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60 mg prolonged-release tablet
isosorbide mononitrate What Is Isororbide Mononitrate Mylan is and what it is used for
Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan contains isosorbide mononitrate and belongs to a group of medicines called nitrates. This type of medicine works by dilating the blood vessels around the heart and thus facilitates the blood supply to the heart and other parts of the body. Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan is a prolonged-release tablet that provides a slow release of the drug in the body.
Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan is used in the prophylaxis of angina pectoris. Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan, on the other hand, is not intended for the treatment of sudden chest pain ( acute angina). If you have an acute attack of angina, another medicine should be used. Do not stop your treatment with Isosorbide Mononitrate Mylan without first consulting your doctor or pharmacist.
Isosorbide mononitrate contained in Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan may also be authorized for the treatment of other conditions not mentioned in this leaflet. Ask your doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare professional if you have any further questions, and always follow their instructions.
2. What you need to know before you take Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan Do not take Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate: if you are allergic to isosorbide mononitrate , other nitrates or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6). if you suffer from another heart disease, such as inflammation of the pericardium (pericarditis), fluid in the pericardium ( cardiac tamponade ), disease of the heart muscle ( cardiomyopathy ), or heart valve disease if you are taking sildenafil or a similar medicine, the so-called “phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor” normally used to treat erectile dysfunction if you have very low blood pressure or problems with blood flow to the brain which may be due to problems with blood pressure or blood vessels, e.g. stroke or brain damage if you have suffered a so-called cardiogenic shock that can occur after a heart attack when the body can not pump around enough blood in the body Warnings and cautions
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate.
if you have severe anemia ( anemia ) if you have hypothyroidism ( hypothyroidism ) if you have increased pressure inside the brain ( intracranial pressure ) if you have severe liver or kidney problems if you are malnourished or unable to regulate your body temperature ( hypothermia ) or develop this during treatment if you have hypoxemia (low oxygen content in the blood, due to lung disease for example). Other medicines and Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken, or might take any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription. Do not take Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan with sildenafil or another phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors normally used to treat male impotence. If you use any of these medicines to treat erection problems, concomitant use of Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan may cause severe and potentially dangerous drops in blood pressure. This can cause you to faint or even have a heart attack.
If you are taking any of the following medicines, you must talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
cardiac drugs such as beta-blockers , e.g. sotalol, carvedilol diuretics ( diuretics ), e.g. furosemide , hydrochlorothiazide antidepressant drugs (so-called tricyclic antidepressants ), e.g. mirtazapine, trimipramine medicines for the treatment of anxiety and mental problems such as tranquilizer alprostadil ( prostaglandin ), which is also used to treat erectile dysfunction dihydroergotamine (used to treat migraines ) drugs with antihypertensive effect as their effect may be enhanced (including vasodilators, other antihypertensive agents, calcium channel blockers and angiotensin II receptor antagonists) aldesleukin, a drug used to treat cancer Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan with alcohol
Alcohol can increase the blood pressure-lowering effect and can also make you sleepy. Consumption of alcohol during treatment should therefore be avoided.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, think you may be pregnant, or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.
Driving and using machines
Do not drive or use any tools or machines if you feel dizzy or weak.
You are responsible for assessing whether you are fit to drive a motor vehicle or perform work that requires increased attention. One of the factors that can affect your ability in these respects is the use of drugs due to their effects and/or side effects. Descriptions of these effects and side effects can be found in other sections. Read all the information in this leaflet for guidance. If you are not sure, talk to your doctor or pharmacist
Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan contains lactose
If you have been told by your doctor that you have an intolerance to some sugars, contact your doctor before taking this medicine.
How to take Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate
Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure.
The recommended starting dose is half a tablet (30 mg) per day, the first two or four days. The tablet can be divided into two equal doses.
The recommended dose one after this is one tablet (60 mg) daily in the morning. If needed, the dose can be increased to 2 tablets (120 mg) daily in the morning.
The tablets should be swallowed with half a glass of water in the morning.
The tablets
should not be crushed or chewed, even if they can be divided into two equal doses if necessary. During treatment
When you take this medicine, you may see remnants of the tablet in your stool. This does not mean that the drug is less effective. The active substance in the tablet dissolves in the gastrointestinal tract and leaves a part of the tablet that can end up in the stool.
Use for children and adolescents
This medicine is not recommended for children or adolescents.
If you take more Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate than you should
If you have ingested too much medicine or if e.g. If a child has ingested the medicine by mistake, contact a doctor, hospital, or the Poison Information Center for risk assessment and advice.
Signs of overdose may include headache, fatigue, redness, nausea, vomiting, increased heart rate, diarrhea, dizziness or dizziness, and fainting, which may be due to low blood pressure. Large amounts of this drug can cause bluish discoloration of the skin e.g. lips or changes in breathing, e.g. shortness of breath or slower breathing. If you suddenly experience any of the above, lie down with slightly raised legs as it can relieve the symptoms.
If you forget to take Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate
Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and take the next dose as usual.
If you stop taking Mylan Isosorbide Mononitrate
Do not stop taking this medicine without consulting a doctor or pharmacist as your chest pain may recur or worsen.
If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
4. Possible side effects
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them. Side effects of isosorbide mononitrate are most common at the beginning of treatment.
If you experience any of the following, seek medical attention immediately: signs of very low blood pressure such as:pale, cold, damp or bluish skin- rapid, shallow breathing- fast heartbeat with dizziness- weak pulseconfusion, anxiety or unconsciousness.
These can be signs of circulatory failure, a condition that can lead to an insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain, kidneys, skin, and other body parts (occurs in an unknown number of users).
Other side effects are
Very common (may affect more than 1 user in 10)
headache
Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people)
dizziness fatigue low blood pressure increased heart rate nausea
Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people)
reddening of the skin vomiting diarrhea
Rare (may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people)
fainting skin rash or itching
Very rare (may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people)
pain, tenderness or weakness in muscles not caused by exertion ( myalgia )
Has been reported (occurs in an unknown number of users)
somnolence aggravated symptoms of angina ( angina pectoris ) slow pulse low blood pressure that causes dizziness when you get up scaly or flaky skin, blisters allergic skin reactions such as lumps, redness and itching of the skin Reporting of side effects
If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or nurse. This also applies to any side effects not mentioned in this information. You can also report side effects directly to the Medical Products Agency. By reporting side effects, you can help increase drug safety information.
5. How to store Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan
Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.
This medicine does not require any special storage instructions.
Used before the expiry date which is stated after “Exp”. The expiration date is the last day of the specified month.
Medicines should not be disposed of via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medicines no longer required. These measures will help to protect the environment.
6. Contents of the pack and other information Content declaration
– The active substance is isosorbide mononitrate. Each tablet contains 60 mg of isosorbide mononitrate.
– The other ingredients are microcrystalline cellulose, heavy kaolin, magnesium stearate, anhydrous colloidal silica. Tablet coatings contain synthetic paraffin, solid paraffin, hypromellose, titanium dioxide (E171), lactose monohydrate (see section 2 “Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan contains lactose”), macrogol, iron oxide yellow (E172), iron oxide black (E172), iron oxide red (E172).
What the medicine looks like and contents of the pack
Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan is a light yellow, elliptical, film-coated tablet marked ‘IM’ break notch ’60’ on one side and a break notch on the other.
Isosorbide mononitrate Mylan is available in plastic jars, with or without plastic filling at the top of the jar, as well as in blister packs of 7, 14, 28, 30, 60, 90, 98, 100, 100×1 (single-dose packs), and 250 tablets.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
Mylan AB, Box 23033, 104 35 Stockholm
Phone: 08-555 22 750, Fax: 08-555 22 751, E-mail: [email protected]
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Seafood and diseases
2000/01/01 Elhuyar Zientzia
Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
People who like to eat oysters are in luck because they have invented a better test capable of detecting the diseases they can cause. Oysters filter hundreds of liters of water daily and if they filter waste water, they can catch viruses that can cause disease to humans. The number of viruses needed to cause the disease is so small that it is very difficult to detect them.
In addition, oysters contain natural compounds that inhibit the polymerase reaction, making it more difficult to search for viruses, since this reaction is used to generate amounts of viruses capable of causing and detecting the proliferation of DNA and RNA chains of viruses. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found a way to solve the problem: they remove natural oyster inhibitors through the invented test. The test has given good results in the tests carried out.
The next step is to improve the technique and, if achieved, we will have a method that ensures that contaminated oysters do not reach the market.
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$10M NIH Grant to Study Health Disparities in Breast Cancer May 3, 2010
Media contact Sherri McGinnis González [email protected]
The UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities is one of 10 sites across the country to receive funding from the NIH to study racial and ethnic disparities in health. The UIC center was established in 2003 with an initial $7.275 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute.
The renewal funding "will allow the center to conduct research that impacts the policies that govern access to mammography and management of breast cancer and assures equal access to the standard of breast cancer care regardless of where it is delivered and who requests it," says Richard Warnecke, professor emeritus in the UIC School of Public Health and co-program director of the center at UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy.
The grant will fund three primary research projects.
One project will look at whether patient navigation services for breast cancer screening will help women to keep their appointments and ensure they receive proper diagnosis and treatment if cancer is detected. This study will also assess the role that the designation of medically underserved areas has on breast cancer diagnosis in Chicago.
The second project will test a strategy for providing breast cancer risk screening for African-American and Latina women receiving primary care at federally qualified health centers.
"We want to know whether or not doctors in federally qualified health centers can access patients for risk, what risk means to the patients, and how we can deliver risk messages that motivate women to follow
recommended health surveillance and lifestyle modifications," said Warnecke.
The third project will look at the biology of breast cancer, specifically DNA methylation, and how environmental factors play a role in aggressive breast cancer disproportionately affecting women of color.
"We also want to enable women who are poor and underserved to recognize the need to access their care in ways that ensure the best outcomes," said Warnecke. "And most importantly, we're trying to train young scholars in health disparities so that we have a continuing focus in this area."
The UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities is a collaboration that involves 21 investigators in 14 disciplines.
Program co-director is Elizabeth Calhoun, associate professor of health policy and administration at the UIC School of Public Health.
An extended interview as MP3 audio file is at
https://blackboard.uic.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/web/news/podcasts/PdCst73-May3%2710-Warnecke.mp3.
UIC ranks among the nation's leading research universities and is Chicago's largest university with 26,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world.
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After decades of economic growth, Australia is set to enter its first recession in 29 years. In reality, this economic crisis has been an accumulated one. Over the past several months, Australia has gone through a drought, brushfires and now the COVID-19 shutdown.
Thankfully for Australia, its long expansion allows the country more policy flexibility to respond than most countries. In total, Australia has delivered direct support measures totaling 11% of GDP. The relief package includes wage support that will cover ~6 million workers (out of a 13 million workforce) for six months at ~70% of average earnings. Moreover, if you include monetary measures from the RBA, the total government support increases to 16% of GDP and leads the pack relative to what other countries have spent.
With the government having stepped up with strong fiscal and monetary measures, the expectation is for the RBA to hold rates steady at next week’s meeting and refrain from making material adjustments to its unconventional policy package as broader market conditions have started to normalize and RBA board minutes indicated “no appetite for negative interest rates.”
However, over a longer window, further steps/adjustments to policy will be needed. The spread of the virus has shown no signs of slowing. Clearly, those countries facing upward sloping infection curves will not perform economically. Even China, which has started normalizing activity, will take time to return to normal as external demand shocks from its trading partners will be significant and protracted. Once the RBA has to make adjustments, expect more explicit guidance on targets further out on the yield curve and measures to strengthen forward guidance to be two levers likely to be pulled.
FORECASTS
EUR
Last week, the US jobs report and European PMIs gave a glimpse into the negative economic impact of the virus outbreak with the impact only expected to get worse. On the week, EURUSD fell by ~3.0% and there really isn’t a compelling reason to fade the move. Europe continues to struggle to find a strong/unified fiscal response and remains hard hit by the virus. While the US is also being hit by the virus, the US economy was stronger going into the outbreak and benefits from strong monetary and fiscal responses.
GBP
GBPUSD has made one of the biggest moves up from its lows within the G10 space. While part of this move is due to the magnitude of the initial drop, a weaker GBP remains a reasonable reaction to unique headwinds created by the combination of COVID-19 and Brexit headwinds as well as the UK’s sizable current account deficit that makes it vulnerable to a pullback in global flows.
JPY
While markets stabilized last week, especially compared to recent history, material headwinds remain. The US has yet to reach peak infection and clarity around the ultimate economic impact remains elusive. As such, safe haven demand is expected to remain persistent. Keep an eye on Japanese investor demand for foreign risk assets, which has been a key factor dislocating USDJPY from levels implied by yield differentials. With Japanese long-term yields expected to persist below zero, investor outflows should continue and provide a counterweight to safe haven demand.
CAD
Oil appears to be the asset class currently being targeted by policy makers. As such, petrocurrencies should receive a boost should next week’s OPEC+ meeting deliver the cuts expected. However, the CAD still remains vulnerable. Its basic balance remains one of the worst in the world and exposes the CAD to reversals in capital flow. Even with the uptick in energy prices, Canada remains one of the highest cost producers, leaving production shutdown risk alive. With virus driven growth and unemployment headwinds, the bias is for a weaker CAD.
CNY
Reports continue to point to a normalization of economic activity in China. However, the virus continues to spread in other parts of Asia, Europe and North America and will lead to a demand shock for China, muting the pace of China’s recovery. Near term, expect currency stability as this is what the PBoC aims to achieve. Longer term, additional fiscal and monetary policy levers and a head start on virus control argue for CNY outperformance.
AUD
Although the Australian government has stepped up massive amounts of fiscal and monetary stimulus, the virus outbreak remains a global concern. The RBA is expected to remain on hold this week but further action will be needed. The virus has shown little signs of slowing down and should continue to drag on global growth, including China due to demand shocks. Continue to expect COVID-19 headlines to drive price action as these headlines inform the extent to which global growth and commodity demand will fall.
MAJOR CENTRAL BANK ACTIVITY THIS WEEK
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Expectations for interest rates to remain at 0.25%
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Expectations for interest rates to remain at 0.75%
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Frequently considered the primary drainpipe in a house, the straight drainpipe line links your house to the outdoor portion of the sewage system line and afterwards eventually to the metropolitan drain system or a septic system. While the majority of home owners never ever have to fret about this crucial water drainage system, there are always a few unlucky hearts that are required to deal with a main drain line upkeep problem. However, some sewage system lines just aren't huge enough to deal with all of the discharge from showers, commodes, cleaning machines, and sinks. Completion outcome: unexpected problems with your London Ontario sewer system.
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Did you know that many times the reason why you hear nothing on your radio is because your antenna has been customized? Most of the time, the antenna that you have been listening to for years may be giving you false signals. Did you know that the majority of the time there is another signal broadcasting from a different location? This can cause interference with your radio's frequency. There are ways to fix this problem and get back on the airwaves.
Did you know that an antenna specialist can often get your airwaves back into the frequency where they belong? Instead of purchasing expensive equipment you can have your antenna re-tuned for a small fee. Even if you already have a radio, you may want to have yours re-tuned. There have been cases where a person receives a false signal and assumes it is a local radio station. The antenna specialist will actually tune your radio for you and show you what you are missing.
How many times have you used an antenna that does not really deserve your attention? Your antenna specialist can listen in on any conversation that uses that frequency. He or she will verify that it is a legitimate antenna. If it is not then he or she can make suggestions for a custom tuned radio. You may want to have your antenna re-tuned every few years so that you get the most benefit.
Did you know that an antenna specialist can tell you if your radio is receiving any damage from being out in the elements for too long? Antennas do not receive the same amount of damage that radio receivers do. This can lead to significant savings over time. If you live in a mild climate, you may notice less noise coming from your radio as time goes by.
Did you know that an antenna specialist can tune up your existing antenna as well? This can extend its life by many years. When you go to purchase a new dish, the salesman will likely ask you if you have used a customized antenna. You can easily let them know that you have and they will give you the information that you need to choose the right radio for you.
There are other advantages that come with having a customized antenna as well. Your signal is stronger and you can pick up on those faint radio signals that otherwise would not be heard. These radios are also easier to travel with and you do not have to have it connected to a traditional electric outlet. All in all, if you are looking for a better experience, consider customizing your existing antenna. You will likely like the results and find that it is worth the investment.
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This dissertation aims at reflecting, within the framework of the questions about the future of the State, on the conditions of a possible constitution of another form of common authority – based on human rights – capable of politically and juridically facing the contemporary challenges, which represent cross-border problems, that is, issues that simultaneously include and transcend state geography. To that end, the research develops an interrelation between the fields of State Theory, Human Rights Theory and Philosophy of Law, with the key ideas "future of the State" and "human rights". Considering that the moment of crises of the State is determining a gap between the "no-more" state centrality and the "not yet" prospects, this study comprehends the positive potential that human rights can assume within this interregnum period, as the possibility of structuring the foundations of a global-local political-juridical community. However, while on the one hand the current centrality of human rights is noticed, on the other hand, it is possible to identify the paradoxical complexity of these rights because of the clear contrast between their broad theoretical and normative proclamation and their practical observance. In view of this context – of State crises and of such paradoxical complexity – the idea of common fundamentation of human rights is developed in order to sustain the urgency of a shared base of purposes and values (fundamentals) that orients the normative expression and the achievement of these rights, as much as it guides and directs the action while facing the contemporary challenges. In a period of lack, the predominance of the bonding of the Law to the limits of the State, even in the classic view of International Law, in addition to the absence of the cultivation of a glocally shared finalist-valuation base, leads to a political-juridical gap in the world scenario, which favors the manifestation of uncontrolled powers, to instrumentalize the State's own authority and to compromise the constitutionally assumed commitments. Reflection on common fundamentation of human rights can contribute by laying the groundwork for erecting these rights universal center of gravity, core of a global-local political-juridical community, shaping a new form of common authority.
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There is a long list of anti aging skin care lotions that you can buy out there in the market. But not all of them are guaranteed to be effective and safe. In fact, most of them are known to cause different skin damages. Why? This is because most of them contain harsh chemicals that can highly affect the skinís health.
These chemicals are mostly alcohols, mineral oils, parabens, sulfates, dioxanes, and others. These chemicals can cause skin problems like excessive dryness, wrinkle formation, and in some cases even dangerous health concerns including cancer. Despite of this fact, manufacturers are still using these harsh ingredients because they are inexpensive and they have longer shelf life compared to other ingredients.
Many people use products daily that contain one or more of these harmful substances. In most cases they just donít know of the dangers, and in other cases they donít bother to look at the ingredient list to know what is in the products they are using.
You need to be wise in choosing products like anti aging skin care lotions. Take a moment to check what is in the products you are now using. If they contain any of these above ingredients consider changing to other brands that are more safe and effective.
It is essential to keep the natural moisture and maintain the skinís hydration to make sure that your skin will be healthy and stay young looking. Using the correct ingredients can help in this matter. Ingredients that are made from substances in nature are your best choice.
For instance, you should get lotions with shea butter and Jojoba oil. Shea butter is a perfect emollient that can make your skin soft and smooth. At the same time, this ingredient is also a good moisturizer that keeps your skinís hydration and preventing it from dryness. This ingredient is also effective in getting rid of skin problems like stretch marks, wrinkles, blemishes, fine lines, and many more.
On the other hand, jojoba oil is the perfect ingredient for all skin types. It deeply hydrates your skin and is really effective even in people with the most sensitive skin. It has the same chemical structure of our natural oils, making it easy to absorb.
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Elizabeth Ruby is passionate about good health and using healthy products on her skin. She does extensive research on the best products to use and what products to avoid. Visit her website at http://www.your-best-skin-care-site.com/ to find out what products she recommends.
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Christianity has been of the greatest importance to the USA since the time when the first settlers stepped on the Plymouth Rock. While “inclusion” is the brand new buzz phrase in particular education, I discover that kids with extreme autism do not often profit from it. However I have seen youngsters with autism benefit and even excel in sure topics; for example, I used to be observing a enterprise computing class once the place the code html was being taught.
Finland supplies three years of maternity leave and subsidized day care to oldsters, and preschool for all 5-yr-olds, the place the emphasis is on play and socializing. With superior applied sciences, college students can present their original knowledge or newly interpreted knowledge by integrating digital video, audio, and text into word-processed paperwork, multimedia presentations, movies, or web-primarily based paperwork.
It helps each the school releasing the scholars and the faculties receiving students. He has taught pupil workshops on filling out job purposes, Praxis check prep for elementary education teachers and crafting cowl letters and resumes. American kids are suffering because of the inadequacies of the people involved with the tutorial system.
Where to place religious training in the educational curriculum, is among the renewed discussions presently highlighted throughout the US. This debate has been motivated by developments deliberate to attenuate provisions by offering a framework for non secular schooling that may advance good apply in teaching and studying and alleviate a number of the points of coaching teachers and offering prime quality assets when each local space might have a different syllabus for the topic. Supposedly, a baby who goes to a personal college will get better academics, newer books, individualized consideration, smaller lessons and the so referred to as higher class of person to share his pencil case with. In many cases, the ‘autistic youngster’ will likely be required to be in Special Schooling courses – the place lecturers are trained to understand easy methods to cope with the signs, autistic tendencies and other disorders.
Without question, nearly all of what a younger youngster learns will take place in class, but there’s also rather more that youngsters will learn, and must learn, exterior the classroom. Persevering with students return to high school on Tuesday 2 February 2021. 8. Provide information for the college group, most of the people, employers, researchers for the advancement of knowledge.
With out expertise for lifelong studying, youngsters face larger barriers to earning potential and employment later in life. Within the Dominican Republic, a World Financial institution supported pilot research shows how adaptive technologies can generate nice curiosity among 21st century college students and current a path to supporting the learning and educating of future generations.
Although such a studying works effectively for most kids, some may have bother dealing with the stimuli of a regular classroom full of students. The invention of programmed studying and programmed instruction supplied a new dimension to educational expertise. This exhibits the day by day activities of the school, class by class, period by period and the names of lecturers handling them.
In 1985 when Fred Kleinknecht was elected to function Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Public Faculties were under assault by varied religious organizations bent upon wresting management of schooling from the arms of a secular public. For information about DCF Baby Care Training Hours courses, visit the Faculty of Persevering with Education.
At the moment, the Bureau of Indian Schooling oversees a total of 183 elementary, secondary, residential and peripheral dormitories across 23 states. If the selected personal school is a good distance from home, your little one might need to board, which doesn’t go well with everybody and is usually a very lonely experience for a young baby. It’s no surprise that the assault by some powerful forces upon Public Schools has additionally increased and poses a threat to a bedrock of human freedom.
They provide terrific worth for money in comparison with the price of their UK (for example) counterparts and, when you can afford it, are properly price using to your youngsters. It can present ample alternatives to students to excel in their choice filed.
Contain educators who work every day with college students and academics in creating insurance policies that affect school rooms and colleges. India’s finest colleges and coaching institutes are positioned in Uttarakhand. In the meantime, parents are persistently dissatisfied by what the government colleges offer their children, but are helpless to alter them.
The scholar-run Quinnipiac Future Lecturers Organization (QFTO) enables educators and social justice advocates to interact in neighborhood outreach actions to improve pupil learning. After these basic wants are met, that’s the only time that oldsters can actually deal with their youngsters’s schooling.
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Over ten years in the past, I worked in a personal school in Nairobi, Kenya. Educational technology, regardless of the uncertainty of the origin of the term, may be traced back to the time of the three-age system periodization of human prehistory; namely the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. College students at Cave Spring Center College are using Spark to develop critical pondering expertise.
If extra college students understood the values and cultures of individuals unlike themselves, it might not be easy or perhaps even possible for the federal government to lie and use propaganda strategies to lull the plenty into believing everything was okay and its leaders competent.
The Significance Of Secondary Education
Most of my college students’ future was pretty much traced already, with their parents’ enterprise to take over, no doubt of a college education and a promised lifetime of consolation.
Through the years, Nigerian school directors, especially, the lslamiyyah schools had paid Lip companies to the correct conserving of records. On the School of Training & Human Development, we believe that culturally responsive educators and psychological health professionals create positive change to remodel our schools and communities. Check out ‘zoning’ guidelines and whether or not it would have an effect on the choice of colleges in your youngsters.
Whereas literacy charges among college students at all ranges in elementary faculty are perhaps a very powerful subject for Masons to focus upon, it is equally essential to know why some outspoken critics of Public Faculties blame poor performance upon the system and its academics, however give little credit to both when college students perform well.
One of the regional Neighborhood Legislation companies has an excellent publication about the rights of kids and what faculties can do when it comes to disciplining kids. Academic reformers imagine schooling needs to be real and authentic for students.
Whereas most societies will agree or acknowledge the significance of education, a large number of them fail to channel sufficient sources that can be used to promote and support instructional institutions and activities. To seek out out which faculties you’re in the zone for, search the Training Counts website.
Maryland State Department Of Schooling
Obviously, when you’ve got children and you wish to move to Spain, then the schooling of your youngsters shall be your most important precedence. Teachers without Boarders (2006) appears at instructional normal from how the products of schools might be measured when it comes to consequence. The time period instructional technology was used as synonyms to audio-visible aids. Our assets lengthen well beyond our bodily location into public schools in surrounding cities and towns throughout the state.
This exhibits the necessary role of home security that the Christian training provides for the society that promulgates Christianity in faculties. The precedence should be the students, or the proposition of public education on its’ very face, is false. 5. Facilitate the supply of knowledge to folks or guardians for efficient monitoring of the progress of their children in school or performance.
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Distinctive Pupil Schooling, popularly referred to as Distinctive Education generally refers back to the education that’s primarily meant for youngsters who are affected by bodily or mental disabilities. In collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UNICEF launched the Out-of-Faculty Youngsters Initiative (OOSCI) in 2012, aiming to make a considerable and sustainable reduction in the number of out-of-school kids worldwide by offering companion Governments with actionable knowledge.
Learning about computers and buying laptop expertise have been accepted by educators and the lay public as a necessary curricular requirement as a result of they offer students instruments needed to function successfully in modern American society.
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An independent or ‘personal’ school is a major or secondary faculty that has independent funds and governance and one that is funded by tuition prices and items. The varsity’s particular training instructor teamed up with Rintola to teach 5 children with a variety of behavioral and studying issues. There are numerous extra district schools in United States that produces very excessive standards of education. For the reason that surprising occasions at Columbine Excessive College there have been further tragedies involving firearms where academics and students have been injured or killed.
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Modernizing Landscapes: New Histories of Development and the Environment between Europe and the World 22 October 2021
The first Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation, will take place at Maison de la Paix on 22 October 2021 on the topic of “Modernizing Landscapes: New Histories of Development and the Environment between Europe and the World”. PhD organizers of the workshop are Mona Bieling, Ahmad Fahoum, Simon Lobach, and Michele Sollai. The workshop will consist of presentations by doctoral students who will receive feedback by the three invited experts Antoine Acker, Emily Brownell and Helen Curry. In addition, a session on career development and a roundtable on the History of Development and the Environment are planned.
To register please use the following text and links:
To attend the workshop (including the roundtable) in person, please fill in this form.
To join the roundtable (17.30-19h online) on “Writing the History of Development and the Environment: Past, Present and Future Approaches”, please use this link.
Please note that due to the current COVID regulations, a vaccination certificate is mandatory for events at the Graduate Institute.”
Workshop Introduction
Over the last few decades, history-writing has increasingly integrated the non-human factor as a driving force of events. Historical events are recognized to be importantly shaped by long-term biological, climatological and geological developments. From Braudel’s
longue durée, to Chakrabarty’s climate-induced crisis of civilization, non-human systems in contemporary history-writing are more than a background for human actors. Environmental components, such as landscapes, animals and pathogens are increasingly taking the centre stage as full-fledged historical subjects.
Landscapes ranging from tropical forests to deserts have existed in symbiotic relationships with their inhabitants since long before colonisation. In fact, local ways of life, agricultural practices, and other uses of the environment, were often more productive in the long run than was perceived by incoming colonial powers. These landscapes developed their own histories and dynamics before and beyond the interaction with colonial rule and related modernising interventions.
This workshop follows one crucial issue in this historiography: the relationship between landscapes and human agency under the influence of European colonialist expansion. Historians now contend that landscapes are not just mirrors of ideologies, but also shape the way in which ideologies and policies are configured and carried out. More specifically, this workshop analyses the human-landscape nexus within the historical context of colonial modernization narratives and development practices.
The workshop assembles historical case studies from different parts of the world to examine such complex attempts at rationalizing the organization of landscapes. In doing so, it brings together different historiographical fields and geographical focuses to move forward the ongoing debate on the historical relationship between human and non-human actors.
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Participants
Antoine Acker is the leader of the SNSF Eccellenza professorial project “AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century” at the Graduate Institute and a specialist in global environmental history. Before coming to Geneva he was a lecturer at the University of Zurich (2017-2021) and had research and teaching positions as well as fellowships in nine universities worldwide.
Mona Bieling is a PhD student of International History at the Graduate Institute Geneva. She is mainly interested in the intersections between colonialism and the environment. Her PhD research examines the impact of landscape changes on the Jewish, Arab, and British communities in Mandate Palestine (1917-1948). Besides her PhD, Mona is Teaching Assistant at the International History Department. Previously, she worked as Research Assistant for the SNSF-funded project “The Myth of Homogeneity. Minority protection and assimilation in Western Europe, 1919-1939”.
Emily Brownell is a Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research interests include environmental history, African history, urban history, and science and technology studies. Her book Gone to Ground (2020) explores the history of environment and infrastructure in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s.
Nathalia Capellini is an environmental historian working on energy politics and infrastructures in Latin America, environmental conflict and international circulations of expert knowledge. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the IHEID in the Project Anthroposouth. She holds a PhD in History at the Université Paris Saclay -UVSQ, with research on the history of dam construction in the Amazon during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985).
Helen Anne Curry is a University Senior Lecturer in the history of science and technology at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She is the leader of the Wellcome Trust-funded project “From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop diversity and Food Security”.
Ahmad Fahoum is a PhD candidate in International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His dissertation, titled “Cycles of Water, Life and Death: Histories of Water Management and Sanitation in Palestine under British Rule, 1917-1948” supervised by Prof. Davide Rodogno, focuses on the politics behind water management schemes and projects in the name of development, while also being tools for social engineering of the land. His research looks at water management projects in different fields including public health, agriculture, and landscape and environment. He works as Prof. Rodogno’s Research Assistant in the SNF-funded project titled “Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization, 1920s-1970s”, a propographic research focusing on the trajectories of the Rockefeller fellows. He is fluent in Arabic, English and Hebrew and can read in French, Modern and Ottoman Turkish.
Efrat Gilad is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Bern where she conducts research and teaches courses related to Jewish history and Environmental History. Her work concerns social and cultural histories of food, consumption, and the environment, especially the intertwined histories of food and animals in urban colonial and settler-colonial settings. Efrat Gilad completed her PhD in International History at The Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2021, where her doctoral project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Doc.CH grant. She is currently working on a book manuscript – Meat in the Heat – on the history of meat production and consumption in British Mandate Palestine.
Simon Lobach work specializes on the environmental history of Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly the position of traditional people in expanding extraction activities in the Caribbean Amazon. Simon has a broad academic background in History, Latin American Studies and International Affairs, and several years of professional experience in international environmental cooperation. Having lived and worked in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Brazil, Simon is fully fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch.
Moe Omiya is an academic assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Department of History, focusing on global history of architecture from late 19th to early 20th century. Raised in Tokyo and Berlin, she spent one semester at the Bauhaus-University Weimar during her undergraduate years at the University of Tokyo, Cultural Representation Course, where she graduated with a dissertation on Bauhaus movements, focusing on the “Haus am Horn”. She went on to the University of Oxford, UK, where she received her master’s degree in History of Art and Visual Culture with a dissertation about an architectural work in London called ISOKON Flats. Her current academic interest includes global history of architecture, especially the transfer process of knowledge, principles, and technique, with a focus on “spaces in-between where German and Japanese architecture met from 1890s to 1930s”.
Amal Shahidis a PhD Candidate at the Department of International History, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. For the academic year 2020-2021, she is a Visiting scholar at the Department of History, Dartmouth College, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.mobility grant. Previously, she was an exchange student at Yale University, and a Teaching Assistant for the Department of Interdisciplinary Masters. Her research interests include History of Imperialism and Development, Labour Studies, Sociology of Race and Caste, and Political Economy.
Michele Sollai is a PhD candidate in International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is currently finalizing his dissertation on the history of agrarian development and modernization in Ethiopia from the Italian occupation to the post-WWII years, titled “The Thin Green Line: Farmers, Experts, and the Practice of Agrarian Development in Ethiopia (1930s-1950s)”.
Joshua Thew is a PhD candidate in International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His research focuses on how American attitudes and ideas about race, ethnicity, and religion influenced and determined rural education and development practices in the Middle East, in the 20th century. His broader research interests reside in the fields of community organization, agriculture – and particularly agrarian outreach – health, and recreation as vehicles for knowledge exchange.
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Definitely, the need are wedded is no assurance that it will encounter. As well as that, I have no good address. If you learn that your attempts toward matrimony remain unfinished, I can just explain how we a loving Jesus, and the man dubs us become rewarding in whatever say we’ve been in www.datingmentor.org/german-chat-rooms at this time. We are to provide him with whatever he or she gives us: “Each you need to use whatever present he’s got was given to offer other individuals, consistently administering God’s sophistication within its different ways” (1 Peter 4:10, NIV).
“If you will not be known as to celibacy, see wedded!”
In the end, the object of happiness whether solitary or attached really should not be our personal partner; it ought to be Christ. There’ll be no solitary Christians in eden. It says in Insight, “One. spoke if you ask me, saying, ‘Come, i shall display the Bride, the partner associated with the mutton.’ And he offered myself at a distance when you look at the Soul to an outstanding, high slopes, and revealed me the holy urban area Jerusalem coming down off paradise from Lord, obtaining prestige of Goodness” (21:9-11). Christian scholar, we shall all be hitched to Christ thereon night! In the meantime, individual men must figure out how to live-out their unique sex in a way that prepares these people for that finest special day.
A Theology of Sexual Intercourse
Once we examine the main topics love-making while the single person, we must start by developing a theology of sexual intercourse. Currently, for those who think of sex, theology is probably not the next thing that comes to mind. Morality might spring to mind, or the create’s and don’ts. Of course, sexual intercourse was a pursuit, and whether you’re a Christian or don’t, your very own sexual intercourse will likely be ruled by some pair moral regulations. When We have already said, the biblical requirements for ones intimate behavior is that sexual intercourse is restricted to wedding ceremony relationship that is available primarily between one man as well as one girl providing wind energy and solar energy real time (see Genesis 2:24; Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Mark 10:6-12; 1 Corinthians 6:12–7:9).
The problem is not that people whether single or hitched, Christian or non-Christian don’t understand this common or are not aware they. The thing is that excessive among us refuse to surpass they. The Reasons Why? Really, on the one hand, our lifestyle sees this common hopelessly ancient and ridiculous, lots amongst us have already been affected by all of our growth. The society grounds that such rules on individual happiness and freedom might manufactured good sense prior to the introduction of birth prevention or perhaps the skill of women to compliment kiddies automatically.
Back then, intercourse am the award that women monitored, together with the best possible way to victory it has been throughout the determination of relationships. A quid pro quo was a student in spot: the advantage of sex in substitution for the pledge to offer and protect. But also in our personal time, the assertion works, why must intercourse be quarantined regarding the booking of wedding? The ill effects of sexual intercourse away from relationships is dealt with painlessly, why should two consenting people certainly not feel free to email or enjoy a product that is actually enjoyable and excellent? Besides, it’s less expensive than dinner party and a movie, and plenty more enjoyable.
Whereas, the entire body are in agreement with the lifestyle’s examination. Therefore even as Christian guys, most people engage in a number of bodily intimacy with girls, from “making around” to “hooking right up” and everything in between. Commonly, most people make a case for our personal sexual activity based on the willpower amount of the connection. Slightly more willpower this is contained in the connection, the actual greater intimately involved we all allow ourself becoming. Quite possibly the most common facts we hear in pre-marriage counseling are couples stating they managed to keep away from exercise until they got engaged. When this occurs, all the inner restraint that they had appear eventually vanished, and so they found by themselves fighting often a deep failing to stay out of bed.
Posses you misinterpreted God’s traditional? Really does enhancing persistence legitimize creating amounts of sexual intimacy even outside relationship?
This could be precisely where a theology of intercourse turns out to be vital, and a theology of sexual intercourse need considerably more than a list of accomplish’s and don’ts. The way it ends up, sexual intercourse is not necessarily the absolute reward you will get so you can get attached, and erotic intimacy will never be tied to a sliding size of commitment. Instead, love keeps a God-given theological this means and purpose that surpasses “my” skills and viewpoints over it.
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BEST Home Profit System: 7 Reasons Why They’re RAVING!
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There is much to be considered when choosing a home business.
With the economy continuing to flounder and quality jobs being harder to find, many smart and forward thinking Americans are finding themselves in search of a money making system that will create the work/life balance that they desire, while affording them many of the luxuries that a regular 9 to 5 job simply cannot provide.
Home income systems allow for the individual to become their own boss, while being supported by and through a larger organization.
A home based business mean less worry about layoffs, flexible time and schedule, and often, a higher per hour wage than what could be obtained in the traditional work force.
When choosing a money making system to recreate the financial landscape of your home, there are seven factors that
must be analyzed, measured, and considered before committing.
Our system has all of these but understanding the pros and cons of each of these factors will be critical in choosing an income system that is right for you, your family, and your future.
1. Profitable
Most important of all: Is it profitable? With access to reports, studies, and reviews online, it is easy to research the profitability of a home profit system. Generally speaking, you want to find one that profits between $50-$300
daily, resulting in an annual salary of $18,250 to $109,500.
(Because when you’re utilizing a home income system, your earnings are not limited to the clock. Every day is an opportunity to make money.)
2. Low Investment
There are many money making systems on the market, but not all of them have very low investment overhead to get started.
Generally speaking, the money making systems that have the highest success rate also have the lowest investment rate, mainly because once the money making system is put into place, the company quickly recoups their costs and the individual starts making money for both the company and themselves.
A good rule of thumb is $20-$100 a month in investment cost to get started. Of course as with any business, if you want to grow it faster, you'll want to invest more into marketing in order to make that happen.
3. Easy
Why go into business for yourself with a home business if you’re just going to work yourself to death again?
A quality home business should be easy, simple, and require no technical background or specific education.
4. Quick
Most successful home businesses remain a success because they work quickly. They should involve a minimal amount of your time, take a minimal amount of time to create a profit, and should quickly multiply your earnings. Find a money making system that requires less than an hour of your time every day.
5. E-Friendly
The system you choose should be 100% e-friendly for both you and your potential customers/clients. The requirements for starting your home profit system should be nothing more than a solid internet connection and a computer.
6. No Holding of Stock Required
Much like #2, a high quality and solid home income system will not require much of you financially, and therefore should not
require you hold stock in the system. Companies that have high investment fees or require stock holding are generally not solid or reputable companies.
There are many other home business systems on the market that are confident in their reputation, their finances, and the people they work with that they don’t need to require stocks or high investments.
7. Honest
At the end of the day, it comes down to honesty. An honest business will be a happier experience for yourself and those that work with you. When your home profit system is based on an honest company and honest values, it becomes easier to work the system and do so with confidence.
In a more practical sense, honest companies are also less likely to fail, fall under investigation, or be shut down. In some situations, dishonest home income systems have resulted in independent contractors being investigated and in some extreme situations, jailed or severely fined. Work with honest people and do honest work, and the rewards are sure to follow.
Home Profit System: Conclusion
Home income systems hold the potential to change the lives of those who employ them. The American dream is not dead, especially for those who reach out and grab it. Money making systems allow individuals to embrace their own financial future and determine how they want to spend their time.
With these seven factors taken into consideration, anyone can unlock the future they want for themselves and their families with the right home profit system for them.
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Pete Kocefas, owner of Sledheads, a snowmobile retailer in Frederic in northern Michigan, used to call the period between Christmas and New Year’s “hell week,” because his store was filled with customers.
This year, he’s using that term for another reason: no customers.
“Last year, the first machines rode in Dec. 3. This year, not until Dec. 28,” said Kocefas, whose business is down 90%.
Michigan has seen little snow this year, which is hurting businesses that are usually white-hot when there’s plenty of the white, cold stuff.
“All ski areas are seeing less traffic in than in a normal year,” said Steve Kershner, chairman of the Michigan Snowsports Industries Association board and director of snow sports at Shanty Creek Resorts. “The brew pub in town has less people in it. The lunch places have less people in them. The gas stations … There’s a huge ripple effect.”
This week is especially important. According to Kershner, 15% of a winter resort’s revenues is earned between Christmas and New Year’s.
“We can all rebound really well and really fast and I’m confident we will,” he said.
Ski industry waiting for a real Michigan winter
The lack of snow is enough to make any business that caters to winter-sports enthusiasts shiver.
Ski resorts are closed. Snowshoe and snowmobile outfitters are hurting. Motels, bars and restaurants near cross-country ski trails and ski resorts are nearly empty.
The economic impact of winter travel in the state is $4 billion annually, which represents 23.3% of the $17.2-billion travel and tourism spending in the state, according to Travel Michigan’s 2010 data.
Not only are snow levels down throughout Michigan (in one case, in the Alpena area, an 88-year low), but temperatures aren’t cold enough to produce the man-made white stuff, according to the National Weather Service.
“It’s make-or-break from today through New Year’s,” Michigan Snowsports Industries Association’s executive director Mickey MacWilliams said Wednesday. “Certainly, we’re not doing cartwheels, because it’s not been too cooperative lately. Even if there’s no snow in your backyards, there’s snow on our ski slopes.”
