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Turkish airport operator sets eye on projects in Africa, Balkans
by DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL Jan 12, 2021 - 3:08 pm GMT+3
TAV Airports logo on an airport window in Skopje, Macedonia, Aug. 10, 2019. (Shutterstock Photo)
by DAILY SABAH Jan 12, 2021 3:08 pm
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Turkish airport operator TAV Airports has closely followed the development of projects in Africa and the Balkans and will take advantage of the opportunities offered in the regions, the company CEO said Tuesday.
"We have projects that we follow in Africa and the Balkans in line with our predetermined goals. We can add them to our portfolio if they match our strategic and financial targets," Sani Şener said.
Şener told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the TAV's "food, beverage and lounge operating companies serve at 86 airports besides our own operations. Nearly 40% of our turnover is currently coming from abroad. Central Asia, Africa and the Balkans are our areas of interest. We need to do business in growing countries."
He declared Africa among the "leading markets," and classified the Balkans and Central Asia as "developing" regions.
"Our goal in leading markets and developing countries is to utilize the opportunities there. We will continue to grow that way, both in our service companies and airport operating companies," he added.
Commenting on the aviation sector during the pandemic, Şener said during the first wave the demand for airlines decreased and airports later temporarily closed, in line with the decisions made by the authorities.
Only cargo, evacuation and emergency flights were carried out at airports that remained open, Şener noted, adding that during this period, industry professionals took the necessary steps to ensure that the airports were up to health and safety standards, in line with the regulations.
"In this respect, necessary hygiene measures were implemented as soon as possible. The safety of employees and passengers was placed above everything else. While taking these steps, we received the required certifications from relevant international organizations to all our airports," he said.
"As both scientists and the public learned more about the virus and it was understood how we could prevent catching it, flights stopped being considered a danger if necessary precautions were taken," Şener said.
"With the beginning of the summer months in the northern hemisphere, firstly holiday travel started, followed by business and other similar travel types," he said, describing when the wheels of aviation began to turn again before the second decrease in demand came with the second wave.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that the global aviation sector experienced a loss of around $140 billion, which was initially at $90 billion.
He hoped by 2023 passenger numbers will reach 2019 pre-pandemic levels. "2021 and 2022 will definitely be better than 2020, but I hope that we can catch up with 2019 in 2023. All of this depends on the vaccine and its benefits."
Highlighting that the company bought Kazakhstan Almaty Airport during the pandemic, Şener said they foresee taking over operations within the first quarter of the year.
Şener said they are very clear in their employment policies that "every 1 million passengers increase, creates employment for 3,000 people in total." Therefore as passenger numbers increase, employment increases in parallel. Şener added that a significant number of employees are currently working from home and that the government's short-term work allowance has helped avoid layoffs.
Şener pointed out that digitalization has accelerated in every field during the pandemic process, saying: "We have increased contactless transactions at our airports. The acceleration in the direction of digitalization and the use of digital technologies in our business processes has increased."
On TAV Airports' stock exchange value, Şener underlined that the aviation sector was one of the worst-hit amid the health and economic crisis.
"It is clear that our market value does not reflect the true value of the company. Together with our employees and passengers, we have taken and continue to take all precautions to protect the financial health of our company," he said, adding that the developments being with the COVID-19 vaccines that are soon to be rolled out have provided hope.
"Pandemic is clearly defined as a 'force majeure' in our contracts. For this reason, we made the necessary applications to the aviation authorities in eight different countries for the compensation of our lost income based on the 'force majeure' articles in our contracts. There may be compensation methods that may differ from contract to contract, time extension, rental delay, or other methods to compensate our losses," he said, adding they expect good results soon.
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The second phase of inspections continues between West Metering and Berth 5. Equipment in the West Metering Building measures crude oil before delivery to tankers. The project will continue in coming years, when crews will inspect two 48-inch crude oil piping systems carrying oil between East Metering, the East Tank Farm and West Metering. For this work, crews plan to use a traditional In-Line Inspection (ILI) tool, similar to the tools used to inspect the main 800-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.


What size is your congregation?
We typically range from 160 – 200 in our primary Sunday Morning worship assembly. Additionally, we will have a group meeting at Golden Living Nursing Home who watches our streaming broadcast. Others who are sick, traveling or shut-in will also watch our services online.
Every Sunday, our members participate in a freewill offering. This is often called our "contribution". While most of the money we collect goes into our general budget, other contributions are earmarked for specific needs, such as missions and benevolence. We call this our "special contributions" and these funds are considered outside of our weekly budget. Some of this money comes from Christians who are not members of our local congregation, but who entrust us to distribute these funds as part of our various ministries. All money collected is counted by two or more people, and contributions are cross-checked against bank statements. Budgets are published and shared with our congregation.
What do you do with the money you raise?
A variety of tasks and works are supported with our budget. Some of the money is used to pay for salaries of our staff, as well as to pay for our facilities, including maintenance and utilities. We support mission works in Ghana, India, and other countries. We set aside money for fellowship activities, benevolence, youth activities, and many small items such as office supplies. Every year we go through a budgeting process.
Do I Need to Dress Up to Attend?
Absolutely not. We want to welcome people of all ages, walks of life, and financial means. While some people do wear their "Best", particularly on Sunday mornings, most people dress casually. You are very likely to see someone in dress slacks sitting next to someone wearing jeans and a T-shirt. While we do encourage modest dress, we have no dress codes and our members (and visitors) wear whatever they are comfortable with.
Can a visitor take communion?
Yes. We take communion each week – it is a tangible reminder Jesus Christ, who was God's gift to us. We practice open communion – anyone who believes in Jesus Christ is welcome to take communion, whether they are a member of our congregation or not.


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Hooked On Hockey Magazine
Can The San Jose Sharks Keep On Winning?
Jacob M
At the beginning of the season the Sharks looked like they were not going to be the dominant powerhouse they were in years past. Losing games to sub-par opponents and not having a captain to lead them. It looked like the "rebuild," or lack thereof, went in the opposite direction. Recently, though, with Joe Pavelski on the verge of the captaincy, the Sharks have picked it back up. They are dominant on home ice and are 9-1-0 in their last ten. Starting the season with 16 of 21 games on the road did not do the Sharks any favors, but that's not an excuse, and now they have to return to the road to face some tough teams. Can they keep up their winning ways? Here is what they're going to have to do against each opponent to keep the W's coming.
@Anaheim: Currently the only team above the Sharks in the Pacific division, the Ducks are still a scary team to face on the road, or even at home. San Jose, though, has found ways to beat this tough opponent. They have won the last two meetings and looked good doing so. Last game they jumped out to an early lead and did not look back. To win, San Jose needs to start fast and not take their foot off the gas pedal like they did last game.
@Los Angeles: Los Angeles, the Sharks' biggest rival is always a tough game to play but a fun game to watch. These two teams hate each other and are not afraid to show it. They have only played against each other once this season, the season opener. Antti Niemi shut the door on them, pulling off a 4-0 victory. To win this game the Sharks should constantly have that reverse sweep on their mind and play solely for revenge.
Vancouver: Ah, home sweet home. Back at home for a quick game against Vancouver will be a thriller. Earlier this season the Canucks pulled a victory off on the road against San Jose, so this time around the Sharks will try to keep their home ice advantage and get two points. In order to win they will have to feed off of the energy the crowd gives them. Vancouver games usually sellout, and the fans like to get extra loud for our friends north of the border.
@Anaheim: Back to the pond for this one, and the Sharks are hopefully still riding a winning streak. If the Sharks use what they learn playing Anaheim the first time around, they should have a good game. This is the second half of a back-to-back, though, so legs might be an issue after a while, which usually doesn't play out to well against a good team like Anaheim.
St. Louis: Happy new year. After some partying and holiday sweater rapping the Sharks have another tough game against St. Louis. If last game was any indication it won't be easy. To win the Sharks will need to play all 60 minutes, even if they have a lead, and capitalize on mistakes and mismatches that arise in the middle of the game.
So yes. The Sharks have beaten all of these teams before, on the road and at home. The Sharks have a solid chance in all of these games, and the expectation is getting at least a point if not two points in all of them.
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The digital marketplace is a rapidly changing place. Customers expectations rise, the competition grows stronger, and Google's algorithm changes the SEO landscape every couple of years.
The East Texas Sinus and Dizziness Center, a medical practice with whom Osky Blue has had a long relationship, recently hired Osky Blue again to upgrade its website for their practice in Longview, Texas.
The East Texas Sinus and Dizziness Center has added additional services over the years, but their website didn't reflect the growth or their new staff members. Given their recent expansion, they also wanted a site that could scale with the business, and with that came a new set of SEO considerations.
First, Osky Blue built a more robust top-level navigation to accommodate their new services. The new site also has individual landing pages for each service, complete with relevant information about the treatment and how to get in touch.
For the staff page, key team members with full biographies are featured to help future patients get to know the practice and to highlight the accomplishments of the medical staff. With the site's updated structure, the East Texas Sinus and Dizziness Center can now add specialties and team members as they grow, so the website is fully scalable.
Once the site content and design was updated, Osky Blue built an internal linking strategy, streamlined the site's load time, and ensured the website's structure adhered to SEO best practices.
As a bonus, the client took the opportunity to highlight the practice's recent designation as a Center of Excellence on the website–an award like that deserves recognition!
Since the site launch in early September, traffic to the site is up 6% and site engagement is up 56% including patient form downloads, social interactions and calls. Site visitors are also visiting more pages and spending almost twice as much time on the site per session.
As the only nationally recognized center for Balloon Sinus Dilation in East Texas, the Otolaryngology practice serves patients suffering from sinus and allergy problems, sleep issues, chronic dizziness, and more. The East Texas Sinus and Dizziness Center was founded by Ronald G. Morton, MD, FAAO/HNS.
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Kurt Archer is a communications lead, based in Calgary.
Prior to joining the Pembina Institute in 2019, Kurt ran a communications consultancy for four years. Before that he was the grant manager and communications director for the Alberta Real Estate Foundation.
Kurt completed his bachelor's degree in political science from Carleton University before moving to South Asia for three years where he started two community based organizations in environmental education.
Outside of Pembina, Kurt is passionately involved with community theatre as a director, producer, and actor. Additionally he is an organizer for TEDx talks and often found perfecting his yogasanas.


