text:
Sheila Heti's Talmudic Texts
By Nathan Goldman 09/23/2018 09/24/2018
The Talmud tells of a rabbinic dispute over the ritual purity of a particular type of oven, the oven of akhnai. All of the rabbis hold that the oven is impure — with the sole exception of Rabbi Eliezer, who does his best to convince his colleagues otherwise. Though the Talmud says he gives "all possible answers in the world to support his opinion," the other rabbis remain unconvinced.
Rabbi Eliezer turns to the divine. At first, he does so obliquely. He declares, "If the halakha" — ritual law — "is in accordance with my opinion, this carob tree will prove it." The carob tree is uprooted, but the rabbis object. "One does not cite halakhic proof from the carob tree," they tell him. Fine. "If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion," Rabbi Eliezer says, "this stream will prove it." The stream begins to flow in reverse. But this does not convince the rabbis either. "One does not cite halakhic proof from a stream," they say. All right. "If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion," Rabbi Eliezer says, "the walls of the study hall will prove it." The study hall walls begin to cave in, but Rabbi Yehoshua reprimands them: "If Torah scholars are contending with each other in matters of halakha, what is the nature of your involvement in this dispute?" Stuck between the two rabbis, the walls compromise; they neither collapse nor stand back up, but remain where they are, leaning. Rabbi Eliezer, surely frustrated, calls upon God more directly. "If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion," he says, "heaven will prove it." A divine voice descends from heaven. "Why," it asks, "are you differing with Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakha is in accordance with his opinion in every place that he expresses an opinion?" The matter seems settled.
But no. Rabbi Yehoshua boldly cites God against God, quoting Deuteronomy 30:12: "It is not in heaven" — that is, it is not in heaven to decide what does or doesn't accord with halakha. Rabbi Yirmeya adds, "Since the Torah was already given at Mount Sinai, we do not regard a Divine Voice, as You already wrote at Mount Sinai, in the Torah: 'After a majority to incline' (Exodus 23:2)." The human majority, Rabbi Yirmeya contends, rules over the word of God. Years later, Rabbi Natan encounters the prophet Elijah and asks — as one does when one happens upon a prophet — what God thought of all this. Elijah reports, "The Holy One, Blessed be He, smiled and said: My children have triumphed over Me; My children have triumphed over Me."
Something similar occurs in Sheila Heti's novel Motherhood (2018). The novel's narrator (unnamed, except for her middle name, mentioned once: Magdalen), though she does not contend directly with God, does spend significant time interrogating a non-human authority. In a practice adapted from the I Ching, she asks a question and flips three coins. Two or three heads means yes, and two or more tails means no. Motherhood's central subject is the question of whether or not the narrator should have a child with her boyfriend, Miles. Near the book's middle, she poses this question to the coins directly:
Should I have a child with Miles?
Should I have a child at all?
So then should I leave Miles?
Should I have an affair with another man while I'm with Miles, and raise the child as Miles's own, deceiving him about the provenance of that child?
I don't think that's a good idea.
As she hints here, the narrator will ultimately defy the coins' authority: by the book's end, she has chosen not to have a child at all. In a way similar to the Talmudic sages, she has already wrested the authority to disobey the coins from the coins themselves, in her first exchange with them:
This will be my stated purpose, my design or agenda, in writing this — to understand what it means, the soul of time, or to explain it to myself. Is that a good premise for this book?
Is it too narrow?
Can the soul of time be involved?
Am I allowed to betray you?
As in the Talmudic encounter between the rabbis and God, the narrator disputes the coins' authority on the basis of that very authority.
Like the Talmud, Motherhood is a Jewish text about struggling with questions. The novel's Jewishness — and the Jewishness of its similarly inquisitive predecessor, How Should a Person Be? (2010) — have been widely ignored by critics (with the notable exception of Helen Batya Rubinstein, whose piece in Jewish Currents considers Motherhood's relationship to Holocaust literature). By and large, critics have opted to read the novels primarily through the organizing concept of "autofiction," the blend of fiction and autobiography that each employs. But if we were to leave the question of the novels' relations to the author's life to the side and attend, instead, to their overlooked Jewish themes, we might come to a different understanding of the novels' formal peculiarities.
Motherhood is rife with Jewish references. The narrator's Jewishness provides one of the key frameworks through which she considers the question of whether she should become a mother. The references are sometimes personal, as when the narrator considers her "religious cousin," who tells a story over Shabbat dinner about the way a certain method of cooking chicken has been passed down by the women in her family, despite the fact that the improved material conditions of their lives have made the method obsolete. The narrator compares this practice to childbearing and wonders whether the latter is also "a once-necessary sentimental gesture"; the anecdote's religious source suggests, too, an identification between that empty sentimentality and religious observance. Yet in the next passage, the narrator, considering an abortion she has had, finds solace in Jewish law: "The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body — until the head has completely emerged." The most striking and central of the novel's personal Jewish elements is the way the memory of the Holocaust — the narrator's grandmother, Magda, survived Auschwitz — haunts the narrator's choices: "They wanted to wipe us from the earth, and we must never let them. Then how can I imagine not having children, and selfishly contribute to our dying out? Yet, I don't really care if the human race dies out."
Other key Jewish references arise not from the narrator's own Jewish life, but from her engagement with Jewish texts. She reads a tale about the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and his daughter, which brings her to the realization that "all [her] worrying about not being a mother came down to this history — this implication that a woman is not an end in herself." She considers the Jewish painter R. B. Kitaj's Auschwitz painting If Not, Not, and finds in its title a possible resolution of her indecision. "I don't want 'not a mother' to be part of who I am — for my identity to be the negative of someone else's positive identity," she writes. "Then maybe instead of being 'not a mother' I could be not 'not a mother.' I could be not not." The narrator's interpretations of these Jewish texts aid in the development of her inquiry.
The Jewish narrative most central to Motherhood is the Biblical story of Jacob wrestling with an angel, which she invokes in one of her conversations with the coins. "Am I just cursed by a demon, sort of randomly?" she asks them. The coins reply, yes. At the coins' behest, the narrator visualizes the demon as a knife like one in her kitchen drawer. She wonders why the coins have identified a knife as the appropriate visualization:
Is it a knife because the demon wants to cut away what is hopeful and optimistic in me?
Does it want to cut away my trust in the world?
Does it have a good reason for doing this?
Because it's a servant of the devil?
Is it an angel, rather?
Is it a situation like 'Jacob Wrestling the Angel'?
The narrator relates a version of the Biblical story, in which she refers to the angel as "a creature." (Though both Jewish and Christian traditions have come to interpret Jacob's combatant as an angel, the Hebrew word used in Genesis means "man.") The narrator parses the Biblical tale, searching for its significance to her situation. "The most important thing," she muses, "is that Jacob continues to fight, even after he is injured, and instead of fear or anger towards the demon-angel, he asks to be blessed. I think that is the most moving part. That opens up something inside me."
In a later encounter with the coins, the narrator returns to the story. "Jacob names his wrestling place Peniel," she says. "Is he naming a personal taboo in doing this?" The coins answer, yes. She presses on:
Do we synthesize taboos by taking on a new name — as Jacob's name became Israel?
Do we synthesize them by narrating them, by telling ourselves stories about our wrestling with them?
Is the idea of being a mother a taboo for me, personally?
Then must I synthesize this taboo with my life by telling a story about wrestling with it?
But it takes a long time to tell a story, meaning that when we are done, we walk away hobbled — or older — but hopefully more spiritually invigorated. Jacob named his story 'Peniel,' which means, Here is where I stood face-to-face with God. What am I standing face-to-face with? The prospect of motherhood?
In the story of Jacob, the angel blesses him there. Yet wait — what does it mean to be blessed? That the thing we are wrestling with wishes us well?
That our wrestling will take care of us forever?
The subject returns again in the narrator's final conversation with the coins, in which the narrator asks about the book she is writing: "Is this the book of the angel, or the angel's book?" The coins say, yes. "Because," the narrator asks, "I have been wrestling with an angel?" The coins, again: yes. The narrator eagerly embraces this interpretation, as she shows in the novel's final line, which transforms the final line of Jacob's fable — "Then Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, It is because here is where I saw God face-to-face, and yet my life was spared" — thus: "Then I named this wrestling place Motherhood, for here is where I saw God face-to-face, and yet my life was spared." The narrator invites us to understand the novel itself as an enactment of Jacob's struggle.
We get a hint of Heti's interest in this story in How Should a Person Be?. Jen, a friend of the protagonist (named Sheila), tells her about her favorite painting, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel. (Which of the handful of famous paintings that bear this name she means, Jen does not say.) "From my point of view," Jen tells Sheila, "when I am struggling, I always imagine I am struggling with a devil. But when I saw that painting I realized — no, it's an angel. Now I always try to remember, when I am struggling, that I am struggling with an angel." How Should a Person Be?, like Motherhood, is about a struggle to answer a single question — in this case, the titular one. As the novel opens, we find the narrator, Sheila, obsessing over it: "For years and years I asked it of everyone I met. I was always watching to see what they were going to do in my situation, so I could do it too. I was always listening to their answers, so if I liked them, I could make them my answers too." Before the prologue ends, Sheila draws her first oblique comparison between her own unsettlement and the mythic rootlessness of her Biblical ancestors, who "left their routines as slaves in Egypt to follow Moses into the desert in search of the promised land." In a lightly parodic turn, she imagines the ancient Israelites as manifesting their choice of how to be through their preferred methods of fashioning flour into food: some make matzo, while others prefer bagels.
Soon, Sheila begins toying with the idea of identifying with Moses. Reflecting on the play she has been commissioned to write by a feminist theater company, she muses that she "could just as easily lead the people out of bondage with words that came from a commissioned play" as she could by writing anything else. As she begins to despair of doing anything of value with the play, she voices that despair by exuberantly imagining herself as a feminized Moses:
Who among us will be asked to lead the people out of bondage, only to say, God, I have never been a good talker. Ask someone else. Ask my brother instead of me. There is no way to accomplish what I feel I must accomplish with this play. There is no way in heaven or on earth! I am the wrong person to do it. Look at the shitty red hoodie I am sitting here in. Look at my dirty running shoes. I have such small breasts. God, shouldn't you call upon a woman with great big knockers, who the people will listen to? Why do you call on me, who doesn't have the cleavage to capture the world's attention? Ask my sister instead of me, whose big breasts are much more suited to doing your work.
As the novel goes on, Sheila becomes more and more comfortable identifying with Moses — not because she sees herself as rising to the level of his greatness, but because she increasingly understands his imperfections as linked to her own. Once she realizes that Moses killed an Egyptian man before he was called by God to liberate the Israelites, she asks herself, "If that is what my king is like, what can I expect for myself?" Relieved and reassured, she concludes, "I can be a bumbling murderous coward like the king of the Jews." Sheila's developing identification with Moses, who led the Israelites through 40 years of grueling wandering only to die before the exile came to its conclusion, suggests her growing comfort with the unresolvable wandering — and wondering — embodied in the novel's animating question.
How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood each transport defining Jewish narratives — Moses leading the wandering Israelites and Jacob wrestling with the angel — into frameworks for their protagonists' personal struggles. (Notably, in both instances, the novels' narrators feminize the struggles of patriarchs.) But the Jewishness of both novels does not consist simply in Heti's use of these Biblical narratives as thematic frameworks. Embedded in these narratives are distinctly Jewish understandings of inquiry that Heti's texts enact. How Should a Person Be? sends Sheila wandering from place to place and interlocutor to interlocutor in search of answers to her question of how to be. (Many of the chapter titles winkingly acknowledge this structure: "They Wander in Miami," "They Wander the City on Drugs," "Sheila Wanders in New York," "Sheila Wanders in the Copy Shop.") Motherhood finds its narrator in a tormented struggle with herself — aided by the coins, which act both as an externalization of her own desires and as a form of external authority. Both novels take the form of the conceptions of Jewish inquiry they consider. Together, the novels model an understanding of textual inquiry — in the sense of both inquiry through texts and inquiry in text — as an ethical project; the textual wandering and wrestling become ways of raising questions about how one should live.
How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood are united not only in this project, but also in their method of marshaling various forms (narrative as well as philosophical, from fable to dialogue to Biblical exegesis to essay) and modes (comic, confessional, contemplative) to develop questions within the context of a life. The novels emerge from a Jewish textual tradition, dating back to the Talmud, of blending genres and modes in the service of unceasing inquiry in which the metaphysical and the mundane are inseparably interwoven. When we look at these novels as engaging with this tradition, we can begin to understand their blending of fiction and autobiography not as an end in itself, but rather as one way that they, following the Talmud, put texts and life into conversation in the service of questioning. These novels are not, as some critics have contended, merely lightly altered memoirs, but something stranger. Something subtler. Something far more ancient.