Mt. Holly in Oakland County’s catchphrase is “Where the north begins,” but like ski resorts and snowmobiling sports facilities farther north, the snow isn’t what they’d like. Business there is off 50%.
“We obviously got off to a slow start, because winter kept postponing itself and when it did come in, it just came in with a couple nights to make snow,” said general manager Mark Tibbits, explaining that Wednesday was the first time the parking lot was full since Dec. 11.
Added Jim Bartlett, president and general manager of Nub’s Nob, a ski resort in Harbor Springs, “If I was a cross-country retailer or a snowmobiler retailer, I’d be shaking in my boots. … The millions of dollars in investment we’ve made in snowmaking allows us to make snow.”
At Strongs Tavern Motel in Eckerman in the Upper Peninsula, co-owner Irene Lawless said she’s seen a 60% drop in business.
“We are getting a little worried,” she said. “Usually, the week between Christmas and New Year’s is a big week. All the motels in our town are sitting empty. … We’re hoping it turns around.”
The Riviera Resort in Prudenville near Houghton Lake, which also sees a lot of ice-fishing fans, has rented only 10 of its 26 rooms. Owner Marie Brasza Pinch said her revenues are down about 60%.
“We are really praying for snow. We’re doing our snow dance to get our snow in,” she said. “Once the snow melts, you’re down real low until the summer comes. This whole lake is upset. All the businesses around the lake are all very troubled, because of the lack of snow and of course, the economy hasn’t helped this year, the gas prices.”
And the Swiss Valley Ski Snowboard Area south of Kalamazoo hasn’t even been able to open yet, according to general manager Jim Wiseman.
“I’ve been in it for 40 years. I never get nervous. It is what it is. I have no problem with it, except the loss of revenues,” he said, explaining that he usually has 60-65 days in a season that starts after Thanksgiving to make money. “Twenty percent is gone already, for sure. That’s Christmas week. … We’ve been waiting for some cold weather to make some snow. The snow we’re trying to make here in this corner of the state is wet and sloppy. It’s not easy to groom and not conducive to good skiing.”
But Tibbits remains hopeful.
“For us, this is just another hiccup in the weather forecast,” he said. “I’m an optimist. I’d have to be or I couldn’t do this work.”
Contact Zlati Meyer: 313-223-4439 or [email protected]
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Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 150:6)
This simple verse is one that we want everyone to remember It should flow off the tip of our tongues like water down a hill. Inside this little verse is the hope and dream of the God who made us and everything else.
First, God wants to be praised. A friend of mine who is working on a book with me has a chapter in the book on purpose. In his understanding, the primary reason we exist is to bring joy to God. A life of purpose is focused on watching for God’s work in the world around us and joining in to live out God’s will with our lives. Because we are to join in with what God is up to, our work is part of but pales in comparison to what we see God doing. The result? Praise. How can we be focused o watching what our amazing God is up to and not be moved to praise!
Second, God’s dream is expansive. God doesn’t want some part of the world to praise God. God wants “everything that has breath” joining in the praise. This means that when we are praising God, we are to be contagious and invitational. This is not something we do alone or merely as a small group. It is something we do with as many others as we can. And we are always open and wanting others to join in the praise of God.
These two factors are to influence how we live our lives.
First, our own energy should be focused on and include praising God and God’s work whenever we can. People of faith, even in the midst of trials, are called to remember and lift up the goodness of God. Much of the Bible is reminding people to cling to God’s goodness, even in the face of trials and tribulations. Tony Campolo, a popular preacher and speaker likes to say, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming!” It is a way of reminding us that though Jesus died on a Friday, there was resurrection to follow.
Second, we are to be invitational with our faith. Just this week someone from one of the small groups shared that their group had spent a half hour of their group time talking about inviting people to be a part of the faith community. This is not just a practical way to grow the church. It is a faith commitment to fulfill God’s dream that one day, “everything that has breath will praise the Lord!”
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Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Education (E4S)
The E4S Award will be granted to an educator who has made a significant contribution to the profession in the area of educating practitioners. The award will be jointly administered by AAEES and AEESP and will be bestowed annually at the AAEES Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science™ (E3S) Awards Luncheon and Technical Conference. A monetary award of $1,000 with an additional $500 for travel by the award recipient to the annual E3S ceremony will be granted to the winning nominee.
Examples of significant contributions include:
Development of educational material or text that enhances the ability of students to succeed as professional environmental engineers serving as practitioners in roles such as infrastructure design and project leadership. Demonstration of successful course or curricula development aimed at educating practitioners. Successful deployment of the Environmental Engineering Body of Knowledge concepts. Creation of unique methods or curricula that challenge and inspire students in the area of environmental engineering practice. Demonstration of successful student educational outcomes (examples include: letters of support/nomination from former students currently practicing environmental engineering, former students passing PE, former students showing leadership as practitioners, critical projects that former students have led). Establishment of positive student mentoring relationships or programs. Contributions to the profession in terms of activity in professional organizations, delivery of lectures, and interaction with public agencies and the consulting community to bridge the gap between university education and environmental engineering practice. Open to all university faculty teaching environmental engineering.
Nomination packages should include: (1) a brief cover letter from the nominator; (2) brief curriculum vitae (4-page maximum) for the nominee, (3) documentation related directly to the award criteria consisting of no more than 30 pages, (4) one (minimum) to five (maximum) letters of recommendation from current or past students; and (5) one (minimum) to three (maximum) letters of recommendation from faculty, administrator, or industry peers. Past nominations will be carried over and considered for three years and can be modified during the current nomination period.
Information on where to submit a nomination package can be found here: http://www.aeesp.org/awards/e4. 2021 Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Education Recipient Lynn E. Katz, Ph.D., P.E.
Lynn Katz is the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Center for Water and the Environment at the University of Texas-Austin.
She received her B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, M.S. degrees in Chemistry and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine.
Her research and teaching focuses on reaction phenomena at interfaces for the development of treatment technologies for water and understanding the fate of contaminants in the environment. The utilization of fundamental knowledge to guide field application is one of her major research and teaching goals.
Dr. Katz has served as president of the Environmental Engineering Division of American Society of Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Geochemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, board member, treasurer and Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and president of the AEESP Foundation
Past Recipients
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2020 Masten, Susan 2019 Ergas, Sarina J. 2018 Valentine, Richard 2017 Mihelcic, James 2016 No recipient 2015 Nies, Larry 2014 Oerther, Daniel B. 2013 Novak, John T. 2012 Tchobanoglous, George
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Arabs in Australia are the hottest segment of the Australian grocery market, according to a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The report, based on sales data from supermarkets, grocery stores and food distributors, found the region has grown by more than 100 per cent since 2000.
The region has also gained a population and the number of people who are from outside the Middle East.
It has more people from outside Australia than the US, France and Britain combined, the report said.
“There’s no question that Australia is now the most attractive market in the world,” said Michael Fergusson, the lead author of the report and an economist at the University of Melbourne.
“Australians are going to want to buy groceries in the region because the quality and availability is just better.”
The report is based on data from the grocery stores in the Greater Melbourne area.
The supermarket industry is the largest employer in the area, accounting for 25 per cent of its total employment.
But while the number is increasing, the proportion of people from overseas is shrinking.
The Australian dollar is down 1.6 per cent against the US dollar in the past 24 hours and the Australian dollar index is down 0.3 per cent, compared with the same period a year ago.
But in a sign that the Australian economy may be cooling, the Australian Retailers Association has warned that the economic downturn is already impacting on its members and that the country’s “labor force is shrinking.”
The association’s president, Paul Mowatt, said it was becoming harder to attract the top talent in the industry and he would be worried if Australia lost its manufacturing base.
Fergussons report says the region is the fastest growing in the countryThe region also gained the second fastest growth in population between 2000 and 2010, and now has an average of 11,000 new residents a year.
Its population also grew by more then a million people a year between 2010 and 2020, the highest increase in the continent.
And it added another 500,000 people a decade later, more than double the growth rate of the next largest region, South Africa, which has just over 3 million people.
But the report’s authors believe that the demographic shift has not happened overnight.
They said that as many as 40 per cent or more of the growth in the Australian population is the result of migration from other parts of the world, and that some of the largest increases were in the South East.
Ferguson said the region had the largest number of Australians from outside of the Middle Eastern countries.
He said that when people migrated to Australia from the Middle West and elsewhere, they tended to stay in Australia.
But Fergusons report said that a lot of the migration was done through the tertiary system, the system that includes university, which he said was becoming increasingly unaffordable for most Australians.
He said people who were living in Australia for many years were now going back to the Middle States.
“The number of tertiary students is at a record low,” he said.
Ferguson says there are a lot more opportunities for Australians in the MiddleEastIt is important to note that most of the countries listed in the report are in Australia, so if you’re in one of those countries and you’re looking for a place to live and a job, you should be able to get a job in that country, said Ferguson.
But he said the regional growth had been fuelled by a lot less than expected demand.
There was not as much demand in the United States, which had a larger population than the Middle-East, Ferguson said.
Australia is also not in the middle of the US’s economic downturn, he said, and there are more opportunities in the US than in the Arab world.
The report noted that the US economy is now growing at a faster rate than Australia.
And that trend is likely to continue, Fergussian said.
The growth in Australia’s population, however, is also expected to slow down as people migrate back to their own countries.
The migration to Australia has already been very slow and people are choosing to move back to countries that they can live and work, Falgusson said.
Topics:government-and-politics,business-economics-and,population,economic-trends,australia
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One of the most important decision to make when it comes to setting up your own fish aquarium is the choice of the substrate. One of the most commonly used substrates by most of the fish keepers is the “Gravel substrate”. Apart from giving your fish tank a natural and beautiful aesthetic, gravel substrate is also
important to fish’s health and growth. Benefits of gravel substrate will be discussed later in this article.
An important question that arises with the use of gravel is how to clean it? As a lot of fish waste, food leftover articles and plant debris can get trapped within the gravel. All these harmful substances can prove hazardous for your fish.
In this article we will be highlighting the benefits of gravel as a substrate, how to get a good as new gravel, easy and beneficial methods of cleaning the aquarium gravel.
Let us dig into this article and find a solution to your unhealthy gravel problem.
Why is Using the Gravel Substrate Important?
Although gravel is not your last or only option when it comes to aquarium substrate. Some people prefer a bare-base aquarium. Which means no substrate at all.
Although, this option is cost-friendly and does not cause you the hassle of cleaning. But a bare-base or non-substrate aquarium doesn’t fulfill the natural criteria of fish habitat. Furthermore, it requires more cleaning, and it also lacks beneficial biological filter and useful Bacterias.
Moreover, “Sand-based Aquarium” is another option for fish keepers. There are both pros and cons of using sand as substrate such as it is not expensive, easy to find and use.
But on the other hand, it does not contain any essential nutrient, has less oxygen content and, complete absence of useful Bacterias for fish. Lack of vital biological filter means more cleaning will be required. It is also harmful for natural plants in the aquarium as they can die due to lack of oxygen.
Benefits of Gravel Substrate:
Now getting back to the main topic that what benefits can we get from using gravel as a substrate? Apart from bringing natural aesthetics, it is also a storehouse of beneficial Bacterias. Although it can entrap harmful substances like fish debris, waste, and products from dead plants, it is also useful for fish in some ways.
Waste in the fish tank is a major source of ammonia buildup, thus we need nitrifying Bacterias to eliminate these elevated levels. Gravel substrate is the main production and growth site of such bacteria. Thus, gravel substrate is an easy and natural source of eliminating unnecessary ammonia.
Moreover, it provides important sites for fish to interact. Gravel substrate is the closest thing to natural fish habitat. Thus, it is a stress-reliever for fish. Gravel also helps fish in lying and protecting their eggs.
Another important use of gravel is that it is also beneficial for plants in aquarium as it provides adequate support and oxygen. Above all it is easy to clean, which is our main concern of the day.
Different Types of Gravel Used:
There are different types of gravel available on the market that you can choose according to your taste and needs.
White aquarium gravel Pink aquarium gravel Pea gravel Crushed coral gravel Black and blue aquarium gravel
All you need is enough gravel to cover aquarium base up to 3 inches. Clean the gravel 2-3 times before adding it in the tank.
What are the side effects of dirty and old aquarium gravel?
When it comes to dirty and unkept aquarium gravel, it can lead to dangerously high levels of ammonia, nitrates and other harmful substances. These substances can lead to disturbance in the pH of water, such changes can affect the fish’s health in the worst way possible.
Furthermore, with decaying matters like fish waste and food particles stranded within the gravel, there is excessive growth of algae. This alga can use up the available oxygen leading to the death of fish and plants as well.
Above all that, gravel is not only responsible for the growth of
useful Bacterias but also many harmful bacteria and microbes can thrive in it. Such toxic agents can cause disturbance in essential water parameters like pH, water hardness, and oxygen levels.
If aquarium gravel is not cleaned properly, it will make the water dirty and unhealthy in no time and will require frequent water changes. Moreover, it will be difficult to maintain suitable water conditions and will cause a huge nuisance for fish keepers.
When and How Often You Need to Clean Aquarium Gravel?
Any change in water color, water parameters or visible debris in aquarium or if your fish is moving slowly, then all of it is an alarm to rising levels of waste in aquarium. If you notice any of such changes, it’s your time to deeply clean aquarium gravel.
Apart from regular partial water changes, an aquarium with gravel substrate requires extra treatment and effort. The cleaning requirement, method and timing depends upon the following factors.
Aquarium size
In a large sized aquarium with less fish there is less waste accumulated per square foot and thus, less waste disposal is required. So, a huge aquarium requires less cleaning.
Types of fish present
Some fishes are huge and produce more waste. For example, Oscar fish eats more and ultimately adds a huge amount of waste to the tank, so it requires a deep cleaning more often than other fish.
On the hand, smaller fish produce less waste. There are some fishes like cleaner fish that automatically cleans the tank as a part their job. Such fishes require less cleaning, for them a monthly thorough cleaning is more than enough.
The quantity of fish in an aquarium:
The amount of waste is directly related to the quantity of the fish present. More the fish, more the food used and more will be the
waste. Moreover, overfeeding the fish is also a contributing factor as it leads to more waste, more food leftovers and more decaying
matter for algae growth. Thus, you should avoid overcrowding and overfeeding.
Presence of live plants:
Live plants are another source of waste reduction thus the aquarium with live plants need less cleaning. Weekly a vacuum cleaning is more than needed, provided you keep a check on the plant debris.
Quality of Gravel used:
The type and quality of gravel is also an important factor. As cheap and low-quality gravel can disintegrate with time adding a huge amount of limestone in the aquarium water.
Thus, a high-quality gravel should be preferred. Moreover, small sized gravel can trap more waste in its small air pockets and such pockets can lead to gravel hardening.
Large sized gravel entraps less waste and its easy to clean as well. Even with a single round of vacuum cleaning can remove large percentage of waste in this type of gravel.
Based on all the above-mentioned factors it is recommended by aquarist to clean aquarium gravel every two weeks thoroughly with 25% water change. Moreover, a weekly vacuum cleaning is also recommended.
Methods to Clean Aquarium Gravel, Step-by- Step Guide:
The scheme of cleaning depends upon the resources at hand and the condition of your aquarium. There are generally two main methods of cleaning the aquarium gravel. We will be discussing both the methods in detail with step-by-step guide.
Cleaning the Aquarium Gravel with Vacuum System
The vacuum filtration system works on the principle of a sucking vacuum and gravity. All you need is a syphon or a long tube, a vacuum kit and a water bucket.
Cleaning the gravel with vacuum requires following steps.
1.Removing the Aquarium Components:
First, you need to prepare the area for cleaning which includes removing all the machinery such as water heater, filter, and water pump. Moreover, remove the decorations, rocks, and plants. Leave the fish and live plants inside.
Usually, the vacuum cleaning method does not take more than 20-
30 minutes and its likely that your fish can survive this brief time.
2.Setting up the Apparatus:
Firstly, place the bucket at the lower level of aquarium. Take the syphon or the long plastic tube and attach it with the vacuum machine. Sometimes the syphon is already a part of the vacuum kit and thus it makes your job quite easy.
Next plug the open end of the syphon with your thumb, submerge the syphon into the water a few centimeters above the gravel.
3.Begin the Vacuuming:
Once the syphon is completely submerged in the water and its close to the gravel, withdraw your thumb and let the water run into the bucket. Check the flow of water and once its fluent move the syphon into the deeper parts of gravel.
Move the syphon’s head up and down as well as in to-and-fro directions, it will allow more waste removal. There is usually more waste accumulation around the plants and decorations thus these areas require more cleaning.
It should take maximum 30 minutes to thoroughly clean the aquarium gravel. Move the gravel around to ensure complete eradication of waste material. Make sure to break all the hardened gravel pockets.
Once 20-25% of water is removed along with waste its your time to stop.
4. Removing the syphon:
As soon as the water levels drop to the 3/4th of the original level, turn the mouth of the tube upward and move it out of the tank. Make sure that whole water is drained out of the tube into the bucket.
Once the syphon tube is out of the tank, throw out the water and clean the vacuum machine by passing a round of clean water through it.
5.Checking the water parameters:
Now fill the tank completely with freshwater, it is advised to avoid using the tap water as it is loaded with minerals. Its vital to check all the water parameters before finishing the process.
Check the pH, concentration of ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and water hardness.
Make sure all the parameters are stable and appropriate. Some aquarists tend to add de-chlorinating agents in case of tap water after cleaning, for this purpose you must remove fish and plants
before cleaning process. Removing the fish is necessary as these agents are harmful for fish.
6. Putting all the Components Back in:
Now its time for you to set all the components back in. Set the water heater, filtration system, water pump and decorations into their original location.
This cleaning process should be repeated every two weeks to ensure the safety of your fish.
Cleaning the Aquarium Gravel without Vacuum:
Well to clean the aquarium gravel without the vacuum kit is quite difficult and requires a lot of effort. For effective cleaning you need to follow all the essential steps carefully and precisely.
All you need is a separate tank setup, a fish net, a syphon, scrubs, and some cleaning agents.
1.Setup a Holding Tank:
The very first step in cleaning the gravel is to setup a separate aquarium. Remove all the essential components including the water heater, water pump, filtration system, decorations, plants,
and fish as well. It is important to remove the fish as we are aiming to remove all the water and gravel.
Transfer 50% of water into the separate holding tank to provide the same conditions to fish as before. As drastic water changes can affect the health of fish.
2.Cleaning the Gravel:
Once the tank is empty you should remove the gravel as well. Move the gravel into a separate bucket and wash it thoroughly with water. You should wash the gravel 2-3 times deeply to ensure complete elimination of waste products and harmful bacteria. Air-dry the gravel to eliminate any toxic agent left behind.
It is crucial to separate a small amount of gravel aside, as this gravel is the main reservoir of beneficial bacteria. If whole gravel is devoid of essential bacteria, then it will lead to pilling up of ammonia in aquarium. Once bacteria are removed completely you will need to add bacterial culture on your own. Thus, it is vital to save up some gravel with active bacterial cultures.
3.Cleaning the Tank:
Next step is to carefully clean the aquarium with disinfectants. Avoid any strong and harmful chemicals as they have long- lasting harmful effects. If any strong chemical is applied, make sure to clean the aquarium surfaces multiple times to remove hazardous chemicals.
Once the aquarium is clean its best to air dry the aquarium. This step is essential as it helps in killing any harmful bacteria or pathogen and ensure the safety of fish.
4.Re-establishing the Aquarium:
Once all the components are clean it’s time to setup the aquarium once again. Now place the aquarium in the right place, spread the dry gravel on the bottom up to 3 inches on the side. Do not forget to mix the clean gravel with the one having bacterial culture left aside. This step is crucial as it will ensure the regrowth of essential bacteria and further cleaning the aquarium without any effort.
Once the gravel is settled, add fresh water, check water parameters, and ensure the maintenance of accurate water conditions before adding the fish. Now set in the decorations and essential equipment, then carefully add the fish to the aquarium.
Conclusion:
Gravel is the most popular and most recommended substrate for aquariums, and it comes with some pros and cons. Although it is beneficial for fish and plants simultaneously, it isn’t easy to clean. The vacuum kit has made it quite simple and quick. Cleaning it manually is time-taking but not impossible, and we hope this article will help you clean your aquarium gravel in the best way possible.
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PETA says the COP26 organisers are catering to climate disaster.
With fears of energy rationing and rising electricity bills, farmers and livestock breeders opt for sustainability and self-sufficiency.
Decades of intensive agriculture and water mismanagement have left the country in need of a radical overhaul of its water policies.
Protests by Indian farmers against three new farm laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water.
The British charity Veganuary pens open letter urging people to try going vegan in 2021.
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases.
Could we be heading for another Dust Bowl Event?
Deep Branch is turning CO2 into animal feed.
The CEO of Naturli Henrik Lund tells A greener life, a greener world that climate change plays a huge part in people changing their diet.
Farmers are focusing on ways to reduce methane emissions and save water to further reduce the staple crop’s climate footprint.
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There’s plenty of sagely advice available from savvy investors. One thing most of them have in common is they stay invested. They may keep some cash on the sidelines to take advantage of unexpected opportunities. They may dial stock exposure up when they think it’s appropriate, and they may dial it down when they deem that prudent. They may shift more of their portfolio into defensive stocks if they think a pullback is likely. They’ll certainly trim holdings that have gotten outsized on market moves and add to areas that have shrunk below target allocations. That “gardening” applies to overall asset classes like stocks and bonds, to sectors within asset classes and to positions in individual companies. The key point is that the changes are at the margin. There is no binary “all in or all out” decision.
Market moves can be unsettling at times, whether it’s a sudden plunge like last spring or a grinding bear market like during the Great Financial Crisis. Volatility has been, is and always will be a feature of the stock market, but a willingness to ride out that volatility has rewarded investors over time.
That being said, investors do need the peace of mind to sleep at night, and that’s where marginal portfolio adjustments come in. Dialing back stock exposure by a pre-set amount at times may help on that front, but the incremental nature of the move means it won’t cause lasting damage to portfolio returns if the market keeps rallying.
The long-term trend in the stock market overall has been toward higher prices, but the market has zigged and zagged in what has been termed a “random walk”. The trend toward higher prices has indeed been investors’ friend, but those seemingly random moves to get there have made it challenging to predict short-term movements with any high degree of certainty or consistency. Adding to the complexity, market sentiment is often most optimistic right before a downturn’s onset and most pessimistic right before a new bull market is born.
That unpredictability is why the most successful investors stay invested, even if they make portfolio adjustments at the margin. Those investors likely have a chart like the one below, and they probably reference it regularly.
Those highly successful investors may have a “secret sauce” that gives them an edge in picking individual stocks or making those marginal adjustments, but the real keys to investing success are no secret:
1. Start investing.
2. Keep investing additional funds as you’re able. 3. Stay invested.
Working with a professional advisor can help investors navigate turbulent waters by constructing a portfolio that can still generate consistent and predictable cash flow during market downturns and helping them stick with a durable long-term plan.
We’d welcome the opportunity to chat with you about your investing journey.
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This article provides several cleaning tips for the home. We provide a brief overview of these tips, including background information regarding how the ideas are different in one another.
Cleanup tips are the most important factor in keeping the environment clean. The quality of a full time income area is definitely directly dependent on how properly the area will be cleaned out. People spend huge amounts of time in the real homes they live in, so it’s important to make those homes clean. Keeping a dirty house can be an unnecessary waste of resources.
Cleaning up tips involve numerous methods that range from regularly sweeping and mopping floors to using harsh chemicals. While many methods are unpleasant, some societal people are unable to deal with particular household tasks. Household cleaning tips are a good idea to this kind of person.
Household cleaning may be the primary kind of water supply pollution. Numerous houses have got surface water which should not really come in contact with all of those other house. In some cases, there is absolutely no way to know what the contaminates are within the home unless the source of contamination is identified. Surface area water contamination can contaminate normal water, that is also a form of water pollution.
Space management is another important aspect of keeping the home clean. Many people do not understand the significance of area setting up. Landscaping and room planning are essential elements to make the real home pleasing to the attention, useful and in sync with the environment.
Some people believe because they will only be in a specific room for a brief period of time, that they do not need to clean it. But, in reality, if a individual were to produce a mess in that particular room, they would still have the opportunity to clean it. They might end up being past due a complete great deal if they cleaned out whenever they got into a room.
House owners and other employees should always use protective clothing when cleaning. Additionally, cleansing products ought to be secure at the fingers. Cleaning solutions ought to be hot water only. If they are not, the chemical substances contained in the cleaner may react using the essential oil and skin within the tactile fingers and result in burns. Also, no one wants to touch a cold bottle of cleaning solution, so that it should become within the very hot side often.
Preventing cross-contamination can be important. You’ll be able to get bacteria from another available room. If they touch the surfaces in the true home, they could transfer the germs and germs. A very important thing for an individual to do to be able to prevent obtaining a disease would be to avoid touching anyone who has the condition.
Using wipe cloths or a dried out towel to wipe dirty surfaces is a great idea. If you want to go a step further, it is possible to go to a dry cleaning shop, pick up a papers towel and hang it in the hooks in the available space. You have covered the dirtiest surface Once, the paper towel will absorb all the dirt and you may wipe from the dirty surface using a paper towel.
Dry the bedding and comforters. This is a useful tip, especially when it comes to high traffic places like the bedroom. Bed room dirt is difficult and annoying to regulate. It’s very difficult to completely clean a mattress in one session usually, so it is better to dry it first.
Making use of paper towels to dry paper items is really a healthy and eco-friendly alternative to electric dryers, so long as the paper towels are also germ free. To do this, you need to spray the items and wipe them down thoroughly. Following this, you can put the item in the dryer.
Clean-up tips are available to help house owners minimize the use of household cleaners, which really is a great way to safeguard the environment. There are many tips available for the common home cleaning tasks, such as for example painting and cleansing the windows.
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New Stop AAPI Hate national report shows bigger increase in anti-Asian hate incidents over past year
There were more than 9,000 incidents of anti-Asian hate between March and June 2021.
Released on Thursday, Aug. 12, Stop AAPI Hate’s recent national report reveals that anti-Asian hate incidents are continuing to rise.
The report covers the 9,081 incident reports to the coalition from March 19, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The number of incidents reported increased from 6,603 to 9,081 during April—June 2021.
This morning, Stop AAPI Hate issued new data, indicating 9,000+ reports of anti-AAPI hate since last March — almost half of which included anti-China sentiment. pic.twitter.com/bT2TLefOCF
— Stop AAPI Hate (@StopAAPIHate) August 12, 2021
According to the report, verbal harassment (63.7%) and shunning (16.5%) — the deliberate avoidance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — continue to make up the largest proportions of total incidents reported. A majority of the incidents are traumatic and damaging, but not hate crimes.
Physical assault (13.7%) was the third largest category of total reported incidents, followed by being coughed at or spat on (8.5%).
Civil rights violations, such as workplace discrimination, refusal of service and being barred from transportation accounted for 11% of the total incidents, and online harrassment made up 8.3%.
The report also covered national trends revealed from the data. Most of the reported incidents took place outside of the home, with the majority taking place on public streets (31.6%) and in businesses (30.1%).
Women, youth and senior citizens remain particularly vulnerable to anti-AAPI incidents, and people of Chinese descent reported more hate incidents than all ethnic groups.
Of all the incidents reported, nearly half included at least one hateful statement regarding anti-China and/or anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“The implications are clear: the surge of racism and xenophobia has not abated,” the coalition wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “If elected officials continue to scapegoat Chinese people for the spread of the pandemic, things will only get worse.”
Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco University, shared his thoughts on why the incidents are steadily increasing with Kimmy Yam of
NBC News.
“It is a combination of both people coming out of a pandemic and interacting more with the public,” Jeung said. “And secondly, people know about [Stop AAPI Hate] more and are reporting more and are wanting the racism to stop,” he said.
New York led the nation by a large margin with the most anti-Asian incidents, at 38.6%. Texas, Washington, California and Illinois were among the top five states featured in the report.
New York City recorded 5 anti-Asian attacks over the weekend alone.
One woman was punched twice as she and her young daughter were leaving an anti-Asian hate rally. Activists across the U.S. are organizing rallies after 8 people, 6 of them Asian women, were killed in Atlanta. pic.twitter.com/8vrC1YpBem
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 23, 2021
Anti-Asian sentiment and hate reports are not exclusive to the past year, but the study does note that the influence of the pandemic are among factors contributing to the recent uptick in reports.
It mentions former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory use of words like “Chinese virus” and “Kung-flu” on multiple occasions.
While the Biden administration has demonstrated allyship, signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law, there is still a concern that a U.S. investigation into the origins of the virus could lead to more hostility and poor treatment of Asian-Americans as enemy foreigners.
Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, told the
Associated Press that although there are a number of other authoritarian-regime nations that compete with the U.S., communities of color are hit harder.
“When you encourage hate, it’s not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want,” said Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of @StopAAPIHate https://t.co/7q4qvz5KZQ
— Terry Tang (@ttangAP) August 12, 2021
“The ways in which we talk about the people and the ways in which blame is assigned somehow looks different for communities of color than it does for, say, the Russian government or the German government,” Kulkarni said.
It’s evident that this alarming rise in hate crimes against AAPI’s is not going away, despite the many responses to the crisis.
Federal and state lawmakers have advanced legislation to reduce the number of incidents, police departments have established task forces and hotlines, and community members have organized demonstrations and neighborhood watch programs, but the hate is not dissipating.
Van Tran, an associate professor of sociology who specializes in the Asian-American experience at CUNY, told
USA Today that there will likely be no decrease in incidents any time soon, unless there is much more vigilance.
"We have yet to create and engender institutional change and behavioral change at the largest scale,” Tran said.
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This write-up was originally posted on January 4th. I won’t be taking more applications after the end of January 11th.
It has gone largely unnoticed that our time is defined by
Total Work, the long historical process through which human beings have been slowly transformed into Workers as nearly every…
The question I ask in this long form essay is: “Why are people not kinder to one another and to all sentient beings? Why, indeed, is not kindness the default mode?”
And the answer I come to is this one:
we are not clear and we are not wise.
I’d…
In a dream, you see that you’re somewhere you’ve never been before, the landscape you survey appearing unrecognizable to you. Only in the next breath, it strikes you as if, no, this landscape is all too familiar. …
The course will be held on each Sunday in February: that is, on February 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. The start time will be 4 p.m. EST/9 p.m. GMT.
The application form, which includes further instructions at the top, can be found here. …
Over the years, and most especially during the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve noticed an unsettling trend: people I barely know or do not know at all will send me letters written in the mode of a confession. Completely out of the blue. The writer will not ask after me or mine…
A critique of Total Work in a time of COVID-19
Don’t “find your bliss!”
if “finding your bliss” continues, mistakenly to be sure, to lead you to hunt for that chimera, Meaningful Work.
The good news is that you don’t have to worry about finding meaningful work because meaningful work…
Once upon a time, there lived a mischievous magician in a realm just above that of upright, ambulatory, hairless creatures who’d taken to calling themselves
homo sapiens.
And indeed men, whenever they become too feeble to contemplate, undertake action as a shadow of contemplation and reason. For since the weakness of their souls does not make contemplating fit for them, not being able sufficiently to grasp the object of contemplation, and through this not being fulfilled, yet…
Through meditation, how can one test whether time is ultimately real?
There are many ways of speaking about the path to enlightenment. In a recent
satsang (questions with the teacher), Advaita Vedanta teacher Francis Lucille suggests that
— you can begin by investigating whether consciousness is numerically identical with the…
We first met the Golden Oracle in 2013. She had just finished a 90-day juice fast and looked, in the farmers’ market where we saw her, a little bit shaky, if also rather wild. …
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Theory and modeling dominates the study of the evolution of aging, as is the case in any field in which one is presented with a snapshot of a very complex environment and no ability to conduct directly relevant experiments on that environment. Beyond the state of the natural world here on earth, astrophysics is another
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The 186 Chakma refugee families, who have been displaced due to construction of Hollongi green field airport have been resettled in the Kokila near Hollongi area by the state government. The Chakmas who are originally from Bangladesh were settled in Kokila-Hollongi area in 1964 when they fled the country due to religious persecution and construction of the Kaptai dam. They have been settled in four different blocks and have been provided with basic facilities like education, electricity, hospital, road etc. The areas of resettlement have been well marked so as to ensure that in future they do not venture outside the designated settlement.
The state government should explore the possibilities of following the Kokila model of settlement for Chakma-Hajong refugees across the state, in particular in districts like Changlang, Lohit and Namsai where their population is growing at an alarming rate. Vast availability of fertile land and failure of district administrations to check the rampant encroachment of land has encouraged Chakmas to migrate to these districts to settle. It is believed that a large chunk of the population are recent settlers. The state government needs to identify all such populations. The original areas demarcated to the refugees should be identified. This will help the state government to get an exact figure of how much land has been encroached by the refugees. Efforts should be made to confine them to their designated place of settlement. They have to be provided with basic facilities like education, health, roads etc.
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Schools are where families come together—a community center. Moreover, schools are already centers for sharing knowledge and important activity in improving community health and economic well-being. By investing in schools, we are able to provide essential services to students and help support families in rural South Africa.
Our partner schools determine their own path—we do not use a “one size fits all” approach. We begin all of our partnerships with providing clean sources of water and garden projects at the schools request. Additional initiatives such as sanitation, female empowerment, and kitchen programs are designed by schools and implemented with the help of A Spring of Hope.
School Students Acorn to Oaks 497 AMASS Disabled School 56 Andover Primary School 330 Beretta Primary School 906 Brian Kajengo Community Borehole Bunny Khosa High School 900 Educare Day Centre 69 Ekurhuleni Center for Orphans and Vulnerable Children 250 Faith Burlington Creche 103 Hlavathi Primary School 269 Hoedspruit Independent College 115 Iketleng Primary School 700 Kahlela Primary School 323 Khutsong Primary School 450 Leoma Secondary School 495 Lehlogonolo Primary School 356 Maahlamela High School 510 Mahashe Secondary School 739 Maloti Secondary School 304 Maranatha Creche 32 Masingitana Secondary School 751 Masweng Primary School 192 Mhlangani Secondary School 608 Mmatjatji Primary School 186 Morei Primary School 717 Morutsi Primary School 786 Mothaileng Primary School 244 Mpithi Combined School 446 Mtembeni Primary School 479
School Students Mugidi Primary School 558 Nduma Primary School 277 New Dawn Center 150 Nkalane Primary School 315 Nkotobona High School 261 Nkotolane Primary School 200 Nourish Eco Village 66 Ntshwepepa Primary School 1,100 Ntsoelemolodi Primary School 204 Nyamande High School 310 Ntswane Secondary School 865 Orvehalani High School 1,100 Panyana Primary School 372 Pfunakani Creche 132 Phelwane Primary School 200 Saile Primary School 569 Salani Primary School 605 Sehlakabje High School 260 Sekoko Primary School 196 Senianya Primary School 737 Siphumelele Primary School 785 Thabong Primary School 200 Thandokazi Primary School 403 Thepanang Chiloane Secondary School 525 Thornybush Manyangana High School 620 Tsakelani Creche 72 White Lion School of Hope 92 Xitenga Creche 85 Yedvwa Primary School 704
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Illness Is a Disequilibrium
In reality illness is only a disequilibrium; if then you are able to establish another equilibrium, this disequilibrium disappears. An illness is simply, always, in every case, even when the doctors say that there are microbes — in every case, a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium among the various functions, a disequilibrium among the forces.
This is not to say that there are no microbes: there are, there are many more microbes than are known now. But it is not because of that you are ill, for they are always there. It happens that they are always there and for days they do nothing to you and then all of a sudden, one day, one of them gets hold of you and makes you ill — why? Simply because the resistance was not as it used to be habitually, because there was some disequilibrium in some part, the functioning was not normal. But if, by an inner power, you can re-establish the equilibrium, then that’s the end, there is no more difficulty, the disequilibrium disappears.
There is no other way of curing people. It is simply when one sees the disequilibrium and is capable of re-establishing the equilibrium that one is cured. Only there are two very different categories you come across… Some hold on to their disequilibrium — they hold on to it, cling to it, don’t want to let it go. Then you may try as hard as you will, even if you re-establish the equilibrium the next minute they get into disequilibrium once again, because they love that. They say: “Oh no! I don’t want to be ill”, but within them there is something which holds firmly to some disequilibrium, which does not want to let it go. There are other people, on the contrary, who sincerely love equilibrium, and directly you give them the power to get back their equilibrium, the equilibrium is re-established and in a few minutes they are cured. Their knowledge was not sufficient or their power was not sufficient to re-establish order — disequilibrium is a disorder. But if you intervene, if you have the knowledge and re-establish the equilibrium, quite naturally the illness will disappear; and those who allow you to do it get cured. Only those who do not let you do it are not cured and this is visible, they do not allow you to act, they cling to the illness. I tell them: “Ah! you are not cured? Go to the doctor then.” And the funniest part of the thing is that most often they believe in the doctors, although the working remains the same! Every doctor who is something of a philosopher will tell you: “It is like that; we doctors give only the occasion, but it is the body that cures itself. When the body wants to be cured, it is cured.” Well, there are bodies that do not allow equilibrium to be re-established unless they are made to absorb some medicine or something very definite which gives them the feeling that they are being truly looked after. But if you give them a very precise, very exact treatment that is sometimes very difficult to follow, they begin to be convinced that there is nothing better to do than to regain the equilibrium and they get back the equilibrium!
24 June 1953
Illness Conies from Outside Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it?
Ah! First of all, you must not want it, and nothing in the body must want it. You must have a very strong will not to be ill. This is the first condition.
The second condition is to call the light, a light of equilibrium, a light of peace, quietude and balance, and to push it into all the cells of the body, enjoining them not to be afraid, because that again is another condition.
First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists… there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this.
Many people say, “Oh, yes, here I am not afraid.” They don’t have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, and one doesn’t know it, because it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on. It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is what attracts the illness. It is there that you must put the force and the quietude of a perfect peace and an absolute trust in the Grace. And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in your thought all suggestions that after all, the physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is sure to catch it, and then, that the inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and all kinds of stupidities of which the air is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody. And if by chance there are two or three doctors, then it becomes terrible. (
Laughter) When Sri Aurobindo says that illness comes from outside, what exactly is it that comes?
It is a kind of vibration made up of a mental suggestion, a vital force of disorder and certain physical elements which are the materialisation of the mental suggestion and the vital vibration. And these physical elements can be what we have agreed to call germs, microbes, this and that and many other things.
It may be accompanied by a sensation, may be accompanied by a taste, also by a smell, if one has very developed subtle senses. There are these formations of illness which give a special taste to the air, a special smell or a slight special sensation.
People have many senses which are asleep. They are terribly tamasic. If all the senses they possess were awake, there are many things they would perceive, which can just pass by without anyone suspecting anything.[…]
Besides, there is always a way of isolating oneself by an atmosphere of protection, if one knows how to have an extremely quiet vibration, so quiet that it makes almost a kind of wall around you. But all the time, all the time one is vibrating in response to vibrations which come from outside. If you become aware of this, all the time there is something which does this
(gestures), like this, like this, like this (gestures), which responds to all the vibrations coming from outside. You are never in an absolutely quiet atmosphere which emanates from you, that is, which comes from inside outward (not something which comes from outside within), something which is like an envelope around you, very quiet, like this — and you can go anywhere at all and these vibrations which come from outside do not begin to do this ( gesture) around your atmosphere.
If you could see that kind of dance, the dance of vibrations which is there around you all the time, you would see, would understand well what I mean. […]
What is to be wondered at is the unconsciousness with which men go through life; they don’t know how to live, there’s not one in a million who knows how to live, and they live like that somehow or other, limping along, managing, not managing; and all that for them, bah! What is it? Things that happen.
They don’t know how to live. All the same one should learn how to live. That’s the first thing one ought to teach children: to learn how to live.
11 May 1955
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Illnesses enter through the subtle body, don’t they? How can they be stopped?
Ah! here we are…. If one is very sensitive, very sensitive — one must be very sensitive — the moment they touch the subtle body and try to pass through, one feels it. It is not like something touching the body, it is a sort of feeling. If you are able to perceive it at that moment, you have still the power to say “no”, and it goes away. But for this one must be extremely sensitive. However, that develops. All these things can be developed methodically by the will. You can become quite conscious of this envelope, and if you develop it sufficiently, you don’t even need to look and see, you feel that something has touched you […] a kind of little discomfort (it is not something which is imposed with a great force), a little uneasiness coming near you from anywhere at all: front, behind, above, below. If at that moment you are sufficiently alert, you say “no”, as though you were cutting off the contact with great strength, and it is finished. If you are not conscious at that moment, the next minute or a few minutes later you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in the back, a little uneasiness, the beginning of some disharmony; you feel a maladjustment somewhere, as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harm, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off the illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately, you understand, you must not wait five minutes, it must be done at once. If you wait too long and begin to feel really an uneasiness somewhere, and something begins to get quite disturbed, then it is good to sit down, concentrate and call the Force, concentrate it on the place which is getting disturbed, that is to say, which is beginning to become ill. But if you don’t do anything at all, an illness indeed gets lodged somewhere; and all this, because you were not sufficiently alert. And sometimes one is obliged to follow the entire curve to find the favourable moment again and get rid of the business. I have said somewhere that in the physical domain all is a question of method — a method is necessary for realising everything. And if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical, well, you must follow the procedure needed to get rid of it. This is what medical science calls “the course of the illness”. One can hasten the course with the help of spiritual forces, but all the same the procedure must be followed. There are some four different stages. The very first is instantaneous. The second can be done in some minutes, the third may take several hours and the fourth several days. And then, once the thing is lodged there, all will depend not only on the receptivity of the body but still more on the willingness of the part which is the cause of the disorder. You know, when the thing comes from outside it is in affinity with something inside. If it manages to pass through, to enter without one’s being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.[…] But the condition in every case — in every case — whether one does it oneself and depending only on oneself or whether one does it by asking someone to do it for one, the first condition: not to fear and to be calm. If you begin to boil and get fidgety in your body, it is finished, you can do nothing.
