloronathon and a number of Myth Informed concerts.
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On April 27, 2001, the Hawaii Reporter ran a special commentary about what happened at The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the morning of December 7, 1941 and the following morning at the Advertiser. It’s an interesting piece on the why, how and what information was printed that weekend.
This column will focus on the newspaper women of World War II Hawaii.
The Honolulu Advertiser did not print a paper on December 7, 1941. By 6 a.m. the phones were ringing off the hook with customers complaining that they didn’t receive their newspapers.
At 6:45 a.m. Bill Schiller, an assistant circulation manager, called Elaine Fogg Stroup to come in to work. Fogg Stroup was working in the circulation department in the clerical unit.
When she got to the Advertiser building, three musicians from the KGU radio station, which was located on the third floor, rushed by her to leave. When Fogg Stroup asked what was going on they told her, “Something’s going on at Pearl.”
As soon as she got to the office, she and Bill Schiller headed for the roof of the building to get a look. Fogg Stroup recalls, “Great billows of oily black smoke were rising and spreading out over Pearl Harbor. There were planes darting in all directions and guns near the Punchbowl had begun, all adding to the improbably scenario.”
At first most of the people on the rooftop assumed that it was an unusually realistic alert. Then, Marion Mulroney, the KGU manager climbed up the 10-foot radio tower on the roof to get a better look. Fogg Stroup wrote, “While Mr. Mulroney was climbing the tower and the rest of us were deciding if it were a drill, a shell shattered a cement wall at the rear of the building giving all of us quite the shake and Mr. Mulroney made a rapid descent from the tower.”
Irva Colla, another Advertiser employee, was on the roof that morning, too. She remembers, “Once we realized were being attacked . . . people said we should go down to the basement for safety, but I wouldn’t go. The basement was where we kept the huge rolls of newsprint and I could imagine if a bomb struck those rolls they would crush us. I sat on the stairs on the first floor for while, then decided to go up to the second floor and get back to work.”
Bill Schiller knew this was a big story. Elaine Fogg Stroup was assigned to the news desk, right along with her was Irva Edwards*, a proofreader from the commercial printing department. Fogg Stroup recalls, “Neither of us belonged at the news desk but the regular Sunday staff wasn’t due in for several hours. . . So, there we were; it was our maiden thrust into the news department that was to last for several months.”
Irva Edwards edited five editions that day. After the war she became the editor of the Sunday Advertiser magazine. She stayed with the paper until her retirement in 1977
A few hours after the first attack, Schiller sent Fogg Stroup to Iolani Palace to pick up a copy of the martial law proclamation that was signed by Governor Poindexter. “I was at the palace when . . . everything shook as a shell gouged out a crater in the mauka-Waikiki corner of the palace ground [where the State Archives Building now stands].” Fogg Stroup ran outside and to have a look and “I picked up a few pieces of shrapnel still so hot, that they had to be tossed from one palm to another.”
When she got back to the paper, Fogg Stroup and LaSelle Gilman were sent out to Pearl Harbor. The car they were given had a sticker on it and they got on base during the final attack.
She and Gilman took notes and photos but when they got back to the Advertiser, they found out there was no way of printing their stories. The Honolulu Advertiser presses were down.
The first newspaper of the war that the Advertiser put out was on December 8, 1941. It ran the unfortunate headlines “Saboteurs Land Here” and “Raiders Return in Dawn Attack.” Both of these stories were false rumors.
By the time Fogg Stroup’s article was to be printed, the Territory of Hawaii’s newspapers were under severe censorship. Elaine Fogg Stroup was forced to delete any references to what she saw at Pearl Harbor or report any military loss of life or injury. “It was the biggest story of my life and I could only write about what happened on the way there and back.”
However, some censorship of newspapers was self-imposed. When City Editor Trumbull reviewed the pictures that were shot by staff photographers he recalls, “Then I realized that for the first time, here in Hawaii, I was looking at pictures of civilian wartime casualties. Of course, we didn’t print them. We couldn’t print them. Some were terrible shots of people maimed and disemboweled. . . . for me, looking at those photos, I knew we were at war.”
One of the best reporters on the Advertiser staff was Laurie Johnston. After the war broke out, Johnston not only worked for the Advertiser, but also served as a correspondent for the British news agency Reuters. In fact, Laurie Johnston was one of the few women journalists in the Pacific who was accredited by both the Army and the Navy.
After the war Johnston joined Newsweek magazine then later went on board with the New York Times as a reporter and feature writer. In 1980 Johnston was awarded the Meyer Berger Award. Laurie Johnston died in Honolulu in 2001 at the age of 87. (Author’s note: I have tried to determine if Irva Colla and Irva Edwards are the same person without success.)
To get an in-depth story of the newspapers of Hawaii, read “Presstime in Paradise” by George Chapin (University of Hawaii Press). The chapter, “Something’s going on at Pearl Harbor” deals with the war years.
Note: In the excitement the Maui News forgot to change Saturday’s date. Their first war extra was dated December 6, 1941.
Dorothea “Dee” Buckingham is a retired librarian and author of several books including “My Name is Loa”, a historical novel set on Molokai at the Leprosy Settlement in 1898. Her self-described obsession is researching the daily lives of women living on Oahu during World War II. Have a story to share with her? Reach her at [email protected]
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Numerous makes an attempt have been made to use the CA to the measurement of poverty and human nicely-being. While most applications concentrate on functioning, some studies have tried to seize capabilities by way of freedom to decide on or human abilities and abilities. Maybe, probably the most well-known measure is the human development index (HDI) of the UNDP, for which a major contribution was made by Dr Mahbub ul Haq – famous Pakistani economist and Sen’s lifelong buddy who died in 1998.
Whereas, there are various different ways of undertaking universal healthcare, it’s clear that doing so has many essential advantages to the medical and financial well-being of the residents of these nations. International locations with universal healthcare plans typically expertise considerably lower infant mortality rates, longer life spans, and a vastly diminished per capita healthcare value. The final health of the nation as an entire is improved by the prevention of epidemics.
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The spectre of doping
Once Lance Armstrong decided to confess to Oprah about his deliberate use of performance-enhancing, banned substances, every person taking part in sport of any kind has been living under a microscope.
Usain Bolt has stated publicly that "doping scandals have set athletics back" (ST.com, 2013). He was referring to the recent revelations that other top athletes such as Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, had failed pre-World Championship drug tests (11alive, 2013).
Chris Froome, the current top world cyclist, kept on having to defend his performance and declare that he is "drug-free" during this year's Tour de France. After riding more than 3 400km in some of the world’s toughest terrains, the press hardly gave Froome a chance to catch his breath before they were peppering him with questions about doping (Davis & Masters, 2013).
But if we consider the unbelievable demands that we make on our athletes, then is it not perhaps inevitable that they should turn to chemicals to improve their performance? It cannot be easy to maintain endless fitness and repeat top performances over and over again.
Let’s blame the supplements
Nowadays there are more supplements for sportsmen and women available than ever before in the long history of competition. Take a stroll through any pharmacy, but particularly the big ones, and you will be confronted with rows and rows of bottles that promise stamina, muscle recovery, strength, enhanced performance, fat burning, muscle growth - in fact every attribute an athlete could dream of and many forbidden improvements that can land athletes in all kinds of trouble and lose them their titles, medals, sponsors and prizes.
It is fascinating that supplements are usually used as excuses and trainers become scapegoats when athletes fail their drug tests. For example, in an article on Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson’s violation of Italy’s doping laws, it was reported that "Italian police confiscated unidentified substances in a raid on the hotel where the trio was staying..." and that the two athletes and their Canadian physical trainer, Christopher Xuereb, "were formally placed under criminal investigation for allegedly violating Italy’s doping laws" (CBC, 2013).
As in most cases, the agent Paul Doyle who represents Powell and Simpson, reportedly said about Xuereb, the new trainer, that he "might have given them supplements laced with a banned substance" (CBC, 2013). So it is the supplements and the trainers who take the blame, when the athletes are brought to book. However, when one considers what some of these sports supplements contain, then this may well be justified in certain cases.
Playing with fire
Recently a member of the public asked me if it was safe to use a slimming aid called "Reverzine" to lose weight. After an internet search I discovered that this product contains a plant extract called yohimbe hydrochloride (Anabolic Review, 2013). As far as I could ascertain, yohimbe is popularly used to inject into fat depots because it is supposed to have "fat burning properties".
The Anabolic Review website warns that yohimbe is very potent and should be used in small doses as taking too much could cause vomiting, high body temperature and flushing. The idea that an athlete may inject himself with this type of androgenic antagonist and then take part in highly strenuous events, is frightening. Imagine running or cycling at maximum capacity when your body temperature is already raised - the potential side-effects can include heat exhaustion, collapse and brain damage.
But athletes are always wanting to "make weight" or build lean body mass or enhance their performance or the oxygen carrying capacity of their blood, so they are sitting ducks when it comes to the enticing promises of these supplements.
Harmful effects of anabolic steroids
Anabolic steroids are probably among the most popular sports drugs in use at present and also the compounds that are most likely to produce positive drug tests in athletes, thus ruining their reputations and careers.
According to the Anabolic Review website (2013), anabolic steroids can have the following side-effects:
- Loss of testosterone production - ironically athletes may make less of their own testosterone when using anabolic steroid supplements, with subsequent low sperm production and atrophy of the testicles.
- Liver damage and possibly even hepatic cancer - loading the body with excess steroids will put an additional burden on the liver which is usually responsible for removing or neutralising such compounds
- Electrolyte imbalances leading to water and salt retention (which increases body weight and blood pressure)
- Feminisation of male athletes - abnormally high testosterone levels in the body are partially converted to oestrogens (a process called aromatising) which may stimulate breast development, and fat deposition on the hips and soft muscles as is characteristic in women
- Masculinisation in female athletes - high levels of testosterone in a woman’s body can lead to growth of facial hair, enlargement of the clitoris, a deeper voice, changes in and/or absence of menstruation (amenorrhoea), depression, aggression, and increased libido
- Acne due to overstimulation of the sebaceous glands in the skin by the excessive intake of testosterone which is believed to be converted to DHT (dehydro- testosterone), as well as other skin problems such as stretch marks and scarring which may be irreversible
- Gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting
- Alopecia or hair loss, particularly male pattern baldness, which is irreversible
- Cardiac effects, including increased blood cholesterol levels which may cause heart disease and hypertension (high blood pressure). Increased clotting time may also complicate cardiovascular health and well-being
- Stunted growth in young athletes, which is irreversible
- Renal stress - the kidneys have to work harder and may be simultaneously exposed to high blood pressure that can cause bleeding and damage
- Psychological effects include well known increases in aggression (sport rage), or depression
- Increased risk of injury to muscles and joints
- Increased risk of infections
- In severe cases athletes have developed anaphylactic shock when using anabolic steroids. Anaphylactic shock is a serious and life threatening side-effect that requires immediate medical treatment and/or hospitalisation.
That anyone reading this list of side-effects, many of which are highly damaging and can have a lasting effect on a person’s life and future health, would still contemplate taking sports supplements containing components such as yohimbe, ephedrine, etc, is beyond understanding. But that is what athletes do, over and over again.
If you are a sportsman or woman, or a coach, especially one in charge of young athletes, please do not even contemplate using or promoting the use of any supplement that promises weight loss or enhances performance, no matter how enticing the label and the advertising are. You could be dooming yourself or your innocent charges to severe and irreversible harm and you may lose everything you have gained - fame, success, sponsorships, riches, adulation - everything - if you test positive for a banned substance.
By all means enhance your performance with a diet designed by a sports dietitian, and a sensible training programme, psychological support and encouragement, so that if you win, you can take a drug test without any qualms and your health will not suffer in years to come.
(References: Anabolic Review (2013). 1) Product Review - Yohimbe. 2) Side-Effects. http://www.anabolicreview.co.za ; CBC (2013). Powell, Simpson investigated for violating doping laws. Canadian trainer Chris Xuereb also subject of police investigation in Italy. The Associated Press. 16 July 2013. http://www.cbd.ca/sports/ ; Davis A, Master J (2013). Froome: Cycling’s doping past won’t overshadow Tour triumph. CNN.com 22 July 2013. CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2013/ ;11alive (2013) Sprinters Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell caught doping. 11alive.com. 22 July 2013. http://www.11alive.com/news/; ST (Straitstimes).com (2013). Doping scandals have set athletics back, says Bolt. 25 July 2013. http://www.straitstimes.com/)
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How’s your indoor air quality? If you’re like most people, you don’t really know. But you can rest assured that it’s probably not as good as you think it is and certainly isn’t as good as it could be. There are many factors that contribute to the quality of your indoor air, including something as simple as your air filter.
What’s an Air Filter Got to Do with It?
It’s a common misconception that the air filter in your heating and air conditioning system is there to clean the air that gets circulated throughout your home. While it does help with that, that is its secondary purpose. The primary purpose of an air filter is to protect your heating and cooling system.
Air pollutants get pulled in through the air return or air intake vents in your home by the HVAC unit. These pollutants include dust, dust mites, pollen, mold, pet dander, and even your own skin cells. Without the air filter, these pollutants could damage the HVAC unit. The good news is the air filter that catches all of this stuff before it hits the heating and cooling system is also keeping those things out of the air in your home.
What Else Can I Do?
Now that you know what could be floating around in your home, you might be happy to know there is more you can do to improve your indoor air quality. In addition to regularly changing the air filters in your home, you can also incorporate an air purification system into your HVAC unit to capture even smaller organisms that might pass through your air filters. It’s a great way to clean your air so you can breathe easier.
For all of the information you need on improving the indoor air quality in your home, contact our team of pros at Helms Heating and Air Conditioning today.
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Normal growth in humans, especially children is under the control of human growth hormone. Naturally, growth stops after puberty. This results from the significant decline of the production of the above mentioned hormone. Along with growth, physical agility and youthfulness too decline with the under production of HGH.
HGH can be produced in the lab and consequently injected into patients who are experiencing a low production of the same. The problem is that in most cases such injections are used abusively, a fact that paves way for quite a number of side effects.
What are the side effects of HGH?
The side effects of HGH may vary from person to person. It is advisable that you check for additional information on what are the side effects of HGH. All the same, below are the most common ones:
- Enlarged breasts on men – Research findings have shown that abusive use of HGH can cause enlarged breasts on men. Associated negative side effects include excess leaning of muscles, creating an abnormal posture.
- Pain in the joints – Human growth hormone will make joints and muscles start paining especially when its usage is abruptly stopped. This can be associated to the low bone density that occurs from excessive dependency on HGH.
- Edema – HGH side effects might manifests themselves in form of swollen limbs. It is advisable that you reduce or quit the usage of HGH when this occurs.
- Diabetes and heart attacks – These two conditions can result from the use of HGH especially on men.
How to treat HGH side effects on men and women
The best way to deal with HGH side effects on men and women is to get medical attention. However, you will need to stop any further usage of HGH pill or injection as soon as you experience any of the side effects.
Also ensure that you buy real HGH. You find that adverse negative side effects arise from illegal use of HGH. Additionally, make sure that all HGH dosages are provided and prescribed in a clinic.
What are the side effects of HGH Pill?
A HGH pill is likely to have less negative side effects than an injection. This is because most of the pills do not work in the first place.
To get a HGH pill that works, consider buying products from HGH UP. There, you will be taken through all you need to know about HGH pills are their side effects.
What are the positive effects of HGH?
It is not that HGH has all negative side effects. On its brighter side, the following positive effects can be gotten from the hormone:
- Manageable blood pressure and body weight
- Sexual desire, better sleep experiences and physical agility
- Endurance and hastened healing
- Improved growth in stunted children
Does HGH slow down aging?
HGH appears to be slowing down again but it actually is not. In fact, it will hasten the process once you have stopped making use of it. It may also happen that your body no longer recognizes artificially injected HGH.
HGH was initially developed as a treatment remedy for growth related health conditions. In fact, this is the approved use foe HGH. It is because of the fact that increased levels of HGH in the body will result in more metabolized body fats that the hormone is abused.
When to see a doctor
The effects of imbalanced hormonal levels are not desirable. A doctor should be visited way before even starting to use any form of HGH. They will be the one to prescribe and decide whether there is need for the hormone.
HGH for men over fifty should also be prescribed by a doctor. Note that men over 50 are more likely to develop diabetes. For such reasons, un-prescribed use of HGH is highly advised against.
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Newgate Prison Wall
by Ben Johnson
‘Tis impossible to describe the terror of my mind, when I was first brought in, and when I looked around upon all the horrors of that dismal place… : the hellish noise, the roaring, swearing, and clamour, the stench and nastiness… joined together to make the place seem an emblem of hell itself, and a kind of entrance to it.’
Newgate Prison was once the most notorious prison in London. Commissioned in the 12th century by King Henry II, Newgate Prison remained in use all the way through to 1902. The prison itself was originally built into a gate on the old Roman wall (hence the name “Newgate”) although it was rebuilt numerous times during its lifespan.
For over 600 years the prison was renowned for its appalling conditions. It was said that the prison was so dirty and squalid that the floors crunched as you walked due to all of the lice and bedbugs. The women’s area was equally as appalling, crowded with half naked women, drunk, sometimes deranged, in leg irons and often with their children in tow.
After its final rebuild in 1782 the prison was divided into two sections; a common area for the general public as well as a State area for those who could afford more comfortable accommodation. At the same time as the prison rebuild, the site for London’s public gallows moved from Tyburn (in the modern day West End) over to Newgate Prison. This meant that the public executions were now held in the heart of the City of London, drawing large audiences all the way up until the public executions were abandoned in 1868.
To understand the scale of capital punishment at Newgate Prison, it is said that between 1790 and 1902 over one thousand people were put to death there alone. During the period of public executions, these were carried out outside of Newgate Prison on the Old Bailey Road.
The church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate also has a rather ghoulish part to play in the executions. At midnight on the eve of an execution, a bellman would walk along the prison tunnels ringing ‘twelve solemn towels with double strokes’ on his handbell whist chanting “All you that in the condemned hold do lie, Prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die; Watch all and pray, the hour is drawing near That you before the Almighty must appear; Examine well yourselves, in time repent, That you may not to eternal flames be sent: And when St. Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, The Lord above have mercy on your souls.” Although Newgate Prison has long gone, the Newgate Execution Bell still exists and is housed in the Church of St Sepulchre.
The Central Criminal Court (a.k.a. the Old Bailey) now stands on the site of the old Newgate Prison. However, if you venture around the back of Amen Court (see map below) you will find something quite spectacular; the only surviving wall of Newgate Prison!
Christmas Gift Guide
Fretting over what Christmas present to buy for the history buff in your life? Well fret no more, for we’ve got just the gift guide for you!Christmas Gift Guide for History Buffs
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Ittes Knowyn In Every Schyre
Words and Music: Traditional English
Source: Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (London: The Percy Society, 1847), Song #36, printed verbatim from a manuscript probably owned by a professional musician, and apparently written in the latter half of the fifteenth century, circa 1471-1485.
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A man that con his tong stere,
He ther not rek wer that he go.
Ittes knowyn in every schyre,
Wekyd tongges have no pere;
I wold thei were brent in the fer,
That warke men soo mykyll wo.
Ittes knowyn in every long,
Wekyd tongges don gret wrong,
Thei make me to lyyn long,
And also in myche car.
3yf a man go in clothes gay,
Or elles in gud aray,
Wekyd tongges yet wyl say,
Were came the by therto.
3yf a man go in cloys ill,
And have not the world at wyl,
Wekyd tongges thei wyll hym spyll,
And seyd he ys a stake, lat hym goo.
Now us to amend God 3eve us grace,
Of repentens and of gud grace,
That we mut se hys glorius face.
Amen, amen, for charyte.
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Second Sunday After the Epiphany
Hymn during Mattins during the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.
Words: Jesu, Rex admirabilis; Except the last verse, selected from a hymn by St Bernard, very slightly altered : translation by the Rev. E. Caswall, 1849.
Compare: O Jesu, King Most Wonderful
Music: King's Norton, MIDI
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St. Botolph, MIDI / Noteworthy Composer
St. Agnes, MIDI / Noteworthy Composer
Dalehurst, MIDI / Noteworthy Composer
Redhead, MIDI / Noteworthy Composer
1. O Jesus, King most wonderful,
thou Conqueror renowned,
thou sweetness most ineffable,
in whom all joys are found.
2. When once thou visitest the heart,
then truth begins to shine,
then earthly vanities depart,
then kindles love divine.
3. O Jesus, Light of all below,
thou Fount of life and fire,
surpassing all the joys we know,
and all we can desire;
4. May every heart confess thy Name;
thy wondrous love adore,
and seeking thee, their hearts inflame
to seek thee more and more.
5. Thee, Jesus, may our voices bless,
thee may we love alone;
and ever in our lives express
the image of thine own.
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BAGLEY, BURGAN, CHILTON, SMEDLEY, ALEXANDER, ELLETT, WILLIAMS, ANDREWS, BOWEN
Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 10/10/2013 at 20:33:15
Biography of Charles Bagley
Audubon County, IA CHARLES BAGLEY.
Professional success results from merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what is known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long continued effort. The lawyer or physician does not enjoy the privilege of exploiting his profession in order to gain a clientele. He must thoroughly prepare himself and be educated broadly in order that his mental development may be such as to enable him to quickly grasp the points of a cause presented for his consideration. He must be well grounded in the deep, underlying principles of his profession; whereas, the business man or merchant often engages in trade or commerce with little or no preparation other than his native ability. It frequently happens that members of the legal profession are called upon the take charge of extensive business undertakings, lawyers being required in the conduct of great corporations and kindred concerns on account of their thorough, and well grounded knowledge of business law and ethics. As a general rule, they are excellent financiers and not infrequently achieve success in other lines which may properly be conducted along with their legal business. A high type of successful attorney, a prominent member of the bar of western Iowa, is found in the person of Charles Bagley, of Audubon, whose name forms the caption of this biographical sketch.
Charles Bagley was born on May 29, 1854, in West Liberty, Cedar (21) county, Iowa, son of William A. and Lucretia (Burgan) Bagley, natives of the old Buckeye state. The Bagley family is a very old one in America, Charles Bagley tracing his lineage back to Mary Chilton, who came over from England in the "Mayflower." The father of William A. Bagley emigrated from Vermont to Ohio and thence to Iowa, where he became the owner of the land on which the city of West Liberty was built. This tract was deeded to William A. Bagley by his mother after his father's death. William A. Bagley, after he grew to manhood, married and settled on a farm in Muscatine county, after a residence in Cedar county, where Charles was born. In 1873 he removed to Cass county and tilled a fine farm there until his retirement to the city of Atlantic, where he died in 1909.
To William A. and Lucretia (Burgan) Bagley were born the following children: W. F., of Topeka, Kansas; Bert, a farmer near Atlantic, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Smedley, of Randolph, Nebraska; Mrs. Hattie Alexander, a resident of Colby, Kansas; Mrs. Kate Alexander, of Atlantic, Iowa; Mrs. Sallie Ellett, living at Guthrie Center, Guthrie county, Iowa; Charles, the subject of this sketch; Emma, who died at the age of twenty five years; Louise, of Atlantic, and Scott, residing in Oregon.
Charles Bagley was educated in the district school and at a select school at Walton Junction, Iowa, later attending the high school at Atlantic. From his boyhood days, he practically made his own way and educated himself in preparation for the practice of law. The only assistance that he received from his father was a team of horses. This team was given him to assist him in farming. After attending the high school, Mr. Bagley taught school and farmed in order to raise money with which to defray the expenses of a higher education. He managed to gain a liberal education, not only in literature and the sciences but in the legal department of the State University as well, and was graduated from the collegiate department of the State University, and also was graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in the State University at Iowa City in 1881. He taught a term of school in Nebraska in 1881 and then located in Audubon, where he became one of the pioneer attorneys of the new and growing town. He began the practice of law and also took up the real estate and insurance business and has been successful in his various enterprises. He also added an abstract department which he is yet conducting with the assistance of his two sons, who are now associated with him in the offices. Mr. Bagley has prospered and has a fair share of this world's goods. He is the owner of a farm of two hundred and fifty five acres in Audubon county, in addition to being the owner of considerable real estate.
In 1888, Charles Bagley was united in marriage with Amanda Williams, of Audubon, a native of Jasper county, Iowa, daughter of Richard Williams, to which union four children have been born, namely: Louis C., a graduate of the Audubon high school and the law college of the State University, who is now with his father in the law offices; Frank, also a graduate of the Audubon high school, likewise associated with his father, and Marion and Russell, students in the high school.
Mr. Bagley is a member of the Presbyterian church and contributes of his time and means to the support of that denomination. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a Republican, but has never been an office seeker nor sought political preferment to any extent. However, he fulfilled his civic obligations to his home town by serving two terms as mayor of Audubon. Otherwise, he has been content to take his place in the ranks of the mass of voters and vote for his favorite principles of government and for the most capable candidates who, in his estimation, were best fitted to fill the offices sought. Mr. Bagley is a cultured, well read and broad minded gentleman, who is highly esteemed by all who know him in his home community.
History of Audubon County, Iowa
Its People, Industries and Instutions
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Audubon Biographies maintained by Cheryl Siebrass.
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Many Americans questioning legitimacy of US election
The 2016 US election results have triggered serious disputes about the fairness of the country’s electoral process. The Republican nominee emerged as the winner of the race, despite the fact that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton gained about 2 million more popular votes. In his latest remarks, President-elect Donald Trump has alleged that there were serious voter fraud issues in Virginia, New Hampshire and California, claiming that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of votes cast illegally.
John Steppling, author and commentator, believes that American voters are getting pessimistic about the election system in the United States, where the popular vote does not directly determine the president and is not prioritized over the electoral vote.
“There are real questions in the public’s mind about the legitimacy of the process,” Steppling told Press TV.
He warned that the whole process is losing credibility. “One wonders how many people will turn out for the next election.”
According to the commentator, “50 percent of the people in the United States did not vote. So, one would have to ask why is that? Why this extraordinary apathy or indifference or hostility to the electoral process?”
People have questions about the legitimacy of US voting procedures, because there have been reports of illegal activities even during the primaries, he mentioned.
The analyst also made mention of the American people’s other concerns about the voting system. “People have become incredibly cynical about the way that money controls the electoral process.”
Steppling further said neither the Republican nor the Democratic candidate was on the wish list of American voters.
“Nobody really wanted Clinton or Trump. They didn’t represent the values of anybody in the United States,” he added.
“The problem is that the wishes of the [people] are not being represented by these millionaire candidates. The system is absolutely corrupt and people are beginning to finally wake up to that fact.”
Pointing to the US president-elect’s allegations that millions of people voted illegally in the November 8 presidential election, the analyst noted, “Trump just says things and he doesn’t really think much about what he says.”
Ruling out the possibility that a vote recount may change the results of the election, he said, “Nothing will probably come of this recount because the winner has already been determined.”
A new CNN/ORC poll has indicated that 85 percent of Americans are of the opinion that the US has become more divided on major issues following the 2016 presidential election. Americans say the United States must modify the constitution to pave the way for electing presidents by popular vote rather than through the Electoral College.
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Thousands of homes were left without power and travel was disrupted as Storm Aileen hit Britain.
The first named storm of the year brought heavy rain and high winds overnight, with commuters warned to take care following the severe weather.
Many parts of England and Wales, where weather warnings had been issued, saw gusts of between 55 to 65 mph, the Met Office said.
Peak winds of 83mph were recorded at The Needles on the Isle of Wight, while Mumbles in Wales recorded a top speed of 74mph.
Northern Powergrid - which covers the North East, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - said 7,400 homes had lost power overnight, although most have since had their supply restored.
Electricty North West said 1,067 homes had been affected.
Heavy rain fell across the country overnight, with Bainbridge in North Yorkshire seeing 35.4mm and Walney Island in Cumbria recording 27.8mm.