text:
package uk.co.caeldev.springsecuritymongo.repositories;

import com.mongodb.client.result.DeleteResult;
import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate;
import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.query.Criteria;
import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.query.Query;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import uk.co.caeldev.springsecuritymongo.domain.MongoOAuth2AccessToken;

import java.util.List;

@Component
public class MongoOAuth2AccessTokenRepositoryImpl implements MongoOAuth2AccessTokenRepositoryBase {

    public static final String ID = "_id";
    private final MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;

    public MongoOAuth2AccessTokenRepositoryImpl(final MongoTemplate mongoTemplate) {
        this.mongoTemplate = mongoTemplate;
    }

    @Override
    public MongoOAuth2AccessToken findByTokenId(final String tokenId) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where(ID).is(tokenId));
        return mongoTemplate.findOne(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean deleteByTokenId(final String tokenId) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where(ID).is(tokenId));
        final DeleteResult deleteResult = mongoTemplate.remove(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
        return deleteResult.wasAcknowledged();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean deleteByRefreshTokenId(String refreshTokenId) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where("refreshToken").is(refreshTokenId));
        final DeleteResult deleteResult = mongoTemplate.remove(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
        return deleteResult.wasAcknowledged();
    }

    @Override
    public MongoOAuth2AccessToken findByAuthenticationId(String key) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where("authenticationId").is(key));
        return mongoTemplate.findOne(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
    }

    @Override
    public List<MongoOAuth2AccessToken> findByUsernameAndClientId(final String username,
                                                                  final String clientId) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where("username").is(username).andOperator(Criteria.where("clientId").is(clientId)));
        return mongoTemplate.find(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
    }

    @Override
    public List<MongoOAuth2AccessToken> findByClientId(final String clientId) {
        final Query query = Query.query(Criteria.where("clientId").is(clientId));
        return mongoTemplate.find(query, MongoOAuth2AccessToken.class);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Calvin Harris posts series of hints provoking speculation around new sound
By Amy Shaw
Over the years, Calvin Harris has repeatedly proven himself as one of the industry's most technically gifted producers, releasing a diverse number of hits, each attaining an exceptional level of praise across the board. Recently, the Scottish DJ/producer turned heads when he changed his appearance, growing a beard in order to "be taken seriously by the Grammys as a producer". Now, as we move into the second month of 2018, it looks like Calvin Harris is ready to introduce even further changes to his brand, unveiling a series of mysterious hints across platforms.
Changing his profile pictures and banners to reflect what appears to be new branding, Calvin Harris' social media accounts all have a brand new look, featuring the same imagery. A mysterious website also popped up just days ago, with the URL featuring the words 'Nuh Ready'. No details are known at this stage as to the relevance of 'Nuh Ready', but it has the potential to be the title for a new track, or even a brand new album. After announcing his retirement from Funk Wav sound there has been speculation recently as to which path Calvin Harris would take as he changes his sound, and these hints seem to prove that he is about to shake the music industry yet again by breaking boundaries once more.
Take a look at the tweet below.
pic.twitter.com/ihrRvdAe3Y
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) February 4, 2018
H/T: YourEDM
Tags: Calvin Harris, Nuh Ready
About the Author / Amy Shaw
24-year-old dance music addict from the UK. My biggest passions are progressive house, techno and trance.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


So if you are attempting to release the Facebook application but you are continuously getting the can not link Tap to retry error after that today is your lucky day as I have a prospective fix for the problem that ought to work in a lot of cases.So when you have an Android tool and getting this mistake you could proceed as well as attempt the steps listed below in the fix to manage the problem - Facebook App Not Connecting.
The mistake: You will certainly attempt to introduce the Facebook application on your android smartphone as usual then you will be faced with the mistake: cannot attach Tap to retry with the picture of exactly what seems to be a grey cloud with a frown on its face.also regardless of what you do Facebook will certainly not connect despite various other applications are able to connect to the web on the exact same phone.
How you can Take care of can not link Faucet to retry Facebook Application?
2. Most likely to settings, apps and afterwards search for the Facebook App.
3. Next most likely to storage space and clear cache and clear data. Next force stop the Application.
4. Restart your phone, connect to the internet and then after this relaunch the app as well as login again.
Your phone needs to login no issue and the problem should be fixed.
3. Restart and allow phone to startup as regular.
Corrupted cache for application can occur after a very long time of use as well as impact the capability of the App to work well. This could after that in turn triggered web connectivity concerns in Web reliant applications such as Facebook and various other issues. All we did was to get rid of the old cache and also as you saw this taken care of the problem with the application linking.
I do wish you repaired your problem as well as otherwise you could connect your exact circumstance listed below as well as I make certain I ought to be able to recommend various other services or one of my readers might make practical recommendations. Also do take the time to share this article if you found it helpful whatsoever.


Complete project "THE PEACE IS BETTER" was organised under the patronage of Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade and in cooperation with Zemun Small Artistic Center (ZMUC).
Opening ceremony: June 6th, 2014.
Exhibition: Gallery "Stara kapetanija", June 6th – 19th 2014.


text:
Q: VS 2017 Update 3 - .Net Core 2 SPA - Angular | How to expand the template and add custom CSS and JS I'm kinda new to WebPack and Angular 4. I've seen many articals that intro the new template but none of them walk-though on how to use it in real-world apps, I saw some posts that define the custom CSS for each angular component and import or require it to use it. I think my case is different (maybe i am wrong).
First step to utilize the template is to create my layout HTML which is based on limitless template, limitless is using a lot of 3rd party JS libraries such as Ace, Beautify, BlockUI, Pace, etc and at least couple of CSS files, and custom JS files to get the template to work. I understand that I should break the UI into components such as header, nav-bar etc.. but I will worry about that later.
I have a lot of question, and it all related on what\how\where (basics)!
Package.json
1: What is the difference between dependence and devDependence?
2: If I will use moment, underscore, ace or any vendor JS library, should I add it to dependence or devDependence?
Webpack.config
3: I think next step is to add those packages to webpack.config.vendor.js but add to treeShakableModules or nonTreeShakableModules and what is the difference?
4: How to use those packages in my app? I tried to consume moment() from browser console and I learned that these libraries to be exported to global and the way WebPack is doing it is by defining plugin new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: "jquery", jQuery: "jquery" }) I tried to do the same for moment or underscore but still not working.
5- Where should I put my custom CSS and JS for the limitless template to work, inside ClientApp\assets? When I add them there and after running webpack I searched the bundled files and couldn't find my custom JS and CSS.
6- Basically the custom CSS and JS will be used by the _Layout.chtml and they should be global for all other components to use them, so how I can consume it in _layout and in other angular components?
I'm sorry, I've asked a lot of question, maybe you can answer some or all, or direct me to a tutorial, post online that expand the VS template, and add more functionality, explain each aspect of the template instead of limited introduction about the template.
Thank you so much in advanced.