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Winston-Salem Ambassadors
Welcoming ALL to Winston-Salem
Welcome & About
JOIN the Board!
About Winston-Salem
NYC + WS ?
What does New York City have to do with Winston-Salem?
For one, of course, we have the Empire State Building and the Reynolds Building.
"The Reynolds Building was constructed in 1929 by Shreve and Lamb, who would design the Empire State Building a few years later based on the same plans. The iconic shape of the two buildings is the same, though the Empire State Building has 102 floors whereas the Reynolds Building has 22. For nearly a century, the Reynolds Building was the home office for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The Reynolds Building was named "Building of the Year" by the National Association of Architects, won the 1984 Art Deco Society of New York award for best restoration and was the tallest building in the South for 35 years. In 2016, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurant opened The Cardinal Hotel on the lower six floors below the luxury apartments above." – Visit NC
For ME personally, New York City was the iconic city of a hundred movies and TV shows. We learned about Ellis Island in school. It was mythical. I had had a desire to visit it for years and in 2010, I decided to go. No one was available to go with me, so I said, heck, I'll go by myself. That trip was life-changing.
I did all the things, The Museum of Natural History, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, etc. I loved it, loved the energy of the "city." But I stayed a nonprofit Hostel (HI-NYC) in Upper West Side, where it is very residential. So I was able to relax in a safe environment, away from the hustle and bustle and grind of the City That Never Sleeps. (It does, in fact, sleep.)
The dichotomy of the two places was fascinating. It is indeed an ENORMOUS tourist destination, but for millions of people, it's also home. They live there, eat there, hang out there, all the things that we do where we live. I thoroughly enjoy NYC and have been back several times. I find it inspirational in that I can take what I see and learn from there and bring it home to North Carolina.
There is one item, in particular, that I think we can draw inspiration from. Last year, we had over 1.8 million visitors to Forsyth County. (Yes, million!) With almost $900 million dollars in revenue from those visitors. What I seek to do now is go BACK to NYC, do some practical/in person research and bring. it. home. After all, if one of the world's most iconic buildings was started here, I'm sure they won't mind!
I think it is imperative that we constantly learn, grow and evolve. To keep our city competitive in this ever-growing world, it's going to take innovation on the part of all of us.
This crazy idea called the Winston-Salem Ambassadors is now entering it's 3rd year and we are going strong. So far, my crazy ideas have panned out. Stick with me for the ride: it's gonna get crazy fun.
~*NOTE*~
I will be GOING to NYC in the next few weeks. Can't wait to bring back the energy from the Big Apple and fuse it with our own! Winston-Salem, after all, is awesome.
Much Love, my Twin City family!
-Mackenzie
#TwinCityConnections – Shakira Bethea
THOUGHTS!
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Our Board of Advisors is made up of some of the most passionate, caring people of Winston-Salem. We have a Board of 12 diverse community members.


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Kahlen Rondot nació el 19 de octubre de 1983 en Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Es una modelo estadounidense . Fue la segunda finalista del cuarto ciclo de America's Next Top Model(ANTM), siendo vencida por Naima Mora.

Participación en America's Next Top Model
Kahlen es conocida por su participación en el cuarto ciclo del reality show America's Next Top Model, en el que quedó como segunda finalista siendo derrotada por Naima Mora.

Aunque al comienzo de la competencia mostró una cierta falta de confianza, ella consistentemente dio buenas fotos. Sobre todo los jueces alabaron dos sesiones de fotos en las que destacó mucho: la primera, cuando personificó a la Ira en la sesión de los 7 Pecados Capitales; y la segunda, cuando en la sesión de los animales más representativos de Sudáfrica, encarnó al antílope. Es interesante señalar que, en cuanto a la sesión de los 7 Pecados Capitales, esta fue una ocasión muy emotiva para Kahlen, pues coincidentemente aquella semana una amiga suya acababa de fallecer. Aunque Kahlen se vio muy afectada por la noticia, ello no le impidió brindar una excelente performance.

Cuando ella quedó entre las cuatro finalistas, Nigel Barker le dijo algunas palabras alentadoras: "Eres un camaleón. Tienes la habilidad de transformarte en cualquier cosa. No es sexy, pero es muy interesante"."

Kahlen consiguió llegar a la final del concurso, pero los jueces consideraron que Naima se robó las cámaras en la pasarela final. Tyra Banks opinó que Kahlen "hizo bien todo durante el semestre y decayó en los exámenes finales", mientras que Naima "fue a duras penas durante el semestre pero 'mató' en los exámenes finales".
Recientemente, Rondot ha sido votada como una de las participantes más memorables por AOL, en el que se afirma que "ella debió ganar el concurso".

Sinopsis
Episodio 1: Kahlen confesó no haber visto nunca una sola temporada del show. Tyra, Jay Alexander y Jay Manuel se mostraron sorprendidos, sin embargo vieron un chispazo de potencial y la eligieron entre las 14 finalistas.

Episodio 2: En este episodio, las chicas sufrieron sus "makeovers". A Kahlen le dieron un estilo inspirado en Carmen Kass. En la sesión, llamada "Aliens in Manhattan", Kahlen brindó una buena foto.

Episodio 3: En esta semana, durante la sesión denominada "1-800-Flowers: Caminando con perros" Kahlen fue criticada por mostrar cierta rigidez en el cuello.

Episodio 4: En la cuarta semana, Kahlen representó al signo de Aries y fue felicitada por los jueces debido al buen lenguaje corporal mostrado en la fotografía.

Episodio 5: En esta oportunidad, la sesión fue llevada a cabo con la participación de niños de diferentes etnias, para una publicidad de lácteos. Kahlen tuvo ciertos problemas, al igual que las demás chicas, pues los niños eran demasiado inquietos. A Rondot le correspondió la raza hawaiana.

Episodio 6: El tema de la sesión de esta semana fue el de "La chica que atiende en la estación de gas". La foto debía mostrar a una chica en el frente y a otra al fondo. Kahlen tuvo como compañeras en esta ocasión a Michelle Deighton y Christina Murphy, respectivamente. Rondot obtuvo una excelente foto a la que Tyra llamó "Feroz pero no es tan sexy a la vez"

Episodio 7: Esta semana se llevó a cabo la sesión más sensual del ciclo, cuando las chicas tuvieron que posar en una cama luchando con las almohadas con un modelo masculino. Kahlen, insegura de su lado sexy, no brindó un foto a la altura de las circunstancias.