For everything — to live the spiritual life, heal sickness — for everything, one must be calm.
31 March 1951
Microbes and Illness “When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a favourable ground’ and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.” (The Mother)
One thing that is now beginning to be recognised by everyone, even by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures, for example, are effective only to the extent that one has confidence in them. Take the case of an epidemic. Many years ago we had a cholera epidemic here — it was bad — but the chief medical officer of the hospital was an energetic man: he decided to vaccinate everybody. When he discharged the vaccinated men, he would tell them, “Now you are vaccinated and nothing will happen to you, but if you were not vaccinated you would be sure to die!” He told them this with great authority. Generally such an epidemic lasts a long time and it is difficult to arrest it, but in some fifteen days, I think, this doctor succeeded in checking it; in any case, it was done miraculously fast. But he knew very well that the best effect of his vaccination was the confidence it gave to people.
Now, quite recently, they have found something else and I consider it wonderful. They have discovered that for every disease there is a microbe that cures it (call it a microbe if you like, anyway, some sort of germ). But what is so extraordinary is that this “microbe” is extremely contagious, even more contagious than the microbe of the disease. And it generally develops under two conditions: in those who have a sort of natural good humour and energy and in those who have a strong will to get well! Suddenly they catch the “microbe” and are cured. And what is wonderful is that if there is one who is cured in an epidemic, three more recover immediately. And this “microbe” is found in all who are cured.
But I am going to tell you something: what people take to be a microbe is simply the materialisation of a vibration or a will from another world. When I learned of these medical discoveries, I said to myself, “Truly, science is making progress.” One might almost say with greater reason, “Matter is progressing,” it is becoming more and more receptive to a higher will. And what is translated in their science as “microbes” will be perceived, if one goes to the root of things, as simply a vibratory mode; and this vibratory mode is the material translation of a higher will. If you can bring this force or this will, this power, this vibration (call it what you will) into certain given circumstances, not only will it act in you, but also through contagion around you.
“Is any one of you pure and strong enough not to be affected by suggestions? If you drink unfiltered water and think, ‘Now I am drinking impure water’, you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to any kind of suggestion…. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of the ten it is full of fears…. And even if by discipline and effort you have liberated your mind and your vital of apprehension and fear, it is more difficult to convince the body.” (The Mother) Why is it so difficult to convince the body, when one has succeeded in liberating oneself mentally and vitally?
Because in the large majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the subconscient, it is under the influence of the subconscient. All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have to be chased out from the subconscient and uprooted from there.
14 March 1951
Causes of Illness Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life?
That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and who lives an ordinary life in the most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the person. The outer phenomena may be similar, but the inner causes are absolutely different. No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads.
We have often said that illnesses are always the result of a disturbance of equilibrium, but this disturbance can occur in completely different states of being. For the ordinary man whose consciousness is centred in the physical, outer life, it is a purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of the different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of illness change; they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the different parts of the being: between the inner progress or effort and the outer resistances or conditions of one’s life, one’s body.
Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in the resistance of the vitality due to immediate moral causes which is always at the origin of an illness. When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of resistance, it has within it an atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to resist illnesses, even diseases which are called contagious in fact, all vibrations are contagious, but still, certain diseases ate considered as especially contagious. Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in a state in which his organs function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to affect him. But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the normal resistance of the body and he is open to the disease. But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the sense that the causes of disequilibrium are of a different nature and the illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has to be overcome. So each one should find out for himself why he is ill.
From the ordinary point of view, in most cases, it is usually fear — fear, which may be mental fear, vital fear, but which is almost always physical fear, a fear in the cells — it is fear which opens the door to all contagion. Mental fear — all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don’t like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses. And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.[…]
Mother, how are medicines to be used for a body which is not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the divine grace, we see that we need a little medicine, and if a little medicine is given it has a good effect. Does this mean that only the body needs medicine or is there something wrong with the mind and the vital?
In most cases the use of medicines — within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn’t poison oneself by taking medicines — is simply to help the body to have confidence. It is the body which heals itself. When it wants to be cured, it is cured. And this is something very widely recognised now; even the most traditional doctors tell you, “Yes, our medicines help, but it is not the medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured.” Very well, so when the body is told, “Take this”, it says to itself, “Now I am going to get better”, and because it says “I am going to get better”, well, it is cured!
In almost every case, there are things which help — a little — provided it is done within reasonable limits. If it is no longer within reasonable limits, you are sure to break down completely. You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse. But still, a little help, in a way, a little something that gives confidence to your body: “Now it will be all right, now that I have taken this, it is going to be all right” — this helps it a great deal and it decides to get better and it is cured.
There too, there is a whole range of possibilities, from the yogi who is in so perfect a state of inner control that he could take poison without being poisoned to the one who at the least little scratch rushes to the doctor and needs all sorts of special drugs to get his body to make the movement needed for its cure. There is the whole possible range, from total, supreme mastery to an equally total bondage to all external aids and all that you absorb from outside — a bondage and a perfect liberation. There is the whole range. So everything is possible. It is like a great key-board, very complex and very complete, on which one can play, and the body is the instrument.
19 June 1957
Make a Beautiful Thing of Death
[…]if one must for some reason or other leave one’s body and take a new one, is it not better to make of one’s death something magnificent, joyful, enthusiastic, than to make it a disgusting defeat? Those who cling on, who try by every possible means to delay the end even by a minute or two, who give you an example of frightful anguish, show that they are not conscious of their soul…. After all, it is perhaps a means, isn’t it? One can change this accident into a means; if one is conscious one can make a beautiful thing of it, a very beautiful thing, as of everything. And note, those who do not fear it, who are not anxious, who can die without any sordidness are those who never think about it, who are not haunted all the time by this “horror” facing them which they must escape and which they try to push as far away from them as they can. These, when the occasion comes, can lift their head, smile and say, “Here I am.”
It is they who have the will to make the best possible use of their life, it is they who say, “I shall remain here as long as it is necessary, to the last second, and I shall not lose one moment to realise my goal”; these, when the necessity comes, put up the best show. Why? — It is very simple, because they live in their ideal, the truth of their ideal; because that is the real thing for them, the very reason of their being, and in all things they can see this ideal, this reason of existence, and never do they come down into the sordidness of material life.
So, the conclusion:
One must never wish for death.
One must never will to die. One must never be afraid to die. And in all circumstances one must will to exceed oneself. 23 April 1951
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There are two remedies [to overcome the fear of death]. There are many, but two at least are there. In any case, the use of a deeper consciousness is essential. One remedy consists in saying that it is some thing that happens to everyone (let us take it on that level), yes, it is a thing that happens to everybody, and therefore, sooner or later, it will come and there is no reason why one should be afraid, it is quite a normal thing. You may add one more idea to this, that according to experience (not yours but just the collective human experience), circumstances being the same, absolutely identical, in one case people die, in another they do not — why? And if you push the thing a little further still, you say to yourself that after all it must depend on something which is altogether outside your consciousness — and in the end one dies when one has to die. That is all. When one has to die one dies, and when one has not to die, one does not die. Even when you are in mortal danger, if it is not your hour to die, you will not die, and even if you are out of all danger, just a scratch on your foot will be enough to make you die, for there are people who have died of a pin-scratch on the foot — because the time had come. Therefore, fear has no sense. What you can do is to rise to a state of consciousness where you can say, “It is like that, we accept the fact because it seems to be recognised as an inevitable fact. But I do not need to worry, for it will come only when it must come. So I don’t need to feel afraid: when it is not to come, it will not come to me, but when it must come to me, it will come. And as it will come to me inevitably, it is better I do not fear the thing; on the contrary, one must accept what is perfectly natural.” This is a well-known remedy, that is to say, very much in use.
There is another, a little more difficult, but better, I believe. It lies in telling oneself: “This body is not I”, and in trying to find in oneself the part which is truly one’s self, until one has found one’s psychic being. And when one has found one’s psychic being — immediately, you understand — one has the sense of immortality. And one knows that what goes out or what comes in is just a matter of convenience: “I am not going to weep over a pair of shoes I put aside when it is full of holes! When my pair of shoes is worn out I cast it aside, and I do not weep.” Well, the psychic being has taken this body because it needed to use it for its work, but when the time comes to leave the body, that is to say, when one must leave it because it is no longer of any use for some reason or other, one leaves the body and has no fear. It is quite a natural gesture — and it is done without the least regret, that’s all.
And the moment you are in your psychic being, you have that feeling, spontaneously, effortlessly. You soar above the physical life and have the sense of immortality. As for me, I consider this the best remedy. The other is an intellectual, common-sense, rational remedy. This is a deep experience and you can always get it back as soon as you recover the contact with your psychic being. This is a truly interesting phenomenon, for it is automatic. The moment you are in con tact with your psychic being, you have the feeling of immortality, of having always been and being always, eternally. And then what comes and goes — these are life’s accidents, they have no importance. Yes, this is the best remedy. The other is like the prisoner finding good reasons for accepting his prison. This one is like a man for whom there’s no longer any prison.
Now, a third thing also one must know, but for this one has to be a mighty yogi. For this means knowing that death is not an inevitable thing, it is an accident which has been occurring till now (which seems in any case to have always occurred till now), and that we have put it into our head and our will to conquer this accident and overcome it. But it is so terrible, so formidable a battle against all the laws of Nature, against all collective suggestions, all earthly habits, that unless, as I have said, you are a first-rate warrior whom nothing frightens, it is better not to begin the battle. You must be an absolutely intrepid hero, for at every step, at every second you have to fight a battle against all established things. So it is not a very easy thing. And even as an individual it is a battle against oneself, because (I think I have already told you this once), if you want your physical consciousness to be in a state which admits of physical immortality, you must be free to such an extent from everything which at present represents the physical consciousness that it becomes every second a battle. All feelings, all sensations, all thoughts, all reflexes, all attractions, all repulsions, all existing things, all that forms the fabric of our physical life must be overcome, transformed and freed from all their habits. This is a battle of every second against thousands and millions of enemies. Unless you feel you are a hero, it is better not to try. Because this solution, well… I do not know, but I believe I was asked this question once before: “Has anyone succeeded so far?” To tell you the truth I don’t know, for I have not met such a person…. I do not have the feeling that anyone has succeeded till now. But it is possible. Only, he or she who has done it has not declared it, at least, not till now.
The other two solutions are safe and sure and within your reach. Now, there is a small remedy which is very very easy. For it is based on a simple personal question of one’s common sense…. You must observe yourself a little and say that when you are afraid it is as though the fear was attracting the thing you are afraid of. If you are afraid of illness, it is as though you were attracting the illness. If you are afraid of an accident, it is as though you were attracting the accident. And if you look into yourself and around yourself a little, you will find it out, it is a persistent fact. So if you have just a little common sense, you say: “It is stupid to be afraid of anything, for it is precisely as though I were making a sign to that thing to come to me. If I had an enemy who wanted to kill me, I would not go and tell him: ‘You know, it’s me you want to kill!’ ” It is something like that. So since fear is bad, we won’t have it. And if you say you are unable to prevent it by your reason, well, that shows you have no control over yourselves and must make a little effort to control yourselves. That is all.
14 October 1953
The Domain of Death I was seriously ill, unconscious for two hours, and I had the impression that I had gone over to the other side, that I was in a different world. When I came back to myself, I had the impression of having made a long journey in a world quite different from the one where I normally lived.
It was a partial exteriorisation; it was not a total exteriorisation which indeed causes death. If one goes out entirely, that is, if there is a complete separation from the body and one is really dead, and then one comes back, that causes such an intense suffering that one cannot forget it. It is said that babies cry when they come into the world because the first contact with air makes them cry, but I think it is something else. The re-entry into the body causes a kind of friction, for what goes out has to be something very material if it is to bring about death, something even more material than the subtle physical, and this friction is extremely painful. Otherwise one may be externally unconscious, but one is not dead for all that. It is only when something extremely material goes out of the body and all ties are broken that there is truly “death”. And that is why (I believe we an beginning to discover it) people do not die till six or seven days after their death. That is, they are not “dead” as long as the body remains intact, but only when a part of the body begins to decompose. Hence during this period, someone who has the necessary knowledge, power and capacity may “raise” a person in such a state. I believe this explains most of the cases of “miraculous” resurrection.
24 February 1951
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What becomes of the vital being after death?
It is dissolved. Rarely does it happen otherwise. But if you have had a very strong passion, if you were divided by fixed impulses, the vital being would break up into small pieces. Instead of going off like a vapour or a liquid, it goes off by little bits. Each of these pieces of vital substance is gathered around the central impulse, the central desire, the central passion of that piece, thus creating little entities which don’t have a human form but take at times an indefinite form; at times they resemble the body to which the pieces belonged, at other times they take a form expressing the desire they represent. And naturally their sole concern is to satisfy their desire or passion and they search everywhere for the means of self-satisfaction.
10 March 1951
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Generally, “domain of death” is the name given to a certain region of the most material vital into which one is projected at the moment one leaves one’s body. The part — how to put it? — of one’s life that’s usually the most conscious is projected there at the moment of death. Well, that region, that material vital world is very dark, it is full of adverse formations having desires at their centre or even adverse wills, and these are very, very elemental entities which have a very fragmentary life and are like vampires, in the sense that they feed on all that is thrown out from human beings. And so, at that moment, from the shock of death — for very few die without a shock, go out consciously, in full knowledge of the thing, there are not many such — usually it is an accident: a last accident; well, at that shock of death, those entities rush in upon this, upon this vitality that goes out, and feed upon it.
So long as a person is alive, they cannot touch him. For, you have all had the experience of a nightmare in which, when the situation becomes really very dangerous, suddenly you wake up — you come back into your body, for the body is your protection. In the physical they can do nothing to you but when you are completely outside the physical (and even this link I spoke about serves as a protection to a certain extent when you go out), but if the links are broken and you are entirely without a body, well, unless you take advantage of special circumstances… as for instance when a person is much loved by others who are yet alive; if at that moment these people who love him concentrate their thought and love on the departed one, he finds a refuge therein, and this protects him completely against those entities; but one who passes away without anyone’s having a special attachment for him, either because he is surrounded by people he has harmed and who do not love him or by people who are in a terribly unconscious state — he is like a prey delivered to these forces. And that indeed is an experience that’s difficult to bear. They cannot touch anything else except what belongs to their own domain, that is, the most material vital — the higher vital escapes them altogether, they can do nothing there. And so, this material vital goes out but the other remains; and this higher vital is attacked by other dangers, simply that. And if it also disappears, the mind remains.
But behind all this is the psychic being which nothing can touch, which is above all possible attacks, and it indeed is free to go where it wants. Usually — unless it has a special opportunity and has reached a state of complete development — it goes to rest in the psychic worlds. There it enters into a kind of beatific contemplation in which it remains, and this is an assimilation of all its experiences, and when it has finished assimilating them and resting, well, it starts preparing to come down again for a new life. That being nothing can touch. But so very few are conscious of their psychic that one can hardly say that it is such and such a person whom one has known, for people as we know them are made of what? — of all their physical experiences, all their vital reactions, all their mental formations — that is, the body, the character, the thought — and with these we have a human being! Well, all that cannot persist after death unless it is organised and centralised around the psychic being and to the extent it is perfectly unified with the psychic. Otherwise all this mixture is dissolved and the psychic being alone remains, at times just as a flame, at times as a completely conscious being.
This of course is the general law. Now there are bridges, as it were, “protected passages” which have been built in the vital world in order to cross over all these dangers. There are atmospheres which receive people leaving their body, give them shelter, give them protection. There are all kinds of other conditions; what I have told you just now is the normal state of those who die, of ordinary human beings, but as soon as we come to a little higher type of humanity, all these conditions change. The general law remains unless there is a special higher development within the being. There are people with so total a cohesion in their being that they no longer depend upon the body — not at all — whether it be there or not there.
But all this development does not come about just like that, simply by thinking about it from time to time, desiring it still less often and forgetting it most of the time — no, it is not like that that it can happen. These are disciplines, I may say, at least as arduous as the strictest spiritual disciplines…. Essentially it is for this that we are on the earth. Truly speaking, human beings were made for this purpose, to do that work, and it is perhaps because they refuse to do it that there is so much chaos in the world. If they did it truly, things would go much better.
10 March 1954
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If at the time of death the vital being is attacked in the vital world by hostile forces or entities, does it not look for a shelter somewhere?
Yes, it is for this reason that in all countries and in all religions, it is recommended that for a period of at least seven days after someone’s death, people should gather and think of him. Because when you think of him with affection (without any inner disorder, without weeping, without any of those distraught passions), if you can be calm, your atmosphere becomes a kind of beacon for him, and when he is attacked by hostile forces (I am speaking of the vital being of course, not the psychic being which goes to take rest), he may feel altogether lost, not know what to do and find himself in great distress; then he sees through affinity the light of those who are thinking of him with affection and he rushes there. It happens almost constantly that a vital formation, a part of the vital being of the dead person (or at times the whole vital if it is well organised) takes shelter in the aura, the atmosphere of the people or the person who loved him. There are people who always carry with them a part of the vital of the person who is gone. That is the real utility of these so-called ceremonies, which otherwise have no sense.
It is preferable to do this without ceremonies. Ceremonies are, if anything, rather harmful, for a very simple reason: When you are busy with a ceremony, you think more about that than about the person. When you are busy with gestures, movements, with the following of a ritual, you think much more of all that than of the person who is dead. Moreover, people perform these ceremonies most of the time for that very reason, for they are almost always in the habit of trying to forget. The fact is that one of the two principal occupations of man is to try to forget what is painful to him, and the other is to try to seek amusement in order to escape boredom. These are the two principal occupations of humanity, that is, humanity spends half of its time in doing nothing true.
12 March 1951
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Why does one suffer when one commits suicide?
Why does one commit suicide? Because one is a coward…. When one is cowardly one always suffers.
In the next life one suffers again ?
The psychic being comes with a definite purpose to go through a set of experiences and to learn and make progress. Then if you leave before its work is finished it will have to come back to do it again under much more difficult conditions. So all that you have avoided in one life you will find again in another, and more difficult. And even without leaving in this way, if you have difficulties to overcome in life, you have what we usually call a test to pass, you see; well, if you don’t pass it or turn your back upon it, if you go away instead of passing it, you will have to pass it another time and it will be much more difficult than before.
Now people, you know, are extremely ignorant and they think that it is like this: there is life, and then death; life is a bunch of troubles, and then death is an eternal peace. But it is not at all like that. And usually when one goes out of life in an altogether arbitrary way and in an ignorant and obscure passion, one goes straight into a vital world made of all these passions and all this ignorance. So the troubles one wanted to avoid one finds again without even having the protection which the body gives, for — if you have ever had a nightmare, that is, a rash excursion in the vital world, well, your remedy is to wake yourself up, that is to say, to rush back immediately into your body. But when you have destroyed your body you no longer have a body to protect you. So you find yourself in a perpetual nightmare, which is not very pleasant. For, to avoid the nightmare you must be in a psychic consciousness, and when you are in a psychic consciousness you may be quite sure that things won’t trouble you. It is indeed the movement of an ignorant darkness and, as I said, a great cowardice in front of the sustained effort to be made.
26 January 1955
Heaven and Hell After death people enter the vital world, but those who do good go to paradise?
Where is your paradise? Who has taught you that? They have spoken to you of heaven and hell and purgatory?[…]
It is generally what religious priests say to the faithful to encourage them to do good. For it is a notorious fact that life is not more easy for the good than for the wicked; usually it is the contrary: the wicked succeed better than the good! So people who are not very spiritual say to themselves: “Why should I take the trouble of being good? It is better to be wicked and have an easy life.” It is very difficult to make them understand that there are many kinds of good and that sometimes it is worth the trouble perhaps to make an effort to be good. So to make this intelligible to the least intelligent, they are told: “There, it is very simple. If you are quite obedient, quite nice, quite unselfish, if you always do good deeds, and if you believe in the dogmas we teach, well, when you die, God will send you to Paradise. If you have sometimes good will, sometimes bad, if, sometimes you do good, sometimes you don’t and if you think very much of yourself and very little of others, then when you die, you will be sent to Purgatory for another experience. And then if you are thoroughly wicked, if you are always doing harm to others, doing all kinds of bad things and you do not care about the good of anyone and particularly if you do not believe in the dogma that we teach you, then you will go straight to Hell and for eternity.”
This is one of the prettiest inventions I have ever heard of: they have invented
eternal hell. That is to say, once you are in hell, it is for eternity…. You understand what that means, for eternity? You will be tortured and burnt (in the hot countries you are burnt, in the cold countries you are frozen), and that for eternity. That is it. So I do not know who taught you those pretty things; but they are simply inventions to make people obey, to keep them under control.
There are teachings which are not like that. There are religions which are not like that. But still one can, in a poetic, picturesque, descriptive manner speak of a paradise; because this paradise means a wonderful place where there is utmost joy and happiness and comfort…. And yet that depends upon the religion to which you belong. For there are heavens where you pass your time singing praises to God, you do nothing else — but in the end that must be somewhat wearisome; however, there you pass your time playing music and singing the praises of God. There are other heavens, on the contrary, where you enjoy all possible pleasures, all that you desired to have during your life, you have in heaven. There are heavens where you are constantly in blissful meditation — but for people who are not keen on meditating, that must be rather tiresome. However, that depends, you know: they have invented all kinds of things so that people may really want to be wise and obey the laws given to them.
And man’s imagination is so creative, such a form-maker, that there really are in the world places like these heavens. There are places also like these hells and there are places like these purgatories. Man creates out of nothing the things he imagines. If your consciousness be enlightened, then you can be pulled out of these places; otherwise you are shut up, imprisoned there by the very belief you had when alive. You will tell me that it is equal to a life, but it is an altogether illusory and extremely limited existence. It is real only for those who think like that. As soon as you think differently, it does not exist for you any longer; you can come out of it. You can pull a person out of these places, and immediately he perceives that he was imprisoned in his own formation.
Man has an extraordinary power of creation. He has created a whole set of godheads in his own image, having the same faults as himself, doing on a bigger scale, with greater power whatever he does. These beings have a relative existence, but still it is an independent existence, just like your thought. When you have a thought, a well- made mental formation which goes out of you, it becomes an independent entity and continues on its way and it does that for which it was made. It continues to act independently of you. That is why you must be on your guard. If you have made such a formation and it has gone out, it has gone out to do its work; and after a time you find out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing to have a thought like that, that this formation was not very beneficial; now that it has gone out, it is very difficult for you to get hold of it again. You must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out and is moving on its way…. Supposing in a moment of great anger (I do not say that you do so, but still) when you were in quite a rage against someone, you said: “Ah! couldn’t some misfortune befall him?” Your formation has gone on its way. It has gone out and you have no longer any control over it; and it goes and organises some misfortune or other: it is going to do its work. And after some time the misfortune arrives. Happily, you do not usually have sufficient knowledge to tell yourself: “Oh! It is I who am responsible”, but that is the truth.
Note that this power of formation has a great advantage, if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations and if you make them properly, they will act in the same way as the others. You can do a lot of good to people just by sitting quietly in your room, perhaps even more good than by undergoing a lot of trouble externally. If you know how to think correctly, with force and intelligence and kindness, if you love someone and wish him well very sincerely, deeply, with all your heart, that does him much good, much more certainly than you think. I have said this often; for example, to those who are here, who learn that someone in their family is very ill and feel that childish impulse of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to attend to the sick person. I tell you, unless it is an exceptional case and there is nobody to attend on the sick person (and at times even in such a case), if you know how to keep the right attitude and concentrate with affection and good will upon the sick person, if you know how to pray for him and make helpful formations, you will do him much more good than if you go to nurse him, feed him, help him wash himself, indeed all that everybody can do. Anybody can nurse a person. But not everybody can make good formations and send out forces that act for healing.
In any case, to come back to our paradise, it is a childish deformation — ignorant or political — of something which is true in a sense but not quite like that…. I have told you many times and I could not repeat it too often, that one is not built up of one single piece. We have within us many states of being and each state of being has its own life. All this is put together in one single body, so long as you have a body, and acts through that single body; so that gives you the feeling that it is one single person, a single being. But there are many beings and particularly there are concentrations on different levels: just as you have a physical being, you have a vital being, you have a mental being, you have a psychic being, you have many others and all possible intermediaries. But it is a little complicated, you might not understand.
Suppose you were living a life of desire, passion and impulse: you live with your vital being dominant in you; but if you live with spiritual effort, with great good will, the desire to do things well and an unselfishness, a will for progress, you live with the psychic being dominant in you. Then, when you are about to leave your body, all these beings start to disperse. Only if you are a very advanced yogi and have been able to unify your being around the divine centre, do these beings remain bound together. If you have not known how to unify yourself, then at the time of death all that is dispersed: each one returns to its domain. For example, with regard to the vital being, all your different desires will be separated and each one run towards its own realisation, quite independently, for the physical being will no longer be there to hold them together. But if you have united your consciousness with the psychic consciousness, when you die you remain conscious of your psychic being and the psychic being returns to the psychic world which is a world of bliss and delight and peace and tranquillity and of a growing knowledge. So, if you like to call that a paradise, it is all right; because in fact, to the extent to which you are identified with your psychic being, you remain conscious of it, you are one with it, and it is immortal and goes to its immortal domain to enjoy a perfectly happy life or rest. If you like to call that paradise, call it paradise. If you are good, if you have become conscious of your psychic and live in it, well, when your body dies, you will go with your psychic being to take rest in the psychic world, in a blissful state.
But if you have lived in your vital with all its impulses, each impulse will try to realise itself here and there… For example, a miser who is concentrated upon his money, when he dies, the part of the vital that was interested in his money will be stuck there and will continue to watch over the money so that nobody may take it. People do not see him, but he is there all the same, and is very unhappy if something happens to his precious money. I knew quite well a lady who had a good amount of money and children; she had five children who were all prodigals each one more than the other. The same amount of care she had taken in amassing the money, they seemed to take in squandering it; they spent it at random. So when the poor old lady died, she came to see me and told me: “Ah, now they are going to squander my money!” And she was extremely unhappy. I consoled her a little, but I had a good deal of difficulty in persuading her not to keep watching over her money so that it might not be wasted.
Now, if you live exclusively in your physical consciousness (it is difficult, for you have, after all, thoughts and feelings, but if you live exclusively in your physical), when the physical being disappears, you disappear at the same time, it is finished…. There is a spirit of the form: your form has a spirit which persists for seven days after your death. The doctors have declared that you are dead, but the spirit of your form lives, and not only does it live but it is conscious in most of the cases. But that lasts for seven or eight days and afterwards it is dissolved. I am not speaking of yogis; I am speaking of ordinary people. Yogis have no laws, it is quite different; for them the world is different. I am speaking to you of ordinary men living an ordinary life; for these it is like that.
So the conclusion is that if you want to preserve your consciousness, it would be better to centralise it on a part of your being that is immortal; otherwise it will vanish like a flame in the air. And it is very fortunate, for if it were otherwise, there would be perhaps gods or types of superior men who would create hells and heavens as they do in their material imagination, where they would imprison you; you would be imprisoned in heaven or in hell according as you pleased or displeased them. It would be a very critical situation and happily it is not like that.
It is said that there is a god of Death. Is it true?
Yes, I call it the spirit of Death. I know it very well. And that is an extraordinary organisation. You do not know to what an extent it is organised.
I believe there are many of these spirits of death, I believe there are hundreds. I have met at least two of them. One I met in France and the other in Japan, and they were very different; which leads one to believe that probably in accordance with the mental culture, the education, the country and beliefs there should be different spirits. But there are spirits of all the manifestations of Nature: there are spirits of fire, spirits of air, of water, of rain, of wind; and there are spirits of death.
Each spirit of death, whatever it may be, has a claim to a certain number of deaths per day. Indeed it is a fantastic organisation, it is a kind of alliance between the vital forces and the forces of Nature. For example, if the spirit of death has decided: “That is the number of people to which I am entitled”, let us say four or five or six, or one or two persons, it depends on the day; it has decided that certain persons would die, it goes straight and settles down beside the person about to die. But if you happen to be conscious (not the person), if you see the spirit going to a person and you do not want him to die, then you can, if you possess a certain occult power, tell it: “No, I forbid you to take him.” It is a thing that has happened, not once but several times, in Japan and here. It was not the same spirit. That is what makes me say that there must be many.
“I don’t want him to die.”
“But I have a right to one death!”
“Go and find someone who is ready to die.”
So I have seen several cases: sometimes it is just a neighbour who dies suddenly in place of the other, sometimes it is an acquaintance and sometimes it is an enemy. Naturally, there is a relation, good or bad, of neighbourhood (or anything else) which externally looks like chance. But it is the spirit who has taken
its dead. The spirit has a claim to one death, it will have one death. You can tell it: “I forbid you to take this one”, and have the power of sending it away, and the spirit can do nothing but go away; but it does not give up its due and goes elsewhere. There is another death.[…] Sometimes when people are dying, they know that they are about to die. Why don’t they tell the spirit to go away?
Ah! well, that depends upon the people. Two things are necessary. First of all, nothing in your being, no part of your being should want to die. That does not happen often. You have always a defeatist in you somewhere: something that is tired, something that is disgusted, something that has had enough of it, something that is lazy, something that does not want to struggle and says: “Well! Ah! Let it be finished, so much the better.” That is sufficient, you are dead.
But it is a fact: if nothing, absolutely nothing in you consents to die, you will pot die. For someone to die, there is always a second, perhaps the hundredth part of a second when he gives his consent. If there is not this second of consent, he does not die.
I knew people who should have really died according to all physical and vital laws; and they refused. They said: “No, I will not die”, and they lived. There are others who do not need at all to die, but they are of that kind and say: “Ah! Well! Yes, so much the better, it will be finished”, and it is finished. Even that much, even nothing more than that: you need not have a persistent wish, you have only to say: “Well, yes, I have had enough!” and it is finished. So it is truly like that. As you say, you may have death standing by your bedside and tell him: “I do not want you, go away”, and it will be obliged to go away. But usually one gives way, for one must struggle, one must be strong, one must be very courageous and enduring, must have a great faith in the necessity of life; like someone, for example, who feels very strongly that he has still something to do and he must absolutely do it. But who is sure he has not within him the least bit of a defeatist, somewhere, who just yields and says: “It is all right”?… It is here, the necessity of unifying oneself.
Whatever the way we follow, the subject we study, we always arrive at the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine centre; in that way he becomes a true individual, master of himself and his destiny. Otherwise, he is a plaything of forces that toss him about like a piece of cork on a river. He goes where he does not want to go, he is made to do things he does not want to do, and finally he loses himself in a hole without having any strength to recover. But if you are consciously organised, unified around the divine centre, ruled and directed by it, you are master of your destiny. That is worth the trouble of attempting…. In any case, I find it preferable to be the master rather than the slave. It is a rather unpleasant sensation to feel yourself pulled by the strings and made to do things whether you want to or not — that is quite irrelevant — but to be compelled to act because something pulls you by the strings, something which you do not even see — that is exasperating.
1 July 1953
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It is becoming increasingly clear that signaling via G protein-coupled receptors is a diverse phenomenon involving receptor interaction with a variety of signaling partners. Despite this diversity, receptor ligands are commonly classified only according to their ability to modify G protein-dependent signaling. Here we show that β2AR ligands like ICI118551 and propranolol, which are inverse agonists for Gs-stimulated adenylyl cyclase, induce partial agonist responses for the mitogen-activated protein kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 thus behaving as dual efficacy ligands. ERK1/2 activation by dual efficacy ligands was not affected by ADP-ribosylation of Gαi and could be observed in S49-cyc
- cells lacking Gαs indicating that, unlike the conventional agonist isoproterenol, these drugs induce ERK1/2 activation in a Gs/i-independent manner. In contrast, this activation was inhibited by a dominant negative mutant of β-arrestin and was abolished in mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking β-arrestin 1 and 2. The role of β-arrestin was further confirmed by showing that transfection of β-arrestin 2 in these knockout cells restored ICI118551 promoted ERK1/2 activation. ICI118551 and propranolol also promoted β-arrestin recruitment to the receptor. Taken together, these observations suggest that β-arrestin recruitment is not an exclusive property of agonists, and that ligands classically classified as inverse agonists rely exclusively on β-arrestin for their positive signaling activity. This phenomenon is not unique to β2-adrenergic ligands because SR121463B, an inverse agonist on the V2 vasopressin receptor-stimulated adenylyl cyclase, recruited β-arrestin and stimulated ERK1/2. These results point to a multistate model of receptor activation in which ligand-specific conformations are capable of differentially activating distinct signaling partners.
PMID: 21738453;PMCID: PMC3127810;Abstract:
Many eukaryotic cells are able to crawl on surfaces and guide their motility based on environmental cues. These cues are interpreted by signaling systems which couple to cell mechanics; indeed membrane protrusions in crawling cells are often accompanied by activated membrane patches, which are localized areas of increased concentration of one or more signaling components. To determine how these patches are related to cell motion, we examine the spatial localization of RasGTP in chemotaxing Dictyostelium discoideum cells under conditions where the vertical extent of the cell was restricted. Quantitative analyses of the data reveal a high degree of spatial correlation between patches of activated Ras and membrane protrusions. Based on these findings, we formulate a model for amoeboid cell motion that consists of two coupled modules. The first module utilizes a recently developed two-component reaction diffusion model that generates transient and localized areas of elevated concentration of one of the components along the membrane. The activated patches determine the location of membrane protrusions (and overall cell motion) that are computed in the second module, which also takes into account the cortical tension and the availability of protrusion resources. We show that our model is able to produce realistic amoeboid-like motion and that our numerical results are consistent with experimentally observed pseudopod dynamics. Specifically, we show that the commonly observed splitting of pseudopods can result directly from the dynamics of the signaling patches. © 2011 Hecht et al.
PMID: 17173542;PMCID: PMC1820805;Abstract:
Small GTPases are involved in the control of diverse cellular behaviours, including cellular growth, differentiation and motility. In addition, recent studies have revealed new roles for small GTPases in the regulation of eukaryotic chemotaxis. Efficient chemotaxis results from co-ordinated chemoattractant gradient sensing, cell polarization and cellular motility, and accumulating data suggest that small GTPase signalling plays a central role in each of these processes as well as in signal relay. The present review summarizes these recent findings, which shed light on the molecular mechanisms by which small GTPases control directed cell migration. © 2007 Biochemical Society.
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Background: Targeting oncogenic K-Ras for cancer therapy has remained challenging. Results: Ubiquitination specifically occurs on the activated K-Ras orthologue in Dictyostelium via evolutionary conserved K-Ras lysines, which promotes K-Ras protein degradation. Conclusion: Our results indicate the existence of GTP-loaded K-Ras orthologue-specific degradation system in Dictyostelium. Significance: This work reveals a novel negative feedback regulation for the K-Ras isoform, which is critical for cytokinesis in Dictyostelium. © 2014 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc..
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa “I like the idea that once we’ve looked beyond our ‘false ego’, then our essence, our true self, is amazing…” says Angie Elmore of Northamptonshire, one of some 60 participants at a recent ‘wellbeing’ day-retreat held in deepest Hertfordshire (on a grey and rainy Saturday) to raise much-needed funds for cancer patients. The ‘true ego’ (as opposed to that irritatingly false one) is one of many enlightening concepts we will explore as a day of fun, reflection, introspection and interaction, (and maybe the odd bit of casual soul-searching!) unfolds at Bhaktivedanta Manor estate (ISKCON UK HQ). Today’s workshops kick off with an ice-breaking exercise designed not only to carefully prise us off our seats, but to gently nudge us out of our collective comfort zone. Our facilitator, Corporate Psychologist Dev Modi, invites us to move away from any trusted friends we might still be (un)intentionally clinging to, encouraging us to instead pair up with a random stranger of choice and (cutting out small-talk) to mull over the not entirely insignificant question “Who Am I?” And, just so we don’t get too comfortable with our new-found stranger, Dev quickly instructs us to move on and continue a similar conversation with another unfamiliar person (but using completely different words!). A truly collaborative tone is set for the day, as we discover – in the safe environment of the estate’s magnificent brand-new two-storey community building, (Sri Krishna Haveli) – how refreshingly easy it is to bare our souls to someone completely new upon very first encounter.
Building up Community – Sri Krishna Haveli under Construction
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Our retreat-hosting cancer charity, Smiling Soul, recently evolved from an initiative originally set up by Janakinath dasa (JD), a resident monk for over a decade at Bhaktivedanta Manor. JD cannot, unfortunately be with us today. The man affectionately known as ‘The Smiling Monk’ was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer early in 2017.
Since then, JD has, remarkably, described cancer as ‘a gift’ which has not only served to deepen his appreciation of living, but also enabled him to gain a broader perspective on life, stating
“I became more compassionate, more empathetic, and even more determined to reach all of my goals”.
JD – King of Hearts
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It’s still not (quite) lunchtime, and we’ve already learned, (to our surprise), that it can sometimes be more straightforward to ‘tell it like it is’ to a total stranger than to broach deep and personal issues with someone we’ve known for quite some time. With this in mind, we select and engage with yet another fellow human being who has no preconceived notions (whatsoever) about us, to mutually open up on fear, hope and gratitude aspects of our current life-situation. As we appear to be entering a different space mentally, it seems like a natural progression to do so physically. And so we gravitate very easily towards the haveli’s expansive central space to ease our limbs into sacred geometric shapes of yoga, rounding off our shift in both mental and physical centre of gravity with some (horizontal) meditation to soothingly played live background music. “In the final relaxation the beautiful slow key-changes of the harmonium and the peaceful ambience of the new haveli sent me to a dreamy place. It was like an altered state of consciousness” says Lou Hains of North London “I came back relaxed, refreshed, and reinvigorated.”
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Sri Krishna Haveli – Ready for some Yoga
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Of course, JD’s own recent life-journey has been far from plain sailing.
he says. JD readily acknowledges how he went through a roller-coaster of emotions, such as fear and negativity, stress, mood-swings and depression – who wouldn’t? “When this first happened, I did not see cancer as a gift”
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When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. Roy T. Bennett (Author)
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So what exactly brought that much-loved smile back to JD’s face?
Well, he felt (amazingly) happy right after his first operation, but concedes that this was due to nothing more remarkable than a plain blue switch within convenient reach on his hospital bed:
“ The switch released morphine. It’s the only time a monk is legally allowed to take any form of intoxicant. I was high” JD confesses with an ironic grin.
While six months chemo following surgery was intensely exhausting, JD was, after a little rest, able to rebuild his strength thanks to a healthy Vedic diet (cooked by Mum) and some intensive yoga practice. So unstoppable was our monk in orange that he flew off to India and qualified as a yoga teacher.
JD proclaims. “I was feeling on top of the world”
But the dreaded disease was stealthily taking hold of JD’s liver, making further surgical intervention necessary.
he jokes. “You know what my first thought was, when I heard the news?” But, as someone who will not even partake of garlic and onions (*perceived hindrances to mental clarity), JD was, naturally, a little reluctant to go overboard on morphine. So how “It was…wow…this means more morphine time.” doyou ‘grin and bear’ extreme discomfort while bravely endeavouring to limit your own intake of hospital-administered sedatives?
JD used breathing techniques to help deal with physical pain, while delving deep into mantra meditation to contain his mental anxiety. He steadfastly chanted the
Hare Krishna maha mantra, those three transcendent and time-tested words that are said to contain mystical sound vibrations encased within a syllable. “ By vibrating the maha mantra, you can see your consciousness elevating and transcending whatever situation you’re in” affirms JD.
Sacred Words
However, after the sixth of eight further chemotherapy rounds, the condition had spread to his lungs, necessitating indefinite treatment subject to further test results.
Janakinath dasa knew that now, more than ever, was the time to draw deeply upon the wisdom of the East and put all that monk-training into full and practical effect. He employed universal principles gleaned from the Vedic scriptures (especially Bhagavad Gita) to deal with some of his relatively young life’s toughest challenges.
But whatever his scan results show, JD is determined to see every set-back as an adventure, opportunity for growth, and most importantly, a reason to give back to society.
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After yoga followed by a tasty filling vegan lunch, we are relaxed (and replete) enough to want to (preferably) do nothing more than slide safely back into that comfort zone, and chat with old (or maybe new-found) friends, but Psychologist Dev has other plans. He ushers us through some honest self-assessment on how we relate to others. We form groups to each in turn air concerns on any personal relationship that is currently troubling us. Our aim here is to be more present, to listen intently, and, in being objective (both towards others and ourselves), to start letting go of heavy emotional baggage. We fully take on board that liberating ourselves from the past is the only way forward (even if this is all a bit deep for a Saturday afternoon). Perhaps it’s Dev’s own searingly honest and heart-felt revelation about his relationship with his late father, or maybe it’s an all-round emotional release felt by everyone, that precipitates a few surfacing tears around the room – tears (by now probably) not of self-pity as such, but (quite possibly) of real true empathy.
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Spreading the Word – Janakinath dasa
So what
really lies behind JD’s well-known smile? S is for SPIRITUALITY AND CONTRIBUTION
When he finished his monk-training, JD’s instructors stressed just how fortunate he was to have learned from great teachers, impressing upon him that he should now go forth and share that spiritual knowledge.
The Bhagavad Gita stipulates that one of the most efficient ways of training your mind is to engage it in helping others. JD saw that a great number of other cancer sufferers were simply not able to cope, and, eminently grateful for the care he had received, resolved to make better assistance available to some of those less fortunate.
M is for MIND-SET AND HAPPINESS
The Bhagavad Gita explains that although the mind can be your best friend, it can also be your worst enemy, depending on which way you choose to focus it.
