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Video: Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism
By Kamla / Jul 19, 2014 / Comments Off on Video: Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism
Charlie and Lucy Steadman
Ralph Steadman is a well-known artist and illustrator from Britain and a long-time collaborator of American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman did all the illustrations for Thompson's writings, including "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," which first appeared in Rolling Stone magazine.
Thompson is credited with the term Gonzo journalism. Here is a wonderful, in-depth interview with Thompson from The Paris Review. But wait, what about an in-depth interview with Steadman, who captured all that intense, crazy energy of Thompson's writings? That is the gap that Charlie and Lucy Paul's documentary "For No Good Reason" fills in very nicely. The film takes you behind the scenes and into the life of Steadman, a prolific artist and illustrator. You actually get to see how Steadman starts on his painting projects and how that piece of art then takes an organic life of its own. An interesting aspects of the documentary is how Steadman photographs the progress of his paintings with a camera that is mounted on top of the aisle. Ever so often yo9u will see him reach out to the camera and go click and grab a photo of his work in progress. It also shows us a different side of Steadman – his love for gadgets and technology.
In the film we get to see a fairly in-depth side of Steadman and how his unlikely friendship with Thompson developed and how the two worked together. Besides working with Thompson, Steadman has worked on a number of different things, including a project on the legendary and gifted artist Leonordo da Vinci. One of the most interesting aspects of the documentary is how Steadman photographs the progress of his paintings with a camera that he has mounted on top of the aisle. What this does is gives us, the viewer, a sense of how that piece of art took shape. Besides Steadman, we also meet Johnny Depp, who was a good friend of Thompson and has acted in a couple of films based on Thompson's books. They are "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and "Rum Diary."
Here is a teaser from a longer interview we did with Charlie and Lucy Steadman about their documentary "For No Good Reason"that released on July, 2014 in the San Francisco bay area.
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Social media has become a formidable power during the last ten years, and its power must be used for companies to thrive in today's market. The value of a well-planned social media program is not like just about any of the traditional marketing initiatives utilized in the days gone by. Like it or not, social media has huge abilities, so here are 7 social media marketing ideas for your organisation.
The same as anything in business, it's crucial to have a well considered plan well before you begin. Making a note of the targets and aspirations you anticipate to accomplish will offer you a transparent path of where you're going. Your plan needs to be uniform; every post, like, comment, and reply you produce on social media should align with your long-term social media marketing techniques.
Developing a plan not only provides you direction, but it will at the same time help you to avoid costly blunders. If you currently have a social media marketing plan, then conduct consistent analysis to ensure you are implementing your plan correctly. Identifying where you want to go will also keep you on track and give you a clearer idea of how you are presently going.
As social media has developed over the years, so has the tactics and techniques used to best captivate your target market. There is nowadays a shift in the direction of 'visual social media', where pictures are notably more efficient at communicating a message than words.
A research of Facebook 'Likes' found that posts with pictures acquired 47% more likes than written posts. Incorporating a combination of visual media backed up with word reinforcements has the best success rates for audience interaction.
Thus, whenever feasible, utilize visuals to share your message– pictures, images, videos, graphics, info-graphics, slideshows and animations.
Whilst you might prefer one social network to others, your target market is engrossing with each and every of them. To ensure you engage with as many possible users as possible, you need to get your message out over all networks. A few of the big social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Don't forget to additionally use the ideal content for the appropriate social media platform. Images work far better on Instagram and descriptive posts work far better on LinkedIN and Facebook.
Due to the large size of social networks, posts end up being outdated really swiftly. Fashionable posts are dispensed all over the planet pretty much instantaneously, so the older a post becomes, the less practical it will be. A great thought is to have a wide range of variations of the same post so you can manage its performance for even longer. The newer your posts, the more impressions you'll make, and the higher your success rates will be.
Just because your content works successfully on one platform may not mean it will serve every bit as well on all of them. Specific networks are designed for certain content, for example, photos for Instagram and memes for Facebook. Despite the fact that you may want to produce the same message, your posts must be adapted for each platform to make certain you are interacting with all of your target audience personal inclinations.
Tools like HootSuite, Buffer, and Tweetdeck, makes it possible for you to handle a number of key platforms such as GooglePlus, Facebook, and Twitter, simultaneously. They also enable you to add RSS feeds and link tracking. Any kind of social media marketer will discover that it's challenging to constantly be attainable to upload stimulating and well-timed posts, so these tools allow you to arrange posts in the future, lessening time responsibilities and allowing you to prioritise your work.
Although feedback is important for any firm to grow and prosper, having your feedback available for loads of people to check out can be risky. Consumers can point out anything they like about your company or brand, and regardless of whether this may be desirable or damaging, it's essential that you're familiar of what they're saying. The way your business gives attention and engages with your audience is what determines how your online presence is distinguished by them. Overseeing your social media presence is a highly effective tool to get important understanding into your clients, competitors and influences.
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From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl's personal insights with Adam's eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart-and her journal-to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl's loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. "I want Dave," she cried. Her friend replied, "Option A is not available," and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.


Situated in Lamu, Baytil Ajaib was renovated for 11 years in order to restore its original Swahili design. The house is divided into 5 unique and private apartments. Baytil Ajaib house is very cool due to the mixture of materials used in building that provide a natural air-conditioning. The sweet scent in the air and water comes from the frangipani flowers floating on the traditional pools. Not to forget the enchanting roof top views from the secret alcoves, terraces and balconies, providing a good view of the Lamu town and the Lamu archipelago.
Baytil Ajaib has 5 unique and private apartments. The apartments are divided to 2 double apartments and 2 double suites. All apartments and suites have their own private bathrooms. All the rooms are decorated with Swahili furniture and a mixture of African and western art artefacts. They are also well equipped with bed linen, mosquito nets and house towels. The dining room at Baytil Ajaib is on the ground floor and breakfast is served there or in the apartments depending on the customer's choice. With verandas/an open courtyard on each floor this charming house is often frequented by birds and butterflies at different time of the day.


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Leif Jensson (* 13. April 1899; † 18. April 1948) war ein norwegischer Journalist.

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Er wurde von der Kringkastingsselskapet A/S (Die Rundfunkgesellschaft) als erster Radioreporter in Nordland eingesetzt. Seine erste Sendung wurde am 15. Februar 1931 gesendet. Am 1. Juli 1933 wurde Kringkastingsselskapet vom staatlichen Sender NRK übernommen. Leif Jensson war von 1934 bis 1940 und von 1945 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahre 1948 Büroleiter und Redaktionschef in Bodø.

Bemerkenswert ist, dass nach dem Überfall der Wehrmacht auf Norwegen am 9. April 1940 (vgl. Unternehmen Weserübung) die Radiosendungen aus Bodø bis zur Zerstörung der Stadt am 27. Mai 1940 fortgesetzt wurden. In dieser Zeit wurde Jensson für die Verbreitung von Neuigkeiten und Mitteilungen der auf der Flucht befindlichen norwegischen Exilregierung berühmt. Auch sendete er Feiertagsprogramme am 1. und am norwegischen Verfassungstag (17. Mai) 1940. Auf dem Rønvikfjell wurde eine Empfangsstation errichtet, um Kriegsneuigkeiten u. a. aus Schweden und England empfangen zu können.

Im Jahre 1944 veröffentlichte Leif Jensson unter dem Pseudonym Leif Ytteren zwei Bücher: Trollberg. Nordland in Sage und Wirklichkeit sowie das Kinderbuch Krieg und Frieden in der Tostrupstraße.

Aufgrund seiner Pionierstellung und seiner lebhaften Beschreibungen wie auch seiner mutigen Taten während der Besatzung ist Leif Jensson bis heute in Nordnorwegen bekannt. Ihm gewidmet sind eine Straße sowie ein kleiner Park im Westteil Bodøs

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 Radioreportage Jenssons anlässlich der Zerbombung Bodøs vom 27. Mai 1940 (Bodø bombes; 8 Minuten, 43 Sekunden)
 Eloge von Thorstein Diesen auf Leif Jensson vom 18. April 1948
 Fotos von Leif Jensson im DigitaltMuseum

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An estimation method of the nuclear level density stochastically based on nuclear shell-model calculations is introduced. In order to count the number of the eigen-values of the shell-model Hamiltonian matrix, we perform the contour integral of the matrix element of a resolvent. The shifted block Krylov subspace method enables us its efficient computation. Utilizing this method, the contamination of center-of-mass motion is clearly removed.