Episodio 8: La sesión de esta semana fue la más emotiva para Rondot, pues estaba inspirada en los 7 Pecados Capitales. Para esto, la sesión se filmó en un ataúd. Coincidentemente, aquella semana una amiga de Kahlen acababa de fallecer. No obstante este triste suceso, la rubia personificó con maestría al pecado de la Ira, y fue muy alabada por los jueces y llamada por Tyra en el primer lugar. Muchos fanes consideran esta foto como la mejor de todo el cuarto ciclo del show.

Episodio 9: En esta semana las chicas viajaron a Sudáfrica y la sesión fue para publicitar al producto "Lubriderm", encarnando a los animales más representativos de Sudáfrica. A Kahlen le correspondió el antílope. Durante el juicio, Rondot fue alabada por Nigel Barker, quien le dijo que tenía una habilidad camaleónica.

Episodio 10: La sesión de este episodio consistió en que las chicas debían posar en una cascada, con trajes de hierba. Como siempre que se trataba de sesiones sensuales, a Kahlen no le fue muy bien esta vez, no obstante consiguió pasar a la siguiente ronda.

Episodio 11: En esta semana, Rondot también tuvo problemas para la sesión, en la que debía bailar en forma atrevida con tres modelos sudafricanos.

Episodio 12: Recuento de los episodios. En este programa destaca su supuesto beso lésbico con Christina Murphy, imitando jocosamente "la muestra de afecto" que Janice Dickinson proporcionó a Tyra Banks.

Episodio 13: La gran final tuvo como protagonistas a Naima, Keenyah y Kahlen. Para esta ocasión, Kahlen participó en la sesión de CoverGirl así como un video del producto. Su performance en esta ocasión fue interesante (aunque no descollante) y por ello tuvo acceso al desfile final junto con Naima Mora. En el "examen definitorio", Rondot no mostró soltura ni contundencia en la pasarela y los jueces consideraron que Naima la superó largamente. De este modo, Kahlen no logró hacerse con el título de America's Next Top Model (para tristeza de muchos de sus fanes).

Episodio Especial "Return to the Runaway: Where are they now?": En este episodio especial nos enteramos que Kahlen estaba trabajando en capitales de la moda como París, Tokio y Shanghái.

Vida después de America's Next Top Model
Desde su participación en el show, Kahlen ha aparecido en numerosos talk shows, tales como el de Oprah Winfrey y el de Tyra Banks.

Durante una entrevista en el show de Tyra Banks, Kahlen reveló que fue asaltada sexualmente en una fiesta mientras se encontraba embriagada.

En 2005, el Senado de Oklahoma la honró con una resolución "felicitando a Kahlen Rondot por haber representado a Oklahoma en un programa de televisión nacional (y) elogiando su participación en America's Next Top Model".

Sus trabajos relacionados con ANTM incluyen: la sección de tendencias de verano del US Weekly, junto a Naima Mora y Keenyah Hill; imagen de la línea de cosméticos de Jay Manuel; aparición en la revista Radar America's Ex Top Model y una campaña para Tulipa Collection por Vanessa Barantes.
Sus trabajos no relacionados con ANTM comprenden una aparición en la revista Vice y una pasarela para  Zac Posen-Primavera2006, entre otros.

En 2007, aparecieron unas supuestas imágenes lascivas de Rondot en la internet, pero no se llegaron a confirmar estos rumores ni su procedencia.

Últimamente, Kahlen ha dejado de lado su labor como modelo y trabaja como barman en la ciudad de Nueva York, con planes de abrir su propio bar.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Fotos de Kahlen Rondot, en inglés
Página Web de Fanes de Kahlen Rondot, en inglés
Participación de Kahlen en America's Next Top Model, en You Tube

Modelos femeninas de Estados Unidos
Participantes de America's Next Top Model

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Below share with you some of the most popular places to visit during your time in Dorset. There is so much to see and do. All places are easily accessed by car and within easy traveling distance of each other, making for the perfect road trip.
Any road trip to Dorset must feature a visit to the Jurassic Coast of Lyme Regis. Here you can undergo some fossil hunting, browse in the quaint gift shops along the cobbled paths and visit the shore Aquarium. As an area of outstanding natural beauty and of endless beaches, you will find much to enjoy here.
Weymouth is a fun seaside town that boasts sandy beaches alongside a promenade dotted with shops, restaurants and cafes. It is perfect for a day on the beach or a day's sailing. Weymouth was the host for the sailing events at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Brewer's Quay is a fantastic place to buy unusual gifts and you won't be short of hiking and biking trails if you want to be a bit more active.
Another popular seaside resort is that of Bournemouth. There are over 7 miles of sandy beaches to enjoy, so perfect if you ae on a road trip with the kids. If you are enjoying a romantic getaway then Bournemouth has a buzzing nightlife with lots of places to eat and drink. It is also perfect for an evening of live entertainment, with the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) and the Pavilion Theatre regularly offering live theatre and musical acts. Bournemouth is also known for its fantastic shopping facilities and gardens that are situated in the very heart of the shopping complex.
Situated in Wareham, Monkey World is a must visit for both adults and children. This 65-acre park houses monkeys from the TV shows 'Monkey Business' and 'Monkey Life'. Providing a safe sanctuary for monkeys, the zoo is warm and friendly and allows you to see these beautiful animals in their home environment.
Before embarking on any road trip of any distance, you do need to carry out some basic safety checks before you set up. Always ensure that fluid levels such as oil, water and window washer are correct. It is also important to check your tyre pressure and that you have all relevant emergency equipment for your journey, just in case something happens. Other than that though, you simply need to enjoy your time away.
If you do decide to explore this beautiful county by car, we would love to know your thoughts. More information about Dorset can be found by visiting www.visit-dorset.com.


From the Richmond-Times Dispatch archives, here is an image from October 1975 featuring Mrs. Barbara Pohlig (standing) as she conducts a family budget counseling session. Family education was among the programs offered by Family & Children's Service of Richmond, a United Way agency. Mrs. Pohlig also handled sessions on consumerism.
Family Lifeline, which originated as The City Mission in 1877, is celebrating 140 years of services this year. The organization, which helps citizens in need, transformed over the years from Associated Charities (1905), to Family Service Society (1928), and Family & Children Services (1968). Today, as Family Lifeline, the organization continues its work in the Greater Richmond area and is the largest nonprofit provider of intensive home-based care in Central Virginia.


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Q: CoreData return entities which have a relationship to >0 entities AND the count of those relationships I have a to-many (optional) relationship from entity A to entity B via the 'ref' field and I'm using the following predicate to only return A entities which have one or more references:
NSPredicate *tagsPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ref.@count > 0"];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:tagsPredicate];

Using this predicate I can populate my table view with fields from entity A, e.g. A.name.   However I would also like to retrieve and display the count of references to the B entities, i.e. the value of ref.count value.
Thanks,
Paul

A: If the question is "how do I get the count of objects that A.ref points to?", one possible answer is: [A valueForKeyPath:@"ref.@count"]. Another is: [A.ref count].

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This accessory is a really versatile one. You can make it using a few items. The final product will be a stylish necklace which can be worn with a sweater or with a tank or camisole.
Directions: Cut the collar off of your shirt. Place the beads on it (until you start sewing) and take a picture because this image will be very helpful for you to see where to sew each bead. Now, begin to sew bead by bead only on the top layer. Place a bead as button and sew it. And Voila! Enjoy your beautiful collar necklace!


Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam 1. It's that when G-d creates or sustains something He does so with wafts of life-energy radiating toward it known as Divine "emanations" 2. And that emanation defines that person, place, or thing's makeup 3.
An analogous phenomenon in our experience, he offers, is the way the constellations emanate upon 4 things in the world, Ramchal offers 5. Indeed, they affect and color everything that happens in our world. For as our sages put it, "each and every blade of grass down here has a 'constellation' up above that strikes it and says to it, 'Grow!'" (Breishit Rabbah 10:6).
But know that those constellations only bestow upon and control things that they'd been told to by G-d, as G-d alone is the source and impetus behind each and every act of emanation 6. For as Rambam put it 7, it's G-d alone who is the ultimate source of the existence of everything.
Yet recall that His ways are not our ways 8. And nothing He does as He interacts with this universe emanates from His own pure Being itself which transcends everything.
Everything that He has occur here 9 has been bestowed upon according to His will by an agent 10. And everything is to be bestowed upon exactly the way He decreed it should be, and is to fit into the makeup and needs of this world specifically.
It turns out then that both the agents that generate this world that G-d created as well as the persons, places, and things they helped to generate are created phenomena — not just the latter. It's also true that G-d created different manners and degrees of emanation according to the things He wanted to be created. And each agent of emanation is to affect a specific thing. Isn't it true, after all, that the emanation of wisdom is one sort, that of strength is another, and that of wealth is yet another, etc.
. But why would G-d have done it that way when He could have had everything bestowed upon by a single agent rather than by a number of them?
That's because what emanation is at bottom is what G-d provides to His created beings so as to accomplish one thing or another. It's not up to us to consider the makeup of that emanation from G-d's perspective, since we can't fathom what He Himself does, but rather from our own perspective. So when G-d bestows might, for example, to something or another He does through the agent that bestows might since G-d wanted that thing to be powerful. And when He wants something to experience wisdom He has it bestowed upon by the agent of wisdom, etc. 11.
Let's consider goodness and wrongfulness 12. How are they bestowed upon?
1 While this doesn't seem to touch on the subject at first blush it will be explained on later.
2 See 1:14 note 7 above for an explanation. Also see Ramchal's statement below that "what emanation is at bottom is what G-d provides to His created beings so as to accomplish one thing or another".
The point here is that G-d has to effulgently grant either life itself or the ability to continue to live and exist upon a person, place or thing in order for it to do that.
It's because of this mechanism in fact that G-d is termed "the fountain of living waters" (Jeremiah 17:13) and "the source of life" (Psalms 36:10).
3 That is, the strength, character, and configuration of G-d's emanation shapes and "colors" the person, place, or thing it's bestowed upon (much the way the degree and quality of love or the lack of it that a parent bestows upon a child defines and shapes his or her being).
Ramchal cites Moreh Nevuchim 2:10, but see 2:11 there, too, as well as Ramchal's discussion of much this idea in Derech Hashem 1:5:2.
4 Or, control and fuel.
5 "Constellations" in this context can also refer to any higher celestial phenomena that have control of lower ones, and so on downward, snf need not refer to the physical constellations we know of (since the Hebrew term is mazal, which has both implications).
6 That is, G-d Himself is the source of every emanation, whether it's His very own or one of His dutiful agents.
8 As we're told, "'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways', declares the L-rd." (Isaiah 55:8).
9 Both the processes G-d uses to create and maintain things, and the makeup of things themselves.
10 That is, though G-d indeed fuels the emanations that would be necessary for all the instances of wrong and injustice in the universe, nevertheless that emanation isn't directly from G-d or a part of His Being — it only serve a specific purpose.
This underscores the point that while G-d certainly allows for wrong and injustice since things only exist and go on with His awareness and approval, still the point is that it's separate from His essence and only serves a temporary end which will be undone in the end.
11 That is, G-d does indeed emit what we might term a "composite" emanation — one single amorphous extension of His will, but we don't experience it that way. It's just that when it touches upon our own situation it takes on as particular hue and tone specific to the task at hand, whether it's to allow for intelligence, strength or the like.
12 In light of all this now, rather than traits as we have been.


An easy guide to recycling!
Harrow Council have provided blue, brown and green/grey bins for waste to every house in the borough, and are extending these arrangements to flats.
In the not too distant past, Harrow's waste was sent to landfill, which wasted potentially useful materials which could be salvaged, and is becoming increasingly difficult as all the nearby landfill sites are becoming full.
Britain relies more heavily on landfill than other countries in Europe, but all are experiencing the same problems, and all local authorities are committed to improve their waste disposal arrangements.
vegetable peelings or food waste.
Food waste should be wrapped in newspaper (a cellulose product which will degrade readily), but it is better to recycle newspapers, so they should not routinely be placed in the brown bin.
The brown bin is collected every week – so food waste in Harrow is collected as often as it was under Harrow's traditional arrangements. Not everyone realised this when the arrangements were changed in 2006, and Harrow got a bad press which it did not deserve.
Most plastic bags will not rot down to form compost, and those that do are difficult to identify. They should not be placed in the brown bin, neither should oasis, which should be separated from flower arrangements.
The Harrow blue bin is for materials which can be recycled, e.g.
It is collected every fortnight.
Harrow is part of West Waste, which uses a MRF (Material Recycling Facility), pronounced merf, to separate these materials for reuse.
The Harrow green or grey bin is for everything else, e.g.
This is collected every fortnight. As it cannot be recycled it goes to landfill.
If we do not create the waste in the first instance we do not put ourselves in the position of needing to recycle it. So – can you reduce the resources you use, use them again or give them to someone else who can do so, and only then recycle them under Harrow's arrangements?
They decompose in the treatment conditions the waste gets and the brown bin is collected weekly. This means that everyone who expects the traditional weekly collection need not worry about the materials which would be troublesome if they were left for a fortnight, as they will not be.
Using newspaper to wrap food waste minimises nuisance and the possibility of infestation.
I would prefer cooking fat and oil to be used as a source of biodiesel – some SE London authorities are doing this for commercial fats & oils – not sure what Harrow's arrangements are, and whether they apply to household waste.
I recently found out that some refuse collectors will not empty your brown bin if you have non – Harrow decomposable bags in them.
Why? If it's decomposable and from Harrow or a supermarket, who cares right?
They want us to use Harrow ones because it's guaranteed to decompose in three weeks! Wow! That's so quick.
Also they'd need to familiarise themselves with all the different decomposable bags that are on sale, in order to know whether the contents were in an appropriate bag or not. Unless it says decomposable all over it, they won't necessarily know.
I think it sounds quite reasonable. Do you?
Plastic water bottles are a huge problem in many areas. Some places have actually banned them altogether, others charge high a deposit fee.
Too bad bio-plastics just aren't viable yet on a large scale.
So what are we supposed to do with flower pots ?
Obviously not compostable, but can they go in the recycling bin ?


