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On Mental Health: Why we need to talk more, not less.
I was really surprised by the number of comments I saw saying that we need to stop talking about mental health. It occurred to me that most people do not understand what stigma is.
After my own experience with Postpartum Anxiety and Depression after the birth of my daughter, I became an advocate for Maternal Mental Health.
Recently it was International Men's Day, and many people used it as an opportunity to discuss men's mental health and mental health awareness on social media.


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Q: Serialization and archiving object I need to do the same operation but in one stream. May you help me, please?
public static byte[] archivingAndSerialization(Object object){

  ByteArrayOutputStream serializationByteArray = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  ByteArrayOutputStream archvingByteArray = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  try {

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     byteStream.writeObject(object);
     ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(archvingByteArray);
     out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry("str"));
     out.write(serializationByteArray.toByteArray());
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A: Try
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream oos= new ObjectOutputStream(new DeflatingOutputStream(baos));
oos.writeObject(object);
oos.close();
return baos.toByteArray();

Note: Unless the object is medium to large in size, compressing it will make it bigger, as it add a header. ;)
To deserialize
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(
    new InflatorInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)));
return ois.readObject();

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A two-ton 84-inch telescope mirror, manufactured for the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tuscon, Arizona, USA, was recently completed at the New York Corning Glass Works.
Background: A two-ton 84-inch telescope mirror, manufactured for the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tuscon, Arizona, USA, was recently completed at the New York Corning Glass Works.
The giant lens was taken from a sealed oven where it had spent seven months following melt-down. Nine pieces of glass, one weighing 2,976 lbs were sagged under intense heat to form the 13-inch thick disc. A centre core, 26 inches in diameter, enables a man to crawl through for check-ups. After a detailed inspection, the mirror was packed in a specially-built, felt-lined crate for its rail journey across country to Arizona.
At Arizona City it was taken to an optical firm for final grinding and polishing. A process taking two years before the lens can be finally mounted on the telescope. Another year of precision finishing will follow.
The telescope mirror will be used by the Observatory to photograph light from stars billions of light years away.
It is the fourth largest telescope mirror produced in America, and the largest made in the past 25 years.


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Greetings truth lovers and welcome to our first study in Galatians. Again, we are sticking with our focus on justification and the book of Galatians is a perfect book to top off our study after finishing Romans. From here we will be going to the book of Ephesians, and hopefully a focus on sanctification moving forward. This ministry has focused mostly on justification in our first ten years, but we are really looking forward to a sanctification focus starting with the book of Ephesians.
It's not my custom to do a lot of geographical and historical background study unless it is absolutely necessary for some understanding in a given book, and the case with Galatians follows; what is being said is pretty clear as stated.
The best I can tell from what background study I have done on this book, Paul is writing this letter from where he wrote Romans, and around the same time. So, this letter is probably written from Macedonia which was a spiritual stronghold for Paul. Note that the letter is not only from Paul himself, but "all of the brothers who are with me." And in most cases the letters address everyone in the assemblies. Biblical truth was never dissected according to some theoretical ability to understand or an authoritative strata.
This is because the assemblies were and are bodies, not top-down hierarchies. Assemblies are bodies with various members defined by gifts, and working together cooperatively. The bond of unity is working together for the "one mind of Christ" (1Cor 2:16, Phil 2:2) as each is convinced in their own minds and aided by those who are apt to teach, or in other words, have an extraordinary (extra ordinary) gift for teaching. Such should be recognized as elders, but this is a gift and not an office of authority. It is leadership as opposed to authority. Again, where there is authority, leadership is completely unnecessary. Even the gift of apostleship was a leadership position. Note here that Paul uses persuasion throughout the letter rather than declaring some sort of divine edict.
Nevertheless, Paul emphasizes his validity as an apostle. Why does this matter? Because the New Covenant was predicated on the "apostles' doctrine." We are going to take some time this morning to drive some deep stakes with no apologies to anyone. DOCTRINE matters. The one mind of Christ is articulated in the apostles' doctrine. This ministry does not go for the "Jesus is a person not a precept" mumbo jumbo. Our unity derives from being individually persuaded about the apostles' doctrine.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (KJV).
This was the total mindset of the "1st century 'church.'" With all of the talk about getting back to the glories of the "1st century 'church,'" this will not happen unless recognition of the apostles' doctrine is taken seriously. Agreement on that as each is persuaded in their own mind (the mind of Christ given to every born again believer) is key to unity and life more abundantly. It centers on a mutual love for THE truth, not A truth.
Hence, Paul begins by validating his apostleship.
Before we get into that, a couple of other mentions. The letter is to the assemblies (not churches) located in Galatia, that's in the plural, and this would have been assemblies meeting in private homes. Secondly, another stake we will drive here totally without apologies is on a Trinity. What's the Trinity all about? Well, excuse us, but so far this ministry has been busy carrying all of the water on justifcation by new birth, so, we aren't there yet on a developed position on the Trinity. Yet, we see it here. God didn't raise Himself from the grave, He raised Jesus from the grave according to The Promise. What is The Promise? It is the heart of the gospel; it was a promise to Christ and Abraham that Christ would be raised from the dead and thereby establish the baptism of the Spirit which baptizes Jew and Gentile into one body.
Is the Trinity "logical"? Are you talking about the concept of three being one, or the relationship between the three members? At John's baptism was God really talking to Himself and calling Himself the Son while being the Father? Which answer is the most illogical?
This is an aside, but a good place to mention it because of the claim that the Bible contradicts itself in regard to the Trinity. Justification is both simple and very complex. In regard to the complexity of justification; once you understand it and see its consistency from the beginning of the Bible till the end, you know that the Bible is clearly validated as being true in regard to one way of salvation and godly living. The idea that the law is ended in regard to us being judged because Jesus ended the law through the new birth is pretty simple. Being able to use the law to love without any fear of condemnation is pretty simple, but as we will see here in Galatians justifcation can be very complex as well. The consistency of Scripture in that complexity is what validates it.
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
So, even in Paul's initial greeting we have a bunch of gospel theology and doctrine that he unpacks as we go along. One emphasis is Paul's validation as an apostle apart from the credentials of men. How do we receive our gifts and salvation apart from men, and how are we to apply our new life apart from man's authority?
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. 19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. 20 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!) 21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22 And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 23 They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." 24 And they glorified God because of me.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— 5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. 6 And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 9 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
This is the big picture of Galatians in a nutshell: Jewish academia and all of its supposed authority was intimidating the Gentiles to come under its authority. We need to stop right here and define what Paul means by a justifcation through law. Obviously, the big tradition that was in the law is circumcision, and the Jewish academics were making this a condition of salvation. Circumcision, and other traditions, were posed as acts that justified the individual. This is little different from the idea that we are justified by the act of water baptism. Hence, when Paul speaks of a justification by law he is talking about stuff in the law that justifies in regard to the mere ritualistic act.
True Jews know that no man is justified by the law.
Paul, as a former Jewish academic beyond those who were disrupting the Galatians rejected their gospel.
Paul was convinced of the truth through his own independent study apart from the authority of men, and what he had been doing for fifteen years was confirmed by those who matter.
Nevertheless, if he or anyone else preaches a contrary gospel, let them be accursed.
The uncircumcised were not required by the Jerusalem counsel to be circumcised.
Paul rebuked Peter publicly for compromising the gospel in regard to other Jewish traditions as well.
To accept the contrary gospel is to reject the powerful and miraculous experience that came with the mystery of the gospel.
Even true Jews know that justification is not by the law.
Paul's own experience makes no sense if the contrary gospel is true.
Now, with all of that said, Paul moves to the doctrinal or theological argument, or if you will, Scriptural argument beginning with what justifcation by the law really is: antinomianism. In justifcation by the law, as we will see, there are initial salvific acts that initiate salvation, in this case, circumcision, and other traditions that maintain salvation like what we eat and the recognition of days. What does this end up being? A dumbing down of the true spirit of the law that circumvents love.
Look, when you take a shortcut and obey a few rituals in order to get to heaven, the hard work of love goes by the wayside. Also, your primary concern is maintaining a handful of rituals to make sure you get in and stay in. Love is a nice gesture, but it doesn't get you into heaven. Taking a little bit of the law for justifcation as a shortcut to heaven circumvents the true spirit of the law. Instead of being informed by the law as to how to die to the law so you can live for God, you attempt to find life in the law for justification through the recognition of a handful of ritualistic traditions of men.
Of course, this isn't what Paul is saying at all. The "I" that died with Christ is the former man who is no longer under the law so Christ has no need to obey it for us. This is a thumbnail of what Paul had taught the Galatians in-depth about the new birth. It can be seen in Romans 7.
Or do you not know, brothers —for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
This is how justifcation by new birth frees us to obey the law aggressively in love without fear of condemnation. The typical church interpretation of this passage indicts it as a modern day example of law justifcation. It's salvation by church membership, and the maintaining of it by being faithful to church ritual/tradition. This leads to a relaxing of the law for love purposes and explains every nuance of what church looks like in our day. It's antinomianism resulting from a twisted interpretation of justifcation apart from the law. It is not a gospel that ends the law for righteousness, but makes perfect law-keeping the standard for justifcation instead of the new birth. Hence, the believer is still legally married to the first spouse and is under law. There is no freedom to serve Christ with love as defined by the law.
Next week, we will delve into this truth further.