Highways England urged drivers to take extra care on their journeys to work, warning that people should delay travelling if the weather becomes too severe.
In North Yorkshire, the River Ure burst its banks making the A684 impassable.
The M48 Severn Crossing in south Gloucestershire and the Ouse Bridge on the M62 in East Yorkshire were closed due to high winds but have since been reopened.
Motorists are also facing road closures up and down the country due to fallen trees.
Police forces in Staffordshire, Cheshire and Gloucestershire have all reported trees being blown over by the winds overnight.
Storm Aileen also caused rail disruption on Wednesday morning, as fallen trees blocked the tracks on a number of routes.
A spokesman for Network Rail said: "Heavy rain and very strong winds have been forecast to affect parts of England, Wales and Scotland.
"Railway lines in areas affected by the worst weather may suffer disruption caused by falling trees and large branches, power cuts and debris being blown onto the track."
The Met Office's chief forecaster Frank Saunders said: "The low pressure system that is bringing these strong winds will move fairly swiftly from west to east over the UK and although there will be some disruption through Wednesday morning, the winds will ease by the afternoon leaving a day of blustery showers."
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Ashley Terry is a senior producer with globalnews.ca. In the spring of 2013, she served as an expert trainer with Journalists for Human Rights in Ghana as part of the Shaw Africa Project.
ACCRA – Ghana may soon join a dozen other African countries with access to information legislation.
It has been a long time in the making – the legislation has languished for a decade. But even if it is passed, some Ghanaian journalists don’t believe the law will change a thing.
Philip Kofi Ashon, manager at CitiFM online in Accra (where I am spending three weeks as a trainer for Journalists for Human Rights), thinks the legislation might pass but won’t be enforced.
In his opinion, the government works too slowly to provide the information journalists need to meet reasonable deadlines.
It is a similar refrain heard by journalists in Canada. Global News requests access to information from the government frequently, but rarely gets a prompt reply.
Often our requests are rejected or the agency asks for an exorbitant amount of money. When we do get information, at times it comes in thousands of sheets of paper.
Press Freedom Index
The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index ranks freedom journalists have in various countries, and the effort made by governments to ensure press freedom.
In the 2013 edition released in early April, Canada is 20th and Ghana places 30th, but Canada dropped 10 spots from the year before, while Ghana rose 11.
Canada now ranks below countries like Niger, Namibia, the Czech Republic and Jamaica (now the Western Hemisphere leader).
The explanation for Canada’s drop was obstruction of journalists during the “Maple Spring” and Bill C-30.
The rising Ghana is generally seen as a model of African press freedom. President John Mahama has expressed support for the freedom of information bill, saying in late March that he has “no fear of the right to information bill… I think parliament should pass it.”
But Hector Boham, president of the Corruption and Fraud Audit Consortium Ghana, is not optimistic, saying, “The bill will not pass because of the lack of political will. The African politician is corrupt to the core and corruption thrives in secrecy.”
But, Boham continues, if “by god’s grace,” the law passes, it will be effective because it will be supported by the courts.
“Investigative journalists will no longer face any impediments as they investigate cases of high level corruption.”
Having the court’s support in obtaining information would be welcome news to Godfred Boafo, sports reporter at CitiFM.
He went to Ghana’s National Sports Authority (NSA) to investigate rumours that funds were misappropriated by the agency during the 2011 All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique.
Boafo asked to see receipts of expenditure on the Games, but was denied. The NSA said it needed to know why he wanted to see the receipts, and he declined to give details on his potential story.
What ensued after that, he said, was “hell.”
Boafo went to various sports associations in Ghana to get the information, but after they all rejected his request, he took to the radio to press for the creation of an investigative committee.
And that, at least, was successful – a parliamentary committee released a report in March that the speaker of parliament called “damning.”
The National Sports Authority is now being audited by the sports minister, but Boafo still hasn’t received any information.
He says even after the audit, “I still won’t be able to see the documents, I can bet you that.”
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By John Yeo
There are times during the very hot season when the bush is very dry, as dry as a tinder-box. A very slight spark can cause a destructive moving brush-fire that travels very, very fast as the flames take hold. The fire rages out of control, the fire-service, using aeroplanes, water-bomb the head of the inferno to try to stop the fire in its tracks.
The flames light up the sky, and we drive away with many other cars racing away from the moving, travelling wall of flame, that makes an incredible picture of the sky on fire.
As the sun sets in all its glory the fire turns night into day.
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100+ Women Who Care Preparing For Next Big Move
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.- The Sioux Falls chapter of 100+ Women Who Care is preparing to make their next contribution to a local non-profit. Their mission is simple: make the community a better place.
There are 100+ Women Who Care chapters across the country, raising thousands of dollars for local organizations by pledging their own money to give. Here’s a catch: they do it all within an hour, and choose the organization they’re donating to during that time.
Sondra Kimball, one of the organizers of the local 100+ Women chapter, says the national organization begin in Michigan in 2006 and has spread to over 300 local organizations around the country. In the Sioux Falls chapter, Kimball says about 150 to 175 women are members. The women only meet twice a year, on the first Sundays of May and October, to spend an hour together to donate.
Kimball says at the beginning of the hour, members will submit a local 501(c) non-profit into a drawing, and three of those will be randomly drawn from a hat. The women who selected those drawn organizations will then give a pitch to the group as to why they believe that organization should get the money. The women then take a vote, and the highest vote is chosen for donation. Each woman pledges to give $100 to the winning organization, but Kimball says anyone is free to come and donate; however, only members are allowed to submit an entry and vote.
100+ Women Who Care meet Sunday, May 7 at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Sioux Falls from 3:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. Non-members are welcome, and if you’d like to participate in submissions and voting you are able to sign up at the event.
For more information, click here or email [email protected].
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Bimose Tribal Council opens new school location in Northwest Angle 33 First Nation
Andy Graham, director of education for Bimose Tribal Council, stands in front of Kiizhik School on Valley Drive. Bimose opened a satellite location in Northwest Angle 33 First Nation in February, the first school in the community in 20 years. Kathleen Charlebois/Daily Miner and News
A recent school expansion has ended a 20-year absence in educational services at Northwest Angle 33 First Nation.
Bimose Tribal Council Director of Education Andy Graham said the new school location has been open and providing programming since February with the goal of expanding their Anishinaabemowin immersion program to the community next September.
“We were approached by Northwest Angle right after Christmas because they had an elder that passed away and it was kind of a wake-up call,” said Graham. Because there weren’t any schools in the community itself, students had to travel up to five hours a day to get to the closest school in Warroad, Minnesota.
According to Josephine Sandy, another elder quoted in the press release that announced the expansion, children would have to cross the lake to reach the bus, which becomes a safety concern in rough weather. During the ice break-up when the ice is too thin and boats can’t be used, students would not be able to attend school.
Graham said parents often moved out of Northwest Angle so their children could attend school.
“The elder had spoken to Chief [Kimberley] Sandy-Kasprick and said “If we don’t have a school out here, we’re going to lose the community,” he said. Northwest Angle then approached Bimose Tribal Council and asked if they could form a partnership.
Now Graham said there are 10 elementary students and five secondary students at the school in Grade 3 and up, mostly in the senior elementary grades. The Kiizhik School location in Kenora currently goes up to Grade 4. Because of that, he said Bimose is working on a new immersion curriculum that will cover all of those grades.
Since a school has opened in Northwest Angle 33 for the first time since the last one closed almost two decades ago, Graham said he expects that parents will start moving back to their home community.
“We actually anticipate in the fall to have a pretty significant bump in enrollment.
Students at the school are also registered at both the Northwest Angle 33 and Kenora school locations, so if a parent needs to travel to Kenora for an extended period of time and bring their children along with them, the children can continue to attend Kiizhik classes.
“This is long overdue,” said Chief Sandy-Kasprick in the press release. “Over the years, our students have had to leave to attend school. Without children, we cannot have a growing, vibrant community.”
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The killing of an endangered gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo to rescue a boy who fell into a dangerous enclosure unleashed an outpouring of grief on over the holiday weekend.
Within hours, that grief had turned to fury as critics questioned the zoo’s decision to kill the endangered 17-year-old gorilla, named Harambe, and called for the boy’s parents to be punished for not adequately supervising their child.
A Facebook page called “Justice for Harambe” received more than 41,000 “likes” within hours of its creation. The page’s description says it was created to “raise awareness of Harambe’s murder” and includes YouTube tributes and memes celebrating the western lowland gorilla and admonishing zoo officials.
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“Shooting an endangered animal is worse than murder,” a commenter from Denmark named Per Serensen wrote on the page. “Soooo angry.”
Lt. Steve Saunders, a spokesman for the Cincinnati Police Department, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that they have no plans to charge the child’s parents.
That news didn’t stop tens of thousands from signing multiple online petitions calling for Cincinnati Child Protective Services to investigate the boy’s parents - who have not been identified - for negligence.
“I’m signing because a beautiful critically endangered animal was killed as a direct result of her failure to supervise her child,” one signee wrote. “I don’t blame the zoo staff for the decision they made, I’m sure they’re heartbroken.”
“If she’d watched her child he wouldn’t have been in the gorilla enclosure in the first place,” the commenter added.
A petition on Change.org asks for legislation to be passed that creates “legal consequences when an endangered animal is harmed or killed due to the negligence of visitors.” The petition has amassed more than 40,000 signatures.
“This is not the first time that this has happened in the gorilla world, it happened on August 31, 1986 at the Durrell Wildlie Park and again on August 16, 1996 at the Brookfield Zoo,” the petition states. “In these two cases the gorillas were not killed and both of the children were rescued.”
The encounter at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden occurred Saturday afternoon when the boy crawled through a barrier and fell into a moat at the facility’s outdoor gorilla center, zoo director Thane Maynard told reporters.
The public outrage that ensued seemed to intensify as new details about the incident emerged. Some witnesses told the Enquirer that the gorilla appeared to be protecting the boy at first but seemed to grow increasingly rough and distressed by the shouts from onlookers.
Witness Kim O’Connor told NBC affiliate WLWT-TV that she overheard the child saying he wanted to jump into the gorilla’s enclosure. She said the boy’s mother was caring for multiple children at the time.
“The mother’s like, ‘No, you’re not. No, you’re not,’ “ O’Connor said, adding that her group ended up hearing the gunshot that killed the gorilla.
“We really would just like to know that that little boy is okay because of what we saw, the trauma of what we saw,” she added.
Brittany Nicely told the Enquirer that she was visiting the zoo with multiple children and witnessed the incident unfold.
“Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the little boy in the bushes past the little fence area,” she told the paper. “I tried to grab for him. I started yelling at him to come back.”
“Everybody started screaming and going crazy,” she added. “It happened so fast.”
After being evacuated, Nicely told the paper, she stood outside the exhibit with her group.
“About four or five minutes later we heard the gunshot,” she said. “We were pretty distraught. All the kids were crying.”
The next day, zoo officials raced to quell mounting outrage by posting a lengthy statement on Facebook detailing the decision to kill Harambe.
“We are heartbroken about losing Harambe, but a child’s life was in danger and a quick decision had to be made by our Dangerous Animal Response Team,” Maynard said.
The statement added that officials’ first response was to call the gorillas out of the exhibit, an order that two female gorillas followed, but Harambe did not. Tranquilizing the 450-pound animal was not an option, the statement said, because the child was in “imminent” danger and Harambe may have become agitated.
The statement noted that Saturday’s incident was the first time the exhibit had been breached in its 38 years of existence.
“We’re glad to hear that the child is going to be okay. We’re touched by the outpouring of support from the community and our members who loved Harambe,” Maynard said. “The Zoo family is going through a painful time, and we appreciate your understanding and know that you care about our animals and the people who care for them.”
The statement has been shared more than 11,000 times and unleashed more than 10,000 comments on the zoo’s Facebook page, many of which call for the child’s parents to be severely punished.
“That child’s parents should be responsible for the financial loss of that Gorilla,” Rob Young wrote, receiving 11,000 “likes.” “And any associated costs seeing that they couldn’t adequately supervise their own child and now a magical animal lost his life because of their error.”
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Have you ever had that weird effect when you’re lying in bed and you can feel yourself floating up in a sort of out-of-body experience, but simultaneously you can feel yourself sinking down into the earth? And you’re not sure if you’re as big as the sky or you’re just a tiny particle of sand. You’re both. Well, that’s how I feel when I think about conflict.
Today is ANZAC Day. War is part of human nature it seems, and however harrowing it was (and still is), and however poignant the war memorial or any ANZAC Day ceremony – I cannot help but feel an indifference to the whole thing.
I’ve sat through my fair share of ANZAC Day ceremonies, as a member of a brass band. I’ve marched behind veterans, I’ve laid wreaths and I’ve played hymns to honour the dead. But it always seemed to me that the ceremony was more about the glorification of war and the deification of lost soldiers than anything else. The ongoing preoccupation with re-framing a massive military defeat as a heroic act of national pride, coupled with our current state of freedom being a direct result of the exorbitant loss of lives always seemed tenuous to me.
I went to visit the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in May last year, as part of the LBWR Leaders Forum program and the tour we had with a wonderfully well-informed and contagiously passionate volunteer guide affected a lot of us. Part of me was drifting up – I’m so far removed from large-scale conflict, that it’s too hard to get a handle on the abominations against humanity that happened in the past and continue to happen every single second across the globe. It seems so far away from my safe and privileged everyday life.
But what I did notice was that the emotional connection to war – the sadness and condemnation, the pride and appreciation – were elicited by the individual human stories of the war, and by the storytelling prowess of our guide.
This might sound weird, but I rely a lot on conflict. Because it’s what drives great drama. Humans seem to be awesome at doing two things – fighting and telling stories. And so naturally the best stories are the ones that have a central conflict. That’s why war stories are so affecting – because they have big political conflicts and they have tiny personal conflicts.
Dramatic conflict can be internal – where a person is fighting with their own conscious, moral code, past decisions or decisions yet to come (Think Hamlet), or external – where two people are clashing over ideology, memory or property (Think Taming of the Shrew).
Conflict brings out the best or worst in people, it shows us people at the most volatile, vulnerable and creative. That’s why it’s a pleasure to watch. It’s not, however, a pleasure to be involved in. It feels like you are waist-height sunk into a quagmire and the more you squirm the faster you sink.
I know this feeling first hand because in a couple of days time, I will be spending two hours in mediation with my husband, whom I have been separated from for 5 months. It’s unfortunate timing, I suppose. This Sunday would have marked our sixth wedding anniversary but instead a cruel reminder of what high hopes we had in joining our lives so intricately together by spending two hours taking it all apart. The mediation is a process of placing our own selfish feelings to one side and working through the points of conflict to a resolution which is in the best interests of our two children.
I don’t know what the outcome will be. There may not be one for some time. But, if nothing else, I’ll have some great content for a future play.
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Hand and nasal samples of flight-catering staff were collected from 1995 to 1997 to find employees carrying Staphylococcus aureus. Altogether 153 hand samples and 136 nose samples were taken. Nasal sampling showed a higher prevalence of S. aureus among food handlers (29%) than hand sampling (9%). A high proportion of the strains (46%) were enterotoxigenic, and a considerable amount of food handlers carried enterotoxigenic S. aureus, 6% and 12% according to hand and nasal sampling, respectively. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis macrorestriction profiles revealed a total of 32 different types associated with the 35 employees carrying S. aureus. In most cases, the same type colonized both the hand and nose of a person. Despite the wide variety of types found, one strain colonized five persons and the second most common strain was associated with four food handlers. The predominant toxin produced was B, which was produced by the most common strain. The results showed that nasal sampling is a good way to detect S. aureus carriers, whereas hand sampling may fail to reveal carriers. The high proportion of enterotoxigenic strains show that a food handler harboring S. aureus must be considered a potential source of enterotoxigenic strains for airline meals.
Genotypes and Enterotoxicity of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from the Hands and Nasal Cavities of Flight-Catering Employees
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M. HATAKKA, K. J. BJÖRKROTH, K. ASPLUND, N. MÄKI-PETÄYS, H. J. KORKEALA; Genotypes and Enterotoxicity of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from the Hands and Nasal Cavities of Flight-Catering Employees. J Food Prot 1 November 2000; 63 (11): 1487–1491. doi: https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X-63.11.1487
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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? Peace Pilgrim
While the term spiritual is used in different ways, I often use the term to refer to a sense of relatedness or connectedness to others, life, and all that is and ever shall be (i.e., God, Spirit, Source, Allah, etc.). Also, my use of the term spiritual includes finding meaning and purpose in a way that contributes or benefits others or life beyond the self.
Cindy Wigglesworth, in her 2014 book, SQ 21: The 21 Skills of Spiritual Intelligence, expands this working definition to include a sense of inner calm and peace regardless of circumstances, internal or external while also having a sense of relatedness to life in all its diverse expressions. Wigglesworth proposed that spiritual intelligence (SQ), along with intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), and physical/kinesthetic intelligence, is a core intelligence for living a healthy and fulfilling life in the 21st century.
Wigglesworth’s proclamation about the essential nature of SQ in the 21st century is highly significant for individual leaders and organizations given that the topic of spirituality is often undiscussable in the work environment. Interestingly, the mindful leaders in my 2015 study identified the dimension of SQ, greater inner calm and peace, as well as the increased capacity to tolerate uncertainty (Theme 10) as a result of their mindfulness practice as demonstrated in the following narratives.
It’s interesting, through a downsizing, I started practicing (mindfulness meditation) formally, approximately 2, 2 and a half years ago, almost 3. In the middle of that time period, we had a major reshuffle or reorganization by my employer, so my role expanded in size by about 40 to 50% of what it was previously. So we had two smaller departments, the two were merged and became one super department. We still had the same amount of hours in a day to get the work done, still the same amount of limited resources, however, I found that that through mindfulness I’m able to better handle and focus on the different tasks that are coming at me at any given time. I’m able to free my mind to keep that calm atmosphere and a particular focus on the paths [projects] given, and I’m also able to complete more tasks in a more timely manner. (Male middle manager working in higher education in New Zealand)
I think too there’s a sense of peace you get when you meditate. It really is a stress reducer and anxiety reducer. And, I don’t know if you [have to] do (experience) that necessarily….but it’s a really nice byproduct that I think allows you to be a better leader. (Female middle manager and marketing researcher)
Oh, there is a much bigger sense of calm for me because there is time. There isn’t as much frantic energy being expended. It is a lot more–softer. It’s not a hard push. There is an acceptance, a peace around it that I know the resolution will come. Let’s just give it the time and the opportunity and staying with it. (Female senior manager in information technology).
Perhaps, we can borrow from Peace Pilgrim’s quote at the beginning of this essay and extrapolate that the criterion by which you can determine if a developmental practice is right for you is: Has it brought you greater inner calm and peace? For the 20 mindful leaders in this 2015 study, the answer is yes and perhaps unbeknownst to them, all the while cultivating spiritual intelligence!
Note: This essay is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Ten Developmental Themes of Mindful Leaders by Denise Frizzell, Ph.D. Denise offers leader/leadership and organizational coaching and consulting for progressive change agents and organizations. Visit https://metamorphosisconsultation.com/schedule-a-coaching-appointment/ to schedule a FREE exploratory appointment.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPARENCY,
ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
This is an initiative intended to promote the adoption, implementation and assessment of open government practices in Mexican states and municipalities through permanent spaces for dialogue —Local Technical Secretariat— that allow building capacities to implement Action Plans at the local level with the purpose of finding collaborative solutions to high-impact public problems.
The goal of the Open Government Metric is to observe, measure, and compare the manner in which the three-level governments (and other parties regulated by the General Transparency Act) interact with the citizens, considering two aspects: the possibility for the citizens may know their government actions (transparency) and the spaces where citizens may get involved in government activity (participation).
The main purpose of the Open Government National Summit is to debate, assess and offer an outlook (based on observed results) on the openness agenda promoted at state level by INAI, through the Open Government Project: Locally driven co-creation, in addition to report the actions developed by the INAI within the framework of the Proactive Transparency Policy, along with the experiences strengthening and promoting practices that, at federal level, have consolidated information as a useful public asset able to bring social benefits.
This program facilitates the strengthening of good governance in Mexico based on Open Government practices, citizen participation, transparency, and anti-corruption actions, with innovative schemes for capacity development and social involvement, leading to the empowerment of agents of change and the promotion of dialogue and co-creation at the subnational level.
This is a project intended to move forward focal open governance through the development and implementation of innovative methodologies that allow assessing the information on the flow of public resources in order to allow citizens to understand how resources are being used and how to use such information to influence public decision-making.
This tool integrates a repertory of international practices of Open Government and Proactive Transparency, from the date of the entry into force of the General Act on Transparency and Access to Public Information, which goal is that regulatory achievements can be translated into social benefits and renew the bonds of trust between the population and authorities.
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The Eighteenth Century is full of stories of men with great vision, who persevered, and by succeeding, changed the world they lived in. Think of people like Jethro Tull, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt and Matthew Boulton. But what of the men of great vision who tried – and then failed? One such is Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Tyrwhitt. His dream: to make the wilderness of Dartmoor into a productive bread-basket of the South West of England. He believed that he could tame the wilderness, drain the acidic boggy soil, clear the granite rocks which littered the fields, and plant wheat, and grow plantations of trees to produce wood needed by the Royal Navy.
You only have to visit Dartmoor today, a glorious wild space often shrouded in mist, to see what a spectacular failure it was. It remains untamed, a National Park of extraordinary beauty but little agricultural value. A few sheep, one or two cattle, and the occasional Dartmoor pony, are hardly what Thomas dreamed of when he took a lease of 2000 acres of land from the Duchy of Cornwall, when he was just twenty-three years old. He had been born in 1762/3 to a family living in Essex. Father was a country vicar, and young Tom went to Eton and then on to Christ Church College Oxford. He arrived on Dartmoor in 1785 at a remote spot, with an entourage of workmen, determined to make his mark on the Dartmoor landscape. Labourers cleared fields and constructed drains, while mine-workers dug shafts searching for tin, copper and other metals. They all needed accommodation, and so Thomas arranged for the building of the Plume of Feathers (still in existence as a public house) where the workers could stay. In 1785 he also started construction of his own residence, still standing today as a fine guest house, known as Tor Royal. With its shutters, and windows in the roof, it looks to me to be heavily influenced by a French style of architecture.
The ‘Royal’ gives the game away – Thomas was a friend of the Prince of Wales, so he had both money and connection. Both would come in useful as he battled away at taming the countryside. He had been appointed as private Secretary to the Prince, and in 1796 was made Auditor to the Duchy of Cornwall. In the same year he was returned as Member of Parliament by the good people of Okehampton. By then work on the main structure of his modest little pad at Tor Royal was finished. As the website of the present guest house states: “Tor Royal Farm is Grade II* listed with a walled courtyard featuring a Bell Tower. The interior boasts a domed ceiling with lantern and an unusual plaster frieze depicting the Princetown Tramway, the plans of which were reputedly drawn up in the house. There is a single storey suite of rooms with a Plume of Feathers frieze and ornately decorated doors obtained from Carlton House in London when it was demolished. The House has arched doorways to the domed reception room and many original Georgian features. A walled garden below the Devonport leat has been roofed over and now houses cattle and sheep in the winter months.”
The excellent Patrick Baty carried out detailed research into the paintwork on the mahogany doors at Tor Royal, concluding that they were taken down when Carlton House was demolished in 1827, and establishing that they were originally in place in the Blue Velvet Suite. His blog-post here contains fine photographs of Tor Royal, its arched atrium and the elaborately carved doors. By the time the doors were transported down to Dartmoor, Thomas had already extended the main building to include a suite of rooms apparently designed specifically for the use of the Prince. Sir Thomas certainly knew how to court royal favour, and when he hit upon the idea of establishing a detention centre for French prisoners-of-war, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, he immediately proposed that the hamlet comprising the cluster of prison buildings and warden’s quarters should be called Prince’s Town (later, Princetown).
The scheme, designed to solve the problem of housing large numbers of prisoners in the Thames estuary in rotting hulks of ships, was popular with the authorities, and in 1806 the foundation stone of the new prison was laid. Two years later it was ready to receive its first inmates and in due course it brought a measure of employment to the area. Prisoners meant guards, and guards needed accommodation. In time the accommodation block became the Duchy Hotel, and a bakery, slaughter-house and brewery were added. Over 5000 prisoners were interred behind the bleak granite walls.
In 1812 Thomas was knighted and made Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (‘Black Rod’ for short) with an important ceremonial role in the opening of Parliament. He stayed in office for twenty years. Back on Dartmoor, the prosperity associated with incarcerating those darned Frenchies was lessened when peace was declared. For a while their place was taken by up to 6,500 American prisoners, mostly sailors, captured in the War of 1812. After 1816, even these prisoners were re-repatriated, and the prison cells emptied. It was to be 1851 before the buildings were brought back to life as a secure prison for criminals. Until then, Princetown, by then a small town, was largely redundant and Sir Thomas had to consider other ways of bringing prosperity to the area.
He hit on the idea of constructing a railroad to link Princetown to the coast at Plymouth, convinced that transporting granite blocks quarried on the moor would generate profits for the promoters. It was a half-baked scheme in that the precise route had not been settled – it had not even been surveyed properly. Despite this, work started, leading to a realization that the badly drained and heavily contoured land was going to involve complicated and expensive engineering. The route was changed, meaning that the route now crossed the land of a neighbour, the Earl of Morley. His consent came at a price – the railway company had to agree to run a spur line to the Earl’s kaolin quarries so that the kaolin (otherwise known as China Clay, used in cosmetics and in the manufacture of high quality paper) could be taken by rail to the port of Plymouth. To add to the problems, the new line had its own unique gauge of four feet six inches, meaning that it was not compatible with other rail links. It was also never intended to be used by steam trains, Sir Thomas and his board assuming that the wagons would be pulled by horse. The intention was that individual hauliers would pay a toll in return for being permitted to bring goods, mostly granite blocks, and the track known as the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway opened in 1823 with a further extension being finished two years later. It was never going to be commercially viable, because not enough goods were ever transported, and what there was (stone) was entirely a one-way traffic. The anticipated transfer of goods to the interior of Dartmoor never took place, neither lime to fertilize the fields, nor tea, sugar and other comestibles to sustain the prisoners and their guards. It was never a passenger line, and the project was a dismal failure.
Sir Thomas died in 1833, returning to Calais after he had gone on a holiday aimed at restoring his broken health. He was 71. His dream of taming Dartmoor is thankfully unrealized to this day, but on a crisp winter’s morning, or a warm summer evening, a visit to Tor Royal has much to commend it. Go to Princetown in the wet, when mist shrouds the ancient field systems, and hangs on the moss-covered gnarled trees, and you get a picture of what it must have been like when Thomas Tyrwhitt first laid eyes on it 250 years ago…
To end with, a reminder of the role of the Black Rod in the year 1820. Convening Parliament involved the door to the House of Commons being ceremonially slammed in the face of the Black Rod, after Parliament had been summonsed to investigate claims of adultery levelled against Caroline of Brunswick, the wife of the Prince Regent. Sir Thomas would have used his staff of office to strike the door three times, calling the members of the Commons to attend the House of Lords where the evidence of adultery was to be heard. The trial, in 1820, was recorded in a painting made some two to three years later by Sir George Hayter, and now held in the National Portrait Gallery:
The trial failed to establish the claim, despite the evidence that she had been openly living with her “valet” Bertolomeo Pergami in Italy. Besides, the public were outraged at the appalling treatment of Princess Caroline – after all, she was hardly deserving of criticism when her husband was known to everyone as a serial adulterer, whore-monger and rake. The hypocrisy was unacceptable. Sir Thomas played his ceremonial part in the trial, but in the end the public disquiet prevailed. However when George III died and the Regent prepared to step into his father’s shoes, he banned Caroline from the coronation. The poor woman couldn’t take the hint, turned up at the Abbey, and was turned away at the point of a bayonet. She fell ill shortly afterwards, convinced that she had been poisoned, and died a few days later. Somehow I feel that both Princess Caroline and Sir Thomas had much in common – both of them died unfulfilled and largely un-mourned. Neither of them achieved what they had spent their adult lives pursuing – but I for one am glad that Dartmoor remained as a big, boggy, wilderness.