“Whatever we do in life, however we perceive things and react depends on the state of our consciousness. The higher our consciousness, the more we are in tune with reality, the more we have access to real happiness, and, most importantly, we become immune to negativity” . I is for IDENTITY AND NATURE
Our personalities and moral ideals are the amalgamated result of our upbringing, genetics, and cultural heritage. But regardless of our creed, belief system and social background, what career we follow and the language we speak, we are, in essence,
ATMA (soul) and our true nature is to love and be loved. Cancer does not discriminate, and neither should our empathy and compassion. L is for LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS
A major problem many cancer patients have to deal with is loneliness. And the people around you (or lack of them) affect the way you think and act. It is said that your mind-set is the result of your association with the five people closest to you, so you have to choose your nearest companions carefully.
“I was fortunate in that I had great family, friends and support network.” E is for ENERGY AND WELLBEING
JD has invested a lot of his energy into tailoring customised wellbeing retreats that focus on mental and physical, social, emotional, and, (most significantly), spiritual aspects of human welfare. Proceeds are used to bring similar workshops shaped in a supportive environment to other cancer sufferers who would not otherwise be part of any caring, sharing or close-knit community.
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley ( American motivational speaker, writer and consultant)
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So today we’ve thoroughly examined the *L in SMILE (*Love and Relationships), and Dev assures us there’ll be follow-up workshops to expand upon the S, M, I, and, of course, let’s not forget that all-important E. It’s time to say goodbye (for now) to that lightest and most ‘modern architectural’ of spiritual oases, Sri Krishna Haveli, and head back to the Grade II listed and sacred Mock Tudor familiarity of Bhaktivedanta Manor, where 73-year-old long-term devotee and mantra choir leader Jayadev dasa takes charge of us with all the verve and vigour of someone (at least!) 50 years younger. Not only does Jayadev, a prime percussionist, whip up a rhythmically melodic storm that irresistibly sweeps everyone along with it, but, within minutes, he has the musical novices among us singing like a professional chorus. It’s good to end this day-retreat on such a high.
Always The Life and Soul – Jayadev dasa Vicky Rochford of Hertfordshire said: “Today was a coming together with old friends and new, but by the end of the retreat it felt like many new friendships had been formed. Dev was a fantastic motivator who gave really thought-provoking insights and realisations on a deeper spiritual level. It’s a wonderful tribute to JD, whose infectious smile is the inspiration for such a worthy campaign to raise funds for a great cause.”
Singing as One Voice
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We wish JD the best possible recovery from his recent lung-surgery and hope to see him back in action soon.
Just as there is no miracle molecule that reverses aging, there is no one wonder pill you can pop to prevent all forms of cancer.
But JD’s renowned smile is the simplest of miracles that he can recreate at any time.
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The work-culture shock created by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of employees who have either quit or are seriously considering quitting their jobs. The tight labor market means small and medium-size businesses must do all they can to compete for the best employees. What makes the difference in hiring and retention? The benefits package.
Access to a good benefits package is increasingly important to employees, according to Bill Bradish, founder of Bradish Associates. As a result, competition for workers is driving more companies to offer health insurance and other benefits. A good package helps set a business apart from the crowd and attract the best talent.
“It’s not just health insurance — dental insurance scores very high among the benefits that prospective employees are looking for, with vision insurance gaining,” said Bradish, reflecting on what is happening with fellow business owners and clients. Additionally, offering retirement plans such as a 401(k) is gaining more traction in the eyes of prospective employees. “It’s what gives you the edge in a really competitive environment to find quality people.” Other popular benefits include flexible work hours, working from home, covering continuing education costs, as well as offering life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Attracting good workers
In Bill Bradish’s experience, the best employees are those who not only have the skillset needed but are also compassionate people. It’s a winning combination for intraoffice relationships and positive company culture, overall productivity, and customer service. And because a talented and caring person typically has more options available than less qualified people, “a business needs something extra to act as a lever to draw them to your firm,” said Bradish. For example, “if everyone is paying $21 per hour, you need to offer a little sizzle, a little addition to the hourly rate to attract those candidates.” Benefits can provide that sizzle.
Jonathan Anderson, owner of, and clinician at Steeple Counseling in Arlington Heights, Ill., believes in the necessity of providing benefits. When forming his practice in 2018 as a young professional, he knew his own family needed benefits. It just made sense to also include his employees, who have similar needs.
Aside from feeling it was simply the right thing to do, Anderson wanted to empower his staff with “the ability to give their full attention and energy to their work.” Offering health insurance benefits allows fellow clinicians to commit to doing full-time work at Steeple instead of worrying about having to find work elsewhere to secure benefits for their families. Although providing health insurance benefits is not the norm in his field, according to Anderson, he believes it is worth it for the sake of the work they do. “I actually think it helps us do better work because we’re able to be fully committed.”
Retaining good workers
Employee retention is another important reason to provide benefits. Losing an employee complicates everything, contributing to extra workload for those left behind, leading to productivity loss, and adding expenses to recruit and train a replacement. That’s why businesses of all sizes find benefits very important to retain employees.
In addition to health insurance, Steeple offers flexible work schedules and covers the cost of training for all employees. “We really focus on training, equipping people. Everyone gets free access to weekly training and consultation,” said Anderson. For example, unlike other counseling practices, Steeple covers all costs for the state-required supervision of newer clinicians.
Providing benefits also reassures employees that a company is financially stable, according to Bill Bradish. This in turn promotes employee confidence and encourages longevity. “If a company isn’t offering benefits, employees wonder — and I think it’s always in the back of their minds — is this really a company that I can stay with, and grow with?”
Contributing to a good company culture
Offering a competitive benefits package is also consistent with a caring company culture. For Anderson, “health insurance has always been a necessity. People need this, so there’s no second thought.” So far, providing benefits has yielded committed employees and better team cohesion at Steeple. “The longer employees stay around, the better we get at working together, and the better work we do together as a team. I think it’s important to have a competitive package so they will stay.”
By offering employee benefits such as health insurance, companies are increasing their odds of hiring and retaining good and dependable workers. Exceptional people are drawn to places with healthy cultures committed to supporting and developing their workers. Small and medium-size businesses can often add extra elements for less money than anticipated, including life insurance, or disability insurance, for starters. Something as simple as flexible work hours can also be effective, as demonstrated at Steeple.
Anderson believes the advantages of providing benefits outweigh the costs. “We’re building something, and we’ve just provided the stabilizers that can allow a foundation to build on, for longevity.”
As growing numbers of employers are realizing, a competitive benefits package offers a clear advantage. Benefits not only make those businesses more attractive to the most qualified candidates, they also help to keep good employees around for a long time. And that is good for everyone.
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Pro Tip:
How much internet speed do you need? That depends on how you plan on using your internet connection.
< 25mbps basic internet for checking e-mail, google searches 25-99 Mbps will handle streaming Netflix, FaceTime, Zoom calls 100-499 Mbps fast downloads, gaming online, streaming UHD on multiple screens 500-1,000 Mbps blazing fast for just about anything Internet Providers in Keaton, Kentucky Most Popular Internet Providers in Keaton, Kentucky:
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Dig in: Internet Access in Keaton, Kentucky
The Keaton area has two widely available Internet options: Viasat Internet and HughesNet. Viasat mostly offers Satellite service. Their network has speeds as high as 35 Mbps and availability for near one hundred percent of the area. As for HughesNet, they offer Satellite. They have coverage for close to one hundred percent of Keaton and reported speeds of 25 Mbps.
Foothills Broadband provides an second choice. They offer a top download speed of 1,000 Mbps.
As of the latest government reports, 100 percent of households (100 residents total) have a single option for home broadband.
When we're looking at network tech with significant infrastructure already built around the city, the most frequently available wired Internet technology varieties are Satellite and Fiber, with close to one hundred percent and virtually one hundred percent respectively. Fiber uses more modern Fiber-optical cables, which are made of hair-like glass strands that can deliver Internet data as light. Not all "Fiber" connections reach the subscriber address, however. Some switch to coaxial cables once in the "last mile." Copper last mile connections downgrade performance, but they are almost always faster than cable/DSL.
Coverage statistics found here comes via FCC reporting, which requires providers in Keaton to submit coverage data biannually. Using direct agreements with Internet providers, BroadbandNow is able to validate public data against privatized data reported by providers. The speed averages displayed here are calculated based on actual speed tests from Keaton addresses from M-Labs.
Internet Statistics 2021
100.0% of consumers in Keaton100 People Only have access to 1 or fewer wired internet providers available at their address.
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Summary Of Fastest Internet Providers In Keaton, Kentucky
Provider Speed Type Time To Download 1 GB Availability Foothills Broadband 1,000 Mbps Fiber 8s 100.0% Viasat Internet 50 Mbps Satellite 2m 43s 100.0% HughesNet 25 Mbps Satellite 5m 27s 100.0%
The “Connected” metric is a citywide average based on FCC data showing the density of broadband options at the census block level.
This statistic is drawn from the population in census blocks not served by at least one wired broadband provider.
Fiber coverage data is sourced from FCC Form 477 filings and cross-validated through BroadbandNow with private datasets and direct provider reporting.
25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload is the minimum speed for an Internet connection to be classified as “Broadband” by the FCC.
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Lie on your back, bend your knees and put both feet hip-width flat on the floor. On your lower back pain lie straight with your back bent, knees bent, left foot on the ground, right foot raised. Lie on your back, arms stretched out on both sides of your knees, slightly bent, feet on the flat floor.
Place your hands on your left thigh and pull towards your chest until you feel a stretch. Push back your hips and drop your buttocks on the floor until you stretch your arms in front of you and feel the stretch in your back. The back should be on the floor, the lower back straight and the knees on one side.
💡A few tips to keep in mind before you get started💡 1. Child’s Pose
To deepen the stretch, stick your chin in your chest and raise your head above your knees. This stretch works with the muscle Piriformis, which is located in the buttocks. Stretching of this muscle relieves pain and tightness in the buttocks and lower back.
Bring your left hip to the floor with your right hand and, if necessary, turn your head to the left to stop the stretching. As soon as you feel the muscle in front of your other leg, you start stretching. Keep your arm in this position behind your hip while stretching.
2. Cat/Cow Stretch
Lift your leg in the air till it is fully stretched, then lower to your left side and hold the stretch for 10 seconds. Keep your leg straight, you can do this stretch for as long as you like. Put your leg in the air and lower to your right side and hold for 10 seconds.
Start walking with your hands on your feet and push your hips into the air and push your heels into the ground (remember to imitate an inchworm). You can also try to pedal your legs for a deeper stretch on both sides by bending one knee or the other while straightening the other leg behind you. Both sides should strike a pose at all times.
3. Supine Twist
Make sure you don’t bend your back and keep your other leg flat on the floor. Lie on your back with both knees bent, one knee clinging to your chest and one leg squeezed together under you, the other straight and stretched behind you. If you feel loose, try to pull your knee up towards your chest.
Sit up and stretch your arms as if you were holding the back of a chair while stretching. Pull your abdomen into your spine and lift your chest up, keeping your hips flat and stable.
Lie on your back, bent knees and feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart, shoes a few inches above your buttocks. Scoot your buttocks all the way to the wall and swing your feet off the wall.
4. Knee-to-Chest Stretch
Squeeze your buttocks and lift your hips so that your body forms a straight line from your shoulders to your knees. Push your heels back and squeeze your glute and raise your hips till your body forms a straight line from your knees to your shoulders.
Lie face down on a mat, legs stretched and arms at the side with palms up. Start with hands and knees sitting on your hips (when sitting with feet together, place a pillow between your hips and feet so that it is firm on your knees ). Lie face down with stability ball on your hip, stability ball in your hand, back to the floor, shoulders and wrists straight, legs stretched, toes on the floor.
Hold this position to stretch your lower back and hips and start swinging from side to side as you massage the muscles around your spine. By stretching the muscles surrounding the spine, you promote mobility and reduce stiffness and pain.
5. The Pelvic Tilt
Stretching can help alleviate symptoms, but it is important to know the true cause of the pain – be it posture, weakness or a serious injury. There is a possibility that a traumatic injury or incident could cause your pain, so a few adjustments to your body position and key exercises, including stretching, can help.
According to the Mayo Clinic, back pain is one of the most common reasons people miss work or go to the doctor, and it is also one of the most common causes of disability. Back injuries can range from muscle strains and joint stiffness to reduced mobility. There are a lot of causes for back pain, but a weak core, poor posture, standing all day and a shortened hip muscle pulling at the lower back are two of the most common factors contributing to back pain and discomfort.
6. Supine Figure 4 Stretch
The beauty of gentle stretching is that it can be done for pain and provides quick relief, says Jamie Costello, fitness director at Pritikin Longevity Center Spa, who recommends these five exercises for the next pain case. Research shows that a combination of strength and aerobic training and stretching 2 to 3 times a week can prevent and relieve back pain. When it strikes and goes off the rails, you can strengthen your core and stretch the muscles that support the lower spine, which can be helpful.
This stretching can be done at the desk to provide you with immediate relief. You can pull the armrests of your chair backwards to stretch your back as far as you like for deeper stretching. To stretch much further, you can place a pillow or pile of blankets under your knees as you rotate to the side.
Similar to the other routes on this list, the lower back muscles lengthen and contract. This stretching helps not only stretch your lower back, but also your gluteal muscles, which can tighten if you have lower back pain and cause more pain. This stretching relaxes your hips, thighs and gluteal muscles and promotes overall relaxation.
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(Corrects throughout to clarify Dubai police sniffer dogs are not currently being used at airports, corrects accuracy figure in first paragraph, corrects location of study in paragraph 8)
By Abdelhadi Ramahi
DUBAI (Reuters) -Police in Dubai have built up a special unit of 38 sniffer dogs that can detect COVID-19 from human sweat samples with 92% accuracy, the supervisor of the training programme told Reuters.
Dubai Police trained the cohort, which includes German Shepherds, Labradors, Cocker Spaniels and Border Collies, to recognise the scent of COVID-19 using samples of sweat from people with confirmed infections, collected by holding a swab in an armpit for a few minutes.
"A very small amount of that is then put into a jar - it has the scent of the patient - then we put the sample out for the dog to sniff ... When he gives us a sign, we give him a treat," said First Lieutenant Nasser al-Falasi of Dubai Police, supervisor of the programme at the K9 training centre in Dubai's Awir region.
In the centre's large training hall, police handlers walk the dogs along a row of metal boxes, of which only one contains a positive sample. The dogs sniff the samples and within seconds sit down to signal that they have found something.
Police trainer Fatima al-Jasmi, who is on the COVID-19 detection team, guides an excited-looking black and white Border Collie through the exercises, getting it right every time.
"The training was a bit of a challenge, learning a new skill at an international standard, and then training the dog in that," she said.
Airports in the United Arab Emirates were one the first in the world to trial canine COVID-19 detection in 2020. The dogs are no longer used in UAE's airports, but they are ready to be deployed wherever required.
A study of dogs ability to detect COVID-19 infections carried out by the UAE's Higher Colleges of Technology and Abu Dhabi's Federal Customs Authority published in June in Communications Biology, part of the British scientific journal Nature, concluded with a 98.2% detection success rate.
The study used sweat samples and PCR tests from 3,290 people to compare the dogs detection abilities.
The 92% detection rate Falasi referred to came from a study under the UAE's Ministry of Interior in the first half of 2020, as reported by state news agency WAM.
Several other countries, including Finland, the United States and France have been running their own dog training and trials of canine detection of COVID-19.
Falasi said the dogs currently carry out around 30-40 tests a day. Bolt, a black and tan Belgian Malinois, was the first COVID-19 detection dog that he trained.
"He goes on assignments often. He has maybe done more than 1,000 COVID-19 tests," Falasi said proudly.
Dubai has received requests from around the world to share knowledge about how to train dogs to sniff out COVID-19, Dubai Police's Major Salah Khalifa al-Mazroui said.
Dubai Police also has dogs trained to sniff out drugs and explosives, skills put to use as the emirate of Dubai prepares to open the Dubai Expo2020 world fair exhibition site next month.
(Reporting by Abdelhadi Ramahi Writing by Lisa BarringtonEditing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Tools
Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.
The theme for 2021 is: "Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart. This theme encourages individuals and organizations to own their role in protecting their part of cyberspace. Check out this year's cybersecurity awareness topics.
2021 Cybersecurity Awareness Topics
No matter your career or position, it is everyone's job to practice good cybersecurity. Whether on campus or at home we cannot be secure without each and every person doing their part. Online safety and security are a responsibility we all share.
If you connect it, protect it. The line between our online and offline lives has become increasingly indistinguishable. This network of connections creates both opportunities and challenges for individuals and organizations across the globe. The first week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month will highlight the ways in which internet-connected devices have impacted our lives and will empower all users to own their role in security by taking steps to reduce their risks.
Cybersecurity is everyone’s job. #BeCyberSmart Get Savvy About WiFi Hotspots
Public wireless networks and hotspots are not secure, which means that anyone could potentially see what you are doing on your laptop or smartphone while you are connected to them. Limit what you do on public WiFi, and avoid logging in to key accounts like email and bank accounts. Consider using a virtual private network (VPN) or a personal/mobile hotspot if you need a more secure connection.
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ANGIER v. BRUCK ET AL.
Defendants appeal from a judgment for $5,000 entered against them on the verdict of a jury, in an action brought by plaintiff to recover for injuries suffered by her in a collision between an automobile in which she was riding and another automobile owned by defendant Bruck and driven by defendant Platt.
The car in which plaintiff was riding was owned by her, and was, at the time of the collision, being driven by her son, Raymond Angier, at her request and under such circumstances as unquestionably to make him her agent, whose negligence in so driving would be imputable to her. The car of defendant Bruck was being driven by defendant Platt with her consent, and she was therefore liable for his negligence to the extent of the verdict given here. (Vehicle Code, § 402, St.1937, p. 2353.) The collision occurred in the intersection of Livonia Street, which runs north and south, and Pickford Street, which runs east and west. Each street is 30 feet wide between curbs. Plaintiff's car was going south on Livonia Street, and defendant's car was going west on Pickford Street. The collision occurred on the west side of Livonia Street, at or about the center of Pickford Street, the front end of defendant's car striking the left side of plaintiff's car. These facts are undisputed, but on practically all other matters relating to the collision the evidence is conflicting. The further details of it, so far as necessary to an understanding of the points made, will be stated in discussing those points.
Among the defenses pleaded by defendants are contributory negligence, both of plaintiff personally and of Raymond Angier, who was driving her car. The jury found against both of these defenses. Defendants do not contend that the evidence is legally insufficient to support such findings. The only points made by them are that three instructions relating to these defenses are erroneous, that the evidence as to contributory negligence, especially that of plaintiff's son, is very closely balanced, and that therefore the giving of these instructions is ground for a reversal.
The first instruction complained of, designated as No. 26, declared that “if plaintiff's driver, Raymond Angier, exercised ordinary care, then plaintiff would not be guilty of the slightest negligence.” The objection made to this instruction is that it ignores and eliminates from consideration the possibility that plaintiff herself might have been negligent. In view of the defenses pleaded, this objection is well taken. While plaintiff would be chargeable with Raymond Angier's negligence, he being her agent, yet, since she was in the car which he was driving, she might also be personally guilty of negligence contributing to the accident. We need not decide whether this error was prejudicial, for the judgment must be reversed on another ground and the error will doubtless not be repeated on a new trial.
Another instruction complained of by defendants is No. 43, a formula instruction which directed a verdict for plaintiff if the jury found that Raymond Angier was driving with ordinary care, that the defendant Platt failed to use ordinary care, and that “plaintiff was injured as a result of said defendant's failure to exercise the care and caution exercised by ordinarily careful and prudent persons.” As defendants point out, this instruction is subject to the same objection as No. 26, in that it ignores the possibility of plaintiff's personal negligence. Defendants further object that it does not require the care to be exercised by defendant Platt to be such as ordinarily careful and prudent persons would use under the same or similar circumstances. No doubt such a qualification is part of the definition of negligence and might better have been stated in this instruction. A further objection made to this instruction is that it does not require that defendant's negligence be the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries. But in this case it appears that any negligence with which, from the evidence, defendant could be charged, must have been a proximate cause of the accident and of plaintiff's injuries; hence any defect in the instruction in this respect could not have been prejudicial. Straten v. Spencer, 1921, 52 Cal.App. 98, 105, 197 P. 540. For the same reason stated in discussing Instruction No. 26 we need not determine whether any other defect in No. 43 is sufficiently prejudicial to call for a reversal.
The defendant objects also to Instruction No. 28, given at the request of plaintiff, which reads as follows: “You are instructed that if Raymond Angier was at all times pertinent to this case driving plaintiff's automobile in a careful and prudent manner, and exercising that degree of care which is ordinarily exercised by cautious persons, then he had a right to assume that the defendant, James Platt, would drive his automobile in a lawful manner and would exercise for his own safety, the care and caution which an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.” The objection to this instruction is well taken and is that it does not include, as a part of the rule stated, a qualification which was thus stated in Edlund v. Los Angeles Ry. Co., 1936, 14 Cal.App.2d 673, 675, 58 P.2d 928, 929: “One may not continue to assume that the law is being observed after knowing or having an opportunity, by the use of reasonable care, to know that it is not being observed.” This qualification is further supported by the case of Donat v. Dillon, 1923, 192 Cal. 426, 429, 221 P. 193, 194, where the Supreme Court said of a driver whose car collided with another car traveling on an intersecting street: “* * * having observed Riddle's car approaching at an exceedingly fast rate of speed for that vicinity, the defendant was no longer entitled to rely upon the presumption that the driver of this machine would comply with the rules of the road, and he was bound to take such reasonable measures as he could under the circumstances to prevent the injury. It was, therefore, a question for the trial court to determine upon all the evidence and the reasonable deductions therefrom whether the defendant, after having seen the approaching machine, continued to exercise the care and prudence which a reasonable man would have exercised under the circumstances.” The speed referred to here was one “exceeding 30 miles per hour.”
There was evidence to which this qualification of the rule would be applicable. Appellants in their brief set forth the following summary of Raymond Angier's testimony on this point, which respondent does not dispute and which, on examination of the record, we find to be correct: “Raymond Angier testified that he was driving the plaintiff's automobile at her direction and that when it was 10 to 15 feet north of Pickford street and proceeding at about 15 miles per hour he saw the defendants' automobile for the first time 100 to 125 feet east of Livonia avenue, and approaching the intersection at a speed of 50 to 55 miles per hour; that he did not swerve or apply the brakes before the impact; but that the brakes were in good mechanical condition and he could stop his mother's automobile in 8 or 9 feet traveling at the speed it was proceeding when he first saw the defendants' automobile. He at all times had the other vehicle generally in his view and observed that it did not increase or decrease its speed from the time he first saw it until the time of the impact.” Plaintiff herself testified to approximately the same speed for defendant's car at about the same distance. On this evidence the jury could well find that Raymond Angier was guilty of contributory negligence. If defendant was going at the rate of 50 miles per hour it would take him less than two seconds to travel the entire distance (not over 150 feet) intervening between him and the point of collision, and, according to the table of stopping distances set forth in section 670 of the Vehicle Code, St.1935, p. 222, as a criterion for the condition of brakes, he was not required to be able to stop his car at that speed in that intervening distance. On seeing defendant's speed and noting his distance and noticing that he was not slowing down, Raymond Angier might very well have concluded that if a collision was to be avoided he himself would have to do something to that end. He could have stopped before reaching the point of collision, and could perhaps have averted the collision by speeding up and swerving to his right, but he did neither. If the jury had determined that he should have acted to avert the collision and had found him guilty of contributory negligence for not doing so, we could not say their verdict lacked evidentiary support. There was other evidence, given for the defendant, that Raymond Angier was driving faster than he stated and entered the intersection after defendant had done so. If the jury had believed this other evidence they must have found Raymond Angier guilty of contributory negligence, without regard to this instruction. Evidently they did not believe it; but they might, nevertheless, easily have made the same finding on his testimony above reviewed. It seems probable that their failure to do so was due to the defect in the instruction now under consideration and we therefore find in that defect sufficient reason for a reversal.
Plaintiff attempts to escape this result by pointing to the preliminary condition stated in the instruction, “if Raymond Angier was at all times pertinent to this case driving plaintiff's automobile in a careful and prudent manner * * * then he had a right to assume” etc. This apparently, and as the jury must have understood it, refers to acts done before the making of the assumption referred to. It cannot serve the purpose of a plain statement of the qualification of the rule, which relates to conduct of the driver after he has made the assumption referred to in the instruction. It is of course the law, as plaintiff points out, that one who is himself negligent is not entitled to assume that the other party will be careful, but this refers to his conduct at a time anterior to and at the very time he makes the assumption. Even if careful then, he is no longer so after he knows the assumption is wrong unless he acts accordingly. The reference in the instruction to exercise of care “at all times” would not be understood by the jury as applying to what would happen after the assumption referred to was made, or as saying that failure to act on subsequent knowledge contrary to the assumption would not be an exercise of due care. The qualification which was omitted is an essential part of the rule attempted to be stated. Defendant was entitled to have it enunciated in clear and positive language.
The judgment is reversed.
SHAW, Justice pro tem.
SHINN, Acting P. J., and PARKER WOOD, J., concur.
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Louis DE BOTTARI et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. Simon MELENDEZ, Clerk of the City of Norco, California, Respondent.
OPINION
This appeal involves the constitutionality of Elections Code section 27521 insofar as it disqualifies a recalled city officer of a general law city from being a candidate for such office for a period of one year after his recall. The issue is one of first impression in California.
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Three recalled city councilmen of the City of Norco (city), a general law city, appeal from an order denying their petition for a writ of mandate to compel the city clerk to place their names on the ballot for a general city election to be held within a year after their recall. On August 21, 1973, an election was held in the city which resulted in the recall of petitioners. To fill their positions a special election was called for November 13, 1973. Petitioners attempted to file nomination papers for that election but the city clerk refused to accept them on the ground Elections Code section 27521
2 disqualified petitioners from seeking councilmanic office for one year following their recall. On November 1, 1973, petitioners sought a writ of mandate in Superior Court to compel the city to accept their nomination papers and cause their names to appear on the ballot for the special election. The writ was denied; the special election was held; and, on November 20, 1973, petitioners were replaced by newly elected councilmen.
In December 1973, petitioners attempted to file nomination papers to regain their offices at the next general municipal election to be held March 5, 1974. The city clerk again refused to accept the papers on the basis of section 27521. Petitioners thereupon returned to the Superior Court again seeking a writ of mandate on the ground that section 27521 was unconstitutional on its face. An alternative writ issued and the city responded by answer and general demurrer. Following argument and submission, the court denied the petition and discharged the alternative writ.
In January 1974, petitioners filed a petition for writ of mandate, substantially similar to those previously filed in the Superior Court, in the California Supreme Court. The Supreme Court summarily denied the petition without opinion.
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This is an appeal from the order of the Superior Court denying the second petition for writ of mandate.
Preliminarily, it should be noted that since the election is long past there is no relief which this court can give petitioners. However, the constitutional question presented by this appeal being of statewide concern and being one which, due to inherent time limitations, eludes timely review, a discussion of the merits is appropriate for the guidance of city governments and lower courts. (Knoll v. Davidson, 12 Cal.3d 335, 344 mod., 12 Cal.3d 511a, 116 Cal.Rptr. 97, 525 P.2d 1273; Zeilenga v. Nelson, 4 Cal.3d 716, 719—720, 94 Cal.Rptr. 602. 484 P.2d 578.)
Directing our attention to the merits, petitioners contend that section 27521 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution and the similar guarantees of article I, sections 11 and 21, of the California Constitution. They argue that the right to be a candidate for public office is a fundamental right and therefore any classification which restricts the exercise of this right by a certain group of citizens must be subjected to strict scrutiny. On this premise, they urge that the classification made by section 27521—singling out municipal officials defeated in a recall election and disqualifying them from candidacy for one year—is not necessary to further a compelling governmental interest and is therefore unconstitutional. Based upon the ensuing analysis, we have concluded that petitioners' contention must be upheld.
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Section 27521 affects fundamental civil rights and therefore must be subjected to strict scrutiny.
The United States Supreme Court recently declined to decide whether the right of candidacy, standing alone, is a fundamental right. (Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134, 142—143, 92 S.Ct. 849, 31 L.Ed.2d 92.) Nevertheless in Bullock as well as other recent federal cases dealing with laws restricting the right of candidacy, such as by minimum residency requirements or filing fees, a strict scrutiny test has been regularly applied by finding an impact on other rights which are considered fundamental under the federal Constitution, such as on the right to vote (e.g., Bullock v. Carter, Supra, 405 U.S. 134, 144, 92 S.Ct. 849, 31 L.Ed.2d 92; Lubin v. Panish, 415 U.S. 709, 714—718, 94 S.Ct. 1315, 1319—1321, 39 L.Ed.2d 702, 708—709; Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb, 414 U.S. 441, 449, 94 S.Ct. 656, 662, 38 L.Ed.2d 635, 643) or the right of travel (e.g., Wellford v. Battaglia, D.C., 343 F.Supp. 143, 147—148.)
Although the California Supreme Court at one time labeled the right of candidacy fundamental (Zeilenga v. Nelson, Supra, 4 Cal.3d 716, 720—721, 94 Cal.Rptr. 602, 484 P.2d 578), in its Post-Bullock cases our high court has, without abandoning its earlier declaration concerning the fundamental nature of the right to be a candidate for public office, adopted the posture of the federal courts in determining whether the classification should be closely scrutinized by studying the impact on other related rights.
4 (Knoll v. Davidson, Supra, 12 Cal.3d 335, 116 Cal.Rptr. 97, 525 P.2d 1273; Thompson v. Mellon, 9 Cal.3d 96, 107 Cal.Rptr. 20, 507 P.2d 628.) Our attention has not been called to a single recent case, state or federal, where restrictions on candidacy had escaped close scrutiny.
Were the question presented in pure form we would have no difficulty in finding the right of candidacy fundamental for a democracy should be ever vigilant to see that all citizens and especially minority group members have a fair and equal opportunity to seek and win public office. However, it is not necessary to rest our decision on this ground alone since the right to vote is also substantially affected by section 27521.
5 Statutes significantly restricting the right to vote are especially deserving of strict scrutiny since the franchise is among the most fundamental of rights. ‘No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is underminded.’ (Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17, 84 S.Ct. 526, 535, 11 L.Ed.2d 481, 492.)
There is an inextricable relationship between the right to vote and restrictions on candidacy. ‘Unless a person can find on the ballot a candidate who reflects to some extent his policy preferences, it cannot be said that he is voting effectively. Although this does not mean that every voter must find a candidate to his liking on the ballot, it certainly requires that every voter have an equal opportunity to place a candidate of his choice on the ballot.’ (Note, The Constitutionality of Candidate Filing Fees, 70 Mich.L.R. 558, 576; see also: Lubin, v. Panish, Supra, 415 U.S. 709, 718, 94 S.Ct. 1315, 1321, 39 L.Ed.2d 702, 709.)
It would be wholly inadequate to say that supporters of a recalled official could find another candidate to champion their point of view, for a candidate is more than his political platform. Temperament, native skill, and experience make some persons more effective in office than others, and more attractive to voters. In a small community the pool of qualified candidates willing and able to support a particular point of view is likely to be small. That petitioners were once elected city councilmen testifies to their standing and popularity in the community. It must be noted that a recall proceeding may be instituted for reasons wholly apart from the competence or integrity of the officer. In the case at bench, it appears that petitioners were recalled, not for incompetence or corruption, but for their stand on public issues affecting the city. A law which bars established community figures from seeking municipal office significantly restricts the choice of voters. The impact of the law in question on the right to vote is therefore real and appreciable. (See Bullock v. Carter, Supra, 405 U.S. 134, 144, 92 S.Ct. 849, 31 L.Ed.2d 92.)
Moreover, although the statute does not classify according to a recognized suspect criterion, there is a danger that its impact will be felt most strongly by minority racial, ethnic, and political groups, since officials who are strong advocates of minority group interests may be especially vulnerable to recall. (See Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 31, 89 S.Ct. 5, 21 L.Ed.2d 24.) Although the statute in question does not prevent anyone from casting a ballot, it effectively disfranchises supporters of the pecalled official if, as seems likely, a completely acceptable alternative candidate is not available. Strict scrutiny is therefore appropriate.
Strict scrutiny in equal protection cases has been held to mean the court must satisfy itself that the law in question is necessary to promote some compelling governmental interest. (Thompson v. Mellon, Supra, 9 Cal.3d 96, 102, 107 Cal.Rptr. 20, 507 P.2d 628; Zeilenga v. Nelson, Supra, 4 Cal.3d 716, 723, 94 Cal.Rptr. 602, 484 P.2d 578; Westbrook v. Mihaly, 2 Cal.3d 765, 785, 87 Cal.Rptr. 839, 471 P.2d 487, cert. den., 403 U.S. 922, 91 S.Ct. 2225, 29 L.Ed.2d 700.) However, recent opinions by the United States Supreme Court suggest that an especially even-handed approach should be used in applying the strict scrutiny test to determine the validity of statutory qualifications for elective pulic office. In Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 730, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 1279, 39 L.Ed.2d 714, 723—724, the court said: (T)he States have evolved comprehensive, and in many respects complex, election codes regulating in most substantial ways . . . the selection and qualification of candidates. ( ) It is very unlikely that all or even a large portion of the state election laws would fail to pass muster under our cases; and the rule fashioned by the Court to pass on constitutional challenges to specific provisions of election laws provides no litmus paper test for separating those restrictions that are valid from those that are invidious under the Equal Protection Clause. The rule is not self-executing and is no substitute for the hard judgments that must be made. Decision in this context, as in others is very much a ‘matter of degree,’ Dunn v. Blumstein, Supra, 405 U.S. (330), at 348, 92 S.Ct. (995), at 1006, 31 L.Ed.2d 274, very much a matter of ‘consider(ing) the facts and circumstances behind the law, the interests which the State claims to be protecting, and the interest of those who are disadvantaged by the classification.’ Williams v. Rhodes, Supra, 393 U.S. at 30, 89 S.Ct. (5), at 10, 21 L.Ed.2d 24; Dunn v. Blumstein, Supra, 405 U.S. at 335, 92 S.Ct. 995, at 999, 31 L.Ed.2d 274. What the result of this process will be in any specific case may be very difficult to predict with great assurance.'
Cautionary statements such as the above appearing in recent United States Supreme Court candidate-qualification cases have led some courts (Smith v. Evans, Supra, 42 Cal.App.3d 154, 158—159, 116 Cal.Rptr. 684) and commentators (Baker, A Constitutional Remedy for the High Cost of Broadcast and Newspaper Advertising in Political Campaigns, 60 Cal.L.Rev. 1371, 1380) to conclude that the High Court, while adhering to the ‘strict scrutiny’ rhetoric, may have evolved a new test specifically for such cases.
6 In the absence of explicit language to the contrary, we prefer to assume that there is only one ‘strict scrutiny’ test and that the high court merely intends that the test be applied with the special care appropriate to an area involving competition between vitally important interests. A certain amount of caution in reviewing laws setting qualifications for public office is understandable, since it is difficult to imagine an interests stronger than the public interest in having the powers of government administered by the most capable hands and restrictions on candidacy have been one of the traditional means to achieve this end. We have no doubt, for example, that it is constitutionally permissible to impose higher qualification standards on candidates than on voters. This means that such standards would stand up under strict scrutiny, not that strict scrutiny should be excused.
In any event, application of the supposed new test would not alter our view of the proper result in this case.
II
Before considering whether section 27521 withstands the ‘strict scrutiny’ test, it may be useful to summarize the recall provisions for municipal officials of general law cities with particular attention to the time periods involved.
The recall process begins with the filing of a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition and service of the same on the official to be recalled. (s 27500.) The notice of intention may not be filed within the first six months of the official's term, nor within six months following the filing of prior recall petitions. (s 27500.) The notice must contain the official's name, names of proponents of recall, and a statement of reasons for the recall. (s 27504.)
After the notice of intention is filed, the official has seven days to submit an answer following which the notice of intention and answer, if any, are published. (s 27505.) Seven days after publication the recall petitions may be circulated and signed. Petitions signed by 25 percent of the electorate must be filed within 60 days of filing the notice of intention. (s 27507.) After filing, the city clerk has 30 days to verify the petitions. (s 27510.2.)
The recall ballot presents the question whether the official shall be recalled and, in addition, the proposition whether, if the recall should prevail, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment or special election. (ss 27515, 27516.) Votes are canvassed on the first Tuesday after the election and, if a majority have voted for recall, the office is deemed vacant as of that date. (s 27517.) But if, as in the case at bench, a majority of the city council is recalled, the recalled officials remain in office until a special election is held and their successors qualified. (s 27519.) Such special election must be called by the city clerk immediately after the votes at the recall election are canvassed and must be held within 89 days thereafter. (s 27519.)
Although section 27521 specifies a disqualification period of one year, in practice a recalled city official may be unable to run again for over two years. As in the case at bench, section 27521 frequently disqualifies the recalled official not only from the special election to fill the vacancy created by the recall, but also from the next general municipal election. Unless there is a premature vacancy, the official then must wait another two years for the following general election to run for his former office. In assessing the impact of the disqualification provision on the election process, this maximum duration should be kept in mind.
According to the city, the statute in question is necessary to further three governmental interests. The city contends that section 27521: (1) Prevents persons lacking substantial support from appearing on the ballot; (2) assures that election winners are the choice of the majority of voters; and (3) promotes stability in city government. These interests will be examined in turn.
There is a compelling governmental interest in preventing election ballots from being so cluttered with frivolous candidates as to confuse the electorate. (Lubin v. Panish, Supra, 415 U.S. 709, 716, 94 S.Ct. 1315, 1320, 39 L.Ed.2d 702, 708.) However, the one-year disqualification period established by section 27521 is not an appropriate means to assure that candidates have substantial support. There other ‘obvious and well known means of testing the ‘seriousness' of a candidacy’ (Lubin v. Panish, Supra, 415 U.S. 709, 718, 94 S.Ct. 1315, 1321, 39 L.Ed.2d 702, 710; Knoll v. Davidson, Supra, 12 Cal.3d 335, 348, 116 Cal.Rptr. 97, 525 P.2d 1273), primarily by requiring nominating petitions. The nomination provisions of the Elections Code are applicable to recalled officials as well as to other candidates and there is no reason to believe that recalled officials present a special problem requiring special treatment.
7 Indeed, as previously mentioned, an inference that the recalled official has sufficient support not to be a frivolous candidate may be drawn from the fact that he prevailed at the previous general election. Further, a hard-fought recall election is apt to fix the identity of the recalled official so firmly in the minds of the electorate that the familiar name on the ballot is particularly unlikely to cause voter confusion.
The real danger which alarms the city, and which it argues section 27521 was designed to meet, is that the recalled official will have too much popular support rather than too little. In other words, the recalled official might be elected even though a majority of the electorate find him unacceptable.
Ordinarily, of course, an official who has been removed by recall will stand little chance of winning an election held a few months later and for that reason would not seek reelection. Thus where the official's popularity has been substantially weakened by his recall, section 27521 is unnecessary to further this particular interest. However, given different levels of voter turnout and a close recall vote, an official might be able to regain his position, perhaps by a bare majority or a mere plurality, within a year of his recall. The city complains that this would ‘violate the integrity’ of the recall vote and that section 27521 is an appropriate means to prevent it. This argument lacks substance.
The concept of the integrity of the recall vote is somewhat mystifying. The recall process is itself an example of the strong public policy in favor of affording voters opportunity for reassessing their choices of elected officials and a later expression of the public will is generally entitled to more weight than an earlier one.
8 Moreover, in the municipal recall election there is no standard of comparison, the only questions being whether the official should be recalled and whether the vacancy resulting from a successful recall should be filled by appointment or by special election. It could be that at the special election following a recall election the other candidates would be so unattractive that the recalled official would seem the best of the lot. Thus it is conceivable that some of the voters who favored recall could vote for the recalled official in the subsequent election were he permitted to be a candidate. If so, why should these voters be denied the option? The success of a recall does not prove that the recalled official could not command majority support some months later. Voters could change their minds for any of a number of reasons, or voters who did not vote in the recall could turn out in the subsequent election. Nor would elimination of recalled officials guarantee that each election winner has majority support for the possibility of a plurality victory is inherent in our system of municipal elections. If plurality votes following recall elections present a substantial danger, then a statute may be tailored to meet this problem in a manner which does not single out the recalled candidate or severely limit voter choice, such as by providing for a run-off election.
The most substantial argument in favor of section 27521 is that it promotes stability in city government in two ways. First, the divisive issues involved in the recall campaign need not be debated again in a subsequent election if the only spokesman for one side, the recalled official, is not allowed to run. Second, the possibility of a second recall campaign within a short period after the first is reduced. This second proposition assumes that recall, unlike lightning, is more likely to strike the same person twice or, in other words, an official who is recalled but manages to win a subsequent election will be an especially likely target for recall and the second recall, even more than the first, would engender bitterness in the community, impair the smooth functioning of city government, and drain the energies of the challenged official.
The state has a legitimate interest in the stability of municipal government. (See Storer v. Brown, Supra, 415 U.S. 724, 736, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 1282, 39 L.Ed.2d 714, 727.) But this interest may not be promoted by measures directly aimed at curbing debate on issues of public importance however divisive they may be. (See Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 4, 69 S.Ct. 894, 895, 93 L.Ed. 1131, 1134.) On the other hand, while we agree that this interest may be furthered by preventing too frequent recalls, section 27521 is not a necessary or appropriate means to this end.
Viewing the legislative scheme for recall as a whole, the one-year period appears to be excessive since other provisions, equally important to safeguarding the stability of local government, involve much shorter periods. If a challenged official wins a recall election, his opponents can start a new recall in only six months.