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Young duo sign professional terms
Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Stefan O'Connor have signed professional terms with the club.
Pacey winger Maitland-Niles has progressed through the club's academy system, having joined Arsenal aged nine. Croydon-born central defender O'Connor is also a product of Hale End.
The pair, both 17, helped the Gunners' under-18s to the last four of the FA Youth Cup last season, as well as being mainstays of the under-19s side that reached the UEFA Youth League quarter-finals in 2013/14.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles signs his first contract
Both players have also established themselves in the club's under-21s over the past two seasons. Maitland-Niles has featured in all six second string matches so far this term, scoring once, with O'Connor making five appearances.
Everyone at Arsenal would like to congratulate Ainsley and Stefan on their first professional contracts and looks forward to their continued progression with the club.
Stefan O'Connor signs his first contract

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Say hello to the future of Caribbean food in New York. This is Sharada Winston, a student at The Art Institute and the winner of yesterday's Caribbean Cook-Off in DUMBO. Six culinary students, the finalists of a city-wide competition, presented dishes to three judges (from the Food Network, Nia Online, and Restaurant Business Magazine. When Winston's dish, "Escoveitch Jumbo Shrimp", won first place (and an internship at Walkerswood Caribbean Foods in Jamaica), she burst into tears, Miss America style. We loved her and her super-hot shrimp. Congratulations!


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Callisto Network
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What is Callisto Network (CLO)?
Callisto Network is a public blockchain platform that is scalable, secure and provides smart contract technology. The Callisto Network team is focused on solving the scalability issues of the Ethereum network by implementing an innovative scaling solution called the WebAssembly (WASM) protocol. In addition, Callisto Network will also provide a new standard for smart contract security called the Smart Contract Security Audit Standard (SCSAS). The SCSAS will help to ensure that all Callisto Network smart contracts are audited and secure before they are deployed on the network.
Callisto Network (CLO) Chart
Currency Chart show Callisto (CLO) Price today.
Who Are the Founders Callisto Network (CLO)?
The Callisto Network team is led by co-founders, Dylan5500 and Lordmancer2. Both co-founders are experienced developers in the cryptocurrency space with a history of working on projects such as the Ethereum Foundation, EOSIO, BitShares, and Steemit. The team also has a number of other experienced developers, designers, and marketers who are all working together to build the Callisto Network.
Callisto Network (CLO) Live Price.
Callisto Network (CLO) price today is $0.021701 with a 24-hour trading volume of $2,764,868. CLO price is up 4.1% in the last 24 hours. Callisto Network all-time high is $0.078765 This ATH was reached on May 5, 2018.
Callisto Network (CLO)
$ 10.16 M
3.25 B CLO
What Is the Roadmap for Callisto Network (CLO)?
The Callisto Network roadmap is divided into three phases: Phase 1 is focused on building the core infrastructure of the network. Phase 2 is focused on scaling the network to support more users and transactions. Phase 3 is focused on adding new features and applications to the network.
The first phase of the Callisto Network roadmap was completed in Q1 2018 and included the launch of the mainnet, wallets, explorer, and faucet. The second phase of the roadmap is currently underway and includes the implementation of the WebAssembly protocol and the launch of the Callisto Security Audit Standard. The third phase of the roadmap will begin in Q4 2018 and will include the launch of new features and applications on the network.
What Are Some Major Partnerships for Callisto Network (CLO)?
The Callisto Network team has partnered with a number of major organizations in the cryptocurrency space. Some of these partnerships include the Ethereum Foundation, EOSIO, BitShares, and Steemit. These partnerships are helping to advance the adoption of the Callisto Network by providing access to a wider audience of users and developers.
What Is Callisto Network (CLO) Mining?
Callisto Network (CLO) mining is the process of verifying transactions on the Callisto Network and earning rewards for doing so. Callisto Network uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm, which means that miners need to solve complex mathematical problems in order to verify transactions on the network. Miners who successfully verify transactions are rewarded with CLO tokens.
What Is the Callisto Network (CLO) Blockchain?
The Callisto Network blockchain is a public, decentralized ledger that stores all of the data and transactions that take place on the network. The Callisto Network blockchain is powered by the native CLO token and uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm.
What Is the Callisto Network (CLO) Wallet?
The Callisto Network wallet is a software application that allows users to store, send, and receive CLO tokens.