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Coping With The Workplace Bully – Part 1
"Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My
niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we
may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,
till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt
us to have mercy on him: at which time we will
bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see."
~ Sir Toby Belch (speaking about Malvolio),
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4
(Note: This two-part entry on bullying concludes my year-long series on job search skills and beginning a new job.)
As a new hire, it's possible that you'll find a bully or two lurking at your new company, spreading incivility and destruction in his or her wake. Bullies have been around forever, ranging from misguided and ignorant, like Malvolio and the other bullies in Twelfth Night, to scheming and cruel like Iago in Othello. They exist at every stage and in every aspect of our lives. From toddlerhood on, bullies pop up everywhere. They can be found in families, classrooms, schools, communities, college campuses, stores, restaurants, offices and in government.
But take heart! This week and next I'll help to equip you to avoid falling into their traps.
We know that for the past several years there has been a global conversation about bullying in schools that has extended to workplaces and throughout society. A very creative approach to curbing bullying occurred a few years ago when Colorado experimented by using a tour of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 25 schools, in which they added workshops to discuss the bullying that occurs among the characters in the play. Perhaps we can get a bit more creative about stopping workplace bullying.
For now, let's explore some background about bullies, and then next week we'll look at some techniques for coping with them.
To Begin, Are Bullies Born or Made?
Experts disagree on whether bullies are born or made. One study concluded that "bullying and other types of childhood aggression can be inherited." On the flip side, psychotherapist Katie Hurley believes that "..bullies are not born into this world…Bullies are raised."
But whether bullies are produced by nature or nurture, according to a 1997 Ohio University study, experts agree on some common characteristics of school-age bullies, which the study says could apply also to adult bullies and domestic abusers. A few of those characteristics include controlling, hot tempered and lack of empathy. According to the same study, victims exhibit a lack of social skills, blame themselves for their problems and are afraid to go to school.
Other studies indicate that bullying in childhood can have lifelong health implications, but another reports that when parents have intervened and reported bullying to the authorities their children have escaped being bullied later. In addition, socializing children early on and instilling self-esteem, integrity, independence, empathy and confidence will help to ensure that they become neither bully nor victim, as a child, teen or adult.
Bullies in Literature and Cinema
In addition to Shakespeare bullies, literature and the movies are full of examples that can teach us a great deal about bullies in the workplace and elsewhere. Here are some examples (I'm sure you can come up with many more!):
Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Vernon Dursley, Lucias Malfoy, Dolores Umbridge, Severus Snape, Harry Potter series
Pap Finn, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lucy van Pelt, Peanuts
Curley, Of Mice and Men
Creone, Antigone
Thomas J. Wilson, Back to the Future
Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Regina George, Mean Girls
Gordon Ramsey, Kitchen Nightmares, etc.
Bullying and Suicide
Is there a connection? Although there have been some high profile suicides due to bullying, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control the two are related but it's not clear if bullying is the direct cause of suicides. The CDC cautions that, "framing the discussion of the issue as bullying being a single, direct cause of suicide is not helpful and is potentially harmful." You can read more CDC comments here.
I've not found statistics regarding adult suicides that have resulted from workplace bullying; however, there are some reported cases, or at least claims, that indicate a link between bullying and suicide, including the case of Kevin Morrissey who allegedly was bullied by his boss at the University of Virginia's award-winning literary magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review.
Bosses Who Bully and Enable
According to their 2014 survey, the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) reports that "bosses are still the majority of bullies." Articles in Psychology Today and Forbes address this issue.
Even worse, bosses are also primary bully enablers. But, why, we ask, would the boss, who is charged with overseeing his or her business unit with professionalism, integrity and inclusiveness aid and abet bullies? One answer might be that often in business the focus is on the present rather than on long range consequences.
Here are profiles of bosses who are bullies or enablers, or both:
Bully Boss
He's an incompetent or lackluster manager who tries to deflect his shortcomings by making others seem deficient. He bullies by demeaning and humiliating others, often in public, until they appear to be the problems. This type of bully boss usually doesn't last, but before he crashes and burns he drags others down or drives them away.
She's a competent manager who brings in the business. Senior management and the board of directors or trustees love her. She wields her power by showering fear on those who she feels are not performing to her standards or are not loyal to her. She drives talented people away or discredits them. She tends to flourish in high tech, engineering and financial firms.
Bully Enabler Boss
He hates to hear complaints about others on the team and doesn't wish to get involved with conflicts even when it's clear that there's a bully on staff who's causing havoc. He feels it's not his problem and adults ought to be able to work out their issues themselves.
She favors the person who outperforms and will protect him even if he's a bully who demoralizes others on her staff. It's not her concern if people cannot stand up for themselves.
He will protect bullies on his staff as long as they remain loyal to him.
Such a boss seems to have his own interests at heart rather than the health of his company or the core strength of his staff. He feels if the bullied employee isn't happy or complains then it's best if she leaves. In the view of the bully or enabler boss no one is indispensible except for the bullies who are outperforming or loyal. Bullies often do the boss's dirty work by driving out team members the boss no longer finds valuable or believes to be a threat. The bully/enabler boss believes that corporate natural selection makes perfect sense.
Workplace Mean Girls versus Bully Boys
You thought you left them behind at high school, didn't you? But, then they popped up on your college campus, and later at work. They've grown up and are more troublesome than ever. But, don't forget that you've grown up, too, and are better equipped to deal with them now.
It's important, though, to understand the general differences between bully boys and mean girls. Men are likely to be direct in their approach — yelling, insulting, belittling, intimidating. Men usually get right in your face and there's no question that you are being bullied. Women, on the other hand, approach bullying more subtly, with an eye roll behind your back, "forgetting" to invite you to a meeting or copy you on an email , making jokes at your expense followed by a reassuring smile and a "just kidding," making reluctant" criticisms and telling you how much she's helped you. Of course, just to complicate things some men can bully in such a feminine manner and some women can bully like a man, or a combination of tactics can be used.
It Comes Down To You
While it's tempting to oversimplify what makes bullies and victims as well as the consequences, the subject is complex. It's important to be aware of all the components to avoid stereotyping or making assumptions. Currently awareness of bullying is high and that is very helpful. But in the end it comes down to you and your ability to deal with the bully. Stay tuned.
Posted in: Civility, Difficult People, Workplace Empathy, Workplace Strategy
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PBMs Under Fire at Senate Hearing
— Expert witnesses call for strong consumer protection, federal regulation
by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today May 5, 2022
The role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the drug supply chain and whether "anti-competitive" practices are driving up healthcare costs was scrutinized by the Senate on Thursday.
PBMs are just one player in a "broken supply chain" explained Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), during a Thursday hearing of the Senate Subcommittee for the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
As middlemen, PBMs are hired by health plans to manage prescription drug benefits and, in theory, to keep costs to the health plan low by negotiating rebates with drug companies, he said.
"The problem is that patients rarely see or feel the benefits," said Blumenthal, chair of the subcommittee. "Drug prices continue to rise. Insurance costs continue to eat into incomes, and more and more often, drugs patients need are not covered by their healthcare plan at all."
One reason patients may not be reaping the benefits of PBM negotiations is that PBMs are incentivized to keep "list prices" -- the initial price of a drug set by the manufacturer -- high. PBMs receive their rebates based on the list price and get to keep a portion of those rebates; therefore the higher a drug's initial price, the more PBMs profit, Blumenthal said.
Robin Feldman, JD, professor and researcher at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a witness at the hearing, likened PBM practices to a store that raises the price of a jacket before later putting it back on sale at the original price. A customer walking into the store may see the markdown as a bargain, but it isn't.
But that's not the worst part, she said. "Imagine if the price jump is higher than the sale discount. That's what's happening with medicine. Prices are rising faster than the rebates," she said, noting that Medicare prices for pharmaceuticals after rebates rose 313% on average from 2010 to 2017.
"We are buying the same jacket, but it's costing us more and more," Feldman said, "and a significant portion of that increase is going to the PBMs."
Another reason these high list prices matter, even though most consumers do not pay them, is that most commercial insurers and the Medicare program base patients' out-of pocket payments on the list price itself, not the price after rebates, Blumenthal said.
PBMs may argue that those rebates are funnelled through to insurers and ultimately lower patients' healthcare costs, but "we have no idea whether this is accurate, because PBMs shroud this information in secrecy," he added.
PBMs are "probably one of the least regulated areas of the drug supply chain," said David Balto, JD, an antitrust attorney for David A. Balto Law Offices and a witness at the hearing, citing a lack of enforcement, particularly from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
This lack of enforcement has allowed PBMs to form a "tight oligopoly" in which three firms "dominate the market" giving them the opportunity to act anti-competitively, he said. For instance, by forcing pharmacies to "reimburse below cost" or denying a generic drug access to a health plan's formulary because the manufacturer isn't offering the kinds of rebates that brand name drugs provide. He compared the PBMs' process of determining a formulary to "an auction for shelf space in which ... the highest-cost products to the consumer is going to win the auction."
Blumenthal noted that "hundreds of drugs" have been excluded by the largest PBMs every year -- ranging from certain types of insulin, to cancer drugs, to medications for other chronic conditions.
"The PBM industry is the only stakeholder in the chain dedicated to seeking lower costs, and we are proud to play that role," said J.C. Scott, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. "PBMs do that work for the employer, union health plan, and government clients who hire them and most importantly, the patients for whom those plans provide coverage."
He argued that PBMs return $10 in savings for every $1 dollar spent on their services and "will lower the cost of health care by $1 trillion this year alone."
One witness, Craig Garthwaite, professor and director of the Program on Healthcare for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, also defended PBMs by arguing that in the past they offered contracts to health plans that would pass rebates to consumers at the point-of-sale. But such contracts were "routinely ignored," he said, "in favor of capturing high rebates."
He acknowledged that PBMs "do appear to be exploiting a lack of transparency" in the market. However, he stressed that there are ways to improve transparency and that "if we are worried about high list prices leading to high cost-sharing, we should attack that directly through congressional action."
Ranking Member Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced a bill, the Pharmacy Benefit Managers Accountability Study Act alongside Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) that would require the Government Accountability Office to produce a report for both HHS and Congress focused on PBMs' role in the drug supply chain and encouraged her colleagues to support the bill.
Blackburn, Blumenthal, and the full Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) also sponsored a bill last year directing the FTC to report to Congress on anti-competitive practices in the supply chain.
In response to questions from Blumenthal regarding the bill, Scott said on behalf of his group representing PBMs that if the FTC were required to examine the drug supply chain, "we would not be opposed to that study."
Shannon Firth has been reporting on health policy as MedPage Today's Washington correspondent since 2014. She is also a member of the site's Enterprise & Investigative Reporting team. Follow