9 Should the official be recalled, on the other hand, his supporters can seek to recall his replacement subject only to the six months' waiting requirement of section 27500. It would seem, then, that the Legislature has decided that six-month intervals between recall campaigns are tolerable and do not threaten the stability of local government.
Moreover, the disproportionately long period provided by section 27521 may actually encourage recalls. If an official is recalled by a narrow vote and barred from the subsequent general election, the quickest way to obtain a new electoral contest would be to support a recall of his successor. If the recalled official is allowed to run in the general election following his recall, on the other hand, the results are more likely to be accepted by both sides and the chances of recall during the subsequent term will be reduced. We mention this line of reasoning only to indicate that the deterrent effect of section 27521 on the frequency of recalls and therefore on the stability of local government is neither simple nor obvious.
More fundamentally, if the danger is repeated recalls, the appropriate remedy is limiting the frequency of the recall itself, not barring the candidacy of the recalled official. In fact, several of the provisions already mentioned do just that. Section 27500 prevents commencement of recall proceedings within the first six months of the official's term or within six months of the filing of recall petitions against him. Section 27513.5 prevents a recall election if the official's term would expire within six months following submission of the petitions. Thus breathing spaces are provided at the beginning and the end of an official's term and between recall efforts. Whether these periods are too long or too short is, in the first instance, a question for the Legislature. If they are perceived as inadequate, it would be a simple matter for the Legislature to lengthen the periods or otherwise modify them in order to prevent recalls from occurring too frequently. Such timing devices are constitutionally preferable because, although they limit to a degree the ability of the electorate as a whole to express its will, they operate in an impartial manner rather than by effectively disfranchising a portion of the electorate.
To assess the practical importance of section 27521, we have examined the recall systems applicable to other classes of elected officials in this state. Significantly, there are no similar disqualifications for candidacy with respect to recalled school officials,
10 recalled county officials, 11 or recalled state officials, 12 although a provision almost identical to section 27521 is found in the Uniform District Election Law. 13 A recalled county, state, or school official is free to run again for his position in any subsequent election, no matter how soon after the recall the election is held. 14 Although it is common knowledge that recall elections occur with great frequency in school districts, the Legislature has apparently not felt it necessary to the stability of governing boards of school districts that a recalled school official be disqualified from being a candidate for one year, six months, or any period at all.
We have carefully considered the arguments which have been presented or which we could imagine in favor of the constitutionality of section 27521 and are persuaded that they are either insubstantial or that the governmental interest involved could easily and conveniently be protected by means less burdensome to fundamental rights. We therefore conclude that section 27521 is unconstitutional.
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The order is affirmed as moot.
I concur not only because the issue is moot but also because I believe it was correctly decided by the trial court. In my opinion Elections Code section 27521 is constitutional.
This section is a limitation on candidacy and only incidentally affects the right to vote. Under the latest cases neither the Supreme Court of the United States (Bullock v. Carter (1972) 405 U.S. 134, 92 S.Ct. 849, 31 L.Ed.2d 92) nor the Supreme Court of California (Knoll v. Davidson (1974) 12 Cal.3d 335, 116 Cal.Rptr. 97, 525 P.2d 1273; Thompson v. Mellon (1973) 9 Cal.3d 96, 107 Cal.Rptr. 20, 507 P.2d 628) has been willing to accede a fundamental status to the right to be a candidate alone. Where the primary infringement is on the right of candidacy and the right to vote is only incidentally concerned, the test to be applied is, is the provision involved reasonably necessary to the accomplishment of legitimate state objectives. (Bullock v. Carter, Supra; Smith v. Evans (1974) 42 Cal.App.3d 154, 158, 116 Cal.Rptr. 684.)
The prohibition, against a municipal officer who has been recalled again running for the same office within one year after the recall, found in Elections Code section 27521, is only a part of a general scheme regulating recalls. Other provisions prohibit filing a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition within the first six months of the official's term, nor within six months following the filing of a prior recall petition (Elec.Code, s 27500); a special recall election need not be called if a general election for the office is scheduled within six months of the filing of the recall petition (Elec.Code, s 27513.5).
All of these provisions seek to further the legitimate and substantial state interest in encouraging political stability. (Storer v. Brown (1974) 415 U.S. 724, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 39 L.Ed.2d 714.) They aim to prevent a diversion of the energies of city officials from the business of governing by unnecessarily frequent and disquieting political campaigns. While reasonable opportunities for the voters to change or at least to attempt to change their governing bodies are essential, it is not essential that they should be given an immediate opportunity to undo what they have just done. This is particularly true where it could easily be a minority undoing what has very recently been accomplished by a majority. A majority vote is necessary to effectuate a recall, but at a general election which might be held soon thereafter only a plurality is required thereby allowing a minority to upset the recently declared will of the majority. More than 50 percent of the voters having said ‘we don't wish to be governed by this man,’ thus are forced to bow to a group which may be substantially less than 50 percent who say ‘but we do.’ Appellant suggests that this might be averted by providing for run-off elections. But in Bullock v. Carter, Supra, 405 U.S. 134, 145, 92 S.Ct. 849, 857, 31 L.Ed.2d 92 the Supreme Court stated that it was a legitimate end of government to so regulate election ballots as to assure that ‘the winner is the choice of a majority, or at least a strong plurality, of those voting, without the expense and burden of runoff elections.’
No suspect classification such as race, wealth, or curtailment of the right to travel is involved in the application of Elections Code section 27521. No substantial class of persons is involved. Only individuals on whose qualifications the voters have recently had an opportunity to express themselves are affected.
Neither the burden on the right to be a candidate nor on the right to vote is as great as were those involved and held constitutional in Storer v. Brown, Supra, 415 U.S. 724, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 39 L.Ed.2d 714, Lippitt v. Cipollone (D.C.1971) 337 F.Supp. 1405, affirmed without opinion (1972) 404 U.S. 1032, 92 S.Ct. 729, 30 L.Ed.2d 725 and Maddox v. Fortson (1970) 226 Ga. 71, 172 S.E.2d 595, cert. den. 397 U.S. 149, 90 S.Ct. 999, 25 L.Ed.2d 183.
As the ends, encouragement of stability in government and protection of the majority will, are legitimate state objectives and the means, postponement of the opportunity to vote for a particular individual for one year, is a reasonably necessary one I believe that statute is constitutional and should be upheld.
FOOTNOTES
1. Cases in other jurisdictions upholding limitations on successive terms in office (Maddox v. Fortson, 226 Ga. 71, 172 S.E.2d 595, cert. den., 397 U.S. 149, 90 S.Ct. 999, 25 L.Ed.2d 183; Benzow v. Cooley, 12 A.D.2d 162, 209 N.Y.S.2d 364, 367) involve similar restrictions but are not authoritative here since such limitations serve totally different governmental interests.
2. All subsequent citations to statutes will be to the Elections Code. Section 27521 provides:‘A person who has been recalled, or who has resigned from office while recall proceedings were pending against him, shall not be a candidate for nor appointed to such office within one year after his resignation or recall.’
3. Justices Tobriner and Mosk voted to grant the petition. A summary denial of a petition for a writ of mandate is not a precedent, nor law of the case, nor res judicata except when the sole possible ground of denial was on the merits. (People v. Medina, 6 Cal.3d 484, 490—492, 99 Cal.Rptr. 630, 492 P.2d 686.)
4. The city argues that holding section 27521 unconstitutional would seriously infringe upon the federally guaranteed devoting rights of those favoring recall and therefore to base such a holding on the right of candidacy as fundamental under the California Constitution only would raise an issue under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. Our treatment of the case makes it unnecessary to address this complex argument.Whether the right of candidacy is fundamental under the California Constitution is apparently an unsettled question. (Smith v. Evans, 42 Cal.App.3d 154, 159, 116 Cal.Rptr. 684.)
5. Petitioners alleged that they were registered voters and thus have standing to argue infringement of the right to vote.
6. A frequently quoted formulation is the statemen that such laws must be ‘reasonably necessary to the accomplishment of legitimate state objectives in order to pass constitutional muster.’ (Bullock v. Carter, Supra, 405 U.S. 134, 144, 92 S.Ct. 849, 856, 31 L.Ed.2d 92.)
7. Nomination papers for candidates must be signed by not less than 20 nor more than 30 voters in a city of 1,000 persons or more, and not less than 5 nor more than 10 voters in a city of less than 1,000 persons. (s 22836.)
8. As a rule, voter turnout at special elections is lighter than at general elections. Although we have not been furnished with empirical data on recall elections, nor are we aware of any, it seems reasonable that this rule would also apply to recall elections. If so, this would be another reason for preferring the results of a general election held within a year following a recall.
9. Section 27500 prevents filing of a notice of intention to recall if recall petitions have been filed within the preceding six months. In Moore v. City Council, 244 Cal.App.2d 892, 902, 53 Cal.Rptr. 603, this section was construed to apply only where the petitions were legally sufficient to compel a recall election. The rationale of Moore suggests that the six months should run from the election rather than from the filing of the petitions although the latter would be a more literal reading. If the literal interpretation is correct, however, then section 27500 would allow a new recall campaign to begin even less than six months after a recall election.
10. Procedures for recall of school officials are found in Education Code, section 1131 et seq.
11. Procedures for recall of county officials are found in chapter 2 of division 14 of the Elections Code, section 27200 et seq. There procedures also apply to officials of any district not subject to the Uniform District Election Law.
12. Procedures for recall of state officials are found in article XXIII of the state Constitution and chapter 1 of division 14 of the Elections Code, section 27000 et seq.
13. The Uniform District Election Law is found in Elections Code, section 23500 et seq. It applies only where the principal act of a district so provides. The provision disqualifying recalled officials from candidacy for one year after recall is section 23654.
14. When a county, state or school official is recalled, his successor is elected from among a group of nominees appearing on the same ballot which decides the recall question thus eliminating the need for a special election. To prevent confusion, the name of the official to be recalled may not appear among the nominees on the recall ballot. The city contends that by holding section 27521 unconstitutional we will be calling into question the validity of such provisions barring the name of the official to be recalled from appearing on the list of nominees. The contention lacks merit since a vote against the recall question is a vote for the challenged official and therefore the challenged official is a candidate even in the recall election.
15. As the discussion makes clear, our decision is not directed to that portion of section 27521 barring appointment of the recalled official and we express no opinion thereon.
TAMURA, Acting Presiding Justice.
KAUFMAN, J., concurs.
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Cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has raised $400m in new equity funding from investors as it grapples with mounting scrutiny from US regulators towards crypto businesses.
The funding round was led by WestCap, the fund set up by former Airbnb and Blackstone executive Laurence Tosi, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Canada’s second largest pension fund.
The backing from major investors comes a month after Celsius was drawn into a broad US regulatory crackdown on crypto companies that offer customers yields on deposits of digital assets. State authorities in Texas and New Jersey said that Celsius’ yield-bearing accounts amount to an unregistered securities offering.
Alex Mashinsky, Celsius chief executive, told the Financial Times he hoped the fundraise would reassure regulators about the stability of his crypto lending business and help open doors in the mainstream financial markets.
“It’s not the $400m. It’s the credibility that comes with the people who wrote those cheques,” he said.
Celsius, founded in 2017, offers its customers interest of as much as 17 per cent on deposits of cryptocurrencies. The company pays the interest in crypto, including in its own token.
The latest funding round values the company at more than $3bn, Celsius said, marking a substantial increase from a small equity raise last year led by Tether, the company behind the eponymous $69bn stablecoin, that valued Celsius at $120m.
The company has grown rapidly in the last year as the popularity of crypto lending and yield strategies surged. Celsius said the total assets on its platform hit $25bn this month, up from $10bn in March, with more than 1m registered users.
But in September, the New Jersey attorney-general’s office ordered the company to stop issuing interest-bearing cryptocurrency products. Texas state regulators filed a notice seeking a hearing in February to assess whether to take similar action.
Celsius said all its operations are wholly compliant with US law.
The clampdown came after the Securities and Exchange Commission threatened to sue the crypto exchange Coinbase if it launched a yield-bearing product and as authorities in five states pursue another crypto lender, BlockFi.
In addition to scrutiny over compliance with securities rules, authorities have also raised questions about the level of transparency around what crypto platforms do with investors’ deposits in order to generate the yields they pay.
Texas and New Jersey officials claim Celsius engages in “proprietary trading” while the company insists it uses deposits only for lending and crypto mining.
The regulatory pressure on Celsius did not deter its new investors. Tosi of WestCap said: “It’s quite typical for [regulators] to begin examining some of the market leaders in order to clarify their own rules. This is part of the process of regulating a new market.”
Tosi said his company had spent nine months doing due diligence on Celsius and was confident in the viability of Celsius’ institutional business, even in the event that retail crypto lending is curtailed by regulators.
Celsius initially operated from the UK, but said in June that it intended to relocate to the US, and withdrew its application for the Financial Conduct Authority’s registration regime for crypto asset firms.
UK-filed accounts for the year to February 2020, the most recent available, showed $356m of customer deposits and income of $29m for the year, driven by profits from changes in the valuation of its cryptocurrency holdings.
The accounts say that Celsius generates revenue from token sales, lending crypto and from “discretionary trading” of cryptocurrencies, including “speculative trades” on price movements. Mashinsky said the trading disclosures were included out of an abundance of caution.
“We do not, in any circumstance, take customer assets and buy more of them or sell them because that’s not our business. Our business is to earn yield and . . . how we earn yield does not involve trading the asset itself,” he said.
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One in eight women develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Of those women, 15–20% are diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive form of breast cancer. The incidence rate of TNBC in African-American women is close to double other ethnic groups. Dr. Heather Dunn, in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, mentors the Bioinformatics for Cancer Genomics Creative Inquiry project. The project’s goal is to investigate early mammary gland development because certain types of aggressive human breast cancers including TNBC potentially reactivate the developmental cellular processes. In addition, these aggressive types of breast cancer lack Food and Drug Administration approved drugs so patients diagnosed with TNBC are prescribed a treatment regime for other cancer profiles. Sometimes the patients respond to these treatments, but it is far from ideal.
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by Bill Weinberg
The government of Antioch, Calif., in June issued a public apology for the anti-Asian pogrom in the Bay Area city in 1876, in which Chinese residents were driven out, their homes put to the torch. It was a part of the same wave of violence against California’s Chinese community as the Los Angeles massacre of 1871 and the San Francisco pogrom of 1877.
But even as Antioch apologizes for this ugly past, persecution of Asians appears to continue today in more remote parts of the state.
A disturbing escalation is reported in California’s far-north Siskiyou County, where Hmong immigrants from Laos have been getting in on the cannabis economy—sparking a xenophobic backlash. Conservative politicians are making hay of the tensions, while the local Hmong are starting to stand up and protest.
Forgotten by History and the World
by Rahim Hamid, Dur Untash Studies Centre
The protests in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan region have won some international media attention. But coverage has not noted that this region, known to its Arab inhabitants as Ahwaz, had for centuries been an independent emirate before its incorporation into Iran in 1925. This annexation was effected through military force, and with the acquiescence of the Great Powers of the day—principally Britain and Russia. With the US and European Union now attempting to revive the nuclear deal with the Tehran regime, it remains to be seen if the Ahwazi people's re-emerging aspirations to self-determination will again be betrayed. Rahim Hamid, writing for Canada's Dur Untash Studies Centre, provides an in-depth analysis.
In order to understand the current tragic situation in Ahwaz, it's important to understand its long-neglected and airbrushed history of colonialism and occupation. The protests over water shortages now rocking the Arab region, a narrow band running from the Iraqi border down the eastern Gulf coast, have won solidarity from other ethnic minority regions of Iran. They aren't a new phenomenon, but the latest consequence of decades of Iranian ethnic repression and racism, dating back almost a century.
by Robyn Huang, The New Humanitarian
Before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, some of the country's loudest voices for peace belonged to women. In southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, for example, seated demonstrations in July drew hundreds of women from different walks of life.
Some of those voices have been pushed underground with the Taliban takeover, but they haven't been silenced. In private chat groups or on social media like Twitter, Afghan women discuss their fears, find support, share reports of what's happening in the country through the Afghan diaspora, and speak about defending hard-won opportunities for women and girls.
Pashtana Durrani and Fahima Rahmati—two Kandahar women who head community NGOs—are among them.
by Andy Heintz, CounterVortex
Shireen Huq has never shied away from taking a stand. Huq, founder of the women’s activist organization Naripokkho (meaning Pro-Women or For Women), has been on the front line of feminist causes in Bangladesh since the organization was founded in 1983. Today, however, she not only faces the continuing struggle for equal rights and gender equality in Bangladesh, but a host of related crises that are roiling the country. In a telephone interview from Dhaka, she discusses issues ranging from the plight of more than a million Rohingya refugees living in the Cox's Bazar district, impacts of the military coup in neighboring Burma (also known as Myanmar), and the crackdown on freedom of speech and expression in Bangladesh.
by Bill Weinberg, Project CBD
Two years and counting after Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s Congress to legalize cannabis, the high court justices ran out of patience with the legislative paralysis and issued a new ruling — this one removing penalties for personal use by judicial decree.
But there is no provision for commercial production, and the decree calls for tight federal regulation even of personal possession and cultivation. Will this move prove to be at least a beginning in the daunting challenge of ending Mexico’s long and bloody narco-nightmare?
Razia Sultana Speaks
by Andy Heintz, CounterVortex
Razia Sultana has seen and heard things that have once again revealed human beings' disturbing capacity for sadism and cruelty that mere words fail to describe. While much of the world has read and heard reports of the brutal repression of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority in Burma, Sultana has heard these stories first-hand while working with female survivors in Kutupalong, the world's largest refugee camp.
"I try to overcome the memories I have from when I talked with rape victims," she tells CounterVortex via telephone from Bangladesh. "I see their bodies and marks with my eyes. I provide psycho-social programs of resiliency for women, and some of them have started to talk with me after three years. This is good, that they are trusting me so we can give them more support. It's not about the financial benefits, it's only about mental therapy to help them overcome their situation. They are now openly sharing their stories and their experiences. This helps them have confidence and talk with other people about their problems. They initially were not talking to anyone."
by Frieda Afary, Iranian Progressives in Translation
Iran is experiencing another wave of mass protests and strikes as economic, social, political, environmental and health problems make it impossible for the large majority of the population to have the bare minimums needed to live.
Petrochemical strikes, protests sgainst water shortage A new wave of mass protests over severe water shortage in the mainly ethnic Arab province of Khuseztan began on July 15. Protesters' slogans have included: "Down with Dictatorship," "Down With Khamenei," "We Don't Want an Islamic Republic," and "The People Want the Regime to Fall." Government security forces have shot and killed at least eight protesters and injured and arrested many others. However, solidarity protests have started in Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, Isfahan, Sistan & Baluchistan, and Tehran. Iranian filmmakers, teachers and writers have co-signed a joint statement in support of the protests. How they Exacerbate Ethnic Tension
by Samir Pasha and Naga Kandiah, Jurist
Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan peoples, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war along ethno-nationalist lines. The flags of concern here all feature big cats as central to their designs.
Big cats, wherever they occur, have been objects of reverence. Even where they are not native, their sheer power, grace, agility, ferocity and strength have enabled them to establish a place in the mythos and heraldry of many nations. Of interest to the Sri Lankan story are three species of big cat: the leopard, the lion and the tiger. We will briefly examine them in that order.
Of the three species, only one is currently resident in Sri Lanka—the Sri Lankan leopard (
Panthera pardus kotiya). Strangely, it does not feature in the ethnic heraldry of the country anywhere near as much as its relatives do. As the subspecies name suggests, the Sinhala word for leopard is kotiya, a word which is also commonly (although not entirely accurately) used to denote the tiger—especially as a derogatory term directed at Tamils. The leopard is significant in Hinduism, however, as the animal from which the god Shiva's garments are made, and the god is frequently depicted meditating upon a leopard's skin.
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Will coffee talk be updated?
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about two to three weeks. How long will coffee last if refrigerated? Brewed coffee can be stored for three to four daysin the refrigerator. How long will refrigerated canned coffee last?
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three or four days—hello, iced coffee. As for cold brew, it'll keep for about a week in the fridge if stored in a lidded container. Will a mason jar keep coffee fresh?
Also, a lot of mason jars are clear, so your beans could be subjected to light—which can make the beans expire faster. So we usually don't recommend storing coffee beans in a mason jar unless it's dark-colored.
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Will coffee make your plants grow faster? Coffee grounds help plants grow fasterbecause of their caffeine. If you drink coffee, put the grounds in your plant instead of throwing them away. The grounds are rich in nitrogen, which is a key nutrient in a plants diet. There have also been studies that suggest that caffeine helps the plant grow faster. Will drinking coffee make you live longer? May Help You Live LongerSeveral observational studies indicate that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death… In one 20-year study, individuals with diabetes who drank coffee had a 30% lower risk of death (54). Summary. Several studies show that coffee drinkers live longer and have a lower risk of premature death. How many cups of coffee will a 48oz can of coffee make?
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How long will whole bean coffee stay fresh? Vacuum sealed bags of whole coffeebeans are good for around six months before flavor really starts deteriorating. Vacuum sealed bags of wholebeans willbegin losing their freshness in a month. If you store unopened bags of coffeebeans in the freezer they will last up to a couple years before flavor starts getting bad. How many liters will a coffee mug hold?
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Will coffee stains come out in the wash?
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soap and a little cold water into the coffee stain. Allow fresh stains to sit for three to five minutes. You can let it sit for longer, but don't let it dry… If the stain remains, try soaking for five to 15 minutes in warm water before rinsing thoroughly. Will drinking black coffee affect blood sugar test? Coffee before blood sugar test Coffee: Coffee affects digestion and can also affect the results of a blood test. As such, people should not drink coffeebefore a fasting blood test. Chewing gum: Chewing gum, even if it is sugar-free, should be avoided when fasting for a blood test. This is because it can speed up digestion, which can affect results. Will drinking black coffee make you lose weight? Coffee is known to be the low calorie beverage which is good to lose weight. Drinking black coffee to an empty stomach can lose weightb simulating the metabolism. It is also supported by the caffeine and antioxidant contained in the black coffee which play role in reducing fat absorption. Activate the nervous system Will just drinking coffee make you lose weight? Will just drinking coffee make you lose weight Some studies found that decaffeinated coffee may contribute to modest weight loss, suggesting that substances or factors besides caffeine may play a role in weight loss. The bottom line: Be cautious about using caffeine products to help with weight loss. Will making weaker coffee have same caffeine content? If you consider that the strength of the coffee is determined by its coffee-to-water ratio, then, yes, weak coffee does contain less caffeine. When coffee is brewed with a lower coffee-to-water ratio, less caffeine will be present in each cup. So, what is considered a good coffee-to-water ratio that optimizes both flavour and caffeine level?
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Emma Carlson, Contributing Writer
The delta variant of COVID-19 continues to dominate new cases nationally and locally. With Virginia cases continuing to rise, experts weigh in on distributing booster doses for vaccinated individuals. The increase of cases of the delta variant caused VCU to reimplement its indoor mask mandate before the start of the fall semester.
VCU Health spokesperson Laura Rossacher stated that the university is continuing to monitor guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on booster shots for the general public. VCU Health will develop a plan to administer booster shots to the general public, once more information is released, Rossacher stated in an email.
“We will continue to urge everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as it is our best course of action to curb the pandemic,” Rossacher stated. “With emerging evidence showing that booster shots are warranted to maximize vaccine-induced protection and prolong its durability, we support CDC guidelines to offer them, starting with immunocompromised people.”
A CDC press release from Aug. 18 announced plans to begin administering booster shots the week of Sept. 20 to all Americans who received a mRNA vaccine. A booster dose is recommended eight months after full vaccination, or two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. Boosters would start with the earliest vaccine recipients such as health care workers, senior citizens and those in assisted living homes. Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients are not yet eligible for booster doses.
“The available data make very clear that protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection begins to decrease over time following the initial doses of vaccination,” the CDC announcement stated. “In association with the dominance of the Delta variant, we are starting to see evidence of reduced protection against mild and moderate disease.”
Spokesperson Cat Long from the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts said the primary goal is distributing vaccines to those who have yet to receive one.
“The best way to curb the pandemic is for all of us to reach herd immunity and then maintain a high level of immunity through boosters,” Long stated in an email. “We are concerned that despite having enough supply, we have a significant number of unvaccinated individuals in our community.”
A booster vaccine is no different from the original vaccine, according to the CDC. Waning immunity, or decreased protection from COVID-19 over time, raises concern for a needed third dose and effective herd immunity.
Herd immunity is achieved when a sufficient percentage of a population is immune to the virus and person to person spread becomes unlikely. The exact percentage of vaccinated individuals needed to achieve herd immunity is unknown, but a CDC report from April 2020 suggests 70%.
As of Aug. 24, the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases is hovering around 2,700 per day in Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health. This number has continued to rise since June, which had cases average around 200 per day.
The primary cause of this surge is the delta variant, according to the VDH. The delta variant is 40-60% more transmissible than the alpha variant, one of the original variants of COVID-19. Evolving data suggests the delta variant can cause more serious illness, and vaccination may be less effective against this variant, according to the VDH.
Preliminary evidence on COVID-19 antibodies shows a reduction in immunity over time, exacerbated by the delta variant, according to a CDC brief from July 27. This could result in breakthrough infections among the vaccinated population.
Computer engineering freshman Knox Butler said because all of his classes have an in-person aspect, he felt that booster shots would be a “prudent measure” in fighting COVID-19, due to the contagiousness of the delta variant.
Butler received the Moderna vaccine in May. He took no issue with the U.S. distributing COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, as they have already committed 600 million vaccines globally for donation, according to the CDC.
“It reminds me of safety briefings on airplanes, where you are always told to put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others, so that you don’t get yourself hurt while trying to help people,” Butler said.
Western countries have the most access to COVID-19 vaccines, according to the World Health Organization. Western Asia and most of Africa have the lowest percentages of vaccinated individuals; Nigeria has administered 1.92 vaccines per 100 people and Afghanistan has 3.09 per 100 people, while the United States administered 109.12 vaccines per 100 people, according to the WHO.
Members of the VCU community can visit cdc.gov for the latest information on COVID-19 and booster vaccines.
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National Medical Council guideline make active heart training mandatory for all resident doctors BCLS training for doctors held at Sayaji Hospital under World Restart A Heart Day
Heart attacks often occur outside the hospital, at home, in the office, or on the street. Breathing, pumping and other ways of reactivating the heart are very important for survival in case of difficulty in breathing, irregular heartbeat or slow heartbeat and in case of stopping.
According to the new guideline of the National Medical Council, it is mandatory for all resident doctors to undergo the relevant BCLS training. As part of World Restart A Heart Day, a training workshop was organised at the Covid Command Center at Sayaji Hospital jointly with Medical College and Department of Anesthesiology.
Informing about the importance of this training for doctors, the professor and head of the anesthesiology department, Dr. Swati Bhatt said that training in the use of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is of paramount importance for all medical professionals. This training remains useful in the survival of the patient as long as a high level of medical assistance is available.
According to the guideline of the Indian Resuscitation Council (IRC), under the leadership of department's co-professor Dr. Kavita Lalchandani, Assistant Professors Dr. Darshana Patel, Afroz Saeed, Dr. Neha Cheraya and Dr. Pinal Bumiya give training with the help of human figure.
On this occasion, the Dean of Baroda Medical College, Dr. Tanuja, Medical Superintendent of Sayaji Hospital, Dr. Ranjan Krishna Iyer and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Hemant Mathur was present and explained the usefulness and importance of this training.
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Blockchain technology-related patent applications surged in South Korea last year, and appear to be rising further this year in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Per the
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), a total of 1,301 blockchain patents were registered in the country last year, a rise of 50 times on the paltry 24 registered in 2015.
Media outlet Joongang Ilbo added that industry players believe blockchain provides “excellent” levels of security – and says that industries across the board in the country are “increasing” their adoption, “particularly due to the COVID-19 crisis.”
Blockchain business consultant Lee Jong-cheol told
Our that the government has been actively pushing untact technology of late.
Untact is a portmanteau term that is being used in South Korea to describe industry 4.0 advances that help do away with unnecessary face-to-face contact.
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How best to recruit within the Data Centre market. Are we doing it right?
To properly answer this question, we need to rewind a little bit. I’ve been in the recruitment industry now for the best part of five years and Data Centres specifically for the majority of that time. Like most recruiters out there I would consider myself an extrovert. I like to think I am personable and easy to talk to. However, one thing that is not as commonly found (in my experience) is I am a critical thinker and a very reflective person (and not just in terms of my rather large and shiny forehead).
I come from a customer service/management background working for companies that encouraged creative thinking in solving problems and a major part of that has always been reflecting on the past. One thing that has really challenged me during my time recruiting is how difficult it is to do this. A combination of the fast-paced nature of this industry giving you little time to sit back and take stock along with the fact that asking for feedback on the recruitment process itself is for some reason a seemingly taboo subject.
In my time I have tried a number of different ways of recruiting – contingent (multi-agency), exclusive (sole agency) and over the last 12-18 months retained (partnership working). I’ve been thinking about whether we are going about recruiting for our sector in the right way. So, let’s break it down.
Below are my top 5 tips (in no particular order) for companies and even my fellow recruiters on how best to recruit in this market.
1. Know your Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
However, you choose to set up your recruitment function the most important thing is making sure you deliver a consistent and appealing message to your given talent pool. Everyone wants to be part of a story and yes, a job move might not be as exciting as a character arc in a superhero movie, but everyone wants to see themselves going on a journey and achieving their potential. Almost every Data Centre company I deal with are embarking on a period of significant growth so get that message out there. Ask yourselves where you see the business in 3-5 years and what this particular position you are looking for will do to help get you there. Even if right now your particular company or site are going through some challenges share those and make the talent pool aware of what you are going through and why, usually (and hopefully) it is to get to a better place once through it. The companies that I most enjoy working with and that are most successful in recruiting top talent have this nailed down.
2. Refine your process, then refine it some more and some more… (you get the point)
The marketplace is becoming an increasingly competitive one. With an only growing need for more Data Centre professionals there is nothing that will lose you more candidates than a lengthy and pointlessly drawn-out process. An interview process is often a window into seeing how a company operates. What does yours say about you? What would it say to a candidate if your interview process is long winded and filled with pointless additional stages and unnecessary tests? With the emergence and increasing normality associated with video interviewing it is now easier than ever to have a quick and simple process. The days of 5+ interview stages over many months should (in theory) be over.
3. In-house vs External
I’m sure the expectation here would be for me to bash any in-house approach but having worked within both systems I won’t be doing that. I have come across some excellent in-house recruiters and recruitment functions and also continue to hear horror stories of poor practice from other agencies that operate in the Data Centre space, so this is never going to be a clear-cut answer. In my experience no matter your set up, things are generally smoother if you have someone internally dedicated to recruitment (and by dedicated to recruitment ideally, I don’t mean someone who has a huge amount of other HR responsibilities with recruitment added on at the end!). Given the size of the industry now, the volume of roles that are often looked for and the hugely competitive marketplace with a diminishing pool of qualified candidates I do not see any way to function without the need for specialist external support in some capacity moving forward.
4. Contingent v Exclusive v Retained
When I first started out, I worked extensively in the contingent way. Roles were given out to multiple agencies with the belief that the more agencies that worked a role the more access you would get to the market. It has been clear to me that this doesn’t work in Data Centres. All that ends up happening is mixed messages sent to the marketplace and agencies squabbling over candidates. I quickly transitioned to working with key clients on an exclusive basis. This often came from the point of being a trusted contact who they knew would deliver and most importantly had access to candidates others didn’t due to our specialising in the market. Whilst this worked well there was still no guarantee of success and it felt like something was lacking.
I then undertook some training on the Retained model. I’ve utilised that way of working ever since for any roles that are more challenging (senior hires, multiple needs or historic needs that had proven impossible to fill). The feedback from my clients has been amazing. The sector as a whole does seem to be moving away from contingent for the most part and I think that is for the best. Those that are still recruiting contingently I know are finding it harder than everyone else.
5. Supplier vs Partner
For me this is the area that I have seen the most change in my time and where I can see the future of the Data Centre recruitment shifting towards. Clients I work with and new companies joining the market no longer want just a supplier. They don’t just want an agency to come in and simply fill some jobs. The industry needs more than that. It needs specialists who can help guide and support their clients through growth with up-to-date market information. It needs more discussions to be had around bringing new talent into the industry, looking at the next generation and improving on our recruitment of a diverse workforce. It needs recruitment partners not suppliers.
This way of working lends itself to building stronger relationships with trusted partners who can access the full talent pool and have the knowledge to push back if what the client is looking for isn’t out there right now. If we want to continue to grow and improve as an industry and sector, we need to work smarter and that can only happen with collaboration and movement in this direction.
Summary
Overall, it feels like things are moving in the right direction. As with any growing industry it is going to take time to get things right. I am having more and more conversations with clients about the future which can only be a good thing. As always within the Data Centres market the future is looking bright.
Hopefully you found something useful to take away from this article. I’d love to get your opinion, whether you are an internal recruiter or manager within industry. Let me know what you think and where you see the market heading in terms of its recruitment strategy.
Written by Ben Palmer, Sector Lead FM & Operations
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There is a minefield of security issues bubbling beneath the surface of modern software, Veracode claimed in its latest report, thanks to developers who have integrated third-party open source libraries into their code bases – never caring about update them again.
“The vast majority of applications today use open source code. The security of a library can change quickly, so keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in your application is crucial, ”said Chris Eng, Director of Research at Vercode. “We have found that once developers choose a library, they rarely update it.
“With suppliers increasingly under scrutiny for the security of their supply chain, there is simply no way to justify a ‘set it and forget it’ mentality. they are discovered. “
In its latest report, State of Software Secuity v11: Open Source Edition, application testing specialist Veracode found that 80% of included third-party libraries are never updated – and almost all code repositories scanned included libraries with at least one vulnerability.
That’s not a small number: the company used data from 13 million scans spanning 86,000 repositories, in turn containing more than 301,000 unique libraries. The report also quotes responses from nearly 2,000 developers.
Elsewhere in the report, Veracode claimed that a whopping 92% of laws discovered in third-party libraries could be fixed simply by updating to the latest version, with two-thirds of the fixes being “minor and non-disruptive to functionality as well. the most complex software applications. “
The report also noted that a slim majority, 52%, of developers said they had a formal process for selecting third-party libraries, with a quarter saying they were not sure or were unaware of the existence of a such a process, and that “Security” is the third biggest concern when selecting a library – with “functionality” and “license” at the top of the rankings.
“While alarming, these results are not entirely surprising,” said Sean Wright, application security expert. The register. “We find time and time again that libraries are often not updated. It often boils down to the fact that libraries are not tracked effectively.
“There is a reason why this type of vulnerability has a special place in the current OWASP. [Open Web Application Security Project] List of the top 10. Organizations need to start tracking the libraries they use in their software and ensure that all identified vulnerabilities are properly prioritized. “
“If you want to see what happens when you don’t update the libraries,” Wright added, “just look at the Equifax breach in 2017. It cost the organization around $ 1.4 billion. The fix for the underlying vulnerability could have involved a single line of code. “
Veracode, of course, pointed out the code analysis technology it provides just as a solution. “The growing popularity of open source software, combined with increasingly demanding development cycles, translates into a higher propensity for software vulnerabilities,” said Chris Wysopal, co-founder and chief technology officer.
“Scanning earlier in the process significantly reduces the risk profile, and most fixes are minor and therefore will not impact the functionality of even the most complex software.”
The full report can be downloaded here.
OpenUK Chief Executive Officer Amanda Brock said of the report: “We are delighted to see this detailed focus emerge, as open source software communities working on law and governance have evolved over the past few years. decade to produce a number of important tools, including the open chain. , ISO supply chain standard and SPDX Software Bill of Material (SBOM) standard, currently seeking ISO approval.
“Open source is indeed like gravity today and all around us, in an unavoidable way, especially in our infrastructure, due to the inherent transparency and wisdom of Linus’ Law – so much many eyes make bugs superficial.
“In many ways, I suspect that open source code is probably better positioned to manage security risks than our friends in the proprietary world. This is not an open source issue, but a consequence of digitization and a general software issue. solved through open collaboration to find the best resolutions. “®
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Dropping testosterone levels is a natural occurrence. Here are some important DO’s and DON’Ts to follow for improved health and to keep your testosterone levels from plummeting.
When we think about testosterone, we think of muscle-bound, balding guys who look like the ‘Marlboro Man.’ However, both men and women have testosterone! The hormone testosterone is created by the human body. It is critical to consider your testosterone level when it comes to your health and fitness.
What exactly is testosterone?
The male sex hormone is testosterone. But, for a moment, let’s go a little more technical and go into the definition of testosterone. “Androgens are a class of steroids that have both male and female anabolic (growth) and/or masculinizing effects.” In humans, testosterone is the most significant androgen! What is the reason behind this? Because it’s in charge of libido, immunological function, energy, bone health, and muscular growth.
What is the purpose of testosterone?
Males need testosterone to create sperm for reproduction. In females, testosterone helps to produce hormones that are vital in the menstrual cycle and adds to a woman’s sex desire. A man’s fat distribution, bone density, and muscle strength can all be affected by testosterone.
Low testosterone signs and symptoms
The implications of producing less testosterone than the body requires are severe. Low testosterone levels can lead to a variety of problems, including:
Lack of energy, weariness, and lethargy — a “mojo” loss Impaired capacity to recuperate from exercise in a timely manner Make you more vulnerable to harm Muscle and bone density loss, as well as loss of lean body mass
When you see this list of ways that low testosterone levels might harm your health, it might be a little daunting. As a result, managing testosterone levels with the correct lifestyle, eating, and exercise habits is critical to your overall health.
Your testosterone levels may be deliberately reduced as a result of your lifestyle choices. Let’s look at some of the factors that might cause testosterone to drop, as well as some preventative actions you can take to ensure your testosterone levels remain stable for overall health.
These are the DO’s and DON’Ts of testosterone maintenance: DON’T consume foods that are heavy in saturated fat and sugar.
If you want to keep your testosterone levels up, avoid foods high in saturated fat and sugar. Aside from the negative implications of raising your bad cholesterol, these meals induce weight gain and can lower your testosterone. This includes meals from a restaurant! Take-out food has higher saturated fat than a typical home-cooked dinner. “Frequent restaurant meal customers have greater calories, saturated fat, and salt intakes, but lower intakes of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fiber, and various micronutrients,” according to a research.
Eat a balanced diet.
The foods you eat have a significant impact on your overall health, including your hormone levels. Maintain a healthy diet to boost testosterone levels.
Here are a few dietary suggestions to help you maintain your testosterone levels:
Make a point of getting enough protein in your diet: this will help you maintain your testosterone levels. Consume healthy fats (unsaturated fats) to help maintain testosterone levels. Consume dark green vegetables:
Low testosterone levels have been linked to a poor diet of dark green vegetables. Dark green vegetables are a must-have for healthy testosterone levels.
Maintain a well-balanced diet to keep your testosterone levels in check!
DON’T DRINK TOO MUCH ALCOHOLIC LIQUID.
Increased testosterone levels are linked to excessive alcohol use and chronic alcohol misuse. So, if you love indulging every now and again, that’s ok. However, keep in mind that limiting your alcohol use will help you maintain your testosterone levels in the long run. Alcohol can raise cortisol levels, your stress hormone, which has been linked to a reduction in testosterone production.
Begin to say “no” to alcoholic beverages.
Even better than restricting alcohol consumption, try saying no! Or, to put it another way, say no more often than yes. Large, continuous use of alcohol, on the other hand, can stifle muscular development, as well as throw off the balance of your hormone ratios and disrupt your sleeping habits.
Consider it like the domino effect: one thing not regulated causes another crucial series of processes to be disrupted, which in turn causes still another series of processes to be disrupted, resulting in increasing levels of low testosterone.
Don’t overdo it with the booze; keep your testosterone levels safe by getting enough sleep and keeping correct hormone ratios.
DON’T go to bed too early or too late.
Do you have a lot of parties? Staying up for the majority of the night, especially if it happens frequently, is a straight path to elevated cortisol, which has been related to lower testosterone levels. In a word, not getting enough sleep is hazardous for your testosterone levels.
We’re not only talking about those late nights out, dancing, or meeting up with pals when you can’t sleep because you’re worried about something vital. Even if you’re having a wonderful time (partying or conversing), keep in mind that lack of sleep, for whatever cause, raises cortisol levels, which lower testosterone!
DO get enough sleep on a regular basis.
So, if you want to achieve ideal testosterone levels, you may still go out, but return home and relax so that your body’s cortisol-testosterone ratio is balanced, and you aren’t losing sleep on a daily basis. Also, keep an eye out for sleeping too much: excessive sleep might be linked to health problems and other variables that may be treated.
Most individuals (aged 18 to 64) need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night to remain healthy. On a fundamental level, sleeping too much is unhealthy, while sleeping too little is stressful on the body. To keep your testosterone levels in check, make sure you receive adequate rest every day in the form of sleep.
DO NOT STOP WORKING OUT
What happens if you quit exercising? You gain weight, and your sleeping and eating habits are disrupted, all of which have bad consequences on a holistic level. We already know that lack of exercise and poor sleep have a negative impact on testosterone levels, but now you can add “no exercise” to the list.
Continue to exercise.
“Exercise will enhance testosterone, however different forms of exercise enhance testosterone more than others,” says Richard Jadick, D.O., a Piedmont urologist.
Weightlifting and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), for example, have been shown to be more effective than others. Basically, exercise can increase testosterone levels because it encourages muscle growth.