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One lucky (and rich) person can buy a gold-plated PlayStation 5
By Alex Perry January 2, 2021
The PlayStation 5 has been notoriously hard to get since its November 2020 launch, but a Russian luxury company just jacked it up to the highest difficulty level.
Caviar, a company perhaps best known for selling extremely expensive gold iPhones, is giving the PS5 its usual treatment. The new and very rare "Golden Rock" PS5 brings a rocky textured custom plating to the PS5's exterior. An important thing to consider here is that the faceplates don't just look like gold — they're actually made up of about 20kg of 18 karat gold.
Caviar launches 18K gold & crocodile skin customized PS5 called "Golden Rock"#PS5 pic.twitter.com/aHcJtmPCig
— HIC Tech (@ChoHic) December 28, 2020
Caviar's website doesn't publicly list a price. Instead, it asks you to provide contact information so someone can hit you up about it later in case you're actually interested in owning this thing. (A single kilo of 18K gold seems to go for around $45,000 right now, in case you were wondering.) Whatever the Golden Rock PS5 costs, it's going to be way too much for the average person.
If you're one of the many folks who have struck out when trying to get ahold of a regular PS5, at least be happy you're not trying to get the Golden Rock model. Caviar's website says the company will produce one single, solitary unit.
Now, refreshing broken store pages in the hopes of maybe spending $500 doesn't sound so bad.
Topics: Tech, Tech, Consumer Tech, Big-tech-companies, Big Tech Companies, Playstation 5, Caviar, Ps5
Emirate's latest attraction Sky Views Dubai promises itinerary full of adrenaline rush
Located in Downtown Dubai, Address Sky View opened its doors to the public in November, offering its patrons a three-part attraction.


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§ 404.447. Evaluation of factors involved in substantial services test.
(1) Forty-five hours or less in a month devoted to trade or business. Where the individual establishes that the time devoted to his trades and businesses during a calendar month was not more than 45 hours, the individual's services in that month are not considered substantial unless other factors (see paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) make such a finding unreasonable. For example, an individual who worked only 15 hours in a month might nevertheless be found to have rendered substantial services if he was managing a sizable business or engaging in a highly skilled occupation. However, the services of less than 15 hours rendered in all trades and businesses during a calendar month are not substantial.
(2) More than 45 hours in a month devoted to trades and businesses. Where an individual devotes more than 45 hours to all trades and businesses during a calendar month, it will be found that the individual's services are substantial unless it is established that the individual could reasonably be considered retired in the month and, therefore, that such services were not, in fact, substantial.
(b) Nature of services rendered. Consideration is also given to the nature of the services rendered by the individual in any case where a finding that the individual was retired would be unreasonable if based on time alone (see paragraph (a) of this section). The more highly skilled and valuable his services in self-employment are, the more likely the individual rendering such services could not reasonably be considered retired. The performance of services regularly also tends to show that the individual has not retired. Services are considered in relation to the technical and management needs of the business in which they are rendered. Thus, skilled services of a managerial or technical nature may be so important to the conduct of a sizable business that such services would be substantial even though the time required to render the services is considerably less than 45 hours.
(c) Comparison of services rendered before and after retirement. Where consideration of the amount of time devoted to a trade or business (see paragraph (a) of this section) and the nature of services rendered (see paragraph (b) of this section) is not sufficient to establish whether an individual's services were substantial, consideration is given to the extent and nature of the services rendered by the individual before his retirement, as compared with the services performed during the period in question. A significant reduction in the amount or importance of services rendered in the business tends to show that the individual is retired; absence of such reduction tends to show that the individual is not retired.
(d) Setting in which services performed. Where consideration of the factors described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this section is not sufficient to establish that an individual's services in self-employment were or were not substantial, all other factors are considered. The presence or absence of a capable manager, the kind and size of the business, the amount of capital invested and whether the business is seasonal, as well as any other pertinent factors, are considered in determining whether the individual's services are such that he can reasonably be considered retired.


It is long past trendy; it is in full motion. Adventure tourism is leaving more money in local destinations than ever before.
"We've become a destination, and it's an indicator we're doing something right." said Dan Reese, a Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner's Council on Greenways and Trails board member. "When people are trying to put a pin on a map, they want recreation opportunities, low cost of living, affordable housing and a good school system – a prime example of why someone would want to come here. We're looking to expand the number and types of trails across the state, and right now we're working on connecting areas, such as Johnson City to Unicoi, and building networks of trails on blueway (navigable bodies of water).
About 1,100 people migrated to Washington County last year, topping nine nearby counties, according to the 2016 National Association of Counties American Community Survey. That's double Sullivan County's total and far and above Carter and Unicoi counties.
Population is a big deal because a consumer-driven economy and a declining population means fewer people have to spend more to sustain sales tax collections – the primary revenue stream for local schools and governments.
Governmental moves being made locally show support for and belief in expanding adventure tourism for economic benefit.
On Monday, Washington County Commissioners amended this year's roughly $171,000 payment to the Washington County Economic Development Council. Commissioners agreed instead to divide that annual contribution and give the WEDC $57,000 and the newly formed Northeast Tennessee Regional Economic Partnership about $114,000.
The new group's mission statement includes its goal of recruiting business and industry, but the three-county (Washington, Carter, Unicoi) organization also is focusing much more on outdoor offerings.
"Attracting and retaining people in our community is a function of several things: Good jobs, great schools and an outstanding quality of life to name a few," said Johnson City Vice Mayor Jenny Brock. "The Tweetsie Trail has certainly established itself as a quality of life activity. It has shown us how a safe, beautiful trail corridor between Johnson City and Elizabethton has motivated thousands of our citizens and visitors to use each week for exercise and enjoy the health benefits it brings.
There also are "motorized users," Reese said.