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Hummer Names New Marketing Director
NEW YORK Megan Stooke has been named the new marketing director of General Motors' Hummer.
Stooke replaces Liz Vanzura, who was appointed marketing director for Cadillac on Feb. 1.
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Prior to joining the Hummer team, Stooke was director of advertising and sales promotion for GM's Chevrolet division since May 2005. In that capacity she was responsible for Chevy national advertising and sales promotions.
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How to Ask for Interviews
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I was just offered an interview from one of the schools in Texas (my home state). Currently i am working in Boston and would really like to save money on flights, especially in this economy. so can anyone give me advice as to how to ask med schools for interviews while i'm in town, without sounding too cocky and stupid?
Also, asking schools for interviews would not hurt me, right? thx
BlueElmo
hthoang said:
You don't ask for interviews. They select you for them.
teachmed27
OP says he was already offered (or selected for) an interview.
I would think scheduling is somewhat flexible. If you just explain your situation and simply ask you would not sound cocky.
teachmed27 said:
Oh I see. Yeah, in that case, I think a call would suffice.
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I read it as the OP has been offered an interview at one of the Texas state schools, and so they'd like to knock out the interviews at as many Texas schools as they can in one trip.
It's not unheard of to shoot the other schools in the area an email simply saying, "Hey, I've been given an interview at School X on Date Y; if I am being considered for an interview at your school as well and if it is at all possible, I would appreciate being offered an interview near Date Y to minimize my traveling costs. However, of course, I will understand if that is not possible." Just do it with the expectation of getting nothing out of it and with the understanding that it would be a bonus if you did get your request granted.
Seeing as this isn't really a question that's specific to a single school, I'm going to move this to Pre-Allo.
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Girls like softy guys - they fall for pediatricians! Go volunteer in a newborn nursery and practice changing diapers. Then you can tell your girl that, well, if, the situation were to arise, you can change diapers and put babies to sleep. She'll fall for you immediately. Just don't mention that pediatricians are really, really poor and only can drive old cars and wear stupid bow ties.
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It wouldn't hurt to ask.
When's the interview? The only problem is that it's still really early in the application process, and the other schools may not have had the chance to review your application yet. But it's pretty common for people to group interviews together if they're traveling a long way....but don't give off the impression that you expect them to interview you. Maybe send them an email notifying them that you will be in the area over a range of dates?


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Busted myths: what spiders, chewing gum and haemorrhoids have in common
December 31, 2015 4.23pm EST
Maggie Hardy, The University of Queensland, Michael Tam, UNSW, Vincent Ho, Western Sydney University
Maggie Hardy
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Michael Tam
General Practitioner, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW
Vincent Ho
Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
Dr Maggie Hardy receives funding from The University of Queensland and UniQuest Pty Ltd.
Michael Tam and Vincent Ho do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Western Sydney University, UNSW, and University of Queensland provide funding as members of The Conversation AU.
We swallow spiders in our sleep, don't we? from www.shutterstock.com.au
As children, we believed our friends and parents when they told us disturbing tales of watermelon seeds growing in our stomachs and changes in the wind freezing our pulled funny faces permanently. But which of these childhood tales is true and what is a myth? We asked three experts whether there's any truth (or lesson to be learned) to the tales that kept us up at night.
Do we really swallow spiders in our sleep?
Maggie Hardy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland
I work with spiders for a living and, aside from what I'm sure would be the very rarest of occurrences, the idea that we eat them while we sleep is a myth.
Some spider species are known to "balloon" – a process where they release a thread of silk and float on the wind, ending up wherever it takes them. I suppose you could have one of these accidentally drift into your mouth while you're asleep. But you'd have to be unlucky for that to happen.
It's unlikely that spiders crawl into our mouth when we sleep. from shutterstock.com
But, generally, researchers think that while it's possible we could swallow a spider while we sleep, it's unlikely and would be a random event.
One American spider specialist, for instance, has outlined that five circumstances must collide for this unlikely event to happen.
1) You need to be asleep with your mouth open (not everyone sleeps like that)
2) A spider must be on your bed (spiders tend to stay away from humans)
3) It has to crawl across your body
4) It has to actually want to go into your mouth, and
5) You have to actually swallow it (we don't automatically swallow everything that goes in our mouth).
So why is this myth so popular? A group of scientists found high levels of people's disgust of spiders together with their phobia of coming into contact with them has led to our unrealistic expectation that we eat them unconsciously.
However, entomophagy (the human practice of eating insects as food) is becoming popular. Recently, the United Nations recommended eating insects as a sustainable food source, as they contain up to 65% protein with only a fraction of the calories of beef.
So I wouldn't worry too much about eating spiders while you sleep. In the future, you may be eating insects and spiders on purpose anyway.
Does sitting on cold concrete give you piles?
Michael Tam, General Practitioner and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Australia
Bright red blood on toilet paper, anal pain and itching: these are symptoms of piles, or haemorrhoids, that commonly occur in adults. The lifetime likelihood of having a haemorrhoid at some point may be as high as 50%, though many people may not have any significant symptoms.
Haemorrhoids are often caused by abdominal straining, not from sitting on cold concrete. Abby Juarez/Flickr, CC BY
Haemorrhoids have been popularly conceptualised as "varicose veins" around the rectum and anus. This isn't strictly true, though I have to admit I use this analogy with patients myself.
The underlying idea is that the small veins around the rectum and anus enlarge and balloon out. This happens from pressure in these vessels when the blood flow back to the heart is impaired.
The modern understanding of the pathological process is somewhat more complex. Regardless, haemorrhoids are often caused or triggered by abdominal straining.
Mostly commonly, this can happen when constipated or straining to pass hard motions at the toilet. Other causes include pregnancy, heavy manual labour, along with some hereditary or genetic factors.
So where does the myth that they can be caused by sitting on cold concrete come from?
Historically, there was some popularity to this belief. In a book published in 1865, a medical author claims that "sitting on cold and wet stones" is a cause of "anal neuralgia", and describes the case history of one of his patients "who was said to have piles".
It is possible these ideas arose and flourished from "sympathetic magic" conceptualisations of cause and effect. That is, "like causes like" after physical contact. Sitting on a cold stone surface is uncomfortable for your posterior – ergo, it can cause a condition that is experienced as an uncomfortable posterior.
Warts being caused by touching toads is another classic example. Neither, of course, is true.
Does gum sit in your stomach years after you swallow it?
Vincent Ho, Lecturer and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist at Western Sydney University
The answer to this urban myth is a resounding no. But, as with all good myths, there is an element of truth behind it.
It's not good for you to swallow chewing gum. Vlad Meytin/Flickr, CC BY
Chewing gum, in all its various forms, has been around for a long time. Scientists have found lumps of birch bark tar with teeth marks dating back to the Stone Age. The Greeks chewed resin from the mastic tree and, in North America, spruce resin was chewed by Native Americans.
Modern gum products evolved from a natural gum, chicle, derived from the Sapodilla tree, which is indigenous to Central America.
Chewing gum survives the stomach's acidic environment surprisingly intact. It is very resilient and not broken down by digestive enzymes. The normal propulsive waves of the gut, however, will eventually expel gum out of the body like other food materials.
Gum is normally surrounded by bile, pancreatic enzymes and other fluids and thus tends not to stick in the intestine.
But just because gum can pass through the digestive system doesn't mean we should make a habit of swallowing it. Chronic massive consumption of gum can spell trouble.
One medical report described two young children who, as prolific gum chewers, swallowed a certain amount of gum. They developed chronic constipation and large rectal masses known as rectal "bezoars", made up mainly of chewing gum.
Another report described an 18-year-old girl who was hospitalised because of persistent upper abdominal pain. She was in the habit of chewing and swallowing at least five wafers of chewing gum per day. A large gastric bezoar made up of chewing gum and food materials was pulled out of her stomach at gastroscopy.
As the saying goes, "moderation is best in all things".
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Renewable Power Project Could Help Cut Food Processing Costs, Feed People and Animals
Researchers at UC Solar have developed and tested an innovative solar thermal-powered process for turning the pomace, or byproduct, of vegetable and fruit processing into reusable products, potentially lowering food-processing plant costs and reducing their carbon footprints.
With collaborators at the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), UC Merced graduate student Jonathan Ferry and UC Solar Director Professor Roland Winston tested and optimized a solar-powered drum dryer for use in food-processing applications.
Drum dryers are widely used in paper and food production outside California. The dryers typically work by pumping steam to heat a rotating steel drum. A stream of pureed food is dripped onto the drum, creating an ultra-thin, dehydrated layer of the food that is scraped off for later use. Common products made this way, such as milk powder and instant mashed potatoes, are shelf-stable and lightweight.
But produce-processing plants create hundreds of gallons of pomace in the form of heavy purees each day as they juice and otherwise process fruits and vegetables. Food processors can sell or give away the raw pomace to local farms and dairies. That avoids the landfill but has some disadvantages of its own: The pomace is only available a few months each year during processing season; raw pomace can mold if it is stored for more than a few days; and it's expensive and bad for the environment to haul the heavy, wet pomace by truck.
Solar-thermal drum drying addresses all these issues, collaborators said.
UC Solar's two-drum dryer — run on solar thermal power — presses the pomace into thin dehydrated sheets and at the very least, saves processing plants space and the cost of removing the heavy byproduct by turning it into a much lighter substance.
At best, the dryer can transform pomace into human-grade food.
"We had great success with a lot of the samples. Prune pomace came out looking like shaved chocolate, and the carrot pomace was still sweet," Ferry said. "There is a lot of nutrition in pomaces. They are made up of the seeds, skins and other fibrous parts of the fruit or vegetable."
The USDA-ARS collaborators bought a small-scale drum dryer for UC Solar and supplied samples of different industrially-produced pomaces and purees from prunes, tomatoes, carrots and strawberries to see what Ferry and Winston could do.
The researchers tested the pomaces on a flat plate first to optimize temperatures and drying times. They integrated the drum dryers with Winston's XCPC solar collectors, which use a heat-transferring oil instead of steam and don't require solar tracking to gather heat.
Part of adapting the drum to the solar collectors included testing surface temperatures, because the XCPC generates heat in excess of 200 Celsius, or nearly 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
"We had to cover part of the collector, because it was just too hot," Ferry said.
Ferry and Winston gathered statistical data for all the samples, which are now being analyzed by the USDA-ARS.
"The technology developed in this project gives fruit and vegetable processors another option for upgrading their discard streams into revenue-producing streams. Even better, because all the heat needed for the drum dryer is supplied by the sun, the process can be implemented without generating any additional greenhouse gases," said Project Director Dr. Rebecca Milczarek with the USDA-ARS. "I have enjoyed working with the UC Solar folks on this interdisciplinary team project. The technical expertise in the two labs is quite complementary. My lab is excited to see tried-and-true — but heat-intensive — food-processing technology being powered by cutting-edge green energy."
While the research team will have to analyze costs and conduct many more tests before it can advocate for widespread industry use, UC Solar has achieved its goal.
"We wanted to show that solar thermal can be an effective way to power a drum drying system, and we did that," Ferry said. "This could be a great inroad for solar into the food processing industry, and it's also a great way to process the fruit and vegetable pomace that would otherwise have little value."