This is for you if you exclusively perform long steady-state cardio sessions. At least 2-3 times each week, including weight training in your routine. Not only will this lower your chance of injury, but it will also help you maintain your testosterone levels.
When it comes to most things, balance is vital, and this is also true when it comes to keeping a healthy testosterone level. Download our free guide, Training Hacks for Beginners, if you’re just getting started and want to learn more about achieving the right balance in fitness.
DON’T BE STRESSED
Stressful experiences were linked to irregular testosterone levels in males, according to one study. Cortisol is a stress hormone that causes testosterone levels to drop.
We are fortunate to live in a period where we can take a test to check if we are genetically suited to handle stress. For individuals looking to improve their fitness and nutrition, this can give a straightforward, personalized, and easy-to-follow strategy.
DO keep a stress diary.
One strategy to boost testosterone is to use various stress management approaches. Mindfulness practices, including kinds of meditation, are beneficial on a holistic level.
So, relax a little and then check your testosterone levels!
Resistance training and meditation can be related because some people utilize their resistance training sessions as a type of meditation.
If you’d want to combine meditation and vigorous movement into one session, yoga might be a terrific way to do it.
Reduce the number of stressful circumstances that occur in your life on a regular basis.
It’s all about the mind-body connection!
Taking a DNA test, which explores your specific predispositions for specific foods and exercise, can provide a straightforward, tailored, and easy-to-follow strategy for people looking to enhance their fitness and nutrition.
Get health fit, our most complete, tailored wellness plan, which includes insights into your stress tolerance and sleep quality.
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Over the years, you have actually seen the indications handwritten in all caps, toenailed to the utility pole just as you leave the highway "WILL PURCHASE YOUR RESIDENCE FOR MONEY." Recently, you've started to see an additional trend: those algorithm-powered technology firms called i, Buyers that make cash deals on homes and also close in days.
In fact, these customers have actually developed right into a few bigger classifications: 1. Buy-and-hold capitalists Buy-and-hold investors buy houses and convert them right into rental properties. Within the buy-and-hold classification, you have individual investors who buy and also lease homes for easy revenue. On a larger scale, there are institutional investors that buy at a minimum of 10 rental residential properties annually, the perfect instance being Invite Houses, a subsidiary of Blackstone that operates in 16 markets across America.
2% of all house sales in the country. Altogether, there were 245,864 single-family homes flipped in 2019. 3. i, Customers Among the most significant (and also most recent) gamers in the sell residence for cash money globe is the tech-savvy and also data-driven i, Purchaser, brief for "immediate purchaser. buy homes for cash." i, Customers use automated valuation versions (AVMs) to make affordable offers on household residences that are normally in far better problem. cities early this year, i, Buyers obtained 1% of all residence acquisitions in those markets in 2019. That might seem like a little part, yet it's almost double that of the previous year, indicating that a growing number of vendors are shifting to the speed and ease of this fairly brand-new design.
7 things you need to find out about offering your residence for cash money 1. Residence, Light will certainly match you with immediate residence buyers in your location. Since 2019, 89% of homeowners selected to list their home with a realty representative on the competitive market. This is the preferable course for numerous vendors since their top priority is to bring the greatest rate factor feasible.
In the occasion that a quick or particular sale takes priority over cost, you might go to the market in search of a cash buyer. Depending on your residence's problem, cost factor, and also place, your house will certainly be a more preferable acquisition to certain cash money purchasers over others. Most property buyers have a certain "buy box" they use with parameters regarding which types of homes are most beneficial to them.
With Simple Sale, House, Light has developed the biggest i, Customer network in the UNITED STATE so you don't need to invest hrs looking for the appropriate financier. Simply submit some info regarding your home as well as location and also we'll determine which i, Customer is the most effective suit for you based upon their past transaction background, target price range, and also the sorts of residential or commercial property they're historically willing to buy.
Some direct buyers will certainly acquire your residence as-is. Each capitalist has their very own terms and criteria on the type of residence they would certainly purchase, like the price of the residence as well as its condition.
i, Purchasers, on the various other hand, acquisition homes that remain in better condition with minor wear-and-tear concerns at an extra affordable rate. They'll send out their own inspectors to your residence and also frequently will certainly subtract the expense of the repair work from your rate. Whether you have an i, Buyer schedule the repair services or you market "as is," you'll avoid the headaches of having to finish the fixings yourself, which can be both time-consuming as well as expensive.
The great print could say something like: Deal is only legitimate if the purchaser's present residence sells within 3 months. Offer is just good if the assessment does not transform up a cracked foundation.
A contingent realty bargain has anywhere from a 1%-10% of befalling of contract. If you're offering your house for money to an investor, this might be an extra challenge you can avoid depending on the kind of customer you're collaborating with. Although lots of cash money purchasers will certainly still wish to have the house examined, they're less most likely to nickel and also dime you on repair services.
The factor house sales take forever is that lenders get included. If you have to borrow cash, you're on their timeline as well as they do not really care concerning your timeline.
All-cash purchases close swiftly since they don't need to take care of lenders in all. What's more, a cash buyer's offer will not rest on the residence appraising at a certain amount - buy homes for cash. Financing is also where house sales often tend to drop apart, so marketing your residence to a person who is purchasing for money suggests you can avoid this hiccup.
Offering a home for cash is quicker and much less research. buy homes for cash. Due to the fact that you have somebody interested from the start, you do not have to go via all the primping that goes into listing your house available. No demand to fret about staging or working with a pro digital photographer or identifying your advertising summary.
You call a capitalist (or contact one online), they ask you some inquiries, run some numbers, as well as they make you offer. You take it or do not, and you close within a week or more. This can be a specifically attractive choice in case you have to drop whatever as well as sell the home for a task moving or various other unexpected life modification.
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It's understandable that when you listen to the term "Cash Residence Buying", red flags and a large warning alert sound. To figure out which cash money house buying companies to count on and also which are frauds, there are a few suggestions that can assist: Ask Trusted Friends or Family for their Experience.
Ask to See an Evidence of Funds. Look at Online Reviews. Get In Touch With Pals and Family It's understandable that marketing a home in the St. Louis realty market can be frustrating. Asking family and friends members for their experiences with offering their houses for cash can aid aim you in the appropriate instructions of a good St.
Possibilities are if your family and friends members had a good experience with these firms they'll be excited to share tales about the process with you. In addition to, if they had a good experience, you greater than likely will also. Check out Bbb There is a wide range of information on the Internet, and also any person can upload an evaluation any time, so recognizing which resources to trust is essential.
While there could be reviews that were composed in the warm of passion to wrongfully place a business in a negative light, looking at the tone of the service' evaluations as a whole can be useful. This will normally give you a much more precise representation of if this service is a reputable cash money home acquiring company or a fraud.
Google Reviews and also Yelp are both simple to make use of as well as can provide you with insight right into various other people's first-hand experiences with business you're interested in. Both websites are moderated, so they will extract any kind of reviews that are left by former/current workers, competitors, or examines that are false and can be proven false.
Prior to moving onward with selling your home to this organization, ask them to provide you with evidence of funds. Asking for evidence of funds will make certain that they will be able to pay you the amount that they state they will pay you.
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There is not a state of peace in America and Europe when the only thing preventing cultural conservatives going to war against libertine woke surveillance CorpStates (corporate states or “free market” states) is the fact that we are outgunned and not organized.
The statement above is debatable. Is it a true statement? The answer depends on several factors. Firstly, what kind of war is it? A civil war? Probably not. At least not yet. It’s a war between elites, a bit like a medieval war between two aristocratic families, each governing a city and recruiting people to fight for them.
Scientists usually define “war” as one thousand individuals killed annually during politically violent confrontations in a country. If cultural conservatives today had been organized, with the firepower needed to fight the armed forces of undemocratic CorpStates, there would easily been over one thousand killed annually in the US. If you wonder why the conflict is that serious now, and what motivates it, read:
Cultural conservatives are overpowered and disorganized. That’s the only reason it’s still peace in the West today. But that can change, depending on how things develop in the future.
Foreign Affairs just published the article The Illiberal Tide where you should read the first paragraph:
“The “liberal international order” is under severe strain. Although its supporters welcomed the defeat of former U.S. President Donald Trump, the order still faces major challenges from both within and without. Populist politicians across the globe call for major changes in the norms and values of world politics. They attack liberal order as a so-called globalist project that serves the interests of sinister elites while trampling national sovereignty, traditional values, and local culture. Some with this view currently lead countries that belong to pillars of liberal order, such as NATO and the European Union. Others, including in the United States, are only an election away from taking the reins of foreign policy. Meanwhile, emboldened illiberal powers seek to make the world safe for authoritarianism, in the process undermining key elements of liberal order. China and Russia, in particular, have exercised diplomatic, economic, and even military power to put forward alternative visions.”
Cultural conservatives in America and Western Europe can get support from other conservatives all over the world who want to stop the libertine woke cultural imperialism of Big Tech coastal states (in the US).
The above is just a description of social facts. It’s not an incitement to violence, and it’s not a threat. Making threats in this situation is pointless and useless, and counterproductive. If you threaten a powerful opponent he or she will just double down and become more determined to fight back. Today’s ultra-“liberal” surveillance regimes in the West are delusionally convinced that they represent the moderate liberals who won WW1, WW2 and the Cold War, so these woke libertines are not going to roll over just because cultural conservatives threaten them.
Culturally conservative opponents of surveillance will only be taken seriously by the libertine woke elite if they go to war. There is probably no other way that cultural conservatism can survive if not stopping this ultra-liberal elite, through violence and/or sabotage. Because the tidal wave of the libertine fourth industrial revolution is otherwise so strong that it will dominate everyone within the next 5 to 20 years. You have to be realistic about this fact.
As long as Big Tech decides to support woke libertinism it will never allow that moderate cultural conservatives or a Trump-supporting president control the AI surveillance state. Conservatives whining about this fact (on social media) are just pathetic, if not actually doing something in real life. Woke libertines are now laughing at us (all the way to the bank) while desperately hoping that we remain pacified like natives in India under the British Empire.
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If you don’t have much time, just check out the first five points below where I describe a possible future scenario.
1) NATO in Estonia is 158.8 km from St. Petersburg, and in the Wild West of Ukraine we see that NATO or private military companies are practically 527.2 km from Moscow. If American coastal states are first to achieve superior AI and create swarms of insect drones, the leadership in Kremlin can be quickly eliminated.
(Distance from Narva in Estonia to St. Petersburg is 158.8 km. Distance from Seredyna-Buda in Ukraine to Moscow is 527.2 km.)
2) Climate changes in 2050 will probably force China to move north, so American coastal states (ACS) might allow China to occupy Siberia if Beijing doesn’t interfere when NATO and Big Tech private military forces take Moscow and St. Petersburg.
3) When microbiologists and biotech scientists in Russia observe that Russia is now on the not unlikely path toward being destroyed in a two-front AI automated war, one or more of them might decide to take matters into their own hands, totally independent of Kremlin, by preemptively releasing a highly lethal virus in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Seattle/Bellevue, in order to destroy the AI military centers of the American coastal states.
4) Just the possibility of a hypothetical scenario like the one described above will probably motivate the nervous elites in Washington DC and the edgy CEOs of Big Tech in American coastal states to massively increase pandemic-related surveillance, to contain a biological attack, which is counterproductive, because if the attacker knows that the virus will be relatively contained in Big Tech cities it’s more likely that a bioweapon will be used to destroy the AI elites of ACS.
Are the events described above likely to happen in a relatively near future? Predicting the future, five years in advance, is basically impossible, cf the works published by Nassim Taleb and Philip Tetlock, but I will nevertheless dare to claim that the risk of some kind of rogue and unauthorized preemptive WMD attacks on Big Tech in ACS has increased significantly because of Russia’s vulnerable position between NATO and China.
Russia has reason to fear both China and the corporate states of Western Big Tech, since the fate of Xinjiang and Tibet proves that CCP is willing to do that which is necessary to secure the future of China, when climate changes hit southern areas of this empire. The imperial history of Western “liberals” go back to the British Empire, cf the book
Empire by Niall Ferguson.
The second wave of “liberal” imperialism occurred when neoliberals started to conquer the world, especially after the first Cold War, cf
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Bellicose “liberals” – neocons were liberals originally – started wars against authoritarian regimes in the 1990s, in the name of democracy and freedom, continuing the “liberal man’s burden”. They attacked Serbia, an ally of Russia. They lied to start a war in Iraq and executed Saddam Hussein. Neoliberal corporatists then attacked Libya and got Gaddafi killed, another ally of Russia. Next in line was Syria, a state which is also a Russian ally, located strategically where it can stop energy pipelines from Arab states to Europe. Washington DC supported Georgia too, a neighbor of Russia, and the US coastal elites wanted regime change in Ukraine, despite having promised in the early 1990s not to expand NATO eastward:
For more info on the war in Ukraine see:
The global culture war and rightwing bioterror
The cultural differences between the Christian empire of Russia and libertine woke Big Tech surveillance regimes in the West are another reason why Russia fears ultra-liberal American coastal states. The latter actively support cultural imperialism on a global level, cf
Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro and read this article here:
The libertine woke Big Tech corporations that develop military AI for American coastal states are dogmatically supportive of LGBT values and therefore very opposed to Russia which is a Christian state not allowing this minority interest to enter the mainstream public sphere.
Since early 2020 I have many times warned Western intelligence agencies, governments and corporations that if they continue to spread libertinism and LGBT values, in the West and globally, it increases the risk of rightwing WMD terrorism, including the risk of a manmade pandemic, in a worst case scenario. Bill Gates have also recently warned about this (02:10 min):
But libertine woke entertainment companies and Big Tech corporations ignore the risk of a manmade pandemic because they are economically and dogmatically driven to prioritize the spread of libertinism and LGBT values on all continents, probably also through the 12 000 satellites of Starlink, covering the planet, including Russia. This cavalier attitude to the risk of a future manmade pandemic killing their own citizens in America reveals that the elites governing the West today are very reckless and irresponsible, blinded by woke ideology.
Today’s decadent elites are also nearsighted because of greed, a desire to profit from the libertine industry in California and other coastal states. Difficult to say in which degree corporations have been infiltrated by organized crime and therefore been influenced by libertine mobster values. Corporations are often controlled by psychopathic CEOs, according to research done by Kevin Dutton at Oxford:
Moderate liberals were willing to start WW2 and risk WW3 to protect the main pillars of constitutional democracies. It was reasonable to risk everything to defend basic liberty and democracy against totalitarian regimes.
It’s not rational to risk a manmade pandemic for no other reason than to 1) profit from libertinism, and 2) spread the LGBT lifestyle, especially when this propaganda effort is counterproductive if you are actually concerned about the safety of LGBT individuals, as explained here.
But libertine woke corporations keep provoking rightwing radicals, as seen here.
When Russia observes the arguably crazy wokeness that blinds Western elites today, especially Big Tech companies producing military AI, it has good reason to fear that these zealots will eventually attack their cultural archenemy: Kremlin.
Libertine woke Biden said Putin was a killer. In America they execute killers.
The Aspergers and hippie Zen-loving creators of AI on the West Coast of America have ideologically more in common with the emotional reservedness of China and its meditative hive mind culture, cf
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. The culture in Russia is much more emotional and volatile, something that Apergers instinctively dislike. Russia stands in the way of secular Enlightenment. It has to go, if the goal is to realize libertine wokeness on a global level. And that’s the explicit objective of Big Tech in American coastal states, as described for example by MIT physicist Max Tegmark in Life 3.0. Foreign Affairs recently published an article where we can read that Bill Clinton once said:
” … Clinton reminded his audience that he had set out to “do for the Eastern half of Europe what we helped to do for the Western half after World War II.” As for Russia, he argued, its “transformation has just begun. It is incomplete. It is awkward. Sometimes it is not pretty, but we have a profound stake in its success.””
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It’s pure surrealism that all cultural conservatives in Cold War 2 have in two regards more in common with communist China than we have in common with today’s “capitalist” (corporatist) authoritarian America: 1) China is anti-woke, and 2) China is anti-libertine.
Both the West and East are basically building the same Big Tech panopticons in their own hemispheres, but with different cultural characteristics. The surveillance regime in Russia is best for Christians in Europe. Absurdly and regrettably it’s just a fact that nationalistic and Confucian Beijing have culturally a better panopticon than the sick and rotten total surveillance system created by libertine and woke US/EU. But they are all evil, especially from the perspective of Jeffersonian democracy.
The FA article below also applies to a large degree to the surveillance systems, censorship of free speech and propaganda in Western entertainment seen in neoliberal globalized hybrid regimes in North America, EU and Australia.
Notice that the FA article recommends that Western states focus on “investments in technologies that can penetrate closed digital spaces and lend transparency to political processes”. To put that into perspective look at Starlink’s web of 42,000 satellites covering the entire planet. The relatively privatized 4IR (fourth industrial revolution) domain is the center of gravity of Cold War 2.
Aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines are soon dinosaurs compared to new AI robotic weapons invented the next decades. These revolutionary (spy) weapons will create so much paranoia in both the East and West that ordinary citizens will live in panopticons eternally justified by the need to stop hostile “technologies that can penetrate closed digital spaces”.
“China does so less out of a desire to spread its ideology than to expand its influence and economic advantage. Its favored partners are not fervent adherents of Marxism-Leninism but rather officials, business leaders, media tycoons, and others who view the adoption of a nondemocratic governance model that concentrates power in the hands of the few—and shuts out the many—as a route to long-term influence. This preference for antidemocratic collaborators, coupled with China’s opaque and corrupt investment practices, further corrodes democratic institutions, as murky deals struck by Chinese banks and state-owned enterprises encourage a more corrupt and unaccountable class of political elites all too eager to undermine their country’s long-term prosperity in return for personal gain.”
” … A growing number of countries have drawn inspiration from China to pursue laws controlling social media or to build Internet firewalls modeled on China’s own “Great Firewall.” China also provides increasingly sophisticated surveillance technology and internal security training to established authoritarian and fragile democratic governments, enabling them to better suppress dissent and control their own citizens. In countries such as Uganda and Zambia, CCP-linked organizations have shared technology and training with autocratic and autocratic-leaning governments, allowing them to monitor their citizens, muzzle media and civil society, and impose repressive Internet rules.”
“The CCP has also engaged in more explicit political intervention by interfering directly in the political processes of other sovereign countries to support China-friendly politicians and policies and by co-opting local civic groups and journalists to stymie negative portrayals of China’s international engagement and to protect its ties to corrupt local elites. These efforts are not intended to overthrow democracies or other ideologically dissimilar regimes but to help ensure that China-friendly policies and investment climates will prevail regardless of who is in power. Nevertheless, such efforts erode the accountability of leaders to their citizens, weaken the independence of the media and civil society, and ultimately tilt the playing field to favor illiberal leaders looking to import elements of China’s model of governance into their countries’ political systems. This kind of political encroachment maintains the form of a democratic system while hollowing out the actual substance of a functioning democracy from the inside, making the slide toward authoritarianism harder to detect.”
“It should come as no surprise that the CCP’s vision of successful governance has no room for independent checks on state power, such as a substantive civil society or healthy opposition. In the model that Beijing is selling and that more and more countries are buying, dissent is not a legitimate expression of individual interests but an attempt to sabotage collective nation-building efforts. Opposition, in other words, is not political participation but state subversion. …” (…)
” … They threaten to usher in an increasingly undemocratic world populated by regimes that are beholden to Beijing and unsympathetic to the interests of the United States and its allies. Such regimes would be less accountable to their populations, less committed to individual rights, less responsible to international institutions that uphold democratic norms and universal values, and more dedicated to controlling and suppressing information. In short, if Beijing isn’t trying to remake the world in its image, it is trying to make the world friendlier to its interests—and more welcoming to the rise of authoritarianism in general.” (…)
“The CCP’s challenge to democracy requires a concerted and well-resourced effort to shore up democratic institutions in vulnerable countries around the world. This effort should prioritize support for independent media and civil society, aggressive anticorruption and anti–money laundering measures, and investments in technologies that can penetrate closed digital spaces and lend transparency to political processes. …”
“Such efforts can work only if developed democracies rededicate themselves to making sure that their own political systems deliver: to retain its global appeal, citizen-centered governance that welcomes civil society must be seen as functional. …”
” … China is wielding its position as the host of the World Internet Conference, for instance, to legitimize its (very restricted) definition of Internet freedom. The United States and its allies need to do more than simply show up. They must undertake an aggressive and united effort to secure leadership in these critical organizations across the board. …”
” … may prove irrelevant if Beijing feels driven to reach into democratic societies, undercut their institutions, suppress and censor speech it deems offensive, and erode the foundations of liberal society the world over. …”
“The United States and its allies must shore up their defenses and push back against China by cultivating democracy at home as well as abroad. Failure to do so could imperil the current international order—and make the future unsafe for democracy.”
Biden is not a realist, as this FA article claims here. Neoliberal crusaders are just temporarily retreating and regrouping in order to later return with weapons based on superior 4IR tech. It’s in the DNA of modern
multicultural America to police the world. Even Tim Pool, who is anti-war, advocates in favor of the US military continuing its occupation or control of areas near China, a long bellicose corporate trend which started in Asia before the Opium Wars.
Timcast:
I don’t mind if 4IR blows up. I say “better dead than red”. So that part of me which is Churchillian is not against America escalating Cold War 2. Escalate until 4IR explodes. But I’m old and don’t have kids. I’m also thoroughly disgusted by the libertine and woke states in the West. But everyone else who will miss today’s sleazy and tacky 4IR societies in the US and EU better think twice. But don’t worry too much about all that. It’s almost certain that greedy mafioso corporations in America will accept a compromise, a truce: a high-functioning mobster panopticon operates in the West and Beijing 1984 exists in the East.
Enjoy
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Lignite-fired power plant in Weisweiler
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Germany will phase out lignite fully by 2038. This threatens to result in a loss of jobs in the Rhineland region. In order to maintain the economic strength of the region, municipalities and companies are looking for alternatives. Know-how from Jülich helps to shape structural change.
It has shaped the Rhineland region for over 200 years: lignite. Deep opencast mining pits criss-cross the landscape in the triangle between Aachen, Düsseldorf and Cologne. The few hills, such as Sophienhöhe near Jülich, consist of the dredged and backfilled earth from coal mining. Not only the landscape is shaped by the rise of the brown rock, but also the industry in the region with its power plants and chemical plants.
Picture above: Lignite-fired power plant in Weisweiler
However, the long-established structures are now breaking down. It is a done deal that lignite will be phased out by 2038 at the latest. Plus, Germany wants to become climate-neutral by 2045. The Rhineland region is thus facing an enormous economic and social challenge: tens of thousands of jobs could be on the rocks if the structural change in the region cannot be managed in a socially, economically and ecologically acceptable way.
The Rhineland region
Recultivation areas
Active opencast mines
Approved degradation
Power plant locations
(as of June 2021)
“What the region needs is reindustrialization. New jobs have to be created for the ones that are lost, and this applies to a wide variety of educational qualifications,” says Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, Chairman of Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Board of Directors. In his view, three prerequisites need to be met: the development of an efficient and modern infrastructure, the transformation of industry to open up new business fields, and the settlement of companies from new, promising industries.
“As a centre of research, we can make an important contribution to all three points. Above all, we can be a driving force, helping to establish a new high-tech industry with innovations from science,” emphasizes Wolfgang Marquardt. There are a few approaches: with digitalization, CO
2 neutral industrial processes and plant-based products, for example, industry and agriculture could gain new momentum. A sustainable hydrogen infrastructure could make the region a beacon, both nationally and also internationally. Artificial intelligence and new computer technologies such as quantum computers could give rise to new businesses.
“Together with partners from science, business, politics and society, we want to contribute to making the change a success,” says Wolfgang Marquardt. Funding from the federal government and the state already makes various projects possible. A few examples allow us to demonstrate the ideas and locations with which Forschungszentrum Jülich is supporting structural change in the Rhineland region.
In the Miocene period 23 million years ago, a process lasting millions of years began: the formation of the large lignite deposits. In this process, layers of incompletely decomposed plant remains, known as peat, around 300 metres thick form in bogs. More and more sediment accumulates on the layer. Under the pressure of the sediment, the water is squeezed out of the peat and the plant mass is transformed into lignite.
of lignite was mined in the Rhineland region between 1930 and 2020. That is about one third of the total production in Germany in this period.
Coal is on the way out, hydrogen is on the way in – so stipulates the hydrogen roadmap of North Rhine-Westphalia. Accordingly, the energy source plays a key part in structural change. Forschungszentrum Jülich brings its many years of expertise to bear here, from production and conversion to the economic aspects of hydrogen. Jülich is also designated as the location for the Helmholtz Cluster HC-H2, which is financed from structural change funds and is intended to cover the entire scientific value chain from basic research to technical application. Approaches to chemical hydrogen storage in liquid form, for example in methanol and other alcohols or in liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) systems, are primarily being pursued at the HC-H2. By using liquid hydrogen carriers, existing infrastructures such as filling stations can continue to be used. “With the cluster, we want to establish the Rhineland region as an innovation region for hydrogen, where new technologies are invented, developed and demonstrated in order to export them throughout the world. This would be an important contribution to creating new jobs here and to successfully mastering the energy transition at the same time,” emphasizes Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, Chairman of Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Board of Directors. In addition to the cluster, other Jülich activities on structural change are underway: in the Agency for Cognitive Computing (ACC) project, for example, the regional economy is to be supported in the upcoming digital transformation. In the planned Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE), Forschungszentrum Jülich and Fraunhofer ILT Aachen want to enable local companies to develop and use quantum technologies. The expansion of the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons “ER-C 2.0” is intended to create a platform for characterising and developing innovative materials.
Additional information Read more about structural change in our brochure „New thinking, new opportunities. How research contributes to structural change“. (in German) Broschüre „NEUES DENKEN, NEUE CHANCEN. Wie Forschung zum Strukturwandel beiträgt“ (PDF in German) Video series on structural change (in German)
Photos: Forschungszentrum Jülich/Sascha Kreklau, SeitenPlan (map)
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Fresno, California 2021-10-12 17:48:09 –
According to data submitted by the Food and Drug Administration, Vuse e-cigarettes have helped smokers quit smoking or significantly reduce the use of tobacco, which is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Tuesday’s first decision is part of the FDA’s drastic efforts to bring scientific scrutiny to the multi-billion dollar vapor industry after years of delay.
In September, the agency announced that it had rejected applications for more than one million e-cigarettes and related products, primarily because it could appeal to minor teens. However, regulators have delayed the decision-making of most major vaping companies, including market leader Juul.
The FDA’s decision applies only to Vuse’s refillable SoloPower devices and their tobacco-flavored nicotine cartridges. The FDA said it had rejected 10 other requests from the company for other flavor products, but did not provide details. The agency is still considering the company’s request to sell menthol-flavored nicotine formulations.
“Today’s approval is an important step in ensuring that all new tobacco products receive the FDA’s strong and scientific premarket assessment,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Tobacco Center, said in a statement. I am.
“Manufacturer data show that its tobacco-flavored products may benefit addicted adult smokers who switch to these products, either completely or by significantly reducing tobacco consumption. I am. “
E-cigarettes first appeared in the United States more than a decade ago and promised to provide smokers with a less harmful alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes. The device heats the nicotine solution in the inhaled vapor.
However, few rigorous studies have been conducted on whether e-cigarettes really help smokers quit smoking. And the FDA’s efforts and claims to begin reviewing vaping products have repeatedly been slowed down by political interests competing with industry lobbying.
In recent years, the vaping market has grown to include hundreds of companies selling a range of devices and nicotine solutions of different flavors and strengths. However, most of the market is managed by several companies, such as Juul Labs and Vuse, which are partially owned by Altria.
To stay on the market, businesses must show that their products benefit public health. In fact, that means that adult smokers who use the product may quit or reduce smoking, and teens are less likely to get hooked on them.
Copyright © 2021 By AP communication. all rights reserved.
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CJRS further guidance on 10th November The Government yesterday published (on time) further guidance on the extended CJRS scheme. Most of the information was already known and flagged to clients in our last bulletin update on Monday.
The full extended guidance can be seen
here. We recommend you read the full guidance, but of particular note in terms of clarifications or changes.
Worryingly the Government is reviewing whether employers should be able to claim under the CJRS for employees serving contractual or statutory notice periods and may change the approach for claim periods starting on or after 1st December 2020. It says that further guidance will be published in late November. This will be of concern to employers and will leave uncertainty on the matter until late November when the further guidance is promised (and as we know it is sometimes late)! If the guidance does change in this area as indicated, then some employers might gamble that they will be better off dismissing employees and giving notice well before 1st December.
It has clarified that employers can claim for employees who were employed on 30th October 2020 as long as there has been an HMRC RTI submission between 20th March 2020 and 30th October 2020, unless they re-employed an employee who was made redundant or stopped working for the employer on or after 23rd September 2020.
As previously covered in guidance, it gives detail on the form of written agreement and the need to keep that written record for 5 years. Note that agreements need to be in place (if you want to retrospectively furlough someone from 1st November 2020) by this Friday, the 13th November.
There is further confirmation that employees can be furloughed any amount of time and any work pattern.
There is clarification on returning from maternity leave. The Government are now suggesting that employees need to give the normal 8 weeks notice to return before they can be furloughed.
We will keep you updated with any further developments.
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Posted May 08, 2019 06:07:08A lot of people have trouble getting their hair to grow out, but there are a few things you can do to make it happen.
“It’s the easiest thing you can think of to get a good curl,” says Liz Riddle, a stylist at the London salon DeWitts.
When she started her business a few years ago, Riddle had to work with a very strict clientele.
She now has more clients than ever.
You can try to get your hair to curl naturally, she says.
That’s what makes hair so great: it’s hard to get it to grow naturally.
Riddle says she has seen a huge increase in customers who are looking for a curl.
But what if you can’t curl your hair naturally?
You need to get rid of all the bad chemicals that are in your hair, she recommends.
If you are looking to do something more natural, such as make your hair into a ponytail, Riddles suggests having a natural shampoo and conditioner.
It’s important to wash your hair every day, but that’s not as important as the conditioner and shampoo, she adds.
Be careful to avoid getting hair stuck to your scalp, she advises.
Finally, try out a hairstyle that you don’t like.
You can also try using a hair dye, which can look natural but can make your hairstyle look a bit messy.
Riddle recommends wearing a hair bow if you have a pony tail or other long hairstyle.
For people who have naturally curly hair, Rides says, “there’s no point in using hair dye.
Hair is too fragile.
You’ll just look like a clown.”
A lot people look for a natural curl and a natural length,” she adds, “but if you’re looking for hair that is long, it might be worth a try.
“Want more hair care tips?
Read more about hair care, haircuts and hairstyles from the BBC.
Read moreThe BBC is a charitable organisation that supports charities in the fields of arts, education, health and environment.
It is run by an editorial team that has over 100 years of combined journalism experience.BBC World Service is a national broadcaster that airs in over 190 countries and territories.
It broadcasts in more than 150 languages and is the world’s most popular global language service.
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Fast and high-resolution purification of a PEGylated protein using a z2 laterally-fed membrane chromatography device Academic Article Overview Research Identity Additional Document Info View All Overview abstract PEGylated proteins comprise a class of value-added biopharmaceuticals. High-resolution separation techniques are required for the purification of these molecules. In this study, we discuss the application of a newly developed z 2 laterally-fed membrane chromatography (or z 2LFMC) device for carrying out high-resolution purification of a PEGylated protein drug. The device used in the current study contained a stack of anion exchange (Q) membranes. The membrane bed-height of this z 2LFMC device being small, it could be operated at very high flow rates, at relatively low back pressures. The primary goal was to speedily and efficiently separate a mono-PEGylated protein from impurities present in the PEGylation reaction mixture. A resin-based anion exchange column having the same ligand and bed-volume was used as the control device. The purification performance of the z 2LFMC device and the control column were compared terms of resolution, recovery and purity. The z 2LFMC device outperformed the control column in terms of every metric compared in this study. Higher purity (85.4% as opposed to 77.9%) and higher recovery (28% greater) of the target mono-PEGylated protein were obtained using the z 2LFMC device at 20-time higher speed. These results clearly demonstrate that the z 2LFMC device could be a faster and more efficient alternative to resin-based columns for purification of biopharmaceuticals. status publication date has subject area published in
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Another detailed story from Jack Igelman of Carolina Public Press on the litigation against the new Forest Service NEPA Regulations. I’d like to discuss the NEPA attitude question that Sam Evans brought up in post 2 on this. This one will just focus on “how different is the new CE from current legislative CE’s?” and “what do we know about how the Forest Service has used those?”
We had an interesting discussion about the fact that there are existing legislative CE’s that already allow more acres than the Resilience CE. Those legislative CE’s require both scoping (as do all the relevant CEs), as well as a collaborative process.
Here’s what the new Restoration CE requires in addition to scoping:
Allows 2,800 acres of activities (which may include commercial/noncommercial timber harvest). Primary purpose of all activities must be achievement of restoration objectives. Salvage harvest is not allowed under this category. Requires project development via a collaborative process
It turns out that parts of the North Carolina forests are allowed to use CEs 603 and 605 due to the HFRA mapping. In fact, they have done so.
As explained by Sam Evans in the story:
In fact, the Forest Service used categorical exclusions for North Carolina timber projects before the rule change, including the 2017 Crawley Branch Southern Yellow Pine Restoration Project in the Grandfather Ranger District in Caldwell County.
The purpose of the project was to reduce the risk of Southern pine beetle infestation, and, using a categorical exclusion created to expedite threats caused by invasive pests and the rising risk of catastrophic wildfire, the Forest Service bypassed an environmental assessment.
“It’s a good project and it’s having good results on the ground,” Evans said. “The reason for that, however, is because you have a very capable district ranger who relied on a well-established, formally convened collaborative process.”
Although the categorical exclusion used for the Crawley Branch restoration has a limit of 3,000 project acres, it’s more limited than the recent restoration categorical exclusion, since it addresses very specific needs, such as wildfire suppression and pest infestations.
“(The categorical exclusion) also has important strings attached,” Evans said. “They don’t allow harvest of old-growth or large trees, for example. Congress gave the Forest Service the authority to take action for high priorities with limitations to prevent abuse so it could move ahead without consulting the public.”
However, the new categorical exclusion rules allow the Forest Service to reject the limits imposed by Congress, he said.
“The Forest Service wants to be able to move forward even with low-priority, high-controversy projects without consulting the public,” he said.
To me, the consultation is in the requirement for scoping and in the requirement for collaboration. Do to say that the FS wanted to move forward with high-controversy projects “without consulting the public” seems like a bit of a stretch. Here’s a link to the documents (including scoping and DM) for the Crawley Branch project.
I don’t see many other “important strings” other than the old growth requirement in Categories 603 and 605.
Unfortunately I’ve never been able to find a simple CE table that shows all vegetation CE’s and the restrictions so here are the 605 ce’s.. “wildfire resilience”. You have to look in the NEPA Handbook, so I’ve quoted 605 below:
4. Wildfire Resilience. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-171) amended Title VI of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) (16 U.S.C. 6591 et seq.) to add Section 605. Section 605 establishes a categorical exclusion for hazardous fuels reduction projects in designated areas on National Forest System lands. A hazardous fuels reduction project that may be categorically excluded under this authority is a project that is designed to maximize the retention of old-growth and large trees, to the extent that the trees promote stands that are resilient to insects and disease, and reduce the risk or extent of, or increase the resilience to, wildfires (HFRA, Sections 605(b)(1)(A)).
This categorical exclusion may be used to carry out a hazardous fuels project in an insect and disease treatment area that was designated by the Secretary under HFRA section 602(b) by March 23, 2018. (HFRA, Section 605(c)(2)(C)) Within designated landscape scale areas, projects carried out under this authority are: Prioritized in the wildland-urban interface; or If located outside the wildland-urban interface, limited to Condition Classes 2 or 3 in Fire Regime Groups I, II, or III that contain very high wildfire hazard potential. (HFRA, Sections 605(c)(2)(A) & (B)) Projects carried out under this authority may not be implemented in any of the following areas: a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; any Federal land on which, by Act of Congress or Presidential proclamation, the removal of vegetation is restricted or prohibited; a congressionally designated wilderness study area; or an area in which activities… would be inconsistent with the applicable land and resource management plan. CHAPTER 30 – CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION FROM DOCUMENTATION (HFRA, Sections 605(d)(1) – (4)) A project under this authority must either carry out a forest restoration treatment that: complies with the eligibility requirements of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program under section 4003(b) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 303(b)). (HFRA, Sections 605(b)(2)) Or, a project under this authority must carry out a forest restoration treatment that: maximizes the retention of old-growth and large trees, as appropriate for the forest type, to the extent that the trees promote stands that are resilient to insects and disease, and reduce the risk or extent of, or increase the resilience to, wildfires; considers the best available scientific information to maintain or restore the ecological integrity, including maintaining or restoring structure, function, composition, and connectivity; and is developed and implemented through a collaborative process that— includes multiple interested persons representing diverse interests; and is transparent and nonexclusive; or meets the requirements for a resource advisory committee under subsections (c) through (f) of section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125). (HFRA, Sections 605(b)(1)(A) – (C)). Projects carried out under this authority are subject to the following size limitation on the number of acres treated: may not exceed 3000 acres. (HFRA, Section 605(c)(1)) Projects carried out under this authority are subject to the following limitations relating to roads: A project . . . shall not include the establishment of permanent roads. The Secretary may carry out necessary maintenance and repairs on existing permanent roads for purposes of this section. The Secretary shall decommission any temporary road constructed under a project under this section not later than 3 years after the date on which the project is completed. (HFRA, Section 605(c)(3)) All projects and activities carried out under this authority: shall be consistent with the land and resource management plans…” (HFRA, Section 605(e)) For projects and actions carried out under this authority: The Secretary shall conduct public notice and scoping for any project or action. (HFRA, Section 605(f)) Document this category in a decision memo (FSH 1909.15, 33.2 – 33.3) and include it on the Schedule of Proposed Actions (36 CFR 220.4 (d)). The decision memo should include a description of the efforts taken by the Agency to meet the collaborative process requirements in HFRA, Section 605(b)(1). Cite this authority as Section 605 of HFRA (16 U.S.C.6591d)
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Where can you discover good sonography programs? Sonography technician schools is a very popular field in the medical profession, and it is very popular among both doctors and patients. Sonograms are very safe methods of figuring out medical problems.
They do not make use of radiation, as do X-rays along with CT scans. In fact, some studies suggest that how much radiation an X-ray or perhaps CT scan exposes someone to can actually be a cause of most cancers, or at least contribute to that. Sonograms do not do this, and they are not as expensive since the equally non-radiative MRIs. It is no wonder, then, that so many people are strenuous them when they need to have diagnostics done for whatever reason.
If you're interested in enrolling in sonography plans, you won't have difficulties finding them. There are many schools across the country that are offering these packages of study, because of the large demand for these people.
You can find sonography programs at technical schools, schools, universities, and more. The question is, how do you select a high quality program? You want to review through a good, reputable program, because not all of them are created alike. Choosing a sub-standard program can result in you getting sub-standard work opportunities, not getting good chances for raises, and never having the possibility of obtaining promotions. It would be a waste if you missed out on these good opportunities, simply because sonography is a hot and also in-demand field with plenty of methods motivated and well-trained people can advance along with excel. In order to find very good sonography programs, you must seek out ones at schools that are accredited by way of a recognized, respected accrediting firm. This is essential. If you're not sure about a college's accrediting agency, look it down online to get every piece of information you need about its reputation. Employers look closely at these things, and so should you. The best education usually comes from a school that's been accredited by a prime accrediting agency. Next, look for a school with plenty of educational funding programs available. You'll need them to pay for classes, however, your starting salary like a sonographer will be very good, so you'll likely be able to settle any loans quickly. It's an investment in your own future, after all. Really good schools will also offer grants and scholarships. Finally, discover a school that has lecturers who have been or presently are sonography technicians, which offers opportunities regarding hands-on training in the field underneath the supervision of functioning sonographers. The very best sonography technician programs will give you these things, and these are what you need to get the best start in your new career.
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An NBA regulation ball is inflated to between 7.5 and 8.5 psi.
Can you pop a basketball?
A basketball is 9.23” in diameter, which means the surface area is 4*pi*(9.23/2)^2 = 267.64 square inches. A ball is inflated to about 8 PSI, so it would take 2141 pounds of force to crush a ball.
Can a basketball be too bouncy?
Hold the ball up to your face and slowly let it drop. If the bottom of the ball bounces up past your waist or slightly higher, then it is fully pumped. If the basketball bounces up close to the chest, it means it has too much air. If it does not bounce up to the waist, it means
there is not enough air. Will more air inside a basketball make it bounce higher?
With more air in the ball, the air starts at higher pressure and pushes back that much harder when the ball is bounced. So that short answer is that
more inflated basketballs bounce better because they have more air pressure inside them. … Then use the pump to put a bit of air into the ball. How do you convert PSI to LBS?
To convert PSI to lbs, simply
multiply the pressure by the area over which the force is applied. Why do basketballs lose air?
Basketballs tend to
lose a little air when left unused and through normal use over time. In order to bounce properly, basketballs need the right amount of air pressure. … When a ball is manufactured and inflated, it is drop-tested to determine its ideal air pressure which is then printed on the ball near the hole. How high does a basketball bounce when dropped from 5 feet?
According to international basketball rules, a basketball is properly inflated “such that when it is dropped onto the playing surface from a height of about 1.80 m measured from the bottom of the ball, it will rebound to a height, measured to the top of the ball, of not
less than about 1.2 m nor more than about 1.4 m” …
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3 Ways to Prepare Your Church for that New Post-Quarantine Normal
Let me make the
understatement of the day : the local church experienced disruptions in 2020.