Why should you want to profit from my experiences?
I tossed them in the pyre to roast and boil. I don't need to visit that place again. The pain and blisters do no good, so why shouldn't I just face the wall and slam my head up on it. That might be safer than reliving life's tribulations. Why do I write this side by side stuff anyway? To put my pain and pleasure on the page, to sway you to my politics of dancing and feeding birds who attack me for my bread? Would you like some bread? I enjoy garlic bread but then no one wants to talk to me and your black tee keeps sprouting chest hairs in my peripheral. Why do I keep powdering my look for when we meet again; clinging naked to my assumptions. And you walked right past me tonight without even saying hello. Oh wait. That was me. I left before you had the chance. I didn't want your conversation interrupted by my presence, or my sweetness interrupted by your sour. That wall you leaned on turned to face me. I'm leaving now to move backwards, sideways, and return to this loop of never ending whatevers.
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A Japanese Odyssey | Much Japan. Such cultural experience. Many language learning. Wow.
Much Japan. Such cultural experience. Many language learning. Wow.
I don't spend that much time thinking about Japanese. It's just my life, you know? But I have my moments. Lately i've been having a lot of them, with the start of the new semester.
it turns out that some scholarships require Chinese/Korean students to have over 170points on their N1, whereas other foreigners only need 100 to qualify.
When I got here, no one ever asked me about my score on N1 for admission. It wasn't a problem that I was self-taught. It wasn't a problem that my application was full of mistakes and my conversation skills were non-existent, it was deemed sufficient. Apparently, that was only the case for me, as Chinese students go through rigorous examination and unless they are very fluent, have high scores on their N1, and tutors are asked to keep an eye out for their real level. Not being from a Japanese language background nad not having exchange experience is reason to not get accepted.
I haven't studied Japanese since I got here, but my Chinese friends have.
Chinese colleagues who were at the same level as me when we got admitted have improved tremendously because of this, whereas my Japanese is still kind of shite.
I am never expected to write or speak perfectly. My asian friends are.
I get many compliments and positive feedback formy Japanese. my asian friends don't.
My kouhai (Chinese) had one mistake on her N1 and is mad about not having a perfect score, so she is taking it again. She has been living here for less than 6 months and speaks perfectly. I will probably never be at her level. yet, she wants to improve. I haven't thought about the N1 since I passed it.
I was talking to a friend about maybe studying kanji together, since we are in the same situation (living here for years, functionally fluent, in Japanese language PhDs, can't write for shite.) We are now trying hard to study together, and maybe take a low level kanken this year. We are not even thinking about aiming past level 2, and are currently barely passing practice tests for level 5.
When I write things down at baito, I am getting icnreasingly self-conscious when I use hiragana for common words because I never practice writing.
I have been praising my kohai's to butter them up to my advisor, and mentioned that I barely passed the N1. My senpai turned to me and smilingly said だろう?This was 5 years ago before I moved here, don't be a prick. But they believe that.
In my head, I am still the self-taught beginner who barely passed the N1, even though obviously I have improved tremendously since.
So yeah, I have been thinking about it. It's weird how Chinese learners are thrown under the bus like this, even though the ones who 'easily' pass the exams are those who spent 4-10 years vigorously studying the language, went to top programmes, invested money in exchange programmes and so on. And yet non-east asians are thrown every bone for the least effort. Maybe that's why we never really improve.
I'm thinking of taking te N1 this year to see where I am at now. I won't study for it, because I want to see. Though it has been many years since I have sat down for a test.
Lately I realised that anki is an app and I have a smartphone now, so I installed it and am doing reps again. it feels weird. I7ve been doing reps in chinese, spanish, german and whatever language I feel like learning for a bit, but Japanese feels so foreign to me now, as a study target. I feel the improvement immediately and wonder why I neglected it for so long. The excuse that you don't see those kanjis is a fraud, you see them and just glance past them. I opened up my old dictionary deck and ran into 3 of those 'low frequency words' in a single day. I wrote down some kanjis in random orders and ran into them the next day. I had to write an e-mail and once again I had a friend native check it cause I am still so insecure about my keigo, even after so many hundreds of keigo e-mails that I have written. I had my friend native check a presentation and, as usual, I had aboutone mistake per sentence. Not bad ones. Fewer than before. But they are still there, in my everyday life, defining how I am seen in the eyes of other.
And what an underwhelming year this has been. Hey, if you've never set any resolutions to begin with, then technically you haven't failed any, yeah?
Will I still be here continuing a comfortable status quo in a country where I am surrounded by amazing people and decent opportunities, or will I be plunged back into the quagmire that is Eastern Europe? Find out via telegram on March 15th!
Will I ever finish writing my dissertation? No one cares because it's shite anyway (But it'll be submitted on time and pass anyway).
Will I ever start learning Japanese again? Probably not (But frankly I've come to terms with the fact that no one will ever really care, and I'm cool with that).
Will I manage to confess to the cute girl in my lab before graduation?
With most of my labmates graduating this April, what will become of the tight-knit group of giggles, skinship, and nihilistic indulgence that has defined my grad school experience?
Will I finally cough up the dough and rent a ridiculously overpriced hakama for my graduation party?
My 2017 resolution is to be a bit less meh about everything. 2016 wasn't even a bad year, it just had the misfortune of following up an amazing 2015 and simply fades in comparison. I did face some fears (lots of talking in front of large groups, bilingually even), have some fun, pet some cats, read some books, what not. I'm sure it was a hell of a great year compared to 2008-2012. I'm just not feeling it for some reason.
Me and Japanese, we've had our ups and downs but we've been pretty smooth. I like talking in Japanese. I have very little problems with it. I'm technically doing grad school in Japanese. I like Japanese-language me, who is so quirky and funny and lighthearted. I can interpret japanese better than I can my own native language. I can give academic presentations in Japanese, and they're full of jokes and the audience loves them. For all intents and purposes I consider myself fluent in the language.
It's time to move on from my grad school, and I have to face the reality that I am not, in fact, fluent.
See, japanese people are very kind when it comes to language. Unlike English speakers they never mock your accent or poor grammar. Unlike portuguese or chinese speakers, they can understand you even if you make mistakes. Unlike the speakers of most languages in the world, they don't mind the fact that you are illiterate, and english words are acceptable substitutes for when you can't be arsed to learn the Japanese one.
I have my Ph.D admission next semester and I have had to come to terms with the fact that my laziness is limiting my opportunities. Every time I see 'admission exam in Japanese', I know that I can't pass it and should look somewhere else. Because I can't handwrite in Japanese, and I sure as hell cannot write a native-like essay in the language. Give me time, a computer and a proofreader and it's not a problem; but most people do not have time, computers, and proofreaders.
Since I moved here I've been relying on the kindess and understanding of others. I've been having to read a lot so I kept on reading translations because I'd get a deeper understanding of the text (and in a shorter amount of time). I've been avoiding handwriting like the plague, stopped studying, and well, stopped trying. It is only now that I treasure my admission sans essay, the fact that I can write reports in English, and the friends I have to help me out. I see some of my non-English speaking colleagues writing their entire dissertation in flawless Japanese, even though my Japanese was better than their 2 years ago. I can see their growth; They can see the lack of mine. Until now I've been jokingly answering 'no way' when my colleagues would ask me 'when are you going to work on your japanese already?'; it's time to reap what I've sown.
There are many tales of questions and remarks that foreigners are sick of hearing from Japanese people, some more audacious or annoying than others. Ranging from somewhat understandable (Your Japanese is so good!) to the somewhat demeaning (you can use chopsticks!) to kind of ignorant (English is your native language right?), there is one question that you hear every Westerner blog complaining or mocking about at some point because of its sheer silliness.