A: 1.In packages.json dependancies are used for publishing the final application, while devdependancis are extra when developing.
2.dependence
3.treeShakableModules are modules that have alot of code removed from then when publishing
4.no idea
5. i am also searching for an answer, u can also use wwwroot to put custom css and add it in the header as a link

*go to 5

A: I ended up using Angular CLI, MS SPA template is not straight forward and require a lot of work to get things to work

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Microsoft: Android may cost more in the end than Windows Phone 7
August 30, 2010 by Marin Perez - 15 Comments
The upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will still come with a licensing fee of about $15 per unit and that could seem odd in a world where open source alternatives like Android and Symbian can be had for no royalties. A Microsoft employee supposedly contacted AlleyInsider to say that the "free" label with Android and others can wind up costing handset makers more in the long run.
Because there's no proper attribution to this source, you'll have to apply your own level of skepticism, but some of these ring true. First of all, when you license Microsoft Windows Phone 7, you're not at risk for the same IP lawsuits that may come with other platforms. We know that HTC is facing some legal action over some alleged Apple patents in its Android phones, although it is widely speculated that Google is helping HTC fight this.
Microsoft also says that by requiring Windows Phone 7 licensees to use hardware that fits into its chassis requirements, handset makers can spend less customizing each handset for different versions of Android. There had been some speculation that Android 3.0 will only come to devices that meet a minimum set of hardware requirements but that has been partially debunked. I'd still be surprised if the majority of Android devices received Gingerbread though.
Microsoft also argues that Windows Phone 7 comes with automated testing for quality assurance purposes. This is a solid point but companies can go to third-party providers like DeviceAnywhere for this type of service – that's still an additional cost.
The company also makes another few arguments for Windows Phone 7 which don't quite hold as much water, as it says that the "essential" mobile services like Office are already baked in and don't cost additional license fees. It also says handset makers won't have to invest in custom user interfaces like MotoBlur because of the Windows Phone 7 UI.
Some of these are salient points but others aren't so much – I do know that nothing's really free in this world. What do you guys and gals think?
[Via AlleyInsider, photo]
More in Android, Headline Featured, Windows Phone
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to launch simultaneously in Canada, United States
Our friends in the great, white north will be happy to know that Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will be launching...


University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations, "Skyline Western Division Swimming Meet; Scorecard; Montana States Athletic Conference Swimming Records" (1960). University of Montana News Releases. 575.


Trees and utility poles were levelled and city streets and country roads flooded on Friday as rain, winds and surging seawater from Tropical Storm Pabuk hit coastal villages and world-famous tourist resorts in Thailand.
The UN refugee agency has determined that a Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave a Bangkok hotel room is a legitimate refugee, and has asked Australia to consider resettling her.
Environmental campaign aims to reduce rubbish outflows from the Chao Phraya River and prevent trash reaching the sea.
A sanctuary in Thailand hopes classical music can 'rehabilitate the souls' of the old, overworked and disabled elephants it cares for.
The latest annual bridal race in the Thai capital has attracted 300 couples hoping to win a dream wedding.
A group of senior police officers witnessing the operation stood in silence for one minute on Saturday in commemoration of the victims.
Thailand passed a regulation 13-years ago banning "public displays of affection" for all students in the country. A debate has now sprung up in the country, with some arguing that this amendment was created to force conservative cultural values on Thai youth.
Three boys and their football coach who were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand last month have been granted Thai citizenship.
Twelve Thai boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand will be discharged from hospital next week, said the Thai health minister.


text:
History of the Social, Political and Economic Inequality Program
In 2001, the Russell Sage Foundation, together with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, initiated a program of research on Social Inequality designed to examine the implications of rising economic inequality. That effort resulted in Social Inequality (Neckerman, 2004), in which a group of the nation's leading social scientists opened a wide-ranging inquiry into the social implications of rising economic inequality. The program started out by examining the implications of rising economic inequality across many areas of social life—the wellbeing of families, the parental resources available to young children, the quality of education from preschool to college, the chances of finding secure and satisfying work, the quality of health care and health outcomes, and the effectiveness of participation in the democratic process. For each of these domains, RSF supported descriptive research that sought to establish whether those groups that have increasingly been left behind economically have also lost ground in other ways that limit their full participation in society and make it more difficult for their children to compete successfully with the children of the more advantaged. Does rising economic inequality, once underway, have social effects that tend to entrench and amplify economic differences?
In the mid-2000s, the program turned to in-depth examinations of the key institutions the U.S. relies on to counteract market-driven inequality: public education and the democratic electoral system. RSF sought research proposals on how these institutions performed during the recent run-up in economic inequality. Have the public schools been able to provide equal educational opportunities despite growing differences in family resources, neighborhood quality, and local job prospects? In a simultaneous and separate effort, RSF released the Politics of Inequality RFP to formally explore the impact of the rise of economic inequality on the political system. Has the political system effectively transferred resources from those who have benefited from rising inequality to those who have not? And, overall, how well have American institutions performed—compared to other countries—in moderating inequality and providing something like equal opportunity for all Americans?
In 2008, RSF and the Lyle M. Spencer Foundation co-funded an interdisciplinary team of more than twenty researchers to examine the educational performance of disadvantaged students, as well as the differences in outcomes between rich and poor students. Under the direction of Greg Duncan (University of California, Irvine) and Richard J. Murnane (Harvard University), Social Inequality and Educational Disadvantage focused on the impact of neighborhoods, families, and labor markets—the environment around the school—on schooling outcomes. Findings from the project were published in two books. The first edited by Duncan and Murnane, Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children (2011), examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. The second book, Restoring Opportunity, by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane (Harvard Education Press, 2014), focuses on raising public awareness of educational disadvantage in the United States, summarizes prominent research findings, and suggests policies aimed at reducing educational inequality.
In 2009, RSF, together with the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Sutton Trust, funded the 3-year study, Cross-National Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage (CRITA). Under the direction of Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, John Ermisch of the University of Essex, and Markus Jäntti of the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, this project—including fourteen individual studies across ten countries— explored the relationship between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and mobility-relevant skills and attributes at different stages of development (early childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood). The researchers provided a better understanding of how family resources are correlated with individual outcomes at various points during development, and how those relationships may differ over the life course and between countries. Key findings were published in a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. A more detailed examination of the project's results were published by RSF in From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage (2012).
In 2012, RSF launched a working group on The Political Influence of Economic Elites. Sociologist Shamus Khan and political scientist Nicholas Carnes of Duke University, together with 13 other leading social scientists, formed a working group to expand the research field of economic influence on political life by examining how economic elites have influenced the myriad ways politics is done and the relationship between these processes and inequality. Between 2012 and 2015, RSF funded four research projects by working group members—a national survey of political party leaders to shed light on the lack of working-class people who hold elected office; a study of the mobilization of people and financial resources through the political contributions and activities of U.S. corporations and their boards of directors, top management, and owners; a pilot project to disambiguate the employer and occupation fields in the Federal Election Commission (FEC) data; a project on the cash ceiling and why only the rich hold office.
In late 2018, RSF rebranded the program as the Social, Political and Economic Inequality (SPEI) program to better reflect the foundation's research interests in a broad range of inequalities and their consequences. In consultation with selected trustees, RSF revised the program's standing RFP to include new sections on political institutions and the policy process, and child development and child outcomes. In addition, the revised RFP also highlighted RSF's interest in research regarding rural areas.
In 2019, RSF ended two special initiatives on Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge (BioSS) and Computational Social Science (CSS). Because of our continued interest in these topic areas, some of the topics of interest were incorporated into the SPEI call for proposals. Examples of CSS questions that remain of interest include: How might computational approaches provide new insights into political inequalities? For instance, can the application of textual analysis and machine learning techniques to current and/or historical political proceedings, such as the Congressional Record, provide new insights on legislative responses to changes in inequality over time? Examples of BioSS questions that remain of interest include: What are the social and biological factors that impede or promote resilience to adversity? To what extent do social, psychological and biological factors work together, or independently, to mediate the negative effects of adverse socioeconomic environments on children's development and subsequent outcomes?
See current funding priorities


text:
Fort to host Labor Day Weekend events
September 3, 2015 Michelle Workman	Leave a comment
Fort Scott's National Historic Site will provide opportunities for members of the community and visitors to learn about the fort's history through guided tours, but also experience it as volunteers play the roles of soldiers and civilians from the 1840s and '50s.
"What better way to learn the history of Fort Scott than to actually see people in period clothing?" park ranger Galen Ewing said. "It allows them to step back in time and use their imagination a little bit."
The Highlights in History event held Saturday through Monday will display what life during that time period was like, through demonstrations concerning areas of life including medicine, laundry, baking, discipline and politics.
Flintlock musket and artillery demonstrations will also be given all three days. Ewing said that has been especially popular during the annual event and is a favorite of his as well.
"Everybody likes to hear the boom," Ewing said.
The fort hosts similar events for Fourth of July and Memorial Day as well, using those holidays to share about the military function of the fort and its role in American history.
"It's tied in to interpreting a little bit of the different military periods that the fort was occupied here," Ewing said of those events held throughout the year, with the Labor Day event focusing on Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.
Ewing said they have had a conservative estimate of 500-600 visitors participate over the weekend in the past, though weather plays a key role how many attend. This year, Ewing said he would like to see 1,000 come.
While each event has some similarities, Ewing said they are bringing back some special presentation that had not been offered in years, such as the Blood on the Prairie and Democracy Run Wild presentations on Monday.
Volunteers from the Holmes Brigade, a non-profit, living history organization which includes reenactors from Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and other states, will participate in the weekend as well.
See the schedule below for details on the weekend events.
10 a.m. – Sick Call: 1840s Medicine
11 a.m. – Flintlock Musket Demonstration
1 p.m. – Guided Tour
2 p.m. – Artillery Demonstration
3 p.m. – Crime and Punishment: Guardhouse Talk
4 p.m. – Flag Retreat
3 p.m. – Post Sutler Talk
10 a.m. – Blood on the Prairie
11 a.m. – Artillery Demonstration
3 p.m. – Democracy Run Wild
Previous PostAttorney to retire after 45 yearsNext PostChamber Coffee held at Conservation District