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Kalle Anka som autografjägare (engelska: The Autograph Hound) är en amerikansk animerad kortfilm med Kalle Anka från 1939.

Handling
Kalle Anka försöker samla in autografer från ett flertal filmstjärnor, men det är inte lätt. Det är inte bara det faktum att stjärnorna är svåra att imponera, han jagas också av en säkerhetsvakt.

Om filmen
Filmen hade svensk premiär den 8 december 1939 på Sture-Teatern i Stockholm som innehåll i ett kortfilmsprogram tillsammans med de andra kortfilmerna Rovor i snön, Jan Långben och gräshoppan, Kalle Ankas kusin, Den fula ankungen och Tjuren Ferdinand.

I filmen förekommer tecknade versioner av dåtidens stora stjärnor som Greta Garbo, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Sonja Henie och Bröderna Ritz.

Rollista
 Clarence Nash – Kalle Anka
 Billy Bletcher – säkerhetsvakten
 Sara Berner – Shirley Temple, Sonja Henie, Greta Garbo

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Tommy Nobis may be the only football player nearly recruited from outer space. In 1965, when he was drafted No. 1 in the NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons and No. 1 in the old AFL draft by the Houston Oilers, Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the Gemini 7 spacecraft, radioed word from space encouraging Nobis to sign with the Oilers. The message was relayed to Nobis, who opted to sign with the Falcons and became the finest football player in the franchise's history.
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Onneca u Oneca (Íñiga) Fortúnez de Pamplona (c. 848 – después de 958) fue una noble vascona del Reino de Pamplona, posteriormente denominado Reino de Navarra. Era hija de Fortún Garcés de Pamplona y su esposa Auria o Oria (Awriya bint Lubb ibn Musa).

Por la época en que nace Onneca la península ibérica se encontraba bajo el dominio de la dinastía musulmana Omeya. Solo los reinos del norte de Asturias y Pamplona y los condados catalanes permanecían cristianos, perpetuando las tradiciones hispanorromanas visigodas. Oneca era miembro de la Casa de los Íñiguez, que hacía honor a su bisabuelo Íñigo Arista, quien había fundado el Reino de Pamplona hacia 824, apenas 25 años antes del nacimiento de Oneca. La información sobre la vida de Oneca es parcial. Datos biográficos sobre ella provienen de dos fuentes principales: el Códice de Roda y los relatos de historiadores musulmanes andalusíes, que hacen referencia a Oneca por el nombre árabe Durr (در), que significa "perla".

Onneca es principalmente conocida por haber contraído matrimonio con un príncipe de la dinastía Omeya. Aunque las uniones matrimoniales entre concubinas esclavas cristianas y gobernantes musulmanes eran frecuentes, el caso de Onneca es uno de los pocos ejemplos en los cuales una princesa cristiana contrae matrimonio con la realeza musulmana. Este matrimonio generó lazos familiares entre las familias gobernantes cristianas y musulmanas de la península ibérica, conduciendo inicialmente a una colaboración estrecha entre la casa de Íñiguez y los musulmanes Omeyas. Los efectos políticos del matrimonio de Oneca se hicieron sentir más allá de su muerte, acaecida en fecha incierta.

Matrimonio con el Emir Abdullah

Fortún Garcés padre de Oneca, que era el heredero al trono de Pamplona, fue capturado en el año 860 en el pueblo de Milagro durante una expedición punitiva contra el pequeño reino de Pamplona comandada por Muhammad I, emir musulmán de Córdoba. La expedición asoló el territorio del reino cristiano y las fuerzas musulmanas se apoderaron de tres castillos. Fortun Garcés, apodado al-Anqar (الأنقر) por los musulmanes a causa de ser tuerto, fue llevado a Córdoba, donde permaneció detenido durante dos décadas en un cautiverio dorado.

Onneca acompañó o siguió a su padre a Córdoba, donde se casó con Abdullah (o Abd Allah) el hijo de Muhammad I hacia 862/863. Se desconoce cuándo o cómo llegó a Córdoba. Tal vez fuese capturada junto con su padre, o enviada a acompañar a su padre en la corte en una fecha posterior. Posiblemente Oneca era todavía una adolescente cuando le dio a Abdullah un hijo llamado Muhammad en el año 864. Al convertirse en esposa de Abdullah, Oneca pasó a ser llamada Durr, un nombre árabe que significa "perla". Según algunas fuentes, se convirtió al Islam. Además de Muhammad, Oneca y Abdullah fueron padres de dos hijas: al-Baha' y Fátima la joven, supuestamente tuvieron otro hijo, Zayd ibn Abd Allah, padre de Zaydan ibn Zayd, el Zedán Zada de los libros de linajes portugueses

Hacia 882, luego de permanecer casi dos décadas en Córdoba, Oneca debió regresar a Pamplona con su padre, quien había tomado recientemente posesión del trono, y por tanto abandonó a su marido e hijos musulmanes.