I have to admit, coming from Europe, it was a weird question to hear. Before I came to Japan, a lovely foreigner in Japan blog informed me that Japanese people are taught in schools that 4 seasons are unique to Japan. I've heard countless rants about the topic from other foreigners. And I had to agree, what a silly thing to remark! All countries have 4 seasons.
But wait, no. No they don't. And it is actually a rare instance of Japanese people being culturally sensitive to foreigners. Because you see, a lot of countries don't have 4 seasons. It's us Europeans&North Americans who assume that 4 seasons is the norm. If you ignore China for a moment, you will see that the greatest sources of foreigners in Japan all come from countries that do not have 4 seasons (or if they do, they are considerably lighter differences). Many of them are on the other side of the equator, so the seasons are reversed.
These are just the countries from tropical climate zones of the Earth where all twelve months have mean temperatures above 18.0 °C (64.4 °F). 2 season-climates are still prominent a few degrees south and north of this.
So when a Japanese person is asking if your country has 4 seasons, they are not doing it out of ignorance or because 4 seasons is some ultimate achievement. They are genuinely asking because they know that seasons vary according to geographic location. They're being nice. It's a (not so rare) case of criticism about Japan being ignorant revealing the ignorance of the speaker.
Start of the new year. My 3rd year in Japan, the year I graduate and should start prepping for the next stage. I've been petting fluffy animals all of March to emotionally prepare for this. I can do this.
The sakuras have turned green, a third of my colleagues have dyed their hair black and are walking around in black suits, the word 'thesis' is looming heavily in the air.
New exchange students are walking around in awe at being in Japan, I continue to not know any of them >.> but it's nice to take in the atmosphere from a distance.
Facebook keeps showing me pictures from when I got here, 2 years ago, which leads to some interesting daily introspection about my life.
We got our grades and it turns out that I got a couple of Bs last semester, which was oddly depressing to find out about.
I am still a sloth because my brain refuses to admit that the holiday is over.
I was complaining almost 2 years ago about how much easier it is to connect to foreigners than Japanese people, and while that is still somehow true, I've realised sometime last year that meeting foreigners is incredibly awkward. And the reason is language and the way that I get hung up about it.
If you're in a group with foreigners and foreign-adopted Japanese people (the kind who are conversational+ in English, have almost only foreigner friends, go to bars that are 50%+ foreigners, and have probably lived abroad for 1-15 years), no problem. Talk in English with the occasional other common language and let complaints or comments about Japan take over 90% of your small talk. All is good. I've made many friends that way.
If you're meeting with foreigner friends and it's all foreigners and foreign-adopted Japanese people then again, all is good. It was a bit weird to realise that I celebrate most things twice, once with my English-speaking group and once with my Japanese-speaking group, but hey, double-Christmas celebrations.
But then you're in a normal situation and you see a foreigner, and I don't know about you people, but my social skills disappear.
Sometimes I run into a foreigner in a normal situation (shop clerk, random person who decided to take the same class, whatnot). I never know what to do. Should I English? Should I Japanese? Should I other language? There is this intense silence because I never know what language to use. Usually the other person is in the same situation, unless they're only in Japan for a short while, in which case they save me by starting the conversation in English. Common friends are also a god-send, as they decide the language.
Sometimes they're not native English speakers and frankly I'd have an easier time in another language, but I don't want to offend their English skills. Sometimes I can save myself by explaining that I hate talking in English (which is true). More often, it's just awkward. It's particularly bad if they're fluent in Japanese but want to improve their English/don't realise that they're hard to understand, since I can't escape the situation without either a boring conversation or a faux pas. It's also awkward if they're Asian and I start talking Japanese, and they're flustered since it's probably the 1000th time they've had to explain their lack of skill to someone.
Sometimes I decide to introduce my friends to one another. And to my surprise, it can get super awkward. I'm used to talking to them in a certain language and I'm not good at switching (and this happens to them as well). Or they just talk in English at an otherwise all-Japanese speaking table, despite being fluent in Japanese, since they don't have any friends that talk Japanese to them. It stands out. My Japanese friends get uncomfortable and they switch to English and the conversation quality plummets. Occasionally they just ignore it and stick to Japanese. I become aware of my own Japanese, as now I have someone listening who actually cares about what grammar point I use (note: if the natives aren't correcting someone's grammar, don't take it upon yourself to be a hero and correct their grammar; it kills their self-confidence). If it's the other way around and my Japanese friend does their best in a mostly English speaking environment, it stands out if we keep talking in Japanese to one another, but I don't like pushing people towards English.
Sometimes it's even a problem among foreign friends, since I have people with whom I talk in Spanish, people with whom I talk in Romanian, Brazilian friends who automatically switch to Portuguese when in the same room, etc… and I have a hard time switching. I always feel like a terrible person when I have trouble switching.
Then there's that one other foreigner at the table situation. Everyone else is talking in Japanese so it's only polite to also talk Japanese – I don't want to make them feel excluded. However, it usually becomes obvious that English would facilitate communication. Cue awkwardness.My friend invited me to some gathering the other day, and suddenly I was at the table with 3 Japanese people and a bloke from the US. I stumbled, and gave it a shot in Japanese. He answered back in Japanese. OK. Then it became a bit obvious that he was having some trouble understanding me (foreigners are always harder to understand than natives, this is normal in any language). English would've saved us, but neither of us wanted to be awkward about it. He was fairly quiet. High level, but it was obvious that some vocab would slip by him at times, and he had a thick accent. He'd been living here for 8 years, and it came up that he is going back to the US next month. My friend asked him how come; he looked at me and said that '8 years is a long time'. I was instantly reminded of Ken's post. At some point he had to leave, so he got up and shook my hand, barely waving goodbye to the others. The whole ordeal struck me as kind of depressing, though I couldn't explain exactly why.
Then there's the people who get integrated here and actively begin avoiding foreigners (which it seems that I am guilty of). There's this one other foreign bloke at the concerts I go to. He seems nice. He's definitely been here for longer than I have since he knows everyone there. And, like many other people there, he has definitely noticed me what with being in the same room on a regular basis and all. Some of the Japanese people at concerts start chatting me up, most just ignore me. But with him, we do this incredibly awkward thing where we make sudden eye contact and then look away. One time when crowdsurfing he gave me a boot to the face and as he was getting up to apologise he saw who I was, and we both blushed and looked away like some third-rate anime. Neither of us wants to be that guy who starts chatting up the other foreigner in the room. This is probably the epitome of how socially awkward this can get. Then again, this being me, I wonder if perhaps I just stared at him too long and he just stares back in confusion. One day, I will walk up to him and introduce myself… or maybe I should just start going to other concerts.
I wish there were some sort of universal etiquette for this so that I wouldn't have to keep discovering new things that I am awkward about.
When you decide to get serious about Japanese, you have to learn discipline. Study every day. If only a little bit.
For someone as lazy as me, this was difficult. I had had streaks of trying hard, but never for too long, and they rarely continued past the point of steady progress. Struggling with Japanese has taught me that it doesn't matter if you feel the progress, if you feel the point, if you're any good, if you have problems, if you have talent; what matters is that you keep at it.
You learn to treasure every hint at progress; any reference that you catch, any word that you manage to make out, any random occurrence that you know is a product of your hard work. Even if you don't have cues, learning to work with online resources has allowed me to take solace in the fact that I may not *feel* the progress, but at least I have palpable proof that I have been working. It's great, it really is.