I had a similar experience while working on a series of paintings I did based on a photo I took of a gal sitting at an outdoor cafe on California's Catalina Island. The series came to symbolize so many things for me – from my love for Catalina Island to my love of trying to read a person's body language. As the series grew however, it became more and more autobiographical – it became a meditation on my life. Through it I was "Looking Back" (the title of the series) on my life and my art. The last painting in the series to date, Shattered, was painted right after my mom passed away and perfectly expressed my feelings at the time.
When I thought about it, I realized that this has happened to me many times. While I may start out with my "content" identified – the story I want to tell in my painting – I often end up in a totally different place with a totally different story. I'm learning that that's a very good thing!
This entry was posted in Creativity and the Creative Process on April 22, 2010 by Donna.


Bigger and harder muscles – all men that exercise want to accomplish the goal. In their quest for perfection, guys are willing to try just about everything in order to optimize their results.
Growth hormone has long been recognized for its ability to maximize gains. As we age, the growth hormone production slows down and eventually, it stops altogether.
Two supplementation options are possible. One involves the use of synthetic HGH. The second focuses on trying a natural growth hormone releaser like GenF20 Plus (please check full video review here).
Synthetic HGH is a product that's made in a lab and that has properties identical to the ones of the growth hormone produced in the human body.
Synthetic growth hormone is used to address medical conditions like growth failure in kids and a growth hormone deficiency.
After a couple of celebrities announced that they're using synthetic HGH to improve their physical shape, the popularity of the injections has increased among bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts.
Such products should be used under medical supervision because the body is getting a large quantity of a hormone that it hasn't produced. This is the main reason why people taking synthetic HGH are subjecting themselves to the risk of side effects.
GenF20 Plus is a product classified as a growth hormone releaser. It's based on natural substances and plant extracts that affect the functioning of the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland plays an important role in the production of hormones like HGH and testosterone.
The GenF20 Plus formula relies on a wide array of substances like l-arginine, l-glutamine, astragalus root extract, deer antler velvet, GABA, colostrum, phosphatidyl choline, GTF chromium and l-ornithine.
Clinical research proves the effectiveness of several of these substances when it comes to enhancing the body's muscle building and regeneration capabilities.
GenF20 Plus is a product that has a completely natural formula. As such, it doesn't cause complications and side effects. People that don't want to accept the risks stemming from the use of synthetic HGH should definitely opt for the possibility.
Fitness is probably very important to you but when choosing supplementation options, think about your health. It's possible to experience the benefits of growth hormone without opting for synthetic HGH.
Products like GenF20 Plus give you this opportunity without jeopardizing your wellbeing.