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Wild About Bananas
Written by Groovy Plants Ranch
Hey Midwest friends! Are you ready for an island escape in your own backyard? We've got the plant for you. It's a hardy banana tree (Musa basjoo) that shows off in summer, dies back in fall, withstands sub-zero winter temperatures then fabulously returns each season.
At Groovy Ranch Plants, we're wild about this tropical rockstar and think it's one of the most fun and rewarding plants to grow in the landscape. While they may go dormant for months, they grow leaps and bounds once they get started in June. They eventually reach 6 to 14 feet tall. In fact, the giant clump here at the ranch explodes with new paddle-shaped leaves daily in summertime, and the leaves are so giant you can hide behind them.
Jared may be the biggest fan and refers to the bananas as something like "giant vertical hostas on steroids." Maybe, you're thinking this fast growth means they're invasive. Don't sweat. Despite their summer surge, these tropical beauties don't take over and won't go to seed.
For best results, plant hardy bananas in full sun in the landscape. They prefer consistently moist but well-drained, organic soil. We find the richer the soil the better for the tree's fleshy fibrous roots. To optimize growth, fertilize weekly with a ½ teaspoon of a balanced fertilizer per gallon of water. The only challenges are Japanese beetle and wind damage to the large leaves. Ideally, find a location with protection from strong winds.
Hardy bananas can also be grown in containers but won't show quite as much growth as in the landscape. For containers, use a well-drained potting mix and keep soil consistently moist but not soggy.
Musa basjoo is native to the Ryuku Islands near Japan. In the U.S., these hardy bananas can be grown as evergreens outdoors year round in coastal regions of Florida, Texas, Louisiana and California. In northern areas as far as New England and Ontario, the plants can survive winters but die back to the crown after a frost. To overwinter hardy bananas in the landscape, use a machete or hand saw to cut back their foliage to 24 inches in late fall. Next, pile on a heavy layer of leaves, straw or mulch to protect the plant's crown through the winter. We've found a heavier layer of mulch offers more insulation to the crown, minimizes dieback and increases the odds for a bigger, faster growing plant the next season. In spring, remember to remove the mulch layer once temperatures reach a consistent 40 degrees.
To overwinter container-grown banana trees, cut the tree to 24 inches and let the pot dry out a bit before storing it for the winter. You can keep the pot outdoors until late October, then move it to a frost-free garage or basement.
We hope you'll give them a try and even build a whole collection of tropical plants like Colocasia, Alocasia, bird of paradise and Cordyline. Maybe even a little reggae music too. Who's with us?
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Becky — October 17, 2022
I absolutely love banana trees, but I am terrified to plant mine outdoors here in Indiana. This may have just convinced me to give it a shot next spring though. Thank you!
George Moffett — July 31, 2022
Can I grow these in Missouri? Can I get a catalog?
James Vida — July 25, 2022
I go there all the time
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Jacquie — June 20, 2022
Banana plants are not trees. They have no bark and are fibrous. I've been growing bananas for over 12 years in central Indiana. I remove them each year and store in a frost free garage. We replant at the end of May. I shall use a couple of test subjects this year to see if they can withstand a winter in their beds.
Gotta love banana plants.
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Sandy — February 7, 2022
I am interested in the hardy banana tree. How much are they?
Nancy — October 5, 2021
I'm not seeing if they actually produce any fruit..?
Debra Maxson — May 13, 2021
interested in the banana plant. what is the price and do you still have them?
Ricky — April 9, 2021
I'm interested in the banana trees.
How much are they?
Diane Wieland-gerber — March 19, 2021
What are the prices of the banana plants ?
Beth — March 19, 2021
We've had this banana plant in our Columbus yard for over 5 years and love it!!!! It overwinters fine with heavy mulching and is close to 14 feet high every summer. I've given babies to our neighbors as well!!


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Coaching can be logical career move
by Paul Pace
The term "life coach" was among the 100 new additions to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary this year.
The phrase started in the mid-1980s and is commonly used to describe those who help others achieve their personal best.
Many social workers — who are skilled in helping clients cope with challenges — say coaching comes naturally, and they report having success in launching their own personal- and executive-coaching businesses.
Los Angeles social worker Jacqueline Ashley said coaching is a good fit for her and her clients.
"I was inspired to get involved because I was excited about the idea of helping people to be their personal best," Ashley explained, "whether it is to help them make a career decision, manage their time better, acquire skills, manage stress, improve a relationship or find work/life balance."
Coaching is a great avenue for social workers, because it is a means to facilitate human development, she added.
"Who better than social workers to be able to help clients tap into great potential, move us beyond our perceived limitations, and keep us motivated at the same time?" she said.
Ashley began coaching at the beginning of this year and believes the area is growing in acceptance among consumers, particularly professionals and those in management. Her typical clients are executives and career-oriented professionals.
"They are generally interested in leadership development, learning how to acquire new skills, and/or in fine-tuning existing skills," Ashley said. "They want to develop both professionally and personally in order to improve job performance, advance in their careers and find fulfillment."
She said her MSW training laid the foundation for her coaching know-how.
"I complemented and polished these skills with my graduate training in evidence-based coaching at Fielding Graduate University (in California)," she said.
Ashley said that while coaching and social work share similarities, there is a crucial difference.
"Clinical social work is about helping people to be able to cope with problems that interfere with healthy biopsychosocial functioning for which the purpose is to achieve healing and promote an adequate quality of life," she said. "Coaching, on the other hand, is generally different in that it emphasizes improvement not based upon deficits in psychological functioning and/or the social environment, but rather improvement towards personal and professional development for the purpose of achieving ultimate potential and fulfillment."
While Ashley has begun coaching only recently, social worker Gail Fisher has been in the business for more than 25 years. She runs Resources for Change, in Bethesda, Md., which helps organizations and businesses overcome productivity problems caused by external demands, internal conflicts, morale issues or changing goals.
Fisher earned her MSW with an emphasis on group dynamics at Yeshiva University in New York. She completed a fellowship in the Change Management Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Administrative Science in Maryland.
She noted that her experience in the employee assistance program field served her well when she transitioned into the world of coaching. She said she admires the field for several reasons.
"I love the diversity and the challenge of the variety of circumstances that I encounter," she said.
Because of her experience, Fisher has become known as the go-to executive coach for many nongovernment agencies and for-profit companies that are global in scope.
"I go to various countries where there can be a whole different set of issues that need to be addressed," she said.
Fisher primarily helps executives in companies and NGOs actualize their goals and strategies.
"I help them become more comfortable in the various realms of their position — realms that may be rather new to them and their usual way of operating," she said.
"I enjoy working with high-functioning employees who have been chosen as stars, and (who) the organization would like to add additional shine and polish to," she said.
Fisher said it is vital to maintain boundaries between social work and coaching.
"I find that I work very hard to be sure that someone is not coming to me for coaching when it is therapy that they really need," she said. "As clinicians, we need to hold ourselves to a higher dynamic and more stringent standard — one where we are clear both with ourselves and our clients about boundaries."
Her suggestion to social workers thinking of coaching is to study up on the field and become proficient in a certain specialty.
"Become an expert in something," she said.
Coaching in today's world
Like Fisher, social worker Marilyn Edelson knows the coaching business well, with 15 years of experience. She continues to maintain her therapy practice as well.
"Coaching is now in its adolescence," said Edelson, who is a certified master coach from the Coaches Training Institute in California.
She is the founder of On Track Coaching and Consulting, based in Newton, Mass., which offers personal and business coaching. She said her clients have ranged from a homeless woman to a government executive responsible for all the desktop computers and BlackBerrys in his branch of government.
She avoids a therapeutic approach to solving problems with her coaching clients, she said, focusing instead on maintaining a positive momentum to reach a desired outcome.
Edelson, who also lectures on coaching and mentors other coaches, said the business can offer an exciting career option for social workers suffering from burnout.
"That's what got me into it," she said.
However, she cautions social workers to be mindful of their motives before making a change. Coaching is not about raking in loads of money, she said.
"Only a small percentage of coaches are making a good income," Edelson said. "It was different in the late 1990s when people would happily pay out of their pocket for these services. Now you want to have a distinctive niche and, most importantly, be committed to making a difference in forward-looking ways."
While social workers often cite relief from burnout as a reason they sought out a coaching career, Melanie Yost said it also turned out to be a great way to free up more personal time for her after being a clinical social worker for 20 years.
Her coaching business started two years ago in Fredericksburg, Va., and Yost said she is pleased she made the move. Her typical clients are business owners seeking guidance on setting and meeting goals.
"With coaching, I can work over the phone," Yost said. "It offers me freedom and flexibility."
She agreed that social work is an ideal starting point for a coaching business, because "so much of our training is solution-focused."
However, Yost agreed that it's important to separate the two fields.
"I have seen other coaches get in the psychosocial aspects with a client when they should not have," she said.
In her opinion, coaches should not "process feelings" with clients. Social work is "geared toward the mental health profession," she said. "You have to understand that line."
If a client needs mental health treatment, she insists the person seek treatment from a therapist.
Yost's advice for social workers thinking of coaching as a career alternative is to gain the proper training and to draft a realistic business model.
"I wanted the freedom and flexibility," she said of her motivation to be a coach. "I got the training and skills to do that."
Social work vs. coaching
Social workers interviewed for this story pointed out that coaching differs from running a clinical social work practice in other ways. While insurance reimbursement for social work services is common, coaching services may not be covered by insurance, they said.
According to a 2008 NASW Legal Issue of the Month article on coaching, professional liability insurance may only provide coverage for services that fall within the definition of social work. The article outlines a list of areas for social workers to be mindful of when launching a coaching business.
Coaching also means having the confidence to promote a business. Yost and Edelson insisted that marketing is an essential tool for survival.
"Coaches have to learn to market themselves to gain clients, something not all people are comfortable with," Edelson said.
Another difference between social work and coaching is that unlike social work in most states, coaching typically has no government oversight or licensing guidelines.
"Literally anyone can jump on the bandwagon and claim to be a professional coach," Ashley said. "I think clients are more vulnerable to being taken advantage of if they are not already savvy to understanding the coaching process and what it can do for them in collaborating with a coach."
Ashley noted that there are independent organizations, like the International Coach Federation, that work to promote high professional standards by accrediting training programs and setting requirements to obtain various levels of credentials.
ICF started in 1995 and says it is the leading organization dedicated to coaching, with more than 18,500 members worldwide. Lindsay Bodkin, communications coordinator for ICF, said the organization offers educational standards, a code of ethics, core competencies, networking opportunities and the latest research trends.
Jeffrey Auerbach, vice president of ICF global board of directors, said social workers tend to be successful in the personal or executive coaching fields because they have transferred their social work education and experience to coaching.
"However, social workers still benefit from retraining in the particular competences of coaching, which is best obtained through an ICF-accredited program," he said. "And they should also have the experience of being coached themselves."
Fisher, of Resources for Change, pointed out that educational opportunities for coaching "are all over the map." Her advice is to test different coaching education programs and to gain insight from people already in the field.
A good starting point is the online community of New Coach Connection, she said. It features a Listserv of new and experienced coaches who are seeking ways to collaborate, connect and create experiences in the coaching profession.
For more, download NASW's Leadership Ladder document Career Coaching: A Valuable Resource for Social Workers.