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Home blog A salty subject?
Women make up just 5% of IMM manufacturer boards
'Recyclable' should always have meant 'recyclable'
A salty subject?
I have a guilty pleasure. Crisps. Also known as potato chips, these salty snacks have been a greedy favourite indulgence of mine since I was old enough to grab a handful of Wotsits from a bowl with a chubby hand and stuff them into my fat little face. If you haven't had the pleasure of a cheesy Wotsit because you've never lived in the UK, get yourself to your nearest foreign foods aisle and look in the Great Britain section for these glorious orange puffs and live your best life, which definitely includes licking the powder off your fingers after the contents of the bag have been hoovered up.
At home in Britain we are particularly good at crisps, but I love trying the unusual flavours you can't get here when I travel. Scandinavians love dill flavour, in the Mediterranean you can snack on oregano and paprika flavour, while in the States there's such out-of-this-world options as 'burger van' and pizza flavour. There's literally a whole world of crisps I would like to try.
The problem is, I am acutely aware of the unsustainable journey my empty crisp packets make once I have scoffed their contents and with the roar of the anti-plastics brigade growing ever-louder, I worry that even a love of crisps as fervent as mine cannot reconcile the guilt within me that I am contributing to the world's overflowing landfill.
A campaign pressuring Walkers Crisps (which coincidentally are headquartered in Leicester where I grew up) to be more sustainable in its packaging choices claims there are no crisp brands available in the UK that are plastic-free. Furthermore, in 33 years' time, there will be 200 billion packets of crisp on planet Earth – and I'll wager at couple of thousand of those will be mine.
Crisp packets are made from BOPP, BoPET and polyethylene film which is metallised, making it unrecyclable. The metallic barrier layer is what keeps our crisps from going soggy. If we reverted to paper packets, the ingredients would become exposed to the atmosphere and go off a lot faster than they do currently. This means more food waste, more production and in general a poor deal for the crisp manufacturer's carbon footprint.
Crisp manufacturers are looking into more sustainable packaging. In 2010, Walkers was exploring environmentally-friendly crisp packets using starch waste from the potatoes it processes. Eight years on and these potato starch bags have not yet replaced the polyethylene bags we see in the shops, nevertheless the brand is committed.
"Walkers is working tirelessly to tackle waste challenges, allocating significant resources and attention to this important issue." the Pepsico-owned company says on its website. "We have committed to 100 per cent recyclable, compostable or biodegradable packaging across our product portfolio by 2025, and are collaborating with leaders in this space to bring the latest packaging advances to our products."
Noble words for a company that makes 10 million bags of crisps every day.
So what obstacles does Walkers have to overcome in order to achieve these goals?
Walkers has to make its crisp packaging recyclable, while keeping the barrier properties and ensuring its carbon footprint does not grow. The packaging has to be attractive, it has to function and it has to be inexpensive. Tall order or what?
Why are crisp packets unrecyclable?
Our colleagues at Impact Solutions gave us the industry opinion on this – and look at the hand-wringing posts about crisp packets being unrecyclable and you won't find a recycling expert among any of the interviewees…
Crisp packets weigh next to nothing so in order to bring their volumes up to a usable weight you have to collect a heck of a lot of them. Separating these sorts of volumes from ordinary waste is expensive and will take a lot of time to get them up to quantities of material you can use. This not only takes time, but it uses energy.
Once you have sorted the crisp packets from the general waste and recyclables, you have the metallised film to contend with, which once stripped out reduces the weight of an already miniscule product further.
Next, we have the small matter of food contamination, using more energy and chemicals to cleanse the material of the foodstuffs it has been packaging. The costs of processing plastics that have been used in food-contact applications is considerable but necessary to meet EU regulations, but is the cost justifiable for such little product?
Plastic films such as crisp packets could have an end-market as a recycled plastic as they can be added to plastic wood through affordable reprocessing, because it is a low value-high weight application, but the carbon usage mathematics is stacked against this second life as a viable option.
Impact Solutions believes these types of materials can be given their second life through chemical recycling, but material separation still makes this a less economical option.
Much of the mainstream coverage of the scourge of crisp packaging gives your humble Wotsits packet a fork in the road choice once its delicious contents have been devoured: landfill or litter. But there is a third option.
Wotsits
Wotsits, for the uninitiated.
Waste-to-energy (which sounds a lot nicer than incineration) is a way of reclaiming some of the energy spent in producing the crisp packet. The Clean Tech Guide states that plastics' calorific value per kilo is over 9,000, compared to 5,000-6,000 per Kcal per Kg for coal making it an efficient source of fuel. If waste-to-energy is generating heat and energy thus limiting fossil fuel consumption then surely this is a better than landfill or litter? Particularly when efficient waste-to-energy plants are equipped with filters.
Indeed CEWEP (the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants) revealed that In Germany in 2000, the dioxin emissions from waste-to-energy plants was less than 0.5 g per year, compared to 400 g in 1990.
So until Walkers' 2025 deadline for more sustainable crisp packaging, maybe waste-to-energy is the most efficient way to dispose of crisp packets for now if product integrity and overall carbon expenditure is the aim of the game, as recycling is less feasible?
"[Crisp packets] are food contaminated, so the costs of processing are sky high. All of which makes energy-for-waste a good option," Impact Solutions stated.
It is difficult to know where your crisp packets will end up when you bin them, but if they can be separated for waste-to-energy, this is the ideal outcome. It's down to the authorities to recognise the benefits of separating the materials that cannot be recycled or are hazardous and make the investment in sorting them for waste-to-energy.
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Q: Relative layout android loopable I am writing an app that loads up a row of buttons (2 buttons then a black line underneath) for each file that is found (so loop count will not be static). Currently while building I have a static loop count to 15. But when running the code it creates the bigger button on the left and the black line underneath fine... But... The smaller button on the right only appears once. Any idea why?
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    ScrollView scrollPictures = new ScrollView(this);
    RelativeLayout appLayout = new RelativeLayout(this);
   // appLayout.setClipBounds(null);
    Resources r = getResources();
    ImageView blackLine;