Abdullah se convirtió en emir en 888, y Muhammad, el hijo de Oneca, fue designado heredero al trono. Sin embargo, el 28 de enero de 891 Muhammad fue asesinado por al-Mutarrif, su medio hermano más joven. Existen discrepancias entre los historiadores sobre si al-Mutarrif actuó impulsado por su propia cuenta o si fue instigado por su padre Abdullah. Al-Mutarrif inicialmente no fue ajusticiado, pero nuevamente sospechoso de traición fue decapitado en 895 por orden de su padre. Por lo tanto Abd-ar-Rahman, el hijo de Muhammad que había nacido tres semanas antes del asesinato de su padre, fue quien sucedió a su abuelo Abdullah como emir de Córdoba. Conocido en occidente como Abd-ar-Rahman III, posteriormente se coronó califa. Por lo tanto, Oneca fue abuela por parte paterna de Abd-ar-Rahman III, quien heredó de ella y de su madre Muzna, de raíces vascas, rasgos europeos tales como ojos azules y pelo rojizo claro, el cual Abd-ar-Rahman intentó modificar tiñéndose su barba para asemejarse más a un árabe típico.

Matrimonio con Aznar Sánchez de Larraún
Al poco tiempo de regresar a Pamplona, casó con su primo el conde Aznar Sánchez de Larraún, hijo de Sancho Garcés y nieto de García Íñiguez de Pamplona. Tuvieron un hijo y dos hijas, probablemente nacidos entre 883 y 890. Sus hijas, Toda y Sancha, se convertirían en reinas consortes de Pamplona al contraer matrimonio con miembros de la dinastía Jimena, que llegó al poder en el año 905 después de desplazar del trono al padre de Oneca, Fortún Garcés:
 Sancho, de quien se tienen noticias solamente a través de las genealogías del Códice de Roda, probablemente fallecido siendo joven.
 Toda Aznárez casó con Sancho I Garcés, uniendo a las casas reales de Íñiguez y Jimena.
 Sancha Aznárez contrajo matrimonio con el hermano de Sancho Garcés I de Pamplona y quien sería su sucesor Jimeno Garcés. Según el Códice de Roda, fue asesinada en Galias in villa Laco por su hijo García Jiménez, quien después fue asesinado por Ihoannes Belescones et Cardelle Belascones in Salerazo.

Cronologías alternativas
El Códice de Roda, la única fuente que proporciona información sobre el matrimonio cristiano de Onneca, ubica la unión con su primo Aznar Sánchez de Larraún antes de su casamiento, y como viuda con Abdullah de Córdoba.

Basado en esto, el historiador francés Évariste Lévi-Provençal desarrolló una cronología de la vida de Oneca que sitúa su nacimiento hacia 835. Lévi-Provençal opina que Oneca no acompañó a su padre de regreso a Pamplona en 882, o bien porque ya había fallecido, o porque se había convertido al islam y prefirió quedarse en el harem de Abdullah. Sin embargo, esta cronología entraña problemas, ya que implica que los hijos de Oneca y Aznar nacieron antes o muy poco después de la captura de su padre en 860, con lo cual Toda Aznárez, la hija de Oneca, sería sexagenaria para cuando nació su hijo García Sánchez I (que se sabe aconteció en 919 o 922), y casi una mujer centenaria para cuando realiza su visita a Córdoba en el año 958. Por consiguiente, la mayoría de los historiadores que han estudiado el tema han concluido que el Códice de Roda yerra en cuanto al orden de los dos matrimonios de Oneca.

En una desviación más sustantiva de la genealogía de Roda, el historiador Alberto Cañada Juste sugiere que los desafíos cronológicos son abrumadores, y en lugar de simplemente cambiar el orden de los matrimonios, postula que la identidad de la princesa Onneca de Pamplona que fue a Córdoba para convertirse en Durr y por tanto la abuela de Abd al-Rahman III, ha sido confundida por la fuente de Roda. En lugar de ser Onneca Fortúnez, viuda de Aznar Sánchez de Laron, sugiere que se trataba de otra princesa Onneca de Pamplona, su tía paterna Onneca Garcés, viuda de Aznar Galíndez II, Conde de Aragón.

Legado
La importancia histórica de Oneca se debe a que ella proporciona una conexión genealógica entre los califas musulmanes de Córdoba y los reyes cristianos de Pamplona, como también entre las dos primeras dinastías reales de Pamplona. Mediante su primer matrimonio, Oneca se convirtió en abuela paterna de Abd-ar-Rahman III (o Abderramán) de Córdoba, y por su segundo matrimonio en la abuela materna de García Sánchez I de Pamplona. Abd-ar-Rahman III fue el antecesor directo de todos los califas Omeyas de Córdoba, mientras que la línea ininterrumpida de descendencia de García Sánchez I los convierte en un ancestro directo de la casa real reinante actualmente en España.

Hacia la época en que nace Onneca, la Reconquista estaba comenzando a cobrar impulso. Como resultado de este contexto político cargado de religiosidad, las relaciones entre los descendientes musulmanes y cristianos de Oneca a menudo estuvieron marcadas por el conflicto. Su nieto Abd-ar-Rahman III primero derrotó en 920 a Sancho Garcés I de Pamplona, esposo de su tía Toda en la Batalla de Valdejunquera. Su ejército saqueó Pamplona en 924, quemando la catedral. En el año 934, mientras Abd-ar-Rahman III se encontraba de campaña por el norte de España, Toda, que ya había enviudado, pactó la paz con él y negoció para que su joven hijo García Sánchez I (del cual ella era regente) obtuviera la confirmación del califa de su título real. En este momento el reino de Pamplona era súbdito del califato de Cordóba, Toda había colocado su territorio bajo la protección de Abd-ar-Rahman III. Sin embargo, rompió el tratado de paz en 937 al establecer una alianza con Ramiro II de León y el gobernador Tuyibí de Zaragoza, que se había rebelado contra Abd-ar-Rahman III. Luego de que el califa los derrotrara, Toda se sometió y acordó respetar el antiguo tratado. A pesar de haber empeñado su palabra, violó el tratado por segunda vez en 939 cuando las tropas de su hijo García Sánchez I de Pamplona participaron en la Batalla de Simancas (también llamada Alhandega) junto con las tropas de Ramiro II de León. García Sánchez I y Ramiro II alcanzaron una victoria resonante sobre el ejército de Abd-ar-Rahman III. Después de la batalla, se acordó la paz entre el califa y sus adversarios cristianos.
Sin embargo, los lazos familiares creados por los dos matrimonios de Oneca también dieron lugar a ocasionales gestos de cordialidad y amistad entre los gobernantes cristianos y musulmanes de la península ibérica. Un ejemplo en este sentido tuvo lugar en 958, cuando Toda, la hija de Oneca, buscaba una cura para el problema de obesidad de su nieto leonés Sancho I, problema que era en gran medida la causa de su desplazamiento del trono, dado que lo imposibilitaba de montar a caballo y comandar un ejército. Puesto que por aquella época Cordóba era famosa por sus médicos, Toda solicitó la ayuda de Abd-ar-Rahman III, quien envió a su médico judío Hasdai ibn Shaprut, el cual prometió curar a Sancho con la condición de que Toda visitara Córdoba. Por lo tanto, Toda, acompañada por su hijo García y su nieto Sancho, llegó en el año 958 a Córdoba, donde Abd-ar-Rahman III los recibió en su palacio de Medina Azahara, con grandes honores y pompa. la comitiva de Toda incluía nobles y clérigos. La llegada de una reina cristiana a la capital de un califato islámico mejoró el prestigio de Abd-ar-Rahman III ante sus súbditos, y es considerado un hito en la historia de la diplomacia medieval. El tratamiento médico de Sancho tuvo éxito, y fue «aliviado de su excesiva corpulencia». El episodio dio lugar a una alianza para mutuo beneficio del califa y sus parientes cristianos.

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