In the church where We serve as Lead Pastor, we’ve seen and felt lots of disruptions. I know you have seen and felt disruptions in your church. But my optimism is certainly high right now for 2021. Why? First, I know the biblical truth that the cathedral will continue no matter the particular opposition (Matthew 16: 18). Second, I am seeing a hunger and desire from those inside my church.
While we are not completely out of the pandemic yet, the trajectory is going in the correct direction. As my confidence believes this trajectory will bring us to our brand new normal quickly, I sat down with my chapel leadership team last night to talk about how we prepare for this new normal. We came up with three areas where our church saw the most disruption. It’s these types of three areas that I think need the most preparation now.
Volunteer Reengagement
We lost a lot of volunteer roles throughout the pandemic. A lot. Since we have been a normative-sized church, the impact was greatly experienced. And that was to be anticipated. It makes sense that people would have worries about serving on our Pleasant Team or in our Children Ministry.
As we begin to get into a new season as cathedral, we want to reengage our volunteers. Here are some quick steps we plan to take:
Communicate the need and vision for offering. Make sure we have safety in mind for each volunteer role. Request volunteers individually if they are ready to serve again. Ask volunteers where they are comfortable serving right now. Find/create new functions for some volunteers that are not really in direct contact with other people.
Assimilation Refocusing
The way we did church was disrupted (which inherently wasn’t a bad thing) last year. Our process of assimilating new people to the life of the church required a major backseat. We are refocusing our assimilation process and it will not look the same as it did before.
The one major change we are seeking to initiate will be moving from a process-driven concentrate to a person-driven focus. We want to make certain each person that comes into our church doesn’t flow by way of a process but gets a direct connection to someone already within the church.
Outreach and Evangelism Renewal
Here’s one thing meant for my church that I know: our new normal is not going to include “business as always. ” I am dedicated to see the new trajectory include a restoration in sharing the hope of Jesus. As it stands right now, we are going to begin praying for our neighbors this spring and summer. We intend to launch a version of Pray and Move . It just makes sense in order to pray for our neighbors in the contactless way right now.
We will reach a new normal. The optimism says sooner than later.
How is your church planning? How is your church reengaging, refocusing, and planning for restoration? Don’t wait to prepare. Prepare yourself now to share the hope of Jesus to a globe that desperately needs this.
The post Three Ways to Prepare Your Church for the New Post-Quarantine Normal appeared first on Church Answers.
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The change comes during a labor shortage in the United States, assuring that undocumented workers are not at risk of being deported en masse.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it would not make mass arrests of undocumented workers during enforcement actions at US businesses, a reversal of Trump administration policies and the latest indication to millions of immigrants that they were not a priority for deportation.
Known as workplace raids, such arrests have long been criticized by immigration advocates for spreading fear and letting workers report labor violations out of concern that they may be arrested. Will go So far, these raids have not been a fixture during the Biden administration.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayerkas said Statement Enforcement efforts at work sites will instead focus on “dishonest employers who exploit unauthorized workers, conduct illegal activities or enforce unsafe working conditions.” He called for recommendations over the next 60 days from the department’s immigration agencies to identify policies and agreements that affect enforcement of labor laws and how to “reduce or reduce” the concerns and fears that undocumented workers have. were about exploitative employers.
The policy comes during a severe labor shortage in the United States stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, and assures that undocumented workers are not at risk of being mass deported. The strategy also reflects the promises that President Biden has made about taking a softer approach to immigration policy than his predecessor.
Some companies that rely on undocumented workers pay them below market rates for jobs, exploit immigrants and undermine competitors.
“Refocusing resources to combat exploitative employers is a necessary step to protect the US labor market and workers,” said Representative Benny Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Republicans criticized the policy. “It Makes Our Country Less Safe and Less Safe,” the research arm of the Republican National Committee wrote on twitter.
Workplace raids, which Mr Meyerkas described as “resource-intensive”, were a priority during the Trump administration, which targeted employers as well as undocumented workers. Its goal was to prevent immigrants from crossing the border illegally to work in the United States. George W. The Bush administration launched high-profile workplace raids to prompt Congress to pass an immigration overhaul, but lawmakers failed to reach a consensus.
The Obama administration sought to focus workplace enforcement efforts on employers who hired undocumented workers rather than the workers themselves, prioritizing audits of employee files. Nevertheless, the policy resulted in thousands of undocumented workers being fired.
Employers are required by law to check whether the people they hire are legally allowed to work in the United States. Many administrations have insisted on using a program for a nationwide requirement called the . is referred to as e-verify To confirm that employees are allowed to work in the country. But it currently remains a voluntary program for most employers.
Immigration Advocates Applauded New workplace enforcement strategyBut he said it was not an option to create a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
Nicole Melaku, executive director of the National Partnership for New Commitment is needed, not just in their workplaces.” Americans said in a statement on Tuesday. “We need permanent security now.”
Democrats have tried to include a measure in a billion-dollar spending package that would pave the way for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, but their efforts have failed.
The workplace enforcement policy also echoes new guidance for immigration enforcement priorities that were designed to partly end the indiscriminate arrests that became common during the Trump administration.
Mary Jordan Contributed reporting.
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One results in a number of insurance, Medicare supplement insurance features among these. It is always easier to be well-informed in regards to Medicare supplement insurance as you will find constant changes to the insurance policy, often a big change for the higher but sometimes it is not. It is very important to observe these changing trends if you are already on the Medicare supplement insurance or want to enroll for the same. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. There’s a significant change to the program; even as the plans are being revised the businesses are just starting to quote their new rates. This is the first faltering step of change since the year 1992. The 2 plans that feature in this change will be the M and N plans; it is likely that the pair of the plans could have a much better impact on the Medicare supplement insurance market. The concept behind these plans is that though they cost lower it will soon be all the more complicated to qualify medically in the event a person desires to upgrade his plan. People tend to go in for an insurance that’s lower than about what they fail to acknowledge or realize is that the benefits are less in this case. However, these modified plans are being offered as alternatives to the higher priced Medicare supplement insurance plans.
Most folks are apprehensive in regards to insurance plans, with the changing scenario of the plans it is better to study what’s being offered and medicare-registration.org the benefits thereof before generally making one last decision. It is really a known undeniable fact that the Medicare supplement insurance plan like the majority of the other businesses is making their entry online. Put simply by using this online service a person does not come face to handle having an insurance agent, individuals from the old school would not prefer this process and you’re not compelled to accomplish so. However, one of the greatest means of saving time would be to transact online, sometimes you will get the best Medicare supplement insurance plans available. If you choose to complete an application online you need to trust the services mentioned, all the info that you might want is displayed therefore the question of confusion does not arise. Another plus point of filling out a Medicare plan online is as you are able to compare the rates and benefits of other clients as well; this can be done in a matter of a few minutes.
It is very important to check the rates of Medicare supplement insurance plans carefully; often these rates are predictable but the purpose of the problem is that the rates will only increase next 2 yrs or so. A lot of the companies and states can experience this increase; certainly one of the main reasons for this escalation in rates is that a lot of those individuals who have enrolled with Medicare advantage are deserting the same and joining Medicare supplement insurance plans. Another reason for the upward trend of insurance rates is due to the ever evolving economic climate therefore you ought to be logical in regards to enrolling for a Medicare supplement insurance plan.
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Rasnadi Kashayam Rasnadi (S) kashayam - 100 Tablets Treats rheumatic arthritis Eases joint stiffness Reduces general bodyache Dosage:1-2 tablets twice a day before meals. Quantity:100 Tablets Works Best For Rheumatoid Arthritis Osteoarthritis Liver Health Benefits of Rasnadi Kashayam Tablets Strengthens musculoskeletal structures
Highly beneficial for pain in the hips, legs, back and feet. Protects joints and cartilages from toxins. Inhibits action of inflammation-causing enzymes. Regulates immune system activity. Speeds up repair of inflamed tissues. Lowers uric acid.
Enhances metabolismHas carminative functions. Increases secretion of digestive enzymes. Soothes the GI tract lining. Flushes out toxins from the hepatic cells. Regulates production of stomach acid. Helps to correct bowel movements. Alleviates respiratory disorders
Relaxes the respiratory tract muscles. Clears the throat and chest. Regulates body temperature. Fights off bacteria and viruses. Reduces mucus production in the bronchial muscles.
Other Benefits Pacifies excess Vata Relieves general fatigue Contributes to immunity Reduces joint pain and swelling Assists sciatica and myalgia treatment Alleviates rheumatoid and osteoarthritis Main Ingredients RasnaA strong but effective herb for all kinds of inflammatory conditions. Rasna is Ayurveda’s go-to remedy to soothe the irritated soft tissues and bring back your joint strength. It can also help with kidney diseases. TamalakiThis herb can touch your health from many corners - including hair, gut and liver. It fuels your digestion, strengthens your hair and dissolves kidney stones. And if you’re a Diabetic with urinary issues - this is the sureshot remedy for you. Agaru
Respiratory issues can have no chance against this herb! Agaru clears the nasal passages and releases excess sputum from the lungs. It increases your core strength to boost appetite and physical energy too.
Probable side effects of Rasnadi Kashayam Tablets Keep away from children. Overdose can lead to gastric irritation, nausea and abdominal pain. May cause adverse effects for pregnant or lactating women. Trikatu Powder Trikatu Powder Ayurvedic medicine for respiratory disorders Rejuvenates the liver and spleen Enhances taste and smell Dosage:1-3 gms per day with warm water Quantity:100 Grams Benefits of Trikatu Powder Refines blood quality
Naturally boosts lipolysis to assist in weight management. Effectively improves overall stamina. Normalizes secretion of bile to assist in breakdown of fat molecules. Eliminates free radicals in the blood. Flushes out chemicals and pollutants from the tissues. Lowers blood sugars.
Improves gastrointestinal healthHerbal digestion booster. Performs carminative functions. Promotes secretion of stomach enzymes. Stimulates bowel movements. Soothes the stomach lining to decrease mucus production. Prevents cellular damage in hepatic tissues. Used in Ayurvedic treatment of jaundice and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Decongests lungs and nasal passage
Best to treat allergies. Loosens mucus depositions in the lungs. Increases flow of air to lungs. Dilates the bronchial muscles. Stops nasal discharge and sneezing. Eliminates microbial infections from the respiratory tract. Helpful to cure recurrent cold, asthma etc.
Other Benefits Known anti-obesity agent in Ayurveda Enhances skin quality Contributes to immunity Improves metabolism Promotes assimilation of nutrients Relieves musculoskeletal pain and inflammation Why is it a must have? MarichaHas strong organic compounds. Lowers cholesterol and blood sugar concentration. Improves cognitive capabilities. Eliminates blood toxins. Useful in constipation and skin disorders. PippaliIncreases digestion and appetite. Relieves abdominal and stomach pain. Combats bacteria and fungi. Soothes inflamed respiratory tract lining. Reduces risks of cardiovascular disorders. Shunti
Curbs symptoms of cold and flu. Enhances brain functions. Lowers blood pressure. Relieves abdominal spasms and irritation. Treats indigestion, flatulence and vomiting.
Precautions to take Keep away from children. To be consumed as per prescribed doses. Keep away from heat, moisture and sunlight. Pregnant women should not consume more than 500mg/day. Lactating mothers shouldn’t exceed 1000mg/day doses.
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Is it bad to soak a Dutch oven?
The enameled inside of your pot shouldn’t need much scrubbing, Music says; “it’s basically nonstick.” If you’ve made polenta or oatmeal or something else that has adhered itself to the bottom of your pot, simply let it soak with
hot water and a bit of soap or baking soda overnight; it should come right off with a … What happens if you soak cast iron?
Don’t: Soak it in the sink overnight. Soaking cast iron overnight
will only lead to rust, which is the physical breakdown of the surface metal. Once rust forms, the seasoning your cast iron has taken on is completely lost. Once this occurs, the pan must be scoured to remove the rust, then re-seasoned. Can cast iron be soaked? Cast iron is porous, meaning that long exposure to water can cause it to soak up the moisture and eventually rust. While a short soak won’t do much harm, I avoid soaking the thing for fear of forgetting it and ruining the cure I’ve worked so hard develop. Can you ruin a cast iron Dutch oven?
The
seasoning will only burn off at about 800°F, so don’t worry that you will damage your pan by cooking with high heat. Cast iron can, however, easily get too hot for the dish that you’re trying to cook. Can Dutch oven soak overnight?
Soak your Dutch oven: After using your Dutch oven, allow it to cool, and fill it with hot water, dish soap, and two tablespoons of baking soda. Cover, and let it sit for about 15 minutes. … Put the lid on your Dutch oven, and
leave it overnight.
First, soak it a little: Make sure the pot has cooled and then fill it with a few squirts of dish soap and hot water. Add
two heaping tablespoons on baking soda. Cover and let sit for 15 minutes. Scrape off stuck-on food: Drain about half the water, then use a plastic scraper to dislodge any burnt-on bits. What should you not do with cast iron? What Not to Cook in a Cast-Iron Skillet Avoid Cooking Acidic Foods in Cast-Iron Pans. … Be Aware that a Cast-Iron Surface Takes on Flavors. … Don’t Cook Delicate Fish In Cast Iron. … Before Your Skillet Is Well-Seasoned, Avoid Sticky Foods. … And, Whatever You Cook, Avoid Storing Food in Your Cast-Iron Pan. How do you clean a burnt cast iron Dutch oven?
Boil Away
Fill your dutch oven with water and bring it to a boil. Then
add a few big spoonfuls of baking soda (add them slowly as the baking soda will bubble up and foam). Let the mixture simmer on the stove as you use a wooden spoon to scrape up the blackened, burnt-on stains. How do you clean scrambled eggs off cast iron?
Avoid using the dishwasher, soap, or steel wool, as these may strip the pan’s seasoning. Scrub off stuck-on bits: To remove stuck-on food,
scrub the pan with a paste of coarse kosher salt and water. Then rinse or wipe with a paper towel. Stubborn food residue may also be loosened by boiling water in the pan.
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The board of the bank had in April approved the extension of his tenure for further period of three years subject to regulatory clearance.
Reserve Bank Of India
In its APAC Sovereign Credit Overview, Fitch Ratings said India's 'BBB-/Negative' sovereign rating "balances a still-strong medium-term growth outlook and external resilience from solid foreign- reserve buffers, against high public debt, a weak financial sector and some lagging structural factors".
The notification was issued by the Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance dated September 21, 2021.
Banks are doing away with ESOPs and adding deferred bonus payments to the senior managerial staff as the new rules could add significant costs to banks, eroding their quarterly earnings.
I am quite positive about the ongoing economic recovery which will, I think, quickly take us above the pre-pandemic levels in most sectors of the economy except contact-intensive services," Jayanth Varma said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lowered the country's growth projection for the current financial year to 9.5 per cent from 10.5 per cent estimated earlier, while the World Bank has projected India's economy to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021.
"Based on our 'Nowcasting' model, the forecasted GDP growth for Q1 FY22 would be around 18.5 per cent (with upward bias)," the report said.
The Indian economy was on its course to reach pre-pandemic levels of normalization helped by sharp easing of restrictions by the government after the first wave of the pandemic.
"We wish to inform you that the approval from Reserve Bank of India has been received on July 9, 2021 for the re-appointment of Shyam Srinivasan as the MD & CEO of the bank for a period of three years with effect from September 23, 2021 till September 22, 2024," Federal Bank said in a regulatory filing.
"Banks shall ensure that the employees, while on ‘mandatory leave’, do not have access to any physical or virtual resources related to their work responsibilities, with the exception of internal/ corporate email which is usually available to all employees for general purposes," RBI said in a note to banks.
Years, and perhaps decades, of progress have been unwound in months, as many Indians who had clawed their way out of poverty face grim job prospects and carry heavy debt loads wracked up to get themselves and loved ones through the pandemic.
In the past one year, IIFL Finance has been focussing on retail small-ticket loans delivered digitally. It has also partnered with banks and fin-tech firms for co-lending opportunities. The lender has a loan book of Rs 45,000 crore, of which 91% is retail credit.
Subramanian said the government was now working with the Reserve Bank of India to include the Government of India bonds in the Global Bond Index, which will bring in significant portfolio investments and help increase the pool of investible funds.
In the latest directions given by the RBI on appointment, re-appointment and termination process of MD and WTD of UCBs, the apex bank has said that an individual will be eligible for re-appointment as MD/WTD in the same bank even after finishing continuous 15-year tenure but only after a minimum gap of three years, subject to meeting other conditions.
Observing that vaccines by themselves will not end the pandemic, the article said, "we have to learn to live with the virus, complementing vaccines with ramping up investment in healthcare, logistics and research. The pandemic is a real shock with real consequences."
On November 2, 2020, the board of the bank had approved re-appointment of Ghosh as the MD and CEO for a period of five years with effect from July 10, 2021, subject to approval of the RBI and shareholders.
The seasonally adjusted IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), fell to 50.8 in May, down from 55.5 in April, as companies observed the slowest rises in new work and output in ten months amid intensification of the COVID-19 crisis.
"The biggest toll of the second wave is in terms of a demand shock - loss of mobility, discretionary spending and employment, besides inventory accumulation, while the aggregate supply is less impacted," it said.
The economic drag from the pandemic in the current quarter will be dominated by demand destruction or deferment of expenditures, said QuantEco Research economist Yuvika Singhal, who downgraded her full-year growth forecast for this year by 150 basis points to 10%.
The economic recovery is beginning to lose steam with infection rates scaling record highs. Almost 7 out of 10 respondents expect the GDP to be below 9 per cent for FY22.
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It is being increasingly accepted today that gems and crystals possess healing powers and that they speed up the healing processes of the body. Know more about Crystal and Gem Therapy here
Macrobiotics is a way of life based upon living in harmony with Nature through a balanced whole-foods diet, an active lifestyle, and respect for the natural environment.
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Pranayama, according to yogic scriptures, is the gateway to deeper relaxation & meditation. Here is all you wanted to know about Pranayama
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Flower medicines treat the "negative feelings" like anger, fear guilt, inferiority complex, lack of confidence, negative expectancy, envy, jealousy etc. by flooding the consciousness with positive feelings.
What Is Astral Projection Or Astral Travel And How To Achieve It?
Hypnotherapy is one of the more controversial methods of alternative therapy or alternative treatments, probably because of some misconceptions ("In a trance, you might make me do what I don't want to do") and because of its use on stage as a form of popular entertainment. The word hypnotism is derived from the Greek hypnos, meaning...
The right kind of music can be used in many ways to uplift your spirits and to lift you out of depression. Check out How Music Therapy helps
Proponents of oxygen therapy (also called hyperoxygenation, super-oxygenation, or oxidative therapy) contend that increased oxidation in the body can neutralise toxic substances and kill invading microorganisms. They thus advocate oxygen therapy for everything from infections to chronic fatigue.
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The costs attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remain theoretical and largely unspecified. Current figures fail to capture the full health and economic burden caused by AMR across human, animal, and environmental health; historically many studies have considered only direct costs associated with human infection from a hospital perspective, primarily from high-income countries. The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Platform for ONE-Burden Estimates (GAP-ON€) network has developed a framework to help guide AMR costing exercises in any part of the world as a first step towards more comprehensive analyses for comparing AMR interventions at the local level as well as more harmonized analyses for quantifying the full economic burden attributable to AMR at the global level.
Titolo: A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance Autori: Data di pubblicazione: 2020 Rivista: Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/11562/1030903 Appare nelle tipologie: 01.01 Articolo in Rivista
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Статьи ОСНОВНЫЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ И РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ ЭКОНОМИКИ СРВ В 2006 ГМазырин Владимир Моисеевич ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ '2007, №1, с.267-289 Dr. V. Mazyrin presents overview of core trends and achievements of Vietnam's economic performance. In the first section he evaluates consequences of inward and outward flows onto development facilities. The specific influence of global outcome was quite contradictious while market reforms inside the country created more stimuli for national progress and equitable growth. The second section informs on economic growth indicators which demonstrate macroeconomic stability and dynamics of Vietnam. In particular, it displays data on increasing of income per capita, an inflow of foreign direct investment and official development assistance, foreign trade turnover and regional cooperation acceleration. These achievements demonstrate the right way of economic politics. In the third section the structural shifts are examined. Transition to a market economy eased progressive changes of balance ratio between main sectors of manufacture and services. The author argues the trend of domestic economy transformation from agrarian into industrial one. It is accompanied by continuing ownership reallocation in the main realms of economic activities which fosters the country's move to a new order. Particularities and other core shifts in each realm (industry, agriculture, services and trade) are shown in this section too. The next large part of the paper explores main directions of financial policy thus assessing current reforms in this field. The author analyzes budget and revenue execution, credit and monetary methods of regulation, currency and exchange rate fluctuation, external debt performance, investment flows origins, outcome and capital disbursement realities. High investment activities are regarded as due confirmation of Vietnam's fast growth and its capital intensive character. Dr. Mazyrin confirms overall positive results of the process of Vietnam's market transformation and integration to global economy. Catch-up development of this country became enough sustainable. All above mentioned facts make possible to recognize Vietnam as borne Asian dragon though not yet flying.
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Октябрь 2021 Пн Вт Ср Чт Пт Сб Вс 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Анонсы I израилеведческой конференции ИВ РАН – Чтениях имени А.Е.Бовина «Контуры трансформаций в израильской политике, дипломатии и обществе», которые пройдут 19-20 октября 2021 г.
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Dynamics of Drought-Related Migration Among Five Villages in the Savannah of Ghana Abstract
For many households in rural sub-Saharan Africa, drought is an important environmental shock because it undermines livelihoods and wellbeing. There is a growing concern that droughts in the context of a changing climate could magnify migration out of rural areas. Using an exploratory mixed method approach, this paper explores the relationship between drought and migration in five villages in the northern savannah of Ghana. The results suggest that drought-related migration in the savannah is much about rural to rural migration as it is about rural to urban migration. This observation contrasts with the concentration of the literature on the possibilities and outcomes of climate-induced rural to urban migration. The study further highlights the mediating role of a range of idiosyncratic factors in the migration responses to drought. A multivariate analysis showed that selected individual, household, and village variables explain about 21.5% of drought-related migration. The qualitative results revealed additional mediating factors notably; individual aspirations the effect of pull factors and networks. Thus, drought-related migration is not always about vulnerability and responses as commonly viewed but intricately intertwined with the socio-economic and political dynamics of people. The multiplicity of factors and the complexity of their interaction clearly show the need to shift away from simplistic and deterministic notions of the climate-migration nexus.
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Since beginning Monday afternoon, the Allisal fire has consumed nearly 6,000 acres in Southern California, fueled by strong winds and threatening to destroy more than 100 structures, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
A spokesman for the department said that around 600 firefighters have been pressed into service to douse it, but so far they have not been able to control it. said on tuesday.
According to the state fire agency Cal Fire, the cause of the fire, which started at 2:30 pm on Monday, is being investigated.
The fire began near Ellisle Reservoir along the Gaviota Coast on 76 miles of undeveloped coastline in Southern California. Parts of Route 101 were closed on Monday as winds pushed the fire up the Santa Ynez Mountains and toward the coast.
Alice is one of the latest fires in California, where four 100,000-plus-acre mega-fires are still burning, including the Dixie fire, which began in July and consumed more than 963,000 acres.
For the past two years, the state has surrounded itself with massive fires burning more intensely than at any time on record.
According to Cal Fire, nine of the 20 largest fires have occurred in California since 2020. The fires have forced state and federal officials to marshal armies of people and resources at all costs.
Every year forest fires occur all over the West. But scientists say the long periods of unusually high temperatures this summer, which have contributed to the devastating fires, are in keeping with the expected effects of climate change.
The world has begun to experience an increase in heat waves, droughts and other types of extreme weather over the past several decades as the atmosphere has warmed, and most climate models predict that such events will increase because of warming. Will continue
Gaviota Coast Conservancy board member Gunner Totrim said the 200,000-acre Gaviota Coast is now under threat from the Allisal fires, which is home to wildlife such as mountain lions, badgers, bobcats and coyotes.
Mr Totrim, 47, who lives in Gaviota, said on Tuesday he could see helicopters flying over Refugio Canyon and pouring water on the fire.
He said he was not yet concerned that the fire would cause significant damage to the Gaviota Coast. The fire could potentially benefit its ecosystem, Mr Totrim said.
“I think, assuming it doesn’t turn into a mega-fire, these chaparral species are going to bounce back and be healthier than they would in decades,” he said.
So far, the wind direction, which is blowing out to sea, has prevented the fire from causing significant damage to the coast or reaching Goleta, a town in the southern part of Santa Barbara County, according to Ray Ford, a writer who wrote about Santa Barbara County. Barbara has studied wildfires and helped build several trails along the Gaviota Coast.
“Everything is in the hands of the wind,” he said.
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Last week I updated you on our crazy-hot real estate market, noting that inventory is low and Lethbridge is the hottest real estate market in Alberta right now. Finally, right? However, national headlines are scaring a lot of homebuyers into believing they will overpay for a home. While Canadian … Continue reading...
The Lethbridge real estate market appears to be jumping for joy, right alongside Albertans cheering for the re-opening of our economy on July 1st. This is for good reason. Velocity in the market shows no signs of slowing down, as inventory remains low, and Lethbridge boasts the hottest real estate … Continue reading...
In my eight-plus years selling homes in Lethbridge, 2020 was easily the strongest real estate market to date. In the early days of Covid-19, economic impacts were largely unpredictable. Today the picture is clearer, at least for the foreseeable future. While there continue to be definite winners and … Continue reading...
Now that we are entering fourth quarter of 2020, The Year of Covid, we have a clear picture of how the global pandemic has impacted Lethbridge real estate. Happily, we can also now say that Covid-19 hasn't had the negative impacts we were fearful of in early days. Personally, this is as good a … Continue reading...
The year-to-date numbers this year are interesting! And year-to-date is the key phrase year. Reason being, there has been some buzz-talk about a big bump in October real estate numbers, not just in Lethbridge but in other Alberta municipalities as well. I tend to ignore those market bumps because … Continue reading...
For many Albertans, the outcome of the federal election on October 21st was a little more than disappointing. It would seem we are an island within our own country. If you are on social media with any regularity, you might think we are on the eve of some great political apocalypse. As someone who's … Continue reading...
Much like our local economy, the Lethbridge real estate market is usually steady as she goes, year after year. This year, however, one thing changed and that was number of sales. For the first time in a very long time, we saw a reverse in transaction growth. This should make us take pause, if only … Continue reading...
What's going on in Lethbridge real estate right now? Well... prices are flat (yawn). City sales volume is down (whaaat?). And the mortgage rules are changing (again). Watch my video below for an overview of what this all means. Then check out the hard numbers below! Lethbridge real estate … Continue reading...
Lethbridge – Single Family Homes January 2017: Sales to active listings ratio: 12% (56/466) For same month last year: 15% (67/458) Average sale price: $310,460 For same month last year: $285,793 Average Cumulative Days on Market: 95 For same month last year: 98 PENDING … Continue reading...
Lots of great news to report this year, both from my side of the desk as your local REALTOR®, and for the Lethbridge real estate market at large. Here are the highlights: Major capital investments announced or already underway, including Cavendish, Richardson Oilseed, University of … Continue reading...
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A cancer diagnosis can be devastating and launch a roller coaster of emotions. While we count on doctors for answers, sometimes the need for a second opinion is overlooked. This is a story about a life-changing medical mistake, and how it could have been prevented and why this family thought they had gotten a second opinion.
“I’m sad, I’m depressed,” Eric Spangs told KYW-TV. “I have an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness a lot the time.”
Spangs’ life fell apart after hearing words from doctors that everyone dreads. First, it was, “You have cancer.”
“I thought ‘Oh my God,’ what am I going to do if I lose him, we have five children,” Eric’s wife, Melissa, said.
Then they heard, “We made a mistake.”
But, instead of being relieved with the mistaken cancer diagnosis, the couple was crushed because Eric had already had his prostate removed. “It’s devastated me emotionally and physically,” Eric said.
Before the surgery in January, Eric, who lives outside Reading, had everything to live for — a good job, a happy family, and a bright future. “We’re 48 years old,” Melissa said as she became visibly upset.
Their odyssey started when Eric had a slightly elevated PSA level from a routine blood test that checks for prostate cancer. After that a series of other tests, including a biopsy. “The error occurred in the preparation and reading of his biopsy. It was another patient’s biopsy that was put on those slides,” attorney Aaron Freiwald said.
Freiwald filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of the Spangs. “This is the most egregious story I’ve ever heard,” Freiwald said.
Based on the alleged inaccurate biopsy, Eric had a radical laparoscopic prostatectomy, a surgery that was supposed to save his life “There’s always urinary leakage, there’s erectile dysfunction. They’ve taken away my ability to be a man, they’ve taken away my emotional stability,” Eric said.
KYW-TV reached out to the organizations named in the lawsuit. Tower Health says it can’t comment on pending litigation. The Center for Urologic Care of Berks County did not return KYW’s calls.
Most cancer surgeries are lifesaving and safe. So how could Eric’s situation have been prevented? The American Cancer Society says second opinions from oncology specialists are a good idea.
Eric did get second opinions during this, but they were all from the same medical group, which doesn’t specialize in oncology.
“I had faith in the medical team, faith in medicine and I don’t understand how this happened,” Melissa said.
Now, they’re learning to live with disbelief and anger, feeling compelled to warn others. “We just don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” Melissa said. “Nobody should have to go through this.”
Eric and Melissa wonder and worry about the other patient who got Eric’s biopsy results. They say the doctor told them now he has to tell that guy that there was a mix-up and he has cancer.
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India's vulture population has dropped by 97%. Scientists blame the widespread use of diclofenac (aka Voltaren when sold to people), an aspirin-like drug used extensively on cattle.
Scavenging birds absorb lethal amounts of diclofenac when they feed on cattle carcasses. [New Scientist]
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Why are they giving NSAIDS to cattle? Arthritis? Head aches? Menstrual cramps? Admittedly, whenever I see or hear a cow, I always have the impression that it is in pain, but I always assumed that was just inherent to being a cow (giving the impression, not being in pain).
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June 02, 2006 at 11:32 AM
Diclofenac is an anti-inflammatory drug similar to ibuprofen given to cattle to prevent lameness. It’s cheap and effective. Vultures eating carcasses of cattle that have been treated with diclofenac suffer kidney failure. As vultures are very sensitive to diclofenac and since one carcass will feed many vultures which may travel a long ways to eat, only a small proportion of cattle need be contaminated to endanger vulture populations. There are several species of vulture in India of which three are now critically endangered by this drug. The Indian government has just announced that they will phase out production and use of diclofenac, but some of the implementation of the new policy will devolve upon the states. Pakistan is also affected but so far nothing has been done about banning the drug there. All this has happened very recently and comes pretty much as a complete surprise. Vulture populations plummeted dramatically in the ‘90s and it took some time (which the vultures can barely spare) to determine the cause. The Indian government was unhelpful in determining the cause and, initially, in seeking a remedy. This is the first case of an ecological crisis caused by a pharmaceutical product. The lesson here is that ecological consequences of our actions can be at once profound, unintended, and totally unexpected.
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June 02, 2006 at 02:05 PM
Are vultures raptors? Depends on what definition you're working with. "Raptor" is commonly used to denote the diurnal birds of prey, the hawks, eagles, falcons, and relatives, in the order Falconiformes. The owls, which are also birds of prey, are in a different order, as are the shrikes, which are actually songbirds. Old World vultures, like the ones at risk in India, are classified among the diurnal birds of prey with the sea eagles, including the American bald eagle, as their nearest relatives. Most of them are exclusively carrion-eaters, although a few are known to take live prey. New World vultures, like the familiar turkey vulture and the California and Andean condors, used to be considered a separate family within the diurnal birds of prey but are now, based on genetic studies, thought to be more closely related to the storks, having evolved their scavenging habits independently.evolved their scavenging behavior and featherless heads independently.
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June 02, 2006 at 04:28 PM
Mr. Eaton is, rather characteristically, being modest in not pointing out that he broke this story in the US media nearly three years ago.
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June 02, 2006 at 07:20 PM
"This is the first case of an ecological crisis caused by a pharmaceutical product. The lesson here is that ecological consequences of our actions can be at once profound, unintended, and totally unexpected"
I guess that depends on one's definition of crisis. It's likely not the first and it certainly won't be the last. There are numerous cases all over the North American continent of severe ecological damage and emerging crises concerning pharmaceutical products. For example, drugs and pills being flushed down toilets, whether at home or in hospitals. Such pharmaceutical products end up in streams, ponds, lakes, and even back into our drinking water. Researchers have proven the drugs do cause extreme adverse affects on wildife, specifically to fish and amphibians.
There has been plenty of time to study the bioaccumulation and toxicity levels related to harmful pharmaceutical products. And although the consequences of actions can be 'profound' and 'unintended', there is surely no excuse for the pharmaceutical companies to 'totally unexpect' such a crisis. On the contrary, it should be expected. And if it is not, than sound scientific research is not being conducted by the pharmaceutical companies. And since this is the case, the pharmaceuticals can cry 'it's all unintentional'. How convenient. The governments involved were responsible as well---cause the research is out there--they knew better.
The primary problem is this: Ecology is still not respected nor used by corporations and governments, including the pharmaceuticals. And until that happens, an ecological crisis will always appear to seem "profound, unintended, and totally unexpected".
GW Bush continues to use that same line of logic for the Iraqi fiasco up til today. He ignores the experts, does what he wants, and than acts surprised when a so called unintended result occurs.
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June 02, 2006 at 09:43 PM
LeTigre, you're right on all points. I should have said a particular ecological consequence absolutely linked to a specific drug. There are for instance, cases of irregular sexual development in animals that may be, or may probably be, a result of birth-control hormones flushed down toilets world-wide, but can’t be absolutely proven. I live on the Columbia River where there are otters with malformed testicles, but no one knows precisely what the cause is. My point was that when our actions backfire, they may do so in unexpected ways. It would not be unreasonable to expect that a substance as toxic to insects as DDT might have ugly effects on vertebrates, but no one predicted egg shell thinning in peregrine falcons and brown pelicans. Your statement bears repeating: “The primary problem is this: Ecology is still not respected nor used by corporations and governments, including the pharmaceuticals. And until that happens, an ecological crisis will always appear to seem "profound, unintended, and totally unexpected".” We cannot be too careful, we’ve seen unintended ecological consequences often enough now that we must expect the unexpected.
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June 03, 2006 at 03:22 AM
Good points---very well said, cfrost. I guess what I was trying to say is this: the pharmaceuticals can pretend it was unintended and unexpected. It may seem that way for the rest of us. But that is as hard for me to swallow as when the pesticide-making companies asserted the same excuse years ago, as did big tobacco and petroleum....and many others.
When such companies pour money into research and development, very little of that money goes into ecological research and environmental safety. Even when standards are put in place, products that did not pass the safety standards will often still get passed on through by the lab techs (who are under pressure/threat by management to do so). And that even goes for the foods comprised of chemicals we eat, too. Of course, OSHA is either complicit or they just don't find out due to other reasons.
In a manner of speaking, what is intentional and expected is that such companies will not conduct tests they know they should, do not want to test for all of the possible harmful side effects, rarely bring in ecologists, practically never have strong enough internal safety standards, and almost always put bigger profits over ecological stability and safety. What is truly profound is when these companies act as if the disasters were unintended and unexpected. They may appear to be unintended. But appearances can be deceiving, especially when pr firms, corporate lawyers, and pharmaceutical drugs are involved--mix those three and I wonder why we don't have more disasters.....lol
I agree with you: we can never be too careful. And for those corporate heads who refuse to be, they are responsible for their perceived inaction and likely obstruction.
Here is what we should expect: Whenever unchecked corporate power is involved with the environment, ecological damage is bound to happen.
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June 03, 2006 at 05:13 AM
Though successful in treating numerous diseases and symptoms, NSAIDs are known for their harsh side effects. These include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, decreased appetite, rash, dizziness, headache, and drowsiness. Also, a 1998 US study shows that gastrointestinal complications following NSAIDs administration have claimed more lives than cervical cancer, asthma or malignant melanoma. These harsh NSAIDs side effects can be prevented with a common and gentle plant - aloe vera.
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Even though you don’t eat fast food that much, you should read this because the consequences are much more serious than you can know…
Today, packaged, fast, and fake foods account for more than half of the calories consumed by the majority of people in most developed countries. The health risks associated with fast food are alarming. And it’s just going to get worse. The global fast food industry is expanding. In addition, the market for packaged foods is expected to rise.
In countries like Brazil, Ghana, China, and India, where obesity and other health problems are becoming epidemics, industrialized food industry giants like KFC, Nestlé, and McDonald’s are rapidly growing and hooking customers. Today’s world is dominated by fast and processed foods. However, they may be much more harmful to our wellbeing and culture as a whole than you ever thought.
You’ll discover all you need to learn about the harmful effects of these unhealthy foods. The good news is that you have the ability to influence these patterns. The first step is to educate yourself.
The industrialized food industry hopes you never learn about what they do. Even though you don’t eat fast or processed foods often, these industries have an effect on you. You can face higher taxes as a result of their actions. You will have to pay a higher premium for health insurance. And your friends, family, and society can be in more danger than you think.
What does Dr. Fuhrman say when he talks about fast food ?
Quick foods, according to Dr. Fuhrman, are everything that comes in a package, box, or wrapper. Something that can be eaten fast and is already prepared. Fast food is rapidly digested and absorbed into the bloodstream. It isn’t only found in fast food establishments.
Quick foods, according to Dr. Fuhrman, include the following : French friesBagelsCroissantsEnergy barsSodaFrozen entreesDeli meats and cheesesCookies, cakes, and candyWhite flour-based productsSnack foods that have been processed You should be aware of the following fast food health risks :
You’re probably aware that fast and refined foods are bad for your health, causing
diabetes and obesity, as well as premature cardiac death, strokes, cancer, and other problems. However, these foods change the brain and mental health, contributing to depression, mental illness, and other problems.
People who eat fast food frequently are 51 percent at a greater risk to experience depression than those who eat little or no fast food, according to a report published in the Public Health Journal. This was true also for people who only ate two fast food meals a week. Another research published in the Journal of Adolescence Health discovered that consuming one serving of French fries per week during adolescence raised women’s breast cancer risk by 27% later in life. In addition, according to a report published in Circulation, consuming fast food one day per week raised the risk of dying from coronary heart disease by 20%, rising to 50% for those who ate fast food two or three times a week.
These foods have also been linked to the following effects: brain fogmood swingsanxietyaggression and violence
The condition could be even worse for children who consume fast food and processed foods.
What effect do fast food and processed foods have on children’s health?
Children who eat nutrient-dense diets do better academically than those who eat nutrient-deficient diets.
Children who are well-fed have been shown to be: Less irritableLess pessimisticHave more collaboration
Children are already forming behaviors and preferences that will affect them as adults. If children consume fast food often, it will be more difficult for them to break those habits later in life. And one’s eating habits as a kid have far-reaching effects.
Eating candy and sweets as a child is related to later-life crime, drug usage, and drug addiction more than any other factor, according to a 2009 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Perhaps more so than being raised by a single parent or growing up in poverty, it was discovered to be a major determinant. And feeding unhealthy foods to children has an effect not just on their lives but also on the lives of their descendants. Dr. Fuhrman points out that when children consume unhealthy foods, their genes can be harmed.
Why do people consume junk food ?
The majority of people are aware that fast food is unhealthy. According to a Gallup poll from 2013, 76 percent of the 2,027 adults polled believe fast food isn’t too good for them. However, according to the same Gallup poll, 8 out of 10 Americans consume fast food at least once a month, and 47% eat fast food once a week or more.
Fast food is appealing because it is inexpensive, convenient, delicious, and socially acceptable in many circles. However, the health risks are important. So, why do so many people desire to make decisions that they know aren’t in their best interests in the long run? Fast food and processed foods are created with the purpose of altering our brains and causing food addiction. According to the science of food addiction, these foods cause the same biochemical effects in the brain as drug abuse. Hundreds of millions of people have developed an unhealthy appetite for these items.
What steps should you take in order to decrease fast food consumption ? “We need a change of awareness about our food, nutrition, and wellbeing, and it starts with you” says Dr. Fuhrman.
Learning about the potential effects of eating junk food will help you speak to others about the health hazards associated with fast food. You can also lead by example by saying no to fast food and yes to healthier alternatives. It’s never too late to make a shift – and reap the rewards – even though you’ve been consuming an unhealthy diet your whole life.
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Nilesh Ghugre PhD, University of Southern California Senior Administrative Assistant (Research): Tasneem Dalal Phone: (416) 480-4975 Fax: (416) 480-5003 Email Tasneem Dalal At A Glance Development and validation of quantitative cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques Establishing Image-guidance technologies for cardiac regenerative medicine Development of cardiac blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging Detection of microvascular dysfunction in heart disease Development of novel preclinical models of heart disease Short Bio
Dr. Nilesh Ghugre is a Scientist in the Schulich Heart Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute with a focus on imaging in cardiovascular disease. His interest is to develop novel experimental models, coupled with new imaging biomarkers to understand the underlying pathophysiology of disease.
Acute myocardial infarction (or a heart attack) occurs when blood supply to the heart muscle is interrupted. This can destroy heart cells and severely compromise pumping action, resulting in progression toward heart failure. Dr. Ghugre’s research focus is to utilize advanced cardiac MRI biomarkers to characterize the post-infarct “remodeling” process and determine efficacy of novel therapeutic interventions to prevent heart failure. To this end, he is involved in exploring novel experimental models that represent clinical manifestation of heart disease.
His lab is developing MRI tools to probe cardiac pathophysiology parameters including viability, edema and inflammation, hemorrhage, perfusion, strain and microvascular integrity and function. Quantitative T1, T2 and T2-star MRI relaxation mechanisms form the basis for this in vivo tissue characterization, allowing for intra- and inter-subject comparisons. Another focus has been the in vivo assessment of microvascular dysfunction, including abnormal blood flow and perfusion reserve in patients with diabetes or severe infarction. This assessment is done using cardiac blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) imaging and arterial spin-label imaging.