    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams p;
    int id = 1;
    for(int x = 1; x <= 15; x++){
        p = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        Button studentsButton = new Button(this);
        studentsButton.setClipBounds(null);
        studentsButton.setId(id);
        studentsButton.setHeight((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 100, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        studentsButton.setWidth((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 700, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        //studentsButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.LTGRAY);
        if (x > 1 ){
            p.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, id - 1);
            studentsButton.setLayoutParams(p);
        }

        appLayout.addView(studentsButton);
        id ++;

        p = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        Button soundButton = new Button(this);
        soundButton.setClipBounds(null);
        soundButton.setHeight((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 100, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        soundButton.setWidth((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 100, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        //soundButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.LTGRAY);
        p.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, id - 1);
        soundButton.setLayoutParams(p);
        appLayout.addView(soundButton);

        p = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        blackLine = new ImageView(this);
        blackLine.setId(id);
        blackLine.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
        blackLine.setMinimumWidth((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 700, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        blackLine.setMinimumHeight(3);
        blackLine.setMinimumWidth((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 700, r.getDisplayMetrics()));
        blackLine.setClipBounds(null);
        p.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, id - 1);
        blackLine.setLayoutParams(p);
        appLayout.addView(blackLine);
        id++;

    }

    scrollPictures.addView(appLayout);
    setContentView(scrollPictures);

}

A: Honestly, this seems like overkill to do all this in code.  I'd recommend creating a layout file, and inflating that multiple times.  Make appLayout a LinearLayout with vertical orientation, it would be as simple as this:
for(int x = 1; x <= 15; x++){
  View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.some_layout, appLayout, false);

  // Configure the items inside the view

  Button button1 = (Button)view.findViewById(R.id.button1);
  button1.setText("Button 1");
  button1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { ... });

  ...

  appLayout.addView(view);
}

and your layout file would be relatively simple too:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" ...>
  <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" ...>
    <Button android:id="@+id/button1" ... />
    <Button android:id="@+id/button2" ... />
  </LinearLayout>
  <View android:background="@android:color/black"
        android:layout_height="3dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

While laying out elements in code is definitely do-able, it can be a headache to get right.  I find it easier to use XML files, and inflate them as needed like this.  My guess is the way you're using your ids is confusing the layout.  It's probably best to let buttons get their own id (don't use setId), and use the "getId" method when setting your relative layout params.


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Health Factors
Social & Economic Factors
Disconnected Youth*
An Education measure
In the model
Use County Health Rankings' model of health to explore the measures that influence how long and how well we live.
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Percentage of teens and young adults ages 16-19 who are neither working nor in school. The 2022 County Health Rankings used data from 2016-2020 for this measure.
Youth disconnection portrays a dynamic between individuals and the society they live in. Disconnected youth are at an increased risk of violence, smoking, alcohol consumption and marijuana use, and may have emotional deficits and less cognitive and academic skills than their peers who are working and/or in school.[1-5] Approximately 1 in 9 teenagers and young adults in the U.S. is currently referred to as disconnected; not in education, employment, or training.[1] Several studies have shown that disconnected youth have a disproportionate share of related health problems including chronic unemployment, poverty, mental health disorders, criminal behaviors, incarceration, poor health, and early mortality.[6-9]
Find strategies to address Disconnected Youth*
Data and methods
American Community Survey, 5-year estimates
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing. It is a critical element in the Census Bureau's reengineered decennial census program. The ACS collects and produces population and housing information every year instead of every ten years, and publishes both one-year and five-year estimates. The County Health Rankings use American Community Survey data to obtain measures of social and economic factors.
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Key Measure Methods
Disconnected Youth is a percentage
Disconnected Youth is the percentage of teens and young adults ages 16 to 19 who are neither working nor in school.
The method for calculating Disconnected Youth has changed
Beginning with the 2019 Rankings, this measure includes teens and young adults ages 16 to 19 who are neither working nor in school, whereas previously, those ages 16 to 24 were included.
Measure limitations
This measure does not account for the varying levels of risk assumed among disconnected youth. For instance, someone that drops out of high school and is incarcerated is considered just as disconnected as someone that graduated and is taking time off before beginning college.
Numerator
The numerator is the number of people, ages 16-19, who are neither working nor in school.
Denominator
The denominator is the total county population, ages 16-19.
Can This Measure Be Used to Track Progress
This measure can be used to track progress with some caveats. Trends should not be compared between the current data and the data before the 2019 Rankings due to changes in methodology. It is also important to note that the estimate provided by County Health Rankings is a 5-year average.
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Subcounty Area 1
You can find this data stratified by gender and education in table B14005. These tables can be accessed at https://data.census.gov/. For many communities, you can access these same tables at the census tract or census block level.
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Children who spend time with horses have lower levels of stress hormones in their bodies.
High levels of the stress hormone cortisol can cause health problems.
Dr. Patricia Pendry, from Washington State University, said: 'We found that children who had participated in the 12-week program had significantly lower stress hormone levels throughout the day and in the afternoon, compared to children in the waitlisted group.
Researchers hope the finding could help them develop new ways of preventing mental health problems in teenagers.
Researchers hope that the study could be a first step in finding ways to prevent teenagers developing mental health problems.
Previous studies have already found that interacting with dogs, horses and cats can be good for children as it improves their self-esteem.
However, the idea of horses reducing stress in adolescents has never before been studied.
Dr. Pendry said she hopes that horsemanship could be used as a form of therapy for people who have psychological problems.
'We were coming at this from a prevention perspective,' said Dr. Pendry.
'We are especially interested in optimising healthy stress hormone production in young adolescents, because we know from other research that healthy stress hormone patterns may protect against the development of physical and mental health problems.
While the efficacy of equine therapy has been questioned, with critics challenging the field's sparse research studies, another concern has been raised regarding the burgeoning practice of incorporating horses into mental health treatment models — and that is, just how does equine therapy work?
Unlike Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, or DBT, equine therapy cannot always be clearly explained. Yes, we know that a horse is more approachable than another person for clients who suffer from social anxiety, and yes, we know that in general, spending time with animals has been linked to improved measures of mental health.
But these are largely assumptive explanations for why equine therapy may be a helpful, and efficacious form of treatment.
So lets look for a moment at the case of eating disorders where equine therapy has been widely used. Looking first at the National Eating Disorders Association definition of both Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, we see that both disorders are characterized by an "extreme concern with body weight and shape". Looking further into what constitutes this concern about body image, what becomes clear is that a person with an eating disorder has adopted appearance ideals into her internal definition of beauty and self, so much so that there is no room for any other objective definition of the self.
This is what as known as self-objectification.
However, one must also consider the source of this profound body shame. This internalized self destruction was at the hands of other people, whether it be through the media, family, friends, or life partners.
And so to now recover, the ED patient must trust the very hand that dealt her the shame in the first place. And for many who live in the profound hell of an eating disorder this is simply too much.
Enter equine therapy. For a person with ED, a horse does not carry the same potential for shame as does a person, yet at the same type offers the opportunity for a relationship. So while the horse represents an acceptance unlike any other for a person with ED, in order to have a relationship, he makes a few demands.
When the person is not fully present, and the horse moves away, temporarily halting the relationship, the disengagement on the part of the ED patient becomes vivid. This is an important observation for the person with an eating disorder, as often she may disengage so much and so frequently that even she is unaware that she is doing it or of the effect it is having on her relationships. And while the human relationships in an ED's life may be the cause of much of her pain, their avoidance is also a hallmark feature of the disorder.
A group of men from a recovery house in Indianapolis are benefitting from a type of addiction therapy they've never tried before.
There are 11 therapy horses currently helping people at Agape Therapeutic Riding center in rural north central Indiana. The therapeutic benefits or working with animals is well documented in helping reduce stress, but working with horses is different. Equine-assisted therapy for addiction addresses skill development like improving communication, patience, self-confidence and assertiveness.
Agape program director Linda Hazard says for someone in recovery the work starts with stepping out of their comfort zone and taking first steps.
Progress House in Indianapolis has been helping people in recovery for the past 50 years. Dennis Norris recently took over as executive director. He is also an Afghanistan war veteran. When he came home, he worked with horses.
Norris immediately thought this type of program could help some of the residents at Progress House so he reached out to Agape and Hazard to see if they could start with 10 men.
But that's not what happened – all the original men are still with the program. Progress House program manager Rich Stover has been on the staff for three years after being a resident. He was arrested in 2012.
He struck a plea deal and finished a drug recovery program at Progress House. He says his recovery was successful with the help of the people around him.
"The staff and the structure, and the men I lived here with. The unwritten asset here at Progress house is the residents," says Stover.
The lesson is for this group of men — on week seven of the 16-week program at Agape — is teamwork. In the ring, the men are working with Duke and Smarty who have free reign. There's no riding with this type of therapy. Instead, the men are given a task based on the skill they're trying to develop. This week, Hazard has tasked them to move chosen objects, themselves and the horses from one side of the ring to the other without getting washed away in an imaginary river.
Bill Williamson is at Progress House for the third time and says this time working with the horses has really helped him.
"I've learned how to open up a lot more and the ability to use resources that we never thought we had and they're right there in front of us the whole time," Williamson says.
Resources like family, friends, therapy and support groups. Hazard says it can be eye-opening.


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GAZA: Efforts to track communicable diseases in Gaza
GAZA CITY, 27 April 2009 (IRIN) - UN agencies and the health ministry in Gaza are working to strengthen communicable disease surveillance systems in Gaza, in light of the fact that leaking sewage may be contaminating drinking water.
The fragile water and sewage network was damaged during the recent 23-day Israeli offensive in Gaza, increasing public health risks, according to a recent report by the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) cluster, entitled A Brief Outline of the Sewage Infrastructure and Public Health Risks in the Gaza Strip for the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WASH group, led by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), coordinates the humanitarian response by local and international organisations and UN agencies active in the water and sanitation sector in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"WHO is now analyzing if the risk of outbreak of waterborne and food-borne diseases in Gaza is still high," said Mahmoud Daher, WHO officer in Gaza, explaining that the risk was high during the conflict because drinking water was not being properly chlorinated due to movement restrictions.
"During the recent war there was a mixing of drinking water with raw sewage in the Sheikh Ajleen area of Gaza City and in Beit Hanoun after a waste water carrier in Gaza City and a water and waste water carrier in Beit Hanoun were destroyed by Israeli forces during the first week of the war," said Coastal Municipal Water Utility (CMWU) director Monther Shoblak.
CMWU has asked WASH to carry out a comprehensive year-long survey on the underground water in Sheikh Ajleen and Beit Hanoun. WASH is structuring the project, said WASH director Graham Henderson in Gaza.
About 32,000 Palestinians live in Beit Hanoun and about 410,000 in Gaza City.
Two other high risk areas are Khan Younis and Beit Lahiya where the sewage system is leaking, potentially contaminating drinking water, WASH and WHO in Gaza reported.
"The relatively high nitrate level in well water in Gaza may be related to sewage infiltration from waste water treatment plants," said Henderson.
Nitrates are considered a dangerous water pollutant - potentially carcinogenic - according to Shoblak, and most threatening for children under six months old.
"Seventy percent of the drinking water samples tested over the past two years in the health ministry lab have shown nitrate levels higher than WHO standards [50 milligrams of nitrates per litre]," said WHO officer Daher.
New project proposed
WASH is supporting the WHO and Gaza health ministry in preventing major outbreaks of disease, and is proposing an emergency project - estimated at US$1 million - to strengthen and monitor health ministry disease surveillance systems across the Strip, said Henderson, including surveillance by the health clinics and labs that perform testing for the health ministry to diagnose illnesses and measure water quality.
"Food and water monitoring by the health ministry resumed post-conflict, although the system is negatively affected by the long-term border closures and the subsequent lack of necessary materials," said Daher.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza operates a long-standing clinic surveillance system through 20 reporting units at health centres in Gaza, according to WASH.
Fifty-four primary healthcare clinics and 13 hospitals under the health ministry, and 30 primary healthcare clinics and 14 hospitals run by NGOs or privately require a stronger disease surveillance system, say WHO officials in Gaza.
About 80,000 cubic metres of raw sewage is being discharged into the Mediterranean at six main points along Gaza's coast every day, presenting a major health risk to the Gaza population, according to the WASH report.
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