The Bellarine region is home to a diverse range of food and wine producers and growers. Farm to table, as well as Ocean to your table. A great activity year round is to explore the regions freshest produce. It's a great experience visiting the origins of where your food has come from. From Blueberry picking to purchasing cheese from where the goats produce it, the scent of ripe grapes ready for picking and sampling the diverse range of wine. So hop in the car and follow your nose for delicious wine, organic produce and the freshest seafood.
Remember to prepare for your trip by checking out a website called The Bellarine Taste Trail. Filled with events in the region. Check out upcoming events here.
Or perhaps download the map here.
I highly recommend Barwon Heads Wine Store, literally two minutes walk (or stagger) from 100 Hitchcock! They are renowned for sourcing the very best local wines in the region. Here is their website.


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Water-borne diseases add to Pakistan's flood woes
Many Church NGOs are helping the flood victims but the destruction is on too big a scale for that to make much difference
A stranded flood-affected family in Pakistan. (Photo by Ashiknaz Khokhar)
By La Croix International staff | Pakistan
With flood waters submerging one-third of Pakistan, the country is now facing the onslaught of water-borne diseases affecting the still displaced people.
"In some of the areas water is going down but there are now diseases taking place like diarrhea, malaria, skin diseases. There is also shortage of medicine and medical staff," a Church source told La Croix International.
Women, children, the elderly and disabled people are the most vulnerable, the source said, adding that a huge number of livestock, important to the largely agrarian population, have perished.
Many voluntary organizations are helping the flood victims and giving them a safe place to stay. Unfortunately, this destruction is on so big a scale that people are not getting any shelter, the Church source said.
Archbishop Benny Travas of Karachi, head of Caritas Pakistan, has also appealed for solidarity with all those affected by the worst monsoon floods.
"The diocesan staff of Caritas in Karachi [capital of Sindh province] has already started the monitoring and help work, and I urgently appeal for support and invite people of good will to donate cash or material aid," the archbishop said.
Amjad Gulzar, Executive Director of Caritas Pakistan has called for "mosquito nets, food packages".
Father Zahid Augustine, parish priest of Sacred Heart Church in charge of Active Youth Group that helps flood-affected people, reaching then with medicines, food rations and funds, said he has never seen this kind of natural disaster before.
In recent weeks hundreds of people are bitten by snakes, happening mostly to children the source said.
Also, more than 47,000 women are pregnant and who are going to give birth in a few days but there are no proper hospitals for them, the source said.
According to a government report, there have been at least nine deaths in the last 24 hours, all caused by diarrhea, malaria and gastroenteritis in the southeastern Sindh province where more than 300 people have already succumbed to water-related ailments since July.
Elsewhere, more than 2.7 million people have been treated for water-borne diseases at makeshift hospitals set up in flood-hit regions since July 1, the report said, with 72,000 people treated at these facilities on Monday alone.
"There is already the diseases outbreak," Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan's planning minister, who is also the head of a national flood response center, told a news conference in Islamabad. "We fear it may get out of control," he said.
A scene of the devastation caused by incessant rains and flooding. (Photo by Ashiknaz Khokhar)
Pope calls for "prompt and generous" help
Pakistan, a nation of 220 million people, had been facing massive floods during the monsoon season and since mid of June.
Some two million houses, hundreds of bridges, roads have also been destroyed in the worst-hit regions of the provinces of Sindh, Baluchistan, and the southern part of Punjab.
Approximately 40 million people have been affected by the flooding, with 1,559 people dead, including 551 children and 318 women, according to latest data from National Disaster Management Authority Pakistan.
While the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif has declared a countrywide emergency, urging the international community for help, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, who visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods said, "is difficult not to feel deeply moved to hear such detailed descriptions of tragedy".
Pope Francis has also appealed for help.
"I want to assure the people of Pakistan, hit by floods of disastrous proportions, of my closeness. I pray for the numerous victims, for the wounded and those forced from their homes, and that international solidarity might be prompt and generous," Francis recently said at the end of a Sunday Angelus.
UNICEF has already reacted to the emergency by delivering 32 tones of life-saving medical supplies and other emergency aid to help children and women affected. This shipment includes medicine, medical supplies, water purification tablets, safe delivery kits, and therapeutic food supplements.
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CooksBook is a personal recipe website that provides a customizable and community oriented destination for finding recipes. Our design was informed by interviews, directed storytelling, and competitive analysis of both online and brick-and-mortar recipe services. Based on this research, we built mood boards, created design personas, and detailed the mental models of those personas as they select and interact with a new recipe. The personas informed our initial site design documents, including navigation maps and wireframes, from which we built the site itself.
This website documents our process as we built the CooksBook prototype from the ground up.


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Mission: Impossible II je americký akční film režiséra Johna Woo z roku 2000. V hlavní roli účinkuje Tom Cruise, který byl také jedním z producentů filmu. Dobová kritika film přijala smíšeně, film však byl komerčně úspěšný, celosvětově utržil 546 mil. amerických dolarů a byl tak filmem s nejvyššími tržbami v roce 2000. V České republice byl v roce 2000 se 123 541 diváky až 17. nejnavštěvovanějším.

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Because we grow more than we consume, Canada exports the excess to other countries around the world. Canada is also a leader in forestry and agricultural research science. Scientists, farmers and foresters are working together, developing practices that will reduce the negative effects that sometimes occur when we harvest plants for food and fibre. Sustainability (an ecological balance) is essential if we are to keep our natural resources healthy in the long term.
Agriculture is important, but relatively new as an industry in Alberta. The vast natural resources in Alberta attracted many settlers who cultivated the grasslands to grow crops and harvested trees for construction, manufacturing and fuel. Nearly all of the grassland in the prairie provinces was converted to cropland, thus destroying the natural vegetation and native plant species that had been around for a thousand years.
Who's Who in Crop Country?
Alberta crops are worth almost $3 Billion. The food industry is second only to oil and gas in terms of earnings.
Wheat is used to make food. The seeds are ground to make bread, pasta and many other processed foods.
Oats are grown to feed livestock.
Oil is pressed out of the canola seeds and is used to make margarine, cooking oil and salad dressing.
Leftover 'meal' is used to feed poultry and livestock, because it is high in protein.
Is fed to livestock and is used for making malt flavouring (used in many foods).
The cool climate is ideal for growing potatoes. Half of the potatoes grown in Alberta are processed into frozen french fries and potato chips. Many potatoes are sold to other farmers as seed potatoes.
This crop is grown for its leaves and stems. They are known as hay crops or forage crops and are fed to livestock. It has a very strong and deep taproot system.
Math Note: A hectare of land is equal to 10,000 square meters of land.
The yield from crops that are grown outdoors is highly dependent on the environmental conditions, climate and soil types. In a greenhouse all of the growinging conditions can be controlled. There are obvious advantages, but there are also disadvantages. Make a list of those you are able to find out about and report your findings to the class to complete the chart.
To be economically sustainable, farmers need to make more money with their crops than they spend to grow their crops. They are able to do this by using very large machinery that can cover large parcels of land as they seed and harvest their crops. They also need to add fertilizer to the soil to increase the yield and irrigate to provide the need moisture for growth of the crop. Most farmers only grow one type of crop in one particular area - this is known as monoculture.
Farming practices changed from using human and animal power in the early 1900's to total mechanization by the 1950's to modern computerized controls in the present. Comparison chart on p. 141.
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Graphs on p. 145 show the tree species harvested in Canada and the percentage value of forest products.
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module OneviewCookbook
  module API200
    # UplinkSet API200 provider
    class UplinkSetProvider < ResourceProvider
      # Checks for external resources to be loaded within the @item
      def load_native_network
        return @item['nativeNetworkUri'] = nil unless @new_resource.native_network
        # Retrieves the uplink set type based on the declared networkType parameter
        # Takes either Ethernet (default) or FibreChannel
        network_type = @item['networkType'] == 'Ethernet' ? 'EthernetNetwork' : 'FCNetwork'
        @item['nativeNetworkUri'] = load_resource(network_type, native_network, 'uri')
      end