Indulge yourself in a luxurious getaway experiencing some of the best locations in Sri Lanka whilst cleansing your body of stress and filling it with inner peace and relaxation with our 'well-being' tour – a 15 day wellness tour around the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.
Begin your vacation with a transfer to Kurunegala and experience the historic cities of Dambulla and Kurunegala, visit the magnificent Sigiriya Rock Fortress and be awed by its hand painted frescos of maidens and engineering as well as murals and statues at the Dambulla Cave Temple, one of the oldest temples in Sri Lanka.
Next visit a monastery and watch the Buddhist way of life and be transformed by the still calmness of life. Afterwards visit the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy to learn about the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and observe the beautiful architectural edifice worshipped by millions around the world. Afterwards treat your mind, body and soul with a tranquil stay at Santani, a global award winner wellness hotel.
Make your way to Nuwara Eliya, the Little England of Sri Lanka, and enjoy its misty mountains – especially amongst the Ahaspokuna Bushwalk Camp and indulge yourself to some special yoga, meditation and ayurvedic massages without ever leaving the campsite! End the last leg of your wellbeing tour catching up on your mandatory 'When in Sri Lanka Tan' before leaving the beautiful pearl of the Indian Ocean.
Day 01 – Arrival and drive to Kurunegala.
Day 02 – Visiting the Na Uyana monastery in Dambulla.
Day 03 – Visit to Sigiriya and Dambulla Cave Temples.
Upon your arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport, you will meet your driver and enjoy a 3-4 hour drive up north up the picturesque roads, passing quaint local villages and countryside shops until you reach Kurunegala. Passing Kurunegala you will driver another 40 km towards Dambulla and reach your day's retreat; The Brook Boutique Hotel and Spa, a small private award winning estate in Melsiripura. Once you have checked into the hotel, enjoy a refreshing shower and settle into your chosen villa. You can take the whole day in your private pool or in the sports room playing a variety of games or even in the library curled up with a book or watching a movie from their 2000+ collection of movies before dinner at the dining hall amidst the palm trees to end your first night in Sri Lanka.
After enjoying a leisurely breakfast at your own pace at the hotel, you will visit the Na Uyana Monastery, a silent retreat hidden amongst the ancient Ironwood tree forest covering more than five thousand acres. You will have the opportunity to experience the calm and peaceful environment enjoyed by the meditating monks. The monastery is believed to date back to the 3rd century BC and is thought to be the first monastery established outside Anuradhapura.
Wake up refreshed and well rested! Today, you will be heading to Sigiriya in the morning after breakfast to visit the magnificent Lion Rock Fortress with a guidebook in hand and our driver who will be assisting you throughout the ascent and descent of the rock. Sigiriya is a premium eco-tourism destination is Sri Lanka and is a designated UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 1982. It was also proposed to be named as the 8th wonder of the world as it was thought to be in the same league as the Grand Canyon or the Ancient Pyramids of Giza. Sigiriya, is famous for its frescos that were hand painted with earth pigments and it's amazing water mechanic system that have left engineers in awe even today! After visiting Sigiriya, your next stop is at the Dambulla Cave Temples that holds an impressive 150 murals of Lord Buddha, 157 statues including a 47 foot long statue of the recumbent Buddha. This site too is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as well as a sacred pilgrimage site and is the best well preserved cave temple in Sri Lanka. Apart from having a deeply religious background, the cave also provides a beautiful view over the countryside as the cave is located 150 meters above ground level.
Having packed and enjoyed your final breakfast at Brook Boutique, you will be on your way to Kandy to visit the famous Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, another UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple is famously known for having the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha, kept in a gold casket stored in the inner chamber under tight security and is an important religious location for Buddhists all over the world. The impressive temple complex is made up of numerous buildings and decorated with paintings and carvings of Lord Buddha. Afterwards you will proceed to your hotel, Santani Wellness Resort and Spa to enjoy a luxurious escape surrounded by the pristine greenery of the central highlands of Sri Lanka.
You will begin your days at the spa, with a wholesome breakfast and have the option to indulge yourself in a retreat or treatment of choice at Santani Wellness Resort and Spa or go around Kandy and discover people and places in the ancient city.
Santani Wellness Resort and Spa offers numerous wellness packages for those who wish to indulge themselves in some 'me time' and is also well suited to support anyone who has undergone any emotional or physical trauma and post-operative patients who wish to regain a healthy and balanced life. The resort also offers a fully customized programs for post-operative patients, personalized dosha Ayurveda programs for those with specific health conditions, a detox program to rid your body of toxins and prevention of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cardiac issues etc. Santani is centered around creating a healthy lifestyle and this is the perfect wellness retreat for those who want to rid their body of stress and toxins!
Should you wish to explore the city of Kandy, we have a multitude of activities or people you can meet.
You can meet Professor Jacques Soulie, a French turned Sri Lankan who is the Director of Alliance Françoise in Kandy. He is a psychiatrist by profession, has worked in the University of Peradeniya as a visiting French lecturer and has been based in Sri Lanka for several years now. He has been a great contributor to the Franco-Sri Lankan relations and has been a catalyst for several arts and literary events that have taken place in Kandy over the years.
You also have the opportunity to meet Vipula Wanigasekera, who has been a spiritual study veteran for 3 decades to learn about the true nature of life. After having gone through many masters, many years of study and meditation, he decided to publish his book 'Pointers to Enlightenment' after he realized the seeker is illusory whilst most humans are caught up in a mind-driven life. He is now a senior lecturer at a government owned university and was a marketing professional and a diplomat and senior government official previously.
Visit the Peradeniya Botanical Garden that is 6 kilometers away from the center of Kandy which was once reserved exclusively for the Kandyan royalty. Today, the stunning 60 hectare large garden holds a fine collection of orchids and spices, whilst the avenue of royal palms, cannonball fruit tree and Burma bamboo are the highlights of the garden.
And finally, you can also visit the Udawatta Kele Sanctuary, a 104 hectare birder's paradise with a plethora of bird species. It has now become home to species such as the Layard's parakeet, yellow fronted barbet and the nocturnal brown fish owl. Apart from birds, the forest is also home to other animals including the toque macaque, wild boar, fishing cat and water monitor lizard as well as to around 460 plant species that are important for botanists and researchers.
After breakfast, you will be leaving for the heart of the Tea Country; Nuwara Eliya. The town was once colonized by the British who introduced tea plantation due to it being located 1890 meters above sea level and offers a more cooler climate than other regions, making Ceylon tea undoubtedly the best tea in the world. Because of the colonial history of this town, it's called Little England. Nuwara Eliya is also famous for horse racing and boasts of an impressive golf course. When driving down the picturesque hills, you will see the colorfully dressed tea-pickers dressed in their colorful saris and cane bags behind their backs and stop to visit a tea plantation to watch the tea manufacturing process before checking into your hotel.
You will be staying at Amaya Langdale Spa, a unique resort in the hills of Nuwara Eliya. It offers services to put your mind, body and soul into a relaxing tranquility with their signature treatments starting from head down to your feet which will lure the stress, stiffness and tension away from your body to rejuvenate and revive you.
You can chose to have a packed breakfast and have it on your way to trek the Horton Plains, a national park reserve filled with beautiful landscapes of rolling hills, forests and grasslands. This is the highest plateau in the island that spans approximately 10,000 hectares, hosts unique vegetation and is home to 24 species of mammals including elk, deer, giant squirrel, wild boar, wild hare, porcupine and leopard as well as 87 rare and 14 endemic birds. The most impressive physical feature of Horton Plains is the escarpment which falls 880 meters to the lowlands which is aptly named 'World's End' with fabulous views of tea estates below all the way to the distant southern coastline.
Or should you wish to take a more laid back approach to spending your day, you can opt to play a round of golf on the famous Nuwara Eliya Golf Club or catch a boat ride on Lake Gregory, either of which you could do after lunch at Amaya Langdale.
After breakfast at Amaya Langdale, you will be transferred to one of Eco Team's prime accommodations; Ahaspokuna Bushwalk Camps Prepare yourself a small trek by foot, but don't worry about your luggage! We will have it carried for you. Ahaspokuna is nestled in the hill-country, only accessible by foot and provides a unique experience for those willing to explore the local wilderness experience an exclusive bush walk and wilderness living experience with our finest local hospitality. Mother nature around Ahaspokuna is a mosaic of habitats – wide grasslands, caves used by elephants who visit for salt, an eclectic variety of plans and herbs – some of which are of medicinal value, streams, hidden waterfalls and a plethora of mammals and birds.
The serene calm and quiet surrounding our camp will set you in the mood for a relaxing session of yoga any time of the day. Should you want to practice some yoga, we can certainly arrange an experienced instructor for you to learn and experience yoga at the facility during your stay. It doesn't matter if you are a yoga pro or a newbie, here for a short stay or a long stay – we tailor make our programs to give you the best holiday experience in Sri Lanka.
Similar to yoga, we are also happy to arrange a well experienced instructor for you to learn and experience meditation in the facility during your stay. The sessions will be followed by discussions with your instructor about the mindful Buddhist way of life. These sessions can also be combined with yoga too.
To make your stay even better, we can arrange an Ayurveda session at Ahaspokuna too – preferably after a relaxing yoga and meditation session. The Sri Lankan practice of Ayurveda is very different to our neighboring country – with over 5000 years of empirical research by various practitioners, they have helped refine Ayurveda messages into a sublime fort of art that combines the skilled knowledge of the body with knowledge of oils, music and bodywork techniques and kept this a local secret. This therapy takes account of your whole being and lifestyle and is a completely holistic approach for harmonized change to improve your health and wellbeing.
Accommodation at Ahaspokuna includes meals, drinks and treks. For a two night stay, you are entitled to have 3 to 4 walks. However, should you wish to stay back at the camp and indulge yourself in some relaxing 'me time' – we can certainly make that dream come true!
Wake up and start your day with some refreshing yoga, instructed by our trainer Amice – an internationally trained teacher who has completed her training at 'Blooming Lotus Yoga' and is fluent in English, Dutch, German and conversant in French. This multicultural lady has grown up, lived and worked in many countries, but her heart was captured by Sri Lanka and she found her true home here. She teaches predominantly Hatha Yoga as well as Yin and Restorative Yoga. Part of her practice and teaching are meditation, pranayama and mantras. After a chilled yoga practice, enjoy lunch and then take an afternoon guided bush walk safari and finally end your day with dinner and an overnight stay at Ahaspokuna Bush Walk Camp.
After breakfast at Ahaspokuna, you will be driven to Udawalawe with a quick stop to enjoy lunch and an afternoon safari at the Udawalawe National Park. The park is located in the boundary of Sri Lanka's wet and dry zones and is one of the best places in the world to see wild elephants as it has over 400 elephants residing within an area of 31,000 hectares. In addition to this main attraction, the park is also home to many water buffaloes, water monitor lizards, sambar deer and monkeys. The bird enthusiasts will also have their own winged paradise to enjoy with a variety and large quantity of bird species in the park. After visiting the park, you will be taken to our own Mahoora Tented Safari Camp to enjoy dinner and spend your night.
After breakfast at the Mahoora camp, enjoy an early morning safari at the Udawalawe National Park. Thereafter, you will be driven to the small beach town of Unawatuna, a picturesque palm lined beach with turquoise waters in a semicircular bay that stretches for no less than one kilometer. End your night with dinner and an overnight stay at Coco Bay in Unawatuna.
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel and spend the rest of the day getting some much needed sun, sand and of course sea in Unawatuna! End the day with a special evening to celebrate your last night in Sri Lanka with dinner and an overnight stay at Coco Bay in Unawatuna.
Based on the time of your flight, we will make sure you reach the airport in time to catch your flight back home after a relaxing vacation in Sri Lanka.


I have been doing some housekeeping on my tree. Things like finding new hits and filling in spaces that are blank. When I find an empty date or other information I research again.
I was working on my father (Thomas Dowd) side and I noticed that one of my grandmothers (Gertrude O'Rourke Dowd Graham) step daughters had no information except her year of birth. My grandmother had told me about them, who they had married and children...but, she never mentioned Rose.
Gertrude's first husband (my grandfather) had died in 1921; leaving her with two small boys. She moved back with her family and helped at home and did some house cleaning. I do not know when, where or how she met Peter Patrick Graham but they got married 8 May 1929, in St. Coleman RC Church in Turtle Creek, PA.
I was updating and I saw Rose C Graham born in 1911. I checked the 1920 census and did a search but could not find anything other than that census. I saw Rose on the census and she was 9 years old and not attending school. Buy the 1930 census the other siblings were living with my grandmother, Catherine, Dorothy, William and Clara Louise. I thought Rose probably married, but no records, no Family Trees no Social Security Index either.
Rose had been institutionalized at Polk State School in Venango County PA. It was a school for people with intellectual disabilities. There was no information of relatives but the place of burial was listed as Allegheny County PA. That is where she had been born and lived. Her date of death was 14 January 1928 and burial was 18 January 1928.
Her mother, Catherine Burke had died in 1925 and I am thinking that the husband could not take care of her and her siblings would have been too small, so she was admitted to Polk School. I will see if I can find some records, but in Pennsylvania I know those records are sealed.
Now I must search for where she is buried.


text:
La Casa Enric Cera és una obra historicista de Barcelona inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
La Casa Enric Cera està ubicada a l'illa del districte de Gràcia delimitada pels carrers Verdi, Perla, Torrijos i Or. Es tracta d'un edifici, projectat com a residència unifamiliar, que disposa de dues façanes exteriors afrontades al carrer Torrijos i Or. L'accés principal és per aquest carrer.

L'edifici es configura amb un cos principal exterior en forma de L, seguint l'orientació dels carrers, complementat per un cos rectangular interior i un pati tancat que originàriament deuria tenir sortida al carrer Torrijos.

L'estructura en alçat del cos exterior comprèn semisoterrani, tres plantes pis i coberta d'un sol aiguavés. Els angles que donen al carrer Torrijos presenten dues torres miradors amb una planta més, coronades per sengles pinacles piramidals recoberts per escates de pissarra.

La façana encarada al carrer Or no respon a un eix axial, disposa d'una torre mirador a la cantonada i el portal d'accés desplaçat vers la mitgera. La façana del carrer Torrijos és de composició simètrica i flanquejada per dos torres miradors, un dels quals és la torre de la façana al carrer Or. Les plantes són de gran alçada i estan diferenciades per impostes en les línies dels forjats.

El parament del sòcol és de pedra natural amb obertures rectangulars tancades per reixes de ferro forjat. La resta es caracteritza per un revestiment estucat on es dibuixa un fals carreuat. La decoració general de les obertures és de formes goticitzants molt poc estrictes i protegides per ampits de pedra artificial foradada. Les persianes són de llibret de fusta i les baranes dels balcons amb voladís són de ferro forjat. La darrera planta disposa d'una galeria d'arcs rebaixats. L'edifici està coronat per una potent ràfec on, a les mènsules que el suporten, apareixen grotescs caps humans i animals.