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The presidential system of government in the Maldives is unstable and will result in more coup d’états, former President and opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has said.
“The presidential system in the Maldives has not brought about a secure government. There is no doubt of coups in the Maldives. President [Abdulla] Yameen’s administration will fall in a coup. It will be overthrown,” he told Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) supporters at a rally in Malé on Sunday.
Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader in the Maldives, claims he was ousted in a coup just three years into his term in February 2012.
However, a Commonwealth backed Commission of National Inquiry (CONI) called the transfer of power “legal and constitutional.”
Nasheed said he was not suggesting the MDP would carry out the coup, but that those in power should not rule out a coup given the legitimisation of the February 2012 change of power and the Supreme Court’s silence on the matter.
“I am not by any means suggesting we will carry out a coup. The legitimate means of changing regimes has been demonstrated in 2012. The Supreme Court has demonstrated how to interpret the constitution. With that legitimacy, both ourselves and those in power, we should not rule out the possibility that another group may overthrow the government,” he said.
Yameen’s Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) came to power with the backing of third placed candidate Gasim Ibrahim in November’s presidential polls.
Gasim had won 23.35 percent of the vote in the first round of presidential polls last year, and his eventual backing was crucial for the PPM’s win in the second round.
The PPM had gained 29.72 percent of the vote in the first round and narrowly won the election against Nasheed with 51.39 percent.
Gasim’s Jumhooree Party (JP) support was contingent on a 35 percent stake in government and a pledge to jointly contest March parliamentary polls.
The coalition fell apart in a dispute over which party should control the Majlis speaker position. Gasim narrowly lost the vote to PPM’s Abdulla Maseeh.
Nasheed himself required the backing of the JP and a number of smaller parties to win the presidential election of 2008. The coalition led by Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) also fell apart shortly after Nasheed assumed power.
Speaking to private broadcaster Raajje TV in May, Nasheed said he would work through the new parliament to amend the constitution and facilitate a transition to a parliamentary system.
“It is time for the system of governance in Maldives to be changed into a parliamentary system. When we move to a parliamentary system there won’t be any need to have a cabinet,” said Nasheed.
“The cabinet is very costly, we can cut down that as well [by moving to a parliamentary system]. What I want to say to President Maumoon is to think about how the Maldives has been governed in the past and what happened during the drafting of the constitution,” he was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Minivan News in February, Nasheed said: “Coalitions work in parliamentary systems where you can actually have ministers coming out from the parliament and therefore it’s possible to come to an arrangement. But when the cabinet is not in the parliament, an alliance doesn’t necessarily work.”
“The shuffling or the portions given to different parties are given from the cabinet, and the cabinet is a very superficial layer on the government. The actual essence is the parliament where you make the laws.”
Nasheed had raised the same issue during his presidency in July 2010 in response to difficulties in governance. At the time, Nasheed’s MDP controlled a minority in parliament while the then-opposition opposed and blocked several flagship laws.
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When the coronavirus bore down, cannabis businesses in many states were granted the right to continue operating as “essential businesses” in the vein of hospitals, pharmacies and grocery stores. Many responded to the challenge with a variety of strategies to keep consumers safe. Here’s a sampling:
Postpone events and take them online: Among the first things that became clear in the COVID-19 outbreak was that 4/20 celebrations and revenue-generating events such as conferences, seminars and store grand openings had to be canceled. Many organizers moved events online, signaling what the post-coronavirus future might look like.
Increased sanitation: Many marijuana cultivation and extraction facilities already took sanitation seriously, with employees wearing gloves, masks and shoe coverings and taking other precautions to keep facilities clean. For them, not many changes were required.
But the pandemic mandated that retailers adopt many of the same sanitary practices that their grow and product-manufacturing colleagues already practiced.
Many marijuana businesses purchased sanitizer, antiseptic wipes, plastic gloves and other sanitation supplies in bulk. They also wiped down cash registers more frequently—in some cases, after every transaction. Others provided hand sanitizers for customer use throughout their stores.
Instead of having customers hand identification to its staff, Massachusetts-based Mayflower Medicinals asked consumers to place the ID cards on a clipboard so employees wouldn’t have to touch them.
Theory Wellness, which has three locations in Massachusetts, introduced a gloved doorman to open doors for customers, while budtenders were no longer allowed to offer customers a sample whiff of product.
“We’re trying to minimize the touch points between patients and customers and employees,” said Thomas Winstanley, director of marketing at Theory Wellness.
Increased physical distancing: To abide by physical-distancing recommendations, many cannabis retailers capped the number of customers who could be inside their stores at any one time, a practice that was later adopted by grocery stores and other mainstream retail outlets deemed “essential businesses” allowed to stay open.
Sira Naturals in Somerville, Massachusetts, capped the number of customers on its sales floor at 15, while the Chai Cannabis Co., which has retail outlets in Castroville and Santa Cruz, California, limited its sales activities to three budtenders and three customers at a time.
Many stores also added tape on the floor to indicate where customers should stand to maintain a 6-foot distance from others. They also eliminated the use of waiting rooms and asked customers to wait their turns outside. Still other companies asked employees to check their temperatures before shifts.
Curbside pickup: Marijuana businesses in some states, with the blessing of regulators, took online ordering a step further by offering curbside pickup so customers wouldn’t have to enter stores. Consumers would order online and then pick up purchases in a store parking lot or another designated area.
Procedures such as ID checks were strictly followed, as were safety measures including physical distancing and the use of gloves for employees working on curbside pickups.
Drive-thru services: A small but notable number of stores offered drive-thru options. Edgewater, Maryland-based Mana Supply Co. spent about $100,000 converting a former bank drive-thru into a secure drive-thru for its dispensary.
In the case of Mana Supply, customers order ahead of time. When they arrive at the dispensary, consumers press a button on a call box that enables them to show identification cards via video. After they’re cleared, customers drive into the bay, a high-speed garage door closes behind them and they push a button on a second call box to have their IDs checked again. The employee then puts the prefilled order into a drawer and slides it out.
Online ordering: To make delivery orders and curbside pickups easier to transact, many stores began offering—and often requiring—orders to be placed online. For example, Aaron Varney, director of Seattle-area cannabis retailer Dockside Cannabis, said his company encouraged customers to purchase products online by offering users a 10% discount. Preordering online streamlines the process so customers spend less time in the store, Varney said.
Communicating with consumers and the public: During the pandemic, communicating with customers has been critical for safety and business reasons. Measures include:
- Posting signs outside and inside stores reminding people to keep physical distance. These efforts show consumers and regulators that you take safety seriously.
- Using social media to let customers know about policy changes, such as closing sales floors and switching to curbside and delivery options. Keeping customers informed saves them wasted trips to your location.
Businesses found other creative ways to communicate important information to customers, such as text messages to notify them when pickup orders were ready, which enabled customers to wait in their cars rather than spending time in the store. When texts failed, a few creative companies secured FM transmitters to reach consumers through their car radios.
Communicating with employees: In times of crisis, communicating with employees about important changes in operations and procedures is critical. In fact, executives recommend “overcommunication.”
Charlie Bachtel, CEO at Chicago-based Cresco Labs, believes in that approach. In mid-March, Bachtel sent companywide emails with updates every day. The next week, he sent emails Monday and Friday; on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, companywide emails were sent by other senior executives. Lower-level managers also communicated frequently with employees.
Technology/Drones: Green Cross CBD in Austin, Texas, started a drone delivery service to adhere to physical-distancing measures that help slow the spread of the coronavirus. John Elmore, the company’s owner, told Austin TV station KTBC that he was sterilizing products and offering curbside pickup before he started drone deliveries.
“I was able to come up with a contraption where I could drop it in your front yard and unlatch and just take off,” Elmore said. “The drone can hold up to 2 pounds safely,” he added. “I don’t like to exceed that. … That’s quite a bit of CBD.”
New ways to roll: As the ultimate sharable consumption medium, pre-rolls seemed destined to take a sales hit during the pandemic. Pre-rolls generally have come in 1-gram sizes. But even before the coronavirus pandemic, pre-roll manufacturers increasingly were producing half-gram and even quarter-gram pre-rolls that could be consumed individually and not shared. During the pandemic, pre-roll makers accelerated the pivot to smaller pre-rolls.
Arizona-based Huxton, for example, makes only half-gram pre-rolls, which it sells in tins of seven.
“The convenience was initially intended as the ideal grab-and-go product,” Huxton co-founder Chelsea Johnson said. “In today’s climate, it’s been a great substitute for the traditional puff, puff, pass.”
Old Pal, a California cannabis brand that sells pouches of pre-ground flower complete with hemp rolling papers and crutches, also had to change its tone. While Old Pal hasn’t jettisoned its “Cannabis is Communal” mantra, its new messaging on Instagram touts “coming together by staying apart” and “Puff, puff, don’t pass.”
– Additional reporting by Laura Drotleff, Margaret Jackson and Bart Schaneman
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Neural tube endoscopy for spinal canal stenosis
What is a Foraminoplasty?
Neural foramina are small canals at every level of the spine through which nerve roots originate from spinal cord and reach the limbs and other parts of the body. Narrowing of this canal is called foraminal stenosis. Narrowing may be caused by bone spurs, a herniated or bulging disc, arthritis, ligament thickening or enlargement of a joint in the spinal canal. This creates a pressure on the nerve roots causing symptoms that include pain, muscle weakness, muscle spasms, cramping, numbness, and tingling. The symptoms may be felt in the neck, back, shoulders, arms, hands, legs, buttocks, or feet depending on the position of the affected foramen.
To diagnose spinal stenosis, your doctor may ask you about signs and symptoms, discuss your medical history, and conduct a physical examination. He or she may order several imaging tests to help pinpoint the cause of your signs and symptoms.
These tests may include:
- X-rays. An X-ray of your back can reveal bony changes, such as bone spurs that may be narrowing the space within the spinal canal. Each X-ray involves a small exposure to radiation.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An MRI uses a powerful magnet and radio waves to produce cross-sectional images of your spine. The test can detect the damage to your disks and ligaments, as well as the presence of tumors. Most important, it can show where the nerves in the spinal cord are being pressured.
- CT or CT myelogram. If you can't have an MRI, your doctor may recommend computerized tomography (CT), a test that combines X-ray images taken from many different angles to produce detailed, cross-sectional images of your body. In a CT myelogram, the CT scan is conducted after a contrast dye is injected. The dye outlines the spinal cord and nerves, and it can reveal herniated disks, bone spurs and tumors.
How foraminal stenosis is treated?
As beforementioned causes for the stenosis, the management plan differs. If the main cause of your foraminal stenosis is bone spurs, the most appropriate management is open surgery or endoscopic foraminoplasty. If the cause was thickening of ligamentum flavum then the most appropriate management is the claudicare or endoscopic foraminoplasty. Your spine physician will discuss which method is most appropriate for you after seeing the scans requested.
its technique is much like the disc fx technique but instead of removing a part from the herniated disc, claudicare removes the thickened part of the ligamentum flavum.
It’s a minimally invasive procedure which is mostly alike to endoscopic discectomy but with other specialized tools in removing the bony spurs or the thickened ligamentum flavum. The main difference between the endoscopic foraminoplasty and claudicare is that we can see what we are doing with a camera.
Advantages of both Endoscopic foraminoplasty and Claudicare
Both endoscopic foraminoplasty and claudicare are minimally invasive procedures and their benefits include:
-Small incision and less scarring
-No or little blood loss
-Does not cause any spinal instability
-Usually done under local anesthesia, thus the risks of general anesthesia are avoided
-Can be performed in medically high-risk patients and obese patients
-Can be performed in multiple levels in the same procedure
-Physical therapy can begin the same day as the surgery
-Less post-operative pain
-Less risk of infection
-Both Claudicare and Endoscopic foraminoplasty are day-cases in which the patient gets back home on the same day of the operation
Endoscopic foraminoplasty is a safe and effective surgical option for treatment of foraminal stenosis.
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Book review: populist backlash could be good for democracy
Book review: The New Authoritarianism The populist backlash against the role of experts in the political process isn't such a bad thing, says Professor Salvatore Babones.
Trump, Populism and theTyranny of Experts
Polity Press (£9.99)
The past few years have seen a populist backlash against the role of experts in the political process. Some view this as a return to the dark ages. Professor Salvatore Babones, of the University of Sydney, argues it isn't so bad. The backlash may even be healthy for democracy.
Large swathes of public life have been taken out of the hands of elected governments and given over to unelected technocrats. These technocrats accuse their populist opponents of being closet authoritarians, yet, as Babones argues, their own support for democracy is conditional on the public endorsing their preferred outcomes. When the public doesn't respond appropriately, by voting for the "wrong" policy or candidate, they either refuse to accept the outcome or use every means possible to undermine it. European governments pressed on with European integration, for example, despite the results of referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland.
This is not to endorse individual populist politicians, nor to dismiss liberalism. It's just that liberalism's dominance has been bad for it, because it has moved it from its traditional role of exerting a moderating influence on the excesses of both right and left. Babones's criticisms of the status quo may strike some as overwrought, but his monograph is an original and provocative contribution to the debate.
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Rita Mulcahy Exam Simulator
Exams are a significant endeavor, but getting to this final evaluation can be a great deal of work, and of course a very stressful time. No one wants to fail the exam and take time away from work, but getting all the tools you want to help you excel is vital to your success. 1 means to do this is by way of test simulation. Many students find that taking an exam takes up a lot of energy and time, and they don’t have the time or ability to dedicate to studying for your examination. Applying these kinds of mock exams is a excellent option that can permit you to refresh and study before the exam.
Some people can worry about exam test simulation because they presume it could give them an unfair advantage over other students. To understand how this kind of examination functions, you have to understand a tiny bit about how standardized tests are made. They’re created by a company or many companies, and they will give a set of queries to a group of men and women that are all going to take the exact same test. They’ll then monitor your results based on things such as your rate, replies, and so forth. The target is to create a standard exam which can be used countless times by future students.
This exam test simulation can be valuable to anyone who takes an exam. It may offer you an upper hand in knowing what questions to expect and how to process taking the exam. Normally, pupils are tested on the first day of class, but they are able to re-take the examinations again in a few weeks, after every examination has been taken. Thus, you can go back and retest if you would like. You won’t need to spend any money, because they are free and you can take them whenever you feel like doing it.
Going through the procedure can be hard, and many students find that they forget several classes that they have already learned. This is why many men and women take the examinations multiple times. If you are the type of person who takes tests multiple times, then you can surely benefit from this kind of testing. Some people can also get a discount since they took the exam more than once. Just be sure to bring extra copies of each test you are going to take.
The largest thing about an exam simulator is that you can learn from your errors, which is very important. There is no way for pupils to tell when they’ve made a mistake until years after. By taking a simulated exam, you can make sure that you don’t make these mistakes the first time. This will help to boost your confidence, which will translate to your grades.
When you take a test, your memory won’t be as sharp as you require it to be. This is really where simulators can be convenient. The majority of the top simulators will have some kind of inspection system, where students can go back and review any areas they did not get the ideal answer on. These reviews are a excellent way for students to brush up on their abilities. If you can locate a free exam test simulator, it is possible to take a whole lot of memory erasing from the equation.
Most students do not have the time to get ready for an exam if they have a complete plate in your home. An exam simulation may give them an ideal test test, without needing to dedicate hours upon hours to learning how to take the actual exam. Instead, they can sit down, relax, and focus on each and every question they might have missed during their previous research sessions.
Whether you have to go more info for a final exam or you only want to refresh your memory, then an exam simulator can assist you. You can use a simulator to study for any kind of exam, while it’s licensing high school exams, or possibly a certificate exam. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a few spare hours to kill. Using a simulator, you are able to spend those hours doing something different – and get the answers to your questions quickly.
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Kenwood is one of Minneapolis’ most affluent neighborhoods and is part of the greater Calhoun-Isles community. Primarily residential, it offers residents only a few establishments to frequent, including fine dining at The Kenwood and shopping at Birchbark Books. Quiet and prestigious, the neighborhood attracts affluent and middle age residents who want to live close to Uptown, Downtown, and the parks and lake systems.
Kenwood Neighborhood Boundaries
Kenwood’s is bordered by Kenwood Parkway to the north, West Lake of the Isles Parkway to the east, Kenilworth Place to the south, and Cedar Lake Parkway to the west. It’s also nestled between Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake, an area that boasts the largest concentration of upscale homes in Minneapolis and some of the most unique cultural attractions the city has to offer.
Kenwood Neighborhood History
The community began in the late 1880s after the city of Minneapolis acquired the land. Located just outside the city limits, its amenities included a rail line, depot and hotel. Once housing development began, the area became lush with elegant single-family homes in popular architectural styles of the time, including Mediterranean and colonial. Over time, many large homes were divided up into apartments and duplexes, which were later converted back to single-family use.
Kenwood Neighborhood Landmarks
The neighborhood is home to several of the city’s more famed landmarks. Built in 1910, the Kenwood Park Water Tower is an octagonal brick and stone structure that’s 110 feet tall, making it the tallest building in the community. Dubbed the “Mary Tyler Moore House,” three homes on the 2200 block of W. Lake of the Isles Parkway were the site of the popular TV show of the same name.
Other historical landmarks include the Peavy Plaza Fountain, Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, and a small commercially-zoned area near Penn Avenue South.
Kenwood Neighborhood Activities
Situated in the northern part of the neighborhood, Kenwood Park is a beautiful green space with irregular topography, sloping hills, plenty of trees, and sunset views overlooking nearby lakes. Summer months bring baseball, tennis and soccer games to the park, while winter brings skating and skiing.Biking and walking enthusiasts can enjoy the Kenwood and Grand Rounds trails, which partially follow the Lake of the Isles shoreline.
There is plenty of family fun to be had in Kenwood, too. Located within the park is the Kenwood Community Center, which offers kids and parents lots of outdoor activities to choose from. It’s connected to Kenwood Elementary School, which provides space for daytime recreation.
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- 1 How do you combine different machine learning models?
- 2 How do you ensemble different models?
- 3 How do you stack classifiers?
- 4 How to combine two CNN models in deep learning?
- 5 How are neural networks used in deep learning?
- 6 Why does model averaging work in deep learning?
- 7 What are the results of ensemble learning in deep learning?
How do you combine different machine learning models?
Stacking. Stacking is an ensemble learning technique that combines multiple classification or regression models via a meta-classifier or a meta-regressor. The base level models are trained based on a complete training set, then the meta-model is trained on the outputs of the base level model as features.
How do you ensemble different models?
Bootstrap Aggregating is an ensemble method. First, we create random samples of the training data set with replacment (sub sets of training data set). Then, we build a model (classifier or Decision tree) for each sample. Finally, results of these multiple models are combined using average or majority voting.
How do you stack classifiers?
A simple way to achieve this is to split your training set in half. Use the first half of your training data to train the level one classifiers. Then use the trained level one classifiers to make predictions on the second half of the training data. These predictions should then be used to train meta-classifier.
How to combine two CNN models in deep learning?
You can put a dense layer combining both outputs. Set input_shape and n_output accordingly to your data and targets. You should then freeze your pre-trained weights and train the final dense layer to correctly choose which weight to assign to outputs of your models.
How are neural networks used in deep learning?
Deep learning neural networks are nonlinear methods. They offer increased flexibility and can scale in proportion to the amount of training data available.
Why does model averaging work in deep learning?
The reason that model averaging works is that different models will usually not make all the same errors on the test set. — Page 256, Deep Learning, 2016. Combining the predictions from multiple neural networks adds a bias that in turn counters the variance of a single trained neural network model.
What are the results of ensemble learning in deep learning?
The results are predictions that are less sensitive to the specifics of the training data, choice of training scheme, and the serendipity of a single training run. In addition to reducing the variance in the prediction, the ensemble can also result in better predictions than any single best model.
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Album · 2007 · 11 Songs. Chip Pan Fire Jackie Balfour.
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World's on Fire is the first live album and second DVD by English electronic dance music band The Prodigy, released on 11 May 2011. In October 2011, it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), which indicated sales in excess of 75,000 copies throughout Europe. Run (Brixton, London)". Spitfire, Mescaline (Brazil)". Breathe (Slane Castle, Ireland)". Poison (Glastonbury, England)". Warning (T in the Park, Scotland)".
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At the beginning of the year I was curious what problems or dilemmas people were facing this year. @lintperez commented her current challenge is “trying to get ready for standards-based grading and everything that comes with it!”
What standard are you using for your lesson planning and assessment? Here are some “standards” I have used or seen used in lesson planning and assessment:
- How can I use the newest technology fad?
- What handmade project will take my students hours to complete so they and their parents will really feel like they’ve accomplished something?
- What’s something they can do on their own that involves the least planning or guidance on my part?
- What’s the next chapter in the textbook?
A few years ago at my school we made the leap to real standards-based planning and assessment, and we have seen a significant increase in the number of students coming out of our program with useful levels of proficiency. Going from a program that doesn’t know what the standards are to a program that evaluates every activity against the standards is quite an involved process, but it takes place one step at a time. If you haven’t really embraced standards-based teaching and you’re wanting to get your feet wet, good! Here are some baby steps you can take:
- Find a good set of standards. Examine the ACTFL standards, find the ones your state uses, or look at another state’s, like Kentucky or Georgia.
- Look at standards specific to the level you teach.
- About a particular standard that looks interesting to you, ask yourself, For my students to meet this standard, what should they be able to do?
- Think: What real-world activity can my students do to show me they can meet this standard? This is part of what is known as backward design, planning lessons and activities by first determining the outcome goal and then planning what activities will get students there.
- Now complete the backward design process: what activities can you incorporate in your lessons to prepare your students for success at this standard?
Once students have done the assessment you’ve planned, of course you’ll have to grade it. Grading standards-based proficiency assessments can be a bit of a mess. After all, there’s no right or wrong answer. I use the same proficiency assessment rubric to grade all the standards-based performance assessments in my class (four per unit: presentational writing, interpersonal writing, interpersonal speaking, and presentational speaking). I don’t actually put a grade on the rubric. I just mark whether my students are approaching, meeting, or exceeding my expectations for their current proficiency, and in the gradebook these categories translate to C, B, and A (unsatisfactory is an F and must be redone).
So, how about an example?
Here’s Novice High standard for presentational writing on our Kentucky standards document:
3.NH.PW.1 I can describe aspects of my daily life.
which, according to the sample learning targets, includes describing myself and people. In the spirit of backward design, here is the assessment I come up with:
Our collaborating school in Honduras wants a short biography of you and your best friend for their school newspaper. You tossed a coin and you lost, so now you have to write it. Describe yourself and your friend, including physical characteristics, personality, and things you like and don’t like.
Now, what do I need to do to get my students there? A number of things come up:
- vocabulary of adjectives
- using es and soy
- phrases for talking about likes
So what activities can I plan to help them out? First, we can develop our own vocabulary of adjectives by finding out what adjectives we’d use to describe each other. How? By describing each other – meaningful vocabulary is what students actually need, not what we think they need.
Next, I can think about how to integrate various modes of communication into my activities. I don’t just want them to be able to describe themselves and others – I want them to be able to understand it when someone else does, whether in writing or speaking. So I may have them looking at missing persons reports from Mexico (which integrates authentic materials and meets Novice High reading standard 1.NH.R.5). I’ll have them listen to Sandra introduce herself and her family, and to Edinson describe himself and his personality and his likes. I’ll have them describe a student to a blindfolded or turned-around student to see if he/she can guess who it is. I’ll use songs like Corazón sin cara and Boricua en la Habana to listen to and talk more about description, and Me gustas tú to talk about likes.
Then, finally, we’ll do the assessment.
Take a baby step: what one proficiency-based, standards-based assessment can you add to your next unit? How will it change the way you teach?
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Foetal abortion using toxins and other means
At the beginning of the twentieth century Louis Lewin (1850 -1929) published his book ‘Foetal abortion using toxins and other means’. Lewin is recognised as the founder of modern research into narcotic drugs and tissue toxins. As a scientist he felt responsible for social issues as well. Subtitled ‘A handbook for physicians, jurisprudents, politicians and economists’ this benchmark lists all known appropriate and inappropriate methods and substances for abortion – including pyrogallol, air embolism, aniline, carbolic acid, carbon disulphide, chalk, chloroform, dinitrocresol, electric current, guano, lead compounds, mercury, moulds, peritonitis, potassium cyanide, potassium permanganate, smallpox toxin, irritation of the breasts using cupping, x-rays and constriction. In addition this book takes a look at philosophical, economic, social and ethical aspects of abortion.
Thus in a very modern way Lewin discusses the question of whether or not professional secrecy has to be applied to forbidden interventions: ‘…you very rarely get absolute proof, which could be a basis for legal action. But even then it might not be used because from my point of view there is a commitment to maintain physicians’ secrecy.’
We have to thank Lewin giving us some estimates of the frequency of abortions: "Civilised countries do not differ a lot. No one is entitled to claim to be more moral than any other." He even took the trouble to analyse crime statistics. Between 1880 and 1913 for Austria the trend was increasing and there were no less than 2790 defendants about which Lewin commented as follows: ‘...the numbers mentioned ... show nothing other than the more or less skillful way in which foetal abortion is concealed in the countries listed.’
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Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, was composed in the summer of 1909. The piece was premiered on November 28 of that year in New York City with the composer as soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch.
The Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was written from October 1906 to April 1907. The premiere was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 26 January 1908, with the composer conducting.
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The following assignment is about Physical Examination Video: Examination on a Volunteer Adult. Create a video demonstrating a complete physical examination on a volunteer adult (18 years of age or older) participant.
Physical Examination Video: Examination on a Volunteer Adult
Demonstration assignment is due Sunday end of Week 6 at 11:59 MT. DirectionsDue to the important nature of this assignment, recording the video on a non-human participant will result in an assignment failure. Videos longer than 15 minutes will be subject to a deduction in points. Also, Follow this link case Demonstration Outline (Links to an external site.). Physical Examination Video:
(This is mean to be a general physical examination. Skills that are not include on the outline do not need to be in your video.) You may record your video in Kaltura (available to you in the course) or you may use your own phone or other digital camera device. Also, ALL videos must be uploade to Kaltura in the course shell for submission. Besides, For steps on how to use Kaltura to record, go to Kaltura How-To Videos When you are finished recording, follow these instructions from Uploading and Submitting a Video (Links to an external site.). Please note that there are specific publishing settings that need to be correct to ensure privacy. Physical Examination Video
Moreover, the video must remain in your My Media library and ONLY be submitted to the assignment for instructor review as instructed. You will need a stethoscope and a pen light to complete this examination. Also, adult participant must remain covered at all times for privacy purposes. Hence, suggested attire for adult participant: tank top and shorts. Instructor must be able to have a clear view of stethoscope placement on the torso. Auscultating over a shirt is acceptable for the purposes of this video
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BEIJING (AP) — China expanded its sweeping efforts on Monday to contain a dangerous new virus, extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose to 81.
Mongolia closed its vast border with China, and Hong Kong and Malaysia announced they were barring entry to visitors from the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak following a warning by Chinese officials that the virus' ability to spread was growing. Travel agencies were ordered to cancel group tours nationwide, adding to the rising economic losses.