      def load_networks(network_list, type)
        return unless network_list
        return @item['networkUris'] = [] if network_list.empty?
        network_list.each do |net_name|
          net = load_resource(type, net_name)
          case type.to_sym
          when :EthernetNetwork then @item.add_network(net)
          when :FCNetwork then @item.add_fcnetwork(net)
          when :FCoENetwork then @item.add_fcoenetwork(net)
          else
            raise "UnsuportedType: The #{type} is not supported for #{@resource_name}"
          end
        end
      end

      # Looks for enclosures within Location Entries
      # An IF statement by itself would try to iterate and raise an exception if locationEntries does not exist
      def load_enclosure
        return unless defined? @item.data['portConfigInfos'][0]['location']['locationEntries']
        @item.data['portConfigInfos'][0]['location']['locationEntries'].each do |entry|
          # Checks whether the Enclosure has been declared, and sets its URI in case the user has referenced it by name
          # If the URI is already present, the following block is simply skipped
          next unless entry && entry['type'] == 'Enclosure' && !entry['value'].to_s[0..17].include?('/rest/enclosures/')
          entry['value'] = load_resource(:Enclosure, { name: entry['value'], uri: entry['value'] }, 'uri')
        end
      end

      # Broken-down method calls
      def load_resource_with_properties
        load_native_network
        load_networks(@new_resource.networks, :EthernetNetwork)
        load_networks(@new_resource.fc_networks, :FCNetwork)
        load_networks(@new_resource.fcoe_networks, :FCoENetwork)
        @item.set_logical_interconnect(load_resource(:LogicalInterconnect, @new_resource.logical_interconnect)) if @new_resource.logical_interconnect
        load_enclosure
      end

      def create_or_update
        load_resource_with_properties
        super
      end

      def create_if_missing
        load_resource_with_properties
        super
      end
    end
  end
end


One of the most common questions that I get asked from my clients is "which protein shake do you recommend?" Honestly, I don't recommend any of them.
I am a firm believer that God intended us to get our nutrients from food. Everything that our body needs can be gotten through the food that He created and intended for us to eat. It's really that simple.
The diet and nutrition industry has gone crazy over drinkable and replacement meals the past twenty years. There are more protein bars and powders on the market than anyone could possibly keep track of. Some market to those on low carbohydrate weight loss diets, while others target body builders and athletes or health conditions like diabetes. Many are sold through direct sales companies like Herbalife, Shakology, and Isogenix. There are even medical weight loss programs prescribed by healthcare providers that are based on powdered meal replacements. In a nutshell, they are all rather similar. Their primary ingredient is some kind of protein isolate from usually milk or soy, followed by a concoction of other sugars or sweeteners, binders, fillers, flavorings, and vitamins and minerals. If you have ever looked at the ingredient labels of any of these products, it is pretty clear that they are far from real food. Rather, they are isolated nutrients from foods processed into an artificial food-like replacement and marketed as healthy.
If you are drinking protein shakes or eating meal replacement bars because you think they are necessary for health, you are greatly mistaken. Most Americans get more protein than they need, not the other way around. Unless you are a body builder or have a medical condition that requires more protein than you can get from food, protein supplements are unnecessary and a waste of money.
Most protein shakes and bars cost a lot more than their real food counterparts. On average, protein shakes cost anywhere between $2.00-$5.00 per serving. Let's say that the shake offers 15 g of protein, which would be equivalent to the amount of protein found in two eggs. The average cost of two eggs is $0.32. The eggs also contain essential nutrients likely not found in your protein shake. Even if you add whole wheat toast and fruits or vegetables to your eggs to make it a complete meal, it will still cost less than the shake.
Are they improving your health? If so, how?
Are they keeping you satisfied or are you left feeling hungry?
Are you using them to supplement your meals or to replace them?
Do you find yourself wishing you could eat real food instead of eating/drinking your supplement?
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Try not to get sucked into the hype around shakes and supplements that promise results. Instead, choose foods that you enjoy, listen to your body, and eat with grace.


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Jean De Bast, né à Bruxelles le  et mort le , est un dessinateur et graveur de timbres-poste belges.

Biographie
Après avoir suivi une formation artistique très complète (dessin, peinture, sculpture, gravure), il entre en 1907 à l'Atelier du timbre à Malines. Gravissant les échelons de la hiérarchie, il y terminera sa carrière comme chef d'atelier principal en 1945.

Ses premières réalisations en matière philatélique sont, en 1919, le dessin de la fameuse série « Roi casqué » et, en 1922, la gravure (à titre anonyme) de l'effigie du roi Albert  (type « Houyoux »).

En 1926, les souverains se rendent compte de la valeur de l'artiste, à la suite de l'émission d'un timbre au profit de l'œuvre contre la tuberculose. Conformément au souhait du roi, un concours est alors organisé entre quatre prix de Rome de gravure et De Bast, lequel remporte le concours. Dès lors, l'administration des Postes renonce à faire appel à des artistes étrangers et De Bast en devient le graveur attitré.

Tout en gardant sa fonction à l'Atelier du timbre, De Bast travaille alors comme graveur indépendant, réalisant des œuvres de très grande qualité.

En 1952, un différend l'oppose à l'administration des Postes, laquelle a fait retoucher sans son accord le coin original d'un timbre à l'effigie du roi Baudouin. Le timbre ainsi émis est tellement médiocre qu'il subit les critiques de la presse et est vite retiré de la vente.

En froid avec la Poste, De Bast devra attendre plusieurs années avant de se voir de nouveau confier la gravure de timbres. Il ne mettra fin à sa carrière de graveur qu'en 1967, à l'âge de 84 ans. Auparavant, en 1964 et 1965, deux de ses timbres avaient obtenu une médaille d'or à Paris : « Le petit Jésus, saint Jean et deux anges » (d'après Rubens) et « Les filles du peintre Cornelis De Vos ».

Au total, entre 1926 et 1967, il aura gravé plus d'une centaine de timbres-poste, une dizaine de timbres pour les chemins de fer, ainsi que 5 timbres-taxe pour le ministère des Finances.

Ce maître graveur qui, par sa maîtrise exceptionnelle, a élevé sa discipline au niveau de l'art, a obtenu de nombreuses distinctions honorifiques, tant pour son œuvre que pour son comportement patriotique durant la guerre. Dix ans après sa mort, à l'occasion de la Journée du timbre, la Poste lui a rendu hommage en émettant un timbre le représentant au travail.

Outre des timbres, De Bast a réalisé d'autres œuvres : peintures, médailles, gravures. Le service de chalcographie de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique conserve une quinzaine de cuivres qu'il a gravés, dont il est possible d'acquérir des tirages.

Œuvres

Tous ces timbres ont été imprimés en taille-douce. À partir de 1959, certains l'ont été en taille-douce et héliogravure combinées.