Referències

Enllaços externs

Patrimoni monumental de Gràcia
Edificis historicistes de Barcelona
Edificis de Gràcia

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Obituary for Edward William Waters, Sr. | Jolley Memorial Chapel, P. A.
Dover – Edward (Ed) William Waters, formerly of Berlin, MD, died Friday, August 24, 2018 at Kent General Hospital – Bay Health in Dover, DE.
Born in Snow Hill, MD, he was the son of the late Catherine Waters and Rodney Hudson.
He was formerly employed as a police officer with the Mt. Vernon Police Department; former cook with Castle In the Sand in Ocean City and formerly owned and operated E.& J Lawn Service in Berlin, MD. He was also employed in construction and mechanical services and with the Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover as an attendant.
He attended a local church in Dover, DE.
He was a member of Lincoln Lodge # 53, F&AM, PHA in Berlin, MD.
His survivors include his wife of 33 years: Jerdeane Waters of Berlin, MD; children: Anthony (Teresa) Smith of Killeen, TX, Timothy (Jimmie) Smith of Laurel, DE, Edward (Kathy) Waters, Jr. of Louisville, KY, Monique Waters of Charleston, S.C., Kem (Cynthia) Waters, Tykhruma Waters, and Marcus Foreman, all of Salisbury, MD; Ericka Brown of Georgia, Edward Fountain, of Mt. Vernon, NY, Stephen (Maria) Waters of Florida; a host of grand and great-grandchildren; one sister: Queen Dennis of Salisbury, MD; two sisters-in-law: Grace Gray of Salisbury, MD and Mildred Handy of Frankford, DE and a host of nieces and nephews, other relatives, extended family and friends.
Two brothers, Sylvester Hudson and Robert Waters preceded him in death.
A funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m., Saturday, September 1, 2018 at New Collins AME Church in Snow Hill, MD where friends may view one hour prior to service. Interment will be private.


Reading Well Books on Prescription for Dementia is a national scheme which helps people to manage their well-being through self-help reading. The scheme is endorsed by health professionals and supported by public libraries.
The list of 25 books has been put together by dementia healthcare experts, people with dementia and carer groups. The books chosen provide support and advice for people with dementia and their carers. Health professionals will be able to use the list to prescribe books to their patients and the titles will be available for anyone to borrow free-of-charge from their public library.
Further details of the scheme can be found on the Reading Agency website.
Each library has a collection of Books on Prescription for Dementia and these books can be reserved for FREE.
Becoming a member of LiveWire Libraries is easy, just visit any LiveWire Library or join online. No ID is needed.


Many times, when adding content to your site, you will copy and paste text from another program like Microsoft Word or Outlook. When copying content from these programs into the WordPress visual editor, it will usually include unnecessary code that you can't see unless you look at the HTML editor. This extra code will cause conflicts and styling issues so WordPress includes a simple way to paste in text from any program.
Copy the text you wish to use.
In the WordPress editor, select either of these buttons: .
Paste your content into the window and then click "Insert".


My name is Gene Meade and I am a trail and ultra runner from North Carolina. I am also a fitness instructor and Vice President of the North Carolina Road Runners Club. I enjoy being outdoors, and in addition to running ultra races, I enjoy cycling, hiking and mountain biking. In 2012, I competed in a Marathon, five 50K races, one 100K race, a 212 mile relay race and two 24 hour running events. Now, my 2013 goal is to run two one hundred mile races. I am running my first 100 miler in April.
I first got into running and cycling in the mid 80's and then took a break in the mid 90's to raise three daughters. I came back in 2008 and have not stopped since!
Being fair skinned, sun protection is very important to me. I also lost my brother-in-law to melanoma in 2009, which was a huge wake up call. Many of the clients I work with in the gym are focused on their bodies with regard to fitness and nutrition, but pay little attention to sun protection. I am looking to change that!


text:
Food/Drinks/ Tobacco
Petroleum/Natural Gas
CEE can both benefit and contribute to Industry 4.0
Siemens Bulgaria is part of Siemens AG – a world leader in the manufacturing of innovative products, technologies and solutions in the fields of electrification, automation and digitalization. The company is a leading supplier of combined cycle turbines for power generation, a major provider of power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. Siemens is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT.
In Bulgaria the company has been present for more than 135 years. Today Siemens Bulgaria has nearly 500 employees. The company's aim is to improve the quality of life and provide products and services that move the world forward.
Dr. Ing. Boryana Manolova, CEO, Siemens Bulgaria
In recent years Industry 4.0 is on everybody's lips. What exactly does it mean?
The term Industry 4.0 was presented to the public for the first time in 2011 at the Hanover Messe, the largest industrial fair in Germany. It summarizes the vision of the German government for the future of manufacturing, when the pervasive networking of people, products, and machines will create a completely new production environment, reaping huge benefits in the form of improved quality, lower costs, increased efficiency and customizability.
The idea of Industry 4.0 is focused on smart products, smart procedures and smart production. In this vision, the worlds of real and virtual manufacturing merge in order to ensure a long-term defendable competitive position.
In intelligent factories of the future, machines, raw materials, and products are connected through the "Internet of Things". Factories are largely able to control and optimize production, while their products communicate with one another and with production systems with the ultimate goal to run production processes as smoothly and efficiently as possible and detect any potential failures. Independently operating computer programs monitor every single step, creating a networked, flexible, and dynamically self-organizing manufacturing process for highly customizable products. That is the vision for the Fourth Industrial Revolution shared by Siemens AG as part of its mission to trailblaze the future of industry.
What determines the current speed of penetration of digitalization in production processes, which forms the basis of Industry 4.0?
Industry 4.0 concept merges classic industrial processes with the evolutionary changes brought by the modern information technologies in order to answer the customers' needs of improved flexibility and decreased time to market along with reduced energy and resource consumption.
Even now, the industries are more and more impacted by the software solutions and the penetration of Internet, changing the whole value creation process. The components, tools, machines, and conveyor systems in today's advanced, automated factories are already equipped with sensors and communication systems that share and analyze a huge amount of data every single second in order to manufacture mass-produced products quickly, flexibly and efficiently. Over the next 15 to 20 years, this process is expected to further expand and gain speed all over the world, driven by the increased need of digitalization and automatization of production. The result will significantly change the paradigm of manufacturing as we know it.
How is Siemens pioneering these developments?
Long before the term of Industry 4.0 was presented to the public, Siemens had laid the groundwork for the digitalization of industries. The introduction of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) in the mid-90s enabled companies to coordinate the components of their production processes and closely integrate their software and hardware. In 2007 Siemens introduced a comprehensive portfolio of PLM (product lifecycle management) software products, aimed to optimize the whole process of product development. The design, prototype development, and simulation take place in the virtual world so that development times as well as potential costs can be greatly reduced.
Siemens PLM software was successfully used by NASA throughout the complete design, testing and development of the latest Mars Rover – "Curiosity". PLM software NASA engineers engineers to virtually test and assemble all of the rover's components and simulate how "Curiosity" would operate on the Red Planet in the most realistic way.
Similarly, the Formula 1 car of the world champion Sebastian Vettel was also modified using Siemens software in order to meet new racing requirements of the automotive association FIA. The advanced features of PLM portfolio enabled engineers of the Infiniti Red Bull racing team to design and virtually test new components in record time, just at the click of a mouse.
The Mars rover and the race car were manufactured only once — a batch size of one. They are nonetheless indicators of a global trend toward making products increasingly specific and in line with the customer's individual wishes by simulating real-life production environments. Siemens makes a point by using these cutting-edge technologies in its own factories. A harbinger of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is already humming away in the small Bavarian city of Amberg. The Amberg Electronics Plant is a trend-setting example of Siemens' Digital Enterprise Platform — a production environment that could become standard ten years from now. Here, products already communicate with production machines, and IT systems control and optimize all processes to ensure the lowest possible defect rate. Their product codes tell production machines what requirements they have and which production steps must be taken next. This networked production environment marks the first leap toward the emergence of Industry 4.0.
How can Central and Eastern Europe fit into this vision?
Unfortunately, we have to admit that our region is often lagging behind in terms of technological innovation. But although at the moment the prospect seems quite remote, Central and Eastern Europe can not remain outside the global processes of digitalization and networking of technologies.
At the global level there are still challenges to overcome before the vision of Industry 4.0 becomes a reality. The currently emerging requirements for cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things are very difficult to be realized with today's technical data infrastructures . Many barriers must be eliminated in terms of the inconsistent data silos, significant differences between various industries and the reflection of their characteristics in the software platforms, missing standards and openness. Tools and communication structures need to be availed that permit the digital company to fuse with the real one or at least to interact as fully as possible.
Despite years of investments and research by Siemens and other leading IT companies in this direction, the necessary technological preconditions for Industry 4.0 cannot be created ad-hoc or with the efforts of a single company or even a country. It could only become a reality step-by-step, with the consistent contributions of the manufacturers, researchers and users. And the technology companies in CEE can both benefit and contribute to the future of manufacturing.