Stock markets around the world were down sharply Monday as investors worried the outbreak could hurt the global economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 550 points f
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This year's Joint AOGS-EGU Conference, with the theme "New Dimensions for Natural Hazards in Asia", was held here in the Philippines last February 4-8. I was able to present a poster about detecting co-seismic ground deformation using InSAR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB6FYbBRz-s We often talk about rainfall, it's amount, intensity and subsequent effects. But it's hard to communicate how strong the rainfall is using words like "light" or "heavy" rainfall. How heavy is "heavy" really? Of course, saying it's x millimeters per hour of rainfall doesn't help, does it? So a couple of my colleagues in... Continue Reading →
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Research is revealing new hope for those suffering from renal cancer:
AANP – Bark Extract Attacks Renal Cancer Cells But Not Healthy Cells – (Tuesday, November 6, 2012) –A new study concludes that the compound englerin A, a relatively new renal cancer treatment extracted from the bark of the African plant phyllanthus englerin, kills tumor cells and has no adverse effects on normal kidney cells. The extract was found to affect only renal cancer cells and has no effect on health cells or on other types of cancer cells. (Englerin A is a compound previously reported to be a potent and selective inhibitor that prevents the growth of six human renal cancer cell lines while not affecting other cancer cell types. Successfully duplicating the extract in the lab enabled the current research by providing sufficient quantities for testing on cancer cells. Englerin A is not yet available to the public.) The next step will be to identify exactly how englerin A so specifically targets renal cancer cells and to improve its effectiveness. This will allow the researchers to move forward with the promise of making available a new treatment for renal cancer as an alternative to the significant side effects of other anti-renal-cancer drugs. This study was recently published in PLOS One and is now available in its full-text form at http://tinyurl.com/c49nfgu without charge.
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A stimulating environment keeps the “hippocampus” — which is the brain’s memory control center — young, so to speak. Causes of this are molecular mechanisms that affect gene regulation. These current findings from studies in mice provide clues as to why an active, varied life can help preserve mental fitness in old age. Researchers from the DZNE and the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) at the Technische Universität Dresden report on this in the journal Nature Communications.
Human DNA — and this also applies to mice — contains thousands of genes. However, it is not only the genetic blueprint that is decisive for the function of a cell and whether it is healthy or not, but above all which genes can be switched on or off. Aging, living conditions and behavior are known to influence this ability to activate genes. The phenomenon, referred to as “epigenetics,” was the focus of the current study. For this, researchers including Dr. Sara Zocher and Prof. Gerd Kempermann examined mice that had grown up in different environments: One group of animals experienced, from a young age, an “enriched” environment with toys and tunnel tubes. The rodents of a second group did not have such occupational opportunities.
Attachments to the DNA
When the scientists examined the genome, they found that in those mice that grew up in the stimulating environment, there was, with age, only a relatively small change in certain chemical tags of the DNA. In mice from the low-stimulus environment, these changes were much more pronounced — in comparison between young and older animals. “We registered so-called methyl groups, which stick to the DNA,” explains Gerd Kempermann, speaker for the DZNE’s Dresden site, DZNE research group leader and also a scientist at the CRTD. “These chemical attachments do not alter the genetic information per se. Rather, they influence whether individual genes can be activated or not.”
Such “epigenetic markings” tend to diminish with age, but in the animals with stimulating living conditions, the decrease in methyl groups was comparatively small. Thus, in old mice raised in a varied environment, gene activity had, in a sense, remained young. In particular, this affected a series of genes relevant to growing new neurons and cellular connections in the hippocampus. “Epigenetically, these animals retained a younger hippocampus,” Kempermann says. Therefore, the brains of these mice were more malleable — experts speak of greater “neuroplasticity” — than in conspecifics of the same age that had grown up in a low-stimulus environment.
The current study did not include behavioral experiments. However, Kempermann points out that many other studies have shown that mice raised in high-stimulus settings perform better on memory tests than those from low-stimulus environments. “It is fair to assume that this mental fitness is due to the stabilization of methylation patterns that we observed,” the neuroscientist says. “Of course, the question is to what extent our findings also apply to humans. Here, the situation is likely to be more complicated. After all, it is about how living conditions influence behavior and the way humans react to external stimuli is much more complex than in mice. However, we have good reasons to believe that the basic epigenetic principles are the same in humans as in mice.”
1. Sara Zocher, Rupert W. Overall, Mathias Lesche, Andreas Dahl, Gerd Kempermann. Environmental enrichment preserves a young DNA methylation landscape in the aged mouse hippocampus. Nature Communications, 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23993-1
Razi Berry is the founder and publisher of the journal Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, which has been in print since 2005, and the premier consumer-faced website of naturopathic medicine, NaturalPath. She is the host of The Love is Medicine Project docuseries, The Natural Cancer Prevention Summit, The Heart Revolution-Heal, Empower and Follow Your Heart, and the popular 10-week Sugar Free Summer program. From a near death experience as a young girl that healed her failing heart, to later overcoming infertility and chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia through naturopathic medicine, Razi has lived the mind/body healing paradigm. Her projects uniquely capture the tradition and philosophy of naturopathy: The healing power of nature, the vital life force in every living thing and the undeniable role that science and mind/body medicine have in creating health and overcoming dis-ease. You can follow Razi on social media: Facebook at Razi Berry, Instagram at Razi.Berry and join the Love is Medicine group to explore the convergence of love and health. Look for more, and listen to more Love is Medicine podcast episodes here.
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Do you love the colour black but fear wearing anything in the colour? If yes, then you probably suffer with dandruff. Dandruff is essentially dry skin but since it is the skin from your head, the slightest itch can cause the dead skin to avalanche down to your shoulders and for everyone to see. The worst situation you can find yourself in is when you are at a party or even on a date and the person you are talking to cannot take their eyes off your shoulders. You know exactly what they are looking at but you cannot do a thing about it. Many shampoos claim to be anti-dandruff but don't really live up to the name. So if you really want a clean, dandruff free scalp, try these easy to find ingredients and you will be amazed at how effective they are. How to get rid of dandruff ? - Top 10 Natural Solution.
Indian Lilac Brew
Indian Lilac or better known as Neem is one of the best remedies for a long list of ailments. Whether it is a tooth ache or indigestion, neem can work wonders. So, it is no surprise that this plant works for dandruff as well. All you need to do is, pluck a handful of neem leaves and bring them to a boil in about 4 cups of water. Let the leaves boil for about 15 minutes and then leave out to cool. Strain the leaves out and use the water to rinse your hair thoroughly. If you wish to see good results, use this method three to four times a week.
Coconut Oil Mix
The coconut is often referred to as the king of fruits and it lives up to its name. The fruit is used for a number of reasons and one of the biggest reasons is for its oil. Coconut oil is used for cooking, moisturizing, cleaning and for many other things. The oil is applied to hair to help retain moisture which is extremely effective as coconut oil is rich is antifungal properties.
A good way to fight dandruff is to use some coconut oil and mix half the amount of lemon juice with it. Apply this mixture to the scalp and let it act for about 20 minutes. Then rinse well. Use shampoo if required. Practice this two to three times a week and your dandruff will be a thing of the past.
Apple Cider Vinegar
This is an ingredient that can be found in almost all modern kitchens and can be purchased from any super market. Apple cider vinegar is a remarkable cooking ingredient but it has been used for its pH restoring properties. This is exactly what it does to the scalp and stops any form of yeast growing on the head. It helps to clear any blocked pores and releases the dirt which allows the skin to breathe which in turn decreases the rate of the skin cells dying. To use apple cider vinegar to fight dandruff, use two tablespoons of it and mix it with equal amounts of water and fifteen drops of tea tree oil. Apply this to your scalp and let it work for ten minutes. Wash thoroughly and continue to use this mix at least two to three times a week for best results.
When we think of baking soda, we would usually associate it with cakes and bread. How about baking soda for hair care? Impossible? Think again. It is a brilliant exfoliator and it absorbs all the unwanted oils found on the scalp. It helps clean out the dead skin and restores the pH levels which stop any harmful fungal growth. All you need to do is run a handful of baking soda through slightly wet hair and massage the scalp a bit. Rinse it out with warm water after about 5 minutes but do not use shampoo. Repeat this once or twice a week and you will see immediate results.
As we all know, vinegar has a certain amount of acetic acid which makes it sour. White vinegar is the same and when used for the scalp, it prevents any fungi from growing on the head. You can use half a cup of vinegar and mix it in two cups of water and rinse your hair with it after shampooing. Rinse out the vinegar mix after 5 minutes with clean water. Another way to use white vinegar for dandruff problems is to mix two parts of vinegar with one part olive oil and three parts of water. Apply to the scalp and leave for ten minutes. Rinse and use mild shampoo to wash it out. Do this twice a week and your scalp will be itch free. You May Also Like: How to Get Rid of Unwanted Facial Hair? 10 Natural Ways To Beautify Your Face. Top 10 Healthy Hair SuperFoods. 10 Health Benefits of Fasting. Top 10 Tips For Healthy Brighten Teeth. 10 Simple Ways To Relieve Stress.
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|Date Posted||July 1, 2021|
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Background and Context
SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia is an International Non-governmental organization and a member of SOS Children’s Villages International Federation. We started our humanitarian work in Ethiopia with the opening of our first Village in Mekelle, Northern part of Ethiopia in 1974. Since then, we have expanded our programs to different regions where there are significant needs for intervention and where we believe we can work in partnership with all relevant actors to bring sustainable positive outcomes for children’s and young people.
Today, we have grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges that confront Ethiopian children who have lost parental care and those that are at risk of losing their parental care. Working in close collaboration with international donors, local government and community based organizations across seven program locations; we aspire that every child grows up with love, respect and security.
To contribute to realization of SOS Children’s Villages ambition of reaching many more target groups and bringing sustainable impact, SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia has designed successor’s development program for business critical leadership positions. The program helps to mitigate risk associated with leadership departure and cultivates existing talent by matching promising co-workers with future MA needs. This program is part of SOS Children’s Villages talent management program aimed to identify interested and potential candidates and asses them as per the existing competencies.
The main objective of this training is to enhance current leaders coaching and mentoring capacity so that they can empower and nurture future successors for key business critical leadership position.
- Equip current leaders with practical knowledge and skill required to coach and mentor successors
- Expose leaders to efficient and effective coaching and mentoring technics
- Build coaching skills that can have a lasting impact SOS CVE ecosystem of leadership.
Scope of work
The consultant will be engaged with preparation of the training materials specific to Coaching and Mentoring, conduct the training for 3 consecutive days in a workshop scenario and finally submit the training evaluation and report. The training is planned be conducted in the month of July 2021.
The consultant will provide the below at the end of the training session:
- Certification of completion for trainees
- Training module
- Training report
- A short guiding document on how to coach successors
- An evaluation of the training participant’s knowledge before and after the training
The training methodology is expected to focus on interactive adult learning method and should incorporate learning, case studies, games, group disussuin and other learning and training approachs.
- For companies - company profile that shows its size and staff composition and staff profile
- For individual consultants - consultancy license and updates CV that demonstrates relevant prior experience and qualifications
- Relevant sector-specific experience and qualifications in Talent Management and related areas.
- Experience in adult learning/training
- Able to provide proof of having deliver similar trainings.
- Fluency in English language.
- Valid Trading License
- Valid Tax Registration Certificate (indicating TIN and VAT Number)
- Full and accurate physical, postal, telephone and email addresses
- Experience working with an INGO
Interested and eligible applicants must submit the application with the subject “Staff Leadership Capacity Building Training" before 5:00 PM of July 02, 2021. Submit application via [email protected].
The application should include:
- Brief CV or ompany profile that shows its size and staff composition and staff profile along with a succinct rationale of how the consultant meet the requirements
- Budget , work plan and training manual with training topics content which will be later be reviewed.
- Indicative budget including professional fee, facilitation for training manual and others related to consultancy training in ETB
- Contact details for two referees for similar type of work.
Reserves the Right:
· SOS Children’s villages Ethiopia reserves all rights to accept or reject any or all bids.
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In the original French, Leïla Slimani’s novel The Perfect Nanny was titled Chanson Douce, which means a sweet song, a lullaby. The new title is more Hollywood, more Gillian Flynn. It is, after all, about a nanny who murders her charges. “The baby is dead,” runs the first sentence. Snappier beginnings are hard to come by.
The novel then steps back in time, tracing the relationship between children, parents, and nanny, from each angle. The mother is Myriam, a French woman who, the reader is meant to infer, has a North African background. She can speak Arabic, and a nanny agency rudely assumes she is a job candidate instead of a prospective employer, one of many ways in which Slimani plays with race and expectations. The father is Paul, a music producer with a lot of White Guy Confidence. Their daughter is Lila. Their son, the baby, is Adam.
They are hiring a nanny because Myriam decides she must return to work. They reject the candidate from the Philippines. They reject the undocumented, Ivorian candidate. They reject the Moroccan candidate; Myriam “fears that a tacit complicity and familiarity would grow” between them. “She has always been wary of what she calls immigrant solidarity.” They hire Louise.
Louise quickly becomes the backbone of the home. “With Louise, nothing accumulates any more: no dirty dishes, no dirty laundry.” She cooks fantastic meals, teaches the children to tidy up after themselves. “Nothing rots, nothing expires.” As Myriam becomes more fulfilled at work, happier and freer now that her home is beautiful and she is no longer tied to it by umbilical duty, Louise’s power—and her mental instability—grows.
As Douce Chanson, the book won France’s 2016 Prix Goncourt, the prestigious literary prize that has previously been given to Michel Houllebecq, Marcel Proust, and Simone de Beauvoir. In a Le Figaro live chat in 2016, the Goncourt chair Bernard Pivot praised the book in lofty terms, calling it “a novel on class struggle in a bourgeois apartment about possession of the children’s love.”
But as The Perfect Nanny, the novel is being pitched somewhere lower and more profitable. The book’s editor, John Siciliano at Penguin, told The New Yorker that his goal was “to reach a big commercial readership,” to get the book “into places like Walmart and Target.” Siciliano mentioned Flynn’s Gone Girl and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train as comparable titles.
And so the book’s identity is a muddled affair, poised between a big literary prize and a publicity campaign that’s yanking its brow down. And marketing aside, the novel is further confused by its internal contradictions. Pivot’s reference to class struggle makes the novel sound like an inheritor to the French realist tradition of Balzac, Zola, Flaubert. But the setting of Slimani’s novel within the home introduces a whole other kettle of literary fish, concerning the private experiences of women and motherhood.
The home, it seems, is becoming a new site of inquiry for writers interested in both cheap thrills and sophisticated analyses of family politics—in addition to Gone Girl, The Perfect Nanny recalls other recent domestic thrillers like Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It or J.P. Delaney’s The Girl Before. Slimani’s focus on race and class certainly elevates the book’s crime-drama stakes into something more complicated, but it’s unclear how these issues relate to bourgeois domesticity and the dangerous power games it cultivates.
Louise is a white nanny, a rare thing in the Paris circles of the novel. She does an immigrant’s job, while Myriam, the immigrant, practices law—traditionally a white man’s job. The inversion allows Slimani to place her characters in situations that provoke race-based conflict. In a flashback, Louise’s ex-husband says, “I’m not like you.… I’m not a doormat, a slave content to clean up the shit and puke of little brats. Only black women do work like that now.” Meanwhile Myriam buys liberty from her home by paying Louise, in a complicated economy of freedom and servitude that resonates with the city around them and the history of French domesticity.
Slimani writes some very good scenes about the women nannies of Paris. She describes the other people in the park, the homeless and useless. Crack-smoking teenagers, children in the sandpit. Along with those who have long stretches of leisure time, the park holds society’s surplus people and its workers. A young nanny called Wafa “sometimes feels afraid that she will grow old in one of these parks. That she’ll feel her knees crack on these old frozen benches, that she won’t be strong enough to lift up a child any more.”
But these scenes, however brilliantly realized, have little to do with the plot propelling the novel, a psychodrama about shifts in power, shifts in mental health, and a fixation upon children. All of this, crucially, takes place inside the house. It’s difficult to see how the inside and the outside of the apartment connect, except to underscore how odd it is that Louise’s employers can’t see how ill she is.
The murdering-nanny plot feels totally disjointed from the rest of the novel, not least because we never really get a sense of Louise’s motives. And no wonder, since it was lifted wholesale from the headlines. Louise is named after the British nanny Louise Woodward, whose conviction for involuntary manslaughter of a baby in her care provoked the “shaken baby syndrome” controversy in the late 1990s. And in 2012, a nanny named Yoselyn Ortega killed the two children of Marina and Kevin Krim in New York City. The crime was splashed across papers everywhere, and the intimate details of the aftermath were tabloid catnip. These included Marina’s terrible scream upon finding her slain children, how it sounded to the neighbors.
Almost every detail of the Ortega crime is reproduced in The Perfect Nanny, from the number of children, to the nanny’s suicide attempt at the scene, to the bathtub where the bodies were found. Novelists draw inspiration from current events all the time, but this crime was so recent, and the parents must still be in such pain, that Slimani’s decision feels almost unseemly. It doesn’t help that the social themes outside the apartment are much better realized that those inside it, which makes one suspect that Slimani is trying to hang prestige material on what is essentially a grubby voyeuristic exercise. Like Gone Girl, the novel deserves praise for pulling off a tricky plot with nuance. But in the future, Slimani might want to come up with her own stories.
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Flinders University staff and exchange students will take 1000 origami cranes to Hiroshima this week when it participates in the Peace Memorial Ceremony to remember the dropping of the atom bomb on the Japanese city during World War 2.
Every year on August 6 the City of Hiroshima holds the Peace Memorial Ceremony to console the souls of those who were lost due to the atomic bombing and to pray for the realisation of everlasting world peace.
This year Flinders University is proud to have two staff members and two students who will represent the University at the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima.
The ceremony is held in front of the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims (Monument for Hiroshima, City of Peace). The Peace Declaration, which is delivered by the Mayor of Hiroshima during the ceremony, is sent to every country in the world thus conveying Hiroshima’s wish for the abolition of nuclear weapons and the realisation of eternal world peace.
At exactly 8.15 am, the time the atomic bomb was dropped, the Peace Bell is rung, sirens sound all over the city and for one minute people at the ceremony grounds, in households and in workplaces pay silent tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing and pray for the realisation of everlasting world peace.
Flinders will be represented by Dr Andrew O’Neil, senior lecturer in the School of Political and International Studies, and Dr Vandra Harris, a research fellow in the School of Law, and two Flinders students, Erin Goddard (International Studies) and Joe Rafalowicz (Law and Development Studies).
Dr O’Neil, who also attended the ceremony last year, said the event attracted students and peace groups from all round the world.
“While the ceremony itself is very formal, there are also opportunities to wander around Peace Park and visit the museums, which is a very moving experience,” he said.
“The symbolism of the event is very powerful.”
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As a Bahrain court upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition activists, the United States of America today expressed deep concern over the decision.
Reports say opposition activists were convicted of plotting to oust the government. Eight of the prominent activists are facing life in prison.
In his remarks today in Washington DC, Acting Deputy Spokesperon Patrick Ventrell urged the Government of Bahrain to abide by its commitment to respect detainees’ right to due process and to transparent judicial proceedings, including fair trials and access to attorneys.
He stressed that it is important that verdicts are based on credible evidence and that judicial proceedings are conducted in full accordance with Bahraini law and Bahrain’s international legal obligations.
“We call on the Government of Bahrain to investigate all reports of torture, including those made by the defendants, as it has pledged to do, and to hold accountable those found responsible.” – Mr. Ventrell
The United States continues to call on all parties, including the government, to contribute constructively to reconciliation, meaningful dialogue and reform that brings about change that is responsive to the aspirations of all Bahrainis.
Mr. Ventrell underlined that Bahrain needs dialogue and negotiation to build a strong national consensus about its political future, strengthen its economic standing, and make it a more prosperous country and a more stable ally of the United States.
Last month, prominent Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three-years in prison for spearheading and participating in several anti-government rallies.
Reports say Rajab is already serving a three-month sentence for posting anti-government comments on Twitter. He was in court to receive the verdict.
Mr. Rajab is the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
The United States is deeply concerned that a Bahraini court sentenced Nabeel Rajab to three years in prison on charges of leading “illegal gatherings.”
The Unites States has urged the government of Bahrain to consider all available options to resolve this case.
US government believes that all people have a fundamental right to participate in peaceful acts of protest.
The US government repeatedly urged the government of Bahrain to take steps to build confidence across Bahraini society, and to begin a meaningful dialogue with the political opposition and civil society, she stressed.
Nabeel Rajab is the leading human rights activist from Bahrain and the founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights. Mr. Rajab was arrested in May this year by the Bahraini government forces.
In February 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that the United States supports Bahrain’s move to greater reform. Secretary Clinton also emphasized that the Americans wanted to see that the human rights of the people, including right to assemble, right to express themselves be respected in Bahrain.
One year after the Pearl Uprising in Bahrain in February last year, unrest continues amid the ongoing government crackdown against protests. A report said there has been systemic and widespread use of violence in the crackdowns as well as torture of political prisoners.
Despite pledges to reform, the government of Bahrain has made little progress, and continues to deny access to the country to the international media and human rights organizations, including Freedom House.
Bahrain is ranked Not Free in Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2012 and Freedom of the Press 2012 surveys.
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Many of the things are being required at the time of making a building. Each of the things has its significance. While making any building, a home or office, or any other things. There is always a requirement of having plumbing work in it. In plumbing, the most important thing which needs to look for is a valve. It let the water flow to get a start or stop. It also helps in the unnecessary flow of water and prevents the water from getting leaked. Many different companies make the valve, but it should be purchased from the one who has credibility as well as their valves are durable.
What Is The Difference Between a Ball Valve and a Gate Valve?
The two valves which are most commonly used are the Gate valve, and another is Ball Valve. They both do great work in controlling the flow of water, but still, there are some differences among them for which a user can choose as per their requirement-
- The difference in Structures – They have a difference based on their structures. Gate valves are opened by lifting a rectangular or round shape gate from the fluid so that they can bring the water out. While in the ball valve, it is having a structure of ball and stem that turns in a horizontal manner. This is the reason that a ball valve is also known by the name of a rotational valve.
- Sealing for leakage of the water – Ball valve has the capability that it seals in much better as it has the characteristic that it could be shut 100 percent. There is no scope that the water will come out. If an operator requires to make the things off and on very frequently, then it will seal the water well and also easy to operate. It only requires to turn the handle off valve. But in a gate valve, the seal is not that full, so there could be chances that leakage will happen.
- Durability – In the ball valve, there are fewer chances of being failed, so it is considered to be more durable for the application, which has shutoff features. Even after several uses, there are lesser chances that it will leak. This is the reason why it is considered to be more reliable than any other. But in a gate valve, there are chances that the leakage could happen after several uses.
- Space – The space required in a ball valve is much more as compared to the gate valve. So where there is a restriction of space, it won’t be very easy to operate. It requires ample space to operate with a full turn of 90 degrees. But in a gate valve, not much space is required to operate.
Despite the same type of work, there are many differences between the gate valve and ball valve. A ball valve is much costlier than the gate valve. So, which to purchase depends on the requirement as well as the cost which one wants to put in it. Camtech Manufacturing FZCO is a high-quality valve manufacturing company based in Dubai, UAE. Dhananjay Choudhary is the Managing Director of Camtech Valves Dubai. If the best quality valve is taken, then it will be easier to prevent leakage and provides longevity.
Which One Is Better To Use For Corpus Christi Homes, Ball Valve Or Gate Valve?
The five common valves used in oil and gas industries
- Ball Valves
This type of valves gets its name from the ball-shaped disk that is created to control the flow of gases, vapors, and liquids.
- Gate Valves
The valves are bidirectional. It is created to start and stop the flow of fluids.
- Pressure Seal Valves
The pressure seal valves are created for high-pressure services.
- Check Values
These types of valves are made to protect the mechanical equipment in the piping system. This will avoid the reverse flowing of the fluid.
- Globe Valves
These types of valves are utilized for the transportation of fuel oil and the turbine oil systems. It is also used for cooling water systems.
These are the five types of valves that the oil and gas engineers have to know certainly.
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- By Dana Sparks
Sharing Mayo Clinic: Back to farm fields and family after speedy stroke treatment
March 22 was not a typical morning for Bruce Schmoll. He usually sleeps in on those days leading up to planting season, and his wife leaves early for work. But on that Thursday morning, Bruce was the one who woke up early to go on a fishing trip. While his wife was getting ready to head to the office, he went to the bathroom to shave.
"I remember the razor falling out of my hand. And when I tried to pick it up, I couldn't. So I thought I might be having a stroke," the 64-year-old Southeast Minnesota resident says. "My wife came to check on me, and she could tell the left side of my face was drooping. She called 911 immediately."
Bruce was having an ischemic stroke. These strokes happen when arteries to the brain become narrowed or blocked, significantly reducing blood flow.
If left untreated, the stroke could have been disabling or even fatal. But thanks to the care he received from the moment he arrived at the Emergency Department at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester until he was released three days later, Bruce didn't suffer any deficits from the stoke. Before long, it was back to his normal life as a farmer. Read the rest of the story.
This article originally appeared on the Sharing Mayo Clinic blog.
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SAN JOSE, Calif—September 10, 2018–Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are opening up new ways for enterprises to solve complex problems. But they will also have a profound effect on the underlying infrastructure and processes of IT. According to Gartner, "only 4% of CIOs worldwide report that they have AI projects in production." * That number will grow dramatically over the next few years. And when it does, IT will struggle to manage new workloads, new traffic patterns, and new relationships within their business. To help enterprises address these emerging challenges, Cisco is unveiling its first server built from the ground up for AI and ML workloads.
The new Cisco UCS server speeds up deep learning, a compute-intensive form of machine learning that uses neural networks and large data sets to train computers for complex tasks. Packed with powerful NVIDIA GPUs, it is designed to accelerate many of today's best-known machine learning software stacks. Data scientists and developers can experiment with machine learning on a laptop. But deep learning at scale demands much more compute capability. It requires an IT architecture that is capable of taking in vast sets of data. And tools that can make sense of this data and use it to learn. That is why Cisco is working with its technology partners to validate many of today's most popular machine learning tools: to help simplify deployments and accelerate time to insight.
"Over the next few years, apps powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning will become mainstream in the enterprise. While this will solve many complex business issues, it will also create new challenges for IT," said Roland Acra, SVP and GM for Cisco's Data Center Business Group. "Today's powerful addition to the Cisco UCS lineup will power AI initiatives across a wide range of industries. Our early-access customers in the financial sector are exploring ways to improve fraud detection and enhance algorithmic trading. Meanwhile in healthcare, they're interested in better insights and diagnostics, improving medical image classification, and speeding drug discovery and research.
Powering Artificial Intelligence at Scale
With the addition of the Cisco UCS C480 ML, Cisco now offers a complete range of computing options designed for each stage of the AI and ML lifecycle. From data collection and analysis near the edge, to data preparation and training in the data center, to the real-time inference at the heart of AI, customers are covered.
- Built for data scientists and developers: Today, thousands of customers use Cisco UCS to help them make sense of big data. Cisco's new server for AI and ML builds on its expertise of moving data from the edge to the core and goes further. It lets customers extract more intelligence from their data and use it to make better, faster decisions. With its new DevNet AI Developer Center and DevNet Ecosystem Exchange, Cisco is also giving data scientists and developers the tools and resources to create a new generation of apps.
- Built for IT: UCS makes it easy for IT to add new technology to their environment. With Cisco Intersight, they also get the simplicity and reach of cloud-based systems management. This lets them automate policy and operations for all their computing infrastructure from the cloud. And with Cisco validated designs to help demystify the rapidly evolving stacks of AI and ML software, IT can deploy with confidence at enterprise scale.
- Built with an ecosystem: Cisco is not working alone. It is embracing containers and multicloud computing models to make it easier to deploy open source software at scale, no matter where apps live. It is validating machine learning environments and software such as Anaconda, Kubeflow, and solutions from Cloudera and Hortonworks on the new server. UCS customers who use Kubeflow running on top of Kubernetes will find it easy to deploy AI workloads directly to Google Kubernetes Engine, taking advantage of both on-prem and cloud ML capabilities.