Timbres-poste de Belgique
 « Antituberculeux »,  : lion et croix de Lorraine en typographie ; le roi Albert  et la reine Élisabeth, chacun dans un médaillon
 « Les sites »,  : cascade de Coo, rocher Bayard à Dinant, porte de Menin à Ypres, promenade d'Orléans à Spa, port d'Anvers, quai Vert à Bruges
 « Exposition philatélique d'Anvers »,  : armoiries de la ville
 « Centenaire de l'Indépendance nationale »,  : les rois Léopold , Léopold II et Albert , d'après des tableaux de Lieven De Winne et Jef Leempoels
 « Les châteaux »,  : châteaux de Belœil, Ooidonk, Gand, Bouillon et Gaasbeek

 « Roi Albert avec képi »,
 « Infirmière au bandeau »,  : effigie de la reine Élisabeth
 « Infanterie »,  : émis pour l'érection à Bruxelles d'un monument à la gloire de l'infanterie ; d'après un dessin du peintre Armand Massonet
 « Ballon Piccard »,  : le ballon stratosphérique avec lequel le savant Auguste Piccard s'éleva à plus de  m en 1931
 « Chevalier »,  : croisade contre la tuberculose ; d'après un dessin de James Thiriar
 « SITEB »,  : François de Taxis, premier grand maître des Postes ; d'après un tableau de Hans Holbein le Jeune
 « Hôtel de ville de Charleroi », , d'après un dessin de Marcel Rau
 « Basilique de Koekelberg »,  : le chœur de l'édifice
 « Les beffrois »,  : Furnes, Namur, Alost, Tournai
 « Portraits du Sénat » : peintures de personnages en pied, ornant l'hémicycle de la Haute Assemblée ; la plupart de ces tableaux sont de Louis Gallait. La série a été émise en quatre temps :
  : Pépin de Herstal, Charlemagne, Godefroid de Bouillon, Robert de Jérusalem, Baudouin de Constantinople
  : Jean II de Brabant, Philippe d'Alsace, Guillaume le Bon, Notger, Philippe le Noble
  : Isabelle d'Autriche, Albert d'Autriche
  : Philippe le Bon, Charles Quint, Marie-Christine, Charles de Lorraine, Marie-Thérèse
 « Centenaire du premier timbre-poste de Belgique »,  : postillon, train et avion, d'après un dessin de Jacques Bruynseraede
 « Union belgo-britannique »,  : armoiries du Royaume-Uni et de Belgique, char d'assaut, mémorial à Hertain (Tournai) ; d'après des dessins de Marc Séverin
 « Basilique de Koekelberg »,  : consécration de la basilique par le cardinal Van Roey ; d'après un dessin de Marc Séverin
 « Roi Baudouin»,  : premier timbre, de grand format, à l'effigie du nouveau Roi ; d'après une photo de Robert Marchand
 « 13 congrès de l'U.P.U. »,  : congrès de l'Union postale universelle, tenu à Bruxelles. Les 12 timbres représentent les grands maîtres des postes de la famille de Tour et Tassis et le château de Beaulieu ; d'après des dessins de William Goffin
 « Roi Baudouin »,  : nouvelle effigie, timbres de format standard
 « Edouard Anseele »,  : centenaire de la naissance de ce ministre d'État
 « Journée du timbre »,  : serment de Jean Baptiste de Taxis devant Charles Quint ; d'après une peinture murale de Jean-Emmanuel Van den Bussche
 « Culturelle », . Quatrième centenaire de la fondation d'une première Bibliothèque royale à Bruxelles par Philippe II : Charles le Téméraire, grandes armoiries de Philippe le Bon
 « Adrien VI »,  :  de la naissance de ce pape ; d'après un tableau de Jan van Scorel
 « Légendes et folklore »,  : les Blancs moussis de Stavelot, la Madone de la Paix ; d'après des dessins de Jean Van Noten
 « Journée du timbre »,  : Alexandrine de Rye, comtesse de Tassis ; d'après un fragment de tapisserie
 « Année mondiale du Réfugié »,  : 3 timbres, représentant un enfant, un homme, une femme ; d'après des dessins de Jean Van Noten
 « Frère-Orban »,  : centenaire du Crédit communal de Belgique, fondé par le ministre des Finances Walthère Frère-Orban ; d'après une médaille
 « Métiers d'art »,  : dentelle
 « Nicolaus Rockox »,  :  de la naissance de ce bourgmestre d'Anvers ; d'après un dessin d'Antoine Van Dyck adapté par Victor Dolphijn
 « Personnalités belges »,  : Henri Vieuxtemps et W. De Mol ; d'après un dessin de Peter Colfs
 « Chefs-d'œuvre d'architecture »,  : le château des comtes à Male (Sint-Kruis), la basilique Notre-Dame de Tongre ; d'après des dessins de Marc Séverin
 « Journée du timbre »,  : postillon à cheval du  ; d'après un dessin de James Thiriar
 « Mercator »,  :  de la naissance de ce géographe et cartographe ; d'après une gravure de Frans Hogenberg
 « Camps de concentration »,  : allégorie ; d'après un dessin du sculpteur Idel Ianchelevici
 « Reines des Belges »,  : la reine Fabiola
 « Journée du timbre »,  : malle-poste de 1505 ; d'après un dessin d'Eugène Verboekhoven
 « Centenaire de la  Conférence postale internationale »,  : façade de l'Hôtel des Postes à Paris
 « Œuvres de Rubens »,  : Nicolas, fils du peintre ; le petit Jésus, saint Jean et deux anges
 « Personnalités belges célèbres »,  : André Vésale, anatomiste du
 « Journée du timbre »,  : postillon du pays de Liège, vers 1835 ; d'après un dessin de James Thiriar
 « Roger de la Pasture »,  : la Descente de Croix
 « Œuvres célèbres de peintres belges »,  : enfant de , tableau d'Antoine Van Dyck ; les filles du peintre Cornelis de Vos
 « Philatélie de la jeunesse »,  : Sir Rowland Hill, inventeur du timbre-poste
 « Journée du timbre »,  : maître des postes aux chevaux du  ; d'après un dessin de James Thiriar
 « Centenaire du décès du roi Léopold »,  : effigie d'après des timbres de 1865
 « Journée du timbre »,  : facteur rural de 1852 ; d'après une aquarelle de James Thiriar
 « Professeur August Kekulé »,  : portrait de ce chimiste, inventeur de la formule du benzène
 « Culturelle »,  : vue et sceau de la ville de Huy ; d'après une composition de Jean Malvaux
 « Jeux d'enfants »,  : enfants formant une chenille ; d'après un dessin de Francine Somers
 « Journée du timbre »,  : postillon à cheval de 1833 ; d'après un dessin d'Oscar Bonnevalle

Autres travaux de gravure en rapport avec les timbres-poste de Belgique :
 la surcharge destinée à être apposée sur les timbres de la  "Orval", à l'occasion de la pose de la première pierre de l'abbaye par le prince Léopold. Cette surcharge représente le monogramme L surmonté d'une couronne, et porte la date 19-8-29.
 les ornements qui figurent sur le bloc Koekelberg. Le timbre représentant le chœur de la basilique a été émis le . Le 21 juillet, ce timbre a été réédité, dans une autre teinte, au centre d'un bloc portant :
 en haut, un écu soutenu par deux anges et représentant la basilique vue de face
 en bas, la devise VT PATRIA VOTVM PERSOLVAT

Timbres pour la poste aérienne
 « Avion Fokker VII survolant diverses villes»,  : impression en héliogravure ; d'après un dessin de P. Goblet
 « DC 4 Skymaster »,  : avion assurant la liaison Bruxelles-Léopoldville ; d'après un dessin de Marcel Cros
 « Bastogne »,  : avec surtaxe au profit du fonds pour l'érection d'un mémorial en hommage aux combattants américains de Bastogne ; d'après un dessin de S. André

Timbres pour les chemins de fer et colis postaux
 « Armes du royaume », 1923
 « Hôtel des Postes à Bruxelles »,
 « Centenaire des chemins de fer belges »,  : motrice diesel, locomotive à vapeur
 « Congrès international des chemins de fer, à Bruxelles »,  : allégorie ; d'après une médaille de Godefroid De Vreese
 « Métiers »,  : piocheur, machiniste, chargeur
 « Signal »,  : train électrique et signalisation
 « Passage à niveau »,

Timbres pour le Congo belge
 « Paysage survolé par un avion »,  : timbres pour la poste aérienne

Projets de timbres non adoptés ou non émis
 « Albert  » (1928) : cette gravure est la participation de De Bast au concours qu'il a remporté face à quatre graveurs, Prix de Rome
 « Albert Ier » (1934) : projet adopté mais non émis, à la suite de la mort accidentelle du Roi ; gravure destinée à une impression en typographie
 « Protection de l'enfance noire » (1936) : timbre pour le Congo belge, représentant la reine Astrid entourée d'enfants congolais ; projet refusé au dernier moment. Finalement, la Poste a émis 3 timbres d'un type fort proche, imprimés en héliogravure sur base d'un dessin de J. De Bast
 « Prince Charles » (1947) : portrait du régent, lequel a finalement refusé que soit émis un timbre à son effigie
 « Roi Baudouin à lunettes » (1953) : projet pour remplacer le timbre médiocrement retouché par l'Atelier du Timbre

Bibliographie
 Dr Jacques Stes, Maître Graveur Jean De Bast, sa vie, son œuvre – Meester Graveur Jean De Bast, zijn leven, zijn werk, Collector Club, 2005
 Dr Jacques Stes, Catalogue raisonné des essais des timbres de Belgique de 1910 à nos jours, Les Éditions Williame, 2001
 Michel Mary et Dr Jacques Stes, DE BAST Jean, Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, t.8, Bruxelles, 2005.
 Michel Mary, Histoire des postes belges. Des origines à la libéralisation, Académie de Philatélie de Belgique / Encre du temps  2010, 201 p.
 Dr Jacques Stes, Essais de Belgique - Belgium Proofs 1849-1949, catalogue raisonné des essais de timbres de Belgique, Ed. Musée des Timbres et des Monnaies de Monaco, 2009

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Châteaux (timbre de Belgique)

Liens externes

  Illustrations des timbres gravés par De Bast
 https://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Belgium_1985_Stamp_Day Jean De Bast au travail, Timbre de 1985.