A great deal of people claim, that Puffy Mattress is without a doubt, one of the most comfy mattresses out there. They compare it to enjoy sleeping on a cloud. Also, clients suffering from back pain, say that they feel relief with Puffy's Adaptive Flexible Cloud Technology. Together with Puffy, you get both a 101 nighttime sleep trial, along with a lifetime warranty.
Incredible mattress to your wealth. Very top quality mattress. It does take two days before your Puffy Mattress is sent; since the mattress is made to purchase.
Puffy's top layer is CertiPUR-US Certified, also is manufactured from Cooling Cloud Relief Foam. The Cooling Cloud Relief foam layer is responsible for making you feel like you're sleeping on a cloud. The base layer is comprised of a Firm Core Support Foam, which can be Certified.
Another fantastic mattress option, is the ever popular DreamCloud mattress. Possessing a premium latex coat that is natural, DreamCloud supplies shape that is additional, and a bounce.
Some highlights of the mattress aside from the tufting are stitched grips along the side, a cost of $ 1,199 for a queen size and flax yarns and cashmere mix. To get all these features you may expect to spend north of $5,000.
DreamCloud is a luxury hybrid mattress, offering an whole year sleep trial; versus the normal 100 night trial. New pocket coil technologies permits the production price to be cheaper, and the savings are passed directly to the customer.
The milder side of this mattress is made up of 3 inches of aluminum infused memory foam. It is a 3.5pound density, and can be an extremely comfortable layer. This is a layer of memory foam, and it is a soft fabric that will permit the sleeper.
Nest Bedding really holds the award for the the Top Rated and Best Ranked new online. They thrive off of the client satisfaction. They provide a lifetime warranty, along with a lifetime comfort guarantee.
Nest Bedding comes in a number of different firmness options. Almost too many. They consist of a latex, 2 memory foam and 3 hybrid choices in their lineup. To be certain, you can get the mattress that's the best choice for you.Therefore it isn't important if you're thicker, lighter, sleep on your side, or you deal with chronic pain. Nest may match your preferences.
The Nature's Sleep mattress differs from several mattress makers available on the market, since it's made using 4 layers of foam. All these four layers provide a hand in helping support more heavy people. Additionally, it helps out by diminishing movement transfer.
Mattresses are created with toxin-free materials and are certified with GreenGuard Gold status to guarantee every mattress is comfortable to sleep and secure for the wellbeing.
Plushbeds are latex mattresses, in which they only use organic, natural substances. Plushbeds have a total of three mattress versions in their lineup: Every mattress includes a total of 6 different firmness levels. In the King and Cal King you can split the firmness levels.
Made by Saatva, the Loom & Leaf mattress, is a memory foam mattress, that competes with luxury brands, such as TEMPUR-Pedic Loom & Leaf is one of very few online memory foam mattresses that is not compacted and sent in a box.
Loom & Leaf uses a gel chilled, convoluted high density memory foam as it is top layer. It is supported with a base layer comprised of high density polyfoam. This adds up to a very supportive, pressure-relieving feel.
Nectar is possibly the most popular and hottest mattress available at the time of this writing. It comfort does not leave you disappointed. The support of Nectar is fantastic, and it does not have sinkage.
Saatva is an eco-conscious company that uses environmentally friendly materials throughout their mattress. As a option that was green, Saatva has also cornered the market with White Glove delivery that was complimentary establishing themselves as among those pre-eminent, direct-to-consumer luxury mattresses.
The 2 biggest aspects when looking to get a new mattress, is relaxation and also support. There are a few things that should take place when you lie . You desire the sinkage and shape to be appropriate, for proper spine alignment.
You want a mattress to correctly support your body, as you sleep at night. It's essential to have appropriate alignment from top to bottom as possible sleep.
This is necessary to guarantee you're reducing your back and neck pain, and to make certain that you obtain a healthy rest. While being supportive of the human body, a mattress has to provide stress relief.
The pressure points on your body are what is in control of you thrashing through the day. Memory foam mattresses have earned their way by being comfortable, but as equally supportive.
That is along the same lines, as when we talk about comfort and support. The same as a mattress should not be too challenging, it should also never be too soft.A mattress should be as neutral as it could be, to ensure both your spine and body stay in a neutral position.
The stress variables will irritate, which makes nerves, in addition to the blood.
This can be a sign of a mattress that's too stiff if you discover that a great deal of the times you wake up, with the sensation of getting pins and needles in our bodies. And if your mattress is too soft, this can create a effect like a hammock.
You can wind up with back pain, due to your backbone not being aligned when this happens. This is the reason it's imperative to find. You want your mattress soft at the correct areas, without being too soft.
One of the very typically overlooked features of a mattress is this material's temperature or breathability neutrality. Probably the attribute of memory foam mattresses today, is their ability to have the ability. Irregardless, foam mattresses which have diminished layers are known to cause what is called"the toaster result".
A mattress grabs your fever,forcing one to rest too hot. |What happens at a nutshell, is that a mattress absorbs your body heat; inducing you to sleep hot} Most mattress firms utilize modern technologies, to create exceptional materials.
It is not a big surprise, so that if you're in the market for a top excellent mattress, it usually includes a wonderful cost tag.It's a big investment to make, so once you buy one, it is vital to locate a mattress that will surely last you for ages.
It is crucial to discover a mattress that has been constructed, in mind using a very long period.


Purchase fresh, large, organic carrots when using them for their medicinal benefits. Store carrots in the refrigerator and wash them with a vegetable brush instead of peeling. Because the largest concentration of vitamins and minerals live near the surface of the carrots, you loose the healing benefits when you strip off the peel.
Juice 4 or 5 large carrots and drink each day on an empty stomach. Taking carrot juice internally ensures that your body gets a vitamin and mineral packed drink every day, and in just a few short weeks you should see amazing results, including a reduction of acne outbreaks and faster healing of scars.
Mix just enough carrot juice with 1 tsp. of sea salt and massage the paste into areas affected by acne and acne scars. Use gentle, circular motions as to not damage the skin, and then leave the paste on the skin until it dries. Rinse with warm water and pat dry. This acne scar treatment is gentle enough to be used daily, and will help to remove the top layer of scarred tissue while promoting the growth of new, healthy skin.
Dab pure carrot juice onto pimples after thoroughly washing your face. The carrot juice will help to speed healing of the pimple and prevent scars before they form. Always use fresh carrot juice and leave for as long as possible before rinsing.


Sister Concepta's SECRET Sugar Cookie Recipe!
Wow! We asked you to share Sister Concepta's video on Facebook 50 times so she would unveil her SECRET sugar cookie recipe and we got a huge response! As promised, here is the recipe. Let us know if you bake them! Share photos of the cookies, please!
Cream margarine , sugars, and oil and eggs, beat well, add vanilla, flour and dry ingredients.
Chill dough. Roll into small balls, press with bottom of a glass which has been oiled and dipped into sugar.
Bake 10-12 Min. at 350̊.
By the way, do you know anyone who might make a great Catholic sister? Do you know how to talk with your daughter, niece, coworker, or friend about a religious vocation? Do you know the signs that someone might be a great candidate for religious life? Answers to those questions, and a free discernment journal at Finding Your Way. Check it out!


The Department of Statistics offers the 12-credit online Graduate Certificate in Statistics Education. The program is designed to provide convenient online access to the statistical training that is oftentimes required for career advancement. The application process is very simple, and a certificate will be earned by successful completion of the four courses listed below with an average GPA of at least 3.0. Note that the GRE is not required to apply.
The NC State University Graduate School, which oversees the graduate certificate application process, has its own admissions criteria but the Department of Statistics Online Graduate Program has specific admissions requirements as well.
After submitting your Graduate Application for the Statistics Education certificate, you may check the status of your application at any time. International students must include complete transcripts, a degree statement and TOEFL or IELTS scores. Applicants should have a minimum 3.0 grade point average. The GRE is not required, but we ask you to upload the scores if you have taken it.
In this certificate program, students will learn statistical concepts and methods and pedagogical techniques for teaching these statistical topics at the college or high school level. The emphasis of the program is on the effective use of modern technology for teaching statistics. The courses required for this graduate certificate are listed below.
The emphasis of the program is on the effective use of modern technology for teaching statistics.
12 credit hours are required for this certificate.
The new online Mathematics Graduate Certificate Program is aimed at current teachers at the high school or community college-level and will provide academic credentials in Pure or Applied Mathematics.
Ernie Knowles has been teaching oceanography at NC State for more than 40 years. The veteran, father and once former competitive skier explains how he learned to love science and teaching.


Queen Elizabeth I of England is found in three operas by Donizetti: Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Maria Stuarda (1834) and Roberto Devereux (1837) and indirectly also in Anna Bolena (1830), since Anna was Elizabeth's mother. Il castello di Kenilworth is rarely performed. A search on Operabase for the period 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2016 yielded no hits, but there exist a couple of recordings. The other three are quite frequently seen and Roberto Devereux was/is played during the same period in more than a dozen opera houses. Though the operas are based on historical sources the stories are even so far from in accordance with the truth. In Roberto Devereux, for instance, the Queen abdicates in favour of her cousin James. In real life he didn't follow her on the throne until after her death.
Act I scene 1: Queen Elizabeth is in love with Robert, Earl of Essex, who has been recalled from Ireland to be brought to court for high treason. Elizabeth doubts his fidelity, since she has concluded that he has a relation with Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, and asks him to return the ring she gave him. In scene 2 Essex visits Sara in her home, jealous of her husband, throws the ring he got from Elizabeth and gets a blue scarf from Sara.
Act II: Essex is sentenced to death and his only chance to escape is that the Queen interferes, which is unlikely, since Sara's scarf was found on him when he was arrested. Also the Duke of Nottingham recognizes the scarf.
Act III: In a letter Essex pleads to Sara to return the ring to the queen to save his life but the Duke sees the letter and prevents her from visiting the queen. When Sara finally rushes into the queen's chambers it is too late. A cannon shot announces that Essex is already dead.
For these tidings Donizetti wrote a score filled with remarkable music. The four central characters, Elizabeth, Roberto and the Duke and Duchess of Nottingham, all have arias and ensembles of the highest order. Even though the opera is named after the leading male character it is the Queen who has the lion's share of the music, and it is indeed a gigantic role which requires high-octane singing and a tessitura that is dangerously high-lying. Beverly Sills stated that the role took ten years off her career. The phenomenal Mariella Devia on the present recording has all the high notes and all the required power to manage the role, but after a career of more than forty years her voice has adopted a vibrato and a shrillness that becomes unattractive to listen to. She improves but the basic characteristics remain and she sings most of the time at forte. Still I can't help admiring her stamina.
Also Sonia Ganassi as Sara, the Duchess of Nottingham, is on this occasion rather shaky and shrill, although she has her good moments and interpretative insights. The men fare a little better and Stefan Pop turns in a rather brilliant reading of the title role, though I would have liked some more lyrical singing in his beautiful aria Come uno spirto angelico in the third act. Mansoo Kim is a worthy Duke of Nottingham. The choral and orchestral forces of Teatro Carlo Felice do a good job under Francesco Lanzillotta, who opens the proceedings with the overture that Donizetti wrote in 1838 for a production in Paris. There he paraphrases God Save the Queen. Recorded live there are generous helpings of applause and ovations. Honestly those audience responses don't correspond to my experience of the performance, as mediated through my loudspeakers. I much prefer the ten-year-old Naxos recording from Bergamo, also live, where Dimitra Theodossiu and Massimiliano Pisapia as Elizabeth and Roberto Devereux are in a different league from the singers here. I can admire Mariella Devia for her wholehearted intensity, but for a more solid performance go for the Naxos.