· "We believe the power of machine learning should be available for all organizations, whether in the cloud or on-premises, and we're excited to continue our collaborative efforts with Cisco," said David Aronchick, Product Manager at Google Cloud. "We're pleased to see Cisco creating hybrid cloud solutions for machine learning, and also contributing code to the Google-led open source project, Kubeflow. Organizations running Kubeflow on the new UCS C480 deep learning server will benefit from consistent machine learning tools that work great both on-premises and on Google Cloud."
· "The incorporation of NVIDIA's Tesla V100 Tensor Core GPUs into Cisco's new UCS server gives businesses in every industry a powerful new solution for advancing their AI initiatives," said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "With NVIDIA GPUs, AI models that had required weeks of computing resources, can now be trained in a few hours, enabling a whole new world of problems to be solved with AI."
· "Our artificial intelligence and computer systems researchers are currently working on advanced GPU computing workload optimization solutions that aim to increase efficiency in deep learning and machine learning," said Aditya Akella, Professor, University of Wisconsin--Madison. "We look forward to testing the new Cisco UCS deep learning computing system. Our researchers are focused on evaluating the platform for research to improve the efficiency of training models in multi-tenant and shared usage scenarios. "
The Cisco UCS C480 ML M5 Rack Server builds on Cisco's portfolio of UCS B-Series, C-Series, and HyperFlex systems. It will be available to buy from Cisco partners in Q4 2018, along with a range of AI and ML support capabilities from Cisco Services that span analytics, deep-learning and automation.
· Read Anaconda blog: Accelerate Your AI/ML Productivity with Anaconda Enterprise and Cisco UCS
· Read white paper: Transforming Businesses With Artificial Intelligence
*Source, Gartner, Inc., Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2018, Svetlana Sinclair and Kenneth Brant, July 24, 2018
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“To the Arctic,” narrated by Meryl Streep, and starring a faithful mother and her two cubs will take you on a journey through the North Pole.
“To the Arctic,” narrated by Meryl Streep, and starring a faithful mother and her two cubs will take you on a journey through the North Pole. You will be shocked at the majestic beauty of the North such as ice- capped mountains and the intense arrays of the Northern lights. “To the Arctic,” an IMAX film showing at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will take you through months of filming these “camera shy” bears. Polar bears.
The mom faces many dangers through the Arctic: starvation, intense heat, and even death. As the earth is releasing greenhouse gases more than ever before into the earth’s atmosphere, it will not only affect us, but all Arctic wildlife. With the melting of ice caps, it has been harder and harder for polar bears to hunt Arctic seals. They have to swim farther just to find a couple seals. In no time, polar bears will have nowhere to live but dry land. No ice. No home. You may be thinking, “Why would anyone/ anything want to live in the Arctic? It’s SO freezing.” But to polar bears, it’s paradise. These beautifully white creatures can’t help the increase of melting, and they can’t live anywhere else. As the mother and her two cubs travel through the Arctic, not only do they have trouble finding prey, they are prey. Male polar bears are desperate to find food, and may even consider eating polar bear cubs; they’re an easy target. But momma bear won’t let that happen. She sends off a message to the male bear saying, “You can have my cubs, but you’ll have to kill me first.” Not only does this documentary show you the change in polar bears’ lives, it shows other Arctic species such as birds, walruses, and caribou. All of these animals are affected by the melting of the glaciers. For example, since the shrinking of the ice, walruses are forced to move to dry land. It’s awful to think that in 2050, there will be no ice in the North Pole and we didn’t do anything about it. At least that’s how I felt after watching this incredible short film, “To the Arctic.”
The film starts off with a dramatic entrance; the 3D “ice- thrown- at your- face-effect” made everyone duck at least once. I loved the change of animals and the heart- breaking but true facts about the miserable effects of global warming. Parts of the documentary had me welling up and I felt truly inspired to make a change. To use energy efficiently. To recycle. To donate to the wildlife foundation and at least try to save these slowly- decreasing species. With a G-rating, “To the Arctic” can be seen by any aged audience and by any gender. As Meryl Streep says, “Maybe we can’t stop global warming, but we humans can at least try to slow it down.”
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The Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge is a framework that outlines steps to be taken by the health care industry to improve the health of patients, communities, and the environment.
Hundreds of hospitals across the United States have signed the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge demonstrating leadership and sending an important signal to the marketplace about their interest in local, nutritious, sustainable food.
To commit your hospital to the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge, fill out and submit the online form at the bottom of this page.
As a responsible provider of health care services, we are committed to the health of our patients, our staff and the local and global community. We are aware that food production and distribution methods can have adverse impacts on public environmental health. As a result, we recognize that for the consumers who eat it, the workers who produce it and the ecosystems that sustain us, healthy food must be defined not only by nutritional quality, but equally by a food system that is economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and supportive of human dignity and justice. We are committed to the goal of providing local, nutritious and sustainable food. This Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge is a framework that outlines steps to be taken by the health care industry to improve the health of patients, communities and the environment.
Specifically, we are committed to the following healthy food in health care measures for our institution.
We pledge to:
- Work with local farmers, community-based organizations and food suppliers to increase the availability of locally-sourced food.
- Encourage our vendors and/or food-management companies to supply us with food that is, among other attributes, produced without synthetic pesticides and hormones or antibiotics given to animals in the absence of diagnosed disease and which supports farmer health and welfare, and ecologically protective and restorative agriculture.
- Increase our offering of fruit and vegetables, nutritionally-dense and minimally processed, unrefined foods and reduce unhealthy (trans and saturated) fats and sweetened foods.
- Implement a stepwise program to identify and adopt sustainable food procurement. Begin where fewer barriers exist and immediate steps can be taken. For example, the adoption of rBGH free milk, fair trade coffee, or the introduction of organic fresh produce in the cafeteria.
- Communicate to our Group Purchasing Organizations our interest in foods that are identified as local and/or third-party certified.
- Educate and communicate within our system and to our patients and community about our nutritious, socially just and ecological sustainable food healthy food practices and procedures.
- Minimize or beneficially reuse food waste and support the use of food packaging and products which are ecologically protective.
- Develop a program to promote and source from producers and processors which uphold the dignity of family, farmers, workers and their communities and support sustainable and humane agriculture systems.
- Report annually on the implementation of this pledge.
Your facility or system will be listed on our website with other pledge signers.
Sign the pledge
If you have questions or need support, please contact [email protected].
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Arm or Leg Pain
ARM OR LEG PAIN
If you’ve ever found yourself having constant or even occasional pain in your arm or leg, you probably had trouble completing your daily tasks. Unfortunately, this can cause even simple activities like walking, exercise, or riding a bike to hurt your body and create discomfort. Understand your arm and leg pain by learning more about the causes, symptoms, and treatments for this kind of pain.
SYMPTOMS OF RADICULOPATHY
If you notice any level of arm or leg discomfort with day-to-day activities you could be experiencing radiculopathy. Some symptoms of radiculopathy may include pain, numbness, and even weakness. Sensations may include throbbing discomfort, shooting pain, cramps in the muscles, aching, or a tingling sensation.
CAUSES OF ARM OR LEG PAIN
The most common source for arm and leg pain is nerve inflammation in your spine. Arm and leg pain is typically associated with an irritated or pinched nerve from a disc protrusion or disc herniation in the neck or back. Degenerative discs in your spine can result in stenosis or narrowing which compresses the spinal nerves. Nerve compression frequently results in inflammation and subsequent severe pain, numbness, or even weakness.
TREATMENT OF ARM OR LEG PAIN
Dr. Alexander may do an MRI, CT, or EMG in order to determine the cause of your arm or leg pain. Once the source has been identified, non-surgical treatments may be recommended including but not limited to trigger point injections, physical therapy, epidurals, selective nerve blocks, laser therapy, core sculpting, scrambler therapy, medications, or spinal cord stimulator. Our goal is to help you avoid surgery.
NON-SURGICAL SPINE CENTER
Non-Surgical Spine Center can help relieve or even eliminate pain in the arms or legs. Located in Charleston, SC, our facility offers innovative treatment options to help our patients improve the quality of their lives. Contact us today and allow us to play an integral part in your pain relief.
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BrewDog has made a name for itself throughout the brand’s history by pushing the boundaries of beer as far as it could go — and alcohol as high as it can reach. While the brewery is also known for creating some very good beers, stunts create press, and press creates awareness, which is why for at least a decade, BrewDog has been creating one high-gravity beer after another.
It all started in 2009, when BrewDog swiped the title of “World’s Strongest Beer” from German brewery Schorschbrau, by releasing Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32 percent ABV beer that was just one percent higher in ABV than Schorschbrau’s Schorschbock. Schorschbrau responded by releasing a beer higher than 32 percent ABV, and then the two breweries went back and forth for years, each one making a beer that was just a bit stronger than the other.
But in early September 2020, the breweries seemed to have reached a truce. Rather than one besting the other, the two collaborated on a single beer, Strength in Numbers, which clocks in at a whopping 57.8 percent alcohol. The collaboration features a blend of BrewDog’s Death or Glory, “an ice distilled Belgian golden ale that’s been sitting in whisky casks for 10 years,” according to the brewery.
The beer achieves this mammoth 57.8 ABV by utilizing the eisbock method. The beer is frozen and the chunks of ice (water) are removed, leaving a highly concentrated, highly alcoholic liquid. But if you’re looking to try it, don’t count on it. The beer sold out almost immediately after it was released, and at least as of now, there aren’t plans to make any more. But given BrewDog’s penchant for press stunts, I can’t imagine this is the last high-ABV beer they’ll ever make.
Published: October 12, 2020
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As an artist, my main interests are in representing social justice, responding to human suffering, and raising awareness about women and children and their struggle in war-torn countries in the Middle-East. My artwork allows me to speak for those who no longer have a voice; children and families who died in the name of Freedom and Liberty during the ugliness of the Iraq War. The world is full of discrimination and pain, especially for children who have had no chance to live their childhood, raise families of their own or share their knowledge and wisdom.
Throughout these conflicts, ISIS has destroyed the artifacts of my cultural history causing deep pain. I strive to bring the imagery and language from this threatened antiquity into the 21st century. My focus on human society and culture involves ancient and modern artwork and language from before, during, and after the Iraq War. Reading inspires my conceptual approach to media such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. Within these media, I develop specific tones by using different materials, techniques, and textures to reflect a conceptual foundation. The movement and expression involved in my process of art making can be directly communicated to the viewer without spoken language.
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What role do calibrations play in helping you achieve measurement confidence and avoid the detrimental impact of inaccuracies? We put some FAQs to Mike Glew, Quality Manager at Northern Balance for his perspective on how data obtained from calibration tests help to identify risks and safeguard your critical weighing processes.
We hear a lot about measurement confidence. Can you tell us about it and why it’s important?
I’d describe measurement confidence as the level of assurance you have in your equipment to produce accurate and reliable weighing results. The level of accuracy and reliability required will vary from business to business and even process to process. However, accuracy should always align with the tolerances set out in product/ service specifications, satisfy laid down industry standards and fulfil the requirements in your own Quality Management System (QMS). This will mitigate against non-compliance and alleviate the impact on the quality of your products and services.
So, how do calibrations provide measurement confidence?
During a traceable or UKAS calibration, engineers will run your equipment through a range of tests to determine its accuracy and traceability to national standards held at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Each test provides a set of meaningful data to help you understand the accuracy and reliability of your weighing equipment.
Which tests are performed and what data should we expect to see?
Calibration laboratories such as Northern Balance will conduct several tests to determine the accuracy and reliability of your equipment before recording results in your calibration certificate.
1. Linearity test:
Linearity gauges your equipment’s accuracy against weights of a known value by placing a series of weights between zero and the equipment’s maximum capacity on the centre of the load receptor.
2. Repeatability test:
Repeatability determines the consistency of weighing results when the same load is applied in succession under constant test conditions. At Northern Balance, the number of times the load is applied depends on whether a traceable or UKAS calibration option is chosen, but will not be less than three times.
3. Eccentricity test:
To determine any off-centre errors, eccentricity tests the accuracy of weighing results when a constant test load is applied to different positions of the load receptor.
Do UKAS calibrations provide a higher level of measurement confidence?
In short, yes. Although the same tests may be performed and applied test loads are traceable to NPL, linearity and repeatability tests for UKAS calibrations are performed using a wider range of test points in comparison to traceable calibrations. Put simply, UKAS calibrations provide more data to help to identify deviations.
Additionally, an Uncertainty of Measurement (UoM) is calculated and presented on a UKAS calibration certificate. This denotes the potential deviation from the equipment’s displayed result and should be considered when assessing the compliance of your products and services. The smaller the uncertainty, the greater level of accuracy in the displayed result.
To mitigate any impact on quality and compliance, it’s important to make the right choice when selecting a calibration type. UKAS calibrations provide more comprehensive results and are suited to organisations that operate in highly regulated markets where measurement confidence is critical. If the measurement process is not critical, a traceable calibration may be adequate.
It’s also important to note that UKAS calibrations are only performed by calibration laboratories (including Northern Balance) who have achieved UKAS accreditation against ISO 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.
How should test results be applied to ensure accuracy and reliability?
By comparing the reported test results against the tolerances set out in your QMS, you can determine the suitability of your weighing equipment for the task in hand and mitigate compromises to quality and compliance.
It’s always a good idea to compare calibration results over time to monitor trends in performance and ensure that results don’t fall out of tolerance. Any continual shifts in test results could indicate the need for shorter calibration cycles i.e. annually to bi-annually or even call for servicing and repairs.
Do you have any final advice for ensuring measurement confidence?
For absolute measurement confidence, it’s important to calibrate at the right frequencies. So, we’ve created a starter guide to highlight the main considerations. Additionally, you may wish to consider a preventative maintenance plan with inclusive calibrations and 24/7 online certificate access for a programme of bespoke support and actionable insights all year round.
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The sum of all is that God the Lord of all, out of fervent love for his creation, handed over his own Son to death on the cross. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son for its sake.’ This was not because he could not have saved us in another way, but so that he might thereby the better indicate to us his surpassing love, so that, by the death of his only-begotten Son, he might bring us close to himself. Yes if he had anything more precious he would have given it to us so that our race might thereby be recovered. Because of his great love, he did not want to use compulsion on our freedom, although he would have been able to do so; but instead he chose that we should drawn near to him freely, by our own mind’s love.
St Isaac of Nineveh
Today the church celebrates Sexagesima, in recognition that we are about 60 days from Easter, it’s part of a countdown to Lent, a pre-Lent, which gets us in the mood for a season of fasting and penitence. I suspect that it has over the years raised a smile or a smirk from the first three letters of its name, derived for the Latin word for sixty rather than anything else. Though if you were someone who forms their opinion of the Church through the media you would be forgiven for thinking that it was the only thing that Christians think, talk or argue about. It has become a defining characteristic of how we are viewed by the world around us, and Christians can quite easily begin to believe that it is our sole ethical concern these days.
You may be glad to hear that I have no intention of launching into a diatribe against sexual immorality this evening, as it would be neither useful nor edifying. Instead, as we prepare to celebrate the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple this week It is a feast which sees both Simeon and Anna recognising who and what Christ is, and what he has done and will do, it looks back to Christmas and the wonder of the Incarnation, to the fact that God became human so that humanity might become divine, and looks forward to how this is achieved, once and for all by Christ’s sacrifice of himself upon the Cross. They recognise it and they proclaim it, to anyone who will listen, which reminds us that as Christians we to are to rejoice in these facts and to proclaim them to a world hungry for meaning, which longs for the transcendent, and for an alternative to the gratification of self, and material capitalist culture.
We need to proclaim by word and deed the saving love of God in Christ, through lives lived in ever closer union with him, or to quote the prophet Micah from this evening’s first lesson: ‘and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?’ (Micah 6:8) To walk humbly is to know one’s need of God, of his forgiveness, his love, his mercy, and his grace, to ask him to heal our wounds, and forgive our sins. Humility is being close to the ground, from which we were created, not to see ourselves as other than we are, it is to know that we are wretched miserable sinners, whom God loves so much that he was born among us, and he lived and died and rose again for us, not because we are worthy, but so that through Him we might become so, through the transforming power of God’s love.
January is amongst other things a time for self-improvement, people diet and take up exercise, so when I hear the phrase ‘your body is a temple’ I begin to shudder, perhaps because I’m overweight and unfit, and such phrases sound like the self-righteous and judgemental attitudes of fitness-obsessed, vegetarian teetotallers. Yet when Paul is talking to the church in Corinth he is not concerned with such matters, but rather that Christians, who make up the church, are people who have been baptised, so we have received the Holy Spirit, the indelible character of the sacrament of baptism. We are imbued with the virtues of faith, hope, and love, which we live out in the life of faith. We were bought at a price, namely the shedding of Christ’s blood on the Cross, and as the hymn puts it there is power, power, wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb. It washes our souls clean, so that we can glorify God in our bodies by living lives of Christian virtue.
We will fail in our attempts to do this, but that’s where God’s love and forgiveness come in: it allows us to keep trying. We are never written off, providing that we do not despair of God’s amazing capacity to love, heal, and restore us. The world around us is not so kind, it is judgemental, it pays lip service to freedom, as the freedom to do whatever we please, reducing freedom to a physical rather than a moral power, whereas Christians are called to live in a servitude which is perfect freedom, God loves us and wills us to love him freely, and to live lives which glorify him, so that we can say with the Apostle Paul ‘it is no longer I who live, but Christ living in me’ (Gal 2:20) We do this by walking humbly, by knowing our need of God, and relying upon him, and in his strength, a people forgiven and forgiving, who can truly offer this world an alternative to the ways of selfishness and sin, which we proclaim by lives lived in and through Christ, nourished by his word and sacraments, close to him in prayer, so let us do this together so that the world may believe and give glory to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, to whom be ascribed as is most right and just, all might, majesty, glory, dominion and power, now and to the ages of ages.
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Pope John Paul II (the first non – Italian Pope in more than 450 years), was born in Poland in 1920 and during his 60th Birthday year, the Pope undertook his first visit to Germany in honor of the 700th death Anniversary (November 1280 in Koln) of St. Albert the Great (Patron Saint of the Scientists).
Here is a (3.7 ounces or 104 gram) base metal medallion (measuring 2 & 3/8th inches or 6 centimeters across) issued for the Papal visit. On one side – a portrait of the Pope and the othe shows the 18th Century Cathedral at Fulda (site of his visit 17 – 18 November, 1980). The year date is also significant in that it was in large part due to St. Sturm (died 780) that the Monastery at Fulda flourished.
MEASURES APPROX. 60 MM x 5 MM THICK
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Ovarian cancer (EOC) remains the most lethal gynecologic malignancy, of which high grade serous EOC (HGSOC) represents 70% of cases. Current standard of care treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy results in complete remissions in >70% of EOC patients, however relapse occurs in >90% of those responders. Those with platinum-resistant EOC (PROC) have limited therapeutic options, typically single agent chemotherapies with or without bevacizumab. Overall, there are few effective treatment options, and novel strategies are critically needed.
Half of HGSOC cases possess genetic and epigenetic alterations that affect the homologous recombination DNA repair pathway (HRR), of which 20% are comprised of inherited BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, and the remaining 30% include alternative homologous recombination-related alterations such as somatic BRCA1/2 mutations, and ATM and ATR mutations. Ordinarily, ATR senses DNA damage, stabilizes the site of DNA replication, and, through interaction with the CHK1 protein, induces cell cycle arrest. Likewise, ATM separately senses DNA damage to induce cell cycle arrest via the CHK2 protein. Overall, these molecular alterations lead to genomically unstable HGSOC cells, which render them reliant on DNA repair pathways, such as that mediated by ATR, for continued survival. Should DNA repair be inhibited, the progressive accumulation of DNA lesions induces replicative catastrophe and cell death. The genomic instability and types of genetic alterations seen in HGSOC make it a prime setting to evaluate targeted therapies that take advantage of these alterations.
M6620, also known as VX-970, is a highly selective ATR inhibitor. The effect of ATR inhibition by M6620 is particularly pronounced when combined with gemcitabine (an antimetabolite chemotherapy), showing greater antitumor activity as a combination compared to either agent alone. In vitro, ATR inhibition is also shown to increase cancer cell death when given in situations of increased replication stress, such as when ATM signaling is impaired or when particular cell cycle-associated proteins, such as Cyclin E1, are upregulated.
We therefore conducted a randomized phase II trial of gemcitabine+M6620 vs. gemcitabine alone in recurrent platinum resistant HGSOC, for which accrual has completed. Sixty-four evaluable patients’ archival tumor specimens are available for correlative studies. We hypothesize that tumors with high replicative stress are more susceptible to treatment with combination gemcitabine+M6620 compared to gemcitabine alone. Specifically, we predict that baseline alterations in HRR or alternative repair-related genes, mutations in TP53 and ATM, and mutations or amplifications in other proteins (e.g. MYC, CCNE1) involved in cell cycle or detection of DNA damage, correlate with clinical outcomes.
This grant was made possible by a generous donation from the Lemonade Fund.
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I’m sure I’ve read Henry Marsh’s book before. Almost a quarter of our blood supply is dedicated to providing energy for the brain. When things go wrong, brain surgery is the last resort. What makes Marsh different is not that he’s a brain surgeon, but that he’s also a great writer.
Marsh tells us he’s grown more conservative over the years. Not conservative in terms of treating health care as something that should be floated on the market with trust competing with each other for business. He gives that nonsense short shrift. But conservative in terms of intervention.
‘First, do no harm…’Commonly attributed to Hippokrates at Kos, C.460 BC. ‘
The Hippocratic oath is conservative. And for good reason. He quotes Rene Leriche, La philosophie de la chirugie, 1951.
‘Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’
This brings to mind a story about ‘Bomber Brown’ being stopped by a traffic cop and warned about his erratic driving by a policeman. A surgeon does not like Bomber Brown admit to killing hundreds every night, but his or her mistakes last a lifetime and it’s not their lifetime.
What is striking about Marsh is his humility. He doesn’t work for a Trust. He works for every single patient he sees. But a part of his job is letting go and training the next generation of surgeons. Something, he admits he’s not particularly good at. Their mistakes are his mistakes, but written on the patient’s body. He tells stories of medical cover-ups. And his own mistakes. One of them was to do with infection control and streptococcal virus. But another is hand’s on, but the hands aren’t his. And I felt sorry, not for the patient, or the trainee surgeon, but for Marsh, which seems contradictory.
‘Neurotemesis n. the complete severance of a peripheral nerve. Complete recovery of function is impossible.’
The case seemed quite straightforward to Marsh. A slipped disc ‘a herniated intervertebral disc causing S1nerve-root compression’.
The patient was fit, a computer programmer that competed in mountain bike championships before his prolapse.
Marsh complained that we had a tendency to go over the top, with the American model listing all of the possible complications and terrorising the patients before getting their informed consent. Later, he even questions whether such a thing as informed consent is possible. We sign the form (as I’ve done) and we take our chances.
Marsh had a good relationship with his registrar. I imagine he’d a good relationship with most of his colleagues. He recognised he was fortunate in being born middle-class at a time when it was possible to do a degree in political science and economics (PPE at Cambridge) and retrain to be a doctor. Eventually, choosing to become a brain surgeon when there were fewer than 200 brain surgeons in England. Like the idea of informed consent. It wasn’t possible to know what that meant until he was mature enough to have made mistakes. Mistakes that other people, his patients paid for. Recognition that he and his colleagues were the instruments of last resort. Even then, like the cemetery, in Stephen King, Pet Cemetery some bodies should not be brought back from certain death. Not at any price. Not all. Not at all. Marsh’s breadth of experience wasn’t just of the conventional medic but also having lived other lives, outside the STEM system, this government advocates, having for example, worked on a ward as a porter and in a geriatric ward, wiping old men’s bums. If I were to have brain surgery, and I had a choice, I’d choose Marsh.
Marsh rallied against junior doctors working shorter hours of 120 hours per week (3 weeks in a week for normal people). This seemed at odds with the person I imagined him to be. People like me, who imagine only Tory scaremongers would demand that kind of thing). But that’s what we do, he said, invest surgeons with superpowers, imagine them to be godlike, until like Icarus they burn.
He argues for the greater good, ‘it destroys continuity of care, and the shorter hours will mean that they will have much less clinical experience and that’s dangerous.’
Marsh let his registrar start the spinal case. The trainee had done so before (see one, do one, teach one) and although Marsh didn’t think him the best in terms of operating ability, he found him to be very conscientious and kind. Marsh thinks (like me) kindness trumps many other qualities. This was reinforced by the nurses liking him.
Marsh had talked over the operation, scrubbed up and came into the theatre. ‘Why such a large incision? he asked.
On closer inspection.
‘Jesus, fucking Christ. You’ve severed the nerve root.’
In thirty years of neurosurgery I’d never witnessed this disaster, although I have heard of it happening,’ he admitted.
Marsh had to tell the computer programmer and cyclist he would now walk, after rehabilitation, with a permanent drooped foot and limp. The responsibility was Marsh’s not the trainee, who’d opened the spine at the outer rather that inner edge.
‘Hubris, n. arrogant pride, or presumption; (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards, or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.’
Marsh is able to meet his mistakes and face them down. It humbles him. Imagine a world in which politicians had to live with the choices they made for others. Architects had to live in the buildings they designed for the poor. And the rich, like the Pharaoh of Egypt were left with a mass exodus of the poor that served them. Imagine a better world. Marsh can and does. Not because he’s a surgeon, but because he’s a reader or flawed humanity. Read on.
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Ohio connection: Resident
Poet, editor, educator, and literary critic John Crowe Ransom was the son of Methodist minister John James Ransom (also a noted scholar and linguist) and Sara Ella (neé Crowe) Ransom. Born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Ransom was educated at home until, in October 1898, he entered public school at age ten. The following September, he entered the Bowen School, a preparatory school in Nashville, where he completed demanding studies in classical languages, English, history, mathematics, and German.
After graduating from Bowen School at the head of his class in June 1903, Ransom entered Vanderbilt University at age fifteen. He studied there for two years and then left to teach at Taylorsville High School in Mississippi (1905-06). In 1907, Ransom returned to his studies in Greek, Latin, and philosophy at Vanderbilt and graduated at the top of his class June 19, 1909. After teaching school in Tennessee, Ransom was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and moved to England to attend Christ Church College, Oxford. There he completed coursework in the School of Literae Humaniores, receiving his M.A. degree in 1913. After teaching Latin in a private school in Connecticut for a year, he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University as an instructor of English.
In 1920, Ransom married Robb Reavill and they had three children. Ransom rose through the academic ranks at Vanderbilt to become professor of English in 1927. He remained an English department faculty member at Vanderbilt until 1937 when he moved to Gambier, Ohio, to join the faculty at Kenyon College as Carnegie Professor of Poetry. It was a position Ransom held until his retirement in 1958, and he was professor emeritus of poetry until his death in 1974.
It was in 1915, while teaching at Vanderbilt, that Ransom began meeting with a small group of colleagues, students, and friends to read poems and discuss philosophy. In the fall of 1921, the group’s focus switched to poetry and criticism. Dismayed by the “moon-light-and-magnolia mystique of Southern literature,” they called themselves the Fugitives. Other founding members included Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren. Ransom at the time, was the only published poet among the group. His first poetry collection, Poems About God (1919), was published by Henry Holt and Company during his commission in the U.S. military (1917-1919). In March 1922, Sidney Mittron Hirsch, the group’s moderator, suggested that they start a literary magazine of their own. The Fugitive group wanted to elevate Southern writing—to show that writers of the American South could produce highly intellectual and carefully crafted literary art. The Fugitive, a poetry journal (1922-1925) helped illuminate that point. Although contributors to The Fugitive were mainly group members, after its fourth issue, upon solicitation, published the poems of Hart Crane, Robert Graves, Witter Bynner and others.
After the Fugitives stopped gathering in 1928, Ransom joined another group of intellectual southerners at Vanderbilt whose discussions centered on concepts of society and culture. Motivated by critics’ image of the American South and united in their concern with the impact of a society driven by consumerism, industrialism, and urban growth on the quality of life, the group developed the agrarian movement. The Agrarians called for a return to an agrarian rather than an industrial economy. Their ideas were expressed in I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). Later, Ransom began to lessen his commitment to The Agrarians and proceeded to distance himself from the movement. His departure from Vanderbilt to Kenyon College in 1937 marked the completion of his gradual renunciation of Agrarianism in favor of literary criticism.
Ransom is noted for his groundbreaking method of analyzing literature, poetry in particular, which sparked a movement in literary theory called New Criticism. The principles of the new theory, which advocated focus on the text itself and emphasized close-reading, particularly of poetry, is described in Ransom’s book The New Criticism (1941). It was the dominate mode of American literary criticism until the 1970s. Ransom promoted New Criticism in the Kenyon Review, the influential journal he founded at Kenyon College in 1939 and for which he served as editor for twenty years. The journal attracted diverse writers and published works by many southern authors.
It’s estimated that, overall, Ransom published 150 poems and roughly the same number of essays and articles. His works include literary criticism: The World’s Body (1938), God Without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy (1965); poetry collection: Poems About God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), Grace After Meat (1924), Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927), Selected Poems (1945); anthologies: The Poetry of 1900-1950 (1951), Poems and Essays (1965); textbook: A College Primer of Writing (1943). Ransom was an influential poet, critic, writer, and educator. The impact of his work is crystalized in a statement by fellow Fugitive poet Allen Tate, who said of Ransom: He was not so much teaching us literature as teaching us how it is possible to think about literature.
John Ransom Crowe died on July 3, 1974, at his home in Gambier, Ohio. He was 86.
Rhodes scholar, Oxford University; Guggenheim fellow, 1931; 1941 Bollingen Prize for New Criticism, 1951; Russell Loines Prize for poetry, 1951; honored at Chicago Poetry Day, 1957; Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, 1958-59; Academy of American Poets fellow, 1962; National Book Award, 1964, for Selected Poems; National Endowment for the Arts award, 1967; Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968; Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1973.
John Crowe Ransom. Learn more about one of the leading poets of his generation by linking to additional resources via Wikipedia.
“The Fugitives.” A Nashville Public Television original short documentary about the group of Vanderbilt University poets who help change the image of Southern literary art.
From The Kenyon Review, Summer 1968, Vol. XXX, No. 3. Poet, novelist, and literary critic Robert Penn Warren revisits his critic of John Crowe Ransom’s poetry in “Notes on the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom at His Eightieth Birthday.”
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A new experience of deliberation via assemblies chosen by lottery starts up
Understanding the new challenges that arise globally and daily in relation to participation and democracy, the Scottish government is committed to the creation of an assembly formed by ordinary citizens whom, in certain way, will allow a successful communication for the democratic development.
The conformation of this citizen assembly, will be completely random and in a pluralistic way, to assure the effectiveness of it, to avoid political biases that could affect the practice of the assembly. 120 members will be part of this project, who will be paid with an amount of 200 euros per weekend, in gratitude for the development of their functions.
It is important to note that this assembly for citizen participation will have meetings held over 6 weekends that will take place between the fall and summer of 2020. Basically, the topics to be discussed within this organization will be related within three areas: the first one, what kind of country should Scotland be? the second one, how can Scotland better overcome the challenges, including those arising from the Brexit? And the last one, what additional work is required so that people can make informed decisions about the future of Scotland?
This is the first attempt to form a citizens' assembly in this territory also it has been mentioned that they have bases based on previous initiatives such as those carried out in different parts of the world, specifically Ireland, Poland and Belgium, to name a few.
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I have to admit to ambivalence about Thanksgivukkah. Why do I feel this way? It has something to do with the fact that, as interfaith families who celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, we spend a lot of time explaining that we don’t mix or merge holidays: we give each one specific religious meaning. I am happiest when Hanukkah and Christmas whirl to the farthest reaches of their orbital dance, at opposite ends of the winter calendar, giving each holiday the space it deserves. We don’t do Chrismukkah.
But why not merge the “secular” American holiday of Thanksgiving with a Jewish holiday when they happen to overlap? Certainly, these two holidays have a natural affinity and synergy: both celebrate religious freedom, both encourage gratitude, and both feature rich feasting. What’s not to like? And yet, I have found myself side-stepping (until now) the frenzy of menurkeys, pumpkin latkes with cranberry sauce, and Thanksgivukkah songs.
I would not be the first to note that part of the zeal for Thanksgivukkah this year is driven by commercialism, and that part of it seems to stem from a sort of sublimated or frustrated desire for the far-less-kosher Chrismukkah. And yet some of those who are reveling in the “hybridity” of Thanksgivukkah would be strongly opposed to interfaith families raising children with both family religions. The layers of complexity and irony here go deep, for such a giddy and essentially harmless holiday.
Speaking of Hanukkah and Christmas, this week, progressive Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield (and no, that is not an oxymoron) wrote a fascinating column about why he actually celebrates a new product called a Menorah Tree (a chanukiah wound with greenery and lights). I spend so much time and energy distancing myself from this kind of holiday mash-up. So Rabbi Brad kind of blew my mind by writing “What religious custom isn’t at least somewhat syncretistic? Every sacred tradition belonging to every religion I know was once an innovation, and most of them have their roots in, or were borrowed from, some other community.”
True! I made exactly that point in Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. But many will hear the message more clearly (and with less resistance) coming from a traditional religious leader, than from an interfaith families activist. An Orthodox rabbi can get away with embracing a Menorah Tree, while a second-generation interfaith parent, not so much. I keep my distance.
So forgive me if the idea of turkey-stuffed donuts makes me (and, apparently, Kathie Lee Gifford) slightly queasy. We will take out our traditional brass menorah on Thanksgiving this year at sundown. It won’t be adorned with solstice greenery (we will celebrate the winter solstice on the solstice). The moment to light the candles for the second night of Hanukkah will probably arrive sometime toward the end of our Thanksgiving dinner. But I am not going to make a big deal about the overlap.
I really do not want to come off as humorless, or as the Grinch who stole Thanksgivukkah, especially since this convergence won’t come around again for an estimated 77,000 years or so. I was happy to loan one of my menorahs out to a friend–wildly talented floral designer Bethany Karn–so that she could create a Thanksgivukkah centerpiece for a local contest. I laughed with delight at her extravaganza of vintage pilgrim and turkey candles, gelt and dreidels, gourds and pheasant feathers. In fact, I am going to use it at a book launch event this week.
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Ted Burrows, St. Lucie Historical Society
A lot of bitter Arctic air penetrated through the Florida panhandle and down the peninsula. First, a series of slate-gray clouds brought stinging rain showers or freezing showers. Then came the deadly cold.
Snow fell as far south as Tampa and lingered on the ground for three days in Tallahassee. The icy breath of winter swept across the hills of central Florida, searching south across Lake Okeechobee.
For decades afterwards, Floridians would remember this simply as “The Great Freeze.” In fact, it came as two separate cold waves, nature’s wild one-two strokes in the winter of 1894-95. It changed life in Florida radically and permanently.
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During the three decades following the Civil War, Florida had attracted thousands of new settlers, many of whom began growing citrus fruits for an expanding northern market. An agricultural magazine at the time said a hard-working farmer could earn “a neighbor’s income” from a 160-acre grove.
Until the early 1890s, most new groves lay in the northern and central regions. South Florida at the time was still sparsely populated. Well-kept rows of citrus trees sprouted between Gainesville and St. Augustine, and as far upstate as the outskirts of Jacksonville. Hopes were high as the trees matured. By all accounts, prosperity was on the way.
The big freeze changed everything.
On December 29, 1894, temperatures dropped to 14 degrees through most of northern Florida, destroying unharvested fruit and killing many young trees. But the new year brought better weather, an unusually warm and rainy January. Undamaged trees began to sprout new branches earlier than usual.
Then the second freeze hit. Trees full of rising sap and new growth began to crack as the mercury plunged to 11 degrees on February 7, 1895. The next two days were just as cold. Families worked to exhaustion and fed bonfires to warm the air near their affected trees. Nothing worked.
Whole groves froze to the ground and looked, as one writer said, “as if a terrible plague had swept through them.” In disgust, many growers simply cut their once productive trees for firewood. Others packed up and moved away. A few small citrus communities, such as Windsor, east of Gainesville, became virtual ghost towns.
Starved of citrus income, all business suffered. In Ocala, both banks failed. The damage to Florida’s economy amounted to more than $ 100 million, a staggering sum in 1895. The recovery was slow for the ravaged citrus industry. Six years later, in 1901, Florida harvested only 975,000 boxes of citrus, compared to five million boxes in 1894 before freezing.
Two hundred miles south of the former citrus heartland a few groves had already been planted along the Indian River. The Great Freeze of 1894-95 started a large-scale migration in this direction.
Aside from some coastal settlements, most of southern Florida was still a mosquito-infested wilderness. Fort Pierce, Stuart, Jensen and Vero were small villages. Miami had only 1,600 inhabitants and the Palm Beach 500.
Henry Flagler had just extended his new railroad to Palm Beach and apparently planned to make it to the end of the line. But beyond the Miami River, out of reach of the great freezer, Julia B. Tuttle saw the blossoming orange trees on her property and got an idea. She sent a twig of flowers to Flagler, who quickly recognized the commercial prospects. By 1896, his crew had left tracks all the way to Miami.
The combination of milder climate and rail transportation opened up southern Florida for expanded agriculture – not only for citrus fruits, but also for winter vegetable crops, shipped to the northern markets when their own farms were snow-bound. Citrus groves were planted throughout the Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties. By the 1940s, the fruit of the Indian River had become famous throughout the country.
Over the years, other freezes have strongly affected the fruits and vegetables of this area.
In 1957-58, two severe colds damaged fruit and vegetables throughout this region less than a month apart. Local temperatures of 27 in December and 24 in early January froze oranges on the trees and tomatoes in many fields. Snow fell as far south as Lakeland. A headline from the Fort Pierce News Tribune in December read: “Vegetable crop complete loss; additional cold due.”
Another freeze, in January 1977, brought a dusty snow to Fort Pierce and showers as far south as Miami. Temperatures dropped in the 20s again in most of the Indian River area. Agriculture officials estimated that damage to the entire country could exceed 15% of the citrus crop. Again, vegetable farms also suffered heavy losses.
A particularly destructive freeze struck in 1985. North of Orlando, across which State Road 50 intersects an east-west path across the peninsula, many citrus groves went out of operation.
A newspaper headline lamented: “For some growers, 1985 is the drop.” (Many former groves were sold for housing to the area’s rapidly growing population). An Associated Press report said “The freeze made oranges rock hard in groves as far south as Palm Beach. Along the Treasure Coast and inland towards Lake Okeechobee, temperatures in the 20s damaged citrus and ruined crops of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and squash.
Another bad freeze, 22.-26. December 1989, wiped out 30% of Florida’s citrus crop, and Governor Bob Martinez declared all 67 counties disaster areas. Parts of northern Florida received three inches of snow. Temperatures dropped to 8 degrees in High Springs, 21 degrees in St. Louis. Augustine and 30 degrees in Miami.
Many locals may no doubt remember other episodes of cold weather. After each catastrophic freeze, farmers and grove owners have tried to move further south in hopes of keeping their crops beyond the grip of winter. Yet there is always a risk. For more than a century, Florida’s periodic freezes have had a profound effect on our state’s agriculture.
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MPLS VPN and DMVPN Design – MPLS VPN is used mostly as primary connectivity and DMVPN as a backup in the small medium business.
You might see in some cases DMVPN is the only the circuit between remote offices and the datacenter/HQ, or for some applications MPLS VPN might be the primary,DMVPN for the others.
As an example high throughput, high latency DMVPN link might be used for data traffic, low through,low latency MPLS VPN link for voice and video.
In this post I will give you a mini network design scenario and ask some questions, we will discuss the answers in the comment box below.
When you attend to my CCDE class,we will work on tens of scenarios similar to this.
I will update the scenarios every week with my answer.
Update : I updated the post with my answers. Also I published a new scenario which you can reach from here.
In the above topology,customer wants to use MPLS L3 VPN (Right one) as its primary path between Remote office and the Datacenter.
Customer uses EIGRP 100 for the Local Area Network inside the office.
Customer runs EIGRP AS 200 over DMVPN.
Service Provider doesn’t support EIGRP as a PE-CE protocol, only static routing and BGP.
Customer selected to use BGP instead of static routing since cost community attribute might be used to carry EIGRP metric over the MP-BGP session of service provider.
Redistribution is needed on the R2 between EIGRP and BGP (Two ways)
Since customer uses different EIGRP AS numbers for the LAN and DMVPN networks,redistribution is need on R1 too.
Question 1 : Should customer use EIGRP same AS on the DMVPN and the LAN ?
Update : No it shouldn’t. Since Customer requirement is to use MPLS VPN as primary path and nothing specified for specific application only use MPLS VPN and other should use DMVPN, if the customer runs same EIGRP AS on Local Area Network and over DMVPN, EIGRP routes is seen as internal from DMVPN but external from MPLS VPN.
Internal EIGRP is preferred over external because of Admin Distance, customer should use different AS numbers.
Question 2 : What is the path between remote office and the datacenter ?
Update : Since redistribution is done on R1 and R2, remote switch and datacenter devices see the routes both from DMVPN and BGP as EIGRP external. Then the metric is compared.
If the metric ( Bandwidth and Delay in EIGRP) is the same, both path can be used (Equal Cost Multipath-ECMP).
Question 3 : Does result fits for the customer traffic requirement ?
Update : Yes. Because if customer uses different EIGRP AS on LAN and DMVPN, with just metric adjustment, MPLS VPN path is used as primary.
Question 4 : What happens when the primary MPLS VPN link goes down ?
Update : It depends. If you redistribute the data center prefixes which are received by R1 on R2, R2 sends the traffic towards switch and switch uses only R1.
Traffic from remote to datacenter go through Switch – R1- DMVPN path. From datacenter, since those will not be known through MPLS VPN, only DMVPN link is used. So DMVPN link is used as primary when the failure happens.
Question 5 : What happens when failed MPLS VPN link comes back ?
Update : This is tricky part. R2 receives the datacenter prefixes over MPLS VPN path via EBGP, also from R1 via EIGRP . When R2 receives the prefixes from R1 as an EIGRP route those prefixes shouldn’t be redistributed on R2 to send through MPLS VPN path.
If you don’t redistribute them, once the link comes back, datacenter prefixes will still be received via DMVPN and MPLS VPN and appears on the office switch as an EIGRP external.
If you redistribute them on R2, when the link comes back, R2 continues to use MPLS VPN path, so switch can do load sharing or with metric adjustment you can force to use MPLS as primary.
If it is Cisco switches or from other vendor which uses BGP weight attribute into consideration for the best path selection, then redistributed prefixes weight would be higher than the prefixes which are received through MPLS VPN so R2 uses Switch-R1 DMVPN path.
To have a great understanding of SP Networks, you can check my new published “Service Provider Networks Design and Perspective” Book. It covers the SP network Technologies with also explaining in detail a factious SP network. Click here
These are the type of questions you might encounter in the CCDE exam !
Let’s discuss in the comment box below.
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Essential Student Recipes
Starting university is the first time many will have cooked all three meals a day for themselves, this can mean that many either run out of ideas or turn into frequent takeaways. Now I love a good takeaway however to save some money and still eat tasty food, I have collated a few ideas that are quick and easy to make.
Some other top tips I have include bringing a large array of different spices (as these will always make your food taste great) and only bringing one or two sets of cutlery. It is great to also bring cutlery that has distinctive handles so you can identify which ones are yours!
This is one of my top go to recipes, perfect for any equation! To make this dish, you will need chicken breasts, peppers, onions, garlic, wraps, chilli powder and paprika. Additionally, I also use sour cream, guacamole and salsa as extras to add to the wrap. To then make the dish, you start by frying the chicken (cut up into chunks), then add the onion, garlic, peppers, and lastly the spice and seasoning. The wrap can then be warmed up in the microwave and filled with fillings and sauces.
- Fishcakes and spiced wedges
A super easy recipe to make with the fishcake taking about half an hour in the oven. I typically use frozen fishcakes from the supermarket however you can also make them from scratch using this recipe here: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/family-meals-easy-fish-cakes (I have also tried this, and they worked very well!). You can then make the wedges by cutting up a potato and baking them in a tray for about 25-30 mins (depending on size of wedges). I add paprika and herbs to my wedges and boil veg for the side.
- Stir Fry
So many variants to this recipe and this is the perfect healthy meal that will be made in minutes. It typically consists of any veg you want such as peppers, mushrooms, broccoli, beansprouts fried with noodles and then a sauce. These kits can be bought at the supermarket and can be made in under 10 mins!
My student twist on this recipe involves using a tortilla or pitta bread as the base. To make the pizza, then spread a tomato sauce or pasta sauce on the bread and top with cheese. Any basil, veg, and other cheeses can be added on top and grilled in the oven until the cheese is melted. The pizza will typically take 12 mins to grill.
- Loaded jacket potatoes
This is a comfort meal that is great on a cosy night in! Put the potato in the microwave for 5 mins and then bake for 35 minutes. This can be topped with chilli con carne, tuna mayo, or baked beans and of course cheese!
For more ideas on various recipes, you can also check out the BBC Good Food page, specifically made for students! https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/student-recipes. I also bought The Hungry Student Vegetarian Cookbook which has lots of great recipes for all meals from porridge to brunch.
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QE Hospital Gateshead, Patient Experience volunteer
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has a range of adult wards where patients are cared for during their stay. These include specialist wards for patients with particular conditions, wards for elderly people and surgical wards for people who are in hospital waiting for an operation. There are also day cases for people who do not require an overnight stay.
Volunteers provide invaluable support to both staff and patients and one of the most important services a volunteer can provide is a friendly ear. A stay in hospital, especially at this time, can be a very anxious and lonely time and it can make a real difference to patients to have someone to talk to.
As wards are extremely busy, it is essential that volunteers are able to take a proactive approach to this role, whilst always being supported by the Nurse in Charge and the Patient Experience and Volunteer Manager. This role is required across seven days of the week and in the evenings.
TASKS TO BE UNDERTAKEN
- To support patients to keep in touch with their relatives and friends
- by the use of an iPad
- assist patients to write an email
- assist patients to write a letter
- assist patients to use their mobile telephone or text
- To email or send the letters to the patients family member or friend
- To deliver responses to the patient – email or letter
- To be a listening ear – sitting talking and listening to a patient makes a real difference
- To support visitors to the wards ensuring that they are wearing and disposing of the correct personal protective equipment (PPE)
- To ensure that the visitor is signing the log book for test and trace purposes
- To assist patients to complete Friends and Family Surveys
- Aged 18 or over
- Able to commit reliably to at least 3 hours a week
- A commitment to support and improve the patients experience of their time in hospital
- Be fit and active as the job entails periods of sitting, standing and walking
- Be well presented, with a friendly and approachable manner and good verbal communication skills
- An ability to relate well to people on a one to one basis and be sympathetic to others’ situations
- A willingness to be flexible and to follow guidance from Patient Experience and Volunteer Manager
- To undertake core skills training within 4 weeks of start date
- Attend additional training specific to this role which will include – the use of correct Personal Protection Equipment and conflict and resolution sessions
- Volunteers should not undertake duties outside the role profile before checking first with the Nurse in Charge and Patient Experience and Volunteer Manager
- Volunteers must not undertake any manual handling tasks unless they have received appropriate training
- A volunteer can offer emotional support and empathy but must under no circumstances offer advice or a medical opinion on a patients treatment or assist with anything of a clinical nature
- Volunteers are reminded of the importance of confidentiality at all times. They must under no circumstances discuss patient’s information with any person other than the relevant staff. If a patient discloses information relevant to their condition, the volunteer should speak direct to the Nurse in Charge
- Volunteers are complimentary to paid staff and must not be used to replace roles that are usually undertaken by hospital employees.
Queen Elizabeth Ave
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This year I’m continuing to look at the different advent calendars available this December. Gibsons Games asked us if we would like to review their puzzle advent calendar. The Gibsons Jigsaw Puzzle Advent Calendar has a lovely theme portraying Christmas traditions from around the world.
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About The Gibsons Jigsaw Puzzle Advent Calendar
Inside the Gibsons advent calendar, you will discover 22 puzzles illustrated by Claire McElfatrick. Not only does every puzzle celebrate Christmas traditions from around the world they each take a festive shape. This can be either a Christmas tree, snowman, bauble or stocking. Using the glue and ribbon that also comes in the advent calendar you can turn the puzzles into Christmas decorations.
What Will You Find Inside?
I have listed the advent calendar’s contents below with photos. In total there are 24 doors to open. If you want to keep the contents a surprise don’t read anymore!
I have also created a full unboxing video on our YouTube channel which you will find at the bottom of this post.
Day 1 celebrates the Oxford Street Christmas Lights in England
Day 2 contains a pot of puzzle glue
Day 3 illustrates a Szopka from Kraków in Poland
Szopka is a nativity scene. It dates back fro the 19th century when craftsmen make beautiful nativity scenes using historic Polish buildings as the backdrop.
Day 4 celebrates Christmas Day on the beach in Australia
Day 5 illustrates St. Nicholas’ Day in The Netherlands
In the Netherlands, gifts are given on the 5th of December. This is the eve of St. Nicholas’ Day. Children put out clogs filled with hay and a carrot for St. Nicholas’ horse in the hope he will leave them sweets and small presents in return.
Day 6 contains Ribbon
Day 7 celebrates Reindeers in Lapland
Day 8 illustrates Mummering in Canada
Mummering is a 300-year tradition that takes place on the Canadian island of Newfoundlands. Groups of friends visit neighboring houses disguising their faces and becoming Mummers. This gives them the freedom to act in fun and surprising ways.
Day 9 illustrates Christmas Apples from China
Day 10 illustrates The Giant Lantern Festival in the Philippines
Day 11 illustrates decorating a Banana Tree in India
Day 12 illustrates the Legend of Nisse and Tomte from Nordic Countries
The Tomte are mythological creatures from Nordic folklore. They are said to be responsible for protecting the household. Today they are associated with the Christmas season delivering gifts. It is customary to leave them a bowl of Christmas porridge with butter.
Day 13 celebrates St. Lucia Day in Scandinavia
St. Lucia Day is a Christian feast day commemorating Lucia of Syracuse, a 14th Century martyr.
Day 14 illustrates the tradition of Christmas pantomime in the United Kingdom
Day 15 illustrates the New Year Fireworks in Russia
Day 16 celebrates Gingerbread Houses from Europe
Day 17 celebrates Los Reyes Magos a Spanish Tradition
Los Reyes Magos is the tradition of The Three Wise Men. They bring children presents on the eve of the Christian festival of Epiphany on January the 5th. The Wise Men parade through the streets throwing sweets and treats to the children.
Day 18 illustrates Ice Skating at the Rockafeller Center in New York City
Day 19 celebrates the Christmas Carnival season in the Caribbean
Day 20 illustrates and Arpillera Nativity Scene from South America
Arpillera’s are collages that combine patchwork, applique and embroidery.
Day 21 illustrates Christmas Markets in Europe
Day 22 illustrates the Christmas Feast
Day 23 celebrates the Paper Lantern tradition from Argentina
Day 24 celebrates Jolabokaflod the ‘Yule Book Flood’ from Iceland
During the Jolabokaflod season, people exchange books on Christmas eve. They spend the evening reading books and eating chocolates.
My Thoughts On The Gibsons Jigsaw Puzzle Advent Calendar
I really enjoyed discovering the contents of this advent calendar. Each puzzle is made really well and has its own level of difficultly. I love the shapes of the puzzles and the fact that they also double up as Christmas decorations. The back of the puzzles have different colours and designs making them double-sided, perfect for displaying on trees. This is the perfect advent calendar for any puzzling fan.
DISCLOSURE – We received the Gibsons Jigsaw Puzzle Advent Calendar as a gift. This was for the purposes of this post and to create our YouTube video. We always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, and experiences of the products we receive.
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Listed here are 10 Essential Reality Checks for YOU to think about when’others’are taking into consideration the addition of a new pet to your family or household.
So you’ll need a pet or at least the kids want a puppy, well there is nothing unnatural about that, the complete idea will sound great…but wait a minute, stop and think…. there are several great positives about any of it idea….there will also be some essential reality checks that want thinking about….a quick go through my checklists below will allow you to create a more realistic decision.
Remember the old saying “A puppy is not merely for Christmas “.Someone must clear the’pooh’up at the end of it …. all.
Essential Reality Check No. 1 –
The Kind of Pet
The type of pets for kids you can take into your household will depend on an entire host of things such as for example follows:
The ages of the kids – a two year old child will probably not have the ability to handle a puppy gently and certainly won’t have the ability to take care of the pet…..
How much will the pet costs be – not merely to buy – but to take care of on a regular basis?
What size of pet does your son or daughter want? – What space is going to be needed? A hamster does not use up much space but guinea pigs, ferrets and rats need bigger cages.
How much time do the kids and you as a family group need to give to the pet?
Will your family be safe with the pet? Will the pet be safe with your family?
When you have a larger pet like a dog, cat, or goat what effects does it have on your family, friends and neighbours?
How will your pet be looked after during your holidays.
Will your family have the ability to cope with the eventual death of a puppy?
Some pets will sleep all of the day and be awake at night. Hamsters can be very noisy through the night!
If your son or daughter wants a dog you should look into the breed, size and exercise needs of the dog.
Can you already have another pet, what effect does it have on that pet. For example will your puppy be OK with a cat or rabbit or bird?
Essential Reality Check No. 2 –
Ages of your Kids
You should determine a puppy that is ideal for the age of your kids.
For example generally it would not be wise to buy a hamster for a two year old child who’s still adapting to the world around them and might not know or have the ability to handle the hamster gently.
Do you want to give the kids some responsibility in looking after an animal. Some kids are extremely responsible and will have the ability to handle this. Other kids, well the sight of a baby animal is merely too appealing, after all who are able to resist a lovely puppy or kitten or baby hamster?
In the beginning you may need to help the kids, as looking after a puppy is a very responsible job. As a parent or carer you will always have to oversee a pet’s care.
Since the parent or carer you should determine if your son or daughter is old enough to take care of and take care of a pet. How usually have parents heard the cry “oh but we promise we’ll bring it for walks everyday”
Or “we’ll clean it out mum, we promise “.How will you feel in a years time when you find yourself looking after the pets because the kids are busy with friends or away on a college trip or inundated with homework or just plain uninterested in the poor thing.
Essential Reality Check No. 3 –
True Costs of Pets for Kids
Some pets are really cheap to buy for instance hamsters, guinea pigs, goldfish. gerbils, fancy rats, fancy mice and rabbits and even ferrets.
You will still need to think about:
The cage create (this can be very expensive when taking a look at the cage sizes that most pets need) in reality they need the greatest cage you can manage
Food costs each week
Vets bills if your pets become ill.
e.g. Ferrets need an annually injection against canine distemper.
Holiday care – you should buy this obviously if you fail to count on friends and family.
Bigger pets for kids such as for example goats, and dogs and pedigree cats tend to be more expensive to buy initially, some costing countless pounds.
You should consider:
Bedding and a cage (if purchasing one for your puppy or cat)
Leads and collars for dogs.
Vets bills (dogs should have yearly check ups with a vets)
Holiday care (kennels can be very expensive)
Ongoing veterinary costs if your pets becomes chronically ill.
Essential Reality Check No. 4 –
The Space Required
Even small pets for children such as guinea pigs, fancy rats and ferrets need plenty of cage space for a pleased life. They’ll need the biggest cages you can find space for. These pets also need space to exercise out of the cage.
Cats take up almost no space, as do small breeds of dogs.
Dogs will need a significant sized garden along with walks to help keep them well exercised.
Essential Reality Check No. 5 –
Time for your Pets
Can you and the household have time for a pet.
For smaller pets you should ask them to out of the cage and being handled daily for at the least 2 hours a day.
Are you experiencing time to wash out your pet at least one time or twice per week, as well as daily?
Some pets will surely need the toilet corner of these cage cleaned more frequently to avoid a bad smelling cage and pet.
Water bottles and food bowls will need cleaning and refilling every day.
Will you be able to walk your puppy at least one time each day? – dependent on the breed some need more!
Are you willing to appear after your pets for children for the many years some can live?
(From 18 months to 2 years for a mouse up to 15 years for a dog)
If you should be out at the job all day and the children have reached school all day your pets will need and will demand attention when you return home
Essential Reality Check No. 6 –
Your Pet and Family Safety
You’ll always need to make certain the kids safety when they are spending time with any pets.
Even little pets can bite and leave a wound.
Dogs shouldn’t be left unattended with the kids as they are unpredictable. A faithful dog will bite and even attack a young child if they are in pain or afraid. It happens rarely – but it will happen.
You may also need to make certain your pets safety:Is your youngster able to take care of a pet safely without hurting it.
Can be your pet safe with any pets in the house? – when you have small children and a dog …. you should ensure your dog cannot escape must be door is accidentally left open.
When you have a dog you will need to make certain visitors safety as you may be sued if your puppy bites someone in your property (or even off your property)
Be sure that when pets for children are having free time out of cages that:
Other pets cannot hurt them
They can not chew electrical leads
They can not belong to toilets or baths of water.
They can not escape through gaps in walls or floors
They can not get outside without supervision
Essential Reality Check No. 7 –
Effects on Family and Neighbours
Everyone needs to be in agreement if you are getting pets. Pets can be noisy and messy having an effect on family living.
What effect will a pet like a dog have on Granny who suffers with an allergy – will which means that she cannot come to see anymore?
If you get a dog can it bark and howl when you leave them for any period of time and will this annoy your neighbours.
Will your dog bark when your neighbours have been in their very own garden.
How will your neighbours try having your pet cat mess in their garden?
You should keep your yard free from dog mess to make certain it doesn’t smell -particularly in summer months.
Essential Reality Check No. 8 –
Holidays and Take care of Pets for children
When you have pets for children what’ll happen to them throughout your holiday times.
Are you experiencing family or friends who is able to care for your pets when you are away.
Or even you will have to buy your pets care.
This is expensive for dogs, cats and larger animals.
Even for little pets, holiday care can be expensive.
Essential Reality Check No. 9 –
Loss of a Pet and Grief
Some children are really sensitive and is going to be distraught when their beloved pet eventually passes away, or is lost in some way.
That is especially distressing if your pet has died as a result of an accident or illness.
How are you going to manage this?
The youngsters should grieve, grieving is really a healthy section of a loss reaction. We could suffer losses everyday in a tiny way such as not getting something we would like, this causes a loss reaction and area of the healing for this really is grief. If your youngster or other family member struggles with the grieving then consider the following and see if it applies. The grieving process has seven stepping stones through which people move. Your family member might not proceed through them so as or spend long on any one.
The stepping stones are:
Shock, Denial, Guilt, Anger, Depression Bargaining, Acceptance
Your youngster may want another pet this really is called bargaining and is one of many stepping stones through the grief process.
If your youngster cannot have another pet, break down the hidden losses that the death of these pet has caused.
Could there be a loss of your child’s self worth or self esteem.
Have they lost their only companion.
Has your youngster lost alone who paid attention to them.
By chatting try to look for out how your youngster is feeling and help them to work through their losses and then work to acceptance by doing some healthy bargaining.
Would your youngster be able to regain their sense of worth or self confidence another way? Perhaps helping out with a friends pet for instance.
For many children it may be helpful to really have a burial service, to allow them to say goodbye properly.
(My son kept some hair from his beloved dog)
Our children have managed the deaths of these pets effectively and have gone on to own other pets, for other kids though it has more of an effect which means you should decide when or if to displace your child’s pet.
Essential Reality Check No. 10 –
Pets for Children are GREAT!
For probably the most part pets for children are good fun. They’re often good company for the kids particularly if the children are lonely.
Our autistic daughter has changed a great deal since we got her guinea pigs to appear after. She’s gained some imaginative play, we think this is because she foretells her guinea pigs.
We do have to oversee her using them though.
Kids can learn a great deal from caring for pets for children and insurance firms pets even though they are lost naturally.
Dogs can encourage the household out to get exercise while they walk the dog.
All our youngsters love their pets.
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Written by Trini Rogando
The author begins with a personal anecdote.
My baby, you always ran so fast and jumped
so high—you’ve gone further than I can follow.
As she speaks of your dreams, rounding her syllables
so closely to the way you did, it’s almost
as if you guided her ethos yourself. But see,
the thing is—you didn’t. You didn’t say goodbye or leave
a note; no way for anyone to sing your sense into prose.
When you threw yourself off of that dusty overpass, the
rest of us were rendered hyenas. Wild and hurting
and desperate for any last scraps of you. Reliving memories
again, again, again. If I squint, perhaps I can find glory
in our hungering persistence. The circular narrative
in wondering why. Outside, the bruised tinging
of a new dawn is choked by the haze of metaphor,
as if your spirit diffused into its bloodshot
light, and we salivate at the view. Later our gazes
eat your casket raw, throats brimming
with silent bile. Bile analogous to words.
Words analogous to love.
Love analogous to rescue, and even the
small brains of yearning jackals
know that rescuers would be worshipped, not regretful.
In actuality it is our prayer slathered over your
limp form, our trembling analyses jabbing at your
overcast soul, guessing at reconciliation.
In your mother’s eulogy she juxtaposes grief with
celebration. How contrary. How parallel
and how structured. She is the author and she is trapped
in a cage of ink and skin, pawing at your obituary,
snarling at your silence until it falls into form. But if
one strips away the rose clouds of imagery and
death, the dawn is simply a dawn and the questions
remain questions and no essayist can really
find meaning in your stillness, though we all keep clawing.
Oh—perhaps this is what remains, regardless
of species or sky: repetition. The daily waking up to a world
of lack. To the absence of answers on your breath.
Maybe one morning we will find sanctuary in this
continuance, and your reasons will fall like stars
from where you leapt to scrape the sun. Until then, we squint,
again, again, again.
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The open-label trial (NCT02963831) has already enrolled and evaluated the first group of patients, and is continuing to recruit as many as 78 patients at multiple centers across the U.S.
To be eligible, patients must have failed prior standard chemotherapy for either ovarian or colorectal cancer, and have failed to benefit or stopped responding to platinum-based chemotherapy, with no additional therapeutic options available.
“Patients diagnosed with advanced ovarian and colorectal cancers that have progressed on standard therapies have very few treatment options available to them,” Vanessa Lucey, PhD, director of the CRI Venture Fund and Clinical Accelerator, said in a press release.
“Under a unique partnership model, this study leverages the capabilities of two prominent nonprofit groups, accelerates innovation with top academic centers, and includes two different bio-pharmaceutical companies. This is the type of coordination and collaboration we need to accelerate progress for patients,” she said.
ONCOS-102 is a virus-based therapy that selectively infects and kills cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. It also carries in its genome a gene coding for GM-CSF, which is a protein that stimulates the immune system.
This suggested that in addition to killing cancer cells, ONCOS-102 was also increasing their sensitivity to immune checkpoint molecules targeting the PD-1 or PD-L1 proteins.
These findings provided a basis for testing a combination of ONCOS-102 and Imfinzi, a PD-L1 inhibitor already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating some lung and bladder cancers.
“Although checkpoint blockade antibodies have been remarkably effective in treating a variety of cancers, many patients fail to respond to these immunotherapies,” said Jonathan Skipper, Ludwig’s executive vice president for technology development. “Eliciting therapeutic responses in such patients through combination therapies is a top priority of Ludwig’s clinical research program, and a major objective of CRI’s as well.”
In the Phase 1 part of the trial, researchers will assess the tolerability and safety of ascending doses of ONCOS-102 to select the best dose for further evaluation.
The medicine will be injected into the abdominal cavity once a week for six weeks. Infinzi will be given either after ONCOS-102 treatment or at the same time as the therapy.
In Phase 2, investigators will examine the combination’s effectiveness including response rates, progression-free survival, and overall survival. In this group, Imfinzi will be given once every four weeks, starting in the third week.
“We have good reason to believe that combining checkpoint blockade with oncolytic virotherapy is a highly promising strategy to that end. We very much look forward to seeing the results of this trial,” Skipper said.
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Some students say attending virtual classes eliminated environments rife with bullying, harassment
ABOVE PHOTO: Ben, a former Porltand Public Schools student, said school environments often lack support or safety for transgender and nonbinary students. PMG photo: Jaime Valdez
The pandemic wreaked havoc on education and Oregon’s students. But for some, remote learning provided relief.
Data obtained by Pamplin Media Group from Portland Public Schools shows that attendance among the district’s nonbinary students — a term used to describe people whose gender identity is neither exclusively woman nor man — spiked during the 2020-21 school year.
In the first quarter of the 2019-20 school year, the attendance rate among nonbinary elementary students at PPS was only 69%, and just 57% for middle and high schoolers. The following year, it jumped to 82% for elementary students — an 11% increase over the prior year — and 80% for middle and high schoolers. By the second quarter of the 2020-21 school year, nonbinary elementary students showed a regular attendance rate of nearly 85%.
Middle and high schoolers saw a decline, with a 74% attendance rate, but still higher than that of the previous year.
Statewide, school districts in 2018-19 began offering three options for students to list for their gender, according to the Oregon Department of Education. Since then, the Portland school district has been able to track the attendance rates of its nonbinary students as a demographic, the same way it does students of different races and ethnicities.
“We began tracking nonbinary students to better support and understand the experiences of these students as they move through our system,” said Karen Werstein, public information officer for PPS. “Previously, these students were invisible in the system.”
While attendance standards were relaxed heavily during distance learning, LGBTQ+ students say there’s a clear reason why they feel safer and more likely to engage with school off-campus.
“I think it’s a common experience for queer students in PPS to feel alienated, particularly from people of our own gender or sex at the time,” said Ben, 17, a high school junior whose last name is being withheld at the student’s request for privacy and safety concerns.
Worse, the bullying, harassment and threat of physical violence at school is ever-present.
“Sophomore year, I was taking a night class at Benson High for math,” Ben recalled. “I was walking down the hallway one day and a kid tried to beat me up on the basis that I was queer. I have this very vivid memory of him trying to slam me into a locker and record me and there was no one around. I got away, but I had to take a math test. I just remember shaking the whole time and thinking ‘this is so f—ing stupid that I have to do this right after someone tried to beat my ass for being gay.’”
Jasmine, whose real name has been changed for this story, shared her experiences as a pansexual Latina student in Gresham-Barlow School District. Pansexuality means that a person is attracted to all genders, regardless of their sex or gender identity. Jasmine spoke on the condition of anonymity for the fear of bullying and backlash.
She said that, as a student at Dexter McCarty Middle School, she usually would walk into the head secretary’s office to find solace from students bullying her about her gender, ethnicity or sexual identity.
The 15-year-old said the bullying stopped last year when school districts across the state switched to distance learning.
Students like Ben say more culturally responsive counseling resources are needed for students in Oregon. – PMG photo: Jaime Valdez
“There are still comments that people randomly make … but for the most part, it’s completely gone,” she said. “A big part of it was that I would see these people in-person, and I had no choice but to see that. … With online learning, no one says anything in our classroom. I can just take those people off of social media. So, I just stopped the interaction.”
Jasmine now attends Gresham High School virtually. The school district declined to provide attendance data for its nonbinary students, saying the number of students in that group is small enough to trigger federal privacy laws that prohibit publishing information that could jeopardize student confidentiality.
Changes across nation
Nonbinary and transgender people historically have been the subject of discrimination. They’re also more frequently the victims of hate crimes, according to 2020 Uniform Crime Report data issued by the FBI, showing an uptick in hate crimes since 2019.
On June 16, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will apply Title IX protections to gay, transgender and gender nonconforming students, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision the year prior.
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law stating, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
That court decision deemed that discrimination against someone based on their gender identity or sexual orientation was discrimination “on the basis of sex.”
The law historically had been applied to workplaces.
Despite a federal directive issued by President Joe Biden banning discrimination based on gender identity in school sports, transgender and nonbinary youth have been the target of discrimination in multiple states. Prior to the Education Department’s announcement of expanded protections, states like Idaho, West Virginia and Tennessee, to name a few, effectively banned transgender girls from competing in women’s sports, ruling they needed to compete according to their assigned sex at birth. In March, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison vetoed a bill that sought to ban gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth.
The new federal directives have yet to impact overall school climate and culture.
For students like Jasmine and Ben, there’s a potent, underlying reality to most campus environments that immediately makes them feel “othered.”
“I don’t think we have the structures in our schools to address the experiences of queer students, Black students, Asian students, Latinx students,” Ben said.
Isolation in a crowd
Ben’s world changed at a fairly young age.
“For me, I was a boy mainly hanging out with girls,” the teen said. “Growing up I never really had the option of being in the closet. People kind of assumed I was gay. When I did come out, I was the first person to come out in sixth grade. I kind of became ‘the gay kid’ in my middle school.”
Feelings of low self-esteem, isolation, rejection and eventual bullying became pervasive, spilling over into life outside of school.
“It’s the specific combination of isolation and how I reacted to it. Because I felt so unpopular and unliked and really not beautiful, I developed an eating disorder, anorexia, in eighth grade,” Ben said. “As I got into high school, these problems started to magnify.”
Ben turned to coping mechanisms and looked for social scenes outside of school. Up until fairly recently, high school was marked by risky, often dangerous, self-destructive behavior.
“When I got into high school, I got heavy into drinking and partying and drug addiction,” Ben said. “Because that was the only scene I felt I could fit into.”
Queer students also note issues with curriculum and access to services.
As a young teen, Jasmine already had to navigate being the first person in her family to come out. Once she did, she quickly noticed a sexual education curriculum that left her out of the equation.
“In my health class, we didn’t talk about sex between LGBTQ people. We just talked about penetrative sex,” she said.
The Gresham student suggested that the district should expand its sexual education curriculum to include all students in the conversation.
Ben said that, while counselors were available at school, there was a disconnect, because most of the counseling staff were white, presumably heterosexual and cisgender; a term relating to people whose personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
Participants at a June 2021 SAFE event in downtown Sandy braved afternoon heat for a Pride event. Even with annual Pride events and moves to make schools more inclusive, students say changes to curriculum and counseling supports are needed. – PMG photo: Steven Brown
Simply put, none of them seemed to share or have any of the same lived experiences as queer students.
“I never got to talk to a queer person about my experience in school. I think that would’ve made the difference,” said Ben, who said school environment contributed strongly to their eating disorder. “Do I think that’s the only cause? No. Do I think it worsened what was already a complex emotional issue? Yes.”
Portland Public Schools says it’s working to better serve its transgender and nonbinary students, and already has several resources in place geared toward LGBTQ+ youth, including a gender and sexuality alliance and a web page with a list of resources and information.
The district is also working on plans to officially recognize LGBTQ+ Pride month each June.
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Beginning a real estate investment career is a hope for many people. In order to really make a go of such an endeavor, it is necessary to become thoroughly educated about what this type of investing truly entails. Continue to read to learn how to start.
Before investing in real estate, try analyzing the market and researching thoroughly. Look at a bunch of properties to get a good idea on what locations are successful, and keep notes on it. Things to look at include repair budgets, expected rent, and current prices. This will help you to weed out the bad apples.
Make sure to gain a thorough understanding of local property values. This will give you a better understanding of what your home is worth. This will help you to make a practical and heady decision.
Find like-minded people and learn from them. There are a lot of people out there that want to get into investing in real estate. There are many groups focusing solely on real estate investing. If you can’t find one nearby, there are several forums online that you can find helpful information. Get in the mix and learn from your peers.
As you analyze business strategy when it comes to your real estate investments, understand the costs that are outside of the actual price. You will have closing costs, staging fees and legal fees, along with other costs depending on the property. Understand all of your expenses when you are figuring out your net profit.
Follow blogs by those who have been successful with real estate investments. Or, become a part of an online group. This is going to give you priceless knowledge you can use on your own. You can even sometimes have conversations with some of these people.
There are two main guidelines to consider when entering the industrial or commercial real estate market. First, you shouldn’t overpay for where you buy things. Also, don’t overpay for business. Estimate the property value and the business independently to see if it really is a good deal. You need these numbers to be satisfactory.
As an investor, you have to think realistically about how you are going to divide up your available time. There are always going to be things that come up with tenants that can eat away at your valuable time. If you are getting swamped with trying to manage it all, it can be wise to hire a company to manage your properties for you.
Appreciate the fact that your time really is money. Doing renovations yourself may be a favorite hobby, but are you losing money because of it? Is it more profitable to look for something better? Make sure that you always try to outsource. This will help you to focus on the important things.
Never purchase a property because you just want to add to the amount you own. This is a habit among novice investors in real estate, but you’ll learn that having more isn’t exactly better. You should always have the mindset of quality over quantity. This can protect your investments’ integrity.
Prior to investing in an property, obtain information regarding the government of the city in which the property is located. Check the official website of the town or city that you choose. Look for city planning details. This will give you an idea of whether your property investment will pay off. Growing cities are usually great investments.
Ensure that you get your investment back, plus a little profit, too. This will give you a great profit in the end. Make the necessary changes that are needed, and always ask for more than what you’ve paid.
It is wise to not let your investment properties demand too much of your management time. Time is money. Don’t waste it. Really take some time to see who you will be renting to. Try to only invest in properties that have demonstrated histories of reputable and responsible tenants.
Never buy properties only to run up the number that you totally own. Many people new to real estate investing do this, but it’s a beginner’s mistake. Owning more properties isn’t what’s going to make you money. Place quality above quantity, and do thorough research before investing. This makes sure your investments are good.
You’ll go through bad and good times in real estate investing. You must not be discourage by these lulls in the market. You will come out on top if you persevere. Continue to expand your knowledge, do not give up, and good things will happen for you.
Always refer to the economic forecast of a given area that you are interested in. If there are high unemployment rates or no good jobs around, the prices of property will be low. It will be very hard to turn a profit when these factors are in play. A vibrant city will increase your investment pretty quickly.
When negotiating a real estate deal, it is best to leave your emotions at the door. Keep in mind that this property is for investment purposes, and most likely not someplace you will call home. Don’t make emotional decisions or you’ll wind up paying too much. Adhering to this advice will make you money.
Any time that you want to invest in a property, it’s important to look at the economic forecast for the area you want to invest in. Property prices will stay low if the unemployment rates are high. Such things tend to make for a small return, if they make one at all. Robust cities tend to see property values rise.
Get expert help. You want to talk to someone in the local real estate industry that is familiar with a property before you make a bid. For instance, you can speak with a real estate appraiser or agent. These experts will assist in your decision making.
Know the marketplace’s lingo. You must be able to talk the talk. If the seller sees that you are a novice, he may take advantage of you. Use the lingo you learn, as well as your knowledge, to give you an advantage. If you sound and seem professional, you will be able to negotiate better.
You may have to sacrifice to ensure success. You may have a dream for a renovation of the house you want to flip, but prices can get out of hand quick. In order to be successful, you may have to make some sacrifices. Be prepared to compromise and to give up some of your small goals in pursuit of your larger ones.
You can try predicting when you will sell a house, but you will not be right all the time. Be aware of this when assessing your risk when purchasing a property. Will there be an initial cash layout or will it be financed? What interest rate will you have to pay? Will you be renting before you sell?
As you have read, investing in real estate can serve you well if you follow good advice. Read these tips again, as needed, so you can make the most money. Pass the information along to others, so they too can join in on being successful real estate investors.
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The Research and Writing Template
33 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Date Written: August 26, 2021
While every business school discipline (accounting, business law, communication, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, organizational behavior, and strategy) each possess scholarly trends and momentary fashion, scholarly research and writing has developed over the years in a manner that lends itself to some useful generalizations. Particularly for young scholars who are new to the challenges of research methods, a clear picture of at least one acceptable approach to the articulation of a research problem seems useful. We have drafted this introductory reading with a view toward providing just that, some initial thoughts to prod the thinking about the research and writing process. We seek to provide a quick read of thirty minutes or less to set the stage for all the hard work, dismissed ideas, and blind alleys that inevitably confront the PhD student about to embark on a journey that will hopefully lead, just a few years later, to a relatively quick (maybe a year or two less than the norm) completion of a thoughtful, cogent, and important dissertation having “real world” scholarly impact.
Keywords: AACSB, academic publishing, accounting, accreditation, business schools, communications, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, Google Scholar, law, management, management information systems, marketing, methodology, operations research, SSRN, supply chain, statistical, tenure
JEL Classification: A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, H1, I1, J1, L1, M1, N1, O1, P1, Q1, R1, Y1, Z1
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
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Linda Hankin conducted a full day workshop concentrating on "painting from the right side of your brain". Linda coaxed us to abandon our usual approach to painting. Instead she had us using wax, making stamps and printing as you would in mono printing. All this preparation created an underpainting to be used later in a still life. Some under paintings took on a life of their own and became the "work of art".
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The ABCD method is commonly used to estimate the size of a background contribution from real data (as opposed to Monte Carlo simulation). It takes its name from the fact that it uses four regions, which are sometimes labelled A, B, C, D. One of the regions is the signal region for which one wishes to make the background estimate. The other three are obtained by reverting two different signal selection criteria X and Y:
Region A: pass X and pass Y (this is the signal region) Region B: fail X and pass Y Region C: pass X and fail Y Region D: fail X and fail Y
It is essential that the criteria X and Y can be treated as uncorrelated. This is true if the probability to pass criterion X does not (significantly) depend on whether criterion Y passes, and vice versa. With this assumption, the following relation holds for the numbers of background events in the four regions:
This means that the event yield in the signal region A due to the background process can be predicted by measuring the event yields due to this background in control regions B, C, D:
Contributions other than the background of interest must be subtracted in the regions B, C, D. This can often be done using MC simulation. The method is usually most robust if the criteria X and Y can be chosen in such a way that the regions B, C, D are very much dominated by the background of interest. In particular, there should only be very little predicted signal leakage into those regions.
Correlations between selection criteria
The method can be extended to work in situations where correlations between the selection criteria X and Y cannot quite be neglected. In that case, a correlation factor can be included, so that the equation governing the ratios of event counts becomes
The ratio can be determined using MC simulation.
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For Women’s History Month, this edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is A Tribute to Women. There were 31 submissions (with some multiple submissions), all honoring those special women who have touched our lives in some ways. Mothers, aunts, teachers, and courageous and inspiring women of all sorts are represented! Hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene, read her roundup of the carnival entries here. My own entry is here about my great-great aunt (who was great!).
Next up for the COG (Carnival of Genealogy):
The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: Cars as stars! Next to purchasing a house, a “new set of wheels” was the next most significant purchase for many families. What car played a starring roll in your family history and what roll did it play? Did your family build cars or tinker with them? Did they take “Sunday drives”? What was your first car? Was there a hangout that you frequented in your car? How far back can you document your family’s automotive genealogy? Tell us your car stories… front seat or back! 😉 Vroom, Vroom!
Submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy using our carnival submission form. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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The NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. attacks the organizers of the so-called, National Day of Protest Against Illegal Immigration. See link below for details.
This just shows that the media is feeling vulnerable, otherwise they would just ignore it as usual. That means many more people should come out and keep pouring it on. I would just say the protests should be more about impeaching Obama for many reasons, especially of late the reason of the orchestrated Illegal Alien Invasion.
The attack was done on a local station, because Obama’s media toadies fear the protest could get out of hand, if they attack them on the broadcast media. It would just attract many more protesters. Would be good, if more independent, Tea Party or other groups join in, because then the media won’t know whom to attack.
Protesting against poor people, even when they come here illegally, gives the illegal-alien supporters a propaganda advantage. That is most probably one of the reasons why children were encouraged to come in the first place.
Protesting against Obama is easier to defend, because even some of Obama’s base is fed up with him lately. Obama created the conditions that encouraged a certain class of people to cross the border illegally. Obama is the Child-Abuser-in-Chief because he has encouraged people to send their children on this extremely risky journey to the US.
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A year after its inception, a rebel group that teaches the youth of the world how to survive in the most impoverished parts of the globe is starting to take off.
The group, known as Young Rebel, is an online community of people who have come together in the past year to fight poverty, promote the dignity of human beings and fight global injustice.
It’s a community that includes people who call themselves young revolutionaries and rebels.
Some of them have spent time in jail.
Others have had to make the perilous journey to the U.S. or Europe.
Some have spent their lives in exile.
Others are trying to make their way back to the rebel movement that emerged from the Arab Spring and the subsequent civil war in Syria.
Their mission is to give young people in the world, as well as the leaders who have shaped the global order, a lesson on how to make life better for everyone, according to the group’s founders, who are young women and men in their 20s and 30s.
Young Rebel is an emerging generation of activists who believe in the power of social media to educate and empower people.
It is a community whose members have traveled to cities such as Beirut and Berlin, where they are trying out ideas for organizing and campaigning.
Young rebels have grown increasingly influential, though, since they first started the movement.
They are the backbone of the nascent “alt-right,” a far-right movement that espouses racism, xenophobia and populism that emerged in the U, Europe and elsewhere during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The movement, whose adherents have called for the end of multiculturalism and the deportation of illegal immigrants, has been criticized for promoting white nationalism.
In the months since the movement began, it has gained traction in the United Kingdom, France and Spain, where many young people are coming together to fight racism, poverty and inequality.
It is an encouraging sign for the rebel youth movement, which has been fighting for its cause for a decade.
But its growth in the last year, especially in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and South Korea, has raised doubts about whether it will succeed in its mission of fighting global inequality.
The rebel youth have been a key force in the movement, the founders said.
Many of its members are young people from the Middle East and North Africa who have left their countries to work in the rebel group.
Some have been caught up in the violent upheaval of the Arab spring, which helped turn young people against their governments.
They have struggled to make it through, often working long hours in their home countries.
In its first year, Young Rebel has grown into an online movement that is growing faster than any other rebel group in the Middle West.
It has helped train thousands of people and is recruiting more volunteers to do the same, according the group.
“I am a rebel,” said 17-year-old Khader Abouzeid, who joined the group in September.
“I am not afraid to say that.
I do not have any enemies.
The people are my friends.
I am proud to be a rebel.”
For the past two years, the group has worked to train the next generation of rebel fighters, including a group of women from the United State and Canada.
The group has created a database of more than 100,000 young people who are willing to help the group train them.
Its leader, Aisha Abdo, a 17-years-old from the small town of Budeh, in the southern province of Dheisheh, said the group is a force for justice and equality in a time when it has faced discrimination and exploitation.
“We want to give back,” she said.
“Our mission is for the future.”
The rebels hope that their growing numbers and efforts to reach out to the wider world will inspire other groups to organize, recruit and train young people to become the next wave of fighters.
The rebels say that the movement has attracted about 400,000 participants to date, and they hope to expand that figure to 1 million or more.
In April, the rebels organized a conference in Berlin, with delegates from around the world.
The conference, which also included young rebels from Britain and Canada, attracted an audience of about 2,000 people.