Graveur belge du XXe siècle
Dessinateur de timbres
Naissance en juin 1883
Naissance à Bruxelles au XIXe siècle
Décès en décembre 1975
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Outlet lies to warn about parents taking an interest in what their children read
by Tim Worstall on November 30, 2022
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Vice claims in a new piece that just one parent complaining can get all graphic novels removed from school libraries. This is not so.
The piece is headlined, "It Only Takes One Parent to Get All The Graphic Novels Removed From a School Library."
"A school district in Oklahoma removed 3,000 titles after an angry parent complained about 'pornography,'" the subhead says.
That's not what happened. One parent complained about a specific graphic novel, and the others were pulled to be checked. As the story actually says, "a new policy which requires every page of every graphic novel in the library to be screened for 'potential material involving sexually explicit content and extreme vulgarity.'"
This seems fair enough. Facebook has to pay fines if it allows teens to see porn, after all. Again, as the story says, " This prompted the district to undergo a self-audit of graphic novels this fall to ensure their imagery comply with its policies." To which the correct response is, well, don't they check these things before they put them on the shelves? Or before they buy them?
But there's a much larger issue here in their very next sentence: "The district said that Reiland isn't the only parent who has voiced concerns over library policies and books in the library's collection. " That parents don't have the power over what other adults read from the public library seems fair enough. As also it seems fair enough that parents have some decision-making power over what schools provide to their children.
Imagine this same scenario with a book that says that marriage is only between a man and a woman. Or that sex should only take place within such. Or that guns are great. That the U.S. is not institutionally racist. We know how that would work out – the censors would be fully in favor of pulling any of those. As has happened.
We have two issues here. One is the bad reporting, the failure of journalism. The graphic novels have not been removed, they're being checked. It's not one parent, it's some number of them.
Then there's that attitude behind that reporting. How dare these mere parents decide what their children might read? Don't they realize that we, we woke and progressive, will do the deciding, and so polish young minds to show our reflections, not those of their parents?
Motherboard, a brand within Vice, published the piece. As a whole, the site is ranked No. 97 in the listing of news and media outlets. It gains some 27.2 million visits a month. The magazine has a distribution of 900,000 copies and the TV channel reaches 60 million homes on cable.
Parents get to raise their children, a good part of which is to be able to filter what they see and read. There is a reason that child internet filters exist. The outrage here is only, on the surface, that the same restrictions might apply to school libraries. What is really meant is that those filters shouldn't apply to what the woke think kids should see and parents don't. Rather the definition of being a parent is that parents win on this argument.
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Contact administration of Art Institutes--need to know the steps necessary to have TC put on the list of companies with whom students can have an internship.
This won't work as a new way to draw in members to fill in fields such as 2D and 3D artists. Legally speaking, an internship must benefit the intern not the company. We don't have anyone in these fields who can serve as a mentor.


Information Curriculum Enhancements at Oregon Park!
As part of your child's education and experience here at Primrose School at Oregon Park, they will be exposed to an extension of our Mucho Mundo program through our Spanish teacher, Senora Nix every Monday! In addition, as another enhancement of our Rhythm and Notes program, we have our very own music teacher, Mrs. Holland, that joins us every Wednesday! These are just a few of the extra enrichments you can expect to make your child's experience the best possible with our school.


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Brian Arthur and the "Second Economy"
In 9a The music sector
The Second Economy
How Fast is the Second Economy Growing?
Impact on Jobs and Possible Outcomes
Some Implications
The Irish-American economist W. Brian Arthur is a true polymath, with degrees in electrical engineering, operations research, mathematics, and economics. At 37 (1982) he became the youngest endowed professor at Stanford University, in economics and population studies. Arthur has greatly influenced the development of complexity economics, and complexity theory generally, at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Formed in 1984 by eight scientists including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, the Institute is a breeding ground for polymaths across the physical, biological and social sciences.
The search for "a more realistic economics" followed only a year after the scientists founded the Santa Fe Institute, with Brian Arthur taking a leading role and being associated with the Institute ever since. He was joint winner of the Schumpeter Prize in Economics in 1990, when the theme for the prize was evolutionary economics. In 2009 he was joint winner of the inaugural $110,000 Lagrange Prize in Complexity Science.
There is an important link between Brian Arthur and the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), and not just because of Arthur's 1990 award. Schumpeter fought a lifelong battle to establish the essential role of technology in economic development theory, in contrast to orthodox economic thinking that treats technology largely as an external or "exogenous" influence. Brian Arthur has demonstrated how technology drives growth as an integral part of an economic system inspired by biological and evolutionary science rather than physics. This differs from the mainstream macroeconomic thinking that developed in the 1940s and eventually was seen by many as a precursor of the current Global Economic Crisis.
The Nature of Technology describes Brian Arthur's 2009 book of that name. Almost at the same time that the knowledge base published the book summary, the McKinsey Quarterly published a paper by Arthur on what he calls The Second Economy – a paper based firmly on his views on technological development as an integral force but going far beyond it in its possible consequences. Following its publication in October 2011 the paper has sparked vigorous debate and it would be remiss not to refer to it and open a discussion of what it might come to mean for the music sector and cultural activities generally.
Hence this article and the subsequent extension of the note on The Nature of Music Sector Technology. Contributions are invited on the possible consequences of Arthur's model being substantially correct. What is the possible technological impact? Generally, if "the second economy" is going to transform productivity and employment opportunities, will the impact on musical activity be positive or negative, what would be the consequences for musical education policy, policies of distribution from rich to poor, and from rich to poor countries, and much else? How, in short, might we have to adjust our thinking to fit the brave new world that may be already growing rapidly under our feet? 1
Arthur notes: "Every so often – every 60 years or so – a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business." He cites the transformation to the American economy from 1850 when it was "not much bigger than Italy's" to becoming the largest economy in the world only forty years later, aided by the east-to-west expansion of the railways.
A similar deep change is taking place today with information technology, he says, possibly even more dramatic than the "railroadization" of the United States that was Schumpeter's standard example of capitalist evolution. The transformation of information technology "goes well beyond the use of computers, social media, and commerce on the Internet. Business processes that once took place among human beings are now being executed electronically. They are taking place in an unseen domain that is strictly digital. … It is quietly creating a second economy, a digital one." The right-hand box presents one of multiple possible examples – one with which most airline travellers will be familiar.
Looking for adjectives to describe the second economy, Arthur suggests vast, silent, connected, unseen, remotely executing and global, always on, and endlessly configurable. Above all it is autonomous, meaning that human beings may design it but are not directly involved in running it.
Arthur offers what he admits is a rough estimate. Since 1995, when digitisation "really started to kick in", labour productivity (output per hours worked) has grown at some 2.5 to 3% annually in the United States. What Arthur calls "pretty good studies" suggests that 65-100% of productivity growth is due to digitisation. An annual 2.4% increase means doubling every 30 years, so if these trends continue, "in 2025 the second economy will be as large as the 1995 physical economy. … In two to three decades, it will surpass the physical economy in size."
Actually, it can be viewed as the logical result of an inexorable development process, which started in the developed western economies. From the 1760s, the Industrial Revolution saw the economy develop a muscular system in the form of machine power, progressively more productive than the existing agrarian economies. "For centuries, wealth has traditionally been apportioned in the West through jobs, and jobs have always been forthcoming. When farm jobs disappeared, we still had manufacturing jobs, and when these disappeared we migrated to service jobs. With this digital transformation, this last repository of jobs is shrinking – fewer of us in the future may have white-collar business process jobs – and we face a problem."
The muscular system is being rapidly replaced with a neural system. "Around 1990, computers started seriously to talk to each other, and all these connections started to happen. The individual machines – servers – are like neurons, and the axons and synapses are the communication pathways and linkages that enable them to be in conversation with each other and to take appropriate action." A very biological model, in tune with Arthur's general technology concept.
The downside is the impact on jobs. If productivity increases at 2.4% it means either that the same number of people can produce 2.4% more output or that we can get the same output with 2.4% fewer people. "Both of these are happening. We are getting more output for each person in the economy, but overall output, nationally, requires fewer people to produce it." The difficulties that the US and other western countries are experiencing in reducing the unemployment rate are at least partly due to digitisation. "Physical jobs are disappearing into the second economy, and I believe this effect is dwarfing the much more publicized effect of jobs disappearing to places like India and China."
"There's a larger lesson to be drawn from this. The second economy will certainly be the engine of growth and the provider of prosperity for the rest of this century and beyond, but it may not provide jobs, so there may be prosperity without full access for many. This suggests to me that the main challenge of the economy is shifting from producing prosperity to distributing prosperity. The second economy will produce wealth no matter what we do; distributing that wealth has become the main problem."
"The system will adjust of course, though I can't yet say exactly how. Perhaps some new part of the economy will come forward and generate a whole new set of jobs. Perhaps we will have short workweeks and long vacations so there will be more jobs to go around. Perhaps we will have to subsidize job creation. Perhaps the very idea of a job and of being productive will change over the next two or three decades. The problem is by no means insoluble. The good news is that if we do solve it, we may at last have the freedom to invest our energies in creative acts." (Our emphasis)
Arthur concludes: "This second economy that is silently forming – vast, interconnected, and extraordinarily productive – is creating for us a new economic world. How we will fare in this world, how we will adapt to it, how we will profit from it and share its benefits, is very much up to us."
The second economy is a plausible model. It is already happening, with systems run entirely without human intervention becoming ever more sophisticated and complex. Given the reality of the model there is no end in sight as far as this process is concerned.
Rich western-type nations have been the main beneficiaries, and on the downside are those first hit by the new kind of structural unemployment caused by digitisation. However, unless other developments like climate change aggravate global issues that remain uncontrolled, the membership of the rich club will expand. The main challenge, as Brian Arthur points out, will be to shift from producing prosperity to distributing prosperity. Without such a profound shift, not noticeable in today's world of increasing inequality nationally as well as internationally, the second economy may become a source of major conflict (adding to the conflicts from failing to tackle climate change).
It all adds to the complexity of living in the 21st century world. The current economic crisis and growing inequality are the downside of change that could produce wonderful benefits but are also subject to great risks unless the medium- and long-term implications are properly understood and acted upon politically.
If one sentence in Arthur's second economy story stands out, it is the opportunity for creativity to literally save the world: We may at last have the freedom to invest our energies in creative activities. That is if we get it right, which is unlikely to happen without a great deal of conscious policy-making that is not currently evident.
Creativity is not limited to music and the other arts, and to science and technology, but promoting these have to be basic factors in the effort to ensure that our societies benefit in the emerging new world of the second economy. This may sound naive, and the readers of this knowledge base are invited to make more constructive and concrete strategic proposals on how to deal with the issues. On the plausible assumption that Brian Arthur is basically right, the potential benefits and the risks are too great to ignore.
Hans Hoegh-Guldberg First entered 11 November 2011.
As this article was being written, the Santa Fe Institute had just made the following new announcement: "Science symphony combines Bach and brain science, Nov. 3, 2011 – On Sunday, October 30, in Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Symphony collaborated to produce a unique concert event exploring the interface between music and science. Listen to the radio interview here".↩
Hans Hoegh-Guldberg
Hans founded his own consulting firm, Economic Strategies Pty Ltd, in 1984, following 25 years with larger organisations. He specialised from the outset in applied cultural economics — one of his first major projects was The Australian Music Industry for the Music Board of the Australia Council (published in 1987), which also marks his first connection with Richard Letts who was the Director of the Music Board in the mid-1980s. Hans first assisted the Music Council of Australia in 2000 and between 2006 and 2008 proposed and developed the Knowledge Base, returning in an active capacity as its editor in 2011. In November 2013 the Knowledge Base was transferred to The Music Trust, with MCA's full cooperation.
Between 2000 and 2010 Hans also authored or co-authored several major domestic and international climate change projects, using scenario planning techniques to develop alternative long-term futures. He has for several years been exploring the similarities between the economics of cultural and ecological change, and their continued lack of political clout which is to a large extent due to conventional GDP data being unable to measure the true value of our cultural and environmental capital. This was announced as a major scenario-planning project for The Music Trust in March 2014 (articles of particular relevance to the project are marked *, below).
https://www.musicinaustralia.org.au/authors/author/hans-hoegh-guldberg-2/
AMC, the Art Music Composers Organisation
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The prophecies were there but no one listened. Until now. They are the Lords of Deliverance and they have the power to usher in Doomsday . . . or prevent it.
Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can't - or won't - understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman's safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara's life.