I regret to inform you that I am resigning from my position as a Floating Board Member at TheLab.ms, effective immediately.
Eight months ago, I was honored and surprised to be elected to my position on the board by a popular vote of the membership of TheLab.ms. I had planned to privately deliver this letter to the Board of Directors, but the board didn't elect me. I believe the people that elected me to this position deserve an explanation as to why I am leaving my post. You deserve an explanation for why I am letting you down.
Shortly after the start of the term, our Treasurer informed us that the organization was losing money, and losing money fast—we were told that our monthly income was barely more than half of what we required to pay for TheLab.ms's operating expenses. This came as a surprise, because the previous Board of Directors had been telling everyone that the organization was right around the break-even point.
The dire financial news rallied leadership and membership at TheLab.ms, but that mobilization petered out during the holiday season. That's when members of leadership began tendering their resignations: first the Treasurer, then the Education Coordinator, and eventually even our President. Each of these resignations increased the workload of the remaining members of leadership—a group of people that were already stretched extremely thin. It doesn't help that the organization has had an absent Chief Technology Officer for the past six or seven months.
It feels like it is time to move on. The volunteer pool at TheLab.ms is getting smaller, and the work required to save the organization is growing. The work I've been putting in doesn't seem to be making a big enough difference to justify my continued efforts.
I'd like to continue to contribute to TheLab.ms, but I won't be putting in the sort of time you're all used to. I will no longer be attending "Weekly Video Game Night." I've been hosting or co-hosting six or more public events every single month for the past five months, and I don't have the time or energy to continue.
I may have been foolish, but I wanted to lead by example. Why should I expect anyone to do something that I'm not willing to do myself? We haven't found a better way to recruit new members into our community than hosting public events. I've been asking members of leadership and members of TheLab.ms to host events for years. I hoped they would follow my lead, but not many have. Not nearly enough.
At this time, TheLab.ms isn't the makerspace that I hoped it could be. I hoped that after two or three years of work, we'd finally be in a position to start acquiring tools and equipment that someone like myself wouldn't be able to have at home. We've had the laser cutter for almost a year now, and I thought it would be the first of many such pieces of equipment.
Unfortunately, we are struggling to keep the lights on. It will be a long time before we would be able to afford any equipment that I'd be interested in using. Much longer than I'm willing to wait, and getting to that point will require an investment of much more time and effort than I'm willing to provide.
I sincerely hope that everything goes well for TheLab.ms in the future, and I wish the next leadership team the best of luck in saving this sinking ship!


If you want a firm and shapely body resistance training is the answer. Here's personal trainer Nicola Glanville's introduction to resistance training exercise.
Firstly let's get rid of some of the mystique surrounding resistance training. Even the name sounds technical! 'Resistance Training' is another name for exercising your muscles using an opposing force i.e. dumb bells or resistance bands.
In the old days it used to be called 'Weight Training', but this phrase invoked images of huge sweaty men with bulging biceps and wasn't very popular with women. So the language has changed but the activity remains the same.
Resistance training, toning and weight training are one and the same activity; they require the use of resistance to increase muscle size and strength. The most well known equipment used for Resistance Training is 'weights', or more specifically dumb bells or barbells.
During resistance training exercise muscle fibres are broken down and in the days following the work-out the fibres repair and grow stronger to meet the demands that have been placed on it. Therefore rest days are as important as the exercise itself.
Resistance Training can be used to achieve a variety of beneficial results and most individuals would benefit from 1 – 3 resistance workouts a week in conjunction with regular aerobic exercise. Assuming that the majority of readers aren't competing in any body building events in the near future I will concentrate on the more functional benefits of resistance training.
Firm, sculpted muscles are the highly sought after aim of men and women alike. Visible muscle tone is not only a sign of health and fitness; it has become recognised as an attractive attribute that we associate with the wealth and success of the rich and famous. Increased muscle tone is best achieved by completing a combination of resistance and aerobic workouts.
More advanced resistance training programmes that include performing exercises with increased momentum will improve muscle power. i.e. for throwing a netball or kicking a football or swinging a golf club.
Muscle tissue is metabolically active and the more of it you have the more calories you will burn - even at rest! Making losing and maintaining a healthy weight much easier.
Regularly participating in resistance based exercise helps to maintain peak bone mass and avoid the onset of osteoporosis.
From the age of 30, bone mass starts to decline. Women have a greater risk of developing osteoporosis and from the age of 40 can expect to lose approximately 0.5 – 1% of their bone mass per year. Post menopause this increases to a 2% reduction in bone density per year. Resistance Training can help to maintain bone density and delay this degenerative process.
Possibly the most important thing to get started with resistance training is building your motivation to exercise. A one-off session here and there of any activity isn't going to do a lot of good.
So choose a plan that is accessible and easy to follow, without requiring a huge time commitment. Our personal trainer's Home Workout Plan is a great place to start.
Warm up with 10 minutes of cardiovascular exercise such as walking, jogging, cycling or skipping - gradually increasing in intensity.
For the most effective total body workouts, include exercises that work all of the major muscle groups i.e. legs, back, chest, shoulders arms and core.
A workout should be balanced so that opposite muscle groups get worked equally i.e. back and chest, quadriceps and hamstrings (the muscles in the front and back of the upper leg). If you neglect a muscle group whilst working the opposite muscle group you risk causing muscular imbalances within the body that could lead to postural problems or injury.
Start your program with exercises that work groups of muscles. i.e. the medicine ball squat works the core and the legs. The legs consist of many muscles: hamstrings, quadriceps, calves, glutes (bum muscles) etc. This type of exercise is called a compound exercise because it works many muscles.
Plan to complete exercises that only work one muscle at the end of the programme i.e. the Bicep Curl.
Warm down with another 10 minutes of cardiovascular activity slowly increasing in intensity.
To get the most out of your resistance program it is important to ensure that you are working out at the right intensity. Check out the guide below to work out how many sets and repetitions of each exercise you should be completing to achieve your aim.
Repetitions (reps): one complete movement of a certain exercise.
Sets: A number of reps performed in sequence, without a rest.
This means that you should complete 15 bicep curls, rest for 30 seconds then complete another 15 bicep curls.
If you want more muscle definition then this is the level that you should be working at.
If you need to improve your strength for short bursts of heavy activity then these are the exercise ranges that you should be adhering to. Maybe your job involves some heavy lifting.
As a guide, you are using the correct weight if the last rep is so tough that you can only just complete it without losing your technique. If you know that you could do another 5 more then the weight is too light! Conversely, if you have to use momentum to get through the set then the weight is too heavy.
As a general rule try to exercise in time with your breathing i.e. with the Shoulder Press breathe out as you lift the weights and breathe in as you lower them. If you can't lift the weights without holding your breath then they are too heavy.
If you want to achieve results it is imperative that you challenge yourself. As your body adapts to meet the challenge that you set for yourself the exercises will get easier. This is the time to change something. If you remain in your comfort zone with the same work-out for months on end you will not get results.
Below is a list of variables that you could alter to ensure you're your body is getting the most out of your resistance workouts.
Note: Only change 1 variable at a time.
Sets: Increase the number of sets that you are completing to the top end for your aim.
Rest period: Decrease the rest period in between sets to the lower end for your aim.
Weight: Increase the resistance with heavier weights.
Routine: Instead of completing one exercise at a time, why not try a circuit? Complete one set of each exercise then start at the beginning with the first exercise and complete the second set of each exercise.
Below is a list of types of equipment and exercises that you can try to kick-start your resistance programme. Technique is everything, so take your time, persevere and the results will follow.
You can track your training, with the Weight Loss Resources exercise diary and database. You can see how many calories you burn and how many you consume. Try it free for 24 hours.


text:
Gällstads församling var en församling i Göteborgs stift och i Ulricehamns kommun. Församlingen uppgick 2002 i Gällstad och Södra Säms församling.

Administrativ historik
Församlingen har medeltida ursprung.

Församlingen var till 2002 moderförsamling i pastoratet Gällstad, (Södra) Säm, Grönahög, Tvärred, Marbäck och Finnekumla med undantag av tiden mellan 1 maj 1921 och 1962 då församlingen var moderförsamling i pastoratet Gällstad, Södra Säm och Grönahög. Församlingen uppgick 2002 i Gällstad och Södra Säms församling.

Kyrkor
Gällstads kyrka

Se även
Gällstads socken

Källor

Historiska församlingar i Göteborgs stift
Indelningar i Ulricehamns kommun