“The world is watching us,” said 19-year of the group, Azzam Ahmed, a London-based activist.
“This is not a movement to create a better world.
It’s a movement for justice, equality and social justice.
We are going to be leaders, not only to the world but to the people.”
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ESTATE CROPS INNOVATION – In 2011, Indonesian Center for Estate Crops Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture released innovation technology potential to multiply the seeds quickly, voluminously, and uniformly through tissue culture technology.
Provision of sugarcane seed through tissue culture follows four important stages, namely callus induction, proliferation, differentiation, and regeneration to form plantlet. For such needs, it is required to conduct a research to get micro-propagation technological package in order to meet superior variety of sugarcane which is cheap, quick, and well adapted in a wide scale.
Multiplication activities of sugarcane resulted in the use media for callus induction with addition of 2,4-D induced the calli derived from young leaves of sugar cane explants. Increasing concentrations of 2,4-D up to 3 mg/l in a medium without other ZPT addition tended to decrease the amount of explants with callus. Addition of casein hidrolisat on callus induction media did not influence number of callus production, however strongly influenced on callus quality.
To regenerate the callus to become plantlets, it was required different media formulations for each variety, however, the use auxin (NAA and IBA) on rooting medium induced the formation of roots. The multiplication was already applied to produce sugar cane seeds massively. There were 100,000 planlets of sugarcane seeds resulted from tissue culture process in FY 2011, and potential to produce 2,800,000 plantlet Budset of G2 by the end of 2012.
Figure : Callus induction and proliferation (1-2); Differentiation/(regeneration of shoots (3-4), and the establishment of plantlet rooting induction (5-6).
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A screen door with holes in the mesh helps flies, ants and other bugs make a beeline for your home. If your pet is fond of pawing the screen, work your way through these tactics to keep him away and save your door.
Spray your pet with water from a spray bottle as he approaches the screen door. This can help create a negative connection with the screen door that may be enough to prevent your dog or cat from scratching the screen. Of course, this only works when you are at home to supervise your pet.
Erect a barrier, such as a pet gate or child gate, that blocks off the area. While cats may climb over the barrier, this can keep dogs away from the screen door.
Install a door guard on the lower part of the screen door. Made of metal, door guards are tough enough to handle pet scratches without damaging the screen underneath. They're also porous, so you can still enjoy a breeze.
Try an adhesive strip on the screen door, so your pet's paws stick to the screen next time she swats it. Chances are, she won't like the sensation and will find a new toy to scratch. After a couple weeks, it's probably safe to remove the adhesive since your pet's gotten the message.
Swap out the mesh on your screen door for pet-resistant screen mesh. This material has a tighter weave than traditional screen mesh, so it's far less likely to develop holes from your pet's paws.
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Cleary discusses the origin, development, and use of the many senses of priority as a central thesis in Aristotle’s metaphysics. Cleary contends that one of the most revealing problems for the ambiguity of Aristotle’s relationship to Platonism is that of the ontological status of mathematical objects. In support of his claim, Cleary analyzes a curious passage from Aristotle’s _Topics, _where he appears to accept a schema of priorities that makes mathematical entities more substantial than sensible things. How does Aristotle try (...) to reconcile the ordering of things dictated by sciences like mathematics and dialectic with the ordering of sense experience upon which his own physics and metaphysics are based? To find the answer, Cleary reviews three different outlines of the many senses of priority given by Aristotle himself and found in _Categories _12-13, _Metaphysics _Delta 11, and _Metaphysics _Theta 8. Cleary suggests there is an implicit hierarchy for Aristotle that leads him to posit the Prime Mover at its apex as complete actuality and, therefore, as the focus for the concept of priority. Having reviewed Aristotle’s treatment of the many uses of priority, Cleary demonstrates how the concept is used in some typical arguments by Aristotle for his mature metaphysical positions. (shrink)
John J. Cleary was an internationally recognised authority in ancient Greek philosophy. This volume of penetrating studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education, display Cleary’s range of expertise and originality of approach.
This volume contains papers originally presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during 2005-6. Of the seven colloquia, two deal with topics in Neoplatonism, four are dedicated to Aristotle’s ethics and metaphysics, and one to Plato’s Republic.
MODERN ARISTOTELIAN SCHOLARSHIP is heavily indebted to the German scholars of the nineteenth century who produced the Berlin Academy editions of Aristotle's corpus and of his Greek commentators. The foundations for this massive project were laid around the middle of the century by people like Schwegler, who edited and commented on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Yet, while acknowledging our debt to such exemplary scholarship, I want to cast doubt on one of his proposed emendations to Metaphysics 6.1, which influenced later editors like (...) W. D. Ross and Werner Jaeger. (shrink)
In this paper the author discusses the complex question of whether Proclus regards theology as a demonstrative science along the lines of Euclidean geometry, or as a different kind of science that follows the dialectical model of Plato's Parmenides. This question is focused by considering the applicability to the Elements of Theology of the Euclidean model of science, while examining the limitations of this hermeneutical approach.
With one exception, the papers in this volume were originally presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during 2006-7. Five colloquia deal directly with Plato, while another discusses Heidegger's interpretation of Plato. Two colloquia deal with the Epicurean notion of preconception and with the Stoic conception of the good.
This volume contains papers and commentaries originally presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the 2004-5 academic year. Of the seven colloquia in the volume, two deal with Plato while the rest are dedicated to Aristotle.
The papers in this volume were originally presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during 2007-8. Four colloquia deal directly with major works of Aristotle, while another discusses Aristotle's influence on the Stoics. Three colloquia deal with Plato, discussing the _Philebus_, _Phaedrus_ and _Republic_.
This latest BACAP Proceedings covers three key areas in ancient philosophy, ethics, method and physics. Under ethics, there are three papers on Socratic piety, Aristotelian friendship, and Augustinian-Platonic virtue. Under method, Socratic elenchos, Socratic maieutic, and Aristotelian aporematic inquiry. Under physics, life in Plato and mo.
This volume represents some of the activities of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from the academic year 1997-98. It contains nine colloquia that were hosted by eight different colleges and universities in the greater Boston area. Discussions of the works of Plato dominate this volume, with six of the nine colloquia based on Platonic texts. Appropriately, the colloquia begin with an analysis of division in the ancient atomists. Later, a study of truth in Aristotle gives a counterpoint to (...) the Platonic interplay of drama and pedagogy or logic and rhetoric examined in papers about the "Theaetetus" and "Symposium". A presentation of Proclus’s account of evil revisits some of the issues of sophistry and morality discussed in relation to Plato’s "Republic" and "Euthydemus". Finally, the remaining Platonic papers are in a way not about Plato at all, but about Socrates and Xanthippe, supplementing Platonic dialogues with Xenophon and others. Underneath these discussions of ancient texts current modes of philosophy run along, providing a score of alternative interpretative schemes._ This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here_ for details. (shrink)
This latest volume of _BACAP Proceedings_ contains some innovative research by international scholars on Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles. It covers such themes as Plato on the philosopher ruler, and Aristotle on essence and necessity in science._ This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here_ for details.
Most of the colloquia explore important topics such as the notion of self in Plato and the relationship between sense and knowledge in Aristotle. In addition, two colloquia discuss the origins of Pyrrhonic scepticism and the themes of Seneca’s _Natural Questions_._ This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here_ for details.
This latest volume of BACAP Proceedings contains some innovative research by international scholars on Plato and Aristotle. It covers such themes as Plato on recollection and on justice, along with Aristotle on Nous and on law._ This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here_ for details.
This volume of BACAP Proceedings contains recent research by international scholars on Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and some Hellenistic philosophers. It covers such topics as Epicurean methods of managing mental pain, moral nostalgia in Plato' s Republic, and empty terms in Aristotelian logic._ This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here_ for details.
This volume of the Proceedings continues the success of the Colloquium in providing a venue where a wide range of classical themes and figures is examined from the multiple perspectives of the current philosophical scene. This diversity gives the Proceedings a unique appeal to all those, philosophers and classicists, interested in the long tradition of ancient thought in both Greek and Latin._ This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here_ for details.
This volume of the Proceedings continues the success of the Colloquium in providing a venue where a wide range of classical themes and figures is examined from the multiple perspectives of the current philosophical scene. This diversity gives the Proceedings a unique appeal to all those, philosophers and classicists, interested in the long tradition of ancient thought in both Greek and Latin._ This publication is also available in hardback, please click here_ for details._ Also published as issue 1 of Volume (...) 20 of Brill Academic Publisher's journal _Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy_. For more details on this journal, please click here_. (shrink)
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An outstanding issue in the study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is determining the radiation mechanism at play in the GRB jet that gives rise to their high energy prompt emission. The prompt emission can be explained under the framework of either the synchrotron shock model or the photospheric emission model. The SSM invokes relativistic shells with varying speeds that have been emitted by the central engine of the GRB; these collide with one another, release synchrotron radiation, and thus produce the detected non-thermal emission. The photospheric model on the other hand is based on the modification of a thermal spectrum of advected radiation that becomes non-thermal as it propagates through and eventually escapes the GRB jet.
One of the most direct ways of distinguishing between these models is from high accuracy polarization measurements of GRB prompt radiation. Thus, in order to maximize scientific output of future observatories, we need to have theoretical predictions of the polarization signatures of these radiation models for GRBs.
We use our Monte Carlo radiation transfer (MCRaT) code to simulate the prompt emission from a variety of Long GRBs hydrodynamic simulations. Under the framework of the photospheric model, we predict and characterize the spectrum, variability, and expected polarization signature for a variety of stellar progenitors and jet engine profiles.
Tyler is the first born child in a family of immigrants from the small Caribbean island nation Trinidad and Tobago. He is from Shirley, NY, where he graduated high school at the age of 16. He went on to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL with the major of Space Physics. As an undergraduate, Tyler studied electron heating in the upper atmosphere, as well as the use of Bayesian statistics to extract stellar parameters from stellar models. Additionally, as an intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center he worked on determining when parts on the International Space Station would break. Tyler graduated from Embry-Riddle in 2015 and currently attends Oregon State University as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics under the direction of Davide Lazzati.
As a graduate student,Tyler was awarded two honorable mentions in the NSF’s Graduate research fellowship and the EAPSI fellowship, which allowed him to travel to Japan to conduct some of his research at RIKEN. Additionally, he was recently accepted to the KAVLI astrophysics summer school on Galaxy formation, at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, where he studied the compactness of simulated galaxies. Beyond his research, Tyler leads the OSU Astronomy Club, the Astronomy Open Houses, and enjoys rock climbing, scuba diving, skiing and hiking.
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The academic year is over, and university students are now filling their time with other things — some have gone home to spend time with their family, some are working, and others have gone travelling.
To those at home and/or stuck working until the next year begins, it can seem like every other student in the world is out having amazing adventures over the summer period, leaving you with a feeling that you are missing out.
In this blog post, we take a look at how you can avoid that feeling of missing out and explain how to have a fantastic summer, wherever you are spending it — even if you’re working!
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This is easier said than done, as research has shown that social media can and does impact negatively upon mental health.
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You could learn a new hobby, catch up on all the TV you missed while you were busy with uni work, or start a new exercise plan. This time is a gift, so use it wisely.
If you’re still fixated on Instagram, why not use this time to work on your photography skills? With the right know-how, you’ll be able to produce stunning Insta posts using any subject — no sandy beach required!
If some of your university mates have bagged super cool internships this year and that’s what is getting you down, why not commit to learning some new skills over the summer to give your CV a boost?
This summer isn’t a lost cause
Just because you don’t have enough money to head abroad with mates or go to a few of the big music festivals doesn’t mean this summer is a write-off. Keep yourself busy and you won’t have time to think about what you’re missing out on.
If you’re staying in Leeds, head to a festival around here — there are loads, from food festivals to those featuring music and dance. Love pop and can’t afford the whole weekend at Leeds Festival? Why not buy a day ticket instead?
If festivals aren’t your thing, there’s plenty of other stuff to do in the area. In fact, we wrote a blog post on all the free stuff there is to see and do in Leeds, so you don’t even have to do any research!
If your university friends are all off doing their own thing, why not spend some time with your friends from home? Don’t forget, you can always invite friends over for the weekend too or go visit them for a few days.
Even when you’re working through the break, there are plenty of options to keep you entertained.
Start planning for next summer now
If you’re feeling like you’re missing out this summer, it probably comes down to money. Friends who have gone travelling will have saved up some money to do so or have parents who have funded it. Worry not — with some careful forward planning, you too can go abroad next summer.
Saving as a student is hard, we know, but if you maintain a part-time job while you are studying and take full advantage of the student benefits available to you (student loan, student discounts, etc.), then it is possible to save up enough money to go on holiday.
In fact, if you live frugally, it is possible to do it on the remainder of your student loan — but a job would undoubtedly make it much more comfortable.
Whatever you get up to, have a fabulous summer!
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Pakistan, like any developing country, must regularly divert some of the scarce agricultural land to an alternative use—to another crop, to a site for a reservoir or a plant for processing agriculture’s output, or to industrial, commercial or housing purposes. This paper is an exercise in estimating he social cost of releasing agricultural land in the Punjab for use in another activity. It will, hopefully, serve as a model for planners and policy-makers who are confronted with specific projects requiring cost-benefit analysis. For example, Pakistan’s Fifth Five-Year Plan calls for construction of numerous sugar mills, sites for which will require an estimated 100 acres of agricultural land per mill. The-cost of using this land for sugar refining may be expressed in terms of the net value of the agricultural output foregone. Similarly, if cane cultivation > is extended to provide input for the refineries, its cost must be evaluated by the value of the crops which are foregone.
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In this episode, I review a student's college application and the process of building a "theme" over three years. Learn what the theme was, what extracurriculars helped to fortify the theme, and whether or not it was successful.
0:02:00 Putting lipstick on a pig
0:03:00 What's left for admissions officers?
0:03:48 What is a theme?
0:05:25 Case study
0:05:50 The 10 Extracurriculars (ECAs)
0:07:00 Aspirations in 9th grade
0:09:35 The student's theme: defined
0:12:50 Context and background
0:14:25 10 Extracurriculars (quick-read)
0:15:33 An Admissions Officer's perspective
0:22:40 Did you detect a theme?
0:24:00 How will your application turn out?
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The size 13 shoes, which are anticipated to get between $150,000 and $200,000 at Sotheby’s this month, were made by incredible Nike designer Tinker Hatfield. The silhouette was uncommonly outlined to suit Jordan’s movements amid gameplay yet still be stylish enough to be worn off the court. The colorway was solely made for the GOAT and was not featured on retail sets whereas the obvious calfskin upper implied that he might match the kicks with a suit.
To top it all off, the sneakers sport a purple Jumpman logo and are emblazoned with Jordan’s signature in silver ink.
“This pair is truly a grail for many sneaker collectors worldwide,” Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of streetwear and modern collectibles, said in a statement. “It’s coded as a ‘Player Sample’ which means it was cut with Mr. Jordan in mind and to his specifications. However, this pair has been kept in absolutely perfect condition to this day.”
The current bid for the Space Jam Jordans is set at $65,000 with nine days cleared out on the deal. But, if history rehashes itself, the kicks might well surpass gauges. Just last year, Jordan’s first-ever combine of signature tennis shoes, his pined for Discuss Jordan 1 from 1985, smashed the high appraise of $150,000 and pounded for more than half a mil at Sotheby’s. Remain tuned, people.
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What was “confessionalization“? How did this affect Catholicism in Europe?
Confessionalization – creating fixed identities and systems of belief for separate Churches. Even though different schools of thought had different theologies and doctrines, they didn’t really have the idea of establishing a different identity for themselves. They all considered themselves disciples of Christ, but now they could identify themselves as separate from what other Christians believed. Pretty much this was the end of a the idea of a unified Church in Europe.
On one hand this prevented a rival unified non-Catholic church from emerging that could be equivalent in size and power, but this idea also ended the hope for the reformed churches from rejoining their Catholic brethren to be a single true Church. With the creation of so many recognized churches, there was for better or worse more choices.
It was also good for Catholicism in that with choices, Catholicism was also a viable one. With the recognition came legal protections so one could not oppress opposing views. This included if one wished to be Catholic. Overall there were pluses and minuses.
Does The Trinity exist? Are there 3 Persons in the ‘Godhead’? This controversy seems to have been with us since the inception of the Church itself. Here are some points which Antitrinitarians use to support their case.
There is NOWHERE in the Bible that the term is used. ALL uses and definitions of it are from INFERENCES made not by the original Apostles, Disciples or early Church but years after them in reaction to heresies.
In the greeting of NO NT letter does the author – Paul, Peter, John…- refer to the Holy Spirit yet they profusely send greetings from the Father and the Son. This omission is an INSULT to the Holy Spirit unless they did not recognize it as a Person.
If you replace the term “Holy Spirit” with the word “Power” in every Biblical instance the passage is still perfectly coherent. The vice versa is true also yet this substitution does NOT work for the Father or the Son. (Even in the OT the word Power is substitutable for the term Spirit of God i.e. the Holy Spirit.)
The Gospel of John uses the term Paraclete but why need this word to refer to a person? In Proverbs, for example, Wisdom is referred to as a woman yet NO one takes this to be a literal person-let alone a female or further God’s consort. The same can be said for the famous “Baptismal Formula” in Matt 28:19. It all can be understood without being a real person.
Finally, the onus is really on the expounders of the Trinity Doctrine to produce good evidence that the Holy Spirit is a Person.
The kingdom of Bohemia had been ruled by the Habsburg dynasty for over a century by the early 1600s. The Bohemians had resolutely held onto their established Hussite or ‘Utraquist’ Church traditions that were established during their fifteenth-century risings against the Holy Roman Emperors. So the Bohemians were against any Habsburg or Catholic encroachment.
In 1618, the Bohemians began to defy the increasing self-assertion of the Habsburg dynasty upon their kingdom. They searched for a Protestant monarch to assume the mantle of defending their independence and their Utraquist beliefs from the Habsburgs. In 1619, the Bohemian nobility elected Friedrich V to be the next king of Bohemia, who was thoroughly Reformed and also began creating a stir across the continent as a possible leader against the Pope. (loc. 12520). During this time Transylvania, aided by Ottomans, started to make its mark against Habsburg rule by taking over the Hungarian throne by routing Habsburg armies there.
The Habsburgs countered against this insurgence and quickly regained the kingdom of Bohemia thanks in large to Friedrich’s growing unpopularity; many conservative Uraquists were outraged by the iconoclasm which his Reformed preachers encouraged in Prague and his Reformed faith grew to isolate many of his Bohemian supporters. Finally in 1620, the Habsburgs defeated Friedrich at the Battle of White Mountain. Almost immediately, Protestantism in Bohemia would undergo the repercussions of their rebellion and loss to the Habsburg Empire.
The Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand dismantled a century of safeguards for Protestantism and two centuries of established status for the Utraquist Church. (loc. 12527) Severe restrictions were also placed upon Protestantism in Austria as well. A strong version of the Counter-Reformation would be instituted across to the Habsburg Empire to establish a Catholic monopoly and declare Catholic dominance throughout, which was quite an accomplishment considering that in 1619 around 90% of the Bohemian population were not Catholic. (loc. 12530) In 1629, Ferdinand instituted the Edict of Restitution which in effect restored lands that were previously lost back to the Catholic Church and outlawed Reformed Christianity throughout the empire.
Greater Europe felt a general unease with the Habsburg victory among both Protestants and Catholics. Emperor Ferdinand’s actions against Protestantism provoked many in Europe to take up arms. Catholic France and Lutheran Sweden would be involved in several destructive wars, one of which was the Thirty Years War.
The result of all this led many to believe in the God-given destiny of the Holy Roman Empire. Now, many Protestant rulers thought better than challenge the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand and instead offered him support against other Protestants. Furthermore, having seen the results of religious war through the years of the Reformation up to 1648 during the end of the Thirty Years War, fewer European rulers would embark on religious crusades in support of their religious views, especially against other Christians. It simply wasn’t worth it. (loc. 12545)
Here we see the effects once again of politics, power, and religious belief mixing together to incite violence and warfare (particularly Christian vs. Christian violence which I believe far exceeds Christianity against any other religion or movement) – an all too common theme as we’ve seen time and time again throughout church history. Religion and politics stir up so much powerful emotions within people, and both become intertwined particularly in conservative circles in America. Can Christianity and politics ever come together to produce something good and beneficial to society as a whole? One can look at the civil rights movement, especially the non-violent efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, to use politics and the gospel to bring about powerful and lasting change. Can we ever lay aside our differences, self-interest, and polemics – conservatives vs. liberal, Protestants vs. Catholics, or even Muslims vs. Christians – and our us vs. them mentalities, and rather see our commonalities as followers of Christ and forge a new future for the Church at large? Or are these divisions and tribal instincts too entrenched within us that history has to repeat itself over and over again? Granted that there aren’t many large-scale Christian vs. Christian conflicts in the modern era, but certain animosities still remain. Are the atheists correct when they say that true worldwide peace will come when people stop believing in God and following religion?
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- Preface and Chapter 1: “The Task of Theology“
- “The Meaning of Revelation”
- “The Authority of Scripture”
- “The Triune God”
- “The Good Creation”
- “The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil”
- “Humanity as Creature, Sinner, and New Being in Christ”
- “The Person and Work of Jesus Christ”
- “Confessing Jesus Christ in Context”
- “The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life”
- ‘The New Community”
- “Proclamation, Sacraments, and Ministry”
- “The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism”
- “Christian Hope”
- Appendix A: “Natural Theology: A Dialogue”
- Appendix B: “The Resurrection: A Dialogue”
- Appendix C: “Political Theology”
In the first 12 or so sessions, it was basically a Q & A format, where I’d present a series of questions and we’d get into a dialogue or conversation with the group.
But once we got to chapter 13, I started implementing (from the wise suggestion of another person) mandatory written summaries of each members’ thoughts. It’s a particularly good habit to get into when you write down your thoughts; you get a chance to reflect, refine, and revise upon what’s going on in your mind.
I believe that writing is a form of (spiritual) discipline that groups like this, and even church small groups and the like, will greatly benefit from.
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You can watch our video on how to configure your account in Thunderbird here:
You can also follow the steps to configure your account with Thunderbird outlined below:
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1. Account Settings
2. Add Mail Account
4. Custom Domains
5. IMAP Exception
7. Account Settings
8. Copies & Folders
9. Junk Settings
10. First Message
11. SMTP Exception
12. Addresses 1
13. Addresses 2
14. Addresses 3
15. Addresses 4
To configure the bridge with Thunderbird, first open the application and right-click in the sidebar. Choose Settings.
In the drop-down menu in the bottom left corner select Add Mail Account
Enter your name as well as the email address and bridge password from your bridge account settings screen. The rest of the configuration (security settings, ports, etc.) should be automatically filled in. Then, press Done.
Note: The password you must use is automatically generated from the bridge. Do not use your Login or Mailbox password.
The password generated by the Bridge app can be found by by clicking on Mailbox configuration under your account username.
Custom domain email addresses can be added to the bridge as well, but need extra configuration to work.
When you enter credentials for a custom domain, Thunderbird will give you an warning: Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account.. This is normal and expected.
Enter your settings manually as shown above and click Done.
You will be asked to confirm a security exception for port 1143 on 127.0.0.1. This is your localhost, which means that the certificate that we provide must be self-signed and therefore not trusted by default in Thunderbird.
Your newly added account will fetch your emails within 5 minutes. You can send emails without any delay. You can now proceed with configuring your Account settings on the next slide.
Thunderbird requires configuring your draft settings manually. Click the Tools menu (top of the screen) and select "Account Settings".
Choose the "Copies & Folders" menu on the left and scroll down to the "Drafts and Templates" section. Make sure that drafts are kept on the Local Folders. (Some Thunderbird setups won't be called Local Folders, but whatever your default account name is).
Note: Drafts are saved on your local device only. If you create a draft in Thunderbird on your laptop it will only be saved and accessible on that device.
If you would like to disable your client spam filters and rely soley on your ProtonMail spam filters make sure nothing is checked for Junk Settings.
However, keeping your client’s spam filters enabled will offer the advantage of additional spam filtering that is able to utilize the text of all of your messages and will add detected spam senders to your ProtonMail blacklist.
When you send your first message, you may see a Send Message Error. Press OK. This means that you will need to confirm a security exception for port 1025, used for the SMTP server.
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Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making
This book presents a contemporary view of the role of information quality in information fusion and decision making, and provides a formal foundation and the implementation strategies required for dealing with insufficient information quality in building fusion systems for decision making. Information fusion is the process of gathering, processing, and combining large amounts of information from multiple and diverse sources, including physical sensors to human intelligence reports and social media. That data and information may be unreliable, of low fidelity, insufficient resolution, contradictory, fake and/or redundant. Sources may provide unverified reports obtained from other sources resulting in correlations and biases. The success of the fusion processing depends on how well knowledge produced by the processing chain represents reality, which in turn depends on how adequate data are, how good and adequate are the models used, and how accurate, appropriate or applicable prior and contextual knowledge is.
By offering contributions by leading experts, this book provides an unparalleled understanding of the problem of information quality in information fusion and decision-making for researchers and professionals in the field.
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Background: An association between education and preterm delivery has been observed in populations across Europe, but differences in methodology limit comparability. We performed a direct cross-cohort comparison of educational disparities in preterm delivery based on individual-level birth cohort data.
Methods: The study included data from 12 European cohorts from Denmark, England, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The cohorts included between 2434 and 99 655 pregnancies. The association between maternal education and preterm delivery (22-36 completed weeks of gestation) was reported as risk ratios, risk differences, and slope indexes of inequality with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
Results: Singleton preterm live delivery proportion varied between 3.7% and 7.5%. There were large variations between the cohorts in the distribution of education and maternal characteristics. Nevertheless, there were similar educational differences in risk of preterm delivery in 8 of the 12 cohorts with slope index of inequality varying between 2.2 [95% CI 1.1, 3.3] and 4.0 [95% CI 1.4, 6.6] excess preterm deliveries per 100 singleton deliveries among the educationally most disadvantaged, and risk ratio between the lowest and highest education category varying from 1.4 [95% CI 1.1, 1.8] to 1.9 [95% CI 1.2, 3.1]. No associations were found in the last four cohorts.
Conclusions: Educational disparities in preterm delivery were found all over Europe. Despite differences in the distributions of education and preterm delivery, the results were remarkably similar across the cohorts. For those few cohorts that did not follow the pattern, study and country characteristics did not explain the differences.
Keywords: European pregnancy birth cohort; Health inequalities; cross-cohort collaboration; educational inequalities; preterm birth.
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Dormant liver stage forms (hypnozoites) of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax present major hurdles to control and eradicate infection. Despite major research efforts, the molecular composition of hypnozoites remains ill defined. Here, we applied a combination of state-of-the-art technologies to generate the first transcriptome of hypnozoites. We developed a robust laser dissection microscopy protocol to isolate individual Plasmodium cynomolgi hypnozoites and schizonts from infected monkey hepatocytes and optimized RNA-seq analysis to obtain the first transcriptomes of these stages. Comparative transcriptomic analysis identified 120 transcripts as being differentially expressed in the hypnozoite stage relative to the dividing liver schizont, with 69 and 51 mRNAs being up- or down-regulated, respectively, in the hypnozoites. This lead to the identification of potential markers of commitment to and maintenance of the dormant state of the hypnozoite including three transcriptional regulators of the ApiAP2 family, one of which is unique to P. cynomolgi and P. vivax, and the global translational repressor, eIF2a kinase eIK2, all of which are upregulated in the hypnozoite. Together, this work not only provides a primary experimentally-derived list of molecular markers of hypnozoites but also identifies transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression as potentially being key to establishing and maintaining quiescence.
Keywords: Plasmodium; hypnozoite; liver stage; quiescence.
© 2017 The Authors Cellular Microbiology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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