Surrounded by vineyards and slate hills, away from disturbing noise, lies the Auler Hof in pleasant silence at the outskirts of Kröv, a well known wine village between Traben-Trarbach and Bernkastel.
The former winery was established in 1965 by my parents Gisela and Theo Herges and has been in operation until 2007. Built to produce fine riesling wine, the barn has been newly extended and modernized to become the regional destination hub for an unforgettable stay.
The Auler Hof is a discreet, family operated guest house. Hospitality is our passion, saying that, the well-being of our guest is very important to us.
Experience and enjoy memorable days at the Mosel valley, one of the most picturesque regions in Germany.
We look forward to welcome you at the Auler Hof.


This is a gripping story of courage in the face of a world in turmoil. It is previously published as A Measure of Peace. Born into a repressive Victorian household Hannah Watson learns early of the need for courage and dignity - in the face of her father's tyranny. She soon follows her own path to become a teacher and campaigner for women's rights. But standing up for her ideals brings Hannah savage penalties - and conflicts of loyalty. With the outbreak of war in 1914 Hannah is faced with new pressures: the joy of discovering the man she passionately loves but the strains of knowing that his life is in constant danger.


(PRLEAP.COM) ST. LOUIS, MO – May 23, 2011 – Dr. Patricia Stoker, of Columbia, MD, has received the Orkos Award for demonstrating professional excellence in her case study report of a patient receiving treatment for gum disease. Dr. Stoker's patient suffered from severe gum disease, complicated by a relentless gagging reflex.
The Award was founded by Perio Protect, LLC to encourage and recognize the contributions of dental professionals using minimally invasive methods to treat gum disease. To receive the Orkos Award, doctors and hygienists submit documentation demonstrating significantly improved clinical outcomes for patients after treatment. The qualifying evidence presented by Dr. Stoker was of particular interest because the patient suffered from an exceptionally strong gag reflex and significant anxiety regarding dental treatment, making any oral procedure especially difficult. The patient's anxiety was so serious that even the routine task of taking a full mouth series of radiographs had to be broken up into several appointments.
Once an individual is diagnosed with gum disease, such as periodontitis or gingivitis, several treatment options are available. This includes scaling and root planing, a rigorous cleaning of the teeth above and below the gum line that often requires a local anesthetic. For more serious cases, surgery may be necessary, in which infected gum tissue is removed with a laser or scalpel. These treatment options are understandably unpopular even for patients without anxiety.
According to Dr. Stoker, the patient in the study had "refused scaling/root planing in other offices and in ours. Her prior experiences refusing mechanical treatment left her frustrated and discouraged. Then, she was referred to us by another patient of ours whose husband has been successfully treated in our practice with the Perio Tray® delivery of medication under the gums."
Perio Protect offers a non-invasive prescription tray to deliver medication below the gum line so that the medication can work to fight gum infections before and after mechanical debriding procedures are completed. With effective medication killing bacteria under the gums, the necessity and frequency of repetitive, invasive dental procedures may be reduced. This comfortable customized tray, known as the Perio Tray®, is worn by patients at home, for minutes each day, between office visits.
The patient cited in the study "was very pleased to be offered a non-invasive option to help address her infected gums. As she had with all of her previous dentists, she refused the mechanical procedures we recommended," Dr Stoker explained, "and started treatment with the medication delivered by the trays shortly after her first visit with us."
To deliver medication effectively, each Perio Tray® is fabricated to fit precisely over the individual patient's teeth and gums. Dr. Stoker noted that "in order to obtain the impressions for the prescription Perio Trays®, the patient took valium premedication prior to the appointment."
Before treatment the patient had a complete periodontal evaluation. Seventy-seven percent of the sites in her mouth were bleeding before treatment. Pockets between her teeth and gums measured as deep as 7mm, and over 50% of the pockets measured deeper than the accepted healthy depth of 3mm. At the patient's most recent hygiene visit, only 7% of the pockets were bleeding and the deepest pocket depth measured 5mm. These results came from the daily delivery of oxidizing agents, using Perio Trays®. No other treatment was rendered. "While we continue to recommend mechanical debridement for even more improvement," Dr. Stoker explains, "she resists the recommendation. She is fearful of the treatment and her gagging reflex makes it almost impossible to complete the debriding procedures. She says she is pleased with these results and she is healthier than she has been in many years."
Dr. Stoker has been in private practice for more than twenty years. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and received additional training in advanced dentistry as a resident at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She continues to update her knowledge on the latest dental treatments by completing courses at the esteemed Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education and by regularly attending continuing education seminars. It was at one such seminar that Dr. Stoker received the training and certification to offer the Perio Protect Method® to her patients.
You can contact Dr. Stoker's office by calling 410-312-5660 or through her website at www.columbiapremierdentist.com. For additional information about the Orkos Award and the current winners, go to www.theorkosaward.com. To learn more about the Perio Protect Method®, visit www.perioprotect.com.