His lab is also advancing image-guidance technologies for cardiac regenerative medicine. Given that the human heart lacks regenerative capacity, stem cell-based therapies are a revolutionary means to repopulate lost cells in scar tissue and regain lost contractile function. The lab aims to develop MRI-based technologies that will facilitate minimally invasive and accurate cell delivery to the infarct scar, and image cell fate, tissue response and outcomes, all within the same framework.
Research Synopsis MRI Relaxometry and Calibration in Iron-Overloaded Tissues In 2005, we probed the mechanisms of tissue-iron interaction using MRI relaxation - R1 (1/T1), R2 (1/T2) and multi-echo R2 in fresh human liver biopsy specimens taken from patients with transfusion-dependent anemia. Our study demonstrated that to standardize in vivo calibration (inter-site and -sequence variability), it is important to understand the complex interaction of stored iron particles and water protons within the tissue of interest. In 2011, we were the first to develop a ‘human-derived’ Monte-Carlo framework for probing the underlying biophysics in hepatic iron overload; this demonstrated that knowledge of iron susceptibility/distribution and proton mobility are sufficient to characterize MRI relaxation. In 2015, we demonstrated the use of this model to predict R2- and R2*-iron relationship at higher field strengths in patients. The important application of such tissue-specific models is in the iron calibration of inaccessible organs like heart, where tissue biopsy is not an option. Establishing these models will avoid recalibration in patients for MRI sequence, field strength, iron-chelation therapy and organ. Quantitative MRI in Myocardial Infarction (MI) In 2011, we demonstrated that multi-parametric MRI exploiting T2 and T2* relaxation and the BOLD response can assess the state of myocardial tissue (edema, hemorrhage, microvascular reactivity) in vivo in a preclinical model of MI. In 2013, we demonstrated that such characterization can further distinguish the intrinsic remodeling mechanisms based on severity of injury. A figure from this publication was featured on the cover of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Thus, quantitative MRI techniques allow regional, longitudinal, and cross-subject comparisons, and hence are powerful tools for evaluating treatment strategies, potentially improving clinical outcomes. Impact of Hemorrhage in MI In 2017, we were the first to mechanistically demonstrate that reperfusion hemorrhage is an active contributor to inflammation and myocardial and microvascular damage post-MI, beyond the initial ischemic insult. We have recently further demonstrated that hemorrhagic iron deposition can result in chronic adverse remodeling post-MI as well along with vasodilator dysfunction and matrix alterations in the remote myocardial regions. Clinical Studies Complementing the preclinical framework, our validated MRI protocol has also been successfully translated into our clinical research program. The human studies clearly demonstrate the role of MRI relaxation parameters in monitoring heart disease progression in a quantitative manner. Since 2012, we have had several publications demonstrating the utility of MRI mapping techniques to evaluate risk factors associated with diabetes including inflammation and microvascular disease. The striking correspondence between clinical and experimental findings has been very encouraging justifying the use of these quantitative MRI protocols for clinical translation. Imaging for Cardiac Regenerative Medicine My group has been collaborating with stem cell biologists to determine efficacy of stem cell derived cardiomyocytes in remuscularizing scar tissue to improve outcomes. Using MRI biomarkers for cardiac function and viability, we have shown that these cells can demonstrate successful engraftment in the scar region in an experimental model of MI (published in Stem Cell Reports). To aid accurate cell delivery and improve engraftment, my group is the first to explore an integrative image guidance system utilizing 3D MRI roadmaps and augmented reality (AR) for improving the intraoperative workflow for cell delivery. Recent Publications Romagnuolo R, Masoudpoor H, Porta-Sanchez A, Qiang B, Barry J, Qi X, Masse S, Magtibay K, Laskary A, Kawajiri H, Wu J, Sadikov TV, Rothberg J, Panchalingam K, Titus E, Li R-K, Zandstra P, Wright GA, Nanthakumar K, Ghugre NR, Keller G, Laflamme MA. Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Regenerate the Infarcted Pig Heart but Induce Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias, Stem Cell Reports, 2019 May 14;12(5):967-981. Do HP, Ramanan V, Qi X; Barry J; Wright GA, Ghugre NR, Nayak KS. Non-contrast Assessment of Microvascular Integrity using Arterial Spin Labeled CMR in a Porcine Model of Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2018 Jul 2;20(1):45. Ghugre NR, Pop M, Thomas R, Newbigging S, Qi X, Barry J, Strauss BH, Wright GA. Hemorrhage promotes inflammation and myocardial damage following acute myocardial infarction: Insights from a novel preclinical model and cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J. Cardiovasc. Magn. Reson. 2017 July 4;19:50 Roifman I, Ghugre NR, Zia MI, Farkouh ME, Zavodni A, Wright GA, Connelly KA. Diabetes is an independent predictor of right ventricular dysfunction post ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2016 Feb 18;15(1):34. Ghugre NR, Doyle EK, Storey P, Wood JC. Relaxivity-iron calibration in hepatic iron overload: Predictions of a Monte Carlo model, Magn Reson Med. 2015 Sep;74(3):879-83 Ghugre NR, Pop M, Barry J, Connelly KA, Wright GA. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging can distinguish remodeling mechanisms after acute myocardial infarction based on the severity of ischemic insult. Magn Reson Med. 2013 Oct;70(4):1095–1105. Zia MI, Ghugre NR, Connelly KA, Strauss BH, Dick AJ, Wright GA. Characterizing myocardial edema and hemorrhage using quantitative T2 and T2* mapping at multiple time intervals post ST elevation myocardial infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Sep 1;5(5):566–72. Ghugre NR, Ramanan V, Pop M, Yang Y, Barry J, Qiang B, Connelly K, Dick AJ, Wright GA. Myocardial BOLD imaging at 3T using quantitative T2: Application in a myocardial infarct model. Magn Reson Med. 2011 Dec;66(6):1739–47. Ghugre NR, Ramanan V, Pop M, Yang Y, Barry J, Qiang B, Connelly K, Dick AJ, Wright GA. Quantitative tracking of edema, hemorrhage and microvascular obstruction in sub-acute myocardial infarction in a porcine model by MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2011 Oct;66(4):1129–41.
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Reviews Kasdan equally appeals to such authorial authenticity, arguing that Body Heat is really about what his friends at the time were attempting, to make "the big score." The episode's willingness to let this sort ofself-aggrandizing criticism stand unchallenged is what I would consider its largest drawback. As in "The Studio System," the producers' seemingly all-encompassing desire to please an audience and commentators enamored of Hollywood film overrides a critical perspective needed in analyzing any cultural phenomena. In a culture already overly attached to the romantic genius ofthe film artist, this is the last thing we should be teaching our undergraduates about the history ofcinema. ? Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Women, Autobiography, Theory:A Reader. Madison: The University ofWisconsin Press, 1998. 526p. Susan Hendricks Swetnam Idaho State University In Women, Autobiography, and Theory: A Reader, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson offer a rich overview and sampler ofthe tremendous amount ofwork in the theory ofwomen's autobiography which has appeared in the past few decades. Characterizing their volume as a "map," or "guide" to "the complex interplay ofmultiple theoretical critiques" which "have motivated a discussion ofwomen's autobiography " (4) recently, Smith and Watson have selected essays by 39 writers on the subject ; they also offer a substantive introduction, and they provide extensive bibliographies ofprimary sources and oftheoretical/critical work. Rather than presenting one set ofassumptions about what theory or women's autobiography means, the voices represented in this volume thus challenge and critique each other, presenting a multitude of perspectives to represent the "contested" (37), evolving dialogue in the field. The result is a lively volume which will interest serious students , as well as experienced critics in autobiography, feminist and cultural studies , and genre studies. Smith and Watson's forty-page introduction provides an extremely helpful overview ofthe study ofwomen's autobiography. A blurb on the book is justified in calling it "a course in itself," indeed, for it offers readers a clear sense ofdebates in the field as well as providing an overview of several decades of approaches to literature in general. Tracing the development oftheory from early feminist critics to very recent work, the editors first suggest the wide variety ofapproaches that have been brought to bear on women's autobiography. They summarize key contributions , and, while they critique gender essentialist arguments, they convey respect for all of the writers whose work they describe. The editors then discuss SPRING 1999 * ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW # I3S theories of subjectivity relevant to women's autobiography. This section, which relates work in the field to more general work in literary theory, would be especially useful in the classroom; readers will find briefbut helpful and clear discussions of Foucault, Lacan, postcolonialism, theories of difference, queer studies, and other perspectives. The introduction also suggests a dozen directions for future work in women's autobiography theory, including the exploration of autobiographical ethics and the relationship between national identity formation and autobiography. As suggested above, the forty selections (two are by Smith) anthologized in this volume cover a wide range of ground, and summarizing them in any detail is obviously beyond the scope ofthis review. Foundational work in the field is represented in classical essays like Domna C. Stanton's "Autogynography: Is the Subject Different?" (1 984) and Mary G. Mason's "The OtherVoice: Autobiographies ofWomen Writers" (1 980); very recent work also appears, like Helen M. Buss' "A Feminist Revision ofNew Historicism to Give Fuller Readings ofWomen's Private Writing" (1996). Writers discuss a range ofautobiographical modes, including diaries (the volume reprints the introduction to Margot Culley's A Day at a Time: Diary Literature ofAmerican Women,from 1764 to 1985), confession narratives (Rita Felski's "On Confession"), and trauma stories (Janice Haaken's "The Recovery of Memory, Fantasy, and Desire in Women's Trauma Stories: Feminist Approaches to Sexual Abuse and Psychotherapy"). They explore autobiographical practice by a range of ethnic and racial groups (including Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American), nationalities (including Third World prisoners and British ), classes, and historical periods. A number ofthe selections concern complex, abstract issues ofsubjectivity, identity, and authority (including Shari Benstock's "Authorizing theAutobiographical," and Smith's "Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance"). Others explore issues ofbody and...
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Probiotics are a popular topic among health enthusiasts and medical professionals, alike, and rightfully so! As individuals seek to improve their health by becoming advocates for themselves, probiotics are often a good choice to become part of their new health-focused regimen.
However, there are some ways that will allow you to maximize the health benefits that you can get from probiotics. Read on to learn more about how to take probiotics for the best health benefits.
What Are Probiotics?
Probiotics are living bacteria that provide countless health benefits when ingested. These bacteria are naturally occurring in the gut but can—and should—be replenished through external means. The gut contains beneficial bacteria that make up the microbiota and plays a key role in maintaining health in both the body and mind. A healthy gut keeps the digestive process working smoothly, which prevents free radical and toxin build up in the body known to lead to many acute and chronic illnesses[1]
It is also thought that probiotics secrete substances that trigger the immune system to react more strongly, thereby preventing pathogens from being able to take root and cause illness.[2]
Can You Take Too Many Probiotics?
Taking too many probiotics is not a common issue. For those who have taken too many probiotics (and each person will need to find their own tolerance level), they will likely experience gut disruptions and gastrointestinal side effects.
Probiotics are generally safe regardless of the amount taken, and any side effects are generally mild. It is impossible to take a toxic level of probiotics. The most common side effects of taking more probiotics than you can tolerate are gas, bloating, and diarrhea. These side effects can be treated individually and are generally corrected after 24 to 48 hours and stopping the probiotics until they are resolved.
It can be tempting to discontinue probiotic use altogether after a negative experience out of fear of another bad reaction, but simply reducing your dose and taking your probiotic as directed should prevent further issues. It is important for those with a weakened immune system or serious illness to discuss probiotic use with their healthcare provider before starting a probiotic regimen.
Can You Take Prebiotics and Probiotics Together?
As probiotics grow in use, prebiotics is beginning to get attention as well. Prebiotics come in supplement form but can also be fiber-rich foods that feed good gut bacteria. Probiotics replenish the good bacteria in the gut while prebiotics maintains the gut microbiome by feeding the good bacteria we have in the gut. Because of this relationship between prebiotics and probiotics, it is perfectly acceptable to take them together. However, if your diet already contains healthy, fiber-rich foods then you will likely not require prebiotic supplements.
Prebiotics contain fibers and natural sugars that encourage the growth of essential gut bacteria. They are easy to digest and keep the gut in balance. Prebiotic foods contain fiber and can include bananas, garlic, and dark leafy greens. Probiotic foods contain live cultures and include miso, some yogurts, kimchi, and sauerkraut.[3]
You can learn more in my other article: Prebiotic vs Probiotic: What’s the Difference and Why Are They Important?
Can You Take Probiotics While Pregnant?
When carrying a child, a mother wants to create the safest environment possible. This is a time where the mother-to-be will begin integrating new and recommended health practices like exercise, supplements, and new diet habits. One question that is asked by pregnant women is whether or not probiotics are safe to take while pregnant. The benefits of probiotics are well documented, and many pregnant women want to know if probiotics will benefit them as well.
Pregnancy may be a good time to integrate a probiotic into your regimen simply due to the increased potential for an imbalance in gut bacteria that pregnancy naturally produces. Stress, medications, diarrhea, and vomiting as well as certain diet choices can cause bad bacteria to overrun the gut and lead to a dampened immune response, inflammation, fatigue, and more.
The simple answer is yes, probiotics are generally safe to take while pregnant. However, it is always recommended to discuss any introduction or discontinuation of supplements with your healthcare provider.
Many studies have shown that not only are probiotics safe to take while pregnant but also that they can add great benefits for mother and baby. A 2019 study by Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology found that the pregnant women’s gut microbiota improved through probiotic supplementation and that her immune system was enhanced.[4]
During pregnancy, the pregnant mom’s immune system will go into a dampened state as the body works to protect and grow the fetus. This places her at greater risk for common illnesses she may have been able to fight off naturally before. Therefore, integrating a probiotic into her supplement regimen may help keep her and her baby safe from unwanted and avoidable illness.
One important factor to consider when taking a probiotic during pregnancy is the quality of the product you are purchasing. Not all probiotics are created equal. To maximize benefits while also avoiding unnecessary ingredients, it is crucial to choose a high quality and reputable probiotic.
When Is the Best Time to Take Probiotics?
As with many supplements and medications, there are certain times and factors that can change their efficacy, for good or bad. Research shows that the best time to take a probiotic is 30 minutes before a meal.[5] Consistency is key when it comes to taking a probiotic and experiencing as many of the potential health benefits as possible. This means that it is necessary to take it daily to ensure routine and regular replenishment of the gut’s bacteria.
The stomach is a highly acidic environment, which can make it difficult for many supplements to pass through in their most bioavailable form. The same is true for probiotics. Look for a high-quality probiotic that uses time-release tablets to deliver its bacteria safely to the gut.
The composition of your meal can also help or hinder your probiotic’s efficacy. A large meal will move more slowly through the stomach and trigger more stomach acid production. If your probiotic is taken along or prior to this type of meal, the probiotic will move more slowly and be exposed to a hostile environment for longer.
The Bottom Line
When taking a probiotic, the most important thing to consider is product quality. Carefully read packaging and websites to ensure you are getting a product that is safe, pure, and effective. Look for a probiotic that will release its bacteria slowly and deliver them safely past your stomach acid.
Probiotics have been shown to support the immune system, prevent gastrointestinal issues, combat side effects from chronic conditions, and give extra support during pregnancy. These are just a few from a long list of scientifically backed benefits. Regardless of your motivation, just about every individual can benefit from adding a probiotic to their supplement and health regimen.
Lastly, here’s my recommendations on probiotics: 7 Best Probiotic Supplements (Recommendation and Reviews)
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The Ndiema Group’s existence and emergence have been an integral part of Kenya’s resurgence. Over the past few years, we were fortunate to touch millions, who believed in our vision, inspired us to be ambitious, pushed us to achieve those ambitions and disciplined us in setting new benchmarks in everything we did.
Today, as the world watches Kenya move into its most defining phase of growth, the Ndiema Group’s responsibility towards the nation assumes greater importance. I believe that our responsibility to give back to the society which makes us what we are and our ability to contribute wherever we operate will define our future and hold us together as a global organization.
While we continue to work towards mitigating urban-rural divides and creating equal development opportunities across geographies, we will also explore new horizons catering to the changing aspirations of New Kenya.
It is increasingly being recognized that growth is incomplete if it is bereft of any good for the nation and the society as a whole. For me, growth must infuse prosperity – it must infuse, harmony and most of all – it must infuse happiness!
Over the past years, we have created stellar and sustainable assets fundamental to nation-building. The vision for the future must be to scale up the goodness factor. It must be to tap into new opportunities – within Kenya as well as across the world.
When I say goodness, it is broadly split into three dimensions.
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The available information from animal studies suggests that benzo[a]pyrene may have the potential to produce adverse reproductive effects in exposed humans medications like lyrica cheap paroxetine 30mg without prescription. Three animal studies were reviewed that assessed developmental effects of benzo[a]pyrene in inbred strains of rats and mice medications peripheral neuropathy discount paroxetine 20mg with visa. The data from these studies indicate that prenatal exposure to benzo[a]pyrene produced reduced mean pup weight during postnatal development and caused a high incidence of sterility in the F1 progeny of mice (Mackenzie and Angevine 1981) treatment neuroleptic malignant syndrome buy 40 mg paroxetine amex. Using Ah-responsive and Ah-nonresponsive strains of mice symptoms 20 weeks pregnant purchase generic paroxetine online, the increased incidences of stillboms, resorptions, and malformations observed correlated with the maternal and/or embryonal genotype (Legraverend et al. In another study, negative results were obtained when benzo[a]pyrene was administered to Swiss (responsive) mice (Rigdon and Neal 1965). The viability of litters at parturition was significantly reduced in the highest dose group (Mackenzie and Angevine 1981). The mean pup weight was significantly reduced in all treatment groups by 42 days of age. The F1 progeny that were exposed prenatally to benzo[a]pyrene (10, 40, and 160 mg/kg/day) were bred with untreated animals and further studied for postnatal development and reproductive function. The F1 progeny from the 10-mg/kg/day group experienced decreased fertility with associated alterations in gonadal morphology and germ-cell development. This study provides good evidence for the occurrence of developmental effects following in utero exposure to benzo[a]pyrene. On day 16 of gestation, intraperitoneal injections of napthoflavone were administered to distinguish between fetuses with different Ah-genotypes (Ahb/Ahd and Ahd/Ahd). The authors concluded that differences in in utero toxicity and teratogenicity are specific to the route of administration and can be attributed to "first pass" liver metabolism occurring with oral dosing. They also concluded that in utero toxicity and teratogenicity are directly related to the maternal and/or embryonal genotype controlled by the Ah-locus; that is, both maternal metabolism as well as target organ metabolism (embryo/fetus) were important in determining susceptibility to developmental toxicity. Specifically, metabolism by a responsive mother reduces in utero toxic effects in the fetus. Similarly, responsive fetuses in the uterus of a non-responsive mother show fewer in utero toxic effects. Non-responsive fetuses in the uterus of a non-responsive mother show the highest incidence of in utero toxic effects. Although the study emphasizes the importance of administrative route in benzo[a]pyrene metabolism and resulting toxicity, it had the following limitations: 1) only one dose was evaluated; 2) no quantitative comparisons between treated groups and corresponding control animals were presented for any of the reported in utero toxicity or teratogenic effects; 3) small sample size; 4) purity of benzo[a]pyrene was not specified. In another study, negative results were obtained when the potential developmental effects of benzo[a]pyrene were studied in mice (Rigdon and Neal 1965). Dietary administration of this chemical to mice at concentrations equivalent to 33. Maternal weight gain was reduced in the mice administered the higher levels of benzo[a]pyrene, but this effect was reversed when the animals were changed to the control ration. Limitations of this study that preclude its inclusion in Table 2-2 consist of the use of an inconsistent protocol, varying number of animals, and varying time of gestation exposure. Pregnant Erythrocebus patas monkeys were treated once on gestation day (Gd) 50, 100, or 150 (term = 160 days) with 5-50 mg/kg benzo[a]pyrene (Lu et al. The adduct levels in fetal tissues increased with benzo[a]pyrene dose, but at a much lower rate that placentae or maternal livers. Individual fetal organ adduct levels correlated significantly with placental adduct levels, indicating placental and/or maternal contribution to adduct formation in fetuses. Adduct levels decreased at a much faster rate during the first 10-15 days compared to 15-50 days after treatment. Together, the results suggest that placental adduction accurately indicates fetal exposure. At the high dose, liver > forestomach > lung, and each tissue was significantly different from the other. One of four different samples (A-D) of coal tar or a mixture of four equal portions of the four samples was administered in a gel diet which contained 0.
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Our article, Got it Bottled: Implementing integrated operations for high-speed bottling serialization was featured in and is courtesy of European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer (EPM)
Relatively cheap and logistically effective, bottles have steadily become the standard for drug delivery. Bottles come in a variety of sizes and shapes, and the economics of bottles make them attractive for delivering a month or three months’ worth of medication cost-effectively. Companies tasked with packaging opt for high speed – high volume bottling lines that are predicated on efficiency. That efficiency is what makes the prospect of integrating product serialization such a daunting task for most drug companies.
With speeds reaching multiple hundreds of bottles per minute, a typical bottling line is the integration of many parts, each providing vital services to the overall delivery and each a lynchpin for the overall line efficiency. Bottles may be packed in trays, cartons, or bundled into groups by a shrink-wrapping prior to placement into shippers prior to palletisation. Adding supplemental stations for bottling serialization creates reasonable concerns for companies trying to achieve every percentage point of OEE.
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Community Foundations of Canada was founded in 1992 to support and connect community foundations working across Canada. The “movement” of community foundations has since grown considerably. Today, more than 90% of Canadian communities have access to a community foundation. Collectively our network stewards combined assets of more than $5.8 billion and we’ve put hundreds of millions back into communities. We champion the issues that matter to Canadians.
As a national leadership organization, we also act as a convenor, thought leader and partner to help make our communities stronger, more resilient and sustainable. We partner with organizations across sectors to unlock a wide range of opportunities, extending from social finance and impact investing, to helping Canada progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or mobilizing community data and knowledge. Explore our initiatives and topics to learn more about our work and the issues we care about.
Partnership with PhiLab
As the national network for 191 independent community foundations across Canada, CFC is keen to play a role in developing a better understanding of the systemic issues and challenges facing our community foundations and the communities that they serve. Participating and contributing to research initiatives such as this are just one of the ways that we hope to advance and contribute to a growing body of knowledge around our work and its impact.
As collaborators on the development of this project as well as participants in its previous phase, we have helped to shape its scope, focus and approach and have taken value from work over the last few years. We are confident that its implementation will result in tangible and practical research and knowledge that will be relevant not only to CFC and our network of community foundations, but to various community stakeholders and groups including those agencies and organizations whose community-based work is funded by community foundations.
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The Monist92 (1):153-190 (2009)
Authors Abstract
Hume argued that experience could not justify commonly held beliefs in singular causal effcacy, according to which individual or singular causes produce their effects or make their effects happen. Hume's discussion has been influential, as motivating the view that Causal reductionism (denying that causal efficacy is an irreducible feature of natural reality) requires Causal generalism (according to which causal relations are metaphysically constituted by patterns of events). Here I argue that causal reductionists---indeed, Hume himself---have previously unappreciated resources for making sense of Causal singularism, associated with a relation that has been curiously underexploited in the causation debates: resemblance. The core idea I explore here is that causation may be metaphysically and epistemologically indicated by the coming-to-be of a resemblance. Comings-to-be of resemblances are epistemically available in the singular instance, even by Hume's strict lights, and, I argue, can justify (albeit fallibly) belief in the holding of singular causal relations; hence Hume's general argument for generalism fails. More to the contemporary metaphysical point, comings-to-be of resemblances provide valuable resources for existing singularist accounts: while neither changes (Ducasse) nor transfers of physical quantities (Fair, Dowe, Salmon) provide a suffciently fine-grained basis for the individuation of causes, either changes or transfers, in combination with comings-to-be of resemblances, can do so.
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Having recently gone through a name change (this plant was once called Cereus Tetragonus), Fairy Castle Cactus is still a popular houseplant for those who love desert plants. Its slow growth and compact size make it ideal to use in a window sill garden, or, it can be allowed to grow to its full height of six feet and used as a decorative garden feature.
How to Identify Fairy Castle Cactus
When you are trying to find this type of cactus, look for a cactus that grows tall, thin, and circular trunks. These trunks often grow in clusters. The trunks feature small spines running lengthwise from the top of the trunk down its side and to its base.
How to Grow Fairy Castle Cactus from Seed
This method for propagating a Fairy Castle Cactus is not the most common simply because it takes a long time to see any significant plant growth. If, however, you are determined to grow one of these cacti via seeds, follow these steps:
Harvest seeds from the fruit of a Fairy Castle Cactus Clean the seeds Allow the seeds to dry out Fill a plant container with a Succulent and Cactus Soil Mix Plant the seeds in the mix after they have dried Moisten the soil Keep the soil moist but not soggy and do not water the soil when it still feels wet Keep the plant container in a warm and sunny place How to Propagate Fairy Castle Cactus
If you feel that growing one of these cacti from seeds is too time-consuming for you, don’t fear, there are other methods for propagating these plants. The best method is to propagate via cuttings.
Not only does this allow you to make new plants, but it will also allow you to keep the growth and look of your cactus under control. If you’re interested in using this method, follow these steps:
Put on garden gloves to protect your hands from the small spikes on the cactus Clean a pair of scissors or another type of cutting utensil Cut off a healthy branch from a healthy plant Set the branch out for a few days to allow it to callus Fill a plant container with well-draining soil Dip the end of the branch in a rooting hormone Stich the branch into the soil Set the plant container in an area that is warm but not sunny Water the new plant a few days after it has been planted and water it only when its soil is dry Slowly acclimate the new plant to full sunlight Fairy Castle Cactus Growing Conditions
This plant is ideal for anyone to grow in any part of the world as long as you know its key care requirements. Fairy Castle Cactus may be a hardy plant, but it does not tolerate cold and frost very well, so if you live in that sort of climate, you need to be prepared to grow this plant indoors.
Check the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map to find out which zone you live in and confirm whether or not you can plant this cactus in the ground or if you will need to bring it in during cold weather. It is very limited on where it can be planted (zones 10 and 11).
How to Plant Fairy Castle Cactus
While these are slow-growing plants, they will eventually outgrow the plant container they currently call home. When this happens, you will need to remove the plant from its container and replant it in a new and bigger container.
Here are a few tips for working through this process:
always wear gloves Plan to repot your cactus during spring or summer to reduce shock Dust off the soil on the plant’s roots Inspect the plant for pests and remove them if necessary Prune the plant’s roots Do not water the plant right after it has been replanted but wait at least a week Fairy Castle Cactus Potting & Soil
It is very important that cacti be set in soil that will drain off excess water. In combination with this, the plant container it is set in should also drain well. This is because cacti are highly susceptible to root rot from soggy soil.
Try these recommended products for your Fairy Castle Cactus:
The Succulent Cult’s Organic Succulent & Cactus Soil Mix Clay Pots for Cactus and Succulent Plants Succulent and Cactus Rocks Fairy Castle Cactus Water Requirements
As is the case with other types of desert plants, Fairy Castle Cactus should be watered very carefully. If you are uncertain about how and when to water a cactus or just want something to keep you on track with your watering regimen, consider getting a plant watering app .
To ensure that your Fairy Castle Cactus is properly and carefully watered, follow these guidelines:
Only water the cactus if its soil is 50% dry from the top down (test it with your finger or a soil moisture meter ) Do not spill water on the cactus since this can cause water damage Water the cactus in the soak and dry method Fairy Castle Cactus Light Requirements
As a desert plant, it is assumed that Fairy Castle Cactus requires a lot of direct sunlight; however, this is not entirely true. This type of cactus can actually get sunburn if it is exposed to large amounts of direct sunlight for long periods of time.
To prevent sunburn and still give the plant adequate sunlight, set it in a place that gets six hours of morning sunlight. If this is not possible, set it in a place that gets filtered but bright sunlight.
If adequate sunlight is not available to you, especially in winter or extreme northern and southern climates, try setting your Fairy Castle Cactus under some grow lights.
Best Fairy Castle Cactus Fertilizer
Newly planted cacti do not need to be fertilized since their new soil should have plenty of nutrients in it.
When it does come time to fertilize your Fairy Castle Cactus, you will want a fertilizer that is specifically designed for cacti and something that can be diluted. Also, the plant will only need to be fertilized during spring and summer.
Try Cute Farms Succulent Cacti & Aloe Fertilizer for all your desert-loving plants.
Best Fairy Castle Cactus Companion Plantings
If you intend to grow a cactus, why not gather a few more plants to set alongside it? There are so many other easygoing plants that will make your gardening routine a breeze. It will also be very rewarding to see so many beautiful plants growing together in harmony.
Here are a few choice plants that will work wonderfully next to your Fairy Castle Cactus:
Callisia Repens
This native of the tropical regions of South and Central America is actually semi-succulent. It grows vining stems covered with soft and tiny leaves shaded in purple and green.
This color scheme will provide an excellent contrast to the solid green branches and harsh spikes of a Fairy Castle Cactus.
Pros Callisia Repens is very easy to care for Callisia Repens is easy to propagate Callisia Repens has care requirements that are similar to those of Fairy Castle Cactus Callisia Repens is not toxic Cons Callisia Repens is susceptible to infestations of aphids and mealybugs Aloe Pros Aloe is very easy to grow and care for Aloe is easy to propagate Aloe has care requirements that are similar to those of Fairy Castle Cactus Cons Aloe is mildly toxic Aloe is susceptible to infestations of aloe mites Rat Tail Cactus
This plant will be a wonderful addition to your cactus and succulent garden since it grows in a vining pattern that makes it ideal for a set in a hanging planter.
Pros Rat Tail Cactus is very easy to grow and care for Rat Tail Cactus has care requirements that are similar to those of Fairy Castle Cactus Cons Rat Tail Cactus is covered in sharp spines Fairy Castle Cactus Diseases and Common Problems
Most plants face infestations and infections as part of life and Fairy Castle Cactus is no different. Fortunately, most plant diseases and pests can be prevented or treated easily. Take some time to learn what the common issues are that these plants face and how to identify them. This is a great way to care for your plants.
Here are a few of the most common issues faced by Fairy Castle Cactus:
Mealybugs
Evidence of an infestation of mealybugs is small white spots that look like cotton on leaves and stems. To deal with an infestation of mealybugs, follow these steps:
Spray a solution of alcohol and water on the leaves Remove and kill any bugs that you find Spray the plant neem oil or insecticidal soap every few days Root Rot
Evidence of this problem is when a plant turns brown, yellow, and mushy. To treat this problem, let the soil dry out completely and set the plant in a place where it will get plenty of airflow. If it is still struggling with too much water in its container, follow these steps:
Remove the plant from its container Wash off all the dirt from its roots Cut off any roots that are rotten Replant the plant in a clean container with fresh soil Wait to water it for a few days Fairy Castle Cactus Treatments and Maintenance
Prevention is the best method for treating and maintaining healthy plants. Here are a few tips to help keep any of your plants healthy and disease-free:
Check it for signs of disease and infestations regularly, and treat them quickly. Clean the plant regularly with neem oil. Learn how to properly water and feed your plant. Make sure your plant is set in an area with adequate amounts of sunlight, heat, and humidity. Mix diatomaceous earth into the soil of potted plants. Where to Buy Fairy Castle Cactus Seeds Online
It may be a little difficult to search for seeds for this type of cactus online, but the following three shops are a great place to start:
Where to Buy Mature Fairy Castle Cactus Online
These cacti are easy to find in stores and online. If you’re ready to grow a garden full, then check out these great online shops:
FAQs Question: Is Fairy Castle Cactus Toxic?
Answer: No, it is not considered toxic. But by just looking at the plant, it is still recommended that you keep pets and small children away from its prickly spines.
Question: Does Fairy Castle Cactus Produce Blooms?
Answer: Yes, it can produce blooms, but it is rare to see this happen when it is kept indoors. The blooms that are typically set on these cacti in stores are fake and can be removed or left to fall off on their own.
Question: Does Fairy Castle Cactus go Through Cactus Corking?
Answer: Yes, you may notice as your cactus ages that it is turning an unsightly brown color. Rather than being a deadly fungal disease, this is a natural process known as cactus corking.
It should begin at the base of your cactus and slowly move upward in an even pattern. The corking should not be soft or squishy; it should be firm.
If your plant is turning brown but is not firm or evenly discolored, you may need to examine it for root rot instead.
FAQs Question: For how long does a Begonia Boliviensis live?
Answer: Begonia Boliviensis can live for about two to three years with adequate care and maintenance.
Question: How often do Begonia Boliviensis plants bloom?
Answer: Begonia Boliviensis plants bloom from spring to fall.
Question: Are Begonia Boliviensis plants toxic?
Answer: The plant tends to be toxic to animals. As such, it is crucial to keep Begonia Boliviensis away from infants and pets.
In Conclusion
Fairy Castle Cactus is a quaint little desert plant that with time and good care can become a large and lovely plant. If you want to grow something that is fun and easygoing and something that will allow you to share it with others, then look no further than this cactus variety.
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Author: David Evans
Date: 22/11/2019
Anthony Tjan ("Good People") asserts that the only leadership decision that really matters is good people; something which is hard to disagree with. It charts the lessons learned by Tjan during his 20 plus years in business, with almost 100 interviews conducted to dig deeper into what 'good people' constitutes and how goodness can be defined, identified and developed.
According to the author, goodness is about people's humanity, their values, the qualities inherent in their character and other intangible traits. In arriving at this definition, Tjan holds great store by the power of personal networks and the existence within them of effective mentors. Mentoring is a topic that runs like a golden thread through the book, and I think this provides a significant clue about the whole essence of 'being good'.
In an early signpost, Tjan talks about one of his most influential mentors who defined success as our 'capacity to make other people become more successful in life and leave the world a better place'. This is quickly backed up with Tjan's Good People Mantra 'put people first, seek always to improve oneself, be led by your values, base yourself in realism and practise goodness whenever you can'.
The author's general definition of good people is;
Those committed to continuously cultivating the values that help them and others
become the fullest possible versions of who they are.
He supports this with a Goodness Pyramid that clearly draws on the work of Abraham Maslow: at the base is Truth, followed by Compassion and Wholeness. Each element of the pyramid contains something about mindset, practice and action.
Which is all well and good - however, whose version of the Truth will sit at the base of the pyramid?
Tjan asserts that truth comprises the values of humility, self-awareness and integrity; and this is fine, except that truth might well be a somewhat culturally-nuanced construct with a range of possible interpretations based on one's upbringing and beliefs, as well as other personal influences.
What struck me most about the book was its capacity to challenge. It asks some very fundamental questions about our beliefs and values, in a way that is simple and slightly unnerving. I have reflected on some of these questions and am struggling to give fully-formed and meaningful answers. The questions are:
What did you especially love doing when you were a child (before the world told you what you should or should not like to do)? Describe a moment when you experienced this love and how it made you feel. Tell me about two of your most challenging life experiences: how have they shaped you? What do you enjoy doing in your life that makes you feel the happiest? When, and in what context, have you encountered goodness? Who has most fundamentally shaped who you are in life and at work? What was the greatest characteristic you inherited from your mother? Find out more about how Primeast services can support you and your organisation to achieve greater success here: Leader & Leadership Development
To speak to a member of the team about how we can help you with your learning and development please contact us on +44 (0) 1423 531083 or +1 609 642 8821 or email us directly via [email protected].
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QUINCY (WGEM) – A job that requires long hours in the sun is more likely to be exhausted from heat.
Matt Koontz, vice president of Dale Koontz Builder, said he and his staff had seen it before.
To prevent it from happening again, he and his crew wear sunscreen, take breaks from work and drink plenty of water.
“We’re big advocates of taking frequent water breaks and not just taking care of yourself but taking care of your boys and making sure anyone you work with isn’t acting weird or moving around – I still get hydrated” said Koontz.
With temperatures getting warmer earlier in the day, construction workers try to brave the heat by starting their work around 6 a.m.
When framer Chris Benz sees an employee stumble or behave differently due to the heat, he says he knows exactly what to do.
“I mean, if I see a person slowing down and not behaving normally, I would just call a break for everyone, find a shady spot, sit down, give them something to drink and keep an eye on them,” said Benz .
Last week, Blessing Hospital administrators said they had seen an increase in patients with heat-related side effects or chronic illnesses exacerbated by heat.
Nurse Jaryn Black explained what to do when someone you know is suffering from heat exhaustion.
“First of all, if they get dizzy and stand up when they can sit safely on the floor, it’s always better because it makes them fall lower to the floor. But then also that you move away from the heat and go to a cool or shady place, “said Black.
Black said you should see a doctor if your symptoms are severe or don’t get better.
To avoid heat exhaustion, she recommends wearing light, loose-fitting clothing, staying hydrated with decaf, wearing sunscreen, and avoiding the sun for long periods of time.
Common signs and symptoms of heat-related illness include headache, increased heart and breathing rates, dizziness, nausea, confusion, and vomiting.
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Lebanese case of a child's past life memories notable for the large volume of detail later verified as accurate.
Possession & Past Lives
Some eleven million people were killed in the Nazi death camps during World War II, so it is not surprising that camp experiences are sometimes recalled by people who remember a past life. ...
Detailed and historically accurate 'memories of previous lives' are routinely elicited during past life regression hypnotherapy. They are attributed by some to reincarnation and by others to unconscious recall (cryptomnesia).
Children who have memories of past lives sometimes make drawings of their recollections, to express them or as therapy for past-life traumas.
The investigation of cases of infant children who recount, spontaneously and in detail, the intimate circumstances of a deceased individual they could not be expected to know anything about.
If reincarnation truly happens, why do most people remember no past lives? And if most people have had a past life and forgotten it, why do a few, especially young children, remember it?
Though reincarnation researchers have not found evidence to support New Age notions of permanent ‘soul groups’ or ‘soul mates,’ they have discovered cases in which people verifiably knew each other in previous lives.
In this celebrated British reincarnation case, two young sisters who died in a road accident appeared to be reborn as twins to the same parents.
As a two-year-old in Sri Lanka, Pretiba Gunawardana started to talk of a previous life in which he had been a businessman and died of burns when his car caught fire. Investigation by Erlendur...
Psychological study indicating that children who remember a past life differ in important respects from other children
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Background: Defining normal values is essential for reliable evaluation of growth disturbances. Previous studies of the cervical spine have mainly focused on the sagittal canal diameter and interpedicular distances. Values for vertebral body height and depth have been published only in adult men and cadavers. Objectives: To define normal values for vertebral body height (H)/vertebral body depth (D) ratio (H/D ratio) and sagittal canal diameter (S)/ vertebral body depth ratio (S/D ratio) in C2-7. Materials and methods: Lateral cervical spine radiographs were available from 441 children and 192 adults. Subjects' ages varied from newborn to 39 years. Vertebral body height and depth and sagittal canal diameter were measured and ratios were calculated. This was a cross-sectional and retrospective study. Results: Vertebral bodies grow relatively more in height than in depth, most actively at puberty. At all levels, the H/D ratio remains below 1, indicating that vertebral body depth is greater than height. The SD ratio is quite stable until 7-8 years of age and then it starts to decline slowly. Conclusions: When estimating platyspondyly, the age of the patient must be taken into consideration because vertebral body height is lower in children. Growth of the spinal canal declines after 7-8 years of age.
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We know COVID-19 is impacting young people and their families, but there is also hope for the future As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we're seeing the damaging impacts lockdowns and uncertainty are having and will continue to have on young...Read More
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In 2019, Raise supported a total of 1,027 young people through 86 mentoring programs In our school programs more than half (65%) of these young people had experienced anxiety, and 45% had experienced depression. Also commonly reported were experiences of...Read More
Raise's mentoring programs provide a community of support around young people. Mentoring from a positive role model provides a nurturing pathway for young people to feel heard, supported and valued. When Joe, 14 commenced the Raise mentoring program he had no friends...Read More
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I hope you all had a terrific week! This week, we’ve seen our numbers soar like a - red balloon! We have breezed past 450 employers and 2,500 job seekers and the numbers keep going up every day.
The next hip trend….
This fast-paced growth is exciting AND encouraging. It means that there are a LOT of people who want to see freedom in the workplace - employers, employees, and even consumers! We have had folks ask us to point them toward freedom-oriented companies that they can turn to for products and services. Americans want to support freedom. Go figure!
New adventures in the RedBalloon Community
I have talked to a lot of people in the RedBalloon community who are thinking about starting their own business, or growing a current side business. They want to be able to either leave their job and follow their ambitions, or have a safety net when they get fired for not following the current zeitgeist.
I can’t tell you how excited that makes me! Why? Because of the massive potential for blessings! If you have the gifts and abilities to be a business owner, I encourage you to think BIG - you have the potential not only to support your own family and realize your own dreams, but to help others do the same through their jobs at your company.
The healthier your free-speech business is, the more customers you will be able to serve, and the more employees you will be able to bless with good, meaningful work in a free-speech environment. From the hundreds of notes I’ve received at RedBalloon, I can tell you, there are a lot of people who desperately want that.
Be inspired. Be ambitious. Be a blessing.
My challenge to you is to think of your business as a tool for blessing others, and see how well and how many people you can bless. You might be thinking that’s going to be a lot of work, and yes, it will be. There might be late nights, tough decisions, and more than a few headaches thrown in. Just remember that ambitions come with hard work - but they’re so rewarding!
I want to leave you with this thought: there’s so much good work to do, and so many good employees out there to help you do it. If we cultivate freedom in our country’s work culture, we will see companies that have the freedom to grow! So what are you waiting for? Let’s get to work!
Have a good weekend,
Andrew Crapuchettes
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