Graphics click save link to save the images for your laptop. These are available for transfer, if you want and want to own it, click save logo on the page, and it will be directly down loaded in your desktop computer.
Graphics I hope you will like it. That graphic above will be classed along with.


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Sleepless Children Often Become Sleepless Adults
Posted by [reposted by] Jim Liebelt · February 17, 2022
Published in Families, Culture, Health Issues, Teen Behaviors
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by HealthDay.
Young children who struggle with insomnia face a very high risk for more of the same as young adults, a new study warns.
Investigators found that 43% of children who suffer from insomnia between the ages of 5 and 12 continue to do so when they hit their 20s and 30s.
And that amounts to a near tripling of the risk that a sleep-deprived child will end up becoming a sleep-deprived adult, the researchers said.
That's "much higher than previously believed," said study lead author Julio Fernandez-Mendoza. He is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health with the Sleep Research & Treatment Center at Penn State University College of Medicine.
In the study, he and his colleagues pointed out that childhood insomnia is not uncommon.
"About 20% to 25% of school-aged children have insomnia symptoms, understood as difficulties falling or staying asleep," Fernandez-Mendoza noted. Among adolescents, that figure rises to between 35% and 40%.
To explore the persistence of insomnia among kids as they grow up, the team tracked just over 500 children as they aged from as young as 5 to as old as 31.
During the first phase of the study — conducted between 2000 and 2005 — all the kids (and/or their parents) completed questionnaires regarding their sleep. Sleep habits were also tracked in real-time during sleepovers held in a laboratory setting.
Nearly one-quarter of the pre-adolescent kids were deemed to have insomnia.
Somewhere between 6 to 13 years later, most of the kids underwent the same assessments as teens, at an average age of 16. More than one-third (36%) of the adolescents were then found to be battling insomnia.
A third assessment phase was then conducted in the form of a follow-up sleep survey launched between 2018 and 2021. At that time, the average age of the study participants was 24.
The team found that about 27% of pre-adolescent insomniacs had become healthy sleepers as adults. About 11% of those who had still struggled with sleep as adolescents also managed to leave insomnia behind by the time they'd reached their 20s and early 30s.
But nearly 19% of those with a history of sleep trouble as children had continued to experience intermittent insomnia as adolescents and adults, while more than four in 10 continued to be plagued by persistent sleep deprivation.
The findings were published online in the journal Pediatrics.
https://consumer.healthday.com/2-17-sleepless-children-often-become-sleepless-adults-study-2656599774.html
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Q: Hibernate Search: Indexing only a few entites of a huge table without loading all entries I have a huge table which I write into a Lucene Index using Hibernate Search Version 5.11.5. After a (existing) raw SQL import into this table I have to manually update the search index. This SQL import runs multiple times a day and reindexing should not block incoming search requests for more than a few seconds.
On each entity there exists a date field "modified" so I already annotated this @Indexed Entity with an EntityIndexingInterceptor like following:
public class CustomEntityIndexingInterceptor implements EntityIndexingInterceptor<HugeTableEntity> {
   public static Date lastModified = //some logic;

   @Override
   public IndexingOverride onAdd(HugeTableEntity entity) {
      return IndexingOverride.APPLY_DEFAULT;
   }

   @Override
   public IndexingOverride onUpdate(HugeTableEntity entity) {
      if (entity.getModified().after(lastModified)) {
         return IndexingOverride.APPLY_DEFAULT;
      }
      return IndexingOverride.SKIP;
   }
}

This code works, but reindexing takes a lot of time because all entites get loaded. Only < 0.001% match the condition of the modified date.
I saw that deep inside of Hibernate Search there exists a class IdentifierProducer, which loads all IDs in the method loadAllIdentifiers. I would love to add a SQL filter to the inner criteria - something like "where modified > :given_date".
Do you know if I can customize the IdentifierProducer without copying all the code? Do you know another smart way to solve my problem?
Regards

A: The MassIndexer cannot be used to index just part of your data... yet. IdentifierProducer is an internal class an you should not try to alter it.
What you can do is run a query to list the entities that were affected by your import, and ask Hibernate Search to reindex them, for example by batches of 20 elements. You can take some inspiration from this example from the documentation. In your case, of course, you will add filters to the Hibernate ORM query, to only go through entities that actually changed because of your import.
Don't forget to remove your indexing interceptor, which should no longer be useful.

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Good Gawd - nothing screams "stay the hell away" from a city like a fee just for the right to enter a city during peak congestion - which is 7 am to 6 pm. This oughta do wonders for business too. What are they thinking? Everyone's going to walk or take the subway? Helicopters? Jet packs? Roller blades?


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Pignola is an Italian town in the province of Potenza in Basilicata. It borders to the east with Anzi, to the south-west with Abriola, to the west with Tito and to the north with Potenza. The Pignolese territory extends for 55.51 km² and has an altitude ranging from 700 m of Pantano-Petrucco to 927 m of the inhabited center, up to 1476 m of Mount Serranetta which represents the highest point of the Pignolese territory. It has 6,962 inhabitants.

The municipality includes fourteen hamlets: Masseria Coviello, Campo di Giorgio, Molino di Capo, Mulino di Piede, Pantano, Petrucco, Piancardillo, Ponte Mallardo, Pozzillo, Rifreddo, Sciffra, Serra San Marco, Tora, Tuorno, and is divided into two parts: the historic center upstream, and the Pantano, near the lake of the same name and the WWF oasis. The area is of high seismic hazard. The area is mainly wooded and there are numerous streams that feed the Basento; there are also numerous drinking springs but not noteworthy for the small amount of water. A few steps from the hamlet of Pantano at 770 m above sea level, there is a lake, Lake Pantano di Pignola, protected by a nature reserve and originating from an ancient swamp reclaimed in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Cities and towns in Basilicata


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This artwork portrays the Kurdish version of the legend of "Kawa, the Blacksmith". The legend forms the basis of the original story of the New Year's and springtime feast, Newroz, as celebrated nowadays by Kurds on March 21st. It symbolizes the reawakening of Spring, as well as the original connection between nature and all people living in the Mesopotamian region. Legend has it that Kawa, a simple craftsman, defeated the tyrant Dahak and then lit a great fire as a symbol of victory and joy.
The feast is popular in the whole Mesopotamian region and was first celebrated in about the 6th century BC. Today, approximately 25 million people of Kurdish origin have been scattered over many countries, victims of oppression and forced displacement. They are united by this experience of flight and expulsion – and, of course, by the celebration of Newroz, connected with the symbol of the big fire. In jumping over the fire, young Kurdish men and women show their bravery. For Kurds in all their diversity, this special day is as much politically charged as it is a day of remembrance, unity, and joy.
The stop-motion animated film is related to fairytale films of German paper-cut artist Lotte Reininger (1899 – 1981) as well as to the abstract fairytale leporellos of Swiss designer Warja Honegger-Lavater (1913 – 2007). The legend of Kawa is treated in an artistic way, allowing the political nature of the material to evoke other associations. Author and designer Ellen Löchner collaborates here with camerawoman, editor, and picture director Dorle Voigt and composer and sound director Jorge Porras-Alvarado. Michaela Palzer performs the narration.
Viel Freude, Glück und Spaß heute Abend in London bei "Kawa, the Blacksmith" !!!


According to a report from Quest Diagnostics – one of the largest independent diagnostic service providers – the share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use has reached its highest level in 12 years.
Quest's Annual Drug Testing Index analyzed more than 10 million workforce drug test results and found that positivity rates for illicit drugs – ranging from marijuana to heroin to amphetamines – increased for both the general workforce and for federally regulated safety-sensitive positions such as pilots, truck drivers and nuclear power plant employees.
Overall, 4.2 percent of the more than 10 million employees who submitted to urine-based drug tests in 2016 tested positive for illicit drugs, marking the highest annual positivity rate since 2004.
The Drug Testing Index's findings show "increased rates of drug positivity for the most common illicit drugs across virtually all drug test specimen types and in all testing populations," said Barry Sample, Ph.D., senior director, science and technology, Quest Diagnostics Employer Solutions.
The report details upward trends in positive test results for cocaine (up 12 percent in 2016), marijuana (up nearly 75 percent since 2013) and amphetamines (up 64 percent since 2012), while noting a plateau in detection for heroin and a decline in prescription opiate detection.
Quest's report highlights the need for employers to implement and conduct a thorough drug screening program, however, due to a number of issues and recent developments that protect applicants and employees in the drug screening context, it is equally important for employers to remain vigilant of these trends and potential issues to ensure their policies are both effective and compliant. Our recent white paper "The Changing Face of Employment Drug Screening" outlines and discusses some of these often-overlooked legal requirements that may require you to re-evaluate your company's drug